Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-03-15
THE INDICATOR AS AN ADVER-
TLSING MEDIIJM.


the VINDICATOR's welfare, had the Curl
Osity last Friday to count it's new adverti-
ments for that day, and finding sixteen, ex-
pressed surprise that weekly paper should
have SO large patronage in the way of
transient advertisements. To us it is not
a matter of surprise. Outside of its city
circulation, the VINDICAToR reaches about
fifteen hundred people in Augusta. with
but few exceptions heads of families.
They are people who for the last twenty
years have been used to paying cash for
their paper. In twenty years you have not
seen in the VINDICATOR an appeal to
delinquent subscribers to pay up.
Such a people are the desirable
class that everybody who has anything
for sale, is after, seeing that they are the
very best set of customers man can have
The reason for advertising in the VINDI-
GATOR is that that is the only way to get
at this particular fifteen hundred. You
might put an advertisement in every paper
in Staunton, daily and weekly. and yet it
would not reach those people; they would
never see nor hear of it. 1t has always
been the rarest thing to linda family in the
county taking two Staunton papers, and
since the hard times set in. it is not seen at
all. To reach the readers of the VINDICA-
TOR you must have it printed in the VIM
DICTATOR and that is the loEg and short Of
it. And, besides, that is the cheapest way.
4F ;c1, ,1,co inf; icf
to an advertiser to mail our subscribers
circulars, it would cost him SIS in postage
to drop one circular in each household, to
be glanced at and then used fol- waste
paper, when it would not cost half that to
have it sent them week after week in the
VINDICATOR, and read and preserved.
Every newspaper has it's own set of readers,
and no advertisement inserted in another
paper, nor in half dozen other papers will
ever reach that particular set of readers.
A COUPLE OF PARTING KICKS TO
THE FIFTYTHIRD.
In the closing days of the Fifty-Third
Congress, motion was offered in the House
to give month s ''extra clerk hire''-S1O0
to congressman, and a month s extra sal
airy to all the employees of both houses. A
Democrat rose in his seat and protested
against it, saying that it was notorious
that many members Of the House had no
clerks at all, but took the ''clerk hire" of
500 a month for their own use-the
speaker even went to the length of naming
two Oh three members who did it. The bill
went through by 143 to 1OS. Of the major
ity IS were Republican and 68 Democrats,
and of the SO Democrats 50 were to close
their public life with that congress. To
whom this ''extra clerk hire' went, may be
inferred from the following extract from
the Louisville journal:
ssThere is no roll of the private secretaries.
Many employ their wives and daughters and
in some cases the service is really rendered,
but oftener it is not. 1t is recorded that one
Congressman appointed his son, who remain
ed at home Another appointed his daughter,
years old, who was good enough private
secretary to enable him to draw 500 month
more than he would otherwise havereceived. y
1t was in line with this disregard of the
public funds under their control, that the
sd congress increased the already enor-
nous pension list by the addition of
81 SOC, 900, by passing an act directing that
all persons Oh the pension rolls receivin g
less than Sc month should have their pen
sions raised to that sum.
THE ROAD DECISION OF THE OLD
COURT OF APPEALS TO BE
TESTED.
The new Court of Appeals of Virginia
having lately upset the decision of its pre-
decessor in regard to the powers of magis-
trates in petty larceny and other minor
crimes, is about to have another and ve1y
important decision of the old court before
it. Judge Christian OF Appomattox has
decided to make test case of the old
courts decision that men could not he
forced to work on the county roads. He
has called the road overseers of AppOmat
tox together and informed them that if the
roads are not worked before June LIST he
will fine every one of them, and he instruct
ed them to report to him every man who
is summoned to work on the roads and
refuses to work. and he will fine him.
The judge intends to enforce the old law
and thus get it before the new Court Of
Appeals and see if it will not reverse the
old court S decision that it is unconstitu
tional. The result will he looked for with
much interest all over the State.
THE STANTON MARKET HOUSE.
The city of Staunton has erected hand
some, costly and substantial building for a
market house. 1t is there permanently,
and will neither be abandoned, sold nor
burned. The ordinances governing its use
have been framed for the preservation of
the health of the people of the city. They
were framed OH the market ordinances of
other Virginia cities which have stood the
tests of the courts for half century; for
these market ordinances have, in every
city that a market has been established,
been the subject of these tests.
That is plain statement of the case for
the benefit of those who oppose the market
and it's ordinances.
We omitted last week duty the press
generally owes the RocE6ridge County
Neacs for its account of the bank embezzle-
ment at Lexington. The enterprise it
showed in gathering all the news bearing
on it, the excellent presentation OF it after
it was gathered, and the conservative yet
firm way in which it editorially treated
the crime, deserve all praise.
At last peace between Japan and China
is in sight. China will give up the island
of Formosa to Japan, pay her cash in
demnity of $3.50, 900. concede the indie
pendence of Corea, and permit Japan to