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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
Lower Prices for What You Buy.

The Bait. Sun says, now that wheat
and other agricultural products are
low and without prospect of reaction
to former prices, new situation exists
The question farmers must ask them
selves is simply this: "How can l get
lower prices for what 1 buy ~ To all
schemes of protection their answer
must be: 1--WE are not in a position to
give bounties, however small" All
duties, so far as they enhance the prices
of articles, are, to man of the farmers
position, oppressive. He wants abso-
lutte freedom to buy in the cheapest
market. The situation promises no
'letup." Russia produces cheaply
India, with cheaper labor, is now an
exporter of cereals Australia is an
other competitor of ours at Liverpool
Argentina will probably produce this
year 10000, 900 bushels of wheat for ex-
port, and Argentina has enormous ca
pacities of cheap production. The de-
yelopment of the agricultural resources
of Southern and Central Africa would
enable Europe to dispense with our
cereals altogether. A permanent situa-
ton is accordingly to be dealt with,
and the Wilson bill is framed to meet
it's requirements. The West and South
think it does not go far enough. If
protectionists were wise they would
welcome it in broad and patriotic
spirit instead of further irritating the
thinking people of the country by re.
sisting it's passage.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
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Immediately or | could not live long.

"Other medicines which l had tried
did me no good. took one bottle of
DR.. Greene's Nervula blood and nerve
remedy and it set me right on my feet.
l could not help having faith in this
wonderful medicine even if | wanted
to. 1t cnred me completely. Before |
took it was so dizzy did not dare go
away to work alone, l would fall down
and hurt me badly. Since taking DR..
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rem
edy. my health is good and my nerves
are steady. | know it is the best medl-
cine and advise all to use it,"
If you are weak, sickly, nervous, run
down, or have any nervous or chronic
disease, take DR.. Greene's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy. 1t will sure.
ly cure you. The spring is the best
time to take 1t. You can always be
cured quickest at this seasoe. Every
body needs a spring medicine, and
there is none which will do as much
for you as DR.. Greene's Nervura blood
1t is positive cure. Try it. 1t is
purely vegetable and harmless and is
the discovery Of DR.. Greene, of 30 West
Nth Street, New York City, the most
successful specialist in curing nervous
and chronic diseases. He can be con
suited personally or by letter, free OF
charge.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
Sudden Death of Mrs. Geo. d. Wise.

A Special to the Richmond Dispatch
says that Mrs. Eta Wise died very
suddenly of heart failure Tuesday
night of last week at the home of her
brother in law, DIR. John J. Wise, near
A ccomac Courthouse. She retired in
usual health, but about midnight
aroused her daughter and told herthat
she was suffering with pains in the
region of the heart. A boy was sent
Immediately for DR.. Wise, who was in
the village, but the messenger had
hardly left the house before Mrs. Wise
expired. Mrs. Wise was the widow of
the late George d. Wise, an eminent
lawyer and gallant Confederate sol
dier, who was killed in one of the bat
ties around Petersburg, and a daughter
of the late Judge Archibald Atkinson,
of SmirhfieId, Va. She was one of the
most elegant and accomplished ladies
in Virginia.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
APPOINTMENT of Judge.

The Senate having rejected the ncmi-
nation of VIM b. Hornblower, of N. Y,
a few weeks ago, and that of Wheeler
H. Peckham of N. Y, last week, in con-
sequence of the factions in that State,
the President on last Monday nomi-
mated Senator Edward Douglas White
of Louisiana, and the Senate immedi-
ately confirmed that nomination for As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
He was born in Louisiana in 1915. He
served in the Confederate army.
In 1874 he was elected State senator,
and in 1878 he was appointed associate
justice on the supreme court in Louisi-
ana. He took his seat in the United
States Senate in 1891, having beer
elected to succeed the Hon. James b
Eustis
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
Virtue of Speedy Trials.

The Inde1-Appeal says that the
speedy trial and prompt conviction of
Robinson and White, the negroes
proved guilty of criminal assault upon
two white women in Prince William
county, furnish a. striking illustration
of the adequacy of the law and the
courts to punish evil-doers according
to the just and regular forms of pro-
ceedure. We have no doubt that the
machinery of the law was put in oper-
alton more speedily in the case of these
wretches because of the outbreaks OF
violence and mob lawlessness, and the
angry and significant mutterings OF
discomfort which have been heard in
all parts of the State over the laws de-
lays. Robinson and White have been
given fair and impartial trial, as was
their right, and in order to protect
them the State has been put to the
expense of maintaining a military
guard both before the trial and during
it's progress. The sentence of the court
Is u0dUl, duu Lie lu6U Will U0 uduS0U
on March 30th. If in the future the
law shall be administered with equal
promptitude and efficiency there will
hereafter be no pretext whatev for a
resort to the violence of the mob
Moreover, the speedy trial and punish
ment of criminals will do more than
any other agency to put an end to the
vicious and outrageous methods of
lynchers. The Manassas trial marks,
as we believe, the beginning of an
epoch in the administration of the
criminal laws of the State-an epoch
in which delays, circumlocntion and
miscarriages of justice will no longer
be the rule, as in the past, but rather
the exception; and in which the ability
of the courts to punish crime will be-
come SO we'll established that there
will be no excuse for appealing to
lynch law and no liberation of mob
violence. This will, indeed, be glo-
rious epoch in the history of Virginia.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
To Amend the Libel Law.

On last Saturday, Mr.. McRae offered,
by request, bill in the House of Dele
gates to amend the libel law of Vir-
ginia. 1t is modelled after the act
recently passed by the Georgia Legis-
lature. The real object of the bill is
to protect newspapers against black
mailers. 1t provides in substance that
before instituting suit the party ag-
grieved shall inform defendant in
writing of his grievance, and, if ample
correction OF the false publication is
made, the plaintiff shall be entitled
only to recover actual damages. In
other words, the bill, if enacted into a
law, would give plaintiff no standing
in court when an item is published in
good faith and through a misappre-
hension of facts an injury is done, if
the newspaper seeks to correct the
wrong done. The bill will have the
support of the committee appointed
by the Virginia Press Association to
secure an amendment to the libel law.
Many of the leading members Of the
Senate and House favor it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
Don't Monkey With The Snake

1t is stated that rattle-snake can
not bite if held up by the tail. Would
you like to put the statement to a
practical test? Probably not but how
often do you take far greater risks A
snake bite is not the only means of in
Producing poison into the system. If
your liver is sluggish, it fails to remove
the impurities from the blood which
passes through it, and deadly poisons
are thus thrown into the circulation,
all the more dangerous because they
are insidious. If your blood is impure,
if your liver is out of order, if you have
blotches, pimples, boils or eruptions,
don't monkey with the snake p Take
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
the only specific against all blood
poisons, no matter of what name or
nature. 1t is sold under a positiue
guarantee that it will benefit or cure,
OF money will be refunded.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
w. II. U. Opposed to Taxing Whiskey.

In the United States Senate on
Tuesday of last week, Mr.. Frye pre-
sented a petition from the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
signed by the officers of the union in
forty-four States. three territories and
the District of Columbia, protesting
against the government taxing liquor
at all These excellent women. said
Mr.. Frye, do not believe that the
United States ought to enter into CO.
partnership in either the manufacture
or sale of intoxicating liquors."
| Now this is the kind of legislation
that the whiskey men would prefer to
any other, and they will feel like
pressing to their bosoms their sister
allies of the W. G. T. .. with the af
lection that springs from gratitude
O, how wise and practical the extreme
advocates of temperance are-the
W. G. 7. U. and the prohibitionists
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
Ten DAYS TRIP TO WASHINGTON.
Reduced Rates on the B. so.

Everybody expects to visit Washington some
time; in fact it is a duty that every one owes
20 nlmSef. What Rome was to every soldier
Oh tne empire, what Athens was to the Greek
washington is and should be to every citizen
Oh tne I nlted States-his glory, his pride his
its magnif1cence, all its glory, ali its fame its
public buildings, its paintings. its statuary its
monumen S. its gardens, its libraries its mise
once in time to take look at the prom
it? 'ooA "'
The best train service of the B. &.O.RR 10
at your service always, but not reduced rates
they come seldom. The third select excur.
sion to the National Capitol via the h. az q is
announced for March sth, when reduced rate
tickets will be sold from points on its lines he,
tween wheeling, Pittsburgh. Parkersburg.
Lexington and Hagerstown. o.
We give below list of stations in this vicfn.
1ty showing time of trains and rates of fare
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
James J. Hahn, who is charged will

James j. Hahn, who is charged with
stealing $1,000 in negotiable bonds
from his sister, Mrs. Susan Schwarz,
and also "a, coo worth of diamonds from
his wife, in Natchez, Miss, arrived in
New Orleans Saturday, having been
arrested in Guatemala City, capital OF
Guatemala. Forty thousand dollars
worth of bonds and jewelry were re-
covered by the detectives.
Mr.. Smythe, United States minister
to Hayti, denies the report that he
interfered in Haytian affairs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
WHY CAN'T | WORK?
Why Do | Get Weak and Tired 50 Easily T?
Questions That Are Constantly Asked by
Thousands.
A Prominent Business Man Gives Advice
Needed by Everybody.

The world is filled with weak, suffer
ing men and women. OH! they could
only be made we'll and strong how diff
ferent their lives would be And they
can be so just as well as not. Read the
following letter from Mr.. Joseph A.
Slayton, one of the most prominent
men of Calais, Vt:
1.-Two years ago was taken with the
grippe. | had to take to my bed and
was very sick. came very near death.
1 was confined to my bed six weeks.
When got up l was very weak and
could but just get around. employed
physicians who did me very little good.
II had serious trouble with my heart.
so bad that fell and received serious
injury. | was completely run down
and could not do any work on account
of nervous prostration. was thorough
ly discouraged. A friend advised me
to try DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and
nerve remedy.
II bad to have something to help me
i,Oro OF nr 7 oo,,ld not live lrnn
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21

COOKIES FREE-PASS Billion last
Wednesday, in the House of Delegates,
Mr.. Cookies Bill to require all roads
that shall hereafter accept charters, or
amendments to charters previously
granted, to transport free of charge all
members of the General Assembly, was
defeated by a vote of 80 to 43. The
Augusta county delegates-Koiner and
Speck-voted for the bill.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21

WINDS IN MONROE Co., w. VA.-The
Monroe wv. Va.) Waterman of Feb.
18th says that the high winds which
prevailed in that section on Sunday
night and Monday of last week did con-
siderable damage. The brick residence
of Judson Skaggs, Esq. in Wolf Creek
district was shaken and strained so Sc
verely as to cause large cracks in the
walls. His family were badly frighten-
ed and left the house. The new frame
dwelling of Mr.. WIN. Thompson, on the
road leading down from the Knobs to
Wolf Creek postoffice was blown down.
The building was in process of con-
struction and had not yet been occu-
pied.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
500 Reward, 500.

The reader of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally acting direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing it's work. The proprietors
have so much faith in it's curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address,
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Props,
Toledo. D.
eY-Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
The Situation In Wheat

The decline in wheat is gloomy
enough. The average in the United
States was 16 cents per bushel ON the
crop of 1898, as compared with the
previous year, and more than 40 per
cent on the average of three proceed
ing years.
Increased production of the cereal,
however, is going on at rapid rate in
all parts of the world adapted to its
growth. The opportunities for market
ing the surplus, in the great centers of
trade where bread-stuff supplies are
obtained, seem to favor other countries
more than our own. The unwar-
ranted speculation which so often pre-
walls at Chicago and other grain
| trading centers, has embarrassed, and
in a great measure continues to EN-
barrass legitimate trade, which should
be entirely governed by supply and
demand.
The unsettled and discouraging stu
alton which has come to pass in wheat
production in the old countries of
Europe is creating agitation that looks
as though the agriculturists are ar
ranging for contest with the govern
ments under which they live. Some
years ago this feeling manifested itself
in the United Kingdom, when in
creased production of wheat in India
was forced by the power of the govern
ment By combination of influen
ces it caused the increased yield to be
sold in the English markets at a less
price than the producers of the King
dom could raise 1.-THE farmers gen
orally having from 80 to 35 million
bushels of surplus annually.
The general situation in wheat is
one which should continually interest
our Valley producers. They raise a
large surplus for the extent of country
embraced in the territory. 1t is use
less to talk about abandoning it's pro-
duction. Our highest and most rapid
system of soil improvement is indisso-
lubly associated with wheat-culture.-
By it the surface is best prepared for
grass, which brings benefits that, in
the long run, give advantages which
should be estimated for their value, as
the short side of the ledger account is
balanced up as to wheat in these
, years of difficulty and perplexity.
Mixed industries on the farm is a
good theory, but when the trial is
made, it is found there are not so many
! as persons practically not informed
suppose can be engaged in. Live
I stock, fruit-growing, and dairying are
y the chief; for trucking can only be
f adopted with profit where there is a
large local market, or rapid and cheap
transportation to the cities. These
not one in fifty of our Valley farmers
can command.
Augusta wheat growers have the ad
, vantages of the best of markets al
q home for their surplus. Their own ex
n perience demonstrates that, for better
: or for worse, the situation is one
which has to be met with manly effort
I The days of adversely will IN time
cease, the lowering clouds will dispense
, and the farmers of Augusta county
+ with that firm reliance which theil
+ pursuits teach, will prove themselves
f worthy of their rich heritage.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21

ACCIDENT IN ROCKBRIDGE.-The
Clifton Forge ReUieaO says that while
driving in buggy recently Mrs. j. G.
Hyde, of near Brownsburg, Rockbridge
county, was badly hurt by reason of
the horse running off. She was thrown
out, and her clothing hanging to the
buggy, was dragged about twenty
yards, when the horse was stopped in
the corner of the fence. Her clothing
was torn to shreds, her collar-bone
broken and her face painfully battered
and bruised.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
The DalSnOrG Business College
SrAUNTON, VA,

Is the Pioneer Business College of the two
VirginiaS.
1t has more graduates engaged in Business
combined.
Send foe Illustrated Catalogue giving special
arrangements made in the larger cities for
occurring situations for its graduates Strong
So ana best testimonials as to what the school
has done and can do for it's pupils.
] G. DUNSMORE,
July 5-tf President
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
w1sp prpcHAsE Ry THE Tow

A WISE PURCHASE BY THE Town.
The mayor and council of Lexington
have bought from Parker Pendleton
thirty acres of land in the Gallows hill
in Brushy hills. The land is part OF
the watershed of the old town spring
and the town has purchased it to pre-
vent possible pollution OF the spring
and to increase the flow from it. The
land which has been in cultivation
will be allowed to grow up in timber
and a house upon it will be removed.
This was wise purchase. The town
now owns nearly all of the land consti-
tutipg the watershed of it's town
strings and should own all of it,
Rockbridge Nea0S.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, January3 81, 1891.
The Aultman Taylor Company
VS..
Lewis L. Hulvey.
All parties interested in the above styled
cause. take notice, that, in pursuance of a de-
cree of the Circuit Court of Augusta county,
entered in said cause on Nov. 20, 1893 | shall,
at my Office in StauntOn, Va. ON
Thursday, March Sth, 1894
proceed to take and state an account show
ing:
lst. The real estate in the bill and proceed
1ngs mentioned, and the nature and condition
of the title thereto.
End. The liens binding the same in the order
of their priority, and
3rd. Any other matters deemed pertinent
etc
HENRY W. HOLT,
ChaS. Curry, p.q Commissioner.
feb Hits
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
DEPARTMENT ONCE supe


TREASURY DEPARTMENT Office Super
L vising Architect, Washington, d. c.,
February II, 1894. SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this office until O'Clock p. M,
on the 18th day of March, 1894, and opened i'm
mediately thereafter, for all the labor and
materials required for the interior finish,
plumbing, conduits for electric wires, &c, of
the q. S. Post Office Building at STAUNTON,
VIRGINIA, in accordance with the drawings
and specifications, col les of which may be
had at this office or at the office of the Super
intendent at Staunton, Virginia. Each bid
must be accompanied by certified check for
a sum not less than 2 per cent. of the amount
of the proposal The right is reserved to re-
ject any and all bids and to waive any defect
or informally in any bid should it be deemed
i'll the interest of the Government to do so. All
bids received after the time stated will be re-
turned to the bidders. Proposals must be en-
closed in envelopes, sealed and marked, PRO
POSAL for the Interior Finish, &c, of the Z. s..
Post OCice Building at Steunton, Virginia"
and a tresse ~ JEE hMlAH ORC URKE,
81 ,,ervi,ing Architect.
feb Il It's
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-21
congressman Wilson and Tarsney

Congressman Wilson and Tarsney
arrived at Ell Paso, Tex, Saturday on
their way to the City of Mexico for a
months rest. Mr.. Wilson's health has
been greatly improved.
The Carnegie Gas Company, boring
for gas near the Baltimore and Ohio
station at Finleyville, Pa, struck oil
Saturday. 1t is spouting fifty feet over
the derrick.
DR.. Daniel H. Williams, a colored
physician of Chicago and the leading
was appointed by Secretary Hoke
Smith as surgeon i-chief of the Freed
mans Hospital in Washington.
The National Woman's Suffrage
Convention, in session in Washington,
chose Atlanta, Ga, for the place of the
next annual meeting of the association.
What has Georgia done that it should
be visited with such an infection?
Ben. White, colored, convicted at
Manassas on charge of criminal as
sault and sentenced to be hung, was
granted a new tria!
TIE Reichstag las adopted u pro
posal to introduce in Germany the
Australian method of polling. A very
large majority of the members voted
in favor of the proposal.
An Etruscan tomb of the period SOC
B. c. was opened last Wednesday in
the presence of Baron Blanc, Minister
Potter and other noted persons, neal
Rome.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Red Cross, and
several assistants Lave gone to Beau
fort, s. G., to renew their work in be
half of the thousands of poor people or
the South Carolina Sea Islands, who
lost everything in the great storm last
fall.
Advices from Chairman Wilson, OF
the House of Representatives commit
tee on ways and means, who is eI
route to Mexico, state that he has re
covered fully from his recent attack Of
| tOnsilitis.
Yellow fever is on the increase at Rio
Janeiro, sixty deaths occurring Thurs
day. The health of the American
sailors continues good.
| May Brooklyn's suicide in San Fran
cisco is said to have been caused b.
her grief oyer the death of Fred Love
craft.
| President Dole says that rough draft
of constitution for Hawaii have beel
made, but that no steps will be takel
to establish republic until after Con
gress shall haYe disposed of the annex
alton treaty.
| Owing to the fact that threatening
letters have been received by tn
Rothschilds their Offices at Nos. 81 t.
% Rue Laffitte, Paris, are speciall
guarded.
The Senate confirmed the nomina
ton of John NJ. Hudgins to be Unite
States marshall for the eastern distric
of Virginia.
Senator Stewart, of Nervada, severe
his allegiance to the republican part
land was selected as chairman of a cat
Gus of populist members of both house
of Congress which declared in favor c
the free coinage of silver.
In the U. S. Senate Monday, tn
Hawaiian resolution was called up an
Mr.. Daniel, of Virginia, made speec
defending President Cleveland's polio
toward the islands.
Esther, aged five months and nint
teen days, youngest daughter of Pres
J dent Cleveland, was christened Sunda
in the White House by Rev Dr. Sur
derland, of the Presbyter an Church
In the Virginia House of Delegate
the resolution to take the sense of tn
voters on calling a constitutional cor
vention was defeated by vote of 8
yeas to 40 nays.