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

1t is gratifying to know that the small
notes of the national banks will not be with
drawn from circulation. A late Washington
dispatch says: ''As the national banking
act provides that, after specie payments have
been resumed, no notes shall be issued TO
national banks of lower denomination than
So, the national bank redemption agency is
now asserting all 81 and 80 bills that are fit
for circulation. and returning them to the
banks. This will relieve the scarcity which
might otherwise result from the immediate
destruction Of ones and twos, and the law is
not violated by returning old notes, the
statute only requiring that no new notes
shall be issued.''
Gen. Wade Hampton, OF South Carolina,
has been interviewed again. He says he is
a hardmoney man of the strictest sect, but
thinks resumption was had too suddenly and
has cost too much. He would have neither
greenbacks nor national bank notes, and,
in fact, wants no other financial institut ion
than State banks. He says that South Car
olina ought to pay its debts, and admits that
there were irregularities in the late cleo
ton. Looking forward, he expresses the
belief that the Democracy can succeed in
1880 on the platform of constitutional rule,
self-government, and no sectionalism.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
called for a report showing the condition of
the banks at the close of business on We'd
nesday, January l, 1879. The report is
called for on that date for the purpose Of
obtaining as near as can be ascertained the
condition Of the banks, on the day provided
by law for the resumption Of specie pay
ment.
The joint committee OF the General As
sembly of Virginia who for month past
has been investigating the charges against
R. E. Frazier, Superintendent of Public
Printing, of incompetency, perjury, etc.,
have unanimously instructed their Chairman
to report that they found the charges entire
ly unfounded. ,,
The danger of coasting has become so
great in Pittsburg and Allegheny City, Pa,
that the authorities have been forced to in
terfere. In those cities, within the past two
weeks, four boys and one girl have been
killed while coasting, and six children have
been NAMED for life.
Miss Lee, the eldest daughter of the late
Confederate General, is said to.be an energet.
ic traveller. She was not long ago enter
tained by Lord and Lady Napier, at Gibral-
tar, and a few weeks before was within the
Russian lines in Turkey.
East Hanover Presbytery, at its session in
Richmond, Va, voted Friday, by vote of
Is to G, to remove the sentence of suspen-
sion from Rev. Dr.. e. 7. Baird, and restore
him to the Office of the Gospel ministry.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been de-
lighted by the discovery that the State of
Indiana exempts widows and spinsters pos
sessing $1,000 of property from taxation on
e-half that sum.
An Iowa girl eloped with her lover and
was married the other day, while her dear
est lady friend, closely yelled, led her cruel
father wild goose chase in another direc.
ton. N
A Connecticut farmer and his son have
been badly poisoned in the hands by buckskin
gloves purchased in Bridgeport. Sumac is
to have been used in the tan
ming. Nf
The House Of Representatives Friday
passed bill to give bounty land to Elisha
Of Russell county, Va. The bene-
iciary is over one hundred years old.
Cincinnati papers record with evident |
bride that nine foundlings have been found
IN door-steps in that city since New Years
Day.