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Virginia .free %xt*s.
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November 3. tS9S. _
Congratulation*, Gov. 0 Ferrall.
Virginia isO. K —O'Ferrall and Kent.
Congress adjourned last Friday. It will
convene again °n the 4th of December.
The Populists of Virginia can’t crow over
yesterday’s electiou because their Cocke
hasn’t much voice in it.
The opponents of Col. O’Ferrall took a
good many “ underbolts,” but true to hi*
nickuame he Tripped 'em.
The cork flew out of the Pop bottle in
Virginia yesterday. There was too much
effervescence the day before.
The House bill amending the Geary Chi
Qfte-exclusion act so as to extend the time
given the Chinese to register has been pass
ed by the Senate.
The Emperor of China is also learning
the English language. If he arrives at the
verbs, what will he think when his teacher
goes over, 'T teach, thou tea chest, etc f"
The Washington papers announce that
President Cleveland and Hon. Wm. L. 'V il
son were in conference on Monday, and it
is supposed tariff reform »a. the topic spe
cially under consideration.
If President Cleveland wants to appoint
a Virginian to the vacancy occaa oned by
the death of Judge Hugh L Bond, he will
have no difficulty in getting oue that is well
endorsed. Nearly every town in the State
has recommended it* “leading lawyer' for
the position.
It is said that the friends of M*j<»r Holme*
Conrad, Assistant Attorney-general, will
urge his appointmeut to succeed Judge Bond.
Msj. Conrad has already declared himself a
candidate for the U. S. Senate. Hon. H.
Kyd Douglass is also mentioned as a possi
ble successor of Judge Bond.
tJenator Allen's famous silver speech wa
the longest speech ever printed in the £b»
jrtuiona! Renrd, and filled sixty-two pages.
The Government Printing Office ran out of
type while setting the speech and was corn
pelted to -end it in -instalment* to Mr.
Allen for revision. In pamphlet form the
speech would make a hook of a hundred and
seventy-five closely printed pages.
A cow at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, -wal
lowed an umbrella. A veterinary surgeon
was called and t<*ok from her several rib*
and the covering of the umbrella. He think*
there are other rib* under the skin—and it
•he is after the fashion of c *ws generally it
is likely tbit is *o. The cow live* and is
the envy of the town g-at, whose diet is tin
can*, and a-ks “How can these thing* be*'
Mr. Charles Button, who was editor of the
late Lynchburg IVyi/iMM, is being urged
by bis friends for the place of public print
er, «ay» a Washington correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette. If he desire* the place
we trust our life-time friend will get it —
Good business qualifications, with experi
ence in printing, and integrity—all possess
ed by Mr Button, will commend him to the
President.
It was a matter of remark in last year's
campaign that nearly enough former Repub
lican cabinet officers were in revolt again-*
their party to make up a cabinet. George
it. Robeson. Secretary of the Navy under
Grant, has follow**! their example, and re
cently declared in a public speech that the
Republican party was dead, and that those
wb«> held Republican principles could not
do better than to vote gainst the party now
di-erscing its name
Senator Hill lias offered two amendments
to the rules of the Senate, providing that
no Senator while speaking shall be inter
rupted with the question of the lack of a
quorum, and that the question sha.l not lie
raised ofteuer than once in an hour—the
provision not to apply where the absence of
a quorum ia disclosed by a roll call; also
that a Senator who is present when the roll
is called and refuses to respond to his name
shall be counted a* present for the purpose
of making a quorum.
John Sherman said in a speech in Ohio a
few days ago that the greatest question now
before the people of the United States is the
disfranchisement of voters in the South—
virtually confessing thereby that the tariff
and th<* other issues upon which the Repub
lican party has in part relied in the last few
years will avail no longer, and that it is
compelled to appeal again to the paaaions
and prejudices of twenty years ago. Over
whelmingly defeated on the tariff, and dis
credited in its pretensions to Mipnrior finan
cial wisdom, the only mission of the grand
old party is to endeavor to revive sectional
hatred.__ ^_
The House of Representatives last Wed
nesday, by a vote of 193 yras to 94 nays,
ooncurred in the Senate amendment to the
Wilson repeal bill, on motion of lion. Win,
L. Wilson ; and the bill was signed by the
President the same day. The silver men
rejected a proposition of Mr. Wilson (who
had demanded the previous question on his
motion) for a reasonable time for debate,
and commenced to filibuster, but were cut
abort by the Speaker, who took advantage
of a momentary intermission of dilatory
motions to put the question. The previous
question haviug been ordered, there was a
half hour’s discussion, closed by Mr. Wilaoo
who said that the future only could deter
mine whether the friends or the enemies of
the bill were right, and that if its passage
should bring about but a small part of the
blessings predicted—should restore confi
dence and bring prosperity, the judgment
of its friends would be justified and its op
ponents would stand before history as men
of honest, patriotic but mistaken judgment.
• A motion by Mr. Bland tocomn.it the bill
with Instructions to bring in a free-coiuage
amendment was, of course, defeated.
TCESDATS ELECTIOSS.
Virginia—Col. O’Ferrall’* Majority
96,000— Probably 40,000.
The election in Maryland resulted in the
success of the Democratic State ticket.
The legislature will be largely Democratic.
The Democratic municipal ticket was
[ elected in Baltimore.
The returns from Virginia Indicate the
election of the Democratic State ticket head
ed by Hon. Charles T. 0 Ferrall, for Gov
ernor, by an overwhelming majority. It is
probable that on a largely decreased vote,
compared with that of 1889. O’Ferrall’s ma
jority will be at least as large as that of Gov
ernor McKinney, which was about 42,000.
In many of the cities and counties the col
ored vote seems to have gone to the Demo
crats. The Legislature is also largely Dem
cratic, which insures United States Senators
for that party for the long and short terms.
With the exception of a few counties the
Populists made a very poor showing of
strength.
The Democratic rftate ticket in New York
was defeated, including Judge Mavnard for
the Court of Appeals. The Republicans
elected their candidate for mayor in Brook
lyn.
In Massachusetts ex Congressman Fred
erick T. Greenhhlge, R-puhlican. was elect
ed Governor by about 25,000 majority over
John E. Russell.
Gov. Horace B >ie*, Democrat, was defeat
ed by about 30,000 votes for re-election in
Iowa.
The Demnciata in Kentucky elected a
Legislature, which will return Hon. Win.
Lindsay to the United States Ssenate.
Gov. William McKinley was re-elected
Governor of Ohio by over 40,000 over Law
__ T Va«l n.-mocrat.
The success in the setttlemeut of the Vir
ginia debt with the creditors of that State,
which hss recently bceu aftected by a com
mittee. lias suggested a like sct'lemeut of the
debt of West Virgiuia. Negotiations to this
end have been carried on for several weeks
past with the Mercantile Trust and Deposit
Company of Baltimore, which, through ita
president, Mr. John Gill, has consented to
act as a mediator in tho matter aud to occupj
the pOfition held by the Central Trust Com
pany of New York iu the settlement of the
Viiginia debt. Mr. Gill was a member of
the committee which made a satisfactory ad
justment of the Viginia deb*. He is famil
iar with the financial status oi the two Vir
ginias and the relations they bear to each
other in the original debt, created before
Virginii was divided. The Mercantile
Trust Company has organized an adjustment
company to undertake the settlement ol
Virginia’s debt. This company as
same* all responsibility in the prvliuiiuarv
stages of the adjustment. The directors of
the adjustment company are: Messrs. John
QUI, John A Hainbleton, and Richand M.
V. n'sble, of Baltim >re ; United States Sen
tor Eppa Hunton and Mr. Jame- B Pac-, of
Virginia, and Col. R P Chew, of West \ ir
giuia Mr. G'nl is president of the company.
Mr John A. Hainbleton is vice president
and Mr. McHenry is secretary and treasurer.
As a first step in the settlement the adju-t
rnent company has secured the consent of
ex-Governor William Pinkney Whyte, of
Baltimore, Charles Francis Adams, of Bos
ton. and Major Holmes Conrad, «»f V irgiuia,
to serve hs au advisory board. All questions
relating to the proposed settlement will be
referred to this board, and no action will be
taken until ita consent has been obtained to
*-ach stop as the aett'ement progr saes. It is
said t io members of the board will insp’re
c»nfidtiice in the actiou of the adju-tmeut
company.—Baltimore Sun
On Friday last a small steamer laden
with dynamite l)ing in the dock at ?>an
Under. 5»pain. caught fire The fire depart
ment was ordered out, and pe >ple thronged
the vicinity, ignorant oi me uingerom um
goon the burning vessel. The explosion
came and destroyed everything in the neigh
borhood—quays, buildings, ve-sela in the
harbor, and all the telegraphic wires. The
city was set on fire. The city fire depart
ment was destroyed by the explosion, and
the only dependence was upon engines sent
from surrounding towns. All those on
board or near the dynamite steamer and all
those aboard a tug-boat alongside of her, as
well as the officers and crew of the transat
lantic liner, Atphonso XII. were killed by
the explosion. The body of the Civil O >v
ernor. who was directing the operations on
the quay, has been recovered. It is official
stated that over 300 persons were killed, in
cluding twenty-seven civic guards, the
whole police force except two members,
several officials, and a majority of the pas
sengers on a railway train that had just
arrived. The number of the injured is very
large, and many are dying from the lack of
medical aid. Dozens arc missing.
Senator Faulkner is spoken of as a suc
cessor to the late Judge Bond for U. S. Cir
cuit Judge. Judge Goff was Judge Bond's
associate in the district. It is not probable
that two West Viuinians would be placed on
the bench in a district composed of so many
States, aud even if it was. Senator Faulkner
is needed where he is He wou’dmakeagood
Judg \ but he is as good a Senator, and he
can stay in the Senate as many years as he
cares to.—Xeie Dominion.
The marriage of Senator Faulkner to Miss
Virginia Whiting will take place the latter
part of January. The ceremony will be
celebrated in the Episcopal Church at
Hampton, where the full choral service will
be used on that occasion. There will be
forty persons in the wedding party, aud the
preparations for the marriage will be on an
unusually magnificent scale.—Martintbnrg
Herald.
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With all West Virginians we note with
pride the numerous occasions on which our
distinguished fellow-»ownsman, Senator
Faulkaer, has been called upon to tempt
rarily preside over that most distinguished
and dignified legislative b»dy, the United
States Senate. When called upon to make a
ruling it is always forthcoming with prompt
i ness and accuracy.—Martiwtorg Statetman,
Ncxcay Note*.
Of the 1008 counted victims of thv Louia
inana coaat floods, only 53 were negroes.
A colored man named Sam Th >mp*on
accidentally shot and killed bis wilt at Ha*
gerstown last Thursday week.
The Globe says fully 1,000 people went
from Washington county to the World's
Fair. About 830 tickets were sold in Ha
gerstown.
Five thousand wild ducks were killed on
the flats of the Susquehanna below Havre
de Grace last Wednesday to celebrate the
opening of the shooting season in Mary
land waters.
Mr. Risser Huber, an estimable citizen of
Martinsburg, died very suddenly Thursday
morning. He had returned from the
World's Fair the previous day in seeming
good health.
Abner Redman, a desperate character,
was lynched last week in Charlotte county,
Va. His last outrage, aud the one which
occasioned the lynching, was a murderous
assault on a colored man.
Jacob F. Miller, of Washington county,
Md., was struck on the head by a stone
thrown by Harry Grove, and died the same
evening. Grove was ordered off land on
which he had been shooting, and a quarrel
ensued.
Fire broke out among the miners' cotta
ges at Monongah, near Fairmont, November
1st, and destroyed twenty-two buildings be
longing to the coal company and valued at
$12,000. The loss to the miners occupying
them was several thousand more.
A postal card was found amour Secretary
Carlisle’s mail, advising the administration
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financial troubles, and saying that there was
no doubt about the legal right to do so. It
whs from Preudergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison.
There was a big fire at Monongab, Mari
on county, Wednesday that burned ten
double houses, one single, and one torn away
to head oflf the fire—in all 22 dwellings.—
About $9,000 worth of buildings consumed.
The residences were mostly occupied by
Poles and Slavs.
Rev. Mr. Bagby, who has been elected
chaplain of the House of Representative*,
is probably the youngest man who ever till
ed that office. He is a son of Captain Bag
by, of King William county, Va , a gallant
ex Confederate, and is a cousin of the late
Dr. George W Bagby.
Capr. John McLure,of Wheeling, atone
time very largely interested in Ohio river
navigation, and well known in the trade all
along the Ohio, died Sunday, after a brief
illness, in liis seventy-ninth year. He amass
ed a I a rue fortune, and was proprietor of
the McLure House, a leading hotel in that
city.
G. W. L. Mayers left yesterday for Clarke
county, Va., to make preparations for the
interment of the remains of his brother,
which are on the way to America from
Chili. The remains will arrive in New
York about Nov. 10, where Mr. Mayers will
meet and take charge of them.—Fbirmont
free Preti.
Col. John G. Chonteau, one of the best
known ciiizena of 8t. Louis, and who is
worth about $2,000,000, created a sensation
at 11 o’clock last Friday night by puttting
down a brick pavement. He wore a black
ailk hat and kid gloves, and with a helper
was working as assiduously as a mechanic
paid by the hour.
Tne steamer City of Alexandria, belong
itig to the New York and Cuba Mail Steam
ship Company, was burned at sea last week,
twenty five miles from Havana. Thirty
four or five persons were drowne I ; the rest
reached shore in life boats. The fire was
caused by an explosion, and tour niinureu
bsriels of rum helped to feed the flames and
made it impossible to save the ship.
Thahksglvlng Proclamalion.
State of West Virginia, Executive Chamber,
Charleston. Xov. Uh. 1838.— Thursday, Nov.
30ih, 1893, is hereby appointed as a day of
thanksgiving, therefore I suggest that said
day be observed in accordance with the es
tablished customs, as a day of Thanksgiving
and charity.
Given under my hand at the city of
Charleston, this 4th day of November, 1893.
Wm. A. MacCokkle.
By the Governor,
W. E CHILTON, Secretary of State.
A well-known Congressman tells this on
President Cleveland. Last summer the
President and Col. Dan. Lauiont were
fishing for ba«s in a big lagoon not far
from Buzzard’s Bay, using live frogs for
bait. The President had remained still for
several hours without results and had been
watching a big frog on a log across the la
goon whose strident notes occasionally shook
the trees. Finally the President said :
“Dan., look at that blank big frog over
there on the log Wonder if we couldn’t
catch him?”
Colonel Dan. slowly adjusted his glasses
and viewed the amphibious creature. “Gro
ver,” he replied sadly, “that is your bait.”
It is said tha' an average waltz takes one
about three-quarters of a mile. A square
dance makes you cover half a mile. Twen
ty dances is the average of an evening, and
it is a very moderate estimate to say that in
one evening a girl dances twelve and a half
miles. This is what she does with her feet,
but at the same time bow far does her tongue
travel ? Anywhere from fifty, seventy-five or
a hundred miles, and not a track in memory.
Stop! There are meaningless words, like
fragments of tnnes, that linger with us a
long, long time and are unutterably sweet.
After all, as Thackery says, what folly will
not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable?
What dullness will not red lips and sweet
accents render pleasant?
“This is my youngest boy, Mr. Cynicus,”
said the novelist. “They say he is very
like me.”
“Does he go to school ?”
“Yes. He can read quite well, but as
yet b * <■ • i’t write.”
-ery much like you,” said Mr.
Cyc
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Recollections of tlie Fair.
In an article on "The Last Days of the
Fair,” in a late number of Harper s Weekly,
Mr. Richard Harding Davis wrote charming
ly of the nightly illumination of the Court
of Honor”—a scene that every visitor to
the Fair remembers with pleasure. It was
best to be enjoyed from the water, in a \ en*
etian gondola or an electric launch. If
you are in a launch on the water you can
give yourself up entirely to the scene around
you, and you have the added wonder of the
sight of thousands of people massed in si
lent rows around the edge of the lagooD,
just as though they were waiting for some
great event to happen, or for some miracle
in keeping with the tremendous beauty of
the scene about them. People try to give
you an idea of this scene by comparing it
to Venice on the nights when that city is
illuminated, and to the beauty of the Acrop
olis when it is shown off by colored lights
and fireworks. This is the best the Old
World can do towards helping us to under
stand this city of the New World. But it
is not enough ; for while Venice has the ef
fects of the lights on the water, she has not
the great buildings grouped so closely and
so grandly together, nor are the Parthenon
and the other ruins of the Acropolis on a
scale of sufficient grandeur to make one un
derstand in any particular the extent of the
temples of the Lake Front. It is like try
ing to appreciate the Sphinx in the desert
by the little bronze copy you use for a paper
weight. This same Sphinx by moonlight
was the most impressive thing I saw in the
East. Not as one sees it by day, with tour
ists aud photographers and donkey-boys
making it cheap and familiar, but at night,
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donkey-boys had been paid to keep out of
sight, and the moonlight threw the great
negro face and the pyramids back of it into
masses of black and stiver, and the yellow
desert stretched away on either side so emp
ty and silent that one thought he was alone
and back two thousand years in the past,
discovering these great monuments for the
first time. And yet the ‘Court of Honor’
illuminated was as much more impressive
than this as the ocean by moonlight is more
impressive than the painted ocean on the
hack drop of a theatre. And the curious
wonder of the sight is that while all of the
great monuments of the Old World have
histoiical values hack of them to help their
impressiveness, these of the World’s Fair
have nothing to speak for them but what
lies before you. They have no past to help
them ; and, what is worst of ail, they have
no future. That every one who has visited
the Fair should feel this so keenly is signif
icant of one of its greatest qualities. It is
this peculiar charm which makes you feel
that it has become a part of you and of your
experience; you have made your home there
as you do in certain cities and not in others,
and as you certainly never did in any other
World’s Fair. You find you have grown
to want certain of its views and vistas, and
that you have accustomed yourself to its
ways and its comforts. You cannot give up
tho thought that you will never again glide
through the lagoons at night in a gondola,
with a Venetian singing ‘Santa Lucia’ at
the bow, and with the wooded islands glow
ing with fairy lamps like tire-flies, and the
ducks and swans hurrying out of your way,
or that you cannot sweep into the ‘Court of
Houor’ and feel your own insignificance as
the search-lights turn and twist like a fenc
er’s foil, pointing down to the fountain or
up to the winged angels, or stealing along
the length of the Peristyle silently as one
who shows something to you and makes no
comment, knowing there is none to make."
President's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Washington, Nov. 3.—President Cleve
land this afternoon issued the following
Thanksgiving Day proclamation :
‘‘While the American people should every
day remember with praise and thanksgiving
the Divine goodness and mercy which have
followed them since their beginning as a
nation, it is fitting that one dav in each vear
should be especially devoted to the contem
plation of the blessing we have received
from the hand of God and to the grateful
acknowledgement of His loving kindness.
“Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President
of the United States, do hereby designate
and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of the
present month of November, as a day of
thnnksgiving and praise, to be kept and ob
served by all the people of our land. On
that day let us forego our ordinary work and
employments, and assemble in our usual
places of worship, where we may recall all
that God has done for us, and where, from
grateful heart-*, our united tribute of praise
and song may reach the Throne of Grace.—
Let the reunion of kindred and the social
meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment
to the day, and let generous gifts of charity
for the relief of the poor and needy prove
the sincerity of our thanksgiving.”
The New York World, in commenting
upon Mr. Sherman’s offer to help the gov
ernment out of its financial trouble, says:
“Republican statesmen had their innings
for four years, and they should be a little
modest in attempting to run things after the
people have turned them out. They found
a treasury surplus and left a deficit. They
found au excess of revenue and left a lack.
They received an accumulation of nearly
$100,000,000 of gold above the legal reserve
and returned less than $1,000,000. They
lound a silver-coinage law that, whatever
its faults, did uot immediately threaten the
stability of the currency. They substituted
a policy of silver purchases and treasury
note issues which dragged the country into
a panic. They diminished revenues while
raising taxes, and increased tariff bounties
without increasing wages."
In Favor of Buyers.
Rubber goods at old prices. It is gener
ally known that rubber shoes and boots are
very much higher than last year. I pur
chased in March, before the advance. $1,000
worth, with a view of making a big stake.
But I have decided now to give my custom
ers the benefit of the bargains, and will sell
ihem at last year’s prices. I have 1st. 2nd
and 3rd qualities. None will be sold at
wholesale. Just for the benefit of my re
tail customers. Geo. H. Haoley.
TFhaf a Kindly Aotlon Did for a Lamb
Astray.
"About three years ago,” said a well
known writer to me the other night, "I was
passing down Broadway one afternoon and
I saw, to my inexpressible pain and regret,
a young fellow I knew down South in a
state of inebriety both alarmiug ar.d humil
iating. The boy was as handsome and clever
a lad as I ever saw and was then on the staff
of one of the city papers. I followed him
from a distance to see what would become
of him. Presently I saw him disappear in
to the portals of the mammoth wholesale
store of the merchant king, Charles Broad
way Rouss. In a few minutes he reappear
ed with the millionaire by his side. They
went to the old New York Hotel, where Mr.
Rousa had the young man cared for, paid
his bills, and, he having lost his position in
the meantime, sent him home with means
to seek othei employment when he was able.
That young man is now as sober and capa
ble a young fellow as we have in the South.
He is a power in the politics of at least two
Southern States, and will be in Congress
before he is forty. What the commercial
philosopher said to the young man that day
on Broadway I don’t know. Perhaps he
didn’t say anything. Rousa isn’t given to
preaching. But the kindly act of holding
out a bend to this ‘lamb that had gone
astray’ made a man of him aud probably
saved him from the marble slab and the long
trench that await the frieudless dead who
die on a debauch in this great city. Why
did Rouss help him? you ask. Because he
was a Southern soldier's son, I guess that's
all.”—Philip W. Avircit't letter on “Men We
Meet," in Chicago Times. ^
There is more Catarrh in this section of
tlixa PAiinlrv thim xll other diseases nut to
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable, cicience has
proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease,
and, therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market. It
is taken internally in doses from 10 drops
to a teappoonful. It acts directly on the
hlood and mucous surfaces of the system.—
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials. Address
F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0.
JbaySold by Druggists, 73c.
Arbor !>«}/.
The State Superintendent of Free Schools
having fixed the 10th of November ns
Arbor Day in Best Virginia, I hereby re
quest each teacher in the county to provide
suitable services for that day and plant
trees and otherwise ornament their school
yards by planting flowers, Ac. Most of
our school-yards are now well fenced.—
Look to it that they be properly kept
and ornamented, so that the school sur
roundings shall be educative. Have some
one to make a suitable address to the school
on that day. A. A. P. Neel, Co. Supt.
Longfellow, the greatest of American
sires, and probably the most famous race
horse in the world outside of Eagland, died
of colic and old age at the Nantura stock
farm, in Woodford county, Kentucky, Sun
day night. He was the sire of more win
ners and more noted race-horses than any
other thoroughbred stallion, native or im
ported, dead or living, in this country.—
During his twenty-one years in the stud
the winnings of his get have reached over a
million dollars, and this, too, despite the
fact that there were no princely $50,000 fu
turities or derbies among the prizes captured.
Cards for the marriage of Mi-<s Elizabeth
Elkins, to Edward F. Bruner, Esq., a well
known broker and club man of New York
city, will be issued to morrow. The cere
mouy will take place ou Thursday, the 16th
instant, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New
York city. Cardinal Gibbons,of Baltimore,
will officiate, assisted by Archbishop Corri
gan and others of that city. The invitation
invitation list includes most of the society
people of New York and Washington, and
the nuptial mass will bo one of the most
brihiant ever seen iu the cathedral.—
Tygart's Valley News.
John II. Blake, while viewing his chick
ens in the yard at bis residence on South
Jonathan street, put up his hand to scratch
his ear. Just as he did this a stray bullet
struck him in the hand nnd he caught it.—
Mr. Blake has the bullet and will show it
to you if you ask him to do so.—Hagerttoicn
Olobe. There would have been nothing
singular about the incident if the gentleman
had been viewing chickens in some other
yard than his own.
Fall Overcoats.
One of the most indispensable garments
of a geutleman’s wardrobe is a light-weight
overcoat. The evenings will soon be get
ting chilly and you will find an overcoat
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We are showing every style of rut and fab
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Wm. Kaij>', Sadler Building.
The late Marshal MacMahon was not a
very good off hand speaker. Any request
for an extempore remark dustered him.—
There was a colored cadet in the Saint Cyr
Military Academy, and once, when the mar
shal reviewed the corps, the instructor sug
gested that he should say something to en
courage the black man. “Let him stand
fourth,” said the marshal. “So you are a
darkey, are you ?” he said to the cadet.—
“Yes, marshal.” “Well, keep it up.”
Col. Forrest W. Brown, of Jeffersou coun
ty, is said to be an aspirant for the next
Democratic nomination for Governor of this
8tate. It is a long time before the conven
tion meets, and Col. Brown is one of those
gentlemen whose prospects will brighten as !
time advances.—Fairmont Index.
Just as this paper goes to press we learn
of the death, this morning, of Mr. Michael
McMahon, an old and well-known citi- !
zen of this town. He was taken sick on !
Friday last.
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^DECORATIVE ART.~
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~~ORDKR OF"PUBLICATION.
The State of West Virginia,
Jefferson County, to-wit:
In the Circuit Court of aaid County,
8pecial Term, Friday, Nov. 3d, 1893.
The petition of J. R. Rodrick. J. Ed. Burns,
C. T. Shugert. D. E. Rohr, 0. W. Armentrout.
Amos Dunlap and Richard A. Heasey, trustees
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
Charles Town, West Va.. asking for a sale of a
portion of the lot held by aaid trustees lying
north of Charles street in said town and de
scribed in said petition, notice is hereby given
that application will be made to the Circuit;
Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, on
the 21st day of November, 1893, for a decree
authorizing a sale of said lot.
A Opy. Teste:
T. W. LATIMER, Clerk.
Nov. 8.1893—2t.
TRUSTEE S SALE
OF A
HOUSE AND LOT
IN CHARLES TOWN, WEST VA.
The undersigned Trustee, under the follow
ing Deeds of Trust, viz: George N. Welsh. Ann
F. Welsh and George W. Welsh to Cleon ,
Moore, Trustee, dated the 2nd day of June. 1890,
recorded in the County Clem’s office of Jef
ferson County, West Virginia, Deed Book V. :
page 79; George N. Welsh, Ann F. Welsh and J
George W. Welsh to Cleon Moore, Trustee, da- ,
ted the 4th dav of Angust, 1890. recorded in j
the County Clerk’s office of Jefferson county,
West Virginia. Deed Book V. page 140; and
George N. Welsh, Ann K. Welsh and George
W. Welsh to Cleon Moore. Trustee, dated the i
8th day of September. 1890, recorded In the :
County Clerk’s office of Jefferson County, West
Virginia, Deed Book V. page 481. all of which
are for the benefit of Jefferson Building Asso
ciation No 10. I will orter at public sale in front1
of the Court-house in Charles Town, Weat
Virginia, on
Friday, (hr 3rd day of Xot ember, 1893,
the HOUSE AND LOT in Charles Town. Wes*
Virginia, on theOCKNBROF LIBERTY AND
WEST STREETS, now occupied by George W. |
Welsh, and adjoining the lot of V. M. Firor.
TERMS OF SALE—as prescribed by the
Board of Directors of Jefferson Building Asso
ciation No 10.—One-tbird cash; residue in •
two eqaal payments at one and two years with ;
Interest on deferred payments from day of
sale.
Sale at 11 o'clock a. tu.
CLEON MOORE.
Oct. 11,1893—41. Trustee.
Postponement.
The sale of the aforementioned property
will take place on
Friday, Xtrvember 10(h, 1893,
in front of the conrt-house.
CLEON MOORE. 1
Nor. 8, l»3. Trustee. I
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF
House and Lot
NEAR IfALLTOWN, WE8T VIRGINIA.
The undersigned Trustee, under a Deed of
Trust from Maria Johnson and James Johnson,
her husband, to Cleon Moore, Trustee, dated
the 4th day of August, 1893, and recorded in
the County Clerk’s office of Jefferson County
West Virginia, in Deed Book V, Page 177, for
the benefit of Jefferson Building Association
No. 10. will offer at public sale in front of the
court-house in Charles Town, W. Va., on
Friday, the 1st day of December, 1893,
& lot of land near Halltown, Jefferson County,
W. Va.. containing 2 ACRES. 2 ROODS AND
26 POLES, on which there Li a FRAME
DWELLING.
TERMS OF 8AI.K aa prescri'ned by the Board
of Directors of Jefferson Bo lding Association
Mo. 10.—One third cash, residue tn two equal
.isyments at one and two years with interest
on deferred payments from day of sale.
Sale at 11 o'clock a. nt.
CLEON MOORK,
Nov. 8, 1893—It. Trustee.
Oysters.
Ovsters by tbe gallon, quart or pint, or serf
ed in Oyster Parlor. Received fresh every diy
during the season.
Nor. 8.1898. GUSTAV BROWN.
For Sale.
A Horse. Dayton and Harness—the owner
haring no use for them. Apply at this office,
Nov. 8, 1893.
TRUSTEES SALE
OF
HOUSE AND LOT
NEAR SUMMIT rOINT, JEFFERSON
COUNTY. WEST VIRGINIA.
Tbe undersigned Trustee, under a Deed of
Trust from Frank Rroktnbaugh and wife da
ted tbe 1st day of February, 1892, recorded in
the County Clerk's office of Jefferson County,
West Va.. Deed Book Y. Page 372, will offer
at public sale in front of the Court-house in
Charles Town, W’est Virginia, on
Friday, the 2\th day of Xorembrr, 1893,
the HOU8E AND LOT belonging to Prank
Brokenbaugh at Mount Pleasant, tn Jefferson
County,—the lot being one-fourth of the lot
known and designated as lot No. 10 on the
piai UI 31UUUb I lUn'llIIl, Oliu cs»«.#v iiiwv
vu conveyed to Frank Brokenbaugh by Dal
las Carter and wife—(said Deed of Trust being
for the l>enefit of Jefferson Building Associa
tion No. 10).
TERMS OF SALK as prescribed by tbe
Board of Directors of said Association .-One
third cash ; residue in two equal annual pay
ments, with interest on deferred payment*
from day of sale. Title withheld until all
purchase money is raid. Sale at 11 o'clock.
CLEON MOORE.
Nov. 1. 1893. Trustee.
VALUABLE
TOWN PROP’RTY
FOR SALE.
By virtue of a decree of tbe Circuit Court of
Jefferson County, West Virginia, entered in
the cause of W. W. B. Gallaher against C. H.
Gallaher, Ac., on the 28th day of February,
1893. and for the purpose of partition, tbe un
dersigned Special Commissioners appointed to
make sale of tbe realty hereinafter described,
will sell at public auction in front of the Court
house in Charles Town, W. Va.. that valuable
house and lot formerly occupied by If N. 0*1
laher, Ksq'r, on Main street, lying north of tbs
Reed property and east of the Johnson prop
erty—the lot containing
OXE- EIGHTH OF A X A CEE
and has on it
A I) WE EL 1XG HOUSE
iu which are eleven rooms, a good stable,
smoke house, servants' house—two storm.
food cistern, and gas fixtures in the dwelling
lie right to keep open the alley east of tbs
property is sold with tbe premises. The above
property will be sold at 12 o’clock on
FRIDA Y; 2477/ OF NOVEMBER, 1*&,
if not sold at private sale before that time. Pos
session given at once.
TERMS OF SALE.—One-third cash and tbe
residue in two equal annual payments, with
interest on deferred payments from day of
sale—same to be evidenced by the bonds of tbs
purchaser. Title withheld until all of pur*
chase money is paid.
If not sold will be rented.
WM. II. TRAVERS
CLEON MOORE,
Special Commissioners.
I. T. W. Latimer. Clerk of tbe Circuit Court
of said Jefferson County, do hereby certify
that Cleon Moore, one of tbe above-named
Ppecial Commissioners, has given bond in saw
case ns required by law.
Given under my hand this 6th day of Marin,
m.i. T. W. LATIMER, Clerk,
By Gerard D. Moore, Deputy.
Oct. 24, '93— ta.
Sale of Bonds.
Ou FRIDAY, NOV. 10TH, 1893, the under
tinned will sell at Public Sale to tbe bijcbfft
bidder, in front of tbe court-house in Cbanee
Town. W. /a, at 11 a.jn.. $12 500 of tbeClT*
ELECTRIC LIGHT COM PAN Y'8 BONDS.
These Bonds are of the denomination of
jnd are secured by first mortgage on thepla^
ff the City Electric Light Company of Charm
Town. W Va. For further information ap
ply to Geo. Baylor, Charlee Town, W. . 0
the undersigned. Terms, Cash.
W. J. SHEPHERD
A. M. SHEPHERD
Oct. 25, 1893—31.
DARTER HOUSE,
CHARLES TOWN. W. VA
Located in tbe Central Part of the City.
Special Attention Given Commercial Travelers.
WM. H. CAMERON, Proprietor.
Firet-Clase Livery Attached to the Hotel
TERMS ; Meals 50 cents; board P
>oard per week, $0; board per month. $30
125; table board, $16.
Sept. 27, 1 m.