The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-11-18

siloudy lc1oo oil CAplOolOu UCCul1Cu
tboiler-hOuse Of tUpacUo-po2 mnn-
ani nru in PHILADELPHIA nv which one of
the employees, a girl, was killed and four
teen other persons injured. It is supposed
Go have been caused by the spontaneous
combustion of sawdust.
A tramp named Daggett has confessed
that while trying to light his pipe, while
in the Barbour block, Omaha city, one
night last week, he set fire to some shay
ings on the floor which resulted in the des-
truction of the entire block. costing
100000.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes protests
against the newspapers making him say in
his Harvard celebration poem that Emer-
son came from the "dirtiest sectarian Cir
Gle of his time. u What DIR. Holmes actual
ly said was, 1.-THE daintiest sectarian cir
cle.''
John Sullivan, the slugger, knocked
Paddy Ryan clean out of the Ring at San
Francisco, last Saturday, in the third
round. Paddy lay on the floor nearly in
sensible when time was called, and could
not come to the scratch. This settles the
long dispute which Paddy has kept up that
he could whip Sullivan.
Wytherale Enterprise - A meeting of
the incorporators of the Pulaski Iron Co.
has been called to meet in this place on the
23rd of this month. 1t is thought that
sufficient subscriptions will have been OBJ
tanned by that time. to assure the building
of a large furnace at Pulaski City or some
other eligible point on the Cripple Creek
road.
Judge Hinton, of the Court of Appeals,
sented from the opinion Of his associates
in confirming the judgment of the lower
court in the Cluverius case, will, it is said,
soon write out his views and reasons for
his position. This will be done before the
10th Of December. the day fixed for the
execution of the prisoner.
At Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th, the U.
S. Court, in the celebrated suit Of the
Government, or Mr.. Garland, against the
Bell Telephone Company. it was decided
that the court had no Jurisdiction. This
is severe slap at the Attorney General
and Secretary Lamar. Suit must now be
brought against the Bell Company in Mas
sachusetts, where the parent company is
located or against parties managing local
companies in other States.
1t seems to be difficult matter for the
Democratic press of Vagina to get to
the bottom of the late flattening out their
party received. Every paper has its the
DRY and explanation. If they could re-
cognize the fact that it was a silent, yet
effective protest of the people against
Ring rule, they would have clearer I'M
derstanding of the result Nearly every
stay at home Democrat was dissatisfied
with the record of the party in State mat
tiers, and they chose that method to mani
fest it.
Col. G. T. O'Ferrall is reported in the
Washington Star as saying that 80 per
cent. of the Republican vote in his dis
trict came out and voted for Gen. Roller,
and only go per cent. of the Democratic
vote came out to vote for him. Col.
O'Ferral is vastly off in this estimate. |
Almost as large per cent. of Republicans
failed to vote as of Democrats. and if the |
estimated 40 per cent. absentees had
voted the Colonel would have been showed |
under irretrievably.
The State of the 18th has an editorial |
doubling the accuracy of the reported |
interview with Hon. John S. Barbour,
published in the New York Tribune The
Stat of the 18th published the report of
Mr.. Barbour's prepared speech, on the oc-
casion of his reception at Washington,
subsequent to the interview What was
said in the speech was more emphatic in
of the administration than
The interview. So the comments of the
State are nothing more or less than sly
Zig at Barbour, effected through indirec-
ion, butinone the less a. dig and condem-
nation.