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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

HAYES AND SHERMAN ON ARTHUR.
Read the opinions Of the President
and Secretary of the Treasury on the
Chicago Vice Presidential nominee:
"You have made the custom house a
centre of partisan political manage.
ment. RIB. Hayes to Collector arthur,
January 81, 1879.
"With deep sense of MY obligations
under the Constitution, regard it as
my plain duty to suspend you in order
the Office may be honestly administer
ed. "-R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur,
January 81, 1879.
"Gross abuses of administration have
continued and increased during your in.
cumbency. "-Joh,s Sherman to COllec-
tor arthur, January 81, 1879.
persons have been regularly paid by
you who have rendered little or no ser
vice; the expenses of your Office have
increased, while its receipts have dimi-
nished. Brides. or gratuities in the
shape of brides, have been received by
your subordinates in several branches
of the custom house, and you have in
no case supported the effort to correct
these abuses. "-Secretdry Sherman to
Collector arthur, January 81, 1879.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

HYMENIAL.-Mr. Hamilton NJ. Nc
Clintic, of Bath, and Miss L. Scottie
Vowels, of Allegheny, were very quiet
ly and modestly united in the matrimo-
NAL state, at the residence of the brides
Wednesday morning, June 18TH, 1889,
Rev. Rice Cooke officiating. The neWlyi
welded couple at once proceeded to the
residence Of Col. VIM. McClintic, in
Bath, Whsrs 9 handsome reception
awaited them. May they b eyer happy
is our devoHtest prayer.
Mr.. Addie Damron, Of the Sweet
Springs, this county, was bound in
wedlock's holy grasp, at Huntersville,
w, Va, on the 10Th instant, the lady of
his choice being Miss Sue Lowry, of the
latter place.
Mr.. Samuel Lowry, brother Of Miss
Sue, who the day previous had married
q Miss Arbogast, Of Greenbank, return
ed with his bride to Hgptersyille on the
day of his sisters marriage, where Che
pleasures of both a wedding and re-
ception were INDUCED in at the same
time.-ANeghony Tribune.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Miss Sidney Paul Gill, who wrote II
Want to be an Angel died Saturday at
Newark. Miss Gill was fine business
woman, and was closely identified with
Newark Protestant charities, having
long been secretary of the Female Char
liable Society, and being lden tifed with
other institutions. The way she salas
to write the well known hymn was thiss
She was member of the Clinton Street
Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, of
which Rev. DR.. Joel Parker was pastor.
One Sunday they had an anniversary
celebration, and betwaan the morning
and afternoon services Miss Gill wrote
the hymn. 1t was read then for the
first time, and afterward published and
translated into several foreign languages.
Great numbers Of ietters were received
from parents, saying that their little
one had died with" IT Want to be an
Angelo on their lips. Miss Gill wrote
good many other hymns, but this
alcns commanded attention because of
its implicitly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

The Republican party has become so
corrupt that it cannot furnish the coun-
try an Hpbesmirched candidate. Be
tween the wretchad ambition Of Grant
and his imperial desires, and the doc
trines of:Blaine and his hefouled record,
they have been compelled to offer the
o0uhtfy candidate far from plean-a
candidate upon whose skirts there is
the smell OF the credit mobilier, the dis
trict ring, the Louisiana rascality and
a general political unwholesomeness not
calculated to inspire the enthusiasm of
the honest Misunderstanding I'D
NQnce
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

The evidence already before the coun-
try of Mr.. Garfield's bribery, corruption
and perjury is sufficient to convict him
in the minds Of oil just men. as it was
in those IF the members of Judge Po-
lands republican committee, but in or
der that all doubts about it, if there be
any, may be renewed. the New York
Herald sqggesta chat as Mr.. Garfield
can't afoyd ia rest quietly under the
serious charges, more serious than were
ever before brought against presiden-
tial candidate. he bring suit for. libel
against Mr.. Dana, of the New York
Sun, one of the numerous reiteraters of
the charges, and feels assured that Mr..
Dana will gladly rsspand to any court
$ SS'i u ~ DOUBT ths9 MT. Dana would
60 to Ohio Of anywhere else to sustain
his charges, because the evidence is pos
tive and direct, part Of it afforded by
Mr.. Garf1eld's own handwriting, but
that Mr.. Garfield will institute such q
suit no one at all acquainted with his
crookedness entertains the ramNlest
idea.-AlerandriG GGse99s.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

1t Is said there are some Virginians
80 anxious To- defeat the party with
which they have heretofore acted that
they will put q third presidential cleo
toral ticket in the Aeld pext November
in order to divide the democratic vote,
and thus give their State to Garfield.
When the deluded followers of these
men are informed, as they will be by
the democratic electors, that the man
whom their leaders desire them to
make President made speeches, which
will be read to them. in favor of perpet-
ually disfranchising,. and confiscating
the property of every man in the State
who took the part of the South in the
civil war; we say when they are In
formed of all this and Of the auIasrous
blooaysshirt spssoRes Mr.. GARFIELD has
made since those to which we specially
refer, in all probability they will be dis
posed to let their leaders march off by
themselves to join the republican ranks,
while they turn bscE into the old demo-
cratic fold.-ASeedndrio Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

It is the generally accepted opinion
that canal boating is not calculated to
improve the morals. Now, whether
this opinion be right or wrong we don't
pretend to say, but if right it may ac-
count for the fact that when, in 1873, Mr..
Garfield was accused of completely in
the Credit Mobilier fraud he declared
under oath, II never owned, received,
or agreed to receive any stock of the
Credit Mobilier. or any dividend OF
profits arising FROM either Of them ="
and that only two weeks thereafter
Cakes Ames testified before the same
committee and proved by record evil
dence, partly in General Garfield's own
handwriting, that General Garfield had
stock in the Credit Mobilier and that he
had received diyAends thefenpon.-
AleGandg;G Gazette
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22
LENAL NOTICES.

NIEnK'3 OFFICE of the Supreme Court
~ Of Appeals of Virginia. at Staunton, on,
the It'll day of June, 1885,
Pursuant to an act Of the General Assembly
Of Virginia, approved April 30th, 1874, entitled
IAN act prescribing the manner in which rec
ords for the Supreme Court of appeals shall be
printed. and providing for letting the same TO
contract" sealed proposals will be received by
me. at this office. until IL O'Clock, M. satur-
day, the 18th init, for printing ali such records
as the Supreme Court of Appeals At Staunton.
dnoluding Winchester) may require for one
year nom July LIST, 1880. The proposalc are re-
Su , to state the amount per page Of fifteen
clude the paper, printing, binding, and a neat
cover. with the style Of the case and the Court
rom which the record comes neatly printed
Inereon. NO unnecessary blanks allowed
Hond and security will be required.
As the Clerk Is required by law to "take
care tnat the printing is properly done," the.
right II reserved Of rejecting any proposals to,
40 the work at any place other than where the
clerk can supervise the same.
inc Clerk also reserves the right Of rejecting
any and all bids which in his opinion do not
Iuliy comply with the terms Of she said act
and of deciding who are responsible bidders,'S
and what Is sample security" within the
meaning of the act
80, JOS. A. WADDELL,
yeo-dl Clerk of s. C. A. at Staunton.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

INDICTED FOB ILLEGAL voTINa.-In
Wytheville, twenty-six colored men
have been indicted for illegal voting, in
having voted at the recent corporation
election for Trustees without having
paid their capitation tax.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

BRUTAL REvENGE.-On Friday night
a week three revenue officers destroyed
an illicit still about three miles from
Hinton, Summers CO., and on that night,
says the Mountain Herald, "their horses
were taken out of the stable and ridden
about mile away, their names and tails
cut off and their ears cropped, the saddles
and brides of the officers cut all to pieces
and scattered along the road"
For such conduct, there is no excuse,
and the perpetrators deserve severe
punishment.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

We do not propose to enter on "a cam.
paign of calunny" against the Repub-
iican candidates, but it is certainly legit-
innate to state what the President and
Secretary of the Treasury have said q.
bout Mr. Chester A. Arthur. II regard
it my plain duty to suspend you," writes
Mr.. Hayes, THAT the Office may be hon.
estly adm Mustered" "Gross abuses
have continued and increased since your
incumbency," writes Mr.. Sherman,
land you have in no case spppnrted the
effort to. correct these ABUSES ~ Char
Lottesviye Chronicle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

A Town IN MISSISSIPPI BURNED
A dispatch reports the burning of the
business part of the town of Sparksville,
Miss, Friday, including the court house
and Odd Fellows hall. Loss, 800, 900.
Insurance. $4,000.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Senator Bayard, according to the New
York Express, has announced to his
friends that under no circumstances
would he allow his name to go before
the convention if Horatio Seymour were
candidate"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

There is to be grand military picnic
at Fishers Hill, near Strasburg, July
Bird, which it is anticipated will be at
tended by 10000 people, including the
military of Harrisonburg, Woodstock,
and Winchester.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22
A Contrast.

A Senator of the old regime, says the
Lvnchburg Vsrgiaaiam, has just laid
down his honors and his life, and goes
into the other world with record as
spotless as was ever vouchsafed to any
public man. He was Bayard man
who, like his son and successor in the
Senate, had family record to keep pure
and unsullied. And he guarded it well
while he lived. When propositions
were made to engage in the Credit Mo-
bilier swindle, with which the present
candidate of the Republican party for
the highest office in the country is be-
smirched, he wr0te:-
IT take it for granted that the corpo-
ration has no application to make to
Congress on which shall be called up
on to act officially, as I could not con-
sistently with my views OF duty vote
upon a question in which I had pecus
mary interest"
The Republican committee that was
raised to make inquiry touching the
participation of members of Congress In
this swindle, after rejecting severely
upon some of their associates for connec'
ton Herewith, cited the letter of the
now deceased Senator, saying:-
1--WE commend to them and to all men
the letter of the venerable Senator Bay
ard, in response to an offer OF this
stock"
Influenced by different principles Mr..
Garfield took the stock, pocketed the
money to which he was not entitled
and then deliberately swere to the fol-
lowing:-
IT never owned, received, or agreed
to receive any stock Of the Credit Mo
bilier, or of the Union Pacific Railroad
nor any dividend or profits arising from
either of them"
Two weeks thereafter, Cakes Ames
testified before the same committee
proving by recorded evidence in Gar
fields own handwriting, that that gen
tleman had taken some of the stock, ant
had received dividends thereon. TIT
Committee was forced to accept Ames''
statement as true, acknowledged Mr.
Garfield's completely with the fraud
and endeavored to let him off as easily
as possible. We have thus stated thu
difference between Senator James A
Bayard and Senator-elect James A. Gar
field. Behold the contrast! Abiding
/. to the men, and the death of Mr.. Bay
ard, the Philadelphia Times remarks
SIT is strange confidence that thu
death of this good man should be nearly
simultaneous with the nomination O
one who did accept the stock under thu
same circumstances for President of thu
United States. James A. Bayard was {
Christian statesman in the best sense o
that abused word"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Isaac Long. of Page county, has pur-
chased the farm of G. M. Thurmond, in
Albemarle county, 900 acres, for $4,000;
besides which he paid $4,000 for the
stock and growing crop of wheat.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

In few more days the Democrats
will know for whom to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President. When the
nominations shall be made. there should
be no division lin the democrat ranks,
but every Democratic, whatever may be
his views about the State debt and other
questions of State policy, should cordi-
ally support them.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Mr.. MooDY's ST. LOUIS WORK.-Mr.
Moody was at work four and hall
months in st. Louis, and the'clergymen
there estimate that $500 persons were
converted, of whom 700 had joined va
rious churches up to the 1st of last
May.
Prof. G. H. Toy, late of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary. has been
elected Hancock Professor of Hebrew
and other oriental languages in Har-
ward College. Prof. Toy graduated at
the University of Virginia ia 1856.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

A PRoDIGIoUs Ass-Another ass Of
an inn-keeper has turned up at Staten
Island, who refused to admit Mrs. jacob
because Of her "Jewish name!" She is
lady without repFosch, her husband is
respectable physician, and she, herself,
is descendant of General Putnam, of
Revolutionary fame. Such prodigiogs
Stiffness ald ill-temper must bring their
own punishment, and right-thipking
Gentiles will be slow to patronize places
from which we'll bred American ladies
and gentlemen are excluded because
they have the blood of one of the great
est races of the antique world in their
veips.--NGgfolk Landmark.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

"SEr A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF"
The opinion of Grants ex-Secretary
of War, Belknap, as given yesterday /:
Garfield is the most corrupt man in
America, and would steal heavens Ii
very to serve the devil in" is interest
ing at this moment.-NeaO York San.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Jesse E. Mitchell has been convicted
in the county court of Campbell county,
for felony in extorting gold wstch
from Miss Lizzie May Robinson, and
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiarv
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

THE PROHIBITION TICKET.-The
Prohibition National Convention in
Cleveland, Ohio, last Friday, nominated
Neal Dow for President and A. M.
Thompson, of Ohio, for Vice President.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

A negro at Danville, recently. offered
to drink all the whiskey that bar-room
party would give him. The effort kill
ed him, and the widow sued those who
had supplied the beverage for $4,000
damages but ajury cut down the valua-
ton of the druDkard to $3.50.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Noah Towner, of Doddridge county,
w. Va, committed suicide Wednesday
by blowing his brains out with shot
gun. He left note saying that he had
betrayed young woman and could not
endure the remorse of conscience.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

DEATH OF MRS. GoDwIN.-Mrs. Lucy
Goodwin, wife of Mr.. Rob't x. Goodwin,
and youngest daughter of Henry Mack
ey, Esq, died ct her home in Lexing-
ton on Sunday night, 18th inst. Mrs.
Goodwin was young woman of many
estimab BILE traits Of character and much
beloved by all who knew her.-Lering-
ton Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

ARREST OF HoRsE-THIEF.-Th
Border Watchn,an says that VIM. Nc
Chung, who stole horse from DR.. Wal
ter Douglass of Union, Monroe CO., w.
Va, g month or two since, has been af-
rested at Cabell Courthouse, w. Va,
on similar charge, and is now in Jail
at that place awaiting trial. 1t seems
that he has been operating in aeyeral
portions of the State and no doubt is an
old hand at the business.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

MILLS BURNED.-On last Friday
night, at Snow Hill, Md, Richardson,
Smith & Co.'s planing-and fooring-mill
was burned, together with million feet
of lumber. Loss, $25, 900. No inurance.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

TILDEN IS NOT A CANDIDATE From
a letter of Mr.. Tilden to the delegates
from New York in the Cincinnati Con-
vention we extract the following para.
graph -
"In renouncing denomination for
the presidency do so with 40 doubt in
my mind as to the vote of the State of
New York or of the United States, but
because believe that it is renuncia-
Mon of reelection to the presidency.
IN those who think my nomination and
reelection indispensable to an effectual
vindication ofthe right of the people to
elect their rulers, violated in my person,
L have accorded as long reserve of my
decision as possible, but I cannot over
come my repugnance to enter into a
new engagement which involves four
years of ceaseless toll.
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.-The
Virginia People reports that Miss Rhoda
Raines died in Newbern on Friday last.
She was the Oldest Of eleven children,
the youngest of whom died at the age of
two years ago. She was
centenarian, and was
born and raised within two miles of that
place, and had never been a score of
miles away from it during the whole
course of her long life.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

LEG BROKEN.-We learn from the
Greenbrier wv. Va.) Independent that
Mrs. Eliza Raymond, wife of DIR. E. F.
Raymond, of Frankfort, in that county,
met with painful accident on Tues
day last by being thrown from her
horse, resulting in breaking both bones
of her right leg just above the ankle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE TO CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL
IN TEACHERA.-Appljca for situations
to teach In the Stauntons Public Schools will
please cppvene at the Academy, on WEpNES-
DAY, the 30th Of the present month,
Those who we're commissioned to teach here
year ago, will not be required to stand an ex-
animation on scholarshtp at this time.-except
thoae who desire to compete for a certificate of
higher grade than they now have.
All new candidates, however, will be sub
Jected to examination according to law, and
are requested to bring with them whatever
testimonials or other papers, they may have,
bearing upon their past experience as teachers.
RO. s.. HAMILTON,
je22-1t c. p. G. SuperintAndant.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

The Norfolk Virgiaidra says: Gar
field says his Credit Mobilier stock was
"loan" from Ames.-Ames says the
money handed to Garfield was not a
loan and was never repaid. Mr.. Gar
field has never produced any evidence
that it was loan.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

If anything could be weaker than the
head of the republican ticket it is its
tail. The only thing for which Mr..
Arthur is known is his attachment ia
machine poIities, which is 90 great that
GetWsen it and the l0llectarship of the
port of New York he chose the former.
losing the latter because he refused to
comply with even such moderate civil
service reform as Mr. Hayes directed
should be enforced With a bloody
shirt salary grabber at the head of the
ticket aud "a noted MACHINE politician at
the tall, the democrats will have an easy
job to elect their candidates next No
vember. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

ACCIDENT AT CHARLOTTESvILLE.-
On Monday morning of last week, at the
depot in Charlottesville, says the Vsr-
ginia ADVOCATE, colored man named
Charles Monroe, in attempting to get on
one of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way trains near the Central Hotel,
struck another man and was thrown
under the cars, breaking his leg below
the knee in two places. He was also
very badly bruised.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Young Fred. Grant is said to have re-
marked at Chicago Tuesday that 1.-THE
Republican party is getting too id
Independent to win !" That puts the
entire programme of the Grant party ip
q nutshell.-Norfolk Frgigaian.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22
"Gen. Mahsae end the Crater"

The Richmond Commonwealth OF the
18th inst, in an article under the cap
ton shove, publishes two letters from
Gen. D. A. Waieeger giving detailed ac-
counts of the "Crater'' fight, one, under
date of April 25th, 1872, addressed to
Gen. VIM. Malone, and other, under
date of November 18th, 1876, addressed
to Capt. w. q. MeCsbe. These letters
were written at the requests Of the par
ties to whom they were addressed.
The article of the Commonwealth con-
cludes as follows =
"Now, these things ere to be noted !:
LIST. The "Crater" was not taken in pur-
suapce of General Mahone's orders, but
in disregard and defiance of them. If
General Weis;ger had obeyed Mahone's
orders, he would have been charged by
the enemy and all would nacst probably
have been lost. If General WeisigeP nad
failed In bis attack, the probabilities are
he would have been cashiered. I'd
General Malone was in the covered
way" when Weisigef MARCHED out of it.
Captain Hinton reported to Weisiger
that he was in the covered way" when
he carried him Welslger's statement
that he wss ready, and General Weisig.
er found him In the covered way"
when he returned wounded, after all the
fighting by his brigade was oyer. IF
any one will state, over his own sigma
ture, that he was out of the covered
way" during any of the interval, we will
publish the statement. Sd, We do not
pretend to be militory critic, but we
believe every soldier will say that as
commander Of the division it was Gen
eral Mahone's duty to have been with
the line of battle, when he sent Girardy,
when the attempt was being made to
prolong Weisiger's line With the Geor-
gia Brigade.
He would then have been in position
to give the proper order at the critical
moment.
There was never finer body of troops
marshalled in field than this Virginia
Brigade, and there was never perform
ed more splendid piece of service than
this brigade performed that day at 1.-THE
Crater" But the credit for IT is theirs,
and not General Mahone's. General
Weisiger took the Crater and Gen. Ma
hone took tho craGfE "
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

"Belmead," the famous old country
seat on James river, in Powhatan coun-
ty, which belonged to the late Gen. P.
st. George Cooke, has been purchased
by President French, of the Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad Company.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

If we could only keep politics out of
religion, religion out of politics, and
hypocrisy out of both, we should have
an admirable world to live in, 1t is the
unnatural mixture of these three fiery
elements that makes countless millions
yrpnVppn
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

The republican convention for the
fourth congressional district of Virginia
has been called to meet at Burkeviile on
the 30th inst, to nominate q candidate
for Congress from that district.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-22

Mr.. Jefferson Davis is said to be grow
ing blind, and his wife, since the death
of their son, has become an invalid.