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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
MARTINsBURG, W. VA. SATURDAY NOV. Is, 1886.
BUTTONS; DINNER.

Certainly Jim Dntton was a dude.
he. was a dude clerk in o Texas
store. He is a frequent visitor at
the palatial mansion of Judge Peter.
by. Dutton is special pet of Mrs.
Peterby, and is suspected of having
designs on the affections of Miss
Molly Peterby, the belle of Austin,
who is also wealthy.
A few days ago Jim was invited
to dine at s o'clock at the Peterby
mansion, but he heard during the
morning that prominent sheep
man would be at the store about that
time to purchase big bill of goods,
so Jim had to forego the pleasure OF
dining with the Peterbys.
A little after 8 Jim said to the
colored porter, Sam Johnsing:
"Sam, / want you to go to Mrs.
Judge Peterby, give her my compli-
ments, and tell her [ regret my ina.
bility to be present at dinner"
ayes, sah."
"And, Sam, take my dinner bask-
ct with you, and on your way back
bring me my dinner from the res
taurant on the corner, and he quick
about it,"
In due time Sam returned with
the dinner basket, which he opened
and spread the contents on the table
in the Office, when this conversation
occurred
Why, what is this ?" said button
in amazement, Z" l told you to bring
me an ordinary dinner and here you
brought me a dinner fit for king"
~ jess tuck what Mrs. Peterby
guy me.D
"What! Mrs. Peterby put up this
dinner ~
eyes, sab, 1 told her what you
said.n
What did | say"
"You told me ter tell Mrs. Peter.
by dat you couldn't come ter dinner,
and for her to put your dinner in de
basket"
"Oh, my Godv said Dntton,
sinking back into his chair. 1t was
some time before he recovered
Then he soliloquized:
allow can I re-establish myself
in her good graces? / know how ]
will manage it. Here, SAM"
Eyes, sah."
"Take this so bill, 60 to the
florists, buy handsome bouquet
and take it to Mrs. Peterby, with
my compliments. Do you under.
stand megn
"Yes sah."
In a short time Sam returned
with a broad grin on his face.
"Did yor give those flowers tC
Mrs. Peterby ?"
:" Yes, sab. She tuck de flowers
"What did she say?"
She said she was eber so much
obleeged, and she wanted ter gil
me quarter, but | told her vel
can't come dat game on me; den
| flowers cost 49,"
AS Sam passed over the bach
fence button got a fair shot at hin
but missed him. An intelligent
colored porter can get job b.
applying on the premises.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13

PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Nov. 2.
An incendiary fire yesterday,
not far from Wheeling, destroyed
the house and saloon of Louis
Lichtleichener. Loss $1,000; in.
surance 81 800. Lichtleichener went
to an upper door, and the flames
suffocating him, he fell down stairs.
His body was afterwards found
burned to the bone. His vile and
two children jumped from a second
story window, the former sustaining
internal injuries, from which she
soon died.
On Sunday night the eightyear-
old daughter Of man named KEN
pee, at Benwood, w. Va, having
been left alone by her parents,
during the day attempted to light a
fire by using coal oil. An explosion
followed, from which she caught
fire, and IN a few hours died a hor-
rible death, the skin being burned
of her entire body.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
MIscHIEVoUs oRGANIsTs.

A church organist in a Pennsyl.
vania town, all bent with age, at the
wedding of an antique belle whom
he knew years before, astonished
every body by playing a fantasia on
the air, "When You and / were
Young" This Is about as good as
a Detroit organist, who trilled, 81
am Pirate King" as the deacon
was taking up the collection
Grand Rapids Telegram.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
Near Tuhlequah. Idaho. is an i'm.

Near Iunlequah, Idaho, is an im-
mense wild pigeon roost. There
are millions of birds, and at night
when they come in to the roost they
make noise like mighty thunder.
Birdmen say there are only two
droves of wild pigeons now in North
America. This is the larger one.
A great many people are encamped
around the roost engaged in trap
ping, netting and killing them for
Shipment, which they are doing by
the thousands. New York, Phila.
delphia, Chicago, St.Louis and other
places IN the states OF less acre are
represented at this roost. For dead
ones the slayers get an average OF
- per 100 : for live ones the meters
get "a to S6 per 100, as a great
many of these are used in the East
and ordered for shooting matches
by sporting clubs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13

HARTFORD, CT., Nov. with
very few towns to hear from, the
Senate stands IA Republicans to 10
Democrats, a Republican gain of
one. The lower house, with four
towns not heard from and reckoned
as voting the same as last year,
stands ia Republicans and 113
Democrats, one Labor and one tie,
a Republican majority of 10 or 20,
and on joint ballot of from 20 to %.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
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TARIFF REDUCTION CONDEMNED.


Out of the surprises and confus-
ions. of the reeentelections one thing
energies clear and decided-it is
that the country is opposed to tariff
reduction. 1t declares in favor. of
protection.
The near defeat of Speaker Car
Isle, the low tariff champion, in dis.
trict where his personal popularity
was very great, was evidently upon
the protection issue. His opponent,
q Labor candidate, endorsed by Re-
publicans, had quietly made the
tight.on protection of American la
Dor, and won. The latest advices
indicate that Mr.. Morrison, the au-
thor of the horizontaln tariff re.
duction, is also defeated. This is a
fact of no less significance than the
defeat of Speaker Carlisle. At
every session of the House of Rep
resentatives Mr.. Morrison has
brougt forward a bill for tariff re-
duction, and has thus kept the
business interests OF the country in
a state of continual uncertainty and
uneasiness. He is an able man and
an honest one, but the country will
not regret his absence from the
halls of Congress. Frank Hurd,
the free trader, the. brilliant orator,
had in.the present campaign soften
ed his free trade sentiments and
lisped little protection, but it did
not save him. Birmingham, Ala.
bama, new coal and iron town,
where manufactures are rapidly
developing,sadecide against tariff
reduction. In Virginia the districts
in which manufacturing interests
are growing the Republicans have
won. A Republican will succeed Mr..
Randolph Tucker. The free trade
or low tariff Democracy has suffered
everywhere.
The United States are rapidly
changing from agricultural to manu-
featuring communities. In the
Eastern and Middle states this has
already taken place. In the West
ern and Southern states the change
is in rapid progress. The opening
of mines, the erection of iron
furnaces and rolling mills and man.
ufacturies Of various sorts bring
with them the need for protection
and create sentiment in its favor
that soon spreads over the adjacent
country. The free trader, who is
usually the product of an agricul-
tural community, may well be as
tonished at the rapidity of the
change of sentiment in his district.
Mr.. Morrison, Mr.. Hurd and Mr..
Tucker, all among the ablest ex.
ponents of tariff reduction, have
now felt the full force of this change
of sentiments.
1t is to be noted in this relation,
that Mr.. Blaine, with his far-sighted
sagacity and his quick sympathies
with American ideas and senti.
ments, made his campaign on the
protection issue two years ago. In
the recent state campaign in Maine
he made protection the prominent
question, and in his recent Penn.
sylyania tour he also made this the
theme of his able speeches. In
view of the surprise" of the recent
elections, it can hardly be doubted
that he was right. The congress.
sional elections of this year may be
regarded as an appeal in the people
on the issue of the Morrison bills,
and the appeal has been decided
against the low tariff leaders,
Carlisle, Morrison aud others. The
most potent factor in this has been
the vote of the laboriDg men,
| American,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
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James, John aud Ellen Daugh-
erty, brothers and sister, were
suffocated in a sand pit at Scranton,
Pa, an embankment falling in on
them.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-11-13
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
Reliwion ar Sar,tog.

SARATOGA, N. Y, June 3.-The Congreea-
tional Sunday School Publishing society held
a session here this afternoon. President
Samuel B. Capen of Boston, stated that the
receips for the year amounted to S25,575.63.
The number of new schools aided was
339; additional schools helped, 1,6l4; persons
gathered into new schools, $4,000, and mis-
sionaries at present employed 100. Ad-
dresses were made by Rev. Smith Baker,
Rev. George NJ. Boynton, Boston, and Rev.
II. A. Schauffer of Cleveland, o.
The session of the American home mig
sionary society was resumed at $3.50 p. m.
to-day. Rev. l.. Warren of Michigan gave
an account of the society's work in the
state. Rev. t. G. Gale reported for Flor
ida; Rev. t. II. Morley for Minnesota; Rev.
II. G. Simmond for North Dakota; Rev. ID.
l.. Leonard for Utah; Rev. j. II.
Warren or California, and Rev.
@. G. Otis for Washington
territory. Favorable reports were received
from sl, and large gains were shown
for the society. The meeting of the society
closed with the evening session, when adj
dresses were made by Rev. w. E. Merriam,
of Boston, Rev. DR.. Little, of Chicago, and
Rev. NJ. JON. G. Dana, ofMinnesota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04


Miss Riley. The janitor at the court house
said that on Monday evening he heard an
cutlery in the direction of the cemetery and
moment afterward a team drove rapidly
by the court house. Riverplace, where she
lived, leads directly to the banks of the
Charles river. A search along the river
front was made to-day, but no trace or in
dication that the young lady visited the
river could be found A report circu-
lated that young man with whom Miss
Riley kept company was missing was with
out foundation. A sister of the missing
girl visited her room at Mr. SIMPSONS this
afternoon and found her clothes and other
articles undisturbed. Her trunk had been
broken open and her months wages, bank
book and other personal property belong
ing to her were gone. All the police here
and two detectives are working on the
case.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
A Canadian Gers Dose.

CHICAGO, June 3-The Canadian steam
barge Nipigon arrived here to-day in sink
ing condition and under circumstances
possessing peculiar interest in view of the
clashing between American and Canadian
marine interests. She was loaded with stone
from Vest Island, Lake Superior, for this
city. The law requires foreign vessels enter
ing American waters to stop at the first
United States port on their routes and obtain
permission to proceed from the collector
thereof. Capt. Conan of the Nifigon says he
experienced a heavy gale and his vessel
sprung a leak so badly that it became neces-
sary to work the pumps day and night to keep
her afioat; that he made all haste to make
this port, not daring tie stop at either Macki-
nav or Sheboygan, as required by law,
lest his vessel might go to
the bottom with all on board. The penalty for
the violation of this law is the forfeiture of
the vessel and cargo. Cspt. Conland to-day
laid the matter before Collector Seeberger
who said he could do nothing in the premises
except to enforce the law, but advised him to
forward statement of the facts to the tt cas-
ury department at Washington, which the
captain did, Pending further developments
the Nipigon will not be allowed to leave this
port.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
A NEAT LITTLE SCHEME.

That is a very shrewd combination which
is set forth in another column as having
been arranged between two prominent CUB
ernatorial candidates, Messrs. GIBBS and
GILMAN. 1t is kind of scheme whereby
each candidate will win whichever way the
election goes, provided the voters are ac-
commodating enough to restrict the choice
to these two gentlemen. AS the story runs.
when the two candidates go into the con-
vention their respective strength will be
thoroughly canvassed. Then the one who
has the smaller number of delegates will
throw his strength to the other, and assure
his nomination. But this magnanimity is
not founded upon purely disinterested
friendship, and an unbiased desire that the
interests of the farmers NAV be
protected by elevation to. the governor
ship of one of two men so famous
for their unselfish sympathy for that sturdy
and handwriting class of citizens. 1t would
perhaps be rather too much to expect such
an exhibition of fraternal love in the scope
of modern politics. The matter is expected
to be arranged in way that will bring a
distin ct and substantial reward to the self
sacrificing candidate. His successful op-
ponent is to appoint him oil inspector, a
position which, if 1T does not carry with it
as much glory as the governorshp. has GER
tain solid attractions not to be lightly cast
aside. Thus if it comes about that we
shall say Governor GILMAN" it will fol-
low as a corallory that we must add "Oll
Inspector G1BBs," and vice versa. 1t is
certainly very clever arrangement. The
only question is. Will the delegates give
them an opportunity for carrying it into
affpct9
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
ways displayed a wonderful faculty

always displayed wonderful faculty
for looking out for number one
and certain degree of unscrupu-
lousness in his methods of advancing the
interests of that individual, whether it is a
matter of sentiment or cents. However that
may be, there no doubt is considerable con-
sternation just at present in the houses of
LOGAN, SHERMAN, ct al. They find they
will have to be up and stirring if they are to
prove worthy competitors of Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS vanquished opponent. Already
they are badly handicapped by the start
which he has taken. They may well fear,
therefore, that, unless he develops lack of
staying powers. Mr.. BLAINE will pass un-
der the wire first. And when it comes to a
matter of staying he has never in the course
of long and varied political career shown
any tendency to leave or lag so long as an
office was in sight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
THE Willy CZAR.

So far as foreign policy is concerned, the
Russian government is displaying more
wisdom than Great Britain. The car is
either statesman of the first water, or he
has some cabinet minister close in his conf
dence who is master diplomat. The sue
cess which Russia has met with in concll-
iating Turkey, Persia, and outlying regions
of the Orient, and attaching them to the
Russian government, is stroke of diplo-
macy which England will feel later along.
1t is true that the British government
is so engrossed with its internal
troubles that it doesn't find much time to
devote to its foreign affairs. But the car
is shrewd in taking advantage of England's
domestic embarrassments to work the
Oriental field for all it is worth. 1t would
be wisdom for England to dispose of the
home rule question and all other perplexing
local issues at once and turn its attention to
the East, or it will wake up one of these
fine mornings and find that it is dispossessed
entirely of its Oriental property.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
SPARKS MAKES A BREAK.


1t looks as though Commissioner SPARKS
wanted to get out of the land Office. He is
evidently seeking to give the secretary of
the interior some provocation for request
ing his resignation. The great body of the
people have faith in Mr.. SPARKS integrity.
They sustained him in his big fight with
the land rings. They believed him when
he said that the whole public land system
was honey-combed with fraud. and they
were anxious to see him inaugurate the
reforms that he promised when he took
charge of the department. There has also
been a suspicion in the public mind that
Gen. SPARKS has not had the support and
encouragement that he deserved to receive
Yrom congress and from the national adj
ministration. Ali these things have had
tendency to enlist public sympathy in his
behalf and to array public sentiment on his
side. But it must be admitted that the
public has not been satisfied with the
methods that the commissioner has adopted
to expose the frauds which were supposed
to exist in the land department and to
establish the reform which he had prom
ised. He has been slow in his movements
and exceedingly arbitrary in his conduct.
The people are anxious to see the proofs
of the frauds that have been committed
and they want to see the rascalS turned
into the penitentiary. and they are grow
ing little FESTIVE under Commissioner
SPARKS delay in this matter. But while
they are wee bit impatient in this re-
spect, their Impotence is not so
great as to Justify the land
commissioner in refusing to execute the
laws which are now on the statute books
His recent order directing the registers and
receivers to receive no new filings on new
applications for entry under the pre-emp-
ton, timber culture and desert land laws,
simply because congress is considering the
question of, their repeal, is one step too far
in stretching official authority. 1t is an
arbitrary and unwarranted exercise of
power which cannot be tolerated. 1t
is just as reasonable that the
president should direct a suspension
of the constitution because congress is
considering an amendment to the organic
law as that the head of a department
should suspend law because it is likely to
be repealed. 1t is probable that congress
will repeal the timber culture law, as it
ought to do, but until it is repealed it is
the duty of the commissioner and of everv
other official in the land department to
respect its provisions and to enforce them.
1t is the duty of an executive officer to en-
force the laws, not to suspend them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04

Keystone state. But carrying out the fund
amental principles of the ORDER he declares
that even were he candidate he should re-
fuse to trade upon his relations with an or
der avowedly non-political in its constitu-
ton. He doubtless recognizes what the
rest of the country will readily admit, that
he can be of more service to the cause of
the workingmen as the cool-headed,
far-seeing leader of the Knights of
Labor than he could be occupying
the executives chair. 1t is not often that the
leader of a movement so far-reaching in its
membership and so comprehensive in its
aims as that of which Mr.. PowDERLY is
the head, possesses in such an eminent de-
glee as the present master workman, the
conservatism and Judgment which are sure
10 win the sympathy and approval of an
impartial public and which are necessary to
harmonic the discordant elements existing
in every similar organization. When, then,
such leader is found and when his leader
ship has been weighed in the balance of
public opinion and found far from wanting,
it is both discreet and wise to retain him.
The American people think well of Mr..
PowDERLY, and they prefer seeing him oc
cupy his present position to venturing upon
the troubled sea of politics, where his present
usefulness would soon be swallowed up.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
Was There Foul playr


DEDHAM, Mass, June 3.-Annie Riley,
daughter of Patrick Riley, one of the pref
test girls in town. has been missing since
Monday evening. She had been employed
by Mr.. Ward Lampson on River street.
She visited her home on Monday evening.
In returning to her place of work about
$3.50. she started to make short cut across
cemetery and through lonely field
skirted by woods. She has not been seen
since she turned off the street into the
cemetery. George Moore, who has been
stationed in the cemetery to watch the
flowers placed upon the graves of the SOL
ders. says just before the o'clock bells
rang on Monday evening he saw the dim
outline OF two men as they leaped
over the wall which surrounds the
cemetery on the opposite side from
where he was. Then he heard
loud voices for a moment and sounds as of
a struggle. He did not see anything of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-04
The COfGeyviIIe Fiend.

MUsKEEGEE. 1. T., June 3.-John
Stevens, a mulattO, was brought here last
night charged with wholesale murder. COM
mitted near Coffeyvile on Friday last.
HIS awaS examined before Commissioners Tuft
to-day, and though he denied his guilt, the
evidence is very strong against him. DR..
Pyle had sworn out warrant for his arrest
for cattle stealing, and this is supposed
to have been the motive for the crime. On
the morning aforesaid Stevens went to Dr.
PyleS home, and with an ak attacked the
occupants, the doctor. his wife and hired
man named Dyke, one at a time, and left
them all for dead. He then went to the
house of Mrs. Kerr, who was supposed to
have considerable money in her possession,
and succeeded in killing her grown
son and one Lewis Winters, dispatch
ing them all with the same bloody
axe. Suspicion was fastened on him from
the fact that he borrowed horse the day
before and the next morning the saddle
blanket was found near Pyle's home and
also tracks where he had hitched the horse.
A rag was also found near by which
was identified as one worn by Stevens
around his foot, and when he was arrested
its mate was found on the other foot. He
was captured by United States Deputy
Marshal Andrew Norwood and posse of
citizens. Commissioner Tufts committed
him for trial, and his hanging is foregone
conclusion.