The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-05-01

THURSDAY. May !, 1884
A disastrous cyclone passed near Day
ton, Ohio, on Monday last, blowing away
houses, uprooting trees and causing sew
eral deaths.
Mr.. Adam Lickliter, the postmaster at
Timberville. was paralyzed last week. He
is brother Of Mr.. Jacob Lickliter, OF
Woodstock, who was paralyzed on Tuesday
last. = ~
The Waynesboro Messenger states that
DR.. Baxter Fishburne, lately connected
with the Presbyterian Missionary post in
China. will locate at Mt. Jackson, Shenan-
doah, for the practice Of his profession.
A dispatch to. the Wing. dated Harrison
burg, April Doth, says: ~. Rice Warren,
cashier of the Rockingham Bank, was
struck with paralysis this evening. His
life is despaired of.
The citizens of Salem, Roanoke county,
are about to issue pamphlet descriptive
of the attractions Of their town and local.
ity. The edition win reach 10000 and be
distributed gratuitously.
During the hail-storm of Friday last,
the barn of Mr.. Daniel Rhodes, blind
man, living q miles west Of Harrison
burg, was struck by lightning, and together
with its contents entirely destroyed.
The Greenback party of Massachusetts
held its convention at Lowell last week,
and after adoptinga platform and declaring
that they intended to continue the fight
for fiat money, nominated Ben Butler for
President. ae,
The Democratic primary win be held on
the 18th of May, just one week before the
election. 1t is good thing to stay out
of. If they nominate good men then you,
can vote for, them. If they don't nomi-
nate good men then you can help to defeat
them. sst
The Straightout Republican Convention
convened in Richmond yesterday. Judge
Alex. Rives, it was thought, would pre-
side. Judge w. w. Willoughby, Lewis
Mckenzie, B. B. Bolts and other promi-
nent old line Republicans were present the
day before.
Mrs. G.. FL. Haines, wife of Mr.. George
H. Haines, United States Mail Agent on
Valley Branch Railroad, died at her resi-
dence in Winchester on Tuesday night OF
last week, after short illness of typhoid
fever. She leaves large family. some of
them quite small children.
Mr.. John T. Antrim. prominent citi.
zen of Charlottesville, died last week
aged 66 years. He at one time resided in
Harrisonburg and also in Augusta County
He was an intelligent, active and useful
citizen and a genial gentleman. His daugh'
ter also died the day after his death and
the two were buried together.
The Bourbon press was fierce in its de-
nunciation of the Coalitionists, before the
State Convention of April Esd, because
they did not assume the name of "Repub.
lican." Now since they have accepted
that nomenclature for their future identi-
fication, the wrath of our Bourbon friends
is not appeased, but denunciation is equally
extravagant because they have declared
themselves Republicans. The Bourbons
are hard to please, and there is nothing
left to do now but to give them good
drubbing in November next in order to
compel them to be quiet and respect thei1
peers. ,isf
William G. Brown, who died at King
wood, Preston county, West Virginia, q
few days ago, had Leen member of the
bar in Virginia and West Virginia fol
sixty-two years, He was prosecuting at.
torney in Preston county as long ago as
1922. was in the Virginia Legislature in
1882 anda member of Congress in 1S45
He was one of the four delegates from
Virginia in the Charleston Convention OF
1850, who refused to be bound by the
unit vote after it became apparent that ii
was used for a factious purpose, and
united with the delegates from the Valley
in voting for Douglas as the Democratic
nominee.
The way to defeat and destroy Ring rule
is to repudiate the machinery by which
Ring rule is made possible. Without the
Primary and the enginery connected with
it, there would not be the slightest shadow
of chance for anyone connected with the
Ring to gain position Of authority in the
city government. The great mass of the
people are squarely against the machinery
of the Primary, if left free to express
their opinion. 1t is by device and combi-
nation and complication that most of
those who 60 to the Primary are induced
to do so. AS an original proposition and
on it's merits. they would be opposed to it.
The Ring is already whipped, but if the
machine can be kept in motion they may
hope to get it in control hereafter. Mash
the machine and they would be helpless,
for full and fair vote of the people would
administer a rebuke that could not be
misunderstood,
The -antagonisms between the Demo-
cratic factions over the tariff are becom-
ing interesting and indicate that there is
no probability of a compromise between
them. The Randall wing last week made
the following proposition, which was re-
jected by the Carlisle Morrison faction,
leaving the differences no nearer adjust
ment than before the proposition was
made: 1--WE will consider and vote to pass
bill which omits the feature of horizon
tai reduction, and which provides for the
correction of inequalities, defects and
errors in existing legislation, and also pro-
,vides for moderate and reasonable reduc-
;tiDn of custom duties, and for the repeal
.of all internal taxes except on spirits dis
TITLED from grain, and the abolition of all
iinternal revenue offices, with suitable pro-
visions for more economical collection
Of taxes on. spirits distilled from grain"
The people should set their faces like
flint against the appeals of the Ring to
save their Primary machinery. There is
where their strength Plies. Deprive them
sof that and they would be as helpless as
Rabies. All kinds of appeals are made to
sentice those who are instinctiyely opposed
Ito the Machine. to pass into it's meshes.
THE people are just as capable of making
proper selections of public servants without