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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
Wonderful Revival Of the Iron Trade.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2o.-Ine HUOtlc
Record says: There is not enough iron in the
country at the present time to supply the
necessary demand, and as a result of this
scarcity there is little or 10 disposition to
sell, and prices are stiff. As au example !:
Foundry iron, No. Y, which was sold for
delivery in Philadelphia in December OF
last year at SIS per ton, is now quoted at
$33 So An operator who has been over this
State says /: There are not four idle fur
naces. So busy are the nil and furnace meh
at the present time that they are refusing to
take orders for April and May delivery al
an advance on present prices, many ofthem
believing that before their present contracts
(Which in some cases cover three and fOuI
NO, thu are filed iron will have gone up to
1872 prices, VIII n s]3 was asked and la
KEN"
According to reliable accounts the rail-
road building Interest will be more active il
1880 than in any year in commercial bsto-
ry. One authority asserts that there will not
be enough steel rails made in the world in
the COMING year to meet the demands, and
adds that if is questionable whether the COM
bined product OF iron aud steel for the year
viii be equal In requirements. It Is calcula
ted that in 1880, 00C0 miles of railroad will
b added to the 80 600 miles already in oper-
att n, some railroad publications going 81
far as TO place the prob iblt' increase at II,
900 miles. Numbers Of old roads must ais"
b renewed and repaired, and more cars will
ne needed. 1t is stated that considerable
portion Of the total of eco miles is already
under contract, and that he means for tie
wh0la, IN The shape Of STOCK subscriptions,
proceeds OF bonds aud other resources, have
already been secured. BY c. rrespondenct
with railroad companies. furnace owners
md 90 Inn IL iaPc q PirtShtrrr has
cured the following estimate of the probable
demand for iron on American railroad &C
counts during 1880:
Railways likely to be built dur
ing the year $50 ............... 5000 miles
Ten per cent for repairs OF old
roads go 900 miles in exis-
tence) 49,. ........ ............... 5000 miles
E simated weight Of iron for
rails, first bars, bolts and
spikes, 100 tons per mile,.....l, 800, 900 tons
Railroad cars likely to be built
during 1880. 1851 00 consum-
ing four tons Of iron per
car 500, 600 tons
Ten per cent. for repair of Odd
cars 100000 now in exis-
tence) l60, OO0 tons
This gives total Of 2 ,46 1000 tons of iron
to be required for this interest alone, taking
no account for the use to which iron is put.
How many furnaces there are now in
blast in the United States is a question
which cannot be answered until the receipt
of the returns # the American Iron and
Steel Association. AT the close of last year
there we're G92 furnaces and 2G5 in blast.
Those who ought to know calculate that,
reckoning the new furnaces which have
been built this year, or are about completed,
there will be less than 790 in blast ON the
first day of the New Year.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

About entering on another year it will
cot be without interest to our readers to re-
ca II the prophecies of Samuel Benner, made
III 1876, and which have so far proven sur,
prisngly correct. II they will hit the nail on
the lead as squarely in the future as they
did in the past, we are now at last entering
on the two years of unsurpassed prosperity
prophesied by him. of which he says:
sin 1880 and 1881 money will be made
very fast in this business, unless trammeled
by unwise legislation upon the currency and
tariff, and in the year 1881, in the months
of September and October the price will be
at its highest;' 'and in 1881 the price will
run above $50 per ton"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
|. s 4: 81. r.

.rsk suffered rh,.cli hon adherence
M DC axsats6ir party. II the RADICAL
psstT flss.fs; zHders to us the olive branch,
q sa sd }jKnse to cooperate with it.
s.Es 5i.it,syyou my friends OF it? The
=, ,osil.a @coiGes from q member OF the
3seroatipc party whose mission
s, W in its infai cy. Just proceed
II Is learn from this same microscopic
s..N Of passing events" that all the
qealtt. kne Intelligence and responsibility
h eaB side. Why then spch indecent haste
"a a.. 10 good eompsn9? If that be true,
he ia lis allies, the very elements Of po
III 81 iceess-why not fight it cut on that
U.s. ID it be true, Wherefore the p,oprie-
III eoaEing other associations? ''Al the
5seaIth. intelligence and -pectabiity" is a
tidal wave Of resstless current in politics.
On It's foam, even the embryonic statesman,
who has not yet mad. name at his County
Court House, ard whose burning eloqueuce
auG irresistible logic have hitherto been con-
fined 10 the narrow precincts Of his Deha-
ting Club, might well aspire to ride success,
fully, and the Old political stager, long since
forced into retirement, worn ont and broken
down, limp. lame and halls, might hope
right speedily 10 regain the zenith Of his
glory. VEST OF STAUNToN.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
An Old MN ReinuenateiI

Peter Snowerman, of Batavia, n. Y, Ger.
titled Sept. ID, 1872 as follows For forty
years have suffered with kidney and liver
difficulty, being Obliged to ,|sd urine as Of
ten as once in 80 minutes, and have also
been steat sufferer from palpitation of the
heart. am now using yUrfSafe Kidney
and Liver Cue. and can Ivy say. at 20
years OF age, that it makes fsel like a
newman
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
The Maine Excitement.

The reports from Maine show that the
indignation of the people is increasing,
though moderate counsels prevail, and from
all sides, from Democrats and Greenback-
ers, as we'll as Republicans, come petitions
urging Gov. Garcelon to seek the Supreme
Court decisions. Public excitement is en-
HANGED by the attempts of the fusionists to
seize the arms of the m ilitia. Many think
ing men fear that peaceful solution can
not be secured. The Fusionists are calling
meetings to sustain the Governor, who at
Lewiston on Friday evening, and at Belfast
on Monday night, said that his action in
this matter was deed of which he was
proud.
Ex-senator Morrill, proposed to Gov. Gar
celon that the questions involved in the
count should be submitted to the Supreme
Court for its adjudication. This PROPOSE
ton was declined.
The Republicans will present the ques-
lions through majority Of the members OF
the last Senate, as it is thought such pro-
ceeding would conform to the law. The
disposition is to exhaust all legal means,
before others are tried. Mayor Mast, OF
Augusta, has addressed letter to Gov.
Garcelon, urging him not to call on the mi
litia on the assembling of the Legislature,
as that would provoke the bringing OF force
on the other side. He stated that the ex-
ira police appointed, would be ample to
preserve the peace.
Meetings of Republicans and Fusionistss
are being held throughout the State. and
partizan feeling is bitter. 1t is difficult to
determine where it will end, and thinking
men of both parties are apprehensive OF
bloodshed.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

STATE OF VIRGINIA, CITY OF STANTON, IS:
L, N. P. Catlett, Cashier OF the above named
bank, do solennly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
N. P. CATLETT, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th
day OF December, 1879.
w. PURVIANCE TAMs, N. P.
CORRECT-Attest:
DAVIS "A. KAYSER,
M. P. FUNKHOUSER, directors.
W. L. BUMGARDNER. }
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

The Lexington Gazette hit the nail on the
head in its leading editorial last week. 1t
does not take to the 'White Mans Party"
with Sullivan's lost leg as tine controlling
plank in the platform. 1t advises the Con-
servatives, so-called, to read the Constitu-
ton OF the State, and determine to carry out
its provisions in letter and spirit. 1t would
be we'll enough to add as the literature to
study in add ition to the State Constitution,
the laws and Constitution OF the United
States. This, we know, would be new, If
not interesting, to many who are preaching
about State rights and Southern oppression,
but it light give them an idea or two as to
the duty of good citizens. Had the Ma
tional Constitution been read and lived up
to, the South would now be twenty years in
advance of what she is, and ii the Consti-
tuition OF Virginia had been familiar to the
people and its obligations observed, Virginia
to-day would be one Of the most promi sing
and prosperous States in the Union. The
Gazette is right in advising study OF that
instrument. and if practice follows study
then we may reasonably expect an era OF im~
provement and contentment.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

A disastrous fire occurred In Boston Sun
day night, destroying the paper warehouse
vi Rice, Kendall & Co., and involving ad-
jacent buildings, including Houghto4& Us
E Rsn n"use the The Sel oss hs
lIeysd I'D 81, 100000. x
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
4 commissioners Sale OF
" Valuable land.

yOKE7 SAFE OA
" Valuable EAaDds
By virtue of two DEGREES of the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, rendered on the 18th day of
June. 1879. and the other on the 9Th day of No
VEN Der. 1679 in the con solidated chancery causes
of Baldwin Augusta Fair VS.. Bell ct al and Bell
VS.. Bells widow ct al, we will as Comm ssioners
of said Court sell at public auction in front of
the Court House, in stanton, on
MONDAY. JANUARY 26th, 1880,
(the same being County Court q tract of land in
said county, containing
I64 Acress
situated about miles west ofStaunton and near
Bell and others, and now in the possession of
walton, we'll watered, and is located in good
TERMS:-Enough cash in hand to pay the costs
credit of one, two and three years from the 22nd
instruments, the purchaser giving bonds for said
curity, bearing interest from the 22d day of Sep
TENDER, 1879, and waiving the Homestead Exemp-
tion and the title to be retained as ultimate Sc
lowe ed to pay one-fourth Of his purchase money
security on his bonds forthe deferred instruments
GEORGE NJ. COCHRAN,
VIM. A. HUDSON,
dec25-tds Commissioners.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

IOSCa2G.
This item OF expense, now borne by tire pub
fishers, is equivalent to reduction of 20 per
cent. ON the cost to subscribers in former years
Clubs.
discount of 20 per cent. will be allowed to
clubs of four or more persons. Thus four copies
Of Blackwood or OF one Review will be sent, to
one address, for $780, four copies OF the four
Reviews and Blackwood for $48. and so on
Premiums.
Few subscribers applying carly for the year
1880 may have, without charge, the numbers
for the last quarter of 1879 of such periodi-
calls as they may subscribe for.
OR, instead, new subscribers to any two, three.
or four OF the above periodicals may have Ole of
the -Four Reviews for 1879 subscribers to all
five may have two of the -Four Reviews" OF
one set of Blackwoods Magazine for 1879
Neither premiums to subscribers nor discount
to clubs can be allowed, unless the money is re-
mitted direct to the publishers. No premiums
given o Clubs.
TO secure premiums it will be necessary to
make early application, as the stock available for
that purpose is limited. Reprinted by
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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

The annual report of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Maryland Penitentiary shows an
excess of receipts over expenditures of
$4,000. There are now in the penitentiary
72O prisoners, a great majority of whom are
at work under the contract system. In this
way the penitentiary is made not only
self-sustaining institution, but pays into the
treasury of the State the amount we have
named, $4,000. We have not before us the
result of the management OF the Vir-
einia Peniientiary for the last fiscal year
but previous years showed that 1t was
tax upon the people of from 100000 t,
$4,000 annually. 1t would be well enous h
for "a committee of the Legislature to visit
Aus and acquaint themselves with the
nj there adopted, to secure result so
kas is stated in the report of the
kpf the Maryland institution.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
AT COSTy

From this day on we offer our entire stock of
Men Boys Youths, 'and Chldren's CEOTHENss.
Gents Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats,
Caps, and Trunks at cost for cash.
We will also sell Store Fixtures, including Iron
Safe, Show Cases and Large Looking Glass at a
very low price. >pectfuy.
BARTH & OBERDORFER.
January 1st, 1880.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01

EPORT OF THE CONDITION of the
IL Augusta National Bank of Staunt0n,
at StauntOsa, I'm the state of Virgins, at
the close of Business, December IL, 1879.
usESAETEeETS
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
VezO advertisements.

TizOR SALE-A very desirable HOUSE AND
- LOT, on the western suburbs of tie city,
containing four rooms and a good basement, With
q acre OF land attached. The property will be
SOLD cheap. For terms, apply to
ian l-tf HUDSON & PATRICK.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
n oTHOEs

The partnership of BARTH & OBERDORFER
will expire March LIST, 1880, by Limitation. Those
tie, and all who have bills against us will present
them for payment.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
LEVY BROTHERS

60 We determined to close CLOAK STOCK and ask
inspection of the stock feeling satisfied xtraord
nary inducements
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
rae Causes 81 o.
Dpn s 10 Eossts

at a meeting of The Executive esSif tse 81
the American Iron znd Steel Assae1atlFsns he'd
at the office in Philafelphia eA fuesssg, Issesn
Der 2, 1879. the follogsins aASrsas to CONGRESS-
was adopted
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-01-01
1890.
THE REPRINTS OF THE
BlaekWo0d's Edinburgh Magazine,

which have been established in this country for
nearly half century, are regularly published by
THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING Co., Al Barclay
Street, New York. These publications present
the best foreign periodicals in q convenient form
and at reasonable price. without abridgement
or alteration. The latest advances and discov-
cries in the arts and sciences, the recent addi-
AZURE, and all the new publications worthy OF
notice are fully reported and ably discussed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-13

get along with. Selfshness properly regu.
lated IS very necessary part of the indi.
vldual. Sensitiveness and impatience are
by no means inconsistent with fine and
noble character. There isn't mother alive
TO the interests of her children and her own
responsibilities that can help exclaiming /:
=" Who is sufficient for these things 1" but
when we have done our best the wisest thing
we can do is to leave events with God and not
cripple our energies nor waste our time in
the contemplation of our own inefficiency
and weight OF responsibility resting on u.s.
When we have done all we eau to form
right habits in our children and correct
their faults, they leave u.s. and the world
takes them in hand. The inpatient man
finds that he must control his temper and
repress his hasty words or he loses by it (;
The careless man finds that to succeed he
must learn to be CAREFUL the arrogant man
is taught by snubs TO temper his arrogance
with civility the dishonest man finds that
honesty is the best policy" though he NAV
not reduce the maxim to practice in his
own life. When we have implanted an ear
nest desire in the hearts of our children 10
grow every day more and more noble and
true, when we have kindled within them
the fires of earnest and unquenchabe aspira-
tion toward whatever dignifes and exalts
human character, when we have given them
au habitual impulse upward and forward,
we have done well by them. The leaven
once hid in their measures of meal will
work till the whole lump is leavened. 1t
takes God himself, not 10 speak irreverently,
ages to make such a world as this, ages
more to bring the human race to its present
state OF improvement. He bears with Grim
inals and human hyenas and waits for the
good to triumph over the evil. Cannot we
wait for our children TO mature into a
ripened manhood and womanhood 2-Neto
York Tribune
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-13
The Ideal Sabbath.

The ideal Sabbath is the Sabbath at home
when the head of the household-farmer or
mechanic, merchant or lawyer, capitalist or
operative-enjoys the weekly rest among
those for whom the six days of labor have
been spent. Whether the Sabbatic institu-
tion was or was not created by the fourth
commandment, there seems TO be in those
words "Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh-
ter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-ser-
vant," glimpse of the restful enjoyment
which the day of rest, in the primitive con-
ception of it, would bring to the families
that keep it. The day of rest, being rest
and not revelry or dissipation, and being
therefore day of home enjoyment, brings
with it opportunity for sober thoughts and
conference. A Sabbath.keeping people will
become a thoughtful people, and such
thoughtfulness is mauliness. All men, and
especially the busy millions in an advanced
civilization like our own, need for the
minds sake not less than for the sake of
wearied nerves and muscles, the seventh-day
intermission of their ordinary work. A
true Sabbath is something far more restful
than day of noisy jollity. In its calm air
the mind rests by thought, not thorghtless-
ness-by quiet musing, by conscious or
unconscious retrospection; perhaps by con-
sideration OF what might have been. perhaps
by thinking what may yet be, perhaps by
aspiration and resolve toward something in
the future that shall be better than what
has been in the past. The home in which
Sunday is day of rest and home enjoy
ment is hallowed by the Sabbaths which it
hallows. In the Sabbath-keeping village
life is less frivolous, aud at the same time
industry is more productive, for the weekly
rest A Sabbath-keeping nation is greater
in peace and in war for the character which
its tranquil and thoughtful Sibbaths have
impressed upon it.-ReU. DR.. Bacon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-13
Choosing the Good,

The approach of the long evenings and
the season for reading and study, naturally
revives the discussion as TO how the tastes
and habits of the people, and especially of the
young, shall be improved in this direction.
Those who have had experience in the mat
ter know how much more easy it is to lead
horse TO the water than il is TO make him
drink. The thirst for good reading must
precede the drinking at pure fountains.
Even in the matter of newspapers, which
are read in this country 60 much more than
books, the worst seem often TO be preferred
TO the best IL is not enough, therefore, TO
say of papers or books, "choose the best"
Discrimination comes through enlighten-
ment; and when the impatient reformer
urges men to discourage venal and cor
rupting press by patronizing an honest and
uplifting one, he presupposes the existence
OF both Intelligence and virtue enough in
the people to give tone and direction to the
journals of the land. 1t is question, how
ever, at least susceptible OF argument,
whether supply or demand is more RESPONSE
bile for the Satanic element in certain
class OF American newspapers. Publishers
do not for any great length of time, print pa
pers for which there are not readers waiting
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-13

Doubtless the appetite for sensationalism,
scandal, prurieucy, irreverence, and all the
abominable features that render the papers
Of this class so demoralizing, is fostered
by what is fed out TO it; but without the
market there would be no trade. The duty
of the public is the same in either view Of
1t. Bad literature should be fought with
good literature. That which is obscene
should be stamped out, and the cheap and
bad be over matched by the cheap and good
Especially should the children be guarded
from contamination, and imbued at an early
age with love of good reading through a
knowledge of what it is. A boy to whom
Irving and Hans Anderson, and the classic
wonder-books and fairy tales are familiar
who has felt the simple beauty of Whit
tiers ballads, OF the humor of Holmes
verses,-who has been given books Of rea
travel and adventure-will not be caught
by the coarse trash of the "Boss Boys
Paper" and the other vile publications that
come under the general designation of The
DEVILS Own. He will have been taught dis
elimination, and so prefer the better read
ing. This is matter TO which parents can
not give too early or too close attention. In
this age of g. the better times of children ;
there is no difficulty in meeting all norma
tastes with attractive and interesting read
ing, and those who supply their children
with plenty OF the best will not be likely Il
have them picking up the worst.-Goider
RuIe
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-13

italists we have referred TO, look at the
political situation from the standpoint Of
their own material interests. They see in
the Democratic policy of "a tariff for rev.
enue only" a menace to their prosperity.
These toilers in shops and factories and fur
naces and mines see that II the tariff Is re-
duced-as II would be If the Democracy was
restored aud lived up to the Cincinnati
platform-this country will be overrun with
the products of the old world, to the detri-
ment of our home products and the conse-
quent cutting down of wages Hence they
declare in their call that "the interests Of
self-preservation, the welfare Of our fami-
lies the interests of our poaterity aud OF our
country, demand that we take Immediate
steps to prevent any reduction of the pres
ent tariff" We might multiply such In
stances. Both capital aud labor have
awakened to lively sense of the grave
peril to the welfare of each which is In
volved in the triumph of Hancock, aud the
Democracy are powerless to stay the fast
rising tide which is fatal to their prospects.
The issue is between prosperity and CAT
field, aud Hancock aud uncertainty, or
worse than uncertainty.