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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-29

TnE CouNTRY PREss.--Wo desire to say
fow words in bohalf of tho country prcss
that is, for those journals published in
interior towns and villages. Many of them
are of higher order of editorial talent and
do crcdit to the publishers aud to the oon.-
munity that sustain them. They make
known the advantages Of their several
localities, they stimulate the people to entor.
prise and Improvement, they afford medi--
ums for the expression Of public opinion,
and reach many quarters whore the larger
Journals Of tho oities do not 90. Tn those
various ways they do great deal of good,
and thoy should bo supported liborally by
the people of their several looolitios, and
generously by all who feol an interest in
tho general welfare of the. State, and arc
able to give such encouragement.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-29

a BUTTER JoKE.--NIr. Atkinson is q
farmer, and very fond Of q joke. Recently
Eo wrote to business firm in Boston, with
whom he is on terms of intimacy, as follows:
81 will aend you tho finest butter next week
you ever saw. The first lot will weigh
about eixty pounds. Win divide proceeds
Of sale with you" Encouraged by tho
liberal terms Of this offer, tho firm adyer.
tised extensively that they were prepared
to fill orders for dairymen and produce NOR.
chants for the finest butter ever sent to
market. At the appointed time the con-,
signment failed to arrive, 90 the merchant
tclegraphcd up to Mr.. Atkinson, and re.
ccived the reply that the butter Hould be
down tho first train tho next morning. The
yuttor arrived US promised, but was in tho
form of q fcrocious goat, Of enormous size,
who was no sooner liberated from tho crate
than ho commenced career Of the most
unbridled villuiny over " tnesscd He
knocked the senior paytnor i,,to the cornor,
and buttod throe of his rios out; tho Junior
partnor took refuge on tho top of some bales
of wool, but tho goat jumped after him and
buttcd him off on to tho floor, and probed
him with his horns until ho vas insonsibIe.
After knocking things about gonorally, so
that each mombcr Of tho firm looked as if
ho had boon invited to first GLASS massacre
he wound up by determined assault upon
q throahing maohino. This "first..olass
buttor" was OF last oaught with rope and
sont TO the village pound.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

A square, straight, stand-up fight occurred
in the House of Representatives between the
Committee on Appropriations and the Com
mittee on Pensions, over the section in the
pension appropriation bill breaking up the
pension agencies and directing payments to be
made in all cases from Washington
This proposition was urged very strenuousy
by the Committee on Appropriations, although
disapproved by the Commissioners of Pensions
We took occasion in our last issue to criticise
very severely, and to show certain good reasons
why the change, if made, would not be in the
interest of economy for the Government or con-
venience to the pensioner.
We have reason to know that these articles of
ours had good deal of influence in directing the
attention of the friends of the soldiers to the
wrong intended to be perpetrated by this scheme
of Capitalization, urged by the Committee on
Appropriations.
AT all events it is very certain that the
friends of the pensoner in the House followed
out the line of ideas suggested in this paper,
and that it was done with very marked ability
by several Representatives on the floor, and
notably by Mr.. Powers, of Maine, upon whom
the burden of the contest devolved.
Under the new rules of the House. which
permit general legislation in the appropriation
bills where the tendency of such new legislation
is to reduce expenses, the Committee on Ap-
preparations has gradually usurped upon the
the functions and duties of all other committees
in the House, and have undertaken to make
the most radical changes in existing laws by
attaching clauses to an appropriation bill.
So great change iii the system of paying
pensioners as was proposed ought to have been
considered by the Committee on Pensions,
which was the appropriate committee; and
that committee did perfectly right in resenting
such an usurpation, and in demonstrating, as
they did in the debate, that the change pro
posed was a bad one, and one that worked evil
to pensioners and saved no money to the Govern
ment.
We return again our thanks to the Com
missioner of Pensions for refusing to join
in this crusade and to Mr.. Powers and his allies
in the House for the gallant and successful fight
they made on this important question.
Let the Committee on Pensions consult the
columns of the TRIBUNE for sound and whole
some views on all matters relating to pensions
and the pension system and they will find in
the future, as in this case, that they will be apt
to be on the right side.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

We invite correspondence from surgeons and
others on matters of general or special interest.
Views and suggestions Of practical men are
always valuable.
We of course can pay no attention to anony-
NOUS communications, but shall always hold
all communications addressed to us as strictly
confidential, unless the writer permits the use of
his name
The National tribune., 1878-04-01
The Sawbones' Brigade.

Our dear friend, the Commissioner, has not
yet abandoned his idea of this organization.
He still sticks Ikea blister to the sixty sur
geons OF good repute," who are to supersede the
examining-surgeons Of the present system, and
bring order out Of chaos-truth out of error
right out of wrong.
They are to invade all the little peaceabe vii
lagos Of the country, to ride out gorgeously to
the solitary farm-houses Of the land, hunting Up
The National tribune., 1878-04-01
.BriqQde 2"

We return once more to the subject of the
alleged reforms proposed by our Commissioners
of Pensions in the handling of his Office, in
the concentration of absolute and irresponsible
power in the hands Of himself and select officers
in the breaking up Of respectable agents and at
torneys, and the substitution of plunderers up
on claimants for relief in his office
Mr. Bentley is a good man originally, with
kind feelings and disposition to do full justice
when he first assumed office
But he is thoroughly spoiled for the delicate
duties he has to perform, and he confesses it.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01


their entrance is to be heralded by trumpet and
drum, or only by the clinSing of gallipots with
what extraordinary uniform they are to shock
the moral sensibilties, as yet doth not appear
1t is said that this grave question of uniform
has been much debated among the movers of the
scheme in this city, but 50 far they have only
agreed upon the facing and trimmings, which
are to be rhubarb upon blue mass, and much
benefit is expected in bilious districts by the
exhibition.
In memory Of the ancient fraternity Of Bar
Der Chirurgeons, it is proposed to adopt the
basin for head-gear, and to wind graceful
sash of red, white and blue as a memorial of the
pole.
Still other points remain under discussion
as whether they shall use the civic sulkey or the
military ambulance
But these will settle themselves when the
great reform is adopted
The principle, if there be any, at the bottom
of the place, Is that no man can be trusted to
tell the truth about his neighbor That to get
a fair medical examination you must import
stranger from a remote State, or, what is the
same thing, from the District of Columbia
Now, Mr.. Commissioner, what becomes of the
blessed doctrine of home rule How, at this
day and age, can you venture to set adrift so
many carpet-baggers, and impose upon innocent
communities such an invasion of foreign saddle
bags full of strange devices unknown before
As the Indians say, this will be " heap big medi-
cine But after ali it won't work The men
you select are only your selection. and you may
possibly be mistaken 1t is not the training in
surgical duty that makes man good sitter of
evidence
Then, again, every man that you are likely
to select, will be sure to have pet theory, and
that hobby will run away with him.
Then you must select from orthodox schools
of medicine, or all the heterodox will be down
on you and your life will be made as miserable
as meeting of the Board of Health.
Then every man whom you don't appoint will
go for you with ferocity that you will appre-
cate too late.
For your own sake, Mr. Commissioner, keep
your fingers out of this absurd hot water.
You have had one warning from the House
of Representatives against this Capitalization
in the rebuke given to the plan of abolishing
local Pension Agents
You opposed this and did it on good grounds
Now why is it you cannot see that all the objec-
tions to this scheme are doubled in your own?
That your plan cannot fail to be farsrnore expen-
sive and cumbersome, far worse for the real
economies Of the Government and perpetual
hindrance upon the poor claimants. The sys
tenn proposed is to create new and luxuriously
appointed offices, practically free from all proper
responsibility, and to create them at the cost of
inevitable and protracted delay, a delay which
will bear hardest of all upon the very poorest
and most deserving class
Is it not as well, then, to give up the" Saaobones
Brfgadeg"
We return once more to the subject of the
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Subscribe to The NATIONAL TRIBUNE if you
not want your pension reduced
The National tribune., 1878-04-01
Equalization of Bounties.

We do most respectfully, yet most urgently,
ask of the Military Committees of the House
and Senate what has become of the Bounty
Bill?
Every member Of these committees pretend
to be in favor of the measure every member of
both Houses is entirely familiar with it; it has
been examined and discussed elaborately in both
Houses for six years; everybody claims to be for
Its passage; but it does not pass
1t looks as if the House Committee proposed
to let it die in being born.
That they mean to keep it back until the end
of the session seems to be clear and then send it
through the House too late to be acted on by
the Senate, SO as to keep the " word of promise
to the ear and break it to the hope"
This is said to be the line of tactics of the dis
tinguished gentleman at the head of the House
Committee to gain cheap reputation as the
friend of the soldier, and yet avoid any practical
result.
The reputation is needed for a close district
in Cincinnati next November; but we distinctly
notify all soldiers that if the Bounty Bill fails
to become a law at this session, it will be very
largely the fault of General Banning, who could,
if he chose, have reported and passed it through
the House long ago.
And we further notify all parties interested
that if such bill does not pass before the No
vember election, it will not pass at this Congress.
The National tribune., 1878-04-01

Soldiers stand by the NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Give us a circulation of 25O,0OO, and we will
put through the Pension and Bounty Bills, and
will effect the needed reforms in the Pension
Office DO not delay. Decide fairly, frankly,
and at once
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13

ifFrom past experience we pleased to state, and
toners who have dealt with admit Of receiving full
value for their money, and all W. ask OF with
whom wehave not had the pleasure 10 deal is to give
AS cal, and an examination OF &. dds and prices
and they will find tina, more goods can be purchased
JOr:OHe Dollar at house than 07tylchere else Our
assertions ar not mere talk.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
INJECTION RETURNS.

OBJECTION RETURNS.
The great excitement the result does not equal
the rush at
LOEB BROTHERS
DRY GOODS
CARPET HOUSE.
1t is not surprising however, from the simple faer
that
OUR STOCK OF GOODS IS KNOWN TO BE
THE CHEAPEST, BEST SELECTED AND
LARGEST IN STANTON.
lfFrom past experience we are pleased to state and
fatter ourselves tn know thata our fri, nds aid
toners who have dealt with admit of receiving full
value for their money, and all W. ask OF thos. with
whom ~eate not had the pleasure 10 deal is to give
lis cal, and an examination OF e. DDS and prices
and they viii tin.i iha' more goods can be purchased
fOr.OHe Dollar at our house than d7yachere else. Our
assertions ar not mere talk.
1--WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY"
Every cent counts in these hard times and it is the
duty of every purchaser to buy where be can
get the best goods the cheapest, and for that
reason we wish particularly to impress
upon everyone's mind not topurchase
~ elsewhere until you have tried us.
1t will pay YOU We ara more
anxious to dispose of our
heavy stock han ever
tefore-the price is
no object
t
OUR GOODS MUST BE SOLD,
and havins bought for cash at the very lowest fig
ures, we can certainly offer advantages to trade
the like no her house can boast Of
Our Dry Goods Department Consists
ISL Partly in
Wash Poplin Ginghams Cheviots; Ticking;
Towels; Crashes; Fancy Worsts.d Dress Goods:
Fancy Colorei Cashlneres; Trimming Silks, tall
shades: Calcoes, 5 e, Z; Red and White Wool Fian
mel; Bltached anu Unleached Cotton Flannel: Ia
BILE Linens; Grape Vel is; Black. Aipacas: Black
silks. turkey Red Table Cloths: hite and Colored
Napkins Grape Wells: Silk Tissues, and all kinds of
VeflingS.
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..nov25-1y

lyoHsErs'
CORS ETS,
Tle reputation we have gained for keeping the
best goods in this line will be still maintained.
Everything new and desirable added to our stock as
soon as it appears in the market.
Abdominal Corsets, brold stees, both French and
Nursing Corsets, adjustable busts.
Comfort rorsets, heavily corded. no bones.
Health Cnrsets, three different styles.
p & T. B. Corset. i5n bones, broad bust.
Side Steel and Broad Busk Corsets
Long Wasted Corse's, for slender figures.
Thompson's Cnrsets. lately reduced in price.
Bridal Corsets, exluisitelF embroidered.
Our Own-lmprov'd model 100 bones.
Colored 60 sets, in Conille and Jeans,
Misses C..rse and COrS't Waists.
Cork Bosom Pads, li"ht healthy, and graceful
Shoulder Braces for Youths and Misses
Our Styles are to be found ,nly with us.
novl5- PERRY & TEN BROCK.
THoRNBuRe & sHAFEf's
LIVERY
BAGGAGE TRANSFER COMPANY.
New Street, near Railroad,
sTAUNToN. VA.
-~ All orders for Hacks, Buggies and
cA Riding Horses. promptly attended to.
E7s<A4' Baggage called for or delivered to all
&~N parts Of the city, and for all Trains, at
all hours. Day and Night 2o-1
mnn week in your own town. IS Outfit Outfit free =;
Vl No risk Reader. II u wan, D naie sso az
which persons q either eaa m for paf gHiea.
tafs to II HALIETT' & CO.. Portland Aine
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
Doetrp.
WONDER.

I WONDER.
Il wonder what She's thinking Of
He muses. in the lane
AS shy she peeps where the jasmine creeps
around her window pane
Her little hand upon her brow.
wonder if She sees me now,
wonder, wonder, what she'd say
II should tell her all today
Il wonder what He's thinking Of
She muses. at her pane,
As shy she peeps where the jasmine creeps
To watch him down the lane.
Il wonder where he goes to day,
And will he come again this way?
wonder. wonder, what he'd say
If should call to him to stay
There's no one at the window now,
There's no one down below,
For side by side through the twilight glide,
Across the hills they go.
They are roaming. roaming, far away.
Their hearts know all their lips would say,
And neither you, nor 1 nor they
Need wonder any more to-day.
- H0rper's Bazaar
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
Merchant Tailoring Department.

Kentucky Jeans from 10 cents up. Beavers Fac
tory CIQtF ft4m 3, cents to u yard. Cassimeres,
ss and Y co saaes esa SUITS
made to order and 1T Eaaranteed Shirts made to
oder and lit ggai3nteeef' car fog our Wams.tta u
Phfladei.ss a made Shoes, they are va Fa5trd and
have been J.! REDUCED IS jp price Az Stders r.
Otherwise GhurtA e,idttees viii receive special
discouak. Don't fai to ie rs call and Eenssmber
LOEB BROTHERS,
noys- Corner Main and New streets.
Staunton. We
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
Heavy Goods Department.

Bed Comforts from t, $3.50, oyerlets $l.s0to g.
White Bed-spreads soc to $l.5O, Horse blanket
very low, Cotton Batting 121z to Csc lib,
White Wooden Blankets in lO-4 la 1874
a pair; Gray Blankets from 81 to $50
per par; Marseiles Bedspreads
500 to 81. Wooden Buggy
Robes frcm S2.G0 to $500,
Seal-skin Buggy Robes
hand ONE
'''
Ladies an l Gents Furnish ing Coos
Department.
Shoscls, Cioaks and Felt Skirts
y.ti. ~Et.'.
A SPECIALITY.
Corset from CSC to $3.50; Linen Cuffs and Collars;
Paper Cuts aud Collars; Necktics and Bows; Sus
lenders; Buck Gloves: Wooden Hoods: Wooden
Sacks: Nubs Neck Comforts; Button Kid Gloves
back whie and col red, Zoe a pair; Cotton and
nd Handkerchiefs: Undersh!rts and drawers; La
dies and Children's Vests; White and fancy socks;
10 l,ngskin Gloves and Berlin lined Thread Gloves;
WOODEN Leggins eeyelesS Jackets Gents Jackets;
Gents Kid Gloves.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13

CHESAPEAKE s. OHIO RAILWAY.--Noyem-
~ Der 10th, lS78-fassenger Trains will leave
St tunton as follows:
STANTON TO CINCINNATI
MAIL. EXPRESS &
Leave Staunton. 24OP. VI. Is Nj
=" White Sulphur. 81 55S
Hinton. ln55 -, SO :" =,
Charleston 6.l3 A. NJ. % L. NJ
CINCINNATI 800 A. NJ
-: Connecting with all tile Lines for Il e West.
ACCOMMODATIONS TRAIN
Leave Stanton, AS P. NJ.
Arrive WilliamSOns, 1245 A. M.
sTAUNToN TO LYNCHBURG.
Arrive Charlottesville, 1880 4,9 :.
Leave Charlottesville, HISS llW
Arrive Lynchburg, 2.32 +. M. LIZ A. M
sTAUNTON TO WASHINGTON.
Leave Stanton, l25 P. M.
Arrive GOrdOnSviile SIS p. NJ.
Washington, 9.15 Pm.
Connecting with trains for Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York.
sTAuNToN TO RICHMOND AND THE SOUTH.
Leave sta " ..,r. 1 TX NJ a.o o A: N
Gordonsyille. Els s. 500
Richmond. 90 500 "
RS Pfc Leave. 1 1922 ]l4s A; M
Va Steamboat. Leave 100 A. M. Monday, Wednes
dav and Frdas, Q. ID. s. s. leave 7. M. Tile, Mon
dav, Thursday and Saturday.
Through frst-class and emgrant tickets lower
than by any route for sale 10 all points West,
and through tirst-class tickets to all POINTS North
and South as low as by any other line.
Baggage checked to destination For rates TICK
time, cards, maps and bills apply 70
j. II. WOODWARD,
Ticket Agent, StauntOn, Va
CONWAY r. HOWARD, G. T.Ag't.
W s. DuNN Engineer & Supt.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
Carpet and Trunk Department.

Brussels Carpet; 3ply carpet; Ingram carpet:
ply all wool carpet: cOtton chain carpet;
Crumb Cloth By the yard; hemp carpet;
rag carpet; hair carpets; stair-rods;
straw and robe mattings; flo0rand
table oil cloth; linen and paper
window shades; oil cloth
rugs cocoa foot mats
brussel rugs drug
getsin patterns
r. ir ~
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
General department. Motions.

GeneraI i'6paTCm0nt IN OtlOnS.
papers needles for cents.
l dozen neck rufus, 121A cents,
llandkerchiefs, hemmed, Is cents,
dozen pieces soap. Is cents,
gross buttons, cents. .4t
o. N. I. Clarks cotton, scents spool,
doZeu go yards spool cotton, IS cents, .
6 balls knitting cotton Is cents,
2 papers pins cents,
papers hairpins forj cents,
good linen t,weis tor 3 cents;
pair excellent hose for 25 cents;
Hd0Zen large cakes soap for 25 cents,
ga linen shoe-sirings, per dozen, 10, sat ~:
Zephyr, Yarns. woods In all co ors.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13
s. WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY"

Every cent counts in these hard times, and it is th
duty of every purchaser to buy where be can
get the best goods the cheapest, and for that
reason we wish particularly to impress
upon everyone's mind not to purchase
elsewhere until You have tried us:
1t will pay you. We are more
anxious to dispose of our
heavy stock than ever
tefure-the price is
no object.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-12-13

NEW sToKE'
TOBACCO TOBACCO!!
We have on hand now a fine and well selected
stock of
CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCOs,
Williams Celebrated Yellow Bird, and
Virgin Chewing Tobacco,
Aliens Bright Cut Cavendsh, and
Perfection Straight Cut Cavendsh
For either Chewing or Smoking,
Creole Perique, Clear and Virginia Mixed, Pipes
Cigars, Cigarettes, &c.
In fact fine stock of everything to be found in
First Class Tobacco Store.
Good Twist OF Tobacco for 10cts.
Call and examine for yourself and be satisfied
No. S, Main Street, StauntOn, Va.
GIN. FIFER & co.
Snov2l1y
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-27
a Great lIeteor in EngIand.

In November, 1877, a great meteor was
observed in England, and Mr.. Tupman
has only recently completed the investiga.
tons and calculations which be undertook
relative to this extraordinary celestial
visitor. He received about 90 direct and
original communications on the subject,
and 40 or so newspaper paragraphs. The
bolide frst became visible 10 observers at
Newcastle. on Tyne, Tynemouth, supder.
land, and York at sh. 24m. in the even
ing, The gentlemen who noticed It are
remarkably 10 accord in their obserya-
lions. The appearance Of the meteor was
then that Of an ordinary shooting star,
and II was at the great height OF 80 statute
miles, vertically over point l3 miles
north Of Derby. Descending In the air
at the inclination Of 399 to the surface Of
the earth, when att height of4S miles ex.
actly over Liverpool, 1t became intensely
brilliant, and that was the moment when
| Il attracted general attention. People as
far distant as Essex, RoScommon, Edin-
burgh, Bristol, and Queenstown, 200 miles
from il, describe II as large rs the full
moon and greatly exceeding II In brilli-
ancy. Persons sitting In rooms with the
blinds down were frightened by the food
Of light which suddenly found its way in.
The meteor exploded with great violence
over the Irish Sea, 20 miles north.north.
west Of Llandudno, Wales. The total
length Of It's path was 1856 miles, which
was traverted in about eight seconds. The
streak left in the air extended 40 miles
along the track, and was not less than 2.
900 feet in diameter. The noise Of the
explosion was heard at great distances,
and at Chester 1t resembled tremendous
peal Of thunder, people running out oil
their houses to see what was the matter.
One curious circumstance Is that a body
capable Of producing such commotion
should be suddenly reduced to nothing
but duly incandescent dust or ashes,
which slowly fell short distance yerti-
cally downward.