The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-09-03

his organ Is Inc pflOe OF Lne GfegR
household and was the special pride OF
old man Gregg's fair young daughter,
who was wont TO charm Mrs. Gregg into
fairyland by her sweet operations on the
instrument which her father had been
unmusical enough to mortgage. Two
or three days ago the mortgage matured
but the money was not forthcoming /
The holder of the mortgage, upon
Gregg's failure to come to time, sent Il
baiiff for the organ But the baiiiff t
didn't get it. Mrs. Gregg and daughter |
sent the bailiff. about his business, tell /
ing him he shouldn't have the organ. !
He went his way quietly, but soon re !
turned and took old man Gregg in I
charge for not turning over the colate,
raj. He was taken to jail-old and pal
sled as he was-a sacrifice for Mrs and
Miss Gregg's love of music. He is a car
penter by trade and takes his incarcera
ton philosophically. He says if the
''old lady and her gal wants the organ
wuss AN him they can take it and go to
Guinea
Sir Hector, member of the Canadian
cabinet, having been charged w itq
crookedness. resigned in order that the
suspicion attaching to him might not
faint the administration by has connec-
ton with it; and newspaper suggests
tudb III WOulu D0 proper lOT several W
our National bureaus to resign because
more serious charges have been preferred
against them. Ii such practice were
established in this country, no official of
any party would remain in office week
unless more regard We're had tor the
truth by political newspapers i'll this
country. or unless, As in countries under
English rule, those who make charges
against public officials should De held to
/ No
make a serious charge against an official
in Engla means that it must be prov
en-. In this country it only means that
some political writer is simply enjoying
the liberty of the press, regardless of
facts.
The New York World shows its mo
nopolistic Jennings in its opposition to
the restriction of Immigration. 1t says
of the immigrants that they are I'M
skilled workmen that compete with no
American worKmen The work they do
other workmen refuse to do because they
can do better. They come TO meet
pressing Want. 1t is a case OF demand
drawing supply to itself III obedience to
natural economic law.
If the World would demonstrate that
the 5000 miners now III the coke regions.
in a starving condition, are unskliled
laborers, and intimate where the de-
mand is for their labor that will not com
pete with American workmen, it would
save its statements from criticism on the
score OF truth and veraoity and greatly
oblige those 5000, mostly wretched for
eigners, and their 10000 women and chill
dren.-C Cincinnati Post
Alexandria Gazette Judge Horsley of
the Circuit Court of Lynchbnrg, has de-
cided that the coupon crusher iegiSla>
ri.t.t hA of tt.a
bond and the exclusion of expert testi-
fnony in regard to the genuineness OF
the coupon. is null and void. Why, the
whole attempt to void the payment OF
: the State debt is of the same character
The only way the State debt can be set
tied is upon terms at least acceptable to
the creditors and the voters of Virginia
should have that fact before them wien
they nominate their candidates for the
next legislature.
George Hamilton, of Ironton, Ohio,
aud wife went out Friday afternoon on
a business GRAND, leaving at home three
ilildren, aged eight, four and two re-
~pectively. When they returned the
children were missing, and after search>
ing the neighborhood the children were
found in tool chest in an outside she'd
-affocated. The bodies showed signs OF
rough handling and a strong stick was
forced IN the staple which held the lid
Town by clash. The children showed
,igns of having fought hard against con
tnement in the chest.
Miss Annie Hardness. a parachutist,
made an ascension III a balloon Satur-
day, at Coney Island, near Cincinnati.
and when 500 feet above ground opened
her parachute and began to descend =
Suddenly the parachute closed and the
woman descended with frightful velocity
nntil she struck the ground and was
killed. An saronaut named Johnson fell
from a balloon to the ground, a distance
ri 1900 feet, at Tacoma, Washington,
Saturday, and was killed instantly. He
was under the influence of liquor
Greenbrier Independeast:-M Marsh
Burns met with very painful and per-
haps fatal accident on Saturday night
last. He was on his way home with his
team of oxen, and when near DIR. ". H.
Meetings. he mounted one of the oxen
to cross a muddy place in the road The
oxen became frightened and threw him
80 that he was caught on the horn OF one
OF them which struck him near the ear
and tore it off and otherwise lacerated
the side of his head He is in bad con
dition and may never get over it.
Desperate tramps are still proving
through the Valley. Last week after
night Mr.. Shrewbridge, assistant agent
at Timber Ridge Depot, WAS wayiaid
and knocked senseiess, it is supposed
with a sand bag. He was stripped of his
coat and vest his arms tied behind him
and his mouth filed with clay The
tramps thought he was the agent and
were after the keys of the Depot. He
was not seriously injured
An English merchant and banker
named Gresham forum tod a bOut |, roo
hundred years ago what is known as
The Gresham Law of Finance which
IS: That II two sorts of money, one
inferior in intrinsic or representative
value to the other, but both invested by
statute with the same purchasing power,
be permitted to circulate side by side,
the inferior will ultimately drive ont the
superior" And ever since then superior
money has been on top.
Twenty-Five new divorce suits have
been entered on the docket for the next
term of Circuit court. Added to these
are about fifteen cases that were not
disposed of at the last term. Judge Har-
vey Will have gained quite knowledge
of domestic wrangies by the time these
verdicts are made -H1tietipqtoD Ga
zette.
The furry and fiuctuation in the
wheat market, for tile past week, is the
froth and foam which awaits the swoll-
en- current of business III that line that
is setting in for Europe. 1t will keep up
until the source of supply is exhausted
as there will be demand for ali we can
furnish. Prosperous times are before us.
Stephen Ryan. who was sent to jail in
Atlanta, Ga., for contempt III refusing TO
obey the order of the court commanding
him to give up certain assets of John
Ryan 5 Sons, which he was supposed to
have, was released Saturday on 1926, 0G0
bail.
The Scotch Liberals insist that the
Prince of Wales should resign his com
mission in the army. If not fit for the
army he is fit for nothing except the
throne. There is precedent for the
poorest samples of humanity wearing a
British crown.
The yellow jackets in Carroll county,
Md. are building their nests in trees
and on the fences, and farmers say this
indicates wet season. The farmers in