The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-08-17

L. Il. C1EIHHNSON,
Chairman Highland County Com.
1t is time the rain compellers were
heard from again.
The silver debate is on in Congress and
the President finds the sound of the surf
on the beach much less monotonous.
1t is poor idea folks wearing out
their legs running on banks just for the
satisfaction of hiding their money in
their stockings.
1t was mean, when a visitor to the
Irish village at the Fair asked to see the
Kilkenny cats, to direct him to the Board
of Lady Managers.
Those charges against one of its Con
gressmen would go to show that Ken
tuckys famous blue grass is mixed with
a kind of mature wild oats.
If Bland is allowed to talk until he
proves that unlimited coinage of cheap
dollars is good fnanciering the other
Congressional orators will listen a long
time.
Congressman Bland is pleading for his
silver dollar on the sliding scale plan.
He wants 16 to dollar, but if he can't
have that he will advance his price like
a bidder at an auction.
Everybody should be happy in Ohio
Candidate Neal wanted the Damaora tic
nomination for Governor and Republican
Candidate Mckinley professed to be
glad he got it. Now let the campaign
fun begin.
Mr.. Bland is not particular about the
size of his dollar if only he can get plen-
ty of them. Jerry Simpson, on the other
hand, wants the lightest dollar possible
SO that it will circulate nimbly, pay
debts easily and swndIe the bloated
bondholder Jerry is half suspicious
that Bland himself is no better than a
silver-bug.
Some time ago the Pope Manufacture
ing Company of Boston opened an edu-
cational department and offered series
OF prizes to those who will point out the
school books now in use in the colleges
universities and public schools. The
effort is a very commendable one.
A committee of residents, some of
them pioneers. appeared before the
Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino
county, Cal, recently, and entered
protest against the lions head carved in
stone on the new Court House They
wanted the American eagle or California
bear substituted for the English lion
They failed in their mission
There is one distinguished member of
the House of Representatives whose
mind just now is occupied with other
thoughts than the ratio of gold and sill
yer. There are some. double standards
even more difficult to MAINTAIN at parity,
and the old lesson is enforced again that
it is well to be off with the old love be-
fore you are on with the new
The laying of the telegraph cable be-
tween Queensland and New Caledonia
which is intended to form the first sec
d
Australia and Canada, will he begun
very shortly, and is excepted to be fin
ished by the end of this month. 1t is
stated in Sydney that the cable will be
completed to Vancouver within two
years.
The way women police justices in Kan
sas deal with the tramp question is res
freshing and full of sensational inter,
est. One of them recently sentenced
tramp to two baths day for ten days
and hard labor ON the stone pile during
the same periodic be fed if he worked
and starved if he shirked. Practical
handling of the tramp question would
thin out the gentry in due time
In connection with report Of the
proceedings at the Worlds Fair on
Wednesday last, Virginia dav, dis
patch says that much of the success of
the day was due to John S. Apperson,
executive business commissioner, Capt |
L. G. Morton, secretary, and M. s. Quar-
les, treasurer, who were actsve in carry
ing out the plans of the committee of ar
and assiduous in their at
tentions to all callers
Two little girls, Gertrude and Ether
Hedger, who are wards in chancery and
heiresses to $780, 900 each. were recently
arraigned as Migrants in the London
police court. Their fortunes are so Sc
eurely locked up in chancery that by no
process of law can any of the money be
obtained until the children are of age.
They are at present practically destitute
tad unable to procure decent surround,
ngs, clothing or education.
Rev. Mr.. Moore, of Noblesville, Ind,
has got himself disliked by the ladies of
his congregation. In a recent sermon
ne said that "God made the earth in six
lays and then he rested; then he made
nan and rested again; and" the pastor
ldded, smiling as he said it, "since that
ime neither God nor man has had a
est Instead of revenging themselves
" refusing to embroider slippers for
he priestly feet, the ladies became an
ry and withdrew from the church.