The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-06-12
THE NEWS.


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THE NEWS
St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the
last census, has $40, 900 inhabitants.
The prospect for good tobacco crop
in North Carolina is said to be fine.
New York is about to erect an asylum
for useless young men. It will overflow.
There have been sixteen cases Of lynch
law in Indiana during the past twomonths
The tobacco cropin and around Owens
boro, KY, has been destroyed by worms
Four hundred acres of Forsyth county,
Ca, land sold, at Wilkes administrator
sale, last week for'S69.
One death from Asiatic cholera was
reported III. Jefferson City. La, on Mon
day of last week.
James H. Osborn, formerly Of Alexan-
dria, Va, has just been elected Mayor Of
Rockingham North Carolina.
The General Assembly Of the Presby-
terrain Church 60. S. is to meet next
year in Albany, not Washington.
Miss Mary Eliza, daughter Of Hon.
George Davis, late Attorney General G.
g., died in Wilmington on Sunday.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says sCorruption in Office is more COM
mon than ever before in our history"
At Port Gibson, Miss, on the 18th
ult, $500 was realized from a muslin
ball, for the relief Of the Claiborne county
poor.
The news from Mexico is that Lopez,
the Imperialist General, sold Querataro,
to Escobedo, for three thousand ounces OF
gold.
Senator Wilson is so well satisfied that
it is safe for Northern man to travel
through the South, that he is going to Eu-
roupe.
There was a severe hail-storm ia the
interior of Missouri on LIST and I'd which
did great damage to the fruit and the grow
ing crops.
The Danville Times urges all the little
boys and girls in that section to turn their
attention to making money. by gathering
blackberries.
The commissioners of the revenue re.
port about 2, 1000 colored voters and 200
white males over twenty-one years Of age
in Chalotte county
Boston has, heretofore, been called the
"hub of the whcel"-but the New York
Herald says "New York is the centre Of
the world"
There are now 402 convicts in the Ten
nessee penitentiary-the largest numbe,
Of prisoners ever held in that institution
at any one time.
Slavery has not yet been abolished in
the Empire of Brazil The announce
ment of its abolition, which we got by
way Of England, through the Atlantic
Cable, was premature.
There are rumors Of large amount Of
treasure, some say $4,000, having been
found lately, in chest in vault, beneath
the house formerly occupied by Mr.. Jo-
seph Sierra. in Pensacola, Florida.
Formal charges against Mr.. Newton,
commissioner ofagriculture, have been made
and an application filed for his removal,
on various grounds-snch as not render
ing accounts-not fling bond, Illegal
action, &c.
The Wheeling Register is in high spir-
its 1.-THE political prospects in West Vir-
ginia. 1t publishes returns from many
counties. indicating remarkable reaction
against the Boreman party in the late
township elections.
The largest topaz known has just been
deposited at the Bank Of France. It is
Of Brazilian origin, and measures seven
and one-quarter inches in width, and
about the same thickness. It weighs
more than three and half pounds.
Both the New School and Old School
Presbyterian Assemblies have adjourned.
The plan Of union reported from the
committees on that subject has been adopt
ed by both Assemblies, and that endseems
to be fairly in the way Of consummat ion
Later accounts from Paris state that it
was the Gar of Russia, and not the
Emperor Napoleon, who was shot at whilst
returning from the Champ de Mars. The
man who made the attempt to assassinate
the Gar was instantly cut down by the
guards and is thought to be Polander.
The National Intelligencer says: 1T
is remarkable that the exports for the
three months of January, February and
March, 1867, consisted chiefly Of South
ern products. The cotton, tobacco, &C.,
Of the South, formed three-fourths of the
total amount exported, and the Northern
products only one-fourth. Thus, the
North contributed in less proportion to the
aggregate exports Of the country during