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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-01-31
PUBLIC SALE.

PUBLIC SALE.
Z WILL sell al Public Sale
On Thursday, 10th of February,
1874. al my residence one nile Yves, Of
Kerneysville. known s "Trss-ler's
Rest" the following properly:
5 Work Horses,
4 Colts,
three years old next Spring snd one
year old.
s good Mich Cows,
Fine 3 year old BULL. Attorney.
8 Head of Young
Cattle,
| Brood Sow.
Hog.
Wheat Re'per and Mover. com.
bin'd, CE'na.
! Dull,
4 B,r.h, ar Plows.
4 DourIe and Single Shovel do.
large Wagon aud Wood Ladders.
large Roller.
old Wagon Bed,
Corn Sntller,
IL ROW.
2 Log Chs'ls. | Fuih Chain.
Pair Spfesders.
Single, Double aud Treble Trees.
Grow Bar.
Moving Scyihes. new,
Cutting Box.
Large Feed Box.
Q Nsttocks.
3 pair Sheep Shears.
Two Horse Sleigh. . One Horse. d.,
. pair Brichbsnds. 4 pair Front Gears.
But Chsin., Collars and Brides. Mvs,
Tub. Barrels. 10, Of Old Iron. ! Sledge.
Plow Gesr,. / large Spinning Wheel.
| Ru, Fork. l OUrHD0WN BUCK.
/ Psrlor Stove, | Ten Plate. DO . psis
Bed,,esds. | new Kitchen Table, Iror
Kettle. 2 Churns. = sands OF Bse', loi
of Potaiors. CORN by the barrel.
TERMS "A Credit Of Ten Months
will he given on all sums Of ten dollsn.
urder ten Jo'lars tie cash will be rqur-
et, over ten dol.rs note aud Qood secu.
ri,y will be required. notes to bear inter
est from Js,r bot il paid At maturity tho
interest will be- dr6uc'ej. No properly
to be removed un,I settled for.
Sale e. commence 81 10 o'clock.
T.. r. ROBERTS.
q. d. McGlinry. AuctioDser.
January 81. 1874. ~
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-01-31

D~ PUBLIC SALEs.-The following
sales are advertised in this paper =
S. Il. Harrison offers valuable little
farm. at private sale, near Shepherds
town.
William Engle and Humphrey En-
Gle, Trustees, will sell real estate on
March Z, 1874.
VIM. 6. Butler offers at private sale
his excellent farm near Kerneysville.
E. Fl. Roberts will sell at public sale,
near Kerneysville, on Thursday the 10Th
Of February, stock, farming utensils,
&c.
Nelson T. Snyder viii sell at public
sale, on the Ridge, on Friday the goth
of February, stock, farming utensils, DC
The Heirs Of Jacob Staley, deceased,
will sell at public sale, a valuable stone
house, and lot in this town, on Saturday
the 2sth of February.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-01-31
4 head of good w ork
Horses,
l fine Riding and
Driving Mare.
lno~ in f0al,)
FILLY, 3 years old neIs Spring
IL head of Cattle,

among them three good Mich Cows one
BuIl. end the others two-yssrs old.
new four.borse Wagon sod Bee.
! Spring. Wagon. new. 'ndS Her.
2 one.horse SIeishs.
Buggy Rsks.
Q thres.b horse Psrsbesr PlovS
two horse DO.
2 Double spd ! single shovel plows.
j large Hsnos,
I whes, Fan, new. lBsktr's i'm
Treble. Double and Single Trees.
good Corn Shelter.
Wagon and PIow Ge,n,
Log Chain,
Fifth Chain.
+" / Cross.cot Saw.
1 Agricultural Boiler visb fixtures
for cooking food for slocx, -
1 Jack Scrss. ! WhssIbsrrov, l
Sledgs. l Grow Bar. and many other
articles. :.
TERMS-A credit Of iep qouths vii
be given on eli SONS over Ten doIlsss.pob
and approved security required. ths netee
to besr fnserrsi from date. bpt u psid
prom ply when doe The interest yih ~
remi,ied. Sons Of ten dollars ed snoe!
cash. No property 10 BE- removed spn'
set,lsc for.
Sale 70 eommsses q 10 o'slcek. 3. y.
NELSON r. SNYDER.
G. D. NcGIiney, Acct. -lT
Ian. Al. 1874. "
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
EIiT MUSLIN.

A fashion writer says: "More and
more ladies intending to pass their va
cation by the seashore abandon starched
stuffs and take to soft wors.ed goods.
Three-quarters of the white dresses that
have gone and are goingtoL Long Branch,
Saratoga, Newport and Cape May this
season are of grenadine, tissue, Cham
berg gauze, crepe, foulard, twilled silk,
and other light but non-washable ma
%terials. The folly of wearing in the
damp atmosphere of the coast costumes
which half an hour after donning look
like moist rags, is fully appreciated
now, though it has taken years to real
ize it. 1t is only in the dryest of in
land or mountain towns that it "pays II
to veal lawns and muslins /; but there
is nothing 50 bewitchingly feminine as
these diaphonous stuffs."
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
CROCODILES IN FLORIDA

Mr.. c. G. Maynard, the intelligent
o~rnithologist, who has spent several
years in the Southern Peninsular State,
collecting notes for his work on "The
Birds OF Florida" records the capture,
in the winter of 1s73-'74, of a crocodile,
on a journey from Lake Harvey to In
dian river, at a place called Cabbage
Slough. This is the second specimen
OF the crocodile known to have been
killed in the United States, the first
having been taken by Prof. Wyman
lear New Smyrna, Fla. During a pre-,
vious expedition to the west coast of
Florida, Mr.. Maynard found quite a
number of these saurians at the mouths
of rivers emptying into the Gulf of
Mexico. The alligator differs from the
crocodile, in having a shorter and flat
ter head in the existence of cavities
in the upper jaw, instead of notches be-
tween the teeth for the reception of the
long fourth teeth of the under jaw /; and
in the much less webbed feet. The al
ligator is widely distributed in tropical
America, but is restricted to the West.
ern Hemisphere. The crocodile on the
other hand, Is found in both hem.
ispheres.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
NUMBER of TEXAS CATTLE NOWIN
AMMAN.

The Kansas City Journal Of COM
maerce gives the following information
relative to this seasons cattle trade A.:
The drive from Texas, now about all in
sight, will number 155, 900, and distrib-
uted as follows : 40, 900 at Coffeeville,
40, 900 at Wichita, q, 200 at Great Bend
and neighboring points, $4,000 at Ellis
worth, and 1900 at Bunker Hill and
other places. These will be marketed
this fall, while the remainder, $4,000,
will be consumed on the frontier filling
Indian contracts. Besides these are
about 100, 600 wintered Texans in Kan
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

uncomfortable soul of the "Bayard of
the Seas" yielded itself up without a
groan at half-past 10 o'clock that night.
The next day the little old national
InteUigencer came out with a loaded
editorial head, saying that it would be
"~affectation ;" to be silent upon the
fact that the duel had occurred, and
that the combatants were MORALLY
wounded. In postscript" it related
that Decatur was dead, and added, in
the crude apostrophe of that period,
Mourn, Columbia for one of your
| brightest stars is set!" Three days
| afterward the mail was robbed three
miles from Baltimore, the driver tied
to a tree and shot dead, and the mail
bags picked over in the bushes near by.
All this while Decatur's body was going
from his residence, close by the White
House, to "Kalorama," an estate o. a
hill overlooking Georgetown, and while
Barron lay in the city, writing with
pain, listening to the funeral drums.
In Congress, John Randolph offered
c%onsolatory resolutions, but they were
objected TO. The tone of the press,
commenting on the duel, was respect
full, both TO the living and dead an
tagonists, but as sternlydenunciatory of
"the code" as our newspapers nova
days could be.
Barron suffered dreadfully for many
months, but recovered at last and lived
down to 1851, surviving, I think, De-
catur's childless widow, who was repre-
scented in 1916 to be alive in the
Georgetown Catholic College, " in i'll
health and poverty, finding in the con-
solutions OF religion alone alienation
of her SORROWS" but hopeful of secur-
ing something from Congress. Barron
went to sea again. and had charge of
several vessels. but the shadow of the
Guel lay across his life. People forgot
the apology for it in the catastrophe of
it. A new generation of boys rose up
who read of Decatur's valor, and
learned to regard Barron as the as
sassin. The poor living victim could
not explain against a dead man. He
asked for a court-martial on Decatur's
charge against him, and was exoner-
ated with niggardly compliments.
Decatur lies buried behind St. ieter's
Church, Philadelphia, in a venerable,
spacious graveyard, under an eagle
capped monument. His portrait is in
Georgetown College. His name is con
ferred on many towns and counties in
the country. What he lived for he had
obtained-glory il the eyes Of his
coUntrymen.
Barron obtained "satisfaction lit
tie more. Yet | think that the latter
was throughout the aggrieved spirit.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
WIEN SHE WON'T. SHE WON'T.

A viyacious writer on Switzerland
avs "Only the day before our visit,
the Bad Step had its latest tragedy,
with a comic edge to it, as most TRACE
dies have. In the pouring rain, a party
left the hotel at Chamounix for the Mer
de Glace, and coming up on the other
side, took the Bad Step first. The
sweetest of little old ladies, a mere dot
of a woman, with her doctor of divinity,
we're among them, and vent on owe the
slippery rock, made doubly dangerous
by the rain, because, once started, there
was no turning back. She dragged the
pounds on pounds of wet waterproof
cloth clinging to her feet to the little
oasis where people rest and grid up
their loins before crossing the ice. Here
she threw herself prone on the ground,
and was Still as an ink-blot. When the
others started her husband tried to
rouse her. No. she said; you may
all go on. I want nothing. l will die
here!' 1t was the calmness Of despair.
Women often threaten, in certain, con-
tingencies, to give up but the thing
is rare as spow in August. When it
happens the family-machine stops, and
desperate remedies are applied. This
woman did the thing without thethreat--
also a rare thing for her sex, and was
eyer doctor of divinity in such a plight
before? He had lived with her forty
years, and she had the power to sur
prise him. He had seen her endure
years of wasting sickness without losing
| cheerfulness; he had seen her go down
into the Valley of the Shadow of Death
| and come back smiling with a baby in
her arms !; but now at last she had
given up He offered to carry her
down the rocks and across the ice-he
| who had come abroad for his health !;
but she answered him only, Go with
the rest. / will die here : like the re-
frain of a dirge. The doctormust have
scolded at this point, if he we're not
more than mortal but it did no good,
and finally he wrapped the mantle of
his thoughts about him and sat down in
the rain to mediate q new chapter on
the oma question. The other people
wen. on, and the two kept solitary
| watch Oh the Mer de Glace, like the
two grey-headed eagles il an eyrie. At
the end of a silent h%alf-hour, in which
the doctor discovered what very hard
working people those are who only
stand and wait she rose up, walked
over the ice, mounted her mule, and re-
| gained the hotel. She had broken the
handspring OF hope, and it took Nature
Just half an hour TO mend it."
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
4 ~MEMoRaBLE DUEL.

The celebrated affair of the Leopard
and the Chesapeake, the latter COM
manded by Com. James Barron,
resulted in Barron's trial ard sentence
by the cou:t-martial, in the proceed.
ings relative to which it is said Com.
Decatur took an active part, and a
duel vas finally the result, at Bladens-
barg. A correspondent of the Chi
cago TrjbURe describes the affair as
follows
When Elliott arrived at B~ladensburg
little knots of boys and men, knowing
or CUES lug the matter impending, gave
interesting regard. A group of naval
officers particularly, standing at the
tavern, walked out across tie bridge
toward the place Of meeting, and con-
ceaied themselves within hearing Of
pistol-shots. Almost every one of
them a q friend of Decatur, and
among them were Com. Rodgers and
Porter, his two colleagues in the Board
OF Navy Commissioners. Barron fol-
lowed soon afterward, walking between
lis second, Elliott, and his friend
Latlmer. His face expressed dignity
and resolution. He walked firmly, and
they three also descended into the Val
ley OF Chance.
Decatur and Barron bowed to each
other formally. Hambleton stood by
Decatur, Latimer by Barron. Balm
bridge and Elliott conferred together,
and the former, who had behaved fairly
and equitably throughout, was appoint
ed to measure the ground. He marked
a line in the sod with his boot, and,
placing his toe to it, stepped out eight
times, a yard to the step. marking also
the last step as a base ; four times a
mans length, or across your dining
room-that was the distance.
Each second now produced the pis-
tolls from a pair Of Observation-Disclosures
Neutrality-suspicious., of fine finish and
bright steel, silver-mounted. They
were charged and ranmed in the old
style, and presented to each principal
by the second. During all this time
no word was said, except by the sec
onds.
In like manner Elliott and Bainbridge
tossed for corners. cambridge won it
was Decatur's usual good luck.
"Com. Decatur" said cambridge,
(which stand do you select ?"
The axis Of the two bases ran nearly
north and south, obIiquely from the
brook. Decatur walked to the north.
nearest the water, where he stood a few
inches lower than Barron. Both threw
off their cloaks, and stood confronting
each other.
Gentlemen" said Bainbridge, rails
ing his voice, az shall give the word as
follows Present-one-two-th three.
You are neither at your peril to fire be-
fore the word one, nor after the word
three"
Com. Barron turned his head, his pis-
toll hanging at his side, and said to
Com. Bainbridge
"Haye You any objection, sir, to pro-
nouncing the words in the manner you
intend to give them ?"
None" said cambridge and he re-
peated the formula precisely as he after
ward gave it.
For the first time the antagonists
looked into each others eyes. Stern
ness and the purpose to kill lay in
both.
81 hope, sir" said Barron, "that
when We meet in another world we shall
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

The first thing a promising youth
said to a dog presenting his nose at his
heels was: go away; do you think I
am q bone?"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
TIE HONE AMONG THE HILLS.


BY III 4 EVEN RINBALL.
Midway between these towering hills
One lonely human dwelling;
The circ!ing acres, culture-swept,
Its little history telling
On either hand the meadow land
Makes fair the mountain spaces
With golden reach of buttercups
And silver diff of daisies.
Behind, the massive forest wall;
Before, the river running:
And close abDut the little cot.
The signs Of human cunning:
The signs SO homely and SO sweet
That draw US to each other,
And make the daily life OF man
Familiar to his brother.
We know the hand at early morn
That cottage hearth-fire kindiing;
We watched the dropping of this corn;
We wait its purple spindling!
A part have we in all the tolls
OF these oar mountain n%eighbors;
A portion i'll the precisus gain
Heaven winuows from their labors.
We taste their trials. Share their ;easts,
And, with q I passing wonder,
We Hnger even while we go.
Their choice. their lot to ponder.
Amid the grandeur and the gloom
On every hand abiding,
A flower Of human b~'ossoming
This lii.ls home is hiding.
Whsl tender WIND of Providence
TIE small seed hikler driftcd,
Where yet these shadows vas. may fsI,
On village spires upliftcd?
Less awfal seem those hills august.
Less lone the valleys giooming.
Since in This wllderness the rose
OF human life is blooming!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
THE SECRET Of THOSE FRIED POTA
TOES.


The Saratoga correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican says: Saratoga
potatoes, the poetry of a common life
and costly charm of Delmonico's and
Parker's, can be made in perfection in
any kitchen by the use of a very simple
apparatus consisting of a sharp blade
set slanting into a wooden trough with
a narrow slit in the bottom, two wire
screens or sleeves, and a common spider.
Select eight large potatoes, pare them
and slice very thin with the cutting ma
chine, soak them in cold water for two
hours, and stir common table salt into
the water, IL teaspoOnful to a quart,
and allow them to remain in the brine
half an hour longer. Put them upon
the screen to drain, and put on q spider
with a pound of clear lard over a brisk
fire. Wipe the sliced potatoes dry on a
towel, wait until the lard is smoking
hot, and pour a large plateful into the
spider. The result is like a small sea
in a white squall and now the cook
shows the artistic soul which every vo-
tary of that noblest OF the arts must
possess to be worthy of the NAME. Pa
tient nd calm, with steady and inces-
SAINT motion of the skinner, she pre-
vents adhesion OF any too a~ifectionate
slices, and watches carefully for the
tender blush of BROWNIES to appear.
Slowly it creeps and deepens until 1t
rivals the hue OF the fragrant Havana.
Haste then takes the place of caution,
lest any martyrs burn for the perfection
of others; and they must quickly be
spread upon another sieve to drain until
dry and greaseless enough for the fairest
fingers, then served hot, to melt like a
kiss on sweet lips, with a dying crackle
like the fallen leaves of autumn.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

sas, and about 1000 in Colorado,
which will come into market tl6s sea-
son, making altogether about the same
number as last year. . 81
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

"IKE," said a rusty old heather of
the desk, chow do astronomers measure
the distance to the SUM-" "Why," re-
piled the young hopeful, "they guess
at one-fourth the distance and then
multiply by four"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07
IT Is THE ONLY POSITIVE CURE FOR
KIDNEY and BLADDER COMPLAINTS

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes,
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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

For the rich with few children it may do to
buy a shoe without Tips, but those who are
blessed with little money and many children
it is ruinous to buy any others than SILVER
TIPPED Shoes.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-08-07

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