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

The charters of 721 national banks, with
an aggregate capital of over $50, 000, 900.
will expire during the year 1885 This is
more than one-third Of the entire number
of national banks now in existence. From
information already received by the Comp
troller Of the Currency it is expected that
alarge majority of these banks will con
tinue their existence either by extending
their charters or by recognizing under
other titles. There are at present more
national banks in existence, with larger
aggregate capital than there ever were
before. The capital, invested in national
banks was increased about $4,000, 900
during the year ended September 30. 1884.
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WHOLESALE PRICES.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET
MONDAY, Nov. II, 1854
AT CALVERTON YARDS.


BEEF CArTLE.-There were rather more good
tops than were offered last Monday, and prices
for them show little change. Common and
medium Cattle were well represented in the
offerings. The market was not active, sales be-
ing made with considerable difficulty. Prices
for all grades below the extreme tops were on
Lsa14c, as to quality. We quote at 7jaS5 with
most sales at 5Oa$5 30 per 100 lbs
Prices of Beef Cattle ranged as follows Best
25aS6 90; that generally rated first quality
50aS5 90: medium, or good fair quality 5 90 II
81 p ordinary thin Steers Oxen and Cows rs
ass 90. Extreme range OF prices 75a&8 o.
Total sales for the week 2ls5 head against 1877
last week.
SwINE.-There Is very large Increase in the
receipts over last week. with the quality fully
as good as 1t was then. Trade is moderate to
good with the rather full supply. Hogs weigh-
ing $50 to 200 lbs gross are in the best demand !.
We quote at 5a4a634 cents per lib net, with most
sales at 615a65S cents. Receipts this week 7006
head against Has last week.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-As for several weeks
past, the offerings consist very largely of COM
mon Sheep, and trade for them is exceedingly
dull. There is only moderate demand for
good Sheep and Lambs on the part eff local
butchers, and no outside inquiry whatever.
We quote Sheep at 2aiN cents, and Lambs at
Sa5 cents per Id gross. Receipts this week 1855
head against $3.50 last week
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The National Committee.

Wherever there is failure there must
| necessarily be a scapegoat. 1t is so in
every enterprise, and the blame is gener-
ally wrongfully located. The defeat of Mr..
Blaine by a mere accidental expression of
thoughtless minister, has furnished the
occasion for the grumblers and possibly the
gamblers, to openly charge weakness, mis-
management and failure on the part of the
National Committee. No one objected
to the methods and plans Of the Commit
tee before the election, or at least, the OBJ
jections, if there were such, were not Civ
en- to the public. They may have made
mistakes and doubtless did, insthe light of
subsequent results. But we believe the
committee was able, faithful and saga
cious, and did as well as any other body Of
men who might have been selected to dis
charge the responsible duties incident to
their position. st. Johns candidacy was
beyond their control. They could not
have prevented the action of the Prohibit
tion Convention. The remark of Mr..
Burchard was not Of their suggestion, and
it is admitted that these two :causes
deprived the Republican ticket of from
35,000to 10000 votes in the States of New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut
enough to have elected Blaine and left us
healthy margin of electoral votes 1t is
humiliating enough to the Committee
that the cause they represented was not
successful, without having to endure the
abuse and villification Of men of their own
party. Misrepresentation were made to
them as to Irregularities in the! vote cast,
and npon that they predicated their claim
that Blaine had been elected Many per-
sons were mislead by this, but we are sat
isfied the Committee were honest in their
belief, and were convinced Of the truth of
their announcement. The best way is to
accept the situation all around. One or
the other parties had to lose, and as it fell
to the Republicans this time to be defeated
it is best to bear it philosophically. and not
go whining about it, and making foolish
and unjust complaints against the Com
mittee.
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AT her home IN Craigsville, Augusta county,
va, NOV :. lSS4, OF paralysis, Mrs. ). z. Craig,
Vile OF H. >. Craig. Mrs Craig. the daughter
Of John NJ. and Catherine Bell was born In
Rockbridge county. Va, June 18th, 1914, and
was married April 18th, 1856
AT the residence OF Daniel VI. Bell near
Spring Hill, on the night OF Nov. 9Th: Mrs Jane
A. Mills, consort of Thomas Mills decd, In the
SlsI year of her age. Her remains were laid 10
rest IN the Messy Greek burial ground, on Sun
OF the Presbyterian church for over fifty years
She fully evinced her christian faith and trust
by her untiring devotion and reliance upon Il
cruclfed redeemer, and her last words to her
children and friends who gathered around her
bedside were, "Farewell-she was going home
to live with Jesus in whom she trusted"
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The markets continue to be merely nominal
Neither supply nor demand are enconrag-
ing. The recent rain has interfered seriously
with marketing, but the low prices prevailing
have also operated to prevent anything like
activity. Only those who are compelled TO sell
are now hauling, and from present indications
the near future does not hold out an enticing
prospect. Prices yesterday ranged as follows :
Flour Family 81 90: Extra IS 75: Super So %;
Wheat 80 and 81; Corn 90 to 65 Oats 80 to IS
Hay $40 to 200; Pork So to s. 50 per hundred.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
OFFICE OF CITY TREASURER, /
STANTON, VA, Nov. 20, 1884.


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STAUSToE, VA, Nov. 20, 1884,
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- makes of Plain, Traction, and Stationery
Engines, and invite examination as 10 the
quality of material, workmanship and power
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Briefs.

Blaine, lao. 438; Cleveland, 1872 But
Ter, %, S66, and st. John, 10, 200.
| w. Fl. Smith, the great London news
dealer, has become rich enough to be one
of the largest landed proprietors in Eng
land.
Returns demonstrate that in counties in
Iowa where Speaker Carlisle expounded
his tariff views during the campaign tie
Republican gains have been unusually
heavy.
. General Buffers vote in New York
City is between 8 1900 and 3 300, not 80 900.
The latter would have shown great
strength the former shows surprising
weakness.
The strangest provision of the New
York election law is that the election
boards, after counting the ballots, have
to burn them, leaving their count the only
basis to go upon.
There are now about 200 900 domestic
servants in this country. who annually
earn about $2l6,000.O0O. In England the
same number of servants would earn only
$50, 600, 900.
A London physician has ascertained that
there are six deaths among 1000 married
men, 10 among the same number of bach
elors, and % in the same number of
Widowers.
The Washington Post makes haste to
tell the Ohio wool-growers in a sneering
tone that they can expect no relief from
the next House of Representatives as it
has q Democratic majority.
The latest. Statement is that the Legisla-
ture Of Illinois win be Democratic on joint
ballot, and elect q Democratic United
States senator, in place of Gen. John A..
Logan ----
mJoseph Root died at Rayenwood, W. Va,
on the 9Th, aged lol years. He was of
German birth and was with Napoleon in
his march to. Moscow He came to this
country go years ago.
The Democratic State officers OF West
Virginia have never announced the Official
vote of that. State III October yet, and no
record has ever been printed of the vote
cast at the corresponding election in 1880.
The Hon. 7Flamen Ball, of Cincinnati,
retiring from active law practice Il few
days ago, took down the old gilt sign of
sChase & Ball, - hung up more than half
a century ago by himself and Simon P.
Chase. snfa Is
AT the last election, the county Of Rap
pahannoclz voted on a subscription for q
railroad. which will run from Washington
to Sperryville and thence to some point on
the Virginia Midland railroad They
voted u subscription Of Sl50.000.
The banner Democratic counties of the
North were New Y DIRK and Kings. which
gave 5s,9S9 Democratic majority: while
the banner Republican counties were Phil
adelphia, Allegheny and Lancaster in
a Republican major
ity of nearly 60,0O0.
The Washington monument the 18th
height greater than any other
structure in the world-52O feet 10 inches.
The next highest structure is the spire of
the Cologne cathedral which is 5I5 feet
above the floor of the building.
The Chicago independent republicans
had aelist of 1900 such republicans in
Illinois, and sBfr. Blaine's majority over
Cleveland there is about % 600 in place Of
Garfield's 10000 over Hancock, the de-
crease almost exactly representing the in
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In their buggy, In Harrisonburg, Nov IT, 1sg,
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Mary NJ. Stanley, all of Rockingham county.
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ence to make successful Ieyery effort to
promote the general welfare. From the
date of the determination of the contest
in New York, Mr.. Cleveland passed from
the relations of candidate of party, to
those of the chief ruler Of fifty-five mil
lions of freemen-from the position of the
leader of apolitical force, subject to the
passions and excitementS and animositieS
and asperities Of partizan strife, to the
higher relation of President elect of the
American Nation. So long as he sus-
tanned the position Of party candidate,
it was the duty of those who distrusted
the party and believed it should have been
defeated, to oppose him, and use all legit
innate arguments Of political warfare to
accomplish that end. When, under the
forms of law and in conformity to the
Constitution he has passed from this rela-
ton to that of President, his relation to
parties and the people change. His duties
and responsibilities become blended with
the interests Of all the people and in the
degree that he may measure up to them
IN this broader and more sacred relation will
he be judged, and Judged fairly and inn
partially by every fair-minded, well-nean-
ing citizen.
Mr.. Cleveland will have tote better and
Drawer than his party to make his admins
tration successful. Ifhis party runs him we
have the assurance Of the past that disas-
ter will follow. As mere partizans we
could ask for no more certain course to be
adopted to assure Republican success, not
only two years hence in the selection Of
the popular branch Of Congress, but four
years from now when the verdict of the
people will be passed upon him. But we
would prefer to see the country go on pros
pering and the interests Of the people pro-
NOTED under conservative administra-
tion that would commend itself to the ap-
proyal Of all. A Republican Senate will
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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. l 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
such sentiment, and whether successful
or yanquished can face the American peo-
pie as che who prefers country to self and
Republican institutions to the honors of
office.
The last desperate resort of the Demo-
cratic Legislature is an attempt to injure
Hon. F. S. Blair, by charging that he has
accepted fees from the State to which he
was not entitled. Every account which
was paid him, we are Informed, was GER
titled as correct by Bourbon officers under
the laws of the State-the same laws
under which his predecessor in Office
claimed and was paid like fees. Frank
Blair has been the most valuable and eff
cent officer Virginia has had for years.
He has saved the State tens of thousands
of dollars that would not otherwise have
come into her treasury, and is entitled to
aud will receive the thanks Of all un-
prejudiced citizens of the Commonwealth.
The attempt Of a partizan committee of
worse than partizan legislature to injure
him in the eyes of the people, will but
bring merited rebuke upon those whose
3ecord stands out as much rebuke to the
State as Frank Biair's official career has
been credit to her.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-22
THE LAsKER RESOLUTION.
A Statement BY the North German
Gazette, Bismarciz's organ.

Gazette, Bf8marck0 OfEans
BERLIN, February 21.-The North Ger
man Gazette, Bismarck's organ, repels the
attacks Of the opposition newspapers on
the decree of Bismarck relative to the Las
ker resolution. 1t says:
"They do no. express the slightest in
dignation at the attempt of foreign body
to interfere with the internal affairs OF
Germany. The request addressed to Bis
marck by Minister Sargent was OF such
remarkable character that it could only be
explained by his ignorance Of diplomatic
usage. 1t amounted to nothing less than
asking the Emperor to endorse the vote OF
a foreign body, and hand it 'vised' TO the
Reichstsg, for Bismarck's duty is simply
to execute the commands of the Emperor.
Bismarck is not in the employ yment OF in
ternational Democracy, but Of the German
Emperor. In the same way that the Amer.
ican Congress had attempted to cause the
gloriication of the late leader OF the seces-
sionists by the Emperor. SO could any
of confidence in Here Richter, or Socialist
body q similar vote in Herr Rebel"
The National Gazette says: "Bisparck's
decree ia deprived OF all sting for Congress
and the American people because the
whole affair is made entirely a matter OF
Internal German policy"
The Deutche Tageblatt yesterday con-
tains a savage attack on Minister Sargent.
The Berliner Tageblstt to-day repels the
attack and asserts that Sargent has had no
relation with any political party at Berlin.
The North Germsn Gazette, alluding to
The remarks Of the National Gszette about
the American contribution to the relief
fund for the sufferers from the Rhine in.
undation says:
We should like to cali attention to the
fact that the debt OF gratitude contracted
then towards America may be logically
paid by raising funds in Germany to help
the sufferers from the present floods in
America
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la!ure, which may not have before it the
offer to release Virginia which is before us.
Persons who have not considered il.is
subject seem to labor under q mischievous
dBlusioD, that some previous legislation
has relieved Virginia of the one-third Sc.
aeide as the proportion for West Virginia
But this is mere delusion, and the sooner
il Is dispelled the better. Almost the er.
tire one-tbird is represented by the csrti-
ficates issued under the act of 1871; and
these certificates declare that
PAY ment will be Provided For
in accordance with such settlement, a
shall be had with West Virginia" Not
only 20, but the bonds surrendered under
the act of 1871 are now, to the extent OF
SIS 0o0, ,OOO, held, unfunded, by Virginia, as
o a'trustee.
Such being the facts, does it not seem in.
credible that a matter of this importance
should have been so long neglected? But
when the creditors not only volunteer TO
acquit Virginia OF all responsibility, but
offer indemnity sgainst any cost to the
commonwealth, 1t seems to us impossible
to doubt the expediency of prompt legis-
lation,n
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PARKERSsuRG POINTS
Pscke ed Cp and Transmitted TO the Reg.
i-ier bS Our EaterpristDg CORES.
pOntieBt.
Special % the REGISTER.

1-ter bJ Our EnterprisAhS SOrres'
p0ndebt.
Special % the Register.
PARKERsBURG, February 2l.-Colonel w,
W. Bond, OF Columbus, Ohio, in charge OF
the supplies now belng furnished Marietta,
spent q short time in our city on Wednes-
day, and those who had the pleasure of
forming his acquaintance found him very
genial gentleman.
Colonel Bond was Justly indignant over
what he considered an unreasonable charge
by Mr.. Neale, of the Parkersburg wharf
boat, for wharfage on the relief goods
which lay on this wharf boat an hour or
two while in transit to Marietta. The
charge was 81, but under protest OF Colonel
Cond, who considered the charge exhorbi-
tant, the amount was reduced to $3.50,
which was paid.
Local and through packets arrive and
depart on time.
C. A. Gates, Esq, formerly OF Writ
county, now q prosperous merchant OF
Charleston, passed through here en- route
10 his old home at Burning Springs.
The idea OF uniting the two Presbyterian
congregations of this city has been aban-
doned for the present.
W. H. Wolfe, Esq, of the Second Na-
tional bank has purchased eighty-five feet
of the vacant 10; owned by the Calvary
Presbyterian congregation, and adjoining
their church on Fifth street.
The many friends OF Mrs. Ralph Covert
will regret to hear OF her sudden and Sc
rious illness, lat hope for her speedy re-
covery.
The genial Hugh Sterling, Wheeliugs
popular T. NJ, was greeting friends here on
Tuesday.
Mr.. J o Hunter, OF the music firm OF
FiIzhugh X Hunter, has been TO Newark
during thu week.
Mr. c. u. Merrck was called to Ritchie
county. on Wedn es1ay.
Paul Prayer, who is now one OF the ire
pressible drummers, was in the city this
week. Pgul was one of the water bound
drummeFs who gave the entertainment in
Gs!lipolis during the flood, and the pro.
ceeds were donated to the flood sufferers.
There is some talk OF erecting hotel on
the corner of Court square, on the site OF
the brick block ruined BY the flood.
The court house pump which was carried
away by the Hood has been replaced, and
those who depend upon that we'll for water
are thankful.