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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-02-19

boarding i'm Philadelphia.
ID Mrs. JANE PARRIS, Of Virginia, has re-
moved to No. 903 Clinton Street, quiet and yet
central locality, running from 9th to 10th and be-
tween Spruce and Pine Streets, where she will
accommodate permanent and transient boarders
with good rooms aad agreeable table fare. La
dies and Gentlemen visiting Philadelphia con de-
pend upon finding the comforts and safety Of
home at moderate charges. Street cars from De-
pots pass the house. june lily
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-02-19
BALTIMORE CARDS.

Vim. Knabe q Co.,
w Manufacturers Of First Premium, Gold
Medal, GraRd, Square and Upright
PIANOS, Baltimore, Md.
These instruments having been before the pub
lie for the past thirty years, have, upon their
cellence alone, attained unpurcAased pre-einence
that pronounces them uneaqualled Their TONE
combines great power, richness, sweetness, and
fine singing quality as well as great purity of in
tonation and harmoniousness throughout the en-
tire scale. Their TOUCH is plant and elastic,
and is entirely free from the stiffness found in so
many pianos, which causes the performer to so
easily tire. In WORKMANSHIP they cannot be
excelled. Their action is constructed with care
and attention toevery part therein that characteri-
yes the finest mechanism. None but the best sea-
soned material is used in their manufacture and
they will accept the hard usages Of the. concert
room with that of the parlor upon an equality
unaffected in their melody; in fact they are con-
structed ssNot for year-but torever.'' All our
Square Pianos have our new Grand Scale and A.
giraffe Treble. Every Piano fully warranted for
5 years.
E. L. Ide, sole agent for Augusta county, is by
special arrangement enabled to furnish the above
Celebrated Instrument at lowest Factory prices
An assortment constantly on hand at his new
Rooms, New Street, opposite Yeakle & Young's
Drug Store in Phillips & CARRIERS Insurance Of
fee. feb 27-1y
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HAVE just received another supply of Knabe's
Il & Co., magnificent Pianos. which offer for
sale ct Baltimore prices, giving the purchasers
the benefit of the freight. have also on hand
second hand Pianos and can furnish Cowhart s
Needham's elegant Parlor Organs at Factory
prices. E. l.. IDA.
july 24-tf
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r. J. ARCHER. ". 8. ARCHER.
ID y. Archer q Som,
i Commission and Forwarding
Merchants,
No. 110s Cary, between 18th and 18th Streets
Special attention paid to the sale of Wheat,
Corn, Flour and Tobacco. Liberal advances made
on produce in hand.
REFERENcEs Col. 7. J. Randolph and W. II.
Southall ESQ.,, Albemarle county, Chas. s. Gray,
ESQ.,, Rockingham. august 14-1y*
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CLOVER SEED

4 IN BUSHELS PRIME WESTERN CLOVER
LOU SEED on hand and for sale by
HooE and WEDDERBuRH,
feb Ppm Alexandria, Va
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GROUND PLASTER.
WE are prepared to furnish FRESH AND
w FINELY GROUND PLASTER in Bulk,
Bags and Barrels at LOWEST rates.
Ho0R and WEDDRRBURN,
feb Ppm Alexandria, Va.
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Charles w. Green,

ALEXANDKIA, VA.
Wholesale Dealer in Fancy and White Goods,
Ladies and Gents Furnishing goods. Wholesale
prices in every respect as low as Baltimore quo
tations. Agent for Wheeler 8 Wilson's Sewing
Machines sept lily
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-03
SMALL MATTERS.

Tl,are are many otherwise good farmers
who are entirely regardless Of little fixtures,
and who devote all their time to the larger
matters. Now We hold that while the latter
sbouId bv all means bemade the objects of at
tention. the former should on no account be
neglected and it is as much the part of a
thorough good farmer to see to the one as to
the other. We enjoy visiting farm where
this attention to little matters, this time spent
in fixing up, % is everywhere noticeable and
in complete keeping with the nore weighty
matters, We like to seeyour well built gates
instead of bars, barn-doors on rollers instead
of hinges, and fodder racks for sheep instead
of feeding them upon the ground or floor.
We ike 10 see all doors to outbuildings provi-
ded with basps. for both fastening them upon
the inside If necessary, and also for securing
them back. when open, from the action of the
wind: to see gate to shut across barn door
IN keen ont cattle or sheep when the door is
open: to find IN connection with every barn
or stable, q closet for harnesses or carriage
robes, as we'll as a tool-room for the storage
Of the larger farm tools and implements; to
find hooks for hanging up odd pieces OF rope,
chains. shoyels and the like, and nails for
hanging up the smaller tools and utensils
used upon the farm, as well as boxes for the
receution of old iron and every sort of waste;
and workbench aud tools for making and
repairing all kinds Of farm implements. If
in examining the buildings upon a farm we
find the latter, We are also generally sure to
find all the other conveuiences suggested
above, as well as many others it is not neces'
sary to enumerate. And one hardly knows,
without having tried 1t, how much the farmer
can accomplish during the spare hours in the
way Of fixing up lis buildings with these
handy accompanimeuts, nor how much they
add to the actual value of the farm, not only
for himself in performing the necessary work
upon it, bat in the estimation OF any one
wishing to purchase a farm Attention to
these little matters marks the really economi-
cal, successful farmer.
We recently passed the residence of a man,
who would be indignant did we not class him
among the best farmers in the town where he
resides, whose oXcart was standing by the
roadside, where 1t was last used, and part
of whose harrow was visible from beneath a
snowdrit in an adjoining field. They viii
be ready when wanted in the spring, but we
fear the example Of the farmer in this matter
viii be hard to be counteracted by his more
commcndable qualities: and the contrast be-
tween him and the farmer who has all his tools
and implements well housed in his outbuild-
ings or barn cellar IS too striking to need fur
ther iIlustraGon.-lNa FGrmsr.
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THE LESSON OF THE YEAR.


IC anything be wanted to teach people how
cold kills plants, the past winter affords the
material. 1t was at one time supposed that
frost destroyed plants by rupturing the sap
vessels. The cells we're believed to expand
and burst by frozen sap. Tt was known that
bottle Of water would burst in this way
and why should not a plant cell? The plant
was killed, and the bottle destroyed; what
more natural than to suppose the process
identical?
Some years ago, the writer Of this attempt
ed to show the fallacy Of such theory. In
Hoery's Magazine Of that time, some Of our
best horiculturists argued the point. We
endeavoTed to satisfy our friends that, when
evaporation went on G,sJer than the roots
could supply moisture, the plant had to die
No theory of cell bursting was necessary.
Evaporation is excessive in cold weather
When there IS not enough moisture to ell the
cells-when it goes out faster than it comes
in--they die; not by bursting, but by shrink.
ing away. A recognition of this fact viii save
many 6 tender tree; and review Of the past
winters loses must convince any one that
such is the fact.
Ne have not had an extraordinary low
temperature, yet plants never suffered so.
Butwe had higher wind coupled with a
low temperature, than ever knew before.
The exhaustive strain on the eYaporatiye
powers of plant in the high wind, even in
a atemperate atmosphere, is enormous. How
much greater must it be in very cold me-
dium?
Thus we see that wherever there is a shell.
ter from wind, the tender plant escapes; but
set even the. hardest where the wind can
concentrate all its power against it: set for in
stance, an Oriental, or Norway Spruce on a
bank near house where the winds can
sweep around it, and It will "go'' equally
with tho tenderest
How strange it is that men cannot learn
rom these facts People have yet such re-
lls'oOs Feuegation for the thermometer as
'neil iAiaAiole guide in this matter, that it
seems q sac''iege in any one to suggest any
llihg better English papers. and some Of
our own, are filed with c,u,,,..;.,,,. ,r ~,
.E,~,,,-. "'.A comparisons OF the
thermometer and the deaths, as if this was
Iae az IN al Of Horticultural knowledge.
gar readers We hope fully understand tba.
win 'hls the Hygrometer aud the Dynamic
Iofce oi the winds are quite as importapt to
study and IN the absence of any good instru.
laeh's IKE the Thermometer to assist US, We
ei'a only say that he who is wise. will shelte,
his barns, his houses, his eattle, his orchards
his rare plants, trees and flowers. Plan
trees, fast growing, hardy trees,-eyeFy
where around from whence a cold dry win
may blow, and you win be astonished to fn
that although your Thermometer may sink t
Unheard of figures, your plants are not nea
as much hurt as those Of him who still cling
10 tho old notion that frost bursts the sap YES
sells ana there is no help for it. Drynesa
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farm. @agAenA aloaaeholtl.
now E.nnrR MAY LoosE MoNEY
!. - : rnod home paper.

Rv not taking good home paper.
- ,o account OF home operations.
30 1o attention to the maxim;-'A A
s.ircb in time saves nine, = in regard to the
s,,,;,o oferain and planting seed at the prop
Tsayinr reaper, pIows, cultiTators, etc,
uncovered from the rain and heat OF the sun.
More money is lost in this way than most
people are willing to believe.
Permitting broken instruments to be scat
tered over the farm until they are iFrepairable
Bv repairing broken instruments at the prop
er time many dollars may be saved, proof
of the assertion that ''time IS money"
Attending the auction sales, and purehas-
ina all kinds of trumpery because, in the
words Of the vender, the articles are very
cheap" :,
Allowing fences to remain unrepaired until
stranee.cattie are fogndgrazing IN the meadow
grain field, or bruising the fruit trees
DisbeIeving the principle Of q rotation ol
crops before making single experiment
Planting fruit trees with the expectation OF
having frpit. without giving the trees half the
attention required to make them profitable.
Praeticing economy by dePri7ing stock OF
proper shelter during the winter, and giving
them unsound food, such as half rotten and
mould hay and fodder.
Keeping an innumerable tribe Of rats on
the premises, and two or three lazy dogs that
eat M more in q month than they are worth
IN a whole life time.
Aud lastly, he loses by not reading the
advertisements Of those who patronize th'
nripter. they being invariably the most enter
nrising and liberal houses to deal with when
he goes to town,
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Hoping to meet the patronage Of the public, he
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9ouks.
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H III Ia j n q u i IL h R
A.
B o O X S L O R II
opposite the Mengel House.
BEDFORD. pa,
The proprietors take pleasure in Offering to the
r,,hlie the foIleOripe, articles beionpino n she
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HOOP SKIRTS.


goo HOOP SKIRTS GOO
WIN. T. HOPKINS GOWN MAKE" or
KEYSTONE SKIRTS,
are the best and Cheapest Low Priced Hoop skirts
in the market. Trail Skirts 25 springs, Sl.00; 3
springs, Sl.20; and 30 springs SI45. Plain Skirts,
tapes, % springs, so cents 25 springs, 95 cents;
so springs, $l.I5; and 35 springs, SIPS. Warran-
ted IT every respect.
"our own Make" of "UNIoN SKIRTS"
Eleven Tape Trails, from 20 to so springs. S1.20
to $3.50. Plain, Six Tapes, 20 to 80 springs from
95 cents to $500. These skirts are better than
those sold by other establishments as first class
goods, and at much lower prices.
"0ur OWN Make of CHAMPION SKIRTS
are in every way superior TO all other Hoop Skirt
before the public, and only have to be examined
OF worn to convince every one of the fact. Man
ufactured Of the best linen finished English Steel
Springs, very superior tapes, and the style of the
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surpass for durability and excellence any other
Skirt in this country, and lighter, elastic
viii wear longer, give more satisfaction and are
really cheaper than all others. Every lady should
try them They are being sold extensively by
Merchants throughout this and the adjoining
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you do not find them, get the merchant with whom
you deal 20 order them for you, send
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grades Of Skirts exactly what they need, and we
especially invite them to call and examine our
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List.
To be had at Retail at Mandatory, and of the
Retrail trade generally, and at Wholesale of the
Manufacturer only, TO whom all orders should be
addressed.
Mandatory and SalesroqH, 62S Arch street,
between 9th and 7th Sts., Philadelphia.
March2O:IOm WM. T. HOPKINS.
rr-ry,r 49, -. rnonxrt
w $4,000 lbs. WOOL WANTED
The undersigned having leased the large new
Wooden Factory erected recently at Waterside,
for a number of years, respectfully informs the
old customers Of the Factory and the public gen
eratlv that will need at least the above amount of
wool. They have on hand large lot of cloths,
Cassimeres, Tweeds, Sattinetts, Jeans, Blankets,
Coyerlets, FGnnels, &c, which they will ex-
change for wool as has been the custom hereto
fore, Carpets will be made to order at all times,
Stocking yarn Of all kinds always on hand. Our
pedler VIM. II. Ralston, will call on all the old
customers and the public generally in due time
for the purpose Of exchanging goods for wool.
The highest market price viii be paid for wool
in cash. n b. Wool earding, spinning and
country Fulling win be done in the best manner
at short notice. JOHN 1. NOBLE & BRO.
mayl 5:3m.
/ GLoBE FACTORY.--The subscriber takes
VI pleasure in informing his friends that he is
prepared to do
CARDING, SPINNING, PULLING, DYING,
&C., and though he intends erecting
ANEW FACTORY THIS SUMNER,
it viii not interfere with the
RUNNING OF THE OLD ONE.
His numerous customers win find him ever
READY TO ACCOMMODATES THEM.
lmay'Sm JOHN KEAGY,
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BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, &C.

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Small Bibles,
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Methodist Hymn Books,
Smiths Dictionary of the Bible,
History Of the Books Of the Bible;
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lEzs- =! Beware J.! of all Worthless limitations.
gzs-N None Genuine without "Costar's" Signature.
lzs9-25e and soc sizes kept by all Druggists.
Es5s-Sl-00 sizes sent by mail on receipt Of price.
zzs5-S2-e0 pays for any three Sl.00 sizes by Ex-
press.
ga-$5.O0 psys for eight sI.oO sizes by Express,
Address
HENRY R. COSTAR,
4S2 Broadway, N. 7.
Fer sale BY HEcKERMAN & son, and by
DR.. B. T. HARRY, Bedford.
Sold by 81 Wholesale Druggists in PHILA-
DELPHIA, Pa, and in all the large cities
fsbl4
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an especial weakness Of our climates and as
antaeonistio to this, the watch~ord of every
progressive Horticulturist should be shelter,
shelter, shelter.