The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-16
Belle Boyd is now playing in Memphis.


Still rests on her beautiful face.
Belle Boyd is now playing in Memphis.
New York State contains 1884 widows
Corn sells in Okaloosha, Iowa, at eight
cents a bushel.
Henry Timrod, the well known Southern
poet, is dead.
George Francis Train has rented his hotel
at Omaha for s1o,5o0 year.
Brazil anticipates this year the largest har-
vest OF coffee ever gathered.
Gen A. W. Dennison is the radical nomi-
nee for Mayor of Baltimore.
Green Shepherd, freedman, is announced
as candidate in Bedford comfy.
The Memphis Bulletin hints tenderly at
johnson as Presidential candidate.
Philadelphia pays six hundred thousand
dollars year to have its streets lighted.
This year is the seventh semi-ceutennial
anniversary of the Lutheran reformation,
No fly viii light on window which has
been washed with water in which garlic has
been boiled y,.a
The head trimming, so fashionable just
now, is made by girls who are paid three
cents per yard.
The Cuban Cable Company received two
thousand dollars the first day the cable was
open to the public.
R. A Alexander sold his Australian colt
Dickens to Mr.. Hunter, for seven thousand
five hundred dollars
An opium-eater at Council Bluffs killed
himself suddenly the other day, by taking an
overdose of the poppy.
Chicago lawyers talk Of making discount
on divorce fees when a large number Of bills
are wanted in one family
The Washington papers, with nice sense
OF propriety write 'sHon." Beau Hickman and
Colonel John w. Forney.
a man by the name of Merritt T. Money
killed forty-one rattlesnakes in one day last
week near Keosaugua, Iowa.
A man in Boston has invented pocket that
cannot be picked. A pocket always worth
picking is still desideratum.
Eight different machines for digging pota-
tees were entered at the recent competition
for prize of $40, in Scotland.
An eccentric old man recently died in Par
is, among whose effects were found fifteen
hundred omnibus exchange tickets.
4 company in Alexandria proposes to con-
struct a macadamized road Or horse rail-
way from that city to Mt. Vernon.
From September LIST to 18th, 4,269 bales
of cotton were exported from Savannah, Ga,
against z, 793 from Charleston, S. G.
Miss Solomon painted the most popular pic
ture in the Paris Exposition. 1t is called
"Peg Wofington's Visit to Triplet."
The Bishop Of Oxford has created sensa-
ton by permitting Sunday School children to
play in the fields after service on Sunday.
Hon. Thomas 4. Jencks, the author Of the
bankrupt bill, is one of the first applicants
under it for relief from his Indebtedness
Seventeen thousand pounds of cheese went
down with the steamer Dean Richmond-the
market price went up three cents pound.
There is no longer any doubt of the exis-
tence Of well-defned cases of yellow fever at
Greenpoint, in Kings county, New York.
A hundred thousand men, paying $4,000
each per month, would pay off the national
debt Of three thousand millions in one year.
According to contemporary, the disfran-
chisement Of the Southern whites may be
regarded as a blessing in disguise for them.
The Bosphorus is to be bridged. The whole
distance is three thousand three hundred and
sixty feet, and there is to be bnt three arches.
One night in thunder shower little voice
from the "trundle bed" called out, s'Oh moth
er, it is winking, first it shuts up and then it
.shu down" 20
The seq Of Professor Tyler, of Amherst,
after his graduation from college second in
ms class, matrieulated at machine shop,
where he is still employed at work 4ts3
Ben Wade says 'fthe proudest period of his
zife was when he worked upon the canal as
common laborer." Possibly he wasn't dis
grazing himself at that time.
A man in Connecticut has cleared his house
OF rats by catching one and dipping him in
red paint. He then let him loose, and the
other rats left, Disguised by his appearance.
The Austrian army intend to drop their
famous white coated uniform for gray. The
white coats so long familiar and SO unpopular
in Italy, will henceforth live !only in tradi-
ton. ..
The "silver nuisance" of Canada can hard
ly be appreciated by the more fortunate deal
ers in greenbacks under Uuncle Sans rule.
Silver is refused, for any amounts over legal
tcnder.-- 80
The new suspension bridge at Niagra Falls
is to be rapidly pushed to completion. The
towers will be LOS feet high the span
I ,250 feet and the height above the water
IT'S feet
1t may be comfort to the sick, but we
cannot perceive what sort Of satisfaction it |
can be to the well, to know that on the aver
age every man has ten days illness in the
coarse Of year.