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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13

THE Jackson CLARION calls the Yazoo out
rage an ''ounce of prevention" In the name
OF Caesar, what would a cure be ?-Vicksburg
Herald.
Vicksburg and Warren county once
applied the "cure" for the same ills
which the strife-makers in Yazoo were
precipitating in that county; and they
did it under the advice of the present
editor of the Herald among others 1t
was desperate remedy for a desperate
case. The people of Yazoo took lime
by the forelock, and have preferred the
prevention" TO the ''cure."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13

II Clarke county the primary slec-
ton for Representative and Senator, re-
suited as follows:
For REPREsESrATIvE-F. C. McGee 800,
J. r. McWiIlians 366, Green ia.
FoR STATE SENAToR-O. 3. Collins $50, :.
G.. Horn 232, L. b. Brown 49, c. \. Stoval
Us.
The race for Senator, viii be termi-
Hareu III L4auderdale on the 18th Of
September. The candidates were wei
on the track and bounded off in fin,
style at Toomsuba on Friday last.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13
L. BARkSDALE.

Chairman State Committee.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

About four miles south east of New
Market, Shenandoah, October 18th, Reu-
ben Zirkle and his sons discovered u fox
hole, and on investigating got into cave
larger than the Luray caverns. and even
more splendid, according to the descrip-
ton in the Newmarket Valley
"Prof." Frank Stookey gave an exhi-
bition of rope walking at Lewisburg, W.
Va, Saturday, with gymnastic evolutions,
which the independent" describes as
"hard to describe and still harder to be-
lieve."
Miss Amy Hostetter, daughter of DIR.
Hostetter, the patent medicine man, was
married in Pittsburgh on Thursday to Mr..
Huberr Depuy, of Philadelphia, The
presents of the BRIDES father were worth
over 100000, and 1t is said that he has
given her million in bonds.
The colored Baptists of Alabama have
for the last year sustained theological
and normal school at Selma, with five
teachers and 252 students, without ID
curing any debt, and paid 81 900. besides
what they had previously paid on the pur-
chase of grounds and buildings.
Charles splker, % years Of age, of Mt.
Olive, Shenandoah. returned home from
visit to Martinsburg, on the 18th ult,
went up to his room and shot himself
dead. ~. ss
The family of Gov. Nichols has left Bot
etourt county where they spent the sum
mer, for home. ~
F. n. Barksdale s. Co., have purchased
the Charlottesville .sJeffersonian, and will
continue ito publication.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
Suspension Of a Minister.

From the Baltimore papers OF Tuesday.
At a meeting of committee of minis
tiers of the Baltimore Conference of the
M. E. Church South, Rev. w. r. Meme
in charge of the church at Laurel, Prince
Georges county, was suspended from the
ministry, and he will be reported to the
next annual conference for trial on
charges which will be preferred by the pre-
siding elder, Rev. Samuel Rodgers. The
first rumors of trouble were spread abroad
on the morning of October II, when Mr..
McNeer, it is stated, left Laurel for Wash
ington on the early morning train, telling
his wife, who was ill, that business called
him away. He returned to his home the
same evening, and his little son being sent
out shortly afterwards to close the yard
gate, returned and told his father that
some one had left box on the back porch
with baby in it. He brought the box
and baby into the house and kindly cared
for it. The next day Saturday the con-
ductor of the train in which Mr.. McNeer
had ridden from Washington to Laurel
reported that Mr.. McNeer had the baby
with him in the box on the trip. The fol
lowing Sunday Mr.. McNeer preached in an
unusually eloquent manner from the text:
LET your light so shine before men tina.
they may see your good work. &c. The
same afternoon he was met by an acQuain-
lance on the street, and said he was so
exercised at the scandal that was floating
about that he had resolved to go
to Baltimore and lay the matter before his
presiding elder, DR.. Samuel Rogers. He
took the train for Baltimore, and that was
the last heard of him, until on October %.
letter was received by this. same acqualn-
lance, to whom he wrote: dear Sir
When left you started in good faith for
Baltimore; so craZed with shame and trou-
BILE, l came right on here. | felt was ru-
ined. My only hope was to go into the Tar
West and begin life anew. l shall then go
on my muscle, and try to make living
and pay what l owe. | was deceived bv
my uncle's professions. This one express
es great sympathy, and furnished the mo-
ney to reach here. l left without a cent,
and he furnishes it to 60 on. l leave this
evening. FAREWELL W. r. Nc" A week
or more later DR.. Rodgers, presiding elder,
received letter from Mr.. McNeer, dated
at st. Louis, Mo-, virtually acknowledge
ing the child which was laid at his door in
Laurel. On this letter the committee of
ministers found no difficulty in acting.
He also wrote similar letter to his wife,
who is now at Laurel, in deep distress
The mother of the babe is believed to live
in Washington, and to be of aIespectable
family.
Rev. W. R. McNeer is about 40 years of
age, and came from Monroe county, West
Va. He was admitted to the Baltimore
Annual Conference of the M. E. Church
South in 1868, and has had charge of va
rious circuits, his last one before going to
Laurel, in March OF this year, being the
Charles and st. Mary's counties. He is
married and has six children.
1t appears from the Baltimore "Ameri-
can" of yesterday, that before he left Mr..
Men eer had defrauded several members of
his congregation of money, giving one
man worthless check.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

In two suits against the Receiver of the
Charlottesville National Bank, brought by
johnson Bros. & Co., bankers of Balti-
more for $4,000 loaned Flanagan Il Son
of Charlottesville; and by J. Seligman &
Co., Of n. Y, for the same amount loaned
the same firm, the repayment of both
seems having been guaranteed by the
bank, Judge Bond has decided against
the plaintiffs on the ground that "a ma
tional bank cannot, upon the deposit of
collateral security with it, guarantee the
obligation of the person making such de-
posit" Also that "a national bank may
lend money on personal security, but Can
not lend its credit
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

THE REPUBLICANS IN THE GENERAL
AssEMBLY-WHAT COURSE THEY WILL
PURsUE.-The Southern "Intelligencer,' y
edited by Colonel John r. Popham, gives
out the following, which may be accepted
as being indicative of the action of the
Republican balance of power'' in the
General Assembly. Says the "Intelligen-
cer;''
We have heard General Wickham freely
spoken of since the late election as a can
didate of the Republican l-embers for
the United States Senatorship. and. also.
Judge Robert W. Hughes, of Norfolk =
OF the members elect, the name of Major
Joseph Walker, of Chesterfield, it is said,
will be presented, and just now we OBJ
serve in the Washington ''Capital'' Con
servative) an editorial note which reads as
follows:
"Dr. Edwin H. Smith was elected from
Dinwiddie county on the Debt Payers
ticket to the Virginia Legislature. He is
gentleman of high character and decided
ability. If there is to be compromise on
Republican Debt Payer for United
States SepatOr, he may succeed the Hon.
r. E. Withers."
There may be other names presented
perhaps those of Judge Rives. ex-senator
Lewis, Hon. Joseph Jorgensen, Colonel
Mcmahon, and Major Yost. of Staunton,
but as yet we have only heard of Wick
ham, Hughes, Walker and Smith. We
presume that so faras the Republicans are
concerned the issue of the State debt will
not enter into the contest. That issue
cannot be carried into the Senate of the
United States, and the first duty of Re-
publicans will be to elect Republican
regardless of what his views are about
the McCulloch act. They may be Read
justers or Funders on the question of
Virginia's debt, but when called OIL to
vote for United States Senator must, of
course, discharge their duty to the great
National Republican party Of the coun
try in an honest and manly endeavOr to
elect representative of their own political
creed to the Senate. Neither the Conser-
vative Readjusters. led by General Ma
hone, nor the Conservative Debt-Payers,
marshalled by Logan, will expect less of
them than an energetic. united, and per-
sistent effort to carry off this great prize.
These twenty-five Republican members
may win the thanks of Hayes. the compli-
ments of sherman the plaudits of Blaine,
the gratitude of Grant, and the cheers of
q million of their Republican friends if
they shall make determined and success
full struggle for this glitteriDg prize, which
now seems almost within their reach:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
The Readjustsrs' Programme as Outlined by
MAyor Cameron.

Mayor Cameron.
A Richmond special in the N. Y. ''Her-
ald'' giving the views of Colonel William
E. Cameron, of Petersburg, says that it is
the purpose of the Readjusters to put all
classes of bonds IN an equal footing, fund
them in taxable bonds, running forty five
years at 8 per cent. without tax-recelvable
coupons.
They claim, and the election returns JUS
tify them in so doing. that the great bulk
of the negroes are in thorough sympathy
with them, and that their victory was in Il
great measure due to their support. In
fact, political utilization between the ne
grOeS and the ReadjuSters may be said to
be firmly established. 1t is now the set
purpose of the Read usters, who are in a
position to do what they propose, to repeal
all the miserable, covert, and obnoxious
statutes in force in Virginia. by which the
negroes are deprived of their full and COM
plete rights as citizens of the State and of
the United States. They will pass pro-
posed constitutional amendment abolish
ing the present feature, which makes the
payment of capitation-tax a qualifca-
ton to vote. This requirement practically
DISTINGUISHES half the negroes in the State,
anu Un0 6IuGlUmcIlI 6DOllSIllux Wu6u
submitted. will be adopted by 5000 ma
jority They will also pass AN act requir-
ing that all panels for juries shall be sum-
moned from the colored as well as the
white lists Of voters in equal proportion.
1t is further tilair purpose to increase
the number of public schools to meet the
wants of both the white and the colOred
population in the State, aid give the ne
grOes as well as the whites the benefits of
the most improved system Of public educa-
ton. In addition to these measures,
judges will be elected who will accord to
the negroes equal justice in the courts.
Among other reforms which they propose
IS the abolition of chain-gangs and the
whipping post. All these changes will
take place in the near future. This pro-
posed action of the Readjusters virtually
forms new political party in Virginia,
| and permanently disrupts the old Conser-
vatiye party. The Readjusters will do
not hing by halves. They are resolved on
| a new shuttle and a new deal, and having
won the victory, they propose to reap the
| full benefit of it. A clean sweep will be
made OF the State officials, from the Sec
rotary of the Commonwealth down to the
county judge: all of whom will be succee.
| ded by thorough ReadjusterS. This will
be done Immediately upon the organiza-
ton OF the Legislature, and the work Of
| decapitation is to be done rapidly until the
| position of every Debt-Payer is filed by q
Readjuster To complete their triumph
over the Debt-Payers, the Readjusters
claim that they will elect their candidate
to the United States Senate.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

The Harrisonburg esprit of the Val
ley,'' journal that has done the Rsadjus-
tor party good service and is entitled to
speak. hoists the name of John E. Mas
sey of Albemarle for Auditor of Public
Accounts" Whether the "Father of Re-
adjustment will consent to be buried
away in the basement of the capitol out of
tho way is another question. If the old
man had been reelected his party
wouldn't have ventured to try this on
him.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

LARGE WEDDING PARTY.-On Tn.e
day night, near Alton Depot, at the resi-
denae of Mr.. Charles Purcell, Miss Emma
Purcell was married to DR.. J. Massie Nc,
Cue, formerly of Waynesboro.. The BRIDES
father is retired banker, formerly Of
Richmond. and the Invitations issued to,
the festivities are saidt to have numbered
three hundred.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
A Fatal Mistake.

relict Of ex-Gov. Robert P. Letcher, of
Kentucky, died at Frankfort, KY. on the
Goth ult. Although she had reached the
ripe age Of elghty-seven, the circumstan-
ces attending her sudden death are very
sad, the immediate cause of her demise be-
ing the administering of arsenic by mis-
take for burnt alum. She had been in her
accustomed health, except slight cold,
accompanied by hoarseness. and in endeav-
oring to relieve herself from the latter the
fatal mistake was made, the powder from
apaper Of arsenic which was in the house
being used instead of the alum.
Mrs. Letcher, who was the youngest sis
ter Of the late Chief Justice George Rob-
ertson, next to him in age, and the young
in Mercer county, Kentucky, on the 9th
day of May, 1898. pro
Her father was Alexander Robertson
and her mother Margaret Robinson. They
were both Virginians, from the Roanoke
Valley, Montgomery county, and were
both ScOtch-IriSh descent. They were
among the first settlers in Kentucky. com
ing to GOrdOn'S Station, in Mercer county
in the "hard winter" of 1879, and reaching
their destination on the day before Christ
mas. Judge Robertson, in his autobiog-
raphy, in speaking of their trials, says ::
During the hard winter my parents
lived in an open cabin, without a chimney
and which had been built for smoke
house. The cold was so severe as to pre-
vent either their chinking the cracks or
or say that the frozen breath often made
the hair on her head stand out as SO many
icicles, and that the mildest day during
that winter was to her feelings, the cold
est she ever felt before or since. And l
have heard her also say that their only
food was green buffalo meat. without
bread or salt. Nevertheless they enjoyed
good health, and were happy with the
prospect before them.
Her father was member of the first
County Court of Lincoln county, of which
Mercer county then formed part. He
was elected delegate to the Virginia con-
vention of 1888, called to ratify the FEEDER
al Constitution and also member OF the
Virginia Legislature succeeding the ses-
sion: of the convention. He, with Patrick
Henry and all the Kentucky delegation
except Humphrey Marshall, voted against
the adoption of the Constitution.
At an early age she married Robert P.
Lstcher, who was at that time a citizen of
Garrard county. He was elected to Con-
gress in 1921, succeeding John Speed Smith
and continued member Of that body un-
til 1885. In 1910 he was elected Governor,
appointed Minister to Mexico in 1849. and
died in 1861. Upon bis election as Cover
nor he removed to Frankfort, which con-
tinued to he his residence until his death.
Mrs. Letcher was lady who, in her
prime, was conspicuous equally for her ac-
complishment of mind and her grace IF
person, adjoining every station to which
she was called by the prominence Of her
distinguished husband. Her old age was
mellowed by the faith of the Christian,
and cheer d by the love of her relations,
and the respect of all who knew her. Her
funeral, which t'ok place yesterday after
noon a: clock was very largely attend
ed. p IT,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

A subject for reflect ion is that by coali-
ton with the worst element of the Demo-
cracy the Republicans of New York have
just elected their Governor; and in Virgin
ia by coalition with the worst element of
the Republican party the Readjusters have
carried the State.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

A LARGE YIELD OF WHEAT.-A short
time ago Gen. John Gibbon, of st. Paul,
MIMI, made the assertion that 100 bus.
Of ground in the Territory of Montana.
The statement having been received with
incredulity, he wrote to the president Of
the First National Bank in Helena for
proof. In reply he received the certificate
of the president and secretary of the Ter
ritorial FAIR Association that one James
l.. Ray, of Lewis and Clark county, was
awarded first premium for the best acre of
wheat, being lO2 bushels to the acre. This
is believed to be the largest yield of wheat
on record.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14


Prof. Hyde Benton. formerly of the
New Market Polytechnic Institute, in
Shenandoah, has moved to Washington
City to fill the chair of chemistry in the
"National Polytec hnic SCHOOL, now being
established there.
Rev. II. M. Jackson, of Richmond, Va,
has received a call to succeed DR.. Hol-
land in st. Georges Church in the city OF
St. Louis. st. Georges is one of the
largest and hsndsomest Episcopal churches
IN the West. t's 80
While Miss Emma Watts was praeticing
IN the piano at the White Sulphur
Springs, Friday week, a rife ball passed
through the window and buried itself in
the piano. A careless boy outside had
fred at pigeon. ~
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
A Relic of the Battle of Piedmont.

Capt. j. H. Waters, of Staunton, has
been at Providence Hospital in Washing
ton City, in attendance on Bud Miller, his
adopted son. who was injured by rail-
road accident. Among the patients there
is Capt. E. II. Bailey, who during the
war commanded company in the 1st New
FORK regiment, which participated IN the
battle of Piedmont. about twelve miles
below Staunton, June 9Th, 1864. In that
battle Gen. W. E. Jones, of Washington
county, was one of the commanders on the
Confederate side. A d; y or two ago Capt.
Bailey, who is very i'll. and to whom Capt.
Waters had given friendly attention, sent
for the latter and told him of the battle
and OF the fact that he had killed Gen.
Jones in action. He gave him war map.
which he had taken from the Generals
body after death, and asked Capt. Waters
if he knew the whereabouts of any of his
family or relatives, to return it to them.
The map is stained with the blood of it's
former owner, which flowed from the
fatal wound. 1t Is Confederate war
map, on parchment, Of portions of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and
Kentucky, and shows the wagon roads and
even bride paths, and On it are the words.
written by Gen. Jones, Received with a
letter of Jan. 10th, 1868. from Capt. W.
Foster" The map also has an inscription
showing that it was copied in the Engi-
neer Bureau, Nov. 1868, by W. L. Shap-
herd, the artist. 1t is now in the possess
sion of Mr.. Jno. M Carroll, City Treasu-
rer of Staunton, and can be had by those
entitled to apply for it.
The fight at Piedmont is we'll remem.
bered by our citizens, the home guard
having been engaged in it, and having met
with severe losses. 1t was at that fight tina.
Capt. Robt. Doyle, the father of Thos. s
Doyle; Col. Templeton> the brother of ]
A. Templeton; R. S. Hodges, Jno. Mere
dith and other gallant men, fell. et.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

We give elsewhere the programme of the
Readiusters in the Legislature as given by
Col. VIM. E. Cameron, q gentleman in a
position to know How do our Readjuster
friends likeit?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
|mfAe Ai~bttatar+
FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. IA. 1879
Local
POLITICS AND PINAF0RE.

A TWENTY-FIVE MILE TRIP TO SEE PIMA
FORE-TAI.K WITH Observation-Disclosures
ABOUT T II 4 RECENT POLITICAL
FRESHET,
&C., &C., &C.
(RepOrted for the StauntOn VINDICATOR.)
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

3 OF THE RoCKBRIDaE ALUM
oPR1Nas.-ln the Circuit court on We'd
nesday, Judge Mclaughlin entered de-
cree for the sale of the Kockbridge Alum
Springs, and appointed Gen. John Echols,
Judge Hugh W. Shelley and George Nj.
Cochran, dr., of Staunton, and VIM. A.
Anderson, Of Rockbridge, as commission
erS for the sale.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

SPECIAL GRAND JuRY.-The following
named gentlemen have been drawn to serve
as special grand jury at the ensuii g No
vember term of the County Court: Geo.
W. Swoope, N. l. Buck, Geo. r. Lightner,
Jas. McP. Crawford, Thos. H. Krkpat-
rick, David s. Bell, DAHL Fisher, Dan'l
croft, David Beard.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14

The Academy Hall, Of the Normal
Agricultural School near Hampton, cost
ing s., 900, was burned Saturday night.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-14
THE VALLEY RAILROAD
MEETING.

l.
ny, including some who had been chiefly
instrumental in procuring the law, adop-
ted resolution at their meeting here
Wednesday to petition the legislature Of
Virginia to repeal the law providing for
the forfeiture Of the road if not completed
in certain time. just now this repeal is
vitality necessary. Times are imprOv-
ing all over the land, railroad bonds
are again becoming negotiable, the
Valley r. r. has chance now to issue
its mortgage bonds for its completion, but
with such law hanging over the road,
these could no where find takers. We
trust the Valley members of the legisla-
ture will see to that among the first things
of the session. Don't let us lose the rise
of the tide on which we may be floated.
The following is given by the Richm ond
Dispatch as the result of official and
unofficial returns from every county in
Virginia:
HOUSE.
Conservative debt-payers elected, a.
White Repubcan debRayeTs eseted In dent
Colored Republicans elected, u
ReadjuSterS elected. 4,
Portsmouth tie
100
Conservative debt-payers,
White Republican debt-payers,
Colored Republicans, :,
40
It will be seen that the readjuster ele-
ment as the figures show may have ma
jority III the legislature, though it is hard
to determine the fact until there is eau
Gus or test vote. So many different
views were entertained and advocated by
leading Readjusters in the campaign that
it is rather difficult for Us to say that in
tbs legislature they will all dress on the
same line. Some of the more thoughtful
ones elected on the issue will not readily,
when the matter comes up practically be-
fore them, vote to hinder or impair an
advantageous settlement so far working
well and Its future success backed by
the affirmative opinions of those in the
state government most likely to know.
The balance of power in the body will
be held by twenty-five Republican mem
bers, and this fact will be likely to bring
the two wings of the Democracy to some
sort OF understanding with each other. In
the matter of the U. S. Senatorship the
Southern ''Intelligcncer" at Richmond
already names some prominent gentlemen
in the Republican party as spoken of in
connection with it. We hardly presume
it can be seriously intended as more than
a compliment, for with Que hundred and
twenty-seven Democrats to twenty-five
Republicans in body it could not be pos
sible to elect Republican U. S. Senator,
even if the close Senate in 1888 were not
staring us in the face. At any rate the
Democrat, no matter to which wing of the
party he belongs, who votes for Republi
can U. S. Senator had better be sure first
that the Republicans in his constituency
can outvote the Democrats. For if they
do not he has dug his political grave.
Neither Democratic Debt payers nor
Democratic Readjusters will hear any ex-
cuse from such ali one.