The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-02-27
TIE NEWS.
"Black measles" prevail in Maine.


"Black measles" prevail in Maine.
Eggs are eighty cents per dozen in
Cleveland.
Alabama has made herself new county, |
and christened it "Dixie."
Old Thad is well and at his post. The
devil takes care of his own.
Another portion of Table Rock, at Nj
agara Falls, has tunbled down.
The workingmen of New York city are
going to establish cooperative stores
The mayor Of New London Connecticut,
has been fined for Illegally selling liquor
George Bancroft, the historian, so-called,
isthe lately appointed Collector Of Boston.
The largest county in Texas-Presidio
is equal in area to four such States as
Massachusetts.
The fast Duke Of Hamilton has run in
debt in London, three millions, of dollars
in less than year.
The total expenditures for salaries by
the city government of St. Louis for the
past year amounted to 500, zoe.
A little girl was burned to death in her
cradle by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp, at South Coventry, Connecticut.
A new and fatal disease, it is said, has
appeared among the cattle and sheep in
some portions Of Ohio, called the mad
itch"
The New Orleans Times says there APP
pears to be in that city, at the present
time, decided pre-dispositiontowards sui
eide.
The Tuscarora Mills, near Leesburg,
which were burnt by the Yankees during
the war, have been rebuilt and are again
in operation
Geo. Rhodes, Esq, an esteemed citizen
of Loudoun county, died near Leesburg,
Sunday night, at the advanced age OF
ninety-one years.
It costs twenty-five hundred dollars to
become member Of the New York Gold
Board, and three thousand dollars to join
the Stock Exchange.
The Washington Republican thinks
that the tariff bill, generally called the
Bill, Of denominations, will be defeated
No legislation can save it.
Tobacco presses, of a new and superior
pattern, are now manufactured in Rich
anond, to fill orders from New York. This
is good sign for manufacturers.
80 A St..Louis German gentleman recent
ly displayed his parental tenderness BY
dying and leaving one dollar to each o
/. his children, and half a million to hi
widow. -
The destruction Of property, by the re
cent fresin Mobile, amounted to a million
and one hundred thousand dollars, upward
of seven hundred thousand being covered
by insurance.
Fifty or sixty members of the RUM
nave organized themselves into temper
ance society. Theirobject is to avoid thu
necessity of treating their constituent
that go to Washington.
Died, Of pneumonia, in A1iddleburg
Leudoun county, Virginia, on Friday Feb
ruary 10Th, 1867, Lewis Chamberlayne
only son Of Dr. George W and Parke c
Bagby, aged fifteen months.
The small pox has existed in Salem
n. G., since the middle Of November last
One hundred and twenty cases have oc
CURED. Only four have proven fatal
The disease in that section is abating.
Vienna is the only city IN the world
where the snow is removed as fast as i
falls, but at an enormous expense. AL
the men out Of work are set to sweep The
streets at sixty kreutzers (about twenty
two cents) day.
The statue Of Chief Justice John Mar
shall, intended for the Washington monu
ment, reached Richmond on the 22d pei
the steamer, Albemarle, from New York t.
which place it had been shipped from Bre
men.