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Trsde was not heavy yesterday n any branch OF
business The activity exteciei during Enc5mp-
ment hes not been seen. Indeed, the rush has not
bseun and buyers VIII probably arrive with the
exeursicnisis. Dry goods are steady and without
rev features. There is Oaly fair trade IN grocer
les. Poultry has dropped. and butter Is steady IN
price and dreadfuily poor in quality.
GRAIN
Nheat-LOf ally tho markets are easier aud bids
lower, with disposition 20 sell. Receipts are
large. The very dry weather has fastened thresh-
ing out OF the stacks. farmers net being able %
plow, therefore the free arrivals may not be ex-
Tected % con IEue at The present rate Tor any
lergth Of time. The suiDgency in the money mar
ketwith Tree arrivals, causes a pressure TO sell.
Corn-Like wheat, is dull; sellers ouinumber
buyers. and offerings are very free OF al grades
Arrivals vsIy fair. Markets al other points are
easier.
aOats-Iceai markets are dlli and lower. Under
liberal receipts prices have shaded on. and buyers
are Independent.
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The arrangements of the tents are similar
to these oftue Encampment OF lass year. The
artillery companies bsve their tents IN front
Of the Exposition Building. tcgsther With
their guns, which ere ranged in q Ceui circle.
The First Regiment has been qEariered in
the main building. East o. the building the
tents are arranged about ike they were last
wear
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sEcTIoN A. IYDIiNAPoLIs.

Lieuteuaut C1rnmcndiD c-E Finest kit.
sergeant Con llaDd3ng--O. W. Pie-cs.
GulIer-C j.. sis.Cf
Gals cu CCgl o-al--W. Q. B1eN.
CannoLi6r 10. Fred Dieirichs.
CeElCuior 70. 2-P. r WailEee.
Ccut Cu.er 10. Sd. i. Pierce.
VanHolier SO. w. s Hsrriron.
Cauncnfcr 70 SC. ". Van ksu-en.
Ceu1Cricr 80 G-E II. Miller.
CsDnOnief NO &c. s. DickerSon.
Color BesreF-C. Z. Douglass.
Upon the close Of The artillery drills came
the
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
Charity Band Of Hope.

SINKS GROVE, MONROE Co, w, Va.
Officers and members of State
Temperance Convention; rs Secre-
tary of Charity Band of h ope, | &C
dress you a short message.
Ours is an organization which
prohibits its members from using
whisky, tobacco and profane Ian
guage.
At our last meeting we elected
delegates, who perhaps cannot
leave their farms at this season to
attend the Convention.
Members expressed desire that
a letter should be written inform
ing our friends that we are en-
gagged in mperance work, and that
we are in sympathy with you in
the work of saving our people from
the soul and body destroying eff
fects of intemperance.
Our Band also expressed desire
that State Convention be held in
this section of our State. Cannot
our next meeting be held at some
town on thee. 60 Railroad? IL
would give temperance work new
impetus in this part of the State.
We think that one of the most
effective ways of promoting temper
ance is the distribution of healthy
literature, especially among the
young.
What arrangements can be made
for sending temperance lecturer
to our part of the State?
Yours for the Band of Hope,
JOHN w. CLAYPooL.
June IA, 1888.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
Ohio w. C. Il. u.

BELLEFoNTE, O., June 20, 1888.
To Hon. Dave d. Johnson, State
Temperance Convention, Cldrks-
burg, ". Va:
To the State Temperance Ali
ance of West Virginia, we, the
Womens' Christian Temperance
Union of Ohio, send greetings and
God speed. Read twentieth Psalm,
first five verses.
Mrs. Nj. B. REESE.
Mrs. JAMES JACOB.
Mrs. REV. WHITE.
ANSWER.
CLARKsBuRa, w. Va, June 20, 'S3.
Mrs. M. B. Reese.
To the Womens' Christian Tenn
perance Union of Ohio, the w. Va.
State Temperance Convention re-
turns greetings. Read Psalm
thirty-seventh, first seven verses.
j. S. PoMERoY, Pres.
VIM. A. POWELL, Sec.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
West Virginia Conference =. =.
Convention Of the M. +.
Church, South.

To the President and Members Of the
West Virginia State Temperance
Contention assembled at Clarksburg,
W. Va, June Goth, 1881
DEAR BRETHREN: The West Vir-
GINA Conference Sunday School
Convention of the M. e. Church,
South, which was held at Point
Pleasant on the 18th and l4th of
June, directed us to send you words
of greeting and hearty co operation
in your great work.
One evening of our Convention
was given to the cause of Temper
ance, and the relation of the Sun
day School to the Temperance
work was considered in the presence
of a large and attentive congrega-
ton. As far as possible, it is our
aim, to put all our Sunday Schools
into active cooperation with the
great Temperance movement now
sweeping over our State and
country.
We bid you God-speed in your
work, and pray for you, the Divine
Guidance in your deliberations.
JOHN MARTIN,
President of the w. Va. Conference
Sunday School Convention,
f. B. CARROLL, Cor. Sec.
Pr. PLEASANT, June l4th, 1888.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
Rev. s. j. Graham's Letter.

New HAVEN, Mason Co., w. VA.
To the Chairman and members of the
State Temperance Contention,
ClcrkSburg, W. Va:
| very much regret my inability
to be with you in your session. Du-
ties connected with my office have
kept me from home since early
spring, and | find it impossible for
me to be with you, and | greatly
fear that our county will not be
represented in the Convention.
But rest assured, the cause of
Prohibition has ardent advocates in
Mason county, who will come to
the front when called upon. Rum
must go down, and its aiders and
abettors must 60 with it. May
your session be glorious one in
deed.
Respectfully,
S. J GRAHAM.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
A $500 Verdict.

A saloon keeper in Masssachu-
sets was forbidden by the wife of
a drunkard to sell him liquor; the
saloon man laughed her to scorn,
and said he would sell him whis-
ky as long as he could pay for it.
But one day the drinker fell under
the. wheels of a locomotive, lost his
legs, was disabled for life, and then
the wife sued the saloon keeper,
and made him pay her $500 to
make good her husbands disable
ity.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
FRATERNAL GREETINGS.

During the sessions, commune
cations bearing fraternal greetings
were received by the Convention,
read and placed on file, as follows
Telegram message from the Con-
vention of the Ohio Woman
Christian Temperance Union, in
session at Bellefonte, O.
Conference Sunday School Con
vention, M. E. Church, South, PIT.
Pleasant.
Charity Band of Hope, Sinks
Grove, Monroe county.
J. N. Stearns, National Temper
ance Society.
Rev. S. J. Graham.
Mr.. Chas. T. Caldwell.
On motion, the Presiding officer
and Secretary Of the Convention
were directed to respond by tele-
graph to the Christian greetings
from the good women of Ohio.
The Reports being all in and dis
posed of, after the transaction OF
miscellaneous business of minor
i'm portance, the Convention ad-
iourned to meet at Parkersburg, at
the call of the State Executive
Committee.
Below will be found in full the
communications referred to above,
with the Conventions reply to the
w. C. T. U. telegram. See next col.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
Mr.. J. N. Stearns' Letter.
SIS READE ST., New York,
June 14th, 1888

June l4th, 1855.
ED. FREEMAN: Dear Sri have
to abandon my plan of attending
your State Convention as am very
busy. Sometime | shall hope to
look in upon one of your meetings,
l hope you viii sound the Battle
Cry SO loud that our Congressman
will not interfere again to save the
whisky and liquor interests. l
suppose you saw the report of Lewis
Schade, how he went to your mem
bers of Congress and how they
stopped the prohibition amendment
from being submitted. 1 hope
your Convention will make note
of it. Yours &C.,
~
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
Hon. C. Il. Caldwell'S Letter.
Some Practical Suggestions.
oPoOUIHIID
S. J GRAHAM.

PARKERsBURG, w. VA,
June Goth, 1888.
To the President Of the Prohibition
Convention at Clarksburg.
DEAR SIR: Inasmuch as / am
expected, by part at least, of the
delegation from this county, to be
present during the present Con-
vention of the Temperance people
of our State and finding it utterly
impossible to attend on account of
pressing business engagements in
our United States and State Courts,
Zone of which is now in session and
the other one will convene to-mor-
row morning., write to express
my regrets at not being able to be
with you. and to re-attest my firm
and mistaken belief in the prin-
ciples of legal prohibition, which l
feel assured will, eventually, be
adopted, not only in West Virginia,
but in all the other States of this
Union, Notwithstanding the ap-
parent temporary success of the OPP
position.
One of the greatest difficulties we
have to contend with arises from
the fact that the National Govern
ment grants permits TO persons to
engage in vending intoxicating
liquors in districts in which the
States do not issue licenses, and in
this way many persons carry on
the business in defiance of our
present State laws. The punish
ment attached to the violation of
these laws is so small that it does
not deter those who are disposed TO
engage in the traffic. Hence, the
opposition points to such cases and
say that they are samples of prohi-
bition. A foul SANDER!
The Temperance people should
petition Congress for redress os
this great and growing grievance.
Such a request is certainly fair,
reasonable, just and righteous. The
Government should not permit
liquors to be sold where the States
prohibit the traffic.
We need a thorough organization
of the Prohibition people of the
State. In the face of the organized,
stubborn, determined and equipped
opposition we have to meet we can
not accomplish much lasting sue
cess without organizing just as
thoroughly as are the forces against
US. 1t is true that the steps we
have thus far taken are only in
itiatory ones, arranging to march
on to great and grand triumph in
the near future, but we should
organize as we begin preparations
for the contest, This Convention
should adopt measures looking to
that end.
: Begging your pardon for making
these suggestions, | viii close by
saying that, however much regret
my inability to attend the Conven-
ton am satisfied that among the
many distinguished representatives
of our cause, my presence would not
lend to your deliberations any adj
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04

CAPITAL Book SToRE.-For fine
Job Printing, Books, Stationery,
Pictures, Frames, Wall Paper,
Notions, &c, &C., go direct to the
Capital Book Store, s. s. Moore's,
Charleston, w. Va.
P. s.-When you go, it will pay you to
mention this item.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04

iiOO VI u0oej anu VIII SuCn earnest
dispensers of good, and gatherers of
revenue" for truth only, as Revs.
G. c. Wilding and Geo. E. Hite. to
manage the collection, the debt
was soon paid with a surplus of
ten dollars in the treasury.
HON. FoNTAINE SMITH, PRESIDENT
The evening train having ar
rived, and word being received of
the unavoidable detention at Par
kersburg of the President elect,
Judge Ferguson, on motion of Hon.
6 w. Atkinson, Hon. Fontaine
Smith was chosen President of the
vention, and assumed the du-
ties amid universal applause from
the Convention and large audience.
The inaugural remarks of Sen
ator Smith were brief, but vigor-
ously to the point, predicting dis
aster and defeat to the party that
presumed longer to ignore the
prayers and defy the will of the
people in the matter of the sub
mission of the amendment de-
manded.
The Convention adjourned to
s o'clock Thursday morning.
THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.
Convention assembled at a. M,
with Vice President, J. S. Pomeroy
in the chair.
After singing and prayer by Rev.
Geo. E. Hite, the Committee on
Permanent Organization submitted
the following supplemental report ::
We your Committee on Perma-
nent Organization beg to report ad-
ditionally as follows:
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
First Congressional District--Rev
G E Hite, of Ohio county, Selmon
Wells Of Tyler, Rev J S Pomeroy,
of Marshall.
Second Congressional District
Prof A L Wade, of Monongalia, DR.
7 H Buck, of Jefferson, T R Car
skaddon, of Mineral.
Third Congressional District
Hon J H Ferguson, of Kanawha,
J w McCreary, of Raleigh, John
w Claypool, of Monroe.
Fourth Congressional District
Dave D Johnson, Of Wood, Hon d
McGregor, of Richie, DR. q Warner,
of Wood.
AT LARGE-Dr F B Carroll, of
Wood, VIM Hastings, of Ohio, J l.
Champs, of Wood, Geo G Wilding,
of Wood, Rev L E Peters, of Harri-
son, Hon G w Atkinson, of Ohio,
Rev D NJ Sleeth, of Richie, Col r
L Harvey, of Cabell, DR. J l. Hens
ley, of Mason, Judge Allen Berry,
of Braxton.
Respectfully submitted,
D. MCGREGoR,
Chairman.
On motion the Report was
amended so as to provide that five
members OF the Committee should
constitute a quorum for business,
and as amended was adopted with
out dissent.
THE NEXT CONVENTION.
The matter as to time and
place Of next meeting was consld-
cred and a free expression from the
delegates had thereon.
The time of the present meeting,
about the middle of June, seemed
to meet with general approval.
Charleston, Huntington, Mar
tinsburg and Parkersburg were
named in connection with the
next meeting.
After general discussion it was
unanimously agreed that the next
Convention be held at Parkersburg,
the time to be fixed by the State
Executive Committee.
REPORT ON STATE AND COUNTY OR
GANIZATIoN.
The Committee submitted the
following:
Your Committee on State Organ
ization beg leave to report:
We note with pleasure con-
tinuous, steady growth of public
sentiment in favor of prohibition
throughout the State. ,
There is urgent necessity OF
bringing the friends OF the cause
nearer together, and having them
stand shoulder to shoulder in the
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04
far from complete.

Aeti ilOiu SOll plCiC.
Our State Executive Committee
has become recognized as perma-
nent institution throughout the
State, and could we but secure in
every county a wide-awake Com
mittee to work in harmony with
the State Committee, the day of
legal prohibition would speedily
be brought about.
We recommend that an efficient
State Executive Committee be con-
tinued, and that they be charged
with the duty of pressing on ur-
gently in the work of securing eff
cient committees in every county.
We urge that every possible en-
couragement be given to the form
alton of local clubs or organiza-
tions, fundamental plank of
whose platform shall be to secure
the submission of the Prohibition
Amendment to vote of the people,
and that these local organizations
report promptly, and cooperate
with the State Committee.
We further recommend that the
necessary funds be secured and that
the committee put into the field as
early as possible one or more live
agents to canvass the State, and es-
pecially those counties where there
has been the least agitation, and
organize clubs or Societies, secure
the appointment of local commit
tees, and work up public sentiment
in this cause.
The plans for local organizations
and cooperation adopted by former
Conventions we would adhere to as
general outline for the work.
Respectfully submitted,
d. S. HAMMOND,
Chairman.
The Report was adopted, and the
matter of employing agents refer
red to the State Committee, with
instructions to act.
REV. R. GRoGAN's REPORT.
Rev. Richard Grogan, who had
been laboring under the aupices of
the State Committee, submitted the
following report, which was filed,
and the matter referred to the Com
mittee:
CLARKsBURG, June 20, 1888.
Entered service of State Commit
tee April Is, 1888. During this
time, two months and five days
delivered
Prohibition Societies organized. ....8
MONEY COLLECTED.
By subscription. ................$340O
By collection..................... 1900
Donation of jury at New Mar,
tinsville......................... 4.25
For preaching.".....,.........- 800
By exhibitioEs.............. ..... $40
Total receipts. .............Sl4o.4 40
EXPENSES.
Expenses incurred. 10
Above expenses. 10 30
Subscribers for West Virgin
! la Freeman. ..Sl9.OO
RICHARD GRoGAN,
State Lecturer.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-07-04

ditional weight, and I know my
absence will not detract from the
cause any of its merited success or
the occasion any of its interesting
features. Very truly yours,
CHAs, 7. CALDWELL.
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fore hand could be raised to save me,
the ruffian had lifted me as though |
had been child. carried me along the
hall and soused me in the big aquarium.
/ heard shrieks of laughter as l was
drag yed out. Rubbing the water from
my eyes looked about me. Less than
ten feet away stood that perfidious girl,
stuffing her handkerchief in her mouth
and shaking with merriment. That
sight disguised me with women, and
since then l have been more confirmed
bachelor than ever"
The little man savagely crunched n
cardamon seed as he concluded, AS he
seemed at once to fall into meditasion.
the reporter softly left him.
Say" said bystander, as the news
paper man laid his hand upon the door
knob, ''it's only right that you should
know that the little fellow is off some
times. One of his decisions is that he
sincerely believes in the truth of the
story he has just told"
els it, then, apochryphal?"
The bystander shrugged his shoulders
and smiled.-N Y. Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-13
What BERTHE Is Going TO Be.

Mamma was having her afternoon
chat with the little ones, and each one
was telling what they were going to be
when they grew up. Charley said he
was go ng to be farmer, and have fine
horses and cattle, and pillow that he
could ride" John would be a lawyer.
He "ddn want the sweat to be run
ming down his back. and the dirt to be
gett ng into his boots;" he would have
mice rooms, and sit in the shade"
"Well, MayP'' said mamma, as the
sweet blue eyes sought hers. 81 will
be teacher, mamma, and l won't
never, never pul! little girls ears, and
I'll help them to get the multip LEGATION
table, and let them make pictures on
their States" ''And what will BERTHE
be?'' said mamma. Now. BERTHE was tbs
fotr-year old boy. and that very morn
ing he had walked down town with
papa, and stood awhile in front of the
blacksmith shop. He had seen the
flaming forge, and the big be lows. and
the red-hot iron beat into many
shapes. So. walk ng up to his mother.
and looking rather down on the
farmer, the LAWYER and the school
teacher. he said: "rse agoing to be q
blacksmif shop"
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that afternoon, directed in large letters
| to Med Merrill, Tiptonvi lie, Mass"
he was astonished and delighted.
alt must be from your UncIe
JOSHUA" his mother said; sit is your
birthday tomorrow, and he has remem-
bered it."
"Pll get the Ratchet and open the
box" said Ned, rushing into the wood
shed. 81, l-,s.f ,i.-.f . T..
AS usual, Ned had to look around for
some minutes to find the Ratchet, be-
cause he threw his tools down wherever
he used them. and never remembered
where he had them last After hunt
ing around for some time, the Ratchet
was found. and Ned pried open the
box. 9r y -.
Imagine his astonishment and disap-
pointment to find boot-jack inside,
with card attached bearing these
words: TO Ned Merrill, from a friend
who thinks mothers are made of too
good materials to be converted into
boot Jacks"
Ned was so vexed that he cried; but
it taught him good lesson. Instead
of ne llecting his work until the close
of the dav, he did it up at the proper
time; and instead of making his moth
er wait upon him. he waited upon his
mother.
1t was some weeks before the mattey
of the express box was alluded to b.
either mother or son; but one evening,
when they were sitting alone together
with the wood box piled full Of wood,
and the kindling lying by the stove, his
mother said: ''Aed, do you know that l
am very happy, nowadays? / don't
have to keep asking you if you have
done your work, and worrying all the
time for fear you have forgotten some
thing"
THAT boot-jack business cured me-"
said Ned
He that ruleth his spirit is better
than he that taketh city."-SWS0n Z.
Perry, in Evangelist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-13
French Criminals.

A man wishing to steal fowls chambers
over a garden wall at night and breaks
into fowl-house. He has a bludgeon or
crow-bar in his hands, but makes no use
of it to intlict bodily hurt on those who
capture him. Nevertheless, this man is
felon who has committed a burglary
with the qudtre circumstances agra
mites, i. c. in the night, with escaLrde,
Climbing over walls), with extraction.
(breaking open door, and 'nais
drnaee, with weapon in his ha d.
He can only be tried at the assizes. and
if convicted on the four counts, must get
eight years rectusion, or twenty years
transportation. On the other hand, take
a man who by false pretences obtains
admission to a house or shop, intending
to commit robbery there. He lays
hands on some valuabes, and, being
surprised in the act, catches up q poker
and knocks his detector down, inflicting
serious wound. This mans crime is
evidently worse than that of the other
who went after the fowls his is only a
misdemeanor, however. for he gained
admmtrance to the house without vio-
lence, and was unarmed; his catching up
the poker, although it may have been a
premeditated act, inasmuch as he in
tended from the first to defend himself
somehow if'caught, was, equally speak
ing, only an act OF impulse committed
on the spur of the moment and without
malice prepense. Therefore, this man
can only be tried by a Correctional
Court, and cannot get more than five
years imprisonment. Again, if a man,
wishing to inllict on an enemy some
grievous bodily harm, walks into cafe,
says few angry words to him, and dis
figures him by smashing decanter upon
his face, it is amisdemeanor, extenuated
by the apparent absence of premedita-
ton. The man walked into the cafe UNI
armed, and in the heat of quarrel picked
up the first weapon that came to his
hand. 1t might fairly be alleged that
the man knew he should find decanter
in the cafe, and that his quarrel was pur
posely entered into, but the law will not
take account of this. IT. on the con-
trary, the man entered his enemy's house
with loaded stick in his hand and as
saulted his enemy with that stick he
would be felon who must 90 to the
assizes on charge OF attempted murder.
1t might be that the man had taken the
stick without rejecting that it had a
leaden knot, but the onus of proving that
his intentions were not murderous, and
that in fact when he entered the room he
did not even propose to commit COM
mon assault, would rest upon himself.
A jury would probably Judge his case
according to his antecedents, and if it
were shown that his past life was not
blameless he might fail to get extenuatine
circumstances, and might receive twenty
years transportation. Corahiu Muqa.
zine.