The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-02-11

In the last twenty five years the New
York Central and the Harlem railroads
have paid out s250,0O0,C Coo in wages
There are between sixteen hundred
and seventeen hundred lawyers in Bos-
ton, with scarcely business enough for
200.
There has been'a serious split in the
Democracy of Philadelphia, and the
anti-Cleveland men, have organized
new committee.
Mr. VIM L. Royal, well known as the
counsel for the foreign holders of Vir
ginia bonds, an able attorney of Ricl>
mond, has accepted a position as editolia
writer on the Richmond Times.
The Republicans of Iowa have decided
to continue to stand by the prohibition
movement in that State. This action Is
not Xix ely to strengthen their hold on a
recently somewhat doubtful State,
Last June a young man was arrested
in Massachusetts because he would not
pay his poll tax, amounting to 80, and
expense to the taxpayers of $1.75 a eek.
The Ocott commissioners, for their
good Offices in arranging a settlement
between the State of Virginia and its
creditors, will pocket, if all the bonds
are funded, the snug little sum of $747,
900. The bondholders pay the bill. The
State commissioners receive no pay for
their part of the work.-Danville Reg
lster.
At last the Louisiana lottery swindle
has given up the ghost. John A. Morris,
the principal owner and director of the
lottery, has given notice that he intends
to withdraw his proposition for the re-
charter of the' company, and that the
concern will wind up it's affairs and re-
tire from the field when its charter ex-
pires in 1894
A note for 1885 with the firm name of
James A. Armstrong & Co., of Staunton
signed to it, on the National Valley
Bank of Staunton for collection, given
to William Simpkin, of Richmond. turns
out to be forgery. The endorser, Mr..
w. p Desausure, of Richmond will be
the loser. There is no such firm as JAS
A. Armstrong & Co., in Staunton.
An important order was issued on the
9th by Postmaster General Wanamaker
the effect of which will be to give money
order facilities to all small Offices where
the compensation of postmasters reaches
5000 per annum. By the 1st of April it
is expected that fifteen hundred of these
offices will be established throughout
the country and 5000 more by July 1st.
In the case of man tried in the Uni
ted States court at Helena, Montana, for
selling bottle of beer to an Indian on
the Crow reservation, Judge Knowles
has decided that beer is not spirituous
liquor. The man was discharged. The
federal law provides penalty for selling
''spirituous liquors or wines" to Indians
on reservations. This is the first decision
by federal court on this subject
A private cable dispatch from London
says that Foxhall Keene, the only son
and heir of James R. Keene, the million,
aire broker, is dying in that city from
injuries received by being thrown from
his horse while riding to the hounds re-
Gently in county Meath Ireland He is
nephew of Leroy P. Dangerfield. His
mother is well known in Bath county
where the Dangerfield's once lived.
From the Adoamce we learn that the
Basic City Mining, Manufacturing and
Land Company have decided to issue
bonds to the amount of $4,000 and pay
all their Indebtedness and push the pub
lie improvements that had been tempo
rarily suspended Hon. Edward Echols
resigned as a member of the board OF
directors and J. 7. Smith, of Waynes
boro, was made his successor All the
other members were reelected.
The State finds some consolation in
the fact that David B. Hill is no more OF
a Democratic Boss than William Malone
is a Repu blican Boss. II am a Demo-
crat" and Malone, Virginia." mean
that there is no one to contest the De-
mocracy of the one, while the other
claims the whole State as his preserve.
1t would be interesting if these two par
ty bosses were to lock horns in 1899, as
member and manager in their respective
party national organizations There
would then be no stones thrown at glass
houses
A singular case occurred in Richmond
on Wednesday, in which DR.. George E.
Meredith distinguished himself by a
skillful operation. A silver 25-cent piece
had accidently found it's way into the
gullet of a little negro child, 20 months
old, and became firmly fixed just above
the stomach. DR.. Meredith made an in
cision into the neck of the child, drew
the windpipe to one side, opened the
gullet, and removed the coin. The
little patient is doing well and will re-
cover, and the Doctor is happy in the
possession of the coin which will perhaps
be his only fee.
Petersburg I9deG-Appeaz: 1t speaks
well for the financial solidity of Virginia
railroads that the Norfolk and We stern
has been able to go into comparatively
new market in Europe and successfully
float its bonds. Merely, it is stated, as
an experiment the company offered
block of one hundred year bonds to Par
is investors and the whole issue was
taken. French capitalists are very
shrewd, ordinarily, and cautious in plac-
ing their investments, and the fact that
they are eager to purchase Virginia rail
road securities indicates a degree of Gun
fidence based upon substantial grounds.
The glass house into which Boss Da>
vid B. Hill has placed the Democratic
machine, will not permit his followers to
throw stones at Boss T. G. Platt of the
Republican machine. If the opponents
of both are to be relied upon, New York
is between the devil and the deep blue
sea, and is certain to fall under a boss
and machine, either Republican or
Democratic. The Republican masses
have on several occasions kicked The