The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-09
Bull Run Russell is going to Ahyssinia

Bull hun Russell IS gong to Ahysslnla
Twenty nine poor Indians vote in Missis-
sippi.
Missouri has 1880 Freemasons and 246
lodges.
Gen. Beauregard is on visit to Louisa
county.
Infant Iowa grasshoppers weigh three to
the pound.
Silkworms, fried in caster oil, are Chi
nese delicaey.
Corn is selling for twenty five cents bush
el in Northern Georgia.
There are fourteen thousand discharged Re-
gro soldiers living in Virginia.
"A town of 1000 inhabitants in Brazil is
composed entirely Of runaway slaves.
George P Kane has declined the Demo-
cratic nomination for Sheriff in Baltimore
A man in Lyndon, VT, has sold his wife
and children to another, and started for Utah
Weneed laborer for every acre. Yam
KEGS why don't you come in We won't hurt
you.
In Halifax county there are four negeoes
and one white man running for the convcn-
ton.
The Chinese claim to have discovered
America from the West a thousand wears be-
fore Columbus.
Captain Ralph S. Fritz, of California, de-
ceased, left $4,000 towards paying off the
national debt.
An Albany widower has found his wife
petrified into an elegant statue after burial
Of seventeen years.
A child lost its life in Manchester, Eng
land. througha needle, which had got amongst
it's clothing, piercing its heart.
1t is said that the iron work of the Paris
Exposition Building has been sold, and will
be brought to the United States
A single dealer in eggs in western New
York sent over half million of them to
market at New York in three weeks.
A hundred thousand men, paying $500
each per month, would pay off the national
debt Of three thousand millions in one year.
A curmudgeon in Indiana poisoned the
water-melons in his garden, and the next
morning found one dead boy and another
very sick.
Julesburg, in Nebraska, which has been in
existence three months, has grown so rapidly
that it already has two mayors and two com
mon councils.
Southern Society" is the title Of new
FIRST class literary paper to be started in Bal
timore, Oct LIST, with large list of South
eYn contributors
Rev. Henry A. Wise, Jr, has been elected
to the rectorship of Christ Church, Alexan-
dria, and the salary has been raised to s1,-
700. He declined
4. A correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from Nova Scotia, says the people
talk openly and fayorably of annexation to
the United States.
The Democrats of Kansas have held a
State convention and unanimously passed
conservative resolutions and organized
State central committee.
A gentleman remarked, after hearing Mr.
Munsey last Sunday, that he reminded him
of the U. s. mint. "Every sentence closed
by dropping out guinea"
: A Northern man recently purchased large
landed estate in Northumberland county for
80, go, and proposes to make the growth Of
blackberries his leading crop.
The Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania
has determined to open its doors to women
provided a sufficient number offer to make it
desirable as test of its benefits.
The Savannah papers mention the ship
ment OF four crates Of new sheaf rice from
that pert to New York. This is the first ex-
port North of the new rice crop.
Miss Belle Boyd, Of Va; knswn as the
dashing rebel spy during the late war, has
made her first appearance on the American
stage at st. Louis, in the character of Pauline
One firm in Richmond shipped, during
the month Of August, lao, 900 pounds of to-
bsco to Northern and foreign markets. &c.
.yeral other firms reached nearly the same
figure.
The Warrenton (Va) Sentinel says that
lone of the greatest religious revivals ever
known la Warrenton is progressing nightly
at the Baptist church, and many protesting
conversion"
The editors of the Narion Record give no.
tice that they intend to commence the pub
location, in Lynchburg, on the first of Novem-
Der, ola Charge, tlrst-class Radical Republican
newspaper"
The National Inteligencer says the Ad-
ministration has nothing to do with the trial
of Mr.. Davis, and therefore has no occasions
to hold interviews with "the notorious Judge
Underwood"
A citizen in Connecticut has invented a
printing press, which he claims will strike off
four thousand copies of the New Testament
per diem, or four hundred copies of /. news
paper per minute.
A Mr.. Powell, on his farm Of thirty five
acres near Norfolk, has sold this year upwards
Of $1,000 worth of fruits and vegetables,
and has raised sufhciency Of corn, hay, &C.,
for his family use.
A race Of one mile for 81 900, was run in
Cincinnati on Saturday. between two legless
men, whose entire powers of locomotion cen
tered in their arms. The winner made the
time in II minutes and 15 seconds.
archbishop McCloskey, it is said, has call
Ell for volunteers among the priests in New
York to proceed at once to New Orleans to |
take the places of the clergy who are either
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