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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-03-22
ONE CAR LOAD OF
STUDEBAKER WAGONS
with, the Sandage Patent Steel
Skein, for sale by
G. Campbell Janney.

THE announcement that Lieuten
ant Danenhower has married a lady
he met soon after his return from
the perilous Jeanette expedition
has red man with long memory
on the Cleveland Voice to inquire
what has become OF the romantic
story from Southern California about
the young lady who was engaged to
Danenhower, who was almost crazy
with suspense, and who wanted to
90 10 Europe to meet him when the
news of his safety was photographed
across the ocean. That story must
have come by way Of Texas and
Kentucky.
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ONE Car LOAD OF
South Bend CHILLED HOWS.
The best general purpose pillow
on the market. For sale by
q. Campbell ynnney.
NEW EMBELLISHMENTS
WOOD WARD s. LOTHR OPP.
sn Penn Ave. and sl2 St. Washington, c.
pring Goods Lower Than Ever.

. pring Goods Lower Than Ever.
Our larger ever
GOODS POSSIBLE TIE PRICE mas ever 0e ana SUM- Hh
Prints and Ginghams
800 YARD. s inch ' fsrss D ds., ants 55ss s' only
Gingbms 2nch staple ors guaranteed fast only Sc
ohanbray sspcks &C. in new designs
600 yards Fancy Checks and Stripe ssuce yard l2lc
Ho cors including black extra fine quality
On. @ s only PLAIN a' a pair ;1s s ssssf ri
100 doRsa adiss Ingram H solid eoos including cardinal garnet brown
Bbggad Hose regular made French toes GUS ed extra
Two sns qaS 0 the s pr only 5oe pair 81, e
s0es , k ss fine quality blue,
@ eoer feet full regular m.a
sizes worth Toe, only SOC per pair
Domestics.
One Bale Bale a. a. Brown wn Cotton Cotton only yard
s sas sGGS e Sd a9 ss' Es' s Yard
. each o 9T Br Snsn a B s S s s1 m M
teed as the best for the price, only 25c yard.
Housekeeping Goods.
800 yards Scotch all
' sssa S Rh ss asa s@ % s cheap
Table Damasks.
ed So nsn 11 s worth worth
SO Genuine Brns Damask the best and heaviest make
Towels.
guaranteed all linen only each
great Ssssia se 5ss
Extraordinary Bargains in Our Dress Goods Department
The invoices Spring already now open
" nsa Ss nominal @ans D ss
I0s enn blue. and on
so pieces lnch A6arSs Cloth all WOOL full spring only per
50 ssla 1ss sot per pn, s1 Mdo sv.
oolo blue &c. only yard eSs.p S. wood
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NEW ADTERTTS EMFNTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

OF THE PEOPLES NATIONAL
OBANK at Mariinsburg, in the State of
West Virginia, at the close of business,
March 18th, 1884:
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REVIVED.


o
TIME WOODEN WILL, known as the
i "Small Fac ory," on Tuscarora, one
mile west of Martinsburg, has been leas-
ed by the undersigned, and refitted with
new machinery and skilled workmeh,
and is now prepared to execute all work
in his line he hopes, by strict ai,en-
ticn to business and good work to merit
share ofpsblic patronage.
R "a II E -.
Picking, Burning and Carding Rolls
Including oil, 10 C per Id, Carding aud
Spinning single va n. zoe per 10.
Cassimers Satinets, Jeans, Tweeds,
Lindseys and Flannels, from % to 80 cts
per yard.
Blankets $500 per pair
A varied assortment of Cloths, Flan-
nes. Blanket and Yarn, plain and fancy,
will oe kept hand for sale for ex-
change for wool.
Dyeing Pulling and Pressing
done in the best manner and on reasona-
BILE terms. Persons bringing wool from
other counties, can have it carded so as
to re urn with the rolls.
Those shipping by railroad, who may
club and make up package of 100 lbs
or more, will have freight deducted to
and from factory.
Mark owners name plainly upon each
package and direct to VIM. Calvin, Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, and write by mail, CIV
ing directions Give us trial and you
shall not be disappointed.
mills 3m. WIN. CALVIN
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SPECIAL. NOTICE.

T NEED all the money due me and hope
i all knowing themselves indebted to
me, will please pay up by the lst Of
April. GEO. W. NORTH.
Bunker Hill, March IL. ml5 st
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Watch Making in Switzerland.

Notwithstanding the immense num-
Der of watches made in other countries
the Swiss watches still continue to be
in demand. 1t is estimated that there
are about $4,000 workmen engaged in
this industry in Switzerland. In the
competition with other countries they
manage to hold their own very we'll
being largely aided by the belief that
their watches are made by hand. It is
fact, however, that machinery is en-
played in the making Of watches in
Switzerland to a considerable extent;
although the fact is kept on the back
ground. In some cantons the manufac-
ture of cheap imitation gold and silver
watches has been recently started. A
composition used in the manufacture of
these imitation metals which is so high
" explosive that aslight blow will cause
a detonation of IN alarming character.
Excellent Theological schools are estab-5
lished throughout the country in which
boys are taught the trade Of watch MAX
ing in all its branches, by the most
skillful workn1en to be found.
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A Negroes Prayer.

Bishop Haven presided over the Texas
conference in 1873. One day he scored
some Of the colored ministers on too
feeble recognition of neum and tuum,
and then called on q brother to pray,
who responded as fellows: 20, Lord,
sdou am honest, great an holy /; noting
dat am unclean an dishonest can tuch
de. @. Lord, come an teach all classes
m eolors de lesson OBJ honesty; make
INN honest wild dare tongues, dare feet,
dare hams an dare deads. @, Lord,
make UNI honest inside an out, in de
dark an il de light. @, Lord sweet
I Babe Of Bethlehem, come and Dress our
Bishop; front an fight his ebry battle;
send him threw dis world lite q pigeon
On de wings oh de- eagle, an when de
race am rum an de last bait am fought
wild dat ole serpent, de debil, an Oar
am no more for hi1n to do in dis world,
Let him mount dc chariot an hab d short
ride home; All, den, I.ord Oh de plains
Oh glory, himself al 90 Vered Wild glory,
let him round his arrns near de throne
OBJ Lamb, an h az RES, Az shout,
foreber an eber.. e 81 SSS &
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a Fortunate Canadian.

There is q pleasing little anecdote in
connection with the carnival Of a French
mans getting rich in day, q fact al.
most unparalleled in til o history Of pro
vince of Quebec Frenchmen. Baptiste
Laporte lives in q little story and -a-hall
gray slate -colored house near the Bon
secom market, where he kept q small re-
tail fur store. Here he has lived for the
past fifty years on the hill just overlo ok-
ing the old Bonseconr Church, the old
est sacred ediice in Canada, being built
hundred years ago. Baptiste was poor,
for though his furs were always Of the
best quality and ''the finest in the world
his establishment was comparatively un-
known and consequently little patron
lied. =: r. s1.e @ IT,. 81.
Things went on pretty much the
same for Baptiste for twenty five years
He LETT with his dog, gun and snow
shoes every fall, and returned home in
the spring to his Marie, with his to-
boggan well packed with precious and
valuable furs to be sold for the next
season. He generally did not manage
to sell more than half his stock out
from year to year, but by an ingenious
plan his wife managed to preserve these
furs, so that when the time came fol
Baptiste to summon up all his enter
prise and attract customers to his shop
they we're in as perfect order as if he
had just stretched them on the little
pine twigs after shooting the animals
in the bush. Baptiste decided to re-
main home this winter to enjoy the
carnival. He did not wish to take ad.
vantage Of the opportunity to make
money, like too many other tradespeo-
pie, but merely to enjoy himself. How
ever, happy thought struck him, and
he advertised his furs in all the local
papers.
It grew very cold day or two after
the opening of the carnival, and as an
American gentleman said, "the mercury
having got SO high up in the glass dur
ing the first part of last week that ii
almost took two thermometers spliced
together to gauge it, was now to be
found down knocking the bottom out OF
the concern" This change persuaded
the American visitors who had come
here unprotected against the frost fur
Their than by a plug" hat and silk
handkerchief to Ego in for" furs and
Baptiste's was soon found to be the
cheapest place in the city In two
days his whole stock was sold with the
the exception Of half dozen red fox
skins and half as many silver fox skins,
the latter bringing him in the peit, $50
for the lot. Baptiste yesterday was
a poor French Canadian furrier. To-
day he is, thanks to the carnivals,
worth $50, 900. He had several daugh-
tiers, who were always employed even.
ings making up the f1lrs he brought
home.-Montreal Correspondent Bufa'
10 Commercial.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
A Slander on the Mor17lous.
Salt Lake Special: The Salt La

+. Salt Lake Special: The Salt Lake
Tribune Of Sunday contained a long ar
ticle purporting to be stenographic
report Of a discourse delivered at Juab
by Bishop West on the Sunday previous
and an editorial indorsing and empha-
sizing the main features of the report,
which were to the effect that the Bishop
had received a revelation ordering the
assassination of Gov. Murray and gen.
eral attack upon the Gentiles. On
Wednesday the Deseret News contained
refutation of the story, showing that
there is no such person. in the Mormon
Church as Bishop West; that there is no
bishop at all at Juab, and that Oh the
day when the. sermon was alleged to
hsye been delivered, in consequence Of
a. washout on the Utah Central railway,
so many persons from that small village
we're engaged in repairing the break
that no meeting was held there at all.
This morning the Tribune acknowledged
that the reported address was bogus
and claimed to have been imposed upon.
Great indignation is expressed by Gen
tiles and Mormons alike over the publ
cation. The Mormons charge that the
article was concerted for use in the
East by Gov. Murray, who started East
few days ago.
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"Sluning."

Stunning" the new. English fad. has
much to recommend it, though it might
have prettier sounding name and one
whose meaning does not seem to imply
something in the nature of an insult to
the peoplesNho are visited. Even the
Prince of Wales. has been "sluming."
Most everybody knows what ""sluming"
IS, for the rich and we'll -to-do to call
upon and help the very needy. The
danger is that the calling and helping
may be SO done as to offend the feelings
OF those called up, but where that can be
avoided ,andit ought not to be impossible
to avoid it, "sluning'' is not a bad
fashionable craze. Besides rendering
Immediate relief where relief is much
needed, it shows the society ladies' and
gentlemen how their unfortunate fellow
creatures have to live, and this is a.
knowledge which win tend to soften
their hearts when appeals are made to
them IN behalf Of the unfortunates after
stunning" has gone out Of style. It
should !fl De said however, that fashion is
not hard to awaken to practical inter
est IN the poor. That is not the pene,,-
a. opinion but it is the truth, as a little
g s'lderahon viii convince you. Fash
ION so seldom rests from helping the poor,
and there is scarcely d fashionable lady
who slt' has has not 9 list Of people for whom
ghe regularly provides 4 Philadelphia
Prosgsress. s1-
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cottage cheese 3; Id others Dutch.
cheese, ! q or sour crlrds !" It is simply.
the curd Of sour milk draine ed from the
whey, mould Led into small fancy shapes,
and eaten while fresh, or soon after.
The ma ctare is quite simple. The
milk is allowed to become loppared,
when It is generally heated. to facilitate
separation Of the whey. The curds arc,
then gathered and sailed, or otherwise:
to suit the taste, and pressed into small
moulds or formed with the hand into
balls or pats Of suitable shape, when it
St ready for the table. In cool weather.,
when the se,lr milk does not readily
thicken, it may be put into suitable
vessel, set in hot water over the range, ::
and stirred few minutes until the whey
begins TO separate. It is then removed
and treated as before described. It is
usually made from skinned milk; and
fresh butter or sweet cream is often
added to the curds while manipulating
and pressing intoform. This improves
the quality and flavor for many.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11

Sof linseed oil for the first coat; and, ,
furthermore, the coat Of petrol eum and
one of paint were as good as two coats
Of paint, If not better. a year or SO after
wards, T had another coat Of paint put
on, and { have as good a job as could be
made by any three coats 7 know Of and
better than some, for neither the first
nor second ever rubbed Off in the
slightest degree. 4 do not consider.
petroleum a "paint," but it serves the.
same purpose, as preservatiye OF wood
by filing the pores and glazing the sur
face, so that any water which may fall
upon it will stand upon the surface in
globules until evaporated. There are
two kinds of this oil, light and heavy.
The former penetrates readily, and the
latter, T believe, does not. This may
he one cause of conflicting reports. I
keep barrel on hand all the time,
and put it on unpainted woodwork Of
all tools. I have had a new picket
dressed fence put up, and saturated
the pickets with petroleum, and know
it is all right till I am ready to paint
it.-"UBER."
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Poultry RaiSiog,

The raising Of poultry can be made q
success, and those who do not make y
success Of it should not lay the blame
at the barn yard gates. I know OF Il
poultry breeder who raised from 800 to
400 large, healthy fowls on lot with
100 feet frontage and $50 feet back
This breeder is Mrs. r. J. Raynor, now
of Fruitvale, Alabama, woman who
has raised more prize winning Lang
shans than all the breeders on the Pa
cific Coast combined; not in her own
hands, but in the hands of other breed
ers and all were raised on Il city lot on
Folsom street. I know OF q neighbor
of mine who makes com Portable living
from fowls and eggs. He
keeps from 300 to 500 fowls. and gives
them care and attention, and plenty of
oyster shells, burned bones, etc He
always gives his fowls a change of diet,
feeding corn, bran, wheat and broom
corn. He has fine patch of alfalfa
and running stream of water. About
twenty-five fowls are enough in one
house. say Sx1O. I keep horses. cows
and poultry. I find poultry requires
no more attention than any other fine
stock, and, if given proper care and at
tention, pays we'll. But some people
think thus: We'll, I buy 500 hens,
can make living without working.
I'll buy farm and put stock on it. I
won't have to work" This is all mis-
take. Everything connected With farm
ing requires care and attention to make
q success of it.-Thomas Waite, in Pa
cific Rural Press.
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Farnor's Notes.

T.. Professor w. A. Henry states that
over half the students of the Wisconsin
University are sons Of farmers.
President Philo Parsons, Of the
Michigan State Society, declares that
the present Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture "hasn't shadow Of right to speak
for America farmers"
When Marshall p. Wilder plants
peach trees he heads them down to two
feet, instead of two four, as recommend
ed by many others.
Thirty thousand three-pound cans of
tomatoes were lately sold in Baltimore
for the lowest price On record. The
business is overdone, "they Say.'"
A Canada correspondent advises read
ers Of The London Agricultural Gazette
mot to Jump out of the frying-pan of
English farming into the very hot fire
Of Northwestern ruination and bank
ruptcy."
Great mortality prevails among horses
in different sections of Oregon. The
disease prevalent appears to be blind
staggers. A large percentage of cases
result fatally. Over four hundred
horses died recently of the disease in
Clackamas and Van Hill counties.
We hear from several counties that
the tree peddler is about seeking whom
he may devour." He boards at the best
hotel, wears the shinlcst of silk hats, the
finest of kid gloves, and drives the best
rig in town, aud "fools money" pays the
bills. In, one locality these scamps
swindled the people out of 1000.
The latest remedy for the cabbage
pest is smartweed pepper weeN which
is thoroughly dried, ground to powder
and sprinkled over the plants.
A little ready cash will not wait long
for profitable use. Better have money
in your pocket than land unpaid for.
Except on heavy clay soils, the ground
should not be plowed deeper than it can
be fined; but always the deeper it is
fined, the better. - !:
Painting with Crude Petroleum.
Rural New Yorker
When I purchased this place, about
six years ago, only the front was paint
ed, the sides and rear being white
washed. The whitewash { had scraped
off, and what a job! Z then purchased a
barrel Of light petroleum, and gave the
weather boards a coat OF it. rs much as
they would readil,y absorb. This filed
the pores of the wood and hard ened the
surface in q remark able manner When
the painter had put on one coat OF paint
he was much sur pr sed and said that had
mot put on the petroIe un he Wonld
have required at least 10 gallons more
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11

l WIZ 04l1U11 w stSh liAlSs
step there q moment, il she pleased
{ Gracious' thought Mrs. Muntle,
What can he want ~ 8. .S
Then she blushed brightly, settled
her necktie, took off her apron and
walked demnrely in. H 4. :.,. ,s.s
Be seated, na'ana, !" said Mr.. Patter-
son. Up lease to sit here Allow me to
| sit near You, ! have something to ask
which may require consideration
Oh, dear, it's cemingp said Mrs.
Muntle. a.
I'll suppose you know I'm man OF
considerable means, ma'am," said the
old bachelor, able to buy nice house
furnish it we'll and live in it comfort
ablyp +. 5 s.:s.
$50 I've understood, Mr.. Patterson
said the widow.
| "And of course it's pleasanter to live
that way than at hotel" said Mr..
Patterson. =.
II should Judge it might be-" said
Mrs. Muntle cautiously.
"You Judge rightly" said Mr.. Patter-
son, "but you know bachelor must be
in the hands Of servants, if he keeps a
house. A gentleman don't want that;
he wants lady to superintend things
for hinl-some one of taste and refine
ment, and all that. Common people
don't understand his feelings, and mer-
cenary servants are a poor dependence. /"
II know that" said Mrs. Muntle.
you are almost as much alone as T.,
aren't you, Mrs. Muntle ?" said Mr.; Pat
terson, coaxingly. - ss..
'"The doctor knew him. He's going
to do it, just as he said he would if he
ever did," said the lady. to herself.
Aloud she answered.: "Well, sir, I am
pretty free it is true. All my children
are married."
II know money would be no object to
|you," said MI. Patterson. 'You have
enough. But if Iwere to tell you that
I hated boarding houses, and wanted a
home, I think You would have pity on
me. I'll buy beautiful house, and
you shall have complete control of ev-
erything; only to make my strawberry
shortcake for me all my life"
He paused and looked at the lady.
"That is delicately put, he thought,
'sNor will you hire out for a housekeep
er, | fancy"
II amt romantic, though" said Mrs
Muntie; '"but still, we amt young,
neither of US and it gets to be just that
with the most sentimental after while.
"Don't refuse me-" pleaded Mr.. Pat
terson.
well, Mr.. Patterson, I WON'T" said
Mrs. Muntle. I'm my own mistress,
and though I've never thought Of a
second marriage, why think I'm war
ranted in making one. And doubt
shall never repent, for I think you've
a fine disposition, and J. under stand
Iyour ways and tastes"
| Mr.. Patterson listened. He saw what
he had done; proposed and been &C.
cepted without having any idea what he
| was about.
He looked at Mrs. Muntle: she was
vary nice and fresh and comedy, and ten
years his junier, at least if she was forty.
He could not have done better thing.
and he would be married without any
troublesome counting. So he put his
arm around Mrs. Mutle's waist, and said |:
"Thank you, my dear, I consider
myself very fortunate.
He wrote to his, good doctor in about
a fortnight's time, to tell him that he
had taken both his prescriptions,
was q married man and intended to
bring his bride home about Christmas,
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The Drain-tile Theory Of the Ohio
Floods.

A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post lays special stress upon
the agency of drain-tile in producing
the Ohio floods. He says that more
than so, 600 miles of drain tile had been
laid in the state since 1875" The fever
has ragged throughout Indiana and Ohio
with equal violence, and though I have
no official report of the work done there
I feel confident I am safe in stating
that in the three states more than
100000 miles of the tile have been laid.
Now let us consider the effects. The
general surface Of this whole region is
so level that it abounds in swamps,
sloughs and areas Of low, wet land of
greater or less extent. There is hardly
farm which has not more OF less Of
such land, which heretofore has been
useless, but which, when drained, has
proved to be the most productive land
ON the farm. These areas consequent
~ have been everywhere the
first to be drained, to the immediate
and manifest improvement Of the pro-
ductlveness OF the farm, and equally OF
the health Of its occupants. But, on the
other hand, these areas have heretofore
been the reservoirs into which the rains
and melting SHOWS of all the. tributary
surface have slowly found their way by
infiltration; and after days and weeks,
during which evaporation was constantly
in progress, the surplus or overflow has
reached the river. Now they have been
provided with artificial substitutes for
natures slow methods, and the I'M
mediate discharge is secured Of all these
natural reservoirs through the drains,
which carry off in few hours an aces
sion of waters that would otherwise
have reached the river only by compar-
atively small installments, after pre-
colatimg for weeks, or perhaps months,
through sloughs and sWamps, and losing
"a large portion by evaporation. This
effect is perfeetly obvious and undeni-5
able and, taking into account The al
most incredible extent to which this
work of drainage has been carried, is
the result dispro ionate TO the cause?
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11

a poor widow, Of Bath, Me-, was
greatly surprised the other morning By
the appsAka lance Of twenty men with axes
] end saws, who, without any ceremony,
attacked her wood pile and sawed and
split until the whole pile was reduced
I to wood size The preacher, who came
little late, was chahed By the honest
men for his hardness, and Lifting a
/ good sized stick on the saw horse for
him, he took off his coat and soon had
the log reduced to the required size. 5s5s
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Cottage Cheese.

As kind Of cheese recently coming into
demand in all our chief towns and cities,
says the Boston Journal OF Chemistry,
would soon have an immense eonsan1p-
ton i there were an adequate supply.
In some localities il IS called pot 81