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MIDDLE RIVER DISTRICT.

line following })0loSdGtS Wtl0 ttppOilCou .
Charles S. Roller, VIM. M. Wilson, W. H.
Moorman, D. B. Hyde, W. W. Crop, J..
w. siaowalter. J. D. Fisher, W. B. Craw-
ford, D. Beard, W. J. Stout, A. 2. Will
kinson, Z. Berry, r. S. Harnsberger, r. P.
Andrews, Isaac Groves.
The delegation were instructed to sup
Yort Judge Cochran for the Senate and j.
d. Craig, Esq, for the House, and to insist
upoM the presentation of five candidates
for the House Of Delegates and one for the
Senate. by the nominating convention.
SOUTH RIVER DISTRICT.
The Conservative voters of South River
District met in the hall at Fishersyille at
Q O'Clock E. M. Saturday. for the purpose OF
choosing delegates 20 the county nomina-
ting Convention. The meeting was called
to order by gorge A. Bruce, District SUI
uerintendent, and was organized by the
election of G.. B. Stuart, Chairman, and
G.. W. Sutler, Secretary.
The following resolution offered by Sam
uel B. Brown, was unanimously adopted
RESOLVED. That it is the opinion of this
meeting that the law enacted by the Legis-
islature Of Virginia. at it's last session. for
the protection of sheep husbandry IN the
county Of Augusta, is wise and just, and
will prove beneficial to the interests OF the
county and State, and that the action OF
our Senator and Delegates thereon is here
by approved and endorsed.
After the adoption of the foregoing res
olution the meeting. after some discussion
as to manner Of electing Delegates, pro-
63eeded to the election Of Fl teen Delegates,
5hree from each voting precinct and three
tfrOa the District at large. The following
lis list of the Delegates chosen: Fol
Waynesboro'-G. A. Bruce, Jonathan
Coiner and John Huff; for Fishersville-
E. Bateman, b. NJ. Ellis, and Col. D. w
Coiners for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. D. Brooks
DIR. Jas. NJ. Watson and Hugh G. Guth
RE; for Sherando-J. S. Ellis, G.. B. Stu
art and A. A. Arnold; for District al
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5. M. Wilkes is selling elegant,,chairs at ST. 90
estch.
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CEED WHEAT FOR SALE ONE HUN
- DRED BUSHELS +"EULTZ WHEAT"
Price ST. 80 per bushel
e. & J.tD. LILLEY,
Apply to A. ". Mcclure, staaaaass9n, Va.
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fDHE LA ST EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS
for tn Pua1ic Schools of Augusta Coulsy,
for the Soho oil yefr of 1856, will be held at
the Academ, in s;,eunton, on Saturday, the
9th day of DC tober commencing at A. NJ.
Oct1-lt. Il. 8. HAMlLION, ". .. s.
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judgment was affirmed, Judge Moncure
delivering the opinion, Judge Staples dis
senting as to the suficiency of the foun-
dation, but concurring on the other point.

THE HEBREW New YEAR.-The He
brew New Year commenced on Wednes-
day at sunset, that being the first day of
the Hebrew month called "Tishri." This
is the sacred new year as distinguished
from the civil new year which commences
on the 18th of the month called "Nisan."
This new years day has several appella
lions, being called the Day OF the Trum-
pets, the day of Remembrance, and the
Day of Judgement. The latter title is the
most popular one, as according to He
brew tradition God on this day judges all
the members of the human family, and al
so DEGREES the destinies of each man and
woman for the next twelve months. The
same tradition relates that the Deity in
scribes the merits and faults of mankind
into the ''Book of Life" which remains
open until the Day of Atonement, when it
is sealed and finally closed The orthodox
Israelites celebrate the New Years festi-
val two days, while the Reform Il ebrews
observe only one day. The drapery in the
synagogues is all of white, and the prayers
and songs are of the most solemn charac-
ter. On the tenth day of the 'sTishri'' oc-
ours the Day Of Atonement, and four days
thereafter the Festival of the Tabernacles
will begin and continue for seven days.
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SERVED WITH PROCESS.

Beirne rs. Rosser q Turner, from the
Circuit Court of Nelson county-action in
Nelson Circuit Court by Rosser & Turner
VS. Oliver 2. Beirne, a resident of Monroe
County, West Virginia, on a contract to
make road, in W. Va. The process was
served on Beirne, in Nelson County He
pleaded in abatement that he was a nom
resident of the State and that his resi-
dence was in Monroe County, W. Va, and
the cause of action arose there, and there
fore the Court had no jurisdiction. To
this plea there was a Demurrer, which was
restrained by the Court below; Court held
there was no error, that at common law,
transitory actions could be brought any
where that the Defendant could be found
and served with process and that the ex-
ceptions made by Statute in Virginia, did
not apply to this case that the Court had
jurisdiction because and only because the
Defendant had been found and served with
process in the jurisdiction Of the Court.
Another error complained of, was that a
sufficient foundation in the proof of eXis-
tence, loss and efforts to obtain letter OF
Defendants had not been laid, to justify
the admission of Plaintiffs parole evidence
of it's contents, The evidence was that
this letter had been sent by Plaintiffs to
their lawyer in West Virginia, with other
papers relating to the cause, and when
Plaintiff wrote to his lawyer to send him
! all the papers, he sent all but this letter,
and that he had never written to the law
yer about the letter afterwards.
Court held the foundation sufficient, but
even if it was not, as the evidence thus
introduced was not stated in the bill OF
exceptions, and the Court could not see
that Defendant was prejudiced therebythe
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GPRING HATS, Late Styles just received att
~ CHAS. l.. WELLER'S Main St apr2a
, 1875-05-29

The President AND RING FRAUBS.-
1t ought to be needless to attempt to
convince any intelligent constituency
that, with this latitude OF authority,
any President of the United States is
from responsibility for the doings OF
Indian rings, moiety thieves and
tinaticiaI ignoranuseS, and for postal
Jobs, district misgovernment and the
rest of the list of abuses which have
of recent years cansed Washington
news to consist so largely of scandal.
Does any one believe that an aggres,
sive executive, bound 10 support the
right and remove the wrong, would
have been powerless under our Con-
stitution to act in accordance with his
inclinations? Would any one be-
iieve that, while President Grant was
pointing to Congress as the body re,
sponsible for anarchy in Louisiana
and for the failure to reform our civil
service, that officer did not have it in
his power to command all necessary
legislation Gust as Governor Tilden
is doing,) had he not shown by the
confined presence in office of such men
as Casey and Packard, and by such
nominations as those of Shepheard
and Williams and Richardson and
Simmons, the iDsincerity of his profes-
sions IN. Y. Eoening Post, (rep.)
, 1875-05-29

GRAssHoPpERs IN MIssoURI.-The
crop of grasshoppers this year prom
ises to be as abundant 10 Missouri as
it was in Kansas and Nebraska i'll
1874. a gentleman in this city re-
ceived box of specimens from Wes-
ton, in that State, on Tuesday. There
seemed to be millions in it-an lnnu-
merable mass of sprightly little tel-
lows from an eighth to quarter of An
inch long. They had been scooped
up by the handful, and the gentleman
who gathered them in says there are
acres upon acres of them, The ground
Is alive with the pest, and as soon as
they have grown little more they
will take wing and then comes the
havoc. 1t is not unlikely that they
will appear as far east as Southern Hi
nois the present season. 1t was thought
the late cold weather would be fatal
to these grasshoppers, but they seem
to be proof to any ordinary tempera-
ture, and can stand sharp frost a
good deal better than the fruit. What
with the grassboppers to deYour every
green thing, the buffalo gnat to sting
to death the live stock, and an unfa-
vorable spring, the farmers of the
west have q dismal prospect before
them for IS75--Cin. Commercial.
, 1875-05-29

A PIX PoBrRMT.-A man who
writes attorney-st-law after bis
name, and who has been figuring
somewhat in Idaho politics, has IN
Cured the displeasure of Gov. Ben
nett, who goes after him in the follow
ing style:
As to Mr.. Brumback, having known
of him in Indiana, as sort Of " jour "
preacher, dealing out the gospel IN a
feeble way on Sundays, in country
school houses, boarding around with
the easily satisfied brethern, while OF
week days he eked out precarlous
existence By wrestling with the rudl-
ments of the law before the justice OF
the peace of a country village, thus
forming a cross between the hypOcrlte
and shyster. And also having had
some knowledge of his sneaking at
tempts to practice law in this Terri
tory, and his financial operations IN
church matters, 10y which he secured
10 himself in addition TO much plum
der, the unanimous and unqualified
contempt of every respectable member
of the bar of this judicial District.
The Governor then winds up by
pronouncing the aforesaid Brumback
lar" " dog" a " sneak" and an
"ass.' Rather forcible language, but
we presume Gov. Bennett knows bis
man.
, 1875-05-29
Crops N THE Say JOAQUIN VALLEY.

CRoPs IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.
in the neighborhood of Grayson the
benefits of thorough tillage are notice
able in a very marked degree. Where
the land was summer-fallowed and
the clods well broken by the liberal
use of the harrow, the crops appear
very fair, while little or no grain VIII
be gathered from the fields which
have been tiled in listless and indii-
ferent manner. Mr.. J. Van Benscho-
ten, one of the first residents OF Gray
son, is authority for the statement that
a fair Weld may be expected IRON
summer.fallowed lands. On the east
side of the river the condition OF the
crops vary according to locality anu
character of soil. Two thirds OF q
crop will be obtained from the black
land. while not more than halt crop
is, as a general thing. is expected from
the lighter red soil along the east
side of the valley. Accounts OF the
condition of the crops in the northern
part of San Joaquin county are OF the
most encouraging character. Between
the the Mokelumne river and Dry
creek an average crop will prob
ably be obtained in many places and
along the Mokelumne, in the neigh
borhoods of Woodbridge, Lodi, Lock
ford and olher localities, much wheat
will be gathered. Along the Gala
yeras river the farmers seem TO be
content over the prospect, and feel as
sured that the harvest will be far
from failure in that section. In the
eastern part of the county, from the
Calaveras river southwark 10 the STAN
islauS river, the yield promises, accord
ing to the best information We can
obtain, an average of from one-half
to two-thirds of that of last year.
South of the the Stanislaus river and
east of Modesto and Turlock, there is
a wide range, where a considerable
amount of wheat will be produced.
The late cool weather has had encour-
aging effect throughout the entire
valley, from San Joaquin county to
Tulare. In Merced the cool atmOs-
phere is said to have had a decidedly
beneficial effect on the wheat growth,
and that the prospect is encouraging
for a good yield from summer.fallowed
land. Volunteer and late sown fields
do not, as a general thing promise
well.-&Ockton Independent.
, 1875-05-29

BRIGHAM You've on FREE SCHOOLS
The Mormon prophet recently expressed his
opinion with his usual directness on the sub
irct Of free schools He Is opposed to them
Children, he says, should be educated at
home, and parents should work and pay for
that education. In 8righam's opinion, all
the education u child wants is to tit him to
yet a living Free schools aud general
smatteriDg Of education render children dis
satisfied with their condition as laborers, with
out fitting them TO improve 1t. Commenting
On this declaration Of the great Mormon
prophet, an exchange says there Is leaven
Of sense in Brigham Young's views, though
his conclusions are drawn rather from the
imperfections of free schools than from any
inherent evil in the system itself No
doubt education lacks purposes in our schools
as at present conducted, But the principle
established of securing to every child in the
community the means of obtaining an educa-
ton is the grandest prOduot of the thought
of the present century. Instead Of warning
against the system, let the wisest heads in
the nation combine TO make our schools
more perfect expression of the principle on
which they are based.
, 1875-05-29

REGISTERED LETTERS. The Post
office Department is about to iDaugu-
rate a change in the registered letter
system by the use of registered letter
pouches, with special locks between
the more prominent offices, by which
means the manipulation of registers
en- route will be avoided and greater
security insured. The system will be
first introduced upon the through lines
between Boston and New Orleans, in
cluding CINCINNATI and St Louis, and
between New York and San Francisco.
If the results upon these routes prove
satisfactory, the system will be applied
TO all distributing offices.
, 1875-05-29

MRs. LINCOLN, widow of the late
President, has become hopefully in.
sane, and on the application of her
own son was committed to a private
Insane asylum. What sad wreck
The writer happened to be in Wash
ington on the day when the electoral
vote for President was counted, and
Abraham Lincoln declared the second
time elected to tbs highest office in
the gift of the people. Mrs. Lincoln
was present in the House of Repre-.
sentatives at the time the vote was
canvassed, and seated in the centre OF
the " Ambassadors gallery" she was
the " observed of all observers. At
that time she was the picture of hap.
piness, and even more than old Abe
felt the pride of station Alas, how
fallen,
, 1875-05-29

RAILROAD CHARGEs.-Ths U. s. Dis
,rict Cour. for Iowss; Judge Dillon pre-
siding. has decided that State Legislatures
have the light 70 regulate railroad freights
and charses, It is stated that Dillon's repu-
tsticn as Judge stands very high, and that
he was one of the first in the West to adjudi-
cate against these aspiring railway corpora
tions and in favor Of the power of the people
through their legislatures TO control them.
Judge Dillon decides that the tariff enacted
by the Legislature of Iowa is binding On the
Burlington and Missouri River rosd. He
rests his decision on two grounds, the first OF
which is Z" That the State never made any
grant to the company to FIX exclusively Its
own tolls" The plain inference is that
without such grant, specifically made, the
Legislature has the right 20 fI the rates.
This. We take it, is 10 become the common
law, and it is in accord with justice and
common sense. 1t sustsins the views OF
Senator Carpenter in his RipOn speech. and
silences the pretensious Of the corporations.
This is the only safeguard for the people
against the eIaCti0ns OF soulless corporations,
and some such fundamental principle will
yet be engrafted upon the law Of the land.
, 1875-05-29

SUPREME LODGE OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Washington, May 19.-The parade Of the
Supreme Guards of the Knights of Pythias
takes place here to-day. 1t Is estimated
there are fully 5000 Knights in the city,
and the turnout will be on a grander scale
than any yet made by the Order. At least
% brass bands are in attendance. At the
session of the Lodge held yesterday the Su-
preme Chancellor presented his report, in
which he alluded 10 the efforts made to pay
the debt Of the Supreme Lodge, and noticed
the fact that one year ago it was bankrupt,
but to-day it is nearly free from debt. He
urges immediate steps to establish the Or
der IN foreign countries and states that he
has applications for introducing the order
into Holland and South Africa, among the
Europeans at the latter place. After the re-
port was read the following committees were
announced Laws and Supervision-JohnP P
Linton OF Pennsylvania; J. ?. Harrington Of
Massachusetts and G. W Lindsley OF Mary
land Finance. P. S. Siblev OF New
Hampshire and G. Rice OF Delaware.
, 1875-05-29

ArrEMfT TO "DoPE" HoRsE.-A
scoundrel known as jim Ross, a
hanger-on about race-tracks and sta
bles, tried a few days ago in San
Francisco to "dope" or give a pill
the size of a hens egg, to the PAGER
Jim Brown. Just before the big match
the horse won, so as to relax his mus
Giles and cause him to loose the race.
He sought to bribe the boy who serv-
ed as hostler, and did give him $50
of the $500 he promised. But the
boy bad revealed the villainy, and a
trap was set to catch Ross. He man.
aged TO escape, however. The bill
was sent to a chemist for analysis.
There was enough strychnine in it to
have killed two or three horses, also a
little morphine.
, 1875-05-29

SUBTERANEAN YATs.-A few weeks since
the discovery was made at Los Angeles
that certain distiIlers of brandy We're de-
frauding the government by means of under
ground watts. wherein they had run many
thousand gallons of liquor. And now comes
Milwaukee with the discovery OF a subter-
anean vault OF the capacity of q, 900 gallons.
1t is charged that all these discoveries are
due the fact that Zac Chandler is no longer
U. 5. Senator from Michigan. Whilst he
was in office he was the patron saint OF dis
tillers, and the revenue had to suffer. Now
that he is ont, the administration is not
afraid TO enforce the law against men who
deal IN crooked " liquors The charge
may be bad for the distillers, but 1t promises
to bring money into the public Golfers.
, 1875-05-29

ANOTHER KIND OF EMIGRATION. -
Russia enjoys peculiar kind of emf
grafton, and one which no other coun-
try under the sun can emulate now
that England has ceased the depOrta-
ton of her criminals to New South
Wales. The employment of Siberia
as a place of exile appears to have
been continued steadily through all
the surface reforms of Russian Gov
ernment, and a partial measure OF the
character of the system may be gath
cred from the alleged fact that nearly
seventeen thousand persons were sent
to Siberia between Nav and October
last. a certain percentage of these
exiles were, 10 doubt, criminals ; but
a startling large proportion consisted
of political 0ffenders-that Is to say, a
class of persons who would not be Of
tenders at all in the United States or
Great Britain. 1t is not easy for an
American to realize all that is involved
in this custom Of banishment to Slbe-
ria but so long as it continues 1t Is
certain that Russia is in all essentials
an unciyilized-nay, even barbarous
country, and in no single respect fitted
to be the ally of a freedom wOrshlplng
people.
, 1875-05-29

IMIIGRANTs.-Iti is estimated for the cur
rent year that the number of immigrants
reaching California will exceed the depart
urcs by $4,000. Since January lst, the ar
rivals have averaged over 5000 monthly. In
1874 there arrived BY rail in the months of
january, February, March, April and the
first half Of May, 5l3S first-class passengers
and l0,Sl3 second-class-a total Of 1875.
During the same period of this year there
have arrived, Of tirst-class passengers, $3.50 ;
of second-class, 19,644-a total of PISS,
the increase being 1902 first-class and 1851
second-class-a total increase over the CORES
ponding months of 1874 of II, ,SS3. OF the
immigrants, Il considerable Lumber reach
| Oregon, but more recently large proportion
have turned their faces Eastward, and these
go back breathing maledictiOus upon the
whole Pacific slope.
, 1875-05-29

\ HAPPY LAND.-A correspondent re-
ioices in the discovery of country where the
applicants for Office are so scarce that il is
necessary for one man to hold half dozen
positions at one and the same time in order to
fill vacancies He says that Walla Walla Is
the place where this anomaly exists, but if
SO. the writer must have been indulging in
Zip Van Winkle sleep. 1t didn't use TO be
that wav.
, 1875-05-29

Some of the London papers, and
those accustomed to be reliable, main.
tain that the late war rumors were far
from groundless. They assert that
Germany alarmed by the rapid mill
tary reorganization of France, was
about to undertake another campaign,
when the combined protest of the
powers, and especially of England aud
Russia served 10 deter her. So long
as the danger is admitted to be Just,
there is little use in querying whether
1t ever existed.
, 1875-05-29

IT is a notorious fact that not a public
building or an improvement of any kind
undertaken by the federal go-ernmgnt since
Grant became the head of the nation, that
has not developed some job, and in no in
stance has the work been irst-class. The
latest Developments Are in regard to the new
pOs'ofice and custom house in Chicago. The
buildings have recently been examined by
competent architects aud the discovery was
made that the walls are defective and will
have 10 he taken down, and that the mate
rIals USED were not what the contractors
agreed to furnish.
, 1875-05-29

FOREIGN GRAIN MARKET. = New
YORK, May 18th.-The dark Lane
Express says: "There has been a
marked improvement in respect to
temperature, which has reached sum
mer warmth, altering the face of the
country. The market is dull. Had
high prices been paid smart decline
would have followed, but at present
rates there is no room for abatement.
All over Europe the beneficial change
is felt, hut the markets are little al
tered and prices are perhaps shilling
lower"
, 1875-05-29

ANOTHER VIcTlN.-Secretary Bris-
tow has courteous way of dismissing
his subordinates from office. When
one is decapitated he asks, Why
Am l unfaithful 2" And Mr.. Bristow
replies, "No charges against you. 1t
is for the good of public service" "
Supervisor Mum, of Chicago, it is
stated by Washington correspondent,
will receive an invitation to quit. In
bowling him out, Mr.. Biistow will
make no explanations. 1t is a way
he has, when one of his subordlnates
Is suspected.
, 1875-05-29

J. W. NEsNn1H positively declil IS TO al
low the use of his nsme as q candidate for
Congress. Nez intends to have hand in
cooking the Senatorial broth, and so he pro-
poses TO be at home when that struggle comes
of. We think that it is within Nesmith' S
power 10 run for the house and afterwards
capture the Senatorial prize.
, 1875-05-29

Crop PsosPECTs IN THE WESTERN
STArEs.-ToLEDo, Ohio, May 18th
The Blade publishes an elaborate
crop report, compiled from statements
from $50 points in Ohio, Indiana, H.
inois, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, in
dicating that there has been from a
quarter TO third of the winter wheat
crop killed, but this is nearly offset
by the increased number of acres
sown and the quantities of spring
wheat put in. If everything is fayora-
bic, this brings the whole production
up to an average crop. One-fourth
of last years crop remains in the
farmers hsnds. The amount of corn
put in this year greatly exceeds that
of last year.
, 1875-05-29

Mss ANN pamela CUNyIYGHAM, the
first lady regent of the Ladies Mt.
Vernon Association, whose object
was to recover the home Of Washing
ton and. place it in the national keep
ing, died at RosemOnt, South Carolina,
lately. Miss Cunningham was high
ly meritorious and talented lady, IN
whose bosom burned the pure flame
of a patriotism that rebelled against
the desecration and neglect of the
tomb of the Father of his Country.
She and Madame LIE Vert, of Mobile,
were the leaders of the movement TO
rescue the burial place of Washington
from the vandal hands into which it
had fallen, and give it TO the keeping
of the ladies. Her name should De
mentioned with respect all over the
land, and her death Iamented by every
true patriot.
, 1875-05-29

GERMANY PROCLAIMs PEACE.-The Ger
man government evidently feels it owes
something TO public opinion, and that the
general sentiment of the world resents the
policy Of blood and iron. Consequently the
official organ of Bismarck announces that the
relations between Germany and France hare
not been as friendly as they are now since
the close of the war. A semi-official news
paper adds that Germany desires peace, and
feels that she can rely on Russia TO preserve
it. We trust these assurances Will not be
unfounded- Europe has had enough OF
" bioO1 and iron " for this generation.