Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-07-04

this thorn have IN my heart, and, by the
eternal God, will kill them and you too.
SALE OF VIRGINIA FARMs.-James r.
Skinner has purchased two hundred acres
of land, near Upperville, Loundon county,
Va, for 81, 600. W. Delephane has par.
chased the Kinsey Mills, in Fauquier
county, for $500.
. The son Of ex-President Jefferson Davis
has recently become a cadet at the Virginia
Military Institute. He is represented as
noble, bright boy, who will reflect credit
upon his parents and his section"
The Martinsburg, West Virginia, ESTATES
man" dominates the Hon. Charles James
Faulkner, of that place, as Farmers Grange
candidate for the Presidency in 1876.
Adjutant-G eneral William Fl. Richard
son has gone to Lexington to attend the an
nual meeting of the board Of visitors of the
Virginia Military Institute Tho General
has not missed one single meeting of the
board since the establishment Of the Insti-
tn te-thirty-two years ago.
Mrs. Clotton, of Norfolk, Va. is the proprie
tor Of venerable mule that has been an in.
veterate chewer of tobacco for years.
Whenever he becomes obstinate, as mules
occasionally do, it is only necessary to give
him a chew, when he becomes perfe city
kind and gentle (D
Gardner, Massachusetts, claims to con-
tain the grave of the first soldier to fall in
the revolutionary, by name Ebenezer Mon
roe. The last Of Washington's followers,
Lemuel Cooke, has lain six years in the
cemetery of Clarendon n. Y.
Within few weeks past, some 1000
to 20, 900 barrels of favorite brands of -four,
to be made from the new crop Of wheat in
Virginia, have been sold in New York, de-
livered at the mills in Richmond, Va.
A negro in Columbus, Ca, dreamed that
he found S. at a certain place in street. He
went to the spot the next morning, found
81, and is blaming the ghost who told him
OF it for taking the other four
The whole number Of newspapers, maya
zines, and other periodicals now published
in the United States amounts to 6,76S, oil
which 627 are daily journals
The Cherokee, Iowa, "Times," of the 10th,
says : "Aswe 60 to press the air is filled
with millions Of grasshoppers. The cloud
is SO vast that the sun seems to shine through
an Idian summer fog"
Mrs. Colonel Colby, Of Natohez, former.
ly Miss Alice Kingsbury, has made bust
of Gen. R. E. Lee which was presented to
the R. E. Leo Lodge. Of Vicksburg, last
week
Forty-one State prisons ornament our
country, and furnish board snd lodging to q
few unfortunate gentlemen and ladies who
tried to collect the living the world owed
them
There was an explosion at the Tredega1
Gas Works, Richmond, Va, on Monday
morning. Instantly killing Samuel II Sauu
ders, the fireman in charge
In the Ohio constitutional convention
there are GA lawyers, Is farmers, 7 doctors
7 merchants, 3 printers, 3 bankers, 2 cler-
gymen, cooper, l manufacturer, l civil
engineer and ore real estate agent
Amherst College boys are now liable t.
fine of one dollsr for unexcused absence
from college exercises, and for ten such abb
sences they may be ez PEELED.
Ex.President johnson proposes to rur
for Governor Of Tennessee this fail, and has
hopes that his election to the United States
Senate will follow
A. P. Abel, Of Savannah, Ga has beer
re-electe d President of the Supreme Coun-
Gil Of the Friends of Temperance in thu
United States, and Rev. w B. Wellons, o.
Va, Secretary.
Jesse R. Grant, father of Presiden
Ulysses Grant, died at Coviugton, XIV
Sunday. The President did not arrive 10
time to see his father die.
Two Farmers "Granges,'' were organ
lied in Clark county, Va, last week, with
Maj VIM. Taylor and A Moore as Mas
tiers.
Watermelons are selling in Key West al
twenty cents each, and with the gaunt spec
tire OF cholera lowering over the place all the
time.
Aaron Stroud, a negro, was hung a,
Hillsboro' N. G. for rape on little girl,
Friday He asked the Sheriff to hurry
up"
The readers Of the Richmond papers have
appointed August LIST as day of thanks
giving, that the school commandments are
over.
Tomorrow the trial of Capt. Jack and
his Modocs commences before a military
commission, at Clamath, 1t Col. Elliott, of
the let Cavalry, presiding.
Ex-State Senator Howe, of Massachusetts,
has been appointed State excise constable
to pry into illicit lager in Lowell.
Maine claims tie most ancient bachelor
Hon. William NJ. Evarts and Mason
Young have been elected as alumni to fill
vacancies in the corporation of Yale.
Mrs. Balser Dingledine was killed in
Rockingham county Va, last week, by be-
ing thrown from spring wagon
The first scientific thing they are going
to do on Professor Agassiz's island is to
convert barn into dining hall
DR.. Archibald George, well known
physician of Baltimore, died last week.
Cut nails, in England, have made a sud.
den drop from G22 to 919 ton.
W. L. Cochran, Conservative, has been
eelectea Mayor of Gu arlottesviIle.
in the world He lives in Bangor, is 1O2
years of age, and still active.