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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-11-27

LA DIES.
Atkinson, Miss Fannie Jones Misc Wav..
Allen, Miss Maria Mason Misc ,neLL
Adams, Miss Ida Maaiv Iiss r aasetniH
Bell. Miss Sallie + Mnrr Mis- Ea. iie
Brown. Miss Mary Piper Mrs te, aniie
~, val, MIS- EilZ Robinson, Miss Clone
G ai.un, n Mss henrietta Scott, Mrs Caracy
Hoton, Miss Julia Smith MRS Mary
I, MIS- Lou col Washington, Miss Eliza
'achsoh' MRS Susan B Ware Miss Annie
@ENELEMEN.
MeSsrs Crews 4 AyerithH MrWr,
Allen Edward johnson Io,.,o
Casey, Henry Macy Franh " eoi
Duaiu y Eoe Monaghan Peter
LAY Ia; i n. y y PitZer, G w
Greaver B Pavne w q ''ion"ii
Green, James SiInmerman ch,,,.,
Green, w Sherwood q. Ai'''P"oF
Gilbert, Richard Whitmore Ei.,,
Hoge, T Il 1ieioen
me aoove letters II not alledfor within thirty d.v.
VIII De sent to the dead letter Office Persons csiI
ing Tor them will please ssy that theyare advertised
8. M. YOST. Pm
Congress meets on Monday next. and the
Legislature of Virginia on Wednesday.
the 3d.
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The Dispatch is me lowing down consid-
erably now. After publishing all the mis-.
representations about the vote of the 4th,
taken from Northern papers, that it could
find. denouncing the Re- adjusters as ''re-
pudiators,' it now says that the negroes
voted the Re-adjasters ticket to defeat the
Conservatives, ''.and consequently not to re-
pudate the debt, and that ''most of the whites
who voted for it did SO in good faith" So all
this clamor about reputation, which has
deceived many well-meaning people OF the
North. was merely for partizan effect. The
damage to the State has beel great, but that
was not what these papers were thinking
about. They wanted to give out that they
were the guardians of the States honor,
and all Others her sworn enemies. Next
time be more careful in the choice of terms.
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Election Fig prea.

The Dispatch has gone to great deal Of
labor and care to get up the following ia.
bles. which in th. elias sitication OF thu Re-
publican and colored vote, amount to mere
guess work and no more. The Dispatch
had theory and 1t had to be sustained, and
hence the formulation that is made. We
give the classification for what it is worth, at
the same time having no confidence in its
accuracy. And even were the statement
about The colored vote correct, what does it
amount to? Is it not legal vote? Had
not the negro just as much right TO vote
against or for the McCuloch Bill, as the
writer in the Dispatch had9 Many Con.
servatives voted against the Bill. aud
many more would have voted against it had
they gone to:the polls. Could not the colored
voters have done the same without being de-
bounced as some of the Conservative papers
are denouncIng them {? 1t at least shows
some individuality on tile part of the col
ored voters. when they could not be massed
on either side. but voted 70 suit them
selves.
The following are the Daspatch's figures.
I'VE have made a careful examination of the
popular vote, and find that the votes cast for SEN
ators were, according to the best information
available. divided about as follOws
Conservative Debt Payers ...........,,..62,851
Republican Debt Payers..... $40
Total. 1851
Conservative Readjnsters. sc, 1876
Add all Republicans not Debt-Payers ID 49O
The total vote cast for Senators was 1887
1t thus appears that the total vote cast for the
Readjusters proper was over 1000 more than tue
total vote cast for the Conservatives. This in-
cludes negroes.
Now deduct one.third from the Re-adiusters'
vote Tor the negroes. and we have these figures:
Conservative Debt Payers. 1851
Readiusters proper (white).. 40 $3.50
White majority for Conservatives 2s, 5sl
These figures are highly interesting and very
instructive They show exactly how the real peo-
pie OF virginia stand upon the question which
was submitted to the decision Of the voters We
give below the vote OF every senatorial district
The preparation of this table and the others
which we have published cost us a vast amount
OF labor. but 1t labor well bestowed The
public will read these details with extraordinary
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Advance in Wheat.

The advance in wheat and flour, Noticed
in our market column, is not the result of
any speculative movement. 1t is solid
pressure upward, based upon the known
deficit and consequent demand in the old
country. The wheat crop in England is
shorter than was expected, and the condi-
tien of the supply in Russia indicates that
there will be very little, if any, wheat for
expectation from that country. The United
States must furnish the great bulk Of the
foreign demand, and it is to this substantial
and practical fact that the advance is attrib-
utable. This theory We have maintained
through all the changes Of the grain quota
tions, and we think the end will show that
we have not been far wrong. But every
one must think for himself in su cll matters.
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Special agent W. T. Henderson, of the
Post Office Department, arrested on the
23d, W. Gordon Baugh, colora d, mail carrier
in the post office at Richmond, charged with
robbing the mails. The robbery was de.
tected through decoy letters. Mr.. Hender-
son has been working on this case for sew
eral weeks. Ex-Congressman Rainey, Of
South Carolina, was at Baugh's house at the
time of his arrest. Baugh confessed to the
crime, after being closely pressed.
Col. w. e. Cameron, whose name has
been mentioned in connection with the Of
flee Of Secretary of the Commonwealth,
says he IS not candidate for any position
In the gift of the Legislature. and would
not accept one il rendered him. Well, the
Legislature might go farther and fare
worse. He is gentleman OF brilliant tall
ents.
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/ Electricity is now being advocated as a
substitute for the hangman's rope. 1t is
said an apparatus powerful enough to kill
at single shock more men than were ever
packed away in a moderate sized trunk, so
arranged that nothing but the connecting
wires and the discharging button should
protrude.
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LADIES'.

LIST or Letters Kemaiming I'm the Pos, a. I.
nee At St""nfOn. Augusta County, Va.
NOV. Il. 1879
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Vez0 advertisements.

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The Charlottesville Chronicle is one OF our
best exchanges, and if there were few
more journals in Virginia of its indepen-
depce and moral tone, it would be better
for the people of the State. 1t has the
courage of It's convictions and IS not afraid
to utter them. Although differing In polit-
ical nomenclature, it affords the VIRaINIAN
pleasure to labor by the side OF cotempo-
rary in the attainment of a common end
the good of the Common wealth. The DAYS
OF Bourbonism in Virginia are past. The
people begin to realize that they must act
regardless of rings and caucuses, and assert
their own manhood, if they would lift the
State out OF her present condition and ele.
vate public thought and aspiration.
AS we are not in the booming business,
and Col. Popham of the Richmond IateAi-
genc9r is, we will furn ish him the material
for first-class senatorial boom. In looking
over the field and carefully calculating the
chances Of the "Debt-payers, '.Re-adjust-
ers'' and Republicans for success In the
choice of Senator, we cannot work out q
favorable result for any candidate men,
toned. As a compromise man will have to
be doomed up, what gentleman in the State
possesses so many ingredients for real,
rousing boom as Judge Staples OF the Su-
preme Court Of Virginia? His is one Of the
first intelects of the State-he Is a general
favorite, and would wear the senatorial
toga naturally and gracefully. Col. Popham
can now go to work.
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The Dispatch gives 1887 az the number
of persons entitled to vote in Virginia, after
paying the poll tax. OF these 1t states
lGS.77S are whites and lO4,947 colored.
The actual number of votes cast at the re-
cent election as 145.3l7, or about 10000
over one.half the voting strength OF the
State. 1t estimates further, Of the votes
cast, 62,S5l we're Conservatives. it calls
them, forgetting that large number of ne
groes voted for the McCuloch Bill. It gives
the Re-adjusters 20, 4a5, and the Republicans
21,9O0.
1t would be interesting to know how many
of the number not voting are on the delin-
quent list, BY reason Of not paying the poll
tax. 1t seems that about $4,000 colored
votes were not cast, and about 500 white
vote. This may be an interesting inquiry in
making the next apportionment, as the rep
resentation is based upon the suffrage rights
recognized in the Constitution when the
apportlonment was made, and when it was
expressly stipulated that there should be no
abridgement of suffrage. We are afraid the
Dispatch will figure its party into difficult
ties. 1t had better stop.
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FINE FAMILY GROCERIES
Vines, liquors. Tobacco s. Cigars.
GIG E. MARSHALL ST, Cor. 7TH.,
RICHMOND. VA.
H3 All kinds OF country produce sold on com
mission and liberal advances made.
nov 27-tf
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We notice that some OF the Republican

We notice that some OF the Republican
papers in the North are quoting the Dis
patch's classification of the vote cast in
Virginia on the 4th. While we co not ques-
ton that the Dispatch believes it is right, the
arrangement it makes OF the vote Is mere
guess work, and necessarily more or less in
accurate. No man can satisfactorily CLASH.
sify the vote, as there has never been known
anywhere more mixed and utterly Insolva-
BILE canvass. A gentleman, speaking from his
personal knowledge, stated to US the other
day that large numbers OF white citizens
voted for Norton, colored, for Senator In the
Yorktown district, over DR.. Powell, white,
and that at one precinct &C least one hun
dred white persons voted in that way.
Norton is Readjuster, and the vote for MIN
is credited as cast exclusively by colored
citizens, and classed With the colored vote
for REIMBURSEMENT. The instances given we're
not an exception in that district. At every
precint, white citizens voted for Norton, BE-.
cause he was a Readjuster, as against Pow
ell. who is in favor of the McCulloch bill.
We publish the figures OF the Dispatch,
not that we think they are accurate, but to
show our readers the grounds upon which
is based the opinion of that paper that a
large majority OF the colored vote cast was
for readjustment. They can see at glance
that the premise OF the Dispatch is faulty,
and that the conclusion must partake Of the
same nature.
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recently, in addition to the land system, was
the Established Church. The effort of Mr..
Gladstone and the Liberal party to disestab-
has brought little comfort to the Irish farm
er, who stands in mortal dread every hour
of the bailiff or the ''notice to quit"
There is nothing to which the Irish farm
of land When stung to death by notice
of ejectment, he goes out and shoots his
landlord or his agent he believes he is put
ting out Of the way an enemy OF bis race ;
one who has usurped what belongs to him.
In this way he individualizes the struggle
that has existed between the native Irish and
the descendants OF the confiscators of their
lands for three hundred years. 1t has been
long and bloody struggle. 1t is nearly
over; the Irish are fast disappearing from
their native land, and if they do not soon
obtain some legislative protection, recog-
nizing their right to live on the soil, they
will be swept out of existence.
The landlords do not relax anything OF
their severity. The more the evils of the
country accumulate, the more the lords OF
the soil seem disposed to clear out the in
habitants. 70 show to what a degree this
determination system has been carried on,
and the cruelty of its operation, we may
state the following instance Some years
ago landlord named John George Adair,
In
tate in a remote district in the county of
Donegal. Shortly after. one OF Mr.. Adair's
bailiffs was shot dead. The bailiff had been
serving s'notices to quit''-those dread in
struments of the law which the Irish peas
antry regard with SO much horror and de-
testaton. Mr.. Adair jumped to the con-
clusion that one of the tenants on his Done.
gal estate committed this murder, and there
upon he ordered the determination Of every
tenant living upon that property. With the
aid of the sheriff and police, and armed
with these tremendous powers which the
English Parliament placed in the bands OF
the landlords, Mr.. Adair drove nearly three
hundred people from their homes. He caused
their houses to be pulled down, and the
unhappy tenants, who had resided there for
years. were scattered as outeasis and paupers
the country. Mr.. Adair com
mitteJ this terrible deed merely on the
that there was one guilty per-
son among the three hundred whom he
flung out of house and home. Such is the
power of life and death which the landlords
If Ireland exercise over their unhappy ten
ants. Can it, therefore, be surprising that
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who unite in leading harassed an d per
! picked Commonwealth on into sue cessive
entanglements, out Of which there. seems
to be no way of escape, except tn: At which
must be cut by the sharp swsrd Of repuda.
| ton.
| Now, it may not be, and doubtle IS is not
the deliberate purpose OF the ma icrity re.
Gently elected to the General assembly:
squarely to deny or repudiate II he cbliga.
ton to pay the public debt, but Il he painful
| apprehension exists, that the { agrent is
| drifting. and more swiftly driftin &, towards
rapids which, whatever mems iase ntions
may be, must wreck the vessel, freighted
with the most precius interests of Virginia,
unless its course be changed, and its down.
ward progress be arrested.
History proves nothing more clearly than
thatpopular impulses carry masses oil people
farther than leaders propose they sb, IL 20 at
the outset, and that the struggles OF repen-
tant conservatism are vain in the ea fort to
resist the onward rush of the crowd it
helped to arouse. None of US faile d to feel
the: ground swell in the recent ele ction, as
startling to Conservatives as it was surpris-
ing to Re-adiusters themselves. There was
an undertow of popular viii and passion,
strong enough to sweep the stout est from
their feet, and well calculated to alarm the
loyal and faithful sons of the Common
wealth.
The President and Directors Of the Valley
Railroad Company deemed that they were
well justified then in saying, as in effect they
did say in their report. that unles S there
should be turn in the drift of public SEN
timent in Virginia, it would seem to be in
vain to ask capitalists to invest in the. Mort
gage Bonds of the Company, without the
or ''hoating'' of which, in the
money-markets, the means cannot be Sc
cured to enable the company to resi- ime its
work.
Here, then, we have pra ctical anil pain
iul illustration of the evil Tenderness of the
hour. The way Of a great Improvement is
blocked and ob,tructed-ffst, by direct leg
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partizan stalwarts OF both sections would
dwarf and droop and die, and white winged
peace spread Its influence over united
people, giving the assurance that this great
government ''of the people, and for the
people and by the people, shall not be
blotted from the earth. Under such be-
nign influences this great bulwark of Re-
ligious Freedom and Political Liberty
would stand out among the nations of the
earth beacon light for the guidance of all
nationalities, inspiring the sentiment eve
rywhere that she who would be free must
himself strike the blow.''
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Ntaue "ou1u ever conSeuG 70 DC q cdQuluaCe
for the Presidency again-a laudable desire
to be instrumental in creating good feeling
between the sections, giving peace and
prosperity to the country and augmenting
the power and influence of this American
nation among the governments of the
world. In the ordinary sense of political
contests, we do not think he would consent
to the use of his name. In this restricted
limitation his ambition has been, doubtless.
satisfied. His country could confer upon
him no additional honors, as the mere rep
resentative of partizan interests ;Ibut stand
ing above party, and grasping the interests
OF all sections. and by the cooperation Of
all patriotic citizens, moulding them into a
nation Of common sympathies, aims and
destiny, he would become a blessing to the
whole country, and Justify departure from
traditional usage observed as to Presiden-
tial aspirations.
AS President, Gen, Grant could do..more
for the South than it would be possible for
any representative of the Democratic par
ty to do. The confidence his own party
and section repose in his patriotism, his
fidelity to Republican institutions and
sympathy with the American people. would
forbid any attempt on the part of political
agitators and partizan bigots, to interpose
obstacles to the consummation of the recon-
citation of the sections, and inaugurating
all era OF peace and good will between the
too long estranged American people.
This view ofthe situation is fast growing
with many OF the best people of the South.
They see that it is material death and PC
litical suicide to longer keep up sectional
strife and conflict and perpetuate the ex-
istence Of parties upon the prejudices and |
passions growing out of the war; Thew
long for more beneficent and mellowing
dispensation, the cultivation of deeper and
stronger national sentiment, broader and /
wider patriotism, in whose atmosphere the
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
u.szeAED Fqa~

What svery printer drsads ard seldom H.
lows 70 hsppsa, pied ferms. occurred In this
oaaos Last evening, and rsadsrsd it imposi.
BE to issue our usual edition. Az the last
FORMS containing the telegraphic and local
pegsA were bsing lowered 70 the prss room,
by . nishap, difficult 70 explain, they fell
from The slsvasor, and The type 20 completes
y wrecked asl mixed that IN inprsssios
from then weuld have bsss = unintsllisi'
bic y The Chinese hisroglyphios upon . tes
chest. By dilissns labor tss tyre have besa
ssdseasd iron last sights disorder and
again nustsssd into line. This 10 the 6nt
misfortune Of The kind hat hes happsned in
the history Of The Pres and Dakotaian, and
We sinosrely hope it will b the last.
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h ~.
I'D Ans ttoa tAs nostA and south fosap o.
re seleacn rivsf II tAat seale. They azs
= NJ = Finasil ~ which point
lieeJe9seDvn. u u NseAsraP asiac sesd
lasvs sill d @plsysd II carrying ths
Uaitsd etssss nail, taking Tie plaos q ~
In nov opesissa between thsss poiHts y
Rdnkshof& Jordan. who will withdraw
On The 6rst Of October. A half dosen more
coaches and horses will arrive II . fsw
days foe Tie same route. The original CO...
tractor u Parker Of Lsayenworth. BY whoa
i has bssaisubas d M. Bsjaain. III,
sxpsstsd thatil lthfss iSoAths hSocs daily
seevios will b ordered on,tAs line to cor
sspond With tAaeg in operation bsswees
Yankton and Firsstssl.
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--..
W0M

J.R. Lowe. Of Bjou Hills, 10 in towa TO-
day.
W. n. Davenport Of Bsadl eeaaty, = in
teHn.
Dr. n. H. D.es..t. II UNeill City, Ne
brasks, b IL town.
judge BrookinC wsnt 70 Elk Point this
morning. He will b back this evening.
J. W. Patrick, the Nebraska pillow man, OF
Nebraska City. wss In Yanktoa lest night.
John Hornick, Of The arn Of Hornick q
walls, Sioux City, was in Yankton last
night.
q. W. Harris, = merchant Of Fort Pierre,
arrived in Yankton yesterday. He went TO
Sioux Citv this morning.
E. g. Burkam, Jr., ofths firm Of Howell
4 Burkam, wholesale furniture dealers,
Sioux City, Is in town on business.
Gen. John Lawler, Of the G. N. 4 St. p.
road, returned from Springfield last even
Ing, and LEFT for The east this morning.
Us. Waales, chief engineer Of the Dako'
b Sonshs.a rosd, accompanied ~ his wifi
andsdanghtsr, came up.from Aisosl Val
lsy yststday. }
VIII. Mcvay LEFT this 'norniny for Ohio
to bring his family, Who haye been vintin.
there during the sunmer, back to Yankton
He will be absent about ten days.
". II. Merchant, the efficient and popu
lar conductor of The passenger train On tn
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the INFLUENCE Of CLIMATE.

TIE innuescs Of clinsts upen = csostitu.
ton subjected 70 . trying change in ssnos.
Pheric conditions in water, and in food, /,
oAso marked aud diaaseroua. Disorder, ol
tie bowels and Of The liver, frequently ter.
ninatng fatally, are prone 70 attack tb,
tourist By land o. voyagsr BY ssa in nm,
accustoued lstitudss-nors particularly
osae the equator. The bet nedicinsl pro
lection against irresslasitiss Of the bowels
stomach md liver, not ooly from the ahove
bat whatever cssss asiisg, 10 Hoseatssy,
eto0ach Bitten, . Dsdicine In vide ed IL
ersaeiag dsmasa u sultsy portions Of hi,
Hemisphere, asd also IL tie tsopio. Tnv
ellen, soieEasta. dvsilsss asd tsoposs,1
sjeosUsss II 0alasious dieesicHs : a ~;
extensively - . salsgussd.
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ARMY svppues.

Bids for $4,000 Lbs. Of corn to be delivered
at Sioux City or Yankton, were opened to.
day by Major Grimes, Q. NJ, At this depot
The bids were:
F. L. Van Tassel, $4,000 lbs. delivered .,
Yanktoo, IS cts. per 100.
Davis L Wsn,p, $4,000 Lbs. At Sioux Ci.y
As cts. Per lO0 in csn,als; AZ cts. in bur
laps; ~ cts. in juts.
II. W. sheafs. 10000 lbs. in Yankton
sol cts. in osntals; 60 c.s. In burlaps; a.
in Improved g~usnies.
Asal Kyss, $1,000 lbs: ID Sioux City, s.
cts. in improved gunnies IS CT IL cso..ls
Asel Kys. 5000 lbs. in Ysnkton, 50 "a
in improved gunnies; 81 cta in cestala.
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