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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23
& Strange Story of Love and Suicide.

WEST MERIDEN, CONN January frank
M arker, a young man Of respectable and we'll
to do parents, in Toledo, was employed as a
printer on the Republican, of this city. Marker
became enamored of u young woman named Miss
Rosa Faulkner Two months ago, having OBJ
tanned his parents consent to the union, he
asked her 10 prepare for their wedding, when
he would take her to Toledo. After waiting
day or two he left the City very suddenly. The
girl was much surprised and mortified at his
strange conduct, and when he wrote and asked
her forgiveness she declined any further &C
quaintanceship with him. Last week he left
Toledo provided with pistol. On the way it
was taken from him. He bought second one,
and that was taken from him. He bought a
third one, with which he finally reached Merl-
den on Saturday. He interviewed friend OF
the girls, named Charles Fitch, compositor,
also working on the Republican, and threaten
ed his lte claiming that it was his doing that
had led to the estrangement. The girl, how
ever, cleared Fitch and, on retiring. he said to
friend, That girl has saved that mans lie,
but will shoot myself His friends remon
strated, and tried to get the pistol from him,
but failed, and young Marker escaped. He Was
last seen alive at the Byxbee House. He was
not by any means the worse for liquor, having
DGeU very Sttotty Sftt cil;SS lc A6u huUWH tLS
girl On Monday II rnng his body was dis
covered about fifty yards from the road, near
Andrew hemIock grove He was lying face
downward, with wound from pistol bullet,
about an inch and half above and the same
distance left of the right ear The bali had
lodged IN the base of the brain, and death must
have been instantaneous ln letter found
upon him he stated that he was dying for love;
that life had nothing worlf, living ior, and con-
cluded with the following remarkable sentence ]:
Like Thaddeus Stevens, it there be any place
in he'll hot enough for him, let me go there
too; If not, give me barrel Of TAR and some
kindling weed, and will make he'll of my
own" In his memorandum book was brief
prayer. At his feet lay the last letter Of his
sweetheart, renouneing him, torn into hun
dred Fragments No valuables of any kind
were found upon him. A jury of inquest was
summoned the same afternoon, and a verdict
returned that deceased met his death by pis-
to shot, inflicted by himself. Officer Charles
Goodrich had charge Of the body in the alb
sence of Chief Of Police Beach. and forwarded
the remains to deceased : parents in Toledo the
same night.
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Romance.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
oh she was maid of laughing eye,
And she lived in garret cold and high,
And he was threadbare whiskered beau,
And he lived in cellar damp and low.
But the rosy boy of the cherub wing,
Hath many a shaft for his slender string,
And the youth below and the maid above
Were touched by the flaming darts of love.
And she would wake from her troubled sleer
Der his tender billet doux to weep;
Or stand like statute cold and fair,
And gaze on lock of his bright red hair.
And he who was late so tall and proud,
With his step so firm and his laugh so loud,
His beard grew long and his face grew thin,
As be pined in solitude over his gin,
But one soft night in the month of June,
AS she lay in the light of a cloudless moon,
A voice came floating soft and clear,
To the startled maiden listening ear.
0 then from her creaking couch she sprung
And her tangled tresses back she flung;
She looked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath-her whis kered beau
She did not start with foolish frown,
But packed her trunk and scampered down.
And there was her lover, tall and true,
In his threadbare coat of its brightest blue.
The star that rose In the evening shade,
Looked sadly down on weeping maid
The sun then came in its morning pride,
Shed golden light on laughing bride.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23
Railroads.
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ExHESAPEAKE 81 o. Il. Ron and
" after September 1st, Passenger Trains
leave Richmond Sunday excepted) as follows :
$50 M.-MAIL TRAIN for the White
Sulphur Springs, connecting at Gordonsvlle
with the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas train
for Washington and North, and Lynchburg
and South.
3.35 p M.-Accommodation Train for Cor
donsville, except on Saturday, on which day it
leaves at five P. M. This train connects at Cor
donsville with night trains on the Orange, Alex
andria and Manassas Railroad for Lynchburg
and Washington.
Steerege tickets from Liverpool, Queenstown,
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg. Havre, Rot
terdam. Bergen, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg,
TO all points on this road can be bought of the
General Ticket Agent at Richmond, or can be
ordered through any station agent on the road
Through tickets at low rates, sold to all points
Northwest and Southwest.
Further information may be obtained at the
company's offices.
No Passenger Trains are run on Sundays.
A. 81. PERRY,
General Superintendent.
JAMES f. NETHERLAND Gen'l Ticket Agent
.Oc IT-tf
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
XLIInd CONGRESS, End SESSION.

sENATE.-Monday, Jan. s.-Mr. Schurz
made personal explanation, denying certain
statements made In the New York Times. The
consideration of the Amnesty bill was postpon-
ed, and Mr.. Fenton made speech in favor of
his bill regulating the salaries of customs Of
fcers The Senate then went into Executive
session.
HOUSE. - The usual number of Monday bills
and resolutions were introduced and referred
to committees. A resolution directing the Ways
and Means Committee to report bill repeating
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23
gR gRE-EsTABLTsHMENT OF DAaLY

II E1ESkAEsEE5ErH H w EN u OE DfAHLA
@, LINE between Richmond and Baltimore
via York River Railroad.
Trains leave Richmond daily at 2 2. M, con-
Meeting at West Point with steamers for Balti-
more-arrive in Baltimore at A. NJ, the fol-
lowing morning in time to connect with trains
for the East and West via P. w. and B. and
Northern Central railroads.
Trains leave Baltimore daily at P. M, No
80 Light street Wharf.
Through bills of lading given to all points
North and South.
Freghts received daily and forwarded prompt
~.
Steamers leave Pier No. 2, Light street wharf,
daily at 2. NJ, via York River for Richmond
and the South and West Arrive in Richmond
at 10 55 A. NJ. connecting with the Richmond
and Danville, Richmond and Petersburg, and
Chesapeake and Ohio railroads.
Freight forwarded without delay.
Passengers going South via Richmond and
P Petersburg, and Richmond and Danville rail-
roads, have two and half hours in Richmond
to procure dinner and attend to business, after
the arrival of the 10 55 train.
II. It. DOUGLAS, Supt.
N. 81. HoTCHKIss, Travelling Agent
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Saddles. Harness. dc.
NaDDLEs AND HEARNEss.-Ii

y want good work, go to GEO. F. clicks
VIII ere you will find the best assortment this side
OF Baltimore. which he will sell cheap for cash.
Saddles and Harness of all kinds-old and new
Trunks Whips, Bits &c; Buck Gloves, win
chester and Lewisburg make, and in fact, ev-
erything in his line of business.
Thanking his friends for past patronage he
aopes to merit continuance of the same.
REPAIRING done short notice.
Also, good lot of old Mcclellan Saddles and
Halters for sale cheap.
Store on Main street, doors west of Augusta,
nextdoor to Woods s. Gilzeson's hardware store
apl9
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OUTLERY.-Weh have added largely, dur
Z ing the past week, to our stock of Table
and Pocket Cutlery-some new styles, suitable
for Christmas presents-also good stock of Rog-
srs' and Westenholms scissors and shears
WOODS s. GILKESON
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VOLUME XIX.
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From the Philadelphia Bulletin, Dec. 18]

The Missouri Democrat being threatened
with libel suit, damages $4,000, for saying
Mr.. Colford was worth S. to any political par
ty, has made retraction. 1t says: mr.
Colford is not worth S. to any political party !;
he is not worth dollar"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23

NJ EW STORE and CHEAP GOODS

NEW STORE and CHEAP GOODS
II on the corner Of Augusta and Frederick
streets.-I am now receiving a large stock of
new staple goods, consisting of cotton goods,
calicoes, plaid cotton ginghams bleach cottons,
also heavy wooden and tweed goods, boots, shoes,
hats, &C., queensware, crockery, tinware, wood
enware also large stock of groceries, all of
which l will sell at low figures for cash or ex
changed for all kinds of produce: Cash will be
paid for -four, wheat corn oats, &c The farm n
ers and everybody will do well to give me call
sei9 j. A. LOGAN.
NEW GROCERY STORE. ". Ut
~ ley s. Co., dealers in Choice Family Gro
ceries, Bagby's new building, Frederick street,
Staunton, Va, respectfully inform their friends
and the public that they have in store a choice
stock of sugars, coffees, teas, bacon, lard soap,
candles, fish, salt, molasses, tobacco, plaster,
brooms, buckets, shoes &C., and, in fact every
thing usually found in frst-class grocery store.
Cash paid for country produce, or goods given
in exchange at market prices. They are pre-
pared to supply families with anything IN the
grocery line at very low prices for cash.
sep6
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LdUe9'y.
Buggies, Eshetons, Carriages,
Hacks. DC.

IN neatness and ease Of moving, are not to be
equaled by any Livery in the Valley.
=. ne can accommodate persons with superior RI
olng anu er5Vlng e horses-either gentle or fast.
d, Horses fea ana boarded on liberal terms.
The famous hcstler, Tom RETHEI. is in uen-
eral charge of the stables. - - 90"-
~ Office near the bridge-neoo b,.iLdiuo
ia9-tf m DSy. DTT1yD
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10, REMOVAL!
REMOVAL!
Having purchased the stock of Messrs. j. 5.
Gillian u Co, we have removed to the store
room lately occupied by them on
Augusta Street, next door TO Z. o.,
where we will keep constantly on hand choice
stock of FAMILY GROCERIES, which we
offer at reduced prices.
MIR. j. S. Gillian will remain with us and will
be glad to see his old customers and friends.
ia2-5t j. w. TODD o. co.
gSOffees! COfEecs.-We have in store, lot
u of Rio Coffee, from good to choice, which
we can offer to country merchants at such figures
as must attract, and induce them to buy. Con-
suit your interest and look, before buying. at
au8 BAKER BROS.
NNT heat Fan I'VE have No. wheat
w Fan, such as we have been using several
years, and know to be q first rate articie-for
sale at moderate figures.
auS-tf BAkER BROS.
NOR BEEF TONGUES,
u call On r. ID. SEARS, agent.
EDOPE, Rope.-All sizes for wells and hay
II, forks for sale, and cheap, at
au8 BAKER BROS.
ENOR Atmore's celebrated Mnee Meat
R. SEARS, agent.
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Groceries, dc.


@. Il. RICHARDSON,
(late of Richardson & Wheat),
New Building, Augusta Street,
Immediately opposite Splitter s. Hunter, and
next door to Valley Virgnian Office,
STA UNION, VIRGINIA.
Having again gone into the Grocery business,
in connection with my Flour and Produce trade
can sell choice Family Groceries cheaper
than they can be bought in the town.
| Having purchased stock of Staple Groceries
at the lowest cash rates, will sell them upon
small profit.
! NV present stock consists in part of the fol-
| lowing choice and selected goods:
SALT EGGS,
RICE LARD,
STGARS. TEAS,
| SYRITPS FISH,
| CHEESE. BACON,
COFFEES, BUTTER,
MEAL, FLOUR,
BUCKETS, SOAPS,
TORACCOS SPICES,
COTTON. YARNS, BROOMS,
ESSEN CES &c.
am determined to sell at the lowest CASH
RATES Ny motto is quack sales and small
profits All goods sold are warranted in every
respect as represented.
Satisfaction will be rendered to one and all
do not fail to call and see me.
make speciality of FLOUR-BU YlNG and
SELLING all brands and grades-a choice stock
of -four always on hand for family use. All
-four sold warranted as represented.
tender my thanks to all my friends and pa
irons who have stood by me continually and
well for the past five years. I tell them now
that am started again and will deal with them
as fairly and as literally as ever. Come one
come all, and give me trial again.
rs Be sure to remember the place for the
cheapest groceries--new brick building on Au-
gusta street, next door to the Valley Virgnian
office, and Immediately opposite Splitter & Hun
ter and II. A. Glenn & Co.
n. b. am not on the corner of Main and
Augusta streets as formerly, but in the rear part
of the new building, in the store room recently
occupied by Messrs P. B. & P. a. Sublett.
may3O
TEVO H0UsE-KEEPEgs s.-You will save
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A ELERECAN HOTEL
n Livery Stables. FASEsIsIG
STAUNTON. VA %@ME ~ IssssAkaaSA

JOHN O'TOOLE, ......... Proprietoe1rs'
Ny stables are constantly supplied with ele
e. at horses, carriages, buggies, hacks &C., which
will be furnished to my patrons on most reason
able terms. Also good and reliable drivers sup
piled if desired. L can furnish livery equal, if
not superior, to that of any other stable in the
State. Give me a trial and will guarantee sat-
isfactlon:. JOHN OTOOLE.
da2Q-ff
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Professional Directory.

TnRESTON A. BAYLOR,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND SOLICl-
TOR IN CHANCERY, STAUNToN, VA, prac-
tices in all the Courts of Augusta and adjoining
counties. h;
OFFIcE-The same formerly occupied by his
father, Col Geo. Baylor, decd, on Augusta ST.,
onnosite the Court-hOuse. noAL
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xCyEHAS. GRATTAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-L4W, w,
STAUNToN, Va,
VIII practice in the Courts of Augusta, Rock
ingham and Highland.
Office with the Sheriff. no2l-t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23

Il Canned Tomatoes,
canned corn,
canned peaches,
canned pine apple,
canned salmon,
canned peas,
etc. etc. etc.
r. ID. SEARS, agent.
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A o. MAUZY.
y ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ",
SrAUNToN, VA,
VIII practice in the Courts of Augusta, Rock
ingham, and Highland.
Ma- Prompt attention paid to Collections.
Office with VIM. A. Pratt. motif
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ID pATH
DATH
BRICK
BHECK

splendid article for cleaning
Kitchen Utensils, polishing Knives and Forks,
and Table Cutlery, at
r D. SEARS agent
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Death of James Fisk, Jr,


James Fisk, Jr., 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 Fisk s rival in
the affections of Miss Helen Josephine Mans.
field, who had suit on trial against Fisk for
slander, in which she aud Stokes were both
on the stand, as witnesses on Saturday Miss
Mansheld's 8 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 his
mastery manipulation of the machinery OF the
law, triumphed with iDjunctions in this, as on
many other noted occasions, driving his rival
to madness. with the fatal result now chroni-
cled. The career of Fisk is well known. A
few wears ago he drove peddler's cart across
the hills Of Vermont He has since passed
fhrougb such career as no other adventurer
has ever run, always buoyant and nearly al
wavs successful whether by fair means or foul.
Miss Helen Josephine Mansfield, or Mrs. Law
lor, as she is sometimes called, as the wife of
the actor of that name, is represented as a
sweet syren gorgeous adventures, whose
silk and diamonds and rare beauty matched
the meteoric brilliaucy of the career of the
"Prince of Erie Stokes, the assassin, is a
married man, about thirty years of age. and
only known to the public recently in connec-
ton with the Mansfield affair. The end which
has been reached is the natural climax OF such
career.-Bah SxA,
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N ESSRGE M. H RRIS q N :.
" ATTORNEY Y-AT-LAW,
STAUNTON,
Will practice in all the Courts holden in Angus
ia county. and in the Circuit Courts of the ad-
joining counties.
&a- Strict attention given to the collection Of
Claims.
Ofice-East of Courthouse, over Clerks Of
fee of Court of Appeals. oc3l-tf
nR. Il. REED,
New BRICK BUILDING,
Corner of Main and Augusta streets,
STA UNTON, VA.
1zzy- Entrance on Augusta street. o17-3m
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am determined to sell at the lowest CASH
RATES My motto is Quack sales and snaa1
profits All goods sold are warranted in every
respect as represented.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-07
The Place OF Science and Religion in
Culture.

The older you grow, and the ripper
scholars you become, the more severe
you will be your taste and the morea aus
tere will be your literary sympathies.-
You will come to see more and more
clearly that neither music, nor painting,
nor sculpture, nor pOety, can properly
be made the mann instrument of human
development; that the human intellect
and heart demand ultimately " manll-
er diet;;" that You must become power
ful minds and powerful men mainly
through the culture that comes from sci
ence and religion, You will never, In
deed. lose your relish for the beautiful;
on the contrary, you will have a keener
and nicer sense for it, and all that is
based upon it; but you will find de-
clining int rest in its lower forms
Schools of poety and art That once
pleased you will become insipid, and
perhaps offensive, to your severer taste,
your purged eye, your more rational
imagination. There will be fewer and
fewer works in the aesthetic sphere that
yoa throw spell or work a charm,
while the deep and chrystal truths of
philosophy and religion will draw, ever
draw, your whole being to themselves,
as the moon draws the sea.-W. r. G..
tSHeCld.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-07
A Wolverine Romance.
rom the Jackson Mich Patriot.l

From the Jackson (Mich.) Patriotl
Five years ago Ira +. Holland, a
young and energetic man, came to this
state from the east, and settling down
near Marshall, in Calhoun county, ap-
piled himself 10 farming. 1t was his
habit to visit a Mr.. Bingley, who re,
sided in the city of Marshall, and who
was one of its wealthiest residents, and
to deposit with him all his surplus
money. In this manner, after couple
of years, young Holland had accumu-
lated some $1,000, which amount re-
manned in the hands of Mr.. Bingley.
During the visits Holland paid to
the house of Mr.. Bingley, he met the
daughter of the latter, young and
very beautiful girl, who was most
favorably impressed with him, and
after about three months acquaintance
an engagement was agreed on. But
his hopes were doomed to a terrible
disappointment. The young couple
returned home from ramble one day,
and as they entered the house of Miss
BIngley they were met by the father,
who was i'm a high state of excitement.
He ordered young Holland from the
house, placing i'm his hands the amount
of money left with him, and sternly
forbade further intercourse with the
family. ..-
On the following day Holland was
arrested on the charge of horse steal
ing, and the trial elected sufficient
proof to sentence him to state prison.
it appeared that valuable span of
horses had been stolen from the barn
of Mr.. Bingley, and had been sold in
the city of Grand Rapids by man
who answered exactly to the appear
ance of young Holland, who had been
absent from home at the time of the
sale on business of his own, as he stated
it. but which, of course, was not credit
ed by the court. In consideration OF
his excellent character before the
crime, the court was lenient, aud re
turned a sentence of three years i'm
prisOnment.
Holland was hastened away to prison
amid his prOtestatiOns of innocence,
and without an opportunity of speak
ing "a word to his betrOthed. Wearily
dragged ON the months to the convict,
but at last his term of sentence ex-
pired, and he issued forth from his
prison doors, a bowed down and heart
broken man, his hair whitened before
its time by the great mental anguish
he had endured. He went to Cleve'
land, Ohio, and there met Alice Bing-
ley. She had become an orphan dur.
| ing the Imprisonment of her lover
and, tired of the scenes amid which
she had suffered so much, removed to
Cleveland, and was living with hel
mothers sister. She had adhered will
all a woman's devOtedness to the
memory of her convict lover, and
never deemed him guilty of the crime
charged to him. The long-separated
couple were married, and Immediately
started for Kansas, intending to com
mence life together in that far western
| state