The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-09-14
Waynesboro' Items.

WdyuoSDOFO lt0IuS
lReported for the yIRGINIAN.l
DeaA-After lingering illness of two years
Mr.. William M. Bush departed this lite on
Tuesday, the 9TH inst at his residence Meadow
Lawn" near this place. He was worthy
member of Lee Lodge of Masons of this town
by whom he was buried Of free and oblig
ing disposition, he had u host of friends and
acquaintance, and long before death claimed
him as its own his familiar form and features
were missed from our streets, where when in
health, he could invariably be found ram OF
shine ever ready to attend to business or pass
in mirth provoking style the salutations of the
day. At one time he was largely engaged in
introducing improved agricultural implements
and machinery among our farmers and enjoyed
the confidence of all with whom he had business
intercourse. He was aged about SO years, and
heinga wi.lowcr he leaves Il family of eight
chi drrn three of whom have about reached
their aj,riry.
A good atoeosng.-The majority of the farm
ers have threshed out their crops and the yield
of wheat as a general thing is reported MS very
good, in many instances exceeding the most
sanguinc expectations. But for the quality
and quantity of land sowed last fallin wheat
Mr.. JAMES P. Key (more familiarly known rs
Fox Key leads the van, at least among the
farmers north of this and along South river,
for distance of eight or ten miles. From 81
acres Mr. Key raised 1915 bushels, or 25 bush
els TO the acre. On nearly the same land last
year he did not much exceed 1000 bushels.
Mr.. X, occupies the farm belonging to the
widow of Major William Patrick, and since
he has had control of that place has proved
conclusively that he is a No. 1 farmer; he has
brought the land up to good state OF culti-
vation as the increase in yield almost every
year since he has been there bears ample tes-
timony. Our Augusta farmers will have to
look out or this Tuckahoe farmer will "ele-
vaie the dapidated linen from the shrubbery'
and leave them behind.
An extraordinary case.-Thcre is living in the
environs of this town an old man by the name
of John Bush who says he is IS years old
who ny daily task makes one hundred rails
every day he works. Taking every thing into
Mr.. B. in his young days was very Incorporate
but for about thirty years has abstained en-
tirely from the use of liquor. About ten years
since he was bitten by moccasin snake on
the leg shortly afterwards, the same limb was
broken the fracture set and united it WAS then
poisoned by poison oak after which an ulcer
of an ugly character made its appearance on
the same unfortunate limb, which for some time
resisted all attempts to cure it finally, Dr. W.
]. Jones of this place effected cure and the old
gentleman seems to have . new lease of life.
| In the last ten years as enumerated above he
has gone through affliction enough to depop-
uate an ordinary sized village and if many
such persons lived in one community together,
they would have to kill one of them to start
grave yard.
IAesDing-This precarious and not at all
times profitable business has been entered into
largely 10 some sections of the river north of
here. The swag dealing fraternity are not
particular as to the character of the line Of
goods they appropriate, either animal or veg.
etabe production satisfies their tastes
batch of them were sent from here day or
so since to your city Jail for raiding Mr.. Aus
tins watermelon patch and its a great pity
those operating down the river could not be
caught up with. X.
| Jno. S. Wise at Petersburg.
On the night of the 9Th Capt. Jno. Wise ad-
dressed large audience at Petersburg. From
the Appeal, we take the following paragraphs:
"Oh "lhey say" the State debt is settled;
for Cots sake stop fighting us and dlsband
The Readjuster party has brought the State
debt within compass which enables the peo-
pie of Virginia to pay forty cents instead of
fifty cents on the dollar. But is this all? No,
we find price put upon suffrage and man
has to pay dollar to vote. This is wrong, not
only in law but in principle. If it is right that
a man should pay one dollar to vote it is right
that he should pay 800, and if 800, why,
| $500 and after u while if this principle were
pursued it would be found that no man could
vote unless he had mansard roof and rode q
blooded horse. In times of war, did you ever
hear that a man could not fight unless he paid
a dollar? X I saw that # ia
wrong in principle, yet the principle of pay.
ing capitation is fOstered by the Democratic
party, a party claiming to be strictly demo-
cratic in its ideas. What is the meaning of
democratc?I means public sovereignty. 1t
means that all the people should have voice in
its afairs-not a democracy which would snap
its fingers in the faces of the people not a
democracy which is the entering wedge of a
moneyed aristocracy. Now, fellow citizens
| we don't propose that the people of this State
shall be throttled rs they have been we don't
propose that they shall be cheated by partisans.
Here have you seen that hundreds of men
have been voted before they paid their poll
tax and after the election returned as delin-
quents.
1 4 \ II y
| THE BEST PEOPLE, THE MOST PEOPLE,"
When We came in possession of the affairs
of the State, what did we find? We found
that the people who had been in control of the
State were the "best people," What that
means have never found out. The "best
people are the most people according to the
theory of this government There is no diff
| ference between the poor man and the rich
man or, if there be any, it is simply the diff
ference between the mule and the jackass-
the mule is exactly like the iaokass, only
little more like him." l don't understand the
meaning of this talk about the best people"
l admire the best people, but it is not those
who call themselves the best who are the best,
These I" best people " had been in possession of
the free schools for some years. What was
the duty Of the best people" Poor old Vir-
glnia was SCARED by war, and her people were
impoverished and dcsolate, Vast masses of
her people had been invested with suffrage
after $50 years of slavery. Now, if they had
been the "hest people" what would they have
done? Would they not have bestowed upon
the masses the God-given boon of free educa-
cation-their duty to their God, to their State
and to their tellow-men Yet these "best
people" had Governor who said education
Was luxury; and candidate for Governor
who spent the most of his canvass in explain
ing that he did not want to burn up the school
| houses.
"Too MUCH NIGER IN THE PARTY"
There is not too much niger in the Read
juster party for me, and say 1t as man, as a
white man. I say it as a Virginan and as
Confederate soldier, who bears the marks of
war upon his body, and has been stamped by
old Virginia as her own. There is not too
much niger in the Readjuster party, and /,
thank God that they are there. 1 feel no re-
sentiment toward them; on the contrary. |