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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
Voices of the Night.

Tt was late last night when you retired -
'Yes, papa p l said, with yawn
Behind my fan, 'for the horrid man
He just talked on and on.
The more limited the more he stayed;
knew you were wakeful, too,
And told him so but he would not go
And what could poor girl do ?"
SIT was very late when you retired l''
eyes, papa' frankly said,
''For the man, you see, just talked to me,
Though yawned till my eyes were red;
And went so far, when the clock struck twelve
As to count the strokes all through;
But--the stupid--he wouldn't see
And what could poor girl do ?"
SIT was worse than late when you retired p'
''Why, tell you, PAP cried,
eff limited once to the tiresome Ounce,
Twas hundred times beside
Why, 1 even said you'd been in bed
For at least two hours, l knew
But he tipped his chair, and still sat there
So what could poor girl do?"
"Well, the jeemses gosh! was you up all night?'
'Why papa" humbly plead,
Don't thunder so there's a man below;
And he's sent you his card, and said
That the reason why he stayed all night
Was he wanted to see you, too,
That he might ask for the hand / gave
For what could a poor girl do ?"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
HUMOROUS.

The trained dog has purpose in
life--in fact q number of 'em.
In love making the young people
believe that ardor is heavens first law.
The clock strikes without stopping
work. This keeps the hands employed,
and enables them to go on tick.
tt takes cook to do things UP
brown,-Swacuse Standard. True, but
the organ grinder does things to turn.
1t is appropriate to refer to the
spanker boom when whole primary
school is whipped for some general mis-
demeanor.
The scales used for weighing gold in
the assay offices are so delicate that one
glance from a squint-eyed man will
throw them off balance.
Notwithstanding the malaria said to
surround Washington we have never
yet heard of a man who shook so much
that he couldn't draw his salary.
Jay Gould controls 1000 miles of rail
road, valued at $140,000,O0O, but any
athletic schoolboy in the land can throw
him down, and give him underhold at
that.
The Chicago News thinks that the
reason women never die of lockjaw is,
"That they never give the disease
chance to catch on" Wonder, now, if
that is it?
With the thermometer 95 degrees in
Columbus, the Ohio State Journal &C.
statically launches forth in the following
effusion +:
Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow
Filling the sky and the earth below, &C., &c.
The following would be more appro-
PIRATE
The heat, the heat, the beautiful heat
How bakes the tin roofs and the bricks at your
feet,
How it melts down your collar and muses.
your hair,
And makes the air thick with full many a
swear.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

of 50, 00O, 900, filed its charter at Austin.
The line is to be extended from Austin
to the mouth of the Brazos river.
The Parnell branch of the Irish lamp
league of Cincinnati passed resolutions
severely condemning Irishmen who
favor the use of dynamite or other nihi-
list methods to promote the cause Of
Ireland.
The Albemarle vineyards are realizing
fortunes for their owners. Great guam
titles of grapes are shipped to the
Northern markets every day, and they
are bringing good prices.
Cotton planters are offered newly
patented continuance for poisoning cot
ton caterpillars. A poisonous solution
is distributed by sprinkling and destroys
the vermin by wholesale.
1t is reported that work is progressing
so slowly at Newport News that there is
little chance of the railroad being com
pleted by October. The foundation for
the new hotel is being laid.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
Heard n Lecture.

"How did you like the lecturer
ooh, it was beautiful !"
What did he say?"
"Oh, he said SO many beautiful
things!"
"Tell us some"
"Oh, he said-he said but L can't
tell it to you as he said them"
"Tell them as you can understand
them"
"Well, he said-he said-oh, l
can'tp
"Tell us one thing he said"
"Well, he said that the aesthetics of
existence enabled us to-to-oh, l
can't |"
"Tell us what you think he meant. "
"Oh, go along Why didn't you go
and hear him yourself PIE.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

The amendment to the Land bill by
the House of Lords, relative to the Ulster
tenant right, was rejected by the House
of Commons meeting of the Land
League in Dublin Father Cantwell, who
presided, said the Land bill was nothing
to them, and that the League should
continue to resist landlordism. The
persecution of the Jews continues in
West Russia and West Prussia.-The
Pope has appointed DR.. Korum to the
vacant bishopric of Treves, Rhenisl,
Prussia. -The Countess d'Eu, o daugh-
ter of Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
has given birth to u son.-The retroces-
sion OF the Trausvaal has been formally
effected.-It is reported that the Pope
is going to Malta to reside.
The Land bill was again discussed in
the House of Commous.-It is now
stated that the Pope will not give up
Rome as a place of residence, unless
forcibly compelled to do so.-Ayoob
Khan issaid to be short of arms.-There
are some indications that the Pope and
Germany will come to better under
standing king Alfonzo has issued an
order that Cuba abstain from partici-
pating in the forthcoming International
Cotton Exhibition at Atlanta, Ga, on
account of the scarcity of money in the
treasury, and the little cotton thus far
raised in Cuba.
The House of Lords adhered to most
of its amendments to the Land Bill. A
committee has been appointed by the
House of Commons to draw up it's rea-
sons for disagreeing with the Lords.
Mr.. Parnell has written letter urging
the building up of Irish manufacturing
industries. The Ameers fortunes are
not so desperate as was supposed, as it
is reported that Ayoob Khan has aban-
doned his intention of marching on
Cabul.-It has bhen determined that
the official language of the Transvaal
shall be Dutch, and that no other be al
lowed in the law courts. This places
British residents and natives at fur
ther disadvantage. Strong measures are
being taken to suppress the anti Jewish
riots in Pomerania. Twenty-one arrests
have been made at Koslin.
Midnight, the trotter that won in the
2:15 class of Buffalo, N. Y, few days
ago, was stimulated for the conte.t by
the copious administration of cold cot.
fee. So successful was the experiment
that owners of trotters in New York
Mr.. Vanderbilt, Mr.. Alley, Mr.. s. F.
Dewey, Mr.. Edwin Thorne and Mr..
Shepherd F. Knapp among them-say
that they will enter their horses in the
temperance society, and stimulate them
hereafter with coffee instead of liquor.
1t is believed that at the British
Cabinet council, it was decided to in
sist upon the Land bill, as it passed the
Commons. There is as yet no solution
to the deadlock existing between the
two housewife Viceroy of India has
telegraphed the home government fol-
permission to furnish the Ameer with
money to enable him to maintain his
position. Immense frauds in connec-
ton with the indirect Turkish taxes have
been discovered at Adrianople. The
police broke up meeting at Genoa,
held in favor of the abolition of the law
granting guarantees to the Papacy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Feb. Q. 1880.

know Hop Bitters will bear recommends
ton honestly. All who use them confer upon
them the highest encomiums, and give them
credit for making cures-all the proprietors
claim for them. 1 have kept them since they
were first offered to the public. They took
high rank from the first, and maintained it,
and are more called for than all others COM
bined. So long as they keep up their high
reputation for purity and usefulness, 1 shall
continue to recommend them something I
have never before done with any other patent
medicine. j. j. BABoocK, M. d.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression of
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittant fevers, the FERRo-
PHosPHoRATED ELIXIR OF CAIIsAYA BARK, made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic and for pa
TENTS recovering from fever or other sickness
it has no equal.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

Messrs. J. r. Bennett & Co., Muske-
gon, Mich, thus speak: st. Jacobs Oil
is the best liniment around hero. We
sell more of it than of any other pro-
prietary medicine we have in our store.
Our customers are continually praising
its effective qualities and we think
that it is the best remedy for rherma-
tism, neuralgia, ETC., we have ever bad
in stock.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

vEGETINE is composed of the best vegetabl,
Ingredients tho dispensary of nature furnishes
The juices are extracted in way which pro
serves their undiminished medical properties
making it one of the greatest cleansers Of the
blood that can be put together.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
Agricultural Items.

Now is the time to destroy weeds
they are growing rapidly, and terminate
about as fast as cut down. A piece well
cleared this year will show the good eff.
feet next year.
There are few farmers who are thor
ough cultivators of all crops. They
give the best attention to those tor
which they have a preference.
They have black peaches in Japan.
When cut the flesh is reddish brown.
The flavor is excellent.
Mr.. Joe Beasley, an experimental
gardner near Columbus, Georgia, has
succeeded in raising some melons with
delicious lemon flavor. He makes an
incision in the vine a short distance
from the root, to which he attaches a
lemon, and by means of absorption the
juice is taken into the melons.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

The Woonsocket Reporter inquiries:
"Who says it is unhealthy to sleep in
feathers? Look at the spring chicken,
aud see how tough he is"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

find 1t hard to keep in good health, owing to
the constant change of water, diet and the jar
ring of the cars. All these things injure the
kidneys, while Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure is certain to counterfeit them.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
uENNy,s UaKYOr,,, s.,yE

Is tine BEST SALvE for Cuts, BRUISES Sores, ucers.
Salt Rheum. letter, Chappcd Hands, Chilblaina
Corns and all kinds OF Skin Eruptions. Freckles an
pimoles Ges HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, as
others are count rieits. Price % cents.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

The Agricultural Department esti-
mates that four per cent. of the acreage
of Texas can produce enough cotton to
supply the whole world.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

cook can tell an egg when it is bad,
if it should happen that any person
would like to have conversation with
an egg of that kind.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

The market is flooded with worthless and
vile compounds for the regeneration of the
hair, but CAROLINE, the great petroleum hair
remover and dressing, as now improved and
perfected, still takes the front rank as the
hest preparatiOn
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

Mr.. W. j. Melvin, editor Warren,
Mass, Herald, was cured of severe Neu
ralgia by the use of st. Jacobs Oil.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

For one man who sincerely pities our
misfortunes, there are a tho usand who
sincerely hate our success.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

From the steamers deck she beheld q
barge laden with cotton. "Ah p MUIR
INJURED the fair Angelica, "my bosom
friend is baled out"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

You can't impoverish musician. For
tune is always Cincinnati Musical
People. Even if it wasn't he has no
difficulty in issuing notes.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

DIR. GREENS OXYGENATED BITrERs
a the best remedy for Dyspepsia, Billiousncss. Ma
iaria, Indigestion and Diseases of tie Blood, Kid
neys, Liver, Skin. etc.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

Hoopskirts are to be revived, and
there is a great deal of hustle in the
feminine world.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

Trough on Rats"
Ask Druggists it. 1t clears out rats, mice
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, vermin, insects. 15c
1t is safefor women, it is said, to use
toy pistols for they are never known
to have lockjaw.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

DURNO'S CArARRH SNUFF cures all Affection
of the mucous M y rane, of the head and throat.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

When the river rises one foot what
becomes of the other? 1t remains tide,
Of cOurSn
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
Russian Mulberry,

This valuable and ornamental tree
was first brought to this country by the
Russian Mennonites, and trees, the
seed OF which was planted five years
ago, are twenty feet in height and six
inches in diameter, and have borne full
crops of fruit since they were two years
old. Color of fruit red and black, flavor
sub-acid. In Russia they are used as
we use raspber1ies and blackberries.
Large quantities of this fruit are
sold annually in the markets of
Russia. The tree is, as near as
we can learn, cross between the Moa7ss
Nigra or black mulberry, and the native
Russian variety. The tree grows very
large, frequently reaching height of
fifty feet. The timber is hard and dur
able, and the fence posts made from it
have the lasting qualities of catalpa OF
red cedar. A part of the tres S have
beautiful cut leaves, and some of them
have as many as twelve lobes. Some of
the trees were shipped to James Wick
last autumn, who speaks of the beauty
of the leaves in the Floral Guide for
1881, The bark is grayish white,
branches dropping. The Russians also
use it as hedge plant, and it stands
shearing as we'll as any tree on the list.
1t also grows readily from cuttings as
cottonwood or willow. Last-year cut
tings made trees from three to five feet
in height. The tree is perfectly hardy.
Mercury thirty degrees below zero and
not even the twigs injured Fruit
Record
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

! DIR. MOTIFS LIVER PILLS are the best Cathartis
Regulators.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Confectionery Recipes.

confectionery recipes.
LEMON DRoPs.-Upon half q pound of
finely powdered sugar pour just enough
lemon juice to dissolve it and boil to
the consistency of thick syrup drop
this on plates and put in warm place
to harden.
Boston CARAMELs.- pint bowl of
Bakers grated chocolate, two bowls of
yellow sugar, one bowl of New Orleans
molasses, one-half cup of milk, o piece
OF butter the size of small egg and
vanilla flavor; boil about twenty-five
minutes; this should not be SO brittle
as other candies. Pour in buttered tins
and mark deeply with knife.
EUERToN TAFFY.-In shallow vessel
melt together one pound of brown sugar
and one-quarter pound of butter; stir
them together for fifteen minutes. or
until when the mixture becomes brittle
when dropped in cold water. Lemon
or vanilla favoring should be added be-
Aoho eho oooAlHS ID Cuulplolc. DuGu0r q
flat plate and pour the taffy upon it to
cool. When partly cold mark in squares
with knife.
CHOCOLATE CREAM DROPS Mix one-half
cup of cream with two of white sugar, boil
and stir full five minutes set the dish
into another Of cold water and stir until
it becomes hard. Then make into small
balls about the size of marbles and with
fork roll each one separately in the
chocolate, which has in the meantime
been put in a bowl over the boiling tea
kettle and melted put on brown paper
to cool; flavor with vanilla if desired,
This amount makes about fifty drops.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

Poison, spreading disease and death in many local.
ties, for which quinine is no genuine antldote but
for the effects of which Hostetters stomach Bitters
is not only thorough remedy, but a reliable pre-
ventiye. To this fact there is an overwhelming ar
ray of testimony. extending over period of thirty
years. All disorders of the liver stomach and bow
els are also conquered by the Bitters.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
Renerallv,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
vegetine
For Chills, Shakes, Fever
and Ague.

TARBoRO, N. G., 1878.
Dr. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear SirI feel very grateful for what your valua.
bic medicine VEGETINE, has done in my family. |
wish to express my thanks by informing YOU Of the
wonderful cure of my son; also to let you know that
Stahes fcceg and Agae. MY son was. sick with
measles in 1873, which left him with Hip, joint disease.
Ny suffered great deal of pain ali of the time:
the pain was 50 great he did nothing but cry. The
his foot from the floor; he could not move without
crntches. read your advertisement in the Louis.
vile C0Wfier-J0Uindl that VEGETINE was a great
Blood Purifier and Blood Food. tried one bottle.
which was great benefit. He kept on with the medi
cine, gradually gaining. He has taken eighteen bot
ties, and he is completely restored to health walks
without crutches cane. He is twenty years of age
ject to Chttts Whenever he feels one coming on he
comes in, takes dose Of VEGETINE and that is the
last of the ChW VEGETINE leaves no bad effect upon
the system, like most Of the medicines recommended
for CHiiLs. | cheerfully recommend VEGETINE fof
such complaints I think it is the greatest medicine
in the world. Respectfully,
MRS ]. w LLOYD.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20

y
fire.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue re-
ceived advices from Columbia, S. c.,
that the governor had offered a reward
of 5000 for the arrest of the murderer of
Deputy Collector 7. L. Brayton.
The will of General Patterson was
filed in the office of the PHILADELPHIA
Register of Wills. His entire estate,
amounting to about 81, 100000, is De-
queathed to his family, there being no
public requests.
A volunteer military company, to be
composed exclusively of Irish citizens,
is being successfully formed in Norfolk.
They are to be called the "Mahony Flu
siliers," and will take part in the York
town celebration.
The iron bridge on the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad across James river,
six miles below Lynchburg, was finished
on Thursday last, and in very few days
trains will be running regularly between
Richmond and Lynchburg.
The railroad work on the Edenton ex-
tension of the Elizabeth City and Nor
folk Railroad is progressing success
fully, and in view of the excessive heat,
quite rapidly. About 700 laborers are
employed on the work. The track is
almost an air line, and will run through
q country generally rich and productive,
and Astounding in valuable timber.
The Austin (Texas) and Southeastern
Railroad Company, with capital stock
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-02


the public will not suffice, however, TO
screen its clients, tine virtuous -Four. No
body believes thatthey refuaed S.. oo0apiece.
Nobody believes that this or any other sum
was ever offered thsm-by the miners
or on their behalf. Nobody believes that
they did not decide upon the course
actually taken by them because they
thought it the most profitable for them
selves, and not at ali because they were
thinking of tie interests of the public.
And if these popular beliefs are incorrect ];
if these Supervisors were approached cor
ruptIy, as their organ has alleged then it
is perfectly clear that in refrainipg from
criminal proceedings against the guilty
party OF parties they are compromising a
felony. And this apparently is what their
organ wishes the public to believe now,
since it not only shirks the production of
proof, but reiterates the old story in gen.
eral terms. If that aspect of the case
suits the -Four, the public can stand it,
but they may as well realize that their
organ has given them the awkward alterna-
tive Of confessing to the composition OF q
felony. or trying to sneak out of their dis
grace under cover of palpable and pre-
posterous fiction. Which horn of the di.
lemma will they take?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-02
THE LATEST WASHINGTON LUNAT1c.

The latest Washington lunatic is a doc
tor who attempted to enter the White
House in company with seven-chambered
revolver, and who was evidently prepared
TO kill President Arthur on the strength of
a paper purporting to be a matter-of.facs
autograph order from God Almighty, au-
thorizing the mailman to take the Presi-
Dental office. There would seem to be
some method in the madness which foTtifes
itself with documentary authority CT this
overwhelming character, but twill probably
appear that there is some mistake about
the order. Precisely how its authenticity
Is to be tested is a somewhat difficult mat.
ter to determine, for we suppose it will be
generally conceded that such a paper might
be authentic. As however this particular
iunatic seems to have committed the capt.
tai blunder Of employing an alas, that fact
will IL all probability be used against him
with fatal effsst. Meantime the Presidents
resolution TO receive no applicants for office
has been completely justified, and no doubt
he viii be little disposed to infringe it here
after. Evidently Guiteau's- crime has
caused widespread excitement among the
mad people, and this shows how important
e ;s that Gaiteau should be well and duly
Hanged at the earliest possible moment.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-02
smALL-pcx AID oUAaANr1SE

The State Board of Health has been dis
eussing the means of preventing the spread
of smallpox in the State, and proposes
that the immigrant trains shall be stopped
at or near the American river bridge, and
there examined by surgeon before they
are allowed to come any further We do
not understand this proposition. It ap-
pears to us perfectly obvious that if Sc.
rious effort is TO be made to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of smallpox the proper place to
begin is at the State line. Truckee, and
not Sacramento, ought to be the stopping
place, and it is there that the quarantine
ground should be established if there is to
be one. But under any possible arrange
ments it is very difficult thing to check
a disease which is being propagated by
immigration. II, as is alleged, smallpox is
being brought from Chicago, the en-
igrant cars themselves must become
sources of infection, and tie conta-
gion may be carried as far as the
cars go, no matter how many sick people
are taken from them e, route. The only
way to deal effectually with the case would
be 70 quarantine every car in which SIM
gle case of the disease had been discov-
cred. and keep it until thorough disinfec.
tion had been accomplished. This, how
ever, would perhaps result il serious
embarrassment and it is very doubtful
whether either the Central Pacific Com
pany or the State are prepared for all that
such a plan would involve. 1t may fur
ther be questioned whether the whole
quarantine project is not proposed too late.
It was stated at the recent meeting of the
State Board OF Health that the disease has
already appeared in four counties. Ii that
is the case. it may not be possible to iso-
late it. The case, however, recalls pub
lie attention to the need Of State quaran.
tine system which has always existed, and
which viii become the more important as
new transcontinental routes are completed.