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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-02-08
FOR THE NEW YEAR OF 1879,

". propose to offer extra inducements to our Gus.
toners. We shall exert every effolt to spread
still further the name of the place, where the
most Goods can be bought for the
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1872-02-08


spirit, the best efforts of gifted and cultivated
mind, and the strength Of a powerful frame.
| From his first entrance into a sick chamber I'M
til his ministrations no longer needed or
availing, every faculty Of mind and body were
given to his patient, with devotion that never
yielded or faltered until human effort patience.
skill and science had been exhausted. In his
struggles with disease, he seemed almost stronger
than death
But his efforts in behalf of humanity were net
confined to his professional labors. Whatever
good his hand found to do. he did with his might.
His benevolence and charity were limited only
by his opportunities and his means. AT all times,
in all places, he was ready to respond with his
sympathy, his labor, his great capacity and his
means to the demands of family, OF relative, OF
neghbor, of affection Of poverty, OF public good,
of private want. The affection of large com
munity, the tears of humble freedmen and the
sorrows of the poor, are the genuine and fitting
tributes to his worth.
| Mrs. Bumgardner in life. was his nearest
neighbor, and S frequent associate and assis-
taut in ministering to the needs of the afflicted.
Of clear and vigorous mind, cultivated by va
ried and extensive reading, enriched by large
experience of human affairs, and by keen and
clear sighted observation of human events, her
sound Judgment was the unfailing resource Of a
large circle of relatives and friends in every do
nestle emergency. Ofuntiring energy and great
physical vigor, she spent busy and useful lite
in minisering tot the wants Of her family, of her
friends of her neghbors, of the sick, of the poor,
OF the afflicted, of all whom her exertions could
comfort or aid.
Her conversational powers were extraordinary,
and were the constant delight and charm of The do
nestle and social circles. From early youth, a
faithful devoted follower of Christ, she illustra
ted, in her daily walk and conversation, in hel
teaching and example, in her deeds of christian
charity, and finally, in her triumphant death, the
principles Of christian faith and hope For months
previous to her death, she suffered from an acute
disease, the pangs of almost more than mortal 6
ony, and approached her conscious death will
calm resignation and fearless and gnfalterine
It'll ard t.uet'
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
Why we Prefer General Grant.

The e-election of General Grant
will be something more than a mere
party triumph; it will be the voice of
the people indorsing an honest, econ-
omical and patriotic administration of
public affairs.
The administration Of President
Grant has been tried, and not found
wanting. Individual, State and ma
tional interests have prospered. The
laborer receives better wages than
ever before; the merchant is blessed
with prosperity; the manufacturer has
all he can do; the products of the farm
command good prices; the national
debt has been reduced over 1881, ,00O,-
600 in little more than three years :;
taXes have been reduced since 1866
S22S, 100000 and the policy of the
Administration is to carry the reduc-
ton still further; the Indians are no
longer a terror to our frontier settlers :;
the army has been reduced to peace
basis ;nthe rights of law abiding citi-
zens are respected and protected every
where; and our nation, thanks to Gen
Grant and his wise policy, is at peace
with the whole world.
This is the picture the party pre-
sents to-day, after more than twelve
years of power No true Republican
can turn away from so glorious
record. Tens of thousands of honest
Democrats throughout the land have
no desire to change it, and in the com
ing election will use their influence to
make it still grander in the future
What the nation wants is a settled
policy, and for this reason the people
will indorse the policy of General
Ulysses Grant. It has proven sue
cessful in the past, and that is the best
evidence that it will succeed in the
future. The country cannot afford to
try experiments under Horace Gree
ley, with his erratic notions of states.
manship. He would disturb every
element of national harmony, and
bring about a financial crisis in less
than six months from the date of bis
Inauguration.
1t is useless to say he might turn
out all right. We cannot afford to
change a certainty for an uncertainty.
We know what Gen. Grant is, what he
has done and what he will do. Grant
has firmness, wisdom, and in every
sense of the term is a practical man
Greeley is deficient in all these quail
ties. He may be a good editor-but
even on this point we have grave
doubts-but he has not the strong
traits of character to make a safe
President. For this reason the peo-
pie, irrespective of party, have united
on General Grant as the safest man to
preside over the affairs of the nation,
and we believe he will be elected by
the largest popular vote ever given to
a Presidential candidate.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
How to Make Yourself Unhappy

In the first place, if you want to
make yourself miserable, be selfish
Think all the time of yourself and
your things. Don't care about any
thing else. Have TO feelings for any
oRe but yourself. Never think of en-
joying the satisfaction of seeing 9TH
ers happy, but rather, if you see a
smiling face, be jealous lest another
should enjoy what you have not. Envy
every one who is better off in any re
spect than yourself; think unkindly
toward them and speak lightly of
them. Be constantly afraid lest some
one should encroach upon your rights !;
be watchful against it, and if any one
comes near your things, snap at him
like mad dog. Contend earnestly
for everything that is your own,
though it may not be worth a pin (;
for your rights are just as much CON
cerned as if it were a pound of gold.
Never yield a point. Be very sensi-
tive, and take everything that is said
to you in playfulness in the most
serious manner. Be jealous of your
friends, lest they should not think
enough of you. And if at any time
they should seem to neglect you, put
the worst construction upon their con
duct you can.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
The Next Pope.

The question-Who is to be the next
Pope ?-is much discussed in Europe
in private and in public. Many
schemes in different countries and in
different interests are formed for Sue
cession The Gazetta d'ltalia, of
Florence, says. that Cardinal Antonio
Maria Panebianco, of the order of St.
Francis, is likely to be the successful
aspirant. This cardinal was born al
Terranuova, in Sicily, on the 18th of
August, 1903, and was made Cardinal
by Plus TX. in the consistory of the
9th of September, 1861. He has al
ways professed great admiration for
Pope SiXtus V, whose life was his IA
vorite study, and in whose cell he lived.
One day, while in a reverie, he suddenly
heard a knock at his door, and a voice
told him he would be cardinal This
announcement did not surprise him
he merely replied, 81 know it," and he
will, says the Gazetta, doubtless say
the same when he learns that he has
been elected Pope. Cardinal Panebi-
anco once swore before Canova's mon
ument to Clement XIV. that he would
restore the Order Of the Jusuits to it's
former greatness and this is said to
be the great object of his life. He is
the intimate friend of Father Beckx,
the general of the order, but, like his
model. SiXtus ", he is excessively re-
served carefully concealing from
every one his intentions for the fu-
ture. He praises the Syllabus, and
defends the principles of infaIlibility
with extraordinary skill and theologic-
al knowledge. "Mystical," concludes
the Gazetta, ''as Savonarola, Panebi-
anco is the slave of medieval Uto-
pia which moves him to revive the
Church of the thirteenth century; and
the Society of Jesus, which does not
believe in mysticism, regards him
with anxiety, not quite knowing wheth
er he is friend OF an enemy N.
Y. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
A Fathers Advice to a aBride.

Said a young husband whose bust
ness speculations were unsuccessful,
MY wife's silver tea set, the bridal Gift
Of a rich uncle, doomed me to fnan,
cial ruin. It involved a hundred un-
expected expenses, which in trying to
meet, have made me the bankrupt 1
am" His experience is the expert
ence of many others who, less wise,
do not know the goblin of the house,
working its destruction. A sagacious
father of great wealth exceedingly
mortified his daughter by ordering to
be printed on her wedding cards, mo
presents except those adapted to an
income Of 81, 900" Said he, "You
must not expect to begin life in the
style am able, by many years of la
Dor, to indulge; and know of moth
ing which will tempt you to try it
more than the well-intentioned but
pernicious gifts of rich friends. -
Such advice to daughter was timely
If other parents would follow the
same plan, many young men would be
spared years of incessant toll and anx-
iety they would not find themselves
on the downward road because their
wives had worn out all of their salary
or expended it on the appointments OF
the house, The fate of the poor man
who found a Inch pin, and felt him
self obliged to make a carriage to fit
it, is the fate Of the husband who
finds his bride in possession of gold
and silver valuables, and no large in
come to support the owners gold and
silver style.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26

Chicago is getting to be more d.
vorce market every year.
Albany is threatened with a milk
famine. The pumps are going. dry.
An Old Bachelors Idea-When TAX
en- to he well shaken; the baby.
A gunsmith's shop is like chicken
pie, because it contains fowl-in' piec-
es.
What is the color of grass when it
is covered by snow?-Invisible
green.
The young ladies of the period must
be given to dreamy speculations, they
build such castles i'll the Oh )air.
A chicken farm, embracing seventy
five acres, is a successful operation
near Philadelphia.
Eleven millions bushels of peanuts
are coming to market from Middle
Tennessee this year.
The Cleveland Leader mentions an
organ grinder of that city as ian old
veteran suicide inducer."
Wolf scalps are legal tender in Ar
kansas, with which farmers may pay
taxes and save their sheep.
Yawning caverns, thousands of feet
deep, appear in the track of the recent
California earthquakes.
A man out West says he moved so
many times during one year that when
ever a covered wagon stopped at the
gate his chickens would fall on their
backs and hold up their feet in order
to be tied and thrown in.
The news from Maine has made a
raving maniac of the Enquirer. It
has delirious articles claiming 10000
Greeley majority in Ohio, and writes
letters to itself confirming the lunacy.
10. S. Journal.
The New York Times heads an edi-
torial article, ''How to train up boys
for the gallows." It is our impression
that some don't need tutors for that
purpose; they incline thitherward
without instruction.-[O o. S. Journal.
"Father why don't we ever see any
face at the window ?' asked a son of
his parent, as they were passing an in-
sane asylum because their heads are
turned" was the affectionate fathers
reply.
If young lady wishes a young gem
tleman to kiss her, what papers would
she mentoa ?-No 81 a,tator, no o.
server, but as many Times as you
please.
David Wilmot (Proviso) is claim
ed as Greeley man. As Wilmot
died four years ago, it is probably
true. Most of tho supporters Of tie
party are dead men.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
The Reason Why They Support
Greeley.

Here is what Democratic paper in
Kentucky says is the reason why Dem
ocrats should support Greeley
''Let every one who expects TO es-
cape shame and remorse stand like a
man on patriotic principles, and, de-
spite the nextinguishable antipathies
Of his soul, support the man a0hose
triumph a0tW TeUtVe the hopes Of the
SOUTH"
That's the droctrine. Look at it
again: They are to support the ticket
'.despite the inextinguishable antipa
thies of the SOUL" in order to ere
vive the hopes of the South" What
hopes No one needs to ask. They
are living under precisely the same
laws now that we at the North are
The law lays not fingers weight on
any man at the South that it lays not
on every man wherever he may live
What hopes then are to be revived by
Greeley's election? The hope that
the slaves will be paid for, the rebel
debt paid the rebel soldiers pension
ed, amounting to S2,0OO,0 100000, OF
that the South secedes! That's it
How do the Liberal Republicans like
that dish? How do peace-loYing Dem
ocrats admire the feast to which they
are invited p Eaton Register.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
How they Get Acquainted at Long
Branch.

A correspondent at Long Branch
tells GLOW we get abquainted,' thus
Well, we have all sorts of ways
Those who come here without ac-
quaintances will be left to their own
resources. If the visitor knows any
persons who have been here a few
weeks previous, it is a very easy mat
ter. A lady friend is an invaluable adj
vantage to young man at watering g
place. Ladies have such an easy way
of becoming acquainted with others,
as they discard all formalities ofintro-
duction. The subject of getting ac-
quainted forms the most perplexing
study to young people here. Some
have an easy way of getting over it,
while others it troubles greatly. Now,
that couple sitting out in the summer
house had no trouble whatever. On
the evening of the young mans arri
val he was standing at the parlor look
ing at the dancers, when he heard a
young lady standing beside him say
she wished she could get dance. He
Immediately offered his services, was
timidly but gladly accepted, and since
that time-one week--they have been
together like friends of years stand
ing, and some say, are engaged.
know Of young lady who makes ac-
quaintances by sitting on the beach
making holes in the sand, and then
getting young men to fill them. Re
member, it was smile for which An
tony lost the world for Cleopatra
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
[From the Rural New Yorker.
Country Women.


have read for a long time, in the
Rural, of the trials our farmers wives
have, to get along with their work,
how little their labor is appreciated,
etc. and 1 cannot help thinking there
is cause, way down below the surface,
that they fail to get at. Why, only
see how times have changed! I am
n0tas old as Methusalen, and l can re.
member when my mother did the work
for twelve-I mean the washing, iron
ing, baking, sweeping, sewing and
knitting, and in the season oft, would,
in addition, spin her three run of
yarn, and not think she worked very
hard either --~ sr557ez-sss,
But some one says the sewing
then was nothing compared to now.
The little Miss of ten years has a
more extensive wardrobe than the
young lady of eighteen used to have;
but the sewing machine is, in a great
measure, the cause of it. The tucks.
ruffies and founces of to-day could
never be made by hand. How few
they are, too, who find time to knit;
it is so much cheaper to buy stock
ings or, if they do not wear so well,
get knitting machine. See, too, the
washing machines, churn powers, but
ter workers, and other conYeniences-
and yet the woman of to-day has less
time than the one of fifty years ago.
Why is it? "Oh," she says, ''wo-
mans work is never done until she lies
down in her grave" say, Fudge r'
There is a principle that has taken
L. ~, - -
genteel to be delicate and to not work
any more than we can help. I know
there are honorable exceptions; still
it has thrown out fibers all over the
country, affecting men, and women
too, and no where more than in the
Rural districts. The great amount of
Irish help that has drifted among US
has helped it along very much. Near
ly every family can hire a girl, and
mother can oversee Biddy in the kit
chen, while the young ladies of the
family crochet, play croquet, drum on
the piano, and are tired to death all
the time.
Does some one say, "This does not
apply to common country people;
they live upon farms and are obliged
to work. say it does apply to just
such people. You will hardly go
into a house in your neighborhood,
or mine, but you hear about the hard
work they have to do. Now, I have
no patience with these puttering
women, who will run all day in half
bushel. Don't be afraid of work;
teach your girls to work, and don't be
eVerIastingly complaining, in these
days of machinery, that your work
is never done. Go at it with will,
and do it.
CAYTTGA.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
Letter from Senator BrownIow

In recent letter Senator Brownlow,
of Tennessee, says: s.At no time hith
erto, in Tennessee or throughout the
country, have the prospects of the Ma
tional Republican party been brighter
and more glorious than now. Victory
is in the air. as the New York Trib-
une said before the North Carolina
election, and the glorious Republican
victory which was in the North Car
olina air pervades the atmosphere in
all parts of the country. l have no
idea that Greeley and Brown will carry
more than five or seven States, and the
corrupt coalition which brought about
their candidacy will be more dis grace
fully beaten than has ever been any
party in the history of this coun
try. Our grand old party could beat
the Ku- -KluX Democracy if it were re-
enforced by forty times the Greeley
apostates who rally to its piratical
flag.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
From the Clinton Republican ]
John @. Smith.

The people of our county and Dis
trict are soon to be called upon to de
eide for which of the two candidates
for Congress in this District they will
cast their votes The nominee OF
our party IS the Hon. John @. Smith,
a farmer residing near Oakland. He
is a self made man, having been raised,
and always resided on 4 farm he has
so improved his mind that hesIs an in
telligent and active man amongst the
men of our county and State. He has
represented our county in the Legis-
lature, and is now a member of the
Senate for the district composed of
the counties of Clinton, Fayette and
Greene for the second time. He rep
resented the same district On the State
Board of Equalization, of which body
he was Vice President, and during
the absence of the President, Hon. W.
S. Groesbeck, he filed the chair with
credit to himself and honor to the
county and district AS chairman OF
the Finance Committee of the Senate,
last winter, he showed himself to be
a peer among his feIlow ow-members, and
we do not hesitate to say that all mat
ters affecting the financial affairs OF
our State were never more closely
watched than they were'by Mr.. Smith,
in his position as chairman of the
Finance Committee The experience
and acquaintance that Mr. Smith has
with Legislative matters will give him
an insight into the duties of Con
gressman that cannot be learned in less
than one or two terms.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
The Thistle and the Ropewallz.


ssSuch mite as 1 can do no good
is the general impression of our boys
and girls, when they are urged to do
what they can for the good work
But smaller, humber instruments than
you God has made use of to do great
works in this world.
A great army, many years ago, in
vaded Scotland. They crept on stealth
lily over the border, and prepared to
make night attack on the Scottish
forces. They lay in the camp all si-
lently sleeping in the starlight, never
dreaming that danger was so near
The Danes, to make their advance
more noiseless, came forward bare
footed But as they neared the sleep
ing Scots one unlucky Dane brought
his broad foot down squarely on a
bristling thistle. A roar of pain was
the consequence, which rang like a
trumpet blast through the sleeping
camp. In a moment each soldier had
grasped his weapon, and the Danes
were thoroughly routed. The thistle
was from that time adopted as the
national emblem of Scotland.
By the harbor of New London
there was once long, old ropewaIk,
with a row of square window holes
fronting the water. In time of the
war British Admiral was cruising off
that coast, and had a very good chance
to enter and destroy the town. He
was once asked afterward why he did
not do it. He replied that he should
have done so ''if it hadn't been for
that formidable long fort whose guns
entirely command the harbor" He
had been scared off by the old rope
walk.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26

these terrors, but mercy to thousands
who mey thus be repelled from the
misery that would inevitably attend
the crime, into which, if not thus de
TERED, they would be sure to plunge.
Let US then by all means urge for
ward the cause of reform that would
keep our prisons from becoming
schools of inhumanity to those in
charge, or universities of crime to
those who there may be confirmed in
evil by Viler associations than those
in which they have been wont to min
gle; but let US beware of any theory
which fails to Disseminate between crime
and misfortune, and not attempt to
soften or blunt the edge of this stern
justice which the providence of God
as well as the necessities of human
government have ordained for the
transgressor.-N Y. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26

The bronze statue of Lincoln for
the monument to be erected over his
remains at Springfield, Ill, is now re-
ceiving the last touches, a5 the Ames
Works in Chicopee. The models for
groups of statuary are yet in the hand
of the sculptor, Larking G. Mead, at
Florence. The statue of Lincoln
weighs 4,400 pounds. The cost of the
stone work will be S136, $50, and that
of the bronze $4,000, making the to
tai cost of the monument $206, $50
The statue ofEdward Bates, Lincoln's s
Attorney General, modelled by McDon-
aid and ordered by the city of st.
Louis, has been cast at the Ames
Works in Chicopee
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26

: Don Piatt, writing from the Sui,
phur Springs to the Washington Cap
ital, says: ''The paternal author of
the belle here, it is said, the other day,
shortly after his return to the Springs,
was approached by youth who re-
quested few minutes conversation
in private, and began: II was re,
quested to see you, sir, by your love
ly daughter. Our attachment
Young man. interrupted the parent
briskly, L don't know what that girl
of mine is about. You are the fourth
gentleman who has approached me this
morning on that subject. l have Civ
en- my consent to the others, and ]
give it to you. God bless you"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
Few neonIe imaoine how exter

= Few people imagine how extern
sively the manufacturing of wool in
its various forms is carried on in the
North, Northwest, and West In the
comparatively new State of Iowa
there are at the present time some
ninety wooden mills, and in the adjoin-
ing States fully as many.