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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

THE Vatican is to have its own Jour
nal, published in Italian, French, Eng
lish, German and. Spanish. All the
papal briefs and allocutions in the origi-
nal text, but with translations, will ap-
pear in it. s,.4..e
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

FINE shreds of india-rubber dissolved
in warm copal varnish makes water
proof cement for wood and leather.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

Denper Tribune: s'They tell me Lead
vile is pretty high up" remarked a
Denverite to a visitor from the carbon
ate field. "High up" calculated the
other, swell [ should say. The air is
so thin that you've gotto fan it in a cor
ner to get a square breath. Why, l live
sorter IN valley, but many a time
when went home at night I had to
push cloud from the front door to get
in" e sass =. $780,,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

Roses will be the popular flower for
this spring. ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

How TO FEED FOR EGGs.-A cores
pondent of the new Poultry Monthly, pub
lished at Albany, says: The question is
asked me often how feed my poultry
to get SO many eggs through the cold
weather. They, say they feed their
fowls all the corn they will eat. but they
do not get any eggs. My fowls are al.
ways healthy, never have any kind of
disease, and always get plenty of eggs
when they bring the highest price. IL
the first place [ keep pure breed poul-
try, not mOngrels; next, my fowls al
ways have all the old plaster, lime oys-
ter and clam shells broken fine. burnt
bones, charcoal and gravel they REQUIRE,
and good dust box to wallow in, plen-
ty of good water, not snow and ice,
b one meal and meat scraps twice or
three times week, and sour milk when
/ have it. Now, for the first meal, po-
tatoes and meat scraps boiled, mashed,
little salt, thicken with corn meal and
wheat shorts; second meal, buckwheat;
third meal, corn. Second day. potatoes
and turnips boiled, mashed, seasoned,
thickened with corn and oats ground;
second meal. wheat screenings; third,
meal, buckwheat. Third day, potatoes
and onions boiled, season, mash. thick
en- with ground feed and few handfuls
of bone meal; second feeding, oats; third
meal, corn. Fourth day, potatoes and
meat scraps, mashed, seasoned we'll
with Cayenne pepper, thickened with
meal and shorts; second meal. buck
wheat; third meal, wheat screenings.
Fifth day, potatoes and sweet apples
boiled, season, mash and season with
wheat shorts; second meal, corn; third
meal, oats. Sixth day, potatoes and
onions boiled and mashed, thicken with
corn and oatmeal; second meal, wheat;
third meal, corn; an extra feeding of
sunhoWer seeds once in a while is very
good. Seventh day, potatoes and turn
Ups boiled and mashed, season with Cay
epne pepper, thicken with wheat shorts
and bone meal; second meal, oats; third
meal, buckwheat. This is the wav my
fowls are fed through cold weather.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

THE whipping-post bill was defeated
in the North Carolina legislature by
three votes. 1t was defeated in the last
Kentucky legislature by one vote
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26
Bayard TaylOr's First Wife.
New York Times

She was q farmers daughter, her
name, Mary Agnew, who lived near the
poets home, at Kennett square. She
was a comely, delicate girl, and he an
imaginative, romantic youth, not very
robust, and disinclined to manual labor,
believing that he had a career before
him. The two met, and fell in love in
the usual sentimental fashion. Nobody
thought it would result in anything, and
Mary's parents did not wish that it
should, for they regarded young Tay-
Tor as dreamy, impractical fellow, who
would never be able to take care of a
wife. He was engaged, however, at 10,
and after he had returned from abroad
and published his "Views 5Afoot," his
rural friends were very proud of him,
and the parental AgneWs looked most
favorably on his suit. The marriage
was long deferred. The rustic gossips
said his reputation and knowledge Of
the world had partially cured him Of his
boyish affection, but he still saw Mary
from time to time, and drove her out
one raw day in the late autumn, and
she caught cold, which brought on con-
sumption. When it became evident
that she could not live it was decided
that they should be married, and she
rose from her bed by an effort of will,
and buoyed up by excitement, went
through the ceremony. She then re-
turned to her bed, and never quilted
it again, dying six weeks later in her
husbands arms. She was buried at
Longwood, the name of meeting
house and graveyard of tue Progressive
Friends. in Chester county, twenty five
miles from Philadelphia. There Bay
ard Taylor's remains will be laid, long
with those of Other members of his
family. Before the civil war, yearly
meetings of the Friends used to be held
at Longwood, and such men as CARR
son, Phillips, Whittier, Fred Douglass
and Robert Purves took part in them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-26

A stout Yorkshire farmer of the
name ofJamos Wreggitt, having emf
grated to Canada, settled himself and
family on a good farm which he rented
IN one of the townships. He was con-
sidered fair-dealing and honorable in all
transactions with his neighbors, and in
every respect bore a most excellent
character. In the farmers house was
a frst-hoor sittlng-room with a large
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
Marriages.

Near Mt. Sidney, on the 18th, by Rev Levi Gar
Der, Mr.. Charles d. Steigel and Miss Sarah Jane
Craig.
Near Sherando on the l4th, Nicholas NJ. DeMas-
ters and Miss Elizabeth Coffee, daughter of VIM.
Coffee.
Near Spring Hill, on the 18th, BENZ. Chandler
and Miss Sarah Marshall.
Near New Hope, on the 18th, Risden P. Key and
Miss Mollie s. Cotfman, daughter of Abraham G.
Coffman.
On the 18th inst. at the residence of the brides
father, near Arbor Hill. in this county, Charles C
Fifer and Miss Kate Price, all OF Augusta county
At Bowling Green, Caroline county, Va, on the
1st OF october, by Rev L. Cutler, Mr.. ]. M. Adj
ans, OF Rockbridge county, and Miss Sallie SUIT
ton, of Caroline county.
At the residence of the brides parents, near
Rawley, on the 14th by Rev. A. P. Funkhouser,
Mr.. Charles r. Hartman and Miss Fannie Andes
all Of Rockingham.
At the Rockbridge Baths, on Thursday the 18th
inst. Joseph T. Snider to Emma F. Cox.
On the 18th day of october, at the residence O.
Wright Smith, Esq, on Jackson's River. by Rev
J. Sedwick, Mr.. 7. DresSer and Miss M. II. Kelley,
both of Allegheny county.
On the 22d inst. at the Virginia Hotel. in this
city, by Rev. C. Beard, MI. A. Kersh and Miss
Agnes Long, all OF all Augusta county.
ION the 22d inst, at the Virginia Hotel, by the
Rev. C. W. Humphies Mr.. c. c. Condor and Miss
Minnie Ayers,-all OF Bells Valley, Rockbridge
county, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
The Election Laws.

The New York Times makes the following
reference to the election laws now being
tested before the Supreme Court of the
United States:
s'Five local election officers were convicted
OF interfering with the United States Deputy
Marshals and Supervisors during the Con-
gressional election in Maryland IN 1878.
They were sentenced to be imprisoned for a
year, and are now serving out their terms.
In their behalf an appeal, involving the con-
stitutionality Of the law under which they
were convicted, has been taken to the United
States Supreme Court, and hearing will at
once be begun. This is an important case,
as the constitutionality of the law has re-
peatedly been assailed in loose and reckless
manner by Democratic orators and stump
speakers. 1t has been in vain that friends Of
honest elections have argued that the Con-
stitution gives Congress full power to regu-
late the manner of holding elections for
members of Congress. The invariable
answer has been that the socalled Federal
interference" with elections held under
Federal authority was a gross usurpation.
The decision in the case now before the
Supreme Court will touch the constitution
ality of the statute, and the power to punish
any violation of that law; and this decision
ought to close the controversy
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
Business Indications.

The New York Times summarizes the quar-
terly circular Of Dun, Barlow & Co. and
adduces conclusions from the facts stated, as
follows:
The quarterly circular of Messrs. DUN,
BARLOW &c Co. is very cheerful reading. 1t
shows that, as compared with the CORES.
ponding period of 1878, the third quarter of
1879 exhibits decrease Of l ,59l in the num-
Der of business failures in the United States,
and Of 81, 000, 900 in the amount of liabil-
ties. That is to say, the failures are less by
more than one-half, and the liabilities less
by more than three-fourths, than they were
during the three months ending Sept. 80.
1878. OF course, the pending repeal of the
Bankrupt law made the failures registered
during the third quarter of last year abnor-
mally large but when we find that the av-
erage Of the same quarter for the preceding
four years shows double the number OF fall
ures and more than three times the amount
Of liabilities just recovered, the improvement
becomes sufficiently manifest. TIE only
qualification to the bright outlook is to be
found in the doubt whether the greatly di-
minished range of insolvency may not be
due to prosperous speculation as much as to
the sounder condition of legitimate business,
and whether, as the report puts it, the recov.
cry they illustrate is not too rapid to be
permanent.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
Markets..

| During the latter part of last week, wheat and
-four took jump, wheat going up to so to l g.
and extra flour to rs. This was followed by
sudden decline, Influenced by the quotations in
the Eastern cities, and yesterday wheat was ono
ted at IS to l 10, and extra flour, rs to 100 a
slight rally AS nearly as can be ascertained. as
we see it stated in New York Financial Journal.
taking the supply and demand of the world, the
deficiency in the wheat crop is about rs 600 900.
There is an absolute deficiency which has to be
met by diminished consumption and such sub
stituteS as may be found. The decline noticed
above, therefore, is net because there is not de-
mand for all the surplus the United States has.
1t was cansed, according to our reasoning, by
temporary glut in the market centres of Europe.
which will have to await the general distribution
OF the supply on hand to the rural sections. The
facilities for this have not been equal to the arr-
walls at the Centres and, in addition. consumers
are not prepared to buy except as their wants de-
mand. ms glut in the European centres sus-
pended shipments from American ports. and as
the producers under the stimulus OF the advanced
prices. had poured their wheat intothe markets.
and there being no immediate shipping demands
from abroad, the markets have been glutted here
AS consumption progresses in importing conn
tries, and the supply on hand at the centres is
disposed OF, fresh demands will be made upon tbis
to be filed from the granaries of the farmers The
slight reaction experienced was to have been ex-
pected, and is traceable to temporary causes "a
stated. We do not expect this to last long. With
IN six or eight weeks, at farthest, there will we
think, be renewed activity in the grain and -four
trade, with very strong tendency to advance,
and after January prices will settle at increased
figures. There is great scarcity in -four owing
to the extensive and protracted drought and the
inability OF the mills to grind. At the Touring
mill OF Witt Holt, of this place. the demands
are pressing, far beyond the capacity to grind,
and in many portions of the county and Valley the
mills cannot run at all.
Yesterday wheat was quoted at IS to 40: extra
flour, Is to 7, from the wagons; old corn CO. new
45; oats, 30 to IS; bacon hog round to 80; hams
lie; shoulders, ITO so.
There was no change in the market for hay-6sc
per 100 lbs In Richmond timothy, 80 to s.; clo-
yer, 60 to e5 In Baltimore best $40 to l. per ton:
mixed, Is to 1G; clover, IL to Is.
Wheat was quoted in Richmond, yesterday. at
from 40 to so, according to quality In Balti
more, from so to 63-showing recovery and
an advance OF to 7cents from SATURDAYS Quota
lions.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
srAuNToN MAaMET. OCT. g, 1879
CORRECTED WEEKLY By BYERs = sAKLl
WHOLESALE PRICES.

BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, october goth 1879.
BEEF CATTLE.-There was more life in the mar
ket this week for all kinds of cattle than last
week, and the prices for the better grades were
up fully &c, quality considered, while stockers
and common cattle show little, If any change, ex-
cept in activity. The quality was slightly better
taken altogether, than last week, common cattle
being less numerous and not of as low grade.
We quote at 50aS5 1211 per 100 lbs.
Mich CoWS.-Trade is more active. We quote
at 20a$5O per head as to quality.
Prices this week for Beef Cattle ranged as fol-
lows Best Beeves at 50a$5 IL; that generally ra-
ted first qualitys4 00a$4 81; medium good fair
quality 75a$3 rs; ordinary thin steers, oxen and
COWS 50a$2 49, general average Of the market this
week; extreme range OF prices 60a$5 H. Most
OF the sales were from SO to 81 so per 100 lbs.
SwINE.-The receipts are somewhat fuller than
last week, though the quality is hardly good as
it was then, some dealers report falling off in
quality Prices, considering quality, have been
Mept up to the figures ruling last Monday, 5a5Ac,
lew se1.1ng at either extreme, and trade through
most Of the pens is reported good, in others fair
and moderate, most sales being made at and near
556a5sc per lib net. Arrivals this week BAIT head.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Though there is an increase
in the number of the offerings, there is no i'm
provement to note in their quality, but rather
the the reverse, and most of the best of both
kinds have been taken by Eastern buyers early
in the market. Trade for butcher sheep and
lambs of tgood grade has been fair. Wequote
butcher sheep at 31la4A cents, and lambs at 3ha
5A cents per lib gross. Stock sheep 80 at 81 rs
per head. Arrivals this week 3473 head.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

The order of the Postmaster General, pub.
lished on our lst page, in reference to i'm
perfectly directed letters and other mail
matter, is explained in the following more
recent expression from that officer:
sIt has not been the intention of the de-
partment to prevent the delivery of matter
whose destination is positively known to the
postal officials handling it. On the contrary
ruling OF the department (No. 56) was pub
lished on page 26 of the United States Off
cal Postal Guide for September, as follows:
$50. When postmasters and employees of the
railway mail service know that matter de-
posftep in their Offices for mailing addressed
to city without the name of the State be-
ing given, it is intended for the principal city
OF that name, being, for instance, addressed
to well known citizen, firm, newspaper or
institution of such principal city, or to a
street and number which could only be found
therein, it should be forwarded,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

There is vast deal of genuine manhood
and knightly courage in John S. Wise. His
course pending the correspondence between
Gems. Malone and Kemper, and the senti-
ment expressed, did credit to his head and
heart. Would that we had more such men
In Virginia, whose moral courage elevate
them above the vulgar braggart and
the slavish fear of a perverse and misguided
public opinion. He was instrumental in
averting a serious conflict between those
two distinguished gentlemen. when re-
ally there was nothing, after the first
explanation, to cause any estrangement
between them. Messrs. Wise and Royal both
acted well, and are entitled to the highest
commentator.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

We do not know whether our readers re-
member as far back as rs in con nection
with the remarks of the Richmond Dis
patch on the Hamilton county speech oil
Hon. A. G.. Thurman, of Ohio, in which
was promulgated the "Ohio idea" The
Dispatch took up each proposition of the
Ohio Senator and reminded the people that
they were simply reproduction OF previous
editorials of that paper, and that it was real
ly the Dispatch that was speaking and
not Mr.. Thurman. Upon this remarkable
harmony of thought the Dispatch declared
Mr.. Thurman its candidate for the Presi-
dency. Singular, enough, however, the
Dispatch has nothing to say about
the election In the Buckeye State on the
14th, which buried forever the "Ohio
idea" and Thurman, and questioned the sa-
gacity Of the craftsmanship Of the Dispatch.
It would be interesting at this time to know
what the Dispatch thinks OF the Hamilton
county speech and itself, in the light of the
recent verdict recorded in Ohio.
Mr.. Thurman dated his fall as a states
man when he abandoned the principle OF
finance to Which his previous life had been
devoted In defending. What the Dispatch
has to say about it the public is somewhat
curious to know. Does it yet contend that
the "Ohio idea" is the true Democratic doc
trine, or is is proposed to recognize the logic
Of events, and admit that the Republican
party is the only representative Of conser
vatism in administrative policy, and the
breakwater to all the isms and expedients
which have been hatched into existence by
the desperate politicians who now direct
the destinies Of the Democratic party.
The Dispatch has been laundering ever
since it reminded the Yankees during the
war that they shot over the Confederates,
and thereby instructed them to aim lower
and kill more OF the Southern soldiers. Its
advice in politics is as fatal to the South as
its suggestions in war were disastrous to our
army. It's safe rule, if one desires to be
right, to oppose the Dsspotch.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

We have not thought it worth the trouble
to contradict the assertion of those who OPP
pose the McCulloch Bill, that its adoption
will injure the free schools. No fair minded
man will make the assel ton. The adoption
of the settlement will be the very thing the
schools want, and its defeat the very thing
they don t want. Not only will the schools
receive their constitutional allowance, but
the interest on the entire debt will be pro-
vided for, and the State government sup
ported, by the adoption Of the settlement.
In short all the interests of the State will be
subserved by its adoption, and all of them
equally injured by its rejection.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

The magnificent diamonds which were
presented as bridal gift by the Khedive Of
Egypt to Gen. Sherman's daughter are kept
in the vault of the Treasurer's office. United
States Treasury Department. They are SC
costly that Mrs. Fitch has never worn them,
nor is she or her father willing to run the
risk Of keeping such valuables in the house.
The casket containing the precious gems is
sealed up so that they are never shown to
the curious. The Sherman family do not
like to put the Treasurer to the trouble Of
opening the package and then sealing ii
up again.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

GRANTS OPINION OF EwINa.-A Por =
land, Oregon, dispatch says: Seen Grant,
on being informed to-day Of the sweeping
Republican triumph in Ohio, expressed
much qualification thereat. He said with
much emphasis that Gen. Ewing, as the
representative of false and dangerous finan-
cial doctrines, deserved defeat; for many
years the country had been struggling to
reach sound financial basis, and it was in
excusable in any man to take position which
would again debase the currency, and i'm
pair the public credit.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
Sale.


By virtue of a decree OF the Circuit Court OF Au-
gusta county, entered on the 31st day OF March,
1879, in the chancery of Trice's creditors va
Trice ct al, the undersigned commissioners will
on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ed, 1879,
sell at public auction in front of the Court House.
in staunton, the tract OF land belonging to D: A
Pike near Greenville, and containing
2O6 Ia Acres.
The said tract is said Trices half of the tract of
land formerly owned Jointly by himself and wife
and which was assigned him in the division
made of said joint tract in said cause. 1t has no
improvements on it, but is of fine quality, well
watered aud timbered.
TERMS Enough cash in hand to pay costs of
suit and sale, and the residue upon "a credit of
one, two and three years, in equal instruments,
to give bonds for the deferred instalments, with
approved personal security, and the title to be
retained as ultimate security
CHARLES GRATTAN,
TIC ELDER,
j. M. QUARLES,
oct 23-tdS Commissioners.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
announcements.

We are authorized to announce D. NEWTON VAN
LEAR as candidate for the House OF Delegates
Tor the county of Augusta ard city of Staunton.
oct 23-tde
We are authorized to announce ABsALoM KoINER
as a candidate for re election to the Senate from
Augusta county and Staunton oct9-tde
We are authorized to announce JOHN ECHOLS
as q candidate for reelection to represent Au-
gusta county and Staunton in the House of Dele.
gates. oct9-tde
We are authorized to announce MARSHALL
HANGER as a candidate for reelection to repre-
sent Augusta county and Staunton in the House
OF Delegates. oct9-tde
We are authorized to announce s. BROWN AL
Virginia for Augusta county and Stanton.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23
Good Evidence.

When such men as the Rev. DR.. Rankin,
Rev. DR.. Harvey, Prof. Green, DR.. Bartine,
Col John X. McChesney, E. w. Neff, and
host of others equally trustworthy, certify
over their own signatures to the marvellous
efficacy of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure, in the diseases for which it is recon-
mended, it is time to dismiss doubts on the
subject.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

Rev. Jos. Terrar, pastor Of the Fourth
Colored Baptist Church. Of Richmond, Va,
died suddenly Sunday while officiating at a
funeral. He had inst announced hymn
over the remains of deceased sister, and
stepped back in seat to await it's conclu-
sion, when he was seized with heart disease
and died in a few minutes.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

The drought in the West has been the
most damaging that has occurred for many
years. Streams and springs have dried up,
and stock have suffered to an alarming ex-
tent. The Hessian fly has also appeared
in the wheat and much injury feared.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

The State is jubilant because, it thinks,
the Democratic party will have to abandon
the rag baby and declare for good money and
the Republican policy of finance. Would it
not be more consistent for the State to come
square out for the party which makes the
principle it approves one of its cardinal
tenets of faith, and kick aside the party
which has done all it can to cripple and de-
stroy the policy based upon that principle?
Be honest about the matter end follow the
convictions you declare,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-10-23

and wise legislation. 1t is the great con-
sentative force, representing the intelli-
gence, the wealth and enterprise Of the ma
ton, rejecting the highest type of Amer
lean civilization, and antagonizing all the
mischievous isms which spring from
ignorance, idleness and vice, and lead by
Northern Democratic demagogues and po-
litical adventurers.