The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-02


Whilst crossing James River, at Clare
mont, Va, last week, eight persons were
drowned, the boat having upset.
Mr.. st. Clair Stuart died at his home on
Cowpasture River, Highland county, on
the 10Th inst, in the Saith year of his age.
Capt. Webb, the great English swimmer,
was drowned last Thursday whilst at
tempting to swim Niagara river at the
Falls.
Senior Barca, the Spanish Minister to the
United States, committed suicide last Sun
day, in New York, by shooting himself
with pistol.
The County Court of Campbell has i'm
posed a fine. OF $500 on the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad Company for failure
to drain a portion of the old canal
The year 1883 will be long remembered
for its many disasters. Fire, flood, panic,
railroad wrecks, and calamities Of every
conceivable shape have pressed upon each
other thick and fast.
The Seeny syndicate has purchased a
controlling interest in the Richmond and
Danville road. 1t is to be consolidated with
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad. This will place four thousand
miles Of road under one management.
On last Thursday, the jury in the case
of Tennesee's ex-Treasurer Polk, rendered
verdict of guilty of ENLIGHTENMENT, fixing
the penalty at Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary for twenty years, and imposing a
fine for the full amount of embezzlement.
Winchester Ne,cs A corps of engineers
is now engaged in surveying on the line of
the proposed extension of the Washington,
Ohio and Western railroad. At last ac-
counts they were at work in Smoker Gap
on its western side, working in the direc-
tion of Berryville.
A blush OF conscious--pride must
have mantled. the cheek of Hon. Chas.
7. U'Ferral when he voted for that
resolution in the Lynchburg platform
which. speaks of ''resorting to mean and
trivial technicalities to count into office
representatives who were rejected by the
people"
On Tuesday last Mr.. R. H. Cunningham
sold his splendid farm, ''Elkwood," lying
on the Rappahannock river, in Culpeper
county, and containing about 1850 acres,
to Mr.. Thomas b. Male, of Culpeper. for
$4,000 cash. This is one of the largest
land sales recorded in that county. Elk
wood" is probably the finest estate in that
section of country.
Hon. Montgomery Blair died at his home
in Maryland on Monday last. He was
Postmaster General during Lincolns ad-
miniStration, but returned to the Demo-
cratic party during Johnson's term and
has since been an active and influential
member in that organization. He was an
original thinker, man of strong mind,
and no one ever questioned the purity of
his motives in any of his political moves.
On Friday last, on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road in Fayette county, w. Va, the
freight train of which Frank Pfeifer was
engineer, was thrown down a steep en-
bankment, killing the engineer and badly
wounding Fireman Smith. This, says
the Hint on Herald, is the eighth locomo-
tive engineer residing in Hinton that has
been killed on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road in the last twelve months.
Judge HI. E. Blair on the 25th instant.
granted Il charter incorporating 1.-The
Roanoke Association for the Exhibition
and Sale of Live Stock from Virginia and
other States. The principal Office of the
company will be at Roanoke. Capital
stock not to be less than $4,000, nor more
than $4,000, to be divided into shares of
$25 each. Mr.. G. Julian Pratt, of this
county is the, efficient Superintendent of
this Company.
The democrats have been guilty of many
silly, nOnsensical acts, but the selection of
Mr.. Barbour as chairman was not one of
them. He is going to give the Liberals
more trouble than any man that could
have been placed in command, and they
might as well know it now. There is not
much of the 'sBy the Gods, about him, but
when he starts out with the proposition
that he does not intend to underrate the
strength Of the enemy. he is looking
around for good square place to plant his
feet.
Some years ago the county of Southamp
ton voted some 900 subscription to the
Norfolk and Great Western railroad and
issued it's bonds for the same. The Messrs,
the company considerable sum ON the
bonds. Judge II. w. Sheffey, of Staunton,
was employed by Guerneys to bring suit.
Judge William j. Robertson, of Charlottes-
vile, was employed by Southampton. The
matter was compromised by that county
paying $4,000.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad report
for the first half of the year shows an in
crease I'M earnings for June of more than
topper cent. and for the whole period of
more than 1870 per cent. on 81 per cent.
more mileage, while the net profits are
almost three times as great. The esti-
mates for the rest of the year, based upon
calculations that have so far proved with
in the actual results, show that the COM
pany will much more than meet all it's
fixed charges. Now it is earning at the
rate of $4,000 day upon the same mile
age upon which last year the earnings were
less than 81 800 per day. The traffic con-
tract with the Pennsylvania is likely to
provide a fund of not less than 1000
and probably more than 100000, for the
redemption Of the second mortgage bonds
on the first of next October. The Norfolk
and Western is rapidly gaining on the bu-
siness Of the New River Division, which
now gives the main line an average of IS
cars of coal and coke day. and has
brought an income much larger than had
been anticipated.
The telegraphers' strike still continues,
each party to the contest remaining obsti- |
nate. The strikers are receiving benefits |
from the proceeds of entertainments and
the like from all sections of the country, |
and public sympathy in their behalf ap- |
pears to be increasing daily. One company. |
the American Rapid, has acceded to their |