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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
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The Horn Fly.

IN its bulletin on the horn fly, the report
of the West Virginia Experiment Station
is as follows.
The fly was reported from near Phils=
delphia in 1887, and by tie middle of July,
1889 it had spread nearly all over the State
and southwark into Virginia and north
ward into New Jersey.
The fly will be readily recognized where
they make their appearance by their great
abundance on the body and horns of the
cattle They resemble the common house
fly, being about half as large. They are
blood. thirsty little insects aud so annoy the
cattle by their bites that the COWS fail in
their milk and other cattle fail in flesh.
According to Prof. Smith, these flies
breed in the fresh droppings Of the cattle,
a new brood every fifteen days. Prof.
Smith recommends as remedy against tie
attack of the flies, fish oil, with small
amount of carbolic acid applied with q
sponge, or Z o Dust and tobacco dust ap-
piled to the cattle among the hair where
the flies most usually copgregate.
These flies will probably appear in great
numbers this season, and may do consid-
cradle damage.
l bring this matter befure the farmers
of the State thus early in my obselva-
tiops upon the fly in order that l may in
cite them to observe the insect, ard to in
vite correspondence from them that m y
lead to a better knowledge of their dis
tribution in this State and the amount OF
damage they cause.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

WATERLOO FOR THE REPUBLICANs.-The
New York Herald says that the "McKin-
lev bill was coup d'etat which can bring
nothing but disaster. 1t Is class legislation
of the most offensive sort, and represents
the sacrifice of the many for the benefit of
the few. The laborer was promised an in
crease of wages, but the promise was a
deliberate falsehood. There are strikes
everyw here, and the only result so far is
that the poor man gets no more work, no
more pay, but discovers that the cost OF
living has been increased. The farmer,
too. was to have new opportunities, wider
market and larger margin of profit for his
products; but the mortgage remains on his
land and he will be lucky if he is able to
pay his interest and retain his holding.
Nothing on earth can keep the tariff is
sue cut of the next campaign. Harrison
sees it, and breads it as he does the crack
of doom. Blaine saw it long ago, and
tried to ward off the blow with what he
calls reciprocity. All the party leaders see
it, and none of them feels confident of the
future. What they fear most is the
thoughtfulness Of the common people,
With blind populaee they may slip into
the White House for another term; but SO
sure as the people come to their senses the
Republican party will be defeated at the
polls in '92 and it's policy repudiated. And
there, as Ingalls, says, you have the
Waterloo"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

THE PRESIDENTS SISTER IN-LAw's PEN
sIoN.-The commissioner of pensions was
Saturday asked for statement in regard
to the dispatch from Chicago concerning
the pension claim of Mrs. Elizabeth T
Harrison, widow of the presidents brother,
Archibald J. Harrison, lieutenant-colonel
of the twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers
General Raum caused an examination OF
the claim to be made, and found that the
case was clearly proved under the pension
law by the testimony on file and the pen
sion office could not have done otherwise
in the face of the testimony than allow the
claim. The claim has not been twice dis
allowed, as stated, but has simply awaited
in the Office the evidence necessary to COM
plete it. The back pay received by Mrs.
Harrison was over $4,000, and she will
hereafter receive 500 every three months.
Colonel Harrison died of consumption in
1870, and the decisio of the pension COM
missioner is that he constructed the disease
whilst in the volunteer service during the
war.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

The Republicans are making painful
efforts all around to show that American
manufacturers are producing tin plate in
competition with the foreign commercial
article, and that the Mckinley tariff is,
therefore, justified, but when the test of
analysis is applied to the stories they all fade
into some other kind of tin, or something so
expensive that the foreign article is cheaper
even With the tariff.
We are open to conviction on the tin
plate questions that effect the great parties
and their policies, but we wish to reach
our Conclusions by the straight path of
truth, and not by the crooked lanes of
mental reservation aud evasion-the half
truths which are often worse than open
lies, because they are told with the pui-
pose of deceiving by their FEASIBILITY
Norfolk Landmark.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

MEMORIAL DAY AT W1NCHEsTER.-Last
Saturday was Memorial Day at Winches
ter.
A despatch to the Bait. San Gays that
notwithstanding the rain large crowd
was present at the Confederate memorial
exercises Saturday at Stonewall Cemetery.
A procession was formed, composed of the
Union Cornet Band, the Winchester Light
Infantry, Sarah ZaLe Fire Company, Friend
ship Cornet Band and Winchester Camp,
Confederate Vsterans, followed by many
hundreds of ex- Confederates. Hon. Chas.
T. O'Ferrall, member of Congress from
that district, delivered an eloquent GRAFTON.
A resolution thanking Mr.. Cbas. B. Rouse,
OF New York, for the gift of $500 to put
an iroa fe. CO around the cemetery was Of
fered by Capt. J. j. Williams in the name
of the people of the Shenandoah Valley
and was carried enthusiastically. Statutes
were fred over the unknown mounds. The
floral decorations were elaborate and pro-
fuse. A heavy shower came up as the cere-
monies were concluding, scattering large
crowds all through the city.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
FACTS ABOUT TAXES.

For the next two years our government
will spend annually more than $500, 900, 900.
To ray one years expenses of the gov
eminent it will take nearly tho comb ined
wheat and oat crop.
Oar annual output of gold, silver, COP
per, iron, coal, petroleum and lead will
not foot our tax bill for twelve months.
Nor can we do it with years product
of cotton, wool, rye, barley, wine, potatoes
and tobacco.
The combined capitalization Of our ma
tional banks is $599, 900, OOO. One years
taxes will nearly swallow it up.
Now, all this is the Federal tax. We
have also to pay city, county and State
taxes.
We pretend to be nation of plain peo-
pie, with no aristocracy, no princes, no
standing army and no expensive frills, and
yet our taxes are more enormous than those
of Austria, Germany or Great Britain.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

DEATH FROM Fl yDROPHoBIA FROM THE
BITE OF A CAT.-Richard s. Bartine, the
lawyer, of Asbury Park, N. j., who had
been suffering from hydrophobia for sever
al days, died Saturday. Mr.. Bartine was
bitten in September, 1890 by mad eat.
He studied the subject of hydrophobia
thoroughly, and, though the wound healed,
was convinced that serious result would
follow. A week ago he was troubled By a
peculiar sensation in the side, and on Tues
day in attempting to drink was attacked
with an alarming rigor. CONFUSION after
convuls!on followed during Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, during which he suf-
fered the most terrible agonies.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
Staltutot. Spectator.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th. 1881.
Death of John A. Macdonald, Premier Of
the Dominion of Canada.

John Alexander Macdonald, premier Of
the government of the Dominion of Canada
died at 1915 o'clock Saturday night at his
home, Earnscliffe, in Ottawa, where his
short, bent form and Disraeli-li like face were
we'll known to every one. He was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, June II, 1916, and
therefore would have been seventy-six
years old had he lived until Thursday, tc-
morrow. His father emigrated to Canada
in 1920. The son studied law, and after
practicing about five years he turned his
attention to politics, filling various offices
and winning the distinction of being the
greatest constitutional lawyer in Canada.
Mr.. Macdonald was chiefly instrumental
IN bringing about confederation of prov
inces of British North America. He was
chairman of the colonial conference in
London, England, in 1S66-67, when the
British North American act was passed by
the English House of Commons on July /,
1867.
Mr.. Macdonald was called upon to form
the first government for the new dominion,
and was sworn in by the English privy
council, and appointed attorney general
and minister of justice of Canada, an office
which he continued to hold until he and his
ministry resigned on the Canadian Pacific
Railway scandal in November, 1878. 1t
was charged that 100000 had been ad-
vanced to Mr.. Macdonald by Sir Hugh
Allan and Chicago banker named Smith,
to be used in securing the Reelection of
his party, on the understanding that the
government would grant monopoly to
the Canadian PacificRailway. This agree
ment, it was stated, Mr.. Macdonald had
failed to carry out, although the $500, 900
had been advanced to him. This scandal
led to the downfall of the Macdonald gov
eminent.
In 1871 Mr.. Macdonald was one of her
Majesty's joint high commissioners and
plenipotentiaries to act in connection with
the commissioners appointed by the Presi'
dent of the United States for the settle
ment OF the Alabama claims, resulting in
the treaty of Washington in May, 1871.
In October, 1878, on the fall of the reform
government, Mr.. Macdonald was entrusted
with the task of forming new admins
tration, taking upon himself the position of
minister of the interior and premier of the
Dominion. The latter office he continued
to hold up to his death. He was instru-
mental in getting the Canadian Pacific
Railway project pushed through, granting
it large sums of money out Of the public
funds, SO as to insure its completion
in 1866
In 1866 Mr.. Macdonald received the hor-
orary degree of D. G. L. from the Univer-
sity of Oxford, and in 1867 he was made a
K. G. B. In 1872 he was made Knight
of the Grand Cross of the Royal Order Of
Isabel the Catholic of Spain. One of his
latest honors was that of q. G. B. This
title descends to his son.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

DISPARITY IN NUMBER OF SOLDIERS
Can anyone wonder that the Confederai &c
we're defeated when there we're four or fi7e
times as many Federal as Confederate
soldiers. The true wonder is that they
were able to maintain the contest SO long.
Major Davis, U. S. A, in charge of such
matters at the War Department says that
the U. s. army during tho war between
the States contained 2,778, 304 men, Ehile
the Confederate army numbered less than
100000. Reliable Confederate records pu!
the strength of the Confederate army at
less than 500, 900.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

A GENTLEMAN at Viewpoints News has
recently left the Republican, and joined the
Democratic party, because as he says,
"self-respect and private interests compelled
him to do 3d." Yes, and so long as the
negroes al vote ons way, and as the dread
of Force bills hangs ever the South, most
all the other white people of this section,
CEN for their own private j; trrests, VIII
vote the Democratic ticket, oeli-preser-
walton is natural law, and such laws are
as effective in the South as in the North
Alexandria Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

THE young king of Spain, who has just
completed his fifth year, is beginning to
ride on ponies. His activity, willful dispo-
sition and inquisitive curiosity make him a
sharp contrast to his more ranquil-minded
sisters. In two years his majesty will have
separate household, and already he has
shaken off the attendance of his Austrian
nurse, showing a preference for male at
PENDANTS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

DIR. VIM. J. Points VS.. Capt. Lurty.
The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette, under date of June
fifth, says:
"The deposition Of DR.. Whitney, U .S.A.,
in the suit of DR.. W. J. Points, late clerk
of ex-United States Marshal Lurty of
Oklahoma, was taken here to-day by Col.
Popham. Lurty resides in Harrisonburg,
Va. When appointed marshal of Okala-
homa he made contract with Points, also
of Harrisonburg, to 60 to Okalahoma with
him as his clerk for four years at 81, 500 a
year. Okalahoma did not agree with him,
however, 80 he resigned and came home,
leaving Points in the vocative. So the lat
ter has sued Lursy for $4,000, the whole
-four years. pay. The testimony of DR..
Whitney, who was in Oklahoma at the
time, is to the effect tina. Lnrty was sick
and resigned his place on medical advice"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

THE recent severe storm in Northern
Dakota caused heavy losses to sheep own
ers. Fifty thousand sheep have been i'm
ported into the State within the last month
by farmers and stock companies. and in
very few instances were the owners pre-
pared to house them during the lsmbing
period. The losses are knocking the profits
out of the whole industry.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

President Harrison has fixed June IL
(to-day) as the day be will receive the com.
mittee appointed to invite him and cabinet
to attend the Southern Exposition to be
held at Raleigh in October and November.
The committees from the various Southern
States will meet at Washington at 10
O'Clock to-day.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
PENSIONS. PENSIONS.

If the people of the United States who
know of the war only as memory or from
history, and those who know of it from ex.
perience as we'll, and who are now paying
the taxes, could just see into the pension
business of this government, they would
be SO thoroughly mad that they would
never recover their equanimity again until
the thing were cleansed from attic to cellar
Oh for party strong and bold enough to
lop off this terrible fungus which is grow
ing and growing, and making q hideous
mockery of the system of reward for hon
orable service in war.
There should be no pension except to
the disabled soldier or sailor and the widow
and orphan. That is far enough for any
pension fund to go. Beyond that the thing
is a humbug and fraud upon the people,
Norfolk Landmark
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

TN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE sU-
l. PREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIR-
GINA, at Staunton, June 5th 1891.
Pursuant to the code of Virginia, Chapter 10,
Sections 3476 BAIT, 347S and 3479, proposals will
be received by me at this office, until IL O'Clock
NJ. on
MONDAY. JUNE Goth, 1891.
for printing all such records as the Supreme
one year from July 1, 1891; sixteen copies in
each case. "The proposals shall state the
amount per page of fifteen hundred ems, small
plea type, and include the paper, printing
binding, and a neat cover, with the style Of
the case, and the court from which the record
comes, neatly printed thereon" No unneces
sary blanks allowed. Each page to contain
fifteen hundred ems by measure, whether the
work be plain, figure or rule. Bond and
ample security" will be required to be given
before the Clerk in his Office. Under Section
3f76 Aforesaid, reUises of proof sheets will be re-
quired to be delivered regularly to the Clerk
here, as the work progresses, who will inspect
and return the same, and any expense attend
ant upon the transportation. delivery or re-
turn of revises and of records, either manu-
script or printed whether by mail, express or
otherwise. shall be paid by the contract print
er. The Clerk reserves the right under Section
3476 to reject proposals to do the work at any
place where he cannot take care that the
printing be properly (and promptly done"
The Clerk further reserves the right OF reject
ing any bids which in his judgment do not
fully comply with the law and of deciding who
are responsible bidders and what is ample
surety. Within the meaning of the law; and
also of deciding whether bids are excessive.
junl0 st JAMES B. DORMAN, Clerk.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

Mrs. ELIZABETH L. HARRIsoN's PEN.
SION CLAIM ALLOWED Index-Ap.
peal says, sit is quite convenient some
times to have a brother.in-law that is
President of the United States. Mrs.
Elizabeth L. Harrison, of Chicago, widow
of President Harrison's brother, just got a
claim through the pension Office which puts
$S,329 % in cold cash into her pocket
The claim had been rejected twice before"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
Russia and the Force BIZ.

The announcement that Russia proposes
a series of domiciliary police visits in order
to discover Hebrews in hiding in St. Peters
burg is taken as the climax of evidence of
Russian Jew-hatred, and the ext-eme au-
tocratic tyranny. The prominence given
to the words ''domiciliary visits" in the
captions above the dispatches fro m Peters
burg in the leading journals of this country
shows how utterly abhorrent to the Ameri-
can mind is this particular insult to fec
men. Yet many among the foremost men
of this proud Republic sat in their seats t
Washington and raised no protest when
the infamous "force biIl'' offered this men
ace to liberty.-NorJo'E Virginsam.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

PREACHERS CONVICTED OF COUNTER
FEITING In the United States District
Court at Springfield, Ill, Saturday, the
Rev Jeremiah Holmes, of Stonefort, Saline
county, Ill.,, was tried and convicted of
counterfeitiug and sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary. The Rev. George
Vancil, of Duquoin, ILL.,. pleaded guilty to
the same charge and was sentenced to one
year 10 the penitentiary.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

TRAIN ATTACKED By DRUNKEN MOB
The north bound train on the Pennsyl
vania Line was attacked by drunken mob
just after it pulled out of Seymour. Ind
at o'clock Saturday night. Knives were
drawn and used freely. Charles Cutsings
was badly cut, as we're also two strangers.
Harry Smith, conductor of the train,
placed four men under arrest and lodged
them In jail.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

Mrs. Grace Potter, the beautiful wife Of
George T. Potter, president of the Southern
Fuel Company, at Fort Worth, Tex, and
one CT the wealthiest and most prominent
citizens of that town, committed suicide
Monday of last week at the Lincoln Park
Sanitarium, Chicago, where she had been a
patient, suffering from terrible disease
She killed herself by Jumping from a
window. She was convinced that recovery
from the disease was impossible.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times has a,

The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times has an
account of the discovery of petrified
human body by Prof N s. Shaler, Harvard
College, and President W. T. Morrison, of
Boston University, in Falling Spring Cave,
Seauache Valley, Tenn. The body is per-
feet. Many curious weapons of copper
we're at its feet, and Shaler and Morrison
say the discovery is undoubtedly evidence
of the existence of prehistoric race.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

SENATOR Charles J. Faulkner, of West
Virginia, in a recent interview, expressed
his confidence that satisfactory solution
of the silver question will be reached be-
fore the national campaign of 1892 begins,
and that no division within the Democratic
ranks will arise from it. Mr.. Faulkner be-
lieves that should the Republicans in the
election of 1892 gain the presidency and
both branches of Congress, one Of the first
measures they would put through would
be the Force bill.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

Mr.. JOHN MCCAULL, who formerly rep
resented Roanoke county in the legislature
and afterwards became manager of the
McCaull Opera Company, is broken down
bodily and financially and is now in Balti-
more in helpless condition. His wife
recently said if her husband were to die
now she would not have money enough to
bury him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

WESTERN dispatches show that numer-
GUS and very severe storms, damaging
crops and buildings considerably, occurred
on Wednesday in Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin. In Ohio the most disastrous
hail-storm of many years passed over
Clyde, and even Western Pennsylvania
came in for share of the widespread dis
tn, bapce.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

That was Before the Passage Of the
Mckinley Bill
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gozette, under date of June
fifth, says:
"Many Dunkards on their return from
their late annual meeting at Hagerstown,
stopped here to-day, and we're sightseeing
at the Capitol. The gride's fee for females
was ten cents The last time they were
here no such fee was ex7 cted. That fact
being remarked upon by ore Of he party,
the guide smiled and said: Yes, bnt that
was before the passage of the Mckinley
bill," which reply seemed perfectly salts
factory,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

Amelie Rives-Chanler Is soon to publish
a new book which she calls s'A Curious
Case of Divorce" Mrs. Chanler will re
turn to America in July. She has en-
gagged Charles Lasar, who has the largest
art school in Paris, to go to Virginia with
her to give her private instruction in paint
ing for five months.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

The monument erected to the memory oil
Maj Zen. John F. Hartranft. by tie
national guard of Pennsylvania was M
yelled Saturday in the presence of Gov.
ernor Pattison, Maj.-Gen. George r.
Snowde3, commander of the State troops,
5000 militiamen, 1900 members of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

A precedent is cited similar to the case OF
Senator Call, Of Florida, in which the
United States Senate decided, in the case of
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, that a
majority of the Legislature of State, in
ONT session, could elect United States
Senator.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

The strike of the Iowa coal miners is
being felt all over the northern part OF the
State. The supply of coal is giving out,
and large factories will in many cases be
compelled to shut down or reduce the
working forces. The railroads at many
points find their supply about exhausted.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

1t is gratifying fact to observe that the
shipments of American cattle abroad show
a steady increase. The number of Ameri.
can cattle thus disposed of amounted in
1889 to 1873, 900, 900, against $31, 600, 900 in
the preceding year. Of this number at
least 81 per cent. we're shipped to Great
Britain and Ireland.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10

A female passenger on the Santa Fe
Railroad threw her child from the window
of the toilet-room of the Car as the train
passed over bridge near Cimarron, Kan
sas. The conductor saw the body sink
beneath the water. The woman could
give no account of herself. She was taken
to Pueblo, Col.