Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-30
EDITORIAL BREV7TIES:

Fon IN quantities 10 Liverpool ~ Attain
tic sfneers
The pese twins, Chang and Eng, are
at Ian divided" One is for Greeley, the
other is for Grant
The Richmond authorities are driving
brisk trade in selling dog cellars. Thus far
$500 have been sold.
1t is reported that Hon. A. Fl. Stephens
will be nominated for Vice. President at the
Convention to be held in Louisville.
Gen. R. T. Bowen has been nominated
for Congress by the Conservatives Of the
ninth Congressional District Of Virginia.
W. L. Saunders, of Baltimore, and R.
L. Hatton, of Washington, colored orators,
are speaking for Greeley and Brown in New
York City.
A Washington correspondent says that
Senator Harlan makes about 81 900 week
by printing campaign documents in his
newspaper.
The Richmsad Ne,cs says there are at
present between eight and nine hundred
Virginia penitentiary eonvicts, many Of
whom are hired out.
The se-enade to the President by colored
men, and the proposed speech by Henry
Wilson at Long Branch last Thursday,
were postponed on account of the storm.
Four melons were raised in Hanover
| county, Va, this season, the average weight
of which was 100 pounds. They were of
the "Joe Johnston" variety, and were sent
to New York.
| Banks is actively on the stump in Massa-
chusetts and doing good work for Greeley
| and Brown. He addressed an immense
throng at Lynn, on the 2Sth, amid the most
unbounded enthusiasm
TIE PEABODY FUND.-Tbe Superinten-
dent of Schools for Lynchburg, Va, has re-
ceived from Rev. DR.. Sears, agent Of the
Peabody Fund, So 900 for the public schools
of that city for the next session.
Intelligence has been received In Rich
mond, Va, of the safe arrival of Rev. DR..
Jeter and wife at Liverpool, en- route fol
Rome. They bad pleasant voyage, and
ten days ago were in excellent health.
Queen Victoria was last year presented
| with five barrels of choice Michigan apples,
| and being pleased Herewith has ordered
| through the household steward q supply Of
| seventy barrels Of the winter varieties OIL
Michigan.
Mile Christina Nilsson was poor Swed
ish peasant girl before her throat was found
1 to be full of notes good as sterling. Hel
husbands grandfather was blacksmith. &c
| there is equality of blool on both sides o.
the house.
| Gov. Walker, ol..Virginia, has accepted
| an invitation 10 be present at the Louisville
peace gathering, on the 18th and 18th o.
September He is also announced to speak
| in Pennsylvania. Illinois and Indiana during
| tie canvass.
THE BANNER CouNTY--At the session O
Appomattox County Court on Wednesday
last Judge Watkins announced that the jal
[ of the county did not contain prisoner
I and that it had been vacant for two years
I Appomattox is the banner county in Viz
ginia.
| West Va. dispatches indicate the re-elec
ton of Gov. Jacob by about 1900 majorit..
ard that the new constitution is ratified ant
the clause prohibiting negroes holding offic
defeated. All the regular Democratic tick
ct, save the Candidate for Governor, Cam
den, is elected.
| SAN FRANc1sco, August 25.-The facili
ties for the transportation Of the new whea
crop are wholly inadequate. In many sec
lions Of the State where the crops are yer.
large the farmers will be unable to get tn
bulk of their grain forward before the rain,
season commences.
| CoRNERED Henry Wilson, the Radica
Candidate for Vice President, says he wa
never member of the acknowledging
party. Gen. Albert Pike says he sat will
him in the National Know Nothing Council
Wilson is as truthful as Grant is temperate
A pretty duo, truly.
| GEN. J. E. B. STUART "A splendid bus
of the late Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, of Confeder
ate cavalry fame, from the chisel Of Valen'
tine, the sculptor, has been presented to the
State of Virginia by brother of the distir'
guished officer, W. A. Stuart, Esq, and
will be placed in the State library.
James P. Cowardin, formerly of the
Richmond Dispatch, has received the ap'
pointment of captains clerk on board the
| United States steamer Yantic. The Yam.
tic will in few days proceed, under sealed
orders, via Suez canal, to the Chinese seas to
| ioin the East India heet.-Rachmaond Va. J
Wing.
VITAL STAT1sr1cs.- mortality rate
| in New York last week showed continued
increase, owing chiefly to the severely warm
weather which prevailed the better part Of
the week. The deaths numbered 7SS against