The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-08-07

at Rawley.
The excursion to Old Point starts to-mor-
row night.
We are to have another Richmond ex-
cursion Sunday.
The Harrisonburg papers are agitating the
question of water works.
The stage scenery and curtain for the new
Opera House has been received.
Wate:melons are abundant in the mar
ket. They are unusually small.
There is to be a grand military ball at
Rawley on Friday, the Sth inst. tomorrow
night.
The contract of printing Tor Augusta
county, for the next year, has been awarded
the VALLEY VIRGINIAN.
You will save money by observing the
Treasurer's tax notice, and paying one-half
of your dues before the Doth of tie month.
Capt. Jno. II. Woodward, agent of the c..
6 o. Railway, is now selling round trip
tickets to the White Sulphur, good for ten
days, at $3.50.
The camp meeting near Stribling Springs
was largely attended by Stauntonlans on
Sunday. All three of the liveries were ex-
hausted in furnishing transportation.
The Y. NJ. C. A. Convention which meets
in the Association Hall to morrow night,
promises to be instructive and entertaining.
1t will doubtless be largely attended.
At glass ball shooting match at the Fair
Grounds last Friday evening, by the Staun-
ton Club, the prize was won by Mr.J. A.
Cochran, who broke nine out OF ten balls.
Rockingham county expenditures for 1879
foot up $4,000, and the levy is 9G3 cents on
the 500, except in Harrisonburg, which is
exemptfrom the parish, road fund and school
| tax.
Next Sunday the B. & O. r. r. will run
a special train from Staunton to the Locust
Grove camp meeting, below Woodstock.
The round trip tickets have been reduced to
$1.75.
|
chorean club was given at Fort Defiance last
Friday night. There were some twenty
couples in attendance, and the bright moon
never shown Oil happier gathering.
| The westward bound trains of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railway are crowded eve
nv day. This will be a rare season for the
springs, and one reason is! that the fare at
nearly a of them had been greatly re-
duced.
Tonight grand concert will be given at
NJ. Horeb church, near Mt. Meridian. The
programme embraces some OF the finest Sc
lections from the old masters, and the per-
formers rank high IN the catalogue OF anna
teur talent
A correspondent of the Dispatch, writing
from Cold Sulphur, gives an account OF an
entertainment, consisting of tabieaux &c.,
given at that place under the management
of Prof & Madame Hasseleff, formerly Of the
Augusta Female Seminary.
Notwithstanding the drought, a large pro-
portion of the fall blowing has been finished.
In the southern part OF the county especial
" much has been done. The hot sun burned
out the soil until it became as mellow as an
ash bank in which condition it was turned
over.
But few people from the extreme South
have visited the Virginia mountains this sum.
mer, notwithstanding the prevalence of the
| fever. Last season nearly all of the watering
places were crowded with visitors from the
| infected sections or those where the fever was
expected to reach.
The managers of the Lee monument have
decided not to have a ball at the White Sui
phur this Summer for the benefit of that as
ISOLATION. The one giveL at that place last
season for that object was pretty generally
condemn ed, and met with the disapproyal Of
most of the Southern visitors at the White.
One hundred and twenty-five delegates
from Kentucky and Ohio passed through
Charlottesville, Va, Saturday afternoon, on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, en- route
to Philadelphia, to attend the triennial meet.
| ing of the German order cf Turnverein. One
hundred and fifty more passed through at
night.
Mr.. Richard Norris, Jr., prominent citi-
| zen of Baltimore. and we'll known for his
project for utilizing the surplus water of the
Gunpowder for manufacturing purposes, died
Friday. Mr.. Norris was well known in
Staunton, having frequently represented the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the Valley
Railroad meetings held in this place.
The Highland Recorder says !: W. G.. Gil
keson and George A. Hanger, from Augusta
county, passed through here last Wednes-
day evening eastward. They have been
stopping on Allegheny mountain for the
past few days looking after their stock
They report grass abundant, but that the
! water supply was getting short till replen-
! ished by the recent rains.
The military companies are thinking of
asking the city to erect them suitable ar
mory. Lynchburg and other cities have re-
Gently made handsome provisions for their
companies, and ''the boys" think that
Staunton should not be behind them. The
Guards will soon have to move from their
present quarters at the American Hotel, and
as there are few rooms suitable for the pur-
pose, some difficulty is likely to be expe-
Fenced before the necessary accommodations
GIN be secured. The Witt lot on Main ST.,
| would be fine location for the armory.
O-
| PERs oNAL-The Lexington Gazet 9
states that "CapI. A. w. Hartman has re-
turned to Rockbfidge to live. He will at once
| commence building house on his farm near
| Lexington, on the site of the old burnt
| building, the home of the late Col. Cameron.
We welcome him to..Rockbridge.'
| George c. Wedderburn, ESQ.,, of the
Washington Gazette, passed through Staun-
| ton on Friday en- route for the Springs.
| Mr.. John B. Blackley, one of our most
enterprising young business men, recently
| with his brother, Mr.. James Fl. Blackley, has
opened grocery and grain store, opposite
the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot. His ex-
| perience, popular manners, and business
qualilicati ons, are pretty good guarantees of
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