The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1866-10-24

There is a milk and butter famine III
London.
There are eighteen Fall styles for ladies
hats.
The cholera is yctrasing as an epidem-
ic at Chicago.
Three large East Inliamen we're recent
" wrecked near Bombay. 4
The news of the defeat Of Escobedo is
not believed in Washington.
The Louisville Catholic Dioceaeha been
created an Archiepiscopal sea.
There are 700 earthquakes recorded in
history since the year 285 3. c..
Rarey, the horse tanner, died at Cleve-
land, Ohio, last Thursday.
The revenue Of the Bishop Of London
for the year 1866 exceeded 100000.
Indiana majority probably lessthan ten
thousand. Majority in 1864, 20,S83.
One hundred and fourteen deaths from
cholera occurred at Philadelphia last week.
Ohio.-Radeal majority this year 40,
900; gain of 1900 on Lincoln's major
IT,.
Oppenheimer &Co., Of Frazer River, in
British Columbia have failed for $500,
600.
DR.. T. W. Hancock, prominent ply
sician Of Richmond, died in that city Oh
the 18th inst.
The glass required for the Paris Exhi-
bition next year would cover an extent of
twenty acres.
The Galveston bulletin" thinks, that
with fair weather, Texas will produce
10000 bales of cotton.
They are talking of erecting a Catho
lie Church in Okalona, Miss, and the
Nescs recommends it highly.
Official returns, nearly complete, from
Omaha Territory, give Republican ma
jority Of between 600 and 200 votes.
Wild turkies abound in Prince George S
county, Maryland-being more plentiful
there, it is stated, than ever before.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
considerable emigration ofNotrhern peo-
pie has set in for that part Of the South.
Governor Worth has been reelected
Governor of North Carolina, over his Radi-
calopponent, by an almost unanimousvote.
S. D. Baldwin, author Of Arranged
DON" died on the 9Th inst, at Nashville,
Tennessee, after an illness Of two weeks
At late dates from England, the weather
was still favorable for the crops, and the
breadstuffs market had an upward tenden-
ey.
The condition Of the money. market
shows that some anxiety is felt IN regard
to the immediate future Of tho national
politics.
In North Carolina the strength Of the
Presbyterian Church is about: Ministers.
112; churches, 161 communicates, about
1900.
Up to Tuesday evening only 74,0o1
voters had been registered in New York
city. This is about one-third the voting
population.
The annual meeting Of the Stockholders
10 the Orange & Alexandria railroad COM
pany, will be held in Alexandria Oh the
22nd of November
The different railroads in Virginia will
carry members OF the Synod Of the State,
which meets in Norfolk on the 21st OF No
vember, for half fare.
The London Atheneunu notices John
Esten Cooks book on Stonewall jackson
-on the whole favorably, though 1t thinks
the subject worn out.
Professor Bledsoe, formerly Of the Con
fed cratic War Department will have book
out in few days, entitled, is Jefferson
Davis Guilty OF Treason?'
The New York World sums up the late
elections, exhibiting the following results;
Pennsylvania. Radical majority last year.
26,66o. This year $4,000.
James Stephens, the Fenian Head-cen-
tire; made speech in which he declared the
battle for Irish independence would com
mence on Irish soil before New Year.
Many OF the farmers Of Loudoun county
have organized Horse Insurance Com
pany, to protect them against the number
of horse thieves lurking in that county
There is some interest manifested in,
and some inquiries made in regard to the
concentration of United States forces in
the neghborhood of Washington city.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Pc
tomac Railroad Company, sent all the pas
sengers to Richmond via Alexandria, free
of charge during the late interruption OF
travel.
A dispatch says there is no probability,
whatever, that the President will change
his present position as tohisrestoration pol
icy, as some of the newspapers have init
mated.
The telegraph announces the death at
sea of John Van Buren,, son of the late
Martin Van Buren,, President of the U.