Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-01
Let the Laboring Man Look to His Interest.

As the Norfolk Landmark says, "ff men,
will only take the trouble to look into this
question of tariff taxation for protection
they are bound to see that it is wrong.
There is no other conclusion possible for
tae fair and intelligent thinker. 1t ia sim
ply levying tax on me to pay you or levy
ing a tax on you to pay me as the case may
be, and it happens SO that through whole
generation the tax rests upon the same
class and another class gets the entire bene-
fit; there is no reciprocity and in the nature
of things cannot be. The protected capital
list says: 81 am tariff man because can
make more money by itv' sit puts more
money in my pocket and therefore I am for
itv The poor man should retort, Sand
am opposed to it because it takes money
out of my pocket instead of putting it in,
and, what is worse, takes it out of mine in
order to put it into yours!"
! There are thousands and tens of thou
sands of the latter class to tens and hun.
dreds of the former, and yet, strange that it
should be true, those who profit and make
fortunes every year when times are prosper
GUS" are able to 80 obscure and confuse the
thought of the working people that they
60 on from year to year voting to perpet-
uate their own hardship; they go on sup.
porting the very methods and systems that
are depressing them"
Mrs. CLEvELAND's HAT.-The WASH
| ington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
says that prior to Mrs. Cleveland's depart
ure for Marion, Mass, to become the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Watson Glider, she invest
ed in new hat, one that was calculated to
stand the wear and tear of travel, and at
the same time becoming to her. 1t was
a soft felt hat, drab in color and alpine in
style. She wore it for the first time the
day the final vote on the tariff bill was
taken in the House. 1t was generally re-
marked that the hat referred to was the
most stylsh-looking piece of headgear the
young mistress of the White House has
| worn since she became "Mrs President.
The young ladies of Washington were not
slew to catch the style set by Mrs. Clsve-
land. and the local milliners are having
quite run on the "Mrs. Cleveland hat"
as it is Familiarity called. At the summer
opera, at lawn tennis gatherings, at the
open-air concerts in the Presidents
grounds, and wherever fashionably dressed
young ladies assemble there will lie found
| the soft felt hat in various colors from the
milky white to the deepest crimson
Blonde Or bruaette can wear one and look
we'll under it, as it invariably gives the
wearer jaunty appearance.
THE AUGUST METEoRs. The August
| nights from the 9th to the 18th will be en-
livened by the display Of meteors which are
| sure to descend through the atmosphere in
greater or less numbers. The meteors, as
is we'll known, come from the great meteor
zone whose perihelion is on the earth's
orbit and whose aphelion extends beyond
the bounds of Neptune, the most distant
planet Id the solar system. The earth,
| about the 10th, plunges through the. zone,
| the meteors are set on fire by the concus-
sion of the earth's atmosphere and descend
in the form of shooting stars. The radiant
point Of the August meteors is in the con-
stellation Perseus, and they are therefore
called Persids. Perseus rises on the 10th
in tho northeast about 9 clock, and obser-
vers who watch the sky 10 that direction
will be rewarded BY the sight of several
hundred meteors as the hours of the night
pass on. Many of them will be brilliant,
and as large as stars of the first magni-
tude, and many Of them will leave trails of
luminous vapor lasting several seconds.
AWFUL TRAGEDY IN ABINGDON RESULT
ING IN THREE DEATHs.-On Saturday week,
an awful tragedy, the result of one mans
being drunk, resulted in three deaths in
Abingdon. On that day John Grayson, aged
% years, son of Col. Jas. Grayson, of Ten.
nessee, went to Abingdon with wagon-load
of whiskey. accompanied by his uncle from
Cut Laruel Gap, N. c., with whom he lived
He became intoxicated and noisy and his
uncle had him put on horse and started him
towards home. Whilst going through the
street, he took ofense at some remark made
to him, whereupon he fourished pistol
and made threats. Lilburn Trigg, oldest
son of Joseph Trigg, Esq, of that place, ex-
postulated with him, and told him that if
he did not put up his pistol and behave, he
would arrest him. Then Grayson shot him,
and the wound resulted in death on Tues
day.
When Grayson was endeavoring to make
his escape, and the citizens were trying to
stop him, some one unknown fired upon
him, inflicting wound from which he died.
When Mrs. Trigg, aged about go years, the
mother of Lilburn Trigg, heard that her
son was shot, she attempted to run to where
be was, when she was Frustrated on the
way by heart-disease and died the next
morning.
HOMICIDE IN NoRFoLK.-About daylight