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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-10-18

DALLAS, Tex, oct. 12.-llarry
Hodge was shot and MORALLY wounded
yesterday morning by j. r. Morris in
the bar room Of the Windsor hotel
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-10-18

WAsuiNGToN, Oct. 11.-From pres
ent indications the civil service COM
will be busy with investigating
cases of assessments for political
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
Soldiers in Congress.

1t is a fact worthy of notice that
more than one-third of the members OF
the Fifty third Congress are exsOldiers.
Twenty Senators fought ON the Con-
federate side and ten followed the
Union flag. In the House of Repre-
sentatives there are 56 ex Confederates
and 81 Unionists. The exact number
of old soldiers is $50, seventy-siX Con-
federates and seventy-four Federals.-
This is good showing 20 years after
the close of the war.
Both the Virginia Senators were
Confederate soldiers. John Warwick
Daniel, of Lynchburg, served in th e
Army of Northern Virginia through
out the war and became Adjutant-
General on Gen. Early's staff. Eppa
Hunton, of WarrentOn, was Colonel of
the Eighth Virginia Infantry. He be-
came a Brigadier-General after the
battle of Gettysburg. He was captured
at Sailors Creek a few days before
Lees surrender.
OF the ten Representatives from Vir-
ginia, five were Confederate soldiers
William Atkinson Jones, of Warsaw,
was cadet, participating in the de-
fence of Richmond when IA years old.
D. Gardiner Tyler of Charles City
county, son of President Tyler, served
as private in the Army of Northern
Virginia, surrendering at AppomattoX.
George d. Wise. of Richmond, was
four years in the Confederate army,
and was Captain on the staff of
Ma or- Gen. G. L. Stevenson. Geo. F.
Epes, of Blackstone, was private
throughout the war. James w. Mar
shall, of New Castle, was a private
soldier for four years under Gen. Lee.
After reading the above facts one is
justified in declaring that the war is
over Here are the men who once
faced each other on the field of battle,
now standing side by side legislating
for the reunited States, and the loyal
ty of the -Confederates is as unques
tionable as that of their former an
tagonists. The sectional dispute which
divided North and South has now
passed into history. If another con
fiict should arise in this country the
line of division would not be Mason
and DEMONSTRATING AdUance.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
The New Rule for Counting a Quorum.

As the Richmond Times very prop
erly says, it is plainly confounding two
entirely separate and distinct things to
say that the action of the Democratic
House in adopting a rule for counting
a quorum is approval of the course of
Mr.. Reed in counting one when he was
Speaker. The Constitution expressly
provides that each House shall make
rules for the conduct of business. This
plainly gives the House authority to
make rule of the sort adopted, and it
was only a question of whether a ma
jority of the members were in favor OF
the rule. But what was objected to IL
Mr.. Reeds course as arbitrary, tyran-
meal, and revolutionary was his under
taking to count a quorum when no
rule had been adopted by the House
to authorize him to do it. In other
words, he assumed a power which
resides in the majority of the House
alone, when that power had not been
delegated to him by the House. II
seems that experience has satisfied the
House that business can not be trans
acted without O. rule authorizing the
Speaker to count members present
who refuse to vote, for the purpose Of
determining whether quorum is il
the House, but no experience can evel
satisfy sensible man that q Speaker
should exercise authority which hai
not been conferred upon him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
A Good sign Ahead.

The Lynchburg NeaUs says there is
one good sign in the South Of CONNER
cial improvement that should be ex-
tremely gratifying to her people, and
that promises well for the future
From the latest report of the bureau of
statistics giving the value of foreign
exports for the eight months ended
February, 1894, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1898, it is
shown that there has been an increase
at Southern ports of 27,300, 900, while
the total increase in the whole country
has only been $52, 100000. In other
words, more than one-half of the in
crease has been at Southern ports,
which in former years has always been
far behind the Northern ports. The
increase shows gain of nearly $4,000,
900; Norfolk, $2,4OO,OOO; New Orleans,
$8,700,OOO; Newport News, $5,20O,00 ;
Richmond, $1,300,000, and Savannah,
$4,90O,OO0. These are certainly most
gratifying figures and give much
promise of a rapidly CONNER
cial prosperity at the South. Of course
our increase of exports shows CORES
ponding increase of imports and the
revival of commercial business gen.
orally in the interest of our section,
and shows very clearly that large por-
ton of the Western trade of the coun-
try, which heretofore has found its
outlet through Northern ports, is now
drifting to the South Atlantic coast,
caused by the rapid increase of railroad
connections within the last few years.
This increase of commercial relations
between the South and great North
west should, and no doubt will, soon
drift into an identity of political rela-
tions also, and make these two sections
of the country unit in business and
political interests, and thus enable us
to break the yoke of slavery which for
years has made these two great pro-
ducing sections tributary to the money
grabbing and wealth-seeking monopo
lists of the North. By a proper union
upon the leading issues of the day
which deeply affect these two sections
alike, the people of the South and
West can elect future Presidents and
Congresses without the aid of a single
Northern or Eastern State where
Democrats, Republicans and Mug.
wumps stand pretty much upon the
same platform"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
$tauntolt Spectator.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL %
Senator Vance's Successor.

Gov. Carr, of N. c., has appointed
Hon. Thos. J. Jarvis U. s. Senator to
supply the vacancy occasioned by the
death of the late Senator Zeb. b.
Vance, and he has accepted.
Mr.. Jarvis was Speaker of the House
in 1872 and Lieutenant-Gover in
1876. He succeeded Mr.. Vance as Gov
ernor in January, 1879, and was re
elected in 1889. He was unanimously
recommended by the Legislature tc
President Cleveland for cabinet posi-
tion in 1884, but instead was appointed
minister to Brazil by President Cleve
land.
In his letter to the Governor accept
ing the appointment, he says
''This position, so recently made va
can't by the death of the lamented
Zebulon b. Vance, comes to me, as yor
well know, unsought by me. 1t is YOU
voluntary act, and l shall give to the
high office my best endeavors to justify
before the people of the State, to whom
alone you are responsible, this actor
ON your part. l beg that you will &C
cept my sincere thanks for this evi
dence of your confidence and esteem
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

VIRGINIA WIDOWS PENSIONS
Numbers of persons are applying to the
Auditor of Public Accounts to get State
pensions for widows of Confederate sol
diers.
All of these do not understand that
these pensions are only given to widows
remaining unmarried) whose husbands
lost their lives during the war;
Widows whose husbands have died
''since the war" are not entitled to pen
sions under the existing law.-Rich-
nlO7ld Dispatch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
A Sari0uS PrNhlam TrnlY.

There are thousands upon thousands
of idle people in the country who pro
fess to want employment-want the
means of a respectable and honest sup
port. There is nothing for them to do
they say. Yet there are thousands of
people who need and are willing to
pay for properly rendered service from
both men and women. Two principal
causes operate to the disadvantage of
the unemployed and the employer, as
well. One is the lack of genuine is
position to earn livelihood by work
on the farm and by work of the house
hold The other is the absence of that
knowledge of how to do the ordinary
necessary work which comes to hand,
with skill and dis patch.
The young men are without indus
trial education and the young women
do not even know how to keep house
or mind children, even if they were
willing to do that kind of work which
as rule, they are not. We have heard
of cases where young women would
beg rather than go to work in family
and earn living and a home.
The boys and girls have notions of
grandeur. of luxury and of excitement.
The country is too dull for them and
the work, around a farmhouse or in a
household as helper to a mother who is
raising a family. does not please them
it is drudgery, and too commonplace.
The girls prefer factory work OF some
kind or to be shop girls, or to do any
thing almost rather than that which is
Offering and which is really most suit
ed to them. most healthy, and import
ant for them to be skilled in doing
Norfolk Landmark.
If Coxey is sincere in his advocacy of
good roads it would be better for him
to put his army to work improving the
highways than to be leading them in a
wild goose chase that will make va
grants of them.-Fredericksbatrg Star.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney q
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury.
and is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. 1t
is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by T. J. Cheney 4 Co., Test1-
monials free.
eB- Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per
bottle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
Opinion of Rev. Moses d. Hoge, DID.
The Washington Post of April 18th,

The washington Post OF April 18th,
says
DIR. Moses D. Hoge, the eminent Pres
byterian divine of Richmond, Va, was
seen at the Metropolitan last evening.
1--WE hear good DEAL" said he, "of
the decadence of the church, and the
assertion is often made that religion is
losing its hold on the human race, but
the facts do not sustain this theory.
The truth is that there never was a
time when men listened so respectfully
and seriously to appeals made in sim
pie, natural way, touching their spirit
ual welfare. During the Chicago Fair,
Mr.. Moody drew larger audiences than
the Exposition itself. Nor was there
ever time when the church worked
with more zeal to do its God-appointed
work; the church newspapers were
never so numerous or well supported as
they are to-day; never were there SO
many talented and earnest young men
going forth to labor as missionaries,
In the colleges and universities there
are more students who profess Chris
tianity than at any time in the coun-
try's history"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
A Leader.

Since it's first introduction, Electric
Bitters has gained rapidly in popular
favor, until now it is clearly in the
lead among pure medicinal tones and
alteratives-co moth ng which
permits it's ase as a beverage or in
toxicant, it is recognized as the best
and purest medicine for all ailments OF
Stomach, Liver or Kidneys. 1t will
cure Sick Headache, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, and drive Malaria from the
system. Satisfaction guaranteed with
each bottle or the money will be re
funded. Price only soc. per bottle
Sold ~ Hughes & Bell. Druggists.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

DISPENSARIES CLOSED.-Gov. Till
man of S. c., yields obedience to the
decision of the Supreme Court of that
State declaring the Dispensary liquor
law unconstitutional, and the sale OF
liquor at the Dispensaries will cease,
and no liquor can be lawfully sold in
that State. Some take the view that
any man may now sell liquor there,
and test case will be tried to deter,
mine that question. The end is not
yet.
The State has now $4,000 worth OF
liquor to dispose of. The Dispensary
law ehas not proved, as expected, a
pecuniary success.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
march 21-2mo.
A GRAND OPPORTUNITY. s. -
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

N Bashaw Us. G. S. Rusmisell and Rusmi-
W sells Ex'r Us. Rusmisells Infants.-Pur-
suant to decree of the Circuit Court for Angus
ia county entered in these causes, November
IL, 1891, and December 6, 1888, respectively,
shall proceed, at my OFFICE in Staunton, on
Tuesday, May I, 1894,
to report: LIST. The further liens binding the
real estate of Mrs. Matte D. Rusmisell, decd;
and End, The conditioner the title to the said
real estate.
JOS. A. WADDELL.
april Ats commissioner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.-About 2
o'clock last Sunday night Mr.. A. NJ Nc
Laughlin, living seven miles north of
town, got up and went to the stable to
hitch up team to take his daughter
to the depot to take the early East
bound train. He found three strange
horses tied in his barn lot and in his
crib was man filling a number of
sacks with wheat and other grain. Up
on hearing Mr.. Mclaughlin approach
ing the man got out of the crib, mount
ed one of the horses and fled, leaving
his sacks behind and holly pursued by
Mr.. Mclaughlin. After being chased
for while the man fired a pistol be-
hind him when Mr.. Mclaughlin return
ed to his house, got his Winchester,
and again started in pursuit of the
thief. Not being able to overtake him
he went to his neighbor, Mr.. W. F.
Ludington, who took up the trail whilst
Mr.. Mclaughlin returned to take his
daughter to the depot. Mr.. Ludington
traced the horses to the house of George
Dotson, who lives in the brush east of
frankfort. He also traced the tracks
of the three horses from Dotsons house.
The evidence pointing strongly to Dot
son he was arrested Monday night and
lodged in Jail here Tuesday, Green
brier W. Va.) Independent, April 10Th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

In the Senate last Wednesday, Mr..
Daniel, from the committee on claims.
reported favorably two bills, one to pay
Samuel Fitzhugh, administrator OF
Henry Fitzhugh of Virginia, $40, 975 fol
supplies furnished the federal army
during the war between the States
that sum having been awarded by the
court of claims, it having been proved
that the claimant was a loyal citizen
and the otl er to pay the Cumberland
Female College of Minnville, Tennes
see, SIC, 500, for the use and destruction
of its property by the federal army
during the same war.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
Nearly fifty odd wears ago. when tn,

Nearly fifty odd years ago. when the
whig party though the infant indus
tries of the country required protec-
ton, hor thirty years ago, when the
war between the States made it neces-
sary to impose upon imports all that
they would bear, was the tariff tax as
high as that laid by the bill now under
debate in the U. S. Senate; and yet the
republicans would have the people of
the country believe that they are real
business depression is attributable to
the fear of the passage of that BILL
alexandria Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

A MISTAKE CORRECTED.-There is a
very general, but erroneous belief that
W. G. P. Breckenridge made a speech
against Rev. DIR. Briggs in his trial for
heresy. 1t was Judge Samuel Brock
inridge, a first cousin of w. g. P
Breckenridge, who made that speech
and at it's conclusion he fell suddenly
on the floor and expired in few min
utes. This disposes of the story pub
lished that the friends of DIR. Briggs
furnished money to the plaintiff in the
Pollard Breckinridge case.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

Queen Victoria arrived at Coburg
| Tu esday to attend the marriage of her
grandchildren, the Grand Duke of
Hesse and the Princess Victoria, of
Coburg, which took place last Wednes-
day, April 18th.
Henry s. Ives, of New York, the Ma
poleon of Finance, died at Asheville,
N. c., of consumption, aged 3s years.
Three torpedoes fired from the Gus
tav Sampaio sank the Aquidaban,
which had been Admiral Mello's flag
ship during the rebellion.
President Peixoto has granted am
nesty to the rank and file of the Bra
lillian insurgents who sought refuge at
Buenos Ayres, and the Argentine gov
eminent is now attending to their
physical wants.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, who has
an income of $500 a year, will make
her home permanently in Washington.
She is at present at the Arlington.
where she will remain until she can
secure a house in the fashionable
northwest section.
w. B. Copeland, of Madison, Ind,
shot his brother-in-law, w. H. Brun-
ming, and Addison G. Harris in ex-
President Harrison's office in Indianap-
oils, Ind, April 18th. Neither wound
is fatal. Mr.. Copeland attempted to
shoot ex-Attorney-General Miller, who
interfered. The shooting grew out of
family disagreement.
The cane sugar crop of Louisiana
has been harvested, amounting to over
six hundred million pounds, and the
bounty to be paid by the federal gov
eminent is $11, 1874, 461.
The democrats of Lynchburg nomi-
mated Il. w. Smith for mayor and r. d.
Yancey for wealths-attorney.
Fifty-four applicants for certificates
to practice medicine successfully pass
ed examination before the State board
of medical examiners and twenty fall
ed. at the examinations last week.
5HRepresentative Caldwell, of Ohio,
recently elected mayor of Cincinnati,
will present bis resignation from Con-
gress so as to take effect May 4, at
which time his term of mayor begins.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

Judge Paul, of the U. S. court for
the eastern district of this State, has
sent to Jail, for ten days, negro juror
who hanged a jury because the man
who was being tried refused to comply
with his request for a bride. The
negro did not understand the enormity
of this crime, and the Judge, aware of
that fact. inflicted merely nominal
punish ment.-AleTandriG Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25
SOME GOOD ACCOMPLISHED
Roanoke World says -

Roanoke W0Tt0 says =
sit is good time for the Democrats
of the South to remember that if moth
ing more is accomplished as result OF
the victory of '92 we have good reason
to rejoice over the success of the De
mocracy, and if some of its pledges are
not fulfilled it has already done enough
to earn our loyal support as against
the Republicans. The repeal of the
Federal elections laws was q great
triumph for the South, and the conse
quent check of the tendency toward
Capitalization of power, and the recog
milton of the Democratic principle OF
home rule is sufficient cause why the
South should stand by the Democracy
if no other reasons could be found"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

The President has declined to inter
fere with the sentence of the negro
Thomas Crumpton, of Washington
city, who is to be hanged on Friday,
the 9th inst. The judge before whom
the case was tried as we'll as the district
attorney showed that there were no
palliating circumstances which could
warrant executive clemency, and in the
Presidents opinion the evidence of de-
liberate murder was conclusive.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

T. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster of
Promise City, Iowa, says: 81 bought
one bottle of Mystic Cure for Rheu-
matism and two doses of it did me
more good than all the medicine ever
took" Sold by W. M. Allen, Druggist,
Staunton.
Nov 10 6mos
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

The home rule principle, as applied
to the District of Columbia, has pre-
vailed with mighty force. Charles H.
J. Taylor, the colored man nominated
for recorder of deeds, has been reject
ed by the senate. Taylor received
only two votes in the committee, and
both of them were cast by democrats.
Eight members of the committee voted
ag, inst him, and among them were
four republicans, Proctor, Gallinger,
Wolcott and Hansbrough. No party
question or race prejudice was involved
in the rejection. Both parties are
pledged to give the offices in the terri
tories and the District of Columbia to
natives. That was the only issue and
it was good one. If Mr.. Cleveland
wants to give Taylor an Office let him
provide Kansas appointment for him.
-IndeC-AppeGl.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

President Cleveland has written a
letter to Hon. Chauncey F. Black,
president of the National Association
of Democratic Clubs, in which he in
sists on the redemption of democratic
pledges of tariff reform.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-25

SHOT BY THE SHERIFF.-Tuesday of
this week Sheriff Dyer arrested John
d. Lambert, who was at the time work
ing on the Catholic Church at this
place, on capias for the non repayment
of fine of $50, imposed about five
years ago. When arrested, not the
slightest resistance was offered, but
when he was taken to the house of his
sister Mrs. Terry's at the reservoir
to change clothes as requested, he
eluded the sheriff for a moment and
ran to make his escape and the sheriff
seeing him shot him in the back, under
the right shoulder blade. giving him a
very painful and as was thought at the
time dangerous wound. but fortu-
nately the ball struck rib which
glanced it around instead of penetrat-
ing the body as was. thought at the
time. He is now improving and will
soon recover under the medical atten-
tion of Dr. Anderson, the county physi-
clan. Judge Moore released him from
custody and he is now at his sisters.
The community generally condemn
the action of the sheriff in shooting
this man for so small an offence
AUeghany Sentinel, april 90.