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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
!, v5peIv1A DoNEs11c RAILRoAD.

A VIRGINIA DOMESTIC RAILROAD
The Fredericksburg & GordonsviHe Rail
road is not in operation, though the BOARD
of Directors threaten to ''take steps" Ior
it's completion, if some parties DON'T 40
what they rave promised to do shortly
In the meantime the Fredericksburg
LEDGER describes how the completed por-
ton is operated
A gentleman residing here, who is the
owner of a small stationary engine, has at
tached it to fiat car on the ffeder!ckS-
burg and GOrdonsville railroad, ana Will a
molasses hogshead for his water tank, runs
ND and down the road between this city
and Parker's store for freight and passei-
GERS. Such pluck and industry ought to be
| patronized. One OF those interchangeable
geniuses peculiar to the Wilderness OF
| Spotsyvania. becoming Disguised with the
! tardy movements of the FREDERICKSBURG
and Gordonsville Railroad Company, ana
apprehensive that his hoop-poles Would
MT he understandable if kept much longer
| on hand, conceived the novel idea OF maui
inc his poles to town on handicap drawn
| nv A Young bull. The car was loaded with
one hundred bundles of poles. There was
some difficulty in teaching the bull exactly
what was expected OF him. Inc moauS
onernpdi was as follows: TIE bull drew the
! car I'D the grades and was then unhltched
An mounted on platform at the rear OF
tile car. which then ran down grace WlIn-
out help. AS soon as his bull-ship got the
hang OF the thing he took it very kindly
dragging the car up the grades with great
alacrity, and evincing the same pleasure IL
riding down that is shown by boys who
drag their sleighs up hill for the pleasure
of riding down again. We learn that 1t il
very curious to see the manifestations OF
delight by the bull when riding down
! Grade.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A SUIT FOR THE RECOVERY OF RICH
MoND-Richmond is about to be gobbled
up by a gentleman in Mississippi. The
Louisville Miss Banner of the 18th
instant says:
'Our old friend, Col W. S. Boiling, in
forms us that he has received a letter from
his attorney, in which he states that there
can be no doubt but that the Colonel will
recover the ownership to nearly one-lialf of
the city of Richmond, Virginia. If he
gains the suit he will be worth more than
ten millions of dollars.'' Colonel VIM. S.
Boiling is the mayor of the little town Of
Louisville, Miss. He went from Peters
burg to Louisville many years before the
war, where he has since resided aud prac-
ticed law, and is considered a lawyer of
ability. He is relative OF the Petersburg
Bollings.
The land titles in Richmond are about
the safest in the State, and the old gentle
man will hardly make the trip.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
CHANGES.

The legislature had better let their pro-
posed changes in the Constitution alone
In the first place it is not their business, and
inthe second it is one of the best constltu-
lions in this country. 1t is, OF was at the
time of it's adoption, almost an exact copy
Of the State constitution OF New YORK,
and with, may be, two or three exceptions
could not be better. The educ ational quail
ification which was necessary in Virginia,
and should have been applied to meet the
emergency of a new constituency coming
out of the blacklist cloud of ignorance, was
omitted, and the franchise was made as
free as dirt, but fortunately the patriotism
of the people Of Virginia has drawn the
sting of that license. But however good a
constitu ton might be, an Impoverished
people would complain of it. They are
like man with boil, the very lightest
covering maddens him and even gauze can
not be borne. If Virginia was wealthy
and money plentiful we would hear no COM
plants about the constitution There would
be no cutlery about the swarm OF town
ship officers. A simple suggestion OF OPP
preston is enough to II people struggling
with poverty. They don't stop to enquire.
There is not one man out of fifty who
doesn't believe to-day that the new town.
ship system entails additional expenditure
on the part of the people, and yet the fact
is, and can be shown by figures, that it
costs less to run county now than it did
under the old Virginia constitution. Peo-
pie don't stop to enquire into these mat
tiers, and will take the idle words OF vii
lage politician for facts without looking
further. Altogether our opinion is that
with one or two exceptions, the present
constitution is good enough, but II 1t is to
be changed let the people change it in con-
yention, and not delegate the preparatory
power to the legislature. The following
are the propositions now being discussed
by the special joint committee OF the
two houses appointed on constitutional
amendments: -
1. Shall it be submitted to the people,
whether convention shall be called to
frame new constitution
2, Shall the Legislature frame new
constitution and submit it to the people at
the next election for adoption
3. Shall the Legislature propose amend
ments to the constitution in the mode pre-
scented in the amendment?
4. Shall the question be submitted at the
November election, whether the people
will clothe the present General Assembly
with the power and duty of framing new
constitution for submission to the people ?
On all of which, though not member OF
the committee We vote No.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

WoMAN's LovE.-Of all God S creations
women are the most contradictory. They
are not like other people, and no one can
apprehend them. The latest instance of
the display of their popularity comes from
Connecticut. A woman named Mary Cos
tumn. She was found with her throat cut,
but she lived long enough to make sworn
statement that her assailant was Frank
Powers, negro in the neighborhood. She
told circumstantial story, and nobody
doubted the guilt of Powers, who was at
once arrested. Subsequent revelations,
however, showed that the real murderer
was her husband, and that his wife died
with perjury on her lips to shield him from
punishment for his crime. His trial has
just ended in his conviction of manslaugh-
ter
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

CHESAPEAKE AND ONO RAILROAD
BoNDHoLDELs AND CREDIroRs.-Am meet
ing of the Virginia bondholders and credi-
tors Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
was held in Richmond Fridayin the rooms
Of the Chamber Of Commerce. The propo-
sition of the company, rs communicated
in circulars of October 16 and 81, 1873, and
February 8, 1874, that the bonded and float
ing debt of the company be funded in in
come bonds, was accepted. The persons
present held ny purchase S207, 900 Of seven
per cent. bonds, and We're creditors in the
further sum Of $551, 900 on unsatisfied
claims Of various kinds. Messrs. John
Stewart, Archer Anderson, Charles e.
Workman, and Edward Cohen were appoin-
ted a committee to visit the few creditors
who were not represented at the meeting
and obtain their signatures.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
BALL-ROOM DISASTER

A BALL-ROOM DIsAsTER.-A young
lady from Cambridge attended a ball in
Boston where the floor was Waxed. Dur
ing the evening, while dancing in wa tz
quadrille, the young lady slipped and fell,
and the young man who accompanied her,
in his efforts to save her from falling,
placed his hand on her side, but also slip
ped at the same time. When the young
lady was placed on her feet she was unable
to stand, and was carried from the hall
1t appeared that the Young man, in his eff
fort to save her, pierced her side with one
of his fingers in such a manner as TO cau4e
faintness and intense pain. She was taken
home in a carriage, placed in bed and a
physician sent for, who pronounced her Sc
riously injured internally. She never again
rose from that bed, and only a few days
since was borne to the cemetery.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

THE LEGISLATURE.-In the House on
Monday Mr.. Stuart tried to obtain the
sense Of the members on the question of
restoring the County Courtsystem, by res
olution directing the judiciary Committee
to report bill to that effect. A discus
sion was the only result and 40 vote was
arrived at. The House Finance Cou.mt-
tee have reported a bill to tax railroads at
the value OF $4,000 mile on their ''sur-
plus revenue" which, OF course, amounts
to nothing. A report to the House show
ed that S97 200, 900 of Virginia bonds were
IN the Capital unsafe from either fire or
thieves.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

Two little boys were going to bed Friday
night at home, in Jones street, New Y ork.
when one of them, Jesse Clark, aged four
teen, playfully pointed pistol at the other,
his cousin, Jesse Wicks, rema1king "This
is the way we would treat robbers" The
pistol exploded, and Weeks fell dead with a
bullet in his brain,
About new Capital at Staunton, for
Virginia and West Virginia, the Peters
burg Appeal says: s'the VINDIcAToR
will have to shake down a good deal more
plastering before we can entertain the idea
Of removing the state capital from Rich
mond."
Rev. J. A. Greaves, vicar of Towcester,
Northampton county. England, has resign
ed his benefce in England, and accepted
cal to St. Paul's Church, at Ivy Depot,
AibemarIe county, Va, Where he has taken
up his residence
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

SEX IN EDUCATION REFUTED.-After
having read Mrs. Dali, Miss Bracket, Mrs.
Goddard and the other women who have
taken up the argument in behalf of the
healthfulness of It higher education for
their sex, and above all the right of women
to settle their own questions, Bostons DR..
Clarke must begin to feel that he was dog
matte without the right of full knowledge
that, at least. there are some things he
did not think of when he wrote his Sex
in Education.'' eff he had heen at the
Springfield station, Tuesday night" says
the ''Republican, y I'he would have seen a
elnonstration-could we call it a case of
'demonstrative anatomy POT the infirmi-
ty of his arguments. Such a lot of ruddy
robust girls as poured out of the Northern
train on their way from the Mount Holyoke
Female seminary to Thanksgiving keeping
at home-not a pale tleshless form among
them-gave abundant proof of the consist
ency of hard study and high health. They
were only the advanced guard, too; the rest,
save alone Is, who remain at the school,
got off Wednesday; and not one of the
whole three hundred, probably, realizes the
horrible dangers attending thirst for know[
edge.
If Dr.. Clarke could also see the ''ruddy
and robust" girls of the Stanton female
schools he would give it up altogether.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
Return of the v. MI. L. Battery to
the Cadets.

correspondence of the Staunton Vindicator]
LEXINGTON, VA,
February %, 1874. !
At dress parade yesterday evening there
was read. in general orders, the following
communications from the Secretary of War,
addressed to Hon. Thos. Whitehead, men,
Der of Congress from this district:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON CITY,
February 18th, 1874.
Hon. THos. WHITEHEAD,
House of Representatives,,
Referring to your verbal applica-
ton of the 18th inst, for the return of the
Battery taken from the Virginia Military
Institute i'll 1865, | beg to inform you that
[ have given orders for the restoration of
the guns in question. Gen. Munford, Of
Bedford Co., Va, made a similar applica-
ton in August of last year, and he has
this day been informed of tnefavorable &C
ton taken by the Department.
Very respectfully,
Your Obedient servant,
w. III. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War.
This Battery was made for the Cadets of
the V. M. +. upon the special order
of President Zachary Taylor. 1t was
taken in the field by General Stone
wall Jackson as Il part of the Stonewall
Brigade, and used by the 1st Richmond
HoWitzers at the Battle Of LIST Manassas,
and upon the caissons Of this Battery, this
world-renowned hero was borne to his
grave.
This Battery so marked by historic asso-
Citations will not only enable the Institution
to resume the customary artillery drills,
but will contribute IL precious memorial
of the days of trial, and of those who bore
so honored a part in the painful records OF
the war. y.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
Feb27'3t Ex'rs OF Jno. Coiuer, deed.

XTIRGINIA-lN VACATION.-Ia the Clerks
' Office of the Circuit Court of Augusta
county February 25th, 1874.
The Williams Mower & Reaper Company. Ppf
against
J. M. Waddle, Dsrt.
In debt upon an attachment.
The object of this suit is to recover of the said
Defendant the sum of $500 with interest thereon
from the 4th day of JAM, 1872 till paid, and
to attach estate, debts effects in the hands of
Michael G. Bsrman, or found within the county
of Augusta belonging or due to said defendant
sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff the amount Of
their said debt with interest and costs
The defendant. J. NJ Waddle, not having en-,
tered his appes rance, and it appearing by an
affidavit filed that he is a nonresident of this
State 1t is ordered that he do appear hers
within one month after due publication of this
notice and do what is necessary to protect his
interest. Teste,
N. RYAN, elk.
Ransom, p.q.
feb27-4t.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
HONOR TooLD AUGUsTA.-T NRoa-

HONOR TooLD AUGUsTA-The %Roa-
noke Times in speaking Of the Grafton
delivered at t be celebration Of the Cicero
nian Literary Society Of Roanoke College.
gv Arthur z. Koiner, of osIr county says ::
This speech was trulya beautiful literary
production, the diction. chaste and elegant
aud was delivered in handsome style. g.
The subject of Mr.. KS speech was, ''Vir-
tue che Handmade of Beauty and Intelli-
gence.s4 Mr.. K. is q son Of Cyrus Kelner,
and a graduate at Roanoke College this
session.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

ANoTHER VICTIM OF THE s7REBEL
ARCHIVES. Another victim Of the ''re-
bel archives is Mr.. J. r. Guthrie, the
democratic candidate for mayor of Pitts
burg, who was defeated at the election
Saturday. The publication was made in
that city ON Monday afternoon ct an ex-
tract from letter Of George n. Sanders,
setting forth that Mr.. Guthrie was pre-
sent at and participated in the proceed
ings of a meeting of leading secession
lists, including Davis, Breckingridge and
Floyd, held at hotel in Baltimore in 1861.
This publication seems to have had an eff
feet in setting the contest in favor of MI.
Guthrie's opponent,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
SPRING STYLES OF LADIES' DRESSES

SPRING STYLES OF LADIES' DRESSES
Fashion correspondents in Paris say that
a marked, indeed a startling change in
ladies' dresses will be attempted at an early
day. The skirts Of these new costumes
are to be short enough to clear the ground
three OF four f1ounces on the front breadths
and one very wide in the back will give the
required FRESHNESS. Over the back
breadths will fall a full, perpendicularly
plated demi-skirt as a substitute for the
pouf now so fashionable. This will extend
only to the hips, leaving the front breadths
uncovered, save by d long pointed corsage.
To the back of this corsage will be attach
ed a square plailed basque. This striking
change. discarding all the forms that have
been so popular for several years past as to
require only slight alterations to render
them acceptable each season, Willhot prob
ably be generally adopted.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
NOTICE no SUBSCRIBERS.

We have many applications for back
numbers of the VINDICAToR, by sub
scribers, who have been dropped from the
list bv not noticing on the tag, when their
subscriptions expireds and renewing it in
time, We are unable to supply them, and
therefore the subscriber unavoidably loses
one number. This can be remedied by the
subscribers themselves very simply. This
is February now let those whose time
expires in this month, watch the day on
the tag, and renew before it comes, thus
Keeping an unbroken file of the paper.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A CHILLI STRANGLED UNDER A WIN
DoW-SAsH.-In SandtoWn, n. j., on Mon
day night, three children were playing i'll
the school-house. Two of them went
home, leaving the other, a girl named Fa-
gin, in the building. The doors were
locked, and it is presumed she attempted to
get out of the window, and while doing SO
the heavy sash fell, pinioning her neck to
the sill and producing death by strangu-
1ation
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

The WoMEN's TEMPERANCE MOVE
MENr still moves. In Lancaster, Pa.
Tuesday, 1000 women We're on the was
path. At Ripley, Ohio, that night the
CRUSADERS built a fire and staid all night
in front of saloon that wouldn't surren-
der. In Memphis they are to commence.
All GreenviEle, Tenn, The women are
standing under umbrellas i'll the sain in
brought from home white they pray
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A SAD CAsE.-A few days since a lady
arrived in Richmond from the South hav-
ing with her a little boy of seven years.
She went to the house of William Jackson,
(colored.) On Thursday night at 10 O'Clock
she died, leaving her newborn babe and
the little boy among strangers. Nothing
definite could be ascertained either from
the little boy or the colored people with
whom he remains as to where the unfor-
tunate came from. At one time the boy
said his mothers name was Lindsay, and
at another time that it was "Saurine." 1t
is thought she came from Montgomery,
Alabama.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A NEW WHISKY RING.-Boston
''Post" Washington correspondence says
"The next development Of corruption
promised is to concern particularly some
wfiskey rings in st. Louis, ard Pekin, Hi
nois. The Developments so far are to the
effect that at the large number of distille-
ries in those cities whiskey is manufac-
tured in great quaint les, and shipped to
New York with the understanding that it
is to be exported at New Y ork. The wills
key is drawn out, the barrels are filled with
water and the water is sent to Europe, and
the whiskey is either sold or re-shipped to
Various points in the country.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

FINE SToCK.-Capt. VIM NJ. Sterrett,
of Walkers Greek sold short-horned steer
Durham and Devon-the OTHER day TO
one hundred and fifty dollars, the highest
price ever obtained for gelded bovine in
this county. The animal was between four
and five years old and weighed from 1900
to 1890 hundred pounds gross.-Lepinyton
Gazette.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

DEATH OF A Observation-Disclosures B.
Blakemore, formerly Of Virginia, died III
Vicksburg on Saturday, the 14th, in the
forty-hfth year of his age. MI. B. was the
senior member of The firm of Blakemore
Bros. & Co., New Orleans. He moved
from Virginia some fifteen years ago, and
anassed large foD tune in Louisiana.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A CHIvALRoUs 'SPoRT. Barney
Aaron-who was not hanged at the Chica-
go fire-on Sunday thrasned two pick pock-
cts, and restored the lost watch of Rev.
Henry Thorpe, of Pittsburg, with the elias
sic remark, Heres your super, old man.
again. You're the worst old sucker I've
met in year. "--Neao York Express, 1oth.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

The last of the Mohieans came into
Washington Saturday and surrendered
His nasae is Horatio G. Burehard, and his
station is member of Congress from the 9Th
district of Iowa, and he turned $es049.60 of
back pay grab into the is. Treasury. The
representatives of the Mother of States
and Statesmen, have nobly kept theirs in
their pockets, without distinction Of poll
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

GARRoTING.-Mr. VIM. B. Wilson was
way-laid aud robbed of 800 in Charleston,
Kanawha, on Friday night of last week,
by Wo ruffians. He madestout resistance,
but WAS overcome by the superior strength
of his antagonists.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

Abby Kelly Foster said she wouldn't,
and Miss sarah Wall said she wouldn't,
b and Miss Marietta Flogg said she wouldn' It
pay her taxes because they wouldn't let
her vote. And the brute Of sheriff is SELL
ing their property at pGblic sale to get
even with them. And they call this free
eenntry.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

The LAST STRUGGLE OF SOUTH CARO-
LINA.-The tax payers of South Carolina
have held an organization and formed an as
ISOLATION, to which all citizens, white and
black, are admitted, the object of which is to
prosecute dishonest officials and to endeav-
OF to relieve the burden of taxation by az
raigning the thieving officials in the State
courts. The convention gives the follow
ing official statement of the expenses OF
carrying on the State government for the
wears named:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27

A WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.-A new
claimant for Mr.. Creswells favor has come
forward in the person of DR.. Mahloon
Loomis, Of Washington, who has patented
an aerial telegraph by which he claims
to be able to transmit messages through
enable it to beat the Western Union and
all other telegraphers ever heard of in
speed, cheapnesS, &c.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-02-27
Legal Notice.

l.
| N7IRGINIA-IN VACATION In the Clerks
Y Ofh9e of the Circuit Court for Augusta
anty, February 18th, 1874
lhomas burkes Plaintiff.
against
Thomas D. Ransom, Admir- debonis non of ROBE.
Miller dec d, s. K. Miller, and II namess
unknown), heirs and legal represen tati1as of
hoot. Miller, decd, DefenaRn ts.
The object of this suit is to restrain ahe Do.
fendant's, Thomas D. Ransom, Adm'n. as afore->
said, and David Fultz, from paying over money,
in their hands, Or either of them, due or going
to the estate of Robt Miller and to attach and
recover $685. with interest $46 H. FROM
August 18th, 1878. and on SAG Ii, from Oath.
September, 1867 and on S46.lt, from a8th
September, 1868, money Illegally collected of
the Plaintiff.
The Defendants. S. K. Miller, and
(names unknown), heirs and legal representa-
tivsa Of Robt. Miller, Decd not having entered
their appearance, and it appearing by affidavit
filed that they age non-res6ents of this State:
1t is ordered that they do appear here within
one month after due publication OF this notice
asd do what is necessary to protect their in
Gerests.
Copy -Teste,
]. N. RYAN, Clerk.
Trout, pa.
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