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The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1878-05-11

peati.g cubincs
"A car load Of potatoes sold a
forced sale ut Oakland went Of a. i
cents per bushol.
- Somebody attempted to bur
down tho court house aud Jail in Fay
cite county last week.
The floral decoration Of the Con
fedcsate Soldiers Cemetery ut Shep
hcrdstown will ,akc place on tho Is
of June.
1t is said that G. W. Atkinson
Of the Wheeling Standard. is going t
abandon tho tripod and enter the min
istry Of tho N. Il Church
- Apropos of tho road low, Their
is not q young man Of the ago Of eigh
teen years in tho State who is williuI
10 10 called boy.
- The Standard says a promincn
merchant in Wheeling has been sue
for ten thousand dollars by q woman
Causc-,oo much talk.
= The question Of removing tn
county seat Of Fayette, from Fayetteville
TO Deopwater. point on the G. 4 0
railroad, is being asitated.
Tho workingmen Of Kauawha, it i
stated. have q secret political organiza
tiou numbering fifteen hundred and
Ihc GreenLach; LeugHe is to be thei
organ.
-Wir. county has band Of " Re-
Men SO tho Mentor says. A few day
ago they established the whipping-pOs
law for a period loug enough to viii
ono man,
= Tho Clarksburg Telegram say
it is getting to be SO that it is unsaf
for ladies iu that town TO 60 on tht
streets after night without 40 escort t,
protect them from insult.
- Tho Clarksburg telegram say
n church ia Harrison county pays it
preacher a salary" Of $50 per IN
num- We should think it proper IL
call it s,arvery Of $50 year.
-Scnnie June saya fashionable
bonnet can be had for dollar and q
bali. So it can. It is the from six t.
tw 'uty dollars worth Of trimming thai
strikes the pucket book in sore spot.
- From every part Of the State We
hear most glowing accounts Of the
coming crops. Wheat, particularly, il
making good appearance. aud j!
somc three weeks 10 advance Of formel
years.
The keyser Tribune says thai
John Kitsmiller, who lives neal
EIartmausyillc, owns q COW that il
eleven months timc has given brit
to four calves, all Of which are uliyt
and doing we'll
- The West Virginia Transporta
ton Company arc securing tho right o.
way from land owners with tho inten
ton Of laying pipe line from tho Oh
regions to Parkersburg. They cxpec
to spend sixty thousand dollars :hiI
summer in the contamination Of thil
enterprise.
"A mob attacked tho store Of I
country merchant in Roaus county. be
cause it was rumored that tho me,chan
was dispOsiug Of bis property to aTOi'
payment Of debts. The mob was com
posed Of creditors, who wero thus at.
tempting q new way to collect debts
No violence was committed.
There is q married pair in ,hi
county who lived together five month
in peace, and separated solely on &C
count Of their religious belicf-hc be
ing q Baptist and she Methodist. a
child hus been born since tho scpara
ration, aud tho husband has no. bccl
allowed to set bis own child Ritchi
Democrat.
Monougalia county has alrcad!
subscribed and assured SIS. 900 for th'
p, W. Va. IS. Il. R; Preston coan
gavo u,ticc Of having subscribed
S25, 900. and if needed. could rails
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1878-05-11

Weston, May s, 1878.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1878-05-11

2. T. L. QuxEs, Pastor,
NiuchelOc, ". Va.
The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1878-05-11

AT PERSONAL IrEMs.-Mr. George
lsoAs aud wife returned home on
Wednesday last from trip 10 Bulti:
mnre. Washington aud New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04

model2 If Bee had believed it any of
these things; her tongue would have
avenged her, but some look on the
grave, sorrowful face made her remem-
Der the moment when she had seen
Loves confession trembling on his lips.
She rose quietly, said few words Of
gratitude and farewell, and before Lepel
could answer them, was gone.
Then Lepel, taking from q shelf o
pair of small bronze slippers, locked
them carefully away, and with them
locked away the one love of his life. He
worked harder than usual, worked
till the room was cold and dark, then
throwing down his pencil, he made his
only complaint on the subject : "I don't
blame hers she never knew L hardly
knew myself. Well, we'll, life is full Of
might have beens.'"
Again the January snow is in the
brisk cold air, and Lepel's CHEEKY studio
has it's old look of earnest labor. He is
before his easel, but he is not working
with his usual serious attention. The
reason lies on the table beside him in
the shape of note of invitation to din
ner at Mr.. Belmar's. A year has passed
since he saw Bee, and he is not at all in
love now, but still she possesses a
greater interest for him than any other
women. He wonders how she will look,
and what she will say, and whether he
himself ought not to buy O new evening
suit for the occasion. Also there is dimly
present a pleasant expectation of orders,
for Lepel is never oblivious to such
profitable contingencies.
Still, If he had one selfish thought,
he forgot it in nobler feelings when he
saw Bee again that night. Standing in
his quiet recess, he watched the beauti-
full woman, serene in temper, elegant in
manners, and exquisitely clothed, guide
the whole entertainment charmingly to
its end. Her husband-still her lover
trusted absolutely in her, and his
sister watched her with pride that was
almost motherly; it was evident she was
to be woman of great domestic and
social influence.
Lepel sat long that night over his
studio fire thinking about her. "How
often have scolded her in this very
room ! how often she has said Thank
you for two-dollar bill right here on
this hearth-rug and yet how cleverly
she made me feel, without shade Of
pride or upkindness, that she was now
Mrs. Belmar BeImar has got model
wife," And Lepel smiled grimly at the
only pun he had ever made. ''Now no
man could slip into a position like that,
and fit It 80 exquisitely; but women
puzzle me more and more every year
especially American women. ."-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
A Novel Position Of Danger.

There are probably many persons liz
ing in the shadow of Jennings Knob, IN
Wilson county, Tenn, who are unac-
quainted with the origin of the name.
The story, as told by Captain Jennings
himself, for whom the Knob was named,
is as follows
A party of scouts from the stations on
Bledsoe creek, in Summer county, was
over in Wilson on tour of observation
for Indian signs. 1t was habit of the
settlers to keep out men all the time,
who went in succession the entire circuit
of the settlement, in order to give timely
warning of any hostile approach.
AS the party referred to were prepar-
ing TO camp late one winter afternoon,
Captain Jennings, who was one OF the
number, started out to kill buffalo
from q herd which was near by. There
was heavy sleet ON the ground, and he
found it difficult to get good range ON
account of the noise of his feet on-the
cracking ice but after following the
game for several miles, he at last killed
a very large bull at the top of a high
knob. Fearing that the meat would be
injured if left until next morning, he
skinned the animal and took out the
viscera. BY the time he had finished
his task night had come, and he decided
to remain with his meat instead of seek
ing camp in the darkness. So, wrapping
the huge hide around him, fl esh side
out, he lay down and slept very com
fortably until morning. On awaking
he found himself tightly imprisoned IA
the hide, which had frozen hard during
the night, and now resisted all his efforts
to escape. Hour after hour rolled by
in agony to the captain. He yelled at
the top of his voice for help, and strained
and kicked with all his great strength at
his rawhide inclosure, but it proved
stubborn to the last degree. He ex-
ected his companions to search for
him, and they did, but with a great deal
of caution, fearing that he had been
killed by Indians. His prolonged abb
sence could be accounted for In no
other way.
The captain, in relating the circum-
stance to Captain Rogers years after,
saws that he gave up all hope of extri-
eating himself as the hours wore away
and his companions failed to come to
his rescue he supposed that they had
become alarmed at his absence and had
left the vicinity with the idea that ne
was dead, and that it was unsafe to
search for his body. Truly it was q
trying situation which his great strength
and will had failed TO overcome. 10 q
man who had escaped Indian bullets
and had swan icy rivers like beaver,
such a death was mortifying IN the e4-
treme but such was the prospect ne
had TO face alone and unaided by human
power in the depths of the Wilderness.
We will let him relate the issue in his
own words, in answer to a question as 30
how he finally escaped "Wall, the sun
come out in the afternoon, and this se
ened the hide on top so could GIT
arm out, and when 1 got one arm
1 worked like pizen until got R}
through" "
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
COney Island.

Coney Island comes in for good share
OF notice in the New York Tribune, be-
ing given some five columns of descrip-
tion and illustrated by several maps. It
is an extraordinary story of the sudden
growth and development of a popular
resort out of a barren sandy shore.
Within less than ten years, four miles of
the beach-a sandy tract on Long Island
at the entrance to New York harbor-
was desolate waste, which nobody
claimed and nobody visited. There
were a few bath houses, and a small
ANtel where an invalid could half-live,
Mlf-starve. A single steamboat did
service as O tug boat, lighter and pass.
enger boat. One railroad ran down
near the center Of the island, but there
was neither hotel nor depot at its end.
Within four years, and mostly within
the past two, seven railways have been
constructed; in place of one dilapidated
there are three elegant steamers, and
four more excursion steamers ply as
regularly as ferries, the single hotel
with its five shabby rooms has been
succeeded by at least twenty, three of
which are as good as those at any sea-
side resort Claimants are plenty for
land which a few years ago nobody
would own, and leases that then went
begging at seventy-five dollars each are
now held at $4,000 for the two years
yet to lapse. Where $l00, 900 was not
in 1874 invested in hotels, railways,
steamboats, and pavilions, now fully $5,-
600, 900 is employed, and where fifty
persons found occupation three months
in the year, now $500 find constant
employment. 1t is remarkable that a
place 80 convenient to New York and so
well adapted for giving the hot and
weary people of the city fresh air and
water, should be 80 long given up to
'clammers" and "crabbers," or to pic
mic parties of such character that re-
spectacle people were obliged to keep
away or submit to insult and possibly
worse. It's rapid growth is equally re-
markable, and its advantages and capac-
ity for entertaining the constantly in
creasing patronage is being developed
more and more each year.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
Is Splitting SpIte.D

No blows are struck in the East. A
quarrel in Bulgaria is accompanied by a
series of highly exasperated expectora-
tions, reminding the observer of a noe
turnal feline combat. One of the com
batants spits upon the pavementS in
what he conceives to be an intensely
malignant and daring manner; his an
tagonist Immediately follows suit, and
spits upon his side of the street in what
he imagines to be more desperate and
blood-curdling style, and, if the con-
troVersy is a very deadly one, the par
tieipants keep up the bombardment of
the unfortunate sidewalk until their lips
are so dry that they rattle in a vain
attempt to expend more ammunition.
When this point is reached, the dispu-
tants generally walk off in different di-
rections, turning back every two minutes
for the first two miles 10 shake their fists
in the direction they suppose their an
tagonists to have taken.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
Rates of Advertising.
Items OF Interest.

Americans eat twice as much salt as
the English.
The grasshoppers have appeared in
Central America.
A fast young man; The one who sat.
down on pot of glue.
The first piano in the United States
was made at Philadelphia in 1776.
All honest men will bear watching. It
is the rascals who cannot stand 1t.
Women love flowers and birds. They
are, however, not so partial to swallows
as the men are.
A quidnunk IL an individual who goes
about stealing other folks time, and
phooling away lis own.-JOSh Billings.
GLOW greedy you are I" said one little
girl to another who had taken the best
apple in the dish; 81 was going to take
that"
The people who never make emmy
mistakes nor blunders have all the nee
essarys ov life, but miss the luxurys.-
Josh Billings.
There was a time in this country when
the man who was sunstruck would strike
back, but Americans are loosing their
taste for war.-Detroit Free Press.
The small boy looks with longing eyes,
Upon the apple green;
He will not touch them il he's wise.
Lurking in the core there lies
Colo and cramp unseen.
'"Will, fear you are forgetting me,
said bright-eyed coquette to her favor
ite beau. eyes, Sue, have been for
getting you these two years" was the
suggestsse reply.
Shakespeare makes use of thewords
Sand thereby hangs tale" In four OF
his plays-"Taming of the Shrew,D
"Othello, "Merry Wives of Windsor,
and Gas You Like it."
The inhabitants of Madagascar are
diving to get hold of an American ship
captain who sold them 10000 quart
powder. Their old blunderbusses
wouldn't go off.
THE BUMBLE BEE.
"Buzzing little busybody,
Happy little bayfield, rover.
Don't you feel your own Importance,
Bustling through these wilds Of clover
"Don't your little wings grow weary
or this never ce asing labor?
When the butterfly swings near you,
Envy you your idle neighbor?
" Stay moment Stay and tell me.
Won't my gossip make you tsrryf
Hurry home, then, honey-laden,
Fast as busy wings can carry.
Fare-the-well, my tiny toiler,
Noisy little mid-air steamer;
Thou hast taught wholesome lesson
To an idle daylight dreamer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-04
TERMS, $500 A YEAR.
The Path Through the Corn

Warm and bright in the summer air, ~.
Like pleasant sea when the wind blows fair,
And It's roughest breath had scarcely eurled
The green highway to a distant world
Soft whispers passing from shore to shore,
AS from hearts content yet desiring more
Who feels all forIorn.
Wandering thus down the path through Che corn7
A short space since, and the dead leaves lay
Wondering under the hedgeAow gray,
Nor hum OF insect, nor voice OF bird,
Ger the desolate field was ever heard;
Only at eve the palld snow
Blushed rose-red in the red sun-glow;
Till, one blest morn,
Shot up into life tho young green corn.
Small and feeble, slender and pale,
1t bent its head TO the winter gale,
Hearkened the wren's soft note of cheer,
Hardly believing spring was near;
Saw chestnuts bud out, and campions blow,
And daisies mimic the vanished snow
Where it was born
On either side of the path through the corn.
The corn the corn, the beautiful corn,
Rising wonderful, morn by morn;
First scarce as high as fairys wand,
Then just in reach OF a childs wee hand;
Then growing, growing tall, brave and strong,
With the voice of new harvests in its song;
While in fond scorn
Tho lark out-carols the whispering corn.
strange, sweet path, formed day by day,
How, when and wherefore we cannot say,
No more than OF our life-paths we know,
Whittier they lead US; why we go,
Or whether our eyes shall ever see
The wheat in the ear or the fruit on the treel
Yet, who's forlorn2
He who Wa tered the burrows can ripen the corn.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-09
SUNDAY ECHOES.

Bishop Whitaker oficiatod at Genoa on
Sunday, and confirmed FIVE candidates Rov
Joote assisted in the services.
They have a bright boy at Genoa, WHO is Of
-roat service as bcll-ringer, etc lie is very
regular his ATTENDANCE upon the ministla-
lions of the regular shepherd. His father
has been in the habit Of giving him two bits
every Sunday to put on the plate. The boy
always took the money, but formed habit
OF leaving during the delivery of the sermon
ana before the time for the collection, thus
reservng the amount in possession for invest
mcnt in candy. His parents, finding greater
amount of sticky rem sins of that commodity
around the digitaIl extremities oi the young
hopeful, and wishing to protect the impe-
cunious plrson, instructed the youth to hand
the money to the man who passed the plate
when he wished to retire before the bene-
diction. He simply replied, "Oh, yen Vt
found me out in thai, and acauiesced. The
next Sunday he came home early as before
He Vas asked if he had done as directed
He answered, 50 YES; l stayed little while,
and when thorght | had got about two Its
worth | gave Mr. Edison the two bits and
c@me out lie tool, it, and guess he'll pay
it m"
IL Sunday School recently the lesson was
about 31ctuse'ah. a shepherd boy cN-
pressed a doubt rs to his being the Oldest
ln.,n. The teacher assured hia that he lived
,h. stated number 81 wears The boy looked
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-02
German Syrup"

No other medicine in the world was ever
given such a test of its curative qualities
as Boschee's German Syrup. In three
years two million four hundred thousand
small bottles of this medicine were dis
tributed free of charge by druggists in this
country to those afflicted with consumption,
asthma, Group, severe coughs, pneumonia
and other diseases of the throat and lungs,
giving the American undeniable proof that
German Syrup will cure them. The re-
suit has been that druggists in every town
and village in the United States are re-
commencing them to their customers. Go
to your druggist, and ask what they know
about it. Sample bottles 10 cents.
Regular size IS cents. Three doses will
relieve any case.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-02
PARENTS

Delays are dangerous. The lives of our
little ones are dear to US. and it is the
wish and hope to see them look bright.
and cheerful and happy.
We advise you not to give them any
of the dangerous worm syrups or liquids
of any kind or name. They are Dot only
bad to use and really dangerous to take;
but the stomach often rejects them and
are used with peril to those little ones
who look to us for care and protec-
ton. Van Deusen's Worm Connections
are a pure white and are made from the
purest vegetable medicines. They arc
the only safe and sure worm medicine
ever discovered. They have become a
household remedy, and are now sold In
every store.
Van Deusen's CONNECTIONS
Are sure protection.
They bring to terms
Intestine Worms;
Cures every child.
Are tasteless, mild.
Your pets may live,
II them You give.
Ask for Van Deusen's Worm Confec
tons. Merchants can get them at whole
sale Drug Stores.
VAN DEUSEN BROTHERS
KINGSTON, ULSTER Co., NY.
sG-Price rs cents box.1a
| Sold at every store
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-02

symptoms of which are moisture, like per-
SEPARATION. intense itching, particularly
when undressing. or after getting warm in
bed, increased by scratching, might think
pin worms were crawling in and about the
rectum, oftentimes shows itself around the
private parts. A pleasant and safe cure
in every case is "Swayne's Ointment"
If allowed to continue, very serious results
may follow. 1t also cures letter, BARRIERS
itch, scald head. ring worm, blotches, all
scaly, erusty, itchy skin eruptions. Sent
by mail to any address on receipt of price,
80 cents box, OF three boxes for $l.25,
BY DR.. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia. Sold
by all leading druggists At wholesale and
retail by John Bengston, Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-02

THE ARGUS JOB PRINTING Rooms
turn out Cards, Circulars, Note Heads
Bill Heads, Law Briefs. and all Other
kinds of Printing, in the highest style of
the art, and on the most reasonable terms
And THE ARGUS Book BINDERY is doing
all kinds of work in that line, neat, quick
and cheap. The friends of the paper and
the public generally are invited to give our
work trial. dWt.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-05
A DONNELLY CLUB.
Important SuDDestion--4 Don,selty Club
asked For Who VIII Start the Ball?

Important SuDDestion--4 DO,ssselly Club
Aslced For Who VIII Start the Ball?
Editor Globe, Minneapolis Department.
Again the time has come when politics are
more or less discussed and the voice of the
candidates heard in the land. The double
barrelled thunderer, along with its lesser
relative in this city, are conyulsed daily over
the fact that the GLOBE dares breathe the
thought that Washburn is not as innocent
and pure as a cooling dove, and Ignatius
Donnelly the embodiment of all wicked
things. The farmer, the man who
with honest, hard toll and the
sweat of his brow earns his
livelihood, the man whom the money sharks
never, except at times such as this, care one
fig for, is now receiving the most marked
attention from their city friends-and be-
tween the lot who are crying, Mr.. Farmer,
you are being robbed by our opponents and
those who are protesting innocence of such
Nervousness, matters are developing to an
interesting degree.
election day cast his vote so that it will be
be a duty assigned which is to calmly
thunder, slush and buncombe by which his
section of the country is overwhelmed,
select the men who, in his judgment, ought
to be elected as public servants, and, after a
determination is made, set about to forward
their election.
In regard to who ought to be supported
for Congress from the Third district, it now
seems plain people in general are agreed
upon one thing-that it should be man
who has the interests of the whole people
truly at heart, and qualifications and
calibre sufficient to subserve those interests.
In this city, The home of Washburn, thereare
many to be found who doubt that he is the
man. In view of this fact and with the
example set by st. Paul, would it not be
well for those who favor Donnelly to
organize, to concentrate their forces, and
make such fight for the man of their
choice as will show that they are awake to
the issues of the day. It has been asserted
by morning paper that Donnelly men are
scarce here. Judging from what can be
heard by mingling with voters in Hennepin
county, this statement is not well founded.
Let the word be sounded, and club will be
formed in support of Donnelly such as will
make sore at heart those of our Republican
friends who deem it their duty to support
Washburn. p. o. CH1LsTRoM.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. 18th, 1878.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-05
RELIGIOUS.

The BLESSING and Opening of the Ne,O
Church of the Hotu Rosary, Corner of
Fifth Street and Nineteenth AUenue, South
Mimneapolis.
The Dominican order, long renowned in
the history of the Catholic church as leaders
in literature, art and missionary enterprise,
are in our midst. On next Sunday at 10 A.
M. the Right Rev. Bishop Grace, of ST..
Paul, will bless their new church in South
Minneapolis, in the above named locality.
The church has grown on t Of limited re-
sources, as if by magic, principally thro ugh
the energy OF the pastor, Father Thos. L..
Power, who is at work night and day to build
it up.
The Fathers are great advocates of West
ern colonization; and, in this respect, their
coming to Minnesota is likely to be an event
in the history of the State The head of the
order in the United States is expected to
preach next Sunday. mission will be
given the church week after it's opening.