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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
The Great "NatiOnaP Contest OF
Next Saturday

Now the Journal resteth from
abusing members of its own party
household, for refusing to sacrifice
right to party success ina ward
election, and devotes large space to
what it is pleased to call the GREE
MAN clique" We rather guess the
temperance hosts of West Virginia
will be able to survive the burden
of that little cross.
In ourlast issue we asked any Re-
publican brother to tell US how a
vote for Or against the liquor-trafic
in Parkersburg could affect the
count" in Mississippi, about
which the Journal is just now
losing so much sleep. The Journal
with an affected air Of seriousness,
Though we know it must have con-
ceived the idea as joke, original
ly), in answer refers to the last
presidential election, and says vote
for the liquor-trafic in Parkersburg
"affects the count in Mississippi
the same way that the labors and
vote of the editor of the FREEMAN,
at<the last Presidential election,
affected the Temperance reform in
Kansas, by consolidating the whis-
ky ring, and dividing the real
friends of Temperance" &c.
Yes, that's so; and there's an il
lustration for you that will pass
muster on dress parade anywhere.
Yes, just about the same way; just
about the same! Ergo, cast your
vote on Saturday for the Mississippi
count, though the Devil takes the
town.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
The Ticket.

Mr.. Ellis Mather has declined to
be candidate. Mr.. Merrick pre-
fers not to run, because under no
circumstances could be induced to
accept the office of City Recorder II
elected. And as Mr.. Laird cannot
under the Railroad company's reg
ulations accept the position if elect
ed, it has been necessary for the
Executive Committe to fill those
three vacancies, and they have ac-
cordingly named the following
gentleman:
list Wards. NJ. Pollock.
Sd Ward-J. L. DevOl.
At Large-L. P. Neal.
DAVE D. JOHNSON, Ch'rm'n.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
Is it Honest?

Our good neighbor over the way,
under the glowing caption "Three
Dollars Invested Proftably," tells
it's pious readers how a saloonist of
New York city, feeling the burdens
Of caring for family, after 80 years
struggling, by investing 81 in a
certain lottery drew $4,000; how
another poor man, buying 81
ticket, drew $1,000, and how still
another, a segar-dealer, got s2,955
for one dollar; and after explaining
to its patrons when ard where the
next drawing will take place, and
the next swindle be consummated,
when, as the Journal informs the
public, over half million will be
scattered among the lucky, adds, by
way Of suggestion, ''perhaps the
reader may cut it fat, Who
knows? ?"
We ask, is it honest: Is this the
fair thing to do with honest pat
rons? Is it square" and equitable
to thus deceive the unsuspecting
by telling them of these large sums
obtained for no consideration, and
not tell them of twenty thousand
others who sent in their dollar and
got nothing to make up this large
sum for the swindlers, and the few
named who are set out as baited
hooks to catch more mullet-heads :?
1t does seem to us that those no.
torious swindlers ought to be de-
nounced, rather than commended,
by every respectable journal in the
land.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
Common Ground.

The State Journal plants itself in
the very middle of the saloon
marsh, and while sinking down
body and breeches into the corrupt
combination to defeat the christian
and temperance people of the COM
munity out of the delayed fruits of
their prayers and labors, cries out
while yet its head is above the
murky surges of debauchery, lewd-
ness and crime, it invites and in
vokes by its course, cries aloud
across the clinking counters and
pandemonium rabble Of the scores
of saloons, to the struggling Tenn
perance hosts beyond-This, at least,
is common ground upon aohich all
Temperance people can join hands.
God forbid! God save the people
from such common ground"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
The Prayer of the Righteous that
Availeth (noD much.

O, Lord! bless the Temperance
Cause after the election.
O, Thou, of Infinite Mercy, pity
the sufferings of the poor children
that will be made to 60 hungryand
naked and cold and sick by our vo-
ties next Saturday, if it be Thy
pleasure to vouchsate unto us sue
cess in electing men to perpetuate
the liquor traffic in our midst.
And, O, Blessed Father of Light,
smile Thou in loving-kindness in
upon the home of the drunkard,
where abideth only darkness,
Indebtedness and woe, while the sa-
looms which we hope to license con-
tinue in our midst. -t
Save, O Thou Almighty Savior,
save our boys from the fearful temp
tations we shall Place before them,
if Thou givest US the victory at
the polls next Saturday,
Stretch forth Thine Omnipotent
Hand, O Lord, and snatch our dear
children from the brands that by
our votes we are kindling for their
sure destruction.
Thou, O Lord, art omnipresent
and ever. plenteous in mercy, there
fore we humbly pray Thee, throw
thy protecting arms about our
young men and save them from the
death-traps we are about to set for
them.
Dear Father, Lord of Heaven and
Earth, with whom thousand years
are as day, hasten the blessed time
when the great curse of intemper-
ance shall be removed from our
land and drunkenness, with all its
wretchedness and woe, shall be no
more; nevertheless, our will, not
Thine, be done, till after this little
town election.
Infinite in wisdom, art Thou, O
Lord of Hosts, and seest how badly
we want to gain a little party sue
cess and secure the little town off
ces, and Thou knowest that success
for us only lies in pooling our issues
in a whisky ticket, wherefore we
do implore Thee to give us the vic
tory over the Temperance hosts,
and save us and our little ones from
the fearful consequences. Amen.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
Their Notions and Ours.

Among the many temperance
papers that come to our office, none
are SO we'll up with the times and
reliable as the FREEMAN, published
at Parkersburg, w. Va. 1t is the
best temperance paper we-ever saw.
We would be glad to see it visit
every family and household IN Col
orado.-Greeley (Col.) Chronicle.
Thanks, good brother, for such
words from such source.
A strict enforcement of the Ii
cense law will keep everything
quiet.-P. PIT. Register.
That you will never have, for a
conscience that will grant license
is conscience that never enforces
the law.
The "jug taverns" are getting too
numerous to be- healthy.-Radtcal.
We have nearly half hundred
in our city and still have promi-
nent citizens who insist on exalt-
ing them into legitimate business
houses.
WILL IT BE A DUEL ?-Hart OF
the Messenger, and johnson, of the
FREEMAN, are discussing each 9TH
er in strong words. Let 'em fight,
If Johnson kills Hart and the State
hangs Johnson, we can't see that the
community will lose much. Nor
gdntoaUn Post.
Now, aren't you ashamed of your
self, taking on that way, al because
two of your neighbors are having a
little friendly chat?
Young man, the beginning of a
new year is Il good time to leave of
bad habits, and turn a new leaf as
the pages Of life's history are being
numbered. If you play cards,
swear, drink or are addicted to any
bad habits, leave them off, and try
the result.-Ceredo Enterprise.
A. H. Logan, Dealer in Liquors
and Lager Beer.-Ceredo Enterprise
advertisement.
Now, what shall the young man
do? Take your advice in both
cases?
We understand that Valarious
Fiddler, living in Banks district,
Upshur county, while engaged in
removing an old chimney, few
days ago, found beneath the hearth
an old tin vessel containing a lot
of gold and silver coins, variously
estimated at from SIS to $780,
Buckhdnnon Banner.
Now we do sincerely hope that
the good people Of Upshur will just
keep on the even tenor Of their
way, and not 60 to upsetting thei1
chimneys under the impression
that they may all prove lucky
"Fiddlers."
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1885,
Our Horizontal NeighbOr.

Our horizontal neighbor in the
revenue office over the way, 1--WE say
horizontal out of profound respect
for his position. He calls us 'per-
pendicular, and we do not want to
do violence to his feelings by pre-
Stunning to put him parallel with
oursel) we SAVIOUR neighbor, that
we are sorry to fear has been down
to Jericho and fallen among
thieves; our neighber who assumes
to come out and bear up and down
before the people all the morality Of
a great party on one shoulder, and
all the woes of the liquor traffic on
the other, concealed in patent
adjustable chameleon-hued case,
with self-revolving instantaneous
ly-reversible illuminated text,
which is meant to be read by tenn
Derance men, "Restricted License
and the Enforcement of Law,
while the saloonists all read it,
"Unlimited License and the Di-
vorcement of Law" we say, this
temperance-apostle neighbor OF
ours, who stands at the head of his
columns of whisky and lottery adj
vertisements and assumes to issue
general orders to the Christian peo-
pie of Parkersburg as to how they
shall carry on the Temperance Re-
form to success this educator of the
morals of the community: who pub
licly brands all the members of his
great party as ''malcontents," whose
conscience and whose God impel
them to protest against voting
themselves abettors and principals
to the wicked business of DESTROY
dng their families and the families
of their neighbors this editorial
neighbor ofours, who as an orthodox
party leader, can devote columns to
the election Of political enemy to
high place in the National Councils
and at the next election for the pet
ty offices of city councilmen, is
ready to berate his own political
brethren for refusing to be sold out
in advance, body and soul, togeth-
er with the dearest interests of the
community, to thirty saloons, for
the paltry consideration of a few
votes and the promise Of few town
offices-we say this orthodox, Re-
publican neighbor Of ours would
do well to procure and read the late
speech of Hon. w. T. Wiley, emit
tied "Political Economy VS.. The
Liquor Traffic" extracts from
which appear in this issue.
We heartily commend this
speech of this noble Republican
leader SO vigorously denouncing IL
,cense and in favor of prohibition as
sound Republican doctrine and
most profitable withal.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

preaching Temperance and at the
same time busy setting up job
with the saloonists to fasten the
curse of curses on his neighbors for
another year, will hardly be con-
sidered as an inspired apostle whose
guidance it would be safest to fol-
low.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

BIG FIND.--Last week, while
John Adair, Jr., was going west II
a sleeping car, he got dispatch
that three rings had been lost IN a
bunk, and on looking found them
Two of them were set with dia-
monds worth about $1,000. An
English woman who had occupied
that berth the night before had tax
en- them off and thrown them III
the upper berth, and never missed
them until the next day when she
arrived in Baltimore.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

The State Journal preaching Tenn
perance Wooden Indian at the
door preaching against the use Of to-
bacco.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

RENEw.-If you can't send more
at this time, send Is cents and get
the FREEMAN till March list. This
will give you the proceedings of the
Legislature.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

Whether christians or not all
people pray. Let every voter at
the City election ask the Divine
blessing on his ballot before he
drops it in the box.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

Now the voters will have a chance
to revoke.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-06

The WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN is
after us with all the venom of the
first and last mosquito. Horrible to
contemplate. -Huntjngton CONNER
cidl.
We knew the FREEMAN was sting
ing the Commercial most effectually,
but we had no idea it's condition
had got to be horrible.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
The Fhiia. SILK Show.

At the present exhibition of the assc-
CATION III Philadelphia, there are about
81 competitors. three of whom are from
The Southern States. The grand strife
among them is for the prize of $500
generously offered by a firm in the city
for the best lot Of cocoons These are
displayed in various forms, as originally
spun by the worms in punches or In
small paper horns, with the envelop of
floss enshrouding them, or with the
floss cleared eff and the clean cocoons
packed in bottles. Besides these com
p%ttitiye lots, there are single, double.
perfect and pierced cocoons on display,
with specimens of eggs, worms and
moths, and exhibits of raw and manu-
featured silk from foreign as well as
domestic worms. The processes Of
Keeling silk and weaving divers silken
fabrics are likewsse shown, while a col
lection of handsome articles wrought in
the loom and embellished by artistic
hand work, made up an interesting and
suggestive exposition
The culture of silk in the United
States is not a conceit of the present
century. The experiment was begun
Win the VI Cue colony OF
Virginia, that wiseacre then on the
British throne, James |, conceiving the
astute idea Of coaxing or coercing the
setslerin his new dependency to supply
the mother country with silk to feed its
eager looms. Every planter was fur
nished with silkworms' eggs and null
berry trees, and under a penalty of slO
was ordered to raise at least ten trees
to every 100 acres of his estate. Re-
wards were also offered for the produc-
ton of raw silk, and for a few years the
industry was kept alive by this stimu-
lating system of legislation. Similar
efforts were made to establish the cul-
tuIe OF silk III the colony of Georgia,
and with such promising results that 10
1859 10. coo pounds Of silk of a superior
quality exported to England. South
Carolina engaged in the industry to a
limited extent before the revolution,
and the silk produced was of fine quail
~. Connecticut turned its attention to
the enterprise in 1852, and it was pur
sued quite generally in that State as a
domestic occupation until after the first
quarter Of the present century.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08

Composers seem to be as little capa-
BILE of Judging of the merits of their
musical offspring as outsiders.
OF a set of eight pieces which DR..
George F. Root ono sent to the pub
Usher, the various members of his
family, himself included, such as in
their opinion would go" one piece
in particular was made conspicuous by
neglect. No one seemed to care tor it
or to place it among the favorite
ones. The author himself hardly cared
to write it out to send with the other.
1t vas issued, however, aud became
almost at once the most popular of the
eight. This song vas the we'll known
"Rosalie. the Prairie Flower"
Another in the same set was the beau
tiful Hazel Deli," which had such a
remarkable success.
''The Shining Shore" is another
case in point. The words were hand
ed to DIR. Root by his mother, who re-
marked that ''possibly he could make
something out of that" He glanced
at it carelessly; put it aside; took it
up again; wrote the music to it; laid it
away, thinking it might work in some
where. So it has. 1t has worked in
everywhere the world over.
Publishers, also, are quite as unable
to foretell the manner in which a piece
will be received by the public. Some
of the most popular songs ever pub
lished have in MSS. gone the rounds
of the music publishing houses, and
been returned to the writer ''respec-
fully declined" Such was the case,
we believe, with S. G. Fosters ''Old
Folks at Home'' and it certainly was
so with Will Hays ''Evsngeline."
This is due not SO much to the want of
discrimination on the part of publish
ers as to the ickleness of the musical
public.
Again some have fallen fat upon
their first publication but after remain
ing upon the shelves for months, and
in some cases for years, bave taken a
sudden start and sprung into life, run
ming over the country like wild fire.
Such was the case with Seeing Nellie
Home" by John Fletcher, which was
published seven years before it came
into notice. 1t has been attributed to
P. S. Gilmore, but was written by Mr.,
Fletcher while a music teacher in Tren.
ton, N. u hurch's Musical Visitor.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08

The Newark IN. J.) Sunday cal
says: One of our Cincinnati exchan-
ges cites the case of Mr.. Haldeman of
the Louisville Courier Journal who was
cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil.
His wife was cured of neuralgia by the
same article, and every member of his
family OF some pain or ache by the
Great German Remedy.
A singularly interesting case was
lately referred to by the Brooklyn EAGLE.
1t was told by Mr.. w. A. Davenport,
connected with the house of Messrs.
Butler, Pitken & Co., 476 Broadway,
New York, and concerned with the
house Of Mr.. Ezra D. Clarkson, near
Newark, N. j., of a terrible case of
rheumatism, which other remedies had
failed eve to alleviate. He was on
his way to a hospital when Mr.. Daven-
port met him and induced him to try
St. Jacobs Oil, with the result named.
Cevelond 81 Practical Farmer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
ZIONIST" JOHN HFlP8
HONEST" HARDY
a Couple Of South Carolina
Ex-ThieveS.

A story which will be OF more or less
interest to our citizens is told by the
Kansas City papers. 1t is to the effect
that some i've or more years ago Hardy
Solomon came to that place, and that
previous to the wal Mr.. Solomon was
president of a bank in South Carolina,
of which ex-Uuited States Senator Pat
terson was a director. Mr.. Solomon
became involved in Railroad enterprise
and at the breaking out of the war lost
his all. At the close OF the war he
drifted about till finally he settled there
and opened a bakery on Main street,
near Eighth. BY industry and perse-
verance be built up a good trade, and
about six months ago made an advan-
tage u sale Of his stand and reopeneo
a store on Grand hi 1t was While
in this latter place that he received a
note from Senator Paterson, well
kuown in this city as being connected
with the Leavenworth, Topeka and
Southwestern, who was "a the Coastes
House, asking him to call on him ana
stating that he had just discovered ms
whereabouts. Mr.. Solomon responded
to the note in person, and greetings
we're exchanged and "reminiscences IN,
duiged in. Later the ex-senator visited
the former president at his house, n
looking about his small establishment
exclaimed, "Great heavens, Hardy,
have you come to this Mr.. Solomon
explained that he was comfortably we'll
off in comparison with the last few
years. In his palmy days Mr.. Solomon
had befriended the ex-senator, and
now his ohivalric Southern heart was
touched, and the next day he induced
his friend to sell his establishment,
which he did, and left for this city,
where Senator Patterson has Installed
him in an elegantly furnished house,
and made a handsome deposit in his
uame besides making him his CHIEF
clerk at a salary Of 5000 Il year. Mr..
Solomon was in Kansas City a day o |
two ago and his appearance reminded
his friends there of the change from
the time when be was content to ped
die %"Iife's STAFF from house TO housf
and live in very modest quarters
From the LedrenUorh (hdn.) Times,
Feb. II.
The reader will recognise in the
above parties the two leading thieves
Of the Reconstruction period. Neithc!
of them could set a foot IN South Caro-
lima without going to the penitentiarv,
If not the gallows.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08

The Mutual Trust Co. of New York,
is offering for sale SO. 900 shares (par
value $1OO) for $50 each Of the capital
stock of the Cincinnati, Virginia &
Carolina Railway Company, which,
make an air line from Cincinnati to
Charleston, South Carolina, starting az
Wadesboro, North Carolina, running
northwest through Salisbury, Wilkes
boro, and Jefferson, North Carolina,
through Marion, Virginia, and north
through West Virginia, to Charleston,
Kanawha county, making a line of 800
miles. The whole distance through q
section of the country rich in sgricul-
tural and mineral products, such as
coal, iron, copper, cotton, tobacco,
corn and wheat.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08

Chatham Record items. Mrs. VIM.
Horton has home. made lye soap, made
60 years ago, in excellent condition.
body of Bivins has been
found near where he drowned himself.
"A COW belonging to John D.
Moore, recently gave birth to twin
calves joIIed to gether somewhat like
tho Siamese twins were. -Wm. Mar
tin died suddenly on the 18th inst,
being apparently in good health, only
complaining of a pain in his chest.
-. G. Cheek has a rabbit skin
that is yellow. this curiosity was found
near the spot where the Growing
robin was found last year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
Farms for Sale.

A valuable plantation in Chatham
county, six miles South of Chapel Hill,
containing about 700 acres. 1t has a
dwelling Of eight rooms. out houses OF
various kinds. a good portion heavily
timbe, ed, soil fertile and adapted 10
almost any crop. For a cotton or to
bacco farm it could hardly be suIpass-
ed.
A farm of 500 acres, two miles from
the former, on New Hope. The low
grounds well suited for cotn-uplard.
to cotton, &c. Several tenant homes
Both these valuable places ere conven.
lent to churches, mills, cotton gins,
&c. As l wish TO change investment,
| would sell, on favorable terms. either
or both of these farms.
A. Ii. MERRITT,
Jan. 26-6w. Pittsboro, n. G..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
CURES NEURALGIA.

Butler, Rutherford Co., n. c.
DEAR SIR:-I was troubled with Neuralgia for IL
years, and for 10 years was under doctors care,
without being benefited. l at last tried your indi Ii
Blood Syrup, and have derived more good from its
use, than from any other medicine 1 ever tried.
RICHARD Ii. BUTLER.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
BEST MIDICINF EVER UsxD.

holesyille, Wake &c, y G
LEAR smith haze been afflicted for q uumher of
years, with a combin ton OF Diseas e, and have
1onLd more + lief from the use OF your indian Blood
syrup, than anything :ha- l ever tried.
j. e. LEIGH.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08

In the course of his practice discovered
what now are renowned in medical prac-
tice, viz: a combination of Celery and
Chamomile in the shape of Pills. They
are used by the profession at large and
constantly recommended by them.
1t is not a patent medicine. 1t is the
result OF his own experience in practice.
They are a sure cure for the following
special diseases, and are worthy of a
trial by all intelligent sufferers. They
are prepared expressly to cure sick
headache, nervous headache, dyspetic
headache, neuralgia, par lysis, sleep
lessness, dyspepsia and nervousness,
and UiM cure any case. The Doctors
great remedy for Skin disease, called
DIR. Benson's Skin Cure, is exceedingly
valuable and greatly sought after by ali
persons who have skin diseases or bad
complexion. An excellent toilet dress
ing.
Sold by all druggists. Price, so cents
a box. Depot, loo North Eutaw St.,
Baltimore, Md. By mail, two boxes
for 81. or six boxes for s.. SO, to an v
aISraco
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
CURE FOR HEART DISEASE.

Beulayille, Duplin Co., n c.
DEAR SIR:-Your Indian Blood Syrup has been of
of great value TO me for Heart Disease. 1 recon-
mel q it to all similarly afflicted.
barbara WILLIAMS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-08
CURES Sun PAIN.

Beulaville, DupliD Co, y. =.
DEAR SIR - was troubled with Sur. rain received
more peneft ffom your Indian Blood Syrup than
from any other medicine.
MRS. RRBECCA HINES.