The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-01-29

1t is rumored that Governor Pattison, |
If Pennsylvania, will enter the Methodist
Episcopal ministry at the close of his term
If office.
In April lightning express train will
begin to run between Paris and st. Pc
tersburg 1t will make the trip in fifty
eight hours.
Mrs. Louisa Campbell, the estimable
wife of Mr.. Rollin Campbell, Of High
town, Highland county, died OH the odd,
of consumption.
The Arkansas Legislature has elected
ladies to the position of reading and en-
rolling clerks. Who says the South is not
A company has been organized at Edin-
burg, Shenandoah county, for the manu-
facture of agricultural implements, with a
cash capital of 100000.
Is is pretty well ascertained that the
to blow up the houses of Par
lament was Matched in Paris, and no one
in the United States had any part in it.
At the election in Wheeling last week,
the Republicans carried the city, electing
their candidate for mayor by a majority of
7OO This is the first Republican mayor
elected for twenty years.
In none of the Southern States do the
receipts from the post office pay the ex-
penses of the postal office. In Virginia
the deficit is $4O7 900. and in Georgia
1920, 900.
A New York prison convict has in
vented hat-pressing machine which he
patented and sold for $4,000, half of
which sum has been placed in the prison
safe to his credit.
VIM. M. BurweiI, formerly of Virginia,
has been nominated by the President for
naval officer of Customs. at the Port of
New Orleans. He at one time represented
Bedford county in the Legislature.
A young man who scoffed at the con-
version of a number of people in Il revi
val at Hartford City. Ind, Monday night,
was struck down by some unseen force
and lay as dead for four hours.
1t is stated in Boston that the wool mar
ket has improved little since the arrival
of new Australian, but that much of the
new wool is tender and presents Il fine APP
pearance without much substance.
Capt. J. Henry Rives, late Collector of
the old 9Th Internal Revenue District,
was thrown from his horse, at his home in
Lynchburg last week, and received very
serious injuries. At last accounts he was
improving.
John Cowdron, a tramp, died i'll the in
Urinary at Springfield, Ohio, last Sunday,
and the doctor has taken off the skin,
which is decorated with series of re-
markabe etchings, tattooed in colors, to
preserve as a curiosity.
At Westminster, South Carolina, is the
smallest and most profitable cotton factory
in the world. Its capital is $4,000; it en-
ploys seven hands, works 200 spindles, and
reports profit of 40 per cent. annually.
The cotton is spun without being at first
ginned.
DR.. J. j. Norman, president of the
board of trustees of Roanoke College, for
forty-five years resident physician at the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, and
author Of several works on the mineral
springs Of North America. died at his
home in Salem on Friday. aged eighty -four
years.
Australians have discarded the horse
bit and substituted for it Garage, con-
sisting of q steel band placed over the
front bone of the horses nose, to which
appliance the reins are attached. 1t is
claimed for this substitute for the bit that
it give complete control over the horse
without inficting the least torture or
discomfort.
The Legislature of Illinois has not yet
organized. A dispatch from Springfield
states that the Senator from Carrollton,
Democrat. has been stricken with paraly
sis, and may die. A member of the House,
also a Democrat. is sick, and will not
be able to attend. These incidents unset
tie calculations and may change states.
Louisville Courier-Jomrm Threewho
years are given us to set our house in or
der. If Mr.. Cleveland picks a cabinet of
clear-headed men, having positive and
concurring opinions. all will be well. If he
hesitates and takes for his advisers men
without pronounced convictions, bundled
together in colorless mass of weakness
and amiability, all that was worth fighting
for will be lost.
The preparations for the cold weather in
the Northwest are surprise to visitors
Fur coats and caps are the rule for every
body: the houses have duplicate sets of
windows. with a few inches of air be-
tween : the stoves are of enormous size,
often reaching nearly to the ceiling and
such a diversion as sleighing lis scarcely
known, as nobody thinks of spending
money for fun in winter out of doors.
A sensation was created in Chicago last
FRIDAY by the discovery of twelve boxes
of dynamite in the City Hall. A lot of
books which had been stolen from the
public library had been recovered and re-
turned to the hall. Among them were
three boxes of gycerine, in one of which
pistol was arranged so that by turning a
crank an explosion that would have demol-
ished the hall would have occurred. Otto
Funk, the book-thief says that "he was
only experimenting with dynamite, he be-
ing scient. fic student. The boxes were
safely removed from the building.
The Washington Stor of the 23d, pub
fishes the following paragraph: lone Of
the Presidents intimate friends said to a
Star reporter last evening, that on leaving
the White House Mr.. Arthur would re-
open his law practice in New York, and
devote his entire time to it. He has a
very handsome suite of Office rooms, which
he visited on his last trip to New York,
and directed them to be refitted in hand
some style for his occupancy after the 4th
of March. His chief practice will be in
cases growing out of riparian rights. The
Stars informant said he did not think Mr..
Arthur would be candidate for the Pres
idency in 1888.
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