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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21
The Blair Educational Bill.

The Richmond Dispatch inveighs against
Genl. Hawley's speaking in Virginia
because he voted against the Blair Educa-
tional Bill This is the most supreme
piece of impudence we have yet seen. ever
coming from the Dispatch. The Blair bill
was introduced by n Republican and passed
by a Republican Senate. Its bitterest OPP
ponent was Thos. f. Bayard, a prominent
candidate for the presidency before the
Democratic Convention. The majority
Gratis, and the majority Of those who voted
for it were Republicans. The vote upon
the passage of the bill was as follows, the
Democrats in italics:
YEAs.-Messrs. Blair, Broarn, Coil, Cam
eron of Wisconsin, Colquitt. Conger, Gull
lom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Gar
land, George, Hampton, Harrison, Hoar-
Jackson, Jonas, Jones of Florida, Kenad
Logan, Mcmillan, Henderson, Miller OF
New York, Morrill,, Pike, Platt. Fatgh
Ransom, Riddleberger, Sawyer, Williams.
and Wilson's.
NAYs.-Messrs. Bayard, Butler, Coke
Groonae, Harris, HaWley, Macy, Miller OF
California, Morgan, Peladleton, and Saatls
bauy-11.
1t will be seen that of the eleven Nays
all were Democrats, eecept t,eo. OF those
voting in the affirmative thirteen only were
Democrats and tacenty acre Republicans
The bill passed the Senate three months
before the end of the session, but
,1as neUer introduced in the Democratic
House. The Alexandria Gazette reported
that Hon. J. r. Tucker, whom the Dis
patch is now supporting, had announced
in advance that he intended to oppose the
bill should it come up in the House, and
the Democratic National Convention
aimed direct blow at the measure when
in it's platform it declared that I'VE are
opposed to all propositions which, upon
any pretexts, would convert the general
government into machine for collecting
taxes to be distributed among the States,
or citizens thereof"
If the Dispatch really favors the Blair
bill, then it must renounce Democratic
leadership and allegiance to the Demo
cratic party. When it does this, it will be
time enough to cast q stone at Gen. Hawley.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21
BAPTIST CHURCH ~

sunday School at O'Clock. Morning services
at II O'Clock; Night, at the usual hours. Young
Mems prayer Meeting on Tuesday night. Gen
eral Prayer Meeting and Lecture, Wednesday
night. Teachers meeting Thursday night.
AS-Vsitors and strangers cordially invited to
attend these meetings. IaugM
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTS.

w ADVERTISEMENTS Will guarantee
w Sl5000 per month TO: several months to
once. w. X. ADKLNS,
aug2l Staunton, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21
LIGHT BRINDLE COW

GTRAYED,- From the undersigned on the
- 18th of August, medium sized
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21
WATER, FIRE AND WEATHER
PROOF,
MAKE NO CHARGE FOR STOPPING ANY
KIND OF LEAK IN METALLIC
f.ftIH lrll ROOFS
OUR IRON-CLAD PAINT

has standing reputation of fourteen years
throughout the United States.
Men sent TO any part of the State to do work.
ana estimates made without charge, for any of
the above goods. We respectfully solicit work
from contractors; corporations and individuals.
All inquiries, orders or estimates must be adj
dressed to
aug2l P. o. Box 22s. stanton, Va.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21

WAGONS.-Hhe celebrated Studebaker and
~ Brown Wagons, at prices as low as any
AT warerooms OF - :, =
Jnlylo LYNN & CO.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-21

other information needed. The vote on
the bill was 1872 ayes and 10 nays. Every
man who voted against it was Democrat.
Mr.. Tucker lodged.
When the bill appropriating $780, $50 to
the agricultural department, bill in
which the interests of the farmers were
deeply involved, came to vote, Mr.. Tucker
lodged again.
The bill to abolish the tax on matches,
Ia measure in which the poorer classes
were deeply concerned) checks, medicines,
&c., and reduce the tax on dealers in to-
bacco, was passed in 1882, by vote of 1877
to so. Mr.. Tucker was among the so
voting against the repeal. And when on
the 8th of April last, a resolution was
adopted by vote Of 179 to SO, declaring it
''unwise and inexpedient to abolish OF re-
duce the tax on spirits distilled from
grain" Mr.. Tucker lodged.
During the last session of Congress, the
Republican Senate passed what is known
as the Blair Educational Bill. 1t was in
troduced by Republican Senator and
passed by Republican votes. 1t appro-
priated seventy-seven millions of dollars
to aid the public schools. Itprovided that
the fund should be expended during eight
years, and that it should be distributed to
the States in proportion to illiteracy. Over
three-fourths of the entire amount would
have been expended in the South. Vir-
ginia's share would have been five million
three hundred and ten thousand dollars,
and this magnificent donation to the chill
dren Of the State would have placed within
the reach of the poOrestl educational adj
vantages equal to those which the richest
now enjoy. This bill passed the Senate
three months before Congress adjourned,
but it was never even introduced in a
Democratic House. So anxious was Mr..
Tucker, however, to show his hostility to
the working classes that he announced his
to oppose the bill even in adj
vance of its intpodnction. At least he
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Tsrued Mim on aud mired Hin Oves
Again.
tChicago H,rald "Meddler.'l

fChicngo HtraId "MeddlerT
At the engineers ball the other evening one
Of them told a story about Potter Palmer
He Is a man, the narrator said, who likes to
make things unpleasant for his help. just on
general principles was once engineer there,
and one day he came down In the room
aud found fault with something b
knew nothing about. ! was getting 81 ,oOo
n year. lie said I wasn't worth II
anyway, and I was discharged. went 10
my room, dressed In my Sundays, and carns
down ~ the office told him wanted Q job
rs engineer, aud wouldn't work for less than
e2,OOO year. He accepted the proposition.
and worked there for over eighteen months,
and b. never knew ] was the man b d.
chargsd
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-02-01

THERE 10 on the part Of New York
papers an impressively ser,ne assunlp-
ton that the sun rises on the Atlantic
coast and sets just behind the Allie
gheny mountains.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
The Lakes Of Upper Italy.

They lie in the lap of the mountains
like Jewels dropped from the sky, and
Nature has lavished her love and man
his labor on the setting. BY political
geography they belong in part to Switz-
erland; but if there be any force in the
theory of natural boundaries. the Alps
bar her claim with tremendous empha-
sis, and in climate. scenery, religion,
custom, and speech they are Italian. No
sooner does the traveller by the St.
Gothard Railway reach Locarno, the
first station on Lago Maggiore, than he
finds another heaven and another earth
from those which vanished when he en-
tered the great tunnel, few hours ear
lier. The mountain peaks are sharper
and more serrate, the curves and inden-
tations of the shore more delicate, the
outlines of the landscape more finished
and perfect; the light is at once softer
and more splendid, the sky has deeper
and more tender blue, the verdure is
richer and darker; the very weeds give
the wayside the grace of garden run
wild. Already there are terraced vine
yards to be seen, and vines trained over
sort of trellised arbor called pergola,
the supports of which are stone-one
of the most ancient modes of grow
ing grapes in Italy-and orange walks,
hanging gardens, arcades of shrubbery,
walls of evergreen, stone stairways and
balustrades, pillars, vases and fountains
among the flower beds, different cul-
tivation, a different style of gardening,
which adorns the humblest plot. The
cleaning towns upon the waters edge
have irregular tiers of red-tiled roofs,
broken by arched porticos in the attic
story, by slender Lombard bell-towers,
cupolas, long, blank palaee-fronts-a
different architecture. All this can be
seen from Locarno, which is vet but 8
poor place compared with the towns
lower down the lake. 1t is worth while
to stop there, though, to wash off the
| dust of the long journey in great white
marble bath-tubs, of antique form, filled
with cool, diamond clear water, and te
rest and attune the spirit to softer key
There is new hotel, q remarkably fine
building, with lofty hall of entrance
from each end of which marble stair
case leads to galleries with balusters
colonnades rising one above the other
and intersecting long perspeetives, likt
the backgrounds of Paul Veronese'
banquet pictures-a Palladian interior
every corridor ending in an arch drapet
with muslin embroidered in Orienta
patterns, through which a mellow pic
ture of lake and mountain is visible.
At Locarno, moreover, there is th
first glimpse of the art of Lombardy, il
which some of the towns on the smalle
lakes are so rich. and which has adorne'
the entire region with countless cle1rche
and palaces. The front of the Chies'
Nuova is by Tommaso Rodari. the fore
most of three brothers who have lef
their mark on the architecture an,
| sculpture of the late fifteenth and earl
sixteenth centuries throughout North
ern Italy. In the pilgrimage church c
the Madonna del Sasso (Our Lady c
| the ROCKY, half an hours walk abov
| the town, the mild Luini's influence
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
Italian Marriages.

They are prolific people. To be child
less is regarded as an intense calamity;
and no matter how shallow the purse,
no newcomer is welcomed other than
with smiles and gladness. Now, is it
possible that people SO home-loving,
so affectionate, so fond of offspring
should be so depraved, so immoral, as
we habitually depict them? We have
too long looked upon one side only Of
the Italian character; it is high time
that we learned to know the other. An.
other favorite idea of ours is that the
Italians never make love marriages. Nc
doubt their marriages, like those of the
French, are often arranged by the par.
ents; but, unlike those of the French, as
a rule veto of choice is left to the
young people; and if we could collect
statistics on that point, l am inclined tc
think that we should find that the pro
portion of these marriages, founded
upon a groundwork of reason and so
cial compatibility, which turn out well
is as great as, if not greater than, thai
of our marriages founded upon youth
fpl caprice and London So
fietg.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
Girls, Beware /!
Browns brow was clouded.

Browns brow was clouded.
''Some girl scrape'' queried his
friend, Bilkins.
''Well, to tell you the truth" replied
Brown, "there is girl at the bottom
of it. You see, ever since | made that
strike in Atchison, and-thank Heaven
pulled out OF it, I've been kinder
keeping my matrimonial weather eye
open, as it were. l thought I'd found
her, but, well'-heaving deep sigh
s.it's all over now.
"Tell me about it, old fellow,'i said
Bilkins, sympathetically.
..Wen, you know I've been to New.
port for the past four weeks. l met hel
there. She was a bud-to look at
tell you. and | was awfully gone on her.
Everything went smoothly until found
out how much she knew"
.IgnorantP" queried Blkins.
.'No; just the other way. happened
to hear her talk the other day to Prof
Buzzer 1T makes me shudder to think
of it! 1t was all about esoteric Bud
dhism, planetary changes, and world
periods! Think of it! 1t let me out
of course. You could not expect such
a woman as that to take any interest il
housekeeping, now could you?"
s'There is much truth in what yor
gay" replied Bilkins, thoughtfully, anc
Brown looked relieved and lighted s
cigar. oS.o7s Globe.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

seen in an altar-piece by one of his fol-
lowers. trudged up to this sanctuary
one afternoon, to be rewarded by the
expedition itself beyond my expecta-
tions, which were not great: Two deep
gorges bring down two noisy, demon-
strative brooks by so precipitous path
that the water is ready to leap into cas-
cades at every step, until they unite
and seek the lake together. Up the
strip of wooded rock between them,
which rises higher and higher, broad
ening until it joins the mountain.
winds the way to the church. It
is very steep and laid in cordonate,
a pavement Of cobble-stones crossed
by a curb at every few feet. much
like railway track, ballast and sleep
ers, without rails, raised TO an angle Of
seventy degrees from the level; the
curbs are about as far apart as cross
ties, and it is as hard to walk either
upon or between them. The pilgrimage
to the Madonna del Sasso should be
made by all but pennitents only after
the sun has set behind the western
mountains. 1t is a pretty walk.
although disfigured by the stations of
the cross at short intervals; the way
farer passes out of the village under 3
long. vine-wreathed pergola, then over
a bridge, then up the narrow hillside,
between the ravines, to the foot of the
foundation walls of the building, and by
few more sharp twists to the solitary
little stone piazza from which he enters
the church. 1t dates from miraculous
appearance of the Virgin four hundred
years ago, but has few signs of it's age:
within it is as freshly gilded, painted
and frescoed as hotel dining room,
and is in so far a surprise after the lone
" scramble beside the bed of the tor
rent. / reached it at the hour of the
Ave Maria. The church was empty
save for a woman and two children,
who were kneeling together, telling
their beads. There was murmur OF
prayers and responses uttered by two
invisible ministrants; the voices seemed
to come from behind the high altar, but
priest or acolyte there was none to be
seen. The effect was so mysterious at
that sunset hour that the renovated
church grew venerable to the quickened
sense of awe. After the last amen,
while looking for the Luini scholar s
palntlnS, L came upon picture OF TIC
Entombment, q work of considerable
beauty and religious feeling, by a Signor
Cerusi, of Florence, as my fellow-wor-
shipper told me- A modern picture
from our Saviour's history, painted
with talent and skill, yet reverently,
and hidden in a side-chapel of this mac.
cessible and unvisited little church, was
strange thing and worth coming to
find The view of the lake from the
steps is fine, and still better from a
little pillared side-porch, which looks
as if it were the oldest part of the build
ing, and overhanging the landscape
like the parapet of castle. The scene
was very lovely; the peaks were pale
rose-color, aud blush moisture. like
the dew on dark grapes, rested upon the
surface of the e-Atldntic Monthly
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
ancient ProjectiIes.

Toe. Cur 'elt
A French archTologist has discovered
that the catapult projectiles of the
ancients were of a eylindro-conical
shape, similar to modern rifed-cannon
balls. The more the delivers after relics
of bygone ages discover, the more de-
cided grows the conviction that the peo-
pies of those eras did not suffer for the
want of inventive genius.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
ImDr essions Of Amsterdam

Now we entered Amsterdam, to
which we had looked forward as the
climax of our tour, having read of it and
pondered it as "theVenice of the North;"
but our expectations were raised much
too high. Any thing more unlike Venice
it would be difficult to imagine; and there
is a terrible want of variety and color;
many of the smaller towns of Holland
are far more interesting and infinitely
more picturesque. A castle was built
at Amsterdam in 1904, but the town only
became important in the Sixteenth
Century. It is situated upon the influx
of the Amstel to the Y, as the arm OF
the Zuyder Zee which forms the harbo1
is called, and it occupies huge semi.
circle, its walls being inclosed by the
broad moat, six and half miles long,
which is known as Buitensingle. The
greater part of the houses are built on
piles, causing Erasmus to say that the
inhabitants lived on trees like rocks.
In the center of the town is the great
square called Dam, one side of which is
occupied by the handsome Royal Palace
-Het Palais s-built by J. Van Kampen
IN 1648. The Nieuwe Kerk O40S-1470)
contains number of monuments to ad.
mirals, including those of Van Ruiter-
''immensi tremor oceani''-who COM
manded at the Battle of Solbay, and
Van Speyk, who blew himself up with
his ship rather than yield to the Bel
gians. In the Dude Kerke of 1906
there are more tombs of admirals.
Hard by, in the Nieuwe Markt, is the
picturesque cluster of Fifteenth Cen.
tury towers called St. Anthonienswaag
once city gate and now weighing
house. But the great attraction Of Am
sterdam is the picture gallery of the
Trippenhuis, called the Rijks Museum
and it deserves many visits. Good
Words
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

Steele: When q man has no desire
but to speak plain truth he may say a
great deal in o very narrow compass.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

"A chicken rooster entered lady s
house the other day, and seeing himself
reflected in large, handsome mirror,
deemed it his bounden duty to go for
the reflected intruder, and he forthwith
threw himself against the mirror, shat
tering it all to pieces. With the break.
ing of the glass his shadow disappeared,
and he concluded he had demolished
his supposed antagonist. The noise
brought the good lady into the house,
when she found her valuable mirror in
ruins and the rooster perched on the
marble slab growing for victory
Boston BUDGET.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

"A policeman who was patrolling
Montcalm street east the other day
heard whistle blow for all it was
worth, and ran block and half. to
find woman with her head out of a
chamber window .Who blew that
whistler 'I did. - do you want
me?" mo, sir. My gal and her beau
are spoonin' around . on the side stoop.
and blew the whistle to let him know
that it was time to skip or LOOK OFT for
clubs. Detroit Free Press,
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

Thee are thirty-nine professor
ships in the University of Edinburgh.
Of these the income of eighteen is
$500 or more year each. The Pro-
f.ss of Anatomy receives Sic, ,000. the
Professor OF Greek $500, while the
.t..!s Of the Latin and mathematical
apartments respectfully get $500.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

The mo expensive thing and the
hardest thing to get in Europe is pure
water At the hotels even in Swltzer-
land. where the ice-crowned Alps are
in sight, they charge you for ice-water
to drink. There is no water on the
cars, and at the stations they look at
you in anna cement il you ask for it.
TORONTO Globe
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

The old women of an English vii
lage have been provided by one of Rus
kin's disciples with distaffs, spinning
wheels and looms, and already the old
fashioned linen fabrics spun and woven
by them are in demand. "Ay, but they
make good and true stuff said one
old woman of the town. - Waterbury
american.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08

1t costs So, 100 to pay the salaries
of the agent and assistants to distribute
postage stamps TO the various post
offices in the United States. - Washing
ton Star.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-13
The Rink Carnival Last Night.

Electric lights, scores of gas burners in col
ored globes, Chinese lanterns in profuson, and
a hundred or more ladies and gentlemen in
fancy costumes, made quite brilliant
spectacle at the Meridian Rink last night, the
occasion being the first carnival of the season
there. There was very large attendance of
lookers-on, nearly every seat in the house being
taken. Many of the costumes were rich and
original and there were several excellent carica-
lures. After the grand march there was an
exhibition of fancy skating on stills by Mr. F.
j. Geraghty, who will also appear again this
afternoon and evening. The audience wero the
judges in deciding who should have the prizes,
each person being entitled to vote on ticket
furnished for that purpose. The prizes were
awarded as follows: Best gentleman's costume,
a pair of gold sleeve buttons, Master BERTHE
Short; best lady's costume chatelaine watch,
Miss Bessie Short; most comical costume, fifty
admission tickets, Frank Walker; best represen-
tation of Might fifty admission tickets, Miss
Barbour; best representation of a dude, pair of
club skates, Mr.. Harry Bowser. The When band
furnished the music and the occasion was alto
gether pleasant one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-13
ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Gieanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gieanings
from Exchanges.
Diphtherda continues epidemic at Rockford and
scarcely day passes without one or more
Deaths.
The Governor has reappointed E. d. Blinn
trustee Of the Institution for the Feeble minded
1t Lincoln, position which Blinn resigned to
serve as presidential elector
At Centralia, Willard Tucker and John A. Car
son. of Ashley, have been arrested, and bound
over to court charged with extracting, from a
sar on the Illinois Central road goods consigned
10 the Worlds Fair at New Orleans
The first exhibit of the State Horticultural
Society at Champaign is regarded as the finest
sver made in the State The society gave pre-
miums for essays to Lyman Hall. jr. and Charles
WAW oodworth, Students of the university The
society adjourned to meet at Centralia next
December.
Sister Augustine, of the Order of St Francis,
died in Peoria, Wednesday,, night of consump-
hon, contracted while nursing the wounded on
The battle fields during the Flanco Prussian war.
Sister Augustine came to America in 1879, and
was connected with st. Francis Hospital in
Peoria, of which her sister is mother superior
She had charge of the hospital at Bloomington.
Ill, four years. and afterward of the hospital at
Eseanaba Mich She was forty two years old.