The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-09-24
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Col. G. L. Peyton has been appointed
postmaster at ockbridge Alum Springs
Va.
/ Mckinley and Campbell will have /
| joint discussion at Ada, Ohio, on the 0ti
of October.
i Only one man in .203 is over six fee
high but it is hard to convince ware
convention that every man in it isn't a
bove that height.
Diptheria seems to be prevalent al
over the. country. In Shelbyville, Ind,
the public schools have been closed be-
cause of it, and thirty deaths deported.
The tin mines of South Dakota are be-
| lieved to be the richest in the world.
An English syndicate has paid in $4,000,
600 of the $15 ,o00,000 for which the mines
are stocked.
rich Wash ngtonian has set aside
| $10O, 600 for the development Of the in>
| tellect of monkeys, claiming that there
has never been an effort to test their ca,
pacity for Improvement.
Mrs. McGriffin, of McGregor, Texas,
gave birth ten months ago to tripletts
On the 9Th. of September, she gave birth
to q quartette, and all seven OF the chill
dren are healthy and doing well.
The Edison of the future will earn the
gratitude OF all mankind when he in
vents a shirt that viii ST without but
fnpi,,o 70, nj ', y I, .
absorbent as blotting paper and as
pliable as rubber.
Some time ago Mayor Roughawout, of
Lexington, discharged Policeman Kreg
loe on serious charges he made against
him. Kregloe has entered suit in the
circuit court against the mayor, laying
his damages at $1,000
Miss Knaggs is an Ohio girl who has
not only achieved high honors as a col
lege student, but fills up her spare time
by cultiyating a 200 acre farm and act
ing as her own dairy maid. A girl of
that sort will have no difficulty in chang
ing her nagnesfor more euphonious one.
That Portsmouth. n. H., woman who
found silver dime in an egg laid by one
of ner own hens has bought a golden
pheasant rooster to turn loose in her
poultry yard She thinks that by judi
cious crossing she can get breed that
viii put five dollar gold pieces into their
fruit
Glass is being made at Buena Vista,
the works having started up several days
ago. 1t is a superior and elegantly
equipped establishment, with thirty
three glass blowers in line. The special
pursuit in the trade will be mineral wat
er bottles. GLASS sand is mined near
Greenyille for the works.
9r. ChAsffsss =. Ballard, Of sayprook,
Ill, shot and killed Miss Bertha Ison,
late of Baker City, Oregon, and daugh-
ter of the late Judge Luther B. Ison, of
Baker City, in Bloomington, Ill., last
week and then killed himself. He had
asked her to marry him at once, but she
asked that he wait until her education
was completed.
recently attempted TO take advantage of
a young woman on Haltren Common, at
Ofen. The woman proved to be the
stronger and drawer Of the two. After
brief struggle she mastered the would
be ruffian, tied his hands behind his
back, and fastening rope around his
neck, led him to the police station of
Ofen, where she charged him with at
tempted assault.
The clothing firm of Grinberg g. Nor
ris, of Roanoke, made an assignment last
week for $40, 900 liabilities. The assets
are not given. This is one of the largest
assignments that has ever been made
in this section of Virginia, and it will
be holly contested in the courts. Near
ly all of the Roanoke lawyers have been
employed in the case by creditors, and
Roanoke paper says they will all grow
fat The concern had q branch store at
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
directed that warrants aggregating $4,000
be approved, and that Jefferson ID. Car
ter, of marlborough, Ala, and Thomas
V. Jackson, OF Aberdeen Miss, each re-
ceive 81 900 and that the remaining $1,000
be equally divided between six other
persons. These men were instrumental
in the capture of the notorious outlaw
Rube Burrows and his gang in Alabama
last fall. Burrows, besides committing
crimes, held up a mail train and robbed
it.
The ST. Louis Globe>Democrat says
apparently the country is on the eve OF
another period Of business extension and
Investigation 1t is based ON the i'm
mense crops at home and the short crops
abroad which will cause not only good
prices for grain, but assure the railroads
ample remunerative work in moving
them. These will give them greater
earning power and encourage invest
ments in stocks and bonds. Ordinarily
these two conditions are not cotempora-
neous High prices for grain are gener-
ally the result of a short crop and short
crop means less freight for the railroads.
Reports of prevailing distress in Rus
STA continue coming to hand from SO
many different sources and so varied in
character that the fear of calamitous
visitation of famine extending far and
wide and affecting the population of vast
districts of the Empire inevitably gains
ground with each fresh account of suf-
fering and affection. The appalling
feature of the situation is that this dis
tress comes upon the people at time
when they should have full and plenty.
At this date they should have corn in
the barn and money in the pocket, and
| it must be doubly terrible to them to be
haggard and hungry when they should
/ be feasting on the fruits of their har-
vests. If starvation is stalking abroad
| in the land now at the end of the sum
mer, what must beS dreaded before the
long and terrible winter is over. Unless
the current advices from Russia are
greatly exaggerated there is only too
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