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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

The populist and fusion leaders IN
North Carolina have arranged a pro-
gramme for the principal legislation of
the legislative session. The fusionists
are evidently determined to be extreme
in their legislation.
Vice President Stevenson and family
left Ashevile, N. c., Saturday after
noon for their home in Bloomington,
Ill, with the remains of Miss Mary E.
Stevenson. the Vice Presidents eldest
daughter, who died on Friday. Among
the many messages of coincidence was
one from President and Mrs. Cleveland.
The Mexican Colonization Company
have opened an Office in Birmingham
Ala, and promises the negroes free
transportation to the State of Durango,
Mexico, and corn and cotton lands
there. Three hundred families in
Blount county have.signed a contract
to go.
Miss Mary Stevenson, eldest daughter
of Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, died at
Asheville, N. c., Friday.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
The JInSO Alarm

The jingoists in Washington who
have heard with such profound indig
nation" of the little uprising against
the Hawaiian government and are so
eager to express to 1.-The young Repub
lie the warmest sympathy" may find
some timely matter for reflection in the
despatch from Mr.. Charles Nordhoff
which we print this morning.
Mr.. Nordhoff cites laws of that
'young Republic" against personal
liberty and the freedom of speech and
the press $50 unrepublican that their
model is not found in the United States,
but in Poland, under the rule of Rus
STA" But though lit is not much of a
republic" that is none of our business.
The trouble out there seems to have
exercised the minds of the jingoists in
this country more than it alarmed the
government in Honolulu. That gov
eminent showed that it is probably
able to take care of itself, and whether
it is or not is no concern of ours.
Our only business there is to protect
American interests in case OF necessity.
We have no right to interfere in the af-
fairs of the islands one way or the 9th
er. Whether the existing government
is to stand or fall is for the people of
Hawaii to determine.-N Y. Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23


THE FIGHTING IN EGYPT WAS
SEvERE.-UaSsoacah, Egypt, January
16-General Baratieri, the commander
ofthe Italian troops, telegraphed fro III
Coatit, under date OF January Is, say
ing that the Abyssinians continued
their attacks upon his troops through
ont Monday. The enemy, however,
was constantly repulsed with great
losses. Suddenly Ras Mangascia struck
camp and retreated in disorner toward
Scimazana, and General Baratieri
started in pursuit.
The Italian losses in the fighting,
which occurred on January IL and IA,
amounted to 100 killed, including three
officers, and 100 wounded. The losses
of the Abyssinians were very heavy,
and Included large number of petty
chiefs in addition to seven Of the prin-
,cipal chiefs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
MIR. YosT's TuMBLE-The Judges of


MR.. YOST'S TUMBLE.-The judges of
election of ockbridge at the Novem-
berelection, constituting the law with
regard to the preparation of ballots
threw out in ali in the county $50 im-
perfectly prepared ballots and made
returns which gave Mr.. Yost seventy
five majority in the county. At the
recount of the votes made this week,
those in charge, of whom Mr.. Yost was
one of the important parties, agreed
that under strict construction of the
Walton law there were 626 faulty bal
lots to be rejected instead of 2S", and
this gives Mr.. Tucker the county by
eighty one votes. 1t speaks more
loudly than words could express for
the rectltude of the judges of election
in this. county. They are two thirds of
them Democrats They erred but not
for their own party, but in the interest
of the opposition.-R ockbridge NeaOs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

Kate Field makes the very proper
point that the system of public educa-
ton as applied to the Negro fits him
for nothing in particular; it is not
practical nor useful. This is true, says
the editor of the Norfolk Landmark,
who is Superintendent of the city
public schools OF Norfolk, and we join
her in opposing the plan. We cordi
ally approve of the idea of turning the
public education designed for the
youth of the Negroes into education of
practical kind, knowledge of the
useful arts. No man has ever been
able to show how literary education
has helped the Negro, beyond the
mere elementary matters of reading,
writing and arithmetic. If all the
schools for the Negroes were made to
teach cooking, housekeeping, dress
making and laundrying for the girls,
and farming, carpentering and a dozen
other useful things for the boys, then
education for them would amount to
something and would put them IN
shape for the active duties of life; in
shape for earning a good living any
where. AS it is, three-fourths of the
rising generation are fit for nothing in
the way of labor. of service in which
lies their principal hope of employ
ment; their chief means of earning
their own bread.
We recommend to the school authori-
ties of the State of Virginia that they
provide for a primary literary educa-
tion and for an industrial education
after that for the colored children
The wisdom of this practical age is
that much less attention should be paid
to ornamentals and more to the usefuls
in education.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

The weavers of the silk factory at
Hagerstown, Maryland. selected this
cold snap as the time TO strike, and the
proprietor has, therefore, closed the
whole establishment, and says he is
glad to do so, as he has been running
it for some time on losing basis, and
has only kept it in operation for the
purpose of giving his workmen EN-
ployment during the winter. These
strikers certainly didn't profit by their
vacation" When a striker can busk
in the sunshine or go fishing, striking
is not personally disagreeable to him,
buf in such weather as this, it must be
anything else than comfortable
Alexandria Gazette, January 18th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, .3an'y 18th, 1895.
j. Fl. Rankin
VS..
Fl. II. Boyd and ais.
All parties interested in the foregoing named
cause. pending in the Circuit court of Angus
ia county, will TAKE NOTICE ! that | will pro
coed on the
15th day of February next,
to state and settle all proper accounts between
the parties to this suit, and such accounts as
either party may require to be stated as di-
rected by the order entered herein on the 18th
day of November. 1884,
JNO. NJ, KINNEY
Commissioner.
J. II. Croser, p. q.
jan l6itS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

4 NOMMISSINOER'S OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, January |, 1895.
Jno. s. McCorkle's Trustees
VS.. In the Circuit court of Augusta Co.
Jno. s. McCorkle and ais.
All parties interested in the foregoing named
cause will TAKE NOTICE that have fixed mn
on the
31st day of January inst,
to take, state and settle the following accounts.
viz:
lst An account of the real estate convened
by John S. McCorkle to VIM. E. Craig and ].
Lewis Bumgardner, trustees, by deed, dated
April 18th, 1894, and of the fee simple and an
nual rental values of the same.
real estate.
3rd. An account of the debts of the said Jno
5. McCorkle secured by said deed.
4tlI An account of the transactions of VIM
r. Craig and j. Lewis Bumgardner, Trustees
Of Jno. S. McCorkle.
And any other matters required by any par
ty in Interest to be stated; or that Commits
sioner may deem pertinent.
II ITEMS, debts or claims against the said .Iuo
). McCorke are required to be presented and
proven before the undersigned on or before
tho day named for taking the above accounts
JNO. NJ. KINNEY
Jan f1s Commissioner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

Weather Prophet Hicks declares
that an intense cold wave may be ex.
pected about the 18th of January, ex-
tending to the s2Oth. when sthe worst
storms may be looked for, followed by
rain, sleet and SNOW, the mouth to
wind up in a regular storm period.
He postponed the time too long to
make his predictions true. He should
have said the 18th instead of the 18th.
But it may still be considered pretty
good guess, for such his forecasts of
the weather are, and can't be other
wise, though he claims to be weather
wise, and many are credulous enough
to believe in his pretensions as a
weSther-prophet.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
NEW BAPTIST CHURcH.-Mr.N

A NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.-Mr. Wal
ter Powell, a leading member and Off
GER of the Clifton Forge Baptist
church, authorizes the ReUieaC to say
that his church has closed the contract
for a lot upon which to erect new
Baptist church. The lot fronts Hotel
Clifton, and is on the corner of Church
street and Commerce avenue. The
building will front towards the hotel.
The lot has frontage of so feet. As
soon as the congregation sees it's way
clear work on the building will com
mence. The lot cost $700.-Clifton
Forge ReUie1O.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

All the right thinking people of the
country, irrespective of creeds and par
ties. are gratified at the fact that the
legislature of Montana paid no atten-
ton to the opposition of the A. Z. A.
to the election of Mr.. Carter, Catho-
lie. to the u s Senate. Citizens of
this country, in many parts OF it, are
not allowed to drink what they like, to
have control of their own children, to
be shaved on Sunday, or to enjoy per-
sonal liberty in respect OF other things,
but If there be one thing which is pc
culIarily their own, and with which
other people have nothing to do, it Is
their religion -AIerd7ldriG Gazette
CoRRUPTING THE CoNsCIENCE.-A
correspondent of the New York World
asserts that the combined payments of
pensions by all countries in the world
in the year ended June 80, 1894. were
S273, $50 as against $40, ne. 1853 paid
out by the United States. Our large
pensions were designed, it is said, by
the tariff lords and others who profit
by perversion of law to besot the pub
lie conscience, so that mean views of
patriotism should prevail. Behind the
million who receive pensions are five
millions who are being educated to
vote for what in it's origin was a mere
party bride. The bread and games"
given to the populace at Rome were
trifiing means of democrat 'zation com
pared with our present pension ex
penditure. Every other Mort hern
voter" says the Worlds correspond
ent. has been Systematically educated
to look upon the national treasury as
a milch cow" The excellence of our
institutions, the business of our laws,
the purity of our administration
these are no longer the objects had in
view by those who pose as patriots and
''true Americans" Pensions, boun-
ties. subsidies and tariff favors are now
what the noisy patriot wants.-Baiti
more Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
MR. HARRISON RANDOLPH ELECTED

M II II ARRISON hANDOLfH CLhCIb II
pRoFESsoR-M Mr.. Harrison Randolph
has been notified of his election to the
Professorship OF Mathematics in Fay
etteville University, Arkansas. Mr..
Randolph has been prominent figure
for a numoer of years. both in the
student body and as an instructor at
the University of Virginia. He has
been especially conspicuous in musical
circles and his place ia that portion of
society will be difficult to fill. He will
enter upon his new duties early in
March = Charlottesville Chronicle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
jan 2 Ats
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
70 =

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, Dec. 10, 1894.
Ford & Bennick, Trustees,
VS..
Ada w. BooZ ct ais
All parties interested in the above STYLED
cause now pending in the Circuit court Of Au-
Susba county, Va, TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant
TO a decree or said court entered in said cause
on NOV. ~ 1897, shall, at my Office in Staun-
ton, Va. on
February 5th, 1885,
proceed to take, state, and report'an account
showing
lst. What liability. if any, the defendant
Ada w. BooZ, Is under to the plaintiffs nv rea-
son OF the note set out in the bill stating the
nature and extent of such liability if any
md Tie 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 real estate their
several amounts, and their respective order
of priority
4th. Any other matters deemed pertinent,
etc.
HENRY W. HOLT
Commissioner in Chancery
Patrick & Gordon, p. q.
dec Eats
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
Mr.. MAssEY's SUIT.-The Richmond

State of Monday says
The State is assured that Mr.. Mas
sey's libel suit against the Norfolk Pilot
will be brought one day this week.
probably on Thursday. Mr.. Massey is
expected in Richmond on Wednesday,
and he will go hence to Norfolk. The
lawyers in the case, it is said, have de-
layed the case for reasons sufficient to
themselves"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

At Parkersburg. W. Va, several Off
Gals of the Paternity and Co operation
Company were found guilty of using
the mails for fraudulent purposes and
fined 800 each, with costs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

Urgent deficiency bill passed the Senate
Wednesday. 1t carries a sufficient ap-
preparation to put into effect the in
come-tax provision of the tariff law
Senators Hill and Quay abandoned
their fight against the bill. Mr.. Hills
appeal from the decision of the chair,
that his amendment was not admissi-
BILE, YVES not sustained by the Senate.
An amendment was accepted by which
many of the interrogatories of the bill
as it now stands are done away in
making assessments upon incomes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23


In the Senate Monday the announce
ment of the revolution in Hawaii was
productive of debate which was par.
ticipated in by Messrs. Frye, George,
Gray and Lodge.
The Hawaiian question will be prom
inent before Congress this week, as
will also be the Nicaragua canal bill.
Attorney Thomas, of the Postoffice
Department, has made a ruling under
which the publication of lottery draw
ings and similar information IN news
papers is prohibited.
On January II, $4,000 Chinese troops
encountered the japanese to the north
west of Hal Chang The Chinese were
repulsed by shutdown. The japanese
loss was reported light, while the
severely.
The candidacy of Ex-Governor Patti
son, of Pennsylvania, for mayor of
Philadelphia, is looked upon in Wash
ington with much interest because of
his independent proclivities and his
ability to carry out certain municipal
reforms. Mr.. Pattison, who is native
of Maryland. is regarded as possible
democratic nominee for President in
1896.
The strike of the employees of the
electric street railways of Brooklyn is
still on.
Mr.. Nathan Morgan, of Baltimore,
was drowned Tuesday night of last
week in lake Roland, while skating
with his sweetheart, Miss Alice Hush,
and with her brother, Mr.. Harry J.
Hush. The sister and brother had a
narrow escape from drowning, but
were rescued. The accident was caused
by the ice breaking near the Northern
Central Railway bridge.
One hundred and fifty men and boys
were rescued from the flooded colliery
at Audley. North Staffordshire, Eng
land, Tuesday of last week, and about
twenty miners were drowned.
While the Duke of Argyll was ad-
dressing a political meeting in elias
gov Tuesday evening of last week he
was overcome by faintness, reeled and
fell insensible into the arms of Lord
Kelvin, one of the bystanders.
The railroad suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls, which is one of the old
est railroad bridges in the country, and
probably the first large suspension
bridge ever built, will soon be taken
down and replaced by an arched can't,
lever bridge.
In Philadelphia Wednesday the
democrats nominated Ex-Governor Pat
tison for mayor and Sylvester Bon.
natter, Jr., independent republican
for receiver of taxes.
Lee Mantle and Thomas H. Garter
| were declared elected United States
| Senators by the Montana Legislature
Detective John T. Norris, who was
arrested in Richmond, suspected Of
completely in the recent gold brick
swindle, has been discharged from Gus
tody.
Mr.. Lexow, chairman of the commit
tee appointed by the New York Sen
ate to investigate the New York city
police department, made his report to
report alleges that there have been ne
fair elections in New York city tol
years and that bribery and corruption
are general.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
jHANGED WITH FACILITY

CHANGED WITH FACILITY. = The
Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette, under date of Jan
uary 18TH says =
"a Virginia republican in passing
through the Treasury this morning OBJ
served among the many negro messen
gers there an acquaintance from his
own county. He said to him jokingly,
Henry, you'd better make the most
of this, for I'll have you turned out as
soon as Mr.. Reed is President The
reply he got was this, ''Lor, Mars Will
liam, rs done changed"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
18th day of February next,

to inquire into and report upon the exception
taken by the defendants to Commissioners re-
port filed at the November term, 1894, aud to
state any accounts required by any of the par
ties or deemed to be pertinent by himself, and
other accounts required by the order enter
ed herein on the 5th Dec, 1894.
JNO. NJ. KINNEY,
Jan l6-4tS Commissioner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

CALLED TO CLIFToN.-Rev. Edloe
Pendleton Jones has accepted the call
Of fine Clifton Forge Baptist church to
became its pastor He will take the
place of Rev. Rutherford Brett. who
will return to Tennessee, his native
State, as soon as he is relieved Mr.
Jones will begin his pastoral work here
On the second Sabbath DOTH in Feb
ruary, 1895. He is native of Louisa
Co., Va, and son of Rev. j. VIM.
Jones. the author of the life of Gen.
r. E Lee. He is a young man of per
maps % years of age. ara mas wife and
one child. He was for two years the
pastor of the second Baptist church
Of Savannah. Ga. from which he was
sent to Cuba and spent a year on that
island looking after missionary work.
The climate there not agreeing with
MIN, he returned a short time ago to
Charlottesville, Va, where he was tenn
porarily residing at the time he receiv
Ell the call to the Clifton Forge Baptist
church. Clifton Forge ReuieaD.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Stanton, Va, Jany 14th, 1895.
j. F. Hamrick & Co.,
VS..
III. f. Stone & ais.
All parties interested in the foregoing named
cause. pending in the Circuit court of Augusta
county, TAKE NOTICE that | will proceed on
the
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

Mayor Strong, of New York, has
asked Superintendent Byrnes to re-
main at the head of the New York
police department
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

Congressman Jones, of this State, is
opposed to the practice of giving PEN
,ions to every hummer. deserter and
nalingerer WHO applies for one, and be-
cause he makes his opposition effective
ne is denounced in the North, by Dem
,crats and Republicans alike, as a
oloody shirter, and even in the South
IS criticised adversely, by some. If Mr..
Jones had his own interest more at
leart, and that of the country less SO,
Instead of trying to stop the looting of
the Treasury, he would look another
way and let it 20 unobstructed. But
having convictions, he, unlike many
others, acts in accordance with them.
Ii there were more men like Mr. Jones
in Congress the financial straits OF the
country would not be as sore as they
now are-AieGdndria Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

A DMINISTRATRIX'S SALE OF PERSON
IA AL PROPERTY.-As Administrative of
the late VIM. L. McCauley, will, in front oil
the Court house or the county of Augusta, on
Monday (COurt-day) January 70, 1895,
proceed to sell by way of public auction all
the personal effects belonging to the estate of
said VIM. t. McCauley, deceased.
MARY A. SHlFLETT,
jan 16-2ts Administrative.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
No matter what your trade may be
Or something else, say to thee

No matter what your trade may be
An herbalist OF halter
Or something else, say to thee
If you have aught the matter,
Don't take the old style gripping pills
That rather cause than cure your ills /;
but take DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets,
for they are very small and pleasant 10
take and are prompt and effective in
their operation. They cure Indigestion,
sick headache, biliousness, disordered
liver and habitual constipation.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23

to ascertain, 1st. Whether the widow of
George Seawright. decd or his infant chill
dred are entitled to claim the benefit of the
homestead exemption upon the fund in this
cause, and End, Whether the debts in the cause
waive the homestead exemption, or are such
debts that the said exemption does not extend
to them.
JOS. A. WADDELL
Jan 2-4ts Commissioner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
jan 16-4tS

George SeawrIght's administrator u.s. Sea-
VI wright & als.-Pursuant to decree of the
Circuit Court for Augusta county, entered in
this cause, December 9Th, 1894, | shall proceed
at my Office, in Staunton, on
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, !

LUCAS COUNTY. ."
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. 1885,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
In the following the Norfolk Land

In the following the Norfolk Land
mark hits the Bulls eye'':-
Much of the hard times, so called as
we'll as real, undoubtedly springs from
4 practice which has grown up among
the people who are ordinarily able to
make a living and to pay for the actual
necessaries and some of the luxuries of
ife of buying and going into debt for a
great many things which they could
just as we'll and better do without. The
possession of one unnecessary article
Usually begets the longing for another,
md so it comes that the children and
the grown people are constantly fretted
" the yearning for something elsa
title more, which they are really not
able to pay for. The income is, indeed,
problem, and how to live within the
income is greater problem. The man
or woman who fully solves that for him
self or herself has the problem of prac
GIcal life very we'll in hand"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-01-23
Lees Birthday i'm Baltimore.

The Baltimore Sun says that the
birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, COM
mander-in-chief of the armies of the
Confederacy, was celebrated on Satur-
day by ex-Confederates all over the
country.
The exercises in Baltimore were of
unusual interest, combining with the
annual reunion and banquet of the So
ciety of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States in the State of
Maryland an address ct the Academy
of Music Concert Hall by Gen. Thomas
7. Munfield, of Virginia, on THE I'm
seen Hand of Lee in Jackson's Valley
Campaign" The hall was crowded,
the audience filling even the large gal
leries, and the speaker was listened to
with rapt attention.
General Munford was introduced by
Gen. Bradley T. johnson. of Baltimore,
and prayer was offered by Rev. William
M. Dame, of Memorial Protestant Epis-
copal Church.
After the address a banquet was Civ
en- at the Carrolton Hotel.