The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-02-06

Mr.. James Alexander. prominent cit
izen of Rockbrige, died on the Sd from
the grippe.
j. P Cline, of Lipscomb, has sold his
South River farm to A. l.. Wagner at
5000 per acre.
Senator Jones introduced bill on the
LIST to amend the act incorporating the
town of Clifton Forge
The suit for libel entered by Charles
s. Parnell against the London Times,
resulted in $25, 900 damages and all costs
of the suit.
q. w. Stevens has been appointed to
succeed j. Il. Harahan as General Su-
perintendent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway.
Mr.. John Gibson, ST., father of Col.
John Gibson, Jr., died at his residence
near Timberrdge, Rockbridge county,
on Sunday last, aged about so years.
Perhaps the youngest couple ever
married in North Carolina have just
been united in Davis county. The
groom is - and his bride two years
younger.
Father hurry, of Abingdon, and Right
Rev. j. j. Kahn, Bishop of Wheeling,
w. Va, will at an early day, visit the
Holy Land and other points of interest
in the old world.
r. Stockett Mathews, prominent Re
publican politician of Baltimore, aged
ga years, died suddenly from heart dis
ease on the LIST, while on the way to his
home from his office.
The Republican County Commute
for Rockbridge county met last week o
fix upon a candidate to recommend for
the Lexington postof1ice. 1t adjourned
without recommendation.
Mrs Charlotte Smith has proposed to
the ways and means committee of the
House Of Representatives that the tax
on cigarettes be made 81 box in order
to stay the enormous consumption.
Henry Rogers, the horse thief, who
rode IA stolen horse 700 miles in twelve
days and broke Jail two weeks ago, sur
rendered himself one day last week. and
is agai in custody at Harrisonburg
A dispatch from Cincinnati, dated
the list, says that j. T. Harrahan, gen
eral manager Of the Chesapeake 4 Ohio
railroad, had resigned his office. The
reason for his action was not stated.
Capt. A. S. Hussey, postmaster at Mt.
Jackson, died at that place on the 21th
inst. He was born in 1904 on the Island
OF Nantu cket, and was in the whaling
service 1T an early age and had charge
of vessels on the west coast of Africa for
the late stephen Girard.
Mrs. Ellen Z. Boyd. mother of Holmes
Boyd and relict of Rev. A. H. Boyd, "A
prominent minister in the Presbyterian
church, and at one time pastor of Il
congregation in Harrisonburg, died in
Winchester recently. She was sister
of the late Samuel c. Williams, of Win
chester
Jennie Parker is the mother of a child
and lives in Harrisonburg. Last week
she left the infant in her room while she
went out on the street While the
mother was out the child was attacked
and terribly mutilated by rats. The
mother was arrested for cruel indiffer
enee to her offspring and placed in Jail
for 80 days.
Ex-Congressman Bowen, who is con
testing the seat of Mr. Buchanan from
the 9th Virginia district, says that hay
ing been informed by Mr.. Edgar Allen,
whom he had engaged as his counsel,
that it will probably be impossible for
him to argue his ease, he will probably
engage the services of Judge John T.
Harris, of Virginia.
A re narkable old family celebrated at
Rockbridge Baths. Tuesday. their birth
day. They are Miss Pattie Withrow.
aged eightyfour years; Mr.. Samuel
Withrow, aged eighty two years; Mr.
John Withrow. aged eighty years. and
Mrs. Sallie NJ. Stuart, aged seventyseven
years. They meet and dine together
once IA year.
The shipyard which the Chesapeake
Dry Dock and Construction Company
commenced to build last July at the ter
minus of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail
road at Newport News, will. when com
pletei, be the largest ship bnilding es
tablislment in America. Five hundred
hands are at work on it, and The pay roll
runs to $4,000 per day.
1t is reported that should Mr.. Geo. C.
Round fail to get the place of Census
Supervisor in the Alexandria district,
publication in the North to the effect
that while d number OF eXConfederate
Virginia Republicans have been appoint
ed to office. he, Union soldier for
four years, with a commission signed by
President Lincoln, has been turned
down
The farmers of Greensville county are
reported to be in destitute condition.
and an appeal has been sent ont for as
sistance. This state of affairs is attiibu-
ted to a general failure of the crops
caused by the continued rainy weather
of last season. The appeal is signed by
375 farmers of the county, who annoiinee
that W. Samuel Goodwin and K. l..
Turner, of Einporia, are authorized to
receive contributions to relieve the des
titution.
The farms of Col. Charles W. Burwel,
and Mr. J p Houtz adjoining the prop
erty of the Salem Improvement Com
pany, have been purchased by a syndi
cate of well known gentlemen at 5000
per acre, or $G3 900 for the 3l5 acres EN-
braced in the two farms. Colonel Bur
well gets $4,000 for his place and Mr.. j.
p Houtz $23 900 for 115 acres. Among
the purchasers are Messrs. 4. J. Shickie
d. b. Strouse, Robert Logan. Colonel
Burwel and Mr.. Houtz.
The Princess furnace, at Glen Wilton,
Botetourt county, has been awarded the
contract for pig iron to be used in the
construction of cruisers Nos. and 8. to
be built for the United States Navy, at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This iron is
to be used in the manufacture of the
cylinder of these cruisers, and the CON
tract was awarded at $20.50 per ton,