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TndOrsoa bH 8 Prominent Druggist.

hereby certify that Mr. Lawrence purchased the
RADICAL CURE OF me. and from time 10 time made me
familiar with his believe his statement 20 pc true
in every particular. JAS. =. DEhbht
fITCIiilrEa. Oct. u.
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TOL. 68.--VOL. Ii, INEW SERTESl CHA
MERCHANT TAILORS
METTEE & CO.,

SAP DooR TksroT PAPK
(FornerIs Me,Aodi.t Boob DepOsitOsy.)
BALTIMORE, MD.
HUR stock consists of beautiful and varied
E3atings. Suitinrs. Cloths, Cassimeres and vest
inrs. which we make upin the Best Merchant
Tailor STYLE. Our cutter whose reputation
is weli-known for cutting and fitting, willgivehis
neutrality-suspicious. TO this department.;
Orders froul the country promptly auenueu 'o'
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"Wednesday, May 2Ist, 1879,

Wednesday, May 2lst, 1879,
a, 10 o'clock, A. NJ, a. " hich time the Board will
proceed 90 open publicly said bids. Proposal:
will be received for the STONE. the BRICK, the
CARPENTER, the PLASTERING. the ROOF
ING, and the PAINTING and GLAZING work
necessary for the construction OF the third and last
Section North OF the Centre Building Of the West
Virginia Hospital for the insane. The building is
about 222 by 80 feet with three retreatng wings
about IN By Is feet EACH ali two stories high. 10
and IL feet stories, also I feet basement. All OF
the walls are composed of Brick and Stone. Sc
parate Bids will be received for the difEereu,
branches Of the work complete. Aggregate bids
will also be received for the entire work the con
tractor in each case furnishing everything neoes-
sary 10 complete his contract 4 bond with good
and sufficient security will be required to accom-
pany each Proposal, the penalty OF which shall be
Tor of least one half OF. .he aggregate amount
of the contract bid for, also reservation Of IL
per cent. on each estimate until the contract is
COM ple;ed. The Board Of Directors reserves the
right to rrjcc. anY and all bids.
Plans and specifications can be seen AZ ire
Hospital on and after the first day Of Mer. ls7a.-
Blank forms for bidders can be had on application.
4. 4. LEWIS.
W. +. LIVELY, E.. Cor.
.ER RALSToS,
ApFii le l6To-il
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TRUSTEES SALE
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate.

D1 virtue oi twO several Deeds oi trust, the
| } fret executed by Thomas u. Shaull, 90 the
Std day Of September, 1878, and recorded 10 the
CLERKS Office OF the County Conrt Of JeHetson
Countv, West Virginia, Deed Book O, page 2sl
90 the undersigned as trustee. to secure the pay
meoi OF Bond OF said Shaull 70 Nicholas =.
Shaull for the SUN pf $500, dated September
B. 1875, and payable three yeass after date, which
bond was assigned By Nicholas :. Shaull TO John
W. Stewart; and the second executed By Thomas
N. Shasll and Mamie Shaull his wife, on the 2Sd
day OF September, 1875. and recorded In the same
Deed Book above mentioned at page 800, 20 the
undersigned trustee, 10 secure the payment oftwo
obligations Of said Thomas ". Shaull TO Mary h..
League and Mary =. Bowers respectively, and 10
accordance with the written request Of William
T. Stewart and Robert Il. Stewart, Executors Of
John W. Stewart, and Of the said Mary b. Bow
ers, will offer at public sale on
Saturday, May 3rd, 1879,
before the Post Office In Middleway, Jefferson
county. West VlrginIa, Ot 2 O'clock, =. NJ, The
following
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81 ]. COLLINS
VOLTAIC PLASTER

An Elcctro-Galvanic Battery combined with
a highly Nfcdicnted Strengthening Plaster
forming the best Plaster for pains and acheS
In the World OF Medicine.
REFERENCES.
Dir. r. ". Riicr, Montgomery o.
Mrs.. Frances Hartman. Orlani Ne.
Haskell Lewis, ESD, Milford, Del
Mrs. Richard German. Iynchburg. Va
J. 3. SAmmis, Esq. Winona, MINI.
Ms. J. A. Tu,zlc, Memphis, Tenn.
N. b. Goocl Esq, OswegO, kAD.'
DR.. Willard Collins. BucksDOr'. Nc.
o. ". BOstwick Esq. Mt. Sterling q.
Ms. Eliza Young. Cambridge, Mass.
Francis Baker. Esq, Cincinnati, O.
Mrs. j. N. Robinson, Orringion. Ne.
n. .Shiycrick, Esq. Independent Oficc- Ny.
MIR fIizh J. 1ufheld Hume. III.
Geo. Gray, ESQ, MOnticriio, MINI.
Mrs. Chas. Rounds, Woodruff Ill.
". II. II. Mckinney Morrow, o.
Mrs. II. l.. Stevens, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Vim. 8. Simms Mndsonylllc, ny.
Mrs. T.. Bredcli. 81. Louis. Mo- .
Mortimer Lyon, Esq. san Francisco. Cak
AI.llL rrlrIn. .afl.Il..
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VIRGINIA FREE PRESS.
/. 4 F.H. GALLhHBR. EDITORS.

Charlestown, Jefferson Co., W. Va
OFFICE IN " JEFFERSON BUILDING.
Saturday, May 8. 1870.
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To Contractors !

WEsroN. W. Va, April u, 1879.
S,EAIED PROPOSALS will be received at the
= office Of the Secretary OF the Board of Di.
re,tors Of the Hospital for the Insane at Weston,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
ANXIOUS TO CARRY OHIO.
Tilden Regards the Success Of Ewing as
Essential to the Cause Of His Party.
IN. Y. Tribunsa.1

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.--Richard T. Mar-
rick, OF this city, one OF the counsel for MI.
Tilden before the Electoral Commission,
spent day with Mr.. Tilden recently, and had
talk In regard to the political situation.
Mr.. Merrick says that he found Mr.. Iilden
more solctous In regard to carrying Ohio
than anythipg olse in political affairs; much
more SO than over New York. He considers
Gen. EwinEs success Us almost vital to the
Democracy, and he was willing to do every
thing Ia his power to contribute to 1t. He
urged Mr.. Merrick to proceed at once to Ohio
and enter upon the campaign work there He
was 80 anxious to have Ewing elected that he
did not wish to neglect anything which would
contribute to that result.
Mr.. TildeD also expressed himself freely In
regard to the situation In New York. He felt
confident that the earnest effort of the III
don Democracy of the State to crush Tam
many would command the support OF many
independent Republicans. He felt sure that
more Of this class would vote for Robinson
than would be drawn off by Kelly. He re-
garded Tammany as being the heaviest load
New York Democrats have ever carried, and
he thinks that II Tammany can be beaten
now 1t will remove the only serious obstacle
to Democratic success In the State 10 1880.
From the tenor of Mr.. Merrick's converse
ton, 1t is evident that Mr.. Jilden considers
the question of his nomination by the next
Democratic convention as already settled In
his favor. 1t is also evident, from the earnest
interest he expressed In Gen. Ewing's sue
cess, that hard-money Democrats at the East
do not intend to make any trouble With their
Western soft-mOney brethren on account OF
their financial opinions.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
EUROPEAN NOBILITY.
A Cheap Place to Buy Titles Speculation in
American Heiresses.

| london Correspondence Philadelphia Tmes.l
Mr.. Labouchere, In Truth, speaking Of the
Pope having made q Rrsnt-grandsOn OF Ra-
| cine marquis, protests that any person who
wishes q similar distinction can procure 1t
| from the Vatican on easy terms. Heannounces
| the list OF prices as follows: For dukes
| title G480, marquis G320, count G2i0, baron
| ESQ. These titles in certain Continental
society are moro or less useful, and q sure
| ladder to the hand of an heiress, and every
body who Ia fond OF handle to his name
must admit that they are cheap rs dirt
used to think M American colonel was u
free and easy distinction, but baron at $500
runs hard. Ii | ever garner riches ! think
I'll tackle marquisate. 1t would impress
| ones tradespeOple and servants to be called
marquis In their presence. Ii were twenty
dom, and look up ope of those wonderful
American heiresses who | am told are knock
ing about the Continent In such numbers,
ready to besnapped up by titled adventlrers,
who suppose have Invested In Papal distinc-
tions as q matter Of speculation.
Apropos OF titles, remember o gentleman
connected with the American Register, OF
Parie, once showing me a letter that had been
sent to the office by o French noblemau, or,
more correctly speaking, by gentleman
sporting grand title, in which the writer de-
sires to know whether Mr.. Vanderbilt had
any unmarried daughters, and, II SO, how
many, and whether the late A. L. Stewart left
any family. etc. Ia seeking this information
ton, not to say adventure. and was probably
turning the matter over In his mind rs to
whether it would pay to embark for the
United States of America and ego for" the
daughters crowded they had any Of the
aforesaid millopaires. My friend Of the
American Register being family man, with
one fair daughter and Of incolruptible princi-
pies withai, did not delgn to answer the for
eign nobleman's inquiries, but left him to seek
his information elsewhere. This not,lenan did
not even incIose u stamped envelope for re-
ply to bis precious missive, and the inference
WAS that he was a very needy, seedy specimen
of Continental aristocracy.
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Cannibalisrn In China.
breakfast Table.

Russian merchants recently returned from
the interior OF China to st. Petersburg have
furnished terrible details respecting the fam
Inc which has for some time prevailed
throughout certain provinces of the Celestial
Empire. They depose to having seen people
die in the streets OF many towns and villages
from sheer starvation, and state not only
that anthropophagy IS practiced upon the
bodies Of the dead, but that famished men
attack the living and prey upon them with
carniTola. One Of them alleges that be was
present at the examination of mendicant.
who had been arrested for some petty theft,
and In whose professional wallet the man
Ihis man confessed to the magistrate that
1nr some time previous to his seizure he had
lived exclusively upon the fresh flesh Of hu-
nan beings, as he could not surmount bis
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
THE RUSSIAN LOSS.
The Loss Of the Russian Army in Asia in
the Late Turco-Russian War.

by the different army divisions to the staff of
the Russian army It is learned for the first
time how enormous were the losses sustained
In Asia during the recent war. The figures
far exceed the numbers hitherto assumed.
The storrning OF Kars, in particular, appears
to have worked dreadful havoc In the Russian
ranks. The total actual loss Is as follows:
Officers-Dead 49, or 4.3 per cent OF the
whole number; wounded 1868, or Is per cent !:
missing $50, or IL per cent. Total 1896
Men-Dead IA, 600, or 3.02 per cent wounded
CT .632, or 1905 per cent; missing Ass, or l. 90
per cent. Total 70,47S.
This total is divided among the regulars. ir-
regulars and militia. 1t should be borne In
mind that In Asia particularly great numbers
were placed h0rs de conbat through sickness,
who are not included In the ABOVE returns 81
will be admitted that the losses OF the Rus
slams during the campaign referred to are al
most unparalleled
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GRANTS RETURN.
The Eloquent Speech Which He Made to the
.--. People Of Frisco.

[San Francisco Special to st. Louis Republican
After the chorus was rendered Cen Grant
In response to repeated calls, appeared on the
balcony on the fourth floor and bowed to the
shouting crowd, Immediately retiring. Still
the enthusiastic populace thronged the court
and refused to leave. Finally Mayor Bryant
appeared and announced that as soon as the
General had finished his dinner he would show
himself. In a few minutes Gen. Grant ap-
peared amid deafening and long continued
shouts. Mayor Bryant called the crowd to
order, and the General, mounting chair
which WAS passed over the heats Of the sur
rounding crowd, WAS again greeted with q
succession OF cheers. When the noise had
subsidized he addressed them as follows
"Fetl0ac- Citizens of san Francisco After
twenty-five years OF absence | ain glad to
meet you, and assure you OF my cordial
thanks for the kind greeting you have given
me. shall stay in your city long enough to
greet you III ore fully"
The General then Withdrew amid prolonged
and vociferous cheering, and the crowd at
length reluctantly scattered.
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vice president. just at this season every
EDITORS man is presidential nominating
convention loaded down with responsibility.
LOUISIANA.

The Shreveport and Monroe Railroad Is do
ing heavy freight business.
The weather is very pleasant. with the
coolest nights OF the season about the middle
OF the week. Madison Journal.
The staple OF cotton grown In this section
this year Is unusually fine, and large pro.
portion of the crop will be picked in splendid
condltion.--fCaldwell Herald
Last Saturday aniuauest was held over the
body of IN unknown colOred man, discovered
floating in the river, near 0. K. Landing, In
NatchltOches parish. He fell overheard from
the steamer Cornie Brandon last week.
The mast this year Ia unusually plentiful
and abundant, especially are the oak and
beech trees loaded down. Hickory nuts are
also very abundant. This is good for our
country citizens, who will undoubtedly have
an abundance Of fat pork the coming winter.
wild pigeons, ducks, squirrels. etc, viii be
unusually numerous. lNatchitoches Vindl-
Gator.
The weather during the past week has been
decidedly propitious for our planters, The
DAYS have been clear, the sky wearing hazy,
rays upon the earth In a sheen of golden-hned
light The nights have been quite cool, rem
derng an extra blanket on the beds very de-
sirable and making fire quite necessary
and comfortable in the early morn. Some OF
the heaviest dews we have ever seen were ap-
-INatchitoches indicator.
Sunday last J. r. Hornsby once more was
turned ont TO obtain an unobstructed view OF
heavens blue dome. Instead OF being re-
joiced at his freedom from the chilly and
damp jail atmosphere his fret use OF liberty
WAS to attempt to "bulduze" VIM. Porter, the
only coIorcd man on the jury who gave him
such light punishment Hornsby Imagined
that he vas under Radical rule, when he
could obtain just such 81 verdict as he wished.
Vim. Porter IL not one OF that sort, and
HorHsby had better simmer down" at brow
beating an honest juror, coIoled though hebe.
Lust Saturday Brooks Freeman was found
on the road near the Baxter plantation,
parish, dead, and with bis skull
fractured, the result of q blow with q rail.
After examination of witnesses, the coroner's
jury of inquest returned verdict that Free
man came to his death by having his head
fractured by one Eloy Wallace. The parties
both colored) had been previously quarreline,
and, meeting tn the road. a fight ensued, re-
sulting In tho killing Of Freeman. Wallace
has not been unprecedented, and has doubtless
led from the parish
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In the Parishes.

Judge j. ID. Watkins is mentioned as d
probable candidate for Attorney General.
Vernon parish sends her delegates to the
State convention uninstructed.
Only three delegations In the State have
been Instructed In their choice for Governor
and all OF these are instructed for Witt.
The Madison Journal is out for Judge W. B
spencer Tor Governor. 1t hopes to incte q
contest between the two city candidates,
Witt and Ogden, and slip In Its candidate.
a Greenback party ia forming here with q
view OF defeating the Democrats themselves,
and electing Republicans [Natchitoches Vim
dIcAtor.
tions for the selection OF candidates for par
ish officers, September ~ and October G.
The candidates having the highest vote at the
second election become the nominees Of the
party.
The mass meeting of the Democratic voters
city Of Natchitoches, September 10. to elect
delegates to the parish convention, was the
largest public meeting ever held In that city.
Two hundred votes were cast for the dele
gates
Robert N; Lusher, conforming to the ex-
eral parishes, is a candidate for reelection to
the office OF State Superintendent or Public
Education. He Is running on high moral
plaLlorm ana the Peabody fund.- Natchi-
s
The Radical dodge In North Louisiana now
y the dreenback party. under which disguise
the hepupllcans hope to reorganize The
Greenback party Ia now being formed in Ra-
pides, Natchitoches, Claiborne, Union and
Lincoln parishes. IL has 10 Greenback plank
whatever III It's platform. p'"AA
Only four parishes elect their delegates ~
the nominating convention by primary
election East Baton Rouge, Caddo. Ia
tOurche and Orleans. In the other parishes
the delegates were elected either by a parish
convention or mass meeting or selected. IA in
Pointe Coupee and Terrebonne by the parish
executive committee.
The following parishes have already elected
delegates to the Baton Rouge convention
Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge,
Bossier, Catahoula, West Carroll, De Soto,
Grant, Franklin. Jefferson, Natchitocbes,
Ouachita, PlaQuemines, Pointe Coupee, Ra-
pides, Richland, Red River, Sabine, st. Ber-
nard, st. Landry, st. Mary. st. Tammany,
Tensas. Terrehonne, Union, Vernon, Webster
and Winn-2o2 In all. There yet remains to
be elected 1876 delegates from the country and
12s from the city.
At present Witt Is "the coming man."
When Burke slipped out OF the arena it be
came perfectly patent to our mind that there
was all understanding" Burke and WiItz
will be tower OF strength in the convention
working together. Burke can almost make
q man believe that BLACK is white and green
~ no coior.. He is as captivating in his MAN.
ners as ne ls full OF interest and intelligence.
And then Witt comes to the front with the
#HEsstiEe gained a. president Of the Constitn-
&aonsk Convention end as al interim Cover
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antipathy to that of dead bodies. Another
appalling case which came under the notice
OF q Russian merchant was that OF a young
him ID numbering and subsequently eating o.
girl to whom he was betrothed. Men have
been executed for killing and eating their own
children, end sons have slain their fathers IN
order to appease the pangs OF hunger; IL
some Of the northern districts whole villages
stand empty, their inhabitants having one
and all perished for want of food. Some OF
the Incidents recounted by these commerclai
travellers are too horrible for reproduction.
the awful suiferings by which the POPULATION
has lately been, and, indeed, still Is ailllcted.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
POLITICS ELSEWHERE.

The Convention Of the Massachusetts
Prohibitionists.
Boston, Sept. 24-The State Prohibition
convention met and nominated Rev Daniel
G. Eddy. Of Hyde Park, for Governor, and
Timothy X. Early for Lieutenant Governor.
resolution inviting the cooperation Of
women In the work Of the party and invoking
her use of the ballot was warmly discussed.
Quite anumber Of delegates were opposed to
the introduction of the woman suffrage ques-
ton. One delegate, Mrs. Lu. Warner, OBJ
jected to the resolution on the ground that
women had work to do before being entitled
TO vote The resolution, however, was passed
by rising vote
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Pendleton ~ a Candidate.

resident Hayes is out for George II Pen
9leton az the Democratic candidate for the
aresldency 10 1880. Gentleman George is
a WY NICE man, but somaone has said that
Is Is - looking forward to 1884, and not to 1890
IN which TO cap his ambition. Circnmstances
over Which he has no control may make it
advisable not to turn to Ohio-tha mnther IL
candidate in 1880 tsVic
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areedings Of the parish convention Of the Dem
.s,cratic- conservative party Of the parish 81
at. Mary.
Under resolution Of the parish executive
committee the convention was composed OF
dele0ates elected to the convention by mass
meetings In the five different wards The
convention first met at the courthouse In
Franklin and effected temporary organiza-
tion by eIecting T. J. Shafrer as temporary
chairman and Geo. b. Shepherd as temporary
secretary and appointing committee on
credentials, as follows: Murphy j.. Foster,
u. Swormstead, .. Meynard, Placide Perrett,
This eomrnlttee reported that the first ward
1Ad 4 votes. second ward 4, third ward 8.
fourth ward ., fifth ward =; total, 30 votes.
A permanent organization was then effected
nv the election OF Hon. J. II. Ackien as pres
.ident and Geo. B. Shepherd Us secretary.
me first and third wards were ali present
In person. The second ward was present by
proxy. The fourth ward was present bv
Hon. j. H. Acklen, with five proxies. q. q.
with d proxy. The fifth ward by B. +. win.
chester In person, with three proxies,
Under the resolutions papssd by the differ
ant wards, that their vote should be Gust as a
that Hon. j. Il. Acklen had twenty 1--we out
Cf the thirty votes in the convention.
The Franklin delegation, with the excep
tion of Mr.. A. Ct. Frere violently opposed
every measure In the convention, with the
exception. Of the resolution indorsing the
course Of Hon. j. III. Acklen iii Congress,
which was unanimously adopted.
The resolution instructing the delegates to
Baton Rouge to nominate candidate to tho
Forty Congress was carried almost
unanimously.
The delegates elected were as follows: j. II.
Acklen, b. =. Winchester, u. Caffrey, "a. q.
Frere w. =. Iorian, A. Greveuberg, G.. w.
Kern, Placide Perrett.
When the resolution authorizing the an
pointment by the president of the new execu-
tive committee had been debated and passed,
MT: Catfrey, with his several frieDds-which
~ the by included the secretary, George b.
Shepherd, retired from the convention. On
motion the president appointed b. +. Win
slhester as secretary. and the roll being called
II was ascertained that nineteen delegates
answered to their names. A quorum being
present, the convention proceeded with busi-
ness, md completed their work.
The whole affair has been great triumph
for Acklen, OBSERVER.
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A Misapprehension.

Being an uptown resident, take pleasure
In correcting the impression that the upper
portion Of the city ID less Jealous than the
lower for the gnbernatoriaI nomination and
election OF the Hon. L. A. Wilt. My associa-
tion with residents of my section convinces
me that not only does majority, composed
of all classes OF citizens, desire the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Wilt, but most enthusiastically
desire 1t, and the reasons urged are the same
as are 30 tiatternRly and truthfuly express
ed In the published interviews on the subject.
A. NJ. SUMMERS,
Bulls Head Tobacco Warehouse
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25

Wine drinking in France is q great instl-
tuition. Thus the single city of Marseilles,
with a population Of only ga $50, consumes
yearly 1904 SOP gallons OF wine, or 4 100000
gallons more than do the entire population of
England. Lyons. with population Of 322,-
612, uses 1s,1s7i0o gallons. Comments are
Unnecessary; but it may be remarked that
there is far loss intoxication in France than
in England
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-25
New York's Democratic Committee.

New YORK, Sept. 23.-The Democratic State
COMMITTEES elected at Syracuse organized to-
Lester b. Faulkner occupied the chair. IN
calling the roll the names OF the Tammany
members were omitted. Several were pres
ent, and one asked the reason of the omission
resolution OF the convention The Tammany
men withdrew, with the exception Of Peter
Mitchell, who announced his intention to sup
port the Syracuse nominee and his name was
continued on the roll or the committed The
seats OF the seeding Tammany members
were then declared vacant