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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-02-19
Valuable Property
IN CHARLESTOWN
FOR SALE PRIVATELY.

THHE BRICK DWELLING HOUSE the
l. ner of Congress and Water streets in Charles-
town, is for sale low and upon easy terma 1t is .
Brick House, with Fame Wing under new Roof,
containing Nine Rooms and Kitchen, and best
Cellar in town. The other improvements on the
lot are Stable. capacity for four horses and two
cows; a Cutting Room, Corn house. Carriage
House and Hog Pen all under one Roof; Brick
Smoke House, and a large and Excellent Cistern.
Commodious Stable and Wood Yard. Choice
Fruit Trees upon the premises, consisting Of If
teen PEACH TREES, best varieties; four APPLE
TREEs-Golden Pippin. Rambo, Sweet and
ries. Currants; six Green Gage and two Siberian
Crab Apple Trees-white and , el!ow; No. Hart
Cherry Tree, two Morello do; Hops, Asparagus
and large bot Bed. Tho Garden Lot Of acre
rich and productive.
Porches to B, ick Structure and to the Wing
all in good repair The lot under good fence con
tains 2 of acre. .r
This perty is fully worth 50 900, but will be
sold at q much lower dgure. ON reasonable terms.
Special inducements to q cash purchaser.
N. BIZ not sold previously 4 be above property
will be rented from the lst Of April next.
JOSEPH 81. EASTERDAY.
February 10, 1878.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-02-19

CoAL OIL $50 degrees FIRE test. cold by
" Jan. 10, rs. LIGHT MITCHELL.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

"You need not care what others think
If you are sureof l?ur own feelings,
Hsrmions." ..
'it is because I am sure of them. Linly,
that at last yielded. have known
Rupert from child, and he is one in q
thousand. So, dear, surely you will foo
give me if you are averse to this"
"Forgfvea What should forgive;
dear Hermione - Z 81
II yielded, and gave my consent that
he shoald tell you his love, and try to
win yours. dear. For nothing could
make me happier, my sweet girl than
for you to marry my cousin"
Hermione's voice died away. There
was no sound in the darkened chamber.
She listened anxiously for Linly's re-
Sponse; but the girl realized nothing Lut
the feelings of her own heart.
"Willyou not speak, dear?"
"What shall l say, Hermione ?''
care you panied or pleased by what i
have told yeu?"
"Hermione, have been told that you
md Rupert st. Charles used to love each
other" ..
Il have always loved Rupert as q
eousin-nothing more. 1t was your
father whom l loved, dear, and so you
are next dearest to my heart. / have
promised Rupert to urge you to give
him little sign Of encouragement,
and so he has sent you this blush-rose.
If he may speak to you. wear it in your
hair when he comes tomorrow night; if
you have no hope for him, you need not
see him at all, dear, as it may be painful
to you, and will surely dash his dearest
hopes to the ground. So will tell him
as gently as possible"
"Give me the rose."
Hermione unfastened the cool, fragrant
thing from her own dark hair and in the
darkness saw its whiteness lifted to the
girls lips.
81 will wear It,"
Soon all Circleville knew of Iinly's en-
gagement, and this is the way it was.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23
TEE STORY OF THE WAVES.

The moons pale light is calmly beaming
Der verdant slope and bosky vale,
The dancing waters, brightly cleaning,
Leap up to kiss our snowy sail.
Afar they keep ceaseless beating
Along the eeho-hamted shore,
The same sad tale they keep repeating
That they have told since days of yeFe.
They mnrmur of two lovers, drifting
Upon the bosom of the lake,
While pencil rays Of moonlight shifting
With silver frost work trace their wake.
One whispers love to ears that listen
With tremblings as of half-affright,
While through their dropping lashes glisten
Her eyes, like dew.drops in the light.
Her velvet cheek now glows, now paleth,
And flutters like bird her breast;
Her snowy hand all idly traileth
A lily by the wave caressed.
Her lovers arm now close enfolds her,
Their lips are welded in kiss;
Close o'er his swelling heart he holds her,
All trembling with ecstatic bliss.
Some lurking goblin saw their wooing,
His baleful eyes ablaze with hate;
He sought to compass their undoing,
For envy of their happy state.
lie summoned to the work unholy
The slumbering demon of the wind,
He, creeping from his cavern slowly,
Like an assassin skulked behind,
And pouncing on his prey, he heaved them
All helpless to the yawning deepl
The madly tossing wave received them,
And closed above with angry sweep.
The goblin seized the maid and bore her
In triumph to his dark abode;
In vain her lover fingered for her
Upon the beach with pebbles strewed.
The woods and rocks with his lamenting
Were filled from morn to fall of night;
The waters cold knew no relenting,
Nor recked they aught of his sad plight.
And still the waves keep ceaselcss beating
Along the echo-haunted shore,
The same sad tale they keep repeating
That they have told since days OF yore.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23
How it Was.

"Folds of the silk and cream-colored
roses. You will have the hats just alike,
then ?" asked Miss Lucinda Smith, mil
liner.
"Just exactly alike. 1t will please
Hermione, and there is nothing l like SO
well as to please my pretty stepmamma,"
answered Linly Thstford, lifting her
sweet eyes for sympathy to the precise
countenance of Miss Lucinda.
"Umph!-so you are very fond of her,
Linly p
"Yes indeed! She is my best friend
since poor papa died; and being so near
of an age, we are constant companions.
don't know what l should do if it
weren't for Hermione; Ryeland's has
changed so since papas DEATH"
"You have Mr.. St. Charles company a
great deal, hear
A fash like sunrise dyed the beautiful
brunette face.
"Of course; he is Hermione's cousin,
and--and like a brother to me-" an
swered Linly, stopping over box OF silk
~iolets to hide her confusion.
"Umph ! yes-welf, tits all right, OF
COURSE" remarked Miss Lucinda, pinching
out a brier-leaf and setting the little
rose more firmly on its stem. but
didn't 1t ever occur to you that folks
would talk?"
"About what3" asked Linly, lifting
her clear hazel eyes to Miss Lueinda'f
profile.
His being at Ryelands so much, sc
soon after your fathers death. Pool
man! dead but six months; l should
think your stepmamma, as you call her
would have more respect for his memory
than to-"
"Than to what ?" asked Linly, hel
bright orbs growing large and bright
with indignation. "What have you te
say against ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS my ia
tl6F Mllt, bliss LuCluud
"sayP-oh, l say nothing. It's what
other people are talking about. But
must add, that it is strange you are sc
blind, Linly. Now I've known you ever
since you was child-used to come tc
Ryeland's every Spring to make caps il
your grandmother's day, and your OWL
mother always bought her bonnets oi
me-and you were always bright enough
about other things, It's strange yor
can't see."
"What?" with thrill in the young
voice.
"Why, Of course, your stepmothe,
married your father for his money, ;ant
to have home and position. She was
only district school teacher, down il
Marshfield, when he married her, anc
everybody knew she did pretty well fol
herself when she married DR.. Thetford
But she was dead in love with her cousin
Rupert st. Charles, and he with her
but they we're poor, and he working hi
way so slowly through college that she
thought there wasn't much chance there
and SO gave him up for your father
And now he's promising young lawyer
and she mistress of Ryelands, what is SO
likely ?-Lor, you amt going to faint
are you, Linly"
Faint No! The day is warm and
your store is close. 1t is foolish for me
to stay here listening to this gossip.
do not feel in the least, indebted to you
for repeating it to me, Miss Lucinda
Ny beautiful stepmother loved my
father dearly when she married him
five years of utter devotion to his in
terests, and her crushing grief at hi'
! death, proved it for ms-nor do I believe
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

is fair to presume that other manufac-
turers had their share of the trade. Wire
is also rapidly taking the place of wood
splits and rope. in baling hay, and its
convenience to the farmer in a hundred
other ways is so apparent that it will
soon be looked upon as necessity on the
farm as well as in the workshop.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

FATHER j. II. WILBER, although a
very benevolent man and a philanthro-
pist, has amassed princely fortune
within the past fifteen years. He pur-
chased lots in Portland, Oregon, at the
close of the war for almost nothing, and
they are now worth probably 100000.
He is justly celebrated as a civilizer of
the Indians, and as one who will never
owe another man a cent over night.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23
A NIGHT AT A JAPANESE TNNs

We entered the village which was
once city containing over a million in
habitants, and put up at native hotel
kept in native style. Again observing the
custom of undressing the feet, we passed
many guests sitting upon mats and max
ing their chopsticks fly in way tEat
would make Yankee envious even in q
railroad eating house. Up stairs we
went, and were shown into room whose
walls consisted merely Of paper, parti-
tioning one room from the other, but
which were scrupulously clean. Order
ing supper and some native wine, we
were quickly served by a rather good
looking maid.
While awaiting the result of our or
der we were served with "tidbid' pastry
and with some suck-ee, also bowl con.
tanning live Goals, together with pipes;
after which, giving us time for a smoke,
the courses began with fish, not cooked
enough for our taste, then eggs. chicken,
sweet potatoes, rice and tea. No bread
was served us nor butter, but as the tea
was remarkably fine, and the eggs,
though small, were duly seasoned with
rock SAT-, we made good meal, rem
dered awkward by lack Of experience in
using the chopsticks. which were pencil
shaped and used by holding or pressing
the food between the ends, the guests
meanwhile peeping through the parti-
tions and giggling at our frantic efferts
to eat gracefully.
While eating supper the governor OF
the place sent constable to obtain our
names and residence, that we might be
under police protection, we being the
first white men that ever spent night
in the place. Supper being over, we
took short walk through the town, and
as there were many pilgrims in the place
who had never seen Caucasian before.
we were the observed of all observers" "
especially our friend, an Englishman,
who is six feet two inches in his stocking
feet, making him giant among them.
Going back to the hotel, our friend
asked US if we wished a bath and
shampoo; answering in the affirmative,
he gave the order. and hearing long,
low, and somewhat sad whistle, which we
had heard both by day and by night in
Yokohama-and which, though 1t had
excited our curiosity, we had failed to
inquire the reason of-he went into the
street and brought in blind man, who
he said was to do the shampooing. The
bath being ready, we went down stairs
and were shown into room, whose
wet floor proved it to be in constant
use.
After finishing our bath we donned our
gowns and returned to our room, where
the "blind man" took us in charge.
Commencing with our feet, he knuckled
us all over, prying in between every joint
and muscle of our back and limbs, except-
ing the region of the chest, and which,
after he was through, made us feel as
timber as an acrobat. These shampooers
it is said, are made blind in their child
hood, that they may ply their vocation
without injuring the susceptibilities of
ony one. The sun rose unclouded on the
following morning, and after a breakfast
served on the floor, similar in quality to
the supper Of the evening before, we
paid our bill, which amounted to $1.75
this for both Of us, including our
wine. e.-Saa francisco Chronicle.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THE case of the colored family in
North Carolina that is turning white is
not the first instance of the kind on rec
ord. In 1869 Barnum had on exhibition
little colored youth that was undergo
ing the process of pealing off and becom-
ing white. When first taken to the Mu-
scum the skin had begun to peel off in a
number of places, and this continued till
he was blonde Of pretty clear complex
ion and but for the hair no suspicion of
his race would have been entertained.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

COLONEL FoRNEY, in his letters from
Paris, refers to the French as people
who, while they minister so busily to the
extravagances of others, and indus
triously tempt strangers and the rich to
throw away money, at the same time
have established rigid system of their
own economy, which is practiced in pub
lie as well as private life.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

A STRANGER walked into the Office of
the Treasurer of the Bedford-street Mis-
sion, in Philadelphia, and handed in an
envelope, stating that it contained his
contribution to the yellow fever fund.
He refused to give his name, but the en-
velope contained five one-hundred-dollar
bills and one fve-hundred-dollar bill.
That man has missed an excellent oppor-
tunity for advertising himself in the
newspapers of this country, but he will
find his name where it ought to be, all
the same, when the eternal record Of
noble men is made up.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THERE appears in our columns this af-
ternoon letter from prominent Irish
man of this city, who writes over the
nom de plume of "OConncll." The let
ter plainly indicates that the old party
leaders are losing their grip, so to speak,
on the Irish voters. The Irish are COM
ing to understand that they have been
used by the political hacks for selfish
ends, and they are now assuming an air
of honest independence worthy alike of
their manhood and their patriotism. We
commend our Irish fellow citizens for
this course. Their patriotism, their
manhood, their spirit of independence
should prompt them to spurn the party
lash, and be men and patriots instead of
slaves to any party.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

LOUISE PoMERoY says Cincinnati
audiences are cultured and discriminat-
ing to degree not exceeded by those of
any city in the country"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

TENNYsoN has brought suit to restrain
the Christian Signal from publishing his
Confessions of Sensitive Mind" writ
ten years ago, The suit itself looks like
the confession of a sensitive mind.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

TIE commentary of severe friend Ii
better than the embellishments of q sweet
Tipped asttsrer.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

BUFFERS associates on the ticket
made at Worcester are Withdrawing.
They can't stand the company.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THE ST. Louis G.-Democrat now walls
a wall in behalf of "justice for brave old
Tom Worthington."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

WHEN a man assumes the judicial
robes with all the gravity and owl-like
wisdom that cluster about them, he is
only too apt to forget that he was once
baby. But there is Justice in Lafay-
cite, Ind, who has not permitted his head
to be turned by the solemnities of his
high office, and the decisions recorded
upon his docket are perhaps the only de-
cisions in the country that affect the
rights and privileges of much-abused
and over-spanked class of citizens. He
takes cognizance of every act of baby
spanking in his jurisdiction, more es-
pecially if it is accompanied with un-
usual rudeness or anger fixing the pun
iahment the same as in ordinary cases of
assault and battery.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THE Sultan refuses to cede anything tt
Greece, He says he'll cede hanged first
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THE application Of wire in binding
sheaves of grain, as a substitute for the
straw itself, ,looksto many old-time farmers
like an extravagant and useless waste.
1t has 50 steadily come into use, however,
in connection with self-binding reapers
that the sale of this article for harvest
use is enormous. One rolling-mll com
pany alone, at Cleveland, Ohio, shipped
about fifteen hundred tons of wire last
season for the purpose mentioned, and it
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

THE stricken South looks for relief
only when the icicles bloom.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

The trouble is now between England
and Afghanistan.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

CINCINNATI e WEYTWOOD MARROW GAUGEI.
Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Robb's (Westwood) SAB a IN, 7:05 m,
1898 p M, 1888 p nj, 6:03 p M
., Leave Brighton, 6:23 IN, SO am, 20S IN, G1s
m, 6:43 pm.
Sunday trains = a
Leave Robbs (Westwood), s:3s a m, 1923 a m,
1928 p m, 2.03 p m, 4:53 pm, and 6:33 D m.
Leave Brighton, 1888 m, II :0S q m, 1:28 ne
2:sS p m, 5:55 p m, 7:13 pm.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-23

The sos m and 1858 IN trains connect fo
Jackson and Portsmouth
BALTIMORE OHIO, VIA PARKERSBURG.
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
Baltimore Ex., daily y..... sos a m 613pn
Baltimore Ex., daly.............. 9:53 pm 6:23 an
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-01-19

"hITTT IA HK."
A MARINE DIALOGUE.

POET. KITTY.
Whcrc the seas worn out with chasing, at
thy white feet sink cmbracing tIou still
sitest, coldly facing, Kitty Hawk
Facing, gazing seward ever, un each
weak or strong endeavor bnt in grief
or pity, never, KITTY Hawk
Earlos, sca-9ullS round thee flying, land
birds spent with speed and dying, even
man to thee outcrying, Kitty Hawk!
All thou sec'st, all thou nearest yet thou
carcst nanght no.. tearcst, flesh nor tow
to thee is dearest, Kitty Hawk
Art thou human art thon woman ? art
thou dead to love and to man more tl!an
ali relentless, ever, Kitty Hawk
Hast thou wrongs to right, o Kitty
wrongs that move the soul to pity? tell
to me thy mournful dily, Kitty Hawk
Tell me all how some false lover, vagrant
ship-boj sailor rover, left, bcreft thee,
threw thee over, Kitty Hawk !!
For some Antipodcan savage, left thy rage
the shore to ravage, with faint idea of
salvage) Kitty Hawk ,
How thy vague but tragic story, clothes
the sandy prumUtoIy, calls in accents
monitory, Kitty Hawk
How the feline appelIation, in accipitrinc
combination Eost benefits a rhvmed
narration. Kitty Hawk
Festive tramp, around me prying-man
with hair unkempt and tlyng-youth
with neck and head retractiic,
Like Il clam.
Drawn within thy soft inclosule stop thie
cerebral exposure. for that's not the
kind of hairpin Tha. am
If you're ne aposlroplizing with this att.
tudinlzing, pri,he. hasten your uprising.
And IN time
On tnis beech, which i ;the Stations, leave
some ccr,;in inlcntationS 10, p. iuts
.ur so'.e sailiis brother,
Who might rhyme
IL, my lamc is Jane Maria, and my faith.
TT keE,r,ah, though he grca,lcv mIsl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-01-19
Home Conversation.

Children hunger perpetually for
new ideas, They viii learn with
pleasure from the lips Of parents what
they deem it drudgery to study in
books and even if they have the mis-
fortune to be deprived Of many edu-
catienal advantages, they will grow
up intelligent If they enjoy in child
hood the privilege of listening daily
to the conversation OF intelligent peo-
pie. We sometimes see parents who
are tie life Of every company which
they enter, dull, silent and uninterest-
ing at home among their children. II
they have not mental stores sufficient
for both, let them first use what they
have for their own households. A
silent home is a dull place for young
people place from which they will
escape if they can. How much use
full information, on the other hand, is
often given in pleasant family conver-
sation, and what unconscious, but ex-
cellent, mental training in lively So
cial argument. Cultivate to the ut
most the graces Of conversation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-01-19

ALLIGATOR SEIHs.-A single firm
in New York city pnrcuase as many
as five thousand skins annually. They
employ men to pursue the reptile in
the bayous Of the Mississippi river;
and the work is usually dcne at night
by the AID of lanterns, the rifles used
being aimed straight at the creature 5
eyes. This leads to the destruction
of some animals that are either too
old or too young. A good size is
eight or nine feet, counting nothing
beyond the thick part of the tail
The market price for finished skins in
New York is $36 to $48 per dozen,
They are used in the manufacture OF
boots.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-01-19
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
Rural Piedmont Va. Land Agency.
D. D. M. DIGGES, PROPRIETOR,
Gordonsu,Ve, Va.
j. b. Err, Local Agent.
FrOsthurg, Md.
This Agency has for sale

1nlS hSeHeS uh9 III @''0
Every Description Of Real Estate.
In section Of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malarious
and pulmonary diseases. Its pure
bracing air, fine springs Of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasonable summers, its gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its flowers Of spring and
varied hues Of autumn-all combine
to place this region of country in the
front rank of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.
We continue this week our list OF
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the far famed
Piedmont and Valley regions of Vir-
ginia.
D.1,oo ,,u <,,,1 TITLES 7L,o,eef1o,3nL1e