The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-19
Rev. Martin P. Miller, of Rockingham,

HuRspAY, June 10, 1880.
Rev. Martin P. Miller, of Rockingham,
lied last week.
Rev. DR.. Philip Slaughter. of Culpeper,
lied on the 18th, aged SO years.
Mrs. Mary c. Rosebro, mother of Rev.
@. w. Rosebro, died in Petersburg on
The 10th.
Mrs. Harriet Lemon died at Lick Run,
county, on the 9th inst. aged
s8 years.
Henry N. Stanley has been appointed
and has accepted the Governorship of |
the Congo Free State.
DR.. T. 4. Niche, q well-known drug
gist of Charlottesville, died suddenly
Thursday, of paralysis.
Frederick N. Fleming, prominent
lawyer, died at Louisa Court House
Thursday from paralysis.
Col. ]. H. Guy, a well-known and
prominent lawyer of Richmond. died on
the 10th, aged SO years.
The county levy in Loudoun county
has been fixed at 90 cents on the 500.
The State tax is 40 cents
Mrs. Geo. Reynolds died at her resi-
dence on the Cowpasture, near Griffith,
on the 9th, aged 80 years.
Samuel L. Kirkpatrick, prominent
and useful citizen of Rockbridge, died
ON the 18th inst, aged As years.
The real estate assessment in the city
of Roanoke aggregate about 1T, OO0, OOO-
an increase Of SIS, 600 900 in five years.
A Philadelphia firm has purchased
lot of ground in Roanoke on which a
business block costing $4,000 will be
erected
A destructive hailstorm passed over
Harrisonburg and Berryville, Va, on
the 18th, destroying corn, and doing
other damage.
CIV. Button, of Lynchburg, has been
elected President of the Florence Rail-
road and Improvement Company, of
Florence, Ala.
W. C. Mayo. son of Col. R. M. Mayo,
of Westmoreland county, has received
the appointment of Cadet to West Point
Military Academy.
Thomas Williamson, a well-known
citizen of Fauquier, was found dead in
his yard recently. He was formerly a
merchant in Warrenton.
Little Cedric Hodgson Burnett, Little
Lord Fauntleroy," is slowly dying in
Wayne county, Penn, where his mother
took him, under medical advise.
If it is true as stated, that the gift OF
a cottage at Cape May to Mrs. Harrison,
the Presidents wife, came from Post
master General Wannamaker, then it
ought to be declined at once.
State Senator Heaton, OF Loudoun
county, who died recently, left an estate
valued at $4,000. 1t is to be divided
equally between his brother, N. R. Hea
ton, and his sister, Mrs. Harriet M. Pur
SELL
Dixie and Steelton, are additions to the
town of Salem. Lots sold at the former
place last week at an average of $446
and at the latter, farther removed from
the present limits of Salem, at an aver
age of 1887.
W. W. Dickinson, of Grant county
KY, was nominated as the Democratic
candidate for Congress to succeed Mr.
Carlisle on the 217th ballot. The Repub
Of q a
against him.
A Charlottesville syndicate has pur
chased a tract of land adjoining Ports
mouth to be laid off into building lots
Nine hundred and seventy DuuuIng IoJ
on the suburbs of Portsmouth were SOLD
at auction recently at excellent prices.
There was hail foot deep fifteel
miles west of Van Horn. Texas, on Sat
urday. A heavy rain and hail storm
passed south and north of Van Horn OF
Saturday evening. 1t is said that thi
was thesfirst rain in Ell Paso county il
more than year.
Hon. R. Q. Mills has declined the ap
pointment as member of the commit
Speaker Reed. His reasons are personal
because Mr.. Reed has notion that b,
Is Speaker and that Mr. Mills is not
That is about the kernel of the bad hu
NOR of the Texan.
The term of DIR. Marvin, the celebra
ted forger, who was sent to the Virgins
penitentiary for forgery ten years ago
expired last Monday. Soon after hif
arrest in Richmond a requisition from
the Missouri authorities went forward
for him. 1t will have to be revived to be
effective, and it is not known W neither OF
not this will be done.
In referring to the proposed settle
ment of the Virginia debt, one of the
best-known London banking and brok
erage firms writes here: "Nearly every
body here in Europe is looking forward
with more on less certainty to a speedy
settlement of the debt question. 1t is
believed that the Virginians can nc
longer shrink from making an honorable
settlement with their creditors
Baron Won Zedwintz, German Minister
to Mexico, and Miss Lena Caldwell, of
Washington city, were married in the
chapel of the Catholic University, at
Washington, on the 18th The little
chapel was built by the bride, and she
was married before its altar. She is one
of the wealthy Caldwell sisters, who
have been lavishly liberal to the Catho-
lie church, her sister having given $780,
600 to the Catholic University at Wash
ington.
The defalcation of State Treasurer
Archer, of Maryland, ascertained by a
committee appointed to examine into
the matter, gives the sum at $132, 401. rs !;
the disposition of all which, except
$4,000 ia bonds, is accounted for. The
funds were appropriated to paying off
personal indebtedness, running back to
the time when he represented the end
Maryland district in Congress. He was
liberal with party workers and popular
with the boys who run the machine, and
to that may be traced the commence
ment of his troubles and his crimes
Daring the day in Congress last week
appropriated to the delivering of eulo-
r,;as imam tho Lotto Samual T Randall