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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-29

SPICED CURRANTs.-Five pounds ripe
currants: four pounds brown sugar; two
tablespoons each of cloves and cinnamon
and pint vinegar. Boil two hours, or till
quite thick. These are excellent, and will
keep for years.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-29

MARRIAGES AND BUGGIES.
" lwish to inform my friends that have
moved my GARBAGE SHOP to my new build
ing near the Virginia Hotel, where will keep on
hand Carriages and Buggies of every description.
BY close attention to business and fair dealing, |
expect to give entire satisfaction will pay strict
attention to REPAIRING. Give me call before
purchasing. H. WATERS
janl4-tf
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-29

ANTED.
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10 900 Bushels Wheat.
O,00O &c Corn.
10 600 &C Oats
Delivered at Stanton or any depot along the
line of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad or the
Valley Railroad Give me call
aprl0-lyr q. on nAhII l.
KANAWHA SALT LOO Barrels of IA
N nawha Salt just received. This Salt is
acknowledged to be the best in the world for
Stock. For sale cheap.
P.B. HOGE 4 BRO.
mar7-tf Spec. q Vlrg copy.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-29

To Stop THE Flow OF BLooD.-There
is no hetter use to make of fine cut tobae-
co, than to bind it upon fresh wound,
and nothing will stop the flow Of blood
quicker.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-29
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
ADVERTISING RATES.

PRESERVING BARN-YARD MANURE
A striking illustration of the value of ma
nure made in the barn-yard, by preserving
it from the influence of the weather, is
presented in the experiment lately made
by Lord Kinnaird, a Scotch landowner
and farmer. Four acres OF good soil were
measured, two of them were manfred with
ordinary barn-ya:d manure, and two with
al equal quantity of manure from the Gov
cred sheds. The whole was planted with
potatoes. The products of each acre were
as follows:
Potatoes treated aoiA Jarn-gard manure.
One acre prOduced... .....272 bushels
One acre produced .... ...... 29S bushels
Potatoes maauued from the covered sheds.
One acre produced 49,. ,.....443 bushels
One acre produced............471 bushels
The next year the land was sown with
wheat, when the crop was as follows:
Wheat on land treated Nth born-yard
manure.
One acre produced II bushels 10 pounds
(Of 81 pounds per buShell.
One acre produced AZ bushels SO POUNDS
(of 81 pounds per busheD.
Wheat on land naanared from the cocered
sheds.
One acre produced 55 bushels pounds
(of 81 pounds per bnsheD.
One acre produced 50 bushels Al pounds
(of 81 pounds per busheD.
The straw also yielded one-third more,
upon the land fertilized with the manure
from the covered stalls than upon that to
which the ordinary manure was. applied.
In view of these facts, we hope that our
armers will give this subject their full at
tention for their own benefit, and in ma
king shelter OF stalls for stock, it might be
done with view to the increase of manure
under the cattle, as it is not removed be-
fore it is intended for use, if it is likely to
remain there for months.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
The Grave of st. Patrick.

Mr.. Ffennell, writing in Ldnd and Va
ter, says: Zone matter which ] think
will impress all strangers with n feeling
of disappointed surprise is visit to the
cathedral city of Downpatrick. 1t is
neither the city itself, nor the fine sub
stantial cathedral on the hill, that
evoke this feeling. They are we'll enough,
trim, thriving, comfortable looking on
the whole, and need not fear compar-
ison with other cathedrals or cathedral
cities of Ireland. But something more
than disappointment, something like in
dignant surprise takes possession of one
on being led up to what is said to be
held sacred as the grave of st. Patrick,
and which as such is visited, am told,
by multitudes of American strangers
every year. 1t lies in the highest and
most central position in the otherwise
decently kept church-yard surrounding
Downpatrick cathedral, and is the one
spot of earth in the whole place that APP
pears given up to complete neglect and
dcsecration. Around are graves and
gravestones, ancient and modern, all
well-ordered and neatly kept, some show
ing the recent touch of hands directed
by loving care, while the one which
strangers would have suspected to find
most hOnored and revered is the only
dishonored grave among them all. The
unsightly looking hole unmarked by
cross or slab now half filled with loose
rubble of broken bricks, loose stones and
earth, is disgrace to the people of
Down who, be they Protestants or Pap
lists, i'm that they claim to be Christians,
have an equal right to honor the resting
place of the faithful, fearless preacher
of Christianity, who was the first to
bring the gospel of truth into Ireland,
the first to introduce the dawn of civili-
zation among her then wholly barbar-
ous princes and people, and whose feet
first touched the Irish soil upon the
shores of the county Down. / shall
feel proud indeed if these observations
will lead any one belonging to the neigh
borhood or the county, to take some in
tcrest in the matter"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader, writing from Persia, says: Com
ing from Bagdad, which, in a direct line,
is forty-four miles distant, three immense
mounds appear in succession, which have
the appearance of natural hills. But
close examination shows that they are
composed of bricks, and are the remains
of large buildings. These are on the
east side of the Euphrates, and the larg-
est is about ohe hundred and fifty feet in
height. They are supposed to be an an
cient citadel that defended this part of
the town, the royal palace and temple.
How immense must the original build
inps have been when it is considered that
these mounds have been the storehouse
from which for twenty centuries bricks
of the finest description have been taken
to build the great cities of Ctesiphon, Sc
lusia and Bagdad. Fragments of ala
baster vessels and images, fne earthen-
ware, marble, and great quantities of
enameled tiles, the glazing and coloring
of which are still surprisingly fresh, can
yet be found in these mounds. On the face
of every brick is stamped in cuneiform
characters, the name and titles of Nebu-
chadnezzar. They are all laid face down.
ward, and the cement in which they are
imbeded is 80 hard that they can only
be detached with the greatest labor and
difficulty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
THE CARE or CANARIEs.

A pair of canaries give to your care;
Don't blind them with sunshine, or starve them
with afr,
Or leave them out late in the cold or the damp,
And then be surprised II they suffer from cramp;
Nor open your windows in all kinds of weathers
Quite near to their cage till they put out their
The birds that are free fly TO bush and TO grot,
II the wind be too cold, or the sun be too hot
But these pretty captives depend on your aid,
When they ehirrup, and ceaseessly hop to and fro,
Some want or discomfort they're trying TO show;
When they scrape their bills sharply on perch or ut
They're asking for something they greatly desire;
When they set every feather on end In twinkling,
With musical rustic, like water a-sprinkling,
In rain in sunshine with sharp, cal-like notes,
They are begging for water TO freshen their coats.
Cage, perches and vessels, keep all very clean,
For fear Of small insects--you know what mean =
In buying them seed, choose the cleanest and best
feed my canaries (excuse me the hint
On hemp and canary, rape, millet and lint
I try them with all TIL find out their taste
About their bright cages I.hsng D gay bower
OF shepherds purse, chikwced, and !groundsel In
flower. .f"+- -
AT root OF bright grass they will pick with much
For seeds and small pebbles their food to digest
But all should be ripe, and well seeded aud brown
In summer, 1 hang them out high In the shade,
About our hall door by portico made;
In spring, autumn, winter, window they SHARE
Where the blind is drawn down TO the afternoon
The window, If open beneath them, we close,
Lest the wind should seize hold OF their poor little
toes
A bath about noontide on every mild day
Will keep your small favorites healthy and gay.
In hot summer sunshine some calico green,
As roof to their cage makes very good screen ,a
And they'll sing In all weathers and live to be old.
The Aniadl World.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26

Beadle, a correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, writes from Salt
Lake City: "Under the Poland bill a
man convicted of bigamy has an appeal
to the United States Supreme Court /;
under the Territorial statute there Is no
such remedy. No doubt the final result
will be as the most conservative could
wish while nobody will be very much
hurt, yet there will be a steady and in
creasing pressure upon polygamy, which
will check and put it in the course of ul-
innate extinction. occasionally see
statement in some Eastern paper that the
Saints will fight before they will aban-
don polygamy, which is calculated to
make man smile who knows their tricks.
They have already surrendered the only
tenable ground on which they ever stood.
Two years ago, the Mormon people unan-
imously voted for State constitution
forever prohibiting polygamy and biga-
my, and hints already reach us that they
are willing to do the same thing again.
And here is how they justify such
change of base: In one of the volumin-
Gus revelations of Joseph Smith occurs
this convenient clause Nevertheless, IL
your enemies come in upon you that you
be not able to perform these things, then
l, the Lord, will not require them at
your hands, but ye shall be freed from
the covenants We have made, and shall
not perform these things; but /, the
Lord, will still request it Of your enemies
etc. Observe that the Lord with that
accommodating spirit He always exhib-
tied toward the Saints, proposes to let
them off whenever the gentiles make it
too hot for them, and take the will for
the deed. When the State organization
on the compromise basis was suggested,
this text was quoted by all the elders,
and the people were soon persuaded that
if the United States would assume the
responsibility Of compelling them to do
so-as one apostle expressed it, take
the shower of Gods wrath for disobe-
dience, 1T would be perfectly right for
them to abandon polygamy. / have lit
tie doubt that if the proposition was
made to the leaders tomorrow, that all
past offences of every kind should be
condoned if they would renounce polyg-
amy, an old prophecy could be found
to exactly suit the case
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
Rats on Board Of Ships.

Rats greatly infest ships, and are by
them carried to every part of the
world. So industriously do they make
homes for themselves in the numerous
crannies and corners in the hull of ship
that it is almost impossible to get rid
of them. Ships take out rats as well as
passengers and cargo every voyage;
whether the former remain in the ship
when i'm port is best known to themselves.
When the East India Company had
ships of their own they employed a rat
catcher, who sometimes captured five
hundred rats in one ship just returned
from Calcutta. The ship rat is often the
black species. Sometimes black and
brown inhabit the same vessel, and ln-
less they carry on perpetual hostilities,
the one party will keep to the head of
the vessel and the other to the stern.
The ship-rat is very anxious that his sup
ply of fresh water shall not fail he will
come on deck when it rains. and climb
up the wet sails to suck them. Some
times he mistakes spirit cask for a
water cask, and gets drunk. A captain
of an American merchant ship is cred
tied Tor discredited) with an ingenious
bit of sharp practice as means of clean
ing his. ship from rats. Leaving a cargo
at port in Holland, he found his ship
i'm a juxtaposition to another which had
just taken in a cargo of Dutch cheese,
He laid plank at night from one vessel
to the other; the rats tempted by the
odor, trooped along the plank, and began
their feast. He took care that the plank
should not be there to serve them as
pathway back again and so the cheese
laden ship had crael addition to it'
outward cargO.-AN the Year Round.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
The Prince of Wales.

The following, which we find in the Lon
don (Eng.) Examiner, is rather rough
on the heir to the British throne. The
Prince is not political parsonage. lie
has no more influence on the foreign and
domestic policy of England than his
own lacqueys. lie is one of the few En-
glishmen who are denied the ordinary
political rights of Briton, for he dares
not vote at an election, or take the chair
at a political meeting, or make speech
against Mr.. Disraeli, or say word i'm the
House of Lords. He dares not do any
thing but hunt, and shoot, pay a round
of visits, and spend hundred and thirty
or hundred and forty thousand pounds
sterling year. Life must be very dull
to his Royal Highness. 1t is rather
hard then, that he should not be allowed
to call upon the Comte de Chambord,
when the visit can not be of the very
slightest political consequence to any
human soul. We treat our Princes as II
they were not our own flesh and blood.
But il we tickle them do they not laugh
If we prick them do they not bleed For
our own part our loyalty is such that we
should encourage them to do anything
they liked, whether it should be to take
the chair at Indignation meetings at Hyde
Park, or for TO stand for Northampton.
or to ask for halfa-million year each,
or TO rise in the House of Lords and
move votes of no confidence in her Maj
esty's Ministry. Royalty would then
be lively institution. IL is rather dull
at present, in spite of what II COSTS"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
inflicted on the Athertons. 1t had like
to have proved more than simple Sur
prise Party to them.
Maxims Worth Knowing.

Administrators are liable to account
for interest on funds in their hands, al
though no profit should have been made
upon them, unless the exigencies of the
estate render it prudent that they should
hold the funds uninvested.
When house is rendered untenable
in consequence Of improvements made
upon the adjoining lot, the owner of such
can not recover damages, because he had
knowledge of the approaching danger in
time to protect himself from it. ., Il.
A person who has been led to sell goods
by means Of false Fretense can not re-
cover them from one who has purchased
them in good faith from the fraudulent
vendor.
Permanent erections and fixtures,
made by mortgage after the execu-
tion of the mortgage upon land conveyed
by it, becomes part of the mortgaged
premises.
A seller of goods, chattels, or other
property, commits no fraud in law when
he neglects to tell the purchaser of any
flaws, defects or unsoundness in the
same.
An agreement by the holder of note
to give the principal debtor time for pay
ment, without depriving him of the right
to serve, does not discharge the surety.
The opinion of witnesses as to the value
of dog that has been killed is not ad-
missible in evidence. The value of the
dog is to be decided by the jury.
Money paid for the purpose of settling
or compounding prosecution for a sup
posed felony can not be recovered back
by the party paying it.
A day-book copied from "blotter' in
which original charges are first made,
will not be received in evidence as a
book of original entries.
A stamp Impressed upon an instrument
by way of seal, is as good as seal if it
Greats durable impression in the tex
turc of the paper.
If any person put fence on or plows
the land of another, he is liable to tres
pass, whether the owner has sustained
injury or not.
A private person may obtain an in
junction to prevent public mischief by
which he is affected, in common with
others.
fla person, who is unable from illness
to sign his will, has his hand guided in
making his mark, the signature is valid.
Ministers of the Gospel residing in any
corporated town are not exempt from
jury, military, or fire services.
A wife can not be convicted of rcceiv-
ing stolen goods when she receives them
from her husband.
An agent is liable to bis principals for
loss caused by his misstatements, though
they be unintentional.
No man is under obligations to make
known his circumstances when he is
buying goods.
The fruits and grass upon the farm or
garden of an intestate descend to the
heir.
Money paid on Sunday contracts may
he recoyorad
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
GENERAL AND Personal.

MRS. TILToN continues to reside with
the Ovington family.
GENERAL SHERIDAN telegraphs that
the Indians have been whipped-tor the
season.
BRIGHAM YoUNG has gone South, and
expects to spend the winter. at St.
George.
ABBE RICHTER, the famous linguist,
who spoke eighty languages, died at
Munich recently.
THE Archbishop of New York pre-
sented the Pope with thirty-five thou
sand dollars recently.
BRET HARTE has ten-year-old son
who is regular little Bret as far as writ
ing stories is concerned. .,,
A PARIS lawyer lately caught the
smallpox of his inamorata. She having
pitted him, married him.
A THRIFTY Mormon in Salt Lake City
adds to his income by hiring out his
wives to do washing and house cleaning
WENDELL PHILLIPS is often in the
Boston Police Courts, not as a prisoner,
but as a student of dcpraved human ma
ture. isHt
KALAKAUA, the King Of the Sand
wich Island, will arrive at San Francisco,
by the Benicia, about the last of this
month.
IT is said that the resignation of the
Rev. Adirondack Murray was accepted
in 2:l4s, the fastest time on church
record.
A MENDICANT recently arrested by
the Boston police had three suits of
clothes on his person and sixty-five dol
lars in money.
SINCE the elections the Vermont leg
islature, at whose disposal Senator Nor
rill placed his back pay, has voted to re-
turn the money to the United States
Treasury. 80
ACCORDING to the London Times STAN
ley passed through Egypt early in Sep
he was to undertake new journey into
equatorial Africa.
Mr.. COLLYER, who decided not to
leave Chicago, says: ~ was advised that
if went to New York should be like
horse drifted down from carriage steed
to an omnibus jade. Just as soon as the
New York folks found didn't suit, they
would jerk me out, throw me one side,
and let me go to the dogs"
IN17SS, BenjaminFranklinb bequeathcd
to Boston and Philadelphia FL 900 each
($4, ,440) to be loaned in small sums to
married mechanics to assist them in
starting in business, the interest to be
compounded for one hundred years, at
the end of which time the accumulated
funds should be appropriated to certain
public Improvements. In Philadelphia
the original sum has increased to $46,-
1876, while in Boston it amounted on
January /, 1874, to $1S2,27S, which will
further grow to $4OS, 300 in the remain
ing fourteen years if kept compounded
at six per cent.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

NOTHING will sooner tempt a bachelor
to abandon his resolution to marry than
to sleep in the adjoining room to a young
couple with a colicky Daby.ajH
IT is pitiful sight to see the house-Ay
around the cooking-stove to warm his
heels. ,r
ROBERT CoLLYER hands a cigar to q
reporter when he comes around for an
interview, to prevent the man with the
pencil from doing all the talking.
A WITTY woman says that, as death is
reported to have shining mark, she is
constantly in dread of shaft being
aimed at her husbands nose.
How sharper than serpent's tooth it
is to have a mans wife draw the bed
clothes over her head and declare that
she won't build fire if she dies for it..
A DETROIT paper, noting the fact that
a man fell dead while combing his hair,
SAYS, "And yet there are people who will
persist in that dangerous habit"
"WHY did Caesar pause upon the bank
of the Rubicon Perhaps he had rea-
son to suspect his mother-in-law might
be "picking greens" on the other shore.
81 WANT to KNOW" said a creditor,
fiercely, "when you are going. to pay me
what you owe me!' "Give it up" re-
piled the debtor. "Ask me something
easy" sa
A WORTHY old farmer, who was being
worried in his cross-examinatiOn by
lawyer in Maine, exclaimed, 'LOOk here,
squire, don't you ask good many foolish
questionsw
Chow MANY regular, steady boardcrs
are there in this house p asked census
taker of servant girl. "There's fifteen
in all, sir; but not l.ore'n four OF 'em is
steady persons, sir" "l7a'
"CAN you spare me five minutes, said
friend, entering our sanctum. mot II
two will answer your purpose" we re,
piled. He occupied but one, and thanked
us kindly for the intimation.
WHEN Mr. Soberleigh read that fa-
ther in the West had chopped his only
son in two, he innocently remarked that
he didn't think they ought to arrest
man for simply parting his heir in the
middle.
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Swiss
town: 81 was much amused on looking
over visitors book at the innnto find
that under the head Occupation two
German girls had written, Looking fora
husband"
In pulling down an old wash.house in
the garden of Mr.. Smith, Of Islington,
the workmen discovered the remains OF
decayed waistcoat, marked w. G. 1t
is supposed to have belonged to William
the Conqueror.
A JURYMAN was asked whether he had
been charged by the judge. Well"
said he, "the little fellow that sits up in
the pulpit and stares at the crowd gave
us lecture, but don't know whether
he charges anything or not"
A COUNTRY curate complained to old
DIR. South that he received only five
pounds for preaching certain sermon at
Oxford. give pounds!" said the doctor;
why / wouldn't have preached that SER
| mon for fiftyp
"VEI., mine shonc," s,id wealthy
Israelite to his hopeful, who had asked
for nickel, "I don't mind de value of
de fife shents; but shust dink vot de in
tcrest on dot sum would be in Won hun
| dred years."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-26
Pcrils of Purchased Sermons.

In a village not far from London, the
rector and curate, returning from their
summer holidays, resumed their duties
the same Sunday. The curate took the
morning service, while the rector Off
ciated for friend in a neighboring
church; but the rector was present in
the evening, to preach after the curate
had read prayers. The sermon in the
morning was considered so good that the
congregation congratulated themselves
upon the effects which the change of air
had on the preachers style and powers
generally.
The rector assembled the pulpit, and
gave out the same text which had formed
the subject of the curate's discourse in
the morning. Very soon, however, those
who were there in the forenoon found
that it was not only the same text, but
the same sermon, and their faces assumed
a variety Of expressions. There were
not many placid countenances in the
whole church, with the exception of the
preachers, who went on, quite uncon-
scious of the days history and its conse-
quences There was one face that bore
upon IL painful expression, and that
was the curate's. The more he tried to
look severe and Indifferent, the more he
looked abashed and intensely Mortified.
In short, the two worthy personages had,
unknown to each other, purchased copy
of the same sermon, il is stated, litho-
graphed, and they had the i'll luck, with
out communication with each other, to
select the same sermon to inaugurate
their return. Nothing, we believe, has
come of this little misadventure beyond
n harmless joke or two. How the rector
and curate got on is not known, but the
villagers are very good-natured people
and one old man-the sexton-of course
very regular attendant at church--de
clared that the oftener he heard the ser
mon the better he liked IL.