The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-12-24

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| - many mere >e8ch successive one more happy
than ne last As tomorrow will usher ii that
happ day, b would can the attention of!those
Mo wish to purchase nice gifts for Christians to
look At our list Of advertisers, where you can Sc
lect from among the number everything that
heart could desire.
Christmas IS almost here, and with itzcomes
the benefactor and friend of good children Of all
Christian nationalites. Whether known as Kris
Kringle. Santa Claus, or any other name, he is
the same jolly, big-hearted, rolicksome fellow,
who never was young and never will get old while
Christmas tree is to be hung with gifts and ta-
pcrs, stocking to be filled with good things, or
la pretty girl to be kissed under mistletoe Dough.
4 Restricted by no reconstruction laws, bound by
no iron clad oath, and controlled by no decision
of Underwood, he will hold high carnival in
Staunton tomorrow just as sure as the cocks
carol on Christmas morn. That there is no mis-
take about his coming is rendered certain by the
large assortment Of pretty things and good things
which he has already forwarded his accredited
agents in Staunton, with instructions that no
children are to be Sighted because their fathers
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/ That it may be generally known who these
agents are and what kind of Christmas gifts the
old fellow has supplied them with, we have taken
the trouble to prepare the following list which
contains all the information any one will require
in making round in quest of beautiful and at
tractive Christmas articles:
Ameng his oldest and largest agents in this city
is Mag Cease. Christmas after Christmas has he,
with untiring zeal, for years devoted himself to
the distribution of everything necessary to make
child, and even large child happy. This
season, however, he has outdonc himself, and his
shelves and counters already display a collection
such as Staunton never saw before. French can
dies that sparkle like rare oolored jewels; doll
babies as natural as life cornucopias which are
SO pretty that one is reluctant to stop examining
the design and gay decorations of their outside
to ascertain what good things are hidden beneath
them; fancy boxes, just the thing for presents
for sweethearts; fire works to make the boys
merry and let the dogs know that Christmas has
come; cakes and luscious fruits, and all manner
of fancy articles combine to give his magnificent
4 establishment the appearance of a fairy palace.
| Prince and peasent, master and servant, have
since the days of Pope Telisphorus, in the year
| l3S, instituted Christmas, alike deemed it pro-
per season to don their best garb and an old
English poet thus describes this habit of our
ancestry G.as, ! hi ,sls
| "The heir, with roses in his shoes, -is
| That night might village partner choose;
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| And general voice, the happy night
That to the cottage as the crown,
| Brought tidings of salvation down" fit
| To be well and fashionably dressed. the ladies
and everybody else must patronize fashionable
establishments, and these we now designate: In
Dry Goods, Messrs. Hirsh s. Loeb; Hilb & Wei
Ter; |. WITT; Piper, Drake & Co., and n B.
Hendry, where everything. from the most costly
foreign fabric to the simplest style of domestic
manufactures, can be purchased at Northern
prices. The gorgeous display of fashionable
dress goods, especially exhibition at the estab
lishments named, will amply repay visit even
from those who go merely as spectators in search
of the beautiful.
! Piper, Drake Piper, determined not to be di-
rellct IN duly preparing for Christmas, have al
| ready laid IN beautiful assortment of china,
cutlery, glassware, all just the thing for useful
and sensible gifts. Their extensive supply of
glass and crockery ware and furnishing goods
are of beautiful and fashionable patterns, and
will not fail in prices to tempt purchasers to give
| them a call.
Apothecary stores, too, nova days, of The high
repute Of F. H. Link, and P. II. Trout s. Co.,
contain many things besides drugs and medical
compounds. To be satisfied of this, our patrons
have only to give them Christmas call, and they
will find perfumes distilled from the sweetest
flowers of the Orient, and fancy goods, in great
variety, suitable for gifts for their wives, daugh-
ters and sweethearts.
Hirsh Il Loeb have on hand large supply of
musical instruments accordeons, banjos, violins,
ntars, music boxes, and in fact everything in
connection with music that you may wish Ia
purchase. They have also a large and splendid
assortment of jewelry, such as would adorn the
person of d beautiful woman, and no better
Christmas gift could young lover besow on his
fair dulcenia, to say nothing of their toys. -.
What so appropriate as TO begin with as books
and books always suggests the names of Hunter
y Nowlin, and NJ. Sullivan, who seem to have ex
haused the catalogue of gift-book, ANIMALS, illus
trated and illuminated. Story books for CHI.
dren, fancy boxes, with perfumed stationery, 70,
dies, merry and amusing games for everybody
to be certain that nothing could be called for in
the way of Christmas presents, that they would nj
be able to supply on reasonable terms ..s.-
Of the fashionable display of millinery goods
IN the establishments of Mrs. Kate Kelley and
Mrs. Scherer & Miss Bickle, we have on prio,
occasions spoken in terms of unqualified admira-
ton and we need now only add, that no lady
would be considered fashionably attired at this
season without she has purchased her bonnet
from the establishments mentioned, who are be-
You'd question the Demorests of Staunton; as
everything gotten up by them is after the most
approved Paris style.
We cannot close our list without calling Il {
attention of those persons who are in want of 9
hne carriage, buggy, sleigh, or wagon to call al
the factory of our enterprising and esteemed
friend Capt. J. H. Waters. He is manufacturing
all of the above, and those who are in need o
anything in that line cannot do better than t,
!, buy of him, and they will find that they can ge
what they want as neat, and we doubt not, al