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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-06-20

Among arrivals we observe Mr..
VIM. Kilmer and daughter, Mr..
Brown Lafevre and wife, of Bunker
Hill, Rev. w. w. Downey, of Mar
tinsburg.
The strawberry festival, under the
auspices of the ladies of the Episco
pal Church, began on Thursday
evening last, under the Masonic Hall.
and will continue until Saturday
evening, inclusive.
The excursion from Little George
town to Potomac Isle will occur on
Saturday next A large attendance
anticipated, as dancing will be one
Of the prominent amusements.
Miss Mabel Henshaw, after pro-
tracted absence at school in Mary
land, has returned to pass vacation
among friends and relatives in this
village.
Several teachers from this Dis
trict are attending the institute in
your city, and will doubtless be much
edllled by those things which must
ever be seen and heard by all peda-
gogues.
1t is rumored that the Rev. Dal-
las Tucker, of Charlestown, will
spend few weeks in our village
during the present summer.
The gentle clang of the wire hoop
the gallant charge of the small boy
upon locusts and stray dogs, with
store-corner decisions which might
make the national cabinet tremble,
are among the few things soothing
the weary pilgrim and sojourner in
our midst
The colored band, recently organ
lied in Hedgesville, are reported as
making rapid progress, and will ere
long supply residents with that
which drives dull care away.
REPORTERS.
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Pee Wee Items.

You would like to hear the news
around and about Pee Wee. News
is very scarce in our vicinity.
The recent rains have gotten every
thing in good growing condition.
Gardens are looking we'll. Mrs. Thos.
Burgess has the boss garden.
The general health of our neighbour
hood is good, with the exception of
one or two cases. Mrs. Thornton
Fletcher is suffering with scrofula.
Mr.. Charles r. Barney, who has
been visiting relatives in the west,
has returned home we'll pleased with
his trip.
The Sabbath school at Mt. Carmel
church was organized several weeks
ago, the following officers were in
stalled for the ensuing year: Supt,
David Slonaker; Assist. Supt., A.
Peacemaker; Sec'y. VIM. Grove; Treas.
Thornton E. Fletcher: Librarian,
Steven Hutzler. MEMO.
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Additional Locals. ].

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY
CoURT. Number, OF conyeyances ad-
mitted to record since March tefm--162.
Sheriff's account examined, and set
tied report of committee received.
Peter Foreman, j. w. Mcdonald
and Joseph Grove, were appointed COM
missioners to view the road leading
from j. w. Tabb's to Gerardstown
grade. ri
Twenty dollars ordered to be expend-
ed by road surveyor OF HedgesviIle road
district, No. II, for constructing foot
bridge across Tilehance's bridge, at
Pauling's crossing. sg
HIS. Butts, County Superintendent
elect, OF public schools. filed bond as
prescribed by law. g.l9sg
A list of suitable persons TO serve as
grand and petit jurors for the the ensu-
ing year was selected by the Court.
Reports of j. M. Seibert, committee
to examine the Aims House, of Thorn.
D. Barney, superintendent ofthe same,
of the overseers of the poor, showing
the expenditures in the several districts,
and OF Road Surveyors were received,
and ordered TO be filed
Overseers of the poor were appointed
for the ensuing two years, as follows.
Mill Creek, John w. Lamo1: Gerards-
town, q. w. McKown; Arden. Henry
Trostle; MartinsDurg. Henry Wilen:
Opequon. w. FL. Myers; Hedgesville;
George Z. Kreglow, Falling Waters.
A. r. Porterfeld.
Physicians to the poor were appoint
ed as follows. DR.. George p. Morri-
son, Mill Creek; DR.. j. b. Wiley, Ger
ardstown: DIR. s. N. Myers, Arden;
DR.. G.. B. Hedges, Martinsburg; Drs.
r. G. Grove and E. G. Williams, Ope
qu0n; DR.. j. 7. Harris; Hedgesville;
DR.. F. M. Davis, Falling Waters; DIR.
}. b. Snodgrass, to the aims house, DIR.
N. D. Baker to the Jail.
Two hundred dollars appropriated
for widening Parks Gap road on east
side of mountain.
Fifty dollars ordered to be expended
on road from D. Wright's farm to the
Winchester Pike.
Rule awarded VS.. John Wagner to
show cause why road from Dandridges
Mill to Martinsburg should not be
opened
Bridge at mouth of Opequon, and
across Back Creek at Fuss ford order
ed to be repaird.
Twenty dollars appropriated for max
ing change in road at Rauch' Hill.
Ordered that bridge at Sprinkles
Mill be repaired.
Road levies for different districts,
Mill Creek, 5cts; Gerardstown, 1Octs;
Arden 12cts; Opequon, 10cts; Hedges
vile, 12cts; Falling Waters, 12cts.
The county levy was fixed at 35cts.
Petition for bridges over Mill Greek
at Bunker Hillwas laid over for future
action. IS
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NEW YORK, June 17-Inspector Byrnes
has in custody Hugh Frazier, who is sup
posed to be the Captain or Maj. Hugh Fra
zier who WAS arrested in Buffalo a month
ago for swindling and was subsequently dis
charged because the complainant, a New
York hotel keeper, refused to prosecute him.
Inspector Byrnes refused to say what charge
there is now against Frazier, but it is be-
lieved to be passing spurious checks in one
or more towns in New Jersey. Frazier has
boosted that he was an officer in the guards
and a chum of the Prince of Wales.
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ST GhAER HOTHE,
HARRISBURG, W. VA.

7 HAVE refurnished this large and commo-
l. dious House-the leading Hotel of the
City. Parlor and all the chambers fitted
and furnished in frst-class order. All ar
rangements and management orderly and
respectable. Table unexcelled. Summer
boarders accommodated. Transient travel
lers made comfortable by home-like atten
ton. Kind and obliging employees in eve
ry department Bath rooms in the house.
Families or person desiring board respectful
ly referred to Rev. r. Fl. Pitt. Hon. J. II.
Gettinger, DR.. j. A. @. Hover, Mr.. Frank
Thomas and other quests, citizens Of Mar
tinsburg. P. E. DORSEY,
in Is Proprietor.
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THE cottage on the summit of Mt.
McGregor, containing the dying ex-
president and eX-general of the Uni
ted States, will be as constantly, as
intently and hopefully watched by
the nation as well as by the world at
large as was FRANKLIN Cottage,
Elberon, in 1881. Grant must, ere
long, go the journey that Garfield
travelled, but while life throbs in his
bosom, human sympathy and hope
will attend him.
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Gravel Hill.

Harvest will soon be here. sim.
We are glad to say that Mrs. John
d. Barney is better. '11.,
There will be services at Mt. Car
mel on Sunday at O'Clock pm.
Some of the good people of Gano-
town have added much to the appear
ance of the church by white washing.
Mr.. Greeny, we would be much
obliged to you if you would not both
er yourself so much about Wess.
You would take a wife. too, if you
could get one. PAT
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Hon. VIM. III. RIGas didn't make
much capital by resigning his oner-
Gus duties of doing nothing at the
Distillery. He resigned on the 10th
to take effect July lst. The reply
was prompt-resignation accepted
as of date, June 10th. The Distille-
ry is now running without the fifth
useless wheel.
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FORAN'S REVENGE.
He Secures the Dismissal of Letter Car.
rier Who Opposed Him.

rier Who Opposed Him.
CLEVELAND, o., June 12.-Postmaster
Jones received dispatch from Washington
commanding him to discharge Letter-car-
rier John Lowell without questions. Lowell
was formerly Democrat Two years age
he became Republican, and having passed
the civil service examination was appointed
a letter carrier He has considerable in.
fiuence among the Irish voters, and last fall
he did some very effective work against
Congressman Foran in Irish wards. Mr..
Foran admitted that he was responsible for
Lovells dismissal saying in excuse that
Lowell circulated false reports about hii
character when he ran for congress.
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FLOODED FIELDS.
Portions "f Tennessee Washed Rare of Sol
and Crops Destroyed.

and Crops Destroyed.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June Is. Later reports
concerning the heavy rainfall in Dyer and
adjacent counties state that the loss will ag
gregate nearly one hundred thousand dollars.
The loss in Dyer county alone is estimated al
sixty thousand dollars. The damage to the
wheat crop is immense. Crops on the low
lands of whatever kind are damaged badly
and in many instances completely ruined.
Creek cotton fields were flooded by water
two or three feet deep whore the water was
never known TO reach before, and in many
such fields the soil was completely washed
away, as deep as if it had been plowed. This
dam that held the water to run Parkers
machine shop at Dyerspurg broke and the
rush OF water came near sweeping away the
bridge over the Dyersburg e. Trenton road.
The farmers have lost heavily by short wheat
crops, and this additional blow has made
them quite respondent.
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+ Special Inducements
saa On Ladies' 4oi ~.
FINE SHOES and SHIPPERS.
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
NEXT DOOR SMITHS EAGLE HOTEL.
Bargains for the Ladies'.

STILL a few left of the stock of fine
leathern hand satchels, bought of Col.
Douglas, trustee ola bankrupt stock, will
be sold at less than the cost at the factory,
at GETTINGER s. HOKE'S headquar-
tiers for shoes and hats, Blondel Building.
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II. II. Cluyerius

RICHMOND, June let is said ON goot
authority that Mrs. Trinstall, the aunt of T
j. Cluverius, recently convicted of the
murder of Fannie Lillian Madison had
acknowledged TO friends that she believed
her nephew betrayed Miss Madison, but de-
MES that Tommie killed the girl. 1t is said
that Cluverius has written an address
which he will deliver in the Hastings court
when he appears there to have sentence Of
death pronounced upon him.
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TO THE SWEET GIRL GRADUA TIE

Latin French and Limburger Dutch
Pin cushions, tides and Kensngton stitch;
The romance is over; you know so much,
The world is hardly keyed up to your pitch.
Hide away the callow essay.
Throw the slippers under your bunk,
The muslin fxings, white and dressy,
Fold and lay them in your unk.
Wash your frizzes free from glue,
Calm your heart so agitated,
Put on your old number six shoe,
And thank the Lord you We graduated.
Fling away the gum you've chewed
shut the textbooks up for keep; ~
Fall in love with some nilk-eyed dude, u
Aud learn to wash, and bake, and swee p.
- Yonkers Gazette.
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rested for attempting to jump from tn
Brooklyn bridge, was taken to the court II
Brooklyn charged with being drunk ant
making disturbance on the bridge. He
was fined $40 and costs and in default Of
which he will be imprisoned for sixty days
The fine will probably be paid by friends
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Valuable Horse Flesh.

New YORK, June 17.-Among the horses
disposed of at the Madison square sale were
Descendant of Nor timer, the celebrated
French horse, Duke of Magenta, Moccasin,
Saxon, Katanka and other noted stations
Nearly sixty horses were sold, the highest
price paid being 81, 100 for a Duke of
Magenta Refreshment colt
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THE summary Of crop news, as
CLEANED from our exchanges, shows
winter wheat bad, cotton good, an
increase over last year; more acre
age of corn and a promising yield.
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EaIai Fall.

CANTON, O., June 18.--A bricklayer named
Peter Shields fell from a twenty-five foot
high scatfold, breaking three ribs and injur-
ing his spine. He cannot recover Shields
is unmarried, and has no relatives in this
country, having recently come here from
Ireland
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THE Herald and Iorchlight and
Odd Felloao of Hagerstown was pur-
chased on Tuesday by Mr.. Charles
w. Adams, of Sharpsburg, in that
county, for the sum of 81 ,024.
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PITTsBURG, June 16.-The general opinion
in iron circles is that the agreement arrived
at between the firm of Oliver Bros & Phil
lips offers the way out of the trouble. Jone,
& Laughlin will sign and resume worn
Thursday. Graft, Bennett & Company's mil
is reported as being fired up, but whether they
intend starting is unknown.
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smaIlpox Under Control.

KEoKUK, Iowa, June IA special from
Shenandoah says smallpox at that place il
now under control. The state board OF
health visited that place, and strict quaran-
tine will be maintained. Several cases hav'
appeared at Clarinda and one case at Ores
ton.
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THE assessed valuation of taxable
property in the city of New York is
$1,l75 ,O52 1856, or $55 ,4l9,799 higher
than in 1884.
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AYERS
Cherry PectoraT

Is not new claimant for popular conf
dence, but a medicine which is to-day
saving the lives OF the third generation
who have come into being since it was
first offered to the public.
There is not household in which this
invaluable remedy has once been in
troduced where its use has ever beck
abandoned, and there is not a person
who has ever given it a proper trial
for any throat or lung disease suscep-
tible Of cure, who has not been made
well by it.
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL has,
in numberless instances, cured obstinate
{ cases of chronic Bronchitis, Larnygitis,
and even acute Pneumonia, and has
saved many patients in the earlier stages
of Pulmonary Consumption. 1t is a
medicine that only requires to be taken in
small doses, is pleasant to the taste, and is
needed in every house where there are
children, as there is nothing SO good as
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL for treat
ment Of Group and Whooping Cough.
These are all plain facts, which can be
verified by anybody. and should be re-
membered by everybody.
Ayers Cherry PeCt0ral
PREPARED BY
DR.. j. G. Aver 81 Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all druggists.
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OWNERS of large farms in Oregon
are selling off tracts and declare
themselves believers in "a little farm
well titled"
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SATURDAY, JUNE 90, 1885.

THERE are moro than 10000 appli-
cations for Office on file in the Tres
ury Department.
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California now produces over l00,-
900 boxes Of rafsins annually.
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He'll Not jump for Sixty Days.
NEW YORK. June 17-Parker #. DAILY, ar
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-28
COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD.
Maud Kreger INDICATED in the Police Court,
But Afterwards Makes Bad Break.


But Afterwards Makes Bad Break.
The bailff was singing a stanza from that
new and beautiful melody, 'Papa's pants
will soon fit Willie,' when the gang was
waltzed in yesterday, and it was very evident
that his poetic mind was wrestling with the
soft and tender influences of balmy spring.
''Some men," he said, turning to the bard
Of the bull pen, ''are too thick-headed to
live" There is a chutnp," pointing to a
youth with a bladder face and a gaudy red
necktie," who came in to see the sights, and
he was actually so green that the horses
reached out to nibble him as he walked
along the street, taking him for a patch of
spring pasture. He was an easy mark for
the FOUNDERS, and they plucked him for all he
was worth.''
The court called for the docket at this
point, and the youth who had been picked
before he was ripe was taxed SIS or five days.
1t was quiet day in the court room, the
only case of interest being that of Maud
Kreger, who was charged by John Stencil
with disorderly conduct. 1t was case Of tit
for tat, and her arrest was evil
IDENTITY a piece of spite work. She
had Stencil yanked on Friday for
assaulting her, and after he was lined ten
bills he swore out warrant for her arrest.
After hearing the testimony the case was
dismissed. The best part of the matter, how
ever, transpired afterwards. Upon being
INDICATED the naughty Maudie went down
to Stencils house, and when Mrs. Stencil
came to the door, Maud, the audacious
baggage, went into the garden,
and used some abusive language.
Mrs. Stencil said. ''Fie, for shame." and
rushed up to the police court and swore out
another warrant for the arrest of Maud. The
sequel will transpire to-day.
John Canary has sweet name, but he is
not very sweet singer He was up yester-
day on the charge of stealing a watch from
his roommate, but the case didn't pan out,
and he was discharged. c. Bolt and A.
Boyer were charged with obstructing street
with building material and the case was
continued until to-day.
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HOW LONG WE SHOULD SLEEP.
lSeUen Hours for Day Laborers and Eight
for hen of Acttre Brains.

Seven Hours for Day Laborers and Eight
for hen of Acttre Brains.
From the Gentleman's Magazine.
The latest authority on this vexed gues-
ton, DR.. Mains, says that the proper
amount of sleep to be taken by a man is
eight hours. So far as regards city life the
estimate is probably correct. Proyerbial
wisdom does not apply to modern conditions
of social existence. ''Five (hours) for
man, seven for woman and nine for pig,''
says one proverb; and second, quoted by
Mr.. Hazlitt in his English Proverbs, declares
that nature requires five; custom allows
seven; laziness takes nine, and wickedness
eleven. These conclusions were, however,
drawn from observation of country life.
Physical fatigue is more easily overcome
than intellectual. Which of us when travel
ing in the country or abroad, or in any way
separated from the ordinary process of
tn ought and anxiety, has not found that he
could, without difficulty, do with couple of
hours less sleep than he was in the habit Of
taking? Men, however, who follow an in
tellectual pursuit are exceptionally fortunate
if the processes of restoration occupy less
than seven hours. More pifeq they
extend to eight or nine hours. Kant, I see
it stated, took never less than seven hours.
Goethe owned to requiring nine Soldiers
and sailors, on the other hand, like laborers,
do with much less quantity. l am afraid to
say how few the Duke of Wellington regarded
as essen tial. a school-masler under whom
at one time l studied, hard-working man
at the acquisition of languages, proclaimed
loudly that ne never took more than five
hours sleep. The hour at which he rose in
the morning gave some color to this asser-
ton. Only in after life did discover that
two hours postprandial siesta was not in
cluded in that allowance.
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Minister to Stockhnlm.
Translated from Svenska Folkets Tidning, (Rep. !
Minneapolis.

Translated from Svenska Follzets Tidning, Rep !
Minneapolis.
One of the first diplomatic appointments
the new administration will be called upon
to make is that of minister to Sweden and
Norway. The appointment ought to be given
to one of the Northwestern States in which
the Scandinavians constitute large and i'm
portaut part of the population. In this re-
spect the claims Of Minnesota, as we have
often said, are far stronger than those of any
other state in the Union. She is in fact the
center of the merican-Scan dinavan ee-
ment in this. country: and being such she is
most directly interested in the choice of the
United States representative at Stockholm.
The new minister, whoever he may be,
should be man thoroughly acquainted and
in sympathy with our people, one who know
ing out wants and circumstances here can
best represent us in the old country.
Unfortunately the Democratic party pos
sesses few such men, and there is but little
hope that under this Democratic administers
ton the Scandinavians of the United States
will be represented at Stockholm by a person
who will at once command our confidence
and support 1t would doubtless be consid-
cred an inpertinence for Republican news
paper to suggest proper appointee for this
position to q Democratic administration At
the same time the matter is of so much i'm
portance to US Scandinavans that we cannot
refrain from expressing our opinion ABOUT
this appointment.
We of course prefer 10 have Mr.. Stevens
retained, but as a Democratic administration
probably will not do this, and 1t is against
the policy of our government TO appoint a
Swede or Norwegian, and as a Democrat
probably will be appointed in any event, we
regard it IS our privilege TO express our pref.
erence among those men who have been
mentioned in connection with this appoint
ment, and to express it in favor of the man
whom we think best fitted to represent US in
our native country.
We believe thatthPre Is no Democrat In the
Northwest whose appointment as minister to
Sweden and Norway would be more accept
able to the people we represent than that Of
Senator q. NJ. Hall Of Red Wing, a gentle
man Of education and culture, Of infexible
integrity and unquestioned ability, an old
| resident Of one OF the largest scandinavian
counties in the state. His standing and
strength among our people IS best evidenced
By the almost solid scandinavian support
which he received in bis contest for the state
senatorship-his majority over his Republican
mprtit0r being larger than the entire Dem
ocratie vote Of his district. As a member Of
the senate, Mr. Hall has won the enviable
reputation Of being among the best and ablest
Of our state Legislators.
The greatest and only substantial objection
to him is his unwavering Democracy. But
probably this objection viii have but little
weight with President Cleveland and bis
cabinet
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-28
5Torphine portie- IN Paris,


Paris Letter to London Truth.
hear Of morphine parties Of the small
snd-early kind in the higher couches sociales.
Those invited to such little gatherings are
knoxn to the hostess az being in the habit Of
resisting ills to which flesh is heir By subcu-
taneous injections Of UtheI narcotic saboye
named. The injection is performed with a
little instrument, the manufacture of which
is passing from the surgical-instrumeut
maker To the jeweler, and is becoming an
objet 5'ar,. Guests and the lady Of the
house sit in circle and listen 10 concert
In distant room. They describc their SEN
salons To each other. Nogices derive pecu-
liar beauty from the morphiniAng process.
One sees in many Of the portraits at the
Miriiton the traces Of morphine in the gen
eral morbidezza Of the faces and the brown
ish circles that surround eyes which are at
onch brilliant and softly languisbing. 1t
may be renem bered that the late Duchesse
de ChsuInes killed herself with subcutau-
eoas injections Of morphine. She resorted
to them TO sOothe the irritsted nerves and
yary her uDdoubted beauty, and had 10 con-
time them. because It became impossible for
her 70 leave them Of. / know Of enn-
frraed morphio- maniac xbo would not for
the world eat .Eo kinds Of meat On the same
day in Lent or indulge in the pleasure Of a