The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-11-21

Mr.. Rock. Paul, son OF Mr.. Peter Pa Ill,
and brother to Capt. John Paul, has entered
the law class at the University of Virginia
| Gen. Jno. 3. Gordon has been reelected
to the United States Senate from the State OF
Georgia.
Rev. Leonidas Rosser is Presiding Elder
of the Ashland, Va, District, and Rev. J. J..
Clark. appointed to the Ashland charge.
1t is not officially announced that the
body of A. 7. Stewart has been found
Two men, however, are in custody, charged
W 18th stealing it.
little son of Wm. Long, living neal
Goods Mill, in Rockingham county, was
crushed to death last week by wagon run.
ming over his head.
The post office in Harrisonburg has been
re moved to the west side of the public
square in the new brick building belonging
to Judge Harris.
The pavements in the Court House square
OF Harrisonburg, have been completed, and
now the walk is excellent. A much needed
improvement.
The New York Tribune says, that the
Democracy begins to think the solid South
isn't such :. nice thing when it assumes the
position of Il mill stone about tie party's
neck.
The recent fire at the penitentiary involved
a loss of $4,000 Can't the .Staunton Leg
islature tackle that item It's treasury is
about as full as that of the Richmond Leg
islature. Nil.
The Cincinnati Enquirer draws this con-
ISOLATION from the recent elections-that it
kills off all Eastern Democratic candidates
for the Presidency, which means that the
"Ohio Idee'' and Mr.. Thurman are to loom
up hereafter.
The Staunton Legislature is now liz ses-
sion, and that being the fact, where's the
use Of the Richmond Legislature to assem-
BILE, especially when it is unconstitutional
for it to do SO, and by obeying the constitu-
ton the people will save $4,000?
The independents in Georgia scored as
follows 1000 majority for Persons for Con-
gress in the Fourth District; 1900 majority
for FELTON,, in the Seventh District; and 200
for Speer in the Ninth District. The Attain
ia Independent thinks this will do very we'll
for an independent start.
The lawyers of Mecklenburg county have
formally resolved to return to ante bellum
fees and to con1ine themselves to prices
charged up to 1861. Now let the doctors
come down peg Or two, to correspond
with the retrenched prices in everything
else.
7 w. w. Newman, Esq, is making arrange
ments to contest the seat of Gen. j. e.
Johnston in Congress from the Richmond
District. Mr.. Newman thinks that frauds
were practiced in some of the precincts of
Richmond, on the day of election.
The Boston Advertiser says the South
cannot now make the excuse that the pres
ence of the army provoked the misdeeds in
the recent elections. The Southern States
are now governed by their own citizens in
their own sense of that word, that is, by the
white men, and they must take the whole
responsibility Of the wrongs they sutl'e: to
be committed.
The administration has been quietly at
tending to its duties as defined by the Con-
stitution, and the result is, all good citizens
are satisfied, and only the chronic grumblers
displeased. As with an individual who
minds his own business and succeeds there
will be those who prefer to look after other
peoples affairs rather than their own, and
make it part of existence to find fault and
carp.
A colored man named Phil Slaughter was
shot and killed at Waverlie, Rockingham
county, on the 18th, by Mr.. Snyder. SON
in-law OF Jas. T. Dovel. The deceased
was drinking, and had insulted the family Of
Mr.. Dovel, and refused to leave the prem.
ises, resisting an effort to make him do so.
Snyder surrendered himself to the author-
ties, and was held for trial at the next term
OF the County Court.
"a. u has contributed the last of a series
nance question. They embrace an able
discussion of the principles of finance, and |
contain valuable information, gathered from
thorough study OF the subject. We have
preserved number Of the articles for future
reference. We learn, however, from the
State. that they are to be published in |
pamphlet form, and if so, we hope to receive !
a copy.
1t is now stated that the Potter Com
mittee will not have a meeting until after
the opening of Congress, and that one of its
first acts will be to summon the editor OF the
New York Tribune to testify in regard to
the cipher dispatches. We think it entirely
possible tn e Committee will never re-assem.
ble-that it will not disturb the cipher dis
patches, and that they will do all they can
to invoke oblivion on the committee and its
acts.
From the Waynesboro' Tribune, we learn
that on last Monday night the hue of the
Good Templar's Hall took fire, but it was
'oon extingushed before much damage had
)een done.
From the same paper we learn that on
tuesday, about noon, the house owned by
Mrs. Reeder, and occupied by Mr. John NJ.
Ferguson. Editor of the Tribune, and Mr.. w.
:. Talley, was found to be on fire. The
itizens quickly gathered, and by the use of
buckets succeeded in eXtinguishing the
ames, but not until the roof had been al
nost entirely destroyed and the plastering
ably damaged. All the furniture in the
ouse was saved. The fire originated from
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