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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-06-24


CURE EoR 4 CoAAp IN TUE HEAp.--Dr.
Paillon, Of France, announces what he con-
siders to be new method of curing cold 10
the head Il consists in inhaling through
the nose the enanations Of ammonia Contain
ed in a smelling bottle. ffthe sense Of smell,
is completely obllterated, the bottle should DO
kept under the nose until the pungency e
the volatile alkali is felt. The bottle is then
removed, but only to be re-applied after .
minute; the second application, however,
should not be long, that the patient may bear
it. This easy operation beng repeated seven
or eight times III the course Of five minutes,
but always very rapidly, except the first time,
the nostrils become frsee, the aease Of smell IS
restored, and the SECRETION Of the irritating
mucus is stopped. This remedy is said to DO
peculiarly advantageous to singers.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-06-24

SATURDAY N1aHr. Saturday nights one
Of the mast anxiously looked for Of all the
xock. How many d kiss has been given,
how many curse, how many . caress, how
many look of hate, how many promise
has been broken, how many a kind word,
how many heart has heep gVreckaed, how
many loved enc lowered lntQ the narrow
chamber: A week is life. A week is 2
history: i marks eyen!ts a9f sorrew Or glad
ness which people never heard Of Go, home
70 your family, man of business Go home
to those yaa love, nan Of toll, and give one
night to JOYS and comforts fast flying by
Leave your books yith complex figures. your
dirty shop, your busy ore! Rest with those
that you love, for God only knows what the
cxtSaturday night will bring you. Forget
the world Of cares and battles with life that
yon have r'urrowcd the week. Go home to
those you loye, and as yaeH bask in the loyed
presence, and meet IL retnrn the loved EN-
brace of your hearts pets, strive to be bet.
ter man, and bless God for giving his weary
children so dear astepping stone in the river
to the Eternal, az Saturday night.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-06-24

JOHN EcHoLs, II. n. EEL, .l..i \. =, CATLETT.
TCHOLS,. BELL & CATLETT, iss
H. Attorneys at Law,
sTAUNTON, VA.
Will practice in the Courts efStaunton and Fede-
raj Courts at Staunton, and in the Circuit and
County Courts Of Rockbridge Rockingham and
Allegheny Counties. They will also attend to spe-
cial business in any part of Virginia and West Va
The business of the late firm of Hartman & Bell
is in their hands for attention and settlement.
nov 29-tf ~ H ~ Hs.e
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Causes Of Sudden DEATH

Very few of the sudden deaths which are
said to arise from Diseases of the heart do
really arise from that cause. TO ascertain
the real origin Of sudden deaths, the expert
mcnt has been tried in Europe, and reported
to a scientific congress held at Strasbourgg.--
Sixty=six cases of sudden death were made
the subject Of a thorough post qrartem ex-
animation. In these cases only two were
found who had died from disease Of the heart.
Nine out Of Sixty .six had died fromsapoplexy,
while there were forty-six cases Of congestion
of the lungsAtha is, the lungs we're SO full
Of blood they could not work, there not be-
ing room enough for sufficient quantity .ot
air to enter to support l:to. The causes that
produce congesting Of the lungs are: Cold
feet, tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting
still until chilled after being warmed with
labor or rapid walk, going too suddenly
from close heated room into the cold air,
especially after speaking, aadsudden dcpress-
ing neKs operating on che blood. These
causes Of sudden death being known, an
avoidance of them may serve to lengthen
many valuable lives, which would otherwise
be lost gnder verdict Of heart complaint
That disease is supposed to be inevitable and
incurable; hence many may not take the
pains they would to avoid sudden death, if
they knew it lay ip their power aei e {
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nR. C. r. HARRIS,
II 1875. eyrA y1NnnN IT

With over Is years experience in the various
branches, as a, Practitioner, of medical science.
Special attention given to diseases peculiar to
females Patients from distance can be accom-
modated with Board at frst-class Boarding Hou-
ses. 5a,s se 9f1'
Patients waited or in the country when desired.
Office hours between and 10 o'clock, A. NJ,
and and o'clock, P. M.
Bas- Office on Main Street, 2 doors East from
Dr. 0hapman's, Surgeon Dentist, and nearly OPP
sposite Taylor & Powell So
feb 19-1y
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l'arofer BALTIAoRE February 3D. 1868
MEssRs. CLorMoRrHY & Co: -.

NV chickens were dying very fast with what my
ueiyhbors called "Chicken Cholera" was induced to
try your Pouerers Friend" and itworksd like charm.
sick aud have not any symptoms Of the disease
since. N Yours Respectfully, -
60 B. MENCKE Cross and Warner Streets
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FNHOS. G. WILLS,
i SuFgeOn Dentist.

Located at the WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
will be pleased to wait on all persons desiring his
services. win be found at the Drug Store Of VIM
S. Wills, in Covington, during the session Of the
scounty court Of every month
White Sulphur Springs, june lott
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HOTELS.
VTIRGINIA HOTEL!

HUI N M I1V Ell !,
RE-oPENED WITH ENTIRELY NEW
FURNITURE & BEDS
F. SCHEFFER, Proprietor.
W. BOOB, Superintendent a ~ I
T.. COLEMAN,
Proprietor of Bar & Billiard Table.
JNO. STANLEY,
Proprietor Of Livery Stables.
The subscriber would respectfully inform his
friends and the Travelling Public that he has re-
furnished his Hotel with entirely
fl NEW FURNITURE AND BEDS,
not to be excellcd by any of his predecessors, and
has reduced the fare to $2.50p per day. He hopes,
by an accommodating spirit, and good fare, to
make it pleasant home, and thereby receive libe7
raj share of the public patronage n H3atei'is'
The Bar will pc supplied with the choicest OF
Liquors, and the Billiard Saloon has been furnish
with pair of patent Tables of Kayenach and Deck
crt's make. se''~ re s't4
The Livery Stables has been furnished with adj
ditional Hacks Buggies, aud Horses, and thepro-
prietor has the reputation Of beingone Of the most
polite and accommodating gentleman in the State.
Summer boarders taken upon liberal terms.
may 13-tf F. SCHEFFER.4
A MEXICAN HOTEL,
n Immediately at the Hmginia Central Railroad,
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
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T. ). NICHE, 81 'ss' y. p. MIonsE.
NIICHIE & NICHE, g:s ss.i,i.,
lM Alto eys at Law,
fs.a 4as STApNTON,. VA. sas s.
Practice in the Federal Court at Staunton; in
all the Courts of, Augusta County in the Circuit
and County Courts Of Rockingham and in the
Circnit Court of Rockbridge.
Collection of claims promptly attended TO-
may i30-tf o& ~ fsss = :! ats a
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B.ARTHUR, D. D. s. ''

IL OIAUNIUN, va.
Office dsor from cor Of Beverly 8 New SITS
eszsz, Artificial Teeth mounted % Gall Silver,
provemeInit Yet introduced into Dental Science is
conceded to be the Vuleanitc process; il being
four times lighter than gold, and much cheaper,
embracing superior cleanliness, nicer adaptation,
with many other advantages. All the various OPP
perations Of Dental Surgery performed with strict
refGrance to permanently. march l4-f
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nrugs, Medicines, &c. OWN

Non-Expiosiye Coal OiI.-The only
IN article that can be used with safety, will
burn one-third longer, and sid at the same price
as the inferior i. grades, at :, >, : : M o,7mo
,...ss, q. .,.....s'..s Drug Store I
april lofts ia sas gsgs4li ss'auhlon' va.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-15
~
DEAD.

Howell Cobb, Of Georgia dropped
dead in one of the corridors of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, last Friday
The Coroners inquest pronounced it
a fit of appoplexy.
He was born in 1915, entered Con.
gress in 1912, and became Speaker OF
the House after q famous contest, at
the commencement of his fourth term,
beating Robert G. Wenthrop, the
Wing candidate.
As Buchanan's Secretary of the
Treasury, where he managed to en-
bezzle all the funds he could lay his
hands on,for the incipient Democrat
ic rebellion, and later as a Major
General of Georgia troops, during
the war, and still later as one of the
most bitter, vindictive, and unre.
pentant rcbel-democratic stumpers OF
the South for Seymour and Blair, his
career of dishonor is quite familiar to
the American people.
If the Federal cause was right and
the Rebel wrong, as all men outside
of the so.called Democratic party
claim, then Howell Cobb will occupy
in history q lower place on the roll
of infamy, than Benedict Arnold,
simply because intellectually and
militarily, he was the West Point
Traitors inferior.
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For Soldiers.

Soldiers do you remember when
you were fighting the battles of the
country before Atlanta, and in the
Wilderness, during the ever memora
bic summer of 1864; how you inn
plored the authorities at home to fill
up your rapidly depicting ranks, by
CONSUMPTION, and how your hearts
rejoiced OF the September call Of that
year. which filed up your thin and
emaciated columns and enabled you
and the government to triumph over
an insolent foe ? of course you do !;
but then there is another thing
which we desire to call your attention
to, in this connection, and that is that
during this life and death struggle,
one John P. Irish was editing Cop
perhead paper at Iowa City called
the Press that on the 9th day of
July-only five days after McPher-
son was slain-he published in his
paper the following article, and that
finally he now has the effrontery to
ask soldiers to vote for him, to 60 to
Congress from The 4th Congressional
District. Read it:
"The 9th of September approaches,
when 100000 Americans are to be
dragged like beasts into the bloody
arena to fight for the abandonment
of slavery" Will the people consent
to be torn from their homes, to loose
all that makes life sweet, to fight, moi
for the Union they have been taught
to revere, not for the laws they re
spect, not for the security of Their
own homes and liberties, but to fgh,
that the negro, the miserable, de-
graded negro may be freed, that he
may elevate his hideous head to the
level of theirs, that he may fill thu
place at the anvil, the bench or tn.
pillow, left vacant by those whom
Abraham Africanus l. has command
ed to fight his battles, and to lay
down their lives that he may be Sc
cured in another four years Of power
that he may subject the people tt
another term of bondage, and play
the first rate knave and the second
rate fool for the amusement of tn,
whole world. For our part we thinl
the people have endured long enough
this drain upon their blood and treas
ure, and to stop it they should demon
strate to the powers that be, that tn
spirit OF '76 is yet alive in thei
breasts, that tyrant can no longe
trifie with them save at the peril o
his own miserable guilt-stained head
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-15
A Discovery.

Frank Blair made a speech at Indi
annapolis the other day, in which he
made desperate attempt to explain
away his revolutionary letter to Col.
Broadhead, which secured him the
nomination by the rebels in the Con-
vention.
He said I:
"Now, my fellow. citizens wrote
that letter; reiterate it now, that
not only are these acts unconstitu-
tional and void, but they have been
decided unconstitutional and void by
the Supreme Court Of the United
States, a court authorized to decide
as to the constitutionallty Of the leg
islation of Congress-; and it is also, in
my opinion, the duty of the President
of the United States, when he as
sumes his high Office, to maintain the
Constitution of the United States, and
it his duty under such decision, to
see that these unconstitutional laWs are
not allosoed to be executed"
Win some ingenious democratic
lawyer, or politician, please tell us
where and when the reconstruction
laws of Congress have been before
the Supreme Court, and decided un-
constitutional? Failing, as they will
Of course, in doing SO, will they still
claim that man who either, will
fully, ignorantly attempts TO bolster
up bad cause, by such false state
meLts; is fit to fill the, second Office
in the gilt of the people?
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directly to the democratic Admiris.
tration of A. Johnson.
Therefore let it be known that all
this clamor against the corruptions
Of the Administration, is leveled
against Democratic, and not q Re-
publican one, and instead Of correct
ing these evils, by electing Seymour,
who is as like Johnson, as two peas,
we propose to inaugurate infexible
honesty, and purity, in the Admins
tration ofpublic affairs, by electing
the great patriot and soldier, U. s.
Grant.
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The Difference.

Originally a gallon of milk and a
gallon of whisky cost about the same
figure in this country.
Republicans believe whisky lux
ury that if used at all, should pay a
liberal tax of 60 cents per gallon
Democrats believing in equal taxa.
ton of every species of property" as
declared in their platform would tax
this milk so cents per gallon in
equalization.
Primarily one thousand good ci.
gars cost to make them, about TWEEN.
ty dollars, say as much as the aver.
age value Of the farming lands Of
Wapello county. On this thousand
cigars the Government, according te
Republicanism collects say twenty
dollars tax. Democrats would, i
they Amt lying in their platform
collect say twenty dollars per acre
on this land to equalize it with thu
cigars.
The most liberal construction tina
can be put on their meaning, is tina
they would divide the tax on thes'
articles, to make them equal, which
reduces the tax on whisky, which
seems to be necessary for Democrats
to 80 cts, and adds the other 80 cts.
to milk, which is equally necessary tt
your children, and also takes ten dol
lars per acre off of the tax on thu
cigars, and adds it to the value o
your land, and then every thing will
be equal and lovely.
Farmers how do you like the pros
poet?
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Gives It Up.

Horatio Seymour, the man who
presided at the Chicago Convention
and was its leading spirit, which pro-
nounced the war a failure, and put
"Little Mack" on the track for Presis
dent, principally because he had done
more to make the war failure than
any other man in America, has just
now announced to hispersonal friends
If we may believe the staid conser-
vative Springfield, Mass, Republican,
that the fight is up, that he abandons
the contest, and has no earthly hope
of an election.
Seymour IS rather late in discover
ing fact apparent to all sensible
men from the start to.wit; that the
General who overthrow Lee, John.
ston, Beauregard, Bragg, Pemberton
and Buckner, would make very short
work of the General ofthe New York
Riots.
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John Edwards.

"Iowa" the Washington corrspon
dent of the Burlington Hawkeye thus
finishes off the late Gen. John Ed
wards.
II see our whilom political friend,
John Edwards, has finally thrown up
his cap for Seymour and Blair. In
reply to some remarks of mine, a
year or two ago, predicting his ulti-
mate detection and speaking lightly
Of his political convictions, and to
some similar comments of some 9th
er individual whom st. John thought
a little too audacious, he took several
newspaper columns to justify his in
tegrity and demonstrate his reliabili-
ty. It would be an amusing docu-
ment to read now, if it were not so
tedious in its length and egotism.
No matter. He always was the most
miserable political humbug, for his
dimensions, that / ever knew; the
least encountered with deep convic-
tions; tho readiest to traffic in any
direction that has petty ambition die
tated. Good bye, little John"
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wood be diffrent. Ez it is, we shell
hev to perfect ourselves.
Democratic Confession of
Faith,

/ believe in Jefferson. Davis, Father
ofthe country, and maker of the SO
called Confederacy.
And in Raphael Semmes his right
bower, who was educated in the Uni
ted States navy, fitted out the Ala
bama, burned several hundred mer~
chant vessels, captured some chrome.
meters, and got Knocked into pi the
first time he met an armed vessel,
and now stitch in front seat in the
Democratic party.
/ believe in the lost cause, the holy
innocent clubs, the communion Of
Know Nothings and foreigners, the
pardons of johnson, and am down on
all rcformers and Radicals from ever
lasting to everlasting AMEN.
"No CURE, NO PAY!"-A sensible
old lady from the country while in
town shopping yesterday caught
sight (for the first time in her life } of
a victim of Grecian Bend, who, with
panier, hump, and invisible martin
gale, was fitting along as gracefully
as a crippled pup walking on his
hind legs. "La!" says the old lady,
supposing the young lady had a
kink Of pain instead of a cramp Of
fashion, "why don't tho poor thing
hurry home and take something. A
dose Of peppermint, and rubbing Of
tho stomach with warm red flannel
is sure cure for the worst case ofcol
ic." We checrfuly publish the reel.
pc, and hope it will be the means Of
relieving some good girls from the
horrors of this horrible curve
Register.
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Corruption.

Copperheads are apparently clam.
orous for the election of Seymour
and Blair, to correct the corruptions
ofthe Radical party.
Will somc one tell US what differ.
ence there is between Horatio Sew.
mour and Andrew johnson? Does
any one claim that from the time he
was promoted to the Presidency by
Wilkes Booths pistol, that Andrew
johnson, and his entire administra.
ton, for over three years have not
been the faithful, patient servants of
the democracy?
Can Seymour put more willing
obsequious copperhead tools, into his
Cabinet than Randall, McCulloch,
Welles & Co.? Is it within the range
OF possibilities for him to appoint
more scoundrelly knavish, thieving
officials, than Perry Fuller, Waddell,
CaIlicOtt u 20?
But they say, we are responsible
for the corruptions of Andrew John.
sons officials, because we have pass.
ed the Civil Tenure Bill. taking the
power out of his hands to appoint
whomsover he would but we reply
that every man with a thimblo full of
brains knows that Andrew johnson
has made that law practical nullity.
From the time ofhis betrayal of the
Republican party, johnson has had
this sign over his Office, Gall sorts of
twisting, screwing, weak backed,
trercherous Republicans wanted
here" and the kind ofparasites Gas a
rule) that could mako Johnson be-
lieve them democrats and get ap.
pointed, and then make the Senate
believe them radicals and getconfirm-
ed, are the men who fill the public
Offices OF the Administration, and
wherever. they are found dishonest
the responsibilities of their debauch-
ment, and appointment, are traceable
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In Two VoLUMEs.-One of the
most perfect illustrations OF sauce .
in it's popular sense, with which we
are acquainted, is conveyed in the
reply once given by a French priest
to his bishop. It is regulation
made by canonical law that priest
cannot keep a female servant to man.
age household unless she be Of the
assigned age of at least forty years.
1t once happened that bishop dined
with a priesta at whose house the
prelatc had arrived in the course of
a visitation tour. On that occasion
he found that they were waited on at
dinner by two quiet, pretty female
attendants, of some twenty years
each, When the diocesan and sub
ordinate were once more alone, the
former remarked on the uncanonical
condition of his household, and asked
the priest if he were not aware that
by rule ofthe church he could but
MAINTAIN one servant, who must have
attained at least forty years. II am
quite aware of it, Monseigneur," said
the rubicund father; but, you see, !
prefer having my housckccpers in
two volumes"
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Murder of Gov. Beall.

We have at length received the
Montana papers, containing full par.
ticulars of the killing of Gov. Beall,
late of Wisconsin, at Helena, Mon
tana, brief telegraphic announce
ment of which, we had in our col
umns some time ago.
It seems that Beall had been in
Montana on temporary business, and
had got into some difficulty with Geo.
NJ. Pinney, of the Helena Post, who
had driven him out of his office on a
former occasion, with Derringer
pistol presented to his head.
The nextday Beall called ON Pinney
foraretraction ofsome SANDER against
him in Pinney's paper, when the lat~
ter deliberately shot him in the head,
from the effects of which he shortly
expired, in the house of Gen. So
Meredith, to where he had been car
ried by his friends.
The deceased had been 1t. Govern
or, and acting Governor of Wiscon-
sin, aud had held many offices of
honor and trust, at the hands Of his
fellow citizens, prior to the opening
of the Rebellion, when he was made
Major aud afterwards 1t. Colonel of
the 18th Wis, in which capacity he
will be remembered by many Iowans,
who served in the original old 9th
Division 18th Army Corps.
He was venerable man, being
nearly seventy years old at the time
ofhis murder, had fine literary ac-
quirements, and was q son-in-law of
the eminent novelist Cooper, and
brother-in.law of ex-Gov. Hamilton
Fish, of Now York
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Cultivating Dyspepsia Plain
Talk for Sensible People.

"lf Iwere called upon," said James
the First, ITO provide dinner for
Satan, his bill Of fare should consist of
roast rig and q pipe oetobacco for di-
gestion." From the manner in which
two-thirds of our adult population
treat their unfortunate stomachs, one
might suppose that they were as
willing to destroy their own health
as King James would have been to
sicken Satan. In most countries, peo-
pie who indulge in alcoholic drinks
take them at meal times or immedi-
ately after eating, when the men,
braneous lining ofthe stomach is in
some degree protected from their in.
f1ammatory action by poultice, SO
to speak, of masticated food. But
the American convivialist prefers to
swallow his liquid poison when there
is nothing in the organ into which he
decants tito qualify its fiery principle,
or prevent it from taking immediate
and full effect upon the viscera with
which it comes in contact. The
vicious wretch who throws vitriol in
the face Of his enemy scarcely mis-
uses him more horribly than one of
our Perpendicular drinkers" misuses
his own stomach. Is itany wonder,
then, considering the outrages which
the people Of this country commit
upon the internal machinery, that
Dyspepsia is Irrational disease ~
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Come Boys in Blue.

wRITTN FOR THE TRIBUNE BY J. NJ. x,
Come, Boys in Blue, We brave and true
In freedoms periled hour,
To vote or fight for truth and right,
Let traitors feel your power
Five years ago, to meet the foe
A mighty host ye trod,
On tented plain, and stormy main,
Ye fought for Man and God.
Ye who have bled, think of the dead
Erst fallen by your side!
One victory more we now implore.
Else all in vain they've died!
Now, by the blood that, like flood,
From patriot heart and vein,
Then drenched the earth that gave then
birth,
Their sacred cause maintain
Though shot, nor shell, nor battle veil,
Proclaim the contest rife,
The same fell will, as vengeful still,
Maintains the stubborn strife!