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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
TAUNTON, VIRGINIA. THURSDAY. MAY 7, 1874
Rock me to Sleep.

lThe subioined poem--we do not know who wrot
its one of the most beautiful Of its kind we hav
ever seen. We do not envy the heart that does nc
thrill to its wild and tender music j
Backward, turn backward, oh Time in your flight
Make me child again, just for to night
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore--
Kiss from my forehead the burrows OF care,
Smooth the silver threads out OF my hair
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
Backward, flow backward, oh, tide of the years,
am so weary of tolls and OF tears
Toll without reconlpense-tears all in vain
Take me and give me my childhood again.
have grown weary OF dust and decay,
Weary of hinging my souls wealth away,
Weary Of sowing for others to reap;
Roc me to Sleep mother rock me to sleepi
Tired of the hollow the base, the untrue,
Mother, oh, mother my heart calls for you
Many summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded-our faces between;
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long tonight for your presence again;
Come from the silence so long and so deep
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
No love like mothers love ever has shown
No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful, unselash, and patient like yours,
None like a mother charm away pain
From the sick soul and world -weary brain
Slumbers soft calm DER my heavy lids creep
Rock me to Sleep mother, rock me to sleep
Come. let your brown hair, just lighted with gold,
Fall on your shoulders again as OF old
Let it fall over my forehead tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light
For with its sunny-edged shadows once more,
Happy will throng the sweet visions OF yore.
Lovingly, SOFTLY its bright pillows sweep
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
Mother, dear mother the years have been long
Since last hushed to your lullaby song
Sing them, and unto my soul it shall seem
Womanhoods years have been but dream;
Clasp me to your arms in loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep
Rock me to sleep, mother. rock me to sleep!
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
The Soft Guitar.
A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.

A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
SCENB Moonlight Beneath the lady,s window aps
peareth the lover and singeth, with guitar accom-.
paniment
Open the lattice O lady bright! si
The earth lies calm in the fair moonlight, f,-r.
Gaze on the CLINT OF each gancing star.
And list to the notes OF my soft guitar,
At the lady's window visionyshone-
Twas the lady's head with the night.cap on.
LOVER.
I'm ecstasy)
see!'at the easement appearing now,
With lilly fingers she hides her brow
Oh, weep not-though bitter thy SORROWS are
will soothe them to rest with my soft guitar
Then the lady answered: who's going to weep.
Go way with your fiddle, and let me Sleep
(Saddened, but still hopef,sLA
Ihen Sleep dear lady thy frnged lids close
Pinions of cherubs fan thy repose,
While through thy easement. slightly ajar
Steal the sweet notes OF my soft guitar
Then the lady her "secret pain" confessed %
Win the plaintive murmur "Oh, give US q rest."
LOVER
(Slighty diseouragedl
Chfde me not harshly, o lady fair!
Bend from thy lattice and hear my PRAYER
Signing for thee wander affair."
Mournfully touching my soft guitar
And the lady answered: ''You stupid thing
Ii you've got the catarrh stop trying to sing,.
LOVER
(FtHed scith natural and righteous tndionosienl
Cruel but fair one thy scorn restrain!
Better deaths quiet than thy dsda;n.
l go to fall in some distant war,
Bearing in battle my loved guitar
Answered the lady: well, hurry and got it
N holding the slop-basn ready to throw"
Making Immediate preparations to ssort3
raise one, leave thee! When I'm at rest
Still shall my memory haunt thy breast
A spectral vision thy joy shall mar
A skeleton touching soft guitar.
From the ladys window her dulcet tones
On the night-wind 1oated Go It, old Bouear.
fhen the lover, in agony, roamed afar..
Fell limp in the gutter aud smashed his guitar
[New York Gr0phss.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
A Immediately at c. & Ohio Railroad Depot,

A Ynericasa Hotel,
A Immediately at c. & Ohio Railroad Depot,
+f STAUNTON, VA.
McCHESNEY & NADENBOUSCH, Proprletors.
The Propretors in resuming the management OF
this well known and popular hotel long and favor
ably known to the travelling public promise IN me
future to retain the reputation the American mas
borne, as a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.
Its locality Immediately at the Railroad Depot rem
-ders it convenient stopping place for persons on
business or in search of health:
Bar and Barber Shop in the House;
All the Offices Of the Telegraph and Stage lines run
x1-A frst-class Livery stable conducted by Eau
90 roole is connected with this house ~
NB-Citizens ofsthe county will be furnished din a.
der at so cents and Horses fed by Pat OTooe at ~
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

SARCASTIC RoMANCE.-Appearing in a
Nashville paper, whether original Herewith
or not, and credited to one J. Batcman Smith,
is q tremendous romance of facts in Fayette-
vile, from which the appended chaste descrip-
lions of the lovers concerned may be tastefuly
quoted:
He was young, he was fair, and he parted his
hair, like the average beau, in the middle: he
was proud. he was bold, bnt the truth must be
told, he played like a tiend on the ddle. But
aside from this vice, he was everything nice,
and his heart was SO loving and tender. that he
always turned pale when he trod on the tail OF
the cat lying down by the fender. He clerked
in a store. and the way that he tore off calico,
jeans and brown slleeting, would have tichled
a calf and made the brute laugh in the face OF
quarterly meeting. He cut quite a dash with
darling moustsc e, which he learned to adore
and cherish: to one girl he said. while she
dropped her proud head, that 'twollld kill her
to see the thing perish. OnSunday he d search
the straight road to the church, unheeding the
voice of the scorner: and demurely he sat, like
a young tabby cat, with the saints in the far a
men corner He sang like a bird, and his
sweet voice was heard Juggling away at long
meter: and we speak but the truth, when we
say that that this youth could outsing hungry
mosquito.
She was young, she was fair, and scrambled
her hair like the average bell OF the city; she
was proud but not bold, yet the truth must be
told that the way she chewed wax was pity.
But. aside from the vice, she was everything
nice, and the world much applauded her bus
tie and the Fayetteville boys being Gained by
the noise. walked miles Just to hear the thing
rustic She cut quite swell, did this Wax
chewing belle, and the men Hooked in armies
to meet her; but she gave them the shlrk, for
she loved the young clerk who sang like hung
nv musuuito So she hemmed and she haWed,
and she sighed and she s'chaWed.' . till her heart
and her laws were both broken; then she Walk
ed by his store while he stood at the door
awaiting some amative token. She raised up
her eyes with pretty surprise, and tried 10
enact the proud scorner; but, to tell the pam
truth, she just grin,aed at the youth VINO loVeo
the devout amen corner.
The New York Herald people are sadly de-
ficient in Biblical knowledge. The other Gay
! they reported DR.. Adams, one OF the most learn
| ed divines OF that city, as having III sermon
| quoted the words of Moses to the tribes on the
day when he became 100 years old, when ne
pronounced to be the coronation of all lltera-
ture I'll am now ready to be onered; the time
of NV departure is at hand. have fought a
| good fight have finished my course. nave
/ Kept the faith. Thenceforth there Is lana up
for me a crown of righteousness wnlch the
Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me IN
that day; not only me, but unto az men wnc
love His commandments" Inc Heroe0 snoulo
engage the services OF moderately instructed
Sunday school boy to keep them out OF such
blunders as this mixing up OF Moses ana d.
Paul.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

At the Philadelphia conference of Baptist minis.
ters on the goth, resolution was adopted "unani-
nously affirming as ever OF old that the immersion
Of believer in water in the name Of the Father, Son
and Holy Ghost is baptism; that baptism is essen
tial to bershp in the scriptura church, and Ia
a proper participation in the Lords supper, aud We
have no right, by implication, to invite, or t.
in any way encourage any to come to the ta-
bic who has not this scriptural qualification"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

A learned divine at Burlington said to flq-
uor dealer there: s'Wretched man! it the bed
of that river was bank high with the sllds OF
salvation, and a June rise of piety was coming
down from the moyutains, there wouldn't be
enough to wash ycttr feet T.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
--~ 90

Reports received by the Department of Agricul-
ture from all parts of the country show that tie
has been extremely favorable for wheat in every
section, though the sudden changes since the mid
die of March have done some injury in parts OF
northern States California alone will yield 10000 900
bushels. In the South the growth is lnxuriant, and
everywhere the promise is remarkable ISL 50
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
Virginia Hotel,
STANTON, VA.

Virginia Hotel, -o,- ~.
JOHN n cRowLE Proprietor.
This well known house having recently changed
hands is now prepared accommodate transient ana
permanent boarders at reasonable rates; me table
will he supplied with the b9st this and other markets
c.n afford Polite servants always ready to wait
upon the guests and every attention will be paid to
thnir comfort share of the public patronage is
rasnectfuly solicited. Omnibus to and from the De-
not free OF charge. ,,a,,,
nov l4-tf JOHN u. ChOWLE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

Miss Stewart, the Nevada Senator's daugh-
ter, drives modest basket phaeton, with a liv-
cried tiger, and a pale green steamer floating
from her whip, in admirable contrast to her
piquant brunette face. 1t is said that the con-
dition Of her marriage is that she shall not be
taken away from home.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

Corner of Sixth Street and Pa. Ave-,
~ WASHINGTON, D. C..
F. TENNEY l. CO., ProprleIors'
nov 2I-tf
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

COCHRAN & WALKER,
" Call attention to their fine brands of
CHEWING TOBACCO,
sGravely," "Yeow Bird" Nectar Leaf" 3D. and
Rough and Ready
Also their superior lot of Smoking Tobacco, com
posed of the following brands:
Lone Jack, "Va. Choice" "Gravely," Buds and
Blossoms" and short Horn Durham"
dec "a
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

rI,O THE PgBEEC.-The undersigned, having
i purchased the interest of Mr. r. o. Hydenrich,
III the Tin and Stove business heretofore conducted
by them, takes this method OF informing the public,
that he is now prepared to do all kinds of
ROOFING, GUTTERING, &C,
And manufacture Tinware of all descriptions. He
will also keep constantly on hand all descriptions Of
Stoves, including the best patterns of
COOK, PARLOR, s. OFFICE STOVES, CRATES, &c.
He respectfully asks a continuance of the patron
that has heretofore generously been extended to
him. A. GRUBERT.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

A business firm in this city, to which a bill
had been owing for some time, finally sent a
sharp dunning note to the debtor, and received
in reply postal card containing the following:
ssMatthew, 1922 To this they responded:
Romans, 1873; st. Luke, 1858" The re-
suit was the prompt return Of a check in pay
ment of the amount.-Newark Aduestiser.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

The discovery Of india rubber trees on the
upper St, Johns, Florida. is announced,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
THE HOTEL BUILDINGS

are new and are being handsomely RENTED ana
refurnishel A large addition is being con-
structed and viii be completed by the first OF
July, embracing in the improvements first class
Billiard Rooms and Ten Pin Alley.
Take the kanawha Falls Hotel, with all lis
surroundings and the variety of its attractions
there is not a place on Inc Continent where the
seekers of pleasure anG health can be more mu-
efficiently accommodated april
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

California reports twenty feet of snow and
fresh strawberries,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
SUMMER SUITS,

AND GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
A First-class CUTTER from Baltimore is at Mr.. SIS
esta blshment and the best fits and work are guar
nnteed Mr. Steiner will take pleasure in exhibiting
all classes of goods. april Tim
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
Dare q Sprinkle.

Dare & Sprinkle.
d FASHIONABLE TAILORS,
NEW STREET,
Next to Mrs. Scherer's Mill merry Store. and doors
from Loeb Brothers corner.
III work in eur line executed with neatness, dura-
blity and dispatch
Special attention given to Cutting Repairing and
Cleansing. aug 7-tf
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

MERCHANT TAELORING.-L. STEINER,
M MERCHANT TAILOR,
would announce to the gentlemen of Stanton and
vicinity, that he has returned from the North with
full line of beautiful goods, selected by himself Tor
SPRING SUITS,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

barbour House, >o,,
Orange county, Virginia.
MAJOR JENNINGS. ................. Propffetor.
april 16-tf
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
Stanton Cards.

GRAHAM FLOUR!
VI Constantly on hand and for sale by
teb 26 C. C. WHEAT g. co. :
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07
A DELIGHTFUL SUMNER RESORT.
PERRY MOUSE,
AT x "A N a w Fla e ALlS
PEYTON BROTHERS.

This delightful resort, is situated on the ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad about 200 miles west
of Staunton, Immediately at the Great hanawha
Falls 1t is the Dining House for Passengers
on the Express Train each way. and presents o. :
fractions and advantages unsurpassed in the
mountains of Virginia. In view are the grandly
picturesque Falls of the Kanawha, surrounded
BY scenery the most romantic. and giving 20 me
place a face of beauty to be nowhere else found.
Beneath the Falls may be found the finest iish
iny. Bass Suckers, Cat, Pike, Buffalo. and oalm-
on Astounding
The mountains abound in all kinds of game,
and ample facilities are offered for bathing
BOATING
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

Wagon Making and Elacis~.niaili.as. -rhe
w undersigned, formerly OF Churchville, has open
ed Wagon Making and Blacksmithng establish
ment, on New Courthouse street, Stanton, Va next
door the Carriage Factory of Captain Waters where
he is prepared to execute all work in his line, out OF
good material in the best and at low figures.
Repairing promptly done and all work warranted.
also Manufacture Feseg's patent Lifting Jack.
the greatest thing out and indispensable to farmers
generally Call and see it.
feb 13-tf JAMES M. LICKLITER.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

j. C. Grove. Geo. Hudson.
rg,In. Copper and Sheet IRON Establishment.
4 New Building, opposite N. X. TrouJ's)
AUGUSTA ST, STAUNTON, VA.
We are prepared to do ROOFING, GUTTERING
AND JOB WORK, at the shortest notice and in the
best manner, out of the best material Charges rea-
sorable, either in cash or country produce,
We respectfully solicit share of public patronage.
jan 25-tf j. c. GROVE & co.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

DAJL A. NHX.-Has on hand beautiful assort-
i ment Of Gold and Silver Watches, OF best quail
W Watch Chains Finger Rings Breast Pins, Charms,
Offering at very reasonable prices. Call at his Jew
elry Store, Armentrouts building, corner of Main
and Augusta Streets. march 10
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

X God News for the General Public.-I have
VI just returned from tho Northern cities where
purchased entirely large stock of all kinds OF
Goods, for the size of my store-house [ therefore
propose to sell for SIXTY DAYS at very reduced pri-
ces for cash, in order TO make room.
Come early and often if you wish to get bargains in
Dry Goods NOTIONS Boots Shoes Hats Cloth Mn
ETY. Store. Very Respectfully,
nov 3-tf B. F. HARDWOOD.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-05-07

A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
scENB: Moonlight. Beneath the lady's window ap~
peareth the lover and singeth, with guitar accom-.
panment.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
CHEESE FACTORY.

The rapid increase in the number of
cheese factories in the State, is one OF
the most hopeful signs of the times.
AS we noted last month the number
increased In one year from eight to
forty-five. Our people are beginning
to learn that every source of profit
must be attended to.
1t is a well settled principle of pO-
litical economy that no country can be
permanently prosperous, when imports
are greater than its exports. The soon
er every want of our population
is supplied at home, and a surplus pro-
duced for expectation, the sooner we,
as community, shall become pros
porous!
We have often wondered why 4
cheese factory was not established
here, and can give no good reason for
it, except that nobody has taken Suffi-
clent interest In the matter to talk It
up among hIs neIghbors.
We have taken pains to gather sOme
facts on the subject, and hope, by pre-
senting them. to call attention to the
subject. A factory can he operated
successfully from the milk of four or
five hundred cows, though q greater
number would he better. The milk
from COW for one season, sold at Or
binary factory prices, will pay for the
COW. Good dairy cows can be bought
at prices ranging from s25 to $50.
With little more care and attention
calves can be raised as well as to let
them run with the cows. The labor OF
milking and marketing will scarcely
he felt at the farm, as it takes but two
or three hours a day.
Several farmers, with a few cows
each, could unite and send the milk by
one conveyance. During the cool
weather OF spring and fall, one trip a
day to the factory Is all that is neces-
sary. During very warm weather
twice day is required. In dairy dis
tricts at the east, milk is sold by the
pound, the price varying, of course,
with the price of its products, butter
and cheese.
What farmer can make money faster
than to keep ten or twenty good cows !?
The expense of keeping, milking and
marketing would be scarcely felt, and
his actual cash receipts, paid every
week if he desires 1t, would average
forty dollars each for good cows. A
calf each year would pay all expenses,
and leave him hundred per cent. pro-
fit on his investment.
The female portion of the household
are very frequently overwOrked dur
ing the hot summer months, without
the added burden of butter-making.
Why not save this extra labor, and
make more money by selling milk to a
factory or exchanging 1t for cheese.
We are assured by a gentleman OF
Akron, Ohio, who is thoroughly con-
versant with the business, that he will
establish factory here in time for
operations next spring, If he can be
assured OF the milk from four hundred
or more cows. What say you, far
mers ?-Bancroft's Real Estate Regis
| far
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
FLAX CULTURE.

Kansas soil and climate are adj
mirably adapted to the culture of
fax. as the experience of those
farmers who have grown this GER
cal abundantly proves. In 1870
only 1853 bushels of fax was
grown in Kansas, and in 1872 the
yield had increased to only 1884
bushels. In 1873 Messrs. McPike
& Allen, of this city, and one or
two other business firms in the
State, interested themselves in
distributing flax seed, and Undue
ed many farmers to try the exper-
iment of flax culture. The result
is shown by the production, that
year, of 63,47S bushels. And in
1874 the product had increased to
ia, 1898 bushels, on an area of 49,
TO acres. The production, it will
be observed, has almost trebbled
during the past year. But the dc
mand is always in excess of the
supply, and hence flax has al
ways commanded 4 good price.
1t is not troubled by insect pests,
nor by drouth, and will, we think,
be one of the most valuable of our
crops.
Our own county, although one
of the smallest in the State in ter
ritoriGl area, produced more fax
this year than any other IN the
State, or 27,7O7 bushels. Brown
county, which adjoins Atchison
On the northwest, produced Is, 310;
and jackson, which adjoins Atchi-
son on the west, produced 1875.
These three counties, embracing
only about one fiftieth part of the
area of the State, produced nearly
One-third of the flax grown in
Kansas during the past season.
The increase in the growth oil
fax will be very large for some
years to come. And we hope that
mills for utilizing the product
both seed and fiber, will soon be
established. Such an enterprise
could not fail to be successful
The raw material could be supplied
in abundance, and the saving il
freights, by manufacturing in :
country where the product Is sc
extensively grown, aud the OF
manufactured from it so eXten
sively sold, would be enormous -
Atch ison Champion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
NUMBER 40.
LEGAL.
Bankrupt Notice.

THIS IS TOGIYE NOTICE: That on the
| l. sd day of November.A. ID. ISii- war
rant in bankruptcy was issaee against the eS-
tate of RiehaFd WoOlsey, of Arkansas City,
Cowley county, State OF X ans3s, who has been
aslj s. q 5ankrGps, on ms Own a 9s;iitlon:
of any property belonging 70 said bankrupt.
10 hiIa or for his use and the transfer of any
property by him are forbidden by law: that =
meeting of the creditors of the said bank
ruPt TO prove their debts, and to choose one
or more assignees of his estate, will he held
city of Emporia- Lyon county. Kansas. before
J. Jay Buck, Register. on the l4th day of De-
ccmber, \. ID. 1874, at so'eloek a M
L. : Marshal Messenger.
BY W. II. GILCHRIEST. Dep. Mar. Mess.
In the District Court OF the United States
for the District of Kansas.
In the matter Of Henry b. Norton and
Gould III. Norton, partners as Norton
Bros, bankrupts, in bankruptcy.
At Topeka, in said District, on the e3d
day of November, 1874.
DISTRICT OF KANSAS, IS.
TIO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN: Take
notice, that petition has been filed
in said court by III. b. Norton and Gould
Ii. Merton (partners as aforesaid) OF Ar
kansas City, Cowley county, in said dis
trict, duly declared bankrupts, under the
act of Congress of March ., 1867, for dis
charge anu certificate thereof from all
their debts and other claims proVable un-
der said act; and that the 18th day of De-
eember next, at 10 O'Clock a. m. at the Of
flee of Hon. j. Jay liuck, Register at En- |
poria. in said District, is assigned for the |
hearing of the same when and where yOu !
may atteNl and show cause, if any you |
have. why the prayer of said petitioners |
should not be granted.
J. C. WILSON,
IS - Clerk of said Court.