The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-13

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1t appears that, unlike walters in gems
eral, walters for public office don't carry
all before them.
Hon. J. Hoge Tyler is quietly canvass
ing through the Southwest with an eye
to the gubernatoriai nomination.
DR.. James M. Tallaferro, one of the
Oldest and most highly respected citizens
of Amherst county died on Friday.
There is one great common leveler-no
man ever gets too proud to beg a chew
OF tobacco. -CzeYeJand P3d53deGler.
Office seeking is full of contradictions.
The boys say it's out of place that Sc
many of the obnoxious are still in place.
When all those armor-plated vessels
gather in the presnt naval review it will
be an impressive lesson OF the great hard
ships of the sea-
One sort of importation" at least is
falling off. The number of immigrants
arriving now is only about half as great
as it was a year ago.
Men who so groaning about because they
have been driven to drink, are the very
hardest kind of men to drive away from
it.-Detroit Free Press.
1t may be asserted with confidence
that unless it turns suddenly cold or be
gins showing or sleeting Spring is as
hand.-Ch5cago Record.
The late Kansas Legislature passed an
act extending the time for redemption of
lands sold under foreclosure of mortgages,
and the result will be that her people
can not borrow money on any kind o
security.
Treasurer Hartman commenced
Saturday to pay the pensions for this
year to disabled Virginia veterans Of
the Confederate army. The amount to
be paid out is $50, 900.
Attention is called to the announce
ment of Sergeant Paul Gleason in this
issue. He is a candidate for reelection
Mr.. j. Kenny Brown also states that he
is candidate for Constable. Mr.. Brown
would make d very efficient officer.
The Virginia Court of Appeals has
granted a writ of error il the case Of j.
r. Clarke, convicted of the murder of
Rev. J. r. MofIet recently. A number
of exceptions were made to the ruling
of the lower court, and it is upon these
that the case comes to the Supreme
Court of Appeals. 1t is very likely that it
will be heard during this term of court.
April 8. was the anniversary of the
surrender of General Lee and the rem
nant of his army at APPROXIMATION
Twenty-eight years have now elapsed
since the close of the war. A majority of
the citizens of the United States at this
time were either born since that event
or have come into the country since
then. 1t is not surprising that the per
s0nal rancor engendered by the strife
has largely disappeared. To the major
ity of our people the events Of the war
are now simply facts in history, with
htch, by the way rising generation is
none to familiar
A new Prohibition party, it is said, is
being organized What is the good,
though? The country has had a ProhIb-
ition party for many years, and it has
accomplished nothing. It's growth is so
slow that nothing but a very close COM
rarison between its vote from year to
year will reveal any growth at all. Mel
tiler OF the big parties take any notice
Of it. 1t does not hold the balance Of
power in single Congressional district
anywhere in the country. Even if the
new Prohibition party should supersede
the old one, how is it going to have any
influence in national politics? However,
let the new party movement go on.
The March number of the Manufacture
ers' Record Magazine appears as the
Southern States by which name it will
hereafter, be known. The current num-
Der is devoted principally to Georgia,
the subjects treated relating to that
State being the Agricultural and Geolo-
gical Resources Immigrants Opportuni-
ties. Fruit Culture, Cotton, Schools,
Ira lie and Transportation, Lumber, and
Random Impressions. Numerous illus
trations accompany the articles, which
are unusually well written and conserva-
tive in tone. In addition to the articles
named, the magazine contains a number
OF other carefully prepared articles on
various tropics. Issued by the Manu-
factures' Record Publishing Co., Balti-
more; price Is cents; sample copies free
on application.
The Farmers Convention, held in Lit
tie Rock, Ark, on the 10th of March,
was quite an able and influential gath>
ering of planters. After urging the peo-
pie to reduce the acreage of cotton the
coming season, and to make like in
crease in the acreage of cereals, giving
good reason for such conduct, they ads
dressed a strong memorial to the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, urging that
body to make its contracts for the hand
ling Of cotton commercial transactions,
and not lottery deals, as they now claim
to be. This is a most remarkable ap-
peal, and it is hard to see how this
Southern city can fail to notice and act
upo this wall from the dispirited cotton
planters of the South. Surely they
could not ask for less from an honorable
Exchange, the largest in the Southern
States, than that they should have fair
commercial transactions in the sale and
delivery of their cotton. If it is, as is
suggested in this memorial, q fact that
the present system makes that Exchange
a lottery institution, it should be cons
demned by all commercial bodies in this
country, and, if necessary, suppressed by
the national and State overnments.
Tiesdeath of Jules Ferry closes as pics
turesque and diversified q career as the |
annals of politics in the past quarter of
ce litry have revealed. He held many
posts under the republic, including that |