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FOR THE SPECTATOR,
LIFE.

81 dream d, and thought that Life was beauty
I wak'd and found that Life was duty.p
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i'm two Ships.

where he has worked in the best manufactures
in the world. He can make watch out and out,
from tho raw material, and, consequently, is Ca
pable of doing any kind of work in the Watch
making md Repairing Business. All work guar
anteed.
GABRIEL HIRSH.
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Life policies are now generally conceded to be
among the most certain ande most desirable of
investments: This Company, managed upon
rates of Premiums, consistent with safety, and
loaOer than any Company doing business in the
State, and its success is established fact. Its
profits are realized in Virginia and by Virginia
curity to the Policy holders additional to the
Capital Stock, is invested by the Local Boards
in that section of the State from which it is de-
rived.
Being convinced, by their knowledge CT the
integrity and prudence of the gentlemen who
compose its directory, and by thorough exami-
nation of the plan of organization, that it is in
every respect reliable Company. the citizens
scribed to its Stock and taken policies, and feel
warranted in commending the enterprise to the
favorable consideration Of the Valley people.
Of1ce-Corner of Augusta and New Court
house Streets adjoining D. S. Young's law office.
Jan 16 If
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Loves young dream-a little signing, little
crying, little dying, and great deal of lying.
IF Adam is accountable for consequential
damages he will have rough time of it.
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Fstr7aSteG9e'

SPPRREENSsS SPPRESs 1879 ssFPkkHHSsG
GREAT INDUCEMENTS!
GREATER REDUCTIONS
GREATEST ATTRACTIONS!
nj WILKES having succeeded, during the
o 1nar IA, y in sweeping the props of imposition
las urniture buyers begs leave to inform them
on ont 7 h is now prepared to supply them with
UFACTURED So NORTHERN
HOME W. r-n.o Mattresses, COfifns, &c.
Furnlt still greater reduced rates.
ai.oot at Of per cent. will be allowed te
0tauneoh lSe III '''' S. M. WILKES,
ii''i ~ next to Va. Hotel, staunton, Va.
61ataIogues s,f school Books, ETC..
Z sent on app ieation; BY boo,.o,,o,
sos-tf New street, Staunton.
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rN MJ prxT xp k1grF a Ef

HENRY r. CEASE.
I'll Wholesale and Reatail Dealer in CON-
FECTIONs FRUITS. CAKES, CANDIES,
&C., Main Street, Staunton, Virginia
Special attention given to supplying WEDDING
and SOCIAL PARTIES,
Candies of all descriptions manufactured and
sold. Wholesale and Retail, as cheap as can be
purchased in the Valley or the State.
accounts are adans all nads off, off, and per,
requested to come forward and settle junela
UEEE& WARE, GLASS Wa Re,
~ STONEWARE, &C.,
at reduced prlces.-The largest and prettiest as
sortment in the Valley also table cutlery, look
ing glasses. walters, and baskets OF all kinds
Gr0geries.-A nice and full assortment of
family groceries. Buys and sells country pro-
duce for cash or trade Prime butter, eggs, &C.,
always on hand. II. M AZ lee,
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-ouso EasazntSng and SsraEming.

III I beg leave to inforn my friends and tbs
public geaeraly that am carrying zn 81 on business
tor myself ana am plePSfGsu ppd Grapng Line "inA in tbe
most mo satisfactory and workman-like manner, on
the most reasonable terms:
Very Respectfully.
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Insurance.
II IyERPOOL AMI LNNnNN AN

r LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND
Ia GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY,
HEAD OFFICE, As WILLIAM STREET,
Branch Office, 239 Broadway, N. Y.
Capital, Surplus. and Reserved Funds, all liza
BILE for all Fire Losses Gold, $2O.O0O,O0O.
Daily cash receipts, upwards of 10000.
DAVENPORT q Co, General Agents, Richmond,
Va. z. B. SUBLETT, agent, Staunton, Va.
ia23-1y
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Groceries, dc.


IL We have just made large additions to our
varied stock of Staple Dry Goods, Groceries ana
Hardware-part to arrive.
Our Dry Goods Department has been selected
with special reference to the wants of our coun-
try friends.
We have in store, and to arrive
10 bbls. Va Pan Sugar,
20 N Orleans s.
Is White
20 Bags Coffee,
25 bbls Syrup,
10 '' Prime Syrup,
with Teas, Spices. Soaps, Candles, &c., &c
Our Stock of Hardware has been much en-
larged, and we call the attention OF Farmers and
Builders to the opportunity of saving money Dy
giving us a CALL We now have a full stock OF
Rolled and Hammered Iron,
Nails and Horse Shoes.
Nail Rods, H orse Shoe Nails,
Forks Shoves and Spades,
Locks, Hinges and Screws,
Pen Knives and Table Cutlery,
Barn door Hangers, and Coffee Mills,
Trace. Breast, Halter and Fifth chains,
Hatchets, Hammers and Saws,
with many other articles in this line-also
The Lightning Saw,
the Hand, Wood (cr Buck and Cross-cut Saw
an entirely new make for this market. Read
this certificate:
I'VE note as proof of the ease that permits
sustained effort, the saving by hand OF twenty
six cords of hard wood, in eight hours, by two
men with one saw, once filed. This is wonder
full" bAAEh bhOo.
r.
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REYagssEsEe Of EssSsEIene-MOs Ost Interesting to
Jladies.-Just received
The Palpitating Breast Pad or Artificial Bust
Madame Foss' patent adjustable Stocking Sup
norter. nofent Duplex Y Ventilated Garter; Nine.
Dpmorest's Stocking Suspender for Ladies, Mis-
sae ond Children K NJ. KELLEY.
yHyEsFFE-E OF FASgaEON.-Mrs K. NJ:
Kelly is receiving from New York q full
supply of Ladies' and Misses ready made suits
IF
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THE IMMENSE STOCK OF GOODS THAT
GABRIEL HTEaSEE

has on hand, is pretty certain evidence that he
means business, and that he intends to sell at
the shortest profits consistent with safety and
prudence.
A business association with this people for a
quarter Of q century, fortifes him in the conclu-
sion that he knows how to select goods to suit
the various tastes of the community, and every
one who has dealt " it'll him knows that all he
aims at is living profit His magnificent stock of
1EW Try
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1HVO UPHOLsTERERs.-We have e.made
arrangements to keep constantly on hand q
upnIy of curled hair, nattrass and sofa springs.
matSrsss needles, &c. Any quality of hair
cloth furnished at short notice.
o-0'-- WOODS 81 GILKESON
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GEO. q. JACKSON, ,.........Sec. and Gen. Agent
DR.. b. NJ. ATKINSON, ...... Medical Examiner.
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Professional Directory.

Estate Agents, Sfaunton. Va.IAt-
in t1'ile the Eaey Of Targisia Parties desiring to
put their farms or City property in market will
do well to place them in our hands tn as we have
Refer bv permission to. NJ Harvey Efinger,
ESQ, and Messrs. Echols Bell & Catlett, Staun-
sfon, Va.
SpeciaE attention paid to renting property IN
the City of Staunton. mar ly
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Life seem'd so true, so beautiful, so bright
needed not of death, or change, or blight,
It's ev'ry JOY. was pure as Springs first fow'rs,
It's tears, as fitting as young ApriPs show'rs.
Which only Mem'ry's fairy wand could raise !;
With blue-eyed hopes and dreams the Future
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CURI0STTIEs or LIFE.

Lay your finger ON your pulse, and know
his Maker; some fellow-being crosses the riv-
er of death and il we think of it, we may
well wonder that it should be so long before
our turn comes.
Half of all who live die before seventeen.
Only one person in ten thousand lives to be
a hundred years old, and one in u hundred
reaches sixty.
The married live longer than the single.
There is one soldier for every eight persons,
and out of every thousand born only ninety
five weddings take place.
If you take a thousand persons who have
reached seventy years, there are of clergymen,
orators and public speakers, 43 farmers, 40 /;
workmen, 33 soldiers, 30 lawyers, 20 pro-
fessors, u doctors, "a.
These statements are very instructive.
Farmers and worlsmon do not arrive ut as good
old age as the cl6rgymen and others who per-
form no manual labor but this is owing to
neglect of the laws of health, inattcntion TO
proper habits of life in eating, drinking sleep
ing, dress and the proper care OF themselves
after the work Of the .say is done. These
farmers or worlSmen eat u hearty supper of "a
summers day, and sit around the doors in
their shirt-sleeves and in their tired condition
laying the foundation for diarrh~a, bilious
collie, lung fever, or consumption.-Af05F
Jour1at Of Heath.
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CAMPAIGN OUTLAWS.
GFrom the Examiner and CT ronicr,. ]


An opinion seems to prevail that every e.
peal for money in political canvass like that
at present in progress is, Soso .facto, evidence
of bribery and corruption. With no more iil-
tefest in politics than is common to every ill-
telligent Christian citizen who wishes well to-
his country we desire to vindicate all parties
from the iinputation which rests upon them,
in many minds, when Informed that SO much
money has been spent to carry certain state,
on Is needed to secure .. national triumph.
We recently : interviewed i prominent
politician with reference to campaign expenses
and his statements in which we, at Least have
the fullest cofnidence--are reasmfring to those
who have been depressed in view Of the sup
posed evidence of bribery and corruption af-
forsled by the expenditure Of money to carry
an election.
How much money" we asked him, twill
be expended to ensure the reelection of Gem
eral Grant ?'' s.At least $150,000,' was his
answer 1--WE ought to use S250,000, but I'm
afraid we can't get it. The people have so
much confidence in the justice of our cause,
and the strength of the ticket, that they don't
come down as they used to" "Win the Lib
eral Republicans spend as much to elect Gree
leye" ''More, / have no doubt" ''Now,
will you tell me what becomes of all this mo-
neya" 'Wel, our largest item is for print
ing /; then there is the rent of halls and COM
mite rooms, the pay of bands, and the expen-
ses of men who give up their business to de-
vote their time and talents to speech-making,
f@
nothing of the sum you name go to buying UP
voters?' "a very small percentage of it
may but do not believe any National or
State committee in the land would appropriate
money for such purpose, or contemplate such
use of their appropriations. Voters are, UNI
donbtedly, bought and sold ON both sides; but
this is entirely matter of private speculation.
Individual candidates are likely to spend mo-
ney in this way. Organized committees would
hardly dare to, if they wished and are sufli-
GENTLY burdened with campaign expenses
which any reasonable man would regard as
entirely legitimate"
After submitting our informant, with whom
we conversed merely as personal friend to
the best cross-examnation which we could in
stltute, we We're cohlpeleu TO coheiutte tllat
the Legitimate expenses ; Of a political cam
paign which embraces the entire Union are
tritle heavier than most people are aware of;
and that the men who are running the politi-
cal machine are likely to come to the polls too
impecunious to indulge in the luxury of buy
ing voters.
Christian men, who may have withheld con-
4 A.. Al I.
that they can only be put to base uses, may
be treasured by the results of our interview.
So long as the American mind is
81 Pleased with rattle tickled with straw
so long as there are Ida Greeley Grays, and
Nellie Grant Blues /" to be uniformed and
equipped, there campaign expenses which,
however frivolous, are neither inpotcnt nor
Ubiquitous.
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his place among the soldiers, and continued

his place among the soldiers, and continued
his repast.
Sir Nicholas sat silent and thoughtful That
very night, after having given orders that the
prisoner was to be well treated, he left home
without saying where he was going, and was
absent for three days. On the fourth day he
arrived, and ordered the royalist officer to be
brought before him.
Are you going to settle my affair, at
length ?" asked he, coolly at is time to do
so, were it only for humanity's sake. They
treat me so well at your house, Sir Nicholas,
that before long shall come to wish to retain
my life"
My friend, . said the judge, with a grave
face, but in voice trembling with emotion
"twenty years ago you said to me, Do not
medde with the curtain, youngster, for the
cane hurts - Here is your pardon, signed by
the Lord Protector; but in my turn ] say to
you, DO not take up arms against the Parlia-
ment, for Cromwell is not easy to deal with. y
--,4scoh r. Hope, IN Me1ay's Museum.
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THE STRAY MULE.


At meeting in frontier Western settle
ment several present were stoutly opposed to
the organization Of Sunday School Not
being able to agree, the meeting was breaking
up, when the chairman said he had very
important notice to read to them. Quiet was
soon restored to hear this rather novel @ roli-
gious notice"
'Strayed-A large black mule. He had on
a halter when he left, and is branded ON the
left hip with the letter S. Any one returning
said mule will be literally rewarded"
The keen Sunday School Union missionary
quickly announced that he also had very
important notice to give out
"Strayed-A number of boys from their
homes, near this place, this Sunday morning
They had guns and fishing poles on their
shoulders when they left. They are branded
by holy God, as Sabbath breakers. Any one
returning said boys, and placing them in a
Sunday School, will be literally rewarded at
the day of judgment"
The tact of that missionary carried the vote
in favor of Sunday School, and those stray
boys were duly 'returned :" to it,
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BOYS IND PUMIKIN I'IES.

What John said was, that he didn't care
much for pumpkin pie; but that was after he
had eaten a whole one. 1t seemed to him then
that mince would be better. The feeling of "a
boy toward pumpkin pie has never been con-
sidered. There is an air of festivity about its
approach in the fall. The boy is willing to
help pare and cut up the pumpkin, and he
watches with the greatest interest the stirring
up process, and the pouring into the scalloped
crust. When the sweet SAVIOR of the baking
reaches his nostrls he is filled with the most
delightful anticipations. Why should he not
be? He knows that for months to come the
buttery will contain golden treasures, and that
it will only require slight ingenuity to get at
them. The fact is, that the boy is as good in
the buttery as in any part of farming His
elders say that the boy is always hungry but
that is a very coarse way to put it. He has
only recently come into world that is full of
good things to eat, and there is, on the whole,
a very short time in which to eat them at
least, he is told, among the first information
he receives, that life is short. Life being brief
and pie and the like fleeing, he very soon de-
cideS upon an active campaign. III may be an
old story to people who have been eating for
forty or fifty years, but it is different with a
beginner. He takes the thick and thin as it
comes, as to pie for instance. Some people do
make them very thin. knew a place where
they were not thicker than the poor mans
plaster; they were spread so thin upon the
crust that they were better fitted to draw out
hunger than to satisfy it. They used to be
made up by the great oven full, and kept in
the dry cellar, where they hardened and dried
to toughness you would hardly believe. This
was long time ago, and they make the
pumpkin pie in the country better now, or the
race of boys would have been so discouraged
that think they would have stopped coming
into the world.--C. d. Warner, in g Work and
PJag"
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IMPROVEMENT IN OUR LITERATURE.

In no direction is the progress of this age
eyinced more than in our literature. Take q
periodical of the present day and compare it
with similar production Of fifty years ago,
and what an immense improvement is discern
ible--what freedom, depth and power in
handling the subject--what enlarged and ell
lghtened views compared with those that for
merly prevailed. Morally as well as intellec-
tually, the productions of literature are of a
higher type. Our reviews and magazines
number among their contributors some Of the
ablest writer's Of the day and for the most
part fairly and honestly instruct the public
taste. Our fictitious literature has assumed a
high place, and ON the whole, is exerting q
healthful influence making us at once wiser
and happier, more charitable, tolerant and
loving Rarely if ever, does impurity sully
its pages for the most part, its influence is
entirely on the side of virtue and good morals,
And what an immense audience our writers Of
fiction have now obtained what congregation
do they address; with what fine creations they
have peopled the realms Of fancy Like friends
and brothers they come to us in our lonely
hours to cheer and brighten our daily life
"That the night may he filled with music,
Aud the that infcst the day,
Ma. fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away"
Then consider our newspaper press--the
greatest educator of the day. What a differ
ent thing it is from the days of old, and how
mighty its influence How brilliant the talent
it exhibits How fearlessly it aims its blows
at the most exalted personages when guilty
of wrong doing What wonderful world
history the daily paper presents to be enjoyed
with the morning meal. In fact here are the
materials out of which the future Macauleys
will construct history. On the whole, the
great stream of newspaper literature is bear
ing blessings on its bosom the immoral por-
ton of it is getting weaker and disappearing ;
the healthful and elevating is commanding a
wider influence. The weekly newspaper press
has now representatives of the highest excel
lence, and the superior quality of the writing,
III the thoughtful and often profound essays
ON current topics contained in it's columns,
indicates at once the genuine power and cul-
ture of the contributors, and the growing taste
for literary excellence among those whom they
address.
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MOSONITOES.


This beats New Jersey. Professor Jaeger
writes "When travelling some years ago in
the country of the Czernomorzi, or Cossacks
of the Black sea, we observed before each
house of the different s5anitx0s, or villages OF
the CossaclSs, large heaps of half dried man
IRE ignited and smoking, which our driver in
formed us was for the purpose of keeping off
the mosquitoes. Toward evening on a very
hot June day, we assembled the right bank of
the muddy and slowly running river Kuban,
on the left bank of which the independent
Circassia stretched out before us, when sud-
denly swains of small mosquitoes covered u.s.
our servant, and driver, and horses, lighting
upon us in humps an inch thick, and, in spite
of all the covering we could hastily throw
over us, toimenting us excessively with their
bites" We have jouineycd through the
swamps of Long Island and New Jersey, and
have had the mosquitoes pursue us i'll clouds,
but we never yet had them settle on us an
inch thick. Let us stop our boasting. When
it comes to mosquitoes, America dwindles in
to insigniiicance by the side of the land of the
Cossacks. Is there not comfort in the thoughtP
-Twrf, Field md Fdrm.
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~" Some curious experiments have re-
Gently been made in France to ascertain the
effect of wine brandy and absinthe on fowls
The result was that they lost flesh rapidly,
more especially those who drank absinthe
Two months of absinthe drinking was found
sufficient to kill the strongest cock or hen
The fowls who INDUCED in brandy alone
lasted, however, four months and half, while
the wine bibbers survived for ten months. 1t
was not only their health which was affected by
alcohol, their personal appearance underwent
an extraordinary change. An immense de-
velopment of cocks crests took place. The
crests, it is stated, increased to four times
their original size, and assumed a hue of UNI
natural riglltness-probably on the same
principle that the noses of confirmed drunk
ards become preternaturally large and red.
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HOW THEY LIVE IN AFRICA.

Africa, says DIR. Livingstone, abounds in
food of all kinds and rich soil raises every
thing planted, in great luXuriance A friend
of mine tried rice, and in between three and
four months the crop increased 1870 fold
Three measures of seed yielded 800 measures
Maize is so abundant that have seen forty
five loads, each about sixty pounds weight,
given for "a single goat. The maize dlia or
holcus sorghum, hennistum, cassaya, sweet
potato and yams furnish in no stinted measure,
farinaceous ingredients for dict; the palm oil,
erounonuts and a forest tree afford fatty ma
terial food bananas and plaintains i'll great
profusion and the sugar cane and the sacha-
rne; the palm toddy, beer of bananas, tobac-
CO. and VANCE eanabbis salina the luxuries of
life and the villages swarm with goats, sheep,
hogs pigs, and fowls, while elephants, buff
faloes, zebras, and gokes or gorillas, yield to
expert hunters, plenty of the heterogeneous in
gradients Of human food. 1t was puzzling to
see why they should be cannibals. New Tea
landers, we were told were cannibals because
they had killed all their gigantic birds, moa,
&C., and they were converted from the man
eating persuasion by the introduction of pigs !;
but the Manyema have plenty Of pigs and
other domestic animals, and yet they are can
nibals Into the reason for their cannibalism
they do not enter. They say that human flesh
is not equal to that of goats or pigs. 1t is
saltish and makes them dream of the dead
->.-a1e-.<
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THE OLD COUPLE.

They sat in the sun together,
Till the day was almost done,
And then at its close an angel
Stepped over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together,
He touched their eyelids with balm,
And their last breath iloated upward
Like the close of a solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they travcrsed
The unseen mystical road,
That leads to the Beautiful City,
Whose Builder and Maker is God.
Perhaps, in that miracle country,
They will give her lost youth back,
And the flowers of a vanished Spring-time
Shall bloom in the spirits track.
One draught of the living waters
Shall restore his manhood's prime,
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outliyes time
But the shades they left behind them
The wrinkles and silver hair
Made sacred to us by the kisses
The angel imprinted there
Well hide away in the meadow
When the sun is low in the west,
Where the moonbeams cannot find them,
Nor the wind disturb their rest.
But we'll let no tell-tale tombstone,
With its age and date, arise
Ger the two who are old no longer
In their Fathers house in the skies.