The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-07-24
Next Monday is court lav.

Next Monday is court day.
The hotels OF Stanton are doing fine
business.
The Augusta Baptist Association will meet
at Mt. Crawford on the 10th.
The engine at the water works is still keep
ing up its night and day work.
The camp meeting near Parnassus COM
mences on the 1st of August.
A party of Stauntonians and visitors enjoy
| ed trip to the cave yesterday.
Our merchants are preparing for their fall
stock, and to this end are rushing off sum-
mer supplies at {. sacrifice.
A lady was Frustrated by the heat rear
Mr.. Tyree's Drug Store, on Main street yes
terday. We did not learn her NAME
The Augusta immigration Society and
Land Bureau have opened books Of subscrip-
ton. The par value of the shares is $40
each.
The members of the Augusta Street NJ. E..
Church. (col.) will give three days enter
tainment on the lot adjoining the church,
commencing on the Goth.
We know of no improvement that is so
much needed as thorough system of drain
age for Stanton. 1t would be money well
invested to provide it at once.
1t is stated that an unusual number of rat
tlesnakes have been killed in the regions adj
jacent to the mountains. Want of water
is said to be driving them from their ac-
customed haunts.
Remember the Hlbernian picnic at Fort
Defiance to-day, and if you car t get off on
the early train, be certain to 90 down on the
mail. There will be no end to the amuse-
ment and pleasure.
For the last three or four days, almost
every boy you meet has a bucket in his hand
half full of gold fish. The pond at the Asy-
lum has been cleaned out lately and thou
sands of the tinny beauties were given away.
Frazier, the infant son of Mr.. r. P. Bell,
fell from the back of chair in which his
nurse had placed him, on Saturday last,
and cut severe cash across his forehead.
The wound was dressed by DR.. Fauntleroy,
and although painful is not dangerous.
Mr.. Chrisman, residing near Hundley's
Mill, in this county, was Frustrated by heat
while standing in the Court House yard of
this place on Tuesday morning last. Friends
present kindly cared for him, and after re-
covering, he was taken tu his home.
Last week the mail train On the Valley
Road ran in:oa drove of cattle and injured
two of them. After the train had passed, the
remainder of the drove, numbering about
thirty, turned upon their wounded fellows
and gored them to death.
The protracted and extreme drought which
we are now experiencing is unprecedented.
Many of the streams, springs and wells
throughout the county which were regarded
as never failing, are now dry, and in num-
bers of instances farmers have to haul water
for miles.
This unprecedented drouth has not been
without its advantages. The wheat and hay
crops were secured in better condition
than for many years. From all we can learn
wheat is turning out far better than was an
ticipated, and the yield in this ion will
be above an average, whilst the quality is
unprecedentedly fine. No housewife need
grumbe OF bad flour for the next year to
come.
One of our prominent physicians had a
queer case the other night. He was awakened
at a late hour by visitor who told him that
certain bachelor was very sick at his room,
and desired attendance. Recognizing the
voice as that Of the alleged invalid, the ply
sician insisted on prescribing then and there,
but the patient insisted on being waited on
as sick man should be, and when the doc
tor reached his room found him quite i'll in
deed. In an experience OF thrity-fve years
The NJ. D. declares he had never had a sim
lar case.
The summer resorts are fast filling up, and
,he trains are daily crowded with persons
seeking health and pleasure in the noun
.ains of Virginia. At Stribling the guests
number between eighty and ninety, whilst
many others have engaged cottages. This
s an unusually large crowd for July, and
oreshadows prosperous season, Mr.. Kin
ley, the proprietor, has made many improve
nents since last year, and everything that
an contribute to the comfort Eand pleasure
# his visitors Las been provided. At Raw
ey the crowd reaches up into the hundreds,
whilst Variety, Cold Sulphur, Orkney, the
Baths, Alum, White apd others have their
ull quota.
PERsoNAL.-Dr. R. S. Hamilton, the es- Q
Gent superintendent of the Public Schools t
{ SGaunton, will attend the session of the t
alley Normal School at Bridgewater, be- f
)re which he will lecture. f
Prof. S. Fl. Coleman has arrived in Staun- v
IN, and is making active preparations for 1
pening his school for boys and young men. 81
Among the visitors at Rawley is Judge I.
[oncure, President of the Supreme Court L
Appeals. d
Mr.. Lenwood Hamilton. well known in
lis city, has recently been appointed Assis- y