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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

Woman Suffrage has been discussed
anew in the Vermont Legislature, the
immediate issue being whether woman
should be permitted to vote for school
trustees. Judge Polan advocated the
restriction Of the privilege to unmarried
women, because he deemed married
women sufficiently represented by their
husbands. The entire measure was voted
down.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

SENATOR SALISBURY FOR HARD
MoNEy.-Senator Salisbury, of Del
aware, addressed a democratic meeting
Wilmington on Monday evening. He
arraigned the republican party for the
creation of public debt twice as large
as it should have been, extravagant ex-
penditure of the national revenues, leg
islation for the payment of bonds in coin,
and the establishment of the national
banking system. He condemned the pre-
sent tariff system as devised more for
the benefit ofspeculators than for raising
revenue, and as favoring the few at the
cost of the many. AS representative
of the democracy Of Delaware he plant
ed himself on their hard money plat
form, favored early resumption of specie
payments, and that the government
should abrogate national banks and issue
a convertible paper money equal in its
volume to its ability to redeem it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The Brazilian Government invites
proposals for the illumination of Rio de
Janeiro. Bids will be received by the
Brazilian Minister at Washington until
End of December
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

Samuel Sherer, who killed Villa N
Walker during difficulty that occurred
at Drummondtown, seventeen years ago,
was arrested in Princess Anne county.
last Monday, and taken to Accomac.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05
with the attacking party ran Off"

How WILL THEY GET THEM p The
immortal Lipscomb (Martin) has ad.
dressed printed speech-so to call it
to the public. In it we find a single
passage that contains an extinguisher to
Greenbackism. We quote it for the
edification of much deluded body of
men. Martin says:
II see nothing lately in the editorial
columns of the papers of this State but
about bonds, and the currency, or green
backs, and as one man would like to
know how any one can get them unless
he has something to sell, or works for
them, or some one gives them to him !;
and if any one thinks they can get
them otherwise he must be either a
knaye or o fool
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05
$taumtott Spectator.
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER s, 1873.
The Election To-day.

Many of the readers of this issue Of the
SPECTATOR will have learned the result
of the election before it reaches them;
however we feel called upon to express
our views sto the proper candidate now
in the field to whom support should be
given.
Since the withdrawal of the only can
didate, General Echols, whose platform
and views met with our approval, we
are left to make our choice upon other
grounds than those taken by either Of
the remaining candidates. We do this
at once and without any hesitation.
When two men are before the people
for their suffrages, both advocating the
same principles, one an old, tried, and
true servant of his constituents, and the
other, new and untrisd, however able he
may be, we can see no reason for turning
the one out and putting the other in
Judge Harris has admittedly made him
self a good record in Congress and unit
there is some other reason than that o
mere personal choice, we cannot see thu
benefit to be derived from change.
The position taken by neither Of tn
candidates, on the issues of the canvass
meets with our approval, yet as between
the two we cannot hesitate to give GU
vote for Judge Harris.
Harris, if elected, will 60 back to Con
gress as an old member, holding alread..
positions on important committees
and no questions will be asked as to no,
he got back.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

Capt. Prett, of the regular army, is en-
route from the Northwest for Hampton,
Va, with forty-nine Indian children,
gathered from different agencies, to be
educated at the government expense.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

HEALTHY SENTIMENTS FROM THE
PULPIT.-In a sermon in Boston on
Sunday week Rev. James Freeman
Clarke said he thought if there could
be full and free discussion all over the
country that the idea of an irredeemable
paper currency would disappear in three
months. "If owe," he said, "a rich
man dollar and have only one dol
lar in the world and he has q million, I
will pay him that dollar; not for his
sake, but for my own sake, and to pre-
serve my honesty and self-respect."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

By recent order from the Post office
department packages of any kind may
be registered when sent through the
mails. The cost of registering is ten
cents, while the regular postage remains
as heretofore OH that class of matter
This additional privilege will be appre-
ciated by the public as there is no long
er danger from loss.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The clown in Coles circus tumbled
outside the ring, took hold of Robert F.
Page, of Three Springs, and attempted
to pull his ear. Robin bounced him
like tiger, threw him back into the
ring, jumped on him and wallowed
him quite handsomely. The clown
begged pardon and said it was '.just for
fun. "-Brist0L NetOs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

STONEwALL CEMETERY.-Ane xcava
ton for the foundation of the monument
to the Unknown Dead has been made in
the central mound at Stonewall Gene
terry. The foundation (which will rest
on a solid bed of limestOne) will be laid
Immediately. The contract for the con-
struction Of the monument has been
awarded, and the work is progressing
fayorably.-J Winchester Times.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The Acknowledgement of the United
States has granted the petition of four
hundred illicit distillers of North Car.
DINA, allowing the m to plead guilty OF
the offences charged to them, they on
their part promising to abstain from
further violation of the revenue laws.
Sentence will be suspended during their
good behavior.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN TENNESSEE.
"A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn,
says: IA horrible tragedy occurred
within three miles of the Hermitage at
z o'clock Wednesday evening. John
Cloyd, colored, had that morning quar-.
relied with and fatally shot Winfield Nc
Whittier in an alteration concerning the
the picking of cotton. Frank Warpool,
who was deputized to arrest Cloyd, sum-
moned DR.. Raymer, James McWhirter
and John Osborne to assist him. They
went to the house of John Williamson,
colored, and found him heavily armed
with two pistols and gun, and saw two
men run from the house as they entered.
They took Williamson into custody and
started down the turnpike With him,
believing they would overtake Cloyd at
GreenhilI, village not far Distant
When in front of DR.. John T. Gleaves's
residence McWhirter went into it to
leave a gun he had borrowed, thinking
the danger had passed. McWhirter and
Gleaves started out to meet the posse,
but as they reached the door brisk fir
ing of pistols on the turnpike commenc-
ed. When they reached the scene of
action Warpool and John Cloyd lay dead
in the road, and DIR. Raymer was found
to be shot through the arm and thigh,
and dangerously if not fatally wounded.
Two men who are supposed to have been
with the attacking party ran Off"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

J.R. Sypher, whom Anderson char
ges in his affidavit as having imposed
on him along with E. L. Weber, in the
Sherman eber-Anderson letter, makes
a statement in Philadelphia, in which
he says that the only truth in the affida.
Wit is where Anderson saythat he did not
receive any money for his evidence be-
lore the Potter committee. The rest
Mr.. Sypher denies emphatically. Jno.
II. Maddox publishes card in Wash
ington, denying the statements of An
derson as to himself, and expressing the
belief that they were false as to others.
He says he never saw E. L. Weber to
know him till the day he testified, and
don't know J. R. Spyher by sight, and
knows nothing of his relations with An
derson, except what Anderson himself
told him in conversation last fall,
which began and ended his personal in
tercourse with Anderson. Mr.. Gibson,
the correspondent referred to by Ander-
son in his affidavit, also denies the state
ments as to himself and says.he refused
to entertain any propositions to buy his
silence.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

Major Doswell's Sunlight" won a
purse of $500, and "Bushwhacker" a
purse of $500, at the Pimlico races last
week.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The eighty-fourth session of the Vir.
ginia Annual Conference M. E. Church
South will convene in the city of Peters
burg on Wednesday, November 18th. al
10 a m
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The illness of Lord Beaconsfield occa.
sions much anxiety.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

NORFOLK'S INCREASED EXPORT
TRADE.-The value of the exports from
Norfolk, Va, for the month of October
was 81 ,591, 7Se, against S6O6,O97 for Oc'
tober, 1877, showing the handsome in
crease of $685., Gal. The receipts of cotton
at Norfolk during September and Octo.
Der were 103, 439 bales, against II OBS
bales same months last year, showing an
increase in 1878 of 80, 4O1 bales.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05
The Alexandria Gazette says the pro-

The Alexandria Gazette says the pro-
tective tariff that is kept in operation
in this country for the benefit of q few
manufacturers has helped in no small
degree to produce the prevailing hard
times, and ifcontinued must of necessity
make them harder by either preventing
an increase in or seriously diminishing
foreign orders for American goods. and
consequently either preventing an in
crease in or seriously diminishing the
labor employed to supply these orders.
Canada already in consequence of this
tariff has determined to establish a
similar one, which will of course reduce
to q minimum the quantity of goods ex-
ported from tho United States to that
country, and the European govern
ments, for the same reason, are oontem-
plating the imposition of heavy duties
on American products. This is not only
natural but sensible, and the wonder is
that retaliatory tariffs have not been i'm.
posed before. When they shall have be-
come general. as must be the case if the
American tariff be allowed to remain in
force, the balance of trade, now permit.
ted by their non-existence to be in favor
of this country, will be likely to change
sides, and the depression in business or
this side of the Atlantic be greater thar
ever. Free trade, not only in ships. but
in everything else, is what this country
wants TO stimulate its industries, fol
American goods are the best and thu
cheapest in the world, are sought fol
everywhere, and could be obtained
wherever sought if it were not that thu
tariff laid on foreign goods in this coun
TRY prevents the importation of suci
goods, and consequently deprives foreign
merchants of that means of paying TO
what they would otherwise buy here.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

J. r. & X. CANAL CoAPANY.-In
the City Circuit Court of Richmond a
suit has been entered against the J. r.
& K. Company by certain holders ofthe
first mortgage bonds. The processes were
issued returnable at the December term.
The plaintiffs are generally citizens of
New York and Baltimore and represent
about $3.50, 900, and it is their purpose to
subject the Canal property to sale, de-
fault having been made in the payment
of interest on the bonds held by them,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

BACK TO HIS FIRST LovE.-A Gin
cinnati dispatch states that DR.. Sorg, a
physician of Newport, KY, the head of
family, and who abandoned the priest
hood twenty years ago and married, has
now, by the consent of all concerned,
abandoned all family relations and en-
tered the priesthood under special dis
pensation obtained by Bishop Toebbe
from the Pope.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

A UGUsTA COUNTY COURT CLERKS Of
"A FICE. TO WIT:
EISIHA Y.-Taken up by Wyatt Altman
on his land in the neighborhood Of Mount So
ION Inc 3Oth day Of September 1878, of the fol-
cosnr description, viz STEER, OF brindle
same and slit in right ear, two years old, and
appraised at $500, by John P. Hoggsett, An
grew ]. Hogsett, and II. p. McFall, before D.
N. Van Lear, ]. p.
AnExtract-Teste
novo-St WILLIAM A. BURNETT, Clerk.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

A special agent of the treasury has
seized small package at Chicago con-
tanning 923 precious stones, mailed at
Ceylon to party in Keokuk, Iowa.
The package contains some very valua-
BILE jewels, including 696 moonstones
and semi-sacred gems of India. They
have been turned over to the appraiser
like all matter sent through the mails
in violation of the customs law, in
order that their valuation may be fixed.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

A HIGH START IN LIFE.-Births and
deaths sometimes occur in strange situa-
lions. The Paris Rappel relates story
which in less serious paper would pass
for an invention. In the captive balloon
yesterday young lady was taken ill.,
A doctor from Tarbes, who happened to
be in the car, saw her safely delivered
of a boy before the balloon reached the
ground, when cab took the mother and
child to an hotel. The husband, son
of one of the leading Manchester manu-
facturers, presented the doctor with 500f
for his services; and the Rappel COM
mends balloon ascents to doctors in want
of patients, while it remarks that child
who has started SO high in the world
promises to attain eminence.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The United States Supreme Court, &C.
cording to the reassignment on its cal
endar, will next month hear arguments
involving the constitutionality of all
laws bearing on the question of polyga-
my in Utah. The decision will involve
the legality of all International, State
or Territorial-tO crush out the Mormon
mode of life,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

"ANTED,-DRESS MAKER.-Wanted a
w once an experienced Dress maker. Ad
oress +. .. Box l53, stating terms. Eov5-lt
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The day appOlnted Tor the resumption
of specie payment is rapidly approach
ing. 1t is now only sixty days off.
Its simple arrival will not make the
times any better, nor will it prevent
them from becoming any worse, but by
attaching the important element of sta.
bility to the currency, by adding per-
manency to the value of property, and
by securing to wages their utmost pur-
chasing power. it will tend to improve
the condition of every interest in the
country, and of every man, too, except
those who want to pay their debts in a
deprecated currency,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

Nor SALE.-One of the finest residences in
tanning all modern improvements. Terms ac-
commodating. For further particulars as to
terms, &C. Apply to The undersigned.
HUDSON & PATRICK
Attorneys,
July Z5-u Wiz. copy Staunton, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

The Society is DESTROYS that the State
papers copy the report.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05

We have good and bad turf-news for
Virginia. Harry Bassett, Daniels
great four-mile horse, is dead; but
Doswell's rising favorite, Bushwhack-
er has won his first four-mile race
over the Pimlico course in splendid time.
This was the second race Bushwh acker
had won during the week-the other be-
ing two-mile contestant his splendid
achievements show that Virginia has
now found horse that can ''stay" and
fully revive her ancient glory on the
turf. The time of both races and all the
heats was simply splendid, and no doubt
the horse can do even better.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-04-27

Men are supposed to know, or to be
able to find out, whether or not they are
on the Lords side. The question implies
as much. There are various tests which
we crn apply that will settle the question
for us very soon.
Take it in matters Of everyday life,
in business, in buying, selling, winning
the prizes of lie, there is a side which
is 1.-THE Lords side" Do YOU ask,
What is it? 1t is the side O. honesty
and integrity and truth the ,ide that
gives a mar an equivalent for his
money; that has but one price for the
Article at the same time; that putssiXty
minutes into an hours work, and
sixteen ounces into the pound, and thirty
six inches into the yard, and four
pecks into the bushel, and 100 cents mo
a dollar that doesn't put sand in sugar,
MOI pease in coffee the side that is per-
pendicular against all the tricks and
sharp practices, the lies of uttersnce and
the lies of silence; a business which lays
its course like a vessel along the meri-
dian of right. in the teeth of all winds,
and holds to it, blow they high or blow
they low; that is the side which God is
on, the Lords side"
Perhaps you have drought that the
Lord has no side, EXCEPT in matters
purely religious; that the whole realm
of business and our worldly affairs gen
orally lie quite outside his cogni2anee
that God comes into our families at the
hour of prayer, meets us in our closets.
goes with us to church, and then yirtu
ally retires from us. A greater mistake
could not possibly be made. God is
as much Interested in your business as
in your worship, and he looks it
through with as keen an eye. You are
making character a great deal faster in
your shop, aud office, and store, than you
do in church, because men usually put a
great deal more energy and life into
their business than they do into their
worship. All those powers whose ex0r-
else goes to make character, TO determine
and decide destiny are put by most men
to a far higher tension in the places Of
business than in the place of worship.
There is more soul.saying and soul
losing done on those streets and in those
places where men cOngregate 10 do bust
ness, than in all our churches. That Is
my belief.
The Lords side in our business affairs
is q very definite and clear.cut side
Rev S.. Graves.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-04-27
ear.-tho last member OF the series i'm
plying the first.

Many farmers have no potatoes to eat
They gave out long ago. Every farmer
should raise an abundance, so that they
NAV 90 on the table smoking hot two or
three times a day. Now is the time to
plant for the early crop, and the early
rose is good enough for that.
The late crop should be planted IN
June, and enough should be planted to
last the family till the following June.
There is no secret in raising potatoes.
Select good soil, give it good blowing and
narrowing, and lay it of in burrows with
a one,horse pillow, and the burrows three
feet apart. Cut the potatoes to about
two eyes in each piece, drop the pieces
about a foot apart, and turn the turrow
back. Just before the potato sprouts
push through the soil, go over the ground
with the Thomas smoothing harrow.
This will destroy all the weeds, and the
potatoes will come through and get the
start of the weeds, Now keep the ground
well cultivated and the weeds out till the
potatoes bloom, and you will have a good
crop. If the potato bugs modest them,
pick off the first crop of bugs and there
will not be much of a second crop to
pick off.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-04-27
Order ana Energy In Farming.

No man stands in greater need of both
order and energy than the farmer. Where
these remarkable powers come from NAV
be inferred from the following remarks
of DR.. Tyndall:
The order and energy of the universe I
hold to be inherent, and not imposed
rom without--the expression of fixed
law, and not of arbitrary will exercised
by what Carlyle would call the Almighty
Cleckmaker. But the two conceptions
are not 20 much opposed to each other
after all. In one fundamental particular
they at all events agree. They equally
imply the independence and harmonious
intercatiOn of parts, and the subordina-
tion Of the individual powers of the uni.
versal organism to the working of the
whole. Never were the harmony and in
terdependence just referred to so clearly
recognized as now. Our insight regard
ing them is not that vague and general
insight to which sur fathers had attained,
and which in early times was more fire.
quently affirmed by the synthetic poet
than by the scientific man. The inter
dependence of our day has become guam
tiative--expressible in numbers leading,
it must be added, directly into that in
exorable reign of law which 50 many
gentle people regard with dread. In the
domain now under review the men Of
science had first to work their way from
darkness into twilight, and from twilight
into day. There is no solution OF con.
tinuity in science. 1t is not given to any
man, however endowed, to rise spon.
taneously into intellectual splendor
without the parentage of antecedent
thought. Great discoveries grow. Here,
as in other cases, we have first the seed,
then the ear, then the full corn in the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-04-27
A New Railroad Pass.

A new style Of railroad pas has lust
been patented by a railroad man which is
something of a novelty. The idea is to
provide a pass which can be used by none
save the person 70 whom it is issued, and
the pass seems to meet the requirement.
Around the rass proper is a margin, with
a description which, by the use of a
punch, may be made to fit anybody.
After the word "age" appear a series of
figures out Of which the rerson issuing
the pass punches the figures correspond.
ing with the age of the one to whom the
pass is issued. Then after the head
shape" follow the words Slim" me
dium," Stout" "corpulent." After
"color Of hair come the designations
black" brown" "gray," Eight
"auburn." After color Of eyes" come
black" brown" gray "blue,0
hazel !" and after beard" the terms
"none," %"full," "side," "chin,n
"moustache." Thus, suppOsing the man
TO whom the pass is issued be a dark.
slim man, with black eyes and beard a h
Napoleon, the issuer Of the pass would
punch the word slim" under " shape
q black" under "eyes" and THAR
"moustache" and "chin" under
C beard" The pass could then be trans.
ferred only to a man CHANGING to answer
just the above description. The idea i
certainly a novel One.-[lndianapolis
Sentinel.