The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-06-12


The s'yalley yirginian'' having larger Cireu-
published here; as well as large and increasing
Circulation throughout the Valley, offers unsur-
passed Inducements to advertisers.
There were IL, I'll vessels lost at sea last
year.
The funniest writer in Europe is Mr.. John
Ruskin.
Butter has come down to twenty cents in
Alexandria
Good impulses are nought, unless they be-
come good actions.
The grand hotel enterprise in New York
has been abandoned.
New Irish potatoes have appeared in the
Petersburg market.
A Baptist church in Hartford has choir
Of one hundred children
Henry Ward Beecher taught school in New
Orleans in l841 and 1912.
The advocates of female suffrage make
slow progress in England.
There were 3, 800 steamboat arrivals in st.
Louis for the year ending June LIST.
The days are six hours longer than they
were in the middle of December.
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visiting his friends in Wilmington, N. C.
The eight railroads in New Jersey last year
divided So, 372,2 18 among thestockholders.
Cases Of sun stroke occurred in Baltimore,
and in Bergen county, N. Jersey, on the 4th
inst.
The population of London is now estimated
by the English Registrar General, at 3,0S2,
1t is said that 100000 counterfeit fraction
al currency is in circulation in the city of New
York.
Bossy Lewis, a negro, has been elected in
spector Of elections at Paramount, West Vir-
ginia.
The first watermelon of the season made
its appearance in Newbern, N. c., on the 9th
instant
Ellsanna Weir was thrown from wagon in
Alexandria, on the Both ult, and broke one Of
his legs.
Mr.. Davis attended themarriage of South
ern couple at st. James Cathedral, in Toron-
to, on the 4th.
A rich copper mine has been discovered on
the land of Michael House, near Grinnage, in
Fairfax county.
The number of visitors at Niagra Falls has
been much greater thus far this season than
in previous years.
Gen. Sterling Price finds that the commits
sion business, in which he is now engaged in
st. Louis, pays.
Candles are made out Of bayberries, at
Newton, N. j., and they are said to be supe-
rior to tie best tallow.
Vermont wife celebrated the tenth an
vi how 5,yo bxyo 81 oil
her husbands s'tin.'
The Radical paper, the Republican, pub
lished in Mobile, has been suspended because
Of incendiary publications.
valuable copper mine, containing ninety
per cent, of pure metal, has been recently dis
covered in Culpeper county.
Charles Carter Lee, ESQ.,, brother of Gen.
LEE, addressed a large assemblage in Louis
vile, KY, one night last week.
John N. Lyle, ST., father of the Junior edi-
tor of the Christiansburg Southwest, died on
the 3lst ult., at his home in that place.
An industrial school fer girls is to be es
tablished in Connecticut. The Legislature
has appropriated $4,000 for the purpose.
DR.. Wood has been offered $50, 900 for his
farm of 175 acres of land near Hampton, al
though it is in the hands of the Government.
A spunky young lady in New Haven, Con-
necticut, recently took down rogue, who
was too familiar by shooting him through
the cheek.
A young man in Texas, named Harry Turn,
recently married his cousin of the same name,
on the principle that some good turn deserves
another"
The Danville Times wants the turner's Of
Pittsylvania and other counties adjoining to
hold an agricultural convention in lanyille.
Good idea.
Up to the latest advices more than $4,000
tons Of breadstuffs had been shipped this year
to England It is said that there is los, 600
tons yet available for export.
There are clergymen within forty miles Of
Boston who have only two hundred and fifty
dollars salary. If their preaching is no bet
ter than the pay, it must be poor. indeed.
A cooperative furniture factory, with .
capital of two million dollars and employing
sig hundred men, most Of whom are stock
holders, has gone into operation in Cincinnati
About sunset, ON the 1st instant, two men,
named Richard Derr and Tully Graham, were
drowned in the southern branch Of the Eliza
beth river, near the mouth Of Paradise creek
A farmer in Steuben county willed his
daughter $4,000 on condition that she should
marry Catholic clergyman, which Of course,
she could not do; so the young lady has ap-
| pealed to the court
On June 1st after the lapse Of an interval
| of more than six years, the Alexandria, Lou
doun, and Hampshire Railroad was re-spen-
! ed to Leesburg. The trains run regularly to
Leesburg, and will be continued onward
| Aro4bor 6va nnrurroJ IN Norfo,L - A..