West Virginia Democrat. [volume], December 23, 1887, Image 4

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The Propei-tie* of Coca.
Mr. Dtt Pre expresses the opinion that
coca is the most potent nervine at man’s
disposal. “Its hygienic properties are
disclosed from its physiological proper
ties.” is the verdict pronounced by a |
Spanish physician resident at San Salva
dor, who furthermore declares that in hot
infusion coca is the most useful anil
healthful beverage one can drink after ,
dining. It is especially commemlablo to
the feeble and to those who have tran
scended the limits of sobriety in using al- I
cohol. and, therefore, should be tested in (
asylums for inebriates. It surely and
certainly calms nervous excitability, and, ,
used in small quantities, enables one to
endure cold, rain and snow, and to defy !
great fatigue, and restores the forces im
paired or lost by excesses.
In South American countries it is popu
larly used for indigestion, disordered
stomach, hysteria, flatulency, colic and
all intestinal troubles.
It Is employed constantly by toilers in |
the mines, and when they reach the mines
after marching several days through
forests and over mountains, sustained
alone by the use of coca and maize, they
are permitted to eat at discretion througL
four days and have perfect rest. Co
caismo. or habitual intoxication by use of
coca, becomes more incurable than alco
holism or servitude to opiates, but its con
sequences are not yet wholly measured
nor determined. Excessive and constant
nse of the coca as an intoxicant begets
rapid moral and intellectual degradation
and decay, and the steady decline is inter
rupted at intervals by resistless impulses
of violence and brutality. The nature of
the parent, when perverted by the drug,
is transmitted to the offspring, and the
inveterate vice, operating through genera
tions, is said to account for the brutality
of certain races of Indians, notably the
Quichas and Aimaras of the Bolivian
fastnesses.—Washington Cor. Chicago
Herald.
At the Battle of Gettysburg.
Very few civilians can rid their minds,
even when they knew better, of the idea
that any one present at a battle must see
the whole or a large part of it, or at the
least a very large amount of smoke and
fighting. It is marvelous how very little
any one individual sees of any one given
battle, though he may in the very thick
of the fighting, or evert at the headquar
ters of the command:r in chief. I real
ized that fully on the present occasion,
for although standing; on one of the most
advantageous spots to witness a portion
of the fight, with the valley and town of
Gettysburg lying below me and the
heights beyond in full view, I reflected
that our line was twelve miles in length,
of which on even a clear day, with no in
tervening figures or smoke, I could at
least only see about two miles.
* Then again I had always supposed, as I
am sure most other people suppose, that the
commander In chief always took up a posi
tion where, field glass in band, he could
command a view of a large part tho
action. Gen. Meade’s headquarter^rere
in a slight depression in a dense wood,
whence yon could see nothing a hundred
yards off, and yet, strange to say, en pas
sant, secluded as was this spot, the rebs
hod ascertained the locality to a nicety
and shelled it with such vigor and accu
racy that in ten minutes no less than six
teen horses belonging to the staff were
. killed. The officers all escaped unhurt by
seating themselves under the friendly
shelter of hnge bowlders of granite, where
taey laughed and chatted and enjoyed tho
thing as a big joke while the shells shrieked
and exploded beyond them.—Frank Bel
le w in New York Mail and Express.
The White Hair Crase.
I suppose most people who walk along
Broadway with their eye9 open cannot
have failed to notice recently a remark
able Increase in the number of young
looking women with white hair that are
to be met nowadays. I am myself the
most credulous individual, and espfccially
where lovely woman is concerned, it dis
tresses me to find myself having the
smallest donbt as to the genuineness of 1
everything about her. But it seemed to
me so oild that such a number of white
haired women appeared all at once that I
was moved to make perquisition into the
subject, and consulted an affable acquaint
ance of mine who is what is styled a ton- 1
sorial artist.
From him I learned that the white hair
craze Is tbe latest fashionable fad, and
that it is obtained by the same means that
were employed to produce the daffodil
colored tresses that have been so long in
vogue, but which having been adopted by
ladies of a certain class are now tabooed
by society. Tho bleaching mixture is
peroxide of hydrogen, which, when mixed
with 25 per cent, of ammonia, will in two
applications torn the blackest hair snow
white by the simple process of destroying
the coloring matter. Of course it is
frightfully injurious to htadth, as it with
ers the capillary tubes just as any other
vegetable is shriveled by burning, but
the ladies who use it don't mir.d ruining
their health as long as they can be in the
fashion.—New York Letter.
Tb» Jerry U olid ere In Kouie.
The jerry builder Is not to have it nil
his own way in Rome. The municipality
has at last interfered and declared that
overgrown, decrepit, insanitary structure*
are no longer to be rim np like mush
rooms anti finished off, let and inhabited
before the plaster is dry. The specula
tors and contractors who have hitherto
been monarchs of all they surveyed pro
tested against this interference with the
vested interests of dishonest workman
ship; bnt the S. P. Q. R. will probably
stand firm, the evil having grown to in
tolerable and impossible dimensions.
There is a grim satisfaction in knowing
that the huge factories (for they resemble
nothing else) which disgrace the Esquiline
and the Prati dl CasteUo are not quite so
permanent as the Colosseum, anil are
scarcely more desirable as places of resi
dence. They will rapidly crumble away,
to be replaced, perhaps, with buildings
more worthy of the Eternal City. But in
the mean time, and for a generation or
two at least, Rome is architecturally dis
graced in the eyes of the civilized world.
—Pall Mall Gazette.
Uis Sunday Nome.
“I once knew a sea captain who came
from about here,” he continued in a
lighter strain, “who had an encounter ,
with a shark in his youth and lost his
nose, and for the sake of harmony rather
than vanity he had a tin false nose made
to look as much like the lost feature as
possible. When he went to sea he tried
always to make his crew recognize tho
Sabbath with appropriate respect and ob
servance; he therefore ingenuously had a
silver nose made for himself which he
wore on Sunday, keeping the tin nose for
week days, and the signal was always re
spected, so far as he knew. Perhaps he
never heard that the sailors always called
the £ahbath “Silver nose day,” as they
might well have easily been pardoned for
doing.—Boston Post.
I have for sale three BILLIARD TA
BLES, in good on.er, which will l»e
disposed of at the following low figure*
$a). $W and $75 respectively. A No. :1
bargain for anv onejwanting to invest.
Address, F. B. SOITDKRS.
Charlestown, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
niay2D,'*87-11.
WANTED.
- , \ | and 10,000 Acre Tracts of Yir
DaUUU ginia Lands in exchange 1 or
good paving “Roeheste*, N. Y. city
property. Send price and particulars to
FRENCH A BRlN’NKK,
2' j Osburn House Block,
nov.l8,87-lt Rochester, N. Y.
CARELESS DOCTORS. j
—
CRIMINALLY SERIOUS SLIPS MADE j
IN WRITING PRESCRIPTIONS.
Physicians and Not Druggists, Generally
to niame for Accidents in Putting Up
Medicines—How Mistakes Frequently
Oceur—Another Evil.
How often do we hear of ft fatal error made
by some sleepy or negligent druggist's clerk,
compounding morphine for quinine, laud- j
a: mm for paregoric or oxalic acid for Epsom
salts. How seldom do we hear of toe criminal
carelessness or murderous errors made by
physicians themselves in writiug their pro
scriptions. I am satisfied, after careful ex
amination, that the latter exceed the former
ten to one, and that the services of the
coroner are uot oftener required is due alone
to a fact notorious in the profession, that
a competent druggist carefully studies every
prescription calling for powerful drugs, and
himself corrects the doctor’s mistakes. One
serious error by a druggist winds up bis busi
ness in rapid order. There is no one to staud
between the incompetent druggist and his vic
tim, but the careless doctor can depend with
reasonable assurance upon the strong prob
ability that if his figures are wrong and the
dose of the drug is doable what it should be,
the pharmacist’s trained eye will detect the
slip or the ignorance and put in the right
quantity.
I asked a prominent druggist the other day
if he often had to correct prescriptions. Ho
smiled. “I never correct a physician’s pre
scription,” he replied. “My business is phar
macy, not medicine.”
“But in case you got an order calling for
ten grains of strychnine, to be taken at
oncer
“I would uot fill it. 1 would send it back
to the physician with a polite note of inquiry.
That would be the retort courteous.”
‘•Do you examine all prescriptions you
compound with a view to possible errors?”
“Certainly. Every druggist is comjielled
to do that in self protection. For example,
here is a prescription sent here a few weeks
ago.
“Now this, as you see, called for twenty
pills of sulphate of morphine, gelatine coated, [
each to coutain two grains.”
“Did you refuse it!”
“No, I filled it—and there was no funeral
followed. I gave ten two-grain pills of sul
phate of quinine, gelatine coated, for I knew
that to be what the physician intended to
prescribe. He is getting a little old now and
sometimes makes a slip of that kind, but we
always manage to set it right. About four
months ago oue of my clerks brought me a
prescription calling for one gramme of bi
chloride of mercury, or corrosive sublimate,
in eight pills. A gramme is sixteen grains,
which would have made the dose two grains
in each pill—enough to kill an elephant. I
sent the prescription to the physician. He
erased gramme and wrote grain, even then
prescribing the maximum dose of the drug—
one-eighth of a grain.”
“Could not gramme be easily mistaken for
graiuf’ •
-Most easily. Gramme is usually abbrevi
ated thus, ‘gin.,’ while grain is ‘gr.’ Many
physicians use the metric system, and specify
the weight in grammes. Now, if only one
drug is ordered the sign ‘gui.’ may easily be
read ‘gr.,' and the patient will get only one
sixteenth of the amount iuteuded, or, vice
versa, he may get sixteen times too much.
The latter case is not so probable, for the
druggist’s knowledge of doses would inter
fere. But such a prescription falling into
the hands of an ignorant clerk could easily
furnish business for the undertaker and no
one be the wiser.”
“How often is the judgment of the druggist i
called iuto play over such questions!”
“With us it is a matter of almost daily oc
currence, but of course wo handle a large
number of prescriptions. Mast of the puzzles
are due to the wretched handwriting affected
by some doctors."
I asked another leading uptown druggist
concerning his exjierience with errors in pre
scriptions.
“They have numbered hundreds,” ho said,
“but as wo invariably refer them back when
illegible or calling for more than the maxi
mum dose given in the dispensatory the con
sequence does not fall upon the patient.”
“How do the doctors tiebave when advised
of their mistakes!”
“Some take it kindly; others try to bluff
the case through by saying that heroic doses
were required; others get angry. I sent one
prescription back to an eminent professor in
this city. It called for half grain of strych
nine to the dose. He tore it up, withdrew
hi3 patronage and wrote us an indignant let
ter, claiming that the prescription called for
only 1-23 of a grain. He hail destroyed our
evidence and there the matter ended. One
night I got a prescription calling for 130
grains of iodido uf potassium in three pow
ders, one to be taken every four hours. The
regular dose of iodide is from five to ten
grains. I sent a messenger to inquire, and
the rgply was the erasure of ‘iodide’ and the
substitution of ‘bromide.’ The least. conse
quence of the iodide would have been’a furi
ous eruption all over the patient, to which
certainly his malady would not justly have
entitled him, as he was suffering from de
lirium tremens.”
“Do you have muth trouble with quacks!”
“No. Quacks usually give very simple and
harmless remedies. They know their incom
petence and constantly fear arrest for mal
practice should an accident occur. The
quack, as a rule, confines himself to light
cathartics, tonics and lotions, giving a child's
do e to an adult and trusting to luck and na
ture to effect a cure. Most of them compound
their own nostrums and thus make double
profit, besides avoiding the placing of their
errors on record. It is tho regular physician
and the physician of high standing who is
most apt to be careless. ”
Another evil to which n:y attention was
called is the habit of some physicians instead
of specifying the dose and the time for its
repetition, to give simply this general order:
“To be used as directed.” Perhaps several
medicines have been ordered. The invalid
may be in charge of an iguorant or forgetful
nurse to whom this gives discretionary pow
ers which may easily Inscome fatal. I saw
myself a prescription calling for Majondie's
solution of morphia and marked in this way.
Was not this criminal carelessness!
Medicines are often kept in tho household
after tho illness for which they were pre
scribed has terminated. The direction of the
physician has long since been forgotten.
Another member of the family, perhaps a
Child, is taken down with some jietty com
plaint, and the quondam patient prescribes a
dose of the remedy used in his own case.
How much shall he give? He looks at the bot
tle: “Use as directed.” He thinks he remem
bers having taken u tablespoocful, so be ad
ministers that quantity. The sufferer grows
rapidly worse. The doctor is sent for aud
finds a case of morphine poisoning. Tho
bottle is produced. The doctor .secs “Use as
directed,” and discreetly holds his peace.
Perhaps death follows, and no one is tho
wiser.—New York World.
Daniel J. Rudd conducts, at Cincinnati,
the only colored Roman Catholic newspajier
In the United States. Ho is a young man
end a fine orator.
M. S. Burdette,
i>ealer in
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
Music and Fancy Goods,
Queen Street, Martinsburg, West Ya.
ty Wall Paper a specialty.
Smith's Improved Water Elevator.
Having purchased the County Right
to Ki ll Smith’s Improved Water Ele
vator and Purifier, the only practi
cal Water Purifier and Elevator combi
ned. Perfectly simple, and easily ad
justed to any
Well or Cistern.
Will not Freeze, and will surely last
three times as.long as any other Pump.
Will positivdly purify Cisterns and
Wells, removing all bad taste and smell
from stagnant water.
U' Most simple and durable structure
for raising water on the American mar
ket. Over $10,000 now in use. For sale
at the
Foundry and Machine Shops
Ok Wei kick & Weller,
Charlestown, W. Va.
apl.10,’87—lv.
Sample* TrtEATMENT| 1
We mail enough to
convince. B S. Lau
ACo., 773 Broad st., New
ark, N.J.
F. A. LEHMANN
Washington, D. C.
Send for circular
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MalXalXew portraits just out. $3.50
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CURE f°tiik DEAF.
Peck’s Patent Improved Cushioned Ear Drums
Perfectly Restore the HEARING,
no matter whether deafness is caused by
colds, fevers, or injuries to tne natural
drums. Always in position, but invisi
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Music, conversation, even whispers
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them. Send for illustrated book of
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Cough. Bronchitis, Asthma, Indigestion I Use
R’S CINCER TONIC wlthoutdelay II
man; of the worst cases and tithe best remedy
for all affections of the throat and longs, and disease*
orbing from impure blood and exhaustion. The feeble
and sick, struggling against disease, and slowly drifting
to the grave, will in many cases recover their health by
the timely use of Barker’s Ginger Tonic, but delay is dan
gerous. Take it in time. It is invaluable for all pain*
-nil disorder* of stomach and bowels. 6O0. at Druggist*.
LIEBIG COMPANY’S
Finest and cheapest
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FOR
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Arnual sale- 8,lKXyW> jurs.
N. B.—Genuine only with fac-simile of
Baron Leibig’s
SIGNATURE IN EUJE INK
across label.
To be had of all Storekeepers, Grocers
and Druggists.
A Kost Effective Combination.
Tbi* well known Ton to tiutl N* rvine ia gaining
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builds up worn out Nerve* t r.’.i«o> vest uni : re
tires impaired or lo't \ itnlit' . and brings hack
vonliifill strength nod v gor. It is pleasant to ths
taste, nnd ueed rwrularir bra* t-s tho N>wtolu again*
the devg’WKiiig lnfluetice of Malaria.
Price—$1.00 i>cr Bottle of 94 ounce*.
FOR S.M.K BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
I have opened In the room of Mrs. S.
Ambler a full stock of
CASSI MERES,
FINE WORSTEDS,
SCOTCH SITTINGS,
also a stock of
Gentlemen's. Furnishing Goods.
My tirst inducement to secure a share
ofcvour patronage v,-ill be to place a fig
ure on mv goods that will be appreci
ated by all. and being a graduate of the
John J. Mitchell Cutting Academy of
New York City, will make
CUTTING A SPECIALTY.
Clothing Made to Order
and the
FITS GUARANTEED.
Call and examine my sto<*kbefore you
buy. Hoping to have a share of your
patronage, I remain,
Yours rcsiR'ctfuIlv,
CI1AS. K. REIN1NGER,
dei-9,'87. Charlestown, W. Ya.
SECOND-H AN H ~
TWO-HKSE WAGON,
for sale cheap, by
T. P. LIPPITT.
JOHN V. RUSSELL,
SUCCESSOR TO JAS. W. BUTT,
Keeps nothing but the best of everything
in the line of
Stoves 4 Tinware,
— ) AND MAKES( —
A. SPECIALTY
-) OF (
ROOFING & SPOUTING
I always use smaller size tin in Hoof
ing. Why do I use it? It takes double i
the work, double the solder and more j
tin to the square than larger sheets.
Call and see at iny plane of business.
ALL I ASK is that the public will come
and see my goods, and I know they
will buy; for my stock is complete, iny
goods tne best that can be had and my
prices are as low as I can put them not to
lose money. Articles in stock arc too va
rious to be enumerated, but call at my
SALESROOMS
North Charles St
CHARLESTOWN, W. VA.,
and I promise to please you. Very re
spectfully.
JNO. W. RUSSELL.
july22-ly.
I am now established in Charlestown,
where 1 intend carrying on a
first-glass Jalualry |tare,
and will keep on hand a fine line of ev
erything pertaining to this trade.
WATCHES IN’
GOLD,
SILVER,
A NICKEL.
CLOCKS of the latest patterns in :«>
Hour and 8 Day.
CAKE BASKETS, BUTTER DISH
ES, CASTORS AND A COUNT
LESS VARIETY OF SMALL
ER OBJECTS BEAUTI
FULLY MADE UP IN
SILVER : AT ASTON
ISHING LOW
PRICES.
GOLD PENS,
PENCILS,
SILVER THIMBLES, Ac. j
Special attention given to Repairing.
Each Repair guaranteed.
Everlv yours,
Chas. W. 3rown.
Oct 7, 1887—y
Young Men and Ladies
Wan.c<i to
LEARN TELEGRAPHY.
Steady position,
$51) to $1011 Monthly, lea Qualified.
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For terms, address,
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F,WHITE SOODERS,
—DEALER IN—
WINES and LIQUORS,
Cor. Main and Charles Sts..
Charlestown, - - - west Va.
Keeps constantly on hand the best of
j Imported and Domestic Wines and Li
' qnors.
jGTMy Saloon is first-class in all re
spects, and Mixed Drinks a Specially.
ina.b-KT.
A Merry Christmas.
My Annual
Grand Xmas Display
OF
BOLLS, TOYS *nd LAMES,
i and tlie latest and rarest novelties of
j
Fancy Goods,
suitable for Presents, now open. Great
assortment of
Fine Confections,
to please youngand old. A large supyly
Foreign ami Domestic Fruits and Nuts,
Plain and Ornamental Cakes.
OYSTERS
Received dailv .larger than ever. Or
ders left here will be promptly attended
\n early inspection is kindly request
Thankful for past patronage, and hop
ing to merit a continuance,
1 am respectfully,
dee^T. - GUSTAV BROWN.
Washington & Alexander
Office in Gibson Building
CHARLESTOWN, W. VA
Represent the following Compa
nies:
.ETNA OF HARFORD,
the largest and most popular Company
in America.
Equitable Life Insurance Society
of United States.
Hartford Life and Annuity
of Hartford.
Home, of New York.
Pikexix, of Hartford. |
Washington Fire * Marine
of Boston.
Continental, of New York.
American, of Wheeling.
Peahody, of Wheeling.
German, of Wheeling,
Liverpool and London and Globe.
of England,
the largest foreign Company doing busi
ness in America.
We have made arrangements to insure
property against Tornadoes in Aetna, of
Hartford; Continental of New York;
and Peabody, of Wheeling, W. Va.
Where parties desire this, on applica
tion, a special policy will be granted,and j
an additional rate charged for same. j
— AGENTS : —
J. S. FLEMING. Shepherdstown.
C. L. BARNHART, Diiffleldf.
JAS. W. LEAGUE,Middleway.
A sworn statement of the conditions of
all Foreign Insurance Companies repre
sented in tins Agency will ho found at ,
the Clerk’s Office, in compliance with ,
State laws. All losses promptly adjusted !
and paid at our Office.
WASHINGTON A ALEXANDER,
jan.9,’85—ly.] Agents j
If you are Hungry and got the money |
to spend call at Wall A Dorsev’s.
W. S. MERCHANT,
The People's
j
* j
Main St., Charlestown, West Va.
—M—
Keeps on hand Fresh Meats of all
kinds—
EF.EF,
MUTTON,
VEAL,
wnich are always kept cool and fresit in
my renovated ice 1><>.\. Also
Country Ilams.
Shoulders,
Middlings.
Di led Heel-,
Home inaae Bologna Sausage. Mackerel i
i>v the bbl. 34 bbl. and bv the kit; salted
Herring by the barrel and in small
quantities to suit buyers.
GROCERIES!
A full lino of Groceries, consisting of !
white and brown sugars, molasses— .’Ml,
40, 50 and 70 cents per gallon—coffees, |
loose roasted and in packages; prunes, j
poaches, dried apples, all kinds canned j
fruits, eating and seed potatoes, tobacco,
segars, soaps of all kinds, babbitt’s }
soap 5 ets. per cake.
Thanking my patrons for their kind j
treatment in the past, I solicit a eon- j
tinuation of the same.
inav",'8fi—tf. W. S. M EU< JHANT.
Watson House,
JAMES WATSON, Prop’r.
Charlestown. Jetlcrson County, W. Va. j
Meals at all hours to suit Travellers. ■
Transient Boarding on reasonable terms
Hacks to and from all trains free ot j
charge. . ...
The Baris supplied with choice Wines
Liquors, Cigars, etc.
Telephone call No. 7. Western Union
Telegraph Office, next door to hotel.
$3rFirst-elass Livery Stables Attach- 1
ed. jan.9’85—ly.
TIT? 4 TT'T'T1?C Shropshire,Ox
IjltlA U 1 lXLlO A Cots.KII KEP
Jersey lied and Berkshire HOGS. P.
Rocks A B. Leghorn Chickens. Bronze
Turkeys. Eggs and f’ARP in season.
ENGINES, Mills, H. P'rs. Ac., best and
cheapest; part nay in lumber. Satisfact
ion guaranteed on all. Send stamp for
circulars to T. R. CAKSKADON, Key- 1
seu, W. Va. >et 21-lV. !
D. heflebowerT
Ajuctioneer
RIPON. W. VA.
Alwavsholds himseif in readiness to
cry Sales any place, and on the short
est notice at Satisfaction guaranteed,
jan 19*-85— yi
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Write at once for terms Dr. Scott, 848
Broadway, N Y.
The Peoples Popular jewelry Store
W. L. JONEs,
People's Hat'l Bank Building,
24 QUEEN ST,
martinsburg, w. va.
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Makes a Specialty of FINE JEWELRY, of every description, such as
Watches, Chains, Rings, Necklaces, Bracelets.
Also a beautiful Line of French and American Clocks. Silverware in
great variety. ENGRAVING executed in the n»»t vJmiA TFn
ner. jp^RKPAIRING done in the Bestot Style. MUTILA l hD
COIN BOUGHT. Old Silver Exchanged or Made into New. When you
visit MARTINSBURG, I cordially invite you to call.
TAT- Xj. JONES,
jan.9,’85—1 y.] Maktiksruro, West Viroixia.
\VM, K. WKIRICK .!N<>. C\\ I.U.LK
WEIRICK & WELLER,
IRON FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS,
-DEALERS IN
Agricultural Machinery, Plo^s and Castings.
ORDERS SOLCllED.
After a quarter of a century of toil and experience in 0U1 miainees, and Just ai
this period, we take occasion to return our thanks to our old iriends and custom
ers for tl eir liberal patronage, and solicit a continuance ot the same, with tne an
dition of inanv new customers. Our long experience in business has enabled us
purchase Machinery and T«>ols suitable for every kind of work, and we have in
employ the very best mechanical skill and talent to execute.
OUR MACHINE SHOR
mg, fit Lt
of Agricultural Machinery.
OUR FOUNDRY.
In our Foundry we are prepared to do all kinds of work, and have added many
important important improvements, to facilitate our work and make f irst-( laaa
Castings. We have in stock a large amount of Patterns, such as Mill oearing.Naw
Mill Patterns, Patterns for Machinery of all kinds. Orate and Engine fronts,! low
and Stove Castings.
OUR SMITH SHCOR
ln our Smith Simp we only have to say that we have Tools and Equipment* L*r
anv and every kind of work. ... , , . . ,
Our long acquaintance with the manufacturers ami dealers In all kinds of mate
rial, enables us to buy the BUST AT THK LOWEST KItIVI!H, which glves a hKriOKO
advantage, and would say that we can purohase most anything needed. In so
liciting vour patronage, we guarantee satisfaction as to prices, miality of iiateriul
and workmanship. ( all and see us, or send in your orders. All communication*
by mail will have our best attention. Give us a trial, and we are ««tfstied you will
be plca*-d with the result.
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FOR SALE.
Our New and Improved Light Sunttsh Plow.
Our Climax Cistern Box, (Cast Iron) something new.
Castings for Building Purposes, Weights, Washers, Orates, Window (overs,
TO SUIT PURCHASER.—1One Large Four-Horse Wagon; one Portable Steam
Engine; one Portable Saw-Mill; one Broad /read i/*g Wagon.
With many thanks for the past, and bright hopes for the future, wo are
R rKCTFl’LLY, _ _ , .
WEIRICK & WELLER.
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TotUosowhounflor f romt'.omnny otwoorr.i i-WAXfW
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HARRIS REMEDY CO., *ro CnraaiE
80a>f IT.TenthStraat, 8T. LOUIS, VQ.
rrJa- of our Appllanoo. Ask for Tsrmsl
Watson House
RESTAURANT,
On the Euopean Plan, j
NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
rpHE BASEMENT BOOMS have been
J fitted iif» specially for this purpose,
and the services of an experienced cook
procured.
Ham, Chicken, Devil Crabs,
Meats of all Kind,
Eggs, Sardines,
aud in fact everything to bo found in a
first-class restaurant will l»e kept on
hand.
1uly29-tf.
Lumber. Shingles and
Wood!
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14 A VINO recently purchased a large
body of fine Timber at Flowing
Springs, near Charleston r. and out in
operation there our Steam Saw Mill, we
are prepared to furnish
ALL KINDS OF OAK LUMBER,|
FENCING BLANK, FRAME LUM
BER, LAP SHINGLES, and WOOD by |
the CORD. Will sell either to 1#» deliv- i
ered or on the ground.
FRAZIER A COLSTON.
T.P.Lippitt,
-; DEALER IN (
Building Maieiials and Agricultural im
plements,
CHARLESTOWN.
Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Rough and Dressed Lumber, Floor
ing, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mould
ings, Lath, Shingles, Palings,
Ac., Ac.
WALTER A. WOODS MACHINES,
OLD HICKORY WAGONS,
Ac., Ac.
J3T Opkicb on the corner of Charles
and Liberty streeta.
june 19. *86—tf.
QQO VICTOR
V%Jce=Miei MANURE SPREADERS
fc FARM WAGOHS *?££*!* gu
Tb« rh<»p»<it Mpr»^ul*-r sc<J tlie
attar.'it-d to aW
L Also BiATofiTKir^r*
SiU'*f Victor < t*»TCT
HB <la'lVr<. fit »frial ]
KP-itruw St*»*ker»
.HDBnrrn rumai
Feed Cotters, etc. Alt »re Pure*
Willed free. KEffAUKMACHt>EC0._Oilamto»,0.
r«tm Brtwk U^ctc. M AKERS rt?W>. MU.
G.E.HUGHfS,
-) DEALER IN (
JU1 Kiri: i m,
CARPETS,
PICTURE FRAMES,
BRACKETS, -
Ac.
CHARLESTOWN, WY.A.
(jan.9,’8&—ts.)
Hello! Hello!
BRIOIIT, NEW AND BEAUTIFUL
ARK TIfK
—Christmas Goods—
at the Bazar of Ht. Nichola, otherwise
known as the West End Confec
tionery of
HENRY DUMM.
THIS year's purchases were maddear
JL ly In order to avoid the rush and con
fusion prevailing later, and with every
advantage for selection, ho offers to hia
customers for the hoiidavs of i*#7 an ar
ray of goods that cannot fail to attract
and alease—
Dolls, Tcys, Games,
Novelties, See.,
desirable for Oift*. It would be folly to
attempt in an ordinary advertisement
to make mention in detail. Call and aee.
Also a large slock of
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Candies, takes, Xuts, Etc.
And in tatore also large supplies of
sweetmeats and the essential elements
for Cakes and Puddings for the Holiday
time.
Families or individuals supplied *with
CAKE of every- kind. FRUIT CAKF a
specialty. All made to order or for sale
at wv counter. I have made unutfusl
preparation to supply the public.
OYSTERS—the best quality—sold In
quantity to suit purchasers.
Respectfully,
dec9,’87. HENRY DUMM.