The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-01-30
TEIE NEWS.

TEIE N EWS-
General Louis T. Wigfall is in Eng
land
America has 10000 miles of telegraph
lines Europe has 10000.
Heavy teams are crossing the Susque-
hanna on the ice.
During the past year 1876 buildings
were erected at Wilmington, Del.
General Rogers of Loudon county, has
been elected second Auditor of Va.
The price of vegetables has advanced
in Baltimore on account of the cold
N. P. Willis died at Idlewild on the
21st instant He was sixty years old.
A factory, to be worked by disabled
Lands is about to be started in Lynchbnrg.
The National Tobacco Manufacturers
Convention meets on Wednesday the 9th
proximo.
The fish in the Richmond Dock are dy-
ing in great numbers, from some unex-
pinned cause.
A schoolmaster in Dublin has been
made to pay 5000 damages for brutally
fogging pupil.
The remains Of General Albert Sidney
johnson have been taken to Austin, Tex
as, for final burial.
a Mrs White is ''local" of the Stark
county (hIo.) "News" The paper is
said to be very gossippy.
Spotted fever is raging with considera-
bic violence along Raystown Branch, Hun
tingdom county, Pennsylvania.
Simon Cameron was elected U. S. Sen
ator from Pennsylvania, on the 18TH
The Democrats voted for Cowan.
A schoolmaster in Indiana pulled a lit
tie boys hair, threw him over stove, and
then choked him until he was black in
the face.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
decided that promissory note, given for
Confederate money, was without consi-
deration.
~ The President has pardoned the Hon
4 Charles James Faulkner, of Martinsburg,
on the recommendation of General Meade
and Judge Richard Parker.
Ae old sailor at the theatre said he
i supposed that the dancing girls wore their
dresses at half-mast as a mark of respect
10 departed modesty
The bill Of suffrage to the people in the
territories, regardless Of color, is law
from lapse Of time, and not by Presiden-
tai approval -
The ice is reported Is inches thick of
the Potomac, at little falls, above George
town, and fears are entertained for the
salty Of dam number S.
Hon. O. D. Holbrook, of Idaho, and
ex. Governor Cummings, of Idaho, had a
personal encounter at Willards's yester-
day, without serious results.
4 St. Louis dispatch says: The great
Southern fair here netted $4,000. A
proposition is pending to give e-tenth
Of the proceeds to the relief of Sterling
Price. ~ Y,
Prentice, OF the Louisville Journal,
tenders his advice to the public, "never
buy goods Of those who don't advertise.
They sell SO little that they have to sell
dear"
The colored population of Petersburg,
q. Virginia, are taking measures to provide
8 for the INDECENT Of their own class, and
propose to establish soup-house for that
purpose.
The National Intelligence tellsrus, that
among the articles, shipped on board the
Mercury for the French exhibition, is "a
class plough Of full size, which is to be
rriad near Paris,
Charles O'Connor, of New York, has
been invited to address the Jefferson and
Washington Literary Societies ofthe Vir-
GINA University, at their next commence
llent.
aAu The london Times states that the rela-
. lions Of England with foreign Powers
have rarely ever been better. The only
shadow Of trouble, is an adjustment of all
outstanding difficulties.
III In the course Of the business in Judge
Lyors's court on Monday he incidentally
expressed his concurrence in the opinion
of Judge Meredith with regard TO the I'M
eonstitutionality Of the Stay Law.
4 genuine American bald eagle, meas
uriDg six feet eight inches, from tip to tip
of its wings, and weighing eighteen and a
half pounds, was recently shot and killed
at Fort Saratoga near Washington city.
a Vermont sheep-farmer sold twelve
ewes last week to Western party for
$4,000. Another farmer sold ram
lamb for $4,000. The sheep were Of the
hammond breed and very choice animals
, A marble quarry has been opened on
the farm Of Mr j. A. Logan, near the
lsockbridge' Bath, Of a superior quality
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