The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-02-27

la .e last evening, informs Us that Geo.
A. Revercomb, of Warm Springs, has
been nominated for Supervisor of the /
4th district. which includes Augusta
couaty-
+. +}s oke Fri
da'- Is
J.. nv cen appointed post
ma ufrHio Forge Rockbrit ge
county.
6 ~, j iy-e, ol Warm Springs, and
deputy clerk of Bath county, died Sat
urday.
Ri hard G. Banks has been nominated
bythe President for Collector of Customs
at Norfolk
TIE Duval House. at Salem, Va, has
been sold to F. j. and ]. Henry Chap
m IN for $4,000.
The knitting factory at Charlottesville
went into operation last Monday. 1t
will employ eighty hands.
III. B. P. Pool has been appointed
Storekeeper and Guager in the 9th Vir-
ginia Internal Revenue District.
Lemuel B. Moore has been appointed
gauger and storekeeper in the 9th Vir-
ginia Interna! Revenue District.
Mr.. N. M. Cartmel, the well known
hotel man, will have charge of the old
Sweet Springs the coming season.
Hon. Corbin Reynolds, of Botetourt
county, at one time State Treasurer OF
Virginia, died in Florida of consump
ton.
1t is reported that lot of Mormon
missionaries are expected to begin oper-
alton; in Shenandoah county at an early
date.
The Lake Springs Land Company was
organized at Salem last week, and the
capital stock, 100000, was taken in
few hours.
A dispatch from Chicago says the I'm
ion stock yards of that city, the largest
in the world, will doubtless be sold to an
English syndicate for $50, 100000.
The Lexington Gazette says the out
put of Victoria Furnace, at Goshen, is
IT'S tons of pig metal day. Mr.. j. e.
Brown, of Ironton, Ohio, is now the
manager.
Col. W. III. Palmer of Richmond, has
been elected President of the Va, Fire &
Marine Insurance Co: of Va. to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of w.
L. Cowaden.
The citizens of Fincastle have organic
ed for the purpose of building a railroad
from that place to Troutville, station
on the Shenandoah Valley railroad, a
distance of seven miles.
1t is said that General Edgar Allan, of
Richmond. has determined to remove to
Washington city to practice his pIofes-
sion We notice that he has sold his
house and lot in Richmond for 1884.
-Jud &c Nowlin, who Topped over from
the Democracy to General Malone in
the last canvass, has been appointed to
an 81. 800 position in the Public Printing
Office at the request of the General.
An angry looking cloud passed over
Petersburg on the morning of the Goth,
enveloping everything in darkness for
about ten minutes. In the country the
people were very much frightened.
John Jacob Aston died in New York
on the 22d, very suddenly from heart.
failure. He was about 81 years of age,
and ona of the wealthiest men in that
city-his holdings consisting mostly of
real estate.
The Big Stone Gap Company, at a
meetin at Big Stone Gap recently, sold
1911, 0O) worth of lots in three days The
sale was phenomenal, as neither of the
three railroads have been completed to
theiplace.
Jos. A. Wingfeld has been appointed
by the President supervisor of the cen
sus for the third Virginia district. The
name of Frank W. Winston, mentioned
as having received this appointment,
was withdrawn.
President Kimball of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, proposes a big cele-
bration at Roanoke, Va, in 1892, on the
tenth anniversary of the founding OF
that fiourishing young city. He thinks
Roanoke by that time will have 10000
inhabitants.
The House Committee on Pensions
have agreed to report favorabiy bill
increasing the pension of Mrs. Mary Mi
nor Hoxie, of Rockingham county. Va.
sc of foi r
decd, and daughter of the late Hon.
John Minor Bolts
Mrs. Sarah A. Frederick died in Scots
vile, Va, on the 18th inst, in the 97th
wear of her age She had lived under
every administration from Washington's
to Harrison's; was in perfect possession
of all her senses except defect in hear
ing, and until her last brief illness was
unusually active for one of her age. She
had her second sight, and died from la
grippe.
The Montana Legislature, after wrang-
ling for several months, electing four U.
s. Senators, when two are all that can be
seated, and emptying the treasury OF
every dollar in it, finally adjourned in a
frolic, setting fire to large building
with fire crackers, and quitting it com
pletely So the first effort at Statehood
has gone out in blaze of fire, il not of
glory.
The handsome and commodious mer-
chant mill of Messrs. Berry & Co., which
has been under construction at Harri-
sonburg for some time. is about being
completed. The carpenters work is fin
ished, and soon the machinery will be
placed. The three wheat bins in the
building have a capacity of 10000 bush
els, and the output of the mill is 1875 bar
rels in 81 hours In about two months
the whole establishment will be in run
ming order.
The Port Republic correspondent of
the Rockbridge Register says:-There
have been several land sales in this
neighborhood since our last letter. Mr..
John Bear has sold the Harper place, one
hundred acres to Mr.. Showalter at $50
per acre, thirty acres to Messrs Jas. and
VIM. Rodgers and Lafayette Smith at $25