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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

While VIM. Malone, John s. Wise and
John Sherman are engaged 10 prosecuting
the State of Virginia before the Danvillt
riot committee ia Vast ingtOn, the DE-
cision of the Hurt-Sims contest in Lht
Virginia senate would be- good mater la
f,r the C,ngresslonal committee to read
The evidence in the first place showed thai
Hurt dam J would have been elected by
1892 N j ,riGy even II the Coalition had
polied at Dinville the largest vote
they had ever Cast The two Coalition
Senators on the CON nittee say 10 report
OF their own, the following
While the evidenc tends to show thai
~ tny persons dld not vote IN said election
from fears of bodily hurt, il does not show
tat their fears were we'll founded; fn
every one applying to vote did vote with
out hindrance. And if numbers sufficient
to have changed the result of said e, ectiOu
actually abstaiDed from voting because oi
fea RS of bodily hurt. said election ought
not to be annullpd because of such fears.
More than that. if the evidence plainly
shnws which it d res nnt) that such fears
we're well fOnnded-that ATTEMPTS TO vote
would have been repealed good policy I'm
the opinion of he undersigned) would at
his time refuse t. annul said election.
therefor. pIefeTripg to put # the dlrefu.
conclusion that elections must he protec-
ted by armed force In symp thy. OF cOu rise
with the party at the time in government
and CON handing.
When eirctions require armed protec
tIon we will bB very near the end of our
experiment. ut fraa government. To an
null ore election because of the fears of
elect RS points with irresistible logic tn
armed pr ,tection and the end of free gov
eminent.
j. L. PoWELL.
ROBERT BARNES.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29


l have spent some evenings at the Opera
House lately. Has it ever struck you that
the s aunton audiences are getting bet
ter class of amuSements than ever before?
They are; many of the entertainments
that come here are such as only 60 to
cities of Is 900 Inhabitants. There are
several reasons for this; one, that we are
now On the Valley R. r through route
North and South AS we have long been
on the through route from West to East;
mother; that Staunton is credited as a
good show towu-the $9rO Lanptry house
established that, and $500 house for q
good company is not unusual; and thirdly
because our audiences are not only good
natured but show a degree Of musical and
dramatic apprt citation unusual in so small
and interior town. Our amusement
lovers may be divide into three classes
a Mendelsohn or Eichberg qnartette audi
ence which is a $500 house; Humpty-
Dulnpty andienc with $500 house. and
a Janauschek audience which will be a
$500 house. The first named bring out the
connoisseur part of the people, the second
all that class who would go to the circus
if it were in town, and the third the elite
of the amusement goeIS.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29
CAPITOL NO1ES-STA1 TIE AND
IION4L,

A telegram from Ed. Echols. ESQ.,, in
forms US chat in the House yesterday, an
amendment to the tax bill reducing the
tax on real and personal estate to thirty.
five cents, was adopted by vote OF 81 to
81. -t-.-F
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29
MHSCELLANEOUS

WANTED To rent good dwelling In Staun-
w ton or the suburbs, containing seven or
elgnt rooms. nd with garden and small stable
attach ID Leave answer at the
feplo st VINDICATOR OFFICE.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

THE CoPARTNERSH1P heretofore existing I'M
L de he style and firm OF Tyree, Martin q
Logan, AS rhis day been disso, ed by w. n.
1.ree pu chasing he entire interest of John d.
Nj ann in he concern. The business will be con-
due ed from this ii NE on by W. t. Tyree and W.
b ogan uud-I the style and firm of X. Tyree
4 Co, vino assume all liabilities and are alone
authorized to collect the assets.
w r. TYREF,
JNO D. MARTIN,
VIM. LOGAN.
Feb'v 18th, 1884
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

Both Houses of the legislature have
passed the congressional reapportinnmen'.
bill over the Governors veto. On it,
passage over the veto. Senator WickhaD
who had previously voted against IL. de
ciined to vote. He said that he had ascer
tanned that while the substitute that M
offered would have been more agreeab.
to his constituents. vet. as those cOnstihI-
ents seemed satisfied that Unless this bin
passed the S ate would lose one of its
bill and would ask that he be excused
from voting. lie was excused and the bill
passed. We published it in full last week
with the last vote of Virginia.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29
.Ve1O advertisements.

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e,enctS as 10 qua il catiauS. habits, &c
fe 29-3t* Address W.. Box 81 Staunton'
MOTT, = All pa lies having claims agalhst the
IN estate of Josiah " hiImOre. dec anu al
parties indebted to the said josiah Wnimore
D. w. BARE.
Administrator of Josiah Whitmole. decd.
Feb. g. 1884 t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

The Straight-out- Republican State Cen
trail Committee has called its State Con-
vention for April 30th. to appoint dele
gates tn tue Republican National COnven.
tion. Every member OF the commit tee
was present at the meeting, and in addi-
ton some of the Republicans who hav.
heret fore been acting with the Mahonites
as, for inst ance, Messrs. Lawson and
Porter of Albem ,rle. a
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

DUBLIC SALE OF STOCK-Having sold my
/ grazing farm L will offer at public sale at
my home faI N, OH South River "a miles below
WAY nesboro, on
SATURDAY, the 18th day of March, 1884.
lot OF improved cattle gra des viz: 20 head OF
two year ODDS 10 calves fat cattle, 3 or COWS,
horses. and horse spring wagon nearly new.
he fat cattle named are also offered at private
sale now.
MRS. SIMEON CnYNER,
WAY nesboro P. y,
febc9 st Augusta Co.. Va.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29
Elonement was the topic Of the day this

Elopoment was the topic OF the day this
week in Stanton bought about, sup
pose. by the daughter Of an old friend If
mine. and by the bye one of the cleverest
Young eills in the town, adopting that
mode of sserting her matrimonial choice.
Three or four of us old boys we're talking
it over to-day, and Robinson, who has no
daughters, was very severe.
"Sir,"he said with great wrath. setting
down his glass-we we're taking our IL
o'clock. ''If man was to invade the hos
pitality of my home and run off with my
daughter, I'd kill him, Sir. kill him."
l looked at Jones. who has six grown
daughters, for his approval of this violent
speech. A twinkle came in the old Buys
q a IA he remarked with great fervor:
.Great Scott. Robinson Why man, Id
DIV. the Young fellow $50 to do 1t at my
house, and pay his hack hire to the cars.
IT. ia deuced idiotic in these clippers to
overlook the large families where they
would be welcome, yes, moe than well
come"
Ilyoked at Jones steadily in the eye.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

Still speaking of amusements. have
heard many ambitious young psnple wish
tor the pleasant and easeful lives of these
artists. To one who happens 20 lodge In
the same hotel with them, their lives are
everything but easy. They have no time
hardly that they Can call their own,
neither night or day. They are reused
from ped at all hours Of the night to take
the train for the next town and their
days are ever DAYS of hard work. Take
the E chberg qnartette for instance, those
girls practced six hours a day. Even
Rtmeu}l practlced from three to four
hours day And the, gre It singers, LOOK
at them Minnie Hauk's diet was Il bowl
of bret tea and one egg at breakfast,
bowie of b-ef tea for dinner aud no sup
per After the concert only. she ate
hearty meal. Tue rest of her singers had
diets nearly as hard. Starvation isn't
it i? Aud they are running the scale
with their voices every hour. [ heard
the famous Rrignoli practieing for
nearly IAN hour before singing that
air at Trinity church Sunday night
And one would think that if there Was
any such thing AS getting boyond the ne
cessity of practlc,ns in his profession an
artists like him had gotten there. sup
DOSE that the tim never arrives to an ar
fist when he or she d ,el n 1t have to put
in practice, L1bor omnia Utncst.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

Another Republican head has gone
Judge Paul has removed Frank Rives
from the cerkship of his court and ap-
pointed Gen. Wyatt M. Elliott, Coalition
ist, in his place. No fault is alleged
against Rlves. l-.r ...f... .---...
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

to go to Washington instead of a S-nator
to represent the people of Virginia? As
was done with Malone.
The People of Virginia will never be de-
luded into permitting any of these things
again. In coming years Virginia may be
Democratic or Republican State, but
never again Malone State. That day is
over and the day of self government is
here. No walls of the followers Of the po-
litical tiger that has just had his claws cut
off, will move the People of this State to
give him another opportunity at them.
Virginia and Virglnians have ben sorely
mortified in the last four years by being
presented to the world as a great State
ruled by one man through numberless
satraps. She was conquered province,
as 1t were, and the bold adventurer set bis
parliament to work after his own methods
Democratic mem bers were turned out in
violation of both law and precedent, as in
the Frazier-Lady case; merciless and
searching warfare was made on all Demo-
Gratis in position, loud boasts made
tudt WuClO d SUdilIlOulSJ COulu uOt U6
found to fill an Office. the Office should be
alb 'llshed-ln short, all who did not bow
to Malone, whether Democrat or Repub-
lican, were set down as prescribed class.
And now, now that the Ruler of the State
has been overthrow and his benchmen
dispersed, and the People have risen 10
power in the government and are exercis-
ing their rights, we are told that there is
to be reaction against them. BY whom
By displaced Office holders; it must be, for
we see no one else that has cause to BIZ
discontinued. The People have sent their
representatives to the legislature with a
purpose, and that no halfway purpose, to
secure their own self government and put
it beyond reach of usurpers and adven-
tursrs. The legislature has moved boldly
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29

HAVING unlimited orders for GOOD MILLING
IL WHEAT will pay highest cash price deIiy-
cred at any railway station. | alSo wan t., buv
FLOUR BALED HAY and GLOVER SEED in an
quantilie JOHN w TODD
nov 23- Grain Buyer, StauntOn va
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29
WANTED lMMED!Arh1Y'
YOUNG MEN no LEARN
'EEAEdSRA RsAaV

No charges unless situations are furnished For
particulars, ad ireSS with amps -. -
PENNA and NEW JERSEY TELEGRa PHI CO.,
Main iii e 92o Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa,
Branch Office 506 Mark ct Street, Wilmington, Del.
Through wires.
ftb2 "a
St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-06
NlLlIILu RY
DEP AR TN EMIT

of the Northwest IN this de-
cannot find IN stock
while look and at only onehah the price
Chdrens School Hats at Is cents
elsewhere the Hat Our line
School Hats less than wholesale prices Mners
will charge you Everything else
thesame proportion Millinery Goods Don't buy
Hat before you stock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

for his department, is one of the typical
science teachers-the man doing and teaching
to do, as well as thinking and teaching to
think, He only calls your attention to the
graceful drawings and models in wood that
had to be before the engine was, and tells you
that these represent the real work and study
of his pupils. Engines could now be produced
by scores from these if making steam engines
alone were the function of Purdue University,
but that is not the method of the instructive
system
There are other things to do other prin-
ciples to illustrate, and, like Thoreau with his
lead pencils, once good engine is made, the
class drops the work and passes on to some
thing else, for the whole field of invention, as
well as of production, has been opened to
them. They can work iron and steel, they
feel the strength of success; the little steam
engine has made them masters of matter and
form
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

paid for Husbands must be too honorable to
live above their means and at the expense of
anybody. Wives should be too proud to
''look pretty in dresses and plumes that are
these cardinal virtues of domestic life should
be inculcated in the hearts of the "boys' and
girls, that they may grow up into honest
and honorable men and women the
bone and sinew and conscience of
any people that is prosperous and happy.
The man whose mind is not poisoned and mad
dened by the bite of envy and rivalry seldom
grows desperate enough to nerve the hand to
take his God given life The man who is not
afraid of the disgrace" of being poor is too
brave to give up when diseases come
and when sickness falls upon him.
But he who, through his own fault or through
the foolish vanity of those dependent upon
him, has been living gilded life at the ex-
pense of others, and finally reaches that point
where his creditors will stand no more, he it
is who gives up when he contemplates
the disgrace that has fallen upon him while he
so madly sought to avoid an imaginary humil-
iation. There is no shame in being poor and
in debt unless that shame and poverty come
from shameful and extravagant manner of
living, and if the debt was contracted with
no visible means of payment There must
be change for the better Men and women
must become honorable enough and courage
Gus enough to acknowledge the truth, and too
honest to contract debts on false pretenses and
without the hope, or intention, Or expected
ability to pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14
"From Dawn to Daylight. "

1t is true, beyond all question, that books,
as well as men, are susceptible of tripartite
classification Some are born great some achieve
greatness, and others have greatness thrust
upon them. The latter is occasionally and tenn
porarily made apparent of books on which the
dust of time has gathered, in manner equally
astonishing to book, author and public, as has
been recently Illustrated in the sudden and
doubtless wholly unprecedented conspicuous
ness which now surrounds the work of fiction
whose mystical title is quoted above. From an
obscure, unread and almost forgotten book, it
has, in the twinkling of eye, been resolved
into much-dlscussed and highly popular work
of fiction; the topic of all tongues; called for in
all our public libraries; sought for in all new and
second hand bookstores lent, borrowed, read,
returned and recirculated with an energy and
celebrity most astonishing. All this simply and
solely because an effort-laudable in the motive,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14
THE CITY SCHOOL BOARD.

The Journal wishes to emphasize the advis-
ability of retiring Messls. Austin HI. Brown
and Joseph J. Bingham from the school board.
If there were no better reason for their retire
ment, it could be found in the advantage Of
having change from men who have cause to
feel, or at least to act as though the schools
were their personal property, to others who
might regard them as public institutions, in
which all good citizens are alike inter
ested. The very grave offense of hav-
ing prevented the teaching OF the history
of the war for liberty and union ought to, and
does, call for reorganization of the board.
The schools need men of less personal import
ance-men who enter upon the duties of com
missioner with but one aim, and that to i'm
prove and elevate the schools without regard
to political bias. Messrs. Brown and Bing
ham have shown disposition to regard the
schools as machine to assist them as poll
ticians, and to trade on the 'favors" in their
hands to their own advancement. All sus-
picion of such manipulation of our public
schools should be dispelled by the election of
new men, who will not feel that they
own in fee simple the schools of Indian
apolis. There is need of reform in the man
agement of the schools. They need board
free enough from partisan prejudice to give
pupils an honest education, complete and
practical. They need men who will insist on
teaching things as they are; who will not sup
press any textbook, or any portion, for no
other reason than that it is person
ally obnoxious. The schools need a
textbook on political economy that
is up with the times and in accordance with
the American idea. The one now in use is
evidently the work of free trader so thor
oughly imbued with his theory as to border
closely on communism. The people of In
dianapolis, busy with their immediate afairs,
want board composed of men above the
petty tricks of ward politicians; men liberal
in their views and actuated only by the de-
sire to strengthen and improve the educa-
tional institutions of the city. The people,
without regard to party want COM
missioners who can be trusted to
do their duty without attempting to turn
to their own advantage the trust reposed in
them. Neither Mr.. Brown nor Mr. Bingham
meets these conditions, and now, since they
show no disposition to voluntarily give way to
better men, the voters of the city should see
to it that others are chosen in their stead If
it be insisted that their successors be Demo
Gratis, very WE'LL only give to the people some
assurance that our schools are to be lifted
above the clutch of petty politicians, and they
will be content
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14
THE HASTE TO BE Rich.


The crime of suicide is becoming too fire.
quent. One suicide is one too many, it may
be admitted; but when self killing becomes as
common as it now is in this country, it must
provoke inquiry as to its causes. Americans
in common with other civilized peoples of the
world, live too fast and strive too desperately
to live at the best. Few grow rich enough to
admit that they have enough. The million
aire is poor in comparison with the man
who has ten millions, and suffers in the
comparison. Few men are satisfied with
enough If any man have more, they must
have more. In too many instances money is
the standard of respectability. No matter
how acquired, its possession is essential to po-
sition, and the ranks of fashionable society are
nicely graded according to the size of the bank
accounts Of its slaves and devotees. 1t takes
a man of nerve to confess himself hon
estly poor. There are more lies
told concerning ones wealth and
ones income than in relation to
The clerk who gets a thousand year wants it
understood that he is paid two thousand. He
may not be constituencies enough to say so in
so many words, but he acts it at every turn
in dress, in style and expenditure. Wives and
mothers are shameless enough to be ashamed
to admit the truth-a paradox that may be
found everywhere. We ell want to outshine
our neighbors. If the Brownsare able to go to
Maxinkuckee or Putin Bay for the summer,
it would be scandalous for Smith to admit
that his salary will not permit the same in
diligence A silk dress across the division
fence must be met by a better one on this
SIDE and if the man in that house can afford
horse and carriage, the one in this must have
one also, and see about paying for it af
terward. Envy and the unmanly and I'M
womanly fear of being regarded poorer
than somebody else are eating the life
and soul out of warm and honest hearts.
Peace, health and happiness are choked
and crowded down under the awful burden of
pride; lives are blasted and regulations are
ruined in the mad race to outdo our neigh
bors. The curse of pride is upon all the land,
the innocent going down in the wreck of the
guilty.
There must come day of reckoning, when
Justice shall demand her dues, and the debt we
owe must be adjusted. The honorable pride"
that has led us into so many expenses that we
could not afford must be humbled. No man
has right to owe his grocer and butcher while
wearing silks and walking on Brussels.
The piano that is bought for 'the girls
ought to be paid for, of course, and generally
Is, since the dealer IS in position to levy upon
It in case the payments are defaulted But,
while the instrument may be paid for in law
full money it may be that the tradesman who
supplies the table and dressing case is long
since tired of importuning you for his dues.
The people are too anxious to "shine."
The poor ape the rich, and the rich
fall in the struggle to Guido each other.
There must be second reformation-this
lime in the social and moral world. Men and
7omen must educate Themselves to find their
Teatest happiness at home, and that home
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

Now that Mr.. Tilden is out Of the way,
there can be no doubt that Mr.. Flower is the
coming candidate. AS explained by an ex-
uberant Washington correspondent of Demo
cratic contemporary, ''Mr. Flower is a good,
square man. He is worth ten or twelve mill,
ions, and has got the courage to put up all
needed, and if Mr. Flower has the nerve to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

THE spectacle Of Daniel w. Voorhees, about
politics was sight worth paying to see. But,
with almost superhuman exertions, Mr. Voor-
hees restrained his tears, and the nation was
spared deluge. The role of Niobe is a new
one to the Indiana senator, and he feels the
need of practice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

THE st. Louis Post-Dispatch feelingly in
quires: "Can we imagine such man as
Blaine writing such letter as Tilden's"
Well, hardly. Mr.. Blaine has literary style
which enables him to say eyes" Or "no" in
less than a column of space, and allows no
doubt of his meaning to remain when he has
snoken
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

THE latest cheerful topic of conversation at
New York breakfast tables is the consumptive
COW. Consumptive COWS have been discovered,
in large numbers, in the stables of that city,
and it has been decided by medical men that the
disease may be transmitted, by means of milk,
to human beings. Most persons object to drink
ing in tuberculosis at their morning repasts-
hence the general cutlery
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

IT would be very grave mistake to fail to
reappoint Attorney Woollen to his present
position. The sympathy and support of the
better class of citizens, without regard to poll
tics, are with him, while the clamor for his
head comes from such source that it may
well be ignored Should the commissioners
fail to reappoint him it would be a confession
that the reforms undertaken by him were to
be abandoned and that the measures of re-
trenchment that he has begun were to be
killed. Outside of the very few whose
perquisites have been seriously cur
tailed by Attorney Woollen, he
has given universal satisfaction, and
the complaints now urged against him can
not be based on any ground that he has not
given close attention to his duties nor brought
to bear sufficient legal talent. There are, of
a certainty, many lawyers in this city the
equal of Mr.. Woollen in legal requirements,
but not one, perhaps, who would or could be-
stow more time and labor on the duties of
that Office. The commissioners owe it to the
people, to public interests and to faithful
and efficient official to retain Attorney Woollen
in his present capacity He has done good
work, and the public is confident that he will
ID
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14

THE danger of ring in our public school
management may easily be avoided by ousting
the men suspected of forming such combina-
tions 1t would be well to retire Messrs. Aus
tin H. Brown and Joseph J. Bingham.