Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-08-27
The Candidates from the .sOld Common.
Wealth'S'' Stand Point.

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The Candidates from the 'sOld Common.
Wealth'S" Stand Point.
Introductory to its report of the meet
ing of the candidates in this District at
the Shenandoah County Court, on Mon.
day the 10Th inst, the Old Common
s0ealth discourses thusly:-
Capt. Paul was on hand, as was also
the Wise man of the East from over the
mountains, Parson Massey. He had
come around the other way and made q
survey of the field before his single COM
petitor arrived. He had entrenched
himself against two, but Judge Harris
came not, and the subsequent proceed
lngs interested us no more, or at least
not to any great extent, for when man
expects to see the fur fly, and finds
grace, mercy and peace instead, he is
disappointed, even if the latter is more
Christian like. It was never expected
or intended that candidates for office
should dwell in sincere unity and har-
mony, especially when all are preachers
of the same false doctrine. But one can
win, and that this is possible is pity,
for all three are entirely too good and too
much devoted to Virginia to dwell even
temporarily beyond her boundary. The
| Judges elyslum would be hut in the
mountains, full of fresh air and free
from debt, while Captain Paul is indis-
pensable to legislation on internal inter-
ests in the State Legislature, and Parson
Massey, we know, with the endorse
ment OF feeble precinct for the Gov
ernorship in 1947, would be as happy as
clam IN fresh water. The Parson has
learned to wait. He has been pursuing
the trangressing bondholders early and
late for 10 these many years, and as the
way of the trangressor is hard, the Par
son found it rough shedding, but has
made virtues of necessities and necessi-
ties of virtues as he has gone along
Some men find more pleasure in the
pursuit than in the capture, and as the
Parson pursueth when nobody fieeth, he
He has put his corruscated ideas into
print in pamphlet form, and like an
humble colpOrteur distributes them a
mong the people, asking not, "Are you
a Christian ?" but care you Readjus
ter?" The Parson is a sort of Albemarle
J Tract Society, and Notwithstanding
Judge Harris was born under the shad.
ow of Monticello, shadows won't save
him. The Parson isspoiling for a scrim-
mage, and is getting tired of trailing his
coat-tail when nobody will step on it.
A FE(E)LINE STORY.-The Richmond
Dispatch gives the following interesting
and curious story:
"Dr. Eaton, of Petersburg, was in oul
3 Office recently, and showed us photo
graph of 'that cat" The story is az
: follows: A hen, after Matching out q
brood OF chickens, sickened and died
/ leaving the chickens in a helpless anC
: forlorn state. An old cat on the prem
ises seeing their condition had pity or
them, and decided to take care of them
overtures, and ran whenever she ap-
| preached. In vain she purred and
] purred, and used all her cat vocabulary
! to assure them of the purity of her mo
tives. AT last she scratched in thu
ground, aud bringing out worm ant
, carrying it as near the chickens as they
would allow her to approach, laid j
down and withdrew. Presently one o
them saw it and ran to pick it up. Thu
! cat repeated the experiment till tn,
chickens, gaining confidence, would rur
to her whenever they saw her scratch
u ing in the ground. Thus they came t.
: follow her, and she fed them. Wher
= night came their instinct taught then
. to get under the cat for shelter, and 81
she lowered them as best she could eve
ry day. The affair was so strange tina
!, the fame Of it went abroad, and grea
many people came to see 'that cat"
! An artist took his apparatus to the place
= and Just az the chickens gathered unde
= their feline step mother for the night b,
: took their photograph, copy of which
we saw. There the chickens are as con
u tentedly gathered under the cat as eve
brood gathered under hen. There
y too, is the cat, seemingly conscious o
u her inability to do the occasion full jus
;, tice; but, with look of motherly be
3 nevolence, she was doing her best t,
meet the responsibilities she had as
u sumed. Then the way the white anC
7 black hair met on her face made it lool
! as it her hair was parted in the middle
y and combed down on each side, after tn
= old style, and so increased the motherli
!, ness of her appearance.
y Many responsible persons vouch 70
= = the truth of the story, and testify tina
!, they have seen the cat lowering tn
y chickensi among them Rev. DR. H. c
J, Wood, of Minneapolis, near WHICH Git.
= = that cat" lives. The photograph, TOO
- is good evidence of the truth of the sto
! ~. A most woD derfuI cat is that cat,
> more wonderful than Wilmington s, o
= Dame "rnt's. or any other"