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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-12
Gale of a Most Valuable and
y Highly Improved Estate

In the TGtley.
One of the finest and best estates in the Valley
of Virginia is offered for sale privately. Inc
farm is situated 5A miles west Of stanton, on
Middle River, and contains
$50 ACRES
of excellent limestone land. There Is plenty OF
fine timber and an abundance OF fresh water. Al
most the entire farm is now we'll set in grass the
improvements consist of a
NEW FRAME DWELLING,
good sized and convenient. a New Swisher Barn
4Oxe0 feet and other necessary outDu1ldlngs, &c,
connected with the farm is one of Finest Water
Powers in the State.
The farm will be sold as whole, or 225 acres OF
it will be disposed Of retaining the water power.
To any one desiring to purchase will also be
sold the LIVE STOCK and CROPS sc, on the place.
For particulars. address ,,.,.r,o,-sr,
NAV 1s-tf stanton, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-12

SHARPER THAN A LAwYER.-A wag OF
a lawyer, says the Iora State Register, was
sitting in his office the other day deeply en-
gagged in unravelling some knotty question,
when gentleman entered and inquired, SIS
this Mr.. 2. ?" The student of Blackstone,
raising his eyes from the legal book before
him, replied ''If you owe me any thing, or
have any business in my line, then Z. is my
name if you have claim to present am
not the man. If you called simply for a
social chat, you can call me by any name %
81 propose to present you with some bus
ness in your line. l have note OF twenty
five dollars want you to collect" and hand
ing the lawyer a note, departed to call the
next day. AS soon as he was gone the law
yer ascertained that it was one OF his own
promises to pay.
The next day bis client appeared and in
quired,
ssWell, what success 2"
sAll right; l have collected the money.
Here it is, less my fees handing him fifteen
dollars.
ssGood !''said the client. II have made
two dollars and ha If by the operation. .
'sHow so 90 said the lawyer.
SWELL" replied the client, II tried all ovel
the city to sell it for twelve and half, but
ccnldn't do it,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-12

SUNFLowERs AND THEIR VALUE.-"Be
sure and always plant sunflowers every
spring around your drains and kitchen VIM
dows'' was the advice given by an expert
enced physician to young housekeeper.
sit will save you world of suffering and
heavy DOCTORS bill. Fevers or any malarial
disease will not visit house that is protect
ed by battalion Of sunflowers.'' A long
trial Of this wise counsel has proved its wis
dom and utility and that young wife who
has grown gray since that time has the most
implicit faith in the virtue of sunfowers as
a preventive of sickness. In one or two
years the plants did not thrive by reason OF
neglect, and finally died. In these seasons
sickness visited the home, and served to con.
firm her faith in their virtue. She would
rather the potato crop should fail than to
havc her sunny plants neglected. gen.
tleman in the South whose house was situa-
ted quarter of a mile from marsh, and
whose family, servants and all, every sums
mer were afflicted with fevers of all kinds,
heard from friend of the protective quail
ties ofsunflowers and determined to try their
utility. He prepared strip of ground about
half way between the swamp and his house,
as he would for corn, and planted the whole
for sunfewer seeds. They made magnifi-
cent growth, and that season there was not
single case Of fever in the family. He has
raised them ever since, and healthier
family is not to be found. He utilities the
seed. by grinding it up with corn and feed
ing to his horses, and he says the seeds are
worth more than the whole cost OF raising,
to keep them in flesh, and giving them a
bright glossy coat. Poultry like the seeds
when ground and mixed with other feed
and keep fat upon the diet. The plant is moi
very beautiful when in bloom, as the leaves
are large and coarse, and the flowers are
more CANDY than lovely; but still if it pos
sesses such wonderful prospective powers il
should be highly esteemed, and every farmer
should have them stand sentences over al
slop pools and drains.-[ Farmers Wife, IN
the Country Gentleman.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-06-12
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and having experienced mechanics and all kinds
of improved machinery, will allow no article to
leave their mandatory which will not standthe
severest tests. Believing that work of this char
acter can be manufactured here in our midst.
where the material is plentiful and superior,as
cheap If not cheaper than the larger cities, they
have inaugurated this
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

THERE are fewer knaves in Texas
prisons everywhere than for years past.
There are couI ties without an occu.
pant for their jsils. This state of facts
is due to the vigor and ferceness with
which juries, wien the awkward law.
do not prevent, execute vengeance upon
evil-doers. The press, too, assumes
the functions of prosecuting attorneys,
and bloody villain who deliberately
does bloody deed is mercllessly dealt
with by the courts, It's great pity
that the Legislature has not time to re-
form properly the criminal code. The
penitentiary should be relieved of Its
.surfeit by the whipping post, and
speediness of trial is indispensable to
the execution of the law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

GES- Ed WALTHAI.L, J ffersOn DAvi,
Al G-n. ) =. r. Chalmers, of IT.
shne s-riDg district, are candidates Ia
snccesd the colorei Ssnstor 3 uce Of
Mississippi. G:u. Chalmers. in g IT,
cent letter, indulges in an Argument to
prove that the Nationals OF Mississippi
have stolen their Greenback opinions
from the ID mocratic party, and he
closes his srsument with the PROPOSE
ton that Blysrd, Herman and Others
sgneeing with them In their op. osi-
ton TO G-tenbacks are orthodox
Democrats and cannot be ignored.
How hard money Democratic, like Bay
a, Herman, Eaten, Lamar. Butler and
Hampton, can also be good Greenback-
e's, Gen. Chslmers does net explain.
The strsddlIug Of the gap bet xeen tn,
Greenbackers and hard money Demo
Gratis is apparently done with an care
aid facility that excite surprise. But
then a hard money candidate on soft
platform, or a soft candidate on hard
Que is nothing new to Democrats like
Chalmers and Ewing and Hurd. Tn.
principles controlling such leaders il
like that which Dalgetta did not hest
tate to boldly avow-the principe OF
plumber. The absurdity, too. of such
conduct is so palpable that now snO
then hard money Democrat declares
most sOlemnly that the currency ques
ton is over and that specie resumption
is a fixed fact.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

roN PIATT's Sunday Capital says that
it is doubtless unfortunate that, at a
time when the financial question is par
smouut, the organization Of the Sen.
ate committee VIII ch has to deal with
it should be hostile to the sense of the
party that controls the Senate. Blu,
lust now the important question was
whether the time and the occasion had
arrived for decisive az on, and, after
dellberation, that question was an.
swered in the negative. 1t is not to be
supposed that this is . permanent ad-
justment Nobody Imsgines that it is,
There simply was. no adequate cause
for clogsing the present situation with
a new issue. As it stands, Bayard re
ceives great many encomiums from
the Republican press for his 6rmness
aud the other Democrats IN the Senate
are praised for their forbearance By the
Democratic journals. The peacemak-
CIR, Of course, has been Thurman. But
for him and his influence. Coke, who
is developing as TO the Democratic
party, mShy qualities Of leadership
thar remind one OF what Morton used
to be in The pslmy days Of r Sdicslism,
would. without adoubs,s have showed
BAsArd under. The affair is well
enough TOT the present Mkt winter
Coke Will have his day. Aud there
need be no fear that he will fail to i'm
prove I'd. rs " $50
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

A SPECIAL dispatch from w ashlng-
ton 81 ys that Mr.. Hurd's latest speech,
made last Saturday in the House, was
one OF the oratorical events of the ses-
sion. He speaks 30 rarely that the
pleasure of hearing him when he does
speak Is grestly enhanced. Tt day be
laid down the principles in behalf OF
which the Democrats, as he put it,
have enlisted not for u session, but for
the war. That the Federal troops
should not be present at the polls; tina,
there should be impartial juries in the
Fedora, courts, and that there should
be no Federal interference with State
elections, were the PRINCIPLES for which
the Democracy had fought and would
continue to fight. 1t was the right oil
the representatives Of the people t.
make rules and regulations for the
government OF their creature, the army,
and they would contend for that right
now before the people. Mr.. Hurd'i
perorsion was strikingly eloql.nt,
and he was fnquently interrupted BY
outbursts and applause. At the clos,
he was the recipient of an ovation,
winch was so much of demonstration
that it, was some time before ordel
could be sufficiently restored to enabl,
the business Of the house to be pro,
ceeded with.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

The bids for the new State of Penn.
sylvania four per cent. loan of 50, 900,
600, which was awarded on last Tues
day, aggregated $12, 1864, 800. The
bids for four per cents. ranged from
par to 1O2 81; at 1-2 per cent. the
rates ranged from l01 to 1876. IS, and
the bids at 5 per cent ranged from
10l 80 to 1ll.06. These figures show
how cheaply States with good credit
can obtain money. II is u;eful to
compare these figures with Louisiana
6's selling at 30, and : per cent.
bonds at prices ranging from 90 to SO.
II the latter State should have to Dor.
row more money she would be forced
to pay more than six times as much
for it as Pennsylvania does. Texas
can borrow after this Legislature ad-
journs as chesplv as Pennsvlvania.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

IT is said that Tilden's supporters
are exerting themselves in Ohio to de
feat Gen. Ewing. II the Dino
Gratis fail In Ohio in this pending con-
test they must carry New York or are
wholly uHdone in the presidential
election. Therefore Tllden exerts his
power against Ewing. He and Sher-
nan Cooperate, even as did Randall,
Tilden's man in the House, with Gar
field. The purpose of these agents
and representatives of the bondhold
ers and gold monopolists is to prevent,
at all hazards, as Senator Coke said, the
excitation of practical, sensible issues.
We are to have an everlasting uprosr, a
spasm of fury, about Estates rights,
the negro and bloody shirt, and Tilden
and Sherman both representing the
rich and creditor class, as against the
masses of the people, will be the con-
current candidates of the two parties.
Whichever may win, the bondholders
and the rich and the creditor class win
and the policy of hard times, of con
traction, of single standard of values,
of making the rich richer and the poo T
poorer, aud of legislating wealth out of
the hands OF debtors into thuse of cred
itors will be perpetusted. The strsng-
est sbsurdity enacted is that by the
GreenbaC kers of Ohio, who refuse to
follow the only msn of brains they
have in the State, Geo. Sam Carey, 10
supporting Ewing. Their own csndi-
date, like ours In Maine, stands not
the ghost of chance, aud the
only hope we have of defeating Tilden
and the Radicals and Sherman, and Of
electing Ewing, consists in the c. -pp-
Grafton of the Greenbsckers with the
Democracy. Won'r Gov. Hammsn and
Mr.. Loe, the intellectual giants of this
party in Texas, go over into Ohio and
trip-hsmmer share Of honest good
sense into their partisan fnendsa $50
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

CONGRESSMAN CHALMERS says the
extra session has not been failure,
and continues
We have accomplished good deal ;
not all we undertook, it is true, but
people are frequently satisfied with
results something below that at which
they pretend to aim. In the first place,
we accomplished what we really want
ed most, to secure control of the
House beyond peradventure. You
see. had the Republicans managed to
steal all of CahforDis's Congressman
At the election, they would, could they
have captured the 6reenbackers, have
had control of the House. So we
wanted to forsstah this by organizing
the new House early, and did 80. AS
to the fight over the appropriation
bills with their riders, l think we
have gained good deal anu lost
aothing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

The negro exodus business has SIM
uered dowp, and it signified nothing.
Each negro taken north, since he is a
political cipher in the South, is gain
of almost two votes to the Radicals.
The voting strength and representation
of the South in Congress under the
next census would be Jesse ned, and two
or three northern Democratic congress
sional districts might be transformed
into Republican strongholds. But the
cost of removing blacks was heavy,
and the gain TO the Radical party
doubtful. If the negroes leave the
South, Northern whites rapidly fill
their places, and since the game was
one at which both sections might be
winners and losers, the rascally party
leaders have abandoned it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03
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Advancing years, care, sickness, dirappoint
ment, aud hereditary predisposiiion all oper-
ale 10 turn the hair gray, and either Of them
inclines II 20 shed premsturely. AYERS HAIa
VieoR will restore faded or gray light and red
hair to q rich brown or deep black, as may he
desired. II softens and cleanses tue scalp giving
IL a healthy action, and removes and cures dand
ruiz and hum RS. BY lite nse falling hair Ia
checked and u new growth will be produced In
all cases where The folIcles are not destroyed or
glands decayed. Its effects beautifully
shown on brashy, veal, or sickly hur, TO which
a few applications will produce the Close and
freshness Of youth. Harmless and SUE IN ITS
operation. il is Incompatible rs dressing, and
ia especially valued for the soft Istre and rich
ness OF tone il imparts. Ii contains neither oil
nor dye, and will not soil nor color white cam
brio; yet II lasts long on the hair, and keeps IL
fresh and vigorous.
FOR SAL ny ALL DEALERS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

FREE SCHOOLS should be cnnfned
IN the scope OF their benefcence. Ia
the poor aud homeless and orphaned.
For the same reason the public should
feed and clothe those helpless children
having no natural guSrdisns. But it
does not follow that t ne Eublie should
feed, clothe or educate children having
parents and guardians. Each head of
family in Texas can have home asd
farm. The State gives il and notohls
this but converts 1t into an insliensbie
fund or homestead, that the children
of such = household may never be- be-
ref OF the means Of edacatioa.r In
stead Of doling out charity 10 these
people that they may be induced t.
send their children % seheof thsy
should be punished for uots slieadlng
10 their education. None bat the oe.
praved and base born, thus circum
siAnced, would deny their children
the means qf modest educstioAn ed
ihee uas net neighborhood IN any
dens-ly populated disssietst The e5dtl
which. before public morals were col.
Iupsed % this nissrAble sAstsm fas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

JoHEA. LOGAN, more thoroughly des.
pissed than any living American for his
tergiversstions, his soullessness ami
cSarseness, his treason to friends and
to States and past es, has been making
8 speech in the Senate. 1t was brutal
in its denuucistiOus of Southern pee
pie, habits and morals. But nobody
listened. He has a disgusting habit OF
believing like tempest and at the
close of each sentence of ''yawking"
densely clogged cobwebs from his
throat. People fly, except those COM
PEELED to remain in their places, when
he begins to rear aud rant. He COD
POUNDS iu t an with elcquence and
noise with earnestness and violent ges-
ticulaton with sure effectiveness. l
there we're a half dozen John A. L.
Sans the Congress might remonetlze
brass. l. would he scarcer than gold.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

WASN'T II strange that the young
Napoleon went TO fight Africans
There could be no glory won In such a
war, and then he must needs pass St.
Helena, going and returning. Did he
not effect that the greatest man the
world ever produced had been chained
there to rock in mid-ocean, that he
might eat out his own soul and life,
even by these magnanimous English
men, for whose flag this scion of
greatness and degenerate heir pro-
posed to risk his hft? Who pities9
Who forgives2 We can sYmpathize
with the woe-stricken, motherless, ex-
Queen Eugene, but when 1t was an
nouncee that the ''future Emperor"
had fallen, people turned away with q
sneer or sigh, and said he was fool
and deserved his fate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03
hR OTHER POCKET ON THE
aaP---ITS rION.

The time his come" says the st.
his Republican, "when Federal, State
local politics will be devoted
6ly to the reconstruction of the
bic pocket" 1t is simply sstonIsh-
with what direct suddenness the
Alcalde brought the country by q
den Jerk at the reins of executive
rer to dead halt. II he had pulled
ene string, that in the mouths of
''eAyorting" pedagogues corralled
ne Graveyard n(il Of the pub
schools he would have been
nrsed. II would have been pro-
nced unheard of cruelty to
poor animals who have browsed
ong and happily upon fat pastures
public pap that they CONCEIVE they
3 the God-given right to fatten al
upon the boundlesS verdancy OF
minimizing people. When the
ernor said to the Legislature,
- was simply rafting along in the
sls made by the wheels of Davis's,
and Hubbard's administrations,
It must inc a new highway or
the schools or the bondholders,
rhole country was startled and be-
for the first time, 10 contemplate
Ending dangers and Tuinous evils
Dent to rxtravagant exactions made
State, local ana Federal systems As
stated. this fright given Texas
dholders by his exeelIency was a
,er Of necessity. Nobody here
STONED TIE certainty OF payment
Texas OF tie interest maturing; but
her the bondholders or the schools
Il snEer. Those poSoas are emf
.sly psous persons, having tho dear
bnls and their childFcn 10 such an
sfing extent that eaaer Qttiiaary car.
Instances they lave 70 see etssv' i,se.
taxed to ednca,e coloSed indies
when & sessol Z iiesss u
"a a. ~ s4ym , eisisE T. ~ ee.Ps
CUES SOL he babies o. IL ~
ndholaeFs. Il wss ysssfsuA ~ 4
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

CA V.sTua ead D,llas she'd tx
change suts. Fer al piac H.. pur-
peers. 'verxhS IN Dallas. t1ot fire
~ nrznce ~ec'' 8. would ike toe cut
uh. =, \ Gave ton. from htaO-dis
i's'i penr,ge Bat GaivsstGsbs, :
lnieh We / fresh water. Il ltches
the ic"rIidn rains IN wooden Gterns,
Aad y hen an lights occur, uDSe the
people "t ID lss, those of GvestOu
grow = ear| at wn!sky siraigL Bul
is IA i'ig I'D Galveston musixecu,e
Involved III the cDustrucii0, of III
sYueduct scross ali arm uG n sea tC
tue Thirsty hiluions pnpuIatioon tb,
island.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

The Wood County Flag extra
reached the capital yesterday with {
horrible record of crime regard
log guards in charge of cohvici
camps in Wood county. The recitals
are sickening in their details. Men
are shot down without provocstion and
the woods are dotted with the graves
Of murdered men. One refused to 60
20 work because he was sick. A bIu-
tai guard struck him upon the head
with a heavy piece of wood, and the
poor fellow died the next day. A Car
was being loaded witc cross ties. A
piece of timber slipped, and one OF
the convicls fell to the ground with
it. The. enraged guard rushed upon
the Prostrats man and sent bullet
through, his brain. A guard who had
killed convict over whose body a cor
one1's il quest was held, which is not
always done, said, when asked if he
had killed others, that he had killei
plel ty OF them! Twenty -four men
nave been killed in four months. and
the work of taking mems lives that
have1been sent. to the penitentiary for
short terms continues. The G, vernon
has asked the Legislature to act, and
it should act hastily. OF Russian po-
litical prisoners confined in the quick
silver mires of Siberia, no such tales
can be told as come regarding the
treatment OF Texas convic.s 10 the
forests of Wood county. No wonder
Col! Lang resigned the assistant su
perintendents place when he found 1t
impossible to enforce proper treat
ment. s...
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

SESAioR lERREILs renais upon
the justice OF discriLniDstiDgn isvol
OF colnred females in providin for the
operation of normal schools ested 8
revolution in the Senate. Senator
Bisssingsme N pyed n RECOMMENDATION
If the vote on the approprianp, ano
the Objectionable words 'cort d fe-
males were stricken out, an whites
are to have equal privilege in tht
benefits given 10 the colore. 1t i,
strange to what extent deagogue'
will go in hunting tender oiEts Of
voters.