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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-06-01

Editor of the Sun:
Your exceedingly interesting editorial en-
titled 'The Power of Science" in to-days
issue, has been clipped by several New Eng
land editors who are anxious to advocate the
use of individual communion cups in the Pro-
testant churches hereabouts The attitude of
modern physicians who are opposed to the
use of one chalice handed to many commune
| cants is not new idea, predicated upon the
reports of skin diseases made by associations
OF surgeons, for any one may see in the Bod
leian Library in Oxford, England, several
middle ages illustrated service books, show
ing communicates taking the wine through
reeds. Several histories of the ante-Augus-
tine churches in the British Isles narrate &C
counts of the kind of reeds prepared for the
use of communicates at masses, which show
that the use thereof was general. When the
Roman Catholic church throughout the world
delivered the cup to the laity thousands of
cases of mouth diseases were noted by physi-
clans of the time, and in the time of the great
plague in London many clergymen made con-
secrations of bread and wine for each com
municant, using domestic cups for the chalice.
Several eminent Catholic writers are on re
cord against the delivery of the chalice to the
laity on account Of the risk of communicate
ing diseases.
The withdrawal of the chalice from the
laity by the Roman Catholic Church is com
paratively modern, as any one may discover
by reading Cardinal Gibbons ''Faith of Our
Fathers, and it seems clear that the fear of
disease in the cup had some weight in the ar
guments against its use, except by the clergy
e. WILFRED PEARCE.
Boston, May 49,
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Individual Communion Cups.

METHODIST MINISTER'S vIEWs-THE AN
GENT PRACTICE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH.
Editor N. Y. Sun
have read your editorial this morning on
the use of individual cups in the administra-
ton of the Holy Communion, and 1 am glad
the subject is being agitated in the press, and
that some of the churches have already intro
duced the indiviual communion cup. The
wonder is that it was not done long ago.
NV son, who spent four years in German
universities, making biology his speciality
and giving particular attention to the
study of parasites, first called my atten-
ton to the danger to health and possibility OF
death that communicates were exposed to
from drinking out of the same cup. The same
serious consequences of course follow from
passing round the loving cup OF cup OF friend
ship at social gatherings OF secular societies
or f,aternjties. This danger has not been
known until recent years; but the considera-
ton of neatness, 1t would seem, should have
led to the adol ii IN of the individual cap long
ago. You seem, however, to be in error in
supposing that but one cup is used at the
Lords Supper. have usually, if not always,
seen al least twa, and sometimes four. Hence
cannot understand why it should be regard
ed as a radical change" to introduce twenty,
or forty, or any. number that may be. desired.
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Will Support any one that is
Nominated.
From the Buchanan Banner. !
Boston, May l

From the Buchanan Banner.1
Let the convention meet where it will and
Botetourt will be there. If they see fit to
nominate the gallant son of Appomattox
Hon. II. D. Flood, old Botetourt will stand
by him. Or if they 60 to the county of High
land and place the Democratic banner in the
hands of our able State Senator e. P Jones,
you can rest assured that we will do our ut
most to keep it from trailing in the dust
They can 60 to Rockbridge and say we want
VIM. A. Anderson and no county in the dis
trict will do more for him than Botetourt-
his mother county They can 60 little lower
down in Rock bridge to Glasgow and turn it
over to Fitzhugh Lee and we will be ready to
give him our undivided support. They can
60 to Augusta and say we want Edward Ech-
OILS and you can count on us to do all in our
power to elect him. They can remain in Au-
gusta and declare that John n Opie is the
man and likewise we will fall in line. Or
they can go to our present able and efficient
Representative, Harry st. Geo. Tucker, whom
Yost's Weekly would be delighted to see lose
the nomination, and say to him, sWe want
you to go back to Washington for two more
years, - and old Botetourt will stand by him
tooth aud toe nail, and we will give him such
a majority that it will make his opponent
wish he had never appeared on the track.
And last, but not least, they can place the
banner in the hands of either of the able as
pirants from our own county, j. j. Allen, j.
Il. II. Figgat Or Ben. Haden, and we will all
respond with a firm amen. and roll up our
sleeves and work day and night for his sue
cess. The Banner in advance pledges its sup
port to any of the above gentlemen who cap
lures the prize. ''Our Harry as the Weekly
calls him, has an army of friends in Bote--
tourt who will look after his interests, and it
is thought by some that he will secure good
vote from this county
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THE NORFOLK ELECTION.

Nobody who has been reading the Nor
folk Landmark, Virgimiom and Public
Jedoer for some months past, had much
doubt Of which way the election in Norfolk
last Thursday was going. When such
throueh.thick thin Democratic papers
as those. that have never let an election
come and 60 without being in the fore
front Of the Democratic hosts, refuse to
aid the party organization and stand OH
and bring grave charges against it. it set
Ties the question of defeat in advance. Such
a vigorous campaign as the Prohibition Re-
form waged, led by the Prohibition leaders
and supported by Prohibitionists. and DEM
ocratic Reformers who had stood the party
organization as long as they could. could
only have been resisted by a united Demo
cratic party conscious of fighting in good
cause. A divided party went down before
it like reeds before the wind. Some OF our
Democratic contemporaries are pointing to
this disaster as warning to the Demo-
cratic rings and bosses in other cities. 1t
NAV and it may not be regarded-most
likely the latter. AS general thing the
ring. from the boss to the heller. thinks
that having control Of the machine and be-
ing able to drum up majorities for ward
meetings. renders it inyincible, and it is no
more likely to take warning now than 1T has
been in the past. Strongly entrenched in
party authority, it will still continue to
make the old Tweed inquiry. "What are
you going to do about it?" In many cities
it will require lust such answers as Nor
folk gave, to open their eyes.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

The municipal elections in Virginia.
Thursday, were Of little interest except III
Norfolk, where the candidates Of the Dem
ocratic machine were beaten by a comblna-
ton of Prohibitionists and Democrats, hy
maiorities ranging from 129 to 1900. 1t
was an uprising Of the Democrats against
the machine, which had become very Oh
folk was. Democrat Al; Prohibition 500:
Populist 773. The Whole fight was organ
lied by the Prohibitionists, who had W. W.
Gibbs. of the State Committee, there, man
aging, with Rev. Sam W. Small, Col. Dick
lie, Col. Miller, Rev. Hector, and other
Prohibition speakers.
Roanoke had close call, the Democratic
mayor being only elected by ten votes
The Democratic Commonwealth S Attor-
ney and Commiss iOner Of the Revenue were
beaten, but were elected by the Election
Commissioners throwing out the vote OF a
Republican ward on account Of ''discrepan-
cies."
In Culpeper, Charles M. Waite, was
elected, the flrSC Democratic mayor lue
town has had for several years.
A new crank has been invented by the
Arkansas Populists. Their State Cen
trail Committee has decided that the
delegates to the Populist State Conven
tion, which meets in Little Rock, July
10Th, shall not come by railroads, but Oh
foot OF horseback, over the county roads
holding meetings along the road and invit
ing the whole Populist party of Arkansas
to fall in and march to Little Rock.
j. Hampton Hoge Of Roanoke, who
achieved such national notoriety by being
recalled OH his way to be Consul at Annoy
had fist fight with G. 1. Stuart, of the
Roanoke Evening World, Saturday night
ON account of editorial reference to hi
flop into the Republican party.
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The Killing of Weeks Father.

Editor V5nd6cat0r
In the account given in your last weeks
issue of the killing of Weeks by Hite. there
was an error as to the slayer Of Weeks father.
The father of Hite was a gallant soldier in
Co. E. 9TH Va. Regiment and was killed at
the battle of Mcnocacy. in Maryland, in the
summer of 1861. The father Of Weeks was
killed, not by an uncle of Hite, but by r. S.
Golloday, member of the same company
who was afterwards a deserter. and passed
through the Valley with Gen. Hunters army
in June, 1864.
Yours truly,
j. N. MCFARLAND.
Staunton, May 31st.
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THE NEWS OF THE DAY.

e. 2. Huntington has just returned from
California, where he has been several months.
He says wheat in California is ceasing to be
a factor of much Importance in the wealth of
the State Although the State has produced
6o,OOoOoO bushels year, he believes that in
few years it will not produce 10000, 900 bush
els. Other crops are taking the place OF
wheat with much more profit.
Many years ago, A. j. McAvoy, locomo-
tive engineer on the leading, Pa, railroad,
let stranded and needy actor ride Oil his To-
connective, and after carrying him the length
of his run gave him 81, all the money he had
If was Howard WILDER the comedian. Late
lV he died in Chicago and left McANoy Slo,-
600. and all his wardrobe and personal pro-
perty. The whereabouts OF McAvoy is I'M
known; he some years since having gone to
Mexico looking for work.
Yhe collection of 500 u. 5. and foreign
stamps gotten together by Louis Sobrsac Of
Buenos Ayres, was seld at auction in New
York last week bringing $4,000: A London
dealer sent bid by cable for an Athens d
cent stamp, good specimen on the original
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Booted and spurred, his troopers riding, ever
Ready for the fierce fray, entwined around
His brows the laurel-leaves that made forever
Thenceforth the name of Stuart glory
crowned:
They followed where he led;
They conquered where he bled;
Gladly had each one died in the lost leaders,
stead.
Can you not hear booming across the years
The thunderous echoes of young Pelham's
guns?
There went to war than her red cannoneers
None higher-hearted of the Souths true
sons
Whatever else betide
Down the dim years they ride
Who joyous rode to death as bridegroom to
his bride.
Beyond the vast of time we can descry
In memory the white foam and the sweep
Of the great Ram, Virginia; and on high
The Southern pennant fiuttering Ger the
deep;
And hear the sullen roar
OF the grim guns she bore
Proclaiming Freedoms fight from listening
shore to shore.
In many battle on the wandering wave
The sailors whom this shaft commentaries,
Wrote high on Glory's record that the brave
Who fall for for Freedom sleep at Free
dom's gates;
That after life lived free,
Life lost for Liberty
Is Gods most gracious gift that hath been or
shall be.
For Freedom aye for Freedom Twas this
hope
That sent the steady, steel-tipped line of
Fringed with hell's fires up the steep slippery
slope
Of Gettysburg, on that most fatefnl day
That found our pathway crossed
By an Outnumbering host .
That witnessed high hopes flown; that saw
the dear Cause lost.
IS
Unfalterng in their grave fidelity
Steadfast in purpose to the bitter end,
They closed thin ranks, and set brave eyes to
see
And dauntless hearts to bear what Fate
should send;
Not looking vainly back
Along the traversed track
But facing Wars last blast its hurricane and
wrack.
When came the bitter end, the bugle blew
Its last sad note, that brought the binding
tears
Down wasted cheeks from eyes that only
knew
Honor and Death through all the weary years.
The long hard fight was done;
Silenced was every gun;
And what we lost, cen now they do not
dream, who won.
Let not the worth of any such be weighed
BY battles balance. They who glorifed
Their righteous cause and lived, and they
who made
The sacrifice supreme, in that they died
10 keep their country free,
Alike gave men to see
What hero hearts were theirs who thus loved
Liberty
They did their duty in the leal fearless fashion
Of antique knighthood's flower, each man a
knight,
Careless if Death dividing peace from passion
Whispering should greet them in the roar
of fight,
| Or Life to ceaseless pain
| Should lead them forth again;
knowing that duty done is never done in vain
Time shall not dim their memory. The wei
The spider weaves may hang across the
mouth
OF the dsmantled cannon, and the ebb
And flow of erstwhile battle in the South
Be but the shadowy CLEAN
OF long vanished dream;
But ever over all this shaft shall loom SUI
preme. $500
Silently telling in majestic beauty
Through all the years the story of their faitl
Their love of Truth, of Freedom and OF Duty
Transcendent Love, triumphant over Death
Harm now can reach them never;
Their fame is sure forever
While stands the sacred Hill, OF flows TIN
shining River.
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FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 1, 1894.
c4LL FOR CONGRESSIONAL CON-
VENTTON FOR THE TENTH
DISTRICT

The Congressional Committee of the
Democratic party for the Tenth Congress
siopal District Of Virginia, has decided
that the Convention to nominate candi-
date to represent the tenth district in the
National House of Representatives (54th
Congress) be held at Buchanan. in the
county of Botetourt,
Thursday. the 18th day Of August. 1894, at IL O'Clock
The Democratic County and City Chair
men Of the Tenth District are therefore re-
ouested to issue calls for meetings in their
respective counties and cities at times and
places convenient to thevoters, to select del
egates and alternates from their respective
counties and cities.
The basis of representation will be the
vote cast for the last Democratic ticket
for Governor, and one delegate and one al
ternate will be chosen for every seventy
five votes and fraction of seventy-five
amounting to thirty-se OF more, that
was cast for Charles L. 0 'Ferrall in 1888.
That is to say:
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THE DAY IN RICHMOND.

Wednesday was great day at Richmond.
The gathering to witness the unwilling of the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument was immense.
Generals Wade Hampton, Fitz Lee, John b.
Gordon, JAS A. Walker. Wheeler, Maury,
and many others were in the procession.
Capt. j. N. Mcfarland who was there says
the division of a thousand little children
wearing sashes of the Confederate cOlors and
carrying little Confederate flags. was the pref
tiest part of the procession, though there were
lots of troops from Virginia and other States
in the line. The StonewalI Brigade Band
had leading place in the line. The Grafton
was delivered by Rev. DR.. Cave of Ky. Arm
istead e. Gordon read the following poem :
"GLADLY WE SHOULD REST EVER, HAD WE
WON FREEDOM WE HAVE LOST, AND VERY
GLADLY Resi-
g Weigh not their ao0rN By tile balance Of bottle
These hace gt0slfsd their caatse BY the rscoro
Of noble sacrifice, TIE simple manhood Of Mei'
Ices, the patient endurance Of suffering, Gno
the hero5sm Of death. May such fidelity ano
patriotism endure toreger.''
Since that spring morning when the first dread
gun
Doomed DER the harbor of the seaport town,
Fired by Virginia's lion-hearted son
Who would not live to see his flag go down
Long years have passed away
Youths gold hath turned to gray;
The old men fade and die; the young age day
by day.
But ere pale Death shall stand with equa
feet
Hard by each door-the door OF old or young
That glory can be wrested from defeat
Let an so Ifdumpief' here be sung,
Yielding the need OF praise
OF laurels and green bays
To Young and old alike who fought in those
Lost days.
Brighter than any born of time or fate
| More beautiful thaa e,eg Seheld of men-
Fronting the nations stood the fair youns
State
And 'Rebel'' was the splendid badge agar
WorR by the sons of those
Whom Freedom feudal foes
Had learned to bow before when Washington
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OF course they would need to be very small.
If any are at a loss'to know how to pass
and collect the individual communion cup,
and where such cup can be obtained, Isuppose
the churches that have adopted them will
readily give the information. Perhaps some
such will kindly do so in response to my re-
quest as 1 shall use my influence to bring
about the change in my own church, and
know of a church OF another denomination in
this city that has the matter under considera-
ton. have been waiting an opportune time
to introduce the change, and think it is now
at hand
A METHODIST MINISTER.
Hartford, Conn, May 1G.
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arose,
ey gathered round her beautiful bright


They gathered round her beautiful bright
form
With glittering bayonets fixed to ready guns,
Stirred by that passion Liberty keeps warm
In every pulse OF all her patriot sons,
Offering upon her shrine
The sacrifice divine
OF Love; and each man Swore "Her holy
cause is mine!'
Her cause was theirs and Freedoms. For
such cause
Men have died gladly since that ancient day
When the Three Hundred gave Myriad
pause
For Grecian freedom at Thermopyla.
These drew the Spartan sword;
These knew the Spartan word:
" With at, or on 1t -" These the Spartan spirit
stirred.
On the most glowing page of human story
Are writ in lines of light their deathless
names.
Our heritage is their eternal glory;
Their record of undying deeds is Fame,s::
The immemorial roll
OF her resplendent scroll
Their honor and their valor shall extol.
Ger that first field, made red with their
first blood,
Rang through the tumult as bugle-call
His kingly voice. who royalty bestowed
On Jackson's soldiers standing like
wall'
The battle-accolade,
Knighting the great Brigade
And him who at its head had drawn his sword
and prayed.
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HARNSBERGER'S
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The Largest and Most Complete Store
in the Valley Of Virginia.
$3.50 Feet Of Floor Space. $3.50
Everything Except Groceries.
A few of the Many Bargains
from Each Department:

DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Good check and plaid ginghams at "A cents.
worth cents.
has ever been sold for ) cents per yard.
Indigo-blue prints at cents. will wash
The best feather ticking at Is cents.
A beautiful line of white goods at the low
est prices
Dress goods from 10 cents per yard up to ST.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT.
A beautiful display of French pattern hats
at 80, 81. sc. bS3, 81 and So.
Untrimmed hats from 80 cents up.
Black sailors at 10 cents.
Ribbons and flowers in endless varieties.
MEMS CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
Boys wool suits at 81. 10, better at 81. 80 and
81; all wool, So. 80 and 50 To- Cheaper than
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Youths suits at 500, So and $780, from Is
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Mems suits at unheard OF prices. Come and
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SHOE DEPARTMENT
See our solid leather ladies' fine shoes at
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A real Dongola Kid ladies shoe at s1.25,
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Shoes from % cents pair up.
Ladies' Oxford slippers 80 and IS cents.
Real kid at SO cents per pair
If you wish to save money, try pair Of our
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Children's ribbed hose at 5 cents, worth 10
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A job lot of ladies hose at 5 cents. worth
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Twenty five dozen ladies' fast black hose
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Ladies ribbed vests, good quality, at cts.
Window shades, best goods decorated. at Is
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Thousands of other bargains too numerous
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Carpets and mattings at reduced prices:
One hundred pieces of mattings to select
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Glass and queensware, tinware, hardware,
woodenware at unheard of prices.
5 AND 10 CENT COUNTERS.
Goods formerly sold at 5 cents, now /, 2 and
8 cents
Goods formerly sold at 10 cents. now 5, 6, Z
and cents.
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A Few Eye Don IS.

Don't allow cold wind to strike the ewes.
Don't try to do eyework with the light
shining in the face.
Don't have colored shades on the lamps:
use white OF ground glass.
Don't go directly from warm room into a
raw, cold atmosphere
Don't open the eyes under water in bathing,
especially in salt water.
Don't let any Strong light. like that from
electricity, shine directly into the eyes.
Don't strain the eyes by reading, OF any
like occupation, with an imperfect light
Don't battle intlamed eyes with cold water;
that which is as warm as can be borne is bet
ter.
Don't sleep opposite window in such man.
ner that strong light will strike the eyes on
awakening.
DON'T above all, have the children sleep
so that the morning sun shall shine in their
faces to arouse them.
Don't. when you find your eyes giving
away, put off having pair of glasses fitted
by
H. L. Lang,
JeweIer and 0ptician.
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Total,

EDWARD EcHoLs, Chairman.
Dem. Con- Com. Tenth District.
District papers please copy.