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Three reasons for preferring flues to charcoal for curing tobacco. —First: It does not endanger health. But it does just about as much good to talk about health to robust young men aspiring to wealth, as it does to talk to young girls about reading…

This Association of the teachers of the State, made the experiment of holding the Annual Meeting at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, commencing on the 13th of July and continuing four days. The number of members in attendance was not as large as…

Concerning education in Virginia, The Richmond Enquirer says: "It may be and doubtless is the fact, that in many of the ornamental and some of the practical accessions of the modern college curriculum, and in pretentiousness of school buildings we…

A Westchester county (N.Y.) farmer is in the habit of sowing yellow Aberdeen turnips among his corn at the last passage of the cultivator, when the plants are about five feet in height. The turnips do not make much growth until the corn is cut,…

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We have three fine watering places in Montgomery county. The Yellow Sulphur nearest the College, is one of the most delightful among them

The proprietors are very kind and polite to their guests; they do all in their power to make…

Few men have expressed in more exquisite language than Macauley the affection which every good man feels for his mother. "Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts — a loving mother. Read the unfathomed love of…

He has been but an inattentive observer of human nature, who has not discovered that of all motives which impel to action, by far the most powerful is a love of popular applause.All men, however great their fancied independence or pretended contempt…