The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-04-03

Gov. Hill Friday last appointed Major
General Daniel E Sickles sheriff of the
city and county OF New York. in place
of James A. Flick, resigned.
dispatch from Memphis reports the
situation in the overfiowed Mississippi
river country as appalling; seventeen
hundred people are suffering for the
necessaries of life
Committee on Elections, by strict
party vote has reported in favor of I'M
seating Geo. d. Wise, Democrat, from
his seat in Congress, and giving it to
Judge Waddill, Republican.
1t is said that Gen. Adam E. King will
be appointed consul general to Paris.
The rumor concerning Gen. Mahone's
selection for that place were never sub
stantiated by any authoritative state
ment.
The town of Skipwith, ten miles below
Vicksbnrg on the Mississippi river, was
entirely swept away on Saturday last
by the rush of water through the big
cfeNdSSe. FROM lOUE 10 ten lttb VI NdtOl
is on the site of the town.
Bonsack Cigarette stock, which few
weeks ago was sold at $3.50 per share,
has dropped to $96,25. This is accounted
for by another invention which threat
ems to supersede it, or it will at least oc-
cupy part of its territory.
The rolling stock for the new railroad
connecting Rockbridge Alum Springs
with the G. & O. railroad, is being
procured. James A. Frazier, the contrac-
tor for the construction of the road,
went to New York this week to purchase
an engine.
On Monday last, Mr.. Mckinley, chair
man of the Ways and Means Committee
reported the tariff bill agreed upon by
a majority of that committee. 1t will
reduce the revenue, as claimed, about
$45, 100000 The minority have ten days
to report a bill.
Robert M. Brown, a brakeman on the
Virginia Midland Railway, was seriously
hurt at Chatham Thursday night by be
ing crushed between moving car and
the depot platform. He was carried to
the Home for the Sick in Lynchburg,
where he lies in a critical condition.
The bill in Congress providing for the
payment of the awards of the Court of
Claims for damage done to loyal citizens
during the war, includes that of John
Kelley, decd, of Allegheny, for Sc, ST. II.
The claim has been allowed, and what is
wanting is an appropriation to pay it
A shower of fish from an inch to three
inches in length fell at Lebanon, Tenn,
March %, from pear shaped cloud that
was rapidly propelled by a strong cur
rent at an immense height. An examin-
alton of the fish proved that they were
of kind only found in the waters OF
China and Thibet.
pathetic incident of the Louisville
cyclone disaster was a contribution OF
$500 from Johnstown, Pa The citizens
of that stricken city have not forgotten
their own sufferings, and out of theii
accumulations since the great disaster
that befell them a year or more ago
they have generously rendered the con
tribution named to the people of Louis
vile.
There is flavor of knight errantry
manifested by the people of Louisville
in the announcement that they will take
care of their wounded and afflicted by
the recent cyclone, without outside aid
This announcement is made in the most
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is pride that is in every way commend
able. and shows the high sense of pro
priety and honor of that people.
The ocean passenger steamer City Of
Paris, which has made such good time
in crossing the ocean, was disabled al
sea about $50 miles from Queenstown
and but for timely aid the vessel and
over 900 passengers would have gone
to the bottom of the Atlantic. She was
towed to port by the Ohio-the Adriatio
refusing aid, although it was believed
when she refused, that the Paris could
not be saved of herself
The spring opens with extraordinary
occurrences, causing immense loss oil
property and many lives. Tornadoes
cyclones, water deluges, fires, murders
and disasters in almost every form come
trooping one after the other so fast as
to startle and bewilder the reader
Whether we are to have winter lingei
in the lap of spring, through the entire
season, cannot be told, but if the great
snow storm which came upon us here
last Monday, as March bid us adieu, is
one OF the indication, We will have to
wait for time to unfold
A dispatch from Washington to the
New York Star says: There are well sus
tanned rumors that Bridget Sweeney
the trusted old servant who had been
living in Secretary Tracy's family fol
fourteen years or more, has confessed
that she fired the house, at which his
wife and daughter were burned to death
in Washington, with kerosene, anG
that after starting the fire she went to
church. No motive whatever is assigned
for the horrible deed. and no possible in
centive except insanity
Ex-Sheriff Flack, who secured di
vorce from his wife by fraudulent means
and by forgery, was found guilty, and
has been sentenced to two months in
Jail and to pay 81 800 His son William
one of the conspirators against his
mother, goes to the penitentiary for
four months. and is fined $500. John
Meeks, the attorney who was in the plot,
gets one month in the county jail and
is fined $500. The history of the case
reveals degree corruption and rascality
rarely ever exposed in court. and all
that lecherous scoundrel might pro
cure a divorce from a virtuous wife
The punishment is entirely inadequate
to the crime.
1t is now stated that the defalcat on
of State Treasurer Archer of Maryland
may reach 100000. 1t is said that he
lost immensely on gas stock. A gas trust
bill had been introduced in the Leg:sla-
ture and passed one branch. Gas stock
took Jump 1t was confidently believed