The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-09-23

and guidance Of the indicator they will ask it
and not before, and rest easy with their own
judgment, until they are convinced that they
are incapable of exercisingit. The Vindicator
talks as though the council were set OF babies
leading stings of its exalted wisdom. This is
mistake into which it has unaccountably fall
len, and the quicker it comprehends the blum
der the better for it. They are all of age, and
responsible for their action, and are not afraid
to submit it to the scrutiny and judgment of
the people.
Major Koiner in the Role Of Martyr.
The unselfish and martyr-lke spirit that
communication, which we find in the Specta-
tor of the 2lst, cannot fail to command the
highest admiration Of all true patriots in the
Valley of Virginia. The significance of this
brave suggestion is the more manifest when
we consider that two-thirds of the public debt
was contracted for the benefit Of Eastern Vir-
ginia. We know that there is not ''brawny
ARM or ''broad shoulder in this fertile
Valley where industry is the rule and idleness
is the exception, which will not put forth ev
cry muscle to relieve the elegant gentlemen OF
eastern Virginia from the burdens of this debt
and allow them to devose their attention ex-
clusively to the fox-chase, the race-course, a:.d
the pious game of faro. What if it does re-
quire a fax of S1.25 on the 500 of the real and
personal property these ''brawny arms'' have
accumulated, will not their memories he held
l
after their noble bodies have gone to ''Davy
Jones' locker?'' We tell you, the spirit of
martyrdom is not yet extinct, and we have 10
doubt Major Koiner would give up the last sti-
yer he possesses rather than the people OF the
Valley should fater in their grand work of
protecting the honor of the CommonW cath
MsssRs EDs:-It can be established by number
of gentlemen of the highest character and lntelli
gence, that Major A. honer IN a speech which he
delivered at the Courthouse some Is months ago.
said that civilization was receding before the broom
sage and sassadras pushes Of eastern
and that West Virginia would not pay ar part of
to ny the Who Of 5fa to
upwards of (5O U00000) fifty millions of dollars That
and their shoulders broad enough t. bear it. and he
knew when it came to the test they would pay the
monwealth The journal of the House of Delegates
of 1874 pages 433 and 434. also shows that Major
nc with ~ others, voted 10r an amendment TO
The general tax bill requiring tax of one per cent
to be imposed upon income derived from "sales of
in fact from
other sources over and above six hundred dollars
the amount exempted by the Constitution OF the
State.
Even Mr.. Stuart and Maj. Hanger, who have been
for paying the public debt At almost any cost to the
ted against it, The object OF your writer is to state
these facts and to ask the people Of Az
makes it almost impossible to obtain meat for
their families, if they are going to to send Major
sembly If they do, they ought to be made to pay
the whole public debt, and they and their descend
ants be yassas to the bondholder for the next hun
dred years. FARMER AND GRANGER
When Mr.. John B. Evans, who was ap
pointed member Of the Board OF Directors
of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution by
Governor Kemper, because he is, or is sup
posed to be, a member of the Conservative
party, dominates in his seat as Councilman,
Harvey Risk, a Republican and Federal officer
holder for City Sergeant against Conserva
tive. then that may re called Loose politics.
indicator
We thought it quite loose 'spolitics'' when
John B. Evans voted for Horace Greeley and
james l.. Kemper, but our neighboi" was
then doubtless OF d different opinion. lnas-
much as Mr.. Risk held fresh commission
from Governor Kemper, as a Notary Public, at
the time Mr.. Evans nominated him, and the
appointment was made with a full knowledge
of his politics-that the propriety of the APP
pointment was endorsed by at least two Of the
Conservative members of the Legislature
from Augusta county, and several Of the pres
ent aspirants, we do not consider that there
was much looseness about the nomination for
City Sergeant.
The indicator seems to Lave flea in its
ear. and hence it's restlessness. Vsrg1na0n.
Yesl it is the s!wicked flee" you have read
about. and you shall see him at the Spring
election indicator.
Yes, that wicked fellow who ''feeth when
no man pursueth,' - and that is the melancholy
condition of OR neighlor. He has been fec
ine ever since the election OF 1871, and Will
keep on fleeing afterthe next ''sprng election, -
If he happens to be on the track.
Ex-Assstant District Attorney Fisher, OF
the District of Columbia, was arrested in
Washington, Monday last, for stealing the APP
peal bonds and papers in forty district cases
which had been appealed from the criminal
court. The papers in thirty odd OF the cases
were found.
The two hundredth anniversary OF the
Bloody Brook massacre was celebrated at
South Deerfeld, Massachusetts, Monday,
about thirty-fve hundred people being pres
ent. An address was delivered by DR.. George