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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
Young Murderer.

Ga last Wednesday, in Clayton county.
Iowa, Wesley Elkins, aged II years, muir
dered his father and stepmother. He was
arrested on suspicion, and on Saturday con-
fessed his guilt to Judge Hatch as follows:
"Hs had had some difficulty with his
father. The night Of the murder hs slept
in the barn. Bet ween aud O'Clock he
got up and went into the house and took
down q rifle which was hanging i'll tho
kitchen, loaded it AID went into tho room
where his father and mother and sister
were sleeping. 81 placed the muzZe Of
the rifle near my fathers head" he says,
ssand sent bullet through his brain. This
frightened my mother aud she arose, and
knowing that was discovered | went into
the kitchen, seized club, went back into
the bedroom and killed ny mother. stay
ed around the house about thirty minutes
and then decided 20 arouse the neighbors.
I toek the baby from the bed, where it had
lain between It's dead mother and father,
took it into the adjoining bedroom, reniov-
ed it's bloodstaincd clothing, and with it in
my arms went to a neighbours and related
the crime that had been mmitted, but
shielded myself. am guilty of the crime"
DEATH FROM INTERNATIONALLY
Raleigh, n. c., correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispat h, under date of July 9th,
says -
"A fearful death is reported from Meek
lenburg county today. Cora Heron, aged
twelve years, was bitten by a mad-dog
about three weeks ago. The maidstone was
applied but had no effect Ths first symp-
tom of faaiiu! death was slight head
ache, which gradually increased in severity
until she fell into commissions towards the
end. She drani- no water for two days
previous to her death. If water was
mentioned in her presence she would APP
pear to be suffocated and gasp for breath.
If glass of water were held before her she
wonld go into commissions. During these
she would foam al the mouth and snap her
teeth after the fashion OF dog. Her faith
or, a strong man, held her with her arms
pinioned under his during the last three or
four agonzed hours of her life until her
limbs relaxed, and he knew that she was
dead.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

The residents of Swoyers Hill, few miles
above Wilkesbarra, Pa, were greatly
alarmed Saturday morning by the settling
of large area over the workings of Enter
prise Gallery. A considerable number of
dwellings are located on the disturbed tract
but SO far the only dwellings injured are
those of George Eicke, Peter Newman and
Michael Welsh. The cause of the settling
of surface is supposed to be the removal Of
too large proportion of coal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Two hundre men CT Wilson county,
Tenn, have banded together for the pur-
pose of driving from the county Mormon
elders and converts who have Interrupted
religious meetings and used insulting Ian
guage.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

During row in the town of Barkersville,
N. c., Mr.. Will Clapp, formerly deputy U.
s. marshal, made an attempt to part Che
combatants and was literally cut to pieces.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

There are in the treasury vaults at Wash
ineton pretty nearly pint of diamonds and
ether precious stones that were presented
to various Presidents by admiring friends.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

The saloon keepers of Cincinnati under
took to keep open their places Sunday in
defiance of the law against selling liquor on
Sunday and about $50 were arrested. Two
or three riots occurred in the section known
as "Oyer the Rhine"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

%yOUNG ffug;SES. FOR SALE ATT
HIGHLAND l-jjRF.-Wil be offered
ibticly at sale al tn 'ugnst term of High
! l1d County ca" q -. 81 lot OF voting
horses ranging 's,n 10 ) Years old. Terms
made to suit purchasers
tuly "a SITS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

ESCAPE OF PRIsoNERs.-OuF Friday night
q week, three colored prisoners made their
escape from the Jail Of Allegheny county
in Covington-G Thompson alias Clar-
ence Harris, convicted of petty larceny and
sentenced for 60 days; Chapman Dickinson,
sentenced for one year for housekeeping
and larceny; and Lewis w. Smith charged
with petty larceny. The jailor, Mr. Brown,
offers a record CT $40 each for their capture.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Mr.. G. P. Huntington has sold 100, 900
shares of common stock of the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad for $4,000, 900, and it is
understood that the Vanderbilts are the
purchasers and that tho Chesapeake 81
Ohio will be operated in connection with
the recently organized Cleveland, Cuoin-
natl, Chicago and st. Louis road as one
system as rival of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Ia Richmond, Sunday, John A. Conner
ty made desperate ATTEMPT 10 cut the
throat of his wife, who is the daughter OF
Mr.. Carroll Failing in that, hs slashed
his own throat from cal {, ear with q razor
and died saon after, Conuefty was an iron
worker, about thirty yaaes old. Being a
drinking man, be did pot support bis fam
lily well, and his wife and two littla children
lived with Mr. Connerty's parents
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

John +. Schanlan, friend of the late
DIR. z. II. Cronin, Of Chicago, is quoted as
saying that he believes Clan ma. Gael men
are gathering at Winnipeg, Manitoba, PIE
pared tc assassinate Martin Burke in the
event IF his extradition in order to prevent
his retnrn to Chicagn, in the belief that he
you'd mako confession of tho plot 10 mur
der Dr.. CIonin il he should fall into The
hands Of tho Chicago authorities.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
VOTING IN THE SOUTH.

You ash me about voting in the South,
and tell ou honestly it is very much like
voting here at the North. Many elections
pass of very quietly and no one tries to
boss his ',eighbor's vote. Then again
there is Us ghty struggle, and the price of
vote jumps up. You know how it is here
when the ! roprietors of the great factories
go among heir operatives and iu one way
and another try to make their employees
vote as theie employers wish them to vote.
You kucw how it is out West when man
like Dudley issues an order that they must
be taken ii blocks Of five. Well, human
nature is al lut the same 10 The South IS it
is in the North, and the average politician
down there does not any more search the
sacred Scp.i ptures or hold prayer-meeting
to secure D vine guidance as to the means
to be used il carrying an election than you
do up here am not talking as to how it
ought to be doee or as to how it will be
done when ne millennium comes, but as to
how it is ''ie in this day of sin and sin
nerS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

a F. Crutchfeld, editor of tho "Balti-
morean," is dead. He was native OF
Richmond, and was connected with the
newspaper business in Virginia for many
years. His gen;a! disposition and goodness
of heart made him friends wherever he was
known and his death is regretted By wide
circle OF friends in Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Prof J. w Howell, we'll. known edoca-
tor of Rntledge, Tenn, is dying of hydro
pbobia. he sas bitten thirteen years ago
by black ami sss1 teri ;ef.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Roku i,l9se* ,. NoKTH R.y&e DIsre -
Atthe ast e i. Il lie CoRi,:y .'.'ur 'li g
stou. arpoiil.s. ieorge E. Duai'I Read Diieo-
Tor f;;r tiaal district.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
Observation-Disclosures did not Increase.

Many mechanics and laboring men were
deceived during the last Presidential 'elec-
ton by the specious arguments and poiu as
sertions of the Republican press and can
vassers that the wages of labor wouid III
crease on the installation into power oil the
Republican party. In this they have oeeh
greatly disappointed. As the Richmond
Slate says, "Harrison was Installed IN ONCE
with regal pomp on the 4th of March. But
on the day after the pageantry, "times" in
stead of getting better, began to grow
worse. The business of the country had
been good and wages had been good beyond
precedent during Cleveland's term oil OIL
fee. Every wise wage-wcrker had SAID
eve are satisfied; we will lot woll enough
alone. If there is to be permanent I'M
proyement in the condition of the toilers
we will look to the Democratic party 10
bring it about.
In March trade began TO decline, and al
through the spring the papers told Oh th'
shuttine-down Of mills and of the increas
ing number of men out of employment
To-day, instead Of the wsge-worker IL
Virginia who voted the Republican ticke
receiving better wages, he receives, as
rule, lower wages, Times are not as goo'
with him as they were. He finds that III
was deceived; that be made serious mis-
take.
We are to have an election in Virgin;
next fall, and those Democrats who vote'
the Republican ticket last November De
cause they thought that By so doing the.
would better their earning power Will o
very apt to return to the old party-th
party of their r cal choice. 1t will be easie
to return now than year hence"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
july Std


EDMUND PENDLETON,
S. II. LETCHER,
july Sl-tds Comm'rs of Sale,
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
Staunton, Va, July q, 1889.
Peck's Admir- vs. Borden &c,
and
Borden and ais VS.. Borden's Admir- sc.
All parties interested in the foregoing causes
pending in the Circuit Court of Augusta coun-
ty, will TAKE NOTICE. that have fixed upon
The nth DAY OF AUGUST, NEXT, to state
the several accounts required by decree Of ref
erence entered therein. on the lst day of July,
1889.
The principal object of this reference is. to
ascertain the available fund in these causes
coming to the heirs of John and Jacob Borden
dec'd for distributions; who the said heirs are,
aud the amount coming TO eseh Also to re-
port the amount that should be paid to Mesrs.
f c. Elder and Robert STILES out of said
funds for profess oual services rendered &c.
JOHN NJ. KINNEY.
July q 4w Commr.
Vim. copy 4w.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

SOAP AND STARCH Z h l i5'4 IL
Large Quantities, for sale ny
july3 EAKLE, SPITLER & CO
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

CTOUT'S EXECUTORS VS.. SMITHS AD--
y MINISTRATOR AND ALS.-Pursuant
to decree of the Circuit Court for Augusta Co.,
entered in this cause June 9th, 1857, shall
proceed, at my office, in Staunton, on WE'D
NESDAY, AUGUST 2lst, 1899, to take an &C.
count of the assets of the estate of Overton
Smith, decd, of the debts against the said es-
tate, and of the transactions of T. r. N. Speck
as Sheriff admi nistrator.
Jos. A. WADDELL,
july z-4t Commr.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
Malone,

Billy Malone, of Virginia, is one of the
happiest men in the country. He has sue
ceeded in getting the Republican National
Committee to take hand in the political
muddle in his State, and the result is that
Malone is more firmly seated as the Re
publican boss in that State than ever
This result was not, however, obtained
without an effort, how great an effort may
be Judged from the fact that the sub-com-
mittee of the National Committee, compos-
ed of Messrs. Quay, Dudley, Clarksop,
Fessenden and Hobart. was in continuous
session one entire day and night, and after.
wards had long consultation with Mr..
Harrison. The only thing that the anti
Mahoneites gets far as can be seen on the
surface, is share of some Federal offices
in the State, and some are uncharitable
enough to say that is about all they want
ed. At any rate the decision of the Com
mittee IN Mahone's favor was closely fol-
lowed by the appointment of Col. j. ID.
Brady to be Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Second District of that State. His
salary will be 81, 500 year, which is not to
He accepts the situation and said in an in
terview in Washington that Malone could
have the nomination for Governor if he
wanted it.
The Virginia Republican Convention viii
be held at Norfolk, August 22ud, and Ma
hone, we think, will be the NOMINEES. He
certainly will be if he wants it, for witt
the G. o. p. in Virginia Billy is yet supreme
i-Greenbrier (W. Va.) Independent
A VERY BIG IF.-''If now tho plair
meaning of their terms shall be carried out
| If there is no attempt at sharp practice
| if the United States marshals and collectors
of internal revenue shall keep their hands
| off, and allow fair and honest expression
of the will of the people in the election o
delegates, and the action of the convention
harmony will be restored, and united eff
fort put forth to elect the nominees of til;
State convention. There mus. be fairness
all around. The manipulation and bull
dozer must forsake his calliDg-the trick
ster and liar must consider himself out of &
Job for this canvas at least, and purpost
be manifested to respect republican senti
ment and fair and manly politics. Will
these conditions observed the republican,
will elect the governor aud carry the legis
lature. '-Valley Virginian.
Our contemporary ensconces itself behln'
a very big eff" Malone is low in ful
power and has the federal administrator
and the National committee behind him. l
is an irresistible conclusion, therefore, tina
nearly all the delegates to the State con
vention will belong to the Malone band o
willing workers, and will again crown thei
king as lord of all. The old plau of organi
cation " ill be re-adopted and all the part.
machinery will be placed in the hands O
Malone. The kIckers will have to take
back seat and the bull dozers and the mani
pulators and the tricksters and the liars t.
whom the Virginian has alluded will, lik
bloody treason, triumph over them.
And if this be the case, what will tn
Firginian and the kickers do about it?-
Danville Register.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Y err, Alexander & ais. VS.. Kerr, James T. &
~ als.-Pufsuant to decree of the Circuit
Court for Augusta county, entered in this
cause June 9th 1889, shall proceed, at my
office, In Staunton, on TUESDAY, AUGUST
Goth, 1889. to take account of the transactions
of u. NJ. Kerr administrator of Joseph Kerr,
decd, and of the distribution of the estate of
the said Joseph Kerr.
JOS. A. WADDELL.
july A-4w Comm'r
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
TIE COLoRED MANS FRIEND.

do not peak as a party man, but as
one who is honestly looking to the good of
the whole r>1ple-ooored as we'll as white.
You may 50 that 1 am less concerned
about the celored folk than you are, but
you are ns ken as to that. With no de-
sire to boas-, ell you that ana doing the
best ! caA 0 elevate the colored people,
and thousands more Of the white people of
the South are doing far more than | am
Doing, for hey have more ability than |
have with which to help.
If you aal; ne who are the real enemies
Of the nsgs. l reply-every man, woman,
and child V seeks to keep up this war Of
races. WlHever helps to widen the breach
between thu races by incorporating the
true condiii.lA of affairs in the South is an
enemy to bafh races and deserves the coz
tempt OF both alike.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

State of Virginia, County Of augusta SIS:
l, II. A Walker Cashier of the above
named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best any knowledge
and belief.
IT. A, WALKEe'i ASHER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2Qth
day of July, 1879.
W, \. BURNETT,
Notary Public
COrrect--Attesi:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

WIANTED-BY A LADY OF REFINE
w MENT-Employment as Com panion,
Teacher in a family of small children or in
any capacity where lady can make herself
useful. Address MISS B. e.,
No. Is, Raphine, Rockbridge Co., Va.
iuly 81 At
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

This negro problem is a bigger thing
than uany Of you think for, and it's solu-
ton is 30 b.. a thing of the ages. Unless
you ara wilih-: to come South and person
ally Icok aiiar this people you had better
trust to the rue Christian psople of the
South to do the best they can, without be-
ing suspected and lectured and msrepre-
sente1 as n heir aims and purposes. We
sought the -. Of the colored people be-
fore even ynu look them in. hand. When
you marched into Richmond in 1865 you
found 6. 900 a.,ored people church members
in that city, :. ach then had but 10000 iu-
habitants FIR thirty years before you
came Dr.. Ry's nd, cur college president
had been the pastor Of one of our co'ored
churches. We are now doing something
in one line and another for the colored folk
and we will d. all the more if you will give
us credit for " hat we are doing and not
Judge W too ssserely as to cur aims and
purposes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

You ask me what the southern whites
are doing i-r the education of the colored
people? Well, counting what the public
schools for colored children have cost,
suppose the whites of the South have, since
the var, contributed not less than seventy
five millions of dollars for the education OF
their colorcd friends. In any just estimate
of what has been done this mus be taken
into the account, for that amount came oui
of the hard earnings of the white people,
many of whom, after paying this, did not
have enou sh left to educate their owr
children.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

NOTICE CARPENTERs.--The Board of
IN School Trustees of North River Dis
trict will build a double School-house at the
Cross Roads. Plan and Specifications can be
seen in the hands of the CLERK of the Board
Bids received until Saturday. August TO- 1882
july 3l--2t I. S. HOGSHEAD, Clerk.
NULTZ'S EXECUTOR VS. FULTZ &c. and
L. RAMSEY &c. VS.. SNYDER &c,-Pursu-
ant to decree of the Circuit Court for Augusta
county, entered in these causes, May II, 1889 1
shall proceed, at my office. in Staunton on
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2Sth, 1889, to take a
further account of debts against the estate O (
David FultZ. decd, a further account of the
transactions OF j. Fl. Fultz as executor OF said
David II. Fultz. &C., &c.
JOS. a. WADDELL.
july SLIT Comm'r
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
III THE NATIONAL VALLEY BANK OF
STAUNTON, AT STAUNTON, IN THE STATE
OF VIRGINIA, at the close of business,
July 18th, 1889.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
NO cOLoRED OFFICERS,

wish ti.' :;olored people to have all that
belongs to them. but | do not wish to sac q
man put iu'o office because he is black
man. That has been tried in the South,
and the resul5 was such that the white peo-
pie of the Surth rever intend to let it be
tried AGAIN. They owe it to you people of
the North, & no have made such large in
vestments in the South they owe it to
themselves and to their children's chill
dren; they % it to the oolored people,
who wodld suffer even more than the
whites by CD a wrecking of cur ciViliza-
ton; they owe it to the progress of the
nineteenth c4ntury; they owe it to the
God of Heaven to resist every effort that
may be MADE to put back their fair South
ern land wLeie it was 10 the dark days and
pears which ;,llowed Appomatox.
II tie col,1rad people are prosecuted in
the Sonth, Why do they not come North ?
They have my to spend two or three dol.
lBrs to get Epon Northern soil and spend
the rest of .lirir lives here with you. What
a good tima ;aey might have here in your
New Engiaad factories; but you don't
want them a d they don't want You. l
was in village up here recently in which
there was b ~ one colored man. He was
like black is:Try swimming in great pan
of milk, b., - was not happy. His heart
loDged to See .,uce more Dixie's land.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
The Negro Problem.
A RICHMOND PREACHER TALKS PLAINLY tt
HIS NEW ENGLAND BRETHREN.

DIR. A. E. Dickinson, of this city, has
been attending some big Baptist meetings
in New England.
At one place he was called upon to ex-
plain the negro problem. He replied: You
will not believe me on that subject. You
will accept as true my testimony about
anything else, but not as to this. And yet
there ought to be good understanding
between the Christian people of the two
great sections of the country as to our
colored friends. You know that you here
are more responsible for the bringing of
the negro to America than we are. Your
ships brought them over and you sent them
South, only when their labor ceased to be
remunerative to you, and you did not give
them away when you sent them to u.s.
| You sold them for all they we're worth. l
do not sag this to reproach you. You are
no more responsible for what Jour great
grandfathe:s did than 1 am for what my
grandfather did. Aud, besides, the hand
of the Lord was in it all, and it has been
overrnled for good. There are more pro-
Tossing Christians among the colored peo-
pie of the South to-day than we have made
converts among heather nations for the
last hundred years, counting all that has
been done 10 the Foreign Mission work by
all denominations of Christians.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

Clerk Circuit Court of Augusta County
lX- 1T
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31
CoLORED PREACHERS.

And nov, as we are preparing colored
preachers (snd we have seventy of them in
colored Theological Seminary in Rich
mond) for missionary work, Africa is
thrown open to the Gospel, and the great
missionary societies of the world are look
ing to the coloied Christians of the South
for their standard-bearers to take the
Congo country and all Africa for Christ
If we behave that the God of nations is
managing fairs in this world, ought we
not to bn'y our petty prejudices and look
thing Of hat serene thoughtfulness with
which it Il be viewed fifty years to come,
when tn great designs of Providence in
this matte will be more fully developed.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

VTIRGINIA-In the Circuit Court of Angus.
ia county, May 9th, 1889.
Gardner's Admir- (Alexander)
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-31

FuRrHER DISAPPOINTMENT

The above sale is postponed to WEDN
PAY. AUGUST 18th. 1889,
VIM NnEPlnN
Morris tribune., 1889-05-22

A short time since a speaker at q
public meeting held in London In
formed his audience that the United
States Government possessed ship
that with one shot from its guns
could sink the largest British man-of-
war afioat. An excited Englishman
jumped up in the middle of the audi
ence and declared that he didn't be-
lieve that there was such a gun in ex-
istence. He had never heard oil
Captain Zalinski's dynamite gun,
which can throw shell containing
from four hundred to six hundred
pounds of dynamite. It is not neees-
sary that this shell shall hit man
of-war to insure its destruction. If 1t
strikes the water anywhere near the
ship it is aimed at it either blows her
to pieces or sinks her.
These destructive engines of war
are not very formidable in appearance.
They look for all the world 1t is said,
like long stoye-pipes. One who knew
nothing about their capacity for des-
truction would find 1t hard to believe
that they are the most terrible instru-
ments of war that the wit OF man
has yet devised. The ship that has
been armed with these guns has very
appropriately been named the Vesu-
vius. She is veritable floating
volcano ready at any moment to
belch forth destruction. Congress
has made an appropriation for sister
ship which will be armed like the
Vesuvius.