The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-12-26

Senator Sawyer OF Wisconsin. Willie III
Pittsburg, said the Dependent Pension
bill met with general approval and that
favorable action would be taken on it
by Congress. ..-. i.@
At Charlottesville, on Wednesday last,
F. G. Morgan. tried for killing J.. D.
Coles, the jury brought in verdict OF
IS months in the penitentiary. If it was
a case of self defence. he ought to have
been acquitted If it was deliberate
murder he ought to be hung Why the
! jury arrived at their conclusion. is not
stated
A Sale of part of the lots of the Salem
Land and Improvement Company took
place on the 18th. They were placed in
the hands of real estate agents. Where
several agents had sold the same lots
they were put up at auction. Lots
amounting to over 100000 were sold at
good prices. Business and residence
houses have been contracted for and
building promises to go on briskly.
J. S. Funk, an enterprsing Rocking
ham stock raiser. sold last week to
Baltimore dealer, ten heads OF weather
lambs. They averaged 119 pounds, and,
at six cents gross, brought him the
neat sum of $6.14 per head. Four of
them were twins. These were the in
ferior lambs, those possessing superior
markings having already been sold for
breeding purposes.
Salem Regaster:-Col A. M. Bowman.
of Saltville. Va. was in Salem this week
and purchased about thirty-too lots in
the Improvement Company's property
for himself and friends. 1t is his atten
ton to remove to Salem in a short time
and will make this his home. He will
soon begin the erection Of a handsome
residence and a fine three story brick
business block, rs feet front on College
avenue.
On the 18th of October there was an
incendiary fire at Rocky Mount, which
consumed four of the principal business
houses and residences of the place. Six
colored persons were arrested charged
with the arson. They were tried last
week. Four of them-George EARLY,
Bird Wood, William Brown and Massie
Wood-were found guilty and sentenced
to be hung. The other two will be tried
as accessories.
Phi1adelphia Press:-The effort now
under way to organize a genuine Repub-
lican party in Virginia deserves the cor
dial support of every enemy Of Bourbon
supremacy. Heretofore the political
parties in the Old Dominion have con
sisted of VIM. Malone, and the Demo
cracy, of whom it must be said that the
former can't redeem the state, while the
latter won't. Political salvation for
poor old Virginia must come, if it comes
at all, through the medium of an hon
est, sure-enough Republican party.
A dispatch from Bloomfield, Ala, dated
the 18th says:-The biggest timber land
deal ever made in the South has been
consummated. A London syndicate has
bought 100000 acres in Alabama, and
west Florida, paying $40 per acre for the
tract The details of the trade were ar
ranged in New York few days ago.
w. J. Vankirk negotiated the deal for
Chipley and others of this State, who
owned the property. The names of the
London capitalists could not be learned,
but the trade is said to be a bonafide
one, and will bring over $6OOO,OOO into
Alabama.
Three separate glycerine magazines
blew up Sunday last at North Clarendon,
about seven miles above Warren, Pa.
The amount of glycerine exploded was
over ten tons. The magazines were
owned by the Rock Glycerine Company
John Kuhn and Mr.. Mckay. The ex
plosion set fire to two $4,000 barrel tanks
full of oil belonging to the National
Transit Company, which will be total
LOSSES Several oil derricks and small
wooden tanks were also burned. No
one, so far as can be learned, was injured.
Nearly every window in Clarendon was
broken, and much damage was done to
surrounding property. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000 Oil men claim it to
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