The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-17

Ten cents ! gallon i The pr @ Of milk on
the prairies.
Minnesota has fifteen millions Of bushels Of
wheat this year.
a full grown eagle was captured IN q.
Louis the other day.
Fortysfye pairs Of twins were born IN
Rhode Island last year.
Internal revenue receipts now reach one
million dollars per day.
Miss Josephine Lalnpham has been liceus-
ed to preach in Ohio.
The tobacco trade Of New York amounts
to 500, 900 900 annually.
Over seventy cotton factories have been
built in Georgia since the war.
The State Of Michigan has restored the
death penalty to her statute books.
The Emperor Of Russia hasissued a decree
suspending confscation in Poland
China and Japan together contain nearly
half the population Of theSglobe.
Flour is four dollars barrel cheaper in
New York than it was six weeks ago.
The Boston Post says cocoanuts are used as
waterfalls by Alabama ladies'.
Fourteen out oftwenty Of the newspapers
Of Kansas are in favor of female suffrage.
An elevator is to be built at Milwaukee
that will hold / $50, 900 bushels Of grain.
The Union Pacific Railroad has been com-i
pleated to Julesburg, 376 miles from Omaha.
For swearing in Buffalo, aperson, is now
liable to fine Of fifty dollars or Imprisonment.
Bislnark is arranging marriage between
Swedish Princess and Prussian royal Prince.
A plantation in Assumption Parish, Lou
isiana, is wholly cultivated by Coolie labor.
A girl six years old was picked up drunk
in the streets of Connecticut town last
week. SO
4 Fred Douglas addressed alargc Republican
meeting in Norfolk, Va, on the Fourth Of
July.
It is calculated chat this year, in Rome
there have been 81 900 Americans and Z 1000
English.
A Peruvian surgeon, who gives ladies small
feet by cutting ofthc ittle toe, is about to visit
New York.
A little negro girl in Chattanooga, while
looking among some rubbish for rags, found
diamond ring.
Notw: thstandingt the rains Of seyerals weeks,
accounts from all parts Of Georgia are tayora-
bic to the crops.
New Wheat grown on farms near Rich
mond has made its way into that market in
small quantities.
| Accounts from the Southwestern part OF
the State and the Valley show large majorl-
/ ties for the whites.
The State capital Of Nebraska, to be here
after located, is to be named in honour OF
President Lincoln.
Governor Worth, Of North Carolina wore
Confederate gray at the reception OF Presl-
dent johnson, in Raleigh.
A negro was burned to death by mob,
near Shawncetown, Kansas, for outraglng the
person Of young girl.
Sixteen robberics were reported in Mem
phis one plight last week. The aggregate
amount taken was but small.
A company for the manufacture Of guapo
has Just been formed at Wilmington, N. o.,
with capital Of $3.50, 600.
A little girl in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,
swallowed needle over a year ago, and few
days since it came out at her knee.
a prominent Radical senator will make a
speech in few days denouncing the confsca-
ton schemes of Sumner and Stevens.
The school boys Of New Y ork have play
grounds in Central Park, and the girls arc to
have croquet grounds there very soon.
| The Gar has ordered that sword Of the
First Napoleon. now in his possession, be sent
to Paris, to be deposited at the lnyalides.
The man who has nothing to boast Of but
his illustrious ancestry is like potato the
only good belonging to him is under ground.
Over nine million dollars in gold were ex-
pended in San Francisco in 1866 in frst-class
buildings and permanent public improvements
Elias Polk [colored), for many years the
body servant of President Polk. is spoken Of
as a conservative candidate for the Tennessee
Legislature.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lochman died on the 18th
ult, near Showers Mill, in Bethel Township.
Lebanon Co., Pa, at the extraordinary age cf
105 years.
At St. Gcncyieve. Canada, q chicken
went mad and was killed few days since,
which had been bitten by mad dog two
weeks previously.
AT Newton, Mass, a few days since, the as
singnees Of an insolvcnt estate had their little
bill for services cut down from $50, 900 to
s8, 000by the court.
The taxation Of the United States bonds is
advocated by one Radical paper-tbe Wash
ington National Republican, Good! Repu-
diation is the next step.
AT Newton, Mass, few days since, the
assignecs Of an insolvent estate had their
little bill for services cut down from $40, 1000
to $4,000 by the court.
Admiral Tucker, late of the Peruvian Ma
Wy, has been appointed by the Peruvian
government to take charge an expedition to