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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31

tening territory, and sent tho brave cid man
the tender grace Of = woman's love and sym
pathy. Why then may not this, your dis
taat and somewhat invalided shePhc. pre-
,urne to address the readers of the MORNING
APPEAL from far across the Sierra, the spread
ing plains and the fog-veiled bay Of Yorba
Ruona with something which shall reviye the
pleasant old vhimsey of
SUNDAY READINGS
From my lookout place can soc many
,9,re and tower and minaret and hear many
! church boil toll Close at hand are the
modest tuI-pts Of the church where Thomas
Starr King used t. preach. There is many a
renlinisoonce cherished here of what that
charming taIker said from that pulpit. His
.uccessor is most worthy one, Rev. HOratic
Stebbins Stalvsrt, valorOus, learned and
eloquent, he is without peer, III my knowl-
edge. Tronding along in She direction of the
jewish synagogue with its brace Of Moorish
looking, onion topped towers are, first, tall
and graceful spIro (2rysty 5cc.an, l guess),
then the pce atce2le5 Of the Tabernacle, and
taan solid, Episcopal. looking torer with d
procession Of l.ttlo spires croppngu!', heaven
sard,-,o,.et}j,,.- in tte Twelve APOSTLES
p,sv. Dprh7na ss.. to the ri.bt. t.Ie French
Catlol. Chrrch and sci.ool. thag, a very slim
avid Ioi%:,.l.le alae,lA which looks vcry
sr,,r, and n,natrrsso,.o T. the sinful eve
+3,D. in the verge Of tba Di:ts.re some more
vague hints Of church-arca;toc5ure, and tLen,
ioItIv ro'levcdgSavailst the fkv, the stout
towor of St Msrv's Cathedral surmountcd
by the HOLY C-osa. four times repeated |
go othor stal2Ius and to1era; 5ur INA. vp,a
my left fan and tEat rro- NV I.cat ;rpl,
interest enough fey ne. Tie cAut,a where
the .1ic%5 raasorer If IT, ~.,:>u.H,tlr booocl
holds to~.S. at over q c,i.a. Ii. ChurcL 's.Ich
,, cont2lanoraucous with Chli3toldo,a tscit-
thls cortras. a1g-csts : lesson and i study.
rtebb;ps rucTrs,2ts tie colragecus. seli de-
n,,deDt sccourtabIs Thought Of cur
present oaara,,, OF the Niretserth Century.
He j. Of Che raaaaor Of ma, That T~o,:d, is;
ia Froqta. II lis adriral!s essay IN the
reyIva. cs Nor,..,,,s. which T., I,--:Ds by
sayin.. TIN. se,}> j.. veil, ,'..cb saws tina,
,,+'.p, j, r,.,..g Dat ILL.,, ,.-.-arseon was
,,va- hata,, y~;;,4.,s tI,s., T., b., - surract;on
=. i v,y3 o,,a o. tn, crave. 3.,,:ng the last
;.-,..v v,a-s. of t5o Roman t',huB, r,';,:nn.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31

Extraordinary stories are told Of the heal
ing properties Of a new oil which Is easily
made from the yolk of hens eggs. The eggs
are first boiled hard, and the yolks are then
removed, crushed, ana placed over fire,
whore they are carefully stirred until the sub
stance is just Oil the point Of catching fire,
when the oil separates, and may be poured
of. One yoIk will Yield nearly two teaspoon
fuls of oil. Il is in general use among the
colonists of South Russia, as a means Of cur
Ing cuts, and bruises, etc,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31

The first wood drive of the season from Al
pine will commence about the 9Th or 10th Of
next month under the supervision OF Mr.. Sam
LOngabaugh.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31

The express car attached to the East bound
train last evening had on board thirty-two
bars OF bullion for New York, the aggregate
Value Of which was about $4,000. Sixteen
bars of the lot was from the Manhattan mines
of Austin, valued at SIC, SO; six bars of Typo
Con- valued at 81, 400 seven bars Of Alps,
from Phoebe, and three bars from the Day
mine Of the same locality. -{Elko Iodepea
Goat.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31

THNAcIrY OF LIFE IN FISHES, Some re-
cords show q great longevity in fishes, pike
was taken in Suabia, in l407, having attached
to it a ring, with the following legend; 81
am the fish which was first Of all put into this
lake by the hands Of the Governor OF the
Universe, Frederick H., the 9th of October,
1880 If this inscription was true the pike
was at least 2G7 years old. 1t weighed $50
pounds and was 10 feet long. A carp has
been known to live $50 years
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-31
EDgEU9.1Ah CORRESPONDENCE.
sAu F2ANoIsoo, Mr. .. 1873.

EE0 "1EECIs-V, 0-,1.-- - I0.o.
Wy D,uH HsAn@ss That blessed old
lady, LYDIA Mana Chids, shook hands wjth
john Brown in prisoa in Charlestown, Nir-
;,nia, 'across five hundred miles" Of intor-
eening territory, and sent tho brave cid man
the tender grace of womans love and sym
pathy. Why then may not this, your dis
tant and somewhat invalided shePhc.d pre-
,ume to address the readers of the MORNING
APPEAL from far across the Sierra, the spread
ing plains and the fog-veiled bay Of Yorba
Ruona with somothing which shall reviye the
pleasant old vhimsey of
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
DicLen., LittIc FoI,,s.

Nothing has given the writings Of Charles
Dickens so strong hold upon the hearts of
parents as the well-known excellence of his
portrayal of children and their interest.
These delineations having received the APP
proval of readers of mature age, the differ
ent child characters have been detached
from the large mass of matter with which
they were originally connected and pre-
scented in the authors own language, to n
new class of readers, to whom the little
volumes will be as attractive ms the larger
originals have proven to the general public.
A series of twelve volumes has been pre-
pared, presenting, among others, the follow
ing characters: "Smike," from Nicholas
Nickleby; Little Nell" from The Old
Curiosity Shop; "The Child Wife," from
David Copperficld; "The Boy joe" from
Pickwick Papers, etc, etc. new edition
of the first volume of the series, Little
Paul, from Dombey Il Son, has just been
issued, illustrated, by barley, and attract
lively bound. The other volumes will shortly
follow. Sent postpaid for 81 or any
volume will be sent with years subscriqI
ton TO the New York Tribune (weekly), foi
81; or any two volumes with years sub
scription to the Independent for 80. JONI
K. ANDERSON, Publisher, Hartford, Conn.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
Startling Disclosures of a villain.

A gang of river thieves, residing i'm Nor
folk and Portsmouth, Virginia, and whose
names are Linn Scotsman, Robert Craft
Cornelius Jenkins and John Taylor were
captured and brought before the Mayor of
Richmond, Va, recently, on the charge of
committing piracies on vessels i'm the har-
Dor, setting fire to inhabited houses, rob.
berries, firing vessels, and committing depre-
dations generally.
One of the party, Scotsman, from near
Elmira, turned States evidence and made a
startling revelation of the operations of the
gang within the last few months, and gave
a detailed statement of the manner i'm which
thirteen vessels, lying i'm the harbor, had
been boarded, the crew manacled, and the
vessel plundered and then burned He
described how the schooner Lucy !"
bound TO a Northern port, was destroyed
after which the men pillaged and burned a
sash and blind factory in the city of Nor
folk. lie also testified to the burning of n
number of buildings in the village of
Berkeley near Norfolk, and how perfect
reign of terror in that vicinity had been in
augurated.
The disclosure uneartbs vast amount of
villainy that has long puzzled the officers of
the law. The prisoners are all young men.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
Additional from the New York Fire.

On the day after the Barclay Street fire
the ruins were still too hot To admit exami-
nation. The debris on the street revealed
two dead bodies Of passers by--one n news
boy; and most careful inquiry showed that
at least eight employees were missing, leaving
no doubt that ten persons were killed, if not
more. This, however, is n much smaller
estimate than was at first generally made
The number of wounded has increased to
twenty-five, some of them dangerously. II
is now found that the boilers did not
explode They are all intact, and
the cause of the explosion is a
mystery. Greenfield recently ceased using
gas, and used Kerosene, OF which there
were several barrels in the building. Some
believed that Kerosene had caused the
trouble. Other people asserted that i'm the
preparation of some kinds of confectionery,
substances We're employed which might ex-
plode. The manufacturers, however, deny
this Another theory was that'the firm was
using steam chest for superheated steam,
which is employed i'm the preparation OF
candy of n certain kind, and that the press
urc on the chest had proved too great for
its strength. Still another one was that n
gas pipe had burst. 1t was certain that
Immediately after the explosion, flames
filled the building.
The loss on property is $42S,000; in
surancc, 1884, 900.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

in the immense candy mandatory OF Green
field * Sons No. 90 Barclay Street, New
York City, which extends in the shape OF an
l. TO College place. The boiler burst tear
ing away the entire front and scattering the
wreck in all directions.
a large number OF girls OF all ages were
employed at the time in the building. The
walls fell within a few minutes after the
explosion. A policeman who was on duty
near the building, says he saw the front OF
the building, five stories nigh, fall into the
street.
Fifty-six wounded and one dead were re-
ported at the Chambers Street Hospital at
40 o'clock. A number were also sent 10
Bellevue and other hospitals. IL is esti-
mated the wounded will reach one hundred
and twenty-five. But few escaped uniniured.
Mr.. Greenfield, the owner of the factory.
could give no idea of how many were In
the building at the time OF the explosion.
but thought about one hundred and ten.
OF these about fifty escaped by the College
place entrance, and n small number got out
through the sky-lights, walked over the
roofs and got down the sky-lights of other
buildings.
The greatest sacrifice OF life was among
the young girls many of whom, from eight
To htteen years, were employed in selling,
asserting and packing candies on the FIRST
ioor, over the boiler, which was situated in
the basement Mt the rear end Of the Barclay
Street wing Of the building.
The book.keeper, who was on the Bar
clay Street side of the building, was blown
out through window into the street, and
badly cut on the head.
Several jumped from the second story,
and escaped with slight injuries, their fall
being broken by policemen and citizens on
the sidewalk below.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
Wife Murderer Hanged.

The execution of A. J. Hunt, the wife
murderer, in the little village of Madison
vile, Tennessee, was thronged to witness
the last act in the tragedy which began with
murder and ended with its expiration. The
execution had been fixed on November 20.
but the prisoner was respited until Decem-
Der Is, by Governor Potter, greatE to the
disappointment of a large number Of sight
seers, who came on that day to witness the
spectacle. Hunt laughed heartily at the
crowd being cheated of the anticipated
scene, when he received notice of the re-
spite, but he did not again disappoint
them, though he tried hard to do so.
Monday night, just before twelve o'clock
the guards attention was called to the pris-
oner by his stertorous breathing, and on in
vestigation of the cause discovered he had
attempted suicide by taking poison. Two
physicians were called, an emetic was given,
revealing large dose of medicine. He was
kept awake by great exertion and by tie aid
OF stimulants, and recovered so as to CON
verse coherently.
During the morning the prisoner was
visited by a large number of friends and
relatives. The parting with his brothers
and aged mother was most affecting though
not rs private as desired. They had visited
the prisoner the night previous and one or
the other furnished the poison, it is sup
posed.
At 10 80 the mournful cortege left tho
riding in n band wagon, in which were
seated Sheriff Warren, two Deputies and a
brother-in-law of the condemned On
either side marched a strong guard, one of
whom was Glen. Davis, the father of the
murdered wife. The gallows was n rude
affair-two uprights and the traditional
cross beams, with iron rings on the center !:
and erected about half mile from the
courthouse.
Hunt, calm and imperturbable, after his ar
rival at the gallows, and during the religious
services, said nothing, being perceptibly
under the influence of the poison though
stimulated by liquor; but he had letter
read to his mother, brother and sister. His
last words were a whispered message TO the
Jailers wife, acknowledging her kindness.
At 40 o'clock the black cap and rome
were adjusted, the prisoner so weak as to
require support at times, and two minutes
later the unfortunate man was swinging in
the air, and death soon followed by strangu.
lation.
After hanging twenty-seven minutes the
body was taken down and given to his
brother for burial.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
Hemp Stretching.

Van Dyke was hanged on December u. AT
I anton, y. Y, for the murder of his wife at
Ogdensburg, in July last. That morning he
witnessed through the window the trial Of
the gallows, with his coffin few feet away.
AZ midnight he seemed cheerful and nm
concerned, but at noon the day of his execu-
ton was much depressed, and frequently
shed tears. lie reiterated his inuoceuce
AZ IL go Van Dyke was brought to the seat.
iold with arms pinioned, and, when asked il
ne had any remarks TO make, spoke as fol-
lows: will speak a few words TO these
gentlemen. One aud all, old and young, be-
ware OF bad company and liquor. Beware
oil bad company, for it leads to something
worse. May God have mercy on my dear
soul. am not guilty, but am not afraid 10
meet my God this afternoon"
Atter short prayer the moose was adj.
Justed at II ~, and half minute later the
drop Iell. Van Dyke breathed heavily for
over one minute, and NJ 1907 was pro.
nounced dead. Van Dyke was but nineteen
years on age and one week married when
ne Killed his wife He claimed last NIGHT
mat John Claiiey, n farmer, had seduced the
Rirl and gave him twenty-five dollars to
marry her. lie was born al Medina. where
his father lives with his mothers sister. and
ms mother is living with another man.
Night before last he passed in singing comic
songs clog dancing, and smoking Van
Dykc told the Sheriff he wanted 10 be
HaHBeu az eleven, SO as 90 be iu hell for din
ner Recently, when the clcrgymen left him
nc turned couple Of hand springs. and
bringing mp with "a circus pose, after them.
" What do you say?v
Henry Norfolk, for the murder Of his
wife the Goth Of May, was hanged at Anna.
polls, Md December o.. shortly after
eleven o'clock in the iailyard Norfolk
engaged in religious exercises with two
ciergymen and members Of the Christian
Association till midnight, when he went 10
sleep, resuming hIs devotions az four
o'clock, and continuing them until after
eight o'clock, when breakfast was served
When upon the scail0ld be covered his ewes.
sobbing loudly. lie then stepped 10 the
scaHoid rail, and made n brief address. say
ing: am here 90 hang Tor the murder Of
10y vile. butmy sins are forgiven. and. thank
GOO am going to glory 7 have gained
the remission Of my crimes, good friends.
ana feel that when life leaves my body INV
savior will take my soul home with him.
J am going home to glory glory in heaven
50 good-by 10 all" he next thanked his
counsel, saying they had been like brothers
Ihe sheriff then pinioned the prisoner.
who repeatedly shouted, " GOODBYE" to tbe
crowd When the trap was sprung the rome
"iPPeo, and Norfolk was stranglcd 30 death.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

as he thought, by some one trying To get in
at q window, and made "a grab for his pistol.
which was under his pillow. In the haste
of pulling il out il was discharged, eball
passed entirely through the lungs and liver
OF the child, entered the left side of his
wife, passed through her bowels, and lodged
under the skin on the opposite side. Both
the child and the mother fingered i'm great
agony until death came to their relief.
western Itcms.
The Ncz Perces Indians at Fort Leayen-
worth celebrated Christmas by a grand
dance and other ceremonies, which were
quite imposing. A large number Of citizens
from Leavenworth and the Post were pres.
ent to witness the spectacle ..... Companies
T., and X, Eleventh Infantry, in command
OF Major Charles q. Bartlett, have arrived
at Sioux City, from Cheyenne Agency, via
Fort Pierce route. Major Bartlett reports
that though often hearing of Indians along
the road, he saw none. His command crossed
an Indian trail at Cheyenne River Crossing,
that led northwest, and expresses the opinion
that the Indians who committed depreda-
tlons I'm that vicinity have gone TO Little
Missouri or Tongue River........ Colonel ].
J.. Smith, commanding the Fourteenth In.
iantry, sent To Fort Hall, Idaho, to investi-
gate the threatened war with the Bannocks.
has made n demand for the surrender of the
Fork. They promise they will deliver him,
but il not believed they will do il. They
are well armed, well mounted and insolent.
Ii is thought they will make trouble in the
spring.
Notes from Abrond.
Meetings of the British Cabinet are held
daily, and there is "a settled impression that
preparations for war arc intended. At
Woolwich and other arsenals orders have
been received to stop the discharge of men
and take back those discharged under pre-
vious orders. While war may not be in
tended, there is absolutely no doubt what
ever that England is t. Ice put in readiness
for war should the latter be necessary
General Ghourko has taken Berkovatz, on
the direct road to Sofia, and the Servians
have carried IA strongly fortified position at
Mramor, and are advancing 70 the siege of
Nisch and Widdin.
The Russians on Friday crossed the River
LON, and the Cossacks have cut the railroad
to Narna, so that Rustchuk is completely
surrounded. Many Turks have been can
tured in retreat ....... Total Russian loss by
the war to December 20, SOAP .....A Con-
stantinople dispatch says that il is declared
the Porte is determined to carry on the war
20 the last extremity should the request for
mediation fail.........T The snow storm which
commenced on December rs, i'm Bulgaria
and Roumania has been unusually severe
and il is feared that hundred OF Turkish
prisoners and Russian troops caught on the
march must have persisted OF n CONVOY
overwhelmed at Cotroceni n suburb OF
Bucharest, forty horses and twenty-nine
men were frozen TO death.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

MR.. LAWRENCE BARRETT is described
as very hard student. He has been
such from early boyhood He was
found in an indianapolis book-shop one
morning lately, housing about the
shelves, and in the course of fifteen
minutes he bought translation from the
Greek, old plays, history and biography.
The bookseller said that Barrett never
visited the city without carrying away
from ten to twenty books, and he added /:
never sold him trashy novel or
cheap book of any kind in my life"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05
The Birthstone Match.
ICincinnatl Breakfast Table. /

AS profanity invigorator, Satan him
self can have no fault to find with the
birthstone match. Every man who exer-
cises freedom ofspeech has wasted a good
deal of bad breath upon it, and the poor
denied, circumscribed creatures of the
other sex have been made to shed almost
enough tears of veXation through it's
prosecutions to eXtinguish all the fires it
ever kindled, if applied at the proper
time.
When you throw aside all other care
and give your whole mind up to thinking
about 1T, you see mt once that the other
ills of life look smaller than theater
audience when you come to illuminate
them with birthstone match.
We mean one of the old-fashioned.
simon-pure, blue-headed kind, that re-
quires as much scratching to attract at
tentiOn as would take a small family
comfortably through an ordinary siege
of itch. And when at last you do sue
coed in cOaxing il TO make an effort and
show what it can do, how provokinply
deliberate and lazy IL is about it. And
how it splutters and crackles. and
seemingly exults i'm the insignificant
little blue flame that creeps out like n
boy getting up on cold morning. and
gropes and wanders about till it finds
your nose, and then takes hold with
both hands and pulls out every sneeze in
the shop, and then reaches down to your
wind pipe and winds up your coughing
machine and turns it loose. Oh, the
base delusive fraud After all this to
leave you in the lurch, and sneak out Of
existence just at the moment when YOU
felt like forgetting the past i'm the
promise OF the present. IL gives one
bright flare and just as you arc about to
put il into the kindlings swallows itself
in Encouragement and leaves you in the
cold, shiyering, chattering and swell.
you know best about that
Everybody has been pestered and
choked and tantalized and worried into
a bad humor by this tormcnting splinter,
and if all things are made right i'm the
hereafter the inventor will some day
wake up and find himself with n mighty
big birthstone contract on hand.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

Providence Journal: A young lady
who is studying French lately wrote To
her parents that she was invited out to
dcjeuner the day before, and was going
To tete cL0mpetre the next day. The
professor of the college was surprised TO
receive dispatch from the "old man "
day or two after, saying: IF you
can't keep my girl away from these
blarsted menageries and side-shows
will come down and see what ails her"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

BosToN, it is said, has the only manu-
factory of gongs and cymbals i'm the
United States. The production is about
three hundred and fifty gongs and five
hundred pairs of cymbals per year.
Gongs are sold according to their diane
ter ut fifty cents per inch, and cymbals
range from $24 to 1913 per pair.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

Russian hospitality is dazzling. The
entertainments which arc given by the
richest mobiles in ST. Petersburg excel
anything that can be seen elsewhere. be-
cause nowhere else can people afford to
spend 80 much upon show The rich
elsewhere have claims upon their for
tunes, and spend a good deal in improv-
ing their estates; but n Russian draws
all he can from bis land, and gives back
little or nothing. lie disburscs prodi-
gally for wines, music, diamonds, and
rich dresses for his wife; he keeps an
immense rctinue Of servants; CANDLES
largely, whatever may be his age or pro-
fcssiOn; and the surplus of his income
goes to defray Journeys to Paris, Nice,
and the German watering places, whore
he seems 10 set his ambition ON enrich
ing hotel Keepers.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

A BROTHER and sister, each of whom
supposed the other dead, met by accident
in Charlotte, North Carolina, a few days
ago, after separation of thirty-seven
years. In the meantime he had fire.
quently been in Charlotte, where she
lived, and at no time did he reside very
far off.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-05

To be safe, mans education must
be universal. The greatest philosopher,
linguist or scientist, is ignorant if he
does not know that the truly wise man
never touches circular saw to see if it
is going