The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-03-01
Myers Brothers s. Co.'S. immense Tobacco

Myers Brothers s. Co.'S. immense tobacco
factory, Lynchburg, was burned Tuesday
night. Loss about $40 900.
Coy. Cameron has organized, an d is in
command Of another expedition against the
oyster thieves on the peninsula.
Judge Chas. P. Latham, of the Lynchburg
Hastings Court, was married last week to
Miss Mary Edwards, of Floyd county
W q Mosby, Esq, brother, Of Col John
s Mosby, has been appointed postmaster at
Liberty, in place OF George V Case, ESQ.
Hon. Jos. Jorgensen, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Dispakch, has been
appointed Register of the Land Office for
Washington Territory.
1t is understood that the Virginia cou-
pom case viii be among the first that will
De decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, which convenes next Mon.
day.
The Gear has been notified Of threatening
letters received by the government author.
tiles, threatening to blow up the Kremlin
at Moscow, where the Gear is to be
crowned.
Congress is presumed to assemble to
consider and legislate for the good of the
country. But it is a fact that business
feels uneasy whenever our Lawmakers are
in session, and feels relieved when it ad
journs.
Oscar Wilde. on his return to England,
gave to his mother half OF the handsome
pile OF money he accumulated in this coun-
try. 1t is stated he realized $4,000 from
his lectures. This maternal regard is to
be placed to his credit.
Pneumonia has become very prevalent
in New York, and is exciting unusual at
tention among the medical fraternity. 1t
is only less fatal, in the number of its vic.
Tins, than consumption, and is classed
with the contagious diseases.
The orchard products of the United States
for 1880 are valued in the last census at $780,
S76, l54 In 1870 they were over $47 600 900.
This slight increase was mostly in Southern
States, crops in the Northern fruit-growing
States being, for 1880. below the average.
The Democrats in Congress content them
selves with opposing all plans and propo-
sitions offered by the Republicans to re-
wise the tariff and revenue laws, and sug-
estnothing positive themselves. 1t Is par
ty and not patriotism which controls them.
new stock exchange is to be estab-
lished in New York. in which Senator Win
don is taking an active part as one of the
trustees. Five hundred seats in the new
exchange will be sold at S., 900 each, and it
is intended to open the new board May /,
1883.
The Governor of Florida has signed the
charter of the Florida Ship Canal, in which
Gen. Malone, Gov. Cameron, Hon. III. Il.
Riddleberger, and other Virg mans are in
terested. The stock of the company went
booming on the announcement of the &C.
ton Of the Governor.
Hon John Paul has been appointed by
the President United States Judge for the
Western District OF Virginia, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation OF
Judge Alex. Riyes, and Edmund Waddell as
United States Attorney tor the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, now filled by Hon. John
s. Wise.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, in his recent visit
to Baltimore, called on Col. Harry Gilmore,
whose life is slowly ebbing away from the
effects OF cancer. The meeting was very
affecting, causing Gen. Early to shed tears.
They remained together for half an hour,
conversing, and then separated with much
manifested feeling.
There was mutiny in the Missouri PEN
itentiary on Friday last, and an attempt to
burn the buildings. The loss was $50. 900,
besides the suspension Of work by about
600 hands in the shops. The Governor has
recommended to the Legislature the enact
ment OF law making placing fire in a PEN
itentiary capital crime.
Hon. Jno. W. Foster. of Indiana, and
formerly minister to Mexico, has consented
to accept the mission to Spain, at the re-
quest of the President. Some questions Of
Importance with which Mr.. Foster is fami-
liar and which are to be considered by the
two governments, induced the Secretary of
State to urge his appointment.
Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early de-
livered an address Friday evening in the
Academy Of Music at Baltimore on Stone
wall Jackson's campaign against Gen. Pope
in August, 1862. After the lecture the an.
nual banquet of the Society of the Army
and Navy of the Confederate States was
held at the Carrolton Hotel.
There is great excitement over remark.
able silver discovery twenty miles south of
Tucson, Arizona, in the Santa Rita Noun
tains. The ore crossing is one hundred
yards wide and over a mile long, at 40
average value Of $275 per ton. There is
also an extensive and sight Sand deposit.
Half million dollars is estimated to be In
sight.
On the oath, three hundred national
bank charters expired. They were char
tered Feb. %, 1868, to run twenty years.
All Of them but five have been examined
and will continue operations under new
charters. The five will do likewise after
they have been examined. Not one has
given notice that it prefers to close BUSH
ness.
Col. S. Brown Allen, Auditor of Public
Accounts, is out in a statement of facts
and reasons in the Wing of the 26th. gov
erning his official conduct in the appoint
ment of tax collectors for the various
counties of the State. 1t is clear and
convincing presentation, which we will en-
deavor to lay before our readers in our
next issue, its length precluding its publi-
cation to-day.
Louis Fernandez and Carmen Lira, aged 16
years. after binding their bodies together with
q rope Friday morning, sprang into the Yara
river, Mexico, and were drowned. They had
been lovers for some time. Thursday evening
Fernandez called on the parents of the girl to
ask her hand in marriage and was rejected.
Overcome with grief, the pair determined to
end their lives as above described. Their
bodies were recovered an hour later. The
mother of the girl, after seeing the corpse of
her dauOhter aS n was taken from the river