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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03
Notice.

ANY one suffering with erysipelas,
should call on Mr.. Anthony Turner, on
College street. Cure affected without
medicine No cure, no pay, References,
B. Thornburg, Geo. Wild, S. Tunnel, w.
Nicely, d. Grow. Sure cure jne12-tf.
BARGAINS in Calf, Kip and Coarse
Boots. A large lot of them bought at
Bankrupt sale at great sacrifice. Will
be closed out at 60c to ST. pair less than
regular prices, at
GETTINGER 81 HOKES.
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Total. .......... $25, 228 %
These are important figures and
from them our people can readily
form an opinion as to what particular
item needs either cutting down or
adding to. We have taken the state
ment from the official record Of tho
Court, and we propose to give these
accounts full publicity, and not have
them hidden by cheap or narrow cir
culation, the evidence of mock econ
omy. Next we shall chase down the
over issue Of orders, and in the mean
time we nominate Sheriff Lamon as
a new and valuable National Bank.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03
oWNFn RY SHERIFF LAMON

According to the financial state
ment and settlement made by the
committee with the Sheriff, Robert
Lamon, that individual is just now
carrying Berkeley county in his peck
ct, and is not even offering any diyi-
dend to the County Court. He has
invested in county liabilities just 50,
391.25 more than the levy made for
1885, with receipts from other sour
ces added, The financial statement
made at the last term of the County
Court, embracing every subject of
receipts and every item of expense
shows the following condition Of af-
fairs, viz: that Mr.. Lamon is charge
able with the following:
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03
AFFLICTED SIX LONG YEARS WITH
DIABETES.

MooREFIELD, HARDY Co, w. VA.
june 20, 1885.
ted with Diabetes for about six years, and
has been treated by different physicians
without receiving any benefit. Sometime
last winter bought two small bottles of
"ARoMANNA,7 which she used and is now
Wei. Yours respectfully,
JNO. IL. ROGERS.
Sold by A. NJ. Gilbert, Martinsburg, and
country dealers at % and 70 cents.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03
HATS! HATS!! HATS!!!
TAYLOR'S SILK and DERBYS
FOR SPRING, 1856.

GETTINGER h HOKE will run line of
these CELEBRATED Goods. They are the
top of Styles, and really cheaper than any
in the market, for those wanting good ar
ticle.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-03

: Yearly interest on Co. Bonds 4,9i6 90
: Coupons on $22,696 26 taxes ~ 1857 50
: Delinquents and interests ... 206 SO
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Our Worst Enemy.

In Tuesdays elections the Republican
party suffered here and there from local
causes, but the balance of the results is
decidedly in favor of the party of free
dom and principle There is just one
thing which prevented the generally
satisfactory outcome of the great sirug-
gle from being tremendous swee, #
victory which would have broken 40 u
the Democratic party. given the N-lIoa
al House of Representatives to the Re
publicans by handsome majority over
over all opposition, beaten the admins
tratioD 25.OO0 in New York and made
the Republican majority 10000 in Ohio.
That one hindrance was the Prohibition
party. 1t cut down the Republican ma
jorities in Massachusetts,, Michigan, Wis
consin, and Pennsylvania probably 15.-
600 in each State. 1t gave New York to
the Democrats by 5000, when the Re-
publicans would otherwise have had 25,>
900 majority. 1t has turned the scale
in many close congressional districts in
favor of the party of whisky and fraud;in
Ohio it has prevented tremendous Re-
publican majority, though the one which
remains is ample for ordinary purposes.
The Prohibition party's work was just
as disastrous last year and more so the
year before. 1t put Cleveland in the
White House, and it is a terrible
burden upon the gallant Repub-
licans of many former Republican
stronghold. In power, persistency, and
in working injury to the cause of sound
finance, law and order, protection to
American industries, and general good
government, it completely dwarfs the
Labor" organizations which fills SO
large a place in the eyes of some politi-
clans. The third party problem is the
one which the Republicans of Ohio and
of the whole North mast face in the fu.
tuTe. 1t is the main defense of the
Democratic party and the chief obstacle
to complete Republican predominance
in the country and the State Cleveland
Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
The Election and Its Outcome

The year 1888 is looming up with the
golden glow of promise. Wheeling In
telligencer.
Cleveland is the first President who
has had no voting residence.-Buffalo
Express.
Democratic civil service reform will
have to go and get new mask.-De-
troit Tribune
Ohio, as November State, is not an
object of national concerD.-Cincinnati
Sun.
We feel constrained -Earsa+!s- that ia
our opinion, all bets that Mr.. Cleveland
will be nominated for a second term
will be lost.-New York World.
The people of Ohio replied to the bru+
tai and silly campaign of Doodle and
sIander.-Cin. Com. Gazette.
Poor HuId beaten again in a D-mo-
cratic district. Notwithstanding the fac
that he nalf-masted the free trade flag.
He'll have to turn Protectionist if he
still desires to get back to Congress-
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
The desperate efforts Of the Democrats,
directed by such skillful managers Gov.
Hill and Smith NJ. Weed, to capture the
Assembly and the United States Sena-
torship fail.-Utica On. " Herald.
In every State in the Union where a
Republican organization is permitted to
exist, and where the right of free speech
and free ballot is recognized, the Repub
lican party made marked advances yes
terday.- Erie Dispatch, Sd.
The election returns of this city, pub
lished this morning, demonstrate again
the enormous frauds of the Democratic
pprty in October. 1885. Not noting the
notorious Fourth ward, the Democrats
have loss of nearly 1000 in the Sixth
and Eighth wards to account for, and
there is but one xplanation-their loss
is the elimination of fraud.-Cin. Com
Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11

For week before the election the Ohio
State Liquor Dealers Association (head-
quarters at ClevelanD threw all the re-
sources of its organized forces in favor
of the Democratic ticket. Care was take
en- not to make any noise, but every liquor
dealer and those dependent upon the
traffic were appealed to pathetically by
private circulars, setting forth the int
iquity of taxation aud regulation. The
liquor men in lighting the Dow law are
kicking against the pricks, and if thirty
five years of absolute free trade bad not
educated them into the belief that their
business ought to be sacredly exempt
from contributing to the part payment
of the burdens they infict upon tie
community, they would know that pub>
lie opinion is now solidly arrayed against
them on this question. Had the Ohio
Liquor Dealers Association made an
open campaign against the Republican
party on this issue the majority on the
state ticket would have been largely
increased.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Grains of Gold.

Kind words cost no more than unkind
ones.
Ignorance too often mistakes conceit
for dignity.
Nothing doth so fool man as extreme
passion.
The end of passion is the beginning
of repentance.
A defect will more quickly take the
eye than merit.
Practice can only burnish the virtues
into their glorious luster.
1t is necessary to hope, though hope
should be always deluded.
A good life hath but few days, but a
good name endureth forever.
If you are not wiser and better at the
end of a day, that day is lost.
We ought to love our neighber upon
earth as we shall love him in heaven.
The silence of person who loves to
praise is censure sufficiently severe.
Daily ought we to renew our purposes
and to stir up ourselves to greater fervor.
Mans ready suspicion of humanity is
the true cause of the worlds want of
faith.
If persons would take more trouble
about living they would be less troubled
when dying.
The secret of happiness is to find the
fair side of every event and fit it to ev-
cry occasion.
Little by little fortunes are accumu-
lated; little by little knowledge is gain
ed; little by little character is achieved.
!. 1t is not enough in this world to "mean
we'll" We ought to 90 we'll. Thought
fulness, therefore, becomes duty.
Frequent disappointments teach us to
mistrust our own inclinations, ,and shrink
even from VOWS our hearts may prompt.
There is no doubt some people enjoy
being unhappy. They take pleasure in
contemplating injustice done TO them>
selves.
No mans life is free from struggles
and notifications. not even the happi :
est. but every one may build up his own
happiness by seeking mental pleasure.
Time is lent to US to be laid out in
Gods service, to His honor; and we can
not be too diligent in it, if we consider
that time is precious, passing, uncer>
tain,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
DANGEROUS COUNTERFEITER.
A Mysterious Individual Who Has
Been Wanted by the Government
tor Five Years.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.l

WASHINGTON, Nov. lone of the
most Successful count-rfeiters in the
cuu tfH has haffl the treasury for over
ave Years. He has adopted such an
Original role that thus far no trace Of
hIiue has ever been reached. His name.
even, is not known. A fairly good
description of him has been obtained.
but beyond that the secret service bureau
has no information. This cOunterfeiter
works alone He has no apparatus be-
yond pen and bottle of ink, and hav-
ing no accomplices. is not in any danger
of being betrayed. His method of pro-
ceeding is very simple. He will take
10, 20, or a so of the greenback or ma
tiOnal bank issue, and in the shortest
possible time can make such success
fui copy of it in pen and ink as to defy
detection from anybody but an expert
with glass. a $50 note was seen at
the treasury made by him of the green
back issue. The general appearance of
this bill is perfect. The lines about all
of the portrait work will bear the closest
inspection under the glass. The letter
work is absolutely correct, and the sig~
natures miraculous reproductions. Even
the treasury seal is faultless. The artist
that produces this class of work rarely if
ever connterfeits the same issue twice
during the same period. 1t is, therefore,
not possible to put bank people on their
guard against him. He skips about
from issue to issue, and while be rarely
goes below $50, yet has condescended to
make a SO note. He is apparently
always Cd the wing. His first note was
detected in New Orleans. Other issues
have been found in southern cities along
the Mississippi river, and then again
they would be found in Chicago or the
extreme west. His counterfeiting can
never reach very large amount. He
apparently travels about great deal
and defrays the expenses of his travel
ing with his knowledge of The pen. He
is man of such talent that he could GER
tiinly command handsome salary in a
legitimate business. He has thus far
been so successful in putting his wares
on the market that by the time bis note
is detected the slightest trace of its
author is gone. This is one of the ro-
mances of the secret service. There is
not an officer connected with the service
but who firmly believes that even this
evasive counterfeiler will be caught in
the end. 1t will be hard job to find
MN. He Is only one of 60,00O,OOO of
people, with no connections or relations
with the other members of the human
family to betray him. And yet every
successful counterfeiter this country
has thus far known has been brought to
punishment in the end
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
A Razor Getting Tired -

eyes, 1 knew it," exclaimed the veteran
barber. IL knew this razor was getting
tired"
&So'm l." said the reporter, with some as
perity. Il feel as if you'd been running
lawn mower over my face" %That's what 1
said, " replied the barber. This razor is
tired" "What are you talking aboutP
20, razors often get that way. have used
this one for three years, and better piece Of
steel was never honed. During that time it
has been tired just four times What do l
mean by tired? Well, to all appearances
this razor is as sharp as need be, but it won't
work. No matter how much hone it there
will be no improvement, and the only thing
to do is to give it a rest. First, clean it with
more than ordinary care. Then l open it
and put it away in a drawer with good
hone. 1 lock the drawer and leave it for five
days At the end of that time l open the
drawer and take out the razor. 1t will be as
sharp as any blade you ever saw."-Chicago
News
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11

THE rebel brigadiers and their admir-
ing Democratic followers from the
North will feel happy about one thing
when the Lth Congress merts. for there
will be no negro members in the House
of superiority. Mr.. O'Hard is defeated
in North Carolina and the returns from
Robert Small's district ia South Carolina
come in SO slowly that it is impossible
not to suspect his opponents of trying
to count him out. Yet both these negro
members have borne themselves in the
present Congress with as much dignity
as any of their fellow representatives.
New York Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Miscellaneous.

Slavery has been established in West
ern Australia.
There are published throughout the
world about 100 new books daily.
There are 1O4 people in San Francisco
who are worth S1,O0O,0OO and over.
The nectarine received its name from
nectar, the principal drink of the gods.
The tomato is native of South Amer
lea and takes its name from Portu.
guese word.
Up in Bangor the clergymen send to
the hotels every Sunday inviting strang-
ers to their churches.
Two colored women completely used
up Washington policeman last week,
and relieved him of his club.
Grand Duke Nicholas, the heir to the
Russian throne, is affected with pulmo+
nary disease. He is Is years old.
Abraham Lincoln, ,grandfathe of great
Abraham Lincoln, was slain by an lndi-
ans tomahawk just 100 years ago, 17S6.
In the scent savings banks of Charles
LOD, .. C.,cOlOreu FeOple nave olZf,SoO.Oo
on deposit The largest depositOr has
Sc, 1000.
Some Boston women get their hats
checked in the cloak rooms of the thea
ters, and sit through the performance
without them.
A boy 10 years old, who was witness
in the York. Pa. court recently, admi'-
ted that he had never seen Bible Eor
heard of God.
A minister who has labored fof severt
al years for a flock in Terrell county,
Ga, is said to have received but SIS 80 in
cash during that time.
A Baptist congregation at Mount Yer
non, N. Y. has presented a Methodist
congregation of the same place with
contribution of $500 to help extinguish
the latter's church debt.
An old lady living at Calhoun. Ga,
has claim against the United States
government for mule that belonged t.
her grandfather, and which was i'm
pressed into the service in 1912.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
Iss6-7-BeImont County. Ohio.

ID Saturday of Oct at st C1airsville.
I'd Saturday of Nov at Belmont.
I'd Saturday of Dec at st Clairsville.
I'd Saturday of Jan at Bridgeport.
I'd Saturday OflFeb at st Clairsville-
I'd Saturday of Mar at Barnesville
I'd Saturday OF April at 8: Clairsville.
I'd Saturday of May at Bellaire.
ID Saturday of June at Morristown.
At Flushing at close OF Institute in Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at o'clock q. m.
Testimonials OF character are required II
applicant is not known 10 the Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor ex-
tended.
Tests In the higher branches will be given
at close Of Institute ONLY.
Certificates will be dated and issued by the
Board in djourned session on Saturday folN
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
frst-cIass Is years. certificate is granted
upon aD average of per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnOol law, with no
months experience n teaching.
A seeond>clssS a years. certificate is grant
ed upon an average OF so per cent, including
two higher branches and the school law, with
no grade bel6T 20. provided applicant has had
months experience in teaching.
third~class e years. certificate Is granted
upon an average of IS per cent. including
one higher branches and the school law. with
Is months experience in teaching.
A fourth-class q years. certificate is granted
upon an average OF 70 per cent, including the
school law, with no grade below go, provided
teaching.
A fifth-class q year, certificate Is granted
upon an average of IS per cent, with no grade
below IS.
B. ALEXANDER. Pres.l
n. L. PECK, BOARD of Elk
s>2Iy L. a. WATERS. Clerk.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
WHEN THE FROST is ON THE PUNKIN.
BY JAMES wHITCONB ROGERS.

When the frost is on the punkin and the fod-
der's ia the shock,
And you hear the gobble -gabble of the struttin'
turkey cock;
And the clackin of the guineas and the cluckin'
of the hens,
And the ROSTERS hallylooyer as he tiptoes on
the the fence.
o it's then the time feller is feeling at the
best,
With the risiu' sun to meet him from a night
of gracious rest.
As he leaves the house hare-headed and goes
out to fed tie stock,
When the frost is on the. .punkin and the fod-
der's in the shock
They's somefn kind O. hearty like about the
atmosphere
When the heat of summers over and the cool
in fall is here;
Ofcourse we miss the flowers and the blossoms
on the tress,
And the humble of the hummin' bird and buzz
zin' of the bees.
But the airs so appetizin' and the landscape
through the haze,
Of crisp and sunny mornin' of the early
autumn days,
Is picture that no painter has the colorin' to
mock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fod-
der's in the shock.
The husky, rusty rustic of the tassels of the
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves as golden
as the morn.
The stubble in the ferrows-kind of lonesome
like but still,
A preachn' sermons to US of the barns they
growed 20 fill;
The strawstack in the meddey and the reaper
in the shed,
The hosses in the stall below, and the clover
overhead
When the frost is on the punkin and the fod-
der's in the shock.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11

timation of that martyrdom which Peter vol
unteered prematurely, but which the Master
sent later, in the right time, and one can
fancy Peter saying, after all l am glad
shall have 10 die for one so noble and so for
giving"
The teacher will show how fit this lesson
was at this point. The apostles were to be
fishers of men. But of themselves they could
catch none Under Christs orders the net
will be full, and it will not be broken In the
supper of the Lamb the joint fruit of Christs
and his fellow laborers' toias will be gathered
together To Peter the lesson was specially
fit, in view of the past. Self-conhdence was
his snare. Christ twice uses word for
aslovest" stronger than Peters own word.
GDo YOU really love me as a friend, or IS 1t
only talk, as before!" So Peter appeals to
our Lords omniscience. Then the hint comes
that in loving and following Christ, Peter
shall have Christ's experience and really carry
out all that he had volunteered, then from
his own over-confidence and pride, but at last
under the impulse of genuine conservation TO
Jesus, his Lord. The words do not give Peter
special and peculiar powers for the future,
but are meant to recall and save him from
special temptations into which he had fallen
already.-Sunday School World.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
4 Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 900 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday Z p.m.
Strangers welcome to all services.
NJ ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN4Rev. w Ii. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday p m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, Q pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, / pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
BILIOUSNESS,

Bilious symptoms invariably
arise from indigestion, such as
furred tongue, vomiting ofbile,
giddiness, sick headache, ir-
regular bowels. The liver Sc
eretes the bile and acts like q
filter or sieve, to cleanse impU-
rites Of the blood. By irPegU-
larity in its action or suspen-
sions Of its functions, the bile
is liable to overflow into the
blood, causing jaundice, sallow
complexion, yellow eyes, bill
ious 6iarrhGa, G languid,
weary feeling and many other
distressing symptoms. Bilious
ness may be properly termed
an affection Of the liver, and
can be thoroughly cured by the
grand regulator Of the liver
and hillary organs, BURD0CK
BLOOD BITTERS. It aetS upon the
stomach, bowels and liver,
making healthy bile and pure
blood, and opens the culYerts
and sluiceways for the outlet
Of disease. Sold everywhere
and guaranteed to cure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Tuft Hunting Extraordinary.

Intelligence from Franzensbad says that
female relic hunters fairly stormed and ran
sacked, in Hotel Huebner, the rooms which
Prince Bismarck had occupied during his re-
cent brief stay. The same apartments in
which the iron chancellor had worked at the
maintenance of the worlds peace became the
scene of stand up fight among the fair in
truders Everything that the prince could
possibly have touched was declared good
prize-paper clippings, quilts, candle and
cigar ends, toothpicks, pencils and the primi-
tive porcelain inkstand itself. Some Of the
most intrepid invaders are said to have pene-
trated into the sanctum and to have tri-
umphantly carried OFF the soap, soap dishes,
and glasses Of the washstand, and one in par
ticular, an unmentionable piece of furniture,
which jeweler was ordered to cover with
gold wire.-Paris American Register.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
A Bride of the TvroI.

The village of Lads. in the Tyrol, has for
generations observed the rule that its maidens
must not take husbands outside their own
village. Lately, however Catherine Schranz,
reckoned the most beautiful girl of the whole
district, accepted the proposal of a suitOr
from distant place The youths of Lads
resented this as a personal injury. Six Of
them seized her, tied her on manure cart, and
led her through the village, the other youths
and boys jeering and singing derisive chants
At length her father rescued her, and took
proceedings against her assailants, who were
sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging
from four weeks to two months-Foreign
Taf%ar
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-11
Mexico Cfty,s American Hospital.

The American citizens that live in the City
of Mexico have issued another appeal for the
American hospital to be erected in that city.
A very desirable site has been secured, on
which it proposed to erect four small pavilions
with an administrative building in the center.
One of these pavilons is fast approaching
completion and it is hoped if funds are avail
able, to erect the central building soon The
whole plan calls for about $4,000, of which
about 10000 has been subscribed 1t is hoped
that many Americans will aid this most
worthy object.-New York Tribune.