The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-12-14

ton down to earnest work.
The Rudy family of Hardy county,
have killed fifteen deer this season.
The Gordonsville Gazette has suspend
ed publication for want of patronage.
Perhaps there is no such thing as an
administration policy" toward Hawaii
Now it is intimated from Washington
that tariff reform is in danger, even in
the House.
1t is clear that the British people are
in the hnmor to 'mend or end" the
House of Lords.
Probably the administration hen is
laying a Hawaiian egg, and we must
wait until she cackles.
President Cleveland should not forget
that the people will not confide in
man who withholds his confidence from
them.
A Texas gang advertised that it would
rob a certain bank at given time. and
it was done. They take things easy in
Texas.
Queen Lii says, if she goes back on the
throne, Uncle Sam must protect Der.
She doesn't want the corn unless it is
shelled.
Mr. William Carter, of Loudoun coun-
ty sold to Washington firm last week
pair of handsome bay driving horses
for $500.
The right of women to vote at all cleo
tions in Colorado has been proclaimed
by the the Governor as the result of the
recent election.
Senator Hill from New York, has in
trodnced the bill repeating the Federal
Election laws, in the Senate, and will
press its passage.
Mr.. Richard Tavenner,of Loudonn
county, had his jawbone broken by a
colt, which suddenly threw up it's head
and struck him.
Mayor Mann Page, of Prince George
county, has been elected by the Grand
Lodge of Masons Grand Master of the
order in Virginia.
number of menacing letters, should find
comfort in the apothegm that "the
threatened man lives long,
Chicago no longer enjoys the pleas
ureso of the Midway Plaisance, but it has
the Coughlin and Pendergast jury trials
as examples of first class attractions.
Secretary Gresham's appointment was
heralded as part of a shrewd scheme
to "break up the Republican party
And yet there are those who fear it was
a wedge driven into the solid Demoera
cy.
The Maryland Prohibitionsts will
have reunion and banquet next week
The menu has not been published, but
it is presumed that the list of liquid re.
freshments will contain all the popular
soft drinks.
After consuming more than week in
challenging the men offered as jurymen
the officers of the Criminal Court of Chi
cago have obtained IL unprejudiced free
men to try Prendegrast, who 2 ssas;slaree
Mayor Harris on of that..c1ty.
Cards are out for the marriage, at the
Second Presbyterian church of Staunto1
at 12 O'Clock, noon, on Thursday, Dec
14th, of Mr.. Joseph Sealey LIE Fills, Of
Florida, to Miss Margaret Irene Morton
daughter of Capt. T. G. Morton.
General Manager Voorhees,, of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, declares there
is no truth in the reported transfer OF
Philadelphia and Reading employees te
the Lehigh Valley system for the pur-
pose of supplanting the strikers.
There is no doubt that Governor Lew
Cling, of Kansas, is one of the people
He has publicly declared that he wat
once tramp, and his mother-in-laW
has spent five years in pulling rags
through piece OF burlap to make 6
fancy rug.
The Chicago democrats nominated
John H. Hopkins for mayor to succeed
Carter H. Harrison, who was assassinat
ed October %. Mr.. Hopkins led the
fight against Mayor Harrison last spring
The republicans nominated George b
Swift for mayor.
There is considerable discussion of the
recent Senatorial struggle in the Legis
lature of this State, and an investigation
~ 1a 20 :.
limited at. This will result in no benefit
whatever. All true Democrats should
acquiesce in the rule of the majority.
On Friday last the Legislature now IN
session at Richmond, elected Hon. Thos.
s. Martin, OF Scottsville, U. s. Senator
for the long term and Hon. Eppa Hutton,
present Senator by appointment, for the
short term. The election of General
Fitzhugh Lee was thought to be fore
gone conclusion.
The total vote cast for Col. J. r.
Miller, the prohibitionist candidate for
Governor in the recent election was 6,512,
with two counties yet to report. The
largest vote returned for him was that
from Norfolk city-T7. In 1892 Bidwell
the prohibitionist candidate for Presi-
dent, received 2,73S votes in Virginia.
Delegate Withrow, of Bath, said last
night that it was not SO that he had
during his canvass been offered money
if he would vote for certain candidate
for the United States Senate, and those
who know Mr.. Withrow are satisfied
that if any such proposition had been
made to him some one would have been
hurt -Richmo7lG Dispatch.
On last Friday morning, Judge Woods,
of the Hastings Court, of Roanoke. re-
fused to grant new trial to JAS. g.
Richardson, convicted of rioting and
sentenced to pay fine of $50 and to be
confined in jail thirty days, but added
that in the case of Kennedy and Fuqua,
sentenced to fine of 81 and one day in
JAIL the punishment was entirely too
1irbt aDd tbat If tho Commonwealth