The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-02-05
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A California farmer has raised rs, 900
pounds Of raisins.
Fresh shad are selling in Savannah, Ga,
at one dollar per pair.
Hollands "Kathrina" has had greater
sale than any other American poem.
Dickens declines $500 for one reading
in St. Louis, but is going their on spec.
Peach trees are already in blossom in Flor
ida, and tomatoes are nearly ripe in the gar
dens
Among Partons reasons for not smoking
he does not enumerate the chief one-Fanny
Fern.
The new Gait House at Louisville, Ky,
will cost 81, 200, 600, and will be finished by
July next.
Gov Baker. of Indiana ,pardoned one nun
bred and fifteen convicts from the State pri-
son in 1867.
The Paterson locomotive builders have an
order from the Union Pacific railroad for fifty
locomotives.
The Philadelphia Masons are to take five
years to build $4,000 temple, with tow
er nearly 300 feet high.
Among the one hundred and forty convicts
in the State penitentiary, Of South Carolina,
there are eight negro preachers.
Prentice suggests new test oath for Con.
gress men, that they shall swear to support
everything outside the Constitution.
The Halifax Chronicle says that as "sure as
the sun will set this evening, so sure will this
province secede from the Dominion"
The Colorado Legislature devotes large
portion of its times to passage Of divorce
bills, every one Of which Gov. Hall vetoes.
Col. JOS. Y. Bamusbaffer, native of Lou
doun county, Va, has been nominated by the
Democratic State Convention Of Indiana for
State auditor.
De Bows Review has been committed to
the charge Of William NJ. Burwell, Esq, edi-
tor -in-chief, with r. G.. Burwell, editor and
general agent.
Large numbers of bones of an extinct race
of human beings have been exhuned in dig
cling for the foundation of a cathedral at San
Antonio, Texas
SAYS the Tribune, sstherc is a vast amount
of stationery supplied to Congress, which the
ho
they did not drink
The. French Corps Legislatif have voted
3.00O,0OOf. in aid Of the distressed poor in
France, and 100000. for the relief of the
Arab population of Algeria.
A meeting of the Lincoln Monument As
ISOLATION was held at Springfield, ILL.,, on
Thursday, and it was resolved to erect monu-
ment costing 100000.
The last new feat for circus acrobat con-
sists in turning double somerset over sixteen
muskcts with fixed bayonets, the guns being
fred at the moment Of the leap.
In Portsmouth. Rhode Island, clergyman
has created great excitement among the citi-
zens by turning his wife out of doors and tax
ing up with his housekeeper.
The N. Y. Mail says the wealthiest man in
Congress is Cakes Ames, and the poorest A.
H. Latin, who failed for large amount just
before his election to Congress.
In the. Massachusetts, Senate, on Thursday,
the bill to abolish the State constabulary
and repeal the prohibitory liquor law was
passed to third reading by vote OF q to Is.
The Scranton, Pa, papers announce that
portions of that city are visibly sinking into
the depths of an old coal mine. Considerable
alarm is felt among the inhabitants.
It is stated that the Democrats of the Ohio
Legislature, in caucus at Columbus, on Thurs
day last, decided not to press the projected
Encouragement of the congressional districts Of
that State.
Louisiana planters are improving upon the
contract system by giving their laborers tick
cts each day, good for the pay of SO many
hours as each may have worked, lazy or in
dustrious.
Iowa has packed, during the season just
closed, 1894 hogs, an increase of moro than
fifty thousand from last year. The average
weight of the hogs was about forty-fve pounds
less, however.
Montreal business men propose, as means
Of abating the silver nuisance, to buy up and
export three or four hundred thousand dol
lars worth, hoping thereby to reduce the rate
Of discount to three per cent.
Judge Hindman is to be arraigaed before
the Wheeling House of Delegates for allowing
Colonel Samuel Price and others to practice
in has court without having taken the in
famous attorneys-oath.
Major Davis, of Massachusetts,, formerly
Of General Buffers staff, committed suicide
at Hong Kong, China, November "a, 1867,
by shooting himself in the head. Cause
pecuniary embarrassment
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