The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-01


A refreshing shower fell Monday night.
This warm weather is filing up the springs
rapidly.
The roof of the Second Presbyterian
church is being repaired.
After the polar comes another solar wave
and again the mercury is elevated
1t is thought that our military will unite
with the companies 81 the lower valley ant
go into camp, either at Rawley or Orkney
Springs, for a few weeks.
The Little Sisters" al, organic alton o.
the children of the First Presbyterian church
gave one of their fairs in the Lower Grange
Hall last Friday night. and succeeded in
gathering up good deal of change for tho
small heather.
The Stonewall Band will give an open air
concert on the Bickle lot, Main Street, ad.
joining the Furniture Warehouse of Bickle
Bros, on Tuesday night next. There will
be refreshments furnished on the occasion
and an admittance fee of ten cents will bt
charged. 1t is expected that there will be !
full attendance of Our citizens.
The Stonewall Band will leave this morn.
Ing for Deerfield, to be present and discourse
some OF their sweet music on the occasion OF
the Fair given by the ladies of the Baptist
congregation of that locality. 1t will be an
enjoyable time-the music ard the noun
tains, the ladies and the nice things they
will have to attract and interest.
CHURCH DEDICATION AT WINCHEs-
TER.-The excursion train which left here
early Sunday morning for Winchester start
ed with large crowd and received Access
sions at nearly every station. The fare was
greatly reduced. and the day being quite
pleasant many availed themselves of the
occasion to be present and witness the SOL
emn and interesting ceremonies. The
Staunton delegation was quite large
Excursion trains were also run
from the lower Valley and by the time al
were in, Winchester was pretty well
crowded
At an early hour services was held, and
at 10 o'clock the handsome edifice was con.
secrated to the "Sacred Heart of Christ
when the usual ceremonies of the sprinkline
of the holy water within and outside of the
building were performed with great solemn.
ty. After which the regular service and
, mass was held. Bishop Kane, OF Wheeling
was present and officiated at the dedication
His sermon was based upon the ''Incarna-
ton of Christi and was a learned and elo-
quent discourse, well suited to theme with
which it was connected. Few speakers in
or out of the pulpit are capable of exercising
such wonderful influence over an audience
as Bishop Kane, and OIL this occasion the
crowded house listened as one man.
The church is a handsome edice, and a
substantial tribute to the labor and self-de-
NAL of its builders. 1t was commenced some
ten years ago, and has been finished in the
face of multiplied difficulties. The old Cath
Ole Church at Winchester was completely
destroyed during the war, and for a great
portion of the time was used as a stable. II
was pioneer church of the Valley and the
old stone ruins are yet to be seen.
Some of our excellent Staunton vocalists
assisted the choir at the dedication and the
music was unusually fine.
COMING UP TO THE CAPTAINS OFFICE.
The police station, Tuesday morning, pre-
sented a lively scene. About nine O'Clock
citizens of all ages and conditions might
have been seen crowding the door-wa and
pressing eagerly around the Mayors chair
waiting to receive their sentence. All cas-
ses were represented, merchants, mechan-
les, lawyers. laborers editors, city council
men, doctors, insurance agents, and men of
ance with the recent city ordinance requir-
ing che streets, pavements and CRITTERS to be
cleaned of grass. weeds, Sc. The time al
lotted had expired on Friday. The police
had summoned all who had failed to meet
its requirement to appear before the Mayor
on Tuesday morning. About forty or fifty
answered the summons, and they ''all be-
gan with one accord to make excuses For
the most part, misconstruction of the au-
dience was the apology,-the large majority
having been under the impression that it did
not apply to unpaved streets. One gentle
man had been promised by the Chairman Of
the street committee to have his gutter re-
paired so that the water would not injure
his property, that was before the election,
however, and since that important event,
nothing more had been heard of it, and he
had allowed the grass to accumulate between
the stones in order to keep the water from
leaking through another had forgotten al
together that his property extended from
street to street, and so the excuses multi
piled, and those who came last generally
adopted that accepted with the least expla-
nation, but there were two or three vino
couldn It exactly understand how from five
to eight individual blades Of grass would
materially obstruct the public thoroughfare.
Mayor Balthis listened patiently to all, and
dismissed the cases without fine. His con-
struction of the ordinance was that on the
allowed to remain, as it was often a protec-
ton, but in every ase the weeds should be
removed.
The general enforcement of the ordinance
has added greatly to the appearance of the
town by having removed many brlst-'
ling eyesore.
The ECLTPsE.-A good many people pre-
pared smoked glass and secured unobstruct-
ed points last Monday for the purpose of
witnessing the solar curtain performance
which had been so extensively advertised.
1t was so cloudy, however, that the smoked
glass was unnecessary, and it required g
right lively Imagination to find out when the
performance commenced.
A similar eclipse to that of Tuesday took
place in the United States on July Is, 1860,
"a day almost exactly like Tuesday in thi 6
locality,) and in Europe on July Sth 1912.
BY curious coincidence the sun and moon,
Tuesday returned to almost precisely the
same point in the moons orbit that it then
occupied. This is remarkable.
The sun, according to the best accepted
theories is a solid or LIQUID mass raised to so