Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-05-03
SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
John Paul's Interview Reviewed.

John Paul's Interview Reviewed.
The National Republican of Wash
ington City, rabid Republican journal,
edited by Gorham, Mahone's candidate
for Secretary of the Senate, in its issue
of the 18th of April published at great
length an interview with Paul, which
was reviewed by sections last week by
the Rockingham Register, from which
we quote the following =
9Th. He PAUL. says he expects great
results in Virginia in material point
of view "from the liberal. independent
course pursued by General Malone"
EYES," says the Register. great results
will follow the turning over of the
State government of Virginia to Mr.
Pauls liberal party, formed by an al
lance of the Malone fragment with
the Republicans, 81. 900 strong, nineteen
twentieths of whom are composed Of
colored voters. Yes. great results will
follow, when ignorance shall reign su-
preme in our legislative halls; when
taxation shall be imposed by men
who pay no taxes, not even their capt.
tation tax when mixed schools shall
be forced upon the people; when negro
lunatics shall be associated in our asy-
lums with the unfortunate whites con-
fined there; when the laws prohibiting
the intermarriage of white and colored
shall be repealed and miscegenatioD
shall stink in the nostrils of the PEG
pie; when such men as the negro mis-
ceganist Norton, and the negro social
equalist Moss, shall direct legislation.
Yes, then, then great results will surely
Follow, but they will be the results of d
social and political pandemonium, par
alyzing every mat erial arm, dwarfing
every material enterprise. blanchiDg ev-
cry cheek with terror. Then homes
will be deserted, the plough will stand
in the furrow, grass will grow in the
highways, and the "rising and progress
sive young men" of Virginia will flee
from the land of their fathers and from
the graves of their ancestors as from a
land cursed with ignorance, infested
with thieves and robbers. and filled
with the noxious vapors of incurable
diseases.
But instead of Mr.. Paul's praying that
his people might ever be delivered from
SO dire calamity, he is coolly and
boldly pursuing course which, if sue.
cessful, will as inevitably bring about
such result, as that effect will follow
cause. But so long as blood is thicker
than water and self-preservation is
implanted in the breast of man ; SO long
as Virginians remain true to the faith
of their fathers, and the ''rising and
progressive young men" of the State
remain constant to the sacred name OF
woman so long as our streams continue
to murmur and our valleys to echo the
fame of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe,
Lee, Jackson, and Johnston SO long as
the grass grows green and the flowers
bloom sweetly in sequestered spots,
where inurned is the dust of sacred
dead, just so long will this attempt to
again ravage the South with local mis-
rule, ignorance, and negro domination
fail"
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAIL.
RoAD-CONTRACTs AWARDED FOR THE
EXTENsION.-Preside Frederick ].
Kimball. of the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad Company, has let contracts
for the construction of sixtyfive miles
the ninety -five-miles extension south
ward from Waynesboro' to the Norfolk
and Western. The contractors will be-
gin at the ends and work toward the
the middle. The parties covered by the
new contracts are from Waynesboro'
forty miles south, and from the Nor
folk and Western, at or near Roanoke
Station. twenty five miles north. Mills
& Rowland, Mcmahon & Green, Crit
fifth & Purcell, Fairfax & Diffendal,
Reynolds & Angel, Newcomb & Good
loe, Best & Murchler, Walton & Smith,
Patrick Cogan and Johnson Rawlings
are among the contractors receiving
awards. The work is to be finished in
October. It is quite possible that it
will be all the construction necessary
for the main line of the Shenandoah
Vallevsroad. Forty miles from Way.
nesboro' the road can strike the Rich
mond and Alleghany's Lexington
branch, and by trackage arrangement
with that company use its rails to it's
junction with the main line ut Balcony
: Falls, and from there follow the main
, line of the Richmond and Allegheny
up James river as far as it is In the
same line, which will bring it near to
Buchanan. The contracts for building
, north from the Norfolk and Western
, cover all the ground necessary to meet
the Richmond and Allegheny at Buch-
: anan.
FIRE AT RoNCEvERTE, GREENBRIER
Co., w. VA.-We learn from the Green.
brier Independent that about o'clock
on Saturday night a week, the dwell
} ing house of Mrs Fannie q. Caldwell,
widow of DR.. d. C. B. Caldwell was
destroyed by fire. The fire, it seems,
was caused by one of her children TAX
ing a lighted candle to an upper room
in search of some needed article of dress,
and either unconsciously dropping the
snuff or bringing the blaze in contact
with some combustible substance. The
heavier articles of furniture were
saved, but part of the household stuff
and nearly all of her own and her chill
dren's clothing was destroyed. The
different Lumber Companies have gen.
erously given the material, and the Cor
penters of the place express Diet rmin-
alton to erect a new house upon the
ashes of the old one and re-instate her