Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-14
Middletown Department.
SATURDAY, OCT. Ia, 1882.
Many of the farmers are done seed

Many of the farmers are done seed
ing.
Our choir has been busy practising
for the dedication.
Some women are things of beauty,
but jaw forever.
Dear bubbles trials will soon COM
mence. The parlor stove must be set
up.
Mr.. George L. Hansell has been
manufacturing sorghum molasses for
the last few days.
MARRIED-Near the Star Tannery,
on Tuesday, the 28th ult., Mr.. Edward
H. Jeff and Miss Rena CHM.
Hog cholera continues to prevail to
an alarming extent. Some farmers
are butchering their porkers for fear
of this dread disease.
The interesting letter of "V. Meri-
deth Bell proved very entertaining
and instructive to the young folks of
our town, and they would be pleased
to see more from the same pen.
The prospect looks bright for a
large attendance at the re-opening of
the M. E. church next Sunday. A
short account of that days proceed
ings will appear in the next number
of the STAR.
IT is pretty generally conceded by
the Republican press that the dissen-
sions in the Republican camps in New
York and Pennsylvania, will insure
those States to the Democrats at the
next election.
IT is TO the interest of every citizen
of Virginia to make at least one effort
in November to stop her paying six
millions of taxes annually into an al
ready overlooking National Treasury
A Democratic Congress will do it, and
that is Virginias only hope.
THE payment of the poll-tax fol
1881 will be one of the prerequisite
for voting in Virginia in November
It is understood that the Readjuster
have for some time had fund which
serves to pay all the poll taxes Of thei
side of the house.
Mr.. T. E. Mace has purchased Mr.
McInturff's interest in the StrasburI
Neaus. Now that two printers hav
got hold of it we shall see a lively lit
tie paper, with a certain prospect Q
it's becoming one of Strasburgs fxe'
institutions. Here's our 19-.
We learn that Mr.. E. 0. Larricl
| an enterprising young man from nea
this place, and Mr., @. F. Mayors,
well known business man of Stephen
City, have formed co-partnershi
| and rented the Bartonsville fourth
mill, where they will go into the mill
ing business.
II The news, so far as we are able
L learn, from all points of this distric
Il is most cheering for the Democracy
/ Bossism and Radicalism are causin
the men who have always been, an
are still, Democrats, to take a fri
Il stand under the old flag, and we loo
III confidently to grand victory on tn
II 7th of November. Deception an
II trickery have prospered for a season
/ but the second sober thought has com
to our people, and they will hasten
repair the wrong they have permitte
T. to be perpetrated.-Rock. Reg.
: An exchange says: "Our imp is
born editor. Here is his receipt fl
printers soup, which he handed !
for publication with the remark th'
There's no need for printers to live c
| wind any more Receipt Take
] pail Of water and wash it clean. The
/! boil it till it is brown on both side
Pour in one bean. When the bea
begins to worry, prepare it to simme
If the soup will not simmer it is t.
rich, and you must pour in more W
ter. Dry the water with a towel b
fore you put it in. The dryer the W
ter the sooner 1t Will brown. oer'
hot
\ Some men begin to be lucky wit
they are mere boys. A twelve ye
y old boy shot at a cat in Leadville la
: week but, fortunately, missed the G
y and killed an influential citizen w
was asleep in the back yard of a neig
10 boring saloon. As the influential C
Ne s izen happened to be delegate fire
NJ Texas, who had killed several me
~ and of whom the Leadville police h
u. holy horror, the Joy of the citize
~ was great. The boy received an ov
ne ton. The mayor made neat lit
speech, on presenting him with a &c
= mounted revolver. AS the boy G
pressed desire to be raised for t
I L.