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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

The Funding Bill of 1901 was not the
work of the Democrats. (See the Record)
Under that bill, for which the Democrats
were in no wise responsible, the coupons
C per cent? attached to the bonds, were
made receivable for taxes and all other suma
due the State. This was mandatory I'm
der it $4,000, 900 were funded. The in
terest amounted to 81, 100000 Nearly all
this found its way into the Treasury in the
shape Of coupons, and when the expenses OF
running the State government had been
paid out of the money there, there was not
enough left to pay the sum due the school
fund. We repeat this was not the fault of
the Democrats, but of the Funding Bill
which they did not pass, but under which
they were Obliged to operate.
This state Of things ret earnest and wise
friends of the schools to devising some plan
by which the money due the school fund
should reach it, the salient idea being to
put the school money beyond the reach of
the coupons. This idea eventually crys-
talized into the Henkel School Bill This
bill was drawn by Delegate Henkel; was
amended by Senator G. I. Smith, in some
minor particulars and as amended became a
law. This was in the session of 1S79-'79.
In addition, the same Legislature cut down
the State expenses some 100000. This re-
duction helped the schools materially. So
all this machinery for helping the schools
was contrived, executed and put in force
before the Coalitionists came into power
and they are entitled to no more credit for
the improved condition of the schools than
the man in the moon ls.-Nelson Examiner
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16
NOTICE 70 TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given that the TAKE for
1888 will be ready f,r collection after Octoer Sh.
will meet the Taxrayers At the following
places, prepared to receive Capitation. Proper
state, County and School purposes. will al
so tie pre- pared to receive the Clerk Fees OF VIM.
a Burnett and Jos n. Ryan. and all persons
k knowing themselves indebted for such, Ni ill
is fee quentiy mac e to the payment of Clerk =
Fee-bIIs, for the information of such ersOns,
reference is made To Sec 20, of Chapter iS0, Code
of 1875, and to Acts of Assem- bly, OF lS75-'76,
Chap. l25 in which these fees are placed upon
the same footing as are taxes, and the Clerks
are liable to fine and prosecution for the plac-
ing n my hands of improper Fee-bills
All Taxes due from SeUerly Manor District
will be received in my Office on Court house
Alley in rear of Circuit Clerks Office, from
and after Octoner 9Th.
Middle River DiStrict.-At New Hope on Oc-
ober 9th and ;0lh; Mt. Sidney on October 18th
and 18TH
f2iverheads Disi,ict-At Middlebrook on o.
ttber 10Th /; Newport on, October 18th: Midway
On October 18th; Gteenville on October Goth.
North River District AT Parnassus on Octo-
Der Goth; at Mt Scion on october 3lst; and at
Spring Hill on November lst.
South RiUer District.-At SherandO on NOvem-
Der 9TH; at Waynesboro' on November Sth and
9Th and at Fishersviile on November 10th.
Pastures District AT Buffalo Gap on Novem-
Der 1874; at Deerfie!d on November 18th; at
Churchvile on November 18th; and Craigs-
vile on November 10th.
During the week in which the Baldwin Au-
gusta Fair occurs, beginning Monday. OCTOBER
22ad, my office will be constantly open to re-
ceive Taxes from all portions OF the County.
LIST will be charged Five Per Cent. addition
al. All taxes received at my office on Court
house Alley from and after October Sth, except
that will he absent with the Tickets of the
]. N. MCFARLAND,
oct2 tdecl County Treasurer.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16
Various Causes

Advancing years, care, sickness, disap-
polntment, and hereditary predisposl-
ton-all operate to turn the hair gray,
and either Of them inclines it to shed
prematurely. AYERS HAIR VIGoR will
restore faded or gray, light or red hair
to rich brown or deep black, as may
be desired. 1t softenS and cleanses the
scalp. giving it healthy action. 1t
removes and cures dandruff a1d humors
BY its use falling hair is checked, and
a new growth will be produced in all
cases where the follicles are not do
stroyed or the glands decayed TIE
effects are beautifully shown on brosby
weak, or sickly hair, on which fayy
applications will produce the gloss and
freshness of youth. Harmless and snra
in its results, it is incomparahle nc
q dressing, and is especially valnsd
for the soft lustre and richness of tone
it imparts.
AYERS HAIR VIGoR is colorless.
contains neither oil nor dye; and will
not soil or color white cambria: vet
it lasts long on the hair, and keens
it fresh and vigorous, imparting an
agreeable perfume.
For sale by all druggists.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16
CASABIANCA.

The niger stood in the cotton patch,
Whence all but him had fed;
The whiffle-trees and traces flew
In circles round his head.
Yet greasy, sleek, and black he stood
AS born to rule the storm;
A niger of the blacklist blood
A rough, ungainly form.
The mule kicked on-he would not go
Without his masters word;
That master in the grass lay low
His voice no longer heard.
He called aloud: "say, massa, say,
Mus let dis mule go?"
The master trembled as he lay.
And the niger hollered whoa"
Speak, massa," once again, he cried;
If may yet be gone!
Naught but the whistling hoof replied,
AS fast the mule kicked on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath
And in his kinky hair,
He looked from that lone post of death,
In still, yet brave, despair.
He shouted but once more aloud,
my golly, mus I stayr'
While DER him fast dusty cloud
In pillows made its way.
1t hid the niger from our view,
And filled his shiny eye;
1t rose across the cotton patch
Like clouds across the sky.
There came at last one monstrous kick
The nigger-where was he?
Ask of those heels which flew SO thick
Alas could not see.
The work hands all returned at last;
The mule could not be found.
Death held that niger in his grip
Half buried in the ground.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

FRED. DOUGLASS ON EoUALITY.-In his
great speech before the Louisville negro
convention, this insolent negro, as the
spokesman of his race, said:
'1t is asked on all sides what more can
the negro want, and why are we here to-
dayP Some of these reproachful questions
are from the lips ofcolored men who should
know better than to ask. We are here be-
cause there is strength in the many, and
we are on the eve of great revolution
Now that we are free, we must, like free
men, take the reins in our own hands and
compel the aoorld to receive as as equals =
This city, metropolitan in size, cosmopoli-
tan in ideas, is still not free and liberal
enough in opinions to receive us as equals
in public buildings and hotels This is why
we are in national convention
And Malone and his partisans are the
allies of these negroes of Douglass, and are
pledged to them and to him to carry into
effect all their demands White people Of
Virginia, will you submit to this? If so,
you are unworthy the name of Virginians.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

General Mahone's Washington organ
says the General observes the assaults of
the rule-o1-ruin minority of the Republican
party" The Republican party in Virginia
was powerful organization in 1880, when,
but for the detection in it caused by Ma
hone, some of its members believe it would
have carried the State. But the utter de-
moralization he has produced in it's ranks
during the two years and half that have
since elapsed, which has effected its abso-
Lutte ruin, is sufficient, most people think,
to deserve the assaults of all the factions of
that party.-Aler. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

"Any good shooting on your farm ?''
asked hunter Of farmer. Splendid"
replied the agriculturist, ''there's a dry
well man down in the clover meadow, a
cloth peddler at the house, a candidate out
in the barn, and two tramps down in the
stock-yard Climb right over the fence,
young man, load both barrels, and sail in"
Toledo Blade.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

General Mahone's Washington organ
says General Logan fought against the re-
bellion, and is constant thorn in the side
of Democratic Senators" According to
those who know General Logan best, he
recruited soldiers in Illinois for the South
at the commencement of the war, and was
only induced to remain on the Northern
side by finding that he had been deceived
regarding the popular sentiment of his
State .-Aler. Gazette,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

1867 Prizes. amounting $265 500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only III the office of the Company in New Or
leans.
For further information. write clearly, CIV
ing full address. Make P. o Money Orders
pay a bic and address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NETE0NAE. BANK,
New Orleans. La.
P05TA 1. NssTES and ordinary letters by
Mail or Express tali sums OF s. and upwards by
Express at our eXpenSe) to
NJ. A. DAUFHIN,
New Orleans, La,
or W. A. DAUPHIN,
6O7 Seventh at, Washington, D. c. oct9-5t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

HWhat influence has9 the moon ON the
tide ?'' the teacher asked John Henry
And John Henry said it depended on what
was tied; if it was dog it made him howl,
and if it was gate, it united it, just as
soon asa COW or young man came along.
1t is such things as this that make school
teachers want to lie down and die every
day at 4 O'Clock. arlington Haaokeye.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

A lady says her husband will sit on
hard bench all the afternoon to see base
ball match and never move muscle, but
when he goes to church he can't sit in
cushioned pew for fifteen minutes without
wriggling all over. the seat and changing
his position forty times.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 1, 1885,
TO THE PUBLIC,
INVESTIGATE FOR YOURSELVES.

Postmaster General Gresham having pub
lished willful and malicious falsehood in re-
gard to the character of The Louisiana State
Lottery Company, the following facts are given
to the public to prove his statement that we
are engaged in fraudulent business. to be false
and untrue:-
Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana
State Lottery Company from January /, 1879,
to presene date:-
Paid to Southern Express Co., New
Orleans, T. M. Wescoat, Manager. 81 1866, 800
Paid to Louisiana National Bank,
Jos. H. Oglesby. President............ 1865, 900
Paid to State National Bank, s. HI. Ken
PAID de To- New dreams National Rsn l25o
A. Baldwin, President................ So, $50
Paid to Union National Bank,
s. Charlaron, Cashier 64,450
Paid to Citizens Bank.
E. l.. Carriere, President..... $1,000
Paid to Germania National Bank
Jules Cassard, President.'.. 10000
Paid to Hibernia National Bank.
Chas Palfrey, ashier..... $1,000
Pald TO Canal Bank, Ed. Toby, Cashier. 1850
Paid to Mutual National Bank,
Jos. Mitchell, Cashier............ 5000
Total paid as abcve..................s2,2 5S, $50
Paid in sums of under 81, 900 at the
various offices of the Company,
throughout the United States...... 2,627 4l0
Total paid by all. .............ss4,SS l, 900
For the truth of the above facts we refer the
pubic to the officers of the above named COR
porations, and for our legality and standiag to
the Mayor and Officers of the City of New Or
leans. to the State authorities of Louisiana, and
also to the U. s. Officials of Louisiana. We
claim to be legal, honest. and correct in all our
transactions, as much SO as any business in the
country. Our standing is conceded by all who
will investigate, and our stock has for years
been sold at our Board of Brokers, and owned
by many of our best known and respected citi-
Zens.
M. A. DAUPHIN, President.
R5- CAPITAL PRIZE, $4,000. "a
Tickets only So Shares in proportion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

COMMISSIONER.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legis-
la. ure for Educational and Charitable purposes
with a capital of 81 900. G00-to which a reserve
fund of over $3.50, 900 has since been added
By an overwhelming popular vote Its fran
chise was made part of the present State Con-
stitution adopted December End, A. D., 1879.
The only Lottery eUer voted on and endorsed 5y
the people of any State.
II qteUer scales or poStponeS.
ITS Grand Single Number Drawings
take place Monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN
a FGRTUNE. ELEVENTH GRAND ORA w
ING, CLASS l.. AT NEW ORLEANS, TUEs-
DAY, November Is, ISS3-I62nd Month
ly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, &75, 1000.
100000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in FiFtIas in proportion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16
A5- CAPITAL PRIZE, $4,000. "a
Tickets only So. shares in proportion.
Louisiana State Lottery Company

Louisiana State Lottery Company.
We do hereby certify that zoe supervise the ar
engagements for all tn Monthly and SENT nnual
DRAWINGS of The Louisiana State Lottery Compd-
ny, ana IN person manage and control The Draa0
ings themselves. and that the same are conducted
tUth honesty, fairness and in good faith tolUdrd
all parties, and authorize the Company to atse
this certificate, a0ith fc-sin,ites of signatures
in its advertisements.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-16

1oo' ITIZes, SIIU,4UO
wnOle Tickets. Sc. Half Tickets, 81.
~ Tickets, $50. 55 Tickets, SIOO.
Remit money or Bank Draft in Letter, or
send by Express. DON'T SEND BY REGIS
TERED LETTER OR POST OFF, E ORDER
uhtiI further notice. ORDERS OF S. and up
ward by Express can be sent at our EXPENSE.
Vile, KY. oct2-st
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TRAVELLERS, GUIDE.
OHEsAPEAKE d OHIO RAILWAY.
Open through Kentucky via Lexington,

The ONLY LINE running
Pullman Sleeping Cars and Day Coaches and Two
Through Trains from
Washington, Richmond, Charlottesville,
Waynesboro, Stanton and Clifton Forge,
TO CINCINNATI and LOUISVILLE.
Connecting direct for all points in the WEST
and SOUTHWEST.
Schedule In Effect jane 10th, 1858.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-27
LATE NEWS TIERS.

AN informal reception was given Lord
Coleridge the night of the Odd by the New
York Bar Association.
NoRvIN GREEN and Henry Willard
were elected in New York on the 23d Di-
rectors of the Electric Light Company.
A YOUNG man in Portland, Me-,
claims to be the missing Charley Ross. He
says he was kept in a dark room four years
and subsequently taken to Brazil.
ROBERT MORRISON, of Pittsburg, Pa,
has sued the Commercial Gazette of that
city for 100000 for announcing while he
was absent from the city that he had left
for parts unknown with obligations to BUSH
ness patrons unsettled.
Four more deaths from cholera oc-
Cured in the infected Egyptian village on
the 22d.
A NUMBER of vessels disabled in the
recent gale on Lake Michigan have been
towed into various ports.
THE Marquis of Lansdowne was duly
sworn in as Governor General of Canada
on the 23d.
The United States surveyors have
found 800 geysers and 1000 hot springs in
Yellowstone Park.
A PASSENGER car jumped the track
near Charlottesville, Ind, on the 23d.
Several passengers were badly hurt.
By the explosion of boiler in Gin
cinnati pump factory ON the 23d nine per-
sons were injured, four fatally.
ORDER has been restored at Port au
Prince, Hayti, after the loss of 800 lives
and 81, 100000 worth of property.
CIRCULARS containing black lists of
jurors who have served ON murder trials
are being distributed by thousands in Dub.
lin.
THE Paris yellow-book claims that
the French forces in Tonquin hold all the
strategic points in the Red River delta.
IT is said the bridge which gave way
at Fort Edward, n. =, OH the I'D had been
reported unsafe for some time. The
wounded are all doing well.
SECRETARY FoLGER has made requi-
sition on the Civil Service Commission for
five men to fill 5000 clerkships which have
been usually filled by women.
The Attorney-General of Pennsylva-
mia has begun proceedings to compel the
Sinking Fund Commissioners to invest the
sinking fund in United States bonds.
THE New York, Lackawanna q West
ern Railroad Company has absorbed the
Pennsylvania Company of the same name
The new combination elected a Gould di-
rrctory.
FRANCIS j. KELLY. seventeen years
old, who murdered his employer, X. E. Ar
nett, on trading boat near Rockport, Ind,
and after robbing the corpse set fire TO the
boat, has been arrested.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-27
THROUGH A BROKEN BRIDGE.
Three Persons Killed and Twenty-one In.
jured by the Fall of Train Through "a
Broken Bridge at Fort Edward, MY.
EORT EDMARn. !

FORT EDWARD, N. Y, Oct. %.
Train No. Z, on the Glens Falls Branch of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
went through bridge over Glens Falls
feeder to the Champlain Canal, eighty rods
north of Fort Edward. The engine crossed
the bridge, but the baggage and passenger
car went down into the water, total
wreck. About twenty passengers were
aboard. The following are the killed and
wounded
Killed-DaIlas Crippen, Glens Falls; Mr..
Wincop, Gloversville; Mrs. Michael Mono.
han, Glens Falls. Wounded-B. THESE, IA
tally injured; Thomas E. Connors, Glens
Falls, legs broken and shoulder sprained;
Patrick Howard, fireman, badly injured in
ternally; Thomas Brady, brakeman, Glens
Falls, leg broken, internal injuries; John
Jenkins, conductor, face and head badly
cut; Edward Deal, engineer, cut about tue
head; Mrs. b. THESE, Fort Edward, arm
broken and head badly cut; Mrs. L. w.
Rowland, Fort Edward, head and side in
jured; Miss Tisdale, White Hall, injured
slightly about the chest; Thomas Loomis,
baggageman, shoulder sprained; Charles
Shelters, expreSsman, shoulder dislocated;
Charles Calestraki, foot burned and head
cut; James Loomis Sandy Hill, bruised and
cut; James c. Mcintyre, Ticonderoga, N.
Y, leg broken and injured internally;
Abraham Wing. Fort Edward, head and
neck cut; Mrs. c. w. Carr, Fort Edward,
cut about the head and body bruised; N.
Goldsteinpack, Glens Falls, badly cut about
the head Jacob Goldstein, slightly in
jured; John H. Messick, proprietor OF the
Albin Hotel, Saratoga, head and chest in
jured; Mrs. Florence Stoddard, Fort Ed
ward, injured about the limbs and head
John Cashion, Glens Falls, conclusion of
the spine. Every person on the train was
injured except the newsboy, Eddie White,
of Lake George.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-27
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Two Cars with Their Loads of Human Re
ings Overturned and Dragged Along the
Track OF the Louisville q Nashville Air
Line Road Sear ST. Louis-Upwards of
Sixty Persons Seriously Injured, some
Probably Fatally.
ST.. Louis, Mo-. Oct. q.
The morning through train on the Air
Line from Louisville to this city, met with
a serious accident. The train had passed
Belleville, and was within five or six miles
Of East st. Louis, when a broken rail on
the track threw the two last coaches, that
is the passenger coach and the sleeper,
Louisville, from the track. The train was
running at the rate of thirty-fvo miles an
hour, and the two coaches were upset and
dragged some distance on the ground, when
the coupling parted and they were de-
tached from the forward part of the train.
10th coaches We're full of passengers, and
the scenes presented immediately af-
ter the accident were terrible in
the extreme. The passengers were
thrown violently forward and to thu
side of the coaches, and were massed in a
confused heap of manglcd, bruised and
bleeding men, women and children. The
interior fixtures of the coaches were broken
fall and served only to wound the unfor-
tunate people in the cars. The toward part
of the train was backed to the spot as soon
rs the accident was discovered, and the
work of extricating the wounded was
promptly and efficiently undertaken by the
railroad employees and the uninjured passen-
gers. Scarcely an occupant of either one of
the coaches escaped without cuts
and bruises, but the number of ia
talities was so small as to be al
most miraculous. The cars were literally
covered with blood, which was flowing pro-
fusely from cuts, and it was at first thought
that the loss of life was very great. So far
rs learned, only one person, q gentleman
from Providence named Anthony, was fa-
tally injured. his skull was crushed and
cut so badly as to make his recovery almost
impossible. The wounded were brought at
once to this city and medical aid was sum-
moned. A brakeman had his leg broken,
several passengers were injured internally
and many others were cut and bruised in q
terrible manner
1t is impossible to tell the full extent of
the fatalities at this writing, but report
states that there will be large number At,
least sixty people suffered injuries of yari-
Gus kinds and more or less severe in the
wreclling of the coaches. One woman,
whose name could not be learned, had her
scalp torn almost entirely from her head.
Tho number of people with broken bones.
aud cuts makes up q record of heartrend-
ing suffering. Fortunately most of tho
children were taken from the debris with
only slight injuries. As one passenger re-
marked, it was simply wonderful that so.
many escaped immediate death.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

ADvICEs of the 18th say six villages
were destroyed by an earthquake on the
peninsula between Chesms, Asia Minor,
coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Upward of
1000 persons are reported killed and 10000
rendered homeless.
On the 18th locomotive exploded
near Oskaloosa, Ia, killing the engineer,
fatally injuring a fireman and brakeman
and wrecking nineteen cars.
THE authorities having learned that
an organization of about fifty substantial
men was formed at Oxford, Ind, to lynch
Melting, Ada Atkinson's murderer, they
secretly transferred Melting to the Lafay-
cite jail. Oxford people were indignant,
and threatened to go to Lafayette and hang
him. The people fear he will feign insanity
and escape justice. They are determined
he shall hang.
THE Grand Jury in Baltimore after
investigating the Tivoli disaster in which
sixty-five excursionists lost their lives, in
dicted the proprietor and lessee of the pic
uic grounds.
THE Postmaster at MinoUSa, Pa,
Ernest Aster, was arrested on the 18th on
charge of tampering with the mails.
OK the 18th twenty miners were killed
by an explosion in Yorkshire (Eng) col
iery.
On the 18th Christopher Blumende
was arrested in Chicago for the murder of
Rodney Bows, near New Orleans, two
years ago.