The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-05-05
The japanese silk is seen no more.
Watered silks are revived with stripes.

, The Japanese silk is seen no more
Watered silks are revived with stripes.
, Jet Catapillars are considered ornamental
Champagne color combines well with erin
son.
Putty and tan are the favorite colors for Xxi
gloves
The smaller the bonnet, the bigger til
flowers.
Painted French MULE is a novelty 70
dresses
Mabel Morrison roses are selling for S
piece in New York.
The new cretonEe fans are simply hideous
having figures big enough for screens.
Trains are no longer allowed to flow freely
but are slightly gathered up in the back.
On the wrists of black gloves are nov
worked jet bands, which simulate bracelets.
Bayadere strips are initiated on lawB dress
es by rows of insertion set about three inches
apart.
The only wrap to be worn with linen dress
es this summer is little shoulder cape trim
med with embroidery.
louisville Home and Farml
Frank y. Herring, Esq, OF the Champion
Wire Works 251 and 252 Broadway, New
York, reports the use of st. Jacobs Oil for {
stiffness and soreness of the shoulder, will
I most pleasant taHa effieaciouss effects
John B. Whitehead, of Norfolk, G. Arthur
johnson, of Petersburg, Charles w. Stratham
of Lynchburg, and Floyd B. Hunt, of Saltville
i loft in, fbn A fIonf oir,r,i
and Ohio Railroad Company have been chosen
directors in the newly -organized Norfolk and
| Western Road.
blast prematurely exploded at Holcombe's
Rock, near Lynchburg, on the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad, last Friday, instantly
killing an overseer named j. T. Moore, of
Thomasville, N. G., and injuring man named
LAZY SO seriously that his life is despaired of.
The Petersburg Iader-A Appeal says the friends
of Col. VIM. E. Cameron claim that he has
already secured a majority of all the delegates
elected to the re-adjuster convention thus far.
Capt. John S. Wise is also developing great
strength.
The track has been laid ON the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad to Tye river, distance of
107 miles from Richmond, which, together with
Sc miles laid on the western division makes
total of 153 miles of road completed within 10
months.
The President and Directors ofthe Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad have requested Prof
Campbell of Washington and Lee University
to prepare report ofall the valuable minerals
within reach of their railroad from Richmond
to Clifton Forge. The object is to attract cap
ital and enterprise into the State
A few days ago lady living on farm in
Highland county, saw an eagle flying about the
farm with fox trap on one leg. He was weak
and she pursued and killed him with apole-
The trap was one which had been set on .arm
twenty miles away
The Superintendent of Public Printing has
delivered to the State authorities the thirty
third volume Of Grattan's Reports of decisions
Of the Court of Appeals, bringing the cases
decided up to November l. 1880.
Very fine specimens of rich iron ore have
been recently found in Rappahannock county,
which have been forwarded to Hon. John S.
Barbour, who has kindly offered to have them
analysed free of charge.
Another gigantic scheme of railway conso-
idation is reported from ST. Louis. As mat
ter OF course Jay Gould is the central figure
OF the new combination of railway magnates.
IL 10 PIOpOotQ W lulO Oue SYSTEM Tile
Missouri Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, the Texas Pacific and the New Or
leans and Pacific Roads, and establish an I'M
broken line between St. Louis, New Orleans,
Galveston and Houston and the Mexican bor-
der. A junction is proposed with the still
uncompleted Mexican railways at Laredo 1t
is predicted that st. Louis will be greatly ben
Gifted by the proposed consolidation.
On Monday last Attorney General Ward of
New York, authorized an action to be COM
menced on behalf OF New York State against
the State OF Louisiana upon overdue coupons
of the bonds of the State of Louisiana, under
chapter 29S of the laws of 1880, to protect the
rights if citizens of New York, which author.
ICES the State to sue on claims assigned to It
by citizens of the State These claims are held
in New York city This is the first action in
stituted under the law, and involves num-
Der of important legal questions.
1t is fact not generally known that the
city of Newark, N. j ;. ranks among the fore
most manufacturing centres of the country
There are in that city twenty distinct classes
of manufactures, the products of which
amounted in value, in 1880, to more than
81 100000 each while the total value ofall man.
ufactured products in the same year was
$66,9S5, 766, to Produce which there were en-
ployed Al $40 hands, who received as wages in
the aggregate STATS, 1888. Among the articles
representing the manufacturing industries of
city are leather products $40, 100000 yearly,
gold, silver and metal refining, jewelry, hats,
and caps, cotton, wooden and silk goods
trunks machinery, fertilizers, celluloid, har
ness, sewing machines, rubber, oil cloth, &c.
The report that low tax men and spectators
proposed 10 apply for an injunction to prevent
the Governor, Comptroller and Secretary of
the State of Tennessee from executing the re-
Gently enacted law to refund the State bonds
at par, with 8 per cent. interest, attracts great
attention among Tenneseeans in Washington.
Ex-Goy. Porter Democrat) says the thing is
ridiculous, and the courts have no right to en-
join an executive officer in a matter of this
kind. Mr.. Alvin Hawkins, Republican Gov
ernor of Tennessee, says: "There is nothing
whatever in this scheme of injunction except
that Of some persons anxious to create an
alarm, so as to make profitable speculation
in State bonds.' Gov. Hawkins further says:
'eThe result Of this settlement of the debt at
par, with per cent. interest will be the tri-
umph of honor This will be accomplished
through the instrumentality of the Republican
party, which will carry Tennessee in the next
election"