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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-11-30
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

The seth annual report of this company, for
the year ended 3Oth September last, was sub
mtted by President Garrett to. the stockhold-
ers on Monday the Goth. The business of this
great corporation has shown most excellent
results financially for the year. The revenue
from all the company's lines aggregate $751;
1885,, 875 ~, decrease as compared with 1881
of $80,0O154, but an increase over 1880 OF
500, 1856 go and as compared with 1879 an in
crease of $4,1s9,sa5.a5.
Earnings on Main Stem for 1882 aggregate
$1O,556,5 $1,000; expenses S. ,9S3, $3.50; ltav-
ing as net earnings for the year 81, 572 .943.61,
and decrease compared with the net earnings
Of 1881 of $273, 67s "a; but the report shows
as the net result of all the lines and branches
operated by the company AN increase and gain
oyer 1881 of 1881 1886.
There we're added during the year to the
sinking funds for the liquidation of the COM
pany's debt s617 I'll so, making the aggregate
of the company's sinking funds 30 491 ,063 3SI
Semi-annual dividends of five per cent. have
been paid to the shareholders, and the profit
crease of 81 ,64S, 97s23, which added to thd
surplus fund makes it now amount to $43 1
9O7 ,65S.84 This vast amount derived from
the net earnings of the company for seriei
of years is invested in its lines and brauchei
and terminal improvements, but is not repre-:
scented by either stock or bonds.
1t is claimed that no other road in this coun-
try or in Europe has ever shown in its work
ings such financial results. They are excep'
tional and entirely due TO the highly com
seryative system of this company.
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Parnassus Items.

hepQrtcu ZOE Lie flhulNlAN.j
Mr.. Andrew J. Silllng, aged 81 years, died al
residence at Moscow, last Wednesday, of can,
Ger of the stomach. An honest man and use
full citizen be was greatly respected by all who
knew him. He leaves large family. He wal
a member of St. Paurs Evangelical Lutheral
church. His funeral took place from the Meth,
odist church at this place on last Thursday
and was largely attended Rev. r. c. Walker
delivered an able, impressive and comforting
sermon from II Cor. 9Th chap. LIST verse, "For
we know that if our earthly house of this tab
ernacle were dissolved we have building of
God, house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens"
Mr.. Newton Slower, blacksmith employed
in the shop of Mr.. Hulvey, received serious
cut in his left fore arm few days since caused
by the breakage of tap cutter on which he
was engaged. An artery was severed causing
great loss of blood. DR.. G.. D. Kunke rendered
the necessary surgical attention.
Willie, son of Mr.. Madison Dunlap met with
Q severe accident last week. He was chopping
wood with very sharp axe. The axe glanced
and struck his right ankle making very Sc
rious and painful cut into the bone.
Miss Bette Hamrck left last Monday to as
sist in musical concert to-day at Mt. Carm e |
church, Rockbridge county, under the super
vision of Prof. Wright.
On last Sunday morning we were visited
by binding snow storm. In the evening the
sun appeared, when all evidences of the late
storm were soon dispelled.
Wheat is suffering for rain and our water
courses are getting very low. w
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THANKSGIVING and St. Andrews Dav.

BY rather remarkable coincidence our Ma
tional Thanksgiving and the Festival of St,
Andrew fall, this year, on the same day, and
both enjoin lessons for our careful considera-
ton. Whatever may have been our own in
dividual misfortunes during the past year
sonably leave us cause to repine, we should
not overlook the fact that the Giver of all good
has blessed our country and the fruits of the
harvest. Wars and rumors OF war, have trou-
bled other parts of the world and brought FAM
inc and desolation upon many, while peace
"like white-winged dove" has perched upon
our banners, and the sound of the tocsin is
drowned by the workman's hammer and the
din and hustle of men in the busy marts of
trade. We have had propitious seasons and our
crops have been in the main, good which
alone should evoke from us expressions ofpro-
found gratitude to Him.
The old Hebrews had day set apart for
rendering thanks to God for the fruits of the
harvest, that correspondent very much with
our National Thanksgiving Day. Leaving
the temporal aspect of the subject, we have.
the Festival of St. Andrew TO teach us whole
some lessons. and revive our lethargic spirit
in matters which belong to our religious char
acter. This good old apostle was the brother
of st. Peter. and was the first of the apostles
who "found the Messiah, and the commem-
Grafton of the Feast of St. Andrew reckons the
first festival of the Christian year, since he
was the first-celled disciple of our Lord.
This year it precedes the season of Advent in
the Episcopal and Catholic churches, which
is the beginning of the ecclesiastical or Chris
tian year. ST. Andrew first preached the Cos
pei in Scythia and Its vicinity, and subse-
quently IN Epirus, Galatia and Achaia but it
was in Patree, in Achaia, where he laid down
his life for the principles of the Gospel he had
so long taught. 1t was through the agency
or fundamentally of Egeus, the Governor OF
Achaia, whose preaching offended him, that
he suffered martyrdom on the cross-dffering
essentially from other modes of death, in the
fact that he was scourged and bound with
cords upon cross shaped like an X, and which
is commonly recognized, by its form, as St.
Andrews cross. For two days did this holy
man live, bound on the cross, enduring the
most sgonizing, excruciating pain; and. yet,
during it all-the agonies ola living death
his lips were moving in exhortation to those
around b i'm to forsake the evil tenor of their
| ways, and walk under the shadow and protec-
| ton of the cross of Christ.
St. Andrew was favorite saint, both in the
Russian and Scottish churches, and his life and
death, with the ills and prosecutions that he
bore with patient and resolute mind, should
inculcate in the hearts of all believers that
they should count it worthy to rejoice-to be
accounted worthy to suffer tor Him who suf-l
| fered more we than. His blessed martyrdom
breaches sermon more eloquent than mere
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Thanksgiving.

Below will be found the Thanksgiving proc
lamation of Coy. W. e. Cameron, conform
ing to that issued by the President of the
United States. 1t is the first time within
our knowledge when the Governor OF Vir-
ginia has invoked the people of the State to
observe the day set apart by the President of
the United States TO return thanks for the
manifold blessings we enjoy. 1t is wise
and commendable departure, and we hope
will be accepted and observed by all the PEG
pie !; $3.50 a7t..' + v !
During the year just closing this Com
monweath has been blessed with foreign and
domestic peace, with genial seasons, with
general health, and bountiful harvests r
1T seems tit that praise should be rendered
to the source Of these mercies, and petition
offered for their continuance; and, therefore
/, William E. Cameron, Governor of the
Commonwealth, do hereby appoint Thursday,
November Both, 1882, a day of thanksgiving
and prayer to Almighty God, and | recon-
mend to the people of Virginia appropriate
observance of same.
'In testimony whereof | have hereto af-
fixed my hand as Governor of Virginia, and
have caused to be affixed the great seal Of the
Commonwealth this 18th day of November .
in the year Of our Lord eighteen hundred and
eighty-twO and in the year of the Common
wealth the 10Th.
..rt WILLIAM E. CAMERON
lSeall By the Governor,
w. G. ELAN.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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SALE OF MlNsRAt LANp.-The Beverly
from Co., composed of Capt. Jno. Donovan,
Gen, J. E. Roller, and Messrs p. B. Bolts, W.
B. McChesney and ]. II. Beemer, all of Har-
risonbHrg, have sold 1900 acres of mineral
land in page county to the Rock Hill Iron and
Coal company and the Dunbar Iron company
of Pa, for $2O000, equivalent to cash, f'i
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A Case Tha Puz zled the Whole
Faculty.,

the most reputable physicians In the two cities
(Pittsburg and Allegheny, to whom she had
paid large sums Of money for treatment, but She
rapidly grew worse. She was then taken to
the most reputable physicians and surgeons in
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laid bare and the disease made its way upwards,
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wall OF the chest, hanging loose from above.
See page 25, of DR.. Hartman's ILLS of Life, :"
how PERUNA cured her They are given away.
by druggist (gratis).
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Senator Window is candidate for re-
election from the State of Minnesota. His
enemies can find no flaw with his political
record to assail. but are attacking his finan-
cial condition, alleging that his gains have
not been legitimate. They charge him with
being worth millions, and that such wealth
could not have been accumulated legiti-
mately. The Senator, in self-defense, has
caused publication CT his investments and
properties, which do not exceed 100000
in value, instead of from 100000 to
$1,000, 900 as alleged. 1t is queer way to
conduct a contest, and will not likely re-
suit in any particular disadvantage to the
Senator. he is one of the ablest and pur.
est men OF the times, whom any party
might feel proud to honor with its conf
dence and support. He will be reelected,
and stand none the worse in public estima-
ton for the reckless and groundless attacks
that have been made upon him.
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DEATH OF DR.. VIM. o. HILL.-Informa-
tion reached here on Monday last that DR..
VIM. O. Hill, of Harrisonburg, had died in
that place on Sunday night, of an overdose
of choral. The opiate had been administered
to him after Iight-fall, and he was left in
his room, by himself, until about 10 o'clock
when he was found dead. He was pop
ular physician, and enjoyed the confidence of
the community in which he lived both pro-
fessionally and personally. He was about
43 years of age, and leaves wife and two
brothers of his immediate connections, and a
number of relatives in Shenandoah county
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The President, on the report of Attorney
General Brewster, on Saturday last issued an
order removing from Office Charles E. Henry
Marshal of the District of Columbia, D. B.
Anger, Postmaster at Washington, M. M.
Parker, assistant postmaster, N: D. Helm,
foreman of government printing Office, and
George E. Spencer, Commissioner of the
Union Pacific Railroad, on the grounds that
they interfered with the administration of JUS
tice IN the Star-route cases. The action caused
considerable excitement in Washington, which
was heightened by the rumor that other prom
inent officials we're to share the same fate for
the same cause.
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Bourbon tariff reformers or free traders,

Bourbon tariff reformers or free traders,
would open the ports 81 the country to for
eign Manufactures in order that articles of
common use might be cotton at much
lower figure than now. This would force
our manufactures to suspenion, or reduce
wages to such rate that employees could
not purchase the ordinary comforts and
necessaries of life. This would drive the
labor employed in manufactures from that
avenue of industry. and compel it to seek
some other-digging living out Of the
ground, as one of our contemporaries ex-
presses it, like our forefathers did. This
would reduce everything to a dead level.
There would be no reciprocal trade. Stag.
nation, poverty and national decay would
follow. There would be no stimulus for
inventive genius, commercial or mechani-
cal enterprises-hut produce a nation of
drones and dotards. This is not American.
What we want is the encouragement of me-
chanical art and manufacturing industries.
We then lay the foundation for the pros
perity of all other industries. Reciprocal
trade gives activity to the manufacturer,
the farmer, the merchant, the mechan ic, for
each ayocation brings forth something that
the other wants and is able to pay for, thus
creating new values by the attrit ion OF
values, and resulting in prosperity to all.
1t don't matter much about the prices, If
we have the means to Justify them. 1t is
better to pay tariff duty on wooden goods,
if it enables the farmer to sell his wool at
80 cents a pound, whereas, with no tariff
be would sell at IL or 10 cents. Activity
in industries develops physical and mental
resources-gives life to the nation, con-
tributes to its independence. and makes
it prosperous and powerful. Bourbon De-
mocracy can't see this, but sensible, pro-
gressiVe peOple understand it.
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Public Schools.

The Wing of the 9th, has the following en-
couraging statement concerning the public
schools and the active and energetic admins
tAtion bis Office by the Auditor. A few
years ago the schools were in deplorable con-
dition, with the indications of rapid dissolu-
ton. Since the Readjusters came into power
they have been gradually improving. until
now they are healthy and prosperous and
promise to fulfill the mission of their crea-
ton. The people should not forget this, for
next fall they will be called upon to deter
mine whether the friends or the enemies of
the Free School System are to legislateup-
on it. H
Col. S. Brown Allen, the Auditor of Public
Accounts, has just made the school apportlon-
ment for the year 1882, and has certified the
amount to the Superintendent OF Public In
struction, who sub-divides the same between
the different counties and corporations OF the
Commonwealth, which has also been done,
and now it only remains for Col. Allen to is
sue the warrants to the superintendent OF
counties and cities for the amounts to which
they are respectively entitled. oa
The Auditor ascertains the aggregate sum
uu6 tnt SCuOOlS lOI tuG J0dt w W FooofNoA,
which ia largely in excess of any previous APP
portionment made to the cause of public ed
acation and about $57 900 more than they re-
ceived for the year 1881. This work has been
done, too by the Auditor of Public Accounts,
notwithstanding the failure on the part OF
commissioners of the revenue to return their
books to his Office at the proper time, about
one month earlier than it was last year or the
year before, and his promptness will give to
the teachers of the State who are poorly paid
at best, their salaries as they fall due.
Wm, Cunningham, . worker in the rolling
pills, birmingham, Ala, assembled the top OF
the Alice blast furnace stack. last week, threw
off his hat and leaped headforemost into the
fery furnace. apd was cremated in about one
minute so thoroughly that nothing Of his re-
mains copld be gathered together.
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II ARPER'S MAGAZINE.
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Harpers Mdodsine begins It's sixty sixth volHmo
with the December Number. It Is not only the most
popular illustrated periodical In America And Eng.
land but also the largest in its scheme, the most
beautiful in Its appearance, and the best magazine
for the home. new novel, entitled "Yor the Ma
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OF Same, was begun In the November Number.
In literary and artistic excellence the Adeasine ina
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Having Determined to change my bus1hess. VIII
sell by auction, on fvG
THURSDAY, DECEMBER THE 7TH, 1882,
my entire stock of HARDWARE, BUILDERS MA
TERIAL, MECHANICS TOOLS, &C, &C., consisting
Of Locks, Screws, Hinges of all kinds, Buckles,
Rings, Bits, Augers, Hatchets, Axes, Hammers, a
full line Of Pocket and Table Cutlery, Wheels,
Springs, Axles, Hubs, Spokes, Rims, Hames, Car
riage Bolts, Trace Chains, saddle Trees, Nails.
Horse Shoes Bar Iron, Nail Rods &C., &c.
Also, full line of Muzzle and Breech- Loading
Shot Guns, Remington Rifles, Pistols Cartridges,
Shells, Powder, Shot, and fullline OF Sportsmens
Goods.
The attentionof dealers is called to this sale as
the goods all fresh and desirable, and will be
sold without reserve. eHf.5ta
"a Until the day OF sale the entire stock will be
for sale at COST for CASH.
ew-Terms Of auction sale will be liberal, and
will be announced on the day Of sale.
noV30-tds -' -ef -s4a A. E. MILLER.
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reforms.

Several ofour Bourbon contemporaries are
looking to the contest next fall for the
control OF the Legislature, and urging the
necessity of campaign for retrenchment
and reform. 1t is rather strange position
for faction to assume that had control of
the State government for ten years, and left
it with an increased debt of over s. 000,-
900, and every interest of the people abused
and neglected. 1t so complicated the debt
that not even Philadelphia lawyer could
understand it. 1t robbed the free schools
and brought the whole system into disfavor
by the paralysis that followed the diver
sion of the funds the Constitution dedi-
Gated to them. 1t trif1ed with the charita-
BILE institutions of the Common wealth, SO
as to compromise their usefulness and prac-
tically defeat the object of their CREATION
1t flied the jails with the unfortunate in
sane corrupted the ballot, perverted the
election laws, stified the public voice. and
subordinated every important interest to
the behests of corrupt partizanism.
These wrongs have all been corrected by
the Readjusters, and If other reforms are
desired. why not commit their consumma-
ton to the party which has given assurance
of its ability and disposition to effect
them, and not trxst to faction that has
been an absolute curse to the State7
There are other reforms to be legislated into
laws, and the people will be called upon
to decide whether. they will look to the
party that has manifested purpose to
bring them about or to a faction that re-
sorted to every device and trick to defeat
them: The Commissioner of Sales bill in
wolves reform which goes right home to
the pockets Of the people. A radical change
10 the chancery practice Is a reform which
will protect the people against the most
outrageous imposition that ever oppressed
and wronged great Commonwealth. The
ton of the law of their creation-presents
reform which will emancipate business
interests from illegal and tyrapnical exac-
tions. These are paramount reforms which
to the people for judgment. Bourbonism,
controlled and run by the court house rings,
will be found opposing every one of them
and seeking to regain power by false state
ments and false appeals, for the sole pur-
pose of concealing the truth and deceiving
the people. Bourbonism " i'll be brought to
the test of genuine reform and made to
face its own record on every law which has
been passed in the interest Of the people,
and every proposition defeatedlby les chi
ehanery, selfishness and disregard of the
public veal. -ssiufmgid1 asHiilz s.1d-i'0&
The people well know that no reforms
can be effected through Bourbon instru-
mentality. That has been tested to. their
sorrow, and they will repose their conf
lence elsewhere that the public welfare
may be subserved and the rings and cliques
-ebuked and crushed ont, ,,ls,.,, ..sr0
E P. McCabe, a. eelered man, and VT
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E. P. McCabe, a. eelered man, and VT
gilman by birth, was elected Auditor of Kan
sas on the Republican ticket. on the s7th, by
28,09S majority.
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MINING TRUCKS, CARS, &e~
ENGINES. BOILERS AMI sAwarxr1a.

and propose turning out the very hest OF this class
of goods. ts - 49,
The former patrons Of the establishment are in.
vited TO send IN their ordsss- The present prosrf-
efors VIII do everything In their power TO make hi
to the advantage Of persona wanting anvfia,, Il,
their line to give them trial.
. correspondence should be addressed to
sept2l-lyr REAIL b PAUL MACHINERY works.
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HARPER'S BAZAAR.
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This popular journal is q cornhiRattoa OF ill.,
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many brilliant novelties.
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s III Re. M. Gushing s Son, Auctioneers.l
$4,000 WORTH OF 49,
HARDWARE
"-tEa E e
AT AUCTION
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Post Office at Staunton, Augusta
County, Va.
Nov. 80 1882.