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The Cheat mountains. in Preston

The Cheat mountains, in Preston
county, this State, are becomind great
places OF resort for people who would
flv the city during the heated term.
They are visited not only for health,
but by the lovers of the grand, beauti-
full and sublime in nature. From West
Union, over good roads south, west,
north and east, there is some of the
finest scenery which it has ever been
cur lot to look at and love. The noun
tains, and brooks, and rivers, and for
ests; stretching afar Off into the blue
in one unbroken line, are all inde9d.
beautiful to behold and contemplate
The air is at all times cool and full OF
invigorating life, and the water bub-
bles, cool and limpid, from the heart
Of the great mountains. AS good ac-
commodations as can be had in the
State o. West Virginia, or any other
State, for that matter, may be had at
the "Hauser House," whose fame for
good living is national in its character.
Aside from this there is Il large and
commodious boarding house, kept BY
James Shaf1er, Esq, who is always as
siduous in his ef1ors to please his guests.
This. article is rot written as a.puh to
this One or thst o4e, but as ifforma'
ticn to those who would spend
few days out Of the heat and toll OF
the City and valley, where to 60 to
spend their time to the best advantage.
Fer the benei. of sportsmen we will
add, that beat, deer and speckled trout
abound neal by, while there are plcn;
ty of pheasants,' quail, squirrels and
rabbits in the adjoining woods.
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"A day or two since II was our
pleasure. in company with another
gentleman, to visit the vineyard, at the
mouth cr Goose creek, in Wood coup-
ty, OF. r. ,&.W EGchbacher, who has
eleven acres ofground set out, the vines
of which are ..burdened with the most
luscious grapes re think we ever saw.
These gentlemen came into this conn-
try and commenced work under the
most trying circumstances, having cv.
ervthing to contend against and the
sympathy Of none. But having faith
in West Virginia soil and West Hir-
GINA climate, they toiled patiently on,
believing that the day Of. triumph
would come when. they could prove BY
the fruit OF their labcrthat not only as
good, but the very best wine growing
land in America is in West Virginia
and Missouri. We tasted their wine.
WHICH we found : excel anything we
haze drGnk these many years. it being
the pure, unadulterated juice Of the
grape. We understand from these
gentlemen that they contemplate OPEN
irg wine house in Pittsburgh, where
their wine will be sold in its. pure and
unadultersted state. 1t is their desire
10 give 10 the public pure article, and
to maintain the reputation Of our State
as a grape growing State, second to no
place in the Union. What a field is
here opened to industry and profit.
Thousands upon thousands Of acres
are lying idle and to vase in this
State, which, with Il little energy
upon the part OF The native population
might bc turned into luXuriant Yields
Astounding with tie golden grapes, and
which would prove source OF reven-
ne TO them almost beyond calculation.
Let us hope and pray that our State
authorities will take strong and de-
cidcd measures for the introduction OF
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General William L. Jackson, frol

General William L. Jackson, from
Kentucky, LEFT for his home in Louis
vile, one day last week. His stay
would have been longer among his
old friends and constituents of days
gone by, but for pressing judicial bust
ness to come before him in the near
future. We trust the learned Judge
may find it convenient and in line Of
duty to visit US again when he can
spare more time to his friends, who
are legions, east and west Of the Allie
ghenies, and who are represented in
every county, township and hamlet in
this State. and who will remember with
voice and votes the acknowledged
leader of the Democratic party OF Vir-
Sinia, should the people ever again
have the opportunity of paving their
respects to his splendid talent and un-
Questioned manhood and courage.
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j. Hugh Ross was badly bitten by
q copperhead snake on Tuesday last,
A half gallon OF whisky. was admins
tered 10 him BY his friends, and we
learn he is doing nicely. Old rye is
too much Of an opposite to the poison
ola snake to have the bite of one CT
these reptiles prove very dangerous, if
the whisky can be procured in time.
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William Colson claims that O

William Colson claims that on
Friday evening last. some person or
persons appeared at his door and shot
at him, with revo!ver, the ball passing
through his hand. This same gentle.
man. some time since &as shot through
the foot, but lie Done it himself by
careless foolipg with his own revolver.
May not sweet. William have done the
same thing over again in some Of his
evening rambles. by the light Of The
moon, superinduced by an attack OF
nightmare and longing desire to see
the slumbering beauty "over the hills
and far away"
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We are under especial obligation

we are under eSpcciaI ooi:SatloIs
to. many gentlemen in Preston county
for facilities ofrered us. in getting
around, and courtsies innumerahle
shown US while among them. ES-
peciaily do we feel ourselves indebted
10 Hon. J. II. Wilson, Summers Nc
Crum, David and William Wilt, Mr..
Grimes, and many other; whose names
have passed out ofmemory, but whose
act. Of Kindness will never be forgot
ten. 1t is our prayer that long life and
generous prosperity mag go with you
and yours to the end.
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William Regnier, with the firm of
Shipman, Holden g. Co., wholesale
and retail dealers in dry goods, of Ma
rietta, Ohio, was in town over Sunday,
looking as hale and fresh as clear sky
in a May morning. Come again,
friend Regnier, we would see you often.
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lanes A. Clips,cin, gentleman
in the employ of George Moore. Esq,
of this place, met with serious mis-
fortune on Saturday, getting entan-
gled in an engine, by which his right
leg was badly broken. We hope the
young gentleman may soon recover
the use OF his limb again.
The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1873-08-26

Rev. Wayman, OF the Methodist
church left Volcano on the 2I>t inst
for MoundsvilIc to attend camp meet.
ing being held there. y pleasant trip
the conversion Of the urgodIy Of
MoundSvillc and speedy return 10
the dock of his own fold is the wish OF
the writer.
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have occasion to call public attention
to this matte again, and trust that Mr..
Shafrer is no aware Of the true state
of affairs. S Guild we he compelled to
refer 10 the bject again, be assured
We will do it, 20 mincins manner-and
he advertiser mt will cost nobody
nothinp,
The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1873-08-26

The little son OF Robert Blacklin,
ofthis place, was kicked in the fore
head on Friday last, by a mule, caus-
ing an ugly rupture of the skin. DR..
Sharpe attended the case, and we hear
master Johnny is doing as we'll as could
be expected.
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Next week we will give an account

Next week we will give an account
Of another Kilkepny cat affair between
David Porter, William Shires, Mrs.
Shires, his wife, and Suean P. Faulk.
ner, with their former antecedents and
future prospects. If people will make
asses Of themselves, there is no reason
in our dictionary why people whodQn't
should not know what is going On, and
Of what material part Of the world is
made OF.
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LOCAL ITEMS.

What multitude of faults moth
erin law will overlook, if there be
full treasury.
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NoTIcE.-The undersigned hereby
gives notirs that he has entirely with,
drawn from the business ofbutchering,
formerly carried on under the firm
name Of Baldwin, Mount & Reader.
ser st: w. D. MOUNT.
Volcano, Aug. 10, 1873. (,
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Volcano LUBRICAToR.
NEW TIME TABLE.

CCHEDCLE Of the l.. T. Il 5. II. Railroad.
- On and after Monday. May 70, 1873, trains
will leave and arrive as. follows:
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Volcano, Aug. 10, 1873.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
A Romantic Real ty,

The New York Times tells the
following pleasant story: GA num-
Der of years since, the reports of
the society gave an account of sad
event IN Brooklyn. A woman had
been murdered by her drunken hus.
band, and kind lady Of that city
discovered three wretched little
children weeping over the corpse,
two boys and girl. They were ut
terly friendless after the arrest and
imprisonment of the father. The
two boys were brought to the News
boys Lodging House in New York
and the girl temporarily sheltered.
AT length the society sent the two
lads to homes in the West, and the
girl was adopted by gentlemen Of
property near the city. The latter
never knew that her adopted faith
cr was not her own. The boys
have now grown up and acquired
propcrty--onc being q druggist and
the other farmer. They have
been extremely anxious to commu-
nicate with their sister, and have
been in correspondence with her
guardian for some time. During
the past week they visited the city
for the first time, very well educated
young men, in good circumstances.
They visited the Girls Lodging
House, the Newsboys', and other
institutions of the society. The
adopted father of their sister con-
sented that they should see her in
his office, provided that they did
not disclose their relationship, as
she is only fifteen, and he wished
her to suppose herself his own
daughter, so that her affection
might not be weakened for few
years longer. She is to inherit his
property, They felt the propriety
of this, and had their interview with
her last week, without discovering
their relationship, and then return
ed, we'll satisfied, to the West.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Holland.

Button said Holland was the low
est country on the globe, but he
was mistaken. The greatest de-
preston i'll the earth's surface is
found in the plains about the Dead
Sea, thirteen hundred feet below the
level Of the Mediterranean Had
he said the lowest in Europe, he
would doubtless have been correct,
as large part of the land is thirty
feet below The sea-level. The great
er part of the country is composed
Of the Maud Of the Rhine, as the soil
Of Egypt has been formed by the
deposits Of the Nile. What has not
come from the many-mouthed
Rhine, is the Gift of the sea.
Holland dikes against the sea
from without and the rivers from
within, and these streams present
the same difficulty as the Mississip-
pi-thc gradual rising of the bed
from alluvial deposit, and the con
sequent necessity Of additional
diking. For a number Of years the
water of the rivers, like a wild
beast IN leash, has been led to the
sea by embankments, but this does
not always prove sufficient.
There are French scientists who
have u theory that Holland is grad
ualIy and continually sinking, and
will ultimately disappear. This
opinion rests on researches made
at three separate points of the coun-
try, which show, according to these
geologists, that the level has under
gone considerable depression. The
process is so slow, however, should
the theory prove true, that the in
habitants of the present and follow
ing centuries will hardly be dis
turbcd. There is an old Legendary
prophecy of like tenor lowering over
the fishermen's villages on the
coasts, that the sea will one day
take back what was once taken from
it. But before such submersion
takes place, the ingenuity of man
may doubtless be relied upon for
finding some means of averting the
disaster of Atlantis.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Country Editors Endorsed.

Mr.. Josiah A Noonan, well
known citizen Of Milwaukee, who
has been an active and respected |
business man in that city for twenty
five years, has recently placed him
self voluntarily in the bankrupt
court. He has for several years
been engaged in manufacturing
paper, and, rs one of the prorrie-
tors of several paper mills, has
been involved in lawsuits concern
ing leases of water power. In an
answer to = friendly reference in
one Of the papers concerning his
bankruptcy, Mr.. Noonan has pub
lishcd letter in the Chicago Tr;5-
me, in which he describes the SEN
sations and experiences Of man
whose affairs have reduced him
from aflluencc to the bankrupt
court.
Among the consequences of his
bankruptcy he regrets the temper
AIRY interruption of his business re-
lations with the publishers of
Wisconsin, Northern Iowa, Mime
sofa, and Western Michigan, with
whom he has had constant relations
for twenty-five years. In this bust
ness with them, mostly on credit
and amounting to millions ofdollars
and extending over nearly quarter
Of Il century, he states his entire loss
by bad debts was less than $4,000.
He questions whether like show
ing could be made of the same
amount of dealing with men in any
other business or profession. Upon
this point he says:
81 have many time felt my blood
stir faster when | have presented
the note of customer-purchaser,
to . bank to be cashed-outside OF
my place Of bnsiness-to have some
pinchcd up squirt ola teller, cashier
or President, look up with that
peculiar sinister and supercilious
smirk, known only to those of that
calling, and inquire. 'Is the maker
Of that paper ali cditor?" When
told he was, then to hear him say;
eve don't like those country print
ers' notes. They are not generally
paid" The poor devil, in all proba-
bility, was, at the time of the
dialogue, shining around to raise
means to cover up some of his own
wheat or stock gambling losses.
There were more brains, business
integrity, and tact, in the northeast
corner of the country editors head,
who made the note, than there ever
was under the skulls of any three
generations Of the self-sufficient
aud marrow-gauged whclps who put
the question:"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Let them Amuse Themselves.

In old fashioned times boys and
girls were left to their own wits for
amusements, nor do think this was
ve'y bad thing to be left with. l
never go into q toy shop, especially
one Of these magazines in New
York, where ten thousand toys are
heaped together, without pitying
the modern family.
Once the dear old aunt promised
the little girl that if she would be
good, she should have a doll made
for her. Already she had had little
thin crinkly paper dolls, and picture
dolls on states, and handkerchief
dolls folded and pined, which could
be opened out again, on pressing
need, to the uses of the handker-
chief.
But there shall be brand new
doll, set apart and consecrated to
the high ends of dol! life, but it
shall have eyes and mouth, marked
with ink, and set forth in the eyes
of all men and girls. The joys of
anticipation almost equal tho rapt-
urc of possession.
At length the creative work is
done, and the little girl comes into
possession Of cotton doll stuffed
with bran, and the face brought out
in a manner that would make an old
Egyptian hieroglyphic dance with
envy. A bit of well-worn calico,
ten years ago flaming new, in q
dress that excited envy, q shred of
worn-out lace, scrap or two of
ribbon-these are the whole stock
in the child's hand.
But what Joy do they produce!
All, no poet has yet sung one of the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Multiplying by Five.

Figures are extraordi nary instru-
mcntalities in the service Of mathe-
maticians. With. them they meas
ure the dimensions of distant worlds
moving swiftly in their orbits, and
even calculate the weight and den
sity of a planet with slate and
pencil. So accurate were those cal
culations that were it possible to
place Jupiter in pair of scales,
they would verify their statements.
There is a simple matter in iig
ures, view ed without reference to
laws, which an infidel admits are
Interchangeable and eternal, but there
is 50 much indicated, one must be
wilfully blind who does not see that
figures in the arrangements given
to them bear to unerring truths and
carry the mind onwardly to the
contemplation of divinity recog-
nized in the physical construction
of a universe.
Any number of figures multiplied
by five will give the same result if
divided by two. But remember to
add cypher to the answer when
there is no remainder; and when
there is, whatever it may be, annex
five to the answer.
Multiply AGA by 5, and the ans
per will be 1890. Divide it by 3
and there will be 232. There being
no remainder, now add cypher,
and next $50, and multiply by five.
The answer will be l7s5. BY divid-
ing the first sum by 2, there is l7s
and remainder. Place five at
the line, and the result will be again
l795.
The science of figures is an unex-
plored domain. Mr.. Babbage's cal
culating machine indicated regions
which the inventor could not com
prehend. Laplace, Sir Isaac New
ton, and Levrier could not reach
what they believed attainable by
figures in coming ages of scientific
research.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

gentlest, richest, and most fruitful
OF earthly .joys-the joys of pet
loving little girl, with her first real
doll. Sacred geographers have long
searched for the position of Eden.
We don't know about the old one,
but the door Of young paradise is
placed not far from the corner
where the little girl has laid the
doll to rest. Her Imagination sup
plies all that is lacking. This is
not corner in garret, nor a nook
in the closet. 1t is a splendid room
Those are not cobwebs, but tapes
try hangings. Those bits of crock
ery-ls there in Dresden or Sevres
manufactures any ware so fine in
their eyes as this delf is in the little
girls?
But nowadays, children are bur-
led down under the loads of toys
which are upset upon them. Dolls:
In one little girls treasury house
can count twelve-small dolls, large
dolls, china dolls, wax dolls, speak
ing dolls, creeping dolls, black,
white and pink dolls-with chairs
and doll seats of china, and beds,
bureaus and stoves, houses, car.
rlages, wagons and whcelbarrow
till the very. inventory becomes
| burdensome.
| DO not children enjoy these:
Certainly. But no more than afore.
time children enjoyed the home
made and scanty provision fol
amusement. 1t is the creative fac
ulty in children that furnishes them
their chief delight.
If the imagination is killed by the
superabundant supply, it has nj
chance to create. All is done
for 1t. The suppression Of i'm.
aglnatlon by overlooking it is
not confined to amusement. 1t is a
deadly sin in art, literature teach
ing, oratory, and all other depart
ments which have for their object
the moving of mans thoughts.
A chest of tools-not too many
IS far better present for a lad thar
cart-load Of wagons, machines
and finished things. No boy evel
flew kite that he had bought with
half the pleasure that he experiences
to see the work Of his own hands
rising heavenward.
Some of our happiest hours were
spent in damning up a brook. We
tolled at stones, we burdened our
selves with loads, we worked tol
days and days, at spare hours, in
laying the ledge across the stream,
in stutfing in clods, in adjusting
boards to carry a sheet out as a
waterfall, and in a hundred wrig-
giles of ingenuity that were an in
tense pleasure, at the same time
that they were stirring up ingenui-
ty and serving as real educa-
ton.
A good knife and ball of twine
is good enough capital. Let the
boy make his kite, make his base
ball, make his sled, make his bat,
his ladder. Al! true pleasure con.
sists in the creative activity Of the
human faculties.
Stir up boys and girls to amuse
themselves. Then amusement be-
comes handmade to education.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
How the World Will End.

Planets are continually intcgrating
diffused materials which they en-
counter in their progress through |
space, and it has been estimated
that the earth adds to itself nearly
one hundred and fifty billion such
mctcoric particles every year.
Secondly, it has been proved that
every planet must be slowly losing
a part of its molar motion of rota-
ton. The effect of tidal waves,
which are caused by the gravita-
tion ofliquid toward other planetary
bodies, is to rctard diurnal rotation;
and, in fact, the terrestrial day is
heightened by reason Of the friction
of the tides, and it is destined in
the remote future to give about 48O
hours between sunrise and sunset.
The earth is also losing molecular
motion by radiation. That some
terrestrial heat is lost without COM
pcnsation - and very slowly, of
course, can hardly be doubted; and
for the state fittings thus ultima
tely to be produced we may find a
PARALLEL in the present condition Of
the moon. That appears to afford
an example of the universal death
which in an inconceivably distant
future awaits the entire solar sys-
TEN. If along with the dissipation
Of the molar and molecular motions
the planets are also losing angular
velocity, this loss Of motion will
ultimately result in their integra-
tion with the sun. Of two facts
which bear upon the subject, on
| Cfamiliar to all students of science
is the observed retardation of
Enckc's comet by the resistance Of
the medium through which it moves.
The other, which, so far as | know,
has not hitherto been mentioned, is
that all the planets are nearer the
sun than they ought TO be, accord
ing TO BODIES law, the variation
cing most conspicuous, as might
expected, in the case of Neptune
1t is at least worthy of notice that
the discrepancy is such as might
have been caused by Il slow dimlnu
ton OF the angular velocities of the
planets. Another fact, that the in
terplanetary spaces are filled wit!
matter, and that consequently al
planetary bodies rushing through
them must meet with resistance and
lose momentum, proves that i'm
mense momentum will be eaten up
by the resistance force. This loss
OF tangential momentum must bring
oil the planets into the sun. AS The
planet slowly draws near the sun its
lost tangentia momentum is replaced
and somewhat more than replaced
by the added velocity due TO the in
creased gravitative force exerted by
the sun at the shorter distance. Al
the last the planet must strike the
sun with tremendous force. The
hear generated by the earth and the
sun alone in such a collision would
suffice to produce q temperature OF
nearly 5,O00,00 degrees, centigrade
OF course, disintegration would i'm
mediately follow, and the next stage
is the dissi patton of the whole into
a nehEia.-P0t. FSke.