The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-09-11
w. Fl. Kirkpatrick has been appointed
postmaster at Alone, Rockbridge county,

u. S. Consul Kimberly. of Norfolk, Va,
to Guatemala, has appointed Col. j. H.
Popham his vice consul.
The aggregate of lot sales at Salem for |
the months of July and August was
$500, 200. There is nothing small about
that.
Mr.. Edgar Allen has been appointed
special Agent of the Department of JUS
tice, to take charge of suits concerning
the ownership OF Texas land.
Since the first of the year recorded
sales of real estate in Norfolk and vi
cinity have aggregated over $4,000,0O0
and unrecorded probably s., DOG, 900 more.
The Republican Convention for the
I'd W. Virginia district, has nominated
Hon. Geo Hartman, of Grant county,
for Congress, to oppose Hon. w. L. Will
son, the Democratic candidate and III
cumbent.
Fire at Harrisonburg yesterday morn
ing destroyed the new dwelling of Mr..
James Lupton in the addition to Harris
onburg The house was nearly Gem
pleted As there was no fire on the
premises. it must have been the work of
incendiaries
Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, chairman of
the Democratic State Committee, has
ma lie the following appointments for
Hon. H. St g. Tucker to speak Flu
vana c. Fl Monday, Sept. %; Cumber-
land c. H., Tuesday, Sept %; Highland
C. H., Friday, October Sd.
All crops in Ramsey county, North
Dakota. that were spared by the drought
and ready for harvesting were utterly
ruined by hail last Friday For an hour
huge hailstones fell, smashing windows
in every house in Devils Lake, and
driving their frightened occupants to
the cellars for shelter.
The Lincoln Indt pendent Republican
Club of Philadelphia has issued an ad-
dress signed by tifty-six leading Repub-
licans declaring that the defeat of Sena-
tor Quay's candidate for Governor is es-
sental to reform in the Republican par
ty. Senator Delamater, the Republican
candidate, is making an active personal
canvass.
Tae kentucky Constitutional Con
venton opened it's session at Frankfort
on Monday last. Many changes in the
constitution are being discussed, but the
only thing which seems certain to be
done is the changing of the provisions
regarding the colored race so as to ac-
cord with the amendments of the federal
constitution.
Senator Allison in a carefully pre-
pared speech in the Senate last Tuesday
stated that the estimated surplus i'll the
treasury for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1891, would be $40. 000--that there was
no danger of a deficit, and that Congress
could proceed on the lines of the Mckin
ley tariff bill. without danger of deficit
in the treasury
The ladies of Ashville, North Carolina
held meeting recently in response to q
call published in the citizen to take ac
ton on the servant girl question, which
has been agitated for several weeks
General incompetency and unreliabllity
are the complaints made. Mrs. III. +
Fitch was elected president. and read {
Union of housekeepers to secure goot
servants AND fix schedules of eapaeit3
and of rates of wages. This is the first
society of the kind ever formed in the
Southern States.
Hon. Bob Kennedy, the Ohio member
of Congress, who violated all parliamen
tary rules and all rules of decency, in &
recent speech delivered in Congress, at
lacking Senator Quay and the Senate
generally, is one of the bitterest sup
porters of the Lodge bill. and the mos
pronounced enemies of the South. Ken
nedy's speech is a commentary upon thu
spirit of some of those who want to in
. fiict upon the country legislation thai
would torment strife and bring about
disorder and possibly bIoodshed.
People who deplore the loss of Ameri
can shipping are too likely to forget the
tremendous magnitude of inland com
merce The figures sometimes appear
absolutely startling. For instance, dur
ing 1874 days of lake navigation last veal
tonnage passed through the Detroit
river to the amount of 100000 tons
mora than the entries and clearances oil
all the seaports in the United States
and 100000 tons more than the com
bined foreign and coastwise shipping OF
TivarnoOl and London
James B. Pace, James H. Dooley, E
D. Christian, and T. M. Logan, citizens
and capitalists of Richmond, are inter
ested in one of the richest silver and
lead mines on the Pacific coast. 1t is
located about 80 miles from Seattle, and
the ore essays fifty ounces of silver and
go per cent of lead to the ton. The
Richmond men control one half of the
capital stock of the company, which is
So 100000. The lands were quietly dis
covered and secured before but a few
knew anything about it. The ore has
been tested for four and a half miles, and
is said to be the richest deposit known
in the world.
When Mr. Blaine first launched his
reciprocity idea, it was opposed by lead
ing Republicans in Congress and out
and by some of the ablest Republican
papers of the country. Now everybody
seems to be in favor of it, not only OF
reciprocity with the South American
States, but Canada, Mr.. Sherman going
so far as to introduce resolution in the
Senate in favor of free coal to and from
Canada, and in other items recognizing
the policy. Now let those statesmen
who have thus acknowledged that they
are mere followers of a statesmen, adopt
Mr. Blaine's views on the eXpediency OF
the Elections bill, and they will show
that they are not too dumb or too old
to learn.
Thirty-six cars and the engine OF a
northbound freight train on the Rich
mond and Danvile Railroad crashed
through bridge into the Yadkin river,
a few miles from Salisbury, N. c., last
Saturday afternoon. Conductor Scott
uncoupled his caboose when twenty-five
wards from the river and saved it. The
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