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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17
nor was he used to hearing traders speak

nor was ne used to nearing traders speak
so to customer.
L want to get little paint, sir am
My boy will attend to you. am busy.
But, sir your boy may be as ignorrnt of
the compounds require as I am. I am
going to paint floor, and [ only know that
I want some yellow oehre, some litharge,
and
I am not painter sir broke in Slower,
roughly. MY boy will put up whatever you
may want
Then you cannot accommodate custo-
mer with the benefit Of your knowledge con-
corning the respective quantities of various
articles he may require for specified pur
pose ?
knowledge isn't one Of my trading COM
modities You'll find that up at the Acad-
envy Here, John-if this man wants
anything, sell it to him y And thus speak
ing, Mr.. Slower put on his hat and left the
store, evidently thinking that his customer
whom he had never before, seen, was either
an itinerant laboring man, OR farmer from
the back region, who would want to pay
for his goods in poplar wood or old pota-
toes
Ralph Slower went to the mills, where
he found an architect and an engineer from
the city experimenting extensive alterations
and improvements. But Mr. Goodhue was
not there. They thought likely he was at
his house. So to the house Mr.. Slower
wended his way, where he was informed by
lady that if Mr.. Goodhue got back from
I'd WIKI al bo Id l.
would probably be found in the garden
Next to the garden, where our enterpris-
ing trader found man in blue overalls and
frock, engaged in making fower-bed
is Mr.. Goodhue about here 2
That is my name, sir
But I mean the man who owns the place
who owns the mills
I am the man.
'You!-Eh p Mr. Slower beheld the
customer to whom he had behaved so in-
decently at his store.
Really. Mr.. Goodhue, I had no idea
I had
If you have business with me, SIR in
terrupted Goodhue, respectfully, hut sternly,
4 will attendto you,-otherwis, my time is
precions.
Upon my soul, Mr. Goodhue, I must
ask you pardon had no idea it was you
Buff you will give me your custom-I
think could make it as much for your
interest as
Stop, sir, commanded Goodbue, with
wave of the hand If I wish to trade with
you, will call at your store. suffer no
man to infict his begging for custom upon
me at my home Good-day, sir
And while Mr.. Goodhue returned to his
work, Ralph Slower had read his man well
enough to know the future remark would
be worse than useless SO he turned modify
and unhappily away.
Mr. Goodhue found Eben Shackford to be
an honest, upright, conscientious. and ac-
commodating tradesman, and with him he
made arrangements for the supply of goods
for himself and workmen.
Shackford throvc, and was grateful and
happy the laborers in the mills obtained
their goods vastly cheaper than ever before;
while Ralph Slower, in bitterness of spirit,
curses the hour in which he was led to insult
a customer who CHANGED to be habited in the
garb of LABoR1NG MAN.
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An exchange says: You might as we'll
attempt to shampoon the head of an ele-
plant with a thimblefull Of soapsudsuds, as
to attempt to do business and ignore prin-
ter's ink. That's so.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17

NFFICE UF AUGUSTA COUNTY FAIR,
" STAUNToN, VA, Dec. Goth, 1869.
By order of the Executive Committee, all the
bonds due the Augusta County Fair on which no
payments have been made, (and there are more
than SO such, have been placed at the First Ma
tional Bank ofStaunton for payment by or before
the LIST of February, 1870, and unless paid by
that time, suit will be brought for the sums due.
The Fair owes the money, and must have it. By
order ofExecutive Committee.
JED. HOTCHKISS
dec24 Sec and TT. A. c. F.
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N1OTICE-N[ade at the Institution for the
~ Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
Hair Mattresses,
Moss and Shuck Mattresses,
Cor Mats, all sizes,
Corn Brooms,
Old Mattresses renovated,
Old Chairs filled with new cane seats,
Books bound in plain binding.
Articles to be repaired will be called for at prl-
vate residences, and returned when finished.
All orders for work should be made through
the Steward, or Foreman of the Shop, to the
Principal.
febll-ly-Vindicator copy.-Spec.
NLOTHING, HATS,
u BOOTS AND SHOES.
| would respectfully invite the attention ofmy
friends and the public to the fact that keep con-
stantly on hand good stock of Clothing, Hats
Boots and Shoes, and
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS
generally, which will sell on reasonable terms.
Give me CALL and l will endeavor to please,
both as to quality and price of goods.
E. HAGEMAN,
New Street. opposite Va. Hotel,
junell-ly Stanton, Va.
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TOUNTRY PRODUCE taken in exchange for
~ goods at Brandeburgs old stand, by
G. E. WOOD.
TIME NON-EXPLOSlVE Excelsior Lamp OF
for sale at so cts. per gallon at
CE. WOODS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17
Reasons for Dressing Plain on
the Lords DAY.

1. It would lessen the burdens of many
who find it hard to maintain their places in
society,
2. It would lessen the forces Of the temp
tations which often lead men to barter hon
or and honesty for display.
3. If there was less strife in dress at
church, people in moderate circumstances
would be more inclined to attend.
4. Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by the
removal of many wandering thoughts.
5. It would enable all classes of people to
attend church better in unfavorable wealth
er.
6. 1t would lessen, on the part of the
rich, the temptation to vanity.
7. 1t would lessen, on the part of the
poor, the temptation to be envious and NAL
icious.
8. It would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
9. 1t would relieve our means from
serious pressure and thus enable us to do
more good enterprises.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17
What I've Seen.

[ have seen persons far more attentive to
the concerns of their neighbors than their
own, and prying into private affairs for the
most abandoned purposes.
l have seen men Of no intrinsic merit,
raising on the tide of fortune and running
with the popular current Of the day, until
by dint of impudence, they have grown into
fictitious importance.
| have seen persons below mediocrity
raised by political intrigue, to high and i'm
portant Office; and [ have seen such ones
incapable of administering upon any abstruse
point.
l have seen stupidity allied to office, pro-
ducing a display Of splendid ignorance,
highly disgusting to men of sound judg-
ment.
I have seen worth, humility and unwor-
thiness exalted yea even, so, that the last
was first, and the first was last.
I have seen men who were all things unto
all men and have seen all men suspicious
of them.
I have seen affection covering the lowest
cunning and darkest intrigue; yea, verify
a wolf in sleeps clothing.
have seen men strive to exult one whom
they know to be unworthy. merely for the
purpose Of depressing political rival.
| have seen men put on airs, Of redoubt-
able courage, who would creep through an
auger-hole at the least show of resistance
Ihave seen little animal so inflated with
pride, as to be almost full of bursting. It
resembled man, too.
have seen enough of this wicked world,
its actings and doings, to cause me to ex-
claim in the language of the old adage,
that 'all is not gold that glitters"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17

The world is sea of glass afaiction
scatters our path with sand and ashes, in
order to keep our feet from slipping.
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[From Key West Dispatch. ]
A Prodigy.

For the benefit of the outside world We
have to put on record the fact that in our
island city there lives youth who, in him
self, is one among the great phenomena Of
the age. Listen, and be the judge yourself.
He can handle snakes, scorpions, centipedes,
or what not, with perfect impunity. He
makes pets and play fellows of the larger
kind of rattlesnakes, twisting them around
him, and dallying with their forked tongues,
and their ten or twelve rattles! He actually
has carried scorpions in his bosam, and wasps
and hornets in his sleeves and pockets
without receiving bite or sting. In the
loneliness Of the grove or forest. OR in any
secluded place infested with snakes, he can
by a few talislnanic words, call around him
any number of snakes, who he can charm
into perfect obedience to all his mandates.
He can pick them up and lay them down
at any given place, and at his bidding
they will remain there until his return, af
ter an absence sometimes Of hours.
He can take rat Or mouse, and so
manipulate it-sc as to put thatinexplicable
tyrant spell upon it-that it at once becomes
mute suppliant for favor, is quiescent and
may be tumbled about at pleasure. The
young magician AYERS that this miraculous
power is given him by spirits, whether
good or evil he knows not
We could relate many incidents in this
connection illustrative of our little friends
necromantic faculty Of subduing the reptile
creation but the foregoing must suffice
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JOHN ECHOLS, HIN BEL
R. .cATLETT, JEDnoTcuKIss.
NCHOLS, BELL, CATLETT & co.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
S. 3 Corner Of Court House Square,

A U N L v f., Ii u A.
Weare now selling, and have constant de
mandfor Farming, Grazing Timberand Minera
Lands Of all descriptions, Mills, &c, and in
vite parties having such property for sale, es
pecially in the county of Augusta, and the Val
ley of Virginia, to put the same in our hands
believing that we possess superior advantages
from our central ocaton, and thorough knowl-
edge ofthe country, and our extensive business
relations, for securing purchasers
We make no chargefor advertising or show
ing property, but when we find q purchaser for
it we charge commission of five percent, to be
paid out ofthe first payment made by the pur-
chaser. Nov %, 1867
IL COMPREHENSIVE.
H Bell and c. R. Mathews having this day
bought out the entire interest of Il. B. Cauthorn
in the ssSteam Saw Mill'' of Hughes & Cauthorn,
and having formed partnership with Mr.. G. P.
Hughes, will continue the Lumber business at
their Lumber Yard on the Va. q. R. R., near
Milboro' Depot.
Are prepared to furnish Lumber in any guam
tity, and at reasonable prices.
Letters on business or orders should be ad
dressed to HUGHES & CO.,
Cady'g Tunnel P. O.,
May 18th 1868. Bath Co., Va.
take this method of returning my thanks to
the public for their kind and liberal patronage,
and bespeak continuance OF the same towards
the above firm. Mr.. G. P. Hughes is hereby
authorized to settle up the business of the late
firm of ghes& Cauthorn
may15'6s-ff. T.B. CAUTHORN.
CHINA AND FRENCH GLASSWARE IL
" We have just received the prettiest stock of
fancy goods ever seen in StauINon.
Parian Marble Vases, assorted,
Is beautiful Cologne sets,
Fruit Baskets,
China Mugs,
French Cut Glass Goblets, Tumblcrs, Wine De
canters Fruit Dishes.
In connection with the above we have on hand
800 dozen white granite Plates,
300 sets Cups and Saucers,
200 Covered Dishes,
Chamber Sets, Pitchers,
S Gold band and white China Tea sets,
French China Dining SET very low at
declO-tf J. A. PIPER & SONS.
DARGAINS.-The undersigned desires to
ID inform his friend and the public that he
is prepared to furnish all articles in the Furni-
ture line. Splitbottom chairs made and finished
in neat manner, not eXcelled in the country
Collins made at the shortest notice and conveyed
to any place of interment. Carpenter work exc
cuted in all its branches wherever desired.
Satisfaction guaranteed in regard to finish and
price.
All orders in person or by mail will meet with
prompt attention. Shop near Mt. Sidney
liberal share of the public patronage is respect
fully solicited. Address
FREDERICK FREY,
aprl-3m Mt. Sidney Augusta Va
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SELECTED STORY
THE LABORING MAN.

A SKETCH FOR sTOREKEEPE
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WM, WH0LEY,

NEAR VIRGINIA HOTEL.
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Business Cards.
NEW STREET


TIME LIQUOR STORE
FSTA UNTON
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Professional Cards.
WV, CHAPMAN D. D S.
r. STANTON VIRGINIA,
lII1 Office, SouthSide Main Street at

lis old stand.
Artificial Teeth mounted on Gold ,Silverand
V ulcanite.
All operations performedin the mos tScientifc
and skilful manner with strict regard to Perma-
uancy and warranted to compete withany work
lone in the cities.
Thanking the people of Augusta and the sur
"ounding Counties for their very liberalp patron
age prior to, during and since the war, I re-
ctfully solicitits continuation
The highest price paid for old gold and
silver plate. June 1T
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JOHN EcHOLs, H. NJ. BELL, R. H. oATLRTT,
Monroe County. Staunton, Lexington.

ten years, has been largely engaged in
the practice of Medicine, has removed to staun-
ton and offers his services in the various branch
es of the profession to the public.
Having devoted much time and study to Chill
,dren and their Diseases, he proposes to give spe-
cial attention to that class of patients and the dis
leases common, and peculiar to them.
OFFICE-For the present at his residence
's'West Wood" at the Western end of Main
Street.
,-oy1Q-tf
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Asst NOTICE.-All those indebted to Hilb
IL Weller will please call and settle before
the 9th day of June next, after that date the
Notes and Accounts will be collected by law
may2l-tf HILB WELLER.
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1917 The undersigned respectfully calls
lOlO. the attention Of his friends to the
fact that upon his own hook he proposes to carry
on general AUCTION BUSINESS at the old
stand, corner of Augusta street and Spring Lane.
He will attend the sale of property of all kinds,
either in town or country, as reasonable as any
other auctionecr. e. M. CUSHING
jan7-tf
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A NJ HENKEL, NJ. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
8. HI. HHENKEL DID,. S.,
DENTIST,
formerly of New Market, Va.)
Respectfully announce that they have located
in Staunton, Va. and offer their servicesto the
public in all the branches of their professions.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours unless
professionally engaged.
Office on corner of Augusta and Main Streets.
Entrance doors North of Bicke's corner.
mar5-ly
MEDICAL NOTICE.-Doctors G. R. Harris
lyk and B. P. Reese having formed copart-
nership in the practice Of Medicine, very respect
fully tender their professional services to the pub
ic.
Eighteen years experience qualities the Junior
partner for the general practice of medicine, and
will enable the senior partner to devote especial
attention to the diseases offemales and children.
Calls in the country promptly attended to.
Office-Main street, doors East of DR.. Chap
mans, D. D. S.
All letters strictly on professional business,
should be addressed to
jan14-6m DRs. HA Kris u REESE.
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BY sYLvANUs COBB, JR.
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TNANCY SILKS AT COSTS Patterns COL
Il ored SILK at cost
JAMES A. PIPER & SON.
marl9-tf near Virginia Hotel.
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Take two thirds of the best lime and one
third of blacksmith's dust, and mix with the
necessary quantity of water. This will
form mortar that will set nearly as hard as
iron, and is the best to use for setting the
firebricks in or about ireplaces.
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NTANTED.-An experienced Clerk in the Dry
w Goods Business, apply a this Office.
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BREAD.-It is said that great economy
in the manufacture Of bread is secured by
the following process: Gluten to the amount
of ten or twelve per cent. is extracted by
boiling water from bran, and the -four is
kneaded with this infusion, whereby from
twenty to thirty per cent. more bread is OBJ
tanned. The bread, of course, is not 50
white as that of first quality, but is much
more nutritious.
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WATCH FOR THE BUGs.-Almost every
plant cultivated in our gardens is infested
with some one or more species of insect.
A constant watch is required to keep our
enemies in check, and dry lime, ashes, and
sulphur should be provided in season, and
kept where handful or more can be used
when required.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17

Safety from moths for furs consists in
having them undisturbed through summer
in snug place. Mutf boxes are not Sc
cure Taking them out occasionally to air
exposes them to the moth. No pepper.
camphor or tobacco is needed after you
have worn them for the last time in spring
put them into linen pilow-case, tie up the
end in tight knot, and shut them up in a
drawer which will not be often opened. A
true and tried prescription
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-17

Iron rust is removed by salt mixod with
lemon juice Mildew, by dipping in sour
buttermilk and laying in the sun. Ink
stains may sometimes be taken out by smear
ing with hot tallow, left on when the STAIN
ed article goes to wash. Freezing will take
out old fruit stains, and s,alding with boil
ing water will remove those that have never
been through the wash.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-18
How TO Fill q Church.

Sometimes, as The President of a
College, l have letters sent to me ask
ing for ministers in something like
these terms :--"Dear Sir-Our chapel
is very empty ; our last minister was
a very excellent man, but quite an IN
popular preacher, Il may say by way
of parenthesis that / suppose he was
of those men who would make good
martyrs--so dry that they would burn
well } and our congregation is very
small can you kindly send us a min
lister who will fill the chape!?" On
one occasion l replied that I had not
a minister large enough to fill a chap
ell. Ofcourse there came an explana-
ton that they did not expect him to
fill it corporeally, but to fill it by
bringing others TO listen to him, and
retaining them as stockholders. Then
l wrote, and to gain this opportunity
my first joke was perpetrated, remind
ing the friends that it was quite
enough for a pastor to fill the pulpit
well, and that the filling of the pews
depended upon the zeal, the earnest
ness, and the dill .gence of those with
whom he commenced his ministry if
they would support him by their earn
est cooperation, the Westinghouse
would soon be full. l remember
when l came first to London, preach
ing to eighty or ninety in o large
chapel, but my little congregation
thought we'll of me, and induced 9TH
ers to come and fill the place. l al
ways impute my early success to my
warm hearted people, for they were
so earnest and enthusiastic in their
loving appreciation Of "the yonng
man from the country" that they were
never tired of sounding his praises.
If you, any of you, are mourning over
empty pews in your place of worship,
fwould advise you to praise up your
minister. There can be do difficulty
in discovering some points in which
your pastor excels dwell upon these
excellcncies and not upon his failures ;
talk of the spiritual benefit which you
derive from his sermons. and thus
you will induce the people to come
and listen to him, and at the same
time yon will do him good, for the
full house will a him up and
make him a better preacher, and you
yourself will enjoy hi,n the more be.
cause you have thought and spoken
kindly of him. Believe, then, that
the filling up of the Church is not
alone the pastors work. Remember
the word "universality,' and let no
one try TO find a loophOIe to escape his
duty. All Christians ought 10 be do
ing something for Jesus, aud to be al
ways doing something. Rec. &. II.
SDurgeOR.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-18
Common GrOg Shop
BitterS.

Empty Bitter Bottles, of various styles, can
be found around almost every dwelling and
cabin through out the land. Their taste Is
pleasant, and are ADVERTISED to cure al
most every disease, while the manufacturers
KNOW they possess no medicinal properties
whatever. They are SO many DISCUSSES for
exceedingly common beverages which do
not, nor cannot possibly cure any one.
Beware of these pleasant bitters in quart
bottles, they contain "a sting for your yItals,
and he who buys them carries a "toper's"
grog into his house. One man who knows
nothing about medicine, say his big bottles
of common stuff will cure chills and fever
rheumatism and consumption; another,
whose bottle is very fancy, cures all impure
ties of the blood, makes old men young,
casts out devils, restores sight to the blind,
and numerous other miracles; while yet an
the who presumes every man a
opo to cure collie, ingrOwing nails, yell
low fever, heart disease and IOve-sick maid
ens!! We Know they make no such cures
we know the people at large are deceived
and swindled, and as we desire TO ventlihe
these common humbug, make the following
challenge TO one u ali:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-18
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

All the Methodist colleges in Illinois
are now open to both SeXcs.
Revivals arc in progress at various
points i'm Virginia.
The Rev. Dr.. David Wills has ell
tered upun his duties rs President of
Oglcthorpc, College at Atlanta, Ga.
The new Episcopal Church at Plain
field, n. j., was erected-at the expense
of the Rev. Mr.. Embury. 1t cost
about $4,000.
The total of Baptists for the Pacific
coast is III churches, 5,l17 members,
lis ministers and 10 home missiona-
ries.
The Baptists of the Northern States
raised 1851 for their Home Mission
Society in August last. They are
aiming for S250,O0O fer that Society
during the current year.
Some eight hundred colored people
from North Carolina have applied for
passage to Liberia, in expectation TO
be sent out by the American Coloni-
zation Society OIL the first of NoveIn-
Der next.
The Rev. DIR. q. L. keener, late
President of the "Methodist Protest
anti Church " in Missouri, was receiv-
cd into the st. Louis Conference CT
the Southern Methodist Church at
the late session in bonneville, and was
stationed by Bishop McTyeire in
Sou,bwcsteru Missouri.
The American Church Missionary
Episcopal Society, i'm session in New
York, received S64,O5 last year, en-
ploycd sc missionaries, and is now
negotiating with the War Department
to supply its missionaries to act as In
dian agents instead of army officers,
at several important stations.
DIR. Lilienthal, OF Cincinnati, has
lately received two ladies as converts
to Judaism. One of them is a mar
ricd lady of dayton, Ohio, and mother
of several children. and the other q
young lady from New Orleans. In
the latter case DIR. Lilienthal did ev-
erything he could to dissuade her /;
but she insisted.
A Baptist who recently visited Bal
timore saws: 81 attended service at
the st. Luke's Episcopal church. This
is one of the highest of the High
Churches. l understand it ranks as
the third highest in the United States
they have left the roof and have gone
iuto the steepe.'