The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-04-07

The Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council of England, have refused to ex-
tend the Thomas Gilchrist patent for
making steel. This is what is known as
the basic process by which steel is made
out of phosphoretic ores, for which
the ores of Virginia are especially adapt
ed. The expiration OF the patent and
the refusal to renew it, opens the pro
cess to the world, and it is possible, if
not probable, that it will have the effect
to introduce here steel furnaces under
this basic process. 1t will be a good
thing for Virginia, and especially for
this district, were steel plants to be
erected to work up our phosphoretic
ores
The farmers and laboring men OF the
country begin to understand the wrong
involved in the free coinage of silver bill.
A 70 cent dollar they do not want and
will not have. They are getting their
eyes open and see in the silver bill, moth
ing more than @ scheme of the Silver
Kings to palm off on the country 70 cents
for 100 cents 1t does not take long for
such tricKs to be exposed and the people
get into the true inwardness of them.
One Of the most destructive storms
that ever passed over the country visited
the Northwest last week. In Kansas,
Nebraska. iowa, Michigan, Illinois and
parts OF Chic and Indiana, and way
down in eXas, it swept like a cyclone,
demolishing buildings, killing stock, as
we'll as men, and did an incalculable
amount of damage.
The Farmers Alliance and anti lottery
! ticket for State offices in Louisiana has
been elected, by the official count, and
Foster will be Governor instead of Nc
Emery. The faction represented by Nc,
Emery will submit and not oppose the
ticket The Republicans are divided,
and the success of the Foster anti lottery
ticket may be taken for granted
Chief Justice Drake of the Court of
| Claims Washington, was found dead in
his bed on the 1st. He was over so years
old, and had been a U. S. Senator from
Missouri. He was an able man, and had
occupied a prominent position in the
politics Of his State, until he was APP
pointed Judge of the Court of Claims.
Mrs. Phillip Haxall, who as Miss Mary
Triplett, was the reigning belle Of Rich
mond twenty years ago, died in Rich
mond very suddenly on Monday last.
She was the innocent cause of the duel
Mordecai, in which the latter was killed.
The Republicans, in the election of a
Judge for Cincinnati, carried the city
last Monday, by nearly 5000 majority,
and elected a majority of the local
boards they also carried Columbus,
and some other towns of Importance.
With Cleveland and Harrison contest
ing with each other for the Presidency
each backed by the full strength of his
party, it will be close call, and one OF
the most earnest and active campaigns
the country has ever known.
If there is not an arrest of the Cleve
land current-some unforeseen revolu
tion-the ex>President will be nominated
at Chicago by reclamation, or certainly
on the 1st ballot.
bill excluding all Chinese from emf
grating to this country passed the House
on Monday last by a vote of 179 to 43. II
is very foolish measure, and rampant
demagoguery.
J. 6. Seay and Edmund Randolph, O
Buena Vista, were placed under bond te
keep the peace last week, a duel between
them being feared.
Harrison, if all indications do moi
point amiss, will be the unanimous nom
inee of the Minneapolis Convention.