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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

The Republicans of this State have
declined to nominate a tick 1t for the
very good reason that it is just as easy
for them to elect ticket they do not
nominate, as one they do.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

The New York Times hits the mark
this time: "The farmer is the blood
of life TO protection. Once let him find
out that he is a poor, deiuded wight,
that it is not the 81 per cent. tariff,
but hts wheat and corn and hay and
cotton chat make this county rich and
prosperous, and he will refuse any
longer to tax himself in order that the
manufacturers may make money
enough to build fine houses and draw
big checks to the order of the rreasur-
er of the Repu blican national commit
tee."
Gov. Atkinson of w. Va, has done
another unusual thing in appointing
Miss L B. Bonny OF Wheeling, a MOTT
ry public. The Constitution of that
State provides that no appointment
Can be iuade for any State, county or
office unless the appointee
be voter.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Had the farmer shut up shop and
quit as the man facturer has done for
years, how much foreign gold would
have been coming from abroad on ac-
count of foreign hunger
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
A CALL.

To HENRY W. HOLT, ESQ
The undersigned, believing that you would
fill the position with credit to yourself and
satisfaction to your constituents, hereby
call upon you to announce yourself as a
candidate for eldction to the State Senate as
the representative therein of Augusta count
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

"a Farmer" in communication
elsewhere shows what would be the re-
suit today but for the crime of 1878
demonetizing silver.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Another StauntoDiau has been hon
ored. Mr.. L. 3. Kennedy has been
nominated for Attorney General on
the Prohibition ticket. Mr.. Kennedy
has been for some time prominently
connected with the psrty. He is a
young man OF integrity, end very zeal
GUS in tie cause. He was born near
Greenvilie in this county, and educated
at Washington & ice.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Election frauds must be rank in
Virginia when they turn the Republi-
can stomach.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

When hunger exists abroad q barrel
of flour brings in more money, than a
hundred kegs of nails.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Mr.. Park Agnew will Of course be
able to manage the Repu biican cam
paign in Va. without interfering with
his federal official duties, but the gov
eminent should increase his salary.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

1t is useless to deny that there ere
rewards in this world, when we see
Col. Win. Lamb kicked like a foot ball
about by such as Yankee Allen and
Jim Brady.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
A Hive of High officials from a Small
Town


The U. s. census of 1890 gives Staun-
ton little over six thousand popnla
ton, though with its settled up
suburbs the figure can be sent much
higher. This small town has been a
favorite with both political parties.
To the Democratic party it has fur
nished three Speakers of the Virginia
House of Delegates-Hugh ". Sheffey,
John B. Baldwin and Marshall Hang
er; one Lieut.. Governor, Edward
Echols; one Judge Of the Supreme
Court of Appeals, Geo. M. Harrison;
one Collector of U. s. Internal Reve-
nue., W. II. Fowle; one member Of
Congress, Il. ST. Geo. Tucker, and one
State Treasurer, A. W. Hartman, now
living in Rockbridge.
To the Republican partyiJ has fur
nished one First Auditor of the State,
Is. Brown Allen; one Congressman,
Jacob Yost; one U. S. District Attor
ney. W. E. Craig; one Collec
tor of U. s. Internal Revenue,
w. E. Craig, and one member OF. the
National Repu blican Committee, S. NJ.
Yost.
All this is since 1862; if we went fur
Their back we would find Secretary
of the Interior, the late A. H. II.
Stuart. and doubtless many other dis
tinguished contributions to public life
made by our little town. During this
period Judge John N. Hendren served
as Treasurer OF the Confederate States.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Maj. Mann Page, President of the Nation
al Farmers Alliance, announces that he
will work and vote for J. Hoge Tyler. the
Democratic nominee for governor.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

At last this country admits that ag-
riculture moves the whole machine.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

Suffer yourselves to be taxed we
bondsmen that manufacturers may
flourish, but when you have been
ground to powder by such taxes what
the world in the face. A we'll titled
farm can bring more money and more
happiness out of a famine than the
Carnegie steel works plant, and a few
other protected establishments thrown
in.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

On Friday last, the NV York Juur-
nal published about thirty kilograms
from the governors Of various States.
maHy,If aot ;tit 81 :. aJ:a, .ste Rapu hi
cans, giving their opinion ;as 30 1heth
er conditions We're more hopeful.
Nearly every o1e said they were
Frightening, and ia every single in
stance the cause eseribed was to the
bountiful crops and the higher prices
obtainabie on account CT short crops
abroad. and not enc either referred
directly or indirectly to She gold stand
ard, or the tariff bill, as having had
anything to do with the case.
-s----------
A Virginia newspaper rather deli
cately born and poorly nurtured, has
given voice TO the following bit of
logic: wheat advanced cents whilst
VIM. j. Bryan was i'll the Yellow Stone
Park. Go back and stay LONGER Mr..
Bryan" Suppose we should say that
"the subscription list of -----
paper fell off two hundred and fifty
whilst VIM. Mckinley was on his re-
cent visit 10 Canton. 60 back and
and stay longer William" What pos
sible connection die Bryan have with
wheat any more Than Mckinley had
with that papers subscription list,
although the latter might be as true
as the former? Such literary effort
must always have it's rewards, which
are tears in the eyes Of its readers, and
an empty till in It's Office.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
The Sscrificial or Superficial Lamb.

luC 6RElAAOiot VI oupCAACA0A AIomD'
Col. VIM Lamb has been deposed as
the Republican chairman, and Park
Agnew has been chosen in his stead
It will now be in order for the varI
GUS newspapers to get 10 their puns
about the osborn lamb" 1.-THE lamb
with fees as white as snow." the fleec
ed lamb, the 'lamb like' Col, 1.-THE
soft bleat of the lamb which has been
heard in the land" "the skipping of
the lamb" and how the ours sucked
the poor lambs blood and feasted on
his mutton. Or to tell perchance how
this erstwhile gentle lamb, has been
suddenly transformed into q fighting
old buck who will butt somebody and
some thing over the fence and out of
the field. But the newspaper which
tells the facts as they are, viii say:
Col. Vim. Lamb who left the Demo-
cratic party 20 seek office ffom the
noGro> and other renegade whites who
went into the same company for The
same purpose. has been disappointed,
and being in the way of other political
bosses has baen knocked cut" They
They may further observe that iC does
not seem to have been tiiis Lamb who
went to school one day. as the other
sheep of the fold are SO much better
educated than he. They know hing
or two, he seems to know nothing. He
did not know the bark of wolf from
the friendly bow WOW of his own guar
dian Shepherd dog, and such mortal
ignorance in Republican politics being
no excuse the Col. was wholly unfit
for the exalted position he held, so he
had to go. We know not how this sud
den kicking out may affect Col. Lamb,
but we know of no deeper degradation
than to have fallen so low as to be un
fit to serve the present Republican
party as the chairman of the State
COMMITTEES
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26

An inspection of the Republican
gathering at Lynchbnrg last week.
when the State committee met showed
that it was typical in one respect, but
sadly wanting in another. 1t was
typical in that every mem Der present
was either an Office holder or an Office
seeker, but not typical in color. 1t
was little too lilly white.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given that the first half
of the City Taxes for the year 1897 are now due
and ready for collection.
All persons failing to pay one-haf by SEP
TENDER 10th, 1897, will be charged FIVE PER
CENT. PENALTY ON THE WHOLE, and their tick
cts turned over to the Collector for immediate
collection. ARISTA HOGE, Treasurer,
aug 26-1t City of Staunton, Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
PANTOPS ACADEMY

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
Virginia Military Institute,
LEXINGTON. VA.

59th Year. State Military, Scientific and
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port Sept. l. GEN. SCOTT SHIP,
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-08-26
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For catalogue apply to
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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
GAMBLING ON THE NILE.
Breaker of Faro hanks Tells HO,
the Thing Ia noua

Breaker of Faro hanks Tells How
the Thing Is Done.
Pat Sheedy is back in New York
from Europe after AN absence of five
months, during which time he made a
careful study of the conditions at
Cairo, Egypt, where it has been the
dream of his life to establish an oriental
Monte Carlo and catch some of the
vast amount of money that flows thith-
er. But the famous breaker of faro
banks, looking more like a sleek, full
habited clergyman than ever, isn't very
hopeful. He says that so long ais Eng
land rules in the land of the Nile there
is no more chance of establishing a
public gambling house there than there
is of opening one on broadway.
Monte Carlo will never have a rival -
said Mr.. Sheedy, gloomily. "As long as
Monte Carlo stands it will be alone in
the field. In Egypt everything is ripe
for the establishment of such a place,
except English power, and so long as
there is British domination in Egypt
there can be no open gambling. There
is money unlimited, and the gambling
spirit is rampant, but the English will
not stand for it, although there is
a great deal of play in the clubs,
and l doubt il there is an
other place on earth where there
is more gambling than in Egypt; but
it is all behind closed doors. They are
all hawks and no chickens there, and
the man who sallies forth in search of
soft marks is doomed to disappoint-
ment.
''The Russians are the most desperate
gamblers at Cairo, the Greeks the
shrewdest, the Turks the most daring.
These Cairo gamblers take risks that
would set an American to rubbing his
eyes. Anything that is square satis-
ties them. The American is good
gambler, but his name is like marbles
against billiards ais compared with
the gambling of Europeans. Why, l
saw old Castellane, whose son, the
count, married Anna Gould, get UP
from haccarat with a roll of $40, 900
won. He met three friends at the
door, lent them $2,5O0 apiece, turned
back and dealt for them, pitted his pile
against what he had stalxed them for.
He broke one of them, but tire other two
broke him; and, after repaying the
$4,000 apiece, they went away richer
by S44,000."- Y. Sun.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
THE NEWSPAPER LAW.
All Subscribers Should Read the Fol-
lowing Law and Avoid Trouble.

lowing Law and Avoid Trouble.
L. All subscribers who do not
give express notice to the contrary
are considered wishing to continue
their subscriptions.
2. If subscribers order the dis
continuance of their periodical the
publisher may continue to send it
until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers refuse or neglect
to take their periodicals from the Of
fee to which they are directed, they
are responsible until they have set
tied their bills and ordered them dis
continued.
4. Subscriber moving to other
places without informing the pub
Usher, and the papers are sent to the
former address, they are held re-
sponsible.
5. The courts have decided that
refusing to take periodicals from the
office or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is prima facie evidence
of intended fraud.
6. If subscribers pay in advance
they are bound to give notice at the
end of the time they do not wish tc
continue taking it,and the subscriber
will be responsible until an express
notice with all arrearages are sent tc
the publisher.
7. The latest postal laws are sucf
that newspaper publishers can arrest
anyone for fraud who take paper
and refuses to pay for it.
Under the law the man who allows
his subscription to run along some
time unpaid, and then orders tn
postmaster to mark it refused" an(
have postal card sent notifying th'
publisher, leaves himself liable to ar
rest and fine, the same as for theft
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26

Judge Talbot is expected to arrive
by Saturdays stage.
The recruiting of a new cavalry
troop is going on at Carson.
Judge Rives is expected here by
Saturday to attend the approaching
court sitting.
At Ely last week, Ben Miller had
one of his shoulders pulled out of
the socket by vicious horse.
The case of Jos. Cook VS.. j. D.
Campbell, tried last Saturday, is to
be appealed to the District Court.
DR.. Ascher, who was located at
DeLamar last Summer has gone
from Cherry Greek to join the army
surgeons.
District Attorney McNamee came
in from DeLamar yesterday and
will remain until the close of court.
W. T. Bennett, who was brought
in from Deerlodge about the middle
of last month, is improving and is
almost able to be out again.
The A. o. U. W. Order here will
give ball at Thompson's Hall on
the evening of June 9Th. 1t will be
fully attended and will be an enjoy
able affair.
Rev. T. w. Snead of the Episeo-
pal All Saints Mission at DeLamar
will visit here on June 1st. and will
hold religious services at the dis
trict court room on the evening of
June 3rd.
DIR. j. D. Campbell leaves for
Carson next Monday to attend the
Grand Lodge of the Masonic and
l. o. o. F. Orders. as a representa-
tive from this quarter of the state.
He will also while there apply to
the Supreme Court for admission to
practice law. He will be absent
several weeks.
The decision of the Supreme
court in the matter of requiring the
production of poll tax receipts as a
prerequisite to registering for an
election, is looked for with some
anxiety. If the law is upheld it
will cut down the vote all over the
state very materially.
When the bill was introduced in
the Legislature and was under dis
cussion it was shown that some
counties in the state who were loud
est in their demand for political re-
cognition, etc, paid fewer poll taxes
according to their vote than any
other counties in the state. Storey
and Ormsby counties were the two
most prominent. Storey county
with 1852 votes paid only $40 poll
taxes, while Ormsby county with
S21 votes paid but 469 poll taxes.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
FARMER AND MEGAPHONE.
A Pilot on a Boat stops a Horse I'm I
COrnheld Near By.

A Pilot on a Boat stops a Horse I'm a
COrnfeId Near By.
was on the upper Ohio this sum
mer when the river-was low and was
much amused over the use to which a
pilot put a megaphone. He bought the
thing to call ashore any message that
might have been given the boat to
carry This was to save time, for those
little boats in the local trade are
great deal like the old-fashioned mail
carriers-anything to accommodate
the people along the bank.
We were in the pilot house, and the
boat was running up chute near the
West Virginia side of the river In a
cornfield was an old farmer who was
following a plow behind an old flea
bitten gray that only needed half in
vitation to stop at any time. The pilot
put the megaphone to his mouth and
shouted: "Whoa!" and the old gray
whoaed.
The farmer heard the sound, and he
thought, evidently, that neighbor was
there or thereabout, for he looked
around to see from whence the sound
came. Then he tossed clod at the old
horse and started him up
"Whoa!" said the pilot, and again the
old horse stopped. Then the old Rube
went to the river bank and looked
down in the willows, but not a soul
could he see. He looked up and down
and then at the steamboat, and
scratched his head in surprise. He
couldn't afford to waste any time in
looking for the ghost, for he went back
to the plow and started on with his
| job.
Once more the joking pilot said
"whoa!" and again the horse stopped
dead STILL You could see from the boat
that the old fellow was all mixed up,
| for he looked up and down the river and
| then at the hillside behind him to see
| if he could find the man who was work
ing him and his old horse. He made up
his mind that he would take it out of
the old gray, and to fix for the occa-
sion he went to the underbrush and cut
stick that was ten feet long. He
started the horse with a vengeance
When the pilot hollered 'whoal" again
the old man gave the gray lick that
sounded clear to the boat. We could
almost hear him say:
Thar, gol darn you, I'll teach you tc
stop when you hear spook hollerin'
at ye."
But the pilot kept up the good work
and hollered whoa, whoa, whoal" and
again and again the old man hit the
gray. Finally it looked as if he had
caught on, for he let the old horse STOP
while he watched the boat
Then the pilot thought he had had
enough fun and he called out:
Feed the old gray; feed him. He's
so hungry that he can't work. That's
all the matter with him"
Then old Rube got his voice and VIZ
heard him sayi you go to thunder
with your old voice! It'd stop rail
road train anywheres." = Cincinnati
Commercial,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26

Clean blood means clean skin.
No beauty without it. Cascaret,
Candy Cathartic clean your blood
and keep it clean, by stirring up the
lazy liver and driving all impurities
from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, ,boils, ,blotches, black
heads and that sickly bilious com
plexion by taking Cascarets,-beauty
for ten cents. All druggists, salts
faction guaranteed, 10c, %, soc.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
THE SCRIP CASE.

The Supreme Court Sustains The
New Law.
The scrip case which has been in
court for the past nine months has
been decided and the new law is
permitted to stand. The matter is of
interest to all present creditors and
all prospective servitors of the county
The merits of the case were not
considered, but the court rested
upon one of its former decisions.
Following is the present decision
in full:
The appellant Thompson made
application to the District Court for
a writ of mandamus against the re-
spondent Turner, as Auditor of
Lincoln County, to comp the issu-
ance of warrants for the payment of
certain certificates of indebtedness
owned and held by the appellant,
against the general fund in the
treasury of said county. From a
Judgment in favor of the respondent,
the appeal has been taken.
The refusal of the respondent to
issue the warrants is based upon
that certain Act of the Legislature
making provision for the payment
of the indebtedness of Lincoln
County, approved March 6, 1897.
Statutes of New. 1897, p. 47.
The appellant contends, that this
Act is unconstitutional, and the
question presented by this contention
is the only one to be determined.
The same question was before this
court in the case of Youngs vs. Hall
8 New. 212, in which majority of
the court held similar Act constitu-
tional. While that case may have been
criticised, and doubts may be en-
tertained as to the correctness of
the ruling, it has been the recogniz-
ed law of the State for a number OF
years, and the Legislature has since
passed a number of acts similar in
character.
This court since the ruling in
Youngs VS.. Hall, supra, held a
similar Act constitutional
Odd Fellows Savings 4 CONNER
cial Bank VS.. Quillen, IL New, 109.
We must therefore consider the
question as settled, and are unwill-
ing to disturb the rule. This con-
clusion has been reached after a
long and careful consideration of
the very cogent reasons urged on
behalf of appellant, and without
expressing any opinion as to what
the rule should be, if the question
were new, the judgment will be
affirmed.
We concur: Belknap, G. j.
Bonnifelp, j.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
Belknap, G. j.
Bonnifelp, j.

The printing plant of the Peoples s
Advocate which was published at
Austin several years ago has been
moved to Winnemucca and d. S.
Truman has started publication of
the paper there. The paper is pub
lished for political purposes and is
one of several new papers just open
ing up in several quarters of the
state. Truman says he publishes
the paper "because he wants to-
and it's mission appears to be oppo-
sition to the Central Pacific Rail-
road.
The opposition to the railroad by
the northern counties in the state
is hard to understand by the coun-
ties situated in the south. With.
out the railroad to assess and use
as base of revenue there's not a
county through which it runs but
what would be in the dumps as bad
as the southern counties in the
state, and possess as small a popu
lation. We would be glad to put
up with the practices of monopoly
if we could only have the benefits o
rail transportation hereabouts, anc
we're praying for it to come.
Our avenue of transportation
however, is via Milford Utah ant
the Union Pacific System, and will
that 120 miles away, we don't com,
in close contact, and railroad
schemes are not the greatest of ou
troubles.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26
Notice.

NotlCe.
The undersigned has been ap-
pointed agent of A. Mandich and
all persons knowing themselves in
debted to said A. Mandich will ar
range to pay their claims to the un.
dersigned and save costs.
NJ Church
Phoebe, April II 1898.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-26

The Supreme Court Sustains The
New Law.