The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-09


The two days sale of lots at Luray last
week amounted to about $125, O0O-lots
selling from $3.50 to $3.50.
The Republicans have carried Idaho
by 1000 majority, and elected As out Of
the 81 members of the Legislature.
A new Opera House to cost $4,000 to
e16,0 900 is to be built at Clifton Forge on
the grounds of the Clifton Froge Com
pany.
1t is said that G. P. Huntington wants
to return to the Presidency of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad, and will put
up big fight to succeed Gen. Ingalls,
Hon. John E. Massey and his bride
returned from Alabama last week, and
proceeded to the Greenbrier White Sui
phur Springs to spend their honeymoon.
The Prohibitionists of the 9Th Con-
gre ssional district have nominated w.
G.. Shelburne for Congress to oppose
Paul eEdmunds, present Democratic Rep
resentative.
President Harrison has promised to be
in Richmond, if only for an hour, on
the occasion of the Emancipation cele-
brltion on the 18th. 10th and nth of
this month
Mr.. Dallas Flanagan, son of w. w.
Flanagan. of New York, formerly of
Oh srlottesville. was married in Rich
mo I'D on the 1st, to Miss Eloise Coke,
daughter of Capt. John A. Coke, of
that city. Mr.. F. is a promising young
lawyer of the New York bar.
Hon. John E. Massey Superintendent
of Public Instruction for Virginia. was
married at Turnbull, Ala, on the list
inst, to Miss Matte McCreary, an ac
complished lady of that place.
The Democrat is the name of a live
evening daily. established in Richmond
by Page Mccarthy and b. p. Owen, both
experienced newspaper men. 1t has a
healthy appearance, and is full of politi
cal venom and vim.
In the Memphis, Tenn, Congressional
Convention, it took exactly five thousand
and four ballots to nominate a candi-
date, and compromise man, who was
not in the race. Hon. Joseph Patteson
gathered the plum.
Colonel NJ. b. Hardin, formerly pro-
lessor of Chemistry at the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, has been elected chief
professor of chemistry at the Clemson
Agricultural College," of Pendleton,
South Carolina.
The hardware building at Basic City
is to be completed by the LIST of Deem
Der. 1t is an immense structure. Half
a million of brick have arrived from
Harrisburg, Pa, for that purpose.
What's the matter with the superb brick
m achine at Basic City?
The Republican Committee of the
convention, and have advised the col
ored man Peasants not to run, and he
has come out in a card saying that he
will not be a candidate. This leaves the
field clear to the Hon. p Ct. Lester, the
Democratic nominee.
The State Board of Education has APP
propriated $4,000 among the counties
and cities of the State, on account of ar
rearages to the public schools and also
1857, 900, the cost being one dollar, ten
cents and five mills per capita. The
funds are to be'used exclusively for pay
ing teachers. This is considerably in
excess of the apportionment last year.
Over twelve millions of dollars are to
be Immediately expended in the con-
struction of four war vessels, and all the
material must be of American prOduc-
tion. That is one way the Republicans
have Ct reducing the surplus, employ
ing labor and building up industries. 1t
will strike the average American as a
very sensible and very wise way.
The Salem Times Register is assured
that the McCarty Steel Plant is now an
assured fact. and says INSTEAD of a 100
ton plant, as at first proposed. it is now
determined to make it 800 ton, the cost
of which will not be less than $3.50, 900,
and probably 100000. and when in
operation it will give employment to
1880 persons. mostly skilled operatives. "
VIM. H. Spencer, of New York, a
travelling salesman, dropped dead at the
breakfast table In Chicago on the 3rd.
A card in his pocket read as follows
''Should be taken i'll, please send word
to Miss Julia Spencer, care of VIM.
Ellis, Shawville, Va. l wish to be Gre
mated when died not buried. Be sure
I am dead first'' He married a daugh-
ter of ex-President John Tyler.
Articles of incorporation of the Chi
cago, Iowa & Pacific Railway have been
filed at De, Moines. Iowa. The capital
stock is 800, O00.0 600. That ia one Of the
signs of the times, and an indication of
the industrial progress of the country
under the protective policy embraced in
the tariff bill. Capital and enterprise
have confidence, and when that is pres
ent. progress follows.
The Virginia debt committee say they
are progressing slowly, but surely. to a
successful ending of their negotiations
for the settlement of the debt. They have
secured practical control OF the bonds,
and they are convinced that the pro
gramme as outlined in their proceed.
ings SO far will end in securing the es-
Establishment of entire confidence in both
parties to the issue and the amicable
solution of the iong-standing financial
troubles of the old State.
Since the adjournment of Congress
there has been marked increase ia bu-
siness activity. The passage of the tariff
bill, which assures business stability as
the basis of trade, has had much to do
with this The relief afforded the money
market by the Secretary of the Treasury
and the inflow of money that has been
sent West to remove the crops, is anoth-
er reason for the activity. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY asserted that this condition will
certainly continue during 1890 and on
through the coming year,
Gov. Hill. of New York, last Thurs
day appointed Gen. Roger A. Pryor
Judge of the Court OF Com3lion Pleas to