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Gen. Grants Daughters Wretc he'd
Treatment.

A relative of the Grant family in Wash
lngton is authorityfor the stat emeDt that
the married life Of Nellie Grant -Sartcris
is far more humiliating and unpleasant
than has yet been made public Mrs. Sar
torls makes her home with her husbands
father, in the north of England. Here.
according to all accounts, she is treated as
sort OF poor relation. Two rooms are
set aside for the use Of herself and chill.
dren, and their meals furnished. but moth
ing else is given to them, either by the
husband or Mr.. Sartoris. So far. indeed.
as the. young Sartoris is concerned, it is
said that he has not contributed penny
to bis wife's support for years. 1t is a
well known fact that for couple of wears
prior to Gen. Grants death, renittances
OF money were regularly sent to Nellie to
provide herself and children with clothing
and other useful articles. When the Gen
eral became impoverished through Ferdl-
nand Ward, the greatest regret he is said
to have expressed was that his poverty
would prevent him from further assisting
his bounty. All the members of the Grant
family who still contribute to the support
OF Mrs. Sartoris and the children, have
urged Mrs. Sartoris for years. to separate
from her husband and return to America.
1t is said that Mrs. Grant made such re.
guest only few months ago, after hear
ing of some fresh indignity on Sartoris'
part. But the daughter replied that she
would not entertain such proposition
moment, and added Indignantly that she
would refuse to sustain relations of any
character with her family if these impor-
tunlties did not cease. Meanwhile, Sar-
toris is racing about England, spending
the meager allowance his father gives him
among companions of his own kind. The
reports which reach here from New Y ork,
say that Sartorls has been absent from his
wife since last spring, and that she hears
from him only at rare intervals.
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A Business Woman.

A few years ago Mrs. Rachel Francis,
of Atlanta, Ca, concluded that she could
make money by going into the dairy busi-
ness, and managing to get u few dollars
together, she bought cow and began bu-
siness. 1t was on small scale, but she
prospered, and after time she had bought
dozen or more cows. The work was
done by her. She was up early and late.
After milking the cows she would prepare
the milk for market and deliver it to her
customers. In two years after Mrs. Fran.
els engaged in the dairy business she was
known by nearly every citizen. She was
strictly business, and went wherever her
business called her, no matter where that
was. Mrs. Francis invested her money
as fast as she made it, and her investment
always proved good ones. Mrs. Francis
died few DAYS ago, leaving an estate
valued at $40, 800, including dairy farm
of rs acres, we'll improved and stocked,
near ADMINISTRATION Sun.
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Be on hand promptly in the morning at
your place of business. and make it point
never to be late, and perform cheerfully
every duty. Be respectful to your employ
ers, and to all in authority over you, and
be polite to every one; politeness costs
nothing, and it will help you wonderfully
in getting on in the world. And above all,
be honest and truthful. The boy who
starts in life with sound mind in sound
body, who falls into no bad habits, who is
honest. truthful and Industrious, who re-
members with grateful love his father and
mother, and who does not grow away
from ais church and Sunday school, has
qualities Of mind and heart that will in
sure him success to a remarkable degree
even though he is endowed with only or
binary mental capacity; for honor, truth
and industry are more than genius.
Don't be foppish in your dress, and don t
buy anything before you have the money
to pay for it. Shun billiard saloons, and
be careful how you spend your evenings.
Cultivate taste for reading, and read on
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How the Italians Cure the Earache.

A remedy, one unequaled indeed, for
earache is that in use among the sailors
and bathers at Viareggio and Legnorn,
and indeed all along the coast of that part
of Italy. A piece of linen is spread with
melted bees wax-the purer the better
and then rolled tightly into cornucopia
shape, the small end of which is introduce
ed into the patients ear as he lies down.
The cornucopia should not be less than
three four, or even five inches long. Elan
mel cloths are then laid over the head and
face, the cornucopia is lighted. and burns
slowly as long as the patient can bear it,
until burned quite near the face, when it
is removed from the ear. This proceeding
gives almost instant relief, and if the pain
happens to have been caused by the pres
ence of any foreign substance in the ear
it will come away with the cornucopia.-
London Society,
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Last week, says the Winchester s'Times''
while Messrs. Edward S. Anderson and
Thomas FL. Seabright were digging a els.
tern on the site of Fort Loudoan 1.-THE his
torie ground where soon splendid build
ing will be finished through the enterprise
and public spirit of our we'll known clti-
zens Mr.. German Smith, to be occupied
by the Valley Female College. Rev. J. P.
Hyde (Principal) there was found three
iron cannon wheels, portion of a skele-
ton, the jawbone, with teeth firmly set in
it, some human hair, buttons, hand gren-
AIDES, grape shot and solid ~ h. cannon
balls. Mr.. S., as late as Saturday, found
a Glib. cannon ball at depth of nine feet
under the surface. They are all relics of
re-Revolutionary times, and have attrac
ted much attention. We give the follow
ing from Kercheval's History of the Val
ley. which will be read with interest in
this connection
Immediately aftersthe defeat of Brad
dock, Washington retreated to Winches-
ter, in the county of Frederick, and in the
autumn of 1855 built Fort Loudoun. The
venerable and highly respectable Lewis
Neiil. who was born on .Opequon, about
five miles east of Winchester, l747. stated
to the author that when he was about 8
years of age, his father had business at
the fort, and that he went with him into
it. Mr.. Thomas Barrett, another aged and
respectable citizen, states that he has Of
ten heard his father say that Fort Lou
doun was built the same year and imme.
diately after Braddock 3 defeat. Our hioh-
ly respectable and venerable general. John
Smith, who settled..in Winchester in 1873.
Informed the author that he had seen and
conversed with some of Washington's Of
ficers, soon after he settled in Winchester.
and they stated to him that Washington
marked out the site of the fort and SUPER
intended the work; that The bought lot
IN winchester, erected smith S shop on
it, and brought from Mt. Vernon his own
blacksmith to make the necessary iron
work for the fort. These officers pointed
out to Gen. Smith the spot where General
Washlngton's huts or cabins were erected
for his residence while in the fort. The
great highway leading from Winchester
to the North passes through the fort pre-
cisely where Washington's quarters were
erected. 1t stands at the North end Of
Loudoun street, and considerable part
OF the walls are now remaining. It COW
cred an area of about half an acre. within
which area well. one hundred and three
feet deep, chiefly through solid limestone
rock, was sunk for the convenience of the
garrison. The labor of throwing up this
fort was performed by Washington's reg
iment, 80 says Gen. Smith. 1t mounted
six eighteen. Founders, SIX twelye-pound-
ers, Sic six-pounders, four swivels and two
noWitz2fs, and cuntaiaed strongI garri.
son. No formidable attempts were ever
made by the enemy against it. A French
officer once came to reconnoitre, and found
it too strong to be attacked with any prob
ability of success
The cannons were removed from Win.
chester early in the war of the revolution.
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A W eighty Question.
SOME PERTINENT POINTS ABOUT SUM
MER AND WINTER FEEDING.

1t is customary when cattle are turned
out to grass in the spring to let them feed
on this succnlent food mill nature drie
it up in the fall It makes coed, succ
lent sSef, but is it not too succulent p
Does it afford as much nutrition, pound
for pound, as hay, grain and root, or easi
lege-fed beef? We suspect not. The
bowels of the cattle are always loose, show
ing that there is a superabundance Of wa
Ger and imperfect digestion. Is the ami
nal quite healthy?
NOW, in winter, we find that all dry feed
is not as good for cattle as that which is
relieved by enc feeding day of some kind
Of succulent ration. The droppings are
lard, showing lack of water and fever
sh condition. The succnlent food relieves
his. May it not also be true that all sue.
oulent food in summer is not so good as a
mixture with dry feed? Throw a lock Of
Try bay to your cattle in pasture, and see
now they will rush for 1t, and how greedi-
Y they will devour it. Does not this indi-
ate 3 need OF dry feed ? Would it not
'e5ulate that extremely loose condition of
5he bowels and would it not make the
neat firmer and more nutritious? In the
LIGHT of reason, it would seem so. Is not
the idea worth a fair experiment.?
scme may say that grass is the natural
GOD of cattle. So it is, in their natural
state; but where they can live withouttIe
aid Of man. the feed is not the same as
with US. Our animals are in an artificial
condition. They live on comparatively
dry feed half the year. Their systems are
not wholly adapted to all green feed. Be-
sides, our grasses are cultivated ones.-
We are long way from wild nature in.
many things. This should always be borne
in mind We think the winter and sum-
mer feed ought to more nearly agree, and
not be quite so succulent in summer, nor
SO dry in winter.-Naional Live Stock
Journal.
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1867, age twenty-five years, was candi-
date for the ministry, and at the time Of
his death was commanding company Of
cadets, SO I am informed. The graves of
these and many other distinguished SOL
diers who have passed over the river can
be seen here under the shade of the beau
tiful trees.
was conducted to the grave of the old
war Governor of Virginia, Gov. Letcher,
and was astonished to see that the grave
Of this grand old man, who was the friend
of all and the enemy of none, was neglect
ed to notifying degree, no marble Or
iron told what honored ashes rest beneath
the sod; his only monument being of GoS's
creation-an evergreen. This cemetery is
one Of the most beautiful I have ever seen,
and contains the remains of some of the
most distinguished men our country has
produced.-J. W. in Lynchbwy Nescs.
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A Virginia Adventure.
THE SIGHT OF AN OLD TIa1E-WoRN BIBLE
SAVED HIM.


A Virginia banker, who was chairman
of noted infdel club, was once travelling
through Kentucky, having bank bills to
the amount of $685. 900. When he came to
a lonely forest where murders and robber-
les were said to be frequent, he was soon
lost through taking the wrong road. The
darkness of the night came quickly upon
him, and how to escape from the threat
ened danger he knew not. In his alarm
he suddenly espied in the distance dim
light, and urging his horse onward, be at
length came to Wretched cabin. He
knocked and the door was opened by a
woman, who said her husband was out
hunting. but would soon return. The
gentleman put up his horse and entered
the cabin, but his feeling can be better
imagined than described, Here he was
with large sum of money, and perhaps
n the house of one of the robbers whose
name was terror to the country In a
short time the man of the house returned.
He had on a deer-skin shirt, bear-skin
cap, seemed fatigued, and in no talkatiye
mood. All this BODIED the inhdel no good.
He felt for his pistols in his pockets, and
placed them so as to be ready for instant
use. The man asked the stranger to re-
tire to bed, but he declined. saying he
would sit by the fire all night. The man
urged. but the more he urged the more the
infdel became alarmed. He felt assured
that this was his last night upon earth,
but he determined'Io sell his life as dearly
as he could. His infidel principles gave
him no comfort. His fear grew into per-
feet agony. What was to be done at
length the backwoodsman arose reaching
to the wooden shelf be took down an old
book and said:
well, stranger, if you won't go to bed,
1 will /; but it is my habit to read chap
ter of the Holy Scripture before go to
bed" 81.
What change did these words pro-
duce! Alarm was at once removed from
the skeptic's mind. Though calling him
self an infdel he after all believed in the
Bible He felt safe! He felt that man
who kept an old time-worn Bible in his
house and read it, and bent his knee in
prayer to God, was no robber or murderer.
He listened to the simple prayer of the
good man, at once dismissed all his fears.
and lay down in that rude cabin and slept
as calmly as he did under his fathers
roof. From that time he ceased to reviIe
the good old Bible. He became a sincere
Christian, and often related the story of
his eventTnl journey to prove the folly of
infdelity.- Word d Wau.
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ly good books. With love for reading,
you will find in books friends ever true,
and full of cheer in time of gloom. and
sweet companionship for lonely hours.
Other friends may grow cold and forsake
you, but books are always the same.
And, in closing, boys, 1 would say again.
that with truth. honesty and industry.
and a living faith in God, you will sue
coed.
Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honor lies"
Parish Chronicle.
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HEALTH AESTQnER.
PREPARED
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HAGERSTOWN. MD.

(NURE FOR PILES.-Piles are frequently preced-
" ed by sense of weight in the back, loins
and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patti
emit to suppose he has some affection OF the kidneys
or neighboring organs. At times, symptoms of in
digestion are present atulency. uneasiness of the
stomach, ETC. A moisture like perspiration, pro-
ducing a very disagreeable itching after getting
warm, is a common attendant. Blind, Bleeding
and Itching Piles yield at once to the application
Of DR.. Bosankos Pile Remedy. which acts directly
upon the parts affected, absorbing the Tumors,
allaying the intense itching, and etfecting per-
manent cure. Price so cents, Address the DR..
BosaDko Medicine Co., Piqua, O. Sold by W. M
Allen & Bro. mar 10
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A F1FrY-AcRE CHRISTOPHER LUNCH

"A special dispatch from Fargo. OAK,
says: ''Persons from the West report that
Sunday afternoon, July 18th, an immense
cloud of grasshoppers settled down on a
field of wheat in the vicinity of Sanborn,
on the Northern Pacific Railway, some IS
miles west of Fargo, and in very short
time cleared off from fifty acres every YES
tage OF greenness. Several other fields in
that neighborhood we're also partially
swept. About sunset the insects rose and
flew southwest"
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The editor of the New Orleans ''States''
says ''boldly, and without fear of contra
diction, there is not a man living who is
at all times proof against feminine faseln.
ations." Tell US something new.
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SORROW is not an accident, occurring
now and then-it is the very wool which
is woven into the warp of life. and he who
has not discerned the divine sacredness of
sorrow, and the profound meaning which
is concealed in pain, has yet.to learn what
life is. The cross, manifested az the
cessity of the highest life, al
prets 1t.
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FURNITURE to suit all buyers
Baby Carriages all prices. Elegant
Rosewood, Walnut, Metallic and
Cloth Collins and Caskets. Fin
est hearse in the State Of Virginia.
Bodies embalmed. Everything always
ready and in tony style.
S. M. WILKES.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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CHEW
WILLIAMS & co.'s
T ID ACCO!
Best in the World.
Every Plug Tagged.
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VIRGINIA. the Clerks Office Circuit Court
Augusta county June LIST, 1886,
Eli Zabeth s. Jones, Plaintiff.
VS..
Jane Jones, widow of William Jones' decd. Win
ME N. Jones, Solomon " B. JONES' Albert Brunt
and Rebecca his wife, lnee Jones}, William R.
Bright, and Mary V. his wife, (nee JOneS), Simon
Wampler and Martha A, his wife, (nee Jones),
and Thomas R. N. Speck, Sheriff of Augusta coun-
ty. Va, and as such Administrator of William
Jones, decd, Defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
The object of this suit is to enforce a judgment
of 1852 against the real estate of William JONES'
Decd with interest from April I'd, 1868, till paid,
in favor of Elizabeth S Jones VS.. William Jones.
decd, and to assign dover to Jane Jones, widow
of William Jones' dec d in the lands of her late
husband, William Jones.
1t appearing by affidavit filed that Solomon +. B.
Jones. Albert BrHnt and Rebecca his wife are
nonresidents of this State. is ordered that they
do appear here within one month after due publ
cation of this notice and do what is nee SSary to
protect their interests.
TeSte,
j. N. RYAN, Clerk.
Kemper p. q. july2 At
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]9'eaesr.
Old Friends.

The old. old friends;
Some changed, some buried. some gone out OF
sight;
Some enemies, and in this worlds fierce fight,
No time to make amends.
The old, old friends
Where are they? Three are lying in one grave
And one from the far-off world on the daily wave
No loving message sends.
The old, dear friends!
One passes daily, and one wears mask;
Another, long estranged, cares not to ask
Where causeless anger ends.
The dear, old friendsl
80 many and so fond in days Of youth
Alas! That faith can be divorced from truth,
When love in severance ends.
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Unearthed After One Hun bred and Thir.
ty Years.

RELICS OF Observation-Disclosures TIMES.
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~ little account to this chronicle, which is
onlv concerned with lis friendship for Biggs
and tho result thereof. Hc had known Biggs
a year or two previously; they had shared
each others purses, hunks, cabins, provisions,
and often friends, with that perfect freedom
from ol,,isa:::onwhich belonged to the pioneer
life. Tho varying tide of fortune had just
then stranded Thatcher on desert sand hill
L., San Francisco With a., uninsured cargo OF
expectations, while to Thatchers active but
rot curious fancy it had apparently lifted his
friends barl- over the bar in tho Monterey
mountains into an open quicksilver sea. So
that he was considerably surprised on recciv-
ing ,:ote from Biggs to this purport:
"DEAn Roy: Run down hero and help
fellow. Two too much of q load for ono.
Maybe wc cc:l mako a team ana l'uA 'Bluc
Mass out yet. H1GGsEY."
Thatcher, sitting in Lis scantily furnished
lodgings, doubtful of his next 1,ccl and ii,
c-rccrs for rent, heard this Macedonian cry
as st. Paul did. Hc wrote pronissory and
coothi:1g note to his landlady, but fearing the
"swect sorrow" of personal parting, let Ills
collapsed valiso down from his window by o
cord, end, by means of Gil economical COM
bination of stage riding and pct!estrianisr,,
he presented himself ct tho close of the third
day Ct Biggs' door. In q few moments be
was in possession of tho story; half OH hour
later in possession Of half tho l1inc its infclix
past and its doubtful future, equally with his
friend.
Business over, Eggs turned to look at his
partner. you've aged some since saw you
last" he said. "Starvation luck, s'posc. I'd
know your eyes, old fellow, If saw them
among ten thousand; but your lips are
parchcd, and your mouths grim.,,cr than it
used to be-" Thatcher smiled to show that he
could still do SO, but did not say, as he might
have said, hat self control, suppressed resent
ment, disappointment and occasional hunger
had done something in tho way of correcting
natures obvious mistakes and shutting up a
kindly mouth. He only took of his thread
baro coat, rolled up his sleeves, and saying,
"Wc'vo got lots of work and some fighting be-
fore us" pitched into the affairs OF tho Elue
Mass company ON the instant
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occupied finally in his despair: lntenoea
originally as tho palace of somo incnoA''
California Aladdin, it usually ende ~
lodging house in which some helpless "''o"
or hopeless spinster managed to comon0'e
spectability with tho hard task OF oFcaa t.. r..
ting. Thatcher's landlady wa ono o. s
former class She had unfortunately ~.
vivcd not only her husband but MS p'op'
and. living IN somo deserted chamoe!, ', ~
after tho fashion Of tho italian Eoo'i''''
out tho rest Of tho ruin. tcs'oeue, 49,,
dwell upon these facts gave her oon'e''1 .oh
q peculiar significance upon tho n'ssc ~, nm
month. Thatcher had noticed this WIZ
constituencies of IN impoverished gen',e1 a,,.
But when, tow days after her 'ooe' him
den disappearance, noto car'e ffom 49, -
containing draft in noble oseesso. .,s
rears and charges, tho widows a'1A -,,,an
lifted, end tho rock saittea with LOO s' 'ou
wand gushod bcnsticenco that s1o.'. ..-sIohu.
Gown tor tho widow and Q now sun ~, so,tc,
n.y." her son, now oilcloth In leo 49, - thank.
service to tho lodgczs, and' let u wv ,;ttlo
full. a tindlier consideration for tho P 1hen
black.eyetl painter from aontef'y so.. to
dreaafully behind in her room Foa. a., uss
toll tho truth, tho cell, her IN.
Do Haro,s ,caat purse BY nr ac7iury
clio bad lctely been frequent, maj.
having declined in tho Aonaa~ .unoly,
ket through excessive anil in'oo ...osn it nd
nnt,l En-. limo OF ,lenaaration between
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THE STORY OF A mine.
By BRET HARTE.
Copyrighted, 1885, by TO- ,hton, Mif1lin & Co., and
published by arrangement with thcm.l

cap. OF course Miguel took the more mod
ern ono with lover-like gallantry. ut is this
is genuine!" Victor laughed triunlphantiy;
Carmen echoed tho laugh melodiously tn
clildliko glec, and added, with slight toss
Of her piquant head, ut is mine!" Tho best
Of tho Sex will not refuse q just and overdue
compliment from oven the man they dislike.
It's tho principle they're after, not the senti-
ment.
But Victor was not satisfied with this proof
of his nieces skill "Say to her, !" he demand
cd of Miguel, 'what name thou likest, and it
STALL be dono before thee here" Miguel was
not SO much in love but ho perceived tho drift
of Victor's suggestion. and remarked that
tho rubric of Governor Nicheltorcna was cx-
ceedingly complicated and difficult. "Sho
shall do it!' responded Victor, with decision.
From file of old departmental papers the
governors signature and that involved rubric,
which must have cost his lato cxccllcncy
many youthful days Of anxiety, was produced
and laid before Carmen.
Carmen took her pen in her hand, looked
ct the brownish-looking document, and then
at the virgin whiteness Of the foolscap before
her. "But," she said, pouting plettily, II
should have to first paint this white paper
brown. And it will absorb the ink more
quickly than that. When painted tho San
Antonio of tho Mission San Gabriel for
Father Acolti, had to put tho decay in with
my oils and brushes before tho good padre
would accept it" .....
The two scalnps looked at each other. It
was their supreme moment II think have, !"
said Victor, with assumed carelessrcss, II
think have somc Of tho old custom. house
paper" lie produced from tho secretary a
sheet of brown paper with a stamp. "rry it
OH that" 49,.
Carmen smiled with childish delight, tried
it, and produced a marvel! ut Is as mugic,"
said Miguel, teiyniny to cross himself.