The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-02-16
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of brains.
The President sent "A message to the
Senate Tuesday. favoring the annexa-
lion of the Sandwich Islands
DIR. Norvin Green, President Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
died al his home in Louisville, KY.
Eyangelists Moody and Sarkey con
menced rival meetings III Baltimore Sun
day. Evangelist Fife, who WAS recently
at Stauntou, will assist them.
In Maine it is proposed TO enact II at
habitual drunkaris Shall be het ey-
cured mt State and county expense. Is
prohibition jistifyed in threaten ing
to make gold so scarce?
There is plenty OF sympathy for DE-
Lesseps, and perhaps properly so, bu
there Is not much for the thousands oil
French peasants who have been impov-
erished by his methods.
We cvuiu gel iiiouas without Hawaii OF
course, but we could not aii"ra 10 lei
England or any other European nation
absorb it, That is the exact size and
meaning of the situation.
Little King Alphunso, of Spain, has
pulled through his attnct of scarlatlEa
aud would he quite content to see the
doctors. who aused him with nasty,
plysic, led AWAY 10 be executed.
There are fori y-seyen farmers in both
branches of the West Virginia Legisii=
ture and only seventeen lawyers. Now
if laws are not enacted which will benefit
the farmers who will he to blame?
statistical expert inds that $50
ne " locomotives We're built in the Uul
ted States last year. That gives ii pretty
good insight into the Importance, of the
Transformation business of this country
At a recent Supreme Court sitting III
Bangor. Me-. there were twenty nine
divorces granted. and the best looking
woman in the room was an Indian squaN
who wanted to gat rid of her worthless
husband
The ground hog di.lnt see his shadow
last Thursday, but he hasn't totfd fair
on the weather question, for a that.
Friday was a pretty nice sort of IA day
bat since then there has been all souls
of weather.
The Late Justice Lamar had most
remarkable memory He could repeat
word for word the speeches of great ora
tors which he had read. and passages
L., I, tl,,,,
students like himself.
The muddle in the Kansas Legislature
has been going on for thirty days and is
no nearer settlement than it was in the
beginning However. the people of kan>
sas have oue hope left. the session is lini
tied to fifty days by law.
The citizens of Waynesboro will short
~ vote upon the question Of the eoun-
,il's appropria ting $40 600 for furnishing
water works for the town. Ii it carrie s,
TIE cDuncrf " ny l1rot:ettt 10 ISSUE bonds
for the amount needed.
The car-coupling bill passed the Sen
ate on Saturday last by vote of 40 to
~ 1t prescribes the character of coup
iing to be used by all railroads, and has
i,r its object the better protection OF
~,iircad employees from injury and
death
All but three of Mr.. Cleveland's Cabi-
he have been named, and they are Ger
lainly exceptionally good men for the
positi ms, AS the opposition press gives
them hearty endorsement. Mr.. Cleve
land makes few mistakes. either in his
advocacy of men or measures
The trial of J. T. Clark. of Danville,
ell urged with the murder of Rev. J. r
N fiat, in that city, last November, is in
progress. and it is attended witt, a great
,l.al Of Interest. 1T WAS impossible to
tain Il jury il DAnvile, and the Court
o. erei "A jury from Lynchburg
United States Minister Stevens is the
hero of the hour. He unfuried the
American flag over the government
building at Honolulu Hawaii, and ans
nouuced TO the natives that they were
subjects of the United States, until an
nexation negotiations were accomplish
ed.
\ recent ruling of the Postal law has
decided that tine writer of a letter has
the light to take it from any post office
after it has been mailed and even at its
destination on proving to the postmaster
he is really the one it belongs to. The
reason assigned is that the mail system
is simply an agent for those who send
mail.
Tie talk about the ''70>cent dollar is
silly. 1t means that the bullion in sis
Yer dollar is worth only 20 cents. Very
we!l. What is the paper in greenback
ar nationals bank note worth? Next to
nothing. A thousand dollars in silver
coins Is worth intrinsically but. say, 800.
But a thousand dollar greenback is
worth intrinsically nothing.
That rare and seldom event, a diamond
wedding, while being celebrated in Kan-
gas the other day WIS interrupted ly the
sudden death of the venerable groom
After A brief pause the dancing Went on
and the a5-year Old bride declared she
hadn't had such Il good time since the
woods were burnt. Death loses its
terrors for those who are nearing the
century mark.
twas brought out i'll IA Notable divorce
case ia Brooklyn tlle other day that the
woman had married her first husband in |
Mjchi gan, had procured IL divorce in His |
nois, and had married her second hus-
band ia Ohio Now, it is claimed that I
the Chicago divorce was Illegal and the
second husband prays for the separation
on that ground. Moral Revise the
maria &c and divorce laws.
rhe bill allowing the n. & w. to en-
ter Washington has been favorably re
ported in both houses with amendments
the principal one making the entire
route from the Virginia end Of the pro
lOsed brid re to the term nus of the line