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A SAD CASE
A man named DOUGLAS REID WAS lynched by a mob in the West last week. Reid, the Cumberland News states, was a telegraph operator and some years since was stationed at Green Spring Run, West Virginia, and afterward on the Pittsburgh Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and was a general favorite. He had a number of acquaintances in this city. The history of his downfall was the old story of drink, and through the various degrees of vagabondage he became in a drunken fit a murderer. He is said to have been a brother of J. D. Reid, of New York, an old telegrapher and highly respected gentleman, who was, up to a few years ago, editor of the "Journal of the Telegraph," the official paper of the Western Union telegraph company.
J. P. Krieger, Jr., cashier of the defunct Broadway Savings Bank, in St. Louis, for whose arrest, on a charge of embezzling the bank's funds, a warrant was issued on Saturday last, has not yet been apprehended. The amount alleged to be stolen by him is variously estimated at from $100,000 to $250,000.
At the election in Frederick county, Va., on yesterday week, J. V. Bell, was elected County Treasurer, C. B. Hancock, Sheriff, and E. P. Dandridge, Commonwealth's Attorney.
Chittenden says "the Government of the United States is a d--d scoundrel if it pays" the interest on his bonds in depreciated silver. That might depend upon whether the bonds had been issued by the government in payment for "good horses" or for "bad mules."
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, TIME TABLE. We direct attention to the new time table of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which went into effect on the 18th of the present month, in to day's issue.
Look into our advertising columns for the live business men, and where bargains are to be had.
HON. DANIEL B. LUCAS, of Charles-town, is to deliver an address before the Normal Lyceum Literary Society of the Fairmont Norraal School, on Wednesday night, June 11.
Butter is worth only ten cents a pound in Martinsburg.
That 25 cent box of Liver Pills cured me of a bilious affection of over ten years' standing. This is the statement of an eminent clergpman of the virtues of Prof. Paine's medicines.
GOOD BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE.-People who delight in good books are rejoicing in the good work being done by the AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE, 55 Beekman street, N. Y. By introducing the plan of publishing and selling books direct to purchasers, instead of giving the large discounts usually allowed to dealers and agents to sell for them; by working on the basis of the present cost of making books, which is about one-half what it was a few years ago, and by printing very large editions, which also greatly reduces the cost as compared with small editions, they are able to furnish Books at prices which, to most people, seem truly astonishing, but which they say are only reasonable. They publish as follows:
Chamber's Cyclopedia of English Literature, 8 vols., 16mo. Price, complete. paper, $2.00; cloth, $3.00; half morocco, $1,75; half morocco, bound in 4 vols., $3.75.
Rollin's Ancient History, 1,192 double-column pages, large type, 8vo. cloth, $2.25; library sheep, $2.75.
Josephus' Works, translated by Whiston, 1,042 double-column pages, very large typo, 8vo. cloth, $3.00; library sheep, $2.50.
Arabian Nights, large type, 12mo. cloth. 55 cents.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, very large type, 12mo. cloth, 50 cents.
Robinson Crusoe, large type, 12mo. cloth, 55 cents.
Baron Munchausen, very large type. 12mo. cloth, 50 cents.
From the above remarkably low prices a discount of 10 per cent. is allowed to those ordering before June 1, and an additional discount of 10 per cent. when ordered in clubs of five or more copies,