The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-10

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| If YOU have a house to rent.
IF you want to rent a house,
| you want boarding.
| If you have land to sell.
IfyOu wish to buy land,
| If you wish anything,
| Tell 5000 people at once, and more especi-
ally, if you want to get rich, advertise in the
| s'VALLEY VIRGINIAN.'
A schoolmaster's salary in Prussia averages
$50.
The rinderpest is ON an alarming increase
in England.
There are about 35O, 600 Indians in the Uni
| ted States.
The se7enteen-year locusts have appeared in
portions of New Jersey.
| A fatal case of cholera was reported in
Louisville, Ky, on the 10Th ult.
| Only cases of yellow fever have, as yet
occurred this summer in New Orleans.
| The Petersburg Express is luxuriating on
| ripe peaches and pears, grown near that city
| The Savannah (Ga. )papers record the death
of the Rev, 7. J. staley, an Episcopal minis
| ter.
At Cohoes, New York, six boys have been
| drowned while bathing, within the last six
weeks
Samples of California wheat are on cxhibi-
ton in'Alexandria. The grain is said to be
very fine.
Butler is mentioned among those who are OPP
posed to present impeachment, and in favor OF
a short session of Congress.
There is on exhibition, at the Dispatch Of
fee, leaf of tobacco SO inches long. 1t was
grown in Pittsylvania by Mr.. Jones.
The Masonic procession in Boston. the 9TH
err day, contained $500 Masons in full regalia,
40 bands of music, with $50 musicians.
There is an unusual amount of sickness in
Norfolk, brought on from imprudence in eat
ing unripe fruit and stale vegetables.
At the grand review in Paris the Princess
Obelinski's robe was sea green, covered with
tea roses and she wore a diadem worth 800,
900 francs.
The Norfolk Virginian of the 50th ultimo,
says: sit is currently reported that several
negro women have registered in this city in
male attire"
Elias Polk (colored,) for many years the
body servant of President Polk, is spoken of
as the Conservative candidate for the Tennes-
see Legislature.
There are over twenty thousand acres of
land in Alabama planted in sweet potatoes
this year, and which will produce eight hun
bred thousand bushels.
Greeley thinks that Hinton Rowall Helper
does not like niggers because he is a 'spoor
white This is the burden of the Tribunes
criticism of ''Nojoque."
Brownlow has DISTINGUISHED by proclama-
| ton, Giles county, Tenn, making thirteen
counties disfranchsed since the eighteenth of
| April. Register and vote.
| The export of gold still continues at an in
creasing rate Three millions were shipped
on the Both ultimo. The gold market is strong
and very steady at about 1888.
There is great gold plethora in England
and the Bank of England has $50, 100000 of
coin on hand that there is no call for, notwith-
standing the low rate of interest
| gentleman in Greenbrier was stung by a
locust few days since. and his life was saved
only after much difficulty. The sting ofthesa
insects is said to be very poisonous.
The great tabernacle Of the Saints at Salt
Lake City is now finished tits $50 feet long
and $50 feet wide, and furnishes comfortable
sitting room for ten thousand persons.
| The freedmen in Arkansas are said to have
eclipsed the army in Flanders, when they first
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cents per pound on their part of the cotton
crop.
A newly appointed street commissioner Of
New Orleans, recently dischargeda number of
Irish lahorors to make room for others sswho
! DO not show the dirt 50 easy says the n. O.
| Times.
! Some of Brownlow's ruffians have been ar
resting men in Virginia and imprisoning them
in Tennessee. Gen. Schofeld has addressed
letter to the old william demanding the release
of men so captured.
| It is said that a New York mechanic has in
vented small reservoir. filled with water,
placed upon the animals head. keeping the
brain cool, and thus warding off the effects of
the heat and sunstroke.
The New York Times has a very strong ar
ticle against the enormous folly eff making an
ireland of the South, as the Radical legisla-
ton proposes. But passion rules the day, and
reason must bide her time.
We aretold that Stewart & Co., of New York
have created stir in trade and feminine cir
cles by going into the bonnet business, and
proposing to sell Paris chats that the MILL
ners have charged $50 to $40, at $40 to SIS
They say Miss Lloyd, an English landown-
Err, has given wholesale notice to quit to her
| tenants in Carmarthenshire and Pembroke
shire, in consequence oftheir wives and daugh-
tiers wearing crinoline, a practice to which she
objects.
The New York Tribune says, that two hours
reading of good newspaper is as profitable as
six hours work out of twelve. The farmer and
produce dealer equally should understand the
markets. Sometimes to know thing is the
same as to earn 500.
In Norway and Sweden there is reported to
be perfect mania on the subject of emigra-
ton. All who can gather together sufficient
sum to pay their passage to America make a
start They go chiefly to Minnesota and other
parts of the Northwest.
| The last number of the Home Journal expa-
tiates at large on the danger of side-saddles,
and winds up by recommending their disuse.
Ladies, says the Journal. should adopt the
graceful and becoming Turkish equestrian cos
tune, and ride accordingly.
During recent wedding in church, in a
village near Troy, when the clergyman asked
if anybody knew any reason why the ceremo-
ny should not proceed, a woman rose in the
audience and forbade the bans, on the ground
that the groom had promised to marry he1
when her husband died. The clergyman de-
cided that she hadno right to look so far ahead
and went ON with the performance.