The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-03


If you wish anything,
Tell 5000 people at once, and more especi-
| ally, if you want to get rich, advertise in the
"VALLEY VIRGINIAN."
Six thousand bold Fenian boys met in con-
| yention in San Francisco.
The condition of the harvest throughout
France is regarded as satisfactory.
The country will soon be suffering the com
| bined infection of Congress and the dog day.
| The copper product of the world is 10000
| a year, 48, coo tons of which is produced in
| Chilli
Papier mache is now used for molds for SUI
gar refining; also in making casts for stcrco-
tipping.
In Cincinnati challenges to mortal combat
are published as regular newspaper advetlse-
menis.
Nothing can quench the fire that sin hath
kindled but the water which repentance hath
caused.
Prayer tranquilizes and cleanses the soul,
so as to render it more fit for the reception of
Gods gifts.
The grasshoppers have stripped hundred
| miles of country in Missouri and still hopping
anu hungry.
Another case of inhuman child-whipping
has occurred in one of the schools in Spring
field, Mass.
Half the American exhibitors at the French
Exposition have been awarded prizes more or
less valuable.
At white heat all magnetism disappears 1,
it is still sensible, in iran when heated to q
dark red glow.
The grain crops in South Carolina are re-
ported to be so large that there is difficulty
in harvesting them.
The Union Pacific railroad is now open to
Julesburg, three hundred and seyenty-six
miles west of Omaha.
Five negroes, charged with numbering a
gentleman of Warwick county, Va, have been
sentenced to be hanged.
Whatever you wish your children to be, be
that yourself This is the secret Of all gov
ornment and of education.
1t has been estimated that ton and half
of water falling one foot per minute, will
grind and dress a bushel of wheat per hour
The divisibility of copper is so great that a
grain of it dissolved in an alkali will give a
sensible color to 500, OC0 times its weight in
water.
.sSolon compared the people unto the sea-
and orators to the winds, for that the sea
would be calm and quiet if the winds did not
trouble it."
A man named Chowdis ran off with the wife
of another named Lewis, of Richmond, and
was arrested Upon giving up the woman he
was released.
A lady in Boone, Mo-, recently gave birth
| to four Toys at once Her husband bore up
manfully for some time, but last week COM
| mitted suicide.
The anniversary of the martyrdom of St.
Peter will be celebrated at Rome this year
with a grandeur of display never surpassed in
| the Eternal city.
The examination Of James Jeter Phillips,
charged with numbering his wife some months
| since near Richmond, resulted in the accused
| being sent on for trial, and bail refused.
| Delmonico, who addresses the palate of New
York, returns an income Of $206,504. DR..
| Bushnell, who addresses the intellect of the
country, returned an income of $400.
We find it stated that the bones of old.ers,
horses, and cattle killed at Bull Run, are be-
ing gathered by the owners of the soil and
shipped to Baltimore, where they are ground
into fertilizers.
| That is not the best sermon which makes
the hearers go away talking to one another,
and praising the speaker, but which makes
them go away thoughtful and serious, and
Fastening to be alone.-Bishop Barnet.
A good editor seldom writes much for his
paper he reads, judges, SELECTS, dictates, al
| ters and combines, and to do all this we'll he
has but little time for composition. To write
for paper in one thing, to edit paper is an
/ other.
Among the cooperative movements an
nounced from New York is the formation Of !;
CO operative importing dry goods house, il
which managers and clerks will have share
| of the profits, and country merchants are ex-
| pscted to be stockholders.
If you desire to be truly valiant, fear to dc
an injury; he that fears not to do evil is al
wavs afraid to suffer evil he that never fear!
is desperate; and he that fears always is {
coward he is the true valiant man that dares
nothing but what he may.-Quarles.
A wise man sought to explain to his little
| chill the nature of o cross. He took two
slips of wood, q long and short one.-ssSec
my child" he said, 'sthe long piece is the viii
Of God, the short piece is your will; lay you,
will in line with the will Of God, and yo,
have no cross lay it athwart, and you max
a cross directly"
General Sheridan in answer to a telegram
from President johnson, Transmitted through
the War department, directing Sheridan to
extend the time for registration in Louisiana
objects to doing so, but says, if again notified
TO obey instructions, although differing will
the President, whom he charges with bite
antagonism, he will submit.
General Longstreet, it is said, was totall.
unprepared for the storm his letter in favo
of the Radical policy has created in the South
ern journals We are now told that he ha
no intention of allying himself with the Rad
ical party, but simply spoke Of the polio
which he thnught best and most likely to Sc
cure an early reconstruction of the country
The papers in Louisiana and Mississippi
speak with great cheerfulness of the benefit
which the crops are deriving from the pres
ent fine weather. The conduct of freedme
on the plantations is highly commended
Corn, in which an unusually large breadth {
land has been planted, is very promising
As to cotton, there is every reason to be hope
full; but its growth depends upon too man
: contingencies to authorize confident prelic