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Speoial Commissioners Sale
OF VALUABLE
: PROPERTY :
IN MARTINSBURG. AND
e "A ~ N
IN DISTRICT OF GERARDsTowN.

BY virtue of q decree Of the Circuit Court
of Berkeley, rendered on the 22d day of
April, 1885, in chaneery cause of Geo. M
Bowers VS.. Mrs II Virginia Bowers OF al.
the undersigned Special Commits Toner will
offer at public sale, in front of the Court.
house, in Martinsburg, W. va at O'Clock
y. IN on
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this idle talk all ask for every to and
for themselves We study please both old and young and
styles quality and workmanship of garments not
be surpassed We direct manufacturers and
mend all clothing Our line of Furnishing Goods and Neck
Wears complete and far superior any had before
bear mind that this sale will only last day. Satur
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Saturday, December III, 1856

at O'Clock, p. m, the following valuable
real estate, lo-wit: All that certain tract or
parcel OF land lying at the East base of the
Third Sill Mountain. in Berkeley county, w.
VA c-.ntain;nn.
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On that day will open and show friends and the gem
era public of the finest and most complete line of Ready
Made Clothing for Mems Boys Youths and Chdrens
displayed in this CITY, On the above day and date
shall sell Al L GOODS AT COST
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Saturday, January Ist, 1887,

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Canada.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
Like Father Like Daughter.

What else could be expected than
that the daughter of Joaquin Miller
would make sensation by doing
something out of the ordinary. She
gets tired of one husband and coolly
marries another man when both he
and she are so poor as to hardly have
enough clothes to keep them warm.
Then she hastens to New York and
pretends to believe that her first matri-
mOnial venture was not legal. The
whole story is disgusting, and had the
principal actor been a girl unknown to
fame through the reputation of her
cranky pa, she would have long since
been arrested and held for bigamy.
While the long haired and wierd poet
of the Sierras was busily engaged in
making a name for himself in a most
sensational and vulgar manner, the
daughter was allowed to grow up and
train herself after the manner of her
paternal parents perniciOus example.
Now, when the whole country is read
ing of the antics of the foolish female,
the poet writes her letter asking her
to fOrsake her second man until she is
divorced from her husband, who by
the way has no more common sense
than the law allows. The blame for
the girls waywardness will naturally
be laid at the door of the father, who
does everything upon the basis of at
tracing attention so as to replenish
his Golfers. Joaquin Miller never was
anything but what he is now, and his
daughter has followed in his footsteps.
The scandal she has created will be
a nine days wonder, after which she
will be retired into the background of
Obscurity, where all those of the Miller
school properly belOng.--MOrning
NeWs.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

Truth ABOUT FLoRIDA.-A gentle
man lately from Florida said yester-
day.
"The freeze gave Florida a black
eye. 1t destroyed the labor of years.
| know man who has spent $4,000
in getting grove, and it was Just COM
ing in, when the freeze killed every
tree. He must now start over again,
and wait six years for results"
" Are the trees really killed ?"
Undoubtedly. 1t will be denied
for awhile, but the truth will come at
last. Ten million dollars wouldn't put
the Peninsula where it was a month
ago"
In spite of all this Florida will re-
main the tropical fruit garden of
America. Our oranges, lemons, ba-
nanas and pine apples must be grown
there, and a freeze every fifteen wears
or so will only check Overproduction.
The land of Flowers is the Winter par
adise, and 100000 annual visitors, look
ing for health and pleasure, and lavish
in the search, will pay for patching up
the frozen groves.
A. M. Mana writes sensibly from
Sumpterville, Florida: 1--WE have had
as cold weather before, and may have
it again. We have made groves in
spite of it in the past, and can do so in
spite of it in the future. What Flor
ida has to dread more than anything
else is the misrepresentation under
which people are lured to Florida.
The truth is the best. FalsehoOd can
kill even the orange business. At
LdRtd Constitution.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
A Question for the People,

The silver question is not one for the
bankers or the capitalists. The rich
can defend themselves. 1t is a ques-
tiOu for the millions; for all wEO have
any earnings of labor, and as we'll for
all who have any wages of labor. By
a resolution which any bank can pass
at a meeting of directors, it can write
all its accounts up to date payable in
gold, and open separate accounts here
after for any persons who may choose
to pay in silver or to borrow with the
right to pay in silver. All capitalists
and financial institutions can swiftly
adjust their loans and dealings to the
same basis. But the institutions
which hold the money of millions of
poor people have no such remedy. If
Government begins to pay silver their
losses will be disastrous
The statements published are un-
avOidably incomplete. In addition to
the $202, 100000 in United States bonds
held by the institutions, there are the
investments of corporations of many
other sorts, building and mutual aid
societies, benevolent and charitable in
stitutions, labor and trades Organiza-
blOlAos I'LL ltANDO fll . llAOAC W UO dLGCb-
ed, and no one can tell how much. 1t
is often supposed that United States
bonds could decline in value only to
the extent of the difference between
gold and silver, but this is IA great mis-
take. The bond of a State which has
repudiated once. but now promises
gold, sells at about so. What would
be the price of the bond of a Govern
ment which had repudiated but now
promises to pay silver? What would
such bond bring in market loaded
with silver securities pressed for sale {?
No one can say how far silver itself
might decline in such a contingency,
nor how many holders of bonds might
doubt whether the Government would
not ultimately refuse to pay at ALL
Nor can anyone guess what effect
the failure of hundreds of financial in
stitutiOns, and the losses Ofhundreds of
millions in value of savings of the peo-
pie, would have upon the wages of
labor. Establishments which employ
labor in all parts of the country, obtain
necessary loans from financial institu
tiOns. If suddenly pressed for settle
ment, many of these establishments
must stop work. Capitalists who are
lending money in the ordinary way, if
there is danger of silver payment, will
require their money as early as pOssi-
BILE in order to get it into gold or gold
credits. Many will buy foreign ex-
change, in order to have the funds pay
able in London, where gold alone can
be rendered. The withdrawal of
money from the country would of itself
cause serious disaster. These things
surely should not be forgotten by Con-
gress in its deliberations upon the sill
yer questiOn.-NeIU York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
Hardly Angelic.

This is the way the fair creatures of
Detroit pass compliments, according to
that faithful chronicler, the Free Press.
The other morning a boy about four
teen years of age knocked at the door
OF a house on Brush street and asked
the woman if she didn't want the snow
cleaned off the walk.
" How much ?" she cautiously in
quired.
Thirty cents"
won't pay it, If you want to do
the work for ten cents you can 90
ahead"
He leaned on the handle of his snow
shovel and looked thoughtful, and she
finally queried:
" Well, what do you sayP"
" It's Just as that woman around the
corner told me-" he replied. 81 SHOW
eled off her snow and she gave me
fifty cents. told her was coming to
ask you, and she said"
L don't know her. What business
is it to her?"
"Yes, but"
"What did she say ?"
She said I'd get left. She said that
any woman who wore a plush sacque
and passed it off for a $500 sealskin
would be mean enough to go out nights
and shovel her own snow"
BOy!" whispered the woman as she
turned white clean around her neck,
" l want you to clean off the snow.
When you are through I'll give you a
silver dollar, and 1 want you to 20
around and tell that woman that anv
one who buys and wears dollar store
jewelry and fOurteen-shilling shoes
hasn't got sense enough to fall off a
bob-tailed car!h
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

CROSSING THE -Sena-
tor Jackson, of the Maryland Senate,
has introduced a bill to amend the
charter of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore Railroad Company.
1t provides that the company shall stop
two trains going each way between the
hours of 6 A. NJ. and p. NJ. and - NJ,
and two trains going each way between
the hours of 12 NJ. and 8 P. NJ, at each
end of the Susquehanna river bridge,
upon which all persons desiring to
cross shall be allowed to ride free of
charge. The company is to have the
right to refuse to stop said trains and
carry passengers free of charge if it
erects fOOtWay,
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
WHOLE NO. 1893.
Short, Sharp and Sunny.


The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany employs 10000 men, a respecta-
BILE army.
An improvement in railroading is
the heated freight car for carrying SEN
sitive fruit.
You can't eat enough in a week to
last year, neither can you advertise
on that plan.
John B. Cough says this is probably
his last season upon the rostrum in the
canse of temperance.
Vanderbilt has left his enlire fortune.
Where he has gone to he is on a dead
level with his cheapest brakeman.
Slippery places may fling up the
heels of great giants, and little tempta-
tions may overthrow well-grown Chris
tians.
Twelve courses with seven wines"
at White House dinner these DAYS.
o! Jeffersonian simplicity, what larks
are committed in thy name.
A man never appreciates how su.
premely blessed a married life is until
he has to hold the baby while his wife
works pair of braces for the new min
lister.
A good deal of interest is beginning
to be felt all over New York in the
fate of the Field Civil Code which has
just been presented before the Legisla-
ture at Albany.
An exchange says if persons brush
clothes up, that is, the wrong way,
they will not get shiny. A young man
tried this rule on silk hat and says it
works like a charm.
Blanco, Monterey county, is excited
over a ghost, hideous apparition, " as
big as four horses, with great Tapping
wings and fire streaming from its
mouth and nostrils.
A farmer in New Hampshire has
been fined for cruelty in not providing
shelter for his cattle during the late
cold weather. He was the richest man
in the neighborhOod.
1t is claimed that Ferdinand Ward is
a martyr. But unlike the martyrs of
old he has nothing at stake. In fact it
is suspected that the stake he won has
either been gobbled or split up.
Greece wants to absorb Turkey and
the British lion lays his paw with a
feet motion upon the project and in
forms Greece that the holidays are
over and Turkey dinners no longer in
style.
1t is to be hoped that when silver is
triumphant there will be no large dis
cOvery of copper mines to demand a
similar defense of the monetary value
of that metal against the "silver
bugs"
A supposed artesian we'll at Santa
Rosa, which was struck at the depth
of 40 feet, proved to derive its abun-
dant flow from the city water COM
pany's reservoir. That well has now
been cOrked up.
A stupid man, in buying a book,
said to the bookseller, L will take two
copies while l am about it, as 1 may
wish to read it twice.. That is
not near as stupid as the man who
tried to teach his horse not to eat, and
later exclaimed: II have met with a
great loss, for just as my horse learned
not to eat, he died.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
The Conflict in Cecil County.

Two weeks ago the Elktou Democrat
had an editorial trying to show that
the condition of lawlessness in Cecil
county was the result of the passage of
the local option law. The North East
Star takes up the subject and replies to
the Democrat as follows:
The Cecil Democrat labors to make
the impression that Local Option is re-
sponsible for all the lawlessness that
has existed in the county since the pas
sage of that law. The argument is ap-
parently plausible, and had the Demo
crGt carried it a little further, more
light might have been thrown upon the
subject. One reason that laws are viO-
lated with impunity, Mr.. Democrat, is
because they will not enforce them
selves. And very impOrtrnt reason
why the Local Option Law has not
been enforced as it should be, is be-
cause you, and others like you, have
taken advantage of every opportunity
since its passage, to cast reprOach
upon ito make it appear as ridicu-
lOus in the estimation of the commu-
nifty. Not once have we seen any,
thing from you that was kindly dis
posed towards it, You have more
than once refused your columns to
those who sent you communications
written by its friends; you have ac-
knowledged this in the very columns
wherein were published the most un-
favorable and untruthful statement in
regard to it. You opposed its sub
mission to the people; you opposed its
passage, and by your demeanOr towards
it you have opposed its enforcement,
and yet in the face of all this you have
the assurance to say that no one re-
grets its failure more than you, as
though you would have people believe
that a result which you have endeav-
ored to bring about, and which you
predicted would take place, is mat
ter of regret to you rather than of graf
iication We assert, without fear of
successful contradiction, that had the
Cecil Democrat used the same degree
of effort to bring about the proper en-
forcement of the law that it has used
to bring about its repeal, the occasion
would never have been afforded for the
writing of that editorial. In other
words, if as the Democrat argues, the
failure to secure a better enforcement
Of the Local Option Law, is the cause
of the failure to enforce other laws,
then the Democrat, which we claim is
responsible in a great measure for the
failure to enforce Local Option, is for
that reason responsible in like degree,
for the existing state of lawlessness in
Cecil county.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

THE JOKE ON BALD HEADs-TdbLes
Turned.-MOst people are prone to jest
over bald heads, to make joke of
shining crania. But are those who in
dulge in this style of pleasantly aware
that idiots, weak minded persons and
cranks always have at least the aver
age amount of hair, and that, in the
two former classes, at least, bald heads
are unknOwnP This is a physiological,
a scientific fact, and should shield the
hairless crowns from unthinking laugh
ter ; for it's a poor rule that doesn't
work both ways-and if feeble brain
is always we'll thatched over with hair,
it follows that one beneath bald
crown is not feeble, to say the least.
And it is a fact that many of the
brainiest men of renown are bald
headed.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

OUR BEST HELPERs.-" Difficulties,
in many instances, are our best help
ers," by evOking our powers of labor
and endurance. Riches are so great a
temptation to ease and self-indulgence.
Sitting on the " cushion of advantages" "
we are prone to fall asleep. While
urged and pushed onward by adverse
circumstances we are forced to put
forth our energies and overcome them
thereby learning industry, persever-
ance and self-reliance.
So poverty, or any seeming evil, can
be converted into blessing when it
impels us to honest endeaVOr and no.
bic achievement. So also can riches
be converted into a misfortune when
they encourage idleness, lead us to re-
gard carelessly, in luxurious ease, the
hours which are passing, which can
never be reclaimed.
We often bemOan our fate, and deem
an evil that which has been our best
help in awakening powers which other
wise have lain dormant. We are some
times in error as to that which is a him
drance, and that which is an advantage
to US. "The stag in the fable admired
his horns, and blamed his feet, but
when pursued by the hunter his feet
saved him, and afterwards caught in
the thicket his horns destroyed him. "
Above all, adversely tends to teach
us self-denial and patience. To look
beyond this world for comfort and hap
piness. Our thoughts are brought to
the Hand that afflicts US. As we be-
come nObler our aspirations are higher,
we grow to a better understanding of
Gods will and purposes. We are in
spired to serve him the more, to labor
for riches which cannot be taken from
us, which will be ours to enjoy through
the years which stretch into eternity.
Better far the sorrow that develops,
than an empty JOY"
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

A GREAT TOTAL ABSTINENCE REVI-
vAL.-One of the greatest temperance
revivals known in this country is in
progress at Youngstown, Ohio. Over
five thousand, nearly half of the popu-
lation, have signed the pledge. The
signers embrace professional men, mer-
chants, mill men and others. All of
the police except two have donned
the blue ribbon. Saloon-keepers are
in despair. Some of them have quit
business and others are preparing to
move away.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
THE SEVEN STAGES RE-
VISED.
AFTER SHAKESPEARE.


The topper, in his day. plays many pranks,
His acts being seven stages.
At first the morning
Dram he guzzles; even the last red cent
He has On earth drops into the tenders till,
Smacks his mouth and wipes his mouth on
sleeve
Then sits he on bench to catch the sun,
Till passeth by jOvial friend who cries
Come, Jeves let's have little tOddy, eh?'
Then rises promptly Jeves, who drinks the
health
OF neighbor Brown in good old apple jack.
This makes him feel right good, and when ap-
pears
His friend who's in for Sheriff." Yes b'live
I'll jine We in a little whisky straight"
Then grows he bOistTOus and life takes on
roseate tinge. Full of big Oaths, and swears
That he's the biggest man in ButtOnville,
And brags about his fighting reputation.
And then he gains
The tenders conf 'ence and tOsses off
brimming glass of good red liquor new.
He's just exactly in frame of mind
To paint the village crimson tinted. "Ah?
Hello. Bill, gwine wetcher eye?" "In course
And browns the balance in glass of gin.
And then
He drifts into a semi.idiOtc
State, and cries, loop 'Oop 'OOry, by gum :"
Last scene Of all
That ends this sad disgusting history,
Is senSeleSs drunkenness and dark oblivion,
Sans life, sans cash, sans friends:
Sans cen respectability.
-AHdntG Constitution.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

THE FARNIER.-If things keep NOV
ing in the present direction it will soon
come to pass that the only man who
will not be a monopoly himself or the
member of a monopoly will be the
farmer, Lord bless him But let him
stick to his land. AS long as the earth
is his and the fullness thereof, what
need he care?
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

Last years census shows that d
cities of Germany have passed the
100000 mark. The five largest are
Berlin, with 1,316,3S2 inhabitants;
Hamburg, AL, All; Breslau, 298, 1898 /;
Muenchen (Munich), 260,0O5, and
Dresden, 245,515. The population of
Berlin has increased over II per cent.
since 1880.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

In their eagerness to cheat a few
bondholders the silver advocates are
going to cheat tn fifty millions of peo-
pie, the value of whose money will be
reduced twenty per cent. or more, and
there is little prospect that Senator
Sherman or anybody else can prevent
the consummation of the rascally folly.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

A NOBLE WORK Philadelphia
gives to the world another illustration
of the good use to which surplus wealth
may be put. When Francis A. Drexel
died he left one-tenth of his estate alb
sOlutely to the charities under control
at his church, the Roman Catholic.
To each of his three daughters he be-
queathed nearly four millions of dol
lars, to be expended as they saw fit.
The sisters have recently bought an
estate near Philadelphia, at a cost of
$4,000, and are about establishing ar
industrial home and school for orphan
boys. A number of buildings are to
be erected, not only for dwelling and
ordinary school purposes, but also for
use as workshops, so that the pupils
can be taught mechanical and handi-
craft trades and occupations, besides
farming and gardening.
When buildings sufficient to accom-
modate one hundred boys are ready
for occupancy, that number will be
transferred from st. Johns Orphan
Asylum, and others will be added as
the work progresses. The institution
will be under the caro- of the Chris
tian Brothers, and the entire cost of
maintaining it and the various trades
and other schools is to be defrayed by
the Misses Drexel. This noble charity
will in time be worthy to rank with its
near neighbOr, the Girard College.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

The Salisbury Government has failed
to get itself defeated on phase of the
Irish question, but has gone down on
an amendment to the Queens address
touching land-reform. The vote stood
329 in favor of Mr.. Ceilings amend
ment to $50 against it.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

Farmers of America are advised by
COnsul-General Waller to decrease
their acreage in wheat and pay more
attention to the production of oats and
barley, as the two latter products are
in more active demand for export
For some reason the wheat trade with
England is greatly impaired and the
low prices that now prevail in that
country, which is so disastrous TO the
farmers, is not caused so much by
American competition, as by the cheap
wheat of India.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

Speeches that thrill and words that
burn are no longer heard in the his
tOric halls of our National Legislature.
Yet the silver-tongued orator is there.
Too many of him, in fact. speech is
silver" but silver speech is brassy.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

Worms are the scourge of childhood.
Thousands of children die or grow up
weak and sickly, with disordered
nerves and stunted minds, the food
necessary to their growth having been
eaten up by these disgusting parasites.
DIR. Walkers California Vinegar Bitters
not only expels worms, but frees the
stomach from the unhealthy secretions
in which they breed.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

People who have small articles of
merchandise come through the mails,
and they are numerous, will not be
pleased to learn that a bill has been in
troduced into congress, which, if passed,
will increase the rate of postage on
fourth class matter (articles of general
merchandise, seeds, samples, etc, from
one cent per ounce to two cents. The
passage of such law would be a good
thing for the express companies, and
no doubt they will endeavOr to lobby
it through.
Smyrna times., 1886-02-03

1t is said on the best authority that
Mrs. Grant received last week her first
check from the publishers of General
Grants book. 1t was for over $780,
600. This is the largest sum ever
paid at one time for literary work.
Macaulay received $15O,OOO for his
history, and Scott once got 100000
from his publisher.