The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-11-09
STAUNTON, VA.

Gen: Joseph r. Anderson. Of Richmond,
was married last Thursday at Towsontown.
Md, to Miss Mary 3. Pegram, formerly Of
Richmond.
Father o. F. Mccarthy, pastor CT the
Immaculate Conception Church, died in
Washington on the 3th inst. after linger-
ing illness.
The House of Commons have approved OF
the grant of $3.50 900 eachito Admiral Sey-
mour and ten. Wolsey for services in the
Egyptian war.
The Republicans gain one member OF. Con-
gress in Maryland. McComas and Holton'
are elected, the former defeating Montgomery
Blair. They gain one in Kentucky,
Our Democratic friends are now con-
WINGED that Ben. Butler did not steal their
spoons, since Democratic votes elected him
Governor of Massachusetts.
Let tie heavy crop of corn furnish pork
for the State-if necessary supplement the
pork with cured beef. Turn all the nub-
bins and soft corn into meal.
Lithographic stone costs from ten to
fourteen cents per pound, and is imported
from Italy. Yet there is plenty of stone
in Kentucky, if it could only be reached by
railroads.
There is now the best crop Of tobacco
cured or curing we have had for many
years. All is in the house and the weather
is good for curing properly. The price for
new is starting we'll.
FRANCE has its best wheat crop since 1874.
The crop then was 5000 900 bushels, and is
now 31s.OO0,O0O. In 1881 it was 1853 ,000,O00
and in 1880 it was $40 00O,O 00 On the basis
of five bushels consumption per capita. France
needs only 200, 900, 900 bushels of wheat, and
will, therefore, have considerable surplus OF
export.
The official returns from the election in the
second congressional district of West Virginia
have at last been received in Wheeling The
vote stands Wilson, dem. II ,4O6 Mason, rep,
II 1896; Kitchen, greenback, 656-W ilson 3
majority over Mason, 10 votes. Snyder, dem.
for Supreme Court Judge, has 1911 majority
over Guthrie, rep.
We publish elsewhere in this issue the
Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President
appointing Thursday. Nov. Both, as the day
for the recognition of the mercies and bless.
ings which have been vouchsafed us during
the past year. 1t should be generally OBJ
served, and especially the recommendation Of
kindly offices on that day.
1t Is amusing to notice the gyration q
the Democrats over the election of Ben
Butler Governor of Massachusetts,. Is il
not true that politics make strange bed
fellows, when the southern Bourbon Con
federates can rejoice over the election O.
Beast" Butler, as they were wont to cal
him?
Mr.. f. G. Fowler. of Nd. has been ap
DO inted assistant chief clerk of the FRS
succeed Mr.. Nathan Smith. promoted. Mr.
Fowler has been connected with the Poe
Office Department for many years, and i
an affable and intelligent gentlemen whom
it is pleasure to meet.
A new industry springing up. in th'
South is the manufacture Of sulphuric acit
from iron pyrites. We now import sulphu
from Sicily for the manufacture Of the acid
and also import large quantities Of the acit
itself from England. 1t can be manufac
tured here from the immense deposits Of
pyrites cheaper than it can be imported.
Dyptheria, which has prevailed in certain
portions of Amherst county. and had some
what abatcd, has broken out afresh. ant
more virulent than before. when it was con
fined mostly to children. Now it attack
all ages and is very fatal. Since July las
there have been between seven and eigh
hundred cases, about % per cent. of which
proved fatal.
Frank II. Howe, Esq. chief clerk of tn
Post Office Department. has resigned to &C
cept the position OF Assistant Attorney
General OF the Department Of Justice. Thu
position he held was never congenial to Mr.
Howe. Nathan Smith. Esq, an expe
rienced and valuable clerk under the Firs
assigned to duty in the Office vacated b.
M r.Howe.
In 1865 the total amount of all the currenc,
was 1888, 318, $3.50. 1t was largely below par
and was worth at par in gold 1892, 256 1855
In 1881 the paper ofthe United States ia wort
par in gold, and the total paper currency ofth
nation amounts to $3.50 ,5S4,S09. Wehad prac
tically no coin in 1865, now the government
and banks have about $500, 100000 and tn
people as much more. 1t Is well to remembe
these figures occasionally.
Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, W
regret to state, ia suffering with what a
first was supposed by his physicians to b
neuralgia or rheumatism in the right foot
later symptoms proved the disease to b
gangrene. His physicians, at last account
decided that immediate amputation OF tn
foot was not necessary. One Of them ha
expressed the opinion that there is not on
chance in hundred of the patients reeoY
cry.
Hon. W. Porcher Miles, son.in-law o
OllVe Delrne, 6sq. OF MOufOe cOuuty, w
Va. has resigned the Presidency of Soutl
Carolina College. to take charge OF tn
Burnsides Sugar Plantations in Louisiana
valued at $4,000, 600, bequeathed to Mr.
Beirne by Mr.. Burnsides. BY his last will
about year ago. Messrs. Beirne and Burn
sides, in their younger days, had been con
nected in business. and were very much at
tached to each other.
The Baltimore Sun announces that al
important decision has just teen rendere,
by the New York Court of Appeals, to tn
effect that the collection OF State take
upon the premium on government bonds |
illegal. AS result OF this, judgment suit
for the refunding of payments that hav
been made under the State act, it Is under
stood, will be Immediately commenced
Some OF the insurance companies and larg
financial institutions have claims of thi
character, which will amount to man,
thousands of dollars.
Complaints are made Of an alarming ten
dency toward land monopoly in Texas. Ii
one comfy six men and one eorpOratiOl