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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14


BIG SrIR.-Last week Parkers-
burg had the biggest stir in rail
road matters she has experienced
in lifetime. More than a hun
dred contractors and other rail
road strangers thronged our hotels
and talked "booms" for two or
three days, in anticipation Of the
opening Of the bids for the con-
struction Of the O. r. r. l he bids
were opened, however, in Cincin-
natl, on Friday, as given in anoth-
er column.
O. r. r. Co.-The Wetzel Demo-
crot gives US the results of the con-
demnation proceedings Of the rights
of way through Wetzel county.
The aggregate allowances Of
damages as assessed by the Com
missioners, foots up $4, 1852.
The rate of allowance, the Demo-
crat says, was from $50 to 800 per
acre for the land taken, except in
cases near New Martinsville, where
it was much more.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14

We think it great mistake to
sell the Market House property.
That's what we think. The city
will wish and long for it in few
years. That is what we prophesy.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14
Marietta College.

Thenext term in College and Academy win
begin on Thursday, April 18TH.
Those who desre to prepare for COLLEGE, ~
to review English branches, viii find classev
to suit them.
Boarding in clubs or in families.
Address the President.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14

Call OH J, NJ. Walters, 95 Market
St., for all kinds Of Job Printing.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN.
Our Rail Road.

We mean the Ohio River Rail-
road.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-03-14
w. C. L. Z.

Parhorsburg Unions and their Visit
ing Sisters, Mss Jennie Smith and
associates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

at sea the Democratic party is upon this
question, and serves to emphasize the fact
that the only tenable ground is that occu-
pied by the Republican party ever since the
formation of the party-that in the work of
raising the revenue needed to defray the
expenses of the government the duties
should be so levied as to afford proper
protection to home industry. That position
is impregnable, whether the necessary reve-
nue. be large or small, and that position is
Numerically opposed to the Democratic
idea that the duties shall be so levied as to
bring the largest revenue. A tariff so levied
would be one that would discriminate
against home productions in favor of i'm
ported products; for the greater the importa-
tons the greater the revenue. There oLght
to be no trouble in any reasonable, clear
headed man choosing his ground between
these essentially different principles But
Mr.. Hendricks seems to be lost in fog.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

Mr.. HENDRICKS has permitted himself to
be interviewed upon the general subject of
the tariff and the relations of the Democratic
party toward that great question. As is well
known Mr.. Hendricks is openly and avow-
eddy against the Wattersonian- Mcdonald
doctrine of free trade or OF tariff for reve-
nue. only but with Senator Voorhees, and
Senator Brown, and Senator Vest, and other
prominent Democratic leaders, favors the in
cidental protection of American industry in
the leyying ofthe necessary customs duties.
1t is also we'll known that when in the SEN
ate Mr.. Hendricks very properly used his in
fuence to avert legislation that would have
closed up the New Albany plate-glass facto-
ries, and destroyed one of the most import
ant enterprises in Indiana. By the way, the
plate-glass industry greatly troubles the
,elf-constituted defenders of the poor man
against the iniquities of the tariff. To hear
them talk or to read their writings the i'm
preston would be gained that plate-glass was
one of the most fundamental necessities of
life and that all the workingmen of the land
we're daily paying heavy percentages to Mr..
DePauw for the large amounts of plate-glass
they and their families were forced to con-
sumo. 1t is to be presumed that the unpro-
tected laboring men Of England enjoy their
plate-glass in unlimited quantities and at the
lowest prices But as to Mr.. Hendricks:
The ex-candidate for President-as he him
self announce6-has heard from the Iroquos
dinner and is in dreadful condition of be-
twxt and between. He really does not know
what he believes, and of only one thing is he
at all certain, and that is that the Demo-
cratic party will never favor tariff only for
protection 1t takes a statesman of rare
temerity to announce such a perfectly
startling and radical principle as that
against tariff for protection only, or, in
other words, a tariff that would prohibit
and not return single cent of revenue, for
that would be an ideal tariff for protection
bnly. We should like to see the party
fayoring that sort of tariff. But
he expression from man like
Hr Hendricks indicates how entirely
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

THE John A. Andrew Post OF the Grand
Army of the Republic at Boston, has voted
to do away with all flowers or floral emblems
on Decoration Day. The post has secured
silk flag twelve by eighteen inches, bordered
with yellow silk fringe and mounted on a
vanished spear-headed staff three feet in
length. On the 3Oth of May it proposes to
place one upon the grave OF each soldier and
sailor buried at Mt Auburn Cemetery. Each
flag will have printed on it the name of the
most
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
An Aristocratic Pugilist.

London Truth.
Two men driving in gig lately ran over
two of the North Pytchley hounds. Lord
Lonsdale spoke TO them about their careless
ness, when they asked him if he wanted to
fight. One of them then got out OF the
cart upon which Lord Lonsdale immediate
ly dismounted, and, on the man squaring up
to him, he knocked him down. The other
man then got out of the cart to assist his
fallen brother, but Lord Lonsdale imrnedi-
ately knocked him down also, and on the
men again rising they were again put hors
de combat His Lordship then asked them
if they wanted any more, and neither of them
coming up he rode away to cover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

AN unnamed Indiana Democratic Con-
gresham" in the Baltimore American, is
reported to gossip this way about the ticket
in 1884:
THE deepest thinkers among Democrats
are crystallizing around the idea that the
best ticket to put in the field would be Nc
Donald and William A. Wallace, of Pennsyl-
vania. The business men of the Nation
would have no fears of these men doing any,
thing to disturb the prosperity of the coun-
try, and those who represent the great cor
poratlons of the country would not be afraid
of them. The ticket would receive the sup
port of Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt, and it is the
support of just such men as he that the Dem
ocratic party are going to fish for this time.
Vanderbilt would prefer Wallace at the head
of the ticket because he is personal friend
OF his, but he would take it the other way"
The deepest thinkers" and the Thought
full patriot are always dreadful fellows,
who seem to think their fluctuations are to
cast the country into gloom or raise them to
hope as their stomachs happen to be eupsptic
or dyspeptic But. it is to be noticed that
the deepest thinkers and "the thoughtful
patriots" and all the other bombastic clap
trap with which charlatans and schemers are
wont to clothe their intellectual syllabub
and kindergarten political methods, are
rudely pushed aside by the great body of
the common people who somehow or other
manage to make themselves felt about cleo
ton time. By the way, ticket constituted
to suit Mr.. Vanderbilt, and at his dctation,
would be immensely popular. The people
of America Just now are in a great stew to
know what would be acceptable to Boss
Vanderbilt, or any of his crew.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
The First Star Route.

Las Vegas Correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean.
In 1855 the stage commenced to run from
independence, Mo-, to Santa Fe, making
semi-monthly trips, and in 1858 General Dan
Bulterfield, of Utica n. " made a contract
with the Postmaster-general to carry the
mail across the continent by the Southern
route, twice week for six years, at a COM
pensation of 100000 a year. This was the
ever been undertaken by any individual,
Butterfield contracting to make the journey
of $500 miles in TWENTY-FIVE days, The usual
time, however, was twenty days, and the
stage that carried the news of the result of
the election of 1856 crossed the continent in
sixteen DAVIS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
Rev. Eddy on the Confidence Man.

NeW 1OTk optCluI
The Baptist ministers, at their meeting TO-
day, listened to a lecture on Facial Ex-
preston and Its Capacity to Reveal the
Operation and Results of the Human Mind"
The lecturer held up large pictures of heads
to illustrate the points OF his discourse.
After he had shown the faces of horse-thief,
sneak-thief and highwayman, he said;
This brethren, is the highest type of
rogue-it is confidence man." Hold the
picture around this way, SO that 1 can see
it." said the Rev. Mr.. Eddy the moderator;
Il want to see if it is the man who addressed
me on Broadway"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

THE Saturday Review very pertnently
and strongly attacks the prevalent assertion
that the newspaper must publish 'the
news" without discrimination as to what
the news is, and that the day of the editorial
influence of the press is waning. 1t says:
at will be a sorry day for the morals of
the people when news shall be the only aim
and object of the paper, VIXEN news shall
supplant thought and argument, and when,
to secure circulation, the paper shall pander
to the prurient and vicious tastes of the
people by distorting the English language
to describe murders, brawls, scandals and
crime of ali phases. Even in these days
when this result is almost reached, the edi-
torial page IS turned to with feeling that it.
at least, is clean-clean enough to be read
aloud in the fireside circle"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

THE New York Tribune does not regard
Mr. McDonalds boom with friendliness or
enthusiasm. 1t cannot see that our dis
tinguishod townsman is making any real
headway in his presidential aspirations, de-
spite the fact that they appear in couleur de
rose to both that gentleman and his many
friends. The Tribune thinks that Mr.. Nc
Donalds race for the White House Is
something like the effort of the young man
who determined upon a wholesale course of
wickedness. He put on pair of green Cog
giles and walked down the main street, WINK
ing violently at all the pretty girls he met.
He may be raising thunder" said an OBJ
server, but nobody knows it," Mr.. McDon-
aid is running on the free-trade hobby, and
has determined that the Tlden- Randall COM
binaton shall be broken up and free
trader placed in the Speakers chair of the next
House of Representatives. The Tribune
says that in this work Mr.. Mcdonald can
count upon the hearty cooperation of every
Republican in the country. II there is one
thing which the Republican party yearns for
unanimously and prayerfully it is that the
brakes may be taken off the glorious Democ-
racy and the whole concern above ed to run
full tilt into the free trade abyss. 1t would
make the next Presidential campaign very
satisfactory" 1t is possible that our New
York contemporary is looking toward very
restricted horizon, and may be badly off in
its guess about the size and potentiality OF
the Mcdonald movement But one thing is
shape themselves more satisfactorily for the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

AMERICANS have little idea of what emo
thoroughfare" means in practice. In the city of
London there are no less than 223 portions OF
streets which, by some ancient provision or pri-
vate right, are denied to the general public. That
is, no vehicle except certain ones belonging to
residents along such places, and those of their
friends. are allowed to pass the rnadbars or
gates. The result is a very select exclusveness
and a very great Inconvenience to those who
have to 90 around. Generally the walks are
free TO pedestrians, but the appearance of a
plebeian hanson is simplyn prelude TO the ar
rest of it's audacious driver. The came thing
obtains TO q much less degree in Paris. The
System" would not thrive long in republic
TIE nearest approach we have to it is in the nc.
ton of the indianapolis Council with reference
to street railways.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

THE Lafayette Journal very properly re-
Dukes the attempt on the part of certain
Democratic leaders of that city to project
the shadow of the Gougar-Mandler trial into
the pending campaign for municipal officers.
The effort is being made to run Harry Mand-
Ter as a martyr, and to re-elect him as chief
of police as ''rebuke" to the recent verdict
The Journal points out that the jury which
convicted Mandler of SANDER was composed
OF eight Democrats and four Republicans,
and argues that as politics certainly and evil
IDENTIFY did not enter into their deliberations
or final Judgment, the scandal case should
not be permitted to obtrude itself into poll
tics If Mr. Mandler wants to conduct a
campaign on so narrow and dsgraceful a
basis the sensible people of Lafayette
should give him enough of it, as the jury
did in his SANDER trial. Local politics must
be lifted far above such plane as this if
municipal government is ever to be any
thing other than wretched and expensive
burlesuue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
Shipping whisky to Bermuda.

Cincinnati Specialize
Mr. f. O. Boyd, who arrived here in the in
terest of the proposed Bermuda whskey ex-
portaton, was asked by Commercial
Gazette representative how much would 60
from here He said: about 10000 bar
rels between now and January. Over 800, 900
barrels must come out OF bond this year, and
fully half will be shipped" lie says that it
will cost from 81 to IS per barrel to keep it
there a year and bring it back The sea
round trip, according to how soon it is to
come back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
busy season.

NINE. PATTI will sail for Europe next Tues
day. She will proceed directly to her castle
in Wales, and will sing in London late in
June. She has not yet entered into arrange
ments with any American manager for an
other season in this country, and while the
probability is she will sing in the United
States next winter, it is not yet determined
whose management she will be under.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
THE Lafayette Times has some sensible
words addressed to workingmen;

1HE Lafayette Times has some sensible
words addressed to workingmen:
IF workingmen will dispassionately read
the speeches delivered by self-declared cham
pions OF labor, they must see that these
pretended advocates are simply kicking la
Dor from post to pillar to give false i'm
portance to their dishonest leadership. They
want labor votes, not labor elevation or
labor prosperity, as requited, contented la
Dor would end the occupation of the labor
demagooue
'Worklngmen have borne much from self
ish and exacting employers but they have
suffered much more from dishonest cham
pions of the labor cause. The labor dema-
gogues cost labor not less than ten millions
OF dollars by foolish strikes last year
strikes made in the face of utterly impossi-
BILE increase of wages; and from year to year
honest but misguided labor sacrifices mil
lions to the assumed labor leaders who profit
most by labors msfortunes
These are painful truths about labor that
workingmen should take pause to consider.
Have they not suffered enough from curb
stone and beer-shop babblers, whose richest
harvest is when labor has breadless homes?
If not, the demagogue will continue to ply
his trade, and the workingmen will con-
tinue to suffer and pay the hire of their de-
stroyers."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
THE Nashville American, one OF the ablest

Democratic papers of the South, says:
Gentlemen who are pushing the tariff
for revenue only doctrine had better stop
and think. The Democratic party can't
stand this doctrine. Men who have not lost
themselves in abstraction must see that the
American people will no more abandon the
doctrine of protecting their industries and
labor by discriminating in favor of such IN
dustres as need protection. in levying duties
on imports, than they would shut off the
rainfall and resort to irrigation, were it IN
their power to do so. The doctrine is founded
on the soundest principles of political econ
omy."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
Discern.nent of Fly-speck.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
1t is understood in Iowa that the Supreme
Court will stick to its decision that the pro-
hibtory amendment is invalid, on account
of informalties in its submission. In that
event the letter will be allowed to kill again,
though the spirit makes alive. The people
adopted the amendment knowing just what
it signifed, and its final overthrow on
mere technicalty wilt be the result of
that kind of legal vision which discerns
fly on a barn-door, but does not see the door,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
Carter Harrison a reliable Democrat.

st. LonIs GIobc- Democrat.
1t will not do for the Democratic organs to
repudiate carter Harrison now because of his
recent exercise of the right of free speech on
the tariff question, 1t is not many days
since they were all rejoicing oyer Carriers
election as mayor of Chicago. He was then,
in the language of the boys, Democrat to
Hellengone. We fail to see wherein he has
lost this eminent political status since that
time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
An Issue that Must Be Net.

Cincinnati News fDcm).
party never decides definitely any great
question without in some way disarranging
old lines and its old membership. Democ-
racy has to choose between the great body Of
Democrats who believe in conservative appli-
cation of the revenue idea and the Pennsyl-
vania school. The issue cannot be evaded; it
must be met
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

upon the work of reducing the revenue and
reforming the tariff, still adheres, and pro-
poses to adhere, to the principle that while
any revenue from impests upon importa-
tons continues to be necessary, the duties
shall be so levied as to afford proper protec-
ton to home industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

THE intelligence comes from Tennessee
that owing to the passage of an anti-gam-
bling bill the sporting fraternity OF that State
will be compelled to emigrate, and will dis
tribute themselves more or less impartially
among Northern cities. These gentlemen of
elegant leisure and their friends feel greatly
outraged at the strngency of this bill, and
fought earnestly against its passage. 1t makes
the keeping or renting of house for gam
bling felony punishable by fine of not
less than 5000 nor more than $500, and an i'm
prisonment for not less than one year nor
more than three years. This renders it diff
cult to find abiding places any longer in
Tennessee, and the gamblers must seek pas
lures new. There were large number of
them in Nashville and other towns of the
State, and as in indianapolis there is nothing
to prevent respectable citizens from leasing
commodious quarters to whomsoever they
please, accessions to the number of the sport
ing brethren may be looked for in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

FREE trade means that England shall do
our manufacturing. The 100000 Ameri-
can mechanics can then find living in the
fields. If competition is the life of trade,
Americas farmers would then enjoy very
bucv SeasoD
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sY JNo. C. NEW s SON.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IS, 1888.

THE Irouuois Club has had an accession Of
information. 1t now knows what it is to be
knocked galley west"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
WHEN bould Ould Carrther Harrison
Blow up the free-trade garrison.

WHEN bould Ould Carrther Harrison
Blew up the free-trade garrison,
Twas with bit of dynamite he did its
From Springer up TO Bayard,
Each statesman big he fired
And the club when he retired
Was not so much admired,
And shrunk until thimble would have hid it.
A CITIZEN OF Pittsburg Is inventing a device
for storing sunlight, and claims to have sue
eeeded in capturing a sufficient quantity in an
hour to last all night. Bottled sunlight for use
in the daytime would not come amss in Pitts
burV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

case lined with white satin" The gift was
from the ladies OF the Scotch church, to whom
an autograph letter Of thanks was sent by Her
Highness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
Close Analyst. of the Harrison Platform.

Louisville Courier journal.
Mayor Harrison's platform seems TO be:
eff we are honest. we cannot elect Presi.
dent; therefore, let us be dishonest" Mr.
Harrison has been quite successful in city
politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

Republican party than to have the campaign
made upon the ultra Democratic doctrine of
free trade and enmity to American industry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

ONE of the most henous practices is that of
throwing stones at notfensIve people. A report
comes from Texas of au aer0ite the size of a
courthouse having fallen and destroyed a whole
family, besides dong other damage; also another
from Italy, where one had fallen and nearly de-
stroyed mans farm; another In New England,
and still another In Dakota. Now. this thing
must be stopped. What right have the inhabit
ants of Jupiter, Saturn and other neigbhoring
planets to throw rocks at u.s. simply because we
happen to be smaller than they, and apparently
defenseless7 But in the latter they will find
themselves mistaken. There is an ordinance
against throwing stones, and il our neighbors
can't learn to behave themselves, the attention
of the metropolitan police will be called to them,
that's ALL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18

A CROWD Of ronghs, both men and women,
gathered in a saloon IN Pennsylvania village,
were blasphemously burlesauinE a revival meet
ing few nights ago. One of the men acted us
parson and received the penItents into the fold.
Just as the carousal was Mt its height, and the
climax was reached by an offer of sacramental
wine to the "mourners," a stranger entered with
noiseess foot. AS described by n veracious wit
ness, the figure that stepped across the clouded
room was sable black His breast, arms and
legs were covered with long, coarse hair. His
eyes, set in deep sockets, flashed forth red,
luminous luster, and his lips, parted In sneer,
displayed long glttering white tusks. Too
frightened at first 10 move, the assembly gazed
with awed eyes upon the spectral figure In his
hand he held II small book, and In a gentle, in
sinuating voice. he made them write therein