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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

TSoMETHING THE SOUTH IS PROUD
OF.-The Savannah Ne1CS says: AT
the meeting of the Confederate Veter-
ans Association at Houston, Tex, the
president of the association, Gen. John
B. Gordon, said that there was scarce
ly Confederate veteran without the
comforts of life. The statement causes
the hearts of the Southern people to
thrill with pride. 1t shows the kind
of men that composed the Southern
armies. They were men of courage,
energy and self-reliance. They return
ed to ruined homes from the war, but
they were not disheartened. They ac-
cepted the new conditions and went to
work at once to build up the waste
places and bring back prosperity: No
generous government lent them help
ing hand in the shape of pensions.
They realized that they must care for
their families themselves and earn the
comforts of home. and lay by some
thing for old age What wonders they
and their children have wrought The
South to-day is richer than ever she
was, and promises to be in the very
near future the richest portion of the
Union"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
Periods of Infection.
A Warning to Parents Sent Out by a State
Board of Health.

A Warning to Parents Sent Out by a State
Board of Health.
The Pennsylvania State board OF
health recently sent out circular Civ
ing valuable information regarding the
periods of infection in various diseases.
1t states that in many cases by proper
treatment and nursing the periods are
somewhat counteracted. 1t is never
safe to send children who have been i'll
back to school in shorter periods. The
infectious period for the various dis
eases are as follows: Scarlet fever, six
weeks from the commencement of the
fever. If however, the squamose, or
skin peeling condition, continues, there
is still danger. Chickenpox, three
weeks from the beginning of the dis
ease. Diphtheria, six weeks from COM
mencement, if the sore throat has en-
tirely disappeared; the danger of infec-
ton remains during the continuance Of
throat trouble. Smallpox, generally
about six weeks; certainly if all scabs
have fallen. Measles, three weeks. if
cough and rash have disappeared.
Mumps. three weeks, or less if there is
no swelling. Typhus, four weeks after
beginning, at which time the fever will
have ceased. or death have supervened
in most cases. Typhoid, six weeks; the
| cessation of fever and return toward
strength in both typhus and typhoid
diseases making the close of the con
tagious epoch. Whooping cough, when
the cough had disappeared, commonly
six weeks in patients otherwise in good
health.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

TELEGRAPHING WEATHER FORE
CAsTs.-It is proposed to telegraph
daily to postmasters at distributing
offices the weather forecasts, to be
bulletined in their offices for the bene'
fit of the public, and also to be mailed
to outlying offices which can be reach
ed in time to make the prediction oil
value. A simple device by which the
forecasts can be easily duplicated and
stamped upon postal cards will be
furnished postmasters by the weather
bureau, as well as the necessary postal
cards for use in this connection. Post
master General Wilson has requested
postmasters to lend their efforts in this
service.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
Free Coinage of Silver no Benefit to the
South.

Governor Oates, of Alabama, says =
I'm Alabama the democrats have al
ready discovered that the silver move
ment can only lead to defeat, and they
will have little to do with it. In adj
dition, our business is improving, our
crops promise well, and a general pros
pect of prosperity is having the effect
of causing men to declare in favor of
the present monetary system. My own
position upon the question is that sill
yer should be used as literally as is
possible without depreciating the
value of the currency and without
driving gold out of the country
lone phase of the matter to which
| have called the attention of many of
the Southern people is the utter alb
surdity OF supposing that free coinage
can help the South. We have no silver
in the South. None of our people, un-
less they melt up their old spoons and
plate, have enough silver to get a
single dollar from the minis should
they be thrown open to the holders of
silver bullion. The only way the new
silver dollars could get into circulation
in the South would be in exchange for
something we have there for sale. The
silver mine owners of the West and the
holders of silver bullion. both in this
country and abroad, would be vastly
benefited but the people without
silver would find that they could not
get hold of any more of the new dol
lars than they can of the present.
when the people of the South begin
to take a common sense view of this
matter they will realize how absurd
the whole craze is. In some of the
Southern States it may be long time
before they can be brought to listen to
reason. In Arkansas and Texas the
, people have gone simply crazy over
this question and | cannot judge to
what extremes they may go. In the
other Southern States, however, l be-
lieve the general improvement of the
commercial and industrial conditions
will have a good effect"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
Seven Mad SpiritualIsts- Pr
vent the Sacrificing of a Young
Girls Lire.

An entire family of seven were taken
into custody in Cleveland, o., Mon
day, June 3rd, charged with insanity.
The family consists of Henry Buch-
void, the father; Charlotte, his wife,
and two grown daughters. Eva and
Emma, and three small children. All
the members of the family are strong
believers in the spiritualistic faith, and
have been locked in their home at No.
Beaver street for over a week, hold
ing wildly insane spiritualistic seances.
One of the daughters labored under
the hallucination that she is a spirit,
and another member of the family
that the spirit must die. The spirit
was perfectly willing to be sacrificed,
says a telegram to the Baltimore
american, but the arrival of the
sheriff's officers prevented them from
carrying out their mad ideas.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

NICHOLAS MAY BE SAVED The Rich
mond correspondent of the IpdeGAp-
peal says
SIT will be remembered that in the
trial of Phillip Norman Nicholas for
the murder of Mills and Wilkinson by
drowning the most important witness
for the commonwealth was Mrs. Mills,
who testified that she had had improp-
er relations with Nicholas and he had
begged her to poison her husband. Mrs.
Mills is now dead and to day Nicholas
brother furnished Mr.. d. G. Richard
son, counsel for the condemned man,
with information that if true is valua-
BILE. He says before Mrs Mills died she
confessed to a Mrs. Duke and colored
woman that she had testified falsely.
Mr.. Richardson will now make another
effort to save Nicholas life. He has
been refused new trial by the court
of appeals and is under sentence to be
hung i'll July.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

WHIPPED A WOMAN.-Last October
the wife of Jacob Yearout, an old man
who lives few miles from Christians
burg, Va, was dragged from her bed
about midnight by three disguised
men and horribly whipped. The affair
was not generally known, and the few
who did know about it had almost for
gotten the occurrence. Mrs. Yearout
recently received information that has
led to the arrest of William Laurence
and Thomas Brown, on the charge of
having perpetrated the outrage. Upon
an examination before Justice suffi-
cient evidence was adduced to warrant
their being held for the grand jury
This is the only case of white-capping
which has occurred in that county.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
Genesis Of Harvey"

The Louisville Courier Journal I'M
der the above heading, gives the fol-
lowing in reference to the career of w.
III. Harvey, the author of Coins Finan-
cial School," which has been SO extern
sively circulated by the advocates of
the free, unlimited, and independent
coinage of silver
1.-THE experience of W. Fl. Harvey as
real estate boomer in Pueblo, Colorado,
are detailed in letter from that place
published in the New York Sun. Mr.
Harvey went to Pueblo and attempted
to apply the methods which had been
so successful in Wichita, but he did not
meet with the same success, though he
raised and spent a great deal of money.
He did, however, succeed in plotting a
piece of alkali suburb and selling it to
Eastern tenderfeet at $50 lot.
He bought the land at SO an acre.
His next scheme was to get up car
nival on the order of those for which
Memphis and New Orleans have been
celebrated. The citizens subscribed
literally, and the money was spent, but
there were no visitors from the East
anxious to buy lots. After two or three
more failures of this sort he went to
Denver and did not return until he
came back asking for subscriptions to
stock in his paper. Coin.
This was exactly the school in which
one would have supposed such charla-
tan as Harvey was trained. The real
estate promoter was the greatest pest
that ever afflicted the West and South
Wherever he planted his boom pros
perity withered and confidence fed. 1t
is not too much to say that such States
as Kansas and Alabama have been set
back twenty years by the operations
of these sllarpers; and we had an ex-
per1ence with them in Eastern Ken
lucky that we would willingly forget.
Harvey has applied to his discussion of
finance the same methods that he used
to dispose of his sage bush lots; and he
is imposing upon the country at large
just as he swindled the citizens of
Pueblo. The same delusive promises
OF prosperity are held out, the same
tricks of misstatement are emplOyen,
the same deliberate lying is resorted to
when facts are not at hand ready for
distortion and exaggeration The pity
of it is that his field of operation is now
so much wider, and yet not SO wide
that the result will not fall with great
est severity upon the sections that have
already been cursed with the same tao
tics applied in another direction.
There are towns in this country in
which Vigilance Committee would be
organized to deal with the first man
that proposed starting boom, yet their
citizens can believe that the nation will
be doomed by the free, unlimited and
Independent coinage of silver"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-Op Tues
day afternoon of last week, says the
Page Courier" on Thomas Fox's place
on Dry Run, lightning struck and
killed a horse and COW. The horse
was attached to pillow and the COW
was near by when the fatal bolt de-
scended, killing them both. A son of
Mr.. Fox was at the pillow handles, and,
strange to say, he was not even
stunned. There was only a slight
shower attending the electric storm,
and the shock was almost as unexpect-
ed as had the bolt fallen from a clear
sky. 1t was noticed by many in
Luray about that hour that the air
seemed to be charged with electricity"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
Suicide near Norfolk,

The Norfolk Landmark of Sunday
says that Mr.. S. E. Taylor, a well-to do
farmer of Norfolk county, committed
suicide Saturday afternoon, about 8
o'clock, by lodging pistol ball in his
head, just above the right ear. For
several days past, according to wit
nesses who testified before the coro-
ner's jury, he had been contemplating
the rash act, and that it was deliber-
ate is well shown by the manner of its
execution.
The suicide was about As years old
and lived with his wife on the Buzzard
Neck road, about three miles from the
city. He had been thinking of the
deed for some time, and had frequent
lv told his wife that he intended to
take his own life, but she paid no at
tention to it, thinking 1t was idle talk
until very recently. He had grown
morose and seemed to be in deep des-
pair. Three days ago he came to Nor
folk and purchased pistol. His wife
found it and hid it from him until Sat
urday.
He paid his workmen at / o'clock in
the afternoon; in about two hours af-
forwards went to Mrs. Taylor and de
manded the pistol, threatening to kill
her if she did not get it. Fearing for
her safety she gave him the weapon,
but when she saw by his actions that
he intended to kill himself with it, she
tried to take it away from him. Her
efforts were futile, as, during the strug-
gle, he placed it against his head and
fired. He fell at his wife's feet and ex-
pired almost Immediately.
She ran screaming out in the yard,
and several of her neighbors hearing
her, went to her house. A doctor was
summoned as hastily as possible, but
Taylor was dead before medical assis-
lance could be rendered.
Justice Hawks, with jury, held an
inquest over the body, when, after the
facts above set out were elected from
witnesses, verdict of death by his
own hands" was rendered.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

LYNCH LAW IN ALABAMA.-Neal
Strasburg, Ala, Monday night of last
week, Jim Powell, colored, entered the
room of Mary Bussey, aged fifteen,
daughter of a prominent farmer, and
attempted to assault her. She scream
ed for help. Her father came, but the
negro had escaped. A posse was hastily
organized and gave chase, capturing
Powell near Calera Tuesday evening.
He was taken back to Strasburg and
identified. The posse then left with
him ostensibly for the county Jail at
Clanton, but Powell's body was found
next morning hanging to tree mile
from Strasburg.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

How do the taxpayers of our State
like the idea of having about twenty
five thousand dollars to pay just be-
cause Governor O'Ferrall chose to send
soldiers to overawe honest workmen,
who committed no crime, unless Gov.
O'Ferrall thinks it crime for work
men to refuse to work longer after their
wages had been reduced.-Spirlt of the
Valley.
The Spirit Of the Valley is wholly 'off
the track" in reference to the motive
which impelled Gov. O'Ferrall to send
troops to Pocahontas. The wages of
the miners in Virginia, at Pocahontas,
were not reduced; they were satisfied
with them, and wished to continue at
work, but the striking miners of West
Virginia, in great force, threatened to
make them quit working nolens UolenS,
and Gov. O'Ferrall sent troops there to
protect them in their right to work
when they wished to do SO, and, in Sc
doing, he was right, and he will be sus-
tanned by the people of Virginia for his
determination to protect them in Their
rights.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
The Crops After the Great Heat.

The weather crop-bulletin issued by
the Government Weather Bureau for
the week ending June intimates that
the recent great heat was rather bene-
fetal than injurious to most of the
growing crops. 1t says
1.-THE warm weatherof the past week
has been favorable for cotton, which is
reported as doing well in Tennessee
and Oklahoma and as improved in
Arkansas and North Carolina, though
still backward in the last named State;
in Louisiana the stand had been affect,
ed by cool weather of the preceding
week, but it has commenced to grow
again; in Texas the early part of the
week was unfavorable, but the warm
weather of the latter part was favOra-
BILE for cultivation. which was badly
needed
1.-The warm weather has also been
beneficial to corn, replanting of which
| over the greater portion of the corn
belt is about completed, and it is com
ing up and doing well. Reports from
Southern States indicate that corn in
that section is in excellent condition.
In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and South
ern Illinois corn would be greatly bene-
flied by rain. In Nebraska the crop
has grown well during the week and is
in excellent condition
Winter wheat is in less promising
condition in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
and Missouri, and rust is appearing in
Illinois; it is nearly ready to harvest in
Kansas, and is heading in Pennsylvania
and Maryland. Arkansas and Kentucky
report improved condition, and pros.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
BISHOP DOANE ON SUFFRAGE
The ClamOr for the Ballot for Women a
Danger and DelusiOn.

Inc CIamOr 1Or the BALLOT Tor women q
Danger and a DelusiOn.
ALBANY, N. Y, June 6.-Woman
suffrage was the theme of the address
delivered by Bishop Doane at the clos
ing exercises of st. Agnes school to-day
The Bishop said:
Zone gets sick and tired of the way
in which the talk of woman's vocation
fills the air, not merely in the Wild va
carries of its blatant assumptions, but
in the parade and push of its claims
for recognition of what is called its
rights. The agitators are really in the
minority. Numberless names on these
modern millenary petitions mean only
the thoughtless and good natured
yielding to persistent pursuits just as
legislative majority votes stand in not
few instances for mistaken court
esy or an unmanly cowardice."
81 believe that God will vet save
this State and nation from the ag
gravated miseries of an enlarged, I'M
qualified suffrage, which in its univers
ality of male voters is our most threat
ening danger to day. But if we are to
be visited with this other infliction as
a well earned punishment for many
national sins, then believe that when
we have tasted its bitterness we shall
be brought back, perhaps, through an
archy ana revolution, to a democracy
which shall demand for it's existence
government by men whom education
and actual Americanism of final inter
est in the nation will qualify to govern.
Never in any age, nowhere in any
land and nowhere in America, so much
as now in our own Empire State, was
there such absolute unreason for the
clamor which seeks to distract women
from the duties of the vocation to
which they are called in the mad pur-
suit of the greatest wrong that can be
done to their sex, their country and
mankind.
THE man who is set in public place
to-day to train some of the women of
America for their vocation may not in
times like these withhold his voice of
warning against the dangers and delu-
sions of the hour"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
500 Reward, 500.

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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

DAY.-At the recent meeting of the
United Confederate Veterans at Hous-
ton, Texas, it was recommended that
the same day for the observance of
Confederate Memorial services should
be adopted throughout the South, and
that that day be the 3rd of June, the
anniversary of the birth of Jefferson
Davis, the President of the Confederate
States.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

MADE IT A BIRTHDAY FETE INDEED
Mrs. Joanna Stoecle, widow of Joseph
Stoeckle, former well-known brewer
of Wilmington, Del, Tuesday night OF
last week gave birthday party, which
was attended by her son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry J. Stoeckle
The festivities continued to a late
hour, and soon after they had ended
the family of Mr.. Harry Stoeckle was
increased by the addition of daugh-
ter. Mother and infant are in excel.
lent condition.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

BUENA VISTAs INDusTRIEs.-Tht
Buena Vista Advocate states that the
Rarig works of that city are employing
now about sixty five hands and the
company has enough orders or hand
now to keep the works going fol
months.
From reliable source we learn that
the Buena Vista furnace can be con
ffdently expected to go into blast by
July l.
OF the number of plants at Buena
Vista ali but the glass works and clay
works will then be in operation and
some of them are doing a large and
most successful business.
Buena Vista is evidently making a
second start and on more substantial
basis Rock6ridqe Nea0s
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
LERk'S OFFICE OF SUPREME COURT
" OE APPEAIS OLE VIRGINIA.

STAUNToN, VA, June 3, 1895.
Pursuant to sections 3476, 3477, 344S and 3i1a
OF the Code of 1887. proposals will be received
by me, at this office, until II O'Clock H.. on
Wednesday. June 10, 1895, for printing re
CORDS OF the supreme Court OF Appeals at
StauntOn, Tor one year from July /, 1875, twelve
copies in each case. The proposals shall state
the amount per page of fifteen hundred ems,
small plea type, and include the paper. print
ing, binding and neat cover with the style
of the case and the court from which the re-
cord comes neatly printed thereon The
printing must be done under the supervision
of the Clerk; and refuses. well as original
proof-sheets, must be submitted to him when
no unnecessary blanks will be allowed. bond
and ample security will be required to be
given before the Clerk in his Office, names Of
sureties to be given with bids. The Clerk re-
serves the right of rejecting bids which in his
Judgment do not fully comply W it'll the law,
and OF deciding who are responsible bidders
and what is ample security; and also of decld-
ing whether bids are excessive.
june 5-3ts JOS. A. WADDELL, Clerk.
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*Daily, except Sunday. sunday only.
CONNECTIONS.

Train No. 408 connects at Harper,s Ferry
with Fast Limited Express trains, leaving at
and Pittsburgh at S:45 p. M, ana Chicago at
ll:oO a. M next morning; with train leaving
at Dig p M, arriving at Cincinnati at 7:45 a.
H. M, %. Louis az BSOO p. M, and connects at
Weverton with train arriving at Hagerstown
at 2:l3 p. NJ, and at Washington Junction with
traln arriving at Frederick at 2:2O p. N.
Train 4l6 connects with fast vestibsIcd trains
at Harpers Ferry at $3.50 p. "a. Tor Chicago:
lo:5O p m. for Pittsourg, and IA; q. m. for Gin
en- cinnatl and 81. Louis AEsiye at Pittsburg at
$50 p M, and st, LeHis at ZIP a. m.
Pullman PalaeS Sleeping Cars run through
to Clnc1nnati st. Louis, Chicago and Pitts
burgh ON all express trains.
FOR rates tickets baggage checks ana fur
tiler INFORMATION apply to b. g. o. asentS or to
9. f. Dudrow, Travelling Passenger Agent.
Staunton, Va.
CHAS. o. SCULL, RIB. CANrPREIL
zen. fasSs agt. Gen. Man.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-06-12

COMPLIMENT TO CONFEDERATE
VETERANS THE Charlottesville
Chronicle of the 9th instant, says
"Those of our citizens who attended
the meetings of the Grand Camp Con
federate Veterans in Charlottesville
this week could not fail to be favorably
impressed with the representative of
the Confederacy in this State. 1t was
noted with pleasure that the gait of
the veterans had lost but little of it's
spring, and their erect carriage and
frank, fearless bearing befitted well
the survivors of Bull Run and Chan
cellorsville. The sessions were carried
on in an eminently business-like man
ner, which gave evidence of thirty
years experience in the various paths
of active citizen life since their careers
as soldiers had ended. The proceed
ings were marked too with a courtesy
attributable to a code of civility learn
ed at time when the manners of a
Virginia gentleman were world-re-
nowned. Charlottesville has had
many conventions held within her
borders, but it is not too much to say
that the delegates of none have ex-
ceeded in the attributes that make the
American citizen at his best the veter-
ans who attended this meeting of the
Grand Camp"