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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-11
The CHAMPION
Sugar Evaporators
Are Ahead
OF all competitors for the follow
ing reasons

Ing reasons
1st. The material Of which they are
composed Is heavier and they are much
better made than any other; are quicker
and require less fuel.
I'd. Their being composed of several
small pans makes them convenient and
easy 10 handle, whereas large pans are so
heavy that many who use them do not re.
move or clean them during the season.
3d. The Syphons are complete sue.
sess and are considered by parties using
them great improvement.
The following persons have purchased
Champions this year; 5. ID. Bacon, 9. ID.
Stocking, ID. 5. Stocking, o. j. Whitney,
+. Campbell, two; p Smith, II. Mason,
ID. W. Davies AMI II. Belts.
Z. CAMPBELL and II. BELTS, Agents,
Pitisfeld, 0hio.
Also J. W. WILBUR, Agent.
l5Slf Wellington, Ohio
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-11
TTIE
SUCCESS EvAPORATOR

Has been in competition with all the lead.
ing evaporators and HAS NEVER BEEN
BEATEN.
No Eyaporator Company uses heavier
material.
No Evaporator Company employs better
workmen.
They employ three times the number of
workmen employed by any other Evapo-
rator company. They make and sell three
times the amount of goods manufactured
by any other Evaporator company.
They advocate no untried theories. They
heat faster and consequently uso less fuel.
They do not try TO run sap up hill.
They use no useless and unreliable 81.
phons. They are more convenient, less
complicated, and have more heating sur.
face than any evaporator made.
Sold entirely on their merits.
2m2 0. Z. SMITH, Agt.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-11
Grain. FlOnr and Feed.


Read what the people
say concerning the
ability Of DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil TO cure
asthma, catarrh, Group,
colds etc. Mrs. Dora
Koch Of Buffalo, says:
"For Group II is decid-
edly efheaeious." Mrs. Jacob Mellisor Of Mariop
Ohio, says the same thing.l S. S. Graves, Akron,
N. ", writes: " Had asthma of the worst kind,
took one dose Of Thomas Eeleetrie Oil and was
relieved In few minutes Would walk Ave miles
for this medicine and pay S. bottle for IT," Drug
gist c. X. Hall, Grayvie says: "Cured an ul-
cerated throat for me In twenty -four hours.n "Sat
up In bed and eoughed till the clothing was wet
with perspirntion. Ny
wife insisted that | use
Thomas Eelectric Oil.
The hryt teaspoonful
RELIIvED X. II.
Perkins, Creek Centre,
NY, Thomas Eclee-
trie Oil Is also a TIP
Tor external sppliea-
ton for rheumatism,
euts,scaldf burns bites,
bruiscs,ete. When visi-
# ting the druggist, ask
him what he knowtof
DR.. Thomas Electric
Oil; if he has been
long In the drug
trade, be sure he will
speak highly Of Il.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

THE strikes among the street car
drivers Of Chicago and the nail
workers of Cleveland continue. The
result of these alteration is plainly
visible in these two cities, by stag
nation Of business, confusion and
open murder The poor man of to-
day is called upon to endure much,
but the strong arm of the law would
not be used wrongly, if several
of the ring-leaders in such strikes
were severely dealt with. The ques-
ton becomes one of personal safety
of life and protection of property.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
MISSING Mr.. VAN DER COOK.

Further News of His Movements-The
Cause of His Mental Deran cement.
CINCINNATI, July 9.-No news of the
whereabouts of the missing insurance adj
juster, John +. Van Der Cook, has been re-
ceived, but Detective Joe Carey, of the reg
ular force has learned of some of his move
ments since he was last seen. 1t appears
that later he went to the Grand Central
lepot and boarded a train at IL 80. When
The conductor came to him for his fare he
pulled out large roll of bills, containing
5wenties, tens and ives, and asked, 'What
is the fare to Chicagop
"You are on an accommodation train"
was the reply, "that only goes as far as
Harrison
Van Der Cook sleeaily replied that it was
all right.
When the train arri ed at Harrison he
asked to be directed to a hotel, but Con-
iuctor Connolly, who took in the situation,
told him he had better remain where he
was, and had a brakeman make up a bed
for him in the car with seats. Van Der
Cook stretched himself upon it and went to
sleep. He did not awaken until the train
arrived back in the Grand Central station.
Then it was that no was met by Private
Waterman Kinney. 1t is more than prob
able that he aimlessly boarded some out
going train.
Detective Carey was able to follow his
movements thus far with the aid of q photo
graph.
A reason for Mr.. Van Der Cooks strange
behavior is found in the fact that when he
was boy his skull was fractured by an acct
dental blow from stone. He recovered
from the injury, but it has given him
trouble since Five years ago he was found
in New York, after wandering about just as
he is now doing.
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u LT1 RI 4

If Mr.. E. w. Bedinger, manager
Of the West Virginia Democrat has
an opinion that is valuable it is his
estimate of his character. He has
sized up two $4,000 chunks,
charging up one lump to Morris, of
the Richie Gazette, and the other to
the editors of the Wheeling Htelli-
gencer. Ifhe keeps on at that rate
the maximum of value will soon be
reached and the remainder of the
editors will have to water the stock
TO keep nominal investment of
character. Brother Bedinger, please
let up-don't corner the market.
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Berkeley Springs.

The Paw Paw band visited our
town on the 4th
Rev. Donovan takes buggy rides
for marriage fees.
Our new p. NJ, Mr.. Hodgson, has
purchased a new safe.
The net proceeds from the band
festival on the 4th was $3.50.
Mayor Dill has been doing q land
office business for several days past.
On the night of the 4th some party
or parties got under the saloon of
MIR. John Kindel at Cacapon Bridge,
and bored hole up through the floor
into his whiskey barrel, letting out
about 30 gallons of whiskey.
The horse thief who is now in Jail
came near getting out on Monday
night. He tore up his iron bedstead,
took piece of it and dug hole in
the wall, and would have escaped
only daylight caught him at his work.
The directors of the B. S. & p. R..
R. held meeting on the 7th and
transacted quite an amount of bust
ness. Mr.. Ed. Harrison, of Martins
burg, has been employed to make
the survey for the road. SoUATTER
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Among Our Exchanges.

This office treated itselfto a clean
towel this week.-Shep. Register.
The first since last November.
Another hot Hogersto1on
Torchhght
We all know it.
Talk is cheap but it takes money
to buy clothing Grafton Sentinel.
What's the matter with stealing it.
Query How can q local column
be filed when nothing happens in
town p Wayne Adrocate.
Chuck in column of snake stories.
A loud time is expected at the
rink on the 4th Of July.-Grafton
Standard.
A base-drum contest, no doubt.
The appointment of Bayard, as a
Cabinet officer, is an admitted blum
der.-State Journal.
Struck the nail on the head that
time.
A rose bush is thought to be ex-
ceedingly modest, but yet it wants
the earth.-C Cham. Repository.
And it gets it.
We have celebrated and now what
do you think Of us P WaltiGmsport
Transcript.
You're too cute for anything. 1t
was q big parade.
The hearts of our farmers have
been made glad the past week by
copious rains. - Winchester Ne10s.
If the hearts of our farmers were
weighed by the amount of rain which
has blessed them, q microscope
would be necessary to find them.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
Destruction of Forests.

In an address by Hon. J. Sterling
Morton, at Nebraska City, on the
22nd, ulto. (Arbor Day., he stated
that the destruction OF forests was
going on in the United States at the
rate of $4,000 acres of trees per day,
or nine millions of acres a year, and
said, further "The denudation OF
woodland proceeds with relentless
and tireless energy in all the pine
bearing sections of the Northwest.
The axe of the woodsman and the
puff of the steam engine join with
the kissing of swiftly revolving saws
in death song for the fated forests,
more foreboding of evil to our race
than was that of the savage tribes
who originally domiciled in their YER
dant Businesses The latter presaged
only individual deaths, but the for
mer portends foods and droughts,
infertility, baroness, and the extinc-
ton of entire communities.'
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EEedgesyilie.

Among prominent arrivals since
our last communication are Rev. Dial
las Tucker and family, of Charles
town; Rev j. 0. Dorsey and family,
Washington, D c.; VIM, Moler, Key
ser; Edwin Wynkoop, Woodstock; G..
Ell. Wolfes, Martinsburg.
Mr.. e. p. Beall and wife made q
flying visit to Middletown on Satur-
day last, visiting friends and relatives
at that point.
Tt is rumored that Mrs. Kymes
and daughter, Mrs. Samuel Pitzer,
who have been in our midst so long
will make Shepherdstown their future
home.
The Children's Day at the NJ. E
Church OF this place, ON Sunday last,
was thorough success. The edifce
was beautifully decorated, and the
little folks appropriately addressed
by Mr.. p. A. Rohrbaugh.
Several residents of the village par
ticipated in the festivities at Mt Alto
on Wednesday, among whom we OBJ
served, Mr.. G. NJ. Brown, Miss Laura
Miller and sister, Thos. Swartz and
others.
Luther Ledann's remains, who died
suddenly in the vicinity of Nipetown,
were inferred in the cemetery at this
place on the Sth inst.
G. ?. Porterfeld after a protracted
business sojourn in Pueblo, Col,
made friends and relatives in these
regions brief visit short time since.
Grin and howl We commentators on
the character and quality of items
from your own beloved abiding place,
and after foaming out your precious
criticisms, upon what you deem your
selves such competent iudges-it is q
consumation devoutly to be wished
that We find sweet solace from your
labors on the ragged edge Of a dry
goods box or the beveled corners of
a store room step. REPORTERS
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GENERAL MOVES.
How it Feels to be Struck With Demo
cratic Lightning.


CINCINNATI July Cen. Edward f.
Noyes was found in his normal condition at
his Office, rosy faced and smiling.
"Well general" remarked reporter sit
appears that some some of the Democratic
lightning has struck you"
"Nhy, SO it seems, and l never felt it.
don't know anything about it, more than the
papers tell me.n
'Well, who made the connection; who
conducted the lghtnings"
why, had no expectation of it and l
don't know"
'There.were no petitions, no nothing"
mo, there was nothing of that. l see the
papers say Governor Hoadly made the rec
concentrations, and / suppose he did,
"Well, what is the nature of the Officer
II know that only in a general way. The
government divines a revenue from the
Union Pacific, and it is the duty of the di-
rectOrs, presume, to see that the govern
ment get its own"
"What is the compensation
"That | don't know. Think there is none,
unless perhaps it involves a trip to the Pa
cific coast and board meeting at the gov
ernment's expense in New York;
"Some of New York journals are going
for both you and the administration.
"Oh, yes, the Sun. Some of these strong
Tilden sheets won't forgive me for the part
took after the election of Hayes. But this is
not considered political appointment. 1t
has been customary, believe, to select from
the opposite party some members of such
boards. Yon may be sure the majority will
be Democraticn
Eyes, but your appointment is very OBJ
jectionable TO the Sun"
ITO be sure it is. The result OF the cleo
ton was very Objectionable to the Sun, and
all those who took part in securing the hon
est result in Florida for Mr.. Hayes are OBJ
jectionable And now 1 furnish a sufficient
excuse for them to attack Cleveland.
don't expect anything else. OF course they'll
do itn
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river on the hill
Lieth village quiet and still:
AL around 1t the forest trees
SILVER and whisper in the breeze.
OyeI it sailing shadows 20
or soaring hawk and screaming crow,
And mountain grasses low and sweet
Grow in the middle Of every street.
Over the river under the hill
Another village lieth still;
There / see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars of Household light.
Fires that gIeam from the smithy's door,
Mists that curl on the river shore,
And in the road no grasses grow
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill
Meier sound at smiths mill;
The houses are matched with grasses
and flowers,
Never a clock to tell the hours:
The marble doors are always shut,
You cannot enter in hall or hut
All the village lieth asleep,
Mover again TO sow or reap.
Never in dreams to moan or sigh.
Silent and idle and low they lie.
In that village under the hill
When the night is starry and still.
Many weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and signing longs to 20
Up to that home from this below,
Longs to sleep in the forest wild,
Whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth praying, this answer fall
'Patience! This village shall hold you
ALL" --Euery other SATURDAY
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THE VEST VIRGINIA. U.NTVER-
STTY
Reqiste,,

tJl
Prof Il. M Turner, President of
the West Virginia University was in
town on Friday morning and honor
ed us with a visit. He is an ener-
getic, kind gentleman, and q gradu-
ate OF Princeton College, which is
sufficient guarantee Of high scholas-
tic attainments. The Faculty has
been recognized and many Of the
objections heretofore urged against
the institution have been removed.
The Professor has numerous i'm
provements in view, which il carried
out will lift the University up out of
the depths and place it on an equal
footing with the leading places of
learning in the country. 1t is State
institution and should be aided by
the hearty good will and kindly aid
of all the people of the State to the
end that we may build up as a part
of our home, a school or seminary
that will make our young men the
possessors of the best literary scien-
tilic and business attainments.
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Bunker Hill.

Owing to the excessively warm
weather, we would advise the prom
inent men, commanding large sala-
ries, to follow the example Of Rev.
Dir. Talmage in obtaining healthy
air and invigorating exercise, afford
ed by summer resorts, as they are
the only persons really needing it.
Nothing unusual marked the 4th
in our village, except the 'whoop' of
the small boy and the incessant roar
of the fire cracker. After the ex-
citement and the smoke cleared
away, the boy vanished in the apple
tree.
We were much gratified to meet
our old friend Nick Mcclure, Of Bal
timore, recently. He is interested
in one Of the largest notion houses
in the city, which enjoys liberal
patronage from various portions of
the United States.
We were pleased SO see our young
friend Chas. r. Stribling at his post
of duty last Sunday as a Sunday
School teacher in the Presbyterian
school. We hope he may continue
his visits, to the great benefit of
that institution.
The portly form and genial face
of DR.. Hattor is becoming familiar
in Bunker Hill. He is reputed to be
a skillful dentist and has several pa
TENTS here.
Hamilton & Cline have temporari-
ly suspended the business of selling
hay elevators and are now experts
for the Champion Binder Company.
These gentlemen have facility for
adapting themselves to circumstan-
ces, and turn with alacrity from one
employment to another. CAxToN.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

Almost every person has some form
of scrofulous poison latent in his veins.
When this developes in scrofula sores.
ulcers. or eruptions, or takes the form
OF rheumatism, or organic diseases, the
suffering that ensues is terrible beyond
description. Hence the gratitude Of
those who discover, as thousands year.
~ do, that Ayers Sarsaparilla will
thoroughly eradicate this evil from the
system
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

A RECENT statement of the quantity
of land in the United States held,
owned and controlled by foreign cap
italists, prepared by Hon. William G.
Oates, member Of Congress from
Alabama, and member of the House
Committee ON Public Lands, shows
an aggregate of 20,541,6 acres so
held and owned, the largest owners
being two English syndicates pos
sessing, respectively. 100000, and
100000 acres. These owners have
not intended and do not intend to
become citizens of the United States,
and some of them are titled noblemen
of different countries in Europe. Yet
by the laxity of the Presumption laws
of this country they are enabled to
secure the privilege OF holding this
vast domain-a privilege denied by
the laws to our own citizens! The
sentiment of the country is opposed,
and has always been opposed, to this
system of foreign ownership of our
public lands, but every attempt to
discourage it by Congressional action
has thus far met with defeat before
the bills to that end could be gotten
out ofcommittes.- Washington Let
ter.
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ALTHOUGH during a time of bust.

ALTHOUGH during a time Of bust
ness depression, the United States
balance sheet for the fiscal year end
ing June goth, shows that our gov
eminent has been nobly at work. 1t
not only kept things in running or
der. but also paid to its creditors
S6S,000,000 out Of its surplus reve-
nue.. Such a showing must meet
with the approval Of every Ameri-
can citizen.
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The Press Prize Polls.

Eleven hundred persons resident
in twenty-seven states and five ter.
ritories Of the Union, Cuba and Can
ada, took part in the recent voting
contest of the Philadelphia Weekly
Press. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
was declared the favorite story writ
er, receiving ll3 votes to 1l2 for Il.
p. Roe, 81 for w. ID. Howells, IS for
William Black, 43 for Mark Twain
and 80 for Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Miss Braddon got 81 votes; Ouida,
10; Mrs. Oliphant, % and Miss Mu-
lock, Is. In all, 1911 authors were
voted for. The favorite poem prov
ed to be Longfellow's "Evangeline, "
which got l25 votes to Gray's Ele-
gy ll3; Thanatopsis, so; the Raven,
rs, and Paradise Lost, 40. Snow
bound got II votes, Enoch Arden,
10; Barbara Fritchie, II Lucille, lG;
Lady of the Lake, As, and Lincoln's
reputed favorite, 80 why should the
spirit of mortal be proud" received
33. No less than 521 persons agreed
that Daniel Webster was our great
est orator, the balance of the vote
standing: Henry Clay, l2l Patrick
Henry, "a; Wendell Phillips, IL;
Ingersoll 81; Everett, so; Blaine, 33;
Beecher, 10; Cough, -; Stephen A.
Douglas, 8; Rufus Choate, 6; Roscoe
Conkling, 5; and Lincoln, 4. There
was some close voting between JAS
G.. Blaine and Daniel Webster as the
greatest American statesman, but
Mr.. Blaine finally won by 248 votes
to Webster's 225. Henry Clay got
1853; Lincoln, 95; Thomas Jefferson,
So Alexander Hamilton, 60; Wash
ington, Al, Charles Sumner, 80, and
Garfield %. Secretary Bayard,
President Cleveland and Jefferson
Davis received each / vote. Upon
the most useful discovery or inven-
ton the telegraph got $40 votes;
electricity, 1871; the cotton GIN. 81;
sewing machine, 10, and the tele-
phone, 80. Religion was voted the
source of the greatest amount of
happiness, with health and content
ment close behind, the figures stand
ing 279, 1877 and 1856, respectively.
Education got only 80 votes, liberty
% and money 25, while love, with
GA, and virtue with Al, left marriage
with only 81 votes, considerably in
the rear. Upon the question, "Should
Women Voter" 500 said yes and 537
no. As between Russia and England
in their recent warlike attitudes, the
latter had but l majority in the
number of sympathizers, the figures
standing, Russia, SIS; England, SIG.
Pennsylvania was declared by all
odds the best state to live in, having
go votes, the next best being dis
tant California, with Sc, and New
York followed with58. New Jersey
Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Mas
sachusetts and Kansas also ranked
high in the list of favorites. The
last question was temperance one,
and ran: "Would the substitution
of light wines and malt liquors for
stronger alcoholic drinks remove
the evils of intemperance to such an
extent as to make further prohib-
tory legislation unnecessary p The
vote stood, ayes, l63; nays, S8l. This
was the most decided expression of
opinion of any, and the result is q
sweeping victory for the Prohibi-
tionists.
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CERTIE'ICA TIE.
Pa INFUL OBSERVA TION.

at is painful to observe that the
Wheeling Register, which we had
hoped, under its present manage
ment, would become in some sort
one of the recognized organs of our
party, sees fit to reproduce and en-
dorse editorials from Republican
paper like the Martinsburg INDIE
PENDENT, which grossly misrepre-
sents and traduces a Democratic
journal.-Charlesto,on Democrat.
The above is intended to hurt and
as certificate of political standing
is somewhat riley. However, the
editor of the downcast look and
who gets sat down on in the Court
room and in the lodges, wherein we
suppose he practices and is a men,
Der, can Offset the above by certi-
ticate showing the INDEPENDENT to
be wholly democrat. Grossly mis-
represents and traduces" are actiona-
bic terms and if we had character
worth anything near a fraction of
ten thousand dollars and could Sc
cure the services of our friends. Col.
Dan Lucas and Attorney General
Caldwell, we would bring a suit for
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JAMES D. Fish, the rascally old
banker who, at the age Of sixty-four,
busted once powerful monetary in
stitution, robbed thousands Of de-
positors out of their money and
brought financial calamity upon the
nations hero, Gen. Grant, is now
breaking stones, and living on corn
bread, fat bacon and water, in the
penitentiary of Auburn, n. Y. The
old rascal takes to his new life with
considerably avidity.
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In Lincoln county, N. NJ, near
the Pattos mountains, can be traced
the walls of once large city. In
side the walls are growing monster
trees, said to be thousands of years
old.
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Railway Construction.

CHICAGO, July 4.-The Chicago Railway
Age says railway building in the United
States for the first six months of 1885 is less
than that of the corresponding period for
the past five years. The total miles laid up
to July in twenty Five states is 1856 miles
by fifty six different lines. The states show
ing an addition of fifty miles or more are
Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Mime
sofa, Nebraska and Texas, and in these states
as well as in California and Pennsylvania,
from four to six lines each have been I'M
der construction