The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-22

W. NJ. Ackerly has been appointed
county, Va.
Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, died
at Hastings in that State on the nth.
He had been i'll for some time, but OF
late was reported as improving. His
district is strongly Republican, and a
Republican successor will be elected be-
fore Congress convenes.
The Republican Convention to nomi-
nate q candidate for the State Senate
for the district composed OF Rockbridge,
Allegheny, Bath, and Highland counties
will meet in Clifton Forge on the 2Sth of
August.
A special envoy of King Hnmbert of
Italy, on the 10Th at Paris, presented
| Thomas A. Edison, the famous american
electrician, with the INSIGNIA of a grand
officer of the Crown of Italy. Mr.. Edi-
son thus becomes a Count and his wife a
Countess
AS Gen. Malone has said he preferred
to have Democrat in Office to Il Rerub-
lican who is not a Mahonite, he ought
not to object if Republicans who are
not Mahonites would prefer a Democrat
to him or one of his tools, for Governor.
1t is a poor rule that will not work both
ways
Mr.. Thos. Paxton, of Fairfield. close d
contract on Tuesday, the Goth, with
the Iron Gate IIand and Improvement
Company, for the erection of a 52-room
hotel at Iron Gate. The House has to
be completed within ninety days from
date of contract. He will at once place
fifty hands on the work.
fredericksburg Free Lance: No such
revolt has ever been known among the
colored Republicans of this locality as
exists at present against the rule of Gen.
Malone. Unless something is done to
allay this feeling, Fredericksburg will
roll up such Democratic majority next
fall as she has never given since the war.
Philadelphia Press: There is very cold
comfort for the Democratic organs which
have been bounding Colonel w. W. Dud-
ley in the announcement made by AS
sistant District Attorney Cockrum, of
Indianapolis. In answer to a question
the lawyer said Saturday: "Al the cases
against Colonel Dudley instituted before
the grand jury and the United States
Commissioner have been thoroughly in
vestigated. 1t has been found that there
is nothing in them, either in fact or in
law. Therefore the grand jury did not
return an Indictment, and the case be-
fore the Commissioner has been diss
missed. Moreover, there is no warrant
against him, nor will there be any, be-
cause there is nothing upon which to
make a case" The persistent misrepre-
sentation of Colonel Dudley by some of
the leading Democratic papers should
cease after such an avowal. That it will.
however, is scarcely probable.
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FARMvILLE, VA, Aug. 90 1899
Editor Of the Virgiaaian:-Mr Camm
Patterson, who once opposed the cleo
ton of the regular nominee of the Dem
Ocratic party for a seat in Congress. and
In that was guilty of the sin of associat-
ing with 'Rads" and 'Niggersn for
purpose, was guilty of a coarse and most
uncalled for attack upon the living and
the dead too when he nominated Mr..
George Perkins, of Albemarle for the
position of Attorney General in the late
Democratic convection. If the RepubIi-
ca MS of Southside Virginia, as he saws,
are for ''plunder and without principle, -
could he have remembered at the time,
that the father of Mr.. Perkins lived in
Southside Virginia, and lived and died
republican Ii he remembered it then
the stab was as cruel as the grave; and
if he did not remember it, his absent
mindedness verges on madness, and he
should be locked up in an asylum, and
no more allowed the freedom of the
State, or the public places of Richmond
or of the quiet country places of South
Side Virginia. SOUTH SIDE.