The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-06-15
fill our souls with pride, let US not become


holy incense, and to aid us in developing her
undeveloped resources, celebrating the scars
OF war and filling up her waste places.
| have now nearly performed the pleasant
duty assigned me on this occasion. 1t Is a SOL
emn occasion to melt is a solemn occasion to
you. l do not know whether shall ever have
again the privilege of participating with you
in these memorial services. God only knows.
For wise purposes the future Is a closed book
that many of u.s. at least before another Memo
rial season shall roll round. will be called upon
to join that myriad host, whose memory we
are here to-day 10 commemorate. In the spirit
land. But, women OF Augusta, adjure you by
all that is holy and sacred, preserve this beau
titul custom to the end OF time. The soil for
which these noble fellows fought, for which
they bled, for which they died. and in whose
bosom they rest, will ever fournish the flowers
let yonr hands ever strew them, and the air
of Heaven will diffuse their sweet perfume
throughout their sacred precincts. And when
you are passing away, and your eyes are set to
behold for the last time the sun in the Heaven,
bequeath the performance of this beautiful
custom as sacred legacy to your children.
have endeavOred to-day in my feeble way
| to SOW some seed for reflection. have told
you that the strewing of these flowers Is pat
| riotic act and the graves that receive them are
| that the past with all its bitterness has been
put behind me, and that my eyes are fixed up
| on the future of our land in whose horizon
sec ever the bud of promise. Our system of
| government have endeavored to hold up to
| your admiring gaze and to picture to You Its
greatness power, and grandear,--and then
your hearts, and referred to your closer identi-
| ty with your home state-and to those things
which give your heart peculiar thrill.
Remember, one and all that on q very little
| head board in yender hill cemetery God has
| emblazoned in burning letters this word-duty
| Take that word AS your talismanic word-do
yourselves
Toyour country that she may go on, and on,
and on, in the fulfilment of that sublimity Of
destiny. to which the star of empire seems to
beckon her, and that her blessings may be
preserved and increased.
To your State. that her traditions may be
preserved; that no stain may rest upon her
escutcheoR; that no tinge of shame may ever
the crown that adorns her brow. 3d.
To yourselves, that you may do your duty to
your country and State, for no man Is true to
himself unless he is true to them.
And now shall allow you to proceed on your
way. and make your sacred offering with one
That 1t is my earnest desire TO see q fraternal
grasping of hands and buckling Of hearts, and
when we shall all stand in spirit and in truth
one brotherhood In this sisterhOOd Of States
when these States, though as distant as the
billOws yet shall be one as the sea-
May the God Of nations pluca ffom every
heart in this Union all sectional bias and pref
udices, and speed the time when our national
sun will warm with Its genial rays every SEQ
tion alike, and our national ensign will hover
over this entire land. bearing in its talons
love and peace-and those streamers futter-
ing in Heavens breezes over a happy aud uni
TED people.
At the close of the address there was
hearty applause, and the graves of the sol.
diers were covered with beautiful flowers
Gen. Skeen, of Covington, was in the city
on Saturday.
Mr.. W. F. Crest has been appointed and
commissioned postmaster at Alton, Va.
Capt. Frank Henderson and s. H. Letcher
Esq, of Lexington, Va, have been in the city
for several days.
Gen. John E. Roller, and Judge Robt. John
ston, of Harrisonburg have been in attendanc,
on the circuit court .. ..rs... ....I
Garret Gooch is preparing to erect a new
dwelling in Covington. Mr. Ed. Stewart, o
this city, is the contractor.
The city has been full of strangers during tn,
past week, many of them in attendance at thu
public exercises at the Female Schools.
Mr.. Jacob N. Rhodes. formerly resident o
Staunton and brother-in-law of the late Mr.
B. F. Points, died in Lexington, last week.
Rev. A. L. Grouse, of Summit, s. c., has &C
cepted the call to the passionate of Bethlehem
church near Waynesboro' in this county, ant
will enter upon his duties as such in about
month.
Mr.. VIM. A. Burke, who has been for SOM
years Judge of Election in Ward No. 2, tender
ed his resignation as such to the City Court a
its June term. VIM H. H. Lynn was appoint
| ed in his place. ...a
We are indebted to Mr.. w. H, Snuff for al
| invitation 10 attend the celebration of tn
Franklin and Washington Literary Societie
of Randolph Macon College ON the 14th an,
| 10Th instant.
The city of Richmond, Va, has loaned Il
the State Agricultural Society the sum OF $50,
600, which relieves it of its fna ncial embarrass
ment, and it is going ahead with preparation
| for the fall fair. Gen. Wickham has accepted
the presidency of the society.
| An extra train will be run to Harrisonbur,
next Monday, leaving Staunton at o'clock a
M, and returning, leave Harrisonburg at 6:3
p. m. Mr.. Massie speaks at Harrisonburg OF
that day, and it is also County Court day.
Mr.. G. L. Cooke, agent for the Hamburg
Bremen Insurance Co., promptly settled tn
amount of insurance, 81 800, on the barre
factory of Messrs. Engleman & Co., the burn
ing of which we noticed week before last.
We have received the first number ofa brigh
and newsy little sheet, called the Greengsl
Banner, and published in the village tn
name of which it bears. J. B. Burwell & CO
are the proprietors, and they intend to make
success of their venture. May the Banne
wave long and prosperously.
In making out our list of distinction
&C., in the public school report last week, Their
were two errors. The opening defamation
was by Laura Summerson and Carrie Stras
burg, instead Of Carrie Thornburg, as we ha
it. The prize for defamation in Miss Lind
McClure's room was awarded to Clark StraE
burg and not to Ernest Shuey.
Last week, at the elegant Banquet gwen b
the Lynchburg Bar to the venerable Judg
Garland number of toasts were propose
|
er Stauntonians, now q rising young member
the legal fraternity in our sister city, was on
OF the getters-up of the Banquet. In its II
port of the proceedings, the Lynchburg Nes,
says: "Messrs. W. Fl. Dudley, Jno. II. Chris
tian and Randolph Harrison, each made witt.
and elegant remarks, the latter bringing dow
the house in brief response to the toast, 18th
Ladies'" offered by Mr.. Digs" $50
The reports from various portions OF tn
| State leave no room to doubt that destruc
| tive insect has attacked the wheat and oats
OuHcorrespondents from Moffetts Creek an
Mt. Scion refer to it in those sections. A gen
tleman stated to us this week that the whea
fields on South River were being seriousl
injured by it, and that in Albemarle muc
of the wheat and oats had been disastrous
ly damaged. One gentleman who had Civ
en- orders to sell thirty barrels of flour b
had in the mill, on perceiving the effects O
the insect npon fields of his wheat, coun
fernandez the order, and will hold tn
-four to see the result of his harvest
There is much concern felt by the farmer
because Of the nudge, and this apprehen
sion will not be at rest until the worst Il
known.
Since writing the above we have converse
with several intelligent farmers of the coun-