Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-04-08
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SENATE

GENERAL ASSEM- BLY,.
SENATE.
WEDNESDAY. March 30.-A resolution
enquiring into the condition of certain i'm
migrants from Holland and what Legislation
is necessary to afford relief and protect thu
interest of the State. was offered and adop
ted.
The joint order of the election of Circuit
Judges was resumed and the following iud
es were elected
18th Circuit. Alexander Mahood, Of
Giles; 18th, Jno H. Fulton, of Wythe
10th, Jno. A. Kelley, of Smythe.
The further execution of the joint order
was postponed until Friday.
House
Senate bill to authorize the Governor to
hire out convicts in the penitentary to work
in stone quarries and no other work, gas
reported from the committee and placed on
the calender
Mr.. Bells resolution in regard to calling
the roll of the House at the assembling
thereof on each day, came up as unfinished
business, and was discussed by Mr.. Popham
until the hour for the execution of the Joint
order arrived.
The remainder of the time was taken ND
in the consideration of the bill providing for
the Courts of the City of Richmond and the
Registration bill. -.... 3
THURSDAY, March 31.-House bill to au-
thorlze the sale of manufactured articles at
the Penitentiary was taken up and amend
ca to allow ~ per cent. upon amount real
lied to the Gen Agent and Storekeeper
and passed.
The bill fixing the salaries of judges Of
fered by Mr.. Waddell was then taken up and
pending its consideration the Senate ad
iourned
House.
Mr. Strother presented petition for relief
to debtor class from citizens of Culpeper and
Mr.. Bell q memorial from 207 citizens of
Augusta adverse to legislation between
debtor and creditor.
Mr. Campbell. of Shenandoah, offered the
following
That in order to relieve the debtor class,
to aid the creditor class and beueft the State
at large, it is the sense of this House that
the committee for Courts of Justice be re-
quested to prepare bill providing that up.
on all debts contracted prior to the LIST day
day of April, 1868, tie creditor shall be
allowed to obtain judgment and execution
as heretofore but for all sums collected
within twelve month (by excution) from the
passage of this act, over and above 90 ner
cent, OF the gross amount of claim, the
sheriff or any other office collection shall be
required to pay into the treasury of the State
5O per cent. thereof for the education of
the children of the state and providing
further that the creditor may collect each
succeeding years 20 per cent. of such debt
free from taxtion. Referred.
The bill for the registration of voters was
then taxed up and considered till the hour
for adjournment
SHE NEVER LEAVES HIM-Look at the
career of man as he passes through the
world a man visited by misfortune! How
often is he left by his fellow-man to sink un-
der the weight of aff1iction UNDECIDED and
alonel One friend of his own sex forgets
him. another abandons him and third be-
trays him; but woman, faithful woman fol-
lows him in his affection braves the chang
es of feeling, his temper embittered By the
disappointments of the world, with the high
est OF all virtue is resigned patiently minis
tiers to his wants even when her OWL are
hard pressing she weeps for him, tear for
tear, IN his distress and is the first to catch
and reflect ray of joy, should one light up
his countenance in the midst of his suffering;
and she never leaves him in his misery while
there remains one act of love, duty, or COM
passion to be performed. And at last when
lie aad sorrow come to an end, she follows
him to the grave with an ardor of affection
which death itself cannot destroy.
The mad votaries Of Fashion sometimes
pay dearly for their folly. Here, for in
stance was woman up in Lancaster, who
read In the papers that it was fashionable to
powder the hair for parties; 50 she loaded
W, her ehignon and her side pufs with
half pound Of gunpowde.. She looked we'll,
that woman did but during the evening
she happened to bend over drop light, and
there was just one energetic and vigorous
''slz p Perhaps that woman isn't dissusted
and mortified, and sick of style and Paris
modes and perhaps she isn't anxious to
purchase symmetrical wig, and to con
struct pair of artificial eyebrows
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Many harsh, unkind and unjust remark
would have left unsaid had the speaker lis
tened 1or single instant to the voice of rca-
soa, iies which have stood the test of long
years have, in one moment been sunderedS
the warmest friendships have been broken
families have been separated, and hopes de-
stroyed, often ere now, by one taoughtless
expression,
! ALIAS how slight cause may move
Dissention between hearts that love p
A sudden outburst of passion-one glance
OF a flashing cyclone little word and, 10
the sunshine and happiness of moment be-
fore is changed to gloomy anger.
A baby is a problem propounded by the
world. to be solved by time Topographic
cally speaking, short article, with head
ing in small caps. Graphically speaking a
morsei of humanity, which is generally the
admiration of one sex and the aggravation
Of the other. Philosophically speaking NOR
al lessons in long clothes. set before us to
remind the greatest Of what they once have
been, and to worry the irritable old bscl,e-
lor.
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| Some people feel very anxious to hear
everything that vexes or annoys them. If it
is limited that any one has spoken ill of
them, they set about searching it out. If
all the petty things said of one by needless
or llIEnatHred oilers were to be brought home
to him, he would become mere walking
plncushion stuck full of sharn ren,nrha