The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-06-08

d l:o0 O'Clock \, ~. Saturday, the Goth of MAY
z Fwell satisfied with our excursion.
4 r. We learn that our Maj. Peter Woodward i
{. about taking charge of the Hale House a
Charleston, which is sufficient guarantee tina
!, n Will pc Kept in first class style. His untlr
e ing energy, bis genial face and manner, hi
- anticipation and readiness to meet the ever
want OF bis guests, his, appreciation of what
= really good tablets, has given him the it'll
!. Pof' Prince q, Hotel keepers wherever he il
m known, 81,
.,baa Letter from Southside Virginia.
Il 81 5Rdj sifd---- Jya,1tt.r ann,
. THE CROPS AND A FEW WORDS POLITICAL.
ID va Special Correspondence Of YIRarNIAN. ffOf IA
-sls Seeing nothing In your well conducted cor
/ respondence from this section of the State
and thinking our section entitled to an occa
slonai ventilation through what we consider
the creme de locrsmse Of Republican journals fol
all Southern people to read, 4 take the liberty
of writing line from what sCousin Will
liam" used to call the l"osstsquirtsn OF civiza-
ton. oa@socni 9ao YIvfta 95 f.t,.t.. -.
:. The wheat and oat crop generally in this
l4th) districts are beyond an average. Indeed
:. some lots of wheat are as good as are COM
monty seen in your beautiful Valley. We
have arust proof oat, which has been grown
here dbutaa few years which is making the
heaviest crops, have ever seen grow. They
are on thin upland of little account but on
bottom lands or rich lots, vastly productive,
and am of opinion that if they are not al
ready sown in your section that they will
prove d paying investment to those who get
them first They do mot aust. The cotton
planters are almost all in a bad way, the late
rains holding ON SO long, as to make the
young cotton, just coming up, die out. In
| some places all is dead and many have not
seed tore-plant In other cases there Is halt,
| one-third to one-f fourth of a stand on the
r. There is no complaint about tobacco plants,
but it seems OF little use to raise it, know
a gentleman who went with all his tenants to
sell their crops These people had made
from q two horse crop to a. one-yearling crop.
The highest price realized was SIS tor the
crop. II knewia man to hire wagon to take
"a crop. to. market, and when he had paid
warehouse charges and the teamster, he had
not enough money to pay ferriage to get back
home.fI But suppose a man is Obliged to do
something to support. his family. The corn
crop has been either retarded or injured by
the rain, - That which was. planted early in
April got very foul, and much which was to
have, been planted is yet in the crib. Alto
gether it has been bad time on corn. Our
people are beginning to pay more attention
to raising their own stock, which, think is
one Of the important steps up the steep of
prosperity. A farmer who depends on Ken
lucky for his work stock and Cincinnati for
his meat, will be apt to pull ticks off a poor
man all the days Of his life.
10 The Republican people here are well pleased
at the general work done by our last Legisla-
ture. The, disatfection Of the two Republi-
cans who went with the Democrats against
the Liberals, is something as totally inexplica-
BILE to the average intellect as the apocalypse.
/ can well understand how man should SYM
pathise with Father Massie l am indeed
sorry that his conscience would not allow him
to accept the Auditors Office on the terms
offered by the party, but think that all teach
ing, both human and divine, incline to the
greatest amount Of good to the majority, and
would refer Father Massie to Matthew 9Th
chapter, Goth and 30th verses. I really don't
know whatto say about the two Republican
members who event back" on the party.
When look back a quarter OF century and
call to mind the acts of the Democratic auto
Gratis who haye ruled and ruined our country;
when remember the peaceful, happy homes
now swept from the face of the earth when /
think of the dear ones crumbling to dust-the
desolation, anguish, poverty, humiliation and
degradation through which we have been
forced, and all to crafty the rapacious greed
of Democracy bringing all this upon the
common people in their insane crusade for
power when see man who was elected by
the common people" vote with the "money
and intelligence" of the State, I don't know
what ails him, whether he has seen great
light like Saul did when he journeyed to Da-
mascus, or whether he got hungry like Esau.
I am no wofshipper of Malone or any other
man, but I have gone with Malone in all
things Where my ALLEGIANCE to the National
Republican party allowed it, and will continue
to do SO regardless OF his acts to any andaoSduaz
as long as he refuses to bow his knee to the
hydra aal-Asmodaens / will help any man
to fight this monster, whether itbe Billy Ma
hone, Billy the Kid, or Robert the devil The
venerable and reverend Lewis Skidmore, in
one of his speeches against the building of the
DanYille Railroad, on one occasion, in areply |
to glorious Whit. Tunstall, told him in reply |
to Us request that he So would never use the
road if it was built, shat if the devil with his
boots and horns should come through his plan
tation, and he could get harness on him, he
would pillow him" 7457tr
So much for utilitarianism, zone of whom l
am which ,"and am ready to join my fellow
sufferers in following the example ofgood old
Tobit in driving this Asmodaens out, the fast
ming part of the programme being already
carried into effect by no fault of ours.
In conclusion, I say three cheers and a tiger
for Billy Malone. Non qaas, sed quid. ,s
-raf -.-ofa DEsDICARDo.
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