The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-11-20
TIE NEWS

TIE NEWS ~
New Zealand is to have University.
Winter is in full operation in Detroit.
Ma1imffian left considerable fortune.
One Of the papers in Madrid is IT'S years
old
Charles Dickens was born February 7th,
1872.
There WAS ice 10 Augusta Main on Friday
night last,
A horse bit boys head off in Quaker
vile, Pa.
The balance in the sub-treasury is $780,
100000. 7is le@
Vermont has not, and never had, theatre
of any kind.
The Bishop of Lodi is 100 years old, and
reads without glasses.
seyenty five cents per bushel is the price Of
hickory nuts in Louisville
Mails are delivered in New York in II
days from San Francisco.
.. Pork sold in Leesburg on wednesday last
ats7 per 100 pounds net.
g A dispatch from Athens says hostilitics
heve been resumed in Crete.
The Boston Gazette calls Anna Dickin-
son the famous shc-elepinnt.
Small boys we're skating in the suburbs of
Boston on Thursday morning.
: A respectable white girl in Providence in-
sisted upon clipping with p negro.
) Major General Barry has been assigned to
the co,nmand of Fortress Monroe.
{ The hops Of %, 900 kangaroos were stop
ped at . recent hunt in Australia.
On Wednesday morning the ponds near
philadelphia we're covered with ice
Tho Woman Fighters Of Kansas medi-
tate raid upon the Eastern States.
The Tideoute Journal calls its sMiscellane-
Gus Items" column aScizzerinktums."
:. They say that there are fifteen Widow
CEcquots in one wine region of France.
Washington county holds a meeting next
court day to send delegates to the Richmond
Convention.
The Secretary Of War has issued and order
for the establishment Of. an artillery school at
Fortress Monroe
:sLarge wheat crops have besn sown in Spot
sylvania and surrounding counties, and the
early sowing looks we'll
y a. fog hid the meteors on Wednesday night
i. Postage between the United Stated and Bel
giumsis fixed at Is cents.
The Southern Literary Messenger is soon
to be revived by Messrs. Wedderburn &
Alfiend, at Alexandria, Virginia.
IA correspondent ola New York rural paper
speaks Of New York city as containing 70 0,
900 bifurcated animals. more or less"
4 prominent Paris physician says that the
practice of smoking half.a dozen cigars daily
will take FIVE years from the life of any man
., It is estimated that Washington will be
shown by new census to have population o.
at least 10000 when the returns are com
.pletes
1t is reported that Admiral Farrsgut has
discovered relative IN Paris, in the person
of Don Louis Farragut, an old Spanish hidal
go.
~ The cost Of registration in Virginia was
S239 600 The cost of the military establish
ment in the State for the last ten months il
S5,0O0.0oO.
;. The Conservatives Of Botetourt have ap-
pointed delegates to the Richmond Conven
ton, and organized SO as to register every
white voter in the county
Most of the Western counties of Kansas
went Democratic at the recent election there
and negro and female suffrage we're both de-
feated by decisive maj.rities.
- From the lower end of Spotsyvania coun
~. on Friday night, Reuben Minor slopsd
with the wife of Lewis Proctor, and departed
in buggy to parts unknown.
i. General Schofeld, it is given out, intend.
to arrest all persons in his district who make
ipcendiary speeches, or who shall do any ae1
calculated to array the white and coloree
races against each other.
=, A disease has made its appearance among
the hogs in Stafford, said to be the cholera
, 1T is fatal in nearly every instance. Twenty
Eve dead hogs were seen in one lot tie other
I day-all having died of this disease.
The Official vote Of Georgia is announced
as follows: Registered voters, 1873 CAT votes
cast, LOG 40; for Convention, 4, 1871 MAORI
ty for Convention, 98156 The lumber OIL
whites voting for the Convention was about
$4,000.
The third Parlment of the North German
Confederation has assembled. The King ol
Prussia declared that his relations with all the
European Powers were entirely satisfactory
The Government would studiously endeavol
to reconcile the views of its Catholic subjects