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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

CURIOUS CHARGES AdAtNsT TIE In
TERROR DETERMINATIONS CAR
RIAGEs AND HORSES ABOUT Saml
Walker, VINO was clerk to the Indian bu-
reau, Of which Mr.. William Welsh. OF
Philadelphia, was president, has published
a letter, over his own signature, charging
corrupt use of the contingent fund Of the
Interior Department by Secretary Della no
and Assistant Secretary Cowan. He says:
ssThe secretary's Office has, at the gov
eminent expense, four carriages and five
horses. These are attended by one fore
man OF stables at $40 per annum, one
Waterman at $72O per annum, two stable
hands at $500 per annum each, and two
drivers at $72O per annum each. The cost
| Of harness and repairs Of carriages, &c.,
| for SIX months was reported to have been
over 81, 100. AT the same rate for the rest
| OF the year the entire cost of carriages and
horses for the Secretary'S office alone would
| he about $9, 900 per annum. The secretary,
doubtless, does not use all the carriages
and horses himself exclusively, but it makes
no difference to the taxpayer who pays for
them. l am credibly informed that one OF
the carriages, d driver and two horses have
oeeil at Mount Vernon, Ohio, the past
four months, and the drivers wife, who is
IN the patent office, draws his pay during
his absence. None of these things could
take place without the absolute knowledge
and concurrence of the secretary and his
assistant, who thus concur in and profit
| by the transportation Of public money,
while crippled soldiers starve that they may
have able-bodied stable hands. In adj
ditIon to this landaulet accommodation
| for the Secretary's office and friends Ill and
| out Of ft6, ,,t,,aa 10 Inn
pension and Indian offices have horses and
carriages, costing enormously for their
support"
! Walker also charges that Delano keeps
at the expense of the government, for the
use of himself and friends, a geranium and
bouquet nursery, and says:
s'To attend to this an assistant engineer
| is acting foreman gardener, and two gar
deners, at $720 each, and the services OF
nearly ten laborers, at $$720 each, are need
| ed In addition to the flower garden, the
| grass plats around the department. ARE at
! tended to by this costly force with The aid
| of still another supervisor, who is paid as
engineer, the whole force costing more
than $4,000 per annum. The report of
expenditures shows thot purchases of
flowers, pots, &C.. are made at public ex-
pense. The example he sets is followed by
those around him. Private houses are
fitted up by mechanics paid by the govern
ment. furniture is procured and carpets
supplied which are charged to the contin-
gent fund. Large shipments of pablo
property have been made to distant point,
and, in short, Wholesale robbery has been
committed. Messengers have been taken
away from the department on long trips
us body servants, and some are now per-
forming private service in Washington.
Other persons of both sexes have travelled
at public expense on these missions"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

IN A CAR WITH A I'IGEH.-A recent ill
cldent on the Ogdensburg road is thus de-
scribed by the st. Adams (Vt.) "Messen-
ger' Of the 7th inst:
A cage of tigers, which was on its way
to menagerle now exhibiting south OF
here, was placed in one end of the car, and
a zebra was tied in the other end The
Waterman lay down on box and fell
asleep; when he awoke he discovered that
one Of the tigers Lad bent the iron bars of
it's cage, forced it's way out, and was
crouching in the opposite corner. The
regular keeper of the animals was in the
sleeping-car at the rear end OF the train,
and there was no chance to communicate
with him or with any one outside. The
poor Waterman was frightened into mo-
tionless silence, and in that awful suspense
he made the long and weary journey to st.
Adams. After the train came to a halt
here, one of the train men, in passing the
car, saw large cat-like nose thrust out of
an opening, and not knowing that any
ones life was endangered in the car, but
fearing lest the animal should escape, ran
to the sleeping-car and aroused the keeper,
who soon appeared. rawhide in hand. and
dashed the beast back into his den, to the
Unreasonable relief of the poor fellow who
had been curling up for hours on the box.
A VIRGINIAN's CENTENNIAL BIETH-
DAY.-Lousville. Aug. 27.-The one-hun.
dredth birthday of Mrs. Vaughn, says a
special to the "Courier-Journal" from
Nashville, was celebrated at her home in
Williamson county, Tennessee, to-day.
She was born in Nottoway county, Va,
August q, 1875, is mother of seventeen
boys, fourteen Of whom are married. The
family is not only large in numbers, but
giants in size, but few men coming under
six feet, even down to the fourth genera
ton. Five hundred persons assembled
around stand garlanded with flowers, To
do honor to her hundredth birthday. Short
addresses were made, and songs and
prayers After religious services the as
semhiage formed into q procession, i'll
which were one hundred of her descend
ants, headed by herself, marched to the
grove and partook Of Il sumptuous dinner.
Her faculties are unmpaired; she hears
well, uses no spectacles, frequently walks
y mile, and attributes her long life to hab-
its Of untiring industry. She wore the
cloth which Uniformed her grand and
great-grandson us Confederate soldiers.
She has now four hundred and fifty living
descendants.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03
REW AREL

The card of the Radicals is to get Con-
servatiyes to run Independently. and then
support them and secure quasi Republi-
can victory in the Conservative stronghold
of Augusta.
The policy of the Conservatives is to
meet in force at their primary meetings on
the 25th inst, and select good men to rep
resent them in the convention of October
I'd. and then vote as one man for the nomi-
nees of that convention.
Beware Of the Radical bait which is and
will be thrown to you until the election.
Don't be caught in the Radical trap.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

THE REV. DR.. BARNAs SEARS, agent
of the Peabody Educational Fund, writes
to the agent for Louisiana that the trustees
of the fund have decided to withdraw any
further appropriations to that State on ac-
count OF the unsettled condition of affairs
there. DR.. Sears says: "What should
call d well-settled state of affairs would be
to have you Il State Superintendent of
Public Schools. We have been working
under Encouragement, hoping in time to
see II State system through which we could
operate. hope for that still. But we
are working at too great u disadvantage
while trying to sustain separate schools. |
think it will be better for the State that
we wait for better times, and then help
more literally" DR.. Sears intimates that
the trustees may continue to aid the Nor
NAL Institute of New Orleans.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

Another revolution has begun in San
Domingo. Ex-President Baez has been
proclaimed President by the revolution
ists. The cities Of Santc Domingo anG
Puerto Plata remain loyal to Gonzales
Cantain-General Valmaseda has sent
Spanish war vessel to protect Spanish citi-
zens in San Domingo.
When Andrew johnson was Governor
of Tennessee, the Chief Justice of the
State was an ex-blacksmith. The Cover
nor. by way of a compliments, made will
his own hands % vest for the Chief Justice,
while the latter in return, made a.shovel
and pair of tongs, which he presented to
the Governor.
There is considerable excitement in
Huntsville among the Catholic clergy of
that city in consequence of Bishop Nc
Cokey removal of seE Father Ead psyrss
rive the bishop a yearly report of parish
finances. The matter has been appealed
to Rome,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

GEN. SPINNER TALKs.-Before Gen.
Spinner left for his home in New York,
he said to q friend, with an emphasis pc
culiar to the ex-treasurer, that he wished
he could be a Democrat during the Ohio
campaign, take the stump and tell the
people what he thinks of the conduct of
the administration on the currency ques-
ton. ''But," said his friend, ''your re-
marks would be attributed to prejudice"
eral. He alluded to the abuse heaped up
on Secretary Richardson for putting out a
little silver in lieu of fractional currency;
but now when it was proposed to force it
on the market, the plan was applauded as
a great scheme. Ives, the poor people
shall. have silver, the rich gold, and the
nation be further oppressed with taxation
to pay the bonded Indebtedness. - such
q Marty -
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

Articles of agreement have been signed
at Long Branch between Johnson, thu
English champion, and Andrew Trautz for
I s., 900 and the championship of the world,
to swim five mile match in the ocean.
A association to aid Schroeder in bildu-
ing an air-ship with which to cross the
Atlantic has been organized in Baltimore,
and Schroeder, it is said, is ready to COM
mence building his balloon.
Cattle stealing and murder of peaceable
American citizens still continue on the
Rio Grande. 1t is thought the only rem
edy is for our troops to invade Mexico and
capture the desperadoes.
Mai. Jno. w: Daniel, of Lynchhurg, is
to deliver the address before the Associa-
ton OF the Army OF Northern Virginia,
at the next annual meeting in Richmond,
during the State Fair.
The London ''Lancet'' SAYS that no Der
son should sit for more than half an hour.
S'posin' a fellow is sitting on the sofa with
his girl, is he going to be particular to d
minute?
The Atlantic mills at Lawrence, Mass,
resumed work Monday, after being idle
seven weeks. There is now prospect of
steady employment of one thousand hands.
The iron safe Of Gates & Butterfeld, at
Lincoln Centre, Maine, was blown open
with powder by BURG lars Friday night,
and robbed of u large amount IF money.
Rev. Isaac penman, a well=known Bap-
fist minister, aged eighty years, was
killed at Lodi, Indiana, Saturday after
noon, by being run over by train.
Judge Beverley R, Wexford was elected
Professor Of Law at the Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, asst week, but
has declined to accept the position.
The Adams Express Company emp Toys
g 600 men, 800 horses, and 1900 railway
cars. and their special messengers travel
over 100, 900 miles day.
The Presbyterian Church in this coun-'
trv has thirty-six synods, 4,7o6 ministers,
501; .O34 communicates, and $780, 52 Sun
day-school children. p
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartorls sailed on the
Baltic for England Saturday. The Presi-
dent and party sailed down the bay with
them, 0 .
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03
A FEMININE FoRGER. st. Louis. Aug

A FEMININE FoRGER.-S Louis, Aug.
PA handsomely young woman
called at the Broadway Bank this morn
ing and presented the c,shier letter of
introduction purporting to be from Sepley,
Endicott Il Co., Chicago, and d check for
$4,000, signed by the same firm, purporting
to be drawn on and certified by the First
National Bank of Chicago. She desired
to draw thirty eight hundred dollars cash
and deposit the re mainder Of the amount
The cashier, suspe citing the woman was at
tempting to swindle the bank. received the
letter and check, ana requested her to call
in an hour, when he would pay her the
money, He then sent for all officer, who
shadoWed the woman when She left the
bank Until she reached Fifth and Bidde
street, where she was joined by a man who
had introduced her to the bank officers two
days before, The officer then arrested both
and locked them up. kilograms from
Chicago say the check is a forgery.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

A Boy KILLS HIS Two SISTERS. Dos
ton, August Coy esterday, at Hopkin-
ton, twenty miles from Boston, a boy
named Morris Ryan, aged sixteen years,
started down stairs with loaded gun, in
tending to shoot cat, when his sister
Mary, aged fifteen years, who desired to
save the cats life, caught her brother by
the shouldar to pull him back. At the
same moment two other younger sisters
came to the head of the stairs. In the
scuffie between Morris and Mary the gun
went off. killing Mary and one of the
Wounded Wounded ' in the arm NJ and MOTIFS was was
wounded in the leg.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

The Servians have seized portion of
Turkey, and all Southern Bosnia is in in
surrection.
The insurgents in Herzegovina have
formed national government under Lyn-
bobratich.
Aaron Anders, q prominent and wealthy
citizen of Frederick county, was accident
ally drowned in the Linganore mill race
Monday.
Three hundred colored men joined the
Democratic procession at Raymond, Miss.
Baltimore pays $34 900 aggregate salaries
per month to teachers in her public schools.
The people of Texas are about to erect a
monument to the memory of Houston.
Columbus, Ca, steps to the front W sah a
negro 1875 years old.
A reversaDle bonnet will be among the
new autumn styles.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

A FEMALE DEL EGATilT TO A POLITICAL.
CONvENTIoN.-M M. G.. Davenport
was recently elected a township delegate
to the Mahaska county, Iowa, republican
convention. When the convention met
the committee on credentials referred her
case back to the convention, which, by a
vote of SO to II, refused to allow her Il seat,
it being considered doubtful whether the
party would consider itself bound by acts
OF delegates who were non-voters.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

PULLrBACK PANTALOONs are the latest
novelty in Boston. They brace a man up
so that he cannot fall down if lie wants to,
and they supply want that has long been
felt by the tipping fraternity by preventing
a man from doing the rail-fence speciality
on his way home in the morning. The
first man to wear pair of them had an
encounter with a banana peel, and although
the treacherous fruit followed him for half
a block, it could do no more than cause
him to sway q little, and had finally to re-
tire in disgust.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03
RARE OPP ORT NIFTY


The attention of parties desiring to obtain
FOR LESS THAN HALF IT'S VALUE,
GOOD FARM having all necessary improve
meuts, and containing 1873 ACRES--halt well
umhered and half tllabIe land-is especially
called to that portion of the farm near the Rock
bridge Baths, recently belonging to David
Firebaugh, known as ''the Middle, or Harvey
tract
No better opportunity to buy farm, situated
in desirable neighborhood and conve niently
located as TO mills. school houses and churches.
at an
EXTRE EMILY Low PRICE,
and On the
MOST FAVORABLE TERMS.
can be found in Rockbridge county
Those who wish to buy Farm at Great
Bargain, should examine this property soon
as possible.
Possession can be given. ON the lst OF Marcel.
For further particulars apply to j. A. Miller on
the premises, or to W. Fl. H. LYNN, Slaunton.
or to
WILLIAM DOLD,
feb12-tf Lexington, Va
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w. Ward, of Frederick, has been renomi
mated by the conservatives for the State
Senate from the district composed of the
counties Of Frederick, Clarke and Warren,
and James w. Marshall, formerly of Au-
gusta, in the district composed of Craig,
Allegheny and Botetourt. w. r. ITALIA
ferro has been nominated by the House of
Delegates from Orange county, and Judge
from Prince William.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

THE SALE of Mr.. M. B. Bucks person
al property, advertised for Tuesday last,
was, on account of rain, postponed until
Wednesday, when there was large crowd
present and property generally brought
good prices. Mules averaged 500; cows
$35; hogs So. and household goods com
manded, in some instances, higher prices
than new can be bought for. = Warren Sen
tj11oJ
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

ELECTIoNs.-The State elections this
fall are as follows: California held hers on
the LIST inst; Arkansas holds hers on Sep
TENDER 9th; Maine, September 18th; Iowa
and Ohio, October 10Th. On November
End, Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Mississippi, Minnesota, New
York, New Jersey; Pennsylvania and Wis
consin will hold their elections, and the
last for the year viii be Texas, on Dec M
Der 7th
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03
THE CANAL.--ITS EXTENSION.

IL
There is no question in the minds of
Virginians that the canal ought to be ex-
tended, if not to the Ohio River, at least
to connection with the great through
road of Virginia. Hon. A. I'll. III. Stuart
has written a letter on the latter subject,
(which is too lengthy for our space in
which he explains the advantages of this
connection to the G. & o. R. r. Co.; to the
iron and agricultural interests from the
Allegheny to Richmond; to the canal COM
pany; to the cities Of Richmond, Norfolk
and Lynchburg, and finally it's bearing on
the extinguishment of the State debt. He
states that the work can be completed
without cost to the State, by the use Of
convict labor, and argues that. if completed
to Clifton Forge. the largely increased ton
mage will, with the increased value of the
stock, Of which the State is almost virtu-
ally entire owner, solve the debt q uestion.
The latter is the question of the day in
Virginia, but that this will settle it we
are not SO sanguine as Mt. Stuart. We
do believe, however, that the canal ought
to be completed to Clifton Forge. AS it
stands to-day it has and can have only a
local tonnage, and its stock is dead capital,
whereas if completed to Clifton Forge,
the heavy freights, which do not pay to
ship by rail through, would switch off at
that point for Lynchburg, Richmond and
Norfolk, giving the canal through ton
mage, and increasing the revenues and the
value of the stock, helping largely to pay
the interest, if it did not pay a portion OF
the debt. At any rate if the work can be
done by convict labor, which can be
worked as cheaply as they can be sustained
in the penitentiary, the State could not
possibly lose by extending the canal &c
Clifton Forge.
Lynchburg and Richmond are awaken
ing to their direct interest in the matter
and a lively interest is being felt all over
the State on the subject. The stock rose
from So to SIS share at the prospect OF
the extension. This should suffice to have
the next legislature look into this subject
and if their data justifies it, promptly
authorize the Governor to push it's extern
sion
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

peculiar interest to those who use oil lamps
has just been decided by the Supreme Court
Of Louisiana. A woman of New Orleans
purchased some oil branded "non-explo-
sive," in this instance named ''septoline,"
which exploded as she was filling lamp,
burning a girl of eighteen, her daughter,
severely and intiicting upon herself the
burden and care of nursing the injured
child, and the expense of medical aid. The
manager of the Septolne Oil Company was
made defendant, and damages were laid at
$6,OO0--those of the daughter at S., 600 and
of the mother at 81 900. The defence was
a general denial. a lower court decreed
900 to the daughter and $3.50 to the
mother, and the Supreme Court has just
affirmed this decision.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

GREAT SWIMMING FEAT.-Capt. Webb,
the English swimmer, has succee ded in
swimming across the English channel,
from Dover to Calais, in % hours and 43
minutes He was supplied with nourish-
ment and stimulants repeatedly in the
route. On his arrival on French soil he
was received with great cheering. All
England was wild with excitement, and
her press announce his swim as the great
est physical feat of the century He re-
turned to Dover from Calais on Thursday,
and was received with enthusiastic demon
strations from large multitude. He has
experienced no ill effects from the swim.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

ANOTHER OLD MASON GoNE.-Capt.
Geo. W. Lee, a highly esteemed citizen of
Lynchburg, and member Of the Masonic
fraternity, died suddenly on Sunday last.
He was in his list year, and was native
OF Bucking ham, but lived for more than
half century in Lynchburg.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

HOMICIDE IN WEST VIRGINIA.-T. r.
Thrasner and Woodson Harvey, of Mon
roe county, W. Va, had an alteration on
the I'D inst, in which Thrasher received
four pistol shots in the breast, which
caused instant death. Harvey surrendered
himself and was lodged in jail. He claims
to have killed Tharsher in self-defense.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

DEATH OF AN OLD DEFENDER.-Mr.
Burt Whitson, forme rly of Hartford co.,
Md, died near Martinsburg, Va, on the
9th inst, in the SD year of his age. Mr..
Whitson was highly respected, and was a
soldier in the war Of 1872.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

Gen. A. }. Pannell, State Senator from
Wheeling wv. Va. district, and chairman
of the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, fell dead at Greenbrier White Sui
phur Springs Sunday last, of heart disease.
His remains passed through S5aunton
Tuesday morning.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

THE OLD WAR HORSE -The Rock
bridge people are talking seriously of send
ing ex-Gov. Letcher to the next Legisla-
ture. We wouid'like to see the old War
Horse under saddle again.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-09-03

SIX MURDERERs TO BE HA NGED.-Six
men will be hanged at Little Rock, Ark.
to-day. They were sentenced at the last
term of the Federal court for murder.
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The HEROINE OF N EwPoRT.-The New
York Evening Post" sketches the ex-
ploits of Miss Eda Lewis, who again distin-
guished herself on Thursday by reScuing
man who was in danger of drowning in the
lower Newport harDor. Mis-; Lewis first
came into prominence in 1865, when she
saved the life of soldier who had set out
for sail on the harbor in Il light skiff. II
was one of the coolest and most clustering
days ever known in this latitude, yet girl
but twenty-five years of age, impelled by
the nobles5 spirit OF humanity, ventured to
the assistance of Il man who had brought
himself into d sorry plight through sheer
foohardiness.
One day during the autumn of jthenext
year, while Il terrible gale WAS raging, tWo
men set out to eros, the harbor with Sew
eltl sheep. Ole of the animals fell over
board while the boat was rocked by the
heavy sea, and its keepers, in trying to
save it, were in imminent peril OF swamp
ing their craft. Ida Lewis Saw them from
the window Of her fathers lighthouse on
Lime Rock, and in a few moments WAS
rowing them in safety toward the shore.
After landing the men, she went back
again and rescued the sheep
On the 10Th of March, 1869, two young
soldiers set sail from Newport for Fort
Adams in small boat. under the guidance
of a boy who pretended to understand the
simple fules of navigation. Mrs. Lewis
CHANGED to be looking out of the lighthouse
window, and saw squall strike the b at
and overturn it. She called to her daugh-
ter, telling her of.the calamity. Ida, though
i'll at the time, rushed out of the house.
launched her lifeboat and sprang in, with
neither hat ON her head nor shoes on her
feet. By the time she reached the scene
of the disaster the boy had persisted, and
the two soldiers were clinging desperately
to the wreck, almost ready to loose their
hold from exhaustion. They were dragged
into the lifeboat and carried to Lime Rock,
and with careful nursing were soon sutfi-
GENTLY restored to proceed to Fort Adams.