The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-04

HngerS reel ike usnes t&ii, watch MN iie
won't do to tie to.
"a singh drop Of Rum poured into tum
bier of water, sends all the animalculae to
the bottom" Too many drops poured into
inan produce tie same result.
England produces sea 600 tons of steel
annually. by the expensive Ressemer process
When our great Y alley process. the Sybcrt.
is introduced he will produce 500 100000
EDITORIAL CouaTEsIEs-W are under
many obligations TO cur Lynehburg coiempo
RIGS and to Col Samuel Letcher for the mum
Der of exchange" sent us while rustica5ins
in Rockbridge.
A sensible, but eccentric, Partisan, left
directions that a copy of Que Of the Paris
morning papers be daily placed on his tomb
and paid for. Printers should raise mona
ment to his memory
Hop raising proved SO profitable in Wis
consin, that the price Of hor-po'es has gene
up " RlpO d ttcus-tu Gt dpU't 10 al
item for our farmers t. profit by. 1t is these
seemingly little things that pay best in
the long run.
We have notion, after reading "A
| Heads" article on women in the New Orleans
Crescent. that A. Head, Esq" is no other
than our old friend '.Asa Uartx." or Major
Mcknight. Of the G. S. A., who once wrote
poetry ''to his love- from Johnson's Island
Success to IA Head or A Hartz.' whoever
he may be.
Texas papers announce the death of Maj
James Scott, an old Texan who landed there
IN 1896. He was Lieutenant in Houstens
Army at San Jacinto and afterwards Pay
master Of the Republic. After that he rep
resented the county of Harris in the Legsla-
ture and, wonderful to say, died chris
tiau, loved and respected by all
The Caaesn.' lis the polite name for
French dance lately introduced into the u,
s. Its principle fascination seems to be the
wonderful facility with which half naked
women kick of the mems hats. during the
i dance. The fair ones ''whirl around on one
leg while the other is high in the air, &c.
Moral Boston has the honor Of starting the
first "Cancau School"
Gen. Wade Hampton the spreax Chiva
lier," Of the South. has entered the ranks If
the corps Editorial He is oae IF the Eli
tors Of the Charleston. s c., Mercury. He
will find it harder to form items, thaa Squad
rons, and soon the Devils cry, OF copy,
will strike more terror to the soalF of uanlp-
ton. than cap the substance Of tep thousand
soldiers
The Camanches and Kic.apoos sre com.
uniting depredatons within 20 miles of Sher-
man Texas, on the Northern Frontier, and
kicking up terrible niuss generally Sin
guar to say, We see no accounts of these
''outrases' on Southern whites ia the Raai
cal papers no ordering of troops to the poiat
no sympathy fer the poor people out there
They happen to be Conservative and ,Atse
QUAKER GUas.-Maek. Washington
correspondent of Cincinnati Commercial.
says that the Radicals never intended to
make the pending reconstruction biz law
1t WAS oAly inteuded large J oke to fright
ca the Southern people &c" Ii that is
heir game, they should have rseol!ested that
these same Southern people are 800 old to
be caught by such chat. They had better
try Gen. McClelan-he might be fooled, as
| he Was at Manassas
Naturalized American citizens who want
their rights in foreign lands should thank
| Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gea Kirby
Smith for ''Commissary Bank enthusiasm
in the matter He was deeply impressed by
| these gentlemen with the necessity .'tor pro
lection to farm AID property" when he paid
3 visit to the 9. S. A, and new bis Immortal
name, "Commissary." Ii Banks gains his
point the Naturalized Americans should vote
pension to jackson widow and to Gen.
Smith.
The New York Tribune says: I'VE have
lost the Constitution in Alabama. There is
but one duty. II there are buten loyal men
| in Alabama. who desire to return to the Union
Congress should recognise them, and them
only, as the representatives of the State -
| Fifty tksasand democratic majority. or cop
| perhead, as Mr.. Greeley calls it, decided that
he and his party, was not i'll accord with the
people OF his State. The majority in N. Y.
are as guilty OF differing trom him, aud the
Radicals, as the majority in Alabama. Ii
| ten loyal men in Alabama" should represent
| chat State, why not the hundred thousand
loyal minority in N Y? IT'S cowardIy
10 strike man who is down.
The TRUTn OF H1sToRY--Every day we
get more light on the true histyry Of the late
| war. Poor Wirz wos hung for alleged cruel
" to u S. prisoners at Andersonville, when,
N fact, he was buying corn out of his scanty
pay, to make 'corn beer" for their sick. -
There were hardsh,t,s an, hot,, sid.s hut H.,