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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

The largest variety Sc. Counter can be seel
at GLADKE's. may6-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

GLADKEs Carpets are the handsomest Pat
terms ever seen in this market. Oct7-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

RILEY & LANDEs is the place to get good
VEGETABLES and CHICKENS. oc2I-4t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

REMEMBER ELECTION DAY-Tuesday, 4fh
of November.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28
--A--%----
OUR
CARPET EXHIBITOR,

is alone worth the time and trouble of long
ride to see it. If you wish to purchase a carpet
you can select from samples representing
$40 600 worth in tn. rolls. And when you pur-
chase carpet from me- you get one fresh from
the factory, and of the latest design. No dam
ger of old styles, damaged moth eaten Carpets
being. ut off on you for fresh new ones How
ever. If you do not wish to purchase, CALL
AND SEE THE WONDER.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

Durham or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NhFtsman
LIST pr. on COW over years. $40; LIST pr. on heifei
under year. $40; End pr. on bull over years
$40; LIST pr. on bull / year old, SIS; lst pr. on
tween and years. So; LIST pr. on herd of heiferf
under years; End pr. on heifer under year
g: A. N. Bowman. list pr: on bull i! over years
cow over years, $40; LIST pr. on heifer between
/ and years, SIS. D. F. Clemmer, LIST pr. fol
bull between aPd years; SIS Ghas F. H ar
Deuons. F. Graves. Twyman's stors, Gpettsy
and 21d under
LIST aud End prs on COW over years; sioj Is
and End prs. on heifer 2 and years. $l5. ]. g
Pratt LIST pr. on heifer under years. IS; hero
.Jerseys.-J. G. Pratt, LIST and End prs. on bull
years old, SIS; LIST and End prs. on bull year
End pr. on heifer between 2 and years S.; Is
and End pr. on heifer under years, S. and Ger
tifcate; ]. y. woodward; lst pr on helfer De
aaa 70 g. Psa diploma Tor
Grades-C. B. Coiner. LIST pr; on COW over
years, $40, Jpo, W, Gilkesop, Mint Spring, Enc
h soS apa
Mop. Crawford, TT. Defiance, LIST pr. on heifel
under year s.; LIST pr. ON steer l year old s.
man, LIST pr. on heifer between i and years. S.
Fat Sxock.-George Chrisman. Rockingham
1st premium on lot Of fat cattle "a years SNl
u G,f
J. A. Sproul. Middlebrook, 2nd premium or
pen of fat sheep. S..
Middle WooI-fnolvding pure bred SouthdoUl
Shropshire, Gc.-On Shorpshire Buck, yrs. ant
and End pr. SIS to Miss Meta Eskridgs. On th
Southdown Buck yrs and over A. M Bow
man took the LIST pr. $40, and g. j. Pratt the 2nt
pr g. On Southdown Buck under yrs. A. M
bowman took the LIST pr 50, and DR.. j. M. Wat
son I'd pr.&. On the best pen OF Ewes over2yrs
A. M. bowman took LIST pr. $40, and G. J. Pratt
End pr S. On pen Ct Ewes bet and yrs. oil,
A. M. Bowman took ist and End pr. Sis. and Is
pr. on pen of ram lambs ana peG Of eve lambs
$50.
Long Notwithstanding pure bred Oots,ooid
Leicester and lincoln On Cot3wold Buck yrs
and over the LIST pr. $40 was awarded DR.. ]. NJ
Watson, Fishersviiie, ana End pr. S. to j. McP
Crawford. Fl. Defiance On GossWeld Buck un
der yrs. LIST pr. IS to DIR. J. N. watson, and 2nt
or. 81 to Charles Hartman. Jas. Mop. CrawfOft
list pr. on pen OF Cotswold Ewes over yrs. Sic
Hugh Hamilton LIST pr. ON pen OF ram lambs
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-28

Go and see GLADKE's Mems hats at so cts
they are bargain. oct
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
What an Old Man Has Noticed.

| have noticed that all men are honest
when we'll watched.
have noticed that purses will hold
pennies as well as pounds.
| have noticed that in order to be
reasonable creature it is necessary at
times to be downright mad.
have noticed when the purse is empty
and the kitchen cold, then is the voice Of
fiattery no longer heard
| have noticed that silks, broadcloths
and Jewels are often bought with other
peoples money.
have noticed that whatever is is right,
with few exceptions-the left eye the
left leg and the left side of a plum pud-
ding.
Ihave noticed that the prayer of the
selfish man is, "Forgive us our debts,
while he makes everybody that owes him
paw to the utmost farthing.
Ihave noticed that he who thinks every
man rogue, is certain to see one wher
he shaves himself, and he ought, In mer
cy to see his neighbors, to surrender tn
rascal to justice. -,
| have noticed that money is the fool
wisdom, the knave's reputation, the poo
mans desire, the covetous mans amb'
ton, and the idol Of them all.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07

A correspondent describes the comedi-
eta, nightly enacted in the House of
Lords, of Lord Beaconsfeld and his hat
When in the Lower House Mr.. Disraeli
was noted for the care which he displayed
in regard to that particular article of male
adornment. Unlike his great rival, he
was never known to appear in shabby
hat. Having taken his seat on the Treas
ury Bench, he would stoop down and
gently deposit his "tile" as far as possible
under the seat, where it would be safe
from the risk of chance kick, and on
taking it out from its resting place he
would mechanically brush it round with
his coat sleeve prior to putting it on his
head. Now that the Premier has been
translated to more dignifed sphere, his
hat is a perennial source of trouble to
him. He walks down the House from
the Princes Chamber with his Wonted
auntiness, takes his seat on the front
ministerial bench, fixes his eye glasses
and stares across the table to where the
leader of the opposition should be, but
probably is not, sitting. Then, in an aP
parent fit of abstraction, he bends for
ward, thrusts his hat between his legs anc
finds that it won't go below the seat. Ev
identity astonished at the sudden check tc
his usual procedure, he solemnly adjusts
his eve glass and examines the red leath
er screen which has caused it; then witt
care, smooths down the hat with his coat
sleeve, and deposits it under the table ii
front of him. AS the Lord Chancellor
rises to put the question "that this HOUSE
do now adjourn, the comedy is repeated
Lord Beaconstield feels below him TO
his hat, is manifestly surprised at no
finding it, awakes out of a brown study
and picking up the missing article, walk
off with it in dignifed style. This anus
ing scene is evidently due to long fore
of habit, and it is regularly looked for an
as regularly witnessed by the usual ire
: quenters of the House.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
Missouri Schools.
ISt. Louis Times-Journal.l

A St. Louis drummer makes affidavit
that the following is literal copy of rules
posted in a school house IN the interior of
the State:
each pupel is required to make bow
on entering the School. House of a morn
ing also leaving of Evening the Scool
Room.
there shall bee no profane language used
in School or on the play ground nor there
shall be no pin stickin pinchin, scrachin
nor taggin, nor no fting,nor no unesery
whispering in scool.
No Pupil shall leave the school House
without the permission of the Teacher.
No unesery moving from seat to seat.
No filing on the road from or to scool,
| nor no nick naming.
Every Pupil over eight years is subject
to these rules and the teacher is to make
the allowance for all Pupils under eigh,
years and enforce the rules according.
ifeny scholar brakes these rules tina sha
be punished by switchen."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
Temple Bari

lanes Boswell possessed in perfection
the minute observation of persons, places,
dress, and character which most clever
women possess. 1t is, thanks to his ex-
ercise OF this faculty, that Johnson is now
Known to us as no other man who has
ever lived is known. Johnson's coat, wig,
shoe-buckles; his manner Of speaking
and of entertaining his guests in Cough
square or Bolt-court; his whims, his tenn
pcrs, his weaknesses, are all word photo
graphed by Boswell for us. There was,
TOO, rare diplomatic talent in Boswell
for the possession of which he has hither-
to, SO far as we have been able to perceive,
obtained but small credit at the hands
either of his critics or of the public
Moreover, to represent Boswell, as is SC
frequently done, as being blindly idola
trous OF Johnson, is to 60 aadicrousiy
wide of the mark. So far from Boswell
having believed Johnson to be almost in
fallible, he was particularly we'll acquaint
ed with the weak points in Johnson''
character and intellect We venture tt
assert, indeed, that in many and various
WAYS Boswell was Johnson's superior ;anc
In this connection it is certainly note
worthy that whenever Johnson and Bos
we'll differed in opinion, time has showr
that Boswell was nearly always right ant
Johnson wrong. Boswells feeling towar'
Johnson was very much like that whicl
many a clever woman entertalns towar
her husband i. e., she is by no mean
blind to his faults or unaware OF his wea
points; when she differs from him in opin
ION, her Judgment is often sounder tina
his; she is intensely proud of any distint
ton which in the eye Of the world ne er
Joys, and she delights to be associate
with him in it, finally, she-to an exter
to which he is himself often quite uncor
scious-AatterS him and manages" hin
while all the while she loves him irol
the bottom Of her heart.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
GRAINS OF GOLD.

What makes life dreary is the want of
motive.
The reward of one duty is the power to
fulfill another.
The wounded heart heals, but the scar
remains forever.
Just as we depend upon ourselves our
troubles multiply.
Better be upright with poverty than
wicked with plenty.
The smallest perfect achievement is no
bier than the grandest failure.
The veil which covers the face of futu-
rity is woven by the hand of mercy.
Bind love with duty, for duty is the love
of law; and law is the nature of the Eter-
nal.
1t is said with life as with coffee, he
who drinks it pure must not drain it to the
dregs.
Whether happiness NAV come or not,
one should try and prepare ones self ito do
without it.
If misfortune hits you hard, you hit
something else hard; go into something
with a will.
The pain of parting is keenest to those
who go, but it stays longer with those who
are left behind.
Have nothing to do with any man in a
passion, for men are not like iron, to be
wrought out when hot, or nodded into any
given FORM
Every PERSONS natural weight of afflic-
ton is frequently made more unhappy by
the envy, malice, treachery or injustice of
his neighbor.
There is great deal of unmapped coun-
try within us which would have to be
taken into account in an explanation OF
our gusts and storms.
Probabilities are as various as the faces
to be seen at will in fretwork or paper
hangings; every form is there, from Jupi
ter to Judy, if you only look with creative
inclination
If thou canst not obtain a kindness
which thou desireth, put good face on it,
show no discomfort nor surliness; an hour
may come when thy request may readily
be granted.
Men and women make sad mistakes
about their symptoms taking their vague,
uneasy longings sometimes for genius,
sometimes for religion, and oftener still
for mighty love.
The presence of child is a radiant
sunbeam in dark hours, holy waning
in happiness, but at all times that link
which connects us with that far off Eden
Of Innocence and purity.
1t is easy to say, ave will forget" but
perhaps the hardest task given us is tc
!, lock up a natural yearning of the hear
and turn deaf ear to the plaint for cap
tive and jaier must inhabit the same
, small cell.
Very few men acquire wealth in such ;
manner as to receive substantial Measure
from it, Just as long as there is the en-
thusiasm of the chase, they enjoy it; bu
when they begin to look around and thinl
of settling down, they find that that par
by which JOY enters is dead within them
In the struggle of life the hero and tn
coward, the conqueror and the conquered
need sympathy equally. Often the min
: which upholds others needs itself to b
upheld; the honest heart that seems S
t. bold and true is fantng from secret sol
Ii row, diving from some little wound whic
4 sympathy could staunch.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07

1t is a customary thing among certain
class of noodles, whenever they see some
worthless fellow going to the dogs from
drink, to say: "What a pity ne drinks'
If he would only leave whiskey alone he
would be great man|
Now this is simply rubbish! Many a
fool has got reputation for genius BY
becoming drunkard, who,if he remained
sober would be recognized for what he is
"a man of as little mental power as NOR
al restraint.
The safest and suest measure OF intel
lectuality is the power it gives to the mar
of brains to govern himself and contro
his passions. He that gives a loose reir
to his passions and follows his appetite'
to degradation, gives the best possible
evidence of weak and feeble brain.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
So Sad.

The last act of an old but too constant
ly repeated drama has been seen at one OF
our New York hotels, the curtain has
been rung down and the earthly record
finished in misery and shame OF once
Happy and beautiful girl
Only two or three weeks ago seem
ingly deeply attached pair arrived here
from England. There were 10 or II days
of apparent accord and content in each
others society and the then supposed hus-
banda man of fashionable exterior and
polished manners-Nent away His sto-
ry was that he was going to Philadelphla
and that he would soon return. he tailed,
however, to return, and in a day or two
his companion became pale and bowed
like blighted lily. A week passed and
the unfortunate woman saw and ielt that
she was abandoned. So she laid down
and never lifted up her head again. The
wretched truth came out at last.
She had fled from her husband in Eng
land at the solicitation of the scoundrel
who had now abandoned her. Captain
Convers, as he called himself it turned
out had actually sailed for England again,
leaving his victim, who had sacrificed all
for him, i'll and penniless in strange
land 1t was to be expected, of course,
but equally of course, this poor creature
did not expect it; and so she died in bitter
grief and remorse. 1t is said that she
praved when dying that her husband
might fall in with her betrayer in Eng
land Strange bur pitiful hands smooth
ed her wretched pillow and supplied hel
needs till the last, and yesterday she was
laid 10 rest in Greenwood. 1t may b'
wrong to echo poor Masy Hartley'S alleg
ed diving PRAYER, but it is hard to repres
in reading of her wretched fate mop
that punishment in some just form shoul'
fall upon the villain who destroyed hel
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
Eli Perkins Talk with a Fond Mamma.



When asked an aristocratic old Christ
ian lady, from Fifth avenue, how she liked
to have her daughter firt with the hand
some Jew, she said:
Lizzie amt firting--she's playing
croquet."
"But don't you see how, every time
Lizzie and Solomon croquet their partners
ball they sit down on the rustic bench3 ?
There! don't you see Solomon now look
ing right into Lizzie's eyes, while she
flirts her parasol and looks smilingly up
at the trees? They're flirting now."
"What! Solomon Laudeback and my
Lizzie"
And the old lady dropped her embroid-
cry, put on her eyeglasses and looked like
an astronomer trying to discover new
comet.
"Well it does look like it," said the old
ladv. Then she rubbed her nose with a
puzzled look and musingly asked:
"Who are these Laudebacks anyway?"
"Why they're bankers-Jew bankers
on Wall street-awfully rich" volunteer
ed an old lady from Philadelphia, with
bic diamonds and false hair.
"And Solomon"
"Whv he's the only son, and he hasn't
sister in the world" interrupted the old
lady.
"Well he seems to be very nice young
man." mused the old Fifth avenue
mother.
ayes but they don't marry Christians
the Jews don't" continued the old lady
from Philadelphia. "Who ever heard o
a Jew marrying Christian"
"Do you mean to say that Solomon
Laudeback wouldn't marry my Lizzie il
he got in love with herr" demanded the
old Fifth avenute.
"Certainly not. The Jew fellows only
firt with the Christian girls. They never
marry them. They only keep other fel
lows away"
"Well, if that's the way, Pm not going
to have my Lizzie waste her time any
longer with that Solomon Laudeback,
and then the old lady gathered up hel
embroidered skirts, put her embroider,
back into her work basket went out or
the balcony and cried:
"Lizzie Lizzie dear! Come here, dear
Come! it's time to have your hal
dressed now for the hop!'
And when Lizzie stepped onto tn
balcony, the old lady put her mouth clos
to her ear and whispered, "Why, darling
don't YOU know those Jew fellows ar
awful bad? You mustn't be seen Wit
them again"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
LINCOENs 0LD HOME.
Neglected and Deeaying. IL is the Rem
dezyous of Low Characters.
[Sangamon (In) Monitor]

[Sangamon (ln.) Monitor]
1t is we'll known among the objects of
interest in this city there are none which
attract more attention than the 'old home"
and the tomb of the lamented Lincoln.
That either of these should fail to have
proper care taken of them is simply cul-
pable, either on the part of the owners or
the eitv. If the owners of the former
residence fail to have it occupied by care
full tenant and saved from the danger to
which it is constantly exposed from the
tramps infesting us, and the ow-down
brutishness found so plentiful among both
sexes and among both colcfs in our city
thev at least are deserving OF. public op-
probrium. Because of the building being
vacant the owner is to be censured; while
the city authorities should have at least
respect enough for spot of so much in
terest to the thousands who visit our city
annually to have it sufficiently under the
eve OF the police to guard it from fire and
desecration in the manner we have in
dicated as true in the opening of this ar
ticle.
The house has been exposed for some
months or since Mr.. Akard vacated it as
boarding house. In going home
al an early hour in the morning as those
who work on the morning paper are COM
PEELED to do, parties have witnessed the
most undoubted evidence that it is the
hiding place for the vilest characters. On
last Wednesday morning was this unques-
tionably the case, as parties know from
the most convincing proof.
Yesterday morning when about to "go
to roost" themselves, a party secured a
couple of the best policemen on the force,
as they went homeward, and instituted a
search. The windows of the back por-
ton of the house-which had been closed
by some of the near neighbors out OF re-
spect for the place-were found open. 1t
is true there was no one found in the
house, which was hardly expected after
an unguarded suggestion made the NOR
ming before in the papers that the police
would calaboose as vagrants any person
caught about the premises without rea
sonable excuse. We think if the owners
do not do something in the way OF bet
ter protection to their property, the city
should. 1t would be lasting shame te
the CITY if it should burn down or be de
stroyed through neglect; and we would bt
the greatest sufferers.
Robert T. Lincoln can do no act tha
would indicate greater respect for
dead parent of such distinguished char
acter as his father, than to select som'
soldier-one who, like thousands, unfor
tunately has not great abundance Of
this worlds goods but has respectability
or honor or wounds, or all, with the in
heritance of Gods mark of nobility-pov
ertv-and let him take charge of it whil
he lives The idea that it should be soil
for Colored Women's Home is an out
rage on the soldiers and the public win
have an interest in it. We hope some
thing will be done to prevent it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07

Not many lovers, suppose, have found
that their welded life answered quite the
dream of their courtship-not quite,
mine don't. Yet who would enter com
plant against heaven because May does
not quite match with October? If my
experience can be of any use think a
thunder storm, SO it was not to do mis-
chief, may sometimes clear the atmos-
phere under the roof about as well as it
does outside. And SO sure am l Of its
blessing that when hear people say they
have lived together five and twenty years
and never had the least difference, won.
der if they have not had great deal oi
Inference. 1t is a lesson we have to learn
too, through our saddest and most painful
bereavements-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
Fixed the Sieve.
(Danbury News.l

When P. T. Barnum, a young man,
poor and in debt, left Danbury, he said
to Judge Whittlesey: 81 will pay that bill
when get rich" The Judge drew down
his judicial features and disdainfullyy re-
piled: "That will be when sieve holds
water" In few years the visionary
Young man was in condition TO pen the
following brief letter to the Judge: 81
have fixed that sieve"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07
"Beiow Par"
[Harper's Monthly.I

That reminds me of little anecdote,"
d what every bright man has heard over
and over again, as his memory has been
logged BY some ones telling a good story.
When good stories and ready repartees
are going on, one witty little thing is sure
to suggest another. Thus we thought, a
day or two since, when reading in an
evening paper that Charles Sumner was
no musician, and that lady friend once
told him that if he was to buy music
box sc. to "Old Hundred" she did not be-
lieve that he could make it play "more
than seventy FIVE" 1t was doubtless
something in the same vein that prompt
ed old Mrs Rothschild, when ninetysev.
en-, to say to her physician, "Doc,or, you
must keep me up for three years more al
least; it would be discreditable for Roths
child to 90 off under par"