The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-10-20
swinburne probably stands the best

Swinburne probably stands the best
chance for the vacant laureateship. 1t
will he a case of ''long descent" from
the author of 1.-THE Princess to Alger
non Charles. But England cannot fur>
nish worthy successor to the dead
laureate. 1t is understood that Swin-
burne's past antagonism to Mr.. Glad.
stone may affect his fortunes.
It certainly is time for the authorities
of Pennsylvania to stop the lawlessness
and intimidation of loafers and vaga-
bonds at Homestead. There is no oc-
casion for non-union men living in con-
slant fear of having their homes burned
overltheir heads by prowling incendiar
les The cause of labor and the cause of
public decency requires that such demon
strations should cease. state which
can charge treason ought to be able to
take care of ordinary arson.
The monetary conference, which is to
meet at Brussels on the 22d of Novem>
Der, will be composed of the repl esenta
tives of seventeen governments. Aus
tro- Hungary, Belgium, Holland, France.
Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy,
Portugal, Rounania, Russia, Scotia,
Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Norway,
Switzerland, and the United States. In
point of numbers it will be the most i'm
posing international gathering of SIMS
lar character ever held. Whether it
will prove harmonious and effective in
its practical results is extremely profile
NAUTICAL.
The town people can't get along with
out the country people, nor can the coun
try get along without the towns. Capt.
tai and labor are dependent one upon
the other. The farmer is dependent
upon the various trades and professions.
and they are dependent on the farmer
Society is so organized that the human
race is dependent upon each other. A
moments reflection will show that any
policy or legislation injurious to one
class will injure another. Legislation
detrimental to the farming interests will
will hurt equally as much as the mer-
chant, the lawyer, the doctor, the me
ehanic, or the capitalist 1t would be
foolish for any of them to advocate or
submit to legislation hurtful to one in
terest, because it will hurt all.
Major j. Ogden Murray, who, it has
been announced, would take editorial
o~.I l., IS VIZ,
at Clifton Forge last week, having leased
the paper for one year, decided not to
enter into a contract to that effect for
the reason that the outlook had been
materially changed by the editors hav-
ing given up his place to take a similar
position with the rival paper, thereby
throwing his influence to help it. Being
a stakeholder in the VIRGINIAN, it look
ed singular to join another paper of the
same politics .-St0unton argus.
Assuming that the argus is the
mouth>piece for Major Murray, we en-
phatically deny that Mr.. c. F. Moore is
a stakeholder in the Clifton Forge Pub
fishing Company, with whom the Major
made a certain agreement and failed to
perform; that Mr.. Moore was not an in
terested party in the transfer of the pa
per, and was at liberty to act DIS he
deemed best, in accepting or rejecting
other offers for his services as Editor or
Lawyer
For whole week no immigrants have
entered the port of New York, and we
are bound to say that the falling off in
this particular line of importation will
not be felt as a calamity to the country.
1t will rather be regarded as some cons
pensation for the necessity of maintain
ing strict quarantine. As 6here are
supposed to be no immigrants now on
the way from Europe, and the executive
order which suspended the flow has not
yet been revoked, the soothing rest of
the body polite from this injection will
last week or two longer. There has
been plethora from the continual
stream of foreign immigration which
threatened congestion, and it is good
for the national system to have brief
let-up. 1t would benefit still more if the
stream could hereafter be SO regulated
as to be improved in quality and dimin-
ished in volume. Let us hope that when
the gate is open again there will not be
an accumulated flood break in upon us.
Mr.. Cleveland Declines to Go.
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