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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-10-19

ROGERS s. BROTHER,
ELECTRO SILVER PLATE,
$50 BROADWAY.
NEW YORK, Oct. Sth, 1885,
Mr.. D B. HAMAKER,
Dear Sir In answer to yOur favor
OF the 6th we would say that The first class manu-
faturers do not sell their goods to travelling auc
tioneers directly or indirectly, but in some manner
their window with big placard and Use the names
freely in their advertising but they seldom or never
sell these goods
Plated goods that are manufactured expressly for
auction purposes are generally of the viest sort,
with about silver enough to last until they get
out OF town: and We have heard of cases where cas-
tiers purchased at auction have got tired Of star d.
ing up and have squatted down from their own
money refunded he finds that the auctioneer, who
warran ed the goods so gDy, has left town.
oa by was n BETTY %a Mho
expos the whole business and made it so hot that
hey left We have also heard OF parties in Norfolk,
Va. who were most beautifully taken in ard
swinded by buying plated goods at auction. Plated
goods, above all Others do not show heir quality on
the face OF the goods-the only test is time-and
people are worse than fools who buy such goods
except from regularly established dealers. when
You had better write to Mr.. Fricker aud let him
send y2u a pamphlet he got out which had the
good effect of busting these men out of his town.
and we certainly hope that the good people of Staun
ton VIII not be guled out of their money.
Respectfully SoHrs; n1>
In connection with the above Letter append the
following and in justice to myself and in The later
est OF the Purchaser, ask its careful consideration.
1t has resolved itself into quest IF veracity-
of Standard goods OF unreliable auction wares The
parties representins the aunton Silver Plate Co..
their own goods they sell Rogers. Meriden and
other standard make. So far I have been
knives, forks and spoons. and those of a
decidedly questionable quality being sold or
eA hbted. other than the Taunton Silver Plate
goods Their goods are not recognized as
Standard. and are not sold by any retail dealer in
the country. They further presume to give tone to
their goods through the character and standing of
OF our home auctioneers. This while legitimate,
has conveyed erroneous ideas to more than one
party. doubt very much whether our home auc-
tioneers would assume the responsibility of stating
thai the parties representing the Taunton Silver
Pate Co are the old RELIABLE TAUNTON Sill
YER PLATE co, and that their wares are Stand
ard or Triple, or even double plate.
ID. IL. HAMAK Err,
Cor. MAIN AND NEW Sis,
oct 12tf STANTON, VA.
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G. o. mainline trains run by Washington time !;
Lexington Division by Columbus time.
No. l. daily except Sunday, Richmond to White
Sulphur; daily except Saturday, west of White Sui
phur
No 2, Ashland to Clifton Forge; daily except Sat
urday Clifton Forge to Richmond; except sunday,
Richmond to Old Point. Pullman Sleeping Cars
White Sulphur to Washington
Nos 8 ard 4, Washington, Louisville and Cincin-
natl FAST LINE run daily between Louisville, Gin
cinDati. Washington and Richmond Va. Do not
stop for local business
No. 8. Louisville and Cincinnati Fast Line, No. 4,
sleeping Cars and Solid trains between Louisville,
Lexington, and Washington. D. G Pullman New
Sleeping Cars between Cincinnati. and
Richmond; Day Coach between Cincinnati,
Richmond, Newport News and md Point Comfort.
Pullman Sleeping Cars Columbus to White sulphur
No 5, daily between Clifton Forge and Ashland,
KY ;daily except Sunday between Old Point, New
port News and Clifton Forge. Pullman sleeping
Cars Washington to White sulphur and Columbus,
O., without change.
NoTE:-That No is overtaken at Clifton Forge
by No. 4, which takes through passengers from
Nos and6. Sleeping Cars between Huntington
natl and Richmond
Nos, 2 and s, Pullman Sleepers between White
Sulphur, Richmond and Old Point Comfort. Solid
Train between Ashland and Newport News and
Old Point Comfort.
Old i,omninn Line Steamers will leave Newport
News on MOnday, Tuesday, " ednesday and Sat
urday, on arrival of No. Fast Line, arriving IN
New York next afternoon.
For Rates, Tickets. Baggage, Checks, apply to
any office of the c. g. o R'y.; or Depot or Ticket
Office of connecting lines.
H. E. SUMMERSON.
Ticket Agent, Staunton, Va.
d. FULLER. G. P. Agt.
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Mason b Hamlin Dreams.

>, N Ssss ilusratsd catalogue opp 4to for season.
sortment of the best and most attractive organs We
AVE eyer offered and at lowest prices, s22 10 $780,
Tor casl, easy payments or rented Sent free
Boston. l54 fremont ST.; New York. 46 East 14ths
st.; Chicago, 149 Wabash Ave.
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VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY.

I ION and after Wednesday, Sept 26, 1885, Passeng,
rains will run as follows:
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1oetru.
Engineers Making Love.

Nearly every engineer on the New York
and New England railroad has sweet
= heart or wife in New Britain, Conn.
Every train would whistle salute to some
fair dame, and the din grew so fearfully
ear splitting that the authorities have had
it stopped.
It's noon when thirty-fye is due,
An she comes Oh time like flash OF light,
An you hear her whistle. "Too-tee-too!'
Long fore the pilot swings In sight
Bill Maddon's drivin' her in to day
An he's calling his sweetheart, far away
Gertrude Hurd-llves down by the mill;
You might see her blushin' she knows it's Bill
"Tu-diel Tootee! Tu dee! TUT"
Six Ave A NJ there's local comes
Makes up at Bristol running east;
An the way her whistle sings an huns
Is livin' caution to man an beast.
Every one knows who Jack White calls
Little Lou Woodbury. down by the Falls;
Summer or winter, always the same,
She hears her lover CALM her name
Lou ie! Louie! Lou iee!''
At SIX fftyeight you can hear TWEEN ty-one
Go laundering west, and of all the screams
That ever startled the rising sun,
Jehu Davis sends into your dreams.
But don't mind it; it makes me grin
For just down here whore the creek lets in,
His wife, Jerusha. can hear him CALL
Loud as a throat of brass can bawl-
"Jeeerooo- shee? Jc hoO!"
But at one fifty one, old SIxty-four-
Boston express runs east clear through
browns her rattle and rumble and roar
With the softest whistle that ever blew.
An away on the furthest edge Of the town,
Sweet Sue Winthrops eyes of brown
Shine like the starlight bright an clear
When she hears the whistle of Abel Gear.
"Youou-ou, Sui u-ue!"
Along at midnight freight comes in,
Leaves Berlin sometime, don't know when,
But it rumbles along with a fearful din,
Till 1t reaches the Us witch there, and then.
The clearest notes of the softest bell
That out OF brazen goblet fell,
Wake Nellie Minton out OF her Dreams
To her like wedding bell it seems
Nell, Nell, Nell. Nell, Nell, Ne!''
An somewhere late in the afternoon,
You'll see Thirty seven go streakin' west;
It's local, from Hartford; same old tune
Now set for the girl that loves him best,
Tom Wilson rides on the right hand side,
Givin' her steam at every stride;
An he touches the whistle low an clear.
For Lula Gray. on the hill, to hear
"Lu -lul I.oo-loor'
80 it goes all day an all night,
Till the old folks have voted the thing bore;
Old maids and bachelors say it amt right
For folks to do courtln' with such roar.
But the engineers their kisses will blow
From whistle valve to the girls they know,
An the stokers the names of their sweethearts
tell,
With the Bell! Nell! Dell! of the swaying bell
Robert J. Burdette, in Life.
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Mail train South bound, connects at Charlottes
vile with Chesapeake T. hio Il. East, and
through Southwest Virginia to Nashville. New Oh
leans. Menip is. Lite Rock and Texas, and a.
Danvi.le with Richmond and Dauvllle kailtoad 10
Mail trAin North bound. connects at Lyn' hbu &
win the q = T. f. Tor hexlnst ,s anS Nata;s
for Staunton, Clifton Forge and inlermedia',
points
iganville with Il & D. Il R for all points in Soulh
Southeast Southwest and East
| Express trains North bound connect at Chai
| ottesville with G. & .. X. W for Richmond,
| staunton, White Sulphdr, Charleston and Hunt
| inston -
For Falfax Q. H daily connection except Sun
| day, at Fairfax ST alton. v
ton daily and train % daily except Sunday, to and
| from Warrenton
Rocky Mount 1870 a m arriving at Frank ia june
| tiun Ills a. M. Leave Franklin Junction 6:l0
arrive At Ro:ky Mount 400 F. M t masMing
trains so and II: also with local freight trains to
| Lynchburg and Danville.
] Mixed RAILS, leave Alexandria daily except
Sunday on and 92J a. No. and ll55 p M. returning
arrive at alexandria 500 a. m and 40 and 10 80 p
Retrnns si ea at exsndria 00' p LII
manassas division daily, except Sunday; Leave
rive at stras6arg i:iu p M c1nnee'ing with the
Valley Road East and west, and at River with
shen. Val: r. Z. for Luray and Waynesboro; Re-
| exandria $50 p. and Washington 725 p. m,
Mixed Trains leave Alexandria daily. except
Sunday A. a. M, arriving at StraSburg 745 p.
| Returning leave ST. asburg 500 a. m, arriving at
| Alexandria 4:l0p: m. Leave Manassas 9:l0 m
daily except sunday, arriving at Strasburg $50 D.
M. returning leave strasburg sou p. m daily, ex-
cept Saturday, arriving at Manassas 12:2e m.
For Middlenurg, connection at Plains st ttion.
For Upperyille. connection at Delaplane.
| Pullman Sleeping Cars between New York and
Montgomery on Mail trains por h and south bound,
without change; only one change of cars between
New York and New Orleans.
New Orleans Sleeping Cars leave Washington
| S:3S a. m, running through without change.
| Pullman Sleeping Cars between Washington and
Augusta, Ga, without change, on 1875 p. m. train,
! via Greensboro. Charlotte and Columbia.
| Solid trains with Pullman Palace Cars attached
run through between Washington and Louisville,
| via Staun;Ou and White Sulphur, daily
| All trains make good connections, at Washing.
| ton, to and from North and West.
Through tickets at lowest rates to all important
| points in the United STATES
j. s. B. THOMPSON,
| Assistant General Passenger Agent
| W. M. S.DUNN. Eng. and Supt sept2s
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Bohemian.

Rev. j. G. Hurlbert returne d
last Thursday from annual confer
ence which was held at Hollow Rock.
He was sent back again to his old
work to labor for US another year.
The sacramento meeting viii be
held at Choat' creek church next
Sunday. The Sunday school at the
church on Choats, under the prul
dent management of our eff
cient superintendent, Mr. J. w.
Wilkinson, is doing a good work.
Mr.. Wilkinson is never-tiring
Sunday school worker.
1t was reported tn the two
Mormon missiona les, mentioned
in our last letter, would preach ct
the Fleeman school house last Sun
day and quite croHd assembled to
hear them, but they did not put in
appearance. They have met with
such cold receptions from our PEG
Pile ever since they have been in
this vicinity that they have prob
ably concluded it prudent to abon-
don the cause here and retire to 9th
er parts.
Prof Charles II. Witt opened
school at the old church on Weak
leys last Monday.
Mr.. James Bishop, formerly of
this neighborhood but now of Ala
hama, is circulating among friends
and lelatives IN this vicinity. Esq.
James Griffin, in company with his
son, j. II. Griffin of Pleasant Point,
Lawrence county, was here last
Monday Oh their way home Mar
shall county.
Willie j. Chambers in employed
as salesman in j. w. Parker's store
Mr.. D. r. Shores of the 9th
WIS circulating among his many
friends here a few days ago. This
is Dawes old home and his visits
are always welcomed by his many
warm friends and ardent admirers
in this vicinity. Juno.
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House Warming.

Last Friday was the eyentful day
in the lite of Mr. L. Amis of Vale
Mills. 1t was his birthday, and to
add TO the pleasantness of the occa-
sion. the number oft was discreetly
withheld, and a royal dinner was
prepared for a wide circle of
relatives and nearest friends in eel
ebration of that event and to dedi-
cate his new house. 1t is said of
the new residence that it is one of
the most convenient and handsome
ly finished houses in the county,
beautifully located and furnished.
We were made the recipient of a
portion of the feast which not only
was substantial proof that the
spread was elegant and plenteops,
but it spoke in ssOeetest attestation
of the culinary skill of the excellent
lady who presided over its prepare
tion-that highest womanly accom-
plishment that is the only real de-
corative art worth the name, the art
of decorating a turkey ct i'd and ii
told of the rich enjoyment of the
guests who went to enjoy such
bounteous hospitality and to pre-
face with their congratulations our
sincerest wish for a continuation OF
the happiness and prosperity that
have blessed so long this worthy
household.
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Pulaski Business Men

Should give the CITIZEN all theil
orders for job work. We spend
much time, trouble and money in
trying to HEP up this narket and
attract trade to Pulaski and the
business men should not send their
work off. We can do as good work
of all kinds as anybody. Can pad
your letter heads, give you fancy Oh
common work of all kinds. Don't
send work off that can be done at
home. You don't get your patron
age from a distance. We also re-
spectfully solicit orders from coun-
try merchants and guarantee first
class work at loW prices. The Cir
IzEN has done too much work foT
Pulaski and Giles county to have
you 90 off for work.
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Deed of Tr1,st-

Mr.. H. @. Brown made an assign
ment last Thursday morning to T.
w. Ewing, esl'r, for the benefit OF
his creditors, Without preference, Of
his stock of dry goods, with author
ity to sell and apply proceeds pro
rata or by compromise. The stock
of goods amoriated to 81, 1893, IS; &C
counts, $201, 90; cash, $ls. Total
conveyed, $2,1I2,8S. The list OF
creditors named were Ito whom he
owes a total of 81, 597,40 There are
but eight Pulaski creditors to whom
he owes a total of $3.50. The bal
ance is In New York, Philadelphia,
Richmond, Nashville, Huntsville,
Gallatin, McAlinnyilie spd Colum-
hi, I'D
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Frank LeSlie'S
GTTNDAV MAGAZINE

The editor ct. De Witt Talmage,
ID. d. commences the fifteenth volume
and the year very brilliantly; he pre-
sents Ia the January number a most
attractive aud Interesting holiday one,
replete with delightful reading and ar
tisric excellence. The contents are ex-
tremely varied; there are Christmas
stories, sketches, descriptive articles
and poems, etc.; the editor has char
acteristic article, The Coming SER
nlon," and there are contributions in
prose and poetry from some OF our
most popular writer's A new serial,
Wrong from the First" by the author
OF "Mr. Burke's Nieces, 'is commenced
ia fact the pages overflow with enter
Gaining and edifying matter and arts
tic Illustrations. Now in the time to
subscribe, and no one could fail to sp-
preciate, as holiday gilt, year sub
scription to this popular magazine. The
price is % cents for a single number,
or twelve numbers tor $3.50, postpaid
Address Mrs. Frank Leslie. Publisher
SO, so and 81 Park Place, New York.
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Cotton is picked. 1 will be
glad when our farmers learn that
stock raising pays better. Some
have already sown their lands in
grain and grasses and renounced
allegiance to the fleecy king, while
others will still worship at his
throne. I believe there are men
who would shouldera bale of cotton
and march in through the S raight
gate into the city on high and pre-
fer itias their stool to one not made
with hands.
The Gil Buford party came
back from their Wayne county deer
hunt with three deer scalps and a
large invoice of wonderful tales
about wounding others. They had
bad weather and got wet several
times externally but they managed
to preserve an equilibrium by APP
plying moisture freely internally.
Ike and Jim Hutton went to
Prospect last week and on their re-
turn Ike stopped in Pulaski to prac-
tias law, taking an office in the jug.
IL said some devilish fellow drove
n the stopper and he had to stay
until rescued by Alex. Kidwell.
j. w. Wisdom has ginned and
baled $50 bales of cotton and has
so more to gin. David I. Reynolds
has ginned over 70 OF his own
raising and will have 80 more.
Esq. T. o. Alternately is said
to be fast improving from his severe
sickness. i
j. w. Wisdom, accompanied by |
the charming Miss Ella Ball, is Wis
ting in Lawrence.
Mrs. D. L. Reynolds is still
and will be up and
about soon. Thos. S. Williamson
5 said to be very sick. :
w. P. Williams has been down
n Lawrence. He says the ticks
lave gone into winter quarters.
Ike Briggs says he will bet he
an eat 10 dozen crows at one sit
ing. Boys, let's settle this ques-
ion now.
The matrimonial situation was
reused from the tranquility into
which it had collapsed by the mar
iage Sunday at 1:30 O'Clock of Mr..
70 Dunnevant and Miss Mary Day,
esq. Dever presiding. A magnifs
ent wedding supper was enjoyed
t Mr.. Dunneyant's Immediately
fterwards and away into the night
here were sounds ofmerry-making.
wish them long and happy life.
BILLIE-THE-KID.
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The BACKED Bows.

The entertainment at Antoi-
nette Hall Thursday night of last
week was a success-a grand sue
cess in more than one sepse. The
hall was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity, and though the price of adj
mission was very small, something
over hundred dollars was cleared
to be appropriated for the Giles
County Temperance Society. The
minstrels acquitted themselves well,
and delighted their audience with
original farces, gags and witticisms.
There was frequent, loud and long
applause. The boys were so en-
couraged by the fattering reception
of their frst performance that they
are determined to repeat it soon,
and the most enthusiastic are near
ly crazy t. start at once on south
ern tour. They can get another
good house here.
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Garman earn.
Fayetteville Express
Since tho infrOdnotiou ~ tba n a,


! Since the introduction OF the Ger
man carp in America ths excite
meht does not seem to run a. high
IN Tennessee as in some OF the al
ljoining states. There seems to bt
very little said through the press in
this state in regard to carp culture
| regard it as one of the mos
| pleasant and profitable occupations
we can engage in, particularly for
those who have places suitable f :
the construction of ponds. 1t takes
water and level land TO make fish
ponds / will at some future time
give your readers my experience in
making p nds.
Last February l made two ponds
each one containing about half an
acre. About the first of March 1
introduced six two-year-old mirror
carp, weighing four pounds each.
They proved to be unequally paired
only one male to five females. |
was unable to distinguish the male
from the female at that time, al
though it is very easy to do so now.
On account OF the way mine were
paired, my success in raising young
fish was not so good. c. Y. Du-
thit, with the same number of ponds
and fish, had five males and one fe-
male, and we came out even--four
hundred and sixteen each. We now
have four ponds each. George Fin
ley of Pittsburg, Pa, has been en-
gagged in carp culture for seven
years, and he says he makes it
very profitable, and the best fish he
can get is a two and a half pound
fellow at two years old. found on
the 23rd OF March that my fish
were then spawning. / dug up
some punches of dock and swamp
grass, with as much dirt on the
roots as possible, and placed them
in water eight or ten inches deep. |
The fish spawned on The leaves and |
grass, leaving the eggs sticking to
the leaves, which, in from three to |
five days, began to hatch. After
they began to spawn on the 23rd of
they continued to do so reg
ularly every three weeks until the
18th of June. As l had no expert
ence in the business, / did not |
think of danger only from branch
l managed to keep them
out, and thought OF no other enc
mics. found my pond full Of tad
poles and thought they would do
no harm, but soon found out that
they could destroy more eggs than
my fish could spawn. 1t was then
too late to keep them out; could
very easily have kept them out at
the start 1 had nothing else to
trouble the eggs before they were
Matched. Water snakes, king fish
ers and cranes are all good fisher
nen and like the business, bat
good shot gun will Keep them on.
| drained my ponds the 18th of
this month, and found two sizes
the largest weighing two and one
half pounds and fourteen inches
long, the other weighing two
pounds, and eleven inches long. l
think that is about as large as we
IAN get them at all in this country.
IF it can be excelled any where else,
I want to know where and by whom.
L. =. S.
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circuit Court.

Court adjourned last Friday until
Tuesday. Before adjournment five
Jail birds had been sentenced to va
rious terms in the work house.
Three were sent to the penitentiary
John Merrill, colored, was con-
victed of horse stealing and sen
fenced for three years. Jack Hobbs
and Malinda Chapel. colored, charg-
ed with arson, were found guiltyland
given five years in the penitentiary.
The tenant house in Frog Bottom,
belonging to Mr.. n. S. Townsend,
was the house they were convicted
of burning. The evidence against
them was purely circumstantial.
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A Remarkable Family.

Our venerable fellow citizen, Mr..
Colston Alternately, has served his
country well in the way of populat-
ing it. He is hale and hard-work-
ing yet at the age of rs, and is one
of the few men who have made
money at farming. He is the IA
ther of two sons and six daughters
all of whom are married. His
grand children numbered 50, two OF
whom died, being the only deaths
among the descendants, and &c
great grand children--making 8
grand total of so descendants, rs
living, and all now resident within
the 9Th and Goth districts of this
county. Mr.. Alternately is known
as probably the most successful
wheat raiser in the county. His
policy has been to put all the mon
ey he made into lands and he gave
it off to his children, giving away
several hundred acres thus, but still
retaining a splendid plantation
three miles south of Pulaski. We
doubt if there is another as large
family living so close together il
the United States. They all may
take dinner at either of their homes
and each get back home in time t.
get supper.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

Unclaimed advertised letters remain
ing in the Pulaski post Office for the
week ending Dec, s, 1883
Alternately, Reuben
Brown, Ephriam
Carl, Jno w, card
Chapman, w e
Carter, John, card
Chapman, Beulah
Davis William
Davis G w
Gill j w card
Holt Charlie
Holt S w
Marks A N, card
Pennington Sullen
Vaughn James
White w G.
Young Richard
Persons calling for the above letter
will please say advertised" with date:
J. d. LEWIS, P. NJ.
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2. and A. M. Election.

The following were elected as of
ficers of Pulaski Lodge, No. 1b1,
Free and Accepted Masons, for the
ensuing twelve months, at an cleo
ton held last Tuesday night
Dec. IL. They will be installed
Dec. 81, at 81 o'clock, p. m, (St.
Johns day.
*. Arrowsmith, w. NJ.
w. d. Morris, S. w.
Jno. o. Carter, j. w.
Chas. Buford, Sec'ty.
j. S. ChiIders, Treas.
d S. Martin, jr., ;. d.
Ed 3. Craig, j. d.
Jno. Martin, Tyler.
l. II. hainey aud c. Il, Bradley, stew
ards.