Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03

Mr.. Frederick Kern is erecting
large and spacious barn,
The good merchant, like the thrifty
housewife Is now possessed Of a desire
to clean up his premises.
Use the Electric Soap No boiling
of clothes necessary. For sale by Ad-
ans & McCarty.
We were favored on last Tuesday
evening with some excellent music by
the Valley Brass Band.
Choice Dat Meal and Hominy at
Steele G. Brothers.
The trouble with the midnight cat
is not so much that it cannot sing, as
that it firmly believes it can.
Eight Valley farmers, with their
families, will settle in Piedmont, Vir-
vinia, during the present month.
Use the best Landreth's Garden
Seeds at Steele & Bros.
Mr.. Alexander Grove is putting up
new fence and adding other improve
ments to his pretty residence.
A fresh line of Crackers received
by Adams & McCarty,
With the proper decorations and a
good start, there is nothing that will
travel faster than well told lie.
Steele & Brothers is the place for
Pure Drugs and Medicines, Patent
Medicines, &c.
The Stephens City Star has enlarged
to seven column paper, and gives as
much light as any other star in the
journalistic firmament,-Orange Oh
server.
Farmers and others desiring gen.
teel, lucrative agency business, by
which SIS to $40 a day can be earned,
send address at once, on postal, to H.
C. WILKINSON & Co., 1875 and 1877
Fulton Street, New York. 23m6
The visiting friends from Middle
town have expressed themselves as
highly Pleased with our new church.
Our citizens are ever ready to extend
them hearty welcome.
The new Protector Washboards for
sale by Adams & McCarty.
The adjourned Quarterly Confer
ence of the NJ E. Church met last
Monday at the parsonage and closed
up the unfinished business for the year.
Mr.. Neel is short in his salary about
fifty dollars. He has worked faith
fully, and should be paid punctually.
Adams & McCarty have a new line
of Spring Goods Just received this
week.
We are sorry to learn that Colonel
Harry Gilmor, of Confederate fame,
and known to nearly every body in the
Valley, is pronounced hopelessly i'll
by his attending physicians in Balti-
more. His disease is cancer on the
face, which has extended to the base
of the skull and is pressing on the
brain. The latest accounts say his
death was momentarily expected.
Buy the best Mems, Ladies and
Children's Fine Lace and Button
Shoes (hand made) for sale by Steele
& Brother.
On Friday evening of last week
sad and terrible affair happened at the
Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton,
by which five patients had lost their
lives and several others were i'll and
not expected to recover, the result, it
is supposed, of some subtle poison be-
ing mixed in the medicine which was
administered on that evening 1t II
mystery as yet how the poison was
introduced into the medicine cups but
an inquest may develop the facts in
the case The dead are Leonard T.
Wilkins, Of Northampton county; T.
w. Adams, Loudoun county; Joseph
IT. Holloman, Spottsylvania county ;
Isaac Sperry, Frederick county, and
John w. Hines, Bath county. Sew
eral of the patients who took the med
icine from their mugs were not pois-
oned at all, showing that in many Of
the mugs no poison was put.
For new styles in Prints go to Ad-
ans & McCarty. They have beau
tiful line, just purchased.
Now is THE TIME.-Our merchants
are now making preparations to visit