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who should gire him a receipt stating that
has tao aoas paid; that the Treasurer should
be enjoined from levying on Shafer, and
that he should be epjoined from making
the return that coupons had been tender
ed for the tax.
This picture of Federal Judge and his
clerk stopping the money of Virginia and
turning it into the pockets Of the Virgin
ia creditor under a decision of Republi
can U. s. Supreme Court, is one Of tho Ie
dark spots that will not out in the COM
ing campaign, and which the Democratic
canvassers will, we trust, put in its prop
er light before the people of Virginia. AS
to Judge Hughes participation in this
raid on the sovereignty of the State, one of
his decisions was such palpable outrage
on even the existence of such thing as a
State, that the Richmond Wing charac-
terized it as monstrous. We trust In the
campaign near at hand, the Democratic
canvassers will strongly set forth the a.
J tempt of the U. s. Supreme Court and its
subordinate Federal Judges to strange
the Riddleberger bill and turn the revenue
of Virginia into the hands of the bond.
holders.
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Armed with conviction of right and
pressed with sense of the responsibility that
rests upon us as journalists we would be un-
true to what we consider our duty did we not
utter note of timely warning upon SO grave
question the reduction of the representa-
ton of the Southern States in Congress for
the alleged suppression of the colored vote
as the VINDIcAToR seeks to inject into the
State canvass, however foreign it may be to
that canvass. 1t is question that reaches
higher than mere party interests 1t compre-
hends the very groundwork Of our Institute MS
and duplicates the fundamental principle and
conditions upon which our government frame
work is based-a principle as sacred and in
spring as ever stirred the emotions or engaged
the endeavors of mankind in all the tide of
time, and should be approached with a gravity
and concern commensurate with the devotion
and reverence we bear for our political system
and its cardinal law VALLEY Viaqinian.
We do not ''iDject" that issue into the
State canvass. It is part of it already, for
no one doubts that every Democratic South
ern State will be the sufferer on this ar
raignment should tic Republican party get
into power, as Mr.. Blaine and the Ohio Re-
publican State platform threaten shall be
done. A proposition more plainly tinged
by madness begotten by the sting of defeat
we never knew to emanate from great po-
aitical party. 1t is so monstrous that were
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GLEA NED FROM THE MAILS.

On June Goth, a cyclone visited Seward,
Stafford county, Kansas, doing great damage.
The residence, outhouses, and stable of Chas.
Sheets, who few months ago moved to that
locality from near Staunton, Va, were in the
track of the wind and were destroyed. Mr..
Sheets wife was also badly hurt Immense
damage was done to property though the
blow lasted only minute. At one house a
girl was blown two hundred yards, and on
another farm two horses were carried several
hundred yards and let fall.
An excursion filling six coaches went from
LyHchburg to the Natural Bridge on the 9th
inst, part of the crowd being doubtless
drawn by the fact that the manager of the ex-
cursion had advertised that the Stonewall
Brigade Band of Staunton, would be at the
Bridge. No such band was there.
The Lyncburg Ice factory has just gone
into operation, and furnishes pure ice from
filtered water, at ten cents bushel, or il
500 pound lots at n cents bushel Jno w
Carroll a former Staunton man, is one of the
Directors
The actual cost of what are usually sold al
fve-cent cigars at retail is thus stated by ONT
who claims to be informed on the subject
Actual cost of tobacco, (namely. what the to-
bacco raiser gets foriD for 1000 cigars. 50 90
cigar boxes, ST. wages for ], 200, So; packing
81; stripping, so cents; total cost of produc
ton, $12 SO, or Il cents cigar.
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THE REP PUBLICAN NOMINA-
TTONN

The Virginia Republican State Conven-
tion at Richmond adjourned yesterday
morning at 8 O'Clock. having been. sitting
amid scenes of the widest confusion since
midnight. It nominated Hon. JOHN s.
WISE of Richmond city, for Governor; H.
G. WOODS Of Scott county, for Lit. Gov
ernor. and FRANK S. BLAIR, of Wythe
county, for Attorney General. This tick
ct can be beaten by the Democrats of this
State with q judicious domination, by ex-
actly the majority obtained by them in
1888. Indeed the campaign has been set
exactly to the tune of 1888. The old Re-
publican element in the State has been
contemptuously ignored and all the places
Jiled with the new issue. The combina-
zion is Ii queer one. at the head OF the
tic get is J ohn s. Wise, who administered
the most deliberate insult to the old Re-
publican element that was ever offered it,
in the assertion that they were ''apostates
for tie price of their apostacy." AT the
tail o. it is gentleman who under an act
forbidding the Attorney General to re-
ceive more compensation than So, 600 per
annum, has drawn for his services SIT 900
| iii two years and a half. And in the
centre Of il is a gentleman very little
known, save that he is the son-in- law of a
wealthy gentleman. What folies Mr..
| Wise may not commit before his cam.
| paign is ended, cannot be foretold, but it
| is quite certain that if the Democrats
| steer clear Of initiating him their ticket
will be many thousands ahead on election
! day. The nomination of both Wise and
Blair was piece Of good fortune to the
Democracy, which we had hardly counted
on from the folly Of the enemy. Perhaps il
| is to be accounted for from sentence in the
| telegram of our Richmond correspondent
| ';Shortly after midnight scene of the
| widest confusion prevailed, in Whict
| Riddleberger and Malone were conspicu
| Gus actors, and which wound up by Ma
| hone and Riddleberger hugging and kiss
ing each other on the stage, Attorney
| General Blair joining in the hugging al
the close" This is the strongest evidence
on the side of a Prohibition law we have
seen elected in the High Political Courts
of Virginia.
Our correspondent adds that kilograms
were received from Maj. s. M. Yost, Of
Stanton. and Hon. Mr.. Bowen, late M.
q. from the 9th district, both declining
the nomination for 1t. Governor. Either,
he thinks could have gotten the nomina
ton had they desired it. He states that
Riddle berger's Valley friends promise thai
he will make the most energetic canvass
fur the ticket he has ever made.
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TFoR THE INDICATOR.

Democratic nominee for the next Governor of
Virginia? is one of vital interest. After careful
survey of the field and conferences with various
persons. believe that Hon. John e. Massey of
Albenarle is the man, above all others, who ought
to be placed at the head of the Democratic ticket.
He possesses 10 an eminent degree. every qualifi-
cation for the office.
His private character is without bemish and
perfectly unaSSaable. His public and political
record is a model of consistency, faithfuneSS and
sound craftsmanship. lie is the best informed man
as to VlrgniaS financial and general condition in
tereStS &c., in the state
No other man in or out of the State understands
the State debt as well as he does.
All parties conceCe the fact that he has no super
Tor upon the stump. as a speaker in the State
No man possesses the confidence of the people of
all parties in Virginia more fully than he does
No man did more to unite the Democratic party
and save the State from MahoneiSm than he did
No other man can so ably meet Malone as he
can.
And,
No other man can so fully unite the Democratic
party and secure its full strength as he can. He is
known all over the State-in every county of 1t
and his STRAIGHTFORWARD and Independent course
has won for him universal respect and admiration.
In word, every consideration of fitness, OF jus.
tce, Of availability and of necessity, point to Mr.
Massey as the man for the times.
i CLOSE OBSERVER.
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it not for the recollection of some Of the
acts of that party in Reconstruction times,
we should deem it merely a ruffie added
to the bloody shirt, only to be used for
stirring the voters up in the Republican
hive during the fall months. To deprive
the most humble citizen of his franchise
he must be first fairly tried and convicted
of crime. A great States franchise
could not be taken from it with less.
How are you to proceed about it? By a
commission? By a general individual
inquisition into all the States of the Un-
ion; into the mill owners of Massachu-
sets; into the employers of Rhode Is
land; into the cotton growers of the South
ern States? By sort of sumptuary in
vestigation all over the country? More
carloads Of political prisoners on their
way to the Albany penitentiary as in Re-
construction times? More Deputy U. S,
Marshals hunting farms and mills and
shops for intimidation More stirring
up of hatred, more setting back the fra
| termination of American people !? 1t must
| be done, if done at all, by dndiUtduat pros
ecutiOn. How is it to be done? That is
! the question. Net how it shall be
| proved unnecessary. unjust, impolitic,
unprecedented In Republic; but how it
| shall be done in the interest of the Repub.
| lican party. Not a single State at the
| South or the North has passed laws
''abridging the right Of suffrage" OF any
class OF its citizens. They have strictly
kept to their pledge. How then are you
to get at any State in this Union ? The
Southern Democratic States fully under
stand the animous of the Republican
party, National and State. They keenly
appreciate what that party would do, law
or no law, if it could get absolute control
like it had In the good old days of Recon
structlon, when a Southern member of
Congress presented himself to be sworn
IN, a Republican member "obJected," and
the noble Southron'' was returned to the
home Of his constituents, there to rumi-
nate over the crimes that may be commit
ted in the name Of devotion to the I'm
ion. That is the well approved way of
reducing the representation of the South
in Congress. 1t is short, direct and eff
fective, and no Democrat doubts if the
Grand Old Party ever gets into absolute
control again, something after that fash
ion will be adopted.
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County Conventions. as they have usually
been manipulated are disgrace, to say moth
ing of the insult that is offered to all lovers
of unrestrained liberty and justice. packed
Convention certainly does not voice the senti
ment of the people. Hence the assertion that
County Conventions ought to be dispensed
with, and let even the humblest voter be heard
in the primary, where the ring politician will
not have full sway. Waynes6oro Free Press
There is SO much good sense in the
above that We recommend it to those who
are in authority in the County Committee.
A perfectly free vote i'll which every man S
vote will count is what is needed to secure
that tull expression Of public sentiment
which is needful in the nomination of
Democratic candidates, and we agree with
our WaYnesboro contemporary in thinking
that the Primary is the surest way of Sc
curing it. We by no means think that all
conventions are necessarily ''packed''
conventions, but the machinery of con-
Vention is so ready to the hand of adepts
at political management that it is always
best to have the people take the nomina.
ton in their own hands.
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IT MUST NOT BE DOME

The Lynchburg Virqiaian, paper
whose opinion is worth something, saws
"We regret to learn from the WythevilIe
Dispatch that movement is on foot to
abolish the term of the Court of Appeals
at Stanton, and limit the sittings to
Richmond and Wytheville. We should
regret this change. A very large part of
the State is geographically accommodated
by the session at Staunton. And besides
Stanton is fine place. The people are
stauncb, true, tried and honest Virgini-
ans. The Valley of Virginia is as lovely
as the Vale of Cas- m4te, and rich as the
Delta of the Nile; AMI Staunton is the
capital.''
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There has been good deal charged against
since the decisions made by the Supreme
Court on the goth of April last. If we were
to heed what is printed habitually in some of
the Richmond papers we should conclude
that both Judges Bond and Hughes had been
turning out DEGREES in the Federal court
against Virginia in coupon cases, by the dozen
a day YaUey Virgjnian.
1t is very true that the Republican
Federal Judges In Virginia do not decide
coupon cases ''by the dozen day.. but 1t
is also true that they are largely restrained
by the law defining the amount involved
before case can come under their juris-
dictioD. The outrage On the State does
not consist in the number, but in the act.
The very day before our contemporary prin-
ted its article, the drift Of which is to show
that these Republican Judges have been
quite reluctant to interfere In the debt of
Virginia. Judge Bond at Danville had
made this decision: Shafer of Richmond
who had rendered coupons which were re.
jected by the Treasurer fled a bill in
Bonds court asking that the Treasurer
be enjoined from making any return of
the case, except that Skaters toG ,cas maid.
Attorney General Blair made answer tn
the bill That the coupons had not been
verified under "Coupon Killer No. ~ be-
fore the tender, and Shafer's counsel ex-
cepted to this answer as no answer Judge
swer, deereed that Shafer paid his tax
when he rendered the coupon; that he
should deposit his coupon aeith the clerk,
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The Republicans present the Riddleberger
the debt matter with no threat of reputation
if it is not accepted-no reckless boast that it
is that for the creditors cor nothing. "-Vaz-
leg Viryiaaian.
Our contemporary does not fully state
the case. The Republicans do not present
the Rlddieberger bill. It was the Read
juster party that presented the Riddle
berger bill. After that party divided, and
the Democratic Readjusters returned to
their own party it was the Democratic
party at Lynchburg that presented the
Riddlebe2ger bill, and that now through
its State officers is courageously enforcing
it, notwithstanding the distractions put
in their way by the Republican judges
Hughes and Bond. The Republican party
dad, however, present debt settlement
which our contemporary has not given it
the credit for. 1t presented the Funding
Bill of 1871. The following from the
official record is the joint vote in the leg
lslature of Virginia On the 2Sth Of March,
1871, which passed the famous Funding
Bill which made so much trouble for Vir-
glnia, and later made good deal of mis-
chief for the Democratic party:
Ayes-W hite Democrats. ........... 81
Republicans. ........... 25
Coiored Republicans. .......... 27
Total. 1O3
NoeS-White Democrats ............... 81
Colored Republicans. .............. l
Total, ............................. ......... 50
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TRUSTEES SALE OF TRACTION ENGINE

TRUSTEES SALE OF TRACTION ENGINE
Il AND TWO TRACTS OF LAND.
BY virtue of Deed of Trust, executed to the
undersigned, as Trustee by Stephen Orebaugh
and wife, dated 3lst October, 1883, and of Record
in the CLERKS Office OF Augusta county, Deed
Book 100, page 173 Shlll on
Monday, the 9th dag of july,
being Court day. offer for sale in front of the Court
House in stanton, the following property con
veyed in said Deed
One l0-Horse Sef-steering Traction Engine in
good order; two tracts parcels of land situated
on Naked Creek in augusta county, adjoining
Wise and NeisWander. the first containing eight
acres and the second twenty three acres being the
same as described in said Deed of Trust
Title believed to be good but, acting as Trustee,
will convey such title only as is vested in me-
Terms made known on day of sale.
iuly3-4t W. II. II. LYNN, Trustee.
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The Funding Bill of 1871 was presented
to Virginia by SO Republicans and 81
Democrats. and those who protested
against 1t were 81 Democrats and one Re-
publican. That was the first appearance of
the Republican party on the debt settle
ment. Its last, we trust, is now being
made in the Federal District and Circuit
Judges of Virginia. II is to-day the same
agent Of the bondholders 1t was then, and
little more so, and the sign over it's
headquarters is changed TO Estate debts
collected here by United States Court
Clerks. Terms memorable. Refer to STAN
ley Mathews and the Republican U. S.
Judiciary generally.'
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WezU advertisements.

COMM ISSIONER's OFFICE
" STANTON VA, July II 1885.
Etlnger VS. McGilvary.
In pursuance of the order of reference in the
foregoing cause, entered ON the 9Th day of Decem
Der, 1854, shall proceed at my office in Staunton
On the 18th day Of august neat,
to state an account of the real estate owned nv
deft, l.. L. McGilvary, and the liens binding the
same, together with the other accounts required
Interested in the suit required to attend with,
otG IulGner nOtlce. JNO. M. KINNEY,
Juiyzf-4G Comm'r.
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Maj. r. f. Mason, Charlottesville, Va.
We have already expressed the VIND1-
GATORS opinion about this matter. The
Lynchburg Neaos In publishing this letter
most sensiblE says:
If the people representatives should deem
it best to disregard Mr.. Barbours private rea-
sons we do not think he could refuse. No
man Is above the commands of his State. If
he IS essential to success he would have to
obey, as the soldier who goes into battle for
his country. The man who has twice beaten
Malone would inspire unfaltering trust and
add another to the victories of Democracy
The convention will, we doubt not do what
is best, but whatever it does no man must put
himself in the way of the accomplishment of
it's ends.
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lUUFS very CFuIy,
CIVILIAN G, BULLIT1

We do not overstate the matter when
We say that such campaigning" as this
entities the political party that uses it to
be ranked as the public enemy of the State.
1t is the enemy alike Of the poor man who
wants work and the rich man who wants
to invest. 1t the best arranged, most
ingenious ard most effective agency for
frightening capital from State, turning
it aside to other territory and drying up
the very fountain heads of prosperity that
was ever invented by malignity and put
in operation by hatred and folly.
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ALEXANDRIA, July II.
My. Dear Sir: I duly received your very
kind favor some time ago in reference to the
Gubernatorial nomination by the Democratic
convention, at Richmond on the goth inst,
and should have. answered it more promptly
but Tor the lncessant demand upon my time
and the pressure of public engagements.
L highly appreciate the compliment, and
am very grateful to my friends for the request
to allow my name to go before the convention
as above, but would be compelled by circum-
stances to decline the nomination if rendered
The reasons which impel me to take this
course are conclusive to my mind and I hope
will be satisfactory to my friends
am, in haste, yours very truly,
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VIRGINIA-IN VACATION.
Y In the Clerks Office of the Circuit Co urt ALL
susta County, July &c. 1885.
VIM. B. Ramsey.
VS..
D. W. Landes, Caroline V. Landes. his wife. VIM.
E. Craig, trustee, G Beard. Hettie Slower, Joshua
Crosby, Augusta National Bank of Staunton Byrd
Warwick. Otway Warwick, partners in trade I'M
der the firm and style of warwick Bros George
Bloom & Son, Lloyd Logan Barkley s. Hassen,
Wilson, Burns Co.., I A; Bryan & Co, Heller e,
Hill, John A.. Krats,, Mason s. Son, stonelurner
& Richards, Geo. Fleming. NJ e. Miller j. A.
Cochran and E. l. Jones, partners in trade under
the style of Cochran s. Jones Geo P, Baker and
and firm of Baker Bros Witt and C. A Holt.
partners in trade under the style and firm of
Witt s. Holt, G; G. Gooch, 9. E Hoge and Henry
Hutcheson, partners in trade under the style and
firm of Gooch, Hoge Il Co, j. A Hamrick and j..
A. FauYer partners in trade under the style and
firm of j. A Hamrick & Co., j. j Stack, j. Will
mington Splitter, and E. A. Powell; partners in
trade under the style OF Stack, Splitter q Co.
In CHANCERY.
The object of this suits to set aside and annu
the provisions made for the benefit of Mrs Caroline
" Landes in and by trust deed of date June 25tl.
LandeS, his wife, to VIM. E Craig, Trustee and of
record in the clerks office of the county court OF
Augusta county, Va, Deed book l02 502 upon
the ground that said provisions were made with
intent to hinder. delay and deraud the creditors OF
d. W. Landes; 1t appearing by affidavit filed that
George Bloom & Son, Barley 4 Hasson. Wilson,
Burnes & Co, T. A. Bryan & Co., Heller Brothers,
Lord & Packham, Mason q Son, and Stoneburner
s. Richards, are non residents of this State and
that the names of the parties composing said firms
are unknown, 1t is ordered that they do appeal
this notice and do what is necessary to protect
Teste. IN: RYAN, Clerk.
Elder 4 Nelson, p. q. Julyl7 1t
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TRUSTEES SALE OF JEWELgY. SILVER
II WARE. PLATED-WARE, WATCHES
G SSI4J,5 Or BRONZEs, SHOWCASES, FIX

;, BY virtue Of a deed of trust from D. B. Hama.
Ker TO me, OF record in the Clerks office of the
92n ag at COST FOR CASH, the valuable stock of
SGeI scIs silyer-Ware Plated Ware, Watches.
corner OF MAIN and New street.-Also Safe Show
Case, Fixtures, sc. 0' NAo"
serve f'A' "i'no1' ~
j. NO such opportunity to purchase articles in this
me AZ such figures is to be had elsewhere in this
'i1S , VI sectlon. A. c. GORDON,
JPiSA'-4' Trustee.
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4 COMMISSIONERS SALE Of LANDS IN BATH
" COUNTY,, VA
By virtue of a decree of the Circuit Cour,
of Bath county, in the case of Sarah b Hardway',
Admir- VS. VIM. McClintc, a. Ais, entered at The
March term. 1883, the undersigned Commissioners
will sell at Public Auction
Tuesday, August 11th, 1885,
(Court Day., in front OF the Court House of Bath
county, a large tract of Mountain Land helongnp
to Col VIM McClIntic, containing S i65 acres. stu
ated on the waters of Back Creek and adioinins
the lands of the heirs OF John Boar, A. G. Bonner
and others. .ssns,ssgs
This tract of land is said to be well SSs Ma
tmbered, and is on the proposed III SSSS X -
route of the Richmond Allegheny, SFFN {sAA9Gss
or Black Diamond Railroad. Sss2s Stssssss,.
TERMS OF SALE Cash in hand on day of sale
sufficient to pay the costs of the Rule and sale and
the balance upon credit of six. twelve and eigh-
teen months. in equal instalments, the purchaser
to execute bond with approved personal security
and the legal title retained as ultimate security
VIM M. MOALLISTER
JOHN w. STEPHENSON,
july17-4t Commissioners.
L. A. G Cleek, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Bath
county. do hereby certify that the above Commits
siohers have executed in said case the bond re-
CURED by law. Given under my hand this 10th
10th day of July, 1885.
A. G. CLEEK, Clerk.