The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-11-18
News Items.

News Items.
The iourneymen tailors of Chicago are
again on a strike. Some of the bosses have
yielded
The two crops which, in Connecticut, pay
the farmer BEST and require the least labor,
are grass and tobacco.
Colonel Alexander, once one of Buffers
ouartcrmasters, arrested in New Orleans as a
bogus Treasury agent, has escaped
The pretty girls employed in the Treasury
among the beaux as sRevenue Cutters"
A few days previous to his death, Mr. Pea
body gave an extra $4,000 to the Peabody
| fund for the workingmen's homes in London.
The following additional internal revenue
appointments for Virginia are recorded -
Frank J. Bramhall and George ". Graham,
gaugers in the sixth district.
Flour at present in Arizona is thirty-six
dollars in gold per barrel; butter two dol
lars per pound eggs two dollars per doz-
en-, and other necessaries in proportion.
There are at this moment $50 young Amer
lean students at German universities, and
upwards Of 1 900 American youths and girls
attending The higher schools and educational
institutions.
The Grand Master of Free Masons in
France has summoned general convcn-
tion of the Masons of Europe, at Paris,
on the 9Th of December, in opposition to
the Ecumcnical.
Arizona adyices state that the Indians
are troublesome near Prescott, and are
committing depredations OH Ash crock
General Wheaton is organizing scouts for
Apache warfare.
On Saturday last, Governor Walker and
family moved into the Executive mansion, it
having been thoroughly repaired and removal
ted for his reception Since his installation
he has been quartered at the Exchange.
Amos Kendall, in his requests to his
grand children, says special dispatch to
| the Baltimore Gasette, gives to each $780,
900, excepting one, to whom he gives s.:t
$4,000, because he was in the Confedcr.
ate army.
The affair of the French Coolie ship
Margret Brandon is attracting considerable
attention in California to the Coolie trade
system practiced on the cotton plantations
of the South Pacific Islands. Numerous
instances of barbarity have been revealed.
An ASSOCIATION for the purpose Of publish
ing literary and musical works for the blind
has been formed in Philadelphia. Books are
to be published in the Improved Combined
Letter type, such as has been for some time
used by Mr.. Kneass. This is great i'm
provement over the old type
A noted gold spcculator of Boston who
has been in the business for some time past
was sent to the Insane Asylum this week in
consequence of his mind having become de-
ranged by the excessive excitement incident
to the hazard and uncertainty attending
such transactions
!, The schooner Pilot, Captain Smallidge, Of
Mount Desert, Me, was wrecked on Tuesday
; on Anderson rocks, off Star Island Shoals,
New England, coast. The crew and four
passengers were saved The disaster is at
tributed to mirage. which was noticed BY
parties on the island, the lighthouse appear
ing to be far off.
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General Ewell reports to the Tennessee
branch of the Southern Historical Society that
he has the records of the several commands
he held during the war, with the reports all
his subordinates, and letters from Gen. R. E.
Lee, Gen. Joe Johnston and others, which
will furnish many facts and incidents for a
complete history Of the war.
The st. Louis papers of Friday record a
!, frightful accident which occurred at the
Varieties Theatre the evening previous
Mile Zagrino, young and beautiful girl,
only eighteen years of age, was going thro'
her usual trapeze performances, when she
fell from the rope to the floor, breaking
| 10th her wrists and being otherwise seri-
ously injured.
4 A passenger train on the Western Pacific
Railroad, colided on Monday last near San
Leandro, California, with the Alemada Ferry
j train, ard forty or fifty persons were killed
and wounded Among the number killed was
Hon. Alex. W. Baldwin, United States Dis
trici Judge Of Nevada. The trains and loco
motives were completely wrecked.
Several Canadians who favor annexation
to the United States, visited the President
on Friday and were granted an interview
of an hours duration. They opposed the
attempt to enact another reciprocity trea-
ty, and argued that it would prevent and
delay the absorption of Canada by the
United States. They left in the belief
that the President is opposed to reciproci-
| ty, and in favor Of annexation.
COMMITTEE OF EXAMINATIONS General
Candy has directed that a commission con.