The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-08-06

Miss NJ L. Hamilton and Mrs. jose
phipe Clark propose to open Il seminary
for young ladies at Covington in Sep
TENDER.
A visit of the chief engineer of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Newport
News has revived in that quarter the
runAor that it conteInplates making rail
competition with that point
The. tax from railroad, canals, &C., in
Virginia for the year $780, was $171.557.-
81. For 1891, railroad and other trans
portation lines will have to pay S194,-
99S 66-an increase of %22 ,442 :02.
It.is,stated that Henry NJ Stanley, the
explorer of Africa, and his newly mar
ried wife. have separated. Incompati
bility OF temper is the alleged cause.
Stanley goes to Australia and his wife
remains III Paris.
Itis announced that Mr. H. W. Fuller,
general passenger agent of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. will remove his
office from Cincinnati to Washington,
D. c.. about September 1st The office
of traffic manager will remain in Gin
cirfdlati, with that of the president.
Governor Campbell the Democratic
will be elected sure. VIM. Mckinley,
the Republican nominee for the same
Office, says he will be elected sure. The
respective friends of the candidates
chime in and say their chief is right
November next will decide who is right
and who is wrong.
1t having been stated that Hon. A. NJ.
Kelly, formerly Mayor of Richmond, but
now Judge in the international Court, at
Cairo, Egypt, was about to resign. Mr.
Kelly positively denies it. His position is
held by life term and as it pays well
and the dnties are agreeable. Mr.. Kelly
will remain in their discharge.
Ex-President Cleveland has been inyi~
ted by the Ohio Democrats to make six
speeches in that State for Governor
Campbell Governor Campbell is on a
ree-coinage platform, while Mr.. Cleve-
land is goId>bug. If each can pursuade
the elements agreeing with his views
that the democratic party is right, Camp
bells chances ought to be strengthened.
The coffee harvest Of Guatemala for
1890 will reach TOO 600 quintals. represent
ing $16,000,000. In ten years the pro-
siuction has more than doubled, and the
price realized has more than quadrupled.
The European markets, however. will
harvest, which is 5000, 600 bags this year.
The harvest was 4, 200, 600 bags last year.
A movement is on foot in ST. Louis,
looking to the organization of a trust
in canned tomatoes. Agents are at
work all over the country trying to in
luce the Gamers to enter into an agree
snent not to sell for less than IS cents a
iOzen at the cannerrieS. and that they
nave already induced a large mum Der of
Gamers TO sign the contract. This
means an advance in canned tomatoes.
The mention of several names both
for the Democratic and Republican
nominations for President, has started
i lively discussion, especially in Demo-
cratic ranks From the present outlook,
we venture the prediction that the head
of each ticket will be the same as III 1888.
Cleveland will be the Democratic norDi>
nee, and Harrison the Republican. The
issues will be protection and reciprocity
and sound currency, on the Republican
side, and free trade and free silver coin
age on the Democratic side Cleveland
will be permitted to hold to his views,
and the convention that noninates him
will declare for free silver. The real
absorbing issue, however, will be the
tariff
L ~
studying suicide, claims that one Of the
most prolific causes is the ease with
which firearms can be purchased. This
is no new idea, but it is a good one to
keep before lawmakers. Several south
ern States already regulate the sale of
firearms, and every State in the Union
should follow suit AS means of pre-
venting murder, suicide and accident
the sale of poisons has long been regu-
lated, but the sale of firearms goes on
unrestricted. There is more reason so
regulate the sale of the latter than the
former, as while poisons are only hans
died by competent men, anybody can
lay in a stock OF revolvers, cartridges.
ETC., and sell them to whoever cares to
buy.
1t is announced that Mr. Chas. Fest. of
Gernlantown, Pa, will soon start an air
ship across the Atlantic ocean This
trial ship, of which he is the inventor,
will not carry any passengers, but is on
ly intended as a trial trip, to be followed
by a larger and more powerful one which
will carry two persons. Mr.. Fest will
propel his ship by hot air, which will be
made from gasoline. His calculation is
that it will cross the ocean in thirty
hours, but it will be supplied with suffi-
cient fuel for ten hours longer. Mr.. Fest
10 Stltl 10 bt ID k)TstCllCdl HAL WHO Has
studied his invention for the past fifty
years, at odd moments. Whether there
is the same opening for inventive genius
in the aerial world as in other fields, is
question vet to be decided by the patient
research of ingenuity; but considering
the great strides which have been made
in the past in other directions successful
aerial navigation should not be a matter
of any great surprise.
How to Get to the North Pole.
We may seem fully entitled to draw the con
clusion that current is constantly running
across the polar region somewhere north Of
Franz Josef Land from the sea north of the ST |
berian cost and Bering strait. and into the sea |
between Spitzbergen and Greenland Since such 7
a current exists. the most natural way ofreach |
ing the north pole, OF point quite near Thrust |
be to enteEsthe current on the side where itruns |
nOrthward, that is, somewhere near the New |
Siberian Islands, and let it carry one straight |
across those unknown regions which it has pre-
vented so many from reacning. shall t
build a wooden ship as small and strong as
possible it Shall be just big enough to carry
provisions for twelve men for five years besides /
the necessary coal "a vessel of about 2C0 tons
will suffice The most important feature /
of the ship will be that she shall be built such
lines as will give her the greatest power of re
sistance to the pressure of the fioe-ice. Her
sides must not be perpendicular, as those of
ships generally are, but must slope from the |
to the keel; r,to use sailors expires
sion, her dead RISE must be made great, SO
that the foes shall get no hold OF her when they
are pressed together. but will glide downward
along her sides and under her. thus tending to
lift her out of the water. With this yes
sci, and a crew of ten Or twelve strong and we'll
picked men, besides an equipment for five years
as good in allreSpectS as modern appliances can
afford, think the enterprise has hood pros
pect of success.-Di. -Fridjof AGftsen in the Au-
gust Forum.
Underground Travel by the Greathead