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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
DIRECTORY OF LODGES.
M SONIC LODGE

Staunton Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M, meets
every second and last Friday night in each
month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas.
NJ. Lickliter, W. M; B. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
UNICN ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER.
No. 2 meet third Friday in every month, in
Masonic Temple, ON Main street. WV. Nc
Gufin. High Priest A. A. Eskridge, Sec'y.
ODD FELLOWS LODGE;
staunton Lodge. No. 45, l. o. O. F. meets
cry Thursday night in Odd Fellows Hall, owe
Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John q
Fretwell Noble Grand; C. A. Grafton, Sec
KNIGHTS OF HONOR LODGE.
Staupton Lodge No. 756, Rights of Honor
meets every first aad third Tuesday in each
month, in Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L.
Olivier. Dictator; W. A. Burnett. Recorder.
MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE.
No. 116, 1. o. G. T., meets every Friday night
in their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on
Main street. A. S. Woodhouse, Chief Templar
F. b. Kennedy, Sec'y.
DISTRICT LODGE.
No. q, 1. 0. G. T., meets every three months
Us L. Cs Il. ID, b6uSGFmAn
District Secretary
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Augusta Council, No. 400, Royal Arcanum
meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the
month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W.. w
Robertson, Regent; JOS B. Woodward, Sec-
retary.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE
Charity Division, M. A., Sons OF Temperance
meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows
all. W. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John
B. Coffelt Sec'y.
UNIFORMED RANK. KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAs.
E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second
and fourth Mondays each month at Pythian
Hall. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkley;s
Knight Recorder. s. H. Rosenbaum.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Valley Lodge, No. 49, K. of P, meets every
Monday night at Castle Hall, on West Main
street, over DIR. Wayt's drug store. c. T. Ham,
mond, Chancellor Commander; ;Albes
Keeper OF Records and Seal.
KNIGHT TEMPIARs.
StauntOn Commandery, No. s, Knights Tenn
plar, meets first Friday night in every month
in Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. B.
McChesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. K
ridge, Recorder.
ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. ss, 1. o. R.. M,
Meets in their wigwam, in Valz Building
every Wednesday at sth run 3Oth breath
setting of the sun. j. d. Anthony sacher,
James w. Blackburn, chief of records lu
visiting brothers welcome.
AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.
Valley Council No. 1856 meets on the first and
third Mondays in each month. Commando
A. S. Woodhouse; secretary, DIR. j. M. Hange
collector, Isaac C. Morton. Jr.
CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENEFICIAL
SOCIETY.
l!Meets first Sunday in every month in tbeil
| hall on the church lot. M. T. B presi-
dent; J. j. K1lgalen, first vice-president; ].
| Murphy, second vice-president; d.. O'Connell
recording secretary.
''STONEwALL" BRIGADE BAND.
Band meets every Monday and Thursday
Hall. Mr.. J. NJ. Brereton, director
J. A. Armentrout. president. and G. Harry
Haines secretary.
| CHAMBER OF COMMBRCH.
Monthly meetings. Fourth Tuesday in the
mo nth at7:Soo'clock. Room n City Hal build
sac Wpresslt' sftDt. -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

For the SPECTATOR.
SCOTIA AND THE SCOT.
Could not tie American,
And had to choose my lot,
I'd rather be
EevOnd the sea
A hardy Highland Scot.
How simple were their o1den homes!
Two rooms were all their care;
The "But'' for friends,
And odds and ends;
The s.Ben," the place of prayer.
Ilove to hear the Gaelic Tongue
The ancient Scotsman spoke,
Whose pathOs deep
Made men to weep,
Whose humOr mirth aWOke
Hove the heath clad Grampians,
And Scotia's craggy peaks,
Her Friths and Lakes,
Her burns and brakes.
Aud all her native freaks.
Hove the Covenanters old:
Who stood for God and right,
And vowed in blood
They never would
Submit to PopiSE rite.
Religion was their very life.
The passion of the soul,
And every plan
Of every man
Was under it's control.
Hove thee, Caledonia!
Thy name is on my heart.
Thou magic Land
OF Clansmen grand,
Renowned in every part
Immortal is the home of Knoxl
Who broke her fetters loose,
And much owe we
This side the sea
To Wallace, Knox, and Bruce.
Then were not American.
And had to choose my lot,
I'd rather be
Beyond the sea
A hardy Highland Scot.
Cisco, Texas. II. M. TUTTLE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

The central pool at the aquarium is
80 feet in diameter. In this pool there
are among other fish three handsome
weakfsh, each weighing about pound
and half. Sometimes the weakfsh
swim about in company, sometimes two
together and one by itself. Sometimes
the three move about separately, but it
seems as though they knew one another.
The other day two Of them started
around the big pool in opposite direc-
tions. Meeting on the other side, they
halted side by side in the water for a
moment, as two men might halt on
meeting in the street, and after this
mute greeting they started up their fins
and went each its way.-New York Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
a FAHINe SONG.
o tired little marinerl

o tired little marinerl
Yeo-hoi Yeo-hol
Unto the strand Of Sunderland
A-sailing we must go.
This is the time when children fare
Away from home,
So we'u seek the good ship Rocking ChAits
Afar to roam.
Oh, yeo-hol
A sleepy little voyagerl
Yeo-hoI Yeo-hoi
The pleasant breeze of drowsiness
Beginning is to blow,
And now the isles of Nidnod are
All safely past.
And now, DER treamland's harbor bar,
We're safe at last,
Oh, yeo-ho!
Portland TRANSCRIPT.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
A Royal Proposal.

Russians are fond cf telling the story
of the answer given to the emperor
when his majesty proposed to his future
wife. 4'The emperor. my father, has
commanded me to make you the offer of
my hand and heart was the czaro-
Wits quaint way of putting it. "And
my grandmother, the queen, y replied
the lady, "has commanded me to accept
the offer of your hand; your heart will
take myself It is said, and on good
authority, that the emperor is passion
Rtely devoted to his wife, and that she
Is equally fond of him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
The Minuteness of Spores.

Every plant in the vegetable kingdom
springs from and produces Seeds The
mushroom and the fungi in general are
no exceptions, only that their reproduc-
tive bodies are termed 'spores. Some
fungi spores are SO inconceivably min
ute that it would require more than
200, 900, 900 of them placed side by side
to cover the space Of square inch.-
St. Louis Republic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

The women Of savage nations rarely
pay much attention to the dressing of
their hair, while savage men, on the
contrary, regard their coiffures as OF the
utmost Importance.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29
RATES OF ADvER rlslMc.
"If Eric is In 70.
bust health, and has

IT Eric Is In 70.
bust health, and has
slept well, and is at
the top of his con-
Idition at his depart.
TIRE from Greenland.
his ships will reach
Newfoundland. But,
take out Eric and
put in a stronp-
er man Biorn or
Thorhn and the
ships with just as
m u ch e ase will
reach Labrador and
New England" :"
+ m e son was
right. The stronger
a man is the fuller
his chest is, the
sounder his heart
and brain and. lungs
are, the further he
will sail on the
ocean, thu. higher
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

A British patent covers England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Cham
Re1 iaiapdb, ,sbuthot one 1t the British
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

You will, I believe, in general in
gratiate yourself with others still less
BY paying them too much court than too
little.-Lord Greville.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

G. P. Dorr was nominated for Con-
gress by the republicans OF the tnlrd
district Of West Virginia.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-29

The first applicant for an invention ..
device receives the patent in Great Brit
ain, whether he be the real inventor or
not,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
FRENCH MINISTRY OUT.
President Fanre Has the Resignation
of the Cabinet
Bu cane 20 The Unitfc Tsrt


PARTS, April q. 1885, The Conserva-
tive and Moderate newspapers in their
comments on the ministerial situation,
heartily applaud the attitude of the Sen
ate towards the Cabinet.
The Martin" and the Figaro" declare
that some of Premier Bourgeois col
leagues are relying upon the Chamber of
Deputies to make demonstration
against the Senate and thus enable them
to withhold their designations. The Rad
ical and Socialist organs reproach NJ.
Bourgeois for bowling to the Senate and
describe his intended resignation as an
act of resertion.
President of the Chamber of Deputies,
tn nks 1T irregular that the Cabinet
should announce their intention in the
Chamber of Deputies before placing their
designations in the hands of President
Faure.
1t is reported that President .Faure has
accepted the resignation OF the Cabinet,
Which will become an accomplished fact
when the Chamber of Deputies meets oa
Thursday. This rumor, however, cannot
be confirmed. 1t is the general opinion
that President Faure will endeavor to
obtain the formation of Cabinet which
ments opposing the present Ministry. It
is suggested that the President will ask
either NM. Peytral or Meline to form a
Ministry, or he may even request NJ.
Bourgeois to reconstruct his Cabinet or
form new one if the Chamber of Depu-
ties should vote confidence in the present
Ministry.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
SEARCHING FOR THE WOMAN.
She Dropped Man In the street and
He Dfed Almost Instantly.

BROOKLYN, April %, 1885, The fden-
tity of the man who was left in front
Of st. GATHERINGS Hospital, Williams
burg, late yester9 afternoon by an ell
derly woman had not been discovered
by the police Of the Stage street station
at 10 o'clock this morning The man,
who died before doctor reached him,
is thought to have had consumption. 1t
is supposed that his death was due to it.
Dr.. William Valentine went to Lindes s
morgue today at the direction of Coroner
Mason to make an autopsy on the body.
The q man looked as II he had been farm
the Stagg street police station thought
that he recognized the dead man. Detec-
tive Becker, acting on the clew, went to
A1aspeth and found the family of the
man whom the prisoner said he thought
the man was. They denied any knoWl-
edge of the case.
The detective set out again today to
try and establish the mans identity. The
whole of NewtoWn Will be scanned to
find the woman who had charge Of the
wagon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
G,immerine. of : ruture life.

It is easy to suppose circumstances
which would produce the conviction in
all Irrational human beings that there is
future life between which and ours
there IS n'tercommunication Let us take
as q type, form of stapparition'' that is
visible and vocally audible. but not tam
glble, that cannot produce changes in
ordinary physical Objects that cannot be
Photographed, whose audibility and visi-
gb1llty. whether telepathc or not, are at
least not dependent on our present nor
mai senses. Let us now suppose that i'm
mediately after death such an apparition
OF the deceased was invariably seen and
heard, that it affirmed itself to be the
deceased. that it exhibited such knGWl-
edge as the deceased possessed while in
habftlng the ordinary organism and so
on, that it affirmed itself sto be still ssliy-
ing under very different conditions
most of which were alleged. to be mex
pllcable to US in terms of our present
environment. Let us suppose that ar
rangements for meetings could be made
with the apparitio tionthat the apparition,
except perhaps for its occasional dssap-
pearance for hours or days, explained
ties in its new sphere, behaved in gene
raj, as regards recognition by living per
sons and its rational and social relations
with them, much as an ordinary living
person does, the main exception being
that he is not embodied like US. Were the
case like this, / make no doubt whatever
that the human race would be possessed
by belief in the survival after death,
which would be regarded as barely less
certain than the belief in their present
EN- bodied observation-disclosures
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
DAMAGED WOMAN DOCTOR.
A Jury Gives Her SI9. 1000 for FalIius
Over Mail asa1

Over Natl asag.
UTICA, N. Y, April %, 1s9s-In Octo-
ber, 1891, Mrs. Emma F. M. Ayers, a
physician who resides and practices in
Saratoga, was called to North Brook
field, Madison county, to perform an
operation On the evening of October
"a, 1891, she went to the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western station at North
BroolSfield for the purpose of taking a
train to Utica, and while on the station
platform. endeavoring to board the train,
she fell over a mail bag and sustained
severe injuries to her spine and one to
her knees. Her general health was also
impaired through the injuries sustained
by the fall. Mrs. Ayers Immediately
begun suit against the railroad company
to recover $4,000 damages.
The case was tried before Justice Will
iams in this city in January. 1892, at
which time the jury disagreed March G.,
1893. the case was tried before Justice
Wright in Rome when a verdict for
$4,000 for the plaintiff was awarded An
appeal was taken to the General Term
and was argued in February, 1894 when
ordered. The case was last tried before
Justice Peter B. MoLennan in Utica on
May, 1895. the jury finding in favor of the
plaintiff in the sum of $9.0S3. The case
was again appealed by the railroad com
pany and in March last was argued be-
Among the decisions just handed down
by this division is one affirming the tver-
dict of the lower court. 1t IS not be-
lieved that, another appeal will be taken
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
CALIFORNIA FRUIT NrpPED.

SAN FRANCISCO, April %, 1Ss6-The
frosts of the last ten days were uncom-
monty severe. From all parts of the fruit
growing section have come reports that
the crops We're much hurt partly ruined
or wholly destroyed. The only crumb cf
encouragement to be picked up by the
fruit men so far is the fact that reports
almost as bad have been made in pre-
vious years and when the harvest came
IN proved to have been greatly exagge-
rated. The worst feature cf this unt.meIy
visitation, however, exists in the belief
On on the part Of the leading commission
dealers that the reports from different
rather than overdrawn Fears are enter
tanned that all the early fruit Will be al
most dead failure and the yield Of
peaches, aprieolts, prunes and grapes
VIII be less than a third of a crop. All
sections suffered alike. The almond crop
almost a total failure
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22

CHANGED THE GRAPE
Singular Controversy Over
the Body of Mrs. Eras-
tus Ferris.
BURIED BY HER MOTHER
Her Husband Left Her for His
Health Just Before
She Died.
BURIED BY HER MOTHER

People living in the vicinity of Bowers
street are talking today about the dis
appearance of Grape from the door of No.
81 Bowers street. 1t was in this house
that Clara Ferris, % years old, the wife
OF Erastus Ferris. died on Sunday last.
Undertaken L. F. Kleber of Central ave
nue. placed the Grape on the door on Sun
day, and it remained there until yesterday
morning, when it mysteriously disap-
peared. The death notice published in
the papers stated that the funeral services
would be conducted at No 81 Bowers
street at eight o'clock Tuesday evening
Last night the notice had been changed,
and stated that the funeral services would
be held at the home of Mrs Ferris
mother, Mrs. Henley, No. 309 Sherman
avenue, this morning. The Grape last
night had disappeared.
1T appears that Mrs Ferris died ON
Sunday night after short Illness Her
husband left the house just as she drew
her last breath to go to Mt Tabor by
order Of his physician, it was said, and
at the suggestion OF his parents
1t was also said that Mr.. Ferris saw
his wife only once during her illness and
only then at her earnest solicitation.
When the woman died her mother was
notified. The Ferris family had decided
to call in Undertaken Crane of Hoboken,
Mrs. Henley sent her daughter to tell
Undertaken Kleber to take charge of the
body. K.eber arrived about twenty min
utes after the woman's death and be-
fore Undertaken Crane had been seen
by the Ferrises. Kleber took charge of
the body and made all necessary pre-
parations for the funeral
Mr.. Ferris, the woman's father -in-law.
felt hurt it is said, because everything
seemed to be taken out of his hands
When it came to make the final arrange
ments of the funeral two of the dead
woman's uncles arrived, and Mrs Henley
left it to them. They proceeded to make
their own arrangements without consult-
ing Mr., Ferris. When Mr. Ferris found
out that he was not being consulted at all
in the matter he objected The result was
that the body was removed on Tuesday
morning at one o'clock to Mrs Henley s
residence.
this morning, and the body Will be IL
tered in Greenwood Cemetery
According to the story told by Mrs.
Henley's friends. the whole blame should
lie on the shoulders of the Ferris family.
They say that it was wrong for the
husband of the dead woman to go away
before his wife had brealned her last.
Mrs. Ferris, sr., says that the trouble
was all caused by Mrs. Henley and the
uncles. She said it was shame to take
the body from the house at such an un-
earthly hour
MY husband was sick at the time or
else he would have stopped them,'' she
said. Her son, she said, had gone to
Mount Tabor for his health, and by order
of his physicians.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
VENEZUELA TALK.
England Worried by the Prospect>ef
an Adverse Decision.

LONDON, April q, 1ss6.-The est.
James Gazette says:-ssThe revival of
the Venezuelan question reminds us that
even the wars in Africa are trivial COM
pared with the real danger which has.
existed in the West since December. Nhe.
american demand that the United Sta tea
snail decide our quarrels and our from
tiers IS 1nadrIssible, and no amount Of
taxing around the matter will make it,
anNtn1ng else. President Clevalana in
ms message last December REFERRED
everything to a special commission ana
then, when 1T was too late, attempted
10 negotiate. We are now told to be pra-
pared for a report that is hostile to the
claim of Great Britain. What will han.
pen then? Either the Washington Govern
ment must allow the report to remain a
f fead letter or carry out its threat to en-
iorce decision by resort to war There
IS reason to believe that an attennnt viii
TOW TOW De made to work up an English fsei-
rs,l ilrg IN iavor of the surrender of our Gov
erpinent This is vain Our positfon is
SIMPLY that British frontier Questions ars
parties concerned, . "-A tne
american correspondent of the orsr,eS, 10
seems 10 be in state of undue alarm
possibly because Lord Salisbury did NOT lllt
aGcspt 1,s NJ, ms plan of settlement"
Ihe Globe says:-'AI the homes Of
fne ti wegk-kneed Of the compliance 0 Of
1Tesat 11ETreat Brllain with the views Of the
United States are grouaaless. - y siss
Esae = NEes tminstesr Gazette'' savs.-.sE,yA
Gep1 .,e LOT petty amour propre. there was
nave rejected the proposal for a snoH1q ioInf
commission a Jo1le
- The aso Echo" in an article commenting
9l,sstie 9n sae iatesf s phase of the Venezuela
lfssp3Iesent fss3l the general Judgment of the
S,aolnetY .s,as i II ne does rot the paper adds.
ne ne should either aeeufesce, therein or
ter and Secretary of State for Foreign
AAiLalrs, ana give way to the Duke ~
iLevonshlre. We would then be in safer
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
KILLED BY TIE TROLLEY,
Broekiyn's Hundred and Farty-flrst
Victim o Railway BEan

BROOKLYN. April o. 1sss-The trolley
scored its one hundred and forty-first
victim early this morning. Peter Fallon,
switchman in the employ of the Brook
lyn, Queens County ahd Suburban Rail-
road Company, was knocked down and
crushed by a car on Fulton street at
Shepherd avenue, shortly after one A. M.
He died three hours later at ST. Johns
Hospital.
Fallon was fonty-five years old and
live d at No. Sc Wyona street East New
York. For some weeks Fulton street, in
the upper section of the city, has been
torn up for the purpose OF laying a
sewer. While the work was going on.
ary tracks. to which they were switched
at various points along the line One Of
these switches was located at Shepherd
avenue.
Car 626 approached the switch at j. 10
O'Clock this morning. Fallon walked out
to the track and turned the switch AS
he stepped backward the car came on
In some way. Fallon stumbled and fell
right in the path of the car. There was
no fender. The nlotorman tried to stop
the car, but was unable to bring ii to d
standsHiu in time to save the unfortunate
sW4tchnlan. He was struck by the heavy
wheel guard and crushed so that he died
three hours after. The motorman was
arrested
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
had DESIGNS ON VANDERBILT.
Philadelphia Woman Locked UP for
Fslnwfnm His Doar sScli.


NEW YORK. April %. 1856. Policeman
Diehl, of the East Fifty-hrst street sta-
ton, arrested Estelia Bsrmesster 81
years old. of No. 1,112 Pine street, Phila-
delphia, at an early hour this morning.
The woman called last night at the house
of William K. Vanderbilt, at Flfty-second
street and Fifth avenue. and told the SER
want that she wanted to see Mr.. Wander
bilt. The servant told her that Mr.. Van
derbilt was al horne.t but would not see
any person It that hour of the night.
The visitor said, 4 know that Mr.. Van
derhilt is married. but think that he will
see me- At this point She handed-the
servant note for Mr.. Vanderbilt The
servant said that she would deliver the
missive. and left the woman standing on
the stoopt
The Barmeister woman waited outside
for fully an hour for an answer, occasion
ally ringing the bell. until finally the SER
want appeared and stated that Mr. Van
derbilt would not see her. She then left
the place.
Promptly at 6 o'clock this morning the
woman returned and again rang the bell
of the Vanderbilt house Ernest Ever
hard, the caretaker of the premises, re-
sponded. He had heard about her pre-
vlous visit, and SO he called Policeman
Diehl. who placed the woman under ar
rest.
She was arraigned later before Magis-
trate Brann in the Yorkville Police Court,
when she showed him letter from the
Rev. DR.. Carter. who, she stated, was
her pastor in Philadelphia. The woman
said she came of a very influential family
and that she desired to see Mr.. Wander
blt and did not know that it was any
harm to call at his house The Magis.
trate committed her for five days for ex-
animation as to her mental condition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-22
GARRY BoBARTs TRUST.
The Joint Traffic Agreement of the
ri LIZ, 4 i.,l i.a

Railroads Oh Trial fn Court.
NEW YORK, April q, 1S96-The argu-
ment of counsel in the suit brought at
the request of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to test the legality of the
new joint traffic agreement entered into
by the great railroad companies. was re-
sumed before Judge Wheeler in the United
States Circuit Court in the General Post
Office Building today. James C. Carter,
of counsel for the railroads, addressed
the Court. Mr.. Carter asserted that the
railroad companies had iabored under
great disadvantages because of competi-
tion with one another. of inadequate re-
turns for money invested and other draw
backs which made measures of self pre-
servation absolutely necessary on their
part.
Self-preservation with corporal ations is.
as with all individuals and creatures the
first law of nature. When the question
of live or die faces the officers of a rail-
road they invariably decide that they will
not die if they can help 1t. The receipts
of any business enterprise must be great
er than the outgoes, or financial death
viii take place. No law should be so
construed as to compel any corporation
to conduct business at a loss. Such in
depreciation would be disastrous to JUS
tiee, unjust to the railroads, and in the
end would work harm to the public, be-
cause the railroads would have to dis
continue transportation facilities