The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-03-16


last week on.a visit to Georgia friends.
A fortune is in store for the party or partie
who will start nail mill in Stanton.
Mr.. A. L. Henkel, of the Shenandoah ValSes
was in the city yesterday, and favored US witt
call.
Some few of the peach trees are in blossom
and the willows are putting forth their tin.
leaves
Mr.. John W. Cline has pur hased of R. G
Bickle, farm on Middle River, containing
500 acres for $1,000.
The Sky Parlor Social Club will give al
entertainment tomorrow night at the resi-
dence of Mr. Jno. NJ Henkel.
The county roads, where they are passable
are so rough that it is dangerous to attempt II
travel them with spring-vehicle.
Mr.. Blackley, prominent and prosperous
attorney of Greenville, Texas, is visiting his
brother, Mr.. j. FL. Blackley, of this city.
: If our farmers near the city would give 6
little m ,re attention to the trucking business
they would find profitable employment.
Miss Annie Hotchkiss entertained the Young
Ladies' Social Club at the residence of her
father. Maj Jed Hotchkiss, on last Thursday
evening.
There was sudden change in the weather
snow fakes fell at intervals throughout the
day.
Spring gardening is beginning to demand
the attention of our town horticulturists, and
already some of the early birds are delving
into mother earth.
ID. s. Heukel. Esq, author of the Henkel
school bill, was in the city yesterday He il
associated as counsel in the Stricken counter
ieit money cases, .,:s-e
A railroad from the Shenandoah Iron
Works, ON the Shenandoah Valley railroad, /"
Fork Mountain Ore Bank, six miles in length,
has been completed.
We have received an interestin letter from
Dayton. Va, giving the proceedings of the U
B. Conference, but it came too late tor this is
sue. Ii Will appear next week.
Mr. C. w. Brown, son of the late John D
Brown, died at the residence of his mother liz
this place, on Tuesday evening last, after a
protracted illness of consumption.
1t is reported that in a short time, the fast
mail train formerly run on The Va. NJ. R. w..
will be resumed as far South rs Lynchburg,lo
We are in receipt of communication on
the subject of the Valley Mutual Life Assocm
ton, but as the writer failed to send his name
it is withheld until that deficiency is supplied.
Little Jacob Eiserman, the bright, attraciiv,
five year old son of Mr.. L. Eiserman met with
a painful accident last week He was playing
in the yard when heavy shelf fell upon him.
fracturing his thigh badly. DR.. McChesney
set the limb.
Rev. J. B. Haskell, formerly pastor Of the
Lutheran church in this city, has received an
Seiss D. D. Pastor of the Church OF the Holy
Communion in Philadelphia. The congrega-
ton is one of the wealthiest in the Quaker
City.
Wytheyille Enterprise Rev. Job. Turner.
of Stanton, well-knOwn deaf-mute preach
er, perhaps the only man in the United States
who dspenses the VOID in the sign language,
arrived in Wythevile Thursday night and
left for South Carolina this morning. He paid
us a, welcome visit Friday.
" The Correspondent for March, bright and
well conducted little Journal edited and pub
lished by the students of Staunton Female
Seminary, has been received 1t is credit to
the editors and the school, and should be liber-
ally patronized by all who feel an interest in
the improvement of the scholars at this excel
lent school,
We have received from Geo. W. Berlin &
Son, real estate agents, Harrisonburg, Va, a
catalogue of the various properties by them in
hand for sale. They offtr some very desirable
estates, and we advise those of our readers who
wish to purchase land in the Valley to send
for and examine their list of properties and
prices. Address them, Harrisonburg, Va.
The Conference OF the nj E. Church, South,
in session last week and the first part of this.
elected on Monday, the following delegates
and alt,rnates to the General Conference which
meets IN Nashville, Tenn, in May next Cler-
ical delegates-A. W. Wilson. R. Smlhson,
Samuel Rodgers, John s. Martin, james s.
Gardner, and VIM. P Harrison; alterna,es.
J. . Dice, P. H. Whisner, w. H. D. Harper
and Thos. E. Carson. Lay delegates-J. B.
Wilson, E B. Pnilynan. j p Houck, ]. H.
A Figgatt and J. G. Cox allcrnates, W w..
Ballard, j B. Bond, P Hamill, r. Mccoy
A BOOK FOR ALL-One of the most valua-
Bile works in print is "Gaskel's Compendium
of Forms" educational, social, legal and COM
mercial This book is now being introduced
to the pnblic of Staunton by Prof. L. e. Rob-
erts. 1t contains more valuable information
on all practical subjects than any work it has
ever been our pleasure to examine. Among
its special features may be mentioned the fol-
lowing: A complete self-teaching course of
penmanship and book keeping. also short
hand land aid to English composition, includ-
ing orthography, capital letters. punctuation
composition, elocution. oratory, rhetoric, the
laws of business and commercial forms, COM
plete dictionary of legal and commercial terms,
10000 synonyms, Authorizations, foreign phra-
SEES, poetry, etc. Also manual of agriculture
and mechanics, with a complete guide to
Parliamentary practice, rules of order for de-
Lucrative assemblies, organization and con-
duct of meetings, ETC., game laws of United
States and Proy inces.
Prof Roberts is taking subscriptions for
this work, which should be in every library
and on every business desk of Stanton. He
has been quite successful so far
Dr. BLISS EYE AND EAR INsTITUTE.-We
have before us the first annual report of DR..
Bliss Eye and Ear Institute, located in this
off no owl &c N ;f,,;p II t,lf,