The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-14

Hon. John S. Barbour was nominated
last week by reclamation in the Eighth
Congressional District Democratic Con-
vention.
Newark, New York, heretofore a Demo-
caatic paper, has come out for Blaine and
Logan.
The Texas fever has broken out among
the cattle in Southwest Kansas, and there
is danger of it spreading all through that
section of the State.
The Board of Supervisors Of Botetourt
county cancelled at its last meeting $4,000
worth of Valley Railroad bonds. This
leaves the railroad debt of the county
$S3, 900.
SAINT. l.. Fudge has been appointed post
master at. Lowmoor's. Allegheny county.
Anew Office has been established at Lairds',
Rockbridge county,. E. Laird, post
master.
IT is too late to withdraw Cleveland, as
is being urged by some of his Democratic
friends in New York. He will have to
stand and take the most fearful drubblng
candidate ever received.
Gen. Logan and Mr.. Hendricks acct
dentally met in the dining room OF the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and had
a hearty shake of hands. They had not
met each other for years.
Mai. Sutherlin's road has been COM
pleted from Danville to Stuart, the county
seat of Patrick county. The first train
passed over it last week, which was the
occasion of great rejoicing in Patrick.
If a conclusion were reached from the
indications coming up from every portion
of the North and West, it would be that
Blaine and Logan will carry the electoral
vote of every Northern and Western
State.
If ANYBODY doubts that the Irish-Amer-
lean voters are leaving the rotten hulk OF
Democracy, let him get copy OF the
last Irish World. 1t publishes columns OF
letters from leading Irishmen declaring
for Blaine and Logan.
The committee appointed to select a
site for the Southwestern Lunatlc ASy-
lum, for which the last Legislature made
an appropriation, have made choice OF
Marion, Smythe county, as the locality
where they have secured 209 acres OF val
liable land and very attractive and COM
manding site.
Tammany Hall demands the entire CON
troll of the government of the city Of New
York as its price for the support of Cleve
land. This the county Democracy viii
not consent to, inasmuch as the defeat Of
Cleveland would leave them without State
or national patronage.
Mr.. Samuel Fessenden, Secretary OF The
Republican National Committee, referring
to the Cleveland scandal, said, last week
1.-The Republican National Committee
has decided not to touch this matter a.
all. We shall leave it to the Democratic
newspapers and the clergy.
The nomination of Cleveland was made
to meet the exquisite demands of the per
fectionist Republicans of the Curtis
Schurz and Beecher stripe. In order tt
satisfy them, offense was given to the ranl
and file of the party The game was {
losing one, and will pan out badly.
Mr.. Frank Hurd, the free trade member
of Congress from Ohio, says, "all idea Of
protection of any kind is excluded from
it" the Democratic platform. Mr.. Wat
terson, Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Carlisle
agree with Mr.. Hurd, and they are the
representative men of their party.
A remarkable result is announced il
Kentucky, at the State election last week.
In the Lexington District, where the
Democratic majority has heretofore been
from l 500 to $500, Mr.. Holt, Republican
was elected appellate judge over his Dem
ocratic competitor by a majority of from
1000 to 1900.
Judge r. w. Hughes, in an opinion de-
livered in Richmond, on Tuesday, Judge
Bond concurring, holds that all coupons
maturing after July lst, 1882, can be funded
at par in new SIS bearing per cent. in.
terest. The court holds that this is the
proper construction of the Riddleberger
debt-settlement act.
The ship-building shops of. John Roach
at Chester. Pa, were burned on the Sth.-
The loss in buildings. machinery, &C., is
estimated at $500, O00,., mostly covered by
insurance. Mr.. Roach says his actua
loss will not exceed $50, O0O-that rebuild
ing will go on at once, and that all the
hands will be employed as there is much
work to be done Immediately.
John Kelly and the New York San made
it known to the country before Cleveland
was nominated at Chicago, that if the
Convention made choice of him he could
not carry New York, and that Blaine's
election was as good as secure. Now that
they stick to what they said, numbers OF
Democrats are denoucing them.
Arlington & Son. of Petersburg, sued
the Western Union Telegraph Company
for 1920, the amount of loss to them by
the telegraph operator making mistake
in dispatch, advising the sale of a lot OF
tobacco, at Is instead Of 13a, cents as the
original dispat CHI read. Judgment was
given the plaintiff for the full amount.
The shock of an earthquake Saturday
evening was felt in various places along
the Atlantic coast and further west, from
Baltimore to Boston. In some of the
towns the shock was felt more severely
and perceptibly than in others, but no
other damage was experienced than the
shaking of windows, jarring of houses,
and disturbing the nerves of the sensitive.
The Court of Appeals has decided unan-
imously that the Apportionment bill as
passed by the Legislature of Virginia
last spring, is constitutional. This sim
plifes the work of the extra session. The
Congressional districts remain as the new
superintendent made them. The Republic
cans will now proceed to the work of call
ing conventions and making nominations.
A few Independent Republicans have
published a statement, or, what they call
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