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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-02-13

SALE
OF \
VALUABLE FARM.

DY virtue of t.yo Deeds OF Tfust-one executed
ID by \. Mason Evans and Harriet ). his wife,
b, airing date October 80. 1858 the other cxecutad
by A. Mason Evans. dated October !, ls1. both
duly recorded in the CLERKS Office OF Jefferson
County the first Deed 60 secure the following
debts: 20 Thomas Johnson fer $500; % John r..
smith, Ext Of Catherine Fry. $500; and the Sc
coud Deed to secure the payment oi the following
debts: 10 John +. Smith. Ear of Catherine Frs,
the sum of $40. aud to John e. Smith the sum of
STI 30, the hole amounting with interest. on the
9th dly OF March, 1875. 90 the SUN 0i $3.50. Z5,-
the undersigned as th- Trustee therein mentioned,
.--Ll M d. Lid
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Pay Your Taxes J!

4 r.. persons who fail to pay their Taxes before
1 The Fifteenth ct January, 1878. will be
cha scd an additional 10 per cent. after that date
EDWARD TEAkNEY,
Sheriff of Jefferson County.
December To- lS78-tf.
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d. E'osnitn@on' Dental
CGicc.
c.ryra 1F CIAsLGs AID LIBERTY STREET
ChaPie%tOWn.
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EDWARD TEARNEY,
WIN. l.. WILSON,
Er.rut.r. N L. q Inrtnr

IAtCuto'a "' - ~ 20 IT,
December y. ls7l-tC
Equ;s,'ec lPal h'ciliyuccr paJ.ish JoHr times
in ireekly anil send bill.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-02-13
9Th day Of March. 1873.

9th day OF MARCH, $50,
proceed - sell public auction. il from; % the
Post Office in MidGlcWay. in the County Of Jelirr-
son. West Virginia. the following tescrlb.d very
desirable Farm. IN the County and state Aforesaid
living about miles South OF said town, on The
Winchester Road containing
Kos 81 ACRES.
about 80 Of which is in Timber. Improvements
consist of q comiortabie Dwelling AID necessary
out-buildiurs, all OF which have been recently
built ! Young Orchard OF some acres OF choice
Fruit beginning n bear.
TERMS OF SALE, as prescribed bv the said
Deeds Cash. but mag BE- changed IN dag OF sale
T. suit purchaser. Possession given oa the 1t
dar Of April next. and sale 70 commence at o.
CLOCK, 2. ".
DAVID F. SHOEMAKER.
Feb. C. ls75-5t Trustee.
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December 10 Is74-6m.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

-, Wednesday, April 9Th, at IAN.
-, Thursday. May 20th, AT IAN.
The steamer ---, Capt. Sholl) sails for
Victoria direct, carrying Her Majesty's mails
and connects with steamers for all ports on
Puget Sound aueh the new gold diggings of
Stickine and Cassair.
The steamer Los ANGELES, Capt. HowelD,
lsaving San Francisco on the 9th of each
at Victoria for passengers and mails only,
calls at Port Townsend, Seattle and Taeoma.
For passage or freight apply aboard steam
er North Pacific, or to J. 8. WALKER,
Agent, New Tacoma.
March 18th, 1875, 16tf
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15
For Sale.
VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY!

r Offer for sale the valuable block, situate
/ on the East side of the Public square, in
the city of Olympia, known as the % Keliett
Property'-the Whole or any part thereof
consisting of six lots, upon which are three
good dwelling houses. Inquire of
n. S. PORTER, Olympia,
Or address REBEcCA ID. KELLETT, Tenino,
W.T..
Olympia, May 1, 1876. 23:w4
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15
Notice.

TTNHE undersigned hereby forbids anybody
i from trusting his family, family connec-
tons, or anybody, on his account, without q
special order from him.
WILLIAM A. EADON,
Chehalis Station, May !, 1875. 22:w4
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

0 There are thirteen hundred reg
ularly organized baseball clubs in the
United States.
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Odd Fellows Cemetery.

T OTIS may be obtained in the above Gene
IL terry by applying to the undersigned at his
Office, where the plat is posted for general in
formation. JOHN NJ. MURPHY,
Chairman Cemetery Committee.
Olympia, Oct. "a, 1871 iS:y1
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

BRIGHTLY BREAKS THE MORNING of q
new era in the annals of medicine. Al
cohol will soon be banished from the
list oftremedies, and only known as q
poison. DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VIN.
EGAR BrrTERs, composed entirely of
wholesome botanic extracts and juices,
are everywhere superseding the fiery
astringents, which no man or women
ever yet took without bitterly repenting
their credulity. There is no disease,
acute or chronic, in which the new ton
ic may not be administered with bene-
fetal effect:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15
The Hayticn InsurrcctIon Ended.

WAsHINdTUN, May U.---FTOpOsaIS TOT Inc
construction of new revenue steamer for
service on the Pacific coast were opened at
the treasury department on the LIST, and to.
day the award was made to the Oregon Iron
Works of Portland, Oregon, for $92, 900 cur
rency, that being the lowest bid The vessel
is to be one OF the staunohest in the service,
and will be 145 feet long, SO feet breadth OF
beam, and Ii feet depth of hold Her
draught Of water will be 10 feet 10 inches:
tonnage, 227 tons, custom.house measure
ment, She Is to be a propeller with verti
cal inverted engine, 81 inch, q Of cylinder by
"a inch stroke provided with surface con.
denscTs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

rotary of War, gives an opinion that the en-
rollment before the proclamation and orders
mentioned in the act of April %, 1872, does
not preclude claim for bounty where COM
pany or regiment was mustered into the mill
tary prior to July g.. 1861, under said proc
lnmatiOn and orders
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

EUREKA IA large invoice of selected Drugs,
Chemicals, popular Patent Medicines, Perfu-
meries and Lamp Fixtures, have just been
received at the Puget Sound Drug Store, by
bark Eureka, direct from San Francisco.
IMPORTANT.--Endors by the Medical
profession DIR. WIN. HALLS BALSAM
FOR THE LUNGS cures Coughs, Colds and
Consumption, and all diseases of the Throat
and Chest. DIR. TOWNSHIPS TOOTH
ACHE ANODYNE cures in one MINUTE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-05-15

PRESENT CONDITION OF THE TREASURY AND
COUNTY FINANCES.
COUNTY FUND.
Whole amount of outstand-
ing county warrants. -. So, 201 SO S5,20l SO
Cash in hands of Treasurer, 965 50
Total ind. of County Fund, S4,235 So
SCHOOL FUND.
Cash in hands of Treasurer, S1,923 II
TERRITORIAL FUND.
Amount duo Territory. 81, 1897 81 81 ,S37 81
Deduct for cash in Treasury, 422 81
Total indebtedness to Ter.S1 AIS 10
Total outstanding of County, .... 81 ,03s 50
Deduct for cash in hand .......... 3311 A
S3,727 Is
ABSTRACT OF ALL WARRANTS ISSUED BY THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR
PAST YEAR, SHOWING TOTAL AMOUNT AND
FOR WHAT PURPOSE ISSUED.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.

Great Nay, the man is never great,
However high he chance to rise,
When meath ambitions cruel yoke
His true soul PROSTATE lies.
| hate coward who does not dare
To wear his colors in his cap,
And face the world, his simple self,
No matter what may hap.
Who cringes for the public smile,
And in a makers habit decked,
For but little meagre fame,
Would pawn his own respect.
Oh bats of fortune and of pride =
So paltry seen in heavens light
That ye should tempt the souls of men
From purest truth and right
So that sometimes think that power
And fame and wealth the soul assoil
And that the patriot must be
Some humble son of toll,
Who, doing we'll his simple part
BY wife and babes and parents old,
Keepeth a patriarchal law
Within his little fold,
And while his "betters" fight for place
And many "great man" turns hi
coat,
Goes calmly TO the village polls,
And casts one hone. vote.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20

man. The worst of Henry's fall
was that, while it realized all that
the rehetoricians pean by fall
from the sublime to the ridiculous,
il was nothing better than the act
of the felo-de-se. In other words
it was a clear case of "spead eagle
suicide. He turned up in Balti-
more once afterwards as lecturer
in one of the earlier courses of the
Mercantile Library Association in
the time Of its fiji president, the
lamented Charlie radenbaug,
but with no mode success He
never recovered he fame.
] have kept the IN, even par
TALLY, Of only a fe /, The school
mates at Charlestown that / did
name in the partial catalogue Civ
en- in my last chapter. Among
these few was Robe Baylor. /
noticed his name, frequently, dur
ing the rebellion, CURING as a
commander ia what vas known as
the Black Horse Cavalry-wheth-
err so called because all Of its men,
bers rode black horses, or for some
mere fanciful reason l know not,
for | was not there I. see. / think
Baylor was also active in the home
forces summoned to repel the i'm
aginary Yankee reinforcements
that were expected to back John
Brown or rescue him, while i'm
prisoned at Charleston, pending
his trial and at the time of his ex.
ecution. Ifso, he was probably
an actor in that uncalled for and
rather ludicrous expedition sent
out from the East to the West, to
prevent the already feared march
of confederates across the western
Pan Handle, while other troopers
were sent from the west to Charles
town, by way of variety, all at the
expense Of the State under the
GovernOrship of Henry A. Wise,
whose political enemies, inside and
outside of his own party, egged
him on to all unwise use of the
public money. His enemies did
this in order to destroy his popu-
larity as an aspirant for the higher
honor Of a nomination for the
Presidency, in the interest of r.
M. L. Hunter, his Virginia COM
petitor. But more of this hereaf-
ter, as piece Of secret political
history. j. e. S.
WASHINGTON, d. G.
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Marvellous Mechanism .

A Marvellous piece of mechan-
ism in the way OF clocks has just
been in Paris. 1t is an eight-day
instrument, with dead beat ca
capement maintaining power, 1t
chimes the quarters, plays sixteen
tunes, plays three tunes every
twelve hours, or will at any time
required. The hands go round as
follows: One, once minute one,
once an hour; one, once month ;
one, once year. 1t shows the
moons age, the rising and setting
Of the SUI, the time of high and
low water, half ebb and half food,
and by a beautiful continuance
there is a part which represents
the water which rises and falls,
lifting some ships at high water
tide as if they were in motion,
and, as it recedes, leaves these lit
tie automaton ships dry on the
sand The clock shows the hour
of the day, day of the week, day OF
the month, month of the year, and
in the day of the month there is a
provision made for the long and
short months. 1t shows the signs
of the zodiac; 1t strikes or not,
chimes or not, as may be desired ;
and it has the equation table,
showing the difference of clock
and sun every day in the year,
If il would smoke a cigar, and
drink the health of the observer
in champagne, its round of USE
fulness and wonderfulness would
be cOmnlete.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
A Jewell OF a Reply.

POstmaster-G General Jewell is a
humorist as we'll as an unusually
polite official. He wrote as fol-
flows, recently, to a woman whs
had applied for a situation in the
Dead Letter Office. I'VE have only
81 ladies employed in this depart
ment, with the exception Of a few
translators and experts, and not
more than two changes have oc-
Cured in that force for six months.
None Of them ever marry, or die,
or resign. In fac, the Dead Let
ter division is a sort of mausolem
of buried affections-a place not
governed by natural faws-for
those who enter its charmed por-
tails seem to lose all the motives
and hopes, and aspirations which
sway and govern the denizens oil
the outside world. / regret that
it is so, but SO it is"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
Wiuchester Personal---very..

This body held an adjourned
meeting in Berryville, November
10th and 18th inst. Present, Rev.
VIM. A. Crawford, Moderator,
Rev. ID. III. Riddle, ID. d., Rev.
JAS. r. Graham, Rev. A. G. Hop
kins, Rev. Thos. e. Converse
Ruling Elders Emanuel Scheaffer,
from Charlestown Church, and
]: w. Lake, from Berryville
Church.
After careful examination Mr..
Chas. Scott Lingamfelter, a can
didate for the ministry, and pas
tor elect, was solemnly ordained
to the ministry by prayer and
"the laying on Of the hands of
Presbytery," and installed pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Ber-
ryville, Va.
Rev. Il. K. converse having re-
ceived call to the Presbyterian
Church at Bardstown, KY, and
desiring to accept it, asked leave
to resign his pastoral charge of the
churches at Woodstock and Stras-
burg. Presbytery decided to post
pone action upon his request until
the next adjourned meeting, which
will be held in the Loudoun st.
Presbyterian Church, Winches-
ter, December 10th, 1876, at 81
o'clock, p. M.
AT that adjourned meeting it is
supposed that Rev. Henry White,
pastor elect of Loudoun st. Church
will be received and installed.
The meeting at Berryville was
a very pleasant one; and the
young pastor was installed under
very favorable and hopeful cir
cumstances.-Spirt Of Jefferson.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
Romance i'm Real Life.

In 1866 John RodmaD, a poor
man, of Portland, Maine, moved
to Harlem, and shortly after went
to South America. In 1870 his
family, not hearing from him, re-
turned to Portland. A son, who
went to sea was not heard from.
The wife became a poor broken
down seamstress. A short time
ago she was wrapping up dress
for customer in the New York
Herald and an advertisement In il
caught her eye. 1t WAS addressed
to her, and asked her to send her
address to lawyers in New York.
By their advice she went to New
Orleans. Being insulted in the
streets of that city she was defend
ed by a young man who proved
to be her son, who had just re-
turned from India. In a few days
the husband arrived also. He had
become very wealthy man, and
had thought his family lost.
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1t was love- true, unalloyed love in
death. He saw her sinking fast, he
knew tit was consumption. He nurs-
ed her like child, the great strong man,
and there they were in the room together
the night she died. She wanted to see
out, to gaze once more at the world out
side, but he ensreated her against it, and
told her that to take her up would
make her worse, bat she told him she
was dying anyway, and he lifted her
tenaerly in his arms and walked with
her from window to window, holding
her to his breast, and showing her this
object and that, pointing ont every
pleasant thing, and she kissing him at
intervals Till the last breath had gone
and the kiss died cold on his cheek.
Womans love Z When God made mar
he pat oil OF heaven in woman's love
and told him to win 1t, and be worthy
of Il.
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A Hotel ON Wheels.

i The Erie Railway officials are
!, enthusiastic over the success oil
their new through-pass route
| TO Chicago. They say they are
dofn,g larger business than ever
before at this season of the year.
The thf ough hotel coaches especial
ly seem 10 be proving a great at
traction. 1'hese coaches are divid-
ed into two compartments, in the
rear one Of which the cooking is
done. The other Is used as a Sleep
ing car, and Is so well divided
from the Kitchen as to be entirely
free from any unpleasant odors.
Oval bills Of fare, elegantly b0r-
dered with silver, are distributed
in all of the first-class cars, and
walters pass through occasionally
for the purpose of taking orders
from those who may wish meas
served to them. The menu in
cludes all manner of broils and
game, oysters in all styles, cold
meats, eggs in every form, all sea-
sonable vegetables, refishes, and
fruits, toast, biscuit, coffee, tea,
chocolate cold milk, and a full
wine list. at first-class city restau-
rant prices. The order being given
the waiter adjusts movable table
in the compartment of the person
wishing to be served, and in a few
minutes brings in from the hotel
car, in covered tray, the various
dishes asked for. In fact, meals
may be enjoyed at forty miles per
hour, with the same comfort and
at equally cheap rates as at any
hotel in the city that is conducted
on the European plan. Those who
prefer the old method of running
into wayside restaurants for q
few scanty mouthfuls may con-
tinue to exercise their choice as
the trains stop atal the meal
depots as usual.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20

A combination ofspeculators has
kept up the price of coffee for some
years much above what it ought
to be. The American Grocer
thinks the combination is growing
weak land will not be able tocarry
the heavy crops which are being
produced. The Grocer recon-
mends country dealers to buy spa.
ringly. These combinations to,
speculate in the necessaries Of life
are great evils, and 1t is pity
that those who engaged In them
cannot be punished. If there is
any class Of thieves more deserv-
ing of punishment than others, IT.
is that class which conspire to rob
the poor by running up the price
of food.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Guano was first brought to TIL
country from Peru in 1925,
! Rhode Island has within its lit
tie limits 25S, 239 inhabitants.
| Captain Richard King the Tex.
as cattle king" has a field of CO..
600 acres within one fence. He
recently filed an order by tels
graph for $4,000 beeves.
| A California paper says Me-
Landrum Il Rogers; of Watss
Vile, have sheared 1000 pounfss
Of wool from their Angoras this
year, and have sold it for nine
cents pound.
The shakers of West GIouces-
tor, Maine, raised wheat enough
this year from four acres to fur
nish bread for their families UNI
another crop is raised. Their
were 115 bushels of excellent quail
ity.
In closing his lecture on 1.-The
Birth and Death of the World. ~
at Boston, Sunday evening, Pr
lessor n. A Proctor asked WHY
the infinities Of God should not be
believed as we'll as the infinities Of
Nature.
The remarkable absence of a
smoky atmosphere during the In.
dian summer at Omaha and other
western points Is accounted for by
the fact that the tobacco served
out to the Indians was too poor to
smoke.
The Indiana Farmer states
that some tiend at the recent Fair
In that State caused two. Poland
China sows, belonging to He.
Willet, of Greenfield, to eat o guam
tity.of powdered glass, which
caused their death the next day.
Levi Libby, of Porter, Me-,
found two of his cows completely
drunk by eating black cherry tree
sprouts, which were cut in the
field in the early part Of the day
and thrown into the pasture, and
had become wilted before eaten.
The women in Ohio are taking
steps to graduate as surgeons since
the recent admirable operation by
one Of their number in cutting of
the leg OF her drunken husband
with a common saw. Cleveland
was the theater of this philan-
thropic deed.
The Swedish parlor expedition
has returned to Hamnerfest with
a large collection of Interesting OBJ
jects, having made important hy-
biographical notes. Three Swed-
ish scholars had left the expedi-
ton az the mouth Of the river Jen-
isey in order to return to Sweden
through Siberia.
Georgia has just enjoyed two
shocks Of earthquake, which last
ed forty-five seconds apiece. One
was intended to rattle up the dry
bones of Alex. Stephens, and the
other to shake some of the fat off
the Hon. Ben Hill. Both have
since subsidized, according to an At
lanta chronicle.
The Butte (Cal.) "Mercury''
tells of a band of sheep being
brought down from the mountains
and turned into O wheat field.
Over 100 head died in one night
from eating wheat and drinking
water. The wheat swelled tosuch
an extent that the stomach was
torn apart.
G. w. Herbert, of Rumney, N.
H., wintered 112 Cotswold sheep,
from which he has sold 1926 worth
of wool, and So lambs for 1915,
and now has 112 sheep and q
lambs left. The remaining lambs
are worth sos, which makes the
income from his flock of 112sheep,
this summer, 1913.
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REMIN ISCEN CES.
WRITTEN FOR THE MARTISsBuRe INDEPENDENT
By A BERKELEY Roy.
Henry Bedinger and Robert Baylor

There was one school mate at
Charlestown, not named in my
last chapter, whose name and char
acteristics come looming up as /
commenced the present one, and
who furnished in his career, an
incident which / cannot resist the
temptation to mention.
l allude to Henry Bedinger. He
was noted at the Academy as a
most eloquent reciter or declaimer
that is, as school boys estimate
eloquence-and was put forward
at all examinations or on other Oc-
casions, when it was desirable to
to give exhibitions of scholastic
progress. He was so far beyond
the hopes of the rest of the sholars
as to oratorical eminence, and re-
moved so far beyond exciting
jealously, that he became very
hero in our eyes. We believed in
him and sung his praises. Now,
as to which is but an old story
as to the future precocious boys,as
we shall see, it is one thing for
boys to be eloquent in the delivery
of the thoughts of ADLER and ma
turer minds in declamation-quite
another when they come to man.
hood and attempt to deliver
their own thoughts in the
same style, if they ever
really become independent think
ers. Then suiting of the action to
the words, and the word to the
thought, is moi so easy aIthing. If
the style should chance to trans
cend the the thought, the one be-
ing elevated in tone and emphatic
in GESTURE, while the other is only
common place, perhaps every state
fiat and improbable, the perform
ance degenerates, in estimation of
the listener of taste and judgment,
to mere ''sound and fury, signify
ing nothing" Then the indis-
eliminating fellow student who is
carried away by the sound and the
manner which characterized the
selected piece, very likely when he
comes to listen to his now fellow
man among men in the legislative
forum can scarcely believe him the
same speaker, so unsuited does his
grandiloquent style, as it now
sounds, seem to his common place
thoughts, that disappointment and
even disgust are sure to take the
place of what was once wonder and
admiration.
Such was my experience with
plain "Hen. Bedinger," at the
Charlestown Academy and the
Honorable Henry Bedinger, in
Congress. My more than disap-
pointment-my notification
when / heard him deliver his
'sp, cad eagle speech in Congress,
as it was called even by those with
whom he did not suffer, as with
me, because of comparison, they
having never heard him before,
was indeed great. That one speech
which was his debut, laid the repu-
tation, which he brought him as
an orator into Congress,as dead as
ever specimen Of the "spread ea-
gle" whose name Was affixed to Ii
was ever laid at the feet of a rifle
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BG-T The following little poem has
both truth and poetry in it, as all who
read it will be forced to acknowledge:
A GREAT MAN.
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Mother does the Lord take the Daily
papers ""No, my child why do you
ask sostrange question ?" swell, I
thought he didn't il takes our minis
ter 80 long to tell him what is going
on.
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Reno, Nevada, has pig with auburn
bSistlss that Rarnum ought to have.
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All the West is aflame with the whis
Ky Investigation. Rum did it.
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A sixty-fonr pound cucumber will.
represent Arkansas at the Centennial.