The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-03-16
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

It is said that the State of Mississippi
proposes to pay her repudiated debt.
Eight lives were lost by the wreck of a
steam launch on the Island Of Jersey.
Senator Tweed, of New York, declines
the PROF osed erection of statute in his
honor.
The Coal Ridge and Montelius colleries,
Pennsylvania, are stopped, on account of
high water.
A young lady of Terrc Haute is about
to write book on ssWhat I Know About
Counting"
John Critcher, of Virginia, has been
put upon the Central Democratic Ma
tional Committee at Washington.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has made
all women over twenty-one' years of age
eligible as school directors
The Democrats and Conservative mem
| bers of Congress had caucus on Satur-
day and appointed new Congressional
Committee.
It is announced in foreign dispatches that
Henri Rochefort is dead and that General
Trochu is insane. Both reports are contra
| dicted and reafirmed
Richard McManus, on Saturday night,
in New York, struck his father on the
head with an axe, fracturing his skull so
that death will ensue.
One Remington, of Virginia City, Ne
vada, on Sunday night shot his wife in the
head with a revolver, in fit of drunken
Jealousy, she having accompanied young
man to the theatre
| The New York Nation says :-"The coun-
try needs about fifteen million tons of anthri-
cite coal per annum Half dozen compa-
MES own mines enough to bring twenty-five
millions Of tons to market, in order to earn
| dividends on their watered railroad stock aud
/ fictitious value of their mines, they are
each trying to do the whole of the business y
| News from the San Domingo Commission
by way of Kingston, Jamaica, says that the
Commissioners are unanimously in favor of
annexation. They were badly received in
Esvti, where Cabral communicated with then,
and sail. that he had no battle with Baez.-
We may expect the expedition home within
ten days or two weeks.
Political affairs III Arkansas have assum-
ed new phase. Lieutenant-G Govern or
Johnston appears to have been bought
over completely by Governor Clayton,
who now again appears in the field as
a candidate for United States Senator
The contest for the position has become
even more lively than before
A curious child was ushered into the
world in Indiana the other day, if the To-
cal paper is to be believed It had mouth,
eyes and ears, but no head To the in
quiring mind the question of where the
|
sents itself
Dispatches from Charleston state that
the troubles between the white and color
ed people in Chester county, South Caro-
lima, are suksiding. Federal troops have
been sent to the scene, and some of the
prominent citizens will meet Gov. Scott in
Columbia to consult on means for presery-
ing order.
On Saturday morning Fisk and Gould
surrendered to the English bondholders of
the Erie Railroad the sixty thousand
shares of stock owned by the latter, which
the former have held under an order from
Judge Barnard, and for the recovery of
which suit had been instituted before
Judge Ingraham, of the U. S. Circuit
Court of New York.
A severe shock Of earthquake was felt in
the Hawaiian Islands on the 7th ult. Nc
KEGS sugar plantation and others were badly
damaged. At Honolulu three shocks, last
| ing over one minute, were felt. The semina
ry walls are SO much damaged they must be
pulled down. Many houses in the valleys
were greatly shaken. No lives were lost.
The General-in-Chi of the Army is in
receipt of a letter from Camp Supply, In
dian Territory, indicating a renewal Of
hostilities at an early date, as there are en-
camped near there $50 lodges of different
tribes of Indians, who are in constant COM
munication with the remainder of their
various tribes.
The old Cathedral of St. Denis, near Paris,
the burial place of many of the Kings Of
France suffered severely from the shells dur
ing the bombardment. Around the windows
a number of the superb arches were smash
ed, the ornamental masonry badly broken
and the soldiers mutilated the statues
which are erected on the tombs,
Mr.. William Bullock, of the firm Of Bull
lock Brothers, was shot dead on Saturday in
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