The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-11-23

nOke ior tlle past Sefefal udS ,, nave Deel
acquitted
In the new tariffs iron schedule much |
will be wrought, even in some of the duty
being cast.
Models of the Mckinley boom are not
genuine unless the words $4,000 majoi-
ity'' are blown in the bottle.
Mayby David's remark that all men
were liars was based on his observing
how an income tax worked.
1t is just when things are going to
thunder that the candidate is afraid the
lightning won't strike him.
So long as the Columbian rides the
ocean wave Uncle Sam can run away
when he does not care to fight.
Most Hawaiians are the color of coffee
These are about as good grounds as have
yet been presented for annexing them.
John w. Stratton, formerly deputy
postmaster at Buena Vista, died last
week in Charleston, ILL.,, of typhoid
fever
The trainmen on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad went on strike Saturday. The
movement extends from Jersey City to
Buffalo.
The whole police force of Chicago is
on the lookout for cranks The Worlds
Fair dropped big brood of dangerous
citizens on the lake shore.
1t is said to be the intention of the
ways and means committee of the House
of Representatives TO tax incomes, but
rates have not been fixed.
Governor elect O'Ferrall will appoint
Mr.. Evan r. Chesterman, of Richmond,
his private secretary. Mr.. Chesterman
is a young Journalist of much promise.
Like most infants, the infant Brazil
ian republic is having time of it.
Mello's eruption was a rash one and the
powder SO far used hasn't done much
perceptible good.
From official sources in the Pension
Bureau it lis learned that great pension
frauds have been perpetrated in Buffalo,
N. Y, whereby $150,000 have already
been wrongfully paid to applicants.
The Hawaiian situation is growing in
teresting. Minister Thurston and Sec
rotary Gresh am are literally falling over
each other in their efforts to get the first
batch of instructions into Honolulu
Atlanta, after drinking from an ar
tesian we'll for several years, has aban-
doned the hole ia the gtound'' for bona
12de modern water works. The change,
of course, is better for all concerned.
terrible storm swept over the AT
lantic Ocean last week and expended its
energies upon the coasts of Great Brit
ain. No more destructive cyclone has
been reported from that uarter in many
years.
As was expected, Commissioner BIount's
report to the Secretary of State, touch>
ing the Hawiian controversy, justifies
the course taken by President Cleveland
in protecting the interests of the United
States.
1t stands to reason that a tariff for
revenue only with an income tax rider
attached never will be popular with the
rich people of this country. They are
for the "protection" of private incomes
every time.
Editor Stead, of the English edition
of the Re0ieao Of Reoicg0s, is talking
about founding great daily newspaper
in London to serve as an outlet for his
genius. He ought to come to America
and try his hand at reforming Chi
cago.
If it be true that a certain railway of
fetal had $21 900 exposed to full view in
the Rookery Building in Chicago, the
man who nabbed it deserves sympathy
rather than the careless cashier. But
the whole story has the fishy smell of a
fake.
A. F. Pison, an Augusta county far
mer, recently sold seventeen head of
beef cattle whose aggregate weight was
25,127 pounds, an average of nearly 1.
400 pounds. Two of the steers pulled
the scales at $500.
Commissioner Blount's report begins
~ ulfthC II lOOh app tllhU Tue JlDSO
editors of America got on their war
paint and feathers little too soon, All
they can do now is to swhoop it up's once
OR twice and sit down quietly in the
wigwam. There is to be no war.
Mr.. Edwin Barbour and Miss Josephine
McKonal Waters, daughter of e1- United
States Senator Alexander Mcdonald, OF
Arkansas, are to be married III New
York, November g. Mr.. Barbour is a
nephew of the Hon. James Barbour
He is well-known New York Journal
list
Capt n. Shepperd, internal revenue
collector, has appointed Mr.. Thomas N
Williams, of Pittsylvania county, and
Mr.. w. Stuitz, of Zeph, of Martinsvill
general deputies. The special duty Of
these officers is to look out for frauds
and violations of the internal revenue
laws.
Among swindling schemes the dupli-
cation of railway tickest brought to light
in the auditors office of the Baltimore &
Ohio Company appears to have been
very sIiTeWu anu suocessiul- IHoiueh''
ally, it is high tribute to the art OF
printing as practiced in our day, the
difference between the true and coun-
terfeit tickets being discernible only
with the aid of powerful magnifYing
glass;
Governor Mitchell of Florida, refer
firing to the reports of arrangements
being made for James J. Corbett and
Charles Mitchell to fight at Jacksonville
says he Twill issue a proclamation
directing every sheriff to do his utmost
to prevent the fight coming off in Florida
and appealing to the people in the
several counties to cooperate with the
sheriffs in saving them and their State
from such disgrace -