The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-02-11

Is SOOu 10 i've ON, Inc second TO Talk on, tn e
third to sleep on, and the last to die on.
Beer is bulky, wine whisky, lager logy,
whisky wasting. If used long enough each
will give its victim the govt, and get him
to his coffin in advance of his natural time
An explosion of nitro lycerine occurred
at a rock blasting in South Petersburg,
Rensselaer, county, n Y, on Saturday morn
ing, by which three men were killed and five
injured.
1t is announced that since the opening of
the Albany and Susquehanna railroad, the
price of coal in Albany, N. Y, has been re-
duced So to 50 per ton.
The I4ynchburg Republican is of the opin-
ion that many of the fair ladies of that city
are addicted to the very injurious habit of
opium eating.
Mr.. VIM. R. johnson has instituted suit
against Mr.. Burgess, Mayor of Petersburg,
for false Imprisonment. Mr. j. claims dam
ages for $4,000.
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed res
olution ''to promote good morals by prohibit
ing the chewing of tobacco in the Assembly
Chamber.
Brooks and Orme, convicted of the muir
der of Theodore Broadhead at Stroudsburg
Pa, are to be executed on the Goth of Feb
ruary.
General Butler is reported to be the last
Congressional convert to the Virginia scheme.
A Maine man has sued the husband of his
daughter for tea, cake and candles consumed
during the courtship.
Roanoke island is at once to be converted
into vineyard for the scuppernong grape by
party of capitalists
Chicago proposes "Glass Insurance Com
pany," to take risks on windows and beer
glasses.
Connecticut courts have decided that man
who will not support his family is pauper.
The New York Tribune Association have
insured the life Of Mr.. Greeley for 100000
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the income tax is constitutional.
Brigham Young has not beon attacked by
paralysis, but is reported quite WELL
Indiana has school fund of eight and a
quarter millions.
Rochester youths to the number of 1900
annually spend $4,000 in billiards.
Two men and woman have been arrest
ed at Altoona on charge of stealing
$4,000 in Indianapolis.
The Commissioner has received returns
from the local Office at Huntsville, Ala,
showing that during the month Of Deceg-
Der cighty-one farms, embracing 1868
acres, were added to the productive area Of
that State, under the operation of the home
stead laws. -
The Nation makes rather a good point,
when it says that 'sthe reason why the
whiskey ring is so powerful among us is,
that they have applied brains to the bust.
ness of stealing and swindling, and good
people have opposed to them nothing but
rhetoric"
Newman Hall couldn't find title for his
pamphlet on religion in America, and so he
sent it to Thomas Binney, with a request to
fix it for him. The proof came back with
this on the title page: eco to the Devil, y
by the author of ssCome TO Jesus.
The Legislature of Massachusetts pro-
poses to advance the fee for marriage GER
tifcates from fifty cents to one dollar. The
women say when female suffrage is secured
this tax upon matrimony will be abolished
John Mccullough had benefit at Brig
ham Young's theatre, the other night, at
which the receipts consisted principally of
corn in the ear sweetpotatoes; white mice,
young youug pigs, and 200 axe handles. -
An active insurance agent down East re-
commends married men to get their lives
insured, because the money would prove a
great help to the wife's second husband,
and might be the means of starting him in
business.
The Central Pacific Railroad is ccmplet.
ed to point four hundred and eighty miles
east of Sacramento and within one hundred
and eighty miles of Monument Point, al
the head Of Salt Lake.
A West Virginia court is called upon te
decide whether man who beat his wife
for extravaganza in using both butter and
molases on her bread, can be justified il
such conduct.
Hon. Reverdy johnson telegraphs Score
tary Seward that the British Government
| has revoked the Oruer prOnlDltlhg tne I'm
portation of hay from the United States tt
Great Britain.
Madame Anna Bishop has been singing
in Melbourne, Sc Come home, father, !" which
appears to have become q sort of oper;
there, as it is g illustrated by appropriate
tableaux,"
A ToRPEDo.-W What may be called stun
ming attempts are generally fascos- in
stance the opposition to the new movemen
which is now evidently in the vocative.
It is said that certain overtures have bee
made to the United States Government b,
the authorities of Hayti and San Domingo
which, if successfully carried out, will re
suit in the annexation Of those islands
the United States,