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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11

The lndustriously circulated and sensa-
tional rumors by the Bourbon press about q
breach between Gen. Malone and the Presi-
dent, deceive only those who want to be de-
ceived. We are satisfied there is not word of
truth in them, and that they are gotten up for
partizan purposes of some kind. We, in Vir-
ginia, have become so accustomed to this
kind of misrepresentation, that we give very
very little thought to it. But now the re-
ported difference between the Senator and the
President, is spread broadcast over the Union,
and this tends to the conclusion that there is
sinister motive in it. 1t may be to check
the threatened political descriptions in the
South. and prevent Bourbon disintegration.
But in this it will fail. A solid Bourbon South
is thing of the past, and it is because of this
that Gen. Malone is SO persistently misrep-
resented and slandereG.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
TUESDAY, THE 10Th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1888,

proceed to take state and settle an account show
Ing: the Zee simple and annual rental value of the
land n the bill mentioned what amount, II any,
Is due by J. N Grouse account of rents and prof
It's of said land; and who are the heirs OF Mary D.
HILL decd, together with such other matters as /
may deem pertinent, or any party in interest may
require to be specially stated,-at which time and
place you required to attend.
]. W. GREEN SMITH
Janll-lI Commissioner
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
MONDAY, THE 18th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1888

proceed to take, state and settle an account show
ing l. The real estate owned by the defendant
William R. Landes, at any time since the rendition
OF the judgments set forth in the plaintiffs bill 2.
me liens Dlhdlng the same, whether by Judgment
disposition said Landes has made of such real es-
tate, who is the present owner of the same and what
Is Its annual rental and fee simple Values
which time and place you required to attend.
j. W. GREEN SMITH,
jan1l-tf COMMISSIONER
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
New Advertisements.

PROPOSALS
VIII be received until JANUARY 16 for building
Wooden Truss Bridge over the creek at Gas House,
on Greenville Avenue For particulars, call on J .
G. Marquis, Oh. st. Com, City of stanton
j. G. MARQUIS,
G. G. GOOCH,
G.. NJ. COCHRAN,
JNO. BURNS,
JAM III, 1883. Committee.
City papers please copy. janll.lt
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
Mr.. Polk, Democratic State Treasurer of

Mr.. POLK, Democratic State treasurer OF
Tennessee. is defaulter to the amount Of
$780, 900. His bond is only for 500, 000.-
Polk has skipped. He is a nephew of Elk
President James K. Polk, and socially
stood very high. This defalcation may ac-
count for the TreasureT's refusal to pay the
interest on the per cent. State bonds which
matured January l. While Polk had been
identified with the debt-paying wing OF his
party, his action in refusing to pay interest,
was construed in favor of the reputation
wing. 1t seems that it was because he had
not the ready money with which to pay
Tennessee finances are very much mud
died, as well as the politics of that State
The disclosures in the Treasurer's Office
have caused CONSERVATION, as Polk was re-
garded as an upright man. The fugitive
was captured in Texas and released on ha.
beas corpus. He then proceeded to Mexico.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ STAUNToN, VA, Jan. 10, 1888.
In the chancery cause of ShoUer, a. &c., u.s.
Grouse, j. ", now pending in the Circuit Court Of
Augusta, az parties, plaintiffs and defenddnt are
HEREBY NOTIFIED that, in pursuance of a decree
rendered therein, Nov. 25 1882 Tshall at my office,
in Staunton, on
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
| ANUARY 1sT, 1888.
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
MY ACCOUNTS ARE
NOW READY.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to me
are earnestly requested to make prompt settlement
Very Respectfully,
W. L. OLIVIER,
jan11 Bookseller and Stationer.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11

proceed to take, state and settle an account show
ing the real estate interest real estate owned
by james B. Byers, the annual rental and fee sim
pie value Of such realty, the liens binding the
same, and which, If any, of said liens, are subject
to the defendants claim of homestead exemption
and showing who are the owners OF the 225 acre
tract In the bill mentioned, and in what proper
tition in kind, together with any other matters
deemed pertinent by Comr, or required by any
party IN 1nterest,-at which time and place you are
required to attend j. W. GREEN SMITH
Jdn11-U Commissioners
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,

~ STAUNToN, VA, Jan. 10, 1888.
In the chancery of Hunter, SdmL. &c., us.
ofAugusta all parties plaintiffs and defendants,
and all lien creditors ofJdmss B. BgerS, HEREBY
NOTIFIED that, In pursuance Of decree therein rem
dered on the 18th of November 1882, shall, at my
office in Staunton, on
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-11

brides will be great. Good christian
bank officers have fallen. Will human ma
ture be stronger under the temptations Of
civil service reform ?
A Nevada penitentiary convict says that
he was sent to prison for being dishonest
and is there kept at work cutting out
pieces of pasteboard to put between the
soles of shoes, in place of honest leather
The Nevada convict's experience is Illus
trated by many of the sharp tricks Of
trade which involve as great moral turpi-
tude as breaking open a bank vault or any
other kind Of burglary.
Gen. B. F. Butler, after he was inaugurated
Governor of Massachusetts, last Thursday de
livered message to the Legislature. The in,
augurative ceremonies were very imposing
and largely attended. He declared for free
ballot-the removal of the capitation tax as a
restriction upon suffrage saying that the pay
ment of the capitation tax was duty which
should be performed, but it should not be a
prerequisite to voting
Boss Shepherd. formerly OF Washington
city, hut now of Chihuahua, Mexico, is said
to be worth $10,0OOOO0. He left Washington
bankrupt few years ago, and went into
gold and silver mining in Mexico. with the
result stated. Washington city owes its pres
ent beauty and prosperity more to the energy
and sagacity of Shepherd than anything else.
The collapse of 1878 swept away his fortune,
and it was then he determined to try his luck
in Mexico.
A dispatch from Berlin says that foundations
are taking the form of great public calamity.
The distress is increasing hourly, and the mil
itary and civil author tiles are making the
greatest efforts to mitigate the effects of the
disasters. A dispatch from Paris says that
rivers Soane and Dubs have inundated several
towns, and thirty-four dwellings have been
swept away. Railway intercourse between
France, Switzerland and Italy has been bro
ken up by damage to the railroads
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-08-17

covered in different parts of New
Guinea and the adjacent islands, but
the pursuit of that or of any other of
the productions of the island would
me st assuredly entail a heavy loss or
life. Even gold diggers, he said,
from Northern Queensland, who
might be supposed to he well accli-
matised, and able to endure heat,
could form but an imperfect idea of
how widely different New Guinea
was from Australia. Near the shore
were found presidential marshes full
of luXuriant tropical vegetation,
mangrove flats, and weedy coral
reefs, exhaling under powerful sun
a malaria that was fatal after night
fall. The excessive rains, which kept
the air full of humidity to nearly
saturation point, combined with
excessive heat, helped to form a
climate which on the low lands at
least, was intolerable to people from
Europe. Mr.. o. G. Stone, in his let
ter TO the President of the Geograp-
hical Society, said that the land sur
rounding Port Moresby was high, the
neighbourhood was free from marshy
land, and the villages were open to
the sea breezes; and yet fever and
ague were there. The climate was
very relaxing, and most averse to the
healing of sores. The slightest
scratch or bruise would break out
into a tester and increase in size and
last for months.
CTo be Continually
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-08-17
body a white and yellow colour,
whilst in the west they paint them

whilst in the west they paint them
selves black. -,...,.ss,...--.a--.v,.--,--
At some places peculiar adorn.
ments are practised by the women,
in addition to the painting. An
ornament made from grass or fibre
is worn round the arms and below
the knee, and strange appearance
is impaired to the women by
dress through which the head is
passed, and which extends over the
body to the knee, and is fastened by
cord round the waist. In the
journal of a trip into the interor Of
New Guinea by the Rev. w. G.
Lawes, there is a description of
mountain village. 1t consisted Of
FIVE houses in the usual form, and
one very high up tree. Only two
or three natives were seen. The
women were away in the plantations,
and several of the men, including
the chief, were on the top Of the
mountain, where some one had died,
and was being buried. The village
was very pretty one. In front Of
it we're fruitful valleys, in, which
could be seen plantations surprising
anything of the kind to be found
nearly Port Moresby, and several
streams of water were in sight, their
course being marked by foliage of
deeper green than was presented to
the eye by the surrounding forest.
In the valleys were well-fenced
plantations of sugar-cane, taro, and
bananas, and of the village itself
was at height of 500 feet above
the level of the sea the general
view was very charming. In
January, 1876, the Rev. S. M Far
lane wrote to the Herald on the
subject of a proposed expedition
from Sydney to New Guinea, and
with respect to the natives he
said it was quite possible for
settlers to place themselves on
friendly, terms with the New Guinea
population, hut they must be
prepared to submit to great deal
annoyance and piliering, or choose
the much worse alternative of open
hostility. The natives at and about
Yule Island, he said, we're very
much more honest and friendly
than the people of Port Moresby.
SIT will certainly be very unfortu-
nate," he wrote, ''for the future
of New Guinea if a number of
reckless fellows come determined
to make their way with the al
mighty revolver, and SO frustrate
their own ends and .endanger our
lives. The natives are quite and
friendly all along the coast They
know very little of foreigners, and
are disposed to regard us as theil
friends. 1t would be pity to
alter that impression, and create
one of hostility" n |
Whatever the climate in the
interior of the country may be, neal
h. -
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-08-17
L. j. LEvEY.

j. LYONS, g6f L. j. LEvEy.
I YONs 81 LEvEY, t.g
IL Auctioneers and General @F
...-,v-,.-s,,. Commission Merchants,
Beaver Block, Queen ST., Honolulu.
Sales of Furniture, Stock, Real Estate
and General Merchandise promptly at
tended to.
Sole Agents for American and Euro
pean merchandise. 31S
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Roanoke IN. C.) inventor has
Ipncocted a machine that will make $50
cigarettes Q minute.
-Philsdelphia is to have a street. a
AisA . patent spring motor. The in
ventor says that after the spring 10
wound up it will propel the a eight
miles. Press.
Experiments have recently been
made on the Thames with a new kinn
of side-wheel steamer whichha a but two
blades in each wheel. 1t is the inven.
ton of an English engineer.
Recent experiments show that tho
lungs are not air tight. Under a GER
tain amount of air pressure air escapes
into the pleural cavity or the blood
vessels in the pulmonary circulation.
If you have great talents, industry
will improve them; if moderate abili-
ties, industry will supply the deticien-
cies. Nothing is denied to well-direot-
ed labor; nothing is ever to be attained
without tn. 7. Herald.
"A concentrated solution of bichro-
mate of potash and glue makes, it Is
said, q cement for repairing articles of
broken glass which will resist boiling
water. The cement is first carefully
applied to the surface, and after the
fractured parts are brought together the
whole is exposed to the action of the
sun.-Cmacannati Times.
The Journal of Science puts these
very pertinent questions regarding the
poisoning cases of the last half century:
Have we at command means for the de-
lection of all known poisons under al
circumstances? Have our leading toxi-
cologists n dphysicians shown sufficient
skill in the application of such means?
Is u manner of conducting trials and
of obtaining and dealing with the evil
dence of experts we'll adapted for the
discovery of truth and for the elucida-
ton of error, or could it admit of useful
modification?
Regarding the sorghum sugar in
dustry in Kansas, M. Day, Jr., writes
to the Buffalo Express that two of the
refineries have reported unqualified sue
cess this season. One is managed by
Prof. M. E. Scoville and the other by
Prof. Swenson, late agricultural chem
ist in the State University in Madison,
Vlos 1ulo 1UIUC1 ACllliClJ 10 OWA III
New York, and cost 100000. The
two companies cultivated 5000 acres Of
cane, and the yield will be from 700 to
800 pounds of sugar per acre and from
sixty to seventy-five gallons of sirup.
Both sugar and sirup are entirely free
from the sorghum flavor.
They are taking down the front
wall of q five-story brick building at
South and Essex streets, Boston. Mr..
Bradlee, the architect, attributes the
bulging of the wall to the use OF Port
land cement. He says: "This cement
has been used mostly in constructing
water-works and other like structures,
and has not been used much where il
has been exposed to the air. 1t was
only about a year ago discovered that
this cement would expand under these
conditions" Some interesting expert
ments have been made in MIR. Bradlee's
office. Three glass bottles were filled
with Portland cement and sealed tight.
One burst in two days, one in eight
days and the third in ten days-proving
that the cement does expand.-Boston
transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10

he has a little breath in his poor, but.
fetted body, and that he has sufficient
of his sense left to try to make a land
ing? 1t is utterly beyond his power.
He is carried instantly right into the
nav of the water-monster, and his fate
will be just that of everything that ever
entered it. Fordays, or perhaps weeks.
he will be borne round and round in
the grip of the vortex, and finally
picked up miles below, as was Webb, a
bruised and bloated corpse.
Self-confidence is an excellent thing
when not joined with ignorance, but
that quality which impels a man to
match his feeble powers against the ter
riticforces of natureinthe Niagara River
is properly describedby other language.
1t is ignorance and folly run mad
Coz. N. Y. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Betraying an Undertake.,

Early one morning threa ~
ago an individual walked INTO 4oo1 DAY
town undertaker's office. rema . aow1
seemed to be going away without an
and said: surne
Ny old woman died last night. .,
I'm thinking. some Of buying = an
and having her buried. Cot cofi1
fgger a little?" wv 'lme \
He said he lived in springwel]s
the undertaken "figgered."e The' a an
wanted q plain coffin and the serr lnal
OF the undertaken to make thinnsc
right. Two of the neighbors had =.
and they would be enough. "n1
"This is business as we'll AZ r..
observed the man, as they figured
course I want a decent coffin. mt
ing gaudy.' 1 want a fair funeral 9 ~
no scollops. Put everything ~, ~
down on a cash basis and your m tMl
will be ready az soon as the procos ois
moves |
The undertaken discounted unti, ,
could 90 no further, and it was a~r,l
that he should drive down with the
fin at two o'clock.
"Two o'clock or thereabouts.n ca;
the man as he left. ..There's no o ra
rush, beingathe weather is bad. eAn]
time from two to three will do. Thora|
no children to wash and comb, and ~
neighbors have begun to put on clea1
shirts before this
Soon after two o'clock the undaI
taker reached the house. The yeh;oI
containing the coffin was being bacl,o
up TO the gate when the man came or
and said:
"Wait a minute Kurnel. Come
here"
They entered the house, and rronno
up in bed and vigorously slipping SON Som
was woman.
"That's her.. said the man.
thought she was as dead as a crown,
when | left home, but I'll be hanged
she didn't come to! The doctor saws
was a a. of suspended agitation
The undertaken sighed and sat down
~ know just how you feel about ii,
continued the man. "Fact is, tn
rather disappointed myself, but Wild
can we doP It's kinder embarrassin
for you to drive up here with a coff
and find the victim eating mutton sour
but SIGH is life. Them fellers acrosst6
road are tickling and laughing at "a
box you are in, but don't blame me,
come home with all plans laid. and sd
smashed them to %slivers."
elbow do you feel?" askedthe unde
taker of the woman.
"Bullyr' she replied, as she licke|
the spoon. "You'n Caleb won't hol|
no funeral on me just yeti"
"Don't mind her." said the husband
in soothing tones. "She was alhs kindd
singular, and l assure you she wouldn't
hurt your feelings for a thousand do
lars. I'm awful sorry about this, for
know how cheap you feel, but I dasn|
kill her, you know?"
"No."
"Course not, but when she goes ID
good the jobs yours and you can cou
on it."
The undertaken mounted his vehict
and started off, and when he was
quarter of a mile away the man cali
after him:
81 know how you feel, but you na
brace up! The next time will fetch bel
sure pop!'-DetroA Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
Inventions Of a Half Century.

The number of inventions that have
been made during the past fifty years is
unprecedented in the history of the
world. Inventions of benefit to the hui
man race have been made in all ages
back for half a hundred years, how
many more are crowded into the past
fifty than into any other fifty since re-
corded history! The perfection of the
locomotive, and the nov world-travers-
ing steamship, the telegraph, the tele-
phone, the audiphone, the sewing ma
chine, the photograph, chromo-litho-
graphic printing, the cylinder printing
press, the elevator for hotels and other
many-storied buildings, the cotton gin
and the spinning jenny, the reaper and
mower, the steam thresher, the steam
fire engine, the improved process for
making steel, the application of chloro-
form and ether to destroy sensibility
in painful surgery cases, and SO on
through a long catalogue. Nor are we
yet done in the field Of invention and
discovery. The application of coal gas
and petroleum to heating and cooking
operations is only trembling on the
verge of successful experiment., the in
PRODUCTION of the steam from a great
central reservoir to general use for heat
ing and cooking is foreshadowed as
among the coming events; the artificial
production of butter has already Great
ed a CONSERVATION among dairymen,
the navigation of the air by some device
akin to our present balloon would also
seem to be profgured, and the propul-
sion of machinery by electricity is even
now clearly indicated by the march of
experiment. There are some prob
lens we have hitherto deemed impossi-
BILE, but are the mysteries of even the
most improbable of them more subtle to
grasp than that of the ocean cable or
that of the photograph or the telephonep
We talk by cable with an ocean rolling
between; we speak in our voices to
friends hundred miles or more from
where we articulate before the micro
phone. Under the blazing sun of July
we produSe ice by chemical means,
rivaling the most solid and crystalline
production of nature. Our surgeons
graft the skin from one PERSONS arm to
the face Of another, and it adheres and
becomes an integral portion Of. his body.
We make a mile of white printing
paper and send it on a spool that a per-
fecting printing press unwlnds and,
prints, and delivers to- you, folded and
counted, many thousands per hour. Of
a verify this is the age Of invention, nor
has the world reached q stopping place
yet.-H9me Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
in the three fan districts of Japan
1OO.O 600 persons make fans.

in the three fan districts of Japan
100000 persons make fans.
Lava from Vesuvius has accumu-
lated in considerable quantities, so as
to form a small hill on the side of the
mountain and change its contour. The
lava is covered with beautiful white al
kaline crystals.
In England children of the best So
ciety are taught to say father and
'''mother," and to regard papa and
'mamma'' as vulgarisms, on a par with
''daddy" and ''mammy."
-Workmen employed in building a
new Protestant Church at Neuwied, on
the Rhine, have struck work in conse-
quence of their having been forbidden
to drink either wine or beer during
their hours of labor.
Good sometimes comes of evil. The
French invasion of Tonquin has led to
the discovery of a plant, S o 1t is said,
that will cure hydrophobia, leprosy and
Me bites of reptiles. 1t is called in the
Anamite language Hoangnan, and is
itself II poison unless the poison is pres
ent which it is intended to a%ntidote, so
that the physician would have to be
certain in his diagnosis.
Two officers of the Salvation Army
at Mold, in Wales, in applying to the
Town Council of Ruthin for the use of
the assembly-room, wrote: ''You can
do no better than entertain them hospit-
ably. They are the Lords people, and
l know the Ruthin people love the Lord,
who was a gentleman without compare
son." The hall was letto them at half
price.
Admiral 1tso, Of Japan, has organ
lied a company with a capital of Sc, 0o0,-
900 to compete with the Mitsu-Bishi
Steamship Company for the coastwise
and foreign trade of that empire. Six
teen iron steamships have been con-
tracted for in England, and will be
ready by next March, and others are to
be ordered. A fleet of sailing vessels
have already commenced operations.
The cheapest postal service in the
-orld is that of Japan, where letters
are conveyed all over the Empire for
two sen-about seven-tenths of a
Jenny. This is more wonderful con-
S dering the difficulties of transit over a
mountainous and irregular country
which has less than 100 miles of rail-
way, while wagons can only pass over
few of the chief roads, and the steam
ers connect but a small number of coast
stations.
From the last short sketch by Tour
genieff, which was published at st. Pc
tersburg a few months ago, it appears
that, although the author was known as
great sportsman, a little incident OF
his childhood destroyed that passion for
shooting which he first acquired when
roaming about wit with his father in pur-
which died in defense of her young,
made such an impression upon him that
from that day forth he declared he was
never a real sportsman. A similar in
cident, which occurred some years later,
intensified that feeling of compassion to
animals which SO often gives a peculiar
charm to his short Poems in Prose-"