The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-04-29
General News.


General News.
Butter of Questionable character, is ST. "
a pound in Salt Lake.
A candidate for Mayor of Council Bluff:
is known as Mrs. Boomers husband"
One patent medicine manufacturer adver
tises in twenty-fve hundred papers in this
country.
| A Jerseyman who invented an india-rubbel
carriage has sold his patent right for half 8
million.
At a recent large fire in Helena, Montana
barrels of cider and ale, for lack of water
were poured upon the flames to quench them
Trade is eccentric in New Jersey. On +.
big boulder in stone fence near New Dur
ham is painted the announcement. "This
stone for salc"
Five hundred American officers were cash.
tered during the last year for dishonorablt
behavior, principally because they did notYay
their debts.
Just to show that Galena was not exhaust
ed after producing himself, Grant has giver
six prominent foreign and domestic appoint
ments to that place.
An Iowa merchant has offered the young.
est lady graduates of seminary each calico
dress, on condition that it shall be worn or
commencement day.
We regret to record the death of R. NJ
Hudson, late Judge Of the 18th judicial
Circuit, which took place at his home in Fin
castle on Monday last.
A small boy in Louisville had hole blown
in his head by the explosion of muskct.-
His mother put piece of sticking plaster
over the wound and expected him to get well
He didn't.
Murat Halstead, managing editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial, has an income oil
$34 ,693 year. A few years ago he was an
employee in the establishment with no in.
come at ALL Genius will tell
The Wilmington IN. c. Morning Sta,
publishes its South Carolina items under the
head Of Palmetto Leaves" awe suggest
/" Tar Drops" as caption for its State items
A colored preacher named Gar, has been
arrested at Richmond, Va, charged with
committing VIOLENT outrage on colorcd
girl aged thirteen years. The Dispatch says
he confessed his guilt.
Wardwell, the Superintendent of the Pen
itentiary, at Richmond, has had various
charges ..of malfeasance in office, preferred
against him, by some Of his late employees.
The matter has been laid before Gen. Candy
One of the inmates of the North Carolina
Lunatic Asylum recently visited the State
Legislature, and being asked on his return
what he thought of it, replied. "Well, l
think they are branch Of this establish
mcnt."
A carpet-bag school teacher in Talladega,
Alabama, sentenced negro girl, one Of bis
pupils, to do ten days cooking at bis private
residence for a violation of the rules of his
school. His pupils are rather refractory, and
he manages to get all of his house work done
by them.
Hartman & Co., have put on a new daily
stage line between Staunton and Harrison
burg to connect with the trains on the Ches-
apcake & Ohio and Orange, Alexandria &
Manassas Railroads and with the stages from
Staunton to Lexington.
Candidates are beginning to announce
themselves for various offices, in different
parts Of the State, in view of the anticipated
order Of President Grant for an election in
Virginia. We are sorry to see "electioncer-
ing" commence again SO early.
The famous Lewis Lindsey (colored) late
member of the Virginia Constitutional Con-
vention, has come to grief in Richmond
in being brought under the supervision Of
the police, and necessitated to take nights
lodgings in the watch house, &c.
A colored man, supposed to be the leader
of gang Of thieves who have lately been en-
gagged in robbing the freight train on the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, has been
arrested Several of his associates have
Likewise been 'staken up"
The Augusta, Georgia, Constitutionalist
says: "Carpet- Dagger Wells, who claims to
be Governor of Virginia, has turned the
Capitol Square at Richmond into pasture.
He has been offered free milk and butter to
refrain, but without avail. "Rebels" must
be Sc coued."
George Francis Train, thus addresses the
editor of the N. Y. Independent: "Theo-
dorus, King Of Abyssnia, early prosperity
has spoilt you. Those the gods wish to de-
stroy they first make wear long hair and WOOL
en- stockings; and then edit religious news
paper devoted to poisoning mankind with
ouank modicinesO