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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

The MAIL South bound connects at Lynch
burg for the West and Southwest. and at Gordons-
vile with the Ches. Ohio r. r. and.fcr Rich
mond and West.
The Evening Express Southwark onnects at
Gordonsville with $50. West,and at Danvlle with
D.. for the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida AMI all
the South west. Through sleeper to Savannah,
Ga.
The Morning Express sonth bound, with
through sleeper for New Orleans. connects at
Lynchburg for the West and South West. and at
Danville, for South South East and South West.
For Warrenton leave Washington IS and
Alexandria 200 a. NJ. daily. except Sunday.
Passengers for Manassas Line leave Washing
ton daily, except Sunday, at Us a. m. and Alex
andria 900 m. Returning. leave Strasburg 90
a. m, and arrive at Alexandria at Is pm.
North bound trains make close connections
with BALTIC. & Ohio and Baltimore & Potomac
trains to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York,
and to all points North and Northwest.
The Ev Express train has sleeping cars through
without change between Washington and Savan-
nah, Ga, by way of Danvile, Charlotte. Column
bia. Augusta and Port Royal line with direct
connection to Jacksonville and Florida generally.
The Morn. Elk. train runs sleeping cars through
without change, between New York and Lynch
burg, and between Washington and New Orleans
Through tickets to the South and West.
J. NJ. BROADUS.
mae7 General Ticket Agent.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

On the subjectof horses, Mr.. Buckland
has some interesting observations. They
hate solitude, and are made savage by being
kept alone. Goats ought always to be kept
IN stables. because they will face fire, and
horses will follow them out of it.. though
they will not go by themselves. The larger
Drained horses are the cleverest. In the
Second Life Guards, the horses with broad
foreheads learned their drill more quickly
than the others. A gentleman, at Mr.. Buck
lands instigation, measured the heads Of all
his hunters, and found that their intelli-
gence and good sense was in proportion to
! the width Of their foreheads.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09
+ sTAUNTON. VIRGINIA. MAY 9. 1878.
Individual Character.

In one OF his celebrated letters to his son,
Lord Chesterfield wrote, whatever else you
do, teach those with whom you come in con-
act that you have character of your own !;
that you do not look to other men for your
opinions that nature has not neuJralized
the endowments she bestowed by spread.
ing over all the mill-dew Of dependence, land
that you have the discrimination to deter
mine and the nerve to perform chat which
your own judgment establishes as your
duty to yourself as well as to Others" The
views of Lore Chesterfield may not at all
times meet with our heartiest approval, but
the lesson lie sought to incslcate in the brief
extract we have quoted, is one which the
humblest as well as the m st exalted can
take home to himself and establish as one
Of his guides through life. Without personal
independence, no character, however appar
rently symetrical, can claim the title VIII icll
manhood bestows. 1t is the magnet around
which all other virtues must cluster, the
oxygen that gives vitality to the individual,
strength to the mind and tone to the char
acter. Honest and true men appreciate it
wherever unshii6sted, and among all civilized
people it has never yet failed to command
respect. Particularly under government
like this, is it essential. for here where the
right Of manhood is recognized; where the
equality nature ortlains is brought into prac.
tical operation, and where the whole theory
of our social and political organism is based
upon individual action, is 1t necessary that
men should measure up to the full realiza-
zion Of the responsibility imposed upon
them, and vindicate to the world their right
to claim and their capacity to appreciate the
blessings Of self government; and yet, there
are those who, from indifference or want Of
manhood, do not seem to recognize the duty
they owe to themselves and others. and are
content to be directed and controlled as if
they were 80 many animals destitute OF dis
elimination, wanting in purpose, deficient
~ judgment and incapable Of comprehending
the obligations their positions force upon
chem. In nothing is this 50 apparent as In
the exercise Of the right Of suffrage. Men
who, in the ordinary affairs Of Lille are firm
and determined and would scorn to be dc
tated to by those Of whose incompetency
they have no doubt, blindy Weld their iudg-
nent, and oftimes conviction Of right, to the
keeping Of those little creatures which the
wave Of political excitement brings to the
top, and which but for those angry apheavals
would forever remain in their mefited OBJ.
ncufftv. 'rhiA simple CASTING Of the
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

THIS SPACIOUS HOTEL the leading
L House in the Valley Of Virginia. has recently
in the central part Of the city, Oily two blocks
from either depot.
THE OFFICE is OPEN THE ENTIRE NIGHT,
and guests will be received or called at any hour
Special Suits of Rooms
for families or large travelling parties. Tourists
stopping here can visit in easy distance the cele-
brated Weyer's Cave, and no less famous, the
Cave Of Seven Fountains; both only fifteen miles
distant over good road; the wonderful view
from ''Elliott's Knobb,'' and the scenery around
the city, to be witnessed in an afternoons drive
is the most beautiful in the mountains.
THERE is VERY FINE LIVERY
attached to the hotel, furnishing carriages to all
points at reasonable rates.
~ Coaches and Porters in attendance at all
FREE OF CHARGE. JNO, D. CROWLE, Prop.
It's. DAVIS, Clerk. MARI
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

1t is well enough to hang up chrome
with "God Bless Our Home" on it, but it
will do harm to help on the matter by a
little less fretsing. A great many people
ask the Lord to do whS..~thev won't lift
their fingers to do themselves.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

Ages from. Is to a. inclusive, insured at the
same rate as age 25
policy Tor IS, 90 three times the amounts aooi-
icy for $1,000 costs.
A policy for $500 costs IS admission premium
thereafter for annual dues and mortality ASSESS
ments one-half the amounts a policy for $1,000
COSTS
Advantages offered by the Home Muta al
Life Association of Pa.
L. Its mem bers, or policy holders, secure insu-
IA nee at cost. There are no over-payments oil
ected. Members pay as they go and get what
the pay for
q Its rates are cheaper than can be obtained
else where with the same degree OF security.
8. Its assessment rates are adjusted to age. The
Take the rates at any two ages from the table,
allow compound interest at the rate OF per cent
per mum Tor ages above a, and slightly Dc
sure. and at the expiration OF life, as indicated
by merican mortality experience, each will
have paid the same amount as nearly as can be
Obtain led without assessing fractional cents
This xact equality OF rates for the different ages
is imp ortant TO the stability OF company, and Is
found in no other company based on the assess
ment plan.
4. Its risks are taken with greater care than is
assessment plan. The forms provided for appT-
cations and the medical examinations required
are such as will cure the greatest degree OF ex-
emption from bad risks. This is a feature which
every healthy individual DESTROYS OF securing
membership in the company will know how to
S. Its plans of operatAon are based on principles
that have been thoroughly tested. All lapses and
forfeitures, as well as mortality losses, are re-
supplied with new members OF the same age as,
or younger than, the vacating members were at
the time Of Joining, SO that dangerous increase
OF age will become impossible.
Al! assessments will be based on the rate Of
death losses per one thousand members.
Thus, il there are LOGO members and death
occurs, 1t will cost member aged 80 years O.
cents: But il there are 1000 members it viii
costthe member aged 80 years only go cents fos
taoo deaths, and if there are 5000 members it vi
cost the same member, aged 80 years, only s5
cents Tor three deaths in the company. There
must be as many death losses as there are ttmss
member, insured for $1,000. is assessed the fu i
amount placed opposite his age on the table III
cording to age; amt cunt insured, and the number
OF death losses per one Thousand MEMBERS
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

When We are young we waste q great
deal OF time in imagining what we will do
when we grow cider, ant, when we are old
we waste an equal amount of time in won-
derlng why we waited SO long before we
began to do anything.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09
pEVERE HOUSE.
LIZ HarrisOubI

MRS. M. G. LUPTON CHAs. r.. T.upToN
Proprietress MANAGER
JAS. r. Upton and g. B. STROTHER Clerks
This well known Hotel has been entirely reno.
waited and re-furnished i' o"o
ACCOMMODATIONS FIRST CLASS.
Every effort made to render satisfaction .nn. ,,
make all our guests comfortable. N'
Omnibus to and from all trains, mavu-tf
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09
A MEXICAN HOTEL.
"A STANTON, VA.

CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT.
N. M. CARTMELL. Proprietor.
Situated near the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Depot and accessible to the business part OF the
city, will make it desirable for transient visitors
and especially for the Travelling Commercial men.
Omnibus to and from the Hotel free of charge
~ Livery Stables attached to the Hotel. =EA
jan 25-1y
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09
Imitation.

Congress will no doubt pass bill fixing
the minimum below which the sree1back
currency cannot be contracted. This will
likely be $3.50, 900. 900. We shall. then have
on the LIST of January, 1879, specie curren-
CIV as follows.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

THE BILL TO REPEAL THE BANKRPT
LAW.-Mr. Thurman, from the judiciary
committee, reported the following amend
ment to the bill to repeal the bankrupt law:
Sand in respect of all pains, penalties and
forfetures which shall have been incurred
under any of said acts prior to the day when
this act takes effect, Or which NAV be here.
after incurred under any of those provisions
Of any of said acts, which for the purposes
named in this act are kept in FORCE and all
penal actions and criminal proceedings for
violation of any Of said acts, whether then
pending Or thereafter Instituted; and in res.
pect of all rights of debtors and creditors,
except the right Of commencing original
proceedings in bankruptcy and all rights of
and suits by or against assignees under any
or all OF said acts, in any matter or case
which shall have arisen prior to the day when
this act takes effect (Which shalt be on the
first day of January, Ammo Domini eighteen
hundred and seventy-nine), or in any mat
ter or case which shall arise after the act
takes effect in respect of any matter of bank.
ruptcy authorized by this act to be proceed.
ed with after said last-named day.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

DrestOn A. Baylor,
i - ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
STAUNTON, VA.
Practice in all the Courts of Augusta and adjoin-
ing Counties
OFFICE-The same formerly occupied by his
father, Col. Geo. Baylor decd, on Augusta street,
opposite the Courthouse. nov 10-ly
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

TUE HOME MUTUAL LIE Hssoc1A ALTON
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
OFFICERS:
Hon. j. G.. HEILMAN, President.
J. H. MILLER, Secretary.
E. M. WOOMER, Treasurer.
G. H. SHANK. General Agent.
w. M. GUILFORD, M. D..
Medical Director.
Offers Insurance on the following plans, name
ly: m
l. The Ordinary Life.
Q. The Non-Forfeiting.
8. The Return Assessment.
Following are the terms and conditionsof
1.-The Ordinary Life Plan. s
EIGHT DOLLARS will secure policy foi VI, 900
on the condition that the insured pay annually
FIVE DOLLARS for the next succeeding three
years, and thereafter annually TWO DOLLARS
during life, together with mortality assessments,
graded according to age, and number OF death
1osses per thousand members, by the accompa-
mWing table:
Rates per death in 1000 members for
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09


on the LIST of January, 1879, specie curren-
cy as follows:
GreenpacRs $3.50, 900, 900
National bank notes. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Silver dollars, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000. 600
''u"'ieA1 WIN. 4o,UW,UVO
Total. .ss45. 600 900
: That will be imitation upon specie basis.
In addition, the gold and silver coinage will
add to the above at the rate of four millions
per month at least. With the present crop
prospects and the probable foreign demand,
the balance OF trade will continue in our ia
vor, and we shall be able to keep the coin
products of the country. Then there will
be no lower bottom to talk about; no threat
ened contraction to scare the country. With
good crops and volume of currency larger
than it has been practically for ten years,
and thatcurrency upon specie basis, and
prices of commodities already below specie
basis, there ought to be revival of business
and the swee ping away of the stock in trade
Of paper inflationists.
1t is also probable that Congress will pro-
vide for issuing certificates for silver bars,
which certificates will circulate as money,
being receivable for all public dues. 1t is
further proposed to permit national banks
to hold four per cent. bonds in part as re-
serve for deposits. The reserve now amounts
to $l75, 100000. That would let loose nearly
00,O00,00O of greenbacks and COIN II the
resumption scheme now likely to be adopted
succeeds, there will be large and heavy in-
1lation OF the currency. As to its effect up
on trade, business men will begin to make
Their calculations. Stock SPECTATORS are al
ready beginning to disconn. it, Cincinnati
Gn1pffe
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09

Rates per death IN 1000 members for
$1,000 insurance.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

William Cullen Bryant once gave the
following sensible advice to a young man
who had offered him an article for the
Eoening Post:
My young friend Tobserve that you have
used several French expressions in your
letter. think, if you will study the Eng
lish language, that you will find it capable
of expressing all the ideas that you may
have. l have always found it so, and in all
that have writtea | do not recall an in
stance where was tempted to use foreign
word, but that, on searching, have found
a better one in our own language.
Be simple, unaffected; be honest in your
speaking and writing. Never use long
word when Il short one will do as well.
Call spade by its name, not we'll
known oblong instrument of manual labor;
let home be home and not residence;
place not locality, and so on OF the rest.
When short word will do, you always
lose by long one You lose in clearness,
you lose in honest expression of meaning;
and, in the estimation of all men who are
capable of judging, you lose in reputation
for ability.
The only true way to shine, even in this
false world, is TO be modest and unassum-
ing. Falsehood may be thick crust, but
in the course of time truth will find II
place to break through. Elegance of Ian
euage may not be in the power of us all,
but simplicity and straight-forwardness
are.
Write much as you would speak, and as
you think. If with your inferior, speak
no coarser than usual; if with your super
| Tor. speak no finer. Be what you say, and
within the rules of prudence. No one ever
was a gamer by singularity of words, or in
pronunciation. The truly wise man will
so speak that no one will observe how he
speaks A man may show great know
ledge of chemistry by carrying bladders Of
strange gases to breathe; but one will enjoy
better health and find more time for bust
ness, who lives on common air.
Sidney Smith once remarked: "Attel
you have written an article, take your per
and strike out half the words, and you viii
be surprised to see how much stronger il
will be-"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

LAKE TAHoE-Half this lake is in
Nevada, the other half in California. 1t
is twenty-eight miles long and from twelve
to sixteen miles wide, and has been sound
ed to depth of 1000 feet. Its waters are
a beautiful ultramarine, and it may be call
ed the purest water in the world, contain
ing by analysis only four per cent. of i'm
purities. 1t is so light and mobile as to
be easily lashed into foam, or Gained into
d mirror-like surface. In the early morn
ing it is like looking glass, with sur
rounding objects rejecting in it with sur
prising accuracy. Several steamers with
small tonnage are used in navigating it.
Its altitude is about sixty-three hundred
feet; it is always cool and pleasant in the
hottest weather. The lake never freezes
and never gives up its dead. No person
who has been drowned has been known to
rise to the surface. Wood, as soon as it is
saturated sinks to the bottom. 1t is in
fact, great marvel, and the very contrast
of the Great Salt Lake, which is very dense
and sluggish.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28
Poe t. i al T..
The Murdered Traveller.
BY WILLIAM g. BRYANT.

BY WILLIAM g. BRYANT
When spring to woods and wastes around
Brought bloom and joy again,
The murdered travellers bones were found
Far down q narrow glen.
The fragrant birch above him hung
Her tassels In the sky,
And many vernal blossom sprung,
And nodded, careless, by
The redblrd warbed as he wrought
His hanging nest o'erhead,
And fearless near the fatal spot
Her young the partridge led
But there was weeping far away,
And many an eye, for him,
With watching many an anxious day,
Grew sorrowful and dim.
They little knew, who loved him so,
The fearful death he met,
When shouting DER the desert snow,
Unarmed, and hard beset;.
Nor how, When round the frosty pole
The northern dawn was red,
The mountain wolf and wild cat stole
To banquet on the dead;
Nor how, when strangers found his bones,
They dressed the hasty bier,
And marked his grave with numberess stones
Unmoistened with tear.
But long they looked, and feared, and wept,
Within his distant home,
And dreamed, and startled as they slept
With joy that he was come.
So long they looked, but never spied
His welcome step again,
Nor knew the fearful death he died
Far down that narrow glen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

CLovER.-Clover is called, and properly
so, the sheet-anchor of American husband
ry. 1t is capable of doing more to bring
impoverished lands to high state of cul-
tivation with less expense than any other
agency. And just in proportion as farm
from the necessity of purchasing CONNER
cial fertilizers to enrich his land. There is
no system of cultivation to enable the far
mer to keep the fertility of his land with
out resorting to such agencies, yet the use
Of clover will do for you what the miracles
did for Moses. 1t will do more; it will
cancel notes, pay mortgages, extinguish
obligations, and bring abundance where
there is want.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

SOME MORE ABOUT Pore LEo.-Pope
Leo XIII. is said by a correspondent of the
Pilot, to be thin even to meagreness, and
tall. His fingers are almost tleshless, and
his whole figure and the outlines of his
face ascetc to degree. His hands are
tremulous with nervousness. His voice is
clear and ringing bis sentences are
long, but admirably arranged. He has a
noble head, crowned with snow-white hair,
a high wide forehead, not smooth and shin
ing, but rough with bumps which would
delight the heart of phrenologist eye
brows bushy and overhanging; deepset,
kindly and intelligent eyes large, very
large nose, thin and fine; very wide
mouth, which lends itself most readily to a
very attractive smile, deep, straight lines
bounding it, and good, clear, pointed
chin, with we'll defined, firm jaw. He is
remarkable for his kindly and courteous
manners, gracious speech, and the affection
ate interest he takes i'll those with whom
he comes in contact.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

WHAT SMOKING DOES FOR BoYs.-The
British Medical Journal prints the follow
ing:
A certain doctor, struck with the large
number of boys under fifteen years of age
whom he observed smoking, was led to in
quire into the effect it had upon the gem
eral health. He took for his purpose thir-
ty-eight boys, aged from nine to fifteen,
and carefully examed them; in twenty sew
en- of them he discovered injurious traces
of the habit. In twenty-five were various
disorders of the circulation and digestion,
palpitation of the heart, and a more or less
marked taste for strong drink. In twelve
there were frequent bleeding at the nose,
ten had disturbed sleep, and twelve had
slight liberation of the mucous membrane
of the mouth, which disappeared on ceas-
ing from the use of tobacco for some days
The doctor treated them all for weakness,
but with little effect, until the smoking
was discontinued, when health and strength
were soon restored.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

A STAY OF EXECUT1oN.-"Savem me doc
tor, and I'll give you check for thous-
and dollars"
The doctor gave him a remedy that soon
eased him, and he called out:
keep at it, doctor, and I'll give you Il
check for five hundred dollars"
In half an hour more he was able to sit
up, and he calmly remarked:
doctor feel like giving you fifty dol
lar bill"
When the doctor was ready to go, the
sick man was up and dressed, and he fol-
lowed the physician to the door and said
"Say, doctor, send in your bill the first OF
the month"
When six months had been gathered to
Times bosom, the doctor sent in bill
amounting to five dollars, he was pressed
to cut it down to three, and after so doing
he sued to get it, got judgment, and the
patient put in a stay of execution.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28

DR.. E. Cones, of the United States Geo
graphical Survey, states that breed of SOL
id-hoofed pigs has apparently been estab-
lshed in Texas. The hoofis perlec ly SOL
id, and on its sole there is broad, angu-
lar elevation of horny substance, very like
the frog of the horses hoof The breed is
said to be SO firmly established that no ten
dency to revert to the original form is no.
ticeable 1t is also stated that in the cross
of solid hoofed boar with sow of the
ordinary type, a majority of the litter have
the popularity ofthe male as regards their
icpt
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-06-28
To DESTROY bugs on SQUASH or cucur

To destroy bugs on squash or cucum-
Der vines, dissolve a tablespoonful of salt
peter in pailful of water, put one pint of
this around each hill, shaping the earth so
that it will not spread much, and the thing
is done. Use more saltpetre if you can at
ford it; it is good for vegetables, but death
to animal life. The bugs burrow in the
earth at night and fail to raise in the morn
ing. 1t is also good to kill the grub" in
peach trees-only use twice as much, say a
quart to each tree. There was not vel
low or blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen
trees to which it was applied last season.