The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-09-25
TEE NEWS

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They had frost in Connecticut last Sunday
morning.
President Lincoln's coach is offered for sale
n. Nov York
Santa Anna, it is thought, will escape
with his life but lose bis property.
'es' Only thirty applications under the bank
.rupt law have been fled in Chicago.
The milk irieghts on the Harlem n Y. rail-
road amount to over 81 500 a day
=. A. T Stewart. the great dry goods merchant,
is dead He leaves fortune of $40, 900 900
Mr.. John Francis Mcguire, NJ p, has a.
book nearly ready on ''Thc Irish in America
I'D A Rev. Mr.. Cross is preaching sermons
against Masonry and Odd fellowship in Wash
ington. s t,ar.s.7, ess ia .
(: y. II. Shackelford and James Keith are
county %.
A tomato weighing 81 ounces was raised
in a garden in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
this year. :. -..,1 ~ =ya-,
The farm of ". H. Francis, in Loudon
@county, containing 224 acres, was recently
sold at SIS per acre.
=: ;. The knitting mills about Waltham, Mass
are gradually giving up the business, which
they End Improbable. sass
4 late Mexican adyccs state that the court
martial for the trial Of Santa Anna is being
organized at Vera Cruz. -asr
{ Two. Connecticut boys stole gallon of rum,
:. and drank SO much that one Of them, at least,
will never drink any more. IT,
. A forged draft for $3.50, signed r. G. Cor
don, was paid by a banking house in Fred
ericksburg the other day. g les a-loa -
Recent experiments prove, SO a Havana
paper says, that the leaf ofthe potato is a
perfect substitute for tobacco.
The Petersburg papers report great deal
!: ofsickness in that city and vicinity. Physi-
clans and druggists are kept busy.
:. The Hartford Courant begins a short ar
ticle: 'The attention of dogs is called to an
advertisement in another column" F
In Trieste if cholera patient does not
call in medical attendance he is imprisoned
for six months, in case he lives so long. ...
i John Brown has left the Queens ser
vice to marry Scotch girl. Her Majesty
has given him a cottage at Bolmoral
John w H. Hill, of Culpeper Courthouse
Va died of yellow fever in New Orleans, 18th
inst He was brother of Gen. A. P. Hill.
80 Two little boys in Richie county went
under their fathers house to Look ola hens
nest, and we're stung by a rattlesnake. Both
died. - s.f ra es
Edward White. the Milwaukee pork pack
er who filed his barrels with salt and sand
has been sentenced three years in the State
prison. ai-4-s Sr ..i.--
sr The Bureau Of Indian Affairs has received
no confirmation of the extraordinary demands
reported from Omaha to have been made by
the Indians.
Work is slack at the Springfield, Mass
armory, the $4,000 Allen reach-loaders
ordered by the War Department, being about
completed
It is said that Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois
has been called to Washington by the Radi-
cal committee to prevail on Grant to say
something radical.
The shoemakers of Troy, New York, are
on strike for an advace of twenty five pei
cent per case on all work turned out by large
manufacturing establishments.
Forty eniigfants from East Tennessee and
North Carolina, including men, women AND
children; passed through Kansas City on the
18th instant, on the route for Colorado.
:: The viii Of the late Bishop Timon has
been admitted to: probate in Erie county
New York Itbequeaths all Of his property
said to amount t.. 81 Geo, eco, tothe Church
The numberaof Immigrants arrived at New
York last week week was 4,5o5, making to-
tai Of ISL, 99g from 1st Of January to late,
against 17e ,234 for the corresponding season
last year.
: The New York World says, Gen, Apathy,
more. even than General Grant, terribly trou-
bles the Radical party The Boston Post
thinks general Intelligence is also in the
field about these days.
General Pope has issued an order for the
election for a state convention to be held in
Georgia, commencing on'Tuesday the 18th of
October, and continuing three days. The
numbers Of delegates to constitute the conven
tion 1e9.
The lines between the two wings of the
Radical party in Virginia are said to be
sharply drawn. One wing is in favor Of a.
dopting as a party platform the constitutional
amendment proposed by Congress-the other
wing goes for confscation and the EXTREMIST
measures Of the Radicals in every particular
Count Bismark has addressed circular to
the diplomatic representative of Prussia at
foreign courts in relation to the recent con
ference at Salzburg, It's tenor is regarded as
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