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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

THESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD.-On
~ and after September LIST, Passenger
Trains leave Richmond Sunday excepted) as
soIlows:
$3.50 A. M.-MaiI Train for the White Sulphur
Springs, connecting at Gordonsvillewith Orange
Alexandria Manassas Train for Washington
and North, and Lynchburg and South.
1886 P. INSTRUMENTATION Train for Cor
louisville, except on Saturday, on which day it
leaves at P. M. This train connects at Cor
louisville with the night trains on the Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas railroad for Lynch
burg and Washington.
Through tickets, at low rates, sold to all points
Northwest and Southwest
Storage tickets from Liverpool, Queenstown,
Amsterdam Antwerp, Hamburg, Havre, Rotter-
dam, Bergen, Copenhagen and Gothen berg, 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
Further information may be obtained at the
company's Office.
No Passenger Trains are run on SUNDAYS.
A. Fl. PERRY,
.,. General Superintendent.
JAMES F. NETBERLAND,
General Ticket Agent. sept9
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The recent trial Of Congressman Stokes,
of Tennessee, for prosecuting fraudulent
claims against the Government, was conclu-
ded in Washington on Monday, by YER
dict Of guilty. The prescribed penalty for
this offence is a fine of $4,000, or one years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The General Amnesty Bill, loaded wit h
Summers Civil Rights Amendment, has
fallen through.
The only hope, and very slight one it is,
that before the end of the session majority
can be secured to vote down the implacable
Summers factious opposition.
-@>-s--->----
DR.. B. Sears delivered an address in the
Senate Chamber before the House Commit
tee on Schools and Senate Committe on
Public Institutions, on Wednesday. He
advocated State Normal School.
Nathan Sherer, Of Winchester, and well
known in the Valley, died suddenly, at the
Taylor Hotel, in that City, on the 9th inst. /,
in the Goth year of his age. y j-e
Hon. Jno. Z. Harris delivered an able
speech, ip the House of Representatives, on
the National School Funl Bill.
Hugh W. Fry, Tor many years promi-
nent merchant in Richmond, died in that
city on Tuesday night.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

Nine passenger sJsps and 1000 freight
cars are block@ded in the Snow OF the Pa
ciic Railroad
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The Senate has ordered to engrossment
the bill curtailiug the pay of County School
Superintendent In County of less than
$4,000 population, the salary is not to ex-
coed $3.50, if over 1000 population the
County may allow 500 additional for each
1000 in excess of Is, 0OO No County or
School District is allowed to levy more than
one-half mill Oh the dollar.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

A TTENTION! ATTENTION
n The undersigned have opened Shops on
the old National Hotel Stable Yard, sud are pre-.
pared to do all work in the WAGON MAKING
and BLACKSMITH LINE, in all its details
Their prices will be adapted to the times and
they will make it to the interest of all to call on
them, either for new work or repairs
l.. HARTMAN & CO.
.S.-W H. WATTS, Agent of the St. Louis
Mutual Insurance Company, has moved his Office
to the above premises, where he can ALWAYS he.
found to insure lives or property. jan5-tf
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There are now 8 300, 900 bushels of grain
in store and afoat Chicago. slaAl2 81
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The Legislature has left the Land Scrip
Bill and taken up the Funding Bill, with
no more likelihood of more successful re-
suit on it than on the other. So many have
been the propositions under discussion. and
SO voted upon, that you can scarcely tell
where any single member stands. In the
fast place they suspended the Funding Bill,
then the Minority report of the Committee
was defeated the Majority Report was
amended by repeating the Funding Bill;
then followed the defeat Of number of pri-
yate bills. including those Of Messrs. O'Fer'
rail- and Deneale, and then they rejected the
Majority report. This brought them around
the circle back to original principles, and they
commenced work on the Funding Bill anew.
They struck the coupon feature out Of the bill
and refused to pay the January interest and
refused to ray the 4 per cent for 1872. At
various times they have refused to pay per
cent seni-annually, 8 per cent semi-annually,
8, 6 and 9 per cent for II years respective
iy, 3 and 6 per cent for II years respective
", and all mixtures OF these per centages,
including per cents on only two-thirds Of
the debt, and rejected the proposition to
turn over the States Assets in full payment
of the debt.
After this, can any body tell what The
Legislature means In fact, do the men,
bers, themselves, know what they want !
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DOCKS AND STATIONERY.

DOCKS AND STATIONERY.
A large stock of English,
Latin, Greek, and French
School Books, good assortment,
Miscellaneous Books
Blank Books, Pass Books,
Diaries, Cap, Letter and
Tissue Paper, Bristol Board.
States, Slate Washers, Slate Pencils,
Lead Pencils, Pocket Knives.
Perforated Paper, Portfolios,
Music Portfolios,
Bank Checks and Negotiable Notes, Check Books
Scrap Books, Wrapping Paper, Paper BAGS
Steel Pens, Penholders, Stationers' Rubber
Gum Bands, Paper Fasteners, Black Sand, Sand
Boxes, Rulers. Paint Boxes, Paint Brushes Court
Plaster, Tooth Picks, Indelible Ink. CoIored and
White Chalk, Crayons, Linen and PAPER Twine
photograph Albums, Bibles and Testaments'
Prayer Books Hymn Books Sunday School
Books, Sunday School Cards and Tickets. and
Small Cloth Lined Tags. All at LOWEST PRICE.
seplo-f ROBERT COWAN.
NOUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS
" OF SCHOOLS,
SCHOOL TRUSTEES AND TEACHERS.
CAN FIND
THE BEST TEXT BOOKS.
HUNTER IL cos.
booksellers, Stanton Virginia,
Publishers Agents for
McGUFFEY'S READERS AND SPELLERS.
DAVIES ARITHMETIC,
GUYOT'S BIOGRAPHIES AND HARVEY'S
GRAMMARS,
which have been adopted by the State Board of
Education for use in the Public Schools of Vir-
ginia.
Send for price lists and circulars.
We have also good stock of other
SCHOOL BOOKS
STATES, ..,
INKS AND
SCHOOL
STATIONERY
IB- All orders should be addressed to
HUNTER & Co., Booksellers,
mar3l-tf Staunton, Va.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16
The political world is much excited over

The political world is much excited over
the late political vancouver of Col. Forney,
of the Washington Chronicle. He has re-
signed his position as collector Of the Port
of Philadelphia, which is attributed to the
growing hostility to President Grant, and
shat Forney, unlike the war horse, snuffs
the unequal battle not SO far off. The Grant
ring in Philadelphia presumed to dictate to
Forney, who Immediately sent in his resig-
nation. Grant declined to receive it, but
Forney persists in his intention to resign.
The reformcrs axe gaining ground and
Grant stock is waning, and Forney, the po-
litical shuttlecock, understands it clearly
The most rabid Republican, though hold
ing up for Grant, in his Utmost heart scarce
" entertains the hope for his election. He
may, and it is very probable that, by the
efforts of his ofice.holders and few others,
he will get the nomination Of the Republi-
can party, but his election is different
thing. The Reformers will certainly put
Candidate in the field, if Grant gets the
Republication nomination, and they will en-
brace the larger portion of the Republican
party. The Democracy, though said to be
dead, are living host, and with two such
adyersaries, Grant stock must be below par.
Forney sees this and is sharp enough to
stand from under. Like cat, he intends
to light en- his feet. Say what they will,
and sugar-coat it as they may, Forney's de-
sertion of the Grant ring forebodes no good
to bis Excelleucy and his retainers
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

TITO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE STOCK
OF THE VALLEY RAILROAD COM.
PANY.-Notice is hereby given that unless the
thirty per cent of the subscriptions for which
acquisitions have been made by the Board of
Directors be promptly paid, legal proceedings
will be taken to collect the same.
Payment can be made at the Office of Shelley
& umgardner.
HUGH W. SHEFFEY,
Counsel for the V. R. R. Company
feho-2t
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feb16-5t

A NICE LITTLE FARM FOR SALE.-Pur-
IN suant to decree of the Circuit Court
of Augusta county, rendered at its June term
1868, in the case of IN. L. Blakemore and Sam
uel Houdayshell and wife," the undersigned, as
Commissioner thereby appointed for the purpose,
will on Saturday. the 23rd day Of
March 1S72. proceed on the premises, to sell
at public auction to the highest bidder. the tract
of land on which Samuel Andrew now resides
containing 1S acres, situated on the public road
leading from Sangersville to Stanton, two
miles South of Sangersville, in Augusta county.
Said land is in pretty good state of cultivation.
The improvements consist of good frame dwell
ing house, with good out buildings, and there is
never-failling well of water in the yard sale
to take place at 2 O. clock, P. NJ.
TERMS OF SALE-Costs of sale in hand, and
tne balance In six, twelve and eighteen months,
in equal instalnents, bearing interest, the
purchaser to give bonds with good security, and
the title to be retained as ultimate security.
febl6-lm PHILIP AREHART
r AND IN MARKET.-In pursuance of a de-
~ cree of the Circuit Court of Augusta
County, made in cause of Philip Airhart, against
Abraham Airharts infants, l will proceed, on
the premises, on Tuesday, February
18th, ES7S, to sell, at public sale, to the
highest bidder, the tract of land which descend
ed from said Abraham Airhart, decd, on North
River, in said county, about one mile from Sang
SerSVlle, containing lU4 acres, ABOUT Two thirds
ofwhich are cleared and ofsuperior quality 1t
has no buildings on it-adjoins Philip Airhart.
TERMS.-Costs of sale and suit in hand, bal
ance in equal instalments at six, eighteen and
thirty months, bearing interest, the purchaser to
give bonds with sufficient personal security, and
the title to be retained as further security
PosTPoNEMENT.-The above sale is postponed
until SATURDAY, MARCH 2aRD,. 1872, at
10 O'Clock A. NJ. 5' f'3t'
N. K. TROUT,
febl6-tds Commissioner.
AH ISSOURI LAND.-For Sale, or in ex-
lYI change for Va. property, part, or the
whole of 1880 acres of which 1900 are splendid
prairie bottom, $50 in adjoining timber, 100 i'm
proved, house, orchard &C., on hill overlooking
prairie with permanent streams of water. Rare
advantages for livestock, and for grain and
grass inexhaustible. Situated in Adair Co.,
70 miles west of Quincy ILL.,, and in d triangle
formed by three railroads Depot, Church.
School, Mill, Post-ofice and two Villages near.
Mr.. N. A. Baylor proposes visiting this farm
early in May, when he will show the property
to any one.
Address,
ABSALOM KOTNER,
r'l Fishersville
febl6-3t-spec. copy Augusta Co. Va.
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New Advertisements.

~O>~~>-o~>-~~-~~~~~~
j. FRED. EFFINGER. ROBERT CRAIG.
FFFINGER l. CRAIG,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16


-.l
IMPORTER OF
Wines. gsrantaies. Gins. Sc.
DEALER IN
FINE OLD WHISTLES.
Manufacturer of -5t b..
COLOGNE AND FRENCH SPIRITS.
NO. 21e N. THIRD STREET,
PHILA DELPHIA.
febl6-.vr +.A H-- t- 81 'iatr
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

Mayor Hall. of New York, has been in
7dicted for neglect of duty. He promptly
appeared before the Committee and asserted
that the indictments could be quashed fer
gross irregularities, but, as he had silently
borne malicious persecution, and as the time
had come when he could defend himself, he
demanded an immediate trial, and asked
that the trial be fixed for Monday next,
which was done BY the Court and he
was bailed in the sum of $4,000.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

A1OTICE.-On July 20, 1871, a negotiable
~ note for three hundred and forty three
dollars and nine cents ($343 90 payable to
George S. Wilson, Administrator, at the Ma
ton Valley Bank ofStaunton, signed bv John
Mcclure, Supt. Siberton Iron Co, was delivered
to me for transmission 10 the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue at Harrisonburg for stamping, ard
os in transmission, -si7sf.4f .
! A. M, CRANE,
Assessor
Stanton, Va, Feb. 18th 1872.
@a> All persons are hereby forbidden from
paying or negotiating the above note "r,a1is
febl6-3t# GEO. A. WILSON, Admir-.
DUBLIC SALE.-I will offer at public sale,
4 at the residence, of W. F. Snapp, near
Stanton, On FRIDAY, MARCH lsT, 1872 if
fair, if not the next fair day, the following Per-
sonal Property Horses, Fresh Cows, Hogs,
Wagon and Harness. Buggy and Harness, Farm
Cooking Stove Corn, Potatoes, Bacon, &C., &c.
Terms made known on day of sale.
A. Il. PRICE, Trustee.
febl6-tds Spec. copy. HfH .t'ssls
TOR SALE-the undersigned has for sale,
few pair of pure Dark Brahma Chickens
At $40 per pair; Bronze Turkeys at $40 per
pair Game Chickens lot of Horses at Va
Hotel Stables, among them Gotham Stallion
and 2 Ponies; 2young Mich Cows new Road
Wagon and Plantation Wagon; also 2 pair
of pure Chester Hogs. gits1G.
For further information, apply st l'Yinaica-
teri Office. ola. ~ .
febl6-.f j. K. CARSON.
rVNHORNROSE CEMETERY. erBes s;s.t h
TO LOT HOLDERS.
You will please call at ONCE at my Office and
get YOUR Title cards 50 that may close my re-
port. Hoursa from l0a. m.ito Q p. M No
ahqrge gaade. slsvs
VIM. A. PRATT, Sec. pro tenn
By order Of the Executive Committee.
febl6-1f '4-' -s -i't' tat
THOR RENT THAT very desirable Store-room,
II occupied by Guy g. Drake known as
Corner Possession given on
April LIST 1872. lDaas 5i21D ~ 2'ssS' sas14
For terms, apply to- yg9d 81 1g3g4
ie. 4 MRS. H. NJ. LALLY.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

TOPARTNERSHIP.- undersigned have
" this day formed partnership under
the firm of Cook & Lyman for the purpose of
transacting general milling business at Clines
Mill.
Mr.. N. Lyman is authorized to Transact
any business for our account
JNO NJ. LYMAN,
feb9-3t# P. S.COOK.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

TREE SCHOOL BOOKS, consisting of Guyot's
L Biographies, Harvey's Grammers, McGuf-
fey's Readers and Speller, Davies Arithmetics,
Spencerian Copy Books, Webster's Dictionaries,
&c. A full supply constantly on hand for sale,
at BELL 4 CO.'S, Booksellers and Stationers,
corner of Main and New streets. feb9-tf.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

Jno, W. jenkins, prominent member
OF the Radical party, in Richmond, was
brought before the Bar of the House on
Wednesday for refusing to state before the
Committee Of Investigation, who had paid
him to lobby the Funding Bill through the
Legislature. He Piled his rights as Counsel,
but was not allowed to address the House
or submit written argument, the case of
Pat Woods being cited as precedent
against it. Still refusing to answer, he was
committed to the custody Of the Sergeant
at Arms, to await the further order Of the
House
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

N, :. 60
The Committee, in the Legislature has
concluded to report Till allowing county
Treasures until Dec first to collect taxes,
before turning them over to the collectors,
and extends the time for final settlement
till March, thus giving three months longer
for the collectl.u
This is right, far as it goes, but it
should 60 farther. The Legislature should
also provide that the collected taxes be de-
posted in the local Banks as fast as collect
ed, to remain until the demands on the
Treasury Deeessitated their withdrawal, and
then to be drawn oportionally from each
locality. a. .-, 81
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

Cpring supply of new styles of Wall Papers,
y beautiful patterns, for sale at BELL &.
Co.'S. feb9-tf
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-02-16

LIFE INSURANCE RECOVERED. We are
pleased to learn that Mrs. NJ. A. Clopton,
widow Of the late Rev. James G. Clopton,
Of this city, has recovered verdict of
$4,000, against New York Life Insurance
Company; the amount Of insurance upon
the life Of her husband who died here some
time during the latter part of the war. The
suit was brought in New y ork Court, and
payment of the policy was resisted by the
company on the ground that the premiums
had not been paid alter the commencement
Of the war, The Court held that this plea
was not valid. the Company having with
drawn its agent, thus leaving no person to
whom the party insured could pay the pre-
MUM, and the plaintiff was therefore enti-
tied to recover the amount Of the policy
Judgment was therefore entered according
ly.-Lynchbury News.
A number of similar cases to the above,
and some stronger, exist in this State, Eve
know of one in this locality,) where North
ern Companies received the yearly premi-
ums up to, and even after the war com.
menced, and yet have continued to refuse
payment of amount of policies. There has
been no equity in this. The contract on the
one side was complied with, as long as the
insured were able to pay to authorized
agents Of these Northern Companies, aud yet
the payment Of losses refused and not even
return of the premiums acknowledged to
have been received The above decision on.
ly forces the iuliiment of the contract by
the other side and is most just one We
publish the above for the information of al!
interested; and, especially as we believe thai
they can not fail 10 recover before any jus.
tribunal.
We take the ccasion also to suggest the
propsiety of insuring, either life Or property
In home compares. for two very important
reasoDs-it keep the money at home, apo
avoids litigation on account of the f1imsy
pretexts put forth some Northern Com
panies to refuse payment of just losses.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-05
SOME CuRTOUS FACTS.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette has been examining the
tables of mortality furnished by the Census
Bureau, and unearthed some figures that
suggest queer deductions. For instance,
he takes the States whose names begin with
Mas, for example, Maine, Massachusetts,
and Michigsn-where stringent temperance
laws exist and are enforced, and finds that
the ratio Of direct is higher than that of in
dirert self-destruction; that is to say, more
people shoot, poison, hang and drown them
selves than put themselves out of the way
with alcohol. He then takes other States
Maryland and Missouri, where there is a
laxity of morals, and finds that the ratio of
indirect is higher than that of direct selfde-
struction; that is to say, fewer people shoot,
hang or drown themselves than put them
selves out Of the way with alcohol. In
Maine, where prohibitory law exists, the
proportion of suicides is one in $4,000;
deaths from the use of alcohol one in
10000; while in Missouri, where no such
law exists, the rate is reversed; the proper
ton of the first is one in $4,000, that of
the last, one in $4,000. In Massachusetts,
the proportion of suicidal deaths is one in
1900, Of alcohol, one in $4,000; while in
Maryland the proportion of the first is one
in $4,000, Of the last, one in 41,0OO. 1t
appears further, that taking the two modes
of selfdestruction together, the ratio is
higher in the prohibitory than in the non
prohibitory States. In Maine it is one in
1880; in Maryland one in 27,0Oe; in Mas
sachusetts one in II 800, and in Mississippi,
one in I4,600.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-05


We have not yet seen any satisfactory
evidence that the African explorer, DIR.
Livingstone, has been heard from within
several years past. There have been nI-
merous reports about him, from one ard
another source, but 40 intelligence from
him. The English Swans keep up the pub
lie expectations By turning over and over
and discussing the latest rumors, and now
that Sir Roderick Murchison is gone, Sir
Henry RsElinson performs the agreeable
office Of assuring the world, (without
any good evidence) that DR.. Livingstone is
all right, that be is only waiting for some
thing, and that as soon as he gets it, he win
make his appearance, with the map of Cen
tr&l Africa and Of the sources of the Nile in
bis hand, and pour flood of light on the
geography of that dark part Of the world.
We hope it may be so. We too will wait
and see. The latest Information that we
have received is contained in a statement
made by Sir II. Rawlinson, at the
meeting of the London Royal Geo.
graphical Society, on the 18th of May,
that it was misapprehension that Mr..
Stanley, the correspondent of the Herald,
had discovered and relieved Livingstone, as
the former was known to be reduced to
great straits, and Livingstone had large
stores of all kinds. The inference was that
if eitherhad found and relieved the other,
it must have been Livingstone who had
found Stanley and taken care of him. An
additional statement comes to as through
the Bombay dazette of April %, to the
effect that at the annual meeting of
the Free General Assembly Institution at
Bombay, the Rev. DR.. Wilson expressed
his belief that DR.. Livingstone was still
alive. The reverend gentleman based his
belief upon the fact that the African tray
eller had taken away with him ten African
educated young men, two of whom be-
longed TO the institution, and as it was i'm
probable that all of these were killed, they,
knowing the great interest attached to the
expedition, would have taken steps to an
nounce whether anything had gone wrong.
With all these rumors and suggestions, we
must look for something direct from the
great traveller, after his years Of silence,
before we can have much faith in his being
in the land of the living.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-05
THE DESPERATION OF THE GRANT
MEN.

1t is as true to-day as it ever was, that
"drowning men catch at straws." There
could be no stronger evidence that disor-
gsnizatiOn is spreading rapidly in the Re
publican ranks than the fact That the lead
ing party organ has condescended to offer
paltry bid for the Southern vote. The
New York Times, the only Grant organ of
any influence in the great commercial me
tropolis Of the country, puts forward the
assumption that the only hope of the South
for peace and prosperity lies in giving
hearty accord ''so the results of the war;"
as that journal elects to term the arbitrary
acts of despotism by which an unfortunate
people have been goaded to desperation.
The Times, while recognizing the fact that
the Southern people are determined to re-
sist, and, if possible, cast off the expressions
by which the South has been impoverished
and degraded, sneers at its leaders as ''turb-
ulent spirits" who are 'setting themselves to
hinder the prosperity Of the country, and
adds its friendly counsel that "the two
things which the South needs-and it needs
them both sorely-are capital to develop her
immense resources, and local governments
of efficiency and integrity, to protect all
who are or who may become citizens or
residents in the full enjoyment of all their
rights of person and property" Those es-
sentials, it assures us, are really offered by
the regular Grant Republicans, and it goes
so far as to argue that the Southern people
are fully aware of that fact, and, if the
Democratic Convention should make no
nomination, the larger portion viii side with
the regular Republicans, in contradislnc-
ton to the Liberal wing Of that party. We
are almost provoked to smile at the picture
of the Times holding up Grants admins
tration as guarantee that the Republican
party will hereafter offer the South "spb-