The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-04-19
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being engaged IN plOttlng against the life
of the Gar.
Senator and Mrs. Malone have aban-
doned their contemplated trip to Mexico.
under advice of physicians. that it would
be unwise in Mrs. Malone to go to Mexico
so late in the season.
With the Dispatch trying to dodge the
tariff question and the State pressing its
recognition, there promises to be an inter-
esting ceremony in Bourbon councils be-
fore 1884. Somebody has to eat dirt.
Jay Gould's fortune is estimated at $780,
100000, which he has accumulated within
the past twelve years. His annual profits
are about 10000, 900, OF $500 an hour for
every working hour of the past twelve
years.
On the 18th there was received at Rich
mond about, S150,00O in State bonds from
London for refunding in the Riddleberger
per cent. bonds. Some of them had
never been handled since their issue in
1851.
Auditor Allen says that the State will
save about $4,000 a year in not paying the
salaries of the corporation judges, which
he has refused to do further, the State
having already paid out about $500. 900 en-
roneOusly.
Will the Spectator please let its readers
know where and when a Republican call-
cus'' was held to determine what course
the anti-Bourbons would pursue in the
approaching election for Commonwealth IS
Attorney?
Mr.. Mcdaniel has been nominated by
the Democratic Convention of Georgia
for Governor. He is Of the intense Bour-
bon class, but it is said he will not be gov
erned by their counsels. Senator Joe
Brown was very much opposed to him,
and became excited on hearing of the nom
ination.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has filed for record in the Supreme
Court of Baltimore mortgage deed to Sc
cure the payment of S12,OO0,OOO worth of
bonds to be issued shortly to defray the
the cost of construction and equip
ment of its main line between Baltimore
and Philadelphia.
There are now in the United States
Treasury $l0,OOO,OOO for the payment OF
government bonds, which have been called
for, but not presented, and probably never
will be. There are about 100000 due in
interest on them. They have been lost, it
is believed and the government is that
much the gamer. Some of them were is
sued fifty years ago.
.On Friday last, Judge Bond. of the
United States Circuit Court, sitting at
Richmond, heard the case of the creditors
Of the White Sulphur Springs Company
and appointed Mr.. A. l.. Boulware, of that
city, Receiver of the property. Mr.. Phe-
bus will take charge of the property under
his lease and account to Mr.. Boulware.
A report from the London agent of the
Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton makes the probable decrease in the
area of wheat in Great Britain 10 per
cent and 10 per cent in France. There is also
q reduction in area in Russia. In Austria
Hungary the full breadth has been sown.
The condition of the plant at present is
not generally very favorable.
If Gen. Malone should drop out of poll
tics, we cannot conceive what the Bourbon
editors of Virginia would write about
Their constant theme is abuse of Malone.
who is totally Indifferent to their impotent
wrath and would not give snap of his
finger for their praise. He is working for
the good of Virginia, and as this is foreign
to Bourbon aims, he expects to encounter
their hostility.
Arbor Day is the time set apart by the
Governor of Kansas for all the people to
plant out trees and shrubs, especially for
the Identification of school-house grounds.
Similar observance obtains in Nebraska
and Michigan. We're the people of the
Valley to be deprived of their forests for
ayear or two, they would set more store
on them, and not be so wasteful of timber.
1t is a ridiculous farce that twenty
thousand labOring people should contrib
ute Of their hard earnings to keep up the
lottery swindles, and put money in the
pockets of those who run them Those
who are least able, generally, to pay, are
those who hope to improve their fortunes
by near cut, and hence buy lottery tick
cts, and make themselves that much worse
off.
San Antonio Times: Old man Dempsey,
the stage-driyer, who formerly drove stages
for Mr.. ALT. Reaver, who is now bearing
his invalid expenses, is afflicted with soft
enlng OF the brain, and is what is commonly
termed ''loony.a He believes he is still
driving stages, and sits back, with hands
outstretched, fingers working as if clutch
ing the ribbons and occupies part of the
time shouting to the leaders, who are not
there. II addressed by any one, he will say
going night and day.
VIM. Crockett, who some time ago bru-
tally murdered and robbed Joseph Hunt,
near Wytheville, and shot a boy who was
witness of the tragedy, then escaped and
was afterwards captured, was taken from
the Jail at Wytheyille, on the 18th and
hung, About 100 masked men seized the
jailor, after getting in the building through
a feint, took the key to Crockett's cell
from the jailor's wife, and Selling the
prisoner, carried him a short distance and
swung him up. Twenty bullets were fired
into his body.
Sergeant Mason. who attempted to shoot
Guiteau, while guarding the Jail where
the assassin was confined, is serving out his
sentence of ten years in the Albany peni-
Tertiary. The subscriptions of twenty-five
and fifty cents, aggregating $1,000, made
for the support of Betty and the baby are
on deposit to the credit of Betty, in one of
Washington city banks. The counsel for
Mason is now seeking to get SO, 500 of this |
money, as fee for service. although the |
wife, Betty, had nothing to do with en-
plOying him, which shows an INSCRIPTIONS |
greed, without a parallel in this country.
The Fauquier White Sulphur Springs,
under the management of Col. Tenny, of |
the National Hotel, Washington, are be-
Coming among the most noted Springs |
properties of the country. The buildings |
have been greatly enlarged the grounds
tastefully improved, and all the appoint
ments such as first-class hotel man would
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