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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-04

but obtained no relief, the sore grad
ually growing worse. l concluded
finally to try s. s. s., and was en-
tirely cured after using few bottles.
You have my cheerful permission
to publish the above statement for
the benefit of those similarly afflict-
ed" G. B. McLEMORE.
Henderson Tex.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free
Swift SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-04

obstvucting Sidewalks and Streets.
The advice of a lawyer, unless it
= paid for, is seldom appreciated
BY either lawyer or client. I don't
mean 70 give any advice just now,
but Will quote the law AZ found in
the new Code, at Sections 54l5, 54l6,
64l7, 40 taken from the Acts of
1873, Chapter 1888.
5ll5. 1t shall be a misdemeanOr
for any person to obstruct the pub
lie highways, private ways, streets
alleys sidewalks, public grounds,
commons and ways to burying
places, churches or school houses,
and II shall be an obstruction for
any person to ride horseback, hitch
horses upon, or drive a wagon, bug
~, or any vehicle, upon said side
Waiks.
64l6. Any person guilty of any
Of the offences mentioned in the
foregoing section shall, upon con-
vIelion, pay q fine in an amount
II Gio exceed twenty Ave dollars,
Il may be imprisoned in the coun-
4 ~ at the discretion of the court,
\ ceuio(ls 0ftlme Of not more
!, ! s|ll.'l sss,,4s.,spss-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-04

The Philosophy Of Advertising,
Of all known PHILOSOPHERS, that
OF advertising may be the most
complex to some people, while the
, 1889-07-03

The great trouble with the small section
OF the Republican central committee
which recently met here is that half a
dozen men assumed to act and talk for
the entire committee of twcnty-one. The
Democratic members present were not a
quorum by a large majority aud therefore
had the good taste to decline to act Off
cially. Every member of the Republican
committee knows that the Democrats do
not want the state officers elected at the
same time the constitution is adopted,
any more than the Republicans want it.
An election in which big stakes are in
volved and around which the law threw
no protection must necessarily prove a
bowling farce and bring the territory into
ridiculc before the entire country.
A few days since the Sun made this
statement: Should the Democracy sue
coed in their absurd schemes to capture
the constitutional convention they will
simply have imperiled Wyuming's pros
poets for admission" No more severe
reflection could possibly be made on the
Republican party for which the SIN oc-
OCCASIONALLY expresses such generation. Is
it possible that representatives of the
grand old party OF Lincoln and Grant aE-
ter having found this territory in every
respect qualified for admission would keep
us from statehood simply on the ground
that the conventioniwhich drafted the'con.
stitution had a majority of n few Demo-
crats2
As a matter of fact everyone knows
that Notwithstanding small Republican
maioritics in congress the bill admitting
Wyoming to statehood can never pass
without Democratic aid in congress.
There are Republicans in congress, Just as
there are Democrats. who seem to
be constitutionallly opposed 10 the
admission OF any territory no matter
what its qualifications may be.
1t is therefore no Jug handled affail
which the Republicans can whipsaw tC
their own continuous and permanent ad
vantage. A great majority of the Demo.
Gratis OF this territory earnestly favor state
hood and are consistently doing every.
thing in their power to advance the
scheme. They believe in non partisan
ship at this stage because nothing can be
gained by either party by a contrary
course.
n.u...... ~ -. ..N..al -. -.
, 1889-07-03
ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE.
A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PLACE WHERE
THERE IS NO POVERTY.

Whites and Blacks Live Together in Per-
feet EquaIIty-women and Donkeys the
Common Carriers The birthplace of
Frances Empress, Josephine.
Martinique is a garden of romantic
beauty, extending from the edge of the
pretty harbor to the foot hills of the
mountains, and looks like n fragment of
France gone astray. Every building is
of venerable stone, antique in structure,
large and roomy and Widowed by deep
jalousies. The heavy tile roofs overhang
the sills like the eyebrows of man, and
are covered with silvery MOSES and
trailing vines.
The streets are nearly all paved with
Belgian blocks, and sparkling water
rushes down the middle of each in the
gutter, toward which the pavement
slopes.
LIFE ON THE ISLAND.
Everybody lives out OF doors. The
harbor is skirted by n wide boulevard,
shaded by palm trees and furnished with
iron seats, where the ~populace gather in
the evening and chatter like magpies.
During the day the women sit in the
gardens, and at night sleep in hammocks
under the verandas, except in the rainy
season, when they keep their houses.
There is no glass in tho windows, and
not a chimney in the place. All the
cooking is done in charcoal stoves, or
upon shelves of stone like n blacksmith's
forge.
On an eminence overlooking the town
stands a statue of the Blessed Virgin, like
n nrntnCfinr prrnrlinn hanicnnnf nnI
serene. There are some fine churches
and one old cathedral that is worth n
visit. The people are mostly Catholics,
but there is a large colony of Jews en-
gagged in banking and trade.
Tho town of Fort do France, which
was known as Fort Royal during the
time of the empire, is tho seat of the
government, where the lieutenant GOV
ernor lives and commands n garrison of
800 or 400 colored soldiers. 1t is about
twenty miles from st. Pierre and has
10000 inhabitants, but the latter place
is the commercial capital and the fash
ionable residence. The blacks and whites
live together as brothers and sisters of
the common family, often intermarry-
ing. Many of the colored families are
wealthy and aristocratic, and send their
children abroad to be educated.
The upper class yea the latest French
fashions and live with considerable com
fort, but the colored women of the COM
mon class, as elsewhere in the tropics,
are clad in n single garment of cotton,
without any particular design of con-
cealing or exposing their anatomy.
They load themselves with n large
amount of jewelry of peculiar designs,
and on Sunday and feast days get them
selves up in a most elaborate and out
landish manner, men and women both
rivaling the plumage of the birds in the
myriad colors they assume. There are
no poor, no almshouses, no asylum for
the INDECENT.
INTERESTING PARTICULARS.
The women of Martinique carry Their
babies in a peculiar manner by placing
them astride of the left hip and strap
ping them there by broad slings of cloth.
Martinique has a population of 15.a4n.
, 1889-07-03
Tho Newspaper peadbeat.

A newspaper deadbeat is one of the
%nuisances the restaurant patron has to
contend with. Let q man sit down to
the table with the daily paper, and there
is always some one near who is watching
for an opportunity to get his news for
nothing. AS Don as the paper is laid on
the table it is instantly captured with a
suave 'beg pardon" and the chance for
the mar who had purchased his paper to
gather the news as he enjoys the meal is
lost. Courtesy or ordinary politeness
prevents n gentleman from ~resenting such
an imposition, and as a consequence there
is nothing to do but gracefully submit.
Kansas City Journal.
, 1889-07-03

of which 1900 are white, 90, OOU OF
mixed blood and the remainder colored.
The island is covered with fields of su-
gar cane, mostly cultivated by the
women, while the men do the heavier
labor in the sugar mills and in the har-
Dor. There are no carriages or carts,
but the women and donkeys are the COM
mon carriers.
There is a good opera house where
performances are often given by local
talent, and once in n while an opera or a
play by n company from France. One
of the most beautiful parks in the world
is known as the Place Berlin, where
there isl magnificent fountain of bronze,
o graceful water nymph, fourteen feet
high, bearing upon her head a basket,
from Grim of which jets of water flow.
In August this fountain exhibits what
to strangers Is a most amazing pheno-
menon, spouting myriads of little fishes
about as large as whitehall, with bodies
as transparent as crystal These are
called %titire, and come from the noun
tain streams with which the fountain is
fed. In the month of August they start
for the sea and are caught by the pipes
that feed the fountain. The people, ex-
pecting them, come down with baskets,
scoop them up, and, taking them home,
fry them in oil, when the make most de-
licious morsels.
Martinique was the birthplace of the
Empress Josephine, whose family still
live near Fort de France, and their old
home, a little story house, is still to
be seen. In the center of that little city
n magnificent statue of white marble was
erected to her memory by the late EN-
peror Napoleon III. Josephine was the
daughter of Joseph Gaspard Tacher de la
Pagerie, q lieutenant of artillery, and at
10 married Alexander de Beauharnais.
He was only 10, and after n few years of
married life in France the young couple
were separated, and Josephine returned
to her parents at Martinique, In 1904
Beauharnais died on the guillotine, and
two years afterward Josephine was mar
ried to Napoleon. The empress was di-
vorced, and died in 1909. The people of
Martinique rSre her like a saint.-Cor.
Philadelphia Pess.
, 1889-07-03

job printing at the Leader Office.
, 1889-07-03

THE Crook county assessment will this
year foot up 81, 250, 900. Last year it
was equalizcd at Sl,60s. 625. The live
stock industry furnishes over one and a
half millions of the assessment. This fact
may furnish a subject for thought to
those people who continue to yawp about
the cattle business. The fact of the mat
ter is the large cattle companies are be-
ginning to withdraw from the territory
and if the business which remains is not
iostered instead of fought a few years
may make a tremendous difference in the
tax rolls of some counties.
, 1889-07-03
CATTLE STOCK FOR SALE.

$4,000 stock in the Stoddard 4 How
ard Live Stock company. OF Buffalo, Wy
oming. The company was stocked in
1888, for the cash value of the stock on
the range and no more; has paid three 10
per cent dividends, one eight, AMI in 1887
and 1888 each a 5 per cent dividend. The
surplus for the past two years has bought
about 1000 Texas steers. Will make 10
per cent this year.
RoBT. w. WoRTHEN,
Little Ro ok, Ark.
Job nr,nt,ng NJ tho Iaodar of6ce
, 1889-07-03
CROOK COUNTY VIEW.

abundance Gazette.l
The Republican papers of this territory
seem to think that the election Of Har-
rison last fall carried with it the right of n
Democratic paper to free speech when it
comes to censuring a Republican. Judge
Peck, a former Republican associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of this territory,
and now a resident of Cheyenne, has seen
fit to c]riticise the record of Governor
Warren as a politician and land grabber.
Judge Peck is writing a series of letters to
the New York Times, and makes specific
charges against the governor. The CuEY-
ENNE LEADER rcpublished the letter from
its New York contemporary, and there
goes up a howl from the Republican edit
ors, the recent Democratic () editors, who
executed the land notice somersault
act so uns~crupulously, yelling as lus
tily as the true blue, stalwart Republican
editors. They even 90 so far as to say
hat Judge Peck's statements are an at
" the people of the territory, when
Of fact it Is a criticism of one
mother, And whenever
7ublicity to the charges
7 they are true, the
'ir hands in hor-
elves endeavcr
editors shall
ed lot of
of this
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11
local CORRESPONDENCE.
The News from all Quarters of Pres.
ton County.
UNION DISTRICT.


Aishter EditOnF DO you know
vot hash pecome ov dot mon, vot
write ledder on der Terra Alta
Dimes, shust before der lection, vot
sine hish name oder draveling
salesman from Mondreall, /" und say
dot Pen Shquire, he carry every vote
in Union dischtrict? Eli? Veil,
Ich con dell you; Wy, he ish setin
pehint hish counter in hish schtore
in Eglon, und coundin all der time
shust how many votes Shon Watson
or Bage Macrum ish goin ter beed
him in der convenshun ven he wants
der nominashun for CLERK. A leedle
mouse tell me dot he ish all der time
stutyin shust how he con get an offs;
der mouse say dot he dalked loud
Ply heemself, und dis is vot he say |:
"By dunner und blixon /! Ich will
shust go on Kingwood und dell
Pill Dawson Diet he git me indo dish
schrabe, and now be moosht git me
oud ov it, und der only way ish to
make efery pody else vot he prom
ishe an offs do shust geet out ov my
way und geef me shance dill Ich
geet someding quick. He bromis
der next sheriffaldy to Ed Pcnson
and he promis it to Loid Shaffeer,
und to Shin Chidesther ind to Ed.
Hardly, und to lots NV other peo-
pies, und he bromis der County
Glerdship to Frank Tomas, und to
Mishter Lenhard, und to Sheen
Lanom, und to lots ov other beeple,
so he do init der odder Offices, now
Ply sheemilick, Ich wont schtond it
any more, Ish come Ply Breshton
county ter geet an offs, und if Ich
don'd geet yone Ich will make some
poty schmell my feist."
Mishter Editour, Ich will write
you some more, some ov dem days,
yot der leedle mouse dell me.
Your Doitch friend,
YACOB.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11
JACOB

The question which seems to be
agitating the minds Of those mostly
concerned is that which has been
mentioned in the columns Of the
ARGUS, viz, A school 10 be estab-
lished at this place. The stipulated
number Of children, according to
law, we believe to be about twenty
five or thirty, and the count having
already been made, we find that by
making it a sub district within the
radius Of three-quarters Of a mile,
we have forty-four children old
enough to 90 to school. Think Of
it, only three-quarters Of a mile for
the children farthest away TO walk,
yet We are sorry TO say that some Of
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK. MD.

The Y. NJ. G. A. conference was
not largely attended, but was made
very interesting and was a real sue
cess.
The Fourth passed off rather quiz
city, there being but a small num-
Der of excursionists.
The speaking by DIR. Henshy was
excellent. Many drove in from
different parts in the afternoon.
A very interesting cottage meet
ing was held in Jennie Smiths
parlors Friday evening. There were
two missing ones who met with us
last year, Rev. Joseph Thornly
and Bro. Smith Crane, whom we
miss so much.
The camp meeting began Satur-
day morning, apparently just where
it left off last year. suppose there
are not less than fifty preachers and
evangelists with us. The attend
ance is larger than ever before.
The meeting is simply indiscribable
and the power is wonderful. The
meeting will close next Monday
night.
The w. G. II. u. conference will
begin July IL and end the q.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11
MT. NEBo.

Mr.. ID. s. Gibson returned home
from Maryland last Sunday.
There will be q children's day at
Beech Run next Sunday.
Many of our old soldiers attended
the Reunion last week.
Mrs. Minnie Walls, of Pisgah,
visited our community last week.
The Mt. Nebo Normal School was
postponed from July l to July 8.
Mr.. ID. S. Gibson and Mrs. Re-
becca Gibson paid visit to friends
and relatives at Pisgah Sunday.
The Nebo literary society was a
grand success last Saturday night.
Mr.. Henson Liston was in the
settlement last week.
Mr.. Will NJ. Gibson has returned
to his home from hauling logs and
lumber in the wilds of Garrett
county, Md.
Wheat is looking well corn is
looking old fashioned.
Many of our farmers are begin
ming the long siege of harvest.
Buckwheat is being sowed by the
wholesale.
MIR. e. ID. Emerson has return
ed home from the works.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11
INDEPENDENCE.

Everything moved of quietly on
the Fourth.
Miss Snodgrass, from Richie
county, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Geo. w. Lowther.
J. NJ. Philips and family are Wis
ting friends here.
b. J. Fortney, from this place,
has a situation in the Piedmont car
shops.
VIM. Harvey, the labor Republi-
can, is up on the West Virginia
Central Railroad hunting for pro-
tee ton or,perhaps the broad shield.
Geo. NJ. Shaffer is in Kingwood
on business.
There is talk Of 1rondale ore
mines starting up soon.
Soldiers from this place did not
turn out to the reunion very strong,
ESPECIALLY the man who we heard
from through the Journal,
suppose he didn't have his rattle.
snake flag made. lie will not say
any more about this at pcrsscnt.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

our neighbors are reluctant and in
disposed to favor question Of so
vital Importance. We will only say
tc those dissenting from the ques-
ton above referred to, that if poor
man does not look to the interest of
his children's schooling, we ask in
the name of high heaven, what 9TH
er endowment can we expect to
bestow upon them, and we respect
fully solicit the cooperation of the
board of education to establish a
school at this place.
The works of the West End coal
and coke company are progressing
nicely, and we hope In the near
future to see the ovens, ten in num-
Der, in full blast and to see the
miners penetrating the bowels of
mother earth to the tune of two and
three dollars a day.
We were somewhat surprised, q
few evenings ago, to be informed Of
the fact that j. A. OFT, Willie Bishop
and couple of young ladies, Of
Tunnelton, had consented to become
the victims to witchcraft at a certain
house on the hill and if such as was
told to them should ever come to
pass, we would feel no hesitancy in
saying that the gents would be fit
subjects for dime museum.
We will venture the assertion
without a shadow of con tradiction
that every inhabitant of Tunnelton,
whose business would permit visited
West End to-day, mostly to witness
the enterprise of our little village.
We are sorry to chronicle the fact
that Mr.. Bismark was so unfor-
tunate as to have his toes on one
foot cut off, in the mines, the other
day.
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HIS NAME ms aInYRR

In answer to the call published in
the Ere, the county Republican
committee met IN Kingwood on
Monday and appointed Mr.. Henry
Glover, Of Terra Alta, chairman Of
the committee to fiji the vacancy
caused by the death Of the late S.
7. Mccormick. The appointment
does not SAVIOR very strongly Of COM
promise Of the factions. Mr.. Glover
is a clever gentleman, hard worker
for the success Of his principles, and
incorporating when he takes a
position. The Journal will no doubt
say that his appointment was the
work Of the Bank" or LAWYER
Brown"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

Gov. WILSON, of West Virginia,
made centre shot in his Tammany
Hall speech yesterday when he de-
clared that monopolist could not
be Democrat and that the Ems
sion of the Democratic party has
always been and should always be
to fight Plutocracy." Good for
West Virginia's plucky Governor
". Y. World.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

The Scranton Truth, a Protec-
ton paper Of Pennsylvania, is show
ing signs of weariness in the cause.
1t is dissatisfied with the recent
widespread reduction of wages IN
highly protected industries, and it
gives frank expression to its feelings
as follows: "The Truth has been
an ardent upholder of the doctrine
OF Protection because it honestly
believed that it was best for the
workingmen but if labor is to be
denied its share Of the profits aris-
ing from this economic system, and
monopoly is to use it merely as q
compaign cry to be forgotten as soon
as the votes are counted, we will
have no scruples about denouncing
1t at the first opportunity when de-
nunciation can be made effective. 4"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

The resignation of Gen. Jos. f..
johnson, railroad commissioner. las
been accepted to take effect the 10th
inst. This resignation has been in
the hands of Secretary NOBLE since
early in March, but it has been gem
orally understood that Gen. john
SON would remain where he was,
Gen. Sherman having made per-
sonal request of the President to
that effect.
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is so justly celebrated, and was
listened to by the large audience
there assembled, with marked at
tenion, and made deep impression
upon the minds of our citizens.
Immediately after the close of the
address the procession was reformed
and marched to the courthouse by
the following route:
East on Main street to its juno
ton with High, west OH High to
Price, north on Price to Main, west
on Main to the court house, where
it disbanded.
The evening session was opened
at 7:20 o'clock with music by the
Mozart Band and Glee Club, after
which Judge j. Il. Hoke was intro
duced and made q learned and able
address in which he reviewed the
events 1.-THE Rebellion in a very calm
and dispassionate style, stating only
historical facts and avoiding every
thing that conld give offense. His
style as a speaker is very pleasant
and entertaining.
At the close of his address the
association adjourned to meet in the
morning at 500 O. clock, and the
large audience repaired to the public
grounds near the court house and
was highly entertained with fine
display of fireworks, which had
been selected with care for the occa-
sion.
THIRD DAY.
The association assembled at $3.50
a. M, and after music by the Mozart
Band, was called to order by the
commander. Five minute speeches
were made by comrades Amos Hart
ley and Goodwin. Music by the Glee
Club, rendered in first class style,
Miss Grace Martin presiding at the
organ. The following committees
were then announced
On resolutions j. NJ. Shaw,
Pleasant district; ID. Y. Morris,
Kingwood E; ID. S. Wilt, Union; G..
W. White, Valley; George Sinclair,
Reno; A. G. Scott, Lyon ; j. L..
Everley, Grant w. IL. Glover,
Portland.
On time and place for next meet
ing of the association-Capt. @. G.
Continued on third page.)
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

Mr.. CLEVELAND vetoed two bills
passed by Congress to quiet the IT,
tie of the land granted to the Des
Nome River Navigation Company,
and now the Attorney General of
Iowa is asking the department to
bring suit to set aside the title in
the name of the United States.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

GREAT is the force of example.
Commissioner Of Pensions Tanner.
a short time since, made his daugh-
ter his private secretary at at a sal
airy Of q 800 a year; now the new
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs.
Thomas j. Morgan, Of Rhode Is
land, has his wife for private secre-
tary at a salary Of 81, 900 a year.
Seeing the actions Of these officials.
DIR. Dorchester, superintendent of
Indian schools, had his wife ap-
pointed special agent. This ena-
bles her TO travel around with the
Doctor when he visits the different
Indian schools and get her expenses
paid and a salary Of 5000 a day
from kind old Uncle Sam. All This
time there is a law against the en-
pioyment Of more than one mem.
Der Of the same family by the same
department.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

WILL the Journal please tell us
if it indorses the letter appearing
in its columns which to objected Mr..
Wilson being present at the reunion.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

We wonder if the towards who
wrote the insulting letters to the
Journal and Era objecting to the
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson don't feel
rather small after their comrades
denounced them by resolution.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

THE Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson is wri-
ting q series of letters on "Trusts
and Monopolies" for the Baltimore
SIN. He gives a full history of
them and shows just how they in
jure and rob the people.