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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
Foreign News,

LONDON, September 29-The burning OF the
railway train ut Cairo destroyed a large
quantity of ammunition and provisions. Five
men were killed and twenty wounded. An
army of II, 900 is to remain in Egypt until the
settlement of its affairs. The troop-ship
Carthage has arrived in England with 112 Of
died on the voyage.
Alderman Knight, Of Cripplegate, has been
elected lord mayor of London.
An international conference is to be held at
Paris to discuss the protection Of submarine
cables.
The cholera has ceased in Japan, but still
ravages Manila.
All the Irish suspects have been released.
Mr.. E. Dwyer Gray will be released to-day.
brother of Walsh, who was recently hung,
has been sentenced to death.
Ferocious ant-Jewish riots have broken out
in Presburg, Hungary.
LONDON, October IA review Of the British
troops was held at Cairo in the presence Of the
Khedive and his ministers. The Khedive has
conferred the grand cross of the Order of
Osmsnieh upon Admiral Seymour, and has
offered to Sir Edwin Malet, the British CONSUL
general. the Order of Medjidie of the highest
class. This Sir Edwin Malet was obliged, under
the rules of the diplomatic service, to decline.
Eight natives have been arrested at Cairo on
the charge of incendiarism. The court
martials have begun. Railway traffic has
been re-established. Nearly all the British
troops have left Ramleh.
Laborers returning from the British expedi-
tion at Port Said were detained at CONSTANT
nople, and Lord Dufferin demanded guaran-
tee of their safety.
Judge Lawson has ordered the release of
Mr. E. Dwyer Gray on the payment Of f5OO.
hurricane did much damage in several
parts of Ireland.
1t is reported that the men tried for treason
in Armagh belong to a society for the exter-
mination Of landlords and bailiffs.
A fire is reported in the castle and military
barracks at Enniskillen, Ireland.
Minister Young has sent war ship to
Corea.
Dispatches from Yokahama undor date of
September 10, say that the Corean government
had pledged itself to Japan to punish the in
surgents, and to pay an indemnify of 100000
yen to Japan in five yearly installments. and
to send an apology to japan. The rebel
Tal-on-Kun has been seized and taken on
board a Chinese ship to Tien Tsin.
The lines of the Central and South American
Telegraph Company have been opened for
public business as far South as Guayaquil,
Ecuador 1t is expected that the lines to
callao and Valparaiso will be opened within a
week,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
Southern News.

The wholesale dry goods house of Yelling
ton Bros. & Co., Of Boston, has suspended
payment. No statement as to liabilities or
assets or where the indebtedness is placed has
been made, but it is believed that the indebted
ness is about $7OO, 900, about $3.50, 600 Of which
is for borrowed money.
At Charleston, Miss, Alacon Leigh was shot
dead while standing by the side of his wife in
front Of his own house, by Vernon White, the
on Of a Presbyterian clergyman. The assas-
in fed, and the mob threatened to hang the
father for the crime of his son.
Every mill in Houston county, Ca, with
one exception was washed away by recent
storm.
tits stated that Boston company is about
to be organized, with the object of building
up Brunswick, Ga. The company proposes
to improve lands in the vicinity of the town
and to erect wharves, docks, etc. 1t is said
that there is a large sum of British capital at
the back of the enterprise.
The last spike in the completion of the Live
Oak (Fla.) and Rowland's Bluff Railroad has
been driven. The road is five feet guage and
standard, and frst-class in its construction
and Equipment Fr
Reports from the principal growing sections
of North Carolina are to the effect that the
crop is very good. There is large increase
OF acreage in Piedmont and the western Sec
tions. The quality of the leaf is high, partic-
ularly Of the famous North Carolina bright.
The yield promises to be exceptional, and the
crop Is being rapidly gathered and cured. The
improved methods of curing have proven of
great value in increasing the quality of the
crop. But little damage was done by the
rains.
A difficulty occurred on Bear creek, Fairfield
county. 8. O., between W. R. Sykes and three
brothers named Briggman. George Briggman
was shot and instantly killed by Dr. Sykes.
More shooting was done, but no one else was
injured. DR.. Sykes surrendered himself to
the authorities.
Two gentlemen of Houston, Texas, with
their seconds, repaired to the fair grounds,
near that city, for the purpose of fighting a
duel. Four shots were exchanged without
damage, and the parties withdrew.
There were fifty-two new cases of yellow
fever at Pensacola, September 20, and eleven
deaths. Total number of cases to date 731,
deaths seventy-fve.
| Acting on request of the City Council of
New Orleans, Governor McEnry, ofLouisiana,
has approved of an additional allotment OF
$4,000 for closing the Bonnet Carre crevasse,
which insures the closing of the crevasse, and
will restore clear salt water to Lake Ponchar-
train, instead of the muddy Mississippi river
water which has filed it for several years.
At Pensacola there have been 1888 cases oi
yellow fever up to October 1, and 7S deaths
The disease has been spreading rapidly for a
week past.
Robert D. Bolton, Charles A. Miller, Brent
Freeland and James T. Self, deputy United
States marshals and collectors, charged with
the murder Of an old man named Jackson J.
Hicks, in Gulnnett county, Ga, while hunting
for illicit distilleries, have been acquitted in
the United States Circuit Court at Atlanta.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
VARIETIES.

Thomas Hughes is said to have taken
heart again in the Ragby colony enter
prise, and will come to America soon to
inspect the settlement.
Dressy aprons for evenings at home
and five o'clock tea are made of satin,
with deep founces Of lace and bibs,
bretelles, and belts of ribbon with lace
trimmings.
Observing the Sabbath" Do the
subjects of the King Of Dahomey keep
Sunday ?" was asked of a missionary.
eyes, he replied, "and everything
else they can lay their hands on.'
An economic farmers wife in Ala
bama, having had setting of eggs
accidentally broken, patched the cracked
shells with paste and linen, and, in due
time, the chicks appeared, as lively as
if never disturbed.
The ex-Empress Eugene has bought
chateau and park in Styria for $780,
600, and it is no secret that she quits
England in anger at the attentions paid
to Cetewayo, whom she hates for the
death of her son in Africa.
In the German military man@uvres
this year the Grown Princess rode at
the head of the regiment of hussars of
which she is honorary colonel. She
wore the regulation uniform, except
that skirt took the place of trousers,
and, instead of sword, she carried
riding whip swordwise.
Frank acknowledgements believe
you're fool, john" testify exclaimed
Mrs. Miggs. as her husband unwit-
tingly presented her the hot end of
potato dish, which she promptly
dropped and broke. "Yes," he added,
resignedly, that's what the clerk told
me when I went to take out my mar
risge license"
A postal puzzle. postoffice
authorities are somewhat bothered
about the proper destination of postal
card directed to "James Bone, alias
Jas. E. Mulherren, in care of Mike
Flynn, or his sister Julia, or her cousin
Mary Ann, corner of street with no
number, Pottsville, retail huckster and
tin-horn artist. If not there, next
door,
A good-for .nothing.-It was Mikes
third appearance in court within thirty
days, and, in reply to his usual appeal
for clemency, the magistrate impa-
tiently observed cts no use, Mike ;
you're good-for-nothing." cts not
me shtyle to be braggin'," retorted
Mike p" but if yer honor will borry a
pair Of shillelahs an stip outside wild
me, I'll make it inconvaynient for ye to
how'd that opinion"
A physician who makes specially OF
rectal diseases writes long article on
the effect of horseback riding ON those
who are troubled with piles. His con.
clusion is that horseback exercise is not
prejudicial, but is rather apt to be
beneficial in such cases. And he thinks
there is nothing more certain to prevent
hte occurrence of hemorrhoids than
regular horseback riding. He says that
in Bellevue Hospital gymnastic move
ment is practiced to cure hemorrhoids.
sit consists simply in trying to touch
the toes with the fingers withoutbendine
the knees. 1t not only strengthens and
develops the muscles of the abdomen
J but also those of the legs and thighs.
: 1t assists the action of certain remedies
and thus aids in cure DR. Foote
Health Monthly.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
Maiden Meditation.
One dim September afternoon

One dim September afternoon
saw maiden sweet and fair.
As through the gathering twilight gloom,
In loosened robe and flowing hair,
She watched the ever-changing ouds
To fancy's castles rise and fall;
And knew her thoughts were far away,
To Love, who on one summer day
Took an apple in his hand,
Threw it lightly to and fro;
Then said ''If 1t could understand
How you and I had watched it grow,
Would it for us secret tell,
Would it for us the charm obey,
Reveal to us who love 60 well
When comes the happy wedding day ?''
Then he sought the apples heart;
With eager fingers found the seed.
snow sweetest do not blush and start
There are but five--just five indeed
These five seeds mean five days, my dear,
For 'tis an oracle that speaks"
'Ah, love-" che answered, sit is clear
The oracle intends it weeks" ~
The jest to tender earn grew;
They spoke ofmarriage hopes and cares;
Sure never hours so swiftly few.
Happy the heart that with Love shares
The doubtful dreams of future days,
The trouble and the joy of life
Happy the maid to whom Love says,
Come, be we'll beloved wife
And thus the happy summer hours
She thinks Of, all alone, alone;
For CLINT of gems and wedding bells
Upon the air will soon be thrown,
And at the glad Thanksgiving-tide
happy wife, not maid, she'll be,
For July 3 apple oracle
Five months, not weeks, have proved to b
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
THE HARDEST TUG Of ALL.

The sun was just beginning to tink
over the beautiful hills of Southern
Bavaria. A big red bearded man, with
arms bare to the elbow, stood at the
door of little mountain inn upon one
Of the higher slopes, watching, with his
broad, brown hand arched over his eyes,
. group of five men who had just issued
from the mass Of dark green pines that
covered the crest of the opposite ridge.
Zone, two, three. four, five," counted
the landlord. They're all there but
Hermann but they've found no game,
I can see. Where can Hermann be, 1
wonder? He won't come back empty
handed, I'll be bound"
"Hermann's late," said one of the
foresters, "but warrant he'll be ready
for his supper when he does come."
Sand we'll he may, if he has found
any game, for I can tell you, lads, that
to carry quarter of venison from the
Rosenberg to nay door, on roasting
day like this. would be job for Strong
Schslk himself"
Sand who may Strong Schalk be ?"
asked sunburned peddler who was
sitting beside the window.
"Who ?" echoed the landlord, star.
ing; why. brother. you must be a
stranger in these parts to ask that. But
II you want to know about him, all
you've got to DO is to go down to Kreuz-
veg town yonder and ask any man,
woman, or child you may meet about
Strong Schalk,' and they'll tell you
something thatll astonish you.'
Sand if that's not enough" struck in
one of the hunters, with a grin, "let
him go into Schalk's shop and challenge
him to wrestle, and he'll be astonished
still more-eh, Father Baum?'
Ugh don't talk of -" grunted the
landlord, making wry face ''you
make my fingers ache with the very
recollection"
"Why. he must be perfect giant p
cried the pedler, who had been listening
open.mouthed.
mo, that's the strangest part Of it..
He's no bigger than another man
rather smaller, in fact-and tailor into
the bargain /; and yet he can do feats
worthy of Hans Stronghand in the
story"
"Of whom are you speaking ?" asked
deep voice from the door.
"Of Strong Schalk, the tailor of
Kreuzweg, friend Hermann" answered
the landlord. shaking hands with the
newcomer, powerful young fellow,
with-an air which showed that he had
no small idea of his own Importance.
"The mischief take Strong Schalk r.
cried Hermann, angrily. "I'm sick OF
his very name;" and with the full
power OF his mighty voice he rolled out
the song:
There were host of tailors,
Brave fellows one and all;
Then drank they, all the ninety,
Ay, nine times nine and ninety,
Out OF thimble small
Sand when this draught had quenched their
thirst,
Then weigh themselves would they;
Yet could not all the ninety,
Ay, niue times nine and ninety,
A single goat upweigh.
-sThen homeward truged they all-but 10
The door was locked within;
Then hoped they, all the ninety,
Az, nine times nine-and-ninety,
Right through the key-hcle, in"
The boisterous chorus had hardly
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07

Pension item.-A Federal soldier has
applied for pension at Washington for
broken Leg &C. in jumping the
bounty
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
Salt for the Throat.

An exchange says: When disease Of
the throat is so universally prevalent,
and in so many cases fatal, we feel it
our duty to say a word in behalf Of a
most effectual, ifnot positive, cure for
sore throat. For many years-indeed,
we may say, during the whole of q life
Of more than forty years-we have
been subject to sore throat, and more
particularly to a dry. hacking cough,
which is not only distressing to our
selves, but to our friends and those
with whom we are brought into bust
ness contact. Last fall we were in
duced toAry what virtue there vas in
commod salt. We commenced by
using it three times a day-morning,
noon and night. We dissolved a table,
spoonful of pure table salt in about
a half small tumblerful Of water.
With this we gargled the throat most
thoroughly just before meal time,
The result has been that during the
entire winter we we're not only free
from coughs and colds, but the dry,
hacking cough has entirely disap.
peared. W. attribute these salts
factory results solely to the use of salt
gorgle, and most cordially recon.
mend a trial Of it to those who arc
subject to the disease of the throat.
| Many persons, who have tried the
salt gargle have the impression that
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
The SOundness of rngersOu.

Mr.. Robert Burdette, the humorist
ola Western paper, lectured in New
York the other evening before the
Young Mems Christian Association.
In the course of his address he re-
ferred kindly to Colonel Ingersoll,
whose success, the lecturer thought,
was owing to his overwhelming hu.
NOR, which made his audiences laugh
at their own dearest creeds. And l
believe continued Mr.. Burdette, SO.
%riously, while his audience was hush
ed, L believe Colonel Ingersoll's po-
sitiou is sound. There was a mo-
ment's hesitation and all the tittering
stopped. L know continued the
speaker. it isn't the thing to say in
this hall and to this audience; but I
have said it, and | won't 60 back on
anything | have said 1t appeared
for a moment that Mr.. Burdette' can
dor had got the better of his dis
erection. He continued: But that is
the trouble with Ingersoll. 1t is all
sound, like a bass drum, and no sense
The orthodox audience was relieved,
and expressed itself in great laugh
ter" Colonel Ingersoll, however,
need not be disheartened by the Incl.
dent, if he will pause to reflect upon
the intelligence Of an audience which
could laugh SO heartily at so ancient a
joke.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
He Wouldn't Let q Funeral In
terGere With Business.

A Michigander, who was travelling
through Indiana last fall with a horse
and buggy, drove up to q farm house
one day with his patent washing ma
chine and discovered that he had hap
pened on a funeral. Under such cir
cumstances he thought it best to beat
a retreat, but while unhitchiDg his
hose one of the men came out and in
quired:
Want anything, stranger"
well, no; l understand they are
holding a funeral here"
Yes, sort of a funeral. Got any
thing to sell?"
Il have a patent washing machine,
but under the circumstances l don't
feel like"
Never mind the circumstances
interrupted the man. "Jim's lost his
wife, Of course, but he's got all ar.
rangements made to marry his hired
girl two weeks from tonight, and il
you've got anything there you want To
throw in on a boss trade he won't let
no funeral interfere with business
It's airly in the day yet, and we do oui
burying around here any time before
dark"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
APPORTIONMENT
Republican Estimate of Their
Chances In 1854.
Cor. N. Y. Tribuno.l

Cor. n. Y. Tribune.l
WASHINGTON, February I'm the
House Of Representatives to-day all
the remaining propositions to amend
the Apportionment bill were submit
ted to q vote and rejected. Mr.. Cole
rick's substitute, fixing the member
ship of the House at 319, was defeated
by a vote 1a8 to SO, and the bill was
finally passed without a division. OF
course, one Of the chief considerations
with both parties in the House was to
gain such political advantage as they
could with reference to the cleo
toral vote; and the result is sOme-
what more satisfactory to the Repub-
licans than to the Democrats. If the
bill shall become a law in its present
form, the total electoral vote in 1884
will be 401, or. if Dakota be admitted,
4O4; and a majority will be 201 OF
2O3.
0fthe total vote, the sixteen States,
including West Virginia, which COM
pose the solid South, will furnish 1853,
and in order to elect a President in
1884, the Democrats will be required
not only to preserve the solidity of the
South, but to draw on the Northern
States for As or so votes more. Prom
inent Republican members of the
House, after careful review of the
situation and consultation with Rep
resentatiyes from each of the States,
have come to believe hat the Repub-
licans can surely depend upon 1876
electoral votes from eighteen Northern
States, including California, Maine
and Oregon; that New York with 36
votes, Indiana with Is votes, New
Jersey with 8 votes, and Nevada with
3 votes, may fairly be regarded as
debatable, with the prospects of both
parties nearly equal.
Of the 63 doubtful votes the Re-
publicans will be required to obtain
16 in order to win, while the Demo-
Gratis, in order to succeed, must secure
48, or in the event of Dakota's admis-
sion, 30 Of them. In other words, the
Democrats cannot elect the President
in 1884 unless they can preserve the
solidity Of the South and carry both
Indiana and New York besides. But
the Democrats are by no means conf.
dent Of their ability to maintain the
solidity of the South, and some of the
shrewdest men of that party in the
House frankly say that they do not
expect to get the ~ electoral votes of
Virginia in 1884. Leading Demo
cratic Congressman from Tennessee
are equally frank in expressing the be-
lief that the chances in that State are
largely in favor of the Republicans,
and the Republican Congressman from
the same State say that its electoral
vote will be given to the Republican
candidate for President. North Car
DINA is also placed in the list of South
ern States which the Democrats can
not count upon with certainty. If
the Republicans should carry either
one of the three Southern States
named, they would be required, in
order to win, to obtain 8 Of the 60
doubtful votes, providing they should
lose none of the States which leading
Republican members of the House
regard as surely Republican.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22

N. Y. Herald.l
The farmers in the vicinity of Mount
Kisco, Westchester county, are greatly
troubled in mind concerning the ap.
p~earance of black grasshopper, which
was noticed two or three days ago in
the fields. They we're first discovered
by George Sypher, on the farm of Isaac
Thorne. The young man was walking
through the field and he noticed the
insects skylarkiug on the beautiful
snow. Having never seen such a sight
in midwinter, Sypher was at first in
elined to take to his heels and run for
life, fearing that something had got
wrong in MS head. But finding that
he had full control of his senses the
man began an investigation of the
strange phenomenon, and when he had
satisfied himself that there was no
fiction about the grasshoppers he
caught halfa dozen Of them and intro.
duced them to Mr.. Thorne. That
gentleman was also surprised, and
Immediately started for the field to
carry on a more thorough investiga-
ton. There he found scores of the
insects skipping about in the sun
shine, and after securing a bottle full
went around among his neighbors
exhibiting them. The former were all
greatly astonished at the hoppers'
appearance, declaring that sucE al
invasion was never heard of before in
the winter. Since their appearance
on Mr.. Thorne's place they have been
reported Id a number of localities in
that vicinity. The farmers express
alarm lest a new pest should make its
appearance next summer, Of which
these hoppers are the advance
guard. The insects are Jet black and
somewhat smaller than a cricket,
Nothing like Thorn was ever seen be-
fore at any time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
THE BITTER BIT.
A Miner Caught in His Own
Steel Trap.

Leadyille Chronicle.F
One OF the most singular and at the
same time distressing accidents which
has been chronicled for manya daytook
place in the Buckeye gulch yesterday,
the victim being a miner living there,
and named Henry Sullivan. Late
yesterday afternoon he was brought to
the house Of DR.. Smith, who knew
him personally. He was at the time
suffering from a severe cut on each
side Of his leg, near the ankle, and a
fracture of both bones. An injury of
this character, at that spot, is an ex-
tremely serious one, and everything.
possible was done to relieve his pain.
How he received the injury and how
he reached the city embody an ex-
oeedingly interesting story. Sullivan
lives, as many miners do, entirely
alone, in little log cabin at the head
Of Buckeye guloh. Among the tools
and articles in his humble place Of
abode was a large steel trap, such as is
used in catching bears and heavy game.
Its shape, when open, was oval, but
when the spring was touched two sets
of cruel teeth sprang together, closing
on whatever happened to be in range,
be it mar or beast. The trap had not
been used for a long time, and stood
open in a corner of the place.
Yesterday morning it occurred
to Sullivan that the trap might do
some damage in that condition,
and accordingly he pulled itout to the
middle Of the floor to close it up. In
its long period Of disuse the springs
had become rusty, and the working
portion of it stuck together, refusing
to operate. Sullivan labored with it
for quite a time, and then becoming
angry, picked up a Ratchet and began
hammering at it. Still the jaws re-
fused to shut, and without thinking of
the consequences, he thrust his foot
against the lever and struck it again.
AT that instant there was a clash, and
the teeth sprang shut, pinning him
just above the ankle. The springs
were of the most powerful make, and,
as there was no looseniug them when
they had once caught, Sullivan in his
agony felt his very bones crack
under the death like grip, and half
tainted as he sank to the floor. Then
nerying himself for a desperate effort,
he wrenched at the stout iron with
both hands, but without loosening it
the fraction Of an inch. Half an hour
of pain and terror followed, and a new
idea occurred to him. The trap was
fastened at the base with heavyscrews
bolted at either side. A wrench lay
within reach, and grasping it with the
strength of desperation he succeeded
in unfastening the bolts. The steel
bars dropped apart and he was set free.
1t is needless TO enlarge upon his
journey of a mile and a half up the
gulch to the nearest house, and how
he was finally carried to the city. His
injuries are of such a nature that he
may possibly yet suffer the amputation
of a foot. Sullivan is an old Leadville
man.