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saw a pigeon making bread;
saw a girl composed of thread;
saw a towel one mile square;
Saw u meadow in the air;
j saw q rocket walk q mile;
l saw q pony make a file;
l saw a blacksmith in a box;
saw an orange kill an OK;
i saw q butcher made of steel;
saw a penknife dance a reel;
/ saw u sailor twelve feet high;
saw ladder in q pie;.
i saw an apple ny away;
saw a sparrow making hay;
saw a farmer like dog;
! saw a puppy mixing grog;
i saw three men who saw these too,
And will confirm what tell you.
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I~=sernaus md sis Victims.

Dun, Barlow 81 Co. have issued
h ir report of commercial failures
or the first quarter of 1877, and con-
trsry to the buoyant anticipations
expressed in their last quarterly re
port that better day was dawniDg,
they say: ga sense of disappOiut-
ment Pervades the public mind al
the results of the past three months
trade. The indications OF last au-
tumn were sufficiently promising to
create a reasons BILE expectation that,
as soon as the recent political COM
plications were dispelIed, q more
prosperous period would set in.
But this expectation has been but
partially fulfilled" They report
the failures for the three months
ending April lst as mum boring 2,
$50, and contrast the same with
those of. q similar PERIOD in 1876 OF
2,806, aud in 1875 of 1882.
We abstract from their last annual
report thus:
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Sherifss Sale,
District Court, Fifth Judicial District. Lvof
County, Kansas.
JESSE HUNT,


JESSE HUNT.
rs.
ELIZABETH HUNT, ct ats
DY virtue of an order of sale issued ont of
- the District Court of Lyon county in the
above entitled Cause, l will, on Monday the
18th day OF May, 1877. at IL O'Clock a. m at the
front door of the courthouse in Emporia, Lyon
county, Kansas, offer for sale at public auc-
ton to the hsghest bidder for cash, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit: Com
mencing forty-two rods east of northwest
corner OF northwest quarter of section TWEEN
ty, township nineteen, range twelve; thence
east on section line one hundred and eighteen
rods; thence south on quarter section line
one hundred and sixty rods; thence west on
quarter section line one hundred and eight
cen rods; thence north one hundred and six
ty rods to place of beginning, containing one
hundred and eighteen acres, except 100 feet
decided to the NJ, K & T. Railway Company
and one acre heretofore decided for a public
cemetery, as described in said deed. Also a
certain piece of timber land, commencing at
northeast corner of southeast Quarter of
northwest quarter of section twenty-seyen,
township nineteen, range twelve. in Lyon
county, Kansas; thence west sixty rods !;
thence south eighty rods; thence east sixty
rods; thence north eighty rods to place of be-
ginning. containing thirty acres.
said real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendants, to satisfy said order of sale.
Sheriff office, April ID, 1877
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff.
lo-ot Lyon county, Kansas.
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STATE GOVERNMENT
CITY OFFICERS

OI1 4 OEF IOEhSs
Mayor--Thos. Morrison
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-(ico. M StoweH,
City Attorney-J. jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. Forde.
Marshal-Thos. Elemming
Chief Engineer-D. e. McAIurtric.
Councilmen-1st Ward, A. a. Baker, l. T.
Perley. ID Ward, ii. Is. Lowe, j. III. Davis.
III Ward, John Henson, e. l.. bancroft 9Th
Ward, Ed. Borton, Z. Nichols
Board of EducatiOn-1st w ard, J jay Buck,
y. T. Nix 3D. Ward, II. w McCune, /. L.
iialleck 9TH Ward, J. A.Moore, L. b. Kel.
iogg Treasurer Board OF Education, d. W
Eastman.
Justice of the Pcaee-C. B. Bacheller, Geo.
Constables-T. johnson. II. w. Gilchriest
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KNIGHTs OF PYTHTAs-

DAMASCUS LODGE meets iA Odd Eel.
IL lows hall every Monday evening.
Members in good standing are cordiallyiin-
yited to attend. n RYHO q q
W. T McCARTY, X r. s.
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Notice i'm Attachment.
W. c. McCLARY, Plaintt9.,

w. c. McCLARY, Pldintt9.I
JAMES HIREREE, DeIenddntD
Before j. V. Sanders, J. p, in and for the
city Of Emporia, Lyon Co, Kansas.
NOTICE is hereby given TO the above
IN named defendant that, on the 10th day
of April 1877, the said Justice of the Peace
issued an order of attachment in the above
named case Tor twenty three, and sixty one
heard on the 9th day of June. 1871 at nine
O'Clock. q. m. W. &. MCCLARY, plaintiff
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COUNTY OFFICERS

Judge District COurt-E. Il. Peyton.
Clerk District Court-G. w. Frederick
Sherif-Hiram Conner.
Attorney-T. y Sedgwick.
Treasurer-Jos. Ernst
Clerk. s. Craig.
Register Of Decds-F. Il. Page.
sups. Pub. Instruction-O. u. Wharton.
suryeyor-H Harry Hibben
Probate lqdge-E: w. Cunningham.
ID. ). GILMORE,
Commissioners r. a. TAYLOR,
H. A. WOOD.
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Inside PaiDtilg & Graililg

II AN ready to do inside painting and grain
4 ing, In q workmanlike manner. and at
very moderate prices Have had forty years
iSfaction. Leave orders at WibIey g Hen
sons store, OF address RE through fhe posi-
Office 1921 ELWOGD CHAPMAN
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SheFiR's Sale

SHOfln 8 SaI0s
District Court, Fifta Judicial District. LYON
County, Kansas.
HOWARD DUNLAP
ps.
r. n. Kennedy
by virtue of an execution issued out of
- the District Court of Lyon county, in
the above entitled cause. l will on Monday,
the twenty first day of May, 1877, at eleven
O'Clock a. m, at the front door of the
court house in Emporia Lyon county,
Kansas, onef for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, the following describ-
ed real estate, to-wit: Lot No. seventy one
ia on sylvan street. in the city of EmporIa,
Lyon county, Kansas.
said real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendant, r. n. hennedy, to satisfy
said execution
sheriff's Office. April II, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
10 OF Lyon county, Kansas.
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Sherif,S Sale.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District. LYON
County. Kansas.
G. NJ. STowELL,
MARK PATTY, ct ais
R1 virtue of AN execution issued out of
ID the District Court of LYON county. in
the above entitled cause, will, on Monday,
the i4th day of May, 1877, at ten O'Clock a m ,
poria, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at
public auction. to the highest bidder for cash
the following described real estate to-Wit :
The northwest quarter of the southwest quar-
ter OF section nine l9l, township nineteen [I9l ,
range ten llOl, In Lyon county, Kansas.
SAD real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendants, Mark Patty, ct nj to sat
isfY said execution.
Sheriff S Office, April b. 1871
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
loot Lyon county, Kansas.
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GRANGE.

EMPORIA GRANGE, No. 613, p. OH
Meets at Grange hall Saturday evening, Oct
1th, and every two weeks thereafter. Pat
rons in good standing are cordially invited
70 attend. J!E- STRATTON, MAsTRER.
MARY STRATToH. Sec'y-
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r WOULD inform the citizens OF EmporIa
L and surrounding country, that have just
Received direct from the east 3 lot of CofIins
for children-new styles. Also the finest as
sortment OF trimmings ever brought to this
city Give me q call before buying elsewhere.
as IL VIII be TO your interest to do so. Shop'
on 6th avenue, two doors east Of post ONCE
IS-Sml F. HESICK, Carpenter and Builder.
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EPISCOPAL.-Sf. Andrews Church. cor
ner of 9Th avenue and Commercial street.
Service on the first and third Sundays ef each
month, at II a. m and - p. m. Sunday
school every Sunday at - p. m.
REV. A. BEATTY, RECTOR.
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and Sixth street, in Topeka, Kansas.
$40 acres W Z sec s.. tip. %, range 9, Green
wood county. Kansas
$40 acres. all sec. IS. tip. %, range u, Green
wood county, Kansas.
$40 acres, all sec. IS, tp. %, range II. Green
wood county, Kansas.
30 acres, W = sec. 90. tp. %, range O. Green
wood county. Kansas.
800 acres Il sec. Is, tip. IS. range 9, Green
wood county, Kansas.
30 acres, W z sec. g, tp. 25. range Il, Green
wood county, Kansas.
lG4 acres, W frael sec. 80. tip. Il, range Is,
Lyon county, Kansas.
$40 acres, wy sec. Il. tip. p, range 6, Chase
county, Kansas.
l6O acres, W = sec 20, tip 10, range 2, Clay
county, Kansas.
$50 acres, S u sec. &c, tip. %, range I3 Wood
SON county, Kansas.
sc acres, n Il eff W = sec. So tn IL range
ID, Wabaunsee county, Kansas
81 acres, part " = sec l2. tp 8. range 16,
Jefferson county, Kansas, (cost s.. 900, i'm
proved farm with good housed.
$500 acres above described real estate, cost
average $5.25 per acre. Title perfect Said
lands are convenient distance to good mar
kets, railroads, schools, pOstoffices and flour
ing mills. They consist largely of rich bot
tom and prairie soil, interspersed with good
streams and ample timber, and situated in
the best portion of the State of Kansas,
IS-3t II. Il. CULLUM, Receiver
list National Bank, TOpeka Eas
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PHOTOGRAPHIC.

pAGE makes all kinds and sizes of Pic
4 lures, and also Will go any distance to
make pictures Of residences, landscapes.
teams, &c. Entrance to gallery first door
south of Wicks & Benefits grocery. 13-tf
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Z. l.. a.

IL Rooms over Emporia National Bank.
open every afternoon from to o; every eveng
Ing except riday, from to Q. Life member
ship SIS. Annual membership S. Readin-
room free. ID. Z. MCMURTKIE, Pres't.
j. ri. STEELE, Sec'y.
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Aggregate for the year $644, 1855. 406
*Manufactures OF Cotton, not included
here, 81, 722, 1913.
AS these figures do not agree with q
table of exports published last week,
We may remind the reader that the
latter were for the calendar year 1876,
while the foregoing are for the U. S /.
fiscal year ending June 80, 1876 -
Country Gentleman.
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GOOD TEMPLARs.

DHOENIX LODGE. No. 149. / q. G. T.
l. Meets Wednesday nights OF each week at
Grange hall REV. > III. CLARK, VIC
w KIESAS, Recording Sec'y.
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Sherif's Sale.

DlsIrlct court, Filth Judicial District, Lyon
County, Kansas.
THE ENPoRIA MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION.
as.
JOHN W. MORRIS, a.
by virtue of an order of sale issued ont of
ID the District Court of LYON county in
the above entitled cause, will, on Monday,
the zlst day of May, 1877, at 10 O'Clock a. m e,
az the 'front.' door of the court house. in the
city OF Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas, offer
ior sale at public auction to the highest bid
uer Lor cash, the following described real es-
tate, to-wit; Lots No. eleven III and thir-
Teen ll3l, on Merchants street, in the city of
EmPorIa, Lyon county, Kansas
sad real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendants, j. w. Morris. ct al to sat-
lsiy said order of sale
sheriff Is Office, April II. 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
io-os Lyon county, Kansas
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FTpsT pvrspYTrpIay-

CHRISTIAN-Corner Exchange street and
It'll Avenue. Services, every Sunday at the
usual hours. Sabbath School at o'clock p. m.
All are invited.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL St.
corner sth Avenue. Services every Sunday at
the usual hours.
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EmPoRIA SOCIETIES.


MASONIC.
TMPORIA COMMANDERY Nos KIT
ID Meets on second SATURDAYS alter second
Friday OF each month at Masonic hall.
J.JAY BUCK Recorder
TMPORIA CHAPTER, r. A. NJ. Meets at
IL Masonic hall, on the Second Friday
OF each month. Companions in good stand
ing are cordially invited TO attend.
L. G. DAVIDSON, Ii. p.
ESMPORIA LODGE, No. -, A. F. s. A III.
IA Meets at Masonic hall, on tho 1st Fri
day OF each month. Master Masons in good
standing are cordially invited to attend.
j. JAY BUCK, Secretary.
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nue. and Commercial street. Preaching at IL
a. m, and ~ p. every Sunday. Sunday
school at 81 a n. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening. j. Il. CLARK. Pastor.
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SECOND CONGREGATIONAL, (Teisb,-
Merchants street, between I'd and Sd Avenues
Preaching at 10k a m; Sunday school st D..
m. and preaching at 81 p. m. HRNRY RKKs1,
Pastor.
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METHODIST EPISCoPAL-Merchan St.
cor. 9th Avenue Preaching every Sunday at
II q n, and at the usual hours at night: Sum
day school at ~ p. m; Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening. A. II. WALTRE, Pastor.
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EaIs Majesty, the Pig.

A correspondent, "not Jew or veg
etarians" who considers fat pork a
very unhealthy article of food" and
that "it is a low degrading business tie
raise such filthy animals for food p
thinks that time spent in writing
about them, and experiments in feed
ing them, and the vast quantities of
corn RAISED to no1rish and tatten them,
might be devoted to much better pur-
poses. We may remind him, however,
that aside from the home consumption,
the animal he Sc much despises pos
sesses such degree of commercial inn
pOrtance that We scarcely like to hear
him spoken of in disrespectful terms.
During the year ending June 30th,
1875, We exported:
Bacon and hams valued at $50 ,664, 4J6
Pork, 5.744 ,O22
Lard, 81 %, 429, 49,
Lard OIL. =" 149, 1856
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EMPORIA ENCA MPMENT, No IT. Meets
~ at Odd Fellows hall. LIST and Sd Tuesdays
each month. The following are the elected
othcers OF Emporia Encampment, No. II, for
tile ensuing term:
J.. w. HIRTH, Scribe
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ODD FELLOWS.

TNJOS LODGE, No. 10. Meets at Odd
~ Fellows hall, over Emporia Bank, every
Tuesday evening at O'Clock Members IN
good standing invited 20 attend.
Il. JEFF, n. G.
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SECOND PRESBYTERIAN, (welsh)-Cor-
ner Market street and 9TH Avenue. Preach
ing every Sunday at ~ and 60 p. m; SUM-
day school at 10 a. m JOHN JONES Pastor.
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and so beside the silent sea
wait the muflled oar;
No harm from Hin can come to nue.
On ocean or on shore.
81 know not where his islands lift
Their fronted palms in air;
] only know l cannot drift
Beyond his love and care -
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Total valuation,
S34.6OO.5SO


In point of fact, we did not realize
the financial standing of our porcine
friend, until his dignity was so bitter
ly assaiied in the letter before us.
Over ten per cent. of the grand ag-
gregate OF all the products and all the
manufactures that we sold abroad in
1876 came from our pig pens! They
brought US more than one-third as
much as the entire cotton crop of the
South, almost three-quarters as much
as the wheat and flour from all the
North. The country could Ill afford,
in these hard times, to spare its little
income of seventy millions from his
royal highness of the stye.
This increase is of comparatively
recent date. Take the item of bacon
and hams alone (nearly $40,OO0,OOO In
1870, the average of the three prece-
ding years, in round numbers, was
49,, $40, 900; in 1872 it was $2l, 600, 600,
and the average for each of the seven
years, 1s65-'7I inclusive, was only
So, 75S, 062.
While we have at hand the official
tables from which these figures are ia
ken, it may be of interest to give in
condensed form, in the order of their
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CATH0LTC-Cottonwoo st. corner ID Az
nue.. Services every fourth Sunday.
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Total export value,
S61as7.IIa

No other single article of export
cotton and wheat alone excepted
looms up in anything like the proper
tions OF his majesty, the Pig; and if
cotton is king, he is also worthy of
throne! The lordly Ok, with his wider
range OF products, bows respectfully
before him. The same year above re-
ferred to, there were sold to other
countries:
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DIR. w. ID. GENTRY,

j. s. LAWRENCE, M D.,
HCCLIST AND AURIST, Emporia, Kas
~ Office over Whitley & Henson's dry goods
store. lift
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African METHODIST = state ssn,

south of railroad. Services every Sunday a
II a. m :, and ~ p. m; Sunday school at D. a .
Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings. Oud-
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
CHuRCHEa.

cards IN MS Directory 90 Cents a line per yea
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LEGAL NOTICES.
ASSETS OF THE
LIST NATIONAL BANK, TOPEKA
Remaining in the hands of the Receiver for
sale at auction
MAY 21st, 1877,

At O'Clock p. II :, corner of Kansas avenue
and Sixth street. in Topeka. Kansas
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-20
Halifax,

The news by telegraph in our paper yes
terday announced that Captain HENRY Ed
MuSDs had been renominated for the House
of Delegates from the staunch county OF
Halifax, Messrs. JOHN A. MCCRAW ana
Jouv p. RAGLASD were nominated as his
colleagues. Captain EDMUSDs is one OF the
most useful public men who served III the
recent Legislature. Mr.. McCRAw is gen.
teman of excellent judgment, great energy
Of character, and marked integrity. MI.
RAG1.AND is represented as worthy gentle
man, wei! fitted for the position for which
he is nominated.
This ticket is one OF the best that could
be named, and the Conservative party OF
Halifax having conquered the county, and
having administered public affairs so de-
cidedly to the advantage OF all the people,
assuredly it is not to be beaten now with
such ticket as this. There are persons
who think more OF themselves than they do
OF the State, who, protesting to be ConSerY-
atives, are ready in the pursuit OF their own
ambition to peril the interests OF the State
by running as Independents. Blind, in
deed, is the conceit of such persons; but
we trust that they will think better on it, and,
by withdrawing, merit that from their fel-
low-citizens which they can never obtain
bv persevering in their .folly-that is their
good opinion.
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irExAs-PACIFIC RAIiR0AD.-We. feel sure
that the DISPATCH has done our distinguished
representative In Congress-, Hen. John
,Goede. great iniustiee.in surprising that he
opposes favorable legislation to the Texas
Pacific railroad. We are confident that at
the proper time he will give to this great
scheme OF 80 much importance to the whole
of Virginia, and especially to her seaport,
his earnest and effective support. The Dis
match is wrong in holding our reprensenta-
tive responsible for the vagaries OF certain
railroad organs in this State.-NoJot6
Ledger.
The Landmarks was spoken OF in tele-
gram from Norfolk to us as apaper, that
was going to give an authoritative state
ment Of Mr.. GOODIES position relative to
the speakership. That paper did publish
an editorial purporting to do this. we
thercupon remarked that If Mr.. GooDE held
the Landmarks opinion upon the Texas
and Pacific railroad no southern man ought
TO vote for him. We shall repeat that re-
mark as often rs it may be necessary to do
so. We should be glad to believe that the
yedoer rather than the landmark, correctly
represents Mr.. GOODIES views on this vital
question. But circumstances seem to indi-
cate that the Landmarks has the best right
to speak Tor him. though on this subject 1t
has not vet authoritaiively spoken bis opln'
ions, nor even learned them. ..-
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buckingham.

We have already announced tile nonilna-
ton by the Conservative party OF Buckln@-
ham OF NIr. JAMES i. FICKLEN for the
House OF Delegates. \ very excellent
nomination. Unfortunately thcle was Il
bolt in the Convention, and the SecederS
nominated Colonel Z. W. HUBBARD, VINO
made a speech on the occasion. Colonel
HuBARD figured prominently in the politi-
cal arena in times past. He was sent to
Congress for two or more sessions. and was
regarded as loyal Firginian and true
Democrat in the solid hard-money days OF
that strong party What has got into the
Colonel other than general discomfort
with these times. which he certainly
may be excused for hiking not" we
cannot say. Nevertheless, he is too Sensl-
ble, TOO conservative, not to know that he
and all who may be clasSed with him are IN
fnitely better under Conservative rule than
under the msrule OF that " omnium-Sather-
um,' "blat herskite" concern which Will
riot in the destruction of the Conservative
party. Assurcdly he should be the last
man to assist in bringing confusion, which
must precede defeat, upon the ConScrva-
tives. Rather should he stand by that party
as the true guardian Of the public safety,
peace, and dignity.
We hone there will be union and harmony
in Buckingham, and that Mr.. FICKLEN, a
Young. energetic, iudicious, and public
spirited gentleman, may be elected.
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Augusta.

Old Augusta, which WASHINGTON con-
fided in and leaned upon, is a brave and
Conservative county that we always feel
faith in and to which we always look Win
earnest interest. There are some conflicts
OF opinion there which are needless ana dc
plorablc. We cannot think that among
people SO wise and substantial as arc the
people OF that county these conflicts will
be aggravated to the extent OF impalring
the union and strength OF the Conservative
party. Upon that party depends the prescr-
walton OF the prosperity and order OF the
State, and as no county is more inter-
csted in this respect than Augusta
she should stand by the Conserva-
tive party at all hazards. Let any tray
cler look upon her careful husbandry.
her fair fields, her fine stock and spacious
barns, and ask himself: Can the people who
live here be Indifferent to the. public credit
and the good reputation OF Virginia! Never.
The people OF Augusta are solid and patrl-
otto, and rs sensible and comprehensive IN
their judgment as any community IN the
State. They know their interests, and they
know that the public credit must involve
favorably or unfavoraby, as that may be
good or bad, private credit and private wei
fare. Rely upon it they will standby the
State.
Augusta has some OF the best men for the
public service. Let her people pick out the
best amongst them. and they will do the
State valuable service in the next General
Assembly.
The Conservative platform is one upon
which all sensible and prudent men may
stand, and it is one upon which every loyal
Yirginian should stand. 1t proposes no in
crease OF taxes, but proposes to take such
steps and introduce such reforms as will put
the debt upon the line of settlement and end
all the ilabbergast upon the subject. The
State wants peace, and the people must en-
Joy the beneficent sunshine Of public faith
and public honor, without which there can
be neither thrift nor happiness.