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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28

Ie N0>, would enjoy your dinner
y SON and are prevented by Dys-
pepsia, use Ackers Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are positive cure for Dyspepsia, In
digestion, Flatulency and Constipation.
We guarantee them. IS and 90 cents.
c. FRANK JONES.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
NNo no0cON why Acke
NNSN NNOSOON Blood Eli.

Is warranted, is because 1t Is the best
Blood Preparation known. It will posi-
lively cure ell Blood Diseases. puriies the
whole system, and thoroughly builds up tho
constitution. Remember, we guarantee 1t.
c. FRANK JONES.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
Eagle Avenue GARDENS.

THE public IS respectfully informed that ]
i ann now prepared To- furnish plants of all
standard varieties toryesetable gardens such as
CABBAGE. TOMATO. PEPPER EGG, LET
TTCE. SAGE. CAULIFLOWER &C,
ALSO SWEET POTATO SEIo.
at the Ea-le Avenue Gardens, west of Nj.
Parvo and at mv Town Branch ON Liberty
street. adjoining the residence of Hon Jas NJ:
Naon a share OF the public patronage VIII
be thankfully -l-li, Ell.
rf-Fresh Vegetables in season.
4r-iI fs,5 E.J. WILLIAMS.
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II 8.HiStGke.

TIE report that I propose leaving Charles
L town is unfounded. l expect 10 remain
here and will pursue my vocation ef Watch
and Clock Repairera at my rCCI.s opposite Carter
House Lee hall Building, upstairs, and So
lioit the continued patronage of the people.
Sept 10, 1887. L. BROWNOL
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
ATTEST STYLES Of MILLINERY,

and viii be prepared to execute all work in
her line at short notice and with her proyerh-
ial good taste. The ladies are respectfully in
vited TO give her call
MAY ~. 1855.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
Farmers
Barber Shop.
To Physicians.

WE have in stock the following Maltine
w plain, Maltine with the Hypophosphates,
Matine with Pepsin and Pancreatine, Liquid
Peptonoids with Cocoa, PeptOnized Cod Liver
oil and Milk, Peptonoids. Iron and Wine, and
Liquid Pcptonoids
Nov "a lSS7. AISQUIIH * ".
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
4EORGE TRAVIS,

fasulOuNOIt DdIDti,
Main st., lin room over Drug Store of AiSquith
& Co.,
Charlestown, w. Va.
HAIR Cutting and Shaving executed in
IL First-ClasS Style. Prices reduced for sin
gle hair cutting 20 cts. hair cutting and shave
at same tine. 25 c.s. Tickets good Tor II
shayes, for Si00. Every effort made to please
customers, and satisfaction guaranteed.
April 10, S3-3m
MOODY & SANKY Hymns, ?, 3, and 4.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.-Ih have just received
- a stock of School Suppies-Lead Pencils
Slate Pencils, Pens and Pen Holders, Compo
sitiOn Books.
DICTURE Er9mes-pegRctly lovely; CORES
i popdence Cards" Daisies Playing Cards
from 20 cts. to 75cts.; Mourning Paper and En-
velopes.
VACUUM Oil, for Harness; Carbolic Acid
' 20 cts per bottle; Insect Powders 90 cts
b.-the very best; Hog Powders, 90 cts. b.-
Sold by GEO. I. LIGHT,
Oct l6 1851. Druggist
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, JUNE as 1883.

an excellent joke-to him it was neither
more nor less than despair
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-06-28
NOTICE
TO
USERS OF TIN PLATE.

We don't use small tin and
want everybody to know it,
The reason why we don't is
that if you have small tin put
on yourroofthe more seams you
will have and the more leaks
will be in your roof. Call on
us and we will prove to you
that large tin is the best to put
on your roof 1t will pay you
to look around. You will not
only save time but money by
calling on
EARNSHAW * DOOLEY
Apr. I6, 'S5.
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VV'OOE W:f.N'TED.

HIGHEST PRICEPAID N CASH.
THE undersigned will pay top market price
i i'm Cash for Wool delivered at the Jefferson
Woolen Mill Old Porter Factory or in Charles
JNO. J. JOBE.
MAY g. 1857.
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NEW MILNE ERY.

MRS. MARY f. DAVIS has been to Balti.
vi more and returned with the
, 1888-01-17

The Swedish and Norwegian railroad,
which is now building from Lulea, on
the Gulf of Bothnia, to Lafoden, ON the
North sea, is partly situated within the
arctic circle, 1900 miles farther north
than any railroad in Canada. The winter
has not, however, been found too severe
by the English employees and their wives,
and tho snowfall is less than in some
moro southern ATTITUDES, while the dark
ness of the long winter nights is partly
compensated by the lights of the aurora.
The line is being built by an English COM
pany in order to tap the enormous de-
posits of iron ore in the Gellivare noun
tains. 1t is feared that the ore in the
Bilboa district is nearly exhausted, and
as this is the main source of supply for
many steel works in the United States
and Europe, q new field of non-phos-
phoric ore suitable for steel rail making
is very desirable. A considerable de-
mand exists already for the Gellivare ore,
and hydraulic machinery, capable of de-
livering on board ship 10, 900 tons of ore
in twenty-four hours, is being installed
on the c~ompany's wharf at Lulea. The
engines and cars used have been built
in England. The former have eight
coupled wheels, and weigh 1877, 600
pounds in working order. Tho ore cars
are made of steel throughout, and are
$4,000 pounds capacity.-Railroad Ga
znttn
, 1888-01-17

While everybody has heard of or seen
or used celluloid, only q few know what
it is composed of or how it is made. The
following is a description of the process
carried out in a factory near Paris for
the production of celluloid:
a roll Of paper is slowly unwound,
and at the same time is saturated with a
mixture of five parts of sulphuric acid
md two parts of nitric acid, which falls
upon tho paper in a fine spray. This
changes the cellulose of the ape into
pyroxyiin tgun c~otton). The excess Of
tho acid having been expelled by pres
sure, the paper is washed with plenty of
water until all traces of acid have been
removed; it is then reduced to a pulp
and passes on to the bleaching trough.
Most of the water having been got rid
of by means of a strainer, the pulp is
mixed with from 90 to 40 per cent. of it5
weight Of camphor, and the mixture
thoroughly triturated under mill stones.
The necessary ~coloring having been added
in the form of powder, a second mixing
and grinding follows.
The finely divided pulp is her spread
out in thin layers on slabs, and from
twenty to twenty-five of these layers are
placed in a hydraulic press separated
from one another by some sheets of thick
plotting paper, and arc subject to a pres,
sure of $50 a~tmospheres, until all traces
of moisture have been got rid of. The
matter is then passed between rollers
heated to between 140 dogs. and $50
degs. F., whence it issues in the form of
elastic sheets.-Boston Budget.
, 1888-01-17

The government of the Australian
colony of New South Wales recently
offered a prize of Eos, 900 sterling
equivalent to S125, 000-for q successful
method of DISCRIMINATING the rabbits,
which have become an uncomfortable pest
to the agriculturists in that part of the
world.
The attention of Pasteur, the great
French Psychologist, has been attracted
by this offer, and he proposes to destroy
the rabbits by introducing a fatal disease
among them. Chicken cholera is the
malady which he would employ for this
purpose. The germ of this affection
could be placed in water to which the
animals have access, and in a short time
the disease would spread and probably
prove as destructive to rabbit life as it
has proved among domestic fowls.
Would such n proceeding as this be
wise or cXpedient? We do not ask
whether it would be humane, for hu-
considerations have very little to
do with the subject. The propriety of
Strengthening these Australian rabbits
wholesale, by the employment of gun
powder, poison or traps would hardly be
seriously questioned, if the necessity for
their determination is so great as i. APP
pears to be. But should resort be had
to an agency certain to involve an meal
culable amount Of animal suffering apart
from the Nero death pang, and not I'M
likely to produce an unfavorable effect
upon the health of the community in
whose territory it is employed?-New
York Sun.
, 1888-01-17

THE press of the country has lost one
fruitful subject of speculation in the con-
firmation of Mr.. Lamar as Judge of the
United States Supreme Court by the sem
ate yesterday. Every Democrat in the
senate staid by Mr.. Lamar and the votes
he lacked in confirmation he received from
the Republican side of the house. Now
that tn, whole matter is settled aud the
people have an opportunity Of forming a
Judgment unblindel by craftsmanship there
will be few to call in question Mr.. Lamar's
peculiar fitness for the exalted position of
United States Judge.
The confirmation of Dickinson, Villas
aud Lamar must be a relief to every head
of department in Washington, as it Ger
tainly is to the hundreds cf oficcholdere
and appointees who could not hope for
confirmation until the Lamar matter was
definitely disposed of.
, 1888-01-17

In no physiological phenomena is the
influence of the nerves upon the body
shown SO forcibly as in the case of home
sickness, which, when prolonged and in
tensiied, becomes n mortal disease. The
melancholy of the nature which loves
home and despairs of again seeing it
preys upon the nervous system till it is
wrought into a state of abnormal excite
ment which presents distinct physical
symptoms. Respiration presently be-
comes labored, and is more like signing
than breathing; the face wears the pallor
of n corpse already; the heart beats with
the swiftness of great debility; there is
no appetite, there is no sleep; secretions
become irregular, and congestion a mat
ter of course; the sight becomes dim,
fever sets in, and either sudden death
closes the scene, or the exhaustion of the
fever carries off the patient after pro-
longed suffering.
There is no cure for this terrible ill
ness, after it is strongly established, but
return to the native country, and some
times that cure is undertaken too late.
1t attacks mountaineers, %singularly
enough, more frequently than any other
class of people, and the only preventive
against it is the presence of some other
equally strong emotion with the love of
home, or some absorbing occupation
which leaves one no time to think, and
hardly to feel. Perfectly sane though
the patient be, he has all the impedi-
menta of insanity in an effort for recov-
cry, and is as pitiable as any victim in
the records of ufferipg.-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1888-01-17

Fleas are possessed of great strength.
Mouffet tells of q mechanic who made a
gold chain, as long Us his finger, that a
flea dragged after him, and q golden
chariot, which he drew also. Bingley
writes Of q watch maker in tho Strand
who had an ivory -four wheeled chaise,
with q coachman on its box, drawn by a
flea. The same man afterward made a
carriage with six horses, a coachman,
four persons inside, two footmen behind,
and . position on one of the horses, all
OF which were drawn by a single flea.
Latrielle mentions q flea which dragged
Il silver cannon, of twenty-four times its
own weight, mounted on wheels, and
showed no fear when it was charged
with ~gunpowder and fired off. Rene
says that he saw three heas drawing a
tiny omnibus; that a pair drew a chariot,
and that Il brass cannon was dragged by
a single ones. L. Clayes in Swiss
T'sfrH
, 1888-01-17

Gen. Joe McKibbin, who now owns
Marshall Hall, opposite Mount Vernon,
is noted for his planked shad dinners, and
he often has the public men of Washing
ton go down the river to an open air
feast. l have seen Gen. Phil Sheridan
and Gen. Rosecrans smack their lips over
McKibbin's planked shad, and it is inter
esting to stand around and watch the
shad cooking under McKibbin's eye. A
hickory wood fire is built in the open
air. The shad, fresh from the river, are
cleaned and fastened with iron nails to
thicks pieces of hickory plank, each about
two feet square and freshly sawed. These
are propped up facing the fire, and the
shad, which had been cleaned and spread
with its inside out upon the plank before
lacking, sizzles and Kisses under tho in,
fluence of the flames. When it is done
it is sprinkled with salt, the nails are
pulled out and the shad is borne on the
board to the table. 1t has all the deli
cacy of brook trout added to the rich
flavor of the shad, and people who have
eaten shad otherwise cooked can have no
idea of the sweetness secured by this
preparation. = Frank G.. Carpenter in
New York World.
, 1888-01-17

AS a rule, the %precocious child is of q
scrofulous diathesis, with a fair, brilliant
complexion, blue eyes and golden hair,
beautiful to look on, according TO popu-
lar standards. He is delicately sensitive
TO mental impressions, and alive to tho
conversation of persons much older thar
he.
He generally goes on in his unique
career, outstripping his brothers and sis
ters, as well as his schoolmates, in the
committing of tasks at school, as well as
in the reading of books far beyond their
comprehension.
This generally goes on until the age of
puberty, when he begins to falter. The
hectic flush is seen upon the fair check,
the eye becomes more brilliant, md the
finer and more spiritual elements come
out with almost supernatural intensity.
By and by q slight cough and phthisis
tuberculosis has laid the foundation Of
premature death. Popular Science
Monthly.
, 1888-01-17

Coffee is not a bush, as is popularity
supposed, but O tree, which, if permitted
to grow, will shoot up thirty or forty
feet. When properly cultivated it is
nipped off about six feet from the ground,
thus presenting q surface from which the
berries are easily picked and allowing the
main stem to gain greater strength. The
tall shrubs somewhat resemble the mag
nolias with their shining, dark green
leaves, but the starry, snow white flowers
remind n of orange blossoms in all but
fragrance. The phenomenon is con-
stantly displayed of buds. blossoms, green
and ripe fruit, all on the same stem; but,
though always Towering and developing
fruit, the true harvest season is from
April to November. When fully ma
tured the berries are dark red, looking
precisely like a common variety of sea
bean. They turn to q dull brown after
having been picked, and become almost
black by drying.-Frank Leslie's.
, 1888-01-17
BILL SAYS HOLD ON.

Buffalo Bill has been interviewed in
England regarding the condition and
prospects of the cattle business. The de-
cline he dates from the period two years
ago when all cattle were ordered out OF
the Indian Territory and the markets
were hui flooded by hundreds of thou
sands of cattle for which no other grazing
ground was readily available. The rail-
roads into Texas provide a ready home
market in that section and bring the Lone
Star state stockmen into easy competition
with the Northern men. The booming
condition of the trade caused the cattle
men to think the business would continue
permanent. They overloaded themselves
with cattle at big prices and mortgaged
their herds to buy more. Prices dropped
and they had their obligations to meet.
He pays his respects to the Chicago ring
which has everything pretty much its "
way and believes it can and should be
broken. The thing must finally, he
thinks, resolve itself into the slaughtering
of cattle on the ranges. In reply to a
question as to what he had to say to the
American stockman, he remarked:
II would say to them" he replied,
"hold on and within three years it might
bring you out. Although beef will not
be at the same prices it has been, you will
haye the finest business in the world. l
would say so because they are going to
have a market right at home. The cattle
in the Indian territory have been disposed
of or located In Texas. In the face of the
superior beef production northern
ranches have deprecated in value.
The northerner is going to be looked to
for beef hereafter. The man who OWNS a
northern ranch is a producer, and | sec a
prospect of the producer controlling the
market instead of the middlcman. He
soon will be unwilling TO take any price
offered him by the ring. | would say to
the cattlemen that they are the proper
persons to control the market and not the
middlemen, who only sell on commission.
i repeat. the producers are strong
enough to break that ring, and they will
do it
, 1888-01-17
AlnslSnn IndInn Women.

There is one prerogative of the Alaskan
Indian women that l must not fail to note
as showing their perfect equality with tho
men. Every one knows how common n
vice polygamy is among savages "a theme
on which many moral writers dwell, and
throws stones without stopping to observe
the large amount of Mormon glass in u
own national conservatory, and in thi9
lack of morality the Alaskans are fully
up 10 the average savage standard; but it
is not confined wholly to plural wives;
occasionally some lone, forSaken female
rises in the majesty of her right and
marries a couple of husbands, so as not
to be behind the fashionable follies of her
tribe. Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka in
Demorest's Monthly.
, 1888-01-17

The rapid increase in the use of cleo
tricity rs n motive power gives special
interest 20 the discovery that palladium,
a metal I the platinum group, but of far
lower density than the latter, may be
substituted for steel in the manufacture
of watches. Palladium is absolutely non
polarizaLlc, and it is unaffected to any
noticeable extent by the presence of a
magnetic field. Besides this it has the
incidental u d-altaSe of being rust proof.
The discovery il due to Mr.. C. A. Pail
lard, Of Geneva, Switzerland, and watches
arc now being constructed with this
metal -Roston Budget.
, 1888-01-17

"1t's n strange fact, but nevertheless
true, " said a railroad engineer to mo rs
we were whirling over the track between
Lake Elmo and st. Paul, 'that more
engineers have been paralyzed during the
past year than in any year since railroads
wero first started. There's a train that
runs from st. Paul to Saltwater, on the
Omaha, that we call the hospital train,
for every man that runs with it has either
had n stroke OF paralysis or has been in
jured in somo way or other. a scientist
stated that the paralytic strokes were due
in n manncr to the rapidity with which
the trains ran nowadays, the constant
motion and nervous strain breaking n
man down. Pioneer Press.
, 1888-01-17

ADoSIs DIXEY is thirsting for the
hearts blood of Sam Small, the ~evangel-
istic pantaloOn, Small gained some fame
as a hard drinker and humorous writer on
the Atlanta Constitution. When Sam
Jones turned himself lose on an unof.
Tending public, Small is alleged to have
reformed some of his eccentricities and
set out as the tail of the Jones kite.
Since then he has considered it his priv
lege to attack with blatant vigor what he
considers to be the prevailing vices of the
world. His methods are not always
choice and his language is not always
decorous. During the Dixey engagement
in Kansas City he made a v~illInoas and
altogether unwarrantcd attack on the
the comedian, basrng his remarks chiefly
on the actors big business. Dixey has
sued the Kansas City Times for libel be-
cause it published the discourse in full,
and expresses a commendable desire to
interview the Quixotic evangelist
Small should pair off with some other
public nuisance and retire to rest his
alleged brain.
, 1888-01-17
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

Are born into the world every day with some &C.
Zematous affection, such as milk crust, scall
head, Scurf, or dandrutf, sure to develop into an
agonlzlng eczema, the itching, burning, and dis
nguratlOn OF which make life a prolonged tor
tulre unless properly treated.
A warm bath with CUTICuRA SOAP, an eX-
quisite skin Beautitier, and "a single application
OF C~UTICURA, the Great Skin Cure. with u little
SUrICuRA ~REsoLyENT, the New Blood Puri-
ner, are often sufficient TO arrest the progress of
the dlsease, and point to n speedy and perma-
nent cure.
Hence, no mother who loves her children, who
take pride in their beauty, ipurlty, and health,
inhertance,-a skin without a blemish, and n
body nourished by pure blood should fail to
make trial of the CUrICURA REMEDIES.
Sold everywhere. Price, Cutlcura, SOC Soap,
&c Resolyent, 81. Prepared by the Potter
Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass.
for "How to Cure Skin Diseases -
81 pages, 50 Illustrations, and 100 testimonials.
, 1888-01-17

The Lusk Herald is loaded to the muz-
zle this week on the county division ques-
ton. From a casual perusal of the paper
we are inclined to believe that the Herald
does not look with favor upon the Doug.
las division scheme. On the other hand
the Douglas Budget gives forth the i'm
preston that people are lust yearning for
the formation of the proposed oblong
cOunty
, 1888-01-17
Let 1t BE Boiling on or Melted Lead.

Let 1t BE Boiling on or Melted Lead.
Lincoln Journal
When the man who says ''complected''
in speaking of the complexion has met a
violent death, some sort Of a man trap
should be prepared for the one who says
''suspicioned."
Automatic but UntruthfuI,
Washington Republican,
1t has become automatic hat crime car
RIGS its own punishment with it.
, 1888-01-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays the pain, cures wind collie. and is the
best remedy for diarrhGa. twenty-five
cents a bottle.
, 1888-01-17
A Guests Blunder.

Eastern Hotel Clerk-What did 03s
want2
Hall Boy-Nothin'. lie didn't ring.
Must a been some other number, sir.
He said he didn't ring an didn't want
anything, an he says he's very comfort
able, sir.
Every comfortable! He's got one of
the cheapest rooms in the house. Go
turn the heat of !"-Omaha World.
, 1888-01-17

Ex-Secretary Holcomb, of the Amer
lean legation at Pekin, says that out of
the 400, OOe, 600 inhabitants Of the Chi
nese empire fully 5000, 900 spend less
than 81. so a month for food,
, 1888-01-17

The environments surrounding our
birth are matters of chance, but whether
we are trump cards, and win the game
of life, il largely due to ourselves i.
Marie Muller.
, 1888-01-17

a. j. PoPpLEToN, who for the past
tweniy-four years has been the Union
Pacific attorney at Omaha. has rendered
his resignation to take effect at oncc. He
is determined to .takc life easy hence
forth.
, 1888-01-17

AcNecv's Blood F Ri ! is the as, only
feed. 1t is a positive cure for Ulcers, Erup-
tions or Syphilitic Poisoning. 1t p~uriies the
whole system, and banishes all Rheumatic
and Neuralgia pains. We guarantee it.
DR.. W. N. Hunt.
, 1888-01-17

Gen. Albert Pike has n large and valu-
able collection of tobacco pipes, gathered
during many years. Among them is
what is accounted the largest meer-
schaum in the world.
, 1888-01-17
PITm IN P~ARAGRAPms.
This Picture and That.

NEW horR sun
She (early in the evening)-Good even,
ing, Mr.. Sampson. Same she Gate in the
evening)-Good night, George.
, 1888-01-17

The verdict returned by a western coro-
ner's jury in the case of a man who
hanged himself by his suspenders to a
bed post, is said to BE-: The deceased
came TO his death by coming home
drunk and installing himself for his
pants.
, 1888-01-17
INFANTILE
SKIN DISEASES.

O%ur.oldest child, now six years OF age, when
an infant six months old was attacked with a
Nlrulent, malignant skin disease. All ordinary
remedies falling, we called our family physician,
VINO attempted to cure II bnt It spread with
aLnoSt Incredible rapidity, until the lower por-
uon OF the little fellows person, from the middle
oil his back down to his knees, was one solid
rash, ugly, painful, blotched. and malicious. We
mad no rest at night, no peace by day. Finally
we were advised to try the CUTICURA RENE
DIES. The effect was simply marvellous. In
three or four weeks a complete cure was
wrought, leaving the little fellows person as
white and healthy as though he had never been
attacked. In my opinion your valuable remedies
child. perfectly well, no repetition of tie disease
having ever occurred.
GEO. b. SMITH,
Atty at Law and EN-Pros Atty, Ashland. o
jig. Weist. druggist, Ashland,O o.