The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-08-03

health? Parker's Ginger Tome regulates
these important organs, makes the blood rich
and pure, and strengthens every part of the
system. See other column.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the provso in section IL of the Act to
enable national banking associations to ex-
tend their corporate existence and for other
purposes" will entitle holders of the new 8
per cent. bonds to be issued in exchange
for extended Is and IS to perpetSate the
original numbers OF the new bonds. This
Interpretation of the law is regarded as very
important, as it will relieve those who NAV
secure the low numbers from apprehension
that in case they should be called upon to
dispose of their bonds the premium would
be wiped out, the rule of the department
requiring that the highest numbers shall be
first subject to call.
Ctacago Industrial WorM:-The u s. Car
and Trust Co., with capital of 81 100000,
has been organized by parties interested in
the first named company and seeking a SINH
lar location. These companies not only man
utacture railway rolling stock to sell to railroad
corporations, but also to lease. The officials
of these companies also contemplate the estab-
lishment of one of the largest Car wheel COM
panles in the West, with capital of some
fONO1ON0'
workmen. The three corporations will fur
nish employment to not less than 5000 skillful
hands.
An itinerant preacher in Washington Sun
day evening in the course of his discourse
drew graphic picture of a Congressman at
the Capital indulging in riotous living and
all manner of dissipation, and then return
ing to his home to blame his debilitated con-
dition upon Potomac flats, malaria, and
hard work, when whisky and late hours
were the prime cause of his shattered con-
stitution. 1t is to be hoped the picture was
overdrawn for it was certainly rough on the
Congressman.
To Russia's other troubles is now to be ad-
ded the likelihood of a failure of crops in a
large part of its territory, and poor harvest
in most of the remainder The districts in
which there is a prospect of good crops are
represented to be mere GASES in a desert The
probable effect of this ill fortune is the cause
of much apprehension. 1t is likely to lend in
creased force to the many disturbing elements
now at work, and to augment the discomfort
and unrullness OF the peasantry.
Attorney General Brewster has rendered
an opinion on the issue raised between Geo.
William Curtis and Representative Hubbell.
Chairman of the Republican Congressional
COuuICGce.Ou tHc SUBJECT Oh pOllGlcal assess
ments, in which he holds that member of
Congress is not an officer of the United States
so that gift to him for campaign purposes
does not fall within the statute regulating
political assessments. The opinion will be
laid before the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday
next,
Recently, the largest casting ever made at
Pottstown, Pa, was successfully made. II
was an anvil weighing $4,000 pounds, and is
intended for use under the steam hammer in
the forge of the Pottstown Iron COMPANY
Messrs Ellis & Lessig. foundry proprietors
moulded the big anvil while the casting there,
ofwas done in the cast house of the Pottstown
Iron Company.
Since the extensive manufacture IF staa,
rails, by thu Bethlehem Iron Company Pa it
has been using ores from Africa. Spain. In.
gland, and Elba Islands, in the Mediterranean
Sea, in addition to that brought from their
own mines in Canada and in this ueighbor-
hood.
Charleston, W. Va, Tribune Next week
Col, Ben. Il. Smith, by special invitation. will
visit kaWley Springs, in Rockingham county.
va. Although an octogenarian, the venerable,
colonel is as straight as an arrow and as 1.-THE
as boy in his teens. Many friends wish him
pleasant trip. " '''- ---''A