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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-13
A letter in the Richmond ''Dispatch

A letter in the Richmond "Dispatch !"
from A. J. Furman, of Oskaloosa Iowa,
tells of a lady sixty years of age of fine APP
pearance, describing herself as a daughter
of the late Rev. j. B. TAYLOR and sister of
Rev. Gen. B. Taylor, now of Rome, and
says she is an imposter playing the game
of fraud
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America have had made in commemora-
ration of their Tooth anniversary, u water
fountain, costing $4,000. 1t has been pre-
sented to the city of Philadelphia ''for the
free use of the people of America for all
time to come"
Sir Edward Thornton. the British minis
ter, has had prepared as present to Queen
Victoria, picture 40 inches square, con-
tanning fac-simies of the signatures of all
tie presidents, congressman and U. S.
Judges of the government for one hundred
years.
The Post Office Department is daily re-
ceiving letters from country postmasters,
saving. II hereby resign my position AS a
member of the - Republican commit
tee,n They thought that was the place to
send it TO- a good commentary on the
way it has been rHn:
Benz. Rush, a grandson of one of the
signers of the Declaration Of Independence,
died IN an omnibus in London, of heart
disease, last Saturday. He wrote "a pro-
test against the Southern rebellion" which
was circulated SO widely in England dur
ing the war.
To the thousands of applications to Sec
retary Schurz from his countrymen for
positions, his standing answer is, II ana
not here to represent Germans am here
as an American"
Even Wytheville, Va, walked up this
4th of July with big dinner at the fair
grounds, to which 1000 person sat down.
Nr lanes P. McTeer delivered an grafton
ord M VIM. Terry, Jr.. also smoke.
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: Forty Years g. Nurse.

''I've taken care of him for forty years."
said neatly dressed gray-headed old col
ored woman, Wednesday morning, stand.
ing in the middle of clearly looking.
kitchen room on Augusta street, near the,
colored Methodist church. She was point
ing to a strange looking figure sitting Oh
the floor with beard on an.old looking face,
but wearing female apparel. 1t was u man
forty years old with arms and legs the size
of pipe stems, back bowed land who had sd
in one position since he was six months
old. He had never spoken word, but
could understand pretty well what his
mother said to him. The old lady had,
been the slave of Mr.. VIM. Mills of this
county and her name was Eliza Willis. She
was one OF those tidy old family servants
with the manners of good breeding as
plainly impressed as if she belonged to
another color or class of people, ami was
quite communicative about the ''boy" as
she called him. and who, if Barnum SAW
him would be q prize. He recollectrd all
the country people she said that used TO
live in the neighborhood where he was
L
was quite familiar with officer Kur,z who
was present, and whose name had doubt
les been often used to subdue him. His
employment, for strange to say even such
a mishapen being can have employmen3, is
to sit at the door and keep the chickens
out, for which he has a long switch. The,
old lady said he has been in great n,entah
distress on account of the loss at some of
his chickens, and the subject being intro
duced the ''boy" Indicated two newspaper
reporters who were present as the p.rties
who had most likely taken them. 1t is Il
queer case, this forty year old infant, and
queerer still, when we think Of that ma
ternal instinct which has for forty Years
made this old mother With none of the
flner shades of feeling that education gives.
tend and care for this knarled and twisted
cripple.
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SERIOUS Acc1pENTs.-On Monday.H on

SERIOUS ACcIDENTs.-On Monday: Hon.
Jno. S. Massie, Ex-senator from Nelson
CO., while returning from Lexington where
he had carried his family, to his home in
Amherst, met with a serious accident.
The Lexington ''GaZette" says:
In the neighborhood of Buena Vista
Furnace, his horse took fright and ran.
The bit broke. and being unable to guide
the animal, in few moments Mr.. Massie
was thrown violently from the buggy,
where he lay unconscious for some time.
After he had sufficiently recovered, he
started down the road to find the horse,
which some men in corn field near by had
stopped. MIR. Massie had a stick thrust
IN his mouth which came out near his
throat, and received several severe bruises.
His condition at first was such as to excite
the q ave apprehension of his friends, but
his brother-in-laW who has recently visited
him at his home, where he was taken few
days after the accident, reports his condi-
ton much better.
The same paper contains an account of
another serious accident:
While Mr.. John Steel was on his way to
MI. Joe. Holmes This father-in-law) on
Sunday night the Both ult., descending
SAILING LII equl-UlStdHt uetWoen tne Via
Valley and Plank Road, a strap came loose
about the harness, causing the horse to
run with violence, kicking the front of the
Jersey in which he was riding, to pieces.
Mr.. Steel finding himself in a perilous sit
uatiOn. arose for the purpose of jumping
out, but at that moment the horse kicked
him on the abdomen and stomach very Sc
riousy, if not dangerously, rendering him
insensible. He was thrown out of the Jer-
sey and getting one foot entangled be-
tween the spring and the axel tree, was
dragged several hundred yards. No ore
was with him in the vehicle, but some men
near by saw the accident ard came to his
relief He was taken to MI. Holmes, and
DR.. Hardin who resides in the neighbor-
hood sent for. The patient is doing as we'll
as could be expected, and there is hope of
his recovery.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-13

Gen. VIM. Malone is out in letter in
the Richmond "Whig," defining his posi-
ton on the State debt, which is adjust
ment.'' Like the others, he offers no sug-
gestions to get the creditors to accept ad-
justment, but says:
There are difficulties in the way ad-
nit, but there is necessity calling for
their solution; and the sagacly of tine
creditor, the power of the State, and the
determination of her rulers, Can surely tiud
a method of enforcing equity.
In another letter he strongly fayors the
public schools, but if he can call off his
dogs when they have devoured the public
debt on account IF taxation, and stop
them when they go at the public schools
another heavy cause of taxation-he will
do more than we think he can. A people
demoralized by one sort Of reputation
can't be stopped when they get to mother.
A bankrupt will put his own children into
hisl list of creditors as we'll as his neighbors'
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How 1t Is Looked At Abroad,

Baltimore Gazette.
1t is deeply TO be regretted that there
should exist a reputation sentiment in
Virginia, in which General Malone can
find sanctuary in writing his disgraceful
letter urging reputation. That such
sentiment should exist, even in a small
minority, brings feeling of shame to all
Vlrglnlans who have at heart the honor of
the old commonwealth. The funding bill,
which General Malone says was a
"grievous mistake,'' is contract; and not
to keep it would be sheer dishonesty. 1t
may seem to General Malone "she part of
wisdom to insist upon compromise" and
he goes Oh to say: THAT this can be done
when we go directly to the work l do not
doubt. That it must lie done | am firmly
of the opinion, and will 1t is in the straight
line OF severe business that we must pro-
coed, Or we shall die OF sentimental sense
OF honesty and integrity, and the corpse
Will be buried at the expense of the credi-
tor at last A sentimental sense of
honesty and integrity! General Malone
even sneers at the honesty of others. The
sense OF personal honor carried into the
minutest affairs of business, characterized
the Virginians in their greatest days; and
any departure from it now will be as dis
astrous to the business prosperity of the
Malone cloaks his dishonest proposition
under the phrases Of REIMBURSEMENT of the
debt" and compromise. Even he is as
hamed to say in plain language what his
words truly signify. There is no way in
which a sovereign State, as debtor, can
compromise" or ''readjust'' in the sense
in which General Malone uses the words,
except by violating its promises, and re-
pudiating its debts. This to railroad
president OF General Mahone's antecedents
may not seem dishonorable; but in a man
who offers himself as candidate for COVER
nor it is positively shocking. 1t is bold
and desperate act of a p>litical gambler to
secure a foothold In contest for the gov
ernorship, by appealing to the baser side of
the worst elements of the population. We
have every confidence that his scheme will
fail, and that the good people of Virginia
will set their heel upon his political hopes,
and crush him out of all possibility of are
turn to public life. 1t is not enough tc
defeat him; the voters of Virginia should
make an example of him.
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OLD AFTER KNowLEDGE.-Amo the
graduates at the University of Pennsylva-
MIA last Thursday was quiet old gentle
man aged above seventy years. He receiv-
ed the degree of doctor of philosophy after
passing course of full scientific examina-
of George Alfred Towdsend. Without
college advantages in early life. he studied
and graduated in medicine at the age of
ffty-fve, and in the sciences at seventy
one. The under graduates gave him
shout as he placidly took his sheep skin
and degree of doctor of philosophy.
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DR.. Schliemann narrates that. when E

DR.. Schliemann narrates that, when a
boy he dreamed of the number Ill ,641
Not devoid of superstition, he wrote to
Berlin, and inclosed ten thalers, to be in
vested in this number of the coming lotte-
ry. AS Ill ,64l had already been taken,
another number was sent in it's place.
Schliemann lost his ten thalers, while the
figures of his dream drew the great prize
of $50 900 thalers.
In Charlottesville Va, and it's vicinity,
Thursday evening about 6 O'Clock hail
ston' fell some of the largest measuring
81 by 81 inches. The sky lights of the
photograph galleries were broken out. In
the country young corn was knocked to
ribbons and chickens were killed.
Sellers of liquor in Oregon are not re-
qnired, under new law, to be licensed :;
but every. drinker must pay SIS year for a
license, and whoever sells to an unlicensed
person may be imprisoned. The names of
procurers of licenses are to be published
every six mouths.
A floating paragraph says that Jefferson
DAVIS. in his Forthcoming book, will assail
Gen. Joe Johnston with severity, and hold
him responsible for the failure of the Con-
federates to seize Washington after their
victory at Bull Run.
Ben. Hill, of Georgia, was in Richmond,
Saturday, on his way to the White Sui
phur with his invalid wife. He objects to
calling..it Hayes Southern" policy, and
thinks it ought to be called Hayes Con-
sttutional policy.
Oakley S. Barker, grandson of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, was indicted in New
York Monday, for stealing jewelry from
young woman. He was arraigned, plead
ed not guilty and was remanded.
Rev. J. J. Greever, Lutheran minister
for many years resident of Burk's Gar
den, TaZewell CO., Va, and serving con-
gregations in Tazewell and Bland counties,
di ed at his house on the 3Oth of June, of
pm eumonia.
Mr.. Memory McCrary, a brother of the
Secretary of War, has been a Mormon for
the last twenty-five years and has two
wives. He has just gone on to Washing
ton to see his brother.
Bob Burdett, the famous funny man of
the Burlington ''Hawkeye," has been the
nurse for an invalid wife for years. He
only goes to his office an hour or two each
day.
VOAIhSOo4 DioWu, Olo SpeCldl lldll
agent, lately drowned near Washington
City, was the third brother that Mrs Jno.
A. Wharton, of Liberty, Bedford, has lost
by violent death.
Baker Mann a we'll to do farmer of Ches-
terfeld CO.. Va. found his smoke house
burning Monday morning, and was so over
come by excitement, that he died the next
day.
Mr.. Ohas. B. Coale, editor of the Alb
ingdon Standard" announces himself a
candidate for reelection to the House of
Delegates.
] M. Lewis, of King William CO., Va,
grows 700 acres of tomatoes. His hot
beds for seeds are covered by II 900 panes
of glass.
Jefferson Davis has been engaged to de-
liver lecture before the Young Mems
Library Association at Atlanta, Ca, next
autumn,
Hon. Montgomery Blair is the De 70
cratic candidate, to represent Montgom-
cry county in the next House of Delegates
of Maryland.
Thomas w. boswell and Col. Mcdaniel
of Virginia, have their stables at Saratoga
for the races this week,
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One White Sulphur Springs correspon-
dent of the Richmond ''State' says Presi-
dent Hayes has cottage A in Kansas row
and will be there July Goth, while another
writes that he won't be there till Oct. LIST.
Col. F. W. M. Holiday was serenaded
at 4arrAiss9S,a5Hrg, the night of the 4th Of
July. - 4a@ Is
Faxes carry oft pigs ip 4 so a portions of
Shenandoah county. MI. Welsh lost 4 saY sq.
Leo. Wheat and lady were at the White
Sulphur Springs last week.
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Newton Shewmater, of Henry CO., Va,
after eating a hearty dinner, Saturday,
went into the harvest field, and after cut
ting two rows handed the cradle to his
brother and fell dead. He leaves a wife
and six children.
The Oregon legislature is trying the
case of whether Gov. Grover was elected
U. S. Senator by bribery and corruption.
Fhe first new wheat that arrived in
Fredericksburg, brought $780,.
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FIRING AT A CONDUCTORS Last week.
near Cannelton, on the G. Il o. Road,
Capt. Hubbard put off two miners, who,
would not pay their fare. While stand.
ing on the track they whipped out sheir
pistols and fired at the Captain. Ons ball
lodged in the car. One Of the mel. was.
afterwards arrested,
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In Baltimore, Wednesday, wheat rang
ed from s1.67 to sI.73, and in Richmond
from S1.55 to S167. In both cities there
was an active demand.
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WAR ON DRUGGIsTs.-The Medical So
ciety of Allegany county, Nd, has resolv-
ed to Withhold prescriptions from druggists
''who put up nostrums or who prescribe
any patent OF other medicines for any
class OF cases, whether grave or trivial.'
Any member of the society violating this
pledge shall be expelled and debarred from
all professional intercourse and courtesy.
The druggists of Cumberland, refuse to
recognize this action.
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COMMISSIONER OFFICE,
" STAuNToN, VA, July 6, 1877
P. A. Baylor, Trustee,
vs..
James W. Houseman, al.
All parties interested in the foregoing canse
are hereby notified, that have fixed upon the
9Th DAY OF AUGUST, PROXIMO,
to take the several account required by decree
of the Circuit Court of Augusta Coun y enter
ed in said cause on the 4th day Of June 1877
At which time you are required to attend ut
my office.
JOHN NJ KINNEY,
July I3-4t Commissioner.
" irAUNrox, July 6, 1877.
John Sillng,
vs..
The Patrons of Husbandry and Ruslaess As
ISOLATION
All parties interested in the foregoing cause
are hereby nouiied, that will proceed at my
office in Staunon, on the
eth DAY OF AUGUST NEXT
to state the accounts required by decreee in the
said cause On cred the 7th day of June,
1917. At which tune and place you are re-
quired to attend; and all creditors holding
liens upon the property involv' in this suit
are required to appear before me on or before
the 18th Of August, 1871 aud prove the same.
JOHN NJ. KINNEY,
julyl3-4t Comm'r in Chancery.
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OIL CARRIAGE ON THE CHESAPEAKE:
Il ONO \. Ron Monday Of last week
4,4aS barrels of coal oil passed over the,
G. y 0, Road, on it's way to RichuonG
for Shipment.
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New Advertisements.

(For other New Advertisements zee 3rd Page.)
OST.-On Saturday last a "Gold Star
~ Medal awarded by the Virginia Fema lie
Institute. be finder will be literally reward
ed by leaving the same at this office.
julyIS-3t
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TIME MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK.
ASSETS. $50, 36O,lSO.59.
Capt. GEO. E. PRICE, Agent,
STANTON. VA.

The attention of the citizens of Staunton and
Augusta County is called to the advantages
offered by this Company have this day ap-
pointed W P. ESKRIDGE, Assistant Agent
He will be found at the store of Price j. Miller
corner of Beverley and New Streets and will be
pleased to give any information in references to
the company, desired 'julyl3-tf
T AND FOR SALE-The undersigned as
II agent, will sell privately little farm
OF 979 acres, belonging to the Heirs of David
Perry decd, adjoining the lands of Rev Mar
tin CARRIER and others. 1t has comfortable
house. and out buildings; good orchard and
q well of fine water in the yard.
Julyl6th, 1871. GEU. TOWBERMAN.
iulYl3-3t
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SIS to $50 SAMPLES PER pay worth y 81 H0 s,::
'ASNTsoS scc Portland. Ysiae, Jaiyl1.fx
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sOn SnYlOck De Ln0 consequences. LII
other words, this or nothingl We take it
that every man in his commercial, agri-
cultural or mechanical life, who hereafter
wants business or private credit, would
shrink from such q proposition as this to
his creditors. It is reputation under the
name of adjustment. The third is Repu-
diation under its own name.
We do not propose to dwell on the dis
grace of a State repudiating her debt, for
those who favor it have doubtless already
discounted that feature of it, but we wish
to say few words on the practical i'm
possibility of gaining anything by it. There
are s2O,0O0,000 of the bonds, for which the
holders have the guarantee of the Court of
Appeals that the coupons shall be receiv-
able for taxes. There is no escape from this.
A law repeating the funding bill might
be passed tomorrow, and yet the holders
of these coupons have all the power of the
courts at their back to make the coupons
still receivable. 50 the practical effects of
reputation would only be to get rid of
about $3.50. for interest. The taxes now
paid into the State Treasury average 3d.
700 600, of which 81 900 900 goes to redeem
the coupons; 100000 to the support of
government, and $55O,OOO to the public
schools, leaving $3.50, 1000, which might be
gotten rid of by the legislature. A man
whose land is assessed at $40, 900, and who
pays $50 tax, would by that reputation re-
dHce his tax-how much do you Think
Why to s47.5 50! and the man who is taxed
on $40, 900 worth of land, instead of paying
800 tax would pay sos! What does any
solid farmer of Augusta think of such a
profit as that for repudi ating our State
| debt
AS we have alluded to the people of
Rockbridge in the matter of taxation. we
will be more specific with regard to their
tax. Their county tax is S44 cents on the
500, yielding 1854 and their State tax is
so cents, yielding 1891. These figures
are from the County Clerk of Rockbridge.
We have never heard any cry of repudia-
ton in that county, though the greater
part of the tax they pay is for railroad
they don't possess. The people live there
comfortably, and the sales of delinquent
lands don't amount to 81 100 year. In
| Augusta the sales of delinquent lands
don't amount to $500a year.
The only sort of reputation that, we
trust the people of Old Augusta will ever
favor, will be the reputation of extrava-
gance in State government-for our gov
eminent costs at least 100000 more than
it ought. and the reputation of political
agitators who, with true communist spirit
counsel discomfort while offering no way
out of the causes of it.
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to death in Virginia by taxation. If all our
people were to make one-tenth of the effort
Rockbridge is making we should soon
strike level ground with the State debt,
and we should all live comfortably in the
meanwhile. ia h1i II t.f' way ''"i4hi'Nl'
Asto the suggestions how this debt may
be gotten rid of, there are three: First, is
payment The plan this journal advocates;
second, adjustment something that would
be welcome to ALL But first we must url-
derstand what adjustment means, and then
what are the chances for it. q It means the
acceptance by the creditors Of the State of
a plan by which they shall take SO much
less on the dollar than the face of their
bond calls for, that the debt will be dim
inished in the eyes Of the State, which is
el,e debtor, to a sum 1t thinks can be paid
with ease. It is rather remarkable way
of settlement, and the more remarkable be-
cause It follows at the heels of another
compromise, which the State has failed to
comply with. and which it is now said
should be repealed. We don't SUPPOSE
there is a man IN Virginia, except, per-
haps. some Of the bond hold ers, who would
object to this adjustment # At you'd be
agreed by the creditors generally. BUT
there is an adjustment from WHICH the mass
of the Virginia people win shrink. It is
contained in a letter from Gen. VIM. Ma
HONE to Col. "A. FULKERsoa, s<a dated
June 9th, 1877, and in it he says, III the
sbondholde,x refuse prompt compliance vita
the terms Of q compromise equitable to
them, and liberal to the people, | would say'
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