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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

FART e ladies of the Catholic congrega-
ton will hold fair in the City Hall on Mon
day, February, 18TH the proceeds to be devoted
to paying off the Indebtedness yet unpaid on
the new school house. Among the features OF
special attraction will be number of contests
for prizes. A gold medal will be voted be-
tween the two military companies. A silver
trumpet between the two fire companies; a
silver ice pitcher and waiter between Capts
Pat Woodward, Marco Doom and VIM Baily,
Of the G. & o. Railway; ring to the most
popular young lady and a number of other
prizes. The children of st. Mary will have an
elegant table in the centre of which will be a
large chrome of Bishop Keane. Altogether it
VII be an exhibition long to be remembered
and we hope will prove very profitable one
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

The track Of the Richmond and Allegha-
ny railroad has been fully completed from
WilIiauson's, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road, to Buchanan, Va, and trains are now
passing over the line, distance of about
thirty-tive miles.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

STAUNToN, Feb. I'd, 1881
MEssRS. EDITORS As the notice of Mr.. Stuart
Swinks death In the spectator" Is calculated to
MAKE an erroneous impression, ask that you will
please publish the following statement, without en-
tering into detail, In justice to all Interested
He was first taken with measles and when conya-
iescent exposed himself and contracted pneumonia
HIS room was over the dining and cooking room
with an open stairway leading to It, 1t Is there
was no stove In his room, but always found It COM
Portable from the stove below. My attention was
not directed to deficiency In bed covering, and 1
mad occasion several times to replace tho cover
upon him. notified his mother of his illness the
third day after seeing him. His brother was TO see
him the Monday preceding his death on Wednesday
visited him twice every day during his sickness
and invited another physician to him but some
thing prevented his doing so. talked to DR.. wayt
ABOUT MS condition, who kindly offered and did
furnish him medicine. regret he could not have
had nurse In constant attendance.
B, P. REESE
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03


BIRTHS AND DEArHs.-The following is a
statement of the births and dea this in the
county during the year ending December 31st
1880:
Pdstures.--Deaths--13 white and colored--3
males and II females; births-24 white and
colored-16 males and II females.
North Ri0er.-Deaths-26 white and color
ed-22 males and II females births-s4 white
and colored-45 males and 81 females.
| Becerly Manor.-Deaths-18 white and Is
colored-11 males and % females births-72
white and Al colored-46 males and 81 fe-
males.
| Riger7tsads. white and colored
-25 males 81 females; births-97 white and
| 81 colored-71 males and 40 females.
South Riuer.-Deaths-26 white and colo--
ed-12 males and 16 females; births-S4 white
and IA colored-69 males and SO females.
Middle Rauer.-Deaths-3S white and col.
ored-22 males and 90 females; births-13e
white and go colored-S7 males and 70 females
>
| REAL ESTATE SALEs.-On last Saturday
January Goth, E. NJ Gushing & Son, Auction
GERS, sold the following real properties:
For Bumgardner and Hudson, commission
er's, the Ide property just west of the ity
limits, to Shelley s. Bumgardner for $4,000.
For Bumgardner and Niche, the Piper
property, adjoining the above, to the same
parties for $4,000. Both of these propertie:
have large lots, improved by neat and pretty
brick houses and were bargains at the prices
they brought.
Elder & Nelson, real estate agents. sold pri
vately, on the same day, to ]. T. Bowman, 6
part of the "Shafer" lot situated on corner Of
Main and Washington streets. fronting Al!
f.et and running back 103 feet for 81 ,00(
equivalent to cash. 1t is the purpose of Mr.
Bowman to erect nice residence on this LOT
In the spring. 1t is one Of the most desirable
pieces of unimproved property in the city and
good Investment. There seems to be con
siderable activity in the real estate business
Messrs. Elder s. Nelson are pushing things
They are in every respect reliable and trust
worthy, and partiesdesiring to buy or sell can
not do better than to deal with them.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

THE NEW HOPE ROAD IMPRovEME1T.-We
would call the attention of the farmers living
along the New Hope road to the fact that as
yet sufficient amount ofprivate subscriptions
has not been obtained to secure the much de-
sired change of road through the old fair
grounds. The amount to be raised by individ-
uals is $3.50, and as yet only $3.50 have been
subscribed. Those who intend to contribute
and whose property will be benefited by the
change, and every man living below Beech's
will be benefited by it, should contribute at once
as it is desirable that the requisite amount be
secured at once and the work put to contract
It will take considerable time to make the
change, and the sooner the ground is broken
the better. The subscription paper is at the
Office of John w. Stout, where parties can
sign
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
MARRIED.-On Thursday evening last, Jan

-HahhiIlD--tJH HUTotIdy tFFIIIIIss5 IdsG Jdn-
uary ~, at the residence Of the BRIDES mother,
Mr.. JAS II. Beard, popular young gentleman
Of the county, was married to Miss Minnie
Mowry. The wedding supper wasaan elegant
affair, and the presents numerous and hand
some. The reception, given at the hospitable
residence of David Beard, Esq, New Hope,
was one of the most enjoyable and elegant en-
tertainments ever gotten up in the county We
wish the young and happy couple future
bright and flowerstrewn.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
Hours for Closing the Mails.

NALL FOR MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN
" STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
There will be a meeting of the State Central Com
mtttee Of the Republican party of Virginia, in the
city Of Richmond, TUE >DAY, the Sth day of EB-
RUARY. 1881.
1t Is IMPORTANT that every member Of the COM
mittee be present In person, matters of vital I'M
portance to the Republicans of the state will be
considered. JOHN f. LEWIS,
Chairman State Central Committee.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

|
IMPORTANT TO MILL OwyERs.-Last year
the General Assembly passed an act requiring
owners of mill dams TO erect fish ladders before
the first of March, 1881. For failure to erect
the ladder the owner of the dam is required to
pay fine of five dollars for each day ne SO Oh
lends after the law goes into effect.
The act reads as follows;
/. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Virginia That any canal company, pubic
improvement company, any corporation, pub
| lie or private or any person or persons WHAT
soever. owning or having control of any dam
or other thing on the rivers of this common
wealth above tidewater, which dam or Obstruc-
| ton may interfere with the free passage of fish,
/ shall, within one year from the passage OF this
act be required 10 provide every such dam or
obstruction with a suitable fish ladder, known
as the Mcdonald Fishway. SC that fish may
have free passage up or down said rivers dur
the months OF March, April, May and June Of
each year, and it shall be required Of such par
ties that the same shall be restored in case Of
destruction, and shall be kept in good repair.
2. Any company, corporation, person or
persons failing to comply with the require
ments of the first section of this act shall for
fell five dollars for each day he Or they may so
fail or refuse TO comply Herewith, to be re-
covered by motion or information of any per-
son before the county or corporation court OF
the county or corporation wherein such dam
or other thing may be situated; ard in case OF
a failure or refusal of any of the owners, or
agents, or officers of the dams or distractions
aforesaid to construct sluices slopes or ladders
as required, it shall be the duty of the county
or corporation court of the county or corpora
ton wherein such failure exists, after due
notice to the parties interested, and satistacto
nv proof of such failures to have the same con-
structed at the expense OF the owner or owners
| thereof
3. 1t shall be the duty of the supervisors of
each county, and the members of the common
council of each city or town, by personal in
spection of the dams and streams in their re-
spective counties and corporations, at least
twice year, in the months of April and Oc-
| tober, to examine and see that the provisions
of the foregoing sections are carried into effect.
T. 1t shall be the duties of the board of pub
lie works of the State to adopt the fish ladder
known as the Mcdonald fish way, and furnish
printed instructions in regard to the erection
of the same, one copy of which shall be fur
nished to the president or superintendent OF
any company in charge of such dams, and one
copy furnished to the clerk of each county,
or corporation court, who shall keep it for the
| inspection of all persons desiring, information
| on the matter contained in this act.
| This act was approved March 9th, 1880, to
| be in force from lis passage.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03
A Gard.

Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss is announced to lecture
before the Petersburg Literary Association.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Born LEGS Cur Orion Tuesday morn
ing last, Mr. Joseph Black, brakeman on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, had both legs
cut off by the cars running over him. The
cars broke loose and Jared him from the top
Of one of them, thus causing the painful &C
cident above stated. 1t last accounts he was
not expected to live. He resided in this place
for several years, had been on the road about
three years, and has wife and two children
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

1S0 AGENTS WANTED to sell Nursery Stock for
90 the VIRGINIA NURSERIES, during the year
1881 Liberal wages or larger commissions paid
than ever offered before. No experience needed
aadress ]. d. MOSBY s. BRO, Prop'rs,
!ds'-at p. o. Box 257, Richmond Va.
WANTED-To buy PINE TIMBER LAND. Must
DC within IA mil OF staunton
ifB- Address at once LOCK BOX &c.
jan 27-3t
{ ENEhAI. RECEIVERS NOTICE.
am ready to pay dividend to parties entitled in
SHELTON vs. JONES. ]. FRED EFFINGER
Jan 1S-w 0spsfaa ReoeaTer.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Beth Eden Baptist Church, one of the finest
specimens of sacred architecture in the coun-
try and Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, were
destroyed by fire on the morning of the 31st.
The church cost $4,000, and the organ in it
$500. Insurance on both church and ORGAN
$4,000 The Hall was recently sold for
$4,000, and was partly insured
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Advertise nents inserted at per square for the
insertion, and Soc for each subsequent insertion
Liberal discount made for quarterly, half yearly,
nd yearly advertisements
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

fIHHE IMPERIAL CIGAR can't be beat.

( tYDONIN.-Use only Cydonin the only reliat,a
~ preparation for the positive cure Of Chapped
sKln, Pmples, Tan, Eruptious, Sunburn, etc. d cta.
per bottle. For sale by GEO " NAV T. m -
Store open day and night Stauntan' "a
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Issued Every Thursday Morning.
$500 A Year. Invariably in Advance.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, has been
nominated az the successor OF Justice
swayne, on the Supreme Bench OF the
United State.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03


WHAT THE CITY WATER CosTs-L
month, at a meeting of the CitXCouncil, it was
ordered that committee be appointed to as
certain and report the annual receipts and ex-
pendtures, including interest on the bonds, of
the city water works. AT the meeting on
Tuesday night last that committee made u re-
port as follows:
Expenses of the department in 1859. s., 1913 Al
Expenses OF the department in l879-S0... ABS. 28
Total for two years without salares). 1929
Or average expense per year Of. ....... 3,715A
Add salary OF Supt. $500, assistant 5000,
helpers 500. 100000
$5,716.34
Add interest on $50, 900 at per cent s7,l20
:" s22,95O at % g ,377 s497 90
Annual expenses. Sl4,213.34
The receipts for 1880 were
Water tax and work ..............S6 1922 O6
Rent from Hartman. .............. $4,000 S6972 06
Deficit. S7,2f1 %
Credit by deduction In salary of asst. 1900
s7,121 %
The interest account is made up as follows
Construction of works $4,000 a per cent.
Witz K Holt lot 5000 "a " 90
Crawford lot and water power 1000 IA; 60 20
Donaghe purchase $4,000 Ia &c 81
Reservoir lot 1900 "a 90
B. A. Fair 2,250 q "
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Cry CoUNo1L.-The following members
were present at the meeting Tuesday night
VIZ: Messrs Fultz, Gooch, Crowle, Trout,
Marquis, Todd, ]. A. Cochran and L. =.
Elder.
The petitions of Geo. Flick, and OF e. Berke-
ley and Others for reduction of water tax was
rejected. WIN. Rocks petition was granted
in part. Petitions of W. II. Weller and }. H.
Taylor were rejected.
The report of the Overseer of Poor, show
ing an expenditure OF $163, was allowed.
The committee appointed at the last meet
ing to ascertain the annual receipts and eX-
penditures of the Water Works, made their
report showing deficit of S7,1S1.99 in that
department.
A number of petitions, principally concern
ing water tax, were presented and properly
referred
The report of the Treasurer showed receipts
for the month $l3O6791; disbursements SlS,-
245 "a, leaving balance of $S2a.57 in the
treasury.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

THE ARMoRy.-We understand the Coun-
ell has notified the military companies
that they must vacate the room in the CITY
Hall recently occupied by them as an armory.
Ifcempelled to leave their present quarters we
hope the Council will make some provisions
for the military, as they constitute pranch OF
the police service which should be encouraged
and sustained. Other cities build costly az
mories and make regular appropriation ior
their volunteer companies and stanton shoula
al least see that her two splendid organlza-
tions are provided with place to meet'fre OF
exnense to the members Those members
have each provided himself with uniform at
his own expense, and holds himself ready to
come to the city's rescue should his services DC
needed. If those services were required, IL
would be extremely convenient to have them.
The Council should provide for an armory free
of cost. and thus encourage an institution IN
which we all feel pride and which affords a
strong guarantee of peace and good order.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-03

Ladies', come ind see the beautiful display of 10
day Goods before you make your purchases.
deca J.w. NEWTON.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
Railway Wrecks.

On the evening of the 9Th inst, the special
train over the Baltimore and Potomac railroad,
on which ex-President Hayes and party were
travelling, collided with two engines near Severn
Station, eleven miles from Baltimore. The
terrific nature of the shock will be appreciated
when it is stated that the three engines were
going at the rate Of forty miles an hour. The
engines and three or four of the passenger cars
were thrown from the track and several cars
were telescoped. Two were killed outright
Baggagemaster John Oliver and J. W. Young,
of Shamokin, Pa. About a dozen people were
injured, some dangerously. Aside from
severe shaking up, the ex-presidential party es-
capped. Mr.. Hayes and sons were active in their
efforts to extricate the wounded from the wreck.
Near Staunton, Va, on the Sd inst, on the
C. & o. road, freight train and construction
train collided at full speed, and both were COM
pletely wrecked. The two engineers and fire.
men and DIR. Caldwell, of White Sulphur springs
were killed.
A sleeper containing excursionists bound to
the Mardi Gras festivities at New Orleans, was
wrecked IS miles from Mobile on the 28th ult.
Five men were injured, some seriously.
Near Mahoney City, Pa, ON the 2Sth ult.,
coal engine ran into passenger train. Michael
Reynolds, foreman CT repairs, and brakeman
were killed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
CarIyIe's Wife.

Carlyle was married in 1927 to Miss
Jennie WEIGH, a ineal descendant of
John Knox. He lived with her for near
~ forty years, in great harmony; and,
being without children, she devoted her
self to his literary comfort. She died
suddenly, in 1866, when riding in the
Regents park, London. A pleasant an
ecdote is told of her. While Leigh Hunt
was strolling one morning in the private
grounds of Holland House, ne was met
by Lord John Russell, then one of Queen
Vlctoria's ministers. In the course of
conversation the minister said that the
queen had been pleased to grant Carlyle
pension Of 9200 year, adding, '.As
you, Mr.. Hunt, are near neighbor of
his, it will perhaps be an agreeable task
TO be the first to announce the compli-
ment to him." Leigh Hunt was soon at
Cheyne Row. Mrs. Carlyle was SO de
lighted with the good news that she
threw her arms around the messengers
neck and gavehim a good hearty ''Scotch
smack" as they call kiss in the Land
of Cakes. The next morning Leigh
Hunt sent to Mrs. Carlyle this verse:
"Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, you love to ger
Sweets into your book, put that in !
Say Pm ugly, say Pm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say Pm growing old, but add,
"Jenny kissed me !"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
The Formation of Coal.

In the swamps and bayous of the
moist regions of the south, pure vege-
table matter, having the appearance and
properties of peat, may often be found
In the very act of accumulation. It fire.
quently occurs in immense beds, and it
requires no trained observation to see
that, in addition to the remains of the Or
binary low marsh plants, it is made up
of the ruins and refuse of swamp-loving
forest-trees. Now, all about the TANKS
and spurs Of the Rocky mountains, with
greater or less intervals, from New
Mexico to far beyond the northern limits
of the United States, there are found
beds of coal of peculiar quality. This
coal is covered up with hardened mud
containing shells and bones Of aquatic
animals, and everything about it sug-
gests that the coal-making material was
somehow sunk beneath the waters of an
old lake, and was buried under the
gradually increasing bed of mud with
which the old lake-basin was finally fill
ed. But the point of interest is this:
that in many places the Rocky mountain
coal has reached stage of decomposi-
ton not SO very much in advance of tie
humus and peat of our modern swamps
and bayous. We might, indeed, hesitate
about calling some portions of it coal at
all-for the original structure is almost
perfectly preserved-yet it must be adj
mitted that for the most part the decom-
position has advanced far enough to pro-
duce an article chat deservedly ranks as
coal. In the light Of what may be OBJ
served going on in every favorably
situated swamp to-day, the source of the
material and the method of accumula-
ton of the Rocky mountain coal can
hardly be doubtful. / need not weary
you by leading you step by step through
all the known coal-ields that illustrate the
different stages and process of coal-form-
alton. It will be sufficient to say that
a perfect graduation may be traced from
the Ignite, as it is called, of the Rocky
mountains to the purer and more perfect
coal of the Mississippi valley; and so,
even setting aside the internal evidence
of our Iowa coal, we are compelled to
believe that it is simply one of the terms
of the same series to which the Ignite
and peat belong, and that the initial of
that series is to be looked for in the iv-
ing vegetation of modern marsh and for
eat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
Work OF the Flames.

A fire broke cut on the night of the 5th inst.
in the hospital for the insane, at Danville. Pa.
1t originated in the main building and spread
rapidly to the wings. A portion of the main
structure was blown up to save the western
wing. The hospital contained 500 inmates, all
of whom were saved. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The building was in process of cree
ton for eleven years, and cost the state about
100000. There is an insurance of $3.50, 900 on
the property.
J. A. Fay e. Compa1ys machinery works at
Cincinnati were destroyed by fire on the 9Th
inst. The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900; insur-
ance $4,000.
John G. fairbanks sumac mills at Fredericks-
burg. Nd, burned on the 9th inst. Loss $685.
600; insurance $4,000.
The Pearl Hominy mills at Baltimore, Nd,
burned On the 4th inst Loss $40, 900; insur-
ance $4,000.
The Cotton Seed oil works and a two story
frame boarding house at Hickman, KY, burned
on the 4th inst. Abe Jones, an employee of the
mill and Mrs Persons, landlady of the boarding
house, persisted in the flames. Pecuniary loss
about 100000.
AT Galesburg, ILL.,, on the Sd inst, station
and hotel was destroyed by fire. Loss $50, 600.
A fire destroyed eight buildings at Middleton,
Tenn, on the Sd inst. Loss 100000. No in
surance.
The northern section of the large brick build
ing, corner CT Jefferson and Lake streets, Chi
cago, was destroyed on the night of the I'd.
The total loss amounts to $4,000
News has just been received of destructive
confagration which occurred at Toxic on the
25th of January. Eleven thousand houses
were destroyed, rendering thirty thousand peo-
pie homeless.
THE town of Franklin, Va, on the Seaboard
and Roanoke railroad, was half destroyed by
fire on the 9th ult. Nearly all the business
houses, including the post and telegraph offices
were swept away. Loss estimated at $15O,OOO;
insurance $4,000. The fire originated from
the explosion of an oil lamp in grocery store
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
Minnesota Capitol RuiIaing Burned.

About 10 o'clock on the night of the LIST inst,
while both houses of the Minnesota legislature
were in session, fire was discovered in the dome
of the capitol building, and in few hours
nothing remained of the edifice but heap of
smoking ruins. Quite panic ensued among
the members, but all escaped safely with the
aid of ladders. Owing to the fire burning down.
ward, the contents of the executive offices on
the lower floor, which were not in the vaults
were saved. The Supreme Court records were
also rescued, but the valuable and extensive
law library is lost. The rooms of the State
Historical society were in the building and their
fine library of several thousand volumes and the
valuable collection of relics fell prey to the
devouring elements. The state records and
over $2,Q00,000 of state trust funds were in
the vaults and consequently escaped destruction.
The new Market hall was Immediately fitted up
for the accommodation Of the legislature dur
ing the balance of the session. The state house
destroyed cost 300, 900 and was uninsured. 1t
was two story brick structure with mansard
roof and dome and was built in sections, the
first part being erected in 1853.