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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Democratic majorities in Virginia are
as follows-Accomac district, 2, 1855: Nor
folk district, 1856: Richmond district mo
opposition candidate) 1881; Petersburg
district, 3,345; Danville district, 1907;
Lynchburg district, 1854; Rockingham
district, S,942; Alexandria district, 3.3lS:
Abingdon district, 1900; Staunton district,
with Appomattox to hear FROM S,779.
The Republicans only had nominees in the
Accomac, Abingdon. n orfolk and Peters,
burg districts, and there was all indepen-
dent Democrat running in the Alexandria
district. There was no opposition to speak
of in any other. The whole Democratic
vote cast, with Appomattox and Scott to
hear from. was 24,l16. In 1883 it was
151, 1854, and in 1885 102, $50. The following
is the vote by counties i'll the Staunton
district
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 81, 1890.
staunton's population is 1888 by the
official recount.

1.-THE VINDICAToR having landed itself
squarely into the free trade camp, wewill al
low it to revcl in its new found association.
We have been tolling it along, thinking that
would be the finality. To support the Demo-
cratic theory of our custom laws IS to support
free trade to all intents and purposes. 10
follow the argument to its logical conclusion
is what the VINDICAToR has done, and there
fore announces for free raw material '-VG!-
lea Frgin5an. Noe. a.
In view of the events of November 4th,
this comes to us as a voice from the tomb.
If the advocacy Of free raw material is free
trade, as our contemporary would have it,
how is it that it wasa vigorous supporter
of the Mckinley bill which admits free raw
material to make shoes, and free raw mate
rial to make fertilizer, and free raw mate
rial in sugar? If free raw material is an
exclusively Democratic theory how is
it that we find Senator Allison Of Iowa,
pronouncing the duty On wool "a fraud up
on the great body of the people," How is
it that we find Senator Dawes Of Massa-
chusetts. saying: IF you lay duty on
raw material you discriminate against
American labor How is it that VIM. d.
Kelley of Pennsylvania, the father" of
Protection said: LET the raw material
come in. Let us make blankets that vii
drive out English blankets" How is it
that Henry Wilson Of Massachusetts. said:
II think American labor will lie best pro-
tected by taxing all the necessaries of life
lightly, and placing the raw materials which
enter into our manufactures on the free
list How was it that the present Vice
President of the United States. then a
member of the House of Representatives,
voted for free salt. Why did President
Arthur S Secretary of the Treasury say in
his report that 1.-The existing duties upon
raw materials which are to be used in man
ufactures should be removed Free raw
material is not q free trade'' OF a ''Demo-
cratic theory" but a common sense theory
which at this date is held by the most ad-
vanced thought of the country in both po-
litical parties. 1t is theory which it is
idle to fight against, and which our High
Tariff co temporary had as well begin max
ing up its mind to accept.
In the matter Of tolling the VINDICA.
TOR along ''into the free trade Campo oul
contemporary has hesitated at no sacrifice to
accomplish its object. 1t has tolled ninety
six Republican members Of the House Of
Representatives into private life It has
tolled six Republican Senators into retire
ment, and it has toled every one of the
forty-four States of the American Union
except eleven, into the Democratic column
We do not remember ever to have seer
the tolling of an unsuspecting Democratic
editor attended by such an awful loss OF
Republican political life as this.
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The Manufacturer of Philadelphia, an
extreme high-tariff, Mckinley bill paper
says: whatever else is indicated by this
astonishing political revolution, the fact
presented with strongest and most impress
slve emphasis is that majority of the
voters nave pronounced against the Nc
kinley bill particularly and the protectiL
system generally That is just about the
size of it, The VINDIcAToR two years
ago uttered the warning that the advo-
Gates of the present protective system"
were the worst enemies Protection had and
would end by provoking a revolution of the
people against the whole system. 1t has
come true to the letter.
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THE ORE TRACT.

The iron ore tract of the company lies
Immediately in rear of the town. You APP
proach it through a gorge. 1t has two
veins of brown hematite ore, one away up
the side Of the mountain and the other low
Ell. The miners were at work bla ting il
the upper one to-day. 1t is the same vein
in the opinion OF those who know, that sup
plies the Low-moor furnaces, and it is a
fact that you may not be aware of, that the
Lowmoor iron brings 81 a ton more than
any other iron made in this reggi6ff.
Throughout this tract and covering the
mountain is poplar White and chestnut
oak, and ash. and the best of it is well loca-
ted fSff saving.
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fuckers majority, without the vote of APP
pomattox, S,779.
The next congress now stands Democrats
249, Republicans 81. OF the Democratic
members III come from the Southern
States, and 1872 from the Northern States.
Gen. Jno. 3. Gordon was elected L. S.
Senator from Georgia Oil Tuesday last. The
vote between the two principal candidates
stood-Gordon 100, Pat. Calhoun 25. The
Alliance has large majority in the legis-
lature, but the Alliance members decided
not to adopt Calhoun or anybody else as
their candidate
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-21

GANTA KLAUS FEST AGAIN.-lefore civ
- ing a full programme of this attra CITY e
enterta inment which the Ladies' Auxiliary Y. M.
c \. Will give on Dec. Hin, SIN and 9th. the Fres-
dent and chairmen of committees wish to make
one more appeal to their friends and those of the
Association for contributions Of money, fancy
work and dolls; the members of the Auxiliary
are sparing neither time nor trouble in making
this entertainment attractive in every feature
and aid from friends VIII greatly encourage
them. Please send your contributions of the
above named articles not later than L &c. LIST to
Mrs. a. NJ. Henkei's, Main ST. nov 2I-1t
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Our esteemed and devout Republican
contemporary, the Charleston, w. Va,
Star, having recovered from November
4th sufficiently to look around, announces
that Nv. E. Hall (Republican) was elected
constable Of I-oudon district, - and piously
adds That IS another thing the Democrats
didn't get, for which let us be thankful.''
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TO the pl otd minded, enterprising men who
are making their words good to day. And
in the courageous process of making them
good, you are going to find no more thriving,
more successful enterprise than the new
town of Lowmoor. It has struck the
II. CT.
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The election is over, but the prices keep
going up. The Chicago packers this week
advanced the price Of canned meats quar-
ter OF a cent a pound to cover the ad-
vanced cost OF tin plate owing to the Nc
Kinley bill 4.
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Mr.. McComas Of Maryland is said to
look ''in good condition after the arduous
duties of his campaign - which resulted in
his defeat. He opened his campaign by the
announcement that The people would rise
up and bless Tom Reed Instead of it,
they rose up and damned Nc Comas.
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GLEANED FROM THE MAILS.

At Grace church Petersburg, Va, Sunday
afternoon, Rev. Job Turner (dea- -mute) bap-
tized the infant of two deaf-mute parents.
large congregation witnessed the novel cere-
mony.
Charles Jones, a brother of Rev. Sam Jones
shot and killed Jim Young, colored, at Car
tersville, Ga, Saturday. Jones is in jail
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1t would be Profitable.

Editor Vindicdtor
Can't you call attention through the col
umns of your paper to the building of ''Soa]
Factory at some place in the county, wher
we can send our grease i'll exchange for laun
dry and toilet soap, and save an immens
amount of labor and expense to
MANY HOUSEKEEPERs.
Staanton, Non, Is
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1t is Legal from November to
February /.
Editor TiRdicat0r

Editor Tindicat0r:
Please inform me through the columns OF
your paper whether or not the law allows a
person the right to trap OF net cartridges in
this county. Parties who are now netting
them claim they have a right TO do SO provid-
ed they do it on their own land.
j. A. BAsHAw.
Stanton, Nor. II.
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CARC.-Messrs. Editors: Much to my sur
"A prise have just learned of my election as
and Treasurer of a CONT any to publish
a daily Newspaper in S,aunton Whist / am
heartily in favor of the scheme, and have devo-
tee some time to its promotion, [ cannot accept
the position OF Secretary and Treasurer. NV bus
mess engagements elsewhere utterly preclude
any such idea. was not consulted in the matter
or else should not have allowed the use of nv
name. l appreciate the kind motives of my
friends in presenting suitable person for
the place. but feel bound i'll duty 10 ether posi-
t ons OF trust which l now hold, TO decline the
ONCE. an ours truly
21-1t W. Il. McCIJE
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TIE FUTURE OF Low-MooR.


l have long ago expressed my opinion of
the success of every enterprise that
has been undertaken in this iron
region. Their future rests on precisely
the things that made Pennsylvania the En-
pire State Of the Union as far as iron man.
ufactures are concerned. These mountains
are destined to be as full Of manufacturing
and mining towns as those of Pennsylva-
Mia, and these town lots that we see selling
to-day at few hundreds, will in due time be
sold for thousands. In writing this to day,
am only repeating what Commodore
Maury, Prof. Rogers and other distinguish
ed men wrote nearly forty years before me.
They were the ''boomers" and swr1ters
up'' of their day, and it is but fair to say
they had as many doubters us the writer's
of this day. But for all that, Time has
shown that they truly told the wealth that
Virginia owned, and which, but for the
accused institution of slavery, would have
been developed aIalf century ago and made
Virginia as far ahead Of the rest Of the
Southern States, as Pennsylvania is to-day
ahead of her. AS / so to these new enter
prises and see what is being done, trans
fer my gratitude from the great men of
forty years ago who predicted the future,
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tract, which was bought by Peter cLaren
for $500, OQ0 last year and for which / am
Informed he has been offered by English
investors $1.000,O00, but refused it. To
the West of that you see the famous Rich
Patch iron tract, which is already building
a railroad to The c. &c o. road just West OF
Lowmoor A little further West in the
circle you strike the Low-moor iron tract
where their mining is going on. South of
you, as you turn, you come to the iron
tract of the Allegheny Mining and I'M
proyement Company, and every hour OIL SO
hear the blast of their mining corps at
work. 1t looks as if Nature had shot the
pretty town site right into the bull 's-eye of
the iron ore circle! Turning to the East,
through the approach by which you came
here, is town after town humming with
industry. Almost touching this company's
property is West Clifton Forge with its
acres of railtoad shops and round-houses.
Within a stone throw OF that is the busy
town Of Clifton Forge. just around the
corner is Iron Gate with its rolling mill
and agricultural works, and nearby is
Longdale furnace. | don't think there is
any risk in saying that, independent of the
mechanics fof these towns, there will be
5000 miners employed around the town of
Low-moor within a year, and that with
equal certainty there will be more furnaces
built. With such surroundings it is hard
to oyerstate the value of the location of the
rev town of LOW-moor
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THE COMPANY.

When the company was organized its
capital stock Of $3.50, 900 at 500 share, PAL
value, was speedily taken up. The advan-
tages of the locality were so manifest and
numerous, that the stock was sought after
To be frank about it, am not at all sure
that it needed an organized company to in
sure the establishment Of a town here. The
spot has an environment that would have
made town here anyhow, mo matter whether
a company had undertaken it OF nOt-pretty
much on the sane principle that when
you see an eligible vacant square in the
centre of a busy city you are sure that it
must sooner OF later be covered with houses.
For that is just the situation of the town
of LoW-moor. If it had been left alone
West Clifton Forge would have run into
it in due time, and the operators in the
great mining tracts around it would have
made it their central point as they will do
now.
The company is company of men well
known to the public. The President is
Maj. S. M. Y ost Of Staunton, gentleman
who has done as much towards calling the
attention OF the country to Virginia as a
field for development, as any man in the
State, and who has long been pointing out
the very spots in the promised land of the
old Commonwealth, Oh which enterprise
has settled iii the last two years. He is
entirely familiar with all the advantages of
the locality selected for the new town of
Low-moor.
The Vice President and General Mana
ger is Capt. Hamilton Shepperd of War
renton, who is known throughout Virginia
as al ;,ctiye man of affairs, and who has
been prominent in this development era.
The Secretary and Treasurer is Capt.
John McQuaide, a prominent citizen of
Staunton, one of its most active public
men, and member of its City Council.
The Directors, besides the above officers.
are James l.. Barbour, a well known mer-
chant of Washington City.
Geo. A. Mushback of Alexandria, a rep
resentative OF that county in the House of
Delegates.
J. W. Perry, a cotton broker of Norfolk.
w. II. Fowle Of Roanoke, and formerly
a well known citizen of Staunton, and
j. T. Crb5ens of Staunton, who is large
~ interefteI in the enterprises nov go NO
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The new town of the Allegheny
Mining and Improvement Company located
here took me somewhat by surprise. Like
many others, had formed mental picture
Of Low-moor without having seen it, and |
always imagined it as a craggy industrial
nook in the hollow of a mountain where an
Improvement company would naturally
present each purchaser Of a lot with d
rope ladder and toboggan slide. This morn
ing it appeared to me that the end of oui
train had hardly cleared the magnificent
array of shops and round houses the c. & @
Ry. Co. has erected at West Clifton Forge
before we turned q hill and dashed into q
level, sun-lighted plain at the foot Of Whicl
runs river! That was Low-moor-;
very different thing from what l had pic
tured it.
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\ lsASS-HOPPERS, BUMBLE BEES, BUGS
VI Potato and Iady).-This wonderful cam
tata will be rendered at The Opera House tonight,
November 21st. Come and have good laugh.
Music by vocalis,s who have never appeared be-
fore a Ssa Gnton audience. assisted by the Stone
wall Eand. Admission to orchestra and Orches
ira Circle Sc; Balcony PC. Tickets at DIVERS.
nov 2l-1t
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Pastor 1st Pres. Oh. ST

L dSlcI ISL L les. CU OrdullIOn, V a
NoDehab5r 18th, 1899.
After the reading Of the letter, Eldel
VIM. A. Burke offered the following pre-
amble and resolutions
WHEREAS the Rev. Dr.. Mcfarland having
sisnifed his intention to apply to Lexington
Presbytery to dissolve his pastoral relation
with this church, on account of the condition
of his health, and having asked the church tc
unite in the request;
Res0t9ed 1st.-That this meeting fully be-
lieves that our interests will suffer great in
jury by dissolution of the said relation, and
therefore declines at present to concur.
Re5olcea 2l-That this meeting recognizes
the fact that our pastors physical condition
demands that he be relieved for a time from
his abundant and arduous labors.
Resoleal 31.-That Dr. Mcfarland be earn
estly requested to reconsider and withdraw
his proposition and to continue as pastor on
the following conditions:
THAT he take vacation, away from
home if practicable, for as many weeks as, in
his opinion, may be-necessary OF desirable.
2.-That thereafter, for at least one year, he
preach only one sermon a week, on Sunday
morning, and that he conduct no service on
Sunday and Wednesday nights.
3.-That his attendance and service at fu-
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60 100 WANTED for a comfortable home
~. lOO on Lewis st. Will also sell for a
moderate price nice brick residence on
Augusta, and large building lot on Main street.
Apply A. S. BERK ELEY,
nov 2l-lt* Real Estate Agt, % w. Main st.
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TlNsLEY & MORTON, Proprietors.

Published every Friday. Price 81 per year; 81
for six months, and so cents for Inonths-invar-
ably in advance.
Transient advertisements 10 cents per line each
Insertion. Contracts for longer terms made at
the counter.
Local circulation in Augusta. Rockhrdse, Rocking
ham. Allegheny, Highland and Bath Counties
Gives general and local news; stories and mis-
eellany; reliable commercial reports.
II. G. TINSLEY,
A. S. MORTON.
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A CONGREGA RATIONAL MEETING OF THE
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DE
CLiNES AT PRES SENT TO JOIN DIR. NC
FARLAND IN ASKING FOR A SEPARA-
TION-IT PROPOSES ALL THAT LOVE
AND ANXIETY CAN THINK OF TO IN
DUCE HIM TO STAY-DR. MCFARLAND
WILL PREACH NEXT SUNDAY AND
THEN BE ABSENT ON A TRIP OF SOME
WEEKS--HE WILL ANSWER THEIR PROP
OSTTION AFTER RETURNING TO THE
CITY.
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A NATURAL LAKE.


And while talking of the attractiveness
Of the place, 1t follows that / should speak
Of the natural lake which commences about
hundred yards from the hotel site. Of
all the places [ have visited I have never
seen such luck as this company has had in
getting something for nothing. | suppose
the lake l am about to tell you of would
have cost the company just 100000 OF
more to make it. When the General Mana
ger and 1 mounted our horses for this part
of the inspection he said: 81 am going to
show you the prettiest thing you ever saw
in your life" | had heard that remark
from General Managers before, so made
no response. But when the ssprettiest
thing" came in sight 1 must confess it
broke up my reticence. Without question
have seen in Virginia. 1t is a lake twenty
feet deep, of pure spring water, a half mile
long and in it's centre are two beautiful
islands. The back ground of the lake is an
almost perpendicular height covered with
trees of small growth. and at the foot of
this runs a roadway which is to he widened
to sixty feet. On the other side of the lake
runs the railroad, and on that side there
will also be a sixty foot way, Which will
make a circular drive around the lake. If
there is any prettier lake in any public
park OIL at any watering place in this coun-
try, / have not seen it. And it is all here
for nothing and cannot, as | have said, be
duplicated for a hundred thousand dollars.
On one side of the lake, running out of the
precipice. is one Of tie strongest Of alum
springs, above which you can see the spark
ling crystals Of alum glistening through
the rocks. The lake itself is filed by Il
spring OF free stone water about two hun
dred yards off. and which furnishes water
enough for a population of 5000.
A FORTUNATE LOCATION.
While I an on this subject of getting
something for nothing, 1 may as well fur
Their illustrate the good luck of this COM
pany. Without a dollar of cost to them
selves, they have next to and touching Oh
their town site, an iron furnace in full
operation, turning out eight hundred tons
of pig a week, and employing about 700
men. [ suppose that the interests of the
Low-moor Furnace company including
their works and mines here must be over
81 100000. Indeed the projectors of this
new town have settled down in nest of
, industries ready made to their hand. Draw
a circle around the town Of LoW-moor and
you will see what you enclose. On the
! North it touches the great Douthat iron ore
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The Town Of Low moor
Tie Bulls Eye Of The Allegheny Iron Or
Circle.

TUNE OF THE LLEGTIANY MINING AND
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY-THE M
MENSE INV ESTMENTS AROUND us
TOWN sITE-ITS NATURAL LAKE-
THE COMPANY'S ORE BANKS-A SOLID
PENNSYLVANIA MINING AND MANU-
FEATURING TOWN OF 5000 PEOPLE IN
SIGHT.
SC, SC, &C.
Editorial Correspondence of the Staunton Vim
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PLAIN AND TO THE POINT.


AS We lode over that portion of the COM
pany's property that is being improved
for the town, l asked General Mana
ger Shepherd what sort of town they had
in view. ''Weh," he said, 1--WE don ex-
pect to build Chicago OIL New York. We
expect to have a pretty, solid, mining and
manufacturing town after the Pennsylvs.-
MIA kind, of about 5000 inhabitants. The
manufacture of the products of Low-moor
furnace is as certain to follow here as it
has everywhere else. We have set aside
twenty-five acres for sites for that kind
features that in turn always follow them.
| We intend to have an attractive town with
comfortable and attractive homes for the
Worklngmen, and, as you have seen, fine
sites for those who wish to build more
costly homes. We intend to put up a
pretty hotel here, u modern Inn, something
on the style of that of Iron Gate, and it
Shall be kept in the best style, SO that sum-
ner visitors will find it worth while to stop
here. Our drainage into the river is perfect
and our land is, as you see, withouta single
lot pefched on hill, OF at any point not
perfectly accessible. The belt railway
which will be built from the G.. & 0. at tie
Eastern point of the town, will pass all the
way around the industrial part of the town
and join the road again on the other side
so manufacturers will have no trouble Oh
account Of easy shipments. We have two
gentlemen now at the North and West te
make arrangements with manufacturers tc
come here
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GRAZING FARM FOR SALE!

Situated on Eastern slope of Blue Ridge, 8
miles from Greenwood Depot and from Basic
City, contains about 800 acres. is well adapted
to grazing. This is a fine chance for a good
bargain. For further information apply to
THOS. SEMNl ES,
noy14 1t Alexandria, Va.