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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
Weights and Measures.

EDITOR OF SPECTATOR Can you give any
information as to the law in regard to weights
and measures. and why this law is SO much ne
elected? Who is the present Inspector, and
why is it that he has not visited the merchants
and others doing business since 1865? Does
the law require him to make periodical visits
every eight or tenth year, or is he direlict in
duty? 1t is manifest to every merchant doing
business whose scales are correct that it is verg
important that the inspector should be more
prompt in duty unless the law gives him this
great an interval between his visits.
COUNTY MERCHANT.
The Sealer W. and NJ, for AUGUSTA is Geo,
H. Hudson. The law reqrires him to have
his own weights proved and sealed in Richmond
every 10 years; that he shall advertise, at least
once each year, in newspaper, some convenient
place, where he will meet those having w.
and NJ. to seal, and failing to do so he subject
to fine of $40. 1t also requires him to go to
houses, stores &c., in the county, every three
years, and re-seal the weights and measures, OF
condemn them if wrong, and he is required to
60 to any place, he is called, at any time
the visits and times fixed by law.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
POETRY.
The Golden Side.

There is many rest on the road of life,
If we would only stop to take it;
And many tone from the better land,
If the queralous heart would make it.
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne er faileth,
The grass is green andlthe flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will sooa peep through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted,
There was never night without day,
Nor an evening without morning;
And the darkest hour, the proverbs say,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
It may be the love Of "a little child,
Or mothers prayer to Heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks
For cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filing,
And to do Gods will with ready heart,
And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate silver threads
Of our curious lives asunder;
And then blame Heav'n for the tangled ends
And sit, and grieve, and wonder.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

Among the appropriations for rivers and har-
bors made by the House on Saturday were $751;
900 for James river and $50, 900 for the Apo
mattoX river.
The Swiss Council of State has stopped the
salaries for three months ofall Priests who read
the unauthorized brief establishing Bishopric
for Geneva.
The Captain General of Cuba has authorized
loan of 500, 100000. The rains have ceased
in Cuba and grinding has recommended.
The United States tax on Edgecombe apple
brandy for the last season was Sc, ,972 80. Over
eleven thousand gallons were made
The Courthouse at Quebec, was burned Feb.
1st with all the reports Of the province, since
its foundation.
Robert Quails was shot and killed by William
Moore, at Bristol, Tennessee, Sunday week.
James FL. Coffin, Professor Of Mathematics
in Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa, is dead.
Ex-Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, the new
Minister to Russia, sailed on Wednesday.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
EOaS2adrGeS.
NTEyy FHRM.-We the undersigned

NIEVy FEEsM.-We the undersigned have
~ started Foundry in the Northern end OF
the city and are prepared to make all kinds OF
small grey iron castings, and every description
of brass casting. We have on hand forty-two
different styles of iron railing for fences, also
several different styles of chairs, settees and
school desks
We are prepared to furnish Bronzed Crescents
for Mansard Roofs. Particular attention given
to repairing stoves Call and examine our Rev.
oiution Cast Iron Clothes Line-something new
cheap and durable-every housekeeper ought tc
have one. Call at our shop next door to Capt
Schoppert. or leave your order with j. ". Ut
lev, corner of Augusta and Frederick streets.
Specialty-Light Grey Iron Castings
Terms-Cash. LONG & co.
Staunton, August 28-1J
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
Baltimore Advertisements,

AMOS IN COMPETITION
WITH ALL THE
Leading Manufacturers i'a this Country.
Office & New Wareroonas.
No. 9 n. Liberty Street. BALTIMORE, Md
The Ssieff Pianos contain all the latest
improvements to be found in a first class Piano.
with additional improvements of his own inven.
ton not to be found in other instruments. The
tone, touch and finish of their instruments can.
not be excelled by any manufactured.
A large assortment of Second hand Pianos al.
ways on hand, from $75 to $500.
Parlor and Church Organs, some 20 different
styles on hand from $50 and upwards.
Send for illustrated Catalogue, containing the
names of over 1900 Southerners, 900 of whom
are Virginians. two hundred North Carolinisns
one hundred and fifty East Tennesseeans, ano
others throughout the South). who have bought
the Stietf Piano since the close of the war.
JOEL ETTINGER,
july 9 If Staunton, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
Solved.

In the last Nndicator, ''K"
submits the following problem for solution:
A man has quantity of land which he wishes
to enclose with fence, the panels to be feet
long and rails high, and he wants to have an
equal number of rails and acres. Give me
the number Of rails and the number Of acres
My calculation makes the answer 696 $50
rails and aeres-the area Of 33 miles square.
"K' can say whether am
20. K"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
Boots, Shoes ana Hats.
100000. Boots. shoes Il Hats

@. L. WELLER has in Store his Fall and
Winter Stock, embracing something Tess than
drens Mems and Boys BOOTS and SHOES.
The most of his goods are made especially for
his trade, and are such goods as he can recon-
mend, and will be sold at a small advance on
cost Oc % IF
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

Cor THEIR SATISFY. The Montgomery
(Alabama) Advertiser learns from gentleman
just returned from Texas that there are in the
State not less than ten thousand men who
would be willing to work as day laborers on the
farms in Alabama, if by so doing they could
be assured of their return to their old homes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

The Committee on Claims has reported bill
appropriating money for the payment OF the
various awards by the Southern Claims Com
mission.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
LGUery.
LECET'ys
o~@ BURKEsS kO~M
ISI =. Livery Stables. ISZ Ss

xo~M BURKE'S koHm
HSI =. Livery Stables, ASZ 10
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
In entering upon the new year, the subscriber
has had his new stables arranged for the accom-
mediation of his growing CUSTOM and calls the
particular attention of his friends and the public
20 his unusual facilities for carrying on his Liv-
cry enlarged scale.
His stables are entirely new, the floors adapted
to the comfort OF horses, and his sheds fitted up
for the protection of vehicles from the weather
He wishes to remind the public that his COM
plete outfit of new
Buggies, PllsefOns, Carriages,
Hacks, &c,
in neatness and ease of moving, are not to be
equaled by any Livery in the Valley.
He can accommodate persons with superior RI
ding and driving horses-either gentle or fast.
Horses fed and boarded on liberal terms.
The famous hCstler, Tom BETHEL, is in gen.
eral charge Of the stables.
Ms- Office near the bridge-neoo building.
ia9-tf Ed BURKE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18
4 RsERECAN HOTEL rs
n Livery Stables. FtGssAss sss
STAUNToN VA 1MH u M-ssasg

JOHN O'TOOLE, ........ ""......::P Proprletor;
Ny stables are constantly supplied with ele-
gaat horses, carriages buggies, hacks, &c, which
will be furnished to my patrons on most reason
able terms. Also good and reliable drivers sup
piled if desired. [ can furnish livery, equal, if
not superior, to that Of any other stable in the
State. Give me trial and will guarantee sat-
sfaction. JOHN VTOOLE.
de0l-tf
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gtauntom Spettatur.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

CROCK SCALES.-The undersigned has
- just erected on his yard on the new Middle
brook road Fairbanks Scale, upon which he
will weigh all sorts of Stock He invites the at
tentlon OF shippers and others to the facility thus
afforded. H. T.. POWELL.
sep17-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

EATHEEs! Leather I'VE have in
4 Store a fine assortment of Upper Leather,
consisting of French and American Calf-Skins,
kin Skins. Lin1ngs, &C., also choice lot of
Sole Leather all selected for the trade. War
ranted to give satisfaction and sold at the lowest
cash prices, at
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

ENFFINGEGk. GkAEG. a. CO.. Ese$sE
Il Estate Agents, StauntOns Va.-At-
tention given to the purchase and sale OF lands
n the VALLEY of Virginia. Parties desiring to
put their farms or City property in market will
do well to place them in our hands, as we have
superior advantages in disposing of them,
Refer by permission to NJ; Harvey Efhnger,
ESQ, and Messrs. Echols, Bell q Catlett Staun-
Special attention paid to renting property in
the City of StauntOn. mar ly
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-02-18

Feb. 18th, 1873.
Editor Spectator:
[ am plain man and try to
speak plainly. and as [ do not speak often, |
hope YOU will pardon my intrusion. 1t is real
" painful to see the intellect the youthful geni-
us of Staunton waste in surveying the area of
the lots bordering our Female Schools, and then
they misplace their energies in walking miles
every day to head eff column Of schoolgirls,
so they can stare their modesty out of counte-
nance and make them sick with cigar smoke
Then the combination of both nuisances at and
around church doors, after service, is too bad.
Ii the police cannot stop these things, will not
their parents give these intelligent, refined and
energetic young men chance to fully develop
their undoubted talents with a pick and shovel
on the Valley Railroad?
A LOVER OF COOP MANNERS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
Bows, Read This.

A gentleman advertised for a boy
assist him in his office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves before
him. Out of the whole number he Sc
lected one and dismissed the rest. "I
should like to know" said friend,
son what ground you select that boy,
who had not single recommendation"
" You are mistaken" said the gentle
man, "he has great many. He wiped
his feet when he came in and closed the
door after him, showing that he was
careful gave up his seat instantly to
that lame old man, showing that he was
kind and thoughtful he took offhis cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and, respectfully,
showing he was polite and gentlemanly;
he picked up the book which I hadpur-
posely laid upon the floor, and replaced
it on the table, while all the rest stepped
over it or showed it one side; and he
waited quietly for his turn, instead of
pushing and crowding, showing that he
was honest and orderly. When | talked
with him I noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair in nice or
der and his teeth as white as milk; and
when he wrote his name l noticed that
his finger nails were clean, instead of
being tipped with jet, like that hand
some little fellow in the blue jacket.
Don't you call these things letters of
recommendation ! do, and l would
give more for what I can tell about a
boy by using my eyes ten minutes, than
all the letters Of recommendation that
he can bring me.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
Ideal Husbands.

A writer in the Saturday RevieaO
says .....
OF course one would not like to see
women give themselves to any one, no
matter who he might be, for the sake of
getting married but the solid thing of
life should be taught them as well as
it's poetic beauties and false hopes,
false ideals, unsubstantial loves, should
be vigorously excluded. A bad marrl-
age or q loveless life is not a pleasant
coda to that never-acted romance; nor
is the disenchantment which comes with
such cruel certainty on the heels of the
lovesick and unsuitable marriage q
blessing to be desired. Beauty fades,
passion cools, the blindness of ro-
nance gets couched when seeing is too
late; poetry does not pay the butcher (;
and gallantry of bearing of the "long
sword, saddle, bride " kind is apt to
lose itself in domestic bad language
when the pot is empty of puddings, and
half dozen children swarm about the
musty lodgings or dingy quarters to
which love and folly have reduced the
gay lieutenant and his bride. On the
whole, Prince Prettyman is dangerous
fellow either to get or wait for, faving
the trick of unsubstantiality through
out. Romantic girls would do well to
reflect that, if they are to have only one
gown in life time, they had better buy
one that will wash and wear creditably
to the end, rather than fimsy bit Of
finery that looks well only in the begin
ming, and goes to pieces before the first
wear is out. ~ "
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
The New Internal Machine.

We mentioned the other day that the
French Minister of Marine had sent
out circular warning shipowners, cap
tains, and insurance agents against the
new "infernal machine" intended for
the destruction of vessels which, for
fraudulent purposes, it is desired to
destroy. But for the respectable au-
thority on which the warning was given,
the alleged invention might have been
regarded as a hoax; and, indeed, we
suggested as much. It was no hoax,
however, but grim and horrible fact.
The Birmingham Daily Post has seen
one of the villainous contrivances. 1t
is an irregularly-shaped piece of metal,
about six inches long, by three broad
and two and half deep; and it is so
constructed as exactly to resemble a
small block of steam coal. Indeed, the
specimen we have is evidently modelled
from an actual piece of coal, and it is
colored bright black, so skillfully that
on casual inspection it would readily
pass muster for coal, and so might be
put into the coal bunkers of vessel
without exciting the least suspicion.
The interior is followed so as to admit
of the introduction of detonating COM
pound, and a mechanical contrivance is
arranged in the hollow part so as to in
sure explosion at desired moment.
We have also an exact description of
the materials employed to fill the shell
for such it may be called-but these,
for obvious reasons, we decline to pub
lish. There is only one thing satisfac-
tory in reference to this diabolical in
vention-that it is not of English make.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12

it home to me now, Amy, and 1 will not
vex the dearest little wife in the world
again by adding unexpected company to
her household cares" ..
So Amy lost her grievance, for Oliver
gave her due notice from that time for
ward when he meant to invite a guest.
True, it was a strong temptation, when
he met his friends, to run the risk and
take them home, but the vision of
Boyle's bill, and Amy's sacrifice of her
uncle's wedding present, rose beforehis
eyes, and he gave the invitation for an
other day, or let it pass. For after all,
he found, when the appointed day
came, he cared very little for the ex-
pected pleasure, and would have en-
joyed quiet dinner and evening with
Amy quite as well as the company of AN
OCCASIONAL LFRIEND.-Ledger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
The Minimum in Minnesota,

Exchanges note that Winstrand, the
Swedish ex-royal secretary, who lives
in Minnesota, has reached height of
economy of which Dio Lewis is igno-
rant. Having read a statement that
Indian corn contains more than four
times as much oily matter as wheat
flower, and that one pound of it, parch-
ed and made into bread, is more than
equal to two pounds of fat meat, the
careful Swede resolved to test its power.
Mixing corn-meal with water, he, with
his own devoted hands, made cake one
inch thick and seven inches in diameter,
which he baked on the Goals in the par
lor stove. A cake of this size proved to
be more than sufficient for one meal.
Three times day, for weeks, the ex-
perimenter ate nothing else, didn't
want anything else, didn't lose weight,
and was perfectly we'll. He must have
constitution before which even hard
boiled eggs might bow and mince-pie
blush. To rational people he presents
the argument that it takes one hours
work, besides fencing, to produce half
bushel of corn, which is more than
sufficient for ten days for one person
it needn't cost anybody more than five
dollars year, Irrational people," he
declares, twill be more satisfied on that
than on the fare at the best hotels in
Europe or America." Moreover, he OBJ
served that half an acre will produce
all the vegetables one person will need
for one year, without hard labor that
when the weather is warm it is very
comfortable and healthy to go barefoot,
and Every comfortable house." large
enough for one person, can be built in
Minnesota for twenty dollars, and al
most anybody can do it for himself.
Therefore nobody need be at loss
for den wherein to dwell, and fare
SURPRISING that of the best hotels at a
cost of five dollars year. ...
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
IONT, SATURDAY, JULY II, 1873.

huential families in the nation-the
Rosses and the Ridges. 1t grew out of
a dissatisfaction at treaty made by
the Ridge party. Those hostile to the
treaty claimed that the Ridges had
agreed to sell portion of the Territory
to the United States, contrary to the
instructions of the nation and ven
delta followed, in which Boudinot,
Ridge, and all the parties to the treaty
were killed, save Stand Weatie, who
succeeded in defending himself, single
handed, against dozen assailants who
came to kill him. On the wave of in
dignation against the Ridges and the
other parties to this odious treaty, the
Ross party came into power, and has
since achieved considerable distinction
both by its lead in the affairs of the
whole Territory, and by its loyalty to
the government during the late war.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
The Man in the Moon.

The origin of the expression the
Man in the Moon" is unknown, but
the name has from time immemorial
been applied to the dark lines and spots
upon the surface of the moon, which are
visible to the naked eye, and which,
when viewed through good telescope,
are discovered to be, the shadows of
lunar mountains. 1t is one of the most
popular and most ancient superstitions
of the world that these lines and spots
are the figure of a manleaning on fork
on which he carries bundle of thorns
or brushwood, for stealing which on
Sunday he was confined to the moon.
The account given of a man who was
stoned to death for gathering sticks on
Sunday, is supposed by some to be the
origin of this belief. Dante supposes
Cain to have been the offender who was
placed eternally in the moon for punish
ment of his crime. Some of the old
poets thought these spots and lines rep
resented the boy Endymion, "whose
company the moon loved so we'll that
she carried him constantly with her. "
Other ancients thought they represented
a fox it sfy, t.l A5f 0tRtt
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
Action of Tobacco,

A highly important series of expert
ments have been made by two German
physicians, Vogl and Gutenberg, with a
view accurately to determine the physi-
illogical action of tobacco. Their re-
searches had reference first to the action
of those bases of tobacco which are
volatilized at temperature lower than
one hundred and sixty degrees, and
then to those volatilizable between one
hundred and sixty and two hundred
and sixty degrees. 1t was found that
the action of all these bases was identi-
cal with that of nicotine, producing con-
traction of the pupil, labored respira-
tion, commissions, and death. When
taken into the stomach they produce
their effects more speedily than when
simultaneously injected /; though even
in the latter case they are not so instan-
taneous as nicotine. The lungs and air
passages of animals experimental upon
were found, on post-mortem examina-
tion, to be greatly congested.
MeSSrs. NoSl anu LuleHDerS aICrlDuUe
to the pyridine and picoline bases, and
not to nicotine, the painful symptoms
of the novice in smoking, as also the
poisonous effects of tobacco-juice when
swallowed. The fact that stronger to-
bacco can be used in the shape of cigars
than in the pipe, is explained by this,
that there are more of the volatile bases
in the smoke from the latter. d Pyridine
is very volatile and stupefying, and
exists in pipe smoke abundantly, while
in cigar smoke but little of it is found,
though collidine is there in considera-
BILE quantity. r.. -1gg ,.t
In the course of their experiments
the writers compared the action of these
bases, with that of the bases of other
plants used for smoking, dandelion,
willow wood, and stramonium. None
of these, however, except willow wood
contract the pupil. From these results
Messrs.. Vogl and Eulenburg conclude
that the different effects of opium smok-
ing are due to difference in the pro-
portion of the bases produced by com
| bHstion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
General Invitations.

As rule, we doubt the sincerity of
general invitations. An invitation to
call "any time" often means no time.
If you call, your friend is out, or is not
prepared to receive you. How often we
hear persons say, "Come and take tea
with us" "When shall I come 2"
"Oh, any time" Yougo little before
the hour for tea; you sit with your
things on, because you are not asked to
take them off; of course you are not 60
ing to say, I have come to tea," and
as nothing is said about it by your host
andn o signs appearing to show that
you are expected to stay, you rise to de-
part not word is said about tea the
commonplace invitation is given, "Call
again, and you leave with the feeling
that people don't mean it when they in
vite you to come to tea. You see the in
vitation was not sincere-you we're not
wanted. 1t is great pity people can
not or will not take counsel of their
common sense, and do what they ought
to do sincerely and positively, Uncer-
tainty not only breeds discomfort, butit
nourishes instability. ae