The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-23
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
The Eoglish curates. talk Of striking for
higher pay.
There are now $4,000, 600 of taxes in ar
zsas.iulsaly-.s =. :.
Chicago has over thousand pupils in FIVE
evening schools.
The game Il base bali has been introduced
into the Sandwich Islands.
Norfolk il shell-fsh community. It ships
$4,000, Coz bushels oysters annually.
Sixty Thousand people visited the agricultur-
al fair At St. Louis on Thursday.
Composition has placed the fare from New
York to Albany, $50 miles, at fifty cents.
scn.c Of the Texas planters are counting
on the old-fashiened crop Of baleful worm.
.Wine peach" is the name of large and
delicious fruit in Texas. 1t is not intoxicat-
ting
Silver spoons have been exhumed at Pom
peii. Let them be added to Gen. Buffers
collection.
A picture IL on exhibition in window in
BOSTON, announced as John Brown executed
With . pen"
!. The prospects Of Randolph Macon College
sbs the present session are said to be very
hAttcsing.
Mr.. Jacob Krebs, an old defender, born in
Annapolis in, l774. died in Baltimore on
Wednesday.
An Ohio Democrat came home ali the way
FROM Chill, S.:.A. vote the straight ticket.
He is rewarded.
The obscquies 9th late Peter Lorillard
took place in Grace Church, New York, on
"Wednesday mornirg.
The corner stone of new Atlantic Hotel in
Norfolk, was laid on Wednesday, with impos-
ing Masonic ceremonies.
Partial returns from 81 counties in Caifor-
MIA put sprague's (dem) majority at 1,166.
HE election is conceded,
A German and Norwegian girl have just
baen married in Chicago, but neither under
stands the language of =the other
= The last steamer from California to Hong
Kong, took home several hundred Cinnamon
who have got rich by taking iu~washiug.
Rev. I. B..LsEe,>' President Of Danville
Female College, has been called to the Pastor
ate Of Court street Baptist Church, Ports
nouth.
The Califoruia miners are on strike for
si1 dollars day, and have formed a Miner s
League. Work has ceased in most Of the
mines.
Earl Of Campcrdowp, England and P. de
River, Of the Spanish Legation, arrived Rich.
,hond, and took up their quarters at the Ex
change Hotel.
The new California process Of extracting
geld and silver will increased the demand fol
salt. Two hundred pounds Of salt is used
Cor each tor of ore.
Mr.. T. Oliver Of New York, is i'll St Loui.
teaching young men how to cut their own
clothes. He has quite class, and bids fail
to rival Prof, Blot in popularity.
4 subscriber Of the Crescent, writing from
Columbus, Colorado county, Texas, says the
freedmen have "done bully in registering
but in cotton picking theYsare very triaing.'
The lates fashion for umbrella handles in
Paris is to have them of rhinoceros horn cut
in the form Of chain. The effect is singu-
lar and absurd, because the links are not
loose
The registry Law Of Indiana requires that
all ballots shall be on white paper, and shall
contain no motto or distinguishing mark Of
any kind, excepting the name of the candidate
AID the Office Of which he is proposed.
"A Nashville dispatch says that there is
strong ground for asserting that Governor
Brownlow viii, if not too feeble to travel, take
. trip to Europe at an early day. whether he
is elected to the United States Senate on not
Latest Local and General News.
The opposition to Convention is growing
in North Carolina
The track on the Manassas Gap Railroad
has been laid to Markham Station.
The Methodist Church cases, in the Val
ley, have been decided in favor Of the Church