Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-27

announced last week, DR.. Roszell, on Sunday
night last, resumed the discussion of the subject
of intemperance commenced, but OF finished, the
Sunday night previous.
On last Sunday night, he selected as his text
the 9Th verse of the LIST chapter of Joel:
''Aa0ake ye druakards. and aoeep; and hoa0l,
all ye drinkers Of aosaae because Of the aoine
for it is cut off from your maouth.'
The church on this occasion was filled to its
utmost capacity-every seat in the galleries as
we'll as on the floor being occupied. 1t is not
our purpose to attempt to- give report of the
address delivered on this occasion. We could
not do so without notes without doing great in
justice to the speaker, and we have not the. space
to give an abstract of an address which re-
quired one hour and half for its delivery by
| rapid speaker. 1t was of so unique character,
with such striking features such ornate rhetoric,
such bold defamation, delivered in such
nest manner with the force and charm of skillful
elocution, that his large audience listened with
rapt attention from the beginning to the close.
He prefaced his remarks by saying that he al
ways took care to plant himself upon the rock
of eternal truth before he threw stones at the
devil, for then he knew that they would not re-
bound.
He described in graphic manner the monster
evil of intemperance-the desolation and woe it
occasons-the many evils that follow in its train,
&c, and the obligation under which all rest to
do what they can to arrest it in its destructive
course.
He denounced in terms of caustic invective
| those who manufactured and those who sold
dent spirits beverage.
He spoke of ill-houses as black Notifications
along the confines of hell-whose architect was
the devil, whose master masous were the rum
sellers, and whose apprentices were tipplers-
whose fires typifed the fires of hell, whose smoke
that Of the smoke that ascendeth forever and ev-
er from the pit, and the bubbling spirits in the
cadron the spirits of lost souls on the lake of fire
and birthstone
He spoke of rum. sellers as the agents of the
devil, employed as wet-nurses for the grown-up
babies of the bottle.
The fend of intemperance som etimes entered
the sacred desk and made victims of the most
brilliant ministers, who drew their inspirations
of eloquence from grog instead of grace; but
grog and grace did not keep house together
there was an eternal enforcement sealed by God
himself
He drew an impressive picture of the life of
selfsacrifcing devotion and misery of the
it with the happy life she ed before she became
his wife.
He admonished the girls mever, NEVER,
NEVER to receive the addresses of any
young gentleman who was addicted to tipping,
however richly endowed with intellect and for
| tune, however high his social position, and how
ever accomplished, handsome and agreeable he
may be-that it would be far better to embrace
| a corpse-that rather than inhale the breath of
such, it would be better, like the jackaI to
breathe the effiuvium arising from the purifying
bodies of the charnel house.
He said he would not allow such to pay their
ad dresses to his crumpled horn cow as she came
from PASTURE and that if she would permit it, he
| would put bullet in her head, give her carcass
| to the vulture and pay the tanner to take away
her hide.
He regretted that no language was adequate
| to express the emotions which sweled his bosom.
| That if he could, he would have language
| whose every letter should be tongue Of fire,
every word lightning and every sentence sheet
of fame when he would with the violence of
| the tempest, stir to tumult the dead sea of the
| souls of the people, make a whirlpool of their
sensibilites and lash heir hearts into foam of
| feeling.
Those who were present on this occasion will
be apt to be of the opinion that the speaker
| needed not language of fire to give utterance
to thoughts that breath and words that burn"
RESULT OF THF ELEcTIoN.-The following is
the result Of the election in this county for Town
| ship officers on Thursday the 22nd instant, as
| shown by the commissioners who canvassed the
| vote on Saturday last:
Middle River ToaOaship.-Wm. Crawford, Su-
pervisor j. A. Kerr, Assessor; Sam'l n Pat
terson. Collector; VIM. FL. Myers, Clerk; Simon
| P. Slower, Commissioner of Roads: Kasper B.
| Koiner Justice of the Peace; Sam'l N. Patter-
| son. Constable; Tolarus Coiner, Overseer of
| the Poor.
| North River T0aomship.- VIM. B. Cochran,
| Supervisor; VIM. A. VICAR, ASSESSOR Robt. G..
| Byers, Collector; John &. Fulton, Jr., Clerk !;
| Philip .Airhart, Commissioner of Roads; d.
| Newton Van Lear and DR.. james T. Clarke,
Justices of the Peace; Robt. G. Byers Consta-
| BILE; Waller Oder, Overseer Of the Poor.
| Riverheads Tba0nshsp.-W T. Rush, Super
visor; Geo. P. Lightner, Assessor; Thos A.
| Brownlee Collector; Judson o. McCutchan,
| Clerk John D. Lilley, Commissioner of Roads /;
| A. A Sproul and VIM T. Smith, Justices of the
| Peace; Thos. A. Brownlee and Adam Rusmisel,
| Constables; Augustus Blauth, Overseer of the
| Poor.
| South River Township S. Ellis, Super
visor; Geo. w. Suffer- Assessor; A. M. Bow
| man, Collector; VIM. M. Calwell, Clerk; Jas.
A Fitch, Commissioner of Roads; Geo. A.
Bruce, Justice of the Peace; Isaac Baker and
A. NJ Bowman, Constables = Charles Brooks,
| Overseer Of the Poor.
! Beverly Manor Township. John Paris, Super
| visor; John Kinney, Assessor; James N. Nc
Farland, Collector; John M. Kinney, Clerk;
Sam'l K. Taylor, Commissioner of Roads; Ed
win M. Gushing, Justice of the Peace; James
n Mcfarland, Constable; Michael McAlear
Overseer of the Poor.
| Pastures ToaOnship.-Henry 3. 9eig, Supervi-
sor David F. Hoover, Assessor; VIM. T. Light
ner, Collector John Waldrop, Clerk VIM. D
Hanger, Commissioner of Roads; B. o. Fergu-
son, John S. Guy and Jas. Wilson, Justices of
the Peace; VIM T. Lightner and Geo. ". Cab
bert, Constables; VIM. T. Lightner, OVerseer of
the Poor,
The Poll Books of Mt Meridian and Barter
brook were rejected for the reason that the Judg-
es of Election at those precincts failed to certify
the number of electors.
AGRICULTURAL & Mocha NICAL COLLEGE,
We have received copy Of the catalogue ofthe
officers and students of the first session of the
Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College es-