The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1866-05-23
THE NEWS.

WEDNESDAY,, May %. 1850.
THE NEWS.
The latest news, by last nights mail,
in the tt ri column.
Hon. George e. Badger of N. G., is
dead.
Duelling is reported very brisk in New
Orleans.
Chinch bugs are destroying the corn in
Mississippi.
Ex-President Buchanan was &c last
Monday week.
Butter is selling in Lynchburg at 30
cents per pound.
There are $4,000 Confederate graves
around Richmond.
Secretary Seward is sixty-fve years old,
but hale and hearty.
Forests. engagement in California is
for 81 900 per night.
Gen. Bradley 7. johnson has been par
doned by the President.
The Empress Engenie was forty years
old on the 9Th instant
The beats or vibration of a watch are
141, $4,000 in year.
A great johnson meeting was held in
Philadelphia on the 18th.
The Stay Law, of S. c., has been pro-
nounced unconstitutional.
There are 46,901 farms in Massachu-
sets valued at s23, 1862
A paper skirt q. e. petticoat) has been
invented to replace crinoline.
"A Houston (Texas) hunter claims to
have killed fifteen thousand deer.
Blackberries, as large as walnuts, are
for sale in New Orleans markets.
All the Northern Presbyterian Assem-
blies, met in St. Louis on the 18th.
The Richmond Republic appeared for
the last time Monday cause, wantof funds.
They expect to have the York River
Railroad completed to West Point by o.
tober.
Raphael Semmes was last week elected
Judge Of Probate, for Mobile county, AL.
ALBANIA.
A woman weighing only II pounds is
exhibiting in Danvi!le. She is from North
Carolina.
It is estimated that the trial Of Major
Gee, will cost the Government a: least
$4,000.
It is rumored that several more Nation
al Banks are in trouble and will probably
be closed out.
The packed Jury that found the indict-
rlent against Ex- President Davis, is gen
orally denounced North.
In Kentucky, Tennessee and North Ala
hama, there are great complaints about the
rust in the wheat and oats.
A daily line Of stage coaches has beer
opened between Selma, Benton, Montgom
cry and Wetumpka, Alabama.
It is believed that two-thirds of the
staff officers now in the Federal service
will be discharged in few days.
It is understood that Duff Green has
has been appointed US. Marshall for the
Southern District Of Mississippi.
A hospital for the wandering and home
less dogs, is the last pet scheme of some Of
the high born ladies of England.
The Government has suffered dead
loss of s6s7, 600, by the failure Of the
Merchants National Bank of Washing
ton.
The Fenians are reported about played
out, by the New York and other papers.
It is time the farce and swlndle was en-
ded.
Admiral senmes has been prohibited
from holding the Office Of Probate Judge,
Of Mobile, until pardoned by the Presi-
dent
The Comptroller, Of the Currency, has
issued noraer, forbidd;ng National Banks
keeping their accounts with private banks
in the future.
It has been decided that indictments
for making false income returns, before
June Goth 1865, can not be sustained un-
der the law of Congress.
Gloomy accounts are received from the
Red River. Most Of the river cotton
lands are under water. In the South
west, tornadoes have made fearful havoc
with all the crops.
The President has issued an order di-
recting the arrest of all officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau interested, directly or
indirectly, in the cultivation Of farms in
the Southern States.
In the course Of his speech the other
day, Thad. Stevens expressed a wish to
see the eight millions Of people inhabiting
the South confined by bayonets in the
penitentiary Of he'll"
One hundred and twenty thousand
pounds, 20ton, oflead were collected from
the battle fields Of the Wilderness, blythe
Ordnance Officers of the G. S. This shows