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Staunton Spectator: September 9, 1857 Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

The Market Law
(Column 1)

Summary: Editorial about the new market law. SS doesn't like it, especially the provisions limiting places of sale for produce, eggs, etc. Thinks it's bad for business.

Mr. Davis' Nursery
(Column 2)

Summary: Report of another visit to Davis' nursery. Description of his peach and apple trees, and of the process of cultivation.
(Names in announcement: Mr. Davis)

Still Chatty
(Column 2)

Summary: Spectator is still complaining about Waynesboro and Charlottesville chatting up the Telegraph lines. Refers to an article in the Charlottesville Advocate, which describes Staunton as a Lion and Richmond as an Ass!

Mayor's Court
(Column 1)

Summary: This may be a joke: Article lists the violations of the new market law made by local notables.
(Names in announcement: Alderman Sterrett, John D. Imboden, Abram Lavell, Nicholas K. Trout, James Beatie, Jno. H. McCue, R. F. Puists)

Sale of Property
(Column 1)

Summary: Recent property sales. Too dark and blurry to read clearly.
(Names in announcement: Samuel Clark, J. M. Henderson)

For the Spectator
(Column 4)

Summary: Letter expressing support of the new market law and the way in which it cuts out middlemen. Buyers and sellers can negotiate directly.

Trailer: A Citizen.

For the Spectator
(Column 4)

Summary: Letter expressing opposition to the market law, beacuse of its "leveling and disorganizing" tendency.

Trailer: Christopher Shylock

For the Spectator
(Column 4)

Summary: Ironic letter, supposedly from one of the middlemen, expressing his dismay over the new market law, because it cuts into his profits.

Trailer: SHYLOCK

The Southern Presbyterian Convention
(Column 1)

Summary: Report from convention in Richmond. They have decided to withdraw, and form a new synod, "the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America."

Married
(Column 2)

Summary: Burkwolder to Hanger, near Churchville, 9/2/57.
(Names in announcement: Jacob Hanger, Rev. R. C. Walker, Preston J. Burkwolder, Henrietta A. Hanger)

Died
(Column 2)

Summary: Walter, age 1 year 10 mo, died of typhoid flux. Obituary contains a poem.
(Names in announcement: Walter McKendree Lickliter, James M. Lickliter, Sarah V. Lickliter)

Died
(Column 2)

Summary: Jacob, age 91, doed 8/25/57. Long obit.
(Names in announcement: James Bumgardner, Jacob Bumgardner)