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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11

General George 3. Mcclellan was IS
years old Wednesday.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.
. GORGE A. MYERS

~ GORGE A. MYERS.
GENERAL
- COMMISSION MERCHANT. -
No. 20s Seventh Street, Opp. Centre Market.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
~ Your business solicited
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11

General Hancock will retire from tie
army in 1855 But he won't run for Pres
ident again.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11

OLD ~WHIsR EY-Augusta county and other
famous brands ~
OLD BRANDY-a premium lot.
WINES of the purest Vintage.
Ale, Beer. Cigars. SO. declI
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11

Having largely
most careful attention FOR WARDLSC OFICHRLSTMAH
GOODS and all kinds of valuables and freight
operates the quickest and reliable lines all points,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-11

aggregate $40 on the ton of pig metal,
ana thus place them on a competitive
footing with the Southern manufacturers.
This is significant. The sensible way would
beto remove their plants South and their
capital Also
The reciprocal treaties recently nego-
tiated by ti,e American Minister to
Madrid. Mr.. Foster. with the Spanish
Government, affecting the Spanish Ameri-
can possessions, land the treaty pending be-
tween the United States and Mexico in
oIyeinterests which will call serious at
ention t0them before they become the ba-
Ia OF the trade relations of the countries
named. These reciprocal treaties are but
knother name for free-trade, and have al
hays met the jealous scrutiny and distrust
ofthose who favor American industries, as
one Of the essential agencies of American
independence in its fullest meaning.-
These treaties, too, partake, in sense,
of revenue legislation, and to the degree
that they do. are obnoxious to the consti-
ton, which locates the authority to orig
mate all measures affecting revenue IN
Congress. The proposed treaty with
Spain admits the sugar and tobacco, leaf
and manufactured. of Porto Rico and
Cuba free of import duty. but we see it
stated, does not provide that an export
duty may not be placed Oh sugar. We de-
rive $40, O0o, 900 of revenue from the tariff
on sugar and if this import is to 0e re-
moved and Spain should see proper to fix
IN export duty of p cents. it win be SIM
ply transferring from the United States
Treasury S45,000.000 to the Spanish Ex-
chequer. without any corresponding bene-
ft to this country. 1t will, indeed, des-
troy the sugar industry sof Louisiana and
cause great loss to invested capital and Sc
riously affect laboy.
We presume. however, the friends of
g,tection and American manufactures
Tabor in the Senate. viii examine these
iaxcarefully before .il,al action Isl Ia
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B. F. HUGHES & co. -

GnRISrMAS GooDsl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
A Munchausen Rat Story.
Counoquenesseng News.

A large number of rats established themselves
in a hayloft, about midway between the floor and
the top of the hay The owner of the premises
hearing continuous sqaealing noise in the loft
took fork and removed the hay from the place
whence the noise proceed and uncovered nest
of about twenty rats. Several of them ran, and
were caught by the dog, but bundle of sixteen
full-grown animals remained on the spot; their
tails were plated together, something after the
fashion of a whipcord By picking up one of
them the rest adhered, and could not be shaken
apart 1t was supposed by persons who saw
them that in order to avoid the cold the rat
occupying the top of the pile sought a warmer
place by creeping underneath, but not having
room to draw his tail after him. it was left stick
ing out the next rat did the same, and so on
until all had changed their position, and every
individual rats tail was entwined into the curious
knot that held them together. If they had not
been discovered and killed they must have
starved, as they could not have separated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
A Pilrering servant Girl.

Judge Norton, of the Criminal Court, yester-
day sentenced Bertha Braun, a good looking
German girl, nineteen years DID, to the female
prison for eighteen months for the
theft of a quantity of clothing and
some iewelry from the house of
w. c. Bull, where she had been employed as a
domestic The clothing was found in her pos
session, but the missing jewelry did not turn
up. She cried piteously and begged for mercy,
but there appeared no good reason why the
punishment should be mitigated and she was
sentenced accordingly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES.
Failure of New York Mining Stock Opera


Failure of a New York Mining Stock Opera
tor.
New York, Nov. 6.--The following assign
tnnents were made by city firms to-day;
Abel D. Breed, capitalist, with preferences
aggregating 1866, GEO. He has been dealing in
mining stocks for some years, and was also
connected with the Crane & Breed Manufacture
ing Company, of Cincinnati, o., in which con
eern ne owned 100, 900 shares of stock. He had
also $4,000 in the stock of the Eureka Com
pany at Opmeno, Ala, beside valuable estates in
Cincinnati and this city.
Judge Donohue, to-day, in the Supreme Court,
decided the motion made some months ago in
the case Of Peter Marie and others against
Cornelius K. Garrison, and another suit which
was begun in 1878 to recover So, 600, 900,
with interest from Oct. "a, 1876. A
demurrer was interposed by Mr.. Garrison,
which was overruled by Judge Speir. The gen
eral term reversed Judge Speirs decision and
sustained the demurrer. An appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court, which overruled the de-
cision of the general term. The case was then
sent to a referee. Last May Mr.. Garrison OBJ
tanned writ restraining the referee from hear
ing the action as one in equity, and from de
terInning the action otherwise than as an action
at law to recover damages for an alleged breach
OF contract stay was granted, and the mat
ter came before the court upon an order to show
cause why they should not be restrained abso-
lutely, as the writ of prohibition directed AT
ter arguments the court to-day granted the mo-
Nion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
CURING FORGETFULNESs
A Washington Professor Who Cultivates
Peoples Memories.
Washington Star.

Washington Star.
Washington has 'teacher of memory who
says: In a few lessons enable one to memorize
the most difficult things without an effort
How can that be donel' asked.
''Oh, it's matter of association according to
a system | have worked upon for twenty-five
years 1t is all based upon the alphabet and
numbers. | take person, and in few hours
get them so that they can repeat or reproduce a
long poem which have read to them twice, or
at most three times. They can repeat it back
ward or forward, or give you any line you call
for by number. | had boy about twelve years
old who after learning the system, went to hear
Beecher and Cook lecture, and aftePward re-
peated the lectures to an audience without hav-
ing taken note. He repeated Beechers lecture
at the Young Mems Christian Association rooms
on New York avenue OF course he did not
give every word the lecturer used but he covered
every point in its regular order just as the
speaker had done curtailing it sufficiently to be
able to give in half an hour what it took an hour
to deliver originally
''Do many come to you to have their faculties
cultivated
Eyes, great many of all classes. Some
students, reporters-m6re particularly official
reporters of the Senate and House-lawyers and
preachers. Preachers and lawyers particularly;
the former to acquire an aptness in memorizing
their sermons, and the latter to memorize
authorities and dates. Orators, also, who mem
orize their speeches
''Ther there is another class-the department
clerks and persons preparing for civil-serviee
examination. Before going in for examina
ton many of them come to me to learn to mem
orize dates and events location of rivers, histor
cal, statistical and practical facts, etc.
II had a navy officer not long ago. who was
preparing for an examination for promotion,
and he perfected himself in the system so that
he could without difficulty remember anything
he desired.
There is an old lady, between seventy and
eighty years old, who, with her daughter has
tak an iOStp ba Va hat nd
no difficulty in remembering and repeating all
that she reads. She says she can take two
poems she has read and repeat them alternately,
Il line from each"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Love-Nr,.king in France and England.

lies Files de John Bull" by Mrs. o'Rell.
have never much admired the way in which
declarations of love are made in France With
us the foolish animal has to go on his kneesat a
woman's feet With Der eyes modestly dropped
on US, this little demon of observation makes an
inventory OF all our smallest defects-of our
hair growing sparser; of languishng eyes
turned up and showing their whites; Of a little
wart which we thought concealed. l put it
squarelv that in this little scene it seems to me
we have to play a supremacy ridiculous part. If
any one Of my readers is not of this opinion let
him put this question to himself, SHOULD ever
think o: being photographed in the attitude
above described" l await his answer They
manage these things differently in England,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
KILLED TEN MILES AWAY.
The Explosion of Dynamite Factory Wrecks
a Stack-Nine Lives Lost.

READING, Pa, Nov. G.-The dynamite works
from Stouchburg, village Of 800 inhabitants,
blew up this afternoon, shaking up the country
for a distance of twenty miles. The works con
sisted of FIVE frame buildings, the timbers of
which were sent flying in all directions, nothing
remaining but the foundations. All the men
In the buildings were killed, so the
cause of the explosion will never be
known. The names of the killed are Frank
STATE, married, aged thirty; Frank Cap, twenty
one single, and Jos. Kraus, aged twenty FIVE,
single. Windows were broken in many houses
IN Stouehhurg, people knocked off their feet and
mirrors and pictures shaken from the walls. A
church and several houses were unroofed. The
victims were literally blown to atoms. At
Robesonia, ten miles from Stouchburg, num-
Der of masons were working at the bottom of
Furgson e Co.'S furnace stack, refining
il with fire brick. The stack was probably
one hundred feet high, and the work
nearly completed. Ten some say fifteen men,
were in the stack, some at the bottom and 9TH
ert on the scaffolding above. AS the shock OF
the explosion was felt the stack quivered, there
was rumbing noise followed Immediately by
a great deluge of brick, completely burYing SIX
men at the bottom of the stack If they
were not instantly killed they will
be burned to death, as the scaifoldlng
as burning, and they cannot be reached. The
names of the buried men are John Menrelch,
Henry Spangler, Henry Stott, Fred Foreman,
David Parson and Joseph Reed. Four or five
others were wounded The excitement IS In
tense, and crowds of people including the wives
and children of the unfortunate men, are sur
rounding the stack The loss to the furnace
cannot be estimated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
A FAMILY DESTROYED.
A Chicago Woman Kills Her Husband, Her
Child and Herself

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-About 4:30 o'clock this
afternoon Mrs. Gardner, wife of DIR. Schuyler
Gardner, formerly of jefferson county, New
York, shot her husband and young child both
through the head, killing them instantly. TAX
ing up the dead child, she carried it across the
street to a neighbours house. left it, and calling
to her neighbor to come over and
see her husband whom she had
killed, returned to her own house and
shot herself through the temple. She will die
1t appears that her husband lost property a short
time ago, which made him mo1ose and sullen.
He accused his wife of infdelity, and this seems
to have unbalanced her mind. At the time of
the shooting he was bidding her goodbye pre-
paratory to going to Rockville Ill, and it is
supposed she thought he was going to desert her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Left at the Door.

I suppose that everybody has noticed that a
woman is never so thoroughly lonely and for
saken as when she is standing outside of cigar
store waiting for her escort to get light She
usually walks on a few steps, and then en-
counters the crowd which invariably hangs
about cigar store, and directly retraces her
steps She looks curiOusly into the window,
folds and unfolds her hands, taps the sidewalk
with her boot, and then abruptly walks to the
gutter and attempts, without success to assume
the outward resemblance of one who is waiting
for car. Everyone who passes gazes at her.
whether she be eomely or not, and when the
man comes out of the cigar store he finds that
the temperature has fallen several meters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks who, may yet be
Viee-president of the United States spent yes
terday at his home in this city, receiving the
congratulations of his friends on his prospects
and denouncing tho Western Union Telegraph
Company for it's alleged partisan reports of the
returns in Indiana. He received numerous
dispatches from the East announcing
that he was surely elected, and he was cheerful
and sanguine in consequence. During the day
he received hundreds of callers from the city and
State, and several times was called
out in front of his house by enthusiastic
crowds. He expressed the belief that
Indiana would give 5000 Democratic plurality,
and that New York had surely gone for Cleve-
land and himself. Last night the parlors of his
residence were crowded with friends, who were
very enthusiastic over the following dispatch
which he had received from Daniel Manning
Mr. Clevelands manager
ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. g. 5 P. NJ.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks:
BY the final returns reported from every county.
Cleveland and Hendricks have carried New
York State by safe and sure ma
iority. No machinatop, false claims,
or pretended doubts of Mr.. Blaine's managers can
change this result, The friends Of honest govern
and honest elections be everywhere assured
that the Democratic State Board of Oanyassers will see
that the true vote is correctly declared.
DANIEL MANNING
Chairman Democratic Elk State Committee
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

Some Views on Filtration and PlatOuic Love.
'Undertone," in San francisco Chronicle.
If fellow felt quite sure that ne would be de-
elined when he proposed, what a lot of innocent
fun we might have. But that is not the nature
of things. But between the danger of being
grabbed up and the danger of being cut out the
present young gentlemans position is altogether
profoundly uncomfortable one. l was once on
the most delightful of terms with a young lady
We laid down basis of neutrality. Filtration
freedom and friendship were the notices We
got along swimminglv She flirted with other
fellows, and I-well-I was supposed to be free
to lirt with other girls. L never kicked,
but she objected to my paying somebody else
attention and-well-I had to give in Having
thoroughly conquered me. she went OFF and mar
ried somebody else, and everybod condoled
with me on getting left l make no more com
paets,
Then there's that COMPOUNDED arrangement
known as platonie love Platonic love is rela-
ton in which both parties are on the defensive.
1t is a condition intermediary between happiness
and misery When you are platonically related
to girl you are IN a constant worry in case she
is in love with somebody else, while you hope
to goodness she is not so far gone on you as
to expect you to marry her. The platonic
relation is one created to minister TO the
emotional as distinct from the matrimonial
wants of human nature. 1t satisfies the craving
all men and women have to hug one another
without responsibility and without prejudice
1t is eternally selfish 1t really allows nothing
to the other party. 1t serves to fll up the gaps
between the fits of grande passion. OF course, l
know that people who believe in platonic love
will say it is nothing of the kind that it is based
on liking and respect and all sorts of pure
things. All the same, if you will excuse me-
am not going to confide my future happiness to
young lady who has platonic affection for
which theory and practice are SO widely different
as platonic love- / know it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
OBITUARY.
Death of Henry Fawcett, England's Blind
Postmas ter General.
LONDON Nov 6-The Right Honorable Hen
ry Fawcett, Postmaster general is dead.


Henry Fawcett was one of the most remarkable
men of his time He was the tallest man ply
sically in the House of Commons, being six feet
two, and finely built For nearly quarter of a
century he has been totally blind, yet in that
time he has done an immense work even for a
man with all his. powers unimpaired. A vigor-
Gus intellect, unfinching courage and great
tenacity of purpose were his leading character
isties. He was the son of w, Fawcett, NJ P,
and was born in 1888, educated at Trinity Hail.
Cambridge and became professor of political
economy in the University of Cambridge He
lost his sight while shooting, in 1853 He had
previously been elected to Parliament, and was
subsequently several times returned. On the
formation of Gladstone's administration is $780,
he was appointed Postmaster general, post
which he has ever since occupied, and by untir-
ing efforts revolutionlzed the postal service
making it one of the most efficient in the world
He was the author in conjunction with, and by
the assistance of his wife, of many works on po-
itical economy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

81 acial to the indianapolis Journal
GREENsBURG, Nov. CIV. Eugene West,
dealer in dry goods and millinery, has assigned
to Henry H. WooIey. He has been doing a
large business for several years, and
bought heavy stock this fall,
but trade did not justify it.
Liabilities about 81, 200, besides 1921 90 pre-
Serred claims secured by chattel mortgage
Assets estimated at $4,000. He failed twice
before compromising at so and 60 cents on the
dollar, respectively.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

Hammered Agreement Between France and
Germany Concerning Congo.
BERLIN, Nov. Cit is stated that Bismarck
has entered into a secret agreement with France
to propose to the forthcoming Congo conference
to recognize the African Association as the
sovereign state of Congo, and that under this
agreement Germany will share with France the
right to purchase the territory of the associa-
ton, if that organization should be dissolved.
1t is reported that Earl Granville, British
Foreign Secretary, has demanded an explanation
of this matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Fire and Loss of Life.

DENVER, Col, Nov Ga Silver Plume spe-
cial to the Tribune Republican says: 1.-THE en-
tire business portion of this town was burned
this morning. The streets are flied with crowds
of excited and homeless people. Several lives
were lost but only one body, so far has been
recovered. The loss will reach 800, 000." Silver
Plume is a small mining camp, of few hundred
town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
An Oasis in the Desert of Politics.

Chds gave the Farmers Club a dinner to-day
at his country house, Wottoon. Among those
present were General Simon Cameron, ex.
Speaker, Samuel j. Randall, Wayne MacVeagh,
George B. Roberts, president of the Pennsyl
vania railroad; Senator J. d. Cameron Judges
Green, and Biddle and D. o. Mills, r. Lennox
Kennedy and Whltelaw Reid editor of the New
York Tribune Twenty four gentlemen sat
down to dinner
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

You sit down comfortably, very much at your
ease. You have the adored object of your
dreams at your side or at your feet, aEi you can
murmur your sweet whispers OF love into her ear
without ever disocating your vertebral column
You may even smoke your cigar, without any
fear of giving olfense, all the time you tell your
love and build your eastles in Spain Then
some enancipated woman exclaiming Not at
all, madame, it is no question Of master and
slave it is matter mot Of slavery, but of ex-
allied dutVD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
The Enellsh Redistribution Scheme.

LONDON, Nov. 6-Northeote and Salisbury,
Conservative leaders, are preparing a scheme of
redistribution to be submitted to Parliament
tbs reported that their plan adheres to the prin-
elples of separation of the urban from the rural
voters, and groups of small towns into single
member constituencies. The general tendency
of the scheme will be to eliminate town inau-
ences from the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

She declared that she is starving, as she cannot
eat the food supplied her. 1t is now two months
since her case was brought into court, and yet
nothing has been done for her. r. D.
McGibbon, who pleaded the unfortunate woman's
case, has been officially notified that the govern
ment will not pay the expenses Of medical ex-
perts, 5000, whom Judge Jeth nominated to sit
in Judgment with DIR. Nallee on Mrs. Lyman's
sanity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Wife Murder and Suicide.

JERSEY CRY, Nov. bartholomew Haas, a
German real estate agent, shot his wife to-day,
At their home on Union Hill, and then shot him
self Haas died almost instantly, but his wife
is still alive. Haas and his wife quarreled fire.
quently. At 10 o'clock this morning Haas, who
had been away all night, returned home grossly
intoxicated, and, without saying word he drew
a en-barreled revolver and fred the fatal
shots. Mrs. Haas will die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Rates TO New Orleans.

CHICAGO Nov. 6.-The general passenger
agents Of roads running south met here to-day,
and made round trip rates to the New Orleans
Cotton Centennial Exposition, from leading
cities in the Northwest, on the basis of $25 for
the round trip from Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
The Franco-Chinese Dinfculty.

SHANGHAI Nov 6-The Chinese Council Of
State has failed to arrange for a settlement of
sthe difficulty with France. The government in
iRists upon the attendance of Iii Hung Kuug
Vieeroy of Pee Chi Ii, at Pekin. China has
paid England the indemnity for damages in
ca by British subjects during the riots at
Canton in 1888
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07
Tie ETignonette Cannibals.

LONDON, Nov. 6-The trial for murder of
Captain Dudley and mate, of the wrecked yacht
Mignonette for having killed the boy Parker to
keep themselves alive. was concluded to-day.
The jury brought in a special verdict, finding
the facts as stated and referring the question of
law as to whether murder had been committed
20 the Supreme Court. The verdict was coupled
with recommendation to mercy. The prison
ers were released on bail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-07

PITTsBURe Pa, Nov. 6-Dr James A.
Reed, superintendent of Dixmont Insane Asy-
lurn, and one of the most prominent physicians
of the country, died suddenly this morning OF
kidney disease