The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-02-12
BREVITIES.
Alask Territory is to have newspaper.

The next Presidential election will be the
twenty first.
American wines have become very popu-
lar in Berlin.
Maynard, of Tennessee, is the leanest man
in the House.
Baldwin, of Massachusetts,, is the latest
man in the House.
Massachusetts, makes s21 900 of her State
prison annually.
The Grand Rapids Democrat renominat
Mcclellan and Pendleton for 1868.
Eighty thousand Germans have emigra-
ted to Brazil in the last fifteen years.
The Russian Grown has got the handsom-
est wife in Europe Princes.
Snow to the depth Of twelve inches has
fallen in several sections of Texas.
The Prince of Wales has recovered sufic-
emily to be able to 60 TO church.
Little cotton will be planted in Texas this
year. Corn and pork will be the principal
crop.
Boys of the spriDgville On. " Acade-
my are not permitted to 60 home with the
girls
| The young ladies of Fenton, Mich, gave
the young men leap year sleigh ride last
| week.
The quietest fight Or record recently oc-
CURED at Lewistown, Me, between two deaf
mutes.
Mr.. George A. Trenholm is said to be the
only man who was rich at the outbreak of the
war.
Newman Hall, reverend, is Safeguarding
the American Irishsin the most irreyerent
| manner
| Ina Pillgen is the name Of new Swedish
singer, whose admirers think her better than
Jenny Lind.
Snow fell for the frst time in forty-six
years in Cadiz, Spain, about the middle Of
last month.
Solomon, envoy of Hayti to France, has
had an audience with Prince Napoleon and
Glotilde.
Joseph Taylor, an enterprising and pub
lie spirited citizen of Manchester, died Mon
day, aged 38.
There are in New York and Brooklyn 657
houses Of prostitution and 2,215 women con-
nectcd with them.
A new Western town is now pronounced
compete. 1t has church, q theatre, news
paper and faro bank.
Massachusetts, educates her children at .
cost Of nine dollars per annum for every
child within its limits.
Lewis Magruder, the Oldest member Of the
Richmond police, died Monday night at a
very advanced age.
/ Mr.. Coleman, of Erie, Pa, whilst walk
ing had the knee-p pan Of his leg broken with
out any apparent cause.
Haight, of New Jersey, 20, is the youngest
man in the House and Thad Stevens 70,
the Oldest
| In Michigan, one cold day, man drove
his horse twelve miles with bit which kept
the animals tongue froze.
Judge Sharkley threatens that if Mis-
sissippl adopts the Constitution, full negro
delegation will be sent to Congress.
According to reports made to the Board Of
Health there are four hundred and seventy
four houses of i'll fame in Cincinnati
Three hundred and tweuty-eight thousand
and ninety dead OF the Union armies now lie
buried within the national cemeteries.
Lady Herber, who was in the West Indies
at the time of the tornado, has gone back to
England and made magazine story out OF it.
The Galveston Council have passed most
cordial invitation to Gen. Hancock, and IN
tend to offer him the hospitalities of the city.
! How is this? A Radical paper says Gen.
Butler was insulted by Col White in sending
his challenge through the hands Of negro
An Evansville, Ind, COW went into pond
to get drink The water became ice be-
fore she got out, aud she was frozen fast
1t is said that the wild ass feeds on air, but
the wild asses of the Georgia Convention
can't raise s.the wind" to feed on.-Prlntlce.
Booths new theatre has forty feet of solid
rock to blast out yet, under the stage that is
to be the parquette. 1t will be done, how
ever.
4 The Chief Justice of the state Of Rhode
Island, Charles S. Bradlee, has resigned. His
successor will be chosen by the present leg
stature.
Mr.. VIM. Gilmore Simms, the novelist and
yerse-writer, is living in South Carolina in
very destitute circumstances. He is now 80
years old.
Morgan C. Hamilton at the call Of some
forty negroes and ten whites, announces
himself candidate for Congress from Texas,
against his brother, S. Fl. Hamilton.
It is said there are upwards of $50 dis
tillerles in the counties Of Madison, Greene
and Albemarle One distillery in Scottsville
turns out 800 gallons Of whiskey day.
A midnight elopement, in New York, was
frustrated by cat, who frightened the young
lady into tainting fit as she was going down
stairs to meet the expected lover at the door.
In the east part Of London there is popu-
lation of million of people crammed into
the wretched streets of few miles square,
sinking lower and into the quagmire of pau
perism.
There is story Of Mr.. George Francis
Trains advertising in Tendon for "a small
party" to accompany Mrs. Elicit on the Con-
tinent, and several young children being sent
to the lady's residence
NJ du Chillu, the traveller, in recent lee