Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

IAl L OItIdL Oh II FIIIEN.
The State Treasury on Friday last, con-
tanned s1.147. $1,000.
300 Republicans in Minneapolis, MINI,
have declared for Greeley
Texas RAILROADS. Eight lines of rail.
road are now under construction in north.
ern Texas.
Lemuel Finchman of Rappahannock was
mortally shot by Reuben Smitb-cause
whiskey and cards.
The Tredegar Works is building fine
wharf at Rockets for the accommodation Of
its business at this point.
Fifty millions of paper collars and cuffs
are made annually in Troy, N. Y, and
1900 people are employed in doing it.
A Logan county Democrat has named
his first youngster Horace Greeley-subiect
to the decision of the Baltimore convention.
The Republican State Committee has an.
pointed Col. John R. Popham elector for
the State at large op the Grant and Wilson
ticket.
A Baltimore paper gives twenty-one rea.
sons for supporting Greeley-one is, that
he has no talent for bull pups and fast
horses.
The Detroit Free Press observes that the
Grant papers are beginning to begin their
articles thus: ''In the event of Grants
election
Col. Jno S. Mostly is to speak at Salem.
Fauquler, tomorrow, and it is said he will
come out squarely for Grant and Wilson
| Who cares
The New York Journal publishes a list
OF German newspapers, showing that IS are
for Greeley and Brown, and 80 for Grant
and Wilson.
Mr., Caleb Calkius, OF Madison county, N.
formerly Republican member of Assembly
and financial agent OF Gerrtt Smith, is ont
for Greeley.
Sharp, the murderer of Mr.. Jno Erskipe,
In Missouri, whose assassination we noticed
in our last was taken from Jail by mob,
last week, and hung.
1t is authoritatively denied that Gen.
Joseph q. Johnston has said he will vote
for Grant. He has not expressed himself
upon political questions.
Holden, of North Carolina, Ex-Governor
of the State and Administration editor, has
been appointed mail agent in that State,
so as to use him for Grant
At Wabash, Ind, one hundred and thir.
ty-fve men who voted for Grant and Colfax
announce through the papers that they will
vote for Greeley and Brown.
Col. Robert W. Hughes, of Washington
county, has been unanimously nominated
as the Radical administration candidate for
Congress from the 9th District.
1t is said that Brick Pomeroy, illustrating
the fatal facility Of divorce between fools and
their money, lost 100000 in his attempt
to run "red-hot'' journalism in New York.
There is movement on foot in Richmond,
Va, to organize an association for the re-
clamation of abandoned women. Subscrip-
tons to establish reformatory are liberal.
G. G. Yost, Of the Omaha Tribune, was
thought little shaky. but Grant has given
him post-ofice, and POW he is Yost as
good Radical as any of them.-Boston
Post.
A colored man named Minott, member
Of the city council of Columbia, S. c., is re-
ported to have won $4,000, recently, at
faro, from another colored man known as
Gen. Whipper.
NIAGARA, July "A boy and girl,
children of fisherman tanned Sescon, were
on the river in boat to-day and high wind
drove the boat into the rapids, and both
children were carried over the falls
BURNING OF LARGE FLOUR MILLS
Boston, July 26.-The Boston City -four
mills, on the city wharf, we're burned to-
night, with large amount of wheat, shorts
and -four. Loss from $4,000 to 500. 900.
Doc. Lee and Willoughhy Taylor, color
ed, played highway robbery on Mr.. j. W.
Cladderbuck, Of Orange, last week, but
failed to dispossess him of his horse and
watch. They are in Jail to answer indict'
ments.
The Connecticut Legislature has taken up
the question of compulsory education. tits
said that $1,000 children in that State be.
tween the ages of four aud sixteen do not
attend school at all, and the advocates of the
new law think it is state Of things which
should be remedied.