The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-14
The reduction in the public debt during
May was So, $50. 476.


ray has been sold for $1.10.
The Temple Beth Israel, at Charlottes-
vile, was dedicated Saturday.
MI. John w. Garrett has presented his
fine Arabian horse, Damascus, to the King
of Italy.
The judges of Montgomery and Craig
counties have refused to grant licenses to
sell liquor.
Roanoke has voted down a proposition
to subscribe $4,000 to the stock of the
Roanoke Gas Company.
The fifth annual meeting of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the M. Z. Church
was in session at Lynchburg last week.
The Barber brothers, who murdered
Sheriff Sheppard last fall, were taken by a
mob from the Jail at Waverly, Iowa. on
Friday night and hung.
England has decided to resume official
relations with Mexico, and Sir Spencer St.
Johns, now English minister to Siam has
been appointed minister to the Mexican
republic.
The ceremonies at the unveiling Of the
Lee Statue in Lexington next week, prom
Use to be the most interesting public occa-
sion that has been celebrated in Virginia
for many a day. Wehave before published
the programme.
An Irish peddler and his son stopped at
the house of a man named James Wood,
in Franklin county, overnight. Wood
followed the old man the next morning
when he left and shot him dead, and then
robbed the body.
AS this is the season to know it, florist
says that to wrap flowers OF a boquet in
wet newspaper keeps them moist, cool and
fresh better than any other protection.
The stem of a boquet so wrapped does
nearly as well as if in water.
Six men of the whaling bark HI. V. Hill.
of New Bedford, Mass, who were found
adrift off the coast of South Carolina, and
picked up by the schooner Cumberland,
bound from Orchilla Island to Richmond,
Va, are in the latter city.
1t looks now as if the unwilling of the
monument to Jefferson, to take place at
Monticello, on the 4th of July, would be a
failure. But little public interest seems
to be manifested, and altogether the pros
pect is not good for anything like a great
demonstration.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says the
10 6rixYo FOR
expectations. Over 100000 head of cattle
have already passed over the trail that leads
through Albany, and this does not include
more than half the number that will be
driven from the State
We imported from July |, 1882, to April
/, 1888, siXty-five million pounds more
coffee and seven millions pounds less of
tea than during the corresponding period
of the previous fiscal year. 1t looks as if
adulterated tea had made that beverage
unpopular.
A good sized river energies from nat
ural tunnel in the mountains near Taco
mia, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
drops down l 800 feet into the Valley be-
low without striking anything to break
the falling water. 1t is the highest falls
yet discovered in this country.
The negro question is already in
moribund condition. The sensation has ex-
hausted itself. A spasmodic reference to
it may now and then be made, but the
Bourbons have burnt their powder before
the game was in sight. Bourbon stupidity
can always be counted on to counteract
Bourbon malignity.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has donated four
millions of dollars for the erection and
support, in New York city, of the largest
college in the United States. 1t will fur
nish free tuition, and be strictly non-sec-
tartan. The building, work on which is
to be begun Immediately. will be the finest
collegiate edifice on this side of the Allan
tic.
Ebert NJ. Stevenson was hanged at
Lawrenceville. Ga, on the Sth, for killing
his aunt, Mrs. Salina Clemantine Steven
son. He requested that the band should
play Dem Golden Slippers" on the occa-
sion, which request was refused. He met
his fate coolly, and showed no signs of
fear. In fact he was a hardened wretch
and died as he had lived
The published sermons of Mr.. Spur
geon in the American papers, us they are
delivered each Sabbath in London, come
far short of those of Beecher in vigor of
thought, conciseness of arrangement and
literary finish, Sturgeon is really very
commonplace as thinker and scholar, to
judge by the evidence furnished in these
sermons.
Timothy Dudley, who was convicted of
participation in the Phoenix Park murder,
was hanged in Dublin on Saturday last
He was the fifth executed for the murders
of Burke and Cavendish, and the last con-
victed thereof. A great crowd collected
outside of the prison, and when the black
flag was hOisted, women recited prayers for
the dead, and one of them called down the
curse of God on the informer Carey.
Under Governor Cleveland and demo-
cratic legislature New York state taxes
have advanced as follows; The total taxa
tion of the state, in 1882, was sc, 500, 022, %;
in 1888, SO, GAG, 96S,07. Here we have an in
crease in one year of $2,2 .945,7S. Last
year the levy was 2.45 mills on the valua-
ton; this year 1925 mills. Free canals are
responsible for part of the increased tax,
but not the largest part.
Two new hotels, 'Forest Imp and cap
pledOre," have been built at the Natural
Bridge, in Virginia, in anticipation of
large number of visitors and excursion
lists. The Pennsylvania Railroad expects
to sell ten thousand tickets via the Shen
andoah Valley road to the Natural Bridge.
Two parties from the North, with special
trains and cars, have already paid the spot
a visit within the past week.
A terrific explosion occurred at College
Point, l.. l., Friday night. A cast-iron
vulcanizer, weighing nearly 25 tons, burst.
The damage done will exceed $12.000.-
Jacob Jocken, an engineer, was shockingly
scalded. Andrew Hoppe had both arms
broken, his eyes put out. and the flesh upon
his body literally cooked. VIM. Kelly was
struck by piece of the iron and had his
skull crushed Two othar workman 1voro