The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-12-02

Winter.
A pleasant Autumn, and now for old Winter.
Chicken thieves are at their usual >occnpa-
ton.
Poems OH the Beautiful Snow" will soon
be in order.
The Worthihgton Engine for the Water
Works has arrived.
The laying of the new water-pipes is being
vigorously pushed.
The thoughts Of the school girls lightly turn
TO Christmas boxes from home.
II you didn't pay your taxes day-before yes
terday, you are juse out of pocket five per
cent.
The rains of last week did not conduce to
the improvement of the drives and promcn-
AIDES.
Uneasy rests the boy who has been promised
a dressing down, until he discovers the virtue
Of cast off jackets and apply the knowledge.
Won't the Christian Association get up an
otker debating club this winters? The last ef-
fort was aot so successful. to be sure, but there's
nothing like trying.
The school boy ;rubs bis hands together'and
tondly thinks OF the rock loaded "soakers'' he
will shortly prepare when ''old Probs'' furn-
ishes the material.
+ The Rev. McDuff Simpson, will deliver the
anniversary address before the Young Mems
Christian Association OF Roanoke College, on
the 2lst of February next.
| We met him ON Saturday evening with a
placid smile on his fair features and plain
gold ring in his haad. We hope the pleasure
Of our company will be solicited. ~
On last Wednesday night private hop was
given at the American Hotel, by the gentle
men of the Staunton club, and the affair was
greatly enjoyed by all who attended.
More human nature can be developed by
pulling off a small boys new hat and placing it
beyond his reach, than perhaps by any other
known process. Try it, it you want to hear
| the catechism backwards.
Thanksgiving day was observed by the clos
ing of the telegraph and post Offices for four or
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Church. Otherwise, there was nothing to in
dictate that the day had been set apart for thanks
giving and payer.
The ladies Of the Baptist Church will give
a Fair and Festival in the Arthur building on
next Thursday and Friday nights for the pur-
pose of liquidating the parsonage debt-a good
place to spend money for good purpose, be-
sides getting more than its worth.
It makes an old bachelor c,luckle to see a
young benedict passing his window about six
O'Clock in the morning with a market basket
on his arm and the top button off his overcoat,
and smile of ineffable sweetness steals DER
his countenancs as the liquid comfort gureles
from the half empty decanter, and LIES condi-
tions are contrasteG.
We have been requested to believe that it is
the purpose of the authorities to repair Angus
ia street so thatit can be navgabe, but all
such hope having been buried under about six
inches of mud, we would: respectfully suggest
that some enterprisng young man start ferry
boat from Mrs. Bolen's corner TO the Amcri-
can Hotel, and thereby amass a fortune.
We understand that Prof. Scharf will give
a reading in the Town Hall OH next Friday
week. All who have ever listened to his al
most fautlcss elocution will only be too glad
to learn that he has consented to give public
entertainment, and we feel assured that the
simple announcement will SECURE large au-
dience.
The other evening, a little after dark, a young
man was. walking along the street Immediate
ly behind three females who were promena-
ding arm In arm. Desiring to pass and think
Ing them to be ladies of color, in tone more
emphatic than polite, he told them to- ''sngle
file there Imagine his establishment and vex-
alton of spirit when, in passing by, he reeog-
nized three of the bellies of the city, and
imagine their feelings when, in apologizng,
he stammered out that he ''lad mistook them
tor d-n niggers." We are prepared to see
his hair turning white at any moment.
CIRCUIT COURT-An imDortant and long