The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-04


The late Justice Wayne was the last man
of Southern birth on the bench of the Su
preme Court.
Major General George B Thomas has been
elected President Of the Army Of the Cum
bertrand.
The snow-storm Of the middle Of last De-
eenber was the first Cadiz, Spain, had seen
for forty six years.
Thousands of acres Of land in the vicinity
Of Atlanta, Ca are offered for sale at from
y 50 to $40 per acre.
A fast man about town" in Buffalo, aged
thirteen. has been arrested for getting drunk
and whipping his wife.
Nearly two million dollars worth Of shoes
we're manufactured by some nineteen firms III
Chicago last year.
W. R. Barbee the distinguished artist. is
lying dangerously i'll at his residence, from 3
cancerous affection.
If man in proportion to his weight could
jump as far as aea he could cross the At
!aatic in twenty two bounds
In England and Wales there are SIS. o00
more women than men. and over 15Us GOO
Of the former are unmarried
In South America, Mexico and japan sew
eral natural but incomprehensibe revolutions
and riots are progressing tavorab'y.
A negro woman was arrested in New
York prayer meeting she had stolen Que
cloak, aud used religion as another
The President has pardoned Commodore
Farrand, who commanded the Pensacola navy
yard, but resigned to Join the Contedlacy.
David Sheppard. Que Of the pioneers OF
St. Petersburg. is dead There were but SIX
houses in that city when he arrived there
About seventy FIVE weeklies are published
in New York, and before the year ends they
are likely to be increased to hundred.
DR.. Stone writes to the London Times thai
cooked potatoes are rs eficaeious against seur-
Wy as raw ones-a fact not generally known
The Raleigh a. c. Standard SAYS there
are FIVE hundred persons in Wake county who
are suffering the most acute panes of cold
and hunger"
Parker Pillsbury. the ancient sbolitonis
and co worker with Garrison and Phillips is
stumping New Hampshire for the Democrat
candidates this spring.
John Gray, of Brookfeld township. No
BILE county, Ohio, who is supposed to be the
last surviving soldier Of the Revolution, Wa
1914 years Of age ON the 9th uit.
Secretary Seward says it is incompatible
with the public interest to send to Congress
at present statement of the expense OF ar
resting and trying John Surratt
The shoemakers in New York city have
been on strike for the last ten days Near
~ thousand men are idle on account OF a
reduction in their wages Of twenty per cent
The Fredericksburg News says that this
whole section Of Virginia is full OF Northern
and North Western men soking for land to
bay. Come GU, gentlemen and help your
selves. "All tastes and purses suited"
"1hts Is a White Mans Government. y
We learn that throughout the Nerth metallic
badges bearing the likeness of Washington.
and the above inscription are being very zen.
orally worn. This is one Of the indications
showing the deep current OF popular feeling
John Newton said when get to Heav
en-, shall see three wonders there The frs,
wonder will be, to see so many people there
whom did not expect to sec ; and the see
ond wonder will be, to miss many people whom
/ did expect to see; and the third, the great
est wonder Of all, will be to fnd myself there.
DR.. Sawbones having finished amputation
of a leg Of one Of his patients, near rsla
tive Of the latter took hin aside and said to
him;
Doctor, do you think that your patient
will recover 2"
''Recoyer! there has never been the less,
shadow Of hope for him
's1hen what Was the Use Of making him
suffer"
Why, my dear fellow, you could not sas
brutally to sick man. you are dying. lie
must be amused little"
AWFUL Disclosures New York
OF the Milwaukee Sentinel
says:
The establishment Of the ballet in this
country has brought with it one or two oths,
i1rench features. The theatre is being ru,
Town by last young men, who hang arounu
the green room and wings, wealthy scions.
sho boast of triamphs among ballet girls auo
Keep the price Of boqaets up by their con
'tant purchases. A Jew nights ago the mem
,ers OF a fashionable club Il might as wei
,ay it was the Mannahattan) took the stag.
ioor of Nibos by storm. They came il
caches, with hampers of wine snd sandwich
s. and in spite of the stage manager and car
center, took possession of the dressing room
nd commenced lively saturnalia, whicI
wound up in something very like the Sabine
Gene SO familiar to our classic memories. Ii |
gould not do to kick these young gentlemen