The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-02-25
CLIFTON FORGE, VA
General News.

0OAOi ctl ANOWo
John B. Dutton, for many years the
agent of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
of Loudoun county, died Friday last.
Samuel Fike, one of the wealthiest
residents of Taylor county, W. Va, died
Saturday of pneumonia.
Elijah Mechanism, formerly lner>
chant of Lynchburg died ut his home in
Roanoke Thursday.
A. n. Douglass has sold his farm near
Charlottesville, to J. J. Smell, of Wiscon-
sin, for $500
Dr. B. p Gooch, a prominent physi-
clan of Hinton, w. Va, died Saturday.
He was twice elected to the West Vir-
ginia Legislature.
Marion Harland, (Mrs. Terhune), the
we'll known authoress, is sister OF Rev.
DR.. Halves, the Presbyterian minister,
who has been assigned to the work OF
Pocahontas and immediate section.
O. B. Lufsey, who was badly burned
in the New York Hotel Royal fire, died
Saturday from his injuries. His remains
were taken to Petersburg, his former
home, for burial.
The debt bill was reported by the
joint finance committee to both houses
of the Virginia Legislature Saturday.
1t was made special order in the House
for Monday.
Of the 3S4 delegates to the Democratic
State Convention If New York, which
meets Feb 22nd. Cleveland will have no
more than 30, it is said, and Hill the bal
ance.
An Iowa dispatch tells of ian old man
lady in Fairfield, fell in love with her,
proposed, was accepted. procured q IL
cense and was married to her, all inside
of thirty minutes. y
The typhus fever, Of a malignant type,
has been introduced in New York by
consignments from the old country, es>
pecially from Russia. A number OF eases
are reported in that city and seven or
eight In CnlcaSO
John Mccall, recently elected presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Company. to succeed Mr. Beers, resigned,
gets $75, 900 salary year. Mr.. Beers re-
tires on q salary of $4,000 u year This
is the way the money goes.
A destructive fire occurred at the Nor
folk street car stables Saturday night,
caused by the explosion of an oil lamp.
The buildings were all destroyed, to-
gether with lot Of forage and and other
stuff The loss amounted to 100000.
Eighty horses were burned out of 1888.
We have received Vol. 1, No /, of the
Eoeaei21g Democrat new daily just
started at the live town of Radford, Va,
out of the weekly Democrat. 1t is run
by company composed of Messrs Jno.
H. and A. K Williamson, Chas. g. Key
ser and Harry Gilmore. who are practical
printers and experienced newspaper
men. We wish it success.
The Iron Gate Building and Invest
ment Co. had meeting in Staunton on
the 9Th and elected these officers: Presi-
dent, Henry A. Walker; ce-president,
Chas. L. Weller; secretary, treasurer
and manager, VIM. T. McCue directors,
H. A. Walker G. L. Weller, W. T. Nc
Cue, Joseph B. Woodward, B. F..
Hughes, B. L. Partlow, James Ker, Jr.,
s. D. Timberlake, G.. S. Tilman.
Senator Teller says there is a suspicion
that Mr.. Blaine will not persist in his de
clination if his friends continue to de-
mand that he shall remain a candidate.
4 see no reason why the Republicans of
Colorado should favor Harrison's renom-
nation, and do not think he is stronger
elsewhere than various other candidates
Convention"
By strict party vote on the Ways
and Means Committee the following tar
if bills were acted on formally. The
Springer Free Wool bill, the Bryan free
Binder-Twine, and the Turner bill pla-
cling Cotton ties, Cotton bagging and
Machinery for the manufacture of same,
on the free list Binder Irvine, under the
operation of the Mckinley bill, is cheap
er now than it ever was, and the same
may be said of Cotton ties. For this rea-
son, Mr. Morrill, says no tariff bill will
pass the Senate this session, whatever
the House may do.
The population of Africa, according to
the latest and most reliable estimates, is
given at 1853, 600, 900, or fourteen inhabi-
bants to the square mile, while the pop
ulation of the three Americas is given at
121, $4,000, or eight inhabitants to the
square mile. 1t must be remembered
that while explorers tell US of large dis
tricts in Africa that are scantily peopled,
there are also vast regions densely popu-
lated, of which but few persons have
ever heard. 1t may, in fact, be said that
only the fringe of the Dark Continent
has yet been reached, after a thousand
years of intermittent exploration.
A dispatch dated at Lexington, Va
Feb. 18th, says: "Miss Adassa Patterson,
IlylHS Will MIs. AloAdHueI at Doustiuo
burg, about eight miles from here, died
on Thursday last. On being placed in
the coffin on Friday she showed signs OF
life by moving her fingers. Two physi-
clans were summoned shortly afterwards
and pronounced her dead. She was re-
moved from the coffin and kept until
Saturday. When being replaced the
body was still in a relaxed state and the
mouth open, but she was buried.
Botetourt county..is opposed to being
cut off from the Sixth Congressional dis
trict and added to the tenth, as proposed
by the reapportionment bill now before
the Legislature. A meeting of repre-
sentative citizens was held at Fincastle
last week and passed a resolution oppos-