The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-01-05
The New York Presbytery has again

The New York Presbytery has again
acquitted Prof. Cbas. II. Briggs on the
charge of heresy, and the case will again
go to the General Assembly, the defeated
prosecutors having decided to take an
appeal.
Mr. Lyman D. Morse, a former en-
ployee, has entered into partnership
with Mr.. j. Fl. Bates, the reliable Adver-
Using Agent of 3S Park Row, New York.
In future the business will be conducted
under the title of the Bates & Morse Ad
vertising Agency. We wish the new
firm great success, as they are thorough
ly adapted to the business.
The Boston Globe offered So week
for life to the person who made the clio
sest guess to the popular vote cast foi
Cleveland and Harrison, and Louis M
Woodbridge, 81 book-keeper, is the win
ner. He made 10000 guesses, and in one
set Cleveland's vote only sixteen higher
than the official returns. The guesses
were made prior to the election, and the
contest was open to all.
The latest given out by Cabinet-nak-
ing papers is as follows: Secretary Ct
State, William G. Whitney, Of New
York, or Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont;
Secretary Of the Treasury, John 6. Car
Isle, of Kentucky; Secretary of the
Navy, Daniel s. Lamont, of New York;
Secretary of War, General Patrick A.
Collins, of Massachusetts,; Secretary Of
the Interior, I. P. Gray, of Indiana;
Postmaster General, Hugh c. Wallace,
of Washington State; Attorney General.
J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia.
It is proposed that a conference OF
Colonel G. T. O'Ferrall's friends be held
in Richmond, Va, shortly after the hol>
idays to discuss that gentleman's candi-
dacy for the Democratic nomination for
Governor. The friends of Colonel OFFER
rail- say that it will be conducted in a
friendly way, and if possible leave no
bitter feeling behind it, and at the same
mined fighter and when pitted against
the common enemy room must be made.
We cheerfully endorse our friend, Col.
O'Ferrall for the Gubernatorial honors,
and predict that if nominated he will
be elected, and will prove in this capac-
ity as he has done in the House his
executive ability. The Colonel would be
the right man in the right place and we
hope he may be successful.
South Carolina has established rail
road commission at the bidding of the
Farmers Alliance party, with the extra
ordinary power to regulate passenger
and freight charges, and to otherwise
run the transportation service in &C
cordance with Alliance ideas, and with
out the right of an appeal. Ii the rail
roads of that State belonged to the State
or to the people of the State, they might
very properly assume the running OF
them upon their own ideas. But, as
neither the State nor the people own
any of them, and they we're built and
owned by private capital, it seems an
outrage for the legislature of the State
to gobble them all up and run them to
suit it's own ideas. A similar law was
passed some years ago by the Wisconsin
legislature, and it proved such signal
failure that the law was soon repealed
and control of the roads restored back
: to their rightful owners. The same re-
suit will no doubt occur in South Caro-
lima, for the last people IN the world who
know how to successfully run railroads
IRE those who never build or own any OF
them. A railroad commissioner with
proper authority to correct discrimina
tions and a commission with arbitrary
power, are quite different things. One
it to be preferred; the other detested.
A committee of the Virginia Press AS
ISOLATION, through its chairman Ed. Bar
ham of the Iisde1-AppeGl, has sent a
circular letter to every member OF the
Association suggesting that each news
paper of the State should in January
get up an edition with view of its con-
shutting part of the Virginia Exhibit
at the Colum bian Exposition in 1893,
and that these sample newspapers shall
set forth the prominent features and at
fractions of its locality, illustrated,
where practicable, with appropriate cuts,
&C., and that they shall be bound in
volumes of convenient size and placed in
the reading room of the Mount Vernon
State building for the entertainment of
the thousands of strangers from this
country and foreign lands who will daily
visit this historical place. They are re-
uuested to send to the address of the
Secretary in Richmond, I. G. Morton, the
edition Indicated and apprise him at
their earliest convenience what they
propose to do. so that the committee
will know at once, what response the
Virginia Press, will make to this appeal.
We hope there will come up an enthu-
siastic response from every member OF
the Virginia Press Association through
out the State, and that they will gladly
embrace this golden opportunity of
bringing into notice the special advan>
tages of the various sections of the State
which they represent.
A False Alarm.
Considerable CONSERVATION was caused
among the officials of different towns
and cities in this State last week by the