The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-09-09
Latest Local, General and Commercial
News.
OF MISSOURI.


F News.
Hfe LOCAL
Read specials" letter on first page.
Col. WM ALLEN, of Washington College,
left here yesterday for Lexington, after an
agreeable trip down the Valley.
Commodore Maury and family are at the
Rockbridge Baths.
The most wonderful cave, in Va, has recent.
ly been discovered one mile from Rockbridge
Baths.
There are only $50 people left at the White
Sulphur. Total arrivals this season, 1876.
Our thanks to Henry Edison, jr., with Mil
Ter 4 Co, Baltimore, for late Commercial Re-
ports
Belle Haven Institute, Alexandria, opens
Sept, 21st. with bright prospects. -.
Last Wednesday John Beard Knocked An
drew Day down with a decanter, fracturing
his skull. Day is doing we'll and has sued
Beard for $4,000 damages. last Monday,
young Blackly struck Huey Noon with a
weight, injuring him seriously.
There is only four prisoners in the County
Jail, less than at any time since the war.
Commodore Maury will deliver the opening
address at our County Agricultural Fair.
Messrs. Bickford 4 Huffman, manufacturers
Of the celebrated Drill, have presented 500
to our Agricultural Fair, through their agent
Capt George E. Price. Col. Baldwin respon-
ed to the gift in handsome style. ~,.
Lon Peer, son of John Peer, blacksmith of
Staunton, arrived here on litter yesterday.
He was seriously injured in recent railroad
accident in Pennsylvania.
e Our farmers report corn crop prospects fine.
Citizens of the lower Valley say that the late
rains have improved the crops down there.
fa Hunter Rowland first class business men,
have received large addition to their stock
Of Books, Stationary &c. Their new adver-
tisement, and column more, is unavoidably
left over for next issue. ,.-g..
= Col. Jordan has been relieved as F. B.
Supt. here, by Roswell Waldo, Of Ohio.
Col. Jordan goes to Lexington as Commander
of Post &c
GENERAL .-
The wife of Victor Hugo is dead
Philadelphia is complaining Of its dirty
streets
The hog disease has broken out among the
swine on Long Island.
Col. r. q. Withers has retired for the pres
ent, to his residence in Russell CO, Va.
The forrest fires in Canada are driving out
the bears fro m their retreats.
The society for the protection Of animals
in Paris, has offered reward for the least
cruel Of dog muzzles. ~s- ra
A clerk in Boston has disappeared, after
having forged checks to the arnounto of SIG 900
or $4,000.
A habcas corpus in the case of Mudd,
Arnold, and Spangler has been refused
Queen Victoria rules over two hundred
millions Of Asiatic subjects.
Tho new Mormon Tabernacle is described
as modelled after colossal soup tureen.
No supervisors Of internal revenue will be
commissioned shortly. Rollins aud SlcCul-
iOch had another conference to- day, but
agreed to disagree.
More than a dozen books will be published
about Abyssinia and the late war against
King Theodore.
s. The Secretary Of War, perplexed by con-
ficting Legislation, has asked the Attorney
Generals advice about paying southern claims
on file in the War Office growing out of the
war. They aggregate $50, or $30, OOO, 900
sa = COMMERCIAL, &C.
No important news by yesterday evenings
mail. The increase of q. S. debt, for Au-
gust, is $l2,79O, 900! There are startling re-
ports about al Indian war West and the
Radicals are committing outrages South.
Political situation encouraging; markets not
materially changed. Gold l44f.
Il. The SUICIDE OF A REPuBLlc-The late
xarand its unfortunate end.
r. The proprietor of two Texan newspapers
has put one Of them up to rattle, five dollars
= chance. stD Aaa
i Nasty says Of the late Mrs. Menkcn, that
she leaves several xidowers to divide the grief
between them. p
!. john G. C2ihoun's autograph has lately
been discovered on the wall ola law-ofice in
Lich6eld, Conn, by the tearing down of old
paper hangipgs
ae OPERATIONS IN REAL EsTATE.-One of
our Leading real estate agents has sold. Within
the last twenty days, property in Virginia
worth $4,000, principally to northern men.