The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-10-11
Four inches of snow fell in New Hamp.
shire and Vermont on The I'd inst.

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the people.
The wife Of Col. g. P. Huntington, Pres
ident of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway,
died at her residence in New York, on the
4th inst. after a protracted illness.
Judge Gideon d. Camden was married |
at Clarksburg, W. Va, on the Sd, to Mrs.
Myra H. Davis, aged 40 years. The Judge |
is not less than 20 and probably more.
Sergeant Bates, with his young son, was
to have started from Cincinnati last Mon
day on tramp to Atlanta, Ga. Both carry
flags, and the father will make speeches.
Judge Foraker made 1O5 speeches in
the election campaign in Ohio, which
closed On Monday last. He spoke in 50
out of So counties, and never missed an
appointment.
Hon. r. E. Withers and Judge Hugh w.
Sheffey represented Virginia in the Gen
eral Convention of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, which assembled in Philadel-
phia last week.
The English Salvation Army which in.
vaded Switzerland, have been respectfully
invited to leave that country. The Swiss
prefer their own kind of salvation, and
have SO notified the f;snatical crusaders.
Mr.. Warden, managing secretary of the
London and River Plate Bank, Lon
don, England has absconded, leaving a
defalcation of 81 800, 900. Other business
boxr alc foil a1
one for 81 100000.
Judge Gresham, Post Master General
is gradually looming up as a Presidential
candidate. He seems to have good mate
rial in him for that kind of service, and if
the nomination goes Ito the West, his
chances will. be first-class.
The Pittsburg Exposition building was
burned, with all its contents, on the Sd
collections in it, among them the first rail-,
road engine ever used in this country.
The loss is estimated at 81 100000.
The Chicago Tribune in an editorial
favors Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, as
the Republican candidate for president,
and Senator Miller, of California, for vice
president, as the two best men under the
circumstances for securing victory at the
presidential election.
Capt. S. j, Quinn, editor of the Freder-
icksburg Standard, has been nominated for
the Legislature by the Coalitionists Of
Spottsylvania county. He is gentleman
Of ability and high character. and if elect
ed, will make vigilant and useful repre-
sentative. He is a Republican, and fully
identified with the acknowledgements
The late Dr. Glenn's great California
wheat ranch of 15,000 acres is offered for
sale in six parcels. The great farms must
eventually be broken up; they neither
thrive in themselves nor are they in conso-
nance with our institutions. Small farms
owned by their tillers will result in the
highest utilization of the arabic surface of
the country
Glass is beginning to take the place of
OF glass, which 'heuhardens by special
process. In solidity it is said they leave
nothing to be desired. The experiments
already made have given surprising re-
suits, and the cost is below that of bridges
and iron. Moreover, the glass cannot be
injured by insects like wood. nor rusted
like iron.
The Democratic Pet, Benjamin Butler,
Governor of Massachusetts,, has taken the
stump in that State, and announced over
fifty appointments: Butler is promising
Democratic candidate for the Presidency
yet we hear of no protests from the
Democratic press of Virginia to his MAX
ing stump speeches. 1t is only a case like
that of Gov. Cameron, who obeys the call
OF the people who elected him, to speak in
behalf of the cause opposed to Bourbon
ism, that we hear complaints
Maj. J. t. Alcott,! for 40 years a clerk in
the War Department, died in Washington
on the 4th, aged 81 years. Under his pill
low was found $33, 900 in government
bonds. He had a considerable amount in.
other securities. Shortly before his death
he purchased aneat house for $3, 500, and
gave it to the family with whom he had
lived. He left $50 to each of his pall,bear-
ers, and 5000 to an old messenger in the
Department He was a bachelor, very fru-
gal in his habits, and of uniform good
health. i
Reformed Democrats and Republicans
have so persistently urged Mr.. j. Morris
Heiskill to run for mayor of Baltimore,
against the Democratic ring 9nominee, Mr.
Latrobe, who is now asking for the fourth
term, that he has consented to allow the
use OF his name. 1t is believed Mr. Heis-
kill will be elected, and if so fearful blow
will be given to the Democratic rings of
Baltimore. The Baltimorean, neutral in
politics, but with Democratic sympathies,s
comes out strongly against Latrobe and
for an Independent candidate, such as MI.
Heiskill.
General Malone took the stump in Vir- |
ginia Wednesday on behalf of the Read |
juster cause, and delivered the first speech |
of the campaign at Zuni Station, in Isle
of Wight county, on the Norfolk and |
Western Railroad, where he addressed an |
immense crowd. who came from the sur
rounding country for miles. General Ma
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atively obscure place because he was born
in that section Of the county, to which cir
cumstance he alluded at the outset. His
speech throughout was apowerful arraign-
ment of the Democratic Funder party !
from Readjuster standpoint.
Cardinal .McC loskey and the Archbishop
and Bishops of the Province of New York
have issued a joint pastoral letter, which
warns the Catholics against the growing
evil of divorce, and that this tendency may
be checked directs that the publication of
the bans before marriage shall never be
omitted, and that dispensations for the mar
riage of Catholics to persons not of the
faith, shall be given less frequently. The
giving of picnics and excursions by Cath
Olic Societies ON Sundays OF after dark is
at all times forbidden, and the consent of
the Bishop must be had before such excur- +.
sion can be given on a week day.
Our readers have not forgotten the Ben ,
der family of Kansas and their numerous :