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r The Stephens City Star. BY BEN S. OILMORE. SA TURD AY, FEB. 24, 1883. TERMS, 1100—STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. ~~ ■ - j Entered nt the Post Office, Stephens City, Va.. iib second class matter. Unfolding Frauds. The just expectation of the people' that Massey would beat Wise in the Fall election was founded upon their estimate of the votes that would be fairly cast. Honest men cannot count any other way. The people knew of course the hypocrisy of the blatant shriekers for a "free ballot and a fair count," but they did not know, be cause it was a new experience in Vir ginia elections, of the ingenious meth-' ods by which wholesale frauds were to be perpetrated. The testimony now being taken in the Massey-Wise con test is turning the full light upon these deeds of darkness. Let us take only a few samples of > the evidence: In Alexandria over six hundred fraudulent votes were proved, by showing the names of that number of voters who were not even assessed for taxation. The Mahone collectors issued to them paid-up tax bills whenever it was known that they would vote for Wise, and the Mahone election judges let them vote. In Al bemarle county the Mahone collector admitted that he had issued four hun dred and thirty-one tax reoeipts to persons who had not paid a dollar, and excused himself by saying that he did not know it was against the law. The Mahone judge let him off with $30.00 fine. In Pittsylvania county we cannot put it better than the witness himself does in his deposition. He says :" I was appointed by the Auditor collec tor of delinquent capitation taxes for this county. Soon after my appoint ment I was approached by the chair man of the Readjuster Congressional Committee for the Fifth district, who informed me that it was the desire of the party managers that I should issue receipts for the capitation taxes of such of the delinquents as were sup porters of Wise and that to secure the payment of the same a draft drawn by C. C. Clarke un a Petersburg bank for an amount large enough to cover the probable number of receipts to be received would be deposited with me ; that he desired that all receipts which were issued, but which should be re turned, should go as a credit upon the gross amount due for said receipts. I informed him if Gen. Mahone would endorse the draft I would accept it in payment of said taxes, but that in no event would I consent to take receipts back after the day of election. I was then informed that they would com municate my reply to Gen. Mahone, and in a day or two I received a tele gram from the Auditor of Public Ac counts removing me from my position as Collector." A more pliant tool was of course appointed, and Mahone's fraudulent scheme was carried out.— I In that county there were two thous- \ and delinquent colored men. These are samples, and it is idle to cite them farther, especially when we had right here at home an instance of the most glaring kind, although on a much smaller scale. The thing is eas ily managed. Mahone's county judges appoint the judges of election. The United States Judge appointed the i bull-dozing marshals to stand at the polls, and Mahone's Auditor appoint ed the collectors who issued fraudu lent receipts to all who would vote ft r Wise. Meanwhile every Democrat had in fact to pay or have his capita tion tax paid, or else he was excluded from voting. The returns,even with all this fraud, made about 100,000 votes for Wise and about 95.000 votes for Massey.— Had only legal votes been counted, Mawsey would have been elected by at least 15,000 majority. A Democratic Congress will now have to pass on this fraud, and in the interest of a "free ballot and a fair count" will sit down on Mr. Johnny Wise. , —-— rn.es..*. 1 A goodly number of our young peo ple attended a party on Thursday night last at the hospitable mansion of Mr. Ran. Pifer. They report a pleas ant time. On Wednesday morning the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of vol untary manslaughter against Geo. W. Amiss. He was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary, Trials of every kind may await you, sterner and darker than any yet ex-i perienced. Do not anticipate them, i out do not forget their possibility. Do not, as you prize your own soul, forget that your strength for every conflict depends on your being girded for each as it comes, and never being '■arelecs or weaiy. Some person, probably an old mis er, has said that "a woman's stocking is tlie best thing in the world to put i silver in." That may be; but silver is by no means the best thing in the world to put in a woman's stocking. Oh, dear, no! A hundred thousand limes not any whatever! Judicial Bull-Dozing. I After the election last fall the air was full of the frauds practiced by Mahone's officers. It was necessary !' immediately to divert attention. John f S. Wise was the United States Dis- ■ trict Attorney, and had also just been ' a candidate for Congress. While it , ' has been universally thought to be a violation of all sense of right for a: prosecuting attorney to prosecute an offense against himself, yet the ethics of Mahoneism stands upon no such j' fine points as this. Mr. Wise at once '• turned loose his bloodhounds and set j the United States Grand Jury upon a sharp search for Democratic frauds.— ' Summary and high-handed measures !' were resorted to, but they amounted to nothing, as no Democratic frauds '' could be discovered. They served the ' purpose, however, of a blind ; they ] ' enabled lying correspondents to fill J the Northern Republican papers with j false statements, and to fire the North-! em heart again against Southern Dem ocrats. The smoke of this false fire j has lifted now, and the fraudulent I deeds of the Mahone election officers iis being daily expressed by the evi j dence taken in the contested case. Another infamous case of Judicial bull-dozing has occurred in the last : few days. In Botetourt county a grand jury was summoned to investi gate the charges of fraud. It consist ( ed of nine members. Iwo of them i and seven (of whom two were colored) were noisy Mahone \ politicians. The jury heard the testi | mony of some of the most respectable ' men in the county, whose reputations for truthfulness had never been doubt ed. Nevertheless the seven brought in a report that the charges of fraud against the Mahone officials were all "slanderous lies," but they found an indictment against a Democrat for at tempting to influence a man to vote for Massey. The two Democrats re ported that the evidence of fraud against the Mahone officials was abun dant, and they protested against a grand jury of the county being used for the furtherance of partisan and political aims. Thereupon the Ma hone Judge fined the two Democratic jurors $10.00 apiece, and also imposed a similar fine upon a lawyer who at the request of the grand jury had put the report in form. How long wil! the people stand these things? How long will free men be ruled by this "Boss" and his w.cked emissaries ? Let them answer at the next Legislative election, and let this Mahone Monarchy of Fraud I be torn from the earth, root and branch. *MSSSSj9**St Personal. Rev. Wm. Samsell is paying a visit to relatives in this place. Robert Lemley, of Mt. Jackson, is in town, visiting relatives and friends. Clarence Lemley has returned, after an absence of several months in Bal timore. We are under obligations to Capt. AY. E. Frankland for files of late Geor gia papers. Mrs. Maggie Stickley, of Summit | I Point, W. Va., is visiting the family of Dr. Stickley. Mr. James Robinson and wife spent a few days with relatives in our town during the past week. MiBS Annie Kerns, of Texas, arrived on Wednesday, and will pay her many friends an entended visit. MiBS Annie Cross has been absent for several weeks past visiting friends in Clarke county. She returned on Thursday. Mr. L. P. Stephens, of Columbus, j 0., a representative of the Dispatch, iof that city, and Miss Effie Pelter, a | fascinating young lady of Pughtown, paid our town a visit on Tuesday last, j They were the guests of Mrs. Sarah A. Drake. We are sorry to announce that Mrs. ,11. P. Tsbb, residing near Opequon,; [ who has been seriously ill ever since j Christmas, has been pronounced incur- j able by an eminent physician of Win chester. Her death is looked for at \ | any moment. The many friends of Miss Jane A. i McLeod will be sorry to learn that she j designs making an extended tour to | the "Great West" in the course of a few weeks. We will sadly miss her i pleasant visits to Stephens City for the ' space of six or eight months. Miss May Grove returned Monday. ..«»»■» Eggs, in Winchester, 17c; Butter, 16(o)18c. Graveley Tobacco and other fine ! grades kept by Adams & McCarty. Five persons joined the Order oi ; Good Templars in this place at its last meeting. The Middletown Cavalry passed through our town on Thursday on a visit to Winchester. We havo opened this week a new \ and beautiful line of Spring Prints. Adams '& McCarty. Mrs. Emily Guard sent to our office ' yesterday a parsnip measuring eight eSD inches in length, fifteen inches in I circumference, and weighing three pounds. Who can beat it ? The ladies all go to Adams & Mc i Carty's because they find there the I best assortment of Shoes in the city. Have We Any Live Men in Our Community ? I The remark is often made that New iown has not made any material pro gress for many years, and the question is often asked why it has not kept and t is not now keeping paoe with other towns in population and prosperity ? t The reply to this question and to the • remark above is very obvious. Our i" citizens are all dead, dead — they are merely walking around to save funeral expenses. We are sorry to admit the fact that, while in most other towns there is a disposition on the part of the citizens to build up the town, in Stephens City there is no zeal what ever manifested in that direction.— There is no reason in the world why a town that can with a population of ' only five or six hundred support six or seven stores, cannot support other industries. There is not a town with in the State more favorably situated, lying, as it does, in the most fertile portion of the Valley, within a region of country which may be well called the garden spot of the United States; in climate, it is not surpassed by any other portiou ; within a stone's throw of the Valley Branch of th , B. &. 0. R. R.; surrounded by beautiful and productive farms, there is no reason why we should not see the glow of the furnace and hear the hum of the man ufacturing establishments from one cud of the town to the other. It I would be mutually beneficial to the I community and the manufacturers.— Manufacturers like to invest where labor and the cost of supporting it are cheap, and there is no plaoe within our knowledge that offers aßmany in ducements in both respects as our lit tle town. Provisions are plentiful and cheap, and we have plenty of sur plus labor, It would furnish employ ment to the young men of our town, and they, instead of spending their time unprofitably by idling it away, might be making hundreds of dollars and laying the foundations for a for tune. Our citizens have not the right kind of energy to make a town pros perous. Why not have within our midst large paper mills, shoe factories, tanneries, canning establishments, fur naces, flouring mills, and all other es tablishments that make a town and community prosperous ? There is suf ficient produce raised in the country and brought to Stephens City for transportation to justify tlie building of a large warehouse. This would immediately cause an increase of the business of the place by bringing men here with their commodities who would 1 otherwise carry them elsewhere for sale or transportation. Taking all these things into consideration, we find the cause of the present state of affairs not in the lack of resources but in a lack of z-al on the part of the citizens. If our enterprising and in fluential citizens would only take the right step, it would be a very easy matter to influence capitalists to come to our town and invest their money in I such establishments. We ought not to expect to see enterprising men set tle in our midst, when they see us so indifferent to the welfare and prosper ity of the town. We should rouse from the present state of lethargy and inform capitalists of the advantages otir town offers, if we wish to draw population and wealth. We should ' have a meeting of our citizens with a view to taking steps to offering induce ments to come into our midst. *es*sW*e* I A $20.00 Bible Reward. The publishers of Rutledge's Month- [ ly offer twelve valuable rewards in their Monthly for March, among which is tlie following : We will give $20.00 in gold to the person telling us which is the longest verse in the Bible by March 10th, 1883. Should two or more correct answers be received, the reward will be divided. The money will be for warded to the winner March 15th, 1883. Persons trying for the reward must send 20 cents in silver (no pos tage stamps taken) with their answer, for which they will receive the April Monthly, in which the name and ad dress of the winner of the reward and the correct answer will be published, and in which several more valuable rewards will be offered. Address, Rutledoe Publishirg Company, Easton, Penna. ...fas. G. F. Mayers Is closing out goods (to make room for Spring stock) at very low prices. Prime N. Orleans Sugars, only 7c Fair Rio Coffee, " 8c Best loose Roasted Coffee, " 12c and many other items below real value 500 Barrels Corn wanted, at $2.50 per barrel in Case, or $3.00 per barrel in Merchandise. February 17, 1883.w4 — ...»»■» It is rumored that the United Breth ren will erect a church in this place. Si.il Don't send any money to J. C. Ray- mond, IG4 Washington street, Brook lyn, N. V., who professes to cure con sumption. He's a fraud. *.*t*.tM. For Rent—A comfortable house at the depot. Inquire of W. D. Chipley. et.m.t. Query. Where can I buy the cheap- t est bill of Dry Goods and Notions? Ans. At Adams & McCarty's. -— — " . Take in time ; see advertisement of | Simmons' Liver Regulator. Keep your feet dry. Buy your Rub-1 bers at Adams & McCarty's. Don't despair, but read the adver- | tisement of Simmons' Liver Regulator j DiedT On Sunday morning, the 18th instant, near Nineveh, Bahhett Phttciiahd, in tlie seventy-sixth year of bin age. "Peace to his ashee." THERIGHT PLACE! To buy your goods is at the old estab lished house of Steele ii Brother who for the past fourteen years have conducted a flourishing business in this place, and notwithstanding the Large Stock of Goods on hand, they are constantly making additions thereto in its several depart ments. They carry a large stock of DRY GOODS! Groceries and Notions generally. In Pure Drugs and Medicines, PATENT MEDICINES, Ac, they carry the only full stock in town. Also, Linseed Oil, White Leads and Paints constantly on hand at bottom prices. Jewelry and Silverware. Under the management of Mr. George M. Samsell, this department is bright ening up, and thoy are making prepa rations for a good Spring trade. La dies' and Gents' Solid Gold and Silver Watches, Elgin and Waltham movements, White Metal and Plated Chains and Neck laces, Solid Gold Plain and Engraved" Finger Rings, &c. They have just re ceived from the manuiaoturers, Rogers Brothers, a supply of Triple Plate Knives, Forks and Spoons, Cal<e Bas kets, Butter and Berry Dishes, Pickle Stands, &c. Don't fail to call on them before making your purchases. They sell good and reliable goods at bottom prices. FREDERICK COUNTY-SCT. Peiuiuaiiy Court, 1883, A report of tlie accounts of Tliomas M. Miller, Administrator of Peter Barley, de ceased, and of tlie debts and demands a gsinst the estate of said decedent, having been filed in the office of Hub Court, nnd two years having elapsed since tlie qualifi cation of said administrator, It is ordered Unit the creditors of said Peter Barley do show cause on Monday, 2d Day of April, 1883, ngnmlt fie payment and delivery of tlie es tate of said decedent to his legatees or dis tributees. A Copy—Teste— JAS. P. RIEL.Y, Clerk. February 14,1883, The Best—The Standard. If you intend to " Qjyj; THE BEST" get See Webster's Unabridged, page 1164, giv ing the name of each sail—showing the value of ! Defining by Illustrations. I The pictures in Webster under the 12 words, ( Beer, Itoiler, Castle, Column, Kye, Hnrse, Mnl,Units, Phrennloiry, Itavelln, Ships, (unites Uii4 ami 121!)) Steam engine, Tim bers, define 343 words and terms. New Edition of WEBSTER, has 118,000 Words, 3000 Engravings, MOO Now Words £i Meanings, and Biographical Dictionary of over IHOO Names. * WEUSTER'S Is the Dictionary used X«T in Goveru't Printing Oitice. 1881. j/Y Every State purchase of Dictionaries TPt for Schools has been Webster's. f*. Books in the Public Schools of them's, U. 8. are mainly based nn Webster. 1» Snleof U'elmter's Is over2Q times the CI sale of any other series or Diet's. J THIRTY-TWO THOUF*W-+miv, l,ecii put nn in the public schools ol the U. 8. X. Each new edition has become more and more The Standard. " Reeommemlui by State Supt's Schools in WM 36 States, and 50 College Prcs'ls JR. IS IT NOT THE STANDARD? 0. SC. MERRIAM SCO., riib'rs, Springfield, Moss. Blacksmith Shop. Tlie undersigned has rented the shop for merly occupied by It. T. Argenbrigbt, and will curry on the lilncUsmitUiiig business iv all its various branches. Horse Shoeing a. Specialty. All work entrusted to him will be done in the best niiiiincr and on tlie most reasona ble lernis. All lie asks is a trial. H B. A. RUST. Middletown Department. . NOM DE TLUME, EDITOR. The "depot boys" are a lively crew. The time has now arrived for mak ing hot-beds. Our new harness maker seems to be doing a good business. Frederick county can now boast of six lodges of Good Templars. Rev. A. A. P. Neel preached two able sermons in this place on Sabbath ' last. Jacob F. Larriek is making a pave ment and otherwise improving his res idence. In Mr. P. S. Wright's green-house flowers of every imaginable descrip tion are in bloom. A letter from "Myrtle" will appear in our next. She has something to say to Miss V. M. B. We heard from Archer the other day. He is not dead, nor married, I but is preparing a roll of MSS. for the j Stae. Madam Rumor says Middletown will certainly lose one of its fair belles if the visits of ascertain Stephens City gent continue." Mr. C. W. Peery is preparing to build a dwelling house on Main street near his store. It will be a great im provement to the town. An interesting debate took place at Kline's School House the other night. Several rising young orators from Ste phens City and Middletown took part. The Tribune of the People says the Stephens City S/ar is "the best, the cleanest and liveliest paper published in the Valley outside of Winchester and Staunton." " The cleanest I"— Well, "we should smile." Come, boy, hand us our spec(k)s. Parents and patrons of schools, please try an experiment. Visit your schools at leaßt once a month, and thereby encourage the teacher and pupils by your presence and counsel and show that you are in sympathy with them and appreciare their labor. There are a few old fogies, and some young ones, who consider they are the levers of the world ; who become ex ceedingly wroth over what appears in the items of the county papers. They are principally anxious borrower of the paper to see if their noble names appear in print. Their influence amounts to but little, so let 'em kick. The B. & 0. red book, "How 'Twas Done," is one of the best and most re liable compilations of election statis tics we have yet seen. In its 110 pages a few lines here and there, show that it is an advertising medium for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but the low price—asking for it by a pos tal card—is such that every person who takes an interest in politics should have one. Lumber is now being manufactured from straw, the standard size being thirtytwo inches in width, twelve feet in length, and thickness the same as the ay '.rages of sarfaced boards. One ton of any kind of straw will yield ' 1,000 feet of boards that may be han dled as ordinary ones. This lumber can be produced and sold in compe tition with wide walnut at about one half the price of the latter. A torpid liver, a stomach out of or der, digestive apparatus weak, and the brain in consequence of these dis orders, over sensitive to exertion or to any unusual circumstance, and the formula for a "crank" is complete.— Ayer's Pills will roiiße up the liver, regulate the functions of the stomach and bowels, the tired brain will be re lieved, and the head resume its wonted level. The Ohio Legislature is considering the adulteration of foods and medici nes. It is informed by a Cincinnati chemist that liver and kidney com plaints, so common and so destruc tive to human life, are largely due to the nee of sulphuric acid in the man ufacture of sugar and syrup. He also declares that quinine pills are exten sively adulterated, and that many other medicines are not to be depend ed upon. We have before us a copy of Green's Hints on Fruit Culture and catalogue of plants, vines and trees. It contains a beautiful colored plate and over thirty illustrations of fruits, etc., in cluding a full-page view of a New York fruit farm of 134 acres, showing how one may be laid out. It describ es the valuable new fruits, and tells how to plant and cultivate them. It is sent free on application to Green's j Nurseries, box 562, Rochester, N. V., together with sample copy of a pa per devoted to fruit culture. At Last. —At last the " old hotel" is occupied. It has been without in- I habitants for years, but now we hope :it may be brought into such use as to benefit our town. Organ.—We venture the opinion that some of the Middletonians are happy —because of the arrival of the new Organ. It has a pleasing tone, and will doubtless prove to be an ex cellent instrument. Temperance.—Hon. W. W. Berry will deliver a temperance lecture in the M. E. church (Middletown) this evening, at 7 o'clock. From Mr. B's. well-known reputation as a speaker, it will certainly be worth a ten-mile trip to hear him. We learn that the , committee in Middletown are making all necessary preparations for the event, and that ushers will be in at tendance to secure visitors comfortable seats. Do not fail to attend if you wish to sjiend a night of rare enjoy ment. ~ -~ sssssssssssssssssssssHSHas^BTSSSSaiSßSSß MRS. VAN UllllN'N LADIES' TONIC. A Positive Cure for oil Female Complaints. 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Price, $1.00 The price of.the following organ has heen advanced to $125 since in serting this el^ctrotvne §EAIT¥ -IORGANSH 27 Stops, 10 Sets Reeds. 890 The Famous Jteethoven Organ contains j:tt~ A'uin-VHS) imii'm W> Jf***>* tiiumtua . :J7 e>t"p.i, JO .'irijJliTill, **?RICE ONLY $90**- Ordernow, Bank Draft.Poet Office Money Order, or I>gis ered Letter. Boxed and shipped without aMomfnt'a DoHy. Factory running day and night. Orrrana built on old plan, $30, $40,550,8 Addresaor call upon DANIEL F. BEATIY, Washington, New Jersey. NT! I [BUTTER-WORKER 111 Operating on the principle of mi DIRECT AND POWERFUL ■ I PRESSURE, •W m ■ instead of rolling, grinding or eliding upon tho butter. Works in tne salt aa well. CERTAIN, EASY, QUICK, STRONG, CHEAP. Bend for full descriptive circular, to the inventor, and SOLE MAKEBB, PORTER BLANCIIARD'S SONS, CONCORD, N. H. CHAS. E. SHRYOCK, UNDERTAKER, Will keep constantly on hand filiitCilul ALSO, VELVET AND CLOTH COV ERED COFFINS. METALIC COFFINS~AND CASKETS Furnished on shortest notice. Funerals attended promptly in this and adjoining counties. Charlie Robinson, TONSORIAL ARTIST, Stephens City, Va. Shaving and hair cutting, 25 Hair cutting and shanip. 20 Hair cutting, 13 Shaving, 10 J_)R- S. M. STICKLEY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, STEPHENS CITY, VA. ' Personal. \T. C. Keller, of Baltimore, is in town again. Rev. D. Harris has returned from a trip to Winchester. Mrs. Ambrose Timberlake is visit ing friends in Charlestown. Misses Ella and Minnie March have returned from a trip to Strasburg. Charles Saum, of Stephenon's De pot, has been visiting H. E. Saum, in this place. Mrs. Shoaf and Miss Laura Hol land have left for their home in Ste phens City. Mrs. Anna Kline, of Klinetown, has been spending a few days with rela tives in Middletown. .1 smsfsm *» M Wayside Messengers." NUMBER ONE. For the f» tar.J "Trust no Future, bowe'er pleasant! Let the dead Pant bury its dead! Act —act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!" How much of our time is spent in useless longing ? To some the Future, with gilded dome, star-gemmed and bewilderingly beautiful, upon whose portal stands Destiny, with her sisters Hope and Pleasure, beckoning with their jeweled hands on, on, over the rough stones of to-day, is the joy of I life. Others there are who, sitting down in the midst of the ashes of their dej,d hopes, see no light in God's beau tiful sunshine, no actual purpose in the grandeur of their existence ; the vase which held their choicest flower is broken, it may be, and they are blindly groping in the darkness of despair after the shattered fragments; forgetting that the fragrance of their cherished blossom has an embodied presence in Memory, and that the real life is being lived in the joys of the "Beyond"—to which we are all hast ' ening. Ah ! these atoms of life, how we let them jar and clash upon our spirits —these moments so full of deep meaning, how careless are we of them ! Better far to stand in the middle of our field of life, and look beyond, and backward, around, and above. Would that I could say just one little word to these " hearts grown weary midst this puzzling world," which would strengthen and quicken them to that deep interest all should have in the seriousness of the present ; why the great world, God's footstool, is teem ing with life and beauty, and you are s turning blind eyes to it all, reading ; dull prose, perhaps, when you could be "living apoem. m I "Act—act in the living Present 1 Heart within and God o'erhead !" Oh, I hope this wayside message will take with it something of the tenderness and sympathy the writer ' feels for all earth's sorrowing ones, and that some heart maybe constrain ed to give o'er its longings, and learn in the lessons of life's present well spent the secret of its future's joy and greatness. V. Merideth Bell. stsssWusß Good Advice.—An exchange gives the following information, and advises every one to read it who contemplates getting married: "Who marries for love takes a wife ; who marries for fortune takes a mistress; who marries for position takes a lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mistress, tolerated by your lady. You have a wife for yourself, a mistress for your house and friend, a lady for the world and society. Your wife will agree with you, your mistress will rule you, your lady will manage you.— Your wife will take care of yourhouse * hold, your mistress of your house, J your lady of appearances. If you are J sick your wife will nurse you, your ■ mistress will visit you, your lady will inquire after your health. You take i a walk with your wife, a ride with ■ your mistress, and go to a party with your lady. Your wife will share your grief, your mistress your money, your lady your debts. If you are dead, v your wife will weep, your mistress la ment, and your lady wear mourning. ' Which will you have?" ' Is—in » The Conference of the M. E. church which meets here March 7th numbers , 197 preachers. Bishop Henry War ren who will preside, is one of the new Bishops elected at the General Conference in Cincinnati in 1880.— Among the matters of interest to be considered will be the preparations for celebrating the centenary of Met.h --l odism, which occurs in 1884. The last session of the Conference hell in Win chester was in 1775.— Winch. Times. «.« eee.t. Hall's Vegbtabt-e Sicilian Haiti Rkxewek Is a scientific combination ' of some of tho most powerful restora tivo agents in the vegetable kingdom. It restores gray hair to its original color. It makes the scalp white and , clean. It cures dandruff and humors, > I and falling-out of the hair. It furnishos tlie nutritive principle by which the hair is nourished ami supported. It makes the hair moist, soft and glossy, and is unsurpassed as a hair dressing. It is the most economical preparation ever offered to tlio public, as its effects remain a long time, making only an I occasional application necessary. It is recommended and used by eminent i medical men, and officially endorsed by > the State Assayer of Massachusetts. The popularity of Hall's Hair Renewer ' has increased with the test of many years, botli In tills country and in foreign lands, and it Is now known and used in all tlie civilized countries Ol • j the world. For sale by all dealers. "