Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-03-09
Briefs.

We predict snow.
The Legislature will probably adjourn to-
night.
A concert will be given at Greenville, OF the
26th inst, for the benefit of the Y. NJ. C. A. of
that place.
The Senate, on Thursday, passed the Dill 1or
submitting the question of liquor license or no
license to the voters OF the town of Waynes-
boro'.
Whilst Mr. B. F. Williams was engaged
two weeks ago in loading car with lumber,
he fell from the car and broke his shoulder
blade He is getting well.
Washington never told lie, but if the gem
puzzle OF Is had existed in his day we fear that
he might have said: "oh. I've done it, done it
lots of times: but l can't tell just how"
The Debating and Literary Club in Alder
son, Monroe county, w. Va, are making efforts
to secure subscriptions for the establishment OF
town Library. 1t is worthy object and the
citizens should make it q success.
Save your rags and waste paper; they have
gone up to good prices again. Old paper is
worked over again, and it pays well to save it
for the rag men. Any family, contemporary
says, can save enough in old rags and paper
p each year to pay for all the newspapers they
take.
fine advance in the price of printin paper
has had the effect OF increasing the demand for
straw, and very materially enhancing its value
to the farmer. The Hagerstown Mail says that
one farmer in Washington county, Md, was
offered $500 for the straw from forty acres of
wheat.
1t is an old saying, in which many believe,
that if March comes in like lamb, it will GO
out like lion. 1t will be remembered that
March came in last week like lamb, as the
weather was calm, clear and pleasant, so If the
old saying be verified, we will have cold and
stormy weather at the close of this month and
March will go out like lion.
What do the Salem papers-the Register and
C0nservatire-that heraded the fame OF Mr.
Miller, of Scott county, have to say now? DC
they still have faith in him? A correspondent
of the Clineh Valley Ne,Os who is neighbor Of
Miller's says that if he has performed any mi.
raculous cures his neighbors know nothing
about it. "a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country"
We are indebted to Hon. j. Ran. Tucker fol
the very able dissenting opinion of Justice
Field of the United States Supreme Court in
the case of j. d. Coles, Judge of the County
Court of Pittsylvania in Virginia. In this
opinion, Justice Clifford concurred with Justice
Field. The Republican majority of that Court
are drifting our Government to the m9strom
of a consolidated Empire in which our Repub-
lie Will be wrecked, and our Federative system
destroyed. The friends of Republican govern
ment should be aroused from their lethargy.
Don't catch cold, but if you do, nothing will
meet the requirements of the case as well as
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price, % cents.
or tried the Is number puzzle? If not, and yor
wish to bother yourself to your entire dissatis
faction, Just try it. The puzzle is prepared very
simply. Take piece of paper or board and
draw upon it a square of about 4 inches side
subdivide this into 16 squares of an inch each
making rows of 4 squares in a row. Then take
Is bits of paper or card board smaller than the
squares and number them respectively from
to To- Then take these numbers and place
them Unfortunately upon the squares of the
figure, which will of course leave one vacant
square. Then the game or puzzle is to move
the numbers about so as to get them arranged
in their natural order from to 10, the occu-
plying the upper left hand corner square, then
in regular order to the right, making the
rows -.