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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Travellers See the Change.

Rev. Thos. Hooper, D. D., who was in
attendance on Synod, writes to the Lynch
burg Virginian describing his trip to
Staunton and says:
On taking the train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio met scores of old friends on their way
to the Synod of Virginia, and to mountaineer
it was refreshing to see the sparkling eyes and
hear the glad EXPLANATIONS as the picturesque
scenes of the Blue Ridge passed in quick sue
cession along our way.
Basic City doomed out at Waynesboro juno
ton, and the contrast to the dreary old station
of a year ago is truly surprising.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Painful Accident.

On Tuesday morning, MI. Adam II
Shuey, postmaster at Galena, and much
respected citizen Of the county, met with g
painful accident while at the voting pre-
cinct of Sandy Hollow. The harness of his
horse broke and the animal started, throw.
ing Nh. Shuey from his vehicle and break
ing his arm and badly injuring his face
DR.. I. W. Shelton was sent for and rem
dered the necessary surgical attention and
Mr.. Shuey was sent home.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Not So Very Foreign After All.

A company of gypsies have been camped
near here for some days. Last week one of
the women, a Spanish looking one, went to
private residence to sell faces which she
had III a basket. The lady of the house ex-
cused herself but the foreigner was persis-
tent and at last the lady shut the door in
her face. A hearty s'To the diviI wild ye'
convinced the lady that the foreign looking
person had come from Spain by way of Cork.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Delegates to the Baptist General
ASSOCIATION.

On Sunday last the congregation OF the
Staunton Baptist church elected the follow
ing delegates to the Baptist General Asso-
citation Of Virginia which meets in Rich
mond next Tuesday, Nov. 11th.-H. b.
Summerson, John w. Todd, S. B. Pugh
VIM. Mathews, John B. Hoge and Wesley
Kerr.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Real Estate Transfers,

Mich. Wehn to Jas. A. Wehn, a lot 42x94
feet on Church street, $500.
DR.. T. w. Shelton to A. Graham Robin
son, the new residence on E. Frederick
street beyond Market, $4,250
J. Frank Davis to Harry Bolen, vacant
lot on Winthrop street, $3.50.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
The Weather.

The week ending last night has been a
queer one. Last Friday morning the ther-
mometer was at $50 IN town. and in many
parts of the county there was thin ice.
Summer temperature ruled the day Sunday
while Monday opened early with little splits
of snow. Wednesday at A. M. the ther-
mometer was at $50 and ice was formed,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Compliment to Stonewan Jackson's Wife.

Mrs. Gen. Z. J. Jackson, who went over
to pay visit to the family of Dr.. P. B.
Barringer at the University of Virginia,
was waited on last Saturday night by
Bowie Strange Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams, headed by the Monticello Band. The
veterans were in line and each shook hands
with Mrs. Jackson as he passed. Gen
Rosser, the commander of the Camp, at
the request of Mrs. Jackson, thanked the
veterans for their remembrance of her,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
M A RkEIS.
VINDICAToR OFFICE,

STAUNToN, VA. Nov. 9th. I
We quote wheat lower and with very little
demand No change in other grain OF hay.
The Philadelphia Record of Saturday in its
review of the grain market for the past week
says: "Wheat prices show about Is Of cent
per bushel advance for the week. Values of
provisions have f1uctuated within compare
lively narrow limits, and show but slight net
changes for the week. The distributive move
ment of hog products is fairly active, and eX-
ports keep up we'll, although last week 5
shipments fell short of the large clearances
previously recorded. The Cincinnati Price
Currents statistics of hog-packing operations
in the West during the summer season indi-
Gated an increase of 30 per cent, over the
movement for the corresponding period last
year. The gain is probably due to the de
creased yield and higher cost of the feeding
staple-corn.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Oct. 3d.
Prices of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows
Best .........................$ 81 % a4.45
Generally rated first quality. $50 a 400
Medium good fair quality....... 2.62 a 3.25
Ordinary thin Steers. Oxen and
Cows ..............................2.0 200 $50
Prices for tops were fully equal to those ruling
last Thursday, but for other grades shade lowe
range ruled The market wound up very slow
with numbers left over unsold.
Mich Cows-There is good demand for gooi
mich COWS at last weeks figures, $20a$50 pc
head.
Veal Calves are slow of sale, with a fair offer
ing. Prices 2laa6c per lb.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 3.-Hogs in only moderate
demand at Aassc lower than last week. Rang
hogs 5a614; most sales at 51aa5A.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 3.-Sheep T5.00as5.50 Fer 10
lbs Lambs 4e614c per pound. Receipts of Sheel
and Lambs 1883.
RICHMOND, Nov. S.-Receipts: 663 head of cat
tie, 33 sheep and lambs and 1,5SS hogs. Sales: 81
head of cattle, SO sheep and lambs, !, 445 hogs
Prices-(All gross except hogs which are net.
Cattle-Best, 334a4c, few extra fine higher
medium to good 3as19c common to fair 114a2a4e
sheep-3a41lc. Lambs-4a51ac. Hogs-519aec. net
Bus-2a21ac.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Valley Turnpike.

At the annual meeting Of the Valley
Turnpike Co. in Harrisonburg, the report OF
the President and Treasurer showed the
cord ton Of road and bridges to be good.
and all the old officers were reelected. Nc
change was made in the rate of toll. Capt.
j. G. Neff was elected Director in place
of Israel Allen Of Shenandoah, deceased.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
The Vote for Tucker IN Staunton and

Below we give the official vote for Mr..
Tucker in Staunton and Augusta, and also
the vote for Mr.. A. Jack Taylor. A few
Republicans voted for MI. Tucker as per-
sonal compliment, but the party generally
Staid at home:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Little Lord Fauntleroy

next Tuesday night will have one of the
most fashionable as well as one of the full
est audiences that has been seen in the
Opera House, if we may judge from the
box sheet.
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DIED.

SCHEFFE R.;---Near Staunton, on the morning OF
Oct 30th, 1890 Mrs. Margaret J. Scheffer. Mrs.
schetfer was born in Hardy Co.. w. Va. in the
year lS24 She was the widow of the late Fred
erlck Schefter, who at one time owned the Vir-
glnla Hotel Of this city, but she had of late
yea made her home with her son-in-law, Mr..
John Rutherford, at whose residence near
Staunton she died, Mrs. Scheffer had been for
many years q faithful and an esteemed mem
Der OF the First Presbyterian church in Staun-
Christian exemplifying those Christian graees
which give true beauty. of character and
strength of influence, and which make her
memory fragrant to those who knew her. Her
death was peaceful, and in the calm triumph
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
The New York COMPANY

is drawing good houses at the Opera House
and deserves them. 1t is a number one
popular price" company aud does all that
it promises on it's bills to do.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
Coming to the Front.

South Iron Gate Co. sold during the past
10 days some Is Or 20 lots at good
prices. The prospects of the company are
very promising houses are being
built there.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
WayneSbOrO.

The Times has the following items:
Dead..-H. Seidenburg, the clothier who
. was knocked from the South River bridge
by the train Wednesday afternoon, died
that night. His remains were sent to Bal
timore. He leaves large family.
Personals. 3. Adams of Staunton.
was in the city Friday.
Miss Mamie Smith, daughter of B. T.
Smith, has typhoid fever at Winchester.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
The Christmas Boom that Is Coming.

Total. 29fo
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
CONSUMPTION OF BEER.

We have received table compiled for,
1.-THE Brewers Handbook" giving the num-
ber Of barrels of beer sold In each Of the
States and Territories of the Union during
the years ending April SO, 1889, and April
30, 1890. From this Tablet appears that IN
the years mentioned no beer was sold by the
barrel in the States Of Arkansas, Florida,
Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina and Yer
mont. DOUBTLESS bottled beer was sold IN
some of these States, but they may be set
down as States in which little beer ls used
in any form. There was decrease last year
in the number of barrels OF beer sold IN Cal
ifornia of 2493 as compared with the pr
yious year, doubtless the result OF the in-
creosing use of wine in that State. The
other States and Territories in which the
beer trade has fallen of are Arizona. the
Dakotas, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Massacnu-
setts. Nebraska, Nevada, aud South Caro-
lima. Massachusetts, shows the greatest de-
crease, and Iowa stands next. The States
where the consumption of beer has most in
creased are the following, given in the order
Of increase: New York, Pennsylvania, Ws-
consip. Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and New
Jersey. The total number OF barrels soid In
the year ending April 81, 1889. was ~, G9aIoo,
and in the following year "a, S2o,953 barrels.
a net increase of /, 722, 11S barrels. There Is
Considerable trade in this fluid in some or
the prohibition States, Iowa taxing las5 year
Ss, ,266 barrels, and Kansas 27Oo.-N't'0aa-
kee Sentinel.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The c. T. A. Neus suggests an enumera-
ton of liquor drinkers.
AW. C. T. U. Of thirty members
has betn organized at TrondhJem, norway.
Instead of State debt upon which to pay
interest. Iowa had q balance in lts Sta1e
treasury last month OF Sl57, ,0Oo.
At Tunkerley, South Africa, there IS an
average of one native found dead every
morning as a result Of excessive drinking. !
The Lord Mayor Of London recently enter
tained thirty-seven total abstinence mayors
from, as MANY different cities in England. :
The State W. c. T. U. Of Connecticut is IN
q very flourishing condition. Two promising
new societies were recently organized by tne
State President, Mrs. S. Is. Forbes, VINO mas
been making tour of the local unions.
Miss Leila Bull, a former member OF tne
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Pittsfeld, Mass, has been a mis-
sionary in Osaka, Japan, for nearly Two
yosrs. She reports that the temperance so-
ciety organized there among tho women "
Mrs. Leayitt now numbers two hundreo
women and that all the officers except tue
President, are japanese. &
Miss Charlotte A. Gray, during recent
tour of the northern towns Of Norway, oD-
tanned more than 600 signatures of women 70
the worlds W. c. T. U. petition against tne
liouor traffic, collected quite sum OF money
for the Woman's Temperance temple, 1ormea
two new societies OF the W. c. 1. u, anu
aroused among the women wherever sne
went more active interest In the temper
ance work. - ...- ..--....--1--- -r--<
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
AVS a house decorator IN the Wash

SAYS house decorator IN the Wash
ington Star: You can bid good-by to
carrara marble. It was all very we'll
up to few years since, but the devel-
opments of our own land and of Mexico
have driven it to the wall. It's most
formidable foe is the Mexican onyx.
This, although it looks soft and creamy,
is as hard as steel, and when once pol
ished is almost indestructible. At
present it is used in small quantities,
and is chiefly known from its white
and yellow varieties. More remarkable
than the onyx is the petrifed wood ol
Arizona and New Mexico. 1t comes in
all colors, and is superior in beauty ard
elegance to most Of the moss agates
used in jewelry. 1t takes magnificent
polish and is not so costly but that it
can be used for mantelpieces, bar
fronts, washstands, ash receivers, table
tops and bureau slabs. The supply is
;nezhaustible." .....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
POPULAR SCIENCE.

It is not generally known that black
coffee is most potent alcoholic neutrali-
Zer.
A method of soldering tin cans by
electricity has recently been devised and
it bids fair to be quite generally used.
An English engineer states that a GER
tain firm has been saved over 100 tons of
coal week by weekly cleaning of their
boilers.
The voracity of the silkworm is great,
consuming as it does in its life of thirty
FIVE days sixty thousand times its primi-
tive weight.
A soldier who had borrowed bugle
belonging to a musician suffering from
tuberculosis became himself victim to
this fatal disease.
The explanation of the peculiar destiny
of thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact
that the vapor is partially condensed into
drops by the electrical action.
Under the most intense chemical rays
of the spectrum ants are thrown into
most violent perturbation, while they go
quietly about their business under the
color rays.
The danger of infection from impure
water is said to be only slightly reduced
by filtration through sand. Bacteria pass
through this medium at all times, but in
larger numbers just after the filter has
been cleaned and again after it has been
used for some time.
Leading authorities seem to agree that
while electricity is an unquestioned sue
cess as q substitute for horses in street
car propulsion, its use instead of steam
locomotives on ordinary railroads must be
postponed at least until many more i'm
provements have been made in electric
engineering.
The use of the electromagnetic for in
dicating the presence of submerged tor
pedocs or lost anchors has been suggest
ed. The magnet, in connection with q
delicate strain dynamometer is lowered
into the water and excited by battery.
The metal will attract the magnet and
the dynamometer will reveal the fact.
The cars on the Jungfrau Railway, in
Switzerland, have movable flaps, which
may be expanded by the guard until they
nearly touch the tunnel lining. In this
way the car becomes q kind of piston,
acting in the tunnel as cylinder, and
the air acts as an automatic brake to
check the speed of the descending car.
A metal has been produced that will
melt at temperature of $50 degrees. 1t
is an alloy of lead, tin, bismuth and cad
MUM, and in weight, hardness and color
resembles type metal. 1t melts so easily
that, placed on comparatively cool part
of the stove with piece of paper under
it, it will melt without the paper being
scorched.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
SIR PROVO WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS.

SIR PROVO WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS.
which ship, in 1904, under the command
Of Captain Robert Laurie, he first went
to sea. This ship, few months later,
in the Atlantic Ocean, fought the French
frigate Vile de Milan, was defeated and
captured, but was recovered q week
afterward, by the British frigate Leander.
The young midshipman Wallis became
a lieutenant, and served in several other
ships during the French war. In 1913,
when Britain was at war with the United
States, he was second lieutenant of the
frigate Shannon, under Captain Broke,
which fought the American frigate Chesa-
peake off Boston Harbor. After that
famous battle, which was a British
victory, when Captain Broke had been
wounded and his first lieutenant killed,
the command of the ship, with its prize,
devolved on Lieutenant Wallis. He was
promoted, and was afterward employed
in different naval services, on the coast
of Mexico, in the Mediterranean, and, in
1857, as admiral and commander-in-
chief on the southeast coast of America.
-On1-a- Week.
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4 STREET DANCER.

one respect. These women are invited
to dance in the harems before women
only, and if they do not dance before
men they are not molested. Their figures
are supple and their movements are not
without grace.
The male dancers shave their faces
smooth and the head from the forehead
to the nape of the neck, the latter q
custom of all Persians; but the side locks
they allow to grow down over the shoul-
ders to resemble women. They also
wear skirts, still further to carry out the
resemblance. Such is the absurd incon-
sistcncy of the Oricntals that they would
be shocked at the impropriety of any
one dancing for pleasure, much less il
company with dancers of the other sex.
The Kara Enenz or Black Eyes offers
one of the most amusing sources of popu-
lar entertainment in Persia. 1t is an
itinerant puppet show analogous to
Punch and Judy. There is the same
little booth, the grotesque dolls moved
by human hands, and the comical con-
versation in squeaking falsetto. The
Kara Enenz is undoubtedly very funny,
and gives immense satisfaction to the
idlers in Persian market place. When
ever it appears q crowd collects, listening
with rapt attention and greeting the
coarse sallies of wit and satire with peals
of laughter and earnest expressions of
"Barikallah!" and "Bah, bah, bah!'
Next to the Tazieh, the least objec-
tionable and most popular sport in
Persia is that of athletic exhibitions. As
one strolls about the streets of Teheran,
he often sees crowd collected intensely
absorbed in some exciting scene. On
approaching and peering through q
chink in this animated mass one finds
that they are gazing on a wrestling
match. Such is the steadiness of the
climate that almost the whole year
around such exhibitions occur out of
doors under the clear sky. But these
are the cheap shows, witnessed chiefly
by the lower classes, the performers be-
ing altogether second rate.
If one would sec the athletes of Persia
at their best, he must see them in the COW
cred arenas where they perform to what
in Boston are called "culturcd audi
ences." The professionals Of Persia form
class by themselves, as distinct from
other pursuits as our actors, as carefully
trained, dietcd and disciplined as cham
pion oarsmen. The athletes of Greece
and Rome thought to maintain their pro-
digious strength by regular, frequent and
violent exercises in the gymnasium
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
"HALT AND HALFn

a temperance writer has given us the fol.
lowing original sentiments concerning the
popular beverage known as ''half and half:
1.-THE title Of ''half and half' is given to Sa
mixture composed Of two sorts of liquor. To
the drunkard's wife it suggests that her
better half" has proved for worse instead
of for better. 1t may also signify the many
half-dollars that have been transferred from
the drunkard's pocket to the saloonkeeper's
till. In some cases it is suggestive Of half:
witted children, born so because their father
was drunkard-half and half--the best half
Of the man gone and the other going. Who
or rwhatshall stop him?-W. C. T. U. BgE
letin. 9555s5s59f.
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THE PASTORS VICTORY.

Many years ago, when drinking habits
were more prevalent than now, Congregap
tional minister in York County preached O.
very strong temperance sermon that made q
sensation in thsparish. Some Of the leading
members Of the congregation felt insulted.
They got up and left the house during the.
sermon, and then sent letter demanding an
apology or the pastors resignation. The
next Sunday the pastor announced from the:
pulpit that be would comply with the gem
tlemen's request in tho evening. OF course I!
everybody Who could go to tho church that
evening was there, the disaffscted ones with
smiles on their faces at thu thought Of how
they had triumphed over the minister. Thsi
worthy man ascendei thu pulpit, went
through the preliminary exercises and then
announced his text-"Aud being convicted !.
by their own consciences they went out one
by one." The sermon preached from that (,
toxt was a sumner, but nothing more was
said about an apology, and the minister did
not resign.-Mount Desert (Ae) Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
TRUTH sUccrNcTLY STATED.

If grand ideas had waited for public senI-
ment, where would We be nowf In the dim;
twilight Of tallow dip instead of this cleo
trio light around US: on the old OK team, in..
stead of enjoying the speed and splendor OF.
the Pullman palace car, and on the temper
.ance question back in the custom Of the dayE
when man could advertise the liquor busi-s
ness on the tombstone OF his father, as was
done when that inscription was made ON a
tombstone in the old country, which comes
to us thus:
"Rere lies below, in hope Of Zion,
The landlord of the Golden Lion;
His son keeps on the business still,
Obefent to his country's will"
George W. BdiB.s
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beings; but the facile, pleasure-loving
Pcrsians have found means to evade the
precepts of the Prophet on these points.
A Persian hand of cards is complete
with q set of four, all face cards. Persian
cards are all painted by hand on little
tablets of papier machc, two inches long
and one inch and quarter wide. Tho
design is executed in water colors, some
times on gold ground, and protected
by 4 glossy coat of thick varnish. The
back and edges are always black. Some
of these cards are very expensive, a pack
costing as high as $40 to $45, although,
of course, such expensive sets are for the
wealthy. But whether for rich or poor,
Persian playing cards are made by hand.
When they first came into use it is diff
cult to ascertain with precision. The
chief game played with these cards re-
sembles brag or poker. It is always
played for stakes, and the sums lost or
won in the houses of the nobility are
sometimes large.
AS for the Persian dancers, there is
little to be said about them that can lead
to an introduction of that form OF the
enter tainmcnt into the United States.
They ale professionals brought up to the
business from the cradle The female
dancers are practically forbidden to exer-
else their vocation by the present law
Of Persia, but the law is dead letter in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-02
SPORTS OF PERSIA.
ORIENTAL METHODS OF KILL
ING TIME.
The Koran Forbids Games of Chance
Male and Female Dancers
Athletes Who Eat Six
Meals O Day.

Excepting this great religious drama
or passion play, called the Tazieh, the
Persians, says S. G. W. Benjamin in
the Mail and Express, have no dramatic
amusements. They partly make up for
this lack by listening to professional
story-tellers and strolling musicians; they
are also addicted to card playing, al
though with much less variety of games
than with European cards. Games of
chance are forbidden by the Koran; so
also are pictures or sculptures Of human