The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-07-09

J. c. Mackin, the Secretary of the DEM
ocratic Committee for Chicago, who was
arraigned for perjury and forgery, was
found guilty and sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary. Mackin is one of the
gentlemen his party depended on to con-
troll member of the Legislature from a
district without q majority of the legal
votes cast, by which it was hoped to de-
defeat Logan for the United States
Senate, and elect Democrat. 1t was
through ballot-stuffing and mutilation of
records he expected to accomplish his OBJ
ject. He is now enjoying the fruits in
the sentence that has been pronounced
against him.
Southern Russia is being devastated by
locusts. They swarm over the country,
moving forward an irresistible army that
devours every green thing before it, leav-
ing behind the desolation of the desert
The best entomologists concur in the
opinion that these insects are the verltable
Scriptural locusts, and the same kind that
visited Kansas some years ago with such
disastrous effect. They differ from the
cicada of the ancients, known in England
as the harvest fly, which is not destructive
in comparison with the locusts now sweep
ing over Southern Russia.
Home Rule, or Local Self Government
for Ireland is marching on. Parnell holds
the balance of power between the Liberals
| and Tories, in Parliament, and both sides
are manGuvering for his support. Coer-
cion for Ireland has been abandoned, and
| if Parnell uses his power wisely,the lnaug-
nration of a new and more propitious
dawn for Ireland may be i'll the near
future
| Craig County Record The Acme Chem.
ical Mining and Manufacturing Company
Of Pennsylvania has considerable force
of hands now engaged in developing slate
at the quarries of Messrs. Tizzard and
Dinner, near New Castle. This compan.
is now anxious to employ teams to trans
port the slate from the quarries to Eagl
Rock, on the Richmond and Alleghan,
Railroad.
1t is stated that Judge Waller r. Staples
has written letter, in which he says he Il
not a candidate for Governor Of Virginia
and does not seek the Democratic nomi
nation, and that If it comes to him it mus
be entirely unsolicited upon his part, arc
to induce his acceptance it must be very
clear that such is the general wish OF til
party.
Mai. Thos. Whitehead, of the Lynch
| burg Advance, has been mentioned in con
nection with the nomination for the Al
torney Generalship on the Democrat
Ticket. Fl. st. Geo. Tucker, Esq, of thi
place. seems to have the inside track 8
far for that position, but Whitehead j
popular with his party, and may come II
on the home stretch.
i One important point must not be mes
lected by the Democratic Conventio
which meets in Richmond on the 29th
That is to demand the repeal Of the Inter
nal Revenue laws. This has been prom
inent demand of the Democrats OF WI
ginia for some time and it would be cor
sistent for them to repeat it in their otat
Convention.
The street car conductors are conducln
tremendous strike in Chicago. Inc car
on the West Side system have been stopped
wagons, carts. omnibuses, etc. have bee
} impressed into service as substitute, an
all Chicago is on big howl. The dis
turbance is a serious one.
A water spout near Walden, Texas
bursted on the 9Th, and lifted railroa
engine and the ears clear off the track an
carried them three hundred feet. Th
track was torn up for considerable dis
lance, and volume of water eight fee
deep and ten wide devastated everythin
in its reach.
There is a howl for Higgins scalp, b,
ais yet he is solid.