The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-09-04

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grees in Davenport, Ill.
The present Empress Of Morocco was once
a French peasant girl.
The acting minister OF the interior in
France is an American.
The University of Vermont has made an
L. l.. D. of Thad Stevens.
DIR. Harris says that foul air killed 329
persons in New York week before last.
Cholera travels with the steerage passen-
gers on the Mississippi boats.
There are now eight papers edited by ne
groes in the United States.
A fat boy in Dublin weighs something over
500 pounds and girts 73 inches.
A Wisconsin farmer complains that he has
not room GA his farm this year to stack his
crops.
Mrs. Tsabell. Coleman, near Amherst court
house, died recently, at the advanced age Of
81 years.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, is to
have grand public reception on his return
home from Rome.
The total sum handed to the Pope, as Pc
tiers pence, by the French Bishops, is estima-
ted at from fifteen to sixteen millions.
A commission fruit dealer in New York re-
Gently sold bushel of apricots from Della
ware, put up in quart baskets, for s32.
-Four thousand persons in Geneva, Switzer-
land, are employed in making watches. They
are anxious about American competition.
A man in Carlo, ILL.,, while overheated, last
week, held piece of ice in his hand until he
was chilled, in consequence Of which he died
It is estimated that the wheat crop Of Min
nesota will average thirty bushels to the acre
this year. The berry is large, plump and
heavy.
While some men were engaged in digging
a we'll in Richmond, they struck vein of
sparkling ore, which upon examination, prov
ed to be gold.
! The official record shows that the cotton ex-
ported during the year ending June Both was
667 900 900 pounds, at value iu currency
of s2O2, 900, 900.
| Six months ago Boston House sent out
cargo of five hundred hoop skirts to Japan as
a venture. The Japs put a cover on them and
used them for umbrellas.
New refrigcrating cars are now bringing to
New York city, dressed carcasses of steers
and sheep killed in Ohio, and the meat ar
riyes in perfect order.
A negro woman residing in Norfolk, gave
birth to three living children on Friday week.
One Of them subsequently died, and the 9TH
er two are said to be doing well
An alligator" was captured in the harbor
Of Baltimore, Saturday week ''Not that the
thing was either rich or rare"-but the wond-
er is-"how the ID it got therew
The Boston Gazette says that miscegena-
ton is going on at fearful rate at the west
end Of Boston, as no less than dozen black
men have recently taken white wives.
The receipts Of wheat in Chicago are quad.
ripple the amount at this time last year. It
will require more currency to move the crop
than ever before, for it is immense
There is an editor in Minnesota who weighs
642 pounds. His name is Frank Dagget, and
he derives sustenance from the Wabeshaw
Herald. It must have an immense circula-
ton.
Miss Virginia Jones, lady who was injur-
ed by the breaking down Of seats at Robin
sons Circus, in Norfolk, on Thursday week,
has brought suit against the Manager for 49,
900 damages.
Mrs. Ensley, Of Hector, N. Y, after in
dulging in her favorite smoke, on Friday week,
put the pipe in her pocket In few min
utes her clothes were a blaze, and she was
burned to death.
A negro named Alfred Thomas, has been
sentenced by the Amherst circuit court, to
twenty years's imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary, for committing a rape on a little white
girl nine years old.
The Rev. Mr.. Grammar has accepted the
call to the rectorship Of Grace Church in
Lynchburg. He is said to be a young minis
ter Of great promise, and is at present resid-
ing in Halifax county.
/ W. B. Bourn, of San Francisco, formerly a
carrier-boy of the Providence (R ~ Journ-
al, has the privilege this year Of paying tax
on an income of $125, 1916 in San Francisco
the second in amount in tho city.
The New Orleans Times says that in the
Southern States, east of the Mississippi the
cereal crops are more than enough for home
consumption, and that the freedmen in all that
section are continuing to work well.
Rev. Mr. White, Of Louisville, Assistant
! Bishop elect Of the Diocese of Va, preached
in Richmond on Sunday week. He has not
yet definitely decided whether he will accept
the position to which he was chosen.
Near Granada, Miss, recently six wolves
made an attack upon negro man, and reg
ular battle ensued. The negro made heroic
defence with hickory stick, and succeeded
in killing one of them and putting the others
to fight,
The average yearly production of distilled
spirits in the United States during the past
FIVE years has been fifty millions of gallons
The revenue has been collected on about sew
enteen millions. Loss to Government, $685.
100000 annually.
A Mr.. Ashman, residing in Clear Greek
township, Cooper county, Mo-, was slightly
bitten on the fingers by diseased mule which
he was attempting to drench. The poisonous
saliva entering his system, he died the next
day in the greatest agony and raying ike a
maniac.
It took seven days and nights to embalm
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