The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-01
w. N. McVeigh, one of the oldest mer-

w. N. McVeigh, one of the oldest mer-
hants and business men in Alexandria,
lied in that city on the 29th, aged 81
ears.
One of the school boards of Harrison
ounty, w. Va, has abolished corporal
for the schools under its SUI
)ervision.
The large dry goods house OF Lewis
Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, assigned
last week. Liabilities, 1000, 900; assets,
81, OOO,O9O
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son beats the record. He has removed
{, 900 more postmasters in the same space
of time than did Mr.. Villas
1t is stated by Mr.. J. F. Robinson that
he has discovered natural gas at Car
wins Cave, Botetourt county; also man
game Sc, stone coal, gold and silver.
The contract for building the new In
sane Asylum at Spencer, Roane county,
w. Va. was awarded to an Athens, Ohio,
contractor, for the sum OF $685. 200.
Herbert Daniel died at the residence
of Capt. ]. c. Deacon, on Upper Bufia-
10, Rockbridge county, on the 18th. He
was veteran of the Mexican war
Three colored prisoners, confined IN
the new Jail at Covington, made their
escape last Friday week, by rushing out
the building when the jailor was closing
up.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gazette says that D. 5. NAL
shall John G. Watts has appointed But
Ter Malone, son of the General, his chief
deputy.
Chas. Gee, State Senator from one OF
the eastern Virginia districts, has been
appointed timber agent of the gov
eminent, and assigned to Alaska He is
an extreme Mahoneite.
We learn that Col. O'Ferrall carried q
majority of the delegates in Rocking
ty will be cast for him in the Democratic
State Convention for Governor.
The saloon keepers of Cincinnati un-
dertook to keep open their places Sun
day in defiance of the law against selling
liquor on Sunday. and about $50 were
arrested. Two or three riots occurred.
The Princess Louise, daughter of the
Prince of Wales and grand daughter Of
Queen Victoria, was married on Satur-
day last to the Earl of Fife, a real Scot
fish Nobleman. The wedding presents
aggregated in value $750,000.
Mr. Miles Martin has been elected Gen
eral Manager of the Rocakbridge Com
pany, or New Glasgow. A large amount
of the stock of this Company has been
placed, amounting to 81, 10000 We I'M
derstand, out of the So, 900 900 limit
Mr.. Hiram Devier, of Dayton, Va,
was in the city Wednesday, on his way
to Iron Gate, to look at the situation
there for business. He expects to yacate
the post office at Dayton, as soon as the
squabble between the Republican appli-
cants is settled.
Prof T. n Conrad, late President of the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Blacksburg, now Professor in
the Maryland Agricultural College. has
had the degree of Master of Science re-
Gently conferred upon him by Dickinson
college, Carlisle. Pa.
The Vatican and the Quirinal are
doubly guarded owing to the receipt of
information of plot TO blow up both
with dynamite. 1t is rumored that the
departure of the Pope will be forcibly
resisted, and that Government secret
police watch the exits OF the Vatican.
The Lexington Manufacturing Com
plny, of which Col. J. d. H. Ross is
President, has made an assignment. Its
assets are about 900 and liabilities
about $63, 900. This is Independent of $685.
600 capital stock paid ina total loss 1t
has been in operation about ten or
twelve years.
The richest deposit of coal oil ever dis
covered is said to have been struck on
the top of the Rocky Mountains at the
summit, Crows Nest Pass. by Maj. A.
P. Patrick, Dominion Surveyor of Cal
gary, Ontario. 1t is 800 feet above sea
3eyel, which enables the Oil to be run off
at any distance.
Col W. C. Elan, of Louisa county,
and formerly editor of the Richmond
Whig, has been appointed chief OF the
division of railroads in the General Land
Office, vice Gen. C. M. Wilcox. The sal
AIRY is 81, 800 He is a writer OF ability,
and his appointment will be gratifying
to Republicans generally of Virginia.
John Carroll, living in a suburban set
Element of Richmond, stabbed his wife
four times, ON Sunday night, and then
cut his own throat from ear to ear, and
died soon afterwards The wife is Sc
riously injured, but may recover. Car
roll was shiftless fellow and has not
been living with his wife for three
months
The articles of Incorporation OF the
Omaha, Lincoln and Gulf Railway Com
pany have been filed in the office OF Sec
rotary of State of Nebraska. The capt.
tai stock is $l2 100000. The northern
terminus of the proposed railroad is at
Omaha. and the southern at Brierton
Texas The length of the proposed line
is 1900 miles.
Flat Top Monitor is the name of a
new paper published at -Bramwell Mer-
Ger county, w. Va, and edited by Judge
Charles p Latham, late of Lynchburg,
with John d. Hewitt, publisher. 1t is a
newsy publication, and with Judge
Latham's known ability as writer must
exert much influence in that portion of
the country and prove a success.
We mentioned last week that Lewis
Zeiter, of Roanoke, had been placed I'M
der arrest, on complaint of DR.. Black
ford, of the Western Lunatic Asylum,
that he was an escaped lunatic. He was
released on habeas corpus, and after
wards voluntarily surrendered to the
asylum authorities and demanded his
release, which was granted.
Dr. A. E. Jones, aged about 70 years,
stepped out of the back door of his
house in Cincinnati one evening last
week with his slippers on his feet and his
coat Off He was not seen afterwards,
until after exhaustive search, his mutt