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IroL. XXXIII.?NO 47.
Devoted to Practical Information, gome flews, Pure Politios, and the Development of \0e*t Virginia's Resources
WHOLE NO. 17f53
CLARKSBURG. W. VA., OCTOBER 5. 1894.
^fortune* Jierer Come Slnglj.
Ex-Sheriff, Job Musgrave, of
titchie county, is now a firm be
jever in the old adage, "Misfor
Lrtuoes never come singly." He
Lrted to ship some cattle a few
ays ago and bad an experience
(?cording to the Gazette as fol
iws :
??He lost a roll of money, while
oiDg up to Pennsboro,
Some blear eyed, lop sided
joundrel stole his saddle.
At Westernport, Maryland,
?here he went to ship cattie, the
lock got out of the pen at night
nd getting on the railroad, six
f them were accidently killed.
Then to cap the climax, a
[aryland farmer came along,
ud under the laws of his State
?vied on the whole drove of cat
>e, to satisfy taxes or rery, or
omethingof the tenant on the
irm where the cattle were pas
iring. This last, however, did
ot turn out so bad as it looked,
s the cattle were released on
aying the pasturage to the per
on the tenant owed.
Sheriff Musgra7e chinks he
'ould like for his'luck to change
oon though.
West Union.
William Trainer, the father of
lie Trainer Bros., of West
;nion, departed this life Sept.
1.1891, at his home at Bland
ille. W. Va. He was born in
[eigs county. Va,, in 1833, and
as therefore 60 years of age.
le joined the M. E. church 37
ears ago. He was a consistent
hristian man and the class
tader of his own class at the
me of his decease. He leaves a
ife, three sons, three daughters
ad a host of frieuds to mourn
is loss. % V -?**.
A warrant was sworn out by
loah Weekley on Tuesday even
igfor Madisran Clemans on a
barge of forgery. Weekley
barges that Clematis forged his
ame to an order for a jug which
e, Weekley. had in the express
fiee at this place, which Clem
ns presented to the express
gent Tuesday and lifted the jug
hich contained a half gallon of
hiskey. Weekley also claims
bat Clemans knew he was ex
ecting the jug as he wrote tne
-iter to James Clark & Co.. in
fhich he ordered it. The war
ant was placed in Constable
lee's hands, but Clemans was
ery drunk and they left him
intil Wednesday morning when
e was still intoxicated but he
?as taken before Squire Bee,
;ho committed him to jail until
e could become sober. He was
aken before the same justice
'hursday morning for a hearing
?hen he asked for a further con
inuance of one week, which was
Wanted and he was placed under
bond of >500 for his appear
nce.?Record.
Dujtou Is So Joke.
Grafton, W. Va., Sept. 30.?
Secretary Gardner, of the NatioD
?1 Democratic congressional cora
nitt.ee, arrived here this morn
og from Washington, and has
?en in conference all day with
Chairman McGraw. The Wash
ogton and Grafton headquarters
ire in intimate daily communica
ioo. playing a serious game of
Politics, while Mr. Wilson is talk'
nS of the beauties af free trade
0 appreciative London audi
ences.
Of course Dayton is only a
i?lte, but the desperate way in
yhich Mr. Wilson's managers
ire working looks as it they fear
'he little comedy will develop
?to a terrible tragedy that will
down the curtain on the re
gains of the great opostle of free
flip Priie Fitrlit In Politics.
Ail over the State the Demo
nic politicians are having dif
fculty to arouse the rank and
file. Id the city of "Wheeling
they had to resort to a feed to
get out their crack club. In the
Second district they will try to
move the masses of their party
through the seductive instru
mentality of the barbecue.
But probably the Wileyville
idea is the best of all. Mr. How
ard. Democratic nominee for
Congress in the First district.
[ was to speak at Wilayville and
the question was how to get a
crowd. Let Mr. Howard him
self, speaking through the Reg
ister, tell how it was done. Be
ing asked how he was being re
ceived on his stumping tour he
replied with enthusiasm :
I could ask nothing better.
Why, up at Wileyville the other
day it was announced that after
the speaking there would be a
fight, and there was, too. But
they only used nature's weapons,
and after {>ummeling each other
till one had enough the war was
ended, without hard feelings on
either side.
The size of the purse is not
given. Whether the fight was
between heavy weights, middle
weights or feather weights, is
not revealed. But in order to
draw a crowd for Mr. Howard a
fight was advertised and a fight
there was, and Mr. Howard
' 'could ask nothing better." It
will probably occur to Mr. How
ard to have a fight advertised
for each of his meetings, for if
the people won't come out to
bear him and will come out to
see a fitfht, he may catch 'em
foul while they are there and
see what he can do to pound some
free trade into them. It is a
telligencerf* ^
Dayton vs. Wilson.
The English end ot Mr.Wilson's
campaign is getting on swim
mingly. As for the West Vir
ginia end his opponent, Mr. Day
ton. seems to have it pr9tty much
all his own way. It might simp
lify the situation if Mr. Wilson
were to withdraw from the Con
gressional race, run for Parlia
ment and introduce.the next tariff
bill there.?Cincinnati Time* Star.
Weston.
Prof. D. M. Willis has resign
ed his position in the Cumber
land, (Md.) schools and will ac
cept the position of principal in
the commercial and pen art de
partments of the Weston College
of Commerce and School of Short
hand, which has been chartered
by Prof. Buchnnnan White. The
College will open about the first
of November. It is said that
Prof. Willis has no superior in
West Virginia as a penman and
as an instructor in the branches
to which he has been assigned.
E. A. Brannon was at Clarks
burg andGrafton this week where
he passed a very creditable law
examination before Judge Hag
ans and Judge Dent.?Democrat.
Mr. R. L. Zinn has resigned
his position as foreman of the
State Times and associated him
himself with J. B. Finister in the
sale of pianos and organs.
Will Snow was arrested Sun
day on the charge of breaking
into the post office at Gaston. He
recently broke jail at Clarksburg.
Rev. S. K. Arbuthnot left
Thursday for Oakland. Rev. M.
W. Rider will preach his first
sermon at the M. E. church Sun
day.?Times.
Three United States prisoners,
Eli and Emery Ferrell, j>ostoffice
robbers, were arrested last week
and a man named Boone arrested
for abstracting a check from a
letter in Jackson county, confin
ed in jail at Parkersburg made
their escape last week in the ab
sence of the jailor, by securing
a large club with which they
broke the cell lock and pried
open the bars sufficiently to ad
mit their bodies.
Killed in a Coal Bank.
The people of the Jarvisville
community were shocked a few
days ago by the announcment
that J. Ii. Bell had been killed
by a fall of earth and coal in a
mine he was operating. The
manner in which he was killed
will never be known to a cer
tainty as he was alone at the tima
of the awful accident. A mem
ber of his family went to call
him to dinner and found him
dead, having been crushed be
neath a mass of earth at the
month of the mine. He was a
good citizen and a member of the
Bapitst church. He leaves a
wife and two daughters.
Stole a Railroad.
Last week this paper pnbiish
ed an article concerning Chas. H.
Lawrence the noted hotel clerk.
Just after we had mailed the
issue we learned that Lawrence
had been taken up and sent to the
I Sew York prison at Auburn to
serve out his sentence. It is
thought, however, that he will
be pardoned in a short time. The
Fairmont Index says :
"As far as we are able to learn
the truth of all the rumors is that
Lawrence, who is unquestionably
a shrewd article, contracted in
1891 to remodel and make certain
repairs to the street railway in
Lockport, New York, and on ac
count of some rather shady and
crooked transaction in carrying
out his work he was arrested and
sentenced to two years and five
months in the penitentiary, but
on another trial by a higher
court this verdict was reversed
authorities of Lockport, how
ever, carried the case to the court
of Appeals, and that body in a
decision rendered last March af
firmed the decision of the lower
court and ordered the re-arrest
of Lawrence to serve out his sen
tence. He was accordingly pick
ed up and is now wearing the
I regulation prison uniform.''
Fairmont.
The receipts at the office of the
B. & O. at this place for passen
ger service for the month of
August was 82,500 more this
year than for 1898.
Wednesday morning the Conti
nental Hotel changed bands, the
purchaser beingMarcusMarrietta,
of Uniostown, Pa., -with H^rry
Marrietta, a nephew, as clerk.
Mr. Marrietta has had consider
able experience in hotel business
and will no doubt make a success.
Rev. Shott is going right ahead
with the construction of the First
Baptist Church. He wants-'help
and all the money he can get.
He will take lumber or anything
that will build the church, for it
has to be built.?Free Press.
Yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon
Thomas Metz, while wheeling
slate in the top story of the new
Watson Hotel, slipped and fell
through two stories, down to the
second. He struck the joists -in
the third story, and was severely
bruised about the back. He was
taken to the office of the Dr
Jamison, where surgical atten
tion was rendered him, from
whence he was carried home to
await the development of his in
juries. Soon after the accident
he was in such intense pain that
it was impossible to know how
badly he was hurt, but it is hoped
that he is not seriously injured.
A Western exchange warbles
in this wise : "Backward turn
backward, O time in your flight,
give us a ripsnortipg rainstorm
to-night. Open the heavenly
flood gates I pray ; let the rain
pour for a night and a day. I
am so weary of skies that are
fair, weary of breathing the dirt
in the air, weary of sowing to
harvest no grain ; give us a
rain, mister, give us a rain."
?$ ?
SHOT TO KILI..
Mu w* C Osborn'* Brother Wounded
l<r a Burglar.
IJhakleston, W. Va., Sept.
25.-Walker Carder, son of the
?j?eet railway superintendent,
e?fmriDg h'S houseto-ni?'ht about
8.80, found two men down stairs.
He fired ontuemand one of the
fellows ran. Immediately a third
raa down stairs, and grab
bing the pistol, a 33-calibre.from
Carder's hands, shot him in the
right breast, just below the nip
ple The murderer* escaped.
Carder is still living.
[Walker is the sod of W. B.
Carder, who resided in Fairmont
a few years ago. and has two
sisters living in Clarksburg, Mrs.
W. G. Osborn and JMrs. Charles
Leonard, both of whom worn
summoned to Charleston soon
after the accident occurred.]
THE WOOL QUESTION.
Si). Telegram The pitable
attempt of the Democrats to make
it appear that wool would ad
yance in value under free trade
would be truly amusing if it did
not show such lamentable state
of ignorance on their part. We
would recommend them to rend
the < onsular reports from Aus
tralia and digest the samo before
going any further with the cam
paign. Xj. s. Consul General
Wallace in his report to the de
partment of State August 5, 1892,
on the cost of producing wool in
Victoria, says : "When (the
proper) conditions have been ob
served and there has been an
ot seasonable
ram, the Vutoriati wool grower
believes that he can place Ms wool
od the wharves at an average cost
of6d (12 cents) per pound." U.
S. commercial agent Baggs in his
report of April 14, 1892, says .
"The cost of shipping by rail
from Sidney or Melbourne to
Boston, may be" roughly estimat
ed at from four-fifths to one oent
per pound. Boston is as yet
practically the only American
port to which Australian wool is
shipped, and sailing vessels
only are employed for the pur
pose." So we see that free trade
will still further reduce the price
of our home grown wool instead
of advancing it. Australia will
not average a shrinkage of 50
per cent on Merino while our
native grade shrinks from 66 to
80 per cent.
William Draper Lewis in his
book, "OurSheep and the Tariff,"
says : "In West Australia the
rent varies in each land district.
In the Southwestern divisions
the most thickly settled in the
colony, the rate is $4.87 for 3,000
acres." He further says ; 'The
weight of the Victoria fleece jis
something wonderful. A station
will average 8 pounds per head."
Australian wool is imported to
this country skirted?the breech,
belly and neck wool removed,
which, with its slight shrinkage
gives it a value of 2 cents more
on the pound over our native
grown wool. The chief of the
Bureau of Statistics under Presi
ded Cleveland's administration,
in the wool report of 1887, says :
It is idle talk about raising sheep
in Europe or in this country to
compete with South Africa or the
Platte country or Australia, Our
sheep farming must be eventual
ly confined to the small flocks of
improved breeds, raised on farms
where they require little or no
extra labor. It has already come
to this in Europe and in the East
ern and Middle States where
lands are valuable, and will final
ly prevail in the West as the
large ranches are divided up and
settled. The conditions are en
tirely different in South Africa,
Australia and South America',
where laborers are at least semi
barbarians or slaves, and the im
mense plains of cheap lands and
torid climate seem better adapt
ed to sheep raising than other
industries. ViDt.
Lewi* Count*.
W. W. Brannon, W. B. Mc
Gary and Andrew Edttiston
were at Clarksburg Thursday.
Rev. B. B. Evans, of Clerks
burg, was in Weston Monday to
attend A. Grocnstein's funeral.
W. L. Cook, of Clarksburg,
closed a subscription school at
Brownsville Saturday, and will
leave for his home after the
Dovener-Elkins meeting here.
Bland Brannon and lion. A. A.
Lewis, two handsome young men
of our town, made a special visit,
to Clarksburg Sunday.
A. W. Davis, of Harrison Co.,
was here last Wednesday.
Temple Harris, who will be
remembered as having been here
as a building and loan agent, has
brought suit against the Wheel
ing liegint'r, Cincinnati Tribune
and Chnrleston Gazette, from each
of which he claims ?25,000 libel.
These papers connected him with
a fight in which he took no part
He has employed four lawyers
at Parkersburg. where he re
sides .?Independent.
Free Trade Lessons.
A Maysville clothing merch
ant;
And a Mason county farmer.
"Good morning John; where
are you going?"
"Oh. I'm just going down to
Cincinnati."
"Well, that's a bad looking
coat you have on; come in and
let me sell you a new one before
| jyon.Ko."
?'No. 1 believe not: I will buy
a new suit when I get to the
city."
??Why not buy It from me ?"
asked the Maysville clothing
merchant. '"Haven't I been buy
ing your butter and eggs from
you for a year past and paying
you cash ?" Besides don't 1
help you pay the taxes for keep
ing up the expenses of the coun
ty and State government, and
don't I always contribute toward
building your turnpikes and
churches? Th6 man you will
boy from in Cincinnati dosen't
pay your taxes, or contribute to
your turnpikes and churches,and
I don't see why you profer to
patronize him."
"Aren't you a Democratic free
trader?" inquired the Mason
county farmer of the Maysville
clothing merchant.
"Yes; but what of that?"
"Then you have no right to
kick if ? I practice what you
preach " said the Mason county
farmer as he caught the tail end
of the train and rolled away to a
foreign market to spend his
money.
And the Maysville clothing
merchant said: "Durait."
While the band played "Sweet
Marie.''?Maysville Ledger.
Btrbonr -Notes.
W. E. ^Trimble and Miss Mattie
Wheeler were married at the
residence of the bride's parents
at Peel Treo Tuesday.
Eva, the little daughter of Ed
gar Douglass, wtio lives on Elk,
died Monday last, from the effects
of a fall while sitting in a swing.
The body was interred on Tues
day.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Holden went
to Clarksburg Monday, called
there by the death of Mr.
Holden's sister. Mrs. Adams.
Mrs. E. H. Crim left here yes
terday evening for Baltimore, in
response to a telegram announc
ing the sudden illness of her hus
bund, who has been in that city
for some days on commercial
business.?Philippi Republican.
The Holmes Shoe Co. have
made a cut on prices for the
next thirty days in order to make
room for their fall stock. 40-tr.
ELECTION OFFICERS.
The followlug persons have
been appointed by the county
court as commissioners to hold
the election in the various pre
cincts. In each district one
Special Commissioner has been
designated to deliver the booths
not only to his own voting place
but to the other voting places in
his district. After the name of
each Special Commissioner a star
[*] has been affixed to show who
have been designated for this
?tfork. Tho districts, precincts,
voting places and officers are
given in regular order :
CLARK
No, l.-Omoi at Fai? Grouxds.
0 0 Fittrn, 0 E Peck. Harrison W
Carter.
No. 8?Mator'h Office,
Geo A Ouster, M U Cunningham..).
J Duncan.
No. 8?Roov No. 8, Coort Hoche,
Milan HofT,* A S Oris*, C L Hlokmau.
No. 4 Oak Hoi-hk. 'H
Geo W Shuttle-north. J N David, W.
Boott
COAL.
No. J? School Hovre, Auamkton.
Jordan Fittro, Lewis H Mine*, Fla
anun|lleynold?.
No B Fhitchard'm Store.
W C MoKeehan, H W Gordon,? Peler
Gill.
No. 8?Patne'e Feed Starle.
J R Amiss, M J Ogden, Thomas Hav
mond.
CLAY.
No. t?'Teralta School House.
Cyrus Thompson,* Thos J Hill, T B
Martin, Jr.
No. 2?Town Hali, Shinnston.
Allison Robinson, H E Reeder, W II
Wilkinson.
No. 3?Opera House. Skknron.
C A Reeder. Chester L Pi|<ott,-David
M. Hhinu.
F W Cunningham, * G H Berry,
Thaddeus S Hardesty.
No, 3?Rodinhon 8. H. Jones Bra.
M K Baker, Fletcher Robinson, A J
Michael.
ELK.
No. 1?Rownea Mills.
3 N Cut! nil. Sidney Haymond, Will
F. Bond.
No. 2?Quiet Dell.
D 8 Young,? E D Boyle., Jas M Eib.
GRANT.
No. 1?Mt. Clare.
IsaaoPR Ash, Marcellua Davlssou.
Samuel S Sheets.
No.??Lost Creee
Wesley M Bird.* W L Hughes, Luth
er A Bond.
TsslunST
No. 1--Sard ra.
Theodore W Martin, Peter W A?b,
Thou 8 Gerard.
No. 3?Bbowv's Mills.
W N Edge], O M Bwiger,* John Hu
bert.
No. 8?Wallace,
Jefferson Bobinton, I J Showalter,
John F Dye.
SIMPSON.
No. 1?School Hoohe, UitrihiEi oiiT.
H R MoOord, Jesse H Williii.- Jas M
MoOann.
No. 2--Depot, Bridgeport.
D M Tyson, John W Bailey, John <
Johnson.
TKN MILE.
No. 1 -Salem.
Henry Hawker, George E Zinn, David
M Boy era.
No. 2?Cherry Camp.
T J Coffman, D 0 J Brake,' David W
Bogceaa.
No. S?Marhhville.
Bnfoa Haymond, George W Williams,
Jomwi M Morris.
UNION.
No. I?BcbxsidiS. H? Kim;helo.
Goinn Minter, A W Davis, Geo C
MoKinley.
No. S?Jarvisville.
L J Allen,* William I Mowery, Chaa
J Jarvia.
No. 8?West Mir.ford.
W J Tonng. J C Bartlett, Clark W
Helmiok.
Dovknkb will reach this county
on October 11th and his meetings
will be the largest anil most en
thusiastic ever held in this county.
In fact it will fee all ablaze with
enthusiasm and one glittering
triumphal march to the tune
"Hail Columbia" from Brown's
Mills on the 11th to Wyatt on the
6th. Everybody will be out be
cause the speeches. will be bright,
eloquent, witty and patriotic.
You can't afford to miss one of
them.
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