The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-03-31

Randolph and Carter, contractors for the Ches-
ane.ke & Ohio r. r. with seventy-hve white and
colored men, employed in Eastern Virginia, phss-
cd throu rh staunton on Tuesday last, to work on
that road.
I. is said that the capitalists of Chicago have
expended nearly one million Of dollars in bringing
the Elgin Watch Factory to its present state OF
perfection. They now have the finest and most
completely equipped factory in the worlu' ana
are receiving profitable returns from their invest
ncut, Great credit ia certainly due to the men
who inaug urated this enterprise, and who have
stood by it for the past six years, until 1t mas
been made q success.
. Tux BR1aHr The March mum Der OF this
popular childrcn's paper, just received. presents
and unusual variety of contents There are over
twenty different articles, all original, ana some
O! quite superior merit. Its success has oeeh We
nv remarkable, %, 900 circulation being already
secured: the publishers sly they intend to make
it 900 by the time it is one year old, which
will be next July. They offer to send the four
numbers for March, April, May and June, free
to all who subscribe before July first Terms,
50 cents year. Specimen copy free John Is.
= Alden s. Co., Publishers, Chicago, Ill.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GoyERsoR-Goyernor
Walker has made the following appointments for
Stanton and Augusta County:
Cs,p,c;z,a,n for Staunton-W. NJ Allen, George
BAYLOR, James W. Crawford, Robt. G. Bickle,
james II. Waters, J. II. Blackley A. F. Gilkason.
VIM g. Kayser, VIM. A. Burke, Wm. j. Nelson.
". S. McChcsney, and z. B. Hoge.
For justices ofMe Poace for .dMJNsta County
VIM j. Nelson, Henry Harrison. J. G. Marquis,
+. NJ Young, b. 0. Ferguson, Geo. b. Rusmisel,
A. A. McPheeters, VIM. Il. Gale, l.. Bumga raner,
W T. Rush. Vim. Caldwell, Jas W. Patrick. Jas.
Il. Patterson, Thomas s. Hogshead, Jacob Trevy,
Phillip Airh cart, John S. Guy, Samuel G. Will
sou.
Til. New JUDICIAL DIsrRIcTs.-The bill to dir
vide the State of Virginia into two judicial dis
tricts. now in the hands Of the committee of the
United States Senate Judiciary, places the fol-
lowing counties in the Western districts:
Albemarle. Allegheny, Amherst, Appomattox,
Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Buch-
anan. buckingham, Campbell Charlotte, Carroll,
Frederick, FIuvanna, Giles, Grayson, Green, Hal
flax. Henry, Highland, Lee, Madison, Mentgom-
cry, Nelson, Patrick, Page, Pulaski. Piusyiva-
MIA, Rappahannock, Roanoke, Rockbridge. Rock
ingham, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Shenandoah, Taze-
well, Washington, Wise, Wythe and Warren
AL! the other counties of the State to be in
the Eastern district
WHO ARE HArrY.-Lord Byron said: 1.-The ne
shauics and workingmen who can maintain their
families are, in my opinion, the happiest body Of
men. Poverty is wretchedness; but even poverty
is perhaps, to be preferred to the heartless, I'M
meaning dissipation of high order" Another au-
thor says: 81 have no propensity to envy any
one, least of all the rich and great; but if dis
posed to this weakness, the subject Of my weak
mss would be q healthy young man, in full pos
session of his strength and faculties, going forth
in the morning to work fer his wife and children,
or bringing them home his wages at night"
OLp AoE.-Beautiful is old age; beautiful as
the slow, dropping, mellow, autumn Of rich,
glorious summer. In the old man, nature has
fulfilled her work she loads him with the fruit
of well-spent life an surrounded by children,
she rocks him away softly to the grave, to which
he is followed by blessings. God forbid that we
should not call it beautiful /! There is another
life, hard, rough and thorny, trodden with bleed
ing feet and aching brow, battle which no peace
follow this side of the grave; which the grave
eapes to finish before the victory is won; and
strange that it should be SO, this is the highest
life of a man. Look back along the great names
of history there is none whose life is other thar
shis.
COUNTY CouRT-At the March Term, VIM. F
Bush, Henry Harrison, Wm. j. Nelson, Thoma
g. Hogshead, Jas. W. Patrick, Jas. G. Patterson
Samuel E. Wilson and Chas. S. Roller qualified
rs Justices of the Peace.
Thos. R. Ransom qualified as Notary Public
and VIM. H. Gale as Commissioner for the SRI
district.
VIM. F. Fauber, Jas. F. Davis, John Paris, ]
G. Slower renewed their bonds as Notaries, ant
II. Burgess and Erasmus Houff theirs as Commits
sioners of the Revenue. Also Sam'l Cline his 81
Clerk of the County Court.
The polls were ordered to be opened on tn
26th CT April, to take the sense Of the voters o
the county, as 10 Whether t4e Couhty Soui'
Augusta shall subscribe three hundred thousan'
dollars to the stock of the Valley Railroad. Com
missioners and Officers were appointe to conduc
the same.
The Grand Jury made thirty indictments, eigh
FOR hou ,ebreaking and petit larceny and twenty
two for assault and battery and petit larceny.
Rev.~Henry H. Kenerly, white, and Rev. Jas
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celebrate the rites of matrmony.
E. Town tendered his resignation as Com
9,issionsr in GhsncerT. which was accepted, =
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Fhe Court 10 still in session, With a lare
amount Of business before it,