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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
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There are few who have arrived at the age
Of maturity that have not imagined the
mode of death most desirable if left to their
election, but did you ever consider the most
horrible and agonizing death that one can
suffer? There is no death comparable with
that of insomnia or sleeplessness. The need
for sleep is as great as that for nourishment.
The suffering which ensues upon enforced
wakefulness is only equalled if not surpassed
by that caused through the want of water.
DR.. Forbes Winslow gives the following case
which occurred in 1859: A Chinese mer-
chant, convicted of numbering bis wife, was
sentenced to die by being deprived of sleep.
The condemned was placed in prison under
the care Of three of the police guard. The
latter relieved each other every alternate
hour, and prevented the prisoner from fall
ing to sleep night or day. He lived nineteen
days. At the commencement Of the Sth day
he implored the authorities to grant him the
blessing of being strangulated, guillotined.
burned to death, drowned, garroted, shot,
quartered, blown up with powder, or put to
death in any conceivable way which their
humanity or ferocity could suggest. A
French General, Pichegru, while being
tracked by the police of Bonaparte, gave
10000 francs for nights sleep; this sum,
however, being insufficient to secure safety,
for OH that very night he " as betrayed and
given up. Amongst the fearful iniquities of
the "Ordeal" and "rortue" the system of
Malsglio was highly commended. This
consisted in keeping the victim from sleep
forty hours, upon which practice Farinacci
loosely remarked that a hundred martyrs
exposed to it would become confessors to
man.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12


MORE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. -The
New York Times Of the 30th has the follow
ing expressive paragraph
There is something of the irony Of fate
Washington dispatches this morning. The
Democratic and Green back leaders are COM
planning that the Treasury is engaged in a
conspiracy to lock up one dollar and two
dollar notes, and the Treasury, in defense,
points out that the only reason why these
notes are not duly distributed is that the
Democratic house cut down the appropria-
tions applicable to that service. This gen.
Grafton of Democrats seemed possessed with
a morbid desire to have its pie and eat it,
too. 1t would like to get credit for unlim-
tied economy and have the benefit Of unlim-
tied expenditure. But in any case it is
bound to indulge in the luxury Of growing
at the s'conspiracies'' ct the Republicans.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

If the non-capitalists or laboring man,
either skilled or otherwise, will reflect lit
tie, he will realize that the tide of specula-
ton and initiation of prices which swept ov-
er the country from 1868 to 1872 is the cause
OF the present stagnation and absence of &C
tive and steady employment. The reaction
drove money out OF industrial enterprises,
because all confidence was with lrawn.
Would it better the condition to enter up
on another era Of imitation, were that pos.
sible? It would not. We would have to &c
through the same experience. But this gen.
Grafton will never be confronted with an.
other such south sea bubble. They will
stick to steady currency and steady values
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

Mr.. W. E. Dodge, before Mr.. Hcwitt's Ia
Dor Committee, gave it as his opinion that
whiskey was the cause of TIE distress of the
labor element in the country. He mentioned
localities, where his own industries were
operated, and where no intoxicating liquors
were sold, and where 1900 workmen were
employed. They had not felt the hard times
to any extent, and were contented and hap
py. He thought Congress should legislate
to suppress the liquor traffic, ifpossible, and
thus save to the country the enormous sum
of 5000. 900 expended for liquor each
peterborough to pay off the national debt
in three years.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
sTAUNTON VIRGINIA. SEPTEMBER r. 1878
The Stricken Section.

When the newspapers are compelled to suffer
under the effects of prevailing distress,we may
be sure that the case is very bad The Philadel
phia Times remarks that no more dismal news.
paper ever came from off press than the Mem
phis Avalanche of Tuesday last-a pit1ful half'
sheet, made up largely of standing advers :
devoid Of telegraphic news, save few market
and river reports, the signal service indications
and telegraphic promises OF relief with all the
local and editorial matterof the latter less than
a quarter OF Mountaineering solely upon the
fever with a record q column long Of new cases.
and with a list half column long Of new deaths
There is something very CHASTITY in the frequent
allusion to the fever throughout the column or
two of local notes simply as "it." or by mere in
ference to be deduced from the context Hans
Lemons three children have it = NV. W.White.
clerk of the Peabody. has it levin Fifer's case
is a very serious one )" ''Father Makers condi-
ton is critical "Joe Russell, while attending
the Odd Fellows sick. was stricken = "The
night-toilers have been struck. Frederick r.
Brennan, city editor OF the Appeal. is down. He
has bad case" And then we come upon i've
line tragedy like this "B. A. HollenDerg's I'M
prudence in giving away to his anxiety ABOUT
his wife and arising from his bed to go into her
room probably will prove his death. Fever IN
childbirth will kill his wife," In the advertising
Columns Zoo, Gne peStIAoAco SeahAuS ouo oA"APAJ'
Patterson Ross, grocers. announce For the
accommodation of tho few persons remaining
in the city we will keep open our store during
yellow fever, kind Providence permitting. =
It is not often that grocers refer the opening or
the closing Of their stores to q kind Providence,
but these grocers OF Memphis realize that they
are living on the very threshold Of eternity and
are standing almost face to face with Almighty
God, It is this same feeling that shows out in
the first Of the one line locals "God help us p
the exclamation SO often made lightly, but here
wrung out from the depths OF suffering hearts
oppressed by great fear, and yet not utterly
cast down because God may indeed send the help
for which in their sore extremity they pray
Very pitiful is it to mark the effort to be brave
in the face of the danger that menaces them ALI
careful nursing does the work y MANY are
getting we'll, SO keep stiff upper lip" writes
the city editor reassuringy in his local col umns;
and in the little scrap OF BREWER the editor
writes: when the number OF deaths resulting
from improper or careless nursing and from the
imprudence Of the patient are eliminated from
the twenty-five deaths of yesterday. the ratio Of
the remainder to the number OF new cases Is
not so large as to make sickness with good
treatment and good nursing by any means hope
less" How pluckily the poor fellow tries to
make out case-and yet how sadly weak is the
sophistry on which he builds
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

At New York, Saturday, 1874 bankruptcy
petitions were filed, at Philadelphia Ga, Gin
cinnati 100, and Cleveland nearly 100; 375
petitions were also filed at Chicago and other
points in Baltimore Z were recorded.
A Mobile doctor stipulates that his pro-
fessional card shall be inserted just above
the death notices. We suppose he respect
fully refers to the names which follow.
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An Explanation Wanted by the People.

Mr.. Thurman is now, when greenbacks are
within one-half Of one per cent. OF par, opposed
to resumption, demands the repeal OF the re-
sumption act" condemns contraction ct the
currency" demands the substitution OF United
States legal-tender paper for national-bank notes
and no further sale OF bonds for the purchase of
coin for resumption purposes" In 1874 he adj
vocated resumption and the preparation for the
resumption OF specie payments by requiring the
banks to lay by in store lone fourth Of the inter
est on their bonds paid them by the Government
-one-sixth OF their circulation annually-as a
coin reserve" for that purpose. and voted for
it," Yet in his Hamilton speech he says: II
confidently defy my critics, one and all, to name
any vote that have given during the nine years
thatl have sat in the Senate that inconss tent
with these principles"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

The Democratic press OF Virginia gener-
ally concede that John Goode. Jr.. was new
er elected to Congress from the Norfolk
district, although he has served two terms
in that body, and hope he will fare better at
the next election. This is frank admis
sion and rather severe piece Of irony upon
Judge Harris, chairman of the Election
Committee, which reported in his favor in
both instances. 1t is to be hoped some &C
tive, fair man will take the field against
Goode and beat him. He deserves such a
ate.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
DEFERRED MATTER.

A Convention of Greenbackers has been
called to meet at Boydton, Va, on the 18th
of September to nominate candidate for
Congress in the Petersburg District. There
is great dissatisfaction among the candidates
with the nomination Of Colonel Hinton, and
we have no doubt DR.. Jorgenson, the Re-
publican candidate. will be reelected, The
should be. He has made faithful and eff
ficient representative, and the only fault
they are able to charge against him is that
Gratis can take up such norma lives as ex-
Governor Walker and Bradley T. johnson,
and elect them to State and national posi-
tions, although they have harmed Virginia
| more than would an invading army have
done, and 1t is all righI, for the reason that
they claim to be Democrats. But when a Re-
publican is nomin ated, who happens not to
have been born in Virginia, he is emnently
a s'carpat-begger, and must be denounced
and DETAINED, Notwithstanding his faithful
and useful service to the State.
Not only ought Colonel Hinton to be
beaten, but Jno. Goode, in the Norfolk dis
strict. He has twice gotten his seat, with
out having been elected. and for this the
member from this district is to great de-
gree responsible. He ought to be defeated
and unseated too.
The Petersburg Post thinks that there
will be three candidates in the field for the
next Presidency-Democ Republican,
and National or Grcenback- that the
probability is the election of President will
be thrown into the House Of Representa-
tives. We differ with our esteemed cotem
porary The Nationals win die out before
1880. They have nothing but froth and fus-
tian to stand upon. It will be something
like the Know Nothing organization-th
first sturdy back set it will get, will be the
death of it, and that will be given in an
overwhelming defeat of Butler in Massa-
chusetts, just as Flournoy was defeated in
Virginia. The American people soon re-
cover from an attack Of demagoguism, and
the second sober thought makes them ex-
tremely conservative. If Gen. Grant is the
Republican nominee, and either Thurman
or Hendricks the Democratic nominee,
there will be no respectable third party.
The democrats will absorb all the superficial
politics, and the Republicans will elect their
candidate, for the real conservatism OF the
nation will be represented by that party 4
the finance issue being the paramount ques-
ton in the contest.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.-Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling, responding to an invitation to attend
conference Of Republicans at Saratoga, on
the goth ult., and abiding to the alleged
ssclaim" he had upon the party, said, 81
have been honored too much and too often
not to feel deep and abiding sense of OBJ
legation to the party and to its members,
and sincere regret that have been no bet
ter able to deserve and repay their conf
dence., No personal claim or individ-
ual interest should even seem to enter
within your confidence. He could not but
infuse spirit OF conciiiation and kind
ness by such sentiments that resulted in a
harmonious interchange of views, and the
kfndling of generous spirit OF Republican
fovnfiou MI pafriaticu,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

An unfortunate ARRAY occurred Friday
in Cumberland between Thomas Cook
Hughey and A. Horton Blackiston, both
prominent lawyers of that city. They were
engaged in Mr.. Hughey's office, examining
papers, when dispute arose. Blackiston
struck Hughey. when the latter drew pis-
tol. Frank o. Baush, mutual friend, who
was present, seized Hughey's arm, and
while attempting to take the pistol away,
Hughey fired, instantly killing Mr.. Black
iston.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
The wor1,nsman's Party and Paper MO

The Werkingman's Party and Paper MO
ney.
Col. Benton (Old Bullion), in 1881, in his "Thir-
ty Years in the United States Senate" (vol. !. p
1917 said: ''If were going to establish Work
ingman's party 1t should be on the basis OF hard
money! hard money party against paper
party" Again. in 1887, Thirty Years in the
Senate vol. 2, page 49, he said: IA paper cur
rency is not recognized by the Constitution. but
is repudiated by it," Webster, as quoted in the
same volume, page SO, says: "Notes OF small d.
mansions. denominations as low as $40 were
proposed in the bill under discussion,) not bear
ing interest redeemsble at no fixed period. re-
ceivable for debts due the Government. This is
Continental money over again" Yet. this is
the kind of money the National Labor-Paper
money faction are now clamoring for, and it is
the principal issue upon which they propose to
go before the country and solicit the suffrage OF
the people. SO. too. the Democratic party are
Offering to sell their brthright for mess OF pot
tage, ignore all their former professions Of love
for hard money, and indorse the worktngmens
rag money platform. II thereby they can obtain
the rag-money vote.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

J. Ed. Pennybsker, Esq, formerly Of
Harrisonburg, and youngest son of the late
Judge Isaac Pennybaker, U. 5. Senator from
Virginia, is candidate for the Legislature
Of West Virginia from Pendleton county.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

Before Mr.. Hewitt's labor Committee one
stated the cause Of hard times, said the
freights and fare paid the railroads in that
State per annum would amount to 800, 000,-
600, and that half that amount would pay
10 per cent. on the cost OF construction and
running. He attributed much of the op-
preston to theexorbitants and extravaganza
Of corporations.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

MAIL Southwark connects at Gordonsville
with Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, for Staunton
White sulphur Springs and all the watering pla
ces on that line, and Eastward. to Richmond ana
South, At Lynchburg, connects with Atlantic
Miss. Ohio r. R. through Southwest Virginia
to Nashville, New orleans. Memphis, Little
Rock and Texas-and at Danville, with r. & D.
R. r. to South and Southwest.
Express Southwark connects at Gordonsvllle
to all points East and West {. so and at Danville
with r. s. D. for the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida
and via Atlanta to New Orleans.
For Manassas Line leave Washington at 6 80
m. and Alexandria, 90 a. M. DAILY, except Sun
day. arrive at Strasburg at IL 90 a. connecting
with the Valley Road, to Orkney and Rawley
Springs, and all the line East and West. Leave
Strasburg at 20 p M, Front Royal at 90 p. M
connecting at Manassas with the Northbound
mail train for Washington and North.
For Warrenton leave Washington 35 m. and
Alexandria 90 a. m daily.
All trains make good connections, at Washing
ton, to and from North and West.
New Orleans sleeper leaves Washington at 81
a M, running through without change.
Through sleeper for Savannah, Georgia, leaves
Washington IS PA.
Through tickets sold at the lowest rates.
]. M. BROADUS,
juen Is General Ticket Agent
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
GEORGIA
HOME INSURANCE co,
of Columbus, Ga.

have determined to give them all of my bust
ness. or as least as much as they will accept.
For my own Convenience, have accepted the
Agency OF this Company, and while my other du-
ties will not permit me to solicit business for
them ina general way, yet will be glad to ex-
plain the merits OF thu Company and take the
applications OF rny one desiring to insure.
]. FRED. EFFINGER.
In my absence, parties desiring insurance or
information apply to RORT CRAIG. at the
office Of Eflnger. Craig s. Grattan.
may g.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
Record Of q Presidential Can didate.

The people of Ohio have just found out they
have two Thurmans-one who is an 1nfationtst
and who is making that sort of speeches in Ohio,
and another who makes hard money speeches in
the United States Senate. Look upon this picture,
and then upon this:
THURMAN IN OHIO. THURMAN IN THE SENATE.
It is that If greenbacks Are we prepared to de-
were to constitute our clare that under Gov
only paper currency itsernment which our tath-
volume would depend ers meant, if they meant
upon the action OF Con- anything, should he a
gress. and not upon the hard money cover n
natural laws OF trade: ment, but which has
and that, as Congress is drifted long way from
liable to be Influenced their intention; do We
by popular feeling on now, against all the
one hand, or the arts lights OF experience the
and appliances OF spe- world over mean to ban
cial interest on the 9TH sh gold and silver from
er, the currency would circulation in the coun-
be subject to imitation try for all time to come:
or contraction, as either:and do the business OF
influence might prevail:the country upon moth
to degree that might:fng but irredeemable pa
be ruinous to bnsiness:per, depending for its
and prosperity. volune ap0r, the aoill and
In brief, if Congress; caprice Of the moment or
should have neither:upoaa the vieaos of members
sense nor honesty, it:of Congress seekingre-elec-
might for the time be-:tios or aspiring to high
ing ruin the country ser place think not
but to assume that it;[Thurman's Speech in
would do SO would be to:the Senate in 1874.
condemn our form of:
governmental TIL u r;
mans Speech at Hamil-
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12
insurance.
EIRE INSURANCE.

As General Receiver.of the Circuit Court. am
very often directed to loan money on real estate
security:
In making the loans, as we'll for my own protec-
lion as that of the borrower, 1 require that the
property be insured against fire.
1t is Of course of the utmost Importance that
the Insurance Company issuing policies should
be perfectly solvent. e. that the assets are not
simply words and figures. but such securities as
are known to the policy holder to lie LIST, solvent
aid End, easily converted into money when me-
cessity demands it.
After a careful examination of the liabilities
and resources of the
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

THIS PACIOUS HOTEL, the leading
l. House in the Valley of Virginia. has recently
n the central part Of the city, only two blocks
rom either depot.
THE OFFICE Is OPEN THE ENTIRE NIGHT,
and guests will be received called at any hour.
Special SHIFTS of Rooms
for families or large travelling parties. Tourists
stopping here can visit in easy distance the cee-
brated Viewers Cave, and no less famous, the
Cave Of Seven Fountains; both only fifteen miles
distant over good road; the wonderful view
from ''Eiott's Knobb,'' and the scenery around
the city, to be witnessed in an afternoons drive
is the most beautiful in the mountains.
THERE Is A VERY FINE LIVERY
attached to the hotel, furnishing carriages to all
points at reasonable rates.
~ Coaches and Portels in attendance at all
the trains to convey passengers and baggage
FREE OF CHARGE. JNO. d. CROWLE, Prop.
T. s. DAVIS, Clerk. mari
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

A DIsoRDED LIvER.-That dreadful dis
ease, fro n which so m my persons suffer, is
frequently the cause of Headache, InIiges-
ton, and Dyspepsia, isEpeedily relieved, and
are often permantly cured by Swayne's Tar
and Sarsaparilla Pills.
Fevers are often prevented by the use of
these Sarsaparilia Pills, as they carry off,
through the blood, the impurities from which
they arise. For costiveness there is nothing
so effectual as Swayne's Tar and Sarsaparil-
la Pills..
They are purely vegetable, and act spec
tally on the Liver as Blue Mass or Calomel.
without any bad results from taking.
Address letters to DR.. Swayne & Son.
Philadelphia. No charge for advice. Sent
by mail receipt of price. Price 25 cents a
box; five boxes for 81. Ask your druggist
for them. Sold by W. r. Tyree, druggist,
Staunten, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

If Badness OR A DEFICIENCY OF HAIR
exists, or if the hair is gray, dry or harsh,
the natural youthful color can be restored
bv using ssLondon Hair Color Restorer,' the
most delightful article eyer introduced to
the American people for increasingly its gowth,
restoring its natural colcr, and at the same
time lovely hair dressing and beautifier.-
It is totally different from all others not
sticky or gummy, aud free from all impure
Ingredients that render many other articles
obnoxious in fact it is exquisitly perfumed
and so clearly and elegantly prepared as to
make it a lasting hair dressing and toilet
luxury.
Ask your druggist for London Hair Color
Restorer. Price. Is cents a bottle. Six bot
ties, 81. Main Depot for the U. ST., $50
r. Tyree, druggist, Staunton, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

ALL FOR EFFEcT.-Mr. Thurman. in his Hamil-
ton speech, endeavored to prove that he has not
surrendered his convictions. But in 1874 he OPP
posed greenbacks. and labored to restrain the
volume thereof to less than $40O, 900 ; now
he advocates permanent volume of legal-ten-
der paper OF about 800 100000. His course of &C.
tion has certainly changed. and il his convictions
have not also changed, then he is simply acting
against his convictions and better judgment.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

FARMERs-Every manufacturer encouraged in
our country makes market for provisions with
in ourselves and saves so much money to the
country as must otherwise be exported to pay
for manufactures in supplies. Here in England
it is well known and understood that whenever
a manufacture is established which employs .
number of hands, it raises the value OF land in
the neighboring country all around it. partly by
the great demand near at hand for the produce
Of theland, and partly from the plenty OF money
drawn by the manufacturers to that art Of the
country. It seems therefore the interest Of ali
our farmers and owners OF lands to encourage our
young manufactures, instead offoreign ones i'm
ported among us from distant countries.-[ DR.
Franklin. letter to Humphrey MARSHALL
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-12

THE FARMERS AND THE TAR1FF-An effort has
been made to induce the farmers that the tariff is
tax on his industry. Nothing is more absurd
than this /; probably there is no industry more
benefited by protection than that OF agriculture.
The prosperity of nation is most rapidly adj
vanced when beneficial laws encourage the
greatest variety of industry. = Each fur
nace forge, rolling mill. and cotton. or WOODEN.
or other mandatory affords market for the
products Of the labor of the tailor, the shoema-
ker, the butcher. the baker, and other mechani-
cal trades It raises up around 1t little town,
whose Inhabitants furnish to the adjacent farm
er market for his products, which he did not
find before.-[Hon. I. N. Evans speech in Con-
gress, April IL, 1881