The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-24

CHURCH OFFIcERs-On last Sabbath, al
an election for four elders of Mt. Tabor Evan
gelical Lutheran church. in this county, Rev
| l.. L. Smith, pastor, the following persons
were chosen Capt. George Shuey, Chas. T
Palmer, Esq, Capt. E. A Fulcher and Mr.
John E. Gale. Capt. Shuey has been an ell
der in this church for fifty three years, having
been elected for the first time during the pas
torate of Rev. Michael Moye hoeffer
NEW SPRING GooDs-NIessrs. Hilb & Ruth
erford, always up with the times, are offering
a new and elegant stock of spring clothing,
gents furnishing goods, &C. They now have
all the leading styles on exhibition, and a
handsome assortment it is, comprising the
latest novelties in cuts and cloths together
with an endless variety of fancy ties, furnish
ing goods, &c. Their stock is of the best ma
terial and make, and having been manufactur-
ed especially for this market may be relied up
on to be just as represented. Go down and
make your selection while the stock is prime
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HOUSE BURNED.-On Tuesday last, the
house Of Mr.. M. B. Smart, on the Valley pike,
about one and half miles north OF Staunton
was consumed by fire together with all of its
contents The fire at first caught under the
hearth, and being discovered was partly and
it was thought wholly extinguished, but sub
sequently it again broke out, and before it
could be gotten under control had made such
dua hat
thing. The loss, however, is covered by in
surance, there being $4,000 worth on the
house and furniture-$1, 200 on the house in
the City Fire Co. of Richmond, and $500 on
the furniture in the Hamburg Bremen Co.
Messrs. Cooke & Sublett are the agents for
both companies
Even Charlottesville is ahead of Staunton in
manufactures. During the past eleven
months the sale of goods of the Charlottes-
vile Wooden Mills Company aggregated
$l20,o57, giving net profit to the company
OF $40, 223.1O, or about II per cent on the
capital invested. dividend of six per cent.
was declared, and the remainder of the profits
will be applied to Improvements and to the
expansion Of the work of the company.
When properly managed, manufactures pay.
Here is company with capital of only
about $4,000 earning net income of over
$lo,ooo, and what is still better bringing that
much money into the community, for the
greater part of the products of the Charlottes-
vile looms are sold at some distance from the
place of their manufacture.
HUMPTY DUMPTY.-We are to have anoth-
er "Humpty Dumpty," but this time it
is to be as different from the former presenta-
ton as day is from night. Tony Denier's
original troupe, which for ten years has been
before the public, and always warmly received,
will visit Staunton for the first time, on Fri
day, the 4th of March, giving one of their per-
formances in the Opera House. We know very
well that the name Of "Humpty Dumpty"
doesnt summon very pleasant recollections to
many our citizens, but we are assured that
Deniers entertainment will embrace nothing
IN the least offensive. 1t affords hours of
amusement and Unreasonable fun, but all
within the bounds of the strictest propriety.
Aio PAooo ON0ly WHtIe speak Ill Terms OF the
highest praise of this troupe, and our citizens
may look forward to pleasant evening
A VALUABLE PREsENT-Capt f. A. Dam
gerfeld, of Harrisonburg, has been presen ted
by his brother-in law, Mr. James R. Keene,
the millionaire, with the celebrated trotting
stallion, Jim Purdee, familiar to turtles as the
horse that won all the money placed on trot-
ting events on the Pacific slope several yea rs
ago. This horse was originally bought by Mr.
Keene for $4,000, and subsequently sold by
him for $4,000 in gold, and afterwards re-pur.
chased for $22, 900. Jim Purdee has the fastest
two-mile trotting record in the world, having
trotted that distance in minutes and A Sec
onds, and, after resting Is minutes, made an
other two miles in 4 minutes and 46 seconds
making the four miles in minutes and 80 sec
onds. Capt. Daingerfield will bring this horse
to Harrsonburg in a short tme and will keep
him in the stud