The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-06-27
Reported for the VfRGINIAN

y L. IL. Noub lHtO eject. the mails ilaV(
been very irregular. All sorts of charge!
= are being made. and We haye endeav ored tt
: learn the true state of affairs. The six pas
: senger trains now running on G. Il o., al
e carry mail for delivery at Waynesboro
/ Three out Of the six do not stop at Way
/ nesboro. but deposit the mail pouches a.
f the 5. V. Junction. The trains that dc
4 stop take up these pouches and bring then
/. over But as frequently happens III The
hurry of handling they are carried sSltf
:, by the $. V. The Superintendent of /
Mails has been written to and he ha.
: promised to have The matter rectied
Either these fast trains will not carry
, mail for Wayneshoro. or there will be put
up mail pouch a;cher at the depot.
Politics are looming up and the situa
tion is becoming interesting. Within the
county there VIII be Sc, eral candidates fol
Senator. Mr.. James A. Patterson, Jf.
he present Chairman of the Democratic
County Committee. is i'll The race. Sen.
ator Conner has not been heard from, but
as his friends are making such howl
over the recent changes in the district
Offices, we suppose that The Senator is still
in the ring. Others III the county are be
ing brought forward, ard by the time tie
convention is held, their name will be
Dan, Ia tronp cometh)
On last Saturday. the Stb, number of
farmers met in the old Academy building,
at Wayndsboro, and organized the Way
nesboro Farmers Club The following
officers were elected: NJ. w. Quarels,
Chairman John Leonard. Assistant Chair
man; Theodore Conner. Sec y; L. j MAJ
tin, Asst. Sec'y; B. L. Conner, Treasurer.
Messrs. M. W. Quarrels and b. F. Smith
were appointed d committee to REVISE and
adapt the constitution aud by laws of the
Fishersvllle Club to the use and wants of
the Waynesboro Club, and report Satur~
day evening. June 18th. The club dt cid
ed to hold is regular meetings Oh the sec
ond Saturday of each month at 2 Z. M,
At the meeting TO be held on the I'd Sat
urday in July, each member of the cit b
will be expected to say something in rela-
/ ton to "The best method of preparing
land for wheat" Since there are SO mary
trusts and combinations forming through
out the country, the farmers deem it high
time that they also look more systematical
ly to their interest. The farmer is not
ouly a producer. but to a considerable ex-
tent purchaser and consumer of manu-
featured articles, He is vitally interest
ed in the manipulation and consumption
of fertilizers. Annually the farmers of
Augusta county spend for fertilizers
sum approaching rs per cent of the wheat
crop. These then have an interest in
! knowing how and of what ingredients
these fertilizers are composed. Also they
naturally desire to purchase the nest
brands at the lowest possible figure. That
many have been imposed on heretofore
goes without saying. When the farmers be-
come fully and thoroughly organized i'm
position upon them of worthless stuff call
ed fertilizer will be less successfully d }ne.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, director of the
Eleventh Census, says through the Coaue,
try Gentleman. that it is desirable that
farmers note what they produce during
the year, commencing lst of June and erd
ing 3lst of May, 1890 50 that when the
census enumerator comes around on July
| 1890, an Intelligent account of all fam
products can be given him.
1t 10 qualification to be able to an
nOunce that MIR. Abraham w Shew, the
inventor OF the SheW Automatic Wagon
Brake, has returned to this ntighborhood.
We have seen the draw ings aud spec flea
tloLs OF the Brake. and from what we
know of such things it is par excellence.
Mr.. SheW is poor, hard oiking man
with d large family, and IL would afford
large profits to the projectors Of a scheme
by which this useful invention could be
placed OH the market. Mir Slew informs
your correspondent that he can 't--for the
want OF the necessary ilraIls-usa bis "a
tent, and hence he is open to owe rtures
looking to this end. Fishersvile is his
address. We write this, because we do
not like to see useful Inventions laid
aside, when we know that very large
class of people will be benefited if they
are made available to the public. This
one OF Mr.. SheW's is such as every man,
woman and child who has any occasion to
use wagon. heavy or light. is interested
in. 1t is so constructed that it locks and
unlocl.s itself.
Dick Washington, whilst bearing off |
lumber at Mr.. Luther Leonard S saw mill |
Friday. l4th, accidentally turned over |
heavy piece Of timber. and it fell on his |
ankle badly fracturing the bone. Dr. |
Davis, of Hermitage, dressed the wound
Mrs. Hec. Hardin died suddenly Friday
morning OF Inflammation, resulting from
measles. Mrs. Ii. had been confined on
Tuesday and was getting on very we'll I'm /
til she took the measles. The attack was |
very violent, and she only lived few
hours. The child died also. There had
been few eases OF measles in the neigh
borhood in which Mrs. II. lived, put they
had all gotten well. No other cases in the
town that we can learn,
We learn that DR.. Arbuckle, who had
been located at New Hope for several
years, has sold his pro } srty tn sr. aai tia
he..will re locate at Waynesboro.
Mr.. Norman, agent for Mccormick |
Harvesting Co., has distributed d Car lo d
of binders among the farmers of South
River.
The Thinking Spring congregation have
given Rev. M. A. White, a recent graduate
of Princeton Seminary, a unanimous call
to be their pastoral a salary of 81 900
They are talking of selling the manse and
land attached to it. aud purchasing the
Slower property which lies nearer tie
church.. A good move. as the mansr is
very much ont of repair, and the Slower
house is a comparatively new one, having
been built in 1870,
Some are moving and trying to make
clover hay; slow process as there is hot in r
terval OF ough between showers Corn is
looking very well.
THOMAS.
Piles! Piles Itching Piles.
SymptO intense itching
and singing: most at night: worse by
scratching. If allowed to continue tunjors /
form, which often bleed and ulcerate. he-
coming very sore. Swaynes Ointment