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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23
REPORTS OF EXAMINATIONS OF ORES, &C
ApPOMATTox APPOINTMENTS.

j. YOst. Republican candidate for Congress
10th District. will address the people OF Apo
mattoX at the following times and places:
At Ferguson's Store, on Wednesday Oct 9th
PIP. M.
AT Pamplin City, on Wednesday, October 9th,
at ~ O'Clock.
AT Appomattox Court House, on Thursday,
October 18th. Court day On this day there Will
also be q meeting to re-organiZe the County
Committee.
AT StonewaIl Church, Friday, october Sth, at
tx p NJ j. II. FRANKLIN,
County Chairman.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23

REV, J. I. MILLER, DID,, Principal.
Opens September list, Course thorough. FIX
travagance of all kinds prohibited.
TERMS.-Board, Washing. lights, Fuel, Fur
nshed Room and tuition in all branches, in
Guiding Music and Ancient and Modern Lam
guages $50. 90 per quarter in advance.
Send foT Catalogue. tly29
MISSES PHILLIPS & WEST having arranged
lYa to open p school in Norfolk, Mrs. FOWLE
and Miss INDIA HAPPIER win take the School
formerly taught by them here, and solicit q
continuance of patronage. Calisthenics and
elementary French and Latin without extra
charge. The session will commence september
9Th. School i'll the Hurley Building on Main
street.
FERMs- $3.50, $780, $500, per quarter of ten
weeks sep2
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23

Al. B. Oberdorfer is now opening q ST.
perb lot of ready made clothing. Call en-
him at once.
Gen. Jas. ii. Williams, of Woodstock
was in the city Tuesday. as counsel in al
important case before the Supreme Court.
Harry H. Bolen, for some time engaged
with Mr.. Kreuger. jeweler, left last Fri
day, for Lake Linden Michigan, to take
charge of a jewelry store at that place.
The Amherst NeU Era, of the 10TH. has
a touching and beautiful editorial tribute
to the virtues and graces and worth of the
late Mrs. Judge Thompson Brown, of Mel
son. who died last Sunday week. in the
goth wear of her are
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23
NEW ADVERTISER ENTs.
OPERA HOUSED

Box Sheet for sale Of Reserved Seats will,
open Friday morning, the 2ith at 10 O'clock
sept23 II oIIvIER's BOOK STORE.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23

| LII is not OTGen UnaU so valuable piece OF
property is put upon the market as that
which is offered in this issue of the VIR.
GINIAN by Maj. Mcmahon. 1t is to the
John B. Evans'' property that we allude,
situated in the northern portion Of the
city. The lot contains nearly five acres,
and although elevated and thoroughly
drained, is almost as level as a floor and
highly productive. 1t fronts on Augusta
street about 300 feet, extends along the
Churchville road from Augusta to Lewis
streets some $50 feet. and runs about the
same distance along Lewis street. Lewis
creek passes through the lot and affords an
abundant supply of pure water for all pur-
poses. The improvements include a spa.
cious and well arranged dwelling, con-
structed of brick and finished in complete
and substantial manner. This dwelling
is located near the centre of the spacious
lot and is surrounded by an ample growth
Of shade and fruit trees. the latter OF
selected variety and In vigorous and pro.
ductive growth. The house contains some
sixteen large and airy rooms, fitted with
closets and convenient of access by wide
passages and approaches. 4 well Of ex;
cellent water is near the door, and nothing
is lacking to make this home of conven-
fence and comfort. The property is in
excellent repair and ready for immediate
occupancy some 5000 having just been ex;
pended for that purpose on it. There are
also number of out-buildings on the lot.
including large frame tobacco factory.
This property is so well-known and gener-
ally admired that it is useless for us to do
more than mention that it is now on the
market, and can be purchased at Low
price considering it's value. In case it is
not sold it will be rented at reasonable
figures. See the advertisement OF this
property in another column.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23

6 HERW0OD FEMALE SEMINARY,
y
STANTON, VA.
Session commences WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
18th, and closes in June following.
Beautiful situation and grounds. Dwelling
and school room will be equipped with all
modern comforts, conveniences and aids to
teaching. An experienced and highly accom-
plished corps of teachers in all branches usu-
ally taught in first-class colleges for young
ladies and girls. LII word, discarding every
thing snowy and fancy the principal and pro-
prietor is determined to establish a school en-
tirely practical in all its departments.
Catalogues are to be had by calling at or send
ing to Hunters Book Store, or the principal.
Correspondence solicited For Catalogues
address j. l.. MASSEY,
ly22-4n%-c pc Staunton. Va.
THE GIRLS HOME SCHOOL.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23
Respectfully,
CCHOOL SESSION OF lSSG-SI7F.

G. A. GLADKE.
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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-09-23

Lynn, of this city, left for St. Louis Sun
day last to be in attendance upon the
Grand Encampmeat of Knights Templar,
of the United States, which assembled in
in that city Tuesday, and would be in
session three days. Mr.. Lynn is an &C.
credited delegate from the order in Vir-
ginia. Messrs. J. Howard Wayt and A.
A. Eskridge, both Knights, also left with
Mr.. Lynn. These meetings or ''encamp
ments" occur every three years, and bring
together large assembly Of Knights
from every section of the country, as many
as SO, 900 or 10000 frequently participating
in their parades.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
Women Engaged in Business.

The proportion of women who en-
gage in occupations outside the house.
hold is smaller in the United States
than in foreign countries, but in no
country is the proportionate number
engaged in superior industrial occu-
pations equal to that in this country.
OF the 2,647, 900 women in work with.
out shelter, $685. 900 of them are en-
gagged in agriculture, most of them col
oret women in the Southern States;
632, 900 of them are in manufactures,
of whom about one-half are in New
York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania;
1921 are milliners, etc, and $4,000
are tailors. OF the A occupations re-
corded as personal service" A find
women in them. The 525 female sur
geons and physicians in 1870 have in
creased to 2,474, the Z lawyers to 20.
the 65 clergymen to 165, the number
of laundries from $1,000 in 1876 to
$4,000 and 100000 of these are kept
by women. ChtcdqO Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
A Calm and Pointed Reply.

A remarkable story was often told by
Lord Cardwell, who heard it from Sir
Robert Peel, and l have never seen II
in print. Lord Castlereagh was in
treaty with an influential member Of
the Irish Parliament for his vote, which
was to carry several others with it, and
terms had been settled, when the leg
islator was seized with danger
Gus illness, and, repenting of his in
EQUITIES when he thought himself
on his death-bed, he requested an inter-
view with his Lordship on his recovery,
when he announced that the negctia-
tions were at an end, that he bitterly
repented his part in them and that he
would take an early opportunity of di'
vulging the whole story to the House.
LAS you please" calmly replied Lord
Castlereagh, "but if you do shall give
you the lie direct on the instant and
the next morning shall shoot you.'-
London Truth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
A CITY OF FLOWERS.
Something About Damascus, the Oldest
City In the World.

City In the World.
Damascus is the oldest city in the
world Tyre and Sidon have crum-
bled on the shore; Baalbec is ruin;
Palmyra is buried in the desert; Nine
veh and Babylon have disappeared
from the Tigris and Euphrates. Dam
ascus remains what it was in the days
before Abraham-a center of trade and
travel-an island of verdure in the
desert-"a presidential capital" with
martial and sacred associations extend
ing throug' thirty centuries. 1t was
near Dam that Saul of Tarsus saw
the light re the brightness of the
sun; the 81 which is called Straight,
in which it IL said, she prayed" still
runs through the city, The caravan
comes and goes as it did thousand
years ago. There is still the Sheik,
the ass and the water-wheel. The
merchants of the Euphrates and
the Mediterranean still occupy"
these with the multitude of their
wares" The city which Mahomet
surveyed from q neighboring height
and was afraid to enter, 'because it
was given to man to have but one
paradise, and for his part he was re-
solved not to have it in this world, is
to-day what Julian called the "eye of
the East" as it was in the time of
Isaiah, 1.-THE head of Syria"
From Damascus came the damson,
our blue plums and the delicious
apricot of Portugal, called damasco;
damask, our beautiful fabrics of cotton
and silk, with vines and flowers raised
upon smooth, bright ground; the dam
ask rose, introduced into England at
the time of Henry VIII; the Damascus
blade, so famous the world over for its
keen edge and wonderful elasticity, the
secret of the manufacture of which was
lost when Tamerlane carried off the
artist into Persia; and that beautiful
art of inlaying wood and steel with
silver and gold, kind of mosaic en-
craving and sculpture united, called
damasking, with which boxes, bureaus,
swords and guns are ornamented. 1t
is still city of flowers and bright
waters. The streams of Lebanon and the
''river of gold'' still murmur and
sparkle in the wilderness of the Syrian
gardens. The Household
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
PARIS OCUNTERFEITERS.
How Strangers are Nictimized in FrencI
and English Capitals.

How Strangers are Nictimized in French
and English Capitals.
Counterfeit and deprecated coins are
very common just now in Paris. Every
day we read of the arrest of manufact-
urers and showers" of the ''queer,"
aud the courts deal with them very
severely, but the example does not APP
pear to exercise any deterring influence
on other evil-doers. One and two franc
pieces of lead, so clumsily initiated that
you wonder how any one can be taken
in by them, are constantly being of
fered in change at cafes and restaurants.
1t Is an absolutely necessary precaution
to examine every coin received at such
places, not only to prevent counterfeits
but also to avoid the garcons from
passing offon you Peruvian and Chillian
dollars, which are exactly the same
weight and size as tive-franc pieces, but
not being legal tender, are worth fifteen
to twenty cents less. How this South
American money has found its way into
France is something | can not explain,
but there certainly is a great deal of it
floating around and, sure of being able
to pass them on others, the walters at
many of the large cafes on the boule-
Yards make no difficulty about accept
inc them. But it is not only at such
places that you are likely to get taken in
with these South American dollars
Only the other day, when was going
over to London, | paid for my ticket
at the railroad depot with bank note
II, oh
hand, went into the luggage-room to
get my baggage registered. My trunk
was triile over weight, and in pay
ment of the excess | handed the bag
gage-master one of the coins had Just
received at the ticket office, but it was
pushed back to me with the remark:
+ Pas bon: and on examining it found
that it was a Peruvian dollar As |
had no time to 90 back to the ticket
Office put the piece in my pocket and
went to the train. Since my return |
have learned that the railway compa-
MES make regular practice of send
ing all the bad or uncurrent coins they
receive in the course of their business
| to their ticket offices, and, as the trav-
cling public is usually in too much Of
a hurry to examine its change, these
coins are easily got rid of. 1t is quite
as bad at the post-ofiice, where it is the
rule to pay from one-half to two-thirds
of all money orders in silver, and the
chances are that if you have to collect
an order of any amount you will find
one or more deprecated coins in the
stack of five-franc pieces piled up in
front of you. If you express your sur
prise at such proceeding the clerk
will reply that the department is so
often cheated by the public that it feels
itself at liberty to do little cheating
in its own turn.-Cor. N. q. Picayane.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
Moist Air and Fog.

II has recently been demonstrated
that in perfectly moist air no forma-
ton of fog is possible, however much
the temperature is lowered, as long as
the air is absolutely free from dust, and
that the more air, sufficiently moist, is
charged with such foreign particles,
the more intense is the formation of
fog. If filtered and completely moist
air in a glass ball have its pressure di-
minished, soon few particles of fog
will reveal themselves by the most care
full inspection. But if few cubic MILL
meters of ordinary house air be now
admitted into this filtered air, very
fine silvery, transparent fog at once
forms itself, of such slight density that
even in the case of considerable area
of it the transparency of the atmos-
phere would be but very slightly af-
fected. At the first moment of its
formation, if reflected image of the
sun or the reflected light of an electric
lamp be viewed through it, the image
will be seen surrounded by an intensely
luminous blue or greenish ight.-M
y. SRn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07
HOUSEHOLD HELPS,
Six Useful Suggestions offered by An Ell
perienced Housekeeper.


perienced House-keeper.
If you do not use the patent per-
forated pie plates, make your old tin
plates over by taking hammer and
small nail and putting some holes in
the bottom of them, thus allowing the
steam to escape and preventing the
paste from being a soggy mass.
Rub the bottom of your saucepan in
which you boil milk with little butter
to prevent the milk from sticking.
Before putting your rolls into the
oven to bake rub the edges with little
sweet fat and you will find that they
will not stick together when done.
A very delicate cake may be made
by taking any good sponge-cake recipe
and baking it as for Jelly cake, allow
ing it to be about an inch in thickness
when baked. Take one pound of all
monds, blanch them and pound them
in mortar, a few ut a time, using rose
water to keep them from oiling. When
all are done stir them into pint of
cream, to which you have added sugar
to sweeten it to your taste and vanilla
to flavor it, Let the cake be cool when
you spread your almond cream be-
tween it and over the top.
inexpensive, but very effective por-
there's may be made of doubled-faced
Canton flannel. Any shade can be
used, but peacock blue with a border
of cream-colored felt with applique fig
ures or flowers stitched on them, will
be very handsome, costing but little
tive in the making and expense for
material
A bag for soiled linen may be made
of linen crash lined with turkey red
having hornets nest embroidered on
it in outline stitch. -Rural NeW Yorker
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07

While Charles Rasch, of Sprague,
w. T., was taking bottle of soda from
an ice-chest the bottle exploded and the
patent stopper was thrown into his face
with force enough to tear out one Of
his eyes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07

"A Russian, at Yankton, d. T., con-
templates making trip to Moscow in
an ''arkn of his own manufacture.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-07

An advertisement ina Birmingham
(Ala.) paper calls for secondhand
mocking- bird cage"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12

During the next campaign the
theatre of the temperance agitation
will be transferred to the south. OF
all others it is a question involving
difficulties demanding for Their solu
ton the exercise of calm Judgment
working in the full light of knOwl
edge and experience. How far can
we restrain our fellow-citizen even
for his own good, without infring-
ing on those unalienable rights we
are pledged to preserve? How far
may legal force bend the bow with
out producing strain which will
break, or reaction which is worse
than the original condition? On
he evils of intemperance we all
agree how best to check them is a
problem far from solution as yet.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12

exactly what we may expect. We
have proved that We can grow the
finest oranges in the world. All we
have henceforth to prove is how to
keep them. The Texan loses his
sheep in the fierce northers-far-
mers elsewhere have TO protect their
crops when ready for consumption;
Floridians alone have hitherto lived
without thought for the winter
which had already damaged US so
severely twice i" our history. Shall
we despair because it is proved that
we must care for our crops IS others
do? II 80 We are unworthy Of our
state and should "give way to bet
ter men,"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
Indian Curiosities.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
Some few weeks ago party Of sports
men left the city for the Indian reserva
ton. Their collection of shot belts, powder
TASKS. and other TASKS were singulaTly
complete. The party Included Mr.. Tay-
Tor and Mr.. Haskell. and three or four
other good shots. One day they were
driving along lonely stretch Of prairie
in the Cherokee Nations domain, when
they came upon :our posts driven into
the ground. topped by a woven mat on
which lay the body of dead warrior.
His beaded moccasins and embroider-
ed logging. the bow and culver were not
to be resisted.
See his leggins ?" said Mr.. Taylor.
81 do" returned Mr.. Haskell, knock
ing the ninth commandment out Of the
ring.
"Well?'
'.All is fair in war;" remarked Mr..
Haskell.
Mr.. Taylor Skinned up the pole while
the other below held the bag. The
sportsmen helped themselves. Mr.. Has
kell got the legsings and the other trap
pings went to the rest of the party.
They left that denuded Indian lying
there in a state that would have made a
we'll bred marble statue blush, and came
back to the city. They were rather proud
Of that adventure. and they told it to
their friends-at least Mr.. Taylor told
how they had robbed dead Cherokee
Indian. Mr.. Haskell told how they had
robbed dead Cherokee chief and his
wife, while the others had it that they
had robbed an entire cemetery. Mr..
Taylor told his version to friend who
owns a telegraph operator. This friend
manufactured the following telegram
aud had it delivered by q messenger
boy.
''CHERoKEE NATION, I. T.-Sacrilege
discovered. Intense excitement. In
dian died OF small poN.
J. SMITH. Agent.
Mr.. Taylor rushed over to Mr.. Has
kell.
.Great heavens What shall we do 2
Make our wills y t
"Get vaccinated -
There was comfort in this last idea.
They were vaccinated, their families.
their children, and their wives relatives
| were vaccinated. But they are not hap
py, they can't be happy. Perhaps now
they will be.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
Brcr Buzzard and Brer Hawk.

Detroit Free Press
Brer Buzzard an Brer Hawk sot on a
high linn NV a dead pine tree an talk an
talk. an Brer Hawk seq sezee:
''Brer Buzzard, whuf fur max you so
lazy?''
Brer Buzzard look down sidewise on
Brer Hawk an scratch he nose wild he
claw and seq, sezee:
''Whuf fer you call me lazy, Brer
Hawk
"Cayse you jis' sot on de high linn an
wait fer sumpin ter cum long an die fer
you to eat 'em Now. when 1 wants ter
eat dom wait fer muffin ter die. I jis'
Jpn and catches EN- fresh"
Jis' den little bluejay, Gurus an
screechin' and peekin' roun' whar he
done had no bizness tall. cum by. Brer
Hawk he dash down after him lax fury.
an de jay bird dodge. an Brer Hawk
cum "lap" agin de tree an bust out his
brains an fall down dead.
Den Brer Buzzard he stretch out he
wing wide in de sun an laf an sing:
Its good fer ter wait on de Lawd"
Den ne fly down an eat up Brer Hawk
ter de las bone, an flop he wing big an
when he done he fly up on de ole tree
linn, and fiop he wing big. an sing loud:
''Its a good thing
Ter wait on
Dc Lawd."
An diz am why de buzzard ann called
de piousest OBJ all de creeturs.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
Blood

Is the life, and he is wise who remembers it.
Bus in March of last year QS>i) / contracted
blood poison. and being in savannah. Ga ut
the tim. went in the hospital there for treat
ment. ! suffer. very much from rheuma-
the treatment there, nor was cured by any of
the usual means. I have now taken seven
bottles of Swift's Specific and am sound and
well, 1t drove the poison out through boils
on the skin. DAN LEAHY.
Jersey City. n. j. Aug :. 1855.
Two years ago | contr icted blood poison.
After taking prescriptions from the best ply
sicians here and at Dallas. concluded 70 visit
Hot springs. and on reaching TeNarkana
doctor recommended me 70 try S~ift's
Specific. assuring me that il would benefit me
more than Hot Springs. Although the
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12

Keep on hand at all time. full stock Of all
goods in our line all which VIII be found to be
frst-cIsss Enjoying exceptional facilities for
buyin- we can ofI.r goods nj uTic.-s rhst c,iu-
not be undersold. Gail and exa nine stock and
prices
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12

An dig am why de buzzard am called
de piousest OBJ all de creeturs.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
For Sale.

twelve horsepower engine and boiler with
governor pat-injecrer steam snd water gauge.
blow-oi and gauge-cocks. safety-yaive. con-
nections and smnke-stack. complete Can he
seen running - saw mill. Will lie sold very
ov 10 make room for heavier power. Address
n. a. NURGAsoS.
Lake Como. ia
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
Poison

had pro uced great holes in my back and
chest, and had removed all the hair or of my
head, yet began TO improve in a weeks
time and he sores began TO heal. and were
entirely zone inside Of eight weeks.
WILL JONES. Porter. Onion Pass. Depot.
Cisco, Texas. Julyl 3, 1855.
Sold by all druggists.
Treatise on Blood and Skin disease free.
The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.
Drawers Atlanta Ga.
n. T., Isl ". "a St
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-12
FACTS vs. FANCY.

Facts are. that Harry Heath makes speci-
any OF dlf icuH repairing Of nne watches,
cleans Jeweiry, chronometers. all kinds of
NAUTICAL surgical. electrical and medical in
srruInents. and understands al. complicated
mechanical coInbinari ions and how TO repair
Them As 70 fancy. rhe ladies fancy the way
ne finishes his 5esSeir,- feEalirs- Inch come
OUT new ever >i,sss- For the work aiwsvs
take il to Harry fi,afh. in the Calhoun block
on Lemon street. Palatka. Fla