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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
Railroad Talk.

We have looked over our Harri-
sonhurg exchanges and have Gull
ed there from all the railroad talk
W. could get and here it is:
Spirit OF the Valley:
The Chesapeake & Western rail-
road is being pushed east and west
of Harrisonburg with all possible
haste, and there are nearly LOU
men employed in the enterprise, to
say nothing Of the horses aud
mules. Five hundred hands-a
thousand hands, but five hundred
men are working west of here
grading the road, laying the track,
cutting, hauling and saving the
ties. Nearly this number have
found occupation on the G. &. W
east Of this place. The times have
50 improved by reason of this IN
crease of labor in our midst that
the cry eff "hard times is thing
Of the past. The circulation OF
money through the ordinary chan
nels Of business on account OF this
work is unprecedented. The moss
hacks have shaken off their I'M
slightly growth and have joined in
with those who delight in being
called railroad enthusiasts. The
doubling Thomases were as pro-
portionately numerous at the cele-
bration at Dayton last week as
we're any other class. Another
free excursion will be given by
Col. Machen about the 1st of Sep.
tember, and this time the celebra
ton will be held at Bridgew alter
and near the middle Of that month
Keezletown will have her turn
Col. Machen considers the minera
resources of Rockingham varied
and The metals of no inferior quail
ity. Some time since he sent :
piece Of photographic stone which
had been quarried in this county
to printing firm in New York
and he has recently received a lith-
ographed letter-head that had been
printed from the stone. He show.
ed us a piece Of granite which had
been blasted on Layman's farm
east of town by the railroad. Ev'
eryone in the county is familial
with the fact that onyx can b.
ouarried easily near Bridgewater
but how extensive are these depos
| it's is vet unknown. The colone
saws that it seems as if it were
special act Of Providence that tn
Massanutten mountain ends wher
it does, and that its termination
there was made to permit som
great trunk line to pass it an
Strike the gaps of the Blue Ridg
and the North mountain in a d
rect line. THIS road will tap tn
coal fields IF Pocahontas count
and the Gauley Valley Of West Vii
glnia, and whether it will connet
With the West Virginia Central i
thai section is matter OF conlec'
:. ure with outsiders, ---~---,-s- -.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
Teachers Meeting.

The Teachers Meeting at Mellow
ell was called in SESSION at p. M.
last Monday (5th) by B Fl. Hansel,
Co. Supt., with a limited number
of teachers in attendance.
After the opening exercises o. a.
Bird was called to the chair and
several interesting speeches were
made by some of the teachers, to
whom subjects for the occasion had
been previously assigned. Some of
the subjects used were Penmanship
by Chas. McNulty, Drawing by Miss
Elva Jones. These subjects were
open for discussion and several re-
files were made by different teach
ers.
Several resolutions were made,
and were adopted.
One was to make application for
a column space in the HIGHLAND
RECORDER for the communication
of teachers. Late m iittee was
appointed for that purpose.
After other important matters
were freely talked over, the meet
ing adjourned till the evening SEES
sion, which was to meet at 8 p. M.
After the opening services, which
consisted Of excellent vocal and i'll
strumental music. the audience,
which was large, was led in prayer
by Rev. Totten, after which the
latter gave a very eloquent lecture
on Education as a moral force.
During brief intsrmission sew
g al musical quartettes were render
ed by some of the young ladies and
gentlemen.
Shortly after several Of the
young gentlemen engaged in de-
batting the important question, Co
| Education in which Chas. Dalton
and Geol ge Rodgers took the affir
native, VIM. Wilson and Chas. Nc
| Nulty The negative. After warm
discussion Of two hours or more, in
which the young gentlemen made
quite an oritorical display. the ques-
tion was handed over to the Judges
for a decision, which was given in
favor of the affirmative.
The second days work opened
up promptly at 81 a. m. and was
devoted exclusively to The examina-
ton of teachers. Three branches
were gone through with during the
day. In the evening the young
people of Mcdowell and vicinity
held a lawn party near the church
at which ice cream and other deli
cacies were served and, though we
were not present, we were inform
ed was quite a success, some $50 be-
ing realized, hut we failed to learn
as to what purpose the donation
will be applied.
The third days work completed
the examination, 30 teachers hav-
Ing made application for certificate:
Of which niimber we hope none will
be disappointed. In the evening
several resolutions were passed and
adopted. 0. A. Bird was reelected
as Chairman, Chas McNulty elect.
ed Secretary and W. P. Campbell
Treasurer of the Teachers Meetings
The next meeting for teachers
will be held al Monterey November
Is and 26, and we trust there will
be full turn out of teachers al
this meeting. Teachers look tC
your Interest. w. S.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
A RAIROAD nEETINd.

A railroad meeting will be held
at the courthouse next rt-day,
at which time important business
in which every citizen OF the coun-
tv will be interested, will be trans,
acted. You presence is needed S and
it is your duty to attend. Vol;
Machen will be invited to attend
this meeting. Remember High
lands future depends on the ac-
tions of her citizens at this meet
ing. BY order of
MANY CITIZENS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
A Railroad Meeting.

Highland can do nothing toward
securing the c. & W. until there is
some plan of..action laid down to
work by, and the only way to do
this is to call 3 meeting Of the cit
liens of the county and invite Col.
Machen to be present. Then we
can ascertain what is expected OF
the county by the railroad people.
We will then know what is to be
accomplished and can set about il
in a business way.
Let some of our leading citizens
call this meeting at once and invite
Col. Machen to attend it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
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 $
Music Store, Stanton, Va. Sole
agent for the Chickering 4 Son.
Pianos. Write for catalogues and
prices.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Bridgewater Herald; The grad
ing ON tie g, &. W. railroad is com
pleted to Bridgewater With Ehe ex-
cepti on that the large cut on the
Bowman farm rear Stempbleyton
is not quite finished. Work on the
cut, however, is being rushed along
as fast rs horses, men, carts and
dynamite can do it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

This undeyeloped section can
expect only one trunk line. The
question is. will Highland let her
last chance go unimproved? Ii
we fail this time we are doomed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Advertise your mineral lands by
leaving a good specimen at the Re-
coRDER office. We will cheerfu.ly
show it up to the best advantage
] tell where it can DC found and to
whom it belongs.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

The time has come for Highland
to do something. When a great
trunk line of railroad is up High
land should take hand and play
for all thrt's in it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Mr. B. M. Yeager was in town
Monday, and as usual, was looking
up data concerning tracts OF land.
Mr.. Yeager is always busy and is
probably the best informed man in
the county concerning the title and
location Of the majority OF the
large tracts of land in the county.
He does not seem rs hopeful OF a
railroad now AS he was sometime
back, and thinks there is reason to
believe the Davis road will miss us.
However he is not certain about it,
and says it all depends upon the re-
port of P. E. Wier. -Pocahontas
Herald.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

A little branch road is OF little
or no benefit TO a country, but the
C.& W. is great east and west
trunk line and Highlands chances
of securing 1t are good if we only
90 to work and present her attrac--
hons
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Pendleton's $4,000, it is true,
will not build much railroad, but
it has attracted the railroad people
in that direction and the mineral
resources which have been shown
up so nicely might secure the road
It will not pay to run any risk.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
ANS WEIR THIS.

The largest subscription house in the
country wants good representative TOT
this community fol strictly special WORK.
Short hours. Good pay. Minister, teacher
or wide-awake man or woman given pref
erence. Address, stating age and former
employment, Globe Bible Publishing TO-,
793 chestnut St, Phila. Pa, aS6-1ulls
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Entered at the Monterey postoii'ce az
second class matter.
Monterey, Va, Friday, August IL, lS9?
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
NEW YORK WORLD,
THRICE A-W SEX
EDITION.

The Twice-a-week Edition OF the
New YORK WORLD has been con-
verified into the Thrice-a-week. 1t
furnishes papers of 6 pages each,
or eighteen pages every week, at
the old price of ONE DOLLAR a
year. This gives 1876 papers a year
for One Dollar and everv paper has
6 pages eight columns wide or 4S
columns in all. the THRICE A.
WEEK WORLD is not only mach larg-
er than any weekly or semi-weekIy
newspaper, but it furnishes iPe
news with much greater frequency
and promptness. In fact it com
bines all the crisp. fresh qualities Of
a daily with the attractive special
feature of a weekly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

CHIcKER1Ns & SONS PIANOS. Put
MANS Music Store, Staunton, Va
Sole agent for the western half of
Virginia. Write for catalogues
and prices.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Chew Little Edwin tobacco
made Of best Henry county leaf.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
The helps to the
study of the bible

comprising all the additional mat
ter that is contained in the
Oxford Bible for Teachers have
been carefully revised from time to
time bv Eminent Biblical Scholars.
A Biblical Atlas Of twelve full
PACED maps in oolors, (size 8 vo., }
Summary IF the SWeral Books
with copious 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.
All styles Of bindings and prices
Clifton Matheny, Agt.
Monterey, Virginia.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
A rHARD TIMES" OFFER.

The HIGHLAND RECORDER and
the Thrice-a-week World one year
for S1.75 payable strictly in adrance
Send your address and S1.75 to the
RECORDER, Monterey. Va, and you
will receive 208 papers containing
home. state, country aud foreign
news,
This is Il com bination worth Sc
curing.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
CRRAMl CREAMl! Ice REAh!''

Mrs. o. Hilson wai Serre ace
cream, at her home, on Wednesday
and Saturday erening Of edch meeE,
from 6 to 10 o'clock P. ". An .MA pT'-
tation TO tie rublic. is eTfendea:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

In conversation with Mr.. McGin7
ty, the affable secretary Of the Fer
guson contracting company, that
gentleman told us that hands were
at work on the line east of town
for six or seven miles, and great
speed was being made in the prose-
cution Of the work. Twelve addi-
tional car loads of graders supplies
arrived this week for the Fergus
on contracting company. and we
are told that camps will be estab-
lished all along the line toward
ElktOn. ~
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
Qorr;sonbnro Free Press.

Harrisonburg Free Press:
S. H. Moffett & Co. shipped the
first car load Of feed ond provisions
over the e. & W. railroad Wednes-
day morning from Harrisonbug to
Stempletown.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
DO YOU WANT
a cOpy Of the
NEW HOLMAN
SeIfPrOnOunCing Bible?

This bible comprises, in addition
to the original contents, Ri iuyalu-
able feature Of nearly one hundred
pages. entitled .HGyF Four Thousand
Questions and Answers ga on the
Old and New Testaments, designed
to open up the scriptures for the
use of Bible students and SUNDAY
school teachers.
This bible is acknowledged by
leading divines, bible scholars and
prominent Sunday school workers
to be the best teachers bible eyer
nhlichnd
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

The first engine house for the
Chesapeake & Western is being
erected at the company's yards at
the south end Of town.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16

Tn front Of the C. & W. Office in
this place is piece Of red fossil
ore, weighing 279 pounds, taken
from the same mine that sent the
exhibit to the Worlds Fair, which
took first prize. It's from Pen
dleton county which is rich in min
erals. That county will average a
cord Of tan-bark to every acre III it.
The grading of the c. & W. has
been completed beyond Bridgewa-
ter, and Col Machen says that
place will soon be only a way sta
ton
The Evening Chances
The first ticket on the Chesa-
peake and Western railroad was
printed today and the price of it
should be fifteen cents; it is from
Stempleytown to Harrisonburg.
Offers for it have already raised its
price to S11, and chances are it
will go higher yet. The first pass
on the Chesapeake & Western will
be issued to the editor of the
Glance.
LATER.
'.Stempleytown to Harrison
burg" So reads the ticket that
was sold to E. Purcell, Jr., for the
small sum Of $50 or about sever
dollars and twenty-one and one.
half cents mile. The price OF
this ticket, as before related in the
Glance, stood at $11 for some time
but then rapid bidding took it W
to $50 at which price it was sold.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-16
Gold, or Silver, or Paper.
We have L. $500 COMBINATION, a
follows:

one year, and your choic' OF the Following SUI
stantial, ornate, cloth-bcaad works;
sCoTrs POLITICAL WORKS. vols.
POETS OF ENGLAND AND AMERlCA-Sven.
iIyR AND TIMES OF EAPOLEoN-S vols
CYCLOPEpIA OF SOCIAL AND COMMERCIAL IN
p1cTIoSAnY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- wi. = ---..
nAI,zACs "coMEDY OF HUMAN LIES vols
LIBRARY OF STANDARD AUTHolss-s vols.
nILToN's PARADISE LOST vol For Centre
Table.
pANrE's INFERNO-1 vol. For Centre Table.
DANTE's PURGATOkY AND PARADIsE-i vol
For Centre Tale.
THE CAPITALS OF THE GLoyE--l vel. FOrcOntrt
Tab.e.
Or X you prefer Lighter and Moro Homelke
Books, you may choose:
MooREs POLITICAL WORKS.
EVENINGS AT HOME-How TO SPEND THEN.
TIE CIVIL WAR IN SONG AND STORY.
HOW HEROES OF FICTION PROPOSE. AND
HEROINES REPLY. In best kng fish Cloth, 80
pag y, containing over 100 apt quotations irsAR
tao Literature Of the World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

OTIS, win then have done their duty to
GOO and their neighbors In this world
and have secured their own good stand
ing in the next
what would we think if any polyg-
amous nation made SO active propa-
ganda here as we, the proselytizing
Christians, make among Eastern heath
ems? What would be the action of
any high-spirited English father. hus-
band. or brother. if one came among
the ladies OF his family preaching the
delights of that special form of wor-
ship which the priests of-Astarte pro-
nounced holy and pleasing to the gods?
And all this disturbance has
to be gone through, with the massacre
of our women and children, and the
subsequent torturing and staying of the
nurderers. that few-granted sim
cere, granted enthusiastic-missio
les may in foreign countries work infin-
lite mischief to all concerned in the
name of religion, and for the honor OF
God, the Universal Father OF US all: to
whom a Chinaman is as dear a son as
an English man or an American"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

THAT foreign missions are growing
less popular from year to year needs
no keen observation to determine.
The recent massacre at Ku-C heng. Chi
ma, has called forth many articles in
objection TO the continuance of these
missions. Among them is one from
the pen of Mrs. f. Lynn Linton. which
Is entertaining. to say the least. We
give space to one or Two extracts:
This missionary business is grow
ing serious; and now that women have
taken It up as q profession, like any
other, it is more serious still. Frank
", it is both an aggression and an inn
pertinence when dealing with the old
civilizations of the East These are
not like the embryonic organization OF
savages. They are closely welded sys-
tems-the result Of ages of trial and
experiment. and are part and parcel
of the mental and moral life of the ma
ton. Customs, religion. laws. moral
fly. all are inextricably interviewer.
the one with the other. To touch one
is to touch all, and to tear away so.
cial usage is to tear away moral pre-
cept. This English men and women
will not understand. They think, for
example,. that II they can but give the
purdah women . taste for gadding,
induce them to show their faces un.
veiled, have At Homes, ride bicycles,
and do all that We do-in the name Of
Christ they. these proselytizing zeal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

EVIDENTLY the Cape Girardeau
newspaper graveyard" will accommo-
date a few more tenants. The Demo
crat of the I'd inst. says, -. d. Hill.
of st. Louis, arrived in the city to-day
with a three hundred dollar printing
Office. Mr.. Hill comes here to 60 into
the newspaper business and he will
start a morning daily paper. He says
he believes there Is a good opening
here for a paper during the winter
months"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

THIS is the sort of rot which the
Hillsbero Mirror serves out to its
readers:
Several million American workmen
are still waiting for a restoration OF
the wages which they received during
Protection times in 1892. but they will
not get them until the Tariff law is re-
vised on Protection lines by a Republi-
can Congress. and the bill has been
signed by Republican President.
Will the Mirror tell US to what avo-
cations these workmen belong? And
also the per cent. of Protection they
enjoyed in 1892 and that they are
having now? Likewise the difference
in wages now and then? All these
things are necessary to the ascertain
ing of the causes of slack work and
low wages-even according to the Pro-
lection doctrine. 1t is easy enough to
write lot of stuff like the item quoted,
but it proves absolutely nothing.
While we are at it, let the Mirror tell
us how Protection can raise wages
without raising the price Of the pro-
tected manufactured article; or how, If
Protection cheapens production and
increases wages, as the thick-and-thin
little organs claim, the employer gets
his money back? Come, Bro. Mirror,
give reason for the faith you say is
In you!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

the result was general fall in prices.
with which Tariff Reform had no more
to do than the cholera IN Japan. This
could not have been accomplished
without the united support of the Pro-
tectionists in Congress, and by this
course they have succeeded in ..nasty-
ing" nearly everything the American
people own but gold. The Gold Trust
and Tariff Barons naturally work to-
gether; their object and methods are
identical. The Tariff Baron wishes to
control the supply and regulate the
price OF the commodity which he man
ufactures; while fixing the price for
the consumer he also desires to fix the
price on the raw material which he
uses in his business. A tariff con-
structed so as to enable him to attain
these ends he considers the ideal tariff.
The Money Baron desires to have f.
nancial legislation so framed as to per-
nit him to corner the money market
at will and regulate the value of the
commodity in which he deals. Money
furnished by this kind of legislation
he characterizes as s.sound" money.
1t is needless to point out that the ul-
innate end aimed at by both these gen.
tlemen is robbery.
Mr.. Brand" is unfortunate in call
ing attention to the fact that in Ger
many women and dogs are frequently
harnessed together, for the reason that
Germany has Mckinley bill.
The dishea:tening feature of the
whole discussion is that no one seems
to look higher than the dollar mark.
| How does it affect the pocket? is the
only question asked. The right or the
| wrong of Protection or the single gold
standard is not thought worthy OF
consideration. According to the way
of thinking of men like Mr.. Brand, >
if band of robbers should erect a cas-
tie at the forks of the Lost Creek and
Fourche-a-Renault roads. their sup
preston would not depend upon the
character of their acts. but whether
they brought prosperity to Potosi an6
the adjacent country. The man who
manipulates a political machine to get
money without giving an equivalent
therefor is upon exactly the same
plane as the man who schemes to break
into your house while you are asleeI
and carry off your property. The Tar
if Barons and the Money Trust have
been the prolific source of the most
virulent mora, poison. 1t has laid it,
blighting hand upon our educational
and charitable constitutions. 1t ha.
permeated the body polite. 1t seem:
to have paralyzed the church of the
living God, for the pulpit is dumt
where the interests of these people art
concerned, or openly sides with the
Money Devil.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

ANOTHER killing stirred the COM
munity OF Bonnie Terre, last Saturday
week. Two men, Sam Walls and Jos.
Marler, fell out over game at cards
played for money-the day previous,
and on the evening named Walls re-
volver in hand approached Marler.
swapping the .gun" several times. but
it failed to fire. Marler, who is bar
keeper in Wilson's saloon. and was
behind the counter, picked up q re-
volver and pulled down on his assail-
ant, but his weapon also refused to
fire. Then he grabbed a shot gun,
which did fire, and Walls bit the dust.
Marler surrendered himself and gave
bond to await the action OF the grand
jury, the coroner's inquest failing to
either hold him guilty or to exonerate
him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10
The Milk IN the Cocoanut.

A large number OF people feel a
glow of gratitude every time they see
1t stated that the bond syndicate is
supporting the treasury reserve. They
have an impression that these people
are acting from motives of patriotism
and broad philanthropy. The fact
is, when gold is drawn from the treas
ury they make good the loss by de-
posting more gold. and getting green
backs therefor. This they can afford
to do until after the election when the
government will be compelled to take
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10

THE Dexter Democrat of the Sd inst.
says: -. w. McCollum got judgment
against the Insurance company in the
circuit court at Frederlcktown for two
thousand dollars and interest each in
two cases, making the total in the two
cases of 1880. This completes the
trials in all his cases in the circuit
courts. He now has judgment against
the insurance companies for $4,000
in all. Mr.. McCollum says he feels
sure he will get his insurance money
now as there is no woman connected
with the case"