The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-03-06

bly, to increase the salary of the Com
missioner of Railroads from $4,000 to
$780,
Senator John W. Daniel and Holmes
Conrad have been appointed aids to
the General Commanding the United
Confederate Veterans"
Gov Fleming, of West Virginia, has
appointed w. A. Ohley, of the Fair
mount I11der. Secretary of State. to sue
coed Hon. H. s. Walker.
w. S. Irwin has been appointed post
master at Columbia Furnace. Shenan-
doah county, Va, and Julia n. Robert
son at Yancy's Mill, AIbemarle Co., Va.
The thrifty colored people of Roanoke
have formed land and Improvement
company, with capital of $4,000. John
II. Davis is the president of the com
pany.
During the past week one hundred
and fifty thousand bushels of wheat from
Chicago was exported from Newport
News by the steamship line of Messrs.
Barber & Co.
President Harrison has appointed H.
c. Caldwell, of Arkansas, U. S. Circuit
Judge. for the Sth circuit, to succeed
Judge Brewer, promoted to the u. S.
Supreme Bench.
Young Abraham Lincoln, the Is year
old son of U. S. Minister to England
Robert T. Lincoln, is seriously i'll in
London. He is the only son of his
father, and the only grandson of the
name of ex-President Lincoln.
Over $50 railroad contractors were in
Roanoke last week waiting for the open
ing of bids for work on the Ohio extern
sion of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road. This line will be 1875 miles, ex-
tending from Elkhorn to Ironton on the
Ohio river
F. G.. Newland, representing Cali
fornia syndicate. has purchased "Oak
View" the property of exPresident
Cleveland. in the suburbs of Washing
ton, for $4,000. Mr.. Cleveland, it is
said, will realize about 100000 profit on
his investment.
By resolutions adopted in both
branches of the Legislature, the session
was extended from, Monday last. not eX-
ceeding five days. This extension does
not carry pay with it, The members
will have to work for nothing and fur
nish themselves, and we may know it
will be short.
Quite panic was occasioned in Rich
mond on Sunday last during service in
Centenary Methodist Church. A fire
was discovered under the steps leading
into the auditorium. An alarm was
sounded, and general confusion followed
as the church was crowded. The flames
were extinguished before much damage
occurred
The Southwestern Virginia Mineral,
Land and improvement Company has
received and accepted an offer of 1,00(
an acre for a one-ninth interest in a tract
of land near Big Stone Gap, in South
western Virginia. The tract out of which
this ninth interest is sold contains about
two hundred acres, and when the com
pany purchased it. three years age, they
paid $50 an acre for it.
On the 9th the contested election case
of Atkinson, Republican, against Pen
dleton, Democrat, the sitting member
from West Virginia. was decided by
seating Atkinson. The vote was first
taken on declaring Pendleton entitled
to the seat in Congress, and was defeated
by vote of 142 yeas to 159 nays. The
vote was then taken on declaring Atkln
son entitled to the seat The result was
ayes 1852, noes 0-the Democrats refrain
ing from voting.
Claude Sublett, 10 years of age, stu
dent at Washington and Lee University
and son of Mr.. P. A. Sublett, Of Rich
mond, was badly wounded by the dis
charge of gun Friday last. He had 6
difficulty with colored man named
Taylor, and grabbing his gun by the
barrel, was in the act of striking hin
with the stock when the gun Went off
The entire charge from one chamber en-
tered the body in front, just above the
hip bone and on the left side. 1t il
feared young Sublett will not recover
The U. S. Supreme Court ON Monday
decided that the running of Jim Crow
cars in Mississippi was not illegal or un
constitutional The question involved
was the power of the State to compe
railroad companies to provide within
the State separate accommodation fol
the two races. Justice Brewer. who
rendered the decision, says the State
statute applies solely to commerce within
the State, and that construction of the
statute of the State by it's highest court
must be accepted as conclusive.
The second ballots in the German cleo
tions confirm the defeat of the Govern
ment and the Cartel coalition. Bismarck
has regained his control over the En-
peror. He is already actively planning
and negotiating the reconstruction OF g
government majority by the manipula
ton of parties. There is already said tc
be the revival of active relations with
the Vatican. In an important dispatch
Prince Bismarck requests the Pope's
opinions and his recommendation as to
the details of the restitution to the
Catholic clergy of the sums sequestered
during the Culturkampf.
While telegraph operator at Meridian,
Kan, was receiving message informing
him of a bank robbery at Valley Falls
he was surprised to see man answering
the description of the burglar enter the
Office The stranger asked to be direct
ed to hotel, where he took a room, re
uuesting that he be called in time for
the Atchison train. The police We're in
formed of his presence and a message
was sent to his room that it was time to
take the train. When the stranger de-
scended to the Office he was confronted
by the police with Winchester rifles
pointed at his breast. The robber MADE
a motion towards his weapons. when
both Winchesters were discharged and
the man fell dead, with a bullet through
his heart and another through the right
lung. The money stolen from the bank
was found on his person.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gazette, under date of the