The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-01-16
w. r. Talley has been appointed pest

Frank Blair has been chosen final ora
tor of the Law Glass of the W. and /.
University.
Chicago produces an average of about
ten suicides per week. or 500, in round
per year.
In the wet and dry election in Lynch
burg Tuesday last the vets won the day
by seven majority.
The engagement of Miss Alice Janney.
da lighter of Thomas Janney, Ct Balti-
more, to Mr. Joseph Janisch, of Vienna,
an heir to baronetcy, is amour ced from
Paris, where Miss Janney now is.
There is some feeling in Bath county
over proposition to remove the county
seat from Warm Springs to Bath Alum.
We have not heard the respective
siren 9TH of the friends and opponents of
the S ;heme.
The baby King Alfonso. of Spain, now
about years old. has been very sick
from L Grippe. He is reported out of
danger now. The Queen is Regent of
the Monarchy. Should the baby king
die, his sister Mercedes, 8 years old,
would succeed him, under the Regency.
The stables belonging to the Macy
Bros, Versailles, KY, were burned on
the 18th. Among the horses burned
was Bell Bow that was recently sold to j.
C. Clarke for SOL. 900. Clarke had re-
fused 800, 900 for him. Thirty-five horses
were lost in the fire.
We learn that Hon. H. H. Riddleber-
ger is very i'll at his home in Woodstock,
where he has been confined to his bed
for several weeks. The last we heard
from him was in effect that he was dan
gerously sick and apprehensions were
entertained of his recovery.
In the County Court of Rockbridge
last week, James T. Miller, Geo. Miller,
William Miller, and Jno. Reese, who
stand indicted for killing DR.. Walker,
were arraigned, and plead not guilty.
James f. Miller elected to be tried in the
Circuit Court, and the others in the
County Court, and cases continued.
Phi adelphia Press:-The winter wheat
crop never looked better in the west
that at this time. The stand is enor-
NOUS and the farmers do not believe
that ANY kind of weather can destroy
the healthy and vigorous plant. This
feeling is likely to result in freer offer
ings Of old wheat by ralmers i'll the next
few weeks.
1t is stated that the Legislature may
take a recess to await the action of the
u. S. Supreme Court on the Virginia
debt que stion. Taking recess now
may avoid an extra session. The hope
is entertained that a settlement of the
debt question may be reached during
this legislative term, that will be salts
factory to the people and the bond
holders.
In Norfolk the police, fire department
railroa Is, street car lines, ferries. Ne.
are all attacked by the grippe, and six
or seven hundred cases are in Norfolk
and Portsmouth, Some of the doctors
report fifty cases on their hands, and
the doctors themselves have it. Lieut.
j. e. McWhorter, of the marine corps
was sent to the hospital Monday very
i'll with the disease.
Page Courier: Superintendent Nc
Speeden, of the Eureka Manganese
mines, returned from Baltimore last
week We learn that a large amount OF
valuable machinery has Leen bought
and will ha an hand i'm the nayt SiSty
DAYS This mine is one of the most
valu tble miaeral properties in the coun-
ty. and the extensive preparations that
are being made for its operation prom
Uses much good to our people.
Presi lent A. Il. Barclay, of the Buena
Vista Company. who is in Philadelphia
on business conn. cted with the RLena
Vista, teiegralhs that the money neces
sary to build the mammoth Basic stee
plant and the large terra Gotta works al
Buena Vista has been secured The
steel plant means two or three large
blast furnaces, roll-mill, Il bloom mill
puddle furnace. etc, which will employ
an army of hands.
Six farmers of more or less prominence
were arrested at lola, Kan, Monday foi
the murder in August, 1888. OF Columbus
Carter. Tie prisoners were members OF
a band of regulators known as the LAND
feaguars." Columbus Carter was arrest
ed for brutal crime, but was acquitted
of the charge. Upon his release from
the custody of the officers of the law he
was met on his way home by the Gland
leaguers," who shot him to death. The
six farmers arrested are charged with
being implicated in the crime.
A dispatch from Charlottesville, Va.
dated the 18th, says: at having been
rumored that mob would attempt to
take negro named Muscoe, charged
with murder, recently granted a new
trial, from jail and lynch him, the mayor
of the city called out the Monticello
Guards Friday night, who did duty at
the jail. Gov. Mckinney was advised
of the situation by the commander OF
the company, and in reply told him to
obey the mandate of the mayor. The
military are on duty tonight and all is
quiet.
There is not much apprehension OF
the failure of the ice crop up the Hud-
son. 1t has been cold for a few days
and all the ice companies are in readi-
ness with thousands of men to house
the crop when it comes. 1t was on Feb
ruary last year when the first one hun
dred men were set to work cutting ice
off Staatsburg, and it was a week later
when ice boating commenced. Feb
ruary 20 was the coolest day of the win
ter and week later when ice in the
river was nearly all gone. This record
has often been duplicated, and the old
ice men of that section have as yet no
fears of scarcity of ice.
A fierce and destructive storm passed
over ST. Louis last Saturday, in which
six persons were killed and IA number Sc
riously injured. The blizzard was gem
eral throughout the Northwest, and all
trains were interrupted in the Dakotas,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and other locali-
ties. In Kentucky. the storm struck
Clinton, demolishing seventy dwellings
and killing eleven persons. The storm
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