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NOTICE.-All persons knowing
themselves indebted to me, are request
cd to call and settle Immediately.
llRs. MARY Z. VARSBY.
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

BY virtue OF Decree of the Circuit Court
ofGilner county, rendered at tho April term
Of 1872, in the chancCry cause Of Simon
Frank against the Natural Oil Springs COM
pany, Theo MCNamee, and others, will sell
by Public Auction at the front door Of the
Court House Of said county, on the 18th day
Of August, 1871, that being Court day, the
following described tracts Of land in said
cause decrecd 10 DO sold One tract contain
Ing $40! acres, situated on the Crooked Fork
Of Steer Creek, and the other containing
|, l4l acres, situated on Middle Run, u branch
OF the Little KAnawhn River.
TIRNs OF SALs:-Sulirient cash in hand
to pay the costs Of suit and expenses Of sale,
and for the residue on a credit OF one, two
and three years, the purchaser giving bis
notes with good personal security for the
deferred installments, bearing interest from
date, and q lien 10 be retained on tho land as
further security. ROBERT G. linn,
July l5-3t COMMISSIONER.
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Maclinists and all others having use fol-
extra articles Of Lubrleating Oil, can obtain
the same by calling at A. N. Dents Drug
store. Warranted entirely free ircm ans
md other impuritiCs--only 10 ceuts per gal
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Ihave just received my stock Of ele
giant accordeOns, direct importations
from Germany, and the cheapest goods
you ever seen. +. BRISKMAS.
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Glass Jars-a NEW kick"-for sale
at Briukman'S.
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r oRENzo D. srRADER,
ATTORNEY At LAW,
R>us-lev " IN

Practices in the Circuit Courts of Ran
dolph, and adjoining counties, in the Court
Of Appeals and United States Court.
Collections and all other business
promptly attended to.
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No. 1 Herring, in half barrels, fol
sale at Edwards.
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we ClarkIura MurIk IEorks

r A. pLYMlRE
Il pikp Sired, ClarksNura. W. VI
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WIN. DELBRIDGE,
A0NUMENTAL MASON
Weston, W. Va.
Monuments,
LelleriIll

and all other carved and plain work done
onthe shortest notice.
Designs aud prices may DO seen on aP'
plleatiOa. julyloiy
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r. WALLPAPER -lsT all sorts
and pricea-tho largest aud cheapest
variety ever brought to Weston, at
CnALFASr's.
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nv. YtExtxG. MN. BENNETT.
& BENNETT,
IA A0Na.a n .,a ), n a,

GLENKILLE, Gilmer, Co., ". Va.
Practice In the Circuit Courts Of Gilmer
and adjoining counties. Collections, and
ali other business entrusted 10 our care
promptly attended 10.
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GIVE ME- A CALL, and yoR wiH 10
certain 10 ID Mittd.
". T. WILKINSON.
HOODED CATTLE AND SHEEP

A ". woODPoRD Is now agent for the
N. sale of Fine Blooded Sheep, imported
d. -ect IRON Canada. Also, imported Cattle
N nrc blood. Persons wishing tOpurchMe
any ,,fthO above described stock, will call
On Tho undersigned, o, Parker B. Goodman
l. Bro.. of Jane Lew. james Lynch, of
Harrison county, will sell ono buck lamb
iuns I'D ID - A. W. w0oDFoRD
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Cheese, oyster crackers. sugar crack
crs, &c, at Edwards.
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ANEW HuTEL.

N % TO THE PUBLIC.
Having rebuilt, fitted up, and furnished
Ny old Stand in Glcnville,
Ian now prepared TO accommodate the
public Ia a comfortable aud substantial
manner-both man and beast. Thankful
for past patronage, would respectfully
solicit call from my old customers and
the public generally. 81. RUDDELL.
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WI C. L. ToTTEN,
w. Attorney at Law, :.
BUGRRANN0N, Upshm Co, W. Va
Practices In the Circuit Courts Of UpIhur
aud adjoining counties. Special attention
pGid 10 collections.
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mr.. NJ. D. CUMMINGS,
IL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OllcC one door below Edwards store, Main
Street, Weston. can he found al my Of
fee at all times when not Professionally c
aged, Calls from the country promptly Ian
aaded to- N, D, CuMMlNus.M n. !
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ID G. LINN,
N. ATTORNEY At LAM
GLENRILLE, ". VA,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts
All business entrusted to my caro- will re-
Ceive my prompt attention.
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Dr.. Radcliff's great remedy, Seven
Seals, or Golden Wonder, for sale by
F. Brinkman.
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T,HoMAs A. BRADFORD,
Attorney at Law,

PHIIIIPPI, BdF0ouF Cc.i W vi.
Practices In the State and Federal
Courts. All business promptly attended
to.
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Timothy, clover and blue grass see
Of the best quality at Edwards.
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NE. ANDERSON,
with
j u. WINDSOR d CO.,

wholesale dCaletsin
Hats, Caps, and Straw Goods,
s. W. corner Baltimore L Howard streets,
july l0.Iy BALTIMORE, ND.
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Cool, cold, colder as never vas.
Fritz has now on hand the splendid
Triumph Ginger Pop, oh how cool.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17
WASHINGTON, ARK, APRIL II, 1872.

ARNoLDs TRgAsoS.-Uas He or
Has Wife the Original Traitor "A
noted man used to enquire whenever
he heard of the preparation of any
great crime. who the woman was.
From the expulsion of Adam to- the
fall of Jim Fisk 1--WE men have made
much trouble" We we're reminded OF
this remark in reading an article on
Benedict Arnold's wife by Jas. Parton.
She was the daughter of Edward Ship
pen, an opulent Philadelphia merchant
who was "inclined to the kings side''
during the Revolution.
Margaret Shipper was a reigning
belle in Philadelphia in 1fTS, when
the British army was there, and at q
grand festival given on the retirement
of Sir William Howe from command
she was one of the beautiful young
LADIES' dressed in Turkish costume.
She wore in her turban one of the
favOrs for which the knights contended
in the tournament, and Andre was one
of the knights.
After the British left, Arnold as
sumed command there, and married
Margaret Shipper. A year after he
was in command at West Point, and
when the treason of Arnold was dis
covered she appeared to be frantic with
grief, This is Col. Hamilton's testi-
mony But Col, Burr, who had known
her from infancy, declared in his old
age that she knew all about Arnold's
treason from the beginning, He says
that when Mrs. Arnold was sent from
West Point to her fathers house, she
stopped at Mrs. Prcvosts over night.
Col. Burr was there, and she told the
colonel and Mrs. Provost that she had
deceived Gen. Washington and Col
Hamilton by her frantic outcries, and
declared that she not only knew of the
treason, but that it was she who in
dpced her husband to commit it. This
is Col. Burr's story, The authorities
OF Pennsylvania believed with Burr
that she was traitor,
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17
(Original.)
TO A DEPARTED FRIEND.
By THE OZAN BARD.


When Phebus rolls beyond the Hills
And gentle dews descend,
Like angel whispers softly como
Sweet thoughts of thee, dear friend,
Which steal into my heart and make
A sad sweet joy o'eraow
My soul, and memory lakes me back
To days of long ago.
When bright Hesperia softly smilea
Upon the evening shade,
] dream of thee, my early friend,
Long in deaths silence laid
fancy then that tbon dost come
From ort the starry deep,
And furi ihy angel pmiops near.
To watch me while Sleep
love thee with thy seraphs mem
And heavenly shining wings
How short and bright the hours to me
Thy holy presence brings'
And when palc Luna smoothly sails
High DER the sparkling sea,
| fancy thou art sailing there,
And smiling Down on me,
And when she hangs bright draRery DER
The forest and the grove,
And weirdly decks the willow boughs
That sweep thy grave above,
| love to seek the lonely mound
Where sleeps my loved and lost.
And dream until low down the ives.
She leads the starry host
Oft in my saddest reveries there
l see thy lovely face.
Smiling amid the clustering rose
VITA all an angels grace;
And farth ! reach to clasp thee to
My bosoE as al yore,
But oh how sad when e'er sti. %
l see My face va poys,
Then up among the stars I case
And muse of joys above,
Ard feel sad content, though nonav
Are icf fer me to lore.
The Path of life by faith I'll walk,
Nor will ! thee deplore.
But when ] know then art ia heaven,
! ,lisA I'd gone before,
Washington, May so, 1850.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

A small library of well selected
hooks in his home has saved many a
youth from wandering into the bane.
full ways of the prodigal con. Where
the parental strictness and severity
would have bred nothing but dislike
apd fixed resolution to abscond at
the first opportunity, good books and
pleasant surroundings have weaned
many youth from his first wild i'm.
pulse to 60 to sea or cross the CONT
nent, and madehim docile, contented,
obedient, happy lingerer by the paren.
tai Preside. In family, however rich
or poor, no other food is so cheap or SO
precious as thoughtful, vatchful love.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

'lhe Autocrat." (Olver Wendell
Holmes has become "Thc Poet az
the breakfast Table" and he discours.
es thus charmingly, in the Janvary
number of the atlantic Monihle
"No-l continued-I don't want to
have the territory of mans mind
fenced in. ! don't want to shut out
the mystery of the stars and the awful
hollow that holds them. We have
done with those hypethral temples,
that were open above to the heavens,
but we can have attics and akylights
TO them. Minds with skyights-yes-
stop, let us see il we can't get some>
thing out of that.
Onc-stoFy intelIects, two,story intel
lects, three-story intellects with sky
lights. All fact collectors, who have
no aim beyond their facts, are one-
story men. Twostory men compare,
reason, generalfze, using the labor of
the fact-collector as well as their own.
Three.story men idealic, imagine,
predict; their best illumination comes
from above, through the skylight
There are minds with large ground
floors, that can store an infinite amount
of knowledge; some librarians, for in.
stance, who know enough of books to
help other people, without being able
to make much other use ftheir knowl,
edge, have iniellects of this class. Your
great working lawyer has two spaci-
Gus stores; his mind is clear, because
his mental floors are large, and he has
room to arrange his thoughts so that
he can get at them-facts below. prin.
ciples above, and all in ordered series;
poets are often narrow below, incapa-
BILE of clear statement, and with small
power of consecutive reasoning, but
full of light, if sometimes rather bare
of furniture, in the attics."
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17
AT $3.50 PER ANNUM,

The GREAT HAIR PRoDUcER.-
Hair Oils, Pomatums and Pomades
have had their day. They belong TO-
tho musty past. Nobody that under>
stands the chemistry of the hair and
the philosophy Of its growth thinks of
using them. Instead of clogging the
pores OF the scalp with thick onguents.
and thus obstructing the insensible
perspiration which is essential to the
health of the tibers, we now tone the
surface OF the head with an invigora,
ting application which peuetrates to
the roots Of the hair and stimulates
them in the same way that the fertiliz.
ING agents spread over the meadows
stimulate the grass roots and cause the
blades to spring up in myriads, coat,
ing the earth with verdure. The invig-
GRANT best adapted to this purpose is
Lyons kathoiron. 1t may well be
called the fertilizer Of the lead, To the
barren scalp it communicates yegeta.
tive power. IF the hair is dropping
out or beconsing dry and withered, it
arrests the process of dilapidation or
blight. The hair thicken. and be<
comes glossy and flexible under its
genial operation, and as dressing it
is unapproached by any preparation
that has yet been laid on tue toilet Of
Fashion.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17
The Hearth and Home. of tho

The Hearth and Home, of the 23d.
says very sensibly in an article upon
the kind of books that children ought
TO read;
Let us first warn you ia beware of
the Sunday school libraries. Not that
they are positively bad in tendency,
but they are weak and dissipating in
influence. If the Sunday school peo-
pie, who control the most influential
circulating Libraries in the world. could
get it out of their heada that the sa-
credness of the Sabbath requires them
to confne their literature to heavy,
unreliable, devotional books. and to
weak and insipid religious fiction, the
next generation would DO greatly better
in mind and morals than 1t Ia likely to
be under the present system"
Nothing tyuer was ever SAID under
the sun.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

Look about you, young men, and
choose your calling. Make up your
mind TO do something, and do il with
all your might. Do not be a drone.
Do not be leech. Do not he moth.
DO not DO hanger-on at the tail end
of society. Do not covet office, pre-
ferment; windfall of wealth, as
though you had not energy enough to
head your own way UP the current of
life. Do not ask for appointment,
nor beg for favor, nor hunt for some
rich mans daughter, 1t is unmsnly
not to rely upon yourself, not to make
your own living, not to be engaged in
some useful employment Whatever
you do, do 1t vol. Learn to do some-
thing, and learn to do it well. If you
ccvet wealth, and pleasant home, hon.
ors, health and happiness, you will
find them in the wise and energetic
pursuit of honorable business. You
cannot find them anywhere else. Then
choose business and prepare for it.
Bend all your energies TO it. Enlarge
your knowledge Of it. 10 ambitious
of success in it. Read, study, think,
work, live for it. BE wide awake; BE-
active; be worker in it, and honor.
will gather thick and and fast around
you.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

FEMALE Nothing is bet.
ter adapted to give the last polish to
the education of young man than the
conversation Of virtuous and accom-
plished woman. Their society serves
to smooth the rough edges of our CHAR
acter, and to mellow our tompers. In
short, the man who has never been
acquainted with the femsles Of the
better class, is not only deprived Of
many of the purest pleasures, but also
will have little success in social life;
and We should not like to be connected
by the bonds of friendship with a man
who has a bad opinion OF and speaks III
of the female sex in general.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

Bow Low THE HEAD. DO rever-
cnce to the odd nan. once like you.
The yicissitudss of lie haga silvered
his hair and changed the round merry
face to the worn yisage before you,
Once the heart that heat with aspira.
ton was crushed by disappointment,
as yours, perhaps is destined to be.
Once that form atalked promptly
through the gay scenes of pleasure, the
beau ideal of gracpi row tho hand of
time. that withers the flowers of yes,
terday, has bent that figure and de,
stroyed that noble carriage. Once at
your age, no possessed the thousand
thoughts that pass through your brain,
now wishing to accomplish deeds equal
to height in famei anon imagining it
dream that the sooner he wakencd
from its the better. But he hasl lived the
dream very nearly throughi the time
to awaken is very near at hand; his
eye never kindles at old deeds of dar.
ing, and the hand takes a frmer grasp
of the SAT-. Bow low the head, hoy,
as you would in your old age be revor,
enced.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

a TEN-MILLIoNAIRE ORrHAg.--
Mrs. William Il, Asfor, who died
Thsrsday in her Tad year, leaves Sl0,.
10000 TO her hali-orphan grands
child, Miss Ward. who since her
mothers death has been favorite in
the milliopaire's family. This ten
millions is her mothers private for
tune, of which her grandmother vas
executrix, When, fifty years ago
Margaret II. Armstrong gave her
hand to the now richest man in Amcrs
lea, he was poor, but soon after their
marriage her husbands uncle Henry,
the great Bowery butcher, bequeathed
$1,000 to VIM. b., and not many
years afterward old John Jacob gave
him a power Of attorney, under which
he managed the old mans colossal and
enormously Lucrative business. Unlike
her husband, who is as prudent, moi
to say closo-fsted, as a poor man
worth not more than a hundred thou.
sand, her private charities were many
and munifcent.-Mp York Letter.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

The late Elder John Smith, of Ken
lucky, who died recently at an adj
vanced age wss one of the most
eccentric wits south Of the Ohio river,
true gentleman. He was Familiarity
known throughout Kentucky and the
West by the sobriquet Of "Raccoon
Smith While still in the ministry,
and attending one of the annual meet
ings of the body, a tell, lank. green
specimen of humanity presented him,
self before the association as a candi-
date for the ministry. He was not
regarded as being entirely Of sound
mind, and labored under the hallucina.
ton, that he was especially 'called to
preach" and kept constantly importu-
ming the association to grant him the
necessary license. In addition TO his
partially unbalanced mind, young
Weeks was the possessor of as huge
and ungainly pair of feet as ever trod
shoe leather. Tired of his importu>
mites, and not being disposed to grant
the license, the association handed
him over to Smith, with instructions
to make an end of the ease, and be,
tween them took place the following
conversation;
Smith-"So, Brother Weeks, you
think you have a special call to
preach"
Weeks-"Yes, the Lori has called
mo to the work, but the association
refuses the license"
Smith-"How do you know that
you are calledS'
| Weeks-"Know its | feel in my
heart want the license"
Smith-"Do you believe the bible,
Brother Weeks?"
Weeks-"Certainly, ! do-overy
word IF it?'
Smith-"Well, if I can prove by
tho Bible that you are not called to
preach, will you be satisfied to drop
the matter and not further importune
the association for license?'
Brother Weeks assented 10 this, aud
"Raccoon Smith" deliberately opened
the New Testament at Romans X. 10,
and in grave tone read; How beau
tiful are the feet Of them that preach
the gospel of peace etc., then glapp.
ing at Weeks large feet remarked:
"fou see, Brother Weeks, that the
Bibls declares that the feet of the
preacher are beautiful; you, sir, have
the most monstpous ugly feet of any
man in tho State of Kontucky; there
fore by this bible it is clear that you
have not been especially oalled.'
AS Smith finished his remarks the
entire association went off in a parox-
ism of laughter, and Weeks really
concluding that he had not been "call-
ed" bolted from the meeting house.
and never afterward annoyed the asso>
citation for license.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

The frauds in New Hampshire,
which the Copcord Patriot speaks of as
simply Infamous, have produced q
most exhilerating effect on the admin
istratiOn. Should they be repeated in
Connecticut with similar success, as
they are likely to be, Grant won't have
a button left on waistcoat or breeehes.
And if frauds at the North and bayo-
nets South work out such happy re-
sults, why not try them both where
either by themselves would be insuffi>
eient9 Let the experiment be made in
Indiana, Missouri or Kentucky.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

Pat was asked what he thought of
woman suffrage. Said he: II tell
yees. 1t is now and then that meself
and the o1ld woman have a bit of ruc-
ton on family questions, babies, ETC..
and the hardness of my head costa
the price ola new broom once in a
while; but. pom my sole, of the ques-
ton of politics should come betwane
me and she there woaldn': be bit az
sound furniture in the shanty."
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

We learn from a special from
Washington TO Western paper I'M
der date of the 9th March, that the
Pacific Railroad Committee has agreed
to report the bill authorizing the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
to issue its construction bonds at a
rate not to exceed $4,000 per mile,
and to require the construction of tho
road from Marshall, Texas, westward,
at the rate of ut least one hundred
miles per annum, and from San Diego,
eastward, at the rate of at least TWEEN,
ty'tive miles per annum. The Grand
Tower and San Diego Railroad is au>
thorilod to build from Fulton, Ark.
to junction with this road at or east
of Dallas, Texas, but gets no Land
grant, only the right of way.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

A Yale Freshman writes home,
"NNent to recitation first time Tues
day, and on the way caught up With a
young fellow who. in answer to my
inquiry. said he was going to the samo
recitation I was. seemed queer that
so young boy could have entered
college. lie asked me if I had looked
at my lesson, and / said no, with a
laugh. He laughed too. When tho
recitation began ! noticed that the
same fellow was conducting IT,"
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

The New York Tribune defines more
clearly than some of its Democratic
contemporaries, the real nature and
objects of the Cincinnati Convention.
1t says:
"The Convention to be held at Gin,
cipnati on the ist day of May, is to be
a Republican convention. Neither
the Grant nor the Democratic party
can participate in the deliberations.
The nominees will be Republican, and
it will then be the province of the PEG
pie TO determine whether or not to
elect them. No mans vote, who may
choose to give it, will or can be reje,ted.
The inquiry as to what may have been
his views in the past will not be made.
Although all Rep lblicans favorable to
the movement are invited to attend, it
is expected, of course, that the represent
tatives of the different States will meet
separately, and determine for whom
the vote of their respective States shall
be given, as is the case in all national
conventions. This will put it out o.
.he power of those who might contem'
plate mischief if it we're simply a mas
meeting.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

Enoch Carter of Newburgh, is the
happy possessor of a watch which was
given by George Washington TO his
betrothed, Mrs Martha Gusts, in 1853,
1t was made in London, ia of the
bulls eye" pattern, and has the letters
of the above lady's name on the face
of the dial-one letter over each fig-
ure. The watch was in the possession
of some of the relatives in Virginia /;
but, as one Of the results of the late
war, it had to be sold, WITH other
relics, TO keep starvation from the
door.
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17

Wit is a delicate light that plays
around the moors of thought and sur
prises by unexpected flashes Humor
is wit, with Kerosene thrown upon it
to make brighter light, that may be
seen and comprehended by COMMON
understandings. Both contribute to
pleasure, and through mirth tighten
tod,
The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-04-17
London Punch contains this accoun

London Punch contains this account
f"A Young Positivist:' ''Parsap-
What is o miracle? Boy Dunno,
Parson-Well, ifthe sun were to shine
in the middle Of the night, what should
you say it was2 Boy-The moon.
Parson-But if you were told it was
the sun, what should you say it was'
Boy-A lie. Parson-I don't tell
lies. Suppose | told you it was the
sun what would you say them Boy
That yer wasn't suberl"