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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

How A SKILLFULS SWIMMER MAY EA.
silly BE DRowNED.-We read frequent
ly of the drowning of good swimmers,
who suddenly sink in the water with
out any apparent cause. The common
explanation of such an accident is that
the swimmer is seized with cramp but
an English naval officer offers a differ
ent solution OF the phenomenon. He
bases his theory on his own experience
His ship was lying for along time of
Alden harbor, and 1t was the practice for
cricketing parties to swim from the
vessel to the shore every evening, hav-
ing their clothes sent in a small boat
Of course, there was a race to see who
would get to the beach first. The
writer in the course of sharp struggle
for the lead opened his mouth to breathe.
and some of the spray flying in the wind
got into his throat and took the passage
down the trachea. II could NEITHER"
he says, "get any breath in nor out, and
I soon began to feel was dying on the
top of the water. There must have been
a dozen men close to me, but I could
not speak, much less call to them.
kept swimming on toward the shore.
In.about thirty seconds my senses began
to leave me. l ceased swimming, and
my legs went down, when luckily for
me they touched the bottom violent
jump helped me to cough up the drop OF
water staggered on shore and fell quite
exhausted on the beach, much to the
surprise of all the men with me-" 1t is
the opinion of this gentlaman that many
fatal accidents to swimmers are due
simply to drop of water in the wind
pipe A conclusive proof that they are
not due to cramp, is the fact that man
rescued within two minutes of sinking
ing in this mysterious manner is always
found to be beyond all hope of resusci
tation. --Bufdlo Courier.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
1.-THE WORLD FOR 1881. ]

The World for 1881, will be the best and
cheapest newspaper published In the Engl1sh
tongue on either side of the Atlantic.
With new presses SURPRISING any ever before
manufactured even by Hoe & Co.; with new and
unequaled typographical and business facilities
graphic correspondence Throughout er the world
than that OF any other American journal, The
WORLD for 1881 VIII afford its readers daily q
complete, condensed and trustworthy record OF
all current events.
In its Five Minutes With the News Of the Day
THE WORLD meets and Keeps pace with the in
creasing demands made by rapid transit, the tel
egraph and the telephone, on the time and at
tentiOn of business men.
Its daily cable letters from London bring the
Old World to the breakfast-table of the New.
In its Vail Street Gossip and its Items for In.
vestors, taken together with its accurate, can
did and absolutely impartial Financial Article
The WORLD daily presents an unr1valed picture
not only of the true condition OF the multitude.
nous enterprises in which the adventurous and
active people of this country invest their sa
wings, put also oil all the huctuat1ng influences
exerted upon those enterprises by the specula-
lions and the spectators Of the Stock Exchange
NO man who owns or expects to own an In
| terest In any corporate property can afford tG
miss for single day the information daily and
exclusively given In THE WORLD, not only as
| to the natural and legitimate course of affairs
affecting stock values, but also as to the plans
| schemes and combinations which are 1nces-
sanity making and unmaking in and out O.
Wall street to affect those values
| The WORLD contains also every day the fresh
| est, fullest and most instructive notices of ev
| erything new and Interesting in the realms O
art of literature and of social life
1t is the accredited organ of the colleges of the
Union, and the accuracy and vivacity of it,
| sporting columns, covering all the various form
| of athletic amusements which have multiplied
among us oflate years, commend it to the "risins
generation" throughout the country.
| AS the only metropolitan morning jOurna
published in the English language which main
tains an answering fidelity to the great endu
ring principles of.the Democratic faith in poll
tics, THE WORLD for 1881 will be found, wher,
for the last five years THE WORLD has beer
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and factions within the Democratic party.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
THE ALEXANDRIA RESURRECTION

THE ALEXANDRIA RESURRECTION
IsTs-CONFEssION OF GRAVE ROB-
BER-Alegan6 ia, Va, January 81 =
Thomas Vaughan, one of the negroes
recently arrested and sent to the Alex
andria Jail on the charge of the grave
robberies, made clean breast of the
matter on Saturday. He said that Al
bert Butler and himself had made ar
engagements with man in Washington
to dig up bodies and place them beside
the graves, when men from that city
would call and get them. Accordingly,
last Wednesday night, Butler and him.
self went to the graveyard. AS he was
one of the grave diggers, and Butler
had long been driver OF the graveyard
ambulance for one of the leading under
takers, they were thoroughly acquaint-
ed with the place, and knew that no one
ever came there after dark, so they be-
gan work about O'Clock and before 10
the bodies of Miss Jacobs and Mr..
Frazier's daughter had been taken up
and laid out on the snow ready for the
wagon. He was in waiting when the
wagon came, but got off on appearance
of the keeper by going across the lots. :
The police found at the place designated
by Vaughn the "resurrectionist," picks,
shovels, etc, and at Buffers boarding
house pair of pants evidently worn
while opening graves.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
IN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER

A WESTERN WEDDING.-A newly
selected justice of the peace. who had
been used to drawing up deeds and wills
end little else, was called upon as his
first official act to marry couple who
came into his Office very hurriedly and
told their purpose. He lost no time in
removing his hat, ard remarked :"Hats
off in the presence of the court" All
being uncovered he said: "Hold up
your right hands, You, John Martin,
90 you solemly swear that to the best of
your knowledge and belief you take
this year woman ter have an'ter hold
for yourself, yer heirs, exekyerters, adj
ministrators and assigns, for your an
their use an behoof forever?"
II do.n answered the groom.
"You, Alice Ever, take this yer man
fort yer husband, ter hev an'ter hold
forever; and you do further swear that
YOU are lawfully seized in fee simple,
are free from all incumbrance, and have
good right to sell. bargain and convey
to the said grantee yerself, yer heirs,
administrator and assigns?"
II do" said the bride doubtfully.
"Well, John, that'll be about dollar
m fifty cents"
"Are we married ?" asked the bride.
Yes. when the fee comes in" After
some fumbling 1t was produced and
handed to the court" who pocketed
it and continued: "Know all men by
these presents, that I. being in good
health and of sound disposin' mind, in
consideration of dollar m fifty cent
to me in hand paid, the receipt whereo
is hereby acknowledged. do and by thes'
presents have declared you man ant
wife during good behavior and unit
otherwise ordered by the court"
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TAKE Your HOME PAPER.-The ft

TAKE Your HOME PAPER.-The fol-
lowing is what the Cincinnati Trade
List thinks of those characters who
complain of their county papers, and,
instead of helping to support them,
send on for large city paper and thus
help to sustain them:
IA gentleman writes to us that his
county paper is so poor that he has
stopped it; therefore sends US three dol
lars for the Zrdde-List We repeat that
we do not want subscribers on these
terms. A mans county paper Is worth
more to him than all the papers in the
world, or if it is not it is his fault. If
the county paper is properly encour-
aged it may be relied upon for informa-
ton of more value to the people in
whose interest it is issued than can. be
found in all the city papers in the Uni
ted States. No man can afford to be
without the paper that publishes the
official advertisements of bis county,
the public sales, markets, court news
and other local intelligence. If the
paper is poor, the people are more at
fault than the publishers for not giving
it liberal patronage. However poor
the county paper may be, it is always
worth more than it costs to those inter-
ested in the affairs of the county,"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

ALLOW CHICKENS IN GARDENS
BY chickens we do not mean fowls gen.
orally, but the newly-hatched broods
which will flourish famously if allowed
the range of your flower and vegetable
beds. Shut the mother hens in roomy
coops near the garden walks; see that
they are shaded by trees or shrubs, both
as protection from the MONDAY heat
and from the possible invasion OF
hawks, who are fearless if the ground is
entirely exposed to view, but who are
shy of the swaying limbs and futtering
leaves of trees The chickens. eagerly
searching for worms and insects, are
within the mothers call, and can easily
hide, at warning note, among the
leaves and grass. The exercise the fresh
air, and the sturdy independence gain
ed at an early age it this way, are as
healthful and growth promoting as is
the natural insect food which they gath
er for themselves; and this added to the
rations furnished by the owner of the
flock. they will astonish you by their
rapid and healthful development. The
first six weeks of a chickens life will
settle the question of early or late ma
turity more effectually than any after
care and pampering can possibly do.
Give the young ones good start. and
half the battle of life is already won.-
American Poultry Yard
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
Thomas Jefferson on Agriculture.

+ In the Janua nv number of the Planter
and Farmer is published document
from the pen Of Mr. Jefferson that has
never before appeared in print, which is
found recorde, in the office of the State
Agricultural Society. 1t consists OF
some notes on agricultural subjects,
which were placed by Mr.. Jefferson in
the hands of Gen. J. H. Cooke on the
18th of May, Isl II, when an agricultural
society was in process of formation in
Albemarle. We give the notes which
set forth the objects which he thought
should engage the attention and excite
the inquiry OF agricultural societies =
l. Principally the cultivation of our
primary staple: of wheat, tobacco and
hemp for mark ct.
2 All subsidiary articles for the sup
port of the farm; the food, the clothing
and the comfort of the households
Indian corn, rye, oats, barley, buck.
wheat, millet, the families of peas and
beens, the whole family OF grasses
turnips, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes
and other useful roots, cotton and flax
the garden and the orchard.
8. The care ald services of useful ami
mails for the saddle or draught, for food
or clothing, ami the destruction of nox-
ious auadrupeds, fowls, insects and rep
tiles.
a. Rotation of crops and the circum
stances which should govern or vary
them according to the varieties of soil
climate, and markets of our diferen
countries.
5. Implements of husbandry and ope
rations with them, among which thu
plough and all its kindred instrument
III Fl co;1 hn1do tho r. ref O
and the threshing machine, an impor
tant one, the sinplification of which il
q great desideIatum successful exam
pies, too, of Improvement in the opera
lions of these instruments would be ar
excitement to correct the slovenly ant
unproductive practices too generally
prevalent.
6. Farm buildings and conveniences
Enclosures, raods. fuel, timber
7. Manures, plaster, green dressing
-fallows. and other means of amelioratinl
the soil.
8. Calendars of work, showing how
given number of laporers and draugh
animals are to oe employed every day
in the year, SC as to perform within
themselves and in their due time accord
ing to the usual course of seasons, al
the operations of the farm of q giver
size; this being essential to the proper
tioning the LABOR to the size of tn
farm.
8. A succinct report OF the diferen
practices of husbandry, including thu
bad as well as the good, that those VIII
follow the former may read and Sc
their own condemnation in the sam
page which offers better examples TO
their adoption. 1t is believed that
judicious execution of this article alon
might nearly supercede every other dut.
of the society, inasmuch as it woul'
present every good practice which ha
occurred to the mind of any cultivate
of the State for imitation, and every bat
one for avoidance, and the choicest pro
cesses culled from every farm woul
compose course probably near perfec
ton. TIL: JEFFERSON
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
THE T0BACC0-sM0KER's HYMN.


The following should be learned py near
and sung by all smokers of the fragrant Weeo
This Indian weed now withered quite,
Though green at noon, cut down at nlgnt'
Shows thy decay;
All flesh is hay.
Thus think. and smoke tobacco.
The pipe, so lilly white and weak,
Does this thy mortal state bespeak9
Thou art cen such,
Gone with a touch.
Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
And when the smoke ascends on high,
Then thou behold'st the vanity
Of worldly stuff,
Gone with puff.
Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
And when the pipe grows foul within,
Think on thy soul defiled with sin;
For then the fire
It doth require.
Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
And seest the ashes cast away?
Then to thyself thou mayest say,
That to the dust
Return thou must.
Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
CalhOun's Death.
from the Atlantic. !

An unpublished letter from Mr.. h.
M. T. Hunter, to Virginia Senator,
gives some interesting facts concern
ing Mr.. Calhoun's last moments, and
the views at that time of the Southern
mapnates. "Mr. Calhoun's DEATH"
wrote Mr.. Hunter, twas eminently
simnle. calm and unaffected, mo dis
play or pretension, nothing for stage
effect. He knew that his mortal sick
ness was upon him, but he did not ex-
pect to die soon. The evening before
his death he had his mail read to him,
commented upon some of the letters.
and directed his son to clear up his table,
as was his wont every night. In the
night. when he found he was dying, he
directed his son to pack up his papers
and watch, and to give his pencil to his
son Andre. When speech left him he
still showed consciousness by sign and,
| reckoning to his son, squeezed his hand
and expired without pain and without
fear. He had always said to me pre-
viously and to others throughout his
sickness that he had no apprehension of
death !; that it was an event In relation
to which he felt that he had no right to
| entertain q wish. He was man of few
quotations, but one which he often used
to me was that there was the same
Providence on the fatal as the natal
hour He was not consulted as to his
birth, nor did he believe that his wishes
ought to weigh or even exist as to his
death such I suppose to have been
his meaning. He had a greater faith IN
his distractions, one and all, than any
other man ever saw, and this was bis
abstraction Gas think about death"
1 r. pkou
.syou must not whisper it to any one; I
sion that the South was betrayed and
gone. Indeed, he told me it was be-
trayed' the last time I ever saw him.
Do not mention this, however. One Of
the last things he ever said to Judge
Butler was: Don't despond, Judge
never despond!' And if we mean to
fight the battle we must not despond or,
if we do we must not let the people see
it until all is manifestly useless. Clay's
course and Foote'S eternal talk about
compromise have done more to let down
, the tone of Southern feeling than eve
rything else put together. Had Clay no.
taken the course he did, and bad Foot'
and every Southern man fOrbOrne t.
press compromises on those who talked
of nothing of the sort themselves, WI
: might have gotten, think, fair com
> promise; say, the line of So SO through
to the Pacific, with a recognition soutf
: of that line. Such, at least, is my opin
ion. Buchanan would have been will
, ing to agree to this, I believe, and
think l know others in the North VIII
would have agreed to the same. To
North would not have severed the Uniol
sooner than submit to such PROPOSE
tson."
+; Mr.. Calhoun's death elected glowing
eulogies in both houses of Congress, bu
the most impressive was that of Henri.
Clay. Evidently standing on the brinl
: of his own grave, he went on to say {"
was his senior, Mr.. President. in years
in nothing else According to the cours
7 of nature, / ought to have precede
him. 1t has been decreed otherwise
!, but I know that shall linger here onl,
short time, and SHALL soon follow him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

A poor Irishman applied for relief
and upon some doubts being expressed
as to whether he was proper object
for relief, he enforced his suit with
much earnestness. "Och yer HONOR
said he. "I'd be starved long since but
for nay cat" "But for what?" asked
the astonished magistrate. "My cat.''
replied the Irishman. "Your cat
how SOP" "Shure yer Honor, I sold
her eleven times for a shilling time,
and she was always home before could
get there myself"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

A CONvICT'S ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
james Harlow, a convict from Lex
ington, Rock bridge county, attempted
to escape Saturday evening while work.
ing at the scale house on the Brook
turnpike He was sent to the peniten-
tiary for rape and had six years to serve.
A force of convicts was employed in
cleaning outline scale-house, which had
become full'of water, and Harlow was
one of the number The convicts were
watched by two guards, and it seems
that Harlow imposed upon them by
telling them he had only three months
to stay in the penitentiary, when in fact
he bad seven years to serve. Harlow.
being subject to rheumatism, was al
lowed to wear flannel shirt, and he
managed to make a pair of blanket
pants. Saturday evening, as the con-
victs were about to be taken to the pen
itentiary after their days work, Harlow
stepped aside in some bushes and,
quickly divesting himself of his outer
convict's garb. ran across the field, at
tired in his flannel shirt and blanket
pants. He had reached field near
Harvey's flower garden where he came
suddenly upon group of about ten
boys playing. One of them by the
name of Hammond recognized him,
and pulling out a pocket knife pointed
it at him and ordered him to stop. The
convict mistook the knife for pistol
and stopped, and soon one of the guard
came along and captured him. Under
the law he gets an additional term
for attempting to escape.-The State,
Jun 31st.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08
Two Organs.

Regulate first the stomach, second the
liver; especially the first, SO as to per-
form heir functions perfectly and you
will remove at least tieths
of all the ills that mankind is heir to,
in this or any other climate. Hop Bit
tiers is the only thing that will give per
fectly healthy natural action to these
two organs Maine Farmer.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

A HERO OF PRINCIPLE.-The garru-
lous octogenarian Thurlow Weed writes
to the New York Tribune to ll'wheD,
how. and why" GeDe ral Grant was first
nominated for President, and ITO show
how General Grant became RepubIi-
can instead of a Democratic candidate I"
Mr.. Weed thus admits that General
Grant had no choice in the matter him.
self, but was as ready to run on one side
as the other. The story is not new
one. We heard it in 1868 Mr.. Weed
establishes its truth. Surely the north
ern people must ieel proud of their fore
most man. Think of Lee or Washinton
in that role.-Rich. Dispatch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

Hundreds fOMen, Womea and Children
rescued from beds of pain, sickness and
almost death, and made strong and
hearty by Parker's Ginger Tonic are the
best evidences in the world of its ster-
ling worth. You can find these in eve
ry community.-Post. See advertise
ment.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

"THINK OF ST. PAUL DoTING ON
CRIMPS. 1.-THE time was when young
preacher contemplating matrimony"
consulted his elder and was governed
accordingly. We fear the Juniors of
our day are trif1e backward in laying
the matter even before the Lord. Or
else the Lord does not communicate by
open vision; or by Urim, or by dream. :"
We have notion that if any divine
response came it was very brief and in
one word: Don't"
AS the conference, as it were, offers a
premium for married men, and as the
heart of the undergraduates are fully set
in them to "lead about sister," we will
venture sentence or two of counsel, to
quit our conscience of duty, not with
the vain hope of any one "inwardly dir
costing" the advice. We know the
proverb: HE that splits against the
wind splits in his own face"
Insprinais Choose of q healthy fam
lily and pick a woman of sound body.
This is scandalously unsentimental,
but it is sense.)
It is better to get stout sinner than
pious and hysterical invalid. The
former can be converted. The hypo-
chondriac may convert her husband in
to sinner or sour drone.
Do thy diligence to find out whether
she is lazy. Flee, oh! young man,
from an indolent and thriftless woman.
Pray to heaven with strong cries to de.
liver you from an untidy housewife.
Does she love music? Consider it not
until you hear her discourse on leaven
and yeast powders. Happiness is in
the art of manipulating hops and Iris b
potatoes in such mixture as puffs. dough
into sweet, light rolls. Does she love
poetry? Let her also be well versed in
pastry. Knowing Lucille by heart
won't atone leathery crust. Rhyme
is no remedy for the dyspepsia. Inquire
whether she is quick and expert with
the needle before concerning yourself
about her vocal powers. II she can
play and patch, so much the better.
And thus endeth the first lesson.
And, secondly-but it's waste OF
words to proceed. He is bound to mar
ry her, even if she never saw biscuit
baked nor hemmed handkerchief. She
has curls. She has an arch way of shak-
ing them. The ringlets have ensnared
him. Cupid like the Greek archer,
twists the locks of maidens into bow
strings.
Think of Paul doting on crimps.-
Richmond Christian ADVOCATE.
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SCHEDULE OF TRAINS ON VALLEY
- AND b. d o. KAILROADS.
DAILY E1cErr sunday

SGduuLOu 4.0V
Mail Train through to Washington and Bal
timore without change of cars, and makes close
connection at Harper's Ferry with Express
Trains for the West. The Accommodation
leaving Staunton at 3.l5 p. m. connects at Har-
risonburg with Train for Harpers Ferry.
8. M. WOODWARD, JR.,
T. FITZGERALD, Supt. v. r. r.
8. of T.. b. Il q. r. R. jel
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-08

Before the days of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup. person troubled with cough
always consulted his physician. Now
he only invests 25 cents and is cured af.
ter few doses.