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American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-02-02
Shedding with a Looseness /!

The b'heys of our borough will long
remember the winter of $3.50, and
in recounting their 'hair breadth 'scapes
and ups and downs, !" Chad's alley"
will figure largely in the foreground.
This locality, at noon and night, is the
centre of much merriment, mingled &C.
casionally with expressions of more Sc
rious import, from unlucky wights who
have been Spilled" thus compelled to
finish their journey on the thinncst part
of their pantaloons We have seen
some nineteen sleds come down the al.
ley at full locomotive speed, and yet
so adroitly do they steer their crafts,
that should one of the foremost capsize
the flying pursucrs are either checked
up or turned aside SO that full hedged
collision is the exception to the rule.
But for their proficiency in this respect
broken limbs and bruises would have
stopped the sport ere this. 1t is when
the uninitiated try the glib ice with the
sleek sled that the alley is most merry
and musical, for shipwrcck is almost
inssRRgable from a first trip down
Gods alley"
We do not think that night shedding
should be allowed, for the danger is too
|
great to life and limbs, as eYinced al
ready in the case of young Darnell,
whose jaw-bone was fractured night
or SO ago. Daylight is the safest,
boys, for that sport.
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Fire at Evansville.

We are informed, and regret to an
nouncc that on Thursday night, the
9th ultimo, the dwelling-house of our
friend and agent, WILLIAM e. Tut,
at Evansville, Preston county, was
entirely dostroyed'by fire, with its con-
tents Of household effects. A Smoke
house adjoining, well stored with meat,
provisions, &C., in which the fire origi-
mated, with its contents, shared the
same fate. The fire occurred late in
the night, and had gained such head
way before it was discovered that it
was impossible to arrest it. The loss
to Mr.. Tut is estimated at $1,000.
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PUBLIC SALE.

DURSUANTto Deed Of Trust given 10y Squire
Il Cushman to Edgar c. Wilson to secure the
payment ofa sum OF money to Matthew Cay
the subscriber will, Oh
Saturday the 29th Of february. 1856,
at the Court House in Moreantown, Monongaiia
county, Va, sell to the highest bidder,
SiNty.cisht Acres cf Land.
lying in said county, on the waters of CRAFTS
Run, adjoining lands OF CrGcld and others -
Also, IL Acres adjoining the above ;ract, con-
Neycd to said Cushman by Benjamin White.
Although said Trust Deed docs not authorize
any credit 10 be given, yet the subscriber will
require of the purchaser but $3.50 paid down,
and will indulge for the balance and 10 months
the purchaser giving bond and security bearing
interest from the day of sale.
EDGAR c. WILSON, Trustee.
February 2, 1896.
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For the american Union.
SUGAR MARKING.

Mr.. Editor IF you will allow me
a little corner in your paper, | wish to
call the attention of Farmers generally
to the subject of Sugar Making, the
season for which is now near at hand.
1t is stated in our commercial papers
that the Sugar crop at the South has
again been almost failure, and that
consequently sugar will rate very high
for year or moro to come. | have
been told by dealers in the article, that
Southern sugar will be up to Is or IS
cents a pound before long. Now, this
is big price, and more than many Of
our people will want to pay; but there
is remedy for it. There is every in.
dication now that we will have an ex-
cellent season for making sugar this
Spring, and / wish to suggest to our
Farmers the Importance Of going into
the business more extensively than
usual. Should the weather prove fa-
yorable, great quantity of domestic
sugar can be made this Spring, and it
will undoubtedly command good price
and pay well, and be better for both
manufacturer and consumer. We can,
in our county, make sugar enough to
supply the home demand, if attended
to properly, and thus relieve the in
convenience which would otherwise
follow the failure Of the Southern crop.
Many of our Farmers are already pre-
pairing for this business on larger
scale than usual, and throw out the
above suggestions that others may be
induced to give it that attention which
its Importance demands. Let the Far
mers of old Monongalia who have the,
trees, go into this business extensiyel
this Spring, and they will ind "as
they have, right at home, yoi0q -. =,
profitable labor, which has fere'o'oro
been much neglected. ,,,v
,jIoMEdy3o, 1856,
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DIR. 4. Scott e. Co.'s medicines.

The Improved Medicines, prepared
by DIR. /. Scott & Co., of this place,
having been heretofore introduced with
the happicst effects in an extensive
practice, it is not surprising that they
should meet the favor they have attain
Jed at the hands of suffering humanity.
a visit to the Laboratory of the Com
pany, where the Medicines are prepar-
cd in such immense quantities-the ac-
emulation of orders from Druggists
and Merchants mall parts of the coun-
try, east, west, north, south--the vol
nmes of testimony from those who have
used McLanes Improved Liver Pills
and Vermifuge, and the unrivallcd
White Circassian Liniment---all provo
the high repute of these remedial a.
gents, and the extensive demand for
'hcm; indeed, no merely ephemcral
eca'ch-penny preparations could meet
the favor and success which is already
theirs to boast. We have used the
Min our family for very severe
Sprains, sore throat, and Lumbago, and
VIC add our cheerful and unsolicited
testimony to its curative properties. -
Inc Liver Pills and Vermifugo arc c.
qually eficacious, and are certified by
persons of high standing and undoubt-
Gu veracity, who have used the old
Olodlcines, to be a great Improvement
upon them, in the mildness and thor
s0u9hness of their operation and effects
upon the system,
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PHROnhOgraIphy

"AD PHOTOGRAPHY been known 40 years
IL ago it would have saved me 90 years of
hard labor.-lIon. Thomas II. BENTON.
Some of our Students not yet 90 years of age,
are making more money by Photography, than
the Principal of the High Sbhooi, after having
given himself for more than twenty years to his
proiession.--JoHN S. HARr, Principal of the
High School, Philadelphia.
This beautiful system of short hand taug hit
through the mail, by NM. TEBBS, Phonogra-
phic Teacher, Providence, Rhode Island.
Terms for n course of twelve lessons, includ-
ing full explanatory corrections to all exercises,
five dollars. .'.... ..... .. .......... ...
MN Any newspaper, periodical, &C., giving
this advertisement two insertions, including this
notice, and forwarding copy as above direct
ed, will receive the lessons. fcb2 SO
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From the Presiding Elder Of Morgan
town District Western Virginia
Conference. ..
VIRGINIA, January "a, 1856.

VIRGINIA, January 81, 1856.
DR.. !. SCoTT & Co.,
Gentlemen: Having been afl;ct
ed with soreness in my sides and pains in
my limbs, with cold in my lungs and depres-
sion of spirits, for some two or three months,
], few days since, took one dose Of your
McLanes Improved Liver Pills, which has
benefit,ed.me very greatly, and the Improved
Pills are much more mild and pleasant in
their action than the old McLane's Pills,
which ! have frequently taken heretofore,
aud can with confidence recommend the
Improved Pills to the afflicted, and my
friends, as both mild and curative.
GIDEON MARTIN.
DR.. M'Lanes Improved Liver Pills and Impro-
we'd Vermifugo, also DR.. !. Scotts Celebrated
White Crcassian Liniment, prepared solely uns
der the supervision Of Dr. ]. Scott, Regular
Medical Graduate and Physician of extensive
practice.
None genuine only prepared by DR.. ]. Scott
& Co., sole Proprictors, Bank Place, Morgan
town, Va. Dr. M'Lune's Improved Liver Pills
and Improved Vermifuge, accompanied by GER
tfcate of G. McLane.
u All the above Medicines are for sale by
Druggists and Merchants genoraly.
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plls2 Am9alGAN UNlDNs
noneAErovN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY g.
couRr-DAx.

IN Monday. Slcds, slcighs, jumpers,
and ;umper.ettes thronged every street
and avenue, and the merry jingle of all
sorts of bellies, from the noisiest sleigh
bells to the tiny tinkle from the sheep
pasture, made up pleasant variety,
dispelling tho monotony which had
settled upon the ancient shire-town OF
Monongalia. And then, again, what
a grand opportunity for our farmers to
get their produce to market, and to put
money in their pockets, or if they pre-
ferred, to exchange their commodities
for the very cheap goods of our ac-
commodating merchants.
COURT.
Court was called about IL o'clock,
and adjourned finally about 4, p. NJ
The usual business for Monday was
transacted; we suppose all that was
ready for adjudication. The docket
was so well cleared up atthc two weeks
term in November, that we presume
short sessions of the monthly court will
become fashionable for awhile.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The Agricultural Society Board, we
understand, had a meeting, but the
main object being to locate the Fair
Grounds, nothing could be done on ac-
count of the. snow. The Committee ON
this account were not able to select an
eligible spot. When we shall have q
thaw, and terra firma becomes visible,
with its 'nooks and crannies, then the
location Of the Fair Grounds will pro-
coed, and we doubt not with harmony
among all concerned.
7''. THE DEMOCRACY
An ominous tolling Of the bell at the
Court House, about noon, and contin-
ued at intervals till perhaps 2 o'clock,
cvinced that there was screw loose a
mong tho "Dimmycrats," or else that
special effort was required to ring in ,
the faithful. We understand they had
a meeting eventually, but not having
provided a reporter for the occasion,
we are without any particulars. We
presume, however, that their preamble
and resolutions would read in this wise,
when Invested of all supcrfuous verb
agc:-Whereas, Democracy is Dcmoc-
racy therefore, Resolved, That we are
Democrats, and having promise of the
Offices that now are, and looking for
ward to the pcrquisites gloriously he
redtary among the faithful, we expect
10 die Democrats, dyed in the wool.
AMERICAN MEETING.
The American meeting, of which we
publish the proceedings in another col
umn, was numerously attended, and its
proceedings were very Harmonious
The Americans of Monongalia are uni-
ted among themselves, and ready to
come out with their armor FURNISHED,
when the clarion shall be sounded
The. are not dishcartened OF dismayed
at their defeat last Summer, but rather
regard it as a deserved defeat for al
loving the "Orator of Only, near Oman.
cock to traverse the State and traduce
the American cause without opposing
him in his recklessness and misrepre
sentation. We enter the lists for sc
with an open organization, with prin,
clplcs and purposes unconcealed, ant
with high hopes of success, we vii
battle on for the right.
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HSHD HOU0,yn,J's PILE

B@~ Holoway's PILE, a certain
Remedy for Dropsy. Charles Hutchinson 1897
of Burlington Vermont, was for fifteen months a
sad victim to this complaint, so bad was he one
part of the time, that the water actually oozed
through the pores of the skin, and thrice per day
change OF apparel became necessary. Every
time his doctor called he expected to find him
dead, and in fact gave his friends no hopes Of his
recoveryJ his sister, who had derived great ben
eft by the use of Ilolloway's Pills, begged him,
as a favour to her, to try them fortunately for
a change for the BETTER in four weeks he was a :
gain attending to business, having thoroughly
got rid of the disorder, and in the most excel
lent health and spirits. These Pills work won
dcrs in liver and bilious complaints.
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WOODWORTH's
YOaggEasS CSsb5paog

EDITED DY FRANCIS C. wooDwoRTu, WIDE
LY KNOWN AS "UNcLE FRANK"
Is universally acknowledged to be the Best
Young Peoples Mdgdsine in the Union. It con-
commences with the January number, An ac-
curatc portrait Of the Editor, splcndidly engrav-
cd on steel, is sent as premium to all paying
subscribers. The January number is very pro-
fusey illustrated and cmbcllished, and has the
richest and rarcst table of contents ever prescn-
ted in similar magazine. ... .. .. .
Now is tho Time to Subscribe!
Terms = For single copy One Dollar year,
invariably in advance. Four copies one year.
$500; five copies year 81 copies year
So; 10 copies year $40. For club Of five
or more an extra copy will be sent to the person
who forms the Club.
SIP ecimen Numbers including the portrait, l21<
cts. Large proof impressions of the portrait
20 cts. postige paid.
"A. WOoDWORTII, Publisher,
Dec. %, 1855. llS Mas au ST. New York
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DIR. G. McLANE'S
Liver Pills & Vermifuge.
E19PROVED

DIR. i. SCOTT, regular graduate and physi-
clan of extensive practice and experience, in
duccd by n ccmnendable desire to alleviate hui
man suffering, Ms well as to excel, has effected
an IMPROVEMENT on the original LIVER
PHI and NEnmiruoE of DR.. G. McLANE, having
prepared these remedies rs the medical partner
Of DR.. c. McLano, for many years.
Our Improved Liver Pills and yermifugc pos
sess greater efficacy and are more mild in their
operation than tho Liver Pill and Vermiiugc pre-
pared according to the original recipe OF DR.. Z.
McLGne. We make this declaration understan-
dinghy, and recommend them to the afflicted as
being both pleasant and curative, and believe
them superior TO any other Liver Pill or Vermi-
uge ever prepared.
Read Certificate of DR.. C. McLane, below.
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Morgantown Marble Works.
SHEETS & LAFFERTY,

dealers In Foreign and Domestic marble,
Manufacturers Of Monuments, Tomb
stones, Headstones, &c.
Have esta blished Marble Factory in Nor
gantown, and are prepared to finish Crave
stones of every description, on the shortest
notice and most reasonable terms. Their
work will be done in the most approved
style, as they employ none but the best Of
workmen. Persons wishing to purchase a
splendid article of the kind will do well &c
give them call. AL orders, either by let
ter or otherwise, promptly attended TO. Shop
on Walnut street, near Front.
Their Prices are AS Low AS TIE LOWEST,
and their work unsurpassed in this section
of the country.
Morgantown, Jan. 10, 1856. If
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b@s- On Saturday morning last, the
thermometer stood at Is degrees below
zero at daylight, and at clock at IA
deg. -the coolest weather we have had
for many years in this latitude.
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Read Certiicaleor DR.. C. McLane, below
The whole world Conquered!
DR.. I. SCOTS Celebrated white
e,trpHGSt.ys

The universal relief afforded by applications
OF this Celebrated King of Pain Killers in ca
scs Of Rheumatism Govt, Lumbago Sore Throat,
Bruises, Sprains, Swciings, Stiffness of tho
Joints, Sciataca, Pains, Scalds, Burns, Aches,
or any other disease for which Pain Killer or
Liniment is used, enables US to assert positive
~ that DR.. |. Scott's Celebrated White Cir
cassian Linimcnt is the most reliabc, safe and
pleasant remedy yet discovered, possessing as
tonishing properties FOR HEALING DISEASE AND
THE PRonPr ERADICATION OF PAIN. Tho many
attestations to its virtues, given by persons OF
enlightened judgment and strict integrity should
induce all to adoptit a standard Family Rem
edy. The most incredulous will require nothing
more than the following testimony Of Dr.. c.
Nc Lane, distinguished as great discovcrer of
mo bicnl
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Now is tho Time to Subscribe |!
&" THE GOOD TIME COMING.'

By Il. S. ART HUR.
Those who wish to hear something OF that
long expected day, should read this book.
1t is having an immense sale, 5000 copies
having been ordered in advance Of publication
We send copy by mail, post paid, on receipt
Of the price, ST. J.W. BRADLEY,
Publisher, AZ North Fourth ST., Philadelphia.
N. B. Agents wanted to sell this and other
popular books in all parts of the United States.
Send for our List and terms to egcnts.
December 10, 1865
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READ! EsEAD!! HeEAD!!!

MoRoANrowH, VA, Sept. 10, 1865.
This is TO Certify That have examined the
Recipe for preparing McLanc's Improved Yer
miiuge and Liver Pills by DR.. !. Scott, who has
been IN THE HABIT OF PREPARING AND USING ely
ORIGINAL MEDICINES IN MY OFFICE during the last
THIRTEEN YEARS, and that believe he has I'M
PROVED THEM. j mako the above statement
the more willingly hare no interest in them
uhdterer. i would further state that have fire.
Gucnty used his CELEBRATED WHITE CIRcAssIAN
LINIMENr in my practice, with the happicst cf-
fleets, and that can cOnscientiously recommend
it. c. McLANE, NJ. ID.
All the above Medicines prepared solely I'M
der the supervision of DR.. l. Scott Sold by
Druggists and Merchants generally.
The genuine DR.. c. McLanes Improved Liver
Pills and Improved Vermifnge signed DR.. l..
Scott Co., accompanied by certificate OF G..
McLanc. The genuine Celebrated White Cir
cassan Liniment signed DR.. l. Scott s. Co., ac-
companicd with signature Oft. Scott, NJ. D.
DR.. !. SCOTT & CO.,
Sole Proprietors,
Bank Place, Morgantown, Va.
January I, 1866.
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OUR BOOK TABLE.

Cooley for February is before us
at least what remains of it, for despite
of our rule it has been slipped out and
put on circuit, and 50 eagerly have
certain lady-readers deyoured it's con-
tents, that it looks not unlike soldier
just returned from the Crimea. Why
don't the ladies all subscribe for it.
seeing they love it so dearly? This No.
contains no less than 81 embellish-
ments, and 60 original articles.
ARTHUR's HOME MAGAzINEfo for Feb.
is received. 1t contains 33 articles,
historical and miscellaneous, and 80
illustrations on steel and wood. This
work invariably combines the useful
with the entertaining. Its friends will
be gratified to learn that the valuable
services of Miss Virginia r. Townsend
have been secured as Assistant Editor.
Blac&vooa's Edinburgh Magazine,
for December, 1855 contains Zaide, a
Romance, concluded; Simony and Lay
Patronage, historically and morally
considered; Illustrations Of Herodotus;
Modern Light Literature--Art; Court
ship under Difficulties Our Rural Pop
ulation and the War, &c. &c. This
number is decidedly interesting.
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VIRGINIA
AT Rules held in the Clerks Office of tho Cir
cut Court of Preston county or the first Monday
OF January, 1856:
william Nj. Evans, Complain ant,
Thomas Collins, surviving partner of TIL omas
Collins and Joseph Collins, late partners trad
ing undor the firm and style Of Thomas Collins
Co.,"-and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company Defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
The object of this suit is to obtain decree a.
gainst the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa-
ny Tor the payment OF a note executed by the said
Thomas Collins g. Go. to the Complainant for
twenty-five dollars and thrty-ninc cents and it
appearing by affidavit fled in this cause that the
defendant, Thomas Collins, is not a resident of
TINS Stato,--On motion of the complainant, by
his counsel, it is ordered that he do appear here
within one month after due publication of this
notice, and do what is necessary to protect his
interest in this cause. A copy-Teste
JAS. II. CARROLL, Clerk.
G. r. c. ALLEN, Counsel. Jan. 26. 81 st 1
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ESTRAY NOTICE.
ESTRAY NOTICE.

ES1RAY NOTICE.
Preston C0unty, to aoit -
TO the Clerk of the County Court o { said county.
NM +, John c. Wotrjng, John M. Stemple and
w Daniel j. Wotring, three freeholders of
said county, do hereby certify that by virtue OF
warrant TO us directed by William ii. Grimes,
Justice of said county, we have this day, on our
oaths, viewed and appraised a heifer taken up by
William J.. Fanslec, on his land as an ostray,
and assessed the value Of said Estray at twenty
three dollars. The said heifer we think was
four years old last Spring, and we think her to be
spaycd. She is well grown, with large dropped
horns, turned up NJ the points. She has retf
sides, white and red back and belly :hc insides
OF all her legs mostly white, with some red spots
the white runs quito round the hind logs she
has large bushy tail. There is no brand, nor
ear marks discovorable to us. Given under our
bands this 10th OF November, 1865.
JOHN G.. WOTRING,
JOHN NJ. STEMPLE,
DANIEL +. WOTRING.
Jan. 90, 1865. 81 st
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Both the Ointment and Pills should 6a
ase2 IN the f1IIo,cj,,u c1eee,

NDNS'' 'fS St"t"CHt "fttt Il GOO sfOUttt tC
used IN the tolloscing cases.
Bunions Lumbago Sore Legs
Burns Mcrcural Erup- Sore Breasts
Chapped Hands tons Sore Heads
Chiiolains Piles a. Sore Threats
FIstuias Rheumatism Sores Of all
Govt Snlt Rheum kinds
Skin Diseases Scads
Swel!ed Glands Stiff Joints Ulcers Noncreal
Sores wounds Of all kinds.
&%<Sold at the Manufactures Of Professor
Holloway, so Maiden Lane, New York, and pa
Strand, London, and by all res pcctublc Drug
glsts and Dealers in Medicine throughout tho
United States, and the civilized world in pots,
at % cents, Ga cents, and 81 each.
DJ-Th ere is considerable saving by taking
the larger sizes.
n. b. Directions for the guidance Of patients
in every disorder are affixed 10 each pot.
Dec. 8, iS55--cow.
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MarrfeD:

On Thursday evening, January II,
by Re,. S. Smith, Mr.. HAMILTON G..
JouwoN, of Lewis county, Va, and
Mis-. PRuDEScE A., daughter of Mr..
Jacob Cork, IF Wood county.
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M A RKET REPORTS.
BALTIMORE PRICES,

as0T" Owing to tie arrangement of
the mails, we arc without our usual
Baltimore lettc' of Prices, &c.
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Piles and RiSfHf<fS.

These and other distressing complaints can
be ehectually cured ifthe Ointment be well ruiz
bed over the parts affected and by otherwise
following the printed directions around each
pot. ..... ...
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Sore Legs, Sore Breasts, Wounds and Ulcers.

Some Of the most scientific surgeons now re.
ly solely on the use of this wonderful Ointmcnt,
when having to cope withe worst cases of sores,
wounds, ulcers, glandular dwellings aad tumors.
Professor Holloway has, by command Of the Al
the East, large shipments OF this Ointment, 10
be used under the direction OF the Medical staff,
in the worst cases OF wounds. 1t will cure any
ulcer, glandular swelling, stiffness or contrac-
ton ofthc joints, even for 90 years. standing.
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Holloway's Ointment.
THE GRAND EXTERNAL REMEDY !
Salt Rheum & scorbut:c uumors.

No remedy has ever done much for tho
euro of diseases of the Skin whatever form they
Rheum, Scurvy, Sore Heads, Scrofula OF Erysr-
elias, can long Withstand its influence. Tho Ia
vcntor has travelled over many parts fthe globe
visiting the principal hospitals, dispensing this
Ointment, giving advice as to its application,
and has thus been the means of restoring count
less numbers TO health ....