The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-05-28
E. T. Hill, of Anderson, has been ap-
pointed postal clerk on the Huntington
Division Of the {. & o. Railway.


E. T. Hill, of Alderson has been ap-
pointed postal clerk on the Huntington
Division Of the c. & o. Railway
birmingham. Ala, now makes four hun
bred tons of iron daily, and two more
large furnaces, with capital of 81 900 600
each are to be erected at an early day.
Ten wagon loads of silver were moved
last Saturday from the old to the new Gus
tom house in Cincinnati without difficulty. |
1t was feared that roughs might attack
the convoy, but it was well guarded and
the money safely delivered.
The Front Royal Nelc Era thinks Judge
Jno. Paul is the strongest man the Repub-
licans have for Governor, and that there
ls.but one man who couldEbeat him, who is
Jno. E. Massey. Paul could be elected if
he would accept the nomination, but we
understand he will not allow his name to
be used in that connection.
Victor Hugo, the great French novelist
and poet. died at his home in Paris, on
Friday. in the seth year of his age His
was one Of the great intellects of the CEN
tury, his writing being voluminous. vivid
and full of truth to nature. His funeral
was celebrated with great pomp, the whole
city turning out en- masse to do honor to
his memory.
Chicago Inter Ocean: A fellow down in
Cincinnati visited a newspaper office to re-
,lracc bic crriovopooc Will, - ol,,l, keGa.
the conclusion of the exercises he was
carried to the nearest drug store for arnica
and sticking plaster. and reported to all in
quirers that he had been kicked by a
MULE The editor stuck the usual sign
next on the door and went on with his
leader
The Petersburg correspondent Of the
Norfolk Ledger says There is a strong
impression that Gen. Malone will be called
upon to accept the nomination for Gov
ernor and to lead the Republican party in
Virginia this year. While it is understood
that he is averse to running for Governor.
it is yet believed, if the emergency requires
it, he will sacrifice all feeling in the prem
ises and allow his name to come before the
Convention"
At Elizabeth. in Writ county, w. Va.
on Saturday last, a desperate fight oc-
Cured between J. P. Burlington and Au-
gust kelteau over a COW belonging to the
former which had trespassed on the lat
ter's garden. a knife was used by But
ington and sticks and stones by his an
tagonist. When separated Burlington had
four ribs broken and his skull fractured.
besides number of other serious wounds.
kelteau had received seven stabs. Both
men were in a critical condition at last ac-
counts.
The Kansas Supreme Court has been
called upon to decidea point probably never
before raised. 1t seems that when the
jury went out one Of the number proposed
to open their deliberations with prayer
and thereupon proceeded to pray ''lona
and loud. " The verdict was against the
defendant, whereupon his lawyer moved
to set it aside, on the ground of undue
influence exercised by one of the jurymeI
by means of public prayer in the jury
room.''
On the list OF June a reduction of ten
per cent. on the wages of the employees
of the G. & O. goes into effect The Com.
pany stated that i'll order to compete on
through freight they would be forced to
the reduction, and SO it was left to the
employees to say whether they would &C.
cept the reduction, or whether the Com.
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force, and abandon its through freight
business. The Brotherhood of Locomo.
tive Engineers and other organizations
agreed to accept the reduced wages.
Miss Cleveland, the Presidents sister.
IS lady of fine literary tastes and acquire.
ments. She has recently placed the manu-
script of some miscellaneous writings in
the hands Of a publisher, and from the ex-
tracts from them given in the papers, the
conclusion is forced that she has a strong.
discriminating intellect, toned and disci-
plined by deep moral convictions and an
elevated conception of what character
should be- Her style'is original, didactc
and perspicuous, and the work will be
read, judging from the extracts we have
seen, with interest and profit.
Seventeen girls employed in an old build
ing in Cincinnati, used as printing office.
were burned to death Oh May 21st, a boy
carrying a large can of benzine to the second
floor letting it down upon the floor heavily
Whether the can exploded, or leak was
made out Of which the Oil ran and was
ignited, is not known. 1t took fire, and
the flames spread rapidly up the elevator
to the fourth and fifth stories, where a
number Of girls were at work in the bind
cry and folding room. So rapidly did the
flames spread that escape for some of them
was impossible, and seventeen of them
were burned to death.
Mr.. Beecher commenced series of ser
mons on Evolution" at Plymouth Church
last Sabbath. He said he saw no bridge
between the human race and the animal
Kingdom in their origin. Man had grad
ually grown up from barbaric conditions.
Man appeared on earth ages before the
time given in Christian history. The first
people to gain any knowledge of God were
the Hebrew race-the people on whom all
the Christian world to-day impress their
feet. Gradually men have found God by
experience. God gave no instructions to
man originally, but left him to find out
everything for himself. This only revela-
tion was after man had gained some idea
of moral quality. The rest of Mr. Beech.
er's sermon was u demonstration of the
development of the idea of God in the
mind of man.
In the revised translation of the Bible,
the word HE'LL which is accepted as
meaning a place of torment and punish
ment, is dispensed with. and the word
'sheol" substituted, which means the
abode of the dead. If we are to infer
from this that there is no place of future
torment and punishment, but we simply
pass to the ''abode of the dead" when we
shuttle off this mortal coll" the notions
inculcated from time immemorial as to