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

London is lighted by 100000 gas lamps.
Buenes 'Ayres has wool clip of oO0,-
600 pounds this year
The Royal Havana lottery cleared 50, $780,
ZIG profits last year.
The coffee crop in Hayti this year will be
the largest ever known.
Postmaster Wilson, at New Albany, Indiana,
has fallen heir to 81 600, 900 in England.
There is not toll gate in all Switzerland.
The roads are fine, and belong to the Govern
: ment.
Two American bulls and seven heifers were
shipped for England from New FORK on Satur-
day for purpose of raising stock.
Two nicces of Gen. Phil. Kcarny are to
marry pair Of young English nobs one Of
them relation of Waterloo wellington
One hundred and fifty tons of butter were
sent from Vermont to Boston in the last two
weeks. An exchange calls that "greasing the
hub
The total debt Of Georgia including taxes,
is 1856, 622, the property assets s11 ,018,-
600, and the rate ofState taxation one fifteenth
of one per cent
Mr. James Young, of Great Falls, N. H.,
earning that his wife was sick, ran from Ro-
chester home, six miles. On reaching his
house he fell dead
The University at Notre Dame, Indiana,
received bell weighing, with its appurten-
apces, Il, $50 pounds and is believed to be the
argest in the United States. a
Returns from all except eight countless re-
ceived in Virginia, show 10000 whites and
10000 blacks who have been registered. OF
the counties not heard from, four gave large
white majorities.
Adyices from Vera Cruz to the 18th ult.,
state Lopez was still alive, and Marquee had
not been captured. The trial of O'Horan
was progressing. Filibussering in Cuba was
going on very slowly
General Beauregard has organized the
electrical Braker Company of America. 1t
is claimed that railway train running forty
four miles an hour can be stopped by electri-
city in between fifty and one hundred yards.
There seems to be terrible surfeit Of
American coin everywhere except here. In
Canada our silver is so much of a nuisance
that the London Canada Wcst) Board of
Trade passed a resolution in favor Of taking
it at four per cent. discount
Hats are made in hurry in Paris. In the
Exposition is machine by means Of which a
rabbit skin may be converted into hat in
fifty minutes. During the process the hat
undergoes six operations. The hats are lined
and trimmed by sewing machine.
A young man named James Harding,
living near Saranac, Michigan, dislocated his
jaw while yawnng, so that it fell on his neck.
A physician was called in, who set it in its
proper place, but it fell down three times, and
finally had to be securely tied up to keep it
in position.
Governor Orr delivered speech at Bolton,
S. G., last week in which he advised the pco-
pie to register and vote for convention, be-
ing satisfied that the attitude of the negro in
the convention and Legislature will produce
wonderful reaction in favor of the South
throughout the North.
In Texas coin has held its proper place
wonderfully. 1t has been the standard for
commercial transactions longer and more ex-
tensivcly than the Texans had right to hope.
1t is now giving way to the paper currency,
which is taken now on the Texas Central rail
way for freight and passage money.
A Boston lady at the mountains, having
decided to return by the middle ofSeptember
has begun to send her luggage in instalments
two weeks ahead. She will accompany the
last carload herself.
''Trotter, says he wishes that lady would
come to the mountains Of Virginia every sea
son."