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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

Judge Golf OF the Federal Court last
week entered decree for the sale of
the N. s. W. Ry. The road is to be
sold at public auction and a bid not
less than SO, 0OO,O 600 must be made. The
road is declared utterly ihsolvent.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
SALE OF vALUABLEF FARM.

Pursuant to the authority vested in pe by
two deeds of trust executed to me by Jno.
McCorkle and wife, one dated the Both day of
March. 1892, and of record in the Clerks ONCE
of the County Court, d. u. llG, page 43i, and the
other dated The 18th day of August, 1882, and
of record in said office. in D. b. III, p. Az, and
by direction of the beneficiary l will sell ct
public auction in front OF the court house in
Staunton, on
Monday. the 27th day of July, 1896,
that very valuable and desirable farm in Au-
gusta county, near M.ddlebrook, belonging to
jro. S. McCorkle. The farm contains BIS
acres. = he land is OF good quality; is in a fine
state of cultivation; has on it good imHrOye-
ments: lies in a good nei5ib >rhOod, and Is al
together one of the most desirable places OF
the market in this county The tenants share
of the crop now on che farm Is reserved.
TERMS: One fourth OF tho EuFchase-Dioney
in cash, and the residue credit OF one, two,
and three years from date of sale, the pur-
chaser executing bonds for said deferred in
stalments, bearing interest, and walving the
homestead with approved personal security,
the title to be retained as ultimate security.
WM. PATRICK,
June Pitts Trustee.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
COMMISSIONERS SALE
-OF-
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
IN AUGUSTA COUNTY

By virtue of decree of the Circuit Court for
Augusta county, entered on the 9th day OF
May, 1896, in the chancery cause of y. F. Shuey
ct ais. Us. Mary j. Miller ct ais, pending there
for sale, in front of the court house in the city
of StauntOn, Virginia. on
Monday, July the 27th, 1896, (rourt Day.,
the following tracts of land of which William
Miller died seized and possessed III Augusta
county, to-wit:-
LIST. rne samuel Y. KERR farm, situated
about ten miles s. w. from Staunton, near Mid
dlebrook and containing 436 and acres
End, The William Miller home tract, lying Oh
the head waters of Middle River, about sixteen
miles S. W. from Staunton and containing 800
and acres.
3rd. This Clemer Tract adjoining the Kerr
Tract and containing 132 acres.
4th. The AZ acre tract of mountain land adj
joining the Home tract.
18th. One half undivided interest in the
George and william Miller tract OF mountain
land. containing il1H acres, adjoining Home
tract.
The Clerner tract will be sold as a whole.
The Kerr and Home tracts VIII be surveyed
and divided into two farms each, and first Of
fered for sale separately as 50 divided, then
each farm offered as whole, and in which
ever way each OF said farms bring the most
money it will be sold
Each of the said tracts OF mOun5a III land viii
be sold separately. Complete plats and sur
veys of the aboye tracts of land will he exhi-
bited on day of sale.
TERMS OF SALE:-Sufficient cash on day of
sale to pay the costs OF suit and sale, and as to
the residue in three equal annual payments,
the purchaser or purchasers to execute bonds
for said deferred payments, bearing interest
from date at the rate CT six per cent per an
Homestead and the title to the property to be
retained as~altimate security.
w. II. LANDES,
G. NJ. COCHRAN,
mi ccin
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

IT is physically impossible for 65, O0O,-
600 of people to eat what we raise in
the United States, if it were given
them. The tariff robbers tell us the
reason farm products are SO low is
because the people have not the
money to buy them. In the next
breath they tell us it is overproduc
ton that makes the farmers poor. If.
however, our ports were opened so
that the food we have, could go to
feed the 100000, 900 people it is capable
of feeding, we would. hear nothing
more of overproduction, nor lack of
money with which to buy our prod
ucts.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
A Virginia Preachers Sins.
Rev. wv. w. Anderson Confesses to EN- bes Fl,
ment-Also an Opium Eater.

Rev. w. w. Anderson Confesses to EN- beszle-
ment-AIso an Opium Eater.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June % --On
the charge of embezzling church funds
held in trust, Rev. w. W. Anderson,
pastor of United Brethren churches at
both Daisy and Soddy, this county.
was arrested to-day, and waving ex
animation, was placed in Jail here. A
large quantity of gum opium, to which
drug he is addicted, and razor. were
found about his person. The presump
ton is that he intended to end his life
in jail. Anderson had personally re-
ceived considerable money contribu-
tions from churches outside the State
for the purpose of erecting church
buildings. He confesses to appropri-
ating 5000 of this fund.
His wife left him recently. He was
SO addicted to opium and liquor that
she could not live with him. Very few
had any knowledge of the double life
he lived. He was until recently a
Methodist preacher, and came to this
State from Virginia highly endorsed
by the Methodist bishop resident at
Baltimore. The United Brethren
church have revoked his clerical GER
biuCdUo Guu dShtu Ills T0StS udIlOu.
| Il want the double standard" said
Mckinley in 1890 According to the
most reliable advices from st. Louis,
his desires have not undergone any
material change in the past six years,
! except that he wants to be president
more than he wants any standard. II
the predominating wish is gratitied. his
! disappointment in regard to the other
will not seriously impair his health OF
interfere with his happiness. IT he
takes the presidency at all. he will have
to take it with the single standard
IndeG-Appeal.
The reported speeches of Major Nc
KinIey indicate that he is doug hi
best to get away from the fiRancia
plank in the st. Louis platform. But
he will find it difficult matter to make
the people believe that the tariff is the
leading issue. Public opinion has de
creed otherwise. Major McKinls y viii
have to plant himself squarely upon
the leading issue of the canvass or take
the risk of discrediting both himself
and the platform in the eyes of the
American peopIe. -IudeE ADDeQl.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

George Berovitch, Prince of Samos,
a Christirn, has been appointed gov
ernor of Crete to succeed Abdullah
Pasha, the Mussulman governor.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

An unsuccessful attempt was made
81 Teheran Saturday to assassinate
the Shah of Persia. The wonld-be as
sassin was arrested.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

COMMISSIONER OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, June 18th. 1896.
Rob't p. Owen
VS..
Eliza beth Swisher ct ais.
ALI persons interested in the above chancery
canse win TAKE NOTICE, that in pursuance OF
a. decree OF the Circuit Court of Augusta cour-
ty, entered in said cause on December 5th
1894, shall at my Office in Staunton, Virginia..
on
SATURDAY, THE 18Th DAY OF JULY, 1886,
proceed to take state and settle the following
accounts
LIST. OF the real estate owned by Elizabeth
Swisher and the state of the title thereto.
End. OF the liens binding the same in the or
der of priority.
Bird. OF any other mat GERS deemed pertinent
etc.
r. Z. Il. NELSON.
Commissioner in Chancery.
Patrick & Gordon, p. q.
jvne 11-4tS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

EVERYBODY and everything seems
to be going headlong for free silver.
Nearly every Western State has de-
cIared for it. and for the unit rule
also. This means something.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

Clerks once of the Circuit Court of Augusta
County, to-wit:
I, jos. D. Woodward, Clerk of the Court
aforesaid. do certify that VIM. Fl. Landes has
'eXecuted the bond required by decree of sale
in the chancery cause of Shuey ct ais. VS.. Mil
Ter ct ais now pending in said Court.
Given under my hand this 18th day of June.
1886.
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
june "a ids
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and prescrib
ed local RENE lies, and by constantly
failing to cdfe with local treatment,
pronounced,jt incurable. Science has
proven catarrh to be /, constitutional
disease and therefore requires consti
tntional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cnre. manufactured by F. j. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only consti-
tutional cure on the market. 1t is tax
en- internally in doses from 10 drops to
a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the svs-
TEN. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and ties timonia!s Address.
u. CHENEY & Co.,
ToJoI1
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
w-Sold by Druggists. 75c.

Mr.. Hobart was not surprised at his
nomination for Vice President. He
saws his nomination was arranged for
by Mark Hanna months ago.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

.rT>o TEACH ERS.-Buildings of a most suit
L able nature for the establishment of
school located at HunterSvite, PocahOntaS
counts. W Va are for rent or sale. The peo-
pie are prosperous and it is q splendid oppor-
tunity for anv enterprising teacher. For fur
ther particulars, address this Office.
Jan p tt
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, June Eth 1896.
Augusta National Bank Of Stanton
Sarah C. Taylor ct ais.
All parties interested in the above styled
cause now pending in the Circuit Court for the,
County of Augusta TAKE NOTICE that pursuant
to decree of said court entered in said cause
November Il, 1885, shall at my Office in Staun-
ton, Virginia, on
July 18th, 1896,
proceed to take, state and settle the following
LIST. OF the liens binding the personal prop
erty levied on by the attachment in this cause
stated in the order of their priority
End. OF the real estate owned by the defend
ants or either of them.
3rd. Of the liens binding said real estate in.
the order of their priority.
4th. OF the facts as to the conveyance of the
house and lot in staunton owned by Sarah G.
z. Jessup, and whether the same is liable to
the debts of the said Sarah C. Taylor.
HENRY ". HOLT,
Commissioner in Chancery.
Patrick s. Gordon, p. q.
Blease Perry. p d. june 17-4ts
COMMISSIONER OFFICE,
~ Staunton, Va, June 18th, 1885,
Lucinda shull
Mary E. Miller ct ais
All parties interested in the above STYLED
cause now pending in the Circuit Court for
tllS COunty OIL AuSuSUd, TAKE NOTICE. bflaG pur-
| suant to a decree of said court enter ed in said
cause May Il, 1885, shall at my Office in Staun-
ton, Virginia, on
JULY 18th, 1885,
proceed to take, state and settle tie following
accounts
1st. OF the real and personal estate of which
Marshall Shull died seized.
End. OF the improvements put by the widow
Lucinda Shull on the real estate and the debts.
of the decedent paid by her and the amount Of
the taxes she has paid on the land.
3rd. What sum she has expended in the sap
port and maintenance OF the children.
4th. What interest she has in che real estate
of the decedent either as doweress or by rea-
son of having contributed of her own means
to purchase the same.
5th. Any other matters deemed pertinent,
etc.
HENRY w. HOLT,
Commissioner in Chancery.
Patrick s. Gordon, p. q.
june l1-4tS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

THERE may be some walking out of
delegates at the Chicago convention.
The saloons will not be located in the
building.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

Heavy shipments of cattle to Europe
were made from Lambert's Point last
week.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

SILVER PRoDUcTIoN.-A correspon-
dent is informed that the production
of silver in 1898 in the various coun-
tries of the world-omitting countries
that produced less than would coin
81 600 O0O = was as follows: United
States. SIT, 575. 700; Australasia, SS6, 507, )
600; Mexico. s57, 1857, 600, Germany, S.
Italv Al zoe. 900; Spain, 1898, 400
France. So, S52, 600; Columbia, 50, lS2,
400: Bolivia. SIS. 4SS. 900; Chile, $2,sS1,-
600: Peru. So, AGE, TOO The countries
now on q silver basis are China, Japan,
Mexico and several South American
rennblies. The quantity of silver ex-
norted from the United States in 1893
was $40, 737, 319; in 1895, $47,S27,3l
baltimore San.
SILVER CoINAGE-A correspondent
is informed that the amount OF silver
dollars and silver bullion in the United
States treasury on July 1, 1895, was
S495 791 COG; the amount of silver dol
lars in circulation, SOL 1886, DAB. There
was besides. in circulation S60.350, VA
worth of silver half dollars. quarters,
dimes. Sc. OF the silver dollars IN the
treasury 1919, 623, 941 were represented
by silver certificates which were ID CIR
culat Oh. There were 9,271, 563 other
silver dollars represented by certificates
which were III the treasury VI the
Sherman treasury notes there were
SAG Oe3. 400. of which $115. 943, 1863 were
in circulation and the rest in the treas
urv. Silver dollars are legal tender to
an unlimited amount. Our entire ell
yer currency, including dollars, certih-
Gates aud Sherman notes, aggregates
over $3.50, coo. 600 From the opening
of the mint till 1878 but 8.076, o3S silver
dollars were coined. or one seventeen
of the amount coined since then
Baltimore San.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
R 0 A N @ kE s siasa: &C.

Courses for Degrees, with Electives; high
standard. Also, Commercial and Preparatory
Courses. Library 10000 volumes Working
laboratory. Good morals and discipline. Six
churches; no bar-rooms. Healthful noun
tain climate. Very moderate expenses: may
be reduced to $50 for nine months fees. board,
&C. 4fth year begins September 10Th. Cata-
logue, with views. free. Address,
JULIUS ID. DREHER, President.
1nlV Its
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
Lamentation of The King.

Three months ago the republicans
Boosted they could elect any body.
Since their Wall Street platform has
been forced in the country a dull, cold.
sickening feeling has crepJ over their
Napoleon, and his confidence is wan
ing. The bankers and money bags
are his, but where, oh where are the
armies which are to win his victory 7
Once,
ga King safe on the rocky brow.
(which looks O. er sea born Salamis,
"And ships by thousands lay below,
"And men in nations all were his.
He counted them at break of day.
"And when the sun set where were they
The recently appointed King. the
King who wears the golden crown, and
who sits now and beholds his great
Captains with their legions march by,
and counts his hosts, will like that an
Gent monarch see them vanish at sun
set, before mightier host, and in his
sorrow will doubtless exclaim:
"Place me on Sumias marb lie steep,
Where nothing save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs, sweep,
There swan like, let me sing and die.
'Ths land of slaves would not be mine
"Dash down yon cup of Sa1nian wine
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
A Correction.

In our issue of the nth of June, the
following squib appeared
ssSince Col. Lamb and Gen. Walker
can sleep and eat with negroes the
color line must be like many other
lines--imaginary."
This statement has called forth from
the Assistant Secretary of the Repuh-
lican State Execution Committee, tie
following
"NoRFoLK, Va, June 26t' SIS.
To the editor of ''the SPECTATOR ylslnton,
Va.
DEAR SIR:
Referring to the paragraph in your issue
of the 18th instant, charging Col. Lamb and
Gen. Walker with eating and sleeping with
negroes" on their trip out to st. Louis Con
vention, am requested to write you to say
that both Col. Lamb and Gen. Walker went
out on different days, on different trains, and
neither had colored delegates travelling with
him.
or course the squib was intended, suppose.
as a Joke, but it is well to correct it in the in
terest of the real truth.
Truly yours.
R. F. WALKER,
Asst Sec'y."
The ''squib" was based on newspa
per report to the effect that the Vir-
ginia delegation had chartered car
and would go in a body to st. Louis
and occupy the car there. Based on
atreport the following also appear
ed ir the SPECTATOR of the 18th of
June:-
here would have been no trouble
about negroes being accommodated in
st. Louis if other delegations had done
as Col. Lamb and Gen. Walker and
the remainder Of the Virginia delega-
tion did. These gentlemen chartered
car and took their negro associates
in to sleep ana eat with them. There
is nothing like old Virginia hospital
ity."
Whilst mention was made of the
names of Col. Lamb and Gen. Walker
the remark was intended to apply to
the whole Virginia delegation, sex
cusin' Col. Brady and few others
who, when they eat or sleep in the
same car with negroes, are never hurt
by the accusation.
We print the correction with pleas
ure, and assure the gentlemen named
that their standing in this community
would not have been lowered, if the
statement had been true.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

A white man by the name of Coils
tine who lives in the Benz about two
miles from Covington was lodged in
jail Wednesday evening for seriously
cutting his step son, a young man by
the name of Rogers with a knife.
1t seems that the way the affair oc
CURED was that Colstine was whip
ping his wife. Rogers's mother, when
the young man interfered, receiving
two serious and dangerous wounds,
one on the left side of the face extend
ing from the ear to the mouth and the
other bad wound on the breast about
six inches in length.
Colstine was arrested and put in Jail
at this place once before for whipping
his wife, but she did not prosecute him
and he was turned out.-Alleghany
Sentinel.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

GREAT WINGLESS BIRDS The fossil
remains of more than fifteen species of
great wingless birds, resembling those
of Madagascar and New Zealand, have
been collected by Carlos and F'loren-
tine Ameghino from the most ancient
tertiary strata of Southern Patagonia.
The best known of these species is the
phororhacos inflatus, comparable to
the ostrich in size, but more robust,
and with vulture like bill resembling
that of the dodo, Mauritius bird that
became extinct near the close of the
seventeenth century. Anotherspecles
of the same genus, the L. Longisslmus,
was larger. It's skull was twenty six
inches long, being much greater than
that of the horse, camel or glraffe OF
the present day, and its stature was
scarcely less than that of the Aepyor-
mis- iugens of Madagascar But the
giant of all, and the most gigantic BIRD
vet known, was the BrOntorn!s Bur
meisteri. This bird was OF massive
build, and must have been more than
Is feet tall. the total length OF the leg
being GO inches, or about SO longer
than that of the Aepyornis ingens,
while the femur was three inches IN
diameter and the head of the same
bone was not less than seven inches.
It's bill was strong and hooked, ana IL
is believed that. unlike the Aepyornls
and Dinornis, it fed upon mollusks and
reptiles as well as vegetable products.
and was really a ferocious beast OF
piey.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
WEDDING CARDS

beautifully printed at the SPECTATOR
office. An elegant new line of type
for this especial purpose.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

The Alumni Association of the Vir-
GINA Military Institute have arranged
to erect on the parade grounds mon
ument to cost 1000 to the memory of
the ca lets who fell in the battle of
Newmarket,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01

COMMISSION Frs OFFICE.
~ StaQntOn, Va, June 18th, 1886.
JAS T. EuBank
VS..
a. Nj. sitlingson ct ais.
All persons Interested in the above oh sgrcery
cause Will TALE NOTICE. that in pursuance of q
decrae OF the Circuit Court OF Augusta county
entered in said cause on May l3tl 1872 I shall
as my Office in Staunton, Virginia, Csn
FRIDAY, THE Eth DAY OF JULY. 1886,
proceed to take, state and settle the following
accounts
1st. OF the real estate owned by the defend
ants subject to the lien of the plaintiffs judg-
ment and the condition of the title thereto.
End. The liens binding the same in the or
der OF their priority.
3rd. any other matters deemed pert,nent
etc.
Il. T. k. NELSON
commissioner III Chancery.
Turk & Holt. p. q.
june 11-4ts
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
~ Staunton, Va June l6tss 1886:
Patterson S Executors
b. j, Craig ct ais.
All parties interested in the ABOVE styled
cause now pending in the Circuit Court for the
County of Augusta, TAKE NOTICE that pyrsl1-
ant to a decree of said court entered in said
cause June lst, 1898, shall at my office, on
July 10th, 1896,
proceed TO make further settlement of the
transactions of j. NJ. QuarleS and S. n. Patter-
son as Executors of VIM. Patterson, deceased,
tinent, etc.
HENRY W. HOLT,
Commissioner i'll Chancery
june l1-+ts
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01
$tauutotl Spectator.
WEDNESDAY. JULY l.

Before announcer issue OF our paper,
he Democratic National Convention
II Chicago will have assembled. AS
% who will be it's nominees an accu.
rate prediction can hardly be made,
but our impression is that the ticket
will be Boies and Daniel. AS in the
case of the st. Louis Convention pub
lie interest centers more in the plat
form than in the candidates. 1t IS
easy we think to write the platform.
The currency plank will be the chief
one and it will be for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at a ratio OF
16 to 1. 1t is useless to attempt to
avert the inevitable, the people are
determined that there shall be free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
the banks and money power generally
had as well understand this now as
later. No human power can resist the
tidal wave that has set in, anymore
than those who Knocked Noah could
stop the deluge by which they were
afterward encompassed.
We are free to admit that we do not
see how the ills we suffer are to be en-
tirely healed by this silver salve, but
there are millions of people whose
wisdom so excels, and whose oppor-
tunity to study financial questions
has been SO beyond ours we are will
ing to follow their lead, for remedy
there must be. We have arrived at
that point where it is help Cassius OF
we sink. When we behold poverty on
one side and wealth on the other,
when we hear the wealthy demanding
nothing but gold, and crying for high
er taxes, when we see the money OF
the nation heaped and piled in one
little corner of the country. and the
people of the great fertile regions OF
the West and South where wealth
ought to be, in rags and poverty, we
know there is something wrong, and
no theory of protection nor intricate
technical nor artful reasoning about
single gold standards, will convince us
that Wall Street is all right, and the
people all wrong, any more than we
could be convinced that two and two
make five. The Shylocks and the
people never prosper at one and the
same time, any more than the cormor
ant and the fish, or the wolf and the
lamb, and when one set OF people
possess all of certain commodity ex
perience dictates that they will make
that commodity as valuable as posi-
BILE. If a farmer had grown the onl.
wheat in the country, he would holt
it for the highest price, and if he coult
control the law making power SO as t.
help him to make it still higher h
would control it and raise the market
He therefore knows that as a few PEG
pie own all the gold, they are going t.
make it as valuable as they know how
even if they have to control the gov
eminent in doing it. This is human
nature. Knowing these facts the pee
pie believe that if the money power o
this country wins in the approaching
fight "wo be it unto you, Oh Israel"