The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-17

Judgment on q comic valentine case
found that there was no statute to cover
this class of nuisance.
Since the High License law went in
effect in Georgia the six saloonkeepers in
the town of Darien have consolidated
their six bars into one, which is fitted
up in great style. The town revenue is
reduced, and tipping at the same time
becomes more fashionable.
A man who has had many years OF
commercial experience in China says
that the right word is ''pidgin,n not
pigeon English It is the Chinese
pronunciation of the word Cuisines, y
and it is in the business of Chinese ports
that this peculiar dialect is used.
Senator w. J. Mcconnell, of Idaho,
one of the pioneers in the Territory,
says he got rich by raising fresh vegeta>
bles at Boise and buying and planting
more land with the proceeds of their
sale, while hundreds of disappointed
gold seekers were leaving for the East.
Senator Hill is said to beentirely salts
fed with the presidential situation.
From expressions OF close political
friends it is surmised that if Mr.. Hill
finds he cannot get the nomination his
strength will either be thrown to Sena-
tor German or for some northwestern
candidate.
The house of John D. Rockefeller, in
New York, the millionaire, is watched
day and night by special policeman to
guard its owner against the visits of
cranks 1t is said that since the explO-
sion in Russell Sage's osice the houses
of many other rich men are protected in
the same way.
Senator Hill. of New York, has noti>
fed Governor Stone that he will be in
jackson. Miss, March Is, and address
the Legislature of that State, in accord
ance with an invitation recently sent to
him by that body. 1t is also announced
that Senator Hill will deliver an address
at ST. Patrick's banquet in Savannah,
Ga, March II.
Miss Lizzie Whitmore, aged IS years,
daughter of Mrs Sallie Whitmore, of
the Natural Bridge, was taken with a
severe pain in her head on Saturday
morning. She grew worse, and finally,
to all appearances ceased to breathe, but
the action of her heart continued for
sixteen hours after this The physicians
in attendance pronounce her case with
out parallel.
bill will pass both houses of the present
term of Congress, and that the Presi
dent would veto it. This belief is based
upon the action Of the House Committee
on Rules fixing a certain day for the
consideration of the measure, and also
on his knowledge that combination OF
the Democrats, the Alliance men and
freesilver Republicans will give the bill
a small majority in the Senate.
Mrs Ulysses S. Grant, the widow Of
the General, is soon to issue her much
talked,of volume Of memoirs, for which
her publishers pay her $50, 900 cash and
promise as much more in future royal
ties. Mrs Grant says in the preface to
the profitable work that she wrote her.
self every line of it, not even debating
any part of it to an amanuensis.
A commotion has been caused in
Whitestone, L. l., by prayer alleged
to have been made in the Methodist
Church, last week. Excise Commits
sioner Spitz is reported as rising in his
pew and delivering this prayer: 30
Lord | pray that you will cut off an
inch and half of my wife's tongue.
this village; now I am drunkard and
ruined man, and all by her tongue. 20
Lord cut it off,
The IN. " Eveaadng Journal (Republi-
CAM has compiled the results on super
visors in the elections of the 1st and
thus far held throughout interior New
York. Thirty>nine counties have chosen
new boards Including Monroe county,
except the city of Rochester, and esti-
mating the result in Essex county to be
the same as last year, the results are as
follows: Republican supervisors, 521 )
Demo cratic supervisors, 252. In 1891 the
same counties elected 1926 Republicans
and 352 Democrats.
The Brooklyn politicians are in great
fiutter over the strenuous urging at Al
bany of the measures called the Greater
New York; bill The object of it is to
submit to a popular vote the question OF
the consolidation under one municipality
of New York, Brooklyn and the town
ships on Staten Island. The politicians
are opposed to the idea, as it. would I'M
doubleday curtail their powers and
profits. It is thought that the people
would endorse it. Taxation in Brook
Ign is almost twice as high as it is in
New York, with less than half as much
of return in local benefits,
A doctor in Albany has put on record
a list of the articles which he found in
the stomach of young woman upon
whose body he had performed an au-
topsy. Here it is: Fifty>one hairpins,
sixteen needles or pieces of needles, three
darning needles, thirty~two nails vary
ing in length from one half inch to three
inches, two screws Zone of them two and
one>half inches long,, three pieces OF
iron three and one half inches long, and
one>quarter inch thick, twor rolls of hair,
two pieces of wood, and three pieces OF
cloth leach about five inches long and
one inch wide). If any person has lost a
general hardware store he would do well
to look into this matter.
An Indiana correspondent writes to
the st. Louis Globe Democrat A farmer
digging a well near his house at Darling
ton has discovered that his dwelling was
built over the remains of a huge masto-
don. He has discovered about ten feet
of the tusk, but has stopped excavatine
in the sandstone for fear of endangerine
his house. Scientists who have visited
Darlington to investigate the discovery
estimate that the tusk must be about