The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-11-11

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The " alley Nirglaian.
STANTON, VIRGINIA.
Wednesday Nov. IL, 1868.
GAL.
New pork is coming in 1t sold readily at
$3.50 per hundred
Scotch plaids will be ssthe thing for ladies'
walking suits this winter
See Mrs Kate Kelley's advertisement. Call
quick ladies.
The Southern crops this year are valued at
four hundred millions Of dollars.
The farm of the late Geo. lister of Jefferson |
county, was sold publicly last week for $87 per
acre.
Maj. II. K. Douglas is lccturing in the lower !
Valley on ssMahomet and the Koran"
Rev. F. 3. Price of Richmond, has been called |
to the High Bridge Church in Rockbridge Co.
Do but the half of what you can, and you will
be surprised at the result of your diligence.
If we would endure the kindness of others we
must endure their foles
regard for truth is the last Of all the virtues
and supposes high cultivation.
Be not content with high resolves or with little
doings.
Truth is robed in white; falsehood faunts in
the three primary colors and all their combina
lions.
The more woman's waist is shaped like an
hour glass; the quicker will the sands Of her life
out.
Time marks the title page Of our lives, death
the fms, and the grave becomes the binding.
Ceremony always the companion of weak
minds; it is plant that will never grow in q
strong soil.
MHTEoRs.-The annual metsoric shower is ex-
pected about the 18th Of this month. Look out
for them.
SALEM.-The population of Salem, Roanoke
county, is now about 1900 and increasing rap
idly.
Walter Caphart has been appointed Internal
Revenue Storekeeper for the Sixth District of
Virginia.
The Mcssrs. Bernard s. Eugene Peyton have
leased the Lexington Hotel. Success to them,
say.
Squire Rudisill of Botetourt, raised from one
potato planted, onc-half bushel, one of which
weighed four pounds.
nan named John Austin, living six miles
Grom Lexington, attempted to commit suicide last
week by cutting his throat with
TO be Gespised o. blamed by an incompetent
uncandia judge, may give momentary pain,
but ought not DC asake one unhappy
man named John Gleason accidentally
killed an Itle ,EailEoad near the new dlstlllery,
Berkley county, by passing train.
The Warm Springs, Bath county, are now in
rhe hands of Messrs Jas. A. Frazier and Jas
Lyon, and will be kept by them next season.
The Bristol News says that during last week
Gle price of wheat declined fully so cents per
h,lshel. This would then reduce the price of
flour Is cents per hundred
BIG CApBAaE.-B f. WhitemeEe, teae ct oar
best paying subscribers, has placed under OBJ
legation for the largest head of cabbage we have
seen this season. for which we return thanks
TIE weather is fine for business Of all kinds :
Merchants, mechanics, and in fact all branches
Of business are doing well, except the DOCTORS
WHO say Staunton is too healthy at this time.
MLLlNEE0 SToaEs.-A yeas. and half ago
there were but two millinery stores in this city
now there are four. There were two mantua-
makers-now about eight, aad all doing WE'LL
Mr.. John 7. Humphreys has sold his interest
in the Lynehburg News to Mr. VIM. D. Cabell
Its editorial will reRais ip the able hands of
Messrs. Peyton and Humphreys.
The Chesapeake Il Ohio Railroad mortgage
was stamped on the goth inst. with U. S. stamps
of the amount of $40, ooo-thc largest stamping
done i4n the South. 1t is for $1O,OO0,0QQ
General Milroy, whose "stealing exploits
will long he remembered in the Valley of Viz
ginia, candidate lately for county Treasurer
of Carroll county, Indiana, and defeated
We have before us the measure of the circum-
ference Of q large raddish raised by Mrs. Leach
near Rocky Point. 1t is as lang as our arm, and
.the vegetable is said to weigh l6 lbs More glory
for Monroe.-Lnien Register.
The cars running to point miles frsA
lIIarrisonburg. This is on for staunton. and at
IAN carly day, hope Go to work Valley R.
r. men, and push things. We can't afford to Let
.lIarrisonburg have this road all to herself.
Gwathmey & Bro commission merchant Of