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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09
MAY 8, 1885.
GENERAL NEWS.

Heavy w-storms prevailed SUM-
day in Maine.
Eighty-nine houses have been de-
stroyed by fire in the town of Skan-
Ger, Sweden, and one hundred fami-
lies made homeless.
The fever epidemic at Plymouth,
Pa, continues. There were six fun
erals Sunday. Physicians believe
that the water supply has become
contaminated with fever germs.
An order for twenty-five thousand
dozens of undershirts has been re-
ceived from Russia by knit goods
manufacturer of Troy, N. Y. tits sup
posed that these are for army use.
Eight lives were lost in the tene-
ment.house fire and panic in New
York early Sunday morning and a
number of persons we're injured.
Several of the inmates are still mis-
sing.
The hailstorm which passed over
a part of Virginia and North Caro-
lima Friday afternoon last destroyed
acres Of growing cotton and corn.
In some places the hail fell to depth
of twelve inches.
The Bridish Admiralty have issu-
ed orders to stop the further char
tering of troop ships, which is taken
| to be the beginning of the end of the
war preparations.
HAGERsTowN, Nd, May 5.-The
forest fires in Virginia are playing
havoc with the poles of the Shenan.
doah Valley Railroad Company.
The wires are down at several places
and communication interrupted.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, May Mo-
tices are posted in the Elk Garden
region that son and after May no
more coal will be mined for less than
30 cents a ton" The notices are
supposed to come from the miners,
and to mean a strike.
A movement is on foot in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to tender General
Grant the free use, during his con-
valescence, of a private hotel on
Lookout Mountain, in sight of the
battle-fields of Chickamauga, Mis-.
sion Ridge, Lookout Mountain and
Chattanooga.
Fire at Cabery, mot far from Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, Sunday, burned fourteen
frame buildings, mostly stores; total
loss sixty Thousand dollars. Sever
al guests at the Commercial Hotel
made narrow escapes. The hotel
was destroyed. Fourteen families
are rendered homeless.
DR.. VIM. Clendenin, an eminent
physician, of Cincinnati, died Sun
day, aged 56 years. He was ma
tive of Newcastle, Pa. He was a
surgeon in the United States army
during the late war and served in
Rosecrans's, Fremont's and Slegeps
command in West Virginia.
Judge White, Pittsburg, in SEN
fencing a roller-skate thief to term
in Jail, denounced the rink business
as the leading curse of the land, ad-
ding that if the prisoner had stolen
and destroyed all the skates in the
world he would have conferred a
benefit on humanity and earned i'm
munity from punishment.
President Cleveland, Vice resi-
dent Hendricks and several men,
bers of the Cabinet visited Gettys-
burg Monday on the occasion of the
visit of the Army of the Potomac
veterans. The distinguished party
were shown over the battlefield.
Addresses were made by Governor
Pattison, General Rosecrans and
others.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09
AYERS
Cherry Pectoral

Is not q new claimant for popular eons.
dence, but Q medicine which Is TO-DAY
saving the lives Of the third generafion
who have come into being since II was
first offered to the public.
There Is not household In which thi,
invaluable remedy has once been In.
troduced where its use has ever been
abandoned, and there Is not a person
who has ever given 1t proper trial
for any throat or lung disease suscen.
tible OF cure, who has not been made
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL has
In numberless instances, cured Obstinate
cases Of chronic Bronchitis, LarynR itiS
and even acute Pneumonia, and ha,
saved many patients In the earlier stages
of Pulmonary Consumption. II Is
medicine that only requires to be taken IN
small doses, Is pleasant to the taste, and Il
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 nc.
membered by everybody.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
PREPARED BY
DR.. J. @. Aver q Co.. Lowell, Mass,
Sold by all Druggists.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

A cablegram announces that
Austria will object through her min
lister at Washington to Mr.. Kelley as
minister from this country, on the
ground that his wife is a Jewess.
The report is not credited at Wash
lngton. The departments have
heard nothing whatever Of the allee-
ed protest.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09
There is trouhle i'm Washingte

There is trouble in Washington
social life. The Vice Presidents wife
is at outs with the President, who
failed to accord her the first place on
great social occasions, as next after
the Presidents wife-Cleveland be-
ing bachelor himself. He has
withstood worse troubles than this
one.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09
For County Superintendent

The Greenback party now having
candidate. and the Democratic party
two, in compliance with the wishes Of
many of my friends, announce myself
a Republican candidate for the Office Of
County Superintendent of Free Schools,
of Berkeley County. Election May 10.
f.. B. PITSNOGLE.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

w. a. Lennox Maxwell, supposed
to be the murderer of Preller in 81.
Louis, has been arrested at AncK-
land, New Zealand.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

Gen. U. S. Grant has been re elect
ed president of the Army of the Po-
tOmac, and San Francisco is selected
as the next meeting place.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

1t is stated that Mr.. /. Parker
Veazey has been selected as Col.
Adreon's successor as postmaster at
Baltimore.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

THE HERALD has the largest bona
tide circulation of any paper published
I'm the eastern end OF this State, and n
town circulation equal to that Of the
other two papers combined. Printed
lists always open to the public.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

Eleven deaths occurred at PLY.
mouth, Pa, Monday, the greatest
number in any one day since the
epidemic began,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

Ten miners were found buried mn.
der the snow in Tennessee Pass.
near Leadville, Col.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE or WEST VIRGINIA:

AT regular term of the County Court
of Berkeley County, on the cd day Of
March, 1885, Amanda f. Walker filed
her petition, praying the probate of the
last will and testament of James I.
Walker, decd, and it appearing that
George w. Walker is interested in the
probate of said will, and that he is not
quired to appear within four weeks after
the date of the first publication Of this
Order and do what is necessary to pro.
tect his interests in this matter, and
show cause if any he can why said will
should not be admitted to probate. BY
order of the Court.
G. w. DOLL, Clerk
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-05-09

The Oakton Sunday-schools at the
U. B. and M. E. Churches have been
re-organized and are very well attend
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
Dramatic Scene at q Murder Trial.

Some months ago Newton Chance, an
aged itincrant preacher from the In
dian Territory, was arrested at Sherman,
Texas, charged with the murder OF D..
Junius Foster in that city in 1868. Foster
was editor of q newspaper. The killing
caused intense excitement throughout
the State. At the trial of Chance a SEN
sation was produced in court by tho
voluntary testimony of James Yc:lng,
who swore that it was he who killed
Foster.
81 killed him." said Young: because
he published in his paper the lying as
~scrtion that the murder of my father was
tho best thing that ever happened to
northern Texas.
The State attorney, to rebut this con,
f~ession, produced an old affidavit signed
by James Young, wherein he swore
he was 100 yards from the spot
when Foster was shot, and did not know
who fired the bullet. The jury rendered
a verdict of mot guilty." and the aged
prisoner, Chance, was released in the
midst of demonstrations of great Joy.
Tie old preacher wept like a child as
the people crowded around him. tie
stood trial for his life twenty-five years
after the crime with which he was
charged was committed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
RELIGIOUS READING.
The Cross.

And now the cross of Christ is up
lifted as an ensign to the nations. NO
symbol or watchword invent@d by
men in any part of the world awHkens
such faith and hope, such JOY and
peace, as the cross which. Is sacredly
associated with his blessed name. BY
his cross is meant no mere material
image or hallowed sign, touched by
the hand or visible to the eye of man,
but the shame he endured, the death
he died, and the doctrine of salvation
through his pre- :ous blood, his accept
ed sacrifice. In the cross of Christ. so
understood and felt, all true Chris
tians continually glory; while they
seek and hope through him who died
on the cross to he crucilied to the
world, and to win the glorious and in
corruptib!e crown of eternal life. AS
we gaze, then, with the enlightened
eve of faith on him who was lifted up
from the earth on Mount Calvary, let
us feel and own the attractive power
of his CROSS, and be drawn unto him,
and joined indissolubly unto him,
along with multitudes Of men over
the whole world who have felt the
preciousness and the power of his
atoning blool.-ReU. James DoM OF
Dunbar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
Hunting a Deer with a Steamboat.

While the steamer Everglade was
coming down the river at Beresford, q
big buck was seen half a mile ahead,
swimming across the St. Johns river.
The crew and all on board were anxious
for a chase, and the steamer shot forth
toward the fleeing animal, which was
padding for dear life. After nearing
the deer, its turning and lodging proved
a little too much for the big steamer, so
a small boat was lowered, with Mate
Peters in charge and two deck hands at
the oars. They gave chase, and the first
effort of the mate to capture the wild
animal resulted in his tumbling headlong
into the river. The object of the chase
was not lost sight of, however, by this
premature baptism of the mate. The
buck was seized by the tail, but he soon
broke the hold, and, amid the whoops
and shouts of those on the steamer, the
6rht continued undated between the
oarsmen and the buck, while the mate
fought the waves, which were tossing
him to and fro. Finally, after the men
and deer were about tagged out, a we'll
directed blow on the bucks nose con-
uucred him, and he was brought on
board a victim. FLORIDA Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
native American basketry and that of

native American basketry and that of
foreign lands Except in the prevalence
of bamboo as a mateaial abroad) will
excite remark; and the practice of carry
ing basket panniers over the forehead,
and of making water-tight jars and even
boats of wicker-work. car be traced all
round the globe. Thus it is stated in
Marsden's History of sumatra that the
number of baskets seen hanging in a
natives house is a token of the owners
wealth; for in them his harvests of rice
and pepper are gathered and brought
home. They are made of slips of BAN.
boo connected by means Of split rattans;
and are carried: chiefly by the women,
on the back, supported by a string or
band across the forehead "-Harpe1's
B17ur-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
God Proyideth for the Morrow.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow
n the morrow shall take thought tor tn
lings OF itsrlf.'-Matthow vi, 81.
10 the lilies of the field,
How their leaves instruction yield;
Hank to nature Lesson gwen
BY the blessed birds Of heaven!
Every bush and tufted tree
Marbles sweet philosophy;
Mortal. fec from doubt and sorrow;
God rroSidcth for the morrow!
Say, with richer crimson glows
The k;ngly mantle or the rosa:
Say, have kings more wholesome tare
Than we poor citizens OF mir!
Barns nor boarded gain have we,
Yet we carol mellIlY.
Mortal, flee from dt.lLt ind sorrow,
God providctl for the morrow!
One there lives whose guardian eye
Guides our humble destiny;
One there lives who, Lord Of MI,
Keeps our feathers lest they fall;
Pass We blithely then, TIE ne,
Fearless Of the snare and line;
Free from ,loubt and Elithl: - SORROW
God provideth for the morrow!
-Heber.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
A Good Business to A. andon.

An East Douglass, Mass, licensed
LIQUOR dealer issues q business card with
the following unusual notice printed
thereon: ITO whom it may concern.
Know We, that by the payment of 1925 |
am permitted to retail intoxicating
liquors at my saloon in this town. To
the wife who has a drnnkard for a hus.
band, or d friend who is unfortunately
d%issipated. I say emphatically, give me
notice in person of such a case, or cases,
in which you are interested, and all
such shall be excluded from my place.
Let mothers, fathers, sisters, AMI broth
ers do likewise, and their request will be
kindly regarded. pay a heavy tax fol-
the privilege of selling liquors, and ]
want it distinctly understood that I have
no desire to sell to drunkards, or minors,
or to the poor or destitute" This j.
good as far as It goes, but it by no means
relieves the kindly disposed liquor
dealer of his gravcst responsibility. TIC
pay his license fee, and make a profit
from his business, he will sell liquor tc
those who are not now hopeless drunk
ards, whom, when notified, he will ex:
clude from his saloon, but who are, a!
his patrons, forming the drink habit,
and steadily coming under the drink
bondage. His is the preliminary stage
of liquor selling, devastation, and ruin
1t is a good business for a kindly dis
posed person to abandon, altogether
National 7emDerance Adpocate.
The Young Woman's Christian Tenn
pc:ance Union of Minneapolis maintained
four charity schools, four kitchen gar
den schools, a flower mission, and a
BOYS Whistling school.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
BUILDING UPON THE GAND

IT'S we'll to WOO, tits well to wed,
For so the world has done
Since myrtles' grew, and roses blew,
And morning brought the sun.
But have a care, ye young and fair, -
Be sure ye pledge with truth;
Be certain that your love will wear
Beyond the days of youth.
For if ye give not heart for heart,
AS we'll as hand for hand,
You'll find you've played the "unwise part.E
And "built upon the sand" =.
IT'S we'll to save, tits we'll to have
A goodly store Of gold,
And hold enough of sterling stuff
For charity is cold.
But place not all your hopes and trust
In what the deep mine brings,
We cannot live On yellow dust
Unmixed with purer things.
And he who piles up wealth alone
Will often have to stand .
Beside his coffer-chest, and own
IT'S 'built upon the sand.n
IT'S good to speak in kindly guise,
And soo!he whate'er we can;
For speech would bind the human mind, a..
And love link man to man.
But stay not at the gentle words,
Let deeds with language dwell;
The one who pities starving birds
Should scatter crumbs as we'll.
The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend q helping hand; =
For those who talk, yet fail to do,
But 'build upon the sand"
Eliza Cook.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
I Wish You a Merry Christmas

4 Wish You a Merry Christmas.
I wish you q merry Christmas,
NV brother Temperance men,
Who every day are striving
Intemperance tide to STEM
We've spent a happy Christmas
Without strong drink before;
And this year, without the monster,
We hope to spend one more.
wish you q merry Christmas,
Dear readers, one and all,
And this can be obtained, we know,
Without King Alcohol;
For he doth cause continually
Distress and many q sorrow,
Make wounds upon a Christmas day
And headaches on the morrow.
I wish you a merry Christmas,
But midst our joys let's think
How many hearts are desolate
Through that accused drink.
I wish you O merry Christmas,
And friends around shall see,
Without the fiery water,
Howhappy we can be.
I wish O merry Christmas
To every child and man,
Indeed, to every woman, too,
Who practices our plan.
In such a godly warfare
Right onward let US steer;
So l wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy coming year.
W. E. Churchill, in Temperance
BGnner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
Tcmncrancc NOses.

A true and noble boyhcod will make a man
hood fine;
Then sl,nn the wicked cider, tobacco, ale AMI.
wine.
According to the New York Examiner,
statistics recently gathered in that city
show that ninety-thrce per cent. of the
inmates of the House of Industry were
sent there for crimes resulting from the
use of liquor; also that of the 5000 liq-
uor sellers of the city. CABS have been
confined in Jail or prison. And yet they
are certified to be reputable citizens
when licensed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
How Dead Horses We're Utilized.

Among other contractors of high and
low degree at or about Washington dur
ing the war was one who had purchased,
as the highest bidder, the dead horses of
the army of the Potomac, for which he
paid Sl.76 each, delivered at his ''estab-
iishment." They averaged, in the
winter, fifty q day, and were thus disposed
Of: First. the shoes were pulled off; then
the hoofs were cut of; then
the names and tails were SHARED. The
animal was then skinned, the carcass was
boiled that the tallow might be ex-
tracted, the best Of the bones were sold
for knife handles, and the remainder to
be ground for fertilizers. The total re-
suit was that these different parts of the
dead nag were worth, when prepared
for market. at least $25 a head: and the
profits of the contractor were conse-
quently very large.-Ben: Perley POore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
A Sailor.

care you a sailor?p asked Babster's
bright boy of Spook the other evening.
"No, my son." replied Spook, "a sea-
faring life has no attraction for me-"
"But you are a s%ailor," said young
Babster.
"No, my child, you are mistaken"
"Well, at any rate, mother said she
had seen you half seas over more'n q
hundred times. '"-Lynn Union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23

There are 243 more females than males
in Southbridge, Mass, but the Journal
office is not for sale. Bachelor editors
must start a Lew paper to be on the
ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23

Sixty million people speak the German
language, as, 600, 900 the French and
100, 900 900 the English.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23

but suppose we turn to 20 the other way, and
head up toward God and Christ and heaven.
Oh, what a struggle it is, awful strus2!e,om
nipotent struggle. because God comes i'll on
u side. And if you do not know, my
brother: if you do not know the power OF
temptation, it is because you have not tried
to resist it, and you have not tried to be tree
from it, free in the glorious emancipation or
the gospel. We'll, now, when the tempta-
tions OF life come upon you, what are you
going to dog How are you going to receive
them? When the wave dashes clear
over the SOIL, the wave OF temptation,
have we nothing to hold on to? S.xtus VISA
cardinal and he wanted to sit in the pontifical
chair, and he pretended to be very lame, and
he came on crutches, and he said: You
appoint me to the pontifical chair, I will not
will follow me-; it is only for a little while;
you see I can't live long" He came on
crutches and took the chair: Then he threw
away the crutches and said: "Wlen I was
looking for the keys of st. Pet'r | had to
stop. and now that I have found the KEYS Of
st. Peter I don't have to stop" And he threw
away his crutches; he was we'll. Oh, how
suggestive this is of temptation. 1t seems
wan and weak and crippled. but let it ance
get the throne, and oh. how it grinds the
body and grinds the soul-this awful mas
those who are in temptation? Must we go
into this battle with the world, the flesh and
the devil all alone' No. I have the prescrip-
tion of the text to announce to my own soul
and to your soul: go and tell Jesus. In the
eyes that wept for the Bethany sisters I see
hope. In that voice that broke the silence Of
death so that the widow of Main got back
her lost boy, stupendous grief waking up in
the arms Of rapture-in that voice l hear the
command and the promise: "Cast thy bur.
den upon the Lord, He will sustain thee"
Tempted in all points like as we are. Go and
tell Jesus.
Again I commend the behavior Of the dis.
rinieS in the text to all who are prosecuted.
They knew that Heroa had taken the head Of
john tbs Baptist; they lid not know WHOM
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-02
Death of General Stager.

General Arson Stager. who has been suf-
fering for some time from number of COM
plants, including Bright's disease, died in
Chicago on the 9th. He was born in Ontario
county, New York, April 20, 1925. He began
life as printer. In 1916 he began work as
telegraph operator in Philadelphia. Two
years afterward he was made chief operator
of the National lines at Cincinnati, and in
1852 he was appointed superintendent OF the
lines of the Mississippi Printing Tele.
graph company. He Iook prominent part
in organizing the various lines and interests
leased by and consolidated with the West
ern Union telegraph company, and upon the
organization of that company he was made
its general superintendent. In 1851 he was
appointed by the secretary of war chief of
the United States military telegraph. He or
ganized the military telegraph and was com.
missioned as colonel and aide-de-camp, and
was assigned to duty in the war department,
and was breveted brigadier-generai at the
close of the ebellion. At the close OF the
war he resumed his position as general SUI
perfntendent of the Western Union. which
post he retained until the consolidation OF
the Western and American Union compa-
mics.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-02
The Ne,y Minister TO E,,o,nnd.

Washington dispatch: Mr.. Phelps, the
newly appointed minister to England, has 3
brother in this city who is a clerk in one Of
the departments. A neice. ALSO is employed
in the war department.. To democratic COL.
gre sinan. who expressed surprise at Yer
mont being given so high an honor, the presi-
dent sa that it was b s selection, and that
nobody else was responsible. He said he met
MIR. Phelps some years ago and was very
much I'M pressed with him: that after he be-
came p. esident. and while talking with Mr..
Smalley, member of the national democratic
committee from Vermont. he inquired about
Mr.. Phelps. Mr.. Smalley replied that tho
gentleman was living in Burlington, but add.
I'd that he would not accept any political Of
flee, as he was mealthy and indep, ndent The
president, in the conversation exF aining how
phelps came to be chosen, remarked that he
was just the sort of a man he (thc PRESIDENT
wanted He vas not seeking an office and
lid not want one. The pr sident made up his
mind to offer him the English mission. and he
Immediately invited Mr.. Phelps to Washing
ton. He came and agreed to accept the posi-
ton.