The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-06-29

shower season are at hand.
The man who prophesied cool sum
mer has taken to the woods.
The summer thermometer has resum-
ed business at the old stand.
An effort is being made to organize an
artillery company at Charlottesville.
The gold stream has turned this way
again America can stand a tldalwave
of that sort.
The Lizzie Borden case is squeezed
lemon, and the American people are glad
to drop it.
In this kind of weather the Superin-
tendency of an ice-house beats the best
Government job.
There are no cholera bacilli in our res
evoirs. Now clean the streets, and we'll
be reasonably safe.
1t is sad, but not surprising, to hear
that the friends of Home Rule are divid-
ed. Twas ever thus.
The Big Stone Gap Coking Company
is preparing to put in a coke plant at
Norton to cost $4,000.
Mr. Ingalls, is right when he says that
women suffrage depends on the women.
The fair sex can have anything it nomi-
mates.
The reason the silver dollar dosn't red
resent honest money is because it pre-
tends to be worth more than is really
the case.
1t seems that the story of a party get
ting a pension for badness is true. AS
there was no hair at all in the matter it
couldn't be false.
Mr. Murat Halstead says it is ''time
for Republican leaders to abandon Sec
tional questions" The people have
done that long ago.
Speaker Crisp declines to say how he
stands on the Sherman silver law. Mr..
Crisp is discreet man, and he is a can
didate for reelection.
The application of Capt. John N. Opie
was filed at the Treasury Department
last weekf or the position of Internal
Revenue Collector for the Western dis
trict.
Under the one-saloon- to-a county law
in South Carolina the respective Cover
nors may hereafter merely remark that
it's a mighty long distance between
drinks.
Mrs. "Stonewall" Jackson, has been
presented with sprig of ivy from Mar
tin Luther's grave, which she intends
placing on her husbands burial place at
Lexington.
Mr. Walter Besant, the distinguished
English novelist, now visiting us, COM
mends himself to the public favor by de-
caring that he will not write book
about America.
Ex-Governor James E. Campbell says
it will be useless fol Ohio Democrats to
ask him to accept the gubernatoral nom
ination. He is up to his ears in business
in New York City.
w. Fl. C. McFadden has been appoint
ed postmaster at the Hot Springs in
place of N. G. Hively removed, and at
Millboro Springs, Bath county, J. D..
Lowman vice A A. Larew removed.
Senator Leland Stanford, of Califor-
MIA, one of the most prominent republi-
cans in this country, and very wealthy
man, died suddenly Wednesday morn
ing, aweek, at his home at Palo Alto,
California.
Some men get rich, some attain polit>
ical eminence, some become noted horse
men and some found universities; but
where will you find another, like Leland
Stanford, who united all these charac-
teristics in one person?
Everybody wants to see an old-time
Fourth in the proper spirit, but care
should be taken that where youngsters
have hand in it, things may not turn
out SO they'll not only have a couple of
fingers in those TO follow.
1t speaks well for the traffic arrange
ments upon the Atlantic Ocean and
over American railroads that children,
less than IL years of age, can be sent
from Hamburg to Chicago without fear
that they will be lost or go astay.
Governor Mckinney has appointed w.
w. Moffett to fill the unexpired term of
Wingfield Griffin as county judge at Sa>
lem, the latter having resigned to quali>
fy as clerk of the courts to which office
he was recently elected by the Demo-
Gratis.
In tearing down the old Pendleton
house at Martinsburg, built over hun
dred years ago, old coins were found of
the dates of 1878, 1884 and 1885, The
house was built by Capt. STROBE. the
great-grandfather of Mr.. Henry st. John
Shepherd.
MIR. John w. Sherman, who was con-
nected with the Staunton Daily Neaos for
some time, but more recently with the
American Press Association at Washing-
ton, has resigned that position. and TAX
en- the position of associate editor of the
Lynchburg Ado0nce.
Airesident of Cum berland Md. SO says
the Neaos, started to the Worlds Fair
with $18.25 after buying return ticket.
He stayed in Chicago four days, and got
back with 81 in his pocket. 1t is evil
dent that Cum berland shelters the fu-
ture Napoleon of finance.
The order of the government of India
to stop the coinage of silver makes it
still more important for the United
States to stop buying silver for gold as
promptly as possible. If even India has
grown tired of the silver standard, it is
about time for us to stop and consider
''where we are at.'
The commissioner of pensions has made
an order that will make it little more
difficult to get a. pension now than it
has been heretofore. Instead of leaving