Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-04-17
OVERLAPPING THE CHARACTER.

The following IS an extract from an
article headed sPlain and pleasant
talk, in the Indiana Farm err and Gar
dener.
while you are moving about and
repairing holes in the fence, putting
on rails here, stake yonder, rider
on another place, you may inquire Of
yourself whether your character is not
IN some need of repairs' Perhaps you
are very careless and extravagant-the
fence needs rails there; perhaps you
are lazy-in that case the fence cor
ners may be said to be full of brambles
and weeds, and must be cleaned out;
perhaps you are violent, passionate
man-you need stake and rider on
that spot. And, lastly, perhaps you
are. not temperate, if SO, your fence is
all going down and will soon have gaps
enough to let in all the hogs of indo-
lence, vice, and crime and they make
large drove and fallow fast. Now is
good time to plan how to get out of
debt. Don't be ashamed to sa,'e in lit
tie things, nor to earn small gains
'.Many q mickle makes muckle. >
But set it down, to begin with, that no
saving is made by cheating yourself
out of good newspaper. No man
reads good paper year, without sa-
uing by it. Suppose you put in your
wheat little better for something you
see written by good farmer and get
FIVE bushels more to the acre. One
acre pays for years paper. One re-
ceipt, hint which betters any crop,
pays for the paper fourlold. Intelligent
boys work better, plan better, earn and
save better; and reading a good paper
makesthem intelligent. Besides suppose
you took our paper year and found
nothing new during all that time, Gan
incredible supposition, yet every two
weeks we come tojog yoar memory a
bout things which you may forget, but
ought not to forget.
1885,
French Spoliations. The Palladium
has just discovered that Congress has
neglected the honest demand of those
citizens who were sufferers by French
spoliations prior to 1900. After in
cessant effort on the part of its supper
tiers to get proper bill through the
heavy whig majorities Of previous
session, the Palladium is highly indig-
nant that at the short session Of dem
ocratic House only, the matter was
not satisfactorily adjusted! This sud-
den sympathy on the part of the Pa'la-
dunn, is easily seen thr ough, and will
avail nothing. The democrats are as
anxious that this long delayed justice
should be extended to the sufferers, as
any man, or any set ofmen-and will
undoubtedly effect it at the next SEES
sion, when both Houses will be dem
ocratic. The Palladium may keep its
tears bottled for some otheroccasion.-
.Nsw Havea { Conn.,. Register.
Potomac Fisheries. sit is gratifying
TO learn from gentlemen residing in
Alexandria, Georgetown and other
places connected withthe Potomac fish
cries, that this is successful season.
Already the fish wharyes in Alexandra,
Georgetown, and this city are thronged
with fish buyers as well as fish vendors.
On Snnd ay last parcel Of fine shad
sold at Alexandra at $4 so pr hundred.
On the same day shad sold in this city
at SIS per hundred. Yesterday, in
Dur Centre Market, the supple Of sshad
and herring being good, the former sold
at twenty-five cents per pair, the lat
ter at from eight to twelve cents per
unch.-Nat. Hatelligencer. ;