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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-03-04

The president and board of directors
of the Cumberland Valley Railroad
presented to the stockholders during
the week the forty-seventh annual
report Of that road, for the year end
ing Dec. 31st, 1881. The gross
earnings for the year were $724, $780,
99--an increase of 16 per cent. over
the previous year. The revenue from
the main line S722,53S.47, and the
expenditure S4O2, 1856. The in
crease in the earnings over 1880, is
SS5,502.69. 1876 excursionista
were carried over the road, princi-
pally to the beautiful parks on the
lines Of the South Mountain and
Mont Alto railroads. Great improve
ments have been made along the
roads, and the report shows q con-
siderable increase in every partic-
ular.
The earnings of the Martinsburg s.
Potomac road are as follows: From
freight, S12,033.13; passenger, S.
220.17; mail, 5000; express, $3.50;
total, q, 2O3.30; operating expenses,
sl6,SS4.24; net earnings S4,19.06-
Al increase over 1880 Of $725.2O.
There were renewed upon this road
during the year, 9,079 cross ties, and
S669.33 were expended in charging
the engine house and other improve
ments.
Reference is made to the loss the
company sustained in the death of
Col Thomas A. Scott,who had served
as o member of its Board of Direc-
tors for period Of twenty years.
The, Board expresses their acknowl-
.edgemept to the officers and en-
ployees for their faithful attendance
to the interests OF the company.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-03-04
GENERAL NEWS.

A war cloud is seen above the Eu-
ropean horizon. Germany and Aus
tria are strengthening their fortress
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
A Cure for sIespIessness.

Andrew Tappan, of Jericho, New
York, was asked recently if it was
true that he had not slept a wink for
six months. ~ saw an item to that
effect" he replied, "a good many
times last week and the week before.
My father, George Tappan, is the
postmaster at Jericho, and one of
the county papers printed an item
some weeks ago sayin5 that he had
been in poor health for six months,
and that he was not able TO sleep
much. The next we knew some one
sent US a lot of papers containing
the news that he hadn't slept any for
six months, and that the case was
attracting the attention of physi-
clans. Then the papers got it that L
was the man. 1t wasn't long after
we got the first paper until some one
wrote us that the way to 60 to sleep
was to eat plenty OF turnips for
breakfast and supper three or four
days in succession. Another man
wrote that cloves were good to make
a man sleep if eaten in quantities at
intervals of an hour or two, while
another wrote that if l would lie on
my back and roll my eyes from one
side to the other long enough I'd go
to sleep without fail. They were all
good remedies, have no doubt, but
neither my father nor l have tried
them"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23

ships and suffering, / reached De-
troit. | did not feeI safe nor breathe
easy until my feet rested on Cana
dian soil. Rather than return to
Fort Remington" said Brown, with
considerable warmth, 81 would have
fallen a corpse on the roadway"
"Don't you think radical change
would be made in the management
of the service if complaints were
properly laid before the principal Of
ficers of tie armyT was asked.
az don't know about that" was tie
ready reply. al am safe in saying
that of the $4,000 members of the
army, fully $4,000 would desert
if they were given a good
chance. The complaints and grum-
bling of the men never reach head
quarters, 1 think, or surely there
would be some changes made. BY
supplying the soldiers with inferior
food, the officers-especially the
mess-officer - make considerable
money by the transaction. This,
with the treatment of the men, is
the general cause for complaint in
the ranks. AS the United States
army stands at present, il is COM
posed of slovenly, disatfected men
men whose only aim in life is to get
away from the degrading thraldOm.
The military prison at Leavenworth,
X ansas, must be filled with persons
who have risked all in a vain en-
deavOr to be once more free men. L
know a deserter who, on being cap
tured, was shackled and thrown
into the guard-house-awaiting
transfer to the military prison
where he was kept two
months without change of cloth
ing, or even being allowed the privi-
lege of temporarily removing his
old ones. This is a true bill, and
you can imagine to yourself the
filthy condition of the poor fellow at
the end of that time. The soldiers
do not complain of the pay; it is the
domineering, brutal officers, and the
vile food supplied. Until these evils
are rectified by the United States
authorities, there will be discon-
tented mutinous army.
"When L enlisted" said Brown in
conclusion, ait was with the full in
tention of honestly serving my full
time. would have done so had the
treatment been what should have
been extended to human beings L
don't consider it any disgrace to be
Oh characterized as deserter from the
United States army"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23

corn meal may be substituted grad
ually for the bran and oats. There
is nothing equal to milk for young
pigs, but for inducing growth the
skinned is fully as good as the pure
article. Along with the milk, bran
and oat meal should be given some
young, succulent grass, unless the
pigs are allowed to Craze for them
selves. They are extravagantly fond
of something green and juicy, and
thrive best when their taste is IN
dulged in this manner. Purlane
makes better diet for young pigs
than corn meal. This was formerly
called pig weed, the pigs we're so
fond of il and throve SO well under
this diet; but every young and tender
plant may De called "pig weed" as
pigs will eat nearly every weed that
grows in the garden, and show all
the more thrift and health the greater
the allowance of this succulent food.
The clippings OF the lawn will find a
good demand in the pig-pen, as also
the pea-pods, corn-huskings, and all
the refuse vegetables from the table.
AS apples mature the pigs are ex-
tremeiy fond of this fruit, and in
such a year of abundance as this,
apples can be put to no better use
than in the making of pork. Give
them small messes at first, and at all
times limit the rations to so much
as the pigs will eat speedily. AS cold
weather comes on press the pigs
with moro cornmeal. This is the
best forming food.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
rhe mon, Porn Proaucer.

The first thing in order to make q
letter A pork product is to secure
the right breed of porkers. Tastes
differ on this point. We like the
small breeds, such as the Suffolks
Yorkshires and Essexes. The old
ambition to make hog weigh 50C
pounds at eighteen months or two
years old, was not'profitable to the
producer, and the consumer GER
tainly had "too much pork for his
shilling" If q pig can be made to
weigh 260 or 500 pounds at eight
months, as the Suffolks usually do,
there is saving of a years keeping,
and the pork Is of much better quail
ity. We have eaten none other than
pig pork Tor years, and desire. to
eat NO more of the big strong sort.
The western producers are finding
the best market for the small breeds,
the spring pigs of which are fit tor
slaughter before Christmas, weigh
ing, when dressed, $50 pounds on an
average, ana Furnishing hams of
about fifteen pounds weight. The
early maturity OF the small breeds
give them O great advantage over
the larger kinds. We have known
Suffolk pigs to weigh 800 pounds at
seven months. To secure this result
they must be fed with skinned
milk when first weaned, mixing with
little bran and oct meal, and
gradually increasing the ration
Of oats till the pigs have at
fained such a size that IL will
HnsWer to put on fat when
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23

Mr.. Edwin Booth will spend the
Christmas holidays in Rome and soon
afterwards go to Germany. where en-
gagements have been made for him al
Berlin, Hamburg, Leipsie and several
other large cities.
Two foreign firms have sent over Ioo.-
900 ounces of quinine, which has been
sold by New York commission house
at SI.5o an onnce. or 50 cents less than
the American price. Powers & Weight
man have reduced their price to $3.50
Morphiomania. says the Medical
Press, is becoming alarmingly prevalent
in France, and among the ladies the
small silver hypodermic syringe is an
indispensable article of the toilet. I'm
til recently the non-professional use o.
opium in France is stated to have been
almost unknown.
Senator-elect Dolph, of Oregon, is a
man of commanding presence. being
more than six feet tall and finely form
ed. He is dark complexioned and wears
long black whiskers. He has strong
voice. easy delivery. and is considered a
forcible and interesting orator. Hi:
wife is brunette, tall and graceful with
large, expressive black eyes. and is ex.
pected TO form a prominent feature il
Washington society.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
Electric Trouble.

CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Officials Of
the Western Union telegraph com.
pany here say the electrical disturb.
most pronounced and widespread
experienced for years, if, indeed
there has been a parallel in some re
spects at any time, and an electric
storm of great violence is raging il
all the territory from New York to
points beyond Omaha, and flon
Kansas City north to the terminus
practically putting a stop TO tele
graphic service over the entire area
1t first began to be felt about 4 a. m,
and increased in intensity ill GAS
when communication from every
direction was cut off. This electric
storm seemed to go in successive
nt gative and positive waves, alter.
nately neutralizing the current OH
the wires or increasing their inten-
sitY TO such degree as to burn every
thing up. The switchboard here has
been on fire dozen times
during the forenoon, aud half a
dozen keys and instruments have
been melted by currents which con.
tinued to pass through screws turn.
ed up and points parted to the
farthest limit. Duplex and quad.
ruplex wires were rendered entirely
useless, and at noon but single wire
of the fifteen between the city and
New York was in operation, and il
was frequently interrupted. Word
received from Milwaukee is that the
atmospheric electricity coming in on
one of the wires from the country
had such dynamic power as 10 suf.
fee for keeping the electric light
burning. All business at the Office
here is accepted as subject to delay
Even associated press reports are
unavoidable delayed, and up to !
o'clock this evening less than SOC
words have been transmitted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
Sporting Notes.

NEW YORK, Nov. Lice, the
oarsman, will sail for Liverpool
early in December, and will offer to
row any sculler in England three
miles for $500, or $1,000 side.
A day or two ago the brown mare,
Manetta, hooked double to a road.
wagon with the running horse,
LOngman, trotted two miles in the
extraordinary time of 4:274. The
first mile in 2:l43 and the second
mile in the 2:124. The mare did not
wear breeding, and therefore, out
eide of his taking a major part OF
the weight, she received no assist
ance from Longman. The track was
a trifie dull and slippery. The two
miles are the fastest ever trotted
The first quarter of the second mile
was trotted in SAT seconds, the Sec
ond in S3a seconds, the third in 81
seconds. and the fourth IN 32a Sec
onds. The last half mile was done
in 1:044 The PAGES increased as the
distance heightened. Manetta is ten
wears old.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
snow and Auroral storms.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE pre-.
valeDce OF heavy auroral storm is
reported in the almost complete in
terruption to telegraphic communl-
cation, which it is impossible to
maintain more than a few seconds
uDinterruptedly. The storm is said
to be the fiercest known in a long
time.
Reports from New England indi-
cate that heavy snow storm set in
at an early hour this morning, and
the earth is already covered with
snow to the depth of several inches
Experienced telegraphers say it is
the worst storm in many years. The
few wires that are working are con-
tinually liable 10 disturbance, and il
is almost impossible to send or re.
ceive long messages continuously,
The storm extends throughout the
United States and eastern provinces
of Canada, aud is principally severe
in its effect on cable transmission.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
PERSONAL.

A Chinaman at Tucson, Arizona,
is proprietor of six restaurants.
Sir Garnet Wolseley will become
"Baron Wolseley of Cairo"
Manager McVicker Is to lecture on
"The Press, the Pulpit and the
Stage"
The wife of President Gonzales,
of Mexico, is studying medicine and
surgery in Chicago.
The president has been elected an
honorary member of Boston's an
cient and honorable artillery.
Ottawa boasts of venerable
couple, named Macdonald, the hus-
band being 105, and the better halt
log.
Billot, minister of war IN France,
is the youngest of twenty-one chill
dren born of the same parents.
Justice Harlan, of the United
States supreme court, has changed
his residence from Kentucky to lii
nois.
Lord Dufferin has arrived at
Alexandria, Egypt. He was re-
ceived by the British consul and the
Egyptian authorities.
Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, has
made one of his nieces mistress OF
the executive mansion in Atlanta,
Two other nieces make their home
with him.
Senator Pendleton's family is still
in mourning for his sister, the late
Mrs. cambridge, of Cincinnati. The
family will not entertain in Wash
ington this winter.
A new cross has been erected on
the lava beds in Oregon to mark the
spot where Gen. Candy was killed
by the Modocs, the old one having
been destroyed by the elements.
James McLaren, of Buckingham,
Quebec, brother of Prof. McLaren,
of Toronto, has subscribed $4,000
OF the 100000 asked to endow a
chair of systematic theology IN Knox
College.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
Regular Eating,

Half of all ordinary diseases would
be banished from civilized life, and
dyspepsia become almost unknown,
If Everybody would eat but thrice a
day at regular times, aud not an
atom between meals, the intervals
being not less than five hours, that
being the time required to digest a
full meal and pass it out OF the
stomach.
If a person eats between meald
the process of digestion of the food
already in the stomach is arrested,
until the last which has been eaten
Is brought into the condition of the
former meal, just as if water is boil.
ing and ice is put in, the whole
ceases TO boil until the ice has been
melted and brought to the boiling
point, and then the whole boils to-
gether.
But it is law of nature that all
food begins to decay, to rot, after
exposure to heat and moisture for a
certain time. If a meal is eaten, and
in two hours another, the whole re-
mains undigested for seven hours,
before which time the rotting pro-
cess commences, and the man has
his stomach full of carrion-.the very
idea of which is horribly disgusting ;
but that such is the case, the unen-
durable odor of the belchings de-
monstrates.
AS, then, all the food in the
stomach is in rotting con-
dltiOn, in a state of terment.
ing decay, It becomes unfit for
the purposes of nutrition and for
making good, pure blood. Small
wonder Is II that dyspeptics have
such variety OF symptoms and
aches and complaints in every part
of the system, for there is not one
drop of pure blood in the whole
body hence the nerves which feed
on this impure and imperfect blood
are not properly nourished, and, as
a consequence, become diseased
They complain" they are hungry
and, like hungry man, are peevlsh
frettul, restless. We call il nervous
ness, aud no one ever knew a dys.
peptic who was not restless, fretful
fidgety and essentially disagreeable
ulIut anu uuCcTtdlu.
The stomach is made up of mum.
Der of muscles, all of which are
brought into requisition in the pro.
cess of digestion. But no muscle
can work always. The busy heart ii
in a state OF perfect repose for one.
third OF It's time. The eye can wink
twice in a second, but tins could not
be continued five minutes. The hands
and feet must have rest, and so with
the muscles of the stomach; they
only eau rest when there is no work
for them to do-no food in the
stomach to digest. Even at five
hours interval, and, eating thrice
q day, they are kept constantly
at work from breakfast until
the last meal is disposed of,
usually ten o'clock at night. But
multitudes eat heartily within an
hour of bedtime; thus while other
portions of the body are at rest, the
stomach is kept laboring until al
most daylight, and made to begin
again at breakfast time. No wOn-
der that the stomach is WORKOUT
has lost its power of action. Many
girls become dyspephc before they
are out of their teens, in consequence
of being about the house and nib
bling at everything they lay their
eyes on that is good to eat.-HdlPs
Journal of Health.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. H.
Lightning struck and exploded a
magazine in the fortress at Scutari,
doing much damage but causing no
loss of life.
The foreign ambassadors have adj
vised Alex Pasha's agent and the
governor of PhilippopOlis to concili-
ate Russia, in order to avoid politi.
cal agitation.
The arrival of Sheitsh Aqdallay at
Massul has excited the Ottoman
Kurds, and Turkish force has been
sent to preserve order. Kianed Bey
will remain to watch events.
LONDON, Nov. ia fearful ex.
plosion of dynamite occurred this
morning at the works in Buryport
Llanelly, Wales, instantly killing
three girls and two men and wound.
ing several others.
j. r. Keene's colt, Foxhall, has
been put on the private sale list.
The amount asked is $4,000.
six of William WhitIey's draper
shops in Westbourne Grove have
been damaged by fire to the extent
OF 100000.
PARIS, Nov. 17.-President Grevy
is urged to resign, as being the only
means to prolong his life,
DUBLIN, Nov. 17-Patrick Casey
was found guilty of the murder OF
the Joyce family and sentenced tC
be hanged December II.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
The Rights of Passengers.

An aged man and his wife were
travelling on the Memphis aud
Charleston railroad. They had
round trip tickets the time of which
had expired. The conductor de-
handed full fares in money, and as
they refused to pay, put them of the
train at a small station, where they
remained in great discomfort all
night. They were somewhat injured,
too, by the force which their resist
ance made necessary in. ejecting
them. They sued for damages.
Judge Hammond, of the United
States court, in instructing the jury
to find for the company, set forth the
law as follows: "a passenger
having a limited ticket which has
expired, although he may have an
understanding with the station agent
who sold it to him that it would be
good after the limit, has no right of
action for the election, it not being
wrongful. 1t is the passengers duty
to submit without resistance, ex-
cept in defense against impending
bodily injury; aud his resistance
will excuse force necessary to eject
him. When there is a dispute on
the train about the ticket, it is the
passengers duty, il able, to pay the
extra fare and recover it in subse-
quent suit against the road"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
aILDED YOUTH OF GOTHAM.
Masculine Extravasancies that
Lay those OF women I'm the
shade.

New York Letter In the Albany Journal
Men are becoming very luxurious,
and their dressing rooms, sitting
rooms, wardrobes and repositories
for personal belongings display tastes
more costly than those OF women.
Underwear of the softest, richest
knitted silk; dozens of South
American pajamas, for night and
dressing room wear, OF China crepe,
soft twilled Chinese silk, cashmere,
flannel bound with satin and en-
broidered, and all in the daintiest,
most delicate tints aud colors, such
as ivory, pale blue, pink, buff
or violet. The pajama consists
of drawers and loose blouse jacket
with sailor collar. When made in
ivory they are often faced with a
color and embroidered with ivory
silk in little vine or in the corners
of collars and cuffs. Ii the pajama
is In colOrs il will perhaps be en-
broidered with white or have appli-
ques cut out of white satin cloth or
velvet embroidered on. The dam
test of all is an all white pajama of
ivory Chinese crepe or silk enriched
with hand embroidery, and these
are made for the wedding outfits of
fashionable men, who will have
dozen of white, "A dozen of trimmed
with color and a dozen in various
delicate colors embroidered in white.
These elegant gentlemen have for
smoking companions the gate of a
country house iu nickel or silver,
with chain rings instead OF bars to
hold cigars upright and side lights
representing gate lamps, but hold
ing candles, and post pedestals to
form match-holders. These cost
from $3.50 to $3.50, and are soms-
times ornamented with bird or
rooster in the act of Growing. An
other recently imported piece OF
masculine extravaganza is a lamp,
the lower part o: which forms u
tripod set in a double hoof, deco
rated with natural hair. There
are two burners representing wax
candles under tinted and decorated
glass, aud the cost for a lamp
OF this kind is about $3.50. Another
lamp hus for it's standard horse
shoe, with stirrup and riding whip
crossed aud twisted. AS for the ex-
pensive ash trays and liquor sets
and pipe racks and dressing cases
and the like, space and time would
both fail in their enumeration. 1t
may be mentioned that among the
personal properties OF one young
gentleman in New York city are
three hundred aud seventy odd silk,
satin aud knitted neckties and up
wards of fifty walking sticks. The
inventory did not go any further or
it might have developed equally
curious results IN other depart
ments.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
A Recipe 10 Make Pretty women.

A celebrated beauty, whose COM
plexion at sixty was iresher than
that of our women at thirty, told me
her secret this summer, writes a
New York correspondent, and 1t
was divided into two parts: First,
she never used washrag or towel on
her face, but washed it with her
hands, rinsing 1t Off with a soft
sponge. She used clear water in the
morning, but white CASTLE soap or
very warm water at night, and, after
drying it on a soft towel, she would
take a 1esh-brush and rub her
cheeks, chin and forehead. Second,
if she was going to be up late at
night, she always slept as many
hours in the day as she expected to
be awake beyond her usual time.
She finished her little sermon on
beauty preservation by saying
"Soft water and sound sleep keep of
wrinkles and spots, and girls should
give more attention to this than
they do, for
with the coming of the crows'feet
Is the going of the beaux's teet.'"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-23
Have Overdone 1t.


When the De mocrats look at the
size of their victory they may feel
as Ben Wade felt about Judge
fancy, that they have overdone the
business. There were apprehen.
sions that the Judge would die before
Llncoln's nomination, and that Bu-
chanan would appoint a Democrat
with a prospect of equal longevity
in his place. SO, as Wade said, the
Republicans prayed ardently and
earnestly that his life might be
spared. fancy lived on, and as Lin
coins first administration was ap-
preaching its close, and the presi-
Dental succession was somewhat
uncertain, the Republicans were
keenly apprehensive that the judge
might live to see another Democrat
in the chair, and Wade said he'd be
blankety blank blank if he didn't
believe the Republicans had over
done the business.