The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-04-14

News. Items.
Andrew johnson is going to Europe to
stay six months.
California is growing half million null
berry trees for slkworms.
Garibaldi's novel has failed to create the
sensation predicted for it Is
A Quebec bank has three tons Of twenty
five cent pieces in its vaults.
David Crocketts last surviving son, Rob-
ert, lives in Hood county, Texas.
! The tobacco crop in Ohio last year was
the largest ever raised in the State.
Mrs Caroline Neil is now judge of the
Court Of Oyer and Termincr in Wyoming.
Trying to five high on low salary caused
a Detroit bookkeeper's defalcation.
A Georgia gentleman has been timing a
snail, who made 70 inches in 80 minutes.
The prospect for the peach crops of Mary
land and Delaware is said to be excellent.
| Women prisoners in Iowa have all the
rights of men. They are set to breaking
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An Arizona miner recently fell down a
shaft 1913 feet deep, and was only slightly
bruised.
The New Orleans Ptcayuue still advises
Southern planters to sell their cotton only
for gold
The municipal troubles in Richmond have
made a brisk business for the saloon-keepers
Of that city.
Twenty millions of dollars are stolen from
the Government each year by the. re use of
revenue stamps. ...4
Virtuous Chicago has fined barkceper
s22 for selling hqIor to an artistocratic lady
Of Is. sf H.
Senator johnson, of Virginia, has been ad-
mitted as practitioner in the United States
Supreme Court. ~
"A Texas paper INDUCES in visions of
railroad the whole length of the American
continent
Four colored girls are employed in the
Government printing Office in Washington,
to run the ruling machines.
An English coast steamer lately burned
one hundred pigs in order to get into port,
having exhausted her coal
Some highly original burglars recently
stole the bell from the stecple Of a Baptist
Church at Pitts Point, kentucky
4 paterfamilias in Grave, Holland, lately
registered in the proper bureau Of Etat
Civil the birth of his thirty second child.
The last of Washington's field hands has
died again. This time in St. Louis Of
course he was 105 years old and his faculties
dnimpaired.
An Indianian has rashly married woman
OF half his age, Notwithstanding her first hus.
band sought peace in suicide, and her Sec
ond In the penltentiafy.
The Columbia, Ohio, State Journal noti-
fes Congress that "The people don't care so
much about poygamy in Utah. They want
their taxes reduced"
In Africa, if any one comes before king
without full-dress costume-that is a straw
hat and ring in the nose-his head goes into
the waste basket before he can wink twice.
It is said that the farmers in Minnesota
can now make more money ia raising beets
at So per ton for sugar making than they
can in raising wheat or any other kind Of
grain.
A man keeping store in San Diego Cali
fornia, writes that the gold excitement is
fraud; that the rich quartz exhibited there
was brought from Arizona to get up an ex-
element for trade.
Corn is selling in Central Iowa at thirty
cents per bushel, delivered on the railroad
Wheat is very plenty, and is worth only fifty
cents. The general Complaint there is-too
much produce and too little money.
Forney's Philadelphia Press, commenting
on the feeble opposition made by the Radi-
calls of Tennessee to the new constitution,
! says: "The reign Of the Kuklux must be
complete, indeed, when there is no spirit left
in their opponents"
There is small pox epidemic raging just
now in Paris, and good deal Of panic pre-
walls in consequence. The Municipal Coun
Gil of the city voted at its last sitting sum
of 10000 francs for the organization of
service for gratuitous vaccination.
The Democratic victory in Connecticut
has infused new life into the Northern De-
mocracy The Boston Post announced it
with growing ROSTERS, and presented the ap-
pearance of party journal in the better days
of the Republic.
Found Dead.--A Sad and Curious Chapter
Of Local History.