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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-19

to take up q Florida contested election case.
This was opposed, and after considerable time
spent the motion was defeated. A report in
regard to the treaty with Mexico was submit
ted, ordered printed and recommitted. A
letter from the secretary of the treasury. stat.
ing that there will probably be deficit in the
revenue Of the government the next fiscal
wear of $27, 100000, and asking authority to-
issue per cont. bonds to cover such defcien-
CIV was referred to the committee on ways
and means. The House went into committee
of the whole on the legislative bin, and after
disposing of So pages rose, and the remainder
of the session was devoted to memorial SER
vices of the late Julian Hartridge s~'
SENATE, Feb 14.-The House bill re-
lating to the Cumberland National road, Ohio,
authorizing the same to become free road, j.
passed. The credentials Of B. L. Jones 81
Louisiana, J. B. Groome of Maryland, and H.
B. Vauce of North Carolina, Senators elect,
were presented and placed on file. After con-
sidering bills on the calendar the bill to re-
strict Chinese immigration was taken up, ana
Senator Blaine advocated it. Several amend
ments to the bill were presented. The re-
mainder Of the days session was spent in dis
cussing the bill, and without reaching any
conclusion the Senate adjourned. ..0.SF
House, Feb. 14.-1t being evident
that the constitutional amendment in regard
to the election Of President could not be act
Gu upon tA1S ocoo1Ou, 1cdVC was 61duUCu w
any member to print such speech on the
su bject as he might desire. A bill was re-
ported to authorize the President to app oint
Gen. Shields Brigadier General on the re-
tired list in lieu of the pension which he now
receives. This led to great confusion, and
some exhibition of bitterness. The bill was
referred to the committee of the whole. The
"war claims" bill came up and occupied the
remainder of the days session, and without
action the House adjourned. ~ 4
SENATE, Feb. 15.-After the presents
ton of petitions, and attention to routine
business, the Senate resumed the considera.
ton of the bill to restrict Chinese immigra.
ton. A long and earnest discussion ensued
Senators speaking Tor and against the bill
Mr.. Conkling's amendment was rejected, yeas
81, nays 50. Mr.. Edmunds amendment was
rejected, yeas ~, nays 80. The bill having
been considered in committee of the whole
was reported to the Senate when severa
amendments were, offered and rejected and
the bill finally passed. yeas 80, nays ~. Ar
)attempt to consider the bill to amend the rev
enue law failing, the Senate adjourned. ~
HOUSE, Feb. 15.-The House went in
to committee of the whole on the legislative
judicial and executive appropriation bill
Several amendments were submitted; som,
were rejected, and others agreed to, when
having made some progress in advancing tn
bill, the House adjourned to Monday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

Feb 18th crazy son shot his fathc
IRA Stewart, at Watertown n. Y.
Alexander Vaughan, convicted of bal
lot box stutfing in Petersburgh, Va, has been
sentenced to one year in the penetentiary, and
80 pay a fine of $3.50 and costs.
'Ihe revenue agent at Burleigh, n. G.
reports capturing number Of distillers and
stills and large quantity Of low wines and
whisky In the fight two moonshincrs were
wounded.
The Sheriff of Washington county, Pa,
mas arrested between sixty and seventy rioting
strikers. The commandment of the militia of
the district has been instructed to aid the
sheriff. necessary.
A daughter Is years old, of farmer
living near Columbia, Ill, was ravished, while
on her way to school, by strapping negro
weighing 200 pounds. He fled was pursued
and supposed to have been captured. He has
xnysteriously disappeared, his pursurers say
he will never outrage another woman. 1t is
guessed the scoundrel was lynched.
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for the value of tho old rail.
road bonds. This raised . breeze at once, and
Mr.. w. M. Campbell moved to indefinitely
postpone it. Mr.. Comstock denounced such
action as discourteous to him, and threatened
that if such u course was taken, others bills
might share the same fate. This had the effect
of permitting the bill to have it's regular course.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

A fatal case Of trichina has occurred in
New York city.
A fire at Enterprise, Miss, Feb. 18th
caused loss of 1000.
Servia has formed partial Gordon on
the Turkish frontier against the plague.
Gen. Todd leben announces that he will
commence the evacuation Of Adrianople in
ten days.
Much loss OF stock is feared from the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-02-19

William Il. Barber, of Wrightstown, Wadena
county, who came from the southern part OF the
State last November, has built good log house
and cleared six acres Of heavy timbered land
during the month. ,., t.
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~, ESCAPED Prisoner Gets Tired Of Free
done and Vol,snta,t.v Returns to P''is-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

How MANY EGGS CAN A HEN LAY.
There has been 80 much loose talk
about the total number of eggs hen is
capable of laying and her yearly yield
under fairly good treatment, that it is a
satisfaction to come across something
beyond guess-work or mere inference
Oh the matter. The foundation of sci
ence is accurate observation, and when
scientist publishes statement, 1t is
presumable that it is based on this foun-
dation. It's accuracy, too, is confirmed,
if it is quoted with approval by other
men of wide experience and knowledge
on the subject involved in it. Now,
Geyelin says, and Prof. Miles, in his ex-
cellent work on stock breeding, quotes
him with approval lit has been as
certained that the ovarium of fowl is
composed of six hundred ovules or eggs;
therefore hen during the whole of her
life cannot possibly lay more eggs than
six hundred, which, in natural course,
are distributed over nine years in the
following proportion =
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

GETTING RID OF RATS.-A cores
pondent of The English Mechanic gives
one or two valuable hints for Kidding
premises of rats. One very good plan,
he says, is to nail red herring on the
wall of the warehouse or place in
tested, about eighteen inches from the
floor; on this, little to one side, be-
meath the fish, place brick or piece OF
wood near the wall. At an equal dis
tance on the other side set an ordinary
steal snap trap not baIted. The rats, in
jumping off from the brick to get at the
herring, after few attempts are sure to
fall down in the trap. This is good
permanent plan, as it is somewhat above
their comprehension. If rats have un-
dermined the foundation walls. which
they do sometimes to such an extent as
to endanger the building, it is of no use
to attempt to stop them out by tanping
their burrows with broken glass bottles,
for they work diligently to make fresh
ones. A better way is to put shovelful
of dry sand over every hole. The rats
soon come up through this, but in so
doing let half the sand into the burrow,
which, unlike earth, they cannot either
force or carry up again, and by repeat
ing this at every fresh-opened place their
runs become quite filed up, and they
make up your foundations again. By
this means have known a granary that |
was terribly infested with rats, quite |
cleared of them. All their burrows be- |
ing at last filled with sand, they were
to betake themselves else
where.
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. THREAD OF SONG.

A THREAD OF SONG.
1t was only broken chord of song
That sang itself, the livelong day.
Over and over in my heart,
And always in the same sweet way
Always beginning low and soft. esq
Like a tenderly spoken "love good night"
And ending in glad and joyous strains,
Like morning psalm when the world is
bright.
And the hours ofthe day were woven in
By the mystic thread of the haunting song,
That, somewhere out of the vanished past,
Sent forth in witchery clear and strong;
Something akin to the song of birds
When the sky is flushed with the coming
dawn,
Yet sad as the thoughtful hour which comes
When the last red light of day is gone.
Beautiful echo that drifted back
From the far-off shore of long ago,
Over the wide and rugged waste,
Where never the winds of gladness blow,
Bringing the odor Of wildwood flowers;
The laughing song of the mountain rill;
The green, glad fields where the cowslips grow,
And the gleam of waters calm and still.
Sitting alone in the twilight still,
Whose mantle covers the earth with gray,
My heart is touched and my eyes grow dim,
As the glow OF the sunset fades away,
And feel the presence of the unseen guests.
That out of the shadowy regions throng.
And know they have crossed from the farther
shore
On the slender thread of the sweet old song
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04
Soon after Braddock's war, Capt. Jno

Soon after Braddock's war. Capt. Jno
Dickerson, of Windy Cove, brought in
to Staunton the wild man, ''Selim, ,
the Algerine. captured by Capt. Sam
Givens in the Alleghanies. He saw
Rev. John Craig on the court green
took fancy to him, and went to live
with him; was converted, and, being
an educated man, returned to his native
country to carry the Gospel to his pee
pie. See Bishop Meade's ancient church
es and families of Virginia, Vol. I, page
S41. Isaac Collett published the Re
publican Farmer in one end of a long
frame house that stood where the Lu-
theran church now does, and old Father
Isaiah Gale, a Methodist preacher,
taught Sabbath School in the other
end. Memoir.
NoTE.-On reflection, William, the
grandfather of Rev. Joseph Mcdowell
Mathews, married, as believe, sister
of Isaac Rankin, the grandfather of
VIM. Frazier and numerous posterity.
He (Wm.) built the stone house below
Parnassus, in this county, in which the
late Enos Sillings died, said to have
been erected in 1872, and, if so, one of the
oldest in the county He had a numer-.
GUS family, but John, the father Of Rev.
Joseph is the only one of whom have
any history. M.
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OId.Time Barring Out.

Judge 10. G. Guild, famous in Tennes-
see as the bosom friend of Old Hickory
jackson, has just issued in Nashville a
book of anecdotes of Jackson. Among
the most entertaining "reminiscences re-
lated in the book is the following account
of "barring-out:" my early life was
made miserable by one Mulberry Bangs,
a gentleman of the old school, who de-
voted himself to reading, writing and
arithmetic, and the general use of the
stick. Upon my head and other parts
of my person he imprinted himself so
positively that l can see him now as
plainly as if we had parted but yester-
day. He was stout man, who made in
his figure, when made in profile, HO-
garth's line of beauty, being round
shouldered and crooked in the legs. He
was a blonde. The hair of his head had
that sunny tinge SO much admired to
day, and when rubbed down with tai
low candle, as was his wont to dress it,
was so smooth and straight that the boys
believed that the flies slipped down ii
and broke their legs. His eyes were
dark and fierce, and hid under the cav
ernous recesses made by his bushy red
eyebrows, seemed to watch like evil
spirits over his precious nose. The nose
was ruby nose, bottle in shape, and
when Bangs was angry, which appear
ed to be all the time, it glowed like the
headlight of q locomotive. His mouth
was finished without lips, and resembled
slit in piece of sole leather.
"Old Bangs was famous for his power
of resistance, and boasted that no school
of his had ever succeeded in conquering
or barring him out. There we're two
big boys in school, named Bill Henning
and Bob Strong. They were knotty-
headed, broad -shouldered and hard fist
ed fellows, who worked through the
summer for means to attend school dur
ing the winter. Each in turn had been
numerically whipped by the master,
and it was understood throughout the
school that the barring out of Master
Bangs was to be accomplished and old
scores settled. The evening before the
general engagement, Bill and Bob, our
noble leaders, with few contederates,
stole back to the schoolhouse, armed
with hickory poles. Breaking open the
door, they whitfield one end of these
tough saplings to a point, and then
hardened the points il the fire. Then
placing these in corner, ready for use
with q stout cord, they gave orders to
the boys willing to take part in the fight
to be on hand at the schoolheuse before
daylight the next morning. At the time
indicated nearly all the lads were in at
tendance. Some were pale and trem.
bling, others were noisy and boastful
but observed the real leaders and relia.
BILE soldiers were quiet-so quiet, indeed
that one might doubt them. j
Our first order was to cut and carry in
enough wood to serve the garrison dur.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

SULPHUR FOR HOas.-If farmers
would give each full grown hog tables
spoonful of pulverized sulphur, and pro-
portionally less for smaller ones, once
in three or four weeks, mixed in meal, it
would prevent every disease known to
me that hogs are liable to. This asser-
tion is based on practice of more than
forty years, and for by far the longer
portion of that time kept as many as
fifty head yearly, in widely extended
range of some 1000 acres (not all mine)
of piny old field and open land. My
hogs were well fed and sheltered in win
ter; and in all that time did not lose,
on an average, one per year from any
disease whatever. 1t makes no differ
ence as to weather or stage of CESSATION
in giving it. It is true have had few
cases of sickness among my hogs, but
not one hog treated with sulphur died
when it YVES found out before he was too
sick to eat. In such cases I gave them
at ouce spoonful of sulphur in hand
full of meal, and if that was eaten the
cure was certainty. In some cases
where the hog was suffering greatly,
grinding the teeth, foaming at the
mouth, and reeling and pitching, he was
relieved. In this case mixed the sui
phur with melted lard, laid the animal
on his back, put stick across its mouth,
and poured the medicine very slowly
down its throat, and then left him to
take his chances. If he did not die in
four or five hours after, the dose was re-
peated, and the hog generally got we'll
This treatment will cure seven out O
ten so affiicted.-P. O. Lipsconab in R,s
raj Messenger.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

IMPORTANCE OF A CLEAN SKIM
Most of our invalids are such, and mil
lions more of healthy people will be-
come invalids, for the want of paying
the most ordinary attention to the re-
quirements of the skin. The mem-
brane is too often regarded as covering
only, instead of complicated piece Of
machinery, scarcely second in its texture
and sensitiveness TO the ear and eye
Many treat it with as little reference to
its proper functions as if it were moth
ing better than bag for their bones
1t is this Reconsideration for the skin
that is the cause of very large proper
ton of the diseases of the world. If, as
claimed by some scientists, four-fifths,
of the bulk, of all we eat and drink
must either pass off through the skin or
be turned back upon the system as q
poison, and that life depends as much
upon these exhalations through the
skin as upon inhaling pure air through
the lungs, it must be of the most vital
importance to keep the channel free.
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The Norfolk Nrginian says that when
the issue of the fractional currency was
stopped it was estimated that the amount
outstanding was 45,OOO,OOO. A COM
mission appointed by Secretary Sher-
about S8,0OO,000 would never be pre-
sented for redemption, having been de-
stroyed or lost. 1t now appears that
this estimate was too small. There is
still outstanding about s16, 600, 900 frac.
tional paper currency, of which amount
about 50. 000, 900 is in Scent and 5-csnt
notes. It is now estimated that there
will ultimately be redeemed only S4 600,
600, leaving ST., 100000 as profit to tht
Government.
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EOA bI
PARTH ENOPE.

PARTHENOPE.
BY THOMAS HUNTER FAUvER.
Pale restless orb from Heavens ethereal plain,
Why shines thy light SO coldly on us now?
Thy sisters yet their wonted glow retain.
But sorrows mist is drawn across thy brow!
Thou art not one of that eternal throng,
Which bent above the dwindled hills OF
Mingling thy voice with theirs in matin song,
To swell with rapture young Creations birth.
Dost aught of dark regret encompass thee,
Or harbinger of doubt thy soul oppress?
Lone, lone thy cycle round Alcyone,-
No comrade thine, with cheer thy way to
bless!
Or hast thou erred, oh cold Parthenope!
Has love of mortal caused thy cheek to pale;
Art scorned and driven, like the Pleiade.
Forever doomed to weep without avail?
Thine should. for aye. have been happy lot,
In golden sphere midst upper bliss to dwell:
Leuconia weeps yet, near thy native grot,
Ligeia sighs, but,-what to thee befell?
These ,cere thy sisters. On Sicilia's shore.
Three Syrens dwelt; and, born to touch the
| Tyre,
Would sometimes on the fragrant zephyrs poul
Such strains as wake the hearts most latent
fire.
But, thou, too good for earth, the fairest one,
Vast borne away to try that ether cline;
In queenly chariot round the mighty Sun,
| To sweep in splendor till the end Of time.
| IT'S not for me to know thy future fate;-
Let him who wanders to the realms of stars
Seek Astraea's throne, that fair abode of state
And learn what sin thy Vestal bosom mars
Athwart the vast cerulean vault OF Heaven.
Thy troubled smile darts, like CHASTITY beam
From out a soul with crucial anguish riven.-
Lashed on the shoals of Life's ill-fated stream
Pale star, adieu! dominion still may sweep
Around thy throne. but ever sullen gloom
Abides with thee, till the dim ages sleep,
And all lies buried in its primal tomb.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

STAINS OF ALL KINDs.-If you have
been picking or handling any acid fruit,
and have stained your hands, wash them
in clear water, wipe them lightly, and
while they are yet moist strike match
and close your hands around it so as to
catch the smoke, and the stains will dis
appear. If you have stained your muslin
or gingham dress or your white apron
with berries, before wetting with any
thing else, pour boiling water on the
stains, and they will disappear. Before
fruit juice dries it can often be removed
by cold water, using sponge and towel
II necessary. Rubbing the finger with
the inside of the apples will remove the
most Of the stain caused by pairing. Ink,
also, If washed cut or sopped up from
the carpet with milk Immediately when
IL Is split, can be almost entirely remov-
ed. Ink spots on floors can be extract
Cd by securing with sand, wetted in oil
OF vltriol and water. When the ink il
removed, rinse with strong potash wat.
s~As
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III
POETRY
THE LOVERS HOUR.


20 THE LOVERS HOUR.
When the evening sun goes down.
' And the daisies close their eyes;
Ere dusk wrinkles to q frown,
Or the stars blink in the skies;
When the dew and zephyrs light,
Woo the perfume from the flower,
When the day is melting,
-. Is the lovers hour.
Cleaning is the trysting time;
Hardest outlines soften then;
Common Mortals grow sublime
Love and twilight soften men.
Feelings hidden from the light
Shrink not to assert their power;
And when day is wooing night
Is the lovers hour.
Twilight wells with kindly grace
Bushes burning on the cheek.
When the timid upturned face
CoyIy answers eyes that speak;
Lip meets lip, its troth to plight;
,, Rapture, then, is loves sweet dover;
Then, when day Is kissing night,
Is the lovers hour.
MRS. G.. L. BANKS.
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For the SPECTATOR.
TOKENS.
BY BERTIE VALERIE,


BY BERTHE VALERIE,
On turning key, found to-day
oo"e o.o love letters stored away,
NOR was there in my heart to stay
Distinctions hand.
One was lily, faded and broken.
1et once how fondly cherished the token
TOT IL told Of a love, pure ard unspoken,
Awaiting me.
announcer, a dainty little flower.
Gathered from from some leafy bower,
NO longer kissed by the evening shower
Here its ashes lay. -
Another, with card-Remember me,
For truly / shall ever be
A friend of thine, friend to thee.
But that was long ago.
To-day he hardly dreams that 1
Once claimed on him nearer tie-
But let that, too, forgotten lie
Among the rest.
Another, photograph, which he t-G
At our last parting gave to me,
But never again shall him see; .
So let that perish too.
So flowers, photograph, and card,
All shared fate alike. Twas hard,
And DER their memory no bard
Chants the respondent lay.
EVANSVILLE, Va, Feb. 18th, 1879.
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To WASH BLANKETS.-I have seen
various directions for this work, but o
few things seem essential in every case
to avoid hard water and resinous
soaps, to wiring without twisting ii. e..
with wringer) or not to wiring at all,
to use water of the same temperature ali
through, or to increase in heat during
the changes, not to rub the soap upon
the flannel, but mix il with the water.
Flannel is so porous texture that it is
easily cleansed in good suds without
much rubbing. Hard rubbing tends to
"full" the cloth, and to rinse in cold
water flannel that has been washed in
warm water. is sure way to shrink
and harden it. From cold to warm, but
never from warm to cold. 1 have seen
the direction to rinse fiannels in soapy
water, but am sure there is no value in
this. The clean, warm rinsing water is
sure to be soapy enough. if good suds
have been used in the washing. One
or two suds may be used, according to
the degree to which the f1annels have
been soiled. When they have been
rinsed, two should take them, one q!
each end, and shake and snap them well,
to make them more soft and fuzzy.
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In the Henrico county court the suit
of Thorpe vs.. Alvis, for Sic, 600 damages
on account of the explosion az Halfs
saw-mill, has been decided: the jury
rendering verdict for the defendant.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

"When 1 shall be mani" is the poe
try of childhood when l was young
is the poetry of old age,
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In reality, there is perhaps not one OF
our natural passions so hard to suodue
as pride; disguise it as we may, every
now and then it peeps out.
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&tauntott Spectator,
RATES OF ADyuF4sIBe.

ADHERTISEMENTSw will be inserted at the rato
OF 90 per square Of eight lines or less. for the
nrst Insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent
49, -, "A liberal discount will be made on advsr.
''semen's published for 8, 6, or z months.
Ole the advertising rates,
AODituaries, Announcements of Candidates
ior Office, and all communications of q personal
vr pFaVate character, will be charged for as ad.
Address -SStaunton Spectator Stanton, Va.
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CIPHER THIs.-If our readers are in
clined toward deciphering the mysteri-
GUS, we offer them the annexed puzzle
and recommend the original riddle to
the careful consideration of our readers
who think it means them. BY careful
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-04

Inasmuch as experience demonstrates
that some breeds of hens are vastly more
prolific than others, this statement, of
course, can be applicable only to the
average of poultry.-Rural Ne,0 York
En-.
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DID GIT business you can engage in. IS
DHO Il to $40 per day made by any work.
er of either SEX right in their own localities
Particulars and samples worth s. free. Improve
your spare time at this business. Address
STINsoN q Co.. Portland Maine. apr2-ly