The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-01-04

The friends of Governor Mckinney
are busily engaged in endeavorlng 10
secure him a seat on the bench OF the
Court Of Appeals.
A Happy New Year to all but the cal
amity howlers, the panicemongers and
obstructionists. For them let there be
weeping and gnashing of theeth as the
world moves on and forgets them.
Mr.. Gladstone is 81 years old to day.
He is in excellent health and was the
recipient OF many congratulations.
When he entered the House of Com
mons to day he received an ovation.
The experience of last year here as in
every other city, shows that the mer-
chants who did the most advertising,
did the most business. Wise men profit
by examples as well as by personal ex-
perience.
Gen. W. A. Quarles, an ex-Confeder
ate Brigadier and a Tennessee politician
and lawyer of some note, died last week
at the residence of his daughter in Logan
county, Ky. His home was in Clarkes>
vile, Tenn.
One of our esteemed contemporaries
says, replying to the fact that public
opinion has been altogether two kind to
Migrants" 1.-The public is not kind to it.
self when it clings to system that pro-
duces Migrants"
1t is all right for men to resolve to live
soberly and chastely. But sober and
chaste men, rare as they are, are still in
complete unless they are aflame with
love for their fellow men. Personal pur.
ity divorced from love is as perfumeless
as frozen lily.
The Chesapeake & Ohio repair shops
iu Huntington, w Va, employing over
six hundred men, have meyer shut down
a day since they were built, about
twenty-five years ago. There are men
employed in these shops who have been
there over twenty years
Buffalo Bill says his income from his
Wild West Show is $500, 900 year. and
that he can't think of giving it up to be
Governor of Nebraska at $4,000 year.
Hon. Mr.. Cody forgets the advertising
that there,,would be in the Governorship.
Why. he could make himself and his
show famous by simply trying to be as
unlike Waite, Lewelling and Pennoyer
as possible.
The pension frauds recently discov-
cred in Baltimore, in which one man
alone was attorney, involve no less than
ten Thousand cases. And yet there are
Democrats in Congress and, what's
worse, Democrats in higher positions.
who say that the payment of suspected
fraudulent pensions should not be sus-
pended during the investigation there
of.
If yellow fever has broken out at Rio
Jeneiro as reported. a terror is added to
the sorely beset capital which is pos
sibly worse than any that have gone
before. The situation there must be
dreadful beyond words. We of this part
of the world think the social condition
is deplorable, but our condition is one
of unalloyed happiness as compared
with that of battle torn and now pest
scored Rio.
The chief body of Southern Presbyte
rians, which is more Calvinistic and less
disturbed by schism or threat of schisn
than the corresponding Northern body
nevertheless grows very slowly. 1t is
strongest in Virginia, North Caroline,
and South Carolina, and weakest in
Louisiana and Florida. The most hope
full sign is that the contribution to
church expenses increases more rapidly
than the membership.-Neao York San
An applicant for charity at Chicago
police statian was taken into the SER
geant's office and searched. Upon his
person was found SIS in money pair Of
brass knuckles, d bulldog revolver, and
a short jimmy. He had applied for g
ticket that would entitle him to free
meals and lodgings. He will get both
but not exactly as he expected. The
discovery of this charity applicants
outfit has set the philanthropists of the
city to asking themselves if it would MOI
he good idea to establish the stocks
and pillory for the accommodation o
such applicants.
Mr.. McKinleys workingnens' tariff be
came operative on November, 1890 an6
four months later the pottery trusts
with headquarters at East Liverpool
Ohio. reduced the wages of the opera
tives in whose behalf the increased tariff
had been imposed. But the pottery
manufacturers disturbed profits amount
ing to 30 per cent. the next year. Pre-
vious to Mckinley tariff increased sub
sidy the average profits to the manufac
turers were % per cent. This is the in
dustry and Liverpool and Trenton arr
the towns now sending monster petition
against the passing of the Wilson bill
The workingmen's tariff, intended TO
the better maintenance of wages, O
course, is very fat thing for the man
ufacturer. Under its delightful opera
ton the manufacturer gets the subsidy
while the wage Garner gets the calam