The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-05-27

rsonsDAY. May q, 1886
President Cleveland has recently sent
in four vetoes of pension bills, and given
excellent reasons for them.
DIR. Dio Lewis, the author and reformer,
died at Y onkers, n Y, on the DIST, from
erysipelas, after an illness of two days.
The Ronceverte NeWs says there is a
four foot vein of coal on Greenbrier river,
six miles above that place. 1t is recent
discovery and easily mined.
We notice statement in the Pittsburg
Manufacturers Record to the effect that
the B. & O. r. r. will soon build round
house and machine shops at Harrisonburg,
Va.
Page Courier: The Gem Furnace, at
Mines, is in full blast and is being oper-
ated more successfully than ever before.
It is turning ont from 100 to us tons of
iron per hay.
WIt is reported that an assistant general
manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road is soon to be appointed. This officer
is to be subordinate of General Wick
ham. the vice president and general man.
ager of the company.
Wyatt Marks and Claiborne Breedlove,
charged with the murder of Addison
Withers in March, 1885, were honorably
acquitted in Lexington yesterday before
the examining magistrate. The innocence
of the accused was fully established.
Col. John B. Folsom, grandfather of
Miss frankie Folsom, who is soon to mar
nv President Cleveland, died on the 10Th,
at his residence in Erie county, at an adj
vanced age 1t is stated that he left
81 ,0o00 600 to his grand daughter, Miss
Folsom.
Lexington Gazette:-On the College
campus Oh the 18th inst. Mr.. ]. NJ. Gar
rett and Mr.. J. C, Childs were pitching
a base ball to each other, Mr.. Garrett
threw the ball and it went wide of the
mark striking Mr.. j. G.. Scott by
stander on the cheek bone. and breaking it..
An election in Wood and Writ counties,
W. Va. last week, on proposition to sub
scribe SIS. 900 and $4,000 respectively to
the projected Chicago, Parkersburg and
Norfolk railroad, resulted in the defeat of
the proposition in Wood county by a bare
majority, while in Writ county the sub
scription was voted by majority of more
than 400.
The Episcopal Council of Virginia adop-
ted canon providing for separate
organization for the colored people Of the
church and passed resolutions expressing
the opinion that the whole subject of the
revision of the book of Common Prayer
should be recommitted to the revisers OF
the General Convention.
Advices to Bradstreet's show that at %
industrial centres north of the Ohio, east
of and including st. Louis, the loss OF
wages through strikes since May l has
aggregated So, 000, 900; of receipts by en-
ployers 50. 500, 600, and of future contracts
due to probability Of labor troubles $24, 500
900. of which 500, 400, 900 alone refers to
deferred or cancelled building contracts.
The affidavit of Z. T. WILDER, in the
Pan Electric case, now undergoing inyes-
tigation, is damaging to WILDER and Casey
Young. who seems to have procured it
and no one else. WILDER confesses himself
to have been perjured rascal and the man
who would use his affidavit, would have to
get a pretty good certificate of character
to relieve him of odium.
A dispatch from Harrisonburg. dated
the 22d. says The sureties of S. R. Ster-
ling to day submitted compromise to the
Board of Supervisors proposing to pay
81 900. to be taken in full for the amount
due the county, but it was rejected. The
Board made counter proposition to take
Sa. 900. which will be considered until The
next meeting OF the Boaid The amount
of shortage to the county is placed at be.
tween $16. 900 and $4,000.
Judge John T. Goolrick, of Fredericks
burg. has been appointed Chief of the OF
fee of Inspection in the Post Office De
partment. His claims for the position
are that he was an ''active politician IN
the recent Presidential campaign. 1t is q
position that no mere politician, such as
Mr.. Goolrick is, can ill with credit to the
government and the service. But this is a
reform" administration, which can t toll
crate offensive partizanism.
Recent discoveries in Chicago lead to
the conclusion that the Anarchists have
been planning for some time to blow up
that city. Dynamite and other explosives
were found in culverts, beneath houses
and easements, and other secret places,
and the conclusion is reached that 1t was a
part of cOncOcted plan to destroy the
CITY. or do as much damage as the nature
of the agencies employed would accom-
plish. Such fiends ought to be dealt with
summarily.
Mrs. Mary Mooney, of Akron, Ohio,
went through a terrible affection on the
18th. She was aroused By sense OF sui
location, caused by smoke from the burn
ing building, in the middle of the night.
She seized her infant in her arm, telling
her other four children to follow, and
jumped through window. She saved her
DaO6 anu icTS0ll. Dub Iut ObHCi ClllIuieA
persisted in the flames. although she and
her brother were fearfully burned in their
efforts to save them.
Capt w. S. Lurty, late United States
district attorney at Harrisonburg, rendered
coupons in payment for his license as a
lawyer. Treasurer Reherd refused to re-
ceive them until verified. which Lurty
failed to do. Lurty announced that he
intended practicing without license,
which will doubtless cause him to be in
dicted. Several other persons have sig
nified their intention of paying their taxes
in these coupons, but no other tender has
yet been mace.
Prof. G.. G. Blake, of Kansas, predicts
that portions of the country will be WIS.,
tied by sixty days drouth, commencing
the latter part of July, and suggests that
farmers hold on to their old corn. For
June, he says, the weather generally will
be quite favorable for growing crops land
Weeds There will be large amount of
warm weather, with only two cool spells
of short duration that may bring frosts
in biob latitudes but the danger of frost