The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-03-25
NEWS.

A $1,000 monument is to be erected
over Sam Houston's grave, at Houston,
Is.las. IL
Secretary Borie, Of the Navy Department,
hes issued an order stating that there are no
vacancies in his department.
+. At Alaska there is much bad feeling be-
tween the military and the Indians, and sew
eral difficulties have occurred
Robert Martin Douglas, son Of the late
Senator Douglas has beea appointed Assist
ant Private Secretary to the President.
John Sanford Young shot Richard Pow
ell, son of Ex-Governor Powell, through
the heart at Henderson, Kentucky, on the
18th inst, killing him instantly.
John Sandfold Young shot Richard Pow
ell, sen Of Ex-Governor Powell, through the
heart at Henderson, KY, on Thursday, kill
ing him instantly. Both had been drinking.
On Saturday last Gen. Butler introduced
to Secretary Boutwell, a colored man from
New Orleans, named Joubeft, and recon.
mendcd him for place as assessor Of inter-
nal revenue =
A reckless French writer declares that
French females become uglier from gener-
alton to generation, and that in thirty
years there will hardly be pretty woman
in all France.
Three colored men have been arrested in
New York for stealing a large quantity Of
valuable furniture, books, &c. belonging to
their employer, Vincet Collyer, the we'll
known Philanthropist ~
A heavy snow on tho roof of the Congre-
gational Church at Wilton, Maine, caused it
to give way yesterday, entirely levelling the
building and destroying the organ and furni-
ture. The library alone was uninjured Il,
Miss Elizabeth Van Lew will not qualify
as Postmistress until the LIST proximo. We
| learn that she does not contemplate any
radical changes in the clerical force of the
office, but will probably secure the official
society of one or two ladies.
Capt. Richard B. Fitzgerald, an old and
respected shipping merchant of Baltimore,
and senior member of the firm Of Fitzgerald
Booth 4 Co., died yesterday at his residence
in" Baltimore. By his demise the commercial
circles of Baltimore have lost prominent
member. s, ,la
The smallpox is still committing great raw
ages on the Pacific coast. Among the recent
deaths in Oregan is that of w. G.. TVanlt,
one of the pioneers of Oregon, and formerly
Speaker of the Assembly. He was the first
editor who started paper in that State.
The friends of Henry Ward Beecher in
Brooklyn are making an organized effort to
raise the necessary funds to pay for bronze
statute of that gentleman, heroic in size, to
be placed on one side of the shelves of the
proposed Clark Mills monument to Lincoln.
Six thousand dollars is the sum required
Postmaster Geneaal Creswell has issued a
general order submitting the recent law of
Congress and adding all ranking stamps
must in future be disregarded. The
autograph signature of the person entitled
to exercise the privilege is required.
There has been Seward case in the Brit
ish Parliament. Sir Sidney Waterlow, a
rich London contractor, has been obliged to
retire from business in order to hold his seat,
the law imposing penalty of $500 day
upon any one sitting in the House while en-
gagged in government contract.
Elk Secretary Seward, it is understood, is
very indignant at the recent manifesto of
Jas. Watson Webb, claiming that it was he,
and not Seward, who persuaded the French
to leave Mexico. He is preparing an elabo-
rate answer to what he is said to characterize
as proposterous assumption.
The cashier of the First National Bank of
Rockford, Illinois, is reported to have abscoud-
ed with the funds of its depositors, and the
bank will probably fail The people of Rock
ford and the vicinity are much excited by
this unexpected Development. The cashier
has heretofore been regarded as an honorable
man.
A we'll known citizen of New York recent
ly died wif5' such strange symptoms that his
physician procured the permission of resur-
reetine the body and making autopsy From
that it appeared that the heart and liver had
positions opposite to those usual and natural.
The heart was on the right side and the liver
on the left p'o 9r'a
7 Newspaper Law.
Postmasters are required to give advice by
letter when a subscriber does not.take his pa
per from the office and rive the raacon for