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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

COMMIsSIONER's OFFICE,
Staunton, June 23rd 1879
Echols q Green. Trustees,
~ vs..
Mcmahon and ais
In pursuance of decree entered in the forego.
ing cause on the 22nd day of March, 1879. I have
n f.s upon the 2ist day Of July proxtnio at nay
Ed Mcmahon, N. G. Hartman, and Robert G.
Blckle, growing out of the transactions between
AT which time and place, all parties interested
IN this suit are notified to attend
Jeza-4t JOHN NJ. KINNEY Comr,
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LEGAL NOTICES.

V7IRGINIA.-AtR Rules held In the Clerks
Y office Of the circuit court for Augusta. Co.,
on the first Monday in July. 1913.
Lewis Bumgardner and Columbus Halle
Plaintiffs
against
VIM. A. Burnett. Trustee of Mrs. Cornelius
F. Riley, John E. Riley and Cornelie F. Riley,
herman. Sheriff, &C., Hugh w. Shefey, in his
own right and as Trustee Of Robert ]. Glendy,
Jas. Bumgardner, Jr., Trustee as Aforesaid,
Robert j. Glendy, Alexander b. Lightney, Lew
Is Hartman, In his own right and as Ex'or of NJ.
G. Hartman. decd, Caroline v. Hartman, widow
OF said M. Ct. Hartman, A. w. Harman IT,, AL
exander Hartman, Robert G. Eve and Willie H.,
(born Harman) his wife, Thomas Opie and Sal
lie, his wife. (born Harman.l L. A. Kerans and
Opie, Mamie T. and Mary F. Opie, infant chill
dren Of Belle Opie, (born Harman,) the wife of
John N. Opie r. 81. Phillips, John H. McCue,
and John d. Imboden,
On Original and Amended Bill.
The object Of this suit is to correct and reform
certain deed executed dy said M. g. Hartman,
R. H. Phillips, John H. McCue, and John d,
Imboden, and their wives. to John E. Riley,
May 9Th, 1871, and to perfect the title to tract
Of about acres Of land sold by said parties to
said John E. Riley, on the 2lst of Dec, 1859 and
not conveyed.
n, his wife, (bOrn Harman) Thomas Opie and
Sallie, his wife, (born HarmanJ and John ID.
and 1t appearing by affidavit filed that they are
not residents of this State, 1t is ordered that
they appear here within one month after duo
publication of this notice, and do what is nee.
essary to protect their interests.
Teste,
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Mail Train through to Washington and Bal
timore without change of cars, and makes close
connection at Harpers Ferry with Express
Trains for the West. The Accommodation
leaving Staunton at 8. Is p. M, runs through to
aarper's Ferry.
s. M. WOODWAKD, JR.,
7. FITZGERALD, Supt. V. r. II.
8. of T., B. & o. r. r. 1yl5
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

Adapted for cutting Hay, straw. FOd-
der, and Green Corn, any length de-
sired, from n to ~ inches.
In presenting this new and improved Ma
chine to the public, can say that, within the
past five months. it has come into competition
with almost every form of the latest improved
Cutters, and hes proved to do It's work with
more ease and rapidity of execution than other
machines of three times It's cost. Rights to
manufacture and sell these Cutters are rapidly
being disposed of, at good figures through the
Southern aid other States, and purchasers are
finding it to yield an excellent per cent, Those
desiring an interest, and orders, both large and
small, will receive prompt attention by adj
dressing w. A. RIFE,
Patentee and Manufacturer,
Swoope's Depot,
c, & Q. Railway.
jy15-tf Va.
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IT, w. abby s. co.

SPECIAL NOTICE.-We call upon all who
are in our debt to come forward and settle with
out further notice. iy15-3t v. & v. copy.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15
REDUCED PRICES E!
FOR CASH!

Having determined to close UP our old husi-
ness and settle our past due accounts, VIII oner
~ FOR CASH ONLY "a
until the first of September, our entire stock at
Reduced Prices. a great many goods we
will sell for COST, and some for less than Cost.
In view Of the probable advance in Fall Goods,
this will offer a chance for BARGAINS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

POSTAL MATTERs.-Many of our
readers have doubtless received letters
through the mail, on which the postage
had not been fully paid, and are famil-
lar with the words stamped on the en-
velope at the postofice: "Due cents"
or more, as the case might be. This
balance was to be collected on the de-
livery of the letter to its owner, and an
account kept of it by the postmaster to
60 into his quarterly settlement. 1t
seems like small matter, but in the
aggregate amounts to handsome sum.
For the purpose of having the thing a
little more systematic, the Postoffice De-
partment has recently devised series of
adhesive stamps for the various amounts
needed, to be stuck on the envelopes in
the manner of ordinary stamps instead
of being printed in the ordinary way.
These stamps went into use on the 1st
of July, and of course are no use to any
one but psstmasters. They have al
ready been distributed to the various
offices, accompanied by very minute in
structions as to their use.
The Postoffice Department also inau-
gurated another improvement on the
LIST of July, consisting of q seal for let
tiers returned to the Office as "opened by
mistake" This is in form very similar
to two postage stamps, and is intended
to be fastened over the upper edge of the
envelope, in the centre, like clamp.
Heretofore envelopes opened by mistake
have been fastened with mucilage, but
after the 1st inst. they will be sealed in
the manner indicated.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

HOPEFUL PRosPECTs-THE REASONS
WHY.-Under the caption of 1.-THE
Rising Tide'' the New York Public
starts with the two following PROPOSE
tions:
II. This country is growing in popu-
latlon at the rate of nearly SO per cent.
in a decade, and in wealth and volume
OF business at the rate Of more than 100
per cent. in decade.
II. The country is now surely recov-
ering from the most severe prostration
OF Industry and commerce ever known
in its history"
The first proposition is fortified by
the opinion of Professor Elliott, of the
bureau of statistics, in his paper on the
growth of population, who, after ASSUME
ing less of 100000 in population in
various ways in consequence of the
war, predicted that the population of the
United States would increase to so $685.
900 in 1880. The ordinary progress of
population with us is about 80 per cent.
for each decade. AS it may safely be
set down at these figures in future esti-
mates-unless decreased by potent dis
turbing cause.-the population in 1890,
according to the computation of Prof.
Elliott, may be put at about 100000,
and in 1900 at about 9O,0O0,000. With
this steady rate of increase the recovery
from financial panics, though some
times slow-as, for instance, from the
panic of 1s73-yet the danger of re-
lapse, as sometimes occurs, Is lessened
thereby, inasmuch as depression in all
branches of trade and losses by specula-
ton force upon all classes economies to
which they would not otherwise resort,
and in the meanwhile, unlike the older
countries of Europe, where the Increase
Of population is either very slow OF
more than offset by emigration, the
United States have the advantage not
only of the natural increase, but of an
important annual addition to it from
immigration.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

Capt. Thomas Summer, of the barge
Echo, lying in East river, New York,
died Saturday morning week, suffering
from hydrophobia, the result, it is said,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

The Utica IN. W Ministers Associa-
ton have decided to preach no more SER
mons at funerals, but to deliver them af-
forward in church, if desired by the
friends of the dead.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15

The friends of Porter, the murdered
actor, have raised a fund of 81, 100 to
prosecute Currie, but Currie's friends
in Texas are said to have subscribed
500 600 for his defence
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
The Poverty Of the State.

In a recent letter written by Elk
Gov. James d. Porter, and publish
ed in the Nashville American, he
says concerning the oft-repeated
cry of poverty in Tennessee:
1t is rot true that Tennessee is
too poor to submit to a greater tax
than ten cents on the hundred dol
lars worth of taxable property
The State has more abundant re
sources than Alabama, where one
dollar is paid, with no exemption
whatever from taxation; or Flor da,
where ninety cents is paid; or Lou
isiana, where one dollar and forty
Eve cents is paid. Tennessee es
capped Congressional reconstruction,
and was never subjected TO the ig
nominy of carpet-bag rule, and yet
we shame the State that bore the
heat and burden of that disastrous
time with a claim of inability to
meet our obligations that is not
well founded. The State tax in
Texas is fifty cents, in New Jersey
it is thirty five cents on the hun
dred dollars worth of property, and
no State debt to be provided for in
either, and in the golden State of
California the State tax is seventy
three and a half cents, in Kansas
fifty cents, in Ohio twenty-nine
cents, and in all of the States named
the local or municipal tax is equal
to our own. Times are hard alike
in all these States, agricultural pro-
auctions bear the same price that
they do in Tennessee. Labor is no
more nor less remuneratIve, while
the Manufacturing business has
brought better returns in Tennes
see than in the States north of us.
These twelve States pay an average
State tax of sixty five cents; it is
not put upon them by any foreign
or despotic agency; the ballot is as
free there as it Is with us, and their
governments are administered by
their own chosen officials.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Concerning the Extra Session.

Washington Mar. 24th.-Black-
burn said TO day that there would
undoubtedly be new Legislation and
much of it. Southern and Western
Democrats thought that advantage
should be taken of the extra ses-
sion to try and give the people
financial relief. The revenue laws,
also, needed amendment and modi-
fication. eve do not PROPOSE
said Mr.. Blackburn, to listen to the
cry of Republicans, that a short
session is the only relief for the
governmental wrongs that exist
1t makes no difference how long the
session continues. We are here to
legislate, as we'll as appropriate,
and let US do it and see If we can
not be of some benefit to the people
who sent us here"
Many members have gone home
for a short visit. They say that, as
there will be nothing done for two
weeks yet in the House, they might
as well be at home as here.
The Republican publishes story
that the President has agreed to q
change of election laws as proposed
by the Democratic causus. 1t adds
that among the Republican leaders
these facts and obligations are re
ceived with anxiety akin to dismay.
Hewitt acted as negotiator on the
part of the Democrats, and Evarts
on the part of Administration.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Savage VS.. Clapp.

A Courier-Journal Nashville cor
respondent writes concerning Col
Savage's reply to Judge Clapp as
follows:
His speech just did cap the eli
max Of all that has been written or
said in advocacy OF the low tax
idea. In disputes, as in armies,
the weaker side sets up false lights
and makes a great noise to make
the enemy believe they are more
numerous ana strong than they
really are. So with Senator Saw
age. Crushed and overwhelmed by
the views and arguments of Sena-
tor Clapp, TIE Hon. John H. Savage
to day beat the tom tom, clashed
the cymbals and otherwise demean-
ed himself in a manner calculated
to appal the stoutest heart of the
ignorant and misinfomed. Short
of statute, slight in build, aged six
ty or whereabouts, active and wiry,
with the profile of a hawk, who
would venture a description of his
style Of speaking-of that penetrat-
ing voice and jerky gesticulations ?
The Lord love us, the like of 1t can
not be written. 1t must be seen to
he appreciated. He treads, as he
speaks, labyrinth between chairs
and desks, and faces all points of
the compass within two seconds
time.
In pictures and drawings an ele
plant appears smaller than life; a
flea larger. 1 must decline to en-
large upon nature. AS to the mat
ter of his speech, it was in the main
an appeal to passion and prejudice,
and better suited to a backwoods
audience than to a deliberatlve
body. The multiplicity of his idle
reasons lessened the good ones.-
He made frequent sneering and de-
nunciatatory allusslons to lawyers,
lobbyists, feed attorneys and bond
holders, and ridiculed the idea of
arbitrating the matter before ''five
little Tennessee judges" that is,
the Supreme Court OF the State.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Our State Debt.

In last weeks issue of the Win
chester Home Journal-the home
paper of Gov. Marks-we find the
following article in regard to the
adjustment of the State debt:
The prospect for an adjustment
of the States Indebtedness is not
very bright, and we are sorry. The
Legislature will not, in all probable
| ity, come to any terms with the
bondholders. An elaborate report
has been made by a committee APP
pointed to investigate the manner
in which bonds were issued, and it
is certainly apparent that many
were issued without much regard to
the law governing their issuance
But we do not see that anything Is
going to be done, and the vexatious
question will remain like a cancer
on the politics of the State. 1t is
really sickening to see how much
chafiering is INDUCED in about a
matter that ought to be settled in a
little while by any ordinary business
men. The State certainly owes
something to somebody, and if her
trusted agents and representatives
have acted somewhat crooked" it
does not follow that the State is
not responsible. The bondholders
have offered very liberal terms, and
it does look ridiculous that we
should wiggle any longer about the
matter. We believe the debt could
be settled at 60 cents on the dollar
| with per cent. interest To ask
for more liberal terms looks a if
we did not want to settle the debt
at all. And it is broadly asserted
that if the question should be re
ferred to the people the State would
repudIate the whole debt We can
not believe it. We don't want to
believe the State would thus dis
grace herself. Such a thought as
Reputation should never enter into
our political arithmetic. II we are
not mistaken the present Legisla
ture is generally looked to for a
settlement on some honorable basis.
The people are becoming tired of
delay, and we believe they have
reasoned about the matter and that
reaction has commenced in favor
of settlement. 1t is easy enough
to curse the bondholders, but this
cursing does not prove that they
have no claims, or that We should
not settlelwith them.
- =
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27

third reading: To allow partial
redemption of real estate; to remit
the taxes of Hickman county for
1880 in order to enable it to com
plete Nashville and Tuscaloosa rail-
road to Centerville; to more effec
tually secure the collection of tax
es on privileges; to render more
safe travel on turnpikes; to prevent
fraud in the sale of butter and
cheese; to lessen the costs OF Grim
inal prosecutions.
In the House q resolution to al
journ next Monday was adopted.
Senate bill to settle the State
debt at 40 cents and 4 per cent. in
terest came up on second reading
and was defeated by a vote of "a
ayes and 3S noes. Lester and Har-
well voted no. The vote was re
considered but no final vote had
Senate bill TO give magistrates
jurisdiction in misdemeanor case 5
passed third reading.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
A Wow" and a ''wumpus. "

In the House of Represents tiv 5,
yesterday, Mr.. Snodgrass asked
leave to read the report on the
State debt, which had been ruled
out of order by the Speaker, as a
personal explanation he having
eliminated from it the words sup
Elementary report" The Speaker
again ruled it out of order, and Mr.
Snodgrass appealed from the de-
cislon of the chair. The ruling of
the Speaker was sustained by a
vote of 43 to ID. Mr.. Snodgrass
then sent a written explanation to
the Clerks desk, and it was placed
upon the journal. subsequently, it
was stricken from the journal by
the speaker. This morning, Mr..
Snodgrass arose to question of
privilege, and the Speaker ruled
him out of order. Mr.. Snodgrass
then appealed from the decision of
the chair. He said that other
members of the House had from
time to time been permitted to a
question of privilege, and no OBJ
jections were interposed by the
Speaker or any one else. He sim
ply desired to enter protest against
the rulings of the chair, and TO be
allowed to make a written explana-
ton of his position in desiring to
read the supplementary report.
Mr.. Anderson moved to have the
explanation spread upon the jour
nal.
The Speaker ruled the motion
out of order.
Mr.. SDodgrass said he thought
he had so conducted himself while
on the floor that 1t would not be
necessary for him to call upon the
members to grant him the privilege
of making an explanation
Another motion was made to
have the explanation spread upon
the journal, and it was again ruled
out of order.
Mr.. Snodgrass then sent a writ
ten protest to the Clerks desk
The protest was ruled out OF order,
and was not read.
Mr.. Snodgrass said, 'That settles
it!' He then wrote out his resig
nation, sent it to Goveror Marks,
and left the Hall Banner, 2Ist.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Who Gets the Money!

jackson Tribune: Senator Saw
age makes the cha. ,ge by implica-
ton against the newspaper press OF
the State, that they are insincere in
their professed desire to see the
State debt settled, and that they
are improperly making money out
of it's agitation. Such serious re
Elections require some proof, and if
the Senator is honest in his declar-
atoms, he will produce the proof
The newspapers Of the State have
the right to demand the proofs or
that the Senator be convicted OF
falsifyiug the facts.
We understand that the Senator's
former personal organ at the CAPT
toll sold its editorial opinions for
$3.50 We are also reliably in
formed and can produce the wit
nesses, that the ex editor Of pa
per in this city, at that time repre-
senting Senator Savsge's views,
says the only money he ever re
ceived for publishing matter on the
State debt, was the sum of $500
from Col. Savage himself.
This may in some measure ac-
count for the. Senator's belief, but
we submit that it does not show
any sufficient cause for making the
broad charges preferred by the SEN
ator. Because men of the Senator's
views have been swayed by the
small sums mentioned, be has no
right to infer that there is no such
thing as an honest opinion. So far
the facts show that the bondholders
have used $17.50,and Savage $500,
if his ex-editor friend correctly re-
ports him, and not cent of that
amount has been paid to paper
advocating the compromise of the
debt at the time. The gold mine
must be on the side with which the
Senator is most familiar.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Forty Cents and 4 per Cent.

The bill passed by the Senate to
compromise" the State debt at 4O
cents and per cent. interest will
probably pass the House, and the
people will go through the farcical
and expensive mockery of voting
upon it on the LIST Thursday in Sep
TENDER, only to be rejected by the
bondholders if not by the people
themselves. compromise" indeed
Who ever before heard of "com-
promise" in which the principal
party interested had no say? The
creditors are not only not consulted,
nor even invited to a conference,
but are compromised" with in the
face of most earnest and emphatic
protest. What an absurdity for
statesmen(?) to perpetrate!
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
Memphis Appeal: l was shown

Memphis Appeal: was shown
before the yellow-fever commission
which convened in this city few
months ago, that box Of quinine,
protected by saw-lust, was sent
from this. city while the yellow-fe-
yer was raging TO physician in
Fayette county. When the box ar
rived there were several persons in
the physicians Office, who jocular
ly demonstrated with the physician
for opening the BOX in their pres
ence, as it might contain the germs
of yellow fever. The physician re-
garded such fears as absurd. But
the facts show that every person in
the room at the time the box was
opened soon afterward died with
the yellow fever. These facts de
monstrate that yellow fever can be
transported as easily and with as
much certainty as a bale of cotton
or vaccine matter. As the warm
weather is fast approaching, the
people of the South will not be for
getful of these facts, and erect an
impossible gulf between themselves
and the infected towns. Knowing
that yellow fever can be transport
ed by a sack of coffee, box of
quinine, or a yard of cloth, and
even the clothes we wear, the coun
try will permit no contact or com
municatiou with the towns and
cities 50 unfortunate as to be again
scourged with another epidemic.
Woe TO the Southern town or city
visited by the yellow fever this
summer. There will be no escape
for the citizens, as the trains will
be stopped by force, and the flying
efugees will have no place of re-
fuge, as the law of sell preservation
would force the people to close
their doors against disease which
experience has convinced them can
be imported into their own house
holds. In view of this fact, no
town or city should trifle with its
sanitary affairs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-27
SCHEDULE.
AS sweeping and terrible as I

As sweeping and terrible as a
raging food, public sentiment is
overwhelming our legislators. Re
pudiation, that erst stalked like a
spectre of destruction, is laid out
stark and stiff. II is humiliatIng
to think that such ideas advanced
by sreh men as Savage, FOLEY,
et I'd, could have created such com
motion, but the downfall of these
ideas and the inglorious odium in
which the originators have buried
themselves is glorious to contem-
plate. The people will have none
of Reputation and the raging de-
mand for settlement, honorable and
Just settlement, has told upon our
law makers and their advisers. The
franklin Review and Journal, that
not long since strongly opposed a
settlement, wheels gracefully into
line with modification of its views
and urges that the question be set
tied honorably by the Legislature
at once, IN obedience to the plat
form written bv Gov. Marks, and
says that none but an honorable
settlement will be accepted by the
people or comport with the States
honor. We welcome the r. d. j.
back into the paths of right; but
come a little further yet, friend.
You say that valid bonds should
be separated from the "chaff," the
latter repudiated and the former
compromised" upon such terms as
can be attained. Why, that is not
right. If the bonds are valid we
owe every cent and have no right to
ask for compromise. The irregu
larIties in the issuance of the
"chaff" and the compromising of
war interest constitute the only
grounds upon which compromise
could be demanded, and if we re-
pLdiate all these then the reason
does not apply to the valid bonds
and hence we should pay them in
full. The bondholders, recognizing
these equities" offer compromise
that scales all the bonds alike, and
thus makes the burden fall on all
owners alike. That is just and
equitable. But if we repudiate the
bonds that furnish the reason for
compromise, then the ''valids" stand
unaffected with equities in our favor
and we owe them TO the last far
thing.