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The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-11-24

IN cnAscEnY.
As Commissioner srpoin ted by decree
Of the Circuit Court Of Lewis county, At the
special term in August, 1877, will cell at
public gale, 10 the highest bidder, at the
from, door Of the Court House Of Gilmer
county, West Virginia, on the 10Th day OF
December, 1871, 1t being the first day Of the
December term ofthc County Court Of Gil
mer county, q tract Of
613 ACRES OF LAND
heretofore sold BY defendant Tucker to de-
ieneant 0ldactc; and II the said 6li acres
Of land shou ID not sell for sum sufficient
10 pay The debt, interest, costs aud charges
of 81 lie due the plaintiff, then will sell At
tue same place, on the same terms, and i'm
inediately after the fra. sale, tract Of
1897 ACRES OF LAND,
heretofore sold by defendant Tucker to tho
defendant Wilson West. Both Of said ,r,rts
Of land ate situate on Horn Greek aud Storc
Lick Run, tributaries Of Leading Creek, in
the coan,y Of Gilner, and part of tho 1000
acrc tsar, OIL land Of Which Juha Hayden
did seized,
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Hardware Store

formerly owned by FM Caalfaut, and more
recently by Win II Aspinall. They Intend
not only to keep up the good reputation Of
the establishment, but TO make ore Of the
mos, popular business institutions OF tue
county They will ceudue tlieir business 10
a fair trade in
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-11-24

COMMISSIONERS SALE.
T. 7. Wallis h Co.
rs.
r. T. Sommertille
GU AxeERY NINE COUNTY COURT or LEwia
COUNTY
In pursuance OF decree rendered by said
court, at its August term, 1877, the uudcr.
signed Trustee md Commissions .'noin'd
for the purpose, will, at the fl .""I 1t
The court hVu3e OF Lewis county "a he ii's!
day oil the DCcOmber terIu, 1911, Of til.
county court for said county, proceed !os"i!
at public AUCTION that valuable
BRICK ST0RE.1OuSE AND LOT,
situate on the east side Of Main Street in tho
town Of Weston, conveyed to L. IT'S mer'
willie, by 7 G urbarl, lr, by deed now
II record In tue clerks office Of the 10 $
conaty court in Deed taOk No. I, page Bill
the upper story Of g0id storc.house being
now occupied by the, Democrat Office Said
House ind Lot will be sold subject 10 the
lien retained in said deed of conveyance to
secure to sail Urbach the title to certain
other property conveyed BY somme rrille 10
Urbach
TERMS OF SALE.
Suiicien, cash In hand 10 pDy costs ofsOid
chauccrY cause and expenses Ofsalc-'thO
residue upon credit Of 6, u, Is and ~
months. the purchaser executing bonds with
approved security, bearing interest trOIH
dnte. Tor the several inStalmcnts Of purchase
money
W. G. BENNETT,
Trustee and Commissioner.
noyt0tY
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Eo1RAf NOTICE.
Lewis County To.wi.:
To The Clerk Vt the County Cara Of
said county:
We, John Yapasyender, Solomon yande-
render and Michael Hlaes, three freehold.
ers OF The said county, DO hereby certify
that by virtue ola warrant to US directed by
William '. Hood, a Justice Of the said
comfy, We hare this day on our oaths ap-.
praised hog taken up by Oven Quinn on
his land ssan estray, and assess the value Of
sAid estray ut Eve dollars. The said hog Is
male hog, black mud white spotted 10
mark on III and Is two years old
Given under our hands, this 3lst day Of
October, 1871.
MtCHAEL HINES,
JOHN FANDEvENDER.
SOLOMON YANDEyENDER.
A Copy-Atteste:
J. W0OFTER, Clerk.
ror179w
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28
" Rto,gsna Great G,sns."

The storms on the coast of Scotland
this year have been extraordinarily
severe. They have forced the ocean to
yield some long hidden relics of the past.
A large cannon, nine feet long, and an
anchor, weighing sixteen hundred
weight, have been washed ashore at
UREA, one of the Shetland Islands.
These were presented to the Queen, and
were placed in the armory of Wipdsor
Castle, near the Nelson relics. Those
interesting jetsams are supposed to have
belonged to one of the ships of the
Spanish Armada, commanded by the
Duke Medina Di Sidonia, and intended
for the invasion of England. The vessel
was wrecked among the Shetland Islands,
having been driven so far north by
stormy weather. The relics have rested
on the ocean bed for nearly three hun
bred years, and have now been cast on
the beach at UREA by the tremendous
storm waves that have recently swept
against thai island.
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Household Helps.

FRIED CAKEs.-One cupful sour milk
two-thirds cupful sugar, five tablespoon.
fuls salt, one egg, one teaspoonful soda dis
solved in milk favor with nutmeg
fry in hot lard; when cold sift powdered
sugar over them.
OLD-FAsHIoNED SHoRT-cAKE WITH
OUT SoDA.-Take two pounds of -four
and rub in one-half pound of butter, or
lard, cold add little salt and mix with
sweet milk or cream, cold roll out as
biscuit, and bake quickly.
Soft GINGERBREAD.-One pound
butter and lard mixed, one-half pound
sifted sugar, one and one-quarter pounds
of flour, one pint syrup molasses, five
eggs, one-half pint milk, one tablespoon
full gingezs four tsaspoohluis baking pow
der, bake in quick oven.
COOKING CABBAGE.--At the St.
Marks Place Cooking School the chief
announced that the disagreeable smell
made by cabbage when cooking may be
annihilated by putting ting piece of
washing soda, not larger than the top of
lead pencil, in the pot. This is a great
discovery, and should be heralded from
Msine to California.
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His True Storm.

A citizen was yesterday halted near
the Soldiers Monument by frank faced
old man who had fence picket in one
hand and an old boot in the other. He
said he wanted ten cents to buy bread
with. and the citizen replied:
81 don't know anything about you.
There are lots of dead beats and impos-
tors around"
"See here" began the old man as he
laid the picket aud boot down, 81 live
on Croghan Street, and can take you to
forty men who know it. We haven't had
anything in the house for week. Day
before yesterday l began eating the
pickets off the fence, while my wife COM
menced on a bedroom door. / knew
everybody would think | was liar, and
so brought one OF the pickets along.
There's the marks of my teeth to show
for themselves"
Yes, looks as if you had bitten in
there" replied the citizen as he scanned
the picket.
81 don't like 'em," continued the old
man. "The slivers kinder catch as they
60 down, and the paint gives me the
heartburn. After two meals l changed
off on to brick-bats. see you are aston
ished, but truth is my motto and here is
the proof"
He pulled out piece of brick and
held it to the citizens nose. There were
tooth marks, and no chance for argu-
ment.
They don't agree with me-" sighed
the old man. The per cent. of nutri-
ment doesn't hardly come up to my
standard, and a bad taste fingers in my
mo nth. / only ate half dozen and then
changed off to old boots. I take one like
this, soak it over night in strong lye,
shake out the pegs in the morning, and
then we boil it with an old bone, sprinkle
in little bran, and the soup fills up, if
nothing more. This is the fourth old
boot, and / suppose l could get along all
right for week or so, but to-day is my
birthday and thought I'd like little
bread to sort O commemorate the occa-
sion."
The citizen looked at him, mouth open,
and not word to say.
81 suppose l might skirmish around
and find an old piece of buffalo robe and
bake it for dinner, but if you had just as
soon lend me ten cents l think I'll &C.
cept it."
The citizen handed out the money like
man in dream, and slowing it down
his pocket the old man picked up the
boot and smelled of the heel, lifted up
the picket and bit off silver, and said
as he moved away:
eff you ever get down to brick bats
call on me for loan"
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Chinese Figsger-N0iis.

The custom of wearing long finger
nails obtains among the aristocracy of
parts of China and Siam. The disfgure-
ment is supposed to add to the import
ance of the individual, az it is evident
that the wearer can not do any work,
and must, therefore, be person of ele-
CANT leisure, backed by fortune cor
responding to the length of his nails.
The hand of an Annamite dandy has
nails four or five inches in length. The
thumb-nail has a Characteristic shape,
and that of the first finger is cut short to
enable the person to pick up small OBJ
jects. Without this slight alteration the
hands would be nearly useless. Nails of
still greater enormity may be seen.
They are said to have attained the extra
ordinary length of thirteen inches, and
in this instance the nail of the first fin
ger is not entirely cut off.
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TIMBER will last best if well and
quickly seasoned, and this is best
secured by cutting when the bark will
peel readily, say in May or June. 1t
should be peeled and splitassoon as cut,
in order that it may season well.
DRIED mushrooms are much esteemed
in China, and they are also largely con-
sumed by Japanese. either as dish by
themselves, or as condiment with otEer
dishes. Dried mushrooms, it is said, re-
tain their flavor for a great length OF
time, and thus bear transport to any
distance very well.
EXPERIMENTS made in Boston by a
prominent chemist show that the use Of
marbleized iron kitchen utensils is dan
gerous, as considerable portion of en-
amel with which the vessels are coated
is composed of lead, and in such condi-
tions that acids easily work upon it.
A SUBSCRIBER thus gives his ex-
perience in protecting corn, from the
gopher: Shell the seed-corn, and every
time you fill your corn-planter hopper
with corn put some kerosene oil in the
slides and on the corn and on the hopper
sides, SO as to scent the seed. corn, and if
you will watch them you will see gophers
run from hill to hill, never touching the
corn.
A CORRESPONDENT writes B. II. P,
of Park Ridge. ILL.,, asks, What will pre-
vent the striped bug from destroying the
young plants of cucumbers and melons
If he will wet the leaves with water in
which considerable hen manure has been
soaked or mixed, the bugs will not eat
them. have tried itwith good success,
and never had to apply more than once
or twice in season to protect them from
the bugs.
JOHNNY BULL still holds TO the idea
that the Colorado Potato Beetle is more
likely to reach England in barrels of
potatoes than in other farm products,
and we notice that some members of Par
lament are getting nervous over the sub
ject, and are DESTROYS of prohibiting the
importation of these tubers for seed or
other purposes. We would remind these
wiseacres that few years since the cab
bage butterfly reached this country from
Great Britain, and it has since done an
immense amount of damage, but no one
ever supposed that it came over among
cabbage seed. Yet that it should have
done this would have been as likely al
that the potato beetle should 60 abroad
among potatoes. The chrysalides of this
butterfly, probably, made the journey in
some old dry-goods box or packing
materials around household goods, and
the potato beetle doubtless will reach
England in similar manner, if at all, OF
it may go on ship-board from our docks
<even if no potatoes are about.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

Two young ladies were once singing
duet in a concert-room. A stranger,
who had heard better performances,
turned to his neighbor, saying: "Does
not the lady in white sing wretchedly 2"
" Excuse me, sir" replied he, 81
scarcely feel at liberty to express my sem
timents; she is my sister," "Ibeg your
pardon, sir" answered he, in mnch con-
fusion, 81 mean the lady in blue"
" You are perfectly right there" replied
the neighbor, have often told her SO
myself; she is my wife,"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

Many having used "patent" and prepared
medicines and failed in finding the relief
promised, are thereby prejudiced against all
medicines. Is this right? Would you con-
denim all physicians because one failed in
giving the relief promised? Some go to
California in search of gold, and, after work
ing hard for months and finding none, return
home and say there is no gold there. Does
that prove it? Many suffering with Catarrh
and pulmonary affections have used the
worthless preparations that crowd the
market, aud in their disappointment say
there is no cure for Catarrh. Does that
prove it ? Does it not rather prove that they
have failed to employ the proper remedy
There are thousands ofpeople in the Unite
States who can make an affidavit that Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery have affecte
their entire cure. Many had lost all sense
OF smell for months, and pieces Of bone had
repeatedly been removed from the nasal
cavities.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

The exports of fresh beef from
New York and Philadelphia in March,
amounts to 6,707, 1855 pounds, valued at
$500, 085, making total in nine months
of 29,90S,810 pounds, valued at $751;.
1888.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

The Pennsylvania Railroad, whose
astonishing success in breaking up the
organization of the " Molly Maguires :"
is familiar to everybody, proposes turn
ing its attention to another great associ-
alton, the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and rid its road of al men,
beers belonging to it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

We would advise every one interested not
to buy Yeast or Baking Powders, loose or
in bulk. They are usually made by unskill-
full persons, and have frequently proven
totally unfit for use. There is no guarantee
or responsibility attached to loose powder.
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is ALWAYS put up
in cans, warranted full weight, and 'abso-
iutely pure.
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Mnnay I'm PnnIfry

Prof. A. Corbett, OF No. Warren St., NY,
has received the Centennial and several gold
medals, also IL diplomas for mis- new process
for Matching eggs and raising poultry by
means of horse manure. This valuable dis
covery will give $500 yearly profit from IL
hens. Catalogues, circulars and testimonials
sent on receipt Of postage.
WE have sold Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup for about four years. Nothing that
we ever have sold gives such universal salts
faction rs a cough remedy. While we keep
all the old standard medicines of this kind,
the Universal has by far the leading sale.
Our customers speak in it's praise without
exception. We can refer any one who
has not used it to scores who Will testify to
its value. B. J. & l.. s. STRoUGH,
La Fargeville, Nj.
Sold by John d. Park & Sons, Cincin'
natl O.
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Five Thousand Books Given Away for the
Asking.

While DR.. III. James was attached to the
British Medical Staff in the East Indies, his
high position enabled him to call about him
he best chemists, physicians, and scientists
OF the day, and while experimenting with
and among the natives, he accidentally made
the discovery that CONSUMPTION can be pos
itively and permanently CURED. During
the many years of his sojourn there, he de-
voted his time to the treatment of Lung Dis
eases, and upon his retirement he left with
us books and papers con tanning full partcu-
lars, showing that every one can be his own
physician and prepare his own medicine,
and such information as we have received
we now offer to the public without price, only
asking that each remit three-cent stamp
for return postage. Address CRADDOCK
IL CO., 1882 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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try are recommending Steridan's Cdualry
Condition Powders for the following trouble
in horses Loss of appetite, roughness of
the hair, stoppage of bowels or water, thick
water, coughs and colds, swelling of the
glands, worms, horse all, thick wind, ard
heayes
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FACTS for those who have been dosed,
drugged, and quacked. Self-help for weak
and nervous sufferers. Information worth
thousands to those out of health. The new
Health Journal that teaches all, sent free.
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, o.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLfCoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
for biliousness, headache, liver complaint
and diseases of digestion. Sold by all drug
gists. Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co..
New York.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

A FRIEND of ours who is chief clerk in the
Governmental Dispensary, says that no
medicine chest Is now complete without
Johnson's Anodyne Imminent. We always
supposed it was prescribed by law; if it is
rot, it ought to be, for certainly there is
nothing in the whole moterid medica Of so
much Importance to the soldier and the
sailor as .IOhnSOns AnOdune LininnenE
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

MARY's little lamb who made so much
trouble at school, should have been roasted
in the oven of q Fdo0rite" cooking stove.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-28

For ten cents we will send q scientific
book of one hundred and sixty choice Sc
lections from the poetical works OF Byron,
Moore end Burns also, fifty selected pop.
ular songs and other writings. The poetry
of these authors is true to nature and the
finest ever written. Desmond Il Co., 2l5
Race St., Philadelphia, Pa
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VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Reno
Yates and InvigOrates
the Whole System.
Its Medical Properties are
ALTERNATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT and
DIURETIC.
Reliable Evidence.

MR.. u. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir: 1 will most C heerfully
a'd my testimony to the great
number you have already re
ceived in favor of your great and
good medicine, "Vep etine. :" for
l do not think enough can be
said IN its praise, for l was
troubled over twenty years with
that dreadful disease, Catarrh,
and had such bad coughing spells
that it would seem as though /
never could breathe any more.
and "Vegetine" has cured nae |;
and l do feel to thank Cod ali
the time that there is so good a
medicine as "Vegetine, "aud /
also think it one of the best med
icines Tor coughs and weak
sinking feelings at the stomach
and advise every body to ia o
the "Vegetine," for can assure
them it is enc of the best meai-
cines that ever was.
MRS. L. GORE,
Corner Magazine and Walnut
Sts., Cambridge, Mass.
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GIVES
HEALTH, STRENGTH,
AND APPETITE.
CANNOT BE
&c x @ ELLIE

CHARLEsTowN, March 10, 1869.
ii. II. STEVENS:
Dear Sir : This is to certify that
l have used your BLOOD Prepa-
ration" in my family for several
years, and think that for Scrof-
MA or Cankerous Humors, or
Rheumatic affections, it can not
be excelled and as a blood puri-
fer or spring medicine, it is the
best thing / have ever used. and
l have used almost everything.
| can cheerfully recommend it
to any one in need of such a
medicine.
Yours, Respectfully,
MRS. A. A. DINsMoRE.
No. l9 Russell St.
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Important.

When you visit or leave New York stop al
the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Cen
trail depot. $50 elegantly furnished rooms
Best restaurant in the city prices moderate
Baggage taken to and from said depot free
Cars and stages pass hotel for all parts of city
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1,150
NEWSPAPERS.

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PROMPT INSERTIONS.
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pear in the following issues without any delay.
CHARACTER OF THE PAPERS.
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string to publish description Of their wares or
establishments will find this plan very ~erviceable.
make the merits of their goods familiar to the people
of the regions in which these pers published.
CIRCUL ATOMS.
The crculatons given from the American
Newspaper Direc tory for 1876 aud in hundreds of
cases too small. For instance, the Chicago
Ledger which appears at 1000 circulation, actually
issues I3, 900 weekly.
This is the only list If Cooperative Newspapers
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And all worry with fires that will not burn,
and where it is impossible to cook properly,
can all be remedied and a saving in fuel OBJ
tanned. Send stamp for circular. Henry
Colford Il Co., 726 SAMSON St., Philadelphia.
VEGETABLE Pulmonary Balsam, the great
New England cure for coughs, colds and con-
sumption. Cutler, Bros. q Co.'s, Boston, only
genuine
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BEALS s. FOSTER.
III Park ROsC, EETD YORK.
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Sold by John d. Park & Sons, Cincin'
natl, o.
, 1877-03-30

tcntcnk Thish Wan,-11., y. Mckinney. Alder.
man; j. =. Whiting. School Cnmrllssinnrr; Morris
{, Smith, superintendent. foutth Wara-:-l,r. Q.
r. tioh!naan. Alderman: \. Palmer. auper!ntent.
enL Fifth Watl-WilIiam ifemmng, Alderman +;
Ed Rathcrsm, Superintendent; q. u. Mclean,
School C0NmlasfoncF.
rtrBUQUK, IA.
Special 0ispdftA to 1he Tribune.
DrnUqux. In., March 2O. The Democrats 10.
day In Convention nominated tho following Ticket
III tho city: Mayor, j, r. Shields: Eecnr11cr
Charles lafsas: Nulitor. Owen t.csnola4: Trra*-
nfcr, daniel Riordsn; MaYsha', Henry Dcekrst :At-
t.Hrnsy: q. r: MoXntty: As'ss.or;, 4: newnlng;
James i.enshsn; Third, netef PaeJt Ponsth,' John
u. Lush; Fifth, Adam f;lnhc.
nAHEnsH.
6pfcfaf h$patch 10 The 7ttbunA :.
CanknsI!, Wis., AInEch :at--W. Il. Doe, prom
inent lnn,lurmnn: was nominated by The Kepnb.
md I'd Ellsworth for Treasurer. The Republicans
hhee strong ticket, supported In measure by the
best democrats Of tho place, who desire better
government In the city.
EAaT SAGINAW.
Special DtspateA to ne 7ffbnne.
: Fast SAHIhAw, Mich, 3tartl, 1tl.-Th0 Rcpnb.
tlcsu CITY Convention. held sh1t afternoon, nomt-
mated Jac0 ScilRtnan ha candidate for Mav0E, The
1'axpaycrs' Convention held at ths shre tonr,
nominated Mr. EulIgmnn for Mayor md An,lrow
Eynlut fur Director Of tho Poor.