The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-11-29

eight years, has been pardoned by the Pres
ident, after serving 20 months,
A Paris dispatch to the London Ex-
change Telegraph Company says Marquis
Tseng has notified Earl Granville, the
British Foreign Secretary, that war be-
tween China and France is certain to &C.
cur.
The Grocer Steel and Iron Company
have recently purchased the Hurst prop
erty in the lower end of Wythe county,
Va, for the sum of $4,000. The tract is
heavily timbered and rich in iron ore de-
posits.
Private adviees have been received from |
Saigon, French Cochin China, which state
that DR.. Harmand, the French Civil Com
missioner in TonQuin, had disbanded the
force of yellow Flags on account OF their
barbarity and acts of rapine.
The Alexandria Gazette's Washington
correspondent furnishes the following =
Two of the judges of the Virginia Court
of Appeals, Judge Lewis, the President of
the Court, and Associate Justice Richard
son, will, it is understood, on the 18th
proximo, marry the two daughters of Col.
Luney, of Tennessee, whom they met at
the Virginia Springs last summer.
A simon pure Democrat of the old style
recently returned from the West to Vir-
ginia. He reports that the race issue pre-
cipitated upon the people in this State at
the election on the 9th makes Democratic
success in 1884 impossible. A solid South
will he met by solid Republican North
and another Republican administration be
the result. st was ever thus that the
Democracy blundered at the right time
for the use of their opponents.
The Shepherdstown Register says: The
motive power of the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad is taxed to its entire capacity in
transporting through freights from the
south, and cars for local business are very
scarce The company has ordered ten
new locomotives of the Mogul pattern,
very heavy and powerful, which are de-
signed to draw immense trains. They will
be used on the southern end of the road,
between Mines and Roanoke.
The prevailing sentiment expressed by
the speakers at the large meeting of rev.
enue reformers, held in New York Thurs
day night was that the Democracy in the
presidential campaign of 1884, must fight
for q revenue tariff or give up the ghost,
confessing itself to be party without a
mission. Among the speakers was Mr..
Henry Watterson, who uttered the senti-
ment that sit is about time that some one
should remind the East that there is a
West and South.''
The North China Herald publishes a Sc
cret Imperial decree appointing Lin Gen
eralissimo of the Black Flags in Tonquin.
The Chinese Government will supply
funds and munitions of war to the force
now being raised in the Province OF Yum
Nan. These troops will be placed under
command of the Government of Yun-Nan
and will proceed to the frontier to assist
the Black Flags in repelling the French
forces, should they invade the Southern
provinces of China The troops, however,
must not cross the frontier into TOnquin
Several of the leading colored people in
Washington have prepared a petition
which they will present to Congress next
month. 1t sets forth that the negro race
is cruelty treated and deprived of its polit-
ical rights in the South, and that in GER
tain places colored people are denied the
facilities for remunerative labor enjoyed
by the whites. Other reasons are set forth
in support of a scheme for the separation
of the races. Congress will be asked to
grant from the public domain II tract of
public land in the north of the pan handle
of Texas, 40 miles wide and $50 miles
long. They ask for assistance to colonize
the colored people there. White people, it
is proposed, shall be denied the right OF
suffrage in this territory. A Democratic
Congress will hardly grant this unique pc
tition.
One remarkable feature about the Dan
vile tragedy is that no one has been ares
ted fof.the murders committed ON the Sd
of November that we have heard of. The
committee of forty who undertook to re-
port ON the facts of the case, allege that
there were two policemen present when
the fight between the white and colored
man was in progressively were present
when the crowd gathered and the fighting
commenced. These two policemen are
certainly competent witnesses. They
must certainly know some of the parties
to the, shooting. Why has not a Judicial
investigation been instituted, and the law
indicated in the prosecution of the often
ders ? There were murders committed
there were witnesses present when the
crimes were perpetrated, and yet we have
seen of no movement looking to the en-
forcement of the law in the punishment
of the guilty. The washing report
of the committee of forty will not satisfy
the public. The good name of the State
demands something more-that a rigid in
vestigation of the whole affair be made be-
fore the legal tribunal of Danville, and
that those who have violated the law, i'm.
perilled or taken life, be made to suffer
for it. That would be the best way to
demonstrate to the public that all parties
wish to observe the law, protect life and
conserve the interests of society. Any
thing short of this will have bad effect
not only upon Danville but the entire
State.
The Dispatch cannot bring itself up to
the fair thing with a political opponent.
If it had been really DESTROYS of giving its
readers the views Of the VIRGINIAN on
Gen. Mahone's address it would have pub
lished the editorial as it. appeared in the
columns Of this paper. 1t did not do this,
but garbled the article so as to destroy the
connection in which the sentences it
quotes appear, thus conveying to the pub
lie. an impression that the entire article
does not justify. The application of the
sentences, too, is perverted by the man.
ner in which they are arranged, and they
are made to imply just the reverse of what
was intended. We do not believe in ex-
tremes in anything, and because of this we
dissented from the spirit in which the adj
dress was announced, but did not raise
question as to the sincerity of the mo-
tiyeS which influenced the prOductiOn.-