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rNHE EIGHTEENTH SESSION OF THl

FINHE EIGHTEENTH s E s S I IN OF THE
l. VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND
MECHANICAL COLLEGE will commence on
Thursday, September l2th, 1889. The location of
the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
on the College farm gives superior advantages
to the students in Agriculture.
The machine shop has been greatly enlarged
and new machinery added, offering special in
ducements to the students in mechanics.
Tuition free. Board from IS to 50 per month.
For catalogue and further Information, apply
TO l.. L.. LOMAX, President,
july Tim Blacksburg, w.
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NOTICE.-The undersi gned have associa-
In ted themselves together as partners in
the name and styie OF j. & III. BUMGARDNER,
AttOfneysrat-Law.
We will practice in the courts of the City of
Stanton and the counties of Augusta, Rock
ingham. ckbridge. Highland and Bath. All
law business entrusted TO our care will be
promptly and faithfully attended to.
JAMES BUMGARDNER. JR..
J. LEWIS BUMGARDNER,
July 10-tf
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july ia

CTOUT. ]. r. &c. VS., STOUT, VIM. 1. &c.-In
y pursuance of decree of The Circuit Court
Tor Augusta county. entered in this cause June
9TH 1883, shall proceed. at my Office. In Staun-
ton, on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1889. to
take a further account of the transactions of
the executors of James NJ. Stout. decd. DC. &c.
JOS. A. WADDELL.
July INV Comm'r.
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PATTERSON vs.. HUNT & AIs.-Pursuant
4 to decree of the Circuit Court for Auguta
County. entered in this cause. May 30, 1889,
THURSDAY, AUGUST Is, 1889. to take an ac-
count of any real estate owned by W. D. Ward,
deceased, not disposed of, &C.. &C.; OF the COM
therein; of outsts nding Indebtedness oithe es-
tate Of said Ward. &C., &c.
lUul4t JOS. A. WADDELL, Comm'r.
N. QUARLES e AIS. VS.. WIN. 1. STOUT
~ . ALS.-Pursuant to decree of the Circuit
Court for Augusta County, entered In this
cause. June 6, 1889. shall proceed, at my Office
In Stanton, on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IA,
1889. to take further account of the transac-
lions of the executor of Mrs. Sallie Stout,
decd, &C., &c. JOS. A. WADDELL,
I7july4t Commissioner
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an d
We would remind candid

We would remind candid an d
their friends that all communications in be.
half of candidates are chafgeable. This is the
only way in which newspapers can be protect
ed against a flood OF such communications.
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EyARM AND IMPROVEMENTS
n EfHF< VEE

offer for rent, upon favorable terms, the
Brooke farm upon which I now reside, lying
miles south OfStauntOn on east side of the Lex
ington road, land near joanna Station of Valley
X. r., containing about S75 ACRES of Excel
lent Land, well watered, and considered one
of the best farms in Augusta county.
The imprrovem ents are first class the dwell
Ing being a LARGE DOUBLE BRICK MAN
SION, with number ofout-butldings.
have for sale one Jersey BULL, years
old, and three FRESH JERSEY IILCH
COWS
Apply to
MRS. VIRGINIA B. DONAGHE,
july lO-u Folly Mills.
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Lewiston Home School.

Lewiston Home School" is at Lynnwood on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, Rocking
ham county. and is taught by Miss Elearor G.
Wheat. daughter of Rev. j. C.sWhe D. D.
This school is well patronized by persons in the
Eastern part OF the State as we'll as by those in
the community where located.
A Norfolk patron, who attended the closing
exercises of the last session, furnishes paper
In that city with sketch of his observations
at that time, and says-"From what know of
this school, I would not hesitate to recommend
1t to any one who is seeking q home school for
girls. The training,-moral, intellectual, and
physical-is of the highest order. The number
of pupils being limited, Miss Wheat can give
her personal attention to each and her infu-
ence is felt by ALL"
Miss Wheat is assisted by her father who is
also in that connection remembered by the
| Norfolk writer, In all he said of both and the
merits of the school. there are many in this
| community who sincerely concur with him.
How Reigart and Summons Struck II
Rich
was the remark that Dave Simmons made to 6
Saturday Evening Call reporter. He hostler
| also foreman in the round-house of the Toledo
Peoria and Western Railroad Company. s.
| have invested in The Louisiana State Lottery
since 1875. In 1877 drew prize of $50. In 1873
drew $40; last March IS, and the last drawing
held one-twentieth of ticket 81 ,4I6, that drew
the first capital pIize of 100000, and have re
ceived the amount of $4,000. 1 induced Rel
CART to go in with me, 1--WE each held one-twen
tieth part of ticket No. 5O,4i6) and expect t.
continue Peoria Qll) Saturday Euening Call
| June l.
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WON BORA COLLEGE,
REV. ]. 1. MILLER, Principal,

WON BORA COLLEGE,
REV. 1. MILLER, Principal,
LURAY, VA.
SlS5 90 will pay for board and everything in a
collegiate course, including fuel washing, Mod
ern languages and Instrumental music for
session of nine calendar months. Satisfaction
given in board. instruction. &C., or the money
refunded. Send for catalogue.
july lit
E1ARM FOR SALE.
We offer for sale the farm known as the
"MOORMAN FARM" lying five miles north
of Staunton. near Verona depot, and y mile
from the Valley pike, containing
325 ACRES.
The land is of excellent quality and well wa
tered. There is large BRICK DWELLING,
Stables and necessary outbuildings. 1t is in a
good state of cultivation, yielding abundantly
In all crops; convenient to schools, mill. shops,
&c.
+ We will take pleasure in showing-it TO any
one desiring to purchase. Possession given In
time for fall crops.
JAS. Mop. era WORD,
GEO. 3, CRAWFORD.
ANNIE w. era WORD,
@. ED. CRAWFORD,
o~-25-tf
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Up WILL Go SUGAR.-The combines and
trusts and monopolists don't think much of
Us common people. We were made, &C
cording to their creed, to be squeezed, and
so squeezed We shall be until the utmost
greed of avarice is satisfied.
On the other side Of the East River the
barons ale storing sugar by the ton. Light
ers are busy all the while, and those storage
houses are bursting with tens OF thousands
of barrels and bags of the raw material.
Why is this? Well, for some phil2nthro-
pic purpose, mayhap. Men who cor1er the
necessaries of life are mostly warm hearted
and generous lovers of the poor, areu't
they?
In short time we shall Lear 3 rumor.
The dicky birds will fit here and there and
tell US that Providence has iuterfered with
the sugar crop, that there is no aveetening
to be found anywhere, but that the combine
has just little left which the suffering
public can have at an advance of several
cents pound.
That is the way it has worked before, and
probably it will work so now.
We extend our sympathy to the poor
folk, with the hope that they Ell joy this re-
publican policy. Perhaps, like fish, they
will some time get used to being fried and
The pious Caliph Of Bagdad, Abou Ben
Harrison Ali, and his Grand Viz;er Wana,
maker Pasha, take hold of the offices of
this great country, hire them OFT to the
monopolists and Ali Bahia with the Forty
Thieves, aud then present themselves as
good pure-minded patriots who repeat wise
passages of the Koran every hour in the
day, and say to the fsithful of the G. 0. P.
"Behold, we are destined by the order of
Allah to own all this fair land, aud we are
ordained to be the inspired agents of the
prophet to make the Ignorant bow down
bsfore the power of Doodle. We tax Slaves
100 per cent. for everything they get, and
when the national purse is too full we give
it to Tanner, Bsy, boss Of the Bogus Pen
sion Department When our royal will is
criticised we cry aloud before the people
that rebels shall not control the State, but
that Ali Bahia shall have sway, and Abou
Ben Harrison Ali is the Prophet
Hang your false doctrines of Jefferson,
and let any siave that opposes the sacred
G. O.. P. be bastansd Dec. Rich. Times.
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II Aw SCHOOL
IL WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY,
LEXINGTON, VA,
CHARLES A. GRAVES, NJ. A., B. L., Prof. of
Common and Statute Law.
JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, LII. d. Prof of
Equity and Commercial Law, and OF Con-
stitutio1al and International Law.
Tuition and fees $500 per session for nina
months commencing Sept. IL.
Apply for catalogue and circular.
July lQ-2m
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r E. ARBUCKLE VS.. SILAS FISHERS
cs ADMIR- AND ALS.-Fursuant to q
decree Of the Circuit Court for Augusta coun-
ty entered in this cause May 9th, 1882 L shall
proceed, at my Ofiics, in Staunton, on THURS
DAY, AUGUST 18th, 1889, 10 take accounts of
the estate of Silas Fisher, Decd, OF the out
standing Indebtedness of the estate. &C. &c.
JOS. A. WADDELL,
july 17-4w Comm'r.
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baltimore Livestock 5Sarket. July 20
Beef Cattle.-Priceso Of Beet JattIe ranged as
follows:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
A PROPOSED MEMORIAL.

Governors of the Is Original States Meet
A Request of Congress.
An adjourned meeting of the Governors of
the 10 original states was held in Washington
on Monday to take some decisive action look
ing to the erection in Philadelphia Of suit
able memorial structure commemorative Of
the achievements of this nation during 100
years of independence and constitutional
government. At the meeting In Independ-
ence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1889, the
scope of the enterprise was enlarged, and to
that end the Governors of all the states and
territories of the Union were requested to be
present, either in person or by representa-
tives, and take part in the adjourned meeting
to be held in Washington. In response to
that invitation a large number of the states
and territories were represented.
Gov. Green presided and briefly explained
the objects of the meeting. A bill prepared
by committee appointed for the purpose at
the Philapelphia meeting for presentation to
Congress was read by the secretary and after
several amendments had been made, was
adopted. The bill provides for the appro-
priation by Congress of sum of money, to
be hereafter inserted, for the purpose of
erecting in Paramount Park, in Philadelphia,
on such tract of land as shall be selected by
the committee, provided for in the second
section of the bill, not to exceed ten acres in
extent, title to which shall first have been
vested in the United States, a suitable memo
rial structure which shall be monumental,
and commemorative of
all the great scenes and events
of the nations history during the last
100 years. The second section of the bill
provides that the President of the United
States shall appoint commission, consisting
Of one citizen from each of the several states
and territories, to be nominated by the re-
spectiye Governors thereof, and Ii citizens of
the city of Philadelphia, which commission
shall have full charge of the erection of the
O1nriaI eff Tho rppmhers of this
are to meet in Philadelphia within
10 days from the passage of the act, and give
sufficient indemnity bonds for the faithful
performance of their duties.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
TERRIBLE RUSH FOR LIFE.
Alarm of Fire In q Theatre OF Johns
town, Pa.
Twelve Persons Instantly Crushed to Death
and Probably Thirty Injured.

This city of disasters has another horror.
1t came on Thursday night, and though Its
dead and injured victims do not number
more than so, all told, it came upon them
with even less Of warning or of preparation
than the omens that proceeded the awful
deluge of May 81. Twelve persons ut least
We're killed and over 30 seriously injured as q
result of fire panic at the Johnstown Opera
House, which was opened to the public only
fortnight ago. Stetson's "Uncle Toms
Cabin" was the play, and there was large
audience present, considering the very limit
ed means which Johnstown people now find
at their command for any kind of amusement
purposes.
During the performance the cry of fire was
raised. To people among whom any sud-
den warming might mean so very mueh-to
those who had passed through the flood OF
the country and had not forgotten its horrors
this cry was contagious. 1t spread like
wildtre itself, and was on every lip in an
instant. Terrified and panic-stricken, the
hundreds of people in the audience rushed
over seats, struggling bodies and everything
towards the one means of exit. There, alas,
was only single narrow stairway, and over
one another, headlong and otherwise, the
frightened people tumbIed. regardless of the
consequences.
Nine dead bodies were recovered from the
wreck of the stairs and auditorium, and
dozens upon dozens Of the injured assisted to
doctors offices and drug stores for relief and
restoration. By A. NJ. IL dead bodies had
been counted, and it seemed as If the num-
Der might yet be swelled, possibly doubled.
The number injured had reached over 80,
and there had been as yet only the most SUI
perficial and hasty of searches for either the
rescued or the dead. 1t was found necessary
to turn the stream of water on the crowd
from fire engine standing near before the
dead and wounded could be taken out.
This theatre has always been noted as
but the other one was washed away in the
flood, and this one has been in use. The
manager tried unsuccessfully to quiet the
crowd. One man jumped from the third
story window and was seriously hurt, and
many more would have jumped but for few
lam
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Foreign.

The American legation has decided to de-
mand the trial of Moussa Bey for the murder
of missionary.
There is general printers strike through
out Germany and Switzerland.
The Standard has information that Stanley
will visit the Emperor of Germany In Berlin,
in accordance with the Emperor's Invitation,
Immediately after his return to London.
A dispatch from Lisbon says that Dom
Pedro has engaged rooms at the Hotel Beau
SOjour, at Cannes, and that he will refuse to
abdicate In favor of his grandson. The agent
in London has shipped $4,000 to Rio Janeiro,
which, it is stated, is urgently needed by the
Brazilian government for military purposes.
The Shah of Persia has ordered his min
listers to form a commission to study the laws
of European countries with view to franz
ing the draft of new civil and criminal codes.
He has expressed his willingness to forego
such of his personal prerogatives as the in
terests of his people may require.
A member of the Plantation Company at
Berlin has received a letter from DIR. Peters,
written during his march in the Somai
country. He refers In 1t to q treaty made
with certain Somali emissaries before he left
Win. The recipient of the letter believes
that the treaty lured DIR. Peters to his DOOM
and the emissaries were merely SPIES
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
HOnored.

Old Elder K-was one of the ssodd
sticks" one often heard of in the Con-
necticut Valley half a century ago.
In his younger days he preached the
gospel with great vigor and in man.
ner calculated to strike terror to the
hearts of all evil-doers; but as he grew
older his mental vigor waned with his
physical forces and it began to be
whispered around that Elder k
wasn't ssexactly right" which was a
polite and indefinate way of saying
that his mind was going from him.
He insisted, however, on filling the
pulpit he had so long filled until his
friends were compelled to keep him
away by force.
One Sunday morning, when his sue
cessor was about to begin his sermon,
Elder K-surprised the congregation
by marching down the aisle and up to
the pulpit, where he began haranguing
the congregation, regardless OF the
rights and presence of his scandalized
successor.
Here was dilemma. The four dea-
cons and others of the brethren hastily
consulted together and Elder K
was gently demonstrated with, but all
TO no purpose. lie fatty refused to
leave the pulpit, and kept right on
preaching terrifying sermon.
Finally the four deacons, vigorous
men in spite of their years, walked
into the pulpit, seized the struggling
and rebellious elder, and started out
with him on their shoulders. When
half way down the aisle, he still further
scandalized the congregation by bawl.
ing out satirically:
''How much better, after all, am /
treated than my blessed Master, for he
had but one ass ON which to ride, while
| have four! Hallelooyer!"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
ELOPED WITH A BARTENDER.
A Daughter OF Gen. Sickles Forms a
Mesalliance.

Thomas Denham and Miss Alta Sckles of
New Rochelle eloped and were married at
White Plains. n. Y, by Rev. V. b. Van
Kleck, pastor of Grace Episcopal Church.
Miss Sickles is the daughter of Gen, Daniel
Sickles and granddaughter Of George E.
Sickles, who died at New Rochelle about
three years ago, leaving an estate valued at
about $4,000, 900. She Is Is years old, and
was recently graduated from Catholic con-
vent at Montreal. Dinham is about IS years
old, and is employed as bartender at New
Rochelle. The young couple first went to
Rev. FIR. Dunphy, pastor Of st. Johns Roman
Catholic Church i'm White Plains.
When FIR. Dunphy was informed that the
intended bride was a daughter of Gen,
Sickles, he refused to perform the ceremony.
The couple then called on Mr.. Van Kleck.
Dinham said nothing about an elopement,
and did not mention the fact that FIR. Dun
ply had refused to marry them. Dominic
Van kleck asked the usual questions, and
then performed the ceremony. Dinham
slipped a So bill in the dominie's hand and
departed with his bride. The bride IL
daughter of Gen. Sickles by his second wife,
whom he married in Spain when he was APP
pointed minister to that country by Presi-
dent Grant. She made the acquaintance of
young Dinham while visiting her grand
fathers homestead. For some time while
she was in the Montreal convent she kept up
correspondence with Dinham.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
A VICTIM OF ELECTRICITY,
A New York Lineman Meets Death on q
Electric Light Wire.

A New York I.ineman Meets Death on an
Electric Light Wire.
Another death by contact with electric light
wires occurred in New York few days ago,
strongly resembling in its details the horrible
killing of Lineman Feeks some weeks ago,
hneman by the Northern New York Electric
Lighting Company, climbed pole at Third
avenue and 156th street to do some repair
ing. A few moments later little girl play
ing on the sidewalk heard a kissing noise
above her, and looking up, she saw Clausen
lying across two wires, with a blush light
shooting from his right hand and his head
Her cries quickly brought crowd to the
scene, and several policemen set about extri-
eating Clausen's body from the wires. The
pole is within reach of station of the ele-
waited road, and the rescuing party operated
from the platform of the station.
A rope was thrown around Clausen's
body, but so strong was the grip which held
him to the wires that it could not be loosened
While pulling on the rope Thomas Smith, a
driver, who had volunteered to aid the
officers, touched the body, and received 8
shock which knocked him senseless. Finally
an officer cut one of the wires with an axe,
and the body was then easily removed. A
physician examined the body and pronounced
life extinct. The right hand and arm almost
to the elbow was mass OF charred flesh, and
there was a deep burn under the chin. The
body rested across two electric light wires on
the bottom cross-arm of the pole. There was
a cross-arm above bearing q number of tele-
graph wires. just how Causen met with
his fatal mishap is not known,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19

-
A well-known story tells of a farmer
going to a lawyer, and mentioning that
his bull had gored the lawyers OK; on
which the lawyer says, very smartly:
"Oh, then, you must make compensa-
ton" Presently the farmer recollects
himself, and states: 81 made mistake
it was your bull which gored my
OK" whereupon the lawyer adds:
"Ah, that is quite another thing; l
must inquire into it," Now, it is gen.
orally thought that this story is CAPT
tai satire on the generation of lawyers,
as placing one in a position of being
willing to take that reparation which
he was not willing to give.
But question may be raised, by one
who is no lawyer, on the validity of this
supposition. The second report of the
farmer was quite another thing from
the first. In the first, he made a con-
fession. which implied, if he was an
honest man, that he was ready to make
compensation. In the second, he APP
pears in the totally opposite character
of a pursuer or accuser. He brings a
charge against the lawyer, which as yet
Ttsls OILY Oh his OWL worn. ne
lawyer was not obliged to rest satisfied
in this case, with the same evidence
which he was content with in the other.
When the farmer came as an accuser,
his own allegation was just the worst
evidence that could be had, or rather
was no evidence against the lawyer at
all. 1t was absolutely necessary that
some inquiry should be made before
the lawyer could be sure that he was
really liable for damages; and none
but fool would have acted otherwise
than he did.
The popular mind, which has hither-
to received the story without challenge,
appears to have been imposed upon by
an apparent parallelism in the positions
of the farmer and lawyer, which does
not exist. There is not the least reason
in the story for doubling that the law
yer was as willing to make reparation
as he was to receive it, when satisfied
that the fact was such as to establish a
claim against him.