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ward Mellow, Rufus Bowers, Jas. Aus
tin, Timothy O'Brien, Frank McInery,
Henry Bostley, VIM. Ross. Silver pep
per and salt set, Edward Doyle; silver
butter knife, W. F. Cronin and wife;
butter knife and spoon, Miss Nellie Har-
mon; desert spoons, VIM. Mccarthy,
Mrs. j. H. Beckett; silver cake knife,
Miss Annie Hogan; table spread, Mrs.
VIM. Mccarthy; pair of towels, Mrs: A.
Moon; bed spread, Mrs. Jane Foley;
four dozen napkins aud table spread,
Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald and VIM. Holsatfie;
berry set, Miss Annie E. Mccarthy.
Three elegant pictures, the joint gift of
Messrs. John and Patrick Mcmahon,
Thos. Henchy.
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OPERA HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Neil Burgess County Fair" The
play to be given in the Bennington Opera
House, Monday evening, June II opens
in New England sitting-room. The
second act carries the spectators out of
doors upon realistic scene. The audi
ence looks out into the country for miles
upon the picturesque scenes of Rock
Bottom farm. The homely domestic
flavor of the play, its characters pictured
faithfully after New England life, its
husking bee, its singing, its thorough
bred racers in the remarkable imitation
of a race at the County Fair, will appeal
to all lovers of drama. See large bills
soon to be posted.
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DEFERRED EDITORIAL NOTES.

The dispatches from Newport, r. l.,
of the %, state: Lieutenant Governor
Bull will be unable to attend the mar
riage of his brother, DR.. w. T. Bull, and
Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine in New York
on MAY 80, as that is the date for the
meeting of the Legislature here, and the
Lieutenant Governors vote is needed by
the Republicans grand committee. DR..
Bull and his wife will go to Europe on
June l." So Mrs. Blaine marries her
physician it seems.
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to the point as to whether our govern
ment or a corporation or an organization
of High Binders has the most power,
there is but one way to act The society
of High Binders, who would be behead-
ed the moment they landed in China,
are the ones to fear as we'll as the six
Companies-1O0,0O 600 residents of the U.
S. ruled by Chinese outlaws is some
thing to be put down at all hazards.
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Ex-Gov. E. J. Ormsbee has been APP
pointed assignee Of the Vermont Invest
ment Company of Orwell. The com
pany, it appears, did precisely the same
business as the Northwestern Guaranty
Loan Company. 1t took western mort
cages, on which it issued debenture
bonds at lower rate of interest. The
mortgages usually paid per cent inter-
est, while the debenture bonds were
issued at and per cent. These bonds
are perfectly good, as they are secured
by the mortgages held by the company.
However, it is likely to be several years,
perhaps four or five, before they can be
paid. Besides the farm mortgages the
company dealt in short time commercial
paper, and this is what swamped it..
The company guaranteed the payment
of these notes and, on account of the
panicky feeling over Western paper,
have been unable to negotiate any of this
paper recently. Neither was the COM
pany able to secure the payment of the
notes in the West.
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During the past few days there has
been an increase in the contributions for
the Columbian Liberty bell and it has
been noticeable that they are more val
liable and of more historical interest
than the relics heretofore received.
There are gifts which have been handed
down from George Washington's family
and other notable men, Indian relics and
another consignment of gold and silver
bullion. The contributions from the
people of Washington city have been
made, but have not been received by the
Clinton II. Meneley company. Chair
man Mcdowell of the bell committee has
decided on the inscriptions to be placed
on the bell. Encircling the mouth will
be the following: "Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land, unto all the in
habitants thereof" Around the crown
will be this: "Glory to God in the High
est and on earth peace, good will toward
men," The central motto will be the
eleventh commandment, which is, "A
new commandment [ give unto you,
which is that you love one another"
Mrs. Anna c.. Dale, wife of President
Dale of the Hawaiian republic, has writ
ten letter to Chairman Mcdowell, eX-
pressing her approval and sympathy
with the bell movement. She contrib
utes a package of metal and draft of
$40 towards defraying the expense of
making the bell. Notice has been given
by the committee that no more material
will be received for the bell unless of
great historical interest.
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The Sunday Budget, in an editorial, on
the "Geary Law" has word to say that
is of interest as reason why the act is
not the infamous measure it purports be.
Mac Arthur says: 1T is only fair to
many of those who voted for the Geary
bill to state that they never expected
that the exclusion clause would be called
into play. By the provisions of the law
the Chinese who had secured residence
here were allowed to continue in the
country. But other Cinnamon were con-
stantly seeking to enter the country and,
escaping arrest for forgery and perjury
in the courts, no system of identification
being possible so long as no record OF
Identification of Chinese entitled to re-
main in the country was kept. Accord
ingly many of those who supported the
Geary bill saw in it but remedy for this
defect. By requiring resident Cinnamon
to register and to be photographed they
believed they were merely closing up
avenues to abuses of the law that had eX-
listed and annoyed for years. Everybody
knows that law to be effective must
have its punitive side, hence the clause
in the law that all Cinnamon who had
not complied with it inside of a year,
which terminated May 5, should be LA
BILE to Punishment to the country from
which they came. The law, as it looked
from one standpoint, seemed to be not
very severe. American travellers have to
be identified abroad by passports, and
even now people who are entitled to free
admission to the Worlds Fair are
obliged to have their photographs on
their passes. And if China retaliated il
was not believed that Americans resident
there would object to similar require
ments. Accordingly Congressman voted
for the bill who would not do so now.
For the evil side of the law soon became
apparent, and for this the Chinese Six
Companies and the High Binders are re-
sponsible. Registration and identified.
ton sIgnified to them the exclusion OF
further Chinese immigration, and eXclu
sion meant the cutting off of large and
constant revenue from incoming Chinese
SO they persuaded their clients not tC
comply with the law, and as a result 100,
600 Chinese are liable to deportation y
While this does not reveile Congress OF
its responsibility, as the Budget goes or
to say, yet we think that when it comes
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HILL Us. GORMAN.

The last show down of hands in
the Senatorial shuffling of cards
shows some peculiar positions. Cor.
man, the Great, the leader, proposes
a compromise of the silver issue, a
direct opposition to the Administra-
ton, while Hill, supposed to be an
tagonistic to Cleveland interests,
champions the Administration in OPP
position to any sort of compromise.
Cleveland stands firm, to be satisfied
alone with unconditional repeal; and
German takes the glory from his own
crown by opposing his leader. Hill
and German, rivals for the position
of Democratic leader, have an issue
at last and Hill has obtained posi-
ton Of superior advantage. In his
fight for the right of the majority to
rule Hill now has the people with
him, and that issue is more import.
ant to him than the silver question,
and he will tolerate no compromise.
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Starvation in Massachusetts.

New BEDFORD, Mass Oct. 25.-A
terrible state of affairs was disclosed
in Field stree tenement this morn
ing, where two children have died
of starvation and the father is expect
ed to die at any time from the same
cause. The family is that of Ma
poleon j. Stone, q weavor, who has
been unable to obtain work. For
over week the only sustenace was
a few scanty bits of bread and lit
tie water but since the death Of the
children neighbors have learned the
situation and rendered assistance.
1t is feared that Stone is beyond
aid but his wife and one child will
recover with careful nursing.
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Com m assioDer,s Notice.


cstharihe A Becker, sdm'fx # A
Becker. dect ased, plainsiff.
vs..
Ca harine A Becker, widow OF J A
BECKER. g III Becker. May E Wali or.
j w Walter, Annie G Daley, j Ell q
Daley. Jr. J Fl Becker, G w Beck
er, Abelia Becker Ella M Becker and
Charles Becker, defendants,
In CHANcERY.
La the Circuit Court of Berktl coun-
~, w. Va.
To all of the parties to the a.ove enti-
tied cause
By decree of the Circuit Court of
Berkeley county, entered at the Sep
TENDER term, 1898, thereof, on the 10th
day of September, 1898. the above eEti-
tied cause was referred to the under
signed commissioner in chancery: LIST.
To 81 ate and settle the accounts OF Cath.
A Becker. adm'rx Of j A Becker, de-
ceased. 2nd. To ascertain and report
OF what real estate said j A Becker died
seized, and lis annual rental and fee
simple values. Sd. To convene the
creditors of said A Becker to ascer-
tain theindebt edness against said estate
10 the order of their priorities 4th. To
report any other matters deemed perth
nent by him, or required to be stated by
the parties interested.
You will take notice that have fixed
upon Friday, December 18th, 1898, as
The time, and my office in Martin sburg,
Berkeley county, W. Va as the place
for txecuting said decree of reference
2 4 { not completed on that day, the
SAFE will be continued from time TO
time, at the same FL ice, until finished.
Given under my hand this 2Sth day
of October 1898.
l.. DEW. GERHARDT,
Oct. 28-45 Com'r in Chancely.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. City
Council met in special session Mon
day, Oct. 23rd, 1898, Hon. James
W. McSherry, Mayor, in the chair,
and the following members of the
Council present John W. Marion,
Morgan W. Martin, G. M. Lamar, A
M. Gilbert, M. G.. Tabler, VIM. r.
Kline, G.. W. Schill, Il. Mcdowell.
Mr.. G. W. N. Martin, the recent
ly elected councilman to represent
the 4th ward, appeared and was sworn
in.
Mayor McSberry called the meet
ing to order, and stated its object
was to authorize the location of new
electric light poles ON the streets of
the city, to take the place of the old
ones now in use.
Mr.. Geo. W. N. Martin, the new
councilman, was assigned by the
Mayor to act on all the committees
on which Mr.. Deck, ex-councilman
from the 4th ward, served.
The following application from the
Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany was read:
I'VE deslse TO renew some of our
poles that are decayed, and arrange
them so that the poles of each street
shall be on the same side of the street,
and some of the poles that are now
located are In the cutters, and we
think the new poles should go inside
the curb, and would like some one of
your body appointed to make such
changes as will be best"
Mr.. J. Fl. Gettinger appeared be.
fore the Council and complained that
the electric light pole recently put in
in front of his property at the corner
OF ". Burke and College streets, was
an obstruction, and asked that it be
removed and placed in a more ap.
propriate place.
The following resolution was read,
and on motion was unanimously car
ried, every councilman present, 9,
voting in the affirmative:
Resolved, That the application of
the Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
through its President, Mr.. John B.
Wilson, to put in electric light poles
on the streets of this city, be grant
ed, and that the street committee be
empowered to locate the places to
plant the poles in proper and sys-
tematic manner, and the said Edison
Electric Illuminating Co. to put
down and replace all cutters, pave
ments and CURLING in good and safe
condition within ten days after the
poles are put in; citizens to be in
convenienced as little as possible,
and the Edison Electric Illuminat-
ing Co. to be required to put all
poles, where possible, on the inside
of the curling, and at least five or
six feet away from porches one way
or another. ALI holes for poles to
be not less than five feet deep. A
penalty of one dollar per day, for ev.
cry day after the ten days that pave
ments, cutters and curbing are not
replaced and put in good condition,
to be enforced against said Edison
Electric Illuminating Co. Poles al.
ready in and considered an obstruc-
ton, to be removed by order of the
street committee, same to take effect
on the day of the passage of this res
olution.
There being no further business,
on motion the Council adjourned
World.
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And now it is said our worthy
Mayor has thrown his great influence
against the coinage Of free silver,
and informed the President that there
must not be any further delay. 1t
would be very gratifying to our peo-
pie, if the said W. NJ. would explain
why he absolutely refused to permit
the ballots to be recounted in the
Hutzler- Gilbert contest, refused to
permit the commissioners returns to
be examined, but allowed both priv
ileges to G. Wellinger. Grozinger
was honestly, fairly elected, and no
honest man can sustain the partisan
action of the Martinsburg Council in
the matter.
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A YOUNG MAN GoNE WRoNa.

A YOUNG MAN GoNE WRONG
Wednesday afternoon, Robert e.
Early, young man aged about %
yeare, who recently came to this
place, was arrested on the charge of
having entered the house of Mr.. DAN
lei Pool, near town, last Sunday du-
ring the absence of Mr.. POOLS fami-
ly and taking some old coins which
were kept in box. Their value was
ninety five cents. Early was given
a hearing before Justice Dugan. He
denied having had an old half dollar,
silver three cent piece and an old
one cent, which were among the sto-
len coins. Witnesses testified to
having seen them in his possession.
Mr.. Pool swore that the pieces were
the same that had been stolen from
him. Early was committed to Jail
in default of $500 bail to await the
action of the grand jury. The &C.
cused is native of Virginia and had
been working on a farm, near this
place, for some time. Apparently he
is respectable fellow and is fairly
well educated.-W msport Leader.
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"Our Republican friends are in
great glee over the present Demo.
cratic dissensions. Don't crow too
loudly, gentlemen, when the next
general election comes on you will
find the Democracy as solid as the
rock of Gibraltar. "-Statesman.
Beautiful Inspiring confidence | /
Democratic horn blowing on the prin-
ciple that he who tooteth not his own
horn the same shall not be footed
unto him. Croaol Get ready, broth
ers, to eat big dish of that savory
bird, for when the people of this
grand country have finished jumping
on and demolishing Democracy at
the next general election, even croD
will be appetizing to you. STAND
solid? Yes, solid for the wrong.
Solid for incapacity; solid for Eng.
land and foreigners solid for Sol
i'd South solid for neglecting old
veterans; solid for corruption in
New York and intimidation in Ala
bama and Mississippi; solid for op-
position to every law that is Ameri-
can, and to everything that tends to
make our country prosperous and
powerful. For once you have let the
cat out of the bag, and woe to that
feline when the votes OF the sturdy
toilers, in field and factory, shall be
counted in 1895. Gen. Grant was
right: "Giye the Democratic party
plenty of rope and it will hang it.
self" Solid sense and truth.
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Martinsburg has no need to dread

Martinsburg has no need to dread
the appearance OF any disease that
would tend to an epidemic. The
streets are in good condition, an in
spection Of the city shows that its
condition as to filth, etc, is exceed
ingly good. We have careful and
competent lot of physicians, the cit
liens are cautious; and all these
things added together, we need not
fear that any contagious disease even
if present would spread to any
alarming extent. All tie citizens
need to do is to keep cool; we avoid
ed the cholera, and there is no neces
sity for alarm now.
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Stagnation everywhere. Lack Of
confidence in the Democratic party.
As a Democrat from Ohio remarked
to US at t B. & O. depot, Sunday.
when asked what McKinley's major
ity would be: 20, anywhere between
$4,000 AMI $4,000. / once swore my
right arm should be paralized before
| voed for Republican. fear it
will be--ior | am going to vote for
Mckinley" There will be many
hard shell, moss back followers of
Thomas Jefferson's Democracy sui
fer paralysis. hereafter, we ween.
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Correspondence.
HEDGEsVILLE.

Mr.. Eugene. Miller spent Sunday
at home
Miss B rite Smaltz is visiting in
your city.
Mr.. David Wandling is very Ill at
this writing.
Mrs Enele is visiting at her home
Moler's station.
Mrs. Eichelberger IS very i'll at
this writing.
Miss Ida Turner is visiting In
Martipsburg this week.
We are glad to see Mr.. VIM. Payne
able to be out again.
Messrs. VIM and Edward Fuss
have gone % he World Fair.
Mr.. Orrick Cunningham has re-
turned from the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank Robbins we're
visiting at Brunswick this week.
Mr.. VIM. Ritz 81, of Clearspring, is
visiting Mr.. Oirick Cunningham.
Mrs. Liughanfelter spens several
days with Miss H iris, of thi place.
Mrs. ]. VIM. Miller, of your city,
spent one day this week with Mrs. j.
FL. Miller.
Misses Mamie Harris u. Ella ri
hion, and Messrs VIM. Cnnnin ham
and Robert Miller spent Wcdne day
evening very pleasantly with Mis-.
Shriver.
The band that was organized some
time ago is progressing splendidly,
judging from the m isic they fur
nish. We would advise the Alpha
Orchestra to be careful or they will
lose their laurels.
REp0pTEpS
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Four Men Killed at Harrisburg


HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 25.-Sev-
en- unemployed men, in search of
work, boarded train of coal and
oil cars at Market street tonight,
and at Dock street the car on which
they were riding jumped a switch,
wrecking several cars of a west
bound train. Four of the unfor-
Inmates were crushed to death under
the grinding mass. Richard Doyle,
a railroader, of Pittsburg, is the
only dead body identified. The
bodies were horribly mangled. All
of the men were from the western
part of the State, boundeastin search
of EMPLOYMENT.
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Married on the Ferris Wheel.

WORLDS FAIR, CHICAGO, Oct. "a.
JAS. D. Hutchinson and Miss Lot
tie Zickler came in from Waukegan,
ILL.,, to-day, secured marriage Ii
cense and took passage on the Fer
ris Wheel. When at the top the
wheel was stopped, just before / p.
M, and the couple were married $50
feet in the air. The ceremony was
performed by r, v. E. E. Hartman,
of Waukegan.
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THE BICYCLE RAoE.-The bicycle
relay race, against time from Staun1
ton, Virginia, to Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, which has excited a
great deal of interest, was organ.
lied by the Martinsburg Bicycle
Club. and was largely due to the &C.
tive energy of Mr.. James F. Rearick,
of the firm of Baker & Rearick.
We have taken special pains to get
the names and stations of the var
ious riders and the time occupied in
covering their respective miles, but
have only been partially successful as
to time, many of the runs not having
been reported. Prof. Webb, presi.
dent of the Staunton bicycle club,
started from Stanton with sealed
letter destined for Chambersburg,
Pa, at 6 a. m. yesterday, and car
ried it 6 miles: A. E. Dabney, next;
Charles S, Hunter, next; Fl. Dun
bar hurry, next; and John Scott
took it into Harrisonburg. The
distance from Staunton to Harrison
burg was run by members of the
Staunton club. The Harrisonburg
club carried it from that point 10
Edinburg, and were B. D. Decherty
l.. Z. Harris, S. Lewis, j. L. Bang
her and N.B. Smell. j. W. Rearick
of Chambersburg, from Edlnsburg
to Woodstock. 81 minutes; E. B.
Capper, Martinsburg, Woodstock
to Towns Brook, 81 J minutes; j.
F. Rearick, Martinsburg, Towns
Brook to Strasburg, "a minutes, and
ran over dog; John Roush, Mar
tinsburg, Strasburg to Middletown,
% minutes; Ernest Emmert, Hagers-
town, Middletown to Bartonsville,
twenty-three minutes; Chas. O.
Weaving, Martinsburg, Bartons-
vile to Winchester % ! minutes;
Clarence Nc Ginnis, Martinsburg,
Winchester toClearbrook 81 minutes;
Bates Minghini, Martins burg, Clear.
brook TO Bunker Hill 205 minutes;
D. 0. Gehr, Chambersburg, Bunker
mn 10 mile post Il minutes; Ii.
K. johnson, Hagerstown.4 mile post
to Leidig's 22aa minutes; Kent Mil
Ter, Hagerstown, Leidig's to Falling
Waters to .Williamsport aud crossed
the river; G.. E. Johnson, Hagers-
town, Williamsport to Hagerstown
Z. A. Bailey, Hagerstown, Hagers-
town to Cearfoss; John McIlvaine,
Chambersburg, Cearfoss to Green
castle III minutes; G. W. Keefer,
Chambersburg, Greencastle to Mar
ion % minutes; W. B. Mcdowell,
Chambersbnrg, Marion to Cham
bersburg 20 minutes. Total time
from Staunton to Chambersburg 10
hours and 80 minutes.-S6tuyday's
World.
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DEATH OF A NOTED JURIRT.
Hugh l.. Bond, of the United States
Circuit died Tuesday morning at his
home in Baltimore from heart dis
ease. He had been i'll for year
and only at times was able to attend
to Court duties. A day or two be-
fore his death he suffered from
hemorrage of the bowels, the direct
result of his long illness and heart
trouble. His physical condition
was then such that he was unable to
survive the strain, and the conse.
quence was death His last hours
were peaceful, and he died conscious
and surrounded by his immediate
family-his loving wife and his three
sons. Judge Bond was born Decem
Der 10th, 1928, and from early boy
hood showed evidences of rare legal
mind. After several years practice
at The bar he was appointed by Gov.
Hicks as Judge OF the Criminal
Court in 1850. to which he vas re-
elected and served until 1868. In
1870 he was appointed by President
Grant as Circuit Judge for the 4th
Circuit, embracing Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, North and
South Carolina, which was life po-
sition. Since the establishing ofthe
U. S. Court at this place he presided
over it one term aud by his courte-
GUS treatment of the members of the
bar he added them and many others
among his friends. AS jurist Judge
Bond was accounted pre-. eminently
learned in the law, his decision rare
ly being reversed. As a man he
was gentleman Of the old school,
courteous and dignifed at all times
and always affable and agreeable.
OFF the bench he was general favor
lite with his colleagues of the bench
and bar and others of his acquaint-
ances, and nowhere more so than
where his legal decisions would have
naturally made him more or less OBJ
noxious With large fund of his
toric and social "reminiscences, he was
lover of a good ory,and himself a
relator of stories par excellence, and
as an after-dinner speaker he was al
most without a peer. He was also
a fluent writer and contributed num-
erous articles to the literature of the
day, some of which attracted wide
spread attention, although their au-
thorship, as a rule, was known to
few people.