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The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

nav SuEscEIsKRs-Sinceo our last issue We
have added 90 new-subscribers to our list, and
We hear Of large clubs being raised in thi. and
the surrounding counties and State.
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D w 'erlaEdsr, on Second Avenue, is do
ing large Wholesale business in the grocery
nne. lie hlivo, wids-awake and gentlemaniy,
ana what is just AZ good. keeps good articles
snd soils at reasonable prices.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

Goi- T. G. Burlington has the cellar founda,
ZION laid, preparatory to erecting a splendid
Two story brick business house on Third Ave.
nus, next door to Wall L Bunington's Drug
Store.
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In ninety nine cases. oat Of hundred. the
mas who anna to 61ud himself up by PsiIing
others dsrp, fails 10 accomplish bis undsrts-
king. Such felloss are generally worthless
dogs, and get kicked out Of community.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

Our readers wsi please bear in mind tina,
Messrs. Barcua a Rr'sell intend opening a
Meat Store on Third Avenue, below Seventh
street, next week, and will keep on hand
choice fresh meats Is all kinds.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

Though our city is but one year cd, It hA.
daily paper and a nightly watch. What better
evidence can bo wanting to chow that il i.
prosperousr
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BxAMSATOS.-Ths examination of pun;l.
"a Marshall College in this city, commenced on
Monday last aud closed yesterday, (Priday.
June 18th. We regret our inability to be pres.
ent. Tho exercises we're highly ereaitahI,.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

Losr.-At tbs Ball in Burdioks Hall, last
night pair Of slippers. The finder will
please return them to this Office.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-15

"D.nosd all night tin broad daylight,
And went home wild de gals In Dc mornin';'
UT how 1t was, this deponsnt saith not, We
only know the tSnsorisl professors were unu-
'uAlly late putting in an appearance on Friday
morning.
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Huntington is bvund to improve all along
shore, from the rDs.tb Of Guyandotte 70 Cat
ieu'burg. In proof Of the assertion, people
are buying lots below Seventh street.
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Major DOwner Is building two neat rs.iden.
ee' opposite Mr.. HaiDes' Cigar Store; and new
saiidings are going up in all part. Of the city.
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GooD.-M adaine Rumor says we are to have
= daily mail between this city and Portsmouth
at an early day. Hope IL ray be so.
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The Thermometer indicated three degrees
more beat on Thursday than on any other
morning during the SEASON..
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'sog. q. W sslrH.--Wc we're pleased 90 re.
ceissa cell, this morning. from our friend of
other years, Prof 3. W smith. now of the
Commercial school 1T ironton. but formerly Of
smiths Commercial ColleE.. Cincinnati. Many
ycars hsvs elapsed sInco vu Isst met him. tst
tno has dea so gently With him a.. to scarce
iy have icft the imprint n bis "irou hani..
upon biz e'rp'rrt syslo.n. ani bis appearance
r tlHt Of riEor1us hsslth nud prospective t,, .
E.'iiy. Ho BE- nat only good. but g.efsf
m'n' ani w. hape be- day. may be- long lp.n
'h" o''ih, and foil Of faiiiou and happ.ne..
Ho will rstarn o. bis hons boo front.n on NOD.
day nest ani before be- goas. uoyid BE- not b.
veil Tor our city, II sueh iadasomeat. could b.
heid out b our citizens o. vYalI c.,., L,,,
e. op'n a Comueroi school DO thi. pias, Of an
carly dats' sueh sn infutouas s.gid b, q.
great soqui'ition 10 the pisoe. uaioobtsdly
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The sidewalks in some parts Of the city axe
sadly out Of order, and need. repairing. More
substantial and. durable material should be-
used
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Tho nov sohedule Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Hailroad is to go into effect on Monday next,
when tho trains will run TO KAnAwhA PAIs.
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Kew Stewart Robinson, Of Louisville. Ky,
preached to'a large congregation at the Col
iege on Wednesday last.
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We learn that the congregationaiists have
bought a lot and intend building church edi-
ice 10 this city, without delay.
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The brick building to be used BY the bank il
about ready for tho roof.
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new goods constantly arriving At Chase.
Boot Shoe Store, ID Avenue, p. o. buiid,nv
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The latest styles Of Ladies' Shoes to BE- bad
at chAse's, ID Avenue, POst-osEee building
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LOCAL NEWS

Mr. n. JKskiss, News Agent. in the Post
vmce building, Il the only authorized agent
tof the sale Of and to receive subscriptions for,
,hs Huntington hry~ He also keeps on hand
magazines, a. we'll a. an assortment Of Envel-
'Pss' Initial Note Paper. Confessions, &c.
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There was eotillon party Of colored folk,
In Burdek' Hall. on Thursday night last, bu,
whether the "boys"
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Ladies' Pine Shoes at !. $. Cbase'- Boot and
Shoe Store on 81 Avenue. post-oace building.
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jew tTH.--rhera will DO big uu,o O., "A.
Onioe chareb 90 tho tih DAY of Juiy. 4
sumPtuous dinnef sud festival. good .peskisg
and gsy uno generally. Osiy 80 cont. 70,
di'ssf' add 'ss Prgooods - 30 .pprypsi.,,s 10
shuroh pufpysss.
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d w. EuMONs. General SIM
JOIN ~. OLEY, Agent.

JAMES TRACY, Seorstary and Treasurer '"''N''oN VIZ
81 WnLlAx SrsKrr N,,v w.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13
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OUR WOOL, CLIP,

Some Of our over-wise Solons, who find
themselves elevated to the position of law
makers in spite Of their Inflated stars,
seem to regard the raising Of sheep in this
State matter Of very small concern as
compared with the right of the people to
keep 'possum dogs" 1t is this high in
alienable right that Virginia pluck will
never consent to part with. To put tax
of one dollar Or less on these ''possum
dogs" or give the owners of the lands on
which they may trespass the right to shoot
the miserable ours, is fearful state of
Legislative outrage to be contemplated by
the sovereign people vino want to hunt
''possum." lnthe meantime, all our wooden
mills in the State may be stopped by the
"wool famine" and hundreds of indus
trious families thrown out Of employment,
to accommodate these miserable shiftless
"possum hunters" who go upon the lands
of their neighbors in the night time, and
often destroy more valuable trees, to get
one of these disgusting things for their ta-
blcs, than the whole pack Of dogs, hunters,
game and all are worth.
Suppose the people of the whole country
were melted to the same noble enthusiasm of
"possum hunting," and gave in to the same
senseless legislation which is demanded for
Virginia, what would be the wool clip of
America i'll the next decade of our indus
trial history? We know what it has
been in the last two decades, and can see
what it may be in the next two; and we
can also see how largely Virginia might
reap from the annualindustry, if she had the
material in legislative brains to compre-
bend the necessities of the situation, and
wisely act accordingly. We subioin a
statement of the annual wool clip of the
country since 1850: .-.--r-..q-.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13

With this grand industry, assuming such
magnificent proportions in this county, why
should not the people of Richmond have an
eye to its own unsurpassed situation and
facilities for becoming the first commercial
city in the Union for the development of
this great industry? The Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, soon to be opened to the
heart of the richest coal fields in the world,
and within one hundred miles of the vast
hcmatite deposits Of the great valley range
which 1t crosses, offers an opportunity to
our people which no other city in the
Union possesses, with equal advantages of
thrift and commercial prosperity to boot.
This noble railroad enterprise is now under
the most energetic management, and is
being rapidly pushed forward to compile
ton. 1t offers to the people of Richmond
such splendid opportunities of investment,
In the line of this great industry of which
we speak, as few cities can expect to have
in century of their existence. Shall we
suffer them to slip through our fingers, for
the want of foresight and energy to seize
them at the proper momentr
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13

WE print to-day letter from G. A.
Rowland, of Greeley, Colorado, to his
brother, DR.. E. G. Rowland, one of our
most enterprising fruit-growers in Fairfax
county, and gentle widely known for
his scientific attainments and public spirit.
Meeker has taken special pains to depre-
ciate our Virginia lands, and it seems has
induced many stock-growers to go to Col
orado under the impression that cattle
would subsist in that terrible climate
without winter feeding.
Rowland seems to have been one of the
unfortunates, and now writes that he will
come to Virginia, if he can get away.
Thousands are preparing to go West in the
spring, under similar impressions. Sew
eral large colonies have been organized
North on the cooperative plan, all of which
are laboring under false impressions as to eli
mate, soil, resources, and social conditions,
or they would come here, rather than go
farther west. Our State, with all its aplen-
did advantages, is shut out from the immi-
grafton by mere stinginess, and the cow
ardly hesitancy of legislation in adopting a
system of public improvements, which the
experience Of. every civilized country has en-
dorsed. So the stream of immigration
goes by to enrich distant states and leaves
as poor and helpless.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13

in the hands of the General Assembly, and
the absurd system of assessments and re-
assessments of property resorted to from
year to year by that body, there is no man
who rises to the emergency of graphing
and dealing with the subject as the true in
terests of the people demand.
What the people want in the several
townships and municipalities of the State,
is to appoint their own boards OF assessors,
selected with reference to their proper
qualifications for the duties assigned them,
and not to have a malignant partisan asses
sort may disappointed by county or
corporation judge, himself appointed by
another partisan body, and with an equally
malignant partisan spirit to animate him
in the discharge of his ministerial functions
of appointment. What should these county
judges have to do with the assessment and
reassessment of lands, the laying out and
working of highways, or anything else
which the people may require to have the
management of among themselves? This
dread Of Virginia legislation to give the
people any right to manage their own local
affairs, has long been species of chronic
nightmare among the old fogies of the
State.
The bill now before the General Assem-
bly,, providing for the reassessment of
lands, is framed in the same old fogy spirit
as that which has governed the State for
the last hundred years or more, and which
shrlnks from the idea of giving the people
any voice in t management of their own
local affairs as instinctiyely as one shud-
ders at the presence Of an adder. 1t is
true it graciousIy gives to a majority of the
landholders in any township in the county
the right to petition the august county
judge to appoint and associate with the
partisan assessor, already appointed, any
two freeholders he may choose to make
the reassessments demanded and, if any
property-holder is aggrieved at the action of
this board of reassessment, he can appeal
to the J"dgc making the appointment for
q redress Of his grievances
Was there ever a greater farce in
the way of rectifying assessment than
this ? A judge to sit in judgment upon
the action of his own appointees in matters
OF dispute arising between them and the
parties aggrieyed by their action!
Let us get rid Of all this centralized and
centralizing nonsense, and give to the peo-
pie the right to appoint their own local
boards of assessors, with boards Of equali-
zation in the several counties, also appoint
ed by the people, and q State Board o.
Equalization, if the town and county boards
need any additional revision, and the work
will he done at far less expense to the State,
and give no just ground Of complaint from
the people. ear @
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

Will contain faithful resume of the News o.
the Week from all parts of,the world full and
accurate reports of the Richmond and Baltimore
Markets; well digested Editorials upon all the
current matters of interest, Political, Financial,
Commercial, Agricultural and general topics;
selections from the leading journals of this coun-
try, local and state news, SC. This paper will
maintain the principles of The National Repub
lican Party, and strenuously advocate all mea-
sures to advance the public good. Believing
POPULAR EDUCATION to be the great want
of our State and Country, we shall give large
space to its advocacy. We shall devote large
portion of our columns TO the subjects of Agri
cultural, Horticultural and Mining interests, CIV
ing interesting articles these subjects from able
contributors s.. e.....ga sfr
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13
RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
AND LMMEERArLON.

A Disguised Settler" writes us that
the above named corporation having held
out certain inducements to parties purchas-
ing lands along its line has repudated them
afterward. He says that he is q Democrat
and don't like carpet-baegers, but has in
vested several thousand dollars in lands,
and induced numerous Northern settlers to
do the same. When these settlers applied
to the company for refund on their fare,
according to promise, they were told that
the right official whose duty it was to re-
fund was absent, or the evidence of pur-
chase was not satisfactory, and thus they
were practically swindled. We cannot be-
lieve such things of Col. Buford and his
employees without convincing evidence. 1t
is matter of vital Importance to the i'm
migration interest that our railroads should
emulate the generous treatment of the
Western railroads towards settlers. We
notice this matter to enable the parties in
terested to put themselves right with the
public, and will be glad to hear that there
is some mistake about this serioas charge.
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GENERALIZATION

While the old fogies of Virginia are
clamoring for decentralization in the Fed
eral government, and denouncing in the
most malignant terms any appearance of
encroachment upon what they very indefi.
nitely call Estate rights" they are them
selves the most unqualified sticlllers for the
worst possible form of Capitalization in the
government of the State. Nothing will
bring them, with such instant preparation
of fight, upon their feet in either branch of
the General Assembly, as a proposition to
decentralize power here in Virginia. In
fact, there is scarcely such thing as local
self-government among the people any,
where, and there never would be the first
recognition Of such thing if they could
have their own way in preventing it.
While the people all over the State are
crying out against the unjust and unequal
taxation and assessment of their property,
occasioned by this Capitalization of power
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13
ORDER FOR FRUIT TREES

upon the wel-hnown Vernondale Nurseries of
Chalkley Dillingham; who has splendid as
sortment of fruit trees, grape vines and shrub
berry, of all varieties especially ADAPTED to yir-
ginia. This order is worth FIFTY DOLLARS,
and will entitle the holder to that amount Of
trees, at cash prices, This prize we offer to the
second best list sent us before the 10th of March,
in time for spring planting.
The third prize is of the same kind as the Sc
cond worth FORTY DOLLARS, and will be
given to the person sending the third best list.
As additional prizes, we offer a WEBSTER'S
DICTIONARY, unabridged, worth SIP; a two
horse, DIXIE PLOW set of best Agricultural
Works, worth $40; Fowler and Wells publica-
tons; New Music of Peters & Co., worth SO !:
also, sets of valuable miscellaneous books, worth
$40 each also, orders for nursery stock worth
ten dollars each. One of the above prizes will
be awarded to each club Of fifty, and prizes of
one-haf the value, in discretion, to each club
of thirty. Each competitor may indicate the
prize which he prefers, and it will be awarded
to the first who has so expressed preference.
Please state what prize You aim at. This will
not prevent you taking any smaller prize should
you fail to secure the higher
Every club of five will be entitled to an extra
copy of the WEEKLY. Canvassers along the lines
of the railroad will find it to their interest TO in
elude also the DAILY, and SEaI-WEEKLY, espe-
cially, in their list. Every subscriber for the
SEMI-WBEKLY will count as two for the WEEKLY,
and for the DAILY in same proportion.
AT our club rates, two cents week supplies
You with first-class paper. Newsdealers and
others Will find Il for their interest to keep
They will be furnished at favorable rates.
70 aid parties raising clubs by enabling them
to offer some inducements to each subscriber, we
propose the following:
To each club OF ten subscribers or more we will
send sufficient number of GRAPE CUTTINGS
OF the new and best yarities to furnish each mem
Der TWO DOZEN VINES. With these cuttings
we will send directions for roofing.
To each club of fifty or more we will send TWO
ROOTED VINES each, and also CUTTINGS as
above. These will be sent for distribution to the
club. These VINES and CUTTINGS will be from
our own grounds where we have over one hundred
varieties on trial, including all new and choice
kinds, which we will be glad to aid in distributing
over the State among our readers and others If
any prefer seions of choice apples, cherries, pears
&c We will substitute add them to the
grapsss if informed in time. We believe that
nexCIo good newspaper, q bountful supply of
good fruit for old and young is the best gift OF
Providence.
Remittances should be made by money orders
or registered letters, and addressed to
EDWARD DANIELS,
Editor and Manager state Journal, Richmond.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13
DUTY ON TYPES.

Mr.. Theo. L. De Vinnc furnishes an able
article for the New York Tribune on the
subject of the present tariff of twenty-five
per cent. on types, given from the printers.
not the type-iounders' standpoint. He
meets all the objections to this twenty-five
per cent. tax Scarcely more than one of
reyenue), answering them one by one most
convincingly, and ends by showing that a
repeal of this duty would not benefit the
printer, as it would neither cheaper the
price of types, in the average of sorts and
sizes used, nor would it add to the value
and disturbances of printers materials
generally. The writer shows that it would
be utterly impossible for the American
type-founder to compete with those abroad,
since excellent workmen can be hired in
England, Scotland, Holland, France and
Germany for about one-third the wages
paid here. The effect would be to destroy
the American business entirely, and leave
the printers of this country to the mercy of
such combinations as might be made in the
free-trade countries Of Europe, to scale the
prices up at any time to their own liking.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13
IRON INDUCEMENTS TO nIo,,n,oxD

1t is estimated that the product of pig
iron in the United States, during the past
year, reached the enormous figure of
l,S5O,000 tons, and that, during the pre-
sent year, it will not fall short of 2, 00o, 900
tons. To produce this amount of pig iron.
and put it through the several stages of
reaching the iron markets of the country.
it required not less than l4O, 900 men, while
100000 are regularly employed in manu-
featuring the various articles of iron which
lind a ready market among our people.
Estimating this amount Of labor at the
average pay of 80 day per man, and
allowing 300 working days to the year, it
gives the sum of 1854, 200, 900 annually
realized to the laborers in iron in this
country. The value Of the last years pro-
duct is estimated at 5000, 700, 900, divided
as follows Pig iron, SO 900 900; product
of rolling mills and forges, al3S 900, 900;
and value of articles manufactured from
iron, SGS7 900, 900.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13

In addition to this splendid clip, we inn
port the raw wool largely from other coun-
tries, so that the American production
might be doubled, and the whole clip would
be consumed by our own manufacturers.
What immense manufacturing centers
might spring up in this State, sending out
life and activity to all the surrounding To-
calities, as well as industries, were it not
for this inalienable right to hunt "pos-
sum" and destroy timber on other peo-
pies lands. Verify, our legislative Solons
are equal to any grand "possum hunting"
emergency that may arise in the next de-
cade OF our thriftless industries.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-13

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