The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-09-03
The Hdrysn carried the election il
Front Royal last week by GO majority


C. H., was destroyed by fire last week
Loss $50, 600
Typhoid fever is raging i'll Newark, n
j., forty-three cases being under treats
ment in four hospitals.
If Blaine is not the Republican nomi
nee in 1892 for President, it will be be-
cause he will not have it.
Hon R. Proctor, Secretary of War. has
been appointed by the Governor of Yer
mont, to succeed Hon. Geo. Z. Edmunds
in the e. S. Senate.
The cotton receipts at Norfolk, Va,
for the year ended 3fst of August, ag-
gregated 649, 044 bales, an increase OF
e43 9SS bales compared with last year
The OYSTER season comes on with the
first month of the Fall that has in it the
letter r. We may prepare ourselves for
the appearance of the bivaive, at any
time soon.
Hon. w J.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, ex-
member of Congress, was rapidly sinking.
as reported last Saturday, and unless a
change occurs for the better, will not
survive but a few days.
London houses have been very active
in the New York Stock market for the
past week They are buying largely,
which indicates the drift of the gold cur
rent back to this country.
The Board of Education, III Texas, has
granted certificates to twenty one sisters
of charity to teach in the public schools
They are not to teach the doctrines OF
their church in the schools.
The Maryland Republicans have NOM
mated Col VIM j. Van Mort for COVER
nor He is farmer and will divide the
Alliance vote with farmer Brown,
nominated a few weeks ago by the Dem
ocrats.
Rev. j. H. Shealy, pastor of the Lu
thern Church, Stanton has reconsid-
cred his acceptance of the call to Savan-
nah Ga, and will remain in Staunton,
much to the qualification of his congre-
cation.
There probably never was time III
the history of industrial art when the
ttlu Ol niuSbfalIOL WAS !iipFe generously
invoked by business men in all branches
to introduce their goods, and illustrate
their advantages.
W. E. Dashiell, prominent dealer in
real estate, and son of Rev. I. G. Dash
ielI, was arrested in Richmond last week
on the charge of forging notes for $i,700
On J. L. Ludwig, of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
vas released on bail
DR. j. H. Copeland was thrown from
his buggy last Saturday, at Eufala, Ala,
and struck a telegraph pole with such
force that both legs were broken. The
bone of one leg was driven into the post
and had to be cut out with an AK. Both
legs will have to be amputated
The Farmers Alliance of Augusta
county, have recommended for the Leg
stature Col. J. II. Williams and g. W.
:.oiner, Esq What will the Democrats
do now, that both of the present repre~
sntatives-Geo. NJ Cochran and A. B
I.ightner-have been ignored?
Detective Baldwin, of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, said on the goth that
circumstances were ueVGtOD1Hg, anu Iii
Il short time he would be able to show
who killed D. T. Council, on the Pull
man sleeper of the c. & o., at Basic City,
several weeks ago. He claims that he
will be able to solve the mystery.
The Legislature of. Tennessee met in
extra session on Monday last, for the
special purpose of considering the repeal
of the law by which penitentiary cons
victs are hired out for employment in
mines, in competition with or to super-
cede honest labor. 1t is just now a seri-
Gus question in that State, and the ac-
tion of the Legislature will be watched
with interest.
An election was held in three magis-
terial districts in Augusta county, on
Saturday last, under the local option
law A small vote was cast and very
little general interest manifested All
of them went dry-Beverly Manor, Riv-
erhead, and Middle River South River
district had voted against license before,
so four of the six districts in the county
have refused to license bar-rooms.
II Is stated bIlttb FeStftcGIOIS on AiUefi~
can pork heretofore enforced by the,
German government, were to be removed
on the 1st of September. a similar poll
cy, in the removal of the tariff on Ameri-
can wheat, was expected to be adopted
by Germany If this should prove to be
correct, and all the conditions converge
to that point, it will largely increase the
export trade of this country to Germany
Judge Hughes says be has recommend
ed Judge l.. L. Lewis, of the Supreme
Court of Virginia, for one of the Z. S.
Court Judgeships, created by the last
Congress- There could be no better or
more popular appointment than that of
Judge Lewis, and we hope the President
will see the matter in its true light and
confer the honor on one SO worthy and
so well qualified for the life position
The Richmond Dispatch is now out
Heroding Herod in advocacy of Free Sill
yer coinage and the fallacies of political
demagogues in the Alliance organiza-
tions. This is to draw wool over the al
lance men for party ends. 1t will not
be six months before the Dispatch will
sing another song, and attempt to argue
that it is consistent hen it shall be com
PEELED to oppose the very doctrine it now
supports.
The Georgia Legislature has created
something of IA sensation by its refusal
to accept the Confederate Soldiers
Home, which was rendered to it. The
conditions OF the tender were that the
building was to be completed for the
State, but the State was to maintain it
as home 50 long as there was Confed-
crate soldier to occupy it. After that it
was to revert to the State in fee simple
The Legislature voted down the PROPOSE
tion.
On the 1st of September the Treasury
Department was to have redeemed
d0n nnO anu IF +l,a t9A Onu nn0 / nor