The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-01-23
Pertinent Questions.

MESSRs. EDITORS: have been watching with
considerable interest the Wet and Dry fight
which has been waging in Lynchburs for some
weeks past, and have waited to it's close before
asking your permission for space enough some
where in your columns in which to put a peril
nent inquiry or two.
Did the meeting of white and black on a COM
mon platform, touching elbows in common
fight, singing, shouting, spe aking together in a
common cause. break down anybody's social
barriers, OF put in jeopardy anybody's cvilizG~
ton?
Is Lynchburg the home of untutored savages
now that the Anglo Saxon and the African have
kept step to the same music, marched beneath
the Slma banner, rejoiced together at victory
won or together sighed at defeat sustained? Is
it possible that the dream of the lamented Grady
has been 50 soon realized and that it is really
true that the peopN of Southern city have
'divided' and still there is safety and honor?'
And if these things are so, where is the man
i all Lynchburg mean enough to deny to Pat
McCaull, Dr. Walthall, Judge Latham, b. Walker
Bocock and other apItite Republicans there
the privilege they have been exercising so
freely? If it is right to work and speak and
march and sing and sit up all night with mig
gers upon the question OF closing the doors OF
a few saloons, is it not just right and just as
respectable to work and march, and if needs
be, sing and git up with the self-same nigger5
upon the question Of protecting our whole coun-
try from foreign invasion as much to be feared
as an army with banners?
Get an honest expression of opinion from
Lynchburg nG1U, and unless the city is crowded
with pharisees who thank God that they are SO
much better than other men, that they can with
impunity do that which Others dare not do, ii is
local fight will lead to liberal sentiment in our
Southland, which will result in iUs material re-
demption. ANXIOUS INQUIRER.
James A. Frazier spent several days in
the city last week on matters OF bust
ness. He says when the next campaign
opens. he has a good coon story from old
Rockbridge.
The Lynchburg cotton mills, with
six thousand spindles, have commenced
operation. They propose to increase the
capital stock to $4,000 in order to en-
large the capacity to 10000 snindles.
great snow blockade is reported in
the Northwest, raiyzing all the trans
continental railroads and leaving but
one telegraph wire working with the Pa
citic coast. The snow is eight feet deep
on the level and fathomless in the can
yons,
The Crozier Steel and Iron Company
OF Roanoke have purchased iron proper
ties on Cripple Creek for $50, GOO fron,
Geo. Zimmerman and from Mr. Sampson,
of lvanhoe, mineral tract for $15( 90,
for which Mr., S. paid 1880 few years
ago
The grand jury of Petersburg, on the
18th, failed to find true bill against
General VIM. Malone, charged with the
felonlous shooting and wounding of Ii.
L. Harrison with intent to kill on the
evening of the 9TH of November last,
and the prosecution was dismissed.
Mr.. David w. Burger, an old Confed
crate soldier, died at his home on Cow
pasture river i'll Bath county, on Jan.
18th. Mr.. Burger was member of Com
pany G, 18th Virginia Cavalry, Rosser's
Brigade, and was a brave and true sol
der of the lost cause. Bath county loses
valuable citizen In his death.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
on the 10th granted new trial in the
case of ex-Priest James Joseph Boyle,
found guilty October Sd, 1889, in Raleigh,
of charge of felonious assault upon
Miss Geneva Whitaker, aged II years,
organist of the Catholic Church of the
Sacred Heart, of which he was pastor
The assault was alleged to have occurred
May 18th, 1885, in room of the parson-
had sentenced the ex-priest to be hanged
November Goth, 1889, but the appeal OPP
Grated as stay of execution.