The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-31

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A hail storm in Central Kentucky last week
destroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
The beggars in New York are noticed as
wearing large number Of finger-rings.
The hospitals at Havana are said to be
,rowded with yellow fever patients.
A daughter of Horace Greeley is said to be
much attached to the Catholic faith.
Philadelphia assessors say Philadelphia is
worth five hundred millions Of dollars.
A lady was before new York York justice
for the 10th time for Drunkenness recently
A lady in Chicago stabbed her husband
with pitchfork. 1t was western love pat.
The net profit of the government from the
Cincinnati post-olfice, last year, was over
s215,008.
There is a fatal epidemic at Indianola, Tex
as, regarding the nature Of which physicians
have disagreed.
Napoleon continues to purchase horses for
his army The French military workshops
are ovcrtasked
Maximilian's last order to Europe was for
2 200 nightingales, to be purchased in Iyrol
and sent to Mexico.
The original manuscripts of all of Walter
SCOTS poems and some Of his prose were sold
at auction in London on the 9th.
The fastest time by a running horse on re-
cord was lately made in Geneva, 1llinos-a
quarter Of mile in nineteen seconds.
The s'hcn fever has made its appearance
again, and has, in New York, assumed the
chronic form Of an American Poultry Socie-
ty.
The Houston (Tcxas) Telegraph says if
Congress will add Mexico to the Fifth Militia
ry District, and let Sheridan reconstruct it, it
would do a good thing.
An unsuccessful attempt was made recent
ly, to dislodge Table Rock at Niagara Falls,
by blasting it, but nothing beyond assure
on the surface was accomplished.
Dr. j. Marion Sims, native Of South
Carolina, but for over thirty years resident
Of Paris. has sent 81 600 in gold in aid of
the suffering people Of his native State.
Chicago eats yearly 1000 pair of frogs
legs; in other words, 100, 900 frogs die annu-
ally for its good. They enter life as tad
poles, and depart from it fried in crumbs
No less than one hundred newspapers have
been started in the District of Columbia since
it was made the seat Of Government, and all
but nine have expired They died Of old To-
gyism.
An experimental house. eleven stories high,
is being built in Paris. 1t will have no stair
case and the tenants are to ascend on a hy-
draulic elevator which goes up and down once
minute.
Rev. Henry Ward Beccher, in sermon de-
liycred recently said that more public men OF
eminence had started from the business Of
type setting than probably from any other oc-
cupatlon.
The St. Louis Republican says: Even
Missouri, cursed as she is with imbecile Off
Gals, and heeced by all manner Of rogues, is
"happy land Of Canaan" as compared with
Tennessee.
Even the dead have been welded to Brig
ham Young by proxy, to satisfy the anxiety
of deluded parents, who wish their departed
daughters to wear starry robes around the
prophet in heaven.
A young and daring thief seized a coat
from the arm of an old gentleman in the Old
Colony Depot, in Boston, recently, in the
pocket of which was 81 600 in greenbacks,
and escaped with it.
When Daniel Webster was a young man.
about commencing the study Of law, he was
advised not to enter the legal profession, for it
was already crowded. His reply was, @Ihcre
is room enough at the top.
John McDcvitt, in game Of billiards at
Long Branch, recently, made the cztraordina-
ny run Of five hundred and sixty five points
on the two red balls, his opponents ball be-
ing pocketed This is The largest run on re-
cord without getting them into the jaw.
Twenty years ago Roberto Walker intima-
ted that the negro race would have to be sent
out of the United States into Mexico via. Of
Texas They will have to so. They cannot
long hold any position in Virginia at least
The whites from the North will drive them
out Of the pleasant regions Of Virginia.
It was reported in Paris that before he en-
tered Qucretaro, Macmillan shipped for Eu-
rope history of the French expedition to
Mexico, written by his own hand, and that the
manuscript is in the possession of the Duel
A umal for publication in the French CAPT
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LONDON, Thursday, July 4, 1867.
JENNINGS ESTATE. ALI persons inter
ested are invited to attend at Mr.. Buttons Of
fee, % King William street, Strand, on Tues
day, July 16, at IL clock. Valuable infor-
nation can be had by addressing Jewett &
Norris. is Washington street, Boston, Mas
sachusctts
Philadelphia is the greatest manufacturing
city in the Union. Her operatives number
96,9S3, and their gross earnings amount an
nually to s135, 9G9,767. In the number Of
her employees she is stated to be 10000 ahead
Of New York, notwithstanding the larger pop
uation of the latter. These are facts worth
remembering merchants
The Council Bluff Bugle says that the
grasshoppers passed over that city recently by
millions. The air was perfectly filled with
them The wind was blowing in northwest
erly direction, and the Nebraska people must
have received the mostof the crop We are
not enyious and don't complain at the migra-
ton of all such inhabitants
Lafayette G.. Baker, the noted detective,
does not fancy, it would seem, being put in
tho ,,ositiou il, which he n]aced so rnonv dur