The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-03-06
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SEAgNTssS. VIRGINIA.
Wednesday Morning, III arch 6, L
TETE NEWS,

Wednesday Morning. FL 2rcll s, 1857.
1.E II Z WIS.
There are about forty candidates for
Governor Of IOWA.
\ little sou Of Gen. NIahones was
buried in Norfolk last Sunday.
There arc zee persons in Indiana who
cannot. read Or write.
y live seal has been captured in the
river near Bangor, Milne
Gen. Butler is reported to have begun
housekeeping in Washington.
-Four miles Of houses at Yedlo, in ia
pan we're destroyed by Gre.
4 hog weighing $50 pounds nett was
killed in Alexandra last week.
England is absorbed by the questions
o; Eenianism aud Reform.
There are 8, 500 students in the various
New England colleges this year.
shad are considered dear in " ilmington,
North Carolina, at dollar pair.
The counsel Of Lindsey, the child
whipper, have applied for a new trial.
Hon, Lewis y. Campbell, Of the Next
can Mission, has gone home to Ohio.
Juarcz has eouascated 500 100000
worth Of Imperial property in Mexico.
3 little girl has died at Albany, New
Yvrk, from eating green-co!ored candy.
In the forty years, from 1920 to 1860,
we took from Europe 4,5l2,171 cmisrants-
Fleming Griffin, a prominent citizen OF
Richmond, died On Monday night week.
The average money value Of every Eu-
ropean cmigraut reaching this country is
$1,000.
Sixty Catholic priests have arrived at
New Orleans to open schools for the
freedmen.
Hon. Isaac E. Holmes, formerly mem
Der Of Congress from Charleston, died on
the 25 inst
So many people are out Of employment
in New York that recruiting officers are
doing good busiaosa.
The Paris and New York papers an
nounce that short dresses for Spring
wear" are to be tie t;tsAjon.
The Dispatch announces, sson authority
that the general health ofRichmond was
never better than at present.
The New York iremen are going to
present IS, GOO hose carriage to a com
pany in Columbia South Carolina.
A despatch from Richmond says a
large portion of the members Of the Sen
ate are ia favor CT calling State Conyen-
ton.
The maple sugar, composing the little
cakes that are sold in the streets, is gener-
ally made Of the settling Of New Orleans
molasses.
The premature discharge Of a can
non, at military funeral, in Honesdale
Pa, last week. injured two men fatally
aud third slightly.
A couple were married in Saginaw city
Michigan, who bad never seen each ether
until the day they were married, done
their counting by mail.
Since the enforcement Of the Sunday
law in New York, some dealers pat up the
sign in their shops, on Saturday: "Load
your pistols for Sunday"
A party thirty persons, in Royalton
New yosk, were recently made very i'll by
eating cheese. It is supposed the cheese
was made in a brass kettle.
Mr.. Bright, il one Of his late speeches,
said that one-half Of Scotland is owned by
twelve persons, and one-ha)f Of England
by one hundred and fifty.
The Richmond Examiner says it would
not be surprised if the next thing the
Radicals do would be to prohibit US from
militia mastering. Just as apt as not.
There is great financial distress in Eng
land The London Gazette announces
now two hundred bankrupts weekly. Years
ago, thirty OR fifty would have exceeded
the average.