The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-01-15
Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax,
dropped dead, on the 18th, at Wanketa,
Minnesota,

Capt. Charles w. Folger, only son of the
late Secretary of the Treasury Folger, died
of consumption on the 18th, aged 40 years.
The Court of Appeals has decided that
contributing member of a volunteer mil
itary company is not liable to jury service.
DIR. j. l.. M. Curry, general agent of the
Peabody Fund, has notified r. r. Farr
that he will contribute $4,000 in 1885 for
the payment of expenses of teachers in
stitutes of the State during the year.
Mr.. Moodys meetings in Richmond have
been great successes. Hundreds are daily
turned away from the door of the armory,
the room not being large enough to accom-
modate the vast audiences that gather.
The Woodstock Vayhaian, the Demo-
cratic organ of Shenandoah county, has
changed hands, Messrs, Newman q Wal
ton retiring. and r. II. Martin succeeding
to the proprietary and editorial control.
Hon. Jno. S. Wise has announced that
he is not candidate for the vacancy in
the Law Department at the University,
caused by the death of Prof. Soathall. and
that he. would not accept the position if
rendered him. 4
Rev. D. M. Brown, pastor of the Meth
odist church, Las Vagas, New Mexico,
having renowned his belief in endless
punishment, was pronounced hereto
and his connection with the church dis
solved.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany having been indicted for running
trains on Sunday in Allegheny county, the
cases were tried by Judge Lee last week,
and verdict in favor of the company was
rendered by the jury.
Robt. Whitlock and Robert Hopkins, the
two men arrested in Richmond charged
with displacing switch on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Road on June 22d of last year,
were sent on tothe grand jury of the Grim
inal Court of that city Thursday.
j. C. Scroghan, assistant cashier of the
City National Bank, of Lexington. KY,
is a defaulter to the amount of $40, 1000 and
has skipped to Canada. He left note
stating that he was short $40 .000 had left,
and it was useless to look for him in the
morning.
Hon. Jno. w. Daniel, member of Con-
gress-elect from the Lynchburg district,
has been invited to deliver an address on
the 21st of February, in the Hall of the
House of Representatives on the occasion
of the completion of the Washington Mon
ument.
Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, have
taken possession of the Robinson prop
erty on the Grove road leading out of Rich
mond, which was purchased by the asso-
citation for the Confederate Soldiers Home,
and the building is now being fitted up
and will in short time be ready for the
reception of disabled Confederates.
An ex-clerk of the State Auditor s office
says that the defalcation in that office
might reach 100000, as the manner of
keeping accounts there was incompre-
hensible. If those who have paid in money
which has not been accounted for have to
pay again, the result will be almost inter-
minable litigation. All of the clerks of
courts of the State and many of the banks
are deeply interested.
Col. W. H. Hogeman, prominent law
q yer of Charleston, w. Va. and counsel for
che Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, died in
thas>place on the 5th of acute Bright s
dlsegte, after a short illness. aged Al years.
He Vas native of New York. but settled
III West Virginia when quite young man
and married daughter of Mr.. James
Ruffin, who survives him with two inter-
esting children.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines died in New
Orleans on the 10th, aged rs years. She
was known to the public for thirty years
as claimant and litigant for a large estate
in New Orleans, left by her father, Gen.
Daniel Clarke, and which the city has
withheld from her. Mrs. Gaines was a
woman of versatile talent, great determi-
nation and many accomplishments. She
was a brilliant conversationalist and a
genial, inspiring companion.
The writer of paper recently read be-
fore the French Academy of Medicine ex-
presses the opinion that one in every four
thousand persons is buried alive, while Of
fetal statistics show that the mortality
among sailors from shipwreck averages one
in every four thousand. The question has
of late been much discussed by the medi-
cal body just mentioned, and it remains
to be settled that none of the accepted
indications of death. with the single excep-
ton of unmistakable decomposition, are
to be regarded as perfectly conclusive.
Ex-senator E. G.. Ross, the one Repub-
lican vote that saved Andy johnson from
impeachment and deposition as President
of the United States.it is stated,is living in
and resident of New Mexico. He then
represented Kansas in the United States
Senate, and when he refused to vote for
the impeachment of johnson he was cru
ely denounced and villified as no man ever
had been before or has been since. When
he left the Senate, he started a Democratic
paper in Kansas. at which he eked out a
scanty living for about twelve years. He
now resides in New Mexico, and his name
will be pressed upon the new administra-
tion for Governor of the Territory.
Philadelphia Times, Jan. 13: The signs
of business improvement, which week
ago were only family discernible, continue
to increase. The resumption of work in
the iron and steel furnaces and mills OF
Cleveland seems to have been followed by
similar action in several of the iron CEN
tiers, and more activity IS apparent in iron
and steel trade than at any time during
the last ninety days. A better demand is
accordingly noted for bituminous coal and
coke as natural consequence of the in
creased activity in the iron industry. A
marked increase in number of factories of
various kinds in New England, which
have resumed business since the first of the
year, is also noted. Taken altogether,
the tendencyIto greater industrial and COM
mercial activity seems to have become
quite general. Prices and wages are low
still, and it is possible that the resumption
of production In many instances may be
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