The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-11-12
The Catholics will erect at Roanoke a
new 100000 Church.

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The Catholics will erect at Roanoke
new 100000 Church.
The State Meeting of the Christian
Church meets in Roanoke to-day.
The full amount of the insurance on
the Luray Inn, recently burned, is &c.,
500.
How will this do for 1892? Blaine and
Mckinley : Cleveland, or Flower, and
Boies
Crock CASTLE the residence of w. G.
Agnor, of Rockbridge, was entirely con
sumed by fire last week.
Rev. John Landstreet, a prominent
and we'll known Methodist minister. is
lying critically i'll at Martinsburg, W. Va
Jordan Woodrum, of Roanoke county
sold recently 1000 barrels of apples from
his orchard, for $3,0oo-the purchaser
picking them.
Jam es Bell, of Pulaski county, recent
Y sold 800 head of fat cattle for export
Averaging 400 pounds, and amounting
to $4,000. Some of the cattle were graz
ed near Swoope's, in Augusta county, and
shipped from that depot.
Secretary Rush, in his third annual re
port of the Agricultural Department. es-
Inmates that the increase OF our farm pro-
ducts over last year will he not less than
$700,000,000, and that the surplus sold
abroad will exceed the sales of any
previous year.
Wade Hampton turned out of the q.
S. Senate and Irby put in. Ingalls, dis
placed for PETER Should any Ameri-
can citizen feel proud of such achieve
ments, supplemented by the patriotic
figure of Jerry Simpson in the House of
Representatives?
The tariff law is a fixed fact in our po-
litical economy now, and it cannot be
repealed at least during Harrison's ad-
ministration, and consequently ought
not to be agitated. To do so is to unset
tie business and keep capital in unrest,
preventing it from coming out and fulfil
ing its legitimate mission.
A six foot vein of excellent camel coal
Is said to have been discovered in Eau
quier county, near Casanova and run
ming to Warrenton Junction and prep
arations are being made for active work
ON it, Every day some new discovery of
mineral wealth is being made, and this
will be soon followed by the means to
utilize it.
The remains of Mr. Frank Young were
brought to Staunton on Thursday last.
and inferred in Thornrcse Cemetery from
the First Presby terrain Church He died
in Fayette county, W. Va, Of pneumo-
MIA, on the 4th, where he was engaged
in business He was son of the late
Col. ID. S. Young, and brother of Mr.. l..
Young, of that place, and aged about 40
years.
McKinley's plurality in Ohio is about
$1,000, and the Legislature OF Ohio two
thirds majority on joint ballot Russelrs
majority for Governor in Massachusetts
is about 5000. Boeis has from 5000 to
10000 in Iowa, and Flower over 0,O0o In
New York. The Legislature of Massa~
chussetts is largely Republican, and New
York and Iowa ale both in doubt-both
parties claiming a majority on joint
ballot.
w. S. Dashiell, who was charged with
forgery by man named Loving, was
tried and acquitted in the City Court O.
Richmond. Subsequently new charges
were brought against him and the evi-
dence being submitted to the grand jury
an indictment was brought against him
for forging the name of w. t. Loving
now dead, to note for 81 ,060 Dashiell
has disappeared 1t is stated that he is
deranged. He is a son of Rev. Dashiell
of Richmond, and a young man of social
popularity.
Several weeks ago we predicted that it
would not be twelve months before the
politicians who have publicly endorsed
the Alliance platform, would be tunb-
ling head over heels to get away from
themselves and denying that they ever
said So 1t has come sooner than we
thought. The utter collapse of the or
ganization, as a political force. in Kan
sas and Nebraska, as well as Virginia
makes it necessary that the tumblng
should commence at once. Butthis will
not save them. They are on record and
it cannot be spunged off in a Whit
The Dispatch is beating around on the
Silver question, with the indication thai
it will land fully and completely in the
No 4,
of Ohio, for not being square on the is
sue, saying that it was always better tc
be. on one side or the other The DIS
patch has been on all sides OF the Silver
Issue, as it has been on almost ever,
other prominent question of public in
terest. 1t is very modest and very ''co
quettish, shy and develish," but we hope
will be able to settle down before the
Presidential election of 1892
The bones of a mastodon have been IN
earthed III Rockingham county, neal
Linville station, miles north of Harris.
onburg. The elimination was made bs
scientists from the Smithsonian inst
tute. The skeleton, which crumbled te
pieces when exposed to the air, is said
to have been larger than the elephant
and that the animal was essentially
a browsing one. The scientists were Of
the opinion that the beast was
killed by the paleolithc natives, the
skin-savages of that unknown race
whose rude relics remain to attest their
presence here" Or, the correspondent,
who writes to the New York Tribune
says. it may have been swept to death by
a great torrent. He speaks of the Lin
vile caves as having afforded 1.-The ear
Hest work of human hands,
Some of the most rampant of free sill
yer advocates before the election now
say @Silver was not it, since the result
in Ohio, Nebraska and Colorado, has
been made known. The Alliance, q de
based dollar, free money for the asking
free trade and the whole catalogue OF
isms were swept down by the common
sense and common honesty of the people.