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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
PoETleAl
The Land of Dixie.


The following poem was written by Mr..
Elizabeth Hereford, of Dallas. Texas, who /
said to be lineal descendent of Sir waltr
Scott, the grandest of the Scottish bards. Til
poem, ''The Land of Dixie" speaks for itsel
and it was thought to be of sufficient merit I
deserve place in the New Orleans ExpositiO
along with the Texas exhibit. It is beautiful
worked In letters OF gold on 4 silk ground Nv
yards long aud three wide:
Where Centuries with ceascless tide,
Sweep o'er the nations that have died
The nations that their course have run,
There lies mighty fallen one.
In all her vestal robes, pure white,
She perished in single night
With prayers and tears and many a sigh,
Her lovers saw her fall and die,
Upon the breast of Dixie.
They said: Alas we might have seen
Our lady fair beauteOus queen;
And cen the foe. with bated breath,
Looked down upon her glorious death.
Alas! Alas! then let her rest
With laurel on her brow and breast,
Enshrined let all her glories lie
Beneath the ever radiant sky
That spans the land of Dixie.
The blood flowed like the red, red wine
Flows from the clusters of the vine,
In waves about her peerless feet
Pressed out of lives that held it sweet
To perish; that were half divine
To sleep in death meath freedoms shrine.
They slumber on her tender breast
Tue gallant sons of Dixie.
Our dead. how dear; with eyes tear-wet
The living think upon them yet.
How sacred the memorial fires
That love in human hearts inspires;
They burn with ever ceaseleSs ray
As long as darkfiGss follows day.
And immortelles their bloom shall shed
Der marble couch or grass-gro.n bed,
That holds the dead of Dixie.
Oh. wind that mingles with the roar
OF waters by the wave kissed shore,
Or, like blessing, brcathless round
Our homes with sweet, caressing sound,
Thou bringest now upon thy breath
No note of war, no dltge of death,
But secmest to whisper DER and Ger;
Come quickly. oh. glad days of yore,
To all the land of Dixie.
The bitter drcgs are drained at last.
The darkness dicth down the Pust.
Thy trial all with triumph crowned,
Thy noble soDs with toll ernbrowned,
Have made Of every battle plain
a golden field of waving grain.
Thy portals now are dccked with flowers
And peace and plenty in thy bowers,
Oh peerless land of Dixie.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
The Wooden-Legged Mans
Joke. ~

Speaking of wooden legs, there Is
an old soldier who has had some ex4
perience with an artificial limb, his
meat one having beeB taken off ut
the knee. The most amusing was
one with sleeping-car porter. On
a train be struck an uPpish sort of
porter-=a brother to the insufferable
swell who sings out: Last call for
dinnah in the dining cah!' That
darkey stood around with a languid
dignity that would make street-cor-
ner dude sick at heart.
The man with the wooden leg made
up his mind he wonld wake that
darkey up" before be chipped in his
quarter.
He told eoGpic of men in the car
his purpose and they Joined with him.
He wears his shoe firmly fastened to
the wooden leg, having no need TO
remove it and having fallen once from
a loose shoe. After his berth had
been made he went to the dressing
room and unstrapped the leg, keep
ing hold of the strap, and then got
into the berth. Then he called the
porter. 1--WE got rheumatism and
can't bend over" he said, land 1
wish you'd pull off that shoe" The
porter united the shoe and tried TO
pull it off. but it wouldn't COME
'' Pull hard" said the passenger
The darkey gave it another pull
IS Oh, brace against the berth and
pull" said the passenger. The por.
ter had blood in his eye. He put his
foot against the berth and pulled like
dentist. The passenger let go the
strap and the darkey fell back with
the shoe and the leg. Great Scott,
you've pulled off my ieg!" shrieked
the passenger. The porter dropped
it, and with his eyes buiging and his
teeth chattering he broke from the
car. He concealed himself in a cor
ner of the baggage-car, and pretty
soon the two other conspirators came
in, pretending they didn't know
where he was, sat down on 4 trunk
and talked over the awful condition
of the man whose leg had been pulled
off, and about the penalty the darkey
would have to suffer II he should be
caught. The porter was of no SER
vice to anybody that night, even after
they explained the joke TO him.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16

FINE GooDs AT Low PRIcEs.-Mr.
W. L. Jones, at Martinsburg, offers
to the public choice line of fine
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver
Ware, &C., at prices to suit the times.
He has really fine stock, and offers
just now a speciality of Silver Knives,
Forks and Spoons, at very low prices.
Mr.. Jones is a courteous and fair
dealing gentleman, and we believe
will furnish goods exactly as repre-
sented by him.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16

LADIES SAY BEACHLEY'S stock of Ladies.
Misses and Childrcn's Coats is frst-class and
his prices very low. His sales have been large.
Go and see.
Do You WANT CLOTHING ?-Men and boys
are realizing that to have II nice suit and first
class fit they must be measured SO that the gar
ment fits the form. BEACHLEY'S stock of
cassimeres is first-class. tailor second to none,
prices as low as the lowest.
BLANKETS. s.BLANKETs.-BEACHLE & CO..
at Hagerstown. have just received from Boston
another lot of those nice blankets. Perhaps
you will never see them at such low prices
again; ive-quarter blankets Sc 9s. worth "a.
GooD THINGS TO oEAT.-BEACHLEY& & CO..
at Hagerstown, are now offering at very low
prices. raisius, currants, citron. evaPorated
mackerel, canned goods of all kinds. table
sauce. salad dressing salmon. Holsters. oysters.
spices, c0ffees, teas, sugars, new crop n. o.
molasses DC.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
/ Owe My Life.
CHAPTER I.
"I was taken sick a year ago
With bilious fever"

CHATTER 1.
" 1 was taken sick year ago
With bilious fever.
"My doctor pronounced me cured. but got
sick again. with terrible pains in my back and
Sides and got so bad
Could not move
I shrunk!
From 25S lbs. to 100! lad been doctoring
for my liver, but it did ire no good. did not
expect TO live more than three months. l be-
gan to use Hop EiLtcrs.
Directly my appetite returned. my pains lett
me. my entire system seemed renewed as if 10y
magic, and after using several bottles. am not
only rs sound as sovereign. hut weigh more
than did before. To Hop Bitters owe my
lifc." r. FIfzPATRICK.
Dublin. June 6, 81.
CHAPTER II.
"Malden, Mass. Feb. /. 1880. Gentlemen
/ suffered with attacks of sick headache"
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the
most terrible and eXcruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give inc relief
or cure, until used Hop Bittcrs.
THE first bottle
Nearly cured me :"
The second made me as well and strong as
when u child,
"And have been so to this day"
NV husband was an invalid for twenty years
with n serious
Kidney, liver and urinary complaint.
Pronounced by Boston's best physicians
% Incurablc !"
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him and
I know of the
Lives of eight persons
In my neighborhood that have been saved by
your bitters,
And many more are using them with great
benefit. They almost do miracles ?"
-7nrs f. d. Slack:
How To GET SICK.-EXpOsc yourself day
and night: cat too much without exercise.
work too hard without rest. doctor nll the
time. take G'' the vile nostrums advertised,
and .Gsu YOU VIII want to know
How 30 Gyr WIZ Which is answered in
thrrc words-Iuise Hop Bi;tcrsi
GEe None genuine without Il bunch of green
Rrys on the white lalcj Shuu all The vic.
roiso,ous stuff yH.'h Hop - Hop ia their
nHH.c.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16

WHAT Do THE DRUGGIsTs SAY?z
They know what the people call for,
and they hear what their patrons say
as to whether the medicines they buy
work well or not. Martell & john
son, Rush City, Mimi, say, Browns
Iron Bitters give entire Satisfaction
to our customers" KIinkhamnIer &
Co., Jordon, Mimi, say, We sell
more Browns Iron Bitters than all
other bitters combined" L.. +.
Hacklev & Son, Winona, Mimi, say,
-' Al owT customers speak highly of
Browns Iron Bitters." A. G. Whit
man, Jackson, Mimi, says, ''Brown's
is giving good satisfaction to pur4
chasers." These are only few.
We have hundreds more just as good.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
ADVERTISING RATES

One Square q inch or less9 / to weeks. q. 50
Each subsequent insertion s-.-.-......... 50
Ous Square, three months 400
One Square, 8 months. .:............. .6e0
One squa,e. one year : = 1000
Csndiiates' Annduneements.-For County
Officers; $500; State or Congressional, $1,000.
Others at regular Advertising Rates .-r
Obituary Notices exseetiny hte lines, 10 sss.
per line.
Liberal dcdletiods niE6e for Quarter, HaIt
and Whole Columns, 20 AnnuhI. Ssr,i-Annual
and Quarterly Advertisers.
month or year unless specified on the Manu-
script, or previously agreed upon betwten the
parties
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
An Enterprising, Reliable House

Gee. T. Light can always be relied
upon, not only to carry in stock the
best of everything, but to secure the
Agency for such articles as have we'll
known merit, and are popular with the
people, thereby sustaining the reputa-
ton of being always enterprising, and
ever reliable. Having secured the
Agency for the celebrated DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, will
sell it on positive guarantee. 1t
will surely cure any and every affec-
tion of Throat, Lungs and Chest, and
to show our confidence, We invite you
to call and get Trial Bottle Free.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
An Answer Wanted.

Can any one bring us case of Kid
ney or Liver Complaint that Electric
Bitters will not speedily cure? We
say they cannot, as thousands OF
cases already permanently cured and
who are daily recommending Electric
Bitters, will prove. Bright's Disease,
Dialects, Weak Back, or any urinary
complaint quickly cured. They pu-
rify the blood, regulate the bowels.
and act directly on the diseased
parts. Every bottle guaranteed
For sale at SOC. a bottle by Geo. T,
Light.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16

BRAIxAKD's MUSICAL woRLD.-The Feb
ruary number of BRAIEARD's MUSICAL WORLD
is out. sparkling with new and excellent music,
choice reading matter. illustrations. etc Rol-
lowing is the collection of music in this month :
'.Number Two" by Joseph L. RoeckeI; sail
ing March" by VI. C. J.. and MauoIa Quad
riilc, by 81. J. Price s15O per year, or Is
CENTS single copy. Address. s. Brainard's
Sons. Publishers, 50 and 81 Euclid avenue,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
The jefferson County
MUTUA AL
Fire Insurance Company.
ESTABLISHED 1878.

OFFERS to the people of jefferson County
" Insurance i'll safe Company at the actual
cost of insurance. which is much cheaper than
the rates usually charged. and keeps the money
at home. Good risks from responsible parties
are invited.
Executive Committee meets every Friday.
DIREcToRs-N. s. White, Henry B. Daven-
port, J. Garland Hurst John w. Rider. w. FL.
T. Lewis. r. Preston Chew. VIM L. Wilson,
Eugene Baker, 8. w. Washington, james Logic,
Charles P. Wilson. John II. little. Jacob s.
Melvin, f. G. w. Herr, Isaac II. Strider.
col. r. P. CHEW. President.
ii. B. DAVENPORT... T...............T Treasurer.
EXECUTIVE CoMMtrTEE-N. S. White. VIM.
Fl. 7. Lewis, Eugene Baker. Isaac II. Strider,
R. P. Chew, S. ". Washington.
Local AGENTS. Mladleway-J. q. Shirley;
Kearneysvillc-J. c. Bitner; Harper's Ferry
Chas. E. Trail Shepherdstown-J. 8. Fleming;
Dutficlds-C. l.. Barnhart; Charlestown--
Washington Il Alexander.
es5- The Secretary viii be found at the Com
pany's Office. Gibson Building, Court-Housc
yard. in Charlestown.
r. A. ALEXANDER,
Feb. 12. lSS2-odn12.79 Secretary.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16

Western reports confirm the opinion
of the East that Days Horse Powder
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-15
Honolulu Library.

The following books have recently
been added to the Library and Reading
Room Association. The Hebride Isles. >"
by Robert Buchanan; "Lord Beacons-
field, biography, by T. P, O'Connor;
Life and Letters OF Lord Byron" by
Thomas Moore; Camp Notes." by
Frederick Boyle; THE Coincide HUI
maine and It's Author" by II. H
Walker; Strange Stories" by Grant
Alien; Essays by Leigh Hunt - con
the Choice Of Books, . by Thomas Car
lyle; Rough Ways Made Smooth, -
scientific essays, by R. A Proctor ;
''The Evolutionist at Large" by Grant
Allen; Handbook OF Architectural
Styles, by A. Rosengarten; Garcia
ture History Of the Georges" by Thos.
Wright; Women OF the Day." bio
graphical dictionary, by Frances Hays;
Authors and their Works, with Dates, -
bv +. c. Brewer; 80 nseryations on
Popular Antiquities, by John Brand.
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reported, it is not for us to say. The
progress o. events will probably show
that it was a most unwise and impolitic
act to give legal sanction to this society,
considered only upon grounds Of national
polity
With the dark hints and suggestions
which the Bulletin" gathered at the
street corners we have nothing to do.
We cannot suppose that d 1.-THE OF these
rumors are true But if there be any
reasonable foundation whatever for
them, then changes Of a radical char
acter are impending. We dismiss these
rumors from our mind, however, and
take our stand solely against the reaction
airy conduct OF the Privy Council in this
particular And we wish to be as plain
and outspoken in our remarks upon this
subject as upon all other matters requir-
ing comment at our hands. Article II
OF the Constitution provides: ''There
shall continue to be a Council OF State
for advising the King in all matters for
the good Of the State. wherein he NAV
in administering the Executive affairs of
the Government in such a manner as he
may direct; which Council shall be
called the Kings Privy Council Of State.
They shall be appointed and commits
stoned by the King, to hold office during
His Majesty's pleasure" Now, one Of
the functions of this high and dignified
body is to decide upon the granting Of
charters or franchises; and from its CON
stitution the country has a right to ex-
pect that any attempt to revive and
vitalize the customs and usages of the
barbarous and savage past would be
promptly put stop to. But this was
not done, and what might possibly be
excused in individuals, in the light OF
archaeological investigation, becomes in
tolerable in a chartered and legaIized
body.
No country on the earth's surface can
| afford to abandon the light of contem-
porary civilization for the gross darkness
and ignorance of brutal and degraded
! past. This country cannot afford to do
so of verify; and therefore it is that we
| would censure the Kings Privy COun-
| ell of State for giving even the semblance
! of countenance to a movement fraught
| with evil and humiliation to the native
Hawaiian people, much less in stamping
it with the sanction of Law as it has done
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THE DAILY

TERMS OF sUBsCRIPTION.
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Supreme Court.
AT cHANsERs-BEFoRE PRESTON, j.

AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PRESTON, i.
SATURDAY, November 18th
Petition in bankruptcy Of Leong To.
Messrs. Ashford & Ashford for petitioner.
Ordered that the said Leong To be
adjudged bankrupt and that Monday
November 22d, be the day for proving
claims and appointing assignees. Assets,
$3.50; liabilities, 81 ,S95 81.
la the estate of Irene III. H. Applica-
lion OF F. Judd and S. B. Dole, guardians,
for their discharge. the ward having
been married, which operated as a dis
charge in law. The application was for
approval of final accounts. The receipts
were $4,16l 80, the payments 3,798 50,
leaving a balance in hand of 1868 %.
The accounts were approved and the
guardians ordered discharged.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-15

Mr.. Jules Tavernier, the artist, arrived
from HilO yesterday by the Kinau. His
panorama of the Volcano will shortly be ex-
hibited on the lot corner of AIakea and
Hotel streets.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-15

The adjourned meeting of the Kings
Privy Council of State will be held to-
day at II O'Clock a. m.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16
THE AUSTRALIANS.

The Problem Attending Negroes with
Straight Hair.
The inhabitants of the continent of
Australia have long been a puzzle to
ethnologists. Of Negroid complexion,
features and skeletal characters, yet
without the characteristic frizzly hair,
their position has been one of great
difficulty to determine. They have, in
fact, been stumbling block in the
way of every system proposed. The
solution. supported by many considers
tons too lengthy to enter into here,
appears to lie in the supposition that
they are not distinct race at all, that
Ii, not homogeneous group formed by
the gradual modification of one Of the
primitive stocks, but rather q Cross be-
tween two already formed branches Of
these stocks. According to this view,
Australia was originally peopled with
frizzly-hsired Mslanesians, such as
those which still do, or did till the re-
cent European invasion, dwell in the
smaller islands which surround the
north, east and southern portions of
the continent, but that a strong in
fusion OF some other race, probably .
low form of Caucasian Melanochroi,
such as that which still inhabits the in
terror of the southern parts of India,
has spread throughout the land from
the northwest, and produced modifi-
cation of the physical character, espe-
cislly of hair. This influence did not
extend across Bass Strait into Tas-
mania, where, as just said. the Mala-
nesian element remained in its purity.
1t is more strongly marked in the
northern and central parts of Aus
tralia than on many portions of the
southern and western coasts, where the
lowness of type and more curly hair,
sometimes approaching to frizxly, show
o stronger retention Of the Melsnesisn
element II the evidence should prove
sufficiently STRONG to establish this
view Of the origin of the Australian na-
lives, it win no longer be correct 10
speak of primitive Australian, or
even Austrsloid. race anywhere out Of
their own land. - Ropxlar 6eissos
kentaly.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16

J. WEST GOODWIN
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, G.. I. Simons and Rebecca
An. Simons, his wife, by their certain deed
OF trust dated April Is, 1882, and recorded
in the recorders Office of Pettis county, at
trust deed and mortgage book No. %, on
pages 316 TO 32l inclusive, conveyed to the
undersigned trustee, John v, Conner, the
following described real estats, situated in
the city of Sedalia, Pettis county, Mis-
souri,, to-wit:
Lots one ~, two (2l and three 81 in
block No. nine CO. in Ritter's addition to
the city OF Sedalis, which said convey nce
was made In trust to secure the payment of
a certain promissory note and four inter-
est coupons in said dee'i fu ly described !;
and whereas said note and three of said in
terest coupons have become due and re-
main unpaid. Now therefore, in accord
ance with the provisions of said deed of
trust, and at the request of the legal holder
OF said note and interest coupons i shall
proceed to sell said real estate at the west
door of The court house, in the city of Sc
dalia, In Pettis county, Missouri, at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash in
hand, on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY LIST, 1886,
between the hours of nine in the forenoon
and FIVE o'clock in the afternoon of said
day, to satisfy said note and interest cou-
pons, and the cost and expense of execut-
ing said trust
JOHN W. CONNER, Trustee
I-l2w3t
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16
A FIERCE STRUGGLE.
The Thrilling Contest Between a Man and
Python.

The Thrilling Contest Between a Man and
Python.
A journal published in Singapore
gives an account of fight between
man and apython, which would indi-
cate that the Guy Livingstone type of
muscular heroes is not extinct among
Europeans in that settlement One
day news was brought to the curator of
the museum that great python, which
was on exhibition there, had escaped
from its box and was careering about
the building, no doubt thoroughly en-
toying the fright of the attendants and
visitors. The brute was no less than
twenty-five feet long. At that mo-
ment the curator happened to have q
bottle of carbolic acid in his hand. ''It
was most exciting tussle when they
came together, and for few seconds
the shivering native spectators could
not make ont which was the snake and
which was man." The guardian of
the museums treasures had secured a
firm grip Of the python's throat, but
on the other hand. the serpent had
coiled its crushing folds around his
legs. Had it been question of strength
merely, the boa must have won the
day; the curator would soon have been
only fit to make stuffed mummy In
his own museum: But after struggle
or two more he managed cleverly to
decant the bottle of carbolic acid down
the reptiles throat. the grip on which
he had never relaxed. The boa had
evidently been unaccustomed to the
drink-nay, it obviously disagreed with
him. The coils loosened from the
curator's limbs, q convulsive shiver
went through the entire twenty-five
feet of snake, and in few minutes the
great python was deadi-Good Word&
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-02-16
A MODEL LANDLORD.
How the Venerable Lord Tollemach
Manages His Vast Estate.

How the Venerable Lord Tollemache
Manages His Vast Estate.
Lord Tollemache, who has just COM
pleted his eightieth year, IL said to be
the model English landlord. He pos
sesses about forty-six thousand acres of
land in Cheshire, and during the whole
of the agricultural depression. from
1877 to 1885, he had neither O vacant
farm nor tenant in arrears His
estate in Cheshire has, during his life
time, been cut up into farms averaging
two hundred acres in extent. his lord
ship considering that thrifty farmer
with sons and daughters could do ex-
cellently on a two hundred-acre farm,
while he would suffer severely on a
smaller holding. I'm order to break up
his estate into farms of that size he
built, or rebuilt, between fifty and sixty
farm-houses at the cost of f15S, 1000,
each of these homesteads costing
f2,SOO. In addition to this, Lord Tolle-
mache has built two hundred and sixty
cottages for the accommodation of the
lsborers. In regard to the education
of children on his estate, an anecdote
is told of his lordship's practical COM
mon sense. Lord Tollemache was anx-
ious to provide mixed schools for the
education of the farmers and laborers'
children; but after the buildings had
been erected at considerable expense
he found that the tenant farmers OBJ
jected to send their sons to the same
schools with the lsborers' children.
Having listened quietly to the masters
complaint the noble lord said: There
Is only one way out of the difficulty; /
will send my own sons to the school. :"
For nearly two years Lord Tollemache's
children attended the school, and their
father adds: ito their undoubeed cd.
vantage. =. 6s~.