The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-04-24


what the Democrats themselves demand
ed in their platform, but flagrantly ig
nored in the Morrison and Mills bills
which they tried to have passed in Con
gress.
A Brave Girls Hard Lot.
Only a few years ago the country rang
with the praise of Miss Kate Shelley, OF
Moingona, Ia, who crossed swollen
stream in the dark at a great risk to her
self and in the midst of u bowling storm
to save passenger train for the bridge
had been swept away by a torrent.
Poems-w were written on the episode, pic,
lures appeared in the illustrated papers,
and innumerable paragraphs were writ
ten about the heroine. 1t is said that she
savel the railroad company $4,000 OF
more in property, to say nothing about
what they might have been called upon
to pay for lives lost and passengers in
iured.
To-day Miss Shelley is the sole support
er of widow mother and three small
children, and they are living in a heavily
mortgaged home, which is their only
property. Three years ago she risked
chiefly the consciousness of brave and
successful deed. The railroad company
gave her q small reward less than the
value of one of the cars she saved and
tho raccanoarc wboca Iivac xyara rra
served by her act, have entirely forgot
ten her
The Worlds Fair bill has passed both
branches of Congress and is now with
the President for approval.
General Malone has recently pur-
chased for Northern syndicate 10000
ae res of coal land in Southwest Virginia
VIM Carr. Mayor of Roanoke, died on
the S1st in that city. He was a native
Of Albemarle county, and 81 years of
age.
Miss Agnes Terry, sister of General
W. R. Terry, of the Soldiers Home, at
Richmond, died at Roanoke recently,
aged so years.
Hon. George D. Wise has written and
published q card, announcing himself a
candidate for Congress from the Rich
mond district.
At the election in Wytheville the
"wets' carried the town by IA MAORI
ty. At the previous election the ''drys''
were successful.
Maurice Schroeder, Baltimore tray
cling salesman, died at Ford's Hotel, in
Richmond, on Sunday, from EXCESSIVE
nse of laudanum.
An engineering party is surveying q
route for q RAILROAD up Potts Creek,
from near Covington. This will accom-
modate the Rich Patch Iron district.
Samuel Wootten, who mysteriously
disappeared from his home near Farm
vile, in Prince Edward county, few
weeks ago, has turned up in Washing
ton.
Ressemer STEEL rails are TO be made at
Norfolk by the Norfolk & Western rail-
road from ore brought from Cuba, and
mixed with the ores found along the
line of that railway.
The Covington, Va, Improvement
Company have added 400 acres to their
belongings, making about 1000 acres,
and increased the capital stock of the
Company to 100000.
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basket of fruit to every peach tree in
Kent county, Md. The peach trees
number 100000. 4 fly II crop means
about two baskets to tree
DR., Walker Maury Hite, and his wife
Mrs. Mary &. Hite, died at Keswiek,
Albemarle county, an the 18th within 12
hours of each other, the doctor dying
first Both had been in i'll health for
some time.
The bill placing Gen. J. G. Fremont
on the retired list, with the rank of Ma
jor-General, has been approved by the
President. So the "Old Pathfinder
may now spend his remaining days in
comfort and ease.
Pitfsburg american Manufacturer
says Huntington, W. Va. parties have
just contracted for large building at
Iron Gate, to be used as a foundry and
machine shops. The same paper says
The rolling mill at Iron Gate will fire
up on the 1st of May. This mill has
capacity of 80 or 60 tons of muck bar
per day. The editor of the MaaaMfac-
turea is J. d. Weeks, who is largely in
terested in the rolling mill at Iron Gate.
s'Fax," the Washington correspondent
of the Harrisonharg Spirit Of the t4attey
last week gave wings to his Imagination
and scared one hundred years into the
future. He pictured what would be the
mission and the duty of the local editor
in that far off period, and linned in pro-
fuse verbiage the resources and wants
that three generations ahead will be CO.
femporenous with. # .Fax'' has dane
nothing else, he has raised a high STAN
dard to which to aspire. He has out
lined what present efforts may lead
10, and photographed the possibilities
whiiseh may lie before rs. The good PEG
pie OF Harrlsonhqfg, now awakened te
an appreciation of their beautiful town
and its rich surroundings, will do we'll to
Elm as high as the goal marked out by
Fax and endeayor to reach as near to
it IN the lifetime of the present genera
lion as it is possible to do They are on
the right track, and we wish them album
liant success,