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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
he place she has always occupied in presi-

the place she has always occupied in presi-
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The Democrats of New Y ork have with
out question carried the lower house OF the
legislature, and it is said the attempt Of the
Republicans to count Republican MAORI
ty in the upper will be summarily squelch-
ed by Frank Rice, the Democratic Secreta-
ry of State, who has to swear i'll the Sena-
tors, and who will not administer the oath
OF Office to any man who has not been fair
ly elected
The Presidential Electoral College for
1892, has 444 votes and it takes 223 to elect.
Under the new apportionment the twenty
States that cast their votes for Harrison,
have 20 votes. But since that election
five of them casting 90 yotes--Indiana Is,
Iowa IS. Mass iusetts Is, Michigan IA,
and New York 3G-haye all gone Demo-
cratic.
The Virginia legislature which assem-
bles next month will reapportion the State
for members of the legislature; reapportion
the State for members of Congress; elect
Auditor, Treasurer, I'd Auditor, Secretary
of State, Railroad Comm ssioner. Commits
sioner of the Land Office and the county
judges.
Among the new names mentioned for the
places to be filed by thelegislature at Rich
mond are Il. II. Gaulding of Charlotte, for
Supt. Of Penitentiary; J. p. Wood of Char
]ette, for Doorkeeper of the House; Paul
G. Cabell of Amherst, for Register Ct the
Land Office, and r. B. Merchant of Fred
ericbsburg, Supt. of Public Printing.
W. W. Scott Of Orange, for several years
the efficient Secretary Of the Democratic
State Central Committee, and now doing
valuable duty to the party as editor of the
Gordonsyille Gazette, announces himself
candidate for the nomination for Congress-
man in the 8th district. He will go in with
the solid vote of his county behind him.
In his hot Senatorial fight, Henry I.
W ickham carried Hanover by $40 and Car
oline by 200. For the House Hudgins
Dem. was elected in Caroline by 276, and
Cardwell DEM had no opposition in Han
over.
1t is said that Gov. Hill Of New York,
will not take his 81 at in the Senate till at
ttr he is relieved by Flowe. IS Governor.
He is not W Ill g to trust the cranky 1t.
Gov. Jones.
Louisa county gave j. W. Baker Dem. J
for the House l ,2S3. w. l.. Winston Rep.
and colored porter for the Hotel Brandon
at Basic City, $50, and w. L. Gordon (Ind. J
50.
In Loudoun county it is thought pri-
mary will have to decide whether Ryan,
Janney, Foster, Fairfax or McCabe shall
receive the support of the Loudoun delega-
ton in the Congressional Convention.
Col Parsons has sufficient rebound left
to rise and say that Gen. Malone will not
have control Of the Virginia delegation in
the next National Republican Convention.
Dinwiddie county has elected its first
Democrat to the House of Delegates since
the war.
Prince Edward has elected r. NJ. Bur-
ton, Dem to the House by 2S2 majority,
over r. A. Booker (Ind).
Gov. Campbell carried Starke county,
McKinley's home, by 154 majority.
Brown Dem. and AL carried Botetourt
by 127 majority over Penn lind. DEM.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1891.
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE
RAILROADS.

THE LEGISLATURE AND THE
RAILROADS.
The coming action of the Virginia legis-
lature which meets next month is looked
for by the railroads of the State with some
anxiety. We do not think there is ground
for apprehension that anything will be done
to seriously embarrass these important ac-
cessories of farms as well as commerce.
That there will be needed authority eXer-
cised by the State over railroads-an au-
thority 70 remedy inequalities and illj Justice
in the relations of the roads to the people
in many cases which every fair man will
concede to exists certain. That this au
thorltY will be exercised through Railroad
Commission is also certain, and it is on
the subject of this Commission we should
like to say word. 1t should consist of
three men. All of them should be practi-
cal men-one a farmer and onea merchant,
and the other should be a practical railroad
man actively employed on a railroad at the
time of his election, and nominated by the
railroads themseves-not a railroad attor
ney, nor railroad politician, nOr a railroad
politician-attorney, but a practical railroad
man. A man whom the farmer and mer-
chant when he told them that any proposed
measure was extreme and hurtful, could
trust to know what he was talking about,
and one able to show them that he did
know what he was talking about. Under
such Railroad Commission the railroads
and the people would come to a better I'M
Outstanding than has existed between them
for many years.
The efficiency of the Railroad Commits
sion lies, as we all know, as much in the men
who compose it as in the powers with
which it is endowed. With the men We
have described, possessed of the knowledge
that their ayocations would give them, and
with fair minds and firm hands, Virginia
ought to have Railroad Commission which
would give the minimum of cause for COM
plant. With one composed of aspirants for
the places-politicians, editors, lawyers,
doctors. broken or retired merchants,
professional farmers OF bogus railroad
men, Virginia will have a different sort of
Railroad Commiss ion and with maximum
of complaints. Every man on the Com
mission ought to be taken from the active,
succ sssful pursuit Of the calling he rep
resents and be paid il good salary for his
work.
With such Railroad Commission doing
its duty for twelve month, the fears of
the railroads and the complaints of the peo-
pie would both have well nigh if not Who'll
ly disappeared.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
VLRGINIA's ONE OPPORTUNITY

In letter published in the VINDIcAToR
Friday from President ingalls, of the C. &
o. road. to Secretary I. c. Morton Of the
Virginia Worlds Fair Convention. Mr..
ingalls, said he regarded the convention to
meet at Norfolk November 25th as a vital
lyimportant one, for he thought the Wolll's
Fair at Chicago was ''Virginias one op-
portunlty." If he had known Virginia's
history in regard to opportunities Of the
past, he would have emphasized his remark.
Virginia, to be plain about it, has acted in
this respect like clam. She missed the
Centennial; she missed the great Boston
Exposition, where North Carolina made
her fine exhibit, by which it is estimated
that she attracted Ten Millions of new cap
ital to her; she missed to all intents and
purposes the Louisiana Exposition; she
missed the Texas Exposition; she has miss
ed, with the exception of her cigarette
manufacturers, every Exposition held
abroad since Expeditions began in the
Crystal palace in England forty years ago,
and she actually missed her own Exposition
held at Richmond two years ago, having
quietly loaded on the backs of the Rich
mond people the cost of that effort to ex
tend a knowledge of Virginia and her
resources.
The Virginia Legislature which is to
meet month from now has, we are told,
good deal Of new blood in it. If, with
fba ;c OH e., |, NJ
would listen to suggestion, we would like
to say this-A State that wishes to march
forward must march as State, must
spend money to that end as State, and
conduct and supervise the effort as a State.
The effort of the State is the highest power,
the most concentrated method, and the
easiest directed OF all cooperative move
ments Of its people. The real estate men,
those true missionaries of progress, have
advertised Virginia abroad as she was
World comes to Chicago in 1892 it will
erpect to see achot she has got. It can
only see it through a liberal appropriation
by the legislature.
Where is the newly-eiected member [of the
legislature] who does not stand with John W.
Daniel upon the silver question ?-Rjchnaond
Dispatch.
Ii by that our contemporary means, with
him in his effort to have free silver made a
plank in the Democratic platform of '92,
then the woods are full'of them good
deal fuller since they have heard from Ohio
and New York. The Democrats free
silver Democrats, of which this writer is
ole-ue determined that into that plat :
form, as far as their influence can affect it,
no plank on which the party is known to
be divided shall be built. One thing at a
time, is the lesson of wisdom and modera-
tion-tariff reform now and silver here
after. Let us take what We can get and
what we know we can get. The Dispatch
asks: "Will not Virginia stand by her
Senators 2" By no manner of means,
When they do not represent her. 1t is a
Senator's duty to stand by his State and
the people thereof not States duty to
tag at the coat tails of her Senators.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

The appearance of Col. P. II. McCaul,
Q. s. Internal Revenue Collector for this
district, making ringing speeches" in
Rockingham county fol- the legislative can
didates in State election, is a good COM
mentary on the effectiveness of Civil Ser
vice Reform under President Harrison S
administration. Contrast this picture with
the hands-off policy pursued by the Demo
cratic Collector of the Revenue and his
subordinates under Grover Cleveland s ad-
ministration
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

The Mississippi regulators who took the
colored sleeping car porter off the train at
Lake, Miss, and carrying him into the
woods gave him a sound thrashing for as
saulting a station agent, committed one of
those deplorable acts that nobody, except
the porter, will deplore. 1t is the first
symptom of an uprising of the oppressed
whites of the Republic against public OPP
powerful to attack.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

The new and thriving town of Buena
Vista made fine exhibition of the pro-
ducts of its industries; of the mineral re-
sources Of its parent company. and of its
spirit of enterprise, at the State Fair at
Richmond. 1t received It's reward in at
tracing the attention of people from every
quarter to its advantages. No town, new
or Old, can afford to stand still; enterprise
makes SUCCESS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

Any Democrat, OF Alliance man, OF any
body else-outside Of the Republican party
who wants to put free silver in the Dem
ocratic platform of 1892, will fird strong
hackers in Benz. Harrison, John Sherman,
J. B. Foraker, VIM. Mckinley and other
distinguished gentlemen who hopeto be the
Republican nominee of that year.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

The lamentable violence now going on
between the two factions OF the Irish peo-
pie, is doing more to give the world the i'm
preston that Ireland is not yet ready for
self government. than all that the English
tories ever said or printed about that down
trodden country.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

The State Of Rio Grande del Sud has Sc
coded from the new Brazilian Republic. II
ought now to join the United States and
try to seeede, if it wants to get out of Sc
cession all the real fun there is in it.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13


This property is magniicenty located, over
looking much of the city, yet is reached on easy
grade over finely macadamized streets. 1t is
within blocks of the post-ofiice, and much near
er the public school and nearby all the churches,
and only blocks from the U. S. Government
building. 1t is now reached by the way of North
Madison street. IN the near future Baldwin st.
(that beautiful street upon which is located the
new city fire Department. will be extended
through Madison Square to Green ST. These lots
VIII then be on very prominent street and the
Closest residence lots in the city the business
centre, and viii certainly be very valuable, al
though they will be sold at lust what the public
see proper to paw for them.
=; JUST THINK of such property at auction.
This will be the last opportunity TO invest in the
heart of the city AT YOUR OWN PRICES.
These lots viii be sold with building restric-
tons and will thus mai Ike it an attractive neigh
borhood. Size Of lots I3Xl25 with an alley in the
rear.
The sale will take place on the premises a II
O'Clock. If the weather should be incement the
sale will AXE place in front of the coart- house.
4 map of this properly can be seen upon APP
pication.
TERMs-one-t.ird cash, balance in 6 and y
months.
NJ. b. HAMRICK,
oct 39-3t Is. A. BARRYMORE.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
oct 23-it

GALE OF VALU ABLE REAL ESTATE.-Pur-
y suant to a decree of the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, rendered in the cause of Abby
vs. McKee, will sell at public auction in front of
the courthouse, in Staunton. on
Monday, the Esd day of November, 1891,
the reverson in the following tracts of land in
Augusta county, belonging to w. L. Mckee:
Tristan ndvided one third in the ssssssSs.
reversion after the life estate of Mar sSISa9
garet A. Mckee in farm near Green STsgssz4
vile, containing 227 acres, on which ~ 49,
said Marga ret A. Mckee now resides &
The other Joint owners of the rever- SEsas<>
sion being NJ RS. M. E. n. Doyle and s. A. d. Nc
kee. This is good farm with good improve
ments. Convenient to markets, churches,
schools &c,
Second-An undivided one bird in the rever-
sion in tract of about 80 acres, after the life
tate of Elizabeth d. Burnett; the other joint
owners in the said tract being the same as in the
former This tract is occupied by John NJ.
wood q growing business station the Valley
railroad. The land is of fa quality, with small
dwelling ON it.
TERMS:-l0 per cent of the purchase money in
cash; 10 per cent. credit of four months, and
the residue credit OF one and two years from
purchaser or purchasers giving bonds for said de-
ferred installments bearing interes' and waving
the homestead, with approved personal security
and the title to be retained as ultimate security.
VIM. PATRICK,
Commissioner.
III N. Ryan, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Au-
gusta county, do certify that VIM. Patrick, the
has duly executed the bond required according
to law. Given under my hand this 18th day of
August, 1888. j. n. RYAN,
oct 23-4t Clerk.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
REAL ESTATE SALES.

FjNRUSTEES SALE.-Pursuant to deed of
trust executed by James Foster and Mary
+. Foster his wife, Oh the 9th day Of May 1886, TO
VIM A: Hudson, Trustee, of record in the clerks
office of the Augusta county court in D. b. 1903,
page COL, and at the request of the beneficiary,
will sell at public auction in front of the court
house in Staunton, on
Monday, November Esd, 1891, Court-day,
that certain tract of land in Augusta *
county about four miles West of .sssIsfSsSS
Staunton, adjoining the lands OF s5sa5fsAS
David Baylor, mo. Keller and others, 45EqssS5s
containing about los acres, being the
same tract of land upon which said -zssEhS@
James Foster and wife now reside. This land has
upon it a dwelling and necessary outbuldings,
is In fair state ofcultivation and convenient to
market, churches, schools, &c.
TERMS:-Cash sufficient to pay the costs of
executing his trust, any unpaid taxes, and the
amount then due account Of bond secured in
id deed, viz 1927 Is, and to the residue of the
purchase money on a credit OF one and two years
from day OF sale, purchaser executing bonds for
the deferred installments of purchase money
bearing interest from date and waving home
stead, to be secured by deed of trust on the
property. E. S. SUBLETT,
oct 23-4t Sub. Trustee.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

nON'T forget the Grand Lot Sale of the Madi-
~ son Square property, Saturday at ii o'clock
GA the premises. nov l3-lt
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

90 EOn Wanted to borrow $3.50 on
%, COU .Staunton real estate, worth $1,000.
Address A. B. c.,
nov I3-3t Vindicator Office Stanton
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

g ALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE IN
- GREEN VII.LE.-Pursuan to deed of
trust executed to me by j. w. Melton and Wife,
and by request of the beneficiary, l Will sell al
public auction in front of the courthouse, in
stanton, on
Monday, the Esd day of November, 1881,
that very valuable and desirabl lot land in or
adjoining Greenville now owned and .s.s;isss2szssa
occupied by j. W. Melton. This is a sJsysf9%E
part of the property formerly known a5gs&
as the Gillum property, contains fFVssiSN
about IL acres, and with its location is
about the most desirable property -zzsasx>@
around that thrifty and active village. The lot
is located on broad, well graded street near the
depot of the Valley Railroad with good new
dwelling, with outbuildings. spring house, &C., a
good young orchard Of selected fruit and one of
the est springs in all tina part of the country No
better opportunity will present itself for good
investment.
TERMS:-Cash to pay costs of executing the
trust, any unpaid taxes on the property, and the
amount then due on the debts secured, viz:
$t,s10.3S, and to the residue credit of SIX
and twelve months, the purchaser giving bonds
with interest, and secured by deed of trust.
VIM. PATRICK,
oct 23-4t Trustee.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

John Palmer. Commander-in-C Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic,' has
issued an ''order' of admonition to that
organization to the effect that q comrade
who participates in any demonstration
where ''the rebel flag is displayed' 'brings
disgrace on the order of which he is II en-
ber." Co.eap )ral eous with the appearance
of this order, all ex-Colfederate General
announces that he won't go to the World S
Fair at Chicago if the Confederate flag is
not exhibited there! All this reminds us of
the piping times which preceded 1861, and
which lei up to - we all remember what
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

We have received from Mr.. James G.
Lamb, Secretary of the Virginia State Bar
Association, a pamphlet copy of the ad-
dress before the Association by Hon. E. c.
Burks, its President, at the recent meet
ing held at the White Sulphur Springs
The subject of the address is the revision
of laws of Virginia, in which work Judge
Burks took part, and in the absence of q
report by the revisors this address is almost
indispensable to the Virginia lawyer. All
members Of the association have been furn-
ished with copies, and the Secretary will
be pleased to send copy to any lawyer, not
a member of the association, who desires it
and will apply to him at Richmond.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-11-13

Have you noticed nothing oat of the way
lately? That the chickens commence
Growing at midnight? That every now
and then you hear the COWS low at night
Do you not know what month and what
day is coming nearer aud nearer ? know
it. | have already begun seeing the
Wish children at the store windows at night.
! never see this coming month approach
ing; never, when it comes, look up at the
cold December stars at night that do not
recall the story OF a Bone. You have seen
the prys and the Vets fighting on election
dayl Well this was the Bone they were
fighting over. We are all old men with
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10

1t is said that a French soldier, sta
toned at picture gallery, had strict
orders to allow no one to pass without
first depositing his walking stick. A
gentleman came with his hands in his
pockets. The soldier, taking him by the
arm, said: "Citizen, where is your
stickY' II have no stick" "Then you
will have to go back and get one before
can allow you to pass"
AS this man read his orders the inten-
ton was that, as preliminary to in
speeding the gallery, every body was to
deposit stick-not that those who had
a stick should not be allowed to carry it
with them into the gallery. Temple
Bar.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10


Touching upon the question of insom-
mia, DR.. Charcot, the great specialist,
made remark which was not only in
teresting in itself, but which proved his
thorough acquaintance with the works
Of England's greatest dramatist sit is
curious to note," he remarked, chow
feelingly Shakespeare dwells on the
question of sleep, not only in the famous
passage of Macbeth beginning, Mac
beth hath murdered Sleep but in many
other places in his plays made at one
time a collection of fifty quotations
from his works on that subject. So /
am inclined to think that he suffered
from insomnia"
remarked that perhaps the death of
the great poet when SO few years past
middle age might have been caused by
the vast mental strain consequent on the
production of his marvellous works, and
in that case insomnia would certainly
have formed one of the symptoms of his
condition Great genius" remarked
the doctor. SIS almost invariably the
offshoot OF i'll health, either mental or
physical" That was hardly the case"
| responded, with Victor Hugo, who
lived to be past eighty and was always
as sturdy as an oak" "But you forget,
madam. that he came of a family of
maniacs," was the response. Ellis
brother died insane and his daughter is
the inmate of an asylum for lunatics. -
Paris Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10
rWITTERlNG SWALLOWS

In and out and under the caves,
Blown about like the falling leaves.
Twittering swallows spend the season.
Now the days are shorter and chill,
There come from many musical bill
Notes of instinct that sound like reason.
Well have they dined on bug and nudge.
Now they are perched upon the ridge
or the old barn. that's warped and hoary.
There they sit, bright birds of feather
Holding twtter-talk all together,
Each telling an after dinner story.
They will follow the summer bland;
To them no land is foreign land.
One exclaimed, with joyous Hitter.
"True cosmopolitans are we,
Home is where we happen to be,
And swallows understand our twitter."
Then, in soft notes scarce could catch.
One spoke of a nest under the thatch
Of a cottage where waves the willow.
Another shook his velvet head,
And with his noisy neighbors plead
To fly with him DER field and billow.
They talked about all sorts of things;
Sharpened their bills and preened their wings;
Then away, away, the tourists started,
SAILING over river and main,
Will they ever return a~ain
To the old home from which they I've parted2
happy tourists of the air.
Unburdened. free of debt and care,
Would that had swift wings to follow
In the flight over land and sea,
With heart as light and wing as free
AS the happy travelling swallow!
George w. Bungay in Harper's Bazaar
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10
REDONDO.

This is Just the kind of weather ten
mis- players enjoy and some good games
have been played at the Redondo court
in the last week or ten days.
A number OF improvements have been
going on in and about the big hotel
lately. A guest in the house would
hardly imagine any improvement could
be made, but the management will not
allow any comfort or luxury obtainable
denied the guests.
General McCook has just returned
from few days. visit to San Diego.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. G.. Joseph and
daughter arrived here last evening from
San Francisco.
E. P. Jennings of Illinois registered
&C the hotel yesterday.
The late arrivals at the Redondo in
cludc M. J. Erwin, J. j. Chase, W. G.
Mullen, Los Angeles; Mr.. and Mrs. V.
A. Anderson, Portland, Ore. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10
The Nutmeg Tree.

The nutmeg is the kernel of the fruit
Of severel species of trees growing wild
in Asia, Africa and America. The Gull
tivated nutmeg tree is from fifty to
seventy-five feet high and produces fruit
for sixty years. The fruit is of the size
and appearance of roundish pear, vel
low in color. The feshy part of the
fruit is rather hard and resembles can
died citron.
Within is the nut, enveloped in the
curious yellowish red aril known to us as
mace. Up to 1896 the Dutch, being in
possession of the islands producing the
only valuable variety of the nutmeg,
jealousy tried to prevent the carrying of
the tree or living seed of it into any
territory independent of Dutch rule
Foods and Beverages.