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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
TRUSTEES SALE

Whereas, the Matthews Coal Company, a
q corporation, by its deed OF trust. dated
January 2lst. ISIS. and recorded en the same
date in the Office of the recorder OF deeds for
page 557, conveyed to ho-xsSdersigned trustee
certain property in saiu deed Of trust described
as follows; The coal mines and shafts and coal
mining rights, licenses and leases belonging
to and the property OF said corporation situa-
ted On the line of the Chicago and Alton rail
road, In said county, and near to the town of
engines, pumps, sheds, buildings. hosting
apparatus, tracks, coal bugeies, machinery,
scales and fixtures owned by or rhe property
OF said corporation, and located at, belonging
to or used IN connection with said coal mines,
or either of them, including all easements,
rights-of-way and mining privileges OF every
and chara tor and from whomsoever
acquired, belonging to or owned by said cor
poration, and also the office building belongir Y
TO and used by said corporation and situat, q
In said town OF MAYHEM, and the desk, stove
and furniture of every kind now in said Office
building and belonging To said corporation.
and also all other property OF ever Kind
situated in said county. owned by aud the
property of said corporation save and except
all debts and accounts due and owing unto
said corporation, said proper being so con
veyed In trust TO secure the payment OF
certain debts of said corporation In said decd
OF trust specified. and whereas said Matthews
Coal Compan has failed to fully pay al and
discharge said debts, and the same remain due
and unpaid; now. therefore, notice is hereby
given that J., the undersigned trustee
will sell the said property above described al
public vendue. to the highest bidder for cash,
at the front door of the business office of said
Matthews Coal Company. in the town OF May
view, in said county, on
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18th. 1895,
| between the hours of nine O'Clock In the fore.
| noon and five O'Clock Ia the afternoon of ihai
day, to satisfy said debts and the expenses oi
Se,otd TAYLOit r.. BENNTNG. Trustee.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
Mustang
Linin1ent

owes its success to its
power of penetration.
There is nothing mar
veIOus about its Cura-
tive powers. 1t is sim
ply a few common sense
ingredients com bined
in a way to make per1sF
etratiOn possible and
Insure a cure.
Mustang Liniment
has been used for one
half a century.
Write for "Fairy Story Book illus
trated, also "Hints from a Horse-doc-
tors Diary" Both books mailed free.
Lyon Manufacturing Co.,
l3 South sth St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

somehow 1t would be for the bat, you
have taught them to say an svening
prayer, and when they kneel beside
you, and fold their little hands, and
look mp. their faces oil innocence and
love, you know that there Is a God
somewhere about the room.
But, alas! alasI some OF these mon
and women are unmoved by h fact
that their father had q God, and that
their mother had a God, and their
children have q God, but they have no
God. All pious example to them for
nothing. All the divine goodness for
nothing. All warning for nothing.
They are sound asleep in the side OF
the ship, though the sea and the sky
are in mad wrestle.
Many years ago man, leaving his
family in Massachusetts,, sailed from
Boston to China, to trade there. On
the coast of China, in the midst of Q
night of storm, he made shiPwreck.
The Adventures was washed up on the
beach senseless-all his money gone.
He had to beg In the streets of Canton
to keep from starving. For two years
there was no communication between
himself and family. They supposed
him dead. He knew not but that his
family were dead. He had gone out
as q captain. He was too proud to
come back q private sailor. But after
q while he choked down his pride and
sailed for Boston. Arriving there, he
took an evening train for the
center of the state, where he had lef,
his family. Taking the stage a
the depot, and riding q score of miles
he got home. He says that, going Ut
In front Of the cottage in the brigh,
moonlight, the place looked liks
Heaven. He raped on the window
and the sffrighted servant let him In.
He went to the room where. his wife
and child were sleeping. He did moi
dare to wake them up for fear Of the
shock. Bending owe 20 kiss his child
cheek, . tear fell upon the wife's face
and she awakened, and he said
''Maryp and she knew his voice, AND
there was an indescribsble Of
welcome and Joy, and Thanksgiving Il
God.
To-day / know that many Of you n,
ses-tosssd, and driven by sin in q wors
storm than that which came down OF
the coast of China, and yet I pray Go,
that you may, like the sailor. live 4
get home. In the House of Many Man
sions your friends are waiting to NEE
you. They are wondering why yo'
do not come. Escaped from the ship
wrecks Of earth. may you at las
20 inl It will bs . bright night,
very brig ht night q you put you
- Al. LAX - H.. a..
in, you will find the old family face
sweetsr than when you last saw them
and there II will b found that II
who was your fathers God, and you
mothers God, and your children's God
10 your own most blessed Rsdsener, :
whom b glory and dominion through
out al 69oa, world without end. Amer
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
SNAKE BITES.
Hew yhey Are Cured In yar-0R ssath

Hew ZAsy Are Cared In Bsr-0R ssath
The following extraordinary ''curs
OF snake bite" comes TO NJ through Z
south African uewspsper undsr the
narrstor's full name, ~ . fact: A
Ksfir servant accompanying . party
strskking" (~travsliug) wa bitten BY Q
vsuomous snake, . yellow cobra; and
when found was commencing TO get
into . comatose state. As the only re-
course. - the party were without
medicines. antidotes or brandy, = Hot
tentot shepherd and snake doctor was
fetched Il the patient. This is how the
physician u described: "A man Of ap-
parently between 3fty-6ve and sixty
years Of age, face repulsive in the ex-
trems (Hottsntots Ire proverbially not
Adonis-like), wearing a pair of cordu-
roy trousers and on his head . dirty
Linen cap"-msrk the linen capl When
called 10 the patient he prescribed,
and an hour afterwards he was ~
sound as ever. The process Of the
''curs" IL thus described: The doc
tor" was in the habit Of extracting
and drinking the venom of the snakes
which he captured. 1t intoxicated
him. He would then sleep Of the
e1Recta. His cap was never OF his
head. The poison in his system W ould
work itself into the cap whenever he
exerted himself and became hested-in
the anne way as Precipitation ex-
udes and soils the lea thern band
Of the billycock Of civilizs-
ton. The cap was saturated to
much an extent by the venom
that whenever . snake bit him 1t had
not the least effect. He imbtbed the
him . year, some times longer, after
which It was carefully hung up in his
hut, and another hesd-piece, which he
manufactured himself donned in Its
stead. When he wished to cure any
one bitten by . snake, all he did was
TO take . cup of boiling water, and
after cutting . piece from the cap. soak
Il In the boiling water, rub and squeeze
It until the water was discolored In
proportion, and then give the liquid
decoction to the patient to drink, fore.
ing 1t down his throat. The cure waa
invariably effective. Such Is the story,
but whether our readers will believe
1t II quite another question.
The same narrator tells of q friend
who cured hiEBelf by q particularly
intrepid means. He says: 81 have
heard OF . fellow who was bitten In
the left arm by Q very poisonous snake
In Natal, named q mambs, while out
shooting nea Pietermsritzburg. He
was quite alone, not . house within
two miles of him, where he could OBJ
tain medical treatment or any assist
ance whatevsr. He knew that he had
but . short while to live, unless he
could devise some means OF Kidding
himself Of the poison. What do you
suppose he did? With his knife hi
hacked: and slashed the wound until Il
blsd freely; he next rubbed some gun
powder into the afflicted place and %,
Q light to II. He literally blew the
poisoned flesh out Of his arml It savet
his life. but the bone Of his arm is ex
posed and blsckened by the gunpow
der to this day. I fancy that fellow
must have had . drop of Spartan bloos
in his veins-" N. yes!-Detroit Ere,
| PrAaaL
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
VIEWPOINT,
HAMBLEToElAN, AAMBRiNo AND

vnwxoxr is : blood bsy-se yAlss-lsH
i::s. sl: :s!' = A li:s Pf fss. 4 r. ~ Hss.
also sire q ) Dams Of Es2 %, s:iis. ~
osl, s:ssH; Emoleta: Ian e..sics,s m.se,
tsire OF 81. HE sons sired - trueters an<
PAGERS. and his daushters p~roeucsd ninsfysooe
n ne LISP; dan, L1cills: q Alss2necrs
granddam BY Pilot, Jr. ~. etc. !.
viewmont's dam is Lady Douglas (dau Of
st; Lambert, 9:ssAJ By nourboa c.tsf -,
The 3:D list; among them Pickar1- o;ltk,
Mambritouian, 2:90h,. etc.j by. nemee1no
Chief u, etc.; second dem, nolie yeoaecu,
p J.csso9 stsoroushorsal o - peasa' "
Viewmout breeds very assoss ~ cota,,aJ
rood lookers and sell readily.
proves In foal; or eight doAAas b s6sm=
return privilege.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
FINAL

Notice IL hereby given to all creditors and
W. Hamlet, deceased, that the undersigned
executors will apply to make a final settle
,he n, . = rum as.ite, . ! me aug s' Term; no',; Oh
souri,, to he begun and held at the probate
court loom. in the city OF Lexington, on the
secon Monday in August, 1885.
s. N. WILSON,
'-!S-5t Public Administrator
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

Medical experts have long known
that people who habitually live in the
~undrained, filthy parts of towns sue
cumb very easily to all the contagious
diseases; and DR.. Alessi set himself to
endssvor to fathom the cause. He ex-
psrimentsd by exposing animals to
the action of putrefactive gases, such
- are the insvita BILE products of decay
ing eth, and then inoculating them
with the typhoid bacillus. at the same
time i~noculating normal animals.
Those who had breathed the putre-
fsotivs gases were dead at the end of
thirty-six or forty-eight hours. of I'M
mistsksbls typhoid, while the same
dose of typhoid bacilli had no effect
upon most of tho control" animals;
Of these one died; but it was notable
that while the animals were expert
mentally inhaling bad air they con-
tinued to eat we'll, but lost all their
liveliness, and gradually pinned. This
helps to explain that condition OF
never quite well"-ness hat affects
too many, especially women, whose
duties keep them confined to one spot,
whether that spot Is sanitary or other
wtse--Boston Budget.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
-, 1t Soaks
Into the Flesh

right down through the
fevered parts to where
the inflam m ati0n Is
rooted. That is why
Mustang Liniment
"cures all aches and
pains of man or beast"
If it evapOrated or re-
manned on the skin It
could not cure. That
is why volatile extracts
fail. Theycan't go down
through the inflamed
parts.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

Coy. Buckner, of Kentucky, is well
along In the seventies, but his hair,
which 10 silvery white, Is the m indi'
cation of the fact. His face Is round,
his hands As steady as q western rifle
mans and his step is as springy as a
youth Of twenty, while his voice Il
clear and distinct.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

To CLOSE OUT-A large stock Of Sum
new and desirable goods, including on.
hundred and fifty white Sailors. Mrs. $
A. Moorehead. 6-l5tf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
FINAL. +

Notice is hereby given To all creditors and
other persons interested In the estate of Henry
Nordseick, deceased. that the undersigned
executor will apply la make a final set
Element of said estate. at the August term,
1895, of the probate court of Lafayette county
Missouri. to be begun and held at the probate
court room, in the city OF Lexington, ON thu
second Monday in August, 1884.
HERMAN BARG EFRBDE,
7-l3-5t Administrator
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

James," asked the school-teacher,
what do you do with your odd mo-
ments after school?" Il waits until
they adds up into an hour, and hen I
goes 6shin'."-Harper's Round Table.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
EVERYWHERE We Go

We find some one who has been cured
by Hoods sarsaparilla, and people on all
hands are praising this great medicine
for what 1t has lone for them q their
friends. Taken In time Hoods Sarssparilla
prevents serious illness by keeping the
blood pure and all the organs in a healthy
condition. 1t 10 the great blood purifier.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

For SALK-A Vose q Sons upright
piano. For particulars, call at this office.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

The Indian manufactures were con
fined to the making of canoes, the
building. of lodges, the weaving OF
baskets and coarse fabrics, and the
making Of rude weapons and images.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

Hoods Pills become the favorite
cathartic with every q who tries them.
BIC Der box.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
r,
BLOOD. 1870

pa yeIbK hands, foaIed ssVt.
". )eat young sire, Earl zssS,
re- |(Sire Of Katie Earl, 2:lex. spd
In the listl He u q Lrother
Dc. 2;l2, being by Pnnceps 30
Net, 2:st. and forty'thrsc others
lfst) dam, the great brood mare,
~ Earl. s;2sK. 0reeniander. s:i2.
- ~ 2:2l, by flsiabietouisn 10. &C. -.
- dam Of Pamisier is the great brood
mare, Ashland Kate, 9:2Sk-made IN 1876,
dam of Kate O.. 2:sSM. and grsnddam 81
Katie Earl. s:ls,s. etc. W Ashland Chief '7si.
tslre OF three from f:i5k TO 1850. and the Dam
gard, tdsm Of Ashland Kate, 2:s2kJby Captain
Walker tsfre Of the, dana Of Harry WILKES,
2:l3n, General 0zrhe2d, f:2l. and four otheraD:
third dam; Clark County Maid, By Trsvsisrs By
Here L a handsome, sPp1ey-sapp gsL1owl
He sires good ransy colts. . ! tA1nk viii
70 fast
TRRMs.-Fifteen dollars. payable rhsn ths
mare proves In foei: or twelve dofAa0 ths
s-eason-retum privilege.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10

among mtdutght R~aTrotera. and how
he escaped Perhaps twenty years be-
fore you were born, your father made
sweet acquaintancs with God.
There 10 something In the worn pages
of the Bible he used 10 read which
makes you think your father had
. God. In the cid religious books lying
sroupd the house there are passages
marked with . lead peneil-psssages
that make you think your father "a
not . goddess man, but that, On that
dark day when he lay In the back room
dying, he wss resdy-all ready. But
perhaps your father was . bad man
prsyerlsss. and . blssphsmer, and you
never think Of him without . shuddsr.
He worshipsd the world or his own
appetitss. Do not, then, I beg Of you,
call upon your fathers God, but call
on your mothers God I think shs
was good. You remember when your
father came homo drunk late on
. cold night, how patient your mother
was. You often heard her pray. She
used to sit by the hour meditsting, -
though she were thinking Of some
good, warn place where Il never gets
cold, and whore the bread does not
fail, and staggering steps eve come.
You remember her now, as abe sat. In
cap and s~psctacles, reading her Bible
Sunday afternoons What good advice
she used to give you'll How black and
terrible the hole In the ground looked
to you when, with two ropes, they let
her down to rest In the graveyard. ALL
/ think from your looks that ] am on
the right track. Awake, o sleeper. and
call upon thy mothers God.
But perhaps both your father and
mother were depraved. Perhaps your
cradle was rocked by sin and shame,
and 1t IL Q wonder from such Q starting
you have come to responsibility. Then
don't call upon the God OF either Of
your parents, / beg of you.
But you have children. You know
God kindled those bright eyes, and
rounded those healthy limbs. and set
beating within their breast an immor-
talit4.- Perhsps- IN the -halisf that
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-08-10
Two Papers for The Price Of One.

Will be furnished our subscribers on the
following terms. which is the regular sub
scription price of the Post Dispatch alone.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
BERKELEY SPRINGS NEWS

From the Messenger and NeaCS:
The st. Charles Hotel is being adj
vertised for lease or sale.
The funeral of ex-senator Dawson
was one of the largest ever held in
the county.
DR.. Geo. Gilpin has been appointed
railroad surgeon of the 1st division
of the B. & o.
Mrs. Rachael Roach, one of the
Oldest women in the county, was
buried from the Methodist Church
here this week.
No more Sunday mails for six
months. Time was when we had a
stage line we had a mail every day
in the year, but that was years ago.
Berkeley is not standing still, you
bet.
Sunday, October 20, at o'clock
p. NJ, at the U. B. parsonage, this
place, Mr.. Edwin Unger was married
to Miss Mary Sprigg, both of Nor
gan county. W. L. Childress Off
ciated.
A project is under consideration
to connect this place and Hancock,
Nd, by telephone, which line will
connect with the Hancock and War;
fordsburg, Pa, line. Dr. P. E. Stigers
and J. T. Bridges are the prime
movers IN the enterprise.
The old ice house in the rear of
the Strother property was destroyed
by fire about midnight, on Wednes-
day night. 1t is not known how it
caught fire; it was unoccupied and
was a short distance in the rear of
the wing of the main dwelling. 1t
needs the unfortunate occurrence of
fire to demonstrate the magnificent
benefit the Water Works are to this
town,the moment two superb streams
Of water were thrown ON the build
ing the fire was under control, and
yet some of our people are not happy,
still unfriendly to the greatest bless
ing this town has ever had.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
Quick Trains for the Atlanta
Exposition Over the South
ern Railway.

The Southern Railway inaugurated
its winter schedules Sunday, Octo-
Der 6, 1895 and In addition to it's reg
ular double daily limited trains, put
ito n effect another limited train,
known as the Exposition Flyer
leaving New York at 11.0O a. M,
daily, Philadelphia liz p. m., Balti-
more 3.l5 p. M, Washington 4.39 p.
M, arriving at Atlanta next day
at 1920 a. M, central time, carrying
Pullman sleepers and vestibuled day
coaches.
The United States Fast Mall
leaving Washington at Ills a. M,
with through Pullman sleepers and
day coaches, daily, and the "Vesti-
buled Limited" at 1913 p. M, com
posed of vestibuled sleepers and day
coaches, with dining car service are
continued in service, and arrive at
Atlanta next day at $50 a. m. and
3.55 p. M, respectively, central time.
The Southern Railway is the only
line operating solid trains from
Washington to Atlanta over its own
tracks, and the only road entering
the Exposition grounds. Time from
Washington, only l8 hours. Low
excursion rates on sale daily from
all coupon ticket offices. Those sold
on Tuesdays and Thursdays OF each
week, however, are lower than other
days and limit of tickets correspond
ingly shorter. Sufficient time is al
lowed, however, on the lower rate
tickets to spend week at the Ex-
position.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
HOME INTEREsTs-KBEP GOING

Even the tortoise beat the hare
in the race, but it was done by steady
going, no running rush and then
hating for breath, so that the plod-
der went to the front. We are glad
to recognize the fact that our people
with good men at the front, are de-
termined to keep going and that out
look is favorable for an increase of
valuable enterprise that will be to
the benefit of the community. Char
lty is always going on, and the lib
crafty of people is sometimes strain
ed, but the way to have more for the
purposes Of life as we'll as for kind
ness in humanity Is to keep going
and get more that will prove prof.
table. Drones should be discoun.
tenaDced as vile carbuncles, para
lying and lerching the efforts of
those who work and keep at it.
Open both eyes, see what the build.
ers need, assist in the work and keep
going.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
West Virginia Bar Association.

WHEELING, w. VA, Oct. 3I.-The
tenth annual session of the West
Virginia Bar Association was closed
tonight with banquet at the Nc
Clure House, rendered by the local
bar ASSOCIATION. Today's proceedings
were quite interesting On account of
an acrimonious discussion of paper,
which was not lead, on the United
States judiciary, by B. M. Amber,
Of Parkersburg. 1t was understood
by all to contain some rather pointed
and caustie comments upon the Dis
trict and Circuit Courts, and a num-
Der OF gentlemen interested more or
less directly in those tribunals insist.
ed that it should not be read except
by the author, who was absent. 1t
was finally decided TO print it in the
West Virginia Bar the official paper
OF the association.
The following officers were elected:
President, Forrest w. Brown, Charles
Town; vice president, John Bassell,
CIarksburg; p Crogan, KING
wood; G. G. Watts, Charleston; j..
A. Hutchinson; Parkersburg; Secre-
tary, j. W. Ewing, Wheeling; treas
urer, W. N. Miller, Parkersburg.
The next meeting will be held in
Huntington.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
THE COMING BATTLES.

Tuesday next will witness politi'
cal battles in several states of the
Union. The interest, however, con.
centrates in Maryland, where a gi-
gantic warefare is being waged by
the bosses and their monopoly of Of
fee on one side, the purity of the
ballot box and the sovereignty Of the
people upon the other. That great
old tower of strength to the democ.
racy, the Baltimore Sun, aided by
the NelVs, with the brainiest of their
democratic citizens are in the front
of the fight With battle axes, keen
and bright, with caustic criticism
and solid argument against ring rule.
Gorman-ism and Raisin-lsm, with all
methods of political fraud and trick
cry, should not only be denounced,
but buried. Let the people select
their officials and not submit to die.
tators as to who they shall vote for
and serve as servants. Be free men,
strike the blow now, break the
ehackles and assert both your man
hood and independence.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-11-02
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