The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-05-06
Rev. Geo. w. Anderson, of the M. E.
Church, South, died at Winchester, on the
10th AGED "a years

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Both, aged 70 years.
Judge ii. c. Allen, nominated by the
President to be U. S. Attorney for the
Western Judicial District of Virginia, has
been confirmed by the Senate.
The Board of Education has appointed
Geo. B. McCorkle Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools for Allegheny county, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of A.
A. Macdonald.
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
in the Cluverius case will be rendered to-
day, and that Judge Fauntleroy will de-
liver the opinion.
The condition of ex-President Arthur
is so much improved that he was able to
walk out last Saturday. Secretary Man.
ming is improving also, and last week rode
out In carriage.
The John Wesley M. E. Church, Harri-
sonburg, is out of debt. The church build
ing was purchased from the M. e. Church
South, several years ago, for 81 800 and
last Sunday the last dollar was paid.
GOV. Lee has gotten his transfer from
Stafford county to Madison Ward, Rich
mond, which will be his voting place here
after. He did not vote in the recent local op-
zion election, but had he done so. it would
have been in favor of license.
The exports from a portion of northern
Germany to America during the first quar-
ter of 1886 amounted to $l1 ,250, 900 as
against $s,S75, 600 during the same period
of 1885. The exports from southern and
western Germany to the United States
during the same period also exceeded those
of the corresponding quarter last year.
The committee appointed to determine
the matter. last week selected Roanoke as
the location for the Allegheny Institute.
A suitable location was donated for the
College and more favorable inducements
offered than at any other site. ]. f.
Christian, formerly of this place, was
chosen as one of the trustees of the Insti-
Sute.
Mr.. Frank Brown has been appointed
postmaster at Baltimore in place of Mr..
Veazy, resigned. This was surprise, as
it was not known, generally, that Mr.. V.
had any idea of resigning. He gave as a
reason for so doing, that he could not at
tend to his law practice and the post office
at the same time, but it is stated as the
real cause that he had no respect for the
Postmaster General.
The Fredericksburg Star does not
seem to understand why it is that the
State claims the result of the local option
election as Democratic victory. when 80
per cent. Of the colored vote of that city,
Lynchburg, Manchester and Fredericks-
burg was cast against local option. That
is rather striking diagnosis of the situa.
tion and may require fuller explanation
hereafter than it is prudent now to ven.
ture.
The Town Council of Lexington on
Monday last laid heavy hand Ga the sa-
loon keepers. 1t raised the license for the
sale of liquors in Lexington $3.50, which
added to the former assessment. the law.
yers' fee, &c, aggregates between 500 and
$500 for the privilege of selling the ardent
in the modern Athens. We learn that
only three retail dealers applied, the
smaller dealers having been frozen out by
the size of the pile required.
Through the Intervention of Congress-
man Curtin, as Chairman of the Commit.
tee appointed by Congress to investigate
the cause of the Knights of Labor strike
On the Jay Gould system of railroads, an
agreement has been reached by which the
strike has been declared off. When this
fact was formally communicated to the
Assemblies, the Knights applied for work
and their request was generally acceded to.
Thus has ended the greatest labor distur-
bance of modern times.
Both branches of the Ohio Legislature
reconvened on the 4th. The report of the
committee on the frauds in Cincinnati
by which four Democratic Senators who
were not elected, were given certificates,
will at once be taken up. 1t is conceded
that they will be ousted, and four Repub-
give the Republicans both branches of the
Legislature, and enable them to enact leg
islation much needed to protect the bal
lot box and assure fair elections fereafter.
Alexander Wilson recently exhumed an
iron box on the farm of ''old John Stump
near Havre de Grace, Md, containing
$4,000 in coin. Old John Stump lived
in the early part Of the present century,
and was famous for his reputed wealth.
which he often said was buried on his
farm. After his death search was unsuc-
cessfully made for it. Wilson happened
to get possession of some papers connected
with Stump's affairs and among them was
diagram showing the locality of the
buried treasure. He dug it up and skipped.
The Democratic Executive Committee
for the 10th Congressional District, has
fixed ON the 29th of July as the time. and
Lexington as the place to hold the Conven-
didate for Congress. The selection of the
place for holding the convention was to
consult the convenience of the delegates
from the eastern counties of the district,
and has no other significance. as was at
first supposed. Capt. Jas. Bumgardner, of
this place,is prominent candidate for the
nomination, with fair prospects of having
the honor conferred upon him.
A ''Free Citizen in the Richmond Re-
former informs the public that at the
''great mass meeting" in the Old Market
last Thursday to protest against the pay
ment of taxes in coupons and to sustain
Gov. Lees proclamation, there were mot
sixty people. and large proportion being
boys and curiosity seekers, and perhaps
fifteen or twenty taxpayers. We had
noticed that there was a studious failure
to mention the number present by the DIS
patch and Wing, but this unusual neglect
is explained by the Refor7ner. The boy
colt of the coupons was about the size of
similar performance in Augusta county.
There ought not to be any conflict be-
tween the labor of the brain, which de-
Fises the plans and furnishes the means to
execute them, and the labor of the hands
which directs the machinery. The ore is
essential to the other, and each a failure
without the other. The brain that invents
ia inst as imnortant AZ the muscle that az