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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-09-18
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The true northerner., 1880-07-30
South.
POLITICAL POINTS.

Gen. Neal Dow has written q letter
accepting the nomination for the Presidency by
the National Prohibitory party.
Gen. Huidekoper, who commanded
the "Buck-tail" regiment at Gettysburg, las
been appointed Postmaster at Philadelphia.
TIE Ohio Democrats have placed in
nomination the following candidates for State
offices Secretary of State, William Long
Judge of the Supreme Court, Martin b. Fol-
lette Clerk of the Supreme Court, Richard w.
Tanning School Commissioner, William
J. Jackson; member of the Board of
Public Works, J. j. Burns.-The Vermont
Democratic Convention nominated Edward J.
Phelps for Governor, George W.. Gates for
Lieutenant Governor, and James X. Williams
for Treasurer.-The Democracy of Mis-
souri,, in convention at jefferson
City, named Thomas T. Crittenden for
Governor, H. A. Campbell for Lieutenant
Governor, r. d. Ray for Judge of the Supreme
Court, NJ. X. McGrath for Secretary of State,
and Philip +. Chapel for Treasurer.
b. Gratz Brown announces himself as
a Democratic candidate for United States Sen
ator for Missouri.
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS oLEANINos.

1t is stated that Gen. Grant will go in
to business in New York upon his return from
Colorado. The nature of the business is not
disco
From advance sheets of Poor's Man
ual it is learned that 4,721 miles of road were
constr ucted in the Untad States during 1879
and that the gross earnings reached $529, ,O13,-
600, and the net receipts S219 99l6, 600. both
showing large gains over the previous year.
Princess Louise is going to England
again for the benefit of her health.
The steamer Dessonk, bearing the
Egyptian obelisk presented to the United States
by the ex-Khedive of Egypt, has arrived.
Arrangements are nearly complete for
the resumption of work on the Washington
monument, suspended for twenty-one years.
Census notes There are $4,000
Mormons and $4,000 Gentiles in Utah. The
census returns give New Jersey population of
100000, being an increase of $4,000. Penn
sylvana has about 4, ,226, 900 people, an increase
of about 100000. st. Louis statisticians claim
for Missouri population of about 2,400, 900.
Estimates based upon returns from about one
third of the counties of Illinois place the popu-
lation of the State at 3, 100000. Ohio's popula-
ton Is estimated at about the same figure The
population of the cities of Ohio is as follows .
Cincinnati, 256,OO0; Cleveland, 159,5OO CO.
lumbus, $1,000; Dayton, $4,000; Springfield,
20,50O; Athens, 16, l0O Sandusky, $4,000 /;
Hamilton, IL, 800 Chillicothe, 10, 1872 Newark,
$3.50; Ironton, 5000 Fremont, S,435 Tiffin.
1885; Urbana, 6,205 Massillon, $3.50 Will
mington, 2,671 Wooster, $500; Gallon, 1854 ;
Bucyrus, 3,S4S Van Vert, 1900.
The report that there had been no
popular choice for President Of Mexico at tie
recent election turns out to have been prema-
ture Later accounts are to the effect that
Gen. Gonzales was chosen Chief Magistrate Of
our neighboring republic by large majority
over all competitors. Simultaneou with
this announcement comes the news
that revolutions had broken out in
four or five States, and that an attempt had
been made to assassnate the Presdent-elect
"I felt rs well this morning as mt any
time" said DR.. Tanner, on the twenty-seventh
day of his fast. Observations showed the pulse
to be at 30 temperature, %; respiration, l6 /;
wei hit, 1917. The dynamometer showed a
pressure Of 80 kilogrammes with the right
hand and 10 dlogrammes with the left.
Bennett, the murderer of Hon. George
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
DOMESTIC INTRLLIGENCE.
East.

DIR. Tanner entered upon his twenty
third day without food weighing 135 pounds,
twenty-five pounds less than at the beginning
He expressed himself as feeling no pangs of
hunger. AT o'clock a. m. of that day he
took a two-hours' drive, had his demi john
filed with well-water, returned to the hail.
wrote half dozen letters, read his voluminous
correspondence, looked over the morning pa
pers, and talked and acted not different from
other men in the apartments. His condition
was entirely normal-pulse 78, and temper
ature SO. The physicians pronounce him a
phenomenon.
New Hampshire has had sharp earth
quake shock Dishes and pictures were shaken
Gown in many places.
DIR. Tanner entered upon the twenty
fifth day of his long fast looking, and appar-
emily feeling, as well as at the end of the first
week. A measurement disclosed the curious
fact that the faster had decreased in height two
inches since the beginning Of his self-impo-ed
task His pulse was recorded 70 tempera-
ture, 90; respiration, l6; weight, 1919. The
physicians expressed the opinion that he could
not last many days longer.
A wealthy farmer named Easterly,
living in Wayne county, n Y, murdered his
wife and mother-in-law and then committed
suicide.
The official census returns give Bos-
ton population of 1863, ,565, an increase of
II ,066 in ten years.
DIR. Tanners condition was reported
az good at the close of the twenty-eighth day
of his fast His weight was 1291{, loss of
one pound in the preceding twenty-four hours.
Nine boys have died in Philadelphia
from injuries received by the explosion of toy
pistols on the Fourth of July.
Charles Barlow, of the mercantile
agency OF Dun, Barlow d Co., New York, is
dead.
West.
Spotted Tails Indians are dissatisfied
with him, and have asked the President to de-
pose the old chief.
A Detroit bank has been made the
victim of an unusually bold robbery. The
cashier was alone in the bank, when stranger
entered knocked him down with slung-shot
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
Sad Accident to an Excursion Party

The steamer Mamie, containing pleasure
party belonging to the Catholic Church of the
Holy Trinity, at Detroit, was run down by the
steamer Garland in the Detroit river, on the
night of the 22d of July, and seventeen of the
eXcursonists found watery grave. Following
are the particulars of the distressing accident,
as furnished by the Detroit papers
The pastor of Trinity Roman Catholic
Church, the Rev. Father B'eyenburgh. in ac-
cordance with his annual custom, took to Mon
roe, Mich, for days pleasure, the acolytes
and altar boys of his church. There they spent
a happy day. and, on heir return. while COM
ing up the Detroit river. at about 10 o'clock at
night, at point just below Grassy Island
lighthouse, the yacht was met by the steamer
Garland, of Detroit, having on board the
Molders Union and large party of friends,
when collision took place, the Garland liter
ally running the steam yacht down and almost
running over her.
The Mamie was cut in two, and Immediately
sank, taking down nearly all the twenty-four
persons on board. Boats were immediately
lowered and life-preservers thrown overheard,
but with the strong, swift current at this point,
where the water is thirty-five feet deep, they
were of little avail. Seventeen persons per-
ished, with but little hope Of their bodies being
found for several days.
Toe people on board the Garland, and also
been all right had not the yacht suddenly
changed her course and shot across the bows Of
the Garland. The captain of the Garland re-
fused TO give any particulars, but the wheels
man states that he saw q light, which he took
to be an anchor-light, and no red or green
lights When about fifty feet from the light
he heard a whistle from the Mamie, answered
it. and backed the engines. He called to Capt.
Wright to help on the wheel He thinks the
Mamie must have tried to cross his bow
1t is generally admit cd that there was great
lack of nerve and system in the matter of res
cuing, so far as the officers of the Garland were
concerned, and that the accident was the re-
suit of the greatest careessness and most GRIM
inal neglect, as the night was clear and moon
shining brightly.
Father Bleyenburgb. the priest who had
charge of the boys on the yacht, has taken his
acolytes on such excursions yearly. His sad ex-
perence in this case has completely broken him
down, and it Is feared the nervous shock may
result in permanently injuring him. His par
ish is the largest in the city or State, and the
grief is widespread
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.


The village of Remus, In France, has
been burned Ninety-eight houses were de-
stroyed.
The Russian Government has given an
order for the construction in England of four
torpedo boats
The Basutos, a South African tribe,
are in open rebellion against the British
1t appears that the killing of the
mother Of the Russian Gen. Skobeleff, in Tur-
key, was neither an act of war nor of private
vengeance, but of mere brigandage. The muir
derers have been arrested.
Gen. Bazaine is reported hopelessly
ill in Madrid
The committee for the erection of a
memorial to Prince Louis Napoleon, in defer
ence to the wishes of many Englishmen, has
withdrawn the proposal to place 1t in West
minister Abbey and the Queen has offered site
in st. Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle, where
the monument will be erected.
The explosion of powder i'll the artil-
lery works at Kooisk, South Russia, killed
eighteen and wounded twelve persons.
A report is telegraphed from ST. Pc
I ersburg that the Russian Gen. Skobelef has
been captured and beheaded 10y the Turcomans
The sequel to the marriage of the
Marquis of Anglesey and Mrs. Wodehouse, of
Georgia, is the suicide of Mrs. Wetmore, also a
celebrated beauty of the American colony in
Paris, who, it is reported, was Tilted by the
Marquis.
Turkey has practically rejected the
recommendations of the supplemental confer
ence at Berlin, and asks that the Greek frontier
question be reopened.
Earthquakes have ruined every public
building in Manila, and the inhabitants are en-
camped outside the city, where there are no
houses to fall on them.
The consummation of the victorious
British campaign in Afghanistan has begun
with the formal recognition of Abdur-Rahman
Khan as Ameer, instead of Yakoob Khan. The
event, which, it is announced, will be shortly
followed by the withdrawal of the British
forces, signalizes what is practically equivalent
the reduction of Afghanstan to the condi
ton of an English dependency.
The Dowager Countess Cowper, moth
of Ireland is dead, aged 75
The betrothal of Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria and Princess Zorka of Montenegro
announced.
Mr.. Redpath repeats emphatically
that there is no further need of American con-
tributions in Ireland.
The recent earthquake at Manila, on
the Island of Luzon, proved to be a terribly
twenty persons, including 200 Cinnamon, were
killed, and nearly every family on the island
was rendered homeless.
Ex-Empress Eugene has arrived in
England from her South African trip.
The British steamer Hazeldean has
been sunk in the British channel. Five of the
crew were drowned.
The 135 battaions of Turkish regular
troops in Europe have been increased to 800
men in each battalion.
Col. Johnson. native of the United
States, in the insurgent army of Cuba, was
killed recently i'll a slirmish with Spanish
troops.
Prince Bismarck's health is again evil
dently in precarious condition. A Berlin dis
patch states he has gone to Kissingen, and that
his health is such as requires protracted suspen-
sion of labor.
A pleasure steamer capsized in a
squal on Lake Bricnze, Switzerland and six
teen persons were drowned.
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
Why We Brag.

This Is n time when, as Americans, we
feel like doing a little boasting. One
hundred and four years ago, when we
declared ourselves to he free and indie
pendent people, our population was less
than 5000, 600. To-day it is AZ, 600, 900.
Boston was then an insignificant village
so far as population was concerned, and
New England had but few scattering
schools and two colleges. The entire
country had but thirty newspa-
pers, and the best of them were not
equal to the worst weeklies printed to-
day in the mushroom towns of the
Rocky mountain region. In 1889 we
had but seventy-five postoflces, and the
mails were carried on horseback over
/ 300 miles of road at an expense of
$50, 900 per year. To-day we have 33, 600
postotlices-and new ones are being
established dailv-and the mails are
carried over 100000 miles of post
roads, at an annual expense Of
$29, 900, 900. We have nearly a
quarter of million miles of telegraph
wire. We have 141, 500 school-houses,
63, 0S2 churches, 1872 daily newspapers,
and over 5000 periodicals of all kinds.
Our farms are valued at not less than
SO, 262, S03, SCI, our farming implements
at 1885, s, ,423, and our live stock at
81 ,525, ,276.457. Our farm products in
single year have brought us 81, 447, $685.
65S, and in the same time we have paid.
in farm wages, $310, 2S6, 2S5. Our crops
are bountiful, yes, enormous, and our
exports have reached nearly Si75, OO0,-
900 IN q twelv, month. Our manufacto-
ries are prosperous. In cotton goods
we challenge he world. w one year
our 9C0 ~ lis turned out cloth enough TO
cncircle the earth twenty times, u made
i'll one piece, with still enough left to
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
A Sheep.Thief's Punishment.

We cannot for the moment call to mind
the particular of the Russian criminal
code in virture of which sentence was re-
centence pronounced in case of sheep
stealing by Judge in the Perm govern
ment. Yet, remembering how literally
the laws are interpreted by the Cars Judi
cial alfunctionaries, it would be impertinent
to express doubt as to that sentences
strict conformity with some sagacious
statute which happens to have escaped
our attention. A peasant accused one of
his neighbors of stealing sheep from his
flock and of slaughtering it, thereby
causing its lawful owner prejudice to the
amount of rubies. In answer to this
charge the defendant alleged that, one
afternoon, sheep, with which he had no
previous acquaintance, had certainly
called upon him in promiscuous kind of
way, whereupon he, regarding its visit
as providentially intended to supply
vacuum in his larder, had promptly con-
verted it into mutton by the usual process.
Taking this frank confession into consid-
Grafton as an "attenuating circum-
stance" the learned Judge pronounced
the following sentence: "The defendant
shall, first of all, receive twenty blows
from rod. He shall then be arrayed in
the skin of the murdered sheep, and b.
conducted, to the beat of drums, through
all the streets of the village. At the door
of each house he shall be halted, and the
respective house-owner shall deal him a
blow with stick" AS the condemned
peasant, by declining to appeal to
higher court against this sentence, tacitly
admitted its justice, it was forthwith car
ried out to the manifest enjoyment of his
fellow-villagers. rs.-London Telegraph.
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
HINGTON NOTES

Although the Spanish Government has
denied that any vessel of the Spanish navy fired
on the two American schooners in Cuban waters
few weeks ago, the State Department at Wash
ington has learned that it was the Canto, a
small screw steamer of the Spanish navy, which
committed the offense.
A shark nine feet in length has been
caught in the Potomac, near Washington. 1t
will be stuffed and placed in the Smithsonian
Institute
The true northerner., 1880-07-30
Trouble at the North Pole.

There is trouble ut the North Pole.
The pole itself is in a STATE of embarrass-
ment amounting to rebellion and disin-
tegration. 1t has always carried on its
business in an old-fashioned manner,
and has long been set in its ways. 1t
ran, as far us it could run Mt all, III rut
SO deeply worn by ancient usage as to he
difficult to get out of. 1t froze all its ice
for seasons business in one gigantic
field. As from time to time it found it
had ice to spare, it shopped off little bits
and sent them floating away III any
direction in which wind and waves might
take them. But lately, instead of
splitting off from the edge of the great
ice fields few little bits and telling
them to keep in the higher ATTITUDES and
behave themselves like gentlemen, 1T has
split out hundreds and thousands of
them. In the most unbecoming manner
these frigid and frightful things have
foated farther south of their accustomed
tracks, and have given indications that
they may float still further. Where one
or two iceburgs usually prowl around i'll
this year dozens, if not hundreds Steam
ers which usually see less than half
dozen on the whole passage have this
season met them by the dozen or score.
One vessel passed through awide avenue,
furnished on either side with what
seemed to be city of these impedi-
ments to navigation. Other vessels
knocked their bowsprits and booms into
them. How many vessels have sailed
against them and gone down we know
not as yet. The latest erratic feat of an
iceberg is to float down toward Sandy
Hook and threaten to effect an entrance
into New York harbor. For years it has
been the threat of our New York neigh
bors to answer the veXatious tales of the
ice dealers who are suffering from short
crops by telling about how the anti
monopoly meant to catch an iceberg,
tow it into the harbor, chop it in pieces,
and supply customers with it at reasona-
ble prices. Already the ice men are
trembling, and their teeth are beginning
to chatter. If that iceberg is caught and
towed in the price of ice will be less than
one-half its present figures. Our own
ice men, too, are quaking i'll their boots.
If the expected berg is four or five hun
dred feet high and two or three miles i'll
circumference, we shall have all the ice
cream we want this year and next. The
hardy mariners who are going to entrap
the iceberg and tow it i'll will have
heavy undertaking on hand; yet they
need not be discouraged, for nation
which brings obelisks from Egypt and is
some day going to float the Pyramid of
Cheops over, will not stop at icebergs
The risk is that when it strikes the Gulf
Stream that current may prove too much
for it. and either melt it or send it spin
ming to its native pole.-Phiiadelphia
Times
The true northerner., 1880-07-30

The mining company of which Gen.
Grant has been elected President is called the
San Pedro and Canon De Lagna. The Gen
erals salary has been fixed at $4,000, and he
will have Offices in New York and Boston.
The excess of American exports over
imports for the year ending June 30 was $l67,-
9OS, 1859.
The true northerner., 1880-07-30

Brown of the Toronto Globe, was executed at
Toronto on the 23d of July
Chicago continues to lead all competi-
tors in the race for the national baseball cham
pionship. The record of the competing clubs
il as follows
The true northerner., 1880-07-30

make every human being a suit of
clothes. and to furnish each with pieces
for Matching - ROsfOn Post
The true northerner., 1880-07-30

The man who was hemmed in by
crowd has been troubled with stitch in
his side ever since.
The true northerner., 1880-07-30

helped himself to IS, 900 in bills, and made good
his escape.
E.B. Chambers, editor and publisher
of the Fargo (Dakota) Times, was recently
thrown from lumber wagon and fatally in
jured.
AT Kokomo, Col, desperate named
Norton shot and killed Policeman O'Ncil.
mob took Norton out of Jail an hour afterward
and hung him. He confessed having commit
ted other murders. and said he ought to have
been hung long ago.
Cicero Simms was hanged for murder
at Fair Play, Col, on the 23d of July.
An Industrial Exposition building, to
cost $500, ,OOO will be erected in Milwaukee.
Twenty carloads of Mormon immi-
grants passed through Chicago last week on
their way to Utah.
The summer trotting meeting of the
Chicago Jockey Club furnished the most sue
cessful week for sport ever known i'll the an =
nails of the trotting turf, terminating in the
hitherto unparalleled performance, for horse
of that age of mile in 2;l319 by William H.
vanderbilt's 6-year-old filly Maud S.
Edward Schroeder, wronged hus-
band, entered the Office of DIR. Alfred Lefevre,
at Oakland, Cal, and shot the latter dead.
The Ute Indians demand the privilege
of viewing the land to be assigned them in
severalty before they will agree to surrender
their present reservation.
A colored Baptist camp-meeting at
Danvile, Ohio, was broken up by mob of
drunken roughs. In the fight which preceded
the retreat of the negroes firearms were used
freely. and it is believed that there was loss of
life.
South.
At Olinda, Ala, three negroes have
been arrested for digging up and mutilating
the bodies of buried white people. They did it
for the purpose of getting the finger bones,
which they believed would make them lucky at
cards.
At Wilmington, N. c., negro named
Richardson killed his mother-in-law, his father
in-law, and his wife.
A bark from Newcastle, England, has
arrived at Mobile with all on board except three
persons stricken with yellow fever.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-02-06
, How I carlyle servex ! Visntf.|

Thomas Carly1e's powers Of checking
numerous anecdotes. The most chs9ae-
teristie OF which is the following.
which is literally true.
A presuningSfellowj who had been
brought to dine with him by O common
friend, began to speak slightinglyl OF
his great hero, Burns, calling him 80
much overrated man." etc. Carlyle
made no comment, which emboldened
the critic to continue in the Same strain
till dinner ended. When they rose 70
60 to the drawing-room, the host broke
his grim silence at last - Psi
lis that your hat and stick in the
corner. sir"
Eyes," $500 Zoo .''i -H'.e''
"Then you. had better take them and
be gone at once" .-f. ..t D.
The crestfallen visitor obeyed, and
his introducer was about to follow,
when "true Thomas stopped him.
saying that T" he had done no wrong"
This recalls the story of worthy
Quaker who attempted to disarm we'll
known "bitter tongue" by inviting
him to dinner; but the backbiter,
while enjoying the good cheer, con-
tinued his abuse undated. The man
OF peace, after bearing it for time,
suddenly sprang upon his reviler, say.
ing: -'"
Friend, 1 have given thee o meat.
Offering and a drink offaring; and now"
he added, lifting him through the
open window into the street, +" I will
give thee heave- Offering" b. 'aA