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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-04-28
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THE COMING SCHOOL ELEc7Y0N.
The Australian ballot law will
not prevail at the coming May
election, held for selecting school
officers, the ammended act,
passed by the last Legislature
not taking effect until after the
time for holding this election.
Boards of Education must there.
fore prepare poll books as here.
tofore. Commissioners have
been appointed by the county
court at the following places to
conduct the election:
COAL Johnson's Feed Stable;
E. K. StoutJ R. Amis and G. g.
Southern, Com'rs.
CLARK Court House; Harvey
wv. Hammer. w. Perry Camp and
Andy S. Crisis, Com'rs.
g CLAy-Town Hall, Shinnston;
B. A. Reeder. j. A. Fleming and
~. ]. Rowand, Con'rs.
TENMILE Cherry Camp; E. B.
Robinson, james Bumgardner
and D. 9. ]. Brake. Com'rs.
EAGLE Lumberport;M. I. Rib
.litt, J. H. Madden and J. L. Har.
ter, Com'rs.
WYATT. w. Hess. R. E.
Richardson and Thomas Hawker,
Com,rs.
sARpisAt sardis; Nj. D. og.
den. r NJ. Cunningham and
James NJ. Plant, Com'rs.
SARDIs Browns Mills; John
IA. Showalter, ]. L. Marsh and
Orlando NJ. Swiger, Com'rs.
SIarpsoN- Bridgeport; A. D.
Fltzhugh, j D. Wilkinson and
r. M. Stout. Com'rs.
SIMPSON Grassland; J. G..
Lawson, Delbert Lang and Thos.
Roy. ir.. Com'rs.
UNION West Milford; Lloyd
Hefner, j. o. Dayton and j. W.
Young. Com'rs.
UNION Burnside school house;
Quinn Mlnter. William Hall and
N. Rightmire, Com'rs.
ELK Romine's Mills: John
Patton, NJ. B. Kurkendall and A.
n Young, Com'rs.
ELK-Quiet Dell; L. B. Bond,
jim cottrill and Earnest Rider,
Com'rs.
GRANT Center School House;
William =. Hughs, L. B. Davis
and 7. Z. Wright, Com'rs,
GRANT Mt. Clair; John p.
Lynch, Ira, Kirby and S. L.
Blake, Comrs.
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liberated BY Prof. Hopkins
among the pine regions of the
State in orderto save as much
Of tho remaing timberas possible.
He has with him several thous.
and of the little specimens and
win leave tomorrow for Raleigh,
Webster. Pocahontas. Randolph
ind Tucker counties to distribute
them among the forests, The
destructive ones disappear rap.
idly before theirhungry enemies,
and as the latter multiply so fast
!! IS probable the timber will be
ssfed. Prof. Hopkins. whose
work alone if he succeeds in saw
ink the pine timber OF the State,
VIII prove the value ofthe station
1othe people of the State. He
says the other departments of
Tue STATION are all doing good
work and that everything about
the stationis moving on smooth
1S There is no friction among
the professors and the work is
going on successfully.
The Parkersburg State Journal
say. editorially: Major A. G.
Moore, of Clarksburg, who has
been filing a good position in the
department. of Justice at Wash
iuFton. has resigned. 1t is un.
aesstood that his successor will
not be appointed for several
months. Mr.! Winfield Scott,
editor OF the Clarksburg Ne,cs,
is an applicant for the place. he
is Grover Cleveland's own kind
Of 4 Democrat, but we would be
glad to see him appointed, be-
cause he is a West yirginian and
i good fellow"
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seer, and invite the traveller
turn aside forrefreshments.


turn aside for refreshments.
The following day we laid by
to await the arrival of the OK
teams. AT this encampment we
met some Mexicans, who had
been over the mountains to trade
with the Indians. The Colonel
purchased a few mules. The
messes bought dried meat, but
owing to it being so fat and oily
it was believed to be horse flesh.
Bur let that be as it may, /
thought it was the best dried
meat ] had ever eaten.
TCoatiaaed
H. W. B1GLER.
st. George, Utah.
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General Harrison paidsl2 and
a premium of s25 for his choice
of pew in the First Presbyter-
ian church, at indianapolis, the
other day.
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We LA4,EsT N4R3E1.s.
NV YonK. April y. isoa.
auorATIoNs OF BEEyEs.


QUOTATIONS. OF BREyRs.
Good to prime. 80. ... IS 5O@sG 90
Fair TO good. .e...,.. 8 $500 s 80
Common 10 medium 49,. COO 5 so
Oxen and stays ..s.. 9 900 i 40
Bulls and dry cows. q 0oQ 4 50
Average to-day. estimated. ) 900 ....
Extreme range Of prices 4 500 6 90
Good to prime steers sold one year
ago at "a 6o@s4 90; the average price
was estimated at 81 As.
BEEyES Receipts for two days, 0,
05s head $50 cars consigned direct to
slaughters SO cars for export alive, and
81 cars for the market. With a good
demand from home trade slaughters.
and some inquiry for export. themarket
was active at fully sustained prices for
common to fair steers. with possibly
little easier feeling for good beeyes. All
sold early and the finish was steady.
SHEEP AND LANDS.
The supply was very light and sellers
enabled to advance prices from 15c to
35c per 100 n. Poor TO choice unshorn
sheep sold at s. 250ss % per 100 NJ;
$50 extra do, at 81; clipped sheep. ut
81 25@s5 75yunshorn lambs. at 500
81 20; clipped do, at IS 2i@s6 10;
euils, at s4@s4 so; spring lambs, at
S4@s7 per head
WOOL MARKET.
3 BosroS, April fs, Wool The de-
mand is moderate; Ohio, go for x;
30a31c fof Ky, and 3laS2c for XX and
above. Michigan x, ESQ; No. comb
ing dull, 3ia37c; unwashed eJa26c.
Pulled quiet, 33a3Sc.
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i looks very muchliko the IA
0g9 .ainers Of Monongbela valley
s vii % but on q strike about May
1st.
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II seems to be pretty well set
tied that NJ. j. o'Kane is to be
the next postmaster at Wheeling.
The morning call., 1893-09-01
A FAR-REACHiNG ISSUE.

As a rule Eastern papers have discussed
the silver question as if it were simply a
matter of Notwithstanding like the
imposition of 10 per cent duty on tea and
coffee. They knew that silver was sixteen
times as cumbersome as gold, and they
deducted from this fact the conclusion that
currency Of gold was preferable to a
currency of silver. 1t has been seldom
indeed that an Eastern paper has gone
in to the merits of the question. Their
talk has been about on a par with the talk
of silver-producers. who imagine that the
real question is if the mining of silver
shall be made profitable. But Brook
Adams. writer in the Boston Globe. has
looked deeper into the problem, and has
discovered what the demonetization Of
silver really means. Mr.. Adams says:
The difficulty Is selT.eyidenf. Anything
which causes the alteration of The ratio whicn
The standard Of value bears 10 0iher property
must inevitably confScate the property OF one
man for the benefit of another. But
suppOsng silver 10 go out Of circulation tie
supply OF gold would be much less than the
demand that its price would rise relatively 10
other commodities with the result OF eonfiseaI-
ing the property Of the debtor for the benefit OF
the CT ditOr; and IL is his great fact, aud not
the rapacity OF the rich silver miners, which
makes the bitterness and the danger of The
present struggle. The silver kings could BE-
handled easily enough, but it j. the Southern
and Western farmers who the progressive
shrinkage in the price OF bushel OF wheat
and OF pound of cotton who are desperate
and who Will be heard.
This is an argument that no gold advo-
cafe has attempted to answer. 1t is not
to be presumed that such men as Sherman,
Palmer, Lodge, Morrill, and Hoar do not
comprehend the inevitable effect of none
metsllsm. In fact. all these men are bi-
metallists in theory, but are opposed TO
any measure by which bimetaIlism may
be secured.
The morning call., 1893-09-01

trade are not TO be tolerated. That is
essentially just treatment Uf all the
nations and all traders by our sister re-
public, and it is to be hoped that this up
right lnternationalism will be continued
faithfully. The railroad is. IN fact. in
similar position to the SueZ canal. which
charges the ships of all countries accord
ing to uniform tariff. To lease such
railway TO one company. as was done in
the case of the Panama Railroad, would
be bad policy in the commercial interest of
the project, and would be altogether un-
seemly on the part of Government.
Until the Nicaragua canal is completed,
which it inevitably will be in spite of
present adversilies, the Tehuantepec
route is capable of affording an appre-
cia BILE relief to trade passing between the
east and west coasts of the American con-
Iinent. 1t ought TO have a most favorable
effect upon shipments between San Fran
cisco and New Orleans by saving the
greater part of the cost now demanded by
overland transportation. 1t is also con-
siderably shorter route to Europe and
New York than by Panama. The opening
of The road. with its connecting ports on
the Atlantic and Pacific. is therefore
likely 10 be welcomed except by those who
are adversely interested in transportation.
The morning call., 1893-09-01
= OPENING THEIR EYES.

Traffic Manager Leeds may well resent
the assertion that foreign capital would be
prejudiced in advance against any bonds
issued for the Stockton and Bakersfield
Railroad, the time being unfavorable.
Foreign capitalists are always ready to in
vest in sound undertaking, and for this
purpose they always have money, no mat
ter how stringent the financial market. If
the truth were known on the London mar
ket about the situation in California rela-
tive to the Southern Pacific and its meth
DDS there would be no hesitation about
indursing the bonds Of the Stockton and
Bakersfield as a road which would be re-
munerative in traffic alone. quite ire
spective of land grants or any "residuals"
of railroad management. from the very
commencement. A road constructed and
equipped fer less than $4,000 II mile
through such rich valley, rapidly increas-
ing IN population. would be looked upon
favorably, particularly when not amalga-
mated as a mere yard stick with thousands
of miles of Improbable overland routes
launched speculatively for the benefit OF
few skillful in railroad manipulation.
Such a local rosc has only its own respon-
sbilities to shoulder, and Is not borne
Win FCIktu2 upon
100000 mile. as in the case of the Cen
,ral Pacific. The foreign capitalist who
has his eyes opened 90 the fact that Call
fornia pays for most of this wastefnl rail-
roadng UB mountain of excessive CAPT.
talizatiOn is apt to conclude that railroad
built and managed honestly has all the
traffic it needs in sight to pay handsome
dividends and redeem It's bonds.
As Mr.. Leeds points out. however, no
bonds have been offered on any market.
We do not know how it may result, but
really when the preliminary subscriptions
are in there ought to be enough of ready
money in this community itself to take up
all the bonds offered for the Stockton and
Bakersfield road. 1t is a legitimate husi-
ness railway. through valley as fiat as
Holland and far more fertile. abounding in
resources and destined to fill up with
millions of population Why should there
be timidity2 1t is the one project the
Southern Pacific breads, and next TO it is
q similar independent road up the Sacra-
mento Valley.
The morning call., 1893-09-01
HE is NOW SERGEANT.
Officer John B. Martin Promoted.
Sergeant Sharp Retires.

The business done at the executive ses-
sion of the Board of Police Commissioners
on Wednesday night was made public yes
terday afternoon after another brief ses-
sion OF the board. 1t was announced that
Sergeant Abraham Sharp had been put on
the retired list with the usual pension. and
Police Officer John B. Martin had been
appointed to fill the vacancy.
Sergeant Sharp joined the force on
April l. 1870, and was promoted to the
position of sergeant on December 27, 1878.
He asked to be allowed TO retire. To rank
on the pension list an officer must have
been not less than twenty years liz contin-
uous service and must have reached 60
years of age.
The promotion of Officer Martin is a
most popular one. He is son of Sergeant
Martin, the hack inspector. and Joined the
force on October %, 1884. In October last
year he was appointed assistant clerk of
Police Court 2 and during his occupancy
of that Office made hosts of friends by his
courtesy and urbanity. He was the re-
cipieDt of many hearty congratulations.
The appointment was quite surprise to
him, az it was unasked. and the Chief said
was made entirely on merit
Police Officer Thomas b. Walsh, who
has been doing special duty on Montgom-
cry ana Pine streets, was appointed to the
position of assistant clerk in Police
Court q
The morning call., 1893-09-01
SHERMAN'S SPEECH.

Senator Sherman's speech on the bill 10
repeal the silver-purchasing clause of the
act bearing his name is perhaps the best
showing that can be made Oh that side.
By his explanation of the causes which
brought about the demonstration of sill
yer in 1873 he excul2aes himself and those
who acted under his leadership from the
charge of having been engaged in con-
spracy to increase the purchasing power
of god.- 1t rather appears that they tried
to avoid a petty inconvenience by an act
they did not comprehend the full effect Of
The extract which Mr.. Sherman read from
speech made at the time by Senator
Stewart shows that the inevitable conse-
quences Of establishing the single gold
standard were not foreseen even by those
who are now the especial advocates of Sill
YER. In one respect Mr.. Sherman's speech
is open TO criticism. He says: "It was
not until the silver became a cheaper dol
lar than the gold that any one demanded
it, and then it was TO take advantage of
creditors"
For many years previous to 1878 the cold
dollar had been cheaper than the silver
dollar. Was paying debts with the cheaper
dollar then considered as taking advantage
of the creditors? II not. how would the
payments of debts with the cheaper dollar
when silver had become cheaper than gold
be taking advantage of creditors? No one
knows better than Mr.. Sherman that the
theory of bimetailism is that the use of
the dollar that is cheaper at the time will
restore the equilibrium. The metals may
diverge from exact parity cent or two
either way. but the cheaper soon becomes
The morning call., 1893-09-01

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Andrew Lang has written Letter to
Homer" The latter should apply TO the
dead-letter Office for it.
Henry Jones, better known as "Caven-
dish." the great authority on whist, is now
in Boston, and finds no foeman worthy of
his steel.
The veteran music critic of Boston, John
5. Dwight. has been dangerously i'll in
that city, so that his death was al one time
expected; but he is gradually improving
now.
Miss Mary Carpenter. sister of the we'll
known English novelist, and herself a
missionary of great experience, is OIL her
wav to the Worlds Fair and was recently
in Philadelphia.
Among the lions of the day in Paris is
the kajah of Bobbili, who has arrived
there from Madras with a numerous suite,
comprising priest, doctor. a secretary,
pedicure, manicure and several cooks.
His lordship the hard-glovp, the three
minute-round Marquis Of Queensberry
still refuses to be comforted because his
son, Lord DrumIanrig. has been elevated
to the English peerage, while the Marquis
himself has no seat in the House of Lords.
The morning call., 1893-09-01
HYDRAULIC MINING.

1t is probable that the first application
for permission to engage in hydraulic min
ing will be followed by many others. There
are probably localities in which the tail
ings from mines can be impounded. The
first point for the commission to consider
is if the impoundiDg space is large enough
to hold the matter that the mine-owners
propose TO work into il. Second is the
dam TO restrain the tailings. These are
conditions the engineers can quickly de-
termne. There will remain the question
whether the water that will flow through
the wastegates of the dam will necessarily
carry enough matter in suspension TO fill
up the waterways. This problem is one
that cannot be worked out in advapee.
Mine-owneTs will, however, bear in mind
that the general condition upon which
hydraulic mining may be resumed is that
no material injury shall be inflicted upon
either public or private property. To the
extent to which this condition can be OBJ
served hydraulic mining is lawful. But
when 1t appears TO the commission that
material dana ge is being inflicted it will
become the duty of the commission to see
that new conditions are complied with or
the work stopped. 1t is calculated that
there are about 100000 cubic yards of
earth in the mine for which application
TO work has been made. The capacity of
the gulch into which the gravel is proposed
to be run has not been 30 carefully cal
The morning call., 1893-09-01
FRUIT AND THE CHOLERA
With Cleanliness and Ripeness AS
sured Fruit Is Not Dangerous.

Many people are grossly mistaken in
tnelr notions about fruit-eatng in its rela
tlon TO cholera" remarked my friend. the
doctor. as he helped himself to another
peach. They have an idea," he continued.
thae 1rnlt taken into the stomach
renders the system more suseept-
lble to cholera and thus invites an
attack OF the disease. Nothing could be
wider OF the mark. 1t is not against fruit
itself but against its condition that
physicians OBJECT during hot weather and
In cholera seasons. Fruit that is rine
clean and sound may be eaten safely at ali
times. while that which is nnripe, unclean
or decayed is always dangerous. no matter
whether there is cholera in the neigborhood
or not
The custom so generally observed of
cutting off the family supply of fruit
merely because cholera threatens an in
vssion of our ports is foolish and repre-
hensible in the extreme. Fruit is an i'm
portaDt article of our natural and brst
summer Diet, and TO abolish it from the
tai BILE during the hot weather. substituting
for il lot of other food products of heav-
Ter, coarser and less tempting character
is both foolish and cruel My advice is
don't give up the fruit Make sure that it
Is ripe and clean, and then you may freely
eat it without risk. The Juices of our
native fruits, instead of being debiitating
10 the stomach, are among the best tonics
for it. They are cleansing, cooling and
anti-scorbutic in their action Trey NAV
never have cured case of cholera, but
when taken after proper care in the mat
ter of cleanliness they never led to an
attack Of that or any other disease
The one great evil TO guard against in
fruit, as in everything else we eat, is un-
cleanliness. Don't buy fruit from street
corner dealers whose stock lies all day ex-
posed to the foul air of the eurbs and gut
ters, where it is handled and picked over
by every person who stops to buy an
orange or peach. Buy of yeur grocer,
even II his prices are a little higher. and
trust to his integrity and business tact to
give you fruit that is ripe, cool, clean and
fresh. Above all things. beware of the ped
dlers, who with carts and trays haunt the
side streets and rear of areas Offering fruit
which is. as rule, unsound or Of second
quality, and not unlikely 20 have passed
through MANY hands, some of them fonI
and unclean. II is through such dealers
that disease is spread, and when it hap
pens that way the senseless cry goes up
that everybody must stop eating fruit. 1t
Is much as if we should all be told 10 stop
eating meat merely because our neignbor
was served with tainted steak or a bit of
Immature veal by his butcher"
The morning call., 1893-09-01
THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
Movement TO Meet the Institutions
Financial Needs.

ANCCGSs
Mrs. Leland Stanford has, it is said, in.
augurated new policy in regard to the
manner of conducting the PaIo Alto, Vina
and Gridley ranches and other properties,
and the change involves the leasing of
many large bodies of land that have
hitherto been unproductive and the cessa-
tion of all costly experiments in the way
Of horse breeding, wine making. etc.
These properties are hereafter to oe con-
Quoted on a money-making basis for the
direct benefit of the Leland Stanford Uni
versity.
Mrs. Stanford will, with the assistance
Of Charles Lathrop, oversee the great vine
yard at Vina and the farms at that place
and Palo Alto. the profits of which, to-
gether with those arising from the leased
lands. will. it is estimated, soon produce
an income of large proportions.
Eight hundred of the horses on the Palo
Alto ranch will be disposed of, while 800
of the best animals will be retained for
breeding purposes.
There are now stored in the wine vaults
at Vina more than 100000 gallons of
brandy which has not been disposed of
and for which the market is not now in a
favorable condition.
lu addition to the amounts mentioned
Senator Stanford's beQuest Of s., 500 600 in
cash Will soon be available for the uni
versity's needs and the Institution will
open its doors in few days with what are
certainly decidedly bright prospects ahead.
Fully 800 students will be ia attendance.
with larger proportion than ever from
the East. New departments will be opened
this year in law, finance, administration
aud electrical engineering, for which large
classes will attend.
The morning call., 1893-09-01
THE TEHUANTEpEC ROUTE.

1t is good. reassuriDg news for California
that the Tehuantepec Railroad is so near
completion that it only lacks nineteen
miles of track-layng to be finished. and
that in all probability it will be open at
the beginning of 1894. The Mexican
ConsulGeneral in this city speaks con-
hdently of the work being completed with
out fail by an early date, and there is no
reason to doubt that the Mexican Govern
ment will in good fHith treat ali corners
availing themselves of its transportation
facilities with absolute impartlality. Ex-
elusive contracts with any company or un-
fair concessions to the detriment OF general