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4 STRONG ACCESSION To FREE
SILVER.

| President Eben J. Andrews of Brown
University, who, two years ago, was quite
| arm in the conviction that the United
I States could net reopen its minis to free
silver without European cooperation, is
iioW convinced tisat it can be done. In a
letter written lass week, he replies to five
| questions asAeo i'm by Rev, Henry w.
Pinznam, pastor of the First Baptist
church al Denver, Col. His reply holds
! ,hat the United states should adopt free
| coinage, The; viii be able to maintain the
| parity, That gold will not be exported nor
hoarded; there ould be no influx of silver
| from Europe fol Europe hasn't it. AS to
our credit he says:
| AFTER pos Die first shock our credit
| would improve ter free coinage. 1t is our
| present course hich must speedily lower
our credit. How long could man or a firm
continue to have credit who borrowed each
year to pay la ge portion OF his running ex-
penseS? Yet Oh gold basis this course is
| inevitable and ttat is at this moment the
| reason why foreign lenders are shy OF our
securities. Ehere must be a change if we
would avoid bankruptcy. With free coinage
every industry would look up, and even if
| we lost our gold our prosperity would invite
IN English capital, just as Japans prosperity
nov causes it 20 rush there. Never since
slaYefysdays las the press in the parts of the
counEr} lamiiar to me displayed such disre-
gard iol tfotH I'D such stubborn obtuseness
to the al55t 2uYious considerations, as it does
! at present on the silver question. This means
ti'a' the Money lower seated in London, but
VIA representatives in New York, Philadel-
Pnla End CAlca D. is determined to continue
( the appreciation OF gold, and determined
taere ore that ne facts shall not be known.
The boHFessaHj the press are almost entire
~ und5i It's iul fence. L think the money
question a. I'D, present time the greatest
question " eg ization.
-ouys Nth kindest regards,
EBEN J. ANDREWS.
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HERE'S FUN.

Our friend, the Staunton Nevs, Which Us
not without keen sense OF humor, set tie
town in a broad grin Wednesday, by pub
fishing a list OF twenty-one gentlemen to
choose somebody to go somewhere, to at
tend something called ''gold Democratic
convention" And then with wink Of
the eye it says editorially that the ''call for
a county convention will be issued at
once''
Brethren, let us be thankful that the MEM
DRY of the Three Tailors of Tooley Street
has been preserved unto this day, and that
constantly recurring limitations of them
keep their illustrious example fresh in our
minds and hearts.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-21
a TYPICAL MONEY POWER
MEETING.

In New York Tuesday night, there was
a typical meeting of gold democrats. -
1t was presided over by Perry Belmont,
banker, whose firm in connection with
Morgan made 81, 1886, 644 out of the Nation
al loan of 1S95-alone. On the platform
were bankers and railroad presidents, in
Guiding ingalls, of the e. & o., and the
speaker was hired one-Bourke Cochran.
He said the free silver question was "a
conspiracy between Populist agitators of
the West and unreconciled slave holders of
the South" Mr.. Cochran is mistaken, the
mass of the men who are in this fight at the
South never saw slave and we're not cYeIl
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For the information of the VINEICATOR, we
will state that the Board of Directors of the
Daily News is composed of the following
well known Democrats Capt. e. &. Gooch.
president; Capt. Thos. d. Ransom. vice presi-
dent; q. R. Caldwell. general manager; NJ.
Erskine Miller, Capt. J. n. Mcfarland, H.
A. Walker and w. P. Tams. Having this
information, we trust the INDICATOR will be
able to sleep of nights. OF course the infor-
nation constitutes an unansWerable argu-
ment-in favor of the free coinage Of silver at
the ratio of sixteen to one.-StGunt0n Neaos.
We thank our neighbor and congratulate
it on having been, after long reflection,
able to recall the names of the gentlemen
in question. The VIND1cAToR cannot
say that the information constitutes an
unanswerable argument in favor Of free
coinage. But when we recall the fact that
six out of the seven are directors OF officers
OF National Banks, it constitutes an UNI
answerable argument in favor of another
economic theory many centuries old, to the
effect that:
"The OK knoweth its owner, and the ass hi
masters crib" a..
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A SHORT MEMORY.

TheStaunton News (Bolter) of yesterday
has this about the now exploded charge
that Mr.. Bryan had received money from
silver mine owners to advocate free silver:
The News has never handled this charge,
first, because iJ saw no reason to believe that
there was anything in it and it is not accus-
toned to make either serious charges Or dam
aging insinuations unless they are supported
by what appears to be good proof thereof.
On the contrary. the Ne,cs published it.
loaded, on its editorial page, on Aug 18th,
with seven head lines, and credited to the
Washington correspondent Of the n. Y
Herald. What sort of a paper is the Ne vs
anyhow?
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Free silver Highland seems to be as wide
awake as free silver Augusta. The High
land Recorder speaking of the sudden
change of the Staunton Ne,os says: zone
thing certain, it has been casting around
for some time tor an anchorage, and has at
last settled in gold port, and we hope it
will remain there until after the Sd Of
November next, at which time it will be
convinced that all the people can't be fool
Cd all the time, the Nelcs to the contrary
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THE UEKICAN DOLLAR TR1CK.

fHG NENICAN DOLLAR TRICK,
Tie HHnc al fakirs have launched
another trick through the press-the Mex
lean dollar that in this country wont pass
for over fifty cents, while the American
dollar containing less silver, passes for one
hundred cents. They say that it is because
there is behind the American silver dollar
gold dollar. The reason that the Ameri
can dollar is worth 100-cents in the United
States is not because there is a gold dollar
behind it to redeem it, for there is no such
thing. 1t is because it is receivable by the
United States for all taxes and dues. In
Mexico the Mexican dollar is worth 100
cents for precisely the same reason. 1t
will buy as much in Mexico as a United
States dollar will in the United States. A
man going to Europe would take neither of
the two with him, but one as soon as the
other.
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e.isAsa every srIoay$ Price sl.oo per year
lS'r ak mcnths, Al, Is cents fer months
~ 10y advertisements l2IS cents per line
tton and VI cen is each Insertion there
1900. ntracts for longer terms MADE III IL
q: eafcalasion in Augusta, RocknFidse, Roeki
!; xas sAany, Highland and Bath Counties.
81. . general and local news; stories and rlis
s reliable con olerctsl reporJs.
b. Q. gTssLEY,
y. S. AoEToN,
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Free Silver Speaking.

Next Monday, (Court-day) Hon. II. D.
Flood. Demo cratic nominee for congress,
and either Hon. Claude Swanson OF Pitt
sylvania, or Hon. w, B. McIlwaine of
Petersburg. will address the people OF Au-
gusta county.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-21

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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The object of this suit is to have partition of
the several tracts of land containing about 800
| acres which were conveyed by Janetta McComb
to Thomas w. Shelton by deed dated Dec. 5th
1865 in trust for the use of Frances Jane McComb
afterwards Frances Jane Carter) for her life,
and after her death for the of the children of
| said Frances Jane Carter. And IL appearing
fIom affidavit filed that said Herbert Nee. Car
ter is not resident of the state of Virginia, it
is ordered that he appear here within fifteen
days after due publica ton hereof and do what is
necessary to protect his interest in this suit.
aug LIT los B. WOODW ARD. Clerk.
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Saturday, the 10Th day of Sept. 1896,
at the court house in the city of Staunton, at II
O'Clock NJ, proceed to sell the real estate in said
deed convey ed at public auction, to the highest
bidder, for CASH. The said real estate is known
as Lot No. q on the North side OF Peabody ST.,
in the city of stanton fronting ~ feet on said
street and running back about I22 feet, together
with the house thereon situated and all appur-
tenances thereto belonging.
6uS-2iIt ALEX. IL. FULLY, trustee.
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Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of Augusta
county. to-wiJ;
l, Jos &. Woodward Clerk of the court afore-
said do certify that A. c. Gordon has executed
the bond requil ed by decree of sale in the chan
Gerry cause of S. A. Grocer VS.. the Grottoes of the
Shenandoah &C., now pending in said court.
Given under my hand this 18th day of August,
1896 JOS. b. WOODWARD,
aug 2l-tde Clerk.
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We shall not offend ether nations when we
declare the right of the American people to
govern themselves and, without let OF him
drence from without, decide upon every ques-
ton presented for their consideration. In
taking this position we simply maintain the
dignity of seventy million citizens who are
second to none IN their capacity for selfgov-
eminent.
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REEVES GAIT E. co.

TRUsTEEs SALE OF VALUABLE REAL REAL
i ESTATE.-Pursuant to authority vested
in me by trust deed executed by Charles E.
Fretweil of da tie June 2Uth, 1884, and OF record i'll
Augusta county clerks office, in Deed Book No,
II, page 2us, default having been made in the
payment of the bond secured by said trust deed,
and having been req uested in writing by the
owner OF said bond to execute said trust, will,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-21
Rudolph Myers, e. ais. Defts.
In Chaucery,

The object of this suit is to settle the estate of
j. G. Ny ers, decd, and for that purpose to sell
tract of land in Augusta county containing
flled that - Byers and -.Byers, widow and
infant child of John H. Byers, decd, Catharine
Keller, j. E H. Byers, and sadie P. Byers, are
non residents of the State of Virginia, it is Or
dered that they severally appear here within
fifteen days after due publication hereof and do
what is necessary to protect their interests in
suit. A copy teSte,
aug 2l-4t JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
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slnAy MORNING. AUG. II. 1885.
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selves alone. Our labor our selI-uenlal anu
our anxious care, all these are for those who
are to come after us as much as for ourselves,
but we cannot protect our children
beyond the period of our lives
Let those who are now reaplne
advantage from vicious financial system
remember that in the years to come their own
children and their children's children may,
through the operation of this same system,
be made to pay tribute to the descendants OF
those who are wronged today.
BULLION VALUE OF SILVER.
Il There is an actual necessity for bimet-
.allism as we'll as theoretical defence OF it.
During the last twenty-three years legislation
has been creating an additional demand 1or
gold, and this law-created demand has re-
suited in increasing the purchasing power OF
each ounce of gold. The restoration OF bimet-
allism in the United States will take away
from gold Just SO much of its purchasing
power as was added to it by the dem9netiza-
ton of silver by the United States. The sill
yer dollar is now held up to the gold dollar
by legal-tsnder laws, and not by rede mptlon
lin gold, because the standard silver dollars
zare not now redeemable in gold either IN law
or by administrative policy.
We contend that free and unlimited coinage
by the United States alone will raise the bull
lion value of silver to its coinage value and
thus make silver bullion worth $l.29 per
ounce in gold throughout the world. This
proposition is in keeping with natural laws.
Not In defiance of them. The best known law
of commerce is the law Of supply and demand.
We recognize this law and build our argu-
nrent upon it, Weapply this laws money
WI zen we say that a reduction in the volume of
me- 'ney will raise the purchasing power of the
do liar. We also apply the law of supply and
de- n and to silver when we say that new de-
ma nd for silver created by law will raise the
price of silver bullion.
GOLD GOING ABROAD.
Our apporents cannot ignore the fact that
gold is now going abroad in spite of all leg
isiation intended to prevent it. andno silver
is being coined to take its place. Not only is
gold going abroad now, but it must continue
to go abroad as long as the present financial
policy is adhered to, unless we continue to
borrow from across the ocean, and even then
we simply postpone the evil, because the
amount borrowed, together with interest
upon it, muse be repaid in approaching dol
lars.
tGvAmerican people now owe a large sum
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~ ALE OF VALUA ESTATE.
>
Pursuant to a decree of the circuit court of
Augusta Co.. Va, in the cause of S. A. Grocer VS..
The Grottoe of the Shenandoah & ais, we will
sell q public auction on the premises, in front
of the Shendun Hotel site, Shendun, Va, on
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25
DANA BROTHERS
New York Cash Store.
Money In an Old Melodeon.

Mrs. Charlotte Edison of North.
field, who died last week, developed
many eccentricities in the latter part
of her life. She was believed to
have considerable property, but it
was not known how or where it was
invested. While relatives were
making funeral arrangements their
attention was attracted to an old me-
lodeon which it was decided could
be made useful in furnishing music
at the funeral. The lid was found
locked and was finally forced open
when they were profoundly SUR
prised to find that the old instrument
had been used as safe. When the
lid was raised it revealed a package
of government bonds amounting to
nearly $4,000. Of this sum $4,000
were coupon bonds and the balance
registered bonds. Several hundred
dollars in gold, silver and paper
money were also found hidden about
the house.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Seth Pooler, the oldest native resi-
dent of Rutland, died Sunday, aged
9, years and 5 months.
On Wednesday, July IS, there
was celebrated at Newport the goth
anniversary of the birth Of twin Sis
tiers, Mrs. Martha Brozee and Mrs.
Mary West. The former is a resi-
dent of Newport and the latter came
from Sutton township, Canada, for
the celebration. Both sisters are in
fairly good health and active. Tie
sisters maiden name was Powers,
and the Powers family is noted for
the longevity of its members. Their
father lived to be g. and their mother
9S.
Monday morning tenant in the
Richardson building at Burlington,
smelled escaping gas in IL. Nit
chell's fiat, on the fourth floor, and
located it near the meter. To avoid
the bad odor he lighted the escaping
gas and started for Il gasfitter. Dur
ing his absence the lead pipe melted
and the flames burned through the
ceiling into the attic. Mltchells loss
by water will not exceed $I2oo, anl
$500 will repair the damage to the
building.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25
East Barnard.

The Y. P. c. U. of Barnard held
very successful meeting here last
Sabbath with Rev. E. Barney as
leader. The topic was very ably dis
cussed by the young people. There
was a good attendance, as over 100
people were present.
Geo. Field and wife of Concord
have been visiting friends and rela-
tives about here.
Miss Nellie Miller is attending the
summer school for teachers IN
Springfield.
Mrs. Hannah Parkhurst Cannon
of Worcester, Mass, is visiting here.
Miss Kate Leavitt is sick with
rheumatic fever. She has the sym.
pathy Of her many friends.
Mrs. Philena Davis of Lebanon
was the guest of Mrs. Hattie G.
Davis last week.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25
A Quick Witted Woman.

A young woman at swell dinner
party in st. Louis tho other day
failed to see the sugar tongs and
helped herself to lump with her
rosy fingers, whereupon the hostess,
a pompous woman, after glaring. at
the offender, called STORMY to the
butler, flames, remove the sugar
bowl and have it refilled," which
was done, amid the bushes of the
rebuked damsel AS the party was
leaving the room crash was heard,
and the erring guest was seen smil-
ing down at the ruins of her beauti-
full cup and saucer which she had
thrown against tho wall. Having de-
filed them by touching them, she
explained, she thought it best to see
that they were destroyed.-spring-
field Republican.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25

The Argus, the Woodstock Age
and the Burlington Independent have
decided to stand by the Demo-popu-
listic ticket made up at Chicago. 1t
is quite a pill for them, but all three
have taken it. They will shout as
best they can for the unpopular tick.
ct, which will be extensively bolted
here in Vermont by many who have
heretofore marched in the Demo.
cratic ranks.-Morrisvillc News and
Citizen.
The above statement is incorrec
in one particular. The Age has no
decided to strnd by the Chicago
ticket, and will not, and has not in
timated that 1t would support it. 1t
believes that the remedy for existing
troubles does not lie in the free COIN
age of silver, and believes just as
strongly that McKinleyism-after
one disastrous experience with it's
not the remedy wanted. Prosperity
never followed "boom." Oppo-
sition to the Chicago candidates does
not commit the voter to an endorse
ment of protection, but rather that
as matter of principle it puts the
defeat of the free silverites as neces-
sary above everything else in this
campaign. And speaking about
pills, what does the Morrisville
paper think of itself and of other
perennial pill-swallowing republican
papers of the state which place the
names of Josiah Grout & Co. at the
head of their editorial columns p
gulping nominations year after year
which on pretty good evidence are
obtained by questionable means, to
put it not too roughly and forcibly.
They commend independence only
when it brings vote their way-if
they possess any of this saving
quality themselves it is time, for the
sake of the state, that it be put in
evidence.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-07-25
The "Reformer" Bolts.
(Reply to Inquiry of Boston Sunday
Journal of New England Demo

(Reply to Inquiry of Boston Sunday
Journal Of New England Demo-
cratic Editors.)
We bolt and await nomination of
another Democratic ticket that
Democrats can consistently support.
As matter of party discipline a
convention that accomplishes its pur-
poses by such high-handed theft as
in the Michigan case, that repudiates
a Democratic Administration, that
goes out of the party for candidate,
and dominates man who proclaims
in advance that he will not abide the
result unless his side wins has no
claim to party fealty.
AS matter of principle, free
coinage is but another and more vic
ious form OF "protectionism." sure
to begin in commercial disaster
where its twin idea, high tariff, is
sure to end. True Democrats can
support neither. AS an earnest be-
lever in genuine bimetalism, resting
on the only safe basis of internation-
al action, just to debtor and creditor
alike, and seeking the good of man
kind instead of subsidy TO favored
interests, deplore the action at Chi
cago as likely to set back the cause
tor years. {. II. Davenport.
The Age and the Thrice-a-week
World ST. Ok.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.,
E.tute ~ T uciui W Wilson,

The undersigned, having bceu appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Hartford, Commissioners to receive, OK.
anime and adjust all claims and demands OF
all pers MS against the estate of j.. W. vii
~, In . of Woodstock. IL sii District, Il :
leased. and oil claims exhibited in offset there
to. hereby give notice TINT we will meet for The
purposes aforesaid ut Mrs. l.. W. VIII
sons, in Woodstock, on the 10Th day
of July and the nth day of November next.
from O'Clock r. NJ. u It'll O'Clock p. W..
on each of said days, and that six months
from the 18th day of May, A. d. 1895. is the
time limited by said Court for sad credit
Ors to present their claims to us for exam
nation AMI allowance.
Dated at Woodstock, this 2nd day Of July,
\. ID. 1896.
BIN 3; r IN MSS Commissioners
MRS. l.. w.WII.SON, Ahm'r.
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THO's SMITH.
LoNDoN's FLOWER SUPPLY.

The Wealth Of Plants That Passes Through
Coveut Garden Market.
"How many flowers this morn
ing?"
Twenty TONS"
This seems q large order for cut
flowers, but it represents the guam
tity sent off by one steamer during
the season from the isles of Scilly.
At the busiest time this will be re-
peated three times week for weeks
in succession, and occasionally 30
tons have been sent at one time.
The question who was the first ex-
porter from Softly to Covent Garden
is difficult to answer satisfactorily,
but the trade has assumed proper
tons which it's originator could not
have dreamed of. When he looked
around his garden and picked few
handfuls of flowers with the inten-
ton of sending them to market as
an experiment, he little thought
that within 2Oyears the flower trade
would be tho most prosperous trade
which had ever been known in Sicily.
Now every farmer is grower Of
fowers-which as rule means mar
cissi and daffodils-on largo scale,
and almost every individual house.
holder, if he can get a garden, is
one. / say if lie can get a garden,
for in Sicily every available piece of
ground is used as garden, and if
from any cause one is given up a
number Of would BIO tenants apply
to the lord proprietor for it, Some
times a piece Of farm may be di-
vided up into gardens, and those
who are fortunate enough to get n
portion Immediately set to work and
plant hedges of veronica, escallonia
or euonymus, or nut up wooden
fences at stated distances apart to
make shelter for tho flowers that arc
to como.
In Scilly it would be hopeless for
any one to think of growing flowers
unless he had first provided shelter
for them, for every wind sweeps the
islands, and protection from storms
is absolutely necessary. On the 9TH
er hand-.lnd this II 70 doubt is the Sc
cret of the success with which tho
flowers arc grown thore-tho equa.
bi!ity of tho temperature IL remark
able, severe frost being almost un-
known. The flower gardens divid-
ed into these squares by tho hedges
have a quaint and pleasing appear
ance. AS a rule, each square patch
is devoted to one variety of flower,
though most of the larger growers
have many squares of each sort, es-
pecially Of tho older kinds, such as
Scilly white, solril d or, ornatus, etc.
Tic flower season begins about
Christmas, when u few small con-
sicnments find their way into tho
markets and arc usually sold at good
prices, especiallyif the French flow
ers have Tot yet made an appear.
ancc. From this time up to the ond
of May flowers in larger or smaller
quantities arc sent by every steam
or, the busiest time being, as rule,
during March and April. Besides
tho narcissi and daffodils, marquee.
rites, gladioli, arum lilies, the scarlet
anemono fulgeus, white single stocks
and wallhowers are grown In large
quantities. The white and yellow
marguerite bushes attain dimensions
which would astonish people who
grow them in pots under glass. st.
James Budget.