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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
For the VALLEY VIRGINIA,
From Fluvanna County.

Fork UNION, Fluvanna Co., Oct. 26 '76.
Messrs. Editors Probably WORD
from this section may prove of interest.
After canvass OF about ten days, car
cheerfully say that the people OF Fluvanna
are beginning to be thoroughly aroused as te
the vast importance Of the approaching ma
| tional election. Hayes and Wheeler clubs
have been organized in all the principal parts
of the county, and am quite sure from pre-.
sent indications that on the 18th of November
the Republican ticket will triumph, and
Hayes & Wheeler and Early will pole lar.
ger vote than has been polled in former times
here. as
Tilden & Hendricks stock is losing rapid
ly in its pretended magic of sham reform.
Yesterday being Court day. J. T. S. Taylor
and G.. W.. Fisher addressed the people at
Palmyra in the interest of Capt. E. W. Ear
ly and the Republican cause. The vast all.
dience, more than half of which were whites.
paid the strictest attention to every word
that was said
The meeting was the largest and most eff
fectual that was ever held here. Rest assur-
ed that sold FLU will do her duty on the
seventh.
Yours truly,
REPITRI loan
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A prayer meeting is held in connection
with the Vermont Legislature every morn
ing, and the members attend in large num-
hrrs. aud show great desoitness. The
M,ntp lieg Journal says: Among those al
tending aus; ,icepiy lat ,e>lei in the meet
ing are some who have never attended pray
er meeting at their homes. The singing is
inspiring, the spirit OF the meeting is excel
lent, the prayers are feryent, and the ad-
dresses are convincing, and sometimes truly
touching"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

ECONOMY IS WEALTH. champion
mean man lives in Montgomery county. He
has been married four times. When his Sec
ond wife died he split his first wife's tomb
stone and laid the two bodies side by side.
each with a half Of slab. When the last two
wives departed he placed them in graves
head to head with the first two, so that the
srlit tombstone would do for all four. He
will not marry again for fear he cannot uti-
lize that stone again in case there is another
death in the family. His neighbors do say
that he buried his aunt at the foot of his
grapevine, so that she would be useful as a
noursher to the plant. Ii this be true, our
mean man beats the parsinonious French
man who, after blowing the fire, used to put
cork in the nozzle of the bellows in order
to save the wind for the next time; and he
removes the scalp from Crackstunner, Of
Darby, who always saved the backbone oil
the shad in order to avoid buying combs fol
his family Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The suspension of the Continental Life In-
surance Company affects some seventy thou
sand policy holders as we'll as its other cred
itors. Although the managers are of the
opinion that the policy holders will lose moth
ing. we doubt very much whether the peo-
pie who have been paying their annual pre-
miums for eight or ten years will be much
comforted by this assurance. Like the 9TH
er life insurance companies that have failed,
the exhaustion Of funds seems not to have
been occasioned by the decrease of an unu
sual number of the assured, but by injudi-
cious speculations in stocks and real estate.
The State of New York has tried to sur
round the insurance business with special
safeguards, and there is q public officer
whose duty it is to examine the condition OF
every company and to report thereon annrl-
ally. Notwithstanding this supervision two
Of the most disastrous failures that have oc-
Cured in the Insurance world were New
York companies.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A Paris landlord not being able to squeeze
rent out of one of his tenants, recently made
q visit to the fifth floor and caught him in
the act Of concealing something under the
table cloth. The poor ledger finally yielded
to the threats and showed the landlord a
bank note of fifty francs which he had been
copying. you scoundrel," said the land
lord, ''are you running the risk of the gal
lows for a miserable sum of fifty francs ?"-
'sAh, Monsieur" wIined the lodger, II am
entirely of your opinion it is q wretched
sum to forge, but the model of bigger note
is wanting to me.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The ten days having expired on the 25th
which to pay almony to Ann Eliza, his
nineteenth wife, and it not having been
paid, Brigham appeared ir court before
Judge Shaeffer, at Salt Lake, who ordered
that ga. X. Smith be appointed a special
commissioner without bonds, and ordered to
seize property, sell the same, and pay the
sum required, together with costs, and that
special authority be issued to the commits
sioner under the seal of the court 1t was
further ordered that the defendant be dis
charged
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Clara Louise Kellogg is in trouble in Phil
adelphia. 1t seems that one Arthur Thamm
agent Of the Kellogg troupe, engaged about
sixty chorus singers for the opera season oil
1861, and a week OF two ago all but eight
or ten were dismissed. The aggrieved dis
charged have commenced suit against Miss
Kellogg for non-fulfillment of contract, and
she and her agent are under bail.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A HEAVY DIVORCE SUIT.--If it cost as
much to get married as some of the lawyers
claim for procuring q divorce the altar of
Hymen would have but few votares. We
read of an instance, i'll the San Francisco
Call, of gentleman connected with the bar
of that city, who thinks he is entitled to
100000 for obtaining a severance of the
martial tie
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Rev. Green Clay Smith, the prohibitionist
candidate for President. was the youngest
soldier in the Mexican war. He entered the
service when only Ii years old, and was
made lieutenant, serving with much credit.
During the late war he attained the rank of
brgadier general III the Federal army, and
is now pastor of a Baptist church in Frank
fort XIV
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

sions. has finished his annual report. 1t
shows the number Of army invalid pension
ers is los, 457, an increase of POI; number of
widows and minor children on the roll 104,.
S65, decrease of 3.7lS; the rnmber of vete-
rams of 1872 is 1885, showing that 1859
have died during the year; total amount paid
out for pensions during the year 1928, 1851, 500.
leaving 81, $50, 900 not drawn from the ap-
preparations. The commissioner is now pre-
pared to submit plan to remedy the evils
of the present system of settling pension
claims, including the matter of frauds, but
will make it the subject of n future eommu-
nicaton
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Sandy Melville, a horse thief, was sem
fenced, at Council Bluffs, to five years. inn
prisonment. He had long been notorious
rascal. just before his start for the peili-
Tertiary, he was married to q woman who
had good home and respectable connec-
lions. She had fallen in love with him
while nursing him during his recovery from
wound that he had received in an encoun.
ter with officers
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The friends of deceased actor in San
Francisco took what they supposed to be his
body from the hospital where he died and
made touching public demonstration over
it, but found afterwards to their disgust that
they had been eulogizing Mexican horse
thief
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Not long ago the bones OF IA mastodon Were
found in Washington Territory, the skull
bone of which alone weighed 800 ponds,
and contained when found a quantity of gold
and silver quartz. The tusks were twenty
feet in length and the leg stood twenty feet
high. They are said to be the largest fossil
remains ever discovered.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The Smith College for Women in Massa-
chusetts has new art gallery which contains
six or seven hundred copies of the charac-
terlstic paintings Of the Italian, Flemish,
Dutch, German and Spanish schools. Most
of the copies have been taken by the autotype
process, and copies in oil of the master
pieces in each department are to be obtained.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

New Jersey sportsmen have taken ohunt-
ing cats, and recently fifty-seyen were killed
in day. Rabbits were plentiful there till
some years ago when the cats commenced
killing them, and eventually took to the
woods themselves, and the result is, the rab-
bits disappeared almost entirely, and a race
Of semi-wild cats sprung up. Hence the war
Of determination that the hunters are wag-
fnU
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

s'No matter what comes upon you, don't
give up to it! Look it sqnare in the eye
DON'T let it see you finch. If sorrow has
entered your life, and rendered it bleak and
cherries, don't bow down before it like a
freed shaken in the wind" but swallow it,
shake it of your existence; cut it UP root
and branch; don't let it put you down un.
der its feet.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

There is always something new from Paris.
An eccentric old gentleman who recently
died there forbade in his will that any priest
should oflicate at his funeral or that any per-
son should follow his body to the grave. He
did not wish any body to get cheerful OIL the
way home from his burial after preserving a
funeral aspect at his house, he said.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
1876 1876.
DURKE'S LIVERY STABLES,
ID StauntOn, Va.
8 : 3 2 . 3 3 8 9 I
no THE WORKING CLAss.-we can

ITO THE WORKING CHASING can flirn-
i ish you employment at which You can make
very large pay.in your own localities, without
being away from home over night. gents want
ed in every town and county to take subscribers
for The Centennial Record, the largest publica-
ton in the United States-l6 pages, GA columns:
Elegantly Illustrated; Terms only 81 per year.
The Record is devoted to whatever is of interest
connected with the Centennial year; The Great
detail Everybody wants 1t. The whole people
feel great interest in their Country's Centennial
Birthday and want to know all about it,. An ele-
CANT patriotic crayon drawing premium picture
is presented free to each subscriber. 1t is emit
tied I'm remembrance OF the One Hundredth An,
niversary OF the independence OF tne united
a successful agent. for but show the paper and
picture and hundreds of subscribers are easily
obtained everywhere. There is no business that
will pay like this at present. We have many
agents who making as high as $50 per day and
upwards. Now is the time; don't delay. Remem-
her it costs nothing to give the business trial
send for our circulars, terms. and sample copy CT
paper, which sent free to all who apply: doit
to-day Complete outfit freet to those who decide
to engage. Farmers and mechanics, and their sons
and daughters, make the very best OF agents. Adj
dress, 3 3=rsl
THE CENTENNIAL RECORD,
july l3-tf Portland, Maine.
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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The supposed keeper of the bones Of Tom
Paine died recently in England. He kept his
dark secret well, having only affirmed once
received them from Cobbett, who took them
there from America. When asked further
in regard to the matter'he refused to answer,
and it is now feared it will never be known
what has become of the bones.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
It is said that the print of 4 fema]

1t is said that the print OF female foot
eleven inchs long was discovered last week
in the red sand stone OF Connecticut. How
it was ascertained to be q female foot does
not transpire, and probably this libelous as
sertion was made with view to making
down-trodden women angry. A well known
professor there and several other geological
fanatics have gone to digging, and it is pop
ularly supposed that they hope to find the
body belonging to the sole.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The buildings of the Paris Exhibition OF
1878, will cover space of 1,350,0 900 square
yards. They are to be of iron filled in with
brick work, and will have the form Of u
Pythagorean table i. c., if passed through
in one direction the similar productions of
different countries may be inspected, while
if crossed in the other direction the various
products of any one country may be passed
in review.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

An Australian has taught a canary bird to
sing ''Home. Sweet Home" by suspending
it before looking-glass near a music-box
which performed that melody. Supposing
the bird in the glass was making the music,
the bird finally caught the notes, and now
MARBLES the whole tune.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The life OF an Australian squatter is a
struggle 'twiNt drought and flood. He is
now terribly distressed by the former. The
rivers are choked by the carcasses of sheep
and oxen which have died of thirst, and
they are obliged to kill the lambs to save the
sheep. On one station 1000 head of cattle
have persisted. and on another 10000 sheep.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A mother mourning at her first born 8
grave. or closing the eyes of child in death,
displays a grief whose very sacredness is
sublime. But bitter, heavier than the stroke.
is the desperation OF son who rllshes over
a crushed heart, into vices which he would
hide even from the abandoned and vile.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

There was a man from Norwich, England,
who, after seconding a resolution expressing
horror at the atrocities committed by the
Turks in Bulgaria, went home and taking a
clock weight for q bat bounced his wife about
for ball till he nearly killed her He was
sent up for six months where he will get no
plum porritch'
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

.'What is this candle for, my child?" sale
a kind aunt who had come to visit her niece
80, auntie," said the young woman rather
sadly, 81 keep that candle burning every
night for my late husband" ''Good heav-
ems, Frances, you are not a widow" 90
dear, no; but my husband is on some con
ference committee or other every evening
and never gets home before O'Clock in thu
morning.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
Nor.hal R,za;ne with his wife and

Marshal Bazaine with his wife and children
are residing with q friend in the little village
of Lloines. The fortune of both Bazaine and
his wife was absorbed by the expenses OF his
trial, which the French government rigorous
ly exacted, even to the extent OF seizing a
pair of the marshal's pantaloons and the
family clock, the last Of which made him
think it was time to retire.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

- The returns OF the Metropolitan Police at
the Gnilhall Court, London, shows that in
1875. GIG persons were apprehended for cru
city to animals and 564 were summoned, out
of which 33S were convicted. London has
the lead yet in the above business.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

San Francisco has Woman's Mining Btu
reau. All the women whose names appear
at directors are we'll known as successful OPP
orators in stocks. The object of the women
is to buy, sell, and loan money on mining
stocks. There are many women who dabble
in stocks in San Francisco, and rough est
mate recently puts their nurber in the thou.
sands.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

In Washington, In the case Of Isaac Curry,
convicted some days since of an assault upon
Mr.. Davidson, Judge Macarthur on 23l, set
aside the verdict upon the coming in of evil
dence to show that Davidson had attem pied
to kiss Mr.. Curry's daughter.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

In London l53 children die annually out
Of every l,00o oefore they attain their iirsG
year; u OsaHatk l55; So 5t,ai.d, la6; Eng
i.nd, ia; Begun, 1855; .lolia.4s., Ri;
France, PIG; Prussia 22o; opai., 226; swift
zerland, 252; Italy, 254; Austria, 1903; Rus
STA, 3ll; Bavaria, 372.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
VARIOUS TOPICS.

More trouble for Italy, Princess Marghc-
rita is poet and has written some verses !;
and Of course these verses are about Venice.
the great canal centre of the kingdom.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A maiden lady said to her little nephew (:
''Now. Johnny. you 60 to bed early, and al
ways do SO, and You'll be rosy-cheeked and
handsome when you grow up" Johnny
thought over this a few minutes, and then
observed: well, aunty, you must have sat
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A large satchel was picked up in Central
Park last week by one of the patrolmen, who
slook it to see what it contained. He found
out, for straightway baby began to cry
Whipping out his knife he cut the satchel
open and found in it a pretty little baby girl
Ii was taken care Of
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The young man in the beautiful fable of
La Fontaine ridiculed the man of four SC re
for planting an avenue of little trees, be-
cause he could not hope to live long enough
to see hem as high as his he, ID. "WeI, >
said he, card what OF that? Ii tn if ssadt
afford me no pleasure it may afford pleasure
to my children, and even to you; aud.
therefore. the planting of them gives me
pleasure
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Why should the gloom deepen as we neal
the sun? ADD why should the unthinkins
speak of the downward slope OF life? Why
walk backward all our days, with our faces
down hill and gloomily speak OF the down
ward slope 70 the grave? But yet how true
it is that most OF us do so.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

The ladies' brass band of Nebraska carried
away the premium offered for the best band
at the State Fair. 1t is composed Of young
ladies Of some of the best families in the
State, and now they are going to do what is
always the next thing-givc Il concert
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

There seems to b. some advantage in be-
ing full-blooded negro after all. Out OF
100 deaths in Savannah from yellow fever
since August 81, not one full blooded black
person is included in the list, and none have
had the fever.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

10 furnish the ivory worked up in England
fifty thousand elephants are killed yearly
The best ivory comes from Zanzibar, orna-
mental material from Siam, and the silver
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

A servant girl employed at Bramfield Hall
Suffolk, England, brushed against her mas
ter with a fish kettle recently and so aroused
his gentlemanly ire that he retaliated by
striking her on the mouth several times,
thereby breaking her jaw and necessitating
the removal of four of her teeth. She brought
suit against him for damages and was award
ed 500, which will just about get her a new
set of teeth and half pay her DOCTOR
Verify, the ways of the rank in dealing with
the file are rank indeed in the blessed king
dom.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
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SILENCE Is GOLDEN.

1t is the sweet warm rain in silence dropping
That sinks with refreshing power;
Not the wind-born storm, or driving torrent.
Which breaks the tender flower.
II is the keen, quick tightening, sharp and silent
That splinters, scatnes and kills;
Not the huge believing Of the noisy thunder,
Echoing among the hills
1t is the still, small voice. whose silent pleading
Persuades the deepmost heart; s.{,
Not a loud speech, the hcarse and vulgar jargoI
The rude stentoran art. 1.s,
The mightiest forces in the world around us,
We neither hear nor see:
The shallow bro oklet, pent among the eddies,
Babies increasingly. via
The stars march on their eter1aI courses. ~
Uttering no voice or sound;
The rushing meteor fies-explodes in ether
Falls kissing to the ground.
The human soul, whose grasp is widest. grandest
OF things in heaven and earth,
Discovers not its royal truths and treasures,
In hours OF noisy mirth
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
GALLEY RAILROAD.
Y Trains will run as follows:

Train leaving Staunton at 900 a. makes close
connection at Harrisonburg for Baltimore, Phiia-
delphia, New York and all points East and West,
also with Stages for Rawley Springs For further
information, apply to
8. NJ. WOODWARD, Jr..
T. F. Agent Staunton, Va.
VIII. JORDAN, Supt. july 27-tf
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
DEAD THIS.

In addition to the above, keep large stock Of
all pgrades OF Smoking Tobaccos. from b0cts per
my own manufacture, from SIS to $50 per thous-
and.
Don't forget the place. When you come to
town give me a call, and you will see thst, can
supply you with anything pertaining to the To-
bacco trade ut the very lowest prices.
Respectfully, s.sas{ ~
mar25 CHAS. E. HAINES.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02
LANDs FOR SALE

The undersigned has for sale hundreds Of valua-
BILE FARMS, COUNTRY-SEATS,M MILLS, TIMBER
ED and MINERAL LANDS, MINERAL SPRINGS,
&C., &C., on the most reasonable terms. To those
wishing to buy. come and see for yourselves, and
to those having properties to sell, II you give
we want to act for you. We have been in the bust
ness ten years, and never sold q bad title Send
stamp for the LAND Advertiser" Piedmont Land
Agency. O. szare DAVID D. NJ. DIGGES.
june 6-n Gordonsvtlle, Va.
p. S.-W H. H. LYNN, will give all information
to SELL OF BVY VALLEY LANDS, through my, Agen-
cy. ~ DAVID D, NJ. DIdGES.
sep IA
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Groningen, a city Of 10000 inhabitants in
Holland, has made, by its annual public sale.
OF sewage, million and half of francs i'm
ten years. 1t has been calculated that Lon
don wastes as much food element as if ten
million quartern loaves floated down the
Thames daily into the sea.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

An unmarried but not young woman in
Chicago has a father who will not allow her
to change $685. to 1885, in the record of
her birth in the Bible, and she turns pale
with fright every time her lover goes near the
sacred volume as it lies on the parlor table.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-02

Trains leaving Staunton at 1915 a. m, and $40
D. m run daily Except Sunday stopping at all
regular stations.
Trains leaving staunton at 7,o5 a. M, and 1880
between Huntington and Allegheny, and at Gov
ington, Millboro', Goshen. Waynesboro', Alton,
Greenwood, Mediums River. Ivy, Charlottes-
vile, Gordonsvile, Junction and Richmond.
Pullman sleeping cars run on 7,05 a. m. and
1880 p. M, trains between Richmond and Coving-
ton.
R8For rates, Tickets and information, apply to
J. H. WOODWARD Agent, Staunton, Va.
CONWAY R. HOWARD,
w. NJ. S. DUNN, G.. P. g. Ticket Agent
Engineer and Superintendent sepH