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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
The Speech of Hon. John E. Kenna.

The speech of Mr.. Kenna, of West Vir-
ginia, in the Senate Friday in continuation
of the debate upon the Edmunds resolu-
lions was entertaining and CONVINCING
Referring to the secrecy of executive SEES
sions, he twitted his republican colleagues
on their Inconsistency in proposing to make
secret use Of private papers they wished to
compel the President to give to the public,
and asked whether, accepting the definition
of sofficial'' papers made by Mr.. Edmundsy
republican Senators proposed to put on fil'
for the inspection Of the President the
various letters they may have received from
anxious offce-holders in reference to theil
course in the present contest. Mr.. Kenna
read letter from Mr.. Sherman, when
Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the
removal of Mr.. Arthur from the Collector
ship of New York-the letter being adj
dressed to Mr.. Conkling as chairman of
Senate committee. In that letter Mr..
Sherman said that to make official reply
would compel him to disclose matters con-
tanned in papers of a confidential character
filed in the Department and require him to
discuss questions "totally immaterial to the
nominations sent to the Senate;" also,
chat no law requires the President to give
reasons" etc.
He then stated that he believed "the
issue, after all, was whether democratic
administration should appropriately perform
it's functions in the face of a negative OBJ
structive majority on the other side Of the
Chamber" This was received with ap-
plause from the occupants of the galleries
Mr.. Kenna then took up MIR. Blaine's
new book, "Twenty Years of Congress, !"
and read numberof spicy extracts from
it on the Tenure of Office act. The writer
of that work, M. Kenna said, came within
/, 900 votes of being the object of this "war-
fare"-on the Executive power-for, of course,
the war would have come all the same
The occupants of both floor and galleries
reiished the extracts and INDUCED in con-
siderable laughter over Mr.. Blaine's caustic
comment On the craftsmanship involved in
the passage and attempted repeal Of the
Tenure of office law. Mr.. Kenna, also
read extracts from the official records of
the Senate of the debate in 1869, when
Senators Edmunds, Logan and Sherman
took exactly the opposite ground from that
which they had occupied in 1867. ''The
simple truth was" Mr.. Blaine had said;
'sthat the Tenure of Office law was enacted
| lest President johnson should remove re-
publican office-holders too rapidly, and it
afterwards practically repealed lest Presi-
| dent Grant should not remove democratic
office-hoidefs rapidly enough" These ex-
tracts were received with laughter on the
floor and in the galleries, and were COM
mented on with spirit by Mr.. Kenna.
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FOCAL Department..
The Jackson Monument Fund.
Correspondence of the spEcrAroR.l

correspondence OF the SPECTATOR.l
RAPHINE. VA. March IL, 1856.
Believing you are always willing and anx-
ious to give space in your columns for an thing
that is good, have concluded to send you a
meagre account of good thing in good cause.
that we witnessed in this neighborhood at tho
home Of G. ]. Bell. on Wednesday night, the
10th inst.
The ladies and gentlemen of Raphine Read
ing Club, being DESTROYS of doing something
to aid the jackson Memorial Association. y
concluded to give an entertainment in tn
shape of charades. tableaux, music. &c.
AS stated above, the entertainment came oss
on Wednesday night, the 10th inst, and 1 3 &.
satisfied that but voice the sentiments of
entire audience when pronounce it a IS.
plete success. But how could it be othe se,
when it was under the management of such
spirits Mrs. B. C. Rawlings, Mrs. G. ]. Bell.
and Miss Poague Rowan. aided and sustained
by that whole-souled lady. Mrs. Gibbs. who. TO
use slang phrase. is whole team?
would be glad to give you full programme
of the good things presented to the audience.
but space will not permit; and perhaps ;.
NOT right. whore all Is good, to give preterend
to any particular one, bus where all
good. there must of necessity be best. So, Id
the opinion of your correspondent, the piece
Jonas JONES'" was the best, the cast of which
was:-
Mr.. ]: II. Mcclure as..... Jonas Jones
Miss Lucy Turk Miss Lucy Lamont.
Mrs. B. O. Rawlings ............ Mrs Lamont
Mr.. Z. g. Hill as..... ....Rev. Dinsmore D. d.
Mr.. JOhn Rowan as.... Mr.. Overdue.
I have witnessed worse acting, even on the
stage of your Opera House.
sTrhe instrumental music, which was excel
lent. was rendered by Miss Matte E. Bell, OF
Augusta, Miss Mamie Harris. Mr.. Harry Full
wider, and Mr.. Joseph Fix. The amount real
lied was about forty dollars
understand the ladies talk of repeating the
performance in the near future. If they do, 4
may they meet with that success they SO richly
deserve. by having the liberal patronage Of the
public s.&
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

A REMARKABLE WEDDING occurred at
Chestnut Mound, Tenn, Monday week.
The bride is of good family and the bride
groom betrayed her two years ago. He re-
fused to redeem his promise, and to escape
the vengeance of her male relatives he fled
During his absence child was born and
died. The father subsequently repented
and obtained forgiveness by solemn
promise to atone by at once making hel
his wife. The ceremony took place Mon
day. They repaired to the grave of their
child with friends and the minister, and
kneeling, one on each side of the tomb
with hands clasped above it, they spoke
the vows which united them, the service
being read by the minister, who stood at
the foot of the grave.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
Ladies.-Now is your time to buy BLACK
KID GLOVES.
SH r X EY 81 TAYLOR
are selling their sl.25 Kids for rs cts. a pair.
mar 10

Mr.. Editor
trust the mathematicians who have been
oothering their brains over IAN apparent par
adox." in your last ISSUE have not all turned
bald or gone crazy over the matter 1 have not.
at least; probably because am not much of a
ravelist of problems; however, I'll show nv
hanG:-
The first part of the pi oblem is quite clear:
ne Will receive % cents for his sixty eggs.
ior ~ eggs at a cent would give Is cents; and 30
eggs at e cent would give 10 cents the sum of
which is % cents; but, in the last case If we av
erase hve eggs for cents, and place them in
lots of five q large and 8 smalD aft + placing
down ten lots, we run out of the small eggs and
have 10 large ones left; for we have only placed
large eggs in the above.named 10 lots and II
he gets cents lot for these 10 lots. it is evil
dent he will get 20 cents, and the extra 10 large
eggs will, as in the first case, bring him Il cent
apiece. making cents. which. added to the 20
cents, will just balance his first sale and make
up the odd penny.
"OLD HICKORY"
WaJ nesboro Va. March Is SO
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

The differences between Mr.. G. l.. Peck
OF the Hinton Independent, and Mr.. r. D.
Anderson of the Anderson Statesman, cul-
minated in personal encounter on Sunday
last, in the Depot at Anderson. Mr.. Alder
son demanded the retraction of an article
which appeared in the last issue of the In
dependent, assailing him in the most vehe-
ment manner. Upon Mr.. Peck's refusal
to withdraw the Objectionable language Mr..
Anderson assaulted him with cane, srik-
ing him several severe blows about the head
and face. Mr. Peck, our informant states,
at this juucture drew a revolver, but the in
PREVENTION Of bystanders prevented his u.s.
ing the weapon.-Monroe Co. (W. Va.,)
Watchman.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

E A STANDARD REMEDY
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sweetened water and bitter herbs highly in
hated with the certificates of men of straw.
warranted good for everything but fl for
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edy for Dyspepsia. Liver Complaint, Dysente
~, Diarrhoea, Cramp Collie Cholera Morbus,
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worked itself into popular favor throughout
the entire South
These Bitters are warranted to be entirely
free from ali mineral poisons, may be taken
with safety and benefit by all ages and sexes
whatever their condition, without the slight
est fear of injury.
Sold by Druggists everywhere.
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Richmond Va
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

The sceno in the senate on Wednesday
when Senator Riddlebarger assaulted Sen.
ator Logan and pronounced him the rep
resentatiye of Captain Eads in the senate
is said, by the correspondent of the Balti-
more San, to have been ''wildly exciting.
Mr.. Logan, as well as Mr.. Riddleberger,
is very high-strung. Both men seemed to
be angered, and Mr.. Logan's friends Ia
bored in vain to prevent him from replying
to the Virginia senator. Mr.. Logan said
that he was but human, however, and Mr..
Riddleberger's assault was gross insult to
which he could not listen quietly. -Indec-
Appeal
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

THE COPPER HERALD."-We have received
a copy OF the Copper Herald of March 3rd, pub
lished at Hancock, Houghton county, Michi-
gan. by Swift & Bolen. After stating that it is
not political, but an independent paper, it
says
It's independence will not, however. be of
lhat mllksop order which would restrain IL
from giving vigorous expression to honest con-
Siction. Hence It's aim politically will be to
HI the only legitimate province of honest,
progressive Observation-Disclosures and fair
minded leadership of public opinion
One of its proprietors and editors is Mr. Geo.
Bolen, ofthis city, who learned the "ars pre-
sentative of al arts" in the SPECTATOR Office.
and who is gentleman of character and n
talents and good writer. Itgoes without sa
ing that we wish him and the paper vii
which ne Is conn ected abundant success in
cry respect.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
MURDER In ROCKINGHAM !
A BROTHER CHARGED WITH THE OFFENsE.

From special telegram to the Rich
mond Dispatch we learn that a shocking
murder was committed near EIlkton station,
on the Shenandoah Valley railroad, in
Rockingham county, Thursday evening"
Preston Finchum was fonnd in the woods
with gun-shot wound in his head and his
skull beaten to pulp. Friday morning
William Finchum, brother of the murder
ed man, was arrested and tried before q
magistrate, charged with the deed, and sent
on to the grand jury.
On Saturday evening, he was taken to
Harrisonburg and confined in Jail. The
evidence, though circumstantial, is very
strong, and he had to be taken from the
neighborhood Friday night for fear OF
lynching. Tie deed was committed near
the scene of the celebrated Lawson murder,
some nine years ago.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

THE MOODY AND SANKEY MEETINGS.
The committee having in charge the ar
rangements for the meetings to be held here
by Mr.. Moody in April have decided to en-
gage the Opers House, as it can accomme-
date greater number of persons than
any other available building in this city.
A choir of more than 100 voices has been
organized under the direction of Rev. Mr..
Colbourne. They will practice once week
in order to perfect themselves in singing
the Gospel Hymns, that nothing may be
wanting to render the meetings of the
great evangelist an entire success.-Lynch-
bur0 Meas.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

DEATH OF CAPT. G.. W. PETTIaREw.-
After long and painful illness Capt. G..
w. Pettigrew departed this life Thursday
morning at o'clock, at bis residence in this
place. HIS death had been looked for al
most at any time, and was no surprise to
his friends.
Capt. P. was we'll known in this county,
having served Lexington District as a
member Of the Board of Supervisors and
several times elected a member of the Town
Council, and at the time of his death a
member of the latter body.
Public-spirited, kind, active, he was an
exceedingly useful man, whose death will
be mourned by large circle of friends and
acquaintance.
His wife preceded him to the grave by a
few months. He was about SO years of
age.-Rock5ridge County Neaos.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
Charlottesville, March 8, 'S6.

In A BAD BoX.-The Rev. M. A. Dyer,
pastor for the past two years of Charles
Wesley NJ. E. Church, colored, of this place,
preached his farewell sermon last Sunday
and left on Tuesday for Conference The
evening before leaving he forged the names
of the church trustees to note, and OBJ
tanned from the Bank of Abingdon the sum
of 5000. The prevent being arrested he
managed to arrange the matter with the
bank, and was allowed to go to conference I'M
disturbed. The colored people of Abing
don have good church property, aud are
always punctual in paying the salary of
their pastors and to be thus imposed upon
by one who receives $500 a year of their
earnings as salary is an outrage that
should have been allowed to find its way
into the Courts. -SOuthUest Examiner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
Louisiana State Lottery CS;oipoau,


We lae HnderSi9asd Banks and Bankers e0iH
pay az fizeS dropn in The Louisiana State
LoteeTtes 'oHtcn maybe presented at our counters
j. HI. OGLESBY. prss Ioaisi.na yat,I Rank
y. ENNEDf Pres. state NATL Bank
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Natl Bank
Incorporated in 1865 Ter Is years by the Legts.
La eure Tor Educational apd Charitable purposes
with a capital of 81. 0G0. 6OO-to which reserve
fund of over $3.50, 600 has siL ce been added
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made part of the Present Stste Chm
stitution adopted December End A. d. 1875.
The only Lottery ever roted on and etdorsed by
people of any State.
1t never scales or postponts.
Its Grand Single Number drawings
take place Monthly. and the ExtraOr-
binary Drawings regularly every three
months instead of Semi-Annually as
heretofore, beginning March, 1861
A SPLENDID DPPORTU NIFTY 10
WIN A FORTUNE. FOURTH GRAND
DRAWING, GLASS L. IN TIE ACADEMY
OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY
April IS, ISS6-l9lst Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PETZE, $4,000.
100000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fiftf,s in proportion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

WHIrAKER's ALMANAC.-We acknow
the receipt from Joseph Whitaker, f. 8
London, England, Of a copy of the enlarged
ton of Whitaker's Almanac for 1888, cond
ing an account of the astronomical and Of
phenomena, a large amount of informationy
pecting the Government of England, Finar1
Population. Commerce and General Stats
of the British Empire throughout the wq'
with some notice of other countries, &c.
1t is full of desirable in formation and is |
valuable to Englishmen. and should be
tanned by every native of that country now J
ing in America. The price is two shillil
Address Joseph Whitaker, Warwick Id
Paternoster Row, London. England.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

YOUTHFUL Convertible sheriff of
Louisa county delivered at the penitentiary
last Friday Mamie Sacte, colored girl
convicted of arson and sentenced for nine
years. She was employed in the house Of
Mrs. Kilby, in Louisa county, near Gordons
vile, and set fire to dwelling house in
which was an infant child. With great
difficulty the child was gotten out. But
for her youth and confession made by her,
showing that she had been persuaded by
older persons to commit the crime, she
would have been hung in all probability.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
Stauntoll Spectator.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IL, 1856.
A Pair of Comets.

Two comets are bowling along towards
the earth at pretty rapid rate. They have
already been within the range of the S.
tronomers' telescopes for over three months,
and within another month or six weeks it is
probable that they will burst upon the view
of the general public, or, in other words,
become visible to the naked eye. Prof.
Frisby. of the Washington observatory, who
has charge of the comet department, has
been making observations for some time
upon the celestial new corners. One OF
these comets is known as Fabry's comet,
and was discovered December LIST. The
other is Barnard's comet, discovered two
days later. These two comets not only
came within the range Of the telescopes
about the same time, but it appears proba-
BILE that they will both be visible to the ma
ked eye in the heavens about the same time.
They will become visible, it is thought,
about the latter part of April or early in
May, just when the nights are becoming
warm enough to tempt lovers out for even.
ing strolls. A pair of comets in the sky
will afford a most reasonable excuse fol
strolling in the starlight. Fabry's comet
will be in perihelion between the 9th and
10th of April, and Barnard's about 3rd.-
Both comets will come very near the earth
and the sun. They are now seen by the
astronomers in the early evening in the
Northwest. Now they present the appear
ance of vapory, nebulous masses, will
bright centres, which are rapidly growing
brighter and more distinct in appearance as
the two wanderers approach the earth.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

LOCAL-OPTION ELECTIONs.--In the
Wytheville Magisterial District the vote on
the question of license or no license will
take place on the 10th of April.
The vote of Botetourt county will be
taken on the 10Th of April, and at West
Point, King William county, on the 18th Of
yri1
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

HARD FACTS FOR THE SOUTH.-"The
South is hampered by the tariff which still
confines timid capital to the East" says the
Louisville Courier Journal, which now and
then gets firm grip on economic facts
"Every reduction of tariff that closes a
furnace in Pennsylvania opens two in the
South" continues our aggressive contem-
porary, Tightening its grip On a truth
which Southern Congressman now and then
perceive, but speedily forget again. The
Southern furnaces, if they are not now able
to undersell English iron makers, will be as
soon as capital goes freely southwark. The
great obstacle to the development of the
iron interests of Virginia, Tennessee
and Alabama lies in the interest
of persons who have put millions into iron
making plant in States where iron-making
is excessively expensive to keep the iron IL
Gustry there, and not have their plant
thrown out Of use. Some of the Pennsyl-
vania furnaces, for example, have to haul
their ore from points in Virginia, hundreds
Of miles away, their coke from the Connells-
vile region, and their limestone from a
third quarter of the compass, the bonus of
So u secured by the tariff going to correct
the disadvantage of their location. Locat-
ed close to the ore, coal and limestone beds.
as they would be if transferred to the South
these furnaces with the capital now back
ing them aud without tariff bonus, could
defy competition anywhere, at home or
abroad. The owners of iron lands in the
South should, therefore, seek above all
things to so modify the tariff that iron
shall be made hereafter only where it can
be made cheapest. In so doing they will
be promoting the general interest as we'll as
their own.-Balto. San.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

FATAL HORSE DIsEAsE.-A strange dis
ease has broken out among the horses in
Campbell county in this State. Over
seventy-ive fine animals have died within
the last few weeks. The disease is called
brain fever or laundice.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

LocAL-OpTIoN IN BoTETouRT.- Fin
castle correspondent of 5he Dispatch says
'sUpon the petition of more than one
third of the vote cast at the last election
1ldge Simmons has issued writ of election
Tor April 10th to determine whether Bote-
tourt county shah be wet or dry. The in
tlcations at present are that majority of
the whites arc against whiskey. The me-
groes are, IS general thing, non. commit
al With a!stzone vet tendency"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17

How CIvIL-sERvICE is TO BE Accom-
PLIsHED.-The Baltimore Sun says that
san efficient civil-servce is to be expected
only from an Executive whose judgment is
untrammeled by the necessity of consulting
the private interests of number of per-
sons, or submitting to the dictation of some
soulless corporation. Should President
Cleveland persist in his refusal to be die
tated to by the Senate, the further progress
of true civil service reform will be secure
Should he yield to Mr.. Edmunds's argu-
ment in behalf of the dickering principle,
and il behalf of the bad precedents set by
partisan and corrupt men since 1867, a long
step backward will have been taken, and a
long time will elapse before we shall see
that improvement of the federal civil service
which is in our day becoming more import
ant than at any previous period in our his
tory"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-17
For the SPECTATOR. ]
The Belmont Ficklin Stock Sale.

The writer was surprised to see SO slim
representation Of your Augusta farmers
at this, we can truly say, extraordinary SALE
They will, in very truth, be in sackcloth
and ashes when they learn what bargains
they lost. The stock was extraordinary for
these times, in blood and character, collect
ed, as all know, at no small outlay in money,
care, anxiety, and time. Col. Ficklin was,
for six or more months, unable to see to and
care for it. All, horses and cattle, sur
prised every one as to their condition, and
sold at ruinous prices. There were a few
persons from distance. Maj. Lewis, of
Clarke county, who presided over the Farm
ers' Assembly last Fail, was there. We
did not see an animal sold to an Augusta
farmer, of whom there were not more than
four or five present.
Mr.. Snouffer, of Frederick county, Md,
bought several head of stock-probably for
son, who has recently bought one of the
old and prominent James River farms, near
Scottsville. Mr.. Stevens, of Buffalo, N. Y,
relative of Mr.. Lyman, on an adjoining
farm, was an interested spectator at the
first Virginia sale he ever saw, and the first
time he ever saw the beautiful scenery and
surroundings of Charlottesville. DR.. Ham.
Fultz, interested with his brother-in- law,
Fred Fultz in the Capt John Lewis farm,
on the Cow Pasture, in Bath, bought sew
eral head of cattle. Mr.. Hawkins bought
largely of both horses and cattle. He is the
owner Of one of the Porter farms, in Bath
county, near Millboro'.
LOCAL-oPTIoN.
The county of Albemarle has we'll nigh a
million of dollars invested in grape-culture
and wine making. A gentleman. now an
extensive grower, said to the writer he was
sure over 4, 900 acres are now planted-that
two or three friends of his, moIeyed men,
proposed to him to plant, with him, three
to four thousand acres, and construct a
cellar on his farm. He is inside of a
mile from the town. He says the county
will give local-option black eye. One of
your county men, and from the local-option
region of Waynesboro', said to a Char
lottesville man a few days ago that instead
of two licensed dram-shops in the village,
when it went for local-option, there are now
six places where whiskey can be had, and
besides there is triweekly line to Staun-
ton, by which the thirsty can have all their
Wants supplied, and, as is always the case,
the liquor is of the meanest character. High
license is the only remedy for this Pandora
box the Legislature has opened, which will
disrupt the Democratic party, and, with
the unsettled and uncertain condition of the
State debt, open the way for Mahone's
coming again to the front.
OCIrTAR