The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-07-07
News Items.


The last accounts from Cuba, if they are
to be believed, arc unfavorable to the Cubans.
A boat, with five or six young men it, was
carried over the Rochester Falls, a few days
ago, and one of the young men drowned.
Greece had an earthquake on Friday
The result is the town of Satoria in ruins
the total disappearance of small island.
Eighteen thousand immigrants sailed from
Liverpool, England, for various American
ports during the month of June.
The newly discovered silver mines in Grant
county, New Mexico, are said to contain i'm
mensely valuable deposits of that precious
mineral.
The amount of -four inspected in Rich
mond during the quarter ending the Goth
June, was 29,O17 barrels and 1873 half bar
res.
William II. Andrews, coored, member Of
the Legislature from Surrey. was arrested
Friday on the charge of perjury, and com
mitted He afterwards gave bail to appear
Great Indignation is felt in New York at
the nomination of Mr.. Murphy as Collector
Of that port, and numbers of tclegraphic mes
sages denouncing it have been received in
Washington.
The faculty Of law just added to George.
town College completes it as university
which has conferred the honorary degree Of
LII. D. on Judge James, of the Treasury
o,d Hop Tbo,uoo Euipor Of Ohio
Rev. aGin -and-M Milk Smythe is lectutins
on Temperance as coutradistinguished from
total abstinence" This gentleman's peculiar
misfortune is evidently not knowing how tt
let bad enough alone.
It is finally settled that there is to be col
ored cadet at West Point, as James William
Smith, the colored boy from Columbia, S. G.
has passed the examination and gone int
camp with his white comrades
The funeral of the late Earl Of Clarendon
took place at Watford, Uerts county, Eng
land, on Saturday A number of the mos
prominent men in England attended the flu
neral
The Cuban planters, at meeting in Ha
vana, have approved of the abolition Of slav
cry by the Spanish Cortes. Numerous case
of cholera, vomito and small pox are report
ed on the island.
An anti Chinese meeting was held in Ncy
York on Saturday night by delegates from
various trades unions, and secret politica
organization, entitled the Workingmen'
Friendly Society, was organized
Serious outrages by bands of Arapaho
and Sioux Indians near the South Pass ar
reported at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory
Three men were killed and seal ped by them
and number of horses carried off.
An election to vote upon the new Consti
tuition of Illinois took place throughout .ha
State on Saturday. The Constitution, includ
ing the provisions on which seperate vote
were taken, has been, it is thought, adopte
by large majority
The Manchester (England) Examine
thinks the American idea ola monument to Mr.
Dickens laudable, but impracticable, on &C
count of the well-known objection of Mr.
Dickens to posthumus honors Of that kind
The Paris Figaro has been prosecuted 70
the publication of a false anecdote of tn
Emperor and the late Earl of Clarendon
and the editorin- chief on the Reveizle ha
been sentenced to prison for thirteen month
for copying it.
Reports from the Indian agencies on tn
| Upper Missouri declare affairs in a peaceful
and prosperous condition. Governor Stafford
of Arizona, has been conducting negotiation
for peace with Chiefs representing two thou
sand Indians in that territory.
The Senate, Friday, by vote of % to q
rejected the San Domingo treaty-a two third
majority being necessary for the ratification
of treaty 1t is said that the rejection @
the treaty does not dispose of the protocol to
the lease of the Bay of SANTANA
An attempt has been made, with fai
poepect Of success, to repeal the monopol
now granted in the charter of the cable tele
graph from Key West to Cuba, owing to tn
exhorbitant charges made by the existin
company.
| Cream of, Tartar is said to be OCCASIONAL
made up entirely of plaster of Paris, (sul
fphate of lime,) starch and sui phuric aci'!..-
A quantity purchased recently Of Ne,
York grocer was composed OF the above in
gradients, aud contained not even a trace E
real cream Of tartar or bi tartrate of potash
This is certainly adulterationl extraordinary.
A QUAcK DocT1R RUNS AWAY WITT
SIX WOMEN AT A TINE DIR Young, th
quack cancer docter, who swindled Me.ssr
James md Jones of something near 81 90,
en1a who has been living below Bloutvill
shipped his wife to North Caroline, fro
which State he halls, sw:Adled dozen {
two of gentlemen, and ian away on Saturda