The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-04-17
I, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1890
An Old Paper.

I UAls ColAuCl 0UOSAS5 AAOA4 AAGebA L ioACHE
vile, left on our table a week or SO ag,
/ a part of an issue of the Repatblica1
Farmer, published in Staunton Marcel
! 16, 1920 The slip was evidently cut ou
for file by reason of the assessment O
lands in the State, which it contained
From it we learn that the total assess
ment of real estate, farms and towr
property, amounted to $206, 1903, 97S, anl
the average value of the acreage of the
land, exclusive of town property, was
$S43 for the 1st district, $500 for the &c
district, 1913 for the Sd, and SO. 90 fol
the 4th district. The number of acres
in Augusta county was AIS, 44S; value OF
the lands including the buildings "a, 932,
254.36. Value Of town property in the
county 1923, 113. Total value of lands
buildings,a and town property 81, 355, 367 &c
average value per acre, including build
ings, 5000.
Among the advertisements was one
from D. w. Patteson, gently notifying
some one of short memory who had Dor
rowed and failed to return set of math.
ematical Instruments. One from Vim.
Abney and Morris Austin for The sale of
a brick tenement house in Staunton.
Another from David Gilkeson, offering
for sale his house and lot, cabinet-mak-
ers shop, $1,000 worth of lumber, and
the transfer of his apprentices, four in
number, to the purchaser, if terms could
be agreed upon, to work at the cabinet
making business = they having from
three to i've years to serve. A trust sale
of two negroes belonging to Philip Bal
lard, is advertised by Benz. Morris and
Mich. Flanagan, trustees, to take place
In Kanawha county, A trust sale of a
number of lots in the town of Hot Bath,
Bath county, Va, 500 acres of land, the
property of Aaron Kee, by Allen Taylor
and Chas. L. Francisco. A trust sale of
204 acres of land lying near Waynesboro
and belonging to John Steele, the sale to
take place before the tavern of Clarence
Buster, ESQ. lin the town of Waynesboro,
by James Finley. An advertisement by
John Andrews, for journeyman black
smith of steady, industrious habits. A re-
liable female house servant is advertised
for sale, inquiry to be made of the printer;
and another of "a negro woman, healthy
and stout, "a good hand either in the
house or out of doors" Enquire of the
printer A negro mana brick layer,
advertised for hire; enquire of Samuel
4 a nj n ON oil oil IT
advertises boot and shoe making. Val
liable lands are advertised for sale before
the old Wayne Tavern, in Staunton, ON
May the Gath of April, 1890, (being court
day. three-fourths of tract of land
containing between two and three hun
bred acres, situated on Christians creek,
about or miles from Staunton, good
mill site, with two pair of burr stones
and mill in bad repair. Also an undivided
three fourths of seven thousand acres of
land, to be laid off in 800 acres. near
Mount Tory Furnace-well timbered
with pine, and the shingles out of it
would easily pay for the land, in addi-
zion to being a range for or miles for
PdU0l51 w. IG0lcIcllC0 Is ludCC 10 w llIldlu
Clark for particulars and is signed by
Cumberland D. Williams. An adver-
tisement is inserted for an apprentice to
learn the printing business, and another
by M. B. Truss, boot and shoe maker.
Over three-fourths of century have
passed since this sheet we are noting
was run off on an old Ramage press-a
period of many changes in methods,
conditions, occupations and pursuits in
life. What story another three fourths
of a century will unfold, we do not ex-
pect to be here to report, unless we
should, under the Herbert Spencer idea,
return in some other form, or be trans
formed into some other being. If we
are but grass, or the outgrowth of vegeta4
BILE matter, as he contends, may we not
be here in the form of a corn-stalk, or
timothy blade, in the backward evolu-
ton, to re-commence the process of devel- |
opment into man, and make the same
round again, thus proving, the axiom
that matter is never destroyed?