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Low RATES FOR THE FOURTH
In pursuance of its usual policy, the
B. & O. r. R. will sell round trip
tickets between all ticket stations on
its lines east Of the Ohio River, for
all trains July 81 aud 4th, vslid for
return passage until July 9Th inclu-
sive, at greatly reduced rates.
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$4,000 In Gold Given

For Selling "story Of Spain and Cuba"
The International News & Book Co.,
Baltimore, Md, offer $4,000 to any.
one selling In three months 175 copies
OF their new book, "Story of Spain and
Cuba" Premiums and liberalcommis-
sion given for any quantity sold This
is one of the greatest selling bookso ut.
Many agents make from So to $40 a
day. A graphic account Of the present
war and the struggle for liberty is Civ
en-. 100 beautiful illustrations. 800 pages.
Freight paid and credit given Scot.
outfit free IL 10 cents Is sent for pos
tage. Write them Immediately.
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Gents Dress Shoes in Calf, Kan.
CARGO, Russet aud Patent Leather,
best makes and the very latest styles,
cheap at
FRANK Doll & Co.'s.
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Prescriptions carefully compound
ed day and night at A. NJ. Gi.bert,s
Drug Store, Queen and Race SITS.
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Evangelist Yeakley will remove
his tent to Wiliiamsport, Md.
We learn that there will positive.
ly be band concert on Friday
night.
| Ex-Sheriff Charles Miller was in
town yesterday with a wagon load
of fine peaches.
/ On Saturday, July 4, the post.of-
fee will be open only between 9 and
10 a. m. and and p. m.
Punctured tires are frequent now.
We really believe that some miscrs-
ants throw tacks on the road.
Mr.. Jas. Dunn has been awarded
the contract to repair the spring and
thus better our water supply. His
bid was $775.
Just few weeks ago West Vir.
ginian, Roy Stewart, of Monongalia
county, graduated at the head of his
class at West Point.
At recent commencement of the
q. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Nd, Mr.. Jessop, of Wheeling, stood
fourth in a class of 20.
Miss Korah Stuckey's School Of
Stenography and Type Writing has
been closed for the summer. Miss
Stuckey will make a several week 8
visit in the West.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
famous author of "Uncle Toms Cab
in" died very suddenly at her home
I in Hartford, Conn, on Wednesday,
at an advanced age.
Holy Communion will be admin
istered in st. Johns Lutheran
Church tomorrow, both morning
and evening. Preparatory services
will be held at 1890 a. m.
The Brooklyn Brass Works have
received another order, this time for
$500 brass lamps. They please the
trade, hence the large orders. 1t
speaks well for Martlnsburg.
Miss Lucy siler has passed her
final examination at Miss Stuckey's
School of Stenography, and is an
other of the practical testimonies of
the excellence of that school.
Mr.. Geo. McAneny, telegraph mes
senger of the B. & o. in this city,
will pass his final examination in 9
few days and then be placed on the
list of eligibles for telegraph opera
tors.
The Lutherans of the Cumberland
Valley will hold their reunion at
Mont Alto on September 10th. Hon.
Geo. L. wellington, senator-elect
from Maryland, will deliver the prin-
cipal address.
The state conventions of the va.
rious parties will be held in July.
The republican nomination for state
Ounces Will be made at Parkersburg
on July %, and the democratic nom.
nations at Wheeling on July -.
Mr.. A. B. Carmau, City Supt. OF
Free Schools, has gone to his home
in Richmond, o., to remain several
weeks. He will return in time to-
attend the Teachers Institute the
last week in July, for which he has
been engaged to conduct.
Harvard College has given its first
honorary degree to colored man,
having conferred the degree of A.
M. on Booker T. Washington, prin-
cipal of the Tuskogee Normal and
Industrial Institute, West Virgin
/ 10 hty hiytl l.
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Ladies' Shoes-The pretliest. the
best and largest stock in the civ.
and better still, very cheap, at
FRANK DOLL Il Co.'S
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Children Cry for
Pitchers CastOFIa.

Adamant and Calclned Plaster.
same as used on new Court house
for sale by j. Fl. MILLER 4 ScNs.
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G. W. ATKINSON,
Secretary.

Chamberlains Cough Remedy
cures colds, Group and whooping
cough. It is pleasant, safe and relia-
BILE. For sale by L. G. Mattha eli,
Druggist.
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Antietam Cement for ssln bv
j. III. MILLER gss
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastOgia.

Bicycle Shoes-A large sa,i con-.
plete stock and at very IN derate
prices, at
FRANK Doll & Co. s.
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Farmers and Mechanics you are
interested in the opportunity to buy
Plow-Shoes, Creedmores and bale.
Tor every day use, cheaper than ever
before. FRANK DOLL & Co. g stock
OF them is very large and better for
the money than ever in the history
of Shoes.
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SALE CLERK.

Having clerked sales 40 years, I offer
my services 20 people intending to sell.
CHARGES REASONABLE. EN-
TIRE SATISFACTION GUARAN-
TEED. / viii assist in advertis-
ing and arranging goods, and other de-
tails G. e. LOCKHART,
Office Blondel Building.
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Genuine BARGAINS in every
thing in the line / keep. When | say
bargains | mean it. Come and see.
W. L. JONES, Jeweler.
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WV. STEWART. PRESIDENT.
DECATUR HEDGES, Wcs.PREsiosNT.
GEO. S. HILL, CASHIER.
JOHN H, DolL, ASSISTANT CASHIER.
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AUOTIONEER.
Old Veteran.

Old friends request me to again take
service as auctioneer in the counties OF
Berkeley and Jefferson. Call on or ad-
dress me at Little Georgetown.
L. s. HOWARD.
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Harvard College has given is first
honorary degree to a colored man
having conferred the degree of A,
M. on Booker T. Washington, prin.
cipal of the Tuskogee Normal and
Industrial Institute, a West Virgin
ian by birth, and leader of hisrace,
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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1896.

My life closed twice before its close;
IL yet remains to see
If Immortality unVeil
A third event TO me,
SO huge, SO helpless TO conceive
As this that twice befell,
Parting Is all we know of heaven,
And all we need OF hell.
Emily Dickinson, an June ,Scrf5ner
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LOCAL NEWS.

L. Dew. GERHARDT, Local Editors and
N. WISNER, Jr., Business Managers.
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j. p. THOMPSON & BRO.

H.
Statesmen. md all buv o~o
THoMPsoN.g
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Evangelist Yeakley will remov
his tent to Wiliamsport, Md.
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Mr.. Jas. Dunn has been awarded
the contract to repair the spring and
thus better our water supply. His
bid was $775.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
BRIGHT BITS.

--Ethel-I suppose 1 shall have to wear
this veil; it's the only one / have. It's
so thick one can hardly see my face
through it,
body says you never hand on anything
half so becoming.-Boston Transcript.
Wife (drearily): All. me, the days of
chivalry are past.
Husband: What's the matter now?
Wife: Sir Walter Raleigh laid his cloak
on the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk
over, but you get angry because poor,
dear mother sat down on your hat.-Tit-
Bits.
The Bottle-"Glass eating" observed
a freak who was as yet unclassified. lis
a bad business. A glass eater IS thrown
much in the way of temptation. l have
known several TO become addicted to the
The Zulu chief, to whom all civilization
was new, laughed boisterously but 9TH
erwise all was intensely and oppress!vely
still.-Detroit Tribune
He Compromised Hargreaves-You
know that cold of mine? Well, here are
some of the remedies suggested by my
friends: Whisky and quinine antipyrine
and whisky, whisky and lemon, whisky
and sugar, and whisky, rock candy and
Ferry-Well. which do you intend to
take? ,s 793b n -
Hargrea ves-6iuess I'll compromise on
WHlShys-NlnClnnlt enquirer.
The Rontgen Rays
When the wives get on to the new X ray,
There's going to be the dickens to pay,
And many man who is now gay and
frsky,
win swear off for good on all sorts of
whisky.
You come home some morning at half
past four,
And the key-hole gets wandering all over
the door;
You had only one drink; are sure il was
hOcussed;
But just wait till WHEY gets that camera
focused.
When she shows you the negative taken,
next day,
It's dollars to doughnuts you'll have moth
ing to say.
Though of drinks you've sworn you had
only one,
What the photograph shows would fill up
tun. w. r.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
Personal.

Oswald Nerlineer. a German. has made
cup Of common pepper corn. which
holds 20 other ivory cups, with hanole
10 each, all gilt on the edges, with room
for 100 more.
Gov. Wells Of Utah is a Mormon, and
forty OF the sixty-three legislators are
Mormons The United states senators sl
tiles.
Mrs. Mackay has decided to sell her
magnificent hotel in the Place iArc de
1riomphe. Paris, and viii IN the future re-
side in London The reputed purchaser IS
the proprietor of a famous Partisan per-
Iumery establishment.
The picture on which the late Lord
Leighton was engaged just previous TO
MS death represents Perseus T1dlng on
the Pegasus and going TO the reneI OF
Anqroneda; the mythical nero y bearing
with him the head Of the dread Medusa~
Jean de Reszke it is announced, will
finally marry the Countess Miramailli, who
has been betrothed 10 him for some time
but could not marry until she got her d.
vorce from her husband. II is said the
wedding will occur in May and that Jean
VIII leave the stage soon afterWard
Leo XIII has written letter to Car
dinal Parocchi, president of the commit
tee on sacred arena eology, instructing him
to continue. with the aid OF his committee.
the work on ia Roma Sotterranea Chris
tiana," begun thirty years ago, and in
terrupted by the recent death of ROssi.
-Alphonse Daudet recently told a friend
that his ambition was to be the editor-in-
chief of some great journal. He said that
ne had tried with an his might to attain
this end. but had failed. 1t is too late
haps some day may be editor of a maya
zine"
-Stepniak's friends have held a meeting
in London for the purpose of raising funds
for a memorial OF him. The memorial is
TO take the form of provision for Nine
Stepnlak. Stepniak never saved any mon
ey. His income from hisliterary work was
never large and he was very generous
Nine. Stepniak viii write a life of her hus-
band.
Mr.. E. c. Baly, an English scientist,
believes he has discovered that, as was the
case with nitrogen, the oxygen in the air
is mixture of two distinctly different
gasses. These recent discoveries are max
ing the atmosphere a more complicated
thing than the school books set forth Mr..
Baly noticed the difference in oxygen after
1t had been electrified.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
Showing They Were Needed.


The new commissions which, by the
grace Of the legislature, have assumed
the management Of the affairs Of the
city are all anxious. apparently. 10 be
doing something to show there was a
necessity for their creation. The latest
long felt want OF our people is a new
engine house on Bay street. near Jener-
son, and It is proposed 10 utilize a part
OF Bay street as a site for it,
1t is a question whether the city has
the right TO use the land in question
for an engine house or any other pur-
pose. The open space north of the road
way is just as much a part Of Bay street
between jefferson and Barnard streets as
it is between Drayton and Abercorn
streets. In fact. it is even more so, for
the reason that buildings not only face on
it on the north and south, but also on
the west.
1t is difficult to understand. for sew
eral reasons. why the fire commission
should propose such a project, but es-
pecially when 1t is well known that the
large and substantial brick building at
the corner of Indian and West Broad
streets, formerly known as Tynans foun-
dry, which could be easily adapted TO the
needs Of the fire department, can be pur-
chased for about S6.WO-a sum much less
than that for which an engine house and
firemen's quarters could be built
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
A Movement for Carlisle.

The dinner which the Manhattan Club
gives to Mr.. Carlisle to-day is interpreted
TO he the beginning Of a movement to make
him the democratic nominee for Pres
idents He is not very popular with the
bankers of New York, for the reason that
when he has visited that city he has been
careful to avoid representatives of the
money interest. The bankers resent his
mistrHst Of them, and it is probable that
they viii not be out in full force at the
dinner.
However, they know that he is a sound
money man and that his position on the
tariff question is the right one. They also
know that he is thoroughly honest man,
and that no amount of adverse criticism
can make him abandon position he be-
lieves to be right. Therefore, while they
may not be eager to be present at a din
ner given to him there is no doubt they
would give him very hearty support if
he should be chosen to lead the national
ticket.
The Manhattan is the leading demo-
cratic club of New York. Its members
include nearly all the prominent demo-
cratic politicians of the state A dinner
therefore, by that club means a great
deal more than a simple courtesy to a
high government official.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Carlisle is
held in high esteem not only by leading
men of New York, but also by all classes
of people who favor sound money. His
popularity is not confined to any pa.ticu-
lar section Of the country, though he is
much more popular in localities where
the sound money sentiment predomi-
mates.
And his chance for getting the prize is
excellent. 1t seems to be quite generally
understood that Mr.. Cleveland will not be
in his way and that he win have the sup
port OF the administration That being
the case there, is no good reason why he
should not be successful Even in the sill
yer strongholds of the south he has many
warm friends who will make a brave
fight for him, Il nominated.
The speeches delivered at the dinner
at least some Of them-win be read with
keen interest, with the hope of finding
something TO indicate the real feeling in
New York respecting Mr.. Carlisle in the
character of a Presidential candidate.
There are reasons for thinking that the
democratic party would do popular
thing to make a southern man it's candi-
date for the presidency. The south would
be satisfied and neither the east nor the
west could offer any reasonable objec-
ton to Mr.. Carlisle. His state, Kentucky,
did not seeede, and Mr.. Carlisle was not
identified with the secession movement.
Indeed, there is no point of view from
which anything could be said against Mr..
Carlisle that would have any weight with
thinking men.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
They Have short Memories.

The newspapers that are visiting their
i'll will on Secretary Carlisle for his re-
fusal to respond favorably to the appeal
to him of Senator Blackburn and his
friends to urge the sound money demo-
Gratis of the Kentucky legislature to abars
don their principles and vote for Black
burn for senator, have very short mem
cries. Do they not remember what Sen,
ator Blackburn said, in an authorized in
terview last fall, during the progress of
the campaign in Kentucky? If they Go
not, they should hunt up the interview
and read it,
In it Blackburn complained that the
administration was against him and his
aspirations for a reelection to the Senate,
saying that the administration officials in
Kentucky had been instructed to work
against him. Continuing he said:
Il do not recall any spectacle in the
history of the country where a Secretary
of the Treasury went into any state of the
nnion to tell the people to down a man
who is a candidate for the United States
Senate. 1 think that German and Bricc
are making a mistake in Maryland and
Ohio in trucking to the administration
in the slightest degree. take an entirely
opposite course. l tell the people that 1
defy the President, the Secretary of the
Treasury and all other employees of the
government who endeavor to interfere in
the affairs of our state. l tell them fur
Their that 1 would rather have the Presl-
dent himself to come into Kentucky to tell
the people who should be their senator.
than to have a cabinet officer, or any
other employee of the administration, come
before the people to tell them what they
should do"
No later than last September Senator
Blackburn condemned Mr.. Carlisle for
making sound money speeches in Ken
lucky. He said he defied the Secretary
of the Treasury, who had undertaken to
interfere in the affairs of the state. and
he spoke derisively of a cabinet officer
| who would attempt TO tell the people
what they should do. Now, he is singing
a different tune. He is endeavoring to
belittle Mr.. Carlisle for refusing to tell
the representatives of the people what
they should do. Truly, it is a difficult
matter to understand Senator Blackburn.
1t seems that man who is not ready to
obey his beck and call, and lend him a
helping hand whenever he needs assist
ance. without regard to any principle
that may be involved. is worthy only Of
abuse.
The renf1blican marty, &c i,,et fo,.+,, 49,,
old. The first national convention in the
history of the party was held in Pitts
burg on Feb. %, 1856.
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Quay and the Delegates.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican Qnd)

Quay is said to be just mean enough to
break right into the game of hunting
southern delegates which the other can
didates are playing so industriously, and
try to get the entire lot for himself The
captured when on one of his tarpon fish
ing trips, his agents are reported as active
in Alabama and Georgia. with an eye on
the Carolinas and Virginia, and he is said
to have grip on Mississippi because he
lived there a short time way back in the
40s. If he gets half as many of these
southern delegates as are claimed for him
and holds the delegation from Pennsyl-
vania, he will have the republican party
where he can compel any nomination he
chooses, and will not need Platt's help
either.
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Speaker reeds "PInn..
From the Chicago Times-Herald Gr


The campaign being at hand, Mr.. Reed
IS reported ready to organize himself and
his following. which need not be under
rated, on a platform not absolutely novel,
but not the less interesting on that ac-
count. He will propose another interna-
tonal monetary conference with the avow-
ed purpose of rehabilitating silver by
agreement, and, on the presumption that
all nations except England will agree to
some new or old ratio and free coinage,
Mr. Reed would then propose a reciprocity
scheme exclusive of England. The coun-
tries agreeing TO free silver coinage he
would undertake to league with one an
other to favor mutual commercial ex-
changes. with a special import duty in
each against England. This Mr.. Reed, if
correctly reported, believes would compel
England to return to the free coinage of
silver, which would thus. in his alleged
opinion, be made standard money. " >
But Mr.. Reeds plan of campaign will not
yeX either America or Europe. He cannot
ma even among free silver men support
Tor proposal as visionary as it is I'M
worthy.
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Gen. Benjamin Harrison is in New York
for the purpose of making arrangements
for his marriage TO take place in April.
He has declared that he is not in the race
for the presidential nomination of his
party. Nevertheless the politicians are
watching him like hawks. They are afraid
that he will do or say something that will
put him into the race again, or that Will
aid the prospects of some of the other can
didate. Alas. the fate of the poor "emi-
nent gentleman
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
Recognition of the Cubans.
From the New orleans Picayune Dem.

Recognition of the belligerent rights
of the Cubans by the United States would
be promptly followed by similar recogni-
ton on the part of the various Latin
American republics. and possibly Great
Britain. While such recognition would
confer no actual privileges which the in
surgents do not now enjoy, its moral
influence would be considerable as IL
would enable the Cuban provisional gov
eminent to float bonds, and probably also
to secure a few fast ships, which would
greatly injure Spanish commerce.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25
CURRENT COMMENT.
I<entucky and Silver.
From Louisville courier-Journal Der

From Louisville Courier-Jour Dem).
The republican state convention declar-
the democratic state convention declared
by a vote of three to one for sound
money; of Kentucky's congressional dele
cation of thirteen, only three voted or
were paired for the free silver bill in the
recent vote on that measure. And vet
there are some people who still insist that
Kentucky is for free silver.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25

The first bona fide democratic presiden-
tial boom of the season was launched in
Boston last week, in the interest of Secre-
tary Richard Olney of Massachusetts, The
occasion of the launching was the JOINT
dinner of the democratic state committee
and the Young Mems Democratic Club
of Massachusetts. There were some 400
persons present, and it was declared that
the Massachusetts delegation to the Chi
cage convention would support the sec
rotary for the nomination. Mr.. Secretary
Olney has come prominently before the
country lately in connection with the cor
respondence between this government and
that of Great Britain on the Venezuela
matter, and it may transpire that he will
have a strong following at the conven-
ton