The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-09-15

General Sherman is now at San Francisco,
California.
Erasmus D. Cramer, of Kentucky, has been
appointed U. S. Minister to Denmark.
Governor Bowie. of Md, has pardoned
John Bowen and George Banks. two colored
men convicted Of firing the Peni1entiary.
It is reported that duel is imminent be.
tween Gems. Jordan and Quesada, in couse-
quence of an article by tie latter published
in the Spanish paper of New York.
On Saturday the treasurer of the Rich
mond and Danyile Railroad Company paid
into the State treasury $21 900, being inter-
est due the State by that corporation.
The editor of the Raleigh Sentinel has
sued Holden, Burger and others for false i'm
prsonment, and writs have been served upon
them.
A Boston paper is in favor of women vot-
ing ''if they want to-" A Western paper
would ''like to see the man who could make
them vote if they didn't want to-
A duel between two colored gentlemen of
Augusta Ca, has just been averted after a
| correspondence extending over three weeks
and eight sheets Of paper.
| Private advices from China inform us that
| Colonel P. B. Chenoweth, United States Con-
sui at Canton, died at that place on the 21st
of June, and that his infant daughter died on
the thirteenth of the same month.
The Louisville Courier Journal cannot un-
derstand why the Legislature of North Caro-
lima should 60 to the trouble of impeaching
Gov. Holden, when it would not cost more
than FIVE dollars to hang him.
The President has not yet designated a
successor to Minister Motley, nor will any
name be announced until it be known that
the person to whom the mission may be offer
ed will accept.
Two colored girls have been arrested in
Richmond charged with poisoning the in
mates of colorcd boarding house No deaths
ensued, but the persons who ate the poisoned
food were made very sick.
Atwell Howell youth aged about fifteen
years. was accidentally shot and killed near
Petersburg. on Thursday, by his companion.
George Blankenshp, while out on hunting
excursion.
Mr. W W. Glmer, of Albemarle, has ac
cepted the invitation to deliver the annual
address before the Border Agricultural Soci-
city, which meets in Dapville, Va, on the
25th of October next.
Judge Carson, in the Frederick County
Court has decided, in the case of Hoover vs..
White, that the Homestead Law of Va pass
ed in pursuance of provision Of the Under,
wood constitution, impairs the obligation of
contracts and is in conflict with the Constitu.
ton of the U. S.
A contemporary well says that no German
will lose anything in this country by -sympa-
thy with Prussia; but the demagogues who
have sought to profit by that sympathy
find themselves in an embarrassing position
by the sudden turn of affairs which has led to
the proclamation of the French republic.
The trial of N. Fl Jackson, of Farmvillc.
Va, charged with the murder Of Mr.. Bruce,
was concluded in the Circuit Court of Apo
mattox county, on Friday, with a verdict of
not guilty from the jury. The prisoner was
thereupon discharged.
: On Thursday as construction train on the
East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia railroad
was leaving the station at Sweetwater, the
boiler exploded. killing the engineer, Mr.
Hugh Barger, and badly scaldine A. Minton,
fireman. It is supposed that the cause of the
; accident was from defect in the boiler.