The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-09-23
County Court next Monday.

And now come CllllQueplllS.
The leaves are beginning to fade.
All of the schools have commenced.
The seeding season will soon be over.
The churches were well attended OH Sunday.
The granger building is being covered with
slate.
Go out to the fair grounds to-day and have
some sport.
Over five hundred fine fat cattle passed thro'
the city on Sunday.
The Red Flag has been floating almost too
lively here lately.
A shooting gallery has been opened in the
Piper Building, OIL New street.
Saturday was damp, disagreeahle and chilly.
The coal dealers monopolized the business.
The female colleges are filing up rapidly
The attendance so far exceeds anticipation.
The Catholic ladies will! have splendid tables
at the fair grounds to-day.
The clerk has presented the new President
of the council with neat gavel. Order must
be preserved at any cost.
The next thing the infationists attempt VIII
be the enlargement of the ''pull BACKS ana
then there will be howl.
Don't fol get the entertainment for the bene-
fit OF the Band tonight. Something rich, rare
and racy will be presented.
The extension of Court street to the Valley
r. R. Depot has been well macadami sed. A
IL -, ia IL hon bn laid
The melancholy days have come, when six
able bodied negroes will stand around for half
day waiting to carry in 100 pounds OF stone
COAL
The grass widower train has been taken
from the c. & o. r. r. The day train is
crowded every morning with the springs vlsl-
tors going homeward.
A meeting of the members OF the old Fifth
REGIMENT is called on next Monday, and it is
hoped that large delegation will attend the
upyeiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson,
during the Richmond Fair. Read the call.
| A pistol ball was fired into the train OF the
c. so. R. R. whilst passing a point between
Atlce's Station and Richmond, on last Thurs
dav. No one was injured and the person firing
was not detected.
It was cold enough for frost on Sunday nigh
and we can't imagine why it didn't arrive, I'M
less it was to spite some of those old people
who hac their mouths already puckered, ant
were just itching to say that ''they knew every
thing would be ruined"
A rura. rooster from the Valley went to Go
than. He located his carpet-bag in a Broadway
Hotel; asked for room. and upon being di-
rected 20 take position, the spring was touched,
and suddenly up he went on the elevator, With
| his arms outstretched and breath suppressed,
as though he had been unexpectedly summon
ed to be a little angel. When he returned
home. he was asked where he stopped, and
throwing his head in meditative attitude, re
piled. we'll he had forgotten the name, but il
was id house kept on the Ethiopian
plan." and then he looked relieved. The neN
time, he will 20 with friend.
Johnny had just heard of the explosion o
the Celluloif factory at Newark, and having
asked what Celluloil WAS was told that 1t wa
a composition closely resembling ivory and wa
used for billiard balls, brushbacks. and as 6
general substitute for ivory. He became excl
ted and rushed into the p lrlor where MS sistel
| Annie was entertaining her ''ChaWies." ane
very abruptly informed her that the Ceiluloe
works had blown up. ''Well, what in the
world do care if all the Celluloid works in the
world would blow up?-run on out and play
that's good boy,'' was the amiahle reply
s'You had just better kere, them teeth OF YOUR
is made of Cellnod and the first thing yot
know, the top of your head'll be knocked off. ,
Charles tainted.