The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-01-20
News Items.

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The King Of Sweden is to lecture in public.
The Cuban 'Junta are at fsticuGs with each
other. G. v
The New York Tribune made $4,000
last year. Il
Brigham Young is negotiating for another
Carpet bags marked 81. Smith, San Do
mingo," are already in demand.
That queer youpg King of Bavaria attempt
ed to kill himselfShe other day.
Won Bulow says Wagner is welcome to his
wife, and ungallantly calls her a shrew.
General Joseph e. johnson declines the
Presidency of the University of Nashville.
A Virginian, whose father recently died.
last week married-his step mother.
California pays her State Legislators SO
per day, Rhode Island 81 per day.
A Montreal young lady broke very pref
ty leg sliding down hill.
Seyenty-fve thousand people in London are
actually starving.
Fifty-fvc fallen women were redeemed in
/ Philadelphia last year. /
The Senate Of Minnesota has. ratified the
Fifteenth Amendment by party vote Of 16
to IL. :: So t,vr
+; "A weekly paper has just, BEEN issued at
Washington, with Sella Martcn (colored) as
Eedltor. .:sn2- sattl - ~ AZ.
The proclamations of single Southern
Governor, during q single term, have cost
$22, $50. :.
They say Eugene owes Hausman 5000.
900 francs, but even that didn't save him
his prefecture. '"s7
Mrs. Yelyerton is visiting tho Mormons,
who seem to have singular attraction for
foreign ladies.
The Countess Guiccoli is said to be writing
a reply to Mrs. Stoves attack on Lord BY.
ron and Mrs. Leigh.
One of the methods adopted to cure Carlot.
ia of insanity is setting her to work at sew
ing machine,
General O. O. Howard wants to perpetuate
his Frcedmen's Bureau by combining it with
the Bureau of education.
A soldier in Montana shot the bill CARRIE
of the Varieties theatre. The pit applauded,
thinking it was part of The play.
"Frou Frou," the New York Post tells, is
the slang for the rustic of silk dress.
When surreptitious it is said to be charming
Nincty.six pounds ofwild honey were ia
ken lately from tree 10 New Hampshire !;
the comb vas six feet long.
A hotel-keeper in Evans, Cal was shot
dead by boarder for not preserving him a
seat at the first table.
General J. M. St. John, engineer in chief
Of the Confederate government, has been
elected city engineer of Louisville.
The Rev. James Dolan, pastor of St. Pat
ricks (Roman Cotholic) Chuch, Baltimore,
died on Wednesday, aged fifty four years.
A Nevada editor was presented on Christ
mas with bible, and a bottle of whiskey was
added to induce him to accept the gift.
The King Of Sweden has written 500 DO.
ems, and nobody ever heard of it till now.
J. The Chicago s;Matrimonial Bureau has
come before the courts upon the charge of
procuring prostitution. =.
A Jerseyn,an celebrated his birthday last
week by drinking gallon Of beer and dying
in the evening.
Mcfarland S trial will not come off until
March His counsel have decided to enter
plea of insanity.
A MASSACHUSETTS, farmer has been sent to
jail for two months for cruelty beating his
horse.
Minister Washburne is of the opinion that
the Emberor Napoleon was never stronger
than he is at present. ...
The Turkish government is buying mus
kets in New York to use against that exaspe-
rating Kheedive.
Henry W. Beecher announced to his con-
gregation Sunday that he declined to receive
the offer recently made him of an advance Of
salary from $12,500 to $4,000
Radicals contend that all the marriages in
the Confederate States during the war are H.
legal, as there was no legitimate authority to
grant licences.
i The French Government has been petition
ed by the wives of 100 convicts transported
to Cayenne, to be allowed to join their hns-
bands there.
| Nelaton says that fifteen minutes ride on
horseback would kill Napoleon Rochefort
offers to furnish the saddle-horse free of ex-
pense.
A majority of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations is said to be in favor of
keeping Sicklcs in Spain rather than have
him back in America.
Thomas Bradshaw, an aged man living
near Sharpsburg, Ky struck his wife on the
back of the head with an axe, and believing
her dead, he hung himself
Rev. Mr.. Tullins, principal of the female
high school at Bristol, has introduced sewing
machines into the institution asa part Of the
course of study A young lady, thoroughly
expert in their use, gives lessons to the pu,
pills, twice week.
A negro man was found dead a few days
ago on one ofthe public roads in King George
county. A horse and cart was near by. It
is supposed that he had drank too much liq-
uor and had fallen into the mud-hoe in
which he was found, and frozc to death.