The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-08-21
A light snow fell at Denver, Colorado


A light snow fell at Denver, Colorado
ON the 18th.
Col. w. E. Sims, of Virginia, has been
appointed U. S. Consul at Colon, (Aspin-
walD-salary $1,000.
L. W. L. Hough, prominent business
man and Methodist, died in Leesburg on
the 18th. aged II years.
The River and Harbor bill has passed
the Senate, with amendments, and it
now goes to a conference committee.
Judge Daniel Lucas, of West Virginia,
has been nominated by the Democrats
for the Supreme bench of that State.
Mr.. Files, of Page county, has recent
ly lost so or so hogs from cholera. The
disease is very prevalent in that section.
VIM Kneass died in Fauquier county
Saturday. aged SO years. He was the
father of 81 children, one of his sons be
ing nearly 70 years old.
On Sunday last. Rev. DR.. R. J. Nc
Bryde, of Lexington, organized Episco-
pal churches at the new cities of Buena
Vista and Glasgow, in Rockbridge
county.
Hon. j. E. Kenna, u. S. Senator from
West Virginia, is suffering from heart
disease, and has been kept from his du
ties most of the time in the Senate this
Session because of this affection.
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Springs, Rockingham county, owned by
Mrs. NJ H. Effinger, of Staunton, and
containing about 800 acres, has been
sold to Robert Liskey, of that county.
Superintendent of Census Porter now
estimates the population of the United
States to be 6i,000,000, an increase of
thirty per cent during the last ten years
Virginia has increased from 1.512 800 to
100000.
Mr.. Jacob Smith, of Glover Hill, Rock
ingham county, died in Roanoke last
last His remains were buried at his
former home. He was only 90 years of
age, and had married daughter of Ga
brial Heatwole about four months ago.
Advices from Hon. William A. Ander-
son, who was sent to London a short
time ago by the Rockblikge Company,
of Glasgow, Va, to negotiate with a
wealthy syndicate which proposed to
invest 81 900, coo in industries in the city
of Glasgow, state that all arrangements
have been made and the money assured
Chattanooga, which the Republicans
have heretofore carried by 900 ma ior-
ity, at the recent municipal election
went Democratic by 500 majority. The
poll tax restriction on the ballot opera
ted in this election for the first time, and
by it many colored voters We're deprived
of the ballot. Throughout the State
there was very small Republican vote,
comparatively, owing to the same cause.
Silver touched $l.20 an ounce on Mon
day last. I he advance since the first
agitation over the passage OF the silver
bill amounts to about $14 100000 on the
silver mined in the United States. II
the price of silver is maintained at par,
or nearly so, by the coinage provided
under the silver BILL it will prove a salu-
tary law, snd assure great benefits to
the country
As the Victoria and Western train was
on its return trip from the Rockbridge
Alum Springs Thursday morning one OF
the brake beams on the engine came
down, throwing the engine and a
coach OF the track. Engineer Robert
Curtis and fire man Law were very badly
hurt. There were about twenty five
passengers on the train, none of whom
were hurt, but were very badly shaken
up.
Ormond, once the property of the
Duke of Westminster, the champion
English race horse of the century, which
won the Derby, the st. Leger and the
Two Thousand Guinea races in 1886, and
was exported to Buenos Ayres last year,
has been purchased by Baron Hirsch for
$4,000, and will Immediately return to
England An unsuccessful bid was made
for him by the agent of the Hungarian
government.
The New York Tribune and Phiadel-
phia Press will learn something when
the people have chance to pass upon
UutlT IGCGuI COURSE III regard 10 tue EltC
tions bill and abuse of those Senators
who think the measure is impra able
and unwise. They will find that the Re
publican sentiment of the country, at this
time, is ayerse to the bill, because it is a
menace to business and the material de-
velopment of the South, which has 30
auspiciously commenced.
The American Fertilizer Company, of
Vir yinia, has been doing business in
North Carolina. The Legislature of
that Stlte i'm posed tax upon the Com
pany, amounting in the aggregate an
nually to $4,000 The Company denied
the right of the State to exact such a
tax. The case came up before Judges
Seymour and Bond, of the U. S. Court at
Raleigh, AMI was decided last Friday
against the State, on the ground that it
is in violation of the Interstate com
merce az t and unconstitutional.
Payne Calvin johnson, of Greensvile,
Nelson county. was killed at Newark,
N. j., last week, by being struck by a
passing train. He was carried On the
cow-catcher some distance, and his body
terribly mutilated. He was dentist by
profession, and had lived in Richmond.
He lost h S practice by irregular habits,
and was practically wanderer. His
age was about 2J years. Letters found
on his person, show that he was in cor
respondence with a lady by the name of
Rosa Dallas, who wrote very affection
ately. She dated her letters from Rich
mOnd.
Gov. Mckinney talks enthusiastically
over the commercial, manufacturing and
agricultural outlook in Virginia. He
saws in the matter of material develop
ment the progress is truly wonderful.
In every section of the Commonwealth
the people are Weakening up, and new
hope and zeal are app aren't. With re-
gard to education tie Governor says
that schco and co leges that will be a
credit to The State are being built
throughout Virginia The public schools