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CROUCH ON COughs.o

CROUCH ON COughs.''
Ask for Trough on Coughs" for Coughs, Colds,
Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches 15c. Liquid 25c.
ssROugh on Rats
Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants, bed
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Druggists.
Heart Pains.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, In
digestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by Wells
Health Remover.
CROUCH on COrns.''
Ask for Wells Rough ON Corns. 15c. Quick,
complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions.
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Strengthening, improved, the best for backache,
pains in chest or side, rheumatism, neuralgia.
Thin People.
Wells Health Remover restores health and vgor,
cures dyspepsia, headache, debility. 81
WhOOping Cough,
and the many throat affections of children, prompt
ly, pleasantly and safely relieved by Rough on
Coughs. Troches 15c. Balsam 25c.
Mothers.
If you are failing, broken, worn out and nerv-
GUS use "Wells' Health Remover" 81. Druggists.
Life Preserver.
If you are losing your grip on life, try "Wells'
Health Remover" Goes direct to weak spots.
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Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, faceache.
Ask for "Rough on Toothache." Is and rs cents.
Pretty Women.
Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity.
Don't fail to try "Wells' Health Remover"
Catarrhal Throat Affections,
Hacking irritating Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat,
cured by Rough on Coughs. Troches l5c. Liquid 25c
CROUCH ON Itch.''
Trough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring
worm letter, salt rheum, frosted feet chilblains.
The Hope of the Nation.
Children, slow in development, puny, scrawny
and delicate, use "Wells Health Renewer."
Wide Awake
three or four hours every night coughing Get i'm
mediate relief and sound rest by using Wells
Trough on Coughs" Troches 15c. Balsam 25c.
'ROugh on Pain POrOused Plaster
Strengthening, improved, the best for backache,
pains in chest or side, rheumatism, neuralgia.
Nov.1, '84y.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-10

An Independent Newspaper Of DEM
ocratic Principles. but not Controlled by
any Set of Politicians or Mani pulators;
Devoted to Collecting and Publishing all
the News of the Day in the most Inter
esting Shape and with the greatest pos
sible Promptness, Accuracy and Impair
TALLY; and to the Promotion of Demo-
cratic Ideas and Policy in the affairs Of
Government Society and Industry.
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Baltimore & ToWsOntoWn Express,
-

We are prepared to accommodate the public in
forwarding MERCHANDISE, BAGGAGE, &C.,
to and from Baltimore, on the most reasonable
terms. Baggage delivered and called for in any
part of the city, free Of ertra charge.
We will also deliver goods in Waverly, Govans-
town and other points on the York road and Charles
street avenue, at satisfactory rates.
We solicit share of the public patronage and
will put forth our best efforts to give satisfaction.
June 7,'s4y.l E. e. DUNNING, Manager.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-10

An epitome of everything that is attractive and
desirable in Juvenile literature.-Boston Courier.
A weekly feast of good things to the boys and
girls in every family which it yisits.-Brooklyn
Union.
1t is wonderful in its wealth of pictures, infor-
nation, and interest 10 Christian Advocate, ". Y.
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1855.
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.

The serial and short stories in Harper's Young
People have all the dramatic interest that Juvenile
fiction can possess, while they wholly free from
what is pernicious or vulgarly sensational. The
humorous stories and pictures are full of innocent
fun, and thepapers natural history and science,
travel, and the facts of life, by writers whose
names give the best assurance of accuracy and
value. Illustrated papers on athletic sports,
games, and pastimes give full information on these
subjects. There is nothing cheap about it but its
price.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-10

COMFORTABLE COTTAGE AND GROUNDS
~ near Lake Station, for rent, low to good ten
ant. ]. P. CLARK, Lexington and Calvert Sts.,
Baltimore. [Sep.6, 'S4y.
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TERMS: POSTAGE PREPAID, 200 Per Year
VOLUME vi COMMENCES NOVEMBER 4, 1884.

Single Numbers Five Cents EACH
Remittances should be made by Postofice Money
Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loss.
Newspapers not to copy this advertisement
without the cypress order of Harper Dc Brothers.
Address, HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
Nov. 29.--tf.
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(sUccEssoRs TO a. L. BowEN,)
House, Sign and Fancy Painters,

INVITATIONS OF WOOD and MARBLE and
every description of Ornamental and Fancy Paint
ing promptly executed. [Sep.6,'S4y.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

THE MooN.-The April moon fulls on
the 29th, at fourteen minutes after |
O'Clock i'll the morning The waning
moon is III close conjunction with Mars
and Venus on the oath, the day before her
change. She is at her nearest point to
Mercury and Neptune on the 10Th, in con-
junction with Saturn on the 18th, with
Jupiter on the 23d. and with Uranus on
the Goth. The moons conjunctions in
April circuits are not noteworthy, for
are far part as they pass on the celestia
road.
Our fair satellite however, gets up a
charming exhibition on more southern
belt of the earth's territory between the
limiting parallels of 2So north and So
south latitude. She occultS the planet
Venus, on the 14th, at 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon. The close conjunction oc cur
ring in this vicinity, for moon and planet
are then only s apart, becomes in the
more favored belt of the earth's domain a
| beautiful occultation. The slender cres
cent, only ten hours before new moon,
occults the fairest of the stars, at that
time nearly rounded orb. Moon and
planet are in turn hidden in the blaze of
sunlight. Conjunction and occultation are,
| therefore, invisible to the naked eye, and
in this respect we are as well off as our
southern neighbors. Thep phenomenon may
be observed with the aid of powerful
telescope, for through its light-gathering
glass the brilliant planet may be followed
in full daylight, till she is nearly ready to
pass beyond the great luminary.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

Baltimore american: In an editorial
reference to the need for skilled labor in
the development Of the industrial inter
ests of the South, the Manufacturers
Record makes an excellent point in sug-
costing that the Southern people should
themselves give more attention to this
matter, educating their young men so that
they may be fitted and prepared to aid in
the expansion and enlargement of the
manufacturing and mining interests, al
ready considerable, and destined. it seems
almost certain, to become Of vastly greater
Importance. The wealthy manufacturers
of the North and West in very many in
stances owe their successes to the pract1-
cal knowledge gained in the beginning OF
their careers, when themselves laboring
as skilled workmen and if the South con-
tinues to draw its skilled labor from other
parts of the country it is not unlikely that
many of the fortunes made during the
next twenty-five years in the Southern
States will have been accumulated by the
practical anG experinced men who have
come from the other states, instead of by
Southerners, as should be the case. There
| is rich and wide field to be worked, and
the best of fruits will belong to the best
workers. The new South has shown
earnestness, energy and enterprise, and is
reaping hundred-fold more than was
dreamed of ten years since but there is
much more in the future. Mechanical
skill of the highest order is to be a most
important factor Southern affairs, say:
the Record. ''and if Southern people viii
only appreciate this there VIII soon be nj
need for so many manufacturers to lool
elsewhere for much of their skilled labor.
1t is point for the young men to care
fully consider.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

An idea of the extent of the roller
skating craze may be formed from state
ment recently made by one who is CONVEX
SAINT with the facts and figures. He esti-
mates that there are 400 firms and indi-
viduals at present engaged in the manufac-
ture of these skates. The monthly pro-
duct cannot be far from 100000 pairs.
Connecticut and Massachusetts are large
producers, and there is busy nest of
manufactures in and around Richmond
and Muncie, Ind. Richmond alone has
some Is different concerns engaged in this
line of manufacture, turning out one
third of the product of the United States.
One leading manufacturer is netting, it
|. is claimed, ST, 900 day from the manu-
facture and sale Of roller skates alone. A
year ago he could scarcely obtain credit for
$500 at the bank. To-day he is worth
$250,O00, and the bankers are eager to ac-
commodate him. He is turning out 100
pairs Of skates a day, and is Z 900 pairs be-
hind orders. His mandatory, from
mere shed, has grown to be among the
largest and most complete industrial es-
tablishment of the West. The profits to
manufacturers and retailers are enormous.
Most Of the best skates turned out cost
only SIS cents a pair. They are sold to the
! hardware men by the gross at $1.35 per
pair, and are retailed at So. Complete
machinery, which performs the entire
of stamping through several sheets of
steel at time, is the cause of the reduc-
ton in the first cost. The aim of in
ventors and manufacturers now is to pro-
duce skate for fancy skating that will
turn in the smallest possible space, One
of the best skates first brought out made a
complete circle in u radius of p inches.
This was followed by one that would turn
in IS inches, and new skate just placed
on the market will make the turn in just
7 inches. The demand for roller skates
instead Of declining seems rather to be in
Increasing. On February |, it was esti-
mated that there were 40, 900 Kinks in the
country There are now probably not less
than 45 900 to 900. In Cleveland alone
there are more than 20, which use con-
stantly about 5000 pairs of skates. 1t is
estimated by local hardware men that from
10000 to $4,000 pairs have been sold in
Cleveland within the past three months.
One rink alone has produced demand for
10000 wheels per annum. OF course the
manufacture Of roller skates will be over
done. but manufacturers are too busy
now in reapIng profits to pay much atten-
ton to competitors.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
PULLMAN SERVICE.

PULLMAN SERVICE.
Trains Nos 50 and 81, Pullman Buffet and
Sleeping Cars, between Washington and New
Orleans without change. Pullman Buffet and
Sleeping Cars between New York and Atlanta
Trains Nos. 81 and 50. Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars between Washington and New Orleans
without change. Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween Washington and Augusta without
Trains Nos. 81 and 50. Pullman Sleeping Cars,
between Washington and Louisville without
change Pullman Sleeping Cars, between Char
lottesvilIe and Cincinnati without change.
BRANCHES.
MANASSAS DIVISION. daily, except Sunday.
Westward-Leave Washington 4l5 pm. Alex
andria 1910 D. III. Manassas $50 p. IN. Arrive
Riverton s:59 p. m. Strasburg 900 D. m. Ac-
commodation leaves Manassas 800 a. m. Arrive
Riverton ll:05 d. IN. Strasburg IL noon.
Eastward-Leave Strasburg 400 a. m. River
ton 4:3O a. m Arrive Alexandra, $50 a. IN
Strasburg l2l5 noon Riverton l35 p M Arrive
Alexandra 800 p. m. Washington 925p.
WARRENTON BRANCH.
Trains Nos so, 81. 81 and 50 connect daily at
Train No. 50 connects daily except sunday
going and returning from warrenton.
leave Rocky Mount 500 a. m: Arrive Frank
lin Junction sly q. M. Leave Franklin juno
ton 500 IN. Arrive at Rocky Mount 1880 p. m.
CONNECTIONS.
AT Orange with p. +. & P R. r. for Freder.
icksburg. AT Gordonsville and Charl ottesvilie
with Chesapeake and Ohio Ry for Richmond
Old Point, Staunton. and points East and West
and Virginia Springs. AT Lynchburg with
Norfolk and Western X. K. for Southwest Viz
ginia and Bristol. Chattanooga and Memphis
Nashville and Knoxville, and with Richmond
and Alleghany X. II. for Lexington and NaInrai
Bridge. At Danville with Richmond and Dan
Vile, for all points in the Caroliaas Florida
Shenandoah Valley X. X. for Luray and Points
in the Page Valley. AT Strasburg with the
Baltimore and Ohio for Harrisonburg VIM
chester and points in the Shenandoah Valley
All trains make close connections at WASH
ington with through trains to and from North
and West.
Through tickets at lowest prices to all impor-
fant points in the United States. This is the
best line for points in Texas and California.
For all information, tickets and Sleeping Car
reservations apply to agents of this company
j. $. B. THOMPSON,
Assistant General Pass. Agt.,
Alexandra, Virginia.
RoB'r ANDREWS, Supt. and Eng.
APPS
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

STANDARD TIME.-East of Huntington, 10Th
meridian, or Eastern time West of Hunting
ton, goth meridian, or Central time, which is one
hour slower than Eastern time.
No. /, daily except Sunday, Old Point TO
Clifton Forge; leaves Clifton Forge daily,
cept saturday arrives Cincinnati and Louis
vile daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars from
Clifton Forge to Huntington. Pullman Parlor
Cars Old Point to Washington.
Nos. 2 and 5, daily, between huntington and
Clifton Forge. No. 2, daily, except sunday,
from -klchmond to Newport News, Old Point
and Norfolk
Nos. $ and !, Solid Trains daily, with Pullman
Sleeping Cars between Washington, Richmond
and Louisville and Cincinnati. Do not stop for
local business.
No 6, daily except sunday. from Louisville,
Forge daily, except Monday; leaves Clifton
ing Cars HUNTINGTON to Clifton Forge. Pullman
CHARACTERISTICS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8,
p M; arrive Charlottesville il.00 p. m.
No. s, (miXed,) daily, except Sunday, leaves
Charlottesville $40 "a. m. arrives Richmond
$50 a.
No. 5, from Old Point Comfort daily. except
sunday, makes direct connection at Il. +. & T.
junction for Washington and New York. No
omnibus transfer required.
For Rates, Tickets, Baggage-Checks, apply to
any office of c. & o. Ry; or Depot or Ticket Of
flee of connecting lines. II. w. FULLER
G. w. SMITH, Gent Pass'r Agent.
Genl Manager marl2
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
Corn.

The Department Of Agriculture reports
the production of corn in 1884 to be 1885,
528, 432 bushels. In 1883, ], ISL ,068, S95 =
an increase this year of pa ,461, 537 bushels.
The acreage last year was 69,6S3, $50, the
average yield ESQ, and the average price
1873 cts. per bushel. In 1883 the acreage
was 68,301 $3.50, the yield 22.7, and the
price AS cts. The aggregate stock on
hand. March LIST, 1885, was 675,OOO, 900
bushels. According to the, estimates
of the Department for March 1st,
1884, as compiled by the Baltimore Jour
nal Of Commerce, there was SO per cent,
of the 1888 crop on hand, or 512, 224, 600
bushels and at the corresponding date in
1888 stocks were 1868 per cent. of the 1882
crop, or 587, 466, 900 bushels. The exports
Of corn represent small proportion of the
annual production, and compare as fol-
lows For the year ending June Both, 1885,
S4, crop 1851 .066,s95 bushels; exports
As. 25S, 606, per cent. 2.98. And for 1928,
crop ,617 ops, 100 bushels exports Al $685.
i1S, per. cent. 2.57. The exports during q
period Of five years ended June 80, 1884,
including corn meal, averaged $685. 900
bushels per annum and 4.07 per cent. of
the production. The annual consumption
of corn for the manufacture of liquor IS
something less than 2 per cent of the pro-
duction this added to the exports equals
about 6 per cent. Of the production, leav-
ing "a per cent. for feeding to animals,
food purposes, seeding, and other uses.
For the five years ending with the crop of
1888, the average annual production of
corn was / ,567 ,000,000 bus; from which,
after deducting exports, we have re-
mainder of 500, 100000 BUS. for domestic
uses. There are indications that this
years exports will not much exceed those
of the past. The immense crop of the
last season will hardly leave so great an
excess over the yearly demand as might
have been expected, because consumption
of the last crop was unusually large in the
West before it was fully mature. The
supplies of previous growth had been
nearly exhausted last October, a great pool
was formed in Chicago, and the crop was
hurried to market with unprecedented
haste.
The Chicago reports Of the visible sup
ply of corn showed it to be 6,447 ,942 bus,
on March 18th, including Minneapolis and
st. Paul. The New York report On
March Sth indicated 1924, 055 bushels.
The exports Of corn from all American
ports from Sept l, 1884, to March 7, 1885,
were %, 510,9 $40 bushels against 0,5O5, All
for the same time last year. The stocks
of corn at nineteen leading interior and
seaboard markets east Of the Rocky Mount
aims, in transit from the West to the sea-
board, and afoat on the ocean destined for
England and the Continent, on March ID,
were only G, 1856, 900 bushels.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
Gen. Lawton's Appointment.

| Several erroneous versions of the cause
OF the failure to confirm the nomination
of Gen. A. r. Lawton. of Ca. to be Min
lister to Russia, having gained circula-
tion it is well enough to give
the true reason. Below it will be found,
as well as the spirit manifested by the Re-
publican Senators in relation to it. Dem
ocratic Senators, as well as Republican,
had doubts on the subject, and it was to
solve them, and not because Of any un-
pleasant feeling in any direction, that the
action of the Senate was had
The statement that the nomination of
General Alexander r. Lawton to be Min
lister to Russia was reported adversely by
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, which statement was given out
through official channels, seems to have
been incorrect. The committee, it is now
said, simply reported the nomination back
to the Senate with the facts in the case,
but without recommendation. Before re-
porting the nomination the committee
privately intimated to the Secretary of
State its opinion that General Lawton was
ineligible for the purpose of affording an
opportunity for the presentation of any
opinions which the Administration might
entertain upon the subject or for the
withdrawal of the nomination, the desire
of the committee being to avoid the
necessity of making an adverse report if
possible. 1t can be said that the Repub-
licans of the Senate were not alone in the
opinion that if the circumstances were as
they understood them to be General Law
ton was not eligible to office. In the COM
mittee'S intimation to the Secretary of
State pains were taken to say that no per-
sonal objection whatever was found to
General Lawton. By the course taken by
the committee and the Senate an oppor-
tunity was purposely left for the future
removal OF General Lawton's disabilities,
if any were found to exist, or for his APP
pointment during the recess of the Senate
if upon investigation it should be found
that he was eligible Had he been re-
jected by the Senate he could not have
been renominated to the position or APP
pointed during recess.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND. The facilities
and accommodations afforded in the pres
ent age to the travelling public over long
distances by the Railroads, are most won
derful, and there seems to be no lack of
effort upon the part of the roads to make
these facilities as nearly perfect as posi-
BILE.
In this connection, the Virginia Midland
Railway is assuming prominent position.
On March Goth they inaugurated a
Double Daily Pullman Buffet and Sleeping
Car service between Washington City, the
Capital of the Nation, and New Orleans,
the great City of the South.
Two through trains will be run in each
direction between these two cities, leay-
ing Washington City at $50 A. NJ. and
1910 ?. NJ, and running through to New
Orleans within 45 hours, the quickest
time made on any line.
Returning, the same time will be made
reaching Washington at 500 A. NJ. and
10. Is P. M.
The Midland has lately put into service
| ClcStbIG u6N pdoS6ISGI COdCu6S WHICH,, Will
the gorgeous Pullman Buffet Cars, will
make the finest passenger trains to be seen
on any Road.
These Trains will afford every conve-
| nience and comfort obtainable by the latest
improvement in car building, thus show
ing that the management of the Midland
are determined to make this the popular
route between North and South.
This is the only line offering to the pub
lie double daily trains in each direction
between Washington and New Orleans,
and being IS miles shorter than any other
route, they are able to make better time
and surer connections.
Passengers by this line will pass throu gh
Lynchburg, Danyille. Charlotte, Atlanta,
Montgomery and Mobile, en- route to New
| Orleans and Texas points.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
SonrHwARD, Nall IA Mixed 4, Mixed X

TRAIN NOTES.
Trains $50 and 29l daily. 2SS daily to Harrison
burg only.
Connections at Harpers Ferry for all points
West; at Strasburg with Manassas Branch Va.
Midland; at Staunton with Chesapeake & Ohio
r. r.: at Lexington with Richmond L. Allegha-
ny Il. Il.
WESTWARD
Fast Limited Express. daily, for Chicago and
Pittsburg leaves baltimore at 90 a. M; Wash
ington 90 a. M. Arrives at Chicago 9 90 a. m. !;
Pittsburg 6 so p. m.
Express daily for Cincinnati and ST. Louis
leaves Baltimore at 30 noon: Washington 2 30
p. M, and Harpers Ferry at 1 OF p. m. Arrives
at Cincinnati at 30 a. m; st. Louis 80 D m.
Night Express daily for st. Louis and Chicago
leaves Baltimore at 90 p M; Washington
10 10 p. M, and Harpers Ferry II 81 p. m. Ar
riyes at Cincinnati 5 80 p. m.,' St. Louis 80 a.
M, Chicago 40 a. m.
Night Express daily for Pittsburg leaves Bal
timore at Z 80 p. M; Washington 40 p. M, and
Harpers Ferry at 10 II p. m. Arrives at Pitts
burg 80 a. m.
B. & Q. Palace Sleeping Cars are run through
to Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago and Pittsburg
on all express trains.
For tickets and further information apply to
b. e. O.. Agents or to B. f. BOND, Pass. Agent,
Baltimore, g. E. DUDRow. Travelling Pass. Agt..
Staunton, Va.
L. NJ. COLE, Gen1 Ticket Agt.
c. K. LORD, Gen. Pas. Agt.
w. M. CLEMENTS, Genl Supt. jams
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16

Thos. H. Brattan, Esq, Snow Hill, Md,
says in the year 1884 he used a fertilizer
made with Powell's Prepared Chemicals,
200 lbs. to the acre, on corn with very sat
isfactory results. This economical fertil-
izer is commended by farmers in three,
fourths of the States of the Union, and
can be bought for $500 per barrel-a suf-
fficent quantity to make one-half ton of
complete fertilizer. Brown Chemical Co.,
manufacturers, Baltimore, Nd.