The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-06-22
Senator P. G. Hale, one of the "Big Four

Senator T. g. Hale, one of the "Big Four"
was stricken with paralysis few days ago,
and is in very critical condition.
We have in type the proceedings of the
Straight-out Republican conference recently
held in Richmond, but are forced, tor want of
space, to omit them.
Lieut.. Jno. w. Danenhower and party.
OF Arctic exploration fame, have engaged
rooms at Capon Springs for the season
They will arrive there on Saturday next
and remain during the summer.
There are now In Wythe and Pulaski coun-
ties fifteen blast furnaces engaged in the MAX
ing of cold-blast charcoal iron. The iron
made is admitted to be equal in quality to any
made in the United States, and is used almost
exclusively for railroad car wheels.
Moses Ellyson, brother of H. K. Ellyson, OF
the Richmond Dispatch, died at his home in
Richmond on Saturday last. He was an amia-
BILE and excellent gentleman, and no man in
the capital city had greater number or warmer
friends. He was in his seth year.
Lieut.. Henry o. Flipper, of the Tenth
Cavalry, recently tried by ceurt-msrtial
for embczzling funds while acting as CON-
missary and found guilty. has been dis
missed the service by the approval of the
verdict by the President.
The Republicans of North Carolina, in
State Convention, have endorsed the nom-
inees of the Liberal Democratic and anti
Prohibition ticket recently put in the field.
This will cause the defeat of any ticket
the Bourbons may place in the field.
A negro man WAS killed at Victoria Fur
mace, near Goshen, last week, by man whom
he accused OF running away with his wife,
The murderer, who is also colored, escaped,
and at last accounts was heard of in West Va.
Justice Bradley, of the United States
Supreme Court, TO whom the counsel OF
Guiteau applied for writ OF habeas corpu.,
filed denial on the 10Th. The assassin OF
Pres ident Garfield will certainly be hanged
on the 30th inst.
Mr.. G. L. Clore, depot agent at Covins-
ton, Va, died last week from the effects OF
a tumor, in the Both year of his age. He
was from Culpeper county. Mr.. Elliott
Parker. of Monroe county. W. Va. has
been appointed to succeed him in the de-
pot.
Enterprising urchins in New York City are
engaged in gathering cigar stumps from the
sidewalks and cutters, which they sell to per-
sons who dry and afterwards use them in the
manufacture of cigarretts. These facts were
developed in case before Justice White, at
the Harlem Police Court, lately.
On the 10Th inst, Maj. Henry Fink. Vice
President and General Manager of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad, and East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
was appointed and assumed the duties of
ley Railroad, with headquarters at Lynch.
burg.
One of the al vantages that Bridgewater
has for the accommodation of persons 60
ing there as summer resort, is the excel
lent livery owned by Mr.. James F. Low
man. Mr.. L. is one of the live men of that
section Of country, and is fully up with the
public spirit that there prevails.
On the 10Th Hon. Paul introduced bill
in Congress to relieve the political disabili-
ties of Edward P. Ruggles. of X ing George
county, Va, who was a cadet at West
Point at the breaking out of the war, and
bill to relieve those of DR.. Washington,
Of Westmoreland county, Va, who was a
surgeon in the Confederate army.
MISS D~-rsar- of HarrisOnburg, was
severely burned on the face and hands last
Friday night at that place, by the explosion
of a coal oil lamp. At first it was thought
the injuries would prove fatal, but at last
accounts she was improving. Her father
and mother were both absent, attend ing
what was reported to be the bedside of
dying son, at Front Royal, Va. A COL
ored man who happened to be passing the
house at the time, heard the screams Of the
young lady and by the Use of MS hat and
wooden coat. which he ierked off, succeeded
in quenching the flames.
The session Of Roanoke College just
closed has been a pleasant and prosperous
representatives from fifteen States and Ter
ritories. The number is steadily increas-
Ing, the gain in two years being 20 per
cent. The graduates are laboring in TWEEN
ty-one States and Territories and two for
eign countries. Roanoke has accomplished
a great work on slender resources through
the devotions of the Faculty and the inter-
est OF students and friends. The financial
condition of the inst tuition is improving
and the prospect Of considerable endow-
ment is hopeful.
On Friday last the President sent the fol.
lowing nominations to the Senate: To be
members Of the Tariff Commission: John L \
Hayes, of Massachusetts (chairman) w. Oliver,
Jr., of Pennsylvania; Austin M. Garland, of
Illinois; Jacob Amber, of Ohio; Robt. P.
Porter, of the District of Columbia John W
H. Underwood, OF Georgia Duncan F. Ken
ner, of Louisiana Alex. r. Boteler, of West
Virginia; William A. Mcmahon. of New York
To be members OF the Board of Registration
and Election in the Territory of Utah: Alex.
Ramsey, of MIMI; Algernon S Paddock, of
Neb. g. F. Godfrey, of Iowa; Ambrose B.
Carleton, of Ind. James X. Pettigrew, of Ark.
Latest advices from the section traversed by |
the cyclone, in Iowa, are of the most distress |
ing character. At Grinnell both buildings of
the Iowa College were blown down, and about |
one-third of the houses in the place were |
wrecked or badly damaged. The number of |
persons killed is estimated at one hundred, |
and there are about one hundred and fifty |
badly injured now under thecare of physicians.
From Malcolm similar reports are received,
seven dead bodies having been recovered and
many reported badly hurt Railway trains
were blown from the track and demolished,
and houses and barns carried before the wind
and scattered in every direction.
From statement in the papers we learn
that the Sinking Fund Board. have decided
to have the vignette of Gen. Malone en-
yraved on the tirst-class bonds, under the
bill; that of Gov. Cameron
on the second.class and that of Senator
elect Riddleberger on the third class. Gen.
however, has refused to allow
the engraving of himself to be used on the
bonds. This is sensible, as it would be
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