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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-18

us by reading them; that they will take the
trouble to inform themselves Of the truth or
falsity of all reports and then give the devil his
due: and when the old chap below gets his
due, your mixed blood correspondent will
have hidden farewell to lhis vale Of liars.
/. N. c.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
About sHagerstOWn.
Eds. IndeDendeut:

EttS. I9tUep6I0eut.
In the discussion of corporation
matters, Hagerstown has been re-
ferred to as city where the officials
serve for nothing, etc. Such is not
the case. From recent published
statement and other sources / have
the following:
The Mayor of Hagerstown is paid
$500 per annnm and the Councilmen
$50 each, the same as is paid here.
They have no Street Commissioners
in HagerstOwn and the Councilmen
in each Ward perform that duty the
same as here.
The valuation of real and person
al property of Hagerstown is So, 500,
600, the rate of taxation AZ cents OF
the hundred. which yielded the city
nearly as much revenue as the
ST 100000 of Martinsburg at rs pei
cent.
Hagerstown is now lighted with
coal oil at a cost of about $1,000 pei
annum, although until recently the
light had been cut off by the Coun-
Gil on account of expense.
The debt of Hagerstown is only
$4,000.
Now let any fair minded man com
pare Martinsburg and HagerstoWh
and see if Martinsburg has not beel
as well managed, in every respect
and at a much less cost.
FAIR PLAY.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

LONGFELLOW is dead, and the
news of it is heard with sincere
sorrow by the lovers of polite letters
the world over. There have been
greater writers of poetry and prose,
but few have had so many readers
in the various classes of society.
Longfellow was beyond question the
poet of the people. Hundreds quote
him who know little of the writings
OF Emerson or Tennyson. 1t is the
testimony of one of the first literary
journals of England that Longfellow
is more widely read there than is the
Poet Laureate himself. The Amer
lean poet played upon every chord
in the harp, and if his music upon
none was perfect, it was beautiful,
and multitudes stopped to listen. 1t
was the music of home and of the
affections nourished there that Long
fellow made. lie was the poet of
peace. His thoughts ran naturally
to the village smithy and its cheerful
surroundings, or to the pathos of the
story of Evangeline. This is a turb-
ulent world, but the great body of
people love peace, and dwell fondly
on its triumphs. This is why Long
fellow is so widely read, and why so
many hear of the poets death with
something like sense of personal
loss
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
The Balance sheet.


Eds. independent:
l have been quiet looker-on in
the discussion Of Corporation affairs.
| feel deep interest in the manage
ment Of our affairs, as a proper and
economical management must bene-
fit all taxpayers. | have desired to
see the facts brought out, and after
a careful examination and cOmpari.
son, cannot see that our Corpora
tion affairs could possibly have been
managed better than they have been
during the past four years 1t has
been shown that four years ago we
were largely in debt and had no
credit, and that now most Of that
debt has been paid off and the credit
of the Corporation is first-class. This
is surely TO the credit of the gentle
men who have brought it about. No
one has dared make any charges of
corruption against them. The town
will compare favorably in every
respect with any neigbboring town.
During the past year we have had
no epidemic diseases, while Freder
lex, Winchester, Hagerstown and
other towns around us have been
sorely scourged, the sanitary cOndi-
tion of Martinsburg has been excel
lent. Our streets are clean, our
pavements as good as those of other
towns; our police regulations are
good; there has been very little steal
ing and very little disturbance OF
any kind. Now compare Martins
burg with any other town of its size
and it stands way in the front. Then
what's all this growing about. Does
some fellow want to serve as coun-
Gilman in somebody else's place? Is
that what's the matter The whole
thing seems to be the work of two
or three grumblers. The people have
no interest in their personal piques.
They want good government and
low taxes, and don't care as to who
will give it to them. ID WARD.
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EVERY LETTERS CONTENTS.
WARSAW. jefferson Co., 2

WARSAW, Jefferson Co., Pa.
The swelling is all gone. | am rs
we'll and natural as | ever was be-
fore | WAS enlarged. | am delighted
with PertmG and Mandlin.
:. Z. SHAFER.
My son is still improving in health.
Your PerWnG is just the thing for
him. w. BAUER, ST. Mays, Pa.
The large Chronic Ulcers, of 10
months standing, are entirely heal
ed. The swelling, pain and itching
subsidized, the leg is healed, and | am
perfectly we'll Peruna is "A wonder
full remedy. w. NJ. GRIFFITH.
Ashland, Ky.
If you desire health and to save
money, ask your Druggist for Dr..
Hartman's Ills of Life.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The latest scientific curiosity in
spired by Edison's electric light is
Iady's brooch, lin which tiny incan-
descent spark takes the place of and
outvies the brilliancy of diamond
of the purest water.
A st. Johns, New Foundland, dis
patch says the snow there is drifted
ten feet high and roads are blocked
in all directions.
The emigration from Germany
this year promises to be very much
greater even than last. From Ham.
burg alone about 42,675 persons set
sail for America during January
and February, as against only 5,757
in the corresponding periods of 1881
and 1880 respectively.
The latest news from Senator Hill
is very encouraging, showing that
the difficulty under which he now
labors arose from the premature
healing of the wound in his neck,
and not. from This original trouble,
There is strong foundation for the
hope that his cure will be speedy
and at the same time permanent.
Suicide is assuming somewhat
alarming dimensions in Berlin. In
fortnight alone no fewer than
twenty eight persons took, or tried
to take their lives, giving an average
of two day. In one week there
were seventeen cases, seven falling
to one day. This gives a reverse
side of the medal in this military
capital, which is at present given up
to the brilliant whirl of court balls
and other entertainments.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

A SERIOUS coDfagration has Wis
tied Richmond, Va, involving the
loss of a large amount of property
and one life. The Richmond and
Petersburg railroad bridge crossing
the James river was burned, several
tobacco and iron factories, a grist
mill and large quantity of coal and
lumber. The disaster will be seri-
ously felt in that city. The railroad
bridge named was near the historical
Tredegar Iron Works, that supplied
munitions of war to the Confederacy
during the rebellion, and near it
stood the arsenal, the explosion of
which caused the burning of Rich
mond after the evacuation by the
Confederate Government, at the
close of the war. Belle Isle, the
noted prison, lies in the river in the
immediate vicinity.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE legislature adjourned on
Tuesday and Hons. E. B. Faulkner,
G. F. Evans and B. f. Brady have
returned home. The legislature
transacted a vast amount of bust
ness during the extra session, and
many important changes were made
in the laws. The bill amending the
charter of the corporation Of Mar
tinsburg was passed with the Senate
amendment, and provision submit
ting it to vote Of the citizens of the
corporation.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

JOHN II. TEGMBYER, formerly
City Commissioner of Baltimors, is
giving to the local authorities of
Atlanta, Ga, some sound and excel
lent advice upon the subject of the
streets and sewerage of that city
Mr.. Tegmeyer was for fourteen
years in the service of the people of
Baltimore, and by his skill, industry
and fitness for the Office of City
Commissioner, gave universal salts
faction. But when the new mayor,
White, came into power, his hungry,
expectant henchmen had to be pro
vided for, and so one of the most
valuable officers that ever served the
city of Baltimore had to yield his
position to the demands of clamorous
partizanship,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE great case of certain share
holders in the Keely Motor Company
to compel the inventor to disclose
his secret is on trial in Philadelphia.
The argument of Keeley's counsel is
decidedly unique. He claims sub
stantiaIly that these complaining
parties put their money in for the
furtberance of a secret; that the
more money they have put in the
more profound the secret has be-
come, which cannot be regarded as
transportation, but rather as
carrying out the original design.
That if the secret should be disclosed
it would cease to be a secret and
that be utterly destroyed, therefore,
in which the money of the COM
plainants was invested. There is
no power at law or in equity to
destroy that which men make prop
erty of by paying their money for,
and which is not per Sc immoral or a
a nuisance. That a secret is not
immoral or nuisance, and hence
there is no just power to destroy it
by legal or by equitable means. Much
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE SPIRIT Of Jefferson, paper
which has the reputation of being
an organ of d. B. Lucas announces
authoritatively that j. B. Hoge will
not be a candidate for re. election to
the House of. Representatives. Upon
what is this announcement founded?
1t is very ordinary wish for a man,
once nominated and elected, to ask
of his constituents renewal of the
trust for an additional term as an
evidence of their approval of his
course. Why then is it that Mr..
Hoge is now off the track, and that
the first declaration of his purpose
comes from an organ of Mr.. Lucas ?
Is this connected with pledges and
arrangements made at the last Fair.
mont convention. The people have
a right to be informed on this sub
ject. We have heard some very
singular tales of what took place at
Fairmont which it might much
profit the people if they were fully
ventilated. High public trusts in
this country should be awarded by
the voice of the people, not made the
subject OF bargain and arrangement
among otfice-seekers.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE dispatches from Ireland in
dictate that the blood of the people is
up; that the vigilance of the constab
ulary and soldiery is increasing; that
Fenianism is rampant; that collisions
have already taken place between
the troops and mobs; that money is
still flowing from America into the
treasury of the Land League in Paris
at the rate of about one hundred
thousand dollars per month. 1t re
quires no prophet nor son of a
prophet to see the tendency of all
this.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
Electric Light.

Eds. Independent:
If our streets are TO be lighted; if
the Corporation is able to light up at
all, why not investigate cost, &c, of
the electric light which is now COM
ing into general use, and is claimed
to be the cheapest and most econom
zeal light that can be used. | merely
throw this out as hint, and hope
the matter will be looked up.
PROGRESS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
The Exhibit.
Eds. Independent:

IltDo' IftUtJbIJIBItJ.
Some persons are asking for infor-
nation in regard TO the city's
finances, and make the statement
that the Council have never pub
lshed an exhibit Of receipts and
expenditures Such is not the fact.
4 financial exhibit has been pub
lished every year, and if these par
ties really desired information, and
wished TO state the trut h, they had
only to look in the files of the INDIE
PENDENT or Statesman of June last
and they would have found it. But
they don't seem to want facts.
TAX PAYER.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
A Sweeping Temperance
Petition.

Senator GroDmp na~ introduced
\ petition in the Uni'ed States
Snue for The Christian Temper
auce A-sccla ION ui Btitjmore a~A-
ing for an aIn.u'inu'nl % tne C"u-
Siituti0i OF Uuu,u States 20 i'u-
niDii the mauutariure ana SAFE II
all alcot Ollie bpver grs ruuSl'uut
the national domain.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01


THE tariff commission bill has
passed the Senate. The bill provides
for a commission Of nine members,
to be appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, who are to
receive as compensation for their
services ten dollars per day when
actually employed, and all necessary
expenses. They are to investigate
all the various questions relating to
the agricultural, commercial, mer-
camille, manufacturing, mining ard
industrial interests of the United
States, SO far as the same may be
necessary to the establishment of a
judicious tariff, or the revision of
the existing tariff, and the existing
system of internal revenue laws,
upon a scale OF justice to all inter-
ests, and is to report to Congress
from time to time, and make a final
report not later than the first Mon
day in January, 1888.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

A man named Frank Williams,
and claiming to hail from West
Virginia was recently hung by a
mob at Denver, Colorado. He
was noted desperate, Of the
Young brothers gang.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE impression prevails in Wash
ington that the President will veto
the anti~Chinese bill on account Of
the twenty years clause, but that
he will approve a measure of less
prohibition character.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

Golden Medical Discovery
words registered as a trademark
cures all humors from the pimple or
eruption to great viruent eating Ill
GERS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

THE Gar and the German embassy
have drank to the health Of Emperor
William and to the peace of Europe.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

My wife said was a fool when |
brought home a bottle Of Parker's
Ginger Tonic. But when it broke
up my cough, drove away her neural
gia and cured baby's dysentary, she
thought / had made an excellent in
YeStment.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01

with rooms and kitchen, Smoke. house,
Curn-crib, Glantry Hog-pen Cattle and
Tool Sheds aud Barn Also a well OF
excellent water and ii large clstern in the
yard, and three uever-tailng springs near
he house, one of which is strongly i'm
preau tted with sulphur, and one Chalybe-
ute, and fl US from an undeveloped bed
of iron ore.
Any person desiring to purchase will
call on either OF the undersigned, or upon
Jonathon Miller, who resides on the prem
Uses
TERMS -One-thrd cash on day of sale,
the balance in enc and two years, with
interest from date; deferred payments to
be secured by Deed of Trust on the
premises
j BAKER KEARFOTT,
JOHN p. KEARFOTT, JR,
Executors John P. Kearfott, decd.
marll-tds.
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NEW AD VERTISE MENTS.
? E-RU- A

Is q new remedy, originally compounded
and introduced to the medical profess ion,
and then to the public at large, by S. B.
hartman NJ D. He has prescribed it TO
over 40 900 patients with the most graft
flying results.
Its effect upon the system is entirely
unlike that of any other remedy, and is
the only medicine needed in almost every
disease to which flesh is heir In Con
stipation, Diseases of the Livsr and KID
neys, MANALIN should be given with it !
PERUNA is composed of purely vege-
table ingredients, each one, accol ding to
medical authors, a great remedy in itself.
Dr.. Hartman has succeeded in extracting
and combining the active principles OF
these ingredients into one simple com
pound, which perfectly comedies with tue
Wis Medicatrix Natura in every disease,
and a cure necessarily follows There is
not an organ it will not reach nor a
disease it will not cure.
Ask your drug gist for DR.. Hartman's
pamphlet on the ellis of Life" DR.. ). B
Hartman & Co, Osborn, 0 proprietoIs.
For Pileo and Pelvic Diseases, take
MAN A-LIN.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
Single Bottle 81 90; Six Bottles, SIS 90
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less should such suicidal policy be
pursued to crafty only part of
those who have Invested in the ven
ture. As may naturally be inferred,
tho argument is still in progress, but
it appears evident that the Keely
Motor Company has an elephant on
its hands, that no one seems able
to find a piece big enough to shoot
at, much less to be able to "kill my
half Of the elephant, +" as is accredited
to Barnum once in settling with an
obstinate partner. Buying a secret
is peculiar business transaction
anyway.
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ABOUT 200 ACRES,

about Twenu Acres Of whi>h is Opequun
,,r,ek Hotrom and MEAHUW LAND
with suffici MT quantity Of TIMREk
LAND. Running water in MI the H. Ids
aud IN, fencing in good condition, The
greater part Of which is plank fence The
CONSIST OF a comm odious
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-01
OF SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1882,
2-Story Dwelling House
and other improvements.

I'd. A LOT a short distance northward
of the above, bounded AS follows: begin
ming in the eastern side of said Queen
street at the corner of lot sold by said
Bentz to Charles Pia er; thence with said
Planer's line eastward 1903 feet; thence
northward parallel to said Queen street
81 feet to John Linthicum's line; thence
with same eastward 1903 feet to an allev;
thence southwark with SAID alley 100 feet:
thence westward, parallel to said Linthi-
GUMS line 2l6 feet to Queen street thence
nOr'hward with the eastern side of said
street 48 feet to the beginning, on which
there is STORY
Double Frame Dwelling House,
f onting on Queen street, and TWO
SMALL HOUSES from Ing on said alley,
besides other improvements.
The said lats will be sold either separ-
a'el} or together, according as purchasers
may desire.
TERM OF SALE.-One- third cash,
and the residue in two equal inStallments
IN Que and two years respectively, with
interest tr m the day of sale; the purchaser
giving his notes or bonds for the deferred
payments and a lien on the property to
secure the same
e BOYD FAULKNER,
W II. H. FLICK,
nar25 at. Special Commissioners
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-07
A GREAT BLESSING TO MOTHERS
AND NURSES


"Sedyne's Teething Cure" for hfdnts.
This new theory and infallble remedy has
saved the lives OF thousands OF children.
When the child is in pain, or restless with.
its teeth shooting in its gums, simply rub
the gums for two or three minutes with
the "Cure." What little it may swallow
will relieve Collie, pain and fiatulence, pre-.
vent fever. and avoid that painful opera
ton OF lancing the gums, which always
makes the next tooth harder TO come
through and sometimes causes death.
Depend upon it, mothers, it will give rest
to yourselves and immediate relief and
health to your infants. very able med.
lcal writer, who enjoys large and lucra-
tive practice, says: rubbing the gums
with soothing lotion, Is the only true
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drugs should never be introduced into
their delicate stomachs. "!S,cdyne's Teeth.
ing Cure" is prepared only by DIR. Swayne
& Son, Philadelphia. and sold by all lead.
ing Apothecaries at % cents bottle.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-07
ECZEMA.

III. A, RAYMOND. Auditor T. W., J. & s. Il Il.
Jackson, Mich, was cured of seald Head OF nine
years duration by the Culieura Remedies.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-07

THAT HACKING CoUGH can be so quickly
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For Lame Back, Side or Chest use Shi-
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A PLEASANT LETTER.
II Rings OF a grateful Heart AMI gives
Honor where Honor u Due.


Mr. William W Chadwic of Hstchville, Conn.,,
writes under date OF June iiih. lsso, TO DR.. Ken
nedy, TO say that the use of"ke,neiy 3 ravorite
Remedy, has cured him of6ai stans, frsu " hieh
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-07

fMPoRTAST.-When you visit or leave
New Yo'k City, save Baggage Expressage
and Carriage Hire, and stop at Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central
Depot. $50 rooms, fitted up at cost OF
one million dollars, reduced 10 81 and up
wards per day. European plan. Eleva-
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Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to all depots. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than
at any other frst-class hotel in the
city.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-03-07

on THIRTY DAYS TEIAL.-We will send
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Paralysis, Liver and Kidney Difficulties,
Ruptures, and many other Diseases. Illus
trsted pamphlet sent free. Address Voltaic
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ADAM SONS
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Has a tongue, but talks not-a wagon.

ar is WONDERFUL" wrote a clergyman
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