The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-02-09

trious Americans, who will next answer
"Adsum!''
Professor Sedwick says that he traced
the course of an epidemic of typhoid fe-
yer, and found that ir just matched the
route of milk man.
The full name of the Popnlist Cover
nor of Kansas is Lorraine Demosthenes
Lewellng. He dosen't wear it at all
at once except ia very cold weather.
But few rotting posts now mark the
stockaae lines of the old prison pen at
AndersonvilIe. II grounds are own
ed by the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Michigan Supreme Court handed
down decision in the contested election
case in the fifth congressional district,
lican candidate.
1t is said that the recent conservative
caucus at Ottawa Sir John Thompson
declared that the present was not the
time to make any sweeping changes in
Canada's tariff policy.
Congress will be asked to purchase
ed when shot AMI in which he died
The amount needed to secure this and
adjoining property is $4,000.
The rival Kansas houses have abonded
all hope of settling the muddle and have
agreed to divide the time of the floor,
Their epublicans meeting in the morning
and the Popuists in the afternoon.
Ii there is anything more befOgged
and miserable than the weather. it is
the state of mind in which the Cabinet
slate tixers fad themselves while Mr..
Cleveland keeps his own counsel.
Julia Ward Howe's daughter is lectur
ing upon astronomy. She goes further
afield for them than the average molnan
whose range of ideas is bound by d cook
cry book and fashion magazine.
Judge William Lindsay. who will sue
ceel Senator Carlisle in the Senate from
kentucky, is native of Rock bridge
county. He is regarded as a magnificent
physically and intellectually.
The London Globe speaks of the annex
alton of Hawaii to the Uuited States as
an 'uncharacteristc act of folly" Many
in America think it would come within
5000 miles less of such an act than to
have grasping old England do the same
Nia Eyn fol h
rying to get things in order for the May
opening, but there seems to be so much
to do yet that there will have to be more
practical work in the few remaining
weeks than has been done all through
the winter.
Mr.. Cleveland has concluded his visits
to his law office in New York. 1t is be-
lieved that Mr.. Bayard has received an
offer of the State portfolio, but hesitates
to ace apt it. Carlisle, Lamont and Bis
sell are regarded as absolute cabinet
certainties.
Mr.. r. H, Martin, editor of the Woods
stock Record, has been appointed a
member of the committee Oh Civic Or
preaching inauguration at Washington.
Col William Dickson is chairman of the
committee.
Colonel Charles g. Eddy, vice. presi-
dent and traffic manager Of the Norfolk
and Western railroad, has rendered his
resignation to take effect on the 18th
inst, to accept the same position on the
Reading railroad. with headquarters at
Philadelphia.
Senator Brice is beginning to under>
stand what Washington tuft>hunting
mob is like. On the occasion of a recent
reception which he gave his house was
c.owdei with univited guests, who made
themselves quite at home around the
dining table and sideboard
The political TIL mines in South Da-
kota have shut down. They were run
with great energy-on paper-during
the late campaign, but did not pay ex-
penses and it is now gravely announced
that the shut down is permanent. The
three or four hunH red men" said to be
thrown out of employment are mainly
ca,npai IN liars.
The tone of the American press on the
Hawaiian problem is moderate. intele-
gent and patriotic. In more than a HUI
dred editorials on the subject from rep
resentative papers in all parts of the
country we fail to find a single word of
buster, or anything which borders on
excitement. All counsel deIbe ration
ana nearly all favor the annexation of
the island.
Mr.. Gladstone makes a better start
til Il was expected with majority of
81 il the first division of the session. 1t
was only a question of adjournment, but
the debate had been mainly about Ire
land, and the lines were drawn in way
to test the strength of the government.
1t does not follow that home rule can be
carried by such a majority, but so good
IL vote is encouraging to the Liberals.
Clay, Webster. Douglass, Greeley
an Blaine were the great representa-,
tive Americans whose supreme ambi-
tions were foiled in politics, and whose
deaths were fastened by disappoint-
ment. Their lives their deeds and their
places in history, however, are secure
for all time to come, and the occupancy
of ne White House could not have added
much to the renown of anyone of them.
The heirs of D. F. Council, of Ports
mouth, Ohio, who was about 19 months
ago fatally ASSAULTED in Pullman sleep,
ing car near Staunton, in this State, are
pressing their suits for damages against
line Pullman and Chesapeake and Ohio
companies. There are three of these
suits for $4,000 each. One of them was
Instituted in tie Federal and the others
in the State courts. Connell's murderer
has never been caught.
S)ne of the intense party organs are
saying that Judge jackson, being