The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-07-22
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Dog Days.

Dog lays.
Great demand for ice ON Saturday.
The harvest is over and the yield fine.
A good many strangers are in town.
Little by little the days grow shorter.
Don't forget the picnic on the 10Th.
The Base Ballsts are practicing for match
game.
Saturday was one Of the warmest days OF
the season.
DR.. Martin preached to the children on Sum
day morning.
The colored Sunday school enjoyed pic
mic on Friday.
The street in front OF Mller's coal yard
needs repairing badly.
The Young Mems prayer meetings are stlll
held on Sunday evenings.
| Grass widowers are becoming numerous anu
iulep concocters begin to smile again.
Industrious boys are laying up treasures for
circus day by picking blackberries.
The continuation of Market street is being
graded by the chain gang.
The Court of Appeals meets in this city on
the 10th of September.
The farmer who is too busy to come to town
on court day isn't long for this world.
The drives are in good condition and livery
men are doing first class business.
The Lutheran Sunday School have pic
mic to-day in the grove west OF town.
Amiss & Hoover have moved their shop to
the spacious room opposite their old quarters.
The Jubilee Singers performed before large
audience on Friday night aid every one seemed
pleased.
The harvest moon is now at its brightest
The attention Of lovers is particularly called to
this fact.
The CITY Council adjourned on Tuesday
night without the transaction of any business.
No quorum.
The slides on the Chesapeake and Ohio R.
R. have been removed and the trains are now
running through regularly.
The Jonadabs will perform ''Ten Nights in a
Bar Room tonight, at the Town Hall. Give
them full House
A picnic and school exhibition was held a.
Sherando on the 9th, and every one present hat
good time.
The Presbyterian Sunday School will make
an excursion to Goshen next Tuesday. The
Stonewali Band will accompany theln.
Staunton can lift the Iaurels from any 600(
city for first-class loafers-men who thorough
ly understand and industrously prosecute
their business.
A bow who is too delicate to wade through
the dew in the morning after the COW vii
stand in TIE rain for half day trying to kill
chimney swallow.
If the new parlor amusement becomes any
WAYS popular, there will be work for severa
enterprsing architects in this city. No damage
! otherwise, may be arprehended.
"tElo cares for the water works? There
an opposition saloon and mixed drinks are on
ly ten cents. Hip Hip! IIu. about tina
time Mr. Kurtz invited him to take walk AM
he now contemplates the murky current G
Lewis creek through iron bars.
1t was only small bat on a nocturna
promenade that visited q West End parlor tn
lother evening, but from the way the welkn re
sounded, the neighbors concluded that full
grown alligator must have dropped from tn
clouds. One cannot always Judge causes b
results.
A gallant young lawyer was seen dodgin
behind the pillars of the Courthouse OIL Mon
day, and fugitively CHANGING at his office dool
in front of which was standing a young fe
male. 6 What are you dong?' askeda passel
by. s'Just be quiet, if you please-don't yo
see that gal, she's got a subscription paper"
There are three or four young men In thi
town who are laboring under the impression
that they are No. songsters. They can b
heard almost any night and an acute listene
might catch the sound of quite different kim
of vocalism by standing near certain batch
elors window after they have passed by. w
heard him, and you might have driven tel
penny nail through locust post with one hal
Of the motive power consumed in hurlin!
anathemas at those night nuisances.