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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

PLEASANT MEETING.-The missionary
Aid Society" of the Methodist church. in this
city, held meeting on Sunday night, in the
audience-room of the church, for the benefit of
the "superannuated preachers and the widows
and orphans of deceased preachers" The meet
ing was called to order by the President, C. w.
Hunter. and, after singing, prayer was offered
by A. NJ. Simpson. Then followed some few,
but appropriate. remarks by Messrs. Hunter.
Risk, Harlan, and Simpson; after which the
congregation was waited upon by the collectors,
and the handsome sum of about $65 reported
obtained, The exercises were enlivened by the
singing Of some beautiful pieces, led by Miss
Daniel. The meeting was pleasant one.
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HARRIS RE-ELECTED-sMALLy VOTE CAST.

HARRIS RE-ELECTED-sMALL VOTE CAST.
The election for Congressman on Tuesday
last in this, the 7th District, resulted in the re-
election of Hon. John T. Harris by majority
of ], $50 votes over his competitor John Paui'
State Senator from Rockingham, though the
latter received the Republican vote. NotWltn-
standing the efforts made by the candidates
and their special friends the vote In the DIS
trict was small, showing that many were so
much opposed to the positions OF the candi-
dates on the questions made prominent In the
canvass that they would vote for neither.
Many who did not approve Harris's position,
but preferred his election to that Of Paul, did
not vote because they did not believe their
votes were needed to secure his election. Thls
was the case here, and, we suppose, In other
parts OF the District.
1t will be seen by reference to the table pup
lished below, giving the votes of Staunton and
Augusta county in this and the preceding Con-
gressional elections, that considerably less than
half as many votes were cast in the late cleo
ton as in that preceding,-the number in the
last election being only 2,244, and in the former
5,S46-the vote in the last election being only
40 per cent. of the preceding. This embraces
the votes of the city and county. In the city,
the vote at the last election was only IS per
cent of what it was in 1876-the numbers being
respectively 1856 and 1167. In the county, 1t was
about AZ per cent-the respective numbers De
ing 1858 and 4l79.
AUGUSTA COUNTY.
1879 1870
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The DelusiOn of Imitation.

It has been asked whether the paper
circulation ofthe currency of the conn
try is greater or less than it was eight or
ten years ago. 1t is a greenback- labor
fallacy to assert that q great contraction
of the currency has caused the collapse
and hard times. There has been in
fact, no such great contraction. Official
statistics show that the amount of paper
money out, exclusive of interest bear
ing notes, which cannot properly be
counted, because they very rapidly dis
appeared from circulation, was greatest
in 1874, after the panic and collapse OF
1878; that, therefore, the greatest
amount OF paper money in circulation
did not prevent or cure a collapse or
panic, but was one of Its main causes.
The total paper circulation, exclusive OF
interest bearing notes, was, in 1870, 1898.
O0O. 600; in 1871. $7l6 600 600; in 1872
S737, 0O0. 900; in 1873 the year when the
panic and depressian began, $f49, OOO.
600; in 1874, $7S3, 900, 900; and in 1875,
$773 ,O00,0 900. In 1878, the present year,
when for the first time there are real
signs of an industrial revival, slow but
apparently sure-and on q sound basis
the circulation is within a few millions
of the year 1870 ($688 ,000, 900 y and when
the honest greenback- labor man looks
back with sigh to the good times OF
1870, q contemporary says, The should
understand that the country has now
substantially the same amount of circu.
lating medium as then and when he is
told by some quack that what is needed
ia more currency he ought to reply by
pointing to the fact that it was precisely
when the greenbacks were most abun.
dant that the big panic broke.p But he
ought to add, for the information Of the
quacks who ara misleading him, that
while the currency is now nearly 1T the
same volume as in the prosperous veal
1870, its value, reckoned in gold, has
greatly appreciated, and if we count in
gold there was but $500, 900, 900 worth Of
paper in circulation in 1870, against
$685., 900, 900 worth in the present year
Still there are those who clamor for in
fiation. A new initiation will not helI
them. Imitation will not now initiate =
The balloon burst in 1873; it will hold
no new gas. The panic Of 1873 and the
succeeding depression came about moi
by contraction, because paper money
was then most abundant, as we have
shown; it came about because of over
speculation, over trading, and the deep
alarm which seized prudent men every.
where as they saw whittier we were
drifting. Public confidence..received q
great shock the men who had anything
buttoned up their pockets and the men
who had nothing but debts failed. OF
late confidence has begun slowly to re.
vive; but a new imitation would only
send US back into the distress of 1894
1t is because we have got near to q spe-
Gle basis that men are beginning to ven.
ture timidly on new enterprises. 1t is
because confidence is shocked at these
greenback labor demands fer new in
fiation that times remain hard. There
is no hope of better times for the work
ingmen, or even for the spectators, un
til resumption is accomplished and the
initiation movement is finally DEFEATED
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Alton Items.
ALTON, VA, Nov. III

ALTON, VA, Nov. 18th, 1878.
Ed. Spectator The election is over
and our quiet part of the world is very
well satisfied with Tucker, Harris. &c
It seems their will be No free sGhoAls
in this county again this winter. Would
it not be well for the taxpayers to refuse
to pay the school-tax until the free
schools are established.
Of the N. Y. World at Lynchburg, Va,
is quite i'll at his fathers res dence near
here. May he soon recover.
Business seems to be getting better !;
some two or three new stores have
opened this fall near here.
The farmers are busy taking care of
their corn crop, which is good.
About the usual amount of seeding
done about here this fall, which looks
well. More anon. ii.
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"German SYRUP,

Mother medicinein theworld was eyer given
such test OF it's curative Qualities as Boschees
German nls.r syrVp. In three years two million
four hundred thousand small bottles of this
medicine were distributed free Of charge by
Druggists in this country to those afflicted with
Consumption, Asthma, Group, severe Coughs,
Pneumonia and other diseases of the Throat
and Lungs, giving the American people unde-
niable proof that German Syrup will cure them.
The result has been that Druggists in every
town and village in the United States are rec
amending It to their customers. Go to your
Druggist, and ask what they know about it,
Sample Bottles 10 cents. Regular size. Three
doses will relieve any case. For sale byDr N.
WAYT & Bro. and g. W. MAY & Co. declS-eow
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

ACCIDENT ON c. & o. r. R.-As a freight train
was coming East up North Mountain summit
on last Saturday night, some of the cars broke
loose. and. descending the grade at rapid rate,
ran into the freight train following, and smash
ed up number Of flats and badly injured the
engine. Fortunately no one was injured. The
damaged flats were brought to staunton yes
day
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
STAUNTON NURSERIES,,

For the Information of the public generally,
and for those who are laboring under misap-
TON NURSERIES,, and none but our regular
ly constituted agents are authorized to repre-
sent our business or act for us. Messrs. JNO. T.
EDWARDS and JAS. H. SKULL are our author
fzed agents a"d We will be responsible for their
contracts,
Parties wishing Fruit Trees, Shrubhery, &C.,
or anything in our line of business, win be
promptly and faithfully supplied by sending
their orders direct to us at Stanton, Va,
BUTLER & WHEAT,
octl-3m Proprietors Staunton Nurseries.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

Frank auckland, the English natu-
ralist. declares that babies swim natur raj
ly. A friend put one into warm water
and 1t took to it like duck, swimming
brlskly. The Polynesians, it lie known,
IND that their children can swim and
enjoy the exercise at very early age.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
ponds EXTRACT.
ponds EXTRACT.
The Peoples Remedy.
The Universal Pain Extractor.
Note: Ask for Ponds Extract.
Take no other.

RC2Ts 1OF VIII speak 1T eYcPIIenf
thfns,s."
PONDS EXTRACT-The great Vegetable
Ta lain destroyer. Has been in use over
thirty years, and for cleanliness and prompt
curative virtues cannyt be excelled.
CHILDREN. No family can afford to be without
Ponds Extract. Accidents, bruises,
almost instantly BY external Application.
E1eoristions, Channgs, Ola Sores,
Betls, Felons, Corns, etc. Arrests in
Illumination, reduces swelngs, stops BLEEDING,
removes disc0lorntion and heals rapidly.
LADIES find It their best friend 1t assuaces
r the pains to which they are pc c u ia riy
spbject, notably fullness and pressure in
the head, nausea vertigo, &c. It promptly
ameliorates and permanently heals Ell
kinds of determinations and ulcera.
lions.
HEMOR 4 HOLDS or PILEsfnd in this ths
only immediate relief and ultimste cure.
No case. however chronic or obstinate can
long resist its regular use.
vARICOSE VEINS. 1t is the only sure cure.
KIDNEY DISEASES. It has no equal for per.
BLEEDING from any cause. For this it is a spe-
ctfac. 1t has saved hundreds of lives when all
other remedies failed to arrest bleeding from
,, nose, stomach, lungs, and elsewhere.
hnsamstis% are ii alike s relieved, ana
often permanently cured.
sons Of isen a
mend it in their practice. We have letters Of
commentator from hundreds Of Physicians,
practice In addition to the foregoing. they
order its use for Svvellings of all kinds
Qulnsy, Sore Throat, Inhamed Tom
sis, simple and chronic Diarrh1a. Co.
tarrh flor which it is specifc9, Chill.
blnins, Frosted Feet, Stings of
Insects, Musquitocs, etc, Chapped
Hands, Face, and indeed all manner Of
skin diseases.
TOILET USE. Removes Soreness, Roushnes.
aud Smarting3 heals Cuts, Eruptiona
and PimpleS. It reripes, Incorporates and
rsfrssAes, while wonderfully improving thu
TO FAHMERs-Pont,s Extract. No Stock
breeder, no Livery Man can atiord to be with
out it. 1t is used by all the leading Livery
Stables, Street Railroads and first Horsemen
In New York City. 1t has no equal for Sprans,
Harness or Saddle Chafngs, Stiffness.
Scratches Swellings, Cuts, Lacerations, Bleed
iDfs, Pneumonia, Colo, DiaIrhoea, Chs
Colds, &c. Its range of action is wide anu the
relief it affords il SO prompt that it is nvalua-
Bile in every Farm-yard as well as in every
Farmhouse. Let it be tried once, and you
will never be without it.
| CAUTION! Ponds Extract has Aeen initiated.
| The genuine article has the words Ponds
Extract blown in each bottle. 1t is prepared
by the enly persons living who evey
| knew how to prepare it properly. Refuse all
! ether preparations Of Witch Hazel. This IS
| the only article used by Physicians, and il the
I hospitals Of this country and Europe.
| HISTORY and Uses OF Ponds Extract,
in pamphlet form, sent free application to
| SONUS EXTRACT COMPANY, 50 Maiden
Lane. New York.
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TIE NEXT HousE.-There are sever

TIE NEXT HopsE.-There are sever
al things to be remembered in connec-
ton with the possibility that the Repub-
licans and the Democrats may have a
fight over the presidency in the next
House Of Representatives. First, the
chances are as hundred to one that the
election will not 60 to the House at all.
Again if it shall go there, and the De-
mocrats and the Republicans divided
the States equally between them, the De-
mocrats will have the game entirely in
theft own hands. They can sit out the
time, and they secure the President; for
il case of a failure to elect in the House,
the Senate, which will certainly be De.
moeratic, would have the right to elect
a Vice President, who would become
President. The Democrats could do the
same if the Greenbackers held the bal
rance of power.
But it is not yet certain that the two
parties will divide the States. equally in
the next House. At the present writ.
ing it looks as if neither party would
have majority of the delegations. If
the Democrats have q majority in the
House, however, they may capture q
State as the Republicans did the presi.
dency in 1876.-Dispdtch.
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were re shipped East to New York and Phil
adelphia. and they constituted some of the best
stock received here.
Sheep-All the receipts except some 400 or 500
head were sold on Monday and but few since
then. Quotations nominally 3@4Lcta, with no
sales. ~
Hogs..Trade since Monday has been only
fair and PRICES scarcely as firm as they were ON
That day. The tendency seems to be towards
lower ngures. from present appearances as OBJ
served by most Of the dealers The receipts
loot up about 900 head, some 400 of which are
ance OF the week. Quotations 4@fIcts. with
but few over AZ cents.
RICHMOND MARKET, Nov. 7th.-The market
OF produce; Flour is in only limited demand
a aae 9a s are about IS lass given viz:
S S % ior nne to fancy brands. Offerings of
" neaI comparatively small, with sales Of white
az du19l 0S Tor prime TO choice and red at 800
PLY LOT good Fultz to choice Lancaster. Small
sales OF Corn at 45@4S for prime new and q few
bushels OF Oats at SO@33 for prime spring.
Notn1ng doing In Rye and prices nominal.
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Photograph albums-large stock-at
nOvh-tf RuNrER & Co.'S

ATTENTION SPoRrsMEN.-That excellent jour-
nal. the Forest and Stream gives the following
timely advice:-Don't point your gun at your
self. Don't point your gun at any one else.-
Don't carry your gun SO that its range includes
all your hunting companions. Don't try to
find out whether your gun is loaded or not by
shutting one eye and looking down the barrel
with the other. Don't use your gun for a walk
ing stick. Don't climb over a fence and pull
your gun through muzzle foremost Don't
throw your gun into boat SO that the trigger
will catch Inf the seat and the charge be depos-
tied in your stomach. Don't use your gun fol-
a sledge hammer. Don't carry your gun full
cooked. Don't carry your gun with the ham,
mer down. Don't be q fool. Don't you forget
IT.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

DEDIcATIoN.-The village OF Churchvilie, al
ready noted for the number Of its churches
has had another addition made to its number
recently, and this new edifice will be dedicated
10 the service OF Almighty God on Sunday,
Nov. 9th. 1873, by Y. W. Boothe, P. E., and
Benjamin Brown, Jr.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

INTERESTING MUSICAL EvENT.-On the 18th
inst. the "Rustics" of Harrisonburg will visit
Baltimore and give one of their delightful con-
certs at the academy of music. The Trinity
Musical Association of Baltimore will take part
in the concert and solos will be sung by Balti-
mores favorite vocalist, Miss Annie Roemer.
and by Miss Lizzie Daniel, SO well and favora-
bly, known in Staunton for her exquisite and
highly cultivated voice.
The "Rustics" will be accompanied by a
number of persons from various parts Of the
Valley. Staunton remembering the fine sing
ing of the "Rustics" here last Summer. will
doubtless contribute large quota to the ex-
cursion.
The Harrisonburg Commonwealth says: "The
Improvement in singing by the "Rustics" will
be noticed by those who heard them five years
ago in Baltimore. Prot. H. I. Wartmann. their
instructor, has made them wonderfully pro-
f1cient as singers within the last several years.
and whilst they are not professionals" yet
they will no doubt do quite as well as could be
expected of amateurs from the Mountains"
RavolviuU hOok MT
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

SALES BY Col. JAMES CooHRAN.-Col. Jas
Cochran, formerly of this county, has recently
sold to Mr. N B. Meade Of Winchester, former.
ly Editor Of the Richmond Wing, his residence
at Culpeper c. H. for $1,000 and also l5O acres Of
his farm near that place at $40 per ace.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

WEEK OF PRAYER.-The 7. M. CA, of Staun-
ton. will not observe the week Of prayer, which
began on last Sunday. in accordance with the
call made by the International Committee OF
American Young Mems Christian Associations.
By an arrangement made with the ministers
Of the city it had been previously agreed to
hold the week of prayer some time in January.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

PERSONAL I have been entirely cured by
Aelers Roman Imminent Of severe pains in
my limbs, caused by over-exertion at the late
United States Patent once flre.-WM. o, DREW.
Asst. Engineer. Washington Fire Department
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

HUsTINGs COURT.-The November term OF
this court met ON last Thursday and after al
lowing number Of accounts, and the qualifica-
ton of Hartman Lushbaugh as administrator OF
his father, Adam Lushbaugh and H. G. Tinsley
as administrator of his mother, Mrs. Eliza Tins
ley, adjourned.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

The silver mounted Malacca came of
Judge Lynch, the founder OF Lynch
burg, Va, and the originator of Lynch
law, and his inkstand, are in the posses
sion of Mr.. E. ]. Withers. of Henderson,
Ky.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

LARGE TURNIPs-Mr. Peter Ellinger OF Sum.
meridian. will accept our thanks for a mess of
the largest turnips we have seen this season.
The four weighed about twenty pounds, and
measured about % inches in circumference.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

Postmaster General Key gained twen-
ty-six pounds during his Western trip.
He says the Pacific slope is a wonderful
country for good food and cool water,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

Col. Forney says: shall stand by the
Republican party till the last horn
blows, and therefore must not be mis-
understood when say that the chances
are In favor of a Democratic triumph In
1880.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
The elections last Tuesday put an
OCCASIONAL

The elections last Tuesday put an ef-
fectual quietus on the greenback vagary
for which all who have the true in
terests of the whole country at heart
should be thankful. But they did some
thing else-for which the same class of
people should grieve, and for which the
responsible parties should be held to q
strict accountability. They slaughtered
conservative democracy in the section
in which most was expected from its
benefcent influence, and showed that
if the States vote the same way in 1880
the prize for which the South has been
striving ever since the war, and to OBJ
tain which she has quietly submitted to
insult and injury, democratic presi
dent, under whose administration her
people would enjoy equal rights and
citizens in the North, will be as far from
their reach as ever. A speedy, emphatic
and unequivOcal remuneration Of all men
and measures favorable to interference
with, or to the unsettlement of the cur
rency and banking of the country, to-
gether with a little less sectionalism and
members of Congress, during the two
y C0AS tA0G WIZ AhGOAVChO OCtWCCA Uulo
and the next presidential election, may
be sufficient TO restore the democratic
party to the position it held in the affec-
lions of the northern people in 1876, and
for the good of the country, but especial
ly for that of the South, we hope they
may but we are grieved to sag that the
indications for such a happy turn in af-
fairs are not favorable, and that present
appearances look to q prolongation OF
radical rule. And when we are COM
PEELED by what we see and hear to realize
the fact that all this was brought about
by the efforts Of demagogqes and time
servers in the democratic party to catch
what they vainiy supposed was a popular
wave, and thai they by meretricious
means induced many better men than
themselves to assist them, we can con-
ceive of no lower place than that they
should hold in the estimation of their
countrymen.-Aler. Gazette.
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George 9, See Gssh nf sMho is non-.es-
Wednesday. the 2oth day Of November, 1878.
between the hours of six in the morning and
six in the evening of that day. at the Law Of
ice of W. E. Craig, in the City of Stsun.on, Au-
gusta county. Virginia, will proceed to take
read as evidence at the hearing of certain suit
for divorce {, viacalS ,aatimoaii, pending IN the
circuit court for Augusta county, Va. in which
next friend. am Plaintiff and you are Defen-
dant. And if, from any cause, the taking of
said dispositions should not be commenced. or,
being commenced, should not be completed on
that day, the taking of said dispositions will be
adjourned from day to day. aad from time to
time, until the same are enmnleted.
MARY ISABELLA REED,
who sues by &C., by counsel.
w. E. CRAIG, p. q. oct22-4t
TOMMIN&IONER.S NOTICED pursu-
u ance Of the decree of the CT cNit Court for
Augusta county. entered Aprll ard, 1878. in the
and Trust Cooapaay us. the Trustees Of sad ton,-
pany aad ais, 1 shall proceed at my office, in
Staunton, on
Thursday, The 5sh day of December, 1873,
to take account, LIST, of the trust funds and SUBJ
amount of the capital stock of the Virginia
Banking and Trust Company, not fully paid
up, Of the parties bound therefor, and of tae ex-
tent Of their liability lily in this hi c ayl;
NEEETING OFTHE sTOCKHOLDERS
W. OF THE VALLEY RAIL ROAD COM
|PANY.The Regular Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valley Rail Road Compa-
the City Of staunton, on WEDNEsDAAY. the
oct1e Secretary.
staunton. Lexington, ard Fineastle Papers
copy ID. m
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Mr.. Geo. M. Blakemore, an industrious me-
chanic of Mt. Scion, killed three hogs fifteen
months old, which weighed respectively as912
a8S, 3794. aggregating l.257 pounds.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
DEATHS.

ObttuGrtes Gag e6Gyeu for at advertising rates.
NOitces IT deaths published 0ratuitouslU.
RIvERCOMB.-On the LIST inst on the Bull Pas
ture River, Highland, Geo. Rivercomb, in the
Slst year OF his age.
sLAvEN.7On the 9Th iAss., AeaF Meadow Dale,
of his age.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

Unequaled in effectiveness. unapproached in
cheapness, and unrivalled in popularity is DR.
Bulls Cough Syrup. % CTS. per bottle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12

BALDWIN AUGUSTA FAIE.-The premiums
awarded at the last Fair amounting to 81, Az
have all been paid off, and the Grounds have
been rented to Mr.. B. T. Bagby at SIPS per an
mum. Hon. A. H. H. Stuart recently elected a
member of the Board of Directors, having de-
clined to serve, his place has been filled by the
election of Mr.. Gideon Barnhart.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
IMPORTED HAVANA CIGARS, for sale
i by w. r. TYREE. Druggist,
au27 Main ST., StauntOn, Va.
LEGAL NOTICES.

GPECiAL attention paid to Compromising
y Prescriptions, by W. r. TYREE,
auZ7 Druggist. Main St.. Staunton, Va.