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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Barnum pocketed hundred
thousand Quaker dollars.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Mr.. John Linthicum as shown
us bunch Of the Martha" grape
grown on his premises, which is a
little ahead Of anything in the
grape lige we have seen this sea-
son. The giape il Of Che white
variety, transparent rs glass. and
of large size and excellent flavor.
The bunch shown us weighed one
pound and six ounces. Who can
beat it.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

The Fourth Ward School Bald
ing occupies a prominent position,
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The newest sleeve fits tight with
the open oversleeve
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Delicacie5 are now served II on
the half Shell.
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A poetic rural editor talks of the
" squelch Of the cider MILL" He
ought to be squelched.
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DIED.

On the 2lst, in this place, MEs.
Mary G. Custer, wife Of Benjamin
Custer, in the 42nd year OF herage
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26
THE sOHOOL-TAX QUESTION

Eds. Independent:
/ wish to invite the attention of
your readers to the county and
corporation assessment for school
purposes. The utmost limit of the
tax by law for school purposes is
80 cents on each one hundred dol
lars of the amount assessed. The
school tax in Martinsburg for this
year is 20 cents on the 500 on the
corporation assessment. Ii is a
mistake, though generally believ-
ed, that 20 cents on the corporation
assessment is not more than so
cents on the county assessment. AS
an example / refer to house and
lot on West Martin street assessed
at $1,000 by the county assessment
and $4,000 by the corporation as
sessment.
Tax on $1,000 at 10 cts. on the 100 $l4.00
Tax On $1,000 at 80 cts. on the 100 900
$500
BY the above showing we find
that the difference is considerable,
and the school tax for this year is
ST. 40 on the county assessment, or
double the school tax of last year.
The corporation levy for this
year is only 10 cents more on the
800 than last year, including street
Improvement and the interest on
IS, 900 or So, 900 for the erection of
the water works, the expense of
which is very immaterially dimin-
ished by the water rents, for the
reason that water from the pipes
has not been generally used by the
citizens. The expenses Of build
ings and lots this year for school
purposes will amount 10 the ex-
travagant sum of $4,000. In or
der to meet this amount the School
Board have imposed on the corpo-
ton assessment an additional tax
of 5 per cent. more than the addi-
tional tax of the Town Council for
this year, although the Town Coun
Gil have expended more than four
times the amount ofmoney. 1.-THE
School Board maintain that the
law allows only five years to meet
the money they have expended
this year for improvements, we ask
if there was no other way than
| doubling the school fax to meet
their liabilities.
Rents in Martinsburg are very
high, too high for poor men with
large families, and the manner in
which most of our towns people
will be compelled to make both
ends meet, is a problem difficult to
solve, if a system of reckless ex-
penditure and additional taxation
is to be continued in geometrical
progression from year to year. I'm
fortunately for the tenant the land
lord usually adds additional tax to
the rent, the property holder gets
from under and the poor man
shoulders the burden.
OBSERVER
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Ringrose keeps the best oysters.
Try them.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Ladies, call and see the cheapes
of summer dress g Gods in town
DEATRICK's.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Harry Helferstay fooled us on
our local Guess he didn't catch a
coon.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Just received a good assortment
OF sheep gloves and gauntlets for
railroad men at
DEATRICK's.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Only three fox hunters broke
their necks last year.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

Ladies, call and see the best three
button kid gloves In town for ST.,
al DEATRIcK's.
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Now is the time to shed your
coal.
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Those who talk much should be-
ware of those who listen attentive
iY.
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srECiAL I.slCAi.s
FIRST I'm THE FIELD.

Ennmert & Fiery are now ia the
city laying In their fail and winter
stock OF dry goods, notions and
groceries. You are respectfully
invited to call and examine their
new stock Grand opening gues-
day 10Th inst.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26

LOOK out for new goods at EN-
inert 81 Fiery's next week.
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Re aeM Der Emmerl & Fiery will
have their new stock OF goods next
week.
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We understand that some per
sons are charging the INDEPEN-

DENT with b'ing "nne sided on
account Of selec.irus, conmunir1.
tions, &c All We have TO say Is
that VIC publish selections ~ we
find thfni, ard II hey seem zone
sided il i 70 fault of ours; and
as for communications, we publish
all that are properly vouched for
without distinction of turty.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-09-26
SCHOOL $ ATIONER Y
Important to Dealers.

The Independent Book Store is
now prepared to supply country
dealers with
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26
WHOLE NO. 1913
The Number of Stomachs in Cattle.

A bit of discussion arose at one of
the Farmers Club Meetings in Wood
stock q short tine ago to the
number of stomachs in cattle, and a
subscriber to the Spirit of the Times
wrote to the editor in regard to the
matter, and received the following
Ansacer 1.-THE horse and the dog
have but one stomach the camel,
lama, deer, Cir affe, antelope, goat,
sheep and the OK, have four stomachs,
hence are called ruminantia. The
name ruminantia intimates the singu-
lar faculty possessed by these animals
Of masticating their food a second
time, it being returned to the month
after the first deglutition. This facul-
ty depends on the structure of their
stsmachs, which are always four in
number-the first three Of which are
so disposed that the food may enter
into either of them, the asophagus
terminating at the point of communi.
cation. The first and largest is named
tie paunch. 1t receives alarge quaint
ity of vegetable matters coarsely bruis-
ed by the first mastication. From
this it passes into the second, termed
the honey comb bag, the particles of
which are laminated like the cells of
bees This second stomach, very
small and globular, seizes the food,
and moistens and congresses into lit.
tie pellets or cuds, which afterwards
successfully return to the mouth to
be rechewed The animal remains at
rest during this operation, which lasts
until all the herbagc first taken into
the paunch has been subjected to it
The ailment thus masticated descends
directly into the third stomach,
termed the teuillct, on account Of its
particles (walls) being longltudinally
lamented, somewhat like the leaves of
book, from which it descends into
the fourth-named, the abomasum,
which alone should be considered as
true stomach, analogous to that Of the
dog. 1t is the opinion of many emf
nent veterinary surgeons that when
fluids arc poured rapidly into the
mouth of the OK or COW, large por-
ton of it passes directly into the
fourth stomach"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26
Under the Snow.

1t is pleasant to think just under the snow
That stretches 80 bleak and blank and cold,
Are beauty and warmth that we cannot know
Green fields and leaves and blossoms of gold
They are hidden now not glimmer breaks
Through the hard blue ice and the sparkling
drift;
The world shrinks back from the downy flakes
Which out of the folds.of the night-cloud sft
Full often now when the skies are Wild
And hoarse and sullen the night-winds blow
And the lanes and hollows with drifts are piled
| think Of the violets under the snow.
l look in the wind flowers tremulous eye
hear the chirp of the ground-bird brown,
A breath from the budding grove steals by,
And swallows are dipping above the town.
The lily shines on its bending stem,
The crocus opens its April gold,
And the rose uptosses its diadem
Against the floor of the winters cold
And that other world to my soul, I say,
That veiled tho mystic world of the dead,
Is no further away on any day,
Than the lilies just under the snow we tread.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

The SIAMEsE TwINs.-Dr. William
Hollingsworth, who attended the
Siamese twins, is of the opinion that
the death of Eng was not caused by
any vital connection or artery from
one to the other through the ligament
that united them, and believes that
there was no such vital connection
through the ligament, because he has
attended the twins when one was sick
and the other in good health, and
wren there was as much as twenty
beats difference to the minute in their
pulsoton. The doctor is of the opin-
ion that the great terror inspired by
such a union with death, added to the
belief which prevailed between them,
that when one died the other would,
was what caused Eng's death. These
combined to destroy his mental facul-
ties and his physical energies, and he
succumbed to the dread visitation.
The doctor does not believe that if the
ligament had been severed Eng's life
would have been saved, but thinks
any operation, unless performed i'm
mediately upon his discovery of
Chang's death, would have fastened
Eng's death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

ed person was recommended to mercy,
replied: because it is an aggravated
case, my lord!" We suppose that it
was because it was an aggravated case
that a Swiss jury found extenuating
circumstances in couple of ruffians
numbering, poor shoemaker who OBJ
jected to their stealing the boots off
his feet A Welsh jury were.not con-
tent with performing their own func-
tons, but usurped the judges prero-
gative. Having to decide as to the
guilt or innocence of man charged
with offering a forged note, the
sapient men of Cardigan said: "We
find the prisoner guilty of telling
stories about the note, and think he
ought to pay back the money and
have three months for it. death by
small pox, accelerated by neglect of
vaccination" was not bad for a coroner's
jury but much better was the rider
to verdict in a case of accidental
poisoning with carbolic acid. 'The
jury is Of opinion that the public
should be warned of the dangerous
nature of this diabolical acid
When the jury in famous Irish
murder case were locked up for the
night, it was discovered that there
were thirteen of them, the odd man
being a sociable fellow who had vol.
unteered his assistance just to have
the pleasure of dining with the real
| jurymen. At another trial, just as
the case was drawing to its end, some
body called attention to the fact that
one of the jurors had vanished; he
was found sitting unconcernedly in
the body of the court, having walked
out of the jury-box without any idea
he was doing wrong, quite unaware
Of the responsibility attached to the
part for which he was cast Cham
ber's Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

NEEDN'T PRAY BELOW BANGoR.-
AT a certain town in the northern part
Of Maine, the people were holding a
meeting, when the pastor remarked
that if any present had relatives or
trends in distant lands, prayers would
be offered in their behalf. No sooner
was the sentence complete than sim
pie looking individual arose and thus
addressed the pastor: 81 would like
you to pray for my brother. He went
away two weeks ago and 1 havn't
heard from him since. | don't know
jest where he is, but you need not
pray below Bangor
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

OLD-TlME w AVS AND THE NEW
r1ME.-Look at the simplicity Of the
old.time way of thinking. When a
man gets drunk now, every thing is
SO connected with every thing else,
that he jars on a dozen interests all
around Whom a man got drunk in
the old days, he was simply drunk
and jolly good fellow. He was not
doing any thing to the state and flu
ture generations and society. Just so
with children. What is a child now T?
can awful problem! A terrible
sort of bonbon paper, from which,
when duly unwrapped, You may bring
out a hero or donkey, an angel or a
brute! A perpetual conundrum of,
What was my grandmother like, and
how far does she influence this child !
Simply constructed minds, without a
patent double extension power capable
of taking in the universe and its forces
in all their bearings, shrink appalled,
before the modern child, and the in
Vulnerable systems of hygiene and
education proposed for him.
"What was a child?
"Just child, as a little pig is lit
tie pig, only that little pigs are not
whipped and kissed and taught their
catechism. A few simple rules, all
strictly in the parents interest, cover.
cd his case--as, Little children should
be seen and not heard Spare the rod
and spoil the child and so on. Less
thought, my dear madam, went into a
family of ten than goes now to the
training of one.
"Just so with what we call life.
What was life? Farming for a farm
er; his trade for the mechanic; stitch
ing, housewitery, gossip, and her
prayers for the woman, whoever she
was and for reading, six volumes
was a library-a handsome one.
What is life now? Every body's
business. You have China and Tim
buctoo on your list, as we'll as the
laboring classes, and why things don't
work smoothly with them, and socie-
ty, and what is to be done with it, and
all the new isms and ologies, and the
several hundred thousand publications
that the press turns out yearly. There
is question or science every thing
The world is progressive. A lady
turns to apologize to an elegant lady
she has just jostled, and recognizes her
dining-room maid. There is jostle
and crush and press everywhere.
What are you to do, then? Systema-
tie, organize, simplify, ezouomize-
your religious element as well as every
thing else; get rid ofthe cumbersome
old machinery that answered very we'll
when every body had time enough,
and could dawdle along to the Heav-
enly City on leisurely pilgrimage -
From "rhe Night Train for Paradise,
by LOUISE E. FuRNIss, in Hu1,er's
Nu9rStSe for March.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

1t is firmly believed in Milwaukee
that the Pilgrims originally landed at
that place with a cargo Of lager beer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26
HartIand Business Cards.
Il G. | j. B L r II q,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in

Manufacturer of and Dealer in
PlOws, Cultivators, Cottage and
Box Stoves, CauldrOn Kettles,
SINKS, HOLLOW WARE, ROLL BAKERS,
Door Rollers, Door Roller Tack, Corn
Shelters, Sugar Arch Mouths, Crates and
Bars, Sup Pans, Arch Tops, Mouths end
Rimmers, Slide Yoke Irons, Boot Jacks.
Registers, Door Scrapers, Empire Stove Black,
Guards and Doors, Bedstead Castings, Gas
Castings, Brdsnest Tuyer Irons, Sleigh ana
Sled Shoes, chilled and common, Cart and
Wagon Boxes, Gr.mes's improved Smut Mills,
Howes Standard Scales, Gibbs Cylinder Plow
Shares, Harrows. &c.
0j' Orders solicited.
Hartland. Vt, May |, 1871. 1884
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-02-26

PETERsoN's MAGAZINE for March
This popular magazine is in Its LXV
volume, and has host of friends.-
1t is well conducted, ably edited, and
is sold at the low price of 50 a year
with Chrome. For $3.50 you eau get
two copies Of the book and S. en-
craving 1t is an excellent magazine
for the drawing-room, nursey, Or
kitchen. Address Chas. J. Peterson,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-24
Who sncrilIa, ronynnt,nn.

In view of the near approach of the
second meeting of the sherilfs Of the
state, which Is to take place at Austin
on the 18th of December next, we
have been reviewing the proceedings
of their first convention, held at Corsi-
cana in August, and we are more forci-
bly, than at first struck with the good
that must result from such reunions.
There Is no part of the machinery of
our government that can be so benefit
ed 10y personal intercourse and mutual
acquaintance as that represented by the
sherifls of the several cou mites of the
state, and whose duties, to be success
fully performed, are so dependent one
upon another; hence the utmost cor
diality and harmony should exist be-
tween them, and to this end all meet
ings of this character must tend.
We heartily endorse the following
from the Observer, of Corsican in re-
porting the proceedings of the first
convention, and we commend 1t to the
notice of the press of the state:
10 the sheriiis we wish them God
speed in their work, and especially in
the perfection of that organization
which will seek out crime in its hiding
places, and bring to justice not only
the thief and murderer, but the mobs
that are none the less guilty. This
mobocracy, without heart to conceive
or head to think, has cast Il cloud over
the fair fame of Texas, and made it Il
by-word upon the ffippant tongues of
those who are attempting to stem the
tide of emigration to our state.
| Ii is to the union of these sheriffs,
both in sentiment and labor, that we
| look to correct these evils. 1t is to
the united strength Of their organi2a-
ton that must crush out these selt-con-
stitu.ed authorities and usurpers of the
law. When this shall have been ac-
complished, the people OF the state
will bless the sheritls' convention as
the fruitful source of much of their
prosperity.
AS the second convention is an
nounced for q time when the sheritfs'
of all counties must be represented at
Austin, to report to the comptroller, we
are confident the proceedings will be
most interesting and beneficial to the
entire community.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-24
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.

GALVESTON, November 23.-Money
easy. Gold advanced, ruling at ll0}6
ll1f, buying and selling; silver in de.
mand and decidedly higher at l09l@
ITO, buying and selling.
acknowledgements bills album
dant and rates have declined; COM
mercal, New York sight, currency |
Discount; Sold, par; New Orleans
sight, currency, 4 discount; sterling,
60 days, S. 80; bankers New York
sight, currency, ] discount gold, / !;
New Orleans sight, currency, par
gold, 4; sterling, go days, So 80.
steady and unchanged. Gold rates
firm and unchanged at llOI@11lIc,
buying and selling.
Cotton firm and in good demand
with moderate offerings. Ordinary.
lllc; good ordinary, l3lc; low mid
ding, lac; middling, l4sc; good mid
ding, l4sc. Sales, 2,4O0 bales re-
ceipts, 1924 bales stock, 64,3lS bales.
LONDON, November %, 1890 p. NJ
Ccnsuls-Money, 93s (; account, 93l6
93l. United States 5-20s of 1865, 1869;
1867, 1891 l0-40s, 104i new 5s, 1881.
iHiiVSi -VVDAOf.
New ORLEANS, November 23.-Cot-
ton-Demand fair in the morning, but
slack subsequently. Sales 1850 bales
Low grades easy high grades firm at
last quotations.
Flour dull choice, SIS S596 80. Pork
quiet at SD 40. Dry salt shoulders
scarce at 50 90. Bacon scare and dull
ut lO@l4@l4ic. Hams, old, l3lc; new,
scarce and in demand at l5lc. Lard
Tierces scarces at 15ic; key in supply
and dull at Ice. Sugar in good demand
and prices unchanged. Molasses in
demand, but prices easier prime to
choice, 50@52c. Whisky--Supply light
at 81 05. Coffee unchanged. Corn meal
dull at 81 20.i
New YORK, November 23-Noon.-
Cotton--Net receipts, 715 bales; gross,
1909 bales.
Futures closed quiet; sales, $4,000
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-24

boots and shoes, 7l6 Elm street. has al'
ways an extensive stock ofgopds Ia his
line, Give him a call, a mRn that
makes u particular branch Of business
speciality eau always DO better by
his customers than any one else, Me-
Hayes card will BIO found IN TnR iiHa'
Atp,
The aalyini club give their first per-
formance Tonight, "CasleN aud the
Though Diamondn will BIO presented
NJ Fields thealer,
Dallas Is fortunate IN having some
reliable watch makers aud jewellers,
There IL nothing In tho repairing Hue
o. engraving, but what can be done IN
well here ~ Ia ~, Louis also Ia re-
gard 10 prices You can buy watches
aud Jewelry ~ low here ~ In any
place IN the country, We have exam
ined Mr., Webb's stock, sos Main street,
aud hnd, for quality and style, iia not
to be eXceled, He has also the repu'
tatlln Of giving entire satisfaction In
all his work, and his line Of speelaeles
aud eye glasses viii compare layorahly
with any In the state,
Tomorrow evening "fhe Merry
Few give the dismal many eoompll'
menlary hop, Ut Odd Fellows hall,
Oct out your tarletans, awallow-lalla,
white ties and ditto kids,
Messra, Henry Boil, l., liohny, Rob-
ert Coosrell, w, II, Sterrett, William
Freedman and June Peak returned
Sunday evening from fortnighph
hunt on the frontier, In the three forks
Of tho Wichita, Tho party killed six
buffalo, sixty turkeys, and any guam
tlty Of ducks aud geese, aud, last but
not least, u wild cat.
The Salylnl dramatic club Intend
giving several complimentary enter-
talnments, aud request all who secure
seats, ut Conner Il Walkers, for the
performance this evening, TO leave
their address.
John n. Ryan and w, Il, Morton,
deputy city morshals, have u grievance
They ARE informed that the paragraph
In the HERALD, In reference 10 the
fare furnished the prisoners, was writ
ten by Captain w, NJ. Johnson, city
engineer, with u request that II be pub
llshed, nv the prisoners had complains
cd 10 him. II these mnrshals think
"some body hns lied" let them tell
Captain Johnson 40. AZ for their I'M
pertlnence about us, we shall treat II
with the contempt II deserves. Oui
officials are getting TO that pass that
not the slightost criticism of their OIL.
cial acts Gamble made without the pa
pers being deluged with "cards." w,
shall continue TO do our duty to thu
people, nevertheless.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-24
sanger RrofIlers.

This mammoth dry goods house
with its main esta blishment in this
city, and branches at Sherman, CAL
vert, Corsicana and Waco, appears l.
our advertising columns with new adj
vertisement of its extensive stock,
cheaper than ever" Their assortment
of all kinds of staple and fancy goods,
dress goods, clothing, gentlemen's
furnishing goods, boots, shoes and hats
is decidedly the largest that has ever
been brought to this city or to north
cru Texas, and in prices they defy
competition. Sanger Brothers have,
for years enjoyed the confidence of
their patrons for honorable and fair
dealing, and they solicit from their old