The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-11-04

Fatten that gobbler for Thanksgiving day.
The woods are pictures of variegated beauty.
Get your skate straps in working order, boys.
Sunday was blustery with sprinkling OF
snow.
Deer hunters are iourncying mosntain-
wards.
Another change of schedule of the Valley
Railroad.
It was shame that q man could not "liker"
OH Tuesday.
The election in the city was as quiet as a
church mouse.
The LATEST boy in town will walk three miles
to set rabbit trap.
A Stuart Balloon was sent up at o'clock
yesterday evening.
Wild ducks are reported numerous on the
streams throughout the county.
Paw your debts. Remember that promises
to pay won't keep out the cold.
Sunday night was Halloween, btt VIC heard
OF the misconduct of nary cabbage.
express train OF Saturday morning.
The smallest boy is able to count on his fin
gers the number OF weeks till Christmas.
The Town Hall is being fixed up and will be
used as the Second Presbyterian Church.
1t has reached staunton, and ''Shoot that
Hat, is the latest solo Of the street Arabs.
''Another soul made happy" This time 1t
is a boy, and looks eaactly like his ''Paw."
The street in front of the Burns building, is
being filled in and levcled to the arch bridge.
No matter how heavy 8 mans cross may
be, little gold tipping is never considered bur-
densome.
The world owes everybody a living but, like
too many debtors it requires to be reminded
Of its obligations.
The large mains for the water works nave
arrived, and are being hauled to the places al
which they will be laid.
No woman with q proper regard for others
will purchase winter hat without consulting
at least fourteen neighbors.
It is amusing to see what q consequential air
| the most no account man Oil earth will assume
the DAY before the election.
A disease similar to the eplzootic, has broken
out among the horses in the city, and prevails
TO some extent in the county.
| The season approaches when Welghty dgill-
tv reelines on the pavement, and murnlursan-
athemas against those who sprinkle no ashes"
II is sad to think that striped stockings are
soon to be numbered with the things that
were. and that hereafter muddy crossing will
lose all of its charms.
Six little Sunday School boys will be called
on to act as pail bearers, if mothers don't keep
their olive branches away from the depot on
the arrival Of the trains.
ANY fourteen year old young 'ady. who has
been properly trained in the way she should go,
is able to let her sick mama know how many
new hats there were in church last Sunday.
1t is calculated TO impress the beauties OF ho-
| illness upon fellow to have the wind TO watt
| his new silk hat down the middle of the street,
lust as the school girls come cut the church
| door.
."hen in the course Of hutRan events the cleo
ton day has passed. just remember that you
have been AS coed as amy other man, and I'M
aoine yoH had uIse world in a sling for q short
time at least.
Notwithstanding the closing of the bar-raomss
a quantity of '.red eye WAS circulating on
election day
The shipments Of stock over the Valley lSall-
road have been very heavy lately.
.sMster. line q poor orphan boy, without a
father or mother, and my little sister has been
Il cripple for twenty years. You couldn't let
me lick that lasses jug, could your" was the
plaintive appeal to a Main street grocer, tilf
other morning.
We should like to have about ten thousand
poems Oh the 'sFalling Leaves" ''Autunr
rmts," Melancholy Days. death of the
Flowers" ETC., etc. Fat lightwood is selling
at five cents a bundle, and the coal don't burn
worth cuss OF ITSELF
Ayoung man writes to know if he should mar
nv widow ten years older than himself The so.
luton Of that problema requires more study thai
we can conscientiously spare about election
times but we will venture to say, that if the lady
holds the dentists receipt for the last set of new
teeth and q coroner's certificate that the late
lanentetl died from natural causes, the young
man might have his hair cut short and his ears
pinned back, and wade IN.
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