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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
Educational.
Commencements and Institutes.

FAYETTE CoUNTY.-The Peabody
Institute will be held at Fayette-
Vile on the 9th of August. State
Superintendent B. L. Butcher and
Prof. J. HI. Smart, of Indiana, Will
conduct the exercises,
HUNTINGToN.-Our city schools
will close on Friday, June 22nd,
and the closing exercises will be
held at the Opera Hall. This en-
tertainment promises to be some
thing fine, and is looked forward to
by pupils and people with interest.
Republican.
MARSHALL CoLLEGE.-The com
mencement exercises of Marshall
College will be held at the Baptist
Church on next Friday evening at
eight o'clock. The State Superin-
tendent and full Board of Regents
will be present.-Huntimgton Neaos.
BROOKE CoUNTY.-Teachers' In
stitute this week, with Prof. T. c..
Miller, of Fairmont, as conductor.
BETHANY COLLEGE.-The Com
mencement exercises at Bathany
College this year will take place on
Thursday, June Dist. Glass day is
Wednesday, the Goth inst, and the
society performances will be given
on Thursday and Friday evenings,
Dist and 22d.-P II. Nems.
MARTINsBURG.- The Peabody In
stitute is in session at Martinsburg
this week, conducted by Prof. D.
Graf, who lectured Monday night.
On Tuesday night, DR.. Nuvilll,
State superintendent of Maryland,
delivered lecture.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
West Virginia University.

One of the handsomest invita-
ton cards we have everseen, came
to US from the graduating class of
the West Virginia University. The
class numbers eleven, viz: Messrs
G c Baker, W T Bland, L NJ Boy
ers, S B Brown, B Brown G B Fos-
ter, j L Johnston, Walter Hough, I
G Lazzell, j E Musgrave and Mr. S
P Wells, of our city.
Sorry, gentlemen, we can't be
present to enjoy your eloquence TO-
day.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
Queen YictOria's Illness.

On Monday the telegraph was
busy with rumors Of Queen Victor
las intended early abdlcation. 1t
is reported that because of her fail
ing health and wavering mind, her
long and prosperous reign will
soon end. But as Gladstone is real
ly the British Government, a
change in royal heads will cause
but little stir among the nations of
the earth.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

Thrice have the peoples prayers
been spurned; thrice have their
humble petitions been rudely
thurst aside and thrice have our
good women been grossly insulted =!
Come ye therefore, come from every
county and district come to Clarks-
burg next Wednesday, and let us
see what we shall do about it.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
Parkersburg Seminary.

Commencement exercises of Park
ersburg Seminary will be held Fri
day evening, June 18th, at the
Academy of Music. Doors open
promptly at 7:15, No more will be
admitted than the capacity of the
room will allow. All friends of ed
ucation cordially invited. Tickets
can be had at A. N. Williams, and
P. O. Drug Store.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
Temperance Headquarters,
Court House, Garksburg.

We are advised by the comman-
der of the Temperance Post at
Clarksburg, that the Court House
will be Prohibition Headquarters
during the sitting of the State Tenn
perance Convention, June 2O-21,
The sessions will be held in the
. Court House, and there all veterans
and volunteers are ordered to report
for duty.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

This week we hoist again on our
first page the names of the elm
mortal Eleven and Fourteen" We
want to re-introduce them to all
our friends once more and again,
before the Convention. 1t is posi-
BILE their names may be mentioned
there.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

Let no friends of the cause stay
away from the Convention for lack
of regular appointment as a dele
gate. If you are friend, come to
Clarksourg and counsel with your
friends.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
HO! For the Convention.

All Southern Methodist minis
ters and other representatives from
that church, to the State Temper
ance Convention at Clarksburg,
June 2O-21, will find homes by ap-
plying, at Clarksburg to
Rev. w. E. BoGGe.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

At the Temperance Union, which
was in session in this city last
week, resolutions were passed IN
favor of the adoption of the Prohi-
bition Amendment to the Constl-
tution.-Marietta Times.
And what else could it do if it be
a Temperance Union?"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
The Gov. Present.

His Excellency, Gov. Jackson, is
present at the University Com
mencement, Morgantown. Ar
rangements were made to fire the
salute Of seventeen guns and hold
a review of the corps in his honor.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

State Temperance Convention at
Clarksburg next Wednesday and
Thursday, June 2o-21. Plenty of
time yet to appoint delegates. See
that it is attended to at once.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

Judge Ferguson, of Charleston, is
in the city on legal business. We
are glad to know he will attend
the State Temperance Convention
at Clarksburg.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
TEMPERANCE
TIMETABLE.
PROHIBITION SCHEDULE.

On and after receipt of this issue
of the FREEMAN, all Temperance
People and parties concerned are
earnestly requested to strictly OBJ
serge the following:
state Temperance COnven-
ton. at ClarksbsIrg. june
2O-2I.
Wood County Temperance Con-
yention, Court House, Saturday
June Is.
Two Days Grand Rally.
Camp Ground Temper
aAce Mass Meetings.
On MOundsville Camp
Grounds. Jul 3-4.
Let all friends of the Cause see
that connections are made at all
points according to above schedule.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

Rousing Temperance Meeting at
Bethel last night, addressed by
Rev. J. w. Carter.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1888.

ALW4 YS.-In writjng as ABOUT subscTlp-
tons, Arrays gire p. o. at ooItich you Teceloe me
poDer This aUiU saUe as much trouble.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
IMMIGRATION.

London papers predict heavy
immigration to this country the
present year, and say that it will
be greater than has been seen
since the discovery of gold on this
continent. American papers are
joining in this prediction. The
Pittsburg Post draws it's conclu-
sions from the short potato crop
in Ireland, and the impending fail
ure of the wheat crop in England.
The outlook for the crops in Eng
land is very blue. Bad as the har-
vest for the last seven years has
been, the harvest of 1883, accord
ing to all reports, promises to be
worse than any of the preceding
ones. The land sown with wheat
down to the end of January, com
prises less than two-thirds the
usual acreage. Since then the
weather has been so wet that no
planting at all could be done, and
it is now too late for sowing, ex-
cept in those localities where the
spring wheat can be grown in the
British Isles. The seed sown now
lies rotting in the saturated
ground.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31

SIS per month, no matter what their
qualifications. Further than this.
some inquiry has failed to hear of
any instance of a female clerk being
advanced to a salary of 81 800.
There are few at 81 ,600-not above
a dozen in the whole service. The
limit for them seems b. general con-
sent to be $1,000. This is entirely
without reference to capacity.
There are instances Of linguists and
translators at $1,000 per year sitting
in the same rooms with men who do
vastly inferior work but who receive
for it a third more salary. Under
the new law merit alone is supposed
to win, and the argument of the la
dies that the best places are to be
opened to them seems to be unan-
swerabe.
The sudden death of Postmaster
General Howe recalls the fact that
while several Presidents have died
in office, comparatively few mem
bers of the cabinet have ever passed
away during their official term. Be-
fore the demise of Mr. Howe the
latest instance of death in the cahi.
net was in 1859, when Postmaster
General Brown died of malarial
chills during the Presidency of Mr..
Buchanan. Mr.. Howe was well adj.
vanced in years, and his recall from
private life, after long service in
the senate, was surprise to most
men. His health had been infirm
for years, and his physique was slight
and, under the pressure of age and
infirmity, was unequal to the tasks
imposed upon the head of one of the
busiest and most important depart
ments of the government. What
ever may be said of the deceased Of
fetal, as public man, it will always
be held true of him that he was hon
est, painstaking, and conscientious
in the discharge of the duties that
were intrusted to him as jurist,
legislator, and executive officer.
In the department over which
he lately presided he was highly re-
garded and loved by all the employ
es, his intercourse with them hay
ing been characterized by kindness
and consideration akin to fatherly
interest. Dom PEDRO.
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South OpequOn.

Between Vennor, Virgins and
the ground hog, we have all kinds
of weather.
G.. w. Shrode, of Green county,
Ohio, has purchased the Williams
farm near Three Runs, and NOV
ed Ola it last week.
Valentine Moore, ESQ, has
moved to the farm of VIM. M
Boltz, on the Smiihfield grade.
L. Dan Fry has moved to the
farm of Busey and McKoWn form
erly occupied by Capt Nathan
Osborn, who ha- moved to the
Kangley farm on the Charlestown
pike.
James Haycock, who has been
living upon the farm of j. e.
Boyo, Jr., has moved to the farm
of Col. Gibson, near Charlestown.
The school at Three Runs is fast
dra awning to a close. We hope that
it has been a profitable session,
both to teacher and pupil.
Last week Mr.. Will Riley, from
near your town, made his appear
ance in SmithfieId and created
quite a cOmmotion, capturing a
very fine dear right in the town.
We wish him and his, ali the hap
piness the world eau afford.
| am very much surprised 10
find friend &c" such fanatic on
prohibition. Is not this free
country ? that man cannot eat
aud drink what he pleases. We
admit that whiskey is good SER
want, but a bad master, and that
when man has no control of
himself and will suffer whiskey to
become his master, then he had
better do as Mr.. CO. resolved not
to touch 1t, but when he draws
the line of distinction between
those who are in favor and those
opposed TO prohibition, he
throws some heavy charges
against some Of the best citiZeus
OF the county. He class S them
as the low, the vicious; those who
scott at everything of n religious
or moral character. Now we have
only to refer To ri own imnedi-
ate neighborhOUd. The best, most
influential ana wealthy citizens of
Back Greek Valley are opposed TO
the bill, and are whiskey men and
those who are in favor of it are
only those who are seeking pOliti-
cal not0riety, aud they VIII take a
drink when they can get bcnind
the door. LITTLE SHAVER.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
TEN YEARS.

The INDEPENDENT has now closed
ten years of record. 1t is plain
truth to assert that it's number of
subscribers is larger than that of
any paper ever published in Ber-
kelley county, and that to day it's
circulation is more numerous than
at any time since it's existence.
1t is taken and read by men of all
parties, and in every household it
is welcome visitor. While its
editors are free to express person
al views, its columns are open to
any reader who may disagree there
with and also desires to assert his
individual opinions in contradic-
ton of our own expressions. 1t is
each and every mans paper, and
all its subscribers are directed to
think and act for them selves, and
not to accept the dictatna of either
editor, clique or faction. To this
principle of free and untrammeled
action we attribute the unwonted
success of the INDEPENDENT. It is
no mans boss and no man is ex-
pected to be it's servant. Law
abiding, free and unbiased, it goes
to the people asking and exhort-
ing them to be equally as free and
independent, and to serve neither
man nor paper as their master. 1t
is the citizens privilege to read,
consider and Judge, and then af-
firm or reject, as God gives them
to see the right. We believe in
this-claim the privilege for our
selves and extend to and demand
the same privilege for our subscri-
bers and readers. May the new
volume reap for itself and record
for all it's patrons full measure
of merited success.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
MUSICAL.

Baltimore will add to it's spring
attractions a grand musical festi-
val, and the President of the Ora
torio Society has been successful
in making arrangements with Mr.
Theodore Thomas to participate.
The Oratorio expect to sing the
Redemption" April Goth and
27th, and tho Thomas Orchestra
will give a matinee concert on the
2sth, interspersed with singing by
soloists and selections by the Or
atorio from different works. The
stimulating of musical culture and
the prosperity of the city are the
objects in view. The enterprise is
worthy in every respect, and such
efforts are sure to advance not
only higher culture among the
people, but will prove a certain aid
in fostering and building mp town
or city.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31

In the current number of the
North Anerican Reuieac, DR.,
Bender taking the position which
Professor Goodwin Smith occu-
pied years ago, sets forth reasons
why Canada will surely be annex
ed to the United States. The
Irish Canadians favor it and the
French Canadians are not averse
to the idea.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
DEATH OF POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL HOWE.

Timothy 0. Howe, Postmaster
General of the United States, died
suddenly at the residence Of his
nephew, in Wisconsin, Of pneumo-
MIA, on the 25th inst, aud was bu-
ried on Wednesday afternoon, the
28th inst. The postoffices of the
country, by order of the Depart
ment, were closed from 2 to 5 P. NJ.
of that day, the noise and hustle
and the rush and hurry of bust
ness in the hundreds of large off
ces giving way for a brief period
to the hush of silence in respect
to the memory of the departed
chief. We have noticed some ten
dency to belittle the qualities of
Mr.. Howe as O public man.
We conclude that q man who
held the highest judicial position
in his own State, who can point to
eighteen years services upon the
most important com mittees in the
U. S. Senate, who was member
of the world famous Paris None
tary Conference, and who declined
position on the Supreme Bench
of the United States, and who died
at the head of the Postal Depart
ment of his country, has made o
record for himself way above that
of the average statesman, or even
an extraordinary political hummer.
Men of little talent, of weak and
unstable character and small quail
ifications, sometimes crawl in and
among men of great and good
brain and large capacity, and even
into important official positions,
but they do not stay very long,
and to have remained and held his
own, as did Mr.. Howe, is srffi
Gent refutation to any calumny or
insinuations of evil minded oppo-
nents or thoughtless sc1ibblers.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
A MACHINE WANTED.

The Philadelphia Times, an in
dependent paper, in referring to
the fact that machine has been
invented that will sift chrome ore
out of Maryland sand, caustically
remarks, that if an inventive gent
us will construct machine that
will utilize the greater part OF
New Jersey, in addition to secur-
ing great fortune, he will obtain
a permanent abiding place in his
tory.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31

THE question has often been ask
ed, 'Can rupture abdominal hernia)
be cured ?" We most enphatically
sag YES. That this part of the
body offers no exception to those
physiological laws which govern the
whole physical economy and it
makes not a particle of difference
whether the age of rupture is one
year or a hundred years. For proof
of this send for free book on Rup-
ture, to the Excelsior Cure Man'f'g.
Co., Ogdensburg, n. Y. mar 81 ,1y.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31

In the North american ReUiew
for April, the scripIuraI and legal
aspects of Divorce are presented
respectively by the sew. Dr.. The
odore ID. Wolsey, well known for
his insi5'ance on the indiSsOiubil-
ity OF the MAJ riage tie, and by
Judge John A. Jameson, a juriest
whose long experience with di-
v0rce cases in Chicago, both on
the judicial bench and at the bar,
lends 10 his observations a very
epecial value. DIR. l.. Bender, a
Canadian VINO has studied 80 some
purpose the political, social and
economic conditions of his coun-
Try, under the title, "A Canadian
view of AUneXaiion," makes
foicible presentation Of the reasons
which incline many citizens of the
Dominion to regard with favor the
idea of absorption by the United
States. Senator John A. Logan
sets forth the need which exists
for National Aid to Public
Schools" in the several States and
territories. The Rev DR.. How
ard Crosby writes of "rhe Dang
erOus Classes that menace the
perpetulty of civil order and the
peace OF the community, meaning
the manipulators Of corporation
stocks and the men who, having
amaSsed enormous wealth, use it
for nefarious purposes. James G.
Yelling, President of Columbian
University. treats of Race Educa-
tion,' the problem that confronts
the philosophic statesman, of the
presence in our body polite of
strong Negro contingent. The
Water supply of Cities is dis
cussed by Charles f. Wingate,
Ethical Systems by Prof. F. II.
Hedge, "Street Begging" by Rev.
DR.. Charles f. Deems, and "Criti-
cism and Chri.tianity" by .. B.
Rockingham. Published at 80
Lafayette Place, New York, and
for sale by booksellers, generally.
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Joseph Kashmsky, a private in

Joseph Kashmsky, a private in
Company H., Tenth United States
Infantry, on duty at Garfield S grave
in Lake View Cemetery, has become
insane, and has been taken to De-
troit for cure. The peculiar form
of insanity is melancholia, and Pc
culiar state of affairs came to light
when the case was looked up. The
men on the guard dread their duty,
and several cases are reported of
men committing offences for the
purpose of getting punished. Kash-
msky is a young Pole, but ten
months soldier, q years of age,
and, until this trouble came, a light
hearted, healthy young man.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
NEWS TOPICS.


A shower of snow, the first for
thirteen years, fell in Rome a fort
night ago, and the dome of ST. Pc
ter's was white for several hours.
The Mohammedans are to have a
religious publication society of their
own. Constantinople is to be its
headquarters. A cheap edition of
the Koran wi be the first issue from
its press. Every Turk will then be
able to buy the Koran at a trifling
price.
A hospital for Mussulman women,
presided over exclusively by Russian
female doctors, has been established
by Gen. Tchernaieff at Tashkend.
This is the first time that Russian
women have been admitted to sepa-
rate and independent medical prac-
tice.
The Russian postoffice insures the
declared value of letters for ! of l
per cent. Forfeiture is the penalty
of AUTHORIZATIONS, and the attempt
to save few dollars cost firm of
st. Petersburg bankers the other
day $4,000, which they had insured
as worth $500.
According to the Cincinnati En-
quirer tramp refused to saw wood
for his dinner, giving as reason
that he was bitterly opposed to the
destruction of our forests land would
do nothing to encourage that kind
of business. And he walked off
picking his teeth.
A dispatch from Lima Peru, says:
"The scientific expedition sent out
by the United States government,
under charge of Prof. Edward S.
Holden,t observe the coming eclipse
of the sun at one of the islands in
the South Pacific, reached this port
in good health, and have just sailed
hence in the United States sloop-of-
war Hartford for their destination"
Recruiting in England has practi-
cally ceased mot because recruits are
not wanted, but because they will
not enlist, though the army was new.
er so spoiled and glorified with vic
tory. The brigade of Foot Guards
is below its number by eight hun
dred men, and it is found impossi-
BILE to get recruits to fill up the de-
ficiency. The same want OF men
and impossibility of getting them is
equally felt in the rest of the army.
A writer in a Denver paper the
other day, in describing Colorado
Canon, attempted to say Gaze
up and down the rocky jaws and you
imagine the world has opened it's
mouth to eat planet and grind it
with mountain molarS." After the
intelligent compositor had got in his
work there was less boldneSS in the
figure of speech, inasmuch as the
world was made to open its mouth
ito eat peanut"
General Sherman will leave Wash
ington about June 20 on his fare
well tour as general of the army.
Accompanied by Chief Justice
Waite and Justice Gray, General
Tidball and Colonel Bacon, he " i'll
go by railroad to st. Paul, Mimi,
and thence to Fort Ellis, Montana.
There he will be provided with
military escort, and will start on an
overland journey among the military
posts OF the far Northwest. Then
he will go down the coast to San
Francisco, and return East by the
Atlantic and Pacific route.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-03-31
Tuesday, April 10Th, 1883.

being the frsl day of the April term of
the Circuit Court of Berkeley county, the
following real estate, in Martinsburg,
owned by John W. Hooper at the time of
his death, that is to say,
LIST. All that parcel of ground situate
at the northeast corner of Burke and Gen.
ire sire cts fronting $50 feet on the former
street and 2l0 feet on Centre street, which
was conveyed to John W. Hooper by
John W. Boyd, by deed dated the nth
day of November, 1862, and on that day
duly recorded in Berkeley county. This
property will be first offered for sale in
the three following parcels; the first par
Gel being the northeast portion thereof,
wherein is erected
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TEN-PIN ALLEY.

the third parcel being the residue of said
property, and lying Immediately south of
the ten-pn alley lot and bounded as fol-
lows: beginning at a point in the middle
OF the Martinsburg and Williamsport
Turnpike NJ the north end o. the Tusca-
rora bridge thence ). " e. 4 $3.50 poles
thence 5. &c e IA 80 poles to The cap
stone OF The north abutmrnt Of the & o
K, K. bridge at Its western limit, thence
along The limits Of the same N. "a w 2
$4,000, thence ~ ". TO said turnpike
thence with the same AZ feet TO the Begin
ming. After offering the said property
tor sale in parcels, it will be offered as
whole and will be sold in whichever way
produces the most money.
For farther description OF the lands
herein adv ,rtised, reference is made to
said three deeds and TO the plat fled with
the repors of partition In said chancery
cause.
The above property is sold with the
consent, entered on the record of said
cause, of Sarah Hooper, and will be free
from her lite estate therein,
TERMS OF SALE One-fouth cash in
hand, and the residue upon a credit of
six, twelve and .eighteen months, the pur-
chaser beiog required TO execute his three
bonds, with good personal security, each
for one-third of the deferred payments.
bearing interest from date.
BENZ. F. MARTIN.
FRANK WOODS;
Special Com'rs.
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The Little Walk Was Too
Much.
From the Harrisburg Tele graph

From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
That little walk uf PattisOn's on
Inauguration day appears TO have
completely taken the wind out of
the reform element of the party
and it has fallen back to take a
rest, while the spOils men rushed
forward and are occupying all the
front seats.