The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-11-05
Ferdinand Ward, of the firm Of Grant

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I TUESDAY. November 5,lss5 i
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Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of Grant
& Ward, was sentenced to prison on Sat-
urday last, for term of ten years.
The crop of raisins grown in California
has increased from 900 boxes nineteen
years ago to 400, 900 the present season.
The hot-water cure retains its popular
ity in Hartford, Conn.,, where, it is stated, |
1T is more taken than any other medicine.
Dr.. Spottswood &. Perrow, of Nelson
county, died in Lovingston on Saturday
last in the I'D year of his age. after pro-
tracted illness.
For the nine months ending Sept. 80.
there were 25S, 1856 emigrants landed at the
principal ports of the country against
1928, 449 for the same period of last year.
The application of the white of an egg
to asnake-bite wound saved the life of a
little girl in st. Johns county, Fla. She
was bitten twice on the foot by a ground
rattlesnake.
A Louisville woman asks for divorce
on the ground that her husband will not
allow her to see the morning paper until
he has first looked 1t over and cut out all
advertisements of dress goods
Miss Eddie Hudson. only daughter of
Mr.. J. D. Hudson, of Luray, died on Mon
day morning last of malignant fever,
aged u. The Courier speaks of her as a
lovely lady and universally esteemed.
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan died last Fri
day at his home Patterson, New Jersey, of
pneumonia. His death was quite unex-
pected, as he had been out riding the day
previous. His age was 50.
q according to German histologist, there
are in the cerebral mass over 800, 000, 0OO
nerve-cells, each an independent organism
and microscopic brain. Of these nerve
cells he estimates that 100000 die every
day and that every sixty days the brain is
replaced.
A clerk i'll the Pension Office died at
Washington the other day, and it was then
discovered that he was engaged to two
prominent society ladies'. One was a
Washington heiress, from whom he had
borrowed money without giving notes.
He willed all his property to the other girl.
Addison Harper. Lost River, Hardy co.,
w. Va. grazed this season. four 3 year
old cattle, bought of Eenry Wittig. that
weighed. May Sd, $500 July 23d, 4.260
on Oct. 18th, 1850, an average gain of so
pounds per month. Pretty good for
mountain cattle.
Adispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, dated
31st. says: Prof. 2. w. Steele. principal
of college at Lynchburg, Va, while en-
route East last night. was decoyed from
the train by Il stranger, taken to a Water
street dive dragged, and robbed Of
$500 in cash and jeweIry.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
decided lands. valued at So, 600, 900, to endoN
university to be erected at Palo Alto in
this institution the best in this country OF
Europe, and the ablest professors will be
secured, both at home and abroad.
Kansas City Journal: When making the
order to exclude place-hunters and theil
friends after the coming LIST of November
one can almost ima2 inc hearing the Presi
dent exclaim, ~Save ME from my party =
But whether he gave utteranee to this
language or not his recent order fully ex
presses the sentiment.
Mr.. K. J. McCorley, the postmaster al
Walnut Grove, S. c., is said to have til,
longest beard III the United States. Ht
wears it plated, and keeps it under hi!
clothing. The plat runs down to his
waist, and then around the waist twice
When combed out it reaches down to hi
feet. lie is 5feet 10 inches tall.
Mr.. D. L. Moody says about long
prayers IF. when Peter found himself
sinking in the waves Of Galilee. he had in.
sisted on putting before his petition, Lord
save me, the regular prayer-meeting
round about introduction. he would have
been forty feet under water before he
could have asked of the Lord the help he
needed.
A remarkable surgical operation was
performed at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New
York, on Saturday last. II was taking an
ovarian tumor from married lady, which
was about eighteen inches long and about
twelve inches thick. and weighed fifty
pounds. The patient was doing we'll on
Monday, ana there was every reason to
believe she would recover from the opera
ton.
A locomotive driver vino can point to
forty years of uninterrupted service with
out a single accident, is not a man to be
met with every day. Such one is a Sax
on engine-driver of the name of Henze,
who has just gone into retirement. During
his forty years of railway riding Henze
has Travelled a distance of 253, 347 geo.
graphical miles, or 1900, 1O2 kilometres
in other words, a distance equal to forty
seven journeys round the world
Love of the fine art is at its zenith in
Brooklyn. A prominent and wealthy mer-
chant of that pure fcity recently per-
mitted a prize fight in his parlor, where
about.I thirty invited spectators were
present. Seven rounds were fought be-
fore one of the gladiators was knocked
senseless. There was no ring or sponge
ON the occasion, but purse of $125 was
raised by the thirty visitors for the win
ner. The hat was sent around for the de-
feated.
With November first, the melancholy
days" came to the very hungry and very
thirsty Democratic ofiice-seeker. After
that date. by official order of their own
President they will not be allowed to see
his Excellency-tbe doors of the Execn-
tive Mansion will be closed to them, and
their opportunities will have to be adj.
dressed to the heads of Departments This
is sad, but in the long run it will prove
economical, as it will keep many hopeful
aspirant from exposing his presence in the
streets Of the capital
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