The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-06-26

ally, if you want to get rich, advertise in the
s.VALLEY VIRGINIAN.'
Raphael Semms comes out in favor of fe-
| male suffrage.
The Baltimore Sun calls General Sheridan
| an ssarrogant partizan pet
| The Post-ofhce at Spring Mills, Appomattox
county, has been re-establshed.
An egg within an egg is on exhibition in
| Paterson, W.. Va. A Duck did it.
We learn that in the Piedmont counties there
is, thus far, but little sign Of rust in the wheat
ssSpirits of Hartshorn'" are recommended,
| by an exchange, as a sure remedy for Hydro
| phobia.
ssGeneral Bottledup'' is the title given to
| Major General Butler by an undaunted Bos-
ton paper.
1t is estimated that one and a half billion Of
dollars are employed as railroad capital in the
United States.
The Virginia Grand Division Sops of Tenn
perance, meets at Leesburg, Loudon county,
Va, July 4th.
A letter from Queretaro says that the AIexi-
can Government will content itself with ban
ishing Maaimilian.
In few instances do we notice the least prep
| aration for the obseryances Of the approach
ing Fourth of July.
The State, county and town debts of New
York amount to $l40,000,000, or about $35
for each inhabitant.
The Cincinnati City Councils have appoint
ed committee to report suitable location
for park Of 500 acres
The Mississippian, one of the oldest and
for long period the leading paper in Missis-
sippi, has ceased to exist.
A field of tulips containing 10000 speci-
mems of 800 different varieties, is now in
bloom at Rochester, N. Y.
The man who first offered anthracite coal
| for sale as fuel, was put into an asylum for
| the insane and died there.
Rev. Father Rupert has been made mitred
| Abbot in Minnesota. He is the third mitred
Abbot in the United States.
| At grand army festival in Richmond, In
| diana, Miss Jennie Prescott was voted to be
| the handsomest girl in America.
| A full jury of negroes were empannelled at
Navasola, Taxas, on Friday last, which is the
first instance ofthat kind reported.
| The Philadelphia Age says that the Pensyl-
yania wheat crop this year will over-reach
that of any one Of the past ten years.
| The advantage of the present style of bon
nets, is that any lady possessing ingenuity to
make pincushion can be her own milliner. !
Old Jabob Barker, of the Bank of Com
merce New Orleans, is said to have been the
/ first to take the benefit Of the bankrupt law.
t Lewis Rogers, of Virginia, a well known
merchant of Paris, Havre, Richmond and
| NJ n.I n Do. I,
There is 10 be second cooperative foun-
dry established in Troy, N. Y. The success
of the present one amply justifes second. "a
| The Kentucky Ladies' Association of Louis
vile, have forwarded 81, 800 to General Lee,
for the benefit Of Washington College, Va,
Gen. Joseph E. johnson has been appointed
President Of the Charleston, Memphis and
Topeka railway, via Atlanta and Decatur.
I Captain W. L. Tidball, Freedmen's Bureau
Agent, Albemarle, has been ordered to Missis-
sippi, much to the regret Of the people over
there. gAss
| The Washington reports tell us almost every
doctor, has under treatment a number of ca
SEES of typhoid fever. The disease is unusual
~ prevalent.
| A relic of Buffers reign in New Orleans
has come to light, in the shape of $4,000
worth of jewels and gold, packed away in o
barrel of damaged pork.
| The Postmaster General will, July 1st., es-
tablish in various parts of the country 4OC
new money post offices, which will make
the whole number 1,l96.
| "Plym Owen" near Newtown, Frederick
county. Va, has been sold to VIM. I. Gilbert
of Fairfield county, Pa, for the sum of S.,
600 cash, by Hancock & Co.
Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, whose
illness has for some time past prevented him
from taking his seat in the United States
Senate, is recovering his health.
The President of the Baltimore and Ohio
/ Railroad Company, says that in all its history
there has not been one instance Of defaleatioI
or misat plication Of it's funds by its employ
| ees or officers.
The National Intelligencer says that the
| coalition in Virginia, between the two wings
| Of the Radical party, has been effected upon
the call controlling idea Of satisfactory di
vision Of the spoils."
Willis P Bocock and Andrew Wylie arc
advertising good deal of valuable property
in Missouri, which is to be sold at afction
sfor the benefit of the Commonwealth of Vir-
pinia.'' The sale is doubtless to be made un.
der a deed of trust from Selden, Withers 8
4 Co.
| STAMPS ON DEEDs.-When deed both GOV
crs realty and personally it should be stamp
ed, at the rate Of fifty cents for each five hun
bred dollars or fractional part of five hundred
dollars, Of the consideration or value Of the
realty, and as a contract or agreement on &C
count Of the personally.
Saw MILL IMpRovEMENTs.--The local ofths
Roanoke Times has visited a saw mill, recent
/ ly erected on the Fort Lewis estate ofAlex
White, Esq, by Joseph Sherrard, formerly o
| Winchester, Va. From his account Colone
Sherrard has made great improvement ove1
the old style of mills. His address is Big Licl
Depot.
The ladies', of the neighborhood Of Manas
sas plains have organized a memorial associa
ton, whose object is the collecting of the re
mains of the Confederate dead which are scat
tered about that region, and decently inter
ring them. The people Of that section ar
poor, and it is hard to get the means to carr.
out this object. The ladies beg that assistance
be given them by more fortunate communi