The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-07-24
The Original package" bill has pass

The Original package" bill has pass
ed the House.
The returns of the census gives Roa
noke 6,4O0 population.
Eugene Schuyler, the American Con
sui at Cairo, Egypt, died on the 18th
inst.
George Gillet. the oldest citizen of
Bath county, died last week, aged "a
years.
The Bankrupt Bill is under considera-
ton in the House and it is thought will
pass.
Bishop A. w. Wilson has set out on a
trip around the world to visit foreign
missions.
The census returns show population
for New York City of $I,513, 50l-an in
crease since 1880 of 25.4 per cent.
Zanas b. Stearns, eldest son of the late
Franklin Stearns, died at the RetI eat for
the Sick, in Richmond, on Saturday last,
aged 45 years
Hon. Edmund Waddill, member of
Congress from the Richmond district
saws he will not be a candidate for re-
nomination.
Mai. Thomas w. boswell, the oldest
turfman in Virginia, died in Richmond
on the 17th after a prOtracted Illness
aged about 70 years.
The costly building of the Western
Union Telegraph Company in New York
was burned on the 18th. Loss about
100000. No lives lost.
A dispatch says that the Natural
Bridge property, owned by Col. ID. q.
Parsons, has been sold to a Massaehu-
sets syndicate for 100000.
A favorable report has been made on
the bill to give Fredericksburg public
building, but there is not much proba
bilities of it becoming law.
The friends of Hon. Harry Libby will
present his claims for the Republican
nomination for Congress in the end dis
trict, now represented by Hon. George
E. Bowden.
The Buena Vista ADVOCATE refers to
the steel liant project for that town as
an assured fact, and says that work will
be at once commenced on the founda
ton.
Mr. w. w. Scott, eX-secretary of the
State Democratic Committee of Virginia,
whose temporary term of service in the
census bureau had expired, has been
reappointed.
1t is st tted that the name of Capt. Asa
Rodgers, Gen. Mahone's private secreta-
ry, is being pushed for the marshalship
of Oklahoma Territory, made vacant by
the resignation of Capt. W. S. Liuty.
Miss Olive Riddleberger, of Woodstock,
Va, has obtained a situation in the
Pension Office at Washington, ID. c. and
Master Ralph Riddleberger, one as a
page in one of the houses of Congress.
Hon. w. L. Gaines published a card
last week in the Petersburg Inder
Appeal, in which he announced himself
a candidate for Congress in the 4th dis
trict. He represented that district one
term.
The Deficiency bill which passed the
Senate last Saturday contains provisions
for paying Col. Mosby So, 0OO-the
amount awarded him by the Court of
Claims for Consular fees while serving
in the Diplomatic service in Hong Kong,
China.
Cesar Perkins, a prominent citizen
and politician of Buckingham county,
is running a brick yard at Clifton Forge.
The Record says he has $4,000 on hand,
and the full capacity of his yard is
$4,000 to 10000 day. His next kiln will
turn out 100000
Hon John g. Warwick, who is the
Democratic nominee to contest the Con
gressional district in Ohio with Hon.
VIM. Mckinley, at one time lived, with
his father, a prominent physician, at
Middlebrook, in this county. Young
Warwick taught school in that vicinity
1t is stated that the Virginia Agricul-
tural Society will not hold Il State Fair
this year. Its indebtedness of $4,000,
incurred at the last exhibition and which
would be. appropriate for the Augusta
District Fair to take into consideration
the fact that there will be 10 State Fair
held at Richmond, and enlarge it's plans
to meet in part at least this default.
Proper energy appropriated to the pur-
pose would largely increase the interest
and Importance of the District Fair this
fall
The census returns for Virginia will
show an increase in values to the amount
of $20,0o0,000. 1t ought to be $50 900, 900,
and would be were there an honest re-
turn of assessable property. From the
figures we published last week, the taxa
able property in Augusta has decreased
since 1880. We do not believe this rep
resents the true fact of the case. There
is nothing that we can think of which
justifes the belief that Augusta is not
to-day wealthier county than it was
ten years ago. There has been conceal
ment and deception somewhere.
Messrs. Francis W. Breed, of Lynn,
Mass, member at large of the Worlds
Fair Committee; J. r. Lerson, Boston
Joseph Davis, Lynn, Mass, well known
in the New England States; l.. HI.
Shields, of Norfolk, and Miles M. Mar
tin, of GLASGOW. are the purchasers of
the Natural Bridge property. This is
not a land improvement &C mpany, with
stock to sell, but its object is to make the
Natural Bridge the most elegant resort
south of Saratoga. 1t is said a half
million dollars will be expended on the
property.
The Nea0s, published at Franklin,
Pendleton county, w. Va, of the 18th,
contains a communication over the Sig
nature of Theodore w. Osterheld, call
ing attention to the wonderful natural
wealth IN timber, grass, coal and iron
of that county. We judge from the
tenor of the letter that Mr. o. is taking
leases of mineral lands to work on royal
ty, and that he represents capitalists
who are ready to cooperate with him.