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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23
GREAT BANKRUPT SALE OF
QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE.

|
Decorated Chamber Ware, Extra Fine Cut GLASS;
ware, Lamps, Lamp chimneys and Fixtures, and
Rocklngham Yellow Baking Ware, and the only
place In virginia where the new Celebrated Patent
Fire Clay Stew pans can be bought.
~ rms may De the last opportunity the citizens of
Staunton may ever have of buying a No. article Of
the ABOVE mentioned wares at such great sacrifice
We offer you splendid assortment of Iron-stone
Ware. - y
we respectfully request the ladies to call and ex
anime our stock, as they are accustomed to buying
tis ihe OF goods and are judges of the prices and
qnafty OF the ware One of our attendants is lady
but let all see and examine our stock. ;
Call while the Stock is Full, as we are deter
mined to close out as soon as possible.
rs We especially invite your attention to our
new Patent Fire Clay Stew Pan, the cheapest incest
vented. ~ m
At Lipscomb 6 Berry's Old Stand, New St. /,
Staunton, Va.
Grand Opening Sale, Wednesday morning Dec 22d
az Buy your friend Christmas present both
userul and ornamental. Don't forget to call around
to New Street and see us-it will pay you,
Respectfully,
dec23-2t j. G. WEST.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23

The Richmond Wing is uttering some very
wholesome truths, which we have time and
again endeavored to inculcate, but never so
well and forcible as our metropolitan cotem-
porary is doing. Here is an extract from a re-
cent edtoli al article: 1.-The truth is, however,
| that obedience to the constitution and the laws
of the United s-acquiescence in the re-
suits of the war-and an honest observance
of the compact entered into by Virginia on her
re-admission into the Union and her rehs::
Utilization as a State, are but the common du-
ties of every citizen, no matter what his party
| politics may be; and if Bourbonism inspires its
votaries to neglect these duties, as appears,
| then therein is its fatal difference from the
| fundamental teachings of both Democracy and
| Republcanism."
| This is sound doctrine and the sooner the
the people of Virginia and the South recognize
and practice it, the better it will be for them.
The total authorized circulation of National
Banks is 1891 ,0S7 ,779, but the actual amount
taken by the banks is only 1921 1859 400, leav-
| ing 800, ,379 uncalled for. The recent re-
port of the Controller of the Currency shows
| that the banks of New England may increase
their circulation, whenever they find it profit
able to do SO, eighteen and half millions of
dollars Those of the Middle States may in
crease more than thirty millions. The South
may have three millions more, the West six
| teen millions. and the Pacific States nearly one
| and half millions. The lowest interest now
| paid to the banks upon the deposits to secure
| circulation is per cent. There is a PROPOSE
present property in bonds is disposed OF, either
by sale, or by maturity, to invest their securi-
| ~ deposits in three per cents.
The Lynchbnrg Adoance grows hilarious
over the new Furnace recently put in blast at
that place, and the prospect of still other iron
industries being established there in the near
future. And yet our contemporary is not hap
py. 1t wants the tariff laws modified to suit
Mr.. fuckers free-trade heresies, forgetting
that one of the results of the protective sys-
tenn is the very Furnace which has stirred its
hopes of Lynchburg as the future Pittsburg of
| the South. Repeal the protective feature of the
| tariff laws, and the fires would soon go out in
the Lynchburg Furnace, and the steel and iron
establishment which promises SO fattering a flu
turc for Lynchburg, would stand idle, as a
monument to the folly and foolishness of Bour-
| bon Democrats.
| PAT DoNAN.-Severalw weeks ago we noticed
that Pat Donan, well known in Virginia, the
South and West, as a newspaper man, had
been appointed superintendent of Mexican
silver mine at salary of $4,000 per annum.
| We gave it as we saw it published, doubling,
however, the reliability oft. The Deadwood,
Dakota Press, explains the matter thus:
THAT the mind of Mr.. Donan is perceptibly
failing and his friends are apprehensive that it
| will be necessary to place him in private asy-
lum for medical treatment. Symptoms of de-
rangement have been noticed by his acquain-
tances for the past year"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23

STRAYED-A BLACK AND TAN SHEPHERD PUPPY,
~ one of his legs slightly crooked, caused by a
fracture; now about nine months old. will pay =
suitable reward to the party who will return him
give such Information will lead to his recovery.
Has been missing since September, 1880.
dec 23-3t ROBT G. BICKLE
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23

4 LADY OF SEVERAL YEARS EXPERIENCE de-
~ sires a situation in a family teachers,ca
come well recommended and for moderate salary.
ddreSs, MISS E.,
Care OF Carrier No 8,
nov 25- Richmond, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23
~ ENERAL MEETING.
" VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.

" VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.
At the request ofStockholders holding more than
one tenth OF the Capital Stock of the Valley Railroad
Company, and by order oil President of the Compa-
n.y. hereby give notice that there will be general
meeting of the stockholders Of the Valley Railroad
Company, at the Company's office, in the city of
Staunton, on THURSDAY, the Goth DAY Of JAN UARY,
1881, at II clock moo
dec 23-tdm A. MADISON, Secty.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.

WANTED-A COOK.-The undersigned wishes to
w employ good female cook, without incum-
brance. Fair wages and an agreeable home assured.
No other service required but to do the cool Ing for
family. Address, G. A. RUNDALL,
dec23 Ferrol, Augusta C J., Va.
DOR SALE OR RENT-one of the most desirable
Il residences In the city, situated On the corner
OF Prospect and Market Streets. Possession given
at once. For to rms &C. apply to
E. NJ. GUSHING & son,
dec 23-4t Auctioneers.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-12-23
FRIDAY. JANUUARY 14th. 1ss

VIRGINIA TO With the Clerks Office of the
Court Of Hastings for the City Of Staunton,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Mrs. AstOr to all places where her dia-
monds are to be displayedis said to rep
resent an elegantly dressed gentleman
who moves quietly among the guests, and
vet keeps up constant watch upon the
$4,000 worth of diamonds.
A list of the ages of candidates talked
of for the Presidency will interest the
reader: Charles Francis Adams is sew
enty-three; his father, John Quincy Adj
ans, died at eighty-one, and his grand
father, John Adams, at ninety-one; Ho-
ratio Seymour is seventy; Mr.. Tilden,
sixty-six; Senator Davis, siXty-tiye; eX-
Governor Parker, of New Jersey, sixty
four: Senator Thurman, slxty-one; Mi.
Hendricks, sixty-one aex-President Grant
tifty-eight; Secretary Sherman, fifty
seven; General Hancock, ,fifty-six; Gener-
al Mcclellan, fifty-four; Senator Bayard,
.fifty-two; Senator COnkling, tifty-one /;
and Senator Blaine fifty.
The last words of the great satirist.
Rabelais, were: Il am going to take a
leap in the dark; let down the curtain,
the farce is DONE" Mirabeau's farewell
to life was thus expressed: LET me die
amid the sound of delicious music and
the fragrance of flowers" Keats's last
words were poem in themselves: Il
feel the daisies growing over me" Burns S
dying words were: don't let that awk-
ward squad fire over my gaave." Chan
cellor Thurlow's: I'm shot, if | don't
believe I'm dying" 'Haller slept after
the words: "The artery ceases tobeat;'
and amid the growing darkness of NOR,
tality Goethe murmured the words
"Let the light enter"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
POETRY.
A Mistake.
MINNIE J. owREY.

Nancy and got letter
From John who was out in the West;
And he said he had won him fortune
mining along with the rest.
And he wrote if we'd sell off the home
stead,
With all that belonged to US there,
And come to him there in his rlches'
He'd give us his dutiful care.
So Nancy and talked it over,
And we both thought it best we should
He is one child left out of seven,
And we cling to him kind OF, you
know.
Nancy she bought new bonnet,
And likewise an alpaca gown,
/ bought a tall hat and waist coat,
My old ones were getting too brown.
We sold both our cows and our horses,
Along with the calves and the sheep-
But when we spoke next OF our nome
stead
We both of us paused for to weep. :.
For there on the hillside there slumbered
Each child we had lost in the past,
With room meath the maple beside them,
For John. and the old folks at last.
And each little spot had its token,
OF days that happily fled,
It's fifty odd years, so l reckon
Since Nancy and ]. had been wed.
And she came to the homestead, and
made it
A heaven for me, all the years
Since we have been married, excuse it
An old mans troublesome tears
Fer John he is married, his woman
Takes airs on herself, so to speak,
And | think she half wishes that Nancy,
And / should another home seek.
She's dressed my old wife up in the
fashion,
And Nancy is like all the rest,-
A woman loves gold the world over
They're curious critters at best.
And sometimes think she forgets it
In midst of the splendor and show,
The humble, quaint home in the dis
tance,
: And to the place that we both used to
know.
But my heart It Is heavy and homesick.
To enter the farmhouse once more
i would give half the world if my Nan
cy
And had ne'er left the old door.
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Hard t0 Understand.

Why an endless procession of drinkers
from public dipper will, without excep-
tion drink close to the handle.
Why people Will go into society to get
bored when they can get board just as
well at home.
Why woman will make excuses for
her bread when she knows it is the best
she ever made, and knows her company
knows #.
Why "young gentleman" swears so
much louder and more copiously when
strange ladies are within ear shot; or in
other words,
Why they desire to make fool of ones
self springs eternal in the human
breast.
Why we are so much angrier against
him who shows US our error than him
who leads us therein.
Why it is so much easier to be polite
to people whom we shall probably new
er see again than to those whose good
opinion we have every reason te culti-
vate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
THE GREAT COMET OF 1913,

Boston Advertiser, March 4.
The following extract from Professor
Pierce's lecture on comets and meteors
contains description Of the wonderful
comet of 1913, Of which Gould's comet
is supposed to be a temperance:
About noon on the 2sth of February,
1s43, groups of people in many of the
towns of New England, especially in
Portland, Maine, collected at the corners
of the streets, gazing up toward the sun.
Protecting their eyes in the shadows Of
the houses, they saw a billiant object
close to the sun. Such a marvellous
spectacle had never before been seen.
A thoughtful sea Captain, NJ. Clark,
brought out his sextant, and repeatedly
measured the distance of the strange
object from the limb of the sun. These
unique observations are on record, and.
submitted to rigid criticism, attest the
accuracy of the observer. In about a
week from this time wonderfully bril-
liant comet was seen skirting the horl-
zou soon after sunset, and reaching
more than one-third of the way round
the sky. 1t was now tail without a
head, as it was at first head without a
tail, but they were members of the same
comet. The best determination of its
path was accomplished by the distin-
guished astronomer, Sears O. Walker
As its perihelion it passed nearer the
sun than any known comet, with the
single exception of that of 1850, compu-
ted by Sir Isaac Newton, and in the dis
cussion of which-in the 'Principia' he
broached the first approximation to the
theory of the cometary tail. These two
comets approached so close to the sun
that it would seem quite possible that
they touched its surface, or at least
swept in nearer than the solar corona
1t would have been an absurd hypothe-
sis that they were elected from the sun
at the time of penetration, had it not
been for the fact that the comet of 1850
was seen on its way down to the sun,and
fo1 the remarkable phenomena which
we are about to describe concerning the
comet of 1S43. 1t may be claimed as a
not impossible hypothesis that each OF
these comets was at some former time
the product of solar eruption in ac-
cordance with Buttons theory of the
origin of comets 1t would only involve
force which would double the greatest
velocity given to the solar field of hy-
drogen. But juqter Interpretation OF
its phenomenon, anG enc which avoids
the necessity of an extravagant volcanic
action, is to he found in the relation be-
tween the comets and the meteors. 1t
is simply the splash of-the falling mete-
ors. In about an hour and half the
comet of 1898, like that of 1850, went
round tie sun from one side to the 9th
or. What would have become of the
tail. which was reaching out about 100,-
100000 of miles from the sun to the
earth's orbit? There have been those
who have actually adopted the incredi-
BILE, may say the impossible, hypothesis
that that the tail rotated through this
immense circuit, developing centrifugal
force which all the united powers of the
universe could not Lave sustained. No
The comet practically LEFT its tail be-
hind it and began to grow new tail as
it receded from the sun.
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-$-~0-
SUNBEAM :.

In Roman society American girls are
the favorites.
England paid s12,5OO,OOO for foreign
eggs in 1878.
Mr. Thomas ought to stay in Cincin-
natl. 1t is big thing to be an Ohio
man.
The Rhode Island Assembly has pass
ed bill furnishing II amps with years
Imprisonment.
Threre is great suffering in nor hern
Scotland, but the Scotch, Int the Ulster
Irish, try to conceal their woe.
The negro physicians of Ttune- see
have organized State medical society
of which DIR. :. NJ. Jameson is President
We are positively assured that every
candidate for the Presidential nomiIa-
tion that there is in the field is ''the peo-
pies choice" This simplilies matters.
David Burns is the oldest living boat
man on the Kentucky River, having
been born in 1891. He has walked from
New Orleans to 500 niles
six times.
The grave of William L. Yancy, the
famous secessionist, at Montgomery,
Ala, is unmarked except by a plain
marble slab, which does not bear even
Yancy's name.
Manager Stetson of the Grand Trunk
Railway imported six thoroughbred
mares in the steamer Quebec. When
the steamer arrived at Portland the 9th
er day every mare was dead.
Major VIM. Frew, gentleman of con
siderable note. died in Pittsburgh on
Tuesday night of last week. He was
identified with the Standard Oil Com
pany, Warden & Frew, and a prominent
member of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Junior class at Yale College has a
prodigy in T. P. Osborne of New Haven,
who has made an invention for bolt
ing flour by the application of frictional
electricity which he has patented, and
for the right of it has been offered $780,
900.
Fifteen years ago Mackey, who last
week paid his partner live millions, for
his interest in the CUmsJock mine, was
at work for Mark Daggett, the present
member of Congress from the State of
Nevada, as superintendent of gang of
miners for five dollars day.
Talmage proposes that each reader of
his sermons shall send him a dollar to
reduce his Tabernacle debt. The relief
would probaly be of trifiing amount; be-
sides, though these readers deserve this
penalty, charity wtHl dictate that, on
the contrary, they should be paid dol
lar for each sermon read.
The Bishop of Manchester was pres
ent lately at an examination of the
Latin class in a ladies college where the
new mode of pronunciation is in vogue,
when one of the scholars pronounced
vicissim we-kiss-im. whats the word 2"
asked the Bishop. "We-kiss-im my
Lord-by turns" "Oh, you'd do you?
/ begin to comprehend now the popular
ity of the new pronunciation"
w. H. Hays who was appointed Judge
OF the Federal Court of Kentucky early
in December, 1879, to succeed Judge
Bland Ballard, died suddenly at Louis
vile on Sunday the 7th. Judge Hays
was fiifty-nine years of age, and came
from Springfield, Kentucky. During the
war he was soldier in Bristow's regi-
ment. 1t may be remembered that
Judge Ballard also died suddenly last
August.
1t is said that John Jacob Astor al
ways has detective in his service, and
his dwelling is never left unguarded.
Hence he has never suffered from depre-
dations. The detective who accompanies
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
A Curiosity.

For some years the following sentence
has stood as the shortest into which all
the letters of tie alphabet could be
compressed:
~. Gray: Packwith my box five dozen
Quails."
The above sentence contains thirty
three letters. A Utica gentleman re.
Gently improved on it as follows, using
only thirty-two letters:
"Quick, glad zephyrs, watt my javelin
box"
George w. Pierce, Boston lawyer,
has now forced the twenty-six letters of
the alphabet into a sentence of only
thirty-one letters, as follows:
81. Badger: Thy vixen jumps quick at
fowl"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
A Mau and a Gate and a Woman.

The gates at the passenger depvts
which shut out all the people not hav-
ing tickets for the train were closed al
the Union Depot against an elderly wo-
man wearing spectacles and using an
umbrella for a cal1e.
Cant pass without a ticket" said the
man at the gate as she came up.
Il want to see if there's anybody on
that train going TO Port Huron she an
swered.
Cant pass without ticket madam y
"Pye got .darter in Port Huron
have"
Cant help it, please. My orders are
very strict"
Il tell you want to send word to my
darterI" she exclaimed, adjusting he;
snectacles for Il better view of the Of
fetal.
"Yes, but We can't help that, you see
Please show your ticket"
Il want this ere railroad to under
stand that I've got a darter in Port
Huron, and she's got baby four weeks
old, and I'm going to send her up word
in spite of all the gates in this depot !"
please show your ticket, madam"
81 tell you once more"
please show your ticket, madam"
She gave the old umbrella whirl and
brought it down on his head with all the
vim of an old fashioned log raising, and
as he staggered aside she passed him and
said:
There's my ticket, sir, and I've got
more behind It'll Mebbe one man and a
gate can stop me from sending word to
my darter to grease the baby's sewith
mutton taller if the weather changes
cold, but don't believe it,"
And she walked down to the train,
found some one going to Port Huron,
and came back carelessly humming the
melody of "The Three Blind Mice
Detroit Flee Press
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

In the matter of spring bOnnets, it is
confidently asserted that colored straws
are TO enjoy a greater vogue than ever,
but the unhappy men who pay for them
will use the same plain straws in mixed
drinks that their fOrefathers did. Mems
tastes are much more simple than those
of women.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Loo Thin.

An Hiberian citizen of thin build was
telling about small robbery at the Cen
tral Station this morning. He described
one of his assailants by saying that he
was thin.
well what else was there about him ?"
asked the clerk.
well, he was thin"
"How thin?"
~Well." said the man, "Osten Dyle is
thin, and am thin; but, begar, he was
thinner than both of us put togetherl'-
Chicago Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

81 am past sixty years old, and every
now and then / meet Telick who knu
me As years ago, and remembers some
deyiltry | was guilty of then. Amt it
strange how tenacious the memory is Of
these things, and how weak it is of en-
pythine good feller may have DONE
Josh Billings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
Cleveland & Pittsburgh Il. r
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.

GOING EAST AND WEST.
On and after Nov 10, 1873. Trains will run
daily Except Sunday,l
Through Trains TO Pittsburgh.
Through Trains TO Cleveland.
2 Through Trains to Chicago.
Pullman's Parlor Cars between WellsvilIe
aud Cleveland.
uoiei and Sleeping Cars on all Trains be-
tween Alliance and Chicago.e
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
NATIONAL LIFE!

Is the title OF q new pamphlet OF y pages. 1t
cont aims the biography of all the Presidents
of the the United States from Washington to
hayes with their portraits tl9 in all) engraved
for this work; also, II portraits OF Canadian
nobilities. The National Life will be sent TO
any address by mail, on receipt OF 80 stamp.
Address r. II, STEVENS. Boston, Mass.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Atlanta has turned out to welcome
her first Clinaman: that is, twenty col
ored washerwomen ran him mile and
. half.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

A wag says of toper: His nose has
passed the rnbicHId.
There is no fish in he world that will
increase in eight like a trout after it
has been pulled out of the wafer.