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The PETERSBURG IN Ews''- has prob
ably seen ere this that we have already
published and refuted President Garrett s
facts about Staunton's credit But the
Baltimore man in refusing his money
didn't allude to CARROTS bill; it was Full
ketxorl's bill that he named. What do We
care about the motives Of Col, Fulkerson
and those who voted with him, if their az
lion is given as a reason by capitalists for
not giving us the use Of their money? 1t
is the bad effects of this sort Of legislation
that comes. home to us, and the best me-
tives in the world don't counter act them.
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A ToOTHLEss PEoPLE.-Terrible times
i'll Warrenton, Va. are depicted in the
Sentinel 1t appears that a few weeks
ago q dentist came to that town and ad-
vertised that he would remove all of a per-
sons teeth for So and insert new set for
$40, besides giving six months credit.
The Warrenton people are very fond of
bargains, so there was rush for the den
lists at once. He was busy for two
months pulling teeth. and at the end of
that time half the people had empty gums,
and a bone dust factory in the neighbor-
borhood doubled its workmen so as to
grind up the teeth Meanwhile the peo-
pie were waiting for the dentist to fit them
with new sets, but the abandoned scoun-
drel eloped with the hotel-keeper's wife
and now there are two or three thousand
people in town who cannot eat anything
tougher than soup and farina. All the
butchers have failed; not a cracker has
been sold for three weeks. One man, it is
said, whitfield out set Of wooden teeth
for himself, but the first drink of whisky
he took-Cincinnati whisky-set them in
in a blaze, and his funeral came off next
| day. The dentist will hear something to
| his advantage if he comes back.
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!zEIShe Minhttatnr*
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY IA, 1916.
Local
To Advertisers.

1t is an undisputed and indisputabe fact that the
v1NDIcAToR has a larger paid up subscription list
than any paper in the State outside OF the large
Cities and is composed in whole OF the names OF the
ties, who have become familiar with the CASH
PRINcIPLE-the very class it most interests adver-
Users to reach. No investment pays merchants and
other business men so well as that Of advertising lib
orally and persstently in paper of good circula-
ton among those who have been accustomed to the
practice OF paying cash for what they get. The
Subscription List of the VINDICAToR is always open
to the inspection of advertisers and is arranged
(beng mailed by machinery that its numbers can b.
seen at a glance
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

OPENING OF REV. Mr.. HoWARD's RE-
WAL LABoRs.-Rev. Mr.. Howard, who
arrived here on Thursday last, held some
preliminary afternoon meetings at the
Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist
churches, and ON Wednesday night, at the
last named church, commenced his regular
revival meetings, the body Of the church
being filled, and a few persons being in
the galleries. The minister is a tall, spare
man, apparently about IS years OF age.
with very plain face, strongly marked
with the evidences of ill health. His
movements are quick and ungraceful, and
his elOcution far from attractive; and of
his sermons, one might think they were
the work of novice, instead of those of a
reviyalist, who has been more successful
than any other in Virginia, or probably, in
the whole South. They are disconnected
talks, Illuminated here and there by
remark or a question which takes an
unaccountable hold on you For in
stance, after describing infinitely the
historical evidence Of the existence of
the Savior and desel iblng the Importance
Of being certain about it he remarked,
''And you say, well, what of it?" The
nearer is astonished at the question and
one feels like looking around to see if there
could be any man so utterly careless as to
ask such a question on such a subject.
The earnestness of the man is tremendous
and it is to this, as the world views it, may
We attributed the hold he establishes on his
audience. If, instead of bowling with the
others in prayer, you will watch him, you
will see that while praying he is also weep
ing bitterly. Instead of the loud-sounding,
well-rounded prayers which are so often
heard i'll and out of revivals they are quiet,
piteous beseechings of the Almighty, as if
| the man. own soul was at stake. GU feel
| that some answer must come to such petit
lions as they are; if not tonight, then to-
morrow night; if not tomorrow night.
then the next night-somehow you get
little spray of this mans faith and leave
the house quite certain that great revi-
val is impending.
| The services are opened by the reading
| Of extracts from letters written him by re-
|
| sons living in the Valley and some are
most remarkable. One was from man
who had been a brute in all save his form.
| who used to curse his neighborS by the
hour simply because they led good lives,
and one of whose acts was to cut his own
horses tongue out. Another was from 4
man near Midway who was so bad that
when he went up to be prayed for. it al
most gave a check to the progress of the
meeting. The people seemed to shudder
at the idea Of his coming among them.
Both of these men are now working Chris
tians.
In two weeks from now we suppose
there will not be man OF woman in
Staunton who has not been to these meet
ings, for even the curious will be- drawn
to them to witness what is most mysteri-
Gus physiological phenomena-even if they
go from no better motive. Five persons
Went up to be prayed for Wednesday night
The meeting tonight will be held at the
Baptist Church.
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been in the Valley long enough to look out
home, they sent to Scotland for the girls
to come over, and they would meet them
when they landed, and be married and set
tie down in the Highlands of Virginia;
but alas! when the messenger arrived, the
two bonnie lassies were in Heaven. They
had died short time before, within few
hours Of each other, in the following
manner:
In the same year of the defeat at Cullo-
den, 1745, the plague broke out in London,
and a gang of thieves collected in the city
and entered every house where they saw
the red cross 1.-THE mark of pestilence) and
plundered the houses of everything they
could carry off with ease-plate, money,
jewels-and stripped the dying and dead
of the jewels they had on, for they died so
soon after showing the signs of infection
that they had no time to change their ap-
parel. The thieves rubbed their faces
with a indicated vinegar to prevent con-
tagion, Thy the way, 1 have had some of
the identical vinegar.) After they had
robbed till they were satisfied, they trav-
eled as peddlers and sold their plumber for
what they could get. One of them stopped
at the bower of Betsey and Mary, and
among other articles offered was very
costly necklace for trihe; Mary bought
it and clasped it round her neck, and in a
few hours was a corpse. AS Betsey dressed
her for burial, she took off the jewel and
put it around her own neck. and she, too
died before the next morning. The neck.
lace had been taken from one who had
died of the plague, and had infected them
Their neighbors buried them in the same
grave. Thus persisted, two of the loveliest
and noblest of their sex.
IN MEMORIAM.
When the messenger who had been sent
to conduct them to Virginia returned
with the sad tidings of their death, the
lovers las you may imagine) were deepl,
| grieved, and as it was out of their power
| to give them a marble monument to trans
nit their names to posterity, they did bet
| ter, and named the mountains after thei
loved and lost ones.
While Betsey and Mary dwelt in thei
bower they had many suitors, among then
the poet Burns. who celebrated their at
fractions in the following song:
Oh! Betsey Belle and Mary Gray,
| They are twa bonny lasses;
| They bgged bower on yon burn brae,
| And theekit DER wi rashes-
| Fair Betsey Belle loed yestreen,
! And thought ne'er could alter,
| But Mary Gray's twa pawkey Gen.
| They gar my fancy falter.
| Fair Betseys hairs like the lint-top,
She blooming, straight and tall is,
Like Venus, raised from Thetis' lap,
| Oh, Joye! she's like thy Paas.
And Marys locks are like the craw.
| Her cen like diamonds glances,
She's aye sac neat, red up, and Draw,
| She kills whence she dances.
Oh, Betsey Belle and Mary Gray,
You unco sar Cypress us;
Our fancies jee between We twa,
| Ye are sic bonny lasses.
| Wae's me, for bath Gamma get
| To ane by law, we are stented;
Then I'll draw cuts, and take my fate,
And be wi ane contented.
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WHAT THE MOODY AND sANkEY RE

WHAT THE MOODY AND SANKEY RE
vIvALs CosT.-It is estimated that the
expenses of the services held by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey in London will amount
to $15O,OO0. To defray these only about
pay for his labors. AT recent service
Mr. Gladstone occupied a seat on the plat
FORM
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

THE WEST VIRGINIA DEAF, DUNE
AND BLIND INsTITUTE.-A letter in the
Cumberland Md 'eTimes,' from Rona-
ney, W. Va, says that the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institute there, under the man
agement of Maj J. G. Covell, principal
formerly Of Stauntons promises to b.
come one of the most popular schools Of
the kind in the land.' The number Of
papiIs has increased from 81 to IS, and 8
wing 40xeO is to be.added to the mair
building. The correspondent highly com
ailments Prof. Johnson, the instructor in
algebra and chemistry, to whom, he says.
sethe institution mainly owes its exis-
tence.'' and who is himself blind.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

OFF TO CAL1FoRNIA.-On We'd ne,,da
morning last Mr.. James Grove. wife
daughter, and two sons, and Messrs. ]. M.
Fix and Latham Hildebrand, all of this
conn ty, left this city by the Valley Rail.
road for San Francisco. Mr.. John TT
Grove, a son of MI. g., now living In Choc-
tow Nation, will join che party at st.
Louis. They will be met at San Francisco
by Mr.. VIM. G. Grove, another son who
has been residing in California for some
years.
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Mrs. Jane Mitchell, the wife of John Nit
chel. the irish patriot, in her petition to
the Brooklyn surrogate, to be appointed
administrators of her husbands estate,
stated that he had left only 81 500, to be
divided between herself and three children.
The first commission of Gen. Schofeld,
signed by ssRobert E. Lee, Military Super
iYltendent Of West Point Military Acad-
esay'' has just been found among the effects
of a former servant woman in his family,
who died recently in Richmond.
Stallpton still refuses to pay her subscrip-
tioD to the Valley railroad. Mr.. Mayor aud
gentlemen of the Council, pay up! We
are stakeholder i'll the concern, ard you
ought not to 90 back OF your old friends.
charlottesville Chronicle.
The Norfolk, Va, Light Artillery Blues
are to be the guests of the Cambridge City
Guards during their visit to Boston at the
Bunker Hill Centennial, says the ~ DIVER
user, which also says that ex-Gov. Letch--
aer will accompany them.
DIR. L. S. JOynes, of Richmond, W.. has
heen appointed to deliver a discourse on
nhvsioiogy at the Philadelphia centennial
celebration in July, 1876, when there will
he a reunion of the distinguished medical
men of the country.
The Kentucky Democracy have nomin-
ated James B. McCreary for Governor.
Strange to say, prominent in the ccnven- /
tion was Cassius NJ. Clay, the whilom fe- |
rocious Republican. Everybody is getting
on the s'tidal."
Gen. King, an ex-U. S. officer made al
speech in Baltimore, Monday night. in |
favor of decorating the Confederate graves
with those of Union soldiers, but tbs meet
Inc, would not entertain the motion to that
effect.
Mrs. Margaret E. Hallowell, aged seven
ty-seven years, died at Sandy Springs Nd:
On the LIST instant. she was the W1ie OF
the venerable BENJAMIN Hallewell, so we'll
Known to hundreds of well-taughf and
school boys in Alexandria !
Va. 4,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

SoIREE AT THE V. F. 1.-The usual
monthly soiree at this Institution tool
place On last Friday evening, and, as usual
attracted large audience. We regratted
to learn that this was the closing sairee ot
the season, but the rapidly approaching
examinations prevent anything more OF
the kind. We shall remember with plea
sure the delightful entertainments we
have been permitted to enjoy at this school,
during TIE session of 1915, and. with
many Others, shall ever feel grateful to,
those young ladies who SO kindly have ca.
tered to our pleasure. The programme.
consisted of music. the reading of the.
"soiree," calisthenics, and recitations,
The "Soiree'' was as sparkling as usual
and the calisthenie exercises were given,
with graceful precision that was charm.
ing. Miss Daisy Gordon-we are temps#u
to say the inimitable, for there is a Tres,
ness about her acting that no art cam IL
tate-gave "The Charcoal Man %, uni
encore the ''Smack at school, and for
O'Clock the audience left Geg - AT 10
scene OF the last soiree. of: y ,feeluiiy The
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MORAL EFFECTS OF A RE WAL In
noticing the fact that 300 persons professed
conversion under Rev. Dr.. Rossersp preach
ing up to Tuesday night, the Lynchbule
4sNews'' says that "a policeman remarked.
last evening, that the reylVa! was doing
more for the order of the towr than forty
policemen could do; that the young men
now quietly retired to their homes, and all
was order over the town. "
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

LAND sALEs.-On the 5th lnsu., Dr.. Jno.
M. Tate's farm, of 800 acres, near Green
vile, was sold by j, j. Larew, Auotionees,
to Col. Williams, at $50 per acre. On Sat,
urday, the Donoho farm of ]. Sidney Moi
iett, was sold by E, M, Cushing, Auction
eer, to VIM. J, Nelson, at $14.5O per acre.
On Monday, Ayes's farm Of $50 acres, near
Parnassus, was sold to Robt. Gilkeson and
Richard Dudley, for $3.50 per acre; also a
tract of 1902 acres, on Middle River, to
Robert Gilkeson, at $40 per acre.
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Miss Ann PAMELA Cunningham, the lat
lady regent of Mt. Vernon, died at he
home, Rosemont, Laurence county, S. G.
on the I'd instant. She was honorably dis
tinguished for her successful exertions t.
recover the Mount Vernon property from
embarrassment. t"
Charlotte Cushman was only told abou
week ago that Cornelius Lovelle, a prom
inent citizen Of East Boston, was the mar
who got her out when she fell into thu
Boston dock at 10 years OF age. The ole
gentleman is doubtless too old to hear hel
thanks now,
Samuel F. Butterheld, who was Sickles
ssfriend'' in the killing of Phillip Barton
Key, in Washington, in 1859, and was
present at the shooting, died in California
last Friday. He had amassed a fortune OF
81 900, 900.
Colonel D. X. anthony, editor Of the
ssTimes's and postmaster at Leayenworth
was fatally shot by William Embry, editor
of the HAppeal," on the stairway of the
Opera House. Ill-feeling existed between
the parties.
It is announced that Lieutenant Gen.
eral P. H. Sheridan will be married in June
to 9 daughter of Gen. D. II. Rucker, as
sistant quartermaster general of the army
and chiefquartermaster on Gen. Sheridan S
staff. ~
Mrs. Ada Gaddis, widow of Rev. Max
?. Gaddis, described as "a glorious blonde
of marvellous beauty" has gone on the
stage. She says; Il have engaged in an
honorable profession, with hQnorahle in
tentiops, and, with Gods help, will sue
ceed,r
A California paper says they got .Wah
Using, heather, Oh the gallowy the other
day. with a rope around his neck, ana he
inquired Of William Nye, the sheriff:
'sOhokee like h-ll?""Yes," said William,
'Chokse, you bets'' snd then they dropped
him,
Several young men Of Floyd co., Va,
who went to Texas = few months ago. are
writing for money to bring them back
home,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

HE CITY TREAsTp-
treasurer, Mr.. HeAv ,AR.-Ihe new city
the Counci] Tnasy Ker, appeared before
in $50 600 wikh lay night and gave bond
No; Az ~. Col. M. G.. Hartman and
e., $50. ost as sureties for the faith
tu p s lance of the duties of the office
Nv VIZ Il OF the new officer does not ex-
e e,,, Until July 1877, as the law provides for
NJ ing vacancies "for the unexpired terms. :,
and not until the ensuing general election
az has been discussed in connection will
this oaacial change. While tie new
Treasurer was giving his bond, discussion
sprang up on the delivery of the Valley R.
r. bonds, and the friends Of the delivery
eyed him with feeling of gratifed sat6is-
faction that the ex-councilman could M,
participate in the debate.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-05-14

JUDGES OF ELECTION APPoI NTED.-
Judge Hendren, on Wednesday appointed
Messrs. A. G. Fry, E. A. Wayland and D.
D. D. Durboram, Judges and Commission
ers of the election to be held at Waynes-
horo on the 9th for municipal officers.
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5rAuNroN AS A Fife ExrIzeu1sHER.
The Petersburg Evening STAR says
that the National Board of Underwriters
rates Richmond hmong the first class cities
of the Union for excellent appliances for
extinguishing tires; and Norfolk, Alexan-
dria and Staunton among the second;
Manchester, Petersburg and Lynchburg it
considers nowhere.
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THE PREsBYTERIANs AND REvvIvALs.
The N. Y. 'sHerald'' speaking of the
opposition to Moody and Sankey in some
quarters in England on the ground OF
mere temporary:excitement; and also OF
the fact that a Presbyterian Synod thare
has endorsed them, says:
The fact that body as sober as the
Presbyterian Synod approves the preach
ing Of Moody and Sankey convinces us
that they do not justly fall under this
criticism. The Presbyterians were never
''revivalists'' in the sense which we might
apply the word to the Mormons or the
Jesuits, the Methodists or the Moslems.
They never made efforts to proselyse.
With them questions of faith have been OF
more consequence than simple professions
of devotion. and. therefore. when we see
that our fellow countrymen have 81 con-
Quoted their efforts to convert the English
people as to meet the appreciation of Pres.
byterian synods we must regard the move
ment as serious expression of religious
interest.
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VIRGINIA CENTENNIALs could be reck-
oned by the dozen if the people were in the
humor. Mr.. W. Noel Salisbury, of the
Public Record Office, of Great Britain,
who is now engaged in compiling Virginia
State papers, writing to Col. Mcdonald
records the historical fact that s'The first
revolution in Virginia took place in 1885,
which resulted in the forcible deposition
of Governor Harvey, the election of John
West in his stead and the sending of Sir
John Harvey home to England, which
Captain Matthews hoped would be accept
able to God, not displeasing to his majesty
and an assured happiness to this colony.
The King sent Harvey back to his govern
ment the following year. 1t was only fol-
a brief period, for the veteran Sir Francis
Wyatt was appointed Governor in January
1889, for the second time after an absence
of Is years from the colony''-
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DEATHS OF PROMINENT VIRGINIANs
Hon. Robert Y. Conrad, of Winchester,
died there last week. He had been a
member of the Senate from the Frederick
District and at the National Wing Con-
vention in Baltimore in 1860 his name was
prominently canvassed for the Presidency.
He was member of the Secession Con-
vention and after the war commenced he
was arrested by the U. S. authorities and
confined in Wheeling for some time in
1852. After the war he was elected to
Congress over Hon. Lewis Mckenzie, but
was refused admission. He was men,
Der of the National Democratic Conven.
ton Of 1868 that nominated Seymour and
Blair. Judge E. P. Pitts, of Norfolk
county, died suddenly last week while en-
gagged in a case in court, and Col Chas
K. Mallory a we'll known citizen of Hamp
ton is also dead.
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very full, and each pleat should be run 70,
gether at the edge Of the underfold to hold
it in place.
In the dress of girls there is more varl-
ETY.. A.pretty suit for little miss OF from
four to eight years old is of soft gray plaid
woollen with dash of blue. The skirt is
trimmed with two knife pleatings bound
with blue silk, and stitched on so as to
form their own heading; for the younger
child there is no overskirt; for the older, the
dainty little apron is trimmed with a SIM
liar pleating. The body is a French waist
laid in pleats, with coat-sleeves. and pleat-
ing put on in form of square yoke back
and front. Low-necked Gabrielle over
dresses OF muslin, trimmed with lace and
embroidery, will be popular for girls of all
ages.
Round hats of Leghorn and English
straw. like those worn last year, will be
the prevailing style this summer.
The French yoke dress is the pattern
most used for cambrics, cOlored and white;
the trimming varies with the purse and
skill OF the mother.
Quite fancy for trimming children IS
clothes is with bands OF perpendicular Tin
stead of horizontally outings and insettings.
ladies is a triple ruf1e of lace or muslin.
| forming a wide iurned-down collar.
For grown ladies, neck-ties Of sheer
white musli.Aor tulle, with ends Of lace
| are almost universal, and are worn on ali
occasions.
HAIR DRESSING.
Frizzes are declining and the hair is
simply waved in front and worn in Gre
| clan couture, with BRAIDED knot behind
| young ladies wearing this knot exceeding
| ly small, while by married ladies it is worl
| somewhat larger. Girls from twelve tt
sixteen years old wear the hair loosely
| waved all over the head, back as well al
front, tied at the nape of the neck by &
| ribbon, and left flowing either in these o.
| four thick curlS or in two braids.
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@@OLD WILLIAM ALLEN.-Mr. Beck, of
Kentucky, who is a candidate for the U.
S. Senate from that State, in talking about
the next Presidency, said:
Thurman has been distaneed by Allen
because Allen came in at the right time
and rescued the Democratic party from
complete humiliation. You will nomi-
nate him for Governor again this Fall, of
course, and if you elect him by good ma
jority-say 40 ,O0O-all hill itself couldn' It
defeat him for the Presidency
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seen at a glanc,
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'@>S~S@AA3
CO., Va, Monday hight.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis has been ten
| dered the presidency of the Bryan Texas
! Agricultural College
McKennon, the bond flu nder, is on hi.
way from Chicago to Richmond in the
| hands of detective
Ben Hill has been elected to Congress
from the Ninth district In place of Me-
| MILAN, deceased.
John Bowyer Caldwell died at the White
Sulphur Springs, last week, in the 10Th
year of his age.
The farmers a long the Va. s. Tennessee
r. r. are putting in an unusually large
crop Of corhs r
G. B. Rouss writes that his recent arrest
in New York was an attempt to black
mail mail ilfm. itfs,
The Exchange Hotel, in Luray, Page
co., va, has been sold to Reuben DadiS-
man, for $4,000,
At the spelling matches in Baltimore,
drum is beaten whenever man slips up
on a word.
Rev. DR.. Bettelheimer. rabbi of Rich
mond, is lecturing in Charlottesville on Jo-
sephus.
Marks Iseman was thrown from bug
gy at Gordonsville last week and badly in~
tured.
1t is continually repeated from wash
ingtoh that Secretary Fish is about retir-
ing.
The City Council of Petersburg has re-
duced the'taxation FROM 2 TO II per cent.
John Sheridan, father of Gen. Sheridan
died at Somerset, Ohio Friday. 10 B..
John C. breckenridge was reported
yesterday to be dying