The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-01-19
NEWS ITEMS.
Forty convicts were converted at the NASH
vile Penitentiary last year. ''i'

Forty convicts were converted at the Nash
vile Penitentiary last year. -'li'
Michigan is called the Massachusetts, and
Iowa the Vermont Of the West .''s
| 1t is criminal offence in Illinois to c:
man "mutton- headed pagan s"s'As
The finest Autograph stone in the country
is found in Harrison county, Indiana
They dedicated" a new stable in Boston
the other night by holding a ball in it. e'5
London congratulates herself because she
had last month no more than 100000 spau
pcrs.
Ffty-nine newspapers in towns and cities
on the Pacific coast persisted during the past
year.
A wrestling match between butcher and
a bear is to be Sunday feature in San
Francisco.
The New Orleans school teachers were Civ.
en- the arrears ofsalary due them 'as Christ.
mas present.
One of the most successful planters in
Wisconsin is widow who has just buried her
sixth husband.
In East Tennessee the current of opinion
is said to be decidedly against its formation
Into new State 3i-.t
A party in Louisville advertises "trunks
you can throw out Of fourth story window
without injury"
The average number of railway travellers
injured by accidents is said to be only one
out of every half million.
Two-thris of the rain during 1870 fell
in the first six months of the year. In June
the fall was more than eight inches.
Among 300 divorces granted in Vermont
this year, the wife acknowledged to having
originated difficulties in 81 of the cases
The Treasurer has 500 269 900 in ooin.
including $27,000000 in coin certificates.
The currency balance is 1913, 100000
Miss Nilsson gave $500 to Swedish girl
out West who was her playmate in girlhood,
She is now followed and bored by innumera.
BILE "schoolmates
On the sixth ballot the Hon T. w. Ferry
was nominated by the Republicans of Michl-
gan to succeed the Hon. Jacob M. Howard
in the United States Senate.
Three deputies of the North German Par.
lament have been arrested, and one paper has
been suppressed for anti-war opinions and
criticisms on the Hohenzolerns.
There are serious fears lest the Interruption
the agricultural interest of France should
the war continue much longer, will result in
famine, or In great suffering, next YEAR
All the industries of that country have been
placed in deplorable condition by the war,
An Ohio man who passed around plate
at religious meeting for contributions for
the heathen and then pocketed the money.
has been acquitted of stealing by the jury of
the vicinage on the the ground that he was
the greatest heather they knew, and therefore
justly entitled to the money.
Most people know that duty on our i'm.
ported salt is one of the obnoxious features
of the present tariff, but few, probably, are
aware how sxhorbitant the duty is, and how
dlsproportlonate to the prime cost of the ar
ticle statement addressed to Congress
supplies information on both points For e..
ample, on invoice of ZIG tons salt, costing in
United States currency 81 ,637 So and i'm
ported from Liverpool, the duty amounted to
1921 W, Or 200 per cent. on COST In
another instance, on $50 tons, costing 1885
go, the duty was So :053 3b, or 1919 per cent.
lnyet another, on 270 tons, costing Se95,55,
the duty reached 81 ,265 81, or 200 per cent.
The freight CD the cargoes averages about 175
per cent. of cost, and that surely, should be
sufficient protection for this branch of q mcr-
lean industry. If to this item be added the
duty we have in the cases cited evidence that
the Onondaga producers are protected to the
extent of from 374 to ISL per cent. of tho
value of their product. 1t is wrong to de.
scribe an interest that is cared for so extraya-
gantly as monopoly YIN Y. Times.