Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-11-15

OF boiling water TO ASSIST the ulScuaiSo as zig
nose, with cough-mixture of licorice-root and
molasses. Administer tonics and stimulants if
appetite fails and weakness ensues.
Another receipt:
LGive as a drench night and morning, the fol-
lowing:
Spirits of nitric ether or.
Laud num- drachms.
Nitrate Of potassa, drachms
Water / pint.
Mix.
Should the horse refuse his food, offer him
| frequently thin cruel with handful Of pulver-
lied slippery elm bark and lcorice root stirred
in it.
When convaescing, exercise gently every day
and stimulate the appetite with the following
ball
Extract of gentian, drachms.
Powdered ginger, drachms.
Mix.
A handful Of wood ashes, mixed with little
salt, thrown into the feed trough for the horse
to lick up, will be relshed by him and be bene-
| fetal
farmer of experience writes about the influ-
enza in horses, and says he has frequently cured
horses that were suffering from influenza, by
| giving mixture of powdered bAyberry and slip
pery-elm bark. Take equal parts of each, feed
| ing quarter of pound at each meal. The
| horse should be fed on ground corn and ground
oats mixed, and the powder should be put into
the food. 1t is better to put lump of rock salt
| in box near the trough, where the horse can
lick at it whenever the notion takes him, than to
season his food with ground alum salt
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THE RADICAL REJoIcING.-Monday last was the
rejoicing day for the Radicals here. In the
morning the brass band (colored) from Le1ing.
ton arrived, and took refuge from the rain in a
store opposite the Virginia Hotel, from which
they made furtive eruptons every now and then
with tune and skipped hastily back after it
was over. 1t was the general opinion with both
white and colored that Staunton had done moth
| ing to merit this musical infection. Later in
! the day lot of colored men, supervised by Mr.
Aaron N. Crane, appeared with ropes and
axes and cut down the Grant pole, corner of
Court and New Streets to get the 'sGrant and
Wilson" flag from the top, and, when the pole
was down, carried it off on their shoulders to
| tune by the band.
| But it is impossible that there was ever on
earth such music as that Lexington band made.
At night the negroes assembled looking very
damp and dirty, but It'll fair to say they were
very numerous and very enthusiastic, as they
ought to have been, for 1t their uictory over
Just in that light. The crowd got few torches
and still fewer lanterns, and proceeded to toll up
CARRIERS Hill where some ten barrels had been
piled ready for ignition. Capt. Sears, whose
father lives on top of the hill, appalled, at theap-
proaching invaders, was seen dancing around in
an excited manner, driving q lot Of turkeys into
place of security. There was patriotic air cold
massa run away" by the band.
But ii is useless to attempt to conceal the fact
that the Lexington band is really the worst band
in the world.
The speaking was by the usual speakers and
much after the usual style Maj. Hartman, of
Augusta was, as usual, the leading man in the
devitry, neither rain, nor defeat, nor cpl zootic
letting him down. His remarks were carefully
word d and evidently with an eye to conciliating
white votes for the coming State election. This
has always been the object of this dangerous dem
agogue, who uaes his own respectability to ad-
vance most digreputable cause. He was yocif
erously cheered by the negroes, and then there
was some more music.
Really it is painful think of how bad that
| Lexin gton band was.
Maj. Hartman was followed by Mr.. A. NJ.
| Crane, of the Revenue service, and then there
was air by the band.
The Lexington band is not frst-class We are
willing to swear to this.
| The next speaker was gentleman of color
| from several places. He stated that he was from
Augustus county and formerly of New York,
and chad been to the congress of the United
States, and also 10 dat congress at Washington"
! and further, that president Grant done sont
me to dis meetin - His concluding statement
was too much for his colored audience, and they
left him to attend to the bonfire, the band play
ing "good-bye."
We hope never to hear such band as that
Lexington band again.
The bonfire didn't last long, and after firing
two or three pistols, the negroes went home and
Capt. Sears counted his turkeys and went to
sleep. Wednesday morning everything was
calm and nobody would have thought there had
been Republican mass meeting" of negroes
the night before, and everybody felt relieved
that the Lexington band had gone home.
| 1t was an awful band-that Lexington band
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| RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. revival at the
Methodist Church still progresses, under the min
| istration of Rev. Dr. Rosser, and the building
has been filed every fair night, and even the
rainy nights have not prevented a good atten-
dance. Our reporter went through the cold rain
Monday night to see how the week opened
| There was good audience, and in the chancel
| were Rev. Mr.. Kennedy and the great revivalst
Mr.. Rosser is tall man dressed in coat cut af-
ter the style of the Friends, and closely button ed
around spare figure. His gray hair fall. in
profusion over his shoulders, and his venerable
| looking beard flows on his breast. His style as
an elocutionist is precisely that of Elk Governor
| Wise, and he has the same nervous pacing back
and forth in the pulpit that distinguishes that
| orator at the bar. His manner in deliv-
ering descriptive passages is worthy of the first
actor of the day with this difference that his
| heart being in his subject it is far better. 1t
would be hardly of any use for provincial
newspaper to endorse the ability Of man who
stands with such men as Bishop Doggett and
President Duncan, in the Methodist Church of
Virginia, but we may state that besides talent
as an expounder of religious views, he has gift
for picture drawing in words which seiZes upon
the interest even OF the thoughtless nearer at
Once, and that is doubtless the secret of his
great success as revivalist. In his ''after ser
mon talk'' Monday night be advocated deep
earnest revivals rather than excited revivals