The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-30
Gen. Roller and Col. OFerrall had joint
discussion at Luray on Monday last.

DISCUSSION dG LuTay Oh MOuuay ldSt.
Mr.. Samuel Patterson. for long time
an efficient U. S. Commissioner, at Lynch
burg, has resigned.
John Ester Cooke, author and poet, died
at his residence in Clarke county, Of ty-
phoid fever, on the 9th, after short ILL
ness, aged Sc.
The administration has thus far contri-
buted 1875 to the Charleston sufferers, in
addition to 100 tents. Secretary Lamar
subscribed the $25.
Capt. Clatterbuck, in Jail at Culpeper
for killing Edward Green, is threatened
with lynching The volunteer military
company is standing guard to protect the
jail.
Mr.. Henry II. Sherman, an old and
prominent business man of Lynchburg,
has been declared insane. Old age and too
close application to business, is assigned
as the cause.
Hon. Thos. Croxton. democratic nomi-
nee for Congress in the LIST district, and
Hon. Bayly Browne, the Republican can
didate had joint discussion at >Accomac
G. 81. last Monday.
Hon, Sam Griffin, the democratic nomi-
nee for Congress in the 9Th District. and
Judge A. L. Van Ness. independent can
didate, had joint discussion at Halifax
Court House. last Monday.
Mr. Samuel Sour. Of Page county. the
first man to enter the defenses of Chepul
tepec, Mexico, during the Mexican war,
was severely injured by the fall of tree,
last week. He was known as "Che pulte-
pee" Sour.
At Amherst c. H., the Democratic
Committee declined proposition for a
Joint discussion between Capt. Bumgard-
ner, the Democratic nominee, and Mr.. ia
cob Yost, the Republican nominee, in the
10th District.
Gen. Rooney Lee was nominated for
Congress by the Democratic Convention
for the 9Th District, at Culpeper. on the
23d. His friends having majority of the
delegation, they promptly REPEALED tn g
twothirds rule. and the nomination i'm
mediately followed.
Near Healing Springs, Va, on the oath,
man named Pecor was accidentally shot
by Mr.. E. B.. Williams, and severely
though not dangerously injured. They
were hunting apart from each other, and
Pecor was taken for turkey as he was
moving through the underground.
The actual prediction of Prof. Virgins,
and not the exaggerated newspaper report
south of the 30th parallel of latitude, was
manifested on the 2Sth. 1t was between
the 2Sth and 3Oth that he said they would
occur. On the 2Sth there were three
shocks felt at Charleston and other south
ern cities, one of them very violent. and
people. The motion of the earth seemed
to be horizontal, and the vibration lasted
about six or eight seconds
The Dispatch correspondents thr ough-
out this district and indeed the State are
repeating their old game of misrepresen-
tation. They report everything favorable
to the Democratic side, and give reports
of public feeling that the people directly
involved know nothing about The report
1ssssa1a Bath county of the discussion be-
tween Yost and BuiEgardner on the 25th
is amusing to those who were present, and
will do the cause it is sought to promote
more harm than good. The people want
the facts in truthful form. and this they
did not get in this instance and the PEG
pie of Bath know it. But if our Demo
cratic friends think they will gain any
thing by this method. let them keep it up.
The Republicans will be satisfied.
Henry George, the labor reformer, has
been nominated by the workingmen Of
New York for mayor. It has caused great
CONSERVATION among politicians of the old
parties, and disarranged their plans, espec-
tally OF tbs Democrats. The San, the
leading democratic paper, proposes to run
Cornelius Vanderbilt against Mr.. George,
and thus draw the fine and plain line be-
tween capital and labor. And yet the
democratic party claims to be the friend
Of labor and the enemy of millionaires,
particularly when they are not democrats.
democrat only when it happens to be pos
sessed by Republicans.
Geo. M. Bartholomew, president of the
Charter Oak Life Company, and at one
time regarded as one of the wealthiest
men In the country, has been declared a
bankrupt, as well as defaulter to the
amount of 1927 900. Bartholomew has
been large speculator in iron properties,
and was one Of the capitalists interested
in the purchase of iron properties in Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, in connection
with Mr.. r. N. Pool, and we think the
Quinnemont iron furnace and the Lynch
burg steel works are in his name. Several
years ago he was In trouble and threatened
with being forced into bankruptcy, but a
valuation placed on his Virginia and West
Virginia holdings, prevented it for the
time. He has now gone and dragged his
son to financial ruin with him.
Geo. D. Wise asserted in his speech,
in Richmond, last Friday, before a
Democratic audience that w. Ell. Mullen,
the labor candidate for Congress. had ap-
pll6O W ullu lOI tt6 pOSlIlOu VI iudli dB6u1,
held by colored man, on the York River
Railroad. In his application, Mr.. Wise
states. Mullen asked that Republicans and
negroes" should be turned out, and Demo
Gratis placed in their shoes. In the same
paper that contained Mr.. Wise's speech,
with this charge against Mr.. Mullen, is a
card from Mr.. Wise to the effect that he
was wrong in this matter, and that it was
some other person who had sent the appli-
cation, and not Mr.. Mullen. But Mr..
Wise's speech was heard by many who will
never see the contradiction and in this
injustice has been done Mr.. Mullen.
The Amherst Neao Era, referring to the
recent decision of the Supreme Court on
the School law, and the salaries paid to the
defdcto and the de jure school superintend-
ents, says: ''Mr. Bailey and the others in
the same situation will now be entitled to
their salaries as having been all the time
superintendent de 5,ae, whilst Mr.. Richie
son and the others in his situation will