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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

CANDIDATEs.-The Gordonsvillo ,,Ga-
zette' says that the names of James Bar.
bour Esq, and General Field, of Culpep-
er, Maj: Robert W. Hunter and General
James Williams, of Frederick, Major sam.
!. Z. Moore, OF Clarke, j, Y. Menefee, of
Rappahannock, Judge Henry w. Thomas.
of Fairfax and General Eppa Hunton, the
present representative, will be before the
Congressional Convention, to be held in
Alexandria Oh the Goth of August.
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THE AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.-The TO-
lowing are the dates of holding the fail $
named: Charleston, W. Va, September
10Th and Both, and October LIST and I'd ;
Richmond, October 9th, 2Sth, 29th and
both; Staunton, October 18th, 14th and
18th; Abingdon, September 3Oth and DC.
tober 1st and I'd; Wytheville, October 9th,
9TH and sth Lynchburg, October Goth,
DIST. ODD and 23d.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

Mr.. James M. Ashley, formerly radical
republican partisan, is mentioned as a pos
sible democratic candidate for Congress in
the sixth Ohio district, where the republi-
cans are quarreling.
M. D. Conway, in London letter, says
hit has not seen in any English paper a word
of comment on the marriage of Mr.. Sar-
toris with daughter Of the President of
she United States.
Captain James M. Figgatt, has been
elected mayor of Fincastle, Va, in place
Of DR.. Carper, deceased,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

THE RICHMOND DIsTRICT.-A Rich.
mond letter in the Petersburg "News'
says:
AS matter of fact, Ex-Governor Walk
Ell is now the only candidate for the Con.
seryative nomination in this district
There may be others who "would accept
the nomination''-but it will probably
never be offered them. Our people are
not forcing honors upon any body.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

THE Washington "Chronicle" is pub
fishing some very suspicious looking edi-
torials about the Conservative fight in the
Richmond district. If they are not writ
ten for purpose, then we know nothing
about the business
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FAST TIME.-An extra passenger train
arrived at the depot on Thursday after
noon about the time of the arrival of the
regular train, which was behind time, and
passed the station at the rate of til irty
miles an hour. The air brakes were ap.
piled and the train brought to dead tor
within a distance Of fifty feet .-Harrison on
bWy (Va.) Old Commonwealth.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

GOV. ALLEN, of Ohio delivered a lecture
in Cincinnati on the 4th of July, on the
Pioneers of Ohio. 1t will be Notifying
to the Lynchburg papers to know that lie
never mentioned that town once.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

The curiosity correspondent Of the
Wvthyille s'Dispatch" has found q man in
Bland county. who weighs 567 pounds
He is so oorpt, ant that he sits great deal
of his time in his spring house, to prevent
his fat from melting.
A water spot ON Jennings Greek, Rote=
tourt county, Va, the 18th instant, de-
stroyed a great deal Of fencing, and DANA
ged the corn crops and gardens.
The New York "World," editorially re-
commends Hon. J. S. Millson as a candi-
date for Congress from the Norfolk Dis
trict. He has been dead and buried
more than a year.
Rev. Benz. L. Holloway, colored, pastor
of the African church at Rocky Mount,
Va, died last Tuesday morning, OF ty-
phoid fever,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

DIsGUsTED.-Th Washington s'Chron-
cile" of Monday morning says: THE ether
day, Il young lady, while crossing a field at
Arlington, was knocked down by ram,
and the next time the damaged damsel
saw her lover she informed that astonish-
ed youth that he might go about his bust.
ness, as she was Disguised with the sex"
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A BA TTERY THAT NEVER SUR
RENDERED.

In looking over the biographies of the
members of the Missouri Legislature hand
ed us by member of our own Legisla-
ture, we find that that body contains a
Confederate who, as the Missouri tradition
goes, "never surrendered. The member
from Layette county, Mo-, is r. A. Col
Inns, a native of Kentucky, and the young
est son of Col. Richard Collins, Of that
State. A lawyer at the breaking out of the
civil war he entered the ranks as private
and fought his way to the captaincy OF a
battery. When defeat had overtaken the
Confederate armies, he went with his COM
rades to Dick Taylor's confederacy, and
from that to Mexico, but as the facilities
were not to be had in that country fol- car
ryihg on war with the United States, he
came back to Missouri to practice law He
is the Democratic member from Lafayette
county, Mo-, and is spoken of for the Of
fee of Land Register. We have relative
of his in Staunton-a brother, W. a. Col
Inns, lately of Pittsburgh, Pa, who, with
his family, has cast his lot here.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

OLIVER P. BALDWIN, Jr., son of the
distinguished editor, o. P. Baldwin, Esq.
who is well-known to our people. has
commenced the practice of law in Bslti-
more. He rapidly rising into distinction
in his profession, and has the additional
recommendation Of energy and industry.
Those of our citizens who have legal bust
ness in Baltimore, will find him prompt
and efficient in all matters entrusted to
him
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24
PHILIP D. RODDY, WAS THE NEXT
WITNESS.

He was shown the opera glass and bun.
die of private papers which he identified as
being in a trunk in his room at Taylor's
Hotel, in Jersey City, and which We're alb
stractad from it, together with seven Eng
lish sovereigns in March last; he asked
the prisoner, who was at the Ashland
House, how she got into his trunk, and
the reply was, 'Roddy, am smarter than
YOU are , at an anteeedent conversation he
had complained of a hotel bill that was
presented to him for payment, when he
said. i will pay no more;;' she replied.
YOU will pay just what please | have
got YOU > he urged her to return his pa
ners. promising to do anything if she re-
stored them, but she declined, adding that
,he wanted $50, 900, and no less than that
would do her any good The threatened to
take out search warrant, which was met
couple of bullets through you, for I have
been advised to that course. She took tbs
onera GLASS from his room In Washington
While he was sick in bed, but got it again
on The 1st of March. The witness said he
was not married to the prisoner, and never
nromised to marry her; that he had wife
Ind five children, and she knew it when he
became acquai ted with her in 1867, at
the house of Mrs. Warifg.
Nh, Sullivan subjected inc General TO =
rigid but cautiously conducted CROSSES
animation. Mi. Roddy said he was forty
EIGHT wears old that last January he re-
3trTned from Washington with the defen-
dant and proceeded to Taylor's Hotel,
where they breakfasted together; that he
bald ' for her room at the Ashland House,
where she stayed for two months; he went
t9 his home in Alabama, and upon return
ma to New York he visited her at the
Asaland House about once a week; chat
he stopped at the st. James Hotel when in
Washington, but did not occupy the same
roen with her; he gave her an agreement,
in 80, to deliver to her, after a year an
amount equal to $4,000 value, second
mortgage bond Of the Selma and Gulf
Pafroad. conditioned that she would cease
taking schloroform and spirituous liquor
for enc year, and she gave him bond that
the agreement would be void if she did !
not comply with his request; they were
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

Frank Leslie, of the Illustrates, was
married at Saratoga, New York, .saly
18th, to Miss Florence Squier, editress Of
the ''Lady's Journal"
Professor John Randolph Tucker, is
spoken of for Congress from the Rock
bridge district,
DR.. Thomas J. Pretlow, ST., Of South
ampton county, Va, had his collar bone
pIokeH ny holse last WetA'
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

THE MERCHANTS TAx.-The Rich
mond enquirer" publishes request from
nine of the most prominent merchants OF
that city, that it will publish, as early as
may be convenient, the able argument OF
Judge Alexander B. Cochran, OF Stanton,
in reply to the Hon. A. H. II. Stuart's
defence of the tax bill passed by the late
Legislature of Virginia. We would also
request the publication of Mr.. Stuart's ar
ticle, and that it precede Judge Cochran s. "
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

RETURNED.-We understand that seve
raj young men who went from Bedford
county to Missouri have returned, fully
satisfied that Virginia is the best place at
ter all, and determined to spend their days
on her soil.-Lznchburu Hirainian.
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DEATH OF DIR. r. Z. STRIBLING.


OF this distinguished physician who
died yesterday, an obituary will be found
i'll another column. Of his professional
character, the celebrated DR.. Kirkbride, of
Philadelphia, lately said that che stands at
the head of his profession in America, :"
and of his character as man, it may only
be said that he was public benefactor,
whose life was crowded with good acts
springing from a generous heart and re-
ligious convictions. He fell short in no
relation of life. and closed life full of use
fulness with death full of hope. In the
great crowd that will follow him to the
grave to-day, there will hardly be heart
that does not beat quicker with some kind
ly personal recollection Of this great ply
sician and Christian gentleman.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

Captain Hester, the special agent of the
Post office Department, has had Jones and
Jennings, the colored mail agents before
him, but found nothing to criminate them
in the recent burning of the mail car on
the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad,
The contract for the two million brick
for the Virginia A. and M. College, has
been awarded to Mr.. Herald, of Blacks
burg. His bid was S6.4S per thousand.
Ex-Mayor Walter Lenox, of Washington
city, is dead.
John B. Terrall, of Bedford county, Va
al assessor 10 years of age, died last week
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24
TEACHING GRAMMAR.

Professor Webster then read a report
prepared by Mr., G. D, Mccoy, Principal
of the Deaf, Dumb It Blind Institute of
Stanton, on 'sThe best Practical Method
Of Teaching the Elements of English
Grammar"
The report speaks of the difficulty Of
writing on the question, since it has been
often asserted on the floor Of the Conven-
ton that we have no English Grammar.
1t would have no textbook at first, but
would have the pupil daily taught to
speak correctly, then to write correctly,
classify words, and then study systematl-
cal construction.
The report would have textbooks intro
duced in the latter stages, but would not
follow them slavishly; the success de-
pending far more on the teacher than on
the book.
Professor Webster earnestly enforced
the general views of the report,
Mr.; II, L, Davies, another member Of
the committee, then read a paper taking
views in the main according with the pre-
yious report, but insisting that none of
the more recent grammars are quite equal
to that of Roswell G. Smith.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-24

hNoW
"Decenobep 80, 1870, midnight Dear
Husband: [ desire to leave with you be
fore going to bed statement that MI.
Henry Ward Reeeher called upon me this
evening and asked me if [ would defend
him against any accusation in q council OF
ministers, and [ replied solemnly that |
would in case the accuser was any other
person than my husband. He (H. w. b.
dictated q letter, which [ copied as my
own, to be used by him as against any
other accuser except my husband.
s'Fhis letter was designed to vindicate
Mr., Beecher against all other persons save
only yourself. [ was ready to give him
this letter because he said with pain that
my letter in your hands, addressed to him.
dated December 20, had struck him dead
and ended his usefulness. You and | are
pledged to do our best to avoid publicity.
anxieties. Affectionately,
ELIZABETH
BEEcHER9s FIRST ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
''My Dear Friend Moulton; ask
through you Theodore Tilton's forgive
ness, and [ humble myself before him as I
do before my God. He would have been a
better man in my circumstances than |
have been. [ can ask nothing except that
he will remember all the other breasts
that would ache. I will not plead for my
self. | even wish that / were dead; but
others must live to suffer. | will die be-
fore any bpt myself shall be inculpated.
ssAll my thoughts are running out to-
wards my friend, and toward the poor.
child lying there and praying with her
folded hands. He is guiltless, sinned
against, bearing the transgression of an
other. Her forgiveness have. Ihumbly
pray to God to put it into the heart of her
husband TO forgive nae,
81 have trusted this to Mr., Moulton in
confidence. III. WARD REECHER,'
In the above document the last sentence
and the signature are in the handwriting
of Rey. Henry Ward Beecher.
Mr. BEECHER TO MRS. Triton,
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The Virginia Educational
&AeiefV

The prisoner was acquitted of the charge.
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THE GREAT SCANDAL.

EXPOSITION BY THEODORE TILToN-
SPECIFIC CHARGES AGAINST BEECH
ER-HIs LETTERS AND Mrs. TILToN's
LETTERs-PoRTRAIT OF THE CHIEF
ACTORS.
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THE WAGES OF SIN.

A GUILTY LOVE AND IT'S CONSEQUENT
CEs-A LIFE OF ToRTURE-A CON
FEDERATE GENERALS INFATUATIoN
AND WHAT CAME OF 1.-THE "WON-
DERFUL WOMAN" ON TRIAL-STRANGE
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The Scandal SuIts.

I he present status of the Brooklyn
scandal suits is that Miss Prcctor's suit
against Moulton has been settled, by
Moulton's paying all costs and &C.
knowledging that hepicked up rumor,
the truth of which he never knew any
thing, and incorporated 1t in his own
solemn statement, i'm his warfare
against Deecher and in the other case
which was to have been tried this
week, Tilton against Beecher, the mo-
ton of the defendant for bill of par
ticulars was argued, on Thursday, ia the
Brooklyn City Court. Mr.. Tilton sub
United an affidavit setting forth his
charges. lie specified two times and
places, viz. in and at the house of said
defendant. in the city of Brooklyn, on
the 10th of October, 1868, and at the
house of this plaintiff, in said city, on
the 18th of October, 1868, but was not
very certain about them.
Judge McCue rendered his decision
on Friday. He granted the motion for
bill of particulars, holding that the
defendant has right to be apprised OF
the matters for which he is to be put on
trial, and is of the opinion that the
plaintiff can, without injustice to him
self, give defendant the information de-
sired. 1t was also ordered that the
trial be put over to the first Monday in
January.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-15

At last there seems to be felt through.
out the country desire to flush the
Washington Monument, on or before the
Centennial Anniversary Exposition. The
Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges, have
taken the matter up within few months
past, aud have contributed several thous.
and dollars, 10 sums ranging from So to
800 The amounts received within the
past month are said to aggregate only the
paltry sum OF about $4,000. This is rath.
er tedious, and some Of the papers have
raised cry for the death of some rich
patriot. who will devise the half million
required to finish the work. 1t would be
more like pure patriotism, for some live
man Of ample fortune, to contribute The
necessary funds and thus carry down n.
mong the centuries fame for munihcence
and practical generation for the father Of
his country that would place him nearly
on level with that Of him whom Ameri-
CO would like to immortalize in marble,
but for her scanty purse. 1t will be a
burningdisgrace if we invite all the ma
tions OF the world to be witnesses Of our
ungratefulness, to the first historic hero Of
the land, one hundred years after he has
started us into being nation, by exhib.
itiug this unfinished work begun and a.
bandoned so many years ago. LIFE.
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Wibblsburp8tgistsr.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER is, 1874.

pkE~One of the best acts of the late
session of the Legislature, was the en-
aotnent of the 2sth number of the pub
lished laws, entitled IAN act in addi-
ton to section thirty-three of chapter
ninety -four of the General Statutes"
1t provides that the officer making an
arrest of any intoxicated person, under
this section shall Immediately give no
tice to the States Attorney, or some
grand juror, of such arrest and of the
disclosure, and makes 1t the duty of
such informing officer to attend at the
taking of the disclosure, and makes the
officer refusing or neglecting to SO at
tend, liable to proper penalties.
There was defect in the execution
of the law, just at that point. Before
thus amended, either the justice had to
take upon himself some of the func-
tions of prosecuting attorney at the
same time that he was acting as judge
in the case, or the whole case must fall
to the ground for want of proper inves-
tigation. There is a manifest impro-
priety in such relation The justice
should not have any connection with
the prosecution or defense of any case
whatever, either in its initiation or
conduct, lest his sympathles be enlist
ed, without his knowledge, either for
or against the respondent. This act
just hits the point. If it has any defect
1t is in terms rather than intent. The
design would have been more clearly
expressed by adding to the provision
making it the duty of the Grand Juror
or States Attorney to attend the taking
of disclosure, clause defining his
further duties in relation to the case
But there can be no mistake as to the
intent. He could not be called to at
tend such court except for the one
purpose of take the part in it belonging
TO his office
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-15

The papers of the State have general
~ published a notice of thu newly APP
pointed members of the Board of Agri-
culture in which the statement is made,
that Senator Smith, the member ap-
pointed on the Board from this County,
thought some of the former members of
the Board had made use of their posi-
ton for their own political advance
ment, and that he would keep sharp
lookout that nothing of the kind should
appear in the future transactions OF the
Board. We are authorized by Mr..
Smith TO say that he has never had any
such idea as imputing wrong motives
to the former members of the Board,
but thinks they have discharged their
duties in a worthy manner according
to their abilities, and as to the future,
he proposes to do what he can to dis
charge his own duties as q member OF
the Board. instead of keeping sharp
lookout on his colleagues. He has a
better opinion of them than to think
they need watching
Our own opinion is, that if the new
Board discharge their duties as thor
oughly, and with as good motives, as
the old Board of Agriculture they will
do well. The hue and cry against the
old Board, was gotten up entirely by
some disappointed outs, that were vary
anxious to get positions on the Board
for the express purpose of using those
positions for their own private ends
and the self-consciousness that they
would SO use them, prompted the idea
of charging such unworthy motives
upon others.
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MARKETS.
MiddIebury Retail Market.
watertown 1--we stock Market.

FoR INF WEEK ENDING DEC. S, 1874.
Prices of Market Beef-A few choice Sl0.50;
extra 0.Tjal02j; first quality 9.0Oa9.5 800 second
quality 6.50aS.50; third quality 5.00aG00.
Prices of Store Cattle-Working Oxen per pair
from 500, $50, 175a240.
Mich Cows and Calves from $35aG3; extra 65a
%. Farrow Cows S22a36.
Yearlings SlOalS; two years old 2oa2S; three
years old 30a45.
Western Fat Swine, live sa8 lac per ID.
Sheep and Lambs-In lots $3.50, 3, 3.5Oa3.75
each; extra Sla6 per head, or from 4a6 3-4c h.
Spring Lambs LA 20 per lb. A few
choice TAI 1-sc per Id.
Hides, Tallow and Skins-Brighton Hides s
as 3-ic per ID: Country Hides SaS l-2c per
ID. Brighton Tallow &c per lb Country Tauow,
lie.
Pelts Slal.50 each. Calf Skins Is lie per h..
REMARKs-Cattle-Th supply of cattle at
market this week was all northern, much Of
which was valuable, and fine Strengthening stock.
We find the market active and prices this morn
ing very firm.
Sheep-We find the supply light and no select
ed stock of all lambs, although there many
lambs that choice mixed in with sheep.
Sheep of the first class cannot be bought easy
as last week. Prices shaded in favor ofNowncrs.
Poultry-Prices range unchanged. Beskfocks
at lac; ordinary lots Mt IL l-2c per Id. "
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Special Hotites.
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.
PULMONIC SfRi
!. LII L. Arl.LDN y T. IA L EII IGA

SCHENCKS PULMONIC SYRUP,
SCHENCh'S SEAWEED TONIC,
SCHENCh'S MANDRAKE PILLS,
Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
Consumption.
sometimes medicines that will stop cough will
often occasion the death Of the patient. IL locks
up the liver, stops tho circulation of the blood,
henorrhage follows, and, in fact blocking the
action OF the very organs that caused the cough
Liver complaint and dyspepsia are the causes
of two-thirds of the cases VI consumption. MANY
are now complaining with dull pain In the side,
the bowels sometimes costive and sometimes too
loose, tongue coated, pain in the shoulder blade,
feeling sometimes very restless, and at Other times
irowsy the food that is taken lies heavily on the
stomach, accompanied with aeidity and belching
of wind These symptoms usually originate from
disordered condition of The stomach or II torpid
liver Persons Affected, il they take one or two
heavy colds and tho cough in these cases be
suddenly stopped, the lungs liver and stomach
clog and remain torpid and inactive, and before
the patient is Of his situation, the lungs are
a mass of sores, and liberated and death is the
Inevitable result.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an expectoranl
which does not contain any opium, nor anything
calculated to check "A cough suddenly.
/ Sohencks Seaweed tonic dissolyes the food mix
es with the gastric juice of the stomach, digesti
easily nourishes the system, and creates heal
thy circulation Of the blood. When the bowels
are costye, skin salow, and the patient Is OF .
bilious habit, schencks Mandr'fr Pills are re-
quired. II
! SCHENCk a son, Northeast corner OF sixth ant
Arch streets, Philadelphia. Penu, and for fsleb,
i 0EO. C. GOODWIN a CO., 81 Hanover street
Boston. John +. Henry, College place New
York, Wholesale Agents.
For sale by Druggists generally "a;