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Official Balls.
The earliest official balls were given at
Williamsburg and at Annapolis by the
Royal Governors of Virginia and Maryland.
The last of those took place on the 27th of
May, 1774, and it waa tendered by the Gen
eral Assembly to Lady Dunmore on the
10th of May, but meanwhile the news of
the closing Of the port of Boston had ar
rived in Virginia, and Gov. Dunmore had
dissolved the Assembly for declaring that
Virginia made common cause with Massa
chusetts. Social life went on as usual,
however, and Washington, who represent
ed Fairfax county in the General Assembly,
attended the ball, and danoed with Lady
Dunmore.
. While Washington was President a ball
was given on the 4th of March, 1703, at
Philadelphia, whioh was attended by the
President and many of the members of the
Third Congress. Within a month of his
death Washington, in responding to an in
vitation to attend the Alexandria Assem
blies, wrote on behalf of Mrs. Washington
and himself: "Alas! our dancing days
are no more. We wish, however, all those
who relish so agreeable and innocent an
amusement all the pleasure the season can
afford them." After the removal of the seat
of government to Washington city in 1801,
balls were an ordinary social accompani
ment of the sessions of Congress. The ho
tels were selected as the place of tbe balls.
The ball at Madison's inauguration was
given at Long's Hotel. Then the public
halls, Carusi's Saloon, the old Masonic
Hall, the old Washington Theatre on Lou
isiana avenue, were used until 1849, when,
aa no hall in the city was sufficiently spa
cious, a dancing room was built in the rear
of the City Hall, near the site of the Pen
sion office ball room of 1885. The City
[fall was used in connection with the ball
room, and ample accommodations were
thus obtained. The balls at the inaugura
tions of Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan and Lin
coln's first term were served in this way.
The Patent Office hall was used for the ball
nt Lincoln's second inauguration, and an
incompleted wing of the Treasury for the
ball at Gen. Grant's first inauguration. —
The second ball of Gen. Grant's double
term was held in an improvised building
ou Judiciary Square, in which the guests
were nearly frozen. The National Muse
um JiuiUling furnished accommodations
for the inaugural ball at the opening of
Gen. Garfield's term.
Gen. Washington was 57 years of age at
his first inauguration as President of the
United States; John Adams was 62 years
old; Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John
Quincy Adams were each 58 years of age;
Gen. Jackson was 62; Mr. Van Buren was
55; General Harrison was 68; Mr. Tyler
51; Mr. Polk 50; Gen. Taylor 65; Mr. Fill
-50; Gen. Pieroe 49; Mr. Buchanan 66; Mr.
Lincoln 52; Mr. Johnson 57; Gen. Grant
47; Mr. Hayes 52; Gen. Garfield 49; Mr.
Arthur 51. President Cleveland will be 48
years of age on March 18.
Decline of Neighborly Kindness.
By Our Agricultural Editor.
We notice iv a late northern exchange
some comment on the supposed decline in
neighborly kindness among farmers. It
was asserted positively that farmers are
much less inclined than formerly to do a
neighbor a favor, or to render any help to
another without expecting and asking com
pensation in money.
We should be very unwilling to believe
that this disposition is by any means gen
eral anywhere in the country, and certainly
not in tbe south. II it we very much fear
that the tendency of the times is inclined
in this direction. The old log rolling and
corn-shucking bees of ante-bellum times
are now scarcely heard of, and "spells"
are not so frequent as they once were.
Perhaps it is best, so far as mere work
goes, that farmers should depend alone
upon their own and hired help. But it will
bo a sad day for our country, when tbe
neighborly feeling that would lend a day
or two of help in an emergency dies out
among us. It is far better, in fact a real
necessity, to be neighborly and helpful in
the little sphere in which each one moves
and lives. In sickness, accident, danger,
and loss, each little community should al
ways come together, and by contributing
each one his mite help out the afflicted
party in a way that none would feel the
burden. We trust never to see the day
when our neighbors shall be unwilling to
render reasonable help to us, or we to
fin-. Let it never be said that neigh
borly feeling is lost among us.—lndex-Ap
peal.
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The church, the theatre, the saloon and
the electors are all against roller-skating,
yet it thrives, but whether as a transient
craze or as a pleasant, harmless and health
ful means of exercise is yet to bo deter
mined. It certainly bas a wide va
riety of opponents than any other means
of passing the time now known, and if cer
tain scandals in New York are true it de
serves the opposition it meets with in larger
cities.— lndex-Appeal.
Home Items and Topics.
—"All your own fault,
If you remain sick when you can
Get hop bitters that never—Fail
—The weakest woman, smallest child,
and sickest invalid can use hop bitters with
safety and great good.
—Old men tottering around from Rheu
matism, kidney trouble or any weakness
will be made almost new by using hop bit
ters.
S_F*_ly wife and daughter were made
healthy by the use of hop bitters and I
recommend them to my people.—Methodist
Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor if hop
Bitters are not the best family medicine
On earth 11!
Malarial fever, Ague and Biliousness,
will leave every neighborhood as soon as
hop bitters arrive.
"My mitber drove the paralysis and neu
ralgia all out of her system with hop bit
ters '—Ed. Oswego Sun.
(EfTE-eep tlie kidneys healthy with hop
bitters and yoa need not fear sickness."
—Ice water is rendered harmless and
more refreshing and reviving with hop bit
ters in each draught.
—The vigor of youth for the aged and
infi m in hop bitters ! ! !
t —"At the change of life nothing equals i
_ Hop Bitters to allay all troubles mci- >
( dent thereto." )
-—"The best periodical for ladies to take
monthly, and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit is hop bitters."
—Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing
children, will cure the children and benefit,
themselves by taking hop bitters daily.
—Thousands die annually from some
form of kidney disease that might have
been prevented by a timely use of hop bit
tan.
—Indigestion, week stomach, irregulari
ties of the bowels, cannot exist when hop
bitten are used.
A timely * • * use of hop
Bitters will keep a whole family
In robust health a year at little cost.
—To produce real genuine sleep and
child-like repose all night, take a little hop
bitters on retiring.
89" None genuine without a bunch of
green Hops on the white label. Shun all
the vile, poisonous, stuff with "Hop" or
"Hops" in their name.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
[Compiled for the Spectatob. ]
Fish in W_bm Watbb.—An experiment
baa been made at South Kensington to de
termine the degree of beat which various
fishes may endure. The water containing
them was slowly warmed, when individuals
of the several species were prostrated at
the following temperatures: Perch, 88°;
roach, B_|°; salmon, 83°; minnow, SIP;
gudgeon, 85_°; dace, 86°; common tench.
88°; golden tench, 88<-; carp, 01°. Brandy
—about which as a fish-restorer much hat
lately been said—seemed to have good ef
feet in restoring to animation the exhaust
ed objects of the experiment.
Mobe Wob__ pob Elbctbicitt.— On.
by one the instruments and process of out
fathers are being relegated to the domaii.
of the antiquated. Now the churn musi
go. According to a French patent, the
passage of a suitable electric current
through milk causes the rapid separation
of the butter, and renders churning unnec
essary. The manufacture of cheese and
the removal of rancidity from butter by
electrical aid, are also claimed.
The conclusion has been reached by
Mons. Fayol that the absorption of atmos
pheric oxygen by coal dust usually producer
the rise in temperature to which spontane
ous combustion is due. He finds that lig
nite is ignited at the low teibperature oi
800- 5 , anthracite at 575*-, and other variet es
of coal, in powdered form, at intermediate
temperaturt-s.
A writer from Fiji asserts that when
flocks of tern and other sea-fowl rest upon
tbe sea, the water I eoomes smooth, an ef
fect which he ascribes to oil emitted by tie
birds.
An international exhibition of animals is
proposed for next year at Buda-Pesth.
Shapk of the Eabth's Orbit.—Proc
tor remarks that a common error, is tb<
supposition that the earth moves in an ob
viously eliptical path, whereas it really ap
pears to travel in a circle. Taking the
earth's orbit when its eccentricity was very
nearly at its greatest—Bso,ooo years ago—
the numbers 325 and 324 represent the ac
tual proportion between the greatest and
shortest axis of the figure desoribed by
our planet's motiou around the sun. So
that if a circle is drawn with a radius of
three and one-fourth inches it nowhere de
parts more than the hundredth part of an
inch from the ellipse which would repre
sent with perfect accuracy the orbit of the
earth 850,000 years ago, when it was so
much more divergent from an exactly cir
cular form than now.
Potato Cklluloid.—A material pos
sessing the properties of celluloid is now
made from potatoes and is being used in
France for imitation meerschaum pipes,
and for billiard balls. Th« substance is
prepared by boiling the peeled potatoes in
dilute sulphuric acid —eight parts of acid
to one hundredth parts of water —for thir
ty-six hours, and then drying between blot
ting-paper by pressure.
A brain-model of gigantic sice has been
made for an American museum by Buechi
of Berne. It is about four feet in height
by two feet and a half in width, and shows
the intricate mechanism of the brain in de
tail.
D .tilled water saturated with oxygen is
now prepared in Paris, and is rapidly gain
ing favor. Aside from its healthful-ess
for ordinary table use, it is said to be val
uable in tbe treatment of diseases of tbe
digestive organs.
The Dutch Government has had collect
ed the reports of 1,300 eye-witnesses in or
der to prepare an accurate history of tha
Krakatoa volcanic eruption, which many
suppose was the cause of the wonderful
sky-glows seen over a large part of the
world.
Plant Parasites.—Almost every sort
of plant furnishes a living to its own pecu
liar species of Aphis, or plant-louse, by
whioh great destruction is occasionally
wrought. Dr. J. Sibley Hicks, an English
entomologist, states that the Hop Aphis
caused a loss in 1862 amounting to nearly
$9,000,000. This enorm.ua damage is ex
plained by the fabulous rate of increase of
the Aphis, it being possible for a single fe
male to see in her lifetime a progeny of
over 4,500 millions individuals. Another
destructive species, known as American
blight, occurs on apple trees, and was first
observed in 1785 in an orchard near Lon
don. The Vine Aphis {Phylloxera) has
done immense damage in the vineyards of
France, where it was first .{bund in 186..
Fortunately, the Aphides have numerous
enemies, especially active ones being the
caterpillars of the lady-bird, the lacewing
fly and its grub, and the ichneumon lly. A
lady-bird caterpillar will devour foity or
fifty daily.
An oppot tunity ot studying a case of lep
rosy bas been afforded Dr. P. Guttman,
who assures the Berlin Medical Society
that there can be no doubt that the living
bacilli found in the system of leprous pa
tients are really the cause of tbe disease.
Evidence of the sanitary value of sun
light is afforded by the recent experiments
in France of Mon. E. Duclaux, who finds
that the light of the sun, in its action on
germs, is fifty times destructive as its
heat. .
It is reported that Herr Paliaa of Vien
na, the well known discoverer of asteroids,
wishes to sell for $250 the right of naming
small planet No. 244, the money to be ap
plied by bim to the fitting out of an ex
pedition to observe the total eclipse of Au
gust, 1885.
The seas of India and China now have
twelve tidal observatories each of which is
moved to a new spot every fifth year.
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The discharge of Irish people in various
parts of England and Scotland continues,
and many thousand have been turned
adrift This may be natural, bnt it is not
an amiable proceeding, and is to be depre
ciated, we think, both on grounds of senti
ment and policy. Because (1) the innoceut
suffer for the gulty, and (2) because lame
numbers of persons are placed in a position
where they are tempted to become recruits
in the ranks of the desperadoes. But be
this as it may, one thing is plain; the worst
enemies of the Irish are their so-called
friends. When the Irish themselves take
these fellows in hand and punish them
there will be a fair chance of a sunburst
for Erin.— Norfolk Landmark.
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The Dirty Dandrnff.
Dandrnff is ditty and disagreeable in ev
ery way. lt soils the clothing continually,
and is accompanied by a hardly leas annoy
ing sensation of itching. The scalp is dis
eased. There is nothing in the world so
thoroughly adapted to this trouble as Park
er's Hair Balsam. It cleanses and heals
the scalp, stops the falling hair and restores
its original softness, gloss and color. Is
not oily, highly perfumed, an elegant dress
ing. Very economical, as only a small oc
casional application keeps the hair in per
fect condition.
—STAUNTON SPECTATOK AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.-—
Oar Great Industrial Growth.
Recent statistics show a tremendous
growth in the industries of the South. States
that before the war had hardly a factory,
now have scores and hundreds, and the capi
tal invested in manufacturing, mining,
smelting, to say nothing of small industries,
is enormous. Much of this is Northern capi
•al, and Northern men have a hand in and.
control many of the large and most suc
oessful industries. We are willing that this
-hall be so, and we honestly say we are
willing that they shall make a little more
than their fair share for the venture. The
truth is that those who come with open, fair,
nonest, liberal views of our people—those
who are gentlemen—act and think like gen
tlemen—Virginia gentlemen—can have the
riendsbip and confidence of our people, and
if they are Democrats, they can walk into
mr hearts. Tbey may come by the thou
sand—we are not afraid of their Radicaliz
ing the South. They will soon have their
eyes opened after they get here and see
what Southern Republicanism is, if they are
educated, sensible gent-omen, and if they
are not they will soon find their level. We
ire sorry that so few come with the inten
tion of making this their permanent home,
[t is natural that they should want to make
fortunes in the South and go back to the
hills and valleys of the North, where tbey
worked and played as boys looking to tbe
future. But many are coming to stay, and
Virginia, Florida, Georgia and Alabama are
receiving many who will only return on
visits, and where these are educated and re
flned they will become in every way like
our "best people." The State's interest
will be their interests, and a blind man can
nee that our interest is Democratic, and so
they will see theirs Republicanism in the
South i. a poor thing—a weakly plant
wrong in fouudation and badly trained. It
does not suit our people—when Northern
peopl. become acclimated they become
Oemocratio. We shall have thousands in
the uext few years, after the flrst crop takes
root. When our ports begin to open and our
mines and forests pour out their wealth,
Southward the star of empire will, take its
way.— Lynchburg Advance.
Shameful Maladministration.
Eighty thousand dollars of Government
money were expended last fall by Mr. Ar
thur's Administration in the effort to com
pel the State of New York to vote for Mr.
Blame! Nay, eighty thousand dollars of Gov
ernment money were expended in providing
deputy marshals and supervisors of election
in that one State. But if to that sum you add
thousands of Federal officials in the same
State, you will find that more than a hun
dred thousand dollars of the money wrung
from the people in the shape of taxes was
used in the vsin attempt to bribe, bulldoze,
and terrorize the voters of tbat one Com
monwealth into casting its electoral vote for
Blame and Logan.
Suppose there had been a fair election
Ust November, and the people's money had
not been wasted in unlawful ways, what
States would Blame have carried? In 18T8
and in 1880 the people were cheated out of
the man of their choice for President of the
United States. In 1876 they were openly
defrauded. In 1880 they were defrauded,
as they came so near being defrauded in
1884, by the methods first above alluded to
—that is, by c inverting the National Gov
ernment iuto an integral portion of the Re
publican party, and using the people's
money as if it had belonged to the Repub
lican party, and the people's servants as if
they had been the servants of the Republi
can party. A party so hideous and corrupt
never before disgraced the country, and it
is to be hoped will never again disgrace it
—a party whose highest officials were not
ashamed to piostitute their places to par
tisan purposes, nor to excite sectional strife
as a meaus of perpetuating their power, nor
to use tbe public money as if it belonged to
themselves.— Richmond Dispatch.
A California paper wisely remarks
that '"the remedies for overproduction, or
rather the means of preventing it, consti
tute an imporrant part of the subject,
which deserves attention from the publi
cists and legislators. Overproduction is
usually the result of bad judgment and
lack of information. In a certain line of
manufactures high profits are realized;
capital is attracted to that business, and
capitalists rush ahead without judgment
to establish new factories and enlarge old
ones, regardless of the danger. Soon the
business is cverdone, prices fall, the fac
tory wheels run slower, and finally stop,
throwing thousands out of employment,
and inflicting as much misery as an earth
quake or a pestilence. Although the re
sults of these speculative manias seem
criminal, there is probably no way to suii
press them by law. But something can be
done by the intelligent study of the opera
tions of commerce, and by the collection of
statistics which will show the limits of nos
Bible consumption and production. It is
because business men are ignorant of the
general tendencies of trade at a given tine
that they allow themselves to overdo their
their business so greatly, and anything
which throws light on the operation of
these industrial forces is in the interest of
the general good of society."
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What Parents Fear.
Many persons—especially parents—object
to many quack nostrums as likely to engen
der or encourage a love for strong drink.—
They are right. Better die of disease than
of drunkenness. The use of Parker's Ton
ic does not involve this danger. It not on
ly builds up the system, curing all ailments
of the stomach, liver and kidneys, but it
stimulates without intoxicating and abso
lutely cures the appetite for liquor.
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Limiting th* sale o» firearms .—A
law passed by the last Legislature of Geor.
gia proves efficacious in breaking up tbe
carrying of concealed weapons. In prepar
ing the tax bill in the last Legislature the
following item was slipped in: "Upon all
dealers in pistols, toy pistols, revolver*, pis
tols or revolver cartridges, dirks or bowie
kttives, the sum of $100 for each place of
business in eao county where the same are
sold shall be levied." Since January Ist
traders, on paying their licenses, have been
confronted with this additional charge, and
rather than pay it, nine-tenths of them drop
tbat feature of their busiress. The effect
of the license is to limit places where arms
can be purchased to a few popular points.
Thu- those who have pistols cannot re
plenish their cartridges without sending in
some instances seventy-five miles, as the
dealers in small t >wns would not sell over
$100 worth of such goods in a year. The
license amounts to a prohibition.—Char
lo tetcille Jeffersonian.
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The New York Evening Pott estimates
that not less than fifty iron working es
tablishments, in various parts of the coun
try, employing about thirty thousand men,
have recently started to work again.
a at . A—i .
Pboufic—Mr. Jno. W. Hawkins tells
us of an ewe of his which has given birth
to eleven lamhs in 38 months, as follows:
Nine at three births, and two at one birth.
— Bedford Star and Sentinel.
P* B BEST TONIC =.
This medicine, combining Iron with pore
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lmp-r«Bl*o_,.l___rU,L__la-_dFeT*n,
It li ani__s-_-» remedy tor Diseases of tha
Kldaeya aa* Liver.
It Is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to
Women, and all who lead sedentary lives.
It does not injure the teeth, cause headache.or
produce consapation— other Iron medicines do.
It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates
the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, re
lieves Heartburn and Belching, and strength
ens the muscles and nerves.
For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack of
Energy, Ac, it has no equal.
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NEW Fill & WINTER
DRESS GOODS
ever shown in the city whioh will be sold at
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
Attractive Novelties
IN
Colored Dress Goods,
Together with fine Fabrics ln Plain and Plaids
choice new shadings,
Tartan Plaids, I Satin Trlcote,
Buffalo Cloths, Billiard niolLs,
.Satin Berbers, French Tricots,
Cloth Finished Flan- Bison Cloths,
nels, <_«., Ac.
a m] a
Slaok Silks
A SPECIALTY, including the
BELLOU, BONNET. GIR AUD. G-INET,
LYONS, and GERMAN BRANDS.
* a _—a
Mr. WELLER'S endeavor to make his
-BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT
-pecially attractive, baa been attended with
he very Beat results. His I tic ess. d trade la
ttzls line, proves him to be tbe leader in
MO URN I KG GOODi.
Reversible French H>- Langtry Suitings,
agouals, French Baticte,
Tricotines, Biarritz Cloth, .
Billiard Ciotbs, Cashmeres,
Henriettas, | Ac, Ac.
.ourtald's English Crepes.
—-—— — .* -» ■*>■ '
Ladlei*. Genu', and Children*!
Merino Underwear.
Winter Wraps,
CLOTH JACKETS, JERSEY JACKETS,
NEW MARKETS, AND RAGLANS.
a m «
Ladies', Gents', and Children's
SILK, COTTON, AND LISLE HOSIERY.
NOVELTIES IN
ITXC -X #
' —* m , , T —
JERSEY (.LOVEB-«ll shades.
CENTEMERI'B
KID GLOMES.
octl. W. 11. W________ R.
If TfANDS A-TTHE _ H_____).
THE IKiIIIRINVIXU
"DOMESTIC."
Th s cut shows the New Style of Wood-work
that the Company Is now ntroducing.
M_\ ____ ■' _■ __!
i
ARTISTICALLY BEAUTIFUL. 9
-WITHOUT. A PEER.
In Its mecbanleH.l eonstrnei ion lt lias
no Rival.
The new line of ■> ttachments that are now
Being placed with each "Domestic" are special
tes. No other m..ci>! tie has them '.These .-it
■acbments and the Wood-work of the "Domes
tic" more than ever, without question,
Tbe Acknowledged NtHndwrd of Excel*
J.*mee.
For sale by C. B. KOMER VILLE A CO.,
Staunton, va.
Agents wanted in iinoecupled territory. Ad
i.esa DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE COM
'ANY. Rli-hmond. Va. may 13-4-17
I.UU4T orilF.K stnlSld MACHINES
« PUUniSK. TIIK HABTrVBD
PEBFOBKB."
_—- ...-.-*.l«z_^^
The style of tbe HARTFORD anditawotk
•i-esuperlor. It las theself setting need'eand
he simplest shuttle ever made. It has full
ets o( attachments, licltmlng the extraf-r
(raiding Millinery folding <tc It has re
ceived many premiums and from long practice
.nd experience I recommend lt.
On exhibition at J. G. KRUEGER'S Jewelry
-tti.re, No. 1.1 Main Street, and at ray Dress
making establishment, I_> East Mala Street,
next to Spectator office.
mar4-3m Miss ANNIE E. RYAN.
a TTENTION,
FARMERS!
DO YOU WISH TO PURCHASE
OFFAL, COM., COFFER, SUGAR,
HORSE-SHOES, NAILS, and
OTHER GOODS,
AND TO SELL
Wheat, Corn. Clover-Seed.
FLOCII, and
OTfIEB F»_stO__iUC__.
If so, call to see ns before clo-ing your pur
chases or sale-..
We have Just received a e>r- load of those nloe,
almost boneless,
LAKE HERRING,
which we arsselling at prices to suit the times.
Jan-8-ly BAKER BROS.
Wsenns Tbe celebrated Studebsker and
na*fUll*>* Brown Wagons. * I prices as low
as any of equal material, workm nshlp, and
capacity, at war*rooms of . LYNN * CO.
AY FOBK-a.- The Fitshogh Hay
Elevator and Fork, best in the world.—
Sample erected on exhibition at office of
* I.YNW - go.
CLOTBIH..
-UltllllU-E
.a • ■
GLOTHIIC.,
IN THE PLACE OF HARDWARE.
» m a
-J _•?_-L 0 --*- especial attention to the FACT,
that I have
REMOVED H¥ PLACE OF BCSINE-&
TO
Main St., nearly opposite the
National Valley Bank,
(the room formerly occ. pied by Frank Alex,
ander A C 0.,)
where I will continue tbe
-Dlil BUSINESS.
My stock 1 -eludes a nice line of
MEN'S, BOYS', AND CHILDREN'S
CLOTHING,
together with
Hats, (Japs, and
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
a large line of
OVERCOATS,
from !- to $20.
«TAll Goods Guaranteed a* Kepresented.*TO
ja-2. 1-.OIT. MT. ALBY.
REMOVAL.
FitA.il A_.EX-.KDKR & CO.,
HAVE REMOVHD THEIR
HARDWARE STORE
TO THE
New RuUding on Augusta Street,
Oppo. to Stack, Spitler A Co.,
Where tbey will be pleased to have all to call
and ins, eel their
nri-wv «•_■_•!__»«,:■___»
just received, of ROGERS' SILVER-PLATED
KNIVES. FORK", SPOONS. SCJHSOR
CASES, CAB VERS and FORKS,
POCKET-KNIVES, GDNB
and PISTOLS . very
complete line of
General Hardware,
Beautiful Plated Ware for
Xmas Presents—Cheap
oar nen- quarters are fit ted up expressly for
our business, and give more room and greater
'acuities tor displaying and handling our large
stock. Call and see us.
decl7-3m FRANK ALEXANDER A CO.
«KO.-.KIEM, Mx.
Canned Sod£^_-Sj__W
celvii-g and for sale low by -
declO QOOCH. HOGE A CO.
tJAI_T! WALTI SALT I
Just received sevt-rai car-load* well filled
sacks FRESH SALT, which Is offered at low
price* tot.ie trade.
deWO QOOCH. HOGE A CO.
COFFEES. SI t.ARM. COAL OIL, LU
BRICATORS, TOBVCCO, IGARS,
CANDLES, POWDER, Ac, Ac,
ln nore and for sale low:
declO QOOCH. HOPE ex CO.
HOMINY! II wniXTI- Received last
week a cur-load HOMINY ln package*
to suit the trad..
declO GOOCH. HOQE A CO.
XMAS! XMAS!!
Its* COMING,
and there is ONE TON of CANDT,
French and Plain ; a groat quantity oi all kind*
■if NUTS and R..1-IN-t anda fall anpplyofall
kinds of FA WILT UKiMKRI.fi for sale at
0. W. HAMMOND & CO.'S.
AT POPULAR PRICES,
Weeallth attention of housekeepers espe
cially to our HO J-Y DROP SUGAR CORN,
♦he best lv the man. el,
COME -% IN I) SEE TJS.
Remember, we guarantee Goods and Prices.
O. W. HAMMOND A CO..
Nzi _ s Augnaia Street,
sep9 Next door to Haines's Cigar store.
J. A. HAMKICK. J. A. TAUVII
J_L. HAMRICK __ CO.,
• DZ-XSRS IK
CBOCEBtES AKD PBODUCE,
Make a Specialty of
Leather and Shoe Findings
Headquarters for Haraesa Leather.
Highest Caak Price paid for
teblt'M-ly SLAUGHTERED HIDE-,
CHAS.T, PALMER,
DBAL__ IH—
GRAIN, HAY, MTstsOTJTI,
■•cd. Wool. Fertll iaera. Coal Oil, and
GROCERIES,
Opposite Depot of the C. A O. R'y, in store
house recently occupied by J. A. Cochran.
-W-Highbst Cash Prices paid for Grain, Hay,
and Coaut r. Produce
Hope my old country patron* will give me a
call. - reb_2-tf
SCHOOLS ASP COLLEGES.
Waynesboro Female Institute.
Testimonials from prominent gentlemen
wbo have wxtcbed the management and
growth of the school from its beginning.
Ample Acoominodatllons.
PRICES LOW. TERMS EAST.
FOURTH ISESSION-BEPTEMBER 15th, 1184
Apply to- JNO H. HOBGOOD,
anl» tf Waynesboro', Va.
GTAUNTON MALE ACADEMY OPENS
Monday, Brpten.br Sth 181.4.
Complete course in Ancient and Modern
Languages, Mathematlo , Natural Philosophy,
Chemistry, (general and analytical). Engineer
ing Fu 11 corps of experienced teachers. Com
plete Cabinets of Illustrative Apparatus and
minerals. Building* will be thoroughly adapt
eo to the purpose.
For Catalogues giving terms, address—
W. H. KABLE, A. M , Principal.
Je-l-tf Staunton, Va.
INSURANCE.
Staui-toh, Va., Feb. 3rd. 1885.
Tbe undersigned, having associated them
selves for the purposes of prosecuting the work
UFE, FIRE, ACCIDENT, AND STOCK
INSURANCE.
may be round at their office up stairs. In the
Stout Building, tn Court-Hense Alley, where
tbey will be at all times prepared to place risks
In either of the above mentioned lines ln sol
vent Companies Tbey represent tbe Htaun
ton Lire oraanlied on Ibe mutual plan, with
all tbe latest safeguards and ah annual cost of
about $16on tbe thousand—policies guaranteed
for their mil face value. Cost of accidental
Dolleie*. ln preferred risks, 813 annually on
IS 000 or about»!_ cent* per day-with guaran
ty ot t» weekly indemnity In case of dlasoltng
aooldent
4STFire and Llv* Stock Insurance st regular
rates.
We would be pleased to correspond with-any
desiring insurance or Information.
CHARLES GRATTAN,
febUbn THOE. J. HARMAN.
GREAT
CLEARING SALE
OF CLOTHING.
In order to reduce our stock before Spring, we propose to offer
THIRTY DAYS,
our entire stock of OVERCOATS and Heavy Winter Weight
Clothing, at
COST FOR CASH,
as we prefer the money to holding the goods over until next
winter. Come and be convinced that this is no hum
drum assertion to deceive you, but a fair
square offer, which we assure you
will be carried out in
good faith.
Respectfully,
A. LOEB & CO.
J. A .ARMENTROUT, - - SOLE MANAGER.
jan_Bs v and v copy
SPECIAL SALE
FOR 30 DAYS!
AX
— a — am
A lot of INGRAIN CARPERS from 25 centa to 40 cents.
A lot of ALL-WOOL CARPETS from SO to 7* oents.
A lot .if REST WOOL CARPET**, from « to V) cents.
A lot of BRUSSELS CA RPET at 8 j and 70 cents.
A lot ot BEST BRUSSELS C A RPET, rrom M cents to $1.00.
OIL CLOTH ia all width C.irpets, as low as 25 centa a yard.
RUGS and MATS, In Velvet, Smyrna, and Brussels, at a sacrifice.
COCOA MATTING-), from 35 to 65 cents.
LINEN WINDO.W SHADES complete, 40 centa.
150 paits WHITE BLANKETS, from i 1..50 to J9.00 per pair.
100 pairs COLORED BLANKETS, from 75 cents to 13.00 per pair.
50 Woolen and Plush BUGGY ROBES, from tl 50 too 610.60,
SJO nice BED COMFORTS, from 75 cents to 11.50.
600 WHITE BED SPREADS, from 50 cents to $2.00.
A lot of SHAWLS and SKIRTS, at cost.
RUSSIAN '.IR..ULARS and NEW MARKET COATS, from 16.50np.
ladles' DOLMANS AND JACKETS, at cost.
Misses' and Children's CLOAKS and CIRCULARS, from 62.00 op.
Infants' DRESSES and CLOAKS, mueb below value.
Colored DRESS GOODS and CASHMERES, at cost.
Plaid DRESS GOODS and 6-4 FLANNELS, at cost.
BLACK HII.ICH, CAHHMERKH, and SATINS.
Black and Colored Velvets and Brocaded Velvete.
Nice GINGHAMS an- CALICOES, at 4 and 6 cenU.
BEST CALICOES, at 6\_ cents.
FRUIT OF THE LOOM. 4-1 Bleached Cotton, at < cents.
LONESDALE, 4-4 Bl.ached Cotton, at 8 cents.
ANDROSCOGGIN, 4-4 Bleached Cotton, at 6 cents.
BARKER, 4-4 Bleached Cotton, at 8 cent.
GOOD 10-4 SHEETINGS, at 25 cents.
We most reduce our immense stock; therefore, will sell any and all goods at Greatly
Reduced Prices,
We Alio-*** no one to TJn«_er«el. u».
Don't buy elsewhere nntil yon examine and price our goods
LOFB BROS.
ooU- COB. MAIN AND NEW ant.. WAOWTOM. VA
VTAVTI-T. f active __*■> n'TX-LioBNT To-aira «.,««»_••»
W __k__W I M» I and e-u.tr to wall ou, I-orUL_„ NEW BOOKS aod TAMIL.
Bz._LK.-l. Miaiatara, teacher* and .then, whose time ie act fatty oeeap__, will find it totheir--tares*
to eorrespead with oa. To farmers' ao_. uad ether youoraaa just aamiof on tha -aid.of aatioo, «h_s
boiineaa eflara many adrantaa--, bath aa a mean* of aakina- asoney aad ef self eultnre. Write for speeaal
tonaato B. F. JOHNSON * CA\, X,»IA ■____> -toss*, »Ib_—■-, Wa*.
IAHOB, WATCHES. AUD JEWELRY.
wiSFawake
AND
Live Business Men j
do not sit down and fold their bsnds after a
bnay Holiday season but carefully surveying
results, find more stock on hand than nrceasa- .
ry to carry over, and wlaely conclude II belter
to remove such surplus stock at greatly RE
DUCED FIGURES.
HAMAKER, j
THE PEOPLE* ir.WEI.KK. finds Just
such a condition ol affairs, and offers the larg
est stock of 1
SILVER-PL4TED WARE
Of BK-iT MAKE for 3<» I» A V*-4. at a dis.
count or 33v_ per cent.
The line conKiats of T„A SETS WATER SETS, !
TETK A TETE SETS, HUT BOWLS,
EPERGNES, and various other
articles too numerous to
mention. Our stock of
W____TC3r_[__CS,
DIAMONDS!!
AND
-JEWELRY
is compete, ln fact, every dep»rtmeut more
than su-ialns Ua past reputation. Oue of tbe
moat promiuent leaturis is the
WATCH AND JEWELRY
It-pair Department.
Bb- We can't be excelled In tbls branrb. '
ROGERH & BKO.'t.
Celebrated KNIVES, FORKS and SPOONS
engraved free of charge when bought of ns.
THI HIT H.MII
IN THE WORLD for tbe LEAST MONEY.
Call and see them.
HAMAKER,
Cor. Main and New Sts . Staunton. Va.
Jan.l .
"fertilizers.
A TTENTION,
Farmers of Augusta !
——
t
I have now in store and will deliver on
the line of the B. A O , C. <_U.,ami 8 V R.R.s, '
i he following brands of Fertilisers, vi _ :—
FINE GROUND RAW BONE. BAUOH'S
PURE DISSOLVED A NIM \ L BON E. war- |
ranted; BAUGH'S AMMONIATED I
PURE "HIGH GRADE,"
Bdßfk't High Grade S. C. Bone,
Ban_Vg Double Eagle P-oepbate. I
BAUGH'S SAW BONE PHOSPHATE.
BAUGH'S NEW PROCESS GUANO.
BAUGH'S A. A. NITROGEN,!
containing over 13 per cent. Ammonia.
«__ POTASH, and all other ingredi
ents tor mixing.
Having the sol* agency for Augusta county. I
lor Banco* Son's Standard Fertilisers, on* of
lhe l*rg«_ man uiactururs In tbe United Statea.
I can give bottom prices on all these goods.
O. T. PALMER.
mw I pay the highest cash prices for GRAIN. \
Farmers will Had 11 to their ad Tan tag. to call ,
before disposing of their crops. C. T. P. I
»"«« . !
feZTrfW T \7 Pereon* havlng boai-
Pi\ > 1 IVa-a BMt at my Faraltare
Store, ln my absence, will please call oa Mr.
W. D. Candler, wbo may be round at al I time*
either ln tbe shop*, on tbe premises, or at bia
leatdenee. Undertaking promptly attended
to at all boors o< the day or night.
deaM-U Y.-..UQS.U.
FUKSTITCBE.
Y. M. BICKLE,
BTA UNTON. VA.
Dealer ln FURNITURE of all de
scriptions. Elegant CHAMBER and PARLOR
BET-, MATTREHMr-*, 4c. always on hand
and at 1.0 «% EST P»lita.
Special attention given to
UNDEHTAKINO
in all its branches.
HANDKOME METALLIC nod ROSEWOOD
CASES, COFFIN- . nil descriptions.
An elegant hearse wi.' attend all funeral* ln
tbe city or county.
Order* by telegram protc ptly attended to day
and night.
In tb* absence of tbe pi prietor, Mr. W. D.
.ANDLER, sn exp*-_an<-i-d undertaker, will
tttend to all orders.
At night, Mr. Candler can be found at bis
-ealdenee, corner ol Prospect and New Streets,
vhere parties can apply at any boar.
Address all orders to Y. M. BICKLE,
feb_o-tf itaonton, Va.
CARRIAGE FACTORIES
TO THE PUBLIC!
Parties wishing to buy BOOGIES, GAR
-IAGEB, Ac, _c , both home-made and West
•m work, can do so of us on and after the 10th
>f January, 1883. We have made arrangement*
trlth on* of tbe largeat and best Cincinnati
nanui-cturlug establishments, b> which w*
trill keepon hand a large assortment f the very
*e*t of Cincinnati work. We have Jnst return
td from Cincinnati where we thoroughly ex
imlned all the materials of which the vehicle*
ire made, and we took special care to select
THE VERY BKHT.
Having had a life long experience in this
-ualnesa, we know what- carriage work Is and
low lt Is made, and we are satisfied w can
[lye you a better buggy lor the money than
my other shop In this city or ln the Valley.—
ITe ask yon to call and examine and we will
make lt to your Interest'o buy of va.
tkw-We will alio manufacture any vehicle to
-rder.or the beat materials, and In tbe meat
workmanlike manner.at LOWEST PRICES.
CJLINEDISHT A BO DEL,
N-AB VIKQIKIA HOTXL,
decs Staunton, Va.
BERKELEY & WALTERS.
nwirmi nt. mn,
— Mm Stih-T. stau-jioi*, ViaoiHiA. —
Pin Drags and Chemical.., Patent Med
icines,
TOILET AND KUBSERY ARTICLES,
SCOTT'S PATENT ELECTRIC
HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES*
Fre»h Mineral Water* of all kind*.
Bora*. Cattle, and Chicken Powder*.
USE OUR
WATER WHITE OIIu
-uaranteed not to smoke, positively tba beat
on the market.
Realy mixed PAINTS, OILS. VARNISH,
.nd WINIJOW GLARS. __, _ __._.__.___.
lyl BERKELEY * WALTERS.
For Purity,
Malt and Hops,
CJSE THK
CONTINENTAL
LAGER. BEER.
dST-Sold at all U**__adl__ Bars in this *lty.