The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-11-26


The bonded debt of Buena Vista
amounts to $71 900 The council has
made the usual appropriation to meet it.
An organization was formed in Wash
ington last week whose object is to OPP
pose and make war on the Civil Service
law.
Senator Deane, republican, Of New
York, died last week. This leaves the
Senate with 16 Republicans, IA Demo
Gratis ana independent.
A party of Chesapeake and Ohio en-
gineers are said to be surveying line
from Cloverdale, in Botetourt county,
toward Roanoke 1t is not known what
the object is.
The address of President M. F. In
gals, at the opening of the y Nj. G. A.
building at Hinton on the nth inst, is
highly complimented as an able one.
The hall is very creditable one to Hin
ton.
Roanoke had $25, 600 blaze on Salem
avenue last Friday morning The loss
is only partially covered by insurance.
The fire originated in the store of |. IL.
Bachrach & Co, and destroyed three
buildings.
The Democrats of the Eigth District
alexandria, have nominated Hon. E. &.
Meredith to succeed to the vacant seat
in Congress from that district. The fight
is between the Democratic and Alliance
candidates
The engineering corps of the N. & w.
R. r. is still engaged in mapping out the
track for Christiansburg's Belt railroad
from point on the N. s. w. east of the
depot to Kings Iron Mine, about two
miles south of town.
The Virginia Press Association which
met at Bristol on the nth, reelected }.
A. Pugh President for another year. as
also was Mr. Fireash, ice-President.-
Editor Booze, of the Waynesboro Times,
was made Secretary.
A boy child was born last Monday to
John Jacob Astor, Jr., in New York.
1t will have the same name as its father
and grandfather and is the fifth in gen
Grafton of the Aston family in America.
IL will inherit $3.50, 900, 900.
The editorial and business manage
ment of the I91dependent>HtrGld, OF
Hinton, has changed hands. Mr.. j. M.
Ferguson, editor, and Mr.. j. A. Parker.
business manager, retire, and Mr. Geo.
w. Warren. succeeds to both positions
The contest for the Speakership OF
Congress is beginning to wax warm
Crisp, of Georgia, Springer, of Illinois
and Mills, of Texas, are the leaders, with
Hatch, of Missouri, and Wilson, of w.
Va, as leading clark horses. -
1t is said that Chill is now willing to
punish those who murdered the two
Americans from Baltimore's crew. They
have begun to consider whether it Is
better to punish or to be punished, and
seem to have decided the question in
the affirmative.
The new government Of Chill, which
recently deposed Balmaceda, II a
brought suit against member of Bal
macedas congress for $45,000,G00. the
amount of money issued by that body
which has been declared Illegal by the
new government.
R. S. Bingham, Il Methodist minister
living near Emory and Henry College,
walked into Abingdon, Va, last Friday
and surrendered himself, saving that he
had shot Frank Queensberry during a
quarrel, but claimed that the shooting
was done in self-defense.
General Fonseca President of Brazil,
and would-be Dictator has resigned in
favor of Florianna PeiXotto, the Vice
President. Our South American neigh-
bors are not working very tremendously
just now; but one thing is quite evident
from their actions, and that is that the
people propose to take q hand in the
affairs of the government.
Charles Watkins, colored hotel wal
ter, was convicted of murder, in the first
degree in Roanoke county court last
Friday. The crime for which he is to
be punished was the killing of his wife
Susan Watkins last May. He also had
white wife. He was sentenced to be
hung on the Sth of January.
A larga barn, owned by Mr.. Hiram Zir-
kle, of near Quicksburg, Shenandoah
county, was destroyed by fire last week
along with four good work horses, fine
colt, two cows, all his gearing, one hun
dred and fifty bushels wheat, ten tons of
hay, binder, several wagons and other
implements. The loss is about $4,000
insurance $400.
The Russian Government order pro-
hibiting the expectation of wheat from
her borders, went in effect last Satur>
day.
The Importance of this action to Amer
lea will be appreciated when it is con-
sidered that Russia usually exports 80,
O00,O 900 bushels of wheat, which will be
supplied this year by the United States.
The old John Brown fort at Harpers
Ferry has been purchased and removed,
to be exhibited at the Worlds Fair at
Chicago, in 1892. During the removal
last Friday an effort was made to take a
cannon which had been presented to
the town. The citizens learning of the
attempt, arose en- masse and recaptured
the cannon, locked it up and placed a
guard oyer it.
Mr. B. B.-Turner has announced him>
self as an Alliance candidate for Con
gress in the Eighth district. to fll the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Gen
Lee. Mr. Turner has issued an address
in which he advises the people not to
allow party slavery to rob them of their
rights as American citizens. There will
likely be warm contest in this district
The election takes place in December.
William Windie, the escaped iunatic
from the Western Lunatic Asylum at
Staunton, was captured at Romney, w.
Va, where they put him in jail for some
crime He could not be brought back on