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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
STABLE BURNED.-The stable in

STABLE BURNED.-The stable in
rear of the Hart Hotel was burned
about one o'clock on Saturday. 1t
was owned by Mr.. Isaac Krebs, and
occupied as livery stable by Major
C. S. Hart. The horses, harness and
vehicles were all saved, and only a
small quantity of hay and feed was
destroyed. There was no insurance
upon the property. TIE building
was of brick, and the firemen worked
so elfectually that only the upper por
ton of it was burned. 1t was an in
tensely hot fire, and it was only by
great skill and determination on the
part of the firemen that the adjoining
property was saved-several build
ings, including the large new stable
Just erected by f. D. Wheat, being on
fire at once. The sparks also reached
the public school building on Fort
Hill and set the roof on fire, but it
was promptly extinguished. The
Hook & Ladder company rendered
invaluable service in keeping the con-
Aagration from spreading. The cause
of the fire is unknown Winchester
Times
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Correspondents Column.
MANOR. Lancaster Co, Pa,
AuglIst 9th. 1881.


Mr.. EDITOR Il have just received
copy of the STAR, and am highly
delighted with it. And now, with
your permission, I will give you and
your readers a short sketch of my
trip to this place.
l left Stephens City about three
weeks ago, boarded the train at White
Post, and after a pleasant ride Of eight
hours through the Shenandoah and
Cumberland valleys, arrived at the
city of Harrisburg, a description of
which may not be uninteresting to
your readers,
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsyl-
vania, is situated on the left bank of
the Susquchanna river. 1t has TWEEN
ty-fve thousand inhabitants, and is
the intersecting point for a number of
railroads. 1t has consequently be-
come place of considerable import
ance. 1t was laid out by John Harris,
in 1885, and in 1912 was made the
capital. The State House is beauti-
sully situated upon natural emf
nence near the centre of the city; and
from it's dome there is a grand, beau
tiful and picturesque view of the river,
with its two fine bridges and numer-
GUS pretty islands.
The railroad facilities for travel,
freight, &C., together with the canal
and river navigation, give Harrisburg
a grand position for trade as well as
manufactures, and as a political centre
| Gts being the home Of the Camerons)
it is equally important. AS manu-
featuring city it ranks high, and com
prises a large variety Of important
establishments, the principal Of which
are the Lochiel Iron Works, situated
just outside the city limits, and occu-
plying fifty acres of land, upon which
is erected blast furnace, rolling mill,
| gas house, church, school house, and a
sufficient number Of dwellings to form
a complete village. There are also
extensive steel works located near the
city which occupy ninety-seven acres
of land.
My next stopping place was Mid
dletown, nine miles east of Harris
burg, which has population of about
three thousand, and is beautifully sit
uated on the left bank of the Susque-
hanna river and right bank of Swa-
tara creek, and is town of consider
able Importance. Here spent a
week very pleasantly amongst friends
and acquaintance, and then took the
train east, passing through the towns
of cambridge, Marietta, Chickies and
Columbia, arriving at Washington, a
small but thriving village situated on
the Susquehanna river, amid delight
full and picturesque scenery.
The post office at this place takes
its place from Manor township, which
is indeed the garden spot Of the State.
And now, Mr., Editor, after wishing
you God speed in your noble enter
prise, I will bid you and your numer-
GUS readers hearty goodbye until
next month, when I purpose visiting
the western part of the State, after
which you may hear from me again.
J. F. B,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
From MiddletoWn.

Middletown is justly proud of so
creditable a paper as the STAR, pub
lished within FIVE miles of our city.
We wish the proprietor success in this
new and laudable enterprise. Since
it launched forth its first number we
have heard some merited compli-
ments.
You will remember, I am sure, that
Middletown is your nearest neighbor,
and deserves some notice in your COL
umns, at least occasionally, and | was
pleased to see your kind recognition
of us in your first issue. I may. if
you wish it, contribute few items oc-
casionally.
There will be held in this place in
the M. E. Church South, week s re-
ligious service, embracing the first
Sunday in September. C.D.H.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

THE Readjusters of the Senatorial
district composed of Russell, Taze-
well, Dickinson and Buchanan, have
nominated Robert Barnes for the Sen
ate bv vote of 46 to Al over Captain
Samuel Leece, the present incumbent.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

In North Carolina the elections are
all one way. 1t is impossible to est
mate the majority, but the State has
gone overwhelmingly against prohi-
bition. AS far as heard from not a
single county has been carried by the
prohibitionists. He55 r1almi16
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

Il THE Marion Oil Company on Sat-
urday started a pumping well on Lit
tie Binganion creek, fourteen miles
northwest of Farmont, w. Va, and
five miles from the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad, which yields twenty barrels
day. The oil was struck at a depth
Of $40 feet.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

A PLAN is being considered at the
post office department for the collec-
ton in more expeditions manner of
the surplus revenues of the smaller
offices.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

WYMAN, the Wizard, who made his
first appearance nearly fifty years ago
on the stage of the old Baltimore Mu-
scum, is dead.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

A TOURIST recently returned from
Florida, says: 1t is the most fertile
country in the world, the land pro-
duees forty bushels of frogs to the
acre, and alligators sufficient to fence
them"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

THE platform adopted by the Vir-
ginia State Democratic Convention
pledges the party to pay the honest
obligations of the State. Hon, John
w. Daniel, an able lawyer of Lynch
burg, received the nomination for Gov
ernOr
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

,
the following property, to wit:
Four T0JMOble Farm Horses
One Fine Two Year Old Colt,
SIX HEAD OF CATTLE,
Is head of sheep, 81 head of nice hogs, a
full set of blacksmith tools, and some car
penter tools, 2 road wagons and beds,
spring wagon 1 cart, buggy and hal-
ness, 1 combined reaper and mower, two
wheat drills, one nearly new farming uten-
sils of all kinds, 1 wood saw-horse power
and fixtures, one apple mill, one buggy
rake. one wheat fan, a lot of good harness
and plow gears, chains, &c; 800 bushels of
wheat and about tons of hay will be sold
about the same time. Also, household and
kitchen furniture.
TERMS OF SALE.-A credit OF months
will be given on all sums of $40 and over;
under that amount the cash will be rcquir-
ed The wheat will be sold for cash.
The farm will be offered for sale at the
same time and place. 1t contains
One Hundred and Fifty Nine Acres.
all under good fence. and in II good state of
cultivation. A sufficient amount of good
timber. The Improvements consist of II
good, comfortable and roomy
DWELLING HOUSE,
kitchen, wash house, smoke house, ice
house, barn, wheat, COW and wagon sheds,
corn cribs, hog house, blacksmith shop, and
all other necessary out buildings. All va
rieties of excellent fruit, altogether making
il very desirable home.
Terms made known on day of sale,
NJ p. SMITH.
JOHN s. CAMPBELL,
4t2 Executors.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

CAMERON ON THE STUMP.-A por-
ton Of the remarks of Colonel ". E.
Cameron, Readjuster candidate for
Governor, at Lebanon, Russell county,
recently, is thus described by the
harrisburg KIrysmaam
The usuaIappeal to prejudice against
-"brokers and bondholders, was the
feature of the argument. 1t was al
most pretty, and graphic, and touch
ing his word-painted picture of Mr..
Charles U. Williams, with his hand on
the throatof a toiling taxpayer, ex-
torting interest on bonds we gave to
borrow money
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

BALTIMORE is to have carnival
Immediately preceding or else directly
following the celebration Of the York
town Centennial.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Vice in the 9Departments-The
Fruits Of Radical Rule.

The Washington correspondent of
the New York San presents terribly
sad picture. of the corruption and vice
that at present exists in the depart
ments Of the national capital, and he
asserts that Secretary Window is the
single Cabinet officer who is pronounc-
ed in favor Of a speedy and radical
reform Of the civil service. This con-
clusion on the part of the Secretary
is not inspiration proceeding from the
attempt to kill the President, but the
Secretary Of the Treasury has found
that the larger part of his time and
nearly all his patience are exhausted
in giving heed to applicants for Office,
and he lifts his hands in amazement
at the practice and facts which it re-
quired no effort on his part to find
out, connected with the manner in
which appointments have been made
and the way parties have been kept in
office.
The correspondent, whose letter oc-
cupies conspicuous prominence on
the editorial page of the Sun, states
that could everything be laid bare re-
Ia ting to the appointments in Wash
ington, the unsuspecting portion of
the people would be appalled,. mot
only" he writes, lis there incompe-
t.nce in the public service, but i'm
morality, vice, wickedness. What
would supplemented peopl, proba-
bly, say were they told that the wages
of sin are borne on the pay rolls of
departments; that appointments are
made and persons kept in Office on
grounds that would put to shame the
face Of virtue and shock every true
moral sentiment? Not only do these
things exist, but to an extent that few
outside Of Washington suspect. Tits
difficult to describe the real state Of
the case. The 'ramifcations of these
things are so extensive that it would
be difficult to say with any certainty
where they do not reach. They per-
meate the entire public service at
Washington. The readers that would
not be shocked at recital of even
part of the truth are few. Indeed,
the truth cannot be told"
This is a terrible picture graph
eallv presented, and we have no doubt
bef it's truth. 1t is time for correction,
and it is to be hoped that an admin
istration that has shown a determine
ton to weed out and bring to justice
the thieving crew who have fattened
on the plunderr Of postal contracts,
will exert q like determination in
cleaning the departments of those who
hold place at the sacrifice of virtue
and whose wages are the wages of sin
/
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
IMMENSE BARGAINS!


other this side of
convince all callers house
stirred Victoria Lawn 10 cents worth cents Lace lawns worth
Linen Towels cents worth cents Napkins Napkins Beacd tah
ng plain and lace all shades reduced from Best
hundred ladies' made linen and 81 20 100 and $500
wenye Curtain lace hf fifteen
The Boss finished unlaundr shirt Silks
rney Cost This department WILDE closed outa any price
s@We cal especial attention to "MS PheUers Renowned Bnuf
the Copleroa which introducing
a. tBi r. HTNLLERsG CO.,
sgnof the BANNER, opposite Court House Winchester Va
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
GOOD TRADE
AND -
A FAIR COUNT!

This is our motto, and we mean to stand
to it. All we ask is just to call around and
be convinced 1t is not worth while for us
to attempts to enumerate We have little
and not SO little of everything you can pos
sibly want. OF
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Public Sale !!

The undersigned, executors Of the estate
of James Afl1eck, deceased, will sell at his
late residence between the Cedar Creek
Grade and Middle Road four miles north
west of Stephens City and nine miles from
Winchester, on
Wednesday, august 81, 1881,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day,
the following nrOncrtY to wit:
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Ladies' Goods!

at prices that can't he beat in this Valley
In groceries, we do claim big thing and
If you will call in we can prove it.
We have one car load Of Phosphate on
hand, ready for delivery at very low price.
Nv STEELE & DINGES.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Mems and Boys Goods

we have an extensive stock, comprising
the latest styles, but with the good old-time
wear in them Get a suit, and you can
break through brush without danger of rip,
tear, wear or curl, and slide on the cellar
door and laugh at splinters and nails. We
have any quantity and every style of
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
j. 8 3 81 10 8 3 )

WE have made it a rule, from which we
will not deviate, that sill papers sent to a
distance--exeepting thosetoJ be paid for by
friends residing here-must be paid for in
advance "
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

For several days past Secretary
Blaine has been a sufferer from mala-
ria, with strong tendency to chills.
His physician is anxious to have him
90 to the seaside.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13

The wheat crop in England is re-
ported to be an average one; the bar
ley crop about the same. The pros
poets in Scotland are less favorable
than in England.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04
SAN FRANCISCO. August 3. 1881.
PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, August 3i.-Passed here to-day,
to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow Miss
Charlotte Thompson, H. n. Wilson, VIM.
Yerance, II. r. Loppsnburg. Mrs. W. See.
burg and son, j. S. Sullivan. New York r.
Dawson and son, Mrs. L. G. Dawson, Miss
Alice Dawson, Mrs s. M. West aud two
children, San Francisco: Mrs NJ. L. Car
psnter, Cleveland, o.; Mrs. NJ E. Clark,
Detroit, Mich; B. G.. Baker and child. Mid
Genesee, New York; Miss Emma Davis,
Miss Oracle Davis, Albany, New York; Z.
j. w. Wall, st. Louis Miss G. S. Hammer
and two children, Grantsville, New; Mrs.
w. S. Warner, Terrace, New; j. H. Rues,
Portland. Me-; Edward Murphy, Evansville,
Ind; III emigrant passengers, Including sc
males, to arrive in Sacramento August 5th
NEwHALL, August 3d.-Passed here to-day,
to arrive in San francisco to. morrow
Horace Clark and family, San Bernardino
Il. Il. Kearop, Tucson; Jesus Reverb, Los
Angeles; Alex, Steinmaker, Phoenix James
Stewart, Prescott; A. Cook, Tombstone J..
w. Tuck, Oakland /; B. Hoeg, MaYfeld
Henry Reich, Sacramento d. Kuck, Los
Angeles G. A. Wright, Globe, A. t.; John
Raulett. r. n. King. San Bernardino Mrs.
John PAIL. Tucson; Mrs. Buell. and son,
Tucson Michael Crowley, Vallejo.
OMAHA, August 3d.-Left here to day, to
arrive in Sacramento August 9TH Mrs. J. r.
Whitney, Mics II. Z. Whitney. A. B. Whit
ney, San Francisco; w. L. Frost, Nevada
City; Alice Hastings, New York; j. Mclean,
Melbourne; Mrs. W. r. Sanborn, Ella San
born, Grace Sanborn, Cleveland; George
Camper, Julia Camper, New Orleans Mrs.
G. G. Swallow, Arthur c. Swallow, Francis
Swallow, Milwaukee T. r. Crittenden,
wife and son, Bridgeport, Conn.
Forty-one through eniigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra,
mento August 10th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04
TABLE ETIQUETTE.

Ii by writing this we can induce one man
who now wipes his hand on the tablecloth
to come up and take higher ground and
wipe them on his pants, We shall feel amply
repaid.
II you cannot accept an invitation to
dinner do not write your regrets on the
back of pool-check with a blue pencil.
This is now regarded as ricochet.
A simple note to your host informing
him that your washerwoman refuses to re-
lent is sufficient.
On seating yourself at the table draw off
your gloves and put them in your lap un-
der your napkin. Do not put them IN the
gloom over the gravy. If you have just
cleaned your gloves with benzine you
might leave them out in the front yard.
Stones in cherries or other fruit should
not be placed upon the tablecloth, but slid
quietly and unostentatiously into the
pocket of your neighbor, or noiselessly
tossed under the table.
Ladies should take but one glass of wine
at dinner; otherwise there might be diff
Guilty in steering the male portion of the
procession home.
Do not make remarks about the amount
your companion has eaten. Ii the lady
who is your companion at table, whether
she be your wife or the wife of some one
else, should eat quite heartily, do not offer
to pay your host for his less or say to her !:
"Great Scott l hope you will not kill
yourself because you have the opportu-
nity," but be polite and gentlemanly, even
though the food supply be cut off for a
week.
If one of the gentlemen drop raw oys-
ter into his bosom and he should have
trouble in fishing it out, do not make face
tious remarks about it, but assist him to
find it, laughing heartily all the time.
TBill Nye
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04
ALKALINE DEPOSITS FROM WATERS OF
IRRIGATION.

Professor E. w. Hilgard, in his report as
Professor OF Agriculture in the University
of California, observing that ordinary sur.
face irrigation on alkaline lands tends to
concentrate the alkah at the surface, pro-
poses as a remedy undertaking, (which
may so far lower the water. table from
which the saline matters are derived, and
may so far favor the washing out of the
salts during the rainy season, that the
latter will thereafter fail to reach the sur
face so as to accumulate to an injurious
extent with reasonable tillage." The
waters of Kern and Tulare Lakes contain
an excess of solid matter, the quantity in
the former lake being twenty-six times
as much as in average river-water, and
consisting mostly of carbonate of soda,
common and Glauber's salts. The
evaporation from such water when it is
used in irrigation adds annually to the
deposit of alkali in the soil, the effect of
which must be counteracted by the culti-
walton of deep.rooted crops, the use of
gypsum, sub irrigation, and the teaching
out of the alkali from time to time by long
continued flooding and underdrainage.
Professor Hilgard concludes, after an ex-
animation of the facts, that ''there are,
proDaoly, lew river waters IN the world or
such composition or natural purity that
continued irrigation without correlative
underdrainage can be practiced without in
the end causing an injurious accumulation
of soluble salts in the SOIL" The Indian
Government, after having spent enormous
sums to bring water upon the fields, now
has to face the problem of its economical
removal by drainage, so as to relieve the
soil of the accumulated alkali which has
rendered it unfit for cultivation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04

THE VALUE OF SICKNESS. Burton in
" The Anatomy of Melancholy" says that
'' sickness is the mother of modesty, put
te tn us in mind of our morality; and when
we are in the full career of worldly pomp
and iollity, she pulleth us by the ear and
maketh US know ourselves" "Pliny," he
adds, "calls it the sum of philosophy, if
we could but perform in our health that
which we promise in our sickness" It is
very curious, this enforced and humble
virtue. The sick man is neither covetous
nor ambitious, he is without envy, SER
Witty, hatred; and there is as much valor to
be shown in bed as in an army or sea.fght.
And then Burton goes on TO tell US of the
great Balibalous Perkimerus, Senator to
Charles the Fifth, how he ruled all Ger
many, lying most part of his days sick OF
the gout upon his bed to say nothing of
the notable example of Epicurus, who,
being in miserable pain, rayed out the re-
mark that "the joy of his soul for his
rare inventions repelled the pain OF mis-
bodily torments," and professed himself
TO be very comfortable.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04

He Cor HIS "STAMPs. - Recently a
young gentleman of Philadelphia fell in
love with a beautiful young lady, and she
received his attentions in the most en-
couraging manner-in fact, she liked him.
He, however, wasmodest Hecould not screw
up his courage to propose in that romantic
manner which is usually supposed to be ap-
propriate. Finally, he determined to make
his offer by letter, and, in bold, mascn-
line hand, he jotted down the state OF his
heart, made an offer of his hand, and beg
ged the favor of an early answer. II this
had been all, the answer would probably
have been what he desired, but he un-
fortunately inclosed two postage stamps,
which, when the young lady saw, she grew
indignant. The man." said she, "who
can think of postage stamps and suppose
would hesitate about spending four cents
to say that I loved him, cannot be very
earnest" So she refused him, and inclosed
his postage stamps back to him. He wept
over the letter, but carefully placing the
postage stamps in his pocket book. re-
marked that they would do again.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-04
ANTI-sLANG PHRASES.

The Reform Club is the title of new
organization by young ladies for the pur-
pose OF discouraging the use of slang
phrases in conversation. At recent
meeting, while a member was addressing
the Society, she inadvertently made use OF
the expression lawful NICE" and was
called to order by a sister member fer
transgressing the rules.
In what way have / trsnsgressed ?"
asked the speaker, blushing deeply.
Iou said it would be awful nice to
admit young gentlemen to our delibera-
tions, replied the other.
"Well, wouldn't it be-" replied the
speaker. +" You know you said yourself no
longer ago than yesterday, that -"
Yes, know but you said awful
nice That's slang"
'Well, said the speaker tartly, "if
You are going to be SO awful nice about it,
perhaps it is; but / wouldn't say anything
about 1t, If l were you. Didn't you tell
Sallie Spriggins this morning to pull down
her basque?'" ,"
No, l didn't" retorted the other, her
face growing crimson "and Sallie Sprig.
gins will say didn't. She won't go back
on me-"
4" This is nice racket you are giving
us, " cried the President, after rapping both
speakers to order. LET me ask what is
the object of this society :"
To discourage slang !" cried a dozen
voices.
Correct" said the President ego on
with the funeral"
A member rvse to explain that she had
been fined at the last meeting for saying
"awful nice herself, but she hadn't the
stamps to pay it now-would settle it, how
ever, in the sweet by.and-by.
"That'll be all right" said the Presi-
dent "pay when you have the ducats"
Another member asked if yonng lady
could say "0ld splendid" without sub
jecting herself to a fine.
"You bet she can't, f" said the President,
who was the original founder of of the So
ciety, and therefore appealed to when any
nice question was to be decided.
Then, said the speaker, al move that
Miranda Pew come down with the dust,
for heard her say that her beau was Just
old splendid.
swell, if my beau was just sucf hair
pin as your fellow is, wouldn't say it.
''Shoot the chinning,n said the Presi-
dent; twill you never tumble?"
But the confusion was too great to be
allayed. Miranda's blood was up. Some
sided with her and others against, and
amid the babel that followed could be
heard such EXPLANATIONS as Dry up! "
g Nice huckleberry you are ~ "Wipe off
your chin " Hire hall !" etc., when
motion to adjourn was carried by large
majority.