Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Editorial Notes.

Rev. DR.. j. E. Edwards, who has been
critically ill at Petersburg, is now regarded
Is out of danger.
The Electoral Board of Lynchburg ap-
pointed colored men Judges of Election,
md now the Republicans are complaining
lbout it.
Keely is now busy focusing" the ''oscil-
ations'' of his perpetual motion machine,
and proposes on next Thursday to exhibit
it's wonderful workings to his still confiding
and credulous stockholders.
Bituminous coal is strongly protected,
and yet the owners of the Cearfield mines
are considering the ACCESSIBILITY of reducing
the wages of their laborers forty per cent.
Thus again is it shown that protection does
not protect labor.
A correspondent says ''The U. S. Govern
ment has discovered that it costs million
to kill an Indian, but only $167 to educate
one." Well, then, it would be better not
to educate him, as the Government would
thereby save $167 on each one killed.
Though Gen. Grants choice SO far is Lo-
gan for the Presidency, yet it is intimated
that he, himself, would not be loath to wear
the Presidential candidates toga and,
with the cry of "On to the White House"
fight it out on that line if it took him all
summer" Stranger things have happened.
The Richmond Wing would be glad to
believe that the Democracy of the country
are represented by the wild sayings of Wat
terson, but it should remember that the
Democratic party is as far from following
the radical utterances of Watterson, as it is
from following the Richmond Whtg into the
Republican party.
When the friends of Grant and Sherman
raised large sums for them, which they
accepted, they were both commended for it
by Republican papers, and now these same
papers are commencing Mr.. Schurz because
he refuses to accept one hundred thousand
dollars to be raised in the same way. 1t
lOuhS d ubtlC ooIdLSO, uoOoli U ~
The Winchester Times, remembering
that SIN the Spring a lovelier iris blooms
upon the FURNISHED dove" has donntd new
dress and looks as fresh and charming as
though it, like many other good democrat
ic papers, felt that the "Winter Of our dis
content is DER" We congratulate the
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An active Readjuster writing to the bust
ness editor of the Wayren Sentinel says
81 will be with you this Fall if live.
have returned and repented, and promise
to be a good Democrat in the future. y
There are many more like the above writer,
in every county in the State. Come one,
come all, and repent Of the sins that caused
your fall.
Miss Maud Stuart, who played SO sue
cessfully the part of the blind girl in the
drama Of "Young Mrs. Winthrop wher
it was presented in this city, is now threat
ened with blindness, and is in the care Of q
Philadelphia oculist, to avert the threat
ened calamity which seems to have resulted
from her correct conception of the part ane
her endeavors to appear blind.
Faith. mon, Tilden cannot now carry
South Carolina and Louisiana any more
than he did in the centennial year.-Whig
Does the Whig mean to say that Tilde1
did not carry South Carolina and Louisian;
in 1876? We were under the impression tina
the Whjg had always claimed that TildeI
had not only carried these States, but ha(
been fairly elected to the Presidency IF tn
United States.
When "Gen." Robert Smalls, (colored,
of the House, was affirmed in Office las
week, be was extended friendly greeting
first by ''Sunset" Cox, and then Mr.. Buck
ner, of Missouri, Mr.. Cassidy, Of Nevada
and Mr.. Mills, of Texas, all Democrats
who shook him by the hand, but MIR. Pc
land, Of Vermont, held his right hant
stiffly down by his side and recognized hin
with only slight nod. A Western Edito
in the Press gallery, noticing this, remarked
$50 much for New England fondness fo
the negro"
The staff correspondent of the August;
(Ga.) Chronicle says: 81 understand tina
S nator Vance has some evidence agains
Col. VIM. E. Sims, the alleged instigato
of the trouble lat Danville]. which will
explode under him like dynamite.
knowledge of that fact may have contrib
uted to the serious illness of Senator Ma
hone, who is reported better" To which
the Lynchburg VWginian ACIDS most posi-
lively: ''Sims and Malone had better stant
from under, for it is real dynamite that il
coming. 1t will blow Sims sky-high."
1t seems conceded that Lincoln will Ger
tainly get the second place on the Republi
can Presidential ticket; but it is also fur
ther said that he is after the first place
In either event, it places Logan entirely ou
of the field, as both are from Illinois. Rep
resentative Barr, Of Pennsylvania, who il
for Gen. Logan, says that in consequence
of Lincoln's candidacy Logan has NJ
chance, and that working for him is likt
thrashing straw-you make heap of noise
but get 10 oats. Mr.. Barr impaired TIL,
| unpleasant piece of Information to Gen
| Lagan, and told him that Lincoln would al
any rate get the nomination for Vice Presi
dent, and, of course, Illinois could not fur
nish both candidates. He says Logan go
mad, but he told him the sooner he..realize6
it the more sweating and "cussing' il
would save.
AS the Petersburg Inder-Appeat says, il
the colored people would have the color line
destroyed, they must themselves AID in the
work of destruction. 1t cannot be done
by voting as solid mass for any party.
Their interests, as race struggling against
the accumulated prejud;ces of ages, lie
clearly in making friends of all parties.
Properly divided they have sufficient num-
bers to command the protection and res
pect of all parties. The vital question is.
will they use their power judiciously fol-
their own good, or will they be content to