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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-02-05
Ra Bichle and wife to Josiah jackson, house

ana lOt. .g 1886 I'D llgqoT .r-r a'r-. p t-aif
SA Hoshour. p B Hoge and 7 A Bledsoe. trus-
tees of the Staunton Building Asso. to VIM
wholey and Geo NJ Cochran, a lot fronting on
AHH Stuart and wife to B subiett, a lot on
| w. side of Lewis st. "a
WE Craig. com'r, to E Hageman, the "frame
Office lot," fronting on Court-hotl alley, p
CA Heller to A4nie z Ryan, house and lot
on Southsde of Beverly street. 4 f .., s..
R H Phillips to John A Kice, trustee for Mar
garet Fice, a lot fronting ON st Clair street.
] Jas W Teabo to Catharine D Teabo, house
and lot south of Beverly street. .i. p ;.f0- .
VIM Irvine and wife to VIM Perkins, lot.
| Wm Perkins and wife to Esther and Dilsey
johnson, same as last above.
| G A Richardson and wife ana ct al to Sarah
| Tate, a house and lot on Prospect street. 2 ED
Sarah A Tate to G A Richardson, a house and
lot on New street.
| A Trick and wife to 3 Evans, B T Bagby
ct ais, trustees for NJ E Church South a house
and lot on Gospel Hill. -ss. ..., .s.~t ..sfr. -.i
ST Phillips to Louisa NJ West, two lots, one
on-Green street and the other on Frederick st.
Pike Powers and wife ct ais to M E Miller,
house and lot on f Beverly street. i7,lrq el.
Ro Craig and J NJ Quarles. conrs. to VIM
Wholey. two lots, Nos. 81 and SO, in Southwest
part of city.
F Efinger, special com'r, to 3 Evans,
house and lot on corner of Frederick aid Au-
gusta streets. --.-,. .
John Evans and wife to L A Abbott, same
as last above described. p"
{ VIM Summerson and wife to NJ Wilkes
a frame house and lot on east side of Lewis St. /,
Mechanics Building Association to Geo F
Elick, a house and lot on New st.
W Fl Haynes and wife and B Bagby and
wife to Chesey Boiling, a house and lot on N
Augusta Street. s- . u -4f,g
J A Coo ran to Jno H Plunkett, two lots in
western part of city on Cochran st.
Jno FL Plunkett to C r Irving, one of the lots
last above named. ~. ..h n
NJ Bell, com'r, to W Fsumrnereon, twolots
on corner OF Lewis st and Spring Lane. oo,,-.
Jno H Plunkett to B VI Stoddard, one of the
lots conveyed by A Cochran to j H Plunkett.
]. A Cochran to B Dull, lot on Cochran st.
Jno D Shomo to C Steigel, oneShalf interest
in lot formerly owned by Jordan NShomo.
I Cone to Kate A Hardy, a 1se and lot
on New st. - i" -
o Heydenreich and wife ton SKinsley, a
mouse and lot in Newtown. og-s -- sq-.
Bridget Bolen to A Hamricluend Jno A
Fauver, lot on Spring Lane
W Craig, com'r, to E Haines, a house and
lot between New and Augusta Sts, near old
Staunton Academy.
LIP Conrad Yeager's viii bequeaths all his
estate to Catharine Yeager.
Charles Hendry's VIII bequeaths all his es-
tate to Eleanor Hendry. u.-r
Alex Cochran's Will bequeaths all his es-
tate to W D Whitfield. ..,..,.....-.
NJ Harvey Efinger bequeaths his residence in
and a lot conveyed to him by Jno 3
Scherer and F Tannehill to Margaret Efin-
ger for life. I-t ta--
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20 ET-RY
by HUNTER.

by HUNTER.
The sea is calm, the restless billows sleep.
Nor fretful chafe the rock-begirting shore;
The giant surges that so love to sweep
High-rolling DER the main-now with their
store
OF restless fury spent they deep deplore
Their brief dominion ended, as they turn
To find their wonted resting-place once more,
Like victors from the battlefield return,
Laden with trophies, yet, for more they
yeafn.
While thus the waters rest from their rude
sway,
And moonbeams melt along the silent sea,
How pleasant Ter this tranquil waste to stray.
And lose ones self in peaceful reverie;
To drift where Nereids dance in festive glee,-
Where beauteous white-armed sirens nightly
Filling the lucid air with melody.
AS light they touch the witching chords of
love,
AS though intent the coldest heart to move.
Charmed by the fairy strains we slowly drift
Listlesly onward from the pebbled strand,
Lulled by forgetfulness that seems tolift
Us in vision to the spirit-land;
Nor could our bark be steered by gentler hand,
To watt us swiftly DER the troubled swell
Lured by the accents sweet of Siren bland,
We're borne along by their enamoring spell
To that dim land Of dreams of which the
poets tell.
doom,
ic rJ ant
We reck not! and no single thought findsroo
Within the mind but to the charmer lent
No single thought as kind warning sent
To rouse from 1ethargy, or break the charm
Most potent-while the Siren still intent,
Meier loses artifice to secrete harm,
But sings her song to Danish ali alarm.
But now, her song is hushed, the strain has died
Across the waters comes another sound
Not in enchanting measures does it glide,
Wooing like siren-song, but. more profound
Fen with dire melody it floats around
The lonely wandrer on the trackless waste
The mighty sea-god rises tempest-crowned,
Summons his Tritons and the Nereids chaste
And thund'ring DER the deep the ebon chari-
OTIS haste!
Too late, oh, wandrer to retrace thy way!
Thy bark has Gyifted far beyond control;
No mystic steersman holds thee from the sway
Of the huge breakers as they onward roll
The SIRENS death-song lured thee from thy goa
To the difn regions of Plutonian night,
Where thou art sirouded in Lethean stole,
While round thy restiag-place there falls NJ
light,
And pleasures welcome smile is ianishet
from thy sight!
BRIDGEwATER, VA, January Dist. 1873
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RAILROADS.

Trains leaving Staunton at I0.I5 A. NJ. and 3.55
p NJ, run daily Except Sunday stopping at all
regular stations.
Trains leaving Staunton at 2.55 A. NJ. and 12.4o
A. M, run daily, stopping at all regular stations
between Huntington and Allegheny, and at
Covington, Millboro', Goshen, Wayn nesboro,
Alton, Greenwood, Mechum's River, Ivy, Char
lottesville, Gordonsville, Junction and Rich
mond.
Sleeping cars run on 255 A. NJ. and l2.4O A. NJ.
trains between Richmond and Covington. AL
so Sleeping cars will run Nos. and trains
between Washington and White Sulphur.
Ray-For further information, rates, &c, apply
to J. II. WOODWARD, Agent, Staunton, Va.
CONWAY R. HOWARD,
W. NJ. S. DUNN, G. P. and 7. Agent.
Engineer and Supt. jel2
SyCHEDULE OF TRAHNS ON VALLEY
- AND Il. Il d. RAILROADS..
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EADE e. WHITE,
VA ATTORNEY .AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA,
viii practice in the Courts of Augusta, Rock
rngham and Highland.
Refers by permission to the Law Faculty of
the University of Virginia.
OFFICE on Courthouse Alley. feb ely.
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r EORGE NJ. HARRISON

II AUTOMATICALLY W,
STAUNToN, VA.
offers his professional services in the County
and Circuit Courts of Augusta, and in the Hus-
yings Court and the Court of Appeals held in
Staunton. Will also prosecute claims else
where through legal correspondents in this and
other States. may 30-ly.
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BOOTS, SHOES.
AND
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respectfully inform my friends and the pub
lie that an receiving my Fail stock OF.
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RATES orADvEsz1s1sa.

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of 90 per square of eight lines or less, for the
first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent
insertion.
ABA liberal discount will be made on adver-
tisements published for 8, s, or U months.
AF SPECIAL NOTICES VIII be inserted at dou.
BILE the advertising rates.
( ~ Obituaries, Announcements Of Candidates
for office and ali communications of personal
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Address--'sStaunto Spenfstor.'' Stanntop. Va.
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REMARKS
Mail train through from Staunton to Wash
Close connection at Harper's Ferry for the
West. On Mondays and Saturdays the accom-
mediation train connects at HarrisOnburg with
trains for all stations on FL. F. V. Branch, b.
& 0. r. r. For further information apply to
S. NJ. WOODWARD, JR.,
junel9 Supt. " R. r.. Staunton, Va.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

Henry G. Murphy, President of the
Trustees of the East River Bridge, says,
in answer to the statement that the
work is not progressing as rapidly as it
ought, that they are doing it much moro
rapidly than similar work was done on
the suspension bridges at Niagara and
Cincinnati. 1t was at first supposed that
the cable laying would take two years.
The first wire was laid on June 10, and
now half are laid. In 8 or 16 months
from June last all the cables will be laid
thus shortening the original time by
eight months. About 1900 tons of wire
have been run over the river, and it is
progressing at the rate of 10 tons day.
Mr.. Murphy says that the cables would
be ready for the superstructure in Au-
gust next. and in 1880 he hoped to be
able to cross the completed bridge, pass
ing from Sands street, Brooklyn, to
Printing-house square, New York, in
four minutes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04


TWENTY IMPoLITE THINGs.-1. Loud
and boisterous laughing.
2. Reading when others are talking.
8. Talking when others are reading.
4. Cutting finger nails in company.
5. Joking others in company.
6. Gazing rudely at strangers.
z. Leaving a stranger without a seat.
s. Making yourself hero of your own
story.
8. Reading aloud in company without
being asked.
10. Splitting about the house. smok-
ing or chewing.
II. Leaving church before worship is
closed.
II. Whispering or laughing in the
house of God.
l3. A want of respect and reverence
for seniors.
Il. Correcting older persons than
yourself, especially parents.
10. Receiving present without an
expression of gratitude.
l6. Not listening to what one is say
ing in company.
II. Commencing to eat as soon as you
get to the table.
Is. Answering questions that have
been put to others.
10. Commencing talking before others
have finished speaking.
20. Laughing at the mistakes of 9TH
ers
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04
THOMAS PAINE's DEATH.

After the revolution he returned to
America, where he died in complete neg
lect and destitution. In his last days
he was so forsaken that he had not even
the commonest attentions of a sick man.
He was racked by painful disease, and
his mind had fallen into state of tor
por. Among the few who treated him
with kindness were Stephen Grellet,
distinguished minister of the Society of
Friends, and Mary Rascoe, a young men,
ber of the same society. The former has
left what is perhaps the most authentic
account extant of Mr.. Paine's dying
hours.
In this account it is recorded that he
once asked Miss Rascoe if she had ever
read any of his writings. She replied
that when very young she had commenc-
ed to read the "Age of Reason, but
finding that the more she read the more
distressed she felt, she threw the book
into the fire. Il wish all had done as
you," said he, .for if the devil has ever
had any agency in any work, he has had
it in my writing that book" When 60
ing to carry some refreshment to him
she repeatedly heard him say, 80 Lord !!
Lord God !" or '.Lord Jesus have mercy
upon mel"
During the last weeks of his illness,
when little free from bodily pain, he
wrote great deal, but these writings,
which might have shed light on the
question, have been lost. Enough evi-
dence remains to show that his end was
far from tranquil, although the question
of how far his suferings were mental
and how far they were bodily must re-
main uncertain.-NorYSstoaon Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

own house, but would not do SO, as
said l would only be imagining all sorts
of dreadful things besides, knew his
mother and Mary would like to have me
with them.
1t all turned out as we'll as could be.
The night was very fine, and just at II
o'clock Martha stole down to the place
where had seen her the night before
then we all, about a dozen policemen
and ourselves, went into the house. The
men were stationed out of sight in diff
ferent rooms. waiting for the robbers
entrance. Henry came up to Mrs. Ben
sons room, where all of us women were.
including the two servants.
With breathless anxiety we watched
and waited. From where I stood could
see the way they would come.
1t was about. two o'clock when [ saw
Martha coming up the walk and four
men with her.
"Look u said .'there they are ;"
They went around to the back door, and
we heard them stealing along the pass
age in the direction of the plate closet
Then sudden rush-a scream from the
wretched neutrality-suspicious. loud
and bitter-a shot another scream
"May God grant no lives will be lost !'
we prayed.
Poor Mary nearly tainted. At last
we heard the officer call Henry to come
down. The four men were we'll secured
and taken to the police station. Martha
was taken there too. She confessed she
had let them in for the purpose of steal
ing the silver. One of the robbers was
slightly wounded in the arm, but no one
else was hurt. Very thankful was |
when found, next day, that none were
the worse for having gone through such
a terrible scene.
The house where Martha's husband
lodged was searched, and the case of
diamonds and many other valuable arti-
cles found there. This immensely re-
spectacle gardener had been disgrace
to his family and his profession. Left
very much to himself through the indul-
gence of his employer, he had contract
ed habits of tipping with low associates
at the neighboring village, and become
SO completely demoralized as at length
to assume the degraded character of a
burglar. Now came the retribution
which attends on wrong-doing. The
thieves were all tried at the next assiz.
es, and sentenced to various terms Of
Imprisonment.
II is now many years since all this
happened but | can never forget what
| went through those two dreadful
nights though | remember with thank
fulness that, through my dream and the
warning voice heard, | was the means
of averting great wrong, and perhaps
a murder. | do not impute anything
supernatural to my dream. 1t may have
merely been the result of tension of feel.
ings, supported by some condolences
At all events, the results were such as
have described.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04
THE CHILDREN's BEDTIME.

The clock strikes seven in the hall,
The curfew Of the children's day.
That calls each little pattering foot
From dance and song and livelong play;
Their day that in our wider light
Floats like silver day-moon white,
Nor In our darkness sinks to rest,
But sets within golden west.
All, tender hour that sends a drift
or chdren's kisses through the house,
And cuckoo-notes Of sweet Goodnight"
That thoughts of heaven and home arouse;
And soft stir to sense the heart,
As when the bee and blossom part;
And little feet that patter slower,
Like the last droppings of a shower.
And the children's rooms aloft
What blossom shapes do gaily slip
Their dainty sheaths, and rosy run
From casping hand and kissing lip.
naked sweetness to the eye
Blossom and babe and butterfly
In witching one, so dear sightl
An ecstasy OF life and light.
And, all. what lovely witcheries
Bestrew the foorl an empty sock,
By vanished dance and song left loose
AS dead birds throats; tiny smock
That sure, upon some meadow grew,
And drank the heaven-sweet rains; shoe
Scarce bigger than an acorn cup;
Frocks that seem howery meads cut up.
Then lily-dressed in angel-white
To mothers knee they trooping come,
The soft palms fold like kissing shells,
And they and we 90 shining home
Their bright heads bowed and worshiping.
As though some glory of the spring,
Some datfodil that mocks the day,
Should fold his golden palms and pray.
The gates Of Paradise swing wide
A moments space in soft accord
And those dread angels, Life and Death,
A moment vail the flaming sword,
AS DER this weary world forlon
From Eden's secret heart is borne
That breath of Paradise most fair.
Which mothers call ''children's prayer"
All, deep pathetic mysteryl
The worlds great woe unconscious hung.
A rain drop on blossoms lip;
White innocence that woos our wrong,
And love divine that locks again,
Unconscious Of the cross and pau
From sweet child eyes, and in that child
Sad earth and heaven reconciled.
Then kissed, on beds we lay them down,
As fragrant-white as cloverd sod,
And all the upper floors grow hushed
With children's sleep, and dews Of God.
And as our stars their beams do hide,
The stars of twilight, opening wide,
Take up the heavenly tale at even,
And light us on to God and heaven.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

Danbury declines to print any more
.'recipes for making hens lay" Not a
day passes, he says, but somebody comes
forward with system of diet adapted
to every breed and temper of hens. One
man gives oats alone, and finds that they
lay a fourth more eggs than when he
fed exclusively on corn. This statement
fires up somebody to explain that he
didn't know what laying hen really
was until he got to feeding corn alone.
Before that he had dosed them with oats.
Here's a decided fix, apparently; but
the next week the owner of a couple of
hens in Kalamazoo modestly states in a
card, that years of careful experiment
ing has demonstrated beyond all cavil
that oats and corn equally mixed will
fire up the ambition of any hen on the
face of the earth. So they 60 on in the
matter of food. Then Danbury mentions
the great fact that men who can trans
late the elegies of the most barbarous of
ancient nations, and give you the weight
to an ounce of a square mile of atmos-
phere, precipitately back down from the
analysis of hens stomach and he con-
cludes, that an animal that can take a
whole dishcloth at one gulp, and regret
that it was not roll of stair carpet, is
not to be told what it shall eat-zribune.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

seyenty-hve pages-s00 Illustrations, with Descrp
lions of thousands OF the best Flowers and Vegetables
IN the world and way TO grow them-all for a Two
Cent postage stamp. Printed in German aud English
tick's Flower and Vegetable Gnrden, 80 cents
IN paper covers; IN elegant cloth covers. Sl00
ftck's illustrated Monthly Magazine.-32
pages hne Illustrations and ColOred Plate in every
number. Price $l.25 year; Five copies for $500.
Address. JAMES WICK. Rochester ~ Y.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04
EQUALITY IN HEAVEN.

In Heaven all distinctions fade, all
ranks are lost, all forms of earthly
friendship are obliterated, and men
stand alike shonorcd and welcomed in
the presence of their Maker, because
they are saved by His grace, and not by
their own merit. There,
Names and sects, and parties fall.
And Thou O Christ art all in ALL
1t is said that John Wesley, once, in
the vision of night, found himself, as
he thought, at the gates of hell. He
knocked, and asked who were within.
Are there any Roman Catholics here ?
he asked.
Yes. was the answer, great many.
Any Church of England men
Yes, great many.
Any Wesleyans
Yes, great many.
Disappointed and dismayed, especial
ly at the last reply, he turned his steps
upward and found himself at the gates
of Paradise, and here he repeated the
same questions.
Any Wesleyans here?
No.
Any Presbyterians
No.
Any Church of England men?
No.
Any Roman Catholics?
No.
Whom have you, then, here he asked
in astonishment.
We know nothing here, was the reply,
of any of those names that you have
mentioned. The only name of which
we know anything here is Christian; we
are all Christians here, and of these we
have great multitude, which no man
can number, of all nations, kindreds,
people and tongues.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

A MAN WITH THIRTY CHILDREN
The Stroll family, of this county. is
probably the largest family in the Uni
ted States. The head of the house is
Nicholas Stroll, a Pennsylvania German.
now seventy-six years old. By three
wives he has had thirty children, twen-
ty-seven of whom are living. His first
wife presented him with eight. his Sec
ond with eleven, and his third with
eleven. The youngest child is now three
years old, and was born when its father
was seventy three years old. OF tie
twenty seven children, nineteen are mar
ried, and their families average about
eight children. Mr. Joel Stroll, one of
the well-known farmers in the lover end
and child of his fathers first wife, has
seventeen children, and he is not an old
man by any means. He is the father of
two pairs of twins, a distinction which
his father, Mr.. Nicholas Stroll, never
attained. If the families should gather
together there would be over 200 per-
sons. They nearly all reside in this
county. Old Mr.. Stroll is still hearty
and bids fair to live many years
Mauch Chunk Gazette.
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Best Sunday School Paper Published.
SEVERAL PAGES DEVOTED TO EACH LESSON,
WITH COMMENTARIES, MAPS. &C., &C.
H. CLAY TRUMBULL, Editor.

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The Quarterly at 20 cents year. Address
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How RUSSIANS BATTLE We in the
United States use the Russian vapor
bath as a medicinal agent only. But in
the life of the Russian peasant it plays
a most important part. No orthodox
peasant will enter church until he has
cleansed himself physically by means of
the bath. After laboring among pollu-
tions for six and half days in the
week, he dcvotes Saturday afternoon to
the vapor bath, and carefully avoids
thereafter all pollution until he has per-
formed his devotions at the morning SER
vice on Sunday. Some of the peasants
take their yapor bath in the household
oven, in which the bread is baked. 9th
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

If the 99-cent men want to 60 the
whole length in scaling down the money
standard, why not demand the Continen-
tai paper dollar, which sunk clear out Of
sight? That was the dollar of the grand
daddles.-IndianopoSs Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

Motto for cat show: sCome to the
scratch. :"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

L. II. THOMPSON,
TTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AND SOLICITOR.
IN Also Bounty and Pension Agent Irasburgh, VT.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-10-25
DROP. e. rHGFFHER,

DROP. e. EH(EFfNER, o..
-f-ar-naawa TEACHER OF
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC,
! Having permanently located in Monroe,
strunientaI music. He Will give lessons on
the 6ute, cortiet, clarinet, guitar, piano or
Violin; and vocal music Will be taught ntIer
pupils' homes, or at his residence on st:
John street; next door south Of the post
Once. Music furnished TOR oalis, parties
sc. 7"l' january IS, 1s7s. ~