The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-11-26

At the special session of the Senate.
after the 4th Of March last, to confirm the
Cabinet and other appointments of Pres
ident Cleveland, Senator Edmunds was
elected President pro tenn. Of the Senate.
He is therefore the acting Vice President !;
aud in the contingency of the death of Pres
ident Cleveland, would become President
of the United States.
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Gen. Fremont is reported to he in bad
health and in great poverty.
Greatseatthquake waves have been re-
ported on the Pacific coast at, San Fran
cisco.
Ten inches of snow fell at Frostburg,
Nd, on Sunday night last, affording coed
s'eighing.
The Richmond Whig, including the
presses, type, subscription list. &C.. viii
be offered at public sale Dec. LIST, il not
sold privately before that time.
A Richmond letter states that Col. w.
II. Aylett and Mr.. Jas. n. Dunlop will
compete for the seat in Congress from the
Richmond district now held by Hon. Geo.
D. Wise.
If the Republican defeat in New York
shall finally and forever free the party
from Mugwumpism, it will be. the biggest
sort of blessing and no disguise about it.
Hon. John II. Mitchell has been elected
by the Oregon Legislature to the United
States Senate from that State. He is a
Republican and served in the Senate from
Oregon some years ago.
On the Goth, ex-Mayor Bowman. of East
st. Louis, was shot dead by some one I'M
known. while entering his house after
dark He was prominent Republican.
and out of this it is believed the assassina-
tion grew.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that five
thousand persons have been drowned
and one hundred and fifty villages sub
merged in Orissa by a cyclone, and that
l.24l square miles in the Moorshedabad
and Huddea districts have been devastated.
Mr.. Nipple, of Philadelphia, killed an
emaciated and crippled COW. and sold it in
the market to customers for good beef.
His offense was discovered. and he is now
wrestling with a fine of S1.250-a rather
stiff price to pay for small speculation in
fresh meat.
The Blacksburg Neaos, a campaign Re
publican paper, has ceased its issue, doubt
less In accordance with the original de-
sign of the late publisher. The Demo-
cratic papers. however. announced the
suspension without mentioning the fact
that it was only published for the cam
paign.
w. d. Chew, a former conductor on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. has brought
suit against that company for $4,000
damage. He had been accused of taking
SIS from the company, was tried and ac-
quilted, and now brings suit for defama-
ton of character.
Kanawha Gazette: While Mr.. Richard
Burke, of Hinton, w. Va, was ell route
from Washington, D. c., to Baltimore
last Saturday to purchase type, &C.. for
his paper that he proposes to issue Nov.
25th. he was robbed of 1865. He has re-
ported the matter to the police authorities
of Washington, who are now on the watch
for the guilty parties.
Robt. Garrett, President of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad. has effected deal
by which he secures for his road entrance
into New Y ork city by way of the Staten
Island road. The coup has caused much
comment in New York and Philadelphia
lin the former city favorable and in the
latter fearful, because it threatens some
of the trade and travel that city has here
tofore enjoyed.
We learn that a scheme is on foot to put
Mr.. Massie where he cannot interfere
with the plans and schemes of the rock
ribbed Bourbons. He is to be elected
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and
by this means get him out of the Senate
as its President. Mr.. Massie can think
OF this little plot, ard make up his mind
in the premises.
When the civil service bill was under
debate in the Senate, Mr.. Voorhees,, who
opposed it, said not two members of that
body could answer the questions pro-
pounded to applicants for minor offices by
the examining boards under the civil SER
vice law, though any one of them was fit
to hold the highest place within the gift of
the people. There were but few Senators
who did not agree with him. though, of
course, they took pains not to say so.
Parnell and the Home Rulers for ireland
have openly proclaimed a coalition, with
the Tories as against the Liberals. It is
believed that this will insure a controlling
influence in Parliament for the coalition,
sustain the present ministry and give to
Parnell what he asks for Ireland Parnell
has shown himself to be the most saga
cious political leader in the United King
dom, and has the promise of securing for
ireland great amelioration.
When a young man asks a young lady to
marry him it means something in Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Rob't L. Jacobs, of Exec lsior
Springs, in that State, made such propo-
sition to Miss Cora Irwin. of Kansas City,
and she agreed to it. Subsequently Jacobs
relented and declared the bargain off. Miss
Cora, however, did not care to be tri6ed
with and appealed to the Courts, where
she was awarded SIC. 900 damages for her
lacerated feelings. Good for Jacobs, and
for any other dude, who aspires to make
sport of a serious matter, and especially
of girls heart.
The Board of Education, composed of
Governor Cameron, Attorney General
Blair, and Superintendent of Public
Schools. Farr, has appointed Prof. j. M
kingston, of Washington city, President
of the coored Normal Collegiate Institute
of Petersburg. Va. 1t is good appoint
ment. Prof Langston IS scholar an orator
and gentleman-one of the most polished
men we have ever met, and will fill the
position with honor to himself and profit
10 the Institute. He is a native of Louisa
va and was a slave until eman-