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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21

CpRING AND SUMMER STYLES AND FAsHsIoN.
ia HUTCHINSON
Is now receiving his FALL and WINTER stock of
foreign and domestic
CLOTHS, CASSIMEREs AND SUITINGs,
the most fashionable patterns. Call and see the
new styles for the spring and summer. Fits g uar
anteed and satisfaction given. Also full line
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
such cuffs, collars handkerchief, cravats &c.
" Remember the place,
ia. HUTCHINSON
mar 3-n Main St., opposite City Hall.
MERCHANT TAILORING HEADQUARTERS.
M F. MCNAMARA,
No.1ONEW STREET,
STAUNToN, VA.
My Merchant Tailoring Establishment has Just
been fitted up with new and fine assortment Of
SUITINGS, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, &C.,
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER,
of the latest styles and best manufacture
PERFECT FITS guaranteed and orders prompt,
executed Call and examine goods and prices
mar2l-tf
F1sH1Ne RoDsl
= Fossals at
oLIyIER's BOOK STORE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21

JOHNSTON AND WIFE VS.. BEARD, TRUSTEE
y AND ALS.-In pursuance of decree of the Cir
cuitcourt of Augusta county entered March 49, 1884,
in the above styled cause, shall proceed at my
Office in the city of Staunton, on
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1881,
To take, state, and settle account of the debts
mentioned in the bill as owing by Mrs. Mary E.
Johnston and of all other debts for which her sep
arate estate may be bound, and whether secured by
specific liens upon said separate estate or not.
apr14-4t JOS A. WADDELL, Oomm'r.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21
TOR SALE.

Branded on the horn with an co. and on the hip
with cross mark sX.' reward will be paid for
her return, Information that will lead to her
cevery. Address, A. D. S BECK,
aprl4-3t Deerfeld, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21

Where they will remain while their store is
being remoddled and repaired. They will be glad
to wait upon their customers at their new stand,
and are prepared to do all the work usually done
by them and furnish everything in the stove and
tin-ware line v the best style. mar7-st
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21
e1,ooo REWARD.

Was about the size of man; barefooted, with his
fathers shoes on; had an empty bag on his back,
containing two railroad tunnels and bundle Of
bung- holes; he wore mutton-chop coat with beam
soup lining; he was cross-eyed at the back of his
neck; he born before his older brother, his
mother being present on the occasion; when last
seen he was shaking hands with Dyer Wayt, Esq,
with intention Of raising money enough to
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-21
Wy TO LEND.

ATONE BETTER THAN TYREE's MAGIC LINZ
hrrv IT. only 25cents bottle. oct z
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14
The Middlesex Meeting.

The executive committee of the Washing
ton County Association of Teachers and
School Officers announces in another column
the order Of exercises TO be observed at the
Middlesex meeting Saturday, September "a.
The programme is good one. The COM
mittee has shown good judgment in the
choice and especially in the number of sub
jects presented for discussion. One subject
extensively treated at each session is vastly
preferable to many SKINNED over or indif
ferently treated. The choice of speakers to
lead the discussions has been very happily
made and alone assures a successful and
interesting meeting. But the responsibility
for the success and proftableness of this
meeting will rest quite as much with those
teachers and friends of education who have
not as with the three or four gentlemen who
have been specially designated TO open the
discussions on the subjects presented in the
programme. Those subjects should receive
the lively and thoughtful attention of teach
ers, school officers and citizens, and should
be the burthen of short, pungent, suggestive
speeches and Of illustrative examples of
methods of instruction. The success attend
ing this meeting will have much to do with
the future usefulness, and existence even, of
this worthy association. So let each of the
three classes directly interested and
especially the younger and inexperienced
teachers turn out in force to listen If not to
take hand in the exercises, and let this
first meeting of this association show that
public interest in the common schools in
this county is not dead or even sleeping.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

INVESTIGATIONS made in Canada and
Michigan show that the destructive forest
fires generally start and spread in the
branches and foliage of trees that are left on
the ground by the lumbermen. The resinous
boughs of pine, hemlock, spruce, and fir will,
when dry, kindle with the touch of spark,
and produce heat so intense as to give a
fire great Roadway. 1t will then dry the
wood in living trees to such an extent that
they will burn readily. After a forest fire
has been raging for considerable time it
heats the air that moves before it, so that it
prepares the trees through which it passes
to feed the advancing flames. A fire once
under Roadway will generally continue in
its course till an extensive clearing or body
OF water is reached.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

CoLoRPHoBIA.-Mr. Chew of Philadel-
phia wanted to send HIS children to school,
and he had preference in schools, but it
happened that the public school which he
selected was one which only white children
attended, and Mr.. Chew's three children
were of dark complexion. He was told that
another school house had been provided for
the children Of his color, but he declined to
avail himself of it, and when the school
authorities insisted he appealed to the
courts. The authorities gave way, and he
led his children to the school which no one
OF his complexion had entered before. The
parents of white children threatened to
withdraw them from the school, and the
teachers are afraid that the three colored
pupils will be left alone unless Mr.. Chew re-
Tents and takes them away, but Philadelphia
can better afford to employ twenty or a
hundred teachers for the instruction of
those three boys than to allow them to be
turned away on account Of their color.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14
Attempt TO Shoot GnIteau.

Once more, and this time strangely enough
Involuntary, the assassin's name comes
prominently before the public. For some
days days, II is reported, there had been
some talk among few of the soldiers de
tailed to guard the wretch as to who should
take shot at him whenever he presented
himself at the window of his cell. The lot
IL appears fell upon Sergeant John A. Ma
son, Company B, second artillery. Sunday
night Sergeant Mason left the arsenal with
the relief guard and on arriving at the Jail
took steady aim at the window of Guiteau's
cell, shouting "There he u.s." and fred.
Startled by the shot the soldiers who were
not in the plot gathered around Mason, one
of them enquiring, " In heavens name, man,
why did you shoot ?" "I wanted to kill
that wretch in there" was the answer; al
have been on this thing for ten days, and /
hope have done the work up in good style"
Mason then walked toward his commanding
officer, Captain McGilvray, saying, "Cap-
tain, have endeavored to kill that dirty
loafer in there. Here is my gun and bay
onet, sir run me in" Warden Crocker
and Deputy Russell with several guards on
duty spraug to their feet when the report of
a rifle rang through the corridor, aud ran to-
wards Guiteau's cell, They found the lat
ter on his knees, with an expression of hor-
ror on his face. "Great Godl" he ex-
claimed, when Crocker looked into the cell.
"What do these men mean, anyway Do
they want to murder me ?" "Why, no.
What are you talking about 2 d" answered
Croker, who had not learned what the
trouble was. "Well, just this" Guiteau
replied, al have been shot at again. was
standing at my window just now when
shot was fired by one of those soldiers out
side, and the bullet passed my ear, went
through my coat hanging up there, cutting
in pieces the photograph of my old mother"
did it strike you at all 2" asked Croker.
mo; but it frightened me nearly to DEATH"
Guiteau was given to understand that the
shooting was accidental, an explanation
which he seemed to distrust. To prevent
any recurrence of attempts upon his life he
was removed to another cell, very much
against his will. Sergeant Mason was i'm
mediately placed under arrest, taken to the
arsenal and strong guard put over him.
On his way to the arsenal he was cheered on
Pennsylvania avenue by crowd which had
heard of the shooting. Sergeant Mason is
reported to have been drinking during the
day, and by others his act is regarded as an
insane freak.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

How IT WoRKs.-A difficult phase of one
OF the prominent social questions of the day
is presented by a wood engraver in one of
our large cities, who says; al have en-
ployed women very often, and wish could
feel more encouraged. But the truth is that
when young man comes TO me and begins
his work he feels that it is lifes business.
He is to cut his fortune out of the little
blocks before him. Wife, family, home,
happiness and all are to be carved out by
his own hand, and he settles steadily and
earnestly to his labor, determined to master
it, and with every incident squirting him on.
He cannot marry until he knows his trade.
1t is exactly the other way with the girl.
She may be as poor as the boy, and as
wholly dependent upon herself for living,
but she feels that she will probably marry
by and by, and then she must give up wood
engraving. So she goes on lstlessly she
has no ambition to excel she does not feel
that all her happiness depends on it. She
will marry, and then her husbands wages
will support her. She may not say 80 but
she thinks so, and it spoils her work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14
The Revised Laws.

The new volume of the statutes Is now II
the hands Of the people of the state. 1t Q
book presenting much the appearance OF the
General Statutes Of 1870 but of consider
ably smaller bulk, and this, too, although II
contains the substance of some eight hun
dred pages more Of session laws. The re-
duced size of the book will prove acceptable
to those who have occasion to make frequent
use Of it, and is significant of the extent to
which the revisers have boiled down the
statutes. The general aspect Of the body Of
the work impresses one favorably. The
chapters are shorter and the text more fire.
quently broken with subheads. The mar
ginal notes are very brief and printed in a
type which clearly separates them from the
other matter on the margin. The references
to previous legislation are more complete
than in any other volume of statutes which
has ever appeared in this state. Sections
are referred back, not only to the next pre-
ceding revision, but through all the re-
visions back to their first appearance as per-
msnent law. The style of language used in
these statutes is one of the best features of
the work. Particular attention was, we un-
derstand, given to this matter by the revis-
ers-weeding out superhuous words, aban-
doning over-technicality, avoiding express
sions which were becoming obsolete-and
the result is clean and simple style of
English, which will compare favorably with
that of the laws of any state in the Union.
OF the index little can be told by cur
sorry examination. The selection of type is
good, the black-faced letters catching the
eye much more readily than plain ones
The careful grouping of topics under the
long heads we should think would also con-
tribute considerably to its usefulness. The
printers part of the work seems, throughout,
to be well executed. BY direction of the
legislature the editors have included in this
volume the acts of 1880. We have thus, for
the first time since 1868, the entire general
public law of the state in one book, with
one index. This is the great convenience of
the work, and will be fully appreciated.
The commissioners appointed to edit and
superintend the publication of these laws,
Messrs. Pitkin, Huse and Willard, seem to
have done their work with paiustaking care
and thoroughness. A careful comparison
will show, we believe, that these gentlemen
have put into the revised laws fully double
the work that was expended on the general
statutes. They have abored with commend
able industry, diligence and ambition to
publish the best volume of laws Vermont has
ever had. In the opinion of entirely COM
petent judges in the legal profession, they
have not only succeeded in this purpose, but
the volume is not inferior to the best COM
pilation of statutes in any other state in the
Union, and this verdict will we believe
stand the decisive test of time.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

FoR SHAME.-The old employees in Chicago
iron foundry had quit work on strike, and their
places were filled by new men, who were making
ready for large casting. The clay mould had
been clamped in its iron frame the day before,
and all that remained to do was to pour in the
molten iron. The liquid was brought by the
men In long-handled ladies', and In another mo-
ment would have been empted in, when slight
displacement Of the mould attracted attention,
and it was opened. The cavity was full Of gun
powder One drop of the melted metal would
have caused an awful explosion, probably killing
everybody in the building. That the strikers
were guilty of the plot was shown by the fact that
instead of crowdlng about the doors and windows
to jeer at the new men, as they had done on pre-
vious days, they remained at considerable dis
lance. A detective claims TO have discovered
that the powder was deposited by a committee OF
three men, to whom the task Of wreaking ven
geance had been given by their companions
Several arrests have been made,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14
Centennial Celebration.

At Groton, Connecticut, last week, three
days were given to the observance of the
centennial of one of the most painful events
Of the revolutionary war. 1t was the inva-
sion by British force, under the command
of the traitor Arnold, of the Connecticut
coast, doing some general work of plumber
and capturing fort commanded by Colonel
Ledyard, massacring all the garrison in
cold blood after the surrender. The fort
was defended with heroic courage and con-
stancy by handful of men and boys, who
fought SO well as to kill or disable more than
their own number Of the enemy, and the
British commander, instead of honoring
their bravery, was so exaggerated by the loss
he had suffered as to order or permit the
slaughter of every one of them. This saw
age revenge gave unique and melancholy
interest to the capture of Fort Griswold,
which the Importance of the post, the num-
Der of the troops engaged, or the losses on
both sides, would not have deserved. If the
resolute defenders of the fort had been
treated as prisoners of war, their memory
would scarcely have been preserved, and
their action would have been regarded as
one of the minor incidents of the war, of no
special significance or Importance. The ex-
petition of which this was the result was
intended to divert the attention Of Wash
ington from his campaign in the south, and
induce him to detach some of his forces
from the movement which, few weeks
later, ended in the surrender of CORVALLIS
at Yorktown. If this was its object it was
failure. Washington continued his opera
tions without regard to this attempt at
diversion, and Arnold's expedition was only
desultory raid, with no results, except the
atrocities which attended his contemplate
victory at Fort Griswold, and some trivial
plunder,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

New York Sun; "Many common la
borer, living from hand to mouth on his
daily earnings, possesses the priceless treas
ure OF wife just as devoted as Mrs
Garfield, while it is fortunate that the con-
spicuous example Of presidents wife has
brought these common but high qualities
OF American women so prominently before
the world"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

THE story is told of De La Matyr, the
greenback orator, that in speech in Wis
consin the other day he asserted that no
Christian could accept interest on money"
A Methodist minister in the audience asked
at once, " How about the parable of the ten
talents 7" and Mr.. DE La Matyr, being him
self clergyman, was at a loss to find a suit
able reply.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

"THERE never has been time" DIR. Ag-
new wrote recently to DIR. Joseph Parrish of
Burlington, N. j., " from the day on which
the president was shot, that have been very
sanguine of his recovery, though l most sin
cerely pray that he may be restored in
health to his family and to his official place in
the nation"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

The BRITIsH Medical journal attributes
the following ingenious method of research
to Holstein peasant. Being uninstructed
in microscopic observation, and not posses
sing an instrument, he devised this new test
for trichin@; When he killed pig he sent
portion of it to his pastor, and then waited
the consequence for fourteen days. If the
pastor remained healthy he felt assured the
pig was sound and proceeded to use it in
his own family.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

The republican papers which have been
naming democratic presidential candidates
for 1884 are taken to task by the Atlanta
(Georgia) Constitution, which says; Gan
this while the president of their choice lies
sick almost unto death. 1t is to the credit
OF the democratic papers that they have
taken no hand in this untimely, indicate
and altogether inappropriate discussion"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

SENATOR BEN HILL of Georgia has had
another operation performed by a Philadel-
phia surgeon, part of his tongue, the sub
maxillary and Emphatic glands, and the
whole floor of his mouth, being removed.
In the two operations of his mouth he has
last nearly one-half Of his tongue but it is
thought that this will not seriously interfere
with his articulation.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

COLONEL WARINd says the sanitary con-
dition of the White House Is not 80 bad as
he expected, that the plumbing, as is usual
where it has been added from time TO time,
is defective, some OF il radically 30.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

FAssE, the greenback candidate for state
senator in Davis county (lowa), who said
that President Garfield was meaner man
than Guiteau," has been compelled to with
draw from the canvass owing 10 the intense
feeling against him caused by that remark.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

A HANDSOME gold watch was presented to
Rev. Henry Highland Garnet of New York,
last week, as testimonial of the regard
entertained for him by the National Centen-
NAL Manual Labor Association of Alabama.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

AN elderly man named Lawrence Gala
CHER went to Washington on Wednesday
from Newark, N. D., to be sworn in as presi-
dent Of the United States. The police took
care of him.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

JOHN W. GARRETT, president of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, has rendered his
private car Maryland for the use OF Pres.
ident Garfield to go to Mentor from Long
Branch.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

SENATOR BECK says that he never said
that he would vote for republican TO
organize the senate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

"Well, Crete this is a great ride" said the
president to his wife as she stepped into his car
at Philadelphia. 1t will certainly be reckoned
among the historic rides,-with Sheridan's from
Winchester and Lincoln's to Washington. From
the moment when the train rolled silently out Of
Washington till Gen. Garfield was laid upon his
bed at Long Branch, not cheer was raised, but
the nation gathered around in dumb and fearful
sympathy, The president did not sleep much, ac-
cordng to those who were with him. but took al
most boys pleasure in the motion and the fresh
landscape, urging his attendants to " let 1t go as
fast MS 1t can" At one point where the curtain
was drawn down to shut ont the curiosity OF the
people, the president on being 40 informed said
Let the people look want to see them and get
the fresh air" All this great ontpouring Of ma
tional sympathy has been almost sealed from the
wan sufferer, lie thanked God, when he at
length reached his new bed THAT doesn't need to
be reported, for we all know it was In his heart
and asked TO be turned so he could look at the
sea, The chief delays of the journey were occa-
stoned by the hot boxes or journals OF the car
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-14

COLONEL JonN C. WHlTsKR OF Atlanta, Ga.
says he owes his life to Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Sergeant MasOn's Offence.

The charges against Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau in his cell on Sun day afternoon, have been received by General Hancock. They are as fol- lows:-
 First-Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline.
 Second-Attempting to shoot a prisoner without orders from superior officer.
 The specifications to charge No. 1 are that Sergeant Mason, while on duty as guard over the prisoner at Washing ton, did without good cause discharge his musket, thereby perpetrating a breach of discipline, and causing use' less alarm at the post.
 The specifications to charge No. Z state that said Mason fired at Charles J. Guiteau without orders and at time when the prisoner was not making ar effort to escape.
 General Hancock will call on Captain John McGilvray. of Washington, tt attend to the preliminaries for the trial It has been decided to have the cour martial sit in Washington, and not 8 New York, as was contemplated.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
A Welcome Grub.

Capt. Joe Barnum, of the Hartford Sunday Journal, gives us the following information in the way of new dis covery:
 Consumers of ice in the East were pained to learn last spring, as they did from the icemen, that 8 peculiar but ferocious bug had attacked the gathered crop and it's ravages were so serious that ice would be advanced from twenty to thirty per cent. in value. We learn that very singular grub has attacked the paper crop of the country. Wheth- CT it is in the pulp originally or burrows in the sheet after it has left the ma chine is not yet known. It is of color corresponding with the sheet in which it hides, and while to the ordinary read CT it is harmless, it still appears to be of vicious nature at times; and in al cases when the reader of the paper owes the publisher over six months, sub scription, it is sure to bite. In sucE cases it's bite is venomous and very painful.