Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-04-12
EDITORIAL BRETITIES.

EDITORIAL BRETITIES. b.
Edwin Forrest is very ill ut Boston.
Gen. Sherman and party are in Constan-
tinople.
Columbus, Ohio, has elected Democrat
ic Mayor. -..= v-azzr,-
Savannah is enjoying Green Peas and
Strawberries.
Mrs. Laura Fair is to have her second
trial on June 9th. H.. 81
The Massachusetts Republican Conven-
ton endorses Grant
The Revolutionary cause in Mexico is
now considered hopeless. ii.
Albany, N. Y. and Jersey City, N j.,
elect Democratic Mayors
West Virginia retains the ballot but, also,
allows the viua uoce vote +u e E
The Residence of Fish's widow has been
robbed of 81, 600 in jewelry. ls-,ss g
The West Va. Convention has adopted
Constitution and adjourned.
New York April llth-Gold 1,1oa Vir.
ginia bonds-old 54-new So.
The next Annual Virginia State Fair will
commence October Goth 1872. e-t Dis
Richmond Conservatives are preparing
for the coming Municipal Campaign.
Richmond is moving for the erection of
magnificent Hotel on the old Spotswood
site.
Only $3.50, OOO,o 900 have been appropri-
ated by U. S. Office holders in the past FIVE
years.
California has been visited with another
very severe earthquake, doing considerable
damage.
Negotiations have been commenced for
the complete evacuation of France by the
Germans.
The Legislature has provided by an Act
for eleven instead of ten Presidential electors
as heretofore.
The Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows of Va,
met at Portsmouth, on Wednesday and is
largely attended. ... ~
The SoaaAside Sentinel is the name of
paper just started at Burkeville and edited
by Alpheus Boiling. H.
Hon Erastus Corning, a prominent VIII ig
politician of New York, in the past, died at
Albany on Monday. 4aT te-
Ex-President Andrew johnson will prob
ably be candidate for Congress from the
1st Tennessee District. fs7!ts
Sixteen hundred immigrants from Alsace
and Lorraine, France, have arrived in New
York destined for the West.
Saturday and Sunday last. ten years ago,
the battle Of Shiloh was fought and General
Albert Sidney johnson killed.
Donal1s Min, in Bedford Co., and lao
acres Of land adjacent, sold on the LIST, to
John H. Booth for $40, 900, cash.
O'Conner, the youth who attempted the
assassination of Queen Victoria. is believed
to have been, as he is now, insane.
Mr.. VIM. Ford, father of A. j. Ford. OF
Ford's Hotel Richmond, soldier Of the
war Of 1912, died on Sunday last
Brigham Young has been unanimously
elected President of the Mormons at their
Conference at Salt Lake on the 10th.
The General Assembly has adjourned si,se
die, and the members have generally return.
ed, looking we'll after their long and tedious
session.
The Va. Telegraph Company are going
to build line from Alexandra to Whining
ton N. c., ola Fredericksburg, Richmond
and Weldon. -..+.
Messrs. Ball & Miller have purchased the
Alexandra Sentinel and Capt. Joel Miller
has resumed editorial charge, Mr. Y Howe
Peyton retiring.
Iron has gone up $16 per ton since Jan.
list, and the Founders at several prominent
points have increased the price of castings
one cent per ID. ...tt..
The Pennsylvania Republican Convention
nominated Gen. Hartranft for Governor on
the first ballot, Delegates were sent to the
Philadelphia Convention.
Judge Bond has been called away from
Richmond and will be absent several weeks
Judge Underwood will preside in the U. S.
Circuit Court this week. r
The residence Of COL Chas. A. Ronald
of the "Stonewall Brigade" near Blacks.
burg, Montgomery Co., was destroyed by
fire on the End Loss $1,000.
Senator Trumbull comes out in favor Of
e..Liberal Republican movement. and as
serts bis belief that the nominee Of the Gin.
cinnati Convention will be the next Presi-
dent
The National Democratic Committee are
to meet at Belmont's residence, New York,
on May 9Th, the object being to fix the time
and place of holding The National Democratic
nominating Convention.
Rhode Island has elected Padelford (Re.