The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-09-26

from ireland, one from Scotland, one from err
many, remainder from England, except General
Pendleton and daughter, of Lexington, Va, who
we're among the cabin passengers. Most of the
emigrants are mechanics bound to Tennessee
Among the freight was machinery for cotton
factory in Virginia.
| THE ROUND HoUsE.-We are pleased to learn
that Maj. Mcmahon has received the contract
for building the foundation of the extensive
Round House, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
of the Work Shops. The brick work is still OPP
en-, with the prob ability of Maj. NJ doing it. He
bid for the whole.
Maj, N. is one of our most intelligent and re-
sponsible citizens, whose maturer life has been
devoted to railroad building.
| Be CAREFUL Now.-We have now got in to the
season of hot and moist days, which causes that
sultry weather which is SO enfeebling, and gives
rise to fevers, generally of the intermittent ype
This weather is usually accompanied by cool
nights which tempt people to imcfudences II
is season when the caution, '.be CAREFUL is
essentially necessary-care as to the avoidance
of the practice of sitting about at nights in cool
draughts of air in the clothing saturated with
perspiration during the day. Care as to cloth
ing-for that which is ample under sultry heat
of monday is totally insufficient when the air
has become chilled at night.
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p In the County Court on Monday Jordan Wash
ington, Hardin Washington and Thomas Rey-
nolds (all colored) were tried for breaking into
and stealing bacon from the smoke house of Mr..
c. K. Hyde. All three of them were found gull
ty by the jury, and the time of the Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for the first two was fixed at
two years each, and that of the last named at one
year. The Court has not yet passed sentence
The case of the Commonwealth vs. Rowe, for
assault aud battery, was tried, and Miss Rowe
was fined $50 for kicking up row
| AUGUSTA COUNTY BIBLE SoGIETY-A meeting
Of the Augusta county Bible Society was held in
the Presbyterian church Of this place on last
Sunday night. In the absence of the President.
Judge Shelley was called to the chair by Rev. G.
3. Taylor, and the meeting was opened with
prayer by Rev. VIM. E. Baker. After PRAYER,
Judge Shelley delivered an impressive and in
teresting address, which was followed by an ad-
dress by Rev. Mr.. Smith, agent of the Va Bible
Society. At the conclusion of Mr., Smiths ad
dress, John A. English ESQ, made statement of
the financial operations Of the Society several
years ago, after which it was decided to defer
the organization of the Society until some
| time between the 1st and 18th of October next
HARRIsoN's EIsH HoUsE.-Mr Geo. w Harris
son has removed his fish warehouse to the old
Corn Exchange building, southwest of
King and Water streets, where is stored one
of the largest stocks of Northern fish ever before
brought to this market. By single schooner,
the Matte A. Franklin which arrived here last
week, Mr. Harrison received upwards of twelve
hundred barrels of mackerel, AMI the immense
piles of these, together with equally urge guam
titles of herring, Goldfish, and ali other sorts of
sailed fish constitute stock large enough to sup
ply the demand of the wholesale ira lie of ali this
section of country Alexandria Gazette.
BRAINAup's MUSICAL WORLD for September is
received, containing more than its usual number
| of good things for musical people ''Efaunts of
/ days gone Ivy, q beautiful DOZEN. is followed by
"A Sunday Century ago. CHI lrminglj told
musical starry, and this in turn by The Heavens
are Telling" '.Thc Rods of Corfu s.Beethoven
as Pianist" Independent Criticisms" 'Musical
| Sounds" etc.
Of Editorial matter we find the usual number
of spicy. pointed articles not discussing dead is
sues, but just what the country needs, here and
now. The following are the captions-.sAIuscal
Serfdom," Editorial Thoughtsin August, % '-Dr.
Lowell Masou,' ''Beethoven's New Monument"
and important to Subscribers.
/ We heartily commend the World as the best eff
our musical exchanges
| $l.00 a year. Specimen copies 10 cents. Pub
lished by S. Brainard's SOFAS, Cleveland Ohio.
| PRoF. w. Z. TRuEHEART, and his accomplished
lady, formerly Miss Myers, assistants at one
time, to Rev. VIM. Harris, in the Wesleyan Fee
male Institute, have recently located in Ken
lucky, and it affords us great pleasure to state,
are meeting with great success in their adopted
home. We take the following notice from ex-
cellent paper called the Interior Journal, publish
at Stanford in that State, which shows the pros
pect before them:
| A FINE BEGINNING.-Our Female College, un-
der the control of Professor Trueheart and lady,
opened on Monday last with sixty odd pupils, and
the prospect is that the school will number about
ninety within few weeks. It is thought that
there will be about twenty five boarding scholars
during the Fall and Winter. This is the right
| road to success Send them all in. There is
room for fifty boarders
MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BoARD.-At meetin5
of the School Board of Augusta County, held on
the 23rd inst, they fixed the time for the opening
of the Free Schools of the county the 1st day
Of November, and ordered the subdistricting of
the present school districts of the county.
On the 2Sth inst, meeting will be held in
Staunton for the purpose of selecting students to
fill the vacancies in the Agricultural College of
the State. Any wishing to apply should send in
their applications in their own hand writing be-
fore or at that time. The committee to make the
selections is composed of the chairmen of the Dis
triet Boards, as follows: North River District,