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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11
Mary WashingtOn's House.

A correspondent of the Bait. Sun says
that the quaint old house in Frcdericks-
burg in which Mary Washington, the
father of Gen. Geo. Washington, lived,
is still standing, and considering its
great age is in remarkably good state
of preservation. She moved to it from
her home. further down the river,
about 1850, lived there through the
stormy days of the Revolution and died
in it 1889, full of years and honors, hav
ing lived to see her boy carry the war
to a successful termination and to be
come the Chief Executive of the nation
he had erected out of a handful of col
onies. The old house stands at the
corner of Charles and Lewis streets, or,
according to the modern idea," at D
and Twelfth streets, and almost every
visitor to the town has it pointed out
to him.
1t is now considerably changed from
its original form, and consists of cen
trail section two stories high, from
which extend, on either side, a one and
half-story and wing. The entrance
is up a flight of four broad sandstone
steps to a wide portico, which is sup
ported by four fluted wooden columns
after the Doric order. The house is
weather boarded with old hand dressed
boards, with the exception of small
portion of the corner wing, which is of
brick. This wing is the original build
ing and had an entrance adjoining the
present entrance.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11

SUICIDE IN SHENANDOAH.-A dis
patch to the Baltimore Sun says that
Frank Thomas, a popular young mar
and liquor dealer at Newmarket, Shen
andoah county, committed suicide
Friday night about 10 o'clock by tax
ing an overdose of laudanum. He
leaves widow and two children. Nc
cause can be assigned for the rash act
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11

Senator Allison cries british in
fiooence" in his assault upon the Will
son tariff bill. The measure is faulty
enough to be sure, but we protest
against the introduction of these hoary
old bugaboos into the debate. Mr..
Allison can and must do better than
that. The world long ago emerged
from the pre-Adamite stage.-Indea-
ApDeaI
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11

A DECISION ABOUT OPTIONS. -
Among the decisions handed down in
the Court of Appeals of Missouri re-
GER thy was one declaring that a debt
contracted in an option deal cannot be
collected by law, as such speculative
dealing is gambling and illegal. The
points sustained were that the debtor
was not bona fide purchaser, was not
prepared to receive and did not expect
to Aeceive the actual grain, and that,
if in contract for future delivery the
only purpose is to speculate on the
difference between buying and selling
prices, such contract is a wager and
therefore null and avoid.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11
THE WORLD and TIE STATE FOR Sl.25.

You can get. the NEW YORK WEEKLY
WORLD and THE WEEKLY STATE both one
year for $1.25.
Address THE STATE.
march % Richmond, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11
A Man and his SOn-in-Law Commit
Suicide.

- AAuh GNU Law OUm
Suicide.
A dispatch from Raleigh, n. c.,
dated April 4th says
1.-Two farmers, both well to do, COM
mitted suicide in precisely the same
way at the same place in Johnston
county. ]. B. Wall, aged about fifty
years, went from the courthouse at
Smithfield to the home of his son-in-
law, j. H. Cook, five miles from Selma.
Cook was not at home, but his wife,
Wallis daughter, was. Wall spoke to
her in an ordinary way, exhibiting no
sign of insanity, aud went to a room in
the house where he found Cooks
pistol. He then went into a grove
near by and shot bullet through his
brain, it entering at the right side. No
reason can be assigned for the suicide.
Cook to day, without manifesting the
slightest sign of mental unsoundness,
bade his family goodbye, as if he were
going to Selma, but went into the
woods, and with the same pistol which
Wall had used blew out his own brains
in precisely the same way. Cook was
a man of thirty five and in comfortable
circumstances, and his suicide is as
pulling as that of his father-in-law. -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11

The Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows will celebrate its seventy-fifth an,
niversary on the Goth instant.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-04-11
Appointments Of the Baltimore
Conference.

The Annual Conference of the Baltimore
Conference NJ. E. Church South, adjourned
on last Wednesday to meet in Washington
next year. when the Bishop made the follow
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hereby certify that John A. Alexander has
executed the bond required by decree of sale
in the cause of Smiths Admir- VS.. Smith, W.
F., &c.
Given under my hand this 10th day of March,
1894. JOS. B. WOODWARD,
Clerk.
o1-it
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MINERS SHOT DOWN.
FATAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN
STRIKERS AND DEPUTIES.
rive Kuled Outright and Others Mortally
wounded-Onicers Give the Order to Fire
Seemingly without Provocation-O Opera
tors Arm for the Conflict.
Scene Of Slaughter.

At daybreak Thursday morning the
battle which had been threatening at
the Sickle Hollow. Pa, mines of the
Washington Coal and Coke Company
for the past few days occurred, ana as
q result at least seven strikers are
lying dead and many are seriously
wounded.
Shortly before midnight 1000 strik-
ers assembled at the Sickle Hollow
plants, coming from Lucyville, Fayette
City, Treport, Allenport and many
other points on the Monongahela
River. Some of them were armed, but
the majority were not. They went into
camp near the plant, where they re-
NAMED until o'clock in the morning,
when they adjourned to the public
road leading to the works, over which
the workmen would have to pass to
the pit. Here they formed a line to
intercept the workmen and attempt to
get them to return home.
According to program they stopped
the first delegation of miners and after
a little persuasion induced them to
join the strike. The men turned back,
and about the time they were starting
homeward with their dinner buckets
the deputies, who were on guard and
witnesses to the affair.", were ordered
to shoot. They fired into the mob at
close range, an a fired to kill. 1t was
the bloodiest conflict of the present
strike, and the awful work of destroy
ing human lives was accomplished IN
three rapidly fred volleys. The pro-
miscuous revolvers and small arms OF
the strikers were no match for the
Winchesters of the deputies, and the
strikers Quickly retreated, leaving
their dead and dying on the battle
ground. Many arrests followed the
conflict. and the Jail is filled to over
who offered comparatively no resist
were eighty deputies, and all contin-
ued to shoot as long us the men kept
in range. This informant saw four
dead In the road and three In the
wheat field. The labor leaders, ac-
cording to reports, are paralyzed at
the turn affairs have taken. They re-
fuse to talk about II. 1t is thought no
more attempts will be made to bring
out those workmen unless q small army
Is raised.
A Uniontown dispatch says that ef-
forts are being made by the strikers
to prove that the attack of the depu-
ties upon the strikers was unwa rant
able, and that they were slaughtered
without warning under a CALLING fire
delivered at distance of fifty feet. But
later reports indicate clearly that the
encounter was two-sided battle-the
first engagement in which both officers
and strikers were shooting to kill. All
the dead are strikers. Officers Of the
coal company say that the strikers
served notice upon them that they ex-
pected to assault the works. The depu-
ties considered the interference with
the workmen as they proceeded to the
works the beginning of the assault,
and opened fire.
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Sparks from the Wires.

JARED BENSON, q pioneer OF ST.
Paul, Mimi, is dead at the age Of 72
years
PHILIP MERKEL, carpenter, was
killed at Quincy, ILL.,, by falling from a
building.
JOHN MASSA, a hotel proprietor at
Illiopolis, ILL.,, fell from boat and was
drowned.
WETTER'S circus was damaged S10,.
600 by q wind and rain storm at Canal
port, Ohio.
CHARLES RICHARDS, a farmer, was
killed near Vincennes, Ind, by burst
ing grindstone.
GEN. FRYE, the commonweal leader,
was refused permission to hold q meet
ing in Cincinnati.
THE City Council of Muscatine; Ia,
has fixed the saloon license at $1,000
under the new mulct law.
Miss PEARL MANUE! committed sui.
of potassium. No cause for her action
Is known.
HEALTH officers Of Illinois met at
Springfield and formed an organization
calculated to improve their general
efficiency.
ALL employees of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy Railroad have been
requested by the company to submit to
vaccination.
JAMES TALBOT, administrator of the
Davis estate, has commenced action to
recover stock in the bank at Butte,
Mont, valued at 81 100000.
JULIUS SCHwABACHER, son of rich
distiller at Peoria, ILL.,, caught in the
act OF committing burglary, has been
declared insane.
DATA concerning the identity of
movements of anarchists in possession
of the French Government is to be
given other countries.
CINCINNATI authorities forced food
down the throat of Father O'Grady,
the murderer of Mollie Gilmartin, who
was starving himself.
EFFORTS are being made by pro-
moters of the exposition at Atlanta,
used at the Worlds Fair.
FRANK BELL, after being terribly
beaten, was robbed OF $500 near Baber-
ton, Ohio. Five men are under arrest
charged with the crime.
FOR killing his unfaithful wife, Will
lam McKeill paid the extreme penalty
of the law at Mobile, Ala.
A WARRANT has been issued for
Bookkeeper j. ]. Kean, of the Harlem
River Bank at New York, on a charge
Of having embezzled $4,000.
THE Knights OF Honor at their Gin
cinnati convention decided to refer the
question OF mitting women to the
order to the subordinate lodges.
FRANK GooDALF, a we'll known Jock
ey, was thrown from the horse Judge
Payne at Louisville aud trampled TO
death by the horses following him.
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Coat with Coal OH.

A prevention of parasitic diseases
of cereals by treating them before
sowing or planting has been found
useful by many who have expert
mented along this line. A slight
coating of coal oil given to peas In
the autumn Is said to destroy the pea
weevil. This causes the crop of the
following season to be almost free
from this pest. A somewhat analo.
gous remedy has been discovered for
smut In wheat and oats by Professor
Jansen Of Denmark, only that the
heat seems to be the effective agent
in these cases. The remedy is simply
to 1mmerse the seed wheat or oats
In water at temperature of l35 to
lao degrees. The crops grown from
seed thus treated have been found to
be entirely free from smut The
remedy has the merit Of being both
cheap and simple.
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MOBBED BY STRIKERS.
Desperate Illinois Miners FIJI Up thu
Shaft of a Centralia Mine.

Desperate Illinois Miners FIJI Up the
Shaft of q Centralia Mine.
A mob of 500 yelling, shouting and
desperate Illinois strikers from Du-
quoin and St. Johns mines captured an
Illinois Central train early Thursday
morning and compelled Engineer
irving there they rushed to the Big
the city, operated by Pottenger
of dollars worth of property.
Thirty non-union men found work.
ing in the mine were driven like
frightened sheep from the leads, while
the strikers made several attempts to
do bodily injury. The rage OF the
leaders of the mob knew no bounds
when the workmen escaped, and in q
few moments the scarcely less infuri-
ated strikers sp cad destruction about
the mine. Dumpcarts, props, timbe g.,
old machinery and all available loo 9
material were hurled into the. shaft,
completely filing it. The glass and
sa.h of the buildings were smashed
and the mining machinery were speed
lily rendered eless.
According to press dispatch, scenes
of wanton destruction and intimidation
continued until 8 o'clock, when the
pillagers formed under leaders and
marched to the Odin mines, eight miles
away, there to repeat the work OF de-
struction. The local committee made
an Intellectual attempt Wednesday to
induce the men working in the Pot
tenger mine to stop work. hence the
attack of the strikers. When it was
learned in Centralia that the mob
was en- route in captured
freight train, special train was
made up for Sheriff Helms and his
posse at Salem, but the official arrived
only to see the maraudcrs marching
toward Odin. Quickly recruiting fifty
deputies, Sheriff Helms armed his
party with Winchesters and ~ rounds
OF ammunition each at the local arm
ory and left for Cd in a special train.
Gov. Altgeld was asked to send the
State militia TO the sc ne. but refused
to 90 20 until the loo al authorities had
used the means within their power to
preserve peace and protect property.
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Farm Notes.

WHITE clover is excellent for I'LL
ing up bare places on grass plots, as
1t will grow and thrive where other
grasses will fall, but 1t prefers rich
soil that contains lime.
The farmer is his own employer,
and does not have TO go or come at
the beck of anyone else This is
worth remembering when you are
figuring up the advantages and dis
advantages of the occupation.
THE Lima bean has been SO callei
for a hundred years, and, as its name
indicates, seems the have first been
known in South America. The COM
mon kidney bean seems to have first
been known to the ancient Peru
vians.
IT Is stated that the best way to
test cabbage seed is to drop some on
hot stove. Ii the seeds burst and
pop Qike popcorn) they may be con-
sidered OF good quality, and those in
the package will germinate and pro-
duce good plants.
WHEN green crops are plowed un-
der for the purpose OF enriching the
soil, an application of lime will often
be of the greatest benefit 1t helpi
to correct the acidity of the soil.
which often results from too rapid
fermentation OF the green stuff
FARMERS clubs, grange meetings,
institutes, etc, help to promote the
social side OF farm life, and bring the
people OF a community into closer re.
lation and sympathy with each other.
Do not neglect these things any more
than you do the proper cultivation of
your land.
Ir does not pay to use low grade
fertilizers. They contain less OF the
desired elements In proportion to
their cost than do the higher grades.
and the cost for freight and handling
is out OF proportion to their vslue II
you buy your fertilizers, do Is 10 ~
condensed form as possihle.
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cious In preventing the scab and
blight on leaf and fruit, which Is q
greater present danger than the cod
ling moth to perpetrate its species
In most orchards where the apple
crop entirely failed when apples are
now grown they are free from worms
For grapes the spraying is now re.
garded as indispensable to prevent
rot The Bordeaux mixture Is also
found an effective remedy for an
thracnose on Blackcap raspberries
In spraying for fungus diseases sew
eral applications are better than
one. A small bit of fungus that es-
capes the first or second application
increases very rapidly. But 1T Is
probable that thorough spraying one
season will greatly lessen the amount
of this work that will be needed the
year following.
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I,rienets.

SEVERAL bridges wee WISHED away
near Anoka, Minn., by flood.
Gov. w ATE of Colorado will make
Populist campaign speeches in illinois.
THE Taylor brothers, murderer5 Of
the Meeks family, are said to have
been cornered in the woods near No
vingsr, Mo.
IT is said the Grand Duke Paul OF
Russia, q brother OF the Gar, will
marry Princess Maud, youngest daugh-
ter of the Prince OF Wales.
ANDREW j. GRAHAM. author of the
system OF shorthand which bears his
name, died at his hone in Orange,
NJ. He was In his 9th year.
THE Kellys and Raffertys, OF South
vile, Mass., settled long-standing
feud with revolvers- Two will die and
two others are badly wounded.
j. l.. HASTINGS, Representative
from the Twenty-second Senatorial
District OF Ill nois, died at his home In
Galesburg. He was 80 years old
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long, inches wide by t inch thick,
fastened near the outer end of the
iron arms, e, E, with rivet at lower
end to post d with inch bolt is
a small block fastened between the
springs Fl, ii, to give the arms E, E,
the proper spread, which should be
90 inches at outer tips j is a. collar
made of hoop iron fastened to post
d and fitting loosely around post c
X is a light iron clevis fastened
loosely to post d and fitting loosely
around post c. A piece Of hoop iron,
is inches long. is fastened in post G,
slightly extending at back OF post,
and has very small notches filed in
IL to which the cIevis X holds. Post
ID with all that is fastened to it is
free to slide up and down post G,
thus adjusting itself to long or short
bags, while the springs, Fl, II, allow
the arms e, E, To be pressed together
or spread, thus adjusting itself to
wide or narrow bags. The dotted
lines show bag in position for filling.
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
Life OF the Small Farmer IL . Happy One
Convenient Bag Holder A Model W.
lage stable = welI-Arranged Water
Bench-Agricultural Notes
Convenient Bag Holder

The Ohio Farmer thus describes
the bag holder which Is here illus
traded: A. is an inch board IL
inches wide and 20 inches long. B, B
is an inch board 8 inches wide and
"a inches long. G is an upright post
SO inches high, I3x2 inches square,
and mortised through the boards A
and b. b, at the bottom. d Ia an
upright post "a inches high, 14x2
inches square. e, E are two iron
arms lS inches long, inch wide and
I inch thick, fastened on top OF post
ID with wood screw bolt, and given
half twist as shown; also two up
ward and outward extending fianges
G. G, inches long and inch high.
II, III, are two hickory springs p feet
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dust, flies, and an occasional visit,
PERHAPS, from the family cat The
illustration accompanying this shows
how water can be kept cool in sum-
mer and perfectly protected from
cats, flies, and dust When the pals
are to be filled, the 'front.' which is
hinged, is let down, the cover raised,
and the pals when filled are as easily
set back as upon an open bench. The
front and the cover can then be
closed and the water kept clean and
cool. The closet below will be found
exceedingly convenient for numerous
u that will occur to any house
keeper living In the country.
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Fattening Animals ON Grass.

Large numbers OF animals are every
year fattened on grass, being turned
out in May Or June. and sold of when
fattened In the fall. This grass feed
is also right when at its best but at
either end it needs to be supple
mented with grain feeding, as does
also the feed OF cows at pasture. So
long as the grass is immature con-
siderable amount Of grain will De
eaten daily. There should be grain
ration also when the pasture fails In
the fall, and especially II It is sup
plemented by fodder corn cut before 1t
is mature enough to come in tassel. A
little grain feed in summer will 20
farther In fattening any kind of stock
than a much larger amount in
winter.
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door of generous size. A box stall
ought to be provided in every stable,
as it will be found most useful for
the occasional use both Of the horse
and COW. 1t may take the place OF
the extra stall that ought always to
be provided for the horse Of a visitor,
so that there is but little extra room
called for.
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thalf-barrel which may be put to use
at all seasons OF the year for other
purposes when not in use for seed
soaking In making, select tight,
strongly made barrel, vinegar or
molasses barrel being preferable; but
IL a ligh one is desired four or
,sugar barrel where perfectly tight
may be used. In the farm tool
house 1t may be quickly sawed In
two, tightly hooped and rope handles
put In at the two sides
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Sow GOOD services; sweet remem-
brances will grow from them.
IN the truly great, virtue governs
with the scepter Of knowledge.
THE aim Of all intellectual training
for the mass OF the people should be to
cultivate common sense.
THE sympathy Of most people con-
sists OF mixture of good humor, curl
osity and eclf-importance.
MISFORTUNE, when we regard II
with the eye, Is smaller than whet en-
tertsined by the Imagination
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Dairy Hint.

Hoard's Dairyman gives these
hints about wooden vessels: "Don't
set a wooden bowl or butter printer
in the sun or by stove to dry. They
last much longer IL dried slowly.
Also wet these things before using
them for cream, milk, or butter. II
the pores are filed with water they
cannot absorb grease and so get
tainted. Wood will absorb the but
ter fats in milk and milk products
and they will not dry out as does
water"
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A Village Stable

A small window over the stable
door, through which hay is pitched
with difficulty, is avoided by break
In the roof, as shown in the accom-
panying illustration from the Amer
ican AgricuIturist, giving room for a
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A wen-Arranged Water Bench.

Where water can be brought by
pipe from a nearby well, or from a
spring, the task Of bringing it in
pals can happily be avoided. But
large proportion of homes are still
served with water from pump in
the yard from which the water must
be carried to the house in pals. A
simple bench usually provides sup
port for these pals of water which
are thus exL osed to heat in summer,
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Progress. in Spraying.

In no other department OF horti-
cultural knowledge has so much pro-
gress been made as has been made in
spraying 1t was at first recon-
mepded chiefly to destroy the codling
moth. which destroys the apple crop.
But it Is now found equally etiica-
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AITub for Grain Soaking.

At the grain sowing season moth.
ing is more handy than tub in
whice to soak, clean or kill smut
spores than a tight half-barrel of
Crawford avalanche., 1894-05-31

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
AN INTERESTING AND INsTRUC-
TIVE LESSON.

Reflections of m Elevating Character-
wholesome Food for Thought Study
ing tho scriptaral Lesson Intelligsntly
and Probably.
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The Passover Instituted
The lesson for Sunday, June 3, may
be found In Exod. IL: LA.


be found In Exod. IL: 1-14.
INTRODUCTORY.
The blood OF Jesus Christ-this Is
the underlying theme Of the lesson be.
fore us. Profounder or more practical
and pertinent sub 'ect OF thought the
Bible does not contain. Speak IL out
plainly, personally. Get its large i'm
port, first Of all, Tor self-then, out OF
o heart touched with the blood, give
to others. Newman Halls last strong
word is on "Atonement, the Fundamen-
tai Fact of Christianity. Says he:
I'VE consider that on this, as its strong
foundation, stands the church Of God.
We build on sand, II we build else
where. This is the groundwork OF an
assurance Of pardon, the source Of our
spiritual life" Says DR.. Enoch Miller:
''This is the central truth, the denial
of which. throws the whole fabric OF
spiritual truth into disintegration and
collapse 1t Is the sun in the
heavens OF revelation, around which
othe" doctrines revolve and from which
they derive their light. II God has
not revealed this fact-that we are
saved by the substitutionary work of
Christine has revealed nothing, or
the revelation has ZEN clothed in such
deceptive language as to necessitat ,
bewilderment and mistakes, and that
which should have been steady lamp
to our feet and light to our path only
leads US into quagmires Of error and
despair"
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convenient size
for use. On many
farms the COM
mon method is
Ito borrow the
good wives wash
tubs, pans, etc.
The cut shows q
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Grains OF Gold.

Next Less n-"Passage Of the Red
Sea. '-Ex. 14:19-29.
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LEBANON CAMP, No. II. W. O. w.-Meets in
regular session every Monday evening.
GEO. H. BoSNELI. Counsel Com
HARRY EVANS, Clerk.
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CRAWLING HIVE, No. 81, L. o. T. M.--Meets
every first and third Wednesday Of each month
SARAH M. wooDFIELD, Lady Com.
EDITH wooDFIELD, Record Keeper.