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An Old Defender Dies in Illinois.

MONMOUTH, ILL, May 22.-James
W. Scott, one Of the oldest and best
known residents of this section, died
last evening, aged ninety.seven. He
was born in Philadelphia, and took
an active part in the war of 1912,
helping IN the trenches about Balti.
more. At the time OF the lombard
ment of Fort McHenry he worked
on the embankment with a wheel
barrow,
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Times improved now that the
people and business men know Re-
publican Congress will soon be at
Washington. There is no uncertain
ty now about the treatment which
will be shown to industries. All
will be we'll.
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Tom nlissiOner's Notice .

At the Office of Commissioner In
Chancery for the Circuit Court Of Ber-
kelley county, w. Va, the 2nd day of
May, 1895
IN CHANECRY.
II. II. Cox and Dennis Baker.
VS..
Catharine Ward, Jacob Ward ct al.
To all the parties to the above entitled
cause:
By decree of the said Court entered
at the April, 1896, term thereof ON the
oath day OF April. the above entitled
cause was re erred to the undersigned
commissioner in cbanceIy with djrec-
tions and authority
/. To convene the lien creditors NJ
Cath RI aud Jacob Ward.
2. 10 audit all of the liens against
the real estate Of said Catharine and
Jacob Ward, together with their re-
spective amounts and priorities.
8. To ascertain what interest and
estate the said Catharine Ward and
Jacob Ward have in the real estate In
the bill and proceedings in said csuse.
4. 10 ascertain and report the fee
simple and yearly rental values OF said
5, To ascertain and report what
sums are due and owing under and by
virtue of the several deeds of trust man
toned in the bill Ia this cause.
9. To report any other matters he
may deem necessary or pertinent In
said cause.
You will take notice that nave Ok
cd upon
Monday, June 3rd, 1895,
as the time and my office in Martins-
burg. W, Va, as the place for execut-
ing said decree, at which time and place
you are required to attend and IL said
proceeding shall not be completed on
said day, same will be continued from
day to day at the same place until en-
ished. Given under my hand this 2nd
day Of May, 1894.
l.. DEW. GERHARDT,
5-4-4t. Com'r in Chancery.
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a S:.OO BOOK FOR 25c.
THE GREAT WAR SERIES.
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A Story of Sheridan's Great Ride.
BY Up. TRACY,


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LORDS AND SENAToRs.-That Oft
said threat of the English Radicals
to send or mend" the House of
Lords is by no means revolutionary
cry. 1t is merely evolutionary. In
the same way our own anger against
the United States Senate is sign of
sturdy political growth. For, in
truth, both institutions are slowly
OUTLYING their usefulness. They are
almost ready to be carted off as old
lumber to the garnet of historical cur
iosities. Nor will it be necessary
to hustle the Lords and Senators
away violently; they will go of their
own accord, as soon as English and
American voters have learned to ex-
press their will directly and system
maticaIly by means of the Referen-
dunn. In that day the people will
constitute a second House to pass
judgment upon bills framed by their
representatives.-W D. Nc Crackan,
IN June Lipplncoh's.
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Clcrgy men who only preach for
effect are never noted for success In
sllvai,n ct souls.
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Women who buy their social prog
ress will nearly always fains at the
sight Of wash tab.
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Saturday, June sth. Is0J.

the following property situated in Mill
Creek District, Berkeley county, W.
Va, and bounded as follows
Beginning at stake on W. SIDE OF
Nlll Creek, thence n. IS, E p to
middle of creek; thence N. 26, W. 81 s
?. TO stake corner to Ed. Henshaw:
thence n. is, W. IA p. thence N. SO,
w. 1858 p to stake; thence $. IS, w
poles to stake thence s. 46. E..
20 p. to q stake: thence crossing the
mill race S. II {. w. 1.3 r. to a post;
thence 5. 40, e. 1l.2 P. to locust stump;
thence s. %, E. 1915 p. to locust post !;
thence S. Is, e. 1Sp to middle of read !;
thence along middle of the road S. 81.
e. A p; thence 5. S34 E. 9.S p. to w.
side Of race, thence s. 134 E. 129p. to
post in fence; thence s. 36, Z. Is D. TO
beginning, together with all the water
rights a3d privileges expressed in a
deed from Henshaw and others to Eliz-
abeth Nicklin dated Oct. '87 of rec
ord in said Office in deed book 81, Iages
240-241.
Said real estate is valuable as a mill
ing property and will make an excellent
plant for anyone engaging in the mill
ing business.
The amount of the debt for which
said property is to be sold amounted on
April 18Th, 1895, to $239.4s 10 which are
to be added the accumulated Interest
since said date, and the c. IFS of sale.
TERMS OF SALE.-Ons 'Ialf the pur-
chase money in cash on d of sale; the
balance in six months, fer which the
purchaser shall give his nOte with Sc
curity and the title to be withheld Is
additional security until paid in full.
j. NELSON WIsNER,
5-1l-4t. Trustee.
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Familiarity with serva nts is good
indication of the origin Of some peo-
pie of the day.
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Short j 0urneys OF o. Long
Road


Is the characteristic title of a pro-
tusely illustrated book containing
over one hundred pages of charm
ingly written descriptions of sum-
mer resorts in the country north
and west of Chicago. The reading
is new, the illustrations are new, and
the Information therin will be new
70 almosi every one.
a { py oil Short Journeys on a
Long RUad' will be sent free to any
one who will enclose ten cents Ito
pay postage) to GEo. II. HEAFYogn,
General Passenger Agent Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul Railway,
Chicago, Ill.
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Commissioners Notice.

Commissioners Notice.
Arbucklee Bros.
VS..
W. D. Mckee ct al
IN CHANCERY.
Toallt the parties interested in.the above
entitled cause:
By decree of the Circuit Court of
Berkeley county, w. Va, entered at
the April, 1895, term of said court on
April "a, the ab0ye entitled cause was
referred to the Undersigned coWmis-
sioner.in cfancery.
To ascertain and report the real es
tate ogned ty Wm. ID. Mckee, togeth-
er with its fee sin pie and annual rental
values.
All the debts with THAR respective
priorites which are liens upon said real
estate.
To report any other matters which
to state, or by him deemed pertinent.
You will take notice that l have fix
cd upon
Monday. May 81, 1895,
as the time, and at my office in Martins
burg, Berkeley county, W. Va, as the
place for executing said decree, and if
said proceeding shall not be completed
on said day, the same will be continued
from time to time at the tame place I'M
til finished.
Given under my hand this 30th day
of April, 1896.
l.. DEW. GERHARDT,
5-4-4t. COm'r in Chancery.
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GENTLEMEN:-We, your Finance
Committee, beg leave to report that
we met on the 10th day of May,
1895, with the following members
present G. NJ. Lamar, W. I. Hen
shaw and John Grozinger.
We have examined the books,
vouchers and the annual report of
the Clerk Of the Corporation and
find his accounts all correct, and
that the amount of money collected
by him for weighing, ETC., to be ex
actly as he represents in his report
to your honorable body.
We have also examined the books,
vouchers and report of the Treasurer
of the Corporation and find that he
has a cash balance on hand of &c.,
463.l7 in bank to the credit of the
Corporation of Martinsburg, W. Va.
He also has county orders amount
ing to $500 and an old note for
$172.00. We find his reports all
correct and his books kept in first
class condition.
We have examined the books, ETC.,
of the Sergeant of the Corporation
and find his statement of money col
lected by him correct, and just as
submitted by him in his report to
your honorable body. We find his
books kept in splendid condition.
We find that his amount of collec.
tons are as follows:
Amt. paid Treasurer Martin .. 81 $780, IA
" of com. on SIS, 1872 ...... SISSY
" of rebate on taxes enron
eous. .......... ......... 1902
Amt. of discount on taxes. HIP
Balance on hand for collection. 1854. Is
Total amount, including amount
not collected ........... 2S,16023
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Annual Reports Of Cooperation officers.
MAYOR s REPORT.

TO the Honorable CITY Coined:
Gentlemen IL hereby submit my
report of arrests made and fines inn
posed by me Tor tie year IN ling
May 9th, 1895, classified as follows !:
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| also have on hand an old note of
$I72.00 and county orders to the
amount of $500.
Yours very respectfully,
j. W. MARTIN, Treasurer.
sERGEANT's REPORT.
MARTINsBURa, May 10th, 1895.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Corn-
GIL:
Gentlemen Il herewith submit
my report as Sergeant of the Cor
poration of Martinsburg, for the year
ending May 9th, 1896:
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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1895.

REPUBLICAN MUNICIPAL
TICKET.
For Councilman-First Ward,
JOHN W. MARTIN.
For Councilman-Second Ward,
GEO. D. LAMBERT.
For Councilman-Third Ward,
W. A. GARD.
For Councilman-Fourth Ward,
w. r. KLINE.
For Councilman-Fifth Ward,
HARRY LITTLE.
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Total number of arrests made .......

The total amount of fines collected
$598.00. Yours very respectfully,
JOHN B. WILSON, Mayor.
TREASURER's REPORT.
MARTINsBURG, May 10th, 1895.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Coum-
Gentlemen IL herewith submit
my report as Treasurer ior yesr end
ing May 9th, 1895:
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To balance on hand for collection 9,G54.12
Respectfully submitted,
S. II. MARTIN, Sergeant.
e.. d. ) REPORT.
MARTINsBURG, May 10th, 1895.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Coun-
ciL:
Gentlemen Il hereby submit my
report Of moneys collected by me for
year ending May 9th, 1895:
For weighing hay, etc,........... 1861
" measuring wood ......... &c.. 1922
&" 10 and 15c. wagon stand at
MAJ ket ..-......... ....... I510
Total ................ S 270.Si
By amount paid Treas. Martin $ 270.S4
Yours very respectfully,
A. T. LAMBERT,
Clerk and NJ. NJ.
FINANCE COMMITTEES REPORT.
MARTINsBURG, May 10th, 1895.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Coun-
oaJ
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The following report was adopted
at the meeting of Council May IT:
"The Mayors report pertaining to
the amount of fines imposed and ar
rests made we find correct and would
recommend the acceptance of the
same, but his message to the Coun-
Gil, we would recommend that the
same be rejected and stricken from
the records, as it is mlsrepresenta-
ton and false reflection on the
Council. We have The honor to be
Yours very respectfully,
G. w. LAMAR,
w. I. HENsHAw, Com.
JOHN GRozINGER
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T pasl e's Sale of
L Valuable Real Estate

By virtue of deed of trust made on
the 8th day of Oct. 1883, by Elizabeth
Nieklin and husband, to ]. Nelson Wis
ner, trustee, of record in the office of
the Clerk of the County Court of Ber-
kelley county, W. Va, in deed book No.
s., pages 406-7, to secure the Berkeley
County Building and Loan Asssocia-
ton, the said trustee will offer at pub
lie sale in front of the Court House. in
Martinsburg, W. Va, between l and 2
o'clock. D. M. on
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Bal. on hand for collection

Bal. on hand for collection 5 9,654.54
This is, we think, a very credita
BILE showing, and theCounciI has just
cause to congratulate itself upon the
good mana cement of its officers, and
the flourishing condition of the Cor
poration affairs at the present time,
considering the stringenoy of the
times.
Our bonded Indebtedness is $40.
100 and it is impossible to get hold
of any bonds whatever, as cur treas.
urer advertised for bonds, and did
not receive one application for re-
demption of any, which shows the
fact to the bondholdcrs that they are
very satisfactory investment. We
have the honor to be
Yours most respectfully,
G. NJ. LAMAR,
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At the Office of Commissioner In
Chancery for the Circuit Court Of Ber-
kelley county, w. Va. the 2nd day of
NAV. 1895
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MARTINsBURd, May 10Th, 1889.
To the Hon. Mayor and City COM
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-08
$l.5O watch and chain for your boy. Seep E. CHUCK.
A Judge in Tears.

Fort Smith News Record.
 The Indian courts are largely farces Intelligent citizens of the Five Nations admit this. The following Is illustrative of the way in which justice is adminis- tered by our friend Lo:
 A man has been convicted in the Choc- taw circuit court for stealing hog. The judge fixed the punishment at thirty lashes on the bare back and turned the culprit over to the sheriff to be whipped forthwith. While the sheriff was con yeying the prisoner to the vicinity of the back fence and was preparing cat o'-nine-tails, some whisky the judge had drunk began to get in it's work and di- rectly his heart overflowed with good will toward all men. With tears in his eyes he rushed into the back yard and forbade the sheriff to go on executing the mandate of the court.
 As it chanced the sheriff was in an ugly mood and could not view the matter in the same light as his honor. A fusilade of baths followed, and an erudite dis cussion of the proper functions of the ju- dicial and executive branches of the government. Although the judge plead ed eloquently and swore fervently he could not move the stony heart of the sheriff who proceeded to lay on the whip with even more than unusual vigor.
 Unable to witness such suffering the inebriated judge executed a zig-zag back to the court room and adjourned court sine die. Court has not met in that dis trict since and cases are piling up that 1t will take months of work to dispose of. The judge himself, in obedience to a summons to Tushka Homma to explain his conduct, got on train. still drunk lost his hat out of a car window and on his arrival at the national capital pro- ceeied to fall from the gallery of hotel and fracture his leg. so that he lies in a critical condition at this moment
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-08

the reader along with a very tender and touching story, which is told in vivid, dramatic and forceful way, richly and charmingly illustrated by MT. Birch. The work is issued in an attractive cover of blue and gold, with dainty pair of pilgrims etched in deeper tones. John Lafarge is an American artist, born in New York city about 1S40. He is
 considered one of the best landscape painters in the United States, and while he may have technical faults his color ing is masterly and expressive. His most noted works are Paradise at Newport" Christ and Nicodemus" and the frescoes of Trinity church, Boston, During the year 1893 MT. Lafarge de- livered lectures at the Metropolitan mu- scum of New York. Six of these lectures have now been published in an artistic old rose and gold covering, entitled Con alterations on Painting" These lectures on Divisions of the Work of Art" Per
 sonality and Choice" Suggestion and Intention" and others, are wonderfully ming, instructive and choice read ing.
 In speaking of principles" MT. La large says that he has often been told that his own principles were wrong, and
 then he tells the following experience:
 Some years ago while painting Trinity church in Boston I employed for part of
 
 It so happened that, displeased with much that they did left large spaces bare, with no indication of my intention, which places I proposed decorating through men whom I was training for the purpose. One day the foreman of the firm, himself decora tor well known I suppose, came to me in anger and dis may and told me blunt1y that I was working against every principle of paint ing. But my man merely stated that the painting of any room or interior should be begun from the top and go right down to the bottom without inter- ruption; otherwise some of the lower work might get spotted by a workman and need repairing and perhaps cost money" So the author pertinently re- marks that "there are trade methods which are converted into principles by people whose interest it is to confuse them" All who enjoy reading of art and it's methods should read these lectures. Hamlin Garland has written a new work, Rose of Butchers Coolly," which is said to be a study of contemporaneous Chicago life, from a point of view dia- metrically opposite to that of Henry Fuller" The novel will no doubt cause much discussion.
 Zola, says a recent review, is said to be planning search for ma terial for his new novel, God and Mammon," in American cities PAUL PRY.
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For plumbing work tele- phone No. 2 or call on Ross Bros., 1922 Sd avenue. I2-7-2 P
Running a Town by Electricity.

tunnlHB u IOWu Uy Eilscbricltys
 New York Post.
 The electric storage battery, in whose development lies the hope of emancipa- tion from electric light wires, trolley wires and other unsightly Instructions, has reached a point of perfection, as shown by an exhibit in Philadelphia, which makes it commercial possibility, and promises a large extension of the use fulness of electricity in everyday life. With further development in the direc- tion of cheapnesS, it may be possible to reproduce, in towns unprovided with cheap means of motive power, the con- ditions existing in Great Falls, Mont In that town electric power produced economically at a water privilege does all the mechanical work. It propels, lights and heats the street cars, runs the elevators, the printing presses, the cranes and all kinds of machinery, and Is used for pumping, for excavating and for rock crushing. It is even applied in the building trades. 1t not being unusual to see on the streets mortar-mixer at tached to an electric wire leading down from a pole. The restaurants cook by electricity the butcher employs it to chop his sausages and the grocer to grind his coffee The housewives run their sewing machines and heat their f1atirons by electricity; they bake their cakes in wooden electric cake ovens that can be set away on the shelf like pasteboard boxes They have electric boilers, broil- CTS and tea kettles.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-08

The State of Alabama, Jefferson County
 Chancery Court-Susan Lunford, Execu-
 trix, etc., vs William G. Lunford and
 Others.
 To the Creditors of the Estate of George Lunsford Deceased:
 You and every one of you, are hereby notified that said estate was the 16th day of November 1895, decreed and declared to be insolvent.
 You are further notified that the first Monday in January, 1S96 was set for the said executrix to make settlement of her ac- counts, and you are cited to appear before me, at my office in the court house of said county, on said day to contest the same, if you think proper.
 You are further notified that In and by said decree 1t was ordered: That every person having any claim against the estate of said George Lunsford. deceased, must file the same in this court, with the register thereof, within nine months after the date of this decree, or after the same accrues, verified required by law, and all claims not so verified and filed shall be forever barred"
 Dated this 16th day of November, A. D., 1895. C1AS. A. SENN, Register. s11-17-ow4w
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Stopped the Cough Anyway.

One of the most amusing stories of the day treats of mistaken philanthropy. says the London Telegraph. At certain army post there was a sentry on duty near the hospital. The surgeon was pre- pairing to go to bed inside, when he was annoyed and alarmed at the sentry's coughing. His experienced ear told him that the man had a severe bronchial af- fiiction, needing strong remedy. He debated awhile with himself, and then, going into the dispensing room, com pounded a powerful mixture. This he took outside to the sen try, with instructions to swallow it imme- diately. The man refused. The surgeon insisted, and finally commanded the sof- dier to take the medicine, which he did with much grumbling.
 Then the worthy surgeon went to bed, pleased to hear no more coughing. Next morning, to his surprise. the command ing officer sent for him. and said that the sentry had complained, declaring that the surgeon had forced him to swallow some thing he thought was poison. An investi- gstion followed. and revealed the fact that when the surgeon was mixing the medicines the coughing sentry had been relieved, and consequently the rem edy had been given to the wrong man.
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By Order of Probate Court.

By HENRY SCHACHTE, Auctioneer. THE MACHINE SHOP, BOILER SHOP AND FOUNDRY OF THE LATE M. KELLY AT AUCTION. AS A WHOLE.
 Will be sold at the Postoffice, Charleston,
 s. C., on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,
 at Il o'clock.
 The entire contents of the MACHINE SHOP, Boiler Shop and Foundry, known as the East Bay Iron Works, Charleston, s. C., belonging to the estate of the late M Kelly.
 These works are fitted with complete line of Machine Shop and Boiler Makers Tools such as Lathes, Planers Drill Presses, Boiler Punches, Rolls, Vises, etc.
 The works will be open for inspection every day after Monday December 2, be- tween the hours of and 10 o'clock, where a complete list of the machinery, tools, etc., can be found. The auctioneer will furnish on application a statement of the gross profits of the plant for ten years preceding the death of Michael Kelly. and will give cheerfully any further information desired.
 TERMS-One-fifth cash, balance on easy terms if properly secured, with the privi- lege, however, to the purchaser of paying all cash if he desires. 12-5-2t-thu,su