Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23
NUMBER Is.

An Eloping Husband and Determined Wife.
The late Omaha Tribune publishes the fol-
lowing:
Passengers on a recent bound train on
the B. & NJ Railroad, were treated to an i'm
mense sensation. In a first-class coach were
man and woman-the former, judging from
his appearance, was about forty-fve years of
age, and evidently working man; the woman
was really pretty girl, and not over twenty
enc years old. These two took the train at
Charlton, Iowa. Soon after leaving that sta
tion they commenced gradually to lean toward
each other, land eyes looked love to eyes that
spake again. and for while ''all went merry
as marriage bell. She was reposing with
her head on his shoulder, and their hands were
clasped together as if they feared they would
lose each other during the night Their over
flowing affection attracted the attention of ev-
cry other passenger in the car. They slept
sweetly, and all unmindful that Mr. Mans
true and legal wife was in the first car ahead of
the one in which they were riding
| Right here we must say that Mr.. Man was
clipping with the handsome young girl His
| nelghbors in Charlton knew OF the elopement
before it came off, and they raised sum of
money with which they purchased revolver
for Mrs. Man, and railroad ticket which would
enable her to follow her runaway husband. So
when they stepped into frst-class coach at the
station. she walked into second-cass car, and
| they left Charlton On the same train.
| The situation can now be easily comprehend
ed. Mrs. Man waited until the train had passed
two stations, when she prepared for action,
and firmly walked into the car where the
elopers were firmly held by Morpheus. The
first thing the guilty pair knew they were sud
denly awakened, and there stood Mrs Man
with a revolver pointed straight at her hus-
band head. The girl Jumped up and rushed
! into fho
the Pullman conductor, who licked her in
stateroom. At the next stopping place Mrs.
Man, who kept guard over her husband, walked
him out of the train, and when they were on
the platform Of the depot she actually kicked
| him, and thoroughly subdued him in much the
same manner as man gets vicious horse un-
der control.
| About eleven years ago the people Of Vir-
| giuia, through their representatives assembled
IN convention, made solemn pledge. In the
course OF several months it became necessary
for Virginia to redeem that pledge. Her hon.
or was at stake But its redemption would
cost millions Of dollars. mo matter" was
the reply, 1.-THE honor of Virginia must be pre-
served But it will cost the lives Of thou
sands of our best and noblest men. 1t was no
excuse for again the reply in laundering tones
was reverberated from the Underwater to the Al
| leghanies, and from the Potomac to the Caro-.
lima lice.
THE honor of Virginia mast be preserved"
For four years Of dark and bloody war; In the
heat of conflict and the loneliness and suffer
| ings of prison life, around the broken family
alter. and over the ashes of the desoated
homestead, as a beacon attractive and fOndy
| loved by the dying soldier and the bereaved
widow, the honor of Virginia shone forth with
brilliancy which has never been surpassed
Even after our property had been laid waste,
thousands of our noblest sons had fallen, and
the Confederate flag was furled forever at Ap-
pomattox, the same conscious pride animated
the Virginian, and in the darkest hour of his
existence be could gaze upon that brilliant bea-
con and proudly exclaim 1--WE have lost all
but our honor Virginia has been overpow-
cred, and her foes now trample her SOIL but
thank God, she has redeemed her pledge"
Another pledge was made by the people OF
Virginia through her representatives, but one
year ago. She promised the creditors Of the
State of Virginia, and by a solemn and binding
contract agreed to pay, the interest upon GER
tain bonds upon the 1st day of January. 1872.
| Were there no other reason for the strict OBJ
servance OF that contract it would be sufficient
| that hundreds of thousands of dollars of that
debt Is due the widows and orphans of Vir-
glnia, But alas the fair name of Virginia
| has heea tarnished. Her own sons have
brought upon her disgrace which is most
mother of States aud of statesmen. The
pledge OF Virginia has been broken, her prom,
lses are 10 longer respected, and even the wild
oWs and orphans OF our own gallant dead can
no longer repose in confidence upon the pledge
OF Virgins. Shenandoah Herald.
The Legislature on the Funding Bill
The two Houses of Assembly, adhering to
their original action, have overrued the Gov
ernor. The deed has been consummated, and
once more we are adrift, upon an uncertain sea,
that threatens great danger to the best inter-
ests OF our beloved State. We have done what
We conceived to be cur solemn duty, uubi-
ased by the slightest pronlptings OF sei-inter-
est, to prevent the calamity that a so called
Conservative Legislature has inflicted upon the
body polite. For nothing that we have said =.
or done, IN this connection, do We feel the least
regret. and We trust that cur legislators will
have no occasion hereafter, to depore their
| mistaken zeal in thus uprootug our whole
tinancla. system, and throwing doubt and dis
| credit, for time at least,-if not foreyer,-
upon the good name Of Virginia.
! 1t was not little remarkable hat the Leg
| lslature, being liz such hot haste to arrest the
| operation of the Funding law, should have ad-
| jOurned just on the heels of lis passage, for
twelve days holiday, when it was certain that
the Governor would veto the joint resolution of
| repeal, and the work of funding would ro on
with accelerated speed. Had they continued
| in session few days longer, they would have
had the Veto Message, and could have secured
the object of their desire seven DAYS earlier
| The Governor could only retain the bill hve
days. and might have returned it, with his
| objections, even sooner.
| We can only hope now, that they will make
as much haste as they did to repeal this law
and 90 home in trying to repair the damage
| they have done. Let them give US, quickly,
something better than the Funding law some
thing that will restore the credit of the State,
and prove that repvdiaton was not their Interior
aim and object The good people of this Com
monwealth will expect aud demand this much,
| at least.-Lynch6urg Iirgtnian.
Death of James Fisk, Jr.
James Fisk, JI., was shot down by an as
sassin named Stokes, In one of the most pub
lie places of New York City, on Saturday af-
ternoon aud died Sunday morning, from NOR
tai wound in the abdomen. Stokes, who fred
the fatal shot, it is alleged was Fsk's rival in
the affections of Miss Helen Josephine Mans.
field, who had suit on trial against Fisk for
SANDER in which she aud Stokes were both
on the stand, as witnesses on Saturday. Miss
Mansfield 3 suits and threats to publish her let
ters from Fisk have been the subject of pro-
| tracted litigation and newspaper gossip for
weeks. Fisk, it would appear, had, by ms
mastery manipulation of the machinery OF the
law, triumphed with iDjunctions in this, as on
many other noted OCCASIONS driving MS rival
to madness, with the fatal result now chron!-