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1t Would Bring Bankruptcy.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Herald.

To the Editor of the N. Y. Herald.
Within very limited space the writ
er desires to state few plain facts as
reasons why the United States govern
ment, singly and alone, cannot main
tain the free, unlimited and indie
pendent coinage of silver, and the at
tempt to do so would bring repudia-
ton, bankruptcy and disgrace upon
the entire country and all its citizens.
The fiat of no Power. save that of
OmnipOtence. can create anything Of
value, and those who insist on the
government making fifty cents worth
of silver according to nature and the
commercial world worth one hundred
cents must assume that coin governs
the value of bullion, instead of bullion
governing the value of coin. The val
ue placed upon anything by the COM
mercial world determines it's real val
ne, and the fiat of every Power on
earth cannot make it otherwise.
The following facts, which no silver
man has yet attempted to refute,
ought to satisfy any rational man on
the subject. All free coinage countries
are on a silver basis. All gold coun-
tries use large amount of silver. No
silver country uses any gold. No sill
yer country on Cne earJn mas one nilI
as much per capita in circulation as
the United States now has. In no sill
yer country does the laboring man re-
ceive nearly as much for days work
as he does in any of the gold countries.
1t is not true that the so-called de-
monetization of silver caused silver to
fall SO low, from the fact that its rapid
fall did not occur until years after 1878.
Nor until its production became SO
easy and cheap and its quantity be-
came enormous; nor is it true that its
decentralization caused the low price
of commodities, such as wheat, cotton
and other articles; if such was the
cause, why does not some wise man
rise up and tell why, during the low
price of some articles under the same
period of demonstration, beef and
some other articles have not CORES
pondingly fallen in value, or why it is
under the same circumstances, wheat
has recently taken such an upward
movement?
The truth is that ever since the days
of Abraham the irrepealable law o.
supply and demand has governed the
worlds prices, and always will.
V. W. HALE.
PARIS, Texas, July 81. 1895.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

RICHMOND COLLEGE.-The Chair of
Latin in the Richmond College declar-
ed vacant in June was filled last week
by the election, by the Board of Trus-
tees, of Professor G. s. Mitchell, who
has filled that chair in Georgetown Col
lege for several years, with distinction
and success.
Professor Mitchell is native of Mis-
sissippi, 81 years of age, an A. M. of
Georgetown College, and a man of su
perior mind and education. He at
tended the University of Virginia for
a year after graduating from George
town and has taught for several years.
He married a daughter of Rev. DIR. John
A. Broadus in 1891, and was ordained
to the ministry in 1898.
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

James Gordon Benefits marriage to
Mrs. Annenkow, is reported in Paris
dispatch as creating the greatest inter
est. Mrs. Annenkow is the divorced
wife of General Annenkow, Russian,
who built the trans Caspian railroad.
She is said to be one of the richest
women in Paris.
The war on negroes by the Italians
ofSpring Valley, ILL.,, has been declared
off. The Spring Valley Coal Company
will be permitted to resume operations
and the negroes to return to their
homes. This action was taken Wednes-
day evening by mass-meeting Of all
the white miners, which assembled in
the public square.
Samuel Douglass, of Washington.
married Miss Minnie Bussius recently.
and after getting possession of $4O0 be-
longing to his wife deserted her in Bal
timore. Douglass is also charged with
swindling a number of people in Wash
ington. The father of the young wo-
man was killed in the Ford's Theatre
disaster, and the $500 was part of the
money obtained from the government
on aesonpt Of bis death.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

The Italian miners at Spring Valley,
Illinois, say they had endured the out
RACES of the blacks as long as they
could, but they are severe in their crit
icisms of the sensational tales told. A
correspondent who was on the ground
and witnessed Sundays battle from
beginning to end, has succeeded in dis
covering but one negro shot, and the
injury is only flesh wound of no seri-
GUS nature. About ten or twelve were
assailed with sticks or stones, but no
attempts were made to kill. The prime
object, as stated on the ground while
the fighting was at its height. was to
scare them into leaving and never come
back again. Everything has gone along
smoothly since the negroes were driven
out
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

Colonel J. Hampton Hoge remarked
in the honest election conference
that what General Malone, Gen. Walk
er and Mr.. Hobson could not do to beat
the Democratic party was not worth
knowing.
This, no doubt, gives the keynote to
the meaning of the conference. The
leaders in the movement are not so
much concerned about ''honest cleo
tions' as they are about beating the
Democratic party. Any method that
holds out the slightest hope of accom-
plishing this end is 0 K with them.
Honest elections" is a phrase manu-
featured for the purpose of catching
votes.-Frederick Star.
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SATURN'S RING A MARvEL.-Most
people still think, perhaps, that the
ring of the planet Saturn is solid
body, though it was shown by Max
we'll in 1859 that it must be composed
of vast multitude of small bodies
revolving around the planet in circular
orbits and at different velocities. Pro-
fessor Keller by recent spectroscopic
observations shows that this is the fact.
The particles constituting the inner
part of the ring revolve about Saturn
in five hours and fifty minutes, while
those on the outer edge get around in
twelve hours and five minutes. The
ring Is composed of a swarm of meteors,
or small moons. Saturn's system as a
whole is very wonderful, and there is
nothing like it elsewhere in the uni
verse, so far as astronomers can TELL
Bait. San.
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HIS ARM TORN oFF.-Mr. VIM. Law
ender, who lives in the Haymakertown
neighborhOod, had his arm torn off in
a threshing machine last Friday even
ing, while engaged in threshing wheat
for Mr.. Lee RAIDER, who lives several
miles west of Fincastle. Mr.. Lavender,
who was one of two feeders, got on the
stand and in getting in position his
hand slipped and was caught by the
cylinder and drawn into the machine.
His arm was torn off at the elbow, and
passed through the machine to the
straw rick. His arm was badly lacerat-
ed, which necessitated amputatiOn.
The arm was taken off above the elbow,
the operation being performed by DR..
l. R. Goodwin, assisted by DR.. T. L
Robertson.
Mr.. Lavender has a wife and six chill
dren, and his accident is very unfortu-
nate. At last accounts he was doing
as we'll as could be expected.-F Sncastle
Herald, Aug. 0h.
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SUSPENSION OF CHARLoTTEsvILLE
POLICE OFFICERS.--In the Council
Chamber of Charlottesville Monday
afternoon of last week, after testimony
regarding charges against policemen
Greaver and cambridge of having used
profane and abusive language against
Mayor Patton and Chief of-Police Wal
tiers, Mayor Patton delivered his de-
cision in the Greaver case as follows:
The evidence haying convicted you
as guilty of conduct unbecoming an
officer of the police force, l hereby
suspend you from the service for
twenty days from this date. During
that period you will not wear any of
the badges of your office.
The decision as to Mr.. cambridge was
as follows:
In view of the testimony submitted
this day in regard to the charge of in
subordination and misconduct as a
police officer it becomes my duty to
suspend you from the service pending
a definite determination of the pen
atty to be applied in your case. You
will lay aside the uniform and badge.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

REPUBLICANS NOT PLEASED. The
Washington correspondent of the Alex
andria Gazette, under date of August
9th. says
"The Virginia republicans here are
by no means pleased with Gen. Ma
homes latest exhibition of his intention
to retain entire command of their par
ty in their State, but as under their
party's organization it is impossible for
them to deprive him of the chairman
ship of their State committee, they are
in sorry plight. They say the cleo
come law, but if it should, what he
has been before in their party will be
as nothing to what he will be then, as
by it he will practically have the nomi-
nation of evely republican candidate
in the State"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14
The Wisdom Of Sending Troops Promptly

The wisdom of the action of Gov.
O'Ferrall in sending troops promptly
to Pocahontas becomes more apparent
the more its past, present, and pros
pective benefits are considered. Those
who have any doubts on this subject
will have them removed by the follow
ing article from the Richmond State of
the 18th instant =
major William E. Simons recently
made the statement to a representative
of this paper that the Virginia coal
mines would gain what the West Vir-
ginia mines lost by the strike. His
contention is that the fact that the
Virginia mines have been protected
and have been able to work while there
was chaos and idleness in the mines of
West Virginia would have very de-
cided effect on future orders. That
large handlers of coal would give pref
erence to the mines which were most
likely to be able to fill orders without
interruption, and such preference
would inevitably be given to the mines
in Virginia. Governor O'Ferrall empha-
sized that statement yesterday by the
further statement that the output of
the Southwest (Pocahontas) mines was
now nearly double what it was when
the strike began, and that the mines
are now employing two thousand
hands, against eleven hundred before
the strike. More than that, the foreign
ers have greatly thinned out and their
places have been supplied by Virgin
ians
1t may be mentioned in this connec-
-.
railroad pays about $4,000 in State
taxes and nearly as much more in
county taxes, and it would seem that
the State is under obligations to pro
tect such an enterprise from injury.
We have no doubt that the State will
profit in more ways than one by the
course that the Governor has pursued"
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w. A. Gilbert, who was shot at Eek

w. A. Gilbert, who was shot at Eek
man, W. Va, by Coke Boss Stroud,
died from his wound.
BENZ. B. Brock and Henry Braith-
waite, white, and William Hughes,
colored, were indicted in Princess Anne
county for the murder of George
Hale.
Hon. Howell E. Jackson, associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died Thursday at his
home, near Nashville, Tenn, aged
sixty-three years.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CoNCLAvE BOSTON.
Low rates via 3. g. O.

For the Triennial Conclave knights Templar
at Boston, Mass, August 26tn-3Oth, the B. &
o. R. R. Co. will sell excursion tickets at one
fare for the round trip from all points on its
lines east of the Ohio River for all trains Au-
gust 23rd to August 26th, inclusive, valid for
return passage until September 10th, inclusive
Tickets can also be purchased going one route
and returning another at slight advance in
rates aug a. 2ts
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14
EXCURSION TO ATLANTIC CITY.
Last Of the Season via B. e. O,

The last of the series of trips to the Seashore
via the B. & o is announced for Thursday,
Aug. 22nd. The excellent train arrangements
that have been so satisfactory on the previous
occasions will be repeated.
Tickets to Cape May or Sea Isle City can be
purchased at same rate and under same con-
d!tions.
Don't forget the date. August 22nd
We give below list of stations in this vicin-
ity, showing time of trains and rates of fair:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

While the ratio of suicide to popula-
ton in this and all the European coun-
tries, except Russia, has increased from
thirty to forty per cent. during the last
twenty five years, there has been no in
crease of it in the latter country; which
shows that autocratic government at
least does not induce people to seek re-
lief in the shades below.-AleG. Gazette.
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JAS. III. BLACKLEY.
Greenville avenue, Staunton, Va.
14-6tS
EXCURSION TICKETS TO BOSTON.

Chesapeake Ohio Ry to Boston, Mass.
For Grand Knight Templar Convention, Au-
gust % to 26 inclusive, 1895.
The Ches. & Ohio Ry will sell excursion tick
cts to Boston and return for one fare for the
round trip with choice of two different routes,
tickets on sale August 23rd, oath, 18th, good
to return until Sept. Eth. For further infor-
nation call on OF address.
JAS. KER, Jr., I. A. C. & o. Ry,
aug 4-2ts Staunton, Va
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF A HOUSE
~ AND LOT NEAR THE CITY OF STAUN-
TON, VA.-Pursuantt to decree Of the Circuit
Court OF Augusta county, Va, entered ON the
18th day of May, 1895, in the Chancery cause of
Splitter, Powell & Co. Us. William and Mary
Monroe, the undersigned commissioner will
offer for sale, at public auction in front of the
Courthouse in the city of StauntOn, Va, on
Thursday, August the Goth, 1895,
at II M. of that day, the following house and
lot. tO-wit That certain lot of land. belonging
to William Monroe, just outside of and north
of the city of Staunton, said lot containing SO
poles with good frame dwelling thereon.
TERMS OFSA LE:-Suffcent cash ON day of
sale to pay the costs of this suit and sale, and
all unpaid taxes on said lot, and the amount
$l9796 with interest, due the Augusta Per-
petual Building and Loan Company" and as
to the residue on a credit of six, twelve, and
eighteen months. said deferred payments to
be evidenced by the bonds OF the purchaser
with approved personal security. bearing in
terest from date and waving the homestead,
the title to the property to be retained as ulti-
mate security.
W. Fl. LANDES,
Commissioner.
/, Jos. b. Woodward Cl9rk of the Circuit
Court of Augusta county, DO certify that w. H.
LandeS has executed the bond required by de-
cree of sale of date May 18th, 1895, in the cause
of Splitter, Powell & Co. against VIM. Monroe,
&c.
Given under my hand this 9th day of July,
1895.
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
july 3l-tds
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EXCURSION TO NIAGARA FALLS.

Thursday, August 18th, the Royal Blue
Line will repeat its excursion to Niagara Falls.
Watkins Glen, Mauch Chunk. Glen Onoko.
Rochester and Geneva. A special express with
Pullman Parlor Cars attached in charge of an
experienced tourist agent will leave B. & o.
station, Washington, $40 A. NJ, Baltimore. sos
A. NJ, arriving at the falls Hoo p. NJ.
The route is via the famous Lehgh Valley.
giving tourists daylight ride through the
Switzerland of America"
Round trip tickets good ten days. $1,000.
Round trip tickets for this excursion have
been placed on sale at following stations on
the Valley Division of the B. & o. r. r. at
rates appended: Lexington, s14 80 Staunton.
S13 So; Harrisonburg, S13.1O; Woodstock
S12.OO; Winchester, $11.75.
~ For more detailed information apply to
Chas. o. Scull Genl Passenger Agent. Balti.
more, Md
Remember the date Thursday, Aug. 18th.
aug 7-2ts.
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ACCIDENT AT RoANoKE.-On Sunday
afternoon near Roanoke while Herman
link and Miss Hibarger of that city
were out driving, they attempted to
cross the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
and were run into by an approaching
freight train. Both were thrown out
and badly bruised, but it Is not thought
that their injuries are serious. The
horse was killed and the buggy broken
into fragments.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

WTiseman and Wife & ais. Us. Smiley and
w Wife & als.-Pursuant to decree of the
Circuit Court for Augusta county, entered in
this cause. November II, 1894, shall proceed,
at my office, in Staunton, on
Tuesday. August FL, 1895,
to take the following accounts:
LIST. OF the personal estate of Andrew Reed,
decd.
End. OF the transactions of Stuart s. Reed,
adm. of andrew Reed.
3rd. OF the outstanding debts of said dece-
dent
4th. OF advancements made by Andrew Reed
to his children.
5th. or how the proceeds of sale of real es-
tate should be distributed, sc.
JOS. A. WADDELL,
july 3l4tS Commissioner.
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PARIS, Texas, July 81. 1895.

CAN THIS BE TRUE 1.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Alex. Gazette
says
1.-THE recent attack of a mob upon
the missionaries in China has develop
ed many things which do the latter no
credit. One is that a missionary to
sent for the erection of church, wrote
been built and that with the remainder
of the money he had built modest lit
tie dwelling for his own use. His letter
melted an investigation, which showed
that he had built a palatial brick resi-
dence for himself, and nearby it, but
not so as to obstruct the view from it's
verandahs, a small frame chapel"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

English and American residents of
China are complaining of the made
quacy of the measures adopted by the
representatives of their respective
governments for their protection
That these measures have been very
Ineffective cannot be questioned, but
it does not appear that either Minister
DENLY or Lord Salisbury deserves the
censure they have received. Indeed,
we doubt if the Chinese government
itself should be blamed for the dangers
TO which missionaries have been ex-
posed in China. The soldiery of that
country are in sympathy with the
rioters, and are at best but feeble
support to the government. 1t must
be remembered, too, that in more
powerful and better governed coun-
tries it IS sometimes impossible to pre-
vent mob violence to isolated foreign
ers.-ChGrlottesCille Chronicle.
MALONE BIGGER THAN EVER.-The
Washington correspondence of the Alex.
Gazette, under date of August 18th,
says
"a Virginia republican here to-day
says the only newspaper in Virginia
that has seen into the real object of the
election bill prepared by Gen. Malone,
and endorsed by his late conference at
Petersburg, is the Gazette, which has
said that the main feature of that bill
is the one that, if adopted, will make
the General bigger man than ever in
his own party, as he will have the sole
power of nominating every republican
candidate in the State"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STRONG
One who has interviewed Hon. VIM G.
Whitney, of New York, represents him
as saying
81 think the condition of the demo
cratic party in the whole country today
is remarkably strong, stronger than it
has ever been since the war;"
With Whitney as candidate for the
Presidency, the Democratic partywould
show good deal of strength. He is
not seeking that office, but that office
may seek him, and it could not find
stronger or better candidate. 1t is,
however, too early yet to fix upon
candidate. Circumstances yet to be
developed will determine the selection.
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SOLD IN STAUNTON BY

'Ol1lI LIN y n u N yin d l.
j. R. Brown & Son,
John Burns & Bro,
r. o. Haines,
j. H. Swartzel,
J. n. Anderson,
d. S. Weaver,
j. II. Matthews,
w. d. Hoge,
ID. N. Childress, ag't,
Davis & Powell,
b. b. Buchanan,
j. f. Graham,
Daniel Crimmens,
G. L. Wilson.
W. j. D. Riley,
G. o. Herring,
d. A. Sniteman,
W. B. Cornell,
u. H. White,
J. l. Henderson,
W. E. Ware,
j. H. Landes,
s. P. Mann,
j. E. Sheets,
T. r. Blackburn,
George J. johnson,
J. d. Bailey,
G. D. Higginbotham,
j. G. Whitlock,
A. M. Cupp,
j. W. Brandeburg.
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C0L0RS
TOBACCO.
10 cents a Plug.
SOLD IN AUGUSTA BY

A. F. McCorkle, Middlebrook, Va.
s. s. Palmer, Greenville, -
John H. Clarke, "
G. G. Dull, Mint Spring,
s. o. Page, Hermitage,
w. F. Fretwell & Bro, New Hope"
r. s. Clarke, Plunkettsville, "
McNett & Co., Annex,
j. 3. Hull, lack,
Smith & Roden, Waynesboro, 4"
Waldrop & Adkins, Swoope, d"
F. NJ. Stinespring, Cowans, &"
j. s. Palmer, Arbor Hill, I"
JOS. A. Mitchell, Cherry Grove,
G. Il. Sherman, Burketown, Z"
Craig & Doyle, Craigsville, &"
j. A. Riddel, Moscow, &"
A. E. Berry, Long Glade,
J. NJ. Harper, Mt. Sidney,
Hamlet Moore, Mt. Sidney, d"
w. P. Rush & Co., Mt. Scion, g
}. T. Muddiman, Burke's Mill,
j. S. Huffman, do do -
l.. b. Fauver. Middlebrook. 1"
j. A. Turk. Newport, "
G. A. Sheets, Plunkettsville. d"
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The Iron Industry.

AS the Charlottesville Chronicle says,
the revival of prosperity in the iron in
dustry during the past four months has
been so remarkable as to attract the
attention of the country to it. On the
18th of April the first advance of TWEEN
ty-five cents per ton was announced,
and though the announcement was re-
ceived by many with grave apprehen-
sion as to its propriety, it was scarcely
week before another advance was
necessary. Since then chez e have been
six advances in the price of iron, rang
ing from twenty-five cents to one dol
lar per ton, and all this has occurred
since the Wilson bill went into effect.
The indications are that the consump-
ton will steadily increase and bring a
relative increase of prices. If any large
percentage of this increased production
that will be demanded to meet the in
creased consumption comes to the
South it will not only put in blast ev-
cry furnace now standing idle, but it
will require largely increased number
to supply its portion of the demand.
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FERTILIzERS!

Farmers will save money
by getting prices from Reeves
Gait, Agt., No. IL johnson
ST., old stand of Reeves Gait
& Co.
aug HITS
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J. N. QUARLES,
ALEX. III. FULTZ,
Commissioners.

I, Jos. B. Woodward, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Augusta county, do certify that J. NJ
Quarles has executed the bond required by de-
cree of sale, of date December 4th, 1894, in the
cause of Seawright's admir- against Seawright's
heirs.
Given under my hand this 18th day of July,
1895.
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
iuly 3l-tdS
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PROTECTION A NEEDLESS FRAUD
When Admission, Alabama, is able to
supply Toxic. Japan, with water pipe
at profit, in competition with Eng
lish, German and Belgian bidders, how
foolish and insincere seem the dolor-
Gus walls sent up from that quarter in
1898 when it was proposed to remove
the duty from iron ore and pig. No
protection was needed, it is clear, since
Admission can pay freight on it's water
pipe to Toxic, via Liverpool. and yet
underbid all competitors. Pittsburg
is said to have sent 400 tons of pig to
England recently. and Youngstown.
Ohio, sent 1000 tons of waste meal.
The wool manufacturing industry
prospers greatly with the free wool
given by the Democratic tariff. The
American Wool and Cotton Reporter
states that there were on June /. 1895,
in operation in this country S,456 sets
of cards, n, 100 looms and 64,25O knit
ting machines, as against 1854 sets of
cards, n, 900 looms and 3,601 knitting
machines in May, 1892, under the Nc
Kinley tariff and before the panic
Baltimore Sun.