The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-16

Superintendent of Public Schools for Lex
ington.
james G. Blaine, jr., college student |
was suddenly and privately married in
New York last Monday. to Miss Nevins.
of Ohio.
Mr.. w. M Chandler, of Rockingham,
died last week Also, Mr. Jno. Messerly,
an old and highly respected citizen OF
Harrisonburg died, aged II years.
The farm OF Jno. Armentrout. decd in
Collierstown district, Roclzbrldge, has
been sold to John Knick, for s. 800 and
eighteen acres of wood land, at $1,000 per
acre.
Col. John B. Young,a prominent lawyer
of Hanover county, dropped dead in his
porch last week, aged 20 years. He prose
cuted Jeter Phillips, for wife murder,
in 1862
A Paris dispatch says that 700 Chris
tians have been massacred and forty VII
lagos burned in the province OF Manhoa,
China, and that 5000 chri stians are per-
ishing from hunger.
A destructive cyclone visited Accomac
county, on Sunday last, doing great dam
to the town of Onancock. Houses were
blown down, trees torn up and devastation
generally followed in its track.
We learn from the Lexington Meas that
Messrs. Willis, of S. c.. and Sanford, Of
j., are making arrangements to put
up an experimental furnace at Irish
Creek, to work the tin ore there, to cost
$4,000 The work will be commenced as
soon as some disputed property rights can
be adjusted.
Miss Amelia Jackson, daughter Of Capt.
Jackson, who killed Col. Ellsworth at the
Mansion House, Alexandria, at the be
ginning of the war, for taking down
Confederate flag from the roof of his ho-
tel, and who was Immediately afterwards
shot and killed by soldier of Col. Els
worth's regiment, has been appointed a
clerk in the Pension Office.
McCarthy's Campaign closes notice Of
the discussion at Lexington between the
Republican and Democratic candidates for
Congress in the 10th District, with the fol
lowing reference to Capt. Bumgardner's
speech This was a grand amusement
of the democracy, and 1t protends ayictory
in every county in the district. > If the
discussion and its result were democratic
amusement, then it protends just the
contrary to what our contemporary inter
prets it.
In New York touching evidence of
woman s devotion was givendast Saturday.
Charles Smith, young man q years old
is confined in the Tombs for burglary. 1t
was his first offense, and before had been
regarded as an exemplary young man.
Mamie Clark had been his affianced for
several years, and the time had been fixed
for the wedding, before the misfortune of
Smith She came to time, the preacher
was called, and they were married but in
few moments to be separated, he to go to
the penitentiary-she to sob herself to
sleep on single pillow. An appeal will be
made for the young man by his attorney
for clemency.
The result of the State election in Yer
mont, last week, shows the usual Republi
can majority, and the election Of a Legls-
lature largely in favor of Senator Edmunds
for another tern. JIG press
be IN, close
k6w that his
strength with the Republicans of the State
is demonstrated not to have diminished,
they are consoling themselves that Blaine
has receivad black eye, as somehow or
other they had imagined that Blaine was
trying to defeat Edmunds Extracting
sunbeams from cucumbers is a scientific
process, exclusively the invention of
democracy, the patent for which the Rich
: mOnd Dispatch particularly holds especially
sacred.
We cannot too highly commend the &C.
ti0n of Gov. Foraker, of Ohio, in order
ing tents to Charleston to shelter the
homeless and houseless sufferers in that
stricken city. He did not conform TO red
tape circumlocu5ion for his authority, but
recognizing that whole city was devas
tated and that women and children as well
as strong men, were the victims of a Prov
idential dispensation, he promptly assumed
the authority Of rendering thousand
tents for their relief. Constitutions and
statutes were not made to meet such yisi-
tations and parchments should not restrict
the action Of men in authority, when IN
foreseen agencies, operating under laws
above and beyond the reach of human ken,
have brought death and desoiation to fell
iowcreatures. The fact that whole
mil 1faI 4ba%
fellow-men, in the agony of heir help
lessness, were appealing for aid, ought to
be enough to move every heart and nerve
every fibre for their relief, even if paper
laws and parchment constitutions have to
be overstepped for the time. The action
of Gov. Foraker stands in notable con-
traSt to that of others in high authority.
who could not recognize justification in
the sufferingS of the earthquake victims.
to Overreach statutes and trust to the
magnanimity and christian courage of
their constituencies to sustain them in
rendering relief.
The Knights of Labor in Convention
assembled last Friday, nominated Mr.. W.
III. Mullen, editor of the Labor Herald, for
Congress in the Sd district, now repre-
sented by Hon. Geo. D. Wise, who is the
Democratic nominee for re election. A
few days ago nothing but soft words could
be found by the Democratic papers for
the workingmen. That was to make them
believe that the best thing for them to do
would be to support the Democratic nom
inee. Now that the Knights have made a
movement in accord with their self-re-
spect and independence, we may expect
any amount of abuse to be heaped upon
their candidate. Already we see the
charge made that majority of the dele
gates were colored, and the appeal pre-
scented that the farmer the mechanic, the
merchant-yes, every earnest citizen of
the Sd district knows that peace and pros
perity depend on Democratic success. y
This will be made to the farmer and me-
chanic and merchant of Virginia. It will
be made against those who reyolted against
Ring rule in Richmond last May. and
broke the backbone of the despotism which