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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
Everybody to His Trade.

Nothing is truer than that man who
attempts to be jack of all trades is sue
cessful in none. Equally true is it that
life is too short for man to prepare
himself for graphing with all kinds of
diseases. We need specialists in medi-
cine, and in large cities it is becoming
more and more the custom of physicians
to adopt some favorite special line of
practice. The names of many such be-
come familiar the world around. as that
of Mr. Douglas who attended General
Grant, or that of DIR, Foote, of New
York, whose original ideas of ard sue
cessful practice in chronic diseases, have
become widely known because his enter
tanning writings and remarkable cures
are to be found in almost every county
of every state of the Union. His favor
lite work. Plain Home Talk, y has work
ed its way around the globe both way. via
London and via San Francisco to Aus
tralia and New Zealand. with the result
that the doctor, at his office, 100 Lexing-
ton Ave-, New York, is in receipt of con-
sultation letters and reports from patti
ents in every foreign mail. But this
prophet is not without honor in his own
country, and it is mainly from his own
countrymen that DR.. Foote invites free
consultation. and to whom he offers the
benefit of his thirty years experience.
i His career and success alone prove the
advantage of specialism.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
A Common-Sense Remedy

In the matter of curatives what you
want is something that will do its work
while you continue to do yours-a RENE
dy that will give you no inconvenience
nor interfere with your business. Such
a remedy is ALLCoCKs Porous PLAsTERs.
These plasters are purely vegetable and
absolutely harmless. They require no
change of diet, and are not affected by
wet or cold. Their action does not in
terfere with labor or business !; you can
toll and yet be cured while hard at work.
They are SO pure that the youngest, the
most delicate person of either sex can
use them with great benefit.
Beware of limitations, and do not be
deceived by misrepresentation.
Ask for ALLCocK's, and let no explain
alton or solicitation induce you to accept
a substitute.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
IFton. The Caarlesto,on Papers. |

The Shepherdstown Manufacturing
Company's property was sold at pub
lie auction last Friday-the grounds
and buildings to Mr.. w. j. Knott at
S4,100, and machinery and equip
ments to Mr.. f. III. Potts.
Mr.. James d. Moler, of Jefferson
county, has been transferred from the
Office Of Comptroller of the Currency
to the Office of the First Assistant
Postmaster General and promoted
from $500 to 81 900 per year.
At Parkersburg, w. Va, Friday of
last week, Judge John J. Jackson de-
cided the case Of the Harper's Ferry
Mill Company vs. Thos. Fl. Savery
against the Mill Co. 1t was an
important case, as It involved the
right Of Mr.. Slavery to construct a
mammoth paper mill which he had
commenced, and can now go ahead.
Nearly 200 men are now employed
by the Pulp Company on the Potomac
works. The dam between the Arm
ory Yard and the island is completed
and the workmen or drilling the stone
in the river bed preparatory to deep
ening the channel with dynamite
| Harper's Ferry Sentinel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

ANOTHER TRIAL GRANTED
WINCHESTER, VA, June l9.-Judge
Turner this morning, in the Circuit
Court, granted Turner Ashby Riden-
our, under sentence of death, a new
trial, on the ground that Judge Clark's
certificate of facts did not state Broy,
the murdered mans name TO be Will
liam Andrew Broy, but Andrew Broy.
The indictment charges William An
drew Broy. The seventy bills of ex-
ceptions taken by counsel for the
prisoner were all decided against him.
This will be the third trial, the form
er. trials resulting in verdicts of muir
der in the first degree.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
BEDINGToN NEWS.

Still warm and dry.
Harvesting barley and making hay
is the order of the day.
The hay crop is short one but
wheat is looking well.
Sunday brought many visitors to
the grove; Martinsburgers know
where they can spend warm even
ing enioyably.
Children's Day was observed in the
NJ. Il. Church, South, at this place on
Sunday. There was a large attend
ance. Exercises appropriate to the
occasion, interspersed wife singing
well rendered made it cheerful
time.
Rev. +. NJ. Woods preached at
Grange Hall in the afternoon, after
which the we'll disposed ones organi-
zed Sunday School. We are glad
to note this wise step and hope il will
meet with the encouragement that it
deserves.
The wife and family of Mr.. Hill
Means of Baltimore are here, sojourn-
ers for the summer. This is very
desirable place for city folks TO stay
during the heated season.
Mr.. Jas. Porterfield had valuable
mare badly crippled few days since
with moving scythe.
Thanks to you Bro. Zip FOR your
compliment, Edmund is yet enjoying
single blessedness, not having pre-
sumo become marketable yet. The
matrimonial market however is very
brisk in these parts. EDMUND.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

A POSTAL CLERK KILLED.-C. F.
Weaver, a mail clerk on the postal
car of train No. of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, from Grafton, was
killed about four O'Clock Tuesday at
ternoon near Sir Johns Run. Major
Anderson, the clerk in charge of the
car, missed Weaver, who went out to
the door to take off the pouch swing
ing from the crane at Great Capon,
w. Va. When Major Anderson went
to the door he found the body of
Weaver, which had fallen back into
the car. He thinks that when Wea-
yer went out to get the pouch, he
found it jammed in the crane, and in
trying to pull it out got caught and
struck his head against bridge three
hundred yards east. Major Ander-
son stopped the train, and, after get
ting the pouch took the body to Cam
den Station Tuesday night about ten
O clock. 1t was taken to Macher q
Co. IS undeftakers, corner of Paca and
Camden streets. Mr.. Weaver was
from Elkton, Cecil county. He was
thirty-six years of age, and leaves a
wife and one child. He had been
twelve years in the service, and was a
good clerk. His body was taken to
Elkton Wednesday morning.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

EXCURSION TICKETS TO COLORADO,
The Baltimore and Ohio r. II. Co.
has placed on sale excursion tickets to
Colorado Springs, Denverand Pueblo,
also to Yellowstone National Park, al
greatly reduced rates. These tickets
are good to return until Oct 81, and
will remain on sale during the summer
months. For information in detail.
call upon and address nearest B. & O.
Ticket Agent, or l.. NJ. Cole, General
Ticket Agent B. & o. r. r. Co., Bal
timore, Md.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON.
WAS II c. o. LAMpERr.

About 40 years ago at one of the
medical colleges of this country the
students had trick of hazing every
new man who entered the Institution.
They would secure him hand and
foot, carry him before a mock tribm-
al, and there try him for some high
crime with which they charged him.
He would be convicted, of course, and
sentenced to be led to the block and
decapitated. A student named Will
liam Patterson came along in time,
and was put through the court and
sentenced in the usual solemn and
impressive manner. He was blind
folded and led to the block, aud his
neck placed in position. The eXecu-
toner swung the axe and buried 1t in
the block. allowing it, to be sure, TO
go nowhere near Patterson's head.
The students laughed when the trick
was at an end, but Patterson was
dead. He had died from what medi.
cal men call a shock. All the students
were put under arrest, and the ques-
ton arose 1" Who struck Patterson"
On the trial it was shown that nobody
struck him, but the medical students
retained the expression, and it has
come down through them to the pres.
ent day.-ET.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
THE MARTINSBURG HERALD, SATURDAY. JUNE 23, 4

Mr.. Editor.-A trip to the country at
this season, should not be missed by
any who can afford the time. Last
week, in the company of a friend, /
took seat behind two Texan ponies
for a jaunt in the country, and as far
as our judgment extends, the country
never looked better; the hay crop
may be a little short, but wheat never
looked finer, and from appearances
the rust on the disused reapers will
soon be worn off. Oats can scarcely
be judged as yet, but it has plenty of
time to mature we'll with favorable
weather. The fruit crop promises an
average yield. Cherries are ripe and
their red lips were very tempting.
After drive in round about way
of some fifteen miles, and passing the
model farm of Henry Shepherd, ESQ.,,
we arrived at the home of Mr.. Henry
st. John Shepherd, which is part Of
the old Swearinger estate. Almost
every person has some knowledge of
Mr.. Shepherd as business man in
his different enterprises, but to get a
full appreciation Of him, you have to
visit his home. He is one of natures
noblemen,-a true Virginia gentle
man, in whose veins the milk of hui
man kindness ever flows. His breadth
of views are too great to be satisfied
with the toggery of fashion. His
mind feeds on the beauties of nature.
Tradition reveals no trace of Moses,
the touch of whose rod could induce
gush of living water from the base
of rock, but it would appear that
some magic influence has prevailed so
that from almost every ledge bursts
a sparkling spring, and seeks its way
to the waters of the Potomac, which
for mile comprises the boundary of
his farm; in the writer's of which
abound myriads of the finny trike. At
this point one of the mighty dams
which supply water to the canal is To-
Gated, and you are lulled to rest at
night, by the music of the waterfall
to be awakened in the morning light
by the music of an orchestra of the
feathered forest deniZens, which from
the wren to the fierce jay, join in the
chorus of praise to the coming day.
Why spend money in hunting pleas
ures at distant places of resort, when
the shores of the lovely Potomac offer
81 tuuCli lOT 81 IItiC. lit -CdtdIdCtS
of the Niagara have little more beauty
than the falls over the dams of the
Potomac. The Rocky Mountains or
the Yellowstone Park, present no
more scenic beauty than the banks of
the Potomac; the baths of the best
watering places offer no better induce
ments for a plunge than the limpid
waters of the stream that skirts the
base of the historic Blue Ridge. 1t
is the purpose of our genial host to
throw open to the public the advanta-
ges of his beautiful farm as place of
resort, so that Eastern West Virginia
may boast of place where
Flowing brooks and FLASHING springs
In softest harmony with nature rings;
And shady bowers and leafy hooks,
to those
Who would the charms of rustic life
enjoy,
Offer chance for cool and calm re-
pose. +.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

DEAD LETTERS. The following is
a list of letters remaining in the Post
Office at Martinsburg, w. Va, June
10th, and will be sent To the Dead
Letter Office June 30th, 1888, if not
called for when calling say advertis-
ed.
f.. S. Burlen, Addie Fisher. John
III. Fields, Rebecca Graft, Lulie Hess,
w. B. Hollis, Artillia Johnson, Val
lie Keefe, Semore III. Lands, Rev. A.
Moore, George Mish, Ellie Moody
Kate Mckinney, Josephene Mackey,
VIM. S. Martin, VIII Mathews, Net
tie Miller, Nash Rederfoot, 4. r.
Shirley, John E. Smith. VIM. l.. Will
son, Ezra Young, Frank ID. Young.
w. B. CoLsToN, P. NJ.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
AN EXPLANATION.

What is this nervous trouble with
which SO many seem now to be afflicted!
If you will remember a few years ago
the word Malaria was comparatively UNI
known,-to day it is as common as any
word in the English language, yet this
word covers only the meaning of anoth-
er word used by our forefathers in times
past. So it is with nervous diseases, as
they and Malaria are intended to cover
what our grandfathers called Bilious
ness, and all are caused by troubles that
arise from diseased condition of the
Liver which in performing it functions
finding it cannot dispose of the bile
through the ordinary channels compell-
ed to pass it off through the system,
causing nervous troubles, Malaria, Bill
ious Fever, ETC. You who are suffering
can we'll appreciate cure. We recon-
mend Green s August Flower. Its cures
are marvellous.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

DR.. John Carpenter and grand
daughter, Miss Ruth Chamberlin, have
gone to Emmittsburg, Gettysburg,
and the western part of Adams Coun-
ty, on visit to friends and acquain-
tances. The Doctor was born and
raised in that section, where he prac-
ticed his profession for number of
years, and his many old friends and
associates will be glad to see him
again.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
And every branch of the business attend
ed to promptly.

The firm assure their friends and the
public satisfaction in prices, material.
workmanship and dealing. An invita-
ton is extended to all to come and see
them when in need Of anything or when
contemplating any purchases or improve
ments in their line. Being good work
men, understanding the business, and
DESTROYS of building up permanent
trade, we will do our best to attract and
keep liberal share of public patronage.
CONNORS & FARRIN.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

Day Labor at 80 cents will seem
strange to skilled mechanics used to
getting from $3.50 to $3.50 day I'M
der high protective tariff and Re-
publican administration. So does
raising wheat and other cereals at
from 60 to IS cents seem strange to
farmers who under Mr.. Cleveland'S
vicious tariff" were used to getting
several dollars for their grain. But it
is new order of things resulting
from change" and turning out
of the rascals." Free trade, low
prices, poor wages and no work
How do you like it, Mr.. American
workman? Your English cousins
are happy to hear that you are going
to divide your patronage with them
and in exchange for poor fare and
poor pay.
OF course, when everything else
comes down to the pet basis of cheap
hess, these reform and reduction gov
eminent officials will have their salar.
les reduced, and the professional poll
tician will have his reward cut down,
and the capitalists. millionaires and
tnonopolists fare and share theil
goods ana profits with the depressed
mechanic, farmer, and laborer? Oh
OF c0urse-NoT!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The ladies of the X. of P. held a
very successful festival this week for
the benefit of the proposed uniform
rank of the Knights of Pythias. To
the public and all those who so kindly
assisted in conducting the entertain
ment, sincere thanks are returned by
the order.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The publication of the annual state
ment of Berkeley County finances
takes up considerable ofour space this
week, and it should be interesting
reading to every tax payer in the
county; it is an open leaf of county
management for every one to read.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
Laws Applicable to Newspapers.

We publish the following brief cpl
tomeoflaws applicable to newspapers.
Under the credit system so prevalent
In West Virginia and the South, ad-
vantage is not unfrequently taken of
newspaper publishers, for subscribers
to receive the paper for year or
more, and for one cause or another
order its discontinuance, either direct
ly by letter or through the postmast-
er without paying up arrearages. We
occasionally have to deal with one of
this class, and for their benefit we
publish the paragraphs below. An
observance of this may be useful and
economical to many who might be
disposed to take a short cut to evade
the payment af an honest debit
l. Subscribers who do not give ex-
press notice to the contrary are con-
sidered az wishing to continue their
subscription.
=. If subscribers order the discon-
tinuance of periodicals, the publisher
may continue to send them until all
arrears are paid.
3. Ifsubscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals from the Office
to which they are directed, they are
held responsible until they have set.
tied their bills, and ordered them dis
continued.
4. If subscribers remove to other
places without informing publishers,
and papers are sent to former direc-
tions, they are held responsible.
o. The courts have decided that re-
fusine to take a newspaper from the
office, or removing, and leaving it I'M
called for without giving notice to
the publisher), is primo. facie evidence
of intentional fraud.
6. Any person receiving and max
ing use of newspaper, whether he
orders it or not, is held to be SUBJ
scriber.
Z. If subscribers pay in advance,
they are bound to give notice to
the publisher at the end Of their
time, if they do not wish to con-
tinue the paper; otherwise the pub
Usher is authorized to send it on; and
the subscribers will be responsible I'M
til an express notice, with payment
of arrears, is sent to the publisher.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The officials of the G. V. r. r. had
conference with the city council on
Saturday evening, and the route OF
extension through town was agreed
on. 1t will be along Charles street,
and passenger depot is to be built
at the corner of King and Charles
streets.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
| From the Morgan Go. Papers.

| From the Morgan Go. Papers,
June 18th, by Rev. John 7 Bowles,
Lewis M. Meeks and Miss Anne M.
Courtney.
The wife of Mr.. VIM. Mercer, liy-
ing about one mile south of town,
was bitten on the hand by a "spread
head or viper snake, on Thursday
morning whilst taking some chickens
from setting hen in the bushes near
the house.
Messrs. VIM. Westphal and David
Fitz of Martinsburg spent last Sun
day in our town.
For the first time in the history of
our county the sheriff this week re-
turned no real estate delinquent for
the nonpayment of taxes. Is there
another county in the State that can
make as good a showing ?-Ne,cs.
This should give you much cause
for reflection, neighbor. Morgan
county you know is Republican all
over and this accounts for the "milk
in the cocoanut." Glad to see you
acknowledge there is something good
in Republican officials, &c. Next =
Mercury.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The horse hitched to the meat wa
gon of Mr.. c. O. Lambert, when be-
ing driven on Liberty street on Tues
day, by Mr.. VIM. Watson, became
frightened and ran Off, throwing Wat
son out. He struck against lamp
post and was considerably injured.
The horse was stopped at Shaffer's
crossing after having demolished the
wagon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

We give considerable space to the
news from the Chicago Convention,
knowing this TO be the great question
in which our readers are interested
this week.-"Who's nominated?" Mr..
Protection to American Industries
and the Best Man.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

MORE MEN DIsCHARGED.-A large
number of employees in the b. & o..
shops have been discharged this week,
in compliance with a general order to
reduce expenses. In former years
the same object was accomplished by
reducing time all around, thus allow
ing all to work and live. At Cum
berland several hundred men are
thrown out Of employment. 1t is "A
dull time of the year for mechanics
not used to any other kind of work,
and most of them have large families
depending upon their wages from
month to month for support. II
should be lesson to the disciples of
free trade. What does it matter how
cheap things are if these men have no
work and no money. The supporters,
too, of English trade and manufac-
ture can find no arguments to meet
The fact that competition with pauper
labor of Europe would throw thous-
ands and thousands of American
mechanics upon other resources, and
at what are they to go? They are at
home in the mills and factories, but
in business or upon the farm they
would starve. 1t is poor encourage
ment that thousands of laborers must
be thrown out of work to help great
corporations over the dull times of a
free trade campaign.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

If whoever has the giving out of
the Circuit Court printing, docket,
&C.. would follow the example of the
County Court and give all the papers
q chance to bid, there would be saw
ing of between fifty and hundred
dollars, and one man would not get
three time as much as the other. This
way it is dear courtesy" to the
county, and the citizens may some
day ask an account from some one.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23
Gen Boyd, the Superintendent of

Gen Boyd, the Superintendent of
the G. V. r. r., was in town Tues
day, and in conversation with him in
regard to the extension of the road,
he said that the route would depend
entirely upon the liberality and dis
position of the people. 1t is matter
of business with the c.. V. Co. and
they will locate the extension just
where their interest dictates, and
right they are.-iStdtesndn.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The B. g. o. Employees Seventh
Annual Excursion to Harper's Ferry
comes off Friday, June 18th. Train
leaves at a. M; returns at 6:l5 p. IN.
Fare 80 cents.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

FOUND DEAD.-On last Monday
morning a negro woman named Ara
Peterson, of Pittsburg, Pa, who has
been visiting Mary Rawlings, colored,
was found dead in her bed at the
latter's residence on Maple Avenue.
Her body was examined by Coroner
Staley, who pronounced her death to
be the result of dropsy of the heart,
and coroner's inquest was deemed
unnecessary STATESMAN.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

All of Martinsburg's young men,
Messrs. U. S. G. Pitzer, Howard En-
inert, Champion Byrnes and Raymon
Duvall, who have been at the West
Va. University during the past ses-
sion, have gotten home for the sum-
mer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

The engineers of the G. V. r. r.
Co. have been engaged for some days
in laying out new and more conven-
lent connection between that road and
the B. & o., in order to accommodate
the coal trade from the West Va.
Central.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

VOLTS Celebrated Horse and Cattle
Powders. This popular remedy for Pur-
flying the Blood, Coughs, Distempers,
Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Heayes,
Roughness of Skin, &c. 1t is also inval-
liable as Condition Powder for Cows
and Hogs. Prepared and sold by
A. N. GILBERT, Druggist.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-23

Programme for the City Band con-
cert next week, is: Overture, Jolly
Robbers, Suppe; Selection, Lurline,
Wallace; Waltz, Month of May, LUIS
comb Baritone Solo, Une Serenade,
Chappelle, Mr.. Clarence Darby i;
March, Capt. Thompson, Missud.
Fred. Luscomb, Musical director.