The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-03-20

THURSDAY. March 20 1884
Maj. B. T. Eakle will be the head clerk
1t the White Sulphur this season.
Mr.. Ingalls, has reported the bankrupt
bill favorably from. the Judiciary Commit
Zee, with amendments. 1t is believed a
dill will pass this session.
The two Houses have passed bill which
will hereafter not permit children under
six years old to enter the public schools.
They can now enter at five.
Geo. w. Ward, ESQ.,, recently appointed
Superintendent Of Public Schools for
Frederick county, has entered upon the
discharge of his duties.
With Carlisle preaching free trade in
New York, and JEFF Davis clarifying in
unreconstructed sublimity in Mississippi,
the chances for getting man to accept
the Democratic nomination for President,
grow beautifully less.
Last Saturday, elections were held in
many counties in Pennsylvania for dele
gates to the Republican State Convention.
The large majority of the delegates chosen
were pronouncedly for Blaine. Blaine
stock also seems on the rise in Ohio.
The Alexandra Gazette is the only Dem
ocratic paper in the State that has the
courage of its convictions. 1T is openly
free trade and doesn't care who knows it,
whilst its contemporaries of the same po-
litical household are trimming on the
tariff.
Four persons escaped from the Jail Of
Greenbrier county last week. One of
them was shot at by the jailor and hit
the ball passing THROUGH hia heas- -...' eS''.s-
ing OUT near the nipple. His name is
Sharp. One of the prisoners, colored
man, returned the next day and gave him
self up.
On Monday, when the resolution came
up to appropriate $25OO to the families of
the Pocahontas miners, the bill passed the
House, but certain Democratic members
of the Senate declared it unconstitutional
and therefore it did not become law.
To their credit be it said that.every Coali-
ton member voted for it.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Norfolk Ledger says 1.-THE name of John
Paul is spoken of for Governor. 1t is said
the Judge has an idea that he can be
elected for that position next year. He is
by long odds the best man in the Malone
party, and can no doubt poll the largest
vote of any candidate his side can put up.
Paul is is very good canvasser.' This
will do for red-hot Democratic journal.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker was conspicu-
Gus by his absence from the Free Trade
Club dinner given in New Y ork last week.
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Vance were present
and made characteristic speeches, but Mr..
Tucker who has hitherto been shining
light in these convocations, was not men,
toned in the public prints. He has prob
ably found out that the people of his dis
trict have had enough of free trade and
free traders, and is cutting his cloth ac-
cordingly. The Bourbons are learning.
Last week, Jefferson Davis visited the
capitol of Mississippi, and was met with a
perfect ovation. Both houses of the Leg
islature adjourned, the Supreme Court dis
continued its session, and the town turned
out to meet the distinguished ex-President.
He was introduced by the Lieut.. Governor
and made characteristic speech in which
he said in referring to the war: 81 agreed
with the decision our people then made
and were the thing to be done over again,
would do as then did," Mr.. Davis is
candid, at least.
The subcommittee of the Committee
on Elections of the House of Representa-
tiyes, which has been considering the con-
tested case of O'Ferrall VS.. Paul from this
district, submitted theirrep on Monday
last to the whole committee and it was
adopted. The subcommittee decided that
the appointment of delinquent tax col
lectors was not legal, and on other points
raised in the contest reported favorable to
O'Ferrall. 1t is not known when the case
will be decided. If the House .sustains
the report of the committee, it viii not
only seat O'Ferrall but go far towards
putting Massey in Wise's place.
There appeared last week in several of
the New York papers telegram dated at
Baltimore, stating that conflict between
the Democrats and Readjusters had oc-
CURED in Staunton, in reference to the
State institutions located here, and that
great excitement prevailed with prospect
of blcodshed. The whole statement was
a miserable falsehood. There cannot be
any conflict of authority until the Boards
to be appointed undertake to take charge
of the institutions on the 18th of April.
Whether any resistance will then be made
we knownot, but if there should be the
question will be decided by the courts, and
not by any resort to violence.
At the Sixth Annual Dinner of the New
York Free Trade Club, held on Saturday
last, Hon. J. G. Carlisle, speaker of the
House of Representatives, delivered the
principal speech In common with all of
the other speakers on the occasion Mr..
Carlisle advocated free trade, and an
nounced the doctrine that Taxation only
for the purpose of raising revenue for
public use should be the established law"
At the same time the speaker was cautious
enough as to the legislation necessary to
bring about free trade. He stood sub
stantially on the Morrison bill as the enter
ing wedge to gradual reduction of the
tariff, and the ultimate extinction of inn
port duties. If anything were necessary
to awaken the people to sense of the
danger of Democratic ascendancy in the
national government, Mr.. Carlisle's utter
ances should be sufficient. He plainly
says that the design of the party of which
he is the recognized leader, is the estab-
of free trade and that its course
in tn present Congress is but the initiatory
step in that direction. He advertises De-
to the world in its true colors,
and in language sossplain than none save
the blindest of the blind need be deceived.
One of the most ridiculous exhibitions
made by the legislature during this session,
was the refusal of the Senate, on Monday
last, to vote s., 500 to the Pocahontas suf
ferers, on the ground that the Constitu-