The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-03-16

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Mr.Lloyd Logan, for msny years lead
ing business man of Winchester, died |
Saturday.
Virginlans are anxious to have Basil
Gordon appointed to one of smaller Euro
pean missions.
James w. Hyatt, United States treas
urer in President Cleveland's former ad,
ministration, died recently at Norwalk
Conn, of Bright disease.
The heirs of Sam Houston, Father of
Texas" have entered suit at Houston
for large and valuable parcel of land
in the business portion of the town.
Rev. DIR. Andrew P. Peabody, for fifty
years connected with the faculty of Har
yard Colledge aud one of the most dis
tinguished educators of the country, is
dead.
The iron safe of the Atlantic and Dan
vile Railroad at Danvile was blown
open at an early hour Saturday morning
and $3.50 in money and $3.50 in checks
taken.
The President talked plainly to some
of his callers who wanted places for
former office holders, and told them he
would not make the appointments sug-
gested.
The Lockport Union announces that
Mo-
has 'genius for industrial activity" 1t
is only a man of industrial activity"
that can WELD an ak.
E. C. Wall, of Milwaukee, chairman OF
the Wisconsin democratic State central
committee, is said to be candidate for
the appointment of minister to Germany
to succeed VIM. Walter Phelps.
According to organ predictions the
Democratic administration is going to
ruin the country and the existing office
holders simply want to have nice posi-
tions where they can see the spectacle.
Both of the Richmond play-houses will
probably be sold this year. The theatre
is to be disposed of at public auction in
April if not sold privately before that
time The Academy is in the hands of
receiver, and sale may be made in the
course of several months.
Capt. Charles W. N. Cunningham com
mitted suicide at Eagle Pass, Texas, by
shooting himself. He had been much de-
pressed since the death of his sister, two
months ago. He was gallant soldier in
the Sixth Massachusetts and became a
captain in the regular army.
G. F. Hemingway, brother of William
L. Hemingway, former State treasurer
of Mississippi, made a statement that
the $315,612, which his brother is charged
with stealing three years ago, was taken
by men who repaired the safe in the
treasurer's office. The ex treasurer is in
the penitentiary.
Truth from the Observer, of Orange,
Va: A little item in newspaper may
sometimes make man an enemy to the
paper for life but it won't stop him from
reading it, 1t merely changes him from
IA subscriber to a borrower. Every
publisher can recall the names of citi-
zens that come under this head"
The name of Senator Faulkner, of
West Virginia, will be presented to the
President for the position of chief JUS
tce of the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals. If Mr.. Faulkner receives
the appointment it is expected the Gov
- xi,,ia int
Joseph Chiffon Senator until the meets
ing of the Legislature.
Robert Fitzsimmons came very near
being disabled in the second round of
his fight with James Hall for $4,000
at New Orleans, last Wednesday night.
William Fitzimmons, his brother, pour
ed bottle or ammonia into the tea by
mistake and was about to give it to the
pugilst, but member of the Crescent
Club prevented his drinking it,
We regret to learn that Dir. H. 9.
Tinsley, of the Vsast1lcotoT, who recently
returned from q prolonged stay at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, has been
obliged to return to that institution. He
left left Wednesday morningsand we hope
his stay may be brief one. Staunton
can ill afford to deprived of his services,
even temporarily Yost's Weekly.
Mrs Beale and the ladies of the Aux
Hilary World's-Fair Board, have been for
several months engaged in securing rare
old furniture, pictures, and antiques for
the Mt. Vernon State building at Chica-
go. Among the articles contributed for
this purpose, is a fac simile of a harpsi-
chord of Nellie Custis, and a Dolly Mad
ison piano by Mrs. George Shackelford,
of Orange.
The announcement of the President
that, except in rare instances, men who
heI office during his first term would
not receive appointments has had a
startling effect. The outgoing trains
fro Washington are loaded down with
the army of crushed OK officials that bad
gathered at the National Capital in full
confidence of second recognition, Mr..
Cleveland is a strategist from way back.
A well-kown gentleman who resides
in Washington and occupied a favored
position near the President on the day
of Inauguration, in writing to a CORE
spondent in this city said in speaking of
the sufferings and probable death of
many people from the exposure to the
we;sther, "Cleveland is SO big and fat
that he seemed not to suffer, but Har-
rison, while Cleveland was delivering
his inaugural, shook like an aspen leaf"
The Progress is not an authorized ex-
FOUNDER of scripture; but we recall verse
which says~that 1.-THE righteous are as
bold as lion, but the wicked fee when
no man pursueth. "-Ch0rlotteS0iI1e Id
U0nce.
While writing with all the scientific
knowledge of a great astronomer, Cams
lille Flammarion in his marvellous story
''OMEGA: The End of the World" which
begins in the April number of The Cos