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The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-05-08

Nor SATISFIED YEr.-"I reckon peo
ple arc satisfied now," said Mrs. Gal.
braith, rs she walked out Of courtroom
in Hopkinsvillc, KY, with her third
husband, after n Jury had failed to con-
vict her Of numbering her second bus
band. The people were not satisfied,
however, and every night her house is
guarded against lynchers. She was a
beautiful widow, and had two oilers OF
marriage. One was from young MIR.
Galbrnith, who was poor, and the other
was from old Mr.. Wolf, who was rich,
She accepted Wolf, avowedly because
she loved his money, and two month;
niterward he was murdered. Having
secured hi property she married Gal
brAith. The proof Of her guilt foil shor'
Of satisfying the Jury.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-05-08
Origin Of Robin Red.Breast,

A little brown bird with breast Of white
Vas basking himself in beam Of light.
dark browed youth and fair haired maid
Arm in arm thro' tho sunlight strayed,
And tho girls blue eyes wero in rapture bont
And hOr heart was filed with rich content
As she lists to the story so old aud 90 sweet,
Till in loves true clasp the two hands meet.
And warm, bright blush has ta'en the place
OF the fair, white roses that slept in her face
When just as the blush was taking It's flight
The little bird few from his beam OF light
And the rose hue dyed the birds white breast,
And there forever It found rest.
And his song to-day, SO sweet and low,
Tolls OF their love in the long ago.
listened and caught tho birds refrain,
And sweet, my darling, I'll tell Il again.
See! hcge Ia this golden light 10. US stand,
And IN loves true clasp let me take your
hand.
Oh! rodbrosst robin, your bosom's bright
glow lHr
Is reflected hero in her check OF snow,
And, darling, my darling, "a girl and youth,
WO will vow to each other our love and truth.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-05-08

A little brown bird with breast OF white
Was basking himself in beam OF light.
The New York herald., 1876-12-20
llLD DoxrYIoY STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

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~ sailias trosa pier 81 North River
For Norfolk city Point and Richmond Tuesdays Thurs
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and Tennessee Ait Line Atlantic Coast Line Piedmont
Line Chesapeake and Ohio nairoad. and with the
panys lines interior points in North Carolina
Virginia Newbern and Washington N. G. (via Norfolk.
every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday.
Lewes. Del, Monday and Thursday at r. NJ. cocueosug
with Maryland and Delaware railroads.
Passenger accom- mnodatons unsurpassed .
Throagh tickets and bills OF adng 20 nl potneo
q lowest rates Insurance TO Norfolk kc, per cent
Freight received daily pier 81 North Rivcr General
Offices. 1877 Greenwich 81. ~ L. McCREADY, President
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
EALL RIVER LINE FOR BOSTON AND THE EAST.
Leave New York daily Sundays excepte from pier %
duced.
The New York herald., 1876-12-20
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broadway New York.
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The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
WHO HARVEY Is.

Lawrence Harney, the man who 10 said
to have paid Speaker Kerr $500 to exert
his infience to secure for A. p. Greene
commission in the regular army, Is well
known among the politicians Of the Niue-
teenthi ward in New York. Something
over ten years ago William A. Dafling
Congressman frem that city and laAely.
Appraiser of the Port, was president Of
the Third Avenue. Railroad Company, and
Harney was n conductor on the same
road. In 1855, when Darling was elected
influence, was appointed Assistant Door
keeper Of the House, which post he held
during Darling's two terms. When Dar-
ling was appointed Appraiser in 1870,
Harney was installed as his confidential
clcrk, and iu that position he was poten-
tial in the distribution Of patronage and
the selection of appointees in the Ap-
praisers Office. 1t cannot be said Of him
that he is q man of excellent repute,
though no investigation Of his transac-
tions while in the Appraisers Office has
ever been made. Though deficient in
education he has got along very well in
the world, and is supposed to be COM
fortably off pacuniarily. His story about
Kerr has been known to United States
District Attorney Bliss and Collector Ar
thur and others for some time. 1t is said
that some Republican politicians have
them to secure the suppression of some
OF the Investigations into administration
frauds, and that the knowledge that
this charge was hanging over him has
contributed largely to the aggravation of
Speaker kerr's illness. Republican po-
thticians generally in New York are Ella
ted by the exposure.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
A Mountain of Saw Logs.

In the log pocket of the boom com
pany, located about two miles above
this village, may be seen a sight
which, to the practical man, is worth
travellingmany2 miles gaze upon There
are ever 100000 feet of saw logs,
piled In one immense mass, an eighth
of nile in width, 10 10 80 feet in
depth, and three miles in length. The
high water has kept crowding them
down until they are piled fifteen feet
above the waters edge, and as much
below it in places. They are sticking
up in every conceivable direction and
shape, some of them on end with the
lower portion several feet above the
level of the water, and within a few
feet of these you will step on the end
of another, which standing straight,
just protrudes above the current. 1t
seems If they have been piled together
much as the glaciers are formed, layer
upon layer and log upon log, until
they have reached their present posi-
ton. One can easily imagine the
tremendous force with which this i'm
mense mass would precipitato itself
down the river if anything should
give way, but fortunately everything
is firm. Something of an idea of the
value of the mass may be formed when
it is known that the logs are worth on
an average nearly dollar EACH
MenomOnee, Mich., Herald.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
Strange SiieDht-OfHond.

A MAN CATCHES SIX REVOLVER SHOTS
FOR $5-ALMOsT A MURDER.
A correspondent sends the following
account of most singular case of
recklessnees:
"a sleight of hand performance took
place at Moselem, Berks county, Pa, +,
between David Geist and Rilandus
Lescher, which began and ended as
follows:' A wager was rpade by Mr..
Geist for five dollars that Mr.. Lescher
could not shoot him from distance
of FIVE PAGES. The wager was accepted
and Mr.. Lescher, with six shooter
pistol commenced firing, emptying the
whole six loads at the body of Mr..
GeiSt. Four bullets were caught by
Mr.. Geist in a way known only to pro
fessors of legerdemain; one missed him
and sank in the waters of the dam
close by, but one, which he failed to
catch, penetrated his vest, passed en-.
tirely through memorandum book
which he carried in his inside vest
pocket, and lodged between his vest
and shirt. He escaped, however. with
out scratch. The memorandum book
probably saved his life.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
Maryland for Bauard.
VOICE FROM THE BANNER COUNTY o.
THE EASTERN SHORE.

VOICE FROM THE BANNER COUNTY OF
THE EASTERN SHORE.
In alluding to the proceedings of the
Somerset County Democratic Conven-
tion, the Princess Anne True Marylander
says:
If, indeed, the deliberations Of the
State and National Conventions, that are
now soon to follow, shall be as harmoni-
GUS as the proceedings of this Conven-
tion, and if the people throughout the
country be as firmly determined to root
out the selfish politicians Of the general
government en- next November, the 7th
day, as now they seem to be, and if the
National Convention will give the Demo-
cratic party standard bearer for Presi-
Dental nominee with statesmanship
record as clean, unsullied and bright, as
heroic, chivalrous and able as that, for
instance, Of Thomas F. Bayard's, Of Del
aware, then is the battle won before
the contest and the sounding Of the key
note of the campaign will be the death
knell Of the Republican supremacy.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
A skiIlfuI Operation in Dentistry.

Recently Hiram Kuhns, of Mullen
berg College, called upon DR.. Van
Buskirk 10 have. "a tooth extracted. The
student suffered from a swollen face
caused by an alveolar abscess. The
doctor extracted the tooth, cut off the
abscess, scraped off part of the decom>
posed membrane surrounding the
tooth, fang, syringed the socket,
filled the tooth, and reinserted il in
the socket, where it has since grown
fast and is as serviceable a tooth as
any possessed by Mr.. Kuhns. There
are great many people who neglect
their teeth because they cannot spare
the time to have them tinkered at, but
by the advancement IN dentistry a
man can cell arouud in the morning
and leave tooth for the dentist to
work at while he continues to transact
his business and can call for it and
have it reinserted in t!me to so to
dinner.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

Two ENGLISH QUEENs.-Queen Victo-
ria completed her fifty seventh year on
"Wednesday last. Her reign has been a
few weeks less than thirty-nine years,
and though mot to he compaired in
brilliancy with that Of Queen Elizabeth,
which lasted forty five years, has been
more useful to her people, has tended
and enlarged the boundaries of the en-
.pire to an extenJ not dreamed of by the
Virgin Queen. In energy, good sense,
and masculine courage, there can be no
COMPARISON between Elizabeth and Vic
toria. Indeed, few male rulers who have
ever occupied the British throne have
approached Elizabeth in the qualities es-
sential for the successful government OF
anation. Her reign was distinguished,
by the wisdom and craftsmanship OF her
ministers, and was one of the greatest
periods in English literary history. It
was the age of Bacon, Shakespeare, Ral-
eigh and Hooker. 1t was also the age of
great maritime enterprises and dis
coveries. There have been no such
names in literature, politics, philosophy
as in thas Of Elizabeth. Yet Victoria,
with less of capacity, and with inferior
agents, has accomplished far more for
her country and mankind, and. will al
ways be regarded with more affection
and real respect than Elizabeth. who is
remembered as much for her excessive
vanity. selfishness, unwomanly hardness,
love of expense and display, indulgence
in burst of passion, indelicate speech
and manners, and fondless for worthless
favorites, as for her strong intellect and
powerful will. Queen Victoria is pro-
foundly by her subjects for her personal
worth, her gentle manner and womanly
spirit. During her reign Great Britain
has had wars in India, Persia, China and
Russia, from all which she has emerged
with advantage and renown. The COM
merce of the country has enormously in
creased, and all its industrial interests
have been developed. Not the least
agreeable characteristic of her reign to
Americans is the sympathy and friend
ship manifested by the British govern
ment to our own country, and which has
eIerted great influence in overcoming the
old-time prejudices in the United States
against Great Britain. The effect has
been to promote sentiment of unity
and concord between the two great Eng
lish speaking people in Great Britain
and the United States, and to make them
feel like brethern of the same original
stock. Meantime, many English have Of
late years been emigrating to and set
tling in different parts of our country, as
they did in the days of yore. Hence it
is that the birthday Of the English ruler
does not pass without recognition in
America, alfact which would nothave oc-
cured under the reign of any Of her pre-
cessors.-Balt. Sun.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
RUBBER AND .CAPCLNE.

There Is scarcely q branch Of human indus
try in which India Rubber has not in some
form found its way. Although widely known
and used, but few are aware OF Its medicinal
virtues and great curative properties. Prao-
tical experiment has proven that il is natur-
al reservoir of electricity, containing more
than any known substance or compound
Owing to this fact 1t has been used with sue
cess In curing Nervous complaints and Rheu.
matism that were invulnerable 70 drugs.
Il has also been discovered that India Rub
Der Possesses all the properties vaiunble as
aspe ihc for Pulmonary complaints and cures
many forms OF Consumption and Lung dis
eases. Combined with Capcire 1t is unparal-
leled as Pain Reliever, whether external
or internal. Nearly all the Surgeons have
adopted it ON account OF its great healing
The most efIectual way OF using the article
is In the form OF perforated plaster. Ihe
extensive use Of ordinary Perfoi ated or Por-
GUS Plasters, is testimony to its merit.
binary Rubber Porous Plaster Is that it acts
too siowly-requiring days and continuous
wear to relieve pam or TO effect cure.
A celebrated Physician OF New York, who
has long made the medical properties of Rub
Der a study has succeeded in max ing gree
Improvement in Porous Plaster by int roduc
ing Capcine, which oyercomes all the former
| objections, causing the Plaster to do in q
! few moments or hours. that which 1t former
| ly required days or weeks.
Capcine is the most valuable ingredient
| ever used as an externalremedy. Itopera CT
with astonishing vigorand relieves pain i'm
mediately. Its curative properties have be
come so famous that anenterprising firm IN
New York took it in hand. and by bringing
Capclne Plaster to the attention OF Physi
clans, have met with unprecedented success
| The article is known as BENSON'S CAP
CINE PLASTER The price IS the came al
the ordinaryPorous Plaster, % cents. Ever
Druggist ha them.
| SEABURY & JOHNSON,
Pharmaceutical Chemists, N. Y.
ArFor sale IN Wilmington by Il. Bring
hurst Il Co., 9TH and Market, and E. Mclnal II
| I'd and Market ianl9eod&we3dm-ly
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
PotaIo Bugs.

Potato bugs in swarms are now en-
countered by farmers all over the
country. Many farmers have become
so much discouraged in consequence
that they have planted less area of
ground in potatoes than ever before.
Others are doing as was advised time
after time in this paper last year, wag-
ing an unrelentless war against the
pests from the first moment Of their
appearance. Paris green is the great
antidote. Sprinkle it over all the
plants, either in its dry state or in
liquid form, the latter being the better
and more economical application.
Several sprinklings are usually suffi-
cient, but they should be continued
at intervals, until all dsnger Of the
potato crop being destroyed is over.
Last year the observance Of these SIM
pie instructions resulted in larger
crop of potatoes than we have had for
many years. Not for a dozen years
have potatoes sold as cheap as they did
during the winter, or are selllng now
There are many farmers who are
prejudiced against using Paris green,
and who look upon the expense al
tending the purchase of the drug
Such persons rely upon the slow, and
unsatisfactory plan of picking them
by hand. Children are paid ten cents
row for keeping the potato vines
clean or from five TO ten cents fol
every quart of bgssss destroyed, 1u
the end, this method is more expen-
sivo than sprinkling the plants with
Paris Green. The bugs appeared
earlier this season than last. They
are also larger, and fly through the air
In swarms.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
THE CHINESE have poyed good rail

THE CHINESE have poved good rail-
road builders and deft imitators of
other classes of laborers in this coun-
try, but at home they labor under the
disadvantage of a agovernment indiffer-
ent to progressive things. The foreign
railway between Shanghai and Wash
ung continues to excite the hostility of
the native officials, though the popu-
lace are interested in the enterprise,
and it is now apprehended that the
Peking authorities will order dis
continuance of the work. 1t often
happens that the people are ahead of
their rulers, and it is not to be won
dered at that hordes of Cinnamon,
alive to the necessity of progress,
which brings bread, enlarges opportu-
ity and expands intelligence, should
seek the desperate expedient of scat
tering themselves at every hazard and
ON any terms all over creation.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
what thc Press says Of Speaker Kerr's
Case.

Case.
Washington correspondent of Phila-
delphia Press says:
The committee had been notorious
while unearthing Belknap, In exposing
Pendleton, and now comes the Speaker
himself of this investigating House Of
Representatives. Harney, on return
ing to his hotel, stated that he had
been before the committee, and on be-
ing asked whether he had been scalped
replied: mo: but have killed the
Democratic party" Much sympathy
is expressed FOR Speaker Kerr, he be-
ing in very feeble condition OF health.
N. Y. Tribune says the whole mat.
ter is narrowed down to a question of
veracity between Messrs. Kerr and
Harney. Speaker Kerr has heretofore
borne an unblemished reputation.
When we have mentioned that Harney
was an assistant doorkeeper, it will
not be difficult to form some idea OF
him, as ex-Doorkeeper Fitzhugh has
given tie world an inside view of that
office and its belongings.
N. Y. Sun calls Harney "a protege
of Appraiser VIM. A. Darling and
John 1. Davenport"
N. \. Herald considers the affair a
plot against Mr.. Kerr, who was inno-
Gently abused. Mr.. Kerr explicitly
denied the flimsy story. and on his
record and his circumstances-those
of man still poor in the midst of {
hundred temptations to become iniqui
tously rich-there is no difficulty in
deciding whom to believe-the thrifty
creature driven to q corner and with,
present partisan cause for attacking
the Speaker of the House. or the states
man of unblemished character ant
proud record.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
BLOOD FOR BLOOD.
HOW SIX MUIR

HOW SIX MURDERERs WERE LYNCHED.
The telegram announced the lynch.
ing few days since, near Edgeield,
South Carolina, of six colored men,
charged with the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harmon, a venerable and infiuen'
tial white couple. The Charleston
News and Courier says when the in,
guess closet the prisoners We're dsliv
cred into the custody of the shoriff fn,
commitment to jall. But Immediately
the sheriff was seized by the crowd
which numbered about six hundred
perso rs, his head was hastily covered
with bag, and he was carried off by
force and confined. All of the prison
ers were taken by the crowd, which
was composed of both white and black
citizens, and marched to a point half 6
mile from the scene of the MURDER
There the six men who had committed
the crime were tied firmly together il
a row, and five minutes were given tc
them to pray, at the expiration Of
which time a volley of one hundred
shots were fired, and the six wretches
fell dead to the ground, About three
hundred men took part in the last acI
of the lynch.ng. They were variously
armed with rifes,shot guns and pistols
No masks were worn by anybody, and
and there was NO exhibition of any ex
citement of any kind. no loud talking
and no whiskey. Previous to their ex.
ecution two of the men confessed thai
the party had been concocting the
murder for several weeks. After the
murder the house was gutted of every
thing valuable, and part of the goods
were recovered in the hands of one o.
the men who was executed.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
THE BLACK HILLS.
A sTARTLTNG sToRY-NO GOLD, But
PLENTY OF INDIAN scALPRas.

A sTARTLING sToRY-No GOLD, But
PLENTY OF INDIAN sCALPR2s.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 2e.-Thc Tribune
this afternoon publishes the following
statements from Israel Hewes, just ar
rived from the Black Hills. He corro-
borates the statements Of the rumors
in regard to the Indian scalping sto.
ries, and adds that they are not half as
startling as the facts. He helped bury
persons killed by the Indians every
are always found with six bullet holes
and six knife stabs in them. besides
the loss Of the scalp, which they take
off by cutting the head open in the
shape OF letter V from the back of
the head down to the eyes, which pre-
sents heart sickening sight. He has
had some narrow escapes. One party
of them went out and were attacked
by the red skins, but they were such
poor shots that no harm was done. In
dians are "as thick as flies around a
molasses keg." Every party that at
tempts to leave or enter the Hills are
attacked, and more or less fall victims.
One party of twenty five attempted to
escape and only one lived to tell the
story of how they were butchered and
scalped. More parties are leaving
every day than arrive in aweek. There
are some FIVE Thousand men in the
Hills, among whom there are probably
fifty that are making $50 per day to a
thousand who make 81. One party OF
eight men set their sluice going al
noon and worked till sundown, and
their total earnings were 80 cents
There were. sixty three men in this
tparty who went into the Hills; seven
will never return, and four were los'
coming out. None Of his party re-
turned with enough to pay their ex-
penses. The cities that were the glory
of the Hills on the start are as dead az
though they never existed. The bes
claims are along Rapid Creek and
Deedwood. These were taken previ
Gus to January. There are only two
paying claims on Rapid Creek. Ont
of these pays about So. so each day pc
man; others So per man. Claims wer'
sold in Deadwood previous to January
for 81, 800.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

Centennial descent" is the title of
an interesting table of Secretaries of
War, which the Rochester Union con-
structs. This shows Timothy Picker
ing as secretary under Washington,
james Monroe under Madison, Lewis
Cass under Jackson, William L. Marcy
under Polk, and under Grant-Willism
w. Belknap and J, Donald Cameron
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

Hiram r. Roberts, who was Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of New
Hampshire in 1875, died at Salmon
Falls, in that State, yesterday, aged
70 wears.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

To SUFFERING LADIEs.-"Dr. Rogerson's
Female Hydrastin PoaDders, for all female
omplalnts. By mail, 81. Address Or
Rogerson p. O. RoN. 256S. N. Y. City
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

This Claim House EsfabIished 1896
pENSI0NS obt,iu ed for Officers, Sol
tcar of 1861 and o, ard for their heirs.
The law includes deserters and those dis,
honorably Discharged. IT wounded. injured
or have contracted any disease. apply at once.
Thousands entitled Great numbers entitled
to an incr eased late, and should apply imme-
dately. All Soldiers and Seamen of the
War OF 1912 who served for any period.
however short. whether disabled or not-and
all widows Of such not now on the Pension
rolls. are request. to send me their address
o ence. -
R0NJY Many lam who a1o snissd enlisted 10 s.nd 1851
your your discnarees and have them ex-
amined Business before the PATENT OF
FICE solicited. Officers returns and ac-
counts settled. and adjust claims prosecuted.
As make no charge unless success ,fui. i
request all to enclose two stamps for reply
and return of papers. GEORGE 4. LEMON
Lock Box At. Washington. ID. U.
Irecommend Captain Lemon as an honora.
BILE aud successful practitioner,-S. A. Hurl
but, NJ. G.: Attn CongresSional District of Illi-
nois, late Maj -GenI y. S. Vols.
In writing mention name of this paper.