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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-12-28

THE INSURANCE ON Col. HARMAN's
LIFE.-The life of Col. M. G.. Hartman
was insured for $4,000 in the Mutual Life,
of New York; $4,000 in the Virginia Pro-
lection Mutual Association, of Richmond;
$40, 900 in the Union Mutual, of Name;
another $4,000 in the same company, and
$1,000 in the St. Louis Mutual, making a
total Of $4,000. But of this amount the
two policies of $4,000 each lapsed on Nov.
9th, only forty-one days before his death,
and the policy in the st. Louis Mutual was
a paid up one which will only yield $1,7OO.
The amount received by his widow, in
whose favor the policies were made, will
therefore be $26.700.
Col. Harman's death, in the opinion of
medical men, was caused by what is known
as blood clot in the heart, and did not re-
suit from apoplexy, as wa published.
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Since 1922. when Adrian vi. Was cleo

Since 1922, when Adrian vi. Was elect
s.. Peters chair. Before him, in the if
tenth century, two Spaniards; IN the
thirteenth two Frenchmen; and in the
tW elfth century. all Englishman, had worn
the triple crown.
AT d IN Getting of the Graham Society Of
Washington IL Lee University, on last
Saturday night, Hon. Samuel j. Tilden
Was elected iul honorary member of the
Society. A picture Of Hon. Thomas a.
Hendricks WAS received and ordered to be
hung IN their hall.
Dr. Motfett and his register are IN Nash
vile, on the invitation Of the Governor of
Tennessee, The Senate of that State has
passed his register and the bill is before
the house.
Mrs. Mary Costerno of Brooklyn, who
kept a peanut stand at the Centennial ex-
hibition, has just been robbed of ST 600
worth of jewelry.
Dr. T. Clay Maddux, tried in Baltimore
for malpractice on Mrs. Mary A. Lawless
was acquitted without the jury leaving
the box. Another case is pending against
him.
Wnile DenJ. anu ISoDeEC IIlCe, TWO
brothers, were wrestling at Charlotte, N.
c., the former threw and fell on the latter,
bursting an artery in his neck. Robert died
in an hour.
Dr. bio Lewis attributes the majority of
deaths among young children to overhead
ed brains, the result of sleeping on feather
pillows.
Miss Mary Breckinridge,a. daughter Of
the late Gen. John G. Breckenridge, was
married in New York on Thursday last to
Mr. Arson Maltby.
The town of Marion, Smythe county,
Va, has voted 80 to 81 against granting
liquor licenses.
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WATTERsoN's PICTURE OF CoNKLING.
Mr.. Roscoe Conkling is ia base dema-
gogue. Disguised as gentlemen, he has
been all his life low political trickster.
The companion of gentlemen, he has been
the champion and confederate OF thieves,
Last winter he was ready to sell his party,
This winter he is for crushing the man
whom his cowardice and treachery were
not able to keep out of the Presidency
He is not, like Morton, a rough malignant,
who, warmed into partisan action, possess
ed certain barbarous sincerity but a
cool, methodic trader in the vilest PASSIONS
of the yilest classes. He is a good actor.
He has an educated facility in word mou-
gerry. But he is an insolent peacock, acct
dentally gifted with voice. And this is
the man whom a few Democrats would
elevate to leadership in the Senate at the
expense of the administration which,
whatever its shortcomings may be, has at
least done something toward the readjust.
ment of the lost sectional balance and the
restoration of nationality and the national
spirit in every part of the country.
uilte Courier Journal.
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A BEAUTIFUL FLORAL DECORATION.
On Tuesday last there came by express,
but too late to be used in the decoration Of
Trinity Church, a superb floral gift from
Mrs. A. B. Hopkins, of Baltimore, and
late of this city. 1t consisted of an an
Choir, five feet high and four feet broad at
the tlukes, the stock and shank forming a
crucifix, and the whole composed of Ca
melias and japonicas. 1t was a beautiful
gift, and must have cost from fifty to sixty
dollars. 1t was directed by Mr.. Hopkins
to the care of her friend, Mrs. Holcombe,
who succeeded her in charge of her Sum
day school class here, but arrived too late
for use.
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Col. p. 6. HEarEnRasl.

The announcement of the sudden death
of Colonel Hartman in Richmond On Mon
day last was received in this commuaity
with profound regret and sorrow. The
writer Of this had just received a let
ter from Col. H, and was Informed of his
death whilst reading it. The letter com
menced 81 was shocked to see Mr.. Pen
dleton's death announced in the Baltimore
papers day before yesterday" Il was only
a short time after these lines were penned
that the summons of death came as uneX-
pectly to the writer as it did to Mr.. Pen
dleton. In the death Of Col Hartman the
Valley Railroad loses adevoted friend and
energetic supporter, one whose zeal never
Stacked. From the inception of the move
ment down to the last moment OF his life,
his fertile brain was ever active iii devils
ing plans to carry ON the work. His zeal
sometimes carried him beyond the limits of
discretion and Oh one or two occasions 1t
came very near involving him in personal
difficulties. But when the excitement was
over he never failed to make the amend
honorable. Col. Harman was man OF
large hearted liberality. spending his
money freely in relieving private suffering
Or advancing public veal. He was an at
fectionate father, a devoted husband, a
useful and patriotic citizen. The Valley
could i'll afford to lose at this time the la
bors of her diligent, devoted and energetic
son. Peace to his ashes-Lerington o.
Iette.
We have known Colonel Hartman from
OUR early boyhood, and regret to chronicle
his sudden death. He was man of won
derful business capacity and untiagging
energy, which displayed itself to the last,
even in the midst of reverses of fortune
Staunton owes much of its growth and
prosperity to his enterprise and public
Spirit, and it will be long before she will
see his like again. Charlottesville C,roni-
Gle.
Virginia can lily afford the loss Of such
son.-NeIs0l kGGnajner.
Colonel Hartman left behind him troops
Of friends to mourn the visitation that SO
suddenly SUNNI oned HIM from the active
pursuits of life.-Richnoond Sunday Trans
crypt
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THEt STAUNToN HoTELs.-The Way
nesbob' Tribune" says of the American
HoteIin this city:
We are safe in pronouncing it one of the
best in the Valley. Mr.. Cartmell is certain
ly the right man in the right place.--His fine
address. gentlelnanly and accommodating
manners, make one feel perfectly at home
and the sumptuous table filled with every
thing eatable makes life at the American
delightful 10 the extreme. Conveniently
located, being directly in front of the de-
pot, it is favorite resort.
The "Shenitndoah Valley" published at
New Market, says of some of its citizens
who recently visited Staunton and stopped
at the Virginia Hotel
They speak in the highest terms and in
the most favorable manner of this house,
and the conduct Of the proprietor, Mr.. J..
D. Crowle, and an connected with it. All
who have OCCASION to visit Staunton, the
city of hills, will meet with kindness,
courtesy, and most excellent accommoda-
tions, at the Virginia. Hotel They will
find it pleasant place, and will be made
to feel at home there. 1T is convenient to
the depOtS.
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DEATH OF A GRADUATE.-MisS Cor
nelia Hardy, who graduated at the Wes-
leyan Female Institute on the 21st of last
June, died at her home in Columbus, Miss.
last Friday evening. She had remained in
Virginia on a visit since she graduated,
but went home two or three weeks ago
with her father, DR.. Hardy, and Miss Mat
tie Harris, daughter of Rev. DR.. VIM.
A Harris and devoted friend and school
companion of hers. After getting home
she had pneumonia, which suddenly proved
fatal. She was fast recovering from bad
health and was making preparations for
social gaities in compliment to Miss Harris.
Miss Hardy was only eighteen years old.
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A GIRL FALLS INTO VAT OF VT
RIoL.-An accident occurred on Saturday
afternoon, at At O'Clock, at the Valley Pa
per Mill, at Verona, on the Allegheny Val
ley Railroad. A young woman named
Mary Ann Collins, who had 5een employ
ed in the mill three or four years, had been
assigned to position in the second story,
in-which there is a large trapdoor immedi-
ately over a vat on the ground floor. Miss
Collins had been called from another part
of the room to assist in dumping a box of
rags. She started to answer the call, and
walked into the hatchway, which was OBJ
scured by steam arising from the vat of
boiling water and vitriol. She was precipl-
tated directly into the vat, and must have
died very speedily. In three minutes after
she fell her body was taken out scalded
white. 1t seems that she had Fremont
ton Of death in this manner, and had re-
marked several times that the vat would
be the death of her. She was 16 years of
age.-Pdttsb,uy Commercial.
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BEECHER ON THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
Mr.. Beecher did not know whether most
to admire the conduct of the liberated
slaves OF that of their masters, n o act of
Congress, however, could transform an ig-
norant slave at once into an intelligent
citizen.
"But, for saying this some years ago.
you, and damned by the republican press
at large. But we shall have, hope, leisure
to revise all such judgments as that" ZAP
plause.) Nothing grew so slow as HUI
manity, because there is so much of it,
and the best things are always longest in
coming to maturity. [ have this to say of
the Southern people, continued MI.
Beecher, themselves the victims of the
system of slavery and beguiled by it into
the war, no set of men ever carried them
selves more CALAMITY and more molly, with
a courage-yes, and oftentimes with
chivalry that might have been a pattern.
And when they were ruined and found
their own slaves on q par with them not
only, but elevated above them, where have
you found men as high spirited as they
that could have borne all this with a pa
thence and a government that is more
creditable than their courage" Loud
applause.) Proceeding in the same strain
Mr.. Beecher said his heart turned to the
Southern people with an admiration that
he never felt before, and he declared that
their conduct since the war had largely re-
deemed their misconduct before it. This
sentiment was greeted with loud applause.
The efforts at reconstructing the South
made by quarrelling politicians Mr.. Beech
er compared to the arguments of a lot of
doctors of different schools as to how a
a broken limb should be set. By the time
they came to an agreement the man was
able to get up and kick them all out
daughter. IN. Y. Herald's report of
Beeche1's Thanksgiving sermon.
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"THE YELL OF DYING GELLERT. IA
gentleman, of the name of Ewing, who
lives in Vernon county, tells remarkable
story of the sagacity of a dog which &C
companied him in his travels. While in
the Short creek timber, on his way to Jop-
lin, his dog jumped and caught the horse
by the bride rein. Mr.. Ewing drove the
animal off. but it persisted in catching the
horse by the rens, until the gentleman con-
cluded it must be mad. Under the i'm
pulse of the moment he pulled his revolv-
er and shot the animal, which then ran
back along the road over which he had
come. In few minutes Mr.. Ewing missed
his overeoat, which had been tied to the
saddle. He turned back to find it, and af-
ter riding about mile, not only found his
coat, but his faithful dog, which was ly-
ing on the garment dead.-Jeterson (Mo.)
Tribune
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RICHMOND.


A PROPOSITION FOR ADJUSTING THE
DEBT-WHAT THE LETTER WRITER'S
ARE TALKING ABOUT.
&C., &C., &C.
There is not great deal Of interest in
affairs at the Capital this week, the legis-
lature having left for the holidays, and
left none of its country members except
Hon. Marshall Hanger land one or two from
other counties. The day the legislature
adjourned, Mr.. Koiner in the Senate still
pursuing his efforts for economy offered a
resolution looking to limiting the payment
to state proxies in public works, to actual
expenses incurred while acting in that ca
pacity. A resolution has been adopted
requesting the Auditor to prepare a gen
eral appropriation bill and such amend
ments and new subjects Of taxation asmay
seem fit to him by the 18th of January.
In the House the day it adjourned, Mr..
Harrison, OF Sussex, a leading adjuster Of
fered joint resolution and bill on the
for the consolidation OF the whole of the
state debt, except the one-third set apart
for West Virginia; authorizes the issue
OF per cent bonds having SO years to run,
redeema BILE sooner if the state chooses,
which shall be exchanged dollar for dollar
for the present outstanding bonds author
ICES the $40, 100000 Of bonds now left out in
the cold (peelers) to be funded at of their
face value, and of their interest up to
Jan. 1878 and per cent bonds to be issued
for the 5, and requires those who exchange
their bonds to give release of the state as
far as the West Virginia third is concern
ed. The Petersburg "Post" (Adjuster)
thinks these are the "full germs'' of the
plan Of readjustment. The Richmond
"Whig" thinks it q very liberal PROPOSE
ton, but fears that lowing to the wide
spread destruction brought about by the
freshet, that may be more than the people
can pay"
The letter writer's are busy though the
legislature is gone. From them we learn
that in the House Coghill, Hanger, Ech
OILS. Anderson, Of Richmond, and Bohan-
nan lead the debt payers, and Barbour,
Moffett and Fauntleroy, led the Adjusters.
in the Senate johnson, of Richmond,
Hurt, of Halifax, Daniel, Of Lynchburg,
Hurt, of Pittsylvania, and Lee, of Fair
fax, led the Debt payers, and Fulkerson,
of Washington, Massie, Of Albemarle,
Sherrard, of Bath, Paul, of Rockingham,
aud Phleager. of Montgomery, lead the Ad-
justers. The Senate has the remarkable
reputation of doing more talking than the
House.
Rumors are afioat that the party riding
'adjustment'' having failed in securing
majority of the Conservative members are
anxious that nothing should be done about
the debt this session, throwing the ques-
ton over into the next election, " hen they
may have better luck and get enough men
in on the debt hobby to elect q. S. Senator.
The Senatorial election takes place i'll 1879
and Col. Withers' term expires in 1881.
The bonds stolen IN the Capitol and re-
funded are discovered so far to amount to
about $780, 900.
The legislature adjourned till JAN, lst,
but will probably not have a quorum I'M
til two or three days after.
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A MARE THAT HAS TRAvlfED 46,50O
MILES IN SIX YEARs.-A valuable old
mare, the property of DR.. D, Jayne & Son,
has just reached Philadelphia in good Or
der after having travelled eleven months
year for the last six years, through Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, traversing during
this period the Immense distance of 46 500
miles. by actual measurement, from the
record of her driver, VIM. Shall, while col
Letting for the firm. She was always driven
with mate; new one, however, had to
be supplied her every year.
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STARTLING DEATH OF A MAsoN.-Dr.
WI. Swain, of Chicopee Falls, fell dead
of appopIexy in Masonic Hall last evening,
at the opening of the meeting of Spring
field Commandery of Knights Templar, at
which he was to have been installed as
Eminent Commander. A large attendance
of knights was present, and quite a num-
Der of ladies were in the lower hall wait
ing for the exe1 cises of installation, to
which they were invited. This sudden
aud tragic event. Of course, prevented any
further exercises, and the assembly grad
uaily withdrew, stunned and aWed,, and
almost breathless.
DR.. Swain. who was a large, -blooded,
muscular man, being an enthusiastic and
efficient Mason, had held many offices. He
had made extensive preparations for ms
installation last eve nlng as Commander,
and the approach of the evening found
him in flushed and excited condition.
He ate hearty supper at the Haynes
House, and then hui led over to the hall,
leaving his wife to come q few minutes la
ter. He was tritla tardy, and ran hastily
up three flights of stairs, becoming so f1tir-
| RED that those who spoke to him noticed
his unusal appearance and bearing. The
| commandery was t. have business meet
| ing. after which the ladies gathered below
were to lie called in to witness the install
lation, and banquet was to follow.
Dr. Swain, who was Senior Warden OF
the commandery, took his seat at the side
Of the Secretary's desk, and during the
reading of the records was putting on a
pair of kid gloves, when lie leaned forward
breathed heavily two or three times, and
| tumbled dead into the arms of his startled
associates. All possible efforts with cleo
| tricity and otherwise were made in vain to
| resuscitate him.-His wife was called from
| ne hotel, and the spectators Withdrew III
expressive and solemn silence.-Spring-
| field Mass.) Republican.
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FOUR AT A BIRTH-The Charlotte IN

CO. "Observer' says:
1t was thought worthy of note when,
about two years ago, the wife Of Mr.. J. J:
CASTOR county, gave birth to three children
at one time, but last W, elk she went her
self one better by giving birth to four. None
got away and the whole quartette is living
and doing we'll. Further than this, the
triplets, Mrs. Suggs' former achievements,
are all living; and here we have the case
Of seven children from one mother, and
none more than two years of age. 1t is
tbs most remarkable case of the kind we
ever heard Of, and we doubt if it has ever
llad its parallel in the United States.
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LIVING UNDER DIFFICULTIEs.-Las
week a hog was found in the centre of
straw stack on the farm of j. L. Liggett
in Meadow Run, where he had been for at
least fourteen days without anything to
eat OF drink. The stack is about seventy
feet long and the hog had rooted its way
forty-six feet out of the seventy when
found.
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BLUE PRESERVATION AND IOVE.-Ttjs

BLUE PRESERVATION AND LOvE.-It is
by no means a matter of merely modern
observation that very extraordinary effects
are produced by the tender passion IN the
body and the mind. Horace speaks of the
disordered liver, Occur ulcerosum,
brought about by it; Plautus also refers to
the same naolbts hepatarius; and even Solo
mon, the wise, describes the youth whose
liver was struck through by this dart of
the passions. A few months ago we quoted
in this journal the remarkable case of a
young lady who in consequence of disap-
pointed affection, had blue perspiration-
cyaDodrosis- six or eight months. The
records of our insane hospitals show not
few examples where permanent mania has
followed violent affection. Medical and
S,srdcaI Rep0rter.
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ACCIDENT ON A TRAIN.-On Monday
last Mr.. Thomas Gray, Of Charlottesville,
on No. freight, while passing Swoope's
Depot, in leaping from one car to another
fell and broke his right leg.
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Moses P. Handy, of the Philadelphia

MOSES T. HaHuy, OF the FllIIaueIphla
''Times,' formerly of the Richmond dis.
patch" and United States Centennial
Commissioner for Virginia, is a strongly
backed applicant for Il United States Com
missionership to the Paris Exposition of
next year-salary $4,000. MI. Handy has
the whole Pennsylvania delegation in his
favor, besides other weighty influence, and
he will probably be appointed. He is a
son of Rev. Or. l. w. X. Handy of Angus
ia
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WHY SHE WANTED TO MARRY HIM.
A minister in Wheeling, West Virginia,
went to bed early last Wednesday even
ing, and about $50 was called by his wife
and told that he was wanted below by a
loving couple who were anxious to be
mated. He donned his clothing and went
down, and he found woman of perhaps
thirty-five or forty years of age, and a
stripping of twenty. The expectant bride
groom was at a loss how to proceed with
a business which was new to him. But not
so with the woman. Seeing that her lover
was hoplessly entangled, she spoke up
promptly thus: ''Mr. Preacher, as I'm the
Oldest, l expect I'd better do the talking.
You see Charley, here, has a stepmother,
and she don't use him right at all. Now
I'm a widow, and [ want to take Charley
home with NE tonight and take care Of
him. Not that | want husband, because,
if I did, I'd get some one nearer my own
age; but just thought l would try and
take care of Charley. So we'd like to be
married right away" The minister asked
her if the necessary license had been OBJ
tanned, and upon receiving a reply in the
negative stated that it would beimpossible
for him to marry them without that very
useful document.
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AN IMMENSE SUBSCRIPTIONS Edward

AN IMMENSE SUBsCRIPTIoN.-EdW
Kimtall the church debt raiser, under
took a stupendous job Sunday i'll the Epis-
copal Church of the Holy Trinity, New
York, of which Rev. DR.. Stephen I'll. Tying
Jr., is pastor. The church is weighted
with debt Of $236,O00. MI Kimball
during the day succeeded in securing sub
scriptions aggregating s15l 600, and ex-
poets to complete the subscription during
the present week, $4,000 having bee real
lied on Monday night.
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MARRIAG FOR THE CHRISTMAS
MONTH -Since the LIST of December the
Clerk of Augusta County Court has issued
q licenses for the marriage of white per-
soEs and 10 for colored.
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|Mght Ntnbttatnt+
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. %. 1877.
Local
Christmas in Stauntcn.

SERENADEs TO ANTI-POPCRACKERI
THEiCHILDREN's CHIRIsTMAs--GRANG
HALL, DEAF MUTEs, BAPTIST AND EPIs-
COPAL CHILDREN-THE CHURCHES,
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A BREACH OF PROMISE DECISION IN
VIRGINIA Miss Lizzie Pauline Ruhle
has just gotten $500 damages from Ferdl-
nand Neurath in the Richmond Circuit
Court for breach of promise. The defen-
dant denied that there was an engage
ment. The plaintiff claimed that there
was one, though Neurath would not fix
the day; and Judge Wexford instructed
the jury as follows:
Though the jury believe from the evil
s.z-sce that there was a general agreement
between the plaintiff and defendant to
marry each other at some future time, Tut
that no time and place were agreed upon
for the said marriage TO be celebrated,
they cannot find for the plaintiff unless
they further believe that before this action
was brought the plaintiff requested The
defendant to fix some time and place for
the contamination Of said marriage and
that the defendant refused SO to do; or
unless the jury shall lie satisfied from the
evidence that the defendant had contrac-
ted to marry the plaintiff and thereafter,
prior to the institution Of this SUIT, DEF led
t!iat he had made such contract, and
without the consent Of the plaintiff Repu-
dated the obligation under the contract.
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SALE OF THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO r.
Bs.-Ihe Chesapeake & Ohio r. R. will,
with all it's rights, franchises and privilege
es, will be sold at auction, April I'd, 1878.