Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-15
Editorial Notes.

Virgins predicts failure Of the corn
crop this year. We opine that if our farm
ers we're to plant as little as Virgins does,
his prediction would come true.
M ahone has gone home to recuperate his
health. If he would take the advice given
by the Virginia Legislature and resign his
Senatorship, the people Of the State might
be resigned to see him get well.
Bob Ingersoll, who bought up the negro
vote of the District of Columbia to elect
him a delegate to Chicago, was defeated,
and now he is utterly without faith either
in the bible, money, or the negro.
Noah Kittle, who has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for four years for being the
leader of the notorious Red men of West
Virginia, does not belong to the Red Men
of the Improved Order, but to the Red Men
of Disorder.
The ''new white mans party" of the
South is not composed of new men, but on
ly of those who, having heretofore profited
by the negro's vote, are now deserving him,
when they find he is no longer to be fooled
by their promises that were only made 10
the ear and broken to the hope.
Mr.. Blaine's proposed spirited foreign
policy" should he be elected President, does
not commend itself very favorably to the
country at large especially in view of the
fact that we are not prepared to defend a
single one of our coast cities against the
attack of single armed vessel of any Eu-
ropean power.
Mrs. Atkinson, the aged inmate of the
Louise Home of Washington, who was as
saulted on the street by negro last Satur-
day night week, is native of King
George county, Va, and the daughter OF
Bishop Atkinson's brother, and grand
daughter of George Mason, of Gunston,
who drew up the Virginia Bill of Rights.
The Alexandria Gazette most pertinently
remarks: "One patent fact is worth more
than Thousand theories, no matter how in
geniously they may be spun. Of all the va
rious old manufactures of Alexandria, the
only one that has prospered and that con-
tinues to thrive is that of leather And
yet, it is the only one that has not been
protected by the tariff.
The Louisville Courier-Jdurnal has spe-
cial department for Spring poetry, price 40
cents a line in advance, with 25 cents addi-
tional if run through the weekly. The
Courie1-J0mnals says: "instances frequent
iy occur in which the expression "halmy
spring. is used more than four times in the
same poem; in such cases the contribution
will not be accepted upon any terms
The Educational Bill has passed the Sen
ate of the United States, giving another in
stance of how little regard that body has
for the constitution Of our government
However, if there is ever an occasion fol
going beyond the powers granted by the
Constitution, it is this effort to educate the
negroes of the South who were turned loose
upon the country and made voters of by the
United States Government.
What greater farce can there be thar
Malone still calling his party ''the demo
cratic read juster party Can he still
hope by mere assertion to still dupe the
democrats whom he onee deceived, wheI
they see him now contending that he is 6
better republican than the straightouts anG
that his delegates should be admitted t.
the republican convention? % "The snar'
is set IN vain in sight Of the Bird