The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-12-15
NEWS ITEMS.


capital of 100000.
The value of the real estate of Wythc
county is 2,795,550.40
A valuable salt mino was recently discov-
cred at Kittaning, Penn.
Turncoat Mckenzie is now opposed to the
abolition of tho frankng privilege.
A Salt Lake Mormon has invented ma
chine for killing grasshoppcrs.
Mississippi has received 5000 scandina-
Wan immigrants this year.
The Jay Cook bond case has come to a
close, with verdict of $23 $50 in favor of
the Government.
The Hon. Bedford Brown. of Caswell
county, N. c.. died suddenly at his residence
on Tuesday last.
A negro man was shot at Oxford Furnace.
8 miles below Lynchburg, on Saturday, by
white man named Ward.
Over one hundred and seventy Physicians
from different sections of tho State, have
joined the Medical Society of Virginia.
It is stated on proper authority that the
government has only redeemed $4,000 Of
the counterfeit seven thirty bonds.
The Morning Post says the best Americans
avoid, or are driven from the political field,
while men like Butler WELD political infu-
ences.
The Clerk of the county court of Alcxan-
dria county last month issued only three
marriage licenses, one of which was to COL
orcd couple.
General Butler has joint resolution for
the annexation of San Domingo to the Uni
ted States, and will introduce it the first op.
portunty.
Charles Sumner intimates that Grant is
fool without knowing it. Well, what if he
doesn't know it ?-there are some thirty or
forty millions of us who do
Captain D. P. Halscy has disposed of one
half of his interest in the Allegheny Springs
-one sixth-to Mr.. D. ". Moore, of Rich
mond. The price obtained was $4,000
Twenty-Five car loads of silk and teas
have arrived at New York, overland, only "a
days being consumed in the journey from
Yokohama, Japan.
The Senate has confirmed Beckwith as
Attorney for Louisiana Bowden, Assessor
for the I'd Virginia district; Randolph,
Surveyor of Customs for Houston, Texas
The late census of California shows an
increase in ten years in the population Of
1875 ,619 in tho city of San Franciso, and
93,470, or nearly 200 per cent in the State
The suspension of work by the miners in
the Scranton (Pa.) coal region has become
general at nearly all the works in that re-
gion, large majority being in favor of the
strike
The receipts in the Va Treasury for the last
fiscal year were 1929, 853, "a; of disburse-
ments, 81, 504 931 10 The amount disburs-
ed on account of interest on the public debt
was 1896. 1859.
An effort has been made in Michigan to
raise the salaries of State officials, ard it has
failed-which, considering that the State is
strongly Radical, is remarkable.
Professor W. K. Pendleton, President of
Bethany College. Pa. and well-kno
former citizen Of Virginia, was thrown from
his buggy few days since, and had both of
his legs fractured.
DR.. FL. T.. Barton having rendered his
resignation as Assistant Surgeon of the Va
Military Institute, the Board of Visitors
have appointed in his stead DR.. VIM. 3. Sin
clair, formerly Surgeon in United States
and Confederate States Navies.
We read of an odd enough larceny in
6 Al M Il IL
had secured fine fresh subject; but be-
fore single scalpel could be brought to
bear upon it, the students of rival school
broke through and stole it.
W. P. Smith, of Pittsylvania committed
suicide one day last week After eating
dinner he went into an adjoining room, laid
down on the floor, spread handkerchief over
his face and shot himself in the head with a
pistol.
A telegram from Rawlins, Wyoming Ter
ritory, says that Judge bingham has dis
charged tho petit jury there, and fined the
jurors each $40 for INDUCING IN the game Of
seven up in the jury room while celebrating
on a case.
The small pox is rapidly spreading in the
flatbush Hospital, New YORK, and the dead
house is filled with the bodies Of the deceas-
ed !; and the county almshouse will be pre-
pared at once as hospital.
VIM. Brockway, reported very wealthy,
has been arrested, In New York, on the
charge Of counterfeiting sevcn-thirty bonds,
of which over $4,000 have been redeem
ed by the government. In default of $780,
90 bail he was committed to prison.
The Richmond city Counsel has abolished
the Office Of Messenger to the Council (thereby
cutting Isaac H. Hunter colorcd, adrift) and
created the Office of Janitor of the City Hall,
to which place, at salary of $1,000 year,
Mr.. B. E. August was elected.
The Supreme Court Of South Carolina
has struck from its docket the action nvolv-
ing the validity Of the new bills of the State
Bank of South Carolina. Another war
claim is thus disposed Of, and Judge Carpen-
ter, unfolding the validity of the new bill,
is not sustained.
By the report of the Auditor of West Vir
GINA, for the year ending Both. Sept, 1869,
it appears that the Sheriffs and Collectors of
that State have made very promising begin
ming for a new State worked unon thorouuh