The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-04-21
Augusta County News.

Augusta County News
! Eta Florence daughter of T. b. and Henrietta
:. Robinson, died on the Goth inst. at her fathers
home near Fishersviile. She was Is years of
age and up to last fall seemed perfectly healthy
and strong with the promise of many happy
years before her; but she sickened in the early
part of the new year and on the 30th of March
she was carried to the little cemetery near the
village and laid to restsforever.
The funeral services were conducted at the
house where she lived, Rev. DR.. Finley perform
ing the last sad rites. Deca 9sed leaves several
sisters and two brothers to mourn with her be-
reaved parents, the sad dispensation' that re-
moves their loved one
This neighborhood, and in fact the whole sec
ton within several miles of Basic City, was
shocked last week on hearing of the killing of
young Goolspy by MIR. Walker. The facts, we
presume you have feared by wire. so we merely
state that the shooting was done on the railway,
above the junction of the C. and O. with the N.
and W. railway and done in broad daylight
and IN full view of quite large crowd ofpeople
Mr. Walker is an old man-nearly seventy-and
is wen known to the people of this section. He
is an excellent carpenter ana Industrious
one. He has always horne q reputation of a
| quiet, unobstrusve and inoffensive citizen.
Soolsby was from Nelson county and comes
of good family.4 Several of his brothers are
well known to your correspondent and are ex-
I cele MT citzens.s The affair Is. deeply deplored
and m uch sympathy is expressed for all con-
! cerned.
Walker awaits the action Of the grand jury in
Staunton Jail, while Goolsbys corpse, after the
post mortem. was carried by.fiiends to bis-old
| home for interment.
4 cold wave struck Us on the night of Friday
last and. up to this writing (bIonday afternoom,
we are suffering winter GOODNESS in dead earn
| est Ice froze Saturday and Sunday nights two
| inches ttick-in some places thicker that at any
time during the winter.
| Wheat never looked better at this season-the
vast fields stretching away in all directions
looking green and vigorous give promise of an
| abundant harvest.
| 1EThs week Will wind the oat sowing as after
the 10th it will be too late to expect crop from
| seed sown, yet there is emnch larger acreage
already in the ground that there were last year,
Notwithstanding the fact that the season has
been such as to prevent the planting of that
crop, there having been scarcely three days to-
gether since the 1st of January that would allow
working in the ground-certainiy not since the
first of March,
The sacramentaI services at Tinkliug Springs
church on Sunday last were of highly interest
ing and solemn character. The sermon was
remember ever to have heard. On Friday and
Saturday Rev. Mr.. Booker, from Hebron, con
lucted services, while on Sunday DR.. Finley the
pastor, administered the ordinance to several
hundred communicates
The NJ Il. Sunday-sch was organized on
Sunday afternoon. G. W. C. Karnes is super
lten{ient and is assisted by competent staff
of officers and teachers. The shool is fine
and is OF the institutions of Fishersyille.
Our Seventy-Cent Dollar.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Last weeks quotations of silver in the
markets of the world showed that our
standard silver dollar was intrnsically
worth only a fraction over 60 cents, or
stamped by the government as worth 100
cents and it is made u legal tender for
the payments of debts In addition to
thus stamping less than 70 cents worth
of silver as a dollar in value, our great
government put upon each coin the
blatant lie-.'ln God We Trust
It must be obvious to Mr. Bland him
self that if he could pass his free coinage
bill he would speedily precipitate revo-
luton in our general financial system.
II
would make and accept obligations only
payable in gold coin, and the ordinary
business transactions of Iife.among the
masses of the people would be conducted
on the same basis, and our bastard silver
dollar would be worth less than 20 cents
to the holder in a majority eof business
operations
The working man paying his rent or
paying his leans would be compelled to
SN If hn IJcnd tho
silver dollar, in which his wages would
surely be paid Gold would rapidly com
mand a premium and the most enlight-
ened and liberal nation of the world
would suddenly transform it's financial
system from the best to the worst in the
world. When no financial pressure is
upon us we would be madlv Initiating
the petty governments of South America,
which were driven by necessity into
degraded currency and logically landed
in bankruptcy.
Will not our Congressman take heed?
The representative of ordinary intelli-
gence who looks out upon the country
and it's great financial operations, rami-
flying through all the thousand sinews
of industry and trade, cannot fail to see
that of all mad legislative schemes the
free silver scheme is the maddest; and
yet men calling themselves statesmen
stand upon the floor of Congress and
advocate it. It is not only bad states
manship, bnt is worse politics The
country to day turns from a Democratic
house to u Republican senate to save it
from this unspeakable misfortune and
if the senate should fail there is abso-
lutte trust in the integrity and states
manship of President Harrison that he
would promptly veto the measure; and
that trust, and that alone, makes him
to-day u hopeful candidate for re-elec-
ton.