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TO pccumo a Good shot.

Tn become a sllilful narksman, ~
c,.nrso long aad thorough practice ~ m.
d,aJenabls The eye mna' 80 Wen
t,.ino1 Tho lor,cs mu.t Toe steady aDn
80 0nu must to Quickly and stiilfuliy
handled 1lca PEI" many per on" VINO
,,o "borp uarb mcu iict la q
natural fdap'abii,y So lncome good
shot" but still long and pera'alcul,
ur,rtirc H. required. even WIN h't"iI
qualifications A. - shooting tonrna
mcat,. where live birds and clay pigeons
,ra usea. thcv afford a comparatively iau
test Of the Skill and ability Of marks
mon put the eeyerc test, that brings
into play All Tie faculties of marx man
is in hunting wild came IN the wood or
i.ld. in the sport smaA heot 'Le clay
nj ICONS and live birds are always thrown
nom the tran in shooting distance and
H.. mark man l,rp.ug this i1ct, has
..nIy T., take aiei- ppd hon fire
G,t IT. Is altogether 81 different thing
when hunting Wild game IN the ield
For example take the Wild duck "hich
Is undoubtedly the most deceptive game
foliil The duck will be floating o1 the
water. or say. will Hy INTO the air anu
line l,uutsman D. Citontimcs deceived by
the appearance Of - SIZE and VIII shoo'
when il IS entirely out Of shooting range.
The duel; appears TO BE- nearer Than Il
really is. Ihrs it IS that hunting tho
wild raro s. better test Of q maiksman
han IN shooting tho city birds in shoot
ingIna;ch. The humsman after the wild
came must exercise his Judgment as to
Inc distance OF tho bird and Che ITp'aity
Of IFS fiQht. and tho most oppor,unc time
to shoot Thirty ave yards is the aver
are shooting range Of wild duck but
sn experienced huuter .sgill shoot when
The game is sixty yards away &C. ".
y " i'm Globe. Democrat.
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Whore Money l. Made.

The actual cost Of each Bank of Eng
land note issued is about five cents. An
ordinary day 5 issue of notes, with cor
responding number Cancelled, is from 20
GOO 10 80 C00 AS an offset 10 this ex-
pense the yearly gain to the bank in notes
destroyed by ire and water amounts 10 a
large sum, which, however, is taken into
account 10y the government when adjust
ing It's national debt and excheouer ar
rangcments with the bank. The "Old
Lady Of Threadneedle street" as the
LondoAer lovingly calls the institution.
which. next 10 his queen, he most deeply
Teyeres. is very liberal when dealing with
cases 0i notes destroyed OF mutilated
The cecretarys Office attends 10 those
matters, and there may be seer daily rem
nants oi notes which have undergone
every conceivable ordeal short Of absolute
destruction Little pulpy masses which
have passed through the digestive appa-
ratus OF dogs and children half burned
pieces that have unwittingly done duty
as cigar lighters. remnants OF every kind
OF which enough Is LETT TO indicate Ill the
faintest degrees the original worsh-all
receive iull consideration. and the own.
ers lose nothing. Even total destruction,
when fully proved. is no bar to indemni.
fcation, when good security against pos.
sltle mistake is given.-Tbe Financier.
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Finding Inc Iruo salf.

Great emergencies call forth the great
soul War in the tvinking oi an eye
turns village drunklrds and pett.ogging
lawyer into generals aud statesmen
Love transforms Cyman from brute into
a man Necessity makes Shakespeare a
dramatist; accident reveals TO Scott his
true powers The most commonplace
men and women have passed through The
fools paradise Of love, when they were di.
vine beings worshiping divinity and in
that fools paradise they for brief mo.
ment found theirtrus selves-saw deep into
the soul of their consort That lifting
dream was in truth IN awakening. the
brief opening Of the spiritual eye When
the world OF facts has passed away our
dreams may remain. This mOn Of COM
mon sense asks for realities, the poet
knows that only illusions are true. Lip
pincotts Magazine
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Mrs Patti Syle Collins, the reader Of
blind handwriting In the dead letter de.
rartment al Washington is an expert
She reads all writtea languages. except
Russian ana Chinese, and does not read
these because, rs she says, very few Rus
sian letters come 10 this country, and the
Chinese arc 50 careful in preparing the
addresses, usually writing one III English
as well as Chinese, that she mas found no
need. New York Sun.
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The use OF the water jet for sinking
pile, particularly in and. is interesting
4 tube generally Of ordinary gas pipe.
open at the lower end. is fastened TO the
pile, the upper end is connected b. "a hose
to powerful pump. and. the pile being
placed in position on the surface Of the
sand. water is forced through the tube
and excavatcs passage Tor the pile,
which by the application of very light
pressure, desccnds rapidly to the desired
depth Tho stream OF water must be
continuous, as ii rises along the side Of
the pile and keeps the sand in 4 mobile
state immediately upon the cessation
of pumping the sand settles about tie
pile, and it is sometimes quite impossible
to af lerward move IT, The water JET is
used in sinking iron piles BY conducting
the water through tho interior OF tie hol-
low pile and out 81 q hole at its point
The piles Of the great iron pier st Concy
Island were sunk with great CELEBRITY in
this way John BoSart in Scribnel S
Magazine.
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
New York stock Market.
Reported by G. w. Branch q Co., bsnken
and brok err. No. Ill Main street
flEyIt"

REVIEW.
NEW YORK. July Is.
London cables before opening showed
hat the Briishers had about all the
American stock that they wanted al pres
emf. and regardless of the hue ana cry
hereafter their shorts were covered
No buying orders came in. The same re-
,o,ts came from other places. chicago
hnIl kilograms have ceased entirely. II
ia said that the Chicago bulls IN TINS al
rauce have quietly taken Their prorts,
.od were to day selling on all strong
.pots. particularly the grangers. Lon
lon was prominent seller OF hca"',s'
# PAU, and all the rest OF the'F s'oc@N
some shorts buying and Clique support
price held prices up, but tie mafne' was
harely steady all the day. Attempts were
made to put up New England by a report
iL,r consolidation with the Boston q
Albany was pending, but officials hehy
the report Bull points were out on
Richmond Terminal, Lake shore, nnh,
>. tact. nearly every stock on The Ils',
.iu no outside buying came in. In lacf,
inns far the outsiders have religiously
sept outside, and nos the cliques are
looking for some one TO sell 10. r''-
maps and very likely they may keep
'rices M on this plan n day or Two
longer. but assistance will have TO come
in 10 hold We have no better adVlces
,,rarding the railroad situation than
..etetofore Rates ere just Ms badly de
moralized, and business is falling OIL In
-yery direction. The close was at con
c,ssions with weak undertone Bonds
strong. -
Sterling, s. ~ @ $3.50; money, l @
II.
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<..ri1 Who Married Tltie,.

BY actual count there are over 400
American girls who have married foreign
titles. and am not at ell sure that the list
is complete In almost every case the
American eiIl has been rich, while the
European nobleman has been mildly pow
erty stricken. We have yet to record the
case OF q rich and titled foreigner marry.
ing poor American girl. This does not
prove anything, but 1t looks very sus.
picious Washington Cor. Globe.Demo.
crst.
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HIRAM SIBLEY DEAD.
HE HAD MUCH TO 90 WITH THE
FOUNDING OF WESTERN UNION.

Tn His Early Days Ue Was II Shoemaker,
bnt lie Became Farmer ON "a Grand
scale. Was ar Intimate Friend of Eussia's
Murdered Czsr. and Died Very Rich.
Hiram Siblev, praci cally the founder II
the Western Union Telegraph company, who
died NJ Rochester. n Y. recently. was born
M North Adams. Berkshire county, Mass, in
lSJ7 His youth was passed in the region
where he was born. fle early displayed ovi
dcnco of a natural mechanical genius. Ban
tcring ono day with a shoemaker he under
took 70 mako a shoe without any training for
the work He was so successful that he was
az once placed on the shosmakers bench
When ho was is years Of ago hc went 70 the
Gencsce valley and entered machine shop
Before he was Of age he had learned five
different trades lie finally established him
SELF AZ Mcudon fourteen miles south Of
Rochester. ~ ! Horc lie had machine
shop
Nj Sibey gradually grew prominent In
1873 be was elected sheriff Of Monroe county,
bat other matters occupied his attention and
gave him no time 10 pursue pol.tscal ca
reer Three wears before this election he
went 90 Washington and assisted Professor
Morse and Ezra Cornell in procuring an APP
preparation of $4,000 from congress go build
tho first telegraph lire-frcm Baltimore TO-
Washington Other companies were formed
and the business was so cut up rs 10 be ru
profitable Mr. Sibloy conceived plan loi
uniting ai the patents and the companies
under one orgauzation. He worked for
several years buying up the stock of the
different companies, some of which be Sc
cured as low as two cents on the dollar
After three years spent I'M this cGort he lad
succeeded i'm getting hold Of the majority #
the stock of the different corporal Ons and
organized the Western Union Telegraph
comranv. M Siblcy was It's first president
and held the Office for siEtcu years Under
his management the businsss grew rapidly,
aud the telegraphc Offices ucJoa ni from
80 20 over 4,000, The value Of the property
at the same time swelling from 3z30.0oO 90
S4S.O00OO0
II was in $3.50 that Mr Siblov bo-a his
attempt 10 build trauscoutmcntol line
There were a good many predictions that tae
line would ne found impracticailr, aJd that
It would be destroyed by Indians II 1t hould
ever be completed 70 these objections Dir
Sibley replied that he would hu.ll tb. lne If
ne had 70 build II alone He wen, ,, Wash
ingtOn, procured the necessary legislation
and alone took the contract from tEy govern.
nent 10 do the work OF this contract.
however he was sfterward relieved 10y tic
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Western L nion
Telegraph cOnlpa
ny Under Dir
Sibley's manage
meut the Western
Union cOmpany
built the line ten
years before the
completion Of the
railroad.
After finishing
this enterprise Nh
Sibley turned his
attention 90 a line
between the United
States and Russia
via Alaska. Behr-
incs strait and 81
haria- 10 hnlloan
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Milan and Natalie.

King Milan and Queen Natalie OF servia,
who separated somo time ago, have been dis
turbinS the world OF late as to the possession
OF their son, the crown prince. The king IS
"a years OF age. He was at school at Paris
when his second cousin, the prince Of Servia,
from whom he Inherited the throne, was
murdered III 1863 Milan returned 10 Serv!a
ard in 1879 was crowned as Prince Milan Nv.
In 1876 no joined the Montenegrins and BoS-
mans in campaign against his suaerain, the
sultan. During this time he WIS proclaimed
king, but was not recognized as such TIL 1852.
Queen Natalie is Russian, and IS five years
Younger than her husband being at Wies-
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prominent in entertanm- 3 inlrai Lu.9ii ,I
when the Russian fleet fisfci Aew York m
1868 This secured him recognition oi the
car Of Rdssia. and during stay ar &c. Pc
tersburg he was the recipient oi great alton
ton At an important ceremony neid 10y the
cnreror Mr. Sibley was tonored with the
second place on the list OF guests iDo I'tr-
sian government agreed u cooperate "i'h
him. and build the line between irEoo,sN and
the Amoor river Fifteen hundred mic- had
been put up, when tho successful ias me- ol
tho Atlantic cable caused an abandonment
Of the enterprise
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Grain and Cotton Exchange

RICHMOND, Va, July l..
OFFERINGS REPORTED To SECRETARY
Wheat lis bushels
Corn -li3 bushels
pess - IL bushel-
Mill Ofial - tons
SALES REPORTED 10 SECRETARY
Wheat -Longberry, LOO bushels good al
s5c Mixed, q bushe mixed prime al 80 :;
l62 bushels vefy good at s5c.i 81 bushels
good at SIC; 20 bushels fair at 81. short
berry, % bushels very good at SIC; 80 bush
very good at Sic. Total sales OF wheat ro'
bushels.
Black Peas -l9 bushels al Oh
COTTOH RErOEI
Market quiet. ,,.
Qilotatio,.s -Middling, l0c.; low middlins,
9sc.: good ordinary. SIC
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After Mr Siblcy discontinued active opera
tons in building telegraph lines, he took up
railroadinc ard a number cl other enter
prises lie was for several wears connected
with the management Of the Southern Mich
igan and Northern Indiana railway After
the civil war, guided 10y desire To- restore
an,icahle relations between the north anc
the south. be made investments IN the latter
section He went into salt at Saginaw aud
into storing seed a, Chicago. Al Chicago lac
tore dowr. comparatively new building and
erected OF rs site an Immense seed ware
house. Tie seed business Alr. Sibiey com
menced at Rochester thirty years ago lie
was an innovator even in this, and instituted
many experiments for the Improvement OF
plants with reference to their seed bearing
Qualities. He cultivated the largest farm IN
the state Of New York. He was the owner
Of fourteen other farms in New ork state,
besides estates in Michigan and Illinois.
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Mr. Sibleys philanthropic investments
kept pace with his other enterprises tie
founded the Sibley College of Mechanical
Arts at Cornell university, Ithaca, y. y,
on which he spent at different times $4,000
At Rochester he built and presented Sibiey
hail 10 the University Of Rochester, at cost
of sl2O 900. 10 be used for library and eabi-
NET
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Richmond stock Market
Reportei by John L. Williams son
bankers AMI brokers. iii Main street
RICHMOND. VA, July Il.
.-.o1,; t2ao-t

$4,000 Richmond City ut i0lt
$500 Richmond Cijy s. at at To-
$1,000 Virginia IS ut Ut.
500 Richmond o Dauyille Railroad i.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13

itself to the people. Wherever it
has been persistently executed it
has been very effectual in stopping
the sale of liquor. 1t was early
made political question, and its
strength may be inferred from the
fact that the democratic party has
not dared to antagonize it in its plat
forms. At a convention held in
Maine a few days ago by that party
the proposition was made to insert
a plank in their platform for high
license, but it was defeated by a
large majority. 1t is provided for
now by a constitutional amend
ment submitted to and adopted by
the people and it is safe to say that
they would not permit its repeal.
Very truly,
VIM. P. FRYE.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13

People generally believe that if
the Blood is pure, the health will
be good. The purity of the blood
is guaranteed only when the kid.
neys are naturally active. The
fluids may flow freely, and yet the
kidneys fail to keep the blood clean.
This will be indicated if you have
Malaria, Stomach Troubles.
Rheumatism, Salt Rheum,
ScrOfuIa, Skin Diseases, Inn
potency, Headaches. Lame
Back, Neuralgia, Carbun-
cIes and BOils, Assesses,
Weak Eyes, Nervousness,
Poor Appetite, and in women
Female Troubles. These dis
orders show that your blood is full
of uric. kidney, acid poison, and
You Never Get Well until you
clean out the blood with the only
recognized scientific blood tonic,
WARMERS SAFE CURE"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
Read the Next B0


On Saturday night four masked
williams boarded train at Delhi,
near Cincinnati, and made des-
perate attempt to rob the express
car. In the battle the baggage
master, Joe Ketcham, fell mortally
wounded while brayely defending
his car, having received four shots
from the highwaymen.
While this battle was going on
there was desperate conflict be-
tween the engineer and one of the
robbers. With p monkey wrench
the brave engineer overcame and
disarmed his man, and with the
aid of the fireman, hurled him
FROM the train. The whole COM
munity lie aroused and after the
outlaws.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
THE GREAT JUBILEE.
In Honor of the Settlement of
the Northwest Territory.

No event of the nineteenth CEN
fury has attracted more attention
than the coming celebration Of the
one hundredth anniversary OF the
Northwest Territory, which opens
its doors in Cincinnati on the
Fourth of July and continues one
hundred days, or until October ~.
1885,
Extensive preparations have
been made for it in the erection Of
mammoth buildings in the heart
OF the city; the million feet Of
space for exhibiting purposes have
been allotted; the general govern
ment will contribute a handsome
display; the best art collection ever
seen in America has been secured !.
there will be the most eIaborata
electrical display ever witnessed II
this country, and in short. no
show OF the magnitude Of the Gem
tennial Exposition has ever bean
witnessed in this country.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
A Strange Coincidence.

Saturday afternoon Mrs. Aleshire,
widow of Capt. Reuben Aleshire,
and her daughter Mary, of Gallipo-
liz, were thrown from buggy
while returning from the cemetery
and the latter it is feared was SER
iously hurt. Both ladies were bad
" bruised. 1t will be remembered
that Capt. Aleshire died a short
time ago from the effect of SIM
liar accident.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
REPORT ON TEMPERANCE.
District Conference, M. E. Church
South, New Martlnsville, w. Va.

Your Committee to whom was
referred the subject Of Temperance,
submit the following report:
We believe that Righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is a re-
proach to any people," All sir
is "lawlessness," and 1 eonse.
quently the sole producer of law
breakers and of "all the evils to
which flesh is heir"
1t is, therefore, solely responsible
for all that is sad and sorrowful in
human history. And the history
of the race is tale of woe, brok.
en- only here and there by a trans
lent note of joy, ray sunshine in a
day of clouds.
Whatever, therefore, tends to ag-
gravate or perpatuate such a con-
dition of the race is a common
enemy, and merits distructi on.
Such an enemy is "lntemperance,'
or in palmer language, "The Lii
quor Traffic" To trace it's devasta-
ting path, sweeping like a mad
cyclone over the fairest portions Of
the earth, leaving death and DESC
lation il its wake, is not within
the province of this report. 1t is
enough to say, what no one can
deny, that it is Satan's most power
full ally in robbing both earth and
heaven of their true Jewels, blight
ing the hopes of the one, depopu.
lating the other, and peopling the
outer darkness with immortal in
carnations of eternal misery 1t is
a conscienceless thief, robber and
murderer of all things whatever,
that are pure, noble, lovable and
disirable. To countenance or favor
the Liquor Traffic, therefore Is to
abet and harbor our enemy, and,
to say the least, makes one liable
to the charge of treason to "moth-
er, home and heaven" 1t seems
that the only question to-day con-
fronting US, in regard to this death
dealing traffic, is, How shall we
most speedily and safely destroy
it? We can not be silent, and at
the same time innocent spectator,
of its deadly march through the
remnant of Eden left us. For,
"a few fiowerets of Eden. we still retain,
But the trail of the serpent is over them
ALL"
Therefore be it Resolved, by the
Parkersburg District Conference,
assembled at New Martinsville
June LIST 1888, that we are uncom-
promisingly opposed to the manu-
facture sale, and use of all intoxi-
cants as beverage.
That we heartily favor the total
humiliation of the Liquor traffic.
J. M, CARTER. Chairman.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
EXTRACT FROM HON. NEAL BOWS
REPLY.


REPLY.
PORTLAND, Me-, May "a, 1888.
DEAR SIR:-I have seen nothing
in the Imtelligeracer which intimates
that there is not another and
brighter side to the gloomy picture
it has drawn of the state of things
in Maine. 1t says nothing of the
fact that in more than three-fourths
of our population, the liquor traffic
is practically unknown. In all
our smaller towns and villages and
in our rural districts, the saloon
has ceased to be, so that an entire
generation has grown up there,
never having seen one or the effects
of one. Names share of the ma
tional drink bill wouli be now
about thirteen million dollars, but
one million viii more than pay for
all the liquor smuggled into the
State and sold in violation of law.
We save directly at least twelve
millions annually and indirectly as
much more, which, but for prohi-
bition, would be spent, lost or vast
ed in drink. Maine, in the old
rum time, had many distilleries
and breweries, but now not one"
Mr.. Dow says, also, that "the re-
publican party has taken upon
itself the protection of the saloon,
and hence his war on that party ,
believing as he does that full sue
cess for prohibition is impossible
while it cumbereth the ground"
These letters are sufficient evil
dence that Mr.. Charles Burdette
Harte deliberately subverted the
truth respecting the effects of
prohibition in Maine. He says
later that he did not authorize that
dispatch, but does not deny one as
sertion made in the report. Let
the people of West Virginia see this
gentleman in his true light.
FRANCIS N. LYNCH,
Pastor M.E.Church, Cameron, VIVA.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13
CAMERON JUNE 6.

CAMERON JUNE 6.
ED. FREEMAN:
The meeting here last night was
a grand success. The school house
was filled; we had excellent mu-
sic by the choir, led by J. Howard
Holt who joins in praise to the
ladies for their aid.
After prayer by Rev. 4. N.
Lynch, Gen. T. NJ. Harris was
presented and at once entered in
to calm, logical and most con-
vincing discussion Of the live is
sues Of the day, showing the press
ing necessity for distinctive Pro-
hibition party to meet and settle
the great issue between the Homes
OF the country and the Saloons.
In closing, he said the Prohibit
tion party of West Virginia would
vote, every man, for the Amend
ment, and would be led on in the
conflict by grand men, of National
reputation, such as Fisk, Sam
Jones, Balm, Dickie, and hosts Of
other honored Christians and, he
asked, what will the old parties
do for the Amendment After
singing by the choir, Rev. r. N,
Lynch was called out, and put in
the "rousements' in his most Wig
orous style. A free will offering
was made, which more than met
the expenses. The meeting closed
with an enthusiastic spirit for az
gressive work.
Thus have we had two of the
most significant political meet
ings ever held in Marshall coun-
ty. They were led by the moral
and religious forces Of the COM
munity. The ministers, Sunday
School workers, women and child
rem were there, showing that the
hope of the Church and Home is in
the success Of the Prohibition
party.
The County Committee appoint
ed V. L. McCusky and J. Howard
Holt, as delegates to the State
Convention at Petersburg.
V. L. McC.
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NUMBER "a.

with general approval by those
present. At the close Of his speech
the audience heartily Joined IN
singing praise God," and the
benediction wac then pronounced
by Rev. Myers, and the meeting
was dismissed. The music was
one of the leading features Of the
meeting, and it was truly grand.
Quite a number OF the prominent
ladies of town were present, and
there were people there from all
parts Of the county, and several
from distance, and the Prohibi-
tion brethren were we'll pleased
with the result Of the meeting.
A collection was asked by Rev.
L. L. Stewart to defray expenses Of
the meeting, and $14 secured.
THE CAMERON RALLY.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-13

DIR. JOHN A. BROOKS, of Missouri,
the nominee for Vice President on
the National Prohibition tickeG
selected at Indianapolis, is a
graduate of Bethany College, this
State. of the class of 1856.