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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Ob Lincoln W. Va. The "HERE S The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882. Dr. Norwood And The M.E. Church Mr. Editor:—In a former article I announced that I had finished the defense of the colored membership in the M. E. and other mixed churches. But because of cowards whispering that we are there in spite of social ostracism because we are "white folks' niggers &c", I contribute this article. In a previous article I referred to our social attitude in a mixed church, stating that while it is not as we would have it be, we remain because of other considerations of more worth than social equality. I need not discuss that further. All know it. Social equality in a mixed church separates into races and nations. I want now to discuss social equality in race churches. We do not need to theorize on this subject any more here than we have to theorize on it in the mixed churches as we here have object lessons, also. In a purely white church there is much complaint made about the social difference made among the members. In a purely colored one there is more complaint made about it. We know it is bad among the colored churches from an abundance of testimony, daily contact, experience and observation. Let us see. Here is a colored conference composed of one hundred members, presided over by a colored Bishop. Including the Bishop there are about twenty five known as the socially fit. They are his equals, his company. They must be cared for. Four of these must be the P. E's, while the other twenty must fill the choice appointments. The remaining twenty five are the socially unfit, taken in to serve country charges, destined to be "The back woods biszers." They are sent to what is left after the pick is over. They better go, they better make good wherever they are, sent. If dissatisfied, they better smother their dissatisfaction, or they will be publicly reprimanded by the Bishop, sent to a worse place the next year, left without work, or expelled. If because his family is suffering he leaves his work in order to support them, he will surely be turned out. You can find these fellows here and there left without work, grumbling, cursing the P. E's, and the Bishop at the big gate. This terrible condition is made possible by a miserable provision incorporated in their law by which a Bishop can at his option leave a member without work. It seems that all colored denominations that have made their own laws, have incorporated this miserable provision in them. There is no redress for this socially unfit crowd as the law is against them, and there is this social gulf between them and the Bishop. In our church every effective member must have work. In our church every colored member socially stands in the same relation to the Bishop. Redress is more accessible to us, therefore, we get better treatment. The inference is that were we to secede and organize, we would incorporate this same miserable provision in our law by which HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W. the great majority could be socially punished, or we might unite with one of the distinctive colored churches that already has it. Therefore, many present members of the twenty one colored conferences would soon be in the corn and cotton fields in the coal mines, or on the chock bench while the Bishop and P. B.'e. would pass by on the other side without even giving us a job. Not no race church for me. I is too narrow. Let me stay where I am so if I am oppressed, I can appeal to a judge who as between me and my oppressor, socially at least, has no respect of persons. Let us hear no more of social ostracism in mixed churches, because it is worse in race churches. If it separate races in mixed churches, it does more than that in race churches. Let me remain where in time of need I can appeal to an impartial judge, when at least dealing with my own people, who often treat each other worse than other people treat us. Sylvester H. Norwood. Baltimore, Md. TWO WAYS OF DOING THINGS. McDowell County, West Virginia, sets a good example to other counties in the matter of road building. Some years ago Dr. H. D. Hatfield, then a member of the County Court, inaugurated a system of road construction by the convicts in the County Jail. He purchased two portable jails and those jails, inhabited by thirty or more convicts, guarded by three or four guards, have constructed in some eight years thirty-five or forty miles of the finest macdamized road to be seen in West Virginia. The work has been done under the direction of an expert engineer. Careful records of every expenditure are kept. The County Clerk can tell what any particular yard of road construction cost, and the records indicate that the County Jail prisoners of McDowell County have been a source of profit to the county instead of expense. They have given the county many miles of good road, which would have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars of the taxpayers' money to construct. How different from the situation in Ohio County, where prisoners are kept for months in jail without employment of any kind, and are a continual cause of expense to the county? There are sensible and businesslike ways of doing things, and there are foolish ways. We seem to cling to the foolish ways — Wheeling Intelligence. TAKES THREE TODDIES A DAY AND HALE AT 105 YEARS. Savannah, Ga.—Patrick Kinney, 105 years old, who lives on a farm near Douglas, Coffee county, is unable to recall the time in his life when he did not smoke and chew tobacco or use intoxicants. Mr. Kinney says he only takes three toddles a day but smokes and chews whenever he feels like it. He is a vegetarian and declares that meat kills more people than it keeps alive. Mr. Kinney is physically in good condition and declares he has many more years to live. He thinks nothing of walking several miles a day. The record in the King's county of Orange, Ireland, shows that Mr. Kinney was born on Easter Sunday, 1806. He came to Georgia in 1886 and has been a resident ever since. He served during the civil war in the federal navy. Some Fine New Commandments Rev. William B. Millard in the Morgan Park Congregational Church Chicago, Illinois, is engaged in preaching a series of sermons which have attracted considerable attention. Blow we give some excerpts from a sermon which he recently and which contained ten commandments of his own creation for boys. They are as follows: 1. Thou shalt not despise thy father's counsel, neither砍牙, thou bring tears to thy mother's eyes. 2. Thou shalt keep thy self pure that thou may not be worthy of thy God, thy mother and thy wife which is to be. 3. Thou shalt keep thy tongue from profane and unclean speech. 4. Thou shalt not match pennies, shake dice, bet on ball games or indulge in any hazard whereby money may be lost, or—what is far worse—acquired without rendering equivialent. 6. Thou shalt speak truly, play fairly and work honestly. 7. Thou shalt not be afraid of an enemy's blow or false friend's sucer. 8. Thou shalt not exchange school drudgery, with high prospects, for a cheap job which leads nowhere. 9. Thou shalt not be guilty of ingratitude; neither to thy God who created thee, nor to thy parents who reared thee. Dr. Muller, encouraged by the success of his first effort, directed his attention to the girls and what follows are the ten commandments for daughters: 1. Thou shalt not deceive thy mother. 2. Thou shalt not exchange the bloom of innocence for the favor and contempt of any man. 3. Thou shalt not esteem silk potsieate and diamond rings as of greater value than the family's general welfare. 4. Thou shalt not regard fettery and false pretense as the highway to popularity. 5. Thou shalt not gossip. 6. Thou shalt not use loud speech nor bold manner to attract attention. 7. Thou shalt not think more of the culture of thy heels than thy head. 8. Thou shalt not hold the cup to thy brother's lips, much less to the lips of somebody else's brother. 9. Thou shalt not imitate the fine lady's languor while thy mother washes dishes and sweeps the house. 10. Thou shalt find joy in the service of God who created thee. THE SORT OF A MAN SHUSTER IS. Mr. Shuster's equipment, by natural aptitude and experience, for the important task of administering on modern lines the tangled finances of the Persian monarchy, was unusual. He is comparatively a young man, being now only in his thirty fifth year. From the position of stenographer in the War Department during the war with Spain, Mr. Shuster went to Cuba as one of the secretaries of the Peace Commission. When the Commission left he remained as Collector of Customs. He performed this task so well that, in 1901, he was appointed by President Roosec Press. velt to be Collector of Customs for the Philippines, being stationed at Manila. In 1905, he was made a member of the Philippine Commission and Superintendent of Public Instruction. He returned to the United States three years ago. Last year he declined the position of chairman of the Commission that went to Liberia. He is a lawyer by profession. When Mr. Shuster went to Persia he knew that he would meet with soious problems of an economic and financial character, but did not anticipate that political and diplomatic objections would be placed in the way of the accomplishment of his task. All the details of the Russian opposition to Mr. Shuster are not known. The main creations for distilling him, however, have probably been twofold. One is his assumption that Persia is an independent nation, and that he is to proceed on that assumption in administering the finances, and the other, that, not being versed in the sciences and stuistics of old world diplacy, he has frequently offended by his manner of blunt honesty. So long as it was believed that Mr. Shuster would consult Great Britain and Russia administering Persian finances, there was no opposition to him. When, however, the Persian Parliament conferred upon him, as Treasurer General, full and exclusive power in any opposition began from both Russian and British representatives to Persia, and open hostility was evident from St. Petersburg. From "Persia, Russia and Shuster" in the American Review of Reviews food country. SAVED HIS MOTHER'S LIFE "Four doctors had given me up," writes Mrs. Laura Gaince, of Avoca, La. "and my children and all my friends were looking for me to die, when my son insisted that I use Electric Bitters, I did so, and they have done me a world of good. I will always praise them." Electric Bitters is a priceless blessing to women troubled with fainting and dizzy apnea, beckoning, headache weakness, delirium, constipation or kidney disorders. Use them and gain new health, strength and vigor. They're guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. Only 50c at all druggists. AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. Prof. E. E. Just of Howard University, and Dr. William A. Sineir, of the Douglas Hospital, Philadelphia, were the new members admitted to membership in the American Negro Academy at its fifteenth annual meeting held Wednesday afternoon, December 27. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Archibald H. Grimke, of Boston, Mass., president; Kelly Miller, 1st. vice president, Rev. Matthew Anderson, of Philadelphia, 2nd. vice president, John R. Cafford, of W. Virginia, 3rd vice president. Bishop John Albert Johnson, of South Africa, 4th vice president, Arthur U. Craig, Recording Secretary, John W. Cromwell, Corresponding Secretary. Rev. Francis J. Grimke, treasurer. Executive Committee; Kelly Miller, J. E. Moorland, E. C. Williams, J. J. Grimke and J. W. Cromwell. A rate portrait of Tonissaint L'ouverture, and one of Abrsham Lincoln were presented the Academy from the estate of Mrs. John A Grey BY GAIN. OL. 30. NO. 43 Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. ELOPED BY W. G. ELOPED As the teacher read to her class a portion of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, she came upon the word "eloped." "Now which little boy," she asked, "can tell me what the word eloped signifies?" A dead silence following, she explained: "It means 'run away'—'carried away,' she said. "Do you understand? Well, and which little boy can now give me a sentence with the word 'cloped?' in it? "I can, misz," answered a small boy at the back of the glass room. Mr. Green's dog has cloped with my dad's dinner." FD LAKE LP An Irishman was sitting in a depot smoking when a woman came in, and sitting beside him, remarked; 'Sir, if you were a gentleman, you would not smoke here.' "Mum" said he, if you were a lady, you'd sit farther away. Pretty soon the woman burst out again: "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison." "Well mum," returned the Irishman, as he puffed away at his pipe, "If you were my wife, I'd take it." RABBIL HIRSCH In a crowded street car, the noted Rabbi Hirsch had attent to give his seat to a young woman, but before she could take it, a hurly young fellow slip in it. The Rabbi looked very meaningly at him, and, after an uncomfortable silence, the young fellow finally blurted out: "What are you glaring at me for? Want to eat me? Eh?" "No." calmly replied the Rabbi, "I am forbidden to eat you—I am a Jew." CONTINGENT REE A prospective client asked Wm. M. Evarts once what he would charge for managing a certain case. "Well," said Mr. Evarts, I will take your case on a contingent fee?" "Well, said Mr. Evarts, blandly, "a contingent fee to a lawyer means this: If I don't win your suit, I get nothing. If I do win it you get nothing. INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WIDENING. Work of Organization Abyl Presented by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. The good influence and work of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People are rapidly spreading throughout the country. During the latter half of May Dr. W. B. B. Du Bols, director of the publicity department of the association and editor of the Crisis, traveled thousands of miles and addressed thousands of people. Among the cities visited were Wheeling, W. Va., Cincinnati, St. Louis, Denver and Colorado Springs. Pineapple is declared to be one of the best known remedies for diptheria. It has been tested, we are told, with good effec in cases of great severity. VOL. NO. 43 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN- RITY. Rates of Subscription: 1 year.....$1,500 6 months.....75c. 3 months.....40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing.....50c. Reduced Rates to Culbs. Send for Sample Copies. J. K. Clifford, Editor] & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Mart- insburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1911 The Leader, of Detroit, Michigan, got out a creditable Christmas edition. It had in it a lot of entertaining reading matter, and presented its readers with a large number of Detroit's well known colored men. As we go to press, Martinburg is in the grasp of the coldest weather of the winter, and unless there be a speedy let up in the downward drop of the thermometer, there is bound to be considerable suffering hereabouts. Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker, former United States Senator from Ohio, gave President Taft his first Judgeship, and Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and his friends made him President of the United States, and in each case and to each man he has shown the basest ingratitude. For the life of us we cannot see how Negroes can suffer themselves to be jim crowed, circumscribed and maltreated in every way, and then pay for the privilege(?) of being thus humiliated and insulted. Would any other race of people stand and supinely submit to such treatment? Not a thousand times nor Hon. Newton D. Baker, a native of Martinsburg, and one of the best and brightest young men in this country, was inaugurated Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, January 1, 1912. The rise of Mr. Baker shows to what great heights a young man of pushability and honesty can attain, and should serve the purpose of making others do something. What a Christ like spirit(?) President Taft is showing in his treatment of the Morse case. The papers say he does not want Charles W. Morse to die in prison, and is not going to pardon him till he knows he is dying. That will have as much weight with divine justice, as a certain crap shooter here recently, who was shot, and believing he was dying, asked for a preacher, saying he wanted to join church so he would go to heaven. General Claim Agent Egan, of the Baltimore, and Ohio Railroad, has issued some timely advice to his men, and if they are as charitable as he would have them be to their fellows, the condition of all concerned would be eminently better. The paragraphs which Mr. Egan has set forth as being the ones which should be adjusted to our everyday affaire, are to be found elsewhere in our columns, and they will well repay a careful perusal by anybody who appreciates the beautiful in life. Hon. Cyrus Field Adams, Assistant Register of the United States Treasury, has the thanks of the editor for a handsomely engraved check, which reads: "At sight pay to the order of John R. Clifford and family 365 Days of Health Happiness and Prosperity and charge to the account of C. F. Adams." The above way of remembering his friends is an annual custom with Mr. Adams, and is a gracious reminder to his hosts of friends that he is aware of the fact that they are still alive. --- The struggle is on for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, and figuratively speaking, it bids fair to be one to the death. In fact, President Taft himself has let it be authoritatively given out as coming from him that he will be kept out of the race by no other force than "death". Such an unequivocal deflought to rouse the boys up, particularly "Teddy", and it can be safely prophesied that warm times will be witnessed in the not far distant future. The editor of the Pioneer Press acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Dr. Booker T. Washington to attend the annual Tuskegee Negro Conference at Tuskegee Institute Alabama, January 17 and 18, 1912. In past years these meetings have been of great practical benefit to the farmers and others in Alabama and other States, and the 1912 conference bids fair to be up to the usual standard. We are sure of the fact that anyone attending the Tuskegee Conference will be amply repaid for the time and expense needed in getting there. For the first time in a decade or more, Maryland has a Republican Governor, Hon. Phillips Lee Goldsborough by name. Great things are expected of him, and unless all signs fail, he will "make good." He labors against one great disadvantage, and that is, he will be retarded in his constructive work of upbuilding the interests of the State of Maryland by a Democratic Legislature. Though, after awhile, Maryland's law making body may throw aside its partisanship and help make the "Terrapin" commonwealth greater in the future than it has been in the past. Admiral Robley D. Evans, one of America's best known and most fearless naval heroes is no more. He departed this life on Wednesday at Washington, D. C., as a result of an attack of acute indigestion. Everybody knew the deceased as "Fighting Bob Evans," and as to how well he had earned his distinction as a warrior we will leave the world to decide for itself. Of one thing we are assured, and that is, he will not suffer by comparison with any other officer of Uncle Sam's Navy. He was known as a man who did things, and that without any unnecessary ado. It is his type of man who has to be reckoned with in this world, and if there were more like him in every sphere of human life, the country would be eminently better off than it now is. There is a lesson to be learned from the life of Admiral Evens, and we hope the many millions of fine young men in the United States will avail themselves of the opportunity referred to above. Rev. Dr. J. A. Hoffheins, beloved pastor of Christ Reformed Church and one of the best known and most popular residents of this town, died Saturday, December 30, following an illness from cancer of the stomach. Mr. Hoffheins had been pastor of the church which now mourns for him 35 years, and during all that long period he went all over this section, and carefully attended to his Master's business, cheering his fellow beings when they needed it, and spreading the influence which all true christians spread wherever their footsteps lead them. We could go at length and enumerate the varied virtues possessed by Dr. Hoffheins, but it is not necessary. His life did that. The deceased pastor lay in state at Christ Reformed Church on Sunday from 12 noon to 3:30 p.m. He is survived by two children, one son and daughter, the former, W. E. Hoffheins, being editor and proprietor of the Evening World, this city. The remains of Dr. Hoffheins were taken to Carliele, Penn., Monday morning, where they were interred alongside of his wife, who preceded in death several years. We understand that the Charleston Advocate has suspended publication. This action, so we learn, is made necessary from the fact that Editor Gilmer has been greatly overworked, and is unable to carry on his work as State Librarian, assist in attending to Mr. Hozlewood's affairs, and edit the Advocate. We are sorry this well known journal has suspended, because the good it has done the race in West Virginia has been incalculable. The Advocate had long ago ceased being local in reputation, and its friends in every section of the United States will be glad to see it resume publication as soon as possible. The foreign laborers are a nuisance to this country, and as soon as the officials of the United States stop the immigration of these aliens into our land, the better it will be for all American interests. The Baltimore American tells us that a collection of Italians, about 89 in number, employed by the Smithfield Marl Clay Transportation Company, got mad at their employers because there was a little delay in paying them their salaries, and threatened to kill the stockholders of the company. They even went so far as to run two members of the company into the hotel and dared them to come out until they could get the money to pay them off. Had they been colored laborers any explanation that the paymaster had made would have been accepted until he could have paid them off. Elsewhere in the current issue of the Pioneer Press will be found an article that we clipped from the Wheeling Intelligencer, and which treats of the fine roads that are to be found in the County of McDowell, this State. They were made by the prisoners who have been incarcerated in the McDowell County bastile during the past eight years. It is an article which clearly shows what resourceful public servants can do, and the methods in vogue in McDowell should serve as a forceful incentive for other counties to do likewise. Some fellows just make a business of getting into jail, and all such would think awhile before doing so if they knew they were going to be put at hard labor when they got therein. Then again, with the McDowell methods in force all over the State, good roads can be built at a minimum cost per mile, and the best part of all, it would be putting, on the whole, a practically worthless portion of the population 'at the work of constructing highways which would be a credit to the State. We would suggest that Berkeley County forthwith try the McDowell way, and if the jail has not enough inmates in it to serve as road builders, it would be a fine thing for the authorities to round up a lot of the worthless creatures around town and compel them to build roads or leave the country. MR. EGAN'S' WISE" COUNSEL General Claim Agent Egan, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has formulated a code of business ethics for the guidance of his department in its dealings with the public in the settlement of claims during the coming year. Mr. Egan's ideas as to the observance of the principle of the Golden Rule will be forwarded in a few days to each Claim Agent employed by the big railroad system. Essaying the role of paragrapher and laying aside for the "time being the arduous duties of his"official position to pen pert paragraphs "pertaining to principle, the General Claim Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio strikes the keynote of twentieth century railroad methods'in the New Year Greetings to his staff officers when he says: "Be polite and kind to the poor. Remember that many an honest heart heats beneath the ragged coat. and a kind word during life is worth the best sermon ever preached after death. "Do not be deceitful. Tell the truth and take your medicine: it is better for your conscience, the Company and your fellow men. "Do not be a colossal knocker. Life is but a flash at best. We should help instead of knock. "Be honest. Because a claimant is poor, do not take advantage of him hor his condition. Fate may lead you his way some day. "Be frank in all things. If a claimant ask your advice, give it openly and freely. If your advice is not taken, your duty has been done. "Be courteous. In dealing with the public, do not endeavor to create the impression that you own the road. Remember that the railroad is but the servant of the people. "Be ever patient. Patience is a virtue which few men possess. If a claimant villifies you and says all manner of things against you, treat him with all the politeness and kindness you possess, and ere the day has passed he will bemoan the fact he made an ass of himself." Miss Lillian, the charming and accomplished daughter of former Mayor P. R Harrison, was united in marriage to Attorney Forrest Brown, of Quarries Town, at the home of the bride on Wednesday. Owing to a recent death in the bride's family, the wedding was a very quiet affair, yet there was a solemnity and grandeur about all the ceremonies attendant thereto that did not fail in leaving a lasting impression upon those who were present. May the happy couple enjoy life's best blessing is the wish of the Pioneer Press WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. and family Pope's Herb is prepared to provide a dependable household remedy, based upon the principle of purity of blood insuring freedom from disease. 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THE SCHOOL OF LAW. Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite the court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Corrected to September 22nd, 1911. Trains leave Martinsburg as follows: WEST BOUND No 55 Daily at 11.18 a m for Pittaburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. Connects for Romney except Sunday and at Grafton for Wheeling daily. No. 55 Daily at 11.18 a m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No 5 Daily, at 3.17 p m for Grafton, Pittsburg and Chicago. No, 7 Daily 7:37 p.m. for Wheeling, Columbus and Chicago. No, r Daily at 6:16 p m for Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. No 3 Daily at 2.10 a m for Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis. For Cumberland and way Stations, No 39. 5.44 p. m. No.9 Daily at 11.28 p m; for Pittsburg No 15 Daily except Sunday at 6.30 a m or Cumberland and intermediate stations. Connects for Berkeley Springs. EAST BOUND. No 16 Daily except Sunday at 12:15 p.m for Frederick, Baltimore and all intermediate stations viaid line. No 18 Daily except Sunday at 6:30 p.m for Washington and Baltimore and all intermediate stations, Connects for Frederick. G. W. SQUIGGINS, Gen. Pass Agent. Martinsburg. Va Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton, of Washington, D. C., visited the latter's parents in the county for a day or so this week. The congregation of Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church presented their pastor, Rev. George B. Carter, with a handsome new overcoat as a Christmas present. Mr. and Mrs. Early West, of Fairmont, visited friends and relatives here and in Hedgesville during the Holidays, and they seemed to enjoy their stay very much. Dr. George W. Baylis, the popular Charles Street physician, was called to North Mountain early the other morning, and he has fair prospects of building up an additional practice in that little village. Thompson & Thompson have the largest stock, the best material and sell under the best guarantee of any clothing house in Martinsburg, test it by trying it. J. Frank Thompson's clothing stock is second to none in Martinsburg. He is widely known and is generally liked and does a rushing business because he sells the best guarantees fits and material or re funds the money. Give him a call. Rev. S. H. Smith, pastor of the Second Christian Church, Hagerstown, and a well known christian gentleman of our neighboring city, visited in our city during the Holidays, and we enjoyed his company for awhile. In addition to the watch meeting services at the Dudley Baptist Church on Sunday night last, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Thompson, of Charles Town, and Mr. Thomas Carter, of Pittsburg favored those present with some very beautiful vocal selections. The funeral of Mr. John Preston, who was accidentally killed while working at Sand Patch Tunnel, Pa., occurred at Mount Zion M. E. Church Tuesday last, Rev. Samuel M. Beane officiating. He is survived by his mother, father and widow, the two latter of this city, and the former of Pittsburg. Mrs. Joseph Norris, of So. College Street died at her home on Tueeda; afternoon. The cause of her death was heart failure. Mrs. Norris was an estimable woman, and she has many friends in the community wherein she lived who will regard her taking off with much sorrow. She had only lived in Martinsburg for a few short years, but during that period she had left her impress upon those with whom she came in contact, and it will last. 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