The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-11-24

It is intimatcd that MI. Alexander Rlves is
to contest the election of Mr. Duke to Con-
gress.
The President is "canvassing" to see who
will accept the Office of Minister to Great
Britain!
The cuisines" of contesting seats, it is
said, will be actively engaged in at the next
| Congress!
The Spanish minister at Washington is to
| be married on the 28th inst, in New York, to
Miss Terry, an American lady.
! The election of the municipal officers of
| Richmond, ct the late election, is to be con-
tested by the Radicals there.
A dispatch from Vienna says that it is be
lieved there that present complications in re-
ation to Russia, will not lead to war
| Fifty coored persons, men and women,
passed through Lynchburg Friday, on the
way to Louisiana, where they have been hr-
ed to work on plantations.
The southern portion of the village Of
Baldwinsvile, N Y, is reported to have
been burned on Sunday including several
large flour mills. Lose, 100000.
The Postmaster General says he will not re-
commend in his annual report the purchase Of
telegraph lines in order to establish the postal
telegraph system throughout this country.
The Gazette says that Alexandra is pros
perlng. A number of new houses have been
erected during the year and the building Of
many others has been contracted for.
| It is estimated that of the sixteen hundred
colored voters in Henrico county, only some
seventy five or 80, pay taxes fifteen hundred
and twenty five paying nothing whatever to
the State.
Miss Ella Ruston, of Boone county, Indi-
ana, is said to have lately disposed Of her
beautiful growth of blonde hair, to New
York dealer in human hair, in order to pro-
vide funds for the education of her sister.
Mr.. Craven Payton, brakesman on the 0.
A. & NJ. R. R., while engaged, on Saturday
last at Woodstock, in unloading freight car,
had his foot and ankle severely injured by
the falling of barrel of molasses
The celebrated DR.. Cummings has just pub
| lished book in London, the "Seveuth Vial"
in which he gratfes his lugubrious genius by
predicting that social and political chaos are
close at hand.
Prince Gortschakoff, who is again about to
occupy leading part in connection with the
Eastern question, has attained the advanced
age of seventy,two, and has for nearly fifty
years been engaged in diplomatic duties.
Among the shorror of horrors" is ''Girls'
Base Ball Club" at Lancaster, Pa. 1t is ad-
1ed to this notice, in very ungalant style,
that those engaged in it fought to be spank
3D."
The old Long Bridge across the Potomac,
built during the administration Of General
jackson, has begun to disappear TO give place
to an entirely new and substantial structure
for tho Baltimore aud Potomac Railroad Com
paHy.
To BE SOLD Thayer's Combination
Circus, which exhibited here last week, is now
under attachment for debt at High Point,
and will be sold out by the sheriff on next
Tuesday. Hard on the circus men, Green's
3oro Patriot,
A Madrid dispatch states that the election
Of the Duke of Aosta, as King of Spain, is
highly popular throughout the country.
committee of the Cortes has been appointed
to visit Florence and present the Grown to
the Duke.
The jury in the case of George Wiley,
colored, indicted with Woody Rnf6n for the
murder of Lewis Swats, tried in Richmond,
brought in verdict Of guilty of voluntary
manslaughter, and ascertained his term of
confinement in the penitentiary at five years.
Chief Justice Chase, it is reported, has ex-
pressed the determination not to resume his
duties on the bench of the Supreme Court in
less time than year from now. He will
take vacation for rest and recuperation, in
order to effect perfect restoration of hts
health.
Fires, involving the destruction of a large
amount of property, took place last Sunday, |