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Congressman Cogswell of Massachusetts,
S;ad ia Washington this morning.

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died ia Washington this morning.
The purifying effects of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla are sure and speedy. Take it this month";
Andrew Vance, aged so years. a promi-
nent contractor at Wheeling, hung himself
Monday.
The St. Clair Hotel at Martinsburg was
sold Saturday to the Citizens National Bank
for $4,000.
John Charlton, while fishing in the Poto-
mac at Williamsport, caught a carp that
weighed 40 pounds.
TODAY the new cigarette law goes into
effect. A $500 license is required Of those
who would sell cigarettes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
awarded contracts, it is said, for sixteen new
bridges on its system in West Virginia. All
the bridges will be of steel, and one will cost
100000.
1t is proposed to transmit the mails from
New York City to Brooklyn and vice versa
through tubes eight inches square or dame
ter-thereby saving twenty-five out of thir-
ty minutes.
Postmaster General Wilson states that the
sale of stamps for the last quarter amounted
to ST., 4O5. 67l, which was the largest in the
history of the government. This indicates
- - e I,~:,os,
Solicitor General Conrad has gone to
Pittsburg as counsel in the case of the con-
tractors for the new hotel in Winchester
against the estate Of the late Mr.. Handley,
who made such large requests to that town.
st. Adams, Vermont, was almost destroy
ed by fire Sunday afternoon. Many bust
ness houses, including the u. S. government
building, and many dwelling houses, con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at more than
a half million dollars.
The proprietors Of the American Iron
Works have granted their employees a 10 per
cent. increase in wages. The firm employs
about 1000 men and is the greatest rival of
the Carnage Steel Company in the manu-
fcture of structural iron.
BY the explosion of powder and coal dust
in No. 4pit of the MonOngah Coal Company,
at Monongah, near Fairmont, w. Va, yes
terday, four miners were killed, twelve were
wounded and the lives of two hundred mi
ners were for q time imperiled.
The store of w. f. Brohard & Co., OF
Pennington, y miles west of Grafton, on the
B. & 0. railroad, was entered by burglars
before daylight Saturday morning, and the
safe blown open. The burglars secured
nearly 81 1000 in cash and escaped.
The Atlanta Journal says; Judge Crisp
has declared in favor of larger use of sill
yer, but not for unlimited silver coinage
Judge Crisp, as we understand him, is not a
silver monometallist. He does not want any
silver dollars except such as are good as
gold.
The Endowment Rank of the Knights of
Pythias is a little more than seventeen
years old. In that short period it has
paid to the families of brother knights
the enormous sum Of 50, 200, 900, the annual
payments having now reached a million a
year.
Mr.. Frank Mcdaniel, son of Rev. H. @.
Mcdaniel, of Shepherdstowu, was ordained
as a minister of the NJ. f. Church, at Tot
t%enville, n. Y, on April 9TH by Bishop
Hurst, aud was ~reappointed associate super
intendent of the Church Extension Society
Of Newark, n. J.
It is q fortunate day for a man when he
first discovers the value of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla as a blood purifier. With this medi-
icine he knows he has found H remedy upon
which he may rely, and that his lifelong
malady is at last conquered. Has cured
others, will cure you.
An old gentleman named Socks living in
the vicinity of Kearneysville, we are inform
ed has recently inherited 100000 from an
old rich uncle ia Iowa. A brother who sold
fruit trees through here and Jefferson coun-
ty a year or so ago received the same legacy.
-llgrtinsJurg &atesmaa.
At q recent meeting in New Orleans Of
Veteran Confederate States Camp, Cavalry
No. Q. steps were taken toward the erection
of a monument to the Louisiana soldiers
buried in Stouewall Cemetery, Winchester.
1t was decided that q monument costing
$500 or 5000 should be erected.
4 resident of Leesburg, says that Presi-
dent Cleveland, while fishing at Big Spring,
near that town, recently after catching a
number of trout, said to one Of the two gen.
men of that town who were in his party, and
of whose rank free silver ideas lie had pre-
%viously been informed "Well, Mr.. Worsley,
you see that | know how to catch fish, if
don't know anything about currency" Mr..
Worsley denies this story.
On Sunday The miners held two meetings
in West Virginia. az simmons, and near
P~ocahoutss in the evening. The meetings
are not so well attended, and the colored ell
ement prevails. Lawlcss, Webb aud Adams,
the last two colored, spoke. The course oil