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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10
THE surest fetch
That you can make
To charm a witch
Is burnt hair cake,'

She staggered away to her home. They
took her away at last, and she ended her
days in the mad-house. No one has lived
in the house since.
81 don't know that the charm had any
thing to do with the lightning killing Will
Darby, I only know that I'd give all the
money Gershom left me to know that I
hadn't tried it.''
Aunt Wealthy ceased speaking; and that
night, as drove homeward along the
banks of the brawling Miller river, and
saw the moonlight stream through the va
cant windows of the haunted house, I
could almost fancy that he stricken elm at
the gate was the crooked and malevolent
form Of the original Witch Hazel.-Har-
per's Magazine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10

GERMAN ToAsT.-IO one egg beaten
well add one cup of sweet milk or cream;
season with little salt and pepper. Cut
stale bread IN slices, dip in the milk to
moisten, and fry on griddle. This is a
nice dish for breakfast.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10

IN oIL1NG harness, if little glycerine
is mixed with the oil, the harness will re-
main soft, and be measurably protected
from the effects of ammoniacal exhala-
tions, always found in close stables. In
oiling harness it should always be taken
apart piece by piece, washed with brush
or sponge, when dirty or sweated, with
CASTLE soap. Then, when nearly dry, but
while still supple, Oil it thoroughly, dry in
a gentle heat and finally wipe all parts
carefully.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10
NEW HARNESS AND SADDLE STORE
E. ALEXANDER & CO.,

AUGUSTA STREET, opposite B0WIlHg q EaKIe BIOS
Have opened with NEW AND FIRST CLASS sTocE
Of Harness. Saddles Bridles. Collars vaises. Bluffs
cts Call and insnect our new and large assorted
stock, whic. will be SOLD VERY CLOSE FOR TIKI
CASH. Our terms are strictly cash, and We cap Of
fer special Inducements in low prices to cash buyers
DR.. G. Alexander, late with Frank Alexander Cos
will have charge Of the business and solicit Q3l
from our friends. Respectfully.
d. lssm +, ALExANpxR 4 90.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10

HoNIINY FRITTERs.-Take two teacups-
full of cold boiled hominy, one cup of sweet
milk, four tablespoonful of flour, little
salt and one egg; beat vigorously and drop
with a spoon into hot lard; fry until
brown. Rice fritters can be made in ex-
actly the same way by substituting boiled
rice for hominy.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10

APPLE CusTARD.-Beat one cup of
sweet cream to stiff froth with an egg
beaten; beat five eggs very light and mix
with the cream; crate four large tart APP
pies and dissolve three tablespoonsfuI of
gelatine in a little warm water; stir this
into the cream, then add the grated
apples.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10

SPINACH.-Wash free from dirt and
grit, and boil it fifteen minutes in sailed
water. Drain, chop fine and season with
salt, pepper and butter. Press it firmly
into mold and set it in the oven few
minutes until ready to serve. Turn out of
the mold and garnish with slices of hard
boiled eggs.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-10
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

For CATARRH.-Prepare the Creosote
water, in any amount, at the rate of one
| drop of Creosote to one gill of water flour
drops to the pint), or little more water
If the Creosote be very strong and the wa
ter too irritating. Make a fresh mixture
| once in two or three days, and as much
| oftener as more is needed. Take a hand
full of this water, previously we'll shaken,
and snuff it through the nose into the
mouth, and eject it. A little going down
the throat will do no harm. Do this
two or three times, and repeat it at bed
time. in the morning on rising, and, if
need be, occasionally during the day. In
fact, keep the nasal passages washed out
with the Creosote water. Its vapor will
even penetrate the bony cavities, and also
be drawn into the lungs with useful re-
suits. 1t destroys the purulent mucus,
and tends to prevent its further secretion.
It is useful for any discharges from the
nose or lungs produced by colds or general
weakness.
For bronchitis, and especially for catarrh.
good rare cooked beef or other nourishine
retain vigorous system, are capital aids
to the Creosote or any other medicine.
a Physicians Opinion of the Aboue.-To
insure accuracy, as usual in such cases, we
sent proof-slip of the above to very
competent regular physician. who return
ed it without correction or addition. ex-
cept as follows: "The above is valuable
and entirely reliable, and should be widely
read. Nine-tenths of the people who take
nostrums for catarrh have no such disease,
but have been made to believe they suffer
from it by the quacks who sell their useless
and poisonous stuffs for the cure of ca
tarrh at an immense profit. A common
''cold" is an acute Catarrh, and properly
treated, is soon we'll. Chronic Catarrh of
any part of the mucous tract is not so east
ly cured, but fortunately is much more
rarely seen by physicians even than people
usually think. ''-Orange Judd IN american
AgricultaHssL for February.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
PITH AND POINT.


ssDo you think oysters healthy?" said
q dispeptic. ssWell, sir" replied the
gruff doctor, sI never heard one COM
plain Of being unhealthy; did youp"
Don't be afraid of loving people too
much, or throwing away too much
kindness. 1t, is just such things the
world stands in need of, and they have
the great advantage of enriching the
giver. 3o vsgaas s8iisb-Iss.a wy gsl
Buffalo has got the baseball fever
so bad that man can't catch a baby
falling from a second-story window
without Yelling Judgment i"-Boston
Post. The Judgment Of any fair umpire
would be that the baby was out.-LoU-
ell Citizen. A-4 gof4a +l l'tR
There is certain way of distin-
gushing a man from head-waiter at
swell party, Notwithstanding both may
be dressed the same. The waiter gener-
ally has towel on his left arm, and the
man generally has young lady there,
if he is agreeable.
81 met Mr.. Miggles today" re-
changed man. | hardly knew him, he's
so clipper and lively" 4 Indeed re-
sponded the husband, gravely. "How
very strangei Tread in the paper that
his wife sailed for Europe last week. -
Brooklyn Eagle. -4iea -sGs haa 4.t
st I'm not going to school any
more,n said little four-yearold boy to
his mamma, on his return from his first
day at the kindergarten. s.Why, my
dear, don't you like to see the little boys
and girlspn "Yes, but don't want to
go,n persisted the boy; "cause my
teacher says that tomorrow she's going
to put an idea into my head. .''-Btr-
lington Ha1okeye.
The world is full of young men who
are quite sure they are about to ''revo-
lutionize the entire solar SYSTEM" but
there isn't one of them who will any
more than get their lever all fixed be-
fore they will discover they are altogeth-
er too light weight to move it an atom.
Then they will see the vanity of this
world, and in moment of despondency
stake drink. ''-New Hdven Register.
"A Boston man besought his wife, he
being but three years married, for the
privilege of latch-key. sLatch-key!"
she exclaimed, in tones of amazement,
swhat use can you have for atch-key
when the Moments Emancipation
League meets Monday night, the Ladies'
Domestic Mission Tuesday, the Sisters
of Jericho Wednesday, the Woman's
Science Circle Thursday, the Daughters
of Nineveh Friday, and the Women's
Progressive Art Association and the
Suffrage Band on alternate Saturday
nights. You stay at home and see that
the baby doesn't fall out of the cradle"
He stays.-Qaiz. l taa u
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE national bank charter bill was
taken up in the Senate, June 20. and the
section providing for the issue of gold GER.
| tificates was debated, an amendment having
been offered so as to make silver certificates
available as part of the lawful reserve OF
banks.
THE admission of civilians to all mill
| tary barracks in Ireland has been prohibited.
The sentries are doubled and night patrols
| quadrupled. The greatest precautions are
| taken against explosives being carried into
the military quarters. Military telegraph
clerks in the Royal barracks are required to
| sleep next their instruments.
A DISPATCH from chihuahua, Mexico,
| says twenty-seven Apache prisoners, cap
| tured in the recent fight with the Jesus and
Maria bands, were taken out in the fields
the other day and shot. They behaved with
wonderful bravery, each one meeting his
fate with remarkable GOODNESS. Advices
| from Eucerellos, June 20, detail another
! fight, in which fifteen Indians were killed
and twenty captured. Five Mexicans were
killed.
JOHNsoN's harvester works, Brock
port. N. Y, employing $50 men, burned on
| the Goth. Loss, $500, 600; insurance, 5000, :
900. One man perished.
A TRAIN on the Virginia Midland ran
into some coal cars near Danville, the other
| day. The engineer and mail agent were Sc
yerely hurt. No excuse whatever for this
one.
Mrs. A. J. MARTIN, wife of promi-
nent merchant OF Jefferson, Colo, commit
ted suicide the other day by shooting herself
through the heart. Cause unknown.
| CAPTAIN j. S. WISE is unanimously
recommended by the Joint Committee Of
Readiusters and Republicans for Congress
man -at-large.
AN Emancipation Day celebration at
| Houston, Texas, ended in a general dis
turbance, during which Deputy Marshal G.
| r. Witham and negro named Henderson
were killed. Officer Glass was severely
wounded and W. Myers, colored, was shot
in the hand.
OLIVER LARCON and John Peterson,
Young men, were drowned near Hastings,
Mimi, the other night. They had been on
an excursion, and fell from the steamer.
| THE civil service refOrmers of Boston,
Mass, have adopted resolutions denouncing
the levying of assessments on office holders
| for political purposes.
SECRETARY FoLGER will soon issue q
circular to Collectors of Customs fixing
specific duty of fifty cents per pound on knit
| shirts and drawers.
DOYLE, the distinguished counterfeit
er, has been sentenced to twelve years i'm
prisonment in the Chester, Ill.,, Peniten-
tiary.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
FORTY-SEyENTH CONGRESS-.

THE Senate, June IA, resumed considera-
ton of the joint resolution to pay mail con-
tractors in various Southern States amounts
due them on their contracts for 1859, 1860 and
1861, and reappropriating 1878 200 for that pur-
pose. The vote upon proceeding with the
biz was so to "a. Mr.. Conger denied any liza
bility of the United States to make the pay
ment, as service was rendered solely to the
Confederate States by disloyal contractors,
who violated their contracts with the Gov
ernment A messagewas received from the
President, transmitting copies of the full cor
respondence of the State Department with .il
Walker Blaine Ordered printed and referred
to Committee on Foreign relations; ms: r. The reg
iating n, the entryOf distilled spirits in dis
tillery and special bonded ara1s Warehouses and
snmed and the subtitute reported by the
Finance Committee read Mr. Bayard briefly or ,hy
hnnded neriod f1om three to five years, in
stead Of indefinitely In, the Ho9se taRsn 1ne n
Messrs. White and Kelley had spat over the
assertion Of the former that it was In testlmo-
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
A PrehenSjle Tree.

So many curiosities of plant life have
of late years been brought into public
notice that the report of the existence of
q tree which picks. up stones, bones,
bits of wood and other unconsidered
tribes from the surface of the ground,
rataining them and suspending them in
mid air, hardly excites the, credulity
nowadays with which such story would
have been received q generationI ago.
Thirty years ago stories of plants whose
flowers were furnished with the means
of inclosing flies or even pieces of meat,
as a spider seizes on, its prey, and
quickly surrounds it with its network of
gauze, and which then actually pro-
ceeded to eat the prey thus secured
almost as spider would eat the fly
such stories thirty years ago, would
have been relegated to the category of
s'travelers' tales.'' But we have the
authority of Mr.. Darwin, and any one
may easily have the evidence of his own
eyes to prove that the possession Of
such properties by certain flowers is no
fiction but an undoubted fact. The
same authority who first brought promi-
netly into notice the remarkable prop
critics of the Drosera has also shown
that other plants have actually the
power of progression, within certain
limits, from one point to another.
With such instances it requires little
effort to believe the correctness of the
report above alluded to that some plants
are endowed with the faculty of picking
up loose articles from the ground.
Lieut.. Houghton, who recently visited
New Guinea and several other islands
and groups Of islands in the Pacific, was
| the first, we believe, to report the ex-
istence of such tree, though he did
not explain the means by which it ac
complished this unusual feat. 1t ap-
pears to be species of Fieus, allied to
the well-known banyan tree, which
throws out from its branches air root;
that eventually reach the ground, take
root there, and in their turn become
new stems which perform the same
function, so that single tree eventually
extends so far in all directions as tc
form complete forest, in which all the
stems are united by the branches to
each other. The prehensile tree in
question similarly throws out from its
Branches long, flexible tendrils, which,
touching the ground, do not take root
there, but -twine themselves round any
article that may lie within reach. Event
ually these quasi branches contract SO
that they fail to reach the ground, but
the fnger-like processes continue tc
closely grip the substance round which
they have twined thesAselves, and
which are consequently suspended in
mid-air In this way articles of consid
cradle weight may be literally picked
up from the ground by the tree and SC
held in suspension.-C Colonies and India
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A Pittsburg Pa.) firm has secured
a patent for glass shingles, and pro-
poses to manufacture them.
-Shoddy leather is made by grind
ing leather clippings, and, after forming
them into pasty mass, reducing them
to dry, firm sheets of sole leather by
pressure.
1t seems that driving belts of Ital-
ian hemp are 10 per cent. stronger than
those made of Russian hemp, and, that
similar belts made Of cotton stand only
about half the strain necessary to break
hemp belts. a fsa
IF one ear, the left for example, be
fatigued by listening to long, pure
note, and the hearer then tries to esti-
mate the direction of the sound, he will
imagine it to be further to the left than
it is, or vice versa.
A miller in Alsace, resorted to the
use of lead to fill up open spaces in his
burr, and the result was that many OF
his customers showed decided symptoms
of lead poisoning. 1t has been demon
strated time and time again that lead
can not be used for this purpose with
impunity. aa4F. I'D tsalass sai
"A scientific writer says: All por-
tions of oleander are deadly. A very
small quantity of the leaves has been
known to kill horse. The flowers
have produced death in those persons
who have carelessly picked and eaten
them. The branches, divested Of their
bark and used as skewers, have
poisoned the meat roasted on them
and killed seven out of twelve people
who partook of it. .p @ iaa
in selecting pump care should be
taken to have it of q much larger ca
pacity than that needed to supply the
boiler, as there are many things which
affect the workings of a pump, such as
defective suction pipes, ieaky valves,
etc. It is the practice OF most manu-
facturers to give the capacity of their
pumps in gallons of water delivered per
minute, from which it is easy to select
suitable size, but the speed given in the
tables at which the pump is to run Is
generally faster than that at which it IS
desirable to run them. .E sasy
THAT high astronomical authority,
the Providence Journal, speaking OF the
retrograde movement Of the equinoctial
points, says: "This movement pro-
duces some curious results. 1t gives
constant increase to the longitude OF the
stars. and renders necessary change
in celestial charts as often as once in
fifty wears, to exhibit their altered posi-
tion. Thus the stars that were once in
the sign Aries are now in Taurus; those
that were in Taurus are now in Gemini,
and so on. The polar star changes
many times during one Of these long
circuits; for to whatever point OF the
heavens the poles of the earth point,
the star nearest will be the polar star
for the time. Thus Caph in Cassiopea
was thousands of years ago the polar
star, and twelve thousand years hence
the brilliant Vega in Lyra will fl tho
honorable celestial Office,
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
Labouchere's Dog Story.

81 had charming dog once-a re-
triever, a great favorite-but | never
came up to London without losing that
dog. The first time lost him offered
f5, and got him back. The next year
/ lost him again; offered f5, and a mys-
terious individual again made his ap-
pearance, and said he 'he knowed a man
somewhere in the Seven Dials as knowed
something about that dog At last"
said the Colonel, Il resolved to play
the game out, so I slipped a sovereign
into the strangers hands and said, you
introduce me to your friend. | give
you my word of honor III act on the
square with him, and he shall be no
worse offs that plain?"
"'Well, Colonel, says the man, with
shrewd twinkle, I'VE know you, Col
onel, and you are gentleman, and if
you come around to Seven Dials, No.
- street, round the corner, I'll intro
duce you to the man what knows about
your dog ..-..-.tf.e.lf.
cat the hour and place, to the minute,
met my friend," said the Colonel,
ssand he led me into back den. [ saw
several dogs in dens and kennels and
one or two loose. t.J Ea4-oi 1s
asst down, Colonel, said the fellow,
trying to make me welcome and at
home, and then eying me with knowing
and confidential leer. sI'm the man,
Colonel, what knows about your dog,
and there's not one gent'l'man in twenty
I'd say that to. But you are real
t'l'man, and that's plump Well, "
the Colonel continued, 81 thought it
best to come to some arrangement with
the man, so T said, sWhat makes you
always steal my dogP Why can't you
let him alone for one yearp' We'll,
you see, Colonel, we're wonderful fond
Of that dog o. yourn. He's very nice
dog, and we get on uncommon well
with him sPon my word, he's not like
some dogs, as are always a-whining and
a-worrying. This ERE dog is affable,
companionable kind o dog, and am
never in hurry to part with him.
sWhat will you take to let him alone for
year? VIII you take Esp 'Well,
Colonel, you see we really do like that
dog. Make it rs, and I'll say done
with you.' I made it e." said the
Colonel, sand for two years after that
my dog was as safe in London as in the
depth Of the country. There was evi-
IDENTIFY honor among thieves, and COM
pact with one of them was, it appeared,
binding on the whole fraternity. But"
added the Colonel, 81 gave that dog to
friend Of mine, and, Of course, stopped
payment. Well, the next month my
friend brought him up to London, and
the week after that the dog disappear
ed .n-L0ndon Truth.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

JUSTICE BRADLEY, of the United
States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau' IS
counsel applied for writ Of habeas corpus,
holds that the Court of the District Of Co.
lumbia had full jurisdiction of the case and
no reasons exist for granting the writ.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

THE Utah Commission, as agreed
upon by the Cabinet, comprises Alexander
Ramsey, of Minnesota; Algernon s. Pad
dock, of Nebraska; C. f.. Godfrey, OF Iowa;
Ambrose B. Carleton. Of Indiana, and
James r. PettigreW. OF Arkansas.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

THE number of suspects still impris-
oped in Ireland is 263. Secretary Trevelyan
stated in the House of Commons that John
Cannon refused to accept release on con-
dition that he 90 to the United States.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

On Sunday evening a watchman
in Troy IN. Y.) factory helped his
dilatory dog into the building with tne
toe of his boot. On all weekdays now
the dog enters the factory as usual, but
no amount Of coaxing can get him near
the building on the Sabbath:
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

HERR MEILING, one of the principal
navigabors in the German navy, has been
arrested at Kiel on charge of having ac-
cepteda bribe Of 900 roubles to deliver
to the Russian Government copies Of plans
of all works of defense on the German coast
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

THE Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railway appointed by Presi-
dent Arthur are Robert FL. Baker, of Wis
consin; George G. Haven, of New York;
George 4. Spencer, of Alabama; Watson
Parrish, of Nebraska, and Isaac II. Bromley,
OF connecticut.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

NEARLY one hundred American au-
day, to celebrate the 10th birthday of Har-
ret Beecher Stowe. Thirteen members of
the Beecher family were present, and poems
were read by John G.. Whittier and Oliver
Wendell Holmes. -. III y
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

JOHN L. HAYES, of Massachusetts,,
will be chairman Of the Tariff Commission.
The vacancies have been filled by the ap-
pontment Of William A. McMahon, OF New
York, and Alexander. r. Boteler, OF West
Virginia
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

TUE director of the mint reports the
,;oM nroduct for 1881 at $34 700. 900, and
that Of silver at S43, O0e,0 900. Colorado leads
,hs G,t. with California second, while Ne
dasbows less than 50, ,0O0, 900.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

ENGLAND and France have promised
the conference on Egyptian affairs shall
meet on the 22d, at Constantinople. Mean
while the Khedive, Deryisch Pasha, and
Arab Pasha have promised to maintain or
dor -.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

THERE is the widest alarm at Bridge
water, Dakota, over the outbreak OF six
cases of smallpox. A pest-house has been
ordered erected one mile outside the town,
trains are not allowed to stop, and the vii
lage of Salem has established quarantine.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

MICHAEL DAvITT landed in New
York the other morning and was quietly
qfiVen to hotel, all the projects for re-
cepnon having miscarried. His plans in
cude eeturing trip OF twelve days. He
expressed regret that he had left Port
,and Prison, and will not again enter Par
liament.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

The United States District Court of
Massachusetts, has been instructed to bring
suit on the bond of ]. c. Bridgman, ,eX-
United States Indian Agent, Green Bay,
WIS, in the sum Of $780, 900 for misapplying
funds and other grave Irregularities.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

THE Post-onice Department has un-
aor consideration plan for the delivery OF
ua Ills ii hotels in large cities as late as 10
,,ock at night + --s4--
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

BosroN dispatch reports the coun-
,erfet $40 treasury notes OF 1879 about as
nepty as the genuine.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

TIE President has approved the sem
tence of the court martial dismissing Lieut..
Tlinner from the service. -
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

LIE French and British ambassadors
aoo1iis'antinople. supported by other dip
/, en- urge the immediate assembling OF
.onierence upon Egyptian affairs. Glad
AZ Vae announced in the House OF Commons
mat all the powers are heartily co o-operat-
oa WIN England. and that the Sultan is in
,Tipiete harmony. Four steamers leaving
ans sHaioria carried full loads of Europeans,
"u 1t Is stated that many heavy capitalists
oa,miy arranging to leave. The English
,sOnsui-deneral = desires all British subjects
uepart, but hesitates to produce panic
q, Oniclai request. The bodies OF an Eng
n ollcer and two seamen, killed in the
i,u'' h.a We're buried at sea to avoid an out
pseak on shore. AI-At
Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24

uhN' RosECRANS has been interviewd
~ regard to the letters from Gen. Garfield
aeeretafy Chase, recently published. He
a;a a;a'pu mat his information OF the actual in.
aon's connected with the conference be-
een stanton and Garfield at Louisville,
anle from General Anson Stager, who was
aosen', who says that Garfield literally re
'eiseu the facts of the interview