The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-28
Gen. Jas. Conner, distinguished citi

ments to open a Teachers Institute at |
commencing on the oath of |
July, and continuing thirty days.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention |
met in Columbus and nominated a full |
ticket with Judge George Hoadley for |
Governor, and Jno. G.. Warrick for 1t |
Governor.
In Chicago Wednesday a decree of Court |
was entered permitting Mrs. Francis |
Marie Scoyille, sister of Chas. j. Guiteau |
and divorced wife of George Scoville, to |
change her name to Francis Maria Howe. |
About four hundred bushels, the first of |
the new crop of wheat from Virginia was
received and sold in Baltimore, Friday, |
1t sold from $1.15 for damp and inferior
mixed to SLIGO for prime.
A Compulsory Education Bill was pass
ed by the Illinois Legislature and has been
signed by the Governor. 1t provides that
every child in the State between the ages
of and 14years shall attend school not less
than u weeks in each year.
The condition of Queen Victoria has
greatly improyed-so much so that she was
able to walk from the train to her carriage
upon her arrival at Balmoral. She is to
have a life-size portrait painted to present
to King William onthe 18th anniversary of
his assumption of the regency of Prussia.
The New York World of the 22nd says:
~ n Ioh, af tlo la 70
Stevens, of Castle Point Hobol1en, and
Miss Mary Marshal Mcclure, of Virginia,
will be married tomorrow morning at
Berryville, Va. The groom is about twenty
seven years old, and is said to possess &c.,
100000.
Louise Michel, the French communist,
was sentenced to six years imprisonment
and ten years police supervision. OF the
other prisoners charged with rioting and
and pillage Pouget was sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment and ten years police
supervision. and Moret to one years inn
prisonment.
Here is a specimen of Democratic har-
mony in Ohio: The Sunday Capital, a
democratic organ, says of the Secretary of
the State Executive Committee: I'D. G.
Ballentine, of Springfield, and yesterday of
Atlanta, Ga. is the most infamous politi-
clan to-day in either party in the broad
State of Ohio
Young Lucas, who some time since was
sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary
from Allegheny county, for causing the
death of a boy by giving him whiskey as
joke, was granted new trial and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary at
the last term of the county court of that
county. The former Judgment was set
aside by Judge Mclaughlin.
Intelligence of frightful calamity at a
place of amusement in the town of Dervio,
on the shore of Lake Como, has been re-
ceived. The advices of the disaster state
that while Il performance was in progress
at a puppet theatre at that place the struct-
ure took fire and was entirely destroy
ed. Forty seven persons lost their lives
and twelve others were injured.
Upon the petition of the second mort
gage bOndholders of the Richmond and Al
leghany Railroad, filed in the Circuit Court
at Richmond, Va, Judge Wexford has ap-
pointed Decatur AXtell, late vice president
of the road, and Lawrence Myers receiv-
ers for the same, requiring a bond of $780,
600 for the faithful discharge Of their du-
ties. 1t is understood that the trustees
of the first mortgage bonds have engaged
+,l ~ nf4 +1,a,x. ,,,4o,
Gen. Crook has been ordered, by the Sec
Rotary of war, to proceed to Washington at
once for consultation as to the final diSpO-
sition to be made of the captured Apaches.
The War Department has received no
official information of the reported arrival
of the captives at San Carlos, and it is
stated that no instructions to send them
there have been sent to Gen. Crook.
Floods continue to devastate the West
and South. Advices from different points
on the Missouri river state that a vast area
OF bottom lands along that river is sub
merged, and hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars worth of property totally destroyed.
Similar reports come from along the Mis-
on the Illinois side there has been great
destruction ofproperty. Hundreds ofpeo-
pie have been driven from their homes, and
it is estimated that 5000 head of cattle
have been drowned.
England having reduced the Irish people
to pauperism, is trying to thrust her help
less victims upon the United States. Last
Sunday the steamship Furnessia arrived in
New Y DIRK from Liverpool, bringing about
three hundred poor Irish whose passages
to this country have been paid by the
British Government. These immigrants
were subjected to examination at Castle
Garden, and it was found that five heads
of families had been inmates Of the Kerry
county workhouSe whilst others were
without money and the majority of those
who had friends here had not been sent for
by them. By far the larger part of the
deportation consisted OF old men and wO-
men and children. Some Of them were
comparatively well dressed and stated that
their clothing had been given them by the
Poor Guardians, just before they left
uOllt. NtftIly Ullc cublIe SHIP lOdO lldu
been supplied with tickets and little
money each by the Clerk of the Board of
Poor Guardians for Kerry county. Many
of the poor creatures were in absolute
restitution when they reached Castle Gar
den, and it is problem as to what will
become of them. A deputation of Irish
men called upon the President Saturday to
protest against the action of the British
government, and the President informed
them that the matter had been referred to
the proper department. On Tuesday a
meeting of the Cabinet was held, and it
was determined to instruct the collector at
New York to reship the paupers back to
England.
At the great trial which is now proceed
ing at Nyreghaza, in Hungary, of num-
Der of Jews who are accused of having
murdered a Christian girl at Tisza-Ezler to
use her blood to mix with their passover
bread, sister of the girl alleged to have
been murdered testified that she spoke to
her sister on the afternoon the murder is
said to have occurred, while Oh the other
hand the principal witness for the prOsecu-