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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

The action of Spain in placing re :
strlctions upon American commerce in
her dependencies in the West Indies is
only one of long series of hostile acts
displayed toward America and Ameri-
can interests. Should the restrictions
be not removed, it is sA~tted, the Presi-
dent will issue proclama tic isIiwpos-
Ing discriminating flag dlti -
Spanish. Cuban and Port
ports into the Unl
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF ToLEDo.)
LUCAS COUNTY IS
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
f. j. CHENEY & Co doing business in
the City OF Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE, HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1856.
A. W. GLEASON,
'H'N Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials. free
F. j. CHENEY d. CO.,
Toledo. @,
a bv nPuppisfs I'm
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
Amazing Assurance.

The IndeG-ApDeal says that cit re-
quires an amazing quantity and
quality of assurance in republicans to
complain of President Cleveland's ex
tensions of the civil service rules
When the reform law was first enacted,
the departments at Washington and
the postoffices and customhouses
throughout the country were full of
republicans. A democrat anywhere as
a federal clerk was rarity and no
democrat held high office. Yet Pen
dleton, a democrat, introduced, and he
and other democrats advocated and
voted for the measure that made the
tens of thousands republicans secure
as long as they performed their duties
properly in all the subordinate offices.
That was many years ago. The honored
author of the measure and many who
supported it are dead, but the republi-
cans hold the fort at Washington, so
far as the thousands of department
clerkships are concerned. They occa-
olOldlly icolSll; anu SOlllc, SetbluS dlOuS
in years, die. Bnt none, practically,
are removed. The law protects them,
not indeed, in terms, but in the al
together admirable spirit in which a
democratic President and democrat
cabinet officers have interpreted~th
law. And when one Of these republi-
cans for any reason Tacates a place,
ano5ha.,. republican has as good a
l!1niice for it as a democrat has
There is absolute fairness SO far as
these subordinate places are concerned,
and tie advantage is all with the re-
publicans, for they in this respect are
still the Ems
Yet there is republican complaint
over the extension of the service that
may protect few recently appointed
democrats in their places!n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

Four burglars threw sack over a
jailer in the Montgomery (Ala.) Jail
last Wednesday and escaped.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

- RAN NAKED THROUGH THE SNOW.-
The house of William Thompson, a
farmer living twenty five miles north
of Regina, n. W. T., took fire early
Friday morning, while the family were
asleep. Thompson awoke aud jumped
for the door, but before his wife could
reach the door, with one of the chill
dren, she fell down. suffocated by the
heat and smoke, with her night dress
on fire. Thompson dragged her out
and tore off her burning night dress
and rushed back into the building for
his two children. The youngest was
burned to death, and the eldest is in a
very dangerous condition. The mother
is badly burned about the body
Thompson, who was perfectly nude,
with the Thermometer registering
nearly forty degrees below zero, hastily
put the sufferers in the hen house and
started to. run over to Il neighbours,
one and quarter miles away, without
a stitch of clothing on. After running
some distance his feet started to freeze.
He returned, but all he could find to
clothe himself with was an apron and
two pieces of women's garments, which
he tied around his feet and head
Starting out again he struggled forward
to within one hundred yards of the
house, when he fell down and was
found by the neignbors frozen to
death.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

4 COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, Dec. 10, 1924
Ford & Bennick, Trustees,
Ada W. Booz ct ais
All parties interested in the above STYLED
cause now pending in the Circuit court of Au-
guSta county, Va. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant
20 decree OF said court entered in said cause
on N0Y ~ 1894. shall, at my office in Staun-
ton, Va. on
February 9Th, 1895,
proceed to take, state, and report'an account
lst. What liability, if any, the defendant,
Ada w. Booz, is under to the plaintiffs by rea-
son OF the note set out in the bill. stating the
nature and extent of such liability, if any.
Znd The real estate of the defendant, Ada
w. BooZ. subject to the lien of plaintiffs at
tachment; the nature and extent of her inter-
est therein, and its fee simple and annual rem
tai value.
3rd. The liens binding said reaI-estate. their
several amounts, and their respective order
4th. Any other matters deemed pertinent,
ETC.
HENRY w. HOLT,
Commissioner in Chancery.
Patrick & Gordon, q
dec Pits
COMMISSIONER OFFICE,
" Staunton, Va, Dec. II, 1894.
J. B. Trlmble
Michael Shank's Admir- ct ais.
Ali parties interested i'll the above STYLED
cause now pending in the Circuit court of Au-
gusta county. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to
decree of said court entered in said cause on
Zee. 4, 1891, shall, at my office in Staunton,
Va, on
February 20, 1895,
proceed to ascertain and report
LIST. An account of the personal assets, if any,
of which the said Michael Shank died possess
ed, and the debts against his estate, with their
dignity and priority
End. An account of the administration of
said estate by Il. j. Wayland. Admir-.
3rd An account of the real estate of which
the said Michael Shank died seized and pos
sessed in Augusta county and the liens thereon
in the order of their priority.
4th. Who are the i.eirs at-aw Of the said
Michael Shank. deceased. and whether they
are before the Court in this caust.
9Th. Any other matter deemed pertinent,
etc.
HENRY w. HOLT.
Commissioner in Chancery.
W. H. Landes, p. q.
90 re
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
The Bounties the Negroes Receive.

After quoting the statistics embraced
ia the report of the State Auditor of
Virginia, the Baltimore Sun says
Summing up the amounts paid on
account of the negroes for criminal ex-
penses, for schools, normal school and
asylnms, it is found that the total is
S60S, 1888 as against taxes paid by them
TO the amount of SOB, 565, making the
bounty received by them from their
white neighbors annually 1904, 919, or
over half million Capitalized at 3
per cent. this annual expense of S504, 819
represents a burden on the whites. of
nearly $4,000, 000-in other words.
1904, 818 would pay interest on that
much of the State debt. No longer
property and 10 longer productive as
ii laborer to the extent he formerly was,
the colored brother in Virginia repre-
sents still the vast ha9 ms entailed by
the civil wal 4
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
The World Growing Better.

The baltimore Sun says the address
of the Rev. DIR. Hall Harrison, of
Ellicott City, Nd, clergyman of the
Episcopal Church, made in the Presby-
terrain church in that town Dec. gath,
WAS exceedingly timely. Just Low all
who profess and call themselves Chris
tians are celebrating the central fact
of Christianity. Upon the event cele-
brated Xmas and upon the event COM
memorated by all of Christendom at
Easts r, Christianity is based. Upon
these central facts there is no differ
ence. All Christians accept them as
true. 1t strikes the laymen of the
churches as strange that having SO
many great >beliefs and doctrines in
common, ministers of the gospel should
lot dwell NOR upon theseiand less up
ION hose minor doctrines which mark
the divisions between the T5rious de-
nominations of Christians. Dr. Hari,
sou took this time of good will toward
men to accept the invitation of broth
er minister belonging to a different
church to speak from his pulpit. In,
doing SO be quoted and approved Car
fnai Gibbons's address at Chicago and
fplained why he felt justified by the
of Common Prayer in speaking
Presbyterian pulpit.
e not the optimists justified in be-
= that the world is getting better
III worse and that Christianity
good work among men ana
has not failed, but abides
\cre that Congressman
Aefeated at the late
ted to a u. S.
IF the present
saals at its
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

C~Qne of the first things the colonists
ofthls country attempted to manu-
acture was glass, some glass being
made in 1903 and 1909 at jamestown,
Va.
DIR. A. Conan Doyle, the clever Eng
lish writer and lecturer, is not SO en-
in love with the United
States as some other of our foreign
friends, but likes us about $4,000
worth, as the proceeds of his recent
visit.
The Queen Of Greece has the distinc-
ton of being the only woman admiral
in Europe. She was made admiral of
the Russian feet by the late Gear. She
was always Il lover of the sea, being
daughter of grand admiral.
The New York Presbytery is to be
again asked to indorse the work OF the
Rev. Dir. Pafkhurst.
W. B. Fleming has been appointed
chef of the new law and record depart
ruent of the chief supervising archi-
- Office, and j. B. Clark chief of
ksruction division in the same
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

Landmark says the cigarette habit is
almost as bad as the liquor habit, and
is quite as liable to destroy the health
and morals of the growing manhood.
1t is notorious that Robert Louis
Stevenson. the great novelist, died
permaturcly from this habit.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
FRIES ON PATENTS.
How to get s 90 and Perhaps Make
Enrr;Ina

OTtune.
We secure patents and to induce people Co
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first of every month to the person who sub
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National Recorder, a weekly neWSpaDer. pub
lished in Washington. d. c., which has an ex-
teDsive circulation throughout the United
States and is devoted to til G interests OF inven-
tors.
Nor so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
The idea of being able to invent mething
strikes most people as being very difficult;
is the simple things and small inventions that
make the greatest amount of money and the
complex ones are seldom profitabl Almost
everybody, at some time or another, conceiveS
an idea, which, if patented, would probably be
worth to him fortune. Unfortunately such
ideas are usually dismissed without thought
The simple inventions like the car window
which could be easily Slid up and down with
or breaking the passengers back. the sauce
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stopper, the snow shovel, are things that al
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The prize we offer will be paid at the end of
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
GLASSWARE DEPARTING.

GLASSWARE DEPARTMENT.
Plain and fancy glass ware dire
factories, which means say;1
per cent Glassware of eys
ton, ana at prices -
mention.
Do you carr
Then why 81
when you ca
just as good
five years.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

Asthma, hay fever. and kindred all
ments positively cured by a newly dis
covered treatment. Pamphlet, testi-
monials and references sent free. Adj
dress, Worlds Dspensary Medical AS
ISOLATION, 663 Main Street, Buffalo,
8. Y.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
The, Year ss4-Prsseeiion- Diphtheria.


In its review of the year 1894 just
closed, the New York Herald says that
in the national calendar 1894 will stand
out as the year when, for the first time
since the war, the ruthless march to-
ward higher and higher protection was
halted and the knife applied to a NAL
adv in the body polite which was prey
ing upon the very life of the national
prosperity. When the year dawned
the deadly blight of protection was on
trade and industry. Widespread finan-
cial depression and business suspense
reigned. Workingmen by the thou
sand were idle, mills were shut down,
factories closed and markets dull.
Fortunately the year brought ma
terial relief from these disastrous con
sequences of protection, and, imperfect
as the tariff revision was, it has led to
better times, put the country on the
read to prosperity and ushers in the
dawn of a new year whose brightness
is in striking contrast with the gloom
that clouded the nation a year ago.
In medical progress 1894 will ever be
a red letter year as that in which sci
ence conquered one of the most terri
BILE scourges that ever ravaged human
life. 1t was in this year that were de-
nonstrated to the world the efficacy
and success of the cure which robs
diphtheria of its terrors and insures the
safety of thousands of lives which be-
fore were beyond reScue
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02
fore were beyond rescue

The Charlottesville Progress of Sat
nrday says
Fire, about II O'Clock last night, at
the residence OF Major Berkeley near
the University, caused il,danage to the
house and furniture, as near.aS could
be learned, of about $500. 1t is not
known how the fire originated. except
that the flames were first discovered in
the room of Mir. Hoilns Randolph, a
student, whose personal effects were
destroyed. Great damage was-done to
the furniture in getting it ont of the
burning building, everybody becoming
excited and tossing things indiscrini
nately through the window
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-02

Business affairs in Brazil are re-
ported to have retained to their
normal condition, and there are no in
dications of revolt in any of the cities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
ASCENT OF MATTERHORN.
PROFESSOR JORDAN'S LECTURE BE-
FORE THE HAWTHORNE
SOCIETY.
HEAVIEST MAN WHO EVER CLIMBED
THE MOST DIFFICULT OF
THE ALPS.

The Hawthorne Society's entertainment
crowded the large hall of the Young Mems
Christian Association last evening. The
principal feature of the exercises was Pres
ident Jordan's lecture on his ascent of the
Matterhorn.
Judge Van Duzer, who introduced the
lecturer, spoke of the good work the soci-
ETY. was doing in increasing the intellectual
activity of this city.
Professor Jordan gave short history of
the futile attempts made to reach the sum-
nit of the jagged, three-cornered cone I'M
til its top was finally mounted by the party
of Whipper, Lord Douglas, Croz and 9TH
ers, of whom Whipper was the only one to
make the descent alive. He spoke of the
continual disintegrating of the surface and
constant falling of rocks that gave this
glacierless creature of sun and frost the
evil reputation it had among the people of
the country about as the abode of Satan,
while Ruskin, who had never. been very
near it, wrote of the Matterhorn as having
no sign of change or decay"
1t was not until the beginning of this
century that there was much mountain
elm bling done, owing TO the superstitious
awe that prevailed in regard to mountains as
the abode of evil spirits. The people about
the Matterhorn believed that it was to it's
summit that Satan often came with some
of his evil spirits as to summer resort to
cool off, and amused himself by hurting
down stones at the people below.
The first ascent of Mont Blanc, the first
of the Alps to be climbed, was made by
some students from Geneva seventy years
ago, but the Matterhorn was the most diff
cult of all and its summit was never
reached until 1865 after many futile at
tempts had been made and many lives
lost.
The professor was in the village OF Yer
matt with some other American college
men in 1881, and six of them made the as
cent with five guides, the leader of whom
was the celebrated Jean Baptiste Aymono,
who had so often climbed the jagged cone
and who had placed on the most perilous
places the ropes used for years by the peo-
pie who dared the journey.
The professor told graphic story of the
arduous and dangerous ascent, part of
which was made in heavy snowstorm.
President Jordan enjoys the distinction
to this day of being the heaviest man who
ever climbed the Matterhorn. He weighed
at the time 214 pounds, and weight makes
a great deal of difference where each man
has to haul himself up almost perpen-
dicularly at times by rope hand over
hand, and at other times must be pulled
up over precipices by his companion. In
the party were DR.. Gilbert and Professor
Anderson, both now of Stanford Univer-
sity.
The rest of the programme of the even
ing consisted of songs by the Plymouth
male quartet, and barytone solo by Will
liam Harper.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
From q photographic

that the votes in favor of the incorporation
were not majority of those cast at the
election. 1t was also contended that the
votes had not been properly canvassed by
the Supervisors, they having canvassed
only the returns and not the ballots. The
Supreme Court considered this claim as OF
but little value, however, and it is dis
missed in few words.
AS to the question of majority it appears
and is so decided by the Supreme Court
that there was a majority of one vote in
favor of incorporating. There were 40
votes cast in favor of incorporating and liz
votes cast against it. Seven ballots bore
no mark whatever upon them, neither for
officers nor question of incorporation, and
seventeen ballots, though marked for the
officers, expressed no preference for or
against the great question. The seven bal
lots with no marks at all on them are held
by the Supreme Court to be no votes at all.
They are considered as mere blank paper
and are not counted nor considered by the
court for any purpose. This leaves the
total vote against the incorporation, in
Guiding the seventeen non-committal bal
lots, to be 129, which leaves a majority of
one in favor of incorporation.
This count the Supreme Court holds to
be the true one, and it afirms the judg-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
DEEPLY INUNDATED.
j. G. WoIdfang Kicked by Henry Miller.
the Cattle King,

J. G. Woldfang applied for warrant in
Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday for
the arrest of Henry Miller of the firm of
Miller & Lux on the charge of battery,
and the warrant clerk took the matter
under advisement.
Woldfang said he was for some years
superintendent of Mr.. Miller's ranch in
Monterey County and was discharged for
circulating a story detrimental to his en-
ployer. He wrote several letters of apology
to Mr.. Miller and his wife, but received no
reply. Then he began calling at Mr..
Miller's Office, sos California street, for
payment of 800, balance due him for SER
vices rendered at the ranch.
Mr.. Miller refused to see him, so on
Tuesday he took up position in the hall
way of sos California street and waited for
hours till that gentleman made his appear
ance. He asked for settlement and Mr..
Miller invited him into his office, where
he made out check for $50 and a receipt
in full, which he asked Woldfang to sign.
After signing the receipt he got the check
and was leaving the Office when he alleged
Mr.. Miller called him scoundrel and
kicked him out. He said he felt deeply
Inundated at such treatment and wanted
Mr.. Miller punished for it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21

at an alarming rate. If this process of
falling off continues for six weeks longer
the dog will be a shadow of its former self.
Until two monthst ago Tiny was a re-
markably active canine 1t became a
great favorite with Mr.. Holbrooks family,
and were the animal to die its loss would
be severely felt. About eight weeks ago it
became i'll, and few days later paralysis
OF the limbs set in. DR.. Nief was called in,
and then DR.. w. o. Wilcox and later DR..
Clark. The physicians diagnosed the case
variously as paralysis and locomotor
ataxls, but every remedy was applied
without effect.
Mr.. Holbrook would not dispose of Tiny
for a mint of money, and the matter of
expense will not be considered if the result
is a con- plete cllre
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
TENTH STREET HOME.
Affairs of the Institution Are, Accord
ing to an Investigating Committee,
Honestly Conducted.

About three weeks ago some very ugly
reports rejecting on the managers of the
Mems Home on Tenth street gained cir
culation. 1t was limited that under the
cloak of charity the managers were reap
ing rich financial harvest and conducting
things generally to suit themselves.
DIR. Jerome A. Anderson admitted that
while he was president of the institution
he had never been called upon to attend a
meeting of the board of directors, though
he was sure that Mrs. Moore and Mrs.
Gator the managers, were conducting the
home honestly. On the suggestion of Mrs.
Moore he appointed Captain Bonestell, the
paperman, and Captain Johnson, clerk
on Sansome street, to expert the books.
Mrs. Moore asked for a weeks time in
which to get her books ready, which re-
quest was granted by President Anderson.
Last Friday the experts made report,
to the effect that everything was honestly
every cent expended. AT this same meet
ing the board of directors, consisting of
Mrs. t. V. Gator, Mrs. Broughton Ca sister
of Mrs. Cator) and DR.. Anderson, voted
Mrs. Moore salary of $40 per month and
also allowed her claim of $40 per month,
which she had paid to herself since the
home was started, in 1892.
But there is one other point that causes
comment. In the report issued by Mrs.
Gator in February last for the two years
ending March 1, 1894, the name of A. H.
Sanborn appears as director and vice
president. At the first and only meeting
of the directors held two weeks ago, to or
der the investigation referred to above,
Mrs. Gator, the treasurer, stated that Mr..
Sanborn regretted he could not be present,
as previous business engagement would
prevent. Mr.. Sanborn makes the state
ment that he is not member of the board
of directors, has never been asked to at
tend meeting, and if his name has been
used in any way by the managers of the
home it was without his authority or
knowledge. In speaking of the financial
statement issued by Mrs. Gator, Mr.. San
born says: at has been brought to my
attention that statement of the transac-
tons of the Mems Home Benevolent So
ciety on Tenth street, has been published
over my name as vice-president and direc-
tor, wish to state that l have never had
any connection with that institution and
know nothing of its AFFAIRS