The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-12-03
THURSDAY, - DECEMBER 3, 1891.

Hardy anu MOOfe1l6lu hdlIfOaQ.
The damage to the new rolling mill at
Goshen by the recent violent storm WITS
not over 1000.
DIR. Walker Jones, of Madison county,
died Wednesday of pneumonia, aged
eighty years.
Harvey Swink, postmaster at Mint
Spring, Augusta county, died Monday,
of paralysis.
John A. Pizzini, a well known news
paper man, died in Richmond on the
27th, aged 81 years.
A hunting party from Salem has re-
turned from two weeks hunt in Craig
county, during which they killed ten
deer and four wild turkeys.
DIR. Edwin Barbour, younger broth
er of Hon. John S. Barbour, died in
Culpeper Wednesday, after long i'll
ness.
Rev. Dr. G. W. Finley, of Romney, w.
Va, has sgniied his purpose to accept
the call to Thinking Spring Church, Lex
ington Presbytery, which was extended
to him some time ago.
R. g. Wright, formerly postmaster at
Waynesboro and resident of that place
now, is candidate for the Office OF
Postmaster of the House of Represen-
tatives.
Joseph Carpenter died in Preston
county. W. Va. on the Goth, aged 159
70 al 70 l,aup bpnn horn in
Loudon county, Va, in 1882.
1t is stated in the Washington Post
that Mr.. Blaine, this week, will formally
announce that he is not a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomination.
The West Virginia Republicans have
a ticket of their own. 1t reads: For
President, James q. Blaine, of Maine.
for Vice President, Nathan Golf, of West
Virginia.
W.T.. Mathews g. Co., of Lynchburg,
wholesale grocers, have assigned. Liza
biIities, $4,000. Assets not summed up,
but $s3, 900 of the stock of land compa-
MES is among them. This accounts for
the failure
Mr.. G. P. E. Burgwyn has rendered
his resignation as assistant engineer in
charge of the improvement OF James
river, and Major II. D. Whitcomb has
been appointed to that position, and
will enter at once upon the discharge Of
his duties.
Mrs. n. H. Anderson died in Staunton
on Sunday morning last, aged a years.
Her husband, n. H. Anderson, is an old
and most esteemed typo, for many years
associated with the VIRGINIAN, and to
whom we extend ,our sincerest sympa-
thy in his affection.
In Hampshire county, w. Va.,a young
woman named Mcbride was burned to
death by her clothing accidentally
taking fire. VIM. Mckee, in attempt
ing to put out the fire, had his hands
and arms SO badly burned that it is fear
ed amputation will be necessary.
State Senator J. G. Green, of the
Wythe district, is at the Garfield Hos
pitaI, Washington, being under treat
ment for eczema, a complaint that he
has suffered from for years. He hopes
to be well enough to be in his seat at
the opening of the Legislature.
Field. Lindsey, Welcher & Co., brokers
of New York, failed last week, and it is
said have misappropriated $11 900 OF
funds entrusted to their keeping. Mr..
Field is son of Cyrus w. Field, who is
Frustrated under the misfortune that
has overtaken the firm, of which his son
was the head.
Mr.. William Kelley, local editor and
business manager of the Winchester
Times, died Thursday in Dallas, Texas.
He was on an excursion through Wes>
tern Texas with the Virginia Press As
ISOLATION. His wife and daughter were
with him. The immediate cause of his
death was exhaustion from travel
The contest for the Speakership of the
House of Representatives is very warm.
Mills and Crisp are the more prominent
candidates, with Crisp in the lead at
present. Of the Virginia members,
Messrs Geo. D. Wise and II. st. Geo.
Tucker are for Mills and Col O'Ferrall
for Crisp The choice of the other mem
bers has not been announced that we
have seen.
The Richmond Dispatch of the Goth
says: Yesterday Mr.. Garrett Gooch, of
the firm of Gooch & Waugh, contracted
with the State for the labor of two hun
dred convicts These convicts will be
used in building the boulevard from the
Hot to the Warm Springs, distance of
five miles, The convicts will leave for
the Warm Springs Valley tomorrow Or
Tuesday.
The Richmond Times, of the Goth,
publishes four columns of fine type Civ
ing the opinions of hundreds of promi-
nent Virginians, on the debt settlement
recently agreed on between the repre-
sentatives of the creditors and the State.
They agree that it should be accepted
at once. And SO it will. 1t is far more
favorable to the State than we had any
right to expect, and if not closed with,
it will be bad day for Virginia.
We stated a few weeks ago that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had prac>
tically gotten possession of the Ohio
and Mississippi road, winch runs from
Cincinnati to st. Louis. Previous to
that it was stated that the chesapeake
and Ohio was in fair way to get con-
troll of the Ohio and Mississippi. The
news comes now that the deal between
the Baltimore and Ohio and Ohio and
Mississippi is off, the stockholders failing
to ratify it, and that protracted litiga-
ton will likely follow. 1t may be that
the Chesapeake and Ohio will step in
and get the road 1t would be great
thing for the Chesapeake and Ohio if it
could.
The Hygia Hotel and other similar
buildings, with bar-rooms, stores, NC.
located at Old Point, on land coded to
the United States for military use, Nc,
have never paid tax to the State. The
plea was that the conditions of the
transfer of the land, was that it should