The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-01-08
Just sixteen years ago the interest on
the National debt was $l43, 900, 900 a year.
1t is now S58. OO0. 900.

An Arab tramp was arrested in New
York last week. In his belt was found
$4,000 in English gold.
John B. Cough boasts that within forty
two years he has travelled 500, 900 miles and
delivered $500 temperance lectures.
Mr.. Joseph Winship, of Norwich, Conn.,,
boasts the possession of set OF silver tea
spoons made by Gov. Cleveland's father.
Prince Bismark' s official salary is $13.-
500 year, while the ambassadors he sends
to London and St. Petersburg get SS7 800
each.
Colonel Villas says the star of real en-
pire will have become fixed in the West
when the United States trades with the
whole world.
Gen. Malone had severe chill last
week, which caused him to keep his room
for several days. He was improving at
last accounts.
Gen. Grants physical health is such as
to indicate danger in the near future. He
is advised by his physicians to dismiss
labor and anxiety.
Chief Justice Waite is in very preca-
rious health, but not SO i'll as some of the
papers represent him to be. His family
state that he is slowly improving.
The vanity of human ambition is well
expressed by the immortal Bard: ''Imper-
ial Caesar dead and turned to clay, might
stop chink to keep the winters wind
away"
On the 10th, Gov. Cleveland, in two
line message, to the Legislature, resigned
the office of Governor of the State of New
York. 1t. Gov. Hill was qualified as
Governor.
Mrs. Matte Bowlin, a full-blooded negro
woman, 35 years old, living at Beatrice,
Neb., is turning white, the flesh peeling
off in patches. Her hands and arms are
almost perfectly white.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson and Hon. Jno.
S. Wise, after many years of bitter enmity,
have become reconciled, according to a
statement of the Richmond correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger.
Miss Constance Edgar, daughter of Mrs.
Jerome Bonaparte, has determined to take
the veil about Easter time, and the an
nouncement has caused sensation in
Washington society.
On the 30th of December. at GAINESVILLE,
Mississippi, Russell Hancock, only son OF
Gen. w. S. Hancock, died, aged "a years.
His remains were taken to st. Louis fol-
burial. He was married, and leaves wife
and two children.
The debt of New York City begins to
excite alarm among the Taxpayers. But
the city is in the hands of the Democracy
and the debt every year increasing, being
now nearly three times as large as in the
days of Tweed.
DR.. James III. Harris. physician OF
Indianapolis, who died last week, left a
will directing that no funeral be held over
his remains, and that his body be taken di-
rectly from his late residence to the dis
secting table. The provisions of the will
will be complied with.
Tomatoes, as is well known, were intro
duced into this country within the mem.
DRY of living men. For many years they
were only used as an ornamental plant
Now there is no fruit in more popular de-
mand In the year 1884, besides the i'm
mense supply for the daily markets, 20
Gas, 1896 cans were put up for the trade.
A dispatch from Grafton, w. Va, dated
Jan. 5, says, Mrs. Mary Beck has confessed
that she caused the wreck of the st. Louis
express train, near here, on the Baltimore
& Ohio Road, Wednesday, with the loss of
two lives and the destruction of much
property. She acted in revenge for the
recent arrest of her husband for robbing
freight cars.
Prof. Wolouski of Washington city, who
committed suicide several weeks ago, left
instructions as to burial and disposition
of his effects. In the details he requested
that there should be no mourning worn
for him-''pink will de, as he put it. He
did not want any sombre colors to indi-
cate the state of feeling of those he left
behind, but something soft and senti-
mental, expressive of the delicate and
lively sensibilities of the heart. This was
philosophical at least.
From what we have heard it would
seem that the farther the investigation into
the condition of the First Auditors Of
flee goes, the more confused and inexpli-
cable it's affairs become. Those who
are acquainted with the developments
thus far, say that there is no telling where
the Irregularities may end. 1t is possible
for Mr.. Smith to make things ineligible
and satisfactory, as he says he is confident
he will be able to do, but this is not prob
able. so interminable is the mixture and
complicated the Irregularities.
The fashionable sport of train robbing,
so much in vogue in the West, has been
recently introduced in the East. On the
I'd, on the Baltimore Central Railroad
train, at Oxford, two rustics appeared with
pistols in their belts and masks over their
faces. They passed through severa
cars, with drawn revOlvers, remarking to
each passenger. ''your money Or your life. y
After transacting their business to their
satisfaction. they leaped from the train
and made their escape. They were after
wards arrested and identified
During Christmas week James F..
Quick, young man aged about 20 years
shot and killed Reuben McKeever. at
Frankfort. W. Va. McKeever leaves a
wife and two children. The difficulty grew
out of horse transaction, Quick having
borrowed horse from McKeever to ride
to camp-meeting. 1t was not returned,
Quick stating that the horse had died. An
CRY words passed between them, and
threats from McKeeve i, when Quick drew
pistol and fired with fatal effect. He was
arrested and held for the Grand Jury.
An earthquake shock was perceived at
various points in Maryland. Virginia,
West Virginia and the District OF Column
bia about ten minutes after o'clock on
Friday night. Its starting point seems to
howe haon few miles north of Frederick