Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
The Stephens City Star.
HERE AND HEREABOUT.


I'm tired of being honest,
won't stick to that tribe,
So I'll take seat at Washington,
And work for cash and bride.
Some one says that negro will sell
his shirt for watermelon. &
This is the proper season to kill cats
in fact it always is the season to kill
cats.
In Texas and Arkansas, where the
wheat harvest is just over, the yield is
excellent.
1t is said that the fate of Jesse
James has not reduced crime on the
Western border.
Why is piece of cheap flannel like
a dirty man? Because they both
shrink from washing.
Work, sleep, reading, recreation and
study, in due proportion, make up the
life Of healthy man.
The Staunton Vs,adscator says col
ored man from Winchester has the
smallpox in Augusta county.
If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what heaven this would be?
Don't forget to attend the closing
exercises Of Professor Eubanks' High
School, at the school room tonight.
A farmer who gains riches by SIX
teen hours hard work per day, does it
at the expense of his health and long
life.
Moses Taylor died the other day
and left $4,000. When he woke up
in eternity next day he didn't have a
cent.
The Strasburg News announces the
death of Mrs. Susan Fahnestock, Of
consumption, at the age of 80 years
and 8 months.
A great many farmers build their
residences too near the public road,
subjecting themselves to the. annoy
ance OF tramps and dust.
George B. Wright, of Smiths Gap,
Hampshire county, w. Va, was in
town Wednesday, visiting Mr.. and
Mrs Mayer Steele and family.
Our young friend Boyd Steele, who
has been absent for some time in West
Virginia, returned on Monday last,
with health and appetite improved.
The Shenandoah Valley R. R. Co.
will commence the running of regular
through trains from Hagerstown to
Roanoke, 238 miles, on Monday next
Elephants can remain standing a
whole year without desire to lie
Some men can stand around whole
lifetime without any desire to do any
thing else.
A perfectly safe preparation of iron
and vegetable TONES that will not
harm the most delicate, is Browns
Iron Bitters. 1t always gives health
and strength.
If you would retain the love Of your
affianced, young man, do not permit
her to inyeigle you into an ice-cream
saloon. If you do GOODNESS will soon
exist between you.
1t is now whispered in official circles
that the reason Melville didn't find
the North pole is that he was not an
Ohio man. Strange that nobody ever
thought Of this before.
If any of the readers of this paper
are growing deaf let them get at once
a bottle of Johpaso,a's Anodyyae Ldni-
msemt. Rub well behind the ears, and
put little into the ear with feather
"Uncle Ben returns thanks to "Lit-
tie Girl" of Kernstown. Since re-
eeiving her nicely written note he is
more than ever convinced that his lit
tie act of kindness was not undeserved
or unworthily bestowed.
Rev. VIM. Samsell and wife, who
have been visiting relatives in our
town, left on Wednesday last for their
home in Rockingham. Like all other
visitors, they were well pleased with
Stephens City and its inhabitants.
Messrs. Drake g. Dinges have taken
the contract for plastering the new M.
E. Church South under process of
erection in this place. The well known
reputation of these gentlemen as mas
ter mechanics is sufficient guarantee
that the work will be we'll done.
On Monday next there will be an
other change in the running time of
the mail train going east on the B. &
O. The schedule has not yet been
received, but it is presumed the hour
will be about the same as before the
late change.
An exchange says fashionable young
people are calling upon somebody to
invent new dance. Suppose "some-
body" inventssone wherein the young
lady dances around the house and
helps her mother do q little house