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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
A FAIR TO BE HELD.

We take pleasure in announcing
the fact that arrangements are about
complete to hold fair sometime in
October. We are glad to note that
there are sufficient enterprising, en-
ergetic gentlemen in our community
who are willing to assume the risk,
even in the dull condition of affairs,
and keep the fair alive. There is
plenty Of hard work ahead of them,
but we believe they have the courage
and persistency to meet and over
come it. Our neighbors Of Hagers-
town and Winchester can both be
Accommodated, and if they fully UNI
derstand their business and desire to
be represented at a first class fair,
they should at once make arrange
ments to get their names on the
posters, and become IN integral part
Of this institution. It will be the
Fourteenth Annual Fair of Berkeley
County-old enough to attract our
neighbors and central enough to be
patronized and known as the tri
State fair. Now, let every person
push forward in this movement.
Let there be no pulling back. Men,
women and children, old and young
must take an interest, and make it
successful.
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SATURDAY, JULY IL, 1885.

THE single rate of letter postage
is two cents an ounce, instead Of
two cents for each half ounce. No
more excuses for cutting letter
short on account of postage cost.
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THE BaItimoreans are lust tickle

The Baltimoreans are just tickled
to death over the whipping-post in
that city, erected for the mutual ed
ification of wife beaters. Two have
been edited already. A good SER
vice to humanity would be rendered
if a few hundred ofthese posts were
erected throughout our land. Such
inhuman, flendish monsters should
have the lashes laid on heavily.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
RoBus1 HEALTH

Is not always enjoyed by those who seem
to possess it. The faint of corrupted
blood may be secretly undermining the
constitution. In time, the poison will GER
tainly show its effects, and with all the more
virulence the longer it has been allowed
to permeate the system. Each pimple, sty,
boil, skin disorder and sense of unnatural
lassitude, or languor, is one of Natures
warnings of the consequences of neglect.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

Governor Wilson has appointed
Charles Beall, of Mason county, and
Senator Van Meter, of Hardy coun-
ty, as delegates to represent this
State at the second annual meeting
of the National Cattle and Horse
Growers Association of the United
States, which meets in the city of St.
Louis on the 23d day of November,
1885.
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MyriadS of Cures

Achieved by AYERS SARsAPARILLA, in
the past forty years, are attested, and there
is no blood disease, at all possible of cure,
that will not yield to it. Whatever the
ailments of this class, and wherever found,
from the scurvy of the Arctic circle to the
s'veldt-sores' of South Africa, this rem
edy has afforded health to the sufferers
by whom it was employed. Druggists
everywhere can cite numerous cases, with
in their personal knowledge, of remark
able cures wrought by it, where all other
treatment had been unavaling. People
will do well to
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Ayers SarsqparMa

Is the only remedy that can be relied upon,
in all eases, to eradicate the faint of hered-
itary disease and the special corruptions
of the blood. 1t is the only Alternative
that is sufficiently powerful to roughly
cleanse the system of Scrol rs and
Mercurial impurities and the ollution
of Contagious Diseases. 1t also neu-
tralzes the poisons left by Diphtheria
and Scarlet Fever, and enables rapid
recuperation from the enfeeblement and
debility caused by these diseases.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

To most children the bare suggestion
of dose of castor Oil is nauseating
Why not, then, when physic is neces-
sary for the little ones, use Ayers Ca.
thartic Pills? They combine every es-
sence and valuable principle of a cathar-
tic medicine, and being sugar-coated
are easily taken.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11
Special Inducements
On Ladies'
FINE SHOES and SLIPPERS,
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
BLUE FRONT.
NEXT DOOR SMITHS EAGLE HOTEL.
jelly
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 81 HOKE'S headquar-
tiers for shoes and hats, Blondel Building,
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libel at once. Therefore we must
tamely submit and leave the editor
of the Democrat in quiet enjoyment
Of his painful embrace with the
Reqister.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-07-11

We, as members of the 5th Va.
Infantry, Stonewall Brigade, don t
want any reunion with any 5th Yam
kee Regiment Winchester Neeos.
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Trust Nothing Else

than AYERS SARSAPARILLA. Numerous
crude mixtures are offered to the public
as ''blood purifiers which only allure
the patient with the pretense Of manv
cheap doses, and with which it is foil p
experiment while disease is steadily be-
coming more deep-seated and di.9 tlls q
cure. Some of these mixture do much
sting harm. Bear in mind that be only
medicine that can radically purify the
Initiated blood is
Ayers SagSapari1las
PREPARED By
DIR. j. C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass
Sold by all druggists; price 81,
six bottles for s..
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5000 Yards New Style Lawns Re
duced from s C. to 5 C. per yd.
1000 Yards Beautiful Lawns Reduc
ed from sc. to &c.
$500 Yards Very Fine India Linen
Reduced from 35c. to Csc.
1000 Yards Victoria Lawn Reduced
from 15c. to 10c. per yard
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
ANoTuER AVALANCHE.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

at Dallas, Wyo., a flowing oil well has
been struck at depth Of eighty feet, which
furnishes twenty-five barrels per day.
Judge Tanning OF Elliot county, Kentucky,
while crossing u bridge over the Little Sandy
river was run over by passenger train and
instantly killed.
E G. Chic, general superintendent Of the
Sea5oard & Roanoke railroad, died yesterday
at Norfolk, Va.
A Tennessee man By the name Of James
Reynolds put kerosene on the heads Of his
three little children for the purpose Of killing
vermin. Two OF the children died within
two hours. The third was saved By doctor.
An attempt vas made, near Wayne. Tex,
to rob the St. Louis passenger train by re-
moving rail. a freight train ahead Of the
passenger was wrecked, but no one was
hurt.
O'Donovan Rosa was discharged from St.
Vincent hospital yesterday.
The Mormous sav the governor Of Sonora,
Mexico, bas given them leave to settle in
YaQui county. This county is claimed to be
one Of the finest sections in the country.
Two steamers and a wharf boat were
burned yesterday at Mem pbis, Tenn. the
steamers were the Ida Darragh aud the City
Of Helena
barn and s25, 900 worth Of horse flesh
burned near Cheyenne.
a b!ll has been introduced in the Missouri
legislature making sn ztteD pt to commit sui
cidr an OfIense punishable BY imprison ment-
There is q coal famine at ssybrook, III :,
and an excited mob Of about fifty citizens
boarded coal train going east and threw Of
about forty tons Of coal The coal was being
shipped east for the railroad cOnpAny's own
Use
Over two hundred citizens Of Illinois met
At the Worlds fair yesterday and passed a
resolution declaring the exposition the larg-
st aud finest ever held. Fully $1,000 per
.0Ds were in attendance al the exposition
yesterday
Greens5urg, Pa, had q dynamite joke
perpesrated in the court house yesterday.
The cashier Of MIlnine, Boduan & CO. Of
Chicago has dsfzniied and sbseonded
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
YESTERDAYS RAILROADS.
A Lively Scrap Between the Chicago
& Atlantic and Other Roads
About Differentials.
Business Men of Crookston Arranging tc
Build Line to Fargo to Boom
Their City.
To be Deplored Transcontinental-It CAM
Get a Commissioner, or the Missouri
Pacific TO Enter.
EASTERN WAR.

The Chicago G. Atlantic HHrinD TussIe
Wi'h fhr Luke Shore a,;d Et WdUne.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-For three or four days
it is alleged that the Chicago, Atlantic
& Niagara Falls Short Line have been using
differentas allowed them of IS cents to
Boston and SO cents to Buffalo, on tirst-class
passenger traffic. The Lake Shore and
Michigan Central and Ft. Wayne companies
met the rates, tickets being openly sold to
Boston at s132 25 and to Buffalo at SO So,
the former rates being S14 and
S11 respectively. Under the old agree
ment which expired August l, the Chicago s.
Atlantic was allowed these diferentials to Bos-
ton andBuffalo; but in connection with another
clause in the com pact which forbade the pay
ment of commissions, the Chicago & Allan
ties competitors say that the agreement
under which that road was allowed the differ
entails has expired; but the Allan tic people
claimed the right now to differentials on the
ground that they were allowed them eight
months ago and what was right then
is right now. Yet they overstep
the bounds of consiste ncy, when they
claim tine differentials and pay commissions at
the same time. There is little doubt that
former diferential lines will insist upon
maintaining just that difference between
their rates and the rates quoted by the older
lines, and as the policy of the latter seems to
be to meet any rate found in the market,
there is reasonably fair prospect that pas
seuger fares to the east have not yet reached
a minimum basis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
TIE LABOR BILL PASSED.
Discussion on and Full Text of the Anti
Foreign Contract Measure

Discussion on and Full Text of the Anti
Foreign Contract Measure
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. The principal
measure before the senate today was the
anti-coutract labor bill.
Senator Butler said that he had heard so
much froth about the protection Of American
labor that it was becoming naus-ating. How
much meat or fuel or protection from the
weather would the labor bureau give the
American laborer We were patting that
laborer on the head because some Knight
of Labor" had pctitioncd congress for some
thing and when labor asked for bread, we
gave them, as in this bill, stone.
Senator Saulsbury-A scorpion.
Senator Buter-Eyeu a scorpion.
An amendment offered by SENATOR Plumb
was agreed 10 excepting the professional
artists from the provisions OF the bill
Senator Lapham offered an amendment
providing that the whole penalty recovered
shall be paid into the United States treasury
instead or as by bin, permitting one-half Of
the penalty 90 60 10 the person who may
first bring the suit The amendment was
agreed 10 notwithstanding the energetic at
temp;s hy Senator Blair % explain that it
would seriously impair the efficacy Of the bill.
The debate not being according to the uu-
dcrstandiug, senator Blair complained II
should not be INDUCED in by opponents Of
the bin II they were not willing to permit de-
bate by IFS friends. Senator Blair then OF
fered an amendment making it the duty Of
the United States district attorney Of the
proper district to prosecute, at the expense Of
the United States, every case of violation OF
the act. Agreed TO, yeas ~, nays 10.
Amendments in the committee Of the whole
being completed and the bin reported 10 the
senate, Senator Hawley moved il be referred
TO the committee on judiciary, with iustruc-
tious 10 report, not later than the Goth inst,
biu that would more etIectually
reach the ends really aimed at. Rejected,
yeas 10, nays Il. The bill was then passed,
yeas 30. nnvs 9. The vote In detail:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
Mr.. Randall interviewed.

Special 10 the Glooe.
WAsHINGToX, Feb. 1S.-With his gouty
leg propped up on a sofa Mr.. Randall sitting
in his committee room, laughed complacent-
ly when told that tAe house committee had
just completed the naval bill, and said:
''There never was much danger of an ex-
now. There will be no extra session"
'Your committee Is working all right is it
not"' asked the reporter.
'Yes, we are practically through. We have
done our work, and It now rests with the
house" 'There is a disposition on its part
to push things you think" ayes, l think
that Is very evident" There win be
10 EXTRA SESSION.
The bill as reported to the house provides for
the appropriation of sl3, 3,515, ,s3S. The esti-
mates for the next fiscal year were $50, ,654.-
OIL, more than half of which was for an in
crease of the navy in lieu Of the estimate for
an increase OF the navy. Mr.. Rahdalrs
proposition for the appointment Of board
TO consider and report TO congress plans
Of vessels for the navy and making an in
definite appropriation for the building of such
vessels as may be recommended by the board
was adopted. Members Of the committee
favoriug the proposition were Messrs. Ran
dali Forney, Ellis, Hancock, Hutchins,
Folett, Burnes, Washburu and Long
Those opposed were Messrs. Holman,
Townsheud, Keifer, Cannon and Horr and
Mr.. Ryan absent. Tits same board Is au-
thorized to consider whether FIVE
UNFINISHED MONITORS.
are suffering from their present incomplete
condition, and whether they shall be com
pleted and armed. An appropriation Of
$500, 600 is recommended for the com pletion
OF the New York. II congress does
adjourn without having the neces-
sity for being called together before
next wiuter the credit will be due to Mr.
Randall. The house is working under the
great disadvantage Of Speaker Carlisle's
absence, and it is not at all certain that he
will be able TO resume the gavel this session.
News from his sick room Is bad to-day.
There is danger Of bis affl iction becoming
chronic and involving long invalidism.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19

Olaf 0. Searle, Of the firm of A. Z. John
sou q Co.. has just returned from an exten-
ded trip in Europe. While there be visited
the principal cities and seaports of Germany
and Scandinavia IN the interests Of immi-
grafton. Mr.. Searle says the outlook for q
large outflow Of people to America is very
good; for although the season was favorable
last year in the Scandinavian countries, the
low rates will attract an increased immigra-
tion, and already large number is booked.
The steamship companies have by
their rivalry extensively advertised
the exceptional rates, and people are
not slow to take advantage Of them. In
Scandinavia and Germany the low rates
bring a larger increase In business to the
steamship line, and the excitement has even
crossed the channel to England. number
Of large colonies has been formed in chief
places. whose destination is the Northwest,
while, from all parts, families, single, and in
groups, are coming to settle upon the fertile
western prairies. The character OF the emil
grafton this year Is above the average. But
few single people are being booked. Most
Of tue families coming over are In good cir
cumstances and possess ready money enough
to buy and stock farm.
Mr. Searle SAYS that on account Of the
severity OF the winter in the old country the
tide viii not begin to flow strongly until the
latter part Of March, but in April and May
very heavy immigration may be looked for.
From all indications it Is safe to say that
Germany will witness her largest emigra-
ton this year, while the number leaving
Scandinavia will equal that Of any previous
veal This tide will undoubtedly flow to the
Northwest. where the best aud cheapest land
can yet be had. Mr. Searie anticipates
lively times in the Northwest this year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
An Extra Session Likely to be Averted
by Randalrs Persistent Efforts
Interesting interview.
Commissioner Gibbs of Minnesota On
the States interests at the
Great Southern Fair.
The Anti-Foreign Contract Labor Bill Passed
by the Sena.e-Fuu Text of
the Bill.
River and Harbor Steal Progressing Remark
ably Well-H Imam and ochiltree Par
ticipate In a Lively Scene
The Silver Question 8 i'll Agitating Mem
bers of Consress-IOwa Settlers
BLl-Ninor News.
Tun IN the Senate.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-At II O'Clock the
only senator in the chamber was Edmunds.
who entered promptly at that hour with the
chaplain. Senator Edmuuds, observing the
situation, abstained from taking the Chair,
and he and the chaplain took seats on the
floor. After few minutes delay Senator
Morrill, came in, and with his advent two or
three others. The days proceedings were So
far begun as that the chaplain offered prayer.
This done, the few senators present INDUCED
themselves awhile in eloquent silence. which
was finally broken by Morrill,, who moved a
call Of the senate. The call began with four
senators and ended with sixteen. That not
being a quorum the names Of the absentees
were called. This brought ten more, but
that being thirteen short of a quorum mat
teTs came to a stop.
Senator Conger inquired whether it was
safe to proceed with the reading of the jour
nal Of yesterday. The chair said ''NO. F."
Senator Conger remarked that he was not an
''alarmist,' and had only inquired for in
formation
Senator Hale asked that unanimous con-
sent be given to dispense with the reading.
4ut CudlI LEC4luGu ~ tuLcTldln tue PROPOSE
ton, call having Shown the absence of q
quorum
After some further waiting Senator Miller
u. y entered and said ''Mr. Presi-
dent"
The chair recognized the senator from
New York.
Then Senator Miller gravely remarked:
''No, no" Laughter. Senator Gibson
was similarly recognized and with equal
gravity announced the conclusion of his
mind to be no" Laughter renewed.
At 12:-O The chair announced a quorum
present. The Journal was read and the
morning business proceeded with.
Senator Dawes from the committee on In
dian affairs reported the original bill to en-
able the president TO negotiate for the pur-
chase from the Creek, Seminole and Chero-
kee nations of Indians their remaining
Interest iu the so-called Oklahoma lands
Placed on the calendar.
Senator Van Wyck introduced bill max
Ing an appropriation Of $50, 900 for the i'm
provemeut of the Missouri river opposite Ne
brgska City. Referred.
Senate then went into executive session.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19

A Wisconsin Central car was off the track
last night at Hamm's brewery.
P. Jergensen, emigration agent for the
Baltimore & Ohio road. was in the city yes
terday morning and left for Omaha in the
afternoon.
The test given the Laufman screw brake
in the Northern Pacific yard yesterday was
not quite satisfactory and a more general
trial will be given it at the same place Satur-
day afternoon.
General Freight Agent Hannaford, of the
Northern Pacific road, who has been attend
ing the meeting of the Transcontineutal
Pool association at New York, left for st.
Paul yesterday and will arrive home on Sat
urday il he is not snowbound.
Last night as freight train on the st.
Paul & Duluth road was run ming into Wah-
towa, an axle on one of the foremost cars
broke and ten cars were pitched from The
track. The damage done was not very great
excepting in the delay Of the passenger train
due in St. Paul at $50 a. m, nine hours,
and the one due 80 p. m, one hour.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
WASHINGTON Waits.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS Representative
Reagan to-day received a communication
from Presiient-elect Cleveland requesting
that the petition OF Democratic members Of
the house, urging him TO refrain from com
mittiug himself In regard TO the coinage OF
silver in his inaugural address be forwarded
10 him by mail Il is understood that this
request IS in response TO an inquiry whether
he preferred 10 receive it BY mail or at the
hands OF delegation OF siguers.
RrprrsentatiVe Ochiliree saws in relation
% his meeting Robert Alexander to-day In
the corridor OF the capitol, that Alex
ander approached him and said in
threatening manner: I'm see
you again for what you have said: you said
ought TO leave the country for the cOuntry's
goud." Mr.. Ochiltree called capitol police
man and requested the arrest If Alexander
Afterwards. Oehiltree SAYS. Alexander spol-
0Eized. and he thereu?0n requested Alexau-
der's release.
The secretary Of the interior declined 20
reinst-ie the land eutry Of John Talbot in
the cheyenne district, Montana Tslboti's
entry would. II allowed, place him in pos
session O. land comprising the entire water
supply q the city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
b,yrood. wil B.op, ashland.

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railroad company has decided to build car
shops at Ashlane, Wis, G1ring the presen t
year. The shops will give employment to q
large number Of men. and will be built on a
large scale. They will furnish the road with
all needed rolling stock, besides doing all
Of the repairing for the entire northern diEi
sion. The road has the right OF way secured,
aud there are now eighteen miles OF con-
tinuous grading ready for the steel. The
rails will be shipped over the Wisconsin
Central road for the southern end Of the
new line. The bridges between Ashland and
the Montreal river arr almost completed.
The four roads that make Ashland their
terminus, the Northern Pacific, Omaha. Wis
cousin Central snd Lake Shore * Western,
haze agreed on site for union depot,
which will also be built this year The place
chosen is near the present depot Of the Wis
cousin Central Tne depot viii be very
6ue and rather costly building.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19
GeaRrnl.

II is said that the appointment of L. G..
Cannon, acting commissioner Of the Trans
continental association, to the commissioner
ship is not improbable.
Commissioner Carnan, of the Central
Iowa Traffic association, has issued new
tariff Of equalized rates to Des Moines on At
lantic seaboard business.
The general freight agents of the North-
western Traffic association met at Commits
sioner Carman's office yesterday to arrange
the summer schedule of grain rates from
Manitoba. They failed to agree.
The bill granting privilege to the Minneap-
oils, Sault Ste. Marie s. Atlantic railway to
build bridge across the st. Croix river at
Saltwater, passed the house at Washington
yesterday, and is on its way to the president
Mr.. Washburne says the bridge will be built
inside of year, and the road will be reyo-
lutionizing the traffic of the northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-19

Special to the Globe.
CRooKsroN, Mimi, Feb. 18.-A scheme
has been talked of for some time of building
a railroad line from Crookston to connect
with the Fargo Southern at Fargo, and it has
transpired that those directly interested in
its accomplishment met few days since in
secret conference. At the meeting Mr.. T.
B. Walker was appointed president of the
company to be formed. The Hon. H. B.
Sampson is largely interested in the work,
and By his suggestion money sufficient to
nave the route surveyed was raised. The
survey will be made, and if the
scheme is practical right of way
will lie secured and articles Of
incorporation of the Crookston & Fargo
Railroad pany will be arranged and filed
with the secretary OF state. The chief inter
est in building this line is to extend the ter
ritory tributary to CroOkston, and have a
route from Dakota over which wheat can be
brought in aDd lumber shipped out of this
city. Those interested in the enterprise say
that should they secure right of way, either
the Fargo Southern or Mauitoba companies
will buy them out. The distance on an air line
between the two cities is ei 5ty Esilss, the land
being all prairie which will allow line to be
built at comparatively small cost per mile.