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stockholders Meeting.

The first meeting of the stockholders Of
the Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg
Railroad Company, corporation which
has succeeded to the franchises, rights
and privileges of the Martinsburg and Po-
tomac Railroad Company, will be held at
the Office Of Faulkner q lngles, in the city
Of Martinsburg, w. Va, ON Saturday the
nth Of March, A. ID. 1888, at l O'Clock, P
NJ, for the purpose Of orr anization, election
of officers and directors, and such other
lawful business as may be brought before
the meeting.
THOMAS b. KENNEDY.
Feb. 1S, At
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25

We call your special attention to
our fine selection of Landscape and
Floral Studies. We offer them both
for sale and rent, at as low figures
as possible. FoUT's DRUG STORE,
~ N. Queen Street.
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TRUSTEES SALE,
---OF-
BOOTS z SHOES
-------):o:( -

BY virtue of Deed Of Trust executed by
John H. Clendenning to the undersigned
trustee, and of record in the office of the
Clerk Of the County Court of Berkeley Coun-
y, W. Va. l will clote out the entire stock
of BOOTS & SHOES. home made and East
ern stock, now in the store room of said
John H. Clendenning at Bunker Hill, said
county. The goods are for sale at retail at
cost for cash. w. B. CLENDENNING,
f. IL At TRUsUEE.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25

Above goods are all real bargains,
and, after they are disposed of, can
not be had at same prices. If you
need anything mentioned, don't fail
to buy now. FOUT'S.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25
COMMISSIONER Notice.
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,


Martnsburg, w. Va, Feb. IA, '88.
Adam Becker, administrator of Daniel Riker,
deceased-Plaintif,
vs..
Emma Gorder nee Riker and Watson Cor
der her husband, Harriet P Thompson nee
Riker and VIM Thompson her. husband,
Evaline Gross nee Riker and George
Gross her husband, Catharine - nee
Riker, name of husband unknown, Ida V
Riker, Mary Riker, widow, and Alta Ri
ker, Clara Riker, VIM Fl Riker, Mary D
T Riker, infant children of Daniel Riker
deceased, Mary A Topp, l. Bender and l.
NJ Bender, partners trading as | Bender
Il Bro, z T Grove, w Greer, VIM Wilen,
VIM H Wilen and James NJ Clark, late
partners doing business as VIM Wilen u
Sons, Nicklas, A NiCklas and w . Nick
las, partners trading as p Nicklas Bro. II
Co. and William Schad-Deiendants
You are hereby notified that have fixed
upon the 26th day of March, 1888, at my of
fee in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, w Va,
lst-To state and settle the administration
account of Adam Becker, administrator of
Daniel Riker deceased. 2d-To audit all
liens and debts against the estate of Daniel
Riker, according to their respective priorities.
3i-To ascertain of what real estate Daniel
Riker died seized and the fee simple and rem
tai value thereof.
Given under my hand as Commissioner in
chaucery of the said court, the day and year
first aforesaid.
1T. PICKING, Com'r.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25

Genuine Turkish Bath Towels, soc.
These towels sell everywhere for 75c.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25
EE--~ETz
SAJORbAY, FEB. 25thISS8

commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ, the follow
ing described personal property, to-wit:
EGF- head of work horses, 8 mares,one
with foal 6 head of cattle, 4 mich cows,
3 Jerseys fresh by day of sale 2 sows, y
Government wagon, one new wagon bed,
/ cart, new, jump-seat ph@ton, l sleigh,
! cutter, new, new Champion binder,
Buckeye mower, 1 Bickford d Hoffman
wheat drill,new, 1 horse rake, new, wheat
fan, rolling screens, l cider mill, grind
stone, l wheelbarrow. new, roller, pair
shelyings, harrOws, 3 barshear plows.
double and 2 single shovel plows, 1 corn
cover, > fifth chains, l log chain, digging
iron, . shovels, maui and wedges, . axes,
sets of breechbands,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-02-25

Shaving Brushes for 10 cents. Us
ual price, Is cents.
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2 Sets Front Gears,

| set buggy harness, l set sleigh bells
brides, collars, haters, dSc ; also lot of
corn, clover, hay and fodder, and any 9TH
er personal property of the said Mallory.
if any, which was upon said premises at
the date of said deed.
TERMS OF SALE All sums of SO 90
and under, cash over $1,000, in. six
months with interest from day of sale, the
purchaser giving his note with good secur-
ity; interest to be RENTED if paid at ma
turity. NJ. II. lNGLES, Trustee.
January 9th, 1888 2S-4t.
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Martinsburg, w. Va, Feb IA, 's8, !
Adam Becker, administrator of Daniel Riker,
deceased-Plaintiff,
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FOUT'S
Weekly Budget.
BARGAINS IN TOILET AND
FANCY GOODS.

We have secured several job lots
Of goods at very low prices, which
are as follows -
Glove Buttoners, Celluloid Hand
les, | 5 cents, worth 25 cts.
Everlasting Backing Dauber.
Never wears out. % cents.
Volunteer Gas Heaters. Will make
water boil in one minute. Is cents
Job lot Zylonite Combs, 10 cents
and l5 cents each. These combs
sell regularly for l5c and 25c.
Elegant Toilet Soaps, 3 cakes in
box, only rs cents per box. Regu-
lar price, As cents per boy.
Very good Toilet Soaps for l0c a
box g cakes in box). Worth doI
BILE.
Shaving Brushes for 10 cents. Us
ual price, Is cents,
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6, ?. HERRING
THE BLADDER.

n. Bit will! be cold day if you
don't unload some OF the snaps.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
Suicides in washington.

A district Official who has head for
figures and conclusions, tells me what is
decidedly curious, that since the Demo
Gratis came into power the number of sui
cides in Washington has considerably
increased. 'T explain it," he says,
ION very plain grounds. Nothing is
to blame for it. Tt is simply the con-
sequence of q good many people being
turned out of Office and good many
others falling to get offices. For the last
fortnight we had suicide nearly every
day. When there isn't suicide there is
a shooting scrape of some sort in which
the man who shoots or the man who is
shot is q fellow that has been in Office or
was waiting to get i'm The increase OF
suicides has been so decided that the
boarding house keepers have begun to or
ganize some sort of an insurance against
melancholy self murders. One landlady
writes in note in local newspaper that
within the past year she has had two in
teresting suicides at her house which cost
her nearly $500. She says they both left
beautiful letters, but there wasn't a dol
lar in their pockets, and they deluged her
beds and carpets with blood. One had
friend to bury him, but neither had any
friends to pay the damage done. / make
the suggestion without charge that these
much suffering people organize themselves
into a mutual insurance society. A slight
annual premium from the innumerable
boarding houses in this city would easily
pay all losses from this consolidating
ton Cor. Milwaukee Sentinel
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
What Is COLOGNE spirits2,,

Nearly all that the big distilleries now
make is known to the trade as cologne
spirits" This article is about the same
as alcohol except that it is even more alb
solute in it's purity than alcohol. When
these big distilleries that make this
cologne spirits begin running off the pro-
ducts of their mash tubs they run the first
part as alcohol. 1t has a slight tinge of
color, and is not as absolute in its purity
as that which follows later on. The Oper-
atOr watches the stream of liquor as it
comes from the tub, and as he sees it be-
come absolutely pure turns it into another
tank, and it is termed cologne spirits.
This is the highest grade Of distilled
spirits, so pure that it is absolutely color
less and odorless. 1t Is concentrated
drunkenness, and when it is wanted to be
transformed into whisky it is reduced to
about one-haif it's strength with water,
some burnt sugar put in to give it color,
some glucose added to make it smooth
and oily like old whisky, and it passes
for the real article. Many a supposed
connoisseur has smacked his lips over
alleged twenty-year-o whisky, and pro
nounced it the finest in the country, when
the article he was complimenting was
cologne spirits, only a month old, favored
with glucose and burnt sugar. On the
whole, however, the whisky of to-day is not,
the revenue people say, as hurtful as that
turned out by the whisky makers twenty
years ago. The chemical changes which
were then performed by q dangerous acid
are now produced by other means, and
some of the poisOns which destroyed the
stoInachs of whisky drinkers then are not
to be found in the cup noW.-Omaha
Herald
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY.
Reservoir for the Newspapers-Maps OF
All Sorts and Sizes-Magazines.

Reservoir for the Newspapers-Maps OF
All Sorts and Sizes-HTagazines.
The great reservoir for the newspapers
of the library is away down under the
crypt. seventeen feet below the ground
and on a level with the tomb of Washing
ton. The dome with its 5000, 900 pounds
of iron and stone rests over them, and
the light of the sun never shines upon
their backs except when they are
carried out for reference. Going down
among these newspapers is like enter
ing the catacombs, and a wonderful cata-
comb of intellectual life they are. You
wander in and out through narrow walls
of bound papers surrounded by the dry
bones of the thought of two centuries.
The brains of dozen nations and Of hum
dreds of thousands of minds are stored
away in these coffin like book covers, and
could the thoughts represented here have
utterance they would form babel worse
than the mad jargOn of the famed tower
Of the scriptures. There are moro than
5000 fat volumes of newspapers stored
away here in the dark, and the musty
smell is the only thing that greets you as
you walk through them by the Pickering
light of the spectral gas jet.
There are other intellectual ghosts here
in the shapes of maps, and about 10000
of these of all sizes from that Of page OF
letter paper to one made during the cen
tennial, big enough to carpet big parlor,
lie around you. Speak to the keeper and
he will show you some rare and curious
ones. He has some made on the revolu-
tionary battle fields in the pen and ink
sketches of the officers of both armies.
He takes pride in this collection and says
he has nearly every work the map pro
ducing mind has made since the beginning
of the government.
All the periodicals of the country come
TO the national library, and there are more
than 10, 900 bound volumes of magazines.
One whole story of one Of the wings is de-
voted to these, and they form an invalu-
able collection of articles upon almost
every subject. A book is published which
gives an index to magazine literature 1t
is known as "POole's Index" and it gives
references to nearly all of the prominent
magazines that nave been published. By
the use of it the literary people dig many
good things out of these magazines, and
they are used perhaps more than any
other class of books in the library
Frank G. Carpenter in The Cosmopolitan.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
Ten Per Cent. a Month.

One of the auditors of the treasury de-
partment, who had rented a house in a
fashionable quarter of Washington, was
surprised to discover, when the end of the
month rolled around, that his landlord
was none other than one of the messen-
gers in his bureau. Further inquiry de-
veloped the fact that the latter had been
loaning money through the department to
impecunious clerks and others, extorting
in return an interest of 10 per cent. a
month. The ex-messenger claims to have
kept $4,000 in constant circulation,
which, deducting losses, netted him a
profit of about $4,000 a year.-Frank
I eslie's
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
GRASS SEEDS.
COCKSFOOT, RYE GRASS, ENG
LISH RED CLOVER, COW
GRASS.

THE ATTENTION OF ALL INTERESTED IN
Il improving the pasture lands of the Islands
is called to the above valuable seeds, which we
offer for sale In lots to quit purchasers.
We have also on hand sample lots of White
Glover, English Alsyke, Timothy, Rib Grass,
Crested Dogs Tail, Tall Fescue, Italian Rye
Grass and Lucerne seeds, which we offer in
small lots for trial, and will also receive orders
for quantities of not less than half ton weight,
and execute same with dispatch.
717-june18tfd&w VIM. G. IRWIN & co.
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LincoIn,s IRON .Wedee.

ga. LIZ rudefy stamped upon it, was re-
Gently found in an ancient house near Old
Salem. 1t has been recognized by former
companions of Abe Lincoln as the famous
wedge which he used in splitting rails in
that vicinity. The initials were made by
Lincoln himself, in the presence Of j. 0.
Spears, now resident of Talula.- Boston
TRANSCRIPT
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
Counting the Trade Dollars.

Treasury clerks who count the trade
dollars have to wear buckskin gloves or
get sore fingers. Any sore spot ON the
finger is soon poisoned by contact with
the metal. People who sigh to count
dollars should bear this in mind
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
Everything Is s.JubiIee."

Everything in London nowadays is
'sjubilee." On every dead wall there are
80 many laudatorY notices of 'eKillem-
DUCKS Jubilee Pills, ''Tapster's Jubilee
Bite Beer" ''Snipems Jubilee Trous-
ers," or ssBlowhard's Jubilee Infant
Food, (" that the citizens are becoming
thoroughly tired of the word-New York
Fsyih5Ina
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-01-18
A Change in Currencv.

do you know that my hair used to be
pure gold like yours when I was young ?''
Baid an old lady to her grandson
And Is it because it used to be gold
shat it is silver now % asked the little fell
low. -Harper's Bazaar.
The morning news., 1888-05-17
ALABAMA's HowLING MOB.
1t was a Fine Crowd to Pass Judg
ment on National Issues.

III was q F1ne CrOWQ Co PaSS JudR-
ment on National Issues.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, May 16.-The Re-
publican convention to-day has been little
better than wrangling mob of negroes,
with an occasional attempt by white men
to interfere. Open and personal charges of
corruption were made ON the floor by both
the Blaine ard Sherman forces. The con-
vention finally adopted the following plat
form:
Resolved, That while we deprecate all sec
tional issues and wish for harmony between all
sections of our great country, we demand as
the legal and constitutional right of the people
that the exercise Of the right of suffrage shall
be free and untrammeled, and that the ballot
shall be counted and returned as cast in all
sections of this great republic, and to help Sc
cure this end we favor a national law TO regll-
late the election of members of Congress and
Presidential electors, and demand that the
election laws of Alabama be 50 amended as to
hinder fraud and not encourage it.
Resolved, That we condemn President Cleve-
lands tariff message and the Mills tariff bill as
tending toward free trade to the destruction
of American industries, and to the degradation
of American labor to the servie condition of
European labor, and we favor liberal protection
to all American industries and labor.
Resolved. That we condemn Senator Morgan g
declaration that the vast mineral wealth of
Alabama is a doubtful blessing" because it
hostile to labor, which is the great foundation
of human progress and wealth.
Resolved, That we favor national aid for the
education of the children Of the republic and
therefore indorse the Bleir bill.
RESOLVED, That we favor civil service reform
and condemn President Ceveland's wholesale
removals from office for party reasons, while
processing to be in favor of civil service reform.
ResOlUed, That we favor the entire abolition
Of the internal revenue system
Resolved, That we oppose now. as heretofore,
the present convict system of Alabama, as
brutal, because it brings convict labor into COM
petition with honest free labor.
The report was read by Gen. Willard
Warner, of the committee. and was adopted
unanimously. The following State ticket
was nominated:
For Governor-W. T. Ewing.
For Secretary Of State-J. j. Woodall.
For Treasurer-S. T. Fowler.
For Auditor-R. S. Hefin.
For Attorney General-G. II. Craig.
For Superintendent Of Education-J. M.
Clark.
The following were chosen electors at
large L. w. Day and William Henderson.
Tue delegates at large are: b. NJ. Long,
J. d. Hardy, (both white mem and j. W.
Jones and a. Boyd, (both colored). Both
the Sherman and Blaine men claim them.
The morning news., 1888-05-17
AGRICULTURAL STATION MONEY
Mr.. Blount's Amendatory Bill to be
Put Through at Once.

Mr.. Blount's Amendatory Bill to be
Put Through at Once.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-The Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture to-day reported
favorably Mr.. Blount's bill amending the
agricultural stations act SO as to make the
money Immediately available. The Geor-
gia Senators will have it passed at once.
As reported it is as follows: Be it enacted
ETC., that the grant of money authorized by
the act of Congress entitled IAN act to
establish agricultural experiment stations
in connection with the colleges established
in the several States under the provisions
of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of acts
supplementary thereto" are subject as
therein provided to the legislative as
sent of the States or Territories to
be affected thereby, and that
when such installment of the appropri-
ations as may be now due or may hereafter
become due when the Legislature may not
be in session, the Governor Of said State or
Territory may make the assent therein pro-
vided, and upon duly certified copy there
of to the Secretary Of the Treasury he will
cause the same to be paid in the manner
provided in the act, of which this is amend
tory until the termination of the next regu-
lar session of the Legislature of such State
or Territory"
The morning news., 1888-05-17
NEW YORK'S BIG BEE HIVE
NONE OF THE FOUR DRONEs IN IT
APT TO BUZZ FOR BLAINE.

Depew, Hiscock, Miller and Platt the
Delegates at Large to the Chicago
Convention-Blainea and Depew Both
Cheered but Neither One Indorsed in
the Platform-Conventio Held in
Several Other States.
BUFFALO, y. Y, May 16.-The Republi-
can State Convention met here at noon to-
day. Charles E. Fitch, of the Rochester
Democrat, was temporary chairman. IL
the opening address, and in the preliminary
proceedings, when the names of Depew and
Blaine were spoken they were greeted with
enthusiastic cheers. Mr.. Depew was dele
cato from the Twenty first New York dis
trict, but Elliott F. Sheppard sat in his
place Edmond l.. Pitts Of Orleans county
was permanent chairman. After the adop-
tion of platform the following were Sc
lected as delegates at large to Chicago:
Chauncy Nj. Depew, Frank Hiscock,
Warner Miller and Thomas c. Platt.
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
the following, which We're adopted:
The Republicans of New York in convention
assembled, certain that the national convention
at Chicago will present candidates for President
and Vice President, whose devotion to Amer-
can ideas and to protection of labor, agricul-
ture and manufactures win command the
approval of the people, pledge TO the Republ-
can standard bearers in the national contest
their united and Jealous support and enter upon
the canvass confident of victory.
Resolved. That all questions relating TO the
policy of the Republican party as to national
aud State policy be referred 20 the Republican
National and State Conventions, respectively,
to be held during the present year.
Resolved, That we approve the action of the
Republican members of Congress in opposing
the Mills tariff bill so-called, and we urge them
to persevere in defeating every device intended
to place upon the statute book the free trade
theories OF President Cleveland's annual
message,
The morning news., 1888-05-17
EMPTY HONORS.
The Republicans of Missouri Nominate
u Full State Ticket

The Republicans of Missouri Nominate
Il Full State Ticket
ST.. LOUIS, May 16.-The State Repubn
can Convention assembled at Sedalia this
morning at O'clock and shortly after nom
mated by acclamation, Elbert H. Kimbal,
commander Of the department of Missouri
Of the Grand Army Republic, Of Nevada,
Mo-, for governor.
The following additional nominations
were made:
For Lieutenant Governdr-George II,
Wallace, of Howard county.
For Secretary of State-F. w. Mott, of
st. Louis
For Treasurer-A. b. Frowein, of Henry
county.
For Auditor-George W. Martin, of Linn
county.
For Attorney General--L. L. Bridges, Of
Sedalia.
For Register of Lands-John H. Chase,
For Railroad Commissioners. w. We'd
der, of Sedain.
For Supreme Court Judge-James Bots
ford, of Kansas City.
The platform denounces ballot-box frauds
in the South, extols the financial achieve
ments of the Republican party as next in
importance to the preservation of the
nation, favors revision of the tariff, but
always on the basis OF protection to Ameri-
can industries and labor, and the preserva-
tion of homo market for home products
opposes President Cleveland's message and
the direct fruit thereof, the Mills tariff bill
and declares the placing of wool, lead, zinc
and iron on the free list direct blow at
national interests and the prosperity of
Missouri
The morning news., 1888-05-17

BRECKENRIDGE BEATEN,
A Lively Fight in Kentucky-Wild
Cheering for Cleveland.

LEXINGTON, KY, May 16.-The Demo-
cratic State Convention met here to-day.
About 1000 delegates were present. For
delegates-at-large there was a contest, a
fight being made on Col. w. G. p Brecldn-
ridge, who was defeated very badly.
The features of the conven-
tion were the enthusiasm displayed
at the mention Of President Cleveland's
name, as we'll as that of Gov. Buckner, and
the speeches Of Henry Watterson and Sena-
tor Blackburn. These addresses were in
complete harmony with the position of
President Cleyeland on the tariff and all
other positions, fully indorsing the ad-
ministration. The resolutions, which were
adopted with great enthusiasm, declare un-
qualified confidence in the administration
OF Grover Cleveland, President Of the
United States. and the party's unhagging
devotion 10 the doctrines laid down In his
last annual message to Congress, and they
instruct the delegates to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention to vote
as a unit for his denomination
They regard excessive taxation as
legalized robbery. They indorse tho pro-
posal Of the Ways and Means Committee,
known as the Mills bill, as a fair, conserv-
ative and practical measure Of revenue
reform, and applaud the course Of their
representatives in Congress in giving it
unanimous and hearty support.