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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

DlrdS, consult the sacred chickens, and
pronounce the aspects unfavorable, OF
would pronounce day after day to be
holy, when no legislation could be had.
There was a law, too, against the bring
ing of arms into the forum; but the
forum was a frequent place of armed
encounter between the factions. Hun
dreds were killed on both sides. The
Tiber was covered with floating bodies;
the sewers were choked; the forum had
to be washed with sponges; houses
were wrecked by the opponents of
their owners. It was no better in So
cial life. Licentiousness of the gross.
est kind was too common to attract at
tention. Catiline made away with his
own wife in order to marry another
woman, and killed his child because
his new wife objected to being incum-
bered with step-son. Boys of ten
years old had learned the art of poi
soning their fathers. Adultery and in
cest had become familiar excitements in
the high society of those days. Pom
pcy divorced his wife in order to marry,
for political reasons, Sylla's step-daugh-
ter, already married and pregnant. Sy liza
wanted Caesar to divorce lis wife
and marry one of his selection, but
Caesar refused. Cato, as Byron puts it,
lent his wife to his friend, Hortensius,
and married her again after the death
Of Hortensius. There was nameless
crime too, borrowed from the East,
which was not uncommon. Caesar was
accused Of committing it, but Mr..
Froude acquits him. OF course all
these outbreaks and crimes were moi
perpetual; they extended over series
of years. There was virtue, taste, in
tellectual advancement also. These
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Iess. The Fulta wheat Is the iavoiite, and

less, The Fultz wheat is the iavoiite, and
10 increasing In cultivation. n a
IIoats promise a iait crop. Meadows aud
pastnfSs hayeimpfoye rfullywith.
In the past feRdays, 4
C6tfiis sln6ll but healthy. Sui us In
RdSance oflast year ct this date, Potatoes
yatiSble3some that were planted % during 6
up well. The bugs arc plenty and trouble:
some, but are kept down BY picking of
the old ones and using paris green when
the young broods have Matched. The re-
centrains- have destroyed many Of them.
There are Indications Of atolerably good
yield offrulk Except peaches and plums,
they are q failure.
Farmers all appear happy and hopeful
oil coming atAhead this year.
.,sss....,,.s SAN. BUSBY.
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OUR WELlsBURa IETTER.
a. wrllssuag, July ], 1879.

wElLssuRq, July !, 1879. I
Edltbn InteiliEsnees;, 8 ~ I
Harvest is under full headway in this
neighborhood. The wheat Is splendid
we'haye heard several farmers say they
never had better wheat than they have
this year. The bountiiul rains Of Saturday
and during the night have been worth
many hundred dollars 10 this community.
The gardens promise well. Tho potato bug
is not as bad as formerly. Thus far tho
prospect cabbage is good, the worms
and the CLUB root" having for several
years past ruined the crops. The prospect
generally Is cheering. 10
Col. II. W. Crothers, who has taken u
very active part in matters pertaining 70 q
coal shaft at this place, informs us that Mr..
VANDERBILT, the principal in the enterprise,
Is making arrangements for the necessary
machinery, and that operations will be
commenced about the middle OF July.
At shooting match, held at Pittsburgh
on Friday and Saturday last, Mr.. Andrew
APPLICABLE, Of this place, carried off the
Of a possible 500. The next TO him was
4SS, out Of a possible 800. Dr.. o. IShriver
and John Virgen, Of Bethany, were also
in attendance. The friends oil MIR. Apple
gate congratulate him on his success.
Saturday night Is gettingto be the time
Of week when devilish spirits do most con.
gregate and work of their weekly confined
wrath. Bad whisky seems 10 be the chief
cause, resulting In general Cussedness,
which Is apparently Oh the increase.
There is more looseness allowed than Is
consistent with good government.
One would scarcely know Of the near
approach OF the chief national holiday, as
there Is nothing Of public character 60
Ing on here on that day. G.B.C,
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A question that is agitating our mental
psychologists here is whether Henry l..
blackburn, OF this place now in jail-or
DR.. Firestone, OF the Central Insane Asy-
lum, most need 10 come under a de lundtic0
inqpirendO. Some tune ago Blackburn's
rawlings assumed such shape that he be-
came dangerous, and he was forwarded to
the asylum by Judge Jordan. In short
intendent labelled eouredm He got off
the train, proceeded to the Probate Judges
Office with an old carpet sack full OF man.
uscript In one hand battered umbrella
in the other, which he used in his re.
marks for gesticulatory wand, and de.
clared himself to the court as the apostle
OF a new phrenology. He began at once
a FoIsTERoUS AND INcoHERENT IARANGUE,
that made it distinctly evident to all pres,
ent, that his brain wasin no better c0ndi-
ton than the day he left Next day he
had hand bills circulated announcing his
intention Of lecturing on his new theme,
and closing with one entitled "Dr. Fire.
stone NfetaphysiCally Considered" It is
TO be regretted that Blackburn's oontin.
uity OF thought did not exist long enough
for him to reach this, his third lecture, but
in day or two his mind took new vent,
and departing for his old home at Rush
Run he opened upon the neighborhood,
Ia D. Quixotte. Battle axe in hand, he
assaulted the Touring mill OF Burchfeld &
Mooney, and was making effective havoc
with the machinery when the pro.
prietors interiered and revolver skirm.
ish ensued. Blackburn got the
worst Of this, and came up to Lagrange to
recuperate. There, be was taken in Gus.
tody by the officers, and DR.. Firestone
still being OF the opinion that Henry was
q thoroughly reconstructed patient, Mayor
Irwin took the matter in hands and gave
him ninety days in Jail. Tho sentencing
to jail Of an insane man, as for crime, vas
OF course something OF an anomaly; but
the Mayor realized that some measures
must be taken for the protection OF the
community, and as II could not be had at
Columbus, 1t vas prpated at Steubenvile.
Judge Jordan is still assiduoIs in Lis hu-
name efforts to have the unfortunate man
removed to proper treatment, and it is to
be hoped will be successful.
GoOsRQUiLL.
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CREsAP's GROVE, June 80,

|
CREsAP's GROVE, June 90.
Editors Intelligence:
Again We have had a saving rain, but
too late for portion oil our farm products
1 am afraid that potatoes are about ruined
They have had hard time of it on &C
count OF the long drought in May. Fully
% per cent did not make an appearance
and many that did have since. wilted and
died out, Yesterday dug hill and got
u few about the size Of walnuts, some Of
them even smaller. I have no doubt the
late potatoes will be benefited BY the
rains and do better, but that is vet In the
future. am giving you present facts.
AS for corn, on exceptionally good
ground it looks tolerably well, but on
other land 1t will vary from few inches
10 two feet The crop depends on warm
moist weather between this and the lst OF
September.
The hay crop Isles than halfa prospect.
| have cut everything on my place that
would at all pay for cutting SO as not to
be under the necessity Of buying hay next
winter and spring, as / look for scarcity
and high prices in this neighborhood.
Of tue wheat We certainly can not com.
plain, for 1t Is q good crop, and will bring
more money than 1t did last year. This d
a comfort to the farmers who have plenty
OF 1t, rs it assures them something this
year that will pay.
We have no garden vegetables thus far
worth speaking Of. How It Is further up
towards Wheeling l don't know, as they
have had one ortwo more rains than we rot.
The drought hereahouts has been SO uni.
versal that We are oil short OF vegetables,
Oats are almost IN entire failure, and
We will haveneed Of all we can CLEAN in The
fields for home consumption.
This, | admit, is not very pleasing
roGcrd, but believe 1t Is truthful one.
j. R. E.
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In different parts OF Europe there are to
be found mineral springs which will re-
lieve almost every complaint The waters
Of the DINER Rakoczy Bitter Springs hay-
ing made such wonderful cures Of obsti.
nate cases Of Rheumatism, Govt and dis.
eases arising from impure blood, that the
proprietors have been induced to put Il up
in bottles for expectation. Hence 1t Is
now to be had at aIl drug stores through.
out the United States, thus saving a trip
to Europe. A wine.glassiul dose.
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Prenh snnnIies Of YifnIitr

To renew waning stock may be gathered
from source accessible to oil, and never
sought In vain by any whose constitution and
yigor are not so much dilapdated as TO be
wholly past repairing. Evidence direct, con
yincing and ample, indicates Hoststter'a
Stomach Bitters Us a tonic Of unexampled
cillcacya and perfect purity, aud possessed Of
properties that constitute 1t an invaluable
remedy. for dyspepsia, constipation, liver
rheumatic complaints and malarial fever.
Delicate females aud infirm old persons are
inpigoSated and sOlaced by It, and the physi.
cal prostration witch usually ialloESa gGYeEe
illness Is in a great degree remedied and con.
valcscence accelerated through It's use 1t oc.
cupies leading position among medicinal
staples. NwH&w
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Co.opERArlvE stores are not novelty,
but one has for some time past been in
operation in Boston which combines lea'
tires OF administration and design which
have probably never before been 50 advan-
tayeously united. The plan Is to sell ut
adalteratol goods at faiLprlceS and return
the profits 10 the purchasers. With every
sale a certificate Of the amount Is given,
and once in three months dividend Is
paid on these, shareholders receiving
double the rate given to outsiders, besides
SIX per cent on the money invested. The
President Is Hon. Josiah Quincy,a gen.
tleman Of means and phiIanthropic i'm
pulses. AT the first quarterly meeting o.
the society he said: "Your organization
has already produced much good. Appli-
cations for your bylaws have been re-
ceived from all parts Of the United States.
Probably more than fifty stores have been
or soon will be opened in consequence oil
your example, and this most comprehen.
aive scheme Of benevolence, resting on
self.help and material assistance, become
general through the land"
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ltEcENT improvements which have been
made in ship refrigerators designed for
the transportation Of dressed meat be-
tween this country and Europe are con-
tIdently expected to materially reduce'the
cost otsuCh carriage. A prominent feature
Of the new plan Is to produce low tenn
perature in sea.going vessels without the
use Of ice or any chemical agency whatso-
ever. This will be done by the purely
mechanical process Of COMPRISING and ex.
banding ordinary air on shipboard. A
practically unlimited amount Of cold can
thus be produced. The invention is that
Of Mr.. Coleman, Of Glasgow, and the first
practical test was recently made on board
the Circassia. The machine employed
was able to discharge five hundred cubic
feet OF mir, cooled to 40o or 5O0 Fahrenheit,
per minute; an amount found in practice
to be able to keep at 3G0 Fahrenheit
chamber 10000 cubic feet with an outside
temperature OF CO. or so. Meat treated
in this way in New York, and so preserved
until II reached the British market, was
found 10 be perfect in point Of iuiciness,
flavor and tenderness. The economy OF
the invention is evident, since ice and
chemicals arc entirely dispensed with.
The United States authorities are said to
be investigating the process with a,view to
utilizing It in the proposed fefrigerating
vessel to protectthe spread Of yellow fever.
The London Times, In speaking Of the in.
Vention, says:
The War Office and the India Office
have both sent officers to Glasgow to in.
vestigate and report on the adoption OF
the process TO the supplying Of cool, pure
air 10 the barracks, hospitalsand other
such buildings. The obvious usefulness
OF the apparatus for mitigating the burn
ing heat OF a voyage through the Red sea
and In similar situations has already com.
lnended II to the attention OF influential
nautical authorities, Generally, it may
DO said that the demonstrated success Of
the machine in etieCting the main pur.
pose iorwhich 1t was designed proves its
applicability for many other Industrial
uses, and that, while Il has already been
taken advantage OF for several OF these col.
literal purposes, It Is not difficult to see
that there Is o wide and varied field in
which II may yet DO applied with great
profit and advantage.
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SHORT CREEK.

Crop Pr0Apecla DIseussed-A Splendid
crop of Wheat-The PaFmers Feeling
food.
SHORT CREEK, June Soth, 1870.
COrrppOaleuce Of the lntelliGeneer.
The prospect is very satisfactory for
goo farm crops. The continual showery
weather we have been having in connec.
ton with warm weather induces rank
growth OF vegetation.
Harvesting is under full headway, and
the result is an agreeable disappointment
TO the fears OF a month ago. The quality
Of the wheat Is splendid, and the quantity
in many placesis equal to last year, though
on the whole, believe 1t will be a little
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wtxsLOw, LAMER & Co., Of New York;
advertise to pay the July interest ontbe
per cent. comPf6miSe bonds OF the city
Of Wheeling on and after July LIST. As
there were only II Of these bonds $500
EACH outstanding on April lst, 1877, we
presume the interest is very small affair
by this time. The principal portion pi
our compromise bonds bear interest at the
rate Of only 8 per cent, and on the LIST 81
January last there were only $lS3,6OO pl
them altogether, including the 0 per cents
The Skies are due next year, while the
Three per cents are not due until the year
1900. At the time the per cents were Is.
sued It was provided by the ordinance,
that the city should make provisions fora
sinking fund suhlclentt to relieve the whole
amount priort 10 their maturity III 1880 50
that we presume, there, p, even III the So
800 arc Islfll outstanding, money in the
sinking fund to pay them of this year.
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The undersigned will offer at public auction at the
front door Of be Court HVuSe Of Ohio county, gu
SATURDAY, TIE Sih DAY OF JULY, 1872
Commencing said sale al 10 O'Clock A. w., LOtNo ~,
IN Square No n, sltuated on Jacob street, In that
part Of the city Of Wheeling called South heellug
10 the Eighth War Of said city. Upon this property
hne three story 6iek house l00 feet in length BY
Is leet in width In the GrsI floor Is large and com.
modious bar room 90 feet In length by q feet In Width
containing all the conyenlences ioE arh'CaSl house
applied bFee corresponding large and convenient
rooms il The rear. On the second floor u large dan.
edng ball and four other large and convenient rooms
whilst upon the third oor Is large hall well adapted
tor society purposes, and at present used by the Odd
Fellows and Others rs place Of meeting together
with seVerAl other smaller rooms COuyenlences for
gns and water all through the house Upon this lot
re Is abo small frame office, at present used
uStce Office an leo house and Tst-claEs stable Plr-
owner teplrG assured that they will md tt ldap6d 10
almost any business TO WHICH Tier might ChoOSb 10
II This property will DO sold subject to lease
which expires on the INST day u April, 1882. but
which will hV lFlnSleTTel with the property 10 the
purchaser. Any one pIn receive FULL Information
concerning this lease BY iuqulrng OF the underEGned
or bis attorney.
TERMS OY SALg-Oue-thIrd cash, and the remainder
Of the PurchWe money iu two equal installments Of
one and two ytrs with interest or oil cash II the pur
chaser may elect. Deferred payments 70 be secured
by decd Of trust upon the property sold
LEWIS STEuBENRAUCH.
J. II. coon, Attorney,
lg!O ChaRlIAe ltfpeti iele
The ahiF6 sale Is postponed until SATURDAY.,
July IL, al tho same place aud hour.
jy? LEWIS STEUBEERAUpH.
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PROFESSOR ROYAL L. House, Of Bingham
ton, n. y, is the inventor Of an improved
system Of telegraphy which may reyolu
tionize the methods now in use. This
Binghamton Republican summarizes what
is claimed for this invention as follows:
First. The cheapest and ut tho same
time the most rapid Transmission OF In,
telligence; combining with these elements
principle OF thorough correctness.
Second The power to 'call up" or com
municate from any office on the line with
any other office on the line, and leave the
message sent recorded on paper In the
office to which it is sent, in The absence Of
the operator at that office.
Third. The power to do this in man.
nor so that no other Office on the line ex'
cept the ono to which the message is sent
is able TO know its contents.
Fifth. The power to do this SO that ererJ
Office on the line may receive the message
and kIOr its contents, as in the case oil
press dispatches, where the same mess.
ages are sent to several papers in different
places at the same time.
Fifth. The printing Of the dispatches so
sent and so received by automatic MACH.
merry, thus rendering 1t almost impossible
for an error to occur, as Is often the case in
copying.
Sixth. The performance OF this work in
far less time and consequently at far less
expense than by any system now in use.
II Professor House is able to produce
these results he has certainly made an i'm
portant discovery. He uses the ordinary
wires between stations. In. each office
there are three machines. The first is
very much like common typewriter.
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TIE average American kitchen and DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills both know Dyspep,
siai the one creates It, the other destroys
II, Price % cents,
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

Philadelphia AcCOmmodRliOn.-T train only runs
between Wheeling and Tr.Rdelphia.
tDAlly except Sunday-NtWIrk Accommodation.
tSteubenTille Aeconmodation-ThlI tr1n duriuR
the day passes backward and forward between Mar
tins Ferry and Bellaire stopping when required ut
shermsp House. KtnRviue, West Wheeling and
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"BERn wALxEII

One effective piece Of busiuess, however,
evolved from the present terln-that OIL
conviCting Of highway robbery and sen
fencing to the penitentiary for six years
the notorious "Bee" Walker" "Bee" had
scarcely dropped the stripped habiliments
ofhis Columbus quarters-under a former
sentence-and returned here, than he
resumed his old ayocation as chief "mNsh,
or and bruiser" for local designation
houses, but in his efforts to "pIuck" q citi
zen OF Hancock county, W. Va, named
Warrick, he was retaken into the ''iold,'
and will now manfully labor in behalf OIL
the State. In giving sentence, the Judge
laid down an abbreviated Gode Of ethics
for bees" future guidance-alter the ex.
piration Of his sentence which doubtless
will havo 0 profound and abiding effect
upon that individuals moral policy-a as
much so, as il 1t had been delivered to q
distillery.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, July ., ISL

,PaSmgkdgng to,m far tbt SeaSo9, pt,d Sum,
msr iiareierti, cdn haze TlE DAILY 1NrELLl:
GEScER mailed % them, poaPaid, Jor o ceRiI
PR month, Msaddr@ bsing changed a. ct1Fn
az dsshraf.
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DOWN THE RIVER

Outlook for Crops Not Encouraging
Good Wheat but short Corn: Poor Hay,
Poor Potatoes mud n Scant Show Tor
Garden Truck.
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ICE CREAM AND CONFECTIONERY

am prepared 70 furnish 70 parties, families and
private consumer the best Ice Cream Of all aaYo.
also have always on hand full and complete stock Of
CAKES, Candles, Fruits, &C.
MRS MARY ZEEGENFELDER,
APrA 30. o Twelfth Street.
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STEUBENVuLE.

The Overloaded Condition Of the Court
Of Common Pleas-The Hollow Rock
Camp Needing Cnse-- Conviction Of Bee
WRikCr-A Peculiar Individual who Re
turned Prom the InSRhe Asylum.
SrEuBESvILLE, o., July l, 1870
ELTON lntslllgeueeE. ,r'7,!r..,iE arJ
The present term Of the Court OF Com
mon Pleas practically closed here on Satur-
day, but 50 far as the amount OF business
transacted WIS concerned 1t had about as
well adjourned prior to converting, 1t
opened with a swollen and delayed docket
OF over four hundred cases, and after nine
Jury trials and the hearing Of some lltigat-
cd points to the court, justice was again
squelched until December next by the
clarion tones OF Sheriff Smith bidding the
jury depart sine de- There being no term
again until the last month Of the year It is
safe TO prophecy that calendar Of half a
thousand cases will then confront the
judicial gaze, and as court at that time can
only occupy four weeks, by reason OF the
term following in Harrison, people who
have lawsuits to enter now, will probably
be compelled to hand down the trial as a
heritage 10 their descendants.
TIE HOLLOW ROCK CASE.
It's alleged by Clerk Coulter that the
cause OF this premature adjournment was
to give the Court time, between this aud
December, TO read oyer the record in the
famous "Hollow Rock Camp Meeting
case.n This voluminouS document, CON
sisting Of tho evidence taken before u Ref.
cree, occupied q period Of nearly two
months; and when room was found In the
Court House to allow Deputy Sheriff Hull
to wheel II in, the spectacle stopped the
BenCh's proper inhalation Of oxygOnated
air for a series Of minutes.
"BEIn WALKER.
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NEW ApNERrlsEMEMra.

|. WANTED-A GIRL 10 COOK AND
% hSa.eEetk. Nus. come well recommended,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-06-17

Mr. H. F. Gaulding has little daugh-
ter eleven years old to whose nerve and
courage he is indebted for the life of his
three-year-old boy. The boy was play
ing by the cistern in Mr.. Gaulding's
yard. There was plank off, and through
this aperture the little fellow fell. He
caught plank, however, in falling, and
held for some time before he was dis
covered. But his hold weakened, and
with splash he fell into the cistern.
His sister saw and appreciated the situ-
alton. Nest girls would have screamed
and run off in quest of help. Not so
with this little girl. The screams and
struggles for life of her baby brother
gave her the strength and courage of a
man. She saw ladder, and, with all
her might, she dragged it to and placed
it into the cistern, and then went down
into the water, reached out and caught
her brother just in time to save him from
watery grave. BY this time help ar
rived and both were landed safely from
their perilous position. All honor to
this little heroine - Baiss6ridge (Ga.)
Democrat.