The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-12-16
Mars and Saturn are the evening stars.

i Mars and Saturn are the evening stars.
The Grand Concert and Fair commences
Monday.
Save your money for the Promenade Concert
and Fair. 1873 III
The attendance at the churches on Sunday
was large.
Patronize the men who advertise, and you
are sure OF bargains. g~ rs
The Central Grange meets on Saturday y
Officers to be elected. s $50
Monday was cold, blustery day. and
more like March than December.
The new water pipes have been laid to the
intersection of Main and Augusta streets.
About 800 net was realized from the FAN
given by the Baptist ladies, last week.
Don't forget the stock sales, at the Augusta
Fair Grounds, tomorrow. Some fine stock
will be sold.
! Young man, don's stay after ten these
cold nights, that's if you won't go halver's or
the coal and gas bills
Prof. J. J. Ladd has purchased from DR.. B.
Sears, the brick dwelling adjoining "Oak Hill. :
A beautiful residence.
An exchange furnishes the edifying informa.
ton that both Christmas and New Years come
on Saturday. Singular coincidence,
Vhe congregation OF the Second Presbyteri-
an Church have received their new organ. 1t
is a handsome instrument and Of very sweet
| tone.
No industrious housewife has fulfilled her
earthly mission until she has slaughtered the
index finger of her left hand trying to split
kindling wood.
If YOU wish 10 make the most amiable wo-
man in Staunton pin up her dress sklrts ana
wish to die, just send the winters pork TO the
house on wash day.
As a result of the revival in the Methodist
Church, about forty persons have connected
themselves with the church. The meetings
closed on Sunday night last.
The West Augusta Guard will reproduce
sslreland as it is at the Town Hall tomorrow
| night. Go and see it-the best performance
that has been in Staunton for an age.
young friend is SO thoroughly convinced
! that striped hose are going out OF fashion,
! that he wants to bet that not more than half OF
the girls il town wear them. We take it up.
| Now prove it.
Several pounds of crashed rock have been
laid on Augusta street i'll front OF the Burns
Building, and it keeps the policemen busy to
prevent the boys from carrying them away to
crack walnuts with.
| The ladies interested in the manage
ment of the Promenade Concert and Fair are
| working vigorously and by the appointed time
will have perfected all entertainment that will
astonish the natives.
~ Among the tableauX to be presented on next
Tuesday week, is that OF the five wise and five
otherwise virgins. and we are requested to state
that the complement of the latter is made up,
None others need apply.
On last Saturday night size told him there
was no hope for him. and @ikcn he had gotten
Phone and wrestled for thrty-five minutes with
a pair ID number FIVE boots, he fang them into
IA corner with the remark, A'Now lay there, I'M
til tRrn d-m foG again.
''My dear, just come out and look at the stars.
They are p-e-r-f-e-c-t-l-y d-o-v-eq y, and Mars
is so <,lose--only sixty five degrees from peri
Ielioll,' exclaimed an enthusiastic young wife
as she catered the rossn the other night. Six
ty-axe thuaaer you'd better take that brat $
head out of the coal scuttle,7' was the unsympa-
| thetic reply.
~You WON'T go away until after Christmas,
will W IL, aunty?' asked q household torture OF
two hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois,
| the other morning at the breakfast table.
! Il don't know, honey; but why do you ask?
| cause, Bob says your stockln's bigger AN
two Chinese lanterns, and thought I'd Dor
row it to hang in the chimney corner"
| Aunty chokes on hot coffee, and honey is
led out to the back kitchen to assist his father
in an entertainment.