The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-03-30
BREyII'IES.

San Francisco, May /, for six weeks visit
to the Pacific coast.
Brigham Young is now President, Secreta
ry and Treasurer Of the Utah Railroad
''three officers rolled into one.''
Accounts from Fayetteville. Ark, say a
man named Roland, living three miles from
that place, killed his wife and in FAINT child on
the 10th inst, and then blew his own brains
out.
Governor Holden is now in Washington,
and has received information of his convic-
ton of ths high crimes and misdemeanors of
which he has been impeached.
The eternal mares nests the Republicans
discover South make one think of Bill APPS
lamentation in 1965-"Thisis the most hard.
est war to wind up chat history records
In Wake county, N. g., fifteen coioyed
men were last week convicted of barn burn
ing, and one of them sent to the penitentary
for twenty years. -Four colored men were on
the jury.
After the conclusion of the argument in
the impeachment case of Judge Mcclure, of
Arkansas, the demurrer was sustained by a
unanimous vote and Mcclure acquitted
Count Bismarck has been elevated to the
rank of Prince of the German empire, and
General Moltke has been presented with the
grand cross of the Order of the Iron Cross
At the Wilmington Methodist Conference
a resolution has been unanimously adopted
condemning "gitt enterprise" and gambling
at church fairs"
The New York Post defiaes the main Rad
ical principle to be that the Government is
ito be made the armed guardian of whatever
the party which happens to control it for
the time, may suppose to be the local rights
of any of its members"
The New York Star says Of 1.-THE FASH
ions" that Opening day. which establishes
the style for the season, prououuces in favor
Of short walking dresses. Here Is the cdct
''Walking dresses are all made raisee en- ter
re, that is, off the ground"
One hundred and ten complaints have been
filed By Wall street bankers and brokers to
recover from the Government the tax of one
twenty-foulth of one per cent. month on all
capital in active use, which they paid to the
Collector Of the Thirty second District Of New
York, three years ago.
An election takes place in Connecticut on
Monday the third of April, for Governor and
other State officers, Congressional and mem
bcrs of the Legislature; and in Rhode Island
on Wednesday the 18th Of April for State
officers and members Of the Legislature
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks that
the Rothschilds, who have thirty years lease
of the Almaden quicksilver mines in Spain,
and a monopoly Of the sale Of quicksilver in
London, have now also virtually obtained con-
troll Of the New Almaden mines in California,
whereby, it says, "a single house will have
the monopoly of all the quicksilver Of the
world"
To the Senate, Wednesday the 22nd, MIR.
Blair said :-'.There was great desire ex-
pressed on this floor for the tranquility of
the South. The whole meaning Of it was
that at the election in North Carolina last
year, the Radicals were turned out Of power,
and in Alabama ditto, and the whole object
of all this talk now. was to get through some
thing which, if possible could put the Radi-
calls back into power" That's it.
The Washir gton correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun says 1.-The new Senate commit
tee on elections. of which Stewart, of Nevada,
is chairman, have resorted to most extraor-
binary proceeding in order to secure the ad-
mission of Foster Blodgctt as Senator from
Georgia. They couple his name with that of
Mr. Goldthwaite, the democratic Senator from
Alabama in the same report, SO that the
friends of the latter are compelled to vote for
the former, when they do not believe that he
was elected by the Legislature which was au-
thorized under the Georgia reconstruction act
to choose Senator's"
Gov. Scott, of South Carlina, vetoed an
act appropriating $265 900 for the expenses
of the Legislature, saying that he regarded
the amount already expended and the sum
included in this bill-amounting in the ag-
gregate to $400,000-as simply enormous
for one session of the Legislature He also
said that he could but think that there had
been some secret agency in fixing the amount,
as number of the members, both of the
House and Senate, had expressed their sur
prise at finding the appropriation changed
from $125,o00, as it was believed toa have
passed, to $265, 900.
A remarkable series of accidents occurred
Wednesday in New York, in the neighbor-
hood of Nassau street and Maiden Lane by
the reckless driving of hook and ladder
truck during an alarm of fire. A member of
the company, was caught between the truck and
a wagon and terribly Injured; woman who.
keeps an apple stand, with little boy whom