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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
PUBLIC SALE.
TEyHE undersigned will sell az the farm Of James
! NJ. Brown, one mile from Charlestown, on
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1874,

The FOlloWiCC Property:
Eight WORK HORSES, three of them good
Barshear Leaders, ard among them good Mares;
five Mich Cows, ten head Of stock Cattle four
Colts-2 three years, two years, and one and
half years old; eleven head of Stock Hogs, two
Sows with nine Pigs; one Road Wagon and Bed,
two Farm Wagons, one onc-horse Wagon, one /
horse Carriage and Harness. 3 HarrDWs, Bar
shear Plows, lOt's make,l Single and Double
Plows, l Buggy Rake, l Gum Spring Drill, one
Wheat Fan, one Mccormick Reaper and Mower
combined. Cutting Box Grain Cradle, pair
Grain Shclyins, Corn Coverers. sets ilind-Gear,
@ sets Front Gear. uousans for SIX horses. Wagon
Line. new Brides, SEES Plow Gear, 9 lalters,
. sets Butt Chains, Fifth Chain sets Breast
Chains. Post Digger. sets Double and Single
Trees Cleaning Sheet, nearly new; S0ncw Bags
pair Sprcadrrs. Rakcs. Forks, Mattocks OF all
kinds / Meat Hoghead and Box, ! set Dang
Boards, stands of Bees, l Thirty-Gallon Copper
Kettle, | set Cooper Tools, Wagon Saddle
Ten Plate Stove,
so CRIES WHEAT
In the Ground Scyerty-fvo Barrels Of corn, al
so,
no USEHOLD s. lKITCHEN FURNITURE,
And many other articles too numerou, t. mention.
TERWS:-A Credit OF Seven Months on al
sums over $40, purchasers giving Negotiable Notes
and approved security; sums OF and under $40,
Cash WM: BEAiL..
Admr fHenry Wilt, deed.
March 81, lS7l-2t.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
Commissioners Sale.

gsNHE undersigned, Special Commissioner in
d the case of Daniel O. Burnley, et ais rs n.
Marmion and others, will sell at public auction,
at the front door ofthe Court House in Charles
town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, on
Tuesday, 9TH day of April, 1874,
The following described valuable Zeal Estate,
to-wit -
The House and Lot.
with the premises of the late Francis McCabc,
deceased, situated on Shenandoah Street, Har-
per's Ferry, aforesaid. This House is built Of
Stone, has three Stories and an Attick with
tne Room in the basement. Also,
Lot No. 9,
In Block C, Shcnandoah,- feet front on
Alley, South side Of Railroad, leo feet to She
nandoah river, - feet wide on the river, and
$40 feet back to Alley.
The undersigned sells as Special Commits
siouer under Decree Of the Circuit Court Of
jefferson county, N the above cause rendered
at the April term Of said Court, 1872.
TERMS OF SALE.-One.thirl Cash in
hand the balance in three equal annual pay
ments, with interest The purchaser 90 give
his three Bonds, with good personal security
payable N one, two and three years respec-
lively, each for the payment Of one-thrd the
unpaid purchase money, with interest.
Upon compliance with the above terms the
undersigned will execute to the purchaser a
Deed with covenants Of Special Warranty for
the conveying and holding Of the aiotesaid pro-
perry: the said Commissioner rescryng ut the
same time lien in said Deed to secure the
payment Of the aforesaid bonds.
II. H. BLACKBURN,
Special Commissioner.
Mach :, lS74-5t.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
PUBLIC SALE
TENHE undersigned Will sell. at Public Auction,
at the late residence o, John Wecom, d.
at The Southwest end Of Charlcstown, on
Tuesday, April IA, 1874,

One Horse, one Mule, one Wagon;
Ploughs Harrows, Single Trees, and Farming
Implements generally. Also, SOME Household and
Kitchen Furu:ture. - the same time and place
will also sell the tenant right of John Wccom,
decd in and 90 Twenty-Five Acres Of Wheat,
growing on the Land Of Mrs. Amanda Beckham,
about OF mile from Charlestown. lnforma-
ton concerning this Wheat will be given at the
Office of Baylor Wilson.
TERNS:-An sums under SO Cash, over that
amount the Bond OF the purchaser with approved
security, payable il Six Months.
HELEN WELDON,
Mar. q, lS7i-ts Administrative.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
Monday, March 18th, 1874,

being the first day of the March Term Of the
County Court Of Jefferson County, sell al pub
lie sale to the highest bidder, at the Front door
of the Court House in Cbarlestown, the Realty
in the bill of proceedings mentioned in said
cause same CONSISTING of
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
TWO LOTS

lying aad being in the town Of Charleslown,
Jefferson County, West Virginia. On each Of
said lots is a Dwellns-the larger lot being Of
the property of The late Charles Barrett, decd,
and the other the property Of the wife Of said
Charles Barrett.
Said lots will be sold separately or together
as Commissioners shall find viii secure the best
price therefor.
TERMS OF -One-third in Cash on
the day Of sale, and the residue in two equal
annual payments, with interest from the day
Of sale. with notice that after confirmation Of
sale deed or deeds Of special warranty will be
made to the purchaser, reserving lien there
on to secure the deferred payments
sale to commence at o'clock. p. ".
ISAAC FOUKE.
II. II. BLACKBURN,
III
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21
10 ACRES.

This Farm is located near the Winchester
and Potomac Railroad, aud within a short dis
lance Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. There is on
the Farm
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1874-03-21

WILL be sold at the residence ~ the late T.
w L. Cooke, one mile West Of Charlestown,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25

Act of Congress of April 20, 1871, de-
signed "to enforce the provisions OF the Four
Is ecnth Amendment" This Act provides that
"any person who under color OF any law,
"statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
"usagc OF any State, shall subject or cause to
abe subjected any person within the jurisdic-
"tion of the United States to the deprivation
"Of any rights, privileges, or immunties Sc
"curcd by the Constitution Of the United
Estates, shall be liable in an action to be
brought IN the District or Circuit Court of the
United States. 1t can hardly be doubted that
this statute was designed merely to supple
ment the previous acts passed to secure the
civil rights of the freedmen but by its terms
it is not restricted to any such special pur-
pose and under decision of the United
States Circuit C0urt in Illinois that the right,
privilege, or immunity to be secured by the
Constitution may be one of property as wei
as person, and that corporations as well as
individuals may sue under the Act, it will be
seen that the statute can be made to cover an
amazing variety of cases.
Acting upon this broad Interpretation Of the
Act of 1871, the Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company, having been sued by the Railroad
Commissioners in the Circuit Court of San
CANON County, applied to the Circuit Court
of the United States for writ of certiOrari
TO remove the case to the Federal tribunal,
and the application was granted. The State
Court. however, refused to obey. and went on
with the trial The charge of cxtortion was
of course established by the Commissioners
schedule, and the jury found verdict against
the company for $1,000.
The conflict of jurisdiction thus raised will
be watched with deep concern. 1t affects IN
terests much more extensive than those of the
railways, and we trust the State authorities in
Illinois will cooperate frankly with the coun
sci for the roads in putting the question at
once in the way of final settlement. The
danger lies in the fact that local officers in
the West are too easily influenced by excited
and clamOrous constituencies, ana are disposed
lust now to assume a most peremptOry and
emphatic tone towards the "OdiOus mOnOpo-
lists" who seem to be in their power. AS
for the cheap transportation problem, that Is
as far from solution as ever. III the COM
panies carry their point in the present case
the Illinois railroad law will collapse like the
great transatlantic balloon. If they are beaten
in the courts, they will put their money into
politics, and make Legislatures, Commissions.
Governors, and Judges to suit themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
THE VEST And THE RAILROADS.

The contest between the railroads and the
Western grangers is evidently approaching
crisis, and there is prospect of serious
trouble before the season is over. The new
laws in Illinois and Wisconsin, reducing tolls,
are generally resisted by the companies, while
the State authorities, on the other hand, are
disposed to enforce them with all possible
promptness and vigor. The Chicago and
North Western and the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
roads contest the constitutionality of the Wis
consin law upon the grounds set forth in the
opinions of Mr.. Evarts and Mr.. Curtis, to
which we alluded some days ago, and they
have endeavored to obtain the consent of the
Governor to try the question at once
in the Federal courts. To this, how
ever, the Governor will not agree, and
proceedings have already been taken in the
Supreme Court of the State to vacate the
charters of the companies. OF course the ac-
ton must come at last to the Supreme Court
of the United States; but meanwhile both the
railroads and the public may be subjected to
innumerable losses and vexations. Actions
for the recovery of penalties may be tried by
Justices of the Peace all over the State Dis
trict-Attorneys are required to prosecute them
times the amount of the Overcharge may also
be recovered in civil suits. AS the Constitu
ton of Wisconsin expressly provides that the
Legislature may at any timel alter or revoke
charters of its own granting, 1t would seem
that the principles of the famous Dartmouth
College decision will not apply to the WlscOn
sin cases, and the State courts may be expected
to sustain the law. Seeing that every traveller in
the State may institute a separate suit, the
conductors have received orders to throw an
ingenious variety of obstacles in the way of
any man who tries to make up case by ten
dering the legal fare of three cents mile
They are not to tell passengers the distance
from station to station, and if traveller offers
them penny less than the exact amount
they are to make no explanation, but let him
ride as far as the money would take him at
four cents a mile, and then put him off.
In Illinois a somewhat different policy has
been pursued. The Railroad law empowers
the Board of Commissioners to determine
what are reasonable rates of toll. and In any
suit before one of the State courts the burden
of proving that the schedule adopted by them
was not reasonable would be thrown upon the
companies. In the Federal courts, however,
the onus probdndi would be upon the other
side, and the Commissioners would have to
show that the rates adopted by the company
were unreasonable-which would render the
law practically useless. The ingenuity of the
railroads, accordingly, has been applied to the
removal OF the question from the State to the
Federal tribunals. The means of doing this
has been found. strange to say. in an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
JuOcx TO Advertisements.

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FINANCIAL-Tenh Pdgc-lst column.
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HORSES. CAIRIAGEs HARNESS, &e-E'g"M f'9e-o'n
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HoTRLS-IcHth IHGc-3t column.
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INSTRUCTION EighAt PdOc-4th column.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
Il II L l. E S III E E T.

ExPrcsdent Theirs has expressed himself in favor Of
dissolution OF the Assembly. The Paris papers think
that the Ministry more for business than political pur
poses. majority OF the Assembly is said to be dis
posed to support tine new Ministry. The Carlists
are intrenchiug themselves at Estella. - The au-
thortes in Chill have concluded that they had right
10 IN prison the captain Of the Tacna.
The Senate continued in session until 7l5 Saturday
morning the Civil Rights bill having been under consid
GRAFTON all night; the BILL after being amended was
passed29 l6. In the House. Saturday, the Senate
amendments the Legislative Appropriation bill
considered the larger part OF the session occupied
In discussing and dspOsiug OF reports from the Military
Committee.
An Investigation into the affairs Of State Treasurer
Rsines shows nothing affecting his character - The
cOrouers Aqncst IN the Of the MIL River disaster
will begin to day. - The Centennial Commission on
Saturday made public statement OF the present
ditioD OF affairs connected with the proposed cele
bratiOn
The Rev George B. Cheever delivered another lecture
in the course on Evidences Of Christianity" A
Brooklyn rag picker murdered friend -. An Italian
bsrkeeper fatally shot Irish abOrer - Gold, 1924
ll2i s-= Thermometer, GO, CO, J6o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
A NAY STORY,

A little story was told to us lately which
seems to be worth repeating. Some time ago
a child i'll with hip disease was brought into
certain asylum in New York-a little girl of
five years old, who, from fright or weakness,
cried bitterly on her admission Another girl,
a little Swede of about nine, heard her. sis
"she crying because she has left her mOther?"
she asked the matron. "NO. She has no
"mother; she is an orphan" "Her friends,
L" then, may be?" She has no friends. She
"has nobody in the world to take care of her,
"uness she finds one here" Jenny, the little
Swede, stood for Il minute or two soberly
looking at the stranger. She was not pretty
child, nor attractive in any way, being homely,
diseased, and ill-tempered. 81 think 1 will
"take care of her. said Jenny, gravely. "Tn
abe a friend to her." and she went over to the
stranger, then and there, and began to sOothe and
humor her. The matron, thinking it only a
passing childish Outburst, paid no attention to
it, even when she found that Jenny had Sc
cured seat at the table next to the child
and had managed to have her placed in the
bed next her own in the dormtory. But when
the story was told to us, a year afterwards,
the little girl had never failed once in Der
self-lmposed trust. As far as was practicable
she took the place of q mother or elder sister
to the child who, still lame and suffering.
needed constant attention and care which
the matron and nurses could not give. She
cut and prepared her food at meals, humored
her peevish fancies during the day, and at
night was in the habit of lying down half
dressed, to be ready to spring up at a
moments warning, and she passed many a
night, it was discovered, holding the child's
head in her arms or soothing her. On any
holiday or when visitors came, Jenny's first
anxiety was to make her little charge present
able, just as a fond mother would do; and
when the children were once given an excur-
sion, or an afternoons rOmp In the grounds
Jenny had an excuse to account for her not
going, and actually, although her tears choked
her. she being but child, would have stayed
patient and cheerful beside the lame child
who could not go, if her deception had not
been found out. The singular part of the
story was, too, that the child was not a low
able nor grateful one; but peevish, Jealous
and tyrannical towards her poor little nurse,
who apologzed for and made the best of her
to others, after the habit of mothers. There
were many other children in the asylum
prettier and more winning; but Jenny was
true to the one whose only recommendation
was that :" she had no friends
When we pass through the streets Of tene-
ment houses which alternate with some of the
most luxurious III the city, and catch glimpses
of the thousands of puny, helpless little
wretches shut up in their foul garrets and
cellars, who have such sure grounds for fear
nf ha
almos, certain to bring death w"rrant to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
.SDUTH C4pDIIN5

One of the most significant items of news
We have recently had from the South was
contained in an obscure little paragraph printed
last Saturday "The sale of the property of
delinquent taxpayers of Charleston County,
as c., was concluded yesterday. Tuenty- nine
"hundred pieces of real estate in the county
"bidders." The plain English of this is that
the Ring of thieves who have been plumber
ing the State, with the sanction of the Federal
Administration, have taken all the ready
money of the citizens and are now conf seating
their lands and houses. The probability is
that very few OF these three thousand parcels
of property forfeited within week in and
around Charleston, will be redeemed within
the ninety days allowed by law. Nobody will
buy them under the present condition of af-
fairs, because nobody can possibly pay the
charges on them. They will remain as public
property until general bankruptcy or some
other catastrophe puts a new face upon the
situation, and then they will pass into strange
hands Indeed, when State cannot collect
its taxes even by distraint, we do not know
why it is not bankrupt already.
Everybody admits that South Carolina has
been brought to this pass by set of the most
rascally public officers to be found anywhere
off of Blackwelps Island; that they were
raised to power by the influence of the au-
thOrities at Washington and that Congress,
alarmed ut the mOnstrous proportions of this
creature of Republican folly and maladmin-
istration, has been seeking in vain for some
means of crushing it. Let us remind those
honest and well-meanng persons mt Washing
ton who want to do something for South Car
olina that very good opportunity was
spoiled only few weeks ago A steamboat
captain concerned in wholesale fraud by
which the Charleston Ring voted itself into
Office at the last election was convcted-n0t
indeed of this ofiense, for the State courts are
too corrupt to punish election frauds commit
ted for the right side-bnt of violating stat
ute of the United States for the purpose and
in the act Of perpctrating the higher crimo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
1IE EIYIL RIGUIN HILL.

Mr.. Sumner, like the Cid CampeadOr, has
gained one Of his greatest victories al.er
death. The bill which in his hands SO often
failed in Senate where his own superiority
was a constant challenge to opposition, passed
by large majority on Saturday morning,
after a continuous session of twenty hours.
1t contains some notifications from the
scheme which he had made and supported, out
IN general it embodes the views which
he pressed with such persistent devotion dur
ing the last years of his life, and the thought
that it was so soon to receive the suflrages OF
the Senate would have been of the highest
consolation to him, when he lay on his bed of
death, leaving as his last legacy to the friends
about him, the injunction that they should not
"let the Civil Rights bill fail"
The House of Representatives has yet TO
act upon this bill. but there is little reason to
doubt that the same considerations which have
induced the Senate to give 1t their votes VIII
be equally powerful in the more popular
branch of Congress. In the probable event
Of its becoming n law, the era of conscientious
experiment. based upon convictions of genuine
democracy, which began twelve years ago,
and has continued ever since, may be consid-
cred closed. The Republican party in this
act eXhauss its power in the direction of
giving absolute equality of civil rights to the
enfranchised slaves. So far as political meas
ures can accomplish it, the work is done. 1t
remains to be seen whether it is within the
scope of human legislation so to abolish
senseless prejudice of color that its practical
manifestation, at least, shall be banished from
the everyday life of the people. Mr.. Garfield
once said, in q burst of loyal enthusiasm
which did great credit to his heart, that
nation which had put down the greatest
rebellion the world ever saw could col
lect the tax on whisky. But as it
turned out, it could do nothing of the kind;
and, after the House has acted upon this Civil
Rights bill, we shall await, with great inter
est, not unmingled with anxiety, the result of
the collision between a traditional and un
christian prejudice and law which is
avowedly founded upon the Golden Rule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25

most OF them, we wish that Jenny was not
poor little paupcr in an asylum, but one
of the women with means and influence
and energy who live just over the
way from these houses. If she were.
the fact that these wan-faced little beg
CARS have no friends would place them first
in her care. Last Summer, in answer to our
statement of the necessity that the Ill and
dying children Of the poor should have some
means of escape offered to them from tho
heat and poisonous air of the city, contribu-
tons were offered to Us for any Summer hos
pital which could be made available for such
purpose, and we were forced to direct these
contributors to an establishment sustained by
Philadelphia simply because we had none OF
our own.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
amusements ano Aleetinss.

n.pxrM's ROMAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at 2:so and
ats
pooru,s TURArrR-" King John" John Mccullough
and Agnes Booth.
CoIossSux-Day and evening: London by Night"
DAYS FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-" Oliver Twist
NIpIo's THEATER.-" The Lady OF the Lake.
UNION SQUARE THEATER- -" Camille" Miss cara
Morris.
WAILAcK's THEATER.-" Clandestine Marriage"
ACADEMY OF DHsI6N.-Annual Exhibition.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-Theodore Thomass Summer
Night Concerts.
sTRSwAr HALL-Farewell Concert of signor Pasio
vana
STRONG PLACE BAPTIST CHURoH.-Lecture. MIS- ous""
Everett