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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
By Telegraph.

Especial kilograms to the stanton Vim Dictator !
Closing Of the National Freed
mes ssssnk.
AsHINGTON, July 2.-The Freedmens'
Saving and Trust Company received Or
ders yesterday from the National Board of
Trustees to stop receiving and paying out
money.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
New Advertisements .


CUB-APPORTIONMEN OF THE SCHOOL
y FUND.
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC Schools,
Augusta County, Va,
Stanton, July LIST, 1874.
R. MAYO, Esq,
Deputy tyr for Augusta Co.
DEAR SIR:
The 3rd superintendent of State
School Fund, ($2l43, 25) for the County OF Au-
gusta for the present year is sub .apportioned at
the rate of Zoe per head (less Treasurers COM
mission, 1884, 20 upon this and f.s. apperton-
ment, as follows:
The Pastures ..,.,................ $276,45
BEVERLY Manor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 274,5l
Riverheads ................."-... 363,5l
South River ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .37f,82
North River ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000
Middle River. .............."........... 43b,77
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03

r5OR SALE.-Fiye new houses, containing
II five and seven rooms, on easy terms
Also. two lots adjoining my residence, and sew"
eral fine lots on Frederick street, at low prices
and long credit. Apply to ,ou
July 8 linz F.. D, HEY pENhhloh'
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
MENTAL NOTICE.

X REENBACKS WANTED. -S25OO. Fine,
NJ unencumbered real estate as security -,
Enquire at the V1NDIoAAoR Office
June 26-tf
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03

GALE OF VERY DESIRABLE
AND VALUABLE
CITY PROPERTY,
Located in the heart of the city Of Stanton,
Virginia. and now in possession of Robert Cow
ans widow and heirs
In execution of decree of the Circuit Court
of Augusta county, in the chancery cause OF
Cowan's Adm ct ais. cs Cowan's infants, en-
tered en- the 18th day of June, 1874 as Com
missioner the reby appointed, | will sell at pub
lie auction,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
DUBLlC RENTING.

DUBLlC RENTING
Under decree of the Circuit Court of Au-
gustu county entered in the cause of Lghtner
u.s. VIM W Cason, will, on
THE 10TH DAY OF JULY NEXT,
on the premises. let at public renting, tract of
land belonging to said Cason ontalning l23
ACRES near Mddlebrook, with its Improve
nents, and for such length of time as it will
lake to pay the amount of decree, and cost OF
suit aud renting.
June 26-3t w. L.. MOWRY, 3. A. U.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
White Sulphur Springs,

and return on Thursday, Jnly 9th 1874.
limited number of tickets will be sold
Fare for the Round trip, $500. Children
under II years, half-price.
Train leaves Stanton at 6 A. NJ. Returning
will leave White Sulphur Springs at P. N.
{ Tickets can be had at the Stores of Todd Il
Co.. R D Sears, Hoge Brother, or from the
Committee of Arrangements.
June I6-2t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
Mad Dogs.

Commercial.
New Y DIRK, July Flour dull. Wheat
quiet. Corn steady and unchanged.
' BALTIMORE, July 2d.-Flour steady
Wheat dull-white, choice, $1.60-fair to
for Southern white, at 90(091. Yellow,
91MS2. Oats firmer-Southern 64Gl70.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03

FARMERS
to pay my taxes by adding that amount to my
former prices, but to sell to cash buyers, (if
possible) lower than ever.
Remember keep NO second hand Goods, but
first class in every sense of the word, and war
rant every article as represented, or money re-
funded Thankful for past favors, await an
early call with very great Impotence
Very respectfully,
jy 3-ly j. W. NEWTON.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03

HO! FOR WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS -
The Sunday School connected with he Baptist
Church, will make an Excursion to the
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03

DR.. Robinson, aged So, was shot and
killed by young man named Robb at
Skipworths Landing, one hundred miles
above Vicksburg, a few days ago, for al
legged criminal intimacy with Robb's moth
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
l endorse the above statement.

The Danville Register" adds to the
"Times'' statement:
We did not hear the address delivered
by Rev. n. w. Wilson. of Richmond, at
the commencement of Roanoke Fenale
College in this place last week. but VIZ
have heard much unqualified censure of its
coarse iumor and inopportune illusions.
The gentleman made a grave mistake
which he now sees and repents himself
and which he will not be apt to re3eat.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-07-03
THE DR.. WILSON SCANDAL,

STATEMENT FROM THE PEOPLE OF DAN
vILLE-EXTRAoR ORDINARY DISCREPAN-
CY-LETTER FROM REV. WILLIAM E..
HATCHER FROM DIR.
WILsoN-ACTIoNo OF His. CoNGREGA-
TON.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
The Evils of Using Tobacco.

The following article, taken from the
Country Gentleman, thrillingly sets
forth the fearful results of using to-
baccO: First experiment, a hog was
shut up in tight pen, and his only
food was one-half pound of tobacco a
day. In one week he had lost four
pounds. Second, mule was placed in
stall without food. Two plugs of to-
bacco were placed before her twice
day. She grew gradually restive. On
the third day one plug was forced down
her throat, when she tore the expert
menter's ear with her teeth, showing
the bad effect tobacco has on ones dis
position. 1t was then found necessary
to fnuzzle her so that she could not
open her mouth. AT the end of eight
days she died. Third, dog was nailed
up in tobacco hogshead. At the end
of four days he was taken out much re-
duced. Fourth, another dog was in
closed in tobacco barrel and rolled
down steep hill. Within two years
that dog went mad! Truly these are
Satan's nets could cite plenty more
of such experiments. We all know
that single drop of the oil of tobacco
placed on the end of dogs tail will
kill man in minute. OF four men
lately killed on the Erie Railway three
We're smokers, and the father of the
other an inveterate chewer of tobacco
On the bodies of the two men washed
ashore after the late storm on Lake
Michigan, papers of tobacco were
found. In my own neighborhood, a
very distressing accident, by which. a
most estimable lady, the mother of
seven lovely children, broke her leg,
was occasioned by pair of runaway
horses running into fence that sur
rounded field of tobacco. Miss Chloe
Flatfoot recently died in the county ad-
joining mine at the age of 11S years.
She had both chewed and smoked over
100 years, and as she had no disease
till the time of her death, it is only fair
to suppose that it was tobacco that
killed her. For so long a time was
Satan spreading his nets for her. But
why multiply examples ? You know
how it is yourself.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
Regular Eating.

Half the girls in the land become
dyspeptic before they are out of their
teens, in consequence of being about
the house and nibbling at everything
they lay their eyes on that is good to
eat whereas, were they to eat but
three times day at regular times, and
not an atom between meals, they might
enjoy perfect health. To digest full
meal and pass it out of the stomach re-
qulres not less time than five hours.
Ii a porson eats between meals, the
process of digestion of the food already
in the stomach is arrested, until the
last which was eaten is brought into
the condition of the former meal Just
as, if water is boiling and ice is put in,
the whole ceases to boil until the ice
has been melted and brought to the
boiling point, and then the whole boils
together. No wonder that dyspeptics
are cross and peevish! How can they
be otherwise, since a disordered
stomach is the source of so many
pangs Yet they deserve punishment
for neglecting to obey the laws which
Nature renders imperative if health is
to be preserved.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
A Remarkable Speech,

The following extract from a speech
made in the House of Lords by Lord
Chesterfield, about the year 1749, is very
appropriate to the circumstances of the
present day:
"Luxury, my lord, is to be taxed, but
vice prohibited, let the difficulty in the
law be what it will Would You lay a
tax upon q breach of the Ten Com
mandments? Would not such a tax be
wicked and scandalous? Would it not
imply an indulgence to all those who
could pay the tax? Vice, my lords, is
not properly to be taxed, but sup.
pressed; and heavy taxes are sometimes
the only means by which that suppress
sion can be obtained. Luxury, or that
which is only pernicious by its excess,
may very properly be taxed that such
excess, though not strictly unlawful,
may bo made more difficult. But the
use of those things which are simply
hurtful in their own nature and in every
degree is to be prohibited. None, my
lords, ever heard in any nation, of tax
upon theft or adultery, because tax
implies license granted for the use of
that which is taxed, to all who are will
ling to pay for it. Drunkenness, my
lords, is universally, and in all circum-
stances, an evil, and therefore oughtnot
to be taxed, but punished. SO little,
my lords, am L affected with the merit
of that wonderful skill which distillers
are said to have attained, that it is, IN
nay opinion, no faculty of great use to
mankind to prepare palatable poison;
nor shall I contribute my interest for
the reprieve of a murderer because he
has, by long practice, obtained great
dexterity in his trade. If their liquors
are SO delicious that the people are
tempted to their own destruction, let
us, at least, my lords, secure them from
their fatal draught, by bursting the
walls that contain them. Let us crush
at once these artists in human slaugh-
ter, who have reconciled their country
men to sickness and ruin, and spread
over the pitfalls of debauchery such a
bait as cannot be resisted"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
Disappointed Lovers.

In New Haven two students ventured
to call upon two sisters with whom they
had a slight acquaintance. They were
invited to the sitting room, where a
beautiful domestic scene presented
itself. The mother was reading aloud
a useful historical work, and her two
daughters were industriously sewing
while listening. The youths were seat
ed, when the reading began again, and
was continued without any signs of in
terruption. In vain did the love-struck
students seek to catch the eyes of their
adored; in vain were all their manifes-
tations of impatience. The monotonous
reading flowed ON for two hours or
more, when the disappointed and dis
gusted visitors made a burst for the
door.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
Sahara in the Past.

DIR. Zittel, the geologist who accom-
panies the expedition of Rolffs in its
researches through the Sahara, in the
latest of his letters on the characteris-
tics of that desert, establishes, with
great clearncss, says the .PaU NaU Ga
zette, and by more than one distinct
proof, the theory that it is the dried-up
basin of q former shallow sea. The fine
quartz sand, in particles never larger
than the head of pin, which forms at
once the main feature and the danger
of its surface, is not produced from any
formation in or near it, and must have
been carried to it by some foreign
agency.
The real surface of the desert is q
bare, dry, chalk plateau, at first exami-
nation resembling that of the Swabian
Alps, but in reality of much more re-
cent origin. Above it rise here and
there the isolated peaks called by the
Arabs witnesses" The tops of these,
where several are visible, are invariably
in plane, showing that they are the
fragments of an ancient surface, the in
tervening spaces of which have been
washed away. If the question be asked
by what, there being no ground what
ever for supposing torrents or glacial
action, the answer can only be by the
constant beating on it of waves dissolv-
ing the softer portions.
But more interesting point to many
geologists will be DR.. Zittel's comments
on the splinters of fints which are pro
duced in great quantities round certain
peaks by the cutting process of the al.
ternate slight dews and frosts which the
expedition has found to be common in
the winter nights in the Sahara. These
fragments lie around in profusion, and
to a careless observer might appear not
unlike some of the ruder flint chips OF
the first part of the stone age. But DIR.
Zittel, who has made study of the lat
ter, took pains to examine some thou
sands of these natural clippings OF
flint, and found but single one which
an experienced eye could take to re-
semble those which have attracted sc
much notice in Europe. Hence he con
cludes that the Sahara fints afford q
fresh and very strong indirect proof OF
the production of the others by the
human agency to which science has al.
ready assigned them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
The Fish. .

The fish of the United States are un-
surpassed in flavor in the world
Sportsmen who, with rod and line,
have whipped European waters, say
there is nothing like them there from
the Norway fords to the Guadalquiver
Africa and Asia are both poor in this
respect. Even in China, where fish is an
abundant article of food, and is found
in great variety, the flesh is coarse
The salmon of the Scotch lochs afford
the nearest approach to the Gucculence
and tender delicacy of our mountain
trout and the faky tenderness of our
salmon trout. Then there are the
white fish, the bass, the shad, and an
innumerable multitude of others. We
have but one rival, and that prolific
but small one. 1t is the French sar-
dine when fresh. This delicious fish,
in few years, will cease its rivalry,
however, if reports are true from the
coast of France. At present the sar-
dine fisheries employ twenty thousand
men, women, and children on land to
prepare the fish for market. Each year
shows an advance in the price and a
diminution in the catch, any in no great
time overfshing will have produced its
usual consequence failure of the
fish.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
Hypatia.

One of the purest celebrities of the
famous school of Alexandria, in which
city she was born about the year $40 of
the Christian era, was Hypatia, the
daughter of Theon, the celebrated
mathematician. She was taught geome-
try and astronomy by her father.
Meeting the famous philosophers of the
day, and attending their schools, she
acquired the fundamental principles of
other sciences. After o journey to
Athens, then the brilliant centre Of
Grecian civilization, whittier she went
to increase her knowledge, she returned
to Alexandria so learned that the pro-
fessors of the schools and the mayor of
the city called her to occupy the pro-
fessorship of philosophy, made illus
trious by celebrated men, and recently
held by Plotinus. TO her beauty,
purity, and enchanting eloquence she
added, a profound knowledge of
philosophy and the sciences. She mar
ried Isidol us, the philosopher, and was
on intimate terms of friendship with
Licenlus, the Bishop of Cyrene, and
Oreites, the Governor of Alexandria,
who, although Christians, had a Just
esteem and admiration for the fair
pagan. 1t is supposed that on account
of his friendship for Hypatia strug-
gle ensued. between Oreites and Cyril
lus, the Patriarch of Alexandria. A
fanatical partizan of the Patriarch,
school teacher named Hyerax, who was
also personal enemy of Hypatia, hav-
ing been killed, one Peto, a reader in
the Church of Alexandria, spread the
report that Ryerax had lost his life at
the instigation of Oreites and Hypatia.
Placing himself at the head of a mob,
he surrounded Hypatias house, drag
ged her to the church called Cesaree,
and there murdered her without pity.
This odious murder, disgraceful to the
Church of Alexandria and Cyrillus, was
committed during Lent, in the year
415, A. D., during the reign of Theodo-
sius the younger. The fact that her
murderers were not punished points to
the completely of the Patriarch.
Hypatia left large number of works,
which were burned during the great
fire which destroyed the library of
Alexandria. Among these was trea-
tise on Astronomy, commentary on
Diophantus, and an essay on the conical
divisions of Appolonius.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

AN APPEAL.-The following persua-
sive and encouraging note was attached
to baby left ON a doorstep in st.
Louis: "Sir: Please accept this orphan
child. If you should despise the gift,
give it to some one who will appreciate
it, From the little acorn the mighty
oak towers above. This waif may vet be
a Washington" Now the gentleman
and his wife thus appealed to already
had of their own eleven possible Wash
ingtons Cor Martha Westinghouse
and might have passed the little
stranger over to the police but they
didn't do it. They saw the arithmetical
loveliness of the number 12, and kept
and comforted the small unit.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

COMPARATIVE HEALTH OF STATES
A comparison of death rates IN twelve
States shows that Indiana is the
healthiest, then Vermont, Ohio, Rhode
Island, Illinois, New Hampshire, Vir-
ginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Cali
fornia, Massachusetts, and Louisiana.
The death records are, however, no
safe guides. In but few of the States
are they kept with regularity and pre-
cision, and it Is possible that if regis
tration were as correct in Indiana as in
New York, the two States might change
places in the list.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

CONSIDERATION firm in Cleveland,
o., whose store was recently destroyed
by fire, sent a check for one hundred
dollars to the police fund, and were
surprised to have it quickly returned,
with note, in which the Secretary of
the Police Board said: "The Board
considers the duties discharged by
the police force at the time of the un.
fortunate confagration, through which
your firm and others suffered so
greatly, were simply such as they are
paid for by the city at large, and il
deems it unjust to the private citizen
to take money from him by reason OF
his misfortune"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
The Path,

Backwards I look along my path,
A pleasant path by lawn and lea.
The thrush and linnet sing no more,
No longer huns the summer bee.
The flowers are fled: the leaves are dead
On shrub and tree.
Forward look along the path
That 1, alas have still to tread.
A dreary waste, vague shapes of pain
Are there, that fill my soul with dread.
Better than trace that woful space,
BE with the dead.
Upwards I look beyond the way
That I. forlorn, have still to go;
The cool dews fall from golden stars
That glide where tempests never blow,
Nor sounds of signs ascend the skies,
Nor tear-drops flow.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

A WONDERFUL ANIMAL.-A Western
paper publishes the following notes =
"Lost or strade from the scriber a
shepe all over white-one leg was black
and half his body-all persons shal
receive five dollars to bring him.. He
was she COTE"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

According to an Ohio mathematician,
one man dies from the use of alcohol
every seven minutes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19

The weight of a simpleton should be
in the neighborhood of two thousand
pounds.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-11
4 KALKLNG MATCH.
A RACE BETWEEN TWO LETTER-CAR
RTERS

A RACE BETWEEN two LETTER-CAR-
RIERS.
Most any person that is conversant in the
slightest degree with a letter-carrier's duties
knows that enjoying the free use Of his pedal
extremities and being able to work them rap
idly is q very important qualification for the
position. All Of the present carriers are
"Walkists," and little spirit Of rivalry arose
among them recently as to which was the
fastest stopper. After some parley on the sub
ject purse was made up, for which any of
them could enter that felt disposed. Albert
Carew, David E. Brewer and John Mitchell
were ell that desired to contest in the match,
and thus the entries closed. Last night shortly
after O'Clock, when the days work was done,
and no telling how many miles had been plod-
ded over, they concluded to have the race.
The course selected was Pennsylvania avenue
from Second to Fourteenth street, with Mr..
Thos. Carraher as umpire and time-keeper.
The three men got of with good start,
CareW and Brewer Keeping well together. At
Sixth street, Mitchell Being pretty well in the
rear, and seeing no chance to win, concluded
he had done enough walking for one day, and
dropped out of the race. The other two kept
going, pretty evenly matched, but Carew
showed best wind, and finally passed down the
home-stretch and crossed the score winner.
Time, eH minutes, which is considered re-
markedly good for the place selected and con-
dition Of the men,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-11
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
MEETING OF THE NEW BoARD-AN OR.

MEETING OF THE NEW BOARD-AN Or
GANIZATION EFFECTED.
A meeting of the new Board Of School Trus-
tees was held last night Nat the Franklin
school-buildfng. Present: Trustees Mcclellan,
French, Dyer, Brown, Rider, Smith, johnson,
Lloyd, Hyde, Moffatt, Woodward and Brooks.
After some preliminary business, the board
organized temporarily BY electing Mr.. Wood
ward chairman and Mr.. johnson secretary.
An election for permanent officers was en-
tered into by ballot, which resulted in the
selection of Mr.. Geo. F. Mcclellan as president
and Mr.. John II. Brooks secretary.
On motion Of Mr.. Lloyd, the rules and -eg1-
lations of the old board were adopted for the
government Of the present board, until other
wise ordered.
Mr.. johnson offered the following:
Whereas the best interests Of education de-
mand that there should be uniformity in the
method Of discipline and instruction; therefore
be It
regulations and courses Of instruction In the pub
lie schools Of the District of Columbia be referred
to q committee Of i've, including the president,
for revision.
Adopted.
The president was authorized to appoint the
standing committees at the next meeting.
The Chair announced Messrs. johnson, Moi
fatt, Dyer, Brown and the president as the
committee on the rules and regulations.
The following were appointed committees for
the nominations of teachers for Washington
city Messrs. Mcclellan, Lloyd, French, Wood
ward and Dyer. For Georgetown, Messrs.
Hyde, Curtis and Mofatt. For the county,
Messrs. Brown, Chickering and Smith. For
the colored schools, Messrs. Brooks, Ryder,
Douglass and johnson.
Messrs. French, Brooks and the President
were appointed to select more appropriate
place of meeting.
The board then adjourned.
THE OLD BOARD Dissatisfied.
II was currently reported last night that a
majority Of the members Of the Board Of Trus-
tees Of the Public Schools had consulted with
and employed Mr.. Walter DaVidge and in
structed him 10 prepare the necessary papers
and sue out an injunction restraining the Com
missioners from abolishing the Board Of School
Trustees.
This action is predicated upon section nine OF
the bill creating the Commission, which pro-
Vides "that no board or commission, of which
the Governor is CT oficiO q member, (the Board
of Public Works excepted shall be abolished
by this act; but the members of the same, other
than the Governor, shall constitute such board
or commission"
The plea of the Commission for their action
will be found in the following proViso of section
two: "And said Commission are hereby author.
lied to abolish any office, to consolidate two Of
more Offices, reduce the number Of employees
remove from Office, and make appointments to
any Office authorized by law"