The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-11-19
Rev. j. E. Cox, of MaysyilIe, KY, has
been called to the Baptist church of

S. s. Shelter, ex-Mayor of Staunton,
died in that place on the 18th, after a
protracted Illness.
The successor to Parne|l, in Pariia-
ment, is a butter merchant He was
elected by the opponents Of the great
Irish leader.
Hon. Roger A. Pryor was elected on
the 3rd Judge Of the City Court of New
York by $4,000 majority-the largest
that was cast
Don Piatt, well known newspaper
and magazine writer. died in Ohio, on
the 18th, from a complication Of diseases
caused by ia grippe.
A German syndicate has purchased
$50, 900 acres of land in North Dakota,
on which German labor will be placed to
raise barley for malt purpose.
Lucien Bonaparte, who recently died
in London, spoke so languages. lie
spent his time in his splendid library
and travelling in different countries.
Arion, the two year old colt, belonging
to Senator Stanford, of California, trot>
ted a mile in 2. 103 on the 18th. 1t is the
fastest time on record for year old.
A contract entered into by the Goshen
Land and Improvement Co with a syn
dictate headed by Maj. Sylvester insures
the starting of the rolling mill in a short
time.
Since the change on Sunday the G. &
0. trains leave Stanton as follows:
Eastward, at 127. $50 and 915 a. M;
westward, at 40 and 7.l7 a. IN. and $40
and 6.45 p. m.
John Jacob Aston, ST., of New York,
has recently been very i'll with typhoid
fever, but is improving. Millionaires
and hodscarriers are alikesubject to dis
ease and death.
err, fell nineteen stories from the top of
the Masonic Temple building, Chicago,
on the~44th, and was crushed into an
unrecognizable mass
The Relay House, near the Union De-
pot, Lynchburg, has been purchased by
the Lynchburg & Durham Co. as a ter
minus for the proposed belt railroad
The price paid was $4,000.
Mrs. Robert kirkpatrick, aged 60, and
with bank account of $50, Geo. was mar
ried at Rochester, n Y, on the 14th to
Frank Alix, aged 81. This was Mrs.
Alix's fifth matrimonial adventure.
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about the platform at the Gordonsviile
station, the e. 6 O. people having shut
off this habit on the part of the colored
folks that had grown to be nuisance.
water famine. The use of hose and
private fountains has been absolutely
prohibited, and heroic measures have
beea adopted TO economize the water
supply.
1t is rumored that efforts will be made
to induce the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way to build the Craig's Greek railroad
through to Radford-a distance of 81
miles. A rich mineral region would be
penetrated by the extension.
Fritz Tado, twenty two years old, OF
Wheeling, w. Va, Wednesday night
of last week, ate eighteen dishes of
stewed oysters and twenty four large
ham sandwiches, washing each one
down with a glass of beer. He accom-
plished the feat in three hours.
Rev Sam Small had one of his teeth
knocked out and his eyeglasses broken,
at Atlanta, on the 18th, by a saloons
keeper named Tom Miner. The latter
said he had gotten tired of Small's per
sonal abuse in his public temperance
speeches, and determined to resent it.
The trial of W. A. Feagles, for the
murder of J. H Caddell, which occupied
the county court of Pulaski, for more
than two weeks, resulted on the 18th in
hung iury-the poll standing six for
acqnittal and five for conviction-one
juror not voting. The judge refused
bail, and the prisoner was remanded to
Jail, until January when he will be given
another trial.
The German war department, after
satisfactorily experimenting with Amer
lean corn, has decided to recommend
the use by the army of bread made of
equal proportions of corn and rye. Here
tofore rye exclusively has been used
This secures valuable market for the
corn of this country, and must of ne
necessity give an impetus to corn cul-
ture, as well as stiffen prices.
1.,+ 4l1
greatest ever known, 1877, 695 tons weekly
against 1S1, SIS October LIST, and 1873, 1886
December list, last year, hitherto the
maximum. Unsold stocks have largely
increased, particularly of coke iron. The
best sign for the week was the placing
of orders for 10000 tons OF rails by the
Pennsylvania, but other forms of manu-
featured iron did not appear in greater
demand.
Samuel Wilkinson, prominent far
mer of Salem, Mich, while out cunning
Wednesday of last week, accidentally
shot and killed his fourteen-year>old
son. They failed to return home, and
on the following day search party dis
kinson was found twenty miles from
home in a demented condition. It is
supposed the death of his son unsettled
his reason.
War clouds are gathering thick and
fast in Europe. Russia is the central
force of the threatened storm. All the
great powers are armed to the teeth,
and Russia is disposing her great army
lnenacingly to Austria, Italy and Turkey,
with France in sympathy; while Ger
many and England are watching the in
dications and movements of the other
powers. The storm-cioud will break soon,
as the tension is too great to last long
Birmingham, Ala, is now holding out
inducements for the establishment of q
tin-plate industry in that city. 1t claims
that sheet-iron, the base of tin~plate,
can be made there very cheap, and that
consequently tin-plate factory could
be worked to profit. So the campaign
Il.