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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

The funeral of the late Rev. Patrick F.
Hasty took place at Norfolk, Friday. the
sermon being preached by Bishop Keane
Fathers McKeefery of Martinburg, Brady
of Portsmouth, Wilson of Petersburg.
Dougherty of Richmond, and O'Keefe of
Norfolk, were present. During Father
Hasty's illness an abcess formed in his
leg and the limb was amputated to pre-
vent blood poisoning. He bore the omera.
ton on Christmas eve well, but began to
sink on the following Monday. PRAYERS
were offered at the hospital by Bishop
Keane for his recovery. The deceased was
an earnest young priest and was highly
esteemed in the diocese.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

Commenting on the new and absurd
proposition of Mr.. Riddleberger that tax
payers shall prove the genuineness of the
coupons they tender before the collie or
shall receive them, the New York "World''
appositelv remarks:
Suppose, for instance, 1t should be enact
ed by this Republican Congress, that
whereas many counterfeit greenbacks are
circulating, whenever greenbacks accord
ing to their face are presented to Sub
Treasurer Acton, Collector Robertson. or
any receiver of internal revenue in paw
ment of duties or fees, those greenbacks
shall be impounded and payment In gold
exacted. leaving the owner to his expen-
sive litigation before Judge Blatchford to
show that bis greenbacks were genuine?
Such Federal statute would be Just as
honest as the Riddleberger statute.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

The "Virginian" Of yesterday does not
touch the point raised with reference to
the State charities. The question is not
about t'partizan boards" Nobody expects
Gov. Cameron to appoint other than Re-
adjuster boards and it would be absurd to
say that perfectly competent gentlemen OF
his party cannot be found to fill those
boards. The point urged by the VINDI-
GATOR and approved by the 'State' is
that it is the worst sort of policy to re-
move experts satisfactorily filling posi-
tions in the State charities to replace them
by inexperienced men in recognition of
their political services. And to this prop
ositlon we count upon the unreserved as.
sent of the 1sVirginian.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
Am inventory of the property in Paris

An inventory OF; the property in Paris
belonging to the city estimates the total
value at s2O1 200 900, the principal items
in the inventory being the newly consJruc-
ted Hotel de Villes the 81 town halls, one
to each acknowledgements: ga Roman CathO-
lie churches, 8 Protestant churches and 2
synagogues; 80 1ncumbents' houses, the
funeral establishment higher and secon-
Diary schools, 143 primary schools, thea
tres. 20 barracks, s halls and markets, 1876
octroi buildings, 19}cemeteries, A parks,
squares and nursery gardens; Sc statues
and fountains, and 1888 canals and depots.
M. F. Coppedge, a native of Lynchburg,
| Va, is IN prison at New Orleans for the
alleged murder of hiss wife. He claims
that his three year old son accidentally dis
charged the revolver, but the fact THAT on
ly the week before he had persuaded MS
wife to make will giving all her property
to him, and also the circumstance that his
wife's life was insured iu his favor, have
caused his arrest.
The admission of colored clergyman
to the Memphis Presbytery has excited
some opposition. The Rev. Dr.. Baird.
strenuously objects. Zone of the condl-
tions of ordination. y he says, lis that a
man shall be able to edify the church.
Now, [ risk nothing in asserting that no
negro man in the present condition OF the
church and the world can attain unto this
essential qualification for the position Of
a minister among u.s."
The schoolmistress at Rush Greek, Ohio.
is short and slender. Considering her
lightness, nine of the biggest boys conclu
ded that it would be trihing fext to pick
md
house; but they did not take her activity
into account, and when they undertook to
carry out the plot she fractured one skull
with a heavy ruler, scratched several faces
terribly, and discolored three eyes.
Lord Salisbury has RENTED the whole
of his agricultural rents for the last half
year. He has, however, London estate
worth some $150,000 a year to struggle
along upon.
Miss Caroline Kane May, the young
lady about whom her brother foughta
| duel with James Gordon Bennett of the
| N. Y. Herald was married in New
York last week to VIM. Merritt Wright.
| The smallpox is almost an epidemic in
New York and other of the larger cities.
Samuel w Piercy, leading actor in Ed
win Booths company, is ill Of it at Bos-
| ton.
President Arthur keeps his dead wife's
portrait, which hangs in his room at the
White House, wreathed with flowers,
which are renewed every day.
| The Lynchburg National Baak and the
| Peoples Bank of that city announce that
| from and after January LIST, their rate of
discount will be six per cent. per annum.
| An Indianapolis bigamist was only sew
enteen at first marriage and nineteen at
| second.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
The Rockbridge Election Case.

Editors indicator:
Your correspondent being present when
the House of Delegates had under discus
sion the sContested election of Frazier
and Lady VS.. Leech and Dunlap" had the
pleasure of hearing four very able speeches
from Mr.. A. B. Evans, Col. Skinner, of
YOUR city, Holmes Conrad, of Winchester,
and TAYLOR Scott, of Fauquer-member
of the Conservative side of the House.
After Col. Skinner spoke there was pause
for some little time; but no reply coming
from the other side of the hall Messrs.
Scott and Conrad resumed the discussion.
These members all spoke in favor of
Lsech and Dunlap, the sitting mem
bers. The speakers, although the time for
investigating the case was quite limited,
showed familiarity with ali the facts and
presented them so plainly and forcibly,
that it il surprising indeed that the House
arrived at such conclusion. But why
need we express our surprise knowing Ma
hone and his followers? No one need be
surprised at any excess, however devoid OF
Justice and reason, that may be perpetra-
ted in the House of Delegates this winter.
The action taken in this case of unseating
Leech and Dunlap, is but foretaste OF
what we may expect hereafter.
Next to securing the offices, is to Wreak
their spite on "Funders.' There was
never a set of men more enslaved than the
followers of Malone in the Virginia Leg
isIature. The dictum of Malone is their
chief ioy-their watch Word''-in all
matters. He has but to speak aid they
obey. The most extravaganza measure has
only to be suggested by this Autocrat, and
it IS speedily executed. He thinks, sug-
gests, and directs-they willingly execute.
The faster they grind, the sooner over.-
This mOngrel party must sooner OF later
die from the foul breath of its own vicious
acts Although the picture is a disgust
ing one. still sense of pride was felt
when we turned our eyes from the right OF
the Hall of Delegates to the left Of the
aisle, and Witnessed the efforts of those
true, whole-souled Virginians, Evans.
Skinner, Scott and Conrad, to reason the
case with those WHO had manifestly pre-
convincing Agrippa than did these men
this partizan court.
AS a citizen of Rockbridge, and neigh
Dor OF yours, having an interest In con-.
mon with you in all enterprises and insti:
Iutlops, save that of the Valley Road and
the INDICATOR. allow me to congratu-
late the good people of old Augusta or
possessing the services of one, so true and
faithful in the House of Representatives
as the honorable gentleman from your city
whose name appears in this article. Your
other representatives are so well and ia
vorably known that it would be but use
less waste of time to comment. A vote
Of thanks from the good people of Rock
bridge is certainly due to Col. Skinner fol
the able and mastery effort made for theil
rights, and their chosen representatives
Leech and Dunlap. who were unseated by
partizan committee against his mos
solemn appeals and protest.
ROCKBRIDGE.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
vou were not conscious ?''

you were not conscious ~ ,,
mo, sir; I was always conscious"
.sTf that be 80 YOU would know whether
YOU ATTEMPTED to commit suicide I"
mo, did not" .
"You say you never did -
mo, did not" .,
"Who was it said you did =,
81 am sure did not know" ,,,,,
ssBut YOU heard people say you ola I"
You heard it before to-day? p"
ives. heard it before to-day"
"From whom did you hear it before TO-
day 20
II do not know" ~,
From some person about you ?"
II really do not know. People do say
different things"
'Bu5 you deny it 7"
'sYe s, sir"
The President said that owing to NOR
bid and diseased state of mind the respon-
dent was unable to appreciate the nature
of the contract into which she was enter
ing at the time of the marriage ceremony
and accordingly pronounced decree nisi
of nullity of marriage, but without costs.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

The best use that lynch law has been
pat to for long time, is reported from
Arkansas. 1t seems that Col. L. M. Bell,
prominent planter residing near the vii
lage OF Hamburg, SO brutally beat his wife
that she died. On the night of the funer-
al the villagers and neighboring farmers
took the Colonel out and hung him. The
mob evidently believed in the maxim of
another Colonel that ''He who lays his
hand upon woman, save in the way of
kindness is coward whom it we're base
fattery to call brute"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
THE OPENING YEAR FOR
VIRGINIA.

The Virginian must be hard to satisfy
who cannot look with satisfaction at the
prospect for his state at this opening OF
a new year. Taking Richmond as sam
ple-and when the metropolis is prosper
GUS the whole State is prosperous-we Can
but rejoice over her good fortune. In the
past year the products of her manufactures
have exceeded those of 1880 by over eight
millions OF dollars; the shipping has in
creased over fifty per cent, and the rail-
road freight and passenger traffic center
ing there has increased nearly as much
All over the State enterprise and industry
have had full swing and reaped fill re-
ward. The crops have been good and the
prices for them Unexpectedly good. Rail
roads are being built over her fields and
depots erected through her agricultural
and mineral regions. Mines are b-ing
opened and new industries proJecled. In
short, she is sharing in the general pros.
perity of the country, and ike Georgia,
has gotten into the line.
A man can hardly travel twenty miles
from home now without seeing the inpr"ve-
ment in the country. In every village in the
State the new life is more or less marked.
and where this is to be seen you may be
sure that the back country is thriving
For after all, the villages and towns and
cities are but the carriers and statesmen and
manufacturers for the agricultural coun-
try back of them. And in this b.ck coun-
try there is something going Gu now that
was never seen before, something that has
raised Virginia long step in the list OF
the iron producing States of the Union;
for wheI cas-, the census of 1870 showed her
to be the twelfth State in the production
of iron ORE, that of 1880 puts her down as
the eighth. In the last year also, in her
| twenty-six establishments for the manu-
| tacture of iron, she gave employment to
more than five thousand of her popula-
| tion.
The prospects of the new year SO far,
for the farmer, are excellent, and the
| whole outlook, business and agriculture,
are of the most encouraging character.
| There will be, we trust, in addition to
these blessings q long stretch OF much
needed quiet in State politics, during
which the people may attend to more prac-
tical affairs. So that taking everything
together, every citizen of the State may
congratulate himself on the circumstan
ces that surround him at this opening
week of the new year.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

1t is not 30 certain that the sailor super.
stition about unlucky ships hasn't some
thing in it. The old steamer Shirley,
which took fire once at her wharf at Balti-
more, and had other misfortunes and got
name for i'll luck, was entirely rebuilt
and called the "West Point" Her luck
pursued her and at her wharf at West
Point, few days ago, she was burned and
nineteen persons lost their lives.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

The ''Whig'' says Gov. Cameron's mes
sage will be sent to the Legislature to-day,
and learns that it will be short and to the
point. If this prove true, it will vindicate
the superior wisdom of having elected
journalist, Governor, for there Is 10
telling the amount of words the public
have to wade through annually in Presi-
dents and Governors messages, Simply
from the inability of their authors to con-
dense.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

West Virginia is now engrossed with the
question of who shall be her next Senator.
Senator Davis declines reelection and the
Wheeling Register" announces on what
1t says seems to be good authority that
ex-senator Hereford declines to be a can
dldate for the place. Judge Hoge, CD.
Faulkner and ex-Gov. Matthews are all
spoken of for the vacancy.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

1t appears that the ''Bourbons'' are at
tie head of pretty much all the railroad
building and improvements IN the South.
Senator Joe Brown, of Ca. Wade Hamp-
ton, Of S. g., and Hammond, Ca, are at
the head of the syndicate of officials of thes
Western and Atlantic railroad system.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
Sudden wealth has had bad effect on a.

Sudden wealth has had bad effect on a
Boston stock Spectator. Formerly he
was Well-behaved. Now he keeps his house
| lighted from attic to cellar all night long
| and passes hours in smashing costly china
and glass. Occasionally he opens the
| windows and yells like lunatic Officers
who entered his house lately found bush
els OF broken articles. He goes to his Of
flee in the day time quite soberly.
The Temperance Colonization Society
of Canada intends to establish colony of
total abstainers on large scale. A mil
lion acres of Government land has been
secured for the purpose, and. people who
hate alcohol are invited to settle on it, the
farms being sold at slightly less than the
established price.
colored man in Louisa county infec-
ted with smallpox was refused admission
to the hOspi al at the muzzle of shot gun.
He returned to his home, seven miles dis
tant, oG foot, and Was conslderate enough
to carry in his hand an improyised small
pox flag as a warning to people not to ap-
prOach him.
Minnie Brooks, Chicago white woman,
drew public atten ton to herself a year
ago by turning her beer garden into re-
llglous meeting house, and taking the lead
IN revival meetings held therein. She has
now become conspicuous anew by marry
Ing negro.
Several cases of smallpox have been re-
Gently reported in Louisa county, Va, the
disease having been brought there by COL
in Richmond, but the disease has finally
been stamped out.
Thomas T. Henry, a colored resident of
Philadelphia, was admitted to the bar Sat-
urday. Henry was born In Richmond,
Va. He was a letter-carrier in that city
by appointment of Miss Van Lew.
An effort is being made in Hartford,
Conn, to enforce an old blue law which
makes concert going on Sunday nights
penal offence.
In Selma, Ala, New Year night, R. t.
Adams, proprietor of the Southern Hotel,
shot and killed babe" Burns, VINO was
practising on him with revolver.
President Arthur, President Davis of
the Senate. Secretary of the Treasury Fol-
ger and Postmaster General Howe, are
all widowers.
Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, has writ
ten a letter urging the nomination of Hon.
Samuel ]. Tllden as the Democratic can
didate for the next presidency.
Rev. DR.. Henry Mcdonald, has resigned
the nastorate of the Second Baptist church
at Richmond, to accept call TO Atlanta,
Ga.
Two thousand one hundred and ninety
five deeds were recorded in the clerks Of
fee of The Chancery Court of Richmond,
during the past year.
The City Council of Petersburg have
elected Col. F. II. Archer, Mayor, vice
Col. Cameron resigned.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria "Gazette," asserts that Sena-
tor Malone has recommended D. Sheffey
Lewis, son of ex-senator Lewis, for ap-
pointment to the position of U. S. Alto r
ney for the Western District Of Virginia
in place of Warren S. Lurty, the lncum-
bent. We have seen the report nowhere
else
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
Sestern Asylum.
The%aes
RICH pND, VA. Dec. 81, 1881.

~'-0' ,'
10 the Editor qgsssSae Wing:
I see by da " mysterious, bloodhound
ling communication in the "Whig" OF to-
day. signed "a Stalwart Readjuster, that
dreadful doings are limited at as regards
the Staunton Lunatic Asylum. The wri-
ter has all the imagination OF Chas. Reed.
A homeless fugitive! and cruel attendants!
1t only needs a beautiful matron, who falls
in love with the h. f., to complete the
tale.
Now, Mr.. Editor, have been through
the Western Lun&tic Asylum many times,
both in my official capacity as member OF
the Legislative Committee on Asylums
and Prisons and as professional journal
lists on the qui viUe to find out all kind OF
romances and horrors and retail them to
the press. | have examined the asylum
from top to bottom have eaten of the
meals furnished the inmates [ have in
tervewed the patients, both confined as
lncurable and discharged as cured, and
have never heard one charge of either IN
humanity or i'll treatment against either
attendants or surgeons.
[ write this in spirit only of fairmind-
edness, do not know personally, single
officer of the asylum, and 1 dislike to see
duy Wliu, sCdtIeI -pIdiHeu, So-OH-dG-uall-
cock scribbler make false charges. based on
an escaped lunatic's tale, against an insti-
tuition that IS Il pride to Virginia.
1t is wrong and many people who have
some unfortunate inmate of their family
somA kith and kin lmmured in its walls
reading such communications are rendered
miserable and unhappy.
L. kindness, tenderness to the ones at
ficted by God, in cleanliness, in diet. in
treatment, there Is no institution that has
done Or is doing more or stands higher than
the Western Lunatic Asylum.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

A serious warning has occurred in Arkan.
SAG to ladies who kill their husbands with.
olt proper elaboration. Mrs. Bolan, OF
Rogersville in that State, shot and killed
l. Iudy duu Ou Of1UuI udy UU'
came SO convinced that she had commit,
ted an error that she killed herself in pris-
on. This shows the necessity of reflection
in even the most trivial matters.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

A few days ago, Senator elect Riddleber
ger being at his home, in Woodstock, on a
visit, committee of citizens without re-
gard to party presented him with a gold
headed cane. Judge Henry e. Allen made
the presentation speech which was respon-
ded to by Capt. Riddleberger.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06
b. TINDICATOR AND THE OLD
YEAR.

We should be unmindful of a very pleas
81 obligation did we not return the
ends of this journal our sincere thanks
IS the generous and greatly increased pat
s age with which they have favored it in
past year. The good will of a. large
of intelligent men is a pleasant thing
ave, but when it has las from long
anding rule in this Office it has to,j pass
81 i through the test of payment in advance
st possesses two values, where before it
aly had one. The subscription list of
journal at the close of the year, last
prday, was larger than it has been for
ten years and presents, we presume,
+ ly the largest list of prepaid subscri-
IT any country Journal in Virginia.
very probably q larger list of that class
patrons than three or four of the aver
WI 5f such journals, perhaps, dubbed TO-
ner. This is not only pleasant refec-
ylon for the proprietors, but should be for
THE subscribers, for it is always an agreea-
bic Thought to the subscriber that he is
reading journal that everybody else is
reading.
And this leads us to say word about
the advance payment system; a plan that
would be beneficial if adopted and adhered
to by every newspaper. Nine years ago
the INDICATOR led the way for what are
called the country papers and made the
experiment. We were warned that it
Wouldn' It do: that the people were not used
to it and that it would be failure. But
we found that there is really but one prep
aration necessary to it and that is getting
ss5asst good newspaper. That done and
.ere is no trouble. The people know good
as well as the man that makes
it, and when they see one are as willing to
pay for it in advance as they would be at
the end of the year. For journal that
lacks this qualification they are unwilling
to pay either before or after they have re-
cejved it.
From the past-it is SO seldom that we
e the VINDICATOR chance to say any
abont 1tself that we must make room
fe' words from tive turn to the
q. LII the year to come we hope to
this journal up to it's past standard
"a energetic, reliable, newsy home pa
10 the extent that none who read the
led intelligence printed in its columns,
II be uninformed of every event of in
tsrest in our neighborhood, State or conn-
try. In it's political conduct, as well as in
everything else, 1t will preserve that fair
ness that we trust has always characterized
vt and which has been maintained at any
hst towards both friend and opponent.
will remain what it has always been-a
pr with Democratic principles, indie
ent of all politicians, whether great or
and never, we trust. afraid to do
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-06

Paul H. Hayne was wealthy before the
war, but now he is very poor, and too i'll to
work. His residence is little more than a
hut, standing alone in clump OF scrub
oak on a sandy knoll, twenty miles from
Atlanta, Ga. The commonest necessities
of life are all that he can procure; but he
goes on rhyming, in a room papered with
pictures cut from Illustrated newspapers
and on desk made out of an old work
bench left on the premises by carpenter.
John McCreery, who belongs to proml-
nent family of Elkton, Nd, is insane.
Last August he wandered of and disap-
peared. Rivers were dragged. the forests
hunted and rewards offered for his recov-
cry without success. Last week a gentle
man who walked into the Chester, Pa,
aluns-house, recognized McCrery as one of
the inmates and restored him to his
friends.
Lexington, Va, had greatly enjoyed for
several weeks the fine conversation and
distinguished manner of cultivated
stranger named Wallace. 1t was therefore
greatly surprised few days ago when he
was taken away on requisiton from the
Governor of Tennessee for forgery. He
proved to be the noted fOrger, DR.. Weir,
of New Jersey, who had been in the Penn
i isylvania penitentiary.
Justice Thomas M. Brown lies paralyzed
at his home on the southwest edge of the
city. He cannot walk, and one of his
arms is affected. Mr.. Brown was men,
Der of the Union Legislature of Virginia,
which held sessions at the Council Cham
bers here during the alexandria
Gazette.
When Edwin Booth built his fine thea
tire in New York, he paid J. Augustus
Page $3.50, 900 for the ground, and put on
it a building costing $3.50, 900. Booth was
bankrupted and last week Page bought
both ground and building at auction for
$3.50 900.
Judge Lowell, State Senator from that
district, announces himself candidate
for the clerkship of Warren county, made
vacant by the death of Capt. Baker.
Capt. Robert F. Dennis, Of Greenbrier,
lis prominently spoken of as fit recipient
of Congressional honors in that district
this year.
The President Is brother, Maj. VIM. Ar
ta,uir, has been assigned to Gen. Hancock:s
staff and has reported for duty.
Rev. John N. Stirewalt, of Page county.
has been called to tho Lutheran church, at
Rochelle, in Madison county. Va.
Sheep in some parts of the Valley are
ia fsir way to be annihilated by dogs.
The wife of Auditor John E. Massey,
who has been quite i'll, is recovering.