The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-02-20
TIE NEWS.

TIE NEWS
Barnum is coming to Congress. That
menagerie has long wanted Snowman.
Brownlow's reelection is secured, it is
thought, by the REIMBURSEMENT Of the
negroes in Tennessee.
There are f'said to be" two hundred and
nine barber shops in the cities of Norfolk
and Portsmouth.
The Petersburg "Indcx" announces the
death Of Mrs. Anna, wife of Major B. W.
Belsches, of Sussex.
Henry Madison, Esq, one Of the oldest
and most esteemed citizens of Charlotte
county, died few days ago.
Some of the New York beggars refuse
to receive anything less than fifty cent
postal stamps.
Rents in Danville, the Register says,
have fallen from 25 to 40 per cent since
Christmas.
Eighty negroes left Richmond Wed
nesday, to work on railroad in North
Carolina
The largest plow mandatory in the
world is at Louisville, Kentucky. It can
turn out 100000 plows year.
The journeymen tailors in New York
are on strike, in consequence Of re-
duction of prices by the employers.
Gold has been discovered in Chester
field county, on the farm Of Mr.. W. Fl.
Stevens, about eight miles from Richmond.
Mississippi is in DISTRESS for Legisla-
tors. Nobody will consent to run. There
is evidently higher moral tone there
than in this State.
A Southern paper says newspapers in
France live very much as George San
ders lives-by their wits. They must
suffer from hunger then.
Not less than $500, 1000, 900 in gold and
silver have been taken from the wild
mountains and valleys of the far West
within the last five years.
The largest sale of tobacco, this season.
was made in Petersburg, Tuesday. at good
prices. A great deal Of loose tobacco is
now being carried to that market.
1t is said that Governor Parsons, Of
Alabama, opposes the plan of reconstruc-
ton favored by prominent Seutherners
lately in conference in Washington.
The Legislature of North Carolina, by
a very close vote, has transferred to the
University of that State the Agricultural
Land Scrip donated by act Of Congress.
The believers in the doctrine that the
second advent of Christ will occur this
year are numerous and active in Bangor,
Maine. They are holding frequent meet
Jugs for the dissemination Of their views
Both Houses of the Arkansas Legisla-
have passed, over the Governors veto, a
bill providing relief for the families Of
Diseased soldiers and for wounded and
disabled soldiers, and providing artificial
limbs for such as are manned and not pro-
vided for by the United States.
In the United States Supreme Court, a
case is now pending which raises the ques-
ton whether the English Common Law
doctrine Of shifting Inheritance is the
rule of descent in this country in the alb
sence Of an express repeal, notwithstand-
ing there may be legislation which pre-
scribes different rule
A man has been arrested in Hungary
for killing four children and eating their
hearts raw. He acted on the belief that
he would have the power to become invis-
Bile when he had eaten seven, but was
not permitted to carry his experiment to
aconclusion. He ought to have been made
invisible on eating the first one
A correspondent writes: Spain is just
nowrocking with commissions. The Queen
knows no more of Cancellation than of
progress, and is as unfit to guide nation
as child. She has learned no lesson
from the events of the last year, or the
hundred years, and the only Bourbon who
remains upon throne seems in a fair
way to follow her kindred.