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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
LAND SALES IN THE VALLEY.

On the 25th ult. the Nice lintick farm,
637 IL acres, improvements good, in
Guiding fine merchants mill, WIS sold
by commissioners to Henry Haws-
brough, of Botetourt, for $10,610, equiv
alent to cash. This farm lies on the
main Valley rotd, midway between
Lexington and Buchanan. 1t is con-
sidered a cheap sale.
Gilmer's mill on James river, Rock
bridge county, one mile from Natural
Bridge, was sold to James NJ. Spiller,
for IS 200, cheap.
The farm of Mr.. j. i. Craighill, of
Jefferson county, near Summit Point,
containing two hundred and forty-sev-
en- acres, to Mr.. Frederick Shoop of
Lebanon county, Pa, at $66,75 per
acre. Mr.. Craighill purchased This land
two years ago at public sale at s33 20
per acre
Also sold within the past few days
1888 acres of mountain lane in Jefferfen
county. belonging to Bennett Wright,
to Lewis Judd of Connecticut for $500.
Major Jed Hotchkiss sold a lot near
the Depot. l-2 of an acre, to z. b. 81 c..
E. Hoge, for $500, cash. This is the
third warehouse goingup, and the third
lot sold there this spring.
VIM. BKnight has sold to Penn
sylvanian purchaser, his farm of six
hundred acres, five miles from Winehes-
ter, for 100000. The land is partly
slate, but as whole very desirable.
j. b. Johnson has sold his farm in
Giles county ,(226acres) to Mr.. Sinclair,
OF Pulaski, for 81, $780, Valley Virgiraian.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
AN oLD-FAsHIoNED INDIAN STORY.

a Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says:
"About six months ago, in dead Win
ter, the Kiowa tribe of Indians, then a
hostile band in Texas, made prisoners
of family of white settlers, consisting
of six persons, in Cook county, of that
State, and carried them into captivity.
Before they reached their camping
grounds they killed four of the number
the father, mother, uncle, and babe.
The other two, who were lit.le girls.
aged respectively four and six years,
they kept us captlves. Several weeks
ago Colonel Leavenworth, the Govern
ment agent tor this tribe ofIndians, had
occasion to visit their camping-ground.
and there found these little children
prisoners. lie compelled their release,
and has brought them to Washington.
He had them at the capitol to-day, and
says that as they are in the world alone,
without a relative, he proposes that
Congress deduct $4,000 from the am
nutics of the kiowas to raise and edn-
cate them. The Indian appropriation
is under consideration in the Senate, and
a sufficient sum will undoubtedly be set
aside for such an object"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.


We commend to the notice of the Edi-
tor of the Richmond Wing, who is la
boring SO ably and increasingly TO pro-
mote the material welfare OF the State,
u valuable paper on Technical and Sci
ent.fic Education which will be found
il the last (ApriD number of the E0in-
burgh Review. 1t seems that the sys-
TENS of physical instruction ccntempla-
ted at the University of Virginia and
at Washington College, will not suffice
entirely. Education must go lower
down-into the workshops and among
the working men. The Wing has space,
and can quote freely from the article
in the Edinburgh Review. 1t occurred
to us, after reading that article, that
some modification of WIN. NJ. BuRwELL g
projected Polytechnic School IN Rich
mond would be the thing. Why may
not the Mechanics Institute, the Tired
egar Works and other great machine
shops unite in establishing Technical
School? 1t is high time a beginning
were made.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
FROM THE BOSTON COUNTER.

The Courier is a steady, sensible pa
per, and witty withal. We scarcely
know better weekly. 1t gets off some
good things in every issue, par eremple.
Butler was not invited to the recent
wedding of Senator Henderson of Mis-
souri,, because many valuable presents
were exposed to view.
The black sfellow citizens'' of the
South are pretty subjects for taxation,
and will be likely to do heavy stroke
i'll paying the national debt. They will
prove regular. boomerang to theif rad
ical Congressional entranchisers.
The country will hail with joy the de-
termination of the Democratic party
to smash that electioneering machine,
the Freedmen's Bureau, and to reduce
the army, navy and all other instrumen-
talities designed to put the ignorant
negro over the white man.
There are now Al, 600 officials required
by the executive department alone to
execute the acts OF Congress, whose
aggregate salaries amount to over thir-
ty-one million dollars-these officials
being paid from 81, 900 to $4,000 year
each. The entire expenses of the Off
Gals who performed similar duties in
the last year of President Buchanan IS
administration amounted to only five
million dollars.
Some of our Hotels are so large, that
it is supposed that the remains of many
persons advertised as 'smissing,' will
yet be discovered in remote rooms,
where they persisted miserably, beyond
the reach and sy mpathies OF their fellow
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
POLITICS AND FINANCES,

IN the debate in the house of Repre-
sentatives, yesterday, on financial SUBJ
jects, Mr.. Thaddcus Stevens said he
thought it the duty of the Government,
with the accommodating gold, to expend
one half of it in redeeming the five
twenties in advance of their falling due.
After they fell due no one could object
to their redemption. He had under
stood the gentleman from Illinois Mr..
RossI to say that the bonds should be
paid according to the New York plat
form. What was shat platform
Mr.. Ross TO pay the five twenties in
lawful money
Mr.. Stevens. What do you call 'law-
ful money p
Mr.. Ross. reenbacks. That is your
doctrine and mine, you know. laugh
ter
Mr.. Stevens. hold to the Chicago
platform, and as understand it on the
point, 20 the New York platform, that
those bonds should be paid just accord
ing to the original contract.
A Member. The law.
Mr.. Stevens. According to law
Mr.. Pike. The spirit and letter of the
contract.
Mr.. Stevens. What was that law
That interest should be paid up to a
certain time at G per cent in coin. Af-
ter the bonds fell due they would be
payable in money, IN money just as the
gentleman from Illinois tMr. Rossl I'M
derstood it just as he [Mr. Stevensl
understood it just as all understood II
when the law was enacted /; inst as 1t
was explained on the floor dozen times
blythe Chairman of The Committee OF
Ways and Means. If he knew any par
ty in the country would go for paying
in coin that which was payable in mon
ey, thus exchanging the debt one-half)
If he knew there was such . party and
such platform, and such determina-
ton on the part of his own party he
would with Frank Blair and all vote
for the other party He would vote for
no such swindle on the taxpayers of the
country. lie would vote for no such
speculation in favor of the large bond
holders and millionaires. He repeated
Though it was hard to say it) that il
even Frank Blair stood on the platform
OF paying according to the contract, and
if tie Republican candidate stood on
the platform efpaying bloated specula.
tors twice the amount agreed to pay
them, and oftaxi2g the constituents to
do so, he would vote for Frank Blair
even ifa worse man than Seymour head
ed the ticket. Much excitement and
sensation
Mr.. Ross. The democratic doors are
now open, and the gentleman can be ia
ken in [laughter.]
As for taking in Mr.. Stevens, we
presume Mr.. Ross, speaks for himself
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
SUMMER COMPLAINTS.


This, of all other seasons of the year,
demands carefulness in Diet. Bowel
diseases are alafnlngly prevalent, espe-
cially amongst children. This to a very
great extent, is the fault of parents;
they are too apt to indulge their chill
dren with food and drink which had far
better, be withheld from them. The
simplest food possible is best for them
rice, milk, ripe fruits and light food
generally is to be preferred. Pork and
veal should be avoided, as we'll as inn
perfectly matured potatoes, and partic-
ularly the unripe. aud diseased apples.
peaches and pears. which are beginning
to make their appearance in our mar.
kets. A little extra care in regard to
diet,proper attention to cleanliness, and
their avoidance of exposure to drafts of
air. will. in she majority ofcases, prove
a preventive OF the summer complaints
to which children are so subject.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
THUS FAR, NO FARTHER.

The sEngincer" states some disheart-
ening facts about "progress''-blessed
be its name We have reached the
length of our tether in regard to great
Inventions. Walls of adamant stand
between us and further progress in GER
tain directions on the great highways
ofseience. Discoveries out of the realms
os pure science must be excessively
rare. Really great inventions-great as
meanso of promoting the happiness and
well-being of mankind-must be still
rarer.
For fifty years men have labored to
produce motor better and more econ
omical than steam, and they have ut
terly failed. This is as nothing COM
pared to what lies behind. The more
we learn of the laws of nature, the more
evident does it become that no better
motor than steam will ever be discover
ed. We now know that nothing is to
be hoped from electromagnetic as a
motive power.
We canEot drive ship at thirty miles
an hour through the ocean, nor is there
reason to believe we ever can. The
resistance increases UP to certain ve-
iocity as the cube to the speed; beyond
that point, in still more rapid ratio,
not yet determined. No combination
of wood or iron could sustain the strain
necessary to carry ship across the At
lantic in three or four days.
IHrailway work, again, the progress
made during the past fourth of a centn-
ry has been really very small. AT first,
ten miles an hour was thought impos-
sible; thirty miles were reached, and
the popular opinion flew over to the
other extreme-why not travel at q
hundred miles an hour? Obstacles all
but insuperable stand in the way. land
we are as far from travelling at. the
proposed rate now as when STEPHENSON
WIS born.
Here is sorry outlook for Mr.. YAM
kee. Ii the earth cannot be turned in
to heaven by shoe-peg factories, free
schools, return-balls, abolition societies
and excelsior drill chueks, what then?
The answer is not easy. Perhaps some
thing may be effected by ceasing 70
cheat, learning to tell the truth, and
massacreing without exception all po-
Iitical preachers.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.

The Secretary of War has inaugural
ed new policy regarding Southern
railroads. Miny OF these have been in
debtcd to the Government for q long
time on account of material purchased
at the the close of the war, and several
of them, though able, have neglected to
make payments. In all such cases 1t is
in contemplation to appoint Govern
ment receivers to take full possession
of such roads, and control and operate
them till the debt is paid. Several
roads have already been taken possess
sion of in this manner, which Is in ac-
cordance with the terms OF the contracts
entered into whln the government ma
terial was purchased. Those roads
which are really unable to pay, will be
as lenientIy dealt with as justice to the
Government will allow.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
A CURIOUS SIGHT.

Yesterday a curious sight was wit
messed in the canal. From early morn
until n:ghtfall dead fish, turtles, frogs
and cells were floating down, and the
water changed to beautiful green, and
became so clear that the bottom could
be seen without difficulty. 1t has been
estimated that twenty or thirty thou
sand fish must have so floated down
during the day. The real cause of this
wholesale slaughter is as yet unknown.
Some assert that it was caused by the
sinking of canal boat loaded with
lime; others that sulphur spring above
Clark's Ferry suddenly burst yester-
day morning, and others again they
we're affected by coal oil refuse from a
refinery near notwithstanding
Guard
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
WEST VIRGINIA NOMINEES.

The Democrats of West Virginia held
their State Convention on the 16th.-
More than ten thousand persons were
in attendance, excursion trains being
run over the various railroads. Mr..
Geo. II. Pendleton and Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, and others, addressed the
assemblage. The following nominal
tions were made:
For Governor, J. N. Camden, of
Wood county.
For Auditor of State, Daniel MAYER.
For Acknowledgement, Captain Will
ley.
For Judge of the Supreme Court,
Matthew Edmison.
Resolutions endorsing the nomina-
tions and platform OF the New York
Convention, and demanding the repeal
of the registry law in force in that State,
were unanimously and enthusiastically
adopted.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Postmasters are required to give notice by
letter when n subscriber does not take his
paper from the office; and give the reason
for its not being taken. Negleeting TO do SO
makes the postmaster responsible to the pub
..sher for the payment.
Any person who takes o paper regularly
from the postoffice, whether he has subscribe
ed or not is responsible for the payment of
the subscription.
IA person ordering his paper discontinued
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may
continue TO send 1t until payment Is made,
and collect the whole amount, whether 1t is
taken from the office or not.
The courts have decided that refusing to
take paper and periodical from the post
office, or removing and leaving them uncall-
ed for, is primo faeie evidence of Intentional
fraud,
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
PASSAGE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
BILL.

This bill which in substa ice deprives
every Southern State of the right to
vote for Pres ident that does not vote for
the radical candidate was passed over
the Presidents veto by an overwhelm-
ing majority of the fanatics in both
houses Of Congress. The carpet-bag
and scallawag members from the So
called RECONSTRUCTED Statesn voted of
course with the majority. To haye vo-
ted otherwise would have led to their
prompt expulsion.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
NEW SPRING GOODS.
EXCHANGE HOTEL.

ORANGE COURT HOUSE VA.
THE undersigned respectf lily an
n nounces to his friends and the public,
that he has just opened the above Hotel, (re-
Gently thoroughly repaired and refitted, }
stocked it with new furniture, and is pre-
pared to furnish as comfortable accommo-
dations as can be had In the country.
Summer boardersA will find this one of the
most desirable locations as to health, society
and beauty of scenery, in Virginia.
SN0WDEN YATES, Proprietor.
Nav IShQ
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P. II. FRY, Clerk.


ORANGE c. H., July, 1868.
. The parties interested in the foregoing de
Tuesday, 18th August. next, at my Office as
the timefor executing the above decree, and
all persons having claims against the estate
OF robert r. Cave, deceased, are hereby re-
CURED, then and there, to produce the same
before me with proofs.
WIN. q. WILLIAMS, Commissioners.
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IN CHANCERY.
p. II. FRY, Clerk.
ORANGE 6H.. Lnly Is. 1sGs.

ORANGE q H., July Is, 1865.
All persons interested in the above decree
are hereby notified that have fixed on Wed.
nesday, August 10Th next, as the time to eX-
ecute the same; and all persons having de-
mandss against the estate of Ann Stubble-
Held, deceased, are required then to produce
the Same before me with their proofs.
JOHN M. CHAPMAN, Commissioner
July 81, 1865
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
C0MMTSSI0NER,S N0TTCE
n Orange, Circuit Court, May 2, 1868
Il Robert Coleman,

Il Robert Coleman,
AGAINST
Ann Young, Administratrix.of Chas Young,
deceased, and Others %
IN CIIANCERY.
:. In this case, it was ordered that this cause
he referred to a Commissioner of the Court ;
LIST, To state, settle and report the Admins
tration account of thedefendant, Ann Young.
znd, en account OF all demands, with their
priorities, against the estate of Cbas. Young
deceased. 3rd an account of the fee ST Al ne
and annual value of the real estate of which
gharles Young died entitled to and the said
Commissioners was ordered to give notice to
the parties and the creditors OF said estate.
or the time and place of taking these ac,
counts, by publication for four successive
weeks In the Native Virginian," calling on
the creditors of decedent to prove their
claims before him on aday to be named and
warming them, if they ia | TO do so. they will
sets. Teste. s 90
p TT ERY fslarlr
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24

iP A banquet in honor of Mr.. Rev.
ertly johnson was given in Annapolis
yesterday. In reply to u toast, Mr.. j
made a speech full of interesting recol-
lections concerning the former times
aid men of his native city,
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
HONEY !! MONEY !! MONEY!

WHAT is it that money won't buy?
" Why, it is a good picture of friend
who y dead and gone, which shows at once
that there is nothing more valuable or riz--
ed higher than good picture. I respectful
~ announce to the citizens of Orange and
the adjoining counties that / have establish
ed Gallery at Gordonsville, and am pre-
pared to take
PHOTOGRAPHS, AMBR0TYPES,
Ferreotypes, Porcelain Pictures &C., in the
latest and most approved styles.
Photographs, SO per dozen; Ferreotypes
81 per dozen. All in want of a good picture
would do well to give me q call.
II. T. MCCORMICK, Artist.
Gordonsville, July II, 1888.
WOOL WANTED.-} wish to pur-
w chase any quantity of fine and common
Wool, washed or unwashed, for which will
pay the highest cash price, Il delivered at any
Station on the Railroad. =
May To- 1868. l.. W. KINCHELOE.
SUMAC.-I will pay the highest price
~ in goods or money for any quantity of
Sumae. L. w, kINCHELOE
July II, 1868.
REESWAX /! BEESWAX!! Tho
~ subscriber will pay cash for any quanti-
ty of Beeswax. Z. w. KINCHEIOE,
July II, 1865. 5s#t
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
COWMTSsT0YER,S N0TICE

7N'f0 y WI U M Y Is IoUO,
a Lindsay w. Cave and George S. Newman.
Executors of Robert p. Cave, deceased,
AGAINST
Reuben l.. Cave, Robert G. Cave and others.
IN CHANCERY.
1t was decreed that this cause stand refer
fedlto one OF the Commissie ders of this Court;
LIST, to state, settle and report the Admins
ttration account of the plaintiffs, as Execu-
tors OF Robert p. Cave. End. an acco MT of
all demands, with their priorities. against
the estate of said decent. Bird an account be.
tween the Executors and each of the lega-
tees under the will Of Robert Z. Gave, de-
ceased and the said Commissioner was di-
rected to give notice to the parties and the
creditors OF said estate, OF the time and place
four four successive weeks in the Native Vir-
gilman, calling on the creditors of decent to
be proved their claims before him on a Law
70 De named, and warning them If they fail
to do So they will be excluded from ali par
ticipation in the assets.
TeSte,
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v VIRGINIA..


A L Rules held In the Clerks Office of
"A of the Circuit Court of Orange County,
on the first Monday in July, 1868,
James J. Powell, as the Administrator de bo-
mis- non of Josiah Kendall, eceased-Plain-
tiff,
AGAINST
William w Kendall, John Kendall, Mar
tina A Kendall, Emily b Kendall, Mary NJ
Kendall, II G Bell. Administrators of Robt
Kendall, deceased, James Roach, Sheriff
Committee Administrator of Ruthy Ke.l-
dali, deceased, Louisa Luck and George
Luck her husband, and John King as the
Administrator, re-, of William Brocklnan
deceased, and all others claiming to be
creditors ofJoshua Kendall, deceased
IN CHANCERY.
The object of this suit is to require the dis
tributes and creditors of Joshua KendalPs
estate to interplead, so that Thereby the
Court may determine II the sum of $500, now
in the Plaintiffs hands, be assets or not of
said estate; and by affidavit filed it appears
that the Defendants, Louisa Luck and Geo
Luck her husband, are non-residents of this
State; therefore, it is ordered that they ap-
pear here within one month after due plbii-
cation of this order, and do what is necessary
to protect their interest in the premises.
A Copy-Teste,
July "a lS62-NN w RuPnEss u n
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p. II. FRY, Clerk.
ORANGE c. H. InIv Ii 1863

ORANGE C. H., July Is, 1868.
The persons interested in the foregoing de-
cree are hereby notified that have Il xed on
Monday, the 18th day of August next. at my
Office, as the time for executing the above de-
cree, and all persons having claims against
tne estate. OF Charles Young, deceased, are
same before me with proofs
WIN. G. WILLIAMS, Commissioner
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24
pLANcHETTE,


The Scientific American gives a cut
of this new, so-called spiritltalistic toy,
describes its curious performances, and,
without giving any opinion pro or con,
urges the accumulation of more data,
believing that the key to the class of
phenomena to which it belongs may be
discovered in investigating the cause of
its movements.
These phenomena are described by
the Scientific American as peculiar
class which have manifested themselves
within the last quarter of a century,
and which seem toindicate that the hui
man body may become the medium for
the transmission of force to inert and
dead matter, either in obedience to the
will of others, or by the action of the
nervous power upon the muscular sys-
TEN, in such way that those through
whom or from whom it emanates, are
totally unconscious of any exercise Of
volition, or ofany muscular movement,
as acts of their own wills.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24

MASONIC.--A stated commu-
11 dlication of Independent Orange O
Lodge, No. l3s, will be held in theirNfN
Hall, ON Tuesday evening, July Is, A. ~
I. 5s5S, A. ID. lstjS, for dispatch ofbusiness,
II o'clock ~ ~
BY order of the w. NJ.
July "a, 1868. 'e
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24

Augustus Parker of Robbery, Mass.
has picked and sold forty eight hundred
of strawberries in ten days at 35 cts.
per box. With few hundred more
boxes pick this will give yield of more
than than five thousand boxes Or a
product ofnot less than 81 500 from an
acre and half Of land.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-24

tGe In the British Parliament on the
10th, Lord STANLEY, the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, made an important
statement in answer to question, ask
ing for information. lie said he had
already written to the United States
Government on the matter of natural
ization; the substance of which was,
that the British Minister was ready to
accept the American view of the ques-
tion. lie therefore thought that mis-
understanding between the TWO nations
was impossible. He also stated that lie
had declined to make treaty at pre-
sent, as the Royal Commission are still
considering the general subject, and for
additional reasons at that time will not
permit the passage OF bill at the pre-
sent session of Parliament.