The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-05-21
Attorney General F. S. Blair. went to

Attorney General F. S. Blair. went to
Wheeling on Monday last.
The Grocer Furnace at Roanoke, having
undergone necessary repairs, was expected
to go in blast on the Goth
The house owned by Senator Don Cam
eron on Scott circle, Washington, has
been purchased by D. P Morgan, of New
York. for 5000.
Geo. w. Woods, Of Rockingham. who
was tried for the murder OF Jacob Lincoln,
prominent citizen Of Lacy Springs, and
sentenced to the Penitentiary for Is years,
has been pardoned by Gov. Cameron.
Miss Mary Carver died in Monterey last
week agedi34 years, after a protracted i'll
ness. The Recorder speaks of her in very
high terms and the distress her death oc-
casions in the circle of her relatives and
riends.
Salem Register Capt. J. c. Langhorne be-
came purchaser of Fort Lewis, at the sale
Saturday, paying 81 600 for six hundred
acres Of land, including the residence now
occupied by Mr.. Samuel White. The
captain secured bargain in that pur.
chase
The nail department of the Old Vir.
ginia nail and iron works. at Lynchburg
which closed down April 18th on account
of oyerstock, have received an unexpected
run Of orders, and the mills were started
again Monday of last week with every
prospect of a permanent run.
Tom Hedricks' ideas of Civil Service
seems now to be the winning card. 1t is
to reform all the Republicans out of office
and all the Democrats in to take thei1
places. 1t is very popular with the sue
cessful office-seekers, but not SO popular
with those left out in the cold who con
stytute a vast army.
Salem Register: Hon. H. S. Trout, OF
Roanoke city, paid our office pleasant
visit last Tuesday. He informed us thai
business was reviving in the city, and tina
the bank of which he is president has pait
out in the last ten days over $40, 900 t.
laborers employed there. We are glad t.
learn from him, also, that the machine
shops will add large force of workmen il
a few days.
The President has appointed Andrew L.
Ellet, prominent merchant of Richmond
to succeed Maj. Asa Rogers. as Interna
Revenue Collector for the Petersburg Dis
trict and Mr.. Geo. NJ. Helme in thu
place of Col. j. B. Raulston for the Ro
anoke District. 1t is thought headquar
tiers for the district to which Mr.. Ellet
has been appointed will be removed from
Petersburg to Richmond
a letter from Lunenburg county says
that during the past ninety days over
twenty-five per cent. OF the stock of that
county has been swept off by a disease
that is prevailing among cattle, of which
no accurate diagnosis has as yet been
made, and no treatment to successfully
arrest it. 1t is confined to no locality Oh
condition of cattle, and has been equally
fatal in adjoining counties.
We have noticed the missing two cents
in the count of $500 ,000, 900 in the Treas
ury, on the occasion of the new Treasurer
taking charge. The two cents have been
found and the account squared to the cent.
This is the Republican record. Yet the
-'rascals must 60" When the four years
of the present administration will have
expired, the Republicans will again take
charge. We will then see whether the other
..rascals" have as clean record.
The Highland Recorder mentions tina
DR.. A. T. Woods, son Of Mr.. George
Wood, of Willow Spout, passed through
Monterey last week on his way to Buck
harmon. Upshur county. w. Va. where he
proposes to locate. DR.. Woods is a young
man of fine character, studious habits,
graduated high in his class and is destined
to make his mark in the profession if he
lives. We commend him to the people of
Upshur as in every way worthy Of their
confidence.
The Petersburg correspondent of the
Norfolk Ledger is authority for saying that
Governor Cameron does not intend to al
low his hostility to Gen. Malone to inter
fere with his relations to the Republican
party-that if the people are allowed to
fairly choose the delegates to the Repub-
lican State Convention, he will cordially
support the nominees of that body. AS
En-, 10 +o+o l,o
no political aspirations at present.
J. T. McGraw has been appointed Col
iector of Internal Revenue for the
West Virginia District, to succeed Mr.
Mccormack, who was appointed a few
months before the expiration of Presi
dent Arthur's term. Mr.. McGraw;s name
was sent to the Senate before it adjourned
its special session, but was not confirmed.
There was quite contest among Demo-
Gratis for the position, and the selection
finally determined on leaves anything but
harmony among the faithful.
The Hedge fence suit before Judge Paul
in the U. S. Court, Harrisonburg, was
buC QCtClludu UhCoSlS. III
val & Tilford and The Tennessee Hedge
Co., y admitting that they had infringed
the patents Of Wesley Young, of the Day
ton, Ohio. Hedge Co. The plaintiff takes
the plant of the Tennessee Company at
its actual value. The Dayton Company
have a capital invested of S150,000, and
will establish branch for the Valley coun-
ties, with headquarters at Harrisonburg.
The fence is highly spoken of by parties
who have seen it.
The way the civil service law is practi-
,ally construed is to consider it offensive
partizanism for a Republican to express
his honest political convictions and legiti..
mately work for their enforcement, and to
regard the same action by Democrats mer-
itorious. A Republican Office holder is
displaced because of his opinions and the
way he gives them expression, and a Dem
)crat is ordered to succeed him, who is
more extreme and reckless in the political
work he has performed. We will soon
understand precisely what Iapplied civil
service reform means.