The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-09-22

The Virginia Military Institute already has
S25 students the number daily increasing, will
probably reach 49,.
Two trains, loaded with cattle from the west,
passed through this place, en- route for the north
ern market. ON Monday evening last
Messrs. Guy & Drake having removed to the
having filled those spacious rooms with most
beautiful stock of dry goods and excellent gro
ceries, invite call from the public.
On Saturday last, the sense of the voters of
Staunton was taken on the question of further
subscription Of $4,000 to the Valley Railroad,
and resulted in favor of the subscription, 2o6
votes being cast for and 80 against.
The Enterprise is the title of new semi-weekly
quarto paper in Harrisonburg Va, by Messrs
Shiery s. Null. We wish the Enterprise much
success; have placed it ON our list of exchanges,
and shall hail its visits with pleasure.
Staunton Wards No ! and 2, held meetings on
last Saturday night, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the County Convention. VIM q.
Sterritt Bolivar Christian, and Richard Fisher
were elected by the first ward, and H. M. Bell,
NJ G. Hartman, and J. NJ. Hardy by the second
Ate ntion is directed to advertisement in
to days paper from Nlessrs. Kellogg & Gibson,
Richmond Va, offering for sale superior stock
of;Crockery, Glass ware, House Furnishing Goods,
a.. II tI,o 1a N low
they can be purchased in any of the Northern
markets. .4.t
. The mill, belonging to Mr.. David Bucker, about
six miles north west of this place, was destroyed
by fire on the l4h inst, together with 1000 bush
els of wheat 10000 pounds offal, some corn, oats,
&C. Loss estimated at ST., 500-insured for
81 900. 1t is supposed that the fire originated
in the smut machine.
TYPE IN CoLUMN.-People who are in the
habit of criticisng typographical errors in the
newspapers, should remember that every column
contains from five to twenty thousand of distinct
pieces of metal according to the size of the paper,
and the type. The displacement Of single one
makes an error. Is it any wonder that errors
occur?
Lippincott's Magazine for October is rich in fc-
tion the most prominent contribution being the
continuation of Anthony Trollope's New Novel,
..Sr Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite." This
number also contains 1.-TWO poems and some des-
criptive and critical sketches of pleasing and
instructive nature ssThe Porcelaine Manufacto-
ron o,d; Tbo
Monthly Gossip as usual, is varied and enter
tanning.
The Hearth and Home, finely illustrated fam
lily Journal of high character, hitherto issued by
Messrs. Pettengill, Bates s. Co., has been pur
chased by Messrs. Orange, Judd, s. Co., of 245
Broadway, New York, the we'll known publishers
of the american Agricu1tuwist. The new Publish
ers also announce reduction of the terms to So
per year. The change will not at all affect the
american Agriculturist which will continue on in
dependently as heretofore.
Many people take newspapers, but few pre-
serve them the most interesting reading imagi-
nable is file of old newspapers. 1t brings up
the very age with all its genius-and its spirit,
more than the most labored description of the
historian Who can take paper dated half a
century ago, without the thought that almost ev-
cry name here printed is cut upon tomb
stone at the head of an epitaph? The Doctor
quack regular-who there advertised his med
icines and their cures, has followed the sable train
Of his patients--the merchant his snips-and the
actor, who could make others laugh or weep. can
now furnish skull for his successors in Hamlet.
1t is easy to preserve newspapers, and they will
repay the trouble, for like wine, their value in
creases with age.
The following delegates were, Saturday last
elected by the meetings held in some of the coun-
ty precincts, to the County Convention, which
will be held Monday next in the Court House:
New Hopes. B. Finley, Chas. Gratian, Dr.
Gillespie.
Mt. Sidney.-Wm. Crawford, Thos. Burke, and
Chas. Roller. ..H .t.
Bolivar.-A W. Hartman, Jos. Merckan, 8.
Croft.
Hebron.-Jacob Baylor, St. F. c. Roberts, J.
T. Mitchell.
BarterbrookAA G. Christian, VIM. A. Abney,
and II. G. Guthrie.
Fishersyile.-David S. Bell, P T Burkholder
Buffalo Gap-Wm. NJ. Tate, Baxter Crawford
and Lorenzo ,Sibert.
BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION article
on this subject which we find in the Baltimore Sun
we extract the following well expressed views,
and which applicable to this locality as
they are to Baltimore any Of the larger cities.
ssThis is one of the special season., says the Sum-
'.when those engaged in business should seek to
make known to the public what they are prepar-
ed to offer to purchasers. Even the oldest and
best established houses are in danger of being
forgotten or eclipsed if they overlook the instru-
mentality Of the press. In New York, leading
bankers and the most extensively known mercan-
tile houses of the city keep their advertisements
constantly before the public. As the New York
Journal Of Commerce truly says, Ifa house is not
well known, it should become so by liberal adyer-
ising and the better it becomes kuowl and the
larger its business, and the more Independent it
would seem to be, the better still does it pay to
advertise it. Advertising is not only a means of
success but it is at the evidence of it, and a
guarantee of its continuance" Those who mag
inc their establishments SO built up that they cant
afford to ignore this auxiliary, do not take into