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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
TO FARMERS |
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Fertilizers and Seeds !

My stock this fall is large and includes every
thing desired In the Fertilizer line aud suited
to our soils and the growth of wheat and grass,
sell no goods except from the most reliable
manufacturers under their own brands. Some
of the leading items to fertilizers are costing
less this season than for some years, and in
addition to this factor in the farmers inter
eStS will sell at small profit to regular time
buyers who pay promptly when due, and from
these low prices will give a liberal discount
TO ALL Blu YERS who. to save money, VIII
make a special effort and pay spot cash.
have bought not only general assortment,
as heretofore, of the best goods to be had in
the fertilizer line, but believing the plan adopt
FED by me for this season will be appreciated
by my friends and will add to my trade, I
have, by buying a large stock, been able to got
on me before buying elsewhere will find that
they will do themselves good service by SO
doing.
believe my experience in selecting fertil i
zers-a speciality with me for years-and my
knowledge OF the wants of farmers in this Sec
ton are worth something to my customers, as
well as to myself, and in making selections
their interests as well as my own are carefully
considered.
My stock, as heretofore, will consist of the
best goods made, In fine mechanical cOndi-
ton, and will be full early and late, and farm
ers can get anything they want at any time in
season.
As profits will be short, must make the cost
of handling just as small as possible, and will
therefore not be able to sell through agents,
or to send out any one to canvass, and all such
unnecessary expense will be saved by farmers
who buy directly of me.
~ Don't forget that regular time buyers
will get their goods at low leash price,jwith
interest added for time, and that SPOT CASH
will entitle every buyer to a liberal discount.
Jas. n. BIackIey,
Greenville Avenue,
aug 26-6tS StauntOn, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
MAR RACES.
DEATHS.

PERRY.-August 18th, near Mt Sidney, of
consumption, Miss Jennie Perry, daughter
or James w. Perry, in her 23d year.
SIMMONS-August oath, near Sugar Grove, W.
Va, David Simmons. He was the father of
Noah Simmons, of Roman, this county.
FAUVER.-August2 18th, near Cotopaxi, N. &
4 W. road, John W. Fauver, a well-known
citizen. aged about IS years. He never mar
ried.
CRONE.-August 22nd, near Spring Hill, Mrs.
sarah e. Crone, aged go years, months and
l5days. Interment in Van Lear's, cemetery.
|PRESTON.-August Goth, at Mountain Top,
near the Augusta, Albemarle and Nelson
line, Herbert Preston, infant son OF DR.. Geo.
). Preston, of Baltimore.
BARRETT August Goth, at the home Of Capt.
j. j. STACK, near StauntOn, of a cOmplica-
ton OF diseases, Mrs. Honora Barrett, widow
OF M1chael Barrett, aged about SO. She was
Formerly the houSekeeper at the w. f. Instr
cute. She left a son, John Barrett who is an
engineer on the SeabOard Air Line railroad
Sne was most estimable lady.
K!NDIG.-Mrs. Elizabeth Kindig, widow OF
A. II. K1ndig, of near Fishersville, Thursday
morning, Aug. 27th, at II o'clock The burial
VIII take place at Mt. Vernon at IL a. m.
tomorrow. She is survived by two Chill
/ dren-Rev. e. d. Kindig, Of the same neigh
pornood and Mrs. DR.. Switzer, OF Harrison
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

The Clifton Forge Review of August 18th
says
Miss Maggie Falion, of Staunton, who is a
accomplished teacher, spent several days in
Clifton Forge this week, stopping with Mrs
John Il Payne of Church street She expects
10 begin Der school here on Monday, Septem
Der y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
SPECTATOR OFFICE,
STAUNToN. VA. Sep. 1st, 1856

BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK MARKET
swME-The receipts this Week - were 10. 7oe
head. The arrivals are very heavy this week
over 800 head in excess of the number report
ed last week. The market is slow, but I'M
changed since last weeks quotations. Heavy
hogs are still hard to sell. Good light far
western ~ hogs sell at IoaA Is per 1001bs gross
gross.
SEEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts are heavy
and consist largely of inferior and light stock.
trace IS fa1r, but only for good sheep and
lam sheep sell at 1zas cents per u and a
lambs 3a44 cts per lb, and a few extra a shade
higher, a decline OF fully y ct from last week.
CALyEs.-Trade is fair for calves. Prices 3a
81 cents per Id.
NEW YORK LIVE STOCK MARKET
Monday, Aug. 81, 1896.
BEEvEs.-Receipts 1858 head; active and
higher; native steers 8 s5aS4 so. Texans and
Solorados 4Oasa 3, stays and oxen 25as4 %,
American steers at 10a10X cents per Id, dress
cd weights refrigerator beef at sHa9k cts.
CALVES Receipts 2,426 head; closed outlet
and lower; yeals faS7 Is, grassers and butter
m1lks 75aS3 co.
SHEEP ANr Receipts 1898 head dull
and lower; sheep 25Oas4; lambs 62JS as Is
HoGs.-Receipts II, TIT head; firm at COAST 10.
BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK MARKET,
THURSDAY. Aus. 9th, 1896. (
CATTLE.-The receipts have been light and
prices 5, fair e with quotations as follows Oxen
Cows 50a$2 Is per 100 lbs, 7aS1S per head, and
fresh cows 15a$25 per head Common stock Ia
Eli per head.
CALvEs--The demand has ruled steady
while receipts were light. Prices show an ad-
vance over last weeks quotations Quota
tons closed as follows: Veals 5xa5A cents per
10 and rough to good 50a$7 90 per head.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The supply was fairly
liberal and demand :moderate. At the close
quotations were as follows: Spring lambs Ak
cents, with some choice selling at SIX cents per
10. Sheep 2a3 cents per 10, 2a$2 rs per head for
choice and 5cc.a$1 for common not wanted.
NEW YORK LIVESTOCK MARKELL
Thursday. Aug. 27th, 1896. Z :
BEEvEsIReceipts Dos head; on trading. Eu-
ropean cables quote American steers at 1Oal1
cents per Id, dressed weight; refrigerator beef
at 74a84 cents.
CALvEs.-Receipts2 EST head; active and very
25aS3 IS.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts 8, 155 head; very
dull and lower, owing to excessive supplies;
sheep 50aS4 lambs lass rs.
HoGS.-Receipts 1880 head; dull for heavy
Toast 80.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Vitterio Emanuele. Prince of Naples,
eldest son and heir apparent of the
King of Italy, is betrothed to Princess
Helene of Montenegro, third daughter
of the reigning Prince of Montenegro
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Ernest B. Crawford, son of the late DR.. VIM.
B. Crawford, of Mt. Sidney, has been elected
elected principal of the Mt. Crawford Acad
emy
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

By the consolidation of the SPECTATOR and
VINDIcAToR, the circulation of the paper ex-
ceeds 2600
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Hon. Pat Mccall was nominated last
Wednesday by the republicans as the
candidate for Congress in the 9Th dis
trict of Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Mr. Minor B. Hamrick has been elected. a
Vice President of the Funeral Directors Asso-
citation of Virginia.
VIM. c. Morton, of Staunton, Va, son OF
Capt T. c. Morton, is a guest of j.. N. Caldwell
at the river
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

A SILVER DOLLAR MAY BE WORTH
ONLY so GENTS, BUT A SILVER DOLLAR
WILL GET THE SPECTATOR FOR ONE
YEAR. JUST THE SAME.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

The third annual meeting of the Dunsmore
Business College Alumni took place in this
city on last Thursday
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
WIN. Allen Assigns.

Mr.. Waldo NJ. Allen, who has for some time
conducted the drug business in Staunton,
me- lie an assignment on last Saturday for the
benefit of creditors. There are eight prefer
ences in the deed and the preferred indebted
ness amounts to about $4,000. The Eighth or
last class of general Indebtedness is not
known nor is it known what the assets
amount to. The hard times and difficult
collections made this step necessary.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Mrs. Hannah Whitmer died at her
home, in Rockingham county on last
Thursday, aged ninety years.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Nowadays when women are trying to
do everything it is not strange that
many things are over-dona. 1t is not
strange that there are all kinds OF
physical and mental disturbances. 1t
the woman who is a doctor, or law
yer, or journalist, or in business
would not try to be society woman
too it might be different; but the wo-
man who knows when she has done a
days work has yet to be born. Usual.
ly a woman's way is to keep doing un-
til she drops. Working is this way has
manifold evils. The most common
trouble resulting from over eSertion,
either mentally or physically, is constls
patton of the bowels, with all its at
tendant horrors.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
most effectual remedy in the market.
They work upon the system easily, ma
turaily. There is no unpleasant nausea
after taking them. No gripping-no
pain-no discomfort. They are com
posed of materials that go through the
system gradually, collecting all i'm
purites and, like the good little SER
wants that they are, disposing OF them
effectually.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Mrs. Porter Woodward, ct lis North Market
Il, announces III to-days paper the open
E, of Der music class for pupils on Septem-
4 It'll
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02
E. NJ. Cushing & Son, AucCi oneers
COMMISSIONERS SALE
OF THE
CRIMORA MANGANESE MINFs.

In pursuance of decree of the Circuit Coprt
OF Augusta county, rendered in tho Case of the
-tCerican Mar gar csc Company ~. Tine Vir-
g1iila Manganese Comp ~ vi. one l4gh day OF
niag, Is' t1e enoefsignss Coz Imissiop srs- viii
proceed in front OF the court mouse 81 se.lin
Thursday, the SGD ny OF ST. .st~r.rer, 1896,
to sell at public auction to the highest bidder,
that valuable mining property, known as the
CrimOra han ganeSe Mines, iIser Crimora Std
ton on the N orfOlk and Western r. r. in Au-
gusta county, Virginia The tract consists of
about zee acres OF land and the Manganese
noted In the world. The ore is of good quality,
and has always found a ready market. A
new Shaft has recently been sunk on tho prop
erty and large amount of ore is in sight,.
branch railroad connects the mines with the
Norfolk and Western X. r.
TERMS OF SALE +Cash in hand to pay the
costs of suit and Of sale, and any amount due
for taxes on the property and unpaid, and as
TO the residue on credits of one, two and three
years in equal inStalmentS, bearing interest,
the purchaser to execute bonds with approved
security for the deferred payments and the
title to be retained as ultimate security.
RICHARD p BELL,
A.C. GORDON,
Commissioners
Clerks ONCE of the Circuit Court of Augusta
County, tO-wit:
I. Jos. B. Woodward, Clerk of the Court
aforesaid, do certify that Richard P. Bell has
executed the bond required by decree of sale
IN the chancery cause OF American Manganese
Co VS.: The Va. Manganese Co. now pending
in said Court.
Given under my hand this 4th day Of August
1896.
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

H D. Flood, Democratic candidate
gress, will address the people of Staun-
.ldrsday night, Sept 3d., at 8 O'Clock
in The Armory OF the West Augusta Guard.
It is TO be hoped that a good crowd will greet
him
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

Jno A. Alexander, Trustee, will sell the
personal property Of Samuel Byers, on his
farm at Burketown on the Goth inst
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-02

ITO TEACHERS.-Buildings of a most suit
i able nature for the establishments OF q
school located at Huntersville, Pocahontas
county, W. Va are for rent or sale. Ihe peO-
pie are prosperous and it is splendid oppor-
tunity for any enterprising teacher For fur
ther particulars, address this once.
| Jan 22-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

that IS necessary to get gold, when you
have found mine Is to push wneelbar-
row up 10 the mountain and dig out the
bullion with pick The truth is an enor-
nous amount of work is connected with
the discovery and development of every
good mine. All over the hills about Cripple
Creek you will see piles of earth. They
look Ike new-made graves. and they are
In many cases the graves of disappointed
hopes and expectations. They are the holes
of unfortunate prospectors and the huts
the places which form the homes of pros
pectors who lived thus when they were
trying to strike IL rich The whole region
surrounding the Victor and the other big
mines of this Cripple Creek region Is
hOneycombed With prospects.
rode TO Cripple Creek through the Ute
canon via the Florence and Cripple Creek
railroad We wound IN and out through
gorges. the red granite walls of which rose
straight up for hundreds of feet. Now
and then these rocky walls seemed to
almost touch the sky. A clear mountain
river flowed through the canon. and in
these walls of rock and along the stream
were little dugouts and rude huts. At
Places l saw caves in the rocks walled in
front with logs, and j was told that all
Some of the huts are not big enough for q
man to stand upright within them, and
you could not stand in the center of any
., Them and swing the traditional cat.
ne ROOFS OF the huts are fiat. They are
OF logs. upon the top of which dirt has
pten thrown In order to keep out the rain
while around the foundations dirt has
been piled up As a protection from the cold
IL was In such houses that the Cripple
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
VICTOR GOLD MINE
How It Has Produced a Fortune for
Its Operators.
BOUGHT BY 4 FRENCH SYNDICATE
Graphic Description Of the Method
of Getting Out Gold.
GRADING THE PRECIOUS ORE

Copyrighted. 1896. by Franck g. CarpsnterJ
CRIPPLE CREEK, August 3. 1896.
Three years ago II was hole in the side
of hill, Now Ii Is one of the most ia
nous of the Cripple Creek gold mines. and
per cent of its stock has just been sold to
a French syndicate for 1872, 80 The same
syndicate bought the other 40 per cent
three years ago for s45OO0O. 1t now owns
the whole mine, and 1t has paid for it the
dollars This Is the story of the Victor
mine, which has for more than two
years paid a monthly dividend of $780,
coo. or 2 per cent a month on
capitalization of s10o0.0G0. Enough gold is
in sight to keep the miners busy at the
present rate for more than two years. and
1t will probably pay dividends for years to
come. The stock Is owned. 1t is said. by
French farmers and market gardeners. who
are operating through Paris house. and
who are enthusiastic over the dividends
which they have already received.
Invested $4,000 and Made = Million.
And still the Victor mine cost Moffa
and Smith. the Colorado millionaires. who
developed 1t. only 5000. and they have
until this last sale been getting one-half
of It's enormous dividends Dave Moffat Is
Colorado's biggest millionaire. Eben Smith.
his mining partner, is also a millionaire.
He is said to be the most expert judge of
mines in the west. He was riding over the
mountain above Cripple Creek about four
years ago when he passed that hole in
the ground" Two inexperienced miners
were working at it. They stopped Smith
and asked him to come to look at their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
Why He Patent. HIS Inventions.

From New Ideas. 81 ii
AS Thomas A. E:dis5n watched the pump
ing, of the, air from. a, glass tube IN his lab
oratory a day or two agp a man said 70
MIN: You patent every little thing you
discover; don't You; Mr. Edison?''' AZ do"
said Mr., EdtSSoh, And - you know why
DO 1t I supposei you, do it SO you will
reap the benefit of svouri discovery" was
the reply. II thought y3u'd say that" said
Mr.. Edison. land / DON'T suppose you will
believe me when tell you it isn't SO,
nevertheless. l discover a great many
thln2s mat would be very glad to give to
the public for nothing. but 1 don't dare I
aHsehlins iaX suits: Theirs, srf..a lot of
on the Lookout for new things, and, when
one OF them hears of something new he
husaes' to- the patent office to see IL 1t Is
patented II 1t isn't, he claims 1t as an
original discovery and files his claim Then
ne VIII turn right around and, like as not
begin a suit with the man who invented
the thing for making or using 1t. The in
Nentor will say; But l discovered this
thihS f1rst; l am the inventor He Is re-
ierred to the patent Office where he finds
me o1iiclal claim OF original Invention. The
TACT tnat the papers are He'd long after he
all the other man does Is to hire fellow to
swear that he made the discovery a month
OF TWO prior to the date the inventor claims
II SOUNDS ridiculous, probably but 1t Is
TACT, that there are often races between
inc inventors and the sharks to reach the
patent ONCE, the sharks having had early
Information about the inventors discovery
There are many such races, and thousands
OF dollars depend on each one What saw
Is literally true"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

One deplorable result, of excessive meat
eating in England" says Mrs. Ernest Har;
in her work entitled diet in Sickness and
Health" is the ill-temper which is a
chronic moral complaint among us. In no
country, believe, is home rendered so I'M
happy and life made so miserable by the
ili-temper of those who are obliged to live
together as in England. To everybody who
reads these. lines examples will occur of
homes which are rendered quite unneces-
sarily Unhappy. when they might be happy,
by the moroseness and rudeness of the
head of the family, by the peevishness of
the wife. or by the Quarreling of the young
er members. If We compare domestic life
and manners in England with those of 9TH
er countries where meat does not form
such an integral article Of diet, a notable
improvement will be remarked. In loss
meat-eatfng France urbanity Is the rule of
the home; in fish and relocating Japan
harsh words are unknown. and an ex-
quisite politeness to one another prevails
even among children who play together in
the street In Japan 1 never heard rude
gry-words spoken by any but English
nen. 1 am strongly OF the opinion that the
ill-tempef of the English il caused, in a
great measure, by a too abundant meat
dietary, combined with a sedentary life
The half-oxidized products of albumen
form urates and uric acid, which, circulat-
ing in the blood. produce both mental and
moral disturbances"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

flour is first dried utomlwhat looks like q
cooking stove. until eXsry particle of mons
ture has left it. Thsh It is weighed upon
scales 30 fine. that thee Weight of one of my
hairs turned them, and I'D fine that even a
pencil mark win MAKE p difference in the
weight of piece Of paper. After being
weight of the flour to- tfle ton of rock may
be known. the ore ffeusr h put into a little
furnace about two faets high, which fur
nishes an intense heal, This melts the ore
The s,a lead and other a me are taken out by
in the bottom Of a hafeaerueible. not much
cent ink bottle little. button OF, pure gold
This crucfbie is madeTof bone ash. and the
gold stands, out specE OF, bright yellow
against the white ash Vow. this gold Is
weighed. and the assayefsc figure out by
ed the, proportion. of, gold there is to the
ton of ore from which it came. From
forty to seventy-five assays are taken at
the Victor mine daily, and the miners
know exactly what their ore Is going to run
before they send it to the smelters, so that
no one could possibly steal the ore or the
gold without its being discovered
FRANK g. CARPENTER
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Mr.. r. B. Zimmerman of Warren has
what Is probably the highest swing in
Texas. The frame Is made Of pine logs
seventy-eight feet long, which are set i'm
the ground eight feet, making the swiny
seventy feet high. The cross piece is exc
inches. heart, snd is fastened to the top
of the upright pieces in such a way to pe
as strong as il the frame was all one
piece. On the north side Of the swing is
a pole forty-two feet high, at the top OF
which Is pulley. The person who wishes
to swing Is strapped in Qf he or she de-
sires). and then takes koid of one end of
rope the other end Of which is run
through the pulley and fastened to d team
OF horses. Lie horses are started off and
the swinEer is pulled to the top of the pole
When the top is reached he drops the rope
and is at once launched into space some
times going as high as 100 feet on the op-
posite side from the pole. One curn at the
swirg Is generally enough to satisfy one
for that evening. Since the erection of the
swing Mr.. Zimmerman's house has become
a resort every evening for the young peo-
pie Of Warren, and parties frequently
come from Hyatt and other neighboring
towns to enjoy an evening in the swing"
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which are used to raise the rocks from the
depths Of the earth. The Victor mine is on
top of a mountain. and the shaft which
goes down into 1t, cutting its way through
the rock at the side of this VEIN Is
Judge, about eight feet square, and at pres
emf writing II has been sunken to a depth
or more than five hundred feet. This shaft
is walled with boards. Within it there is
an elevator much like that used fer freight
In big store, which is raised and lowered
by means OF a great wire rope This rope
passes over pulley about fifty feet above
the shaft. md is connected with a steam
engine In the shaft house. The engineer
stands with his hands upon the levers and
as the miners down Under the earth pull
the wire ropes which ring the signal bells
he knows just where to move the elevator
From the shaft tunnels run off into the
vein at different levels sixty-fi feet apart
Each or these tunnels is great pipe made
by digging out the gold ore II has little
railroad in it. ard the gold rock Is loaded
Into iron cars about the size of a small dry
goods box Each car will hold about ton
OF ore, and when filled it Is pushed on to
the elevator, and a signal to the engineer
brings 1t to the top
Going Down Into q Gold Mine,
A car has just been taken Off as we reach
the shaft house, and the manager of the
mine directs us to step on to the elevator
He signals the engineer. and we start
downward to look at the mine Within a
few seconds we are far below the surface
The shaft is filled with a darkness so dense
we can feel It. We huddle close together
for fear Of touching the board walls of the
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the only grade encountered without "ap-
parent difficulty. He leaves his readers to
infer that there was difficulty but II was not
apparent. Again. he says the car seemed
to have sufficient power to made and MAIN
tain the speed OF fifteen miles an hour
claimed for 1t. How charitable of Mr. Kane
In admitting this! These cars have demon
strated time and again on the New York
Central tracks at Rome, n. V. that they
can attain a speed OF fifteen miles an hour
without difficulty. Compressed atr as
motor power has come to stay, and in a
space OF few years II will no doubt have
completely superseded the trolley and Dos
stbly the cable and steam cars One of its
chief advantages Is its cheapness of opera
ton. and this. combined with the many
other advantages IL enjoys over the other
methods Is bound to make 1t popular.
August Z, 1896. JAMES E. SHORTAII.