davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

In 1876 he was elected to the Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot NJ.
Morrill,, and was reelected for the term end
ing in 1888 but resigned to enter President
Garfield's Cabinet as Secretary of State He
was the candidate of the Republican party for
President in 1854.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
William Window, Secretary OF the Treasury
is again called to fill that departments and,
excepting Mr.. Blaine, is the only member of
the Cabinet who has been conspicuous in ma
tional political life. He was born i'll Belmont
county, Ohio, May 10th, 1927, moving to Min
nesota in 1855, and i'll 1859 came to Congress
serving for ten years. In 1870 he was appoint
ed to the Senate, and was afterward elected
for two terms, resigning in 1881 to enter Gen
Garfield S Cabinet, only to retire upon the ac-
cession of President Arthur. The Minnesota
Legislature returned him to the Senate to
finish his uneXpired term. OF recent years
financial interests have retained Mr.. Window
in New York city.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor of Vermont
who receives the portfolio of the War De
zens of his State, is wealthy, being largely in
terested in marble quarrieS, and is business
man of recognized ability. His home is at
Proctor, a few miles from Rutland. AT Chi
delegation which voted for the successful can
didate first, last and all the time. His selec-
ton. however, it is said, had no connection
with this fact, but is due to the favorable I'M
preston made upon General Harrison by per
sonal contact.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
Gen. Benjamin T. Tracy who will be the
representative OF New DIX N tne Oaplnet,
as Secretary of the Navy is a New Yorker by
y i,,, , w. f s,f1 o W 80 col
der during the war. He was elected district
district of New York. which place he held
until 1873. lie was appointed Judge of the
Court of Appeals in 1881. and served one year
He was conspicuous during the Beecher tria
as one of the counsel for the defence
SECRETARY OF THE, INTERIOR.
The one who nav be called the Southern
representative in the Cabinet is Gen. John w
Noble. of ST. Louis. to whom the Secretary
shin of the Interior has been rendered. He is
a native of lancaster Ohio and a graduate of
Yale. He was resident of Iowa at the be-
ginning of the war. in which he played a brave
and creditable Darf After the war he settled in
st. Louis to practice law. He has been an
extensive traveller. and has ability beyond
the measure of the public's present knowledge.
General Noole arrived N washington on Won
uas iloi il II alii Meit ulleISly 20 tne Nol
nallule. u VIE mas peel EasI lor seVela
We Meehs' aIlu Gae W iioAi roatIe?s dol1a9G
10y " wv 60 iAT DE- 70 1osohad 5aoiep l,'li
than zen. Johh y. 8IacK, broader, heaslel
any peeo5i LIS pioM ~ nealuis inG
40 aliiiSeu Mipn a. IL ~. iiS SiaS
eSe1 spa ny Nc Win Wy aiSpi DIV FitaiiIy
nc iilio1 VI mo 49, ndao,
in l = isal1 1iao nc hao NY VI
hon W. cninv III a%d donar
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
Railroad Notes.

j. 7. Harrahan, formerly General Mama
ger of the Louisville & Nashville Ry.. left
the position of Assistant General Manager
Friday to take that of General Manager of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.. resigned by j.
I. Odel MI. Harrahan commenced at the
bottom. He began his railroad career in
1854 as q switchman at Alexandria, Va
and since that time has filled the positions
of engineer and conductor Of both freight
and passenger trains, yardmaster, road
master, Superintendent, General Superin-
tendent and General Manager. He was
connected with the Louisville and Nashville
Road from 1856 until about the first
of the present year, during which time he
filed various positions. From July /, 1881,
up to January 1st last Nh Harrahan was
General Manager Of the L. and n. He was
offered the position of Assistant General
Manager Of the Lake Shore Road about
the first of the year, and accepted the
offer, and now comes to thee q 0. His
salary, it is stated is to be $4,000 a year.
There has been nothing more marked IN
failroading than the increase Of salaries of
the more important positions on the G. &
0. Ry. Ten years ago, Gen. w. G. Wick
ham, Vice President and Manager, got
$4,000 a year, while the Superintendent and
Engineer got about So ,00). The first high
salary paid (Sl0,G0O WIS 10 G. W. Smith,
General Manager, in Sd. Y he 4 he left, Gen.
Wicbham took full cnarge again at $40 900.
In addition to the General Alanager, the c.
& O. now has a Traffic Manager at salary
it is said, of $40, 900. The business of the
company has spread out in many different
directions in the last ten years, requiring
more separate departments and more heads.
The large railroad contracting firm of D,
Shanahan & Co., which lately finished its
big contract on the G. & O. extension, is
E. I. Powell and D. A. Shanahan. They
have just secured the contract for building
the Irvine & Beattysville Ry. in Kentucky,
and their headquarters for this work will
be at Nicholasville, Ky.
j. I. Odell, late General Manager of the
" N w. TO-, goes 10 New DIX 10 Take UIe
chief place in a large car construction COM
pany.
J. II. Patteson, for twenty years Pay
master Of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Ry. Co.,
has resigned to accept the cashiership of a
new bank at Manchester, Va.
The Chesapeake & Ohio will start their
new iron bridge at Covington, Allegheny
this week, and the tools for the work have
already been shipped from New York to
that point.
S. A. Bromberg has been appointed
Soliciting Passenger Agent of the Eastern
| Division of the Newport News Il Missis-
sippi Valley Ry. Co., with headquarters at
| Lexington, Ky.
The Supreme Court of West Virginia has
rendered decision, giving the claim OF
81 100000 of the Central Improvement
Company, (which built go miles Of the
road) priority, over the claims of the First
Mortgage bondholders of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, in the foreclosure brought
by those bondholders.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
CHANGE of Location.

Dr.. Carter Berkeley has resigned the po-
sition Of General Agent of the Valley Mu-
tual Co., and formed another business con-
nection. Attention is called to his card
elsewhere Dr.. Berkeley is one of the most
experienced and thoroughly posted insur-
ance men in the country, and his state
ments with reference to the company he
has taken the agency of, are founded on
long familiarity with the methods of all the
leading companies of the country. The
company for which Dr.. Berkeley has taken
the position of Special Agent for all the
Southern States, is the Hartford Life and
Annuity Insurance Co. Of Hartford, ct.
1t is one of the strongest in the Union
and has been in operation twenty three
years. 1t has already large Southern
business, and but a few days ago paid a
S., 900 loss in our neighboring town of Lex
ington. With the enterprise and push of
it's new Southern Agent, it will do large
business in this section.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
4 CONFEDERATE HOME.

AS the eX-Confederate States have about
gotten through with the erection of monu-
nents to their illustrious dead. would ii
not be as well to join in some united effort
for the benefit of the suffering and deserving
living? The dead Officers having been duly
commemorated, would it not be well to give
the living Priyates a chance. In the last ten
years and notably the last four, the South
ern States have made wonderful progress
in wealth, in the comforts of living, and in
the founding of charitable institutions.
They no longer constitute the poverty
stricken section they did for years after
the war. Would it not be well while it
may yet be done, While the sufferers from
the civil war are yet among us, to do some
thing for their comfort? Would not the
greatest monument that could be erected
to the heroic bravery of the dead and living
Confederate soldiers, be a great Soldiers
Home, where disabled soldiers could find a
home without feeling the humiliation of
receiving the ordinary charity. They have
no pension worth the name; they are poor
men struggling for a living, just as they
were the day they entered the army; their
friends have been swept away by the civil
war, and they are fast being hunted down
by diseases incurred during their four years
Of hardship. What is to be done for these
men? 1t is not passing question. 1t will
not pass. Most OF the men who fought
through that war are now nearly sixty
years of age. Virginia has q Home at
Richmond but its capacity, compared with
the need that created it, is small indeed,
and if her example were generally followed
it would only issue in q few small Homes
scattered through the South. The proper
thing, the exactly just thing for the eX-Con-
federate States to do is to join together and
build a great Home which will be a credit
to their liberality and to the men who will
occupy it-a home that any eX-Confeder-
ate soldier may, when disabled, enter with
out any more feeling OF humiliation that he
felt twenty-five years ago at entering a hos
pital when he was wounded. 1t is a great
charity worthy OF deep thought, and we
sincerely trust the Southern mind may
take that direction. The Southern purse
is now fully able to bear it, ard a great
Soldiers Home would be more magnificent
monument to the memory of Robt. E. Lee
than any yet projected.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1889
PRESIDENT HARRLSON'S IN4U-
GURAL.

We give elsewhere such points in the III
aueural address of President Harrison as
are of particular interest to the people OF
this State. The address is plain, earnest,
and without any straining after rhetorical
effect But there is an absence OF direct
ness on some subjects which to the sensi-
tiyeness of deep interest on those subjects,
seems to make almost an open gap i'll his
declaration of purpose. 1t leaves to the rea-
der as an open question, which Of the two
routes to build up his party i'll the South
the President will favor-that Of utter i'm
partially between sections such as Cleye-
land pursued, by which the party would be
strengthened among the intelligence of the
south OF that of sectional legislation to
bring out greater show of party strength
among the ignorance of the South. In
such doubt the South must remain until
some development of his policy is made be
yond words, which like political platforms
find various TRANSACTIONS in various minds
If the Southern people find that President
Harrison when he alludeS to a free and
pure ballot, has as much reference to Indi-
ana. New Y ork and other Northern States
rs he has to Arkansas and Mississippi the
situation will be agreeably simplified. In
any event the South expects from him the
best, and not the worst, and Shall not
weaken its confidence unless for better
cause than ambiguity in an inaugural adj
dress.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
Election of Officers.

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. M. G
Association, on Monday evening, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year
Mrs. A. M. Henkel, President; Mrs. Jed
Hotchkiss, Secretary; Mrs. H. D. Peck
Treasurer. Vice Presidents-NIrs. r. M
Guy, 1st; Mrs. S. II. Henkel, End; Mrs. L
G. Morton, 3rd; Mrs. John B. Hoge, 4th
Mrs. B. F. Cootes, 5th, and Miss Eichel
berger, 9th.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

forcibly elected from the Chamber, at TIN
direction of the Presiding officer. Two O
the Senator's daughters were present in tn
gallery. Later in the night, Senator j. w
Daniel made an appeal that the record O
the incident be expunged from the journal
His appeal was eloquent and pathetic, an(
was successful. Early in the night, before
hisejection, Mr.. Riddleberger had telegraph
ed his resignation to GOV. Lee. The Cover
nor replied that the hours were so short HI
did not deem action necessary.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

crease of the membership of orr Sabbath
Schools, and a lively interest in mission
churches.
3rd. We desire to assure Mr.. Preston and
his most estimable wife, of our sincere pray
ers for her speedy restoration to health, and
of our deepest interest and best wishes for
their future health, success and happiness
that he may consecrate those splendid talents
with which God has endowed him, to the
forwarding of His holy cause.
18th. That copy of these resolutions be
furnished Mr.. Preston, and also one sent to the
county papers and Central Presbyterian with
the request to publish.
F. NJ. BELL, b. NJ. ELLIS,
Sec'ty. Chairman
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

If this one, of the many forecasts Of Presi
dent Harrison S designs about the South, is
correct, the country postmaster is to be al
element Of strength i'll his administration
This policy will give the present country
postmasters of the South q pretty long term
of service. There are plenty of Republicans
in Virginia ''of character to command
respect and who do exercise a strong III
fuence" over their neighbors, but, as {
general thing, they are not the men likely
to be satisfied with a country post-oAice
The forecast says President Harrison S
idea is:
''To put in offices men of character to COM
mand respect. He will be particularly soil
citous on tfiis point in the appointment OF
country postmasters, for he argues that if the
proper men can lie put iii these places they
will have the opportunity TO exercise a strong
influence over the agricultural population
But in all this he proposes to feel his way
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

At the Progressive Euchre given by Miss
CEowle, Thursday night, the prizes awarded
at the head-table were a gold pen to Miss
Julia Nelson and gold scarf-pin to Mr..
George Blackley; the Progressive prizes
were pocket-book and card-case to Miss
Maggie McChesney, and an ink-stand to
Mr.. James Ker, Jr.; the BOBBY prizes We're
awarded to Miss Blanche Maddux of Gull
pepper, and Mr. E. J. Gushing. The Buchre
party was a full dress affair.
AT the ladies lunch given by Mrs. J. N.
Mcfarland and Mrs. W. w. King, last
Friday afternoon, the attendance was very
large. The young ladies assisting at the
tables were Misses Fannie Blackley, Maggie
Bayly, Jennie Mae Peck, Lillian Arthur,
Lucy Daingerfeld, Maggie cChesney, and
Bette McCue.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
TINsLEY & MORTON, Proprietors,

Published every Friday. Price 50 per year; 81
for six months, and 30 cents for months-invari-
ably in advance.
Transient advertisements 10 cents per line each
insertion. Contracts for longer terms made at
The counter.
Local circulation in Augusta. Rockbridge, Rocking
ham. Allegheny, Highland and Bath Counties.
Gives general and local news; stories and mis-
cellany; reliable commercial reports.
H. C. TINSLEY,
A. S. MORTON,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

The Inauguration Feast at Washington
was not without its Skeleton. On Thursday
in dim and dusty Court room, while the
CHATTER of preparation for the inauguration
was going Oh without, Col. W. w. Dudley
author of the infamous proposition to buy
up the floating voters of Indiana in ''blocks
of five was hailed before the Commissioner
He had been incautious enough, before the
election, to enter suit against the New Y ork
Evening Post, for charging him with
writing the ''blocks Of five" circular, tC
which his name was signed. The Evening
Post is determined to put him on the stand
as witness, but Dudley has persistently
refused to 90 to New Y DIRK to testify. The
Post pursued him to Washington, and
Judge James decided that Dudley must &C
before a Special Commissioner there, and
give his testimony. When he took the stand
the original circular was produced and he
was asked if he had signed it. He declined
to n4lSlcer.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

MI. George w. Hewitt of this city has
gotten the contract for papering and uphol-
STEERING the new Hotel of the GrOttoes, at
Weyerss Cave Station. He will do the
work well.
MI. Geo. NJ. Baylor has Spanish silver
coin which was minted in 1871, in the reign
of Charles H., which he found near
Swoopes Depot, two feet under ground,
while digging the foundation for a foot
bridge.
Beecher the merchant-tailor has moved
up and opened out in fine style next to the
Y. M. c.. A., new building.
1t is Of the highest Importance to the
subscribers to the Staunton Furniture
Manufacturing Company to pay up at once
Delay may end in the plant being sent else
where.
In another column is made the announce
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

There was one feature attending President
Cleveland's administration that may escape
the notice of any but journalists, bug
deserves mention. 1t was the fact that it
transferred the centre Of national political
news gathering from New Y DIRK to Balti-
more, and gave the enterprise of the Balti-
more Sun an opportunity to give the inside
news of the administration without aSsum-
ing the capacity OF function Of an organ
We long since turned from the New \ DIRK
papers for administration news, and eX-
amined the columns of the Baltimore Sun.
Its closing feat Of producing a resume Of
Cleyelands administration written from
the inside, instead Of from the kitchen OF
the roof, which has been the point of view
of the great metropolitan papers Of New
York, was something in Journalism that
has not been accomplished, within our mem
DRY, by any American journal. The char
acter Of the Sun, which is one to beget cor
fidence, doubtless furnished the reason for
the trust reposed in it by Cleveland and
the statesmen under him. Its triumph was
magnifed by the disgruntled criticisms of
the papers of all politics in New I ork, as
was to have been expected.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08
Not Legal.

Judge Stout announced last week that
the practice of Magistrates giving blank
warrants signed by themselves to be later
filled by constables is not legal. Such war
rants are worthless, and endanger the Off
eel who attempts to use them,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

The number of States Of the American
Union-four more having been admitted by
congress now forty-two instead of the
familiar number of Thirty Eight. That is
to say. the act admitting them has been
passed, and by July next their State govern
ments will be organized and Montana
Washington, North Dakota and Sout4
Dakota. will be members Of the Union, O1
the four, all may be classed as Republican
from their latest votes. but two of them
Washington and Montana, are not so GER
tainly for that faction as the two Dakotas-
though President HarFison's distribution
of Federal Patronage will doubtless go fal
to secure them in the Republican ranks
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

All Ireland is blazing with joy, and well
it may be. The charges Of the London
Times against Parnel have broken down;
the alleged letters of Parnel, imply
ing his approval of assassination, have been
proven to have been forged, and the fOrger
broke down on the witness stand, fed
from the city the next day, and committed
suicide in Spain the day after. And
the London Times has editorially with
drawn it's charge, based on these letters.
and apologiZed for their publication. 1t is
the heaviest blow the Conservative Tory
party has ever received, and will put Glad
stoneand the friends of Ireland again i'll
the front. Whether the British Govern
ment was in with the Times OF not, its
sympathies were with it, and that paper
would never have gone into the struggle
had it not felt sure of that sympathy. 1t is
an appropriate end to the most cold bloOded
attempt to destroy patriot, and blast the
good name of a suffering people, that has
been recorded in history.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

A deplorable and final episode occurred
on the closing night of the senatorial career
of Senator II. FL. Riddleberger. On Sunday
night. he became so intractable that he was
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-08

Secretary of State, has been party leader
from early in the days OF reconstruction. He
was born in West Brownville, Pa, January,
81, 1880, and is ffty-nine years of age. He is
Cabinet He is a graduate of Washington
College, in Ohio. After brief period of
school teaching he married Miss Harriet
Stanwood, and removed to Augusta, Maine,
where he purchased an interest in the Kenne-
bee Jouanal and became its editor. His en-
trance into politics dates from 1856, when he
was chosen a delegate to the Fremont Conven-
ton. In 1858 he was elected a member of the
State Legislature, serving four years, the last
two as Speaker. While in the Legislature he
which place he hold for twenty years. He
entered Congress in 1862, and remained in con-
tinuous service during seven Congresses; In
the Forty-first Forty-second and Forty
third he was speaker OF the House.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-27

Corporal Tanners letter to Private
Dalsell, written confidentially and
promptly published by the receiver, let .
everybody see the character and style Of
these two Republican leaders. What
trash II is, to be sure And how
ashamed the party should be that
has let such children lead
What a clear light it throws
u the soldier game, that the
party has played so vigorously, to see
what babes the soldiers spokesmen are.
Here are a private and a corporal of the
army who, retiring from IL with
that rank, immediately obtained
promotion to marsha!ship in the
Republican party, because they were
babes and blowers. They had not
ability enough to get out of the ranks in
the army, but had plenty Of stuff to
send them right up in political COM
pany. 1t shows how little material it
takes to make big Republican politi-
cian.. The exhibition of the rise of Tan
ner to the pension bureau and his fall
from 1t, illustrated by his own account
al his doings, makes material for a
screaming fence. Gilbert and Sullivan
eave In 1t fine suggestion for comic
pera.