The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-06
B. w. Clarkson has been nominated
for postmaster by the democrats Of Mil.

ID. w. CidfhSOn HAS DeeD nominated
for postmaster by the democrats Of Mil
boro.
The spirit of evil service reform has
been carried out-on a shutter.-Ne2o
York San.
A clean sweep of the Offices may helm
possible, but how about little puriGca-
tion by fire?
Congressman Tucker has decided to
recommend Capt. G. L. Gordon for post
master at Buena Vista.
Whose gets a post office by an offensive
partisan being aXe1 to 90 out may prop
erly say he wins by a neck.
The Virginia board of Worlds Fair
managers have set apart August 9th as
Virginia day at the Columbian Exfosi>
ton.
Rev. Sam P. Jones is billed to begin
his ten days meeting in Winchester on
June 1st 1t will be held at the Fair
grounds in u building that will seat 5,G0G
people.
Read the Washington news IN this is
sue and see the bright spots in the pos
litical sky. Virginia congressman are
on the watch>tower and they propose to
''let no guilty~nan escape.
CAD. DENT, of the Salem Times Regis
ter, has been appointed postmaster at
that place. Mr.. Dent is one Of the most
in, }.a G4aIo
and will doubtless make an acceptable
official
The Victoria furnace, at Goshen,
which has beeen shut down for several
months for repairs, will go into opera
ton very soon and when the surplus ore
is consumed the mines will be run again
to their full capacity, which is from ESQ
to 300 tons per day.
The Danville Eoening StGr is the
name of a newsy and ably edited paper
which appeared in that city last week,
a copy of which is on our table. MIR. j.
o. Foy, is editor and proprietor. and Mr..
S. f. Gilliland, business manager We
wish the Star great success.
U. S. Senator John W. Daniel, in a
memorial to Congress on the Road Ex>
hibit at the Worlds Columbian Expos
sition, said: This country could spend
no money so economically and enlist no
genius SO usefully as in making better
roads for communication between one
neighborhood and another"
Everybody is not aware of the impor
lance of the great display that is to be
made in Hampton Roads this month.
The great gathering of foreign men-of-
war and the attendant gaieties will be
something Virginans will not see re-
peated on their shores, perhaps for many
years to come.
There will be no change in the boun
dairy between Virginia and Tennessee, as
prayed for by the Attorney General of
the former State, in bill filed with the
United States Supreme Court in 1889
Imam elaborate opinion prepared by JUS
ice Field, the Supreme Court Monday
last declined to grant the prayer of Vir
ginia.
Colonel T. r. Marshall, commandant
of cadets of the V NJ. L., is in Chicago
for the purpose of perfecting arranga-
Inents for the encampment of the corps
OF cadets at the exposition during their
proposed visit in June. Whether or not
they will go is yet to be determined by
the arrangements which can be made
for their encamDment.
Mrs Beale, one of the lady assistants
of the Virginia board Of the Worlds
Fair managers, turned in to Colonel
Buford, the president, Saturday, $1,700,
which she had collected from entertain
ments given in different parts of the
State. She was assisted by the ladies
auxiliary, and some of the money was
obtained by the sale of souvenirs.
The $50 painters at the Worlds Fair
in Chicago who had demanded al in
crease from 80 to 40 cents an hour we're
asked how many were willing co contin-
ne work at 35 cents an hour. One hun
dred and twenty-five consented. The
others were dismissed, and those who
remained were told they would receive
As cents, cents more than they asked.
Gov. Frank Brown who was attacked
with severe illness resulting from cold
contracted at the inaugura ton of Pres
ident Cleveland, and which. at one time
threatened to be ia tai, is now out of dan
ger and is recovering. His devoted wife
and mother were continuously at his
bedside, and to their faithful nursing it
may be said, that half the battle for life
was won.
Major Mann Page, President of the
Virginia Farmers Alliance, says under
no circumstances will he consent to be
Third Party candidate for Governor.
The Alliance, he says, is a non political
organization, and, as lis president, he
co1ld not consistently permit himself
to lie nominated for Governor President
Page expresses the opinion that that
party will place at the head of its State
ticket this year silver Democrat.
The best thing that Southern editors
can say about Cononel Elliott t. Sbep-
ard is to say nothing and that is what
we shall say just as near as it is possible
to do SO. He was bitter enemy of the
South and he took no pains to disguise
it. Whenever he could say anything
mean about our people he did SO and he
did more than any man in the country
for the few years to keep alive the secs
tionAl asperities which have been so
troublesome.-Norf Landm7rk.
Mr.. H. M. Snyder, representing the
Delinar Hotel, of Chicago, owned and
operated by the Delaware Company,
Thomas W. Cole, President, is in the
city. Mr.. Cole is Virginian, formerly
of Culpeper and is well. known to the
writer. Mr.. Snyder has contracted to
have an agency for his hotel in this
place, the particulars of which will be
made known later Until then We will |