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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

A gentleman dcscends from q carriage.
" Let me see; ! owe you for two hours.
1.-TWO hours For three
"Nery wei call it three. Here's your
six francs
aud the tip ourboir
backsbecsh-eh %.
Tip q man Who has jus' t.iri 90 make
Inc euf Hnt Never
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IIauiing, Flowing, &c.

rg'HE undersigned having located I'm town, j.
I prepared with a good team To do AL Kind.
of l~iauiirg at very moderate rates. Also viii
live attention to the blowing of lots. gardens
Ec. Orders can be left atmy father residence
corner Of Congress and Water streets, Wiic'
prompt attention will be given them.
). Il. WilIl3.ORE.
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Notice.

4 Ii PERSONS indebted 10 me s Sheriff for
q Taxes. &C., are hereby notified 10 settle
up. r. IS necessary that I should close my
hcrinalty business without delay.
EUGENE BAKER.
Iatr Sheriff Of JcfersGu County.
juno 1S,--3n.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

WAVING completed nv contracts abroad
IL which have occupied my sole attention Tor
nearly a year past, | am now prepared Tor orders
in all the departments Of House Bailding. Ad-
dress ne ut Chariestown.
Sept. &c, 1876. lie. HOLMES.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

Headquarters FOR sTOVEs!-We are
I / now r~ecciyin. % hil Stock of Iarlor. Din
ing Room. 0Biec and Chamber Stoyc5-also thc
celebrated STAR" Cook Stoves. Any stove not
in stock will De furnished on short notice. We
put up every Stove wc sell and guarantee salts
faction. Prices low. DUKE GALAAIElt
GOLDEN Sun FIRE PLACE DOUBLE
II HEATER. improved for 1850. for sale 10y
DUKE& GALLAHEB- Agents.
100 LARD CANS. Stove Pipe and Elbows, ali
| sizes. Sheet Iilc, Iinc stove Boards. for sale
by DUKE GALLAIIER.
~ COILS Jutc and sisel Fodder Yarn for
~ sale low by DUKE GALLAllEit-
CAISAGEsTUFFEBS and Sau age Grinders
y also Combined Stuncr and Lard Press tor
sale fy DUKE &GALLAHER.
HOAL HOBS. shoycls, Fire Dogs, Shovcls
K and Tongs, for sale 10y
oct. -. 1850. DUKE & GALLAHEis.
CHAAIBER SETS. Tin Bread Boxes, Tin
y Cake Boxes. Knife BoxeS, Lanterns, Cake
Pans and Moulds, for sale by
DUKE G~ALIAIIER.
EINET TABLE and Pocket Cutlery, Scissor
/ Chiids Walters, appropriate for Christmas
Gifts, f,r sale by DUKE GALLAHkR.
TOCOA FOOT MATS. Anti-Frcezing Ci-tern
X Pumpr. Tar, Ilamp, Baskets, lard Cans,
DC. for sale by DUKE GALLAHER.
COOK STOVES. Tn Plate stove, Coal
- Stoves. for sale by
Dec. is, IsaD. DUKE GALLAlIER.
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Fall and Winter!
Grand Opening of "a Magnificent Stock of
DRY GOODS,
Notions. Boos, S,ocs, Hats AID Cups, &C.

~ Dress Goods I name Cashmere, AlpacaS.
I Dch.,c Australian trcpe> Dress FlannciS.
Domestic Go1ds-priut~. Blcachci and I'M
b.eachcl Cott0ns. Shccfing>. Bed Ticks Canton
FlanpelS. shaker auj Mcdicated F~lanncis.
G~ushams. Crash, dc. dc.
Notions and Fancy Gool~-Sik and Linen
I~iandkeclics. Ladies' oud Children Hose.
Gloves. Corsc,$ Nubia,, Hoods, Le-glnes L@-
dies and Gents Ties and Scaris. Ladies Sa,-
chefs. Ladies Cloaks. afull line O. Dress shirts
and Underwear.
White and Grey Blankets. Table Ol Cloth,
White Quilts skirts. READN-NADE CLOTH
ING. de-. Ec. We are prepared totaSeall corn
i'm trade or on account. EoLLlN YOUR
CORN 40 trouble to >ho" Goods Whether
y,r wish to p1rchaS. or NOT. youwU letre,.-
Ell with thc samc pl't,ues and attention. So
tisac.iop guaranteed In every particular. taI
and see me before PURCHASING elsewhere
E.-pec-Gliv. e.. vs.. TECSSELI-
T.. T.. ETcuIsoN, e.1.s,,cp
r.. lEo. TEUssELL.
OCT. sd. 1s~l.
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Surveying and Conyeyancing.

+ WILL survey anywhere. promptly and a,
short nosice-acctricy guaranteed. Snee,I
attention paid in connection Herewith e. DRAW.
INC DEEDS or any other instruments ~ WRITING
p. 0.-Charlestown n, Jefferson Co. ". IA.
Dec. S, 1877. 5. HOWELL BROWN
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NOTICE.

4 LII persons indebted to the UNDERSIGNED as
n former Agent OF the B. 4 o. n. X. Company
for Freights. o. Commissions. or e. the late IRA
otStarry X Lock, are notified that paymon, must
be made at once.
July Is, ISIS. ID. STARRY.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

I
b,~oo lir;,sd owcrr+or G. nor cent. ro'd
W JcGerson County. West Virginia. Bonds
cr ale M 90 cents. We recommend them as q
BE-. JAlNiSON % haaNers'
ny --' CN'',"~e
I'"'1F""' '0"DS3
~ WEEK SD n div gt home easily
81 w,I, C,.trv Oltft f-ee. Address True
is Co.. AUGUSTA. Maine.
Man. b.. Sly.
GOD FISH. Salt Herring with and without
\ the Roe ln tl-m MacNNfcl Toy lAe A''
Cam or Dozen Tor sale ll
April 1851. V- W. Do NLA"otL1-
WILL have I'm store early in April Char
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TRe Elise G-3G EiGH
OF TIE
Government.
TSy Jefferson Davis.

Complete in Two Volumes, Octave. Price in
cloth. $500 per volume; shccp, 900; han
turkey, 500 full tuTkeJ, $1,000.
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(gorey' SEED.

WANTED 500 Bushels MOL Clover Seed.
w Ian. T.. 1851. IIPPITr eco.
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NEW CROP 80. SUGAR and MOLASSlS.
~ q. W. 7. KEARSLEY.
Dee. Is, 1850.
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:,

I'm which every artclci I'm each line win be found.
New additions have also been made 20 hisstock
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

- 4 III THE CO. the best C-ar in this
y market for live cents. for sale hv
nfN-rn TTnNrTF
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y. $. WHITE.
IL. u. DAVENPORT,

81 ~
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

WE have a limited amountof C per cent. gold
w Jefferson County, West Virginia, Bonds
for sale at 90 cents. We recommend them as @
Grstc,ass investment
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-07-02

If Won wish TO make merry the hearts 81 your
1 little ones, and tickle the palate, o. Ihe
.ll,r members of the household, c:di and pur-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
SeIf.COnSciOusness.

Near the close of the summer season, in a
pleasant summer retreat, a new conner found
the entire company of the little hotel prepar-
ing to give fete in honor ola young lady who
was about to leave them. The young men
had brought a band and caterer from the city,
marques were erected on the lawn, the house
was wreathed with flowers; every body,
from the white-haired grandmothers to the
little children, had some little farewell gift
for Miss Betty" The stranger was curious
This Miss Betty is very beautiful, no
doubt =" he asked his friend
mo, think not it never occurred to me
before, but believe she is homely."
"a great heiress, then? ?"
"On the contrary, Il poor artist"
Brilliant, witty? Highly intellectual?"
NO, lndeeu: she never SAID Il me ilIiIig In
her life. But she is the best listener | ever
knew. Neither is she learned or clever or
fascinating; but really she is the most Iowa
BILE girl in the world,'
'"Not patrcian, but Caesar himself What
is the charm, then?"
Betty's friend looked perplexed, 81 do not
know" he hesitated "unless it is that she
never thinks of herself"
This is true story The charm of this
woman was an absolute absence of all self
consciousness She was neither vain nor
modest. She simply forgot that there was
such person AS Betty Gordon, and with her
warm heart and quick sympathcs she threw
herself into the lives of Others 1t was n
peculiar, powerful attraction, and brought
the little world about her to her feet
This Inconsistencies fselfis recognized in
our best classes as the finest development Of
good breeding. Among the English nobility
the man of highest rank is likely to be the
most unassumng, direct and simple in his
manners. He assumes the virtue of modes.
ty, if he has il not.
American young people are not apt to be
selfish. They are usually generous and con
siderate. But they are often intensely self
conscious. They are themselves so engros-
sed with that monster | that they imagine
the world is equally interested. In this self
consciousness they constantly speak, move
and even think, like actors before an audience
-YOmh'S C0mpdniOR
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
Yorktown.

The scene Of the surrender has long been
neglected spot. Yorktown is not reach
ed by railway, and is off the line of progress.
Some days it may revive its old time pros
perity at least ii ought to become more nc.
cessible as point for future pilgrimage. Be
fore the Revolution the town was quite an
emporium, the only port from which the Nir-
gina planters shipped their tobacco TO Eng
land Baltimore and NorfOrk gradually re.
duced it by competition. Some two cen
turtles or more ago we first heard of it us one
of the few outposts or forts in the colony
In 1925 it was the centre of n thriving coun-
try-an Episcopal parish of sixty commune
cants, with church. Williamsburg, the CAPT.
tai with "A House of Burgesses and growing
college, attracting thither the wisdom and
fashion of the Dominion, was scarce dozen
miles away. Yorktown had escaped the IA
wages of war on the Virginia cost, and after
its surrender it still contained about 20 hours
not more IMAM two three having nCcH
wholly destroyed. Fifteen years later il had
not extended its limits, and we find its pc.
puation, more than half of which was COM
posed of negroes, numbering about 500 souls.
The last war; il need hardly be said left it
in a depressed condition, almost beyond re-
covery, and oday it contains not more thar
300 inhabitants, among whom are to he found
but few descendants of the ancient proprie.
tors In fact, It seems to be the lot OF York
town that the moreit becomes Il historical
spot the less it becomes anything elsc.-JIaI
Dcr'S .Hdgd=iHG.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
VARIETIES.

| I'm saddest when / sing" said Sunday
evening warbler. "And SOS the whole neigh
borhood ~ roared an unmusical voice in the
street.
| Barber "You're very bald, sir Haveyou
tried our tonic lotionY Old Gentleman -
| "Oh, yes. But that's not what's made all my
hair fall of"-Punch.
Tommy, did you hear your mother call
your" Course did p "fThen why don't
you go to her at once?" "Well, yer see she's
nervous, and it'd shock her awful fl should
90 too student Yonhers Gazette.
"A fair maiden's curiosity Now, dotel
me, Charley" said Miss Gigglegush, who is
| spending the summer in the country, (which
cow is it that gives the ice cream? I'm Just
| dying to see her"
You say there hain't no W. in French"
says Tumbleton. "Then how in the deuce
does them chaps spell water should like
ter known" The question was referred to
the full house, with power to send for per-
sons and papers.
Pleasures Of hotel life: "Heres fly in
my soup waiter" Eyes, sir very sorry sir,
but you can throw the fly away and eat the
soup, can't your" "Of course can. You
didn't expect me to throw away the soup
and eat the fly, did your"
lie nad played cards: a butchers boy
carrying a tray on his shoulders, accidentally
struck it against a lady's head and nearly
knocked her hat off. 1.-THE deuce take the
tray" cried the lady in passion MADAM"
said the boy gravely, "the deuce can't take the
tray
Canal boat captain at town sent his
boy out for dollars worth of provisions
The boy brought back nincty-fivc cents
worth of whiskey and five cent loaf of
bread. "Heavens" exclaimed the captain,
what are you going to do with all that
bread ?"
Singular fact: Young lady-"I have
called, Mrs. Brown, to ask you why your
children do not attend the Sunday school
now, as they used. Do they not like going?"
Mrs. Brown-"Oh, yes, miss, they likes g0in'
well 'nough; It's the stayin' after they gifts
there as they don't like"
-"Nothng: It's hard work to think of
nothing and yet be engaged in thought, but
courtier in the days of Queen Elizabeth
thus explained how it could be done when
asked by her Majesty; "What does a man
think of when he thinks of nothng?' "IIe
thinks of a woman's promise" was the reply.
This fellow no doubt had been promised
something and had failed to see it.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
Thick or Thin Sowing of Wheat.

| The success or failure of the wheat crop is
! frequently owing to those inscrutabe laws of
| growth, which at the right moment induces
a plant to do its best in the way that pleases
us most and which we generally refer to as a
favorable season; but we are compelled to
ascribc it largely to the thinning-out of the
weak plants by the fr0sts of the winter, thus
leaving the rest more room to fully develop
themselves, as they always will if they have
| n good chance.
In regard to thick and thin sowing of wheat
and whether drilling in the seed is an advan-
tage or not, has of late been considerably dis
cussed. 1t seems strange to us that any one
should have the remotest suspicion that there
is any advantage in the old fashioned hand.
sowing over drill but there were the fig
ures Theproduct per acre was against the
drill-sown wheat, and this is not for one sin.
gle season. We have seen in many instances
OF wheat sowing within the last two years
how this result may be exactly so. But it is
not because the wheat was sown by drill, but
because double the quantity per acre was
used as seed that ought to have been put in.
In large number of cases the sprouts were
to been seen coming up in the rows "as thick
as hair on dogs back" If any remark be
made about the thick seeding, we are told it
will be thin enough before spring the winter
will weed them out But the wedding out
comes from the very fact of thick seeding, the
plants are rendered weak by their struggle
with one another, and the struggle with the
winter is too much for them. Instead of the
young plants almost touching one another,
as we generally see them do, no plant should
be closer to another than half an inch, if we
would have the best results, and there is little
danger of such plants getting killed in winter,
at least far less danger than from plants sown
thick.
As to danger there will always be some, for
frequently the plant finds itself in place
where it never cares to be- 1t easily kills in
such situations and cheat, which rather likes
damp places, takes advantage of the cond-
ton to sprout and grow and astonish those
who do not look deeply into things, by the
transformation. Even in the very best con.
ditions the plants will often suffer from too
much moisture. A heavy rain may fall, satur-
ating the surface soil, and frost Immediately
follow. In this case when the thawng time
comes, unless well-covered by snow, there may
be losses But even here the advantages are all
on the side of the plant which has had room
to grow and TO develop itself perfectly with
out hindrance from its neighbor. We see
from all this why the wheat has improved
by the thinning the winter gave it, and we
see how it may be that once in a while drill
sown wheat may be worse than thanksgiving.
IL all centres in an argument in favor of com
paratively thin sown wheat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
Billions Of Matches.

Europe, Continental and insular, consumes
two millions ofmatches daily, Assuming that
each several act of ignition occupies the brief
period in one secondhand we have reason
to believe it is rarely performed in shorter
time-it will be obvious to every ready Ieck-
oner that five hundred and fifty five thousand
hours of each successive day are spent by the
inhabitants of Europe in striking Matches
There is food for much speculation in the
fact that Europeans dispose of nearly sixty
four wears per day in scraping tiny sticks,
tipped with some inilammabc composition
1t is also interesting to learn that four hun
bred and twenty thousand pounds weight
of phosphorus are in annual request for the
manufacture of the seven hundred and thirty
thousand millions of matches used up by
Europe in year.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26

HARD 10 SATIsFY.-Mr. Mcguire, of Kan
sas town, WIS elected constable, and the local
paper which opposed him said Mr.. Mcguire
will wash himself before he assumes the Office
of constable" The notice maddened Mcguire
and he called on the editor to complain
"You object to that statement asked the
editor II do" replied Mcguire. Very
well, I'll retract it," said the editor, and then
he put in Lis paper the statement that he
wished to retract his announcement that Mr..
Mcguire would wash himself befoi assuming
office, as Mr.. Mcguire denied the statement !;
and even that retraction didn't satisfy Ma
guire, but instead increased his wrath. Some
men are hard to satisfy
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
DECIDEDLY Narrow Gauge,

One of the most curious railroads in the
world is the ten-inch gauge road running
from North Bellerica, Mass, to Bedford. 1t
is about eight and a-half miles in length -
There are eleven bridges on the road, one
which is over 100 feet long. The rails weigh
twenty-five pounds to the yard. The road is
well built and equipped. One grade is of 1875
feet. The cars and engines will at first sight
create wonder and admiration. Their per-
feet proportions give them handsome APP
pearance. They are constructed very near
the ground, giving them great advantages
of safety The cars have an aisle with one
seat on each side in the same manner as or
binary cars have two seats each person hay
ing seat to himself The cars arc supplied
with closets, water tank, are heated by steam
and have all the modern improvements
They weigh but four and a-half TONS ordi-
nary cars weighing on an average ofcightccn
tons. The trains run at the rate of twenty
miles an hour with perfect safety The en-
CINE is glazed behind the tender, giving it
greater adhesion to the track They weigh
eight tons and draw twopassengers and two
freight cars. The cost of the railroad was
$4,000 per mile.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
Reasons for Dressing Plainly on the
Lords Day.

l. 1t would lessen the burden ofmany who
find it hard to maintain their places in socie
ty.
2 1t would lessen the force of the tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter honor
and honesty for display.
g. Ifthere were less style in dress at church
people in moderate circumstances would be
more inclined to attend
a. Universal moderation in dress at church
would improve the worship by the removal
of many wandering thoughts.
s. 1t would enable all classes of people to
attend church better in unfavorable weather.
6. Itwould lessen, on the part of the rich,
the temptations to vanity.
7, 1t would lessen, on the part Of the poor,
the temptations to be envious and malicious.
8. 1t would save valuable time on the
Lords day.
o. 1t would relieve our means of serious
pressure, and thus enable us to do more for
good enterprises.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26

NAMING THE BABY.--The wife of Jacob
Squires resident of a distant "outport,"
where school-masters were scarce, applied to
the parson for the baptism of her baby-the
tenth it turned out to be, for our fishermen
! as rule are blessed with large, or, as they
expressively put it, "heavy' families The
good lady explained to the parson that her
skipper" had gone to the Labrador, and had
left express orders that on the arrival of No.
10, if u girl, she was TO be christened by the
name of "Hyena." The parson was startled
and shocked at the idea of labelling an infant
with such dreadful name, and told the
mother that she must have made mistake,
and that it would never do to give the name
of beast of prey to Christian child Mrs.
Squires persisted in saying that there was no
mistake, and that she dare not diverge from
the order of her skipper. After much per
suasion he induced her to defer the baptism
till the shippers return. On his arrival he
called Oh the parson and explained that his
"old woman" had made mistake, and that
he had directed the baby to be christened
not "Hyena," but Joseph Hyena," The
parson pondered moment, and then the
mystery cleared up. "Oh see it /; Josephine
you want to name your child" That's it
exactly parson," said Jacob, "but you see we
couldn't rightly get our tongues around it
when we saw it in print. We can call her
Josey, for short, bless her little heart, SC
Joseph-Hinney be it,"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26

APHoRIsMs FROM THE QUARTERs.-It
don't take no prophet to rickerlec bad luck,
Dey don't hab no loafers in dc martin box,
De wire-g lubs a lazy niger.
Oars right smart 'ligion in a plow-han-
die.
Twelve erclock nebber is in a hurry.
Nebber pend too much on de blackberry
blossoms.
Don't bet on 'tater-hill befo' de grabblin'
time
Heap O good cotton stalks gifts chopped
up fun sociatin' wild de weeds
Many nice corn-silk winds up wild nub-
bin in de fall.
A chicken-roos' is de debbul's steel trap
an grassy corn-row is his flower garden.
De mornin' -glories aint pertickler lubly to
man wild dc back ache.-!ScrSbner.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
Isl. Louis Western WdtchmdR.
Music Hath Charms, etc.

One of the great manufacturing interests
of Boston, is the Emerson Pinano Company,
whose pianos are used with high appreciation
and satisfaction throughout the world. In
recent conversation with Mr.. Jos, Gramer,
one of the proprietors, that gentleman re-
marked: l have used that splendid remedy
St. Jacobs Oil, in my family, and found it to
be so very beneficial thai | will never be
without it, 1t has cured me ola severe case
ofrheumatism, after other remedies had failed.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26

--"Uncle," said a young man, who thought
that his guardian did not supply him with
money, often enough, "s the Queens head
still on the shilling piece" "Of course it is
you stupid lad. Why do you ask that ~
Because it is now such a length of time
since | saw one"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-08-26
[ .Ml,canIee Ercninn Nisconsin. ]
A strong COnUuerOr.

According to an Illinois exchange, our days
of Rheumatism are well nigh numbered. st.
Jacobs Oil enters rheumatic territory, and
conquers every subject. That's right. We
believe in it,