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Good Cook Wanted
At the st. Leonard hotel. s-25-u
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-28

Common a. Hawks.
Lightning rods at 20 cents foot. S-T-lm
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

Some people tell us that our colored
friends are offended at being called negroes.
We believe it is true as to some of them.
But this arises from misunderstanding of
the real meaning of the word ''negro' which
is derived from the Latin word ''niger,
and is of the same meaning as the French
word ''negre'' also derived from the Latin
s'niger" which means 'black:" so that the
phrase ''negro man." means the same as
seblack man., and the expression ga negro"
means black person. This is all of it.
Some years ago we were in the habit of
reading the Richmond Star, owned and ed
tied by intelligent black men, and they
habitually and very often used the words
''negro'' and s'negroes" instead of 'colored
persons" or 'Fblack people," And in doing
so they showed that that they were not
ashamed of being known as black
people or negroes, and that they knew the
true meaning of the word negro. The ap-
pellation ''nigger" has its origin in igno-
rance and is used by the ignorant and vul-
gar for the word negro. That form of the
word casts reflection upon the intelligence
of the person who uses it, rather than upon
the person intended to be described by it.
We make this explanation that our colored
friends may understand, when we call them
negroes, we mean no reflection whatever
upon them, and only adopt it because we
can express the idea with one word, instead
of by the use of two words, viz: black per-
son, eolored person and the ike.-Chd
| lOttespiUe JefersOnldn
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

AS the Alexandria Gazette says, ''the
chief object of the State Democratic Con-
vention to meet in Lynchburg next month
should be to reorganize the party thor
oughly and completely. 1t should provide
for central, congressional, county, and
magisterial, and city and ward committees
to be differed not with speakers, (they can
be obtained whenever wanted, but with
workers, those of the wards and magis-
terial committees to be men who will make
it their business to see that the name OF
every voter in their respective districts is
enrolled, with the way he is going to vote
noted, so that in Virginia, as in other
States, the exact condition of the party
may be known beforehand, and steps be
taken to strengthen the weak points. After
the election, if there are any offices at the
disposal of the party, they should be given
to the men who have labored in the cause,
that is, of course, provided they be COM
petent to fill them. What is everybody
business is nobody's, and the experience OF
the last two or three years should teach
Virginia Democrats that the sooner they
abandon that plan, and employ efficient
agents to perform specific work, the better
it will be for them"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

"LOoK UPON THAT PICTURE AND THEN
UPON THIS. THE Washington Gazette
presents the following contrast
What a pitiable spectacle this great ma
ton presents.
Gladstone, with imperial power, because
he has An imperial intellect, rules England.
Bismarck, the man of blood and iron,
dominates Germany.
Grevy, the loyal, clear headed statesman,
rules France.
Even the ghost of the dead Gortschakoff
brings pallor to the face of the Russian
nihilist
And, after that Arthur is President of
the United States.
Fit companion for that other western po-
tentate, King Kalakaua.
This latter represents, by his drunken
debauchery, the leprous-eaten people of his
race.
Does Arthur in his imbecility represent
the honor the dignity, the power of this
great nation?
Is he not a round peg in square hole?
Washington, Jefferson, jackson, Lincoln,
Grant, and then Arthur
Alexander Hamilton, Albert Gallatin,
Levi Woodbury., Salmon P. Chase, and
then. Folger!
Edmund Randolph, William Writ. Felix
Grundy, and then Benjamin Harris Brews-
ter
We ask the people to look upon that pic
ture and then upon this
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12
Mah0ne's Republicanism &.

That the Republicans of Virginia look
upon General Malone as their leader and
fully committed to their party is evident in
many ways. Read the following extract
from letter written by Republican in
Norfolk
sit is evident that the condition of the
Republican party in Virginia is much better
now under the leadership of Gen. Malone
than it ever was under the leadership of
Mr.. Dezendorf The State has been
wrested from Democratic control by Ma
hone, and the Coalition party has fair
prospect of carrying the electoral vote for
the Administration candidate in 1884. If
we fail to do so it will be on account ofsuch
men as john F. Dezendorf and his follow
ers. Iappend one of his circulars, all of
which have kept to this day, and also a
receipt to gentleman who was in another
gang who did not pay the blood money.
Respectfully, &c,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12
Wages Of WOrkIngmen.

The Secretary of the Illinois Labor Blu
reau has compiled some interesting facts
respecting wages. From large amount of
data he shows that the average annual in
come of workingmen of all occupations in
Chicago is $908, 70; two trades show in
comes of over 5000; five average over $500;
nine classes earn over $500, and nineteen
upward of $780, Stationary engineers re-
port the largest earnings-$916. The
smallest average earning of any trade is
$502
A very interesting phase of the exhibit is
that which shows the comparative rate of
wages in industries that are and are not
protected. The trades best paid are those
not protected by the tariff and those receiv-
ing the lowest wages are those engaged in
industries which are protected.
A good deal of the sham of high pro-
tective tariff in its relation to the wages of
workingmen is shown up by such comparl-
sons for it is fact above dispute that the
great mass of American laborers are en-
gagged in pursuits which are not affected by
foreign competition nor are they affected by
the tariff except as it makes all they eat
and wear much more expensive and con-
sequently gives their wages less purchas-
ing power.
We did not observe that the Tariff Com :
mission was visited at any point in it's
travels by workingmen or any representa-
tive of millions whose wages are affected by
the incongruities of the existing tariff, and
who of all other classes of people, are affect
ed most injuriously by the tariff. 1t is not
at all probable that the interests of the
laboring man will be considered by the
Commission. Tt is hard to rouse the labor
ing man himself to proper interest in the
matter, but it is only necessary that it shall
be understood to array the great body of
laboringmen on the side of revenue reform.
-WHeeLinq REGISTER.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

What we have held, and do hold still, and
the Wing in former times, when it support
ed the Democracy, held the same views, is
that the white people of this State are its
legitimate rulers, the only sovereign power
in the State, and any pretended officers who
owe their places to any other power, and
recognize any other ruler or sovereign, are
but pretenders and qsurpers. Now, Came
ron, Blair and Farr owe the positions they
claim to fill to the authority of no sovereign
power, but entirely to the negroes of Vir-
ginia, who voted solidly for them, and who
set them over the white people. These ne
groes are their constituency, and also their
masters, and what these negroes order they
are compelled to perform. When the ne
groes orderd them to place men of their COL
or on the School Board to represent their
race they obeyed. They could not help
themselves; they must do it, for they are in
the power Of the African. They had placed
themselves at his head, were his recognized
leaders, and could not escape the response
bilities of the position they had assumed.
And so it will always be in Virginia.
There are but two parties here as elsewhere.
One is the Democratic party, the other the
negro Republican party led by Malone.
The first is composed of the great mass
of the white people of Virginia, with here
and there struggling negro, one, perhaps,
to county, in about the same proportion
as black sheep to flock; while the other is
composed of the great mass of the negro
population, with few white men, mostly
Radicals from the North, or from other
countries, and some recreant natives of the
State, who have deserted from the Demo-
cratic party and are making open and active
war against their own people at the head of
their African legions This is the political
situation in Virginia. State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

Some of the revenue tariff democratic
newspapers of the North, in urging the
democrats to take decided and emphatic
ground in favor of such a tariff, say that
Virginia would be lost to them on that
account, but that by it they would gain
several Northern States. That the advo-
cacy Of revenue tariff would give the dem
ocrats several Northern States is by no
means improbable, for all but the owners of
manufactures in those States see the gross
injustice and feel the heaviness ofthe burden
to which they are subjected by protective
tariff; but that such advocacy would neces-
sarily lose Virginia is by no means so GER
tain, provided the democratic canvassers
would take the trouble to render themselves
/ familiar with the tariff question so as to be
able to make their hearers understand that
they have to pay more than double for al
most everything they consume and that of
all the millions thus exacted of them only
small part ever reaches the Treasury, near
ly all going to swell the wealth of few
monopolists, OF being wasted in unproduc-
tive, because ill-located, manufactures in the
North, which, if brought South, as they
would be were it not for the existing tariff,
would be profitable investments. Virginia
is a democratic State, and all that is requi-
site to make her voters support the demo-
cratic idea ola revenue tariff, which prevents
the whole body Of the people from being
taxed for the benefit of a privileged few, is
to have the tariff explained to them by
speakers who understand the subject
AteGGn9ftG Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

MALONE STILL TRYING TO Boss.--A
Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press, republican, says: "Despite tine re-
verses which lie has sustained in the recent
election, Malone has not relinquished his
efforts to boss everybody who opposes him.
At the last session of Congress bill was
passed making an appropriation to build a
custom-house at Lynchburg. Harry Locher,
proprietor Of cement works at Balcony
Falls, recently rec eived letter from Ma
hone informing him that unless he shaped
his political course to suit the Senator he
would not be permitted to furnish cement
to be used in the construction fthe govern
ment building referred to. Locher gave
the boss to understand that he should pay
no attention to the threat, and should vote
as he saw proper The attention OF the
authorities at Washington will be called to
this effort of Malone to influence Loche1
to the detriment of the civil service reforms
recently inaugurated."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

The danger of long skirts is advanced on
the belief that it was woman who first
stumbled and fell in the jam on the Brook
lyn bridge. In this connection it is said,
too, that the stumbling Of a woman caused
the fatal block at the Brooklyn Theatre in
1876, and the same cause is assigned to the
fatal block in a Catholic church few years
ago. And SO it seems, in all our accidents
since tie time Of Madame Eve, we put the
''blame on the woman and that no mat
ter what may happen, a woman is still cat
the BOTTOM as, poor creature, she really
was in this panic, and, in most others, with
great heap of sturdy men piled on top of
her.-Richmond State,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

The JUDICIAL OFFICE.-Men who have
a proper regard for the purity and sanctity
of the Judicial office, and who have too
much honor and self-respect to suffer them
selves to be mere puppets in the hands of
an INSCRIPTIONS ''Boss," who would make
party instruments Of them, and thus de-
grade them in their own esteem, as well as
in that of the public, will rather resign
than hold their Office under such circum-
stances. Such men deserve praise and
honor, whilst such as Judge Mays, OF
Botetourt, who seems to delight in dis
honoring and disgracing the judicial office,
deserve but the indignant condemnation
and whitening scorn of all good and respec-
table citizens. Quarles and Mays, how
great the contrast
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

BURNING OF BARNUM's CIRCUS TENT.-A
fire broke out in Barnum's circus in Chica-
90 at O'Clock last Tuesday morning, con-
Stunning the main tents, dresses and parapher-
MALTA The fire caught from one Of the
lamps, and the canvas was consumed like a
flash. There was no loss of life. The an
imals were in a separate tent and were not
injured. The loss rs about $4,000. The
management have a duplicate tent. The
canvas destroyed covered six acres Of
ground.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

The Lynchburg Adcance, referring to the
Wing on the Funder dread of ''thunder,"
pointedly remarks that it doesn't matter
about the thunder (which is always harm
lessl since lightning struck the Coalition
party on the 9th of May, and cyclone
will sweep away The rooster and cannon
this Fall. . \
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

MARRIAGE OF FRANK BANGs.-Mr.
Frank Bangs, the popular actor, was mar
riedin Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, by Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, Monday afternoon OF
last week, to Mrs La Grove, known profes-
sionally as Agnes Leonard. The bride is a
daughter of the late Mr.. Singer, of sewing
machine fame, from whom, it is said, she
has inherited a fortune amounting to $780,
600 a year. The bride was divorced from
her first husband, by whom she has three
children. Mr.. Bangs is a native of Alexan-
dria, Va, and served in the Confederate
army during the late war.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

A DIPLOMATIC WEDDING.-In the pic
turesque little Protestant Episcopal Church
ofSt. Philip, in the Highlands, near Samson
Station, on the Hudson river, and opposite
West Point, N. Y, at noon Wednesday,
Miss Edith Fish, daughter of x.Secretary
Of State Hamilton Fish, was married to Mr..
Hugh Oliver Northcote, son of Sir Stafford
Northcote, of Devonshire, England, and for
long period the resident English minister
at Washington.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

To an unbiased and well-informed man
there is nothing palmer than the fact that
protection does not protect labor; and as
soon as the report of the Senate committee
on labor is printed, it will be shown by the
evidence of those best qualified to know,
the officers Of the labor associations, that
the physical and moral condition of labor
in the manufacturing Gowns of New Eng
gland, under the protective system, is but
little if any better than that Of the denseiy
populated cities of Old England, under the
free trade system. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

They may taunt us with Southern lack of
culture, aaFlessness and all that; but in all
the South a community cannot be found in
which 100 white women, or one-tenth of
that number, ever did, or would take tie
lead in riot and fire pistols at the author
tiles who we're trying to maintain law and
order. That is Hhigher civiiization''
which we have not attSined and do not
aspire to. Rome, (G0.) Courier, Democrat.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

A MAN AND Two HORSES KILLED.-On
last Saturday afternoon, as the wagon of
Mr.. John S. White, to which three horses
were attached, was being driven across the
Virginia Midland railway at Murray's eros
sing, three miles from Charlottesville, it was
struck by freight train going south and
the driver and the two wheel-horses killed.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

WEST VIRGINIA..
The undersigned as Commissioners OF the
circuit court of Pocahontas county, and as At
torneys and Agents of the Piedmont and Airing
ton Life Insurance Company, will by virtue OF
decree of said court, pronounced on the 18th
day of October, 1881, in the chancery causes
therein pending, in the name of NJ. N. Loving
VS.. W. G. Darlington, and The Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance Company VS.. M. N.
Loving and others, and by virtue of their agen-
cy aforesaid, proceed to SELL at public auction,
to the highest bidder, in front of the Court
house OF SAID county, in the town of Hunters
vile, on
Tuesday, The 1911 day Of june 1888,
in lots and parcels to suit purchasers, that VAL
tanning 4715 acres. lying and being on
the old Field FORK of Elk River, in the said
county of Pocahontas, which was formerly
owned by certain James K. Erwin, and famil-
iarly known as the "Ervin Lands" 654 acres
of said lands consisting of Lot No. 3 and part
OF Lot No. 4. will be sold by virtue of said de-
cree. and the residue of said lands will be sold
by us as agentG of said Life Insurance Compa-
NY. Said lands are believed TO be among the
best grazing lands on Elk, and offer rare In
ducements to persons wishing to invest In
Grazing Lands.
TERMS OF SALE:-As to the Goa acres above,
cash in hand sufficient to pay the costs OF said
suits and the expenses of sale, and as to the
residue of the purchase money, a credit of9, IL.
and ~ months will be given, purchaser or
purchasers to execute bonds for said deferred
instalments. with good personal security, bear
ing interest from the day of sale. AS tc the
other lands, One-fOurth cash, and the residue
upon same terms as above. A lien will be re-
tanned upon all of said lands until the purchase
money isfully paid.
CHARLES P. JONES and
VIM. NJ. MCALLISTER,
may22-4t commissioners and Agents.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12
GITY PROPERTY FOR
SALE.

CI,rY PROPERTY FOR
Il SALE.
The undersigned will offer for sale at public
auction, on the premises, the House and Lot
where he now resides, corner of Frederick and
Augusta streets, Staunton, Va, at O'Clock,
p. m, OH
Saturday, June 9th, 1883.
The offer to sell will be made as follow -
First-The entire property 81 ieet on ugus-
IA street and 100 feet on Frederick street. or
Lhereabouts, with all Appearances, including
the use cs the alley the South side of the lot.
Second.-Fhe materials composing the large
brick dwelling loRse, to be removed IN limit
ed time, and the ground in four lots, viz: Three
fronting or Augusta street 29 feet each and
running back so feet to an alleyi ana onefronJ-
ing on Frederick street A feet, and 81 feet Deep
The kitchen, &C, to go with the last mentioned
lot.
Third-The material ofthe dwelling-house as
above, and three lots fronting % feet. each, on
Augusta street. and extending back to an alley
at the Fast end of the premises
If the property shall be sold in parcels, the
front and side iron-railing will be reserved.
Plats showing proposed divisions, &c. may
be seen ct the Drug Store OF George W. May &
Co.
TsRMs :-0ne-third of the purchase money
on day of sale or at sixty days on negotiable
notes satisfactorily endorsed. interest added.
The remainder in two equal instaiEaenES, due
in one and two years respectively, Win Inter
est from date of sale.
S3Possession given Immediately.
may22-tds j. ALEX. WADDELL.
POstponement.-The above sale is post
poned till Saturday nert, June 49, 1888, when the
property " i'll be offered at o'clock, P. M, in
'front.' Of the Court house. j. A. W.
je22 1t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

DAMAGES ECovERED.-Adelaide S.
Smith brought suit under the civil-dam-
ages act in Brooklyn, N. Y, against Pat
rick Dempsey and Cornelius Clarke, liquor
dealers, for $4,000, for selling her husband
liquor and causing him to become drunk
ard. Last Wednesday the jury gave her
a verdict for SO, 500.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

GETUATTON WANTED Az A MiIlnr
y or to rent good mill property. NAkIaCf'
?. =. SCLATER,
Greenville,
jel24tA Augusta Co., Va.
MA RIM E'oK Sal kG--I oder at
Il public sale. on the premises, on the 9Th
dag of June, 1888, one of the most desirable
Farms in Rock bridge county, situated on
Walkers Creek. AZ miles West of Brownsburg.
and miles n orth of Rock bridge Baths. con-
tanning by actual survey
lDS AC IL ES
is we'll watered and In good state of culGiva-
ton. The improvements are a substan- a..sS
tial FRAME D WELLING HOUSE, con- Easd
tanning rooms, covered with tin, 81 new $3.50.
barn. courthouse, smoke-house, spriDg-house,
and kitchen.
Also tract of WOOD LAND, containing al
acres. most of which is well timoered, and
the soil good. Also 40 acres, part of which
is cleared and very productive, and 3 tract Of
20 acres. All OF which will be sold together
or separately to suit purchasers.
TERMS :-One-fOurth CASH when possession
is given.-6elance on credit of |, 2, and years,
with interest from day of sale,
Address W. w. WALKER,
Rock bridge Baths.
mayS-tds Rock bridge Co., Va.
POstpOnement.-The sale of the farm above
advertised has been postponed to We6nesotay,
August SH. W. W. WALkER,
Rock bridge Baths.
jel2-tds Rock bridge Co., Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

A writer in the Scientific american says
that the green worms that eat up growing
cabbage can be des troyed or kept off the
cabbage by sprinkling them with water in
which green tansy has been STEPPED. Put
the tanSy into barrel with water and let
it stand day or two, and use an ordinary
Snrink1er
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

Lightning Tuesday night struck and de-
molished house near Ashland, Pa, oc-
cupied by Hungarians. Oneman was part
ly paralyzed, and another had leg and arm
broken. A woman was knocked senseless,
and another inmate was frightened into in
sanity
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

Mr.. William G. Rives, of Boston, son
of the late Hon. William G. Rives, will de-
liver the memorial address on the life of the
late Prof. William B. Rogers before the
Society Of Alumni at the University of
Virginia on Wednesday, the 27th of June.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

DEATH OF Col. JOHN B. LADY.-Col
John B. Lady, who was prominent Read
juster and member Of the House of Dele
gates the last session died last Friday
monring at his residence near Lexington,
in the 45th year of his age.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

ORDINATION OF ELEVEN AMERICAN
PRIESTS AT RoME.-Eleven seminary or
sub deacons of the American College at
Rome were ordained priests at the Church
OF ST. John of Latern on May 10. After the
ordination the young American priests en-
tered into retreat, preparatory to their de-
parture for their future fields of labor.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-12

A trial has been made in Scotland to test
the value of an acre Of cabbage compared
to the value of an acre Of Swedish turnips,
for fattening sheep, and it was found that
the cabbage was worth very nearly $40 the
,noat