The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-11-20

Experts, Sellt Dy A0rtueIu capitalists,
are said to be now looking after the Dora
Coal Fields with view of their purchase.
There is probably no man in the country
who would be less affected personally by
four years of Democratic administration
than James G. Blaine.
Mr.. PlankingtOn. of Milwaukee; began
business on capital of 81 $50 year.. He
made millions in pork, and he is said to
have an income Of S12,O0O,O0o a year.
1t is thought that the civil service law
will protect about fourteen thousand clerks
at Washington in the event of the official
returns showing that Cleveland is elected.
W.. G. Marshall, editor, Of Warrenton,
Va, was married on last Tuesday to Miss
Sadie Tyler. daughter of Col. Nathaniel
Tyler, late of Baltimore, at Belmont. near
Alexandria, Virginia.
If Mr.. Blaine had kicked Rev. Burchard
from the stage in thirteen seconds after he
had uttered his ssRum, Romanism and Re-
bellion'' ALTERATION. he would now be the
President-elect of the United States.
Much mortality has recently been caused
in Wise county by kind OF cholera,
brought on by drinking the water rendered
poisonous by the drought, the minerals,
&c. Very few recover when once taken,
and nearly all die in the course of a few
hours
Philadelphia papers give details OF the
closing of factories and shutting down Of
mills in and about that city, and of short
ening of hours and reduction of wages.
What is occurring there is what is seen all
over the country. The coming winter
will be q hard one. especially in manu-
featuring districts.
Wednesday, as the south-bound fast
train on the Atlantic Coast line was pass
ing in the vicinity of Centralia Station,
on the Richmond and Petersburg Rail-
road between Petersburg and Richmond,
Va, a window in one of the coaches WAS
pierced by what is believed to be pistol
ball, which nearly struck Judge Drury A.
Hinton, of the Supreme Court of Appeals
of Virginia. ,
In response to a letter signed by Il large
number of prominent persons of both
parties requesting him to accept an cleo
tion to the United States Senate to succeed
the late Senator Anthony. the Hon. JON
athan GAGE, of Providence, r. ]. announces
that he has concluded to subordinate per-
sonal preferences and accept the Office
should he be selected.
Eighty-one deaths have occurred already
in Paris from cholera, and, in spite of all
precautions, the disease is spreading
throughout the city. The exodus from the
city has begun, but has not yet assumed
large proportions. In spite Of its magnif-
cent sewers and clean streets, the sanitary
condition of Paris is found to be very de-
fectiye, SO that cholera finds in many quar-
ters of that great and wealthy capital a
very congenial soil.
The most terrible of all epidemic diseases
-Asiatic Cholera-has made its appear
ance in Paris. and the death record that
has followed its visitation is appalling
In many parts Of the city the houses are
deserted, all who are able having left the
pest-ridden district as rapidly as they
could. Every precaution is being taken
to prevent the importation of the disease
into the United States, an extra quaran-
tine force having been established at all
the ports Of entry.
The loss of trade to members of the
Columbus, Ohio. board Of trade and to
coal companies by the strike in the Hook
ing Valley since June % has been 81 $780,
900. The loss to business men outside of
the board has been $3.50, 000 The loss of
freight to railroads centering in Columbus
81 100000. The loss to furnaces in the
valley 1925, 900. The aggregate losses are
S4,Oll, 900. OF this it is estimated that
the loss to the city of Columbus is SO,
$1,000.
The Cripple Creek extension of the Nor.
folk and Western Railroad. after passing
through about fifty miles of the finest
mineral land in Virginia, already alive
with busy furnaces, terminates at Speed
well Furnace, near the North Carolina
line. During the year some fifteen hun
dred hands have been at work on this great
improvement, and though the work is sus-
pended during the present general stagna-
ton of business, when resumed it will
take but few months to complete it. Its
completion will be followed by the erection
of q large furnace at Pulaski, where zinc
works are in operation, and other furnaces
also along the line of the new road.
The most reprehensible occurrence that
has taken place in this country, as the out
growth of the election, was the burning
Of ex-Gov. st. John in effigy. The Pro-
hibitionists had right to place a national
ticket in the field. however others might
have viewed it. and the harm that must
necessarily followt to the temperance cause.
And because this right was exercised to
be guilty of the foolishness of burning the
candidate in efligy can find no defence
with sensible persons. That the action of
the prohibitionists was great blunder is
very apparent, even looking at it from a
temperance standpoint, and that it has
thrown back the cause it was intended to
sllbserve at leastIa decade. requires no ar
gument to prove. But to offer indignity
to the selected representative or the cause
is neither curing, the blunder, nor y:ndi-
eating the consefsatiye character of the
American people.
When it was known that an official count
would be necessary to determine the result
OF the New Yord election, Mr.. Blaine
wrote: II do not want any political sup
porters of mine in New Y ork to take any
advantage of any mere technical defects
in any returns where the honest intention
of the voter is expressed. would far
rather lose than gain by the exclusion of
aHturns on any mere technical grounds
Tie Presidency is not desirable if there
be the remotest faint in the title. A
promotion of that kind no more leads to
honor than the possession of forged paper
leads to wealth. A candidate for the
Presidency could afford to lie defeated on
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