The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
The Sons of Temperance order in FIJI


on Monday last.
The Legislature Of Nevada has passed a
law imposing fine Of $50 on any person
who TREATS another in saloon.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette states that Hon. John
L. Harris viii be candidate for the Gov
ernorship.
One of the. most encouraging features
in the industrial situation just now is that
during the past few weeks the iron trade
has steadily but Slowly improved.
Ii our contemporary OF the indicator
would call to mind the fact that a Read
juster Legislature was elected in 1879, and
the party continued in power until 1883,
it would hardly contend that the transfer
of lunatics from the jails TO the aSylums
in 1S8l-S2, was not the result of Readins-
ter management. ~
The Alexandria Gazette, referring to the
conference in Washington last week of
the Democratic members of Congress to
they made, says The impression among
others than Virginians here is that the ac-
tion of the conference will have little in
fiuence on the appointing powers.
Fourteen years ago, Jack Taylor, a col
ored man, was indicted in the county
court of Page, charged with stealing a
few chickens and implicated with others
in stealing bacon. He eluded arrest and
fled to another State He recently re
turned, and while enjoying himself with
his fiddle at his home, was arrested last
week and incarcerated.
On the 9th The Farmers Bank of Nor
folk closed its doors. making the fourth
banking Institution of that city that has
suspended within the past two weeks
There was by the Exchange Bank due de
positors IS 100000 One firm, Balm Bros
had been allowed to overdraw to the
amount of 81 100000 The State hat
100000 in this bank, and there was past
due taxes to the State. $4,000. Suit has
been brought by the Attorney General to
recover.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
April 18th. furnishes detailed statement
of the manufacturing enterprises started
in the South for the first three months Of
1885. The list mbracesfoGrteen States, an(
the aggregate capital invested is SIC, 59l 100
divided as follows: Alabama, 81, 035, 600
including four new coke furnaces at Biz
mingham Arkansas, S179,600; Florida
100000; Georgia, $99l 600; Kentucky
SIPS 600: Louisiana, $465,500 Mary
land. &3,400000 Mississippi, $4,000
North Carolina, $4,000 South Carolina,
$685., GOO; Tennessee, S1.225, 900, Texas
$4,000; Virginia, 81 $4,000: West Viz
g mia, 81 600.
Amherst Democrat Capt. J. w. Hen
ley OF the Virginia Tin Company, was in
town Monday and said his company had
United States. Heinformed us that they
had gotten out from 1.500 to l 800 tons OF
ore since Christmas which would average
so per cent, and were now getting out
from thirtF-live to forty tons a day. One OF
the veins has exceeded their most sanguine
expectations. 1t was though that it would
only be forty feet i'll width. but it turns
out to be fully 100 feet wide and Of very
fine ore. A specimen shown us was 70
per cent. pure tin. AS soon as possible the
company will erect Il furnace and smelt
the ore.
A new sect is being started in Connec
ticut. The creed of this novel church de.
clares q belief in an intelligent over-ruIine
power, a future life for everybody, whose
happiness will depend on the state of the
conscience, and VIII be inyersely proper
tionate to the amount OF wrong com.
mitted Oh earth and that wrong can he
determined only by the exercise of reason.
It then enumerates nine wrongs which
include-to murder, steal. give anything
needless discomfort, &c. The organiza-
tion rejects the Bible, but retains God
whom it calls ''Pote.' Prayer is regarded
as needless. and Sunday rest is recon.
mended for health. Liquor. tobacco and
gambling are forbidden.
The effect of the disastrous bank fail.
ares in Norfolk has been to paralyze busl
ness and reduce to poverty many who g
few weeks ago were considered in comfort.
able circumstances. The business men
are facing the difficulties and embarrass-
ments which environ them with heroic
courage. Aid is also coming in from the
North. to sustain the existing banks and
enlarge their facilities for accommodating
business demands. Prominent gentlemen
of Portsmouth and Norfolk are moving to
organize new bank, and the indications
are that it will not be long before the shock
experienced by the bank failures will have
subsidized and all business resume its wonted
activity.
Eight five-story tenement houses. each to
accommodate ten families, on the south
side of West Sixty-Second street, between
10th and 18th avenues, New York, that
had been recentlyput under roof, fell down
on the evening OF the 18th, while efforts
were being made to brace then up, that
the yielding foundation might be made Sc
cure. The wreck was complete. Not a
stick remained standing, not i timber re-
manned whole, in the entire roof. Fifty
workmen were engaged at the time, thirty
Of whom were injured, and about eight
killed. Fifty men had been ordered away
during the day, and the contractor drove
off a few moments before the collapse of
the houses. He is greatly censured because
of the material out of which the build
ings were being constructed, and especially
for the bad character he bears, in respect
to building,
Judge Wiley, OF the Supreme Court of
the District OF Columbia has informed
the President that he wishes to avail him
self of the provision of law which allows
him to retire on full pay after twenty
years service. The President requested
him to withhold his resignation for the
present. until he could select Il suitable
person to Gil the important position. 1t is
stated also that Chief-Justice Cartier and
Justice Macarthur desire to avail of the
law! The name Of Judge james Keith,
of the Alaxendria Circuit. is mentioned