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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

RAvAeEs OF CHOLERA IN CoREA.-Chi-
cago, Oct. 16 "A Times special from San
Francisco says: Private advices received in
this city state that the cholera is still raging
fiercely in Corea and no idea can be formed
of the extent of the scourge. 1t has more
than decimated the capital, where, out of a
population of 900 900, the death rate rules
at the frightful average of a thousand per
day. About as mary Coreans as there are
people in the State of California have been
swept away already, and it is hard to say
where the plague will stop.
Corea is described as being an appalling
pest spot. Never was there more fright
full record of the ravages of disease on man.
kind. The story of the plague of London
is beggared by what is now going on in
Seoul. They are beginning to give over
the task of burying their dead, and the city
is threatened with positive extinction.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
Going South to Dixie.


A few days ago Mr.. Joseph N. Hamil-
ton came to New Orleans as the advance
agent of number of Minnesota farmers to
meet the State agent of immigration, and
consult him as to the most favorable loca-
ton for the proposed colony which he rep
resents.
The wonder is that there is not perfect
exodus and rush from the frozen Northwest
and barren New England to the genial and
generous South. Prejudice and lack of cor
rect information are doubtless hindering
the movement. But it is time these were
being swept away.
We have New South. Old things have
passed away. Prejudices and sentimental
isms have given place to practical ideas
and feelings. The uppermOst thought now
is to get aboard the car ofprogress and make
the most of our opportunities. And they
are great, vastly greater than we ourselves
appreciate In all the fields of industry
farming, mining, manufacturing-there are
splendid openings for capital and industry.
The North begins to appreciate this, and
money aud men are beginning to flow to
Dixie. Southwark the star of empire takes
its way. The sentence of Bishop Berkeley
is being reversed and the advice of Horace
Greeley disregarded. We believe in two OF
three years there will be something of a
stampede to the South from the ice-bound
and storm swept North and West.
And what will these people find when
they come?
They will find cordial and sympathetic
welcome.
They will find people ready to contrib
ute to their comfort and make them al
fhey kil fnd churches, schools and good
society.
They will find quiet, orderly and peace
able communities, obedient to law and averse
to wrong doing.
They will find generous soils, responsive
to the toll of man.
They will find glorious climate, where
the billiards of the North never come.
They will find mines of untold wealth
awaiting the hand of enterprise.
They will find forests of the most valua
BILE woods to be wrought into articles Of ust
and comm cree.
They will find rivers idly flowing from
mountain to sea, ready to be harnessed an(
made to do the work Of thousand facto
ries.
These are some of the things they will
find. We say to ou1 Nortern brethren look
ing for new homes, come to the South, conn
to Virginia, cast your lot with US, and hell
to bring the hidden treasures of our State
into the channels of commerce and manu-
| features. Come!-Lynchburd NeWs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

BRILLIANT MARRIAGE - Historic old
Spotsyvania Courthouse was the picture of
life and gaiety ON Wednesday evening last
on the occasion of the marriage of Mr..
Clifton B. Baily and Miss Eusebia J. Fra
ger. They were married at Berea church
by the Rev. Dr. Robert Cave. Mr.. Bailey
is son of Chancellor Bailey, former
member of the House of Delegates. Miss
Frazer is a daughter of Mr.. James Frazer,
one of Spotsylvania's most hospitable citi-
zens. From the church the bridal party
went to the residence of the father of the
groom, where all met with an old Virginia
welcome The bride was dressed il cream
satin and albatross bridal-tnlle veil, with
Marechal-Neil roses; ruby jewelry. She
looked lovely.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

Hon. Abram s. Hewitt has accepted the
Democratic nomination for the Mayalty of
New York. Tammany Hall made the
nomination, and the County Democracy
seconded it. This means Hewitt's election
by majority of one hundred thousand
About three weeks ago Henry George, the
author, was put forth as the "workingman's
candidate" Mr.. George went to work i'm
mediately after accepting the nomination of
labor convention, and the papers have
been full of the George boom" ever since
Any good Democrat upon whom Tammany
and the County unite would leave the
strongest Independent" or Republican far
in the distance Hewitt, as the Democratic
standard-bearer, is s'simply immense. He
is the wOrkingman's candidate, the mer-
chants candidate, the bankers candidate,
the lawyers candidate-in short, the can
didate of the people of New York. The
Republicans will hardly make nominal
ton. 1t is safe to predict that Mr.. Georges
80, 900 pledged votes will dwindle down to
a corporals guard, as it were, on the Cd of
November. George is pure man so is
Hewitt. George is cultivated man so is
Hewitt. George is an earnest, hard-work-
ing man !; SO is Hewitt. And in addition
to all that can be said of George, Hewitt is
practical statesman, a practlcal LABOR
man, being an iron manufacturer with s.
600 men in his service, and practical party
| organizer. As philanthropist Hewitt is
almost as famous as his distinguished
father-in-law, the late Peter Cooper. He
is the manager of the Cooper Union, and
has for years been the conspicuous friend of
| the artisan class No wonder the Democ-
racy Of New York, and, indeed, the Democ-
racy of the whole country, rejoice at Tam,
many's wisdom in nominating Abram S
| Hewitt and at the union of the two great
Democratic factions -Riclinaond State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
Grcenbrier (W. Va.) Presbytery.

i. The Greenbrier Presbytery recently in
session in Huntington, W. Va, adjourned
on Tuesday of last week. The next regular
meeting of Presbytery will be at Lewis
burg, W. Va, On the list Wednesday in
May.
Rev. S. G. Baird, D. D., and Mr.. John
A. Preston were nominated as principal
aud j. c. Brown and Mr.. E. L. Cramer as
alternate delegates to the meeting of the
General Assembly next May.
The committee on the minutes of the
General Assembly made report and the
following resolution was adopted:
"Resolved, That this Presbytery declare
its cordial and unanimous satisfaction on
the action of the Assembly in regard to the
| subject of Evolution, and it's dissemination
in Columbia Seminary. Not only are we
at this time sincerely convinced of the truth
of the doctrine and propriety of the action
of that high court, but we are firmly per-
suaded that nothing can ever occur to
change that CONJUNCTION in our minds, or
i'll that Of our beloved Church as a body,
SO clearly are they in harmony with the
teachings of the Word of God and essential
to the Gospel SYSTEM
The following papers were adopted:
"Whereas the manufacture, traffic and use
of Intoxicating liquors as a beverage are
the prolific source of drunkenness with all
its train of terrible evils, and constitute one
of the chief barriers TO the progress of the
gospel, and whereas drunkenness is one of
the sins of which it is declared in the Bible,
"that they which do such things shall not
inherit the Kingdom of God," and whereas,
it is the duty of the church to bear clear
and decided testimony against all manner
Of sin, therefore
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
Presbytery that the teachings of the family,
the school-room and the pulpit should be
specially and perseveringly directed against
the sin and curse of intemperance, and that
this body would hail with aeclamations of
joy and thanksgiving the complete sup
preston and utter extermiuation of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors as beverage, By Christian con-
science, public opinion, ard the strong arm
of the civil law.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

A FooL7s ERRAND-Mr. Powderly
and his northern confreres among the
Knights Of Labor, now holding great con-
vention in Richmond, responded to the hos
pitality and courtesy shown them by the
people Of our capital city, and, indeed, by
the people of the entire State, through our
Governor, with broad and premeditated
insult. With palpable disregard of COM
mon sense and common decency, they es-
sayed the silly task of uprooting in fort
night the social customs which are the
growth of two centuries, to say the least,
and which are inherent, to put it in fairly
comprehensive shape.
The colored people Of the South are very
well satisfied with the social customs as they
stand. and it is a significant fact that Mr..
Powderly had to go North for a colored man
to play with him the leading parts in the
farce Charlottesville Jefersonian.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINER

STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
The fall meeting of the State Board of
Medical Examiners will take place at Fred
ericksburg on Tuesday the 26th of this
month. The meeting will be an important
one. There will be considerable work be-
fore the Board in addition to that of exam
ming candidates for license to practice
medicine. A president will be chosen to
fill the vacancy caused by the election of
DIR. Dabney to chair in the medical de-
partment of the University. Efforts will
be made to improve the rules regarding
examinations, and the legislation necessary
to perfect the law under which the Board
was created will probably be discussed.
The law as it stands has already accom-
plished much that it's most ardent advocates
designed it should accomplish. Notably
has it had tendency to elevate the stand
ard of medical education in Virginia. Both
the Alopathic and homeopathic schools OF
medicine are represented on the Board, and
the public can now rest assured that no ig-
norant physician of either school will be
granted a certificate.
The general provisions of the act regu-
lating the practice Of medicine and surgery
are satisfactory to the two schools repre-
seuted, are regarded as just, and no materi-
al change in the law is contemplated. But
it was hastily drawn, and did not provide
for questions that have arisen which the
Board have no power to decide.-Rschnsond
Dispatch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20


Under the title of ''True Democracy"
the Louisville Courier Journal well says
1.-THE principles Of the Democratic party
are the same in possession of power or in
opposition. They are the same under JEFF
ferson and under Cleveland. They are the
principles of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and of the Constitution of the United
States. They are not separate and distinct
one from another, but they constitute a
philosophy of government to which all men
who care for liberty must come at last. The
Democratic party is pledged to the pre-
servation of individual liberty; to liberty of
thought of action, of motion; to free
press to a free church, to free ballot. 1t
seeks for the individual the widest latitude
consistent with the existence of society,
exists supply to preserve to the individual
his life, his property and his pursuit of hap
pines5"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
THE CANVASS IN AUGUSTA.

According to announcements, the canvass
will be pushed with vigor, commencing
next Monday, when distinguished foreign
speakers will address the people at the
Courthouse, and our own fill appointments
in the county, running up to the day of
election.
Capt. Bumgardner will be in other parts
of the district, leaving to his friends and
the democratic party of his own county to
see that his interests are pressed forward to
the realization of the majority promised at
the nominating convention. Let US be up
and at work with increasing vigilance.
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nsr A Standard REMEDY

BaF A STANDARD REMEDY
BAKERS PREMIUM BITTERS, which has
stood the test of thirty years trial, has lived
to see "Universal Panaceas, !" 'Cure Ais" and
the like, rise. flourish, and collapse, neve
again to be revived. We do not mean by
STANDARD Remedy" some quack nostrum OF
sweetened water and bitter herbs, highly in
flated with the certificates of men of straw.
warranted good for everything but fit for
nothing. When we use the term STANDARD
Remedy we mean as applied to a certain rem
edy for Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Dysente-
ry, Diarrboea. Cramp Collie Cholera Morbus,
Nervous Headache. Loss of Appetite, and ali
diseases arising from dsordered condition OF
the stomach and bowels, and as such we rec
ommend BAKERS PREMIUM BITTERS, 8
medicine that has, by its merits. gradually
worked itself into popular favor throughout
the entire South.
These Bitters are warranted to be entirely
free from all mineral poisons, may be taken
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whatever their condition, without the slight
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E. BAKER, Proprietor,
Richmond. Va,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
GRAND DEMOCRATIC MAss-MEETING.

A Grand Democratic Mass-Meeting will
be held in the Court House on Monday,
the 25th day of OcLober-Court-day. Or
this interesting occasion addresses will be
delivered by Hons. John E. Kenna ano
Eustace Gibson of West Virginia. Hon
Zeb. Vance, of North Carolina, and Hon
Samuel ]. Randall, of Pennsylvania, have
been invited. Let all attend and enjoy a
good time
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

A GOOD EXAMPLE.-The most successful
public man of to day-President Grover
Cleveland-bas been voter for twenty
eight years, and in all that time, it is said,
be has never been absent from the polls on
election day. He has always voted the
Democratic ticket without scratching
Once a warm personal friend of his was an
'Independent Democratic candidate for a
city office in Buffalo against regular
Democratic nominee. Some people thought
that Mr.. Cleveland would strain a point
and vote for his friend, but when an en-
dependent" ticket was handed to him he
said, ooh, no always vote straight
That is the sort of a Democrat that Mr..
Cleveland is-neyer apathetic-and never a
sorehead. Truly, a good example for
American citizens to follow.-Richmond
State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

COOP CATTLE.-Wm. Hevener. Esq, OF
Crabbottom, started to market last week
with 10 cattle, of his own grazing, which
weighed on an average, 1854 pounds. They
were grazed only,-fed no grain.
Messrs. A. S. Porter and Jared A. Jones
left for York, Pennsylvania, this week with
lot of two years old steers.-the former
with 81, whose average weight was 1,0Ss
pounds, and the latter with "a head averag-
ing !, 071 pounds. The heaviest steer in the
lot weighed 1880 pounds Re
corder.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

A PROSPEROUS ENTERPRIsE.-Th Roam
oke Machine Works, at Roanoke, Va, now
give employment to over 1000 people, aud
are running on extra time. Among the
orders received last week was one for 600
freight cars and 10 locomotives for the Nor
folk and Western Railroad and 500 freight
Railroad. This is the second order from
the latter road within the past six months,
the first, order for 500 cars having been sat
isfactorily filled at handsome profit.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
NOTES FROM TUE DISTRICT.

There are four counties in the 10th Dis
trict which hold their courts next Monday.
Captain Bumgardner, we presume, will be
at Fluvann% Harry Tucker will be at
Cumberland Augusta is provided for, as
is Nelson, where Hon. Jno. r. Tucker will
arouse the party as is his custom. All the
democrats of Nelson, as well as some who are
not, are as sincerely attached to Mr.. Tucker
as were their fathers to their great leader
and countyman, William G. Rives, whose
fortunes they followed through the muta-
tiens of parties, evincing their faith in him
by great majorities. The democrats of Mel
son always have responded and they will
again respond to the call of Mr.. Tucker by
sustaining their party and their candidate.
Colonel Edmondson, Chairman of the
Committee in Rockbridge, is pushing the
canvass with determination to make the
county excel it's past contests. William A.
Anderson, commencing last Saturday, is
now filing ten appointments in different
parts of the county. Samuel j. Graham,
this week entered upon as many more, and
Frank T. Glasgow is likewise filing like
member. From other counties, the news
is cheerful and it only requires activity te
give Captain Bumgardner full majority.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
NEWTON ARGENBRIGHT, Crk.
Effinger & Craig, p. O. octiS-lm
NHRGINIA-IN VACATIoN.-In the Clerk,
office, Circuit Court, Augusta county

NIKG1NIA-IN VACATIoN.-In the Clerks
" office, Circuit Court. Augusta county,
September 9th, 1885,
Henry Koiner
VS..
Tolarius Koiner. Iren@us Koiner, Samuel
ko1ner, Jacob B. Nicholas. James A. Patter-
SON. Executor of Peggy Patterson, decd VIM.
patterson, John l.. Patterson Samuel W. Pat
terson, solomon II. Patterson, Margaret J.
Patterson, John A. Patterson and Adeline hia
wife, Adam Fl. Shuey, Barbara Ann Shuey
John Firebaugh and Mary Jane Firebaugh, his
wife. formerly Shuey), Cyrus ]. Barger and
Cornei1a r. Barger, his wife. formerly Koin-
err. Franklin Barger. David McNett - Goode
and Sarah, his wife. Nicholas and Ham
nah. his wife. - Whitmore and Susan, HE
wife. and Frances McNett, widow of jacob
McNett-
In CHANCERY.
The object Of this suit is to have q division,
of the farm in Augusta county. known as the
Craig place, conveyed to Henry Koiner and
others by A. 81. H Stuart, surviving Trustee,
and have the interest OF enry Koiner therein
laid off.
It appearing by affidavit filed that Frances
Men EFT widow of Jacob McNett), is non-res-
1dent OF this State it is ordered that she do ap-
pear here within one month after due publica-
tion of this notice, and do what is necessary
to protect her interest. Tes e.
B. Z, TERRY, Dep. Crk.
Hudson d Patrick, p. q. sep294t
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

Why "District 49'' forced the colerec
question on the people of Richmond is some
thing emo fellow can find out" but it has
been suggested that there was certain Re.
publican method in their madness, and that
it was love for political effect, on the side
of the Shermaus, Logans, and such like
people. After good deal of apparent
apathy and indifference the Richmond
Knights seem to be mastering the situation,
and the more they think about 1t the less
they like it-NorfoM Landmark
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

Friday night, the Sth inst, a north bound
freight train on the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, loaded with cattle, lumber, mer-
chandise, paints, pig-iron, &C., when near
ing Tnompson's Station, this county, jump
ed the track and ten or twelve cars were
wrecked, and the track was blocked to
traffic for several hours. Fortunately no
one was hurt, but the damage was very
heavy. Only one head of stock was killed.
Leginqton Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20
THE SEA SERPENT AeA1N.-A Bird.

The SEA SERPENT AGAIN.-A Bridge
port, Conn., dispatch says: Philip S. San
ford, Walter Stroude,. of Westport, anc
DR.. Keys, of New York, all gentlemen Of
high social standing, left Westport harbol
Sunday morning for pleasure sail. They
report that at about half-past twelve o.
clock, when half way between Westport and
South port. they saw what was supposed
to be a school of porpoises. Approaching
to within an eighth of mile they found
the object to be a huge seas-erpert. The
monster showed its head about five feet
out of the water and from IS to 100 fee,
of it's body could be seen. 1t was moving
in southeasterly direction at the rate OF
from three to four miles an hour. Ga see
ing the boat it sank partially out of sight,
and increased its speed to about eight
miles, leaving foaming water in its wake,
similar to that of a steam boat The story
is received as credible, as the parties are in
every way reliable.
THE STUDY OF GEoLoGY.-[S st. Louis
Globe Democrat. 1.-The recent activity o1
earthquakes, volcanoes, and boiling springs
will serve, doubtless, to turn the attention
of the studious to geology. This, while be-
ing among the youngest, is also one of the
most fascinating of sciences In literal
sense there are ''sermons in stones" To
the initiated the pebble, the fragments Of
stones of all kinds met on our strsets and
highways, and even the clay ITSELF which
never attracts the slightest attention, be-
cause of its familiarity to US, are eloquent
with meaning. In them, as in an open book,
can be read the history of the strife and
turmoil through which this gray old globe
of ours passed ages before the birth Of
Adam. No person who has even an ele-
mentary knowledge of geology need ever be
lonesome if cast away upon even the most
sterile and unattl active spot on the eirth's
surface.
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Especial Dispatch of the Baltimore Sun.
The President goes Fishing.
TRIP TO HANGING ROCK, W. WA DEER
HUNT AND BASS FISHING.

Romney, ". Va, Oct. 15.-Eugine $50,
hauling President Carrots private coach
arrived at Hanging Rock, three miles north
Of this place, at 4 A. M. to-day. President
Cleveland, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Miller, the Presidents private secretary,
Col. Lamont, Assistant Secretary Fairchild,
and Commissioner Miller's secretary, Mr..
Bivins, were on board. The President
spent the day hunting and fishing, and the
party succeeded in downing very fine
buck. and other small game was bagged.
After the hunt the President and Col Isaac
Parsons, at whose place he was entertained,
captured a string of nice bass.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

The bridesmaids were dressed IN cream
albatross, with Nile-green and cardinal
trimmings, with halt, wreath of autumn
leaves caught back, and short veil of bri-
dial tulle. which was very becomming to all.
The bridal presents were numerous and
elegant.-Cor. Rich. Dispatch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

TOBACCO BARNS BURNED IN BEDFoRr
CoUNTY.-Three tobacco barns and theil
contents, the property of Maj. E. T.
Walker, about miles from Liberty, Bed
ford county, were burned by an incendiary
last Friday night. Loss $1,000. No in.
surance. George Bond, colored, who had
made threats against Maj. Walker was
arrested and lodged in Jail in Liberty
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-10-20

DEATH OF Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIS
Neao York, Oct. 15,-Ex-C Congressman Ben
jamin A. Willis died on Thursday morning,
but the fact was suppressed until this after
noon lest it should PROSTATE his wife, who
had given birth to twins only four days be-
fore. He died of Bright's disease.