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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
Tie jefferson Co. Mutual
Fire Insurance Company.
ESTABLISHED 1878.

OFFERS TO the people of jefferson County,
" Insurance i'm "a safe Company at the actual
cost of insurance which l. much cheaper than
the rates usually charged, and keeps the money
az home Good risks from responsible parties
are invited.
Executive Committee meets every Friday.
DRrcroRs-N. :. White. Henry b. Dayen-
mort. J. Garland Hurst John W. Rider W. IL.
4. Lewis. Il. Preston Chew, VIM. l.. Wilson,
Eugene Baker, :. W. Washington, James Logic,
Charles +. Wilson. John II. little, Jacob ;
Melvin f. q. " Herr, .saac II. Strider.
y VIII t,.......... '.'...''I lesi''e'i'
II. b. DAYENPORT,....................'I treasurer
EXECUTIVE CoNNITTEE-N. ;. White, VIM
II Il. Lewis. Eugene Baker, Isaac H. Stnder
r. T.. Chew. : W Washington.
Local Middleway-J. G. ohlriey
Kearnevsville-J c. Bitner Harper Ferry
Chas. f. Trail Shepherdstown-H. &. ENTER
Duiiield>-C L. Baruhart; Charlesto"n-
Washington x Alexander.
r,--The Secretary will be found at the TOM
panv's Office. Gibson Building Court-House
yard Ia Charle,town.
Il. 4 ALEXANDER.
r.h 81 lsS Secretary.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
GnMNlI SENSE CHIMNEY JACK.

which have the right 10 manufacture and sell
IL will make any Chimney or Flue draw ~ any
kind of weather. and is perfect spark catcher
and protection to the top of the chimney.
JAMES w. BUTT.
April % 1855.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
MOTIF - e
70
USERS Of TIN PLATE.

We don't use small tin and
want everybody to know it
TIE reason why we don't is
that if you have small tin put
on your roofthe more seams you
will have and the more leaks
will be in your roof. Call on
us and we will prove to you
that large tin is the best to put
on your roof 1t will pay you
to look around. You will not
only save time but money by
calling on
EARNSHAW & DOOLEY
Apr. 10. IS.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
ATTRACTIONS.

Ify0u want au extra liam, ......,,..,,.
Call un " =. MERCHANT.
If1oa want "a good Slice Ham. .,,.,.r
G1t1 ~. :. MERCHANT.
Ifvou Want good Dried Beef ..,.,..,
Go to ~ =. MERCHANT.
d. Won want Alpha Roasted Cuilee. .,...
Go to ~. =. MERCHANT.
Do ,,u s.ut sool tea aud sugar chap.
Go o. W =. MERCHANT.
Ifyou want tine Lard. ..,.,..,,.>..,.
Goto W =. MERCHANT.
Ir r,u want the best of Fresh Meats an'
''' ''''' ' 90 TO W. ;. MERCHANT.
Alay "a. lSo5.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
Farmers.

livery farmer should have can Of our
IL Brown or Red Paint. Il j. put up in and
one gallon cans already 10 put on. The very
thing for painting gates, pumps. roofs, and all
sorts Of agricultural implements.
AIsQUlTH & co.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
Landreth's Garden Seeds.

THAVE full stock of these valuable and re-
i liable seeds both in Papers and IN Bulk
Peas Beans, Lima Beans aud Early Corn:
GEO T. LIGHT,
Druggist, Next Door 70 Post Office.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
SCROFULA

can only be cured by thorough purifca.
ton of the blood. If this is neglected.
the disease perpetuates its faint through
generation after generation. Among lis
earlier symptomatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tu-
mors, BoiIs, Carbuncles, Erysipelas,
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
steal Collapse, etc. IL allowed TO con-
tinue, rheumatism, Scrofulous Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
Tubercular Consumption, and vari-
Gus other dangerous or fatal maladies, are
produced by il.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
NHARLES PORTERFIELD,
-rar., rNHr- ffr III

Ctubaov4, J6er.oa County, w. Va,
VIII practice ia tine Courts of Jefferson and th
adjoining Committee,
r--Ohcc boo Law Building. North end.
oct. % lool-ly.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31

lust received, full line of Toilet Articles
81 including fine Hair Brushes, Nail Brushes
Shaving Brushes Baby Brushes and Baby Rat
tles--all of which we are selling low.
We have now a livestock of Round Bar Bar
Der Soap. at &c per cake
Soaps We have now fine lot of soaps
Glycerne, Cuticura. Oriental, Sweet Briar,
Gl,nn's Sulpher. Carbolic Disinfectant and Toi-
let. Bee. Bath and Tar-which we are selling at
the very lowest prices.
We have on hand full line of Patent Med
icines-Phenol Sodique, Seth Arnold's Cough
cure. Larabee's Ointment, Cannon's BitterS,
Bromo, Chloro-Alum, Piso's Catarrh Cure, Cam
phor Ice, Glycerine, Ammonia. Chlorate Pot
ash Tablets, Swilt's Specific Sl.OO per bottle.
Speer's Wine-Port, Untermented Grape Juice
and Claret.
In order to compete with our competitors we
are now selling Camphor at p cts. per pound.
Medicines Glasses and Tubes.
Fine lot of Florida Water at % cts. per bottle.
DR. CIAS +. PRATTS DRUG STORE.
April %, $3.50.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
MOODY & sAYKY Hymns-l, ,, 3, and 4.

MOODY x SANKY Hymns, >, 3, and 4.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.-Ih have just received
- a stock of School supplies Lead Pencils.
Slate Pencils. Pens and Pen Holders, COmpo-
sition Rocks
DICTURE Frames-perfectly lovely CORES
pondence cards Daisies Playing Cards
from ~ cts to - cts Mourning Paper and Eli
velopes
VACUUM Oil. for Harness CarbOlic Acid
N cts. per bottle; Insect Powders 80 cts.
b.-the very best Hog Powders ~ cts. h
Sold bv GEO T. LIGHT,
Oct lG. 1854. Druggist
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31

although we have the finest deposit of
coal in the world, we ase shipping at
present but very small percentage, as
compared with other States and countries.
"The State has more timber than any
State east Of the Mississippi. and it Is of
the best quality.
RAILROADS.
Il think we should encourage and as
sist in the building of railroads through
the State where the enterprise is a legiti-
mate one. The only way to keep peace
with other States in the material advance
ment is in charging our facilities Of trav-
el and transportation, in which we are
sadly lacking. Unfortunately, there APP
pears to be some opposition to railroads,
which believe would cease if the people
thoroughly understood the matter"
"West Virginia has only about 800
miles of roads, while Ohio has 5000 and
PENNSYLVANIA nearly 1000 miles"
"Do You see any perceptible advance
ment in counties through which lines Of
railroad pass as compared with those
which have none"
"Oh, yes; that's plain enough. The
census returns show that counties which
have no railroad facilities are nearly at
standstill, while the more fortunate
ones have greatly advanced in wealth
and population. | think We should en-
courage labor, immigration and all In
ternal improvements"
"What do you think of the oft repeated
cry Of monopoly, exto-,ion, Ger
in reply, let me ask where would
West Virginia have been but for the
railroads she has in the State, few in num-
Der as they are? The best way to make
a railroad do right is by building COM
peting line More railroads and less cry
of exortion, &c, would be far the best
for the State. Capital is timid, and we
can not get the benefit of it by trying to
frighten it off by onerous burdens Of tax
alton and unfriendly dispositions toward
it. Within the past decade West Vir-
ginia has increased her population at
least forty per cent, and much Of this
increase is owing to the railroads con-
tanned within her borders"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
Ro0fnG and SpOuting {
Speciality.

] always use smaller tin in Roofing. Why
do use il? It takes double the work, double
the solder and more tin to the square than lar
ger sheets
Call and see at my place of business
aI.n cun a.necinl attentinm % the Amerlcan
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31

Ayers sarsaparilla stops the nauseous
discharges Of scrofulous Catarrh and cures
the complaint.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
AL5RIcAN HOUSE.
Pma. decue. Co., Nereafh street,
WASHINGTON, ID. G..
TERMS - PER DAY.

.VIE prpprietor> of this House the oldest
| established Hotel in Washington, desire TO
.clIthcattentinn of their patrons and ihepuo-
li. t1 the t1ct THAT the Hotel d, and has been
oh. heail quarters COR West Nirginidns for over
h1lfn century The " American Is centrally
l,.,r,.l 900 the hu~iuc>, portion of the city. and
within ID short distance of all Public Buildings.
Churches. and places oft Amusement.
DUFFY & LEANNARDA.
November 30. lS~S-lv. Proprictor>.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to scrofula
because of a superstition that it could be
cured by kings touch. The world Is
wiser now, and knows that
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
GEO. T. GAMBRILL. JNo. J. Roh0EiH
GEORGE 7. GAMBRILL & co.
CIR AIN
mission Merchants,

Room A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
BALTIMORE, MD
Always ready to make LIBERAL. CASH AD-
VANCES on COnsignments.
Commission for handling actual Grain lc. per
bushel. For buying and selling for future
delivery &c. per bushel Margin required ON
purchases and sales for future delivery sc.
per bushel. Trading in futures is in not less
than 5000 hushel lots. Quotations by wire
given when requested.
MAY I. lSS5-ly@
TOUVIN Kid Gloves at Burns 4 Shugert's-
- every pair warranted
1874
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31
For Sale,

4 DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE-good
n as new. For information apply at
Mar. II. IS. FREE PRESS OFFICE.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-31

VIM Wilson
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23
WHO is RESPONSIBLE:

Our exchanges tell of the closing of fac
tories. shutting down of mills, putting out
of fires and furnaces. and general discharge
of employees hence, enforced idleness.
All this means more than appears at first
glance. 1t means flinty-faced, sharp-edged
care and anxiety it means the sharp tooth
of gaunt want-a hungry wolf at the door.
1t means more than this even. 1t means
to many of those thrown out Of bread
winning, vice and crime, which is far worse
than hunger, or poverty, or the almshonse.
To many. alas so many-God pity them !
it means the world torn from under their
teet-the eating of the apples of death
The cause of so many failures, the pres
ent business depression, we need not stop
to consider. One thing we do know, one
rarely sees in the long list of CLOSED ont -
shutters mp !" SHERIFF sales, : any men
ton of collapsed saloons. There may be
no bread at the house of the mechanic-no
meal in the bag-no coal in the bin-the
little feet may ache with cold-the pitilesS
wintry wind may pelt against the thinly
clad form, but in the saloon the fire burns
brightly, there ham and cheese on the
shelf, or a roast in the oven no want
here. Others may go dowl-the dram
seller keeps up Others may be drawn into
the whirl of disaster, the dramseller swims
on the tide of apparent success. Sunshine
or shadow it is all the same to him. Yes,
while men are idle, somehow, the saloon is
busy. There may be no hope for Jane, but
there's whiskey for John. So it goes.
Ever a horde of wolves deyouring lambs.
Upon whom must be fastened the res
possibility Of a traffic which is the prolific
progenitor of all evil passions a traffic
which necessa rily includes every species OF
iniquity, for crime of every degree and ali
kinds of cruelty has necessarily marked its
long and murderous course. As a rule
there has scarcely ever been a dramshoo
but what. in it some one has taken the first
step towards moral death. In it the boy
learned the first lesson Of vice and crime.
Take a beautiful boy, or an innocent young
man, give either the privilege of the dram
shop for but a few weeks, and he will hear
more profanity. eaten more foul and filthy
language, acquire a greater fund of mere
~tricious nastiness. than in the accumulation
of years outside, unless forced into COM
partnership of those who are the outcome
of the barroom.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23
GENERAL NEWS.

The United States used 100, 900 tons
of sugar during the year 1884.
Twelve thousand invitations will be
sent ont for the Presidential Inauguration
ball.
William NJ. EvartS has been made the
York.
Mayor Grace, Of New York, proposes
that the beer saloons in that city be opened
after church hours on Sunday morning.
Seventeen of the inmates of the Illinois
Insane Asylum at Kankakee, We're burned
to death by a fire which occurred OF Sun
day morning.
Thirty thousand roller skating Kinks have
past two years. The number of broken
limbs is not recorded.
In New Haven, on Saturday evening, DR..
Carver finished his great task of hitting
go, 1000 balls in six days. The score was:
Shots, 64,SS1; misses, 1865, and hits,
&C .016.
The interior Of the Washington Monu-
ment is to be lighted, under a contract with
the Edison Company, with 125 electric
lights, the uppermost of which will be
nearly $50 feet in the air, and the highest
in the world.
The annual reports of the Department of
Agriculture make the corn production for
the year 1884, 1,195, 000, 900 bushels; that
of wheat nearly 513, coo, 600 bushels, and of
oats 583, 000, 900 bushels. These aggregates
are the largest ever recorded. The rate of
yield is 25.s bushels for corn, - for wheat,
and ga for oats.
John Buchanan, at one time Dean of the
Pine street Eclectic Medical College"
in Phila.. was arrested on Tuesday in that
city and held to answer at Court on the
charge of issuing bogus medical diplomas
and conspiring with Rebbecca r. Russell
to make, sign and publish the diplomas.
Mrs. Russell was also held on the charge of
conspiracy.
1t is stated that during The six months
which ended on December 31st, 1884, the
number of postal cards issued was 1863, 315,-
$50, against 1874, Gal, 900 for the correspond
ing six months of the preceding year, a re-
duction of 1879 per cent. in the number
issued. TO this reduction must be added
the loss of the natural increase in the issue,
which for several years previous averaged
about Is per cent. annually. The Post
Office officials regard this reduction of prac-
tically 80 per cent, taken in connection
with the increased number of two-cent
stamps issued, as evidence that the postal
cards have been in a great measure dis
placed by the two-cent stamps.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23
STATE NEWS.

John G. Toffey was on Tuesday sworn in
as State Treasurer of the State.
The grand lodge of New jersey, F. and
A.. NJ, meets at Trenton on Wednesday,
January 2Sth.
The average age of the members of the
Legislature is ffty-seven. Assemblyman
Wildrick is the oldest, being eighty-one.
Mr.. Fish, of Essex, is the youngest Sona-
tor, and f. A. Armstrong, the Speaker,
the youngest Assemblyman.
The American Cranberry Growers Asso-
citation met on Tuesday in Trenton, and
elected the following officers: President,
]. II. Brakeley, B~ordentown; Vice Presi-
dents, Theodore Budd, Pemberton, and
f. S. Merriman, Lake Wood; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. J. Rider, Trenton.
Mr.. G. w. Pressey, the inventor of the
American star bicycle, has not received any
of the money due him as royalty on the
1000 machines that have already been
manufactured at Smithville. Under con-
tract there is said to be about $50, 900 due
which he expects to get by process Of law.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23

ST. Nicholas for February opens with
the first chapters of a new serial by
Z. p. Roe, author of '"The Opening of a
Chestnut-burr,' and Barriers Burned
Away" 1t tells how a family in modern
circumstances was driven from the CON
finement of a city flat to the freedom of
a country farm. The question, ''City or
Country" is one that is constantly present.
ing itself to thousands of anxious minds
and parents as well as children will gain
many valuable suggestions from Mr.. Roe's
presentation of the problem.
Another prominent and valuable feature
of the midwinter st. Nicholds is Gail
Hamilton's English Kings i'll a Nut
she'll" The view of all the English
sovereigns, with the principal events and
distinguished personages of their reigns.
Portraits of nearly every person mentioned
with many other illustrations, accompany
the descriptive text.
Nora Perry is the first author to contri-
butte to the s.Garden of Girls series. The
story is entitled ''Tyrant Tacy.' and is
a ch%armingly written account of a girls
conquest of herself.
There is also a bright little Masque, or
''Miracle-playi as it was called by its
author, the late VIM. M. Baker, author of
''His Majesty, Myself The idea is very
novel and bids fair to be popular.
Palmer Cox tells in his inimitable pic
lures and verses the story of the brownies
Return to their native land. and the in
genious manner in which they have ac-
complished it: ''Ralph's Winter Carnival
tells of "a boys visit to the winter Carnival
at Montreal; and W. T. Peters and Mar
garet Johnson are contributors of bright
valentine verses.
In the serials.-"Davy and the Goblin
visit Robinson Crusoe Ills One Fault
causes Mr.. T~rowbridge's hero to fall into
more trouble,-Mr. Stockton takes his
PERSONALLY Conducted party to the
queer burial ground of Genoa. Edmund
Alton imparts some more of what he alb
sorbed "Among the Lawmakers, and
we learn about Murillo in Mrs. Clements
'.Stories of Art and Artists.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23

The annual report of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics of New Jersey shows the number
of deaths in the State last year to have
been 81, 116; births, p, 263, and marriages,
g. 68, the excess of birth over deaths being
3,547. The twenty-five cities of the State
made returns to the Bureau of 5,404 marri-
ages, A. AS births and Is, 617 deaths, an
excess of births over deaths of only S31.
Only three cities i'll the State show more
deaths than births-Atlantic City, % !;
Camden, 125, and Railway, Is. The other
% cities gave more births than deaths.
The record for Salem Co. gives 1913 MARI
ages, 493 births and 316 deaths.
Keeper Laverty has submitted his annual
After referring to the lack of cell room for
convicts, the report calls attention to the
necessity for the employment of %convicts
II some manner. Mr.. Layerty says it will
not do for nine hundred men to be Gagged
unemployed, as a majority of them would
be driven to the madhouse. He says, with
the abolition of contract labor, only two
courses are left: Either the public ac-
count or piece system" must be adopted.
Mr.. Laverty favors the piece price sys-
tem," but thinks its adoption would be a
doubtful experiment, unless some law pro-
viding for the employment of extra help was
also adopted. The report shows that 460
prisoners were received at the prison during
the past pear and 421 discharged. There
were S43 persons confined in the prison ON
January 1. The cost per annum per capita
was S12. 80. The condition of the prison
has never been better.
The tw~enty-ninth annual meeting of the
New Jersey Editorial Association was held
at Trenton on Monday. About twenty-five
members were present. Among other
business transacted was the appointment
of a committee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
of arranging a regular scale of rates to be
charged advertising agencies by the various
newspapers of the State.
Memorial sketches were read on the late
Charles Fl. Folwell, of the Mt. Holly Mr.
rms anu 4fIOsOS ~ NRtt vi IlC M
True. american, veteran editors of the State,
who had died recently. The Treasurer's
statement showed a balance of 81, 121 80,
and it was resolved that a free annual din
ner follow every annual meeting.
The following officers were elected
President, Robert Gwynne, Jr., Salem Saa-
beam ; vice-Presidents, Alfred Cooper, Cape
May Gazette James O. Glasgow, Burling-
ton Gazette a.; Joseph T. Crowell, Railway
Censor w. J. Rittenhonse, Hackettstown
Gazette Samuel Garrison, Boonton BaHe-
tin F. W. Baldwin. Orange Chronicle ;
Edward Gardner, Bayonne Times Secretarys
Chas. Bechtel, Trenton Treasurer, jaime,
S. Yard, Monmouth Demoerat Executive
Committee, Sinnickson Chew, West Jersey
Press ; A. A. Vance, Jrseyman, Morris
town; L. S. IIyer, Democrat, Railway ].
F. Babcock, FredoniaR, New Brunswick
James s. Yard, Monmouth Democ1Ut'
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23

BY ANN A. GORDON.
for Il Birthday Reunion, Evanston, III.
TUNE, "AULD LANG sYNE.
We join tonight to honor one
Who crown of eighty years
Reflects a faith that's born o love,
\ hope that conquers fears;
y life enriched by blessed deeds
All Thoughts busy days;
\ soul tina e'en in darkest hours
Still sings its song of praise.
Nermont's green hills surround the scenes
Her happy childhood knew;
wisconsin sends the cedar boughS
That with her children grew,
The earlier hcme and plighted love
The Empire State endears;
Old Oberlin records their names,
And patient student years.
The gentle heart that hears our song.
And notes our words of iove,
Hears voices long since hushed on earth
An echo from above:
They join us in our tribute meet
To her who is their care;
We feel their presence, sacred, sweet,
And long Their bliss to share.
Her loved ones gone. she sat serene
Beside the lonely hearth,
Which echoed once to childhood's glce,
To youths rejoicing mirth:
And sent her daughter Frances forth
on errands brave and grand
While at Crest Cottage mother prayed
For Home and Native Land"
The mothers noble sacrifice,
The daughters deeds untold,
God will reward in days to come
With promised hundred fold;
The mothers radiant sunset years
Seem brighter every one;
We hold her precious life our
Till God shall say, "W ell done"
Mrs. VS. chair wits trimmed with evergreen
rom her old home.