The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-04-29


all the surrounding buildings did not share in
the devastation that attended those the flames
reached. for 1t seemed almost impossible that
the limited and crude means at the COM
mand of the citizens, could be handled to stop
the progress Of the fire. BY unusual activity
and daring, and great good Judgment and self
possession, were the flames subdued. We hope
prompt action will be taken by the City coun-
ell to remedy the dangerous defect that exists
in the fire department..
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THEREADING BoRE.--There are great many
strange people in this world, but to our mind,
the strangest OF all is the reading bore. In 9TH
er words the man who picks up book or paper
and insists upon finding something very witty
or newsy which he deems it his christian duty
to read aloud. 1t matters not how deeply you
may be absorbed in a book, he seems to think
hat it will afford you the greatest pleasure to
leave eff at the most interesting sentence and
listen to the dulcet notes of his sonorous voice,
as he gives some literary treasure which his
penetrating eye has discovered, and which he
considers so vastly superior to anything that
you may chance to be reading, that to permit
you to go Unidentified by it would be gross
disregard OF friendship and brother!y love. His
efforts are as persistent as annoying. One
would naturally suppose that il you were to re-
fuse to smile while he regales you with some
thing particularly funny, but on the contrary
sit as solemn as if you had swallowed an owl
pot-pie, that it would discourage him; but,
strange as it may seem, it only acts as an in
centive, and he Immediately proceeds to some
thing profound, and prefaces it with individual
comments, as to its respective merits pro and
con. Finding you unappreciative in this, he
reads a foreign dispatch, and excerpts TO its alt
thenticity ..by detailing his own boundless
knowledge Of current history, and assures
you that the logic of events warrants no such
conclusion, as the unfortunate correspondent
has arrived at. And so, running from one subject
to another, he succeeds in making you throw
aside your book, together with your religion, and
plunees you into mental discussion whether
or not certain persons are an improvement Gil
what Mr.. Darwin determines as the aborigines
Of the race 1t is downright insult to a man S
intelligence to be constantly interrupting him
with something which, in your opinion, is par
ticllarly good. Very few tastes are alilSes and
no one has right to suppose that his is >supe-
ror to all others.
COUNTY. CoURT.-April term of the County
Court. Judge Hendren presiding, commenced
on Monday last. The following proceedings
are noted:
Ordinary license was granted Jes. A. Rem
nelds at Greenville, 7. G. Trice at Buffalo
Gap, Thos. jefferson at Waynesboro, Wan.
Chisholm at Shenandoah Mountain, John A.
Fisher at Mint Spring.
Private entertainment license was granted
A. Mohler at Weyer's Cave, d. B. Hyde and
VIM. E. Morton at Mt. Sidney, E. Pirkey at
Cave of Fountains, Nicholas Ryan near Deer
field, and John B. Carroll at Lebanon Springs
Certificate was granted Lewis NJ. Bumgard-
ner to enable him to obtain law license.
An order was entered discharging Andrew
Kenny .(colereY from Jail under capias pro
fine.
Administration de 6enis non was, granted
Gideon Barnhart upon the estate Of Henry
Weade, decd, and to John S. McCorkle upon
the estate Of VIM. Ell. Randolph, and James
L. and VIM. Brubeck.
Robt. G. Blair was appointed guardian o!
Margaret Culium Blair.
The will Of VIM. S. Kerr was admitted tx
probate with Samuel x. Kerr as Executor.
Commonwealth vs.. Duck Morris and Peytor
Woodson for lcwd and lascivious cohabitatior
Jury rendered verdict and fine OF $50 ir
each case; whereupon the Court ordered a ca
ptas pro fine.
Commonwealth VS.. John Murphy alias Dol
lard, for petit larceny. Jury rendered yer
dict Of guilty and the Court fixed the sentenc,
at 80 days imprisonment in the County jai
and 30 stripes to be given i'll three instalments
number Of motion cases was disposed of
Sixty-eigit deeds have been admitted to rec
ord since the last term.
License for private entertainment wer,
granted Jonas Cross and Gabriel Cross.
License was granted D. j. Hden to erect
mill dam on Back Creek.
Petition of Addison Wolfe, for private road
way near stribling Springs, was granted.
An order was entered, at the instance of j
D. Sheets, to. correct erroneous assessment o
land i'll the name of Mary C. Williams in Nortl
river township.
Sanll. Hnnter renewed his bond as admins
TRAITOR of Mary Hunter.
Rule was awarded against Jacob Ruebus
and Timothy Funk to give new bono as execu
tors of John Ruebush.
Rule awarded against Cyrus Homer, guardi
an of Geo. w. Koiner, requiring him to settl
accounts as such guardian.
Rule awarded against Ellen j.. Cupp, for fail
IRE to return inventory and apprasement Of TIL
estate of Frederick Cupp, decd.
Thirteen cases on motion and road docke
were disposed Of.
jackson Davis, colored, indicted in Bail
county, for grand larceny, has been fount
guilty and sentenced to the ,pententiary TO
three wears.