The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-21
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany is preparing maps of the Virginia

The citizens of Lewisburg, w. Va,
have voted to subscribe $4,000 to the !
East River and Greenbrier Railroad.
A despatch from London dated the 14th |
plosion of the powder magazine.at Scutari,
caused by lightning stroke, state that |
one hundred and fifty persons were killed
and fifty-three wounded. Two hundred |
barrels Of gun-powder and six thousand |
cartridges were destroyed.
The Oil men in the vicinity or Parkers-
burg, w. Va, are rejoicing over a well
just bored in that vicinity which at the
depth of fifty-five feet yielded one hundred
and fifty barrels per day, worth SIS per bar
rel. Property III the neighborhood.h has
greatly appreciated i'll value, and consid-
cradle excitement prevails.
If the editor of the Waynesboro Messen-
ger will read what has been published in the
VIRGINIAN, with reference to the cOlored
trustees, he will discover that we have gone
further than our esteemed contemporary in
distinct in their educational relations. We
favor the appointment of negro trusteesto
look after the interests of the negro schools.
Where majority of the Board iscomposed
of whites, there could be no possible dam
ger of throwing the control of the white
schools in the hands of the other race.
BY the corner in lard, at Chicago last
week, the spectators are said to have lost
over $4OO0,OOO A number of firms were
wrecked, and some of them hopelesSly So
One firm which held GOO, 900 tierces of lard
for arise, could not put up the wide mar
gin called for by the tumble in prices
When this became known early Saturday
morning panic ensued, and prices for
lard, pork, &c., went down with a rush.
Lard deliverable in July closed on Friday
at SILT per hundred pounds. Next day
it touched $9.05. August delivery fell
from $40 to 500. Eight firms, most of
them brokers for the chief operators, were
compelled to suspend.
The tempest raised against Governor
Cameron's appointment of the colored trus
tees, has proven the Bourbon boomerang.
1t has served to draw the attention of the
outside world to the true character and
methods of fhe so-called leaders in Vir-
ginia, and las a consequence, shown them up
in their true light. When they have got
ten down so low that the Northern Dem
ocracy repudiates them, then it is time for
all self-respecting people to let them drop,
and drop heavily.
The Reform Governors elected in Penn
sylvania and New York seem to be the
biggest humbugs now on the stage. There
has been more money wasted and squan-
dered under their administration than for
years past. We gave last week some in
teresting figures showing the increase of
the rate of taxation in New Y ork, and we
have before us now some statistics COM
piled by the Philadelphia Press, proving
that the excess of Democratic appropria-
lions in 1888 in Pennsylvania, over the
Republican appropriation of 1881 amount
to nearly 100000 These are specimen
results of Democratic reform. What a
lovely state of affairs we would have were
the same party invested with the control
of national affairs.
The Republican Executive Committee,
consisting of seventeen members, of Mis-
Sissippi, met at Jackson, in that State, on
the 18th, Hon. j. r. Lynch in the chair. MI.
Lynch addressed the committee, advising
the Republicans to adhere to their organi-
zation in State and counties, and to give
all encouragement to Independent Demo-
cratic movements, which looks to the dis
ruption of the Bourbon party. He thought
the organizations should not be merged,
but kept separate, and in that way unite
the influence and efforts of both forces for
a common end. A resolution endorsing
Hon. j. r.. Chalmers was voted down. One
endorsing the President, his administra-
tion, and his aid to and sympathy with the
liberal men of Virginia; was adopted.
The Democrats of Nansemond are get
ting up big barbecue for the colored vOt-
ers Of that county who supported their
ticket in the late election. This is all as
it should be, and we are glad to see it. But
if it is proposed to make warfare on the po-
litical rights of the negro, and attempt to
purchase his acquiescence with a banquet,
the Democrats will he sadly disappointed.
Let them treat the negro as rational be-
ing and respect the privileges which the
laws give him, and they will succeed in
breaking the color line without the least
difficulty. But every day may be made a
day of feasting, and every night night of
revelry, and still the negroes will be banded
together, until it is proven to them that no
assault upon their constitutional rights is
contemplated.
In speaking of the Virginia Excursion
of the Massa chusetts editors the Balti-
more San of Saturday says: Not the least
gratifying features at the speech-making
on the Latrobe Wednesday down the bay
were the hearty tributes paid the Shenan-
doah Valley of Virginia by the Massachu-
sets editors. They were unanimous in
recognizing the Inequalities rendered. the
beauties Of the grand section, and it's inn
mense agricultural and manufacturing
possibilities. One of the speakers, who is
a successful wine producer on the sterile
coast of Massachusetts, is confident that
the Blue Ridge is to become the great
grape-growing section of the United States.
whilst the Maine editor, who had joined
the Massachusetts editors Oh their excur-
sion, declared that he saw more rich, tilla-
BILE land between the Potomac and Natu-
raj Bridge, in Rockbridge county, than his
entire State could boast of. The Massa-
chusetts editors confessed that they would
return home with enlarged views in regard
to Virginia's present status and its posi-
BILE future as great producing and manu-
featuring State.
If the Lynchburg Vnyi,ian will come
out squarely and say that it is for pro-
tective tariff, and support the party which
makes the protection of American indus
tries one of the cardinal tenets of it's creed,
then we shall gladly except that able jour
nal from the list of free trade OF demo-
cratic papers. Say what you may there is
no Disgusting the fact that free trade and
latter day democracy are one and the same.
All this talk about tariff for revenue with