The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-07-29
The President has referred the oleo-
margarine bill to the Attorney General
To mass rnnn its conStitutionalitY.

The President has referred the oleo-
bill to the Attorney General,
to pass upon its constitutionality.
Hubert o. Thompson, leader Of the |
New York County Democracy, and a
power in New York politics, is reported
dead, at the age of IS.
On Saturday last the Finance Commit
tee of the Lynchburg City Council offered
$4,000 of S per cent. 1924 bonds which
were readily taken at 1898.
The Senate, last week, voted not to in
vestigate the election of Senator Payne,
of Ohio. Fifteen Republicans voted with
the Democrats against investigation.
Mr. David E. Trout, who was regarded
as one of the most prosperous and pro-
gressive farmers of Roanoke county, made
an assignment last week, much to the sur
prise of his most intimate friends.
Col. O'Ferrall has 1876 Of the 1856 dele
gates in the Seventh District committed
to him by instructions in the primaries,
and his nomination at Front Royal, on
the 4th of August is assured.
Assistant Secretary of State, VIM.
Hunter, died last week at an advanced
age. He had been in public service for
over a half Of a century, rising from a
department clerk to the high position he
held at his death.
Cyrus w. Field has gained his action
for libel against James Gordon Bennett.
of the New York Herald. and has been
awarded by London, England, Court, a
verdict for ESQ, 900, with the costs of the
proceedings.
Mr.. w. W. Archer, of the State, as
saulted Mr.. Mullen, of the Labor Herald,
last Saturday, because of an editorial criti-
cism in the latter on the former paper
No damage was done and both parties were
placed under bonds.
Mr.. Jno. ID. Pennybecker, of Rocking
ham county, who was appointed an exam
liner of the Land Office, with duties on the
frontier, has resigned. He was in service
for about one year, in New Mexico and
adjacent Territories.
An accident to truck in Boston on
Monday last revealed the fact that it was
iadened with porcelain eggs filled with
whiskey. They were consigned to hotel
keepers in various parts of the State,
where liquor selling is prohibited
1t is stated in the Washington letter OF
the Alexandria Gazette last week that Sen
ator Riddleberger was quite i'll and left fol
hishome in Woodstock. Before doing SO
he was taken to the Senate in carriage to
vote against the Payne investigating reso.
luton.
The threatened difficulty between the
United States Government and Mexico
growing out of the arrest of Editor Cut
ting, at Ell Paso del Norte, by Mexican
Judge and confined in a Mexican prison
for criticising severely a Mexican official
has been adjusted by the release of Cut
ting, and the arrest and Imprisonment of
the person he assailed.
If the President really intends to ignore
the South in the appointment to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the rejection by the
Senate Of John Goode, of Virginia, to bt
Solicitor General. it will be a hard slap il
! the face of the Democratic politicians Of
that section. The ground alleged for thu
determination, is that there has been too
much Pan Electric stock in circulat
among Southern politicians.
Now when the proposition is to avail O
a legal technicality to rob the Railroads of
the public lands they have earned on thu
conditions of the grant, the Democrat
are very vociferous in behalf of the home
stead settlers. Had it depended on tina
party there would now be no Homestead
law. The last Democratic President We
toed such law, and not until the Repub
licans got the power was one enacted. il
spite of Democratic opposition.
It is noticeable instance of the reck
lessness of the Democratic party, that tn
Republican Senators have to protect tn
President from the unwise legislation OF
his party friends. The Morrison resolu
tion, passed by the House, taking from tn
Secretary of the Treasury all discretionar,
power in the use of any surplus in tn
Treasury in the redemption of the publ
debt. has been amended so as to chang
the reserve from from 100000 to mini
mum of $4,000 yesting the power in thu
Secretary to suspend the law, should th
public necessities require it.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance report
the following as coming from Mr.. Cooper
the English holder of Virginia bonds
''Goy. Lee told me that he and his entir
family were in sympathy with the bond
holders and coupon-payers, but as Govern
or desiring to save the State from passin
into the hands Of the Republican party, h
was forced to act contrary to his convic
tions of what he conceived to be right.
This is an admission, if true, from Gov
ernor of Virginia. which adds no laurels t
either his or his family's fame.
First John Kelly, chief Of Tammany
and now Hubert 0. Thompson, chief Q
the County Democracy. is called ava
within a few months. These two leader
of factions in New York were never a
rest until the grave closed upon them.-
What boots it now, when their pulseles
bodies lie Wondering in the tomb. An
thus it is with all earthly ambitions an,
strifes -the grave settles them, as to tn
actors themselves, and teaches an impress
sive lesson of the vanity of huma
schemes and plans and the emptiness o
worldly honor. They both will soon b
forgotten, while the world will move alon
as though they had never been, and un
mindful of their boosted prowess and in
fluence among men.
The Scientific american concludes an in
teresting and instructive article Of
The Basic Steel Process as follows
''The tendency to substitute steel for irol
wherever possible was never stronge
than at present. Throughout Pennsyl
vania and the West, number of Clapp
Grifiths plants have been established dur
ing the year, while in Tennessee extensiv
preparations are now in progress for con
verting the pure magnetic ores of tn
North Carolina mountains into Besseme
steel. But large proportion of the iro
deposits of the Appalachian system is no