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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12
A Question OF Time.

On his way to his apartments he
stopped under the window of a pawn
broker on Sixth avenue, and with vio-
lent knocking and shouts attracted the
attention of that estimable tradesman,
who, putting his head out of the win
dow, irefully asked the business Of his
visitor. 81 want to know the time, F."
cried the man. What do you mean
by waking me up to ask such stupid
question ?" roared the pawnbroker.
Stupid question I" howled the man,
clinging to the lamp-post; 81 like that.
Where else should / ask for the time
haven't You got my watch ?"-Near Fork
How.
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NEWS EPITOME.
Eastern and Middle States.

MRS GowEN SPENCE, the wife OF wealthy
leweler in Newark, n J., has just received news
of the terrible death of her brother, Frank J..
Wright, in Colorado. The young man was q
lawyer in Washington and in May last he went
to Colorado to attend to land claim for client
He was induced to purchase an interest In
gold mine, and after buying some mules
started With a servant on prospecting tour in
the mountains. party of vigilantes met him,
charged him with having stolen the mules, and
hanged him and his servant
THE italian bark Agneo, from Antwerp to
New York, went ashore a few days ago of
Coney Island, and the captain and nine men, all
Italians, were drowned. The ship carpenter
and three other men on board cut their throats
when they made up their minds that they could
not be saved. One man, an old sailor, chung to
the wreck and was rescued by the crew of
life-saying station
A FIRE at Danville, Pa. destroyed the entire
female wing and one-half of the male wing OF
the State asylum for the insane, large and
handsome structure which has been in process
of erection the last eleven years and cost the
State about s6vJ, 900. There were 1874 patients
in the institution when the fire broke out, and
for time there was great scene Of excite
ment but all succeeded in getting away fl 10
the burning building.
A LARGE meeting has been held in Brooklyn
to express sympathy for Ireland
GOVERNOR LUDLOW, Of New jersey, has vetoed
the bill providing for the employment of pris-
oners to work on public roads,
A CREMATION society has been organized in
New York
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Western and Southern States,

JAMES JoURDAN, a saioon-keeper, shot and
fighter, at Bisbee, Arizona
A LARGE coal field has been discovered in
Arizona
By collision between freight train and a
material train on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road near Caldwell Va, the two engineers and
two iremen and DR.. Caldwell, of the White
Sulphur Springs, were killed.
Two Cinnamon were killed and five Chinamen
and two white men were injured by an explosion
IN the Eureka blasting powder works near Oak
land, Cal.
AN explosion of gas in a coal mine at Almy
wyoming Territory, resulted in the death OF
about thirty-fve Chinese and two white work
men, and serious injuries to fifteen or twenty
more Cinnamon.
As the special train on which ex-President
Hayes and his family and friends left Washing
on for their home in Ohio was within few
miles of Baltimore it collided with train con-
slstinS of two engines and seven empty passen-
ger cars going south. Two mcn-J. Wyman
Young, of Shamokin Pa, who was in Pull
man car which he had chartered for himself
and friends, and John Oliver, the baggage-mae-
ter-were killed almost instantly, and twenty
persons-eleven passengers and nine train
men-were injured, some dangerously The
fifth coach contained Mr.. Hayes and family, and
when the crash came it threw Mrs Hayes and
several other members of the party to the foo,
without injuring them, while the ex-President's
chair simply shot forward a few feet AS coon
as the shock had passed Mr. Hayes, after as
certaining that no one of his party was injured,
got off the train and ran to the front, where,
with his sons, he was active in assisting the
wounded The ex-President's party was taken
to Baltimore and late in the evening proceeded
westward.
JUDGE JAMES ". McDILL, Of Iowa, one OF
the three street railway commissioners has been
appointed by Governor Geer 10 fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of United States Sen.
ator Kirkwood, appointed secretary of the inte-
rior. Judge McDill was 2 member of the
Forty third and Forty fourth Congresses, serving
from December l, 1873, to March 8, 1877
A San Francisco dispatch says it is supposed
the whaling steamer Mary and Helen, and the
general opinion in marine circles is that the
vessel has been bought for the purpose of send
ing her to the Arctic sea in search of the jean
nette exploring expedition, from whchno news
has been received in long time.
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From Washington.

IT has been decided by the encouragement
that white man cannot legally be enlisted in a
colored regiment.
The director of the mint reports the r-oduc-
ton of the precious metals during the year end
ing June 80, $780, at $50, ZOO, 900 gold, SIS, 200,
600 silver; total, SIS, 1000
The Senate in executive session confirmed al
Of President Garfield's nominations of cabinet
officers without delay.
The members of the new cabinet, with this
exception of Postmaster General James, quail
fed before Chief Justice Carter of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, and entered
upon the duties of their Office. Postmaster
General James qualified before Judge Lawren.
sen who acts as notary public for the post
Office department.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD nominated OK -Secretary
of the Navy Nathan Golf, Jr, to be United
States district attorney for the District of Wes,
Virginia, his position previous to entering the
Hayes cabinet.
The following nominations by President Gar
field have been confirmed by the Senate: Ex-
Secretary of the Navy Golf to his former post as
district-attorney of West Virginia; John L.
Trisbee to be consul at Rheims and Lewis Rich
mond. of Rhode Island to be consul general at
Rome.
The following nominations of United States
consuls have been made by the President:
Rhanar NJ Elder, of Nevada, at Guayaquil; Al
bert Rhodes of the District of Columbia, at
Ronen; Edward Backus, of Illinois at Para
Emilio Courtado at La Union; John A. Halder-
man, of Kansas, at Bangkok; Abbott L. Dow
at Alepe, India; John F. Jeune, of New Jersey,
OF Neuvo Laredo
SOME one from New York city has sent 500
to the treasury conscience fund.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MAovKAoH.

Wayne Macyeagh, of Pennsylvania, was born
at Phenixville, Pa, in 1888, and is son-in-
the war he served as major of a cavalry regi-
ment but was compelled to resign his com
mission on account of i'll health. He is sue
cessful lawyer, but has figured only rarely in
public life, serving one term in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature and being q member of the
last constitutional State convention. In 1870
Mr.. MacVeagh was appointed to the Turkish
mission, which, however, he only held for a
very brief space of time. He came most promi-
nently before the public in 1877, when he was
the directing spirit of the famous Louisiana
commission sent by Mr.. Hayes to New Orleans,
and which resulted in the recognition of the
Nichols legislature and the withdrawal of
Packarl's claims
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THERE has been another terrific snow-stor7n


throughout Great Britain.
HALF of the town of Casamacciola, in Ischia.
an island in the Mediterranean. has been
destroyed by an earthquake Many of the in
habitants were killed or injured.
ACCORDING to a census recently taken the
population Of the German empire numbers
10, 1914, 172 souls.
SWITZERLAND has experienced heavy shocE
of earthquake.
NINE vessels have been lost ON the Aberdeen
shire coast, Scotland and about 100 peraor rs
have been drowned
TH'RrY-FIyE persons have died of the plague
in Kerbela, Nedjef and Diagra, n the province
of Bagdad Precautions have been taken 10 10.
calizo the epidemic.
The loss of life by the earthquake on the
island of Ischia in the Mediterranean is appalI.
ing. Three hundred houses have fallen at Cas-
amacciola. One hundred and twenty corpse.
have been recovered and 179 wounded have
been sent to the hospitals Fissures were
opened in the streets fifty centimeters wide
Many people fed from the town and encamped
in the fields
BALLOON carrying an aerOnaut and eight
passengers assembled from Nice, France, and
rising to a great height was driven far out ia
SEA- Finally the balloon descended swiftly and
was carried along the surface of the water for
nearly mile. Three of the passengers fell ou!
of the car and were drowned The balloon rose
again and land was reached the next morning.
MEssRs. PHIPsoN, Wybrant and Carl Mears.
members of the British expedition attempting
to cross Central Africa, have been murdered by
the natives
UNDER the provisions of the coercion act the
lord lieutenant of Ireland signed forty war
rants, and twenty-three arrests were made in
various parts of the country, the prisoners being
forwarded to the jail in Dublin. Wherever tho
arrests were made there was intense excitement
immense crowds gathered and the military
were held in readiness for an outbreak. One of
the arrested men, Michael P. Boyton claimed
to be an American citizen.
DURING an exciting debate in the house of
commons physical row was for time immi-
nent. The upshot of the affair was that Mr. DON
nell, the member for Dungarven, was s'naned' y
by the speaker and compelled to retire.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12
The weight of the human brain. &C.

The weight of the human brain, ac-
cording to a recently published work
by the eminent Munich atatomist, Pro-
lessor Bischoff, is, on an average, 1862
grammes for man and 1919 grammes for
women. The difference between the
average brain-weight of men and women
amount to 153 grains or 1859 per cent.
The brain-weight of man exceeds that
of all animals except the elephant "a, 500
grains), and the larger cetace@ $500
grains). The brain-weight of the largest
ape is hardly third of mans. Profess
sor B.schoff has worked with eonsid-
cradle amount of material; his data
comprise the weights of brain of $50
men and 347 women.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing
you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet; that
constant drain that is taking from your system
all its former elasticity, driving the bloom from
your cheeks; that continual strain upon your
vital forces rendering you irritable and fretful,
can easily be removed by the use of that mar
velous remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and
distractions of your system are relieved ct
once while the special cause of periodical pain
are permanently removed. VIII you heed thus
See "Truths."
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Foreign News.

IT is stated on the highest authority that the
'trichinosis fright in England is hoax set going
for stock jobbing purposes, and that tho Eng
lish government does not intend to take any
steps with reference to the importation of Amer
loan pork.
JousERT, the leader Of the Boes In South
Africa, declares he is ready to treat for peace
with the Britisb, but only on the basis Of indie
pendeuee
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rPottstown Daily Ledger.l

A Michigan journal relates the follow
ing: Amos James, Esq, proprietor OF
the Huron house, Port Huron, Mich,
suffered SO badly with rheumatism that
he vas unable to raise his arm for three
months. Five bottles of st. Jacobs Oil
cured him entirely.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12
The Greatest Discovery of the Age.

For over thirty-four years
DIR. TOBIAS'S VENETIAN LINTGENT
has been warranted to cure Group, Colo, Spasms,
DiarThea and d sentery taken internally, and Sore
Throat, Pains i'll the Limbs, Chronic rheumatism.
Old Sores Pim}ies. Blotches and Swellings, eNter-
naly, and not bottle has been returned many fam
lies stating they would not be without it even If i
was $40 bottle. Sold by druggists at % and 50
cents. Depot, IL Murray Street. New York.
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Hutchinson Champion.l
No Benefit.

An Indiana newspaper thus writes:
Mr.. George F. Helderle, of Peru, Ind,
says that he had suffered very much with
rheumatism and used many remedies
without benefit. He found the desired
relief in st. Jacobs Oil
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to be
made of wonderful foreign roots, barks, ETC.,
and pulled up by long bogus certificates of pre-
tended miraculous cures, but a simple, pure,
effective medicine made of well-known valu-
able remedies, that furnishes its own certificates
by its cures We refer to Hop Bitters, the
purest and best of medicines. See Truths :"
and Proverbs" in another column.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

In Chicago there are 5,420 factories
and workshops, 7,411 stores and 1,779
miscellaneous places, employing alto
gether about 125, 135 men, women and
children,
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

Egypt has a debt of 5000, 000,0 900,
which is owned by capitalists in Eng
land and France, who receive an annual
interest of S27, 900, 900.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HUNT

Judge William H. Hunt, of Louisiana. the
new secretary of the navy, is by birth a South
Carolinian. He removed to Louisiana with his
father while yet boy. He has ever since
made his esidenee chiefly in that State. He Is
in the famous Durell case and was the attorney
general under Packard in 1877. President
Hayes appointed him TO a judgeship in the
court of claims, May 10, 1875 a position which
he has held ever since.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

A New York ice company has cut 3Oo,-
900 tons of ice on the Hudson. The
biggest cold feat on record.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

Twenty years ago an iron theater was
shipped to Australia, from England, in
convenient sections, so as to be put up
easily on arrival there.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

Popular trial shows the worth Of every ar
hcle; and thirty flour years constant use has
proven the great efficacy Of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup; it has no superior.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

Do not Despond. 49,
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure VIII
drive off the worst attack of "blues."
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SECRETARY OF WAR LINCOLN.

Robert Todd Lincoln, of Illinois, the new sec
rotary ofwar, is the only surviving son of the
late President Lincoln, of Iowa. He was born
in Springfield, ILL.,, and is about thirty-seyen
years of age. He served in the war as captain
on the staff of General Grant After his fathers
assassination Mr.. Lincoln went to Chicago,
where he studied law and has practiced there
ever since his admission TO the bar. He is a
graduate of Harvard, and was delegate to the
Chicago convention, but gave up his seat to
make room for Stephen A. Douglass, Jr.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

The only disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.
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posTn1AsTER-GENERAL uAMEs.

Thomas J. james, OF New York, the new post
mastergeneral, was born at Utica, n Y, in
1881, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed
to Mr.. Wesley Bailey, editor of the Liberty
Press. In 1851 he purchased the Madison
County Journal, which he edited for ten years
He was for short term collector of canal tolls AZ
Hamilton, but in 1861 came to New York, beeom-
ing inspector of customs under Collector Hiram
Barney in 1861, and in 1864 weigaer. In 1869
Mr.. James was appointed deputy collector in
charge of the third division, embracing the
warehouse department. He was appointea
postmaster of New York city by General Grant
in 1872, and has held that position ever since
declining the postmaster-genera which OK
President Hayes offered him upon the resi8
nation of Mr. Key last Mav.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12

| ITCHING PILES. If your druggist hasn't Aunt
l. Betsy's Green Ointment, and you wish sure
relief from Piles Itching or otherj, send 2:Jc in
money or stamps to Z. P. FURLONG, 2 Murray St
y. y, and you viii receive by mail box full sizei
OF "A, b.. q. Ointment and the finest selection OF
advertising cards, chromOs puzzle cards ever issued
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-03-12
THE NEW CABINET.

The following is sketch of the lives Of the
members of the cabinet nominated by Presi-
dent Garfield:
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veryd esr works of
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HOW We GAN GIVE THEM AWAY.

These pictures made premiums be given with
Tae AIitne journal published for Sc per
year AS knows The A9s failed it through
our agent that the whole edition of these chromos
secured at bankrupt II is only this that
could offer these pictures premiums with Every
who remembers will what would be hs
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sEcRETARY on THE INTERIOR KIRKwoor

Samuel ]. Kirkwood of Iowa, the new secre-
tary of the interior was born in Hartford
county, Nd, December 20, 1918, received an
academic education in Washington City, and
druggists clerk till, in 1885, he removed to
Richland county, o., where he studied law
being admitted to the bar in 1843 He was for
four years prosecuting attorney of the county
and in 1850 served in the constitutional con-
yention, being member of the judiciary COM
mittee. Removing to Iowa in 1866 Mr. Kirk
wood engaged in business at Iowa City as a
farmer and miller In 1856 he was elected to
the State senate, and in 1859 chosen governor
being twice reelected. In 1866 he was elected
to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the appointment of Senator James
Harlan to the department of the interior, serv-
ing single term. In 1875 he was again elected
TO the goyernorship, and on the fourth of March,
1877, began his second term in the United States
Senate
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SECRETARY OF SLAVE BLAINE.


James Gillespie Blaine, Of Maine, the new
secretary Of state, was born in Washington
county, Pa, January 81, 1880, being the great
grandson of Ephraim Blaine, Washington's
commlssary- general He studied first at an
ONO school, then at Washington Presbyterian
college, from which he was graduated about
1917, mead of his class Going west to Ken
lucky he taught school at Georgetown, and was
professor at the Western Military academy:
there he married, his wife being Miss Harriet
Stanwood. In 1858 he turned eastward, and
going to Augusta, Me-, became editor of the
hen1iebec Journal, and for brief interval OF
the Portland Advertiser. He was elected to the
State legislature in 1857 and served five years.
during two of which he was speaker. In 1862
he was sent to Congress, becoming speaker in
1869 on Mr.. Celfax's elevation to the Vice
Presidency, Ee held the speakership until the
Democrats obtained control of the House in
1870, and in 1877 was elected to the Senate.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WINDOW.
William Window, of Minnesota, the new Sec
rotary OF the treasury, was born in Belmont
county. Ohio, May 10, 1897, received an
academic education and studied law at Mount
Vernon, where he practiced until his removal
to Minnesota in 1856, being elected prosecuting
attorney for Knox county in 1852. He was
elected from Minnesota to the Thirty-sixth
Congress and served in the House of Represent
atlves five terms, being appointed to the Senate
ID july 1870, to fill the unexpired term of
Daniel S. Norton, deceased. He was elected TO
the Senate In 1871 and reelected in 1877,
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A LIENS Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility 4
IA Weakness % Generatiye Organs, Sian druggists
Send for Cir. to Aliens pharmacy. 81 3 st Ave "
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DIVORCES. in any State, without publicity
~ Send stamp for the law. g. r. SINS, Chicago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-09-17

The 'Fhae S,Ndn shirt, uniaundried, 81, the
best thing made, patent back very cheap and
very good shirt. Look at 1t at Fiske & Beem's
Fancy shirts. dress Shirts shirts for boys, night
shirts, Sr.. at Fiske Il Beems.
The celebrated Eager overall. the best overall
for laborers In the market only 65 cents at Fiske
Il Beemt
The hat and cap department at Fiske 4 Beem's
is ahead as usual full Of new goods In all STYLES
and for all men, boys and children. Goods at
all prices aud all prices the lowest tor the quail.
ty Of goods.
Mothers aud fathers with boya to clothe should
examine the stock OF boyss and children's cloth.
Ing at Fiske Beem's. This Is unquestionably
the largest and best selected stock In tho county.
All ages clothed at wide range Of prices, and
cheaper than mothers can make the same clothes.
Call and see.
Fske n Becm's department Of mems furs,
robes, gloves, caps, &c, is now ready. with lots
OF goods, and better goods for the money than
were ever shown here before.
ovERcoATs
For fall and winter at Fiske & Beem's-an i'm.
mense and very cheap stock.
Call II, Fiske & Beem's and see the biggest
stock OF mems and boys goods ever opened In
Ottawa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-09-17
Heating Apparatus.
BOOTH A KENDALL,

1t will soon be time to buy stoves-u n nosc
for we are selling n goodly number. You all
want Tor ought to get the stove that will for the
least money last longest and give the most heat
for the least amount Of fuel lastly. you want
handsome stove, and one can hardly find a
homeiy one made in 1881. TO cover all these
points, we claim the "SrLESplp' for 1881 stands
prs.erMNent.
II does cost less than other base burners of
corresponding size.
II ,oiN and does last longer than any base
burner YET invented.
II does throw more heat than any other ex-
tsnt. Why7 Because it has triple base (pat' d)
against any other base burner double one,
thereby increasing it's radiating surface 40 per
cent. For beauty it stands the peer Of any stove
ever placed on the market. Over l25. 900 in nc
tual use to-day and never q person dissatisfied.
More than you can say Of any other stove by
odds.
For soft GOAL we show as the best nnyohsre"
the Garland" 1881 can also give you few
"Dauntless" and "Argands" cheap.
Best line Of cooks in the city, for the trade
tells US 20.
Now don't be talked to death" by any one,
but 90 and look at Booth & Kendsll's stock Of
stoves and If you can't take their word on the
workings Of the splendid after you have seen
the mechanism of it, step out on the street and
ask any one how they like the Splendid
won't have to ask more than the second person
before you will receive the answer: at is the
finest stove in tho world it is perfection il is
SPLENDID"