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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
1885, THIEF SUN 1870
BALTIMORE MD.
THEPAPER OF THE PEOPLE
FOR THE PEOPLE AND
WITH THE PEOPLE.
Honest in Motive.
Fearless in Expression.
SounQ IL Principle
answering in its Allegiance to
Right Theories and
Right Practices.

The Sun publishes all the news
all the time. but it does not allow
its columns to be degraded by TN
clean. immoral orpurely s ssrrsatiG
al matter.
Editorially, The Sun is the con-
sistent and unchanging champion
and defender Of popular rights and
interests against political machines
and monopolies of every character.
Indept ndent in all things, extreme
in none. 1t is for good laws, good
government and coed order. .
By mail Fifty Gents month,
Six Dollars year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
ST. O5 for Wheat.

During the low prices Of wheat a
Kimball farmer used large pat OF
his crop in fattening poultry and by
this method realized 81 .O5 per bu.
for his wheat He found it so prof
liable that he not only fattened and
sold the poultry raised on his farm
but bought fowls to feed and fat
ten, realizing a good profit on them
Wepub)ish this to illustrate the fact
that little thought on simple e
economic problems would often en-
able our fan mers to see that when
they can't make money one way
they might make it another.-Pdgt
Courier.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
The following is taken from tn,

The following is taken from the
Spirit of the Valley of the II inst
The construction engine Of the
C. & w. railroad, which arrived last
week, was run out on the railroad
on Friday for the first tine. Since
then it has been doing regular SER
vice. This locomotive took a med
al at the Worlds Fair as one Of the
exhibits of the baldwin Locomotive
Works, and while it is one Of the
llightest type That will be used on
the C. s w. yet it is fifteen tons
heavier than the passenger enq&inees
used on the Valley branch Of the
B. & 0. Rails have been lad aas far
out as across the Warm Springs
turnpike towards Dayton, or about
a mile and half from the B. 4 ..
Mr.. Ferguson's outfit for coDstruc-
ton work between Elktton and here
artiyed Monday night and consti-
tuted twelve car loads, an important
part of this cargo being 1O2 mules
This large zzhIpment of material and
ANIMALS came from Indian Territory
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

one year, and your cho CT the following sub
Stantial, ornate cloth-bt ID works:
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FORMATION-1 vol.
DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
VOL.
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MILToN's PARADISE LOST vol. For 7Contss
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pag =. containing oyer 1000 apt Quotations IRON
t9s Literature Of tbs World. d..
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Another Boom for Basic.

Those Of our citi2ens who are
fortunate or unfortunate enough
to hold stock in the now quiet city
of Basic, will no doubt feel a great
interest in what the Clifton Forge
Review has to say about the moves
being made, which, if carried out
will make for her bright future.
The Reriew says: '
Basic City once more appears to
have bright prospects ahead of it.
S. M. Wheeler, the n alager Of the
electric light plant in our town, re-
turned The first of the week from
our sister city, where he had gone
to figure for Brush Electri, Com-
pany on the CONSTRUCTION Of f. pro
posed electric road from Basic City
to Bridgewater, distance of TWEEN
tv-three miles. If constructed
and no doubt it will be the road
will cost some S250,00O, and will
run through Territory owned and
occupied by communities OF rch
Dunkard people. or German Bap-
lists, some o. the most substantial
and prosperous farmers in Virginia
From all industrial point Of view.
also, Basic City appears to have ta-
ken on fresh life. Parties from
Philadelphia have bought the Bran.
don Hotel, the machine shops and
desk factory, together with a tract
of land comprising 1000 building
lots. and propose to give the town
another boost at their expense
These capitalists will take steps to
at once improve their newly acquir-
ed properties. Other parties alSt
will this week visit Basic City tC
buy the iron furnace that was start
ed about a year ago at a cost f9l
the fundatiop alone Of $4,000
Colonel John A. Ford, Of FOrd''
Hotel Richmond, was last Saturday
trying to purchase the Brandon
Hotel; and. it was said. if he waE
unsuccessful in attaining hiscbject
in the regard named that he vii
himself build another hotel Of mag
nifcent proportions in Basic City
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Wheat on the Decline.

The wheat market has experience
ed heavy and exciting decline
within the past few days. On
Tuesday of last week the price
broke four and one half cents, in
Chicago. The drop is due to sever
al causes, one being heavier receipts
of the new crop, in Western mar
kets, than was anticipated. The
closing price in Baltimore l$st week
was 62 q &c. for spot; 66a q 66S
August and &c. for September.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Chesapeake 6 Western z. r.

Maj. Jed Hotchkiss, of Staunton,
one of the leading coal operators Of
the country. spoke Interestingly to
a Post man at the Normandie last
evening, IF ths qeW railroad the
Chesapeake and Western, which will
connect the tidewathr country of
Virginia With the inexhaustable
coal beds of West Virginia. This
road said he, lis going to be built
as fast as men and money can push
it to completion, and in my judg-
ment it will be one of the best-pay-
ing lines and most useful lines in
the South.
1t will start from Matthias Point
on the Potomac, and proceeding
west, pass through Fredericksburg,
thence to Orange or a point near
there, thence TO Elkton, on the Nor
folk and Western, and thence to
Harrisonburg on the Baltimore and
Ohio; from there 70 Bridgewater,
On The North River, through the
North Mountains westward to
Monterey, and from there to the
great coking coal fields Of the Gau-
| ly basin, with a terminus at some
point on the Ohio River.
1T will thus traverse great belt
Of unoccupied country between the
Baltimore and the Chesapeake and
OFio systems. a region as rich as
any in the United States in natural
resources, especially in timber of
every description, and the best kind
Iof .bituminous coal: There are
Strong men behind the enterprise,
and there will be no delay in build
ling. A construction outfit Of ff-
teen cars reached HarrisOnburg yes
teraay, from Kansas, and will begin
work al once between thafplAce and
Elkton. The entire length Of the
road will be something over 300
miles, and it will give a route
from the coal fields to deep water
seventy-tive miles shorter than by
any existing lines.
ut be may added that the West
,VirginiaCentral andPittsburg Rail-
road, in which Messrs. Davis, Elkins
and Kerens are interested, will be
extended to meet the Chesapeake
and Western somewhere In High
land or Pocahontas county in West
Virginia. Altogether, there is prom
Use of more railroad activity in West
Virginia than in any other State in
the Union. The new line will be a
great factor in developing the un-
riyalled resources Of that State, and
it will moreover be a first rate thing
for the city Of Washington by
reason of its connections with other
roads az no great distance from the
Capital" . Washington Post.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Examination of Teachers.


Examinations will be held as fol-
lows: For white teachers, at Nc
Dowell, on Tuesday and W ednes-
day, August 9th and 18th. For
colored teachers, at Mcdowell, on
Thursday and Friday, August 9Th
and 9th.
All persons who expect to teach
in this county and whose certif-
Gates will expire on July 3lst,
1895, will be required to take this
exaqiaatiol. Further, all teach
ers who expect to teach branches
other than those usually taught
in the public schooIs, will be re-
quired to stand an examination up
on snch branches.
b. II. HANsEI, Sart.
Schools. Highland Go.
iul19-3t.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
The ridoewater Herald say

The Bridgewater Herald says
blasting on fhe c. & W. can be dis
Sinctly heard at Bridgeyater, and
that nearly every report paraIyzes
some one of the cold water" and
"sore headed" prOdigies WIG have
all along croaked ominous predic-
tons as to its being scheme to de-
fraud the people. The HerqM ;sqag-
gests that closer application of
the dynamite would produce better
results.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Fire at Clifton Forge.

J. A. Ford, an ex-councilman, OF
Clifton Forge, was burned, beyond
recognition in his own building, in
that city, last Saturday morning
Several attempts were Rlade to reach
his room, which Was On the second
floor, but the fire had gained toe
much Roadway when discovered
The fire is attributed to gang Of
incendiaries. who have made sever
al other attempts to fire valuable
property, apd all these fires seem tc
have occurred about the same time
2 o'clock on Saturday morning.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

An exchange says q cute little
idea is for the summer girl to have
a mirror fixed inside her hat. SO
she cal take it off occasionally and
see if her hair is unused or if she
is looking all right, but this has
one disadvantage, for she would
have to carry a pocket mirror to
aid in replacing her hat.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
The annual general distribution

The annual general distribution
of seeds Of common varieties, by the
Agricultural Department, will not
take place ills year. It seems that
the law provides for the digtribp-
ton of Fare seeds for scientific pur-
poses .s and only these will be fur
lnished in the future, thus avoiding
an expensive and Improbable prac-
'tice which has been engaged i'll for
many Years.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
PIANOS AND ORGANS

A first Glass, High Top. Solid
Black Walnut Organ with German
Plate Glass Mirror for S35. War
ranted for six years. Putnam 5
Music Store, Stanton, Va. Sole
agent for the Chicketihg 4 Son 5
Pianos. Write for catalogues and
prices.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

Steps have been taken to cons
struct an electric railway from Bas-
ic City 10 Bridgewater, The cOua-
ellis Of each of these towns have the
matter under consideration. Bridge
water is coming to the 'front.' in a
hurry. = '-. p"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

The c. & 0. passenger earnings
for June were eighty per cent. over
the earnings during the Worlds
Fair Year, and forty per cent. great
err than in 1892.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

Secretary Lamont has returned
from his long western trip. He
speaks in the highest tsrps. Of The
reception he met with, and Is spec
tally enthusiastic in his praise Of
the western people and their whole
souled' hospitality. He is glad he
went and wants to go again.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

On the 18th inst the Baltimore
and Ohio Company made a success
full test Of its new electric lOcomo-
tive, in Baltimore. 1t made Is
miles Pee hour with full freight
:. - = r ~: li.t., e.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

TIE citizens Of DAYTON are max
ing preparations for Il big jubilee
TO paDo rr4yo LEN the c. Z W is
completed to that place.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

The reassessment Of real estate in
Rocki64gham county, when z com
pareA With the figures for the year
1884. Slows in three districts,
With a moderate decrease in the
fourth and a decided fall i'll the
9Th e.. '''
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
HOW THE COMBINATION WORKS;

Won rkv CNE TsDI.TAr when tine hooks
IRE as, ,ye.s,d Z Aor~ r.T+' ,ne balance at
rate of FIFTY GEMS pea f!.oI0.- IAc GVOhS
are well worth the money. 3d..
ONCE A WEEK Is the brightest, pleasant.
rst and most ,w1 ~ ci-c''.tel - nil the Ameri.
can Illustrated -
Een1 name 7t- r.t fa ;. NO ssa'
you are sJ> .>.
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

See how tha bicycle Is protected.
An ordinance vas recently passed
in ChicoRef, Mass, imposes fine
Of from 50 to $50 on any person
throwing in any street, lane or al
ley, ashes. glass. or ckery, scrapiron
tacks, nails or any other articles Il
able to cause injury to the tires Of
bicycles.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

Entered at the Monterey postotFce as
= second class matter.
Monterey, Va, FliCtY, July 1899
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

better than cure. TUFTS Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
taken in time will prevent
Sick Headache,
dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria,
constipation, jaundice, torpid
liver and kindred diseases.
TUFTS Liver PILLS
ABSOLUTELY CURE.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

Issued every Friday evening by
w Fl MI "a THEM z,
E-1ro~ AND rZzz.S-.EE.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
The helps to the
study ofthe bible

comprising all the additional mat
ter that is contained in the
Oxford Bible for Teachers have
been CAREFULLY revised from time to
time by Eminent Biblical Scholars
A Biblical Atlas of twelve full
PACED maps in colors, (size 8 vo., y
Summary e the Several Books
with coplous explanatory Notes;
Tables Illustrative of Scriptural
History; The Characteristic of
Bible Lands. A Complete Index
Of Subjects, Concordance. Pro
nouncing Dictionary. History Of
the Interval between the Ola and
the New Testaments. in short, it
contains every thing Helpful in
studying the Scriptures. p"
All stgIa3 of landings and prices
Clifton Matheny, Agt.
Monterey, Virginia.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
Gold, or Silver, or Paper

We have 90 COMBINA ZION, u
follows; ~.~--
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19

Forest FIRES are raging in NORTH
err Miahi&an Two towns hag
ss g;th opnsI'er3s.s
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
DO YOU WANT
a cOpy of the
NEW HOLMAN
Self.PrOnOunCing Bible?

This bible comprises, in addition
to the original contents, an invalu-
able feature Of nearly one hundred
pages, entitled .Ns5- Four Thousand
Questions and Answers FS9a on the
'Old and New Testaments, designed
to open up the scriptures for the
use Of Bible students and Sunday
school teaGhers.
This bible is acknogledged by
leading divines, bile SCHOLARS and
prominent Sunday school, workers
to be tho best teachers bihle eyer
,i,t1ichcd
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-07-19
.IGHLAND RECORDER.

Terms, $3.50 a Year in Advance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

sault Minnie Williams is absurd. There
are plenty of girls in San Francisco for me
to call on without having to go to Ala
media 1t is nonsense to even think /
would be so greatly attracted by thin,
sickly little girl like Minnie Williams. l
have always thought she was good, kind
little girl, but she never attracted me in
the way alleged in the least.
81 realize that the circumstances look
bad at present for me, but feel confident
that will be able to establish my inno-
cence. 1t is a case of mistaken identity
on the part of three young ladies who
think they saw me board a Powell-street
car with Blanche Lamont the day she dis
appeared. will be able TO explain away
at the proper time the other pieces of cir
cumstantial evidence which lead people to
unjustly accuse me.
mo, L have not the slightest idea who
could have killed the two girls. l cannot
believe that any one of my acquaintance
could have committed the awful deeds. l
have no reason to believe that conspiracy
exists to prove me guilty in order to pro-
tect some other person. l am surprised
at some of the reported actions taken by
DR.. Gibson, George King, Clarence Wolfe
and DR.. Vogel, but | am sure that none OF
them could have been connected in any
way with the horrible crimes. We were
all young men together in the church and
would be sorry to hear anything against
them -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
AGAIN CONTRADICTS.
Durrant Was Absent From His
Glass on That Fatal
Wednesday.

One by one the links in the chain of evil
dence that is being wound slowly and
surely around Theodore Durrant comes in
place and the young medical student is
either the demon of lust and blood or the
victim of circumstances that are crushing
him in their deadly folds. In all his state
ments regarding his movements on April
3, the opening day of the double tragedy,
he insists that he attended his class
lecture at Cooper's Medical College in the
afternoon. Miss Minnie Edwards, Miss
Alice Pleasant and Miss M. Lanigan told
Chief Crowley that they identified Durrant
as the young man they saw with Blanche
Lamont on the car at the corner of Clay
and Powell streets at clock that day.
Durrant denied their statement in the
following words:
My connections with Blanche Lamont have
been grossly misrepresented. 1t is true that
met her on Friday, April g. early in the morn
ing. We went from the Mission to our re-
spective schools. We went on Mission-street
car, transferred to the Polk-street line at Ninth
and Polk streets we again transferred this time
to the Sutter-street line.
Miss Blanche asked me to go with her and as
could go by way of the Sutter-street cars near
to the Cooper Medical College, accompanied
her.
From the senior class attendance book of
the medical college kept by G. A. Hall,
one of the students, it is learned that Dur
rant did not appear at the lectures that
day and he is marked absent. He did not
show up at the college until April 10. Med
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
A VAIN SEARCH.
No BIoodStainS Found on Any
of Durrant'S Cloth
ing.

The weakest point in the theory that
Durrant killed the two girls whose bodies
were found in Emmanuel Church is that a
most thorough search fails to reveal on his
clothing single spot of blood. The de-
tectives have examined all his garments
bit by bit and inch by inch. They occu-
pied three days in the search, but have
found not the least discoloration.
Mrs. Durrant, the mother of the accused,
sends her washing to a Chinaman every
two weeks. 1t was returned on Monday of
last week, so that since the disappearance
of Blanche Lamont not garment has
been sent from the Durrant home on Fair
Oaks street. The regular two weeks
washing should have gone to the laundry
yesterday, but it was not ready and it will
be sent to-day. 1t includes fifteen collars.
five or six shirts and two or three suits of
underclothes belonging to her son Theo-
dore. The detectives hunted all through
the big wash but without result.
Young Durrant has only one pair of
shoes-those he is now wearing. He buys
his shoes pair at a time and wears them
until they are worn out. His mother gave
away all his old footwear over month
ago
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
that the assassin had to break his way into

that the assassin had to break his way into
the room.
"Theo did not meet the girl at the ferry,
for he and member of the Signal Corps
rode up from the ferry together, leaving
the foot OF Market street at five minutes to
A o'clock They went to the armory to-
gether and. were there at 4:30' O'Clock.
Theo was home to dinner and left about 8
o'clock. He saw DR.. Perkins at his home
and then started to go to the armory. He
changed his mind when near Fourteenth
street and started for the party. When
he got there he shook hands with
some of the ladies before he washed.
His hair was rumpled, but every
man who wears his hair long in
the present style knows how easy it gets
mussed. There was nothing strange about
his washing at DR.. VogePs, for the young
men when they come here to spend the
evening almost always want to rinse their
hands and brush their clothes.
.'They talk great deal about men who
saw him Friday night with Miss Williams
but the papers did not publish the fact
that two of the men did not identify Theo
when they went to the City Prison to do
recognize him, for he was not there. They
saw short, slender man, who wore long
overcoat and SLOUGH hat. There must be
10000 man in this city who would answer
that description.
Another thing. What motive could
Theo have had for doing such thing2
Absolutely none. He has lived in San
Francisco fifteen years, and no one ever
could say thing against him. He has
hundreds of friends here, too, and all the
young ladies of the church respect ard be-
lieve in him.
81 believe all these things which look so
bad against my boy are the result of a con-
spiracy Either some enemy of mine wants
to injure my son, or the guilty man is
shielding himself by throwing suspicion on
Theo
''There are some questions in the case
which have never been satisfactorily an
swered. Why did Mr.. Gibson want to
hush the matter up at first, and why did
he refuse to let the police have the keys to
the church, Why did Mr.. Gibson refuse
himself to the reporters on Saturday? Did
not Minnie Williams say something once
about man about 40 years old? Towhom
did that gray hair belong which was found
yesterday in the clotted blood on the floor
of the book closet? Theodore has not
gray hair in his head,
''They talk about scratches on Theo's
face. They were not there when he kissed
me good-by at 6 80 o'clock Saturday morn
ing, that can swear. He had, however,
little pimple on one side of his chin. They
found horsehair to-day on the waist of
Miss Williams. Who that attended that
party had been riding horse?
81 only ask, however, that my son be
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

given fair chance for his life and not
condemned beforehand by the public. The
detectives are not working on any other
clews, but are bending all their energies
against Theo. When they arrested him
they kept him for an hour in the City
Prison before they would admit his attor-
ney. They took him before those girls
yesterday alone hoping he would say
something. To-day they took him to the
Morgue without any right at all. They
have got to have a victim for those crimes,
but instead of following up every possible
clew they are working against my boy and
against him alone.
"MRs. w. a. DURRANT.'