The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-14

Our mechanics are now busy and the pros
pect of spring work is flattering.
Maj. Thos Shumate, with another small lot
of hands, left for the Iowa mines on Tuesday
last
We are indebted to Gen. Malone and Sec
rotary Window for interesting public docu-
ments.
DR.. j. M. Hanger, of this city. was recently
chosen one ofthe Grand Trustees of the Royal
Arcanum
Hon j. Ran. Tucker reached Stanton on
Saturday, and is the guest of his son, H. ST. G
Tucker, ESQ.
Lowmoor, Va, furnace made 681 tons Of
pig metal IN seven days, an average of 81 81
tons per day.
Mr.. Jno. w. McCue, of Louisiana, son Of
Judge ]. H. McCue, Is on visit to his Vir.
ginia friends.
P. A. Baylor, Esq, after his Western visit
has settled down to business, and can be
found at his office.
There is great deal Of building now going
on in Staunton, and number of contracts are
in contemplation. -
We are indebted to Hon. j. F. Dezendor
for the Congressional Record, for which he
will please accept our thanks.
The Hon. John Randolph Tucker is to de-
liver lecture in Richmond ON May 2, upon
Virginia As She Was, Is, and Is to Be-"
A number of northern gentlemen, prospect
ing for mineral and farming properties, have
been in this section within the past few weeks
In some localities where it was feared the
peach crop would be destroyed, the trees are
now blooming out, and the prospect. with
favorable season, is for an abundant crop.
The Lynchburg Adpance states that Mrs
Baldwin, of this city, widow Of the late Col
John B. Baldwin, is engaged upon compila
ton of biography of her distinguished b US
band, ,~.>'sGs-.
Mr. James w. Harris, native of Augusta,
but resident for number of years at Guthrie
Iowa, died suddenly at his home on the 29tf
of March. Mr. Harris had number of rela
tives in this county.
Dogs have recently been attacking the sheer
in the western part of the county. Within the
last two weeks some twenty odd have been
killed on the farm of the late Washington
Dudley, near Churchville.
Mr.. J. K Smith, of the Harrisonburg Ola
Commonwealth, paid us visit Monday. He
was on his way to the Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge, now in session in Richmond, accom-
panied by his daughter, Miss Mary Smith.
Capt Marquis makes a first-class street
commissioner. He is having great amount
of work done in quiet way, and having it
done well, at very moderate cost to the city
his own services for the love of it. That is the
right kind of city father.
c. W. Smith, formerly Traffic Manager of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad,
and now with the Erie Railway Company,
has been appointed General Manager of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, with headquar-
tiers at Richmond, Va.
The South River AdOertsser states that it is
rumored that Gen. Wickham and Hon. VIM.
Mines have arranged to have fine hotel built
near the ticket Office of the G. & o. Road at
Waynesboro The house will contain sixty
rooms, and will be managed by that affable
and universally popular gentleman Capt. John
Woodward.
A company of cmigrants, Polish, German
and Hungarian, passed through Staunton on
Thursday last, en- route for Lowmoor. They
were about eighty in number, and will be put
to work at once in the Lowmoor mines. This
is said to be but the advance guard. The i'm
migration this year is expected to be heavier
than ever before known.
Mr. w. F. Sherman, depot agent. at Mt
Sidney, had the index finger of his right hand
amputated last week by DR.. II. 81. Henkel, as,
sisted by Drs VIM. Bell and A. M Henkef Mr.
Sherman had been suffering for some time with
erysipelas of the arm and hand, and from the
effects the above operation was deemed neces,
sary He is now doing we'll
Last week. Mr. James Hess, clerk at tn
American Hotel, was painfully hurt by bal
from q "noiseless gun" He was standing neal
little Charlie Woodward who had the gun in
his hand, when it was discharged, the bal
striking Mr.. Hess on the forehead and passing
up through his hat, inficting a right severe
but not dangerous wound.
We were favored with call on Monday
last from Messrs. F. j. Robbins and A. II
Knapp, of Dansville, N. Y, accompanied by
Maj. N 81. Hotchkiss, of this place. Mr.. Rob
bins is farmer, and Mr.. Knapp, Of the Dams
vile Erpress. They are the guests of Maj
Hotchkiss, and will remain in the Valley sey
eral days, prospecting for lands. r..
Messrs. Curry and Lemon, of Pittsburg
called at the VIRGINIAN Office on Monday
last. They left on the same day with Mr.. E
G. Vincent, civil engineer, for the manganese
property of DR.. Shelton, in the upper part-ol
the county, and will inspect othsr minera
properties in that locality. They represent
large steel manufacturing company in Pitts
burg, and ere here in that interest
1t is not generally known that coin will
hole punched in it is not money, and there
fore not a legal tender. The Government viii
not receive it and it is worth only what it will
bring as bullion. A hole is an innocent look
| ing thing in coin, but experts manage to ge
from five to thirteen cents worth of silver by
making hole in dollar The penalty TO-
mutilatmg the coin of the country is fine O
not more than $4,000, and imprisonment 70
not more than two years. .asss.;ss
The Luray Cave Company was chartere,
Dec. IS, 1880, for the purpose OF acquiring ant
holding the now famous Luray Cave and TO
building and conducting hotel. The capita
stock was fixed at 100000. in $1e0 shares
the Company may ho,d 1000 acres Of land
The officers for the first year are FL. Kim
ball, pres ideut; VIM. G.. Mcdowell, secretar
and treasurer. The other directors are U. I
Boyce, Jos. H. Stands, III. B. Tyler, Charlie
Hucker, j. Ed Roberts and Ro. H. Carson.
1t is reported that company is being form
ed for the manufacture Of pig irenson the es
| tate of Mr. E. A. Packer, on lands in Rock
bridge county, Va. The company haYe i
contemplation the erection of two blast ful
naces, each 16x60 feet, with Whitwall no
blast stoves. This estate embraces betwee
1900 and 10000 acres of iron ore land in tn
county, and several thousand acres of coal Ian