The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-01-30

| W isouC pOuuSs AC was ouOWu eulo OCud tS
bill as an evidence of what investors in Vir-
ginia railroads might expect, and also was
referred to the county bonds subscribed to
the Valley road as specimens of what the
new bonds might turn out. 1t was stated to
him that with such prospect in view as this
bill presents, Baltimore assistance in the
construction of Virginia railroads would be
difficult to obtain.''
A Few PLAIN WoRDs.-This city has for
some time been afflicted with exhibitions Of
bad manners on the part of our young men,
which have from time to time called for the
censorous notice OF the VIRGINIAN. We
refer to the increasing disposition on the
part of young men and boys 60 crowd
around the doors and throng into the halls
and vestibules of public buildings to stare
at, and even talk to, the professions from
the different female schools that are in at
tendance, as they pass and repass. For this
sort of conduct there Is no excuse or apol-
ogy. Staunton has been too long centre
of female colleges for the spectacle of beyy
of school girls to afford an irresistible nov-
city, and yet whenever they appear on the
streets or attempt visit to public enter
tainment, the inevitable mob is found ready,
organized, and firmly entrenched in the
doors, on the .stairways, and wherever an
eligible point of location can be obtained,
of things would be discreditabIe to mon
grel frontier village-to an old and settled
Virginia town it is simply disgraceful.
The very ungallant excuse is often ten
dered that it is the fault Of the girls, for if
they did not exhibit willingness to receive
this rather barbarous kind of attention, the
boys would refrain instantly. This theory
will not obtain, and, moreover, it is one
with which outsiders have nothing to do
The young ladies are always escorted by
watchful teachers, whose duty it is to OBJ
serve and punish any forwardness on their
part, and we presume when they transgress
they are appropriately attended to in school.
But lady teachers cannot keep back and re-
pei gang of boys who are charging down
on the procession. or forming hollow
square around it like party of skirmish-
ing Cossacks.
In large cities where:local ordinances are
adapted to the needs of the people, police
mems clubs and mayors courts would prove
the most efficient cure, and there it would
be inevitably applied. Here the question
remains unsolved.
We have been led to refer to this matter
again by recent complaint Of the princi-
pal OF leading female school, who declares
that unless some remedy be adopted the pu-
pills frsm that seminary will have to be de-
MED the privilege of attending any public
concert or lecture, and that even their at
tendance at church will be prevented, and |
worship in the chapel of the building sub !
stituted, to escape the annoyance. This ex-
ample will probably be followed by others,
and the question arises what shall we do to
aid the principals and teachers in their eff
forts ito escape this weekly, If not daily,
persecution. 1t is time surely for some Wig
orous measures to be employed.
BALTIMORE AND THE VALLEY RAIL
RoAD.-The Baltimore Sun of the 25th has
the following with regard to the action of
the upper counties in reference To the Val |
ley Railroad
Those who have in charge the investments
OF Baltimore city and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad in the Valley railroad, have watched
with no small degree of interest the action
OF the subscribing Virginia corporations in
regard to efforts that were being made to re-
peal the charter OF the company, as publish
ed from time to time in the San. This in
teresr was increased yesterday by the an
| nouncement that Representative Burgess, of
Botetourt county, had introduced bill in
the Virginia House OF Delegates for re-
peal of the charter OF the company UNI
less work is resumed below StauntOn within |
a year. This step. though considered a
somewhat radical one, was not unexpected |
in Baltimore, as the proposition for divis-
ion OF interest submitted by the Virginia !
stockholders to the city OF Baltimore and the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in November
last, was accompanied with quasi threat that
II the proposition was not accepted the Vir |
GINA Legislature would be appealed to-
The refusal of the Baltimore interest to ac-
cept the proposition left this legislative step
a probability, which is now fact. The Bal
tfmore directors in the company express |
confident opinion that the Virginia Legisla-.
ture will take no action in the matter, which |
might tend to impair the credit Of any of
her cities, towns or counties. The Virginia
counsel for the Baltimore interest will appear
before the legislative committee on roads |
and internal improvements. to whom the bill
was referred, and who will give a hearing
to the matter on Tuesday next. The conf
dence OF the Baltimore directors is increased
by the fact that the city of Staunton refused
to endorse the efforts in support OF the move
ment before the Legislature.
RECEIVING THE PORTRAIT OF A FORM
Err MAYoR.-At the special meeting of the
City Council held last Tuesday night, Capt.
L. d. Ransom, offered the following pream-
Bile and resolution, which were unanimously
adopted:
, The Council being informed by one of its
members that Mrs. Mary A. Cowan proposes
TO turn over to the city the portrait of her
uncle, Samuel Clark, deceased, former
mayor and for many years councilman of
ihe town OF .Staunton, which was painted
lone time since at the instance of leading
ielnbes OF the bar, it was
Resol,ed, That the clerk of the Council
b, hereby instr ucted to apply for aud receive
tn portrait. on behalf of the city, and to give |
It suitable place on the walls of the Coun-
ell hamber.
nat we will aid in preserving this me-
mo al of one Of our citizens OF the olden
tim so long identified with the business
ana he interests OF the community, and so
Worry of the confidence and esteem in
whic it ever held him.
I'M we will be pleased at all times to re-
celve nd to assign to proper locations In the
puDiic,aidings, the portraits of others OF
Our Preventative citizens in days gone by
whose haracter and services entitle them
to. be rtnembercd
Out Inn its pigion-hole comes the stub
end OF acheck book Of the National Capital
lnsurane Company, which tells how thirty
five thous nd dollars were expended in in
fluencing legislative action in Connecticut
in 1875. Low if they would only find the
stub book sed at Richmond during 1871,
glory woul fill the air.