The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-01-13

say that he was fearless soldier in the Con
federatc army.
TREBIS.
News Items.
Gov Walker has gone to Washington.
The London Times thinks Spain must
abolish slavery or abandon Cuba.
OF the sixty members of the United
States Senate forty six are lawyers.
Only four deaths from small pox occurred
in Boston last year.
Mr.. Motley was robbed in London on Wed
nesday night Of property valued at $4,000.
-Four hundred kettles arc kept constantly
boiling at Sa,tsille
The latest about Father Hyacinthe is that
he went home for the reason that he had
spent all his money.
A resident of Chicester, N. Hr, walked
halfa mile on stills, with rooster in his arms,
the other day, on bet. .ea
It cost man fifteen dollars for refusing to
u
railroad the other day.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature to regulate freight charges
on railroads.
/. There were 100000 pounds of tobacco
in Danville during the year ending October,
1869.
The number of voters DISTINGUISHED in Mis-.
souri, is about IS, 900, enough, if admitted to
the ballot box, to control the State in the fu-
ture.
The little children Of Henry Garth, near
North Garden, in Albemarle, were severely
burned last week, while playing with keros-
inc oil.
1t is reported in Europe that President
Grant will soon visit the Sovcreigns of the
Old World, and he will make the transatlan
tic voyage accompanied by fleet ofironclads
Saturday was the 57th anniversary of the
battle Of New Orleans. In honor of the event
flags were displayed from public houses anc
the shipping in the principal cities.
| Charles Hugo and Felix Patt, chief edj
tors of the Paris Rappel, have been senten
ced to four months imprisonment and fine
of one thosand francs each for violating the
French Press laws.
A female medical school has recently been
established at Barely, Indiae The students
it is asserted, have shown great quickness
and aptitude for the art of medicine, arc
have made surprising progress.
Mrs, Mcfarland keeps very secluded al
her house in Massachusetts. Reporters are
constantly endeavoring to interview her, but
she hides herself in. the garnet, while he,
mother does battle at the front door.
- 4 lady of noble birth has leased tho -sa
looms of a London theatre for tho r~"rAso Of
giving the profits to the discharged workmen
of the dock yards She 'tcnds barr in full
dress with two pages.
Mr. Plumb late u =. consul general a,
Havana is in Washington. Mr.. Plumb takes
the Spanish view of affairs in Cuba, and pro.
claims the instruction so near dead as te
abandon almost all hope Of reviving it.
Forty.eight THOUSAND acres of land near Alb.
lime, Kansas have been sold to Scotch
Emigration Association at Glasgow for $780,.
000 The men will leave Scotland in Feb
ruary or March.
Francis Robinson, Of Blackinston, Conn.,,
was bitten by mad dog thirty years ago,
and about once a month ever since has had
fits, during which he barks like dog and
froths at the mouth.
Fisk ank Gould have again turned up in a
New Jersey Court, this time as defendants
in suit fer conspiracy againit locomotive
factory. Nearly four hundred suits are now
stated to be pending against the Erie Rail-
road Company.
Another delegation from Virginia is said to
be on the way to Washington to protest
against the admission of the State. This
population is composed Of some local Judges
appointed to office by the military command
er.
The Petersburg Courier says: Mr. John
Perkins. Of Dinwidde, an estimable young
man Of about twenty years of age, WIS severe
ly, if not fatally, injured on " edncsday last
by being caught under falling log while
loading car near Rowany creek, op che
Southern railroad
General Banks, who arrived in Boston. on
Saturday from his European trip and was en-
tertained by the Banks Club, and made
speech on the European situation. In his
opinion, England was ready to settle the Al
ALBANIA claims whenever that coutry was sat
ished that the q. s. was earnest in the matter
and meant business.
The Supreme Court of Alabama decides
that there has been no property in slaves
since 1863 1t also decides that every iudg
ment given by any Of the courts in Alabama
from 1861 to 1865 is null and void, and that
all officers of courts and legislatures during
that period were usurpers