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Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
Colonel John A. Joyce are having
desperate quarrel over the author
ship of an old poem of passion, each
claiming it. The case is not yet de-
termined, but, in the interest of
public harmony, it is hoped the iden-
tity of the guilty party will be fully
established
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To the Public.

The Statesman, of this week, con-
tains the following
Luther Miller for Sheriff, A. II.
Rutherford for jailor, and j. w.
Pitzer in the office. How does that
strike you ?"
l desire to state that the object of
the above is to iDjure Mr.. Luther
Miller, by presuming that he selects
his corps of assistants in advance.
SO far as it applies to me, it is an
unjust untruth, and the motive is
malicious, mean and unmanly.
How does that strike
j. w. PITZER.
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THE RING.

Riley, Riggs and Rohrbaugh,
surmounted by Evans--'Rah !!
What a crew ?
THE RIG.
Rohrbaugh, Riley, Evans and
Riggs-that is the republican To-
cal rig. Amt she a beauty Z
THE Rulers.
Riggs, Rohrbaugh, Evans and
Riley.
THE runners.
Riggs, Riley, Rohrbaugh and
the post maRster. Whoop 'em
up.
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VOTE FREEl

Vote your sentiments at all
hazards. Let no man, clique, ring.
faction or party control you.
Wherever you know of a wrong g,
vote against it. BE Independent
in truth and fact.
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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, County of
Berkeley, IS: |, Geo s. Hill, Cashier of
the above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
GEO s. HILL, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
4th day Of Oct, 1884.
J S. HALDEMAN, Notary Public.
CoRRECT-Attest:
JOHN N. ABELL,
H. n. DaArRcK. Directors.
A. r. MCQUILKIN
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GAN enthusiastic organ declares
that the people everywhere seem
delighted to offer Mr.. Blaine hon.
or."-Stdtesmdn.
Hurrah for Blaine!
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Total........ ........ ........$264, 1913 90

State Of W. 20, County Of Berkeley, IS:
/, Jno. B. Wilson, Cashier of the above
named Bank do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
JNO. B. WILSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
4th day of Oct, 1884.
J. T. YOUNG, Notary Public.
CoRREcT-Attest.
NJ j. C,HoFFsAN,
NJ. s. GRANTHAM
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VOTE IT DO WN I

Vote against the seven Com
missionsrs, and vote against any
candidate you find supporting it.
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Many of the combination dress
es for autumn and winter are made
of three different materials-two
of wool, the third of velvet.
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Tin mines are the latest sensation
in the Black Hills.
1t is said that only one small herd
of buffalo remain in Texas.
1t cost fifty Millions dollars to pick
last years cotton crop.
Mexico owes English creditors
$50, 900, 900 and Americans 1000
900.
Thirteen States have labor burea-
us. Massachusetts set the example
in 1869.
In some parts of Kansas grain re-
mains unharvested for want of the
necessary laborers.
One gold mine in Utah has never
levied an assessment. and has paid
So, 0O0, 900 in dividends.
Indiana employs 5,400 miners and
So, 100000 in getting 100000 tons of
coal of 206 mines ye .rly.
From one squirrel killed by o. w !.
Fleckler near Santa Cruz, CAL, sol
kernels of wheat were taken.
A Mormon elder has taken an an
nual bridal trip for the past five
years, each time with a separate
bride.
Just sixteen years ago the inter
est of the national debt was $143, 000,-
600 a year. it is now Sos, 0O0, 900.
Population of the United States
increases at the rate of thirty-two
per cent. every ten years.
Wool production in the United
States amounted to 475,000,0
last year. Ohio stands at the head.
A. G. Van Wagner, of st. Remy,
N. Y, has tomatoes that weigh two
pounds and are perfect in every re-
spect.
No less than ftty-seven exposi-
tions, it is said, are to held in the
United States during the remainder
of the year.
Rural congressman will be allow
ed two million bushels of seeds to
distribute among their pet consti-
tuents this year.
The standing armies of Europe
aggregate 4,2Ol ,97l able bodied men.
The taxes for their support aggre-
gate 1896, 715,603.
There is a suggestion Of the intro
duction of camels into England as
beasts of burden, their use having
proved very satisfactory in Austria
liza.
The pipe lines connect with d.
600 oil wells in Pennsylvania, re.
ceiving from them daily $1,000 bar
/ rels of oil. Forty.one million bar
rels are stored in tanks.
On the open plains, in the county
of Ximines, Mexico, five large springs
of water have suddenly burst forth
where there has been continued
drought for ten years.
FOREIGN.
Two Paris editors have fought a
duel receiving wound in the arm.
The rWages of the cholera are
again increasing in Italy.
A disastrous confagration has &C.
Cured at Zeitoun, in Syria. The
Bazaar and 400 houses were consum-
ed.
Hundreds of convicts were killed
during a sanguinary out break in
the Jail at Mandalay, the capital of
Durham.
The British war department has
forwarded 100000 in gold to Gener-
al Lord Wolseley to defray expenses
incidental to his expedition to Khar-
toum.
A desperate conflict took place at
Roundie, in the province of Saratov,
between several of the German in
habitants and Russian peasants
who were visiting the animal fair
During the row eleven persons were
killed, including one gendorme, and
thirty more were wounded.
To the Public.
The Statesman, of this week, con-
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HALL at j. S. TkAMMELL'S and
~ examine his stock and prices, and
you will not want 10 60 further.
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Communicated
The ASSESSORS.
FALLING WATERS, Oct. I, .

FALLING WATERS, Oct. I, 'S4.
Ed. INDEPENDENT
The Democrats of this end of
the county see no reason why the
change in Assessors should not
be general. They have turned
out one Democrat, why not turn
out the other? We down here
are determined to vote for Char
ley Miller instead of Dave Stuc-
key. We shall vote for Dodd 4
Miller. That is the ticket us
Democrats intend to vote. Why
shouldn't we? Why turn out
Quinn and not Stuckey?
A DEMOCRAT.
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A tremendous flood is reported
from Buenos Ayres South America.
Many lighters foundered and the
shipping was extensively damaged.
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a LARGE STOCK of mems Plow
"A shoes and brogans. every grace
and price, at GETTINGER d HOKE'S:
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eH- Hall rates-fve cents per line-for Obituary
ces beyond the usual announcement
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Baltimore Market.

Corrected weekly by BLANDFoRD
FOWLER s. Co., 106 S. Charles St.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 9th, 1884.
WHEAT.
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Ia this place, Tuesday, Oct, 18th, 1884,
Mrs. ANNA MORGAN, wife of Mr.. Frank
Keyser, now of Washington, aged SO
years. 8 months and 10 days.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION

nF THE Peep l. ELS NATIONAL
OBANK at Martinsburg, in the State of
West Virginia, at the close of business,
Sept auth, 1884:
, 1884-05-21
WOMAN AND HOME.
Nifehood, or a Single LifeP-woman
as the Art Teacher.
More HChRrmedo Circles Than One
Woman I'm PIttion--Lady Jour-
nalisrs Roo nn--HIome Hints
and SbnIiment.
Ak
westminrter Review.I

The assumption that marriage offers TO q
woman the highest development is open to
question. The normal condition of wifehood
and motherhood, with the multifarious do
nestle duties involved, is a serious drawback
to industrial, public, or professional
life. To do any consecutive work, a
single life Is almost necessary to a woman.
The married woman develops the spe-
cial qualities of wifehood and mother
hood often, almost always at the cost of gem
eral development. Family duties, which are
a gain and impetus to the career of the man,
crush and annihilate the woman.
Marriage demands from her that every
thought, every talent, every project, should
be subordinated to its overwhelming claims.
In it her individuality is weakened aud
sometimes absolutely eiraced She has not
the time even to ontinu those habits of
physical exercise and healthy recreation
which ~sustains the elasticity and vigor of
her unmarried sister. She cannot command
for herself those conditions OF life which
conduce to health.
On the other hand, the number OF unmar-
riei women increases voluntarily, and not of
necessity. Tit mental life of these fortunate
AMI superior creatures is free and untram-
meled. The single woman tastes are vari-
Gus and retned-her opportunities for cult
waiting them practically unlimited. Whether
it be in the direction of society, or art, or
travel, or philanthropy, or public duty, or a
combination Of many of these, there is moth
ing to hinder her from following her own
will-no restrictions but those of her own
conscience and right principle. From her
stronghold of happiness and freedom she can
help the weak and protect the poor. She is
fitted TO fill a place which has always stood
empty in the history Of the world-that of
a loving and tender woman, armed with Of
fetal power to redress the wrongs of women
and children, whose nature and necessities
are known only to her.
, 1884-05-21

New Orleans Times-D Democrat.
1t is true that a~rt-taste cannot be acquired;
it must be inherited, like musical talent.
But as musical talent must be cultivated
from infancy, if its possessor can ever hope
to become n great master in that most diff.
cult OF languages, the language OF harnio-
nie., 50 must the natural love for beautiful
things be trained from babyhood. Only a
motner eau give this earliest traiuing-with.
out which something must always remain
wanting to the intellectual aftsg.lifs OF her
son ~ daughter.
Aud here We have u souul answer for tina
foolish old question Of so.callcd practical
people: What is tue good Of teaching our
daughters music, painting, languages etc.
This question is very frequently asked in
these days, even by wealth. people who
cling To the simplicity OF pioneer days as to
some Anticipated god. The use OF such teach
ing is u prepare every young girl to become
a perfect mothor-capabls Of discerning in
her child the faintesb spark OF talent >he
, 1884-05-21

New York Cor. Chicago Herald.l
The reaction from the somber colors and
smooth make of the last few years garments
is complete and dazzling. Bright colors have
come into fashion with a suddenness that
renders them astounding. A girl of ac-
credited good taste and modest intentions
goes out now to promenade in crimson, in
yellow, in light blue, in various hues trimmed
with white and gilt. Under the glare of
noon sunshine she looks like a section Of rain
bow. And she is loosening and putting out
her skirts, in disdain Of the snug and cling
ing esthoticism to which she was lately 4
devotee. Incompetent to particularize, I
simply give n mans opinion that the dear
creatures are going from too much demure-
ness to too much giddiness.
, 1884-05-21
Moro Charmed" Circles Than One.

Jenny June.
Is it true that all wives and all daughters
wear silks and satins and thousands of dol
lars worth OF gemsi Is it true that all Ell
tsrtainments represent n fortune in flowers
md the Injuries of the tablet Is it true that
all brides wear duCheSse lace and all we'd
dings are as alike as two peas-interiors,
toilets, wedding presents and personagesl
Doubtless within the limits of n certain cir
Gle it is true that one social or domestic event
is Il copy Of another, but why should this
nlonotonous little ring be considered a
"charmed" or the only circle worth enteringi
There is moro variety and more OF individ-
uality among the million and quice as
much material for the study of historic art
and the picturesque in dress and fashion.
The poor girl who makes her own trousseau
after her days work is done, who wears the
silver cross her grandmother gave her above
her modest stuff gown, has moro of poetry
and sympathy in her few belongings than
can be found in several large trunks full Of
shop-mnde lingerie. George Eliot finds q
source of delicious sympathy" in faithful
pictures Of a homely existence which has
been, and is, the fate of so many more among
mortals than a life of pomp and display, and
she gladly turns from pictures of cloud
borne angels and rapt sybils to an old woman
bending over her knitting or her hower-pot,
or to a rustic wedding where an awkward
bridegroom stands beside a high-shouldered
and broad-faced bride, while elderly and not
handsome friends look on, with possibly a
quart jug in their hands, but unmistakablo
good will in their faces"
, 1884-05-21
Boiled and Raw MIX.

IFOpuIhr Sclence MONTHLY
The cookery OF milk is very simple, but by
no means unimportant. hat there is an mp
preciable difference between raw and boiled
milk may be proved by taking quantities of
each the boiled sample having been allowed
TO cool down, adding them TO equal quantities
of the same infusion Of coffee, then critically
tasting the mixtures. The difference is
sufficient to have long since established the
practice among all sdllfuI cooks of
~scrupulously using boiled milk for making
cafe au Init. Ihave tried a similar expert.
ment on tea, and find that in this case the
cold milk is preferable. Why this should be,
why boiled milk should be better for coffee
and raw milk for tea, l cannot tell.
, 1884-05-21

~ 81
But men certainly do not represent women
fairly in fiction, as a rule. Mems women lack
strength. With many masculine writers the
female characters have no sort of Individual
ity. They are mere pegs to hang the thread
Of the story upon. Where they represent a
woman with my strength, it is on the bad
side. She is a hHg, or murdoress, or n con-
spirator. This is the accusation /, quite
apart from Sorosis, make against the whole
Kit Of men fiction writers. Englishmen
started the fashion. OF their good women
the young ones are childish and namby-
PANTY, the elder ones are placid old tabbies
or angling mammns. The mild, stupid old
white cat who goes to sleep on the sofa while
the young woman in the case is made love to
is quite ns much a fixture in tho English
novel Us the rector and fox-hunting squire
are.
To particularize: Charles Reade's heroines
In character are mostly pretty waiter-girls.
Dickens are either ~GoOdy-goods, carved out
OF Eastwood, who stay where they are put,
or Imaginable c~aricntures. II they develop
any powers it is generally in low life or bad
life, like Lizzie Hexam and Nancy Skies.
Strength was evidently an unlndy-like at
tribute, in the mind of Dickens. Thnck-
eray's women were either fools or knavea.
There is "A quantity of knavery among them,
too. One woman stands out above the
dreary level like n star shining upon
r desert That woman Is our Ameri-
can Hawthorne's Hester in tine "Scarlet
Letter" Here was a woman for ycu!
Making allowance for changing scenes and
circumstances, Hester, yes, we may dare TO
say 1t, Hester is more the real, living, breath
ing women as nature made her, with all hsr
steel-like strength and her weakness, hs-
mensureless capabilities and the iron fats
that work against her, than the creation oe
any other man. Hawthorne alone of mer
novelists looked into u woman's soul ana
wrote what he Saw. At the close of the
Scarlet Letter" he caught the spirit oi
prophecy and foretold the wolpa that is
to be,
, 1884-05-21

Col. Hammett, a cotton manufacturer. is
in love with all his working girls. He says
the southern cotton mill operatives are far
superior to their sisters in New England, and
describes them thus: "Tall, shapcly, with
we'll poised heads and faces which would do
for molds of beauty, they are as lady-like at
the hearthstone as they are proficient at tho
loom. They are all under the salutary in
fiuence of home and church relationship, and
are n class of whom any nation should be
DrOu1 y
, 1884-05-21

TVIrginia INoy.) Enterprise.
They appear to be getting n little sick OF
having women to the front as voters, jurors,
and all hat sort Of thing up in Wyoming ter
ritory. Judging from what we see in some
of the papers of that territory it is pretty
tough for ladies who are on juries in the jus
tices' courts. They are obliged to hear things
that make them hide their heads. No wonder
that those who are able pay fines rather
than serve and be dragged into a courtroom
crammed with all sorts of roughs, to whom
the fact of all these things being said before
decent women adds n spice and zest not
heretofore experienced.
, 1884-05-21

lAnlcdBo NeNSl
The late conner should cool off before en-
tering the room, and before going to his
chair-which must DO reserved il his accept
ance has been re~ceived-should pay his greet
ing to the hostess in a quiet, brief and pleas
ant manner, hut under no consideration
apologize for his hardness. 1t is permissible
and graceful to make some allusion us "my
excuse is plausible, but You shall hear Of it
in private;' or, "the truant pleads guilty and
will sue for mercy vis-a-vis." Whatever you
ay, say it quickly, let it be to tho point, and
delivered in such an ofr-hand style AZ not to
attract the attention OF those at the table.
, 1884-05-21
STILL MORE so.

VIII Mcdonald. 25I2 Dearborn Street
Chicago, gratefully acknowledges a cure OF
Eczema, or salt kheum. on head, neck. face.
alns and legs for seventeen years not able To
move, except on hands aud knees, for one year
not able to help himself for eight years tried
hundreds Of remedies doctors pronounced his
casr hopeless. permanently cured by ue
LLIINInA NENIEnIEA
, 1884-05-21

TOIlId DeIIG.l
@But what's the funniest millinery thing
you've seenP an overlooking friend at my
elbow asks.
An actress who specified that her hat
must not have nny crushable trimming or
one side, because sine Ind to lay her head fat
on the shoulder of her mimic lover.n
, 1884-05-21

IVIINdEO JOUIllI.I
When lemons are cheap it is an excellent
plan to buy quite a good many Of them.
Pass a small Irvine through tho nib on one
end and hang them up in Il cool place. In
this manner they will keep quite Il long time.
There are so many uses for the lemons that it
is desirable to keep them on hand.
, 1884-05-21
ALMorr

james q. Richardson. Custom House,
New Orleans, on oath, SlyS.-+In 1870 SCrpmluuS
Ulcers broke out on my body until I was u mass
Of corruption, Everything known to the med
icnl faculty was tried In vain, | became a mere
wreck At times could not lit my haudS to my
head, could not turn In bed WIS In constant
pain, and looked upon life aS n curse. No relief
or cures in ten years In 1850 | heard Of the
CuricuRA RHNEplEs, used them, and was per-
fectly cured.
sworn 10 before L, Com. j. ID. CRAWFORD.
, 1884-05-21

We warn our customers against false
reports calculated to %injure our business.
A hint to the wise is sufficient, The
Singer Manufacturing company, corner
Eighteenth and Hill streets.
, 1884-05-21

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A Positive Cure for Every Form OF Skin and
Blood Disease, from Pimples to SCrofula.

THOUSANDS OF LETTERS In our possession
L repeat this story | have been n terrible
sufferer for years with Blood and skin llunlors 4.
have been obliged to shun public places by
reason OF my distguring humoE have had the
best ply Sicimls have spent hundreds OF dollars
and goi no real relief until lused the GUrICURA
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and CurfCUIA aud turtCuRA SOAP, the Great
skin Cures md Sk!n BcautinerS. externally,
which have cured me audlcit my skin aud blood
IA mira u4 "A ghill'4
, 1884-05-21

The auction sale at the stone warehouse
on Fifteenth street, to-day at l0a. III.
w. ID. PEAsE.
, 1884-05-21

Write to us for these testimonials In lull or
send direct to the parties. All are absolutely
true snd given Without Our knowledge or solicit
talon. Don't walt Now is the time to cure
every species Of Itching, SCuly, rimply, ScrO-
mlOus, Inherited, CONTIGUOUS aud Copper
colored diseases Of the bleed, skin, und Scalp
with Loss Of Hair
old hy all druggists Price CUrICURA.
80 cts, k~fSOLNENr, 81 oAr . cts. POTTER
DRrG \ CHEMICAL 70. Boston. Mass.
pEATITV For Rough. Chappcd and Oily
DChO11 skin, Blarkheads and Skin Ble-
missiles. use CUHICUIIN spAP.
, 1884-05-21
MOut: NoNnEuFUI YET

% e S~nrpenter. Henderson. N. Y, cured
OF Psoriasis OF IeprosS, NJ twenty yeaH' stand
tl cur on record. \ dustpanIul uf scales fell
from him daily. Physicians and his friends
thought he must die. Cure sworn to before a
Justice Ut the peace and IlendCTSuu's most pro-
uEtanN gffFg.taa
, 1884-05-21
DR.. WAGNER
81 Co.'s
MEDICAL and SURGICAL INSTITUTE,


HSs LH'rtnier Street, beaver.
Chronic diseases Of men and women success
performed. Piles, Fistuia, Varicocele. aud Her
ma, cured without knife or caustic. Diseases of
~ ana bar a Speciality, by one member OF this
Young Men
who may be suffering from the effects o Youth
iiil iolles or inJiscretions, will do well to avail
AZ the alter of suffering humanity. Dir Vac
NEh VIII guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
vsfa Nj enSaS yaSe q seminal weakness or pri-
Eate ulseise OF any, Kind or character which he
undertakes and falls to cure.
Middle-Aged Men.
There are many men of the age of 30 to IN who
are troubled witt too frequent excavations OF
the bladder. ofien accompanied by n slight
Sllafilng or burning sensation and n weakening
OF lhe system IN = manner the patient cannot
account Tor On examining the urinary deposits
a ropy sediment win often be found, and some,
times small particles of albumen will appear, or
we color VIII DC o. akin or mllkish hue, again
ehinlglhE 10 a dark and torpid appearance.
There are many ineu who die OF this difficulty.
Ignorant Of The cause, which is the second stage
OF seminal weakness. ID. Wagner will guaran-
tee Il cure In all such cases and Il healthy restora-
ton OF the genito-urinary organs, Consultation
iree Thorough examination and advice, s. 90.
Al! communications should be addressed TO
Colorado.
The Young Mans Pocket, Companion, by DR..
II. wagner, Is worth Its weight in gold to young
men. Price. SL25 sent by mail to any address.
Take Notice.
Has moved into his new building, No. 33s Lar
inner street Just across the street from No. 3i3
l,arinner street, his old office NEAR CITY HALL)
HIS new quarters are htted up in grand style.
DIR. WAGNER & co.
Cutthis out and take along.
, 1884-05-21

The bangle Graz has almost driven the
gold dollar out of circulation. There are less
than four thousand gold dcSar pieces now in
the vaults of the sub-treasury in New York.
, 1884-05-21

All kinds on draught at Rhodes & Trox
ellis.
, 1884-05-21

Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.
, 1884-05-21

The police courts were dull again yester.
, 1884-05-21

AA1 va VI IAt ShD-Nitahull Ill NEW 1 OTk.
Rev. DIR. McLean: The female mind is not
greatly inferior to the male, the feminine
moral instinct and spiritual power is i'm
mensely greater.
Tho latest craze in mems shoes looks like
the old army brogan, and is made on the
common sense plan.
There are several Minnesota girls doing
service as railroad station agents.
London Society: 1t takes $50 years to make
a beauty-l5O years out-of-doors.
The newest lacs Plus are in the shape Of
guitars, made of handsome gold.
The Caterer: Peace hideth herself under
the lid of the well-nianaged pot.
The Caterer: The economy in the house
hold has heaven for it's banker.
Brooke Herford: There are no manner.
so swest as household manner.
Every Smoker should try Little
Joker.