The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-10-21
News Items.

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A San Francisco beer-gardcn has on exhi-
bition ninety-fvc pound nugget.
Ten thousand Jews cut diamonds in Am
sterdam.
Ninety nine towns in Kansas claim to be
the railroad centre of the State. sel
It is said that there was not over one third
tobacco crop in the counties of Spottsylya-
MIA, Caroline, and Louisa, Va, and that in
ferior in quality.
In Norfolk, Monday, $4,000 No 2 feet
shingles were sold at $40 and 81; $4,000
twenty Inch birch at SO, and 49, 900 common
twelve.inch ditto at Sc and 81. Z ~ q.
New Braunfels Texas, German settle
ment, had tornado not long since, which
destroyed about twenty five houses and killed
three persons. 800. f
Geary, Radical Governor Of Pennsylvania,
recently pardoned Norris, who outraged three
white girls at Chambcrsburg. He's a nice
man. el 1 - seal; ed H3a
TIA team Of 100 yoke of oxen, will be on
exhibition at the Pittsfeld Fair.
One hundred and forty-four bushels Of
oats to an acre is the latest Wisconsin achieve
ment. .s M ST.: 55
The Texans complain Of pork being 5
cents pound when they can get beef for 2
cents a pound.
The hog may not be thoroughly posted in
arithmetic, but when you come to a square
root he is there. a s
Cuba, Ireland, Porto Rico, Canda, and
now the Fiji Islands, are all candidates for
American protectorates.
The horse "Reyenue," owned by citizen
of Lewiston, Me-, was sold last week to a
New York gentleman for $4,000.
It is said that the late ex President Pierce
leaves fortune, estimated at from $50, 600,
which will nearly all go to nephew, the son
of Henry Pierce.
The young woman who played the title
role Of "Formosa" in Chicago became SO I'M
bued with the spirit of the character and of
the locality that she ran away with an actor.
Four Jews are now English baronets-
Sir Francis Goldsmid, Sir Moses Montefore
Sir Anthony Rothschild and Sir David Salo-
mons-all Of whom have been made such
! within thirty years.
Gen. Candy has appointed Col. A. j. Nc
Nett, the military commissioner at Suffolk,
mayor of that place.
The great revival meeting at Liberty Fau-
quier county, in the Methodist Church,
South, closed last Saturday night the 9th
inst $50 al ssa-
Col. R. L. Owen declines, under any cir
cumstances, to run for presidency Of the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee road.
The Shenandoah Valley has been informed
by gentleman who knows that there will be
an immense quantity of chestnuts this year.
He observed especially that the trees on the
Blue Ridge were very heavily laden. Wild
grapes arc also said to be abundant
The Indians have mastered Government
surveying party of twelve men, under the
command Of Nelson Buck, about fifty miles
south of Fort Mcpherson, Wyoming.
The construction of the California and
Oregon Railroad has been commenced near
Marysvile Material for one hundred miles
is on hand
Advices from Fernando Pc announce the
eruption Of volcano in the CAMERON range
on the mainland, near that island.
Lynch law is in operation in Warwick
county, Indiana. Several hard characters
have been shot by the Vigilance Committee
Henry A. Wise has been engaged for the
defence in the case of the State against John
K. Shores, for the murder Of William Wheat
ley, on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland.
David Crawford, colored boy, who com
mtted an outrage upon a young white wo-
man, was tried and convicted at Lynchburg
on Friday. He will be sentenced to death.
The Petersburg Courier says Gen. Candy
declines to give any decision in the case which
was referred to him some time since, where
in his interposition was invoked in order
that the white woman and colored man might
have marriage license issued to them. He
oAAANo viz SOukU oCCutC dl1 5uCu
matters.
The first new corn Of the season was sold
at Richmond on Friday at 80 cents.
G. G. Cambell, ESQ, has discovered in the
very edge of Bristol, on the Virginia side, a
bold spring Of white sulpher water.
Senator Sumner is delivering lectures on
Caste in New England
A vein of excellent coal has been struck
on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, east Of Den
yer, extending northward
The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Iowa, have resulted in Republican victories.
A new married couple were travelling in
the cars near Albany, when the husband pull
ed roll of something from his pocket which
his wife thought was chewing tobacco. She
snatched it from him and threw it out the
windows. tproved to be roll of green
backs, $4,000. She has stopped throwing