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F. HUGHES & CO.,

DRUGGISTS,
Clio E. Main ST.. Staunton, adjoining Opera House
Have just received a nice line OF
Christmas Goods consisting Of La
dies Dressing Cases, Toilet Sets,
Jewelry Stands, Vases Fancy Box
Paper and the incest selection of
Christmas Cards in the city. all of
which will be sold at low prices.
The public are respectfully invited
to call and examine their stock and
prices before purchasing elsewhere.
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TNO ROAD CONTRACTORS-Sea proposals
L will be received by the undersigned until
SATURDAY THE alsT DAY OF DECEMBER 1851, for
building an u dergiond cuivert and digging down
banks and filing in earth Oh New Hope road near
d. ID. d b. Institution and oil far 81 u, DIS Dimen-
sons said culve t., be 50 feet long feet wide and
feet high III The clear Walls rs feet chick top TO
be cover ed with broad fiat rocks.
For further information apDiY to
JOHN +. HAMILTON
Sp'l Com. Of County Court OF Augusta.
dec9 At,
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THE MEETINGS OF CONGRESS.

The assembling of Congress, on Mon
day, betrayed state of affairs in the Re-
publican party that promises little peace
in that Political organization during the
coming ses7ion. But few days ago Gen.
Hiscock of New York, an antl-St lwart,
promised to be elected Speaker of the
House without serious opposition, but the
stalwarts Under the lead Of Cameron. of
Pennsylvania, changed the arrangement
for him so that on the meeting of the Re-
publican caucus, Saturday, he found him
self beaten by Gen. kiefer, an inexperi-
enced parliamentarian but experienced
Stalwart, of Ohio, and one who literally
belongs to that faction. Tie Hiscock men
made their fight through sixteen ballots
but on seeing they we're beaten surrender
ed. Another fight had been prepared for
the place Of Clerk of the House but the
adherenJs of Cameron had had such a hard
time of it with Hiscock that they permit
ted Mcpherson, the favorite of the other
wing, to be nominated without serious
opposition.
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Evansville, (Ind,) Journal. ]

Evansville, Qnd) JournalI
Mr.. Frank S. Muller, 925 W. Franklin
street. cited to a Journal reporter the
Case of Mr.. Henry Rhenick, who for four
wears suffered with Rheumatism, which was
cured by the use of two bottles of St. Ja-
cub's Oil.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-09

On Monday last. Hon. John Paul, of
the 7th district of Virginia and Hon.
Apram Fulkerson, of the 9th district, vo-
ted for J. Warren Kiefer, a Stalwart Rad
ical for Speaker of the House Of Repre-
sentatves over Samuel J. R4Dd H. u Dem
crat VINO in the maddest hours of Repub-
lican supremacy prevented them from
of the southern States. These gentlem an
were not elected as Democrats s, but hun :
dreds Of men voted for them, bt lieving that
they were Democrats. They need never
expect those votes again.
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NOR SALE--At d moderate price, about forty
Il Cots void Ewes, with Lambs by a Shropshire
Buck a m OSt valuable cross
JOHN r. WOO DS,
Near Ivy Depot,
dec Sat Abemalle County, Va.
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1881. XMAS, 1881.
HOLIDAY GOODS +!
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The most surperb line of CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES
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HOLD Jay GOODS.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. County Court Clerk Once
tO-Wit:
THREE ESTRAYS.
Taken up by C. N. Roudabush on his land in said
county, on the 10Th day of November, 1851. of the
spotted and white face; No. 2 red with white belly
aud face: No 3. black and white spotted, with
w lite face and tai No marks or brands on said
estrays-supposed to be two years old and appraised
at $40 each, by Jacob Crum, George E. Sherman and
Jacob +. Granger, before VIM. j. Euritt, j. P
An extract teSte.
JOSEPH B. WOODWARD,
dec2 ST. Deputy Clerk
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ter.
A child should be taught to analyze a
sentence. even before making one. and
should be taught predicate before subject,
for the rest predicate was mostly used aud
easiest to fasten upon. He spoke greatly
in favor Of Kellogg and Reads method
making the analysis furnish materials for
the synthesis, and the synthesis supple~
menting the analysis. Prof. Hulvey then
illustrated his own special method with
his class, and how he carried them on
step by step to classification; which he
said should be used after the pupil had ac-
quired some knowledge of grammar to re.
duce his knowledge to science-for science
is only knowledge classified. The closing
of Prof. Hulvey's remarks brought the In
stltute to recess, after which,
PROF. MARvEi.
said he would talk little upon the sub.
ject of Geography. and then conclude his
efforts in the interest of the Teachers of
the Institute, by a few remarks upon Crit
icisns of sckool-roons ,vork.
do not think 1t necessary said he. to
have pupil 1lemorixc all the map lessons
in the book. Nor to memorize all the dry
sfatstics including areas census, products,
heights, lengths, &c.-things you cannot
possibly remember yourself, and n child
should be expected to do so or required to
attempt it, its a loss OF too much valuable
time. Every lesson should be read and
examined by the teacher and then snhiec-
led to an agreement between the school
and school commit toe as to
prevent any Misunderstanding in the ex-
of be pupil. A box of sand is
N invaluable aid IN teaching the natural
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

fatty disproyes. Nor can they wonder
if the public considers them dishonest
rather than ignorant. For such ignor-
anee rs is needful to account for persist
ent contradiction of obvious and undis-
puted facts seems well-nigh incredible.
Either these politicians are impudent
and shameless knaves, or they are stu
pid and ignorant beyond belief, and the
public naturally declinessto give them
credit for AN ignorance so amazing.
II the public credit has been such
that bonds have been sold at prices
yielding only $50 per cent interest, why
Gould not the Treasury sell bonds bear
ing 8 l-s per cent instead OF S1< per cent
interest ? This question has sometimes
been asked, but by men who forgot that
Congress failed to authorize the Treas
ury to sell bonds of any kind. Ali that
the Secretary could do was to offer a
continuance of the 1--WE and six per cent
bonds, at such lower rate as the holders
were willing to accept. 1t was necessa-
ry to make a proposition which would
not be rejected, in order to save the
credit Of the Government. The result
proves that Secretary Window judged
with great accuracy. For the dealings
in the market show that it has never
been possible to borrow at more more
thai one-seventh of one per cent less
interest than he proposed. New York
Tribune. g -e rar .-i..e 1l1IlI
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A CURIOUS little story about General
Grants Arabian steeds is told by Mrs,
Hooper. When the horses were deliver
ed to the American official who was de
puted to represent Gen. Grant he found
that through some hocuspocus of the
IemplOyes of the Sultan's stables one of
the horses selected had been exchanged
fer dismal beast, being lame and gen.
|erally lnsound. Our countryman did
mot wish to forward so wretched an an
|imai to the United States. yet what was
to be done? To refuse the Sultan's gift
would have been deadly insult, and,
besides, he had no right to do anything
of the kind; while to find fault with it
would have been a deadlier. Finally, a
bright idea struck him. The unsound
horse happened to be black. 50 he sent
for the high, and mighty Turkish Off
cial who had the matter in charge. and
regretfully informed him that, though
Gen. Grant was enchanted with the two
noble steeds that were accorded him by
the niagnidcence of the Sultan,he would,
unfortunately, be unable to use the
black one, as horses of that color were
only employed for funerals in America,
and to offer or accept one as gift was
held to be a bad omen in that country.
The courteous Turk was profuse in civ
iities and apologies. the black horse was
taken away. and sound and handsome
animal of another color was sent in its
stead. ratfJ @
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

THE finding at Thebes of thirty-nin6
mummies of Egyptian royal and priest
ly persOnages. which has been hailed in
Europe as the greatest archaeological dis
covery sinceSir Henry Layard's research
es at Nineveh,g grows in Importance. Two
thirds of the mumH les are now identi-
fed by means of the inscriptions upon
their cases and the manuscripts found.
They are, for the most part, kings and
queens, with Stheir children, ranging
through four dynasties, beginning with
the seventeenth and ending with the
twenty-frst; or. stating it roughly, from
1900 to 400 B. G. The mummy of the
Pharaoh of Israel is among these, in a
perfect state of preservation, and the
mummy of Thotmes I'LL, in whose reign
the obelisk that stands in Central Park
was first erected. The Imagination fair
ly falters in the attempt to realize that
these figures have. been brought back
from the vast and shoreless sea of Egyp-
tian antiquity to our own day, and our
very doors. Lotus flowers that look as
if they "had been plucked few months
ago." are found lying in the wrappings
of kings who were dead centuries before
the Pharaoh of Israel was born, and the
passage of nearly 1000 years had not
dimmed the beauty of the colors of the
inscriptions and pencilings, (which are
as bright and fresh as if the artist had
touched them but yesterday" This is a
wonderful prize for archaeological sci
ence, the full meaning of which scholars
probably are just beginning to apPre-
ciate.-(N. Y. Tribune. A 4a I'D (
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

ILLINOIS has meaner man than Ohio
When Cook slapped Morrison in the
face for saying that be "hoped Garfield
would die," his conduct was approved
by Il hundred thousand patriotic citizens
of Ohio The Illinois man is, we are
sorry, an editor, and he publishes the
Quincy Herald. A short time ago he
said in leading editorial that he "bs-
lieved Guiteau to be just as honorable as
the man he shot, and mighty sight less
dangerous to the country at large He
also added, which is lie, tnat his opin-
ions were endorsed by all reputable
Democrats everywhere. We should
hardly suppose that there was man
anywhere, infamous enough to express
such sentiments, and we are not sur.
prised that the people of Quincy, Demo
cratic as well as Republican, should re-
buke the auther of them. On Saturday
last an effigy of the editor and of Gui-
team, was paraded around the streets of
Quincy, and finally burned in front of
the office of the offending newspaper
columbus Dispatch, Sept. /.
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
A Few Scraps Of Information on Diff
- ferent Subjects.


An old sportman. Of Michigan, claims
that he has in his house spiders web
which is An excellent barometer. being
almost invariably correct. When rains
and winds are expected, the spider
shortens the thread which saspends the
web. When reefs are let out, fine wealth
or may be certain; but if the spider re-
mains inert, rain will probably follow
in ashort time. ssA qsH fIEisa5
A physician in ST. Louis asserts that
the gum exuded from the linden, the
wood from which most of the toothpicks
are made, produces a most deadly poi
son known as lindoline. A cat inOcula-
ted with needle dipped in the poison
died in eighteen seconds, and the doc
tor gives as his opinion that a pin
scratch touched with lindoline would
cause the death Of a. nan in less than
two minutes. When very largely dil1-
ted it is an antitdote for morphine poi
soning. Il ''J AZ ~ ssI1lAd
1t is asserted that person dressed in
dark clothes il more liable to infection
from contagious disease than one who
wears light colored garments. from the
fact that particles snia1atiig from de-
eaying bodies are mucirmore-readiiy-a abb
sorbed by dark than by light fabrics.
As an evidence of the truth of this as
sertiOn it is stated that if a Hight and
dark coat are exposed to the fumes Of
tobacco for short time, the dark one
will be found to smell stronger of the
smoke than the other, and will retain
the odor longer. a.-.....
An experiment recently made at
Weymss Bay, Scotland, by DR.. Young
and Prof. Forbes, TO determine the velo-
city of white and colored light, gave as
II result that the velocity of the light of
an electric lamp is 1877, ,200 miles per sec
ond. COrlu found that of the light
of petroleum lamp to be 1s6, 200 miles
per second. and Michaelson that of the
sun to be lS6,5O0 miles per second, The
higher number of Young and Forbes is
due to the bluer light Of cleo
tricity, for further experiments made
with colored light and the spectrum
seemed TO prove that the blue light prob
ably travels faster by one per cent than
red light. ,,.- f.-... Ia ~.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

TIE Massachusetts Greenback leaders
have proposed aibill to bring before the
Legislature next winter compelling cor
poratiens which earn over 8 per cent on
their capital stock to distribute the sur
plus among their employees and stock
holders ON the basis of treating the
wages paid to each employe as so much
stock held by him. The fatal defect of
the plan is that it looks only to profits
and makes no account of possible losses.
No way is provided by which corpora
tion that loses on years business can
tax its employees with a portion Of the
loss. "Itis poor rule that doesn't work
both ways"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

AN agitation is in progress in Southern
California for the formation of separ-
ate State composed Of the Counties OF
Los Angeles, San Diego. San Bernardino
Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obs
po, Inyo and Kern, embracing about
One-third area of the present State
and having population of $1,000. The
people of these counties are about as far
off from the Capital at Sacramento as
are those of North Carolina from New
York. The new movement is likely to
affect California politics, which are Gu
riOusly variegated already.
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The Evenly Balanced Senate.

Washington Star.
| If the President dies of course the
Senate will be convened at once in spe-
Icial session. 1t is not the impression,
bOwever, that the lower house will be
so conveneds-=When the Senate meets
under the grave exigeneies which will
confront it the opportunity for. dis
play of genuine patriotism and states
| nanship will be presented. There will
be no Vice President and there is no
Secretary. The Senate, with the New
York Senators, will BE- evenly divided.
The only way the Senate can proceed as
an organized body will be after gener-
al conference Of all tho members to act
under the operation Of unanimous con-
sent. For instance the Senators will
without objection agree that some one
of their number shall call the body to or
der, and act until there Is complete Or
ganhatfOn. Whoever is thus selected
will no doubt be authorized and empOw-
! ed to administer the Senatorial oath to
the new Senators from New York. This
will perfect the organization, except so
far as the election Of a President pro
tenn. and Secretary are concerned.
In the matter OF the election of these
officers, and more especially President
pro tempore, again the wisdom and pa
triotism of the Senators will be sorely
tried. The body being evenly divided,
OF course. unless patriotism does pre-
vail, an inevitable dead lock win ensus.
In view of these circumstances it is not
at all improbable that there will be
general concession to elect Senator Da-
Wis, of Illinois, the President pro tenn
pore. He has maintained an independ-
ence in the Senate which keeps him aloof
claim him. A Secretary of the Senate
in such contingency would probably be
chosen by one party, and the Office of
Sergeant-at-Armsb by the other
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-08

IT is said that the Mississippi River
threatens to desert New Orleans and to
cut a new path to the sea. The waters
of the Red River and part of the Missis-
sippi already flow through u channel cut
where there was bar year ago, and
now enter the Atchafalaya, and thus on
to the Gulf. Geological examinations
Of the delta show that the great river
has frequently cut just such capers in
former ages, and may do SO again.
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"THE question is, shall the Democrat

"THE question is, shall the Democratic
party go into this campaign protesting
to be the. party of the people and of la
Dor, but with candidate WHO HAS No
sYMPATHIEs WITH EITHER? The ques-
tion is, Shall the Democratic party go
into this campaign protesting opposition
to monopoly and the growth of corporate
power, BUT WITH A CANDIDATE WHO is
THE EMBODIMENT OF CORPORATE PRIV
ILEeEs p"-iEditor Youngstown Vindi-
Gator (Dem) in opposing Bookwalter's
nomination.
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General Grant Denies the Alleged
.tets,.s Sfalvart Consultations

LONG BRANCH. Aug. 31.-The atten-
tion Of General Grant has been called to
various publications describing the fire.
quent visits on his part to Vice-Presi-
dent Arthur, consultations with the
Vice-President and other public men in
reference to political contingencies in
Washington General Grant requests
the announcement that there is no truth
in any Of the statements. He had been
present at no consultation, and knew of
none. He had only seen General Arthur
once since the attempt on the Presi-
dents life, at brief morning call about
three weeks since, and no one was pres
ent but the Viee-President. He had not
met anyone, the General continued. who
showed more profound and sincere sor-
row for the Presidents condition than
the Vice-Presideht. General Grant did
not believe that there had been any con-
sultations of the character described be-
tween General Arthur and his political
friends. General Arthur could have no
sane friend who would intrude such =
smbject upon him, and he is the last
man who would submit to such an in
trusion. it- -
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A YOUNG man, hilariOusly drunk,
made sortie into the streets Of New
York the other day, armed with sabre
and tiat-iron. and proceeded to run a
muck. He was finally captured and
locked up. In the morning he appeared
to be mild and notwithstanding per-
son. who explained that it was his first
drunk" 1t was thought that mere
amateur, who showed such enterprise,
might, with greater. experience. kill
somebody. So they put him under bond.
in the sum of $1,000. to behave him.
sclf. But is there such a thing as first
"and only" drunk?
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TTNlTElDl ipREsBYrERIAN CHURCH
Masonic Directory.

iDELM0NT LODGE, No. 16, r. & A. NJ
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be
fore full moon. Es
JAMES MELLOR, w. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSvILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated eonvoca'
tions, first Friday of each month.
C. w. CARROLL, 81. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y. soasslHL 80 ~
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R.&s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
Fl. r. BUMGARNER, T. I. M.
F. d. BAILEY, Sec'y. Ae
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. II. r. BUMGARNER, E. c..
l. L. SKDwIoK, Rec. ~
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THE disputes between France and En-
gland in regard 10 the rights Of the form
er to fishing grounds on the south coast
of Newfoundland seem to emphasize. if
they do not interpret, the Fortune Bay
Outrages, f0r-which Greet Britain has
just made prompt reparation : to this
country. France, as well as Portugal.
made as early settlement on Newfonnd-
land as Great Britain. BY the treaty OF
Utrecht, however, in 17I3, France ceded
her claimslof sovereignty to Great Brit
ain, retaining possession. however. OF
the small islands of st. Pierre and Mi
Qlelon and Of certain fishing rights ON
the adjacent south coast. Il is the char
acter Of these rights which is now in dis
pute, and it is probable that-as in the
case of Fortune Bay-the municipal reg
ulations of the island traverse and do
not agree with the terms and provis-
ions of treaties. The claim Of French
navahofiicers Of territorial sovereignty,
however. over any part Of an island
which has bean In indisputed British pos
session for !, one hundred and seventy
years will, unless promptly disavowed.
he likely TO lead to serious complications.
-Balt Americas. H
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ELEVEN hundred houses in New York
city have been wired and made ready
for the Edison lamp. The company are
now waiting for the engines and boilers
for the stations 1t is expected they will
be in place and the work of illumination
commences about the 18th of Noyem-
Der. The Brush Electric Company have
now 500 lamps burning in the city, and
the orders for more are greatly in ad-
vance for the capacity to fill them.