The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-01-10
The Pulp Mill, at Parkersburg, w. Va,
was burned on the 4th. Loss about $40,-


The Pulp Mill, at Parkersburg, W. Va,
was burned on the 4th. Loss about $40,-
900.
Sergeant Mason, and Betsy and the baby,
are exhibiting in Philadelphia museum
at s., cooper week.
Two shopkeepers in Boston have been
fined $50 each for keeping their clerks en-
ployed more than 10 hours in day.
Mr.. R. D. Beckley. colored straight
out Republican, has been appointed to a
position by the Doorkeeper of the House
of Representatives,
The Democratic Caucus. at Columbus,
Ohio, on Tuesday night last, nominated
II. B. Payne, on the first ballot. for U. S.
Senator to succeed Mr.. Pendleton.
Mr.. j. w. Brockenbrough, of Licking
ton, son of Judge Brockenbrough, d,
has been appointed by Hon. J. r. Tucker,
Chairman, to the clerkship of the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr.. w. O. Grover, of Boston, who has
before given $1,000 to Roanoke College,
recently sent his check for $4,000, to be
applied to the endowment of that institu-
ton. This college has received cansidera-
BILE assistance within the past six years
from Boston and other Northern cities.
The Convent of the Immaculate Con-
ception, at Belleville, ILL.,, was burned to
the ground on the 9th. Five sisters and
twenty pupils persisted in the flames, or
were killed by jumping from the upper sto-
ry windows. Among them was the Sister
Superior. The CONSERVATION was awful
The fire was accidental.
The cold wave which reached here on
Saturday, started in the Northwest on the
LIST, where for three days the temperature
ranged from 400 to $40 below zero. 1t ex-
tended to Florida, where great damage was
done to the orange crop, although notice
was sent from the Washington weather
Bureau three days in advance. In Charles
ton it was the coolest spell that had been
experienced for 1856 years.
The New York Sun places the shrink
age in values of securities dealt in at all
the Stock Exchanges for 1888 at one hum
dred million dollars, and yet there was NO
panic and few failures. 1t was mainly the
evaporation of watered stock. The rail
roads upon which the securities were
mostly based are quite as good as they
were year ago, and the basis for invest
msnt is certainly more substantial
Mr.. Lloyd Logan, of Winchester, Va,
received by express from Cincinnati, Ohio,
on the day after Christmas, eight silver
dessert spoons which were taken from his
house while occupied as Union head
quarters during the war. No name ac-
companied the package, and so Mr.. Logan
does not know to whom to feel grateful fo1
this tardy return of these souvenirs, which
have been owned by the family since 1882
Mr.. Willard, president of the Northern
Pacific railroad, a few weeks ago, was esti-
mated to be worth S10,000,0O0. To-day, it
is stated, he is not worth cent, with his
health broken down. The great fall in the
securities of the Northern Pacific comb
nation was the cause. Mr.. Willard staked
his all in the great enterprise and lost.
If his health should be restored, he will
yet come to the front, for all admit him to
be an able and honest man. The combina-
tion against him was. however, too great.
The Springfield, Ohio, correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette gives
an account of a four-year-old boy who
smokes twenty strong cigars a day. He
commenced when fourteen months old,
and has been smoker ever since, increas-
ing the quantity consumed as he grew in
months and years. A cigar was handed
him in fun at first. He seized it and
commenced smoking and continued until
it was all gone. He would then cry for
day. A physician was called in to exam
inc the case, and finding the indulgence did
not appear to injure the child it was adj
vised to let him 60 on. He is now four
years old: fat and healthy.
If the editor of the Alexandria Gazette
would take the trouble to inform himself
upon subjects about which he writes, the
columns of his paper would doubtless con-
tain fewer unjust paragraphs. In speak
ing of the recent suicide of patient at the
Asylum, he undertakes to lay the blame on
the officers of the institution, and speaks
as if such things had never occurred prior
to the present administration. If he will
take the trouble to look up the old reports,
he will find that there has scarcely been a
year since the foundation of the Asylum
that one or more suicides have not occur
red. Last year was an exception to the
rule, and the fact that the institution had
escaped such visitation was regarded as so
unusual, that the Superintendent called
attention to it in his last annual report.
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