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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08

, Of Almighty God, (which have been vouch-
safed to the American people during the year
which is just past, call for their sincere
| nOwledgeme.i. and devOnt gratitude. To
the end theleso.e, that we may with thank
full hearts unite in extolling the loving care
of cur Heavenly Father, I, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, do hereby APP
point and set apart Thursday, the 18th day of
the present month, November, as a day of
thanksgiving and prayer to be kept and
observed by all our people.
Con that day let US forego our occupations
and in our accustomed places of worship
join in rendering thanks to the giver of every
| good and perfect gift for the bounteOuS
returns that have rewarded our labor in the
! fields and in the busy marts of trades. for the
peace and order that have prevailed through
ont the land; for our protection from pesti-
lence and dire calamity and for the blessings
| that have been showered upon us from an ope n
hand.
| Aud with our thanksgiving, let us humbly
beseech the Lord to so incline the hearts of
our people unto Him, that He will not leave
us nor forsake us as a nation, but will con-
tinue to us His mercy and protecting care,
guiding us in the patti of national prosperity
and happine: s, enduing US with rectitude
and keeping alive within us patriotic love
for the free institutions which have been
given TO us as our national heritage.
''And let us also on the day Of our thanks
giving especially remember the poor and
needy and by deeds of charity let us show the
sincerity of our gratitude.
Gin witness whereof, l have hereunto set
my hand and caused the great seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
Ozone at the city of Washington. this 4th
day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and
in the one hundred and twentieth year Of the
independence of the United States
(Signed,) GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President.
Richard Olney Secretary of State.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
POLITICAL NOTES.

Richmond letter in Petersburg Index-Ap
peal. ''All three of the Barbours, who
were prominent in Virginia politics up tt
a few years ago are now dead. The best
known Of the trio, the late Hon. John S
Barbour, was the first to pass away. His
brother James, died only two OF three days
ago. Hon. B. Johnson Barbour has beer
dead less than two Years. For a quarter Of
a century these gentlemen were conspicu-
Gus figures in democratic conventions
The Barbour family, which has for cen
fury figured so extensively in Virginia
politics, is left now without any represent
tive who as far as is known, is aspiring
topublic life.
AS result of a conference between the
Secretary of the Interior and the Civil Ser.
vice Commissioners, arrangements are
being perfected to send to the President for
his approval an amendment to the civil ser.
vice rules placing under the classified SER
vice the assistant attorneys, of the Secret
ary's Office and the assistant attorneys in
the General Land Office, Of the Interior
Department. There are about seventeen
of the former, whose salaries range from
$1,000 to $3.50 per annum. The salaries
OF the latter are about $1,000 year..
Thomas H. Carter, chairman of the re-
publican national committee, has issued a
call for the republican national committee
to meet at the Arlington Hotel, Washing
ton, Oh December 10, to designate time
and place for the meeting of the national
convention in 1896 and to transact UGH
other business as mag demand considera-
ton.
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Commissioner of the Revenue Burnley
Taylor of King William county, who was
sentenced at Richmond to two years in the
penitentiary for forging court orders which
were paid by the State Auditor, has made
confession in which he says that the State
laws regarding warrants and the payment
of them by the Auditor are SO lax, that
after falling into debt through dissipation
he found that field an easy one by which to
work his way out. He had acquired the
knowledge of the methods as an assistant
clerk in the Hanover county court. After
commencing with one or two counties, he
found that by engaging confederate he
could work the orders in from many coun-
Ties, and did so.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
GREAT GIFTS no EDUCATION.

John D. Rockefeller, the millionaire, has
Just made another dOuation to the Chicago
University almost startling in it's size. 1t
is IL 100000 payable in 1896, and 50 100000
more payable as fast as the friends of the
University raise an equal amount. He had
already given this same University $4,000,
600. making his total gift $780, 900. If
some of the wealthy men Of the Southland
there are plenty Of wealthy men in the
South now-would only make up their
minds to give the University Of Virginia
helping hand, even in a mild imitation
of MI Rockefeller, what relief it would
be to it's friends.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
HE WILL BE BETTER OFF.


The South Carolina constitution al con
vention has at last adopted it's section Of
the new constitution which practically
lisfranchises the iIliterate Negro. From
n that State will begin to see daylight.
They will be at last Tout of politics. and
out of the way Of all the trouble and misery
chat the white men who have used them
In politics have brought upon them.
Nothing could explain the Negroe S
place in the politics Of the Southern
States better than the speech made
in that convention by one of
them. He described just what use had
been made of his race-ignorant, unlettered
and trusting-by the white men Of the
Republican party in South Carolina when
that party, by aid of the Negro, was on
top. Nothing could have been more graphic
or more touching than his history of it-and
he knew for he had been in it. What has
he Negro gained in the South by politics
chat he should want to be in them? Where
he stood in relation to the State govern
nents twenty-five years ago, he stands
TO day. He has been the burden bearer for
he white Republicans, the OK that trod
out the corn and got none of it. What
protection from oppression and violence
in the Southern States has polftics-his
politics-been able to give him ? With no
sympathy from the Democrats at any time,
and with no sympathy from the white Re-
publicans except in election times, what
has he gained by the ballot
The era of the Negroes material prosper
ity in the South will date from his being
placed outside of politics. Heshould have
nothing to do with either party-they are
the upper and the neither milstones, and
Than the effort which has just been made
in Virginia by white men to restore him
to his old place as a balance of power in
our State politics, nothing could be more
impotent, selfish and cruel. l. was
d fight against the irresistible turn
ing of the tide both at the North
and the South. The Philadelphia
Bulletin, a Republican paper, explain
ing the Indifference, if not approval, with
which the Republicans of the North are
regarding the disfranchising of the Negro
in Mississippi and South Carolina, says:
1.-The plain truth is that the Republicans
generally have come to the conclusion that
universal negro suffrage has been a failure
and that the desire of the South to free itself
from the evils of great mass of ignorance
stupidity and superstition at the ballot-box
is largely pardonable."
And that is the feeling all over the
American Union. The experiment of
giving the Negro the ballot has been tried
and has failed, and the universal feeling is
to redeem the error. The intelligent col
ored voter will hereafter cast his ballot in
the South just as the intelligent white
man does, but there will be no more efforts
to make voter simply by putting the bal
lot in the hands of an illiterate Negro.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
THE VINDICATOR'S ELECTION
NEWS SERVICE.

The Geographic and telephone bulletin
service of the VINDICATOR on Tuesday
night was most satisfactory to the public
that always makes this office it's headquar
ters for election night news. 1t was the
only paper which took the Western Union
bulletin kilograms, and we may say here
that the companys service was admirable.
BY little after midnight the people gath
cred around the VINDICAToR bnlletin board
had heard the result from Maryland, Ken.
lucky and New Cork, the three storm
centres, and the general result i'll Virginia.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
Staunton indicator .
An Independent Democratic Paper Established 1910
T,NsLEY & MORTON. Proprietors.

pun,ished every Friday. Price sl.5O per year
~ cents for six months, and 40 cents for months
Invariably in advance.
Transient advertisements l21a cents per line
each insertion and ~ cents each insertion there
after Contracts for longer terms maze at III
counter.
Local circulation In Augusta. Rockbridee, Rockif
am, Allegheny, Highland and Bath Counties.
Gives general and local news; stories and mis-
celIany; reliable commercial reports.
n. G. TINsLEY,
A. 8. MORTON.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
Richard Olney, Secretary Of State.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE French say sit is the impossible tn
hannans - This has nroved to he fl


THE French say sit is the impossible tn at
happens This has proved to be the
case with the Monnt Lebanon Shakers. The
whole scientific world has been laboring to
cure dyspepsia but every effort seemed to
meet with defeat. The suffering from stom-
ach trouble has become almost universal.
Multitudes have no desire for food and that
which they do eat causes them pain and dis
tress. Sleepless nights are the rule and not
the exception. and thousands of suffere rs have
become discouraged.
The Shakers of Mount Lebanon recently
CAME to the front with their new Digestive
Cordial, which contains not only food
already digested, but is digester of food,
1t promptly relieves nearly all forms of
Indigestion. Ask your druggist for one Of
their books.
LAXOL the new Castor Oil is being used
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
Staunton, Va, Oct. 18th. 1896.

We have received the Virginia Law Reg
lister for November. Its contents are
John B. Minor" by James e. Lamb
1.-THE Rise and Fall Of the Commissioner
in Chancery," by r. T. Barton; "Burder
of Proof in Ejectment," by J. M. Payne
Virginia Decisions reported in full-Reu
sens VS.. Lawson, Natl Mutual B. s. l.
Assn VS.. Ashworth, Duff VS.. Common
wealth; Digest Of Recent Virginia Decis
ions; Miscellaneous Notes, and For the
Juniors. Published by The J. z. Bell Co.
Lynchburg. Single copies so cents.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
of the President.

4 WASHINGTON, November president
Cleveland today issued proclamation desig-
mating Thursday, November 2Sth as Thanks
giving Day. The proclamation is as follows:
1.-The constant goodness and forbearan ce
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-08

LAXOL, the new Castor Oil is being used
in hospitals. 1t is sweet as honey. 1t
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=" ANTED.-A reliable, active man to sell the
w Singer Sewing Machine. Liberal
Terms. Address The Singer Mfg Co., Box 6t3
Staunton, Va. nov 1-2ts
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Y. NJ. C, A. BUILDING,
oct 1i-lvr STAUNTON, VA
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
POWDER MAKING.
country

The Dupont powder so much used in the mines of this district, is manufac- tured near Wilmington. Del The founder of the works was driven from France by the revolution. He was a chemist and in
 vented the process of powder making now used in the Dupont mills. This process has ever been kept secret. The present proprietor carries it in his head. The fortune of the family now amounts to $1O0, ,O00, 900. The manufacture of pow der is exceedingly hazardous. and two of the family have lost their lives. They have always been brave men, and when a fire broke out or any danger threatened they never hesitated to rush in ahead of their workmen. They have recently added the manufacture of dynamite and nitro-glycerine to their regular powder making. Three hundred workmen are employed In 1890 there occurred at these mills the greatest explosion of gunpow- der ever known. One hundred and fifty tons exploded, killing fourteen people and injuring thirty. The explosion start ed in the magazine for hexagonal pow der. which is used in large guns and is made in cakes, like wagon wheel nuts The workman whose duty it was to solder the lids on the boxes must have touched a splinter with his hot iron causing a spark. The hot iron itself would not cause powder to explode. even if thrust into it. The workman had time to throw himself behind a big oak tree a few feet distant, but lost his life. The tree was torn up by the roots. There remained on him only his shoes. This proved that he was lying on the ground. In gun powder explosion the shoes of a man are never torn off, unless his foot is on the ground. If he is walking the foot on the ground will have it's covering torn off, while the other will not
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL,

Modern society is becoming more con- plex. and subdivision of duties is neces- sary. This division and subdivision of responsibilities enables the good house. wife to give attention to affairs outside of her home. In olden times she bore the entire burden. Ii is something sim liar in the newspaper business. The pio- neer editor had to look after gathering the news from all over the world Now the United Press, with it's thousands of agents in every part of the world, takes all that work off his hands, and he sim hs it comes in. The housewife of ye old en time had to go to market see that the churning was done. taste the butter, skim the milk, look after the woodpile, the well, the larder, whitewashing, the family washing, the family wardrobe. etc. etc Now the grocer will deliver anything she wants ifshe will step to the telephone and let him know; the milk man brings the milk and butter to her door: the steam laundry does the wash
 ing: the milliner and dressmaker takes charge of the girls dresses; the carpet merchant and paper hanger look after the house. Especially in giving large social function is this division of labor apparent. The host and hostess consult with some gentleman friend who is we'll known in society and knows who's who, and turns over to him the task of send- ing out the invitations The host ex- presses his wishes in a general way, and lea yes it to his friend to send out the in- vitations to individuals. For instance, the host will say that in a family where there are two or more young ladies only the older one should receive an invita- tion. Again. he may limit the invitations according to age, excluding the young or the old set, as the case may be. Again, he may request his friend to invite only those who are congenial and leave it to his friend to select the guests In this case the friend lays aside all personal likes and dislikes, and would not even invite his brother unless he thought him congenial to the company that will as- semble. The friend then proceeds to make up his list and send out the invi- tations, and see that the young ladies are provided with escorts. If you fail
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
CALAMITY HowIRRs DISCOURAGED

The court testers of old did not confine themselves to fun, but sometimes told a pertinent truth This weeks Puck has an object lesson in the midst of it's mirth. It pictures the funeral of the calamity cry" and the chief mourners are Reed, Mckinley Harrison ct all These politi- clans are certainly in mourning just now because reviving industries everywhere silence their calamity cry and robs them of tlieir political capital. Puck should have included among these mourners the 16 to 1 calamity howlers. whose stock in trade is also hard times. These 16 to 1 men are always throwing it up to the sound money men that they are in sym pathy with the Republicans. yet it is the 16 to 1 men themselves who are the polit' ical allies of the Republicans and join with them in crying calamity.
 Almost every newspaper tells of the re- vival of some industry. or an increase in wares. Carnegie has taken steps to es- tablish a large tin,plate mill in his works. He is doing this in the face of the re- duced tariff on tin plate, and in spite of the assertions of the Republicans that the tin plate industry could not survive the repeal of the Mckinley tariff The Fall River cotton mills have restored the scale in effect previous to August, 1894. and 24,OO0 workers are benefited. In five cities near Fall River the wages of 50, GOO men have been voluntarily in- creased 10 per cent since the middle of April On June 15 the Pennsylvania Steel Works will increase the wages of it's employees 10 per cent. The advance will effect $500 men. The cotton mill business of the South has doubled since 1890. There are now 3.500.000 spindles in operation and under construction. The Southern mills pay F to IS per cent profit The Fall River mills have just paid $275,- 375 in dividends for the past quarter. The iron and steel markets are buoyant Southern iron has been advanced 75 cents per ton in the past six weeks. large amount of idle funds in Europe is await ing the chance for investment in this country.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
GOSSIP FROM BOOKLAND.

Many who have enjoyed such pop ular books as 'The Dolly Dialogues" "Trilby," "The Idiot" etc, will appre- ciate another chapter of these interest ing works, and these suppressed chap ters" it has been the happy fancy of "Droch" of Life MT. Robert Bridges, to write, and, too, in the authors own in dividual style and vein. "Overheard in Already" was the first venture of this original idea, and now Suppressed Chap ters'' appear in uniform edition. To ap- preciate fully the quiet humor and trav- esty of the chapter one must have read the book to discern the imitation of each authors pet characteristics.
 Because it can never commit you to matrimony," Lady Mickelham remarked. You never mean business,' she added spitefully. Love is an art and not trade, Lady Mickelham. Business is for common people, ''Now you are talking like MT. Hope," snapped Dolly; 'I met him the other night at the dowager's and all his sentences were built like that"
 ''He thinks the modern young woman likes that kind" I unused. "Why?"
 Because it passes for cleverness, Lady Mickleham, and we brutes like to think that you are clever. 'Arn't we, MT. Brute?' Anthony Hope has been greatly read and praised, and this initial chapter shows MT. Bridges appreciation of the clever young author.
 
 Now, who does not long for another conversation from the immortal Trilby? Listen then;
 "Ay maun." said the laird i"but they're making fuss about us in Amer icaI
 'It's all on account of Trilby," said T fand af ha,. knuckle-bone teeth.
 "They are. all palavering a lot of tommy-rot about me-" cut in Trilby, speaking her best English. which she learned from her Irish father. and which was classical though it smacked of County Cork.
 Worse than that. my dear Trilby"s said Taffy, whirling Svengali around his head like an Indian dub, between drinks. Lots of pretty twomen over
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09

to receive an invitation do not get angry at the host. but with the unknown friend.
 It is the custom in the large cities to always respond to a card of invitation al once The letters R. $. " P. then become unnecessary.
 There once prevailed good old GUS tom. If you had a guest at your house and received an invitation and your guest did not, you declined to accept. The interests of your guest were yours. The society that refused to receive your guest must not be honored with yoar presenco Also, if you were guest and received an invitation and your host did not, you must decline.
 The young men. in selecting young ladies to escort to a social gathering, do not select one who is pretty, or rich, or smart, but one who will "hoat That is, she must be popular enough with the young men to float around ana not remain anchored by his side. When a man goes fishing he wants cork that will float.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
THE AGE-HERALD READING ROOM.

The Age Herald has fitted up neat reading room adjoining it's business office, where daily papers from all east ern, southern, western and northern and information of the public. Papers from the following cities can always be found there: Boston. New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Richmond. Charles ton, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Gin cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis. Nashville, Chattanooga, Montgomery Mobile. New Orleans, Galveston, Houston, Dallas and many other cities not named.
 Citizens of either of the cities above named or any party desiring to read are welcome to call at any and all times night or day, as the reading room will always be open.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09

There is no complaint from the men who operate the big manufacturing con- cerns about the scarcity of money. And if there is any cause for complaint they are the ones who should complain, for their transactions are greater in month than those of the average citizen in ten years. These operators know that when they have something to sell they can get money. As a matter of fact, however, they use very little money, carrying on their business almost entirely with pa- per. A furnace makes shipment of iron and is paid in paper, draft or ex- change. This paper is put in the bank and is good as gold The banks are al- ways glad to accept such paper.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD, SUNDAY JUNE 3, 1895

anticipation of trouble has happily been avoided The operators have voluntarily increased the wages of their men just as soon as they could consistently do so. The men seem to realize that the oper- ators will do the proper thing by them without being forced to do it by strikes. This evidence of good feeling is one of the most gratifying signs of the times. An Eastern mill told it's workmen to se- leet a committee and send them around to the other mills and make the com- parison of prices for themselves. There will be no more strikes if this broad and liberal spirit continues to exist
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09
STRENGTH IN UNITY.

The ministers of Birmingham meet every Monday and discuss the ways ana means of best advancing the cause They do not discuss doctrlnal points, but only those broad principles upon which all agree. The Presbyterian churches of the district have banded together for CO., operation The Chautauqua is founded upon this principle of federation All denominations are welcome and all work together for mutual advancement and enlightenment. The Chautauqua is thor oughly democratic in the true sense of the word, and it is spreading it's branches out into all the countries of the world It not only inculcates moral principles, but also imbues the different nations with a love of democracy. The different labor. organizations early adopted the federation idea. They unite in the Feder- ation of Labor, of which P. J. Mcclure is president. This principle of federa- ton should be adopted by the different churches, and thus the first step would be taken toward Christian unity. An international parliament, composed of representatives from all the different de- nominations could be held once year and measures discussed upon which all can agree. Then would follow the par lament of mankind, the federation of the world