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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05
THE COMING UGGLE IN
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AS soon as the slender majority Of the
Democrats of Virginia in the election
just passed YVES announced, we uttered an
earnest warning to that party not only to
maintain its organization but to strength
en- it. We regret to see that many of our
Democratic contemporaries are SO ;ubilant
over the glory of the presidential victory as
to lose sight of what actually has occurred
in Virginia. One of them announces, as if
settling the matter, that Tout of ninety
nine counties in the State the Republicans
only carried fortysix, and these mostly
in the black belt; that of the fourteen
cities in the State they only carried five
and four of them in the black elt,-and
this assures the election of an "out-and-
out'' Democrat as U. S. Senator next
winter. 1t will be very serious error if
the Democrats neglect the standing advice
of John 5. Barbour and underrate the
task before them next November: it will
be serious oversight if they do not make
their estimate Of it in advance. Let US
look at the field
In November Of last year the Demo-
Gratis carried the State by II GOO majority.
In the election just over, that majority
was reduced on the electoral ticket to
SAL, and on the congressional vote to
to 1927. Had the election been for mem.
bers of the House of Delegates the two
parties would have sustained the follow
ing losses Of delegates by the majorities
named:
DEMOCRATIC LOSS. REPUBLICAN, LOSS.
A mai IT, n," maj
Appomatox, Al Rep. maj. =
p Ghssts tsB 2l8 Rep. 8
l Essex, 272 Rep.
l Floyd, 235 hep.
] Goochland, 2eS Rep.
! Henry, b Rep.
l Norfolk County. l095 Rep.
and " esfmore, 2O4 Rep.
] Portsmouth II hep.
Scott, 30l Rep.
] Southampton. 212 Rep.
IA
AS will be seen from this table the
Democratic net loss in members of the
House you'd have been IL. Had the
election of last month also been for State
Senator's; the following would have been
the losses.
DEMOCRATIC LOSSES. REPUBLICAN LOSSES.
lftb District. lSt District
Powhatan, Washington Dem. Maj.
GOochland sos Rep. and Smythe, 706.
] and Ches- Maj
therfeld,
18th District. 10Th District
buckingham, 2l9 Shenandoah Dem. Mai
l Fluvanna Rep. and Page, 172,
ApDumattOx, Maj.
39th District
King & Queen,
MddleSeX,
l Gloucester, Rep. mai 49,
Essex and
Matthews
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Holiday Presents :!

Having removed in our New Store, IN the
HURLEY BUILDING, we will keep in stock a
ane assortment of Engravings, Paintings, Cbro
mos Pastel Drawings Photograph Albums. &C.
for HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Call and see our beautiful selection of Dado Win.
dow Shades, Pole Cornices, Portieres. Lambre-
quiDs, and all kinds of windows drapery.
We have also received our NEW WALL PA
PERS for next Spring-the --latest designs.
Everything New Style
GEO. W. HEWITT & SONS
Paper Hangers and Upholsterers,
noY5-3t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05

Putting cigar with fellow invalid on
the verandah Of village hotel one moon
light night last summer, my companion
got up and exclaimed YEARLY: sob, 1
,uish my wife was here; want somebody
TO talk to- I looked up with mortified
surprise, when he added hastily: ',Oh,
didn't mean that. You see, Iry
wife and are great chums and we tell
each other everything. She is as safe to
talk to as the American Trust Company.
I would just like to talk to her tonight
1 looked at him with envy. A comrade that
you can tell everything to, with the Ger
tain knowledge it won Il be repeated, is a
treasure indeed. I don't mean that one
wishes to speak ill of his neighbors. That
isn't 1t. There are lots of things about
your neighbors, that are not ill, that you
caa It say to every hody, You want to cay
what you think of people and how people
look. to you. You want to laugh at your
neighbours weak points with somebody
that will appreciate it. You want to dis
cuss Your acqqaintanees-ag if these az
quaintances are worth having at all, they
ought not to be afraid to be discussed.
Sometimes the humorous side of some good
friend strikes you so forcibly. that you
feel bound to put 1t In words. But 1t
would break your friendship if he or she
heard of your doing it. DO you know that
for five years have been consumed with
desire to tell OF the way Tom Freshman
took me to see his new bride when they
were here on their bridal trip. If put it
In print, Tom would recognize 1t and
would break with me forever, and Justin-
ably. If tell it, it will get to his ears.
So what can [ do but take Tom Fresh
mans bride With me to the grayep The
possessor of the American Trust Com
pany' is more to be enyied, in my eyes,
than William Henry Vanderbilt.
p. BOYzY.
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China Going to Fight.

Especial to the Staunton Vinaicatorl
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Cable dispatches
say the mandarins of Pekin have SUBJ
seribed million dollars to aid The gov
eminent in carrying ON the war.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05
appointment Of Alex. r,
BOteler

Especial Telegram to the Staunton VindicatorJ
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.-Hon. Alexan-
der r. Boteler, the well-known politician
OF West Virginia, was to-day appointed
Pardon clerk. ID the Depa. tment Of JUS
tice, vice Stair, deces sed.
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suppose you don't know Maria You
ought to. She was great comfort to me
while l was at Hampton. Did love her ?
All, most truly 1 have sat on the hote!
porch and watched Maria in her front
yard by the hour. suppose if I was to
meet her to-day she would hardly recollect
my name. SO ineonstant is her sex, but
1 left my heart with her. 1t ls trus that
she was not conventional, that her skirts
hardly came to her knees, that she could
rot write, and that her general air was not
that Of society woman, but to sick
man she was an inexpressible comfort.
have written her name Maria, but she was
also called Mar "a, Mari q ga. Mari-UH,
and oh-h-h. Maria! These names she
was called from the rising of the sun to
the going down thereof. l don't think l
have ever known more versatile genius
than Maria. At times, che was a steam
boat, with loud blowing of the whistle; at
other times. she was bear and deyonred
other children with grunts and growls Of
great ferocity; at other times, she was
horse Of such high mettle and spirit as
could only find vent in chewing up the
front gate and paving her mothers gera-
NUNS into the earth. But 1t was in her
great and realistic combat with dogs that
] admired Maria most. Every day about
noon, two settar dogs would come Longing
about the yard with the most innopent alr
in The world. 1t was Maria's lunch time
and the little thing would toddle in and
bring cut her lunch. No sooner would
she appear than the dogs would rush on
her and roll her in the dirt. There was Is
brief scuifse, an agonizing scream, the dust
few, the dogs rushed off, and Maria sat
up in tears, dirt and hunger. The lunch
was gone. By the time quiet was restored
the dogs would come to see if they had left
eng in tn, ir hurry, and the forgiving little
one would start in to play with them as
if nothing had happened. I was there
two months and if Maria got whole
lunch in that time, didn't see it. Some
times the dogs had forgotten to look at
their watches AND would be couple of
minutes behind time. but all the came
thew rushed on her and took what there
vas. Often the screams would bring her
mother out, and Maria would 60 into
little explanation which. as she couldn't
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Personal Notes.
Especial to the staunton indicator

Especial to the Stapnton Vindicatorl
New YORK. Dec. 4.-The case of
"Mother Mandlebaum, - the notorious re.
ceiver OF stolen goods in this city was
called to-day in court; but it was ascer-
tanned that she had forfeited her bond and
fled to Canada.
Rufus s. Childress, the we'll know news
paper and magazine writer of Louisville,
KY, has gone insane, from family
troubles.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05

l made the acquaintance of married
couple at Alton. do not often hold up
the private life of my acquaintaces to il
lustrate a moral lesson, but l must make
this an exception. I believe the gentle
man was brought to Alton for the protec-
ton of sheep, and to test the statement
that goat with flock of sheep would
keep off the dogs. When 1 saw him he was
a moral wreck. He had become profess
sional lounger around the depot where he
chewed up old paper, straw, and such odd
crumbs of lunch as the passengers would
throw out of the car windows. His hair
was full of burs, and he had gotten one of
his legs broken by the cars. HIS occupa-
tion was to wreste with all the trifling
Fellows. white and black, around the
depot, butt them when he could, and be
ridden by them when he couldn't. He had
long since lost his situation at the sheep
fold having proved rather an attraction to
dogs, who are fond of low company, than
a protection to sheep. Untldy, thriftless
a loafer, kicked and cuffed about by the
public and half-starved, he presented a
pitiable contrast to his wife. a neat little
lady who after her husband had lost his
situation. left him and joined respect
able circle of cows She became the bell
guide OF the COWS and spent her time with
them, fat, sleek. eminently respectable,
and as regular as clock work in taking
them out to pasture and bringing them
home. The moral point that wish to
make is this: if you give woman half
a chance she will be lady; if you give a
man half chance he will 60 to the dogs.
It is in the sex of the animal.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05
g HowDY ?''

Tong before the opening large number Of
Senators and Members were gathered in the
halls. There was much hand shaking as they
met after their long separation, and many
kindly greetings varying from the Ny dear
Senator; | an. delighted to sse you looking SO
we'll, q of the courtly Soptherner, to the g Hell
10, old boy by gum Pm glad to see ye, as
heard member from the wild Northwest greet
n friend, as he seized his hand with the fer
gent pressure of a clothes wringer. There
were warm congratulations for those who had
"pulled through" at the late elections, and
peultiees of coincidence for those who did not
get votes enough, and whose places in Con-
gress will know them no more-at least till
after another election. There is no politics in
these personal associations. In many cases
the stpengest ties Of friendship are formed be-
tween those who are antagonists upon the
floor. congressman and editors are very much
alike in this respect. When party measures
are under consideration, Or in the heat of q
campaign, they sit up nights to search the lex
icons for blisteripg words to hurl at their ad-
yersaries in debate, or write etat y them with
pens dipped in vitriol. The innocent observer
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The Electoral COLLEGES.

Especial to the Staunton Vindicator.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Some of the
votes cast by the Electoral Colleges yes
terday, were received by the President of
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05
OUR WASHINGTON COR
RESPONDENCE.

THE SCENES AT THE MEETING OF CON
GRESs-H HEARTY GREETINGs-FLQW-
ERs IN ABUNDANCE BLACK JACK
LOGAN, SC, &C., &C.
Especial Correspondence Of Staunton indicator
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 3.-The opening
Of Congress is usually thu event of the year
in Washington, as it marks the beginning of
'the season." with its busy and fruitful days
fer the hotel, cafe, and boarding house keep
ers, tradesmen, amusement caterers, and cab
drivers. The dull. summer season brings
pinching times to all these. When the states
men come, with all the caravan of those who,
with various ends in view, are attracted by the
congressional magnet, these Washington peo-
pie regard them as their lawful prsy 1t is
the chief end of their existence to make as
much money out OF them as possible. So it
is that congress receives a hearty welcome.
Last Monday the people moved upon the
Capitol in force, filling the galleries and
thronging the lobbies and corridors. There
was, however, very little Of special Interest,
such as attaches to the organization of a new
House. There has been simply recess of
five months, and the many tangled threads of
public business will be gathered up just where
they were cut off by the July adjournment.
The session will be short one, lasting but
three months. It will expire by limitation at
noon on the 4th of March, at the moment the
new Democratic skipper climbs to the hurri-
cane deck of the Ship of State, to start her
upon her new voyage.
READING THE MESSAGE;
The feature of the opening day is always
the reading of the President 3 message This
is usually about as much as the average con-
gresham can stand at single session, and by
the time the reading clerks working by reliefs,
have finished the ponderous document, he ig
ready to vote for an adjournment. His men
tai digestion must be unusually good if it can
receive any more that day. If the truth must
be told very few of the members sit and listen
to the tedious tale. Half an hour after the
reading of ME. Arshur's farewell message began
not a quarter of them were in their seats, and
within thirty minutes more than half of these
had joined their fellows in the cloak-rooms
and restaurants. They prefer to read it at their e
leisure. Az for the crowds in the galleries
they were stampeded early, and when the
reading closed there was but thin skirmish
line of spectators craning their necks ever
the balcony. If this annual exercise is ever
to become popular, as source of entertain
ment and instruction to the masses, it must be
by the employment Of some FAMOUS el9cu-
ZIONIST; like James E. Murdoch or Mrs Scott
Siddous, to give the Message dramatic rem
dering The experiment should be tried. A
judicious appropriation for the purpose would
not be amiss.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-12-05

I often hear it said of man that he
has 1.-The manners of the old school, y
by " hich is meant courteous. deferential
manners. don't know that any particu-
lar "school." old or new, will give man
good manners, but it is certainly true that
men aAd women. AS we grow older we
BECOME aware that there are great many
other people besides ourselves in the world,
and that if we want to go through it
smoothly we must keep to the right and
not insist on keeping our elbows akimbo
in crowd. A rude young man may re-
form, but rude old one may be regarded
as having been lilly bred early in life, and
hopeless. Good manners are very like
the catechism lessons our mothers teach
US when children. They don't count for
great deal at the time, but the result
comes up in life long, long time after
wards. 1 think can tell you of the "old
school" where really good manners origin
aled. The Teacher has long since gone, and
some times l half fear the old school itself
is changed, but He left the rule with Us
when He departed, and here it is: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thvselt." After
the Teacher left, many new doctrines were
brought about, and much phop-logie was
put into the text books by those who suc-
ceedel Him, but with all their human in
vention they have never approached the
perfection of the motto that He left behind
for the cornerstone of good manners. 1t
is that, [ think, that makes old men have
better manners, they have learned that
there is good deal more in the people of
the world to appeal to their affection and
kindly liberation than they thought for at
the beginning of their lives; that there is
great deal CT good in every man and wo-
man, and that it won t do to pick out their
faults to the exclusion of their virtues;
that touch of kindly courtesy will often
reveal to you wholly different man from
the surly one who stood before you minute
before; in short, an old man has learned
more and more the lesson to love his
neighbor as himself. That is the true ''old
SCHOOL, founded eighteen hundred years
ago.
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vote in the North Is suppressed and like
the Democratic vote in Virginia in the
struggle Of readjustmenJ was suppressed.
like votes Of all men, everywhere, are
suppressed-by self interest. The colOred
man who gets to be intelligent enough to
understand his interests is Just as open to
suppression of prejudice and assertion of
Judgment as white man. Mr.. Blaine
and our contemporary are anxious about
the absent Republican vote at the South,
but are not so concerned by the disappear
ance of that vote at the North. Gar6eld's
majority lin Michigan was 53,000-four
years afterwards, Mr.. Blaine only carried
ed Republican voters? Garfield carried
Wisconsin by $4,000; Blaine carried it by
5.000-where are the 24.00O suppressed
Republican voters? Garfield carried Iowa
by $4,000. Blaine only carried it by $4,000
where are the 10000 Republican voters
suppressed in four years? Garfield carried
Indiana and Connecticut by an aggregate
of 10 600 votes, Blaine lost them by 10 900,
leaving 20, 900 suppressed Republican votes
to be accounted for. These thousands of
Republicans form basis for good many
electoral votes if they could only bs count
that way.
The suppression of party majority
Tor color line majority which is Blaine's
claim may be done in many ways other
than the old fashioned knocking the voter
on the head, which prevailed to such an
extent ia the far South some gears ago:
or as in this later period is being practiced
by U. s. Marshals on Democratic voters
in Ohio by pistoling them; or, as is prac
tieed by the eolored Republicans in Vir-
Ciuia and elsewhere South, on those of
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AS will be seen from this table the
Democratic net loss in members of the
House you'd have been IL. Had the
election Of last month also been for State
Senators; the following would have been
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06
n CHILD AGAIN.

: p - E
sometimes mid the rush of business
ZONES pause of worldly cares,
caused by scenes whose touching pathos
Stlf the heirt deeps unawareS.
For some part of Gods grand nature
esbeneath our care and strife r
Once remove the worldly rubb sh
AND 1t springs to sudden life.
weary workmen. homeward thronginr,
,, fIiied the car to overflow;
through the do II an aged, veteran
caihe With Feeble steps and slow. 'ii' .-
Down the aisle the brisk conductor
Fassed along collecting fare.
HOW much! asked the old man, family,
brushing back his snow-white hair.
six for adults. three for children"
rSlovly pass tn /: trembling hands -., 49,.
1hrough his pockets, searching yainly
For the sum his ride demands
Just three cents fer all HIS searching,
IN ms palm he spreads them out.
Tan ride for these?" he falters,
Rail- In hope and half in doubt. -
"Once man and twice child, sir,
LIE Tor me is on the wane,- -- ....- BEL.
ANA think twill be no harm, sir,
For am a child again.
Through each heart a generous impulse
Swept away the worldly dross,
entertaining something better
Than LIES baSer gain and loss.
Some one passed the hat in silence,
Thinking of hfe's ebbing sands,
Then with due respect and reverence
Filled the old mans trembling hands.
-hoSe HdrtD ch Thorpe. in DetyUt Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06

ice in these degenerate days, The de-
.RartnrasfEom the pnrer Prnciples Of
government in the scramble Tor place
and power, and the, rise of parties with
whom the end sjustifes the means, but
makes the duty of the patriot moro
clear and imperative. The Jefferson
ian standard of honesty and fitness
need to be taught anew in the choice OF
public servants, and place hunters and
,spoilsmen sent to the rear, with the
wicked doctrine Of rehabilitation of
which such low estimates of public duty
form q part~--4AaasericGn ReQiSter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06
Rigid Adherents to the Law.

You must go to East Broadway to see
the Jews who still cling to the pure and
simple Mosaic faith. They don all
speak English. They never use English
when tai King among themselves. The
books they read are printed in Hebrew.
When q woman marrieS she shaves her
head and puts on a wig. When some
one among them strikes q blow, or gives
stab, or steals from another, or COM
m is adultery or bigamy, our police and
our courts never hear of it unless death
occurs by violence and a Coroner is
called in order to get burial permit.
In all their troubles they GO at once to
the nearest rabbi, always venerable
bearded man. wrapped up in books.
He is Judge as well as priest. His
word is STRONGER law than the weight
lest finding of the United States Supreme
Court. No man or woman in that
colony would dare to eat pork, or rab-
bit, or oysters, oracrabs, or Holsters. I
heard of case where a rabbits daugh-
ter. fell in love with q Christian youth.
She was beafenI and starved and lect-
ured and locked UP i'd prayed over,
and the Christian youth was warned
that terrible things would happen to
him and to her if he persisted in his at
tentions. Nevertheless she slipped out
into the street one day and netHthe
y o,ith Che was a butcher in the neigh
sborhood) and they were married Size
went home hand in hand with her hus-
band. Her father, the rabbi, calmly
and with affecting pathos told her he
had had daughter exactly resem-
bling her, but that that daughter
was dead and would be- buried on
the following day. Her mother
turned her back on her. The
next day the butcher saw from his
store hearse drive up to the rabbits
door. Men and women in mourning
filed into the house. Presently pail
bearers emerged carrying 1casket
which they lifted into the hearse. The
relatives Of his wife. got into the car
riages that drove to the door. He
knew that he was looking at the funeral
of his wife, who. was, nevertheless,
hearty aud we'll in his home near by.
Had she been there she would have
seen her own funeral. Had she chosen
to do SO, she could have read her name
and age and the date of her deafh
on the coffin-lid. Every now and then
afterward she met her parents and
never failed to speak to them, but they
hurried by and pretended not to hear
or see her.-N Y. Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle.