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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31
Died of Sur prise.

At one of the hotels the other day, a
drummer went to settle his weekly bill,
which he thought amounted to seven dol
lars and a half. The clerk told him it was
only seven dollars.
Amt your rates seven dollars and a
half per week ?" asked the drummer.
''They are
Don't you advertise your rates to be
seven dollars and a half ~ inquired the
drummer
I'VE don
''Then why don't you charge me seven
dollars and half? | don't want to live
for less than any one else The house is
footing my bill, and there is nothing mean
about me-
Seeing the drummer so angry, the clerk
took off his diamond and explained:
''We are charging you the same as any
one else
''Then why isn't it seven dollars and a
half %
Because you were away from dinner
the day before yesterday, and that takes
off fifty cents, the reduc-''
But adult thud interrupted the clerk
who looked around and saw the drummer
stretched dead on the floor. He will play
on his drum no more. Subsequent investi-
cation proved that the man formerly re-
sided in a metropolitan boarding house !;
and the jury rendered its verdict accord
ingly, giving it as its opinion that he died
of excitement superinduced by sudden
surprise. Puck.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31
her a few seconds, without, however
,,Jooino, ,,,,o,, ho,. hal

her a few seconds, without, however,
placing it upon her head.
The Gar and Czarina remain in prayer
for several minutes amid deadly silence,
and the instant they rise to their feet,
bishops, mobiles, Populations, clergy, and
all present kneel to them. shouting Long
live the Carl The cry is taken up by
the hundreds of thousands who are outside.
the heralds sound their trumpets. guns are
fired and bells are rung. The Gar COM
mands the people to rise, and is again sur
rounded by the mobiles, who receive their
swords back from the imperial hands, the
Emperor saying SIT is thy country's, y to
which the noble replies, ..and my Cars. y
Mass is again resumed and the Emperor
proceeds alone tothe altar, passing through
the ssGolden Gates of the Iconostasini. y
which are closed behind him, thus hiding
him from view. Here, after partaking of
the Holy Communion, the Metropolitan of
Moscow anoints his head, temples, eyelids,
lips, nOstrils, ears, breast and hands, say
ing :ssBehold the seal of the Holy Ghost.
may it keep thee ever holy.n The Gates
OF the Iconostasini are reopened, the Car
appears before them, and is hailed with
shouts of ''Thou art verify by the Lord an
nointed.1
The Empress advances to the sanctuary
and kneels to her lord, who bids her rise,
and they walk out of the cathedral arm in
arm. At the door is a gilded chariot
drawn by twelve white horses, into which
they enter, the princes, other members of
the imperial family, foreign monarchs,
guests, etc., entering other state chariots.
The procession again forms as it did on
approaching the Kremlin, and, with its
new additions, moves slowly through the
gaily decorated town.
According to an old custom, the Cars
carriage, instead of being guarded by
troops, is surrounded by one hundred
maidens belonging to the best Russian
families, all dressed in white and holiday
garlands of flowers. Court balls and re-
ceptions begin in the evening and last for
a fortnight, after which the court returns
to st. Petersburg.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31

The weather has much to do with the
nutrition of an animal, and the nutrition
of breeding animal has much influence
upon the condition of the progeny There
has been much complaint in regard to bad
luck with young pigs this season, and as
the complaints come from widely spread
localities, and the winter has been I'M
usually severe, it is reasonable to attribute
the trouble to this cause. No other reason
seems probable but this, and especially as
the trouble is general and is not isolated in
single cases. The fact that many pigs are
born weak and imperfectly developed,
often without hair, indicates very clearly
that the sow has been weakened by some
cause which has been generally operative,
and no other cause than the severe winter
seems apparent.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31
Why He Wanted to Know

AT the second battle of Bull Run re-
cruit who had just joined New York reg
iment, turned around upon his Captain us
soon as an order was given, and asked
''Say, Cap, what are you going to do
now 20
''Move by the flank to the left of the reg
iment, y was the reply.
''All right just us soon as not.
After the company had held its new posi-
ton for quarter of All hour, there came
another order, and the recruit asked;
"Say, Cap, which way now"
''Going to advance"
''sAll right, | am with YOU"
The company moved forward with the
line and was presently hotly engaged with
,Jackson's men. They had not been at it
over five minutes, when the recruit slid up
to the captain and shouted
'Say, Cap, holler as loud as you can and
let's see if can hear you.
What lido you mean? Back into
line with you, shouted the officer.
All right, Cap-all right The reason
wanted you to holler was to see if could
hear your voice when you ordered retreat
It's all right guess can stand it if them
rebs don't bring up any more guns -
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31

1t is not desirable operation to slit the
tongue of a COW which has the vice of
sucking herself. But yet under some cir
cumstances it may be necessary, although
painful 1t is not more painful than cas-
trating a calf, and we do that to make the
animal more valuable. The point of the
tongue is split for about an inch and a
half /; it soon heals, and it prevents the COW
from sucking. 1t does not interfere with
the eating or drinking, but it is well to
keep the COW up and give her bran and
meal Stops for few days. All other de-
vises to cure the habit are cumbersome
and ineffective.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31

STRINGHALT.- Stringhalt is a nervous
affection which causes the horse to jerk up
one OF both hind legs suddenly. Inability
to move one of the hind legs is not string
halt. But probably nervous disorder caused
by disease of the spine, OF by disease of
the kidneys, OF it may result from rheu-
matism. In either case it may be useful
to apply warm lamentations to the loins.
and then stimulants, as turpentine OF mus
tard paste. Give also one-ounce doses of
sweet spirits of nitre daily for a few times
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31
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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31

The business of nine-tenths of the law
yers is to convince the jury that the man
who broke the law is blamed sight more
holler than the individual who never did
wrong action in his life.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31
DRY GOODS.

DRY GOODS.
SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK!
BY late arrivals from New York and other mar
kets my stock now offers the
GREATEST INDUCEMENTS
to CASH Buyers.
In CASIN1ERFS, B U Min G and other Dress
Goods
ALL CAN BE SUITED.
In MEMS and BOYS WEAR offer the
BEST ASSORTMENT
on the market
full stock of staples of the very best stand
ard makes. The stock is complete and will be
sold
AS LOW AS ANY ONE.
mar3O 80 f. NJ. YOUNG.
STAUNToN, VA, Feb. Is, 1873.
FVO OUR FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC.
We take this method of notifying our friends
and customers that we are now permanently To-
Gated with the old established and reliable
house of
/. WITT 81 BROTHER.
where we will be glad to wait upon and serve
friends.
We keep a full line of
DRESS GOODS,
TRIMMINGS,
NOTIONS,
and CASSIMERES
for mems and boys wear, which we make spe-
c1alty OF, as well as general line of
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
and Ladies' City Made Shoes which we can
guarantee.
Thanking our friends for past favors and solic-
iting their patronage in the future,
We are, respectfully,
JAS. L. LIGHTNER,
1eD22 NEWT. b. RUSMISELLE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-05-31

Queer about child's memory. 1t will
forget a lesson in no time and remember
forever and be sure to repeat at some OPP
perfume time something that ought to re-
main dead secret.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Soup Stock.

To four pounds of lean beef put four
and put it into the water without salt;
let it come slowly to the boiling point,
skim well before the agitation Of the
water has broken the skum, add little
salt aud dash Of cold water to assist
the skum to rise, skim again, set back
and let it boil gently for six or eight
hours, add a little pepper, strain into a
stone jar, let it cool, and remove all the
grease. This stock, which is given by
request, viii keep for many days in cold
weather, and from it can be made all the
various kinds of soups by adding onion,
macaroni, celery, tomato, okra, aspara-
gus, green peas, carrots, parsley, thyme,
| summer-savory, beans, pearl barley,
etc. To prepare soup for dinner, cut
off a slice Of the Jelly, add water, heat
and serve. When macaroni is used, it
should be first boiled III slightly saIted
water, cut in pieces one or two inches
long, and added Il short time before
serving. Whatever is added to this,
such as rice, tapioca, onions, etc,
should be cooked before being put in, as
much boiling Injuries the flavor of the
stock. Stock made from meat without
bone or gristIe will not Jelly, but will
taste like very good beef tea. Never
boil vegetables with stock, as they will
cause it to become sour. Delicate flaw
ors should be added just before serving,
as boiling evaporate, them. Stock
should never be allowed to stand and
cool in the pot in which it is cooked;
pour into an earthen dish, let stand to
cool uncovered, when all the fat should
be removed and saved to clarity for
lrinDinmS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Policy Gambling.

There is probably as much money
spent in our large cities in policy
gambling, as there is in bread. Some
men are 50 infatuated with the swindle
that they deprive themselves and their
families of the necessaries of life to
satisfy their propensities in wickedIy
foolish direction. a policy man describes
the chances for striking prize as follows:
Has any one ever computed the
chances Of the policy buyer, asked the
reporter"
Yes. In the seventy eight numbers
in the wheel there are 76,O76, gigs OF
combinations Of threes." "
"Then when man selects gig and
pays ten cents for it, he stands one
chance in 76,O76 of winning $2O?"
" Precisely"
And in case one of each possible
gig were bought the receipts would be
81, ,6O7. COZ"
Correct again p
"Then, ON the principle of even
chances, man might blow in 81, 7,6O7. 90
ten cents at a time, and then draw out
S2O?"
'Go to the head ~
"Did you ever know of lightning
striking any one in policy shop?"
"Well, very seldom"
"Or Of a head Office failing in bust
ness?"
"Never!'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Machinery and Labor

Mr. Edward Atkinson says that il
to make the cotton cloth, the use OF
which is now enjoyed by the people OF
the United States, who are the best
clothed people in the world. If those
who do this work were obliged to use
machinery no more effective than the
spinning wheel or hand loom, it would re-
quire, he computes, 10000, 900 persons
continuously employed ten hours day
to do the necessary work.
In referring to the matter, the Scicn-
Hfc America1 asks where are those
5,S4O,O people thus thrown out
of employment-what are they doing ?
In every department of productive
labor, machinery has been and is hay
ing corresponding effect. The dis
placed millions Of mythical hand work
ers cannot have starved to death, or
have been otherwise exterminated, for
there has been a rapid increase of popu-
lation in all manufacturing countries,
and the average length of human life is
greater than it used to be.
The obvious truth-obvious, that is,
to all who can see things as they are-is
that so far from displacing labor, or the
demand for it, labor-saving machinery
furnishes more and more varied oppor-
tmities for remnnerative work, larger
pay for the worker, and cheaper pro-
duets for the worker to enjoy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
4 Rat Plague.

Paris is just now suffering acutely
from an invasion of rats. When the
Seine rose during the recent floods il
drove the rat from his comfortable home
i'll the sewer. The elected army of rats
has billeted itself in more comfortable
winter quarters, i'll the Rue Dauphine,
i'll the Rue lie Bac, the Rue des Saints
Peres, for instance, taking possession
with the greatest GOODNESS, and maintain
ing strict military order, as if i'll obedi-
ence to a common general. The houses
on the river banks they have avoided,
keeping well to the boulevards. Some
of the host are said to be enormous i'll
size, as big as cats, says one chronicler,
of unparalleled audacity, and with teeth
long enough and sharp enough to take Il
piece clean out OF Il Deputy's leg with
impunity. They turn up in all sorts of
odd places-iu boots, trousers, petticoats,
boxes, drawcr5-and one virtuous tonne
nearly died from the shock when she sur
prised an enterprising rodent in her bed
They are not to have it all their own
way, however, for an opposing array Of
all the available dogs and cats is being
levied, and The cafes are ringing with the
feats Of the various champions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Turnips as a Farm Crop.

Col. T. D. Curtis, in a letter to the
Amcrjcan AgriculttrjSt, says: Very
few of the farmers of this country appre-
ciate the value Of tulnips as farm crop.
Some chemists estimate them to contain
ninety-five per cent. Of water, leaving
only five per cent of fesh-forming ma
terial and out of this small part they
deduct a portion as woody fibre, only
good to help fill up the stomach of an
animal [ am not prepared to dispute
the correctness Of this analysis, but [ do
take issue with the conclusions that tUr-
nips have no greater value as food than
may be indicated by the chemists fig
Ures. Turnips have possibly Il mechani-
cal value, rs they may aid i'll the diges-
ton of more concentrated food, such as
corn meal, when fed with it. Perhaps
the fault is to he found in the fact that
the ninety-hve per cent. of water is put
down as worthless. In the economy of
nature this very water may prove OF
more importance than has been ascrbcd
to it. [ have found that raw turnips
will not only sustain life, but cause hogs
to thrive when fed nothing else. [ do
not mean when fed n large quantity, but
an amount, which, according to the
chemists tables, would j. such a small
per cent of the actual food that starva-
ton would be expected. Sheep and
cattle will fatten on them, with very Little
hay. The credit cannot be put Nown to
the hay, but must be carried over + tne
turnips. If I understand the British
system of making mu 9n, it is mainly,
and sometimes entirely, by the use of
turnips. The sheep are confined by hrw-
dies on the tWnips, where they help
themselves, until the crop within the in
closure is exhausted, when they are
moved to a fresh lot knowing the real
value Of turnips, and how easily they
may he converted into meat, why should
not the American farmer avail himself Of
the opportunity, and not rely SO eNclU-
siyely ON corn? Every farmer should
have Il tmuip patch, the larger, the bet
ter. The crop can always be made sup
Elementary to another ON the farm, and
is So much clear gain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
A Stage Coach Story.

A good story Of the old Arkansas
stage line from Fayetteville to Alma,
now supplanted by the railroad, is told
by a correspondent of the New Orleans
YTu1cs-D Democrat His fellow passengers
on certain night were a mild-eyed col
lege professor and a plain, blunt man IN
checkered shirt an3 trousers to match.
! At one point III the road the professors
hat blew off and over the precipice, but
caught on bush ten feet below. The
professor was terribly distressed, and
offered S25 for its recovery. When the
driver, who let himself down by one of
his reins. had returned the hat and re-
ceived his reward, the professor eX-
planned that bills amounting to $1,000
were sewed under the lining. The stage
1umbled on and everything seemed favor
able for a quick trip, when suddenly a
road agent stepped out from behind a
tree. He searched the passengers, but
found so little to reward him for his
trouble that he got mad and swore he
would take their clothes and send them
on naked to the next station. His re-
volver was an umanswerablc argument,
and they were about to strip, when the
man in the checkered shirt called out
Look in the lining of that fellows hat
and you will find some money" The
poor professors 81, 900 was soon in the
pocket of the robber, who forthwith de-
camped. The stage went on, but such
was the rage of the driver and other
passengers at his poltroonery that he Of
ne checkered shirt had to walk The
next day he appeared in the hotel at
Alma, took the professor aside, and made
!. N accept $4,000, saying that he knew
he appeared like dirty scamp, but the
fact was he had $4,000 under false
soles in his boots, and must inevitably
have lost it if he had not devised plan
to escape being stripped. He was
rich broker and had donned his rough
costume to avoid trouble in the noun
tainS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Praying TO be Reimbursed.

Representative Curtin introduced in
the United States House a memorial
from the stockholders of the Philadel-
phia Centennial Exhibition, praying that
they be reimbursed by the government
for their expenditures. The amount re-
quired is about 81, 100000. which was
the deficiency remaining after the prop
erty of the association had been sold.
The memorial is accompanied by cir
cular letters Of approval, signed by many
Of the leading bankers and business men
of New York, and by petitions signed by
hundreds of the leading business houses
in New York and other cities of the At
Iantic seaboard. Resolutions passed by
the Legislatures of New Hampshire and
New Jersey upon the subject also accom-
pany the memorial. 1t is urged i'll its
support that the benefits derived from
the Exhibition were reaped by the whole
country, and that the government itself
was a beneficiary by the gift Of articles
sent from abroad for exhibition and by
| the payment of the duties upon articles
| brought for exhibition and aftorward
sold, to an extent ar beyond the sum
asked for. Under these circumstances it
| is represented as unjust to allow the CN-
pense of the enterprise to be borne by
the men who had the enterprise and sa-
gacity to devise it, and the energy to
make it brilliant success.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Mrs. TiItOn at Home.

The following are extracts from letters
of Evangelist Barnes to the Stanford
(Ky.) .Iouln0I::
paid a visit to Mrs. Theodore Tilton
a few days ago. She, though not blood
relative has always been a favorite wifi
me. Those who have only known her il
connection with the horrible Beechel
trial, know nothing whatever about her
She welcomed my visit as of old. She is
fearfully altered by these awful years.
Her personal beauty, once very marked
is almost gone. The soft, bright, inno-
cent eye remains, but that alone. Hel
delicate hands once rs soft as velvet, are
hard with toll The Iustrous dark brown
hair is very gray, and the pink and white
of the once beautiful complexion are re-
placed by dull sallow But her life is
full Of peace and rest that " the world
cannot give"
The seven times heated furnace has
purified, not consumed her, and to-day
she has what others have not, "a con-
science void Of offense toward God and
ma.
I write this for my dear cousin. OF
whom | am prouder than in days when
she was not the forsallcn creature she is
now, but the centre of admiring social
circles, where all acknowledged her
charms.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
Madagascar.

The London Econontist says: Though
Englishmen may regret keenly the CON
quest Of Madagascar by France, it is not
their duty or their business to prevent it
in the only possible way-by insisting,
at any risk, that the conquest shall not
be attempted. Let the French get lit
of the tropical world if they can" Pos
sibly in this friendly speech the Econo-
mist is influenced by the fact that the
attempt Of France to subjugate NADIA
gascar would be likely to involve her in
trouble and expense at least as serious as
that which Holland has found III Acheen.
In a roadle5s, rugged country, made for
ambushes, and where European troops
would be subject to the utmost peril
from exposure to intense heat and moi
some swamps. loss would make a very
heavy account against gain. The me
tropolis of the Hovas, the chief tribe, is
200 miles from the capital, and is known
to have been left roadIess with an eye
to the present contingency. European
travellers and rich natives go by palan-
quin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-01-25
About American Cattle Diseases.

The Board of medical and scientific
experts Of the Agricultural Department,
who have been engaged in investigating
epidemic diseases among domcsticated
animals of the United States, are pre-
pairing their report to Commissioner
Loring. They have devoted special at
tention to epidemic diseases among
cattle. They have been successful in
developing important facts relative to the
disease peculiar to the cattle of the
Southern Atlantic and Gulf States known
as splenic or Spanish fever, but more
commonly known as Texas cattle fever.
The Board finds that the propagation of
the disease occurs only in the summer
and early autumn and hardly ever occurs
after heavy frost. The last case re-
ported was on November 30. No cases
are reported as existing at the present
time.
The report of the Treasury Cattle
Commission was sent to the House by
the Secretary of the Treasury. In dis
cussing the conditions requisite to secure
the admission of American cattle to
Great Britain, the report concludes that
sit is vain to hope that England will
remove the restrictions imposed so long
as we fail to show that the last vestige
of infection has been wiped out from our
land )" and further, "that nothing short
OF the absolute and undeniable extinc-
+iCr oF 4I,ie 1Iaooeo -, +I,o TTr;+,1 C+o+,c
will reopen the British market to our
live cattle and save us those millions
that we are now every year prodigally
and We might almost say insanely
throwing away"
The report also discusses the import
ance of the extinction of lung plague in
America to the home cattle industry and
estimates the present yearly losses from
lung plague in the United States at from
81, 600, 600 to So, 100000, and the pros
pective loss from lung plague at $50,-
GOO. The capital represented by the
present yearly losses at 5 per cent. would
be from O,O0O,O to 100000, 900, and
that represented by prospective yearly
losses at the same rate at 81, 100000.
To prevent this loss, the Commission
estimates the sum required to stamp out
the lung plague at $4,000, ,00O, and
recommends the requisite legislation.
The governing principle in all these
is that the Federal
Government shall forbid the movement
of store cattle out Of any infected State,
Territory or district, except after a
quarantine such as is now imposed on
the cattle imported from infected foreign
countries.
The report recommends that the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury be empowered to
order the instant destruction Of all cat
tie or other animals which in quarantine
give evidence of dangerous contagious
disease. The report is signed by James
Law, Z. f. Thayer and j. Fl. Sanders.