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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-15
FOR SALE.

For Sale or Rent.
TINE PROPERTY FORMERLY OWNED By
i the Messrs. PHILLIPS, as foundry and ma
chine shop. located on the river bank above the
city water works, on the line OF the p, w. X.
R.. on which there is a large two-story brick
building, containing steam engine, boiler and
two line OF excel. nj shafting pullevs and patent
hangers (all new. besides other out.buildings.
The property could be adapted for different
manufacturing purposes, such as glass works,
pottery, furniture or wagon shop The price is
very low; the terms liberal
Apply personally, or by letter to
ALEXANDER BONE,
General Business and Real Estate Agent, 1918
Market ST., Crang!e's Block. spl2a
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TRANSPORTATION.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati { St. Louis

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ROUTE
Time table fer East and West March Is, 1851.
Trains leave Panhandle Depot loot OF Eleventh
.sreet, near public landing. daily, exospt Bun.
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At same time and place will be sold:
One Cow.
One Express Wagon.
One Buggy.
One lot Farming Tools.
One Bedstead and Mattress. -
anti LEWIS II'NSFORD.
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A Splendid Opportunity
@OO~ E"-@ --SH@"
Louisiana State Lottery Company.

To win q fortune. Fifth Grand Distribution,
Glass E at New Orleans, Tuesday, MAY 10Th,
lSSl-lS2d Monthly Drawing.
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Executors Sale.

THE UNDERSIG NED, EXECUTORS OF wM.
NJ. Lunsford, deceased, will on Friday,
the 18th day of April, 1881. on he premises oc.
cupied by Lewis Lunsford. in Leatherwood,
Ohio county, W. Va sell at public auction, for
cash the following described property. VIZ:
Lot numbcrei six 10y in LeatherwoOd men,
toned In the will Of said Vim. NJ. Lunsford.
Six shares of the stock of the Citizens Street
Railway OF Wheeling.
One carriage and one carriage harness.
One cart and one cart harness.
One horse. Sale u commeaee at 10 O'Clock
AN o l.. HOLIDAY,
q. LAMB,
Executors.
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TO CLEVELAND
ONLY 5 Hours and Is Minutesl
TO CHICAGo-only Is Hour!

steubenville accommodation leaves Bellaire at
445P NJ, Bridgeport at 500, and arrives at steu-
benville at 6:05 r.
Leaves Steubenville at $50 A. NJ, Bridgeport
at $3.50 A. n. arrive at BellAire at 9:05 A.. n.
Tickets and baggage checks to all principal
points In the East and West can be procured 1T
the ticket Office in Bridgeport Y. A. FORD,
nol7 General Passenger d Ticket AHen'.
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GRAYS SPECIFIC MEDICINE.

X The Great
English Rene
Us. AauAfail.
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seminal Weak
ness SpprmS-
toT~hes, lInDO-
tU,y, and all
Diseases that
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I or NJ. A. DAUFHIN 1T NO. OH BrOauWHy, NEW
| York.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are un.
| der the supervision and management Of Generals
| a. Il, Rearregard and Jubal A. Early. apis
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acc week In your own town. Terms and e
300 ousft free. Address ". HkiJ"rr a Co
Portland, Maine. octiEr
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
NO NJ

sense, and turning the child right side
up, proceeds to put ii to rights, takes
the kinks out of its tail and the knots
out of its fur, pokes her fingers into its
ears and looks at each of its toes, the
irrepressible brat all the time wearing
on Its face an absurd expression of hope
less and ineurable grief, those who. have
already been cleansed looking on with
delight at the screaming farce, and those
who are waiting wearing a becoming
aspect of enormous gravity.
The old lady, however, has her joke,
which is to cuff each youngster before
she lets 1t so, and nimble as her Off
springs are, she generally, to her credit
be 1t said, manages to "fetch them one
on the ear" before they are out of reach.
The father, meanwhile, sits gravely
with his back to all these domestic
matters, waiting for breakfast. Present
ly the mats before the hut doors are
pushed down, and the women, with
brass vessels in their hands, come out,
and while they scour pots with dust,
exchange, between songs, the compli-
ments of the morning.
The monkeys by this time have come
closer to the preparation for food, and
sit solemnly, household by household,
watching every movement. Hindoos
do not hurry themselves in anything
they do, but the monkey has great
patience, and in the end when the
crowd has stolen little, and the dog
has his morsel, and the children are all
satisfied, the fragments of the meal are
thrown out on the ground for the
"blunder orgue," the monkey people,
and it is soon discussed, the mother
feeding the baby before she herself eats.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
A Set of Teeth on their Travels.

From Middletown, Orange county, N.
Y, comes a most remarkable story. On
the 9Th of January, 1868, maiden lady
at that place swallowed a new set of
false teeth, which became separated from
the rubber mould in which they had
been set, while mastigating her food.
Before she could eject the food from her
mouth the teeth had gone down into
her stomach. The family physician
was summoned, but all his efforts were
unavailing. The teeth caused her no
discomfort and in short time the
matter was entirely forgotten. A few
days ago Miss Cole, the lady in question,
felt sharp pain near her left shoulder,
and upon examining the spot found
what appeared to be a wen under the
skin. With the aid of a penknife she
extracted a hard substance, which proved
to be tooth. She was at loss to know
how the tooth came to be in such an
unusual spot till she suddenly recollect-
ed that she had, twelve years ago,
swallowed her set of teeth. During the
past four days the lady has been cutting
teeth all over her body and at last
accounts recovered twelve of the four
teen teeth that had formerly constituted
her full set. She is anxiously awaiting
the arrival of the other two. She has
placed the teeth in glass case and will
keep them as momentoes.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
Some Very Able Stories.

THE Carson City (Nev.) appeal in a
i recent issue says: Yesterday after
noon, when the lawyers in Justice
Cary's court were waiting for the verdict
in petty larceny case, Attorney Soder-
berg related an incident of his early
childhood in Minnesota, illustrative of
the peculiar customs in vogue in that
State.
knew an old farmer there who
owned ten acres of timber land where
millions of pigeons came each year to
roost. They devastated the wheat fields,
and the old coon used to catch the birds
in nets and thrash them out on the
barn floor. Each bird had three ounces
of wheat in his crop and 1t was bad
year for odd Thompson when he
couldn't ship thousand bushels of
wheat to market at $500 bushel, and
1t ranked A No. l when it reached the
Chicago elevator. If there had been
few millions more of the pigeons he
would have come pretty near getting a
corner in the Minnesota wheat CROP"
81 know a planter down in Ala
bama," said Kittrell, "who was fully as
sharp as that. He trained an alligator
to work up and down the river and
catch the little piccaninnies that played
along the bank. The alligator would
take the little kids in his jaws and swim
back to the plantation. 1t was dull
day that he couldn't corral three or
four. The planter raised 'em carefully,
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26

and when they got big sold 'em in New
Orleans at prices ranging from three to
ten thousand apiece. He was rolling In
wealth when Lincoln's emancipation
proclamation was issued, and after that
the alligator never did more work. The
man is now barely keeping body and
soul together in Washington, clerklng
in one of the government bureaus at
eight thousand a year"
Judge Cary evidenced the greatest
interest in these wierd tales, and edged
up to the group.
These are curious yarns, gentlemen.
but believe them all. 1 had a dog
once back in Nebraska, that 1 kept to
herd lumber"
Beg pardon, judge; did you say the
dog herded lumber ?'
&C Yes, sir, cottonwood boards. We.
always kept dog there to bring in the
lumber at night"
Everybody now paid the closest at
tention, as they knew that the boss was
at work.
1t was this way. Cottonwood boards
warp like thunder in the sun. A board
would begin to hump its back up about
nine in the morning, and in half an
hour it would turn over. By eleven it
would warp the other way by the heat
and make another flop. Each time it
turned 1t moved couple of feet, always
following the sun toward the west. The
first summer lived in Brownville over
ten thousand feet of lumber skipped out
to the hills the day before had adver-
tised house raisin'. 1 went to the
county seat to attend law suit, and
when got back there wasn't stick of
timber left. 1t had strayed away into
the uplands. An ordinary board would
climb two-mile hill during hot week,
and when it struck the timber it would
keep wormin' in and out among the
trees like garter snake. Every farmer
in the State had to keep shepherd dogs
to follow his lumber around the country,
keep it together, and show where it was
in the morning. We didn't need any
fumes there for lumber. We sawed it
east of the place we wanted to use it,
and let it warp itself to its destination !;
with men and dogs to head it off at the
right time, we never lost stick. Well,
here comes the jury" continued the
judge. The witnesses lied so L guess
they will disagree"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
The Monkey In Its Domestic Relations.

IN India, where the monkeys live
i among men, and are the playmates
of their children, the Hindoos have
grown fond of them, and the four hand
ed folks participate in all their simple
household rites. In the early morning,
when the peasant goes out to yoke his
oxen, and the COW wakes up, and the
dog stretches himself and shakes off the
dust in which he slept last night, the
monkey creeps down from the peepul
tree, only half awake, and yawns and
looks about him, puts a straw in his
mouth and scratches himself contem-
platingly. Then one by one the whole
family come slipping down the tree
trunk, and they all yawn and look
about and scratch. But they are sleepy
and peevish, and the youngsters get
cuffed for nothing, and begin to think
life dull. Yet the toilet has to be per-
formed, and whether they like 1t or not,
the young ones are sternly pulled up,
one by one, to their mother to undergo
the process. The scene, though repeat
ed exactly every morning, loses nothing
of its comicality, and the monkey-brats
seem to be in the joke of "taking in"
mamma. But mamma was young her.
self not very long ago and treats each
ludicrous affectation of suffering with
the profoundest unconcern, and as she
dismisses one "cleansed' youngster with
cuff, stretches out her hand for the
next ones tail or leg in the most busi-
ness like and serious manner possible.
The youngsters know their turns
quite we'll. AS each feels the moment
arrive it throws itself on its stomach, as
If overwhelmed with apprehension, the
others meanwhile sitting their satisfac-
ton at the way $50 and so is doing it,"
and the instant the maternal paw is
extended to grasp the tail, the subject of
the next experiment utters piercing
shrek, and throwing its arms forward
in the dust, allows itself to be dragged
along limp and helpless carcass, wink
ing all the time, no doubt, at its brothers
and sisters at the way 1t is imposing on
the old lady.
But the old lady will stand no non-
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26

understand or know the meaning of one
word o. that. 1t put me up to all I
know to take it in myself. But just let
that Presbyterian young un grow up,
and every word of that catechism will
come back to her, and her character will
stiffen up under her, and she'll have the
backbone of the matter in her for life.
/. Now, can't put things into my
children that way. Nothin' don't stay,
somehow. IT'S like drivin' nail into
rotten log
This last remark | never forgot
For thirty years afterward, as 1 would
stand at the blackboard trying to fix
rules and principals In the mind of a
dull pupil, this remark would come back
to me with its peculiar pertinency.
" L tell you, my brethren,' he contin-
ued, ''if our young 'uns studied the cat
echism more, and the Presbyterian a
little less, it would be better for both"
Then we don't pray in our families
like they do. 1 know their prayers are
mighty long, and they pray all over
creation ; but, after all, it's the right
way. It's better than prayin' too little.
Now, my father and mother was
good Baptists, and raised their children
to be honest and industrious but nev-
er heard one of them pray in my life,
and was most a grown man before L
ever prayed prayer myself, and 1t was
on this wise
There was big meetin' over in
Elbert county and L know'd pretty
gal over thar that 1 wanted to go and
see. So borrowed little Jersey wag-
in which was stylish thing in them
days, and went over to her house and
stayed all night, and engaged her to ride
to meetin' with me the next day, which
was Sunday.
We went, and had a glorious time
and may as well say right here that she
was afterward my wife-but a comm
home l met with powerful accident,
that I've never got over to this day.
AS was comm down steep hill some
part of the gearin' give way, and let me
and the wagin' on my creturs' heels !;
anu peih youhB anu sheeTy3 anu uOU
much used to wheels, she wriggled and
kicked and tore from one side of the
road to the other, till was pitched head
foremost as much as ten foot, into deep
gully, and its a miracle of mercy that
my neck was not broken on the spot.
Expectin' to be killed every mint L
thought 1 ought to ask the Lord for
mercy; but as had never prayed in my
life couldn't think of the first thing to
say, but the blessin' my father used to
ask before eatin' when we has company
and which was this-'Lord, make US
thankful for what we are about to re-
ceive.n
Now, my brethren, do you 'spose
any Presbyterian raised boy was ever
put to such strait as that for prayer !?
No. He would have prayed for himself
and gone off after the Jews and heath
ems, whilst j was huntin up and git.
i'm off that blessin'."
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
Select Poetry.
FOOTSTEPS AT THE DOOR.

As we know familiar voices,
Every near and dear ones call,
Coming through the silent chambers,
Waking echoes in the hall;
SO with Instinct all unerring,
Ever strengthening, more and more,
We can read the varied language
OF the footsteps at the door.
Grandpa's faltering tread, now heavy
With the weight of fruitful years,
Nearing yonder golden city
Almost through this vale of tears.
Steadfast feet that never loitered
Bravely going on before.
By-and-by we'll miss their music
Precious footsteps at the door.
Then, the patter of the children,
Happy darlings out and In,
Like the butterflies and sunbeams,
With no thought of care or sin.
Little feet that need cure guiding
Past the pitfalls on the shore,
Lest they turn aside 10 mischief;
Blessed footsteps at the door
Then the matron, glad and CHEEKY,
Hears her good man drawing nigh
And the children hear the mother
AS her busy footsteps ny;
Household musict We all hear it
While we love 1t more and more,
And we hope to welcome with it
Angel footsteps at the door.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
A Baptist Brother on MethOdists
and Presbyterians.

"A LADY correspondent of the New
"A York Independent gives sketch of
a sermon she had heard in Georgia near
ly half century ago, from which we
give an extract:
The preacher was apparently about
fifty years of age, large, muscular, and
we'll proportioned. On entering the
pulpit he took off his coat and hung it
on nail behind him, then opened his
collar and wrist bands, and wiped the
.perspiration from his face, neck and
hands. He was clad in striped cotton
homespun, and his shirt was of the
same material. He had travelled sever
al miles that morning, and seemed al
most overcome by the heat. But the
brethren sung couple of hymns while
he wss cooling off, and when he rose he
looked comfortable and good-natured.
He had preached there once or twice
before, but to the most of the audience
he was stronger. Hence he thought
it necessary to announce himself, which
he did as "Old Club-Ax Davis, from
Scriven county, q Halfhard and Half
soft Baptist"
81 have given myself that name,"
said he because believe the Lord
elected me, from eternity to go ahead in
the backwoods and grub out path and
blaze the way for another man to follow.
After the thickest of it is cut away
good, warm Methodist brother will
come along and take my trail, and make
things little smoother and good deal
noisier. After all the under brush is
cleaned out, and the owls and wolves
are skeered back, and rattlesnakes are
killed of Presbyterian brother, in
broadcloth and white cravat, will come
along and cry for decency and order
And they'll both do good in their sphere.
don't despise larnt man, even when
he don't dress and think as / do. You
couldn't pay me enough to wear broad
cloth, summer nor winter, and you
couldn't pay Presbyterian brother
enough to go without it ia dogdays.
"God didn't make us all alike, my
brethren; but every man has his own
sphere. When God has place to fill he
makes man and puts him in it. When
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26
Did not Initiate.

Down in Berks county, Penn'a., they
have game called the Hutchinson
Family" 1t consists in beguiling
some uRsuspecting person into a room
in which the "family'' is stationed
the members of which initiate in word
and action every thing done by the VIC
tim, and the amount of amusement
that can be extracted from q nervous
young man of bashful proclivities can
easily be imagined. At social gather
ing held in village short time ago
young newspaper man was introduced
into the room and the Hutchinson
Family" began its limitations, to the in
tense delight of everybody present-ex-
cept the victim. 1t didn't take the
young man long to appreciate the situa-
tion, and then he calmly walked to the
center of the room and stood on his
head. The Hutchinson Family" at
that moment was composed of two ladies
and gentleman, and it is needless to
remark that the lady members immedi-
ately lost all interest in further proceed
ings and did not initiate.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26

~ The man who will not work and
has no means of intellectual pleasure, is
as sure to become an instrument of evil
as If he had sold himself bodily to Satan.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-26

Rg- Love, faith, patience, the three
essentials to a happy life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-15
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
COUNTY az VIZ pI,ppv (

COUNTY OF VAN BUREN,
AT sesson or the Probate Court Cor the
County or Van Buren,, holden at the Probate
Office. in the village or Paw Paw, on Friday,
the oath day or June, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and elghty-one: Present. Hen.
Orrin y. Hilton, Judge OF Probate. In the
matter OF the Estate of Betsey Annable,
deceased
On reading and filing the petition daily veri.
fed. OF Edward X. Anpable one OF the eyecu-
tors OF the last VIII and testament OF said de-
ceased, praying that certain instrument now
on file In this court, purportlng to be the last
will and testamentof the SAID deceased, may be
admitted TO Probate In said conrt, aud admins
tration OF sald estate granted to Edward X.
Annable, and John Williams, the executors IN
said will named.
Thereupon il Is ordered, that MONDAY, the LIST
day OF August, 1881, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, be assigned Tor the hearing OF said petition
and that oil persons interested in said estate
are required TO appear at session OF said Court
then to be holden at the Probate ONCE, in the
village OF Paw Paw and show cause, II any
there be, why the prayer OF the petitioner
should not be granted.
And il 10 further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice TO the persons interested in said es-
tate, OF the tendency OF SAID petition, and the
hearing thereof, by causing q copy OF this Order
to be published in the True Nortberner, news
paper, printed and circulating in said County OF
Van Buren, for three successive weeks, at least
previous TO said dsv or hearing. l37ltifiiO
ORRlN y. HILTON, Judge OF Probate.
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SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue OF a certain transcript writ OF Fieri
Facias issued out OF and under the seal OF the
Circuit Court, in and for the county or Van
Buren, and state OF Michigan, bearing cate
June 9Th, A. ID. 1881, and to me directed and
delivered, in certain suit pending in said cir
cult court, wherein Christopher Kirchner, is
plaintiff, and George Wood, 10 defendant, /
did on the 9th day OF June, A. d. 1881, levy up
on and seize oil the right title and interest Of
the said George Wood, in and to the following
piece and parcel Of land, to-wt: The east half
90 OF the south west quarter (14) Of section
sixteen (16), town two (2), south OF range SIX
teen (l6) west, county OF Van Buren, and state
OF Michigan, all OF which / shall expose for
sale, ut public auction or vendue, TO the highest
bidder, as the law directs, at the front door OF
the Court House, IN the village OF Paw Paw in
ssid county OF Van Buren,, (said Court House
being the place OF holding the circuit court for
said county, on Monday. the 18th day OF
August, A. ID. 1881, at the hour OF one O'Clock
IN the afternoon OF SAID day. l371t7f1l1
Dated this Goth pay Of June, A. ID. 1881.
AARON VAN AUKEN, Sheriff,
By Fl. w. MCCARE, Under Sheriff.
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Legal Notices.
SHEREFF"S SALE.

BY virtune OF certain transcript writ OF Fieri
Facias, issued out OF and under the seal OF the
Circuit Court in and for the county OF Van Blu
rem and state OF Michigan, bearing date Febru-
sry 2lst, A. ID. 1881, and to me directed and de-
lvered, in a certain suit pending in said Circuit
Court, wherein Horace Blackmer is plaintiff,
aud Aaron RAyn ond is defendant, die, on
the Sth day Of May, A. ID. 1851, levy upon and
seize all the right, title and interest Of the said
Aaron Raymond. in and to the following piece
and parcel OF land, to-wit: The northwest
quarter, and the west half OF the northeast
quarter OF section thirty -four, town two south
OF range fourteen west, county OF Van Buren,
and state OF Michigan All OF which shall
expose for sale, at public auction or vendue, TO
the highest bidder, as the law directs, At the
front door OF the Court House, in the village
OF Paw Paw In said county OF Van Buren,
(said Court House being the place OF holding
the Circuit Court for said county, on Saturday
July Esd. A. d. 1881. at the hour OF one O'Clock
in the afternoon Of said day. l368t7f105
Dated this 7th day OF June. A. ID. 1881.
AARON VAN AUKEN, Shenn.
By II. w. MoCABE, Under Sheriff.