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occurrence of the slightest kind marred the
pleasures of the occasion, and no gathering
of the people, from childhood to the aged,
ever retired to their homes happier than
did the assemblage On last Saturday after
noon, which returned from the quiet shades
of 'Sherry Grove"
The Reporter is not willing to drop his
pencil until he has word in about the old
town of Fairfield and its surroundings. In
all the sketches which travellers and cor
respondents have made of our section of
the Valley, that town had it's place in the
chapter. The Valley Railway skirts along
the northwestern border of the amphithea-
tire which surrounds it. From the centre
of the town up the green slope to the sta
ton, wide street has been opened Along
its line handsome sites for enlargement are
presented. Looking north, the cottage
residence of Mr.. J. Edgar Wilson, in course
of construction, strikes the eye in it's COM
manding elevation overlooking the railroad
and all the Valley below. Little brooks
and many cool springs meet at the rim of
the basin towards the east for rapid descent
to the South River. The steady population
of town and Vicinity is prosperous. Stores
and workshops abound, and the old hotel
which has often been the resting place of
General Andrew Jackson, when President
of the United States, in journeyipg from
the Hermitage to the Capital of the Ma
ton, still stands with it's wide, open doors
of hospitality.
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The role that 'tBeast" Butler is playing
on large stage Maj. Hotchkiss is playing
on q small oEe. Butler is endeavoring to
help the Republicans by dividing the Dem
ocratic vote in New York and other States,
and Hotchkiss is trying to do the same
thing by endeavoring to divide the Democrat
ic vote Of this Congressional district. Both
are candidates running in the interests of
the Republican party, and neither expects
to be elected. They are playing a game
similar to that of Malone when he had his
party to support his Hancock aad English
electors, hoping thereby to divide the DEM
ocrats sufficiently to ensure the election of
the Garfield and Arthur electors. As Ma
hone then failed ANONYMOUSLY, SO, we be-
lieve, will Butler and Hotchkiss fail
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26
Republican Meetings Benefit the Democrats.

Where the Democrats have the majority,
Republican meetings benefit the Democrats,
and the more excitement they cause, the
better it is for the Democrats, because it
has the effect to arouse them from their
lethargy and supineness, and puts them to
work 10 organize mole thoroughly, and to
use greater efforts to get out the full Demo-
cratic strength. We would be glad if the
Republicans would have large meetings in
this county every week. Such meetings as
the one held here yesterday do the Demo-
Gratis great deal of good, and we should
like to have such every week between now
and the day of election. We hope that the
Republicans will hold meetings during the
canvass in every election precinct in the
county. Though recruits are welcome, the
Democrats do not need them. There are
Democrats enough to elect their candidates,
and all that they need is, to get all the
Democrats to cast their votes. A Demo
GRAFT is of no value to his party unless he
cast his vote, for it is the votes that are
counted to determine the elections, and not
the voters.
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FIsHERsv1LLE, VA, Aug. 18th, 1Se

FIsHERsvILLE, VA, Aug. 18th, 1884.
Mr.. R. Mausy:-
SIR: The introduction into your paper
of a department specially devoted to the
material interests and development OF our
locality, and the State generally, under the
very competent and iudicious management
of Col. J. G. Shields, a practical business
man and experienced journalist, should be
hailed with satisfaction. The physical ca
liabilities of Virginia's resources, i'll their
variety, abundance, and value, are immense,
and should be presented to the attention OF
capitalists and the business world through
the press. The long and well established
reputation of the STAUNToN SPECTATOR,
identified and associated in the public mind
with the affairs of the great Valley of Vir
ginia, will give to its statements that credi-
bility and attention which their importance
demands. We need to be more thoroughly
informed on current business transactions
at home and abroad. The changes wrought
by the restless activity of the times demand
greater forecast and energy on the part of
the Virginia people. The supineness of the
past must be discarded, when localities,
without and beyond, are reckoning the
stranger thither; we must inscribe at every
passway and thoroughfare the superior adj
vantages here, to honest labor, enterprise,
and capital, rather than organize efforts to
induce our young men to quit the State for
the far West Profitable employment must
be created in the development of our re-
sources. What we most need is capital di-
rected successfully by a thoroughly trained
and skilled management. Associated
wealth, subscribed by our own people, suf-
ficient for small enterprises, might be OBJ
tanned if we had skilled managers of I'M
doubted capacity and integrity. There is a
lamentable decline, so far as my observa-
ton extends, in the number of those learn
ing the mechanic arts. Young men of tai
ents and energy are not content to plod
along in country shop, but rather seek
their fortunes abroad. For these we need
school of Technology in connection with
with somesof our great State schools, 1T
which they could be suitably educated in
the sciences and shop practice to take charge
sents such an inviting field. We have am
pie accommodations provided by the State
for the qualification of young men for the
learned professions, but mechanism, in its
multifarious operations, has been neglected.
The leaders in business must be thorough
ly furnished with scientific and practical
knowledge to keep abreast with the rapid
march of our enlightened neighbors.
The graduates at the Schools of Technol-
ogy, at Worcester and Boston, Mass. find
ready employment at fine salaries in the
great industrial establishments of their
country, and furnish labor to the masses
trust that the new department in your pa
per will fully develop the business interests
of our section, and infuse new life and en-
ergy Ill their prosecution. Wishing you
abundant success, remain yours, &C.,
A. KOINER.
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The People want an Honest Representative.

The people have seen enough of the way
in which legislation at Washington has been
controlled by the purchase, in one way or
another, of the votes Of Congressman, to
make them feel the necessity of electing
men to Congress whose votes cannot be
controlled by hopes of pecuniary reward;
and this is not only one Of the reasons, but
the greatest reason, why the people favor
the election of Hon. J. Ran. Tucker, because
they have the most implicit confidence in his
interrupted and incorruptible integrity,
and feel assured that his vote cannot be in
fuenced by any other motive than the pro-
lection Of the rights and the promotion of
the interests of the people, as he understands
them. In these times of corrupt legislation,
it behooves the people to elect as their re-
representatives. men whose character for in
tegrity, like Caesars wife for chastity, is
'not only pure, but above suspicion" The
people do not want men in Congress who
will, like Blaine, render themselves fuse
full in the way Of passing bills Of jobbery,
by which they may put thousands into their
own pockets. They want men who will leg
islate for the people, ard not for monopolists.
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WILL OF. VINCENT L. BRADFORD
LII. D., D. c. LIVE noticed last week
the death and burial of Vincent L. Brad
ford, L LID, D. G. L.. of Philadelphia
He has been a benefactor Of Washington
and Lee University. For some years he
has given 500 year for the benefit of its
library, and in his will bequeatbs it his
library Of law books to be added to the
books for which he had previously given
the institution money. The entire collec-
ton to be called the Vincent L. Bradford
Law Library, to be maintained by the uni
versity to the extent of $400. All the ex-
penses of transportation, with the collate-
raj inheritance tax, are to be paid out of
the funds belonging to the State.
The testator's collection of paintings
goes also to the Washington and Lee Uni
versity, to be called by the name of the
donor.
Among the annuities bequeaihed, to date
from the day Of Mis-. Bradford's death and
to be paid quarterly, is enc Of S400 to
Gen. Robert D. Lilley, of this city, the
financial agent Of Washington and Lee
University.
Over and above the several annuties
given, any surplus income goes to Juliet
B. Massey to the extent of $1,000 cash, or
should that legacy lapse tho same sum is
to be paid Louis G. Massey, husband of
the above.
Any further surplus goes to chair of
civil (Roman) law at Washington and Lee
University, to be known as the Bradford
professorship, and another and equal part
of the surplus income is left to V. L. B.
Townsend, if he drops his surname and
retains only that of Bradford.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26

Discussion ON BAPTIsM.-Revs Steel
and Smithson are engaged in discussion
on the subject of baptism at Riverton, War
rem county. The discussion last week was
on baptism by immersion, Mr.. Steel advocat-
ing the affirmative; the question this week
Is infant baptism, Mr.. Smithson advocating
the affirmative. Both speakers are now
hoarse and will be broken down by the time
the controversy closes, and that will be all
the effect it will produce, except furnishing
entertainment and possibly amusement to
the auditors, and making both sides more
fixed in the views they have heretofore en-
tertained.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26
VIRGINIA CoNrR1BuTEs TO ARKANSAS.

VIRGINIA CONTRIBUTES TO ARKANSAS
Colonel John D. Letcher, of Lexington, a
graduate of the Virginia Military Institute,
with experience as associated professor and
civil engineering, has been called to Arkan-
sas in connection with her State school re-
Gently established at Fayetteville. TIe as
sumes command of the cadet corps, and
fills the chair of Engineering. He is son
of the late Ex-Governor Letcher, and will
reflect credit on name known and honor
ed all over this land.
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Tucker will be elected.

The question that is now worrying the
Republicans of this District is, Whether
they shall accept Hotchkiss as their candi-
date, OF nominate one of their own party ?"
1t matters but little to the Democrats which
they will do, for they intend to elect Tucker.
He is their nominee, standing squarely up
on the platform Of the National Democratic
Convention, and no Democrat can fail to
vote for him without being recreant to his
party, and there are enough Democrats in
the District to elect him,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26

THEIR EFFORTS IN THIS DIsTRIcT.-In
noticing the appointments that have been
made for the Republican speakers, the
Lynchburg Adcance says:
"We notice this significant fact, that the
forces are to be poured into fuckers dis
trlet. John S. Wise is twice in it, Brown
Allen five times, R. T. Hzbard once, Col.
berkeley once, Page NORRIS five times,
frank Blair twice, d. J. Goodwin once and
l: Z. Fowler twice. This will keep Ran
TlSnt pussy, but we think he will be able to
keep the flies off all this party
we suppose our contemporary refers to
blow-fiies attracted by the tainted condi-
tlon and reeking corruption of the party to
which it alludes.
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Communication from a Merchant.
TRADE ORGANIZATIoNs-UNI AND COOP
GRAFTON.
SrAUNToS. VA. AUGUST 18th. 1884.

STAUNToN, VA, August 10Th, 1884.
Editors SPECTATOR
The interest you are taking in giving
your readers correct and full weekly mar
ket report is very eommendable in you, and
is doing the trade of our town great deal
of good. As one of the merchants, desire
to thank you for the benefit you are confer
ring upon us. | wish you would use your
influence in getting the merchants of Staun-
ton to organize Board of Trade, with a
Bureau Of Credit, &C., &C., attached. You
can readily see the benefits to be derived
from such an organization Union and
concentration among the merchants Of a
city will do more than any one thing to build
up the trade Of the place. Other towns no
larger than ours have such boards. Staun-
ton should not be behind in this respect,
as it is to her own interest. Please
present this idea, with your ready pen to
the business men, SO as to cluse them to
take some steps in tn matter.
Truly,
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Thomas A. Hendricks Letter of Aceentaueo

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Auo On 1904
Gentlemen: l have the 6ono,, loof
knowledge the receipt of your oomm NJ @o
ton notifying me of my nomination INV t tIa
Democratic Convention at CHICAGO a: o Sno
dldate for the office of Vice President of iho
United States, and may l repeat what 7 said
on another occasion, that it is nomina i,
which | had neither expected nor desired
and yet recognize and appreciate the high
honor done ME by the convention.
The choice of such body. pronounced
with such unusual unanimity and accom-
panied with so generous an expression of
esteem and confidence, ought to outweigh
all merely personal desires and preferences
OF my own.
1t is with this feeling, and trust also
from deep sense of public duty. that I
now accept the nomination, and shall abide
the Judgment of my countrymen.
have examined with care the decIara-
ton OF principles adopted by the conven.
ton, copy of which you submitted TO me.
and In their sum and substance beart;Iv
endorse and approve the same.
am, gentlemen, your obedient servant.
T. A. HENDRICKS.
To Hon. W. F. Villas, chairman, N. NJ.
Bell, secretary, and others of the Nation
al Democratic Convention.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26
FOR CoNGREss-10TH DISTRICT:
JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER,
OF ROCKBRIDGE.

Cleveland and Hendricks Campaign Clubs
and Democratic Clubs everywhere are re-
quested to send report of their Organiza
ton, together with an application for Club
Blanks, to the National Democratic Com
mittee, No. II West Oath St., New York
City, with as little delay as possible.
VIM. H. BARNUM,
Chairman.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26

CIRCUS PEOPLE MARRIED IN THE LURAY
CAvE.-On Sunday of last week, two of the
attaches of Robinson's Circus were married
in the ball room in the Luray Cave beneath
electric lights. The ceremony was perform
ed by Elder B. T. Grayson, and the parties
married were Mr.. Ed. G. Holland and Miss
Aimee Thorne, both of Delabar, Wisconsin.
The bride is % years Of age, and is said to
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26

J 20: human endeavor in the conscientious
discharge of public duty.
To No, WV. GROVER CLEVELAND.
R ovl. william F. Villas, chairman; D. P.
eo"t; 1r ana others, members of the mott
t;" %.1n committee of the Democratic ma
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26

DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET.-The
Nelson E'romiaer, in publishing at the head
of it's column the Democratic Electoral
ticket of Virginia, says:
"Here you have the ticket in full an a
downright good ticket it is, ticket which
any true Democrat can support with clear
conscience. 1t is strong ticket. 1t is an
honest ticket. 1t is a ticket, that If the
people be alive to their own best interests,
they will support and triumphantly elect.
The ticket is platform in itself. 1t repre-
sents reform; it represents economy; it rep
resents return to methods that are neither
anti constitutional nor extra constitutional;
it represents purpose to rectify, so far as
can now be DONE the fragrant wrong of
1076-77, Ga Nemesis for the worse than
Catalina conspirators of that era;) it repre-
sents a return of fraternity and good will
through all the sections; it represents equal
ity of rights and privileges among all the
States; it represents the doctrine Of 'hands
OFF, to the General Government, in all mat
tiers which are essentially State matters; it
represents the doctrine of the sovereignty
of the people; in fine il represents all that
is noblest and best and most truly Repub-
lican in our Governmental system
Miss Longfellow, a daughter of the poet
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The nomination of Hon. J. Ran. Tucker,
OF Virginia, for Congress in the 10th Dis
trict, is credit to the people of the dis
trlct. He is an able lawyer, fine speaker
and a polished Virginia gentleman. His
nomination insures another Democratic
victory. IN. ca Nears.
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Competition in European Grain Supplies
A COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSIONER
OF AGRICULTURE

We think it was very we'll the article in
the agricultural Rerieac was re-published
in the SPECTATOR. Like Colonel Harrison,
we thought it time to be looking at facts
squarely. The interest being of great i'm
portance, and Mr.. Cheesman discussing it
at length, we copied it, and if nothing else
had resulted from it than its furnishing the
occasion for our Commissioner of Agricul-
ture to give the valuable information con-
tanned in his letter below, our labor would
have been amply compensated.
We hope Colonel Harrison will continue
the investigation and give us results.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA., !
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
RICHMOND, VA, August 18th, 1884. J
Editor Stanton Spectdtor:-Your issue
of the 18th inst. contains an interesting ar
ticle, Competition in European Grain
Supplies in which mention is made of
the rapid increase of wheat production in
India. We may as well look the facts
squarely in the face, and prepare for a
change of base, if necessary. This coun-
try has no competitor in the grain market
so formidable as India. Her exports of
wheat have increased with startling rapidi-
ty, and if they go on in the same ratio for
a few years, there will be no place left for
oar surplus wheat. But bad as the outlook
in this direction is for us, the figures of
"Mr. Cheesman' published by you make it
appear much worse than the reality-are
full of mistakes, if the "Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society" is to be relied
on, and l presume there is no higher au-
thority.
The article in your paper states that in
1891 the export of England rose 'to 49,
900, 600 bushels, and reached no less than
100000 bushels for 1872, or nearly
half the British imports. The entire ex-
port of India amounted to 07.5 per cent. of
the requirements of Great Britain in 1882,
and of this not more than half was con-
signed to British ports.
Let us see what the journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society says! I have
it before me-"No. 80, April, 1884"
In 1880 the imports Of wheat from Brit
ish India were, 3,247, 249 cwts., equal to
6,061, 516 bushels. In 1881, 1905, S42 cwts.,
equal to 10, GAS, III bushels
Now in 1880 the total imports of wheat in
to Great Britain were So. 1877, 304 cwts., equal
to 103, 034, 967 bushels; and in 1881 the i'm
ports were 57,042, 6G9 cwts., equal to 1885,
40, $40 bushels.
So that instead of ''the entire export of
India amounting to ''eighty-seven and a
half per cent Of the requirements of Great
Britain" as stated by Mr.. Cheesman, it
was barely taoenty:frs per cent, supposing
that one-half went to Great Britain and the
other to foreign ports. Even in 1885, the year
in which the exports OF wheat from India to
Great Britain were largest, they were less
than half of those from the United States.
In that excellent Journal, "Bradstreet's
is statement very similar to that of Mr..
Cheesman copied by you. There is stu
pendous error somewhere. | cannot think
it is in the "Jonrnal ofSthe Royal Agricul-
tural Society,"
Most respectfully yours,
RANDOLPH HARRISON,
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

The advantages and resources of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway are present
ed with much force by Northern writer,
who resides in the heart of the rural dis
trict of the State of New York. We make
an extract from the article which appeared
recently in the Dansville Adoe1fiser, pub
lished in Livingston county, New York.
The writer, after referring to his first visit,
about 1871, over the road, continues:
cat that time the western terminus of
the road was Huntington on the Ohio
river, four hundred and twenty-on miles
west of Richmond From that point a
line of river steamers furnished the only
outlet westward. Now the road has been
extended to Lexington, KY, distance of
five hundred and sixty miles from Rich
mond; while an extension from the latter
city east to Newport News gives an unin-
terrupted all rail communication from the
Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi valley.
AT the time of my visit there were many
stretches of rough road laid with ordinary
iron rails and very poorly ballasted. Now
the whole road is laid with steel rails and
the road bed leveled and worked to point
of smoothness second to 40 trunk line in the
country.
There is no necessity of my recounting to
you, Mr.. Editor, the delights incident to
trip over this road. You know from per-
sonal observation the beauties of Clifton
Forge, jackson River, White Sulphur
Springs, New River, Hawks Nest, Ka-
nawha Falls, Pope's Nose Tunnel, and a
hundred other novel and startling views
that fill the traveller with wonder and de-
light. The Chesapeake and Ohio certainly
bears off the palm in the matter of the
picturesque.
The wonderful mineral developments
brought to light of late years in West Viz
cinia, are bound to make it take q front
rank in tho list of coal and iron producing
States, and the Chesapeake and Ohio is
contributing largely to this end. Ali along
the line are laterals reaching out and into
the mountains, tapping here coal mine
and there an iron deposit, all OF which, like
the small tributaries of a river. help swell
the tide of the main stream. There are at
present forty seven working collleries along
the Chesapeake and Ohio road, sending
their products to the seaboard and the far
west. At Victoria Furnace, English capt.
tai has constructed large reducing works
with a capacity for a weekly output of over
a Thousand tons of pig iron. AT Newport
News a grain elevator has been erected
with a capacity for storing 1,50O,000 bush
els of grain. So the Chesapeake and Ohio
will be able to compete with the other trunk
lines in hauling western grain to the sea-
board"
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RAPID INoREAsE.-Within the past
month, $50 names have been added to our
list and the number is still daily increasing
Advertisers should make note of this, and
look to their interests. The way to reach
the people in this and surrounding counties
is to advertise in the SPECTATOR.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-26
A Modest Candidate.

1t is thought Maj. jed, Hotchkiss is his
own choice by a unanimous majority, and
thinks that, if votes were weighed instead
of counted, his single vote would certainly
elect him without the aid of any other. He
is for the greatest good ofthe greatest num-
Der, as he understands it, and he considers
the greatest number to be No. 1. 1t would
be paying him poor compliment to say
that his merits equal his modesty.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT. R 4 co SoT2kGN. a.
containing rooGs and "a cellar with LEI
stable, poultry yard, large garden, full OF
ana n har acres. The place is just beyond
tne City Water Works-a short walk 10 the
business portion of the city. For further par
ticulars. enquire of GEO. M. COCHRAN, JR.