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The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
SUNDAY.

How much we owe to the observance
OF Sunday 1t would be difficult to csti.
mate. In this city to great numbers of
men lt is an absolute necessity. 1t il
probably the only institution which
keeps work from becoming continuous.
Such are the daily increasing demand.
ior labor. that to many men without
this enforced break, life would become
one perpetual whirl of occupation. The
sudden change of thought, Yhe pause
IN every business. afford rgfresliment
TO the mind scarcely less than tLat of
sleep to the body, and give opportuni
ties to family intercourse and for quiet
eilt ction which it would be impossiblr,
otherwise to obtain. The artizan abov
all, whose business does not follow him
to his home, may spend quiet day
with his family in complete relaxation.
We may be allowed to think that thew
day has lad an influence ON our ma
tional character, and contributed a So
orlety, thonghtfulneSs and steaui-
ness to it whichit would OF herwise have
wanted. A day of rest is mo re than a
holiday and let us keep Sunday tor
the former and not for the latter
London Times.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
HINTS TO FARME ERs.

Don't buy piano for your daughters
Whiie your sons need plow.
Don't let your horses be seen stand
ing much at the tavern door; it don't
look right. Wv" y
Don't give the mere chant chance to
dun you. Prompt payments make in
dependent men.
Keep good fences, especially line
iences;they promote good feeling among
neighbors. '''s
a decent, substantial clothfno for
your children makes them think better
away. 'i'
Don't starve your land II you do Won
will grow lean.
Don buy patent rights to sell again.
Don't become surety lor him who
waits Tor the sheriff.
Buy farm wagon before fine car.
riage. eai
II you have yoke of oxen don't he
ashamed OF them, and give your note
tor span of horses.
Don't run for a constable; YOU NAV
get 1t and let the plow st md.
reach your boys to look ul AMI for
ward, never down or backw; rd,
Don { leave to memory has shonld
De written; it makes lawsuits.
When the labors of the dav ara n.st
iet good books and newspapers invite
the youngsters to the stting-room.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
KIND WORDS.

They never blister the tongue OF
lips. And we have never heard of any
mental trouble arising from this quar-
ter. Though they do not cost much
yet they accomplish much. They hell
ones own good nature and good viii.
Soft words soften our own soul. An
CRY words are fuel TO the flames OF
wrath, and make it blaze more fierce
ly.
Kind words make other people good
natured. Cold words freeze people.
and hot words scorch people. and Bit
ter words make them bitter. and wrath
Iul words make them wrathiul. There
is such IA rush of all other kind of words
in our days, that it seems desirable to
give kind words II chance among them.
There are vain words, and idle words,
and hasty words, and spiteful words.
and silly words, and empty wor.ls, and
boistrous words, and warlike wordS.-
Kind words also produce their avn i'm
age IN mems souls.
And II beautiful image it Is. They
soothe and quiet and comfort the hear
er. They shame him out of his sour.
morose. unkind feelings. We have NOT
yet begun to Use kind words in such
abundance as they ought to be used.-
Pascal
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
A SINGLE HAND FULL OF MANURE.

Hut IN hill of corn will often make
the dliferelce between four or five little
nubbins, "and six or eight great pl umD
ears that VIII shell their bulk of sound
corn: A thousand handfuls count un
heavily in the autumn corn crib. How
many handfnls Of manure are daily lost
IN your stock. yard that might be saved
IN nice order by little care in heaping
up ana covering from washing rain ?0
lnese handfuls of manure are more VAL
liable to the cuitivator than the separate
grains of gold that the miner, with care
iul toll, gathers and washes from the
earth and sand bank. He hunts, gath
ers, ana saves them all, and thus accu-
hllates his pile. Philosophical, sue
eeSsful cultivators and see the glitter of
gold even in the manure heap, they on
" walt little longer than the miner
lor the pure gold to be washed out by
the growing process, instead of in the
wash pan.
"A word to the wise is sufficient -
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
TYPOGRAPHICAL FRAGID1TY.

We wish 70 put on record an instance
of self sacrificing devotion to business
which occurred just as We were taking
our pen tcenlighten the world by an.
other editorial effhlgence.
A party presented himself at the
door of the composing m lment
ago in state of great mental excite
ment:
s'ls Joseph H. Jackson herc?"
The party named was engaged in set
ting up our last editorial. He looked
up Oh hearing his name. The excited
party cOntinued:
"Your house is burned up and every :
thing in it,"
With cool devotion to duty which
will bear comparison with the most bril-
liant historical examples, Mr.. Jackson
contlnued to pick up type.
81 tell you your house is burned ND,
and everything in it - exclaimed the
now astonished as well as excited stran-
ger.
"We)l-all right can leave nov:
III come round when the paper goes
to press. "-Nee York Ka2
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
WONDERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

They exceed even those of the tele.
scope. lt shows us how two thousand
millions sofanimals, of perfect and most
delicate organizations could live and
move in single drop OF water. Ex
ffensive geological formations. cover
ing hundreds sf miles in extent. was
constructed out of the fossil remains
OF orga'ized animals. whose existence
bad been unknown to man except for
this instrument. In questions of med
zeal Jurisprudence the formation turn
ished by the microscope was often de-
c:sive. 1t tells us whether the blood
found on che knife of suspected mur-
derer is chat OF human being or nor.
and enables us som times to detect the
part of the body which the blade en-
tered bv an ANALYSIS of the secretions
which adhere to 1t. In the detections
OF poisons. drugs, groceries, aud the
ike II is also Invaluable. The quality
ot the supplies furnished to the United
states army was ascertained through
the microscope and enabled the govern-
ment 70 detect imposition.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
D sCrPLINE OF THE YOUNG,

The oldest son of President Edwards
congratulating Il friend on having Il
family of sons, said to him with much
earnestness. "Remember there is but
one mode of family government. I
have brought up ard educated fourteen
boys, two of which brought up, or ra-
ther suffered to grow up without the
rod. One OF these was my Youngest
brother, and the other Aaron Burr, my
sisters only son, both of whom had lost
their parents in childhood and from
both my observation and experiences.
tell you maple sugar government
will never do. Beware how you let
the first act of disobedience in your
boys go nnnoticed, and unless evidence
of repentance be manifest, unpunish-
ed"
or all the sermons ever heard long
or short. this has been the most useflli.
so fur as the world is concerned. 1t is
a salutary lesson to be prayerfuly
pondered by all parents and guardians.
The Bible lays down four great rules,
involving the four great elements of the
81 ccessfiil training of children-prayer
instruction, example and restraint.
And it is doubted if solitary case can
be found where the child has not fol-
lowed in the foot steps OF the pious pa
rent, when these rules have been adopt
ed while on the other and il but
only one has been neglected, it NAV
have been the rtil of the child.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
9ntfitaI.
VIRGINIA.
Mother OF a Mighty Race,

/
ADAPTED FROM WILLIAM CULLEN 1RYAr7
o mother of a mighty race,
Yet lovely in thy widowed grace!
The younger danes, thy naughty peers,
Admire and hate thy honored years;
With words of shame
And taunts OF scorn they join thy name.
Ay, let them rail-those naughty ones:
Whilst safe thou dwellest with thy sons,
They do not know how loved thou art.
How IN any fond and fearless heart
Would rise to throw
Its life between thee and the foe.
They know not, in their hate and pride.
What virtues with thy children bide-
How true, how good thy graceful maids
Make bright, like flowers, the valley shades
What generous men
spring, like thine oaks, by hill and glen.
Oh, dear loved mother on thy brow
Shall sit nobler grace than now,
Deep in the brightness of thy skies,
The thronging years in glory rise
And as they fleet,
Drop strength and riches at thy feet
Thine eyes, with every coming hour.
snail brighten, and thy form shall tower:
anu when thy sisters, younger born,
Would brand thy name with words of scoIn
Before thine eye
upon their lips the truant shall die.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
HOW TO READ THE BIBLE.

I. Read it every day.
2. Read, sometimes, one verse at ,
time.
8. Read. sometimes, one paragraph at
a time.
4. Read, sometimes, whole chapter:
at others. whole book.
o. Sometimes read by subjects; C. a..
the parallels, by themselves, one after
another. &c.
3. Take one ''chara ster," and trace it
through the Old and New Testamrnts
thus: direct history or geography; IL
lustrativs comments, either in the vay
OF enforcing AS an example or exhibit
ing ~ warning, by contrast with 9th
ers of different type.
Z. Find out the contrast between the
Old and New Testament; between one
saint and another; between some zeal
ons christian aud some Jealous persecu-
tor; between jew aud Samaritan.
3. Take verse, sometimes. TO pieces.
word by word; and find when the 20
tentlal words are used as elsewhere, and
in what case.
9. Use all the helps you can ret-if
you havn't commentary. put by the
difficult passages to ask your minister
the meaning of them.
10. Above all, endeavor to make your
reading of Gods word improve YOU in
the articl, of self examination and
growth in grace.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
A REYJGEE BELLE.
HER WONDERFUL BEAUTY AND woNpERFut
WARDROBE.

The steamer Bienville on bar last trir
from Havana, brought over a nnn,hat, y
of Cuban ret,igpes Among tha', ~ =
person whom fbe voung laJv raad,r 90
| of the Picaytlne will feel +. gra.t i,,t,,i
est in. She was q belle I'm Havana ond
| the betrothpd of An insurrent oti,,a,.
an heiress of immense Wealth nnd i.
member of tbe Snanisb nnb:l;+,, !.
| would be scarcely necessary tn s:v s,,a
| is beautinl. There are fay iaJiss nt
that favored Isle who ara otbarwise u
But our heroine il NOT only nrattr ~,
the common accsntation of th,, ,vord wy ="
hut surnassino lovelv The eb;af nh
iect of interesf is her wardroha nor ev
en- our citv belles distir gnishad as,ha,,
are tor costly and eIe~a f7t 'tnnarrnl ~
or dreamed Of snch ,nasnifcenna rhin,
of 100 dresses. sbawIs Iro,o tbe ioon,S
of Cashmere rich .iIks from C.,rn
pearls and emrralds that outriv,l ,hosa
that cleaned in tLe failed rrottos or
the Oce,nicas and diamonds int ,vo,i,i
purchase prince ransom. Uertrav-
eIlino custom was of dork material a.
ted With the last recherche of FASHION
a WALKING suit indceI Tha sLirt Of
rich heavy satin. bordcrel af t1e ey-
tremity Ev n wide fiutjng fror, tha
folds OF which reen ont a ricb Iano in
tricatcly blenned With the gracot,,l
pnffs, Disclosing the haa,,tifi,l fnot onJ
exotlsi.elv Turned ancIe. A sbort' =
oyerskirt of tbe same mater,,l h,,t =
lighter shade. scalloped into half di.N
monds at the .nd. from which are men
dant satin tassals. cleaning with dia-
mond dust. reaches the uper end of tha
llnting. 4he waist is of the same ma
terial with family devined vein ot |
red running through the center of the
streamors nttacbcI to II anI o.hiot,
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
BE MASTER AND NOT BE MASTER n.

1t Is not by regretting what is ire =
parable that true wor Is done, but by
making the best of what we are. 1t is
not by complaining that we have NOT
the right tools, but by using well the
tools we have. Where we are, and
what we are. in Gods providential ar
rangement; and the wi G and manly
way is to look oar advantages in the
face, and see what can be made of them.
Lif like war, is series OF mistake =,
and ne is not the best Christian nor :he
best general who makes the fewest false
steps. Poor me liDcri;y may dn.that;
hut he is the best who wins the most
splendid victories by the retrieval OF
mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize
victory out of mistakes. - Christian Teas
ury.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
JOHN HAPPY ON, DEAD BEATS.

John Happy" lectured in Nashville
on tuesday night last, taking for his
subject the Press" or rather Che "E d.
tor. His effort Is very highly compli-
mented by the press of Nashville. of
which he is, himself, one of the chief
ornaments. The Press AMI Times thus
refers TO one portion of the lecture,
winch OF course, has no application out
side of Nashville
"ile sketched in graphic colors the
ravenous dead beai' who takes awav
exchanges by the armful. displaces pa
pers, ana makes himself generally disa-
greeaoie ABOUT an editorial room. =
Closely linked to the insatjate dead
beat was the lounger who loafed about
Il sanetum hour after hour. and coIlId
not be div n away by any amount of
EDITOR" 0
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNALS.

The Code of Irritation with hand
kerchief is rs follows Drawing across
the lips, desirous OF an acquaintance /:
drawing across the eyes, am sorry !;
twirling in both hands, indifference /:
drawing across the cheek, love You !:
drawing it through the hands. | hate
yor folding II wish to speak to Won;
over the shoulder. follow me winding
around fore finger, am engaged !:
winding around third finger, am mar
RED biting it, am very angry sha-
king 1t violently, signal of distress /;
touching right eye, mamma is looking;
touching LETT eye, nobody sees shak-
lag 1t slightly, yoa arc iiirt.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
F A good story is told of Mexican

NP A good story is told of Mex can
Buchahan, the tragedian, who is said
40 be one of the finest 'poker" plavers
~ the world. While in Australia. a
few years since, Mr.. Buchanan had a
thrifty. speculative agent, who took the
money at the door and generally Kept
~. Tlle tragedian couldn't well afford
TO dispense with this mans services for
SO triiiiilg matter. SO he arttully moe
ulated the speculative agent with ma
MIA tor this game OF poker. which is said
20 be extremely fascinating, and when
the agent had captured all the money
at night, Mr.. Buchanan would skillfui.
ly and nnfailingly win it all away from
hlm during the day. In this manner
Mf. Buchanan redressed wrong, killed
Time and introduced this singular and
attractive game into the most remote
gamers of tie civilized 81 ,be.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12
THE BouGHT0N OR TAgPAHANNocx
WHEAT,

Some three years ago a new variety
0t wheat known as the Boughton or
Tappahannock, was sent through the
agricultural Department to its Cores
pondents in various sections of the conn
Try ior the purpose of testing, aud if
Iound valuable, the introduction OF il
Tor general cultivation. OF course. tha
quantity sent to each correspondent
was small, and it was only by the crop
Oh last year that its merits could be
Judged with certainty. The Commis-
sloner is IN receipt of over two hundred
aud nifty letters stating that it has sur
passed expectation, producing nearly
uouole the quantity per acre of common
wheat National Republican.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

~ Persons having OCCASION to drive
III the dark will find the advantage of
securing Il lantern beneath the body of
th' carriage, aud not inside. "a is gen
efsily the case. The light is thus
hrownseveral feet in front OF the horse.
and the Usual nervous, uncertain step
Of the animal is at once checked.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

= Punch says that women who
make up their faces deceive themselves
II they think by so doing they are more
likely to tempt men to make up their
minds.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

-" A correspondent of tha Co.mtyy
Gentleman says that If sheep or calf is
covered with a rubber or leather spread.
o. a thick blanket, aud tobacco smoke
be made under this covering, every tick
or nit viii 80 destroyed in half an hour
or less
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

E1H True poliieh,ss is perfect ease
and freedom. IL simply consists in
treating OF ers rs you love to be treated
yourself.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

iP The following is a letter, recciv-
ed by a village, schoOlmaster "Sure
es yu are IL man of n0Iedge, intend to
to inter my son in CUR skull,
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-03-12

:, IL Tile bonnets-pretty combina-
lloils OF lice, feathers aud tiowers-are
constantly becoming smaller.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

GREELEY AND GRANT. Greeley announces
:. 9Th a somewhat supernuous flourish Of trum-
-. he contradiction by General Grant Of the
80, ! 4 reports Of conversations with him
49, -, Ma ned in copperhead organ Of this
civ Tho HERALD had already published
c.n.r., Cant, contradiction Of these reports.
Greeley however, is strangely silent about
the forty-seven JAG, bins wnD ,ossu s 49,.
repeating the Tenure o. osoce o''' anu ~" 'Ias
sought to put General Gran UPON = 'e's' VIM
Andy Johnson.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
GRADUATING Exercises mt Grammar school
No. ~.

GRADUATING Exercises mt Grammar school
No. ~.
The FIRST class which has graduated from the Nine
teenth ward was that which yesterday babe fare
well to Grammar School No. q. the youngest school
IN the ward. The school. which Is situated In East
Forty second street, is among the neatcst In the
city, and owing to The rapid increase OF the popula
ton that district the school Is crowded, there
being in attendance In the female department,
some $50 pupils on the rolls before the time sci for
the commencement OF the exercises the az sembiy
room was crowded with the friends OF the scholars
and or popular education generally, while on the
platform were President Larrcmore and the school
0ficers Of the district very pleasing ana not too
lcn9thy programme had been arranged by MISS
OConne, the principal, comprising singing. read
ing. recitation and calisthenics. Among those por-
lions particularly worth mention was the recitation
Of Mrs; Hemans Polish Boy" and also well writ i-
ten and logical compositions; duet, 'rhe Saviours
Advent:r chorus, "May Queen" a trio, "SonR Of
Angels;' Through the Wood" and the immortal
the sreansss Msses %conno me. ALICE pnde
gasi LYDIA A. Reynolds Ellen M. Cremn, Mary y.
IIassett, Kate Galligan, Isabella Joyce, Anna m.
Kelly and Annie NJ. Kelly and certificates tor merit
In the supplementary grades were awarded to
number OF others. A number OF very appropriate
prizes had been awarded by the trustees OF the ward,
ana they were distributed as fOlOws.-First prize for
general excellence, handsome set OF Dickens works,
TO Miss Margaret slater second. for the highest
Of washington, La Fayctte, Napoleon, Women OF
the Bible and Mary Queen Of Scots, to Miss Ellen N.
Cremin third. for next highest percentage, Shaks-
pcare Byron and Moore, 10 Miss Mary !. Kelly;
fourth, for the best competition two volumes--se-
lections from the British and American poets-to
MISS Margaret sattery th for superiority IN MS
Annie N. Kelly. Besides the above Miss Drew, vice
principal, presented In the graduating Class TOT cx-
malls to Misses Mary r. IIassctt Mary J. Kelly and
Julia J. McGrath.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

ANXIOUS TO BE ORGANs.-The radical
organ and the read-out organ of republican
proclivities announce with great pomposity the
fact that General Grant denies the Bohemian
twaddle Of conversation attributed to him
several days since. They make special
point that General Grant has authorized"
them to deny these fabrications, and give the
denial the Importance of double leads. Alas
for this crumb Of comfort to the organs The
denial they make with such flourish Of
authority was published by the HERALD four or
five days ago as u simple matter Of news,
though based on the same authority.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

The Forty-scven Jacobins In Congress.
We presented yesterday the shouettes Of
the forty seven Jacobins in the House OF Rep
resentatves ''who virtually voted want Of
confidence in the incoming administration by
voting against repeating the Tenure Of Office
bill We stuck pin through each of these
curious specimens Of the swarm Of Liliputian
'spoliticasters" who have been buzzing in the
Fortieth Congress. Political entomologists
will thank us for this queer collection. There
il something odd and comical about the very
names Of these Schenckscs and Jenckeses, and
Shankses and Shellabargers, and Stokeses and
PafFes; the McCarthys, McKees, Trimbles,
Higbys, Beattys, Upsons and Welkers; the
Laflins, Moores, Moorhcads and Mullinses; the
Neyshams, Pcrhams and Elias the Columbus
ns,sno.. Delos Ashleys, Jehu Bakers, Bethnel
kitchens ana UIyssus Mercurs; the Pixies,
polsnds, Polsleys, Bo;sses and the rest--nsmes
whsle ssafsn chance for Immortality depends
upon the unenviAble distinction It having op-
posed the popular win to restore to tue ounce
Of President Of the United States It's original
dignity and power. Mullins and Company will
ne remembered q while for having put on record
!, r distrust Of General Grant. Nearly half
~, ,e little men Of little faith will cease to
: '"o. ,ers Of Congress at the expiration OF
10. go. next March - ihat their formal
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

P. S. AND THE P. R.-Political science
and the prize ring are nearer neighbors than
we fancy. Here is all the world standing
agape to see the solution Of that great problem
in political science as to the capacity Of
peoples to govern themselves. At the very
foundation of our efforts in this solution lie
what we call the ''primary elections" the
first of the steps by which we choose our
rulers and up town at this moment the bruisers
are settling the result in the primaries, so that
popular government begins just where des-
potism does--in the application Of might to
make things right
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.
The postage being only thirty-fve cents a
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
furnished in the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

DoDcTNG THE QUESTION. rad,. u s .'".
organ Of this city gives us It's views on -,
Debt and the Currency" in an elaborate sfs. W
on Mr.. Ewings letter, but ignores the new
views propounded by General Butler, which
now occupy the field Of public thousht on TINS ..
subject. II Is simply lodging the ques. ION I'll
II can obtain contemplation from q 'me-
where,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-15

SrEREoTYPED SPANISH ANNOUNCEMENT. -
"Another candidate for the Spanish throne"
additional troops for Cuba required"
ssMore disturbances in the provinces!"