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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

Vance then had the report Inspected,
when it was found that Mr.. Wise's testi-
mouy in regard to receiving negroes in his
kitchen had been marked out aud substi-
tuted by an entirely different statement.
1t is understood to day that The attention
OF the Senate will be- called to this remark
able proceeding.
Washington letter in State The re-
ports of his evidence as made by the New
York Associated press and by the special
reporter employ ed by the National fepa6-
licdn, both agree In making him state thaG
when colored members of the Lrglsla-
ture came to consult him they always
went to the kitchen The sworn steno-
grapher has the same remark taken down
Uerbutin and more at length.
MIR. WIsE's REPUBLICAN FRIENDS ON
HIS SLIP.
John S. Wise will probably remem Der
to his dying day that there is 10 man
quite so dangerous TO his own success as
the man whO speaks of social distinctions
| in politics, where every body counts for
one and obody ought to count tor more
than one. The next time Mr.. Wise med
| tates another like remark about receiv-
ing colored legislators In his kitchen he
| had better go aud take a firm seat on his
cook stove first Philadelphia Press.
John S. Wise, congressman at large
from Virginia. probably appreciates by
this time that his Judgment was greatly at
fault in permitting his tongue to wag so
very much at large in testifying before
the Committee on Privileges aud Elec-
! tions. ThIee-flths of his constituents, it
is said. to whom he owes his seat in the
House of Representatives, ARE colored men,
and upon the vote of the colOred men of
| Virginia his party must depend for any
thing like power in the Sttte. And yet
MIR. Wise was foolish enough to gratuit-
ously insult every colored man in Virgin
ia-tG asperse the character and standing
of the whole race-by declaring that when
colored members of The Legislature come
to see him they must call at his kitchen,
and by comparing the colored people gen
orally to the ''riff-raff" political heelers
of New York. This has been very prop
erly resented by the coIored members of
the Leglslat ure. They are finding out
now that Mahoneism, in spite of some
thing it has done for their race. is not
pure Republicanism.- Baltimore Amer6-
can, Republican.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

Without arraigning anybody, and with
out even knowing who to arraign, quiet
but firm conviction has pervaded the
minds of the people of Virginia whose
homes are on their farms, that the move
ment in the legislature to 'Gx'' the debt
of West Virginia is a brokers job by which
few people OF the two Virgin1as are to
make big profit, aud the people of Vir-
ginia are to suffer. Speaking, as far as
we are able. for the people of this section
We urge upon the Democrats in the legis-
lature to defeat it and defeat it quickly.
We have nothing more to do aciM Vest
Varg'nia's share Of the debt. See to it that
the Riddeberger bill is made i:npregna-
BILE and that is all you have to do with
any debt question. Don't give the people
even the slightest ground for suspecting
that THIS legislature is being used in the
interest of spectators.
P. S.-Slnce writing the above we are
glad to see that the Senate has POSTPONED
it sndgfnateLy. That settles it.
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Janauschek, the great Tragedienne.

We present in this issue sketch of the
famous traeedienne Madame Janauschek.
She came among US stran er, ignorant
of our LANGUAGE as we'll as the people to
whom she presented he's self rs candidate
for favor, and she remains among US yet,
permanent and splendid ornament of the
American stage, Francesca Romano
Magdalena Janauschek was born at
Prague Bore mia. on July Goth. 1887. OF
a family of nine children she was the
fourth. Her father was merchant whom
business reverses overlook. Francesca
had developed an extraordinary musical
talent in her childhood, and at the age OF
ten was a brilliant pianist and phenome-
nal vocalist. AT sixteen she went on the
stage at Prague. Shortly afterward she
accepted the first engagement Offered and
went to ChemmilZ. where she joined a
travelling company at salary OF Sl4 per
month. Socially she soon rose above Ter
position on the stage, and made such rapid
advances in her profession that al the age
of eighteen she engaged as leading actress
at the 3 adt Theatre at Frankfort. There
she remained for eleven years and made
her reputation. At the end of the eleven
years. and at the age of twenty mine, she
closed as a star. There Was but one thing
left for her to win, and that the title of
Royal actress For year and half
she starred through Europe, which was
then ablaze with her fame, and at the end
of that time accepted three years con-
tract with the Royal Theatre at Dresden,
at salary of $2500. She remained one
year. For three years after, she starred
through Europe, and in 1867 came to
America with her own company. Al
though she acted exclusively in German,
he English-speaking public recognized
| her ability and encouraged it, as they had
| Rachels before her and as they did Bern
hardt's after. Madame Janauschek was
so we'll pleased with her first acquaintance
will the country; that after she left it she
determined to play here in English. She
| went to work to master the language by
heroic means. She was already some
thing of a linguist, and knowledge of the
principles of the strange tongue was not
50 difficult to attain to. Indeed, she is
| said to have mastered it within year
| But to perfect herself in pronunciation
| was another matter and to this day traces
of her old tongue cling to her English,
and render it. like Fechter's, peculiar,
without investing it with the charm
| the splendid vived originality Fechter
| coaked his own defective information
with. She is eminently a tragedienne and
| in her hands the most splendid passages OF
the dramatists find appropriate and Thrill
ling interpretations. The actress touches
| the intelligence and the heart, stirs the
! blood and the soul. There is one thing
| for which the American STAGE has to
| thank Madame Janauschek. She brought
to it the heroic strength and a lordly
breadth of style which had we'll nigh de-
parted from our boards. and redeemed the
classical drama in the United States from
| decadence in which it was becnming the
| toy of hands Incompetent to WELD the fan
of Frtu-Frou, far less the dagger of Lada
| Macbeth.-N. Y. Times
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

no better than to select Free Trader
to go to Congress to represent has inter-
ests Does the Free Trade Ostrich think
that even if the people didn't know. there
are not protectionists smart enough to
enlighten them? Can the Virginia De-
mocracy afford to lose congressman in the
great mineral region of Virginia?
We trust that some of these reflections
will be poDdered on by the people of Vir-
ginia before they select their delegates to
the state Convention. Virginia can't
afford to trifla with the issne; she must
be plain about it. She is just coming into
a new life, practical life, "a material life,
an cannot afford to founder among
Free Trade theories, ABSTRACT or abstruse
theories of States rights and all the
musty old entanglements of the past.
And her people must be willing to give.a
little time to seeing that those who repre-
sc her IN the Democratic Convention
shall not be of the sort to put back her
lift. The Virginia delegates to Chicago
must represent her Lynchburg plat
form-aboliton of the internal revenue
tax, and adding the deficit made thereby
to protection-fo for this will be the plat
form of the National Democracy. There
are five States that will IN the future
constitute the doubtful States in Presi-
Dental election Indiana. New York,
Virginia, Connecticut and New Jersey
an possibly Ohio. These States will de-
eide any Presidential election. Every
one of the five States first named can be
carried by the Democracy on the Virginia
platform, and can be lost on the tariff for
revenue and retention of the revenue tax.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

The handsomest journal published in
Richmond is the Mercantile and Manufac-
tursnq Journal, edited and published by
Capt. Richard E. Frayser. It only costs
ST. a year, and for that sum furnishes full
and reliable market reports and all the
commercial, mining, manufacturing and
agricultural news of the day. Richmond
has now become in the large sense of the
word market and the Journal publishes
all concerning that market every month.
Besides being the handsomest it is to our
view one of the cheapest and most useful
papers published ia the State. Capt.
Frayser was the former Democratsc State
Printer aud is gentleman of extensive
experience in the speciality which he is
now conducting.
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| A gentleman of Cambridge, Md, who
had been previously married three times
was recently united i'll wedlock with a lady
who had been married four times, the
gentleman being 35 and the lady As years
of age.
Quinine has gone up fifty cents an
ounce since the burning Of Powers &
Weightman's great drug factory in Phila-
delphia last week.
John johnson, of Culpepper. is now in
the Virginia penitentiary, for stealing.
The House of Delegates last week passed
a bill permitting an officer of the prison to
take johnson to Orange county to point
out where ne hid the 81 900 be stole.
Hon. R. B. Sherrard, Judge of the Win.
chester City Court, predicted SOME time
before his death that he would die on the
anniversary of his wife death, which oc
Cured, Jan. 26+h, and SO he did. He died
on the Goth of January, and was buried as
she had been, in the snow.
Major Jas. W. Green. prominent men,
Der of the Culpepper bar was paralyzed
last week.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07
Barnum's circus will have s7s names OF

Barnum' circus will have S73 names on
its pay rolls-640 in the exhibition depart
ment, 2l0 on the cars and % agents-the
daily expenses being $500. The tents
will seat Fl 900 persons.
Morton Bledsoe, for many years en-
pl0yed as clerk at the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, died in Fluvanna county
last Friday.
Gen. Sherman has met with rival in
the West. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri.
was so carried away by Nine. Patti 3 sing
ing of Home, Sweet Home" that he
called upon her, threw his arms around
her neck and kissed her, excuspg him.
self by saying, Il can't help it y We
seem to remember indistincty of some
what similar apology being offered by
Adam for his reprehensibie conduct in
the Garden OF Eden.
at st. Elmo, ILL.,, last Sunday, Mrs.
Mary Smith, widow, who had become
infatuated with the young mini ster who
officiated walked up into the pulpit aud
insisted on standing by him during the
sermon. She will be taken to an asylum.
Sigismund Dangerfield. the most pros
porous Negro in Berryville, W. Va, owns
several improved town lots, and he has
recently arranged to erect for himself a
large building to contain store-r0oms and
hall for public meetings.
DR.. Agnew, at the head of the medical
profession in Philadelphia, gave a recep-
tion at his residence Mondav night in
honor of Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge, who
delivered a discourse before the gra duat-
ing classes of J-ff.rson College and the
University on Sunday night.
Alfred W. White beat his wife so badly,
as was his custom, at Huntington, W.
Va, that the neighbors put some young
men in the house to protect her. Think
ing she was alone, he came again to beat
her apd they shot him dead.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA -
The Alexandra Gazette" contains the
particulars of a horrible tragedy in Fau-
quier, near the Loudoun line. John Glas-
cock. son of Thos. A. G lascock, one of the
wealthiest men in Fduquier, seven years
ago married Miss May Frazer, daughter
of Herud Frazier, of Loudoun. He was
handsome young man, quiet, and domes-
tic man. She was vlvaclOuS and fOud ut
admiration. They lived unhappily to-
gether. Three children were born to
them, one lot many months before the
tragedy. Latterly, the Wife made no secret
of her preference for S. Ill. HaWley,
Young and disslpated son of Dr.. Hawley,
a physician IF RectortoWn Eatly ON
Sunday morning last, Glascock, who was
III the habit OF dressing tue children MINI
self, got up aid dressed them. Then shot
his wife and all three children, Including
The baby. dead; put their bodies on bed
soaked with kerosene, fired it; locked The
doors and lett the house. The fire was dis
covered by the neighb rs. There Was no
witness to the awful tragedy GlascocB
himself was found lii grove, dead, with d
bullet through his brain. The whole taD-
ily were buried side by side in the ceme-
terry at Mlddleburg. There is much feeling
against young Hawley in his neighbour
hood and 1t is asserted that he will be re-
quired to leave the county.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

We are glad to see that the bill aiding
the Volunteer Military Companies of the
State has passed the Senate and hope that
the House will favorably consider It, The
military may not be wanted always, but
when community does want them, it
wants them worse than anything in the
world. 1t is the supreme police when the
laws are to be executed and the peace
preserved. fE ds.sE, e5l
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

The old Mexican Veterans in Augusta
and there are goodIy number yet alive
who went out with Kenton Harper, will
be pleased to know that the bill giving
them pensions passed the House of Repre-
sentatives on Monday, by vote of 227 to
46. 1t has yet to go through the Senate,
which, we regret to say, is narrower and
harder passage.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

Referring to the VINDICATOR's approx
al of the action of the Virginia Senate in
seating Callahan (Republican), over Rue
(Coalitionist) whose apparent majority
was secured through corrupting voters by
use of the Navy Yard, our contemporary,
the Valley Virqinaan, says
But If the crime of inter ference at elections by
outside influences is revolving to our cotemDoia.
ry, why is it that moth ing has been said in that
paper against the inte ference in our ocaland gen
eral elections OF The whisney ring and railroads
There are things that come nearer home to us than
federal interference. and reform should have its
commencement like charity Because man holds
federal office does not dlsquaify hin from exer-
cising the privileges nf citizenship He has as much
right to vote and work for his fayorite as any one
else, fact which the VINDICAToR seems incapa BILE
of approaching
A mans holding Federal office does
| not disqualify him from exercising all the
privileges of citizenship; but mans hold
ing Federal position and giving Federal
offices and money, in the way of places
to corrupt voters and carry local and ma.
Cional elections, as was done in the Nor
folk navy yard and is done in other parts
of Virginia, ought to qualify him for the
prisoners dock, and would do 50 if we
mad an honest administration. The only
Whiskey Ring that we have any informa.
tion about, is that attached to the e. S
Internal Revenue Department, most of
whose offices are given according to the
political influence of the applicant, and
| whose retention in office depends ia a
great measure on the ability of the occu-
pant to successfully interfere with local
| State, and national elections. A system sc
| strictly adhered to, THAT Republicans there
| in are decapitated to make way fol
| Democratic eadj uster- Republicans who
| can make more successful interference
| That Is the whisky ring whose offic ials
| leave their stills and report for duty at The
| ward POLLS to interfere with elections anC
whose neglect of duty is countenanced by
the Washington government which allow.
their pay to go on. The VINDlCAToR is
fully capable of approaching tbs sort o.
Federal Interference and holds that in al
cases where it is successful the elections
should be declared void. That is the only
Way to resist the corrupting interferences
in local elections, by the Federal govern
ment, and the Virginia Senate did righ
when it adopted it.
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BOLTERS ?

That excellent Democratic journal, the
Richmond State, copies some of the state
ments of the Washington Post and N. Y.
Herald about the intended resistance OF
portion Of the Democratic congressman to
the Morrison tariff bill, and adds, that
s.This is no time for bolting.' Now, what
the Post or Herald may say. is matter of
small consequence, but for Democratic
journal that has the success of the Demo-
cracy at heart as our able contemporary has,
to speak thus is bad sign for that success
in Virginia. The State knows that there
has been no caucus on the Morrison bill;
that the Democratic party in Congress has
not attempted to make it 9 party test, and
that the tariff question is no more test
of party feaity in the Democratic than in
the Republican party. where some of the
most distinguished lights-Carl Schurz
cago Tribune, for exampie-are out and
out free raiders. No Democrat ''bolts"
when he opposes the Morrison bill-if so,
you can count boilers by the thousands in
Virginia. For tie sake of the Democratic
party, don't let's have any more of this.
Reading out has been tried once in the
Democratic party of Virginia and it sent
| the party under the feet of Malone for
four years. Don't have any more of it.
The Vir lila Democrats who support the
Virginia MISUNDERSTANDING the H.
, ternal Revenue tax and adding the
result to protection, are in large
majority in the State. They ask no.
body any favor. They will be at
the Stat Convention and their opinions
will influence the action of the National
Democratic Convention. But strong as
they are they ask for peace IN the interest
of the general welfare of the Democracy.
If they have been silent so far it is for
| that welfare. But that silence can be
broken by the undeserved taunt of
s'bolters.'' We in the mineral regions of
Virginia knoao achat s3e are about, even ii
| our bl ethren east of the mountains do not
| appreciate the situation. AS far as soil
minerals and resources generally and a
great preponderancs Of white population
are concerned, that part of Virginia lying
west of the Blue Ridge is repetition and
| extension of Pennsylvania and we know
what is best for us in the new life on whic,
the State has entered. The Democratic
platform adopted at Lynchburg gave us
the best road to prosperity as far as the
| tariff was concerned and we intend tC
stick to 1T. Those who choose to bolt
the State platform and fall in behind
Morrison's bill, which is no party issue,
should at least have consideration
enough not to CRY boilers at those Demo-
Gratis who are loyal in their adherence to
| it,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

When we published the new con
gressional district in which Augusta
will hereafter be. we only gave the vote
the counties had given in the fall of 1883.
We now give the m sjoritles given by those
counties in tie Cameron Daniel election
of 81. and also those in the election of
last fall-'83:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07
1T VAS JOHN E. MASSEY.

Hon. John S. Wise stated before the
during the war he never felt such sense
of personal danger as he did when CAP
vassing Virginia last year. Mr.. Wise is
evidently mistaken. and his error arises
from counfounding himself with Hon
John E. Massey, Democrat over sixt,
years old, who ran for congressman-at-
large in opposition to Mr.. w. the year be-
fore. 1t was Mr.. Massey who had good
reason for sense of danger. illustrating
their regard for free speech in Virginia,
Mr.. Wise's constituents mobbed Mr..
Massey at one point in the canvass, beat
him at another, broke his sp ctacles and
mashed his hat at another, and finally, to
make the lesson more impressive. Mr.
Wise himself slapped Mr.. Massey in the
face after the canvass was over. 1t was the
venerable Mr.. Massey who must have felt
sense of personal danger. not only akin
to war, but actually representing war
during canvass. just year afterwards,
some constituents of Mr.. Wise at Dan
Vile tried the same game with some Dem
ocrats who were not three score years old.
apd the result was a series of memorial
funeral sermons throughout the State by
the colored clergy. 1t is for the death of
some of the inoffensive lambs who mobbed
Mr.. Massey in Virg mia. that Mr.. Wise is
now assisting Honest John Sherman to
prosecute the Commonwealth of Virginia
and to hold the white people thereof up to-
the world as people among whom it is
neither safe to invest capital, buy proper
ty. nor make a residence.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

A very important bill has been adopted
will pass the House. 1t was offered by
Senator Atkinson and provides that
judges of election, if arrested on election
daY. may either close the polls at once OF
themselves sa ear in other judges to con-
duct it. This bill is the outcome of the
arrest Of the Democratic judges i'll Rich
mond on election day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

Joshua Day. of Pendletop county, W.
Va, was robbed of 81. 546 few days ago.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

TIE Senate has passed, without dissent,
bill which provides for an eight-weeks'
course of instruction for the colored
teachers in the State, the same to be given
by the faculty and president Of tue Vir-
ginia primal and Collegiate Institute.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

The appropriation bill which pass ed the
hanate appropriating the revenues for
1875 gives the office of Commissioner of
Agriculture. SIS O0O criminal charges,
$40 600; Central Lunatic Asylum, s62..
600; Fish Culture 81 900; Printing. S45,-
900; Virginia Military Institute and Uni
versity of Virginia. $40, 900 each per an
mum; Western Llnatic Asylum $4,000
for an Improvement fund; Artificial limbs
for manned soldiers. $4,000. The bill is
now in the House.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-07

A till to submit to the voters of AM
herst the question of sale of liquors the e.
in, the result to be decided by a majority
proposition, has passed the Senate. Strange
to say an amendment prohibiting the
manufacture of liquor in the same county
Was opposed by the patron Of the bill and
defeated.