The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-08-20
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

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For ATTORNEY GENERALS:
HON. FRANK S. BLAIR,
of Wytheville.
The Norfolk Landmarks says preachers
have no business in politics." Well what
are you doing with Parson Massey, then?
Lexington and Winchester are claiming
to have discovered caves in their imme
date vicinity. These are the holes the
Bourbons of those places are reserving to
creep into after the Sd of November.
Invitations are out for the marriage of
Prof. Harrison of the Washington and Lee
University. to Miss Lizzie Letcher, daugh-
ter of the late Hon. John Letcher of Lexing-
ton. The ceremony will take place at Grace
Memorial church on the list of Septem-
Der.
The best eulogy Of Gen. Grant that we
have READ was that of Mr.. Blaine. at Au-
gusta, Maine, on the day of the General $
funeral. 1t could not have been added to
or taken from as an appropriate tribute to
the man, the soldierand the statesman and
patriot.
The State Board of Education has ap-
pointed the following trustees of the co..
ored State Normal School at Petersburg:
r. w. Whiting, Alexandria v. Walden,
Armisted Green, Tazewell Branch, Rev. L.
w. Cain Henry Smith and Robert Norton,
in place of the old board, removed.
A decrease of 267 saloons in group of
100 towns and an increase of 1924, in
public revenue from the remaining saloons
in the same towns are cited as sample OF
the workings of high license in Wiscon-
sin during the past three months. Smaller
groups of towns show even more encourag-
ing results.
Jno. Harris, policeman of Gordonsville,
was brutally murdered last week, his body
placed on the railroad track and terribly
mangled by the train running over it. His
throat had been cut and other injuries to
the body inflicted. Edloe Harris and Geo.
Campbell have been arrested charged with
the crime.
Secretary Whitney has announced that
work is to be at once commenced IN all OF
the Navy Yards. The fall elections are
appro aching, and New York and Virginia
will need all the aid the Administration
can give to prevent a disastrous defeat to
the Democratic party. Of course this is
all in the interest of Reform with big r.
Judge d. w. K. Bowles, died at the res
idence of his son, Maj. J. S. Bowles, Will
mington, Va, on the 18th, aged S4. He
had been a prominent citizen and fire..
quently elected to important positions. He
was member of the Constitutional Con.
yention of 1S50-51, from the counties of
Fluvanna, Goochland and Louisa.
From the various sources of income left
by Gen. Grant. including that from the
sale of his memoirs, Mrs. Grants yearly
income will be about SIG, 900. This is indie
pendent of $3.50, 900 trust fund held by the
Morgan estate. This was at Gen. Grant,
disposal, and it is not known, as yet, what
disposition he has made of it in his will.
made mistake when he sold the govern
ment horses for the use of the Interior De
partment and took to foot, as matter
of economy. He will purchase others, and
do as other Secretaries have done before
The spasm of cheese-paring economy-ol
rather penuriousness, with which the ad
ministration started out, is fast wearing
off, and soon we may expect return tt
Republican common sense as well al
economy.
The Mugwump journals cannot see be
yond several Republican appointments IL
New York city. Because Pearson was re
tanned in the New York Post Office, ant
several Cleveland Republicans have beer
appointed to position, they conclude thai
the civil service law is being carried out
to the letter. Yet the fact remains thai
the law Is practically dead letter every
where else. In Virginia especially thu
most blatant and offensive partizans hay'
been appointed in almost every instance.
The work of paying taxes in coupons
goes bravely on in the great Democratic
city of Richmond. Last week ninet.
more persons entered suits to force thu
coupons upon the treasurer. These cou
pons amount to some $4,000. The zap
PEAL OF the Democrats in their platform
to pay the taxes in money appears to hav'
had about as much effect upon the class i
was intended to reach. as the other plank
will have on tho rnaSspc
1t seems to an impartial observer thai
the Bourbons are somewhat overriding the
thing in the boasts they make of the eff
feet of Gen. Fitz Lees appearance at the
Grant funeral on the Virginia election
No Virginian will object to the proper re
cognition of Gen. Fitz Lee on all proper
occasions, but this was one of the occa
sions which ought, in decency, to have
been divorced from politics and all refer
ence to political effect arising from it left
unmentioned. The reaction will come
and that very soon and disgust follow ten
fold more remorseful than the affected de
light now manifested. The people have
not lost their sense of propriety and thu
fitness of things.
Thirteen years agothe writer of this par
agraph cast his first Republican vote fol
General Grant for President and agains
Horace Greeley. He was denounced
and prescribed in his business for dar
ing to make choice between tht
candidates in favor of Grant. Tim
has indicated the vote then cast, TO
the very men who then denounced and
accused him of mercenary motives, ar
vociferous in their laudation of the deat
General, and unstinted in their praise O
his great heart and head. 1t is suddel
conversion, it is true, but we trust sincere
and that hereafter they Will be chary il
their wrath against those who may chos'
to differ from them.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser
The Norfolk Landmarks works itself int
a fret of fear over the effect its imagina
tion has worked up of the success of the
Republicans in the approaching election
If assumes that the policy of the Republi