The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-02-13


The authorities OF the G.. s. 0. r. r. have
declined to rescind the order reducing the
pay OF the employees 10 per cent.
A brief and imperfect synopsis of tine
speech OF Gen. Echols on the Canal transfer
bill will be found on the LIST page of this is
sue of the VIRGINIAN.
Mr.. A. N. Bowman has recently been
shipping some of his blooded stock to dis
tant States. Last week he sent several
Southdown sheep to Atlanta. Ga, and a
pair Of Essex hogs to Sedalia, No.
The mumps are prevailing to q consdera-
bic extent in the vicinity OF New Hope.
Some very severe cases have occurred, whilst
the slight attacks are numerous. The same
disease has made its appearance in Staun-
| tor.
&c. Venable. respectable young colored
man, died last Sunday and was buried Mon
day. The funeral procession was headed by
the ''Red Leaf Band, and the Order of
Good Samaritans, of which lie was MEM
Der.
Judge II. W. Shelley and Maj J. B. Dor
man are in Richmond, in connection with
the Valley Railroad charter bill, introduced
in the Senate by Senator Sherrard. Judge
Shelley will appear before the committee in
charge of the hill to oppose it and Maj.
Dorman to favor it.
Last week a number of the employees Of
the B. 6 0. r. r. presented Superintendent
Averill with a fine gold watch, as a parting
giit-Mr. A. having dissolved his connec-
ton with the B. & @. Co. Judge Sheffey
made the presentation speech, and Mr.. Az
Grill appropriately responded.
On Friday last. two bills affecting this
county. passed the Senate-oEe authorizing
the Board of Supervisors to levy & tax in aid
of the Augusta Memorial Association for the
Confederate dead, and the other authorizing
the Boa OF Supervisors to purchase the
Baldwin Augusta Fair Grounds.
Nearly all of the butchers have left the
Market House and secured store rooms in
the more central part CT the town. One
good result, at least, has followed from the
new ordinance, and that is that our citizens
have the advantage Ola daily market. Here
tofore meat was sold on only three days in
the week.
The usual Sunday evening meeting at the
n A l,-t St,n ,Iay int
ing. Mir. VIM. Robertson, Of Richmond,
gave an entertaining account of the union
praj err meetings now being held at the Cap
ital, and Mr.. Duvall, former missionary to
Mexico, addressed the meeting, narrating
many facts and incidents connected with
his sojourn in the land OF the Monteznmas.
Mr. James Harper, prominent citizen of
North Carolina, died at his home in Fairfield,
N. c.. on the Goth of January. He was es-
sentially progressive man and was iden:i.
fled with every benevolent movement or
public enterprise in the community in which
his useful life was spent. Years ago he
married Miss Caroline E. Finley, daughter of
the late Samuel Finley, Esq, of this county.
His wife, a true woman in every sense of the
word, died eleven years ago.
We regret to learn that Mr.. D. X. Ran
kin, has rented his interest in the farm and
factory of Messrs. Rankin & Bro, and pro-
poses to move with his family to Kansas,
there to make his home. The County and
State can ill afford to spare him. 1t is just
such practical, go-ahead, business men as
Mr.. r. that are now most needed-men who
by their hands and head add wealth to any
section with which they are identified. We
wish him, however, every success in his new
field OF labor
The last Balimorean publishes an excel
lent engraving of the late DR.. John II. Err
skine. of Memphis, Tenn, an eminent ply
sician, and noble, unselfish man, who
sacrificed his life during the prevalence of
the yellow fever scourge. Dr.. Erskine was
a cousin of Messrs. VI. Erskine and Alex E.
Miller, OF this city, and a native OF West
Virginia. Accompanying the engraving, the
Balimorean gave a splendid b9gfaphi al
sketch OF the deceased.