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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
The Country School Teacher.

WHAT do you propose doing towards
seepI ing agood teacher for your school this
asnger Make an effort this year to i'm
prove the school. Find out what teachers
gan 0e secured before you go to the school
meeting. Talk things over with your
neighbors, and see what they want. Put
some good business man on the school
board, and support him heartily in all
needed reforms. Make the ground attract
I've and the house comfortable, even if it
does cost little to do it. Visit the
school as often as you can. Tell your
children to mind the teacher, and never
encourage them in rebellion. If you think
the school is unfit for them to attend, take
them out of it, and do not send them there
30 carry on an authorized INSTRUMENTATION.
Watch the teacher, and still be reasonable
I. X iiaalsa hun. If your boy does not learn as
rapidly as he should, see if some of the
fault is not in the boy. If you neglect the
school. you neglect your duty as citizen.
= Rural New Yorker.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
Meanness Rising above an Earthquake

a emergencies of this kind the weak
a:aa of human nature is seen to come to
kse front. Fortunately the instances In
Charleston are rare, but they are never
baleiess glaring. One of the richest men
in he city, an alderman, who had nearly
completed the erection of a new palatial
Ses iencs at cost of $15O,00O. and whose
residence was very little damaged, has
his horses stabbed in tent. while thou
sands of people are absolutely without
aelter. A prominent millionaire. the
5amages to whose extensive real estate
possessions will not exceed $50. 600, has, it
1s e5id, given orders to agents to raise the
s9u6s Is per cent. A prominent and
gsalthy King-street merchant obtained
8 4ead-head railroad pass for himself, his
aoSher, wife and four children and sent
allega to Charlotte, N. G. His partner
Sgsei to do the same thing, but was de-
@aeb8d and the pass refused. This same
.lrul is said to have reduced the wages Of
baeIr clerks SO per cent. Both the part
4ars are wealthy men and both we'll
kn0 Nn in the city. Another wholesale
Aerchant is said to have docked his clerks
cne dollar each for coming late to work
40 The morning succeeding the earthquake.
These are about all the cases Of the kind
that have been brought to light, but they
age offset by many hundred heroic and
;saselfsh deeds of generosity. One young
gna1 drew cut his small savings from the
bark and distributed them among the
po3G. Another, father of large family,
shared his money with his old colored
nurse and gave her home. Men and
#cnaen have worked with courage under
sEla terrible and depressing circumstances,
Rua the stranger who comes to the city
cannot help but be impressed with the
belief that There is life in the old land
yet.''-C Charleston Cor. of Balto. Sun.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
PURE MISSOURI BONE MEAL,

Steamed and ground very fine. Nothing in the
fertilizer line will give more satisfactory results or
WHEAT and GRASS. or is a more permanent i'm
proven of the soil than this article, except Pure
Raw Bone,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
Neuralgia.

a very simple relief for neuralgia is to
bora handful of lobelia in half pint of
water, till the strength is out of the herb,
then strain off and add teaspoonful OF
fine salt. Wiring cloths out of the LIQUID
IS hot as possible, and spread them over
The parts affected. It acts like charm.
Change the cloths as soon as cold, till the
pain is all gone; then cover the place with
soft, dry covering till perspiration is over,
so as to prevent taking cold
Take two large tablespoonful of CO.
logne and two teaspoonfuls of fine salt; mix
them together in small bottle; every time
you have any acute affection of the facial
nerves. or neuralgia, simply breathe the
fumes into your nose from the bottle, and
you will be Immediately relieved.
Prepare horse-radish by grating and
mixing with vinegar, the same as for the
table, and apply to the temple when the
face or head is affected, or to the wrist
when the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
N"82s
PURE RAW BONE MEAL,

as good as can be made being perfectly PURE,
ground as fine meal and of uniform quality and
fineness. Nothing better can be had in the BONE
MEAL line.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17

Nathan Grant & ais. Def'ts
This cause came on this day to be again heard
on tn papers formerly read and the proceedings
heretofore had, and upon the petition OF j. E. Guy
Special Commissioner and Receiver in this cause,
and the Report OF Master Commissioner JnO. M i.
Kinney. and upon the rules awarded at the last
term of this court against T. R. N Speck Sheriff OF
Augusta County, and as such admir- OF Adam
Stewart. decd, Henry Dreamer, Louisa Dreamer,
Thos. Rhodes. Andrew Jackson and Hiram Pryor,
returnable to the present term, which rules appear
to have been duly executed on all the parties ex,-
cept Henry Dreamer, who being a nonresident OF
this State, could not be found, and was argued by
counsel On consideration whereof and the said
T. r. N. Speck as admir- of Adam Stewart, decd,
Louisa Creamer ThOs Rhodes Andrew Jackson,
and Hiram Pryor having failed to answer said
rules, and to show cause why the property men,
toned in said rules and the petition of j. E Guy.
should not be reSold to pay the balance OF pur
chase money owing by said Adam Stewards estate
on his purchase of September 9th, 1882.
~ And it appearing by affidavit filed that
Henry Dreamer is a nonresident OF this State; 1t
is ordered that he do appear here on the first day
of the next term of this Court (beng the 10th day
OF Nov, 1861 and show cause why the prayer of
the petitioner herenbefore mentioned, filed by j.
e. Guy in this at the last term shall not be
granted.
B. F. TERRY, Dep Clerk.
G. Nelson, atty aug27 At
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
Low Prices and Terms TO Suit
the Times.

CASH being exceedingly desirable to us these
hard times, we beg all parties having the "ready
money" or good credit because of noted
promptness, to consider their own interests and
our wants. and profit themselves by calling on us
before they get in trouble with something on their
hands not wanted. We mention some of the lead.
ing fertilizers offered by US this season.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
Standard Fertilizers

as mentioned below, and there will be no trouble
or disappointment about getting them when need
ed, whether engaged before hand or not. so that
purchases need not be made until the goods are
needed. Farmers will find it to their interests
decidedly not to buy elsewhere before examining
our stock. as our motto is
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17

At each of these points we have warehouse and
will keep full supply of Just such Fertilizers as
we keep at Staunton. As all observing farmers
know, it is great saving of money and annoyance
to them and to the dealer to trade directly. there
heretofore been called on at their homes by US or
our agents, will excuse this season from visit
ing them.
We will keep in stock ready for delivery at any
time called for-early or late in the seasonal full
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17
IMPORTANT
FAR MI e Rs.

1t is now so generally recognized that Fertilizers
are necessary to bring out the best results on all
old and partially exhausted soils, that 1t is almost
superfluous to say the subject than to call
the attention of Farmers to the Importance of
buying the product OF those concerns whose eS-
perience and standing offer the best guarantee as
to the quality of the goods offered.
Approaching the fact that money is scarce, and
prices Of grain very low, we have taken great care
in making our arrangements for supplies Of Ferti-
iZers for the Fall trade of 1885, and 1atter oursel
yes that we have secured the very best articles
sibe cost to get goods of known worth In order
to be able to sell these goods low, we must make
the expenses of handling as small as possible, con-
sequently we will not sell through Agents, except
Mr.. N. c, WATTS. who will sell and deliver from
CRIMORA, and
Mr.. j. MARSHALL MCCLURE from GREEN
WILLIE.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-17

THE heart that is soonest awake to the
towers is always the first to be touched by
the thorns,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
An Authoritative Denial.

The esteemed evening Capital thinks
the Confederate bonds will never be
paid. There is not a question but it
believes just what it says. There are
very few if any people in this country
who believe those bonds will be paid,
but there are a great many orators and
organs advocating the principles of the
Republican party that endeavor to
make people believe they will be. Be-
fore a Democratic President was
elected, the payment of the rebel debt
was discussed on the stump and in the
organs as one of the misfortunes which
were sure to befall the country in case
Democracy triumphed. The Capital
does well to correct the wrong impress
sions its party is responsible for,
especially when it is known that one
of New York's shrewdest and most ell
oquent lawyers has accepted retainer
of British gold to present the cause of
the foreign holders of Confederate
bonds, and has actually been before
Congress and srgued the case in the
interests Of his clients: -aDss 4ei'sss
Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
BLAIR VS.. THE PRESIDENT.

The Republican Senator'S Weak and Dis.
honest Attempt to Cast Discredit upon
the Chief Executives Efforts to Uphold
the Prerogatives of His Office.
Senator Blair's defense of Congress
from the imputat1ons of recklessness OF
dishonesty put upon 1t by Mr.. Cleve.
lands veto messages is very weak
affair. As Senator it is his privilege
to secure the passage of these vicious
bills in spite of the Presidents objec-
tions if he can do SO, but he can not
criticise the vetoes as he does without
placing himself in the attitude toward
the President which he thinks it is
wrong for the President to assume to-
agogy which Mr.. Blair has introduced
into his report, and of his attempt tc
create the impression among ignora-
muses. that Mr.. Cleveland has no right to
veto these little jobs, the fact remains
that he has such right, and that it is
his sworn duty to exercise it if he re-
CARDS the measure presented to him as
dishonest.
In the case of every one of the sixty
or seventy private pension bills which
the President has vetoed he has given
good and sufficient reasons for his
course. He has shown that the great
majority of the bills objected to were
in the interest of frauds, bounty-jump-
ers and deserters, and in cases where
the hardship was undenied he has
shown that the relief proposed was no
more properly pension charge than
would be any other instance of destitu-
ton occurring without reference to the
war. The reasons given for the vetoes
have satisfied as well as surprised the
country. Pleased with his resolute OPP
position to the most contemplate form
of swindling, the people have been as
tonlshed at the extraordinary capacity
of the Congress of the United States for
such dirty work.
Senator Blair's attempt to shield him.
self and his money grabbing associates
by casting discredit upon Mr.. Cleve-
land will hardly succeed. He writes
like a man who is in the wrong and
who knows it. Against his generaIi-
ties and innuendoes it is all-sufficient
to get the facts which the veto mes
sages complained of contain Chicago
Herald,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Five points are deducted from .
Students grade at Lafayette if he be
found guilty of profanity. I'dsandpots.
JoarnGl.
-Four times q month the Catholic
priests of the diocese of New York meet
and discuss theological subjects in the
Latin tongue.
Mr.. w. 7. Russell, a Scotch gentle
man formerly resident in Calcutta, has
given $s5. 200 recently for Christian fe-
male education in India.
Too much study is said to effect the
mind. A. teacher says he knows a mum.
Der of cases where it would affect il
very favorably, too.-Albany Journal.
Cornell University, departing from
its custom, bestowed its first honary de
gree this year by granting its honorable
ex-President, Andrew d. White, the de-
gree of L.D.-Bufdto Cypress.
The Episcopalian friends Of the late
| Bishop C. F. Robinson have presented
| home to his family at cost of $40. 600.
| and DIR. W. G. Eliot, chancellor. has
given to the late Bishops children life
| scholarships in Washington University.
-Wdshimgfon Star.
Kings County (Brooklyn} has 265
Protestant Sunday schools with i05, 972
scholars. The conversions reported the
past year were 2,271, and their contri.
buttons were $77, ,918; Is of the Brook
| lyn schools have membership of over
/ 1000 Brooklyn Eagle.
Among the many schools on Beacon
Hill is one for instruction in carpentry,
conducted by young lady. She has
1 |. 10 II ortn
past winter, composed of boys belong
| ing to some of our leading families, and
she goes out of town twice a week to
| instruct class of seven.-Boston Bud
get.
i Mrs. John B. Gibson, of Cincinnati,
at meeting of the Children's Home in
that city, offered to assume all the ex-
pense ef school which, in memory OF
| her husband, is to be called ''The Glib
son Free kindergarten. - She desires
no part in the management, simply the
privilege of paying all the bills.-Csn-
cinnd,i Times.
| The International Missionary Union
is an association composed of returned
missionaries of all evangelical churches,
the object of which is to promote mu.
tual sympathy and cooperation of mis-
sionaries in their work, and to hold an.
nual meetings for the discussion of inn
portant questions connected with their
work, and the diffusing of missionary
intellieence.-M Y. Examiner.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation of New York has grown in ten
years to magnificent institution. 1t il
now complet ng a. handsome home q
its own, which. will be occupied in Sep
tember. 1t will contain a library, read
, ing-room, class-rooms, and all the --latest
improvements. The association ha.
classes, in photography, type-writing
, commercial arithmetic, bookkeeping
machine and hand-sewing, cutting ant
fitting, ,photo-coloring and drawing, ant
bureaus for obtaining situations ant
work for seamtresses. Last year in
: struction was given to more than 81,
: hundred girls, 1.200 situations wer
secured, and over $1,000 was paid Il
seamtresses for work.-N Y. Tribune
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
WASHINGTON.

The President on the 18th nominated
David Turpie, of Indianapolis, to be United
States Attorney for the District of Indiana,
vice j. c. Lamb resigned; and George E.
Munson, of Colorado, to be Assayer of the
United States mint at Denver
The total values of the exports of do
mestic breadstuffs during the month of
June, 1886, and during the six and twelve
months ended June 80, 1886, as compared
with similar exports during the correspond
ing periods Of the preceding were as fol-
lows: June, 1885, S13, ,7o2, ,995; June, 1885,
s9,024, $50; six months ended June 80, 1886,
$50, ,S61, ,J66; same period 1885, $40, 75l, ,324 :;
twelve months ended June 80, 1885, S122,-
1879; same period 1885, S156, 45l ,S31.
The Postmaster General has added 453
post-offices to the list of money order offices,
the business of that number having in
creased during the year SO as to come
within the provisions of the law.
Commander w. T. Sampson has been
selected to succeed Captain Ramsay as
superintendent of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
The trustees of the District of Columbia
schools have already introduced textbooks
to teach physiological effects of intoxi-
cants upon the human system in obedience
to the law enacted at the present session of
Congress.
The Bureau of Statistics report that the
exports Of beef and pork products for the
eight months ended June 80 last, aggrega-
ted in value $50, ,s45, ,23s, against SCI, 1899, 752
during the same period in 1885.
Observation-Disclosures on the 15th D.
". Taylor, Oregon, to be Surveyor General
of Oregon, vice James c. Tolman, resigned
Louis Williams, Missouri, to be Commits,
sioner in and for the District of Alaska, to
reside at Juneau City; W A. Selkirk, OF
California, to be Register of the Land Office
Mt Sacramento, Cal. Gilbert d. Williams
of New York, to be Indian Agent of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, Indian
Territory.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
| has decided that in executing the provis
ions of the act appropriating 100000 fol
the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Com
missioner of Agriculture can not expend
any fraction of the appropriation in tn,
purchase of cattle not known to be dis
eased, but can only purchase and destroy
| diseased animals when in his judgment i
may be essential to prevent the spread o
pleuro-pneumonia from one State t.
smother.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
BRILLIANT LEGIsLATING.
Senator Edmunds' Measure to Reform til
Much-Abused Civil Service.

Senator Edmunds' Measure to Reform the
Much-Abused Civil Service.
Senator Edmunds has brought in
bill for the reform of the civil service.
It is simple measure. 1t gives the
President the appointment of all the
minor officials without the advice or
consent of the Senate, but makes them
irremovable during their term without
trial on charges before United
know much about the United States
civil service to know what the result
would be. One only needs to know a
little of human nature. No man of
capacity or business experience would
large number of subordinates if he
could not get rid of any of them
without formal trial in a law court.
Four-ffths at least of the things which
make clerk incompetent are small
things, any one of which would seem
ridiculous ON paper, and absurd to lay
before United States Judge. It is the
repetition of them which mostly de-
cides that man is not worth his sal
ary. Nothing in the whole art of ad-
is SO well settled as that there can be
no proper responsibility in the chief if
he have no discretion in the selection
of his subordinates. Some capable
men might be found ready to take
bill, but if they did SO they would
probably at once go to work to break
it down. They would let inefficiency
f,r11
fuse to go into court with trumpery
stories about AS coming late. and BIS
drinking, and Cs being unmannerly,
and DIS spelling badly, and blotting
his books, until the public offices be-
was repealed.
Nothing is more wonderful in the
history of this whole Civil-Service re-
form movement than the way in which
public men toll and moil and twine and
twist in order to avoid having the Gov.
ernment business conducted like other
business. Every bank and corporation
in the country furnishes a perfect model
of the way in which the treasury and
post-office should be manned and man.
aged; and yet there is hardly any ex'
pertinent too queer or fantastic fol
grave statesmen to attempt with the
Government service in order to avoid
initiating these old and well-tried priv.
ate methods. If the stockholders oi
the Pennsylvania road were to propose
that the manager should not be al
lowed to dismiss any subordinate with
out fling a bill in equity against him
we should consider them crazy; bu
when Senator proposes it about thu
public offices, we bury our faces in ou
hands, ponder the plan deeply, ant
discuss it at great length in the public
prints.-M Y Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-22
DEMOCRATIC SENSE.


Peter H. Clark, q Cincinnati col
ored man of intelligence and the prin-
cipal of public school in that city,
has been deposed by the Republican
board of Education because he is a
Democrat. Who are the bulldozersP-
N. Y. Graphic.
President Cleveland does not be-
lieve that measles affect the spinal col
umD except in pension cases; nor that
diarrhea causes sore eyes; nor that sui
cides by drowning and morphine
poisoning were the result of injuries
received in the service. On all these
points of practical medicine he takes
issue with DR.. John A. Logan.-St.
Louis Republican.
--Logan's boom has got blow
right between the eyes. The National
Blaine Republican Association at Wash
ington, through j. D.. Stockbridge, its
president, has sent its hearty congratu-
recent assurance that truth is mighty
and will prevail" The assurance that
will impress Logan the most is that of
the association in rendering its con-
gratulations to the man he still de-
nounces as traitor.-Detroit Free
Press.
AN elderly man in jamestown,
D. T., it appears, has been attracting
attention by throwing away money
and revealing himself as cousin of
Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Fremont,
o. The first piece of evidence natur.
ally threw doubt upon the second, and
the prodigal Burchard was committed
for 1unacy. 1t appears, however, that
he really is cousin of Mr.. Hayes.
When there was found among his eff
fects letter from that statesman Of
fering to pay him his annuity of 5000
down if he would take 81, or pei
cent, off for cash, the people of James
town could no longer dispute his claim
of kinship, though at his desperate
prodigality they marveled greatly
N. Y. Times.
The defense made by ex-Post
master Veazy, of Baltimore, the Dem
ocrat who resigned because the dutie.
of the Office were distastetul to hin
knocks in the head all that the silly re
movals have said about his appoint
ments. He says he found the post
Office filed with offensive Republican
who were inattentive and he removed
them and appointed. men who passet
a civil service examination. The nev
appointees are nearly all Democrats
and Notwithstanding they stood tn
highest in the competitive examination
the Republicans are angry. But it
impossible to please the Republican
who has ever had taste of Office
Poor Garfield found th at ont tn his sor