West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-04-09
PERSONS iND rnINGS.


vet can't raise $50 600 for monument TO
Washington.
The Now York sun las stc pped ns
! frauu cry and is devoting lts co umns 20
/ the discussion Of servantcall,m
| Perhaps the "oljest Msson" In the
/ United Ssates in Elijah SNusuury, OF
baltimore. lie is in the ooh year of
his ego and tho sixty seventh OF Masonry.
I Fisher Amos, Of San Francisco, Is Prcr-
/ ident OF the association formed oy the
! graduate members OF the Della Kappa
/ Epstiou College fraternity on tic Paciic
cat
The Woman's Medical College of Phil
sdelphia has jus, launched nineteen f,-.
/ doctors upon the country, but the price
ef iu,o for back hair braid has not de
Clucd
Gambetta says that ''the strength Of tho
Freuch nation Ia In n great measure due
to tho thrifty habits OF the women" To
what then is due the prosperity OF tho
Uaitcd Siatcs2
Blaiuc has been having ofllce-scelSefs
about bin for only TWO weeks, hut already
exhibits an ineuimate acquaintance with
the subject Of hog cholera. H. Is very
quick man.
The wife of Secretary Window Ia the
daughter Of IA Congregational clergyman in
Massachusetts. In her youth shc was
teacher IN Ohio, and she now teaches her
own children.
EK-Pmsldmt Hays has sent $50 to
john VI. Unglaub, the engineer who had
charge OF the train on which he was
gnrg homo ON The 5h inst, and which
collldcd with another at Severn Slation.
An Elnhug genius bas just invent
cd a coulrivance for stopping runaway
horsos Il ooussts of pair of BLIND
era hy which the driver, ON pulling q cord
instantly blindfolds tho animal
telephone conversation At the longest
dietancc yet known 4lO milcs-was re-
c'utly carried on between Omaha, in
Nebraska, and 81 Louis u $. every word
was heard most clearly, and several songs
also.
Greenwood Cemetery the city OF the
dead on long Island, is tenanted by the
remains Of POS, 025 persJns. ThTo are 23,-
ljj lots that have been sold. There are
d02 vaults and 45 2s3 monuments and
hcadslonee, the cost of which must have
been many millions OF dollars
he ladies of 81 Louis, obtaining Sig
natures TO Il petition praying for the clos
ing OF theatorS ON Sunday, have black
list on which they put the names Of all
| "A tfrtu -. Ia
they can to divert trade from those peo
pie. Its kind OF "boycotting."
A reporter recently interviewed Pau
line Markham, who appears in the Black
Crook nightly in New York. He says that
while shc Ia terribly faded she still makes
up well and can talk fmartly on are lii
erature, and other interesting topics.
Pauline IS now about Go years OF age.
a Second Advent congregation OF
Greenwood Kan, have lost confidence In
their plslor because, while publicly avow-
iuga belief that the world would come 10
an end IN 1881, no secretly took u note for
five years on II loan Of 81 900. and dc
mandcl II per cent interest with ample
t,curi'y.
Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh, Simon Cam
erons daughter, is tall and graceful OF
figure, Those who know her intimately
say that she possesses IN marked degree
many of the characteristics which dglin-
Guish her father She has acquired the
faculty Of reading men and woman at
glance
Carlylc's love aud admiration for his
wife was great "Not all the Sands and
Eiots hc said, 'and babbliDg cohue Of
celebrated sbrlbhlng woman that have
tttutted oyer the word in my time could,
it seems b. ME, if ali boiled down and
dietilled int essence, make one such VIC
mau"
u. l. Whieos ten years residence in
Washington leads him 10 assert, i'm the
3 Providence Prcaa, that "a young man who
VIII be content to sweep our streets until
he can get better employment, has twice
, as many chances Of success 10 life as he
b who enters a Government dep etment
A salary Of si 200 year"
The Eastern band Of Cborokecs are still
people by themselves In North Carolina.
Their chief, Tsalaie, is co.amonly
known by The less aboriginal name of
Smith, and the tribe preserve none of the
t1rmcr charactersl.cs Of their race ex
cept laz ness, Tnty live in log houses
dr.s5 10 plain clothes, and live rather poor
iY BY farming.
a singular and romantic incident is re
ported from Waterloo: While party
Of American travellers we're recently visit
ing The battI,Geld, an iron box was found
hy ono Of them. l' contained the will Of
1000 E1n..ah officer Sir Charles O Neatly.
3 aud Dy 70 thc present heirs Of his fortune
tudIeuIy Gnd Themselves dispJssessed in
av1rof tlc children Of bic eldcs, son.
Rev George W. Glove sued the pro
puotor &C Ii'tc country newspaper pu, 81
HaHcI som ah re- in New York State for
900. which he claimed was due him for
cIing tao shee, for ten weeks. This was
certainly reasonable claim, considering
the enormous profits Of country papers,
' bat the jury ,hiuking his editing about
gu "a mar with his uroachiup aearJpd him