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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-08
Church Notes,

On Sunday, the 18th inst, the pretty lit
tie United Brethren church on Lewis street
will be dedicated. The services will be
conducted by Bishop J. W. Holt of Wood
bridge, California. This church, which is
already too small for it's increasing congre-
cation, is the outcome of series of revival
meetings in a hall on Main street, conduc-
ted by that energetic young minister, Rev.
J. D. Donovan, who is now the pastor. The
congregation then formed though not rich
in money, was rich in energy and devotion
to the cause and the result of this devotion
is the present handsome church. 1t has
the largest Sabbath school in its Conference
and the popularity Of it's young pastor
aided by an earnest body of church officers,
has doubled the number OF the church MEM
bers in year, one result being that the
newly dedicated church of next Sunday
week. will soon have to be enlarged.
Rev. H. G. Du Bose of Staunton. the
missionary to China, preached in the First
Presbyterian church at Lynchburg last
Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. J. E. Holt has sold his property at
Dayton, Rockingham, after a residence Of
three years there, and moved to the par
sonage of Augusta U. B. Circuit at Spring
Hill.
Rev. A. r. Cooke of Waynesboro, has
been selected to deliver the address before
the Society of Missionary Inquiry at Union
Theological Seminary during the com
mencement, May 5th.
Rev. L. B. Johnston of the Harrison
burg Presbyterian church has declined q
to enter the Synodical Evangel-
ical work, a decision which so much
pleased his congregation that they gave
him pound party.
Capt. III. L. Hoover of the LIST church
and Capt. 7. G. Morton Of the End church.
left Wednesday to attend the meeting Of
Lexington Presbytery at Messy Greek.
The Calvary, M. e. Church South, near
Stuart's Draft, will be dedicated Sunday,
May 18th. Three services will be held on
that day.
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City Council.

The City Council held its regular meet
ing Tuesday night,
MI. Garter Harrison, civil engineer, was
employed temporarily at 500 per month to
do the engineering required i'll the street
Improvement.
The bid Of W. II Hoge for grading and
macadamizing streets, was accepted.
The purchase of the new building to be
erected by B. L. Bagby next to the Main
street school for 81 ,000, for use us a public
school, was ordered and the issue of 81, GOO
of city bonds was directed.
The Pavilion at the park was rented to
Chas. +. lesser at $la4 a year.
A proposition to lower Gospel Hill from
Market street to the street-crossing in
front of j. III. Blackley's was laid on the
table in order to ascertain the cost Of the
work,
The sum OF $3.50 Was appropriated to the
Stonewall Brigade Band, conditioned on
their giving two concerts week III the
park from May 10Th to October ISL
A communication was received from A.
q. Gordon, Commonwealth 5 Attorney,
suggesting that fol- health convenience and
economy, the Mayor S courtroom he mov-
ed from the City Hall cellar to the old Y.
M. G. A. room.
The rent Of The Opera Hause was rcduc-
ed to $40 = pight for ille Wesleyan Female
Institute MAY Goth and June lst), Odd
Fellows, and Second Presbyterian church
The balance in the City Treasury May l
was 81 ,042.
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Good Templar Lodges Formed.

On Monday night last, De. E. w. Kirby,
Deputy Grand Chief Templar, delivered q
lecture on Temperance in the U. B. church
on Lewis street, his especial theme nelng tlle
Good Templar organization. After the
services he secured the names of ten OF
Twelve persons who were taken to the
lodge room and initiated that night. pf.
Kirby has, for the past two weeks, been
lepturing in this county with good success,
He has organized two new lodges, one at
Parnassus last week, and one at Basic City
Sunday night, besides adding largely to the
new lodge at New Hope. Next week the
Doctor will lectureip Rockbridge the other
county in this district He delivered az
able address which was well received by
his large audience,
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John Roblnson's Show.
| GENEROUS MONOPOLY.

GENEROUS MONOPOLY.
Monopolies are almost exclusively organ
lied upon the basis Of giving the people the
least possible quantity and charging them
the biggest possible price for it. In plain
words, this is swindling. Envious inferi-
GRITTY sometimes calls our 'sGreatest Show
on Earth" a monopoly. Well, SO it is; but
mark well in what a different sense and
upon what different principles. 1t gives
the public q great deal more, and of a bet
ter quality, for the least possible price,
than was ever given, OF any one else can
give. This is the broad, honest and gener-
Gus basis upon which we are monopolizing
the business Of travelling shows. The field
is a big one. Let others do likewise, if
they want to, OIL can.
A visit to this great show, vastly aug
mented by the addition of the masterpiece
of the master mind of American artists,
viz, King Solomon, his Temple, and the
Queen of Sheba, replete with sacred real
isms, historical accuracies, biblical events,
colossal professional features. bewitching
ballets, sacrifcial ceremonies, and the
splendors and glories Of the court of Solo
mon, the seer, the patriarch, and grandest
and greatest of ancient kings, will prove
one Of the most interesting and enjoyable
events of our day. Staunton. Tuesday
MAY 12th.--Adu.
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The Flew Tobacco Law.

Section 26 of the Mckinley tariff law
provides ''that on and after the first day of
May, 1891, all special taxes imposed by the
laws now in force upon dealers in leaf to
bacco, retail dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers
in tobacco, manufacturers of tobacco, man
ufacturers of cigars and peddlers of tobac-
co are hereby repealed" The law further
provides that all these classes, except deal
ers IN manufactured tobacco shall register
with the collector of internal revenue OF
the district, giving in each instance the
place OF residence, trade OF business and
the place where such business is to be CAL
ried On the same as though the tax had not
been repealed, and failure to register is
punishable by fine Of fifty dollars. This
law repeats all special tobacco taxes, Oh
LICENSES. as they are usually termed. and
substitutes therefor simple registration OF
the dealers. On the manufacture of to-
bacco and cigars the schedule Of the new
tariff law which has been in effect since
January 1, 1891, remains in effect without
change.
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Visiting Superintendent Of Insane
11@o1]s1Ho'
Asylums.

Last Monday, Dr. p. i. Murphy, a for
mer assistant physician at the w. l.. Asy-
lum, and now Superintendent of the North
Carolina Western Asylum at Morganton;
DR.. Powell of the insane asylum at Mil
ledgevile, Ga. Dr.. Buchanan Of the insane
asylum at Meridian, Miss; DR.. Campbell
of the insane asylum at Knoxville, Tenn,
and DR.. Burr of the insane asylum at Pom
tiao, Mich, visited the w. l.. Asylum
here with Dr.. Blackboard, it's Superinten-
dent. All had just returned from the Ma
tional Convention of Superintendent at
Washington, Dr., Burr, who is Superin-
tendent OF one of the largest asylums at the
North, said he was struck with the large
liberty allowed the inmates OF the asylum
here, the absence of close confinement, and
the home-llke feeling among the patients.
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Development Notes.

GOrdonsville made handsome Spring
opening Wednesday and yesterday. There
were sold 295 lots at $l52 900.
Since the accidental death Of MI. Jacob
II. Picker, the General Manager of the
Raphine Improvement Co., the remaining
directors have held a meeting and re- organ
lied the company and elected MI. Jas. e.
A. Gibbs a director and General Manager,
with full power to transact the entire bust
ness Of the company. The company has
also revised its plan and adopted an addi-
ton entirely new in the methods of devel-
opment companies-it offers for each share
of stock taken and paid up in it's roller
mill, shoe factory, hotel Oh building Associ-
alton, to give the person paying up such
stock a share Of stock i'll the Raphine I'M
provement Company without cost. This
also applies to any new industry that may
be secured.
The West Point Terminal Company, of
which two Staunton men are leading Off
GERS, MI. g. G. Thompson General Mana.
ger and Capt. E. l.. Edmondson Vice
iNi'INtOi1o3 htV' ISCS1fCu q DlS lulpCUuOs NIL
John II. Inman Of the Richmond u DAN
vile system, has published letter over his
own signature, giving an emphatic denial
to the report that the Terminal company
contemplates OIL ever contemplated aban-
doning West Point as it's terminal He
speaks of its magnificent advantages as a
seaport and says his company has invested
over $4,000 in the West Point company
to develop the town into manufacturing
as well as a seaport town. The great Ter
minal System seems to have adopted West
Point as its own which is worth much
to the development company there. MI.
Inman is enthusiastic over the fine port
and promises every aid to it from the Ter
minal system.
The new iron bridge at Goshen across
the river and connecting the two principal
parts of the town on Maury Avenue, was
put in place last week.
Mr.. Eugene G. Peyton Of Natural
Bridge Park, has bought the farm of Mrs.
John Short in Rockbrldge for $4,000, and
has force Of laborers Oh it to uncover the
lead and silver mines on it,
The town of Iron Gate which eighteen
months ago, was q cornlield, now has about
one thousand inhabitants, a large per cen
tage of whom are mechanics employed in
the rolling mill and agricultural works
there.
Capt. J. G. Boude has sold his farm on
the Southern edge of Lexington for SD, 900
to syndicate, which will lay it off i'll lots.
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A Conference About Coal Frelghts.

On Thursday last, MI. e. d. Hotchkiss
Of the g. Il O.. Ry., and MI. Ways of the
B. & o. Ry., arrived i'll Staunton and met
a committee Of the Stannton Chamber of
Commerce, on the subject Of freight rates
for coal. AS the B. & o. brings very little
coal to this City it was practically out of
the conference, but the committee consist
ing Of Messrs. 0. X. Lapham, A. G. Cor
don, Reeves Gait and Jno. W. Todd, with
Mr.. M. Z. Miller, President of the Staun-
ton Development Co., spoke very fully
with the representative of the Chesapeake
& Ohio. MI. Uotchkiss promised to report
the matter fully to the higher authorities OF
the road, and left the committee under the
impression that Staunton might expect
u better coal rate. The grievance on this
subject now is that the G. & 0. sells coal
ut Norfolk for 1915, that 1T charges 49, %
for in Staunton, 10 miles nearer to the
mines where it purchases it. Thee. go;
buys it at 81 u ton.
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The May Sun and Moon.

The sun rose at about O'Clock to-day
and sets exactly at O'Clock, giving us
fourteen hours of sunlight, which will be
extended three~quarters OF an hour before
the month closes.
The May moon came in yesterday, quar-
ters on the 18th, is full on the 22d, and in
last quarter on the Both. AS the last quar-
ter OF the April moon occurred on the 1st,
we are treated to five phases OF her lunar
majesty for the month something which
only takes place in one other month in this
year, December, when there will be two
new moons.
The most important event Of this month
for the moon is her total eclipse, which oc-
ours on the 23d, the day of full moon. The
solpse, unfortunately for us, Is not visible
in this latitude, although it is quite gener-
ally visible throughout the western part of
the Pacific Ocean, Australia, Asia, Africa
and Europe; the time of the total eclipse,
one hour and twenty minutes.
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Sad Ieath.

The household of Capt. James III. Todd
of Mt. Scion, which hal prepared to give
hearty welcome to the members of LeXihG-
ton Presbytely, were overwhelmed by grief
last Tuesday. On Monday last, Mrs. EN-
ma Lauck of Harrisonburg, a daughter OF
Capt. Todd and wife Of Mr.. S. W. Lauck
of that town, was suffering from violent
neuralgia and the physician administered
several hypodermic injections of morphine
to alleviate the pain. She sank into sleep
from which she could not be aroused, and
at o'clock on Tuesday morning died. She
leaves Il husband and two little children.
Her corpse arrived at her fathers Oh Tues
day and WAS inferred at Messy Creek
church on Wednesday,. No blame is at
tached to the physician us he had used the
same and larger injections with her on pre-
vious occasions and no bad results had fol-
lowed.
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nj A II kETS.
INDICATOR OFFICE,

STAUNTON, VA. May 18th.
Fluctuations in wheat have ranged with
in a cent either way, and it closes at 81 90 the
figure given in quotations OF last week. No
quotable change in corn or oatS-yery little
Offering Hay unchanged in price, but de-
mand not quite so active. There seems to be
firm undertone, Notwithstanding the large
quantity now coming into market. By the
way, one of the prettest cars of pure timothy
we have seen this season was loaded a few
days ago at Fort Defiance by MI. d. S. Sheets.
1t was strictly choice, and few crops like it
would give the county good hay reputation.
GRAIN MARKETS.
RICHMOND. May .-Wheat-Longberry, S1.17a
$l.20; Shortberry, $l15a$l1S; mixed, $l.1ia$l.19;
No. red, Sl.15aS1.l7. Corn--White, 79aS0c; Mix
ed, TIC.
CHICAGO. May 6.-Wheat-May delivery 1918;
July 1OU1s. Corn-May &c. July 6lI.
BALTIMORE, May 6.-Flour dull and unchang-
ei Wheat-No. irregular and higher; spot
1lO1a; Southern dull and lower Futz ll0all3;
Longberry ll2a1l5. Corn-Southern dull and
lower; white 77a7Sc; yellow 7Sa79.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, April &c.
Prices of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows
Best. IS rs 800
Generally rated first qualify. 800 a $50
Medium or good fair quality ........ 4.25 500
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
CoWs"............. 2O0 a 80
The market has beon fairly active throughout
and values quoted &c higher.
Mich Cows-There has been a full offering and
fair trade during the week at $40 to $50 per
head
Veal Calves-There has been q fair trade at
41aa512c per Id.
BALTIMORE, May 4.-Hogs under lighter re-
ceipts, advanced nc Oh last weeks prices, and
range at 6a7l4c net, most sales at nc Tor best
Western hogs, and down to 6aGAc for lighter and
nearby stock. Rough hogs, sows and stays sold
down to &c net. Receipts s, 743 head.
BALTIMORE, May 4.-Sheep s5.00aS600 per ICE
lbs. Lambs Sa915c per pound. Receipts 1895
head.
RICHMOND, May 5.-Prices of Beef cattle rang
ed as follows:
Best q 500
Common to fair. $50 400
Sheep 1a5c1a. Lambs 7aS4c. Hogs 5lla6Ac.
Receipts OF cattle 26I; hogs SIT.
3. STAUNTON PRICE CURRENT.
: sWHoLEsAI E PRICE OF SrAUNToN MARKET
May 7. 1891.
Wheat-LonSDeffy". a ~
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Personal.

Mi. VIM. Larner Of Maine, the foreman
who superintendent the handsome stone
work done at the Bodley Wagon Works by
MI. A. M. Valz, is so pleased with the sur
roundings here, that he leaves this week for
Maine to bring his family and make their
home here.
Carter Berkeley, President; &C. Thomp-
son, Vice President; w. J. Perry, Secre-
tary, and H. H. Fultz, Treasurer, all well
known citizens, are the officers of the new
" organized Staunton. Real Estate Ex-
change.
MI. Fl. w. Holt Of Surry county, Va,
a son of Dr.. J. Q. Holt Of that county, the
well known representative Of the farmers
interests, qualified yesterday to practice in
the Hastings court Of this city.
Rev. S. G.. Fergerson of Ronceverte, w.
Va, is in the city attending meeting of
the Board of Trustees of the Wesleyan
Female Institute.
Miss Carrie Burnley of Charlottesville,
is visiting friends in Augusta on her way
home from Harrisonbug, where her school
has closed.
Grand Master G. C. Wheat has appoint
ed MI. Robert Hill from Richmond Lodge
1. o. O. f. to he District Deputy Grand
Master 1. 0. o. F. of Virginia.
Little Elsie Patterson, daughter of DR..
H. M. Patterson, is at st. Luke IS Hospital,
Richmond. for treatment. Her mother is
with her.
Mr.. w. H. Brew. who owns and is i'm
proving the Menefee farm in West End, has
bought a grazing farm in Highland.
Col. j. G. Shields of the Buena Vista
Advocate, whom everybody in Staunton is
glad to see, was in the city yesterday.
Capt Chas. A. Holt and wife left yester-
| day for Escanaba, Mich, where Capt H.
goes on business for Basic City.
| Prof. j. G. Dunsmore, President Of
Dunsmore's Business College, was in Uu1on,
W. Va, last week.
MI. J. I. Rice, a graduate of Duns-
more's Business College. has taken charge
of the business of E. J. Shaffer at Crimora.
MIS- Lorena Timberlake is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Zirkle, at No. 315 E. Franklin
street, Richmond
S. M. Alvis has been appointed postmas-
ter at Longdale on the G. & O., in place of
o. G. Morris, resigned.
1t was Mr.. Haddon S. Watkins Of Rich
mond, who gave the pretty tenor solo at the
Baptist church here last week.
MI. J. Z. Booz, editor of the Waynes-
boro Times, was in Staunton Monday.
Mrs. Chas L. Cooke is visiting in
Hampton.
Miss Mary Funkhouser is visiting her
sister, Mrs. S. D. Fergerson, at Roanoke.
Mrs. Samuel Boiling is visiting the fam
lily Of MI. VIM. White in Lynchburg.
The Gcrdonsville Sun-Herald of Monday
contains the following personal notes of
interest here:
Capt. Chas. S. Arna1l of Atlanta, Ca, Pres
ident of the Virginia Manufacturing Co,
spent some time here the first of the week. He
is busy preparing for the construction of the
buildings for his large factory at Gordons-
Vile.
Mr.. VIM B. Baker of Staunton, has accep-
Mr. R. H. Stratton of Gordonsville Mr..
Baker is we'll fitted for the position, having
several years acted in this capacity in Macon
Ga, and also in Staunton, Va.
A. e. BraXton, Esq, of Staunton, who is
largely interested in Gordonsyllle, arrived
here this morning
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Railroad Notes.

The West Virginia & Pittsburg Ry. 1.-THE
Camden road) will run in direct line
from Pittsburg to the Virginia ore region.
That portion Of the line in West Virginia
is 200 miles long, of which 1870 is completed
and in operation to Braxton c. H., and the
remainder is under contract to Gauley riv-
Ell. This is the road that will connect with
the Warm Springs branch Of the G. & O.
Ry.
w. M. Dunn, ST., for twenty-siX years
G. & o. railway agent at Gordonsville, has
resigned and is succeeded by his son, W,
M. Dunn, il. John r. Gentry, for twenty
five years G. & O. ticket agent at the same
station, who in all that time has never tax
en- a vacation, has also resigned and is sue
ceeded by J. B. Cartwright of Hanover
county.
Three districts in Hardy and Grant
counties, W. Va, have agreed to make a
large subscription to the proposed railroad
from Bayard on the West Virginia Central
1.-THE Davis road) to Moorefeld. Its pro-
jectors expect to extend it to Strasburg
and thus get connection with the Rich
mond 4 Danville system.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. has
promised. according to the Charlottesville
Jeffersonian, to subscribe literally to the
stock of any important manufacturing
plant established on it's line at that place.
The promise, it says, is in writing, ''explic-
it, direct and to the point"
M. n. Quinn, telegraph operator at Jer-
ry s Run, on the G. & 0. Ry., while walk
ing on the track near Lewis tunnel was
knocked off by a train and had three ribs
broken.
Some of those close to the ''inslde''' say
the Norfolk & Western will buy either the
Washington 4 Ohio Ry., OF the Manassas
Branch line to effect it's entrance into
Washington city.
On May LIST, the trackmen in the employ
of the B. & 0. Ry. commenced receiving
81 per cent. increase of wages, voluntarily
given by the company.
The corp of engineers Of the Broadway
buckingham and West Virginia Ry. COM
menced surveying the route from the Broad
way end last week.
For April the Chesapeake Il Ohio earn
ings were $65S, 0S6, an increase of 1858, 6S4
over April of last year. .
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The Anniversary of the v. M. I. Cadets at
New Market.

The twenty seventh anniversary of the
battle of New Market, in which the V. M.
|. Cadets made such II heroic record, will
be celebrated at the Y 1Tginfa Military In
stitute next Friday. Gen. Scott Ship,
Commandant of the Institute, who was in
command of the cadets at the battle, has
invited Capt. T. q. Morton of Staunton to
deliver a lecture on it before the cadets at
the anniversary. Capt. Morton was all
officer in Edgars Battalion which was
next to the cadets in the line which made
the memorable charge and where the cadets
suffered so severely. Gen. John g. Brock
inridge of KY, was i'll command of the
Confederates at the battle, and Gen. John
Echols of Staunton, commanded a brigade.
Capt. Morton says that as the line moved
forward with Breckenridge and Echols he
thought he never saw two more splendid
looking men Oh cooler soldiers. Both were
officers Of great size and fine appearance.
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The New Towns.
Basic CITY.

bdSiC Sltf.
The Advance of last week has the fol-
lowing items:
Industries M. A. Booker
has returned from the Northern cities
where he purchased the best machinery for
the car works.
The removal of a Michigan factory which
makes all the machinery for roller mills, to
Basic City. has been secured. 1t will oc-
cupy the 300-foot wing of the hardware
factory building, and the machinery Will
be put in place as fast as it arrives.
Another wing of the building will be Occu-
pied by carriage factory removed here
from another town.
Another building company has been form
ed with M. w. Quarles President.
Wise Brothers, of Staunton, are erecting
a building, 23x112 feet, on Bath avenue to
be used as a store-room for buggies, wagons
and agricultural machinery.
J. 7. Lightner, manager of the Basic
City Building Company, has finished the
foundations for twenty-five residences.
The contract calls for the early completion
Of these houses.
Acc5demt.-Jake Goolsby and Ben Bow
ling were seriously, if not fatally injured,
by the breaking of rope at Crimora
mines, which dropped them eighty-seven
feet down a shaft.
Shendun.
The News of Saturday has the following;
A Belt Lime.-The Norfolk e Western
Ry. officers this week visited Shendun and
decided to put down 1900 feet of side track
which will start at the depot and run by
the industries already secured and located
on the industrial site.
The building for the Machine and Repair
| Works containing 81 rooms, has been let
| to contract and work commenced on it.
Persomal.-Treasurer Charles Catlett Of
The Grottoes Company, has let the contract
| for building his handsome two-story frame
residence, ON Park Avenue, to Eutsler
Bros. & Co., to be finished by. July list.
| Buena Vista.
The Advocate of Friday has the follow
ing:
Worhisqmen.-A Workingmen's Club
numbering so members was organized
| Wednesday, and by vote recommended j.
L. Walker and T. G. Ogden, two working
men. for election to the town council.
New Houses.-Fifty houses are now be-
ing erected in the town and fully 500 addi-
tional houses are contracted for.
| Personaz.-Andrew Bowling and W. H.
III. Lynn of Staunton, Dr.. Jno. Tate of
Greenville, and Mrs. Mary A. Mcclure of
Augusta, visited here this week.
Clifton Forge.
The Review of last Saturday has this:
Fatal Acc5dent.-An East-bound freight
tram was derailed at Old Clifton Forge
Sunday evening, and Ripley, young man
living at Panther Gap, who was stealing a
ride, was crushed to death.
| Persomal.-John Wright, clerk Of the
motive power of the railroad here, has re-
moved to his comfortable new home in
West Clifton Forge.
| Church BeU-The bell Of the new Cath
olic church has been Swung into place. 1t
weighs $40 pounds.