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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-05
TRANSPORTATION.
CLEVELAND & PITTSBURG R. R.
Condensed Time Card.

GOING EAST AND WESI.
An, and after MAY =, 1879, all trains will run
daily (excpt sunday - follows;
through trains 10 PltSburgh.
p through trains tO Cleveland
, Through trains % Chicago. .,,,
Pullman'S Parlor Cars between NellsVille anu
Hotei and Sleeping Cars on all trains between
Alliance and Chicago.
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BRADLEY's Barred Flannels, every
body knows them to be the best wear
ing and washing flannels in the market,
for sale at Geo. q. ROth's.
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pittshnrnh. Cincinnati & St. Louis

RAILw AY-PANHANDLE ROUTE
Time table for East amt West, April Q, 1872.
Trsius leave Panhandle Depot, foot Of Eleventh
street. near public landing, daily, except sun
ftav ~ follows.
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\ LARGE stock of the celebrated fan
nels-everybOdy knows them-ior sale
at Geo. G.. ROth's,
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wHEELING. FrrrsBrRGH AND BALTINoR

Leave Wheeling 30 \ " AsIy r n
TriadeIphia Accommodation.
Leave Wheeling l" A. " ''Vo r "
Ticket, Ia all principal points on sale AZ depot
OHirr omen at an hours during the day.
Information % the travelling pubic ,hteItu'Iy
given. W. VI 'i.E - - a., a.. t y.
K. r. DEV ERIk-S, General Agent wheeling.
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cce week IN yOuroxn town. Terms and q
800 Outht free. AddrsS II. HAIJkrT x Co,
Portland, Maine. agH
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BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. co.
EAsrBoUND TRAINS.

On and after May Is. 1879, Passenger Trains
will leave As iOllOws-Wheeliug time;
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09

"A CURE FOR Observation-Disclosures
GUS cures of rheumatism by the use of
celery have recently been announced
English papers; but the following, more
in detail, is given on the authority of
a New York paper: @New discoveries
or what claim to.be discoveries of
the healing virtues of plants are CON
tinually making. itOne of the latest is
that celery is a cure for rheumatism :
indeed, it is asserted that the disease is
impossible if the vegetable be cooked
and freely eaten. The fact thatit is always
put on the table raw prevents its thera-
peutic powers from becoming known.
The celery should be cut into bits,
boiled in water until soft, and the water
drunk by the patient. Put new milk,
with q little -four and nutmeg, into a
saucepan with the boiled celery, serve
it warm with pieces of toast, eat it with
potatoes, and the painful ailment will
soon yield. Such is the declaration of a
physician, who has again and again tried
the experiment, and with uniform sue
cess. He adds that cold and damp never
produce, but develop the disease, of
which acid blood is the primary and sus-
tanning cause, and that while the blood
is alkaline there can be neither rheuma-
tism nor govt. English statistics show
that in one year, 1876 2,64O persons
died of rheumatism, and every case, it
is claimed, might have been cured or
prevented by the adoption of the remedy
mentioned. At least two-thirds of the
cases named heart disease are ascribed
to rheumatism and its agonizing ally,
govt. Smallpox, so much dreaded, is
not half SO destructive as rheumatism,
which, it is maintained by many physi-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
A Terrible Accident.

An Adrian (Mich.) special gives the
particulars of an accident that occurred
at the county fair grounds in that city.
About 1000 people had assembled on
the newly erected grand stand to wit
ness the races. The center of the grand
stand gave away with a crash. The
front part fell outward, and the back
fell into the river, precipitating a mass
of people among the ruins. Work was
at once commenced to extricate the
dead and wounded, and the Opera
House was opened, and many of the
dead and wounded, as fast as exuricated,
we're conveyed there. The following is
a list of the killed: NJ. M. Merck,
Adrian; Mrs. John Hubbard, Jasper,
Mich. 1.-TWO boys about twelve years of
age, named HYDE and Mosher; David
Plumadotes, Petersburg, mich, Saged
eighteen; William Mullen, Adrian.
The wounded number not less than one
hundred persons, many of whom will
Gle. sG - sy.C Il
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
I No riainrs FroIn rroE. Mi.e.

Professor Wise. accompanied by a
young man, teller in a bank, madea bal
loon ascension from st. Louis on Sun
day, the % ult st s o'clock in the even
ing in the balloon Pathfinder. Their
purpose was to remain up but a short
time. They took rations sufficient to
last them only forty hours. A telegram
from ST. Louis, datedt the ID inst, says:
fNo tidings of either the safety or loss
of the balloon Pathfinder, which as
cended from Lindell Park Sunday after
noon, have yet reached the city. Pro
lessor Wise, the aeronaut, wa seventy
two years of age, had made four hundred
and sxty-three voyages, having had
forty-twe years experience in the bust.
ness. Mr.. George Burr, the gentle
man who accompanied him, is the re.
ceiving teller at the First
National Bank, is thirty-two, a
bachelor, and industrious and always
puDctual athis post Of duty. He has 3
mother living at Galveston. Texas, and
every effort is being made to keep the
terrible suspicion from her, William E.
Burr, brother of George, and President
of the bank, arrived in the city last
night, in answer to 'teiegraphic sum.
mons. Several kilograms have been re-
ceiyed from towns in Illinois, stating
that circulars had been found on two OF
three farms answering in description to
those taken UP in the balloon to be scat.
tered about. Great interest is taken in
every rumor that is current pertaining
to the aeronauts."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Butehery.

J. Fred Will, a resident of Indian
apolis, Indiana, has killed his divorced
wife, and then taken his own miserable
life. Last winter, because of his cruelty,
his wife obtained a divorce from him.
Ever since, it is said, he has been dog
ging her steps, endeayoring to persuade
her to return and live with him. This
she peremtorially refused to do. Grow
ing desperate, he took a large tanners
knife and inflicted fifteen or twenty
wounds on her, horrible gashes, literally
cutting the poor defenseless woman to
MISUNDERSTANDING her by the
first plunge of the knife. She did in
stantly. Viewing his fsndish work and
apparently satisfied with its hellishness,
be drew a large Colt revolver from his
pocket and blew his brains out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
A Decision Against Mormon Women.


An interesting decision has just been
made by Acting Secretary Bell, Of the
Interior Department at Washington in
the case of Hugh Lyons againt Rachel
Stevens, of Salt Lake City, involving
the question of the right-of these parties
to a section of land in the Salt Lake
City Land District.
The claim of Lyons is rejected on the
ground that the tract was not subject to
pre-emption of settlement by him.
Rachel Stevens, it appears, is n of
several wives of John,G. Holman, whom
she recognizes as her husband, and he
to all intents and purposes governs and
controls her acts. The decision holds in
view of this polygamous condition,
that if the first polygamous wife, while
voluntarily retaining that illegal re-
lation to a man, may in her own name
obtain the title of 100 acres of public
land, the second or twentieth wife
may do the same and, the so-called
husband would thus obtain, in fact
for his own, use and comfort,
the control of that number of tracts OF
public land. "This will not be per-
mitted under the homestead or pre-em-
ton laws" eff the so-called wife,"
the decision continues, should repudi.
ate the illegal relation and cease to vio-
late the positive laws of her country
and of the civilized world, the fact that
she had at one time been called the wife
of a man and had maintained that re.
lation to him would not operate as a bar
to her right" Ono woman, however,
who voluntarily maintains and &C,
knowledges her position to be that OF q
plural or polygamous wife, should De
permitted 10 make a homestead or pre-.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Kninns an Objectionable sutton.

A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio,
says About s o'clock last Sunday
evening a serious cutting affrayoccurred
near Grove City, a village about eight
miles west of Columbus. John Ford, a
farm hand, had been paying attentions
to Miss. Emma Grab, daughter of a
farmer. living in the neighborhood tof
of Barber School house. The Grab
family objected to his-attentions, and
ordered him to desists which he refused
to do The young 1ady's Brother James
sharpened a-case knife q week ago for
the purpose Of attacking Fordon the first
opportunity. This occurredion Sunday
evening when, Ford, in, company with
another man, met Miss Grab and another
young lady near the school house, and
took a walk together. They were met
by James Grab, who roughly ordered his
sister home, and slapped her in the face
to compel her to 60. Ford resented the
cowardly assault, and Grab, whipping
the knife 'frem his pocket, drove it al
most up to the handle in his back.
Ford attempted to strike Grab, but the
young ladies seized his arm and pre-.
vented him. Crab then stabbed him
again in the arm, and Ford breaking
10 Sc from Che young ladies, knocked
him down. Crab, while down, drew a
revolver, but was prevented from firing
by those around him. Ford's wounds
have been bleeding very freely. The
exact nature of that in the back is not
yet known. but it is feared that it may
prove petty serious.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
A New English Dictionary.

The Pathological Society of England
has been for more than twenty years at
work upon a new dictionary Of the En-
glish language, and it expects to com
plete and publish, it about the year
1890. The members of the society were
fully aware of the magnitude of their
undertaking, and they went about it
with beftting seriousness. It was their
intention at the outsett to produce a die
tionary as comprehensive and complete
as the labors and scholarship Of their
own learned body and scores Of contrib
utors could make it, and they have kept
that purpose steadily in view. There is
no existing dictionary of the English
language that is satisfactory, either for
curious research or common reference.
The dictionaries of johnson, Todd,
Richardson, Walker. Webster, Worces-
Ter, and the Imperial, with their several
merits, have all such vices and defects
as disqualify' them for the important
service of guiding the student or writer
of English. &
This dictionary is to contain every
word occurring in the literature of the
language it processes to illustrate" 1t
will thus be a complete inventory of the
words which have been used by English
writer's since the language took its rise.
The separation of English from the
semi-Saxon which preceded it is, of
course, not clearly marked, but the So
ciety has drawn the line in the latter
part of the reign of Henry I'LL, about
1850. Beginning with the songs and
romances of this early period, the die
tionary will illustrate the growth and
development of the language down to
the present day. The greatest care is
being used to fix as accurately as posi-
BILE the date. of the earliest appearance
of'each word in sthe language, and the
date Of the DISAPPEARANCE of words now
obsolete or qarchaic. The changes of
meaning through which words have
passed will also be fully illustrated.
The dictionary viii show in its etymol-
ogical departmentthe remarkable pro-
gress Of English scholarship in the last
quarter loft . century, The Germans
have hitherto carried eff the palm for
profound and critical scholarship in
early English. Itiiwas DIR. T. A. Main,
of Berlin, who was called upon to. sup
ply the genealogical portion of the
last edition of Webster's dictionary. 1t
is no, longer necessary to get foreigners
to do this work.. TO Enghshmen and
Americans, however, the work will be
chiefly valuable for its historical or lit
erary features, showing the rise and de-
cay of words, their gradual changes in
meaning, their synonyms and the shades
which distinguish words nearly synon.
ymous. These things will be shown by
quotations illustrating the use and
meaning of each word from the earliest
times. The quotations will be sufficient.
ly full to show the complete sense Of
the passage, and the changes and decay
of words will be shown by a series Of
quotations chronologically arranged
The society has very wisely declined tc
be cramped in its work by considers
tons of space. It is not makinga peck
ct dictionary, but a complete register
of the English language.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Elections This Year.

In the following named7states elections
are to be held this year.
Iowa, October 14-Governor, Legis-
lature, State and county officers. nj
Ohio October 14-!Goyernor, State
officers and Legislature.
Maryland, November 4-Governor and
Legislature. 521at
Massachusetts, November 4-Gov-
ernor and Legislature. q
Mississippi, November S--County Of
ficers and Legislature.
Virginia, November 5-Legislature.
New Jersey, November Legislature
New York, November .9-Governor
and Legislature.
I Wisconsin, November 5--state officers
and Legislature. sf,i, ~ ~ I
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
neci,lon Arain,t f,otterie..

The Post-ofice Department at Wash.
ington has made a decision which has
been adopted by the Postmaster General
and will be enfofceda prohibiting the
mailing Of letters to lottery companies
or their agents; also forbidding the send
ing of money to lottery companies BY
postal order or registered letter. This
decision has created a good deal of in
~dignation among lottery agents. there,
and they say it cannot stand, 1t is said
that lottery companies will take the case
to the courts, and maintain their right
to the use of the mails. The authorities
base their decisionsupon the postal laws
and regulations of 1879, which forbid
the use Of the mails to swindle the pub
lie, and they claim that lotteries come
under this head.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
iTEMs OF ~1kTEREsr.

PRuF. BENeEE, Of Marbufg, dsrfnahS;
after measuring 979 human hearts, says
that the growth Of that organ is greatest
IN the first and second years OF life. At
the end 6f the second year it is doubled
inssize, and during the next five years
is again doubled. Then its growth is
much slower, though from the fifteenth
to the twentieth year its size increases
by two-thirds.
ARoHERs were asformidable part of
all ancient armies, and the use of the
bow seems to have been known to all
nations when first discovered. The
Scythians were the best ancient archers,
and the English among the 11oderns.
The victories OF Cressy, Poictiefs and
Agincohft were chiefly gained by the
English arshers. The. Scythinn bow
was of horn. The English long bow
was five feet six, and it was made Of
steel and brass. Arrows were from
three to five feet. Ash was used by the
English and goose feathered, two of
the; fedgesswhite and one black. The
heads were iron or brass, with light
steel points and small barbs. The
strings were of gut or hide or hemp.
A sheaf of arrows wasstwenty-four, and
the archer was armed with q maui and
q dagger. The English afchers drew
to the ear steadily. Afurlong was the
distance of the Dustin shooting at
marks. The Pafthiaf cavalry were
theaghtto be- very formidable, as they
discharged their arrows backwards, and
could thus shoot equally well while re-
treating.
PSI SURNKMEs had their origin differently
with different people. Among the saw
ages the appellation was derived from
| some associations, as when a man killed
a wolf under some striking circum-
stances he was called a wolf. In Egypt
names were frequently taken fromthose
of their. deities, Har, Isis, Athar, etc.
The Hebrews give names commemolra7
tive of the family history, and among
such are Cain. Noah; and frequently
they denoted the character of the per
son, las Ada fan aiornamentli Leah
(weary), or Deborah "a beef. The Arabs
usedsthe names of the iprophetsl The
Greeks usually derived their names
from some quality, virtue, or phys
ical advantage. In later times the
.names-of people we're taken from their
gods. The Romans had both a given
and family name; one, the qeomen sem
tIitsum, indicating the tribe, or clan
the other. the proenome'1, distinguished
the individual. With us, names have
been derived from nearly every source,
from place of residence, as John Othe
Hill, became john Hill; from .yeccupa-
ton, as James, the smith, became james
Smith; or William, the clerk, became
William Clark; from physical strength,
as Peter, the strong, became Peter
Strong; from relationship, as John
Williams on, became john Williamson
from physical p~eculiarities, as John, the
black, became John Black, and so to
the end of the list.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
The strikers.

A portion of the striking cabinet
makers at Cincinnati have been success
fulin their demand for an advance of
Is per cent. on their present wages. 1t
is a notable fact that this strike was an
injudicious move, in that, while the best
wages to be made in some shops was SIC
and $12, men with an equal capacity in
others, were making from $18 to 800.
While those paying the $40 and $12 pei
week could afford to accede to the
demand of the strikers, those paying
better, could not. Tradesmen should
establish a uniform rate for work before
entering upon a universal strike if they
desire to make the matter a success.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
AKentucky ~shooting.

A dispatch from Louisville informs
us that Moore, Of Grab Orchard, shot
Col. NJ. Lewis Clark, jr.. President Of
the Louisville Jockey Club at the Gait
House, inTthatr city, a few days since,
and that the wound is fatal. The
trouble had its origin at the Jockey
Club grounds. Moore had two horses
entered for the first race, but as he was
indebted to the club association for for
feits, the President refused to allow
them to start. One word led to another
from the track to the Galt House, with
the above result. The two met about
9 o'clock, and Moore in an angry man.
ner protested against Clark's ruling.
The President informed Moore that the
rules of the association governed his
conduct in the premises and that he
could not violate them; that the rules
required him to do as he had done.
Col. Clark then went to his Office in
the hotel, and in a few minutes was
followed by Moore, who, on arriving at
the door of the Office, began shooting.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
A Jouruali.ttc encounter.

A p~rodigious sensation was produced
in London the other day by a personal
encounter between Mr.. Henry La
bouchere, editor and proprietor of the
London society journal called Truth
and Nj, Edward Levy Lawson, the
editor and proprietor of the London
Daily Telegraph; Lawson made the
attack at 10 o'clock at night as La
bouchere was about entering his cab.
The parties fought a little while, and
were finally separated. The attack was
made on account of some insult Lawson
fancied he had received through the
Truth. When L4bouchere was asked if
he was hurt, he said, We couldn't
hurt each other. We were not pugilists
enough for that" London society is
wild with. excitement over the affair.tld
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Tinany,. Choice.

Charles F. Tiffany, recently found
guilty of bigamy in tie courts at Law
r%enceburg, Indiana, upon being noti-
fed by his jailor to prepare himself fer
aitrip to Jacksonville prison where he
had been sentenced to a term of three
years, set about to hanging himself.
During the %jailor's ABSENCE period OF
fifteen minutes The made good work OF
it by ~suspending himself bya towel to
one Of the cell bars.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
strange Devotion.

Fred. b. Ferriman, of Albion, H.,
died at Cincinnati on the 4th inst. He
was twenty-six years old. On the fol
lowing day, at her clearinghouse in
the same city, Miss Lulu Georgia, a
petite blonde of nineteen, whose home
is at Bonaparte, Iowa, committed sui
.cidea She was attending the college of
music, and was to have been married to
Ferriman in December. She was at
Ferriman's bed side when he died, in a
paroxysm of grief. Afterward, she
wandered away, her eyes dry and bear
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Trying to Getla Grand jury.

The following from Salt Lake: The
Third District Court has for, several
days been engaged in obtaining a Grand
jury. All Mprmons who believe that
polygamy is areyelation from God, and
superior to the actefC Congress have been
excluded. Eleven jurors are now OBJ
tanned. It is expected the present
Grand Jury will endeavor to obtain the
record of the polygamist marriages at
the Endowment House.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
4 eeneral1 sttlke at C,nc,nnafl.

The cabinet-makers at Cincinnati,
have resolved upon and entered into a
general strike. The cause CT the strike
Is a refusal by employers to advance
wages. The advance asked is 10 per
cent. on the present wages. Trades
Union of that city held a meeting at
which reports were made by committees
from an interview held with all the en-
gloyersi in the city uponat the subject.
While alportion of the employers pre-
~emptorially refused to- make the ad-
vance, others said they would pay the
wages demanded if others would, A
general strike was resolved and entered
upon which, at the present writing, has
no prospects of an early compromise.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09
Nine asiHer. ran 800 Feet I'm a mine.


A Bodie California; dispatch says
that as the s o'clock shift was being
lowered in Tioga mine, with nine men
on board, the engine escaped control of
the engineer, and the cage went down to
the 800 foot level One man is now
dead, and all are injured in such a man
ner as to warrant the belief that they
will not reccve The men injured by
the accident at Tioga are: John Cassidy,
both legs broken; Pat. Bannon, dying,
mashed to pieces; Sam. Marsten, both
legs broken; Manuel Alvars, injured
internally; Harry Richards, killed; Joe
Roderick, injured seriously; Pete Pluf,
one leg broken; French, both legs
broken. 1t is the opinion Of the ply
stefan in charge thatall injured will die.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09

During the summer it is authoritively
stated that 1854 prisoners were incar.
cerated in the Central Prison at,Moscow,
of whom 10,477 were condemned to
exile in Siberia. Descriptions Of the
terrors of the prison dens of Siberia here.
fore published would seem to render
death more preferable than the ,tortures
of that fate. Our worst prison pens. in
this country are said to be palaces Of
luxury as compared to them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09

Thornburg's command has just been
attacked neal Mill River, Colorado,
while on their march from that place
to the Agency. Thornburg and Lieut..
Cherry we're instantly killed. Wagon
master McKinstry and sixteen men
we're killed aud about forty wounded.
Three foutths of their horses and mules
were killed. Many, of their wagons
were burned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-10-09

Great crowds followed the pedestrians
as they were driven in coaches to their
respective hotels. Rowen was serenaded,
and bowed acknowledgements.
Rowell had over two hours when he
finished his 530th mile to spare. andaiti is
said could easily have made $40 miles.
Bets we're made that he would make the
$40 miles, a number that he would make
535, and many had money staked that
he would make 53l miles, most of them
admirers of his, and when he withdrew
from the track without taking a step
wei his 530th mile, it is said he was
| heartily cursed.
The division of the proceeds, under
the rules made, under the above score
will make the winnings about as fol,