The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-06-24

ANU peauty,s MiftA, ana pleasure TAIL.
General News.
aaiCincinnati pays 81 500 day for its schools.
Denver now gets Chicago papers, in three
days. AS
Jacob Fernance, of Kansas City, is III
years old. ifa
Madame Dc Stasl was pp accomplished bill
lard player. as' ~
George q. Prentice has recovered from his
late illness fs IS
Trey, \, X 4, is happy over century plant
! Peanut culture pays 500 an acre in North
Carolina. .,.9,5.
The St. Louis brewers pay 100000 for
hops alone. is@I, aai!ise ais ,it
A. G. Browne, Jr, is writing biography
OF President Johnson
The police of New York city costs 50, 777,-
ia Ii per annum. e ,s..,..s.s.., =
New York has paid $3.50, 900 for its consti-
tutlonal convention. M
The whole number of emigrants that have
arrived this year is 38,579.
There is enough in Christ for you when
you have nothing in Yourself
Thatcher, the New York weather prophet.
says this will be hot summer.
San Francisco is thinking of suspension
bridge mile long over the Golden Gate.
The Emperor Napoleon entered upon his
slxty-arst year on the goth of April
GEN. john B. Hoop was married in New
Orleans, to Miss Hennon, Of that city,
Weston, the walkist, proposes q trip from
New York to st. Paul, against time for $4,000.
Honora McCarty, one hundred and ten
years old, was buried in Lewiston, Me-, recent
Mr. Oyler, Of Lafayette Ind, has disposed
OF SIX wives, three by death and three by d.
y0rcc.
Flour from new wheat, ground in Augusta,
Georgia has been received at Charleston,
South Carolina. -
Twenty-seyen, Republicans and five Demo
Gratis have been elected to Congress from the
reconstructed States. ..s.,g l54 & 80
Wait for others to advance your interests,
ana you Will wait until they are not worth ad-
vancing
Wisdom and virtue are two infallible spe-
cites against all the crosses and accidents Of
human life.
La Wisconsin former plants row Of trees
along the ROAD, he is exempted from working
on the road &C.. s. y '@ .
The pious Mrs Hannah More says in one
Of her letters that there are only two evils in
! the world sin and bile.
Memphis is losing its population in large
numbers. High rents, dear living. and no
business are the causes.
| A coal feet, with /, 500 900 bushels Of coal.
left Pittsburg on the 4th. About one third
Of the amount is for Cincinnati,
I Ex-Governor Smith, though now upwards
Of 20 years of age, rode forty miles to speak
against the CONSTITUTION"
The Fourth Of July this year falls upon
Saturday, thus giving the vorkingman hol-
iday and day of rest in succession.
Long Island promises New York 5000
bushels Of strawberries this year, if the season
is favorable, against $500 bushels last year.
We spend half our lives in making mis-
takes. and waste the poor remainder in reflect.
ing how easily we might have avoided them.
The telegraph wires in Abyssinia are fire.
queptly broken by the balloons, who climb M
the poles, and hang on the wires by their
tails -
The newest earring ip Paris is a diamond
button, that does not hang from the ear, but
is put through like stud, and looks like a
| diamond nail.
In London, champagne is made out Of pc.
troleum, and is sold at eighteen cents dozen
bottles, AT this rate, it will probably super.
cede the genuine article, if any Of that is left
London Is astonishcd by the performance
Of young lady from Batavia who accom-
plishes the useless feat of playing two air.
with each hand on the pianoforte and sings a
fifth simultaneously. 'i' 3..s
An interesting chapter in the history o.
Gen. Buffers New Orleans administration has
been made public. Il shogs that contra.
band trade With the Confederate apthoritie.
was carried on with his sanction for the ben
eft Of his brother, A. j. Butler, and others
The devotion Of some scientific men t.
their profession is illustrated by the testimony
Of medical expert IN poisoning ease latel,
tried in France He found no difficulty il
| detecting poison in the stomach Of the de
ceased, and acknowledged that be had observ
ed symptoms which he attributed to this caus,
before The death Of the gentleman whom h
had attended On being asked if he had I'D
ministered antidotes, he replied: "No, 70
their presence in the stomach would hav
masked the presence Of the poison, which
could not, therefore, have been proved at th
inquest" Thus, an extraordinary devotion
to his profession had probably prevented tn!
administration Of antidotes that might hav
saved the patients Life,