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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
Railroad Statistics,

T ere are some 5000 miles of rail-
road in the United States operated by
some 600 different companies. There
are over 10000 stat ons. On these lines
are i3, 600 locomotives, $4,000 passenger
cars, 5000 baggage, mail and express
cars, and some SOC, 600 freight cars. No
reliable statistics show the number OF
men employed on this s5, 900 miles of
ro. d, but it is estimated that there are
about 10000 engineers and firemen,
20, 900 passenger train conductors and
brakemtn, about the same number of
baggage, mail and express men, and at
least SO 900 men on freight trains. Add
station agents and clerks, train dispatch
ers, telegraph operators, yardmen, road
masters, trIckmen, watchmen, hagmen,
freight laborers, machinists, car-build-
ers and repairers, employees in round
houses and shops, and last, but not
least, presidents, general managers, su-
periLtendents, the auditors depart
ment, treasurer's department, etc., and
we have almost 1000, 900 men en-
ployed in the railroad business of the
United States. Add TO this tie num-
Der of men employed in the manutac.
ture of railroad supplies, in car and To-
comotive works, in rolling mills, in cut
ting ties, etc., and, perhaps, we coulc
bring the number OF men who derive
their living from railroads in our coun
! try alone TO nearly 100000
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
A RARE CASE.

Mattie's story was simple enough.
The orphan child of a former servant in
a wealthy family, Matte had shared
the lessons and the play of the young
daughter of the house, until time came
when il was convenient to turn the hum
BILE companion adrift to work for her
self. 1t may have been a piece of the
ill-luck his neighbors ascribed to Drew,
that it should have been to his farm the
girl came as help to his sister, or it may
have been piece of his good mature
that made him agree to take under his
roof this pretty lass, unframed for SER
vice and educated far above her station.
Drew's widowed sister, Mrs. Bankes,
who lived with him, and whose child it
was Matte had come to nurse, amongst
other duties too numerous to mention,
for there was but one servant kept
Drew's sister exclaimed in despair
when the farmer brought home the
young, lady-like, delicate-looking girl
We want strong. hard-working,
lass! This one does not know her right
hand from her left. She is as good as a
lady-or as bad-and has never milked
COW in her life! What were you think
ing of to bring her herep"
"Ah! that's Just my luck; well, we
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
The Printer.

B. f. Taylor once paid the following
tribute to the toilers at the case: The
printer is the adjutant of thought, and
this explains the mystery of the won
derful word that can kindle n hope as
no song can-that can warm a heart as
no hope-that word "we," with hand.
in-hand warmth in it, for the author
and printer are engineers together, en-
gineers indeed! When the little Cor
sican bombarded Cadiz at the distance
of five miles, it was deemed the very
triumph of engineering. But what is
that range to this, whereby they bonn
bard ages yet to beP
There at the" case" he stands aud
marshals into line the forces armed for
truth, clothed in Immortality aud Eng
lish. And what. can be nobler than
the equipment of a thought in sterling
Saxon-SaXon with the ring of spear
on shield thereon, and that commits
siOning it when we are dead, to move
gradually On to the latest syllable of
recorded time" This is to win vic
tory from death, for this has no dying
in it.
The printer is called laborer, and
the office he performs, toll. Oh, it is
not work, but sublime rite that he is
engine that is to fling worded truth
in grander curve than missile e'er be
fore described-hing into the bosom
of an age yet unborn. he throws Off
his coat indeed; we but wonder, the
rather, that he does not put his shoes
from off his feet, for the place whereon
he stands is holy ground.
A little song was uttered somewhere,
long ago--it wandered through the
twilight feebler than a start died
upon the ear. But the printer caught
it up where it was lying there in si-
lence like a wounded bird. and he
equips 1t anew with wings, and he
sends it forth from the ark that had
preserved it, and it flies forth into the
future with the olive branch o. peace
and around the world with melody,
like the dawning of a spring morning.
How the type have built up the
broken arches in the bridge of time
How they render the brave utterances
beyond the pilgrims audible and elo-
quent hardly lettering the free spirit
but moving-not q word, not a sylla-
BILE lost in the whirl of the world
moving in connected paragraph and
period, down the lengthening line ol
| years.
Some men find poetry. but they dc
not look for it as men do for mug
gets of gold; they see it in natures own
handwriting, that so few know how to
read, and they render it into English
Such are the poems for twilight hour
and nook in the heart; we may Liz
under the trees when we read them
and watch the cleaning, and Sc,
the faces in the clouds, in the
pauses; we may read them when thu
winter Goals are glowing, and tn,
volume may slip from the forgetfu
hand, and still, like evening bells, thu
melodious thoughts will ring on.
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The Country Weekly.

At the banquet given by the Wheel
ing wv Val Sunday Leader in honor OF
its sixth birthday, A. o. Bunhell, editor
of the Dansville IN. " Advertiser, re-
sponded substantially as follows to the
toast 1.-THE Country Weekly; next to
the city daily the first power in the
In the first place, the country weekly
is older than the city daily by nearly
one hundred years We cannot be ex.
pected to take n back seat for Junior
Secondly, the country weekly has edu-
Gated the most brilliant and versatile
editors and the most profound writers
who ever gave character to the city
daily. Can't stand below scholar OF
ours!
Thirdly, the country weekly outnum-
hers the city daily many times over,
and we would like to see the majority
giving way to the minority in repub-
lican country like ours. Bad precedent
Fourthly, the country weekly is An
tees multiplied indefinitely. At thou
sands of events it touches the people, its
mother earth, and its strength is thereby
continually renewed and absolutely in
exhaustible 1t deies the Hercules OF
the city daily TO lift it from the ground
to its death.
Filthy, it molds public opinion as
no city daily can. The city editorial,
be it never so brilliant and powerful,
comes from afar, and in a sense is vague
and unreal as its author is unknown and
intangible. Whereas, the writer fol
the country weekly knows, and is
known by nine-tenths of his subscrib'
ers, who are are his champions through
thick and thin.
And so we might go on to thirteenthly,
but what's the use of sparring n dead
ment after death may indulge in this
profitless pastime. Let us look around
for something still alive. Perhaps tn,
pulpit or the platform or the school
house, the idols of the people, woult
like to compare notes with the countr.
weekly. 1t will take just one minute
to dispose of those, for it can be easil,
shown that the country weekly subor
dinates them all. 1t has a larger con
gregation than the minister, wide
range OF subjects than the orator, NOR
attractive and more practical lesson
than the pedagogue. The fact is, W
cannot bring to mind just at this mo
meut any peer of the country weekly,
But, seriously, we thoroughly believ
in the country weekly, AMI our hear
rejoices in the glorious estate TO Wnlcl
it has attained. Yet
Ono Minerva-born thought is this sam
country press,
Springing forth from some brain in the prid
OF its prime,
god from the first in it's panoplied dress,
But the slow-going, slow-growing triumph c
time"
1t represents the work of many brain
, for many years. Its power for good o
, evil is not computable. While we rt
e:ee in its glory and its strength, W
trembfe,. in view of the responsibilitie
which have grown with its CROWN
power, and in conclusion; Joining hand
! with the city daily, we echo the senti
ment of lamented journalist recent
dead: THE press of America is its hop,
its prophet and its guardian-woe b'
; tide press and nation too, if the forme
f fails of its opportunity and its trust"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

dead. WHY no harm had been done, and
this terrible mistake OF her sons was
rectified at once. If the other alterna-
tive were to prove true and Matte had
lost her senses, Adam would be equally
free from her, or measures could be
taken to insure so desirable result.
Mrs. Armitage tore the letter into pieces
and waited by the brazier until the
fragments were charred. Adam asked
no awkward questions, and was not even
surprised at receiving no answer to his
epistle, since in it he had announced his
coming. The first day his health ad-
mitted it, he set out alone for Eng land.
Such was the story. When Drew
had told of his efforts to seek Adam:
and had mentioned that no letter had
reached Matte, Adam was at no loss
to understand at once the part his
mother had played. But he never
spoke of it, then or at any future time.
The house door at Stonedene stood
aiar: evening had closed in now, and
the chilly fog was still abroad, but the
| figure at the gate was dimly discernible.
Adam hastened his steps.
"For heavens sake, sir, be careful
the suddenness of it might turn her
BRAIN" cried Drew, laying OBTAINING
hand upon the arm of his companion.
Adam gently shook him off.
Suddenness," he repeated. "Aye,
it is sudden to you-and to Mrs. Bankes,
but for me and for Matte, whose
thoughts are day and night, night and
day full of each other, how can it be
suddenp"
Drew stood still and Adam went or
alone until his footsteps became audi
BILE and Matte turned her head to sec
him standing at her side.
Adam had been right; no fear was
there for Mattie's brain. All excite
ment, all surprise and wonder came
afterward; at that first supreme mo-
ment, and with satisfied sigh, as of s
child who had got all it wants, Matte
held out her arms to him with ont
word
| Husband!"
As Adam drew her to him it was no
only the mist or the darkening evening
that blinded Drew SO that for a momen
or two he saw neither of them.
| People say Drew's luck has turned
from the day Stonedene found tenant
1t is newly done up and prettily fur
nished now; Mr.. and Mrs. Armi.ag
come down there once or twice year
with their children, tor a breath of SCI
air and to visit old friends.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
The Force of the Wind on the Body.

1t is doubtful whether attention has
been sufficiently directed to the part the
force of wind plays in producing altera-
tion of the blood pressure In localities
of the surface. In full health this may
be an unimportant consideration, the
skin being stimulated to proper de-
gree of tension, and the un derlying ves-
sells suffering no compression; but, in
the case of persons of low vitality, this
bracing "may not occur, or almost in
stantly subside, and congestion of deep
organs may then be mechanically pro-
duced by prolonged exposure 10 the
force of q strong wind. Sometimes
numbness and even paralysis of the
nerves may result from the same cause.
In the old coaching days facial paral-
ysis was a well-recognized result of
sitting with the face to the open win
dow. In the more rapidly moving rail-
way carriage of to-day the angle of in
cidence and reflection throws the cur
rent of air on the passenger sitting one
seat removed from the window, or the
current of air strikes the back OF the
carriage. and is passed round behind
the necks of the passengers, as any one
may demonstrate with a lighted match.
In all these instances 1t is the force as
much as the temperature of the jet of
air which produces the results some
times experienced from "sitting in a
draught." The question arises whether
this little fact, taken in connection with
others, may not hereafter be found to
throw some new light on the nature OF
"cold" and its morbid phenomena.
Perhaps, after all, "cold-catching" is,
in part, at least, process in which the
blood is forcibly driven cut of a particu'
lar area of the surface, while the
vitality of its nerve is diminished by
mechanical depression. A small jet o.
air, playing continually on limited
space, will give some hyper
individuals severe "cold. d."-Londo,
Lancet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

A ton of gold or silver contains
&c. 66 ounces. A ton of gold is worth
$6O2. .675. A ton of silver, at the present
rate per ounce, is worth about $32, 900.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1900 pounds,
and is worth nearly 100000. A cubic
foot OF silver weighs 600 pounds, and is
worth about $4,000. The value of gold
coin, bars and bullion in circulation in
the worlds estimated at $3, 500, ,000, 900.
This would make in mass twenty
five foot cube.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

Forty per cent. of the Chinese of San
Francisco have been back and forth be =
tween the United States and China four
or five times. Most of the. Chinese go
back once in five years. aud rarely any
one STAYS longer than eli ght years contin-
uously in this country. Many Chinese
merchants return regularly to spend the
Chinese New Year at home.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

Bartholdi, the French sculptor, SAYS
there is no doubt that the great statue
of Liberty enlightening the world will
be ready for its place il New York har-
Dor in 1883, the year in which New
York's great worlds fair is to be held.
This statue, when erected, will be the
largest in America. 1t was presented
to the United States by the French peo-
pie, and Bartholdi is hard at work at it
in France.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

New York city consumes 1900 bushels
OF potatoes per day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03

Buckley is Texas horse thief and
murderer. for whom the law officers
searched long and fruftlessly. A man
called on the governor, introduced him
self as friend of the outlaw, and said
that he was prepared to buy his pardon
by giving information against other
criminals. The governor was inclined
to make such bargain, and sent him
to the attorney general, who recognized
him as none other than Buckley him
self. The rascal drew q long knife out
of his bootleg, but was overpowered
and locked Up
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
SATURDAY, APRIL "a, 1880.
THE TORNADO.

The fearful tornado that recently
swept over Marshfeld, Missouri,
spared neither lives nor property.
1t moved down everything in its
path. The dead were counted by
scores and it is not yet known how
many were killed outright, while
hundreds were more or less seriously
wounded, and a large amount of
valuable property destroyed. The
volume of the storm was such that
trees three feet in diameter were
lifted entirely out of the ground and
telegraph wires "were carried hun
dred of rods into the timber and tied
and knotted among the limbs as if
they were made of cotton yarn"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
MILITIA BILL.

We have not been able to obtain
a copy of the new militia bill report
ed recently in the House of Repre-
sentatives from the committee on
militia, but we understand that the
plan proposed for its reorganization
is we'll considered and economical
and that the following are some of
the provisions contained in it. 1t
appropriates 100000 as the annual
outlay that would be required-pro-
vides for Transforming State into
national militia, and for uniform
clothing, equipments, organization,
discipline and liability to service.
1t further provides that the national
militia in any State or Territory
shall not exceed 700 men for each
representative or delegate in Con
gress. This body is to be supplied
with arms and equipments, and
annual camps of instruction and
drills every month are to be held;
also one rifle range for militia must
be established in every State, and
prizes are to be awarded for excel
lency in craftsmanship.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
PRIMARY ELECTION
SYSTEM.

We extract the following article
from the Hinton Herald. The mode
of selecting delegates referred to
here is similar to that recently SUBJ
mitted to the Democratic Executive
Committee of this county:
From our exchanges we see that
the plan of primary election to Sc
lect candidates for office is being
generally adopted 10y the Democratic
party all over the State. 1t is free
from many objections urged against
conventions, and usually gives salts.
faction. We expect to have more to
say on this subject after awhile.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
GRAND DEMOCRATIC
Rally

There is to be a grand rally of the
Democrats of the Valley at Winches-
ter, Va, on Monday, May 8, 1880.
Such men as Hon. d. w. voorhees,,
of Indiana; Hon. G. III. Pendleton,
of Ohio; Hon. j. b. Gordon, of
Georgia; Hon. Zeb. Vance, of North
Carolina, and Hon. j. G. S. Black
burn, of Kentucky, among the
ablest and most eloquent speakers in
the country have accepted invita-.
tions to be present and deliver ad-
dresses. Speaking day and night at
courthouse square and in hall.
Special trains will be run at greatly
recuced rates to accommodate citi-
zens of the Valley and adjoining
counties of West Virginia and
Maryland.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
IMPORTANT DECISION BY
JUDGE HOGE.

The law has long refused to recog-
nize the contracts for compensation
made by lobbyists. 1t has refused
to permit recoveries for services al
legged to have been rendered in infu-
encing or controlling legislation, re-
garding all such claims as resting
upon an immoral consideration and
being contrary to public policy.
This well-known principle was very
boldly extended by Judge Hoge in a
recent case in the Circuit Court of
Jefferson county. The people of
Clarke county were empowered by
an act of the Legislature of Virginia
to determine by an election the
question of subscription of land
bonds to the Shenandoah Valley
railroad. An agent of the COM
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Dwelling House,

with all other improvements. Adjoins
Jones, &C., is about four miles from Mar
tinsburg, convenient to railroads, mar.
kets, churches, &c &c, and is in all
respects very desirable tract of land 1t
will be sold subject to an circumference
upon it, set forth in deed dated 22nd day
of November, 1850, and recorded in Deed
Book No SO, pages 1913 and $50 in the
County Court Clerks office of Berkeley
county, West Virginia. from John B.
Files and Thomas Files to Soloman Bill
myer, and which said deed can be seen at
the aforesaid clerks Office, and any and
all information upon this or any other
subject connected with the land, either in
regard to title liens or anything else will
be cheerfully given by the undersigned
Trustees, by calling upon them at their
Office in Martinsburg. Possession of
the property can not lie given
until the lst day of April, 1881,
but the lease made by M. G. Naden-
bousch, committee, with all the rights
that he has under same will be transferred
to the purchaser, and said lease can be
seen by calling upon him
TERMS OF SALE.-OIe-t third cash on
day of sale, balance in one and two years,
with interest from day of sale, purchaser
executing his bonds and deferred pay hts
being secured by lien upon the property
E. BOYD FAULKNER,
c.. J. FAULKNER. JR.,
apr3 Trustees.
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papy, engaged in the construction Of
that road and nonresident Of Vir-
ginia, "stumped" the county in
favor of the subscription, and the
subscription having been voted,
claimed compensation of his en-
ployer for his services in aiding to
procure this result. Judge Hoge
decided that while it was legitimate
for citizens of the county to go be-
fore the people and discuss all public
questions, their motive was one re-
lating solely to the public good, and
their action was based upon proper
interest in the determination of a
question which affected alike them
selves and their fellow citizens. But
a stranger, the agent or servant of a
corporation, only interested Sin get
ting the bonds" and not concerned
in the result to the county or the
taxes which were to pay it's interest,
could not make his supposed services
the subject of barter or sale; or if he
did and the other party to such
contract refused to keep it, the
courts of the State are not open to
its enforcement. In other words
lobbying before legislature and lob
bying before the people are equally
immoral and against the policy of
the law.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

IL Il
The conventions of the regular
and boiling Democrats were held in
Syracuse on Tuesday. The Tam
many convention passed resolutions
offering compromise, but the Til.
den convention took little notice of
it. Both conventions adopted reso-
lutions in favor of the two-thirds
rule, unpledged delegations to vote
as unit, and chose delegates and
presidential electors. The Kelley
resolutions denounce Tilden in un-
measured terms, and the resolutions
adopted by the regulars praise him,
and recommend his denomination.
That letter which Mr.. Tilden was to
have read before the convention, de.
Ginning to be a candidate on account
of failing health, was not forthcom-
ing, as we supposed it would not be.
1t can be pretty safely calculated
that Mr.. Tilden will remain a prom
inent candidate for the nomination
until the meeting of the Cincinnati
convention, when, if he thinks it
prudent and advisable, he may de-
cline to allow his name to 90 before
the Convention.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

Parkersburg now rejoices in two
colored greenback clubs. Now,
what does Sambo know of the fl
nancial condition of the country.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
Gen. Mahone's Position.

The Philadelphia Evening Iele-
graph publishes the following
from its Washington correspon-
dent in regard to the position of
United States Senator-elect Ma
hone, of Virginia.:
IA private letterhas been receiv-
ed here from Gen. Malone, in
Virginia, which shows the serious
political revolution that is now
taking place in that State. Gen.
Malone says that great common
wealth, with her vast agricultural
and mineral resources, has lived,
politically, long enough under the
resolutions of 1898 and 1899, and
instead Of prospecting under them,
from year to year she has degener-
ated politically and grown poorer
materially; that the people of
Virginia have already seen enough
of the reactionary policy of the
Democratic party TO thoroughly
disgust all progressive men; that
Virginia, and in fact the whole
South, has been acting long
enough for the benefit of a few
Northern Democrats, and that it
is now porposed by himself and
his friends to take a bold and pro-
gressive step to unite the fortunes
of Virginia, as far as possible, with
the prosperous element of the
North. General Mahone's friends
here say that he will lead the fu-
ture Republican party of Virginia,
and that he has received encour-
agement from many of the lead
ing citizens of the State who have
hitherto affiliated with tle,Demo-
cratic party, to go forward in the
work of reform and that they will
fully cooperate with and sustain
him"
Parkersburg now rejoices in two
colOred greenback clubs. Now,
what does Sambo know of the fl
nouaiaI condition Of tho poItpfrV