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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-04-26
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LIVE STOCK MARKETS..


Wheat-Longperry. .........~.-..... 0 s. 81
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. ABR. 18TH Beef
Cattle-The market has been exceedingly dull
this week. The quality of tine offerings has aver
aged very good. Values are easier-a shade,
pethaps. on the tops, and 1ac on the other grades
some dealers reporting their sales as being
made at greater fractional decline. Prices of
Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows:
Best. So Is 500
Generally rated first qua lity....... 500 5.25
Medium good fair quality 1926 q 4.5O
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
COWS. LOU q 40
OF the cattle received 30 came from Virginia.
Mich Cows-The market is more active, with
q better demand for good milch cows. Prices for
fair to good $20a$35, and good to prime $4Ca$i5
each.
BALTIMORE, April 22-There is fair supply
OF hogs in the yards and the demand Is m oderate,
the receipts being a bout 500 head less than the
number last week. Western hogs sell at $3.50,
with few extra shade higher; nearby hogs
those from Maryland, Pennsy Nania and Vir-
ginia-$5 2ca$5.4 per leo lbs gross: roughs $3.75a
$4.25 per 100 lbs gross. Receipts 1889 head.
Sheep and Lambs-Trade is reported as being
quite dull generally, only fair for the best stock
of both sheep and lambs. Sheep sell at 2a4Ac;
lambs 31aa51zc; Spring lambs 6aS1ac per lib gross.
Veal Calves-There is fairly good trade re-
ported for veals at41aa5Ac.
RICHMOND, Apr 22.-The following prices ruled
in the cattle market this week per hundred lbs
all gross except where marked net:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-04-26
TO MY FRIENDS
And the Public Generally.

have rented the stable on Water street. known
as the Club Stable, and am prepared, at my Sale
and Feed Stable to board horses by the month,
week or day, at reasonable prices also to fur
nish saddle and driving horses, double and
single.
Lean furnish you nice turn out-Surrys, Bug
gies. Buck Boards, ETC., all in STYLE
Parties wanting first class turnouts can be
accommodated at moderate prices.
Fine horses always kept for SAFE
Hoping to receive share of your patronage
and guaranteeing satisfaction, lam
Respectfully,
mar S-tf r. A. CI.FMMER.
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S1SCeiS
Aramlnty. ........... ........Stella Wright
Betsy. ....ClemenCe COOKE
Dorothy. ............ Annabel Timberlake
EuSGdCny ...... MdGCle WdEC
JeruShy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ....... Minnie Mccoy
Hannah Belindy ............... Meta Hullihen
.....Bettie Fauntleroy
JacOny. ....." Sadie Van Lear
h Misandyy twins Annie ss Gesh Ss''
Ophely... mabel Tinsley Lightner
In the programme Of the evening there
will be instrumental as well as vocal music,
and the former will include two violin
solos.
1t gives promise of being most delight
full entertainment, and those who want a
pleasant three hours will find them at the
Y. M. G. A. auditorium tonight.
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NJ A RkETS.
GRAIN MARK ETS

GRAIN MARKETS.
BALTIMORE, pr. 4.-Wheat steady: South
ern by sample 63a66; on grade 6214a 651a. Corn
59a52L. Hay-Timothy $l3al35O.
CHICAGO. Apr. 24.--Wheat for April delivery
5955ss; May 593s; Sept. G2.
STAUNTON PRICE CURRANT.
WHOLESALE PRICE OF STAUNToN MARKET
April 25, 1885. {
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DIED..

He offers his PROFESSIONAL SERVICES to
the public and, when not professionally engag
ed, may be found in his office, q East Main, next
to Denny Bros. Store.
Calls, day or night, in town or country, will
receive the proper attention. mar 29-lot*
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
The Most

Man low in regards to religion, about
the most %unhappiest and changeful
man | eve run up with was old mar
Drury Griffin, which he used to a
little water mill down or Deer Creek.
He was a middlin good farmer and the
bulliest sort of a mill man, but some
how or somehow else he never could
git along smooth and easy with his
church. In religion old mar Drury was
jest simply two or three times too many
for himself. He didn't have the neces-
sary stickin and stayin qualities, where
as he was forever and eternally ioppin
and back again.
Old man Drury started out when he
was a right young man by takin stock
with the Old School Baptists owe at
Cool Spring church. Everything u
smooth and easy with him for six
months or a year, but late along in the
summer they held the reglar three days
.meetin at Cool Springs, with feet wash
in on Sunday. Right then and there
old nan Drury got hfh back up and
kicked over the traces. He didn't be-
lieve in feet washin and he wouldn't
have no finger in the pie. He didn't
make out like he was smarter than the
preacher, and he couldn't give any
scripture for maxim the kick. He jest
simply didn't believe in it and he never
expected to believe in it if he lived
nine hundred and ninety-nine years.
The church then got together and
sent a committee to wait on Brother
Griffin and talk some sense into his
head if such a thing could possibly be
done. But it was all vanity and vexa-
ton, you understand. Old man Drury
got his dander up higher and yet more
higher till presently the committee had
to give him up as a bad egg and a gone
goslin. He stuck to it that he was a
genuine Primitive Baptist, horned and
bred and brung up in the faith, but he
wouldn't take no feet washin in his'n.
The committee reported the general
results back to the church, and after
short talks from various and sundry
members touchin the pccurious conduct
of the hayward and wanderin brother,
it was settled hat the case would go
over to the next reglar meetin, hopin
maybe old man naury would git back
into the fold. B&sinstid of that he got
worse and worse and still more of it till
finally at last the church had to turn
him out and put up the bars behind
him.
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BUILDING FOR OTHERS.

What II I build for others,
And the walls Of the building stand
Long after 7 I'm forgotten
BY the dwellers In the land,
Long after the buildings have crumbled
That wore founded upon the sand
What IL 1 build for others,
And the building shelters me not.
And within the home / have builded
shall nave no part or lot,
And the dwollors who have their homes there
Through all time shall know me not?
Yet when the years shall have faded,
And beneath the roof trees shade,
The children OF generations
In their childish days have played.
And have passed from under the roof tree,
And vanished into the shade.
Some dwelIer beneath the root tree,
Thinking Of whom 1t was new.
. May say. as his thoughts turn backward.
Keeping Its age in view:
Tho builder who built this building
Builded better than he know"
And /, though I have passed onward,
Hearing the Masters call.
May know. though 1t may not matter
To nj what the building befall,
1t Is better to have builded for others
Than not to have built at all.
Sample Case.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
A CusSin

BY this time, you understand, Drury
Griffin was mad with the whole world
in general, and Cool Springs church in
particlar. The more he talked about it
the madden he got till the next thing
anybody knowed he was cussin worse
than a stage driver. Along in protract-
ed meetin times the followin summer
all of a s. Ientlike he bloomed out as
a full-blooSsd Methodist and got his
name on tHS4books over at Bark Log
church. He was 6ghtin mad with the
Old School Raptists and wanted to git
as far away from them as possible jest
for spite, whereas he run slap out to
the other end of the rope. 1t was a
monstrous long jump, but Drury made
it at One leap.
But it want many months before
they had him up before a church meet
in over at Bark Log charged with sayin
things unbecomin to a good member of
the Methodist church. To put it in
plain United States he had been cussin
to beat six bits till the church couldn't
stand it no longer. When they brought
Drury up Elder Smith took the case in
hand and put in some straight ques-
tions.
Brother Griffin" says he, ''the news
has come to the church that you have
been cussin and carryin on till it is a
plum scandalation. The church is
bound to keep her skirts clear and IN
spotted from the world. Have you got
anything to say as to why you should
not be treated like a weak and way
ward and wanderin brother? z"
II will own up to cussin q little
around the edges says old Drury, but
rs to my general walk / am willin to
show records with any man in the
church. I I'm as good Methodist as
you are Elder. but whensomever / git
right mad l maybe mought cuss a little.
/ have heard tell Of cussin Methodists
an the days OF my life, and my notion
is that the best of Methodists will cuas
a little when you stir 'em up and git
EN- good mad. My mainest weak pint
is for cussip, but on general principles
l am as good a Methodist as any of the
committee. Methodist, Methodist is
my name, and Methodist will l die"
They wanted old Drury to take it all
back and say he vas sorry, but he
couldn't see it that way. ae went on
from bad to worse with his weak pint
for cussin, till the church got together
and throwed him overheard, and the
old ship sailed on and left him.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
Through the Dark Valley.

The news come through Aunt Nancy
Newton from Panther Creek n day
last week to the extent that old man
say in no ways surprisin to me to hear
that old man Dabny had passed on
through the dark valley, you under
stand, but it put me in mind of what
Blew Scroggins loves to say-"so1ne
folks have sense, whilst others have
fits"
Old man Dabny had been a stirIer
from base. and a stirrer from his youth
up. By hard work ond clost fguration
he had managed SO rs to git ahead of
the hounds and buy a good farm and
raise up a fine crop of children and save
some money. Raley nobody couldn't
blame old man Dabny-aocordin to the
hard fight he had to make-but he was
famous as the clostest and most stin-
giest man in all that region of country.
Two or three years ago a stranger
from s~omewheres up Mouth went down
through the Panther Creek settlemea at
and tarried over for a few days. Ty-
and-by he put in and bought forty &C, es
of land from old man Dabny- in
woods and hills and hollows over on
the creek-for a hundred dollars. In
tellin me about it old man Dabny v,as
braggin powerful on the trade.
THAT land Amt good for nothin, 1Iu-
fus, except to hold the world together
says he. THE timber is scrubby and
whilst there are some big springs over
there, even to the water amt fitten to
drink. Blamed if the water don't jest
naturally stink, and it smells like rot
ten eggs"
But the stranger from somewheres
up North want gone n~owheres, you un.
derstand. He s. u give it out that he
had found the bu lest sort of sulphur
water on HE land. Then he went off
and worked up a boom, and come ba X
and sold out to q crowd of town msn
for two thousand dollars, which thew
are now fxin to build a big hotel over
there aud take sum1ner boarders.
And that was what allied old man
Dabny G~rayson-he got the news and I
couldn't keep from thinkin about thu,
big things he had missed. Up to that
time he was hale and hearty. but after
that he moped and moaned till the last
shower come and he had to take out
and quit.
RuFus SANDERS.
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Ter, / guess; and the girl looks delicate
with checks like peaches and cream"
The sunset glow half dies on Mary's
face.
~ wish ma hadn't let them cons"
she says, wistfully.
but Joe laughs at this; and his gay
reply, Is the horses start On again,
ZONES back TO her eager ears like the
sound of sweetest music.
It has been an understood thing ever
since his uncle's death, the winter be-
fore, that Joe is sometime to marry his
pretty cousin and to become the pro-
prietor OF the River farm. There Is
no hurry, Of course, for they both are
young, and there is no promise be-
tween them. But Mary is dreaming
bright dreams Of the future, and Joe
has been fond of her, in q protecting
and brotherly fashion, all his life.
A week has passed, and Mrs. Delan-
cey is delighted with her new sur
roundings. She indulgently calls pref
~ Mary q ''shy white violet and Joe,
. trough diamond" and in writing to
her friends she gives enthusiastic pic
lures Of the ideal farm" where her
dear daughter Gladys Is gaining fresh
roses day by day.
And Gladys, city bred, seems to love
this free life in the open air. She
spends long hours every day in a IA
vorite nook by the riverside, where Joe
hangs her hammock or heaps a lux
uriant couch for her of fragrant new
mown hay.
She is . small, fair tyrant, and de-
lights to keep him always at her beck
and call. But Joe has proved himself
willing slave. II is payment rich and
rsrs, beyond all other, so he thinks, II
she will but condescend to sing quaint
ballads for him now and then, in her
small, thin voice, n she softly thrums
tho while IN her guitar.
One evening when . shower keeps
Gladys within, to while away the time
she singa her favorite Money Musk
to her mothers accompaniment on the
old cracked spinet.
Al Jos stands listening and watch
ing her graceful movements In the
pretty dance he seems to see the husk-
Ing party In the barn-sees Gladys
she'll the bright red ear. and trembles
a., In fancy, he dares to kiss her rose
sweet cheek. Hark TO the fiddler now
. he calls ont the figures! And Joe's
heart ID In . tumult of desire to Join
the dance with Gladys-always Gladys!
she laughs with pure amusement 1t
him, standing - il entranced, when
the song Is ended. But Mary, watch
ing from the doorway {the shy white
violet. quite neglected now. turns and
steals unnoticed to her dim attic
chamber, to weep away the night.
And when she hears Joe rise and
hasten out, long before the early sum
mer dawn, she knows it is that he may
be at leisure later in the day to lie at
Gladys feet and listen to her songs
and stories Of the distant city and its
life.
So the summer passes, and Joe, in his
fools paradise, dreama wild dreams OF
somehow winning his way to {ortpae
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

And all the world seemed radiant about
her, with soft tints of rose and gold.
On one side Of the narrow river
woodland and meadows lie. eth the
low line of farm buildings from which
she Is returning with her pail of foam
ing milk. On the other side is the
quaint old farmhouse, under it's can
opy of shading elms.
As she stands thus, the very picture
of rustic beauty and unconscious grace,
. light wagon rapidly rounds the side
OF the house. and in q moment the
handsome young driver has stopped
his team by the side of the pretty
milkmaid. whose face seems to have
caught the rosy glow of the sunset
at his approach
They have come, M-ry,"is his CHEEKY
announcement Mother and daugh-
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
II FASHIONS,

BLAcK and white are certainly in
fashion, but in stripes and pekins and
not in checks.
ECRU lace is popular, and with net
and Insertion will form exquisite col
lars, yokes, berthas and skirt trim.
mings.
TIE plated and rosetted collars Of
chiffon are still to be seen; in fact, the
lavish use Of this material bids fair to
last all through the summer.
THE fullness in sigot sleeves is dis.
posed in gathers or plaits at the shout.
ders, the distended effect being at
tanned equally well by both modes Of
adjustment.
SLEEVES for plain day dresses are al.
ways worn long, sometimes too long.
Some end in the form Of the mouth Of
q blunderbuss or of a flute, and are
most VI becoming.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

and seen a heap of sights, you under
stand, but I have lever yet seen a
wishy-washy man that didn't back him
self into a great fret and confusion
ment before he quit. If he is one thing
today and another thing tomorrow and
somethin else the next day he is ore
than probable to draw a blank before
the game runs ont t o a finish.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

You shall do both, even if you are q slab
sided, pallid, woe-begone ~dyspeptic, if you
of food into rich and nourishing blood, and
recover appetite and sleep by the systematic
use Of the great renovator Of health,
strength and flesh, Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which also remedies malarial, kid
hey and rheumatic trouble, nervousness,
constipation and biliousness.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
Change of LILO.

When a woman approaches the change Of
life she is liable to lave a return of all the
menstrual arrangements, and other ailments
That afflicted her in former years. The d.
the organs afflicted, make it the best remedy
for use during this period.
Mrs. D. Pennington, West Plains, Mo-,
says: II had been suffering from change OF
life and it took the form Of dropsy. The
doctors told my husband it was useless to
prescribe for me any more. About that
time we got DR.. McElree's book on the treat
ment Of female di seases and decided to try
the Wine of Cardui Treatment. After US
ing nine bottles, | Am we'll"
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

by the colOrs.
A S o m e, l
would a whole
lot t h e r b e
solnethin or 9th
err oncst a year
and let every
body know it
than to be moth
in in p%articlar
the year round.
In my day and
g e n e r a t n
] have covered
lots Of ground
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

Not pleasant to always carry around, but
it don't compare with the Notwithstanding
power that tobacco keeps at work night and
day to make you weak and impotent. Dull
eyes, loss of interest in sweet words and
looks tell the story. Brace up-quit. No.
To-Bac is a sure, quick cure. Guaranteed
by Druggists everywhere. Book, titled
'Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life
Away" free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co.,
New York City or Chicago.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
The Most Pleasant Way

OF preventing the grippe, colds, headaches,
Ind fevers is to use the liqdid laxative rem
needs q gentle, yet effective cleansing. To
be benefited one must get tire true remedy
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co: only. For sale by all druggists in SOC.
and ri bottles
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
From Pillow to Post.

For a long time after that Drury
stuck to it that he was way yonder a
better Methodist than any of the crowd
that had turned him out. He then give
it out that he was goin to build up and
establish the true Methodist church.
lie went out in an old field clost by
Bark Log and knocked up a pine pole
cabin, which he called the True church.
he put in q pulpit and made some
benches and bought a Bible. Then he
tsl. In with Parser zsh Nswtoa-whiah
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
The Greatest Medical Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY'S
MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
DONALD KENNEDY, Of ROXBURY, MASS,

DONALD KENNEDY, Of R0XBURY, MASS,
Has discovered in one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind Of Humor, from the worst Scrofula
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed exceptin two cases
(both thunder humor.) Hehas now in his
possession wei two hundred certificates
of its value, all within twenty miles of
Boston. Send postal card for book.
Abeneit Is always experienced from the
first Bbttle, and a perfect cure is warranted
whenihe rightquantity is taken.
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver or
Bowels. This IS caused by the ducts be-
ing stopped, and always disappears in a
week after taking it. Read the label.
If the stomach is foul or bilious it Will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you can get, and enough OF it.
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed
time. Sold by all Druggi sts.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

Married Man-aWhy don't YOU get
married. Miss Perkins? You're getting
to look like a back number you viii
soon be an old maid" Miss Perkins
IT ! were as easy to please as yous
wife was I should bare been married
long age!"
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

THE pyramids themselves, doting with
age, AVE forgotten the names Of their
founders.-Fuller.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

"Do You think that Dickens would de-
ceive a friend?' "Of course not. None Of
his friends would believe a word he says"
Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

PIso's CURE is a wonderful Cough medi.
Blake AYES, Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. 26, '94.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

'THE curious thing about my business"
said the mosquito, alighting softly upon the
nose Of the sleeping victim, lis that it's
more fun to 60 to work than it is to stay to
hmm
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
VIOLET AND ROSE.
BY JUDITH

n e little
bridge w c h
c r S c S t h e
apid,intersec Ct
ing stream that
gives to River
Farm its name
S W e e t NJ a y
Burton stands,
In all III glory
A. ----<
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

AN AL1BI-"Where were you when the as
SAUL occurred" asked the judge of the VIC
tim. .sSure'n Oh dun no., yer honor. He
hit NE so hard Oh couldn't say."-Harper's
Pazar
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
Tobacco Sinking Breath.

WE speak of some men as all wool, prob
ably because they shrink at nothing.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
RUFus SANDERS,

In the year 1890 iron mining was car.
RED on for commercial purposes IN
tWenty-eight states,
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

"You will notice that I have you on the
string" said the boy to the kite. .Yes,"an
swered the kite. "And that is what makes
me soar."-Indianapolis Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
FOR SALE.

7 WILL sell for cash or on easy terms the fol-
i lowing described property, viz:
1. A plantation in Bellevue containing about
eixty-six arpents, all thoroughly fenced and
drained. with tenant house and outbuildings,
known as the Narcisse Richard place.
Q. A plantation situated on the Courtableau.
containing four hundred and forty-tWo and
q. 100 arpents, about sixty arpents under pieux
and wire fence and in cultivation, with two good
tenant houses and o~utbuildings. Tho rear of
this tract consists Of cypress swamp.
3. Several tracts of wood land on the BAYOU
Techs, situated between Coulon's fridge and
BarrJs Landing.
The first and second tracts are rented adyan-
lageOu3ly for the year 1894, and II sold l will
transfer rent notes to purchasers.
W. C. PERRAULT.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved BY
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Sage Of Rocky Greek on tie
wishy- Washy Man.
The "MaInest" Trouble With Drury Griffin.
Captain Bunting OF the Long Crock
Horse Guards-Through the
Dark Valley.
Copyright 1881

In every condition-in religion and
in politics-it will pay a man to choose
sides and pick his flag and then stand
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
into the torrent, fears him cry: Jump,
now!" and she obeys him.

The early morning train bears Mrs.
Delaney and her daughter aver far.
Their from the scene Of the young girls
peril Of the day before; ever farther
from the house of sorrow, where lies
the man whose young life has been
beaten out by the swirling waters from
which he yet could rescue Gladys, all
unharmed; and ever farther from the
pathetic figure of poor Mary, who
blindly grasps at the belief that death
has given back to her that treasure
which Gladys idly won, and a.
idly tossed away.-Leslie's Popular
Monthly.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28

REVISED Observation-Disclosures a man
seweth, that shall he also Fip.-YaleRecord.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
Modern Love.

II love the sea-" she said to the poor
young man, as they sat on the beach.
Il don't see why" he responded, de-
jectedly; lit hasn't got any money!
Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-09-28
The Cheerful Idiot.

II think" said the crank boarder,
that it will not be many years be.
fore the phonetic system Of spelling is
adopted entirely"
I'm that case" said the Cheerful
Idiot, 7 suppose that "a will go out OF
business"
It took the shoe clerk eboarder. the
typewriter boarder, q pad Cf paper and
= pencil to explain matters to the sat.
isfaction OF the crank boarder Gin.
cinnzti Tribune.