The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-01-06
Centennial.

K. II.
The collectors had promenade concert on
Saturday.
How long will it take you to get used to
writing 1875 instead of 1876? M
| Hon. John Letcher will please accept our
thanks for public documents.
The memory of the oldest inhabitant has
been taxed to recall New Years day and
| week so fair.
This being the week of prayer the Young
Mems Christian Association will hold meetings
each evening.
This being Leap Year, any lady Is at perfect
liberty to propose to her husband the purchase
of new silk dress.
The apprehension of the Importation and
spread Of small pox in our midst is somewhat
disturbing the nervous.
s.How many calls did you receiver" was
question that travelled over all the congrega-
tons on Sunday morning.
Now that people have to go down to the Val
ley depot, the Council ought to have the pave
ment to the Asylum fixed at once.
The ''German'' was given at the Mozart on
Monday night. and passed off very pleasantly.
About eighteen or twenty couples were pres
ent.
A quorum not being present, no business
was transacted by the City Council on Tues
day night.
A loving pair Of callers managed to get
two-horse buggy entwined in rose-bush on
Saturday, and they hadn't taken anything but
s'coffee'' either.
On next Tuesday night Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss
will deliver a lecture before the Young Mems
Christian Association, on impressions in the
North of Ireland.''
The band welcomed the New Year with some
fine music About twelve o'clock on Friday
night. it came out on the streets and played
several excellent pieces.
If there is trying moment in the life of the
average girl, it is when she attempts to run over
; her New Years callers to her rival, and stick
to the truth at the same time.
Mr.. Leo. Wheat, the celebrated organist,
will give one OF his elegant entertainments at
the Institution for the d. D. & B., for the BEN
eft Of the Y. NJ. G. A., on next Monday night.
The election comes off on next Thursday,
and the sovereigns will soon swell out and ex-
pect the candidates to shake hands and ask
about the family every time they meet them.
young society sprout called on one OF the
city bellies on Saturday, and when she told the
servant to remove the chocolate and bring in
the condensed milk, he picked up his dander
and left.
No man likes to pine away and die this
kind of weather, but it makes him awful sick
to tell the same old lie about scaling around
tomorrow to every store clerk that brings
that little bill.
!, s'My daughter, the line must be drawn
, somewhere; hereafter. then, let.me see you with
no girl who didn't receive more than twelve
calls on New Years day. said an up town
mother, early Sunday morning.
The only genuine reason that can be assigned
for this beautiful weather was given by a boy
the other night when he said that it was only
"a burned piece of spite to keep the fellows
from skating during the holidays"
magistrate in the police court on Saturday
in making out bail bond for one year, wrote
''from January, 1875 to January, 1867 but a
bystander corrected the error before it was
signed, but received no thanks from the pris
oner.
: Some boys raised fuss on Bruce's corner last
d Friday night, by firing crackers, and the like.
/, Just as the clock struck twelve, about twenty
d five packs were set off, accompanied by about
It half dozen cannon cracker, and much to the
is annoyance of all sober people, this racket was
e kept up until far into the morning.
5 The medical profession may be very horrit
: in the main, but there is nothing particularly
disagreeable in vaccinating pretty girls arm
+ and if the NJ. DIS should happen to require sew
n cral able bodied young men as supporters
IS whilst the operation is being, performed, WI
l. will only charge ten cents line for the adver
IS tisement and guarantee it Ito take"
1t was good thing that custom had decreet
r. Saturday as day of general visiting anon!
men, for it would have been painful to receive
n callers, whose card bore the New Years greet
d ing in
. ''Mr. Swell,
d 10 Stitch & Snip,
|. Fashionable Tailors, DIR.
5 and so on.
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