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3NOT'ICE5!
To!t1se Stocktol ders 8, the
a Clarksbltre,S Weston and
Glenville Railroad and
Transport Company

;At a. meeting Of tbs Z Directors q the
Clarksbarg, Weston and Glenrille Railroad
and Transportation Company held at the
Office ofw /. @. Bennett, in Weston, Lewis
county, West Virginia, on the l6.h day 'of
May, ls7e,the following order was adopted.
''oRpuRrp, That the Stockholders Of this
Company be called To- assemble in general
meeting at the principal Office Of the con,pa-
ny, in the town Of Weston, Lewis county,
West Virginia, on the lat day Of July,
1879, 10 consider the proprlely Of changing
tho name Of this Company from rs present
name, "The Clarklburg, " eston aud Glen.
yille Railroad aud Transportation Compa.
N.Y. 10 the name Of 1.-THE Weston and
Clarksbdrg Railroad Company y and for
The purpose Of transseting any other Lusl-
ness which may 10 legally transacted In
suell meeting .''Atr ~
In pursuance Of such order, the Stock.
holders Of said Claiksburg, Weston aud
Chenille Railroad Transportation Company.
are hereby notified 10 assemble in genera ]
meeting, at tie principal Office Of said com.i
rany, IN the town q Weston, Levi Is county,
Vest Virginia, on the LIST day d, July, 1870
for The purposes specified 10 said order.
W. CT BENNETT, Secretary.
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TllESoSI9
sHiRNJc'yi11N NMsAN
PRICE HOUSE |,

ONE PRICE HOUSE rs
WESTON,
ROSS .|:||g''''}
Corner Main and end Streets.
Claim tlat ! can and DO handle Flour,
Groceries, Toha COS. Te as, Coiiees,
Soap, Nails, Dry Goods, both Staple
and Fancy ions, nsots and Shoes,
Hats aud Gu n, Quee psware, Factory
Jeans, Flaanels and Yarns, and such
other article. usually kept IN u arst.elass
country store, Q smallsr profits ,llan apy
other house in the county. All u ask is a
compatisup Of goods and prices villa other
houses and feel satisfied ! can guarantee a
saving Of IS 5pet, eesl TO parliss pakiRg pur.
rhases 10 NY line. Isl &
i:Ll.'oohatSon,e gIthePriice
Good Green cogcc, 81 l5cts per ID!
Choice Yellow Sugar g 1octs.
Crushed and Granulatol Sugar q
14letsipert ID
Choice Gunpowder Tea @G0, cents
perllb.
Choice Roasted. Coffee q % cents
EanlilYsF tour al 81 peri barrel. -
Choice syrups: g.G0i and S0Eccnts
per gallon. -
Clloieoi New Orleans Syrup o. 50
8 cents per: gallon, 5=s5s.:s:s5.#ss!Fs
Full line Of Laundry and !Toile.
!; Soaps, Spices, &c. at bottom pri.
ces, q ~ :
Nice Dark Prints, @5 cents per
yard. 50; lffi t:El - g
Best Prints, 6@7 cent per yard. g
Laurcl9D Muslin, Gets per yard. r.
Good Brown Muslin, yard wide, {
@S cents. = istii.s s'it15 - 81
Fruit Of the Loom Bleach Muslin
a 10cts per yard.
Good Bleach Muslin 7GS cts per
yard. 3s12 ~. r. ,3'i.r u
Jeans from Is up to Scots per yard:
Colored shirtings from Sito 12lets
aspers yard. as RI * N.
Bunch Cotton 81. l5pl sisR {.tg
Dress Goods from Is to 25cts per
yard. ~ e t9Tei z s]8it e. :
Clark's Machine Thread sets. l
Gingliianls s@io ecntsspr,esr yard.
Aslarge limo Of Hamburg Trim
Innings; Ladies Neckllyear, Ladies
sand Gents 4 Hose,a Gloves, and
FancysNotions at lowest prices.
Don't,fail toScall before making
your purchases. ssat
Z No trouble TO show goods and
rive prices. T9tt ,tty,l NSlii i.ssJ
NO GOODS SOLD on CREDIT
Nd fi1@.l2tTEitI ,..-L.-... .'Uypl ptuFN =
y EGr Remember the placc-cor-
ncrs Main and 2d Streets. iJyt
GEORGE Ross.
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Mscege,,dtioil.

L u -
The ittsburg papers state that
Beaver Pennsylvania, has a mis-
cegcnationi scandal! young Swo-.
man OF lligllIsoeial standing, but
who for several years las becnEa
so,lrce Of anxiety 70 her parents
and friends. gotEhuilisly -and, out.of
spite, married acol6retlI coaliminer:
simultaneously witllthisicom a
dispatch from eno dauto, Indiana,
stating latifonr:c,llore,t men and
four whiteEwomcnk havcL been ar
rested lin thatHcity, charged with
miscesenation, being married. CON
trary to the laws Of Indiana. They
were lodged il jail, and zothor ar
rests for thcasame; offensosi are to
follow. Two Of the most noted col
ored preachers sinEtlie West have
been indicted fors marrying the.ar-
rested parties. / N E;Etj
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ssWeitooki occasion 70 call atten,
.tions not Ions since taltl,et healthy
conditioned affairs in tie Audi;
tors Office Wegllaye since been
informcdlthatS bosidcsithe present
relations #of1thc counties TO the
State; tlmtitlieyi arc nowSini a bet:
Ter position than tlicy5haye ever
beena tllQtithelsheriffs ar0Ifurtller
advanced in their settlements,
1sI7!was the first year for the pres:
ent'set 'ofslieritis, as it was also
theirresent Auditor, and the
condition of things Indicate .
thorough understanding by each Of
their relative positions, Besides
tho taxes Of ISL being entirely
squared, spp, sol were, the, delinquent
land eases, the licenses, the fines,
sesand there has gone over TO
1854 credit gofSsl1,oo0 Also
there has Ieen settled up ~, 600
of.baek taxes and odd claims, UNI
settled until now, There is not q
more. healthy condition of things
many othcr, statosi REnion: =
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u 4, a. ,ilJ tgf : ~
with 'ttI their lreie,alnens rights
iTns Republican, State, Col,yeni:
ohiaato nominate. eandi-,
dates for 4 Governor Lieutenant:
#Goycrnor,sA Auditor, frreasurer;tntl a
S,aember otgtlIc. Board 4ofa Pablic
WILDE held on "Wednesday
is,leSt, Senator Sherman is the
obablestnamince for Governor,
Governor Bislloplwillibc his sorpo,
Ifllcnt; fandSwillIB beat him.. n
n. 4sIILSGT0, LET1EBi h
i. yy,AsIIlyeToS, D C. Maybe.
3 Editor lJtmoerat | rs; l's'
The Senate, and House lad long
sessions on saturlay,Sthes former
discussing the Legislative hill and
the. latter! tl,eEN.arncr coinage bill,
'Ihat.isthe history too, of nearly
eycrxs,laygin5the week. On Mon;
8day3tiic veto flthcl I.altl hill came
intoItlicl House, and on Tuesday
was disposed f;a3sl sthsrealterAIr,
Warner and IFS fiendsEluslied
their measure with extraordinary
lGrsisttneys II Is believed that
@tllcYswill getiaiyeto soonianl that
elbillswillEfail.
Tic Legislative Gill, Too, will
sliayeE itsl passage and Hits veto 5tllis
week @TIiere! is!noet: mnehg elisposii:
among Dclilocrats!to send ito
zNtr9IIayes, .attcrlle vet esit the bill,
tlle:so:etlletl sspolit icalisectionsasiu
Y, . \! separate. bill, #lIe.weuld I simply
veto kthcm,s he better way for
~ = & = ~
Congrcssis 70 furnish Government
7temporary supplies and adjourn.
In December, lcfure which time
the principal elections will be held
Congress, can renew its struggle,
!. and then, the wishes of the people
= q. 4
will be better, known than now " lfty
There is IN interesting contro.
ysrsy, in Congress over the public
printing. Government owns an
enornnusly.costly Office here, and
.Iitjia presided over By an appointed
officer; The annual expense Of the
work amounts to millions Of dollars.
The hill Which now eauiacs constcr-
one which provides that
i tile Senate slmll dclcct a. suitable
person who Rshall have charge of
the work and shall do it for 1T least
Ten per cent reduction from present
cost. While the Republican party
was in power in botll branches Of
: Congress the system of doing the
work was repeatedly changed.
They adopted all The provisions Of
tho ent.Delnooratic l,ill except,
s'of cousc, that which cuts down en-
fpcnseE. t7 g7G.i No ~ 5s.{h
Too nitlel, can hardly be said in
prsise 9 of:Hsenaitor 5aThur,nan,s
speech on Thursday last. Its rtitli-.
iculc bftllc two yetuetss; was Of the
finest. 80 : '.,7-sil 3gl..5..5 ri.
y, Senator Voorhees,, wllo sought
and received q position on The
Library, Committee, Inns in this
short session done much IN Ills
i,,trrnut U;S l.rt s,,n,nu,, g l,.o,
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21
FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. q. 1879.

The Legislature Of Virginia will begin
balloting for U. s. Senator to take the
Mace of Senator Withers on the 4th of
March, 1881. on Tuesday the 10th Of De-
cember, that being the second Tuesday
after its meeting and organization and tho
day fixed by law. The first ballot is taken
BY each house separately and If no
candidate obtains seventy-one votes "a
majority of all the members elected to the
legislature) during the day, the next day
the two bodies meet in joint session and
continue the balloting. If there is still
no election then the Legislature must take
at least one vote every day Of its session.
If the session ends before an election is
made then Gov. Holiday will have to ap-
point Senator to serve after March, 1881
until the Legislature which re-convenes in
December, 1881, shall elect one. The Leg
islature assemblies on next Monday week,
the End of December.
Our readers may judge Of the intense in
terest felt throughout the Union in this
election when we say that the N. Y. Her
aid" has sent one of its editorial staff dowr
to Richmond to remain there until the
election is over. If a Republican Presi
dent were elected in 1880 one Democratic
Senator can hold his administration IL
check, and that one may be the Senator
Virginia elects next month.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

A tour Of the South by Gen. Grant is
announced. Under existing circumstan-
ces we fear it would hardly result IS IA
vorably as the people or he himself would
wish, Whether with or against his will,
his friends are now holding him up as the
probable, nay, almost certain Presidential
nominee Of the next Republican National
Convention, and in that position his vel
come in q tier of Democratic states will
be largely confined to those of his own pol
itics, a result that would be unfortunate,
creating cry Of "disloyalty'' and perhaps
embittering the General himself. 1t is a
pretty tough strain on a locality to hail
q conquering opponent and the represen-
tative of a party whose creed is that the
states through which he is to travel are
not to be trusted in national affairs.
If the reception is enthusiastic the Repub-
lican partisan press will adopt Mr.. Conk-
ling's belief that it is deception; if indif-
fsrent they will agree with the late Sena-
tor Chandler, that there wasn't enough
hanging in closing up the rebellion. AL
together it would be much better ar
rangement to send Gen. Grant fine stock
of woodcock on toast, champagne and SO
forth, legibly directed to his number and
street and not have him come down here
hunting for it. Such man as Bob
Toombs. for instance, would spoil thou
sand dollar supper by some of his foolish
ness.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21
The Wonders of the Telephone.

Mr.. Robert A. Packer, of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, is at present hunting with
party OF gentlemen in Nebraska. A
few days ago he for two hours conversed
pleasantly with his wife and friends at
Sayre, Pa: his brother at Mauch Chunk.
Pa, and friends along the line. The me-
dunn was the railroad and Western Uaion
telegraph wires and Edison's telephone.
At the office in Bethlehem. Pa, counec-
ton was made with the Eastop and Am
boy wire and at Perth Amb y with
Western Uuiun wire and thence to Chica-
20 and North Bend, Nebraska, where the
party are. The distance was about 1000
miles and every whisper was audible
Philadelphia Ledger. ~ l.
Mr.. Charles McCluer has put a telephone
In the First Presbyterian church of this
city for the benefit of his wife, who is
sometimes unable to attend services at
night. This is the second instance of the
kind we have heard of in Vmginia-the
first being1in DR.. iH0ge's church in Rich
mond. for the benefit of an invalid daugh-
Lyrchburg Virqinian. =
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

We last week published 1.-THE Readjus-
tiers Programme as outlined by Mayor
C&meron." programme which startled
and shocked many who have been acting
with that party. Later, the Petersburg
Appeal" announced that Col. Cameron
had written to the Richmond correspondent
of the N. Y. Herald" in an interview
with whom the report had its foundation,
to correct some of the statements therein.
A still later dispatch FROM the same cor
respondent to the Herald" gives what We
suppose IL the correction. How much the
may Judge:
In my dispatch to the "Her add" pub
lished the 18th, the first paragraphs relat-
ing to the debt, the repeal OF the pOll-tax.
educational purposes, and the extension Of
political rights to the cOlOred people, was
the direct result of an interview with Col.
William E. Cameron, one of the leaders OF
| the Readjusters. The remainder, alluding
| to the chain-gangs and whipping posts, WAS
| given from general conversation in pOliti-
cal circles and from knowledge Of what
| the Republicans would like to accomplish
through the General Assembly, and these
two subjects were not discussed by Colonel
| Cameron. The question of placing colored
| people on juries, which was agitated some
months since by United States District
Judge Rives, and is now involved in . case
before the Supreme Court, will doubtless
receive attention, but it is not likely that
q demand will be made for mandatory law
upon the State judges. OF that the Read.
justers or Debt-Payers would yield to that
though there Is strong sentiment in favor
of such change in the law as should in
qualified and directory manner open jury
service to competent colOred persons al
well as whites.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

A HoMEsICK SEAL.-Major Urch last
week hauled up on the river bank near his
house at Newcastle Bridge. the tank in
which he kept his pair of seals last sum-
mer; and, one of the seals having short
time ago died, sadly turned the other
adrift in the river, parting with it in much
the same frame of mind as man parts
with a favorite dog. The seal, which is as
tame as dog, and much more gentle and
affectionate than many dogs, at first made
use of its liberty to have a good swim
around in The river, coming up alongside
of every boat it saw, and saluting the sur
prised occupants with its whistling cry;
but at length firing of this it returned to
the bridge only to find its summer home
gone. For about four i ours the homeless
seal hunted for its tank. evincing distress
at not being able to fad it as plainly as
dog shows when his master is gone: but
at last it saw the tank on the bank. and
with extravaganza demonstrations of Joy
topped across the intervening beach and
clambrred into its love, habltation, now
entirely free of wa aer, and thereit still re-
manned the last we l3ard. - Portsmouth,
IN. H.) Chronicle.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

At the assay-office Of the Consolidated
Virginia company, IN Virginia City, Ne
vada, General aud Mrs Grant and Ulysses
Grant, Jr., were weighed on the fine scales
used in weighing bullion. General Grant
Grant at 100 pounds and young Ulysses
Grant at 176 pounds. 7'''S'
Jos. Wright. member of the Martins
burg W. Va, ARTILLERY, was found near tho
railroad track near there on the 9th inst !,
apparently run over, and died in a few
hours. II is curious fact that this is the
fifth member OF te artillery who has met
. violent death. ,l4aol'l ~ ,o%. .ja. e.
Eighteen OF the United States have civil
damage liquor laws.Ea Their provisions are
substantially the same and make dealers
responsible ,pecnnlarily for all harm result
ing from the sale of alcoholic beverages,
New York, Maine. Massachusetts and
Illinois have statutes precisely alike. T "
REV, j.. T. Massey, Of Bellingham.
Mass. Ibrother Of our Rev. j. E. Massey
gave his experience for time to legisla-
tive halls. and did not soil the ministerial
cloth thereby. The Watchnsan, Boston
Mass. '', ,...f,s..',..
Col. Williamson. q noted Texas lawyer,
stood w in church and called on young
lady to come forward and marry him: Pho
suddennesa Of the proposal threw her Into
. sYb4H, Nv lliamaon had became insane.
krLiHdsn House, in weatmoreland.
My seat Of the late ,Willoughby
and s.Uatalpa." in Culpeper, the
af pr. j.. j. Mosely, we're both
Week,4 g9sa Iies eile nli"
Asprd, Mass, Tuesday, Nov. 4th
the polls in sleighs.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

The position Of the Lynchburg "News'
seems to us to be that the State Central
Committee couldn't have made the cam
paign it did without making the McCul-
loch bill a party measure and reading out
those opposed to it. That seems to be the
point of its agument and that is just the
fatal error the committee fell into. Logi-
cally then the committee ought to have
enforced its position and purged the county
committees. It did net and could not-the
whole thing was Papal bull against the
Comet. But we don't propose TO continue
this discussion in our own camp and GER
tainly not with so faithful and efficient a
soldier as the News
And the same answer to this cotempo
rary.
We think that the Staunton VINDICA.
TOR will learn before the winter is over
that the State Central Committee of the
Conservative party did exactly right in
throwing down its glove to the Readjus.
ters. If it had not done so, we verify be-
lieve that there would not have been two
dozen Debt-Payers in the legislature. Even
Augusta county would. we judge. have
been represented by Readjusters. Let the
V1NDICAToR think over the matter
Richmond Dispatch.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

VIM. Cucuel, q tramp hailing from New
Jersey. was arrested in Pocahoptas coun-
ty, w. Va, on the 8th inst, on suspicion
ker, the One-armed young lady. After
hanging him by the neck until he could
not stand, to extOrt confession, he was
brought to C0vingtOn and lodged in Jail.
Miss Baker, on seeing him in jail, imme-
dlately declared he was not the Ran, and
he was released. -fe '%3s.s.
Allen Seal was defeated for sheriff In
Madison CO., Va, last year, and last week
his wife, in the yard, saw him stabbing
himself, in the house. She rushed In and
stopped him. Financial difficulties and
his defeat for reelection are said to have
been the cause Uf the act. 4'-'' ''
The annual convention of tho Disciples
of Christ COMMENCED at Hagerstown, Md,
on the 18Th lnst., aud was opened by y SER
mon by Rev. Jn0. Pirkey, OF Strasburg.
Virginia. 4 '5il ;sl
F. Milton Ervine. who had held the po-
sition Of Justice Of the Peace and other
positions in Rockingham county, died near
Ottobine on the 18th inst. i.A si2
The New York Free Trade Club gave
Mr., Thomas Bailey Potter, NJ, Pa din.
ner Wednesday evening, at which some Of
the speakers had the bad taste to allude to
the late civil war.
The tide OF immigration now pushing
into Kansas In wagons is larger than ever,
known before. They are destined for
Western Kansas principally.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

REMARKABLE EsCAPG FIR ON DEATH
"A miraculous escape from death occur
red at the Stanton shaft. near Wilkesbar-
re, Pa, Friday. afternoon. John McMa-
hon was ascending the haft when a truck
weighing eighteen hu bred pounds fell
from the top, a distance of over SIX hun
dred feet. striking the carriage IN which
he stood and driving it through a wooden
partition. The truck and carriage were
utterly demolished but Mcmahon emerged
from the wreck with a few bruises and
one arm disabled. He then climbed the
ladder. six hundred feet, having but one
arm to aid him, and gal ned the top. Moth
ing like it has ever been known in the
coal regions. ,-.t..
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

A. s. Hatch, First Vice President OF
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and w.
M. s. Dunn, its Superintendent spent sew
eral days last week examining the harbor at
Newport News, Yorktown, and vicinity.
as to the final terminus of the road. In
view of the Frightening prospects of this
road in the matter of reaching the west. and
also getting to deep salt water, its stock
has advanced in New York 3@69 per cent.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

OLD ZAcH's LIBERAL1TY.- of the late
Senator Chandler it is related by the To-
leda (O.) s'Blade" that when he became
Secretary of the Interior he desired that
certain position in the department should
be filled by a lawyer fro the West whose
fitness was undoubted. The lawyer re-
fused the appointment OF the ground that
he could not afford the pecuniary sacrifice
imposed by his withdra al from his bust
ness What sum will make you good?"
asked Mr.. Chandler. Not less than S.
600 year, answered he lawyer. "You
shall have it," said the Secretary; and
during his tenure of the office the lawyer
every yearreceived check for that amount
raid from Mr.. Chandeliers own pocket.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-11-21

It is Just too bad that Waddell of the
s'Chronicle, ~ while hunting his midday
invigorator at "Penpark, Hotopp's cele-
brated wine cellar near Charlottesville,
should have found by the tombstones in
that formerly famous homestead that the
distinguished VIM. Writ was not native
Virginian, but was born at Bladensburg
Nd, in 1774, and that his father was q
Swiss. Give one of these editors a cork
screw and a bottle of Hotopp's sparkling
wine. and he wouldn't respect the most
sacred tradition Virginia ever handed
down to now bereft and down troddsn
posterity.