The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-18
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Forty thousand persons are out Of employ
ment in Chicago.
There are 54,3 1926 miles of railway in the
United. States.
St. Paul, Minnesota, sent 80, 900 rat skins
to Paris last year.
Mr.. Dickens is to stay in Boston ten days
or SO to recuperate. ~ @
There are said to be 5000, 900 spiritualists
in the United States.
The Government property at Harper's Fer
~ is soon to be sold.
Two girls in Iowa are to walk three hun
dred miles on wager.
Six of the Black Crook beauties found
husbands at Joliet, I'll.
Mr.. Miller, in Racine, Wisconsin, died from
putting kerosene on an ulcer.
Maretzek pays 5000 night for the use of
Pixies Opera House in New York.
Forsign immigration 10 New York has
fallen off within the last two months
1t is reported that the scheme for "recon-
structing" Maryland is by no means abandon
ed.
A Vienna physician has cured cholera pa
tients by injecting healthy blood into their
veins.
IL The New Orleans Picayune thinks there
will be comparatively little cotton planted
this year in Louisiana.
"a An Irishman says he can see no earthly
reason why women should not be allowed to
become medical men.
Miss Margaret Tyler died suddenly at her
residence near Aide on Wednesday evening
last, in the 92d year of her age.
sa Gen Hancock s friends announce that the
President will shortly transfer him to the com
mand Of the Department of Washington.
"A Washington lettar-writer says the Ala
bama bill is unpopular even in the House, and
win not be passed fov week or two, if at all.
The Ways and Means COMMITTEES have a.
greed to recommend reduction of tag on
shelving tobacco. from forty to thirty-two cents
per pound. ae
"A paper mill at Petersburg, it is announc-
ed, has an agency in New York, and supplies
several Of the daily and weekly papers OF
that city. si .,t... ~..,4 .s a. rs Dog ..f.ss,
"A rich vein of coal has been discovered on
the Preston estate, near Saltville, in Wash
ington county, now owned by Messrs. Palmer
4 Stuart. >, l.-s zsls!ez =
Brigham Young has assumed the role Of
Joseph. He has counselled his people to
lay by seven years supplies Of wheat, as he
prophesies great famine. 81
Sergeant Bates arrived at Augusta, Ga
He had an ovation all along tbs route to the
city, and was received by the citizens and vel
eomed to the hospitalities of the city.
In few weeks the thirty years will expire
which Talleyrand stipulated in bis will should
elapse after bis death before his memoirs were
to be. published. He died on the 18th Of
May, 1888.
The Legislature Of the Cherokees, at its late
session, passed an act appropriating ten thou
sand dollars for the erection Of a building sui
table for capitol, at Tahlequab, the capito
of the nation. ..4.. sf,.. Nls ysl
The officers Of the French army, now alb
cent on furllQpgh, have been ordered to repor
n their headquarters on OF before the 31s'
day Of March, on whach day All existing fur
loughs will terminate. 4
IA woman has committed suicide in New
York, and she is said to have been insane be
cause. she murdered five children. It is 20
stated whether or not she was ever Mem
her Of military commission. .'a
At the hour for closing the office Of the
State Treasurer, or Tuesday week, there wer'
only two dollars left in the Treasury of tht
$780, 900 appropriated to pay the expenses o
the Unconstitutional Convention at Rich
3 mond
St, Apthopy's Falls, in Minnesota, recedec
more than tAf2e hundred feet last year, and
the residents in the Rsighborhood fsar thai
unless some prompt measures are taken, they
will 20 up the river faster than the factories
can be moved.
4 Every reason, says the Journal of Com
ApeEse, which is adduced by the true friends
Of humanity against granting the suffrage to
the pappers and dehased classes of England,
tells with far greater force ia its application
to the colored race in the United States.
E'. "A leading writer says that it is 70 matter
of wonder with him that brain workers, in
all the years since tea was introduced, have
regarded it with the greatest favor. 1t has
q power to subdue irratability, refresh the
spirits and renew the energies, such as nc
othor agent possesses.
A new gymnast, Of extraordinary strength
: has made his appearance at the Holborne
theatre, London. He makes full swing
upon the trapeze, holding the rope only by
his teeth, and hanging by his feet, head
downward, he swings three men, depending
q. MI strength of his wrists.
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