The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-03-02
BREVIgIES.
Louisiana has debt Of SIS, 100000.

San Francisco has mushrooms foot in d.
ameter.
Shocks of earthquake were felt at Hayti
on the 18th and 18th instaLts.
It requires two or three thousand tons Of
food each day for Paris.
Goats Of arms are becoming popular among
fashionable New Workers.
Ex-Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, died
at Savannah Thursday last.
Mississippi claims 100000 bales of cotton
as her contribution to last years stock :
Letters from Florida speak of ripe oranges,
open windows, and temperature of seventy
seven degrees.
Patrick Burns, accessory to the murder of
Oatesmerger, in Missouri, is to be hanged on
the 13ta of April.
Articles of impeachment of Chief j US
tice Mcclure have been adopted by the Ar
kansas Legislature.
Mrs. Sarah Sleeper Smith has arrived in
Lake Village: N. H., after twenty -seyen
years missionary life in Siam.
Earl De Grey and others of the English
members of the High Commission arrived
at New York Wednesday last.
The Chattanooga Times asks: 'Whither
are we drifting?' To which the Knoxville
Wing replies, 1T would be profane to say"
The Saturday Revieg quietly suggests
that "if Gen Butler were to lead contin-
gent to ireland he might find it difficult to
return"
Among the. appropriations made by the
Senate bill as passed on Thursday were those
for improving the Virginia rivers, Of which
$50, 900 is for James river.
Tie Government o. England is negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the Dutch Settlement
on the gold coast of Africa, for e23, 900 ster-
| ling.
The colcred United Senator, Revels, at the
close of his official term, is 10 be lecturing
agent of the Congress Temperance Society at
the South.
A Texas paper reports that since Septem-
Der last 1I9 900 people, l ,664 wagons, have
emigrated from Tennessee and Georgia to the
Lone Star State.
Bessemer's process Of making steel, COM
parative recent invention, is said to have ad-
ded $20O,00O,o00 to the wealth of Great
Britain.
Mr.. Memminser, formerly Confederate Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, has been made Pres
ident of the Charleston, South Carolina, BIZ
Bile Society.
The little item started year ago to the eff
feet that Demonstration is the Ben Butler
Of time" is now going the rounds credited to
advance sheets from new Boston Bible"
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad will shortly commence to lay a Sec
ond track between Toledo and Buffalo and
from Elhart to Chicago, using steel rails.
The Carnival in New Orleans was atten-
ded by $4,000 strangers there were
near 100000 spectators in all. The mas
querade was brilliant affair.
Warren T. Smell, Of Newburg, New York,
shot himself through the heart Thursday at
the Bingham House, Philadelphia He left
letter giving his name, residence, &C., but
no reasons for the act
A fight occurred in the Nevada State prls-
on, between the convicts, in which several
dangerous and probably fatal cuts were Civ
en-, but no one was killed outright, on We'd
nesday last.
- fQrsia paper says that with regard to
sd}1a Fthe Governors in the Gul! states,
d. outh, the prefix of ellis Rascality'
would be far more appropriate than ellis
Excellcncy."
A robbcr was detected at Denver City on
Tuesday in an attempt to have himself ship
ped as freight on the same train with large
amount of gold. He had concealed himself
in box.
A Raleigh ettor to the Roanoke News
says: Governor Holden of North Carolina
finds much comfort in religion" We are
glad to hear it. Hardly anybody stands more
in need of its blessed consultations.
The wedding tour Of a young couple in
New Haven, Connecticut, last week, consist
ed of horse-car ride to the end Of the line
and home again; total expenditure, twenty
four cents. They began married life as they
ught-economicaly
We see that farmer in Louisa county, in
this State, afirms, speaking of the Japan
clover, that was much talked of not long ago,
that it, (the Japan clover) is zone Of the
most unmitigated humbugs ever offered to
credulous public"
There is a warm contest going on in Wash
ington for the office of Governor of the Ter
ritory Of the District Of Columbia Num-
erous are the candidates, and annoyed is the
President by their applications and their in-
terviews,