Staunton Spectator from Staunton, Virginia • Page 2

Tuesday, July 1871. An Oversight. We have often been surprised that our intelligent Richmond cotcmporaries should manifest so little practical interest in the proposition to construct a Railroad from Shad well Mills to Richmond. If we have been rightly informed, such a road would shorten the distance, by Railway, between those points about 30 miles. It would, moreover, furnish an outlet to market for portions of Albemarle, Louisa, Fluvanna and Goochland which have cow no convenient means of access to Richmond.

The Richmond papers dwell with great earnestness and ability on the necessity of air-lines to Lynchburg and Clifton Forge, but rarely bave a word to say in favor of an air-line to Charlottesville, which, in our judgment, is not only much more practicable, but more important to Richmond than either of the others. The Chesapeake Ohio Road, which is destined, with proper management, to throw into Richmond an amount of tonnage which will give new life to the city, and tax the energies of her business population to their full extent; is rapidly advancing to completion. To compel this enormous freight to travel the roundabout way, by Gordonsville, is unreasonable we had almost said impossible. If it be compelled to go Northward instead of Eastward from Charlottesville, it will soon seek a more convenient outlet at Alexandria, Washington and Baltimore, or at some new shipping point on York River. It would be quite an easy thing to make a Road from the Fredericksburg junction, or Hanover C.

to West Point, or some port-a little lower down the York. Richmond should not be too confident in the strength of her position. She must use enterprise and industry to fortify herself against flank movements, as well as against direct assaults. The extension of the Valley R. R.

from Harrisonburg to Staunton, where it will tap the Chesapeake Ohio EL may now be regarded as a fixed fact. We believe it is almost equally certain that, in a few years, the Shenandoah Valley R. of which Mr. Thomas Scott 13 now President, wiil be constructed to Staunton, or some point near it. The construction of these two rival Roads, one under the auspices of the Baltimore Ohio R.

and the other, as we believe, under the wing of the Pennsylvania Central R. Lb, in our judgment, well calculated to arouse Richmond to vigilance and activity. Staunton will, most probably, be the point from which these three great Roads will diverge Northward, and Eastward. The competition for freight and passengers will be earnest and energetic. The distance from Baltimore to Staunton is not so much greater, than from Richmond to Stauntou, as to preclude successful competition.

Both the Baltimore Ohio and the Pennsylvania Central are immensely rich corporations, backed by large commercial cities. Those roads are run, not so much in the interests of stockholders, as of commerce. They will, therefore, be disposed to put down freights to minimum rates, to command trade. The Chesapeake Ohio Road, on the other hand, is owned by foreign stockholders. They look to dividends on stock, exclusively.

They have no interest in the commerce, manufactures, or general prosperity of Richmond, except so far they may tend to enhance the profits oa their stock, and its value in the market. In this view of the case it is easy to see, that both these roads may become dangerous competitors for freights East of Staunton. It behooves Richmond, therefore, to be up and doing. She must leave no stone unturned to secure the trade of the great West. If she loses that, her prospects in the future will be fatally injured.

In our judgment, the surest means by which she can protect herself from the two dangers, of the diversion of the trade'to York River, and the rivalry of the Baltimore Ohio and Pennsylvania Central R. is by constructing the short line to which we have When-that is done, the distance from Staunton to Richmond will be but little more than 100 miles, while the distance to Baltimore will be 200 miles. If, with 100 mile 3 of distance in her favor, she cannot control the heavy trade of the west, she does not deserve to have it. Again, by making this line, the heavy freight will be compelled to go through or very near Richmond, for she will be on the short iine from Charlottesville to West Point. We bave seen many articles in the Richmond papers speaking of an air line to Lynchburg.

Suppose that Road were made, what would be the advantage of it to Richmond Could it compete with the Canal for heavy tonnage could it divert tbe lighter tonnage from Gen. Mahone's consolidated line, which takes all its freights through Petersburg and Portsmouth to the holds of the N. Y. Steamships, which are lying at the Portsmouth wharf, steam up, ready to carry it to the great Northern commercial Metropolis. We have, also, seen some beautiful articles in favor of an air-line from Clifton Forge to Richmond.

If the intermediate country were a continuous plain, presenting no serious physical obstacles, this would be a very desirable thing to Richmond and to the State. But we are bound to presume that the writers of those articles, bave very little acquaintance with the topography of the country, through which they propose to build this Road. We apprehend that if they were to undertake to pass over it with theodolite in hand, we should hear little more of this air line. As far as our knowledge of the country extends, as well as irom information derived from others, we are satisfied this route is impracticable. Nay, we are inclined to go farther (though upon this point we do not profess to speak with confidence) and to say that we have grave doubts, whether the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Company will, after proper surveys have been made, find it practicable, at any reasonable cost, to make the low-grade-route from Clifton Forge by way of the James River Valley to Richmond.

We fear that the numerous bends in the River, and the multiplicity of bluffs that abut on it (to say nothing of the interferences with the James River Canal) will render so many costly bridges and tunnels necessary, as to compel the company to abandon the scheme, and seek a cheaper and more practicable route, leaving James River some distance below Buchanan, and striking thence across Rockbridge and Augusta, to the Western mouth of the Blue Ridge tunnel at Rockfish Gap. We believe that the proper grades can be obtained on this route, and that actual surveys will prove it to be the cheapest and most practicable. Viewing the matter, then, in every light that it has presented itself to our mind, we are persuaded that it is a matter of vital interest to Richmond, to have the short line built to a point near Shadwell Mills. When the tonnage on the Chesapeake Ohio Road comes to be STAUNTON SPECTATOR AND GENE HAL ADVERTISER. reckoned by millions, if not tens of millions of tons per annum, it will readily be perceived that a decrease of the distance, over which it is to be carried, of 30 miles, in an aggregate of 400 miles, is not a thing to be overlooked.

It will be equivalent to a reduction of freights on through tonnage, of between eight and nine per cent, and in freights from Staunton to Richmond of near thirty per cent. It is time that this matter should be brought prominently to the attention of Richmond, and the people of Virginia. In littlo more than a year the Chesapeake Ohio, and the Valley R. as far as Staunton will be completed, and the Shenandoah Valley Road will be well on with its work. Then the contest for tonnage will commence.

If the trade be allowed to find a channel in the direction of Baltimore, it will be difficult to divert it. In conclusion, we repeat that we regard the short line between Charlottesville and Richmond, as of vital interest to the latter city, and we close our article, as we commenced it, by expressing our conviction, that the business men of Richmond, in failing to press its early construction, have been guilty of a palpable "oversight." Crimes and Casualties. On Saturday last in Richmond, Mrs. Mary Bishop, wife of Wm. Bishop, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a pocket-knife.

She was 33 years of age and the mother of six children. On Monday of last week, in Lewisburg, Greenbrier county, West Virginia, Mr. Joseph Jarrett stabbed Mr. Floyd Estill in the left breast with a knife. It was feared at the time of this occurrence that Mr.

Estill was mortally wounded, but we are pleased to learn that it is believed now by his physicians that he will recover. He is a worthy citizen, and his death would inflict a great loss upon that community. It seems that Jarrett called Estill a liar, when the latter resented the insult by a blow of his hand, and at the same instant Jarrett stabbed him in the breast with a knife, which entered the cavity and slightly punctured his left lung. Last week at Newark. New Jersey, Gen'l Oliver S.

Ha.stead, commonly called "Pet Halstead," a prominent Republican politician, was shot and killed by George Botts. Both were married men, and both enamored of the same woman, a Mrs. Wilson. Mr. Halstead was a man of excellent family, and married to a woman quite his equal in that respect.

He was a college graduate, an educated lawyer, and a prominent politician. His associations might have been, if he had so chosen, exclusively of the highest class; and the most bon orablo career which native talent, fine culture, and the assistance of friends could enable a man to achieve, lay open before him. Yet with ali these advantages he recklessly degraded himself with vicious indulgences, and his death by violence, iv the hiding place of a lowbred paramour, scarce a stone's throw from the home of his virtuous wife and innocent children, was a fitting sequel to his misspent life. In Rockbridge county, on Friday week, Mr. George Ackerly, living oa Buffalo, in an altercation with George Dock, a colored man, was stabbed and immediately killed by the latter, who says that Mr.

Ackerly attempted to strike him iv the lace, and that, winding at the time, threw up his hand to ward off the blow and struck the knife, which was a common pocketknife, into Mr. Ackerly's breast. On Thursday week a Mr. Luadreth, of Laurel Creek, Greenbrier county, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle ia the hands of a man who wa3 going out of the door of the smith's shop in which the deceased worked. In Grimes county, Texas, Mr.

Briggs Goodrich, a kind husband and a sober, industrious aud respected citizen, mistaking in the dark his wife for one of several burglars who were in his house, stabbed and killed her with a bowie knife. Mrs. Goodrich is represented as a very accomplished and noble woman, and it is said that she died with words of sympathy for her unfortunate husband upon her lips. In the utter consternation and desolation which followed the terrible tragedy, the only child of the marriage, which is still almost an infant, was seen with its head pillowed upon the slain mother's breast, begging her to awake and graut it an evidence of recognition. Three Husbands and Eight Children Lydia Sherman, of Conuecticutjit seems, has been guilty of the murder by poison of three husbands and eight children.

Her trial for the murder of her last husband, Horatio Sherman, in May last, was commenced in Birmingham, Connecticut, on the 6th inst. The analysis ofthe contents of the stomachs of the husbands and children, whose bodies have been exhumed for examination, establish the fact that they contained arsenic. She must be a dcvii incarnate. On Friday morning last, Jewett White, aged 10 son of Milton White of Harrisonburg, accidentally shot himself with a The Enterprise says the ball passed through his arm above the wrist, then penetrated the skin over his stomach and passed around and lodged in his side, whence it was extracted. Not dangerously hurt.

Railroad the night of the 3d instant, the passenger train, composed of two coaches and a sleeping car, fell through a bridge over Harpeth River, 18 miles from Nashville, Tennessee, on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, by which accident 15 persons were killed and 23 wounded. After the locomotive and baggage car had crossed the river, the bridge gave way, and the coaches containing the passengers fell with it into the stream. None of the wounded are mortally hurt. Among the number of wounded was J. W.

Thompson, of Amherst Court-house, Virginia. The dead and wounded were taken back to Nashville. Cincinnati, July VV. Gray, of New Richmond, Clertiioti county, Ohio, on the 4th, bejng drunk, insulted some ladies publicly. Joseph Houck interfered, when a quarrel arose, during which Houck shot Gray, killing him.

New Orleans, July 10:20 A. M. to-day Samuel liamey, general book-keeper of the New Orleans National Bank, while at his desk, was shot and almost instantly killed by William Boyd. The homicide was the result ot former business couipfipations. Boyd was arrested.

Chicago, July special from Iroquois county, Illinois, says a crowd oi cozens irom that town and tho surrounding country, to the number of nearly one thousand, including men, women and children, proceeded to the jail in that place last night and took therefrom Martin Mera, who brutally murdered his son of ten years, and proceeded with a convenient place, where, after giving hknveuty minutes to pray, a rope was neck and thrown over a hundreds ot ready hands hauWThim up, and there held him until he was dead. Philadelphia, July 6. P. Robinson, son of a Thud street banker was seriously wounded this morning, by a pistol shot fired by his friend, Harry VV. Bartol, while the latwas asleep.

Ihe two friends slept together at Bartoi's residence, during the absence of the family io the country. Some time ago the house was entered by burglars, and since that, time he has had by his bedside a Sharp's pocket pistol. Chicago, July Elgin, Illinois, yesterday, two men, named VV. Horton and Jackson Davis, who were engaged in a law suit in regard to some land, met on Horton's farm. Horton ordered Davis off, when the latter drew a revolver and shot Horton, the ball entering the left breast.

Three shots in all were fired, but only one ball took effect. Horton is seriously hurt, but it is thought not fatally. Wheeling, July 6. terrible storm passed over Moundsville this afternoon. The stockade around the West Virginia Penitentiary wasblown down, and one prisoner escaped.

Houses were unroofed, fences blown down and great quantities of grain destroyed. St. Louis, July 6 body of John O-, Brien was found yesterday near KeightleyV Station, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, and examination showed he had been murdered, 14 wounds having been found in his body. Two Irishmen, who left Sedalia with O'Brien last Friday, have been arrested on suspicion. All the parties had been drinking freely.

Niagara Falls, N. July young physician named Charles Gilford, of South Wilson, Niagara county, committed suicide by jumping from Government island bridge yesterday morning. On the bridge was found a letter directed to his father, to his care his wife. Pecuniary liabilities is supposed to be the caugfc Harry Blow, jMeonew of Hon. Henry T.

Blow, was Granby, Newton county, Missouri, la3t Tuesday. It appears that a number of young men having a grudge against Blow visited his house on Tuesday morning and assailed it with stones Blow seized a double-barreled and whilst rpjrnhj the door of his house, was shot in the heart. The murderer is still at large. New York, July G. N.

Dow, formerly a citizen of Augusta, where it is reported he had accumulated nearly a million dollars, has committed suicide from despondency, having lost most of his fortune by speculation. He was 55 years of age. Fatal Railroad Carrigor, only son of C. E. Carriger, secretary and treasurer of the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston railroad, while returning from Wolf Creek, on an excursion train, near Morristown, on Tuesday, was knocked from the train on Sinking creek bridge and instantly braska, hist night, a train on the blown twenty feet from the was killed, the mail agent fifteen other persons moje enj An affray occurred day night, and itlfl ed Morris Hler vvas lodged I Owens, a rcjfcgh oT was suspected anWonvicted.

Noah James, a citizen of some wewltl. living in the vneighborhood, and a member oi' the last contributed to procure the conviction. his sentence Owens made a which he asserted that James him to do the deed by a bribe of participated in it, firing the the murdered man. Upon this a warrant was issued for Jame's arrest. It is possible he got some wind of it, for on Monday last he stepped out of his house with rifle iv Jpis hand, and, placing the muzzle a' his eye.

pulled the trigger with his toe, producing almost instant deatb. Buffalo, N. July W. Daverick, treasurer ofthe Wadsworth Iron Works, and during the war lieutenant. 21st N.

Y. regiment, whi'e street with his wife, last evening, was shot and killed by Mr. Emory, sexTOrof the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. became deranged by the sudden Emory had been firing a pistol on the street the entire day.

On the 4th instant, at Wadesville, Clarke county, Virginia, Mr. Daniel Wade, for many years the efficient depot agent at the Wadesville Station, Winchester and Potomac Railroad, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Mr. Wade has, for the past year or more, been laboring under aberration of mind. A comely young lady named Joan McCormic-k, seventeen years of age, daughter of a wealthy farmer's widow residing in De Kaib county, Illinois, was shot, while sitting at the tea table, and instantly killed, on the 4th instant, by a farm hand named John Read, whom she had refused to accompany to a celebration of the day.

The murderer escaped. Wytheville, Va July Mrs, Headrick was found murdered near this place last night. Killed by are sorry to leasn that Wm. Beasley, son of Mr. Thouia3 Beasley of this county, aged about seventeen, was killed by lightning on Tuesday last, while at work on the farm of Mr.

John C. Major, below Brandy Station. It seems that he had taken shertaamnder a tree when the tree killing him instantly. "wa-ning against going under trees curing a storm. Dr.

Wm. A. Bickers, near James City, we learn, lost two valuable cows by lightning on the same Culpeper Observer. Horrible Murder. white man by the name of John Staneei, was murdered at Cerro Goido, Columbus county, N.

on Wednesday night, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. Mr. Stancell bad been on a visit to this city and left for home on the 7 o'clock train Wednesday evening. Arriving at Cerro Gordo late that night, and as he lived some distance in the country, he laid himself down in the piazza of Mr. J.

E. Bule's store with the intention of waiting until daylight to resume his journey. The next morning his dead body was found iv the piazza alluded to, the head badly mutilated with an ase and nearly severed from the trunk. The murderer, a negro man, was Wilmington Star. New York, July 8.

trains from Newark and New York collided this The cars caught fire and were totally destroyed, burning a number of passengers. Seven bodies have been, taken from the ruins, aud it is supposed that many others are still in the burning mass. No Southerners are reported among the dead. Mobile, Ala July 8. Bragg, nephew of Gen.

Bragg, was attacked this morning by Madison Wiison. son of L. M. Wilson, vice-president of the Mobile and Montgomery railroad, in front of the custom house. Each Qred one shot, resulting in Wilson being instantly killed.

Jas. A. uribos in Taris. The Lexington Gazette publishes a letter from this gentleman dated Paris, June He states that correspondents have exaggora ted the destruction of property iv that He says "There are three causes which have preserved the city from destruction. First, it is built almost exclusively of stone, with iron beams, all the roofing is of slate, tile, or metalic, most of the buildings are entirely, and nearly all are fire-proof; hence, many buildings would not burn, and it was impossible for the fire to spread from building to building.

Second, the soldiery did not at ail harmonize with the Commune in the desire to" destroy the city, and were lax in carrying out the order; most of the burning having been done or attempted by the women. Third, the whole Commune having unlimited access to the wines and liquors in the city were too drunk to accomplish anything. A gentleman who was in the city during the fight remarked to me, "There were were more Communes left iying along the streets, than were shot dead." Mr. Senator Morton anm-unceJiK favoring female suffrage and it is whether the Radical party propose de- question. It is said that Mr.

Simon Cameron, of is Gen. Grant's favorite for next Vice President There is reason to that some of the prevailing blonde ebifcnon. are made of the light fantastic tow. An exchange, wanting compliment a "live Stock Journal," says it is by a man whose head is chuck full ol live Salmon's trial, at Charlottesville, hv. een postponed until August next.

Fortitude. greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is the calmest in storms, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. MM What the Conservative people of Virginia want, in referer.ee to politics, is no "departure" from the principle of opposition to the designs and measures of the leaders of the Radical party. To "depart" from that, would on'y strengthen the Radical party. Alex.

Gazette. "By the authority and at the request of Senator Cameron," the Harrisburg Telegraph, published at the home of Mr. Cameron, announces that "ha is not, and will not be, a candidate for the Vice Presidency under any circumstances." New Advertisements. Thresher of the Period. THE "AULTMAN Threshing Machine WITH 8 AND 10 HORSE dud Down MADE B- THE TVEIX KNOWS AULTKAN TAYLOR M'F'G- baUliant success of these Improved Time-Saving and Money-Earning is unparalleled in the annals Largely increased earnings are Threshermen ivho have purchased A savmfty grain ly Farmers who have employed I ears introduced and Ka- No experiment ln use in 400 Counties I 16 Slates hy 1700 purchasers Endorsed by forty I thousand farmers who have employed them Grain- Saving Matchless "separating" principle Tftey shake the grain out of the straw No Beaters, Pickers, Raddles or Endless clogging or "wrapping" in Flax or Wet Straiv "Ovcrblast" Fan- Sieves have over eleven square feet of Many kinds of Work Great "capacity" in Wheat, Rye, Oats, Barley, Buckwheat, Peas, Beans, Millet, Hungarian, etc.

Unapproachable in in Wet Straro and Grain Unsurpassed in No lillerir.gs to clean detention from wet straw, high winds, clogging or bad set and moved I light Very durable Clieaply kept in order only about one-half as many Belts, Gear Wheels, Journals, Shafts and Pulleys to cleg, wear out, add to draft, or to keep in repair as in Endless Apron Machines More conveniences and less to annoy AU the latest of Prices for wait for weeks and months Inve-tigato I Call on the -undersigned, (or send your mime and post office address), and get a Factory Price a.id Descriptive PampMet (free) 60 illuitrations and letters from hundreds of "purchasers. Complete as well as Horse-Powers "alone," and Separato- "alone" FOI. SALE BY E. C. VINC2SNT, jull-2t Chujjtehville, JAS A.

PIPER adjoining the Virginia Hotel, have a choice st-ack of SUMMER DRESS GOODS. They are closing out rapidly at cost for cash. An opportunity to buy choice styles on such terms rarely occurs. We will only name a few ofthe leading kinds of Goods, viz Embroidered Grenadines, (Black Ground,) Embroidered English Thread Grenadines, (White Zephyr Mohair, (a new article,) Chine Frow-Frow, (choice,) Striped Black and White Thread Grenadine, Plaid Japanese Poplin, Grey and Buii'Japane-e Poplin, Ashes of Roses Percales, Plaid, Piaid and Checked Nainsook, White Goods, Alpacas, Prints, Llama Lace, and Imitation Points, Lace Collars, Ruffling, Pique Trimming, L. C.

Lace Bleached and Brown Cottons, Sheeting, Irish Linen, Cottonades, Linen Dialing, Cambric, Lining Goods, Skirts. NOTIONS GENERALLY. will take great pleasure in showing the stock, (whether you purchase or not,) and think you will agree with us that prices are all right. We have on hand a very extensive STOCK OF WARE, At reduced prices, Including 10 French Chios Tea Sets; also, White Granite Ware of every kinds. Rockingham and Yellow Ware.

Glass Ware, assorted Glass Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, Goblets, Tumblers, July SALE of valuable land in Highland County, Va. Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court of Highland county, rendered at its May term. 1871, in the Chancery causes of Henry J. Shomo and others vs. Edgar Campbell, and Albert Jordan, for, vs.

said Campbell, the undersigned, commissioners therein named for the purpose, will, on SATURDAY, 12th, 1871, offer for sale, at public auction, in front of the Court-house of said county, a certain tract oi land containing 231 acrea, or so much thereof as will pay $6,700. Said land lies on the headwaters of Jackson's river in said county, and is the same land on which the said Edgar Campbell now There is a fine brick dwelling-house on the land with suitable out-buildings to make it a completely comfortable home. The land is unexcelled for its grass-producing qualities, and presents great inducements for a profitable investment or a permanent home. of suit and sale cash, and the residue in four equal annual payments from the day of sale, the credit installments to bear interest from the day of sale; bonds with good personal security required for the deferred payments, and the title to be retained as ultimate security. L.H.STEPHENSON, V.

PTSCK.NEY JONES, full-tds Monterey, Va. OR SAl.E—• Laud Near By virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court Of Augusta county, in cause oi' Moon's adm'r vs. Moon's widow, rendered on the26th day ot July, 1870, the undersigned commissioners will prpceed on the premises on Saturday, the 12tli day of August next, to sell at public sale to the highest bidder, three lots of land, known as 8, and 5, in the plat of survey of Fleming Is. Moon's land. No.

2 containing 12 acres, and 2 roods No. 3 containing 20 acres, 2 roods, and 10 poles, and No. 5 containing 57 acres, formerly purchased by John Opie and Wm. H. Tarns.

Costs of sale and rule, and one-third of amount due from late purchasers in Land, and balance in equal instalments at one and two years, bearing interest from day of sale, to be secured by bonds with good personal security, and title to be retained as ultimate security. Sale at 11 o'clock, A. M. EC M. BELL, julyll-td.

N. K. TltO UT, Com OF VALI'A-L- "LAXD HIGHLAND virtue or a decree of Highland Circuit Court, rendered at its may Term, 1871, in the Chancery cause of J. C. Ruleman.

for, vs. Henry Wilson, I will on Saturday, the 12th day of August, or near the premises, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, a certain tract of land, lying on the Cow-pasture river in said county and containing 177 acres. 1 rood and wa being the same land on which the said Wilson resides, and which he purchased irom the Plaintiff. The land produces liaely and 1S ood dwelling houses on it. in hand to pay the costs ot sale and suit, and the balance in three equal annual instalments, biaring interest day Sa bonds with good security to beVxecuted by the purchaser, lor the unpaid purchase money and the title to be retained as ultimate J.

L. uly 11 --its Sheriff and Com mis; ioner. WAN'r energetic and experienced teacher to take charge of tne classical school at phurehville. Best references required. Address, j.

A j. FUNXHO USES, julyll-3L Churchville, Va. New Advertisements. pi LORIOUS The dark days of Extortion have passed away. Universal Deliverance from llioh Prices is at hand.

LISTEN TO THE GLAD TIDINGS! Muslins cents, worth 10 cents Muslins and 14 cents, worth 15 and 17 cents standard prints 6i cents best American and Sprague prints 10 and 11. cents; Jaconet Lawns to land in New York markets cost 18 cents in SELL THEM AT 121 cents. GOODS ARRIVING EVERY FEW DAYS Always something new, cheap and desirable. What think you of a Grenadine worth $2.75 at Half a million dozen best 200 yards spool cotton 4 cents. It is a miracle It is wonderful! It is astonishing How can it be possible? Sell goods at such prices and not fail I Best Aix la Chapelle pins and gold-eye needles A cents a paper; best Aix la ui.ape.le Broad Cloths and other articles, which have almost driven even English goods out of the American market these at and Quarter Prices.

This is indeed a bitter pill for the so-called cheap stores, and a glorious wind-shake for the people. Altogether it is a tremendous affair and will call forth from its hiding place many a dollar laid by for a rainy day. Real Lace Collars, importation price, $1.25, we sell them for 25 cents Hooks and Eyes 3 cents Hair Pins 3 cents; Hair Nets 8 cents Ladies and Misses Lisle-thread gloves at 12i, 15 and 20 cents; Ladies, misses and boys' Hose, 12J and 15 cts. Upon RIBBONS AND VELVETS we are the king-bees of the city. Everything in this line about 50 per cent, less than the usual price.

Table Linen 371, 45 and 50 cents; superior oji.lity table linen 05c, 87ic, and $1. Where else on earth can such bargains be bad Where elegant striped Delaines and Plaids for 10 and 121 cents? Wisy Pay War Prices for Goods when you can come to BRUCE'S corner, and get elegant French Percales for 18, 2. and 25 cents? All 37. dress goods for 20 cents All 50 cent cress goods for 25 cents Ladies' fine linen Collars and Cuffs at 5, 8, and 15 cents. A large and well selected stock of WHITE GOODS, such as Peques, Brilliants, Plaid and French Muslins at prices amazingly low.

A complete stock of STRAW GOODS 50 PER CENT. CHEAPER than the regular price. FLOWERS, the rarest, choicest and fairest, at 5, 8, 10, 15 and 20 cents. So we urge the people to be cautious in buying of houses that never take the trouble and pains to hunt for bargains, but buy of men who understand the business, men who have agents living in New Pork city, in the auction rooms of Hogourt, Gordon, Kobbe, Hoyt and Toping; men whose sharp-shooters are ever in the front; aye, buy of the bouse whose- enormous trade is doubling every month, and who are the real defenders of the people against speculators, cormorants, and tire so-called cheap stores all over the city- and never forget the name and place. TIMBER LAKE DAWES, Bruce', corner, Staunton, Va.

S. D. TIMBERLAKE, lAI-Ii AT Mandelbaum Bro's FOR GREAT BARGAINS IN CLOTHING. AT Man del ban Bro's, on Augusta street, opposite the Spectator Office. ON Mandelbaum Bro.

FOR THE CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST SELECT STOCK OF CLOTHING Gent's FurnUfiing Goods, this side of Baltimore. GOODS GUARANTEED. Remember the MANDELBAUM Augusta street, opposite Spectator office. At Boles hold in the Clerk's office of Highland County Court, the 3rd day of July, Elijah S. Leitch, Plaintiff, vs.

I Benjamin Hiner, Jonathan Si- I In Chancery, ron and James H. Blagg, Def ta. The object of this suit is to recover of the defendant, Benjamin Hiner, the sum of $295.00 with interest thereon from the 14th day of January, till paid; and to attach the estate and effects of the said Hiner, in the hands of the other defendants, to secure the same. And it appearing from satisfactory evidence that Benj. Hiner is not a resident of this Commonwealth It is ordered that he do appear here within one month after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest.

A J. C. MATHENY, Clerk. Jonss, p.q. julyll-4w 7iHABLES L.

Commissicx. Mcrchaut. BICHMOND, VA. Special and prompt attention given to the sale of WHEAT, FLOUB, COKN, OATS, and all kinds of country produce. Charges light, and quick returns made in every case.

Grain Bags furnished when desired. Consignments solicited, and liberal advances made by J. W. TODD July 11 Burwell corner, Staunton. Monday, July 10th instant, at or between Burkes Foundry and Timberlake's Tobacco Factory, I lost a black memorandum book, containing about $1.50 in aaannbacks and a draft on M.

G. Harman in favor of Wm. A. Burke, from J. A.

M. Lusk, for $40.75, and other papers. A reward of $5, will be paid for the book at Burkes Iron Works. J. A.

MOOBE. It OGH BUILDERS CONTRACTORS, Staunton and Lexington, Virginia. Ali work in the House Building line promptly and neatly executed. Highest cash prices paid for seasoned lumber, a 1 11-Gm expect to change my business and will, therefore, house and lot and store house, situated in Mt. Sidney, Augusta county, lt is a first-rate stand for a store.

GEO. S. WALKER. ju 1 11- IJOC7ISET Best quality-new assortment at HUNTER COS. WALL large stock at HUNTER COSGOLD different styles.

HUNTER CO. Booksellers, corner Main and Augusta sts. tl UKT AIM S-OIL and PAi PER WINDOW SHADES-a large stock in store at HUNTER COS. 171A3I1LY and Pocket Bibles, and Prayer Hymn styles, for sale by HUNTER CO. New Advertisements.

BAD WAY'S READY RELIEF Cores the Worst Pains IN FROM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES. NOT ONE IIOUR after reading this advertisement need any one SUFFER WITH PAIN. Railway's Beady Relief IS A CURE FOR EVERY TAIN. It was the first and is THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that instantly stops th. most excruciating pains, allays Inflammations, and cures Congestions, whether of the Lungh, Stomach, Bowels, or other glands or organs, by one application, from one to twenty minutes, no matter how violent or excruciating the RHEUMATIC, Bed-ridden, Infirm, Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with disease may sutler, a a Ready Relief, will afford instant ease.

Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflammation of the Bladder. Inflammation of the Bowels, Congestion of the Lungs, Sore Throat, Difficult Breathing, Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics, Croup, Byptheria, Catarrh, Influenza, Headachy, Toothache, Neuralgia, liheumatism, Cold Chills, Ague Chills. The application of tho READY RELIEF to the part or parts where the pain or difficulty exists, will afford ease and comfort. Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water will in a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the Bowels, and all Internal Fains. Travelers should always carry a bottle of Radways Ready Relief with them.

A few drops in water will prevent siclcness or pains from change of water. It is better than French Brandy or Bitters as si stimulant. FEVER AND AGUE. Fever and Ague cured for fifty cents. There is not a remedial agent in ibis world that will cure Fever and Ague, and all other Malarious, Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow, and other Fevers (aided by Radway's Pill.) so quick as Railway's Ready Relief.

Fifty cents per bottle. HEALTH I BEAUTY I STRONG AND PURE RICH BLOOD OF FLESH AND SKIN AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION SECURED TO ALL. Dr. Radway's Sarsaparillian Resolvent bus made the most astonishing cures quick, so rapid are the changes the body undergoes, under the influence of this truly wonderful medicine, that every day an increase in flesh aad weight is seen and felt. Ihe great blood Every Drop of the Sarsaparillian Resolvent communicates through the Blood, Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and juices of the system the vigor of life, for it repairs the wastes" of the body with new and sound material.

Scrofula, Syphilis, Consumption, Qlanular disease, Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth, Tumors, Nodes in the Glands and other parts of the system, Sore Eyes, Strvmorous discharges from the Ears and the worst forms of Skin Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scatd Head, Ring Worm, Salt Rheum. Erysipelas, Acne, black spots, worms in the flesh, tumors, cancers in the womb, and all weakening and painful discharges, night sweats, loss of sperm and all wastes of the Ufeprinciple, are within tbe curative range of tnis wonder of Modern Chemistry, and a few days' use will prove to any person using it for either of these forms of disease its potent power to cure them. If the patient, daily becoming reduced by the wastes and decomposition that is continually progressing, succeeds in arresting these wastes, and repairs the same with new material made from healthy this the SARSAPARILLIAN will and does cure is certain for when once this remedy commences itwork of purification, and succeeds in diminishing the loss of wastes, its repair, trill be rapid, and every day the patient will feel himself growing better and stronger, tiie food digesting better, appetite improving, and flesh and weight increasing. Not only does the Saraapai llian lb oA-mt excel all known remedial agenu. in the cure of Chronic, Scrofulous, Constitutional, and Skin diseases but it is the only positive cure for Kidney and Bladder Complaints.

Dr. Radway's Perfect tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet regulate, purify, cleanse, and strengthen. Radway's Pills, for the cure of all disorders of the stomach, livar, bowels, kidneys, bladder, nervous diseases, headache, constipation, costiveness, indigestion, dysbepsia, biliousness, bilious fever, inflammation of the bowels, piles, and all derangements of the internal viscera. Warranted to effect a positive cure. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury minerals, or deleterious drug-.

Observe the following symptoms resulting from disorder, of the digestive Constipation, inward piles, fullness of the blood head, acidity of the stomach, nausea, artburn, disgust of food, fullness or weight in the stomach, sour eructations, sinking or fluttering at the pit of the stomach, swimming of the head, hurried and difficult breathing. A few doses of Radway's Pills will free the system from all the above named disorders. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by Druggists. Read "False and Send one letter stamp to RAD WAA' No.

87 Maiden Lane, New York. Information worth thousands will be sent you juillly It II Pn C-l I Bear TesitisMusy io their Wonderful Curative Kilects. They are not a vile Fancy Drink, made ot Poor liiini, Whiskey. Proof Spirits anil l.elns^.i-qiiors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please called I that i lead the tippler on to drurAenuess and ruin, but are atrne rxUdicrne.madc from the native 800 -and Herbs of California, free from all Alcoholic They are the EAT IS I VV RI FI Ell and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPI-E. a perfect Renovator and Invigorutor of the Systems carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring lie! ilood to a healthy condition.

Ho person can take these Bitters according to directions and remain long unwell.provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. They arc a Genfie Purgative as vrell as a Tonic, possessing, Sao, the peculiar merit of acting as a power fui agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, and all the Organs. FOR FEMALE COM in young or old, married or single, at the dav.n of womanhood or at the turn of life, these Tonic Bitten have no equal. For Inflammatory anil Chrouic Rlieumatisui and Gout, oi In-ia-StiM, Hilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the ISloGd, Liver, Kidneys aud Bladder, these Bitten have been most successful. Such Diseases in- caused by Vitiated ISlood, which is generally produced derangement of the Digestive DYSPEPSIA OK INDIGESTION, Headache, Pain in the Shoal Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructation? ofthe Stomach, Bad Taste ia the Mouth, Bilious Altai Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of tiie Lungs, Pain in the regions ofthe Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the oOspringSof Dyspepsia.

They iiiVigt.rate ihe Stomach and stimulate the torpid Liver and which render them of unequalled i flicacy in cleansing the blood of all imparities, an 4 imparting new life anil vitiorto the whole system. I FOB SKIN DISEASES, Lruptions. Totter, Salt Bheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car- A buncies, Ring-Worms, Scald Head. Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch.Scurfs, of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of theShip.ofwbatev-Tiiws or nature, me literally dug up ami carried out ofthe system in a short time by the use ot these Bittern One bottle in such cases will convince the most incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you End its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins: cleanse it when it is foul, and your feelings will tell you when.

Keep the blood pure, and tbe health of the ITStem will follow. Pin, Tape, aud other Worms, lurking in the system of so many are etii-ctualiy destroyed and removed. Says a distinguished physiologist, there is scarcely an individual upon the face of the earth whose body is exempt from tho presence of worms. It is not upon the healthy elements of tho body that worms exist, but upon the diseased humors and deposits that breed these livin. monsters of disease.

No System of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmintics, will free the system from worms like these Bitters. J. WALKER, Proprietor. B. 11.

McDMTALD Druggists an 1 Gen. Agents. San Francisco. California, and :12 and 34 Commerce Street. New York.

BY ALL AND PK-JJOtf Tlr AIX A PERSI WALL PAPERS HUNTER CO. NEW BOOHS received every weekly HUNTER CO. New Advertisements. "YOV KNOW HOW IT LS CANNOT 7 I VKR YBOD YSA T8 IT, AND WHA EV- MUST BE SO. That old dodge of promising to sell at cost is done as blind to deceive those who are not posted on the price, of Goods.

Ciood Judges go to these places, look around and at last come to lilatlke's and make their purchases, and go home, satisfied that GLADKEaS goods are the best and cheapest in Staunton. Every Person is their own Free Agent. All we ask is a call and if you are not convinced of the above statement, you are not compelled to purchase. We show our good; freely and guarantee satisfaction to all. Respectfully, CHARLES A.

GLADKE. VfE HAVE THE BEST SELECTION OF MILLINERY GOODS in market, all ofthe very latest styles, and guarantee the prices satisfactory. This department is in charge of Mrs. Gladke, and nothing is left undone to please all. julyll At rales held in tbe Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Highland on Monday, the 3rd day of July.

David Fultz vs. George Fleisher and James M. In Chancery. Seig, Defendants, Ihe object of this suit is to attach the money debts and effects of the defendant, George Fleisher, in the hands of James M. Seig ami have the same applied to the payment of the plainti-Ts debt of $88.00 wiih interest thereon from the Ist day of January, 18G8.

And it appearing (rom satisfactory evidence that the defendant, George Fleisher, is not a resident of this Commonwealth It ordered that he do appear here within one month after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest. A J. C. MATHENY, Clerk. Julyll-4w Auction Safes.

pursuance of a A decree of the Circuit Court of Augusta, rendered in the cause of Wm. J. Gilkeson's heirs, against Joseph Harrison, I will proceed on the premises lo'sell at public sale to tho highest bidder on Thursday, the27th day of duly next, a piece or parcel of land, containing 22 acree, 2 roods and 4 poles, on the waters of Christian's creek, near the Greenville road, an! adjoining John Silors and others. of sale and suit in in equal instalments at one, two and three years, bearing intere-t from day of sale; bonds with personal security and lien to be retained on land. Sale at 11 o'clock, A.

M. N. K. TItOUT, june27-tds Commissioner. OF will offer for saie on TUESDAY.

THE OF JULY', (if not sold privately before that time,) 75 acres of River Bottom Land, lying on South River, 5 miles south of 1 mile from Stuart Co's mill. The improvements consist of a good dwelling, barn, and all necessary oat-booses. There is also on the land a No. 1 spring and orchard. suit the purchaser, and title guaranteed.

Address, J. C. MOWEY, june27-4ts Waynesboro'. SALE of Desirable Town to a dicretal order of the Circuit Court of Alleghany County, pronounced on the 80th day of March 1871, in a cause therein depending, on the chancery side thereof, in which Robert M. Avres for is Plaintiff, and.

John A. Beard and John L. I'itzer are Defendants, I shall, as Special Commissioner therein named, expose to sale at public auction to tha highest bidder, in front of the Court House of said County of Alleghany, on Monday the 17th day of July 1871, (being Courtday) the lands in the 15111 and proceedings mentioned consisting of one lot of ground situated in the town of COVINGTON in aid County of Alleghany and designated in the plat of said Town as lot No. 93, containing one-fourth of an acre, which is the same property that was formerly owned by Defendant Pitzer, but is now owned and occupied by Defendant Beard. The improvements consist of a comfortable Frame Dwelling with necessary and convenient out-houses, and a commodious Work Shop, suitable for almost any kind of mechanic.

Terms of in hand sufficient to pay costs of suit and the expenses of sale, -and for the residue of the purchase money a credit of One, Two and Three years will be given, purchaser required to execute bonds with good personal security for the deferred installments and the legal title to be retained as ultimate security wm. m. McAllister, June 20th 1871 tds Commissi oner. PUBLIC I wili sell, at public sale, on Saturday, the 24th day of June, 1871, at ChurrfiTilie, the following property, to 1 horse, 1 two-horse wagon and harness, 1 car- implements, and some household and kitchen furniture. knowing themselves indebted will come forward and settle up, by the day of sale and those holding claims against the estate will present them, properly authenticated, for settlement.

Terms made known on day of sale. J. A. WILSON, adm'r maySO-tds of Wm. H.

Bell, deed. above sale is postponed till vSaturday, the 19th day of August. J. A. m'r.

I AND FOR SALE The subscriber "will offer at public sale oa the premises on Sat- L-RDAY, the 29th of J. ly, acres of land, lying on Moffitt's Branch in Augusta county, adjoining the lands of Dunhip, Dr. Samuel R. Hendren and others. This tract will be sold as a whole or in parcels as may suit purchasers.

This land is good, and well watered, and has plenty of good pine and oak timber. There are two dwellings upon it. Terms easy, and wili be made known on day of salo. W.M.HOWELL. pOMfl ISSIO-VEllS' sileasFvaC uable Real Estate in Alleghany county to a decree of the Circuit Court of Alleghany county, rendered on the 25th day of March, 1871.

in tho consolidated Wises of jUnsbargcr against Irvine's administrator and heirs, and Irvine" adm'r against Irvine's heirs, we shall, as the commissioner, thereby appointed, proceed to sell, by public auction on the premises, on Wednesday, the llith day of July, 18,1, at 12 o'clock, several continuous tracts of land, situated at and near Jackson River Depot, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and aggregating about 700 acres. About 150 acres of this is tine Jackson's River bottom land, and at present in high state of cultivation. The residue eoniM- of valuable timbered land, lying contiguous to the Railroad and abounding in iron ore of fine quality. There is a fine Alum Spring, and also a lino Sulphur Spring on the premises, near the depot. The improvements consist of a commodious hotel building and other convenient buildings at the depot, all in good repair.

A delightful location for a summer boarding house And also of the mansion house, a pleasantly located building containing 7 or 8 rooms, with all necessary outbuildings, including barn, stables, all in good repair. The land wiil be sold as an entire tract, or in separate parcels as may be deemed best on the day of sale. in hand sufficient to pay the costs of the suits and the costs of sale, -tnd as to the residue, on credits of one, two, three and four years, in equal instalments, purchasers giving bonds with approved personal security, the same bearing interest at six per cent, per annum from the day of sale, and title retained till the purchase money is paid. Wm.SK.EEN. R.

L. Com r3 Covington, June 5-4w.