Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-17
Return Of Hon. a. e. e. Stuart
PERsONELLE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA
POINTS. =.

Hon. A. II, Stuart one of the dist nguishs
ed men who went to Columbia S. O., at the re-
quest of the National Democratic Committee
returned yesterday afternoon. In conversation
with him last night he said the S. g. Supreme
Court is composed of three Judges, Judge Mo-
ses is a native of South Carolina, Union man
during the war of moderate views, gentleman
and the associate of gentlemen an excellent
lawyer AM not likely to let his politics warp
bis Judgment. Mr.. Stuart made lis acquain-
lance at the hotel and afterwards spent an
evenin at his residence with Gov Randolph of
j. He is not the Gov. Moses who is go
Infamous in South Carolina.
Judge willard is native of New York, who
went to South Carolina for the benefit of his
wife's health. He is a man of fine address and
appearance and seemed to have had the best
advantages Of education and society. He is q
frequenter of the best social circles of South
Carolina. His legal attainments are excellent.
Ee is living in handsome style at his resi- dence
where Gov Randolph and Mr.. Stuart called on
him. He is Republican but not Radical and
is very anxious to see peace in the country. In
parting with Mr. Stuart he remarked to him,
ave must have peace.,
The third judge is Judge Wright, full
blooded negro from Pennsylvania, where he was
educated He is man Of good manners. He
did not seem to be in accord with the extreme
Radicals
The Court will consider three points LIST,
whether the Board is legally in existence 2ni,
whether, if it is it has the right to- go behind
the returns of the County canva ssers and Bird,
whether, they being candidates, they could sit
on their own cases. The Court met Tuesday,
and was addressed by white man and negro
for the Republicans, and several white lawyers
for the Democrats. 1t was sugge5ted by one of
the speakers that the Board might attempt to
forestall the action of the Court, when Judge
Moses fired up at once and said the ATTEMPT
would be perilous one.
Mr. Stuart left with the impression, that the
Conrt would rule fairly and not tolerate any
violation of law by the Board, in which casa
South Carolina will give 1898 majority for
Hampton and about ], 900 for Tilden- as this
is the way the ballot stands. Mr.. Stuart says
the feeling in South Carolina is intense, and if
the Radicals perpstrate fraud there is no fore.
telling the result.
Mr. Stuart found the place full Of q. S. Sol
diers a regiment being quartered there. The
troops were orderly and seemed to sympathize
with the whites. The city was as quiet as
Stanton is on Sunday.
THE CASE OF Mr.. DooM.-On Tuesda-
asst Judge H. W. Shelly, of Staunton, sub
mitted a motion in the U. S. Supreme
Court at Washington, for leave to file a
petition for a writ of hoJeas corpus in the
case of Madison Doom, now in the Staun-
ton jail, sentenced by the U. S. District
Court to four months Imprisonment, for
violating the Civil Rights Bill, by putting
a colored woman out of the Waiting-room
of the G. & o. passenger depot. The main
point of the petition is the unconstitution-
ality of the Civil Rights Bill
VINO SHE Is.-The Charlottesville
'Chronicle,' copying the paragraph in the
VINDICAToR, few days since, headed,
ga Mysterious Case,'' says:
The girl above referred to is now in
Charlottesville. She is recognized as a
colored girl who, year OF two since, look
ed through key-hole at the workings Of
some secret order among the colored people,
and was so much frightened by what she
saw that she fell into a trance, and re-
manned in that condition for several days.
When she recovered she disappeared from
public sight until her return here few
days ago. We learn that she claims to
have been to Spain during her absence, and
also to have lived somewhere in the North.
She would readily be taken for an italian
from her swarthy complexion. She has
claimed since her return here to be a con-
nection Of Queen Victoria, and is no doubt
more or less affected mentally.