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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP.

An excellent hydraulic cement has been
made by mixing one ton of blast-furnace
slag-sand to one and three quarter tons of
chalk, and burning the whole in an ordinary
cement kiln.
Professor J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville,
Ky, in paper read last month before
the French Academy of Sciences, says that
the metorite which fell at Estherville, Iowa,
on May 10, 1879, should be placed apart for
the phenomena of its fall, especially the
force of penetration of its fragments into the
ground, and for the mode Of association of its
mineral constituents.
A riaeman who was at the battle of Ulundi
collected enough of the bullets fired at the
British by the Zulus at that place to make a
CRATE, fender, fire-irons, etc, of them. This
novel conversion of deadly missiles into a
model of peaceful fireplace, which is said
to have been done with taste and skill, has
been presented to the museum of the Natal
Society.
r. b. Watson has prepared a paper on the
mollusca of the Challenger expedition, de-
scribing and comparing thirty-fve species.
He makes the generalization that tempera-
ture even more than mere depths seems an
important condition in molluscan life, while
both prove barriers to distribution. Where
neither depth nor temperature intervenes,
there is no limit to distribution. He has not
been able to trace any special, lasting, and
rogresslve cha nge in the species.
A Brussel Company have produced CO.
lossol statute of Van Eyck by the deposition
of copper electrically upon the clay model.
The production of statuary on a small scale
may, it is said, be readily accomplished by
this process: Boil any plaster figure or
group in stearine, black-lead it, and then
plunge it into copper bath, to which very
weak battery is attached. When a thin
coating of copper is deposited, remove the
object from the bath and bake it in an oven
until all the plaster can be shaken out in
dust, leaving thin copper reproduction of
the model. Varnish this copper on the out
side so that when it is replaced IN the bath
all the copper deposited will be on the in
side, and the necessary thickness thus Sc
cured.
The statistics of suicide in France show that
nearly 5000 persons committed suicide last
year throughout France, which gives a per-
centage about double that of England; and
of these Paris had far more than her legiti-
mate proportion. The Partisan suicides stand
to those OF London, in respect of numbers, as
seven or eight to one, distributed according
to age. The most suicidal time of lite is still
between twenty-one and forty. Four men
destroy themselves to one woman. In pro-
portion to the population suicide is nearly
twice as common in town as in the country
The ratio is higher among artisans than peas
ants, and amongst the literally educated
classes, who work with the head, it is quite
double what it is amongst those who work
with the hand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
OUR GIANT,
HELEN ANGEL GOODWIN.

We have a giant In the house
And not a neighbor knows It;
For neither size nor glance nor strength
Nor surly manner shows IL.
His dimpled hand upon my arm
Is rosy, soft and waxen,
And bears no club he wears no beard;
His hair Is short and fiaxen.
He has two eyes and not tooth
Our strong one Is no ogre.
He wears instead OF SKINS and claws
A little Roman toga.
His voice is gentle as a doves,
His laughter is deIightful;
But cross his temper just bit,
His screams are long and frtghtful.
He eats and drinks the best we have
And offers not to pay us:
Indeed with Chinese wakefulness
We fear he means to slay US.
This giant does not like the dark;
Now Is that not surprising?
And though he never works bit,
Insists on early rising.
You can not walk, you can not talk,
You helpless little giant!
Your very life-ah here's your poweri
Is on our love reliant.
So take our love and toll and care
as long as you shall need us,
And we shall not go lar astray
With a little child to lead US.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
EXPRESSIONS.

A San Francisco Irishman challenged a
repeater VINO voted on a dead mans name,
"because, begorra," said he, "the man died in
the Fourth Ward, and We are after voting
him in the Third"
A little boy who accompanied his father
to the theater to see the play called Drink, "
asked his parent if it was thus called because
so many young men went out between the
acts.-NOrristown Herald.
A dime novel reader who went West to ex-
terminate a few Indians has not written home
for new crop of hair for two reasons-6rst,
ne hasn't enough money to buy postal
card; second, he is dead.-NOrristown Herald.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald says
that many man who doesn't smoke in this
world will have to IN the next. We should
like to have lecture from Colonel Ingersoll
on this topic What shall L do not to be
smoked P"-New York Commercial.
The first day after Leadville' man who
had always been too poor to afford anything
but whisky straight struck it rich, he went
in for mixed drinks and called for lemonade
with stick in it. And when he had his
glass reflled, he said: "Mr. Bartender, put
in whole woodpile this me."-Boston
Post.
A well-known parson who resigned the
hammer and tongs for the pulpit, was
preaching lately upon the text, ain my
| Fathers house are many mansions" In or
der to explain to his hearers the exact mean
ing of the original, he stated that ''mansions'
should rather be translated ''rooms" "There
are" said he, "rooms for EpiscopaliaHs,
Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Methodists,
and every other sect, and no doubt the Bap-
lists will find it a house with all modern i'm.
provements, and that the bathroom has not
been forgotten"-Troy Times.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Miss Sue Beatty has received the perma-
nent appointment of the Clarion County,
Pennsylvania Courts, as official stenographer.
She is said to be very proficient in her bust
ness, and her appointment is received with
general favor.
The novel is that part of the worlds truth
that can be decorated by woman. In those
countries where woman was a slave no novels
appear In the early Christian centuries,
when woman disappears in the background
no novels appear. When woman comes back
to the world novels appear agatn.-Professor
Swing.
If the agitation of the woman suffrage
movement continues, its adversaries may fin
ally be driven into the adoption of the effec-
tive and complimentary argument based on
the idea that the fair sex already possesses too
much power, that if the ladies were allowed
to vote they would be irresistible, and that
the only chance man has for relieving him.
self from utter and hopeless subjugatiOn is to
retain monopoly of the elective franchise.
It is rumored that if fate should doom
Kaiser Wilhelm to descend to the tomb of
his ancestors, and leave his throne to his
nominal successor, he will most probably be
succeeded, in fact, by courageous and Wig
orous ruler in the person of the Crown
Princess Victoria. She is reported to be q
woman of remarkably strong mind and
equally strong will, and it is said that she
has made the duties of her station matter
of profound study, keeping herself informed
most intimately upon political affairs.
Cash girls in New York stores are paid
dollar and half week; and if, SAYS a
writer in Harper's Magazine, they are honest,
diligent, neat in dress and prepossessing in
face they may be promoted to the positions
Of saleswomen, in which, if they add to the
previously mentioned qualities the tact that
brings a hesitating customer 20 conclude a
purchase, they may become worth ten dollars
a week after some years of experience. But
there are many girls of sixteen, seventeen
and eighteen years who are satisfied with
FIVE or six dollars, and six dollars is prob
ably above the average pay.
Our grafrdfathers were much more given
to elegiac memorials of domestic experience
than we are, and the wanderer through some
of the old grave-yards of Europe will be
amused, as we'll rs edited when he reads an
epitome of married life like this, for in
stance:-
Here rests nay spouse-no pair through life
So equal lived did,
Alike we shared perpetual strife
Nor knew rest till she did.
Or this, also CLEANED at old Gray Frisr's,
Edinburgh
Here snug in her grave my wife doth le
Now she's az rest-and 50 am l.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Anglican Bishop of Winchester has
issued a form of prayer for blessing on the
growing crops.
The minimum salary now paid to minis
tiers in the English Presbyterian Church is
81, 900. In consequence, the Synod receives
many applications for admission from other
denominations.
Father Chiniquy, of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada, since his conversion from
Romanism II years ago, claims that he has
been instrumental in the conversion of 2E 900
persons, including Is priests. He is now in
Australia.
The British and Foreign Bible Society, the
first to circulate Bibles in Mexico, has distrib-
uted no less than 100000 copies in that coun-
try A society has been established in Lon
don to collect money for the Church of Jesus
in Mexico, which was organized by the Prot
estant Episcopal Church.
The death is announced of Rev
Thomas Creigh, ID. d., well known Presby-
terrain minister. He was for nearly so years
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Mer-
cersburg, Penn, which was the only pastorate
he ever held He was member of the last
General Assembly at Saratoga.
An association composed of Legitimists and
Bonaparists, has formed itself into Com
mittee at Paris, to resist the French DEGREES
! againt the Jesuits. 1t consists of nineteen
members, and very likely would have been
larger but that the law forbids Associa-
tions having membership of twenty or
more 1t is headed by the Duke de la
| Rochefoucauld, and has for its avowed OBJ
| ject, "the defense of religious liberty, and OF
the rights of fathers of families" That
some Bonapartsts should have have hand
in the movement is looked upon as a repu-
diation by them of Prince Napoleon, who, as
well known, declined in public to oppose
The DEGREES.
According to Robert Collyer, good din
ner inspires q good sermon. at recent
banquet in New York ne said: ''When
Banks came out to Chicago to take the presi-
dency of the Illinois Central Railroad, they
got up great dinner and invited me, and L
remember what good time we had, and the
sermon that / wrote, which seemed to me to
strike fire, wrote that week. 1t was publish
ed and printed, and did great deal of good,
and l never told the secret until tonight.
Another reason why ministers should be in
vited to these dinners is illustrated by the
story of the caterer in Boston, who, when he
was preparing dinner for a number of
clergymen, was asked why he made such a
spread. His answer was: Those pious folks
eat awful ~ a
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
NOT WANTED.

NOT WANTED.
How doth the busy, busy Grant
Improve each shining hour,
And hit from Dan to Bersheba
To pluck the third-term flower.
From Greenland's icy mountains
To midas coral strand,
He bummeth up, he bummeth down,
He bummeth every land.
And yet the voter man, he thinks
That most prodigious smell
That chung about the second term
Would haunt the third as well.
And this Is why the voter man
Winks hard his dexter eye
And says: "If Useless rolls the crust
don't wankany pie"
Boston Post
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09
Work For Women.
baltimore Gazette.l

A writer presents a rather discouraging
picture of the trials of workingwomen in
New York, and as New York but reflects on
a larger scale the experience Of feminine
toilers in all cur large cities his statements
have general scope and significance. There
are ne admits many lucky women in New
York who are earning comfortable lIvell-
hood without special detriment to their
health; but, on the other hand there are
many more thousand "with no special abIl-
ity and no special value who toll and blind
themselves and wear themselves to death for
an unimaoinable incredible pittanee." This
is certainly most unpleasant declaration,
but further on the writer affords us a brighter
outlook when he shows that occupations for
women are becoming more and more nu-
merous and that the organized efforts
which are being made to aid them are
already having substantial results. The
Worxingwomen's Protective Union for
instance, which was established six
teen years ago, has accomplished a
most valuable work in protecting its men,
bers from imposition and fraud. In its prac-
teal operation the union has revealed a con-
dition Of things, however, which causes one
to shudder at the bare thought ofthe existence
of such universal inhumanity. Among those
who appeal TO it for protection and redress
are women who make shirts at thirty-six
cents per dozen and who taste meat but once
a month. And even these poor creatures are
defrauded by their employers. But for the
interpretation of the union they would be
forced to submit to the cruelest and most
stony-hearted imposition to their already
grinding poverty. When we turn to- other
trades the writer informs US that 'most OF
them are rot much easier or better remu-
nerated than serving for 'slOp-shOps'" There
is now very long list of occupations which
are open to women, but some of these are
dangerous to the operatives, others are mis-.
erably unremunerstive and all or nearly all
afford but little room for hope or encourage
ment TO the woman who is forced to earn
her living. In the higher branches of femi
nine industry the prospect is but little more
inviting. Comparatively few women, it Il
asserted. obtain decided success in art, anC
the great majority toll on at work which af
fords but slender margin indeed o
No Place for Sewing in tho Public School
IAndrews' American oueen.l
There are many foolish persons who advo
cate the teaching of sewing in our public
schools, and urge that this should be made
an important portion of the training Of girls
as being a matter of direct practical impor
lance. The absurdity of this recommends
ton ought to be too palpable to need srgu
ment The principal value of the school
not so much the requirement of knowledg'
as mental training-that development o
the faculties which enables the boy or glrl t
acquire the best general foundation for use
fulness. Special technical training is out
the province of the public school, and, wher
i. Is Necessary, --sso1-d be sought in the in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09

Feeble and exhausted constitutions re.
stored to health and strength by Malt Bit
ters.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
NORTHERN BuLL.DOz1NG!
A Case that BIackens the Here
toiOre Fair Name of Gallia
COuuty. Ohio.

Iron the Gallipolis Bulletin, Nov. 10th.
Peter Burns is a colored man, 81
years old, who lives with his aged
wife in Raccoon township. He is a
sagacious, highly respected old dark
ey Of independent notions on almost
all subjects, doing his own thinking
and calling no man master. AS
might be supposed, Peter is Demo
Graf and has on several occasions
turned outin Democratic professions,
and attended many Democratic meet,
ings, and no amount of white or col
ored persuasion or intimidation could
change his views. His infexibility
of purpose has on several occasions
called down upon him threats of
vengeance, and at various times when
he went to the polls has he been sub
ject to insult from both white and
colored Republicans. On the 18th Of
October he took his shot gun with
him to the polls, determined to pro.
teet himself! Sensible people looked
upon Peters movement only as an
idiosyncrasy and laughed at the idea
of it, but some white radicals, lower
in the scale Of intelligence, manhood
and gentility than the darkies them.
selves, sought to make a disturbance
out Of it, and declared they were not
prepared to see negro democrats com.
ing to the polls with their shot guns
and in every way infaned the pass
ions of Peters colored brethren
Democrats, fearing Peter might be
harmed, persuaded him not to go to
the polls Tuesday of last week with
his shot gun. but to leave il at home,
and If he was molested they would
see that he was not hurt. This he
consented to do. Monday before the
Presidential election he had been up
to Gentreville, and walking, he did
not get home till about dark, and af.
ter eating his supper laid down, be.
ing tired, earlier than common
Shortly after, darkey named Mon
roe Scott, came to the door and
knocked and was answered by Pc
ter's wife. Scott wanted to know if
Peter had got home yet. He was
told that he was at home and that be
was lying down. In few minutes
afterward the door was broken in and
Scott and four other darkies entered
and took the old man from his bed,
carlicd INN out Of doors and dragged
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
Rational Treatment, Positive
Cures,

Dr. R. v. Pierce, President Of The
Worlds Dispen$ary Medical Assoeia-
ton, is in earnest in selling his med.
icincs under positive guarantees, aud
If anybody who purchases and uses
any Of these widely celebrated rene.
dies, does not derive benefit there,
from. the Association would like to
hear from that person with descrip-
ton of symptoms and history of case.
Organized and incorporated, as the
Association is, to teach medicine and
surgery and for the successful treat
ment Of all chronic diseases and man.
aging annually thousands Of cases
through our original method Of dag,
nosis without ever seeing the pa.
tients, and having also the largest
sanitarium in the world for the &C.
commodation of the more complied.
ted cases, and also for surgical cases
the Faculty feel themselves prepsr.
ed to undertake even the most dis.
couraging cases. They resort to all
the best remedial means known tc
modern medical scicnce-neglecting
nothing. Address Worlds Dispen.
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N
Y, or Great Russell Street Build
ings, London, Eug.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
Trust Sale oGLot No. 4 ON seho.
Farm.

\ pursuance OF the tcrme and provisions
| Of deed Vi trust bearing date on The
LIST day OF May, 1874, and recorded in tho
Clerks Office OF the County Court Of Mason
county, West Virginia, IN trust deed book
No. 2, page $50, &c., executed by Robert
Edwards and Mary his wife, to the under.
signed trustee, to secure to A. l.. and Ed.
mund sehon the pHymcntofa certain bend
bearing date OIL the LIST day OF May, 1874.
executed by said Robert Edwards to sa{
A. L, and Edmund Sehon, for the sun q!
one hGndred ard fifty dollars, with inter:
est from date, and which note has been
assigned,to Levi Roush, and default having
been made in the payment OF said bond,
and the said Levi Roush, assignee IA atorc,
said, having required sale to be made,
shall, on the 11ih day of December,
1850, at the front door OF the Court
House OF Mason county, West Virginia.
proceed to sell by way OF public auction,
lot No. on the Sullon farm, lying on ths
South side OF the sehon Coal Company'a
Railroad, and Oh the East side OF the turn
pike road, said lot being so feet BY l40 feet,
and being fully describedin said thrust decd.
The title is believed to be good, but selling
as trustee l shall convey only such title AZ
is vested in me.
Terms OF Sale-C CAST.
JOHN W. ENGLISH,
nov.l04w. Trustee.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
TRUSTEES SALE
or a Valuable Lot OF Land In
the Town of Point E,ipasani.

DY virtue oftwo deeds Of trust, one trust
ID executed to John W. English, Trustee
by John Cooley, dated on the 9TH day "
January, 1878, TO secure to G. G. Miller
the payment Of two bonds OF even data
with said deed, executed BY John Cooley.
Tor the SUN OF $55O00 and $60O00 and
due and payable in one and two years ali
ter date, respectively, which sud decd 0f
trust Is duly OF record in Mason County
Court Clerks office in trust deed book No.
3 pages 3Sl, &c; the other trust executed
TO Rankin Wiley, Jr., Trustee, by John
Cooley and Elanor Cooley, his wife, dated
on the 18th day of March, 1870, to secure
ITO G. Q. KILLER the psymeEt Of two notes.
one note for $500 90 dated December l6lll
1877, with interest from date, TIE other
note IS for $4,000 with Interest ron date,
and dated the 18th day Of March, 1874.
which notes are due and payable twelyo
months after the dates thereof respective.
ly, which said deed Of trust il duly Of rec
ord i'll the Mason County Court Clerks
office, iirtrnst deed book No 1, page 20G,
&c, and default having been made in tho
payment Of all Of said notes according to
their tenor andeGect, and being requested
by Q. G. Miller, the holder and owner Of
said notes, the undersigned Trustees will
proceed to sell by way OF public auction, at
the front door OF the Court House in Ma
son county, West Virginia. on the 25th
dny Of November, 1850, the lot OF
land in said trust deeds described, beings
part Of lot No. II in the second tier Of tho
town lots in the town Of Point Pleasant.
fronting l25 feet on Main street, and
bounded on the South by 9Th street, on tho
East by the NJ. L. Church, and Oh the
North by g. Shrewsberry's lot.
The above lot Of land has valuable i'm
provements on 1t.
Terms OfSule- Cash in Hand.
JOHN W. ENGLISH,
RANKIN WILEY, JR,
oct. 27-lw Trustees.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
from The Kanawha Gazettc.l
Letter From Tie Swiss Colony,

FAYErTE COUNTY, w. Va, Nov. 6.
Having been requested by you to
write on our colonization interests
for your valuable paper, submit the
following facts, and trust that our
West Virginia papers will beas ready
to vindicate the interests of the Srate,
AS outsiders and even some who re,
side in the Valley, arc TO traduce her
and her people.
We have just eeen a copy Of the
Berner Post, published at Bern, Swift.
erland, in which was produced an
article taken from the Nc1o Yorker
Stats Zcitung, (the largest and most
influential German paper published
in America), under date Of July IL,
1880. The Stats Zeitung claims to
have taken the article from the An.
:iger dcS Westes, published at St.
Louis.
The article in question is an infa
nous attack against Swiss settling
in West Virginia, saying: Thatlands
are unproductive, &c; that no per
son could make living from the soil;
that the people were a set Of "poor
.0httetraSh, there's and cut threats; that
innocent settlers were charged 81 to
$40 for unimproved lands, &c. The
article is interspersed with glowing
accounts of the West. The most mis-,
cradle charge was as follows: THAT
there was only one Swiss family in
the Kanawha Valley, located in a
section known as Loup Creek, that
the family was shamefully treated;
the husband lynched because he al.
lowed his wife to work" You can
readily see what effect such articles
must have, not only in this country
but also abroad
We have letters to show that in
New York there is regularly or
ganized movement to divert people
from coming here. We have also
evidence that hardly do the immi.
grants leave the steamer before they
are questioned if they are going
South or not. If so, everything that
can be is done TO keep them back
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-17
.Judge RobertS RroHn,

We believe it is now settled BY the
official returns that this gentleman
has been elected Judge ofthis Circuit,
and print a tabular statement of the
vote of the Circuit. From the high
standing Of Judge Joseph Smith and
MAJOR H. c. Flesher, for learning
and ability, and both living in this
county, it was expected that Mr.
Fleming, of Gilmer county, would
have a plurality Of votes over either
competitor, and we regard Judge
Browns election under the circum.
stances as very high compliment.
-RdrsnsyooA Neps.