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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-05-17
THE STAND.


At The northern end of the town, and on a
beautiful green, the speakers stand was
erected. The front was garlanded with
wreaths and evergreens, and at the centre of
the arch was splendid steel engraving of
Gen. Breckenridge, whilst on either side
were the pictures Of Lee and jackson. In
front OF the stand seats were arranged. The
crowd was estimated at between 8, 500 and
1000, many Of whom were seated on the
benches, while others were strewn on the
grounds in little groups, sheltering them
selves as best they could, by umbrellas, from
the warm rays OF the sun, which during the
entire day shone with uncloudeJ brightness.
At 11.30 o'clock salute was fired by the
Artillery, and after music by each of the
Bands, the exercises of the day were opened
by the Lords Prayer, by Rev. S. Henkel,
after which Judge Calvert read the following
Memorial Elegy, written by Prof. Salyards !:
MEMORIAL ELEGY.
White hands and soft, fair damsels of the Vale
Strew gently here your offerings for the Dead =
They fought for and peace shall tell the tale
Who pillows now each consecrated head.
The foe approached you, but i'll haste he fed.
That Sunday evening when the clouds did weep
The foe approached you and your champions bled;
o cheap your bays Arabian incense cheap!
Here sleep heroic souls to breathe it as they sleep
All woe is me! 1.-The lot OF man is hard!
His dubious calms must come between the storms;
Celestial peace must still maintain guard
Her friends so few, her foes, malignant swarms
Promethean fire oft burns the house it warns;
"At rest!" recalls life of toll and pain;
These very flowers the dew of night deforms;
But in your hearts memorial flowers remain,
Which bloom for those who died, in what they
died to gain.
Ask not for names. The name of all was one,
One dear, regretted brotherhood of trust;
We had no Cesar, no Napoleon;
One life they lived, and now they sleep one dust
We should be thankful and we WILL be just,
Our poorest soldier had life to loose;
Each did his duty not as vassals must,
But free as champions Of the Truth will choose;
l To die for more than this Brutus might refuse
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-05-17

nj. YOsT 4 SON. EDITORS AND pUBLlsuERs
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-05-17
THE SITUATION.

Now look at the situation. Grant was pressing
left, was moving upon the southwest. with the ex.
pectation that he would occupy the attention OF
Breckenridge in the defence OF that important
lead mines SO vital to the South, whilst Sgel was
advancing upon Staunton. the centre OF the line
and the key to this Valley, and which. besides ne
was point Of the greatest Importance as the To-
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
MAY PAINS.

Many of THE TRIBUNE readers are martyrs
TO neuralgia or some other nervous affection.
They will probably hear therefore with kecner
interest than they take i'll the news from the
Danube that their worst season of torture ends
with this month. May closes the annual period
of vital depression, when human life is at its
ebb, and neuralgia, chOrea, and epilepses run
rampant in our bodies like Shiny things on the
shore at low tide With the dry warmth of
June the human thermometer rises, the amount
of pain lessons, our chances for life increase.
Another subject of interest to this class may
be found in a curious investigation recently
made by DR.. ). Weir Mitchell into the effect
Of weather upon pain. Every man or woman
cursed with rheumatism or a corn since the
beginning of the world has been foretclling
approaching storms by them, yet no scientific
explanation has ever been given how lump
OF hardened skin on toe could gain knowl-
edge OF a rainfall on the other side o. the
continent
Dr.. Mitchell, who as our readers know has
made neural disease specially, has for years
closely observed the influence Of the weather
on pain, and now, with the aid of an excep-
tonaly intelligent patient, is enabled TO set
before us certain general positive deductions.
This patient an officer in the army, suffering
torturos from the stump Of an amputatcd
limb cooly carried on honriy comparisons Of
his pain with the changes in the meleorologic
conditions for three years. The results of ihis
and other cases are given with accuracy. The
conclusions most serviccablc to our tormented
readers are, probably, that their misery is
likely to increase steadily with the humidity
of the atmosphere, but that neither humidity
nor wind nor rising temperature alone will
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
TILE CHLLDREN AGIIN.

Last week we urged upon such OF OHr read
crs as are in the habit of taking their own
children out of the heat and disease of the
city during the Summer the duty of helping to
omen some door of escape for the thousands of
sick little paupers who die in our tenement
houses and cellars every July and August
We have heard since then Of n cheap, effective
method by which this has been done, and
which we wish to place before our readers as
one already successfully tested and which is
within the power of any householder living in
the country to put into practice. The fact Is
that the free excursions, admirable and COM
mendable as they are, are of no practical ben
eft in saving the lives Of children dying Of
teething or marasmus; and the four or five
sanitariums established at the sea-shOre are
but of small aid among the thousands who
need this kind of aid.
In May, last year, lady living a short dis
tance from Philadelphia brought a couple of
poor sick children out to her country house,
kceping them for two or three weeks Their
place when they returned was filled by others,
aftcrward by babies with their mothers. n
clean, comfortable room, plenty of plain,
wholesome food, and leave to be idle and to
grow strong in the fields and fresh air, was
all that was needed. Some Of her neighbOrs,
seeing how easy and effective this hospitality
was, offered to take such guests also. The
kindly idea was cOntagiOus that farmer must
think himself poor indeed who is not willing
to spare bite and sup to two starving sick lit
tie folk Before the Summer was over the
lady made regular weekly visits to the city,
taking charge of the children whom her
friends IN town had chosen as worthy objects
of the charity, and leaving them at each sta
ton on her return with farmers who had offered
TO receive them. At the end Of two or three
weeks she brought them back to the depot in
town. where their friends received them again.
This Summer the system has been perfected /;
a club of good women in the city Will choose
the children most in need Of such help, in
some cases taking the mothers also. The
farmers and townspeople with Summer homes
living along the line of almost every railway
running into Philadelphia have entered into
the scheme ard Will receive the children. The
lady who first devised tile plan is a post of no
mean order in the public Judgment, but she
has written no word so fine or enduring as
this.
In every instance during last Summer the
experiment met with complete success. The
farmers who opened their doors then were first
to offer this Spring. Cannot the plan be tried
in the neIghborhood of NewYorll 7
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tion now in progress by the Legislature OF
South Carolina, which bids fair to be followed
bv the exodus from that State of small pro-
cesson of mappreciatcd and ostracscd states
men. promises to throw some light upon the
matter. IL appears from the facts brought
ont during tins inquiry that the persons
who have been running the Government Oh
South Carolina for several years held certain
political opinions rs. to the proprlety an" no'0'
sty of supplying themselves WIN cnaiP"s"''
cigars, whisky, sugar flour, anu various o'n'i
Injuries and necessaries mt the cost OF Chc
State. and that the proud and stuck-up
peopIe of the State differed with thein
ON these points. Purely difference OF
ouinion. rit will be observed, upon a p0ltical
question as to the functions OF government
And simply for this, we presume, these unio-
pentant rebels ostracsed the upright ana hlgh-
minded statesmen who had. thrown themselves
in the breach to run their State Government
Here. for instance, was Mr.. j. B. Dennis lot
merly of Connecticut, an active ana ehergeuc
friend of the Grant Administration ana the
rights of man, who was in the habit OF CIV
ing such orders as this:
Rooms JONT SPECIAL INvEsTGATING Cow
COLUMBIA, &. c., April 7, ISL
lfr sY,MEHs: Please deliver bearer one boX pest
cigars one gallon best whisky, and one box tpnis
champagne for j. Woodruff per order Of above.
j. p. DENNIS.
Now if there be any question as to the
proprety of Mr.. Dennis's ordering cigars,
whisky, and champagne at the expense of the
State, it is clearly enough a political one
1t only shows the extent TO which the mIe-
generate South Carolinians carry political
dilfercncos,-that because Mr.. Dennis held
the views indicated above they refused to rec
ognize him as a gentleman and admit him
to the best society. And this is only a single
instance. Doubtless many more might be
cited 1t establishes beyond question the fact
that the social ostracism so much complained
of at the South is due entirely to political diff
ferences. 1t is too late now of course to remedy
it. The returning patriots who have done so
much for the South will hardly be persuaded
to go back to that section. The only thing
we can think of in the way Of remedy or pre-
vention for this dreadful state Of things is for
the patriots who hold such views as Mr.. Den
Mss about the functions of government to
refuse under any circumstances to 90 South
It's 10 place for them, where they ostracisc men
for little political difference like that
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

70 his children. who in silent grief kne around h,s bea
"rhis cannot last long, 7 nearly gone; follow NV
example" The room in which Seua or BrownloW died
was the family sitDgrooIn, and Is the which he
confined by the Confederate authorities IN the early
part O the war, and ~ the In which was visited
by Cen Grant and hOusands Of Federal officers and .o
diers after the battle Of Lookout Mountain.
Mr.. Samuel Breck says that when Catharina
Macaulay the historian visited Boston 1856 she wore
at dinner party then the fashion, long head
dress with well frzzled bar covered with powder just
before dinner. while the company sat waiting its an.
nounccment some near Mrs. Graham made a remark
which surprised that lady much that she threw back
her head rather violently Down fen all IS counterfeit
adomment and exposed her bald pate 10 the view Of tho
astOUished company The whole arrangement was
false. Her always ObsequOus husband flew assist.
ance Of the frightened lady and her toilet was restored
TO its former grace.
When the Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster led bis
little boy into the United states Court at Philadelphia
the other day, Jlge Cadwaader stepped down from the
bench, and taking the bright boy by the hand led him
up the seat Of Justice and placed him in chair the
right Of CrcuItJudge McKenna. Thereupon The Phad-
deiphid Day bysteically rcmarks "The act Of Judge
Cadwalader was graceful and courtly compliment to
one the cOuntTys most distinguished counse!ors and
to his child and served delightful intorude In the
dry drama OF the law How naturally the hearts Of all
prcseDt-even n there were criminals there-leaped with
IN the hall OF Justice What pity that this boy must
Iaoa no "A ma
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call it into being. The man whose nerves
are strung too tightly by disease may DC
assured that they will forecast with GER
tainty every coming storm. There IS SOME
thing ghastly in the contemplation Oh 'ncSe
countless Old Probabilities played upon by
every tempest like barps of thousand strings'
The most singular fact discovered is that
while every "stOrm center or moving space OF
" greatest barometIic depression which sweeps
"across the continent is encrcled by vast
Grain area of from $50 to 600 miles IN dame
{" ter, outside of this is another invisible circle
(which may be called the neuralgia margin OF
"the Storm" The investigator calls this VIVID
picture up to us-a moving area of rain girdled
by neuralgia belt 80 miles wide, within
which, as it sweeps along in advance of the
storm, prevail renewed torments in the hurt
and manned limbs of men, in tender nerves
and rheumatic joints.
Our readers will not have a gripe of torture
more or less this May for this discovery, but
they can have the consolation of knowing that
if they suffer they suffer scientifically.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
GENERAL NOTES.

Tbree Russian merchantmen are lying in the
Delaware near Philadelphia The crews tako no ln'i'
est I'm the war or in the Cars manifesto Ihey nave
enough to eat and their pipes are loaded TO tne ue'
and they are willing 10 stay where they are unl tc war
is over. IN.
# is NOW rumored that Capt. Cook VIII Do
ono Of the Yale eight at Springfield Such is the eas
CITY OF the Yale course that veteran oasinan IS ehaOs
% renew his connection with the college by attending
l.cture or two on proane history or AuotFS huue'
OF Architecture MI,
A Snopish maid kept q fancy store in Madrid,
o,,,od fashion journal and loved Government clerk
No. ,,nor after many futile efforts to induce her 10
-, nor engogement entered her room while she was
,,I IN he'd and fred revolver AT her, the oa lodgg III
her head He then blew Out his own brains Inc young
ooan summoned her love ana a priest married them;
Size then Oeque1tntu hcr PLoPS4S W NJ ~
received the sacrament
Iobn p. Phair received on Wednesday tho
news that the Governor had granted HIN respite for
two years The superintendent Of the prison at wind
sor VT handed him the Governors dispatch and t"ld
him To read the glad dIngS himself The prisoner was
overcome with 10Y. He had suffered all but death. he
said and now his only desire was that the Almighty
yould SPARE his lie until he cOuld prove 20 tr' NOrd
that The statement which he had wlitten with death
staring him Ia tIe race WAS u"c'
Ex-senator Graham, who was pardoued by
the President on Tuesday. released rom fne Albany
Pcntentiary on the following afternoon. lie was Pres-
dent Of the Waikiki National Bank and was convicted IN
December 1873 OF embezzng the funds OF The inst'tu
ton His counsel. exJudse Fullerton, DterpOsed no de-
fense as II was that the money been drawn out
~ hc hank aud converted 70 the prisoners ard tho
sentence was the full penalty-ten years lie reached
his nome in MiddleOwu yesterday, apparently N much
netter health and spirits than his neghbors, judging
from the reports had expected 10 hnd him But old age
physical mhrmity aud lEtemperanee have lett INN
broken man.
The Massachusetts Legislature has passed q
very stringent law for the protection of young Holsters
but not before IL high me the destruction OF these
juvenile delicacies having reached hight which PROM
sed the determination OF the whole species No lobster
can now be sold In Massachusetts, ess than l0s inches
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
SOLD.


If Mr. Woodin has not succeeded in closing
the issue of veracity between Tweed and HIM
self, he has done one good thing by his testi-
monv: he has explained in few clear words
the whole philosophy of municipal legislation
at Albany. At the time of the introduction of
the Tweed charter in 1870 Mr.. Woodin was
one of the leaders of the Republican party lii
the State Senate. He tells us that he knew
nothing about the partisan disputes over !egis-
lation affecting the City Of New-York, and
never heard OF the Tweed charter until he
was called upon to vote IN the caucus On the
subject of supporting it. The arguments which
then determined his course we shall allow him
to state in his own way:
SO far as / was concerned had heard nothing about
ltnO'hlng abOut1; before; aud there coHSideed Wha
advantages ngh gam by supporting nat charter;
remember very distinctly Senator Kennedy made Of
tins expression. That we could take blank paper and
draw such an Election law for the City NewYoI
the Republicans would be satisfied with remember
also OF BIS stating that the contemplated removal, by
some process OF the Auditor OF tho Canal Department
would be abandoned also that the superintendent Of
the Salt Springs at Syracuse, ~ " would be allowed t.
remain; knew nothing about the provisions OF the
charter; | voted for the charter in pursuance Of an
arrangement-call II a bargain let IL be Written a
bareain-rnade by some Of the representatives Of the
Republican party in the Senate with somebody who
claimed to be representative OF the Democracy
Senate that If they would allow pass a rigid and
vigorous Election law VIC would for the oharter
A city charter is supposed to be an instru-
ment 10 secure and define municipal rights
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGN.--RusHan official dispatches to Tuesday
last report only skirmishiug in Asia Minor. ==
The Turks bombarded Braila on the Danube, caus-
ing no loss --- Lord LlchO intends to offer pro-
Turkish amendment to Nr. Gadstone's resolutions.
- Ten persons were buried under landslide
in Canada.
DOMESTIC The Omnibus bill passed the Assem-
bly with Alr Fsh's amendments. -- The low
canal toll sheet reported by the Canal Board was
approved by the Senate. -= The proclamation
for the extra session Of Congress viii specify the
objects of the session. === Three men were killed
in Pennsylvania and one man in Iowa by railway
disasters.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-'The Custom-house Com
mission holds that $4,000 can be saved
yearly - Mayor Ely's nominees for department
vacancies were confirmed except Gen. Shaler and
Thomas j. Brown. == Three indictments were
found on account of Wall-st. reports --- 1t IS
now stated that John 7. DAILY was seem ON Tuesday
evening going toward the North River. --" The
Chamber of Commerce held its animal election.
= Gold. 1O7ls 1O7. 1868. Gold value Of the le-
galtender dollar at the close, $3.50 cents. Stocks
dull aud declining closing weak without recovery.
THE WEArnER.-TMBUNE local observations indi-
cate cloudy and rainy weather, especially during
the first part of the day Thermometer yesterday,
45o so, OF.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
OF of brag,

Mr. Paymaster Wentworth testified yesterday be-
fore Mr.. Jay committee that he visits the offices
Of the Custom-house weigher5 every week, for the
purpose of paying off their men, but that
he never happened to detect a weigher IN the overt
act OF weighing anything. Ours is the best civil
service on the planet, and yet an accomplished
wegher only receives 50, 800 per annum. His salary
is, however, augmented by certain " riders" in the
shape of fees and emOluments for returns and other
services which lie does not perform, that he can
manage to subsist in a modest way unless Secre-
tary Sherman persists in his revolutionary scheme Of
reducing the force TO a working basis"
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

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New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

Last Monday, when a vote was taken on the Mas
sachusetts Local Option BILL nearly half the men,
bers of the Senate absentcd Themselves. law
passed under such circumstances is at least unsats-
factory since it leaves the question of its popularity
undetermined so far an expression of the popular
will is to be arrived at through its accredited repre-
sentatiyes There is fora Senator literally
playing truant upon such an occasion and coming
very near TO violation of his official oath. Mas
sach lsetts will have a liquor law which will stick
and will be enforced when the topic ceases to be the
toy of party, and not till then. Now, the whole
matter seems little too much like game Of bluff
or of brag.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

Secretary She1man's action in requiring the
doors of the Custom-housc Commission to be
thrown open is now fully justified. Mr.. Tur-
nure, the member who openly expressed his
regret that the order had been given, now
saws that he has become fully convinced Of its
wisdom. so that it was expediont as well as
right.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

The first streak of modesty has made its
appearance in the Butler family. Imagine the
nephew of his uncle asking for the post-oIlice
at DeadWOOd!
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04
> mnetmcnts ano altetlnas Go Nishi.


HroApwAY TuFATER-"The Wonder Child"
FITTH AVENUE IHEAuR.-" Princess Royal"
PARK THEArER-" Gided Age .
IoSY PASTORS NEW TIEAIEg,-2 and s: Variety.
MON sOvAgF IHEATER-" The Danchcffs."
NALLACK's THEATkR.-"My Awiul DAD
ACADEMY or DzsIGN.-Day aud Evening Annual ENii-
htOn. - -. =, 49,
CuUECu OF TuE MEssIAu.Lccture. The Rev W. X Alger'
GUNoRE's GAEDEN.-2 and = : L. T. Barnulns snow,
UTIIER's WONDER THEATER.-Magical and Ausicai Fer-
tOrInauce
kEw-YoRK AoUAR1UM-Day and Evening.
New-York tribune., 1877-05-04

Young men of college-able age are warned against
appearing anywhere in the neighbOrhood of New
Haven about this time. The electioneerlng cam
paign for the Freshman secret societies has fairly
opened and will be in full blast until after Com
mencement. During this period no young man who
has down on his lip account of youth, or appears
down in the mouth" on account of the terrors OF
examination can appear within five miles Of the col
lege without being beset by committees and heaped
up with "pledgcs" three or four deep, to all three
Freshman societies. "Delta Kappa" Kappa Sigma
Eps,n and Gamma M" combine to bulldoze the
coming Freshman and make life. burden to
him. Any young man between tho ages OF
1G and % missed by his parents any
where in New-England during the next SIX
weeks may be looked for in Ncw-Ilayen, OF
rather his digecla membra may be looked for and
very likely found divided up between the Freshman
societies. 1t is customary, however, we believe 10
return to their parents the remains OF Freshmen
who have been torn to pieces in the struggle so soon
as the annuals are published and the deceased have
served the purpose of swelling the numbers oil the
society which gathered them in.