The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-06-17


paralysis of the throat affecting his speech
quite seriously.
The Wythevile Enterprise has been en-
larged and much improved. 1t is one Of
our best exchanges and we are pleased to
notice this evidence of prosperity.
Mr.. n. Conrad, of Baltimore, father OF
Prof. T. N. Conrad, died at Blacksburg,
Va, last week, while on visit to his son,
of heart disease. His death was very
sudden.
Justice. y in the last Nelson Examiner,
has two-column article, advocating the
claims of Hon. G. T. Smith as the Demo-
cratic candidate to succeed Hon. j. r.
Tucker.
Doctors will differ. Mr.. Morrison says
when he calls up his tariff-bill to-day for
consideration he will have four majority.
Mr.. Randall says there will be twelve
against it.
The Gem Furnace, at Mines, Page co.,
is making much more iron and of better
quality than it has ever done before, and
already great change can be seen III the
renewed confidence it has given to the
various employees and citizens generally.
General Thomas A. Brady, who became
notorious from his connection with star
route matters, has gone to farm in Vir-
ginia he owns at the Potomac. He has
been a great sufferer from insomnia, and
hopes to recuperate under the soft air
from the Chesapeake and a fish diet
Roanoke Leader: The Grocer Steel and
Iron Company have purchased the Rich
Hill ore banks in Pulaski county, and are
now preparing to develop the property.
They have number of hands at work,
and, by August 1 expect to be ready toput
out 125 tons of ore, which will be shipped
to their furnace in this city.
= Abingdon Erdaniner::- Hon. j. Ran.
Tucker spent Wednesday night in Abing-
don. He left next morning for Washing
ton. In his address at Emory he declared
his purpose to retire from public life at
Iilt tuu VI IT'D plCOCIo NoolOLoi WI III
never to re enter the political arena again,
and thus Virginia is to lose the services OF
this able defender of constitutional law
and constitutional liberty.
In an editorial denying the reports sent
out by the press of the dissensions among
the Knights of Labor at the recent Con-
yention at Cleveland, the Labor Herald,
the organ of the order in Richmond. pre-
diets that in six months the order will
be increased a hundred thousand. MI.
Mullen, the editor of the Herald, was. a
member of the Cleveland convention. and
is a member of the new national eXecu-
tive board.
The McCormicks, of Chicago, says the
Lexington Gazette, are shipping to Ra
phine large quantity of granite and
dressed marble for the purpose of erecting
at Old Providence monument to the
memory of the dead members Of the family
who are buried there. The monument
when put up will be a handsome one. OLD
Providence was the former home of the
McCormicks, known the world over as the
manufact urers of the Mccormick harvest
ing machinery.
Hon. Jno. S. Barbour has written letter
to his constituents liz which he positively
declines the use of his name in connection
with denomination for Congress. He
gives his reasons for this, all of a personal
nature He expects to go abroad this
summer for needed rest and recuperatior
of his health. This will open the field
for the numerous aspirants who have beer
chatting under restraint for some time, and
we may expect an active canvass for Mr.
Barbour's shoes.
Travellers along the Chesapeake and
Ohio can, by looking out of the car win
dows on the South side, after leaving
Hawks Nest, see large numbers OF men
engaged in digging away the side of the
mountains along New River This is
another Huntington schemet to build about
thirty miles of railroad on the south bank
of the New River, in order to open up the
coal country on that side Of the river
These mines promise richer results and
larger developments than any coal mines
vet discovered in this country.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance is mis-
taken in its statement that Gen. Malone
voted to refer the Oleomargarine Bill tc
the Finance Committee. He voted to re-
fer it to the proper Committee, the Agri
cultural, and in doing SO voted to act upon
the measure, for the protection Of the
butter industry of the country. The Dem
ocratic members generally declared 1T tC
be revenue measure and voted to refer
it to the Committee that has charge OF
raising revenue. The Republicans gener
ally considered the bill on its merits, as 3
proposition to suppress the manufacture
of an imitation butter, and in the interest
of an important farm industry.
The Ohio Club, of Cincinnati, Demo
cratic organization of first-clasS material
has adopted an address to the Democratic
voters of Ohio, urging that the party man
agement be placed IN new hands in which
confidence can be reposed. The address
laments the failure heretofore of any
Democratic club to denounce the election
frauds in Cincinnati, and devotes a para
graph to the course of 1.-THE alleged leading
democratic paper in this part of the State
in it's efforts to defend and apologize fol-
the frauds The address is signed by
Theodore Cook, Adam A. Kramer, Frank
Allen, John p. Carbery and Emil Rothe
They are men of high standing.
Nelson Palmer, a promising and accom-
plished young business man, committed
eide in Baltimore last Saturday, after being
arrested for committing a forgery. by rails
ing the numbers on some railroad stock, in
volving about 100000, which he lost il
speculation. When arrested he confessed
to the crime, and said in an evil moment
he yielded to temptation, with no previous
plan or plot to perpetrate the crime. Nat
urally delicate and of nervous tempera
ment. he could not endure the disgrace
and after being consigned to prison, par
took of poison, which speedily ended his
life and his troubles. 1t was a sad case
and an impressive warningsagainst the first
false step.
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