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(From the Wheeling Register, LIST inst,l 50
THE WETzEL RED MEN.
JOsephus Eakin Taken from His
Home at Burton in the Night by
a Band of Disguised Men, and !
M Tarred and Feathered--WO-
men. Similarly Outraged
.-Eakin's Dwelling De-
mOliShed by the Mob.

BuRTos, W. VA, Sept, 30.-Our town
was visited Yesterday morning, about
one O'Clock, by an organization known
as the "Red Men," who, numbering
about thirty. all mounted, hitched their
horses short distance west OF the place
and proceeded on foot to the shanty occu-
pied by Josephus Eakin, almost in the
center ofthe town. They had provided
themselves with fence rails and timber,
and commenced a combined attack on the
building in which Mr.. E,kin was domi,
ciled. After breaking in the doors, four
men rushed in, securing Mr.. Eakin before
he had time to arise. They informed him
tnat they had come to wallace" him,
aud after removing his children to q
neighbor's house, they started with him
and the woman with whom he is living,
towards the outskirts of the town. Hal
ting on an embankment, overlooking the
railroad, and directly opposite the resi-
dence OF C H. Woodruff, Esq, they in
formed him that he could have his choice
of being either ridden on rail and tarred
and festhered or being hanged. Eakin
told them be was in theit power and they
could do as they pleased, he had no
choice. After indulging in good deal
|offilthy and vulgar language they deci-
ded by vote that they would give him a
coating Of tar and feathers and twelve
days in which to leave the State. This
they did to perfection. completely cover
ing him With tar and then adding the
feathers which made him look fearful. In
the meantime they had detailed part of
their crowd who had completely demol-
ished his house and administered slight
coat OF the same nature to the woman
After visiting the saloon, OF Isaac Horner
where they Obliged the proprietor to hand
out whatwhiskey they wanted they very
quietly took their departure. About q
mile west Of town they called on party
named Tustin, who had lately emigrated
from Green county, Pa, and whom report
said was not exactly straight and exacted
promise from him that he would produce
On their next vista copy Of his decree of
divorce. DC. Eskin says they have gone.
so far with this business that he will not
leave and il they can kill him they may
This kind OF law in Welzel, il law #
can be called, bas already gone too far.
II the country authorities do not or can
not attend to this kind OF fmaraudering, it
appears as though it was time the Govern
or or State should attend to it It has be-
came an intolefable nuisance and dread
TO the civilly disposed portion Of our peo
pile. and II not stopped in some way, will
develop into something unexpected.
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6i THE NEW BONANZA. +
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The Frenzy Of 1874 Repeated In the
San Francisco Stock Exchanges.

San FRANcIsco, Sept. 39.-Stock gam
bling is once more rampant throughout
ihis State and Nevada. The rspidity
With which fortunes are won and lost is
absolutely startling After long peri
cd OF staguation in the stock market,
and the absence Of new ore strikes 10
:the Comstock, the discovery OF an ex
1ensive bonanza north oil, The Consolida-
ted Virginia and California has literally
I sset.people wild. There has been nothing
like Il since the frenzy OF the last months
OF 1874. Shares in Sierra Nevada, Un.
Ion and Mexican, which we're selling at
st5. eS and sl3 in June,are now. fetching
$40, $3.50 and 8115 zgof
g For two or three years past Sierra Ne
vada shares have been, almost worthless,
and many holders had abandoned their
shsres, rather than pay the assessments,
which have been levied with painful reg.
ularity. Six months ago 1000 shares
could have been bought for 81, 900; to-
! day they are worth S220. .000, and may be
worth e25O.0o0 or $500. 600 tomorrow.
It IL these rapid changes snd apprecia.
tions, the chance vf getting in for next
10 nothing and coming out with for.
tune, that demoralizes all classes and
turns this people into community OF
gamblers. To 60 largely into Sierra
Nevada or Union now requires heavy
investment OF capital, and the shares
have gone beyond the reach OF the gen.
eral public; but the working-man or wo-
man, who knows or hears OF some one
who had the good fortune to invest one
hundred dollars when the stock was 81
q share, and who is now the happy pos
SCISSOR of twenty Thousand dollars, is
ready to rush into the, hfst worthless
Hvild cat" that 10 offered at 10 cents OF
eI, and just nov wild cats are q prolific
race. At least one hundred and 6fty
new companies. with an aggregate nomi.
nal capital Of sl, l,5o0, ,0oo, 600, have been
incorporated within the last sixty days,
and the chances are that not one In fiity
Of these so.cslled mines will ever pro.
aSee ores7 -is'
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Sugar From Uornstalks.

For some time past the chemist fthe
Agricultural Department has been con-
Quoting a series Of interesting expert,
ments to demonstrate that crystalized
sugar can be made from cornstalks. The
experiments thus far conducted have
been completed up. to the stage of pro-
ducing, from stalks the residuum, from
which crystals can be obtained, and IL
was intended on the 28th ult to put this
residuum through the last process for
producing the crystals. The final ex
pertinent, however, did not take, place,
because OF. want Of the necessary appli
ances.. 1t is to, be made shortly, hovev.
er, and'if successful every farmer can,
at profit to himself and with bit little
trouble, make his own sugar.
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vEGETINE.
-s'sss Prepared By z
H. r.. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
Vegetine is Sold By an Druggists, R
LEGIA.L N0TIeE.

NX7ILLIAM B. FORD. Hlldah n. Rodeoksr
Wv and William n. HpdackeFs whoss pest
ofics address IL Gsorgetogn, Psttis County.
Missouri, will take notice that on thsSsth
day Of April. 1878, Masiida A. Smith and &
Newton Smith Aled their petition In the court
of common pleas OF Monroe County Ohio,
against them aud other hsiss ots Henry Ford,
deceased; the object and prayer Of said psti.
ton, Is to obtain partition Of about two hun !.
drsd and fisy-sight and . half acres Of land
situate in the township of, Center, county,ef
Monroe and State Of Ohio, and being part Of
the laud Of which Henry Ford died ssised.
and which land u particularly described In
said petition. You are each required to an,
swsr said petition on OF before the sSth day
Of September, A. D. 1873. a.. -
se,yS.,s ~ HUNTER 4 MALLORY,
july3o, ,'7Swe.. - .Att'ys for piaintifs,
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Troops for India.

LONDON, October Five batteries IF
artillery will leave Portsmouth on the
10Th inst for India. The second bat
talon Of the Fourteenth regiment at
Conan will embark at Queenstown, for
India, on Saturday. A dispatch from
Simla says that all the preparations are
advancing with the utmost speed Sew
eral regiments have already been mobIl-
lied, but the commissariat department
requires q reasonable time for its com
pletion. The army is enthusiastic and
the spirit of. the natives is admirable.
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Z EIThe General Conference OF Cana.
dian Methodist Clergymen In three
days discussion of whether pastorates
should be long or short, at length deci-
ded by small majority in favor OF the
short term. Those who favored five
years of continual service in one church
urged that pastors 6rst year was lost
because bis time must be occupied in be-
coming acquainted with his fock. The
other side urged that where the clergy
man was not efficient, or made himself
disagreeable, it were better 10 keep him
going.
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--ssz ~ l,asas-a-s
HOW 1T FEELS TO BE TARRED.
Dreadful Experience OF Man Who
Underwent the Process.
Virginia City (Neva Enterprise. ]

Virginia City (Nsva Enterprise.I
W. ]. Jones, who was tarred and feath.
cred by Reno people and then sent out
of town on the westward bound train,
was in a pitiable condition when he
reached Truckee The Republican says
eve saw the victim Thursday night on
the overland train. He was In truly
pitiahle condition. Coal tar or gas tar
had been used, and used freely. This
substance blisters like a mustard plaster.
The cuticle will peel off Of Mr.. Jones
just as if he, had been boiled, His hair
and. the wound on bis head was filled
with tar. The hair stuck out in all d.
rections, or at least mass OF tar stuck
out. The sockets Of his eyes were level
full with solid tar, which seemed-to have
been poured into them and allowed to
cool. His whiskers seemed o large, un-
shapely mass Of tar. His fsce, mech, and,
we are told, his entire body, had s'thick
coating. The Vigilantes kindly clothed
him before putting him on the train
The sight might have been ludicrous, il
it had not been agouizing. The train
was nearly three hours in reaching
Truckee. The pain endured by the poor
fellow was excruciating. Sightless, help
less, coated with q horrid, odoriferous
substance, he sat silently, with his head
bowed over. Occasionally his fingers
would grasp spasmodlcahy at the open
air; sometimes his body would, twitch
nervously, as if from the pain he endur
ed. Arriving at Truckee, Grandson
Jones and another colored man we're put
to work to remove the tar. 1t was 40
hour before Dr. r J. Goss was called
and the linseed oil which he prescribed
obtained. y Everybody who saw the poor
wretch pitied him the very men who did
the deed would have pitied him. His
sufferings, were extreme; his eyes were
fairly burning up; no one ever heard be-
fore OF putting tar on mans face and
in his eyes, For six. hours two meu
worked faithfully neutralizing the tar and
removing it from his body. We saw
him this morning his eyes were terribly
inAamed; it is dc ubtful if he ever recov'
ers his sight; it is feared the eye-balls
have been burned and blistered and for
ever destroyed" -. o. .I e..r.,i,<
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CHANGING 1t.
The London Worldly

The railway accident near Cork re-
minds me Of . story concerning Irish
trains which / do not remember to have
seen printed. Agoods train arrives at a
vayside station. Quoth its guard to the
station master: ais the line clear" 81
don't know els the express gone ?"
81 can't sav ?" "Drive on" clies the
guard to the engine driver ,in the name
OF God, we'll chance il !"
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wThe Grand Duke Nicholas Con.
stantinovitch, who was several months
ago exiled from St Petersburg to Orenr
burg for theft, ard placed in the civil
service under orders of the Governor OF
the city, has incurred new disgrace by
secretly marrying the daughter Of the
Chief Of Police Of Orenberg without per-
mission, either Of his parents OF the
Governor. He has, consequently, lost
his position in the civil service, and his
title as honorary commander of the reg
iment which had borne his insignia since
his birth. As certain formalities of the
marriage of royal parsonage were not
observed IN connection with the ceremo.
ny. it was not strictly valid and may be
~,
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Reopening the Slave Trade.
THE New York SnnA

It is charged by the Rev. Horace Wal.
Ter that the P Portuguese are reopening the
East African slave trade. It would be
strange if, after the dnsky potentates OF
Madagascar and Zanzibar had given up
the cruel traffic, Portugal should revive
it. The case recalls some experiences in
our last years Indian wars, where, when
our so.called savage enemies gave up
scalpipg, our own scouts prac,iccd it.
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Bosnian Insurgents. Is,y l,tt

BELaRADE, October News from
various parts of Bosnia shows that the
Turks and insurgents have abandoned
further open resistance, having become
convinced that neither moral nor ma
terial assistance can be any longer hoped
for from the Porte unless other political
complications arise. Upwards of 1000
insurgents fed to Servia, where they have
teen disarmed and interned. Among
them are two Pashas, 200 boys and a
whole battalion of Nlzums. They brought
With them three Krupp guns, 1000 breech
loading rides, horses, stores. etc. Small
bands cross the frontier daily with their
wives, children and property a
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The population of Berlin at the end OF
July was 1 ,031, 1888. sae aA.@
The stories started and printed by
newspapers about the domestic unhappi
ness of General Sherman are uniounded
and malicious inventions. No man loves
and enjoys his home more than the Gen
eral The unwarrantel and baseless
publications should ease.-Cin., u En-.
quire. " g, s. - 8, z !
Ex-senator William Sprague. of
Rhode Island the husband of Kate Chase,
has become o convert to the Greenback
cause. he doubtless thinks that his an.
gust pap in.law knew as much about the
currency question in his day as little
Gene Hale and Whitelaw Reid have to.
gether found out since.
A Persian popplace is not like an
European one. In Europe q monarch
returning to his people after lengthy
voyage would be received by loud acclas
nations Of joy and welcome, but when the
Shah recently landed in his own domin.
ions, on his return from his European
tour, the people Of the towns through
which he passed merely bowed down
their heads In silence. ..,t
England is fairly started on her war
with Afghanistan. The attitude of Rus.
sia, however, does not please her. En-
gland will demand an explanation of Rus.
sia's position, and, the St. Petersburg
papers say, will be politely but firmly told
to attend to her own business. Russia
is smarting over the treatment of England
during the late Turkish war, and will
gladly embrace an opportunity of return
ing the compliment.
A Commission was appointed last win.
ter to investigate the cotton worm, and
they have reported thatthe scourge NAV
be easily prevented. and the worms des.
troyed by iudicious use OF Paris green
or some similar preparation, They state
that hitherto the planters have permitted
the worm to attain too great a size be
before undertaking to rid their fields Of it,
and that If taken in time its ravapes NAV
be almost wholly prevented. ma r,dl
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ROAD Nor1,lcE.

NOTICE 10 hereby given, that petition
IN wifTbe psasentsd 70 ths Comuissionsrs
OF Monroe county, ~ their next session, TO
es hsld on the drst hsndsy Of Dsosnbss, A,
a. D. 1873, for the alteration OF the county
road leading nom Alexandsr's nillts Lsdi,
In said county, - follows; Beginuins as said
Alexaudsr's mill, following the slA read whore
praoticsble, up Boens Run - the lands Of
henry Rsmyer; thence bya rev rsuts down
the hill on TO Barnes Run; thencs the bsss
route 70 ssid Lodi saaa3 PRrrTloNBRs.
sep24, 7Sw5.
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Ohio M. e. Conference.

CoLuMBus, Sept. 2s.-The Ohio M. E.
Conference to-day adopted the report OF
the committee dismissing Rev. F. A..
Spencer from the ministry for immoral
conduct and Rev. j. K Davis for unmin-
isterial conduct. Notice for appeal in
Spencer's case was fled. Resolutions
we're adopted condemning the use of to.
bacco, and requiring that all applicants
for orders in the Conference shall be free
from this habit. a i
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w Carl Schurz is the representative
in the Cabinet of President Hayes OF
"Civil Service reform" He was taken
into the Cabinet to attend to this depart.
ment of the Government. The famous
"Civil Service order," designed to free
elections from Federal influence, was is
sued at the dictation of Mr.. Schurz.-
This order, addressed to all the ssOfticers
Of the General Government" contains
these words: "No officer should be re-
quired or PERMITTED to take part in the
management of political organisations,
caucuses, conventions, OR ELECTION CAM.
PAIGNs." -
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Accounting for It.
Baltimore Gazette.)

There is more body-snatching to the
square mile in Ohio than in any other
State OF the Union. The bodies Of Ohio
citizens are in demand, and medical col
ieges all over the country are sending Ia
their winter orders. The Office holding
capacity Of the average Ohio man ere.
stes the impression that the inhabitants
Of that State have fine nervous systems,
and large Quantity Of gray matter in
the brain. On this account they are es.
pecially adapted to the uses OF the dis.
secting-table. -
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Health Promoted.

Health lis promoted by good and ap.
propriate food Such can only be had
by using in preparing it, articles known
TO be free from poisonous adulterations,
such as DR.. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der, which eminent chemists endorse as
being perfectly pure and wholesome.
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vICKsBURG.

& vrcKsBuRa, Oct. 2.-The Howard As.
sociation has received an earnest appeal
for aid for the people OF that section
from DR.. R H. Ferry, Of Haynes Bluff,
in which the doctor details at some
length the destitute condition Of :he peo
pie. He says be has over q hundred ca
ses OF, fever under treatment and the ep-'
idemic is steadily increasing throughout
that section. The people are terror.
stricken, and the panic Is worse than
that OF d routed army. Two we'll authen.
ticated cases have occurred where tue
parents of dying children abandoned
them to the mercy Ut strangers, and
when the children we're dead they were
buried by the kindness OF colored
friends. President Andrews, OF the Vicks-
burg Howaris, quotes the above state
ment In dis appeals for aid, az q sampie
OF the many received by them in the last
few. days, and In conclusion says the dis.
ease is spreading all through the ada.
cent counties. They all look to Us for
aid and assistance and we are doing all
lin our power to relieve their necessities
Delta, La IS miles distant, has 81 eases,
and 3 deaths have occurred in the las,
t24 hours I have sent physicians, nurses
and medicines BY steamiug through spe.
lcial arrangement. The demands are In,
|creasing upon as daily, and God only
knows where they will end. ..'oe9 ii
tifI I..,.5...., w. n ANDRKW9. 81
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Failure of the City of Glasgow
Bank,

LONDON, October 2.-The City OF Glas-
gov Bank closed its doors to-day. It's
liabilities are stated to be $50, 600, 900,
The liabilities ofthe share holders are un.
limited. One hundred pound shares of
the bsakwere dealt in yesterday at over
f200, and within the week at f237. The
bank was established 10 1899, and bad
from fifty to sixty branches. This is the
heaviest hank failure in Scotland since
1857, when this concern also, suspended
Olher Scotch banks were asked for assis
tance, but after examining the books at
the meeting yesterday, refused to do
more than redeem the note circulation of
the City Of Glasgow bank, which is stated
at three and quarter million dollars.
The failure has created great excitement.
The failure OF the bank is generally attri.
buted to its resources being locked up in
bills and shares of various kinds that were
not readily convertible. 9 > i7.azaa
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sHERlFF'sa,s SALE. &
Frederick Muhlemaa 4
:, ~ i,7e''a W. iss'5seFk5 s
Samuel, lands st Il. g

= u
DY virtue Of certain order sf sale issusd
u from the court of. common plan, within
and for the county Of Monroe, and State
Ohio. In case pending In said eourt between .
the Above named parties, End to-ms dirssssas--
! will Offer for sale,sat ppblis aucsion at the
east door Of the ccu'rt house ID Woodsasld.sa
Satsrday The 18th day Of October 1878,
between rhs Aourss OF 10 o'clock A. 4.sand-A
o'clock p. m., Of said day, the following de-.
scsibed 'fssl estate situate in Monies sosnsyf
Ohio, to Wit: 10 .n55 i'4fsE T,,aM
quarter of section thirty y-one, township three
Of range three, texcept two acres of Of .hsii
notthwest corner formerly owned By William
Cain,} beginning at the northwest corner Of tie
southwest ,quartsEa % thanoethsast quarter ok
section thirty,pnes township three of range
three, thence south ten rods to stake; thence
south iffty y-oast snd thtsefousth dsgrses east
twelve rods p stake in Negro Bun; thence
south seventy three degrees east thirty.thss6
rods to Q stake; thence . northerly coerse
twenty I'VE rods TO theline runnisg astenAs
west through the center Of the northeast uuhx.
teI Of said section thirty one; thence west With
said lire ;forty-fye rods t. tbs place a 6sgiA-s
ming, containing fvs acres; also, . part q ths
southwest quarter Of the northeast quarter Of
section thirty one, 'tpvnship three Of rangs
three, beginning for sths same st . stake h tks
quarter section line winning Aorth and sspth
through the center ,ot said section tkifty -.
ten rods south Of TIE north hwSst corner II he
southwest quarter Of the northeast quaftees e
said section thirty one; thence soutA dfty oass
and three fourth degrees east three chains 70 :.
stake in Negro Run; thence south seventy thpse
degrees east seven and sixtysfvs hundredth
chains 70 . stone on bank Of run; thence south
eight degrees west fourteen and sixty-Avs
hundredth chains toa stone;thense hertk eighty
seven and q half degrees west eight chaiss 70
stone near an ash tree; thsnee north two and
. half degrees east eighteen and twenty-eisht
hundredth chains to the place Of beginning,
containing about fourteen acres, 81 'asfq
| Said property 90 ordered 70 b. sold q ap.
praised At 500, and may sal fer I'VE.
thiPds Of said appraisemsnt. Terms Of sale
one third down epedy of sale, and bAlsass
~ IT Ih ~Ywn. IiAS.f
ssptlys s'7sw5, otielg 1, ShssiG \. G. ..
Hurts kihAxzslr, Atty's. & o. q, !
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Wilmington DELI Election.

WILMINGTON, October 1.-The vote
for assessors and inspectors in this city
to day was as follows: Democrats,
1887; Republicans, 5l3; Greenback-
ers, l62. The Democrats elect both as
SCISSORS and fourteen nut of fifteen inspec-
tors. In North district, heretofore
strong Republican, the Democratic can
didate for assessor received 222 major
;tu $500. 50.
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Republican Defeat Certain.

Thurlow Weed, the Warwick and Mes.
tor Of the Wing and Republican parties
in New York for the last fifty years, has
just written a letter to the New York
Tribune, in which be makes the follow.
ing wise observation: }ites
"If the politicians who learn nothing
from the lesson that the Maine election
teaches, and who fail to discover audible
and intelligent voices in the political at
mosphere, with the journals whose only
party shibboleths are 'hard money and
greenhack crsze,' continues to lead the
Republican party, its ignominious defea,
is certain" I;. sga .f8gg
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s~The 90 CossER Legislature" and
sMexicsniration," which. according to
NE Republican platform, wereto thunder
through the State, and tear, things, made
about ss much noise during the cam
pAIsn ss q mouse squeaking under Nj.
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sgFrom such accounts - We get Of
the proceedings a. Baruesville, we are
afraid that they might be called by q
more just but less fattering name than
..The Great Band Tournament 3g