The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-05
The apportionment bill has passed
both branches of Congress

The Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities gave magnif- /
cent ball in Richmond last Friday night. |
A bill passed the Senate on the Goth,
creating the Office of 4th Assistant Post
master General, with II salary of $4,000
a year.
Indianapolis frie ads of President Har-
rison believe he win call Col. John G.
New home from London and make him
Secretary of the Treasury.
Hon. C. T. eO'Ferrall has appointed
Edward B. Gold Cadet at West Point
for the 7th Virginia district. He is a son
of T. G.. Gold, chairman of the Demo
cratic Committee of Clarke county.
The State Convention of the Catholic
knights of America assembled in Pc
tsrsburg yesterday, and will continue in
session two days. Major J. H. Dinneen,
of Richmond, will respond to the toast
Virginia
Bishop Cranberry, of the NJ E. Church
South, through a surgical operation by
DIR. Mcclure, of Richmond, was recently
relieved of an osseous tumor on the jaw
bone that threatened to prove fatal.
The. Bishop is now considered out Of
danger.
Lieutenant E. p Turner of the United
States Cavalry, a native OF Warrenton,
Va, committed suicide recently on board
the steamship Abyssinia in the Pacific
ocean. The cause of the deed was trou
BILE arising from a shooting affray at
Warrenton in 1889 in which he killed his
brother-in-law. Robert Turner
Senator eiect PETER, of Kansas, is a
Republican, having voted for every
Presidential candidate from Lincoln TO
Harrison, and was a Harrison elector in
1885, He will act with the Republicans
in the Senate on all questions, except
those affecting the Alliance. Senator
ingalls, will resume the practice of law
in Kansas, after the expiration of his
Senatorial term, March A. 1891.
Col. A. s. Buford was elected president
the Virginia Agricultural and Me
Enthusiastically last week in Richmond,
to suceeed Maj. A. H. Drewry, who de
clined election. 1t is proposed to sell
the Society's fair grounds at Richmond
to pay its debts. 1.-The property would
bring about 100000. and the Society
, might purchase some other property on
Strawberry Hill. After doing So, and
paying their indebtedness, they could
still put some $50, 200 or $50, 0OOin bank. :"
Rev. Mr. McQueary, the Episcopal
minister recently tried for heresy, has
been offered the passionate of the indie
pendent Congregational Church at
jamestown, n, Y, but has not as yet
accepted it. He maintains in his ser
mons, since HE trial, a lofty spirit. and
defends his views with spirit and ability.
He says the heresies of one generation
are the orthodoxy of the next, and that
the Christian Church, if she is wise, will
gladly accept the services of the pure
minded who would fain advance her
spiritual and intellectual life.
Lexington has secured, through its
development company, branch of the
Union Steel Works of Louisville, whose
plant in that city was destroyed by fire
last Sept After the fire the company
decided not to rebuild at Louisville, but
tobuild several plants at favorable points
in the South and West. 1t has located
another branch at West Superior, Wis.
The company manufactures edge tools
under the Hooper Clarke patent process,
a cheap method of production. By the
contract, not less than 100 men are to be
employed in Lexington, and the work of
erecting buildings is to be commenced
by April 1. The plant will cost $4,000
and it is expected that 500 men will be
employed.
In a recent editorial upon the indus
trial development of Southwest Virg inia,
and upon Phiiadelphia's increasing trade
in that section through the Norfolk and
Western road. the Baltimore Ndnutac-
turers' Record published the following:
Baltimore should arouse herself, push
aside the doubling Thomases, make
investments in this marvellous coun-
try, and urge the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad to push its line from Lex
ington down to this wonderful mineral
and timber region. A dozen furnaces
easily obtained would give the Balti
more and Ohio all the freighting it could
handle, and from being an elephant on
its hands, the Valley road would prove a
paying investment"
We have received copy of the Bristol
Daily Neaos, in which is the saluta.ory of
Stuart F. Lindsey, Esq, as editor. Mr..
Lindsey is we'll known in this part of the
Valley, where he practiced law for a
number of years and ably championed
the cause of the Republican party. He
removed to Bristol a year ago with a
view to practicing his profession, but
weak eyes compelled him to forego the
application necessary for that line of
duty. In assuming editorial charge of
the NeaDs, he writes a graceful introduc-
ton to the readers of that journal, and
indicates that the policy Of The paper
will be to advance the material interests
of that section, rather than the fortunes
of any political party. We wish him
success in his new and promising field of
1abor.
Ground hog day, Monday, February 2,
was one of the brightest and pieasantest
days of the winter. The ground hog
saw his shadow, of course, and went
back in his burrow to remain through
six more weeks of winter, but who OBJ
iects to winter in winter time? Because
we ha no winter last year in the proper
season, trees blossomed montl before
the usual time, and On account of sue
ceeding frosts there was an unprect dent
ed scarcity of fruit. This has been q
very gooi winter, a season to be thank
full for. Snow and rain have been so
abundant that springs and streams will
doubtless flow steady and strong through
the dry portions of next summer. Indi-
cations for large crop of fruit are very
good Also A total failure last year,
winter with much snow, and the late
spring promised by the ground hog, are
good signs that will hardly fail to give
us all the fruit we may want next season
This last quarter of the nineteenth
century is pre- eminentiy an era of die