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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-25
SENATE.

| anl--l0
The dill requiring the school tax to be
paid in money and not in coupons was Or
iered to lie engrossed equal to its passage)
| 10y the following vote:
AYEs.-Messrs Bliss, Brooke, Chiles Elliott, Full
| kerson Griffith, Grimsley, Hinton, Marshall, Massey,
| Murray, Nash Norton Paul, Phi gar, Powell, Qie-
senbsrry,, Sherrard, slemp Stevens, Tyler, Ward,
| NoEs.-Messrs Belts Bland, Daniel, Goode Hen
~ H. Hurt; John i Hurt, johnson, Koiner, Lee,
Nunn, Sinclair, Smith, Tanner Walston' and Wor-
| tham-l5.
The bill reducing the pay of members to
a per day was taken up. and MI. Fulker-
son advocate re! erring it to the Committee
ON I,etrenchment. He said he was CD
u: ,sed TO reducing the pay Of officers of the
Government in order t. pay an unjust
| debt. lie afterwards Offered an amend
ment, making the pay sc day, which was
rejected. Tie Debt payers forced the fight
and added an amendment, making the re-
duction of pay take effect on the passage
1 ers, and when the bill was Lut on its pas
sage only three, Messrs. Massey, Norton
and Powell voted against it, 1t now goes
TO the House. A joint resolut ion, sending
900 copies each of Hotchkiss' Virginia
and Maury's Virginia to the Paris Ex-
| hii,itioD. was agreed to. A resolution in
trod., ced y Mr.. Phlegar was agreed to,
appointing joint committee to report
four plans for re-arranging the judicial
circuits-one for II, one for 10, one for IA
A, one for Is circuits. Mr.. Hurt intro
ducpd A. resolution taking the power of
s. ending money on account of towns, &C..
from Judges and giving 1T to the super
sors. Mr.. Paul Introduced II bill making
all funds acerulng to the Literary Fund
Zines &c payable in currency. A bill
amending the present Mechanics Lien
law, SO as to provide that sub contractors
shall not acquire lien for greater
amount than is due the principal con-
tractor at the time such lien is filed, was
Mr.. Koiner introduced bill to author
ize the Board Of Public Works to repair
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-01-25

AN EARTHQUAKE.
I have had some pleasant eXcurs ons to
Toxic md The neighbouring country of
which | will give you an account in my
next, with sketch of my surroundings at
the Home. Yesterday was memorable
day to me. While we were at tea l
noticed disturbance OF the lamp and
table and just as Mrs; +. exclaimed, an
Slowly the motion spread to the doors,
walls, and over the house, and by the time
we reached the piazza, it seemed as If the
foundations were being removed. 1t was
as II still small voice came to us, as the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-28
The Mofstt Liquor Law.

Montgomery Advertiser: We have
on several occasions made favora-
BILE allusion to this Virginia devise
for raising revenue. We have not
hesitated to declare our belief that
in the enactment of this law lies the
relief which a reduction of our
rate of taxation would afford.
In Virginia, where it originated,
it has worked well and is still full
filing all that it promised in its in
cipiency. 1t yields, as we are cred
IDLY informed, a very large revenue,
and this without imposing any bur
den upon the people.
At it's last session the Louisiana
Legislature adopted it, and last
winter the Legislatures of both
New York and Massachusetts, took
some favorable action in regard to
1t, though whether or not it is now
the law in those States we are not
informed. In the House of Repre-
sentatiyes In Georgia the committee
on finance, has made a favorable
report upon it. And, indeed, in
almost every State there has been
some movement looking TO its adop-
ton. We doubt not that it is des-
tined to be a universal law. 1t was
only last week the City Council OF
Atlanta took some action favoring
its adoption.
We trust our own legislature will
give the matter speedy and most
earnest attention. If there is q
sound argument against it we have
not yet seen or heard of 1t. The
entire argument, so far as we have
been able to see, lies on the side OF
the law. Col. Taylor's report to
the Legislature Of Virginia:
"My estimate has been that the
revenue derived from the sale OF
liquor under the "Mofett law
would reach the sum of $500, 00,and
have so stated in former reports.
From the results as shown in the
foregoing statements, mainly con
jectural, it is true. l have every
confidence that the law will yield TO
the State an annual revenue of at
least 100000"
The law certainly is not oppres-
sive. 1t does not meddle with the
necessities of life. Nobody could
be hurt by it, while the entire State
would be benefited.
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circumstances and trumpet-tongued
with glittering promises of relief,
yet to a brief but noisy existence
of little more than two years, it
fails utterly and goes to pieces be-
tween the upper and neither mill
stones. The reasons of its failure
are not difficult to point out. In
the first place it rushed madly
into extremes. threatened the es.
tablishment of precedents that
would have destroyed all respect
for established laws and made itself
the refuge and hope of communas
tic and agrarian aspirations through
out the land. In the second place
1t was led by chronic office-seekers,
noisy, impracticable, political fail
ures, and men whose only recon
mendation to front seats was their
assurance of their hates. In the
third place, all that was practicable
in their one idea, all that could be
accomplished in the way of finan-
cial relief without peril to society
and organic laws, all that was bene-
fetal and necessary in their econo-
my, was represented in and through
the Western and Southern Democ-
racy, and that powerful organiza-
tion offered to cool and reasoning
minds the only hope of sub
stantial and desirable relief. Hence
the utter failure of the new party,
and we hope the lesson of Its over
throw will convince the masses of
the party of their folly and prove
the end of the madness.
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Crushed,

jackson Tribune and Sun: One
fact is clealy established by tde
elections on Tuesday. 1t is that
the National, or greenback party is
utterly powerless except as a clog
and hindrance here and there
to the Democratic party. In cleo
tions this fall throughout the
Union, it has not carried a single
State. or elected a single State Off
cIal, or gained control Of a single
legislative body, or elected even a
corporars guard OF congressman.
All men, whatever their convictions
or hopes, must admit that as a new
party movement il is the most
complete failure within the political
history Of the country. Starting
under circumstances that favored a
ne9 party, when the country was
staggering under the weight OF
financial disaster and oppression
when the rule of unscrupulous mo
nopolists had driven the people into
the widest Indignation, and when
men everywhere and of every party
were ready TO catch at the first
straw Of relief,-starting under such
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The Late Election.

All the elections are over, and we
are now to have a breashing spell;
but before the smoke of the battle
has cleared away, and while the
contest is still fresh in our minds,
1t is not out of place for US to make
a few pertinent and pointed re-
marks as to how elections have
been conducted recently. In the
outset, we can truthfully say, that
we have no desire to wound the
feelings of any one, but the duties
of a journalist are somewhat simi-
lar to those of the surgeon, and it
is our duty to probe for the disease
in society, and to tell, without any
fear, what that disease is, otherwise
we would be derelict in our duty,
and would forfeit the confidence of
our readers. Elections, aye even
the exercising of that great boon,
elective franchise, in this country,
has become a curse, instead of be-
ing the safety-valve to the republic,
as it was originally intended; it has
become the cancer, which is contin-
ually gnawing at our liberties, and
promises to destroy the peace and
prosperity of society, that is, unless
some stringent means are resorted
to. in order TO preserve the ballot
in all its pristine purity. The de
moralization caused by the recent
elections in this country has been
felt by every class. The sacred
Priest in his pulpit has not escaped,
nor the Judge in has gown upon
the bench; it may not have been
perceptible, but society is too much
like the human system, whatever
affects one part, affects the whole,
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NEWSPAPER BILLS.
The Unpleasantness and the Diff.
Guilty of Collecting Them.

Collecting newspaper subscrip-
tions is a rather discouragiug bust.
ness, but in Rhode Island the stur-
dy yeomanry seem to take a very
peculiar view of the business rela-
tion existing between publisher and
subscriber. Recently Walter T.
Phillips, editor and business man.
ager of a Providence daily, went out
to Chepachet, where his paper had
enjoyed an extensive circulation, to
collect some long standing subscrip
ton bills. Amongst others he in
terviewed an old steady reader and
ardent admirer of Mr.. Phillips pa
per, and asked him to pay bill for
eight years subscription, the amount
really due. The old farmer was at
first startled, then amazed, and fl
nally waxed indignant.
He put on his spectacles, scruti-
nized the bill, and after assuring
himself that it was genuine, he ex-
claimed:
"pve bin supportin' this yere pa
per for nigh unto eight year, and l
never had no such thing flung at me
before. I'll stop supportin' it.
He not only withdrew his valuable
support, but failed to pay the bill" ;"
To be sure all subscribers are not
of this stamp, else no newspaper
could live, but there are unfortu-
nately too many who labor under
the quite erroneous impression that
they are supporting a newspaper
and really comforting a substantial
favor on it's publishers by reading
it, enjoying it, perhaps admiring it.
when In fact, they do not pay one
cent in return for the money, time
and labor expended by the publish
ers in sending the paper to the sub
scriber.
Subscribers of newspapers should
remember the peculiar relations ex-
isting between them and newspaper
publishers. 1t is not a mere bust
ness relation; it is more. 1t is al
most a personal friendship. On ac-
count of this friendship that most
readers feel towards their favorite
newspapers, and which in like de-
gree is felt by publishers towards
their readers, the enforcing of the
collection of overdue subscrip-
ton bills and the stopping of
the sending of the papers to de-
linquent subscribers are the most
unpleasant and disagreeable parts
of the business of printing a news
paper. To tell an old subscriber
you will not send your paper to him
is as disagreeable as to refuse to
shake hands with an old friend. To
send the subscription bill to a law
yer for collection is a serious morti-
fication, to the publisher at least.
Subscribers should remember these
things. They should recollect that
newspapers are printed not for fun,
but to make money out of-for
purely business purposes-and
where the sum due from any one
person may be only few paltry
dollars, yet when like sum is due
from thousands of subscribers it
amounts to a sum of great impor-
tance.- Montgomery Advertiser.
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approximate list of deaths from
yellow fever tincluding imported
and supposed cases) since It's first
appearance this year, compiled by
the Courier Journal:
New Orleans 1877, Memphis and
vicinity 1920, Vicksburg and vicin-
ily l.I3S, Grenada and vicinity 327,
Holly Springs 314. Louisiana: Port
Hudson 9, Gretna 50, CarrolltoD- 8,
Near Pattersonyille Al, ThihedeauX
SO, Tangipahoa 43, Morgan City 50,
Dry Cove SO, Delhi 80, Delta 2S,
Baton Rouge 1876, Plaquemine 100,
Donaldsonville 80, Labadieville 30,
Scattering 227. Mississippi: Green
vile 2S7, Port Gibson and county
225, Canton II, Bovina Z, Bay st.
Louis IA, fernando SO, Water Val
ley Ga, Pass Christian 20, jackson
73, Terry 30, Osyka and vicinity 40.
Winona 3, Mississippi City 10, BIZ
loxi 81, Port Eads 10, Lake S5, Bol
ton 80, Ocean Springs al, Goodrich
Landing AZ, Rock Springs 3S, Meri-
dian II, Scattering 2l7. Tennes-
see: Chattanooga 151, Nashville IL,
Paris %, Mason %, Germantown
26, Grand Junction rs, Brownsville
I39, Collierville A, Lagrange 81,
Martin 40, Somerville Al, Moscow
"a, Williston 13, Bartlett 0, Scatter
ing 46. Hopefeld, Ark, II, Arkan-
sas, scattering 13. Alabama: Flor
ence A, Mobile So, Decatur Al,
Tuscaloosa 2, Tuscumbia II. Key
West 81; Hickman, KY, 1873; Louis
vile "a, Bowling Green %, Ken
lucky, scattering G, New York 30,
ST. Louis 81, Gallipolis and vicinity
30, Cincinnati 16, Pittsburgh l, Chi
cago l. Cairo 35; Total 1921.
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the scriptures represented as lmml
nent, and may occur at any mo.
ment; yet the precise day and hour
thereof is unknown to man, and
Known only To God.
Fourth.-The scriptures nowhere
teach that the whole world will be
converted to God, and that there
will be reign of universal right
eOusness and peace before the re-
turn of our blessed Lord, but that
only and by His coming in power
and glory will the prophecies con-
corning the progress of evil and the
development of antichrist, the times
of the Gentiles and the ingathering
of Israel, the resurrection of the dead
in Christ, and the TRANSPORTATION
of his living saints receive their full
fillment; and the period of millen-
nial blessedness its Inauguration.
Fifth.-The duty of the church
during the absence of the Bride
groom is to watch and pray, to
work and wait, to go into the world
and preach the gospel to every
creature, and thus hasten the com
ing of the day of God; and to dis
latest promise, Surely l come
quickly;" to respond in joyous
hope, "Even SO, come Lord Jesus"
The resolutions were adopted
unanimously.
Thanking the reverend gentle
man for his courtesy, the reporter
took his leave, regretting that the
the want of time and space fobid
the use of all the valuable and in
teresting matter, relative to the
conference, which the doctor put in
his possession.
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ne Cltlzen.
Letter from Texas.

Mr.. EDIToR:-As Nosredna's let
ter found it's way into your columns
instead of the waste basket, we send
you one from another portion OF
the Lone Star State. While we
have to agree with him in regard to
growing bluegrass and clover, we
find in summer a substitute in Ber-
m muda grass, and in winter our
wheat, admitting of more pasturage,
gives US good substitute; and then
yields US on an average fifteen
bushels per acre. The corn crop in
this section this year is very fine.
The average yield will not be less
than fifty bushels per acre, while
some fields will yield as hi9h as
seventy. Cotton is not as good as
some years since l have been in
Texas, but half bale per acre will
be gathered from the worst crops,
and by hauling it to Dallas, dis
tance OF 20 miles, will readily sell
from 81 to 104 cents per pound. We
grow in this section any vegetables
WHICH grow in Middle Tennessee.
Fruits do equally as well, except
apples. Cur soil does not suit ap
pie trees. Timber that is suitable
for fencing is very scarce here, but
we substitute a barbed wire on a
6Ois d'arc post which makes the best
fence we ever saw, except stone.
We have springs, wells and cisterns,
and with a little trouble none can
say they are scarce of water. The
health of our country will compare
with any. The proof of this is, our
doctors are the hardest run finan
cially of any men in the country.
How many Giles countlans would
like to live in such a country and
reap such crops? JAKEs.
Ovilla, Ellis Co., Texas.
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to a greater or less extent. The
example set before the youth of the
country by those whom they have
been taught to revere, is ominous
in itself. How many of those who
have been recalled from degrada-
tion to prosperito, by the temper
ance ple0ge, have again fallen?-
How has the labor of the country
been effected? Let those answer
who know best. Has fraud and
crime been connlved at by those
whose duty it is to prosecute it or
not? Have not the statutes, made
for the protection of the life and
property of our citizens, been OPP
enly violated? The answer to these
pertinent questions can best be an
swered by the public, and we warn
them now, that if the free use of
whisky and money in elections is
permitted, that il will not be long
before elections will be. voted a
curse upon any country. The re-
cent elections, both National, State,
County and Municipal, have devel-
oped throughout the whole country
almost an utter disregard for the
ballotboX, and it would be we'll for
US to stop and consider what we
are coming to. 1t is no wild. and
extravagant statement to predict
that this republic is, to-day, more
in danger OF being wrecked and
broken to pieces by the ballotbOX,
than by civil war, for the destruc-
ton of the purity of the ballot fas-
tens upon US forever anarchy and
ruin; in its preservation we can
only hope for permanency; it is in
deed the safety-valve of the great
machine now, but should that valve
become rotten, by i'll use, the ma
chine itself will be blown to atoms.
These are facts over which we hope
the public, and more especially the
office seekers, will ponder. Let the
cancer be removed, and the wound
ere the sad and lament
able words shall be heard through
out this whole land, ''too late! too
late p Columbia journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-28
HEALTH ASSOCIATION.
Report from the Yellow Fever
Commission. Nashville the
Next Place of Meeting.

The meeting OF the Health Asso-
citation of America, held at Rich
mond last week was more largely
attended than any previous meet.
ing, and by the representative sci
e1tiiic and medical men of the army
and navy as well rs Of the schools
and cities. This was owing TO the
great interest felt in the report Of
the yellow fever commission, which
is as follows:
The yellow fever was imported
into New Orleans by the steamer
Emily Souder in the month of May.
The Commission visited various in
tected points in the Mississippi val.
ley, and found as the result Of their
inves tigation. sad neglect and vio-
lation of the laws of health In re-
gard to drainage, inattention TO de-
posits of fetid matter, aud inattcn-
tion TO the purity of drinking wa
ter. The conclusions reached are
as follows:
i. We have not in n solitary in
stance found case Of yellow fever
which we could justilably consider
OF deneVoi origin, or indigenous 90
Its locality.
2. In respect To most OF the vari-
Gus towns which we visited, and
which were points OF epidemic prev
alence, the testimony showing the
importation was direct aud convinc-
ing IN its character.
3. The transmission OF yellow fe-
yer between points separated by
considerable distances appeared To
be wholly due 10 human intercourse.
In some instances, the poison was
carried in clothing on about the
persons going from infected dis
tricts. In other instances, 1t was
conveyed in such fomites as cotton
bagglng and other goods of the
same description.
4. The weight of testimony n
very pronounced against the further
use of disinfectant,L Tho physi
Clans in the infected towns, almost
without exception, state that they
are useless agents To arrest the
spread of yellow fever, while some
of them affirm that their vapors are
seriously prejudicial TO the sick.
D. Personal prophylactics. by use
of drugs or other therapeutic means.
has proved a constant failure. A
respectable number of physicians
think the use of small doses of qul-
nine is of some use in prevention.
A quarantine established with
such degree of Surveillance and
vigor that absolute non-intercourse
is the result has eficCtually and
without exception projected its sub
jects from yellow fever.
A letter was read from Gov. Por-
ter regretting his Inability to TO
present and inviting the Assooia
tion to hold its next meeting at
Nashville.
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Portaline-Whatfs fsIt?

Relieved by the use of Portaline, or
Tabler's Vegetable Liver Powder, OF
those distressing headaches which arose
from torpid liver, many persons now
heartily recommend that valuable RENE
dy; and all those suffering with dyspep-
sia, Sour stomach, Headache, Bilious
ness, etc, will never fail to experiel ce
relief, IL they will use Portaline, the
best remedy known for all diseases aris-
ing from an inactive liver. Sample bot
ties can be had of all Druggists fee
Regular size 30 cents. For sale by
Sumpter & Lacey. ianlO-eow-ly-2
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A Girl Teamster.

Little Rock Democrat: For sew
eral months past, among the many
teamsters and wood choppers work
ing for the railroad company and in
the vicinity of Popular Bluff, there
has been one, trim, very smooth
faced fellow, especially noticeable.
He was popular with all his associ-
ates, owing perhaps to his boyish
ways and straightforward bearing.
He did not indulge in the use of
Intoxicating liquors. and night after
night as the men assembled around
the camp fire, his CHEEKY voice, as
he sang the rude ballads of his COM
panions, made the forest ring.
About ten days ago he fell the
victim TO the chills and fever, and
while delirious, his attendant made
the startling discovery that their
favorite was not what he claimed,
but a woman ir disguise. At night,
on the return of the choppers to the
camp, the information was impart
ed, and the next day the girl was
carried to Popular Bluff, where, un-
der the care of physician. she soon
recovered. Her occupation gone,
she found herself an object of sus.
picion and curiosity. Unable TO
obtain work suitable for her sex, a
few nights since she donned her
''old Clothes" and, as we learned
from Conductor Welch, came to
where she is again at her
old occupation-driving team.
The girl, when questioned as to her
reasons for leading the life she does,
answered frankly that she cannot
obtain employment suitable for a
woman, and that as a man she re-
ceives much larger pay than she
would as a common domestic.
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Liver is King.


The Liver is the imperial organ of
the whole human system, as it controls
the life, health and happiness of man.
When it is disturbed in its proper action
all kinds of ailments are the natural re-
suit. The digestion of food, the move
ments of the heart and blood, the action
of the brain and nervous system, are all
Immediately connected with the work
ings of the Liver. 1t has been success
fully proved thsF Green's August flow
er is I. ..1aled in curing all persons af-
fiicted with Dyspepsia or Liver Com
plaint, and all the numerous symptoms
that result from an unhealthy condition
of the Liver and Stomach. Sample bot
ties at Sumpter d Lacey's to try, 10
cents. Positively sold in all towns on
the Western Continent. Three doses
will prove that it is just what you want.
Sold BY Sumpter 81 Lacey.
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