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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-14
NATCETT0CHES
HIGH SCHOOL

| HE hnii'lin. is completed and will be
/ opened FIR the reception of pupils, on
MONDAY. 3D. day of APRIL next.
Glasses to be of three grades.
;u Elementary Spelling, Reading, Wrl-
tinr and first rules of Arithmetic
:uI Same continued, with History. &C.
oLraphy. Oral Arithmetic, nS' o!
CLONES. English Grammar. Kh't"r'r'
Exercise, il, Execution and Compost
}rd Higher or University Arithmetic;
ahvanrrl Mathematics. Natural AN"
Moral Phil,+nl,hy, and the Ancient
Languages. Uatin and Greek"
TERMS:
Tuition, for First Cla-', per month S''oo
H..rnEd " 400
Third sou
payable monthly
Board can Il" had in the city with
private families, from 3lD to 81 per
". G. JACK,
Ms,,h 2T-N Principal.
~ Get your printing done at
tn, VlNDlcArO2 Jcb Office.
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March w Gather.

The daily mean temperature dur
ing the month of March, as shown by
the local weather report of the Signal
Service, was 37.4 degrees, which is
two degrees higher than in the cor
responding month last year. The
average temperature of March for
the past five years was as follows ::
1871, 40 degrees 1872, 80 degrees :;
1873, 81 degrees 1874, 46 degrees !;
1875, 35 degrees. The highest tenn
perature during the past month was
66 and the lowest 8 degrees. The
mean barometer was 1904 and the
range 1.3S inches. The mean rela-
tive humidity was 6S per cent. Rain
or snow fell on eleven different days.
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Coal Oil.

We learn that a spring in the Sui
phur Spring Grove at Bedington, has
of late become so strongly impreg-
mated with coal oil as to almost rem
der it unfit for use. At times scum
of oil gathers on the surface nearly
an eigth of an inch thick. We be-
lieve this is popularity of springs
in the coal oil regions, and many
valuable oil wells have been discov-
cred through indications first found
on the surface of springs in the
neighborhood. 1t is possible that
coal oil may yet be found in paying
quantities in the neighborhood of
Bedington.
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The Increase

The State Board of Equalization
now in session in Wheeling, have in
creased the assessment of Berkeley
county fifteen per cent. We are not
advised whether this increase is
upon the lands alone, or whether it
is general, and embraces all the prop
erty. The reduction in assessment
was made almost entirely on the
lands, and town property was not
materially changed, although the re-
duction of the lands necessarily
placed the burden of taxation on
town property, and there was very
general complaint among the owners
of town property. But if the increase
of Is per cent. made by the State
Board is to apply to town proper
ty as well as the lands, it will be so
palpably unjust that every citizen or
property owner in the place will cry
out against it. Just think of it J An
increase of Is per cent. added to the
present valuation of your property,
and what would be your taxes. Fiji
teen dollars on the hundred added to
the present valuation will make town
property bear an unjust proportion
of taxation. If there is any remedy
for this unfair discrimination, it
ought to be sought at once.
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A Year for SATURDAYS.

There are fifty three Saturdaysa and
fifty-three Sundays in 1876. So those
employers who pay on Sat 1rday will
have to pay their hands for fifty
three weeks work, while the hands
do but little over fifty-two in the
year. This circumstance also affords
one more day than usual for people
to attend church on and be preached
at. We don't know when there will
be fifty-three Of each of these days
again in one year, but 1881 is to have
fifty-three Saturdays and 1882 fifty
three Sundays.
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List OF Dead Letters.

The following list of letters remain
In the postoffice, Martinsburg, West
Virginia, April lst, and will be
sent TO the Dead Letter Office,
April 10, 1876, if not called for:
Lizzie Ambrose, Miss NJ f Bow
ers, VIM L Brown,M v Buckwalter,
J Fl shman, Catharine Grab, Sa-
bina Caeter, Mrs G + Gather, James
Hursh, Henry Mathews, Robert
Morgan, Miss Bessie Morrison, Mis-
Martha Pitzer,G w Swerard Charles
Smith, w b Wheeler.
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DIED..

In Martinsburg, w. Va, Miss
SENAH f.. ALBAUGH, daughter of
G.. w. and Catherine Albaugh aged,
~ years.
This sister gave evidence of the
fact that the grace of God sustained
her in sickness and death. She pro-
fessed faith in Jeses about ten years
ago in Chambersburg, Pa. Three
weeks prior to her death, she told
her friends that she wanted a brighter
evidence of her acceptance with
Christ. She prayed for this blessing,
claimed the promises, and soon her
wish was gratified. She was bap-
tized with the Holy Ghost, and then
she said to her only surviving sister,
"Come here, / have something to tell
you. / was praying and saw cross,
and Jesus, and God, and angels, and
sister Malissa was with them, (her
sister Malissa died about two years
ago, and they all smiled and beck
oned for me to come; L reached the
top of the cross, which l saw, and
was with them. They were all dress
ed in white and locked so beautiful"
She uttered these words with smile
of triumph that we cannot forget.
She then exhorted her sister and
brother to pray more, and said eff
our prayers are not answered imme-
diately we should pray on; that she
had been praying for the great bless
ings she now so much enjoyed" With
eyes suffused with tears, her mother
inquired, 'tSenah, are you going to
leave us ?" She answered, eyes. ("
Mother then asked, "Are you going
to live with Jesus 20 She answered
in the affirmative, with smile in
dicative of victory, which smile was
noticeable when welaid her away for
the resurrection. She requested those
standing by her deathbed to sing
Glide me, o, My Saviour Hide. .
She clapped her hands when dying,
and rather indistinctly said "Glory
to God" She was much loved, but
the loving and the loved must separ-
ate for while. Let US so live that
we may meet the pure and saved
again. A. M. EvRRs.
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state Board Of Equalization

The State Board of Equalization,
which has been in session for some
days past in Wheeling, will probably
adjourn tomorrow. The Wheeling
Intelligencer furnisheSth following
result of their labors, so far as
known:
Brooke county stands just as it
was assessed in 1875, $32,7S an acre.
Hancock county was assessed in 1875
at $23 % an acre. The Board in
creased it Z per cent, making it
$24 80. Ohio county was reduced by
the assessment Of 1S75,to $40 25, and
is now $40 IA an acre-a reduction in
the aggregate value of $601 POS. Mar
shall county stands as it was assessed
IN 1875, SIS so. For Wetzel county,
the assessment of 1874 was 10 per
cent. There was no 1875 assessment.
Berkeley county was increased Is
per cent.-the highest increase made
by the Board. Roane and Cabell
were reduced 10 per cent each-the
lowest reduction. In Barbour, Boone,
Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Fay
cite, Grant, Hardy, Harrison, Jack
son, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lincoln,
Logan, Marion, Mason, Mercer,
Monongalia, Morgan, Mcdowell, Pen
dleton, Pleasant, Pocahonts, Putnam,
and Raleigh, there have been no
changes. The changes made will
not change the aggregate result in
the State more than few thousand
dollars one way or the other.
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Good Work.

The culvert now being made across
Burke street near the Second Ward
School building, for the purpose of
draining that part of the town, will
be one of the most substantial drains
i'll the town when finished. The ditch
is covered with large fiat limestone,
instead of oak plank commonly used,
and will last a century without re-
pair of any kind.
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Absut Fishing.

DR.. w. III. Houston, Of Richmond,
Va, has written an excellent article
on the subject of fish culture, i'm the
course of which we end the follow
ing: The Dr.says:
Zone week spent in the eager pur-
suit OF bass or trout in any of our
streams would do more to refresh the
mind and invigorate the body than
half a dozen weeks spent in pacing
up and down some lonely avenue,
with no object in view other than
mere exercise. The man who has
once experienced in his palm the de-
lightful sensation caused by good
game fish at the end of his line, and
does not seek TO renew it from time
to time, is certainly not to be en-
We'd"
Them's our sentiments" exactly.
The writer understands the matter
thoroughly. There is no grander
sport or more real, genuine enjoy
ment than in the eager pursuit of
bass. We have experienced the de-
lightful palm sensation " caused by
holding our fishing tackle while a
game fish was at the other end, and
the DR.. properly says the man who
has once experienced it and does not
seek to renew it from time to time,
is not to envied.
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Fire.

Our citizens were alarmed Satur-
day night, or Sunday morning be-
tween 3 and o'clock by the cry Of
fire. The fire bell pealed forth after
the alarm had been sounded for some
time, and enough men to drag the
reel soon gathered at hose house and
started for the fire. The alarm was
caused by the burning of an ice
house on the old Pendleton proper
ty ON South Queen street. 1t was
burned down before the firemen
reached it. We learn that the house
was filled with ice, and that the
fire is supposed to have originated
from hot ashes thrown out near the
building.
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
made ST. 300 from her orange grove
i'm Florida last summer.
Ex-Governor Letcher of Vir-
ginia, has declined TO allow the
expenses of his late illness 30 be
paid by the State as the Legisla-
ture proposed.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Whenever the public heart is
touched we get numbers of letters
from our readers in response. So
we have received number of let
tiers from the people in all parts of
the State warmly commencing
our defense of Mr.. HILL"
Forty-eight citizens Of Greene
county, Arkansas, have bound
themselves, their heirs or execu-
tors, to pay various sums, amount
lug in the aggregate to $685., for
the arrest and conviction of the
the party or parties who set fire
to the Courthouse of that county
on the 18th ultimO. W.,
A Tennessee paper, wishing to
keep the young men of its county
from going to the Black Hills, and
encourage them hunt turkeys in
stead, prints this: "a hunter shot
a wild turkey near Nashville the
other day, and when he went to
pick it up found lying near it a
half-decayed pair of saddle. bags,
in which were s36, oOo'in gold and
bonds"
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown,
who was the rebel Governor of
Georgia during the war, said a
few days since, in the course of a
speech before a body of visitors
from Cincinnati: "I am glad this
war is over, and / want it under
stood that / am opposed to the
next civil war, and L am not
afraid of the next foreign war;"
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Committed.

y man, whoss name we did not
learn, was brought to town and COM
mitted to Jail on Saturday to appear
at next term of the County Court
and answer to the charge of sheep
stealing.
The man whom we referred to as
having been committed to jail charg-
ed with stealing sheep, is named
Iams. He is from the neighborhood
of North Mountain Depot, and the
sheep, for which he was committed,
was stolen from VIM. Kilmer, Jr.
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The Oldest Man.

Michael Edwards, ST., the oldest
man in the United States with a
record, died at 4:30 o'clock Monday
morning at his residence, in Mounds
willie, near Wheeling, in this State,
aged one hundred and eight years,
seven months and fifteen days. The
deceased was member of Laurel S.
r. f. Co., No. 1, of York, Pennsyl
wanna, and was the Oldest fireman
Ewing.
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Tomatoes and Tin Cans.

We learn that on Thursday last
several members of Col. Jno. E.
sSchley's family of Jefferson county,
experienced considerable illness and
gain from eating heartily of toma-
toes put up in tin cans. They were
so Ill as to require the prompt services
of a physician. The illness was
caused by the acidity of tomatoes
eating off and absorbing the lead in
The tin.
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lSant rupts.

A bankrupt who has no assets to
divide may still earn money enough
to carry him through the court of
bankruptcy, but he cannot obtain a
discharge mot having enough to pay
30 per cent unless he receives the
consent of one-fourth in humber, one
third in value of his creditors.
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Business.

The spirit of spring creeps slowly
upon our merchants. Throw off the
blues with your overcoat and go in
to win good trade. He who adver-
tiSes is lifted above hard times, and
dwells in an atmosphere where profit
abideth. Peace shall reign with him
who indulgeth in business locals, and
prosperity unto him who literally
useth printers ink.
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Hagerstown Election.

DIR. M. A. Berry has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats Of Hagers-
town Tor Mayor of that town. The
market house question seems to be
the leading one in the election, and
the contest is expected to be warm.
The Republicans have not yet trot-
ted out their man, but it is thought
Mr.. Cornelius ArtZ will be taken up.
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Poor Robin.

Our special poet grinds out the
following account of the sad death
of poor robin who was fooled by
the few warm days in the early part
of March, and came hither thinking
it was spring-time. The snow storm
was too much for him:
robin comes fitting
Clear up from the South
And On q limb sitting
He opens his mouth.
-#E He sees nary roses,
He sees nary spring,
Catches tuberculosis
In attempting to sing.
Catarrh and bronchitis,
Rheumatics and chiils,
And acute larnygitis
Complete his sad ills.
He hesitatates, fingers, rIH
weeps, shudders and sighs,
Blows his on his fingers,
Keels over and dies.
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POLITICAL NOTES.
The Hayes fever seems to be

The Hayes fever seems to be
brsaking out all over Ohio.
"Vell, I don't know bout dem
candidates; but vichefer de Re-
publican barty butts up, / votes fer
dot man-und dots Blaine.n
The Democratic party is doing
excellent police work In Washing
ton. What we equally need is an
exhibition of craftsmanship.
The luck of the Bristow SANDER
ers still continues bad. His enc
mics are doing more than his
friends to make him President.
A correspondent writes: Scan
you inform me what the III stands
for in Secretary Bristow's name?'
Certainly; it stands for his middle
name Benjamin HI. Bristow.
Senator Window, of Minnesota,
says that he would rather be re-
elected to the Senate than to. be
placed on the Vice-Preiidsntial
shelf, even If he was certain of be-
ing able to get there.
The Wilmington (Del. CONNER
cial sees Indications that Senator
Bayard's nomination for the Pres
idency is at this moment being
worked for by the liquor organi-
cations throughout the country in
systematic manner.
What's this? "Ths Pioneer
Blaine Reform Club, of Buffalo,
was organized this evening, strong
ly urging the nomination of James
G.. Blaine as President of the
United States Right after that
convention at Syracuse, too
Springfield Republican.
The Cincinnati Gazette admits
that the resumption act "is already
working great injury to business,
and threatens UNNECESSARILY great
err injury in the FUTURE Would
it not be wise, then, to repeal the
injurious clause, and make an ally
of time in solving our financial
problem?
The Nashua IN. H. Telegraph
is very much in earnest in its adj
vocacy of the nomination of the
Secretary ofthe Treasury Tor Pres
ident. IL says: IF Mr.. Bristow.
with his record as Republican,
cannot be trusted, we do not know
of any Republican in any State
that should be-"
A correspondent of the New
York Tribune states that the
Pennsylvania delegates to the
Democratic National Convention
are understood to be mainly in
favor of Governor Hendricks.
Gov. Ti!den has only one support
er on the delegation, and Mr..
Thurman and Governor Hancock
only few each.
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Live and Let Live.

MS an evidence that all men are
g1ot totally depraved, we take pleas
tzre in recording the fact that Mas
.sachusetts Christian has recently
Cancelled 100000 worth of notes and
mortgages against number of per-
SONS whose means are small, because
{ he times are so hard.
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Something for widows

If a soldiers widow marries again
she will lose her pension which she
receives from the Government, and
If she marries and then procures di-
vorce from her second husband, she
cannot have her name restored to
the pension roll. Suchis the decision
of Uncle Sam. EvBM
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Military Visitors.

New YORK, April 3.-General
Sherman and the Secretary of War,
who were in town yesterday, made a
visit to Fort Hamilton. The bust
ness was partially official and partly
complimentary. There was full
dress inspection of troops. The Wis
itors were received by General Getty
Secretary Taft expressed much plea
sed with the military bearing of the
troops.
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com united for Court .

Henry Moore, Esq, of Back Creek
was committed to Jail yesterday by
Justice Jacob Stuckey charged with
;assaulting with intent to kill J +.
EIill. We did not learn the facts,
Dut understand that Mr.. Moore will
sxive bail for his appearance at Court.
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Atsas,.

Zen. j. r. Boyd, superintendent
syf the G. V. X. r., passed through
.szhis place Oh Thursday last, on his
way to the West, to take unto him
self a fair Cincinnatian. Shippens-
Tsnrq Curo,icle.
A safe return, and best wishes,
4 General.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-08

The Ohio Convention seems to
have brought to light the one man
who is really in earnest for Gov
ernor Hays. His name is Bick-
ham. He 10 editor of one of the
small papers in the interior, and
was once described by Murat Hal
stead as "the blue-ribbon donkey"
OF the editorial profession.
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1entsrnlalr Fish

The artificial Fakes at the Centen-
NAL grounds are to be supplied with
the different varieties of fish from all
the lakes andponds of the Continent.
The catching Of specimen bass, perch,
suckers, &C., from the Potomac, will
soon begin.
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Facts and Figures.

The following, relating to the BIZ
ElIe, will be of interest to many of
eaur readers: The Bible contains
1855, 4Se letters, 1852 words, 3D.
1zs verses, l,1S9 chapters, and 66
5spoolxs. The word "and" AZ ,227 times;
che word "Lord'' occurs 1855 times;
71he word reverend but once, which
rs in the 9th verse of the 111th Psalm.
The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of
Ezra contains all the alphabet ex-
,eept the letter 81" The finest chap
ter to read is the Goth chapter of the
Acts oof the Apostles. The 10th
SSzlapter of the I'd Kings and the 37th
chapter of Isaiah are alike. The
longest verse is the 9th verse of the
18th chapter of Esther; the shortest
verse is the 35th verse of the 18th
chapter of st. John. The Sth, 18th,
list and 31st verses Of the 107th
Psalm are alike. Each verse of the
a36th Psalm ends alike. There are
r,so words or names of more than six
s4vllables.
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Patronize your home merchants.
They are the ones who pay taxes and
are interested in the progress of the
Gown The prosperity Of our home
Business me is the prosperity OF
- very citizen.
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We notice number OF boys, and
men too, shooting robins and other
birds on the outskirts OF the town.
The laws Of the State forbid the
killing of birds at this Season Of the
year, and violators ought to be re-
ported and punished. Look out.
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M ARTINSBURG
INCREASED TX Per snt

AuEEtbscu 40 OF toht "a
BY reference to An abstract OF
the proceedings Of the State Board
Of Equalization, Which il given else
where, it viii be seen that the Board
has increased the assessment for
berkeley county fifteen per cent.
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Don't ask all editor to buy tickets
Tor Il fair and festival, or any thing
ssf that sort, for the benefit Of your
church, or any other, unless you pay
e.ash for the announcement of the
s.same which appeared III his paper. A
word to the wise, etc.
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Elsewhere will be found the an
gaouncement of the new firm OF E.
G.. Williams, il. & Bro, druggists.
The former proprietor has been very
successful in business and we wish
s1he new firm large and profitable
s-pSultS.
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Apply soap-suds TO suspected
! s.aky joint in the sgaspipe. The for
ssaation of bubbles will show any es-
ssape. This is safer than trying the
.Eoint with lighted match.
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j. INDEPENDENT


The continued wet weather will
Necessarily put farmers behind with
their spring blowing especially
those who did not take advantage of
The open winter to start the work.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-08

These are really hard times, and
wise people save doctor bills by
keeping DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup In
the house.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-08

Mr.. G. w. Hoke has removed his
stock of dry goods to the Herring
room opposite the Everett House.
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ACOnvent burned.

NEW YORK, April 3.-The con-
vent OF Vile de Sales, near Brook
Ign, was burned to-day. neI
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There Is no vice so sinsple, but
assumes some mark Of virtue on
its outward parts. hf2I M
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There are some kinds of men who
cannot pass their time alone. They
are the fails of occupied people.
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WEST VIRGINIA politics seems to
&,e in statu quo. The name of near
My every citizen in the State has been
saentioned in connection with some
s1fiiee, and nothing more can be done
IN that line, unless they repeat.
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Pleasure and sorrow are twins.