Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-07-09
STAUNTON, VA.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 9, 1875.


we remember that the money that we are
to pay these gentlemen. though it may
only be bonds to them, is the same as
greenbacks to us--for we have to pay the
interest on every dollar Of it at par, the
reflection is by no means an agreeable one.
If our figures are right 100000 in bonds
will, if placed at 80 cents, do the whole
work including the salary of an
experienced hydraulic engineer and water
works builder to snperintend the work.
IF they can't be placed at that, then placed
as low as IS cents it would only take $4,000
in bonds to do the same work under the
same supervision Would it not be better
for the city to take the matter in its own
hands after all? Perhaps a well directed
effort Of the City Council financially,
might effect the sale of the bonds.
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? THE PAST.
There was a cheerful speech before the
University Alumni by Hon. Jno. 5. Pres
ton. Of South Carolina, the other day.
It reminded one of those happy oratlons
of the late VIM. L. Yancey. In the
DAYS preceding secession, when we OF the
south were testing about war. the horrors
of which we had never seen and which we
were so soon to feel. Some of our -cotem-
usra,tes are scoring the old gentleman for
his talk about our countryman North.
Perhaps 1t is deserved, for no man has
right to pervert public occasion into an
opportunity for the expression OF, what
from their scarcity have grown to be, the
eccentric views of the private gentleman;
bnt. taken altogether, we think these sort
nf sneakers serve an admirable purpose.
They show the rising generation who it
was that once led the politics OF the coun-
try: how utterly impracticable they are;
how little they could foresee the future ana
NOW little they understand the present;
how. wneu they speak in full rounded tones
of their country they only mean little
State or section, and how after turning tour
millions of slaves ioese and sacrificing a
halfmiilion of white Hea and impoverlsli-
ing nation, they are still hafping on The
old story of sectional hatred. 1t is gooa
lesson to us. in that it teaches nsto beware
s,t men. like Gen. Preston, of the Fast, ahd
men like him of the present. They need
our pity-these men always standing with
their faces to the setting sun do, and ""
can afford to give it to them and try not To
be vexed with their retailing OF old memo
ries. as the old are won't to do. Not a
contemptuous pity, but the sweet. te"der
uity with which we watch the missteps OF
the old. and bear with their little pervef-
sites. Something of that pity which AL
must have felt when, feeling that l's sellti-
uneuts were falling on unfriendly cars
ears that were listening for happy promise
of glorious country that was 20 GOMEZ
and not for lamentations over "a dead enc,
he said. II tEemble to lose your esteem
and approval, but !!be charitable to the
yray hairs and 40 one WHO offered his life,
and all the rest, that you might be free. y
We hardly think tbase speeches VIII have
any very bad effect with our countrynissi
North in their present temper. They lave
begun to understand these old gentlemen
of urs--they have some like them among
themselves, whom they cannot keep quiet.
and who will talk. and talk to d very bad
.uurppse+ Wendell Phillips, for instance.
These men are not on the Bunker Hill
train, and the little swearing they do on
The side of the track won't hurt the coun-
try
SyypuSeN DEATH.--Dr. James c. Hill
died suddenly i'll Alexandria, Va, on Sat
uraay. He had, it was supposed, just re
covered from an attack, and was walking
in the yerandalI, when he fell, exclaiming,
my heart! my hsatP' expiring imme-
diately. He was quite prominent in poll
tics being a Presidential eleetor on the
Seymour and Blair ticket; was candidate
for nomination before the Conservative
Convention of that District to the Forty
third Congress, and was quite recently a
candidate for tie position of City Ser
yeant. He wrote much upon political
subjects, and was contributor 70 several
Medical Reviews.
Rev. e. a. HOWARD, the rey'&aiist.
closed four weeks preaching in Alexan-
dria Sunday right. It was an open air
meeting, and tile yard was crowded. He
vas SO aebilitated by the hot 4'aathpr. that
on Tuesday he went to Dansvilie. New
York, for rest and medical advice, Us wei.
as change Of air; After few we ks be
hopes TO return to holQ series of meet
ings at Leesburg apd various Other points
In Virginia. where he has pressip g invita-
tions to 80. r, .,5e
THE BEEcHER TRIAL ended by u hung
inry-9 for Beeeher and for Triton, The
unvindicated defendant says he is going
to preach till he dies, which doubtless he
will. if he has church that long On
Wednesday night his congregation raised
his salary from $4,000 to $lOosOo0 per az
nan. Expense seems to be notk4ng to
the pastor up; but that feeling
will soon wear off. 'r2 0'f w..
sHoRg.-The sheep fund raised by the
logs law ia Lopdon the past year was
b .ess. while che value Of 400 sheep killed
" the dogs in the same time vas estimated
It $2,5ss. 6s, or 1855 each. The failing
hort looks like it came cnlEfy Ho'h phe 4