The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-12-18
The colored people of Richmond own
$500, worth of real estate.


Bath county.
Millionaire Daniel B. Fayerweather
died in New York recently. Among
many other requests, 100000 was left
to the University of Virginia.
w. NJ. Cooley, of Amherst county,
was killed at Hinton, w. Va, on the 18th
by the yard engine striking him, and
cutting off both his legs. He had been
drinking.
We are indebted TO General Passenger
Agent Taylor, of the Virginia Midland
railroad, for neat calendar for 1891,
and descriptive article of the scenery
on that popular line.
State Treasurer Hartman has received
$4,000 from the Federal government for
Blacksburg Agricultural College and
Hampton Normal School. This is the
annual appropriation authorized by
Congress.
Mrs. Chrisman, wife of DIR. Burke
Chrisman, of Rockingham, died in Phil
adelphia on the 18th. She usually spent
the winter in Philadelphia and the sum-
mer at the Massanutton Springs, which
she owned, near Harrisonburg.
Moses p Handy, son of Rev. Or. Hans
dy, at one time pastor of Augusta
Church, has been appointed by the
Worlds Fair Commissioners to the po-
sition of Director of the Department
of Publicity and Promotion" with a
salary of 5000 per annum.
Washington Mclean, for many years
the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer
but more recently resident of Wash
ington City, died in the latter place last
week He grew rich off of his paper,
and turned it over to his son, John R.
Mclean, who has become a millionaire
out of its profits.
A large and wealthy company of Bos-
ton capitalists have been organized to
work the Irish Creek tin mines in Rock
bridge, and options have been taken on
large tracts of land adjacent. Quiet in
yestigation by experts have been going
on in the tin district for some months, and
it is reported the results are very salts
factory.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky has
rendered an important decision on the
interesting game of draw poker. A party
who lost nearly $1,000 at different
times in the game of poker, at certain
place and with certain parties, sued for
its recovery. 1t was taken through the
inferior Courts, and finally reached the
Supreme Court, where the decision was
in favor of the ''squealer."
Sitting Bull, the most troublesome In
dian of the Sioux band, and his son,
Crow Foot. were killed in their camp,
near Standing Rock, South Dakota, on
the 18th. They were about to leave
their camp for the Bad Lands, prepara-
tory to taking the war path, when they
were arrested. A fight ensued, result
ing in the death of half-dozen on either
side.
The financial plank in the platform of
the Alliance is nonsense. The demand
for the repeal of the national bank law
is revolutionary. The system has been
tested over quarter of a century, and
proven to be the wisest and safest ever
devised. No country on the globe has
better financial system, and the de-
mand that it be uprooted and destroyed
is the superlative of stupidity, and a
menace to the business of the country.
Philadelphia Press: The Free-trade
papers, which are charging on the in
fiuence of the Mckinley tariff in ad-
vancing the price of potatoes. carefully
and dishonesty conceal the fact that
the crop this year is one-third short, or
14O, 1000, 900 bushels against an average of
1875, 100000 bushels for the past two
years. In 1887, when the crop was as
small, prices were >as high as they are
now.
Philadelphia Press: England, by an
act passed year or two ago, requires
goods to be stamped with the country
of origin-a measure passed to protect
Birmingham and Sheffield from foreign
limitations. This is precisely similar in
intent to the sixth section of the Nc
Free-trade friends awake O. nights just
now. If this is good thing in Great
Britain, why not here? If it is fair
against foreign goods in England, why
not in this country?
The third party idea, which was for.
INFLATED at Ocala, Fla, in the Alliance
convention, has taken definite shape in
Kansas That means a disturbance, if
not division, in the Alliance forces.
The Southern members do not favor
breaking up of the solid Democratic
South. With most of them the Alliance
is secondary to Democracy. and when
the two conflict, the latter will be ad-
hered to and the former surrendered.
The New York Press classes Senator
Barbour among Senators who are
charged with having bought their cleo
ton. We do not believe Mr.. Barbour
ever spent dollar to secure his election
outside of legitimate election expenses.
He has no doubt contributed his share
to campaign funds. but that he has ever
contributed money directly to secure his
election to the Senate we do not believe.
Mr. Barbaur is Democrat and the yfR-
GINIAN is Republican paper. but there
is no Justice or fairness or honesty in
making such charge against him.
In the Circuit Court at Pine Bluff. Ar
kansas, on the 18th, the case of Chas.
Seward, convicted of murder in the first
degree was before Judge Elliott, who
overruled the motion for a new trial
and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged
on Thursday, January goth. The Judge
then stated that he would never sen
tence man to be executed on a Friday,
because on that day Jesus Christ was
crucified. and he would not insult the
memory of the founder of Christianity
by sentencing murderer to be hanged
on the day upon which the Son OF God
sacrificed his life for humanity's sake.
Bids for the construction of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Branch railroad up the
Warm Springs Valley from Covington
Va, to the Warm Springs have been &C
cepted, and it is expected the road will