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Spirit of Jcffcrsmt. Cbarlestown, West September 17,1872. Kange or Thermometer at the Spirit dmce. 8 A. M.

2 P. M. 6 P. M. Tuesday.

Sept. 10, 78? 79? 76? Wednesday, II, 74? 78? 77? Thursday, 12, 76? 79? 78? Friday, 13, 74? 75? Saturday, 14, 72? 72? 71? Sunday, 63? 70? 67" Monday, 16, 69? 73? 74? Messrs. GRIFFIN Advertising- Agents, 4 South Street, Baltimore, are duly authorized to contract for advertisements at our lotcewt rates. Advertisers in that city are requested to leave their favors with house. CO.

are our only authorised Agents in Pittsburgh, snd from them only will we receives itUburgh Advertisements. CANDIDATES who owe for Announcements inserted in this paper will please call and pay for Jhe same. We want Berkeley the pleasure of being present at the Berkeley County Agricultural Fair on Friday last, we were gratified to witness the convenient and comfortable arraagomeuts that have bean made for the exhibition of stock, sgricultual products household goods, and the conveniences necessary for the purposes of the The exhibition, in all its depaitmeDts, was good and under the able management of the energetic President and Board of Directors promises to increase in interest with each succeeding year. Jefferson county was largely represented, bjuboth visitors and entries, and carried off a Dumber of the following from this county being nan.e 1 in the list: Best Teeswater heifer calf, 1st premium, K. G.

Burkhart. Six hens, (S. and S. S. II.) 1st premium, 11.

C. Burbhart. Best Jack, 1st premium, John P. Strider. Best Cow ana Calf, 1st premium, William 31.

Snyder. Second Best Heifer, 1 year old and under 2, 2nd premium, William Snyder. Best Stallion, 4 yeais old and over, 1st premium, Henry Moore. Gelding, 2 years old premium, II. C.

Burkkart. Messrs. Bro. carried off the first premium for the best. display of Marble Work.

Serious Saturday morning, the 7th iostant, a young man named C. Randolph Gaunt, formerly of Montgomery county, but for the past year or two in employment of l)r. J. G. Gibson, near this place, met with an accident about four miles west of Adaniftown, which resulted in the loss of his right arm.

He attempted to jump from the Winchester accommodation train, while it was in motion, and fell with his arm on the track. A portiou of the train passed over it. crushing the bones between the wrist and elbow. He was taken to Adamstowti, where Dr. Jacob Thomas amputated the wounded arm Dr.

Gibson was telegraphed for and visit-id the wounded on the day of the accident. He returned ou JMonday of la-t week, leaving Gaunt as well as couid he expected. He is a youu-r man recently married, and much sympathy is expressed (or him. Heavy Ireight train of Chambers, for wrecks lias been taxed to its capacity, iu transporting i over the 1j. 11.

it and even tin sepcra! occasions estta trains have been called into requisition. A large amount of the tlirou-ib freight for Richmond and other points pow passes over this road via Strasburg and Manassas. We hail this a3 a slight mieu of the immense fade that will be opened up upon the completion of the Valley and Sliebabduah Valley Kailroads. Cows to purchase Fresli Cows with Young Calves. Enquire at Rose Bro.

Cbarlestown. Sept. k. Ellinger. ladies counectcd with the M.

E. Church South of this place, in order to raise additional funds for defraying the expenses now being incurred in the repair of church edifice, will hold a festival in the -vacant store-room of Mr. Warren Eby, formerly occupied by McCurdy Duke, commencing this (Tuesday) evening. The cause is a laudable one, and we are sure will meet with a liberal response froui our citizens generally. Sappington valuable hotel property, belonging to Dr.

A. C. Hammond, we are pleased to learn, has been leased, for five years, by Dr. J. Johnson, of Washington county, Md? who will take possession ou the first day of October.

Friends of attendance of member of Jefferson Council, jno. 3, F. O. T.t both Active and Associate, requested at the Council Chamber this (Tuesday) evening, as business of importance will be brought before the Order for its action thereon. Let there be a full turn out.

horse attached to a in which Logan Osburn, was proceeding from town to his home on Tuesday last, ran off near the second toll-gate on the "Bloomery pike, upsetting the vehicle and inflicting upon Mr. O. painful, though not serious injuries. Boston L)r. W.

F. Lippitt, in order -to keep up the supply of ice for his customers, has made several purchases of Boston He received another car-load last week, which makes the third during the season. Dr- Tom ltason's DENTAL OFFICE, CoaHKK Chaelu and libxbty Streets, Cliarlestown. Dr. Rosenhain makes careful cxarnis nations of the eye in order to selcct proper glasses.

Ho is reputed a skillful He can be consulted at the "Carter House." New out for the arrival of New Goods at Goldsmith's twin fronts this week. Advertisement in our next. young friend, w. W. Brown, will accept our thanks for a basket of fine apples.

Supervisors' met on Tuesday last, pursuant to adjournment, all present with the exception of Supervisor Kable. The following business was transacted Ordered, That John P. Kearfott be summoned to appear before this Board, at its next meeting, to testify in behalf of the Road Surveyor of Middleway vs. Geo. Flagg: Ordered, Tliat J.

P. A. Entler, Jas. V. Moore, J.

C. Bitner, Thomas Hite and John F. Smith be appointed Directors of the Sbepherdstown and Smitbfield turnpike. Ordered, That et the election on the 24th day of October, 1872, the proposition bo submitted to the voters of this county, whether they will have a County Court or not. J.

Kern was added to the Jail Committee, in place of P. A. Entler, excused. A number of bills were passed, and other business of minor importance transacted. Farmers' Meeting in sea by the Era that a meeting of the farmers of Berkeley county, for the purpose of organizing a joint stock oompany or corporation to build a mill and engage in the manufacture of their own wheat into flour, was held in Martinsburg on the 7th instant.

Moses S. Grantham, presided over the meeting. A number of resolutions were adopted and committees appointed to solicit stock and procure a charter. One of the resolutions adopted provides that one of the governing features of the Association, to be incorporated in its charter, shall bo that "five bushels of merchantable wheat, or its equivalent value at tin. time in money, shall secure to the holder 19G lbs of Jlour and GO lbs of offal." A New Medical of Physieiaus and Surgeons" is the name of a new mcdical college, which, under an act of the Maryland Legislature, has been recently established in The faculty of this institution is composed of men of recognized ability and of great energy of character, so that by their efforts it must become one ol the best medical schools in this Dr.

Thos. Opie, we are pleased to note, has been elected Dean of the Faculty. Prof. Opie is a native of Jefferseu, but after serving with distinction as a Confederate surgeon, went to Baltimore at the conclusion of the war, aud has won the esteem of that community as a fine physician and a true man. Potomac atnunl re-union of the surviving members of the old Potomac Rifles, took place at Morgan's Spring, on Saturday last.

Tina company, it will be remembered, wsb organized ahuut the year under the command of thelato Col. Johu and wat the pride of the State of Virginia. There are yet but few left to keep up the "pleasant memories of the past," and most of whom have been summoned to the last "roll At half past eleven o'clock the members formed iu line and marthed to Morgau's Spring, under command of Lieut. Edward Lucap, to the tune of the soui-iuepiritig music furnished by James Greenwood, lifer, and Jacob Shcetz and John Sbectz dtunlners. At the Spring a pleasant interchange at '-old memories" lock well as the merits of many well tilled baskets were discusxcd.

Au exceedingly pleasant time was had, we trust that the veterans will live to eijjoy maay more happy JUgixter. Bkai.vaiiu's usical Wohlii for September received, containing uiore than its usual number of good thinus for musical people of Days Gone Uy," a beautiful poem, is lolinwed by "A Sunday a Century Ago," a charmingly told musical story, and this in tun by "The Heavens are Telling ''The Uods of Coiti;" "Beethoven as a Pianist "Independent Criticism "Musical Sounds," etc. Of Editorial matter we tiod the usual uumber of spicy, pointed articles. The Bulletin of New Music for the month is a valuable digest of recent issues. S1.00 a Specimen copies, 10 cents.

Published by S. Braiuard's Sons, Cleveland, O. Saved fiiom Duriug storm Sunday afternoon last, the Hum of Mr. Witherspoon, near Myerstown, in tliis county, whs by lightuiiig, and tlie liny ttored therein fired. Uy prompt and energetic efforts of Mr.

Witlicrspooo, and of neighbors summoned by the ringing of the farm bell, the firo was extinguished before doiut; any serious damage. The barn was welUfilled with wheat, Hay, and the the destruction of it would have entailed a very heavy loss upou a worthy and farmer. 'rcc The Death of a Venerable at Ferry Hill, the residence of Mrs. Douglas, after a life beyond fourscore and ten, Miss Jane McClellan. Th leaded woman was born in Ireland and her early life wad spent in the service ol the Douglas family in Scotland and Ireland.

She had nursed the late Kev. Robert Douglas while a child had been a faithful servant in his lather's family for 35 years, and was the nurie of his youugeet son in this country. She came to the United States about'26 years ago, siuce which time she has lived in Mrs. family as quittly as her energy and her industry would Register, Grand following is a list of the (Jrand Jurors for the present term of the Circuit Court John W. Grantham, Robt.

W. Baylor, J. 31. Decaulne, John II. Alstadt, Edward Dey, David Billmyer, J.

S. Fleminsr, J. S. Melvin, W. G.

Butler. fl. B. Davenport, Geo. W.

Kichelberger, llenry liohr, Jos. II. Knode, Thos. Locke, Thomas Turner, Jacob lleinhart. The Pittsburgh '-Peoples Montut.y" for September has reached us, full as usual of most excellent home reading, and illustrations.

Those wishing a pure, bright, and universally popular family paper, should send SI.50 for a year's subscription. SeDt three months on trial for only twenty-five cents. The Maryland Free Press printing establishment is to be disposed of at a grand gift concert to be given in Lyceum Hull, Ilagerstown, where the paper is published, on Wednesday ovening, the 23rd of October, 1872. Price of tickets, Two thousand tickets only to be sold. figy- The citizens of Harrisonburg, on the 12th of October, will vote on the question of subscribing a sum not exceeding S25.000 to the capital stock of the Washington, Cincinnati and St.

Louis (narrow-guage) Railroad Company. 3Iaj. W. J. Hawks, after a sojourn of some weeks at the springs for the benefit of his health, has returned home, somewhat improved.

Work has been commenced on the new brick pavement to be laid on Mildred street, from Main to tho depot. The Killing of Daniel Oar usually quiet city was thrown into a state of excitement Monday morning by the annonnccment of the killing of Daniel O'Leary, which ocourred about 9 o'clock Sunday The facts, as we gathor them, are as follows A number men employed on the B. O. II. and belonging to Collin's Camp, were at the depot Sunday night on the arrival of the "fast-line" West, which is due here at 7:39.

After the train had departed, the party left for their camp, which is located on the road a short distance south of the After crossing Burke street, on the street leading north past Swartz's mill, and when a short distance from the mill, young John Collins, (son of James Collins) and Daniel O'Leary into a fight. Young Collins struck at O'Leary with a "billy," when O'Leary stooped down to pick up a While in the act of stooping, John Collins, an uncle of the young Collins who was fightinar with O'Leary, drew a "billy" and struck O'Leary nn the head, just back of the ear. The blow fractured O'Leary'sskull, and caused his death almost immediately. The cry of murder was raised and the crowd who witnessed the affair, scattered and ran in every direction. John.

Collins, who killed O'Leary, immediately left, and has not been heard of' since. A coroner's jury was summoned Monday morning, and after sitting on the case, rendered a verdict in substance, as follows That Daniel O'Leary came to his death from a weapon called a in the hands of John Collins, and that John Collins, was accessory to the killing. Young Collins was taken before Mayor Sbutt, and after an examination of the case, was held to bail in'the sum of 81,000 for his appearance at the next term of the circuit court of Berkeley county. Era. Col.

J. W. Lyell, one of the of the Danville Collegiate Institute, has received and accepted a call to tho chair of Mathematics in the Virginia Millitary Institute, at Lexington. This is a very honorable position, and it is a high compliment to Col. Lyell's superior Scholarship, that he should have received the unsolicited honor, over a number of very distinguished gentlemen who wore applicants for the place.

We regret, also to lose Mr. J. P. Stridor another member of the Faculty, who has sovercd his connection with the Institute. He expects to leavo for Germany about the 1st of September, and will bo absent about two years.

lie will spend tho time in hard study at the great German Universities, preparatory to entering the ministry of the Presbytorian We are assured that the places of these gentlemen will be tilled in the Institute by other distinguished prolicionts, and the next session will open at the usual time in September. Advocate. Assistant Master op Transportation. W. Prescott Smith, Esq who lias just resumed his position as Muster of Transportation of tho B.

O. 11. It. Company, will be very seconded by Thomas R. Sharp, Esq who has been appointed Assistaut Master of Transportation.

Mr Sharp lias the reputation, secured by faithlul and efficient service as a Railroad man during and siuce the war, of superior ability in bis chosen profession, and will provo an invaluable acquisition to the company in whose service he has just J'Vi't: Press. Another Bui W. N. McDonald, who has lately returned to our midst lor the practice of law, we are pleased to note, has commenced operations for the orection of a dwelling-house, 011 tho lot lately purchased of Messrs. Suuler uud Keyts, ou the South side of It is tho purpose of the Town Council, wo understand, to extend Sauiuel street South, in order to give the Capt.

an outlet from his property. Death op an Aokd Jjady from Last Monday about two o'clock, Mrs. l'olly Rhodes, an aged lady residing in Middletown, relict of Mr. John Rhodes and a descendant of Mr. Peter Senseney, dee'd, was attacked by sunstroke nud stricken dead.

It appears that the lady had ate a hearty dinner and walked into tho garden when tho fear-, ful summons came without a moment's notice. Mrs. Rhodes was in tho 82d year of her age. Throughout her life she maintained the most exemplary Christian News. Tub Bhaddock Street remiiildliugof the Braddock St.

M. E.Church, South, is going forward rapidly, and tho work when completed will make this one of the prettiest churches hereabouts. Tho front is to be of the Gothic style of architecture Inside the walls are to be painted and frescoed, and we presume the building enlarged by tearing away the rear H'ut. jNeics. Thero was a terrible "smash up" on the Baltimore Ohio Railway, two miles above Bloomingtnn, on Friday last, about twenty cars being totally wrecked.

These cars were loaded, says the New Creek Tribune, with shelled corn, and it was lying on and along the track two feet deep. The loss "to the conpauy will be fully sixty thousand dollars. Statesman. M. E.

Church, South, in this city, has been without a stationed pastor for several monts past, but we learn that tho services of the Rev. are likely to be secured, that gentleman having recently returned from California, whence ho had gone for the benefit of his health. Statesman. At Work corps of engineers for the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad arrived in Harrisonburg yesterday, and went to work this morning surveying the route between this place and Hridgewatcr.

Maj. Borst is earnest about building this road. Enterprise. Enopmous Yield op Aaron Duble, tenant on Dr. McGuiro's river farm, a few weeks ago threshed the wheat crop of a field of 24 acres, and found it yielded 942 bushels of average of bushels to the acre.

Who can beat this enormous yield Courier. Found Betz, of this city, was found dead at Hoffman's Lime Kiln, near this place.Tuesday morning. He was a watchman at the Kiln, and it is thought he laid down to sleep and was suffocated by the gas. Afartinsburg Era. iter J.

A. B. Kennedy, Esq has purchased a half interest in tho Advertiser, and will hereafter be associated with Mr. Samuel D. Gordon in the publication of that paper.

Probablc Fatal younjr man, whose Dame we have not learned, wad knocked from the Ireight train on the W. P. R. R. on Sunday, in under a bridge above Winchester, and seriously if not fatally injured.

"Temperance Organizations." -3 The necessity of an organization among us whose motto iB entire abstiuence from intoxicating liquor patent. The eliurch, both in its statuto discipline, does not measure up to standard required. Its members can both sell and drink in moderation with impunity. It is admitted that converting grace is the most effectual prevention and cure of drunkenness. But the unfortunate ones ijho are subject to the fearful evil, are out of the reach of the ohurch.

They enter not her portals nor hear her ministrations. But are they to be uncared for Is no special effort to be made for their reformation and salvation The supreme want that shows itself just here, is met by those Temperance organizations under the names of Sons and Friends of Temperance, whose practice and work is to bring into their folds those who are seemingly outside of church applianoes, about whom the touching utterance of scripture is too true "no man careth for my soul." Of the working of theso societies and their results a writer in a recent number of the Gerardstown Times graphically says good has been accomplished by efficient Temperance Societies, organized throughout the country. 'In utyon there is and many a man who would have been powerless to break off his intemperate habits of himself, has been enabled to triumph gloriously when connected with some such society. No man ever made the sad descent from sobriety to drunkenness without many fierce struggles by the way. In his sober seasons he sees the evil of his course, makes vows of reformation and fighu against his powerful adversary.

But under various circumstances he falls again and again. Failure succeeds failure, and with each one his strength courage fails, hope dies, and bis insidious enemy binds him still closer in his iron chains until he loses all power of resistance and cease to struggle with his destroyer. Oh let every man who doubts his own ability to stand firm amid the temptations around him, and who would avoid the drunkard's life and doom, join at once with those who appreciate his situation and desire to assist him. Sons of Temperance, Friends of Temperance, ye have a great, a grand and glorious work before you. If to restrain youth from a career of shame, and to save manhood from Crime be creditable, that credit may be yours If to fan the dying embers of Hope into a infuse new strength and courage into a despondent win an erring brother back to the sun-lit plains of sobriety and peace, be reputable, that reputation may be yours If to raise a fellow being from the pollution of the drunkard, from the wretched ragged and despised condition of an outcast, from the low, grovelling and depraved condition of a bruto up to the high and noble standing of a Jlan, be houorable, that honor may be yours! If to dry the tears of a heart-broken hush the eries of iamishiug children to disperse the dark shadows of discomfort and penury, of disgrace and shame, and hearth-stone abuse, with the bright sunlight of prosperity and joy, with the restored presonee of a husband and father, be glorious, that glory may bo yours Stand firm in your righteous cause.

Rally around the tri-mottoed banner of "Love, Purity and Fidelity, and shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, and hnud to hand, fight the great buttle of social order, and of human freedom from this most disgusting uud debasiug of all tyrannies." That we have such an organization established io our town is a cause of sincere congratulation. It is as an oasis in tho arid bright gem in the coronet of our virtues and blessings. The shadow of a great rock io a thirsty home, a citadel, a tower strength for the weak, and erring, over whose door evor flumes the inviting words, thou with us, and wo will do thee good." T. Charlcstown, September 12, 1S72. the Spirit of Jeflcraon.J Communicated.

very decisive vole against Subscriptions at tiie receut election would lead us to beliovc that no further effort would bo made iu that direction, for at least snuie time to come. Yet it is well-known that certain parties are stiil urgiug the Board of Supervisors to subscribe and issue county to, nnd for certain improvements which are of little or no interest to a very large majority of the people. There never has any Act passed the Legislature authorizing the Supervisors to subscribe for stock and issue county bonds to improve the Shenandoah river without submitting it to a vote of the people. In the matter of the ICabletown Bloomery Turnpike Company, while an Act was passed increasing the eapitol stock from twenty to twenty-seven thousand dollars, no authority was given the Supervisors to subscribe for the additional Stock in tact, all Acts then existing which might be construed to give this power was repealed. The people should look well to this matter, the county is already almost hopelessly involved, and if a stop is not put to tbese appropriations we will in a short time become bankrupt.

If gentlemen see proper to involve themselves to make roads, for their own benefit, tbey should not expect the whole people to bo taxed to pay their liabilities. Cameron's. County September term of our county court commenced its session on Monday last, Judge Page presiding. The oase of J. P.

Coruwell, indicted for an assault upon a woman, occupied the attention of the court a greater part of Monday, and all of Tuesday. C. M. Louthran, Commonwealth's attorney, was assisted by Maj. IJ.

L. Boyce in the prosecution. Maj. S. J.

C. Moore and D. Holmes McGuire, were counsel for the was convicted and sentenced to twelvo months confinement in the county jail. Before he was removed he tried to make his escape by jumping over tho railing of the bar, and running out of the courthouse. It was dark, and in going down the steps in front of the court-house, ho fell, and before he could rise was secured.

Clarke Courier. S. V. meeting of the stockholders of this company, while assembled at Front Royal on the 3rd we understand fully carried out the purposes of tho call, and authorized the President and board of directors of the company to issue the bonds of the company at tho rate of S25.000 per mile, to be secured by first mortgage bonds upon the franchises and property of the company. A letter was exhibited to the board of directors from Watts, President of the Cumberland Valley Road, offering if necessary, to aid in the construction of the extension from Shepherdstown to Hagerstown, including the building of the bridge across tho Potomac at Shepherdstown, to the extent of twelve thousand dollars per Clarke Courier.

The Republicans have secured but a very slim representation in the They have elected three members of the Senate, out of twenty-four, and seventeen members of the House of Delegates out of sixtyfive. Three independent Democrats appear to be elected to the Senate, and probably six to the Charleston Courier. Remarkable Letter Appealig to the Superstition op the the recent session of the Shiloh Baptist Association, at Sberryville, in illustrating the dangers to which the colored people are posed, Mr. Sydnor read a printed letter which is being largely circulated among the negroes: It was given him by a colored man, and has this singular heading "A copy of a letter written by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and found eighteen miles from Ioonium seventy-five years after our blessed Saviour's crucifixion, and transmitted from the Holy City by a converted Jew. and faithfully translated from the original Hebrew aopy, now in possession of Lady Subas's family, in Mesopotamia.

This letter was found under a stone, both round and large, at the foot of the oross, eighteen miles from Iconium, near a village called Mesopotamia. Upon this (-tone was written and engraved, 'Blessed is he that shall turn mo All that saw it prayed to God earnestly, and desired that he would make known unto them the meaning of this writing, that they might not in vain turn it over. In the mean time a little child about six or seven years of age turned it over, to the admiration of all present. And undor the stone was written the command of Jesus Christ in a letter published by the angel Gabriel ninetyeight years after the death of our blessed Saviour, and carried by a person belonging to Lady Subas, and made public in the city of Iconium." The letter contains some excellent advice to the colored people, but ingeniously interwoven with it is a vein of Jesuit teaching well calculated to catch tho ignorant and superstitious. Clajik's editor of the Warren (Va.) Sentinel, tho father of James F.

Clark, the victim of the Clark-Fewell tragedy, conoludes his account of that terrible, and to him at least distressing affair, as follows "Never before have we so fully realized the full import of the words of King David when suffering under a similar affliction 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom Would to God I had died lor thee, Absalom, my son, my son "We received the kind and heartfelt sym? pathies of a great many of our citizens of the county, and many who were at court from other counties, on the sad and mournful occasion, and we mus-t especially name ono ble spirit like the rose in the wilderness, a green spot io the desert, Mr. Jauies Davies. an Englishman by birth, who kindly tendered to us his purse and his services in aDy way we might command them. He cheerfully volunteered to go to Alexandria for the coffin, though ho was threatened with Such a gentleman will live while he lives, and after death will spoak. May the good will of Ilini that dwelt in the bush be with And we take pleasure, also, in making honorable mention of Major Thornton in tenderins to us any money we might need, and other acts of courtesy and kindness, which we shall cherish in grateful remembrance." iCf?" Frederick Douglass, tho negro, is now running at the head of the Grant electoral ticket in New York.

In 1856, according to the Troy Press, he made a speech, from which the following is an extract: ('From this time forth I consecrate the lahorn ofmy life to tho dissolution ol the Union: and I care not whether tho bolt that rends it shall come from heaven or from hell." Aud yet tho Radicals of tho Ktupire State are willing to rccoguisc him as their standard bearer, and are going up to the polls in November next to vote for the author of such an atrocious sentiment. A. writer from Gettysburg, in letter to the Baltimore speaking of the exhuming of the Confederate dead at Gettysburg, says appears to be a parsimonious feeling existing among some farmers in not allowing tho exhuming of the bodies uulcss a certain sum is paid. In one case a farmer demands five dollars, in another, ten, and so on, even to fifty. On tho other baud, be it to their honor spoken, there are many who not only give the required permission, but even lend a helping hand." Sergeant Gilbert II.

Bates, who, it will be remembered, made a wager Bomo three years ago that he could carry the American flag through the late Confederate States without insult or injury, has now been challenged to carry tho Stars and Stripes from tho Scottish border to tho Mansion House on London under the same provisions. Tho bet is made between Sergeant Hates and one Thomas J. Warren, of Saybronk, McLean couuty, Illinois, who wagers to S100 that ho cannot do it. The sergeant has accepted the wager, and expresses his firm belief that he can carry the flag, without let or hindrance, named. Advertising correspondent of the Chicago writing from Ellenville, Ulster couuty, New York, says: "One is amused at seeing placards posted up at various taverns hereabouts, proclaiming two persons to be common drunkards, andwarning individuals against selliDg them quor under pain of prosecution.

It appears that there is a law on our statute books, now almost obsolete, which stipulates that persons can be posted as drunkards on the affidavit of a certain number of individuals." iKT" The daily papers publish in full Mr. O'Conor's letter to the oommittee of the Louisville Convention, again declining its nomination. Also the reply of the chairman of the committee, who tells him that while they fully recognize the extreme personal delicacy and noble purity of character which prompts the declination, they have, in accordance with a resolution of the convention, determined to adhere to him as the candidate of the people. I3T Forrester, who was arrested in Washington a few days since, and taken to New York, has been identified as one of three men who were seen near the house of Mr. Nathan on the night of his murder.

A convict in the Connecticut State prison is to be brought on to testify against him, who, it is stated, was cognizant of the murder, if he was not a j)urticip nriminit. The only fact, says the Richmond without reference to anything else, that Mr. Greeley is in favor of ridding the South of the carpet-baggers and detectives and of restoring us to equal rights in the Union, should induce every Southern man to prefer him to General Grant. This is a practical matter, which comes home to the bosoms of us al). "Berkeley Fair Daily," a daily paper issued by the combined forces of the Martinsbnrg Era and Union during the continuance of the Berkeley County Fair, the several copies of which have been received bj us, is a neat and creditable little sheet.

the Spirit of Jeflereon.3 The Past and the Present. No one likes to confess to beiog old, though he may talk of what he has seen and heard io by pone days: I recollect to have jonroeyed on horse-back, somewhat as an amateur agent, on the east side of the Blue Ridge in the summer of stopping in lioudoun, Fauquier, Fredericksburg, aud the upper part of Spottsylvania. Orange, Culpeper, Madison and Rappahannock counties. I met with many agreeable persons, young aud old, of both sexes, the houses were open reception of neighbors and strangers. It was easy for them to get up parties and ride routd from one neighbor to another, aud get up various amusements.

The young people were agreeable and the old folks hospitable, and the living was first-rate. Even the colored people were sang, pttyed and danced? their habitations, though bomely, were oomfortable. But a sadness has come over the spirit of my recollections, the unpleasantness that took place in the couutry not long since has greatly changed matters. Later in the season, towards the latter part of August, with a friend of mine who vited me to accompany bim into Hampshire county to get some cattle and sheep, I passed over mountains and streams. Found it hot and dry, pretty much as it was here the past season.

The streams were low and the corn quite short. We tarried while with a gentleman there who had killed a deer, and we feasted on it whilst with him. His son rode around with us through the neighborhood. We spent a pleasant time but did not sncoeed in getting cattle and sheep. On the 81st of August we woke up and found a severe white frost, and as we returned the people were securing their tops aud fodder as fast as they could, so it was until we reached this side of the North mountain.

The drought I was not as severely felt as now. The summer of 1872 will be remembered for its heat a well as drought. There has more driv ing to water aud hauling for domestio pur poses than usual. But our octogenarians tjl. us of the year 1806, which must have passed the present.

As it is a long ftme that has no end so it is a dry time without rain-, which we trust will be anou. F. Mortal spark that kindles a general conflagration would do but little mischief if attended to on its first pearaoce, so it is with consumption, which has nearly always been looked upon as a mortal disease. It never would become so if heeded at its first approaches. Of the whole catv.

i logue of diseases, nearly every one of them can be cured by care and attention. Dr. Keyser has published a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, in which he shows conclusively the curability of Pulmonary Consumption by means of his great Lu.vo Cure, now sold hy I most respectable druggists. The pamphlet will be sent to any address, free of cost, upon application, or will be given to any one at the Doctor Medical office, 167 Liberty street, Pittsburgh. It contains the main points of treatment pursued by the Doctor in his management of Lung and other Chronic Diseases, with certificates of some very extraordinary cures in this immediate vicinity.

Thousands of witnesses can testify to the value of Dr. Kryser's LuNrt Core, not only in the incipient or forming stages of Lung diseases, but even in long standing chronic cases. That the mortality of Consumption could bo greatly lessaned by early attention and the use of Dr. Keyser's Long Cure can hardly bo questioned, when wo look at the important cures of persons who live under our immediate observation, and who walk our streets daily in good health, rescucd through its virtues. Dr.

Keyser's office, 167 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, where examination for Lung and other chronic diseases are made daily from 10 A. M. until 1 P. M. and from 3 until 6 P.

M. Saturday night. Are You Going so, take our advice, aud purchase your Tickets over the old reliable and popular Missouri Pacific Railroad, which the only Line that runs three Daily Express Trains from St. Louis to Kansas City aud the West and is, positively, the only Line which runs Pullman's Palace Sleepers and fine Day Coaches movers) equipped with Miller's Safety Platform and the Patent Steam liralcc, from St. Louis, to Kansas City, Fort Scolt, Parsons, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Atchison, St.

Joseph, Nebraska City, Council Bluffs and Omaha without change For information in regard to Time Tables, rates, to any point in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas or California, call upon or address J. F. Thompson, Agent, Missouri Pacific R. R. Chattanooga, Tcnn, or Atlanta, or, E.

A. Ford, Gen'l Passenger Aeent, St. Louis, JVo trouble to answer questions 33T voted oil Monday of last week for the construction of water works. Valuable Hints. A regular habit of body is absolutely essential to physical health and clearness of intellect.

Nor is this all. Beauts of person cannot co-exist with an unnatural condition of ihe bowels. A free passage of the refuse matter of the system through these natural waste pipes, is as necessary to the purity of the body as the age of the offal of a city through its sewers is necessary to the health of its inhabitants. Indigestion is the primary cause of most of the diseases of the discharging and one of its most common results is constipation This complaint, besides being dangerous in itself, has many 1 disagreeable as an unpleasant breath, a sallow skin, contaminating blood and bile, hemorrhoids, headache, loss of memory and general debility. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters remove all these erils by removing their immediate cause in the digestive organs, and regulating the action of the intestines.

The combination of properties in this celebrated preparation is one of its chief It is not merely a stimulant or a tonic, or an antibillious agent, or a nervine, or a blood depnrent, or a cathartic, but all these curative elements judiciously blended in one powerful restorative. It lends activity and vigor to tha inert and enervated stomach, relieves the ailmenfary ranrfl of obstructions, and gives tone to the membrane which lines it, gently stimulates the liver, braces the nerves, and cheers the animal spirits. No other remedy possesses such a variety of hygienic virtues. It is to these characteristic virtues that it owes its prestige as a household medicine Experience has proved that it is as harmless as it is bence it is as popular with the weaker sex as with the stronger. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are sold in bottles onlv, and the trade marke blown in the glass and engraved on the label is the teat of genuineness.

Beware of counterfeits. BALTIMORE MARKETS. Baltimore, Satoidat, September 14, 1872. 35.00 a g6 00 Extra. 6 50 a 8.00 Family 9.00a 1100 Mkal.

per 3.60 a 3.70 1.70 a 2.00 Red 1.42 a 2 00 76 a 77 62 a 63 30 a 45 Rvx 67 a 67 15 a 15 Laid 9 a 9j Halt 1 45 a 2 15 TIN Spouting; and 8pecial attention paid to Repairing Tinware. McCURDY DUKE. CUCUMBER Wood Cook Stores, all size for sale by June 11, 1872. McCURDY DUKE. ALL kinds of Tinware of our own manofactnar for sale by McCURDY k.

DIKE. THE highest Cash price will be paid for good J.B.HAINES. April 16, 1S72. LIFE INSUEANCE. ENC01RA6E HOME ENTERPRISE.

Life Insurance Com'jr OF VIHGINIA. CAPITAL $300,000. A. G. McIIwaine, President.

S. B. PA Secretary. Home Office at PeterabuVg, Va with Local Board at Charlettown, WesfVa. CftAKLESTOWN POLICY-HOLDER BOARD.

Nathan S. President. Philip H. Powers, David Howell, Geo. U.

Turner, as. Law. HoofT, Archibald McCarroll, John Burns, R. Preston Chew, S. Howell Brown, Nathaniel Conrsd, JiMvpb Trapnell, Dr.

Win. F. Lippitt. FRANK BECK WITH. Sxc'v.

akd Gkk'l. Aokwt. DR. WM. F.

LIPPITT, Mblical Examines. I1FE Policies are generally acknowledged to be among-the saiest and most desirable invest meats. This Company is a Virginia Enterprise, intended, by strict economy in its management, to' offer security to the Policy-Holder at lowir rales than any other company. It has been localised in this State by the appointment of the above Board, whiv are to bavechaigeof and to invest within the limits of this Agency, the entire reserve arising- from Policies insured in this checking the constant draiu of money from our almost impoverished country. The members of this Board, after a careful examination of all the features of this Company, feel no hesitation in heartily recommending it to tluir friends, as a safe, and in all respects, a home fnterpritc.

March Paid Uto Gunrantci-. Cnpltul Deposited irilli the 'I'rfiisuri-r ut tiie State or Marylabd. THIS well eattbliihed Maryland Comrnv iDiarlDU upcu Live, upon all uio.t PUnt, add ft the Lowest qtjca eunaialfat with undoubted bccurilv. 03- All in GEOBQK V. Hoard of Directors.

HAMILTON EASTER. WOODS. ALLEN A. CHAPMAN, THOMAS OAKSARD; GEO P. THOMAS, GEO.

H. MILLER. HUGH S1SSON, WILLIAM OEVRIES. CHARLE8 AVEUB. A.

K. FOAItD. Rpcrnlary. OLAYTOX 0. II Villi.

As'l. Soc'y and Afloat)-. T. W. Matthews, Manager.

J. W. F. Hank, M. Medical Examiner.

CHRISTOPHER JoHNSTON, D. pUklfllaif. K.AN! Dosal.so>, M. PhJ.icmn. E.

M. USQUtTU, Sr. Agent at Charleatown, West Va. April iJl" YOUR LIFE IN THE Asbury Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK. DIVIDENDS declared on the Partnership Plan.

Issues Policies ou all the Popular Plana. Registered Policies eecurt'd by special deposit. Unnecessary restrictions oh travel rctx.uved. No extra charge on female risks. Generous concessions to Clergymen and their families.

Prompt payment of losses. Policies Nou-Forfeitable. Special attention cailcd to several important features the Afttmry. The Asbury issues all the various kinds ol Policies in present use, and also others which are peculiarly its own features, such aa the Half-Premium Plan, One Year Term and Commuted Policies. OFFICERS: C.

C. NORTH, President. A ndrcw V. Stout, Savin, Vice-Presidents. Daniel T.

acta si. and, ISAAC A. Actuary. Wanted, an Aeent iu every county in the To those who will devote their whole time tu tho burin ess, Libers I Commissions will be given. Call on or address I ROBINSON STRAYER, State Agent for West Virginia, Harper's Ferry, W.Vs, Of- Applications for Insurance promptly attended 10.

July 16, 1872-tf. I) 11 GOODS 9 WORTH OF DRV GOODS. CLOTHING, Boots, 91aoos, AND EYE11Y ARTICLE Pertaining- to a General Assortment of a FIRST CLASS STORE, To be Sold 25 per cent. Lower than any other HQUSE IN VIRGINIA. Examine our Stock before goingelsewhere.

At the Emporium of ROSE Under Free Press Office. Joseph Rose, Rose, 1 WkUimon K. M. AiKiuitb, J. Abbott, July 16.

lffl. FABMEBS' SUPPLIES. C1HERBY Seeders. Brass. Bell Metal and PorceJ lain lined Preserving Kettles, for sale by AS.

LAW HOOFF. AI NTS. OILS, VARNISHES AND WINDOW Wo will keep constantly on band a full stock of the above, which we propose to sell at the very lowestcasb prices, and will warrant all of the first quality. Those desiring- to paint up wilt consult their interests by giving us a call. W.S.

MASON. I HAVE just received a large addition to my stock of Letter Paper and Envelopes, very cheap. July 23, 1W72. W.S.MASON, ORIENTAL Tonic Bitters The great remedy for Debility loss of Appetite. Indigestion, Complaint, any disease which requires a good received and for sale by C.

HKI.LKR MOLLJER'9 Pure Cod Lirer Oil, the only Oit free from all disagreeable taste and smell? and genuine, for sale by C. E. BELLER. FOR Pickling Purposes and Race Ginger, Black and White Pepper, White and Black Mustard Seed, Celery Seed, Tumeric, Allspice, Mace and fresh and pore, for sale by C. E.

BELLER. Harper's Ferry. July 30,1872. SEALING Wax for canning fruit, for sale by the pound, by BELLER. A FULL stock of fresh Spices for Pickling and Preserving purposes, for sale by Sept.

10.1872. S. MASON. SEALING Wax for putting up Fruit. Tomatoes, for sale by W.S MASON.

SCHOOL will be prepared to furnish all Books used in our various schools, as our stock in this line will be full and complete. Sept. 10. 1872. W.

8. MASON. MONEY very much needed. As Harvest is over we would be obliged if our customers would fulfill their financial promises. Sept.

10, 1872. W.S MASON. CCALICOS, COTTONS, have just reJ ceived a nice assortment of Cslicoe, Cottons, Bishop's Lawns, Corsets. Notions, Jcc. KEARSLEY 3c SHEERER.

Hams. Middlings, Shoulders and Dried Beef. Highest market price paid for country cored Middlings and KEARSLEY SHEERER. GROCERIES a large stock at very low prices. Aug.

6. KEARSLEY SHEERER. Clocks and Jewelry repaired on a VV commodating terms, at Aug. 1571. L.

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