The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-27

The office hunter, in the way of game,
would like to see little more pitch and
toss.
Others strike for various reasons, but
when tramp strikes work it's because
he hates it.
For certain class of people to tattoo
themselves is way of making them
selves marked men.
Rev. P. B. Stevenson, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Abingdon, has
rendered his resignation.
Major James W. Newton, of Staunton,
has been appointed to take charge of
the Virginia exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
In this country dynamite is used to
start showers. Abroad bombs filled with
it are exploded to put a stop to the reign.
The flag for good reasons may have
been hauled down in Hawaii, but the
American eagle is still perching on the
pole.
I'D. johnson & Sons, jewellers, of
Lynchburg, have made an assignment
Liabilities $3S, 900; assets not yet ascer-
tanned
Edwin Booth, the great actor. is lying
at the point of death at the Players
Club House, New York. There is little
hope of his recovery.
Sixteen hundred guns, it is said, will
greet the President at the coming re-
view. Thos living in New York are like
ly to hear whether the report is true.
1t shows how time flies that, where
crowds of red men met Columbus, four
centuries after hardly so much as a cigar
store Indian greets the arrival of his de-
scendant.
The Hon. VIM. Walter Phelps, the re-
firing American minister to Germany,
will not resent his letters of / ecall to the
German Emperor until his successor, ex-
Chancellor Runyon, shall have arrived
in Berlin.
Hon. James W. Marshall, member of
Congress from the ninth district, has
sccepted an invitation to deliver the adj
dress on Confederate Memorial Day,
May 10, at Stanton. Mr.. Marshall is a
native of Augusta county.
The Hon. J. G. New, the retiring
American consul geneal in London, will
sail for the United States on the Sd of
June. Tho United States consuls in
Great Britain will present to him an il
Illuminated address and the association
of foreign consuls will give him ban
quet.
Gen. Patrick A. Collins, the new Con-
sul>General to London, will sail for his
post on the American Liner, New York.
He says: sit seems to me that man
who is going to cross the water in the
service of this Government should go on
a vessel that has the American flag at
her masthe ADJ
The board of directors of the W. L
Asylum met on Tuesday, DIR. B. Black
ford, the excellent superintendent, and
the other OfhclalS were again eiecUeu 1O1
one year. Messrs. Lynn, of Staunton,
and Tredway and Krise qualified as
members of the board. the two first hav-
ing been recently reappointed and the
last named succeeding N. G. Manson,
decd. An inspection of the buildings
and grounds showed all things in good
order. 1t was decided to change the To-
cation of the steam house.
The escape of two brutal murderers
from the n Y State Prison at Sing Sing
is another proof that so long as person
al politics contol the appointment of sub
orlinate officials, SO long will those ap-
pointments be found unsatisfactory and
venal. No one for a moment believes
that had the suspected jailors been APP
pointed for their fitness for the positions
which they held, the prisoners would
have been allowed to over power their
guards and seek safety in flight. Had
the responsibilities of their position
been properly appreciated by these
guards and an honest determination to
be faithful to their trusts been the
strong principle of their thoughts, those
prisoners would not have escaped ex-
cept over the dead bodies of their keep
ers, and without general call for help
ringing through the building and orous-
ing assistance.