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Manila, Feb. B.—A second incursion
of small bodies of insurgents, result
ing In the retiring of the Nebraskan
outposts from Santa Mesa yesterday,
created some excitement last night,
but not a shot was fired, matters being
amicably adjusted. The Filipinos ar
rest all Americans within their lines.
Several of our soldiers are reported
to be missing, but there is no official
confirmation of this report.
The situation is deemed sufficiently
critical to warrant a reissuance of
emergency orders. The recently con
verted gunboat is patrolling the river
nightly, and is having a good effect
upon the natives. It carries two six
pounders forward, two Nordenfelts
amidships and four Gatlings in the
improved turret aft, and has a crew of
sixty men.
The insurgents contAue to concen
trate their forces around the city, the
latest addition being two hundred
naked Ygodoras, armed with spears,
from the station at Calloacano. Native
papers make a great fuss over these
volunteers.
AS SEEN BY BIOS.
Madrid, Feb. B.—General Bios, the
commander of the Spanish forces in the
Philippines, today cabled his govern
ment as follows : "The Americans re
pulsed the Filipinos after twenty
hours of hard fighting. The Filipinos
now occupy our old advance posts.
The American artillery and a squadron
of gunboats destroyed several villages
in the neigborhood of Manila. They
are treating the population with much
severity. Many arrests have been
made in the city. Troops occupy the
streets. The natives are not allowed to
circulate, although hostilities have
ceased. I have no news from the rest
of the archipelago. I am anxious
about our prisoners."
London, Feb. B.—The Filipino junta
here today received a cablegram from
Agoncillo, Aguinaldo's emissary t/) the
United States, who is now in Montreal,
Canada, in which he declares that he
"deplores the hostilities which have
had the effect of securing the ratifica
tion of the peace treaty," and that the
Filipinos were "far from being the ag
gressors, having been taken by surprise
and unprepared."
Manila, Feb. 9, 10:30 a. m.—The
rebels have selected Malabon as the
base of operations for the next encoun
ter. A considerable force is now con
centrating there. Many small bodies
are straggling in from the interior.
Aguinaldo is reported to havt estab
lished his headquarters at Malabon,
where he will rally his forces for a de
cisive blow. In order to cover their
movements the rebels opened fire on
our outposts. The rebels kept up a
fire for twenty minutes from the jungle
without effect. The Americans re
served their fire until a detachment of
the enemy emerged from the bamboos
when their volley made the rebels scut
tle for cover.
Manila, Feb. 10, 3:40 p.m.—ln antici
pation of an uprising unusual pre
cautions were taken in this city last
night, but they proved unnecessary.
No vessels have cleared from Manila
for other Philippine ports since Satur
day, and no news has reached outside
points. Even the detachment of the
Pennsylvania regiment on guard duty
at the convalescent hospital on Corre
gidor Island knew nothing of the
opening of hostilities until a supply'
boat notified them yesterday.
Manila, Feb. 10,7:30 p.m.—Our forces
attacked Caloocan thfs afternoon. The
action was short and decisive. The
Filipinos were driven out of their in
trenchments, our soldiers charging
fiercely over all obstacles and
in a hand to hand fight with the rebels
who fled in all directions and were
mowed down under our fire. It is esti
mated that fully twenty thousand na
tive troops were intrenched. Our
losses were comparatively small. The
■jss was heavy. The fighting
hree hours. General Otis was
mand. The land forces were
assisted by the gunboat Concord and
the monitor Manadnock. In response
to Admiral Dewey's threat to bombard
San Rogue the rebels hoisted a white
bThe Fifty first lowa, on entering
y after, found the village evacu
ated and burning.
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Death of Mrs. Margaret C. Foulke.
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oldest residents of Charlestown.W.Va., !
died Thursday after a short illness,
aged 82 years. She was twice married,
her first husband being a Mr. Miller,
and her second the late Isaac foulke,
at one time a well known attorney of
Charlestown, to whom she was mar
ried in 1850. The deceased was born
in Antrim county, Ireland, and came
to this country in 1836. She is survived
by five children, Miss Ella Foulke
Miss Annie Q. Miller and Mr. James
Miller, of Charlestown;
Foulke, of this city, and Mrs. bamuel
Walton, of Mercor county, W. Va. A
daughter, Miss Jennie C. Miller, died
about two weeks ago in this city.
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PLEA FOR BETTER ROADS
Mr. Editor—l know your readers
will be disappointed if your columns
do uot contain tbe usual annual spring
complaint of b id ro ids I dare say
this complaint is »o«ei.cral, that there
is not a man in the county that has not
on one or uiorr oeca-ionß grated his
neighbor with b.id roads; is not this
true? It is truly a condition and not
a theory that confronts us. We should
therefore cease complaining, and take
the time for the application Of a rem
edy. It is not only a fact that our
roads in the county of Augusta are
bad, but it is the morj startling when
we reflect that they are worse today
than they were last year, th«tyear be
fore; worse than five, wor*e than ten
years ago. At thin rat", what will be
the condition of <ur loads fl>e or ten
Farmers and taxpayer?, this s an
important question to consider. I*.
therefore, invite your thoughtful at
. That our county roads are now bad
and each day growing worse is a fact
patent, plaintive and potential. Now
then is it wise, is it prudent, is it busi
ness-like to go on from year to year,
from time to time and from bad to
worse without doing something to bet
ter the condition of our public high
ways? You muat not content your
self with saying, "Oil, we can't do
anything." I with to assure you there
is no difficulty in this matter so great
that it cannot be overcome! —there is
no condition without a remedy. Now
I wish your thoughtful attention in
order to give you what in my opinion
is the remedy. First, I will call your
attention to what I believe are defects
in our present s\ stem of maintenance
of public roads; I should say our lack
of system of maintenance, of public
roads. System means order; the words
are synonymous, but wbeu you look at
our roads cm you see tbe order?
First: Then our presi nt public road
system is wrong, iv that the roads are
maintained by and tl rough the me
dium of popular elections; now this is
wrong, for politics never did work the
roads, and never \vl 1, it is hard work.
Why is it that popular flections will
not always secure competent mainte
nance of public roads'? It is because
the principles of civil service cannot
be applied in popular elections. 1 wish
to emphasize this point, because civil
service means aud embodies the single
idea of qualification. It is therefore a j
matter of qualification aud selections
by and through popular elections, for
such work is politic il and has the
"political pull" in it. Nay, it does
not follow because a man is good in
the personal solicitation of public office,
that he is capabl - of properly doing
the work of that c ffice. I insist, there
fore, the first sti p toward securing
good roads is to take '.hem cut of the
elections.
Second: Our present road system
is wrong in that a targe portion of our
road fund is spent indirectly on new
roads, relocation of old roads, attend
ant with the cost of land damages,
commissions, commitments, and re
commitments, surveys and resurveys,
costs of suit and cotts of construction.
Thus it is leaving tha old defined road
i bed for a new location, which in time
is again abandoned, and so it goes,
j jumping from one mud hole to another.
; Well, why is this V The reason is in
the costs above stated; it will exhaust
[almost any fund The remedy is to
grade the roads and make them sta
tionary where they ure by means of a
system of steady, gradual, macadami
zation. It frequently costs as much
to relocate a half a mile of road bed,
passing through the system of costs
above enumerated, together with land
damages and costs of construction, as
it would to make that road bed sta
tionary where it is.
Third: The present road system is
wrong, in that the roads are worked
j spasmodically or semi occasionally,
here a little, therj a little, aud no
where thoroughly. This defect lies
principally in the fact that the work is
done by farmers (do not understand
me to mean that a farmer is not com
petent. I am a farmer myself, aud I
believe them proficient in all they un
dertake), but I assort as a fact that
there is not a day that a farmer can
find nothing to do on his farm. A
writer suggested a few days ago in one
of our papers that the farmer could
work the roads in payment of their
road taxes at times when they "cou'd
not do anything else." Now I differ
with him most materially and say that
the time to work the roads is when
you can do everything else, and that
is the reason the faniKr is too busy a
man to do it, for he must either neg
lect his farm or the road. I, there
fore, submit that road building de
mands attentiou at the time when it
is harvest for every farmer. The log
ical deduction is that the farmer must
employ men not actively engaged in
farming to maintain the public roads,
and demand that they be worked by
men skilled in road making without
fear or favor to any. This fact is of
special importance to the farmer, for
when he is busy with his harvest it is
all the more important that perma
nent road improvement should be go
ing on at the same time in order to
have the roads in a good condition to
market his produce, when he is una
ble to till the soil. 1 have endeavored
to call your attention to what I believe
to be defects in the present road sys
tem. I will, therefore, give you with
humble defference what I firmly be
lieve is the remedy, which would give
me pleasure to see adopted, honestly
believing the pub! ic good will be in-
First: The abolition of the present
maintenance of the public roads by
popular elections. Then place them
iv the hands of the board of supervi
sors of this county, who will exercise
a supervision over all the roads of the
county, to make such rules and regu
lations and pass men ordinances for
their maintenance and macadamiza
tion as provided or authorized by law
Thit the office of general superintend
ent of public roads be created by law,
and made appointive by said board,
and be subject to their control.
The general superintendent shall have
charge of all the roads and road work
of the couuty, who shall not be active
ly engaged in any other busiuess or
employment. The rea-ons are many,
but suffice it to say that by this meas
ure skill and merit can be secured at a
great saving to the road fund, and
then the people can put their finger
on the right man when occasion de
mauds.
Second: The work done and per
formed on the public roads must be
continuous; "as the use is so must the
I be" embodies the principle of
making. They must therefore
nstautly worked, by men making
heii business, in order to b>.come
iient in road making. Fancy, for
pie, the Cheapeake and Ohio
ray Company woiking their road
b°d "when they had nothing else to
do." Now thiß railroad company's
bed is divided into sections of several
miles each, and a force of four or five
men, under the supervision of a skilled
foreman, are kept constantly working
the year round on that section, and,
by systematic, steady and continuous
work from day to day, step by step,
this railroad company has brought its
road bed to its present high state of
excellence, deservedly so the best road
bed in the South. As the use is, so
must the work be. The work done on
our public roads must then be contin
uous and uninterrupted; there must be
replaced upon the public roads the
amount of bed worn away by public
use. This system is in practice, not
only by the railway company above
mentioned, but is substantially em
ployed by the old Valley Turnpike
Company. This system is available,
and that too without any appreciable
advance in our present rate of taxa-
Bas I shall hereafter presently
■d : For the maintenance of the
; roads the taxes should be uni
form aud equal in the several districts.
And why f Because the use is general;
Bis at present the tax is local. I
t, therefore, the tax should fol
e use.
:e is scarcely a day that the
■s do not use the roads of their
own or some other district, and parti
cularly is this true iv regard to dis
tricts surrounding our market centers.
Why not maintain all the live fence
between you and your neighbor? Sou
promptly answer because the burden
■ follow the benefit. There a*e
potent reasons, but space for
iut suffice it to say that the
taxes should be uniform and equal for
the maintenance of the public roads
of Augusta county. Now for some
figures to support .the change I ad
vocate. The total amount of the dis
trict levies for the past year together
with the appropriations out of the gen
eral county levy was $21,594.35. The
average district road levy is fourteen
and one half cents on the hundred dol
lars. The total amount of real and
personal property in the county of Au
gusta, subject to road-levy is §11,247,
-278. Now by a uulform and equal
road levy of sixteen cents on the hun
dred dollars together with the appro
priations from the the general couuty
levy would make a road fund of |26,
-000. I will now proceed to show with
this fund expended on our public
roads, will not only provide for their
maintenance but secure their ultimate
macadamization. It is conceded by all
with whom I have talked, that ten
men kept constantly employed the year
round, iv each of the districts, will
keep the roads of the districts in as
good repair as at present, and then
give them intervening time to thor
oughly macadamize on some princi
pal road therein. What is meant by
constant aud regular working the roads,
is to be understood to mean, at all pro
per and suitable times. You may safe
ly calculate upon a basis of two huu
dred days of steady work, this then as
a basis aud at reasonably good wages
for the ten men in each of our six dis
tricts would make a sum total of about
§12,000, now if ten men kept regularly
employed upon the roads of each dis
trict will do the work with time to
spare, how much more then will twenty
men do at a cost only of §24,000. I
make the assertion without fear of suc
cessful contradiction that twenty men
kept regularly employed in working
the roads of each district will keep
them in better repair than at present
and give them time iv addition to
macadamize several miles of road be
sides. Thus little by little, step by
step, year by year, (not how much, but
how well), of steady maintenance and
macadamization will ultimately secure
for us perfect public highways. An
other point in regular continuous road
making is obtained; men employed at
it, thereby become proficient and skill
ful in road making, and can therefore,
accomplish more in a given time than
men picked up at random to work a
day or so, now and then. There is
not an overseer in the county that will
not bear me out in this statement as
proof for skilled labor. I am unalter
ably opposed to a bond issue to im
prove our public roads so a word to
you who would advocate it, and to you
I farmers and tax payers on that line.
Have you overcounted the cost V Men
can deceive, but figures will not. Let
us suppose we were foolish enough to
undertake it for argument sake and
see where we will land. It wiil take
at least five hundred thousand dollars
to macadamize all the principal roads
of the county, well grant you; it will '
take twenty-five thousand yearly to
pay the anuual interest to accrue on
the bonds; as good business men you
must providea sinking fund, for the
ultimate redemption of the debt, of at
least five thousand dollars. This gives
us thirty thousand dollars for the
pleasure of speedily improved aud mac
adamised roads., but this is only half
of the cost; you forget .that the roads
are yet to be maintained, so at the
, lowest pos'ible estimate it will call for
thousand dollars annually for the
public roads. That means a road levy
of about forty cents on the hundred
dollars for the exclusive use of roads.
If you would like to have your road
taxes doubled, you can be accommo
dated in the bond ii-sue theory. What
is not good in private practice, is poor
in public principle. 1 am, therefoie,
opposed to tbe bond issue plan of pub
lic road improvement.
That we are reaching a crsis in our
public roads cannot be denied. I con
fidently believe that adopting the sys
tem I have briefly outlined wi!l ulti
mately secure for us good roads in due
season. Let us not become indifferent
when good weather comes and the
roads get hard,but lets be up and doing
then; and remember it is the only
time to make good roads. I have not
written ibis article with a view ot tiud
ing fault with the officials of our roads
but with the system that the law di
rects them to employ. Nor do I expect
the system I have rntlined to meet the
approval of the numerous small office
holders. Human nature will assert
itself, even in matters of public in
terest, as well as in private business
affairs.
Respectfully,
H. G. EichelbebgerJ
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SUIT AGAINST TODD.
Miss Jessie B. Rodgers, the young
lady from Highland who last week
caused a warrant to be issued by Po
lice Justice Landes, of this city, charg
ing John T. Todd, a saloon keeper of
this city, with taking her under fraud
ulent representations from her hotel
to a disreputable house and criminally
detaining her there, an account of
which appeared exclusively in the
Rtatok at the time, on Thursday
ng through her attorneys, Chas.
f and Hulst Glenn, instituted
si; o in the circuit court of this county
against Todd, the action being tres
pass on the case, laying her damages
at §3,000. The suit is styled, Jessie B.
Rodgers, an infant over the age of 14
years, who sues by her next friend,
James B. Bradshaw, against J. T.
Todd. An attachment was also issued
and levied on his barroom and fixt
ures, on §125 in money left with John
Peer, of the Highland House, and his j
bank account.
The declaration in the case will con
tain in addition to the genet al counts
seyeral special counts which charge
criminality in various legal forms.
Captain Bradshaw, who appears as
the next friend of the young lady, lives
at McDowell, Highland county, and is
one of the leading citizens of that
county. He has taken great interest
in the case, and is well acquainted with
the reputation of the younglady,which
in her neighborhood is said to be ex.
cellent. It is stated by her friends
that Miss Rodgers has indignantly re
fused all overtures of compromise and
spurned every attempt to get her to
accept money. She is now staying at
West Augusta. She has also employ
ed Mr. Curry to assist in the criminal
prosecution cf Todd should Le ever be
arrested. The §125 levied on in the
hands of John Peer, who keeps the
Highland House, is understood to be
the money which was left to be paid
to Miss Rodgers should she accept that
sum as a compromise.
Did you Knsw this about Caesar and
Napoleon?
Did you know that the two foremost
figures in the world's history, Caesar
aud Napoleon, were at one time the
victims of insidious nerve weakness
and disease ? Caesar was an epileptic,
and the great Napoleon was the vic
tim of nervous disorder. The secret of
their later wonderful successes lay in
the fact that they used every effort to I
be cured of their afflictions. Do you
for a moment suppose that they could
have succeeded if they had allowed
themselves to remain weaklings, with
exhausted nerves, nervous debility and
strength and euergy impaired by dis
ease ? So it is with men at the pr. scut
day. Many a young and middle aged
man through over work, indiscretion,
ignorance, excesses and folly has weak
ened his nerve power and physical
vigor uutil he feels himself lacking
manhood's powers to cope with the
world in this struggle for success. Re
main iv your present condition of
weakness, and failure in your under
takings is inevitable. Follow the ex
amples of Caesar and Napoleon-get
well, get back your physical and nerve
strength, powers and enery, and the
fullest measuie of success In the world
will be yours. Remember that the
strong survive and the weak fail. Sue-
X awaits only him who is strong,
at is the great lesson in this for
re weakened and exhausted men ?
By all means get back your health aud
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ist who has made the weakness and
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y, whose success in the treatment
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