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?laifesbwrg telegram Fridat. ^kbbuart S, 18#3. ?wxeuLZ. coxntrr-r tatib. Pl'HMHHKU Whkki.y ur T1IK ;^CLARKSBURG TELEGRAM CO. gtuart^ Reed - - Qditor SCBSCRIPTION RATES: (Payable in Advanoe.) Single oopy. one year 11 50 Single copy, six months 75 Single oopv, tbree mouths . 50 SnbiurriWrii deairing tu discontinue most jmv nil nriwi((?. Refusing, to take tlie paper from tli? post-office will upt stop charges from accumulating. A notice to discontinue not aooompa nied by tliu amount ilue at the time will not atop tlie paper. Notice to change post-ufllce address must give the old ax well ?b the new of See. Wedding announcements and oblt nariea will be published at reasonable rate*. All matter intmidt-d for piiblicittiori munt be accompanied by the author's real name, not for publication, but na a guaranty- of good faith. All matter submitted subject to the editor's approval. ANNOUNCEMENT. {HEREBY announce myself as j?ndi date for County Superintendent of Free Schools at the eloctiou to be held ?n the 10th day of May. W. A. MARSH. A new city charter has been prepared for Clarksburg and a petition has been sent to the legislature to grant a new char ter. It will Rive the council of Clarksburg enlarged powers. We have not seen the proposed charter. We understand that it was prepared by two of our citi zens and one of them is . now at the capitol trying to engineer it through. We are not prepared to comment upon its provisions. A gentleman who is supposed to know about it informed us thai it was mainly to take from the county court the-control of the liquor question and give the en tire management of this prob lem to the town council. Our people will want to know what the charter proposes before they will be ready to accept it. The legislature cau certainly go no further than to leave its final adoption with the' people of Clarksburg after they have an opportunity to know what it is. The petition that people signed did not ask for any particular charter?simply a new charter. If it. is a better thing for the town than the one we now have, it will doubtless be approved by our citizens. The TelEgram realizing the great love of so many West Vir ginians for James G. Blaine has .neglected some other features of | the paper this week in order to j give a full account of his life and i valued public services. On the ; inside of this paper will be fo.ind a history of the Blaine family beautifully illustratqd. ?1 -- mm ? - ??? Several pr'ominetsociety ladies of Cattlettsburg were indicted last week for playing euchre for prizes. The island of Zante. near i Greece, was shaken early Mon- ! day morning by an earthquake, j In the town of Zante many houses I were wrecked and the occupants ran in their night clothes into i street. The roof of the prison I fell in and many prisoners were 1 wounded. When a newspaper man asks you about any matter that ,vou do not w ml published request ?hiin not to mention it. No re spectablu news gatherer will be tray confidence. Don't lie about the matter for if you do he sees you are trying to hide some thing and will get the facts else where and will then feel at liber ty to publish them.? /??>. It will be a surprise to many to learn that Dr. M. S. llolt has sold the Weston lle/mb/iran to .1. H. Edwards. What will Weston be without Holt in its journalistic realm? All must admit that the Doctor has lost but few oppor tunities for getting in a rap at the Democratic party. And just think! They say the Itr/mltUmn is to become Democratic. A fallow is now traveling through the country trying to swindle parties with a contract for wire fences. He offers to give enough wire to fence a ten acre field il the party will sign a contract to take the agency for the wire. The contract is where the swindle comes in, for if read closely it turns out to be a promi sary note for $150. after a few words are erased with oxalic acid. J AXES G. BLAINE The grandest figure in the group of great Americans of the modern age is numbered with the Nation's distinguished dead. The mighty soul of the "Plumed Knight" has ascended to the throne of the living God. From his early home on the Mononga bela, where his life was as sim ple and pure as the sweet brier roses that grew in wild and luxur iant beauty upon the river heights.he went to New England, that nursery of American intel lect and cradle of American patriotism, to develop into the ??foremost man of t'.e World. There has been instituted no great public measure, no policy that tended to broaden the sphere of American influence sincc the days of reconstruction with which his name has not been identitled. Our intellect is too sluggish, our imagination loo frail to pay a fitting tribute to the life of this great civil leader. Mr. Blaine loved West Virginia and took a deep interest in her industrial development. While he had friends everywhere, he was not insensible to the fact that the people of the Little Mountain State, were among his most ardent admirers. Nis was a life consecrated upon the altar of uncompromising Americanism. He forged his way amid obstructions and diffi culties to eminence, to affluence and to the fullest confidence of the American people, wholly by reason of his magnetic personal ity and sound judgment. He could not bo seduced by love of power?was never weakened by flattery? never overcome bj the pleadings of fascinating sophis try. In his towering diplomacy there was a combination of hiippy faculties. Like Gladstono lie was a generator of enthusiasm. He combined the discernment arid sagacity of Jefferson with the "tact of Seward and the dignity of Webster." Like Greeley. when he spoke to the common people they understood and ap plauded. To let him grasp your hand once was to make you his friend forever. Since Lincoln fell.fighting for human liberty.no other statesman has risen so high in the continence of a great po litical party. Illustrious, knight ly, chivalrous spirit, thou art now imid the visions and delights of Jternity! Thy name and works ire engraven deep on the altar of thy country's glory. Thy life is an inspiration before which the diplomatic intelligence of the age kneels '.n adoration and love. The memory of our departed great, ones is a rich heritage of the American citizen. Their tombs are the silent shrine.-, upon which "fires of patriotism" for ever burn. From these last rest ing places tendrils of loyalty aud love extend to the hearts of a groat fill people. "Washington is at Mt. Vernon. Lincoln at Spring field, Grant at New York and Sherman at St. Louis. Jefferson \ is at Monticello and Adams at,: Quincy; Irving is atSleepy Ho' low and Longfellow amid the in spirations of his muse at Cam bridge:" Whittier is surrounded \ J>.y the scenes immortalized In nis pen at Amesbury. Garfield rests at Cleveland, and on Oak Hill, m sight or the capitol of the Nation he loved and to whose glories lie added a grander lustre peacefully sleeps J amiss (?' Blaine. TTB * YOU * A husband in Chicago calls his wife an Anarchist, because she is always trying to blow him up. The clerk of the Pocahontas county court has advertised Ci, r bids to build a court house at Marlinton. Bids will be received for the court house and jail com | binea in one building and also for separate buildings. j The Harrisonburg Itei/isln- re I P?rts that a man living near ,\lt. j Meridian walking along the river bank a few days ago saw a muskrat hole just at the edge of the water, and upon closer ex amination found that it contained some fish. He got a board and stopped up the hole, and in a short while had taken 17". white suckers therefrom with his hands He?"Are you happy, now that you are married ?" She - ? Com ? paratively. He ? "Compared with whom?" She1? "Compared with my husband." ANNUAL STATEMENT Of The Town of ClarKsburg for the Year Ending January 31, 1893. Cash 011 hands coihinenei im nt year general fund ?? ???:? * ' Railroad taxes, 1801 . 21? Scales ... .?? oO Fines ?? J?.. 002 27 Licenses .' ?*]. Taxes, 1892 ...??? 12 050 10 RKCMPTB WOPKHATIXC WATKR WORKS 18i?2, Feb. 1.?Cash on hands com mencement y'r credit Water fimil $ 433 70 Tupping;. 323 00 Water rents collected . , 1 823 05 2 579 i5 Rail Road tax 15 48 A. W. I'ritchard?cash.fjHR 12 50 pgji $16 892 99 laH CONTRA. Office rent(Nov.l, '91, ttf Jane iff'93) $ 291 07 Salaries "" Regular police ... J; 9(10 00 Special police and janitor. 248 90 Limiting streets, 1 790 80 Printing ;4aHE? 75 85 Jail fees jpoB 241 25 Stone contr'ts, laying pav'm'ts, Ac. 778 00 Pay rolls?labor ...y3? 2 345 80 Bills, lumber, brickie. &<? I 022 29 Fee bills, office gas, clerks, fee. ,&<?. / 23 40 Erroneous assessment? 100 34 Election i'Mm 00 00 Error R.R. Tax, 1891,.,..Mt 78 50 Interest on Water loan bondn . . 2 125 00 Water loan bonds p'dNoSj 46 & 47 1 013 33 Delinquent list, 1892 189 55 Railroad tax, 1892, uncollected... 253 75 OIHBURSKMKNTfifilJi OPERATING WATER WORKS. Salaries ..M $ 300 00 Pay rolls 844 30 Plumbers &jg| 411 89 Material, hardware, &c 170 77 W. Va. Pittsburg It K. Company. 47 23-1 774 25 1893, Jan. 31.?Cash on hands. To credit general fund. . .. .*I 204 09 To credit Water fund... 805 50-2 010 19 $10 892 99 STATEWKNT OK ASSKTTS. Balance on hands credit general fund . $1 204 09 Bill, on hands credit Water fund. 805 50 Railroad taxes uncollected. 253 75 Tapping owed by Broaddus'l'id. j;-j 00 Total $ 2 270 94 I'kstk : i MARCELI.l'S M. THOMPSON, ??'V Recorder. A new passenger depot will be built at Elkins by the West Vir ginia Central railroad. Parkers burg is discussing the propriety of issuing bonds to build a $38.000 city building. Fire at Charleston Friday par tially destroyed the Cotton block on Capitol street; loss 812,000. The Kavenswood papers aie agitating the question of ing natural gas to that town. That industrious and unwaver ing Republican paper, the Fair mont Went Virginian, has entered ?pon its twenty seventh year. - ... ___ There are forty-seven farmers in both branches of the West Virginia legislature and onlv seventeen lawyers. MUST Ex.Senator H. G. . Davis has tendered President Cleveland a handsome cottage at Deer Park for next summer. The President and Mrs. Cleveland spent their honey moon at Deor Park. The champion married manor the world was John Winsor, of tVovidence. It. who diod {he other day aged S-l. He left seven wives living. Fro.n six he had "blamed legal separations. Poor man: at last he is at peace.?Ex. V \1. Morris. formerly with CoL I oope,.. ?? lhe aid <;uard, "f Clarksburg, lias bought a sa loon in Pa,-kersburgand is going |n.o that business. He says there is not as much f?n or glory in it as in runnings country newspa pci but lots more money. Par kersburg Cor. Wheeling^. Hamlin II. Davis, of .Salem, i'? h,s f!lll,ur ?f New Miltou hjepurchiusedtheresidenceand OUT Dr. Louchery. and also a | 'l f, ,ni'eBt ^ the Louchery ( block. We understand that Mr. jranvilie Davis will S00n become ! iar?S ,6f f Salem' This is the ( largest dea! ever made in Salem. , 1>nce Pai(i was *3,500.? | ' i/flone. ]i'?H,ardy county- at Hanging Willi im^0 fi?-nS men' brothers, Ml rabh> ilCk0r D?ran' were bit hunting and were x'.rvbrush- ?ne ? Willi ? en by some means ilhaiK sgun wasaccidently dls charged. The l0;ld of sho[ enS ereu the "eshy part ?f Rickers rk u! rUS'?"apainful a?d se gun w^ r" The b0y whosc = was hred fainted when he a,,"""?.i.?? ??HAVE nililmi tnrrencjf Indications. Two bills providing for a sys tem of State banks are pending in the Legislature of North Caro lina. They were introduced in anticipation of the repeal of the prohibitory tax on State bank currency by the new Democratic federal government. Their pur pose is to put the local banks in shape to flovd the State, and perhaps itsneighboringcommon wealths. with wildcat notes at the earliest possible moment after the Democracy has redeem ed its pledge to cut away all ob stacles in the way of a return to the fluctuating currency of ante bellum times. As movement to the same end was started in Georgia some time ago. It will undoubtedly become general throughout the South if the 10 per cent, tax on State bank issues is abolished by the incoming Congress. Free trade was uot the only pernicious policy that triumphed in November.?N. Prenn. - m ^ ??? Mr. Charles Shuck, aged about eighty years, was burned to death near Mt. Ida. Sowell dis drict, Fayette county. W. Va.. recently. Mr. Shuck had lived in a house by himself for several years, tie was seen by one of his neighbors on Monday, Jan uary 16. On Tuesday afternoon some person went to the place und found the remains of Mr. Shuck lying on the hearth, his face badly burned, his clothes nearly all burned off, the tire out and the body frozen stiff. It is supposed that he fell into the tire and was unable to get out. Hon. M. D. Post, the brilliant young Democrat of Harrison county, who made quite a reputa tion for himself during the last campaign, and who was one of the Cleveland electors, has de cided to locate in the city for the practice of law. His office will be in Prosecuting Attorney How ard's office for the time being. No dout Mr. Post will make his mark as a barrister.?Wheeling News. Llkins will soon have electric lights. It will be built primarily for the private use of Secretary Elkins. Senator Kerens, Ex-Sen ator Davis, and the railroad shops, but will be used ia light ing the streets of the town. Typhoid fever is raging in Elkins. The epidemic is at tributed to the water. ASPIKATIO.V ? N life's threshold ft stood it sculptor I bor, "With bis marble < block before him, It And bis laoe lit np j with a smile of joy ' As an aagel dream I paused o'er him ; He carr'd the dream on that shapeless stone. With many a sharp incision ; With heaven's own light the sculp _ tnre shone? He hod caught that angel-visioc. Sculptors of life are we as we stand, With our souls uncarved before us, Waiting the hour at God's command, Our life dream shall pass o'er us ; If we carvn it then, on the yielding sloni I With many a sharp incision. I It* heavenly beauty ahall be our own, Our lives that angel-vision. , ?Jliahop Ikxinr. We consider this the prettiest poem that we have seen in look ing over our exchanges' this month. It is next to impossible to teach a girl to whistle. When she gets her lips properly puckered, she looks so bewischingly tempting that the teacher ordinarily loses his head, and forgets the ob ject of the "lesson. >YDUR* Wanted ! Names ! FOR I 200,000 SUBSCRIBERS TO the Weekly : Constitution, Published at Atlanta, Ga. THE FARMER'S FRIEND, A HOME COMPANION. Hor already 150.000 Subscribers?The Largest Circulation of any News paper IN THE WORLD. 1 lie <>rcnt Southern Weekly. Its Agricultural Department is the best in the laud. Its Woman's and Cliildren's columns are of unusual domestic interest It* Special Features cost more money than is paid by ant ten Southern papers combined for general reading matter. It* news columns covor the world; Bill Arp writes for it; Dr. Tnlmage preaches for it; Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus), Wallace P. Reed and Frank L. Stanton arc regularly em ployod by it. A. M. Weir (Sarge Plun kett) has a weekly letter: ^ D_? - ' ?*" of the world rotitribute f<eniu8 It is a magazine' ? " c?lum"8 an educator! Only si on n la*ue is wanted: in eve^S" Agent. 1111111 IIIm year. Address CONSTI'ronw!? * ' Atlanta Ga. -WKrC;*-. and obituaries. I t to run our business jus^u^ as if we were in the tn v8" or undertaking bus,i&" have on our table .oat' , communications of thtf 101 this week and as nntJfi natj| said about the mttjffii til we hear from the paVt^ are sorry that we cannot S J do all these little favors iai&ssgfi ? "AD"-? Subscribe for thTlwT the best local paper in Cent West Virginia. ntl jJOMMlSSIONERi ~N0^ Sherman C. Deuliam ?. of Edmund Denbam ,U?',lu,ta< Dve, Jesse N. Swiocr j oWg W. Wyatt, Johu 1? live, wji^s son. J. M. Boggess unci p,lui $ fe* son guardian ad litem o( tigSSS Gordon Kishbaugh. In el,au?n " The parties named abore. an',1 persons interested in the abort7w suit, will take notice that I will n?I 18th day of February 1808 athivnfti the town of Clarksburg, cute the order of retLZ ^&f said cause ou the '23d day of M?v 1# wherein I was directed to takVi further proof that might be nSLili the defendant, any debt or demand on his part W& the estate of Lewis A. KishlmuglC? make any needed or proper cor&tfi that mav bo found in any formed port, either an to the account ot uj Baker as such adminutrator, or ? the sum reported in favor of said Ro inson, at which time ami place ? parties are hereby notified to ?tta with their proof. c.W. Lyncb, 14t Commissioner. or. w. FTswisi PHYSICIAN AND SUROEOI Graduate of Uuirersity of Marvlm Baltimore, Md., tenders bis profeseii III services to citizens of West Milfoi and vioinity. All wills will recti prompt attention. Office at resiilen of Mrs. Lynch. ll.4la SALEM COLLEGE Open To Both Sexes Collegiate Normal, Business, Telegi pby, Music, and Art Departments, Six Schools in On< ComDetent Teachers, Healthful Loe tion. Cheaper rates thnu anv other Sohool of Equal Bank." Superior Advantage! To Teachers. Classes formed at tho beginning of ru Term. 8PBING TERM ft/TII |QflO OPENS MARCH l)||lj ioSJ* Al>DRESS PRESIDENT: REV. T. L. GARDINER, A.M.. KN 11-31 Salem, W.Vj.1 D. K. REED & Cs anfi Hardware Builders Supplies. TT____ just opened up a New and Complete fl cL VG Lilie Table and Pocket Cut w |ery v Coul Hods, Coal Vases and l ire Sets, Fenders, Orates and Fronts. The best Assortment of Guns, Revol vers and Sporting Goods. leadquarters for Natural lias Fixtures. geTthe?Place . Di K, REED fi. COi HARDWARE STORE. One Door West of Court House. OllERS.gCKtf.'JLARej) Saw Mills etc. C L A R KE 5 BUR G hXVA. NEW FIRM, WELLS & HAYMAKER. H. L. WELLS N p. B. HAYMAKE1 CITY DRUG STORE. A new Firm Name but the same Old Reliable Store. jSsf Drugs of tlie Itcst (Quality are ke])t in stock, find PRESCRIPTIONS Compounded by experienced Pharmacist*;