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Programme for Week of
PRAYER.

In accordance with the programme
adopted by the u. s. Evangelical
Alliance for the Week of Prayer,
January 5-l0, 1880, the ministers
have concluded to observe the FOL-
lowing order of exercises
Sunday, Jan. 4.-Services to he
held in the respective churches at
y p. NJ. Subiesct-"Fullness OF
Christ's Salvation"
Monday, Jan. 5.-Services in the
U. b. Church Z P. NJ. "Thanksgiy-
ing for the blessings of the past year,
and prayer for their continuance. -
Tuesday, Jan. 6.--Services In the
M. e. Church South 7P. NJ. Con
ssion Of sin, and humiliation be-
fore God"
wednesday, Jan. 7.-Serviees in
the Lutheran Church p. NJ. "Pray-
er for the Church of Christ, its min
listers, its growth in grace, and its
enlargement. and for revivals of re-
ligion throughout our country
Thursday, Jan. S.--Services i'm the
Presbyterian Church 7 Pm. "Pray-
er for Christian education; for the
family and institutions of learning;
fer Sunday Schools and Christian
Associations
Friday, Jan. 9.--Services in the
M. E. Church 7P. NJ. prayer for
nations, rulers, and people; for peace
and religious liberty"
Saturday, Jan. 10.-Services in
the Reformed Church 7 p. NJ. "Pray-
er for Home and Foreign Missions;
for the outpouring of the Spirit
upon all flesh, and the conversion of
the world"
1t is the special desire of the min
listers to have all our congregations
unite in these services and make
them decided success.
A. Il. ROGERS, Sec'y.
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BERKELEY COUNTY, w. VA,
DECEMBER 81, 1870.

Eds. Independent:
l wish to beg a small space in the
columns of your valuable paper to
challenge the county for an average
weight of ten hogs. You will please
insert the following
FINE AVERAGE OF TEN HOGS.
Lewis Ambrose, of Berkeley coun-
ty, killed ten hogs, two of which
were eight months and the others
something over year old, the aver
age being 316 pounds. We want to
hear from the county to know who
can beat it. Come on 'Squatter, with
your big hogs. g. G. A.
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TIedgesville.

The weather this week has been
mild and spring like,
Christmas passed off quietly and
everybody seemed to enjoy the
annual holiday in a quiet and
peaceful way.
We have entered upon the New
Year with uew hopes, new promi-
ses and new resolutions foe the fu-
ture. May 1880 be fraught with
joy, prosperity and happiness to
all.
The close season for deer and
partridges commenced on the LIST
of January, - spc:,smen will
now have to confine their opera
tions to wild turkeys and rabbits.
There was a very pleasant sur
at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage in this place on Saturday
morning last. A wagon loaded
to overffowing with good things
for Christmas, as we'll as substan-
tials, appeared before the door. 1t
had been sent by the kind people
of Jones Spring and vicinity, as
an expression of their regard for
their pastor. The generous dona-
ton was presented by Mr.. George
Horner and MIR. Joseph Colbert,
and was received with grateful
hearts by Rev. S. s. Wilson and
his family. May the kind donors
realize that it is "more blessed to
give than to receive"
REPORTER
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The Richmond Dispatch has this
to say on the matter of the negro
exodus:
We are in favor Of allowing
them TO go whittier they will, and
without let or hinderance. They
are as free to change their resi-
dence as the whites. They have
a perfect right to go to Kansas, In
diana, or elsewhere and we, too.
firmly believe that If they were
equally distributed throughout all
the States of the Union, all trouble
as to them or their states, or their
civil and political rights, would
cease at once and forever. Let
them go, and joy 60 with Them"
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9 NERAL GRANTS LOVE STORY.
philadelphia Times, December le. !
With the name ofthe good woman
and faithfuIwife who accompanies
General Grant to our city there il
| some romance connected. While
Grant was d cadet at West Point
he had a friend, or abunky. " nc
me "plebes' say, for whom he
formed strong attachment. When
leaving the academy in 1919 his,
young friend invited him to nav
visit to his home and the invita-
ton was accepted. On being, pa
zel ted to his regiment. the Fonrth
infantry, Grant took the usual
three months leave and went r.
see his friend and classmate. Fred
erick Dent, who lived with his
father, Judge Dent, at ST. Louis.
10 was here Grant saw for the irst
time Julia Dent, his friends sister.
she being then a girl OF seventeen.
me little lieutenant laid siege 10
her girlish heart and soon won
her consent to become his wife.
The Dents lived about four, miles
from Jefferson barracks, and Grant.
TO his inexpressible delight. was
ordered stationed at the barracks.
War clouds with Mexico were aris-
ing and Grant was soon ordered
OIL with his regiment. All /! then +,
there was Fastening To and fro
with the lieutenant, and the mar.
riage had 10 be postponed. The
leaving of q sweetheart behind il
about the hardest thing In ali ma
ture, but 1t often happens TO Off y
GERS OF the army. How many
tunes we have seen a pale Hamlet
stalking through the camp late at
night with an order in his pocket
for the frontier! Talk of sicknessi
death 10 the family, the loss Of d
father. brother or sister--what are
these things when compared with
the blow which tears a fond Young
fellow away from pair of loving
arms: Ii the little lieutenant ever
wept II was when he thus. parted
from his devoted Julia to take the
chances OF getting his head knock
ed on In Mexico. Grant partici-
pated In sixteen battles In Mexico.
and at the close OF the war return.
ed 70 st. Louis with his regiment,
ana Ia 1913 was married to Miss
Dent. Many people will to-day
contrast the gray-haired soldier
win the boy and wonder what he
looked like. An officer who was
az the Military Academy when
Grant was a cadet there gives the
following description of him 81
remember him we'll. He was
small, tiny-looking little fellow
with an independent air about
him and good deal of quiet de-
termination. 1t is a long time ago,
but when / recall old scenes I can g
still see Grant, with his overalIs
strapped down on lis boots, stand
ingin front of the quarters. 1t
seems though 1t were but yester-
day that | saw him going to the
riding-hall with his spurs clang-
Ing on the ground and his great
cavalry sabre dangling by his side.
1t Is thirty-eight years since, and
the General and / must be grow
ing old, but it is wonderful Whata
short time 1t seems since / was a
young man and saw the famous
soldier mere STRIPPING lad at the
Point"
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action, this would be the best safe
guard for the future, There can be
no doubt the deep feeling of the
American people is against all fraud,
all cheating, all small trickery, all
repudiating doctrine, all dishonesty
and dishonor, and it is for them to
lead their self-appointed leaders,
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Inventors and Patentees

should send for instructions. terms,
references, &c, to Edison Brothers,
Solicitors Of Patents, Washington,
ID. c., who furnish the same with
out Charge. Edison Brothers is a
well-known and successful firm of
large experience, having been es-
tablisheu in 1866. If.
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Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode
Island, it is officially announced,
will accept the position of Munster
to England. His nomination will
be sent to the Senate as soon as it
reconveneS.
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Yours truly,
SAM'L DAWSON
Timber Ridge Greenbacke

Timber Ridge Greenbacker.
l asked myself, is it possible
thai this specimen o. literary ex-
cellence came from the person who
was 80 largely supported In this
Senatorial District for seat in
the most important branch of our
State Legislature Is it possible
that this is the man who received
the vote Of Berkeley county in OPP
position to one of her native sons,
whose character for Intelligence,
integrity and ability stands unim-
peached ? 1t is true, Messrs. Edi-
tors, that this is the man, and is
it not a striking illustration of the
delusion, which often seizes the
popular mind, and causes them to
elevate to important public trusts
men who are wholly unworthy of
them?
1t suited the purposes Of this
Timber Ridge GreeGbacker" to
pass himself off in the county of
Jefferson as pure and undefiled
Democrats title to which he had
no pretensions whatever - and
there were many about Harper's
Ferry, Boliver and other points
who were deceived by his state
ments. But he seems in this let
ter to have thrown off all dis
guises. and to have presented
himself before the public in his
true character, both morally and
politically. A DEMOCRAT
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REV. DR.. DEHAss will deliver
two lectures in the NJ. E. Church,
January 10th and 18th. Full partic-
ulars next week.
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A Broken Heart.

AN INCIDENT CONNECTED WITH
INDIAN SLAVERY ON TIE PA
CIFlC COAST.
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Eds. Independent

Eds. Independent:
/ have an opportunity, occasion
Illy,of seeing the Morgan Mercury,
a paper published at the Berkeley
Springs, in that county; and in
that paper Of the 18th of Deem
Der, Of the present year, observ-
ed tie following letter:
Timber Ridge District,
Morgan Co, w. Va.
T. S. of America,
Western Hemisphere, !.
Upper side Of the Globe,
Dec. 23rd, 1879.
Mr.. TRIMBLE-
L. Dear Sir: = Please ac-
,cept turkey for Christmas. Which
you will cook, cat, bust and be
dn
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
Household Hints.
{ Brooklyn Eagle.1


AS we have said before somewhere, tue en-
terprising editor who endeavors to run
''household department without the aid Of a
female writer, will come to grief sooner or lat
er. One day last week the proprietor OF The
Cloverdale Cleanup was startled by a whole
tornado Of raps on his sanctum door, on the
other side of which he presently beheld small
mob Of matrons of the vicinity, each of whom
bore expression of indignant determination
on her face, and a dish or pan under her arm.
"Are you the -the-party who said, in last
weeks paper, that salad dressing could be i'm
proved by an ounce of cayenne and some pow
dered borax?" said one. 3s.t-ss1i..
'I-I-suppose So" admitted the editor.
"Oh you are, ehl" said the woman display
you like to finish this lot have four chill
dren at home at the point of death from it,
now
"Are you the miserable liar who stated that
the only way TO clean sealskin was to boil it in
milk? Look at that' screamed another, hold
ing up what appeared to be a drowned puppy.
er-ahem-really-, niumbled the
wretched journalist, "the printer must have
mixed it up with the broken china item.
And didn't you print receipt saying that
or to sponge cake? My husband has been
throwing up steadily since day before yester
day morning!' sobbed another, exhibiting
what appeared to be hunk of stone coal.
"Yes put in another irate dame holding
up tattered basque; "and you said that vitriol
would take ink stains outof velvet. You dis
gusting old pirate!' -f-
"I-I think it must have been my assistant,
Clipem," stammered the editor. II don't
think l wrote anything for that issue except
leader on our Accused Monopolies.' a
THAT is too thin" shrieked another devas-
tated female, putting up green vail and dis
playing arboiled countenance. Didn't you
advise me down at the market yesterday to cut
out your infallible oriental recipe for removing
freckles? 1t took em out, and the skin with
'em; and the doctor ,ys it is two to one new
er see out of that eye again. There, you're
welcome 10 what's left!'
And the half scalped victim broke bottle
on his nose, while the rest hammered him over
the head with assorted slabs of indigestion
built according to the Cleanups specifications,
rammed unriscn dough down his mouth and
poured coal tar, arsenic and sulphur remedy
for chicken pip down the back of his neck.
When they were gone the moulder of public
opinion picked himself up, hunted for the
foreman's malet, smashed the stereotype
Household Hints into forty thousand bits,
kicked the devil down stairs, and went out to
trade special notice OIL the first page for some
cOurt-plaster.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
New York Times.l
The American Cigar Trade,

Very few persons are aware, unless personal
ally interested in it, of the magnitude of cigar
making in the republic, particularly in this
city, where it steadily and rapidly increased.
The American made cigar selling at 10 cents
by retail, is said to be superior to the same
priced Cuban cigar, which it is driving out of
market. A factory here is reported to be the
largest in the world. 1t has only 60 customers
and refuses to swell the number because it
cannot fully supply their demands. Some
1,500 persons-m women and children-are
in its employ, and the firm is building another
factory which will need many more. But
even with their enlarged facilities they will
not seek another customer. This is state
mont of their business last October; Cigars
delivered during the month, 4,I3S,5 $50; wages
paid, S0i,000; amount paid government for
revenue stamps, S3S, ,500 amount of duties paid
on foreign tobaccos, Sl,15i; paid for cigar
boxes used during the month, S9,S05.2I; leaf
tobacco worked into cigars, 25 pounds 10 the
100 cigars, S120,96i. The rapidity of the
growth of our cigar facture is asserted to be
greater than can be readily imagined. Mil
lions of our cigars are now annually exported
to Europe, and the number of Cuban cigars
imported is but tri1e comparatively The
American product in this branch OF enormous
industries must be counted by thousands of
millions.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24


HARTFORD Courant: A Tennessee paper
congratulated Massachusetts on securing
another cabinet appointment whe., Horace
Maynard was made postmaster general. Mr..
Maynard has only been resident of Ten
nessee some So years, and it seems is still
considered a carpet-bagger. At some future
day our Southern brethren will be ashamed
of this sort of exhibition. They will reflect
that the country is yet young, and that we
are all descendants of carpet-baggers And
we should not have advanced very far be-
yond a provincial condition if our fathers
had cared to set up neighborhood or State
fences and had cultivated the party spirit of
prejudice against those who crossed the
line. We have had some very distinguished
carpet-baggers in our history, includi NC
Webster, Clay, Jackson, Cass, and Benton
of former generation, men who conferred
distinction upon their adopted States far
more than they received from Them Com
ing down to the present time we have Thur
man, and Beck, and Herman, and B. T.
Butler, and the late Zach Chandler, and a
host of others. Mississippi will furnish a
shining illustration which will shock our
Southern brethren. Bruce, the colored Sen
ator is a native, while Lucius Quintius Gin
cinnatus Lamar is a miserable carpet-bag-
ger. 1t is safer in politics, in business and
in society to ask what man is than wheth-
er he happened to be born in given locali-
ty. There is hardly State or city or town
in the United States, which has achieved
distinction, which is not indebted at least
as much to its ''carpet-baggersp as to its
natives. @
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

THE ladies of Cincinnati are making an
energetic crusade upon the smoke nuisance
In that city, and through a committee COM
the Councils the passage of an ordinance
making ii compulsory upon all parties using
over certain amount of coal per annum to
provide themselves with smoke consumers,
which shall consume at least fifty per cent
of the smoke generated by the consumption
of coal used by them .a#tl s.k
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
CUMBERLAND NATIONAL BANK

VyHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of
Il the Cumberland National Bank of Portland,
will be held at their Banking house. on TUESDAY,
the 11th day of January, 1881 at ten O'Clock A. M.
for the choice of Directors for the ensuing year.
thetransacon of any other business that may legal
ly come before them.
w. H. SOULE, Cashier.
Portland, Dec. 11th. 1880. dec1 3dtd
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

A TEMPERANCE boom is breaking out all
over the South, and a convention of the
temperance workers of Arkansas is to be
held at Little Rock next month to unite the
behalf of measures that will bring about the
prohibition of the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors. In Tennessee the
Memphis Avalanche, one of the most influ-
ential of Southern journals, is preaching a
temnerance crusade.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

PrrrsBURG is coming to the conclusion
that the smoke nuisance must be abated
The Commercial Gazette says in the adop-
ton of the reform lies an immense addition
to its wealth, health and moral character,
and the transformation of the city from a
dingy and dismal town to one of beauty
and attractiYeness.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
WANTS.
Rent Wanted.

Wanted immediately, a small,
convenient rent, centrally located.
Address, RENT, Press Office, Civ
ing location, number Of rooms
and price.
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The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

THE Chicago Tribu urges the making of
ample provision for eX-Presidcnts as the
duty of the Government, in the perform
ance of which its honor is concerned. The
policy which favors the pensioning of re-
tired Judges, navy and army officers, and
which leaves ex-Presidents to their own re-
sources, is, it thinks, as inconsistent
as II is uuiust
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

The Wilmington, N. c.. Star, says: 1.-The
South needs another rallying cry. The
white men of the South must and shall rule
hatred; there is not enough will-power,
however exercised in behalf of wrong;
there is not enough pluck and endurance
and force in Stalwartism to prevent such
consummation."
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

The Committee on the Post Offices and
Post Roads will Immediately after the holi-
days consider Mr.. Shelley's bill to encour-
age American commercially granting extra
compensation for the transportation of mails
in American built vessels The bill will
undoubtedly be favorably reported from the
Committee. As originally introduced it re-
quired the mails to be carried in American
propeIlers. Mr.. Shelley has prepared an
amendment which will enable side-wheel
iron ships to compete with those propelled
by screws
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
Ocean Insurance Company,
Annual Meeting.

NlHE Stockholders of the Ocean Insurance Com
i pany are hereby notified to meet at the Office
Of said Company. on MONDAY, the third day of
January, A. D., 1881, at 3 O'Clock P. NJ. for the
purpose of choosing seven Directors for the ensu-
ing year. and for the transaction of any other bus
mess that may then be legally acted upon.
K. o. CONANT. Secy.
dec13 d3w
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
CANAL NATIONAL BANK.

slHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of 'sThe
4 Canal National Bank, of Portland for the
election Of seven directors and for the transaction of
will be held at their banking house, on TUESDAY,
the elevent day of January, 1884, at eleven O'Clock
A. NJ B. C. SOMERBY, Cashier
Dec. IL, 1880. dec11dtd
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
NATIONAL TRADERS BANK.

YlHE Shareholders of the National Traders Bank
Il of Portland, are hereby notified that their an
nua meeting will be held at their banking room on
TUESDAY, the 1th. day of January next, at IL
O'Clock A. M. to choose five Directors for the ensu-
ing year. and to act any other business that may
legally come before the meeting.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Dec. IL, 1880. dec11dtd
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

De LEssEps' canal scheme finds no favor
in San Francisco, the Alta of that city ex-
pressing the verdict of the community when
it says the planis one to chisel the world by
pretending to chsel hole in the Isthmus.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER "a.
Fill the Congressional stockingl

Congress adjourned Wednesday, and
most of its members will be in their districts
by Christmas day. The best gift their con
stituents can make them is good advice.
They ought to be told to pass or reject the
refunding bill instead of making it the occa-
sion of quarrels like that between Mr..
Weaver and Mr.. Sparks which dis
graced the House the other day.
They ought to be informed that the
country anxiously expects the passage
OF law regulating the electoral
count which will do away with dangers like
those that menaced us in 1876. And they
should be further told that, these important
measures disposed OF, the appropriation bills
must be passed. These things we expect
from Congress, and if they are accomplished
a good Winters work will have been done,
and the Forty-sixth Congress can conclude
its session with satisfaction to itself and
benefit to the people.
The constituents of Congressman can do
much good during the holiday recess by i'm
pressing upon their Representatives the i'm
portance of the measures already mentioned
and the need of a just disposal of them.
No matter if the Congressman is bored by
the advice. He is hired for that and should
be held strictly to the contract. Those who
are too timid to talk will be wise to slip
something in the way Of admonition into
Congressional stockings Christmas eve. 1t
is the best gift that can be made to those
public servants.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
CASCO NATIONAL BANK.

-AOCU MA AIIUISAI DANKe
NVHE Annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il Casco National Bank of Portland. for the
choice of Directors, and the transaction of such
other business may legally come before them,
will be held at their Banking House, on TUESDAY.
the lth day of January, 1881, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
Portland, Dec. 10, 1880.
VIM. A WINSHIP, Cashier.
dec11 Jtd
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

HISTORY has repeated itself in the matter
of the holiday adjournment for at least the
eighth time. The House first passed the
resolution for two weeks vacation; the
Senate improved the opportunity for admin
istering rebuke to the House and putting
itself on record as opposed to adjournment.
Several of the Senators who helped make
this creditable record by voting mo-" i'm
mediately packed their satchels and left for
their homes. On Monday the adverse vote
was reconsidered and the resolution passe d
PHILADELPHIA Press: Ohio will keep a
good Cover or and secure better Senator
That is about the meaning of the withdrawal
of Mr.. Foster from the race for the Ohio
ter has simply facilitated.a result which has
been all along nevitable-namely, the cleo
ton of John Sherman to the United States
Senate for fourth term. This issue of the
contest is one upon which the State of Ohio
the National Republican party, and the
country at large are to be congratulated,
There will be need of Senator Sherman's
legislative experience and thorough knowl-
edge of public affairs in the new Senate, and
probably there is no field, not even except
ing the one which he has filled for the last
four years viii such distinguished ability,
in which he may find more profitable en-
ployment for the public welfare. Mean
while Ohios excel mt Governor will keep
his seat, and in due time he will receive the
call to "come up hioher.' 9a. li bar
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
Gilbert's Assemblies.
Every Thursday Evening.

Tickets admitting Gents with Ladies, Toe. Tick
cts for course of Six Assemblies, $500.
nR-Class in Plain and Fancy Dancing meets
Tuesday and Friday Evenings. nov29 diff