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A Marriage Conspiracy

TIL cd re f A p ely, II wealthy
resident of Asbury Pa k. n j., and
owner of the Hotel Bristol, died last
week of softening OF the brain,
brought on by mental trouble and
alcoholism. On his death-bed he
stated that while on a spree at Mrs,
Spencer's hotel at Old Bridge, two
or three weeks ago, he WAS held up
and went through a marriage cere-
mony with Ms Spencer. The cere-
mony WAS performed by IA justice of
the peace in spite of his answering
"uo" to the questions put to him.
Mr.. AppIeby raved about the mar
riage for several DAYS before his
death. His relatives, including three
children, have determined to investi
gate The matter. believing it to be a
conspiracy to obtain possession of II
large portion OF the estate left by the
deceased
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Dr.. Erazier's Root B!tteys,

ENRAZtER'S ROOT RITTERS are not a
IL dram shop whiskey beve age, but are
str city Medicinal in every sense They
act strongly upon the liver and kidnet g.
keep the bowels open and regular, make
the weak stroug, heal the lungs build up
the nerves a. cleanse the blood and sys-
TEN Of every impurity
For Dizziness, Rush OF Blood to the
Head, tending to Appoplexy, Dyspepsia,
Fever and Ague, Dropsy, Pimples and
Bl tches, Scrofulous Humors and Sores,
letter, Ring Worm, White Swelling,
Erysipelas. Sore Eyes, and for young
men suffering from Weakness or Debility
caused from imprudence, and to females
in delicate health, Frazier's Root Bitters
are especially recommended
Or. Frazier: | have used two bottles of
your Root Bitters TOR Dyspepsia, Dzzi-
ness, Weakness, and Kidney b sease, aud
they did me more good than the doctors
and all th> medicine | ever use From
The first dose took b gan TO mend, az d
am now 10 perieet health, and feel ell as
as ev did consider your medicine
one of the creates OF blessings.
MRS. NJ MARTIN, Cleveland, o.
For sale by E. q WILLIAMS JR., 4
BRO Nartinsburg (declO-ly
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When babies are tretful they dis
turb every body, and mothers should
know how soothing Parker's Ginger
Tonic is. 1t takes away half their
anxiety, stops babies pains, and is
always safe and pleasant to Use
Home Journal.
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Saginaw Daily News

Mr.. Geor9e Schick inform our
reporter, that he had been suffering
with rheumatism in his feet SO bad.
ly, that for weeks at time he would
be- unable to leave his bed. He tri
ed various remedies without relief
and concluded to use st. Jacobs Oil.
1t acted like magic. In two days ,he
was entirely cured.
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NEARLY A MIKACLE.-E. Assem-
it'll Hall, Binghamton. N. Y says:
81 suffered for several months with
dull pain through left lung and
shoulders. | lost my spirits, appp-
tite and color, and could with Diff
Guilty keep up all day. My mother
procured some Burdock Blood Bit
tiers; | took them as directed, and
have felt no pain since first week af.
ter using them. and am now quite
we'll" Price 81 90. For sale by E.
q. Williams, Il Bro, druggists.
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When you are offered a country
residence for the summer, "Only IA
halt hours ride by express time" it
may be Just as well to inquire if the
express stops at that station. Some
agents never think about that
PHILADELPHIA NelrS.
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"BuclBssDailla. .

New, quick con plete, cure 4 days
urinary affections. smarting, fire.
quent or difficult irritation, kid
ney diseases ST. al druggists. w.
Va. Depot, LAUGHLIN BRO 5
& co Wheeling. w Va.
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A Rhode Island man was fright
ened into Case of small ox when
he hadn't even been exposed. In
that State imagination will make a
bank cashier think he owns all the
funds in the bank.
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SKIN DISEASE.

F. Drake, Esq. Cleaveland, ohio, snf-
fered beyond all description from a skin
disease which appeared on his hands
head and face, and nearly destroyed his
eyes The most careful doctoring failed
to help him and after all had failed ne
used DR. Frazier's Magic Ointment and
was cured by Il few applications.
Eas- he first and only poeitive cure for
skin di leases ever discovered
For sale by f. G. WILLIAMS, JR , b
BRO, Martinsburg.
For Blind, Bleeding, Itching or Ulcerat.
ed Piles, DR.. WILLIAMS INDIAN PILE
OINTMENT is sure cure. decl0-lg
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Skin Diseases Cured

DY DR.. FRARIER'S MAGIC ONT
ID MEET. Cures AS if by Magic, PIN
pies, Black Heads or Grubs, Blotches and
rruplions on the lace, leaving the skin
clear, heaIt y and beautiful. Also cures
Itch Barbers Itch, Salt Rbeum letter
Rngworm Scald Head, Chapped Hand .,
Sore Nipples, Sore Lips, o d, obstinate
Ulcers and Sores. &c.
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| have received case of Malaga
Hats, for Men and Boys-call and see
them, at II. N. DEATRICK'S.
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GEO. mckinney,
AUCTIONEER7
ShepherdstOWn. West Va.

GALES ATTENDED in all parts OF
y Berkeley and Jefferson counties.
Parties intending TO sell would do we'll
to call on or address me before getting up
their sale bills. novl9.ly.
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New Coal and Wood Yard

o
TNHE PUBLIC are informed that have
l. just opened a Coal and Wood Yard
on the corner OF Race and German streets,
and will supply
HARD AND SOFT GOAL,
Split Wood, &C., at the very lowest rates.
Full we ghts guaranteed. Coal and wood
delivered to any part OF the town Orders
left at
THE YARD,
corner of Race and German, will be
promptly attended to. solicit share
OF public patronage, und guars ntee salts.
faction to all customers.
novl8.3m CHARLES SHARFF.
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The ice-cream crop is poor, but
respectable.
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VIM. II. DooLITTLE b. II WARNER,
RoBT. MCMEEN.
Late Assistant COm'r of Patents.
III. III. WARNER a. CO..

AttOrneys AT Law,
WARNER BUILDING, WASHINGTON, d. c.,
Attention given to Patent and Mining
cases, Lands, Pensions, Bounties and Gov
eminent claims. Attention prompt,
charges moderate. Address with stamp
Refer TO Members of Congress and Heads
of Government Departments. (dec3-sl
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j. F. BOYD, Superintendent
CHAS. FELDMAN, Agent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-13
two days his diarrbea was zone in

two days his diarrh9a was gone; in
three weeks he became a hale, hearty
man; and now nothing that may
hereafter occur will ever shake HE
faith in hot milk" A writer has also
communicated 10 the Medical Times
and Gazette statement of the value
of milk in twenty-six cases of
typhoid fever, III every one of which
its great value was apparent. 1t
checks diarrh9a, and nourishes and
cools the body. People suffering
from diseases need food quite as
much as those in health, and much
more so in certain diseases where.
there is a rapid waste of the system.
Frequently all ordinary food in GER
tain diseases is rejected by the
stomach, and even loatbed by the.
patient but nature. ever beneficent,
has furnished food that in all dis
eases is beneficial-some directly
curative. Such food is milk.
The writer in the journal last
quoted, DIR. Alexander Yale, after.
giving particular observations upon
the point above mentioned, its ac--
ton in checking diarrhea, its
nourishiug properties aud
its action in cooling the
body, says: owe believe that milk
nourishcs in fever, promotes sleep,
wards off delirium, soothes the ~
testines, and, in fine, is The SSos ann
non in typhoid fever We nave
lately tested the value of milk i'm
scarlet fever and learp that II is now
recommended by TIE medical iacuI-
ty in all cases Of this often very dis
tresalne chiidren's disease. Give all
the mix The patient will take, even
curing tae period of greatest fever.
~ Keeps up the strength OF the pa
uent, acts we'll upon the stomach,
and 10 in every way blessed thing
in this sickness"
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"COTTON FUTURES"
why the Young Man who Takes a
Flyer Does a Foolish Thing.
New York Letter.


"Do you see that handsome man
buying peaches at a dollar apiece %
said friend Of mine to whom ap-
piled some weeks ago for informa-
ton concerning the evils of gam
bling in wheat and cotton. We
stopped moment to admire some
wonderful dollhouse peaches, which
the person in question was buying
at dollar apiece. "There is q case
in point, continued my friend. ''That
man is so-called broker. Do you
know how he makes his living?
Well, he has done nothing for the
last five years but buy and sell GER
tain fictitious 100 bales of cotton.
He passes his life at il. He buys and
sells it half dozen times a day
sometimes, when the fluctuations
are heavy. He does not know one
grade of cotton from another; he
probably never saw a cotton field,
or the inside of a cotton mill; he sell
dom sees any cotton, even in bale !;
he does not know any more than the
man in the moon why cotton goes
up or down. Yet his interest in life,
his calculations, his very being, are
conferred in that one hundred bales
of cotton which exist only ON paper.
He is nothing but an inveterate
gambler engaged in fleeing
foolish people. In reality he Is
no better than the faro player
upon whom the police may pounce
but do not. The social difference,
however, is immense one is O highly
respected member Of society, who
cannot find words too severe for the
faro player, while the latter is an
outcast. Some day in the change
which comes to all men once or
twice, that man will be carried out
of his depth by some run of luck
and will be tempted to extend his
operations beyond that fictitious 100
bales. He may make q fortune in q
week, but his chances of keeping it
are as one against hundred. Once
a gambler, always gambler. He
knows no other pleasure. Since
he was an Office boy, he has known
and heard of nothing but points con-
corning the buying and selling of
that one hundred bales. He knows
nothing about books, art or music,
and OF the theater he knows only
the worst side. His intellectual
vision is limited to the antics of that
hundred bales of cotton. He is elat-
ed or depressed according to its be-
havior. When his fetch goes against
him and he makes nothing, he is
philosophical, rides home in the
horse cars and talks about the evils
of speculation and the effects of such
fortunes as Vanderbilt's. When his
hundred bales make forty or fifty
dollars tor him, he rides home in a
cab and buys peaches at one dollar
apIece,p
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Agricultural Progress.

A recently issued census bulletin
gives information gratifying to those
interested in the solid prosperity of
the country-that prosperity which
is dug out of the ground by the no.
BILE army of farmers. In 1870 there
were 100000 farms in the United
States in 1880, 4.OO0,OO0-or an in
crease of tifty-one per cent. Dur
ing the same period the population
has increased about thirty per cent !;
therefore, our increase in popula-
ton, great as 1t is, is exceeded by
our progress IN agriculture. The To-
cality of the latter is likewise sug-
gestive and encouraging. In Flor
ida the increase in the number of
farms from 1870 to 1880 was 129 per
cent; in Alabama, 102 per cent; in
Arkansas, 81; in Georgia, 90; in
Louisiana, 70 in North Carolina, SO;
in South Carolina, 81; in Vir-
ginia, 60, and i'll Texas, 1875
per cent. In the western and north
western states and territories the
figures run as follows: In Iowa, so
per cent; in Minnesota, 90; in Ne
braska, AS in Oregon, ia; in Cali
fornia, 81 in Montana, 70, and in
Dakota nearly 900 per cent. "West-
ward the star of empire takes its
way"-that empire whose founda-
tions are laid upon the pillow, the
shovel and the hoe, and whose allies
are the genial forces of ever-bounti-
full nature.
In 1885, one of the most practical
and far-sighted of political econo-
mists, Richard Golden, spent thirty
seven days in the United States. In
a pamphlet published the following
year he made this most remarkable
prophecy, which, in view of the re-
suits Ofthe last census, has special
interest
"Looking to the natural endow-
ments of the North American con-
tinent-as superior to Europe as the
latter is to Africa-with an almost
Unreasonable extent of river navi-
cation, its boundless expanse of the
most fertile soil in the world, and
its inexhaustible mines of coal, iron,
lead, etc. Looking at these and re-
membering the quality and position
of 6 people universally instructed
aud perfectly free, and possessing,
as a consequence of these, a new
born energy and vitality very far
surprising the character of any na-
ton of the old world. The writer
declares his conviction that 1t is
from the west, rather than from the
east, that danger to the supremacy
of Great Britain is to be APP
pretended that it is from the
silent and peaceful rivalry of Amer
lean commerce, the growth of
it's manufactures, its rapid progress
in internal improvements, the supe-
rior education of its people, and
their economical and pacific govern
ment-that it is from these, and not
from the barbarous policy or the
impoverishing ornaments of Russia,
that the grandeur of our CONNER
cial and national prosperity Is ell
dangered. And the writer stakes his
reputation upon the prediction that,
in less than twenty years, this will
be the sentiment of the people of
England generally; and that the
same conviction will be forced upon
the government of the country"
Cobden's twenty years was too
short; but his prophecy has been
practically verified in less than fifty,
and the verification will be more and
more emphatic every year.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The funded debt of the United
States is now only 81, 463,8iO,OOO.
There were redeemed in the last
fiscal year, ending June 20, $127,-
100000 bonds. At this rate it will
take only about eight years to pay
off the whole bonded debt.
The coal-oi interest IN this coun-
try is only about twenty years old,
and yet it is one of the most impor-
tant vocatiOns that are presented in
our statistical returns. There is not,
probably, any other interest that has
brought as large profit in proper
ton to the amount of expenditure.
The yield of oil wells, chiefly in
Pennsylvania, last year was 1885,
600 barrels, and the exports were
valued at $40,315,O00. The impor-
lance of these figures may be esti-
mated when it is remembered that
twenty years ago we exported no
coal oil at all. 1t is a new and clear
addition to the list of our products.
1t is said that the oil mills have adj
ded 81 ,500,000,000 to the stock of the
country's wealth.
The total production of petroleum
in Pennsylvania and elsewhere dur
ing the year 1859 was 1000 barrels,
and the average price per barrel
was 800. During 1881, according to
carefully compiled statistics, the
production was 26,95O,e13 barrels,
and the average price $50 cents per
barrel. The total consumption of
petroleum during the year 1859 was
SEQ barrels, it being used largely as
a liniment for man and beast. Dur
ing 1881 the consumption was b.
263, 740 barrels. From the discovery
of petroleum to the present time, its
lowest prices were obtained during
1861, when tie average price per
barrel was 40 cents. The total num-
Der of barrels of oil produced since
the early discoveries on Oil creek,
is 1876 500, 798 the total consumption,
155, 181, 437 barrels-a difference of
upwards of 100000 barrels. The
stock now held in iron tank
age in the oil regions is plac-
ed at about the latter figures.
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Considerable has been lately said
in medical journals concerning the
value of milk as a remedial agent in
certain diseases. An interesting
article on this subject lately appear
ed in the London Milk Journal, in
which it is stated, on the authority
of DIR. Benjamin Clark, that in the
East Indies warm milk is used to a
great extent as a specific for diar-
rh9a. A pint every four hours will
check the most violent diarrhea,
stomach-ache, incipient cholera, and
dysentery. The milk should never
be boiled, but only heated sufficient
ly to be ag-eeably warm, not too
hot to drink. Milk which has been
boiled is unfit for use. This writer
gives several instances in arresting
the disease, among which is the
following: The writer Says: "It
has never failed in curing in SIX TO
twelve hours, and have tried IL, L
should think, fifty times"
al have also given 1t to q dying
man who bad been subject 70 dys-
entery eight months latterly accom-
panied by one continual diarrh9a,
and it acted on him like q charm. IN
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POLITICAL NOTES.

Cornell of New York, the New
Haven Register asserts, is said to
have an eye on the presidency. So
indeed, has Daniel Pratt, with about
as much show of getting there.
John Sherman says he believes
there is no lobby in Washington.
Sherman ought to know, remarks
the Cincinnati Enquirer, for if there
is lobby there Sherman would be
introduced to it.
The great trouble with the present
administration and it's newspaper
organs, the Atlanta Constitution al
leges, is their attempt to hold Mr..
Blaine responsible for and to bring
into disrepute a policy which he
merely had the honor of formulat-
ing.
This is July, the Denver Tribune
observes, and Dorsey, an indicted
thief, is still secretary of the repub-
lican national committee. The con-
slant repetition of this fact sounds
funny to people who do not know
that it is disreputable to have a thief
in such u position.
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Profit, of Southern Manufactures.

AS compared with the cotton
manufacturers of New England, the
southern mills show wonderful
difference in earnings. Mr.. Russell,
Massachusetts, member of congress,
said, in recent speech in the house
of representatives: Il have from
official sources statement showing
that fifty of the leading corporations
in Lowell, Lawrence, Chicopee and
Salem, Massachusetts Manchester,
Nashua and Newmarket, New
Hampshire; Lewiston and other
points in Maine, representing CAPT.
tai OF $50,O00,000, engaged in manu-
featuring the various grades of cot
ton and wooden fabrics, have paid to
their stockholders in the past years
an average dividend of little less
than seven per cent per annun
only"
Here is an authoritative statement
that the manufacture of cotton
goods in New England is not one
half so profitable as in the south. On
this $50,000.000 invested in Northern
mills the profits for the past five
years have been less than ST., 500,-
600; while the same amount of cap
ital in southern mills, basing our
calculations upon what other mills
now pay, would have been from
$40,000,000 to $50,0OO,OOO, or possibly
more. Such a difference as this is
bound to tell. The southern mills
save from 50 to So bale in the mat
ter of freights alone, as compared
with what the northern mills pay.
They have lighter expenses for heat
ing, cheaper raw material, an abun-
dance of water power, cheap labor,
cheap living, and other adj
vantages which enable them to
pay more than double the profits that
northern mills can possibly earn,
and these things are already work
ing out mighty material develop
ment of the south. With natural
advantages for combining agricultu-
raj pursuits and manufactures, I'M
surpassed by any country, the south
ern states will, ere many years, have
passed rank as one of the richest
countries in the world. The march
of progress has already begun, and
in the next fifteen or twenty years
the result will be seen IN vast manu-
featuring industries, in mining for
gold, silver, iron and coal, in stock
raising, in cotton, in breadstuffs and
in tropical fruits, to an extent that is
scarcely dreamed of now.
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THE county convention, Satur-
day, pursued the line of policy adj
vised by the STATESMAN. The dele
gates chosen were instructed to
vote at Galveston for Hon. John
Ireland for governor, for Captain
VIM. Walsh for land commissioner
and for Major q. S. West for the
supreme bench. Besides this, the
same resolution that pledged the
support of the delegation to these
gentlemen, gave most hearty en-
dorsement to the administration of
Governor Roberts. This was all
very proper, and it was nothing
more than what was asked for
by the STATESMAN. AS to
the instruction for Judge Ireland, it
places the Democracy of Travis
county in harmony with the ex-
pressed will of Democrats in all
parts of the state, and as Judge
Burts said, at is preordained that
John Ireland shall be governor of
Texas" so it was polite as well as
wise that such declaration be made.
Of course Travis county is most
earnestly in favor of the nomination
of Commissioner Walsh. and the in.
struction for him was wise as well
as just-an act which will strength
en- the position of this gentleman be-
fore the people as against the mana
gers of rings that are trying to
rob the state of all its lauded
wealth. The endorsement of Major
West was a proper mark OF
respect to q gentleman and fellow
citizen, whose learning and ability
would make him light upon the
bench. The work of the convention
was a good days work, and it re-
fleets favorablyupon the intelligence
and appreciation of our Democracy.
Should John Ireland be made
governor, all may be assured
there will be no personalism in
his government; that 1t will
be administered in the interest OF
the masses, and that no amount
of personal fisttery or adulstion will
ever make him the tool of anybody
We all know how admirably Com
missioner Walsh has looked after the
public interest in the administration
of land office affairs, and it is be-
| lieved the Democracy at Galveston
| will say, Well done. good and faith
full servant; enter thou into the Joy
of thy people. If Democracy
throughout the state be prepared
likewise, to sustain such sdmirabis
men for all state positions, il may be
safely set down that the state ticket
will carry by seyenty-fve thousand
msjority,
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Walsh, commissioner of the land Of
fee, and instruct our delegates TO
support him for that office. We also
bestow high commentator on the
conduct in Office of W. NJ. Brown,
comptroller, and f. K. Lubbock,
treasurer.
6. We point with pride to the
records made by Judge Johu P.
White, Sam F. Wilson and j. w.
Stayton, on the appellate and su-
preme benches, and while not ex-
pressing preference for them over
all other candidates, believe that
they should be retained in their pres
ent positions.
z. We recognize in the Hon. j. f.
Miller qualities of mind and heart
that eminently fit him to represent
the eighth representative district in
the congress of the United States |;
and we therefore instruct our dele
gates to the congressional conven-
ton to work and vote for him might
and main.
8. That copy of the above and
foregoing resolutions be forwarded
at once to the San Antonio Express,
the Austin STATESMAN, Galveston
Netcs and the Western Texas ChrOn-
icle, with a request that they bepub-
lished.