The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-01-09
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John Iseil. ot tennessee, is il very per
caripus heaifh.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has returned to
Fortress Monroe.
Prince Peter Bonaparte has catered the
italian service.
General Grant has recovered from his
recent indlsr4sition.
Texas lost by the War in round MUM
hers 55aN}00o0.
'.'rhe Laughing uyena'' is the title Of
a new paper in Texas.
There are fourteen hundred eolored
Voters ia Massachusetts.
Ne smoking is allowed On Sundays IN
the streets Of Memphis, Tenn.
An ambitious horse thief has stolen one
of Gen Grants best horses.
4 Detroit Judge has decided SHAT ba-
-
hies are not personal property.
Investigation shows that the Orleans
theatre WAS burned by an incendiary.
= Florence Marrpatt dedieates her novel
ssloo Good for Him to her husband.
A Louisville courtesar has fallen heir to
one of the finest plantations in Tennessee.
At St. Paul, Mimi, on the 9th, the
Thermometers stood at ten degrees below
zero.
Genuine japanese girls willserye coffee
at the Paris exhibition i'll a genuine Ja-
panese cafe.
Some gold mines in South Carolina
have been reopened, and the assays show
fur results.
The 'sPerfumed Russian Bath Society"
has just been formed by some ofthe nahobs
Of New York
* New Orleans paper estimates that in
,hree years rs much sugar will be made
as ever in the State
The President has ordered a pardon
for c. G. Memmingcr, once Secretary Of
the Confederate treasury.
The population Of Houston, Iex;s, is
now thirty thousand. In 1860 it had but
five thousand inhabitants.
w. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, is
going to Paris to consult an oculist He
has hopes Of recovering his sight.
The total receipts for the fiscal We ar up
to the 23rd of December, f.om internal
revenue, was S16i ,6337, 454,12.
The Chimes has complaining cdito-
rial on the liberation Of the Fenians by
the United States government
Il is said that almost every alternate
section of land along the Pacific railroad is
owned By some members OF Congress.
A Louisville darkey eloped with another
Louisville darkeys wife. Truly, as Nasty
says. the negro is an initiative animal.
The London Times expresses new
fears Of the cattle plague, which reappear
cd ii three sEircs Of England, and is in
creasing in Eastern Europe.
On the 23d gang of Cinnamon, who
were working on the Pacific railroad, in
California. were buried under a snow drift,
and five Of them persisted.
Several Union ladies'" of Baltimore
have presented Ihad Stevens with a dres-
sing gown I'had acknowledges the COM
plilnent in whining way.
A dispatch from Galveston says: "The
estimates for the Gotten corp of this State
ranged from 10000 to 200, 200 bales, a.
gainst yield of $50, 522 in 1859"
Oh has been struck in the neighborhood
of Munson's Hill, Virginia Josiah Mil
lard, of Alexandra, has discovered surface
indictions Of oil on his farm, near AIanas-
: s;is
The Government secret service division
has made a large haul Of counterfeiters
near Niagara Falls. A large quantity OF
of counterfeit currency was found in their
possession.
A lady in Massachusetts,, wildcat church
put pearl in the box passed around for
contributions, which, at the close Of the
service, was sold to the highest bidder for
seventy dollars
The Pope had invited the Catholic
Bishops Of the world to assemble in June
1867 to celebrate the martyrdom Of Peter
and Paul, and the eononixation of several
martyrs
The New York Post says that Of thir-
ty thousand women in that city who are
dependent on manual labor for support,
two.thirds are at present without steady
employment.
A man in Arkansas stole horse. was
detected, tried, conyited and punished
with thirty lashes on the bare back
all before breakfast. What an appetite
lie must have had.
A I. Stewart is about to retire from
active business. We believe he is not
worth more than $50, eco 600, and should
think he would remain in business until
lie had amassed competency.