The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-18
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Dickens will sail for England in the Cuba,
on the 22d Of April. 1l
A celofed person was the largest buyer at
the sale of Sir Frederick Bruce's effects
4, Several parties from the North have recent
" been in Suffolk, in search Of small farms
0ul-- nj R-n&. e. -Any years nnn of the
leading merchants of Baltimore, died on Tues
day.
Gen. Wool, as well as Rosini, celebrated
his twenty first birthday last Saturday. He
is "a. s.af ,ee-t4
Col. John H. Earnest, of Washington esnp-
ty, was killed by log at his saw-mill last
Tuesday.
The Berlin police force is now l, 142 strong.
1t costs only one-tenth of the expense OF the
Paris police.
Queen Victoria and the King of Abyssynia
didn't marry but they fight just as much as
if they had done SO.
OF the lis students at Richmond College
20 are professors Of religion, and q are can
didates for the ministry. sa
Orville, orsAwful' Gardner, the convert
ed prise fighter, is living in shanty on the
shore Of Cayuga Lake
Grasshoppers were abroad at East Haven,
Conn, on the 10th of Feb, and the ground
Was frozen four feet deep.
Brigham Young and his family are dead
heads at the Salt Lake Theatre, and when
they go they fill the house.
The house of Mrs. Jas. K. Polk, in Nash
vile, has been burgled, but the burglar was
alarmed and little was realized.
The Patrie gives an absolute denial to the
reports spread respecting ministerial changes
and constitutional notifications. fF
There was a general Jail delivery at Nor
folk, Wednesday morning, eighteen prisoners
making thsir escape all negroes.
An excellent bed of coal has been discov-
cred few miles below Denver, ON the project
ed line Of the Denver Pacific Railroad.
Counterfeit Convention warrants have been
put into circulation in Mississippi, and the
fact has caused some excitement there.
y . It is said that when Russian husband neg
iects to beat his wife for month or two, she
begins to be alarmed at his Indifference.
A Young millionaire, of Boston, celebrated
his twant Wrist birthday few days ago, by
ri wing grand party costing $4,000
Election returns from oil excepting IL
counties of Texas are received. So, 300 votes
were cast. The Convention is undoubtedly
carried.
A despatch to the New York Tribune says:
"The general impression is that the President
will get from ten to twenty days to arrange
his defence"
The Hon. John Morrissey, NJ. c., it is said,
offers to bet that his boy, twelve years old,
can whip any boy Of his years in the country.
Who bids for the feldT
s"Princes Alexandria," the English papers
say. scan now walk without STICK Do they
mean that Albert Edward is no longer the
partner Of her rambles 7
The Kalmiah, s. c., cotton mills, erected
at great expense, have fallen, owing to the i'm
possibility of raising capital to operate them
in the present condition OF the South. n
The Iowa Legislature has passed resolu-
ton in favor Of removing the national capital
to some point in the West, and requesting the
Iowa delegation in Congress to vote in accor-
dance.
2 San Jose, California, has gone into silk cul.
ture with company having capital ofs1o0,-
600. The machinery has arrived, the foun-
dation Of the building is laid, and the worms
are at work.
Some one expresses his conviction that the
unfortunate author of "The Dearest Spot on
Earth to Me is Home" ETC., was not home
less. as the critics assert, but on the contra
ry, had large family of daughters! The Ia
gfrbeerist sings it thus:
9Th. da,rcst MT on earth to me" etc