The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-12-27

paid to members.
Political and personal friends, in South
west Virginia, of Col. w. e. Elan, editor
Of the Wing, have presented his wife with
fine pair of horses for Christmas gift.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Virginia Midland Railroad,
held in Alexandria on the 10th, Hon. John
S. Barbour was re-electedto the presidency
of the road.
Mr.. G. 2. Huntington controls 1000
miles of railway. He is sixty-five years
old, and is very healthy. His fortune is
estimated at 1900, 900. and he has only
an adopted daughter.
The Washington Vier, the National
Greenback organ, has declared for Benz.
f. Butler for president, claiming that he
represents the Greenback sentiment and
the labor interests of the country.
English capitalists in twenty years built
26s miles of railroad, in Mexico, from
Vera Cruz to the capital. Americans in
five years have constructed $500 miles.
and received subsidies to the amount of
S22, 600 900.
The Rev. Heber Newton in sermon
preached in New York, on Sunday, said
that the story Of Jacob was purely legenda-
ry, that there was no mess Of pottage at
all, and that the wrestle with the angel
was pc etlc fiction.
Sergeant Mason, who attempted to shoot
Guiteau and has been recently pardoned
out of the penitentiary by the President,
says that the amount contributed to his
wife by the people of the United States is
$4,000, which places her above want.
Jose Pasoz, Chinaman, recently applied
in New York to become an American citi-
zen. He had already secured his first pa
pers. Judge Truax refused to naturalize
him. The Chinese immigration act of
May, 1882. declares that no State court or
court of the United States shall admit
Chinese to citizenship.
The Democratic papers of the State are
still harping on Mahoneism, at the same
time that the Democratic Legislature is
endorsing all the legislation that Ma
honeism has enacted into law Not only
this, but it is even going bow-shot beyond
'Mahoneism'' in enforcing REIMBURSEMENT
of the public debt.
The colored people of Portsmouth, Va,
are intensely excited over the murder on
Sunday. of a colored youth named Edward
Corrigan by q colored man named Corne-
Illus Collins. The motive for the murder
seems to have been jealousy. Collins is
still at large. The negroes threaten to
lynch him if he is caught.
AS there are $4,000, 900, 900 of per cent.
bonds now subject TO call and $3.50, 900, 900
OF Al per cent. bonds can be called in 1891
it follows that a total of $3.50. 100000 in
bonds can be paid off in the next seven
years. This fact of itself might relieve
the apprehension of a very serious surplus
accommodating in the treasury.at present.
A st. Louis travelling agent has annoyed
Miss Mollie Garfield to much by his per.
sistent attentions and offers of marriage
that he was on Wednesday arrested Mrs.
Garfeld's home in Cleveland and locked
up in the city jail. He gives his name as
George Washington, and says he will hang
himself if Miss MolIie persists in her re.
fusal to marry him.
All the employees of 2. Lorillard & CO.
Jersey City, n. j., except the clerks and
superintendent. were the recipients Tues
day of Christmas present equal to the
average salary of each for one week. The
gifts were inclosed in envelopes bearing
the stamp, with the compliments of P.
Lorillard & Co. Sixteen thousand five
hundred dollars were thus distributed
The Raleigh News states upon reliable
data that there are now not less than five
hundred strangers. principally from the
East and North, in North Carolina for
the purpose Of buying property, and the
number is increasing weekly. Already
many satisfactory sales have been effected.
and the outlook for the future of North
Carolina is regarded as very bright. Much
Of the credit for this is attributed to the
splendid display of the resources of n orth
Carolina made at the recent industrial ex-
position in Boston.
On the 10Th inst. in Memphis, Tenn.
Judge L. L. Lewis, President of the Su-
preme Court of Virginia. was married to
Miss jamie. eldest daughter of Col. r. F.
Looney, of that city. The bride is beau
tiful and accomplished lady, Of queenly
appearance, and the groom brave, chival-
ric, and cultured gentleman. and one of the
first lawyers of his age in the State. The
ceremonies on the occasion were very i'm
posing and the attendance very large
Judge r. A. Richardson, associate Judge
of the Supreme Court, and Miss Mamie
Looney, were Of the attendants
An examination into western land own
ership has revealed the fact that the Earl
of Dunraven owns sixty Thousand acres in
Colorado ; the Earl of Dunmore one hun
dred thousand acres a Scotch company of
Dundee fifty thousand acres the Danish
vice consul fifty thousand acres in Mime
sofa: Phil Marshal & Company, of Lon
don. England, one hundred and thirty
thousand acres in Mississippi another
English company seven hundred thousand
acres in the YaZoo delta and three million
uCiOo III CAdo3 hIiu OcLJdIill1 IN0WSdS.
Liverpool, one hundred thousand acres in
Arkansas.
A second count Of the vote cast in Ohio
in October on the prohibitory amendment
is now in progress, and is showing some
grave errors in the vote us it was returned
Numerous instances are cited to prove
that there was fraud or great negligence
in the first count. If the ratio of discrep-
ancies thus far discovered holds good
throughout the State, it is highly probable
that the amendment Will be found to have
been carried. One estimate places the
vote lost through erroneous and false re-
turns at $4,000. The measure lacked only
81, 500 of adoption.
A automatically inclined dentist has
figured out the conclusion that there is
packed away in peoples teeth annually
ton of pure gold, and about five times that
weight in metals of lesser value. such as
tin. silver and platinum. The estimated
worth OF these in dollars and cents is
about Sl,000,000. This enormous con-
sumption of the precious metal in plugged
teeth, which, in the ordinary process of