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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
Soma Negrn Sense.

At least portion Of the negroes of North
Caio ere level-headed and too smart to
be duped by the many emissaries of their
race, who go among them for designing
purposes. At recent meeting of the pe-
grocs of Warren and Halifax counties to
consider the question of the attempt of rail-
road agents to induce them to emigrate to
other States, they adopted the following
resolution !:
"That the colored preachers, who, hav.
ing obtained the confidence of their breth-
ren in the name of Christian religion, and
would now betray their confidence and sell
their own flesh and blood for paltry sum
of money, have stolen the livery Of heaven
to serve the devil in, and have brought dis
honor on their ofice, disgrace upon the
church, and infamy on their own heads. "
That is certainly right view of the ques-
tion, and shows that they place proper es-
innate on those of their race who are deal
ing in their ''f1esh and blood" simply for
money. ."-Lynch6urg Aduonce.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
THE BLESSED BROOD.

Gather them close to your loving heart,
Cradle them close to your breast;
They will soon enough leave your broodins
care
Soon enough ascend youths topmost stair
Little ones in the nest.
Fret not that the children's hearts are gay,
That their restless feet will run;
There may come a time in the y-and-by
When you'll sit in your lonely room and sigh
For sound of childish fun,
When you'll long for repetition sweet,
That sounded through each room,
OF Mother! mother I" the dear love.calls
That will echo long through the silent halls.
And add to their stately gloom.
There may come time when you'll long to
hear
The eager. boyish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear. shrill shout,
The busy hustle in and out,
And pattering overhead.
When the boys and girls are all grown up
And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to the undiscovered shore.
Where youth and age come never more.
You will miss them from your side.
Then gather them to your loving heart;
Cradle them on your breast;
They'll soon enough leave your brooding care
Soon enough ascend youths topmost stair
Little ones in the est
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
DELINQUENT Taxes.

The city delinquent list has been SUBJ
mitted to the council and shows, we are in
formed that nine-tenths of the delinquenss
are colored people who failed to pay their
capitation tax. This list, it is said, cmbra-
ces fully two-th1rds of all the colOred voters
in the city.
This is deplorable state of affairs, GER
tainly. The colored people vote en- masse
against the whites and against the interest
of the whites. but in spite of this fact, the
city of Danvile and the State of Virginia
provide public schools here for the benefit
of colored children.
The blacks own very little property in
the city, and the only way a majority of
them could contribute to the public school
fund would be to pay their head tax OF a
dollar to the State and fifty cents to the
city, each year. And yet we find that there
are eight hundred colored men in the city of
Danvile who are more than twenty y-one
years of age, and therefore entitled to vote,
but who have refused to pay their capita
tion tax towards the support of the public
schools. And this cannot be because the
colored people are not able to pay this
small tax. The factories have been at work
on full time fer the past twelve months and
the colored people have had steady employ
ment.
Still the northern republicans are con-
stantly abusing the white people of the
South for alleged bad treatment of the ne
glo, and the negroes themselves set up
their claims for the free schools and join
with the northern fire. eaters in their efforts
to inflict the South with a federal elec-
tion law. 1t is an outrage and the South
ern people have borne it with remarkable
patience. Talk about the negro being the
ward of the nation ! He is pensioner up
on the bounty of the white men and few
thrifty colored men of the South, and al
though he enjoys the rights and franchises
of citizen and has his children educated
at the public expense, he refuses to pay a
dollar year for the privilege he enjoys, and
invariably votes against the best interests
of those who take care of him.
We say these things not in anger, but we
would ask the colored people what right
they would have to object if law should
be passed in Virginia requiring the pay
ment of the capitation tax as pre-. requisite
to voting and appropriating school money
paid by the whites to school for white chill
dren, and the school money paid by the
blacks for colored schools ?-Danuille Reg
lister,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
Nail these Aphorisms to the Barn-door.

"Who enters here leaves pipe behind"
The borse will be all the better for work
ing his way through the winter.
The man that knows the right use of a
horse blanket is a first-class horse-man.
Too many horses eat up, during the win
ter, all the5 have earned during the sum-
mer.
The horse-blanket saves feed and fresh
less substance is used to make animal heat.
Keeping matches in any other receptacle
than an iron or tin box is tempting Provi-
deDce.-
Some people think farm animal is like
postage-stamp-no good until licked.
They are sadly mistaken.
The farm-h horse, having only light labor,
and not much of that, during the winter,
should have less grain and more roughness
than during the summer.
The man that puts iron bits in his horses
mouths in very cold weather, without 6rst
warming the bits, has altogether TOO much
of the savagein hiscomposition -AaerieaE
Aoriculw5st for Aagc6.
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: HENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD
s. F. Tyler. ReceiUer.
Time Table in effect Feb. 9th, 1890.
SOUTHWARK,
I Daily
| except
Sunday
DAILY.

No. 3 carries Pullman Palace Sleeping Cal
through from New York and Philadelphia via
Harrisburg to Chattanooga and Memphis, with
out change.
Has connection at Hagerstown with fast mail
from baltimore.
Also makes close connection at Waynes-
boIo unction with G. & .. Railway west
bound trains.
No. has through connection from Philadel-
phia via Harrisburg and G. V. Railroad. also
c6rrIs ss Pullman BuffetSleeping Car from Phil
without change.
CONNECTIONS.
a. Hagerstown, Md, with the Western Mary
land Railroad to and from Baltimore, Freder-
lex. Emmittsburg. Gettysburg, Penmar,
Way nesboro, Pa, and points on the Western
Nary Railroad and branches.
with the Cumberland Valley Railroad to and
from Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg,
Chan0ersburg, Mercersburg, Martinsburg, and
points on the Cumberland Valley Railroadand
branches.
Also to and from Pittsburg and the West and
Northwest. and Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, and the North and East.
AtShenandoah Junction, w. Va, with Main
Lane OF Baltimore &Ohio Railroad to and from
the " est.
Waynesboro Junction with G. & Ry. East
and West-bound trains.
At Loeb Laird, with Lexington Branch of
Richmond & Allegheny Railroad.
At buchanan with Main Line of Richmond
& Allegheny Railroad.
At Roanoke, with Norfolk & Western Rail-
road.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Boyce. for Millwood and Winchester. Va
AtTroutville for Fincastle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

THOUGHT ONLY OF MAMMA.-One of the
wettest days of last week countryman,
who might have been taken for prosper
Gus farmer or successful miner, was walk
ing along Market street in the rain when he
noticed little girl in front of him, says the
San Francisco EXAMINER" Her clothing
was shabby and thin, and her shoes were
almost ready to drop from her poor little
wet feet. Touched by the sight, the bluff
old fellow stepped up to her and asked her
to accompany him into shoe store Just at
hand, and directed the salesman to fit the
child out with good substantial pair of
shoes. After trying on several pairs, all
of which seemed to fit Ter feet very we'll,
the old gentleman said to her, poiutipg to
the pair she had on "What is the matteS
with those. "Ain't they easy ?" hssitadag
moment, the child looked up aud said
"Oh, yes, sir; they are very comfortable,
but please, sir, won't you buy them big
enough for mama?"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
WoRsHIPPING DESIRE, NOT GOD.

The first of DR.. Morgan Dix's Lerton ser
mons, delivered in Trinity Chapel N Y.
last Friday week dealt with some of socie-
tvs besetting sins. He founded the dis.
course upon the story of Balaam, who at
first refused the bribes of Balak only to
yield when they we're increased.
''This is dreadful history" said DR..
Dix when he had repeated tho story of
Balaam's sins, ''but the moral is plain.
"FErst-The ruin of that man came from
not doing the will of God when he knew
perfectly well what that will was, and from
persisting in his own way, contrary to clear
instructions.
"Second-Tbe explanation of his course
is this:-Ihat he was devoured by secret
passiol 1, for which he was ready to sacrifice
the truth and the interest of other men ,and
his hope in God, and the salvation of his
owa soul.
SIN both these points he is an example
and a warning to every one here before me,
no less to myself. And now let Balaam go
and let us have you up for exam ination, my
brother. You may not think it, but per.
haps his spirit lives in yourself.
.Frst-You have your besetJing sin;
your dominating passion. Balaam's ruling
passion was the love of money. Tt was that
which worked as a corrosive into his mis-
cradle soul. You may be the victim of that
very passion. The desire to be rich, to
make money, is all but universal in this
mmunity-the motive to the greatest part
of the activity of the age.
"Or you may be consumed by some other
inward fire, by the love Of notoriety. for in
stance, and the wish to be talked about, as
was the case with one who said, Keep be-
fore the public, be talked about. no matter
whether they say evil of you or good; no,
thing can be so bad as to remain unnoticed
and unkpown.'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
RATES OF ADVERTIsIH0,
An Amusing Speech.
SPEECH OF BYRD, OF HIGHLAND, IN THE
HOUsE OFF DFr rrc Arra

SPEECH OF BYRD, OF HIGHLAND, IN THE
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The Richmond correspondent of ths
Alexandria Gazette under date of the 18Th
inst, says
Delegate Byrd, ''the member from
Allegheny Bath and Highland" is
rdro aris. His speech in the House to day
in favor of the bill increasing the salary of
circuit judges was an amusing stroke, and
| give sten0grsphic extract of that portion
of his speech which convulsed the House
with laughter: ''The distinguished gentle
man who went in front of me said that the
salaries of the circuit judges in New York
was $1,000 year. This reminds me of tho
other day when was talking with some
gentlemen from the North and the conver.
sation turned upon the other world, and
they said they didn't believe there was any
heaven or hell" And just here the gentle
man from Allegheny, Bath and Highland
paused awhile and added, sMr. Speaker
they were from New York" Then rising
again to his former majestic flight, the
gifted Byrd flaw this way. "Does anybody
suppose that any circuit judge in New
York can equal Judge Mclaughlin, of mS
county? MIR. Speaker, you bet they CAM.
We have little fellow over in the Senate
called Jones [Senator Jones was in the
House at the time, having 'come over to
hear his delegate talk."] This little fellow
Jones has little hair eff the top of his
head. He sails all around the counties in
our district and goes away over into West
Virginia, and at the end of the year comes
out So 500 ahead, and Judge Mclaughlin
gets only 81, 600, when Judge Mclaughlin
has more sense in one day than Jones has
in year, and has forgot more than Jones
ever knew" At this point the gentleman
from Allegheny, Bath and Highland dis
covered his Senatorial colleague in the hall
and added: "Jones may be in the House
now, and L do not want to hurt Jones'
feelings, but Jones knows what l have
said is so. / know what l am talking
about. If ] did not know l would not be
talking" At this point the laughter was
intense and Senator Jones joined in with
great enthusiasm. Gathering fresh inspira-
tion and louder voice, which swept over
the hall with power of Dakota cyclone
he wound up thusly: 'Farmers, we have
majority OF three-fourtbs in this House.
am a farmer-a friend of the farmers all
the time and hope yon farmers will vote
for this BILL" Right here he paused again,
lifted his eyes towards the ceiling, ex-
tended his arms and shouted with vigor of
the strongest sort, "Farmers, let us give
the bill glory hallelujah."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
A Telephone Wedding.

Minnie Worley, aged twenty-five, tele.
phone-exchange operator at South Bend,
Ind, and Frank Middleton, aged twenty
five in like position at Michigan City, be-
came acquainted over the wires during their
night watches. Finally Middleton propos-
ed in fun that they get married by tele-
phone, and Minnie consented. A Michigan
City Justice was called in and performed
the legal ceremony, but without the neces-
sary State license. This occurred last week
and passed off as joke. Now eminent le-
gal counsel pronounce the marriage legal
and binding, and say Justice Dibble is lia-
BILE to Imprisonment for performing cere-
mony without the necessary license. The
groom will 60 to South Bend to see his
bride, and divorce proceedings will probably
be instituted unless they agree to live to-
gether,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

Do not keep the hens waiting for their
food, but feed them as early as possible
Tho nights are long, and the days short,
which puts quite period between the last
and first meals; hence, the hens will be
very hungry when they come off the roosts.
The morning meal, in winter, should be
warm, and if the weather is cold, the
drinking water should be slightly warmed,
also.-Americnn Agriculturist for March.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

D1sooURAeINe.-NiceYou Young Superin-
tendent-Now, children, / am much oblig
ed to you for being SO still and good while
have been addressing you. Is there any
nice little boy who would like to ask me
any questions? That little boy in the in
faut class seems anxious TO say something.
What is it, my fine little mani
Fine Little Man---How much longer are
you goin' to shoot off your mouth!--Amer-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

MORMON ELDERS IN RoCKBRIDGE coUN-
TY.-The Rockbridge County News says:
ssThere have been two Mormon elders
preaching and holding meetings on the
headwasers of North Buffalo for some time.
They confine themselves to the section of
country around Camp Mountain aud Tory
Hollow
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

He STRUCK.-Tramp -Ah, madam,
wSen you say ''pie" you strike responsive
chord in my heart that
Lady tinterrupting) g)-Yery well, and
nov you can proceed 60 strike another re-
ponsiye cord in the woodshed yonder. -
Kearue3 Enterprise.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
HOME AND HAPPINESS.

How happy is the home
Wherein con tentm ent dwe;ls-
There labor's restless loom
The song of concord swells;
There comfort proud pTesides
Ger fortunes scanty store,
And gladness calmly glides
Unceasing through its door.
Happy is the sphere
Where love supremely rejgns-
There faith forestalIeth fear,
And joy precludeth pains;
Therepleas ures crown the day
In swift and sweet Increase,
And heaven spreads o'er the way
The golden arch of peace.
Howard N. Fuller in Frank Lesl1e's.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

CONNECTIONS.
Train No AIS connects at Harper's Ferry with
Fast Limited Express Train leaving at 1855 p,
NJ arTi wing at Pittsburg at 55 p, m. Column
bus at 25 p. M, and Chicago at 10 55 a m next
day,
With train leaving at 4:39 p. M, arriving al
Cincinnati at 7:30 a. M. Also with train leaving
at I.osa. M, arriving at Cincinnati at,5:30 p m
St. Louis at $50 o. M and Chicago at 9:45 p, m.
Connects at Weverton with train arriving al
Il agerstown at $50 p. M. and at Washington
Junction with train arriving at Frederick at
2:l5 D. IN,
3. & 0. Palace Sleeping Cars are run through
to p ytsburg, Cincinnati. st. Louis, Colum-
bus sud Chicago, All fast trains run through
to above points without change of cars
For tickets and further Information apply to
B. & o. Agents, ortO
c. &. DUDROW, Travelling Pass. Agt.
Winchester, Va.
CHAs. o. SCULL, ,Genn Passenger Agent.
J. T. ODELL.. General Manager.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
The Safest

A ND most powerful Alternative is
n Ayers Sarsaparilla. Young and
,old are alike benefited by its use. For
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
THE SIN OF THE SCIENTIST.

Cor else you may be of that number who
are bitten by the gad fly Of the scientists.
They think to be original; they must lead
the van of progressively must explode what
they consider as hoary super stitions; to
write history over again in the interest of
some modern fad; to start some reform; to
invent new theology; to apply higher
criticism, as they style it, to the Word of
God; to help some new Christ into this dis
tracted world; in short, to curse anything
which God has blessed and to leLd help
ing hand to any one who fights the Church
ard religion-theSe are also passions with
men.
"Of women, moreover, some are consum-
ed by vanity and the love of admiration.
which will not leave them though they
have married and taken solemn vows of
constant, steady love and obedience, for
sakipg all but one; and others aim at stand
ing at the top in fashionable life, and others
think to change the relations of the sexes
and put women into the places Of the men
against the laws imposed upon the man and
woman by wise Creator. And then, if
we could see into human hearts, one by
one, we should find in each some taste, some
appetite, some natural craving, which, if
not watched and checked, may grow into a
hungry habit; a man shall indulge it more
and more, each day it gains new power,
till his life becomes permeated with it, and
he surrenders and is its slave.
''First, then, say, you have your beset-
ting sin; every one has, and happy he who
knows what it is and is doing good battle
with it day by day.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

ing off curb and control; that point in the
career is ahead; he is moving toward it.
Here struggle comes; the strife between
the voice of authority without and the voice
of resistance to authority within.
"Religious people, when they fall, do not
fall at once; they slip away by degrees.
They try to find some justification for their
disobedience; they try to persuade them
selves that they may 60 on; they seek to
convince themselves that they are not
breaking the laws or doing despite to
grace. 1t is dreadful lapse; yet this is
precisely what occurs whenever one who
has believed in God and served Him changes
attitude and turns about and walks differ.
ent way.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

the eruptive dis
eases peculiar to
children nothing
else is so effective
as this medicine,
while its agreea-
BILE flavor makes
it easy to admin
lister.
q" My little boy
had large scrofu-
lous ulcers on his
neck and throat
fro m which he
suffered terribly.
Two physicians
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
DRIFTING FROM RIGHT.

"Here is man oatwardly religious and
Observant of Gods law. In this mans
heart the evil one has, by some means, made
a Judgement; the critical moment has gone
by at which be might have driven him out.
but he failed at the start and the mischief
was done. He is the victim of a passion
which now rules his spirit. But yet he has
not reached the point at which q sinner
blasphemea God and takes MA way, shak-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

The Sabbath day is the savings bank Of
humanity .--psssrey Road.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05
GOD SHOWS HIS WILL.

"And, secondly, of this be sure:-God
shows you His will about that trial of
yours, whatever it be. Wherever q passion
comes to birth in human heart it must
grow, if it grow, against Gods known will,
for God is not unrghteous to condemn men
for doing wrong WHO did not know that it
was wrong: He tells them plainly and then
leaves them on trial, and if they let the be-
setting passion grow it grows by sad pro-
cess of sighting Gods known will and wish
in some little matter, and then making
apology and excusing ones self, and then
going on again as before.
''Given these two things, a strong desire
in the soul and a knowledge that we ought
not to indulge it, and the conditions are
ready for a repetition of the story of Ba-
laam, the son of Boser, and that man is cer-
tain to repeat it who will stif1e his con-
science and compromise with duty and
juggle with his Goo.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-03-05

NYOFICE.-T undersigned have associa-
~ ted themselves together as partners in
the nam and styIe OF j. & J.L. BUMGARDNER
Attofneys-at- Law,
We VIII practice in the courtss of the City of
Staunton and the counties of ueusta Rock
ipghsm. Rockbridge, HighlAnd and Bath. II
iaH business entrusted TO our care will be
promptly aud faithfully attended to.
JAMES BUMGARDNER. JR.,
J. LEWIS BUMGARDNFR.
giy LO--Sf
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lLY. except
--- Sunday
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
MRS. MAVERICKS LIFE.
A Graphic Picture of the Garments WOri
by Female COnvicts.

"A Graphic Picture OF the Garments worn
by Female Convicts.
Mrs. Maybrick-almos forgotten now
is doing her nine months of solitary
confinement and daily does an allotted
task of needle-work. Those who follow
the wretched woman's career, as it may
be studied from time to time by the
prison bulletins, will learn with interest
that there is considerable thought as to
dress in this prison, as BELTS ladies'
establishment. Even in prison, accord
ing to Mr.. +. w. Robinson, a variety of
toilettes are customary. There is the
probation class, in which women for the
first nine months wear lilac cotton
skirt in summer, with blouse bodice,
a7squarc of serge for the shoulders, a
checked blue and white apron, small
white linen cap, with goffered border.
and plain unbrimmed coarse white
straw bonnet of what is termed the cot
tage shape: and very hideous shape, to
our masculine mind, it appears to be.
On Sundays white aprons and neclSer-
chiefs are worn. In winter, the lilac
dress is replaced by thick blue serge,
with a neckerchief of the same material,
and thick fawn-colored circular cape
is also allowed for the shoulders. In
the second nine months the prisoner is
a woman of the third class and wears in
summer plain blue cotton skirt with
stripes, and square brown serge for the
shoulders. The bonnet and the linen
cap remain the same in style, or distin-
guished, as it may be, for want of style,
and white aprons and neckerchiefs again
smarten up the prisoners on the Sabbath.
In winter the third class women wear
brown serge dresses and fawn-colored
capes. In the third nine months a
female convict becomes woman of the
second class, and is allowed the distinc.
tion of wearing a full blue cotton skirt
with white spots, a blouse bodice of the
same material, and square of green serge
for the shoulders. In winter she wears
thick green serge gown, the other de-
tails of dress being the same as in the
preceding class. In the fourth period
of nine months she becomes woman Of
the first class, with little, if any, distinc
tion from the second and this remains
till she is within nine months of the eX-
piration of the sentence, when--happy
time for the female convict, with liberty
so close at hand again-she is dubbed a
woman of the special class. Pail Mall
Gazette