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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

After a brief illness, Miss Mary Harlan
died Friday morning at the residence of her
sister Mrs VI. II S,ribling, in Martiusburg.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

A little daughter of Mr.. Louis Wilt was
slapped over on the street in the vicinity of
his residence one night this week by some
negro girls, because she would not get out
of their way. The police are searching for
the offenders, and when they are found the
corporation treasury will receive donation
OF the lookup will have some occupants
AdrocGts.
II is not an uncommon thing for them to
parade four abreast, and compel US, if they
could. to step aside for them. The negro
boys behave better.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

The farm Of Col. Francis Yates, adver-
,.'ed in THE FREE Press by Messrs. Iray-
ers and others. Special Commissioners, was
sold yesterday, Mr.. John Burns, purchas-
er,-40l acres at Si0.5O per acre Total
SIf.2405O
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Don't waste sine, money, and health,
irving every new medicine you see adyer-
tised in the papers If the cause Of your
trouble Is in the blood, liver, stomach, or
kidneys. take Ayers Sarsaparilla at once,
and be sure Of cure. Take 40 other.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Moses Smith, colored, Of Harper's Ferry,
was killed by the Winchester accOmmoda-
zion train a, SANDY Hook on Saturday night.
He was walking on the track and Is sup
posed D Lav. leen Intoxicated
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

The ground bog as a weather prophet is a
preyaricator If any Of the boys get a sight
Of him they viii stone the false prophet.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Great reduction at NJ Palmbaum & Bro. 5
in blankets, 6ne comforts, shawls, NUTS,
wool underwear, etc.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Next Wednesday will be Washington's
birthday anaiyersary-l6o years since the
illustrious man was born.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Lippitt Renuer, Ed. Allen and Howard
Fidinger have enlisted in a L. 5. artillery
company.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Elsewhere in this paper will be found
letter from Mrs. A. G. Wyukoop, Of this
town, which explains itself It would be
work Of supererogation on our part 20 do
more than call attention 10 the letter and
90 express the hope that our people will re-
spoud handsomely to the cali
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Master Washington Hoof, Of this place,
has a brass handle taken from a coffin which
a, one time contained the remains Of Gen.
Geo. Wsshington-they having been trans
ierred from that to another casket. He has
also two picture frames made from the wood
Of WashingtOn's carriage wheels.-Spirit.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

A postofice has been established at Myers
town, with Mr.. Benjamin Langdon as post
master.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Mr.. Al. Robbins, Of Berkeley county,
killed a hog that weighed Cos pounds.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15
Church Notes

The Fourth Quarterly Meeting for JEFF
cerson Circuit, NJ F. Church, South, will
be held March aud 5; for Charles Town
Station March and s.
Lenten services in Zion Church Mon
days and Fridays, 5;15 p. IN; Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays, 1870 a. m; We'd
nesdays II a. ~ Holy Week-Monday
sis p. m. Tuesday, 1870 a. m; Wednesday
II a. M; Thursday Holy COmmunion)
7.SO p. m: Good Friday IL a. m. and 4;3C
p. m; Saturday Baptism 4:3Op m. There
will be an Offering at each week day service
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

For the current year there will be no aeas
90 those who ate pancakes yesterday.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

The wife Of Capt Briggs, Of Bolivar
died on Sunday last.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Brown & HooF have on hand the new
revised Prayer Books.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Mr. Isaac H. Strider has set out a peach
orchard Of several thousand trees.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Muslins and cambrics, from the cheapest
20 the best, at W. Palmbaum & Bros.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

A large assortment of fine toilet soap at
Aisquith & Co.'S.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15
Good living

doesn't come from rictts. n eOmrs 6rsf,
and brings riches. While the poor
man walks, he will stay poor. His
prosperity begins when he rides,
and eats a good dinner, and carries
good watch. A poor" watch is
the very badge of poverty, worse
than none; but either condition is
too expensive for poor man: he
can't afford to lose the time Of day.
Keeping that under his thumb, he
may yet be wealthy. Then comes
true economy: diamonds for his
wife; a man to guard them. But
still, for his own pocket, the same
trusty watch that "made" him: the
quick-winding Waterbury.
All stybcs al aV jewelers.. S4tosrs a
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

For torchon laces and fine embroideries
see Palmbaums
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Palmbaums' is headquarters for table
linen. towels and bed spreads. Prices are
%. H.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15
The
Merchants & Farmers Bank
MARTINSBURG, W. VA.

This Bank has the handsomest FIRE and bur
glar-proof vault in the Valley. Officers bond
ed for $50. 900 in Guarantee Company
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

Haeerstogn Flour, in sacks and barrels, for
sale by REED, LONG MANNlND.
Carload of Bran and Shorts just received and
for sale bv REED, LONG & MANNING.
Fodder Irvine for sale by
REED. LONG & MANNING.
Hard and Soft Coal Of all kinds for sale by
REED, LONG & MANNING.
Oats.-Will have car Of Prime White Oats
from the west in a few days.
REED, LONG & MANNING.
Clover Seed for sale by
REED, LONG & MANNING.
Oct. 10, 1892.
A barrel of Sweet Cider on tap at
Nov. q. 1892. W. MERCHANTS.
Dates. Figs, Nuts, etc, at
Nov. q. 1852. VS. MERCHANTS.
Mince Meat-superior miIture-just ready
for pies, at ,,r,,,, ,-.-,,
Raisins. Currants, Citron, Spices Of every
description-all the essentials for mince pie
or pot pie, to be had at
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15

DIREcroRs-J. w Bishop, Hon. J. H. Get
finger, Dr. n. d. Baker, John Kennedy Dr.
S. n. Myers w. X: Kilmer, John E. Boyd 4.
L. Hoffman.
November 2 1s92-4m.
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Capital $4,000.

Interest paid on time deposits at the rate Of
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. d. c., JUNE 10, 1893.
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SO successful that we have decided 20 repeat
the plan upon larger scale for the benefit
of intending visitors to the Worlds Fair at
Chicago.
Last year hundreds of our readers got
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Our plan worked very successfully-every-
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were able 10 visit Washington who wanted
to do so very much, but felt that they could
not incur the exp nse, and We gave them an
opportunity which they gladly improved
There WAS nowhere a single expression of
dissai isiaciion.
We will do the same thing this year
with regard to those who wish to visit the
Worlds Fair. We piH gipe a first class
rOgRd trip ticket from any point ia the United
States TO Chicago and return for club of
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The btst kind of ticket, which will be a
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The carrying out of this scheme involves
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rs this will help us in making up our
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and acquaintance in the work of soliciting
subscribers.
Remember, all names sent to
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
A STRING OF ERRORS

The Brooklyn Eagle gives us fair idea
of how many misstatements and peryersions
of truth soldier-hating paper can condense
into few lines when discussing pensions.
Ia a recent editorial it said:
Nation so exempt from the dangers OF war as
to justify il in not keeping r standing army is
dag paying for the support Of a disbanded
army than it costs the two ost powerful military
countries of Europe TO support their immense
standing armies. country which has had but
great war is paying TO pensioners than all
the other nations of the world combined. England
pays less than SIS oo0OOo France about $50 600 0oO
Germany about SI3O0O0O0. Austria about ST. 0o0-
co. Russia about SIS 600 OO0 the United States S65
OOO00 The total number of eniistmenis in the
Union army during the was 277s.3O4. or
these 10000 came into service about the close of
the war, and few of them ever any active
service. Many others enlisted for brief peri
DDS and enlisted two three times Mai Fox,
ia his book entitled "Regimenal Losses in the
Civil War;" estimates the number of men in the
Union army al about 100000. The number of
pensioners now on the rolls is over 800 900. IS
per cent. OF the number who served.
The total number Of enlisments during the war
of lel2 was 527.05L Pensions were granted TO CO. :
60 or IL I-1O per cent. OF the entire number.
The total number OF cnlistments In the war with
Mexico was 1890. Up to 1887 the number of pen
sons granted was Ii 3Os or about 1871 per cent of
the total.
The total number OF enl stments In the Revolu-
tionary war was 27sG2i. The number who rece we'd
pensions O59 % $40 per cent of the entire
number OF eniistmens. This Is less than one half
the percentage granted to men who served in the
late
In the first place the pensioners now on
our roll represent more hard fighting than
all the ARMIES of Europe have done since the
close of the Napoleonic wars. This is a fact
that the Eagle is very careful not to mention.
| In the next, while the amount that the
several countries pay for pensions is errc.
neously stated, this is not the greatest
error. In every one of those countries
other provisions are made which greatly
exc out the pensions proper. In Ger.
many employment is given to disabled
soldiers and their widows on the railroads
and in other Government institutions.
| Every watcher at railroad crossing is either
disabled soldier or a soldiers widow. In
France the same thing is done, and in add.
ton thsg are given licenses for selling Gov.
ernment monopoiies. Thousands of little
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
MUSTERED OUT.

Veterans of the Country's Grandest Army
Who Have Answered the Last Call.
[Senders of obituaries will please adhere strictly
to the form in which the notices below are worded
Notices must be brief and be sent Immediately after
the event to which they relate.
HanBURGER.-At Bridgeport, Conn. June 8. of
disease contracted while IN the service, John Ham,
burger, Co. H. 9th Conn, aged 90. Comrade Ham
Der, 1861 and was honorably discharged Sept. g.
1864 on account of wounds received month pre-
vious at the battle of Deep Bottom, Va. He leaves
three sons and one daughter
VoGLE.-At Star Lime Work. KY, May g. of
heart failure Louis A. Voge, Co. i. 23d Ind. Com
rsde Vogle served three years and took part in the
battles of Shiloh and Nicksburg. He leaves q
widow and six children.
BARTLETr-At Salina, Kan, of heart disease,
Capt. w. w. Bartlett Co. e, Tooth H., aged r.
Comrade Bartlett was born in New Hampshire but
moved westward. first to New York, then TO Hi
nois and Iowa, and finally to Kansas. He was
member of the GAR, and the funeral services
were conducted under the auspices of John 4, Lo-
gan Post, at Salins, Kan.
PHNNEY-At Westbrook, Me-. May g. of in
juries received while in the service, Frank Phin-
ney, Co. X, 25,h Me. He n member of Cloud
man Post, 400. which attended his funeral in a
body. He leaves a widow.
WoLCoTr..At Camden, n. Y, May Is John T.
Woleott. Co. g. 50th N. Y. Eug., aged Y. Comrade
Woleott enlisted in August. 1862 and served until
the close of the war. He was buried by the Ma,
Parson Stone Post, 49,. He leaves a widow and
one
BARSES.-At Camden, N n, May ~, OF eonsump-
tion Marshall Barnes, Co. K, sd n. Y, aged 81.
Comrade Barnes was a member of Parson Stone
Post, 1872. He leaves "a widow and four children.
HoGEs.-At Mariinsville. No. May Ii. of heart
failure, T. N. Hoges, Co. K. 1st Mo- Cav, aged "a.
ComTade Hoges was n member of Thomas Herndy
Post, 2i4. He was buried by HerRdy Post, g. A R.,
many of whose members were OF his old company.
EDDEY.-At Erie H.. recently Noble +. Eddey.
Co. B. 18th ILL.,, also Co. of the same regiment.
Comrade Eddey attended The Reunion of his regi-
ment at Dixon May "a, but his return home
ne bad a stroke of pnraIrs,-. from which he died
The funeral was conducted by Sam Circuit Post. q
Erie
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
THE HARD TIMES.

1t begins to look very certain that the
worst of the money stringency is past, and
that from this time forward matters will
improve. The so-called "pancs" are merely
periodical settling days all over the world,
when business men take halt, and care
fully scan their investments, testing the
soundness and profit of each enterprise.
This process of settlement and reimbursement
has been going on for three years now. ever
since the failure of the Barring Brothers. 1t
began to be felt in full force in this country
and Australia last year, and the failures of
this year were the direct results of
il. The success with which the Chicago
savings-banks met the run upon them last
week shows conclusively that the tide has
turned. People now begin to feel that
everything is not going to the bow-wows :;
that there are plenty of safe, solid institu-
tons in the country, and that it is not at all
necessary or even wise for everybody to grab
all they can and scurry under cover until
the storm is over. There are none of the
conditions in this country to aggrayate the
trouble that there were in 1857. Then
millions of dollars had been invested in I'M
profitable railroads, and in projected roads
that were not completed for many years after.
There has been comparatively little railroad
building for the last few years, and that
only of the most necessary. In 1857 the
country-and especially the Western por-
tion-was flooded with paper money issued
by banks of little or no responsibility, and
no man knew from one hour to another W hat
the money in his pocket was worth. To-day
every dollar that q man has or receives is as
good as gold. There may be a few more
failures but they will be fainter echoes of
the main crashes which have already come,
and before the usual Midsummer dullness is
well past we shall see business springing up
to activity in fullest tide.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
Total. SO .O6s


By this it will be seen that the total num-
Der of men pensioned on account Of services
in the army during the war of the rebellion
is 6T3, ASP, or less than one-third the total
number who served in the army during the
war. Even this is too high, as there are in
cluded under the General Law heading
many who were disabled in Indian wars
and other service in the Regular Army.
Lastly, the 100000 who came into the
service toward.. the close of the war" were
largely made up-in some regiments almost
wholly-of men who had previously served
in other regiments from three months to
three years. Tens of thousands of veterans
who had served three years, enlisted in these
new regiments after spending few weeks
at home.
These are few of the facts which either
the Eagle does not know, or does not choose
TO tell
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
MORE ABOUT CHARLOTTESVILLE.

We have received another series Of arti-
cles By COmrade a. c. Hamlip on the much
controTerted field of Charlottesville, and
viii shortly begin their publication. What
ever objection may be raised by some COM
rades 10 portions Of Maj. Hamlin's conclu-
sions, all must admit that he is one of the
most faithful and conscientious students OF
war history in the whole country. He
spares no pails TO get at his facts, and states
them fairly, honestly, and with the greatest
courage. All our readers are greatly inter
ested in what he has to say upon any SUBJ
ject.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
AN OUT-AND-OUT LIE.
The Utica Observer says:


Secretary Bussey held that deserlers were enti-
lied TO pensions and by his ruling reversed the de-
cision made by Commissioner Black Sept. 4. ISIS.
During the war the penalty Of the deserter
death. But under the disgraceful administration
OF the Pension Bureau by the Republican party
the deserters pensioned with the same gen.
crosby the worthy soldiers. 1t is wonder
that the veterans composing FArnhnm Post
voied and protested against the degradation that
the Republican party was forcing on the soldiers OF
the war.
This is deliberate mistatement of the
truth. Neither Secretary Bussey nor any
one else in charge Of the Pension Bureau
ever ruled that a deserter could get a pension
under any circumstances. man who
stands on the rolls of the War Department
as deserter is barred from having his claim
even considered By the Pension Bureau. We
have said this thousand times, until we
have tired repeating it. The Observer shows
amazing impudence in reiterating the lie.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-06-15
THE FoRD,s THEATER DISASTER.

The spot of sorrowful interest TO every
American heart as the scene of the assassi-
nation of Abraham Lincoln has received
new conservation of sorrow in the murder
of some 90 clerks, many of whom were vet
Grams. We say" murder advisedly. Brick
buildings which have stood for years do not
fall without cause The laws governing
the stability of brick and mortar erections
are well known. What will make them
stand, secure and safe, is matter of every
day knowledge, and it is silly to pirate of
mournful accident" "inexplicable dis
aster," Providential dispensation," and
such stuff, when they fall and kill
people. There is no more accident" about
it than when a man shoots a gun into a
crowd and kills someone. The killing and
manning were due to direct relation be-
tween cause and effect. 1t was one Of the
most shameful things that ever disgraced
this country. Somebody was as directly re-
sponsible for the death of those killed as if
he had set trap for them. An investiga-
tion is now going on as to this responsible
| ify. We hope that it will be fearless and
| thorough. When found the guilty man
should be punished to the last limit of the
| law.
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THE Senate Committee on Immigration
has found one cause of the scarcity of gold.
The italian immigrants send home $2O,-
100000 year of it. As our tourists spend
$70,000,000 more year visiting the italian
ruins, the Roman art galleries and the
Neapolitan spaghetti factories, it would
seem that in time we ought to give the little
kingdom pretty good triple-plating of
gold.