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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-11


A good advertisement in a newspaper
pays no fare ou railroads. costs nothing
Tor hotel bills; gives away no boxes ofci~
gars Il customers or mcrino dr'Sses TO
customers wives; drinks no.whi>ky un-
der the head OF travelling expenses, but
goes ~ once all the time about its
business frco OF exponso.
Pulverizol Sugar II cents per pound
GrTul3ted Sugar IL cents per n,
Best W hite Coffee sugar 10 es. Tor 81
B'St new crop y Orleans Su-1r II NS.
for 81, Ne have no HdUl,orStct Sugars.
c. w. MAYER & SoN, Portland.
Thomas w. Russell, ESQ, OF Scotch
H.l, was I'm town several days this wceN
on business. While here, SIR Russell
called upon us, aud we found him o. bo
one or the most Intelligent aud pleasant
gentlemen with whom We have had the
pleasure of conversing.
Eai>ius 10 cts. Currln.s cts. Citron
IS eugs, AT c. W. Mayer 4 Sons, Ports
land.
Our correspondent NJ Portland men
tons Somethius ahou, a certain letter.
We received that letter, and gave il care
FOL attention, bat have concluded 10 * a
little too personal for publication. We
are sorry ta refuse To puhli-h any ,ct,or
hut we embarked I'm our now c,llin.r with
the determination NOT to allow ourselves
To br drawn iu.o, or allow any personal
CONTROVERSY in our p,,er .aud ,vo un,,
IN a, inst ,s IVA 5o,or,nincl
=. JOS c0ll'rS~' shirts and underwear a.
'''''''7
~ an election OF officer, for the Philo-
uaihc'n Society, Monday night, the toll
lowing gon lennon were elected;
President Henry Cay Hyde. Vice
President L. \ Fleming; Secretary,
VIM. VI. O. Dawson. Treasurer, VIM, O..
Brown. Jr. Fleming, Dawson and lihw-
uhorne, compose tho prudential commits
tee.
NJ rr,,,,,,,r,s .oo,, ,.o,,o, ORC n,o
cheques, and host ,molin, tllat can Lc
Obtained i'm the state.
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iH' ''i'""''- ~ VIC p''-'"h"'o OF
q g Philomath'an Society noNt Monday
night
S,lo,t Ro,linp rIopinr
Der'am""en'-Nro~ap.
Deha'N-Qno -tun .-" Resolved, That
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-11

On the morning Of the 26th Of De.
comDer, IN Grafton, Mrs. EmeIine
G ow was found sitting in a chan
dead, with a bullet hole through hen
head aud jug Of whiskey by her
side. Benz min Nuzum, who lives
At Fettermau, one mile from Grafton
las been arrested, charged with the
aufdyr. NuzIm has been Keeping
company With the woman for over Il
year. Her husband testified that it
Hss oh account Of tlis fmiliart,
Jhat he lett her; be (Nuzum) vas
"ith her nearly every night aud that
frequently she stai out all night
with him The ooronofs jury rem
dered a verdict tina. E.as,iue Grow
came to her death az the hands Of
Benz amin Mum.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-11

The contest for the gold-headed
cane, between Tom Carr, OF oakland
and Thomas Femming, OF RoUe.s-
burg, at the Catholic fair, which was
held ID Legs Hall, oakland, last
week resulted ia favor Of M. Carr
he vote standing; Carr 22G, Fem
ming, 2l4. Each vote represented
% cents.-O1kilaH Republican,.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
GroeMb acks the / sus In Maico.

The Maine election comes next
after California. The Pine Tree
State will vote on Monday, Sep
TENDER Sth. California has only
local questions under con sideration
this year, but Maine has the great
national question of currency, and
strange as it may appear to those
who have not given this subject
attention, the battle there is be-
tween the Republicans, who stand
by the National Banks, and the
Greeubackers who would abolish
the National Bank currency aud
issue greenbacks instead. The
Democracy are not considered in
the fight, although they have a
separate ticket in the field which
may receive 10000 votes. The
body and blood and bones of the
Maine Democracy have gone over
to the Greenbackers, leaving only
some useless brains behind, just as
these same qualities of the Cali
fornia Dem ocracy have gone to the
Workers.
Some innocent people who have
not informed themselves on this
subject of currency, tut who gulp
down without question what the
commercial journals say, wonder
that this greenback movement
could work its way in such strength
down among the forests in Maiue
Why, iG is everywhere 1t is even
here, in California, as strong, per-
haps, as it is in Maine, which fact
will plainly appear at the next
general election. 1t is all over the
South-it is all through the West,
and it is making great Roadway in
the North. That will be
one of the great issues in
the coming Presidential fight,
and those who expect to take sides
and do not comprehend the subject,
had better begin to examine itnow.
And it is truth to say, so far as our
observation goes, not one in twenty
of the public men In California
know from personal, persistent ex-
animation how to discuss the ques-
ton upon either side. There is a
woful ignora among our people
upon this point, hut it cannot al
ways be thus. By this time next
year all will be talking on the SUBJ
ject and be reading up its ltera-
lure. Aud that of itself will be a
blessing, for if there is any one
thing which, more than the land
question the American people
should study, it is the question of
finance. Maine, whose motto is
"Dirigo"-I Directs leading the
way, and many will follow her. 1t
is possible, nay, it is even probable,
that the result of the present strug.
gle in Maine and Ohio will be the
means of determining who snail be
the Presidential nominees of both
the great parties. If Ewing
wins, Ohio and the Green
hackers carry Maine, or come near
carrying it, Ewing will, of neces'
sity, be very prominent as candi-
date for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Presidept--and Blaine
may be his opponent. After our
own election. the political interest
will concentrate on Maine, and
when that is over it will turn to
Ohio, for in these two States are
the skirmishes of the great nation
al battle heavily engeged.-Sdc.
Bee.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07

there was sudden snap and the
balancing-pole and piece of the
treadle which had broken fell off at
the same time. The pole struck a
man on the head and rendered him
partly unconscious. Mile. Iuila,
who, of course, had lost her bal
ance by reason of the accident,
caught the wire in falling and held
the bicycle between her knees.
Most of the audience jumped up, es-
pecially that part of it under the
hanging bicycle. Mile. Zuila held
the bicycle as long as she could,
and then let it drop. 1t struck no
one, the audience having got care
fully out of the way. Mile Zuila's
husband, the Human Projectile,
ran out from behind the scenes ana
took his wife down. Then, to show
that she had not been hurt, Mile.
Zuila walked over the wire blind
folded ana in sack.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07

James Bullock, of Walton coun
ty, Ga, while hoeing in cott0r
field, found concealed In a STUMP
$4,000 in gold and silver and a pile
of greenbacks. The paper money
had rotted.
w. b. Lewis, of Danville, Va.
has been chewing tobacco for sixty
years, and has swallowed the juics
all the time. He has enjoyed fine
health and is now eighty years
old.
When the Prince of Wales was
in Richmond, Va, Jim Cook, n sa.
loon-keeper, presented him with
an immense julep, for which the
Prince gave him five IS gold pieces,
which Jim preserved till his death.
Miss Susan Grant of Searcy
county, Arkansas, gave birth to
twins and killed them, for which
she gets four years in the State
Prison.
EX-Alderman b. Johnson (co!-
ored), Republican, of Charlotte, N.
c., has left that place in hurry
He was adjudged by the courts
guilty Of fraud.
The Macon, Ga, gamblers are re-
quired to pay license tax of $500
month.
Many citizens of New Orleans
have petitioned for the removal of
their Board of Health.
Miss Perkins of Ebondale, Ia,
used her artistic skill in drawing
caricatures of gawky Mr.. Filler,
who had offended her at u ball.
These pictures were displayed in
the window Of a store, to the great
irritation of Mr.. Filler. He was
perpleXed as to a means of retalia-
ton, but finally decided to whip
Miss Perkins brother, and did it so
thoroughly that the sufferer was
for week confined to his bed.
A man in Lewiston, Me-, who
has voted the Democratic ticket
for 81 years, writes to the Kenne.
bee Journal that he has lost his
faith in that part and shall vote
some other ticket hereafter.
The Rev. Leonard Bacon has
failed in an attempt to force the
Sunday law in Norwich, Conn. The
City Attorney declines to prosecute
the owners of Sunday excursion
steamers, on the ground that the
law passed in 1902 is obsolete.
A singular case of mis-identiflca-
ton is reported from Brooklyn, the
living "missing woman," Mrs.
Maggie, having been produced while
her friends Were Identifying what
they were sure was her dead body.
Fred Hessler, a German farmer
of Buckley, Illinois, shot away his
wife's lower jaw the other night
and then mutilated her head and
body in a horrible manner with an
axe AZ she tried to get a way from
him. Hessler has escaped.
Ambrose itorie cue, the Amer
lean awaiting trial at London for
forgery on the Bank OF England,
proves to be Peter Burns, the noto-
rious Philadelphia counterieiter,
burglar and forger.
A Paris dispatch says that Bar
tholdi's colossal statue of Liberty
for New York harbor is making
rapid progress toward completion,
and that the public will shortly be
permitted to visit its interior.
A Russian Government official
sent from st. Petersburg to report
on a miraculous hot spring at Shall
aZgori was aim ost killed by the in.
furiated villagers because he de-
clared the spring not to be holy.
Four of his assailants have been
sent to prison.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
PHYSICIANS.
Isaac Fellows, NJ. d.,
HO &c OPAT ITI@ It

OFFICE-No. = Odd Fellows, Building
Office Hours-l0 to II A. NJ; TO p. N.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
roR SALE.

By the Lake Vineyard Land and Water
Association, the best Orange and Semi
Tropical Fruit Land In the State. Water
right goes with the land. Apply to the
office of p. Beaudry, No. 81 New High st,
apl5tf #. w. WOOD, Secretary.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07

.hU 1.. Louis XIV, Washing
n0 '.N l.D, Arnment creation, aud
na Wbu louise is hoary only by
events. ne Presidents office,
v ll.. I.I.G secOud story, is also
.ha Usl.H. Dom, and is not very
.ar.a .F ment for the White
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deu0a h.. rhaps, so feet in width,
Win ni. ceiling. A long table
r. tn the m die of the floor, with
'eaihars d chairs around 1t; the
.wo w.La. have long lam brequin
curtains dark Blush gray
color 81 rye map of the United
ctste1 the wall. The carpet
Is Of -sd int With large figures.
lhe general effect Of the room as
4te safer ! that Of library with
on 41.s Washington star.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07

Some wag has started the story
that Senator Conkling objects to
Secretary Evarts policy towards
the Mormons, and has written him
a sharp letter, in which he declares
polygamy, or bigamy. as the Sec.
rotary is pleased to call it, is high
ly pious and religious practice, and
should not be interfered with by the
Government.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
LITERARY.
THE SUN FOR 1873.

THE SUN will be printed every day
during the year to come. Its purpose and
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
EE1dus imos OF Tony Pastor's.

Mite XuiIa, who is koown
90 u0sio THE Queen OF the
Air.' t , have Tidden bicycle
ou % hHI wire at Tony PASTORS
lu NoW ~, recently. The wire
is sulu. ,ht feet long and forty
feet above he heads OF the audi
sct lh re was no net under 1t
protest he woman or the andi-
..0 Irvs Of a fall. After doing
af ncs Ola the wire Nellie.
q on the bicycle. When
SD sed over half the wire
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
Ths white House

The White House is the greatest
residence in America. 1t has cost
more than the Stewart mansion on
Fifth Avenue, New York, or, with
its rebuilding, ETC., about ST, 700, 600.
The original cost in 1892, was about
$338, 900; it was begun in that year,
occupied in 1900, rebuilt in 1872,
reoccupied in 1878, and its porticos
completed as late as 1926. The east
room was finished only fifteen
years ago. Every one of our Presi-
dents except Washington, have
lived in this great house, and he
has poked his horses head into its
portals to look up at the workmen
plastering on the scaffold. An
Irish architect, named Heber,
direct from Dublin via Charleston,
took the award of $500 for the de
sign, and he built and rebuilt it,
and lies buried in the Catholic
Cemetery here, and his descendants
are respectable lawyers and citi-
zens of this place. A building for
private residence of 10 feet front
by 6S feet front, with one room in
it S0x40, may yet attract republi-
can attention; It's vestibule within
the front door is alone 60x40 feet.
Twenty acres of garden and park
Immediately enclose it, and on
either side, separated by only 450
feet, are buildings costing from
seven TO ~ million dollars each.
Yet, in all its apparent antiquity
how new! The lawn Ia still ma.
ked plain, marching on to the Po'
tomac, like desert coming to the
...... -.ir, Like Versailles liz
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-07
Los Angeles and San Diego
THE STEAMERS
Qrixaba and Ancon

Leave San Fedro for San Diego Sept. 8, s.
49, Is, %. 70 and Oct. 8, s. Is. Is, %.
Passengers take the train that leaves Los
Angeles for Wilmington at 3.45 P. M,
Los Angeles time.
The Van Buren press., 1879-07-19
Got Any Nails.

He was just full enough not to know
grindstone from ribbon block, and
he came sailing along Fourth street,
racking from side to side like a ship GO
ing against the wind. He struck dry
goods at last, and stumbled in, aud a
pretty girl clerk came to wait on him.
.'Hic," he said, ''you got any nails Z"
The girl was little bit scared. but she
told him no; that was dry goods store
and thoy didn't keep nails in stock.
Then he went out and started ahead again,
but took creel in himself. and turned
and got into the same store again. "Hic,
he said, "you got any nails Z" This
time the girl was little provoked. mo"
she said; hardware store is the place
to get nails; we don't keep them" Out
he went again, and started off as before,
but got turned again, and came back to
the same place the thirl time. "liic,"
he said, "you got any nails?" Now the
girl was mad, and snapped out, "No'
we amt got any nails, you're drunk,
and you want to stay away from here y
"Hic," he answered, "you ain't got no
nails p mo. we haven't" "Well (hic) \,
if you amt got no nails, how the deuce
do you scratch your head ~ The po-
licenan took him OFF before her answer
was sent to his conundrum.-Saturday
Night.
The Van Buren press., 1879-07-19
Railroad J.ands-The Title Thersta

Tho following Is from the Russellvills
Democrat, and as the same state Of facts
are applicable TO the company's lands
here, we publish the article for the bens-
fit Of purchasers
While spending few days in the
country. last week. wo found some two
or three persons who wanted infurma-
tion in regard to the kind Of title Civ
en- by the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad Company to lands sold by them.
The parties wanted to buy land, but
seemed to fear the validity Of the title
they would get. II had been represent
cd to them, II seems, that the lAude Of
the company being under mortgage, the
company only gave . quit claim deed.
We now assure all parties that the :itle
is as good, valid and complete a. any II
tie can possibly be made, and no per-
son need have any hesitation in purcha-
sing.
The company makes full warrantce
deed, covenanting to defend the title
against the claims Of all persons what
ever. The deeds are signed by Jos. II.
Converse, President, and w. b. Slack,
Land Commissioner Of the road. Chas.
W. Huntington and Geo. Repley, who
are the mortgages, also sign each deed,
forever quitting and releasing all claim,
title orinterest which they or their heirs.
executors, and administrators may have
in said land by virtue Of said mortgage.
Thus the deed is made as perfect, full and
binding as 1t is possible to make deed.
There is not color Of doubt as to the
validity and soundncss Of the title OBJ
taincd from the company, aud parties
wishing to purchase lands of the com
pany may do so without any doubt
about getting a clear binding title to the
lands purchased.
The Van Buren press., 1879-07-19
Old Hickor,'s Bluff Way.

Long years after the capture OF Stony
Point, when Andrew Jackson was presi.
dent, visitor at the White House re-
marked that the postmaster in his town
(who SHIELD over was an enemy to the
president-had even been heard to call
him ga scoundrel''- urged the re-
moval of the ill hammered officer.
What sort of person is her in
quired the president.
The visitor admitted that the post
master was an aged and honorable man,
and incidentally remarked that he was
one of the survivors Of the battle OF
Stony Point.
"What" said the president, rising
from his chair, "Was he really with An.
thony Wayne at Stony Point"
"Hc certainly was,' replied the visi.
tor, .....
well, then" said Old Hickory, "by
the Eternal he has a perfect right to call
me scoundrel every day in the week,
and to be postmaster during his natural
life -
The Van Buren press., 1879-07-19
Senator Conklin's Daughter.

A Utica, n. y. correspondence Of the
Philadelphia Press, says:
AS illustrative OF Mr.. conkling's pow
or to lose friends, may say that after
he made his attack on Hays, Curtiss and
others, at the convention in Rochester
two years ago, the editor Of the demo-
cratic paper, Mr.. Fitch, wrote leader,
respectful to Mr.. Conkling, but not serv-
lie in praise Of his position. From that
time forward Conkling mover spoke 10
him. Conkling's daughter, who recent-
ly married railroad officer at Utica, Is
said to have all the impetuosity, perse-
vcrance and sclt-wil of her father. He
antagonized the young man coming to
the house, and from that moment the
young woman made up her mind that
she would take the man if he asked her,
and she did so, the father never putting
in an appearance at the wedding. Mrs.
Conkling, however, has the sweetness Of
character and acquicsccnce in the wishes
of young people of her brother, Gov.
Seymour She thought her daughter
had a right 10 marry where she loved,
if no other objections existed than want
of fortune or position. Gov. Seymour
took the same view, and marched into
church with his niece on his arm.