The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-02-19
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GU, 500.
The New York theatres expended $780,
600 in advertising last year.
The English game of cricket has become
all therage in Australia.
A New York street beggar is taxed on
$65, 900 worth Of real estate
Catholic priests, in Italy, are rapidly marry
ing, under the new civil act.
The State Of Iowa has the gratifying hon
or Of being entirely out of debt.
The pendulum Of the City Hall clock in
New York is fifteen feet long.
A French engineer wants to build a bridge
across the channel for $50, 100000.
The spotted fever is very prevalent in
various localities in Ohio
Ohio is belted by A, 726 miles Of railroad
more than any other State in the Union.
Forty five ships are on the way with 35,-
600, 900 pounds of tea from China to Eng
land
A great revival of religion is in progress
at the Methodist Episcopal church in Alex
andria.
A larger area Of land around Petersburg,
was seeded to wheat last Fall than the proceed
ing year.
One million FIVE hundred and forty-nine
thousand emigrants have arrived in this coun-
try since 1856.
The delirium tremens has overtaken some
Of the members of the Congressional Tenn
perance Society.
The editor of the Boston Traseler says he
would like to see Fred Douglas on the Grant
tiket for Vice. President.
Over 100000 acres of land in Mississip-
pi, oneseventh Of all in the State, is adver-
tised for sale under execution.
VIM. Gilmore Simms, the Southern novel
list, is living in South Carolina, and is report
ed TO be destitute in his old days
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina,
once the wealthiest man in the Palmetto State,
it is said, is now in abject poverty.
A tract of land near Danville was sold a
few days since, under decree of Bankrupt
Court, for 40 cents per acre.
The tax on tobacco manufactured in Pitt
sylvania county, and shipped in bond, in the
year 1867, amounted to 81 ,276,122,45
A negro named S. W. Jones has been
nominated in the Fourth Alabama District
for Congress, and, it is said, will be elected.
White gunpowder is now manufactured in
France, which leaves no trace in the gun
It is highly spoken Of in French military
circles.
Six hundred negroes arrived at Mobile one
day last week, from the interior Of Alabama,
all out Of funds and many Of them in star
wing condition.
On Sunday last the telegraph wires from
Plaster Cove, Nova Scotia, to New Orleans,
La, we're in direct connection, and uninter-
rupted communications were sent distance
Of 1904 miles.
A New Orleans correspondent writes that
Gen. Hancock's course in authorizing a re-
vision of the registry will, without doubt, re-
suit in the defeat Of the Louisiana constitu-
ton. sThe scales" he asserts, twill be turn
ed, and the constitution which that conven-
ton is celebrating will become waste paper"
LATEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Supreme
Court to-day overrulcd the motion heretofore
made, to dismiss the appeal in the McArdle
case, for want of jurisdiction. The case will,
therefore, come up for argument on its merits,
as previously arranged, ON the first Monday
of March.
There is more confusion at the Capitol, in
regard to the nomination of Gen. Sherman,
to Brevet and giving him command at
Washington.
A large list of Valentines to be claimed
See advertisement find Stamps.
It is rumored that the military force in the
department Of Washington is to be largely
increased.
Gold excited by a report from Washing
ton that Ways aud Means committee would re-
port in favor of fifty millions more of curren-
cy, and closed strong at al to 141s
Down freight with passenger coach at
tached, ran off the track yesterday, near
Meechams' River. Jas. E. Carson had his
leg broken, and several others we're injured
by jumping of. Had they held their posi-
ton, nobody would have been hurt.
A number of gentlemen met at the Astor
House, New York, on Thursday, for the pur-
pose of perfecting an organization for the
purchase of Virginia lands from insolvent
owners, and throwing them into market in
small lots, for the benefit of men of moderate
means.
The ITALIAN TRoUBLEs-The troubles in
Italy ascribed by the London Times to the
different parties in the Imperial Parliament,
none of which are able to govern, or are will
ing to allow the others to govern. Accord
ing to this, Italy is in danger of dissolution,
and from the internal disorders rather than
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