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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-06

A CARD.-Welearn that there is an IMPRESSION
among some of our old friends and pa
irons that our Mr.. II. r. MILLER has retired from
the business of manufacturing Gentemens I'm
derwear. This impression is created doubtless by
an INGENIOUS ADVERTISEMENT sent out through
the mail of the old shirt books and measures sold
by the trustee of the late VIM. Mitchell & Co.
We will state that the trustee wanted to sell us
those books but we did not want them, nor did
we need them at any price, What we want is
your esteemed orders, NOT YOUR MEASURE, and
if we don't please and suit you it is fault not
yours
We are deeper in the business than ever before
and with greater facilities every way, and await
YOUR esteemed fayors.
H. T. MILLER & BRO,
formerly II. T. Miller & Co.,
Manufacturers Miller's Acme Shirt
anr12 and Drawer
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CITY NOTICES.

Try the BlSsELL CHILLED PL0W, satisfaction
guaranteed by BAKER & BROWN.
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Terrible.

Sold by DIR. N. WAYT & BRO, Staunton. Va.
sept I'm
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BUSINESS INDEX.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
merchants Of Augusta county, Va, have placed
vertsed in this ISSUE and take pleasure in offer
ing the same under one of the most liberal and
convincing guarantees that was ever placed be-
fore the general public
These merchants are the leading and most en-
terprisng citizens in dissection; they are in the
full enjoyment of honorable regulations in the
sphere of commerce and their endorsement and
guarantee cannot but convince the most skeptical.
WHOLESALE
N. N TO ton,
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ESTABLISH 1882.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-06

Through tickets and baggage checked to any
destination. Apply to any c. & 0. Ticket Agent
for full information and tickets.
j. I. HARAHAN, HI. w. FULLER,
Gent Manager. Genl Pass'r Agent.
july II
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-06

Nm. 6.-Leaves Clifton Forge daily $50 a. M;
arrives at Richmond 800 p m.
No. 5-Connects at Charlottesville Junction
with trains for North and South.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01

instant and which stated that Professor
Davidson, out in Queensland. had seen q
new comet with the naked eye.
Confirmation of this report was re-
ceived on the Goth instant from Professor
Richards, of Cambridge, who stated that
IL was moving at the rate OF about 3 de-
vrees day. From this IL is supposed that
the comet must he near the earth, for the
nearer the earth they are the more rapidly
they appear TO move. Professor Hall thinks
there Is no doubt but that the comet ~ IN
our sky az present, and he thinks 1t could
be discerned easily with the naked eye
were 1t not for the cloudy condition of the
atmosphere.
I'm regard 10 tho report that there is no
tail 20 the comet, Professor Hall says that
even il this were true IL would be no I'M
common occurrence; but he doubts the
correctness of the report. and thinks that
it has tail probably about three degrees
in length. As comets are rarely discovered
in the southwest there are few comet
seekers there, and il is probably on this
account that IL was first seen with the
naked eye.
1.-THE comet can be seen with the naked
eve on a clear night any time between the
hours of and 10, and. with the aid OF u
pair Of good opera-g glasses, can be seen to
better advantage by casual observer than
IL he should look through the great nine
inch telescope at the observatory"
How helpless man is, after al his great
achievements.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
The Cincinnati Rebellion"

A southerner cannot help making sur
mise as to what would have been the
tone of the northern Republican papers
on the subject had any southern city
shown so rebelllous a spirit as was mani
tested in Cincinnati last week. 1t was
really threatened rebellion. True, the
sober, second thought came to the relief
of the would-be rebels" and most of
them concluded TO play a different role
but all the same at the meeting OF last
week hundreds of the saloon-keepers Of
Cincinnati assembled in public meeting
and declared it to be their purpose to keep
their saloons open on Sunday III defiance
of the law and its officers.
Had such a meeting been held in New
Orleans the northern Republican papers
would have filed their columns with arti-
cles going to show that the southern peo-
pie were still rebels at heart and ought not
TO be intrusted with the election of men,
bers of the national House of Representa-
tiyes. Such a meeting would have been
rolled under the tongue of FUssT FORAKER
as a sweet morsel. lie would have fired
the hearts of the old soldiers in Ohio aud
made them believe that the Union was
again in danger. 1t is fortunate. there
fore, for the Democratic party and for
the country that the latest whiskey re-
bellion occurred where it did. 1t would
have been misfortune if it had occurred
in southern city, for its extent and mag
nitude would have been so exaggerated by
the malignants of the Republican party
that harm would certainly have resulted.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
THURSDAY. .......AUGUST l. 1889
Tha ArnOrY Hall

I. would be a great blunder for our city
fathers to refuse TO grant the use OF the
Armory 20 the Convention which Is to
meet in Richmond week after next. IL
would be one Of those blunders which are
called crimes. There is no other hall in
this city which is Of a capacity sufficient
20 accommodate comfortably the numerous
delegates who are expected TO attend that
convention.
The State Executive Committee met here
few weeks ago, and when the question
was raised rs to where the convention
should be held the whole body assumed as
If il were a settled matter that Richmond
was the proper place. They also paid this
city the high compliment Of taking 1t for
granted that she would not only secure
hall suitable for the convention to meet in,
but would furnish the music, print the tick
cts, and do all that she could TO render the
representatives Of the people as comfort
able as possible during their stay here.
Norfolk or Lynchburg or Petersburg would
even now Jump at the opportunity which
Richmond seems disposed to throw away.
Again: The number of delegates was
Fixed with an eye 10 the ability OF Rich
mond TO provide a hall for them to meet
In. This was another compliment TO this
city and a recognition Of the fact that she
Is the capital of the State.
Under these circumstances Richmond is
bound by courtesy, by duty, by good
faith, by n regard for her reputation for
hospitality, to throw open the doors of the
Armory 10 the State Convention. If there
ever was case of nOblcsSe Oblige this IS
one.
What is the objection? The Armory was
occupied 10y Mr.. MOODY, by Mr.. WHARTON,
by the Knights of Labor. Why shall 1t not
lie occupied by the approaching Demo-
cratic State Convention? The only an
swer is, Because this convention will be a
political assemblage. We submit that that
is not sufficient objection. The people
who paid for that hall are almost all of
them Democrats. The Council Is Demo-
cratic body. the white military are almost
all of them Democrats. The taxpayers of
Richmond desire the Armory to be opened
to the convention. We repeat that not to
open it would be criminal blunder-a
laundering crime.
But the Republicans may some day ask
for the use of the Armory. SO be it. 1t
will be time enough when the question
comes up TO decide whether they shall have
ii or not. Possibly the circumstances
which will then exist may make it proper
TO allow them to use the Armory.
But let all this be as it may, it is too late
for Richmond to disappont the Demo
cratic people of Virginia. We dislike to
mention such consideration, but We will
nevertheless say in conclusion that her re-
fusal to open the Armory to them would
cost her many thousands Of dollars.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
nanI.rupt Law-state E.emptIon..

| To ne EditOr OF ne fhEpdlch'
In a communication published in your
paper last week | stated that one Of the
chief objections to national bankrupt
law consisted OF the inequality OF exemp,
tions which resulted from 10 by reason OF
the difference in the exemptions under the
laws of the several States. Thereupon you
submitted the query whether or not Con
gress did not under the Constitution make
bankrupt laws uniform in their effect.
Bv reference to the Constitution we find
that the Congress shall have power =
TO establish an uniform rule of naturaliza.
ton and uniform laws on the subject OF
bankruptcies throughout the United
States. - Constitution United SiIies, Article l.,
section 9. Hc5n 4.
Nv reference to the bankrupt act OF
1867. as amended June 9, 1879, we find O
portion Of section II treating of exemp-
tons, 70 read:
And such other property not included
in the foregoing exceptions "-reterring &c
the $500 and other smaller exemptions
"as is exempted from levy and sale upon
execution and other process or order OF
any court, by the laws OF the state IN
which the bankrupt has his domlclle at the
time of the commencement OF the pro-
ceedings IN bankruptcy, 10 an amount not
exceeding that allowed by such state cX-
emption laws in force in the year 1871"
Your question was most pertinent and
puZZlinC one. and now. after my position
is sustained by the letter OF the statute
You may inquire again with pertinency
whether the courts sustain the validity OF
this statute, because obviously IN its effect
q want Of uniformity prevails.
And in reply 10 this have 70 state that
the courts have sustained ITS validity. The
Interpretation seems to be - uniformity Is
required in the national legislation only,
and the laws of the several States NAV be
left in force so long and 90 such extent as
Congress may see fit."-D0y cS. BGrdireH
8 b. r. Us BANKRUPT Ke9,sieTl.
I imagine that under the Constitution
Congress would have the power to make
the laws uniform in this respect. They
have not done so. and constituted as Con
gress is il is hardly to be expected that II
will do so.
You will observe that the same clause OF
the Constitution affects the laws Of IA
turaliZation Of citizens, and vet the seYe-
raj States impose very different QIalifica-
tons upon the naturalized voter
70 return to the objections 20 another
bankrupt law: Does commercial com
muuitv-docs any communication the
adoption of a law that will increase the eX
emptions from debt that now prevail |.
il not lust TO say that these large exemp
tion laws hamper tho prosperity of enter
prses conducted by men Of moderate caDl
td-men to whom credit Is an essential:
G..
"G." misses the point we intended t.
make-namely, that Congress has entire
control over the matter, and has power tC
pass a bankrupt law which will pay no re-
spect 10 State exemptions.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
THE SOUTH SIDE.
TREMENDOUS RAlNs-THE APPoMAT-
IOX RISING.
Another Flood Expected-Poiitical Notes
Failed to Agree on Verdict
Other News.
,corr,qpondcnco Of rho Richmond Dispatch.I

PETFrsBuRG, Va, July 81, 1889.
A tremendous fall Of rain occurred here
to-day, and there were heavy showers yes
terday and during last night. As conse-
ouence the AppOmattoX river IS rising
rapidly. The water has already reached
the level of the wharves and the prospect
ia that we shall have another damaging
food. telegram WAS received here from
Farmvillc about midday announcing that
the river at that point was very high and
rising very fast. which of course indicates
a heavy fresh here. The proprietors Of
the warehouses and other buildings on
the wharf have been busy during the day
making preparatiOns for the expected
food. and will not be caught, as many OF
them were caught by the former flood.
The small streams in this vicinity were
greatly swollen by the heavy rains OF last
night and to-day. Nothing has been heard
from the rivers in the SOuthsde section,
but if the rains Of the last two or three
DAYS were as heavy generally as they we're
here damaging frcshets may be expected.
Along the low-gr0unds adjoining these
rivers the farmers in many places nave hhd
10 plant Their corn three times. Another
overflow would destroy this crop almost
entirely in low-grounds.
Colonel James y. Brady, the new col
lector Of internal revenue, returned from
WASHINGTON TINS morning. liz return
caused a good deal of activity among the
applicants for the Offices at his disposal:
Ii is said that the Colonel found a good
many letters of application awaiting his
consideration. His appointments have not
vet been made public beyond the two or
three already mentioned in the Dispatch.
The Jury in the case of the colored man
Briggs rs. the Norfolk and Western rail-
road, a suit for damages for injuries sus-
tanned, failed to agree on a verdict this
morning aud were discharged. The case
has occupied the attention Of the Hastings
Court all this week. II is understood that
the Jury stood seven for damages and tyc
for the defendant company. There are
one or two more suits for heavy damages
on the docket of the court for trial at tins
term.
The mailing clerk in the Petersburg
post-oflice. Mr.. J. W. Hawkins, has held
that position for twenty-five years, under
all the different administrations OF That
period.
The ruling Of the Post-Oflice Department
restricting the ages of applicants Tor posi-
tions in the postal service from eighteen to
thirty-five wears viii cut down the list of
candidates for Office here very materially.
The internal revenue collections at tins
Office during the month Of July were ST.
942.s5. The exports of manufactured to-
bacco for the month were 1865 pounds.
ROBIN AD4IR.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
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/ be assured Of. Come early and attend this Ez-
traordiHary sale AZ
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COG BROAD STREET.
liz 2S-Su. Tu&fhl
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
The Waather.

The New York Herald undertakes TO give
n clue TO the extraordinary weather Of the
present season, but it's explanation is not
satisfactory. Barometric observations
taken 10y Captain NKRRIEs, of the steamer
Neustria, chow that in crossing the ocean
from Gibraltar by the route running south
of tue Azores 20 New York the mean
barometric pressure on board the Neustria,
between the twentieth and ffty-second
meridiAns of longitude. exceeded 1920
inches for a whole week. The Herald re-
marks that this unusually high air-pressure
continuing over an ocean expanse of 1000
miles demonstrates the existence Of vast
aerial wave of high pressure everything the
central Atlantic; but then the weather
problem is not solved. The natural in
quiry follows, What causes this unusually
high air-presure The Herald is a joins
comforter. II says:
This process will probably go on until
the great Atlantic air-waye swings towards
the equator. Then our continental storms
Will pursue eastcTly tracks, and will draw
down upon US more of the cool, dry air of
British America. We cannot, however
expect a reversal of the present condi-
tons till toward the middle or last OF next
month"
Perhaps the new comet Affects the
weather of this planet. SHAKESPEARE makes
the Duke Of Bedford exclaim-
"Cpmets. importing caango Of times and
states,
Brandirh your crystal u esses In The sky.
And with tasm scoafxe Tho Dad. revolving
ft1re
That bare consented unto Henry's death"
News has reached Washington Of comet
In tile southwestern sky. but the weather
had been so bad up to Tuesday night as 10
prevent il from being seen. The Post says:
Professor Hall said that the first news
they hid received OF its existence was in .
dispatch which came 70 hand on the 2lst
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
Rismarck,s NEGOTIATION

Il has been suggested as a reason why
BISMARCK may succeed in bringing about
friendly understanding between Russia
and Austria that such an understanding
would help those two Powers on their re-
spective roads to ConstantinOple and Salo-
Mica. That Vienna covets Salonica almost as
much as Russia covets COnstantinople IS
generally conceded, and some European
map-mskers long ago partitioned Turkey
and the Balkins between Russia and Austria
on about the 2lth degree of longitude east
from Greenwich. This would be the natural
geographical division, relatively speaking.
But the partition is far, very far, in the flu
ture Whatever might be the ambition OF
the House of Hapsburg, Vienna is not Aus
tria-Hungary, and the indications are
that il will be "A long time be-
fore the Hungarians. the dominating
element in the dual monarchy, can be
brought to consider the possession OF
Salonica compensation for the seating OF
the Muscovite on the Bosphorus and the
Dardancllcs. The Magyar leaders are firm
in their conviction that until the pOpula-
tion of the monarchy becomes sufficiently
homogeneous to be proof against the
dangers of Pan-Slavism territorial ex-
tension would be hazardous ex-
pertinent. They see in the present ter
ritorial limits of the monarchy and i'll the
maintenance Of the pledges of the Berlin
treaty IN respect of the Balkan States the
only guarantee for Austro-IIungarian au-
tonomy. An extension southwark III the
near future, even by agreement with Rus
STA, woudinvolve il multiplied form all the
danger the Magyars feared from the an
nexation of Bosnia aud Herzegovina 1t
would incorporate into the monarchy an
additional pro-Russian element and thus
afford Russia an opportunity for breaking
faith. which she would not hesitate TO
seize. 1t would be of piece with Rus
sian policy TO endeavor to hoodwink
FRANCIS JOSEPH into an agreement having
ultimately in view the partition named,
but il would also be of piece with her
policy to take advantage Of that agree
ment in way that would weaken
Austria and prevent her from securing her
portion of the spoils. This none under
stand better than the Hungarians. 1t is
therefore reasonably sale to assume that
whatever else may be the result of Bis
MARCK's negotiations no understanding
looking to o new map of Turkey and the
Balkans will be arrived at if the Magyar
can prevent it.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01
Railroad Accidents

Some one has sent US marked copy OF
the Roanoke Times containing the report of
the Bedford grand Jury declaring the Nor
folk and Western Railroad Company free
from blame in the matter of the terrible
accident which recently occurred near
Thaxton. We have already published that
report and we have no prejudices against
railroad companies; but we cannot refrain
from saving that such accidents ought not
10 be possible, and that railroad travelling
will continue to be dangerous so long as
they are possible. If culyert that was
built thirty-seven years ago, and winch
had annually been examined for the last
several years by experts, became an easy
prey TO the angry waters, that TACT proves
that railroad officials ought not to trust
any part of its road-bed to the ravages OF a
storm and then run trains over 1t without
having first learned what sort of track lies
in front of the engine. There is no substl-
tute for track-walkers.
The evidence showed that the train was
run slowly. SO far so good. But the very
fact that the conductor and engineer
scented danger ought to have resulted In
something better than such Stacking OF
speed as removed hardly an element OF
peril. Passengers trust their lives to the
railroad officials. They know nothing
whatever as 10 the dangers that surround
them. They see satisfaction and content
on the faces Of all ON the train, and 1t IS
natural for them to forget that there isany
danger. But no railroad company ought TO
construe such conduct into desire TO run
the gauntlet Of untold horrors hidden in the
darkness Of night. Eternal vigilance Is the
price OF safety on railroad trains.
We intend these remarks 20 be rather as
Of general than of special application. We
do not suppose that the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad Company differs from other
companies in rules and regulations intend
ed TO secure tho safety of the travelling
,,uiltc
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-01

So far the summer here has lot been es-
pecially remarkable for its high tempera-
lures, but from Europe we get different
story. Even the inhabitants of Russia and
all Northern Europe have been suffering
from intense heat. The records Of the
Central Observatory at st. Petersburg show
that since l774 there has not been such a
high temperature at corresponding time
OF the year.--Aele York Stn.