The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03
General News.

Work on the construction of brewery
to cost $1,000 has been commenced at
Huntington, W. Va.
DIR. John Hubert, of Buckingham
county, a son of the late Hon. E. w.
Hubbard, died last week
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
will build two more depots, one at News
port News and one at Lynchburg.
Mr. Morrison, of the Interstate Com
mission, is reported as saying that that
body cannot in any way interfere with
the recent Reading deal.
A large bottlng establishment is to be
removed from Hone sdale, Pa, to Buena
Vista because bottles can be had so
readily at the Buena Vista Glass Works.
The executive committee of the Vir-
ginia Agricultural aud Mechanical So
ciety has decided to hold an exposition
in Richmond next fail, to continue three
weeks.
The Lunatic Asylum. at Jackson, Miss
was burned on the 18th. All the inmates
were rescued, except one. man named
Brown, who it is supposed set fire to his
bed and caused the conflagmation. Loss,
100000.
This has been terrible winter for
stock on tie Idaho ranges. Thousands
of animals are dead, and the stockmen
say that owing to recent heavy SHOWS
there is no possible hope for the re-
mainder.
Edward Coy, the coiored man who as
saulted Mrs. Sewell, of TeXarcana Ark,
on February 4th, was captured Saturday
morning, and taken to Texarcana and
burned at the stake in the presence of
6,O00 persons.
San Francisco is so anxious to intro
duce first class sewerage system that
she proposes to offer to the author of the
first successful plan 900; of the sec>
ond, $4,000; Of the third, $1,000, and of
the fourth, $500.
At stock farm in California they
have introduced a swimming bath for
racehorses, the first of it's kind ever con-
structel on q training farm. 1t is 80
feet long, 30 feet wide and feet deep,
and is supplied with salt water.
Abraham Jefferson Seay, the new Gov
ernor of oklahoma, is thoroughly self
made man. Born in Amherst county,
Va, sNovember rs, 1882, he was three
years later taken by his parents to Usage
county, Mo-. where he grew up on farm.
Gessaer Harrison Smith, the eldest
son of Professor Francis II. Smith, of the
University Of Virginia, and grandson of
the late Prof. Gessner Harrison, died
Wednesday, in Kansas City, Mo-, where
he had been successful practitioner of
the law for five Or six years.
1t is stated that Whitelaw Reid, U. S.
Minister to France, has resigned, and
that he sailed for New York on the goth.
1t is his parpose to resume control of his
journal, the New York Tribune, and di
rect its management personally during
the Presidential campaign.
The miners troubles in Tennessee have
been settled. The Tennessee Mining
Company, which caused the disturbance
by placing convicts in the coal mines,
have agreed to an arrangement by which
white free miners will work the mines on
the cooperative plan. The capital stock
of the company has been doubled, and
the new stock taken by the miners at
Briceville and the labor leaders through
out the State.
George Smiley, of Harrisburg, Pa,
aged sixty-fve years, has just married
Miss Annie Carnman, Of Southeastern
Missouri, aged thirty seven years, in
Harrisburg. The bride is the youngest
sister Of the wife of L. III. Smiley, son OF
George Smiley, and by this union the
bride becomes the mother in-law Of her
oldest sister and the latter the daughter
in-law of her youngest sister. The father
and son are brothers in-law. The five
children of 7. M. Smiley (the SOM are
now the grandchildren of their late aunt.