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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-10-09

Just received direct from the manu-:
factory, lot of Handmade Boots for
Nen and Boys. The cheapest Boot in
> Fn, ut EATRlCh >.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-10-09
Cur'atine.

Remarkable in its ac ION on all
kidney affections, retention or eX-
cess of urine, paia in the back, etc.
Try one bottle; .Jrice ST.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The woman question" Why did
You stay out till this unseemly hour,
sir?''
The mathematician who wished to
borrow some cash, wrote: +" will 4 to
ask for a T."
The Elmira Advertiser says that
self-made men are usually more thor
oughly made than other men.
People do not like to acknowledge
that they are poor, except to book
agents.-Neao Orleans Picdyune.
The reason /" the boy stood on the
burning deck was because it was too
hot to sit Waterloo Observer.
There amt nothing that will sho the
virtews and vices of man, in so vivid
light, as profuse prosperity.-Josh
Billings.
-Hackmen are opposed to crema-
ton. A long string Of carriages at a
poor mans funeral is something too
good to be lost to sight.
Before marriage a girl frequently
calls her intended "her treasure" but
when he becomes her husband she looks
upon him as g her treasurer"
The dates for college baseball
games in 1880 have already been de-
cided upon. The interest in the educa-
ton of our youth is not abating.
ton Post.
The average boy among his fellows
soon finds that he cannot play the ty-
rant with high hand. He learns to
knuckle down as soon as he commences
playing marbles.
Two ragged urchins stood one day
Beside the great church door.
And watched the folks in rich array
From out the temple pour
"My eyesl but amt they tony thought
And don't they sport the dress
What be they, JOe!" 20, dunno
They're Christian folks, guess"
"They be! Then, if we had the cash,
And nothing else to do,
And washed, and dressed and cut dash
Should we be Christians too!'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
A Skeleton In q Tree.

A startling surprise, after the fashion
of the story Of Ginevra, was experienced
not long ago by party Of Syrian wood
cutters in the forest of Drommling. They
began to fell venerable oak. which
they soon discovered to be quite hollow.
Being half decayed It speedily came to
the ground with crash, disclosing n
skeleton in excellent preservation. Even
the boots, which came above the knee,
were almost perfect. BY its side was
powder horn, porcelain pipe bowl,
and silver watch on which was en-
graved the name, III. Won Krackowitz,
1872" The teeth were perfect. Itwould
seem TO be the skeleton of a man be-
tween thirty and forty years of age. Il
is conjectured that while engaged in
hunting, he climbed the tree Tor some
purpose, and slipped incautiously into
the hollow trunk, from which there was
no release. and he probably died Of
starvation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Senate, on the 18th, took up the
Post-office Appropriation bill, and after q
number of amendments had been made, in
Guiding one striking out the provision for
annuling and reletting certain star route
contracts on the LIST of October, the bill
passed. The House passed the River and
Harbor bill undera suspension Of the rules,
the vote standing 179 yeas to Al nays.
A DEADwOOD dispatch of the 18th
says: A party of twenty-five men, who
started on the Goth of last month to recover
the stock stolen from John Deffbach, who
was murdered in the Inyan Kera Mountains,
and to avenge his death, came up with a
party Of seventeen Indians on the Little Pow
der River, and killed four of them and cap
tured seventy seven horses. James Rhodes,
one Of the party, was killed.
OVER six hundred houses were de-
stroyed by the Milton (Pa.) fire. The loss
is placed at 81, 100000, on which there is not
quite 100000 of insurance. Money, cloth
ing, and provisions are being literally sup
piled to the unfortunate inhabitants, the
Pennsylvania cities vying with each other as
to which shall contribute most generously.
So far as known, only one person, an old
gentleman of eighty five years, persisted in
the flames. One woman has since died of
fright.
A TUCSON (Nev.) dispatch from a
most reliable source reports that Gen. Mar
quez, with 100 Mexican revolutionists, re-
cruited in the neighborhood of Yuma, is
now stationed around the old town of Ste
vanita, ON the line about $50 miles
from Yuma and the same distance
from Tucson. The troops 90 from
one side of the line to the other as
occasion requires. They are being closely
watched by the Mexican troops. The Mex
lean Consul stationed there has called on the
United States military authorities to assist
him in suppressing the movement on the
American frontier, and to maintain the in
ternational laws between the two Govern
ments.
IT is reported that cargo of arms
and ammunition and one hundred men have
been landed in Cuba from an American
vessel, and that the struggle for inde-
pendence will now begin anew. Gen. Garcia
is in command Of the expeditionary forces,
and Gen. CaliXto is Chief.
A regular provisional Government has been
formed, with Gen. Yniguez as President.
POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York
City, will not accept the position of Post
master General, which it is understood has
been offered him by President Hayes.
n. G. ORDwAY, of New Hampshire,
has been nominated for Governor of Dakota
Territory. Mr.. Ordway was formerly Ser
geant- alarms Of the House of Reprssen-
tatives.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
New Mexican Studies.

Mrs. Governor Lew Wallace finds In
New Mexico what she calls "sub:le
Spanish essence" pervading everything.
Even the names of the commonest per-
sons she meets are poetic. She says in
letter to the Independent: "Perfectio
(perfection,) a worthless peon in Nav
aho blanket, sweeps the sidewalk;
Benito (the good,) a stumbling Mexi-
can boy, watching his chance for a
spring at the spoons, brings the daily
mail; Mariposa (butterfly,) the silliest
of Slowboys, pushes the baby wagon;
while Angellus, an angel whose form
has lost its original Brightness, lazily
watches her. Three old witches, whom
we Familiarity call the Macbeths, were
baptized Feliciana, the happy; Rosita,
little Rose; Hermosa, the beautiful"
Mrs. Wallace adds that most of the peo-
pie she meets have Indian blood in their
veins. and not few are n mixture of
Spanish, African and Indian. Here is
her picture of Santa Fe woman:
"Quite out of reach Of the shady trees,
in the fiercest blaze of the sun, sitting
on fragment Of the Rocky Mountains,
is a statuesque figure, which might
represent the oldest, the most furious
of the Furies. 1t is Blandina, the fair
one, the soft one, of Santa Fe. Her
face, like one of her own foot hills. is
worn into cutters and seams. Not like
them so nodded by the action of water,
but by exposure to sharp sunlight and
whitening wind, destructive to beauty,
which make even young persons appear
old. Her skin Is q parchment, which
looks as though it might date back to-
1 was about to say the flood, but that
would imply that ut some prehistoric
era she had felt the sanitary influence
of shower bath"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
The News in Brief.

THE House Committee on Railways
and Canals have reported favorably bill
incorporating the Cherokee and Arkansas
Railway Company. The proposed road is to
run through the Indian Territory, connecting
the southern and central portions Of Kansas,
via the Little Rock and Fort Smith, and
Memphis and Little Rock Railroads, with
the Mississippi River at Memphis, thereby,
rs the report declares, preaching the most
profitable and natural market fer grain
products of that portion of Kansas, Mem
phis being the chief distributing point for
surrounding States.''
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

The revenue cutter Thomas Corwin
is about to sail from San Francisco
to the Arctic Seas in search Of the explor-
ing steamer Jeanette and the missing
Vhalers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

Incidence grows on us with suffer-
ance. It begins by tying US with silken
threads, and ends by lettering US with
cart-ropes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

THE West Virginia Republican State
Convention, after heated discussion,
adopted a resolution that the delegates to the
Chicago Convention be instructed to vote for
Rlaine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

THE Wisconsin Democratic State
Convention, to select delegates to Cincinnati,
was held on the 18th. The delegates are
nninstructed
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

SECRETARY SHERMAN attended the
annual banquet of the New York Chamber
of Commerce on the night of the 18th, and
responded to the toast-'E The Financial
Prosperity of Our Country.'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

The Florida Republican State Conven-
ton nominated s. b. Conover for Governor
and Gen. W. NJ. Ledwith for Lieutenant
Governor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

LOVE, undying, solid love, whose root
is virtue, can no more die than virtue
itself.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

FLATTERY is a bad sort of money, to
which our vanity gives currency.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

A MATINEE performance by COM
pany Of amateurs was announced to be held
at the Opera-house in Atlanta, Ga, on the
18th. A number Of young ladies were to
appear in fairy scene as angels, with wings
made of cotton, and while dressing for their
parts, one of them came in contact with gas
jet and the cotton flashed up like gunpow-
der, instantly enyeloping her in flames and
communicating to the others similarly
attired. A number of gentlemen rushed in
and succeeded in quenching the flames, but
not before several of the ladies were seriously
burned. Miss Maggie Chapman was not ex-
pected to survive, having inhaled the flames,
and Mrs. Abbie Hammond and Miss Minnie
Bellamy were beth badly burned about the
neck and shoulders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

The African M. E. Church Confer
ence has elected as Bishops the Revs. 81. NJ.
Turner, of Georgia; w. r. Dickerson, OF
New York, and R. 81. Cain, of North Caro-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

DURING March, 83 vessels left tho
Mersey with 1868 passengers. Of
these. IL, 1877 went to the United States,
812 to British North America, 10 to
South America, % to Australia, 81 to
the East Indies, 81 to the West Indies,
81 to China and So to the west coast of
Africa. The nationalities of the emf
grants were: English, 5,053; Scotch,
80; Irish, 2,287; foreign, 5.614.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

IT is reported that the Colombian
Government will interpose an objection to
the summary manner in which it is claimed
the United States took possession Of Laguna
de Chiriqui and Colo Dulce as coaling
station on the Isthmus of Darien.
THE Portland (Me.) Advertiser pub
fishes an interview with Hon. E.. B. Wash
burne, of Illinois, on visit to his brother in
that State, tn which the former is reported
as saying that he will not be candidate for
President under any circumstances; that he
Is for Grant first, last and all the time; and
that he repudiates all combinations with
other candidates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

GEN. MCKENzIE's command, about
1000 strong, left Fort Garland on the 18th for
the Los Pinos Agency, and will occupy the
heart of the Ute Country, under instruc-
items to keep cut prospectors and to prevent
any conflict between the Indians and the
whites.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

THE Florida Republican State Con-
vention instructed its delegation to Chicago
to vote as q unit for Gen. Grant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

The Missouri Press Association met in an
nllal convention at Sedalia on the 18th. The
chief features of the forenoon session were
an address of welcome from the new Mayor
of Sedala, DIR. Evans, and a response by the
President of the Association, Capt. Joseph
III. Turner, of the CarrolIton Record. In the
afternoon Capt. Henry King, of the Kansas
Press Association, delivered an address. 1t
was full of hits, which ELECTED much ap-
plause and occ 'sionaly laughter. a fine
poem by Mrs. Jennie NJ. Hicks was read, and
Col. j. T. Childs, of the Richmond Con-
serratOr, read an essay on the ''POetry of
journalism The ball and banquet at night
were well attended and heartily enjoyed.
The second days proceedings embraced an
address by Mr.. Thomas f. Garrett, of tho
st. Louis Republican. poem by Mr.. b. f.
Russell, of the Steelvile Mirror, a recitation
by Miss Minnie Russell, Of st. Louis, an es-
say by Mr.. VIM. Maynard, Of the Moberly
Headlight, and an address by Major j. b.
Merwin, Of st. Louis, in favor of spelling
reform. Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Col. Jacob r. Child, OF
the Richmond ConserrdtOr, President;
Theodore s. Case, j. b. Merwin and w. d.
Crandall, Vice. Presidents; Thomas S. Car
ter, Recording Secretary; Jas. G. Anderson,
Corresponding Secretary, and w. l.. Thorn
rs, of the ST. Louis Commercial Gazette.
Treasurer. The next met ting of the As
ISOLATION will be held at jefferson CITY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

THE President has signed the Con-
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill and
the bill for the relief Of settlers on public
lands.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

A BILL has been introduced in the
House of Representatives to repeal Section
sits Of the Revised Statutes, limiting the
circulation Of each national bank to 500, 900
and to amend Section 5,171 so as to allow to
each bank a circulation not exceeding the
amount Of its capital.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

A BILL has been introduced in the
House Of Representatives by Mr.. McCord,
of Iowa, requiring all railroad companies
engaged in commerce among the States to
make and publish on March 1, 1881, COM
plete table and schedule of fees, rates, and
charges intended thereafter to be in force,
which rates shall be uniformly, impartially,
and invariably charged, except when, for
Seed reasons in extraordinary cases, a de-
parture therefrom is necessary. This sched-
ule of rates must be printed in plain type
and posted in the ticket offices. Any
acts, contracts, consultations, discrimin-
atoms, rebates, drawbacks, poolings, or
extortions which shall be against public
pelicy are forbidden. Any company may
change its schedule upon giving thirty days.
notice. Penalties and punishments are pro-
vided for violations Of the act. The ast pro-
vides for the appointment by each Congress
of a committee of nine, one from each United
States judicial circuit, to be called the Com
mittee on Supervising Railways, whose duty
it shall be to examine and report and advise
whenever more efficient legislation is
deemed necessary, said committee to be en-
powered to sit during vacation and to take
testimony.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27

IT is reported from Denver that a
secret organization has been formed, with
headquarters in that city, to take possession
Of the Ute country and to fight the Indians
for possession if necessary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20

and calves sl9@S5; hogs in light move
ment at 8 TO AZ c gross sheep 4@5c for
good and 81 60@2 per head for inferior.
Market ~scantily supplied.
WOOL-Tub-washed, 40645c per h,
unwashed, N@2Sc unwashed and bury
from 10 to 60c per cwt less.
SUGAR-Market quiet; fully fair, open
kettle, Sc prime do SIC choice, do Sc
yellow clarified. 9@9Hc off whites, $40
9xc hard, l0H@1lc.
COFFEE-Fair to choice AK 10 lSc
according TO quality.
HIDES-Dry flint, No. l., Is; No. 2,
Ice dry salt do, 15c; green, No. 2, l2kc;
do sailed, 1880; market unsettled; tallow,
b@5<c; beeswax. Zoe.
LEATHER-Oak sole, SS@40c; hem
lock, 28@S2c; harness, 36@38c; skirting,
S5@37c; French cali, 10000 per dozen;
domestic cali, $2O030 per dozen.
TOBACCO Per ID 42k@G0c.
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 rs per car or dray
load; orders 81 IS sacks 81 30@l 60 for
course and fine. Rock salt &c per pound.
BAGGING-k arket quiet; on orders,
fax, 9Hc per yard; jute, l0H@l1c ties;
" 75@3 per bundle; Irvine, he per
Mound
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20

arsenal, the very embodiment of ply
steal yigor as he dashed his horse to a
white foamthrough theexcited streets?
No wonder, then, that while the gen
eral nurses his leg, he also nurses man
ly regrets. Several interesting Incl
dents happened lately in a single day,
as told by one Of Hampton's intimate
friends. The general, in the hope of
picking up some views about cut legs,
has a way Of stopping people similarly
afflicted. As he wal standing on his
crutches in the main hall, near the
senate entrance, a large man came
along, his right leg lost above the
knee, and he had some patent arrange
ment that seemed like a framework,
light and portable, to help him out of
his scrape. Accosting him, Hampton
spoke of their mutual infirmities, and
asked how that arrangement worked.
Very WELL" replied the stranger.
1t is an invention of my own"-and
he went on to explain it. May / ask
where you lost your leg?" inquired
the general. Eyes, certainly, it went
off when Hampton charged our bat
terry at Gettysburg" Indeed, I'm
grieved to hear it" said the general,
very sincerely. my name is Hamp-
ton" They shook hands across the
bloody chasm, and the stranger turned
out to be Representative Caulk, of
Wisconsin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20

building four sections Of dry docks,
each thirty feet on the inside, and
three and a half feet deep. They are
being built principly for the repair of
barges, tugs, etc.
The Chas. P. Chouteau, from st.
Louis, passed down last evening, with
1000 tons freight, and 100 tons more
engaged at Helena, which would load
her fiat. She added here rs bales
cotton, and about 80 pkgs sundries.
The Guiding Star, Captain W. b.
Miller, arrived at 6 am. from Ciucin-
natl, discharged here 2S4 pckgs freight
and added 235 bales cotton and 1000
sacks oil cake, and LETT at | pm. for
New Orleans, needing about 200 or
300 tons to fill out.
The Colorado, from st. Louis, ar
rived this morning with a big trip of
freight, including 1924 bbls -four, 500
bbls meal, 7O9 SKIS corn. 200 SKIS bran,
100 SKIS oats, 300 SKIS malt. 81 bbls
molasses, 20 casks bacon, $50 pkgs
lard, 2 bales cotton, 2 head cattle and
IA pkgs sundries. She leaves from
the Anchor line wharfbOat at 5 pm.
for Cairo and st. Louis.
The 0uachita Belle, Capt. NJ. R.
Cheek, brought in 4 bales cotton, II
bags seed cotton, and 484 sacks cotton
seed. She is the mail packet leaving
this evening for Helena, Friar's Point,
Terrene, Arkansas City, and all way
landings through to Greenville, where
she will connect with the Geo. w,
Cheek for Vicksburg. Capt. A. l..
Cummins is her chief clerk, and is as
sisted by Billy Thomas and Lee Cum
minis, jr.
The Cons Millar, Captain Billy
Tichenor in command, will be found
in port this evening receiving to leave
tomorrow for Cairo, Louisville Gin
c%innati and all way landings on the
Ohio river. Captain Lightburne, her
agent, will furnish all desired infor-
nation regarding her low rates OF
passage and through tickets to any
point east. The Millar has excellent
accommodations and her officers, who
are sociable and polite, will see that
passengers are made to feel at home.
Jimmy Voris, a pleasant gentleman.
presides at the desk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20
Wade Hampton and His Leg.

Brooklyn Eagle letter.
1t is rather m~ournful to look at
Wade Hampton in the senate, nursing
his stump Of leg and ~subiecting his
splendid physique to the disgrace of
crutches. He is the only cripple in
the body, | mean visibly so. TO be
sure his colleague, the dashing Butler,
has but one leg, but you might watch
him move about for ten years and not
know it, so perfectly does he manage
his cork. To be sure, too, there are
mel who suffer, sometimes intensely,
for trying to stop bullets in the late
unpleasantness, like Gordon, Ransom,
and Maxey but their infrmities are
not visible. Not so with Hampton.
He is in the very prime of life, scarcely
over fifty and a hopeless cripple. No.
body feels pain on looking at Aleck
Stephens, for his case is just the re-
suit Of a slow and natural process of
decay, which he rather seems to relish.
But you insensibly feel a deep sym
pathy with Hampton's loss as with
the late Senator Morton's infrmities.
because both came along prematurely,
like the hurricane on the oak, and
married powerful frames. And the
General oroons over his abbreviated
limb all the time-not in any growing
or testy spirit, for he is the soul Of
patience, but it must be remembered
that his whole life has been one of
nerve, vim, dash, and his present
forced inactivity must only intensity
the memory Of his daring exploits and
moving accidents by food and field"
Can it be supposed than when Morton
sat in the senate, a big, chained dog,
the defenseless prey Of the smallest
cur that had legs and could use them,
he never iretted at the picture of his
past activity, when he used to bound
into the saddle at his governors Office
in war times, and dash to camp or
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20
Attachment Notice.

No: 4470-Before ]. S. Galloway, j. p. for
Shelby county, Tenn.-L. Hawthorn & Co,
&c. Geo. c.. Ware.
N this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under section 1856 of the Code of
Tennessee, and returned levied upon the
property Of the defendant, and affidavit hav-
ing been made that defendant is indebted TO
the plaintiff in the sum Of 1884, due BY
4 Go. and paid by them and not repaid,
and that the claim is just, and that
the defendant is a nonresident of the
that said defendant make his personal an
pearance before me on the 22d day of June.
1850, at IL o'clock m, at my office, No, 81
Madison street, Memphis, Tenn, and defend
said attachment suit within the time pre-
scribed by law, or the same will be proceeded
with ex. parte; and that a copy Of this order
be published once a week for four weeks in
the Public Ledger.
This the 18th day of May, 1880.
bS "a 80 50 j, Is. GALLOWAY I u