The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-04-17
Chas. Reade, the. English novelist, died


THURSDAY. April IL, 1888
Chas. Reade, the. English novelist, died
on Friday last.
There seems to be genuine Grant boom
for the Presidency ncubating. The papers
are full Of it.
If young Democracy" means three
score and ten and then some, the Asylum
Board caught the popular infection.
Joshua Vansant, comptroller of Balti-
more, and one of the leading citizens of
that State, died on Wednesday of last
week.
Gen. Malone, after few days rest and
recreation at his home IN Petersburg, re-
turned to Washington on Monday last,
much improved in health.
The Board at the Eastern Lunatic Asy-
lum met ON the 18th, and after organiz-
ing, adjourned over to the 10th, without
electing any of the officers.
The work of recovering the bodies of tn
miners killed in the explosion'at Pocahon-
tas, is progressing and a number have al
ready been unearthed. Few of them can
be recognized.
Judge RefrN of New York, recently ap-
pointed Chief Justice Of Wyoming Terri
tory, to succeed Judge J. B. Sener, was
stricken with apoplexy. on the 14th, and
died shortly afterwards.
Democratic reading of the Asylum bill =
Officers shall be chosen not for their quail
cations, but solely on the ground of polit-
ical utilization, even if they have to be
removed for incapacity the next week.
James A. Waddell, civil engineer, of
Rockpridge county, Virginia, fell from a
second-story window in Montgomery, Ala
hama. Wednesday night, and received in
.juries which caused his death in a few
hours.
Messrs. Riddleberger, Wise and Hooper,
of the Virginia Readjuster delegation in
Congress, called socially on ex-Secretary
Blaine on Saturday last, and forthwith the
newspaper men manufactured it into po-
litical sensation.
Mr.. F. H. Mays, father of Judge Mays.
of Botetourt county, died at his residence
in that county. last week, aged 81 years.
He had been prominent and useful bust
ness man, had practiced law and repre-
scented the county in the Legislature before
the war.
The Democratic party of Pennsylvania,
in State Convention, at Altoona. on the
9th, declared for Samuel J. Randall, as it's
candidate for the Presidency. The dele
gates chosen to the Democratic National
Convention which meets in Chicago on
the Sth of July will doubtless present his
name for the nomination and support it
by the entire delegation from that State.
In illustration Of the purely non-parti-
Fan spirit of the new Board of Directors
of the several Lunatic Asylums, we have to
state that DR.. David F. May, the accom-
plished Superintendent of the Central
Asylum, located at Richmond, had to give
way to DR.. R. Barksdale-the former re-
ceiving vote and the latter 1.-TWO of the
Directors refusing to vote.
On the 18th Mr.. Morrison moved to take
up for consideration the tariff bill. The
motion was successful by a vote of 140 to
1873. Messrs. Ba rbour and G.. d. Wise,
and all the Readjuster members voted
against the motion, while Messrs. Tucker,
Cabell and Garrison voted for it. We thus
have the policy of the Morrison bill en-
dorsed by the Democratic party-made a
part of it's platform. We may expect an
interesting debate on the bill
Mr.. e. P. Willard, a young and popular
gentleman Of Charleston, w. Va, met
with singular and fatal accident last week.
He was strolling ut with young lady,
and coming to a steep embankment he
went up first and then reached the lady
his cane, giving her the head of it, he
holding the lower part, 1t was a Reming-
ton rifle cane, and the lady's hand pressing
on the spring, the gun exploded, the ball
passing through Wizards heart, killing
him instantly.
Mr.. Henry K. Gregg, native of Berke-
ley county, w. Va, died in Baltimore on
the 18th inst, aged GA years. At one time
he was associated with Judge J. E. Stew
art, now of Page county, in the publica-
tion of the Martinsburg Gazette, where
the senior editor of the VIRGINIAN was
an apprentice. He subsequently published
apaper in Berryville, which was suppressed
during the war. He then accepted
clerkship in the Confederate government
service at Richmond, his health not per
uniting active duty in the field. He was
an eccentric gentleman not only in his
mental characteristics, but in his perso-
nal appearance. Over six feet tall, as
slender as stove-pipe, gangling and awk-
ward in his gait, he would attract atten-
tiOn wherever he WENT He had high
sense of duty-never shirked it's demands
conscientious in whatever he did-and in
all respects an honest man.
The Retiring Officers.
1t is due to the gentlemen who retire