The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-16
district, which will surpass anything of

district, which will surpass anything of
the kind known to civilization.
1t will not be more than few years or
a decade before the foundations will be
laid. sure and steadfast and as rapidly as
men and money can do it, the mountains
will give forth their natural stores; and
the land bloom and blossom under the
skill or mechanics and the application
of capital for the utilization of the
bountiful provisions of nature.
1t is progress and prosperity that will
come to stay. 1t will be based upon values
that cannot be discounted, and will rep
resent interests co-extensive with the
demands of civilization.
Col. Charles l.. Peyton, of Richards
company, broke one of his legs
last week.
John NJ. Langston says he expects to
carry the Petersburg Congressional Dis
trict by 5000 majority, and that ''he
proposes to see that Gen. Malone doesn't
practice any fraud to defeat him."
Samuel Hicks, brakeman on the
Virginia Midland Railroad, was killed
on the yards of the company at Alexan-
dria OH the 10th while coupling cars. He
was native Of Charlottesville.
The Mckinley tariff bill and the silver
bill will carry the next Congress and
elect the next President. The Republi-
cans, on their record on these two ques-
tions, can safely go before the country
If anything were necessary to demon
strate the wisdom of the tariff law
which went into operation on the 9th,
it would be the denunciation it receives
from the British press. As the law was
made for the Quilted States and not
Great Britain, we suppose we can stand
the fierce criticisms of our brothers
across the water.
The Dupont powder mills, near Will
mington, Del, exploded last week, kill
ing twelve men and wounding a number
more. Great damage was done to prop
erty within radius of five miles. Trees
were torn up. buildings demolished, cat
tie and fowls killed, and general
damage effected The carelessness of a
workman who was soldering can in
the packing house caused the disaster.
The canard about an attempt to as
sassinate Hon. C. R. Breckenridge in
Arkansas is very amusing. If the i'm
preston could be created that the Dem
ocrats are afraid of their lives and that
it is impossible for them to have fair
contest in the Southern States for fear
OF Republican intimidation, it would be
a good card to play. But it is too thin.
Nobody will believe it, because there is
not hing in it. ...s,..s.
Ohio has 81 members of Congress. The
State is Republican by 10000 on a full
vote. Yet the Democrats gerrymander-
ed the districts SO as to give them the
advantage in fifteen districts, and that
many members they calculate on elect
ing. But the people seem to be kicking
against the job, and it is doubtful
whether there will be more than ten
Democrats out OF the twenty-nne mem
bers returned. 1t would be fitting
retribution and rebuke were the result
to be such. he slsa ai4
SOME OF the Southwest Virginia pa
pers are congratulating that section on
the formation of the Great Cuban Ore
Company" recently organized in Phila-
delphia to operate the Sigma ore mines
Of Cuba-ore to be shipped here and
used in making steel in Virginia. This
is short-sighted and i'll advised. There
are plenty of steel ores in Virginia.
North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee,
as has been attested by some of the best
mineral experts in this country. Why
not use our own raw materials, and thus
employ our own labor, and enrich our
own country ?.5as;f. ss;g.,.,ls.sses.s
Secretary Blaine will go to McKinley's
district. to help in the fight against the
Democratic gerryMander by which Nc
Kinley is placed in q district with 1900
Democratic majority. 1t is believed the
people of that district, irrespective of
party, will unite in repudiating the
outrageons conduct of a Democratic
Legislature, by which they aim to de-
prive the nation of the services in Con-
gress of such a man as Mckinley. The
Republicans never interfered with Ran
dali, because they recognized his great
ability, his honesty and his fairness,
a, ~, Eo% ~
misfortune for the, country to lose his
services in Congress. 45.-,a T,.5s
The almost unprecedented activity in
business generally lin railroad building,
the iron interest and In all branches OF
manufacture, may be attributed In
great degree to the passage of the silver
bill, and the assurance that a sound pro-
teetiye tariff law would be enacted by
Congress. Both of the laws are now in
operation : the country is feeling the
reviving effect, and the promise is for an
era of prosperity of longer duration
and more abundant results than was
ever known before. The free traders, or
tariff reforIners," will, in six months,
have nothing to talk about. The peo-
pie will be SO busy making money and
surrounding themselves with comforts
that the Democratic party viii be looked
upon as a '.baek number" a4
Mr.. Henry Watterson addressed
Democratic club in Boston recently.
In his remarks he referred to Garrison,
Phillips, Giddiugs. Wade and Greeley
as men who maintained their views on
the issues in their time that engaged
public attention, and regretted that the
Hears, the Reeds, &c., were not as good
and as honest as those pioneer aboli-
tionists., Mr.. Watterson denounced
Garrison and the others named as vi.
ciously IN their time as he denounces
Hoar and Reed now. In the light of the
concentrations within generation past,
II would not have been wise to have
4ttered his diatribes against them.
Their predictions haye been fulfilled.
The ends they struggled for have been
ACCOMPLISHED. Mr.. Wattersop may be
no wiser now than he was then, and
may, before he dies, have to confess
that he is as far off now az he was then,
in his views Of what is radicalisW and
what is conservatism. ias.s