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Falling Waters.

The Falling Water Mills have
been put In first-class repair since
Capt. Maxwell has taken charge.
he has just put a new saw in his
saw mill, and Is now prepared to
do all kinds of saving on short
notice. He Ia also having q new
ferry boat built, and will have the
ferry running ia about ten or
twelve days. The farmers of this
section, including those on the
Maryland side of the river, will
find 1t to their advantage to call at
Falling Water mills for anything
In the line of a Touring or saw
mill. Mr.. Maxwell means busi-
ness, and will attend to business.
Mr.. Ell Fleming, the Little
Georgetown king fisher, was down
this week and undertook to show
the novices around here how to
catch bass. The old gentleman Is
more successful on his own
grounds,
Your friends In the country con-
graduate you on your reelection
to the Office of Mayor by such a
handsome majority. III the coun-
try had been allowed vote in the
matter, we would have made 1t
pretty nearly unanimous.
There Is great complaint of wire
worm among the corn. A number
OF farmers have had to plant the
second, and some the third time.
Can thePresident and Directors of
M. and p. Turnpike Company in
form the stock holders when they
hold their annual election for
president and directors of said
company? as the stockholders
have heard OF no such election
since before the war.
The rain on Saturday has very
much improved the wheat and
timothy grass.
Since Mr.. j. N. Cunningham has
declined to be candidate for the
sheriffalty, 1t Is said his friends
will support Mr.. Robert Lamon.
Mr.. Samuel Light has recently
erected two new houses on the
road leading from Falling Waters
to Tice's school house, between
James L. and j. N. Cunning
hams.
Mr.. Samuel Light has burned a
kiln OF 1900 or 1000 bushels OF
lime, which he Is putting on the
farm on which he resides, belong
ing to DIR. Thomas.
The schools In this district will
close Friday of this week.
The weather has been intensity
hot this week, and the ground is
fast drying out again. PAT.
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MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, May "a. 1880.

ST. LOUIS, May "a, 1880.
/ had expected to have given
you quite an extensive descrip-
ton of my trip out here, but find
that | am unable to do so, though
l will try and tell You of some
of the things have seen. Ipassed
through many enterpris:ng places,
most all OF which are years
younger, but many years in adj
vance of Martinsburg In almost
every way.
st. Louis is fourishing, and If
one can Judge from the number of
trains In here daily from the va
rious railroads which center here,
II Is far In advance of Baltimore.
The bridge over the Mississippi
at this point is the finest in The
United States. There are double
tracks over 1t for railroad trains.
over which are street car tracks
carriage and wagon ways, with
sidewalks on either side for those
who prefer to walk.
Every place of business seems to
be running to its fullest capacity,
and strange to say you can walk
for miles and not see a single
loafer-all seem to have something
to do. 1854
| enclose head of wheat, and
you tan see from IL that the wheat
here is in advance of that In your
county. &3F
Early vegetables are selling very
low Ia this market. Strawberries
are selling at two quarts for Is
cents, aud every thing else In pro-
portion.
1t looks rather odd too see IS or
20 loads of ice in Que train going
into the city, beJides the great
boatloads that come down the
river daily.
The Union Depot Is a beautiful
place. but the way baggage Is
handled there Ia terror to trav-
elers. VI E.3f
To one not accustomed to such
things, 1t seemsodd to see.in the
newspapers base ball matches, pie
mics and excursions for Sunday,
though l suppose 1t Is all right, as
the people take 1t as day of
pleasure aud rest from their daily
labors.
l must say that I think it would
be q decided advantage to some of
the Berkeley and Morgan farmers
to take trip west, say to Ohio,
II no further, aud learn how the
farmers out this way prepare their
ground before they put the seed
in, and then they will know one
OF the reasons why the western
farmer can produce more grain to
the acre than the eastern farmer.
There Is not an acre planted with
out first being narrowed and roll
ed. II is true that the country Is
not so rough as 1t Is with you, but
any farmer in your district can
make his farm as productive as
this out here, If he only goes
about 1t In the right way.
SoUATTER.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THE editor of the Statesman, -
occupies couple of columns of his
valuable space in attempting to re-
ply to report of the proceedings of
the recent Democratic mass meet
ing at the courthouse. His reply is
no reply at all. He fails to meet
and squarely deny single charge in
that report. The gentlemen present
at that meeting will testify to the
absolute correctness Of that report,
even to unpleasant details. AS a
simple evidence of how the "stiff-
back" editor of the Statesman craw-
fishes when he has to, it is only ne
cessary to remember that in trying
to get out of his bad predicament at
the time, he said the resolutions had
not been offered, had no second, and
were not before the meeting. Every
man in the courthouse knew better,
and now he ,nnblushingly admits
that s'the reading of these, resolu-
tions had received second, and the
chairman. misIed by the second, was
about to state.the proposition to- the
meeting" Did this honest "stiff-
back" editor know this fact when he
announced before the meeting that
such was not the fact? OF course,
such a high toned, honest man would.
not prevaricate-we believe that is
the mild way of putting it. ~
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Eds. Independent:

Eds. Independent:
Last Friday evening / had the
pleasure ofseeing Mr.. j. w. Trim
BILE, editor and proprietor of the
Morgan Mercury, married to Miss
Rosa Bechtol. daughter of Mr..
Lewis Bechtol, of this place. Long
may they both live to enjoy all the
blessings this world can afford,
and when done with this go to
one where there are no locals to
hunt up or type to pi, but all Is
peace and happiness. M.
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SENATOR GoRDoN,s NEW Posi-

SENATOR GoRDoN's NEW Posi-
TIoN.-Gen. Gordon has accepted
the position of associate and con-
sulting connsel for q new railroad
combination, OF which Mr.. New
comb IL the head, which includes
q continuous line, under one man
agement, from ST. Louis TO Savan.
nah. The salary will probably
not be less than $l5, 900 per annum.
San.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THE WHEELING Register an
nounces that the lest dollar of taxes
in the hands of the sheriffs, due the
State for the years 1S7S-79 was paid
into the treasury on Monday last.
This is good record. 2 Y 1
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THERE is perfect gorge of sill
yer coin in the sub-treasury at New
York, and halt in its manufacture
will have to be made for want of
storage. The present stock on hand
weighs over FIVE hundred tons.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THE BosToN Advertiser says that
Mr.. Tilden "holds the key of the
Democratic situation" Yes, but
unfortunately for Sammy, it will do
him no good if he hasn't got the
combination"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

DIR. Peck, of Indianapolis has
amputated the legs ora young
girl on. account OF decay ia the
bones produced by xcessi We rope
jumping. He advises pareuts and
teachers to prohibit this play un-
der all circumstances. ~lT g~sq
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THE PRESTON COUNTY delegates
to the Congressional convention
are said to be divided between Mar
tin and Lucas.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

EVERY COUNTY that has appoint
ed delegates to the Democratic State
Convention to be held in this place,
and have expressed a preference, are
for Mr.. Faulkner, as far as we
know. 3 @t4g
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Hiram Metcalf has been convict
ed of murder In the second degree
in the Circuit Court of Mineral
county. West Va, for killing
Franklin Smith, near Keyser,
about the close ofthe war. He
was sentenced to nine years i'm
prisonment Ia the penitentary.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

THE HARPER IS FERRY Govern
ment property was put up at public
sale on Tuesday, and but one bid Of
fered. The sale was withdrawn.
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SHERMAN is serene.
BLAINE is confident.

GRANT puffs his cigar with the
indifference of man who knows his
hold is sure.
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NEWS JOTTINGS.

CulpeppeF, va, had quite a de-
stuctive fire on last Friday. Five
buildings were burned, and the Epis-
copal Church narrowly escaped.
An exchange suggests that it
would be cheaper to let Conkling,
Cameron and Logan svote as unit"
at Chicago, and let the other 753
delegates stay at home.
The suspension of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Compa-
ny has created stir in the East al
most equal to that of the failure of
Jay Cooke 81 Co.
1t is reported that the seventeen
year locust has made its appearance
in Wayne county, o., and considera-
BILE anxiety is manifested by the
farming community in that section.
The West Virginia delegation to
Chicago has been assigned to the
Palmer House, which is the Grant
headquarters. They are, therefore,
placed where they will do the least
harm and the most good.
Wearied of public life after twen-
ty years service. and having de-
sire to attend TO his private affairs,
Gen. Jno. B. Gordon has rendered
his resignation as United States Sem
ator. Ex-Goy. Joseph E. Brown has
been appointed his successor.
Gen. N. Golf, Jr., has been nomi-
mated for the office of U. S. District
Attorney of West Virginia Gen.
Longstreet for the Turkish Mission:
Horace Maynard for Postmaster
General ; and Judge Key for Judge
of the eastern district of Tennessee.
The Oldest Mason in the United
States, John Best, has just died at
! New Concord, Ohio. He was "
years Master. Mason he become a
member of a commandery at WASH
ington, Pa, in 1911, having joined
the order in 1903 in Ireland, where
he took all the degrees up to X. t.
| The weather yesterday seemed like
a leaf snatched from the diary of
August. That Canadian weather
prophet who predicted cold, wet
weather for the latter part of May
may congratulate himself that 1t is
no longer fashionable TO put false
! prophets to death.
AT Erie, Pa, on Monday a babe
was born without a head, but other
wise fully developed. It weighs
about seven pounds. There is an
excrescence protuding from the top
Of the trunk between the shoulders,
where the neck ought to be, which
has two large eyes, a nose and a
mouth with hare lip. There is no
occipital or parietal bones, and no
brain. In a sitting posture the child
resembles huge frog.
The suspension. Of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad, and the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal Com
pany, has caused a sensation in the
financial world second only to the
failure of Jay Cooke & Co. The.ag-
gregate Of the liabilities is in excess
of the enormous sum of one hundred
and twenty millions of dollars, but
there is yet some hope that arrage-
ments.can be made by which the OPP
erations of both corporations may be
continued, and that will eventually
lead to the clearing away Of the
monstrous incubus of Indebtedness.
The suspension was brought about
by extensive operations made with
view Of monopolizing the cream of
the anthracite coal trade. t
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

DAVID DAVIS is training as a
prominent dark horse for the Gin
cinnati races. He has announced
his pedigree.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-05-29

WALL STREET has been in a
shaky condition this week. Values
are shrinking rapidly back to prices
current early in the boom. 49,
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Cincinnati commercial As Ger.
tain as Grant Is nominated at Chi
cago, the Republicans win DO beat
en- In Ohio in October next.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30

In continuation he said that to Gen.
Garfield these wants are familiar. Ii
is not question of parties, but of
ideas. The two platforms govern our
choice. The Democrats say they stand
just where they have always stood
where they stood in 1860. When Lin
coin was elected the governing power
of the Democrats was in the hands of
Southern leaders, who tried To break
up the Union. The Southern Demo-
Gratis to-day govern the party, and
favor a system of government opposed
to labor and in favor Of an aristccracy
The AZ Democratic Senators believe
the rebellion justifable. They have
been SO educated. If you think SO,
vote the Democratic ticket. There has
been no change in that party since it
succeeded in depreciating the credit of
the country, making one dollar worth
only thirty cents-since they voted the
war a failure-since they opposed the
constitutional amendments making all
men equal before the law, as we have
it in Vermont and in New England.
The Democratic party is unchanged,
and will remain SO for years, whether
it TO his fellow-Democrats, whether of
Vermont, or New Hampshire, or Maine,
or Connecticut, whether they pant to
put the government in the hands of
those who deny the right of ma orities
to govern. We all pay taxes, and our
Democratic Senators tell us what they
intend to do-to pay the cotton claim
of the South the soldiers who fought
TO destroy the government and wipe
ont the constitutional amendments
denying the right of rebel claims for
losses during the war. The Democratic
Congress has bills for rebel claims now
before it, and but for fear of its effect
on the coming election, would have
been pressed to vote before this. Nine
tenths of the taxes are paid by the
North. The tax paid by the South is
on whiskey and tobacco. They will
repeal the cotton tax, because it is I'M
equal. You help the South if you help
the Democracy. You will help pay
rebel claims, and $30,0O0,000 u year
will be needed to pay pensions. 1.-The
words rebel and loyal should be set
aside" they say. How can we ask our
sons, in future troubles, to fight for the
country, if we vote that there is no
difference between loyal and rebel?
The speaker closed his address by a
brief reference to the questions of tar
iff, the public debt and resumption,
but regarded them as of small interest
as compared to the great question he
first referred to.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30
THE EQUESTRIAN.

Perhaps chief among the inconsis-
tencies of the Democratic party is
the nomination of a military man.
For twelve years this party have been
loud in their denunciation of their
opponents for having put a military
man into the Presidential chair. How
often have they enquired of their
opponents "Why put man there, the
tendency of whose life and educa-
ton has engendered absolutism, az
bitrary and military rule ?"-"Why
put man there towards whom q
portion of our brethren have pre-
judice and deadly hate engendered
by the strife ?"-"Why put a man
over our Southern brethren who con-
quercd them in war ?'-" Why elect
man who knows nothing about any
government outside of military or
martial law?" How do our friends
on the other side reconcile the nomi-
nation of Hancock with their COM
plants in the past? A man bred in
the most rigid school of military dis
cipline-a man extremely aristocratic
in his life and ideas-a man whose
horizon of political experience stops
on the borders of military practice,
"a man who is supported by all the
unruly elements that hang about the
Democratic party, including green
backism, and man who is expected
to organize them all into a firm,
stable and harmonious administra-
ton. 1t is such a man that they
now put forth. Did General Han
cock fight the rebels friendly? What
motive or design is there beneath
the surface known only to the adj
herents of Southern State rights that
now makes it agreeable to the con-
quered portion of the country, that
n man who fought them should now
be put to rule over them?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30
SENATOR EDMUNDS' SPEECH.

The Republicans of this State opened
the fall campaign at Vegennes, on We'd
nesday of last week, with our great
Senator as principal speaker. There
were about 5000 people present, includ-
ing many Democrats, as the people of
this State turn out to listen when a
good speech is anticipated, no matter
who is to make it. Very appropriately
lie addressed a considerable portion of
his speech to the misguided portion of
his hearers, speaking, however, with
the intent of convincing rather than
of combating them. lie said : Ardent
Republican as | am, concede to every
democrat the same right to his views
as have to mine, provided lie can give
as good a reason for them. If he can
show better reason, then, and not till
then, will l become u Democrat but
he has no right to be Democrat if,
by the triumph of those views, mis-
government shall result. Speaking in
this sense to myfellow-citizens, and not
IN partisan sense, | commend it to
your good sense, and ask to whose
hands shall the government of the
country at large be committed for the
next four years and we are response
BILE, not only so far us our votes go, but
also for the influence which our action
has on other States, for that extends
farther than to our five electoral votes.
Now, which wayshall we go? For the
great soldier, who is nothing but a
soldier, whom the Democratic party
have seen fit to nominate, or that
equally great General, who is of the
people and not of the West Point,
whom the Republicans have nomina-
ted? know both gentlemen person
ally, and both have done good and
true service to their country. General
Hancock graduated with honor from
West Point, and during the war he did
his duty bravely and we'll but he has
never had the training of statesman
and does not know, as does his com.
petitor, the needs and the wants of the
people.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30

Few men in this country would enter
the Presidential Office its with great du-
ties and responsibilities better or even
as well equipped with knowledge and
experience. He need only be true To
his record in order TO become wise,
safe and successful President.
DEMoCRACT's HOUR NOT YET STRUCK.
The Democracy may in the course
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pie but that should be only when
the repudiationists and the advocates
of unsound money have ceased to be
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and to put a general of the army, who
has never been anything but a soldier,
in nomination for the Presidency, to
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TO the settlements of the great conflict
of the past. And for all these reasons,
in my opinion, the interests of the
republic demand the election of James
A. Garfield to the Presidency of the
United States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30

and novelties of the season IN foot wear for
Gentlemen from the heavy Brogan that will
stand all manner of kicking Except "kicxing
the bucket,") to the finest calf oxford Tie, ali
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30

CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,.
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky,0}
July, 1880.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30
THE CHOICE TO BIZ MADE.

The Secretary closed with an elo-
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the choice which the conservative and
progressive citizen must make. The
Republican candidate was not great
soldier as his competitor for the Pres
idency, but he has made himself, and
is universally recognized as, what a
President ought to be, statesman.
lie understands all phases of life from
the lowest to the highest, for he has
lived through them. He understands
the great problems of politics, for he
has studied them and actively partic-
ipated i'm their discussion and solution.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30

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