The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-04-24

the 9th. The delegates atlarge were to be
elected last night. as s
The Governor of Kansas telegraphs to
Washington that true foot and mouth
diseasehas developed there. Fry
California wheat prospects are reported
as sixty per cent. better than last year, if
unforeseen calamities do not occur.
Great suffering, approaching actual star
walton, is reported among the people in
sections of Marion county, South Caro-
lima. $50 ea4A s.ie veg iifts
Henry Watterson, editor of the Louis
vile Courier-J ournal. declines to serve as
a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention.
The wife of Mr.. Stilson Hutchens, of the
Washington Post died on the Goth. at her
residence in Washington, aged IS years.
They had just returned from a European
trip. sise 81 aaiis 34
The next annual meeting of the Irish
American Nation League will be held in
Boston, probably on the second Wednes-
day in August. Mr.. Parnell is expected
to be present.
Secretary Smith, of the State Agricultu-
raj Society, estimates the wheat crop of
California this year as in excess of that Of
1880, and so per cent. greater than the
crop of last year. nSe..f IS se.....s
Nobody appears to doubt that Colorado
will go Republican this year, and eonse-
quently there are plenty of candidates in
the field for governor. Ex-senator Tabor
and Congressman Belford are included in
the list. AS Governor Grant refuses to
run again, the Democrats are at a loss for
aleader.
The Memphis Avalanche calls Mr.. Bay
ard the ideal free trader, who defines pro-
lection as ''legalized communism. y but de-
clares that he worked with all his might
and voted early and often to sustain the
match monopoly. the most odious and in
defensible monopoly that ever had an ex-
istence in America.
Virginia;s delegation in Congress, both
Readjuster and Democratic, may think
they are playing sharp by lodging, but the
people have no use for any such evasion.
On the Labor bill which passed on Satur-
day, not one single Virginian is recorded
as voting, altho' nine Of them were present.
The vote on the wool question also found
them lodging.
In the contested election case of Massey
VS.. Wise, of Virginia. the House commit
tee on elections Friday decided not to con-
slider any testimony that is exclusively
original in its character taken by Mr.. Mas
sey in Charles City, Accomac, Goochland,
Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington,
and Norfolk counties after the forty days
allowed by the statute.
The Texas romancer posingunder some
such name as Mulhattan, seems to have
drifted into North Carolina. In Texas
this champion liar generally dealt with
the elements or nature-at one time. de-
scrlbing hailstones as big as a mans head,
then huge meteors, which plowed up acres
of ground as they fell from their ethereal
abode. and then again ansimmense cave of
marvelously beautiful attractions. Henow
seems to be getting up imaginary negro
riots in North Carolina, similar to those
reported in Texas and Mississippi several
months ago, but no evidences of which
were to be found. The latest is that in
Martin county, N. c., the negroes are in a
mutinous mood, and threaten the torch
and the pistol. When the truth comes,
there will be found nothing in it, yet a
good many silly people will believe it.
The Chronicle Fire Tables has given some
rather surprising facts in connection with
losses by fire, which during the past nine
years in the United States and Canada
have aggregated the value Of SITS. 642, 1858.
IF the obliteration of the property of a
single State were announced some morn
ing,' says the journal in question, 1.-THE
public would shudder; nevertheless, this
nine years loss is greater than the aggre-
gate VALUATION of the real estate and per-
s0nal property in sixteen States and ter
ritories-numerically one-third of the
Union" In addition to this there has
been an increase over former periods of
the same length in proportion to valua-
tion. Fifty years ago the losses by fire
were only about fourteen millions; now
they are about one hundred Millions
Eight or nine years ago the loss was only
about seventy millions. While population
doubles itself each thirty-three years, the
fire loss is doubled in twenty years.
As the Boston Advertiser says, the chief
cause of this increasing destruction I'M
doubleday consists in sham buildings
cheaply constructed houses, that not only
make bad residences, but are easily and
quickly burned when once they catch fire.
There is no doubt that laws ought to be
made prohibiting the creation of those
slipshod structures, which are found in
every city, under heavy fine, and the ex-
listing laws looking to that end ought to be
enforced faithfully and promptly.
The New York Tribune, in it's editorial
review Of Money and Business for the
week ending April 10Th, says lone week
ago there was reason to hope that exports
might be quite largely increased. For the
week ending April II, the exports of wheat
from Atlantic ports have been ,272,50
bushels the shipments of the largest pre-
yiOus week for a month had been less than
half as great, and the average had been less
than 100000 bushels weekly. Then the
spectators began their work again, and
with unusual excitement the price was
crowded up from 994 cents for May wheat,
on the 18th, to $l.032 on Saturday last.
Transactions were enormous. both here
and at Chicago and othe- markets, and in
corn and other grain as well as in wheat.
Whether exports are likely to revive under
the circumstances may perhaps be best
inferred from the fact that most of the
speculative houses advise their customers
not to buy OH SO rapid an advance. The
same idea is likely to influence those who
deal for export. The agricultural report
shows larger acreage Of winter wheat
than was harvested last wear by 5 per cent. |