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Serious Charge.

Charlottesville, Jan TO-. Antoni
Ambroseln, restaurant keeper and
prominent fourth ward politician, was
arrested yesterday and charged with
assaultlng Rosa, the 14-year-old daugn
ter OF Arthur H. Dudley. The pre-
liminary examination held this after
noon attracted a large crowd.
According to the fathers testimony,
the alleged misconduct occurred in
the middle of December. 1t seemed
incredible to him, but he resolved to
be on the watch, and yesterday, when
his daughter went into AmbrOselli's
place and did not promptly return, be
attempted to enter the building by a
rear door, but was excluded, the girl
in the meantime leaving the building
through the public room. The child s
while not entirely direct,
was sufficient for Justice Watson to
commit the accused for the grand jury.
He denies every charge made against
him. This morning Ambroselli was
admitted to bail in the sum Of 1000.
Mrs. N. &. Clifton going on the bond.
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Harry Tucker Sees King Edward.

London, Jan 10 Harry st. George
Tucker, president of the jamestown
Exposition Company, who was intro
duced by Charge d'Affairs Carter, was
received in audience by King Edward
this morning. His majesty received
Mr.. Tucker cordially and showed much
interest in the proposal to send British
naval and military contingents to the
opening ceremonies at jamestown in
1907 with the details of which be had
been made acquainted through the
foreign office, war office and admiralty.
Mr.. Tucker having expressed the
desire in American that Great Britain
be represented In proportion to her
power as a naval and military nation
the king replied that Great Britain
welcomed the opportunity of uniting
with America IN celebrating the birth
of the A merican ration.
1t has been suggested that Field
Marshal Lord Roberts should head he
military contingent and also that a
member Of The royal family should at
tend the exposition. Mir. Tucker men,
toned this to the king.
A personal message of President
Roosevelt was delivered to his ma jesty,
who sent a reply. Mr.. Tucker will
EN- bark on board the White Star steam
err Majestic at Queenstown tomorrow,
having delayed his departure for home
on account of The audience.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Trom our Regular correspondent.


Washington, D. G.. Jan. 6-Rate
legislation and the Philippine tariff
are the two questions now occupying
the mind of Congress. The Payne bill
reducing the Philippine tariff to free
trade on all articles but tobacco and
sugar ls matter of almost as general
interest as is the railroad rate meas
ure. But of course railway legislation
affects more people in the country than
does the other measure. The Hep
burn rate bill has the call in the House.
In the Senate there are half a dozen
measures incubating in the committee
and no telling which of them will be
reported to the Senate. 1t may be said
that nearly all of the bills have the
same main object in view, that is CIV
ing the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion power to fix rate, which it ought
to have bad in the first place and which
the original bill obviously intended it
should have. But it is matter OF hIs-
tory that this power was left out "in
the hurry Of going to press The
Hepburn bill in addition to the rate
making feature. empowers the rail
roads to furnish icing, ventilating,
and several other SER
vices under the guise of which rebates
are now paid. 1t will make the way
of the trangressor a little harder in
matters than heretofore, but |
no optomistic big shipper would think |
for minute that the measure could |
not be gotten round to make the COL
lection of rebates almost as easy as it
was before. The whole object of all |
the bills is to prevent unjust discrimi-
nation, and that will never be done till
here is some radical change in the re.
alton of the railroads to the public by
virtue of which the big shipper cannot
make and unmake the railroad divid-
md.
There Is one provision in the Hep
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Let. Jackson Day Celebrated by Vets.

Next week will be an interesting one
to the veterans of StauntOn and Au-
gusta. They will celebrate the recur-
ring Lee-Jackson Day with appropri
ate exercises on Friday, the 10Th. at
the Bodley Auditorium. at IL II, IL.
The following Sabbath, they will hear
the annual sermon in the Baptist
church at ii a. III. preached by the
pastor Rev. o. F. Gregory, y ID.
Then too on the 10th before the address
crosses of honor will be presented to
26 veterans and oldest soDs of deceased
veterans, through Mrs. W. III. Landes,
President of the J. E. b. Stuart Chap
ter Daughters eff the Confederacy.
The address is to be delivered by
Capt. John @. Featherston of Lynch.
burg, subject 'Battle of the Crater. "
Capt. F. helped capture the crater
after the great explosion in 1864, lead
ing gallantly his company OF Aiabam-
ials. His account OF 1t during the
late reunion in Petersburg thrilled
many Augusta veteran who were there
and heard it.
No Augusta veteran should miss this
"Story of the Crater" nor the parade
from the City Hall to the Auditorium
at 1890, with the camp and visiting
vets in line, the Stanton military. the
Staunton Military Academy cadets
and citizens on horse back. The
Stonewall Brigade Band will
furnish the marching music, and
the orchestra from the Institution the
music in the hall. The male quar-
tette will sing "Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground" and the pupils Of the
female schools and Duusmore' College
In the audience.
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New Church Dedicated.

The United Brethren church at
Stokesville, which has just been COM
pleted, was dedicated at 11..o'clock Sun
day morning. The dedicatory sermon
was preached by Rev. A. Z. Funkhou-
ser, and was assisted in the services by
Presiding Elder Hammock and Rev.
e. B. FadIey. the pastor.
The new church STANDS on q bill
above the depot and has a beautiful
location. The Mt. Zion congregation
and many public spirited persons of
Stokesville Deighborhood assisted the
local congregation in its erection. A
large congregation was present at the
services
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ACROSTIc.

DOCTOR BENJAMIN BLACKBOARD.
Dead to us here. his troubles DER,
On some fair bright angelic shore.
Convey'd by Gods own Seraphim,
To ope 1.-The Pearly Gates" for him,
our benefac,Or there may find
Rest for his weary soul and mind.
Beautiful tributes have read,
Endearing words for him that's dead,
Nor can my tongue or pen express,
Just here such words of tenderness.
Allow me though to add this mitet
May loving angels, pure and bright,
Invite him to their home to dwell
No more to breathe one sad farewell
Breathings oft with the spirits groan n,
Long years will flow from hearts that
moan,
And inmates whom he honer'd here,
Cast oft for him fond mem rvs tear
Keep q cen his grave. strew flowers there
For US he had parents care.
Oh may that God whose mighty hand
Rules DER the heavens. sea and land,
Draw near and clasp him to his breast.
by G. ". L. HOLLAND,
An inmate of the W. S. Hospital
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-01-12

VIRGINIA. In the Clerks Office of the
Circuit Court of Augusta comfy, the
sth day of January, 1906.
Estelle A. Payne. Plaintiff.
Hamer E. Asst, ct ais, Defendants.
In Chancery.
On the etitiOn of Citizens Trust and
Guaranty Company of West Virginia,
filed in the above styled chancery
cause pending In this court.
The object of this petition is to require
Estelle A. Payne to subject the interest of
Hamer E Asst in the dover fund in the
hands of VIM. IL. Landes General Receiy-
er of this Court. and also the 1ntere It of
said Hamer f. Asst in the residence and
ten acres of land in the county of Angus.
ia, and in the store house and lot in the
city OF Staunton, referred to in the petit
ton, Inherited from his deceased sister.
leila b. Braxton, and upon which she
has first lien, to the payment of her debt
asserted in this cause before resOrting to
the 1-5 undivided interest of said Hamer
Z Asst inherited from his deceased father.
Joseph P. Asst, in said store house and lot
the city of StauntOn, upon which EstelIe
A. Payne has the first lien and the peti.
toner has the second lien-so as to leave
his last interest in said store house and
lot for the payment of petitioners debt.
And it appearing by affidavit filed that
the said Hsmer E. Asst and Aline G. Asst
are non residents of this state, it is ordered
that they do severally appear here within
fifteen days afser due publication of this
order and do what may be necess Try to
protect their interests in said petition.
JOS. B. WOODWARD,
Alex'r. f. Robertson, Dep. Clerk.
for petitioner. jan IL At
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Low Rates to Mexic0.

On account of Golf tournament.
Mexico City, Mex, January 1906. the
rates to Mexico City and return, tick.
cts to be sold January / to 10 1906, in.
elusive, final limit February IS, 1906,
limited to continuous passage in each
each direction, going and returning
same route only. For further infor-
nation apply to nearest Southern Ry.
coupon ticket agent, or write l.. 5.
Brown, General Agent, ashlpgton
DC. 80
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inhamed con-
ditiOn of the mucous lining Of the Eus
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when lis entire
ly closed deafness is the result, and un.
less the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to it's normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. }. CHENEY & CO.,
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Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Take HALLS Family Pills for con
situation.
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Friday, January II. 1906.
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.

Our Legislature has met. 1t is now
in shape and form to attend to the
needed interests of the State. VIII 1t
do it, or will it, as on some other occa'
sions, waste time over affairs that
from the beginning were certain to come
to naught, to the neglect of important
ones which should have been enacted
There are some important questions
which should be solved. We have
called attention to them on various Oc
casions and they have been mildly
mentioned at times in the halls of our
General Assembly, the echo dying In
faint cadences in the distance, little
later on. Public executions or execu
tions in Jail yards in this State, have
been commented upon by the SPEcTA
TOR at the beginning of every legistive
session for years. Once it is said bill
was offered and got along some dis
tance, but was pigeonholed at the
earnest solicitation of the then Sheriffs
Of this State. Many know what the
'earnest solicitation" of a sheriff
means. Many have gone into holes on
account thereof, many have had holes
90 into them by reason of the same.
Many have sought holes and found
them not, but that whole legislature
should be put into such hole by the
whole body of sheriffs is wholly mex
plicable.
The sheriffs, we are told, objected
strenuously to being deprived of this
pleasant portion of their official duty.
Not every man could be elected sheriff,
and then every sheriff did not have a
hanging. These hangings were always
events of supreme Importance. Long
before they were to be performed in
vitations were issued to the entertain
ment-cards resembling the now dis.
used railway pass. were given the par
ticular friends of the sheriff requesting
the pleasure of the recipint's company
at the entertainment which was sched-
uled for certain Friday, and to hold
one of these was considered recogni.
ton Of the influence and good standing
Of the holder. Special permits were Of
course given long before the day set
for the GRAND FINALE, to see the vic
tim, and flowers, ice cream, cake, bon
bons, books, magazines, tracts and
other suitable literature were brought
by the visitor according as his or her
taste ran along those lines. The
whole affair was one gala occasion, EN-
Joyed by those present, and damned as
to the sheriff, by many who deemed
themselves worthy of an Invitation,
but we're forgotten or overlooked.
Thus has Virginia gone on hanging
her victims on these holiday occasions,
at great cost to the State and at great
injury to public morals.
VIII the Legislature cause an end Of
this by requiring public executions to
take place in the penitentiarv, or will
they pander to the vicious tastes that
have prevented the passage of such
law heretofore !?
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RAILROAD EXTENSION.
More Rumors REGARDING the Building of
the Valley BY

A press dispatch of recent date says:
connection with Roanoke and the rich
southwest section OF Virginia b, bnild-
log seventy five miles uf road by the
Bait aud Ohio railroad through
Shenandoah and Rockingham COMMITTEES
paraileling the Southern Railroad be-
tween Strasbnrg and Harrisonburg
AT HarrisOnbuTg the Baltimore and
ONO was using its own tracks which
run now from Harrisonburg to Lex
ington, II distance OF sixty miles. AT
Lexington the b iltimore u Ohio will
lay rails on Il roadbed already graded
that runs from that point to Salem.
Va, distance of forty miles Salem
is six miles from Roanoke The Baltl-
more Il Ohio will bring it's main line
to Roanoke and give Salem a spur
The Tidewater road now building
from Norfolk to the West Virginia
coal fields will be tapped at Roanoke
as will also the Norfolk and Western,
which dra ins Southwest Virginia,
southern West Virginia, upper North
Caroln and East Tennessee and Ken
lucky. A new road now ready to be
gin grading from Winston. n. c.. 10
Charleston, 5 G., will be reached
through Norfolk a Western connec-
tion.
The carrying out of these projects
will mean the realization of plans laid
nearly % years ago by the la, e Robert
Garrett, then president of the Balt-
more and Ono railroad''
The above information is conveyed
In special dispatch to the Baltimore
American from Roanoke, and while
nothing can be learned here of any de-
finite move being made towards the
building of the proposed 90 miles of
railroad, yet everyone appreciates the
feasibility of the scheme. and are kept
somewhat OH the qni vive by the fire.
quency of visits of b & .. railroad
officials up and down the Valley rail
road.
That the road will be extended from
Lexington to Roanoke everyone firmly
believes. but when is the question.
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LAME DUCKS.

Senator Depew is said to be aging
rapidly. He is Y years old and is known
as the Junior Senator from New York.
He is loaded up with 70 corporations
all of which be declares purpose of
resignipg. He has been supposed to
be representing the people of New
York. He draws salary of SIS 900
from Uncle Sam paid by the people.
He drew $4,000 from the Equitable
Life Insurance Co. He draws other
larger salaries than this. There is
disposition amongst people to believe
that there is a feeling of reciprocity in
most men. When the teacher was
asked by the children, What makes
the lamb love Mary so :" She replied,
"Oh, Mary loves the lamb you know. "
Now if the corporations took such an
interest in Senator Depew that 70 of
them put him in charge of their affairs
Mr.. Depaw must love the corporations
just little bit to be human. The
"People" whom he was supposed to
represent cut very small figure, in
creasing his income by the paltry sum
of only $1,000. when no doubt the
corporations handed him yearly four
or five hundred thousand.
Old John Mitchell Of Oregon, was
disgraced and driven out of the Sen
ate and into his grave because be rep
resented corporations before the de-
partments. But Depew, and Platt,
and Aldrich, and Knox, and host of
others, are In the Senate, sent there
by corporations to represent them in
that body, and are apparently In good
standing with both the Senate and the
corporations, because they Draw sala-
riss from both. Depew and Platt are
not in good standing in their own con-
sciences, nor before the Senate itself,
nor before the public. Yet they have
not been convicted of an offence before
any court which set out to try them,
but court of enquiry into Life In
surance frauds In New York, did be-
smirch them by developing the fact
that their hands were befouled with
stolen money. Depew was drawing
$50, 900 year and had been for many
years. He had not earned this salary,
and so soon as he was found out he
had not the boldness to defend it's pay
ment to him. He dropped it as dog
does hot dumping. Platt got lot
Of the insurance money to help out his
political schemes. He testified that he
had spent it legitimately. 1t is to be
hoped be did. all politicians do. No
wonder he and Mr.. Depew are both on
the sick list.
This condition was rendered more
pitiable last week when resolution
was presented in the New York Gener-
al Assembly requesting both of them
to resign, and declaring that New
York is not represented in the Q. s.
Senate. They will of course not obey
this request, but it shows the way the
wind Is blowing and ought to be a les
son to some other gentlemen who are
really in the same boat. The Senate
is full of lame ducks, men who when
they passed the turnkey at the door
not long since, received a bow which
brought the hunkey's head and toes
close together, with the greeting,
''Good morning Senator" loudly
spoken and long drawn out, but who
now gets scarcely more than quick
good morning and little bending of
the neck. How are the mighty fallen.
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characterization.

In Moorefield, w. Va, on Wednes-
day, Dec. 9th, Mr.. Lawson Harper of
Durgon, w. Va. and Miss V. Roberta
Christian Of this county, were united
in marriage at the Presbyterian manse
by Rev. Charles Gilkeson, assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Walker of the NJ. E. Church,
South. Among those present were
Mrs. Isabella Gilkeson, Miss Mary See
of Fort Defiance. Miss Brubeck of
New Providence, Miss Lila Wilson of
Moorefield, W. Va Mr.. Clay Harper,
brother of the groom, ard Mr.. Walter.
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SP0ONER ATE CROW.

When Senator Spooner took the arm
of Mr.. LaFollette and walked with
him to the Speakers desk that he
might be sworn in as o. 8. Senator
last week, there was evidently q large
dish of crow eaten. Mr.. Spooner and
MIR. LaFollette are both Republicans,
they live in Madison the capital OF
Wisconsin, they have not spoken for
years, they are more bitter toward
each other than if they were
Democrat and Republican. Mr.. Spoon
or represents what in his State is called
the Stalwarts; Mr.. LaFollette the
Half Breeds. The cust tom In the Sen.
ate is for the senior Senator to escort
the new member to the Speakers desk
that he may take the oath. 1t was by
no means certain that Mr.. Spooner
could bring himself to that degree of
humility, and SO great was the inter
est that the galleries were crowded to
witness the result.
AZ SAC 0PkclAtCO tlLucs ~ WCFCF, ZIG
two came arm in arm, and went
through the performance as only good
loyal and true Republicans can.
The truth, however, is that no man
ever ate such a dish of crow as did
Senator Spo0ner on that occasion.
LaFollette has the Stalwarts whipped
in Wisconsin. He stands for a reduc.
tion in tariff, rate control, and various
other necessary things to national ex-
istence and prosperity. and his coming
to the senate Is an episode in the his.
tory of this country. The "Stand
patters" and other Inquisitors have
much to fear from such men as La
Toilette and possibly they see the hand
writing on the wall. Mr.. Spooner has
one consolation running through the
occurrence. which is that he who hum
bleth himself shall be exalted.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-01-12

The new halls of the two houses Of
the Virginia General Assembly are
completed ready for that body. They
are very handsome, and being of high
class ought to guarantee some high
class work.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-01-12

Among the first work to be done by
the Legislature will be to declare Hon.
Thomas S. Martin u 8. Senator. This
is to be done in accordance with the
returns of the primary election which
gave him majority of some ten thou
sand, and especially in accordance
with the wishes of Scottsville which
was unanimous for him. By the way
did you ever see Scottsville. Well
hardly, but you have seen Pinchtown.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-01-12

Thomas Carr was sent On to the
grand jury in the police court Wednes-
day, charged with breaking into the
place of business of Mr.. J. J. Murphy
and taking therefrOm money, wine
and cigars.
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Trustees Sale
OF VALUABLE
Personal Property !

By virtue of deed of trust executed to
the undersigned Trustee, by b. +. Printz,
bearing date on the 2ist day of December,
1904. duly recorded in the Clerks Office of
the Circuit Court of Augusta county, Vir-
ginia, in Deed Book No. IA, p. 81, to Sc.
cure to Oscar d. Henkel. surviving part
ner of Killian, HenkeI & Son, the SUN #
Seven Hundred and Fifty-three dollars
and Sixty cents S753.6OI and interest
thereon; and default having been made
in the payment of the same, and being
requested in writing by the beneficiary,
will proceed 70 sell at public auction on
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Inasmuch as the Trunk lines have
cut off passes, those roads which have
not done so will likely be designated
as the Grip Sack or Hand Satchel
lines.
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cures made by DR..
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the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
It is the great medi-
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DR.. Kilmer, the emf
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