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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03
CLEANED FROM THE MAILS,

President Harrison, Senators Edmunds and
Hawley, and Justice Gray sailed in Commo
dore Bateman's yacht on a duck hunting ex
petition, Thursday, and turning into James
River went up to Lower Brandon
near the former home of the Presi-
dents grandfather. The party kept on to
Richmond and were met on the way by Mayor
Ellyson and other prominent citizens, with an
invitation to stop in that city. The President,
however, had to decline as he was hurrying
to catch the Richmond train for Washington.
The accounts in the Richmond papers would
lead to the inference that an awkwardness in
the Presidents reception of the committee, or
something else more OF less chilly had occur
red. which made the meeting not one to be
exploited over afterwards.
On Christmas eve, Miss Anna c. Jones. aged
seventeen, daughter of Rev. Sam Jones the
evangelist, went riding with Christmas
party from Gainesville, Ga. She and VIM J.
Graham a court reporter, separated from the
party and went to the residence of an Episco-
pal minister and were married. The Young
girls parents were violently opposed to the
marriage and her father had sent her off to
school to prevent it. When Rev. Sam Jones
heard of the marriage he forgave his daughter
and went to the depot to meet her on her re-
turn,
Coy. Goodell of New Hampshire, has Gin
view Of the various heinous crimes which have
been committed in our State within the past
few weeks directly traceable to the use of in
toxieatins liquors. issued proclamation
urging the officers Of the State ''to close up
and suppress every liquor saloon of every
description within our borders New Hamp=
shlre IS dry State and the sale of liquor
there IS violation of the law,
When ex-Presidept Jefferson Davis was ap.
Piled to by Miss Gibbs Southern school
teacher to write sentiment which would
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03

On New Years Day at Richmond, there
was sworn in before the legislature for Gov
ernor Of Virginia for the ensuing four
years, a man who has never used profane
oath, never taken a chew of tobacco, never
smoked, and never been under the influence
of intoxicating liquor during life Of fifty
seven years duration.
There went out of Office On the same day
Christian, a Gentleman and Soldier
who for the last four years has made one
of the best Governors Virginia has had in
her history.
Verify the Democratic party has good
cause fol- pride in the sort of men it furn-
ishes to the Governors Mansion at Rich
mond.
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THE PROTECTED RAILROAD TO
SOUTH A MERTCA

The bill now before the Virginia legisla.
ture providing for the incorporation of the
Columbia Railway and Navigation Com.
Dany, has excited a good deal of interest
not only from the varied and immense works
it asks authority to construct, but also be-
cause some well known residents of Vir-
glnia are named among the corporators.
Among them are H. G. Parsons and S. Fl.
Letcher of Rockbridge, Maj. Jed. Hotch-
kiss and Maj. Ed. Mcmahon of Augusta.
and other prominent men in all parts of the
Union. 1t asks authority to build rail
roads, canals, operate steamship and tele-
graph lines, iron furnaces and so forth.
The maximum Of the capital stock is
$1,000 600, and the minimum 81 900 900.
The enterprise looks to eventuate at some
future day in a railroad to South America
along the back bone of the continent. the
route which was made the subject of a
prize magazine article some years ago by
W. w. Archer of Richmond. The more
immediate purposes Of the company may
be stated to be-To construct a line of rail-
road from some point near the mouth of
the Magdalena river which empties into
the Caribbean sea in the United States of
Colombia, southwardly along the eastern
flank of the Andes and the head waters of
the Amazon, to points in Peru; there to
connect with the Peruvian and Argentine
ian system of railroads at present in opera
ton OIL under construction. From the
mouth of the Magdalena river steamships
will be run to the southern point of Flor
ida and to New Orleans, from whence will
extend railroad connections to all parts of
this country.
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ditiUli with regularity, graded the streets,
organized q 120-ton furnace company, with
100000 capital and commenced building
it, located a large tannery and two extern
sive brick works and with other large en-
terprises already located and in view, put
their 100000 of stock on the market; all
of the stock was taken in a month, being
floated, without expense.
On the 18th of December the town lots
were put on sale. In ten days 700 lots to
the amount Of $500, 900 had been sold, and
by the 21st of December, 10 days from the
beginning of the ssrfe. of lots, the stock had
advanced to $50 and was selling right along.
Such a rapid sale of town lots, such an
advance in the stock of new enterprise
of thekind has not been before known in the
history of similar undertakings in the
South, and there seems to be no let up in
the progress of this unusual improvement.
On the 2lst of December, at meeting of
the Board of Directors, Il dividend of so
per cent. was declared ON tie stock, only
two assessments of ten per cent. each, OF
twenty per cent. in all, having been made
upon the stockholders, but the lot sales had
brought such a revenue into the treasury
Of the company that the directors felt safe
in declaring this remarkable dividend, which
had the effect of making the stock fully paid
up to par value.
This rapid improvement at Salem has
stimulated the railroad enterprise in the
section, and the great N orfolk & Western
Company has decided to begin at once to
lay adouble track from Salem to Roanoke,
1t will also build here the finest passenger
station on this line, using the present
station house for a freight depot, and
the prospects are very favorable for the
completion of the Baltimore Il Ohio Rail
road between Lexington and Salem, gap
of only 81 miles, which is already graded
nearly the whole way.
Property is constantly advancing and
| changing hands every day, capital is COM
| ing in from every direction and taking up
the new lots as soon as the company puts
them on the market. These are rapidly
sold and re-sold and great deal of money
has been made. Real estate agents are
happy, sellers are delighted, buyers are
bright and hopeful, and the quiet people OF
quiet old Salem have become the livest,
busiest, pushingest community have ever
stumbled upon. T.C.M M.
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Again a proh5bitoay tariff is not pr0tectsoe
tariff, for it may destroy that healthy compe-
tition which protective tariff stimulates
Harrdsond@rg Spirit Of the Valley.
Our High Tariff contemporary ought to
hear Senator Blair ON that point. In n ov-
ember, LIE declared in speech in Staunton,
that if protective tariff didn't Keep for
eign goods out Of the United States, pro-
hibitory tariff would be adopted. This SEN
timent, uttered before an audience of Staun-
ton Republicans, was loudly applauded. 1t
is needless to say that it was a city audi
ence and there were no farmers there. The
poor farmer works the year round and
makes wheat at 20 cents a bushel. No
tariff can keep up the price of wheat, which
is has wages, but Mr.. Blair, to keep up the
profits of the factory owners, promises to
increase the tax, if it has to go up to the
prohibitogy point. The poor farmer. If
he complains about this sort of thing, he is
damned for free-trader and an enemy to
American industry. HIS days of sweating
on his farm to raise 70-cent wheat. are not
classed in American industries, by MI.
Blair and those who think with him.
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7 HANKS 10.

In providing for the demands for the
Christmas just past, we are happy and
proud to say that stock of unusual
elegance, richness and tastefulness met
the full appreciation and wants Of
our patrons. We did not under esti-
mate their taste or their liberality
and the present depletion Of our orig
inal large and varied stock proves the
extent Of their approval and their sat
isfaction in the righteousness of our
selections. The result is one Of ex-
ceeding qualification to us, not only
in pecuniary point of view, but in
the appreciation Of our taste and
Judgment, and also by the general and
substantial endorsement Of this taste
and Judgment. We would tail in the
sense Of gratitude if we were to take
as a matter of course these marks Of
such general public favor and pass in
silence the generous patronage which
so amply rewarded our efforts to
please.
We therefore take this method Of
returning our thanks to the public,
giving them the assurance that their
emphatic approval will encourage and
stimulate US to further and higher
efforts in the future to win still
higher claim to general satisfaction.
Very respectfully,
BINKbE & LANG,
jan Sit JEWELLERS.
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The new State of North Dakota NAV
have it's billiards, but no sufferer from
them is likely to warm his interior at a
saloon, unless he does it soon. The Prohi-
bitory law, which goes into effect there on
July l next, forbids the sale Oh gift of
liquor. The first violation Of it is punish
able by fine Of from $500 to 1000, and
each subsequent violation is punished by
Imprisonment not less than one year. An
apothecary can only sell alcohol after the
buyer makes an affidavit that it will be used
for a certain purpose and not for drink.
and if the apothecary should sell it under
any other conditions he is fined, imprison-
ed, and his license taken from him. Con
stables and other officers are given authority
to search any premises where liquor may be
suspected to be hidden. This is the most
rigid prohibitory law in the Union.
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MARKETS.
New York, Dec. %, 1884,
V1Np1cAroR OFFICE,

VINDICATOR OFFICE, I
STAUNToN, VA, Jan. q
The Philadelphia Record of Saturday in its
review of the wheat market for the week,
says: although exports Of wheat were
larger and receipts much smaller last week
than during the preceding week, there was a
further increase of 100000 bushels in the
domestic supply, which, in connection with
| the sluggish holiday trading, influenced de-
cline of u to Is of a cent per bushel in the
| Chicago market. The price of corn has de-
clined ~ cents per bushel in Chicago and "a
| cents in New York, as result of the rapid
| increase in farmers deliveries and in ship
ments from the West to the seaboard. The
export demand has been less active, owing
| to the holiday suspension CT business in Eng
land; but the business already under contract
assures large movement during the next
| three months. Values of provisions have
slightly declined under liberal receipts. of
hogs and lack of speculative support in the
West, but there has been a continued good
distribution both for export and home con-
SUMPTION
Dun & Co. of New York, in their review of
last weeks market say GIN speculative
markets corn has dropped PIC, with sales of
II 900, 900 bushels. Wheat sales were but
100000 bushels, and the price unchanged,
but oats are nearly 1c lower. Pork products
are substantially unchanged. Petroleum Nc
lower, with insignificant trading. Coffee Ac
higher, with sales of only 100000 bags, and
| cotton is steady, with small sales, though the
exports again exceed those of the correspond
ing week last year, and thereceipts are nearly
the same. The belief in very large yield
crease in foreign consumption"
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Dec. 26.-Prices
of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows
$500 1926
| Generally rated first quality. 3.75 a 400
| Medium or good fair quality. 800 3.75
| Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
| zoo a z.|o
| Market slack, receipts light, quality off and
| prices unchanged.
| RICHMOND, Dec. 30-Receipts: 200 head of cat
| tie, 25 sheep and 662 hogs Sales: 209 head of
cattle, 25 Sheep 662 hogs. Prices-[All gross eX-
| cept hogs which are net.l Cattle-Best, 4a414c;
medium to good, 31za37sc common to fair, 2a314c.
| Sheep-4a515c. Hogs-fAa5Lac net. Buls-2a2Ac.
BALTIMORE, Hog MARKET, Dec. 30.-Supply of
| Hogs light, trade fair and prices firm. We quote
| common rough Hogs at 41aa4M cents, and the
| better grades at 5a5M cents per lib net. Receipts
of Hogs this week 5,l56 head.
BA LTIMoRE, Dec. 3o.-Receipts of Sheep 24l
with sales at $3a$1.S5 per 100 lbs, and Lambs to
! cents per lb, quotations gross.
STANTON PRICE CURRENT.
WHOLESALE PRICE OF STAUNTON MARKET
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THE COMING CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST
SALEM s REMARKABLE BOOM-S3O0, 600
WORTH OF LOTS SOLD IN TEN DAYS
STOCK PAID UP IN TWO ASSESSMENTS
TRANSACTIONS MADE IN A DAY,
&C. &C &c

Correspondence of The Staunton INDICATOR I
SALEM, VA, December 29.-Salem is one
of the prettiest towns in Virginia, situated
in a rich and beautiful little valley in Roam
oke county, at the head Of the great Valley
of Virginia, between the Allegheny and
Blue Ridge Mountains; for the last forty
years the seat of Roanoke College, pros
porous and important educational institu-
ton Of the South, and the home Of refined
society and enterprising citizens.
The region is healthy, the climate balmy,
the air pure, the water excellent, the drain :
age naturally perfect, it's location upon the
great Norfolk & Western Railroad and the
Roanoke river, convenient and central, and
surrounded by mountains rich with the
best Of iron ores, she lacked nothing but
well directed enterprise to make her one of
Virginia S important cities.
That opportunity has come to her and
she is making good use of it. On the End
Of last October, the Salem Improvement
Company was organized by some of Salem S
active and wealthy citizens aided by others
from abroad. The officers and directors
are J. w. f. Allemong, d. B. Strouse, S.
F. Simmons, 7. J. Shickel and E, S. Stray
Ell, of Salem; Chas. G. Eddy and B. g,
Pechin of Roanoke; James A. Bonsack,
Clarence NJ. Clark and A. c, Denniston of
Philadelphia.
This company with an authorized capital
of ST 200, 600. purchased 900 acres Of BEAU
tifully lying land adjacent to the town with
a river and railroad front Of a mile and a
quarter; extended the streets of Salem
through the improvement, laid off the adj
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Henry W. Grady.

True hearted friend of all true friendliness!
Brother of all true brotherhoods!-Thy hand
And its late pressure now we understand
Most fully, as it falls thus gestureless
And silence lullS thee into sweet excess
OF sleep. Sleep thou content-Thy loved South
land
Is swept with tears, as rain in sunshine; and
Through all the frozen North our eyes confess
Like sorrow-seeing still the princely sign
Set on thy lifted brow, and the rapt light
OF the dark, tender, melancholy eyes
Thrilled with the music of those lips of thine,
And yet the fire thereof that lights the night
With the white spendor of thy prophecies.
James Whatconab Riley.
New York Dec 3d. 1889
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The Evening World is the name of a
new daily afternoon paper at Roanoke, of
which MI. Geo. P. Button is editor and
Messrs. J. P. Ackerly, A. H. Dooley and
Charles II. Cox, owners. The World
gives promise of being journalistic hustler
in that hustling ''Magic City.n
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03

That excellent paper the Richmond State
is now published by a stock company-the
State Newspaper Company, of which Col
Richard T. Beirne is President, MI. VIM
Ryan, Vice President, and MI. W. W
Archer Secretary and Treasurer. The two
last named gentlemen have been long the
able assistants Of Col. Beirne, and theil
friends will be glad to see them now inter
ested in the profits Of that valuable news
paper property.
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OLD g NEW BUSINESS.

r HE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be-
tween Isaac and Moritz Witt, under the
firm name of !. Wits Bro, conducting a gem
eral dry goods and carpet business has been
closed except for the collection and winding up
of that concern.
We return our sincere thanks for the long eX-
lsting patronage which we have received. 1t is
of great importance that our books be settled up,
and we earnestly request all persons indebted to
as to settle their accounts as soon possible.
l. WITT,
NORTH WITT.
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Gov. Lee says. and the Auditors report
confirms it, that Virginia would fall short
by $4,000 of paying the interest Oh the
debt if all the creditors funded under the
Riddleberger bill. That is an unanswera-
bic argument for High Lineense, Let the
State adopt that and make both ends meet,
with the middle slack,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03

The Congressional Committee which is
sitting in Washington to take evidence on
the tariff, is eliciting some queer evidence
which to say the least of it will not please
President Harrison. One of the latest
witnesses before it was Gen. J. d. limbo.
den from Virginia. He said he was pro-
tectionist, but:
We are compelled to stand together there
Under certain conditions, the tariff sinks
into insignifcance. In the recent election l
voted, with extreme reluctance, the Demo
cratic ticket, but did it.. tLaughter:] ]
think | need not go any farther than call at
tention to the action of the President, whom
| respect, and of the Speaker of the House
whom | sincerely respect. Both are able anC
patriotic and sincere men, but they have put
the stamp on men in the South whom we dc
not vote for. The President has not selected
as a representative OF the people single
Southern man to a foreign mission. In The
House there are sixteen Republicans from the
South. Only one got the Craftsmanship of &
committee On this question of protection
am Republican,; on local questions am
Democrat. Laughter
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03

1t is mournful news to commence the
New Y ear with, but it is hardly possible
that the health of Samuel J. Randall will
permit his ever entering the halls of Con-
gress again.
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THEY MUtsT 60 TO THE R0OT on
THE NATTER.

This government is just now engaged in
paradoxical effort to increase its pros
perity. 1t is, at the expenditure of many
thousands, conveying the representatives of
the South American republics to every
large city of our Union, showing them our
manufactures and soliciting the trade of the
republics they represent. On the other
hand there is sitting in Washington a
congressional committee hearing witnesses
on the subject of the tariff, and the chief
purpose of which is to form tariff which
will keep out the products of these same
republics whose trade we are trying
to get. Both cannot be done. When Pres
ident Arthur IS Tariff Commission appeared
in Chill in 1885 the Valparaiso Union of
May 9TH of that year, thus pointedly sum-
med up the situation
| We believe, as do some American writers
whose articles we have seen reproduced here
| and in Santiago, that the United States do not
| find markets for their products in South Amer
| lea because the United States has shut her
doors to the products of South America. The
/ United States Government has by means of its
| heavy tariff pretended to realize the impossi-
BILE, OF the absurdity to sell to all the world
without buying anything from ANYBODY.
Commerce is made up OF exchanges of mer-
| chandSe in which each country cedes to the
other those products which it produces of a
better quality and with less expense owing to
the better natural advantages with which it
may be blessed; and, therefore, in political
economy it is an axiom that products are
paid for with products, and that a country
cannot buy without selling OF sell without
buying.
This being so, it does not need much keen
ness to discover the origin of the evil, and to
point out the remedy. If English goods come
here in large quantities, 1t IS because the ports
OF GREAT Britain are open to Chal5an products
If we buy of the English, it is because they
do not repel through protective tariff the
articles we produce and of which we can
avail ourselves to pay for what we buy
And, if the United States desire to enioy tie
benefit which the English reap from this
commerce, they have only to initiate their ex-
ample, lowering their tariff and opening theil
ports to us.
That contains it all If by high pro-
tective tariff we drive off the products of
other countries they will not, and cannot,
take the manufactures of our own. The
American workman has less work to do and
consequently less wages. The American
farmer has less people able to buy his bread
and consequently lower prices for his wheat.
That is about what, and all, that a high
tariff does, save the creation of surplus
I in the Treasury of the peoples taxes.
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TIE NEW BUSINESS
ISAAC WITT, J. T. LIGHTNER and M. HENRY
WITT, under the firm name of
AIITZ IGLEMER q. ca

succeed the old firm of l. Witt & Brother. and
will continue the same business at the old stand,
No. 20 Main Street, so long occupied by the old
firm. New and fresh goods will be regularly
added to the full stock always found at this
stand. In completeness of styles and quality,
Carpets, Curtains, Notions &C., will please every
taste and are offered at the lowest prices.
We respectfully ask continuance of the pat
ronage which was SO long enjoyed by our prede-
ceSSors in business. l. WITT,
j. T. LIGHTNER.
jan SIT M. EENRY WITT.
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CONNECTIONS.
Train 41S connects at Harpers Ferry with
Vestibule Limited Train leaving at 1896 p. M,
arriving in Pittsburg al $50 p. m. Columbus 1925
a. next morning. Chicago at 1855 m. next
morning.
| With Vestibule Limited leaving Harper's Fer
ry at 1880 p. M, arriving in Cincinnati at 1886
m. next morning; st. Louis at $50 p. m. next
Arriving at Frederick at 2:15 p. IN.
b. & o. Palace Sleeping run through to
Pittsburg, Cincinnati ST. Louis and Chicago
All Fast Express Trains run through to above
points without change of cars.
For rates, tickets, baggage checks apply to any
office of the B. & o. II. r., to G. E. DUDROW,
Travelling Passenger Agent, Winchester Va
J.T ODELL,
General Manager.
CHAS. o. SCULL,
General Passenger Agent dec6.
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MARRIED..

LANCASTER-HOLLA DAY.-November 9th,
1889, at Yokohoma, Japan, by the Rsy James
ter, Missionary at Hangchow, China, to Miss
Mary Littlepage Holiday, of Hampden Sid
ney, Va.
AMPBELL-BAKER.- 9th, 1889, at
the residence of Mrs. A. V. Green near Green
VILE Augusta county, Mr.. S. F. Campbell, of
Buena Vista, to Miss Mollie Baker, of Culpeper
county, Va.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -In Hagerstown, Md,
Dec 25th by the Rev. Samuel j Baird, ID. D.,
Mr. Zachary L. Chenoweth of Beverley,W Va,
to Miss Esther E. Baird, daughter Of the Off
ciating minister
Montebello, Nelson Co.,
Dec Goth, by Rev. r. e. Gleason, MI. Shepherd
Hight of Rockbridge to Miss Julia Cash.
daughter of Mrs. Minnie Cash.
the same day and by the
same, Mr.. VIM. Cash to Miss Dora, daughter of
Mrs Minnie Cash.
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nESIRA BILE HOME FOR SALE-That very
~ desirable residence on North Coalter st.
formerly occupied by VIM. j. Nelson, for sale Oh
reasonable terms. For particulars apply to
dec27 At CHAS. +. NELSON.
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Published every Friday. Price 81 per year; 81
fer six months, and so 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. Rockbrdge, Rocking
ham, Allegheny, Highland and Bath Counties
Gives general and local news; stories and mis-
eellany; reliable commercial reports.
II. c. TINSLEY,
A. S. MORTON