The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-05-04


jury rendering a verdict of mot guilty"
Hurrah for Roanoke. It's bankers have
offered to help out Secretary Carlisle
with 100000 in gold coin, and their Of
fer has been accepted.
And to think after those cannons in
the review there are still people who find
fault with boy and pack of fire.
crackers on the Fourth of July.
There is certainly little encouragement
in literature for that man whose only
returns from the business are represent
ed in the manuscript that comes back
to him.
1t sort of worries some women to be
told by the husband there's one thing
lacking to make their new hats perfect,
until they learn it's merely the money
to pay for it.
Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall, Congress
man from the 18th district, will deliver
the grafton at the laying of the corner
stone of the new Christ church, High
land Terrace, Norfolk, May 25th.
Rev. DIR. William Lawrence, dean of
the Episcopal Theological School at
Cambridge, has been nominated by the
Broad Churchmen of the Episcopal
Church for the bishopric of Massachu-
sets.
Senator Samuel Pasco, who is well
know in StauntOn, was last week elect
ed U. s. Senator from Florida to sue
coed himself He received 95 out of the
100 votes in the joint session of the leg
islature-
One of the new Judges of the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals, Judge
Seth Sheppard of Texas, is an alnmnus
of Washington & Lee University. having
received the degree. of B. L. at that in
stitution in 1863
At the request of English conserva-
tives Mr.. w. L. Royal has forwarded to
them history of the Virginia debt liti-
cation, which they propose to use in the
Parliamentary debate as an illustration
of what would occur in Ireland under
home rule.
The President has appointed ex-Goy
ernor Fitz Lee to be one of the Govern
ment Directors of the Union Pacific
Railroad. The appointment in no way
interferes with any other business in
which Gen. Lee is engaged, nor with any
H. II,
The many friends of Mr.. l. C. Haas
formerly proprietor of the Adoamce and
the founder of the Ba1timorean, will be
glad to learn that he has returned to
this city greatly improved in health.
For several months he has been at
Duffield's w. Va, under treatment for
nervous prostration.
The announcement that Congress
man George ID. Wise will not enter the
senatorial contest leaves the field to Fitz
Lee, Thomas s. Martin. ESQ.,, General
Hunton, and Governor Mckinney.
There are others, however, who would
''file their papers, if they thought that
their claims would receive appreciative
consideration.
Edwin Booths physicians use some
circumlocution in talking to newspaper
men, but from the latter's diagnosis of
the doctors diagnosis they consider it
prudent to get their biographies and
portraits of the great actor ready for
use. The general belief is that he may
die at any moment; it is certain that he
cannot live very long.
Two months of a Democratic admins
tration of National affairs have pass.
ed, and but few, comparatively speak
ing, of the men justly entitled to hold
the offices, have been chosen. How very
considerate we Democrats are Willing
to pay salaries to our political foes, with
out murmur. Such generosity is with
out a parallel in political history.
The cadets of the Virginia Military In
stitute will not attend the Worlds Fair
in June, as heretofore reported. At a
meeting of the facility, held Saturday,
the question of attending the fair was
brought up from the meeting of the
boad of visitors, held last June. The
managers of the fair refused to allow
them to encamp on the grounds unless
so cents per man was paid per dime, and
as the corps is 200 in number the ex-
penses for ten days would amount to
over 81 900 for admission fees
Five acres of ground adjoining Salem
Church, in Spottsylvania county, and
about four miles from Fredericksburg,
have been purchased by Gen. Edward
Burd Grubb, of New Jersey. It was on
Grubbs brigade.in 1868 made desperate
charge and lost Ia large numberlof men,
He intends to make a beautiful park of
the ground he has purchased and erect
thereon an imposing monument in com
memoration of those of his brigade who
lost their lives in the struggle.
There is much unnecessary speculation
on the part of our Republican friends as
to how the Governmental affairs will be
managed, now that every branch of the
Government is under Democratic con-
troll. They seem to forget that the par
ty. which has beens restored to power,
ruled this country continuously for
period of fifty years. 1t made glorious
record then, and will not be found want
ing in this year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and ninety-three. A party that
can survive through all these years, is
not likely to falter in the discharge of
its every obligation.
Free Sugar is to some extent delu-
sion and false pretense. About three
thousand two hundred and fifty million
pounds of sugar was imported into the
United States free of duty during the
year 1892. This went into the refiner-
les, and the duty on refined sugar ena-
bled the sugar monopoly to charge
small advance over proper price for
the sugar in domestic use. Nor is this
all The government collected from the
people between nine and ten million
dollars last year to hand over as sugar
hountv under the law which reDealed