The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-05-13
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Editorinl Short.Straws.
They say they can grow more tobacco in
Georgia than in Virginia. Let them do it if
they che,os.
Grant has made large number of ap-
pointments, bu. still larger number of dis
appointments
Spring chickens are very scarce in this
part of the country; they are stolen before
they are Aedged.
The next great issue will be between the
People and Monopolists money and muscle.
We intend to bet on muscle.
Missionaries are wanted out West to put
down Budeism. There are 900 China
men in California and adjacent States. |.
"A poor wretch very much in need of a
wife, has proposed marriage to Anna Dickin-
son! A desperate suicide ~
They are organizing working woman $
league in Boston. We presume the members
bers are to work with their hands-not with
their tongues. -....e.<..z. N
Letter writers, who know everything, and
more too, say that G President Grant has de-
termined to have Cuba" That's SO he wants
to back her.
"A Cincinnati girl attempted to drown
herself for love, but was rescued and locked
up over night on the charge Of drunkenness.
Very little romance in that. M
There is solitude in Alaska Territory.
Thousands of square miles of forests and
mountains and not single bird. Our spar
row shooters would find poor sport there.
/ Cen Butler is among those who aspire
to the Gubernatorial Chair of Massachusetts.
Good hope he'll be elected-no one could
suit Massachusetts Radicalism better. .a..sa.
i. The Day Book says the White House
ought now to be called the Black. House
But few white people can gain admission
while negroes are received with open arms.
/ Dan. Sickles has not got the Spanish
mission, but he has retired from the army on
! full pay He lost leg in the war. That's
nothing for he has one to boot. .5es5
Grant has appointed eighteen members
of the Society of Friends to 60 out and pac
ify the Indians. Why, they are the worst
people he could select we want men Of nerve
] not quakers. ssa ee5 ~,
-Blaque Bey. the Turkish Minister, and
} Staff, have secured quarters at the White
Sulphur for the coming summer. A blacA
bay is rara auis, and will doubtless become
lion.
President Grant has presented the saddle
which he used throughout the war to Mr.
Washburne, of Livermorc, the father Of E
B. Washburne. A sad III that never bore {
goad character. aa g3alI
q -Thurlow Weed and ". II Seward hav,
] retired to private life and obscurity. Thes'
/ two men laid the foundation of Republican
ism, and now in their old age are unnoticct
and uncarcd for. So it goes.
Vermont and Missouri have enacted in
surance laws which propose to roundly ia,
c Insurance Companies in other States doing
t business by agencies in these States This il
| lust as it should be. lLlezl't55l gJf
: The Society for the Prevention of Cruel
: ty to Animals in New York, has received be
quests to the amount of $500, 900. Wonde
!, if feas and bed bugs are included in thei
programme
II We shall have no more letters from Har
riet Beecher Stowe, written "under the Or
, ange tree" She only had carpet bag titl'
, to her Florida plantation, and has been com
PEELED to restore it to its rightful owner.
Strong minded women will soon begin tt
think of mending the holes in their stock
ings. A Miss Emma Webb, a young girl O.
great personal and intellectual beauty, ha
, entered the lecture arena against the. woman
voting mania. i.a a e.a.
A New York paper offers to subscribe
$25, 900 toward raising fund of $500, 900
to be awarded as prize to the man wht
shall invent perfect type-setting machine
The next thing will be a machine to edit {
) paper. r
Vast preparations are being made for the
great Musical Peace Festival that is to come
off in Boston shortly. They say battle
piece is to be performed by an orchestra o.
five hundred, accompanied by park of artil
lery and bona tidc earthquake LET III
: have peace" Is. i,ss;
The Cuban Fillibusters.
: It seems that General Jordan formerly
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