The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.


Fifteen radical darkies are elected to
the n orth Carolina Convention.
ga number of Alabamians are in Staun
ton looking for farms.
Not less than 100000 persons have
settled in Missouri during the past
year.
There are three hundred and forty
seven manufactures of false teeth in
Paris.
Hartford, CT, has nearly completed
Sl50,000 school house, capable of ac-
commodating 800 pupils.
Sixty-four pews in Rev. Mr.. Todd's
church in Boston sold last Monday
evening for $4,000.
The smallest watch at the Paris Ex-
position was so diminutive that it was
set in gold pencil case.
sold in Lynchburg Wednesday at five
dollars per barrel.
The market in Lynch5urg is crowded
with rabbits-which sell at 20 cents
a piece for fine large, fat ones.
At fashionable weddings in Phila-
delphia the bridesmaids enters in pairs,
unattended by the groomsmen.
w. NJ. Pritchard married his fifth
wife i'll La Pate, Nd, lately, though he
has only reached his thirty fourth year.
Said Stephen Girard: "Inever caese
to advertise. 1t is an investment that
pays at all seasons"
Thomas Francis Meagher is said to
have left his widow 100000 in mining
interests in Montana.
Newman Hall and Theodore Cuyler,
| in disguise, did the "dens OF vice" in
New York by way of moral and re-
ligious lark.
A. L. Stewards new carpet cost 81
900. 1t is one entire piece, was made
in Paris, and represents scene in the
| Versailles.
An old Indian, ninety-three years
| old, an aid of Tecumseh at the battle of
the Thames in 1872, is with delega-
ton of Indians, at Ottawa.
The Rt. Rev. John j. Williams,
Catholic Bishop of Boston, confirmed
nine hundred and eighty-three persons
in one day last week.
A youth in San Francisco, desiring
to make present to a pretty jewelers.
daughter, stole a ring from her father
for that purpose.
The day before the Paris exposition
closed, two affable individuals man.
aged to steal diamond aigrette, worth
$4,000, from one of the showcases.
Hunnicutt has come out in favor OF
abolishing the punishment of hanging
branding orr whip ping men, for any
crt mes then ndy commit
DR.. S. B, Fisher has purchased of
MIR. j. w. Finks the building on main
street i'll Warrenton now occupied by
DR.. Phillips as a drug store, for $4,000
Private letters from Richmond. Va
H Rives Pollord has challenged the
Wises, who declined fighting him.
General Grant has ordered Brevet
Major e. Murphy to report to Major
General sSchofield, to take immediate
command of the sub-district of Rich
mond. 'ssS.
Milwaukee has officially decided th'
value of mans beard. In fight :
ruffian pulled out mans beard, ant
the court awarded him fifteen dollars
) damages.
Seven men. women and children
were run over by cars, horses, wagons
draws trucks. stages, and carriages, IL
various parts of New York on Satur
day
Virginia has $50 postoffices mai
, Transportation, with celebrity, &C., 6,
4l5 miles, at cost of $107 ,Sl4; steam
boat, 402 miles, $25,550; railroad, 1,3l
/. miles $l04,094,
, The Board of Visitors of the Univer
sity have appointedlMajor. Green Pey
ton, late Of the Southside railroad, a
Proctor at the University, in place Q
Col. johnson, resigned.
Mai. S. NJ. Yost, one of the late edi
: tors and proprietors of the Rockingham
) Register, has connected himself wit
/, the st Louis Times, and will soon tax
e up his residence in that city.
The family of G. w. Cook, of Nc
!. Minnyille. Tenn, was poisoned fey
days since by the mistaken use of arse
: mic for soda in making bread. Four c
!; The family, including MI. Cook, hay
a died.
4 The negro who outraged Mrs. Baker
4 of Princeton, Ind., was caught the sam
v night and confessed his crime. ii
Q was stabbed, shot and beaten unit
Q dead, and then dragged through tn
j streets.
e The farm of Benz. Snead, Esq, nes
+ Charlottesville, Va, containing COL 8
i cres, has been sold to Mr.. Porter, {
If Pa, for Twenty five dollars per acre.
e Mr.. p, intends going in to the grar
o and fruit business quite extensively.
: A little son of DR.. Minor, of Bridge
water, Rockingham county, aged thre
g years, went to the ash-hopper to loo
I for eggs. The servant girl had place
n bucket of hot ashes in the hopper, an
&c he stood upon them. His cries wei
e heard, but too late to save him. IL
/ feet were so badly burned that he die
u in few days. Valley Virginian.
t. DIR. Alban S. Payne, of Linwoo
Y Fauquier county, writes to the Warren
y ton Index, that there is on his place,
ID mountain of beautiful white and vari
st gated marble. He says, if this marb
s. can be successfully quarried, he wi
present to DR.. Balch enough to build
church, and to the corporation of Wa
renton enough to pave the streets
that town.