The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-03-27

passed the General Assembly at it's last |
session.
Jay Gould's wealth is stated at $685.
Alb and his income $780, 11-or $12,.
SS8.SS each day, and 1896 each minute.
1t is stated that the wife and daughter
of Gen. Malone will sail for Europe on
the 4th of April, and will be absent year.
Col. O'Ferrall has selected a residence
in Alexandria, in expectation of getting
the seat in Congress from the Seventh
District
The municipal election in Hagerstown,
Md. last Monday, resulted in the election
of the Republican candidate for mayor,
Mr.. Bloom.
1t is stated on the authority of close
observer, that more water has passed
down the channel of the Shenandoah river
during the past winter, than for fifty years.
Damages to the extent of several hun
bred Thousand dollars have been done by the
Hoods at West Baton Rouge, La. Planta-
tations never before overhoWed are now
under water.
The New York Senate Committee on
Public Health has reported the discovery
of alarming wholesale authorizations of
food, which are dangerous to consumers
and ruinous to trade.
The Sheriff of New York, and several.
of his deputies, all Democrats and the
most active members of the Reform"
party, have been arrested charged with
perjury, extortion, larceny, and several
other offences.
The intelligence we have from the South
west is that the Coalition is stronger and
moresdetermined than ever, and will earn
s estly support the nominees of the Chicago
National Republican Convention for Pres
ident and Vice President.
The reported foot and mouth cattle dis
ease which has caused such CONSERVATION
among Western cattle men, turns out, it
is stated, to be the foot-rot, caused by the
cold weather freezing the hoofs during the
winter. 1t is not contagious and its ex-
tent limited.
In 1880 only one-sixth of our steel rails
were drawn from abroad, and yet the de-
mand put up the price in England to $751; so
per ton and in this country to $S5 British
mills are now on the verge of ruin and
selling steel at $22.5O, because we are buy
ing no longer.
There was decided drop in the wheat
market in Chicago on the oath. 1t fell 2
cents per bushel, and May deliveries were
quoted at 8 cents down to 81. Corn was
quoted at SIS cents. The indications are
not favorable for a recovery from these
depressed prices.
The Democratic State Committee met
in Alexandria last Thursday, and fixed
upon the 14th of May, at Richmond, as
the time and place for the Convention to
elect delegates to the National Democratic
Convention. Resolutions deprecating tariff
agitation were adopted.
If every voter in the State who con-
dennis the Democratic party for it's legis-
lative course in Richmond and the policy
the party favors in national affairs, as III
Dictated in the election of Carlisle speaker,
would support the Republican ticket, it
would carry the State by $4,000 majority.
The Emperor William of Prussia cele-
brated his S7th birthday on Saturday last.
He was 81 when he assembled the throne
in 1861. and has had an active career since
then of almost quarter of a century. He
served in the armies which overthrow the
First Napoleon. and has heen a prominent
European figure ever since.
The Treasurer of the United States has
commenced preparing the drafts for the
payment Of the claims for rebate on the
tobacco tax allowed by the accounting
officers, and will forward drafts as rapidly
as the settlements are made by the First
Comptroller and the warrants of the secre-
tary reach the treasurer's Office.
This country uses one-third of all the
steel made in the world. When we made
scarcely any prices were high now we make
nearly as m uch as we consume, and prices
are everywhere low. In 1876 steel rails cost
$3.50 per ton. They now cost 1874 here,
and $3.50 in England. There is more steel
to supply human wants and therefore the
price is lower.
Not long since the quinine works of
Powers & Weightman, in Philadelphia,
burned down. Instantly the foreign man.
ufacturers of quinine advanced the price
one-third-an evidence that competition
reduces prices. And as protection stimu-
lates industries in this country, it follows
that tAe competition thus created de-
creases prices.
Instead of devoting 81, 0oO, 900 to the i'm
proyement of the Virginia Midland road,
the Sam urges the people of Baltimore to
subscribe literally to the extension of the
Valley r. r. from Lexington to Salem and
then on to Atlanta. For years we have
urged this as not only wisest for Baltimore,
but as the means of developing one of the
richest regions of the Union.
A battle was expected to-day between
Gen. Graham, commanding the English
forces, and Osman Digna, commanding the
Arabs, near Tamaneib. The camp of Os-
man is 25 miles from Suakim, and 10 beyond
the advance post of the English. He has
1900 to 5000 men. Gen. Gordon is re-
ported to have repulsed an attack on Kar
troum.
A resolution in favor of the abolition of
the tobacco tax and the reduction of the
tax on fruit brandy to 10 cents gallon
was adopted, ayes IS, noes 81. The opin-
ion is that the alliance between the inter-
nal revenue reform and the Morrison bill,
will defeat both. The Virginia members
all voted for the repeal of the internal rev.
enue tax.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providing that no patent
medicine shall be sold, until it has been
subjected to analysis by government
board of chemical experts and declared
not poison. This is a wise precaution.-
No one knows the number of deaths caused
by popular nostrums which go into almost
every family, with no assurance that they
are not impregnated with fatal poisons.
The Lynchburg Vargi'sian says that Mr..
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