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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21
A Reautlfui Sentiment.
NO. Al.

Life bears US on like tiae current of a mighty
river Our boat first gkdes down the mighty
channel-through the playful snnrmurines of
the little brook, and the windings Of its grassy
borders. The trees shed their blossoms over
our young heads; the flowers seem to offer
themselves to the young hands, we are happy
In hope, and grasp eagerly at the beauties
around us, but the great stream burries on,
and still our hands ale empty. Our course in
youyt, and manhood is along deeper and wider
flow among objects more striking and maenf-
cent. We are animated at the moving pictures
and enjoyment and industry all around us; we
are excited at soue short-iVed disappointment
The stream bears us on, ard our joys and our
griefs are alike behind Us. We may be ship
wrecked, but we cannot be delayed; whether
rough or smooth the river hssteps ON till the
rear Of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing
of the waves is beneath our feet, and the floods
are lifted up around US, and we take our leave
of the earth and its inhabitants, until of our
futuse voyage there is no witness save the Iu-
finite ana Eternal
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Tomb of Adam.

The to,ab of Adam how touching it was, here
in land of strangers, far away from home and
friends, and all who cared for me, thus to dis
cover the grave oi hood relation. The un-
erring instinct of nature thrilled its recogniza-
ton. The fountain Of by filial affection was
stirred to its profound depths, and gave way
to tumuIEuous emotions [ leaned against a
pillar and gave way to tears. / deemed it no
shame to have wept over the grave of my poor
dead relative. Let him who would sneer at
my emotion close this volume here, for he will
find little to his taste 10 my journeying through
live to see his child. And I-I-alas l did
not live to see him. Weighed down by sorrow
and disappointment, he died before [ was born
six thousand summers before | was born. But
let us try to bear it with foTtitude. Let US trust
that he is better off where he is.-Mark Ti0aia' s
IanOcents Abroad
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NUMBER 9.
To Kill Hessian Fly and Joint Worm in
Wheat

ED. ENQUIRER I heard during the late
| tar that the wheat in several sections of the
State was infested with fly Though aware
that by many persons an agricultural fact, when
published, becomes transmuted-by the mere
process OF printing, / suppose-into an un-
truth, or at best, fanciful conjecture, will
venture to advise remedy which | have tried
satisfactorily. It was first suggested to me by
the late j. Addison Cochran, Of Loeb Willow,
augusta county, as remedy-in his hands
perfectly successful one-against Joint worm
ana was Was' On the recommendation of the South
ern Planter, tried and approved for the same
purpose by the late Captain Bootten, of Madi.
son county, very sensible and judicious gen.
tleman. %
At later period I found that it had been
recommended from its own practice by the late
not the present-Wm. NJ. Tate, of Augusta,
who had communicated it to the Farmer Reg
lister, IN. think, its fifth volume. What I
prescribe, under the above sanction, is two
bushels OF air-slacked or water Stacked lime
per acre, s0wn broadcast on a still morning OF
evening
In my own case, affirm that the land lined
with . bushels of lime per acre in the latter
part of November-the wheat soved on the
23d OF September, 1856-was cured Of a very
bad attack of fly which beset it that fall that
the lily came back IN the spring in great and
undlminished numbers, and was discovered too
late to make the application of lime again;
and that the wheat made more apparently than
the average of the whole field of which it was
part !; which field made Is 3O-6Oths bushels
per acre land which, at that time, was newly
taken up for improvement and exempt from fly
except as to twelve acres
The application of one bushel per acre will
do, though two are BETTER for the sake of pro-
per distribution. 1t should be repeated in the
spring if the fly reappears and it will be safer
to do it anyhow.
After 1866 always applied it in the spring
for insurance, as the labor was slight, and the
cost never more than twenty cents per acre.
Since the war | had no fy, and have not
made the application
The seeding. though the hand alone will do
very WELL is best done with tea scoops, as they
are called by the grocers, being of the shape Of
''sugar scoops bat much smaller, made to
hold q double handful. With this implement
man with his whole face and nostrils and
hands well creased and kept so, and sowing
with the wind, can sow With but little ineonve-
nience, two bushels lime per acre, per day.
The moaas operandi, Tor theory, for those
that viii have it, is that the dew forms with
the lime a lye, which, ruanseg Gown the blade
to the stalk, destroys the fly which is thereto
attached.
Be this as it may, the remedy has been
proved a successful one.
FRANK G.. RUFEIs.
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Tilton on Grant.

The Golden Age is of the strictest Radical
school, but it justly appreciates the present la
bors of our military President. It says:
He is bent ON securing his renomination.-
Day and night be tolls to this end, The chief
energy of his administration, SO far as it has
energy, is directed toward the accomplishment
of this high ambition, Local officers are ap-
pointed Or removed according as they favor or
disfavor the Presidents plan of perpetuating
himself in power. The Federal Government
is run like monstrous machine whose fires are
fed and whose wheels are turned mainly for the
sake of keeping its chief engineer in place
What other policy is the President pursuin &
save the policy of denomination? He is
fighting it out on this line
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So
90
POetru.
The Voice of the Waves.


What are the wild waves saying?
Aye what's their story tonight,
As they clamor and brawl mid the breaker
Like an army wild In a fight?
Hol dweller high up in the lighthouse,
Trim we'll your beacons now,
For the sea is crazed with anger.
And frown is on its brow
Trim well your beacoEa tonight then,
And shun the wooing of sleep,
Lest many ship and her cargo
In darkness be lost in the deep.
The maid by the freside pensively
Thinks OF her love on the main:
Thinks of her sailor-boy lover,
Whom she may never see again.
The aged and white haired couple
Have reason to shudder in fright,
AS they list to the surging ocean,
And the angry voices of night.
The storm has passed like the shadow
OF night at break of day.
The waves have finished their battling,
And chant monotonous lay.
They sleep on the oceans BOSOM
They nestle around the piers,
But where er they roam in their grandeur,
They breathe both hopes and fears.
At night when the moon is DER clouded
And the stars refuse to shine,
These waves so bright in the sunlight
Are darkened with many crime.
Ah! waves in your foamy splendor,
Ahl waves with your hoarse wild breath,
Your voice is the same aye and ever,
The voice of life and death.
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Drugs & Medicines.
BETHESDA Mineral Spring Water.
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY OF
ANOTHER GREAT WONDER of NATU RE
Read what is said of it!

kead what Is sald OF IL
The extraordinary curative power of this most
remai kable spring in certain diseases has aston
ished and surprised every person who has drunk
the water or witnessed its effect. Complete and
perfect restoration to health in chronic diseases
deemed altogether hopeless, has been effected in
an incredibly short time. Diseases that have
endured for years, causing misery and despair,
has been perfectly cured in q few days. No in
stance of failure has yet occurred. Let the peo-
pie try it and judge for themselves.
DIABETES.
In the severest cases of diabetes these waters
act with magical effect Within twenty-four
hours the intoerable thirst is abated, the mouth
becomes clear the skin moist and natural, the
bowels relieved, the quantity of urine decreased,
the necessity of frequent mcturition lessened,
and the secretion of sugar diminished. These
favorable symptoms continue, and frequently
within ten days permanent cure accomplished.
During the progress of the case the patient must
adopt and continue the proper regimen, always
necessary to be enforced in the treatment of this
distressing malsdy.
These waters have been singularly efficient in
Brights Disease of the Kidneys.
In these greatly dreaded, and hitherto intrac-
table affections, their success has been most com
plete and astonishing.
They are also found to be eminently service
able in Dropsy Gravel, and all diseases of the
Bladder and Urinary Organs. In affections o.
the Liver, Digestive Organs, Visceral Obstruc
tons, Costiveness, Gout, and diseases incident tt
females For sale by
DR.. B. P. REESE s. Co.
! opposite Spectator Office, Staunton, Va.
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Another Stupendous Project.

Commodore Matthew Z. Maury, who, in the
years before the war, made vast survey of the
sea, measuring its depths, tracing it's currents,
and gauging the winds that sweep over its sur
face, and thereby furnishing information that
has been OF immense value to navigators and
consequently to the WHOLE commerce of the
world. has now come out with a project for
noting the forces at work on the whole face of
the earth, and distributing the information for
the benefit of producers, and mankind in gene
raj, which deserves to rank with the most stu
pendous undertakings Of this age of wonders.
He proposes, with the aid and cooperation of
the various governments of the world and the
use of all the appliances of steam and electric
ity. TO establish a vast system of weather and
or o observations and reports, which shall keep
producers in ali lands Informed Qfwhat is going
On all over the globe, SO that they snsy Know
wherewith they are competing and what their
prospects are in the markets.
The benefits of the scheme are apnarent
its practicsbillty is no slore doubtful than that
of great many O., ts"r great undertakings which
have been carried through to So s""Hess seemed to
iuient of making weather observations wb;oh
is already in progress, gives earnest Of t6a
great things that may be done. 1t is onIv ne
cessary TO enlarge the scale upon which the
present work is done to proportions fitting the the
magnificent plan of Professor Maury. Obser.
vers and reporters would be employed in differ
ent districts, In all countries the telecranh and
postal systems would be utilized to convey in
formation to commercial centres, and redistrib-
ute, international arrangements would be necas.
sary for the exchange of reports, and vast
but subtle and silent machinery set to work ali
the world over gathering and disseminating
knowledge Gu important variations of the
weather, and the condition of the growing or
the garnered crops.
The scheme is as benefcent as it is vast, and
worthy of the age that tunnels mountain
ranges, spans continents with iron roads, and
lays telegraph lines through the depths of the
sea-N y World.
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VOLUME XIX.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

During heavy shower, New Londoner
noticed poor fellow asleep on the sidewalk,
and soaked through. He gently aroused and
admonished him of his exposure. go away" :"
said the inebriate. ''go away now. do This
shower (hic) is doing me (hicl and the rest Of
the crops lhic) darned sight of good, (hic) |
tell YOU
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

SALE oF RoILING MILLS IN VIRGINIA
Some valuable rolling mills on the canal, four
or five miles from Lynchburg, were sold on
Wednesday at auction to Mr.. L. p. Brooke,
for $4,000 This is considered very cheap
The mills are in excellent order, and were
erected at cost OF over 100000, four or five
years ago. 1t is understood that the purchase
was made by Mr. Brooke for himself and other
parties in Philadelphia of ample means, and
the works will again be put in operation as soon
as the necessary preliminary arrangements can
be made.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

ENOR Office and Counting Waste Paper
D. Baskets, call on r. d. SEARS, agent.
For India Rubber and Cocoa Foot Mats, call on
r d. SEARS, agent
For Dried Beef and Beef Tongues, call on
r d. SEARS, agent.
For Salmon, Halibut, Goldfish and Scotch Her
ring. call on r. ID. SEARS agent.
For Prime year old Vinegar call on
r. d. SEARS, agent.
For Sardines, Chow Chow and Caulifower, call
on r. d. SEARS, agent.
For Key Baskets, call on
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21
Fertilizers.

vzEEE.S AmmOniated Bone Super
~ PHOSPHATE.-We have just received a
full supply of this justly celebrated Fertilizer
For wheat and grass it has no superior.
We refer to the following persons who have
used it with great success. viz:
Benjamin Crawford, Geo M. Cochran,
Mai. John A. Harman. Ro S Harnsberger,
Col VIM d. Anderson, John S. Churchman,
M. W. d. Hogshead, ID. T. Dickerson,
Wm Bell Crawford and Others
au~2S F. B. HOGE & BRO.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

At Sabbath school concert in crowded
and popular church, the pastor, who prided
himself on the quickness and cleverness of his
little ones, said: boys, when | heard your
beautiful song tonight, [ had to work hard to
keep my feet still now, what do you think
was the trouble with them ?" "Chilblainth J"
shouted a little chap of six years.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

The Chicago Post says that the Episcopal
Convention has decided that Mr.. Cheney must
say ''regenerate" when he baptizes an infant,
but has defined that word substantially as fol
lows: Obsolete; no meaning in particular. y
His lips are still in chancery, but his conscience
is released
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

an III. TROUT, r. II. Stribling, Jr.,
- and FRANK B. BERKELEY having
formed partnership, will conduct the drug bus
mess at the old stand of P. H. Trout, under the
style of
who will carry on the business in all its branches
with renewed energy and with increased facili-
ties. They offer inducements to ali who may
need Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Coal Oil
and Lamps, Fancy Articles, &c.
Special attention given to compromising Ply
sicians Prescriptions, which department is under
+bo control of r B. BERKELEY
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

In recent issue of French comic newspa-
per there is very amusing cut satirizlng the
precocity of the youth of the period. Leaning
up against the door of ballroom, a lad scarce
ly in his teens, languidly deprecates the ardor
of an old gentleman who urges him to dance.
What at my age ?" he says.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

SUICIDE TO ESCAPE BURNING.-As illustra-
ting the ferceness of the flames in the recent
burning of Peshtgo, Wisconsin, and the terror
into which the people were thrown by their ap-
proach, one or two facts are given 1t only
took about fifteen minutes time to envelop in
flames the three hundred houses in the place.
As the torrent of fire approached there seemed
to be no escape from it except by some speedier
death, and many shot themselves to avoid per-
ishing in the flames. One case is recorded in
which German cut the throats of bis wife
and three children, as well as his own, prefer
ring this death for himself and them to the
lingering torture of fire
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

The ELECTION IN MISSISSIPPI. Although
the regular dispatches concede the State of
Mississippi to the republicans in the recent
election for members of the Legislature, pri-
vate kilograms from jackson to the Memphis
Enquirer explain that the conservative or mod
crate republicans, together with the democrats,
will hold small majority against the radical
renublicans. Returns from all the small towns
show large democratic gains, and nearly all
show democratic maoritles
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

The NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN WEST V1R-
GINA RA1LRoAD.--This enterprise, favored by
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company for the
tire State of West Virginia, has, according to
the Fairmount (W W Nrginian, come to an
issue by the organization of the company. at
Clarksburg, on the 3lst ult.. with Albert L.
Catlin, of Boston, as president. Stock to the
amount of $300,000, it says, was taken, mostly
by New York Capitalists and adds that engi-
neers are making survey from Fairchance to
Morgantown, under the direction of the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad Company. Efforts
to obtain subscriptions along the line of the
proposed route are now making.
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Sections.

The season for fires in churches is at hand,
aud we wish to remind sections, deacons and
church officers generally, that an important
condition of acceptable worship is comfortable
heat and oxygen. A man may have great
deal of grace, but il be has not oxygen enough
in church, he will go to sleep under the best
sermon. And if the church is cold. or be is
made to sit in draft, he will take cold or pneu-
monia, and receive no benefit from the sermon
Proper warmth, ventilation without drafts on
the worshippers, should be the chief article of
every sections creed, aud we commend the fol-
lowing, which we find in an exchange:
There is more religion in having church at
the proper temperature. at the right time, than
may appear at first sight It is a difficult task
for man to think very seriously about the fu-
ture state, when he is sitting in church about
half frozen or for mother to listen to preach
ing when her children are shivering and crying
with the cold.
Too much dry furnace heat is just as bad
Fredericksburg Nesos.
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Come rest on this bosom. my own stricken
deer"
Though the herd may forsake thee, thy home
is still here"
we chiefly mourn. Popham it was who de-
scended from the hills of Bath and rushed into
the Legislative fray, ready and in his own opin.
ion, able to meet all comers. 1t was Popham
who aspred to lead the House It was Pop
ham who, signing for other worlds to conquer,
became citizen Of Richmond and announced
that he would storm the Senate. 1t was Pop
hams confidence and front of BRASS which
kept the courage up of Annabe and Company
Psteysbur0 T2ier
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

Show me the man who would go to heaven
alone if be could, and | will show you one that
will never be admitted there.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

''It is the type of eternal truth, y says John
Ruskin, that the souls armor is never well
set to the heart unless woman's hand has
loosely that the honor Of manhood fails
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

ATEW GROCERY STORE.-J. " Ut
II ley & Co., dealers in Choice Family Gro
ceries, Bagby's new building, Frederick street,
and the public that they have in store choice
candles, fish, salt, molasses, tobacco, plaster,
brooms, buckets, shoes, &c, and, in fact, every
thing usually found in a frst-class grocery store
Cash paid for country produce, o., or goods given
pared to supply families with anything in the
grocery line at very low prices for cash.
snrh
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BLUNDERs OF BAsHFULNEss. - IF there is
any defect more striking than another in Amer
icau character. it is bashfuness. Young Amer
ica, in particular, is painfully affected by it
An incident is mentioned by a correspondent,
who was desired by his aunt to 60 over to her
neighbor Shaw's and see if he had any straw
for sale for filling beds. "Mr. Shaw" said our
informant, was blessed with goodly number
Of Misses Shaw. and | therefore felt little
timid at encounteriug them. To make the
matter worse arrived just as the family were
seated at dinner. Stopping at the doorway.
hat in hand, stammered out: Mr.. Straw, can
you spare me enough shaw to fill a couple of
beds p
WE'LL" replied the old gentleman, gancing
around at his large family, and enjoying my
mistake, II don't know but can; how many
will you need p
Before | could recover, those hateful girls
burst into chorus Of laughter, and / broke
for home in cold sweat"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

He who is too busy to find time for prayer is
buster than God asks him to be, and the fruit
Of such labor is poison unto death.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-11-21

NTEW STORE and CHEAP GOODS
on the corner of Augusta and Frederick
streets-I am now receiving large stock of
new staple goods, consisting of cotton goods,
also heavy woolen and tweed goods, boots, shoes,
hats, &c. queensware crockery, tinware, wood, ;,
enware. also large stock of groceries, all of
which [ will sell at low figures for cash or ex-
maid for -four wheat, corn, oats, &C. The farm
ers and every body will do we'll to give me a call
before selling or buying elsewhere.
sn1e j. A. LOGAN.