Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-12-02
JAMES T. PATTERSON, Recorder.

IT WILL PAY AND How.-We heard recently
of two farmers who each came to the village with
load OF grain. One accepted the first offer of
six cents bushel over his previous sale
The other having read in his local paper of an
advance OF Is to 20 cents per bushel, held off I'M
til he obtained lS2 cents advance, or 81 more
than the other, on 80 bushels of the same qnal-
ty of grain. The paper cost him So for whole
year. The above instance was only one of sew
eral such gains during the year. in sales and
purchases. Did the paper pay? His family know
what is going on at home and abroad, and are
growing up intelligent. DULY last month man
here received one of forty or fifty private conf
dental circulars, sent by mail to different par
ties, SOLDERING great returns for $40 lie sent the
money, and that is the last he can hear from it,
Two of his neghbors received the same taking
circulars and were disposed to invest also, but
turning to the american AgricuAurist they found
the affair described among the multitude of swim
dies constantly being shown up in that journal,
and they kept their money. The paper cost them
Sl.5 year. Did itpay2 We could give many
illustrations similar to the above The man who
thinks he cannot afford to take such papers is
greatly mistaken; he cannot afford to be without
them. There is not man in the country who
can afford to be without at least one local paper.
even if It be wholly filed with advertisements
He will sell enough better, and buy enouh cheap
er, to many times repay the cost And when
this home want is supplied, we are sure it will
pay MIN to also take such paper as the An.eri-
can Agriculturist. 1t is full of good, reliable in
formation about all matters pertaining to soil
culture, upon animals, labor saving impl ements.
ETC., for the farm, garden and household 1t has
capital department for the young people and
little folks, and the four to FIVE hundred beauti-
full and instructive engrauings given every year,
are alone worth many times its COST which is
only 81 30 year; or four copies for SIS; ten
COPIES Sla and twenty or more copies at 81
each 1t is marvel of cheapness. combined
with beauty and real'value. The TAirtiah an
mudI Volume IS just begi ming, and we advise all
our readers o send at once and secure it for a
year. Orange, Judd Co., 245 Broadway, New
York, are the Publishers.
Wefurnish the Vindcator and American Ao
riculturist for So il advance.
Mr.. Charles j. Faulkner has published a
card, IN reference to his being a candidate
for U. s. Senator from Western Virginia
in which he says, that he is disqualified by
the prohibitions imposed on him by the
''l4th Amendment to the Constitution of
the U. s., and by the Constitution of West.
ern Virginia, from holding any Office either
State or Federal, and deprived of all politi.
cal rights as voter or citizen He, also
states that he looks forward to the day
when the progress of Democratic principles
will relax and destroy the policy of tbs
Radical party.
Hon. James P Holcombe has been iny
ted to deliver a memorial address at the
Washington and Lee University on the 10TH
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