The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-11-04
Gen. Beaver Els elected governor c
Pennsylvania by handsome majority.


Chamber of Deputies have decided in favor
If the bill raising the duty on foreign
wheat from three to five francs.
Mr., VIM Fl. CARRIER, a highly respected
young man, living near Timberville, Va,
was seriously cut on the 22d ult. by Mr..
Bert Moffett. The wounds are not con-
sidered necessarily dangerous.
Surveyor Beattie, of the port of New
York, was shot on the 1st by discharged
inspector, who fred five or six shots. The
particulars could not be ascertained that
day, nor was it known whether the wounds
would prove fatal.
Frank H. Walworth, who died recently
in Saratoga, became notorious i'll 1878,
when he killed his father, because of
brutal treatment of his mother. He was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life, but
received pardon after four years Of
prison life. He leaves widow and one
child.
James Gitson, living on the farm of Mr..
J. G. Cress, Rockbridge county, was
found dead i'll his bed last Wednesday
week. He had eaten hearty supper and
retired in his usual health. Suspicion of
foul play is entertained, and his stomach
has been sent to Richmond for examina-
ti0n.
Ex- President Arthur is still confined to
his home in New York, but his condition
is fair. He goes about the house as he
chooses, receives his friends, and even at
tends to business. There has been no
change in him for weeks past. He con-
tinues cheerful and hopeful of ultimate
recovery.
The Court of Appeals has granted a
writ of error in the case of VIM. Fin
chum, who is under sentence of death
charged with killing his brother in East
Rockingham, and who was to have been
e xecuted Nov. 5, next Friday. The
C ase will come up for hearing before the
Supreme Court this week, and consequent
~ the sentence will be suspended until the
result is known. Messrs. Warren S. Lur-
ty and w. B. Yancey are the prisoner S
counsel
A Chicago firm does a great business
making canes for use inprohibition neigh
bors. They hold six to eight liquid ounces,
or nearly one.half pint, and are SO arranged
that as long as one teaspoonful remains it
can be obtained by suction without attract
ing attention or any ones knowing what
you are doing. The cane is brought into
position for extricating the liquid by IN
screwing the small cap on the end of the
head and applying suction to the tube pro-
jecting thereupon. When liquor enough
has been extracted for the time being,
turn the rubber tube slightly inside, place
the cap over it and screw on the cap.
The Governor has appointed William
Writ Henry to represent Virginia in the
permanent organization to be effected at
Philadelphia December %, to arrange for
the celebration of the one hundredth ami
versary of the constitution. The Governor
has also commissioned Mr.. A. NJ. Bow.
man, of Saltville, and Col. R. III. DClany,
Of Bloomfield, delegates to the Consoli
dated Cattle Growers Association OF
America, which meets in Chicago on the
10th and 18th of November. Maj. John
d. Sterrett, of Rockbridge, and Maj. Geo.
Johnston, of Alexandria, were commits
stoned as alternates.
The Adams Express car of passenger
train on the st. Louis and San Francisco
Monday night of
-. ,vas robbed 900 in money and
: !asG week of about $50 s,.Ye sf..s s...ss.. of
James Cummings, and deceived tine MES
senger, rockingham, with the pretence
that he was to be appointed an employe of
the company and had been ordered to
learn his duties. Twenty miles out from
st. Louis he oyerpowered the messenger
at the point of pistol, bound ard gagged
him, cleaned out the safe and made his es-
cape from the train. 1t is now believed
that rockingham is the guilty party. and
the robbery was the result OF collision of
some of the employees Of the train.
There has sprung up within the last few
months an unprecedented demand for mi
nor coin in the form of fve-cent and one
cent pieces, the stock of which up to the
time this demand began was redundant. =
This surplus has all been put in circula-
tion, and the mint at Philadelphia, which
alone executes minor coin, is doing its ut.
most to supply the demand, its capacity
being limited by the statutory coinage OF
silver dollars. The popular demand for
small coin is now ahead some $780, fol-
fiye.cent and one-cent pieces alone. The
Secretary Of the Treasury has authorized
the issue of whatever proves to be re-
quired, and it is anticipated that the work
now in hand will result speedily in supply.
ing the demand.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore American, under date of the
31st, ult., has the following paragraph; 1t
is still problem whether Mrs. Cleveland
will enter the social world in this city this
season or not. From the ladies of the
household come reports that she will not.
They say that, instead of entertaining gay
throngs of visitors at receptions, she will
be singing pretty little nursery lullabys.
i uo lduloS VI bulo Clty nave oil tdhCu tuC
greatest interest in coming events, and
those who are in position to know say
most decidedly that Mrs. Cleveland will
not enter society. A great deal of shop
ping has been done of late by the ladies of
the White House, but it is said that very
little evening costume material has been
bought. 1t has been more of diminu-
tive nature. At least. this is what the
ladies say.
A dispatch from Rome, N. Y, dated the
LIST, says: The sensation of the hour in
this neighbour is the alleged attempt
at highway robbery by two lively young
women. Hugh Dorrety and Luther Jones
aver that on dark night, month ago, as
they were driving along a lonely road be-
tween here and Bonneville, they were
halted by two persons who presented re-
volyers and demanded their money and
valuables. They protested that they had
nothing with them. and Dorrety lighted a
match, by the aid of which he recognized
Mrs. Susan Scoyille, a young widow, and
Miss Dunn, dashing girl of twenty.
fFhov vunrn rarf1v droccod in t,non3c cloth.