The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-09-25
Much in Little.

Paper water falls are manufactured at Green
Point, L. l. s.-s
Bananas are now to be found in most New
Orleans gardens. "a i5ssss.ssdf
Emigration from Ireland to this country il
again on the increase. asjisa.i
Miss Hosmer's Lincoln monument is esti-
mated to cost $25OOOO.
General McClellan's friends say he will not
return home this year.
In prosperity prepare for change in ad-
versity hope for one.
There were 95 births and As deaths in
Fredericksburg during 1866. 'sss
McCoole opens gorgeous groggery in St.
Louis, with the proceeds of his fight. asa
There is colored boy in Hatfield, Mass,
only nine years old, who weighs over 200 lbs.
Goods were recently delivered in Chicago
in just "a hours and As minutes from New
York.
A five minutes hail storm destroyed 1000
panes of glass in the Susquehanna Railroad
shops.
Twenty-seven women in Redfeld, Iowa,
have suppressed the whiskey shops in that
place.
One hundred and thirty lodges of Good
Templars have been started in Ohio during
the past year. ..
A young girl has been arrested in Cincin-
natl, who confessed to have set about dozen
houses on FIRE.
1t was looked upon as an indication Of
warlike intentions that the French Emperor
set out for Lille in the uniform of general
of division -
Twenty-six full cboirs are to participate in
the ceremonies of laying the cornerstone of
the New Catholic Cathedral on Washington
street, Boston.
James Syrer has been sentenced to the
chain gang in Richmond, Va, for twenty
days, for attempting to pass himself off as
U. s. detective. = =, =.
Miss Goodwin, aged %, daughter Of Reu.
ben Goodwin, of Corinth, Me-, got separated
from blackberrying party, and is hopelessly
lost in the woods.
Professor Dabney, of Nliddleburg, Va, mas
declined the appointment to the Chair of
Latin in the University of Louisiana to which
e,was recently chosen ..si
A negro man was shot near Alexandria,
last week, by another negro, while attempting
to commit a robbery on the farm on which
the negro who shot him was employed
The yestry of Christ Church in Alexandria
have elected Rev. r. T. Perkins, Rector of
that Church, in place of Rev. A. NJ Randolph,
The latter goes to Baltimore
The revenue tax collected for the month of
A not 4n.k ok, H. l.
was over half million dollars. The amount
of tobacco was a million and quarter pounds.
The Mobile Tribune says that s'were the
devil to come on earth in propria personae,
there would be found fools to burnish up the
prong of his tail and adorn them with rib
bons."
Gen. Wigfalls address is No So Glouces-
ter Place, Portland Square, London, and, all
reports to the contrary, he is not coming
back to America, but will practice law in
London.
The loss by the rot of the Ohio grapes this
year, it is said, will not be SO great as was ex-
pected. Only the Catawbas have suffered at
all, and all the Isabellas and Delawares are
fully as good as usual.
The Cabinet, Gen. Grant included, is in IA
vor Of simultaneous elections in the Southern
States on the first Monday in November It is
expected that district commanders
will concur in this view.
Colonel VIM. Lamb, agent of the Liver
pool steamers, sold on Saturday week the first
emigrant ticket from Liverpool to Norfolk.
1t was purchased by All adopted citizen to
send to friend.
Universalism will celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of its existence in 1870.
lhe society has now seven newspapers and
three magazines, with seven hundred ministers
and five hundred organizations. .As z45
2 The California Judicial election, which is
held separate from other elections, takes place
in October. The candidates for the Supreme
Bench are John Curry, republican, and Royal
T. Sprague, democrat, both able Judges.
Miss Lou. E. Slagle, daughter of Henry
Slagle, of Lynchburg, Va, has begun to dis
play conspicuous talent as an artist Miss
Slagle IS now in her eighteenth year, and her
sketches and copies evince the most decided
taste and skill el W ass ga9 ssi.5s.ne
The English papers By the last mail state
that the preparations for the Abyssinian ex.
pCultlOH CUutIuuc, anu tildC IL IS CO0C6mpl1-
ted to place 10000 troops, with the necessary
animals to move them and their supplies, in
the heart Of Africa.
Not a gallon of napple jack even for
home consumption, can be distilled without
the distiller Of the same pays the revenue
tax to the United States Government, which
is two dollars per gallon, the same as requir-
ed on other distilled spirits.
1t seems probable that new system Of
telegraph construction will soon be adopted
generally in England. The wires are to be
laid side by side in tubes buried under the
bed ola railway, each being separately in-
sulated in very simple manner.
One of the principal hop raising regions of
the United States is in Sank county, Wiscon-
sin, where over three-quarters of million of
dollars were paid out for hops last year
Twice that sum will be realized from the
crop of this year. which is better and larger
'han that of the last
The free baths at Bcstor nave heen we'll
9atronlzed this seascs.s.. During last month
me number Of persons who availed them
,el'es OF tie opportunity of free wash were:
Wen