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The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27
Postal Grorth in the United states


Some interesting statistics are fur
nished by the postoffice department, rel
alive to the rapid growth of its business
within the last thirty years, giving, at
the same time, good idea of the re-
markable progress and development Of
the country. Since June Both, 1847, the
number OF postage stamps issued has
been 9,7l9, 308. SGT, aggregating in value
$3.50, 1921, $1,000. Since 1861 the issue
of stamps has increased, on the average,
about 100000 day, or upward of 3d.
900, 900 year. In the fiscal year ended
June Both last, the number of stamps
amounted to 744 OF, 518, representing
$50, $50, 463. During the fifteen years
in which stamped envelopes have been
issued, /, 839. 625 Of them have been dis
posed of. The number issued in 1858
was 5, 900, 600, which increased last year
to 183, $50, $50. Postal cards were first
issued in May, 1873, and have been sold
to the number of Isl, 249. 500, Of which
300, $50, 600 were used last year, showing
that the demand for them is rapidly in
creasing. Estimating from the ratio Of
increase in the sale of stamps in past
years, within ten years it will reach the
enormous aggregate of $40, 900, 600 an.
nually.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27
Found IN am Old Trunk.

A fortune OF s12, 900, 900 may Turn
upon bit Of yellow parchment found
in a rubbish heap. A Nova Scotia jour
nal SAYS that the agent employed by the
heirs of the Hyde estate to go to Eng
land has written encouraging reports.
He has met the directors of the Bank of
England, where the money is deposited.
HYDE was formerly in Annapolis, having
been sent out by the imperial govern
ment. He had one daughter born in
Nova Scotia. The money in question
was left to her after he died. An init
nation was sent to this country many
years ago asking for the heirs. The
family of the Hydes in the United States
took the matter up and decided that the
real heirs were in Nova Scotia. The
missing link up to a recent period was
proof that the original Hyde was the
one who held the imperial commission
and went TO Annapolis. There was nc
commission of his to be found. A few
wears ago an old trunk was sold a
auction and bought by woman fol
twenty-five cents. She subsequent,
broke it up for kindling wood, and il
the lining found a parchment document
which she deemed so pretty with tn,
seals attached that she put it away a
worthy of preservation. Subsequent,
she happened to mention the incident t
a friend. II proved TO be the missinI
| document.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

Nine-tentbs Of the thousand million
dollars which France borrowed Of Eng
lish bankers in order to pay Germany
are now held in the shape of national
bonds by Frenchmen at home. As fast
as the foreigners would sell, the bonds
we're bought up off the Paris market,
and thus, though France still owes that
vast sum, che owes il in bulk only 10
her own people.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

The work Of certifying the sub treas
ury in New York against any possible
assault by mob is TO be begun 81 once,
the contract having been issued. Steel
turre ts are TO be placed on the roof, and
the doors aud window. shntters are to be
made bullet.proof and pierced for
muBketry.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27
NO. "a.
a Winter Morning.

The snow-drifts pile the window-ledge,
The frost Is keen, the air Is still
Tho lane that lies below The hill
l. drifted evon with the hedge
Gray skies. and dark trees shaken bsrH,
Blue smoke that rises straigh' in air
And do En the west yellow glare
II driven like a wedge.
-Frdak Tooker, IN Scribucr.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

Mrs. Isaac Walton, a widow, is credit
ed with having made nm invention for
tessening the noise Of elevated railroad
trains, which has been adopted by the
Metropolitan Elevated Railway company
in New York.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

fate.
A bright little girl,
Giving twirI
On her skate.
A groat bearded man
Right into her.ran
Was IL fate
The loo being thin,
II lot them both in;
Ho was stout.
He climbed up on the 100
wasn't u niCS2
Pulled her out.
In twelve monthH down tho aisle,
She came with a smile
On his ann.
Now she skates little dear
And feels, AZ he's near,
No alarm.
Jean Pierre, IN Philadelphia Bulletin
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27
BY the publicassoa of the thirteenth

BY the publication OF the thirteenth
annual report Of tue Union stock yard
and Transit company, 81 Chicago, q
great deal OF valuable information is
gained in the way of statistics about
what has been done in live stock the
past year in the greatest distributing
point in the West. For The year ending
January l, 1879, the receipts by all the
different roads leading into that city
we're Ms follows Cattle, 1883. 068 head
against 1903, 151 head the previous
year sheep, 80, 400 head, against 3d..
240 head the previous year hogs, 6, $780,.
654 head against 4, 025, $40 head the year
previous. The shipments were 500, 108
cattle, l56, 727 sheep, and 1896, 9O6
hogs. Notwithstanding the receipts
have been larger than during any one
year in the history of the trade, the total
valuation of the stock is only 81, OFT, 779
more than last year, while it is 81, 432,
063 less than 10 1875, when the total
valuation was $117, 533, 942. This GER
tainly shows a great reduction in The
price Of all kinds of meats, not only in
the West, but all over the country. Iu
New York, fer instance, the average price
Of beeves for the year 1878 was j. >
lower than in 1877, while hogs were
lower than ever before known.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

Edward Matthew Ward, the eminent
English painter, is dead in his sixty
thirl year.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

There is only one man to whom is
vsuchsafed more than one "last hour, "
and be is the shoemaker.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

Coinage of the United states Mint.
The first silver coined in the United
States was in 1893.
Up to 1877 there had been coined, in
different denominations. as follows:
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

James Mccormick, millionaire bank
president in Harrisburg. Pa, teaches q
remarkable Bible-class. There are 800
members, Of whom he says; "There
are men in this class who nre by no
means Christians, men who are not even
reformed. One Of the woSst gamblers
in this city is a regular attendant He
is bad man and confesses IL, but there's
a spark of goodness in his heart which,
some day, may DO famed into flame. "
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-27

An eccentric man of fortune named
Eastlake, who lived at Noting Hill,
London, has committed suicide in IN
unusual manner. He filed the pockets
Of his coat With stones, tied rope to
the center seat of boat, fastened the
other end round his body and then
threw himself into the water. In
"a mote found upon the body the
suicide explained that he had re-
solved 10 be "tormented no longer BY
the riddle some question in natural
history or geology which be had vainly
tried TO soIye.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
HUMOROUS.

RAISING CAIN. He was a mali
cious, mean-spirited man. He was
ugly drunk I'm the first place, ugly after
arrest, and all night long he "raised
Cain In his cell by kicking, shouting
and pounding. The officers coaxed
argued, threatened and showered cold
water on him, but he wouldn't keep
still. They were thinking OF gagging
the fellow when Bjah came In and ex-
pressed firm conviction that he could
silence the chap in four minutes.
Drawing chair ia front Of the cell
door and began singing. Good judges
OF bad music have gone before a Justice
OF the peace and made affidavit that BIZ
jah's singing would kill a horse in
twenty minutes. The song selected
for this occasion was an ode to key of
ten-penny nails, written by "a man who
lost both legs I'm the Mexican war and
then came home to be nagged around
by wife wearing No. shoes. In one
minute the prisoner had stopped shout
ing. In two minutes he exhibited as
constituent. In three he began TO
tremble, and at the end of four he
screamed TO the police for heavens
sake to remove that EOrse-fddle and
he'd 90 right TO sleep. Biah went
away and the prisoner was as good as
his word.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
The Decorator Of the capitol.

Although Brumidi's great work is
the allegorical painting on the ceiling
OF the dome, some of the work that has
been done in the several committee
rooms and other parts of the Senate
wing Will probaly never be surpassed.
This man, now almost about to leave
this world, Is certainly a phenomena
Before he came to this country he made
his mark i'm all parts of Europe. for II
was the same Brumidi who did these
remarkable works of art that decorated
the walls of st. Peters in Rome. which
have always been admired. and which
are admitted by all Judges to be- per-
fiction, if perfection can ever be
reached in anything. 1t was ne who
also did the decorations i'm the palace
Of the car Of Russia, as we'll az other
important work elsewhere. The old
gentleman has become so feeble that
he is now unable to climb up the steps
leading TO the rotunda, where he il
painting a record Of this country which
VIII, II completed, reach entirely
around the rOtunda. 1t starts out with
the landing Of the Pilgrims. and will
continue scene after scene, until he
reaches the centennial, which finishes
the first hundred years of the country
This work is pure fresco. and from the
hoor the figures are brought ont so
remarkably that even experienced per-
sons suppose that they are statues.
derrick has been rugged by which he
is carried every day that he IS able 10
work up TO astadonary swinging scat
fold. Large crowds witncs. his a.ceu-
sion, and hundreds are, at an time.
curing the sessions of Congress. enc
gagged bon viewing &c. IL is with groat
dihcuity that some people can be- made
To- believe or understand that the vari-
Gus figures seen above are not real
statues. Brumidi has been ar work
on this probably the last work of his
ilte, Tor over year, and it is not vet
more than oue-tenth completed. lie
says, however, IL he has good health
ana Do able TO- work little every day.
4e can complete the circle in abouttWo
years 10 wlll be dimcult. even ifit f..
possible, boo ease he dies before he gets
through TO secure am artistwho can do
30. The idea IS entirely bis own. and.
as he only makes hi- drawing. AZ be
needs them, no one else can compIefe
me work as Doc intends 81 Doe lives LONG
enough Brumidi work ou fresh plas-
Ter, which is put CON- the walls as bc
needs it. Tie uses three colors-vbife
Kind Of pink and black, making from
these pearls and grays, light and dark
as Doe needs them for shading. Bru
midi is, as almost every one knows. au
italian. lie IS over 40 year. Of ACE.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
A Realistic Dream.


The following Is an account Of a
dream, If dream il may be called, which
visited Nellie Hickey, the thirteen
year-old daughter of the Mrs. Hickey
who was murdered i'm Warren. Ohio
recently. The child lives i'm Akron.
The most singular part of it is the fact
that the dream and the crime were
simultaneous events. On the morning
of the fatal ARRAY, at the hour of six.
just the time Hickey and his wife were
engaged In the terrible struggle i'm the
room of the Warren hotel, the daughter
woke from afrightful dream i'm her East
Market street home, sobbing and cry
ing over horrible vision which had
appeared in the midst Of her disturbed
slumbers. SO deep an impression did
1t make on her mind that she commun-
lcated It 20 other members of the house
hold. The sight which she had seen
was nothing else than the cold-blooded
murder OF her mother. The form and
features Of the parent were plainly Wis
ible and her agOnized appeal to her
5000 W " 90 40 Ni'Nl ~ litllItUt DlI
the face Of the assassin was hid from
her view. An involuntary cry for help
came from the troubled sleeper, and
the next instant She awOke 60 find that
the frightful picture was only q dream.
10 still chung 20 her mind with all the
viyidncss Of rea! occurrence, refusing
20 be dismissed, and the first item that
neither gaze ON taking mp the evening
paper, was the startling news Of her
mothers murder which she had seen I'm
her morning dream. The child states
that the long series of troubles between
her father and mother have been pay
ing the way for this tragic ending. and
that her mother had frequently ex-
pressed the fear that She would sooner
OF later die at Hickey hanIs. She ex-
hibits little sympathy for her father
but wac overwhelmed with grief over
the fate Of her mother, who. She states
has always treated her with the great
est Kindness. She Will probably be a
witness for the prosecution atHickcy's
trial which takes place some time in
May
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
British stock Yards.

The great livestock market OF Lon
don, known as the Metropolitan mar
ket IS situated in Islington, and is a
well-planned and well-kept business
place. The yard has long rows of open
pens i'm which the cattle stand, tied by
the neck to the cross-bars. This leaves
the beast enough liberty to admit of the
buyer judging of him. Every pen has
room for 100 head. The sheep pens
are also open, and hold I'm the aggre-
gate 10000 hend. The pens for calves
are raised above the level Of the wards
add are sheltered with roofs. the sides
being open. There is room. vet again.
Tor 200 swine. These animals remain
under shelter. Four thousand head of
horned cattle have room at one time.
together with the other number given.
The altey-ways, pans and causeways
are loored with granite blocJs. There
are four hotels, one on every corner Of
The pace occupied by the market. The
hotel, the Black Bull, kept by the
widow Davis, appears the favorites
lslington market Is most easy Of access.
Tramways, omnibuses and railway
lead 20 it from all directions. A strong
palisade OF wrought iron work sur
rounds these yards, the entrances to
which are wide and handsomely orna-
mented with bull's heads. I'm the CEN
ire Of this enclosure f. "a building for
bank and market offices; also a tele-
gmph and post office. The sanitary
laws are rigdly enforced. The market
BE- .wcpt ont and flushed every day
after business hours ON Friday there
is market for horses, ponies and don
keys also for miscellaneous articles.
where those who will can buy anything
from q pin To- q steam pillow. Close To-
tine livestock yards is what Briton.
call a lairage, where weary beasts are
rested, and where herds and nocks arc
collected TO- await market days. Tbi.
IaIrage IS sheltered, and sub-divided.
ana proveuhcr can De had AZ fair rates
In compliance with recent act Of Par
lament, spacious slaughter-houscs have
been erected adjoining the livestock
yards. The animals are slaughtered
in most mcrciful manner. one blow
from the pointed end of q poIc-axe
t1n the beast, the butcher then ip-
serts che point Of the lance into the
spinal cord then one cash sewers the
great blood vessels Of the throat The
blood flows freely there ls mo- pain. mo-
dIsc''orat.on, death having been ip-
Simultaneous
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
The White Hou..

The White House is still the greatest
residence in America. IL has cost more
money than the Stewart mansion on
Fifth avenue, New York, or, with its
rebuilding, refurnishing, etc, about
81 100000 The original cost I'm 1892.
was about $685.. 600; it was begun i'm
that year, occupied in 1900, rebuilt I'm
1918, reOccupied i'm 1918, and its por-
ticos completed az late as 1929. The
east room was finished only fifty years
ago. Every one Of our Presidents, ex-
cept Washington, has lived I'm this great
house, and he has poked his horses
head into it's portal TO look up at the
workmen plastering on the scafTolds.
An Irish architect named IIeber. direct
from Dublin via Charleston. took the
award of $500 for the design, and he
built and rebuilt it, and lies buried in
the Catholic Cemetery here, and his
descendants are respectable lawyers
and citizens of the place. A building
for private residence Of 10 feet front
by 40, may yet attract republican at
tentiOn; its yestiDule within the front
NO'A 10 aAoilS ~ ny ~ ltcl. WenIy
acres of garden and park Immediately
inclose 1t, and on either side, each Sc o.
arated by only $50 feet, are buildings
which cost seven to twelve millions a
piece. Yet i'm all its apparent antiq-
uity, how new! The lawn is still a
naked plain, reaching oil to the Poto-
mac, like desert coming to the palace
stairs. Like Versailles I'm the time of
Louis XIV, Washington is a Govern
ment creation, and this White House is
hoary only by events. The Presidents
Office, which is i'm the second story. is
also the Cabinet room, and Is not a
very large apartment for the White
House, although about thirty-fye or
forty feet i'm depth by perhaps thirty
feet wide, and with high ceiling. A
long table is i'm the middle of the floor,
witch lcather-seated chairs around IT,:
the twowindows have long lambrequins
aad curtains of dark BLUSH gray color.
A large map of the United States is on
the wall. The carpet is of a red tint
with large figures. The general effect
of the room as one enters, is that of a
library without books.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24

There is no modern fashionable
notion quite 90 absurd as the generally
received idea That 20 be beautiful and
attractive a woman must possess n wan,
spiTitUsile face and a figure Of sylph like
proportions fragility I'm nine cases
out Of ten the result Of disease. BY
many fashionable bellies 20 Is considered
a special compliment 10 be spoken Of as
irail and delicate. They forget that the
naturally delicate face and petite figure
are very different from the pale and
discase-striCken faces that meet us I'm
the city thOrOughfares, look out from
the luxuriant carriages Of wealth, and
glide languidly through our crowded
drawing-rOOms. If disease were un-
fashionable, as 10 ought 10 be, nOta lady
in the land but would take every pos
sible prcCautiOn 10 secure the fresh.
blooming face and well-rounded figure
that only health can give. Ladies'
should remember that much az gentle
men may profess 10 admire the face and
form paled and emaCiated by disease.
when they choose a wife they prefer n
blooming, healthful, spirited
woman. DR. Pierce's FavOrite Pre-
scriptiOn is the acknowledged standard
remedy for female disease and weak
ness. 10 has the two-fOld advantage Of
curing the local disease aud importing
a vigorous tone to the whole system. &c
is sold by drugglsts.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
Protect tho systsm from Mnlnrln.

il is possible to do this even i'm regions of
country where masma rs most rife aud where
the periodic feyers which IT causes assume
their most formidable types The immen 90
popularity Of uostetter's Stomach Bitters il
very largely attributable to the fact OF lts eff
cacy a remedy for chllls and fever, bilious
remttonts, and "a preventive OF the various
forms of maarial disease. In those portions
OF the West and South where complaints of
this nature prevail, and in tho Tropics. 1t il
particularly esteemed for the protective iuflu-
ence which 1t exerts and 1t has been very
widely adopted as substitute for the danger
GUS and comparatively ineffective alkaloid
sulphate OF qunlne. Physicians have not
been among the last to concede Its mer t.
aud the emphatic profess onal Inducements
which 1t has received have added to the repu-
tation 1t has obtained at home and abroad.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
WORMS.
WORMS.
WORRIS.


f. f. Kunkers Worm Syrup never fails to
destroy Pin, Seat aud Stomach Worms DR.
hunkel. the only successful physician who re-
moves Tape Worm in two hours alive with
head, and no fec until removed. Common
sense teaches IL Tape Worms be removed all
other worms can be readily DESTROYED. Advice
at office and store free. The doctor can tell
whether or not the patient has worms. Thou
sands are dying, daily, with worms, aud do not
know 1t. Fits spasms, cramps choking and
suhocatlon, sallow complexion, circles around
the eyes, swelling and pain in the stomach
restless at night, grinding OF the teeth. picking
at the nose, cough, fever, itching at the seat
heaiache foul breath, the patient grows pale
and thin, tickling and irritation in the anus
all these symptoms, and more, come from
worms. T.. T. Kunkel's Worm Syrup never
fails to remove them. Prloe, 81 90 per bottle
or six bottles for 50 90. (For Tape Worm,
write and consult the Doctor.) For all Others
buy OF your druggist the Worm Syrup, and il
n , has It not, send to DIR. Il. +. Kunkel 259
n. Ninth, street Philadelphia, Pa. Advice by
mail, free; send three-cent stamp.
IF. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron.
Gives tone to the stomach. IL improves the
appetite and assists digestion excites the
bowels t healthy action expeling all the foul
humors that con animate the blood, corrupt
the secretons and offend the breath. IL OK
cites the liver to a healthy action and strength
ems the nerves importing that glow 20 life that
proceeds alone from perfect health.
Thousands in all walks OF life testify T. the
virtues or his excellent me iicine in correct
ing the arrangement Of the d gestive organs.
Get the genuine. Sold only in S10O bottles
or six bottles for So 90. Ask for f. r.
KUNKELs and take no other. II your drug
gsts las i not send to proprietor f.. r.
KUNKEL No. 20 North Ninth Street Phila-
delphis, Pa. Advice free enclose three cont
stamp.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24

Great men are not always wise. neither do
the aged understand judgment. Job. This
afflicted patriarch might have known OF the
useless and painful treatment OF Emerods''
IN his own time, but his words would have
been even more applicable had his prophetic
eye looked down the long vista OF medical hi.-
tory and witnessed the cruel, absurd and inef-
fectual treatment OF Piles by the many schools
OF great and aged professors, until at last a
disgusted doctor p Onounced piles 1.-THE oppro-
brium OF tho art" DIR. Sllsbee has put TO
shame, by the simplicity and excellence OF hi,
great pile remedy, not only the whole family
OF quack nostrums, whose name il legion. but
the pretended wisdom OF the medical profes
sion. This AndkeSiS Cor pile remedy. il sim
pie and easy OF application. gives instant re-
lief, and by combining the merits OF poultice
TO soothe, an instrument TO hold mp aud COM
press the tumors, and a skilfully devised medi-
cine. applied directly 10 the diseased parts III
umately cures the worst cases OF piles and
keeps them cured. Half million OF persons
pronounce AndkeSiS the most benefcent dis
covery OF the age aud We believe them Ana
keSls. DIR. s. Silsbee's External Pile Remedy ia
sold by all first-class druggists Price 81 90.
Samples mailed free 10 all sufferers by p.
Neustaedter * CO., Box 3946, New York
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-24
Camcer cnn be Cured

BY DR.. Bonds new dscovery--a positive cure
for this dread malady--HO knife no cduStic. no
pain. DR. Bonds SUCCESS in treating Cancer
II truly marvellous. Remedies sent 10 any part
OF the world, with full directions for ruccesgful
home treatment Send de,cTipton of your
case, or any cancer sufferer You may know or
Pamphlets and full direct ons sent free Ad-
dress DIR. Ii. L. Bond, PhIiada., Pa