The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-07-22
General News.

General News.
Lucille Western is playing to the San Fran
ciscans.
An impecunious tippler in England sold his
wife for one shilling.
Jay Cooke is making his way overland from
Lake Superior to st. Paul.
! There is paper in new York devoted to
hotel and boarding houses interests.
Yellow hair, we have been informed, will be
the fashionable color for the ladies in the fall
sWon by the priests horse, ridden by the
sacristan," is the record of a local Russian
race.
Five cases Of sunstroke occurred in in New
Yorkand onein Brooklyn on last Saturday
week, two proving fatal.
Locusts in Southern Illinois are SO thick as
to fly By myriads into the car windows, and
the all. is filed with them.
Madam, good many persons were dstur-
bed at the concert last night by the crying Of
your baby" "Well, / do wonder such people
will go to concerts"
The Chairman of the Committee on Freed
mems Affairs, has prepared bill providing
for the discontinuance Of the Freedmen's Blu
reau on and after the LIST of January.
Little girls, with supera5undant heads of
hair, if found alone on the streets Of London !,
are liable to be pounced upon by predatory
hair merchants, aud sent home well cropped.
A writer in an exchange oharaeterizes a
scientific essay which he had been compelled
to read, as "a lore equal in intensity to long
editorial on politics, in hot weather" There
is something in that!
A sunken ship, covered with mud, was used
for the foundation Of house in San Francis
co. Now the filing has given way, the hull
is moving of, and the house is likely to be
found in the next lot some day.
There are said to be at this time one hun
dred thousand gallons of whiskey (?) in the
bonded warehouses of Richmond, on which
the owners are either not able or do not care
now to pay the revenue tax.
| Two Irishmen were travelling, when they
stopped to examine guide board. sTwelve
miles to Portland" said one "Just six miles
apiece" SAID the other, and they trudged on,
apparently satisfied at the short distance.
A crusty fellow says: "Eve was the only
woman who never threatened to go and live
with her mamma" A spunky woman retorts
Sand Adam was the only man that never tan
talized his wife about "the way mother used
to cook"
| The National Inteligencer speaks ola Coon
gressional Plot" which, it says, is "to elect a
4 President by the House of Representatives, re-
careless of the popular choice, throwing out
votes at discretion where they find them ad
verse, especially from the South
| A new way to collect old debts has been
4 found in Kentucky. The creditor had his
4 debtor arrested for possessing counterfeit mo,
ney and when the officers made search and
discovered $4,000 in genuine greenbacks, he
attached the lot, securing his amount.
| Oliver Wendell Holmes says that a man
over ninety is great comfort to his elderly
neighbors. He is picket guard on the extreme
me out posts, and young folks of sixty or sew
enty feel that the enemy must get by him be-
fore they can come near the encampment-
| A Scotch clergyman at the recent general
assembly told some pretty hard stories eff the
ignorance of divinity students. One of the
candidates in reply to q request to define "hy
| pothesis," said it was "a machine for raising
water" and another gave as definition 'ssome
thing that happens to man after his death. y
/ One thought that Calico was man who had
committed five murders another that Galilec
and Copernious were two gentlemen who had
fallen together in some battle, and third said
that Copernious was "a compound CT two me-
tails !"
| WONDERFUL TIDE OF IMMIGRATIoN.-
The wonderful current Of emigration from
| Germany to the United States, always large,
is now expanding into almost startling pro-
portions. 1t appears that from January to
| June the number Of emigrants who started
for the United States by way Of Bremen was
more than q 1000. In addition to this, nine
steamers were advertised in the beginning Of
June to sail from Bremen for New York and
Baltimore, which would bring over, it was
anticipated, seven thousand more emigrants
Come South.
UTAH The Committee on Elections in
the House, having referred the case Of Capt
Hooper of Utah, to the Hon. Mr. Chanler, Of
New York, as sub committee, the latter has
called upon Capt. Hooper for a statement as
to the purposes Of the Mormon people In
reply to this call, it is understood that Capt
Hooper has submitted to the committe a
; highly interesting report on the industrial
resources of his peculiar" people, prefaced
! with brief history Of the early settlement Of
Utah. The Territory has now los, 5000 pop
ulation, 95 towns, $4,000 children between
the ages of four and six years, one-half Of
which are in school. 100 churches, cotton
and 8 wooden factories, and many othel
branches Of mechanic arts