The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-01-23
THE NEWS.

W GoneSday morning, ..Jan. 23, 1867.
TIE NEWS
Senator Cowan is spoken Of for the Sec
retaryship Of War.
There arc over two millions of people
in Taris, France.
Rents are enc-third higher in St. Lou
is than New York
Ten thousand people live under the
pavement in New York.
The New York police scooped up forty
gamblers in one evening.
8 Chicago is to have female reformation
society What next?
In Vermont, out of every eleven couples
that get married, there is one divorce.
Two thousand men have, during the
last ten years, been killed in English coal
mines.
d woman in Meade county, KY, has
given birth to FIVE children in twelve
months.
President johnson was presented with
q gspbler weighing fifty pounds on Christ
mas
The Masons of Petersburg intend Civ
ing grand Masonic ball on the 22d of
February.
Colonel Samuel McCamant, citizen Of
cirayson county, died in that county few
weeks ago.
Ex-president Pierce has been confined
to his house, in Concord, N. H., by an i'll
ness Of several weeks.
Hon. Samuel Chiffon, who was men,
Der of Congress from Virginia in 1913,
died at Warrcnton on Monday.
The Knoxville and kentucky Railroad
is now completed and in running order to
linton, in Anderson county.
The Boston Journal says many farmers
in Massachusetts having ponds, find the
propagation Of fish paying business.
The citizens Of Claiborne county, Miss,
have contributed 1854 to the fund for the
relief Of Mr.. Davis and his family.
Gen. Il. Clay Davis, a Texas frontiers
man, was recently killed by the accident
d. discharge of his gun while hunting.
..Bill Arp has been elected Mayor Of
: Rome. Victor Emmanuel, Napoleon and
the Pope. must bear it philosophically.
Fred. Douglas has refused to speak I'M
til the arrangements of the halls, separa-
tingthe whites from the blacks, are remov-
cd.
The name of a new Texas weekly news
paper, intended to instruct the population
Of that State, is the Sarcastic Bouie
Knife. 81
1t is believed that the emigration from
ireland and the Continent, the coming
spring and summer will be the greatest on
record.
The Winnsboro' Is. C) News states
that eighty families ofcolored people were
OH the eve Of departure from that district
to Florida.
The value Of the barrels, tin cans and
other packages containing petroleum sent
to Europe last year is estimated at S10,-
100000.
4 man named Gary-an employee on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad-was
killed on the 18th near Dufields, by the
passenger train.
4 wife agency" is in operation at Cleve-
land, Ohio. It is conducted on the en-
ployment agency system, the prices rang
ing from So to SO.
It is stated that 13, 745 persons in the
South will be rendered incapable of hold
ing Office by the adoption Of the constitu-
tioslal amendment.
The bill fixing the assembling Of the
next Congrest on the 18th of March has
passed both Houses Of Congress, and is
now a law, so-called.
The round trip from the United States
to Paris and back, during the Exposition,
will be at the rate of $50 to $3.50 in gold,
on board tho Great Eestern.
Rio Janeiro adyices of December Sth
state that the rivers Amazon, Tocambia
aud San Francisco have been thrown
open to the trade of all the nations.
One factory in Augusta, Ga, has turn
Ell oat during the last year 6 40 600 yards
OF cloth, and paid dividend, or clear
profit Of s6ll, 900 to the stockholders.
The latest intelligence from the Fenian
seat Of war reports all quiet. Head Cen
ire Stevens had not turned up at last ac-
counts, and it is generally presumed that
he has concluded to hold his peace.
Returns Of the Commissioners of the
Revenue indicate a population in the
State in February last of $40 $50 negroes
1860, ia the same limits, there were 3d.
900. A difference of 100000!
Letters of administration were granted
on Saturday in Wilnlington, N. G., to a
coipHed man who made application to ad-
minister on an estate probably the first
instance Of the kind on record in the South.
It is stated that the Government has re-
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