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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02
NEW SERIES, VOL. XVII. NO. II.
PnETIcAI.
GROWING OLD.
BY vANDrKK BROWN.


At siH-I we'll rensab Der when
faneisd all felks cid at ten
Eat. whon I'd turass my nrst decade.
FIftses appeared more trut, statd.
Bat when the 6ftespth round Ia run,
IthouEst none eld till twenty-eDs.
Then. oddly. when Pd reached that age.
held that thirty made folks sage.
But when my thirtisth year was told.
said: at tweseere EEeu grow oIdl"
Yet twoscore came and found ns thrifty.
And SO drew the line at fifty.
Bat when reached that age. I swore
None osul6 be cid until threeacore!
And bore am at sixty now.
AS young AZ when st six, 1 trew.
'Tis true. my hair is somewhat gray,
And that use cane to-day;
'Tis true. these roszes about my knee
Say Grandpa I" ~hsn they spesk tome;
But. bls,s your soul. I'm young as When
thought all people cid at ton,
Perhaps little wiser grown
Perhaps solse old illEoious flown;
Bat wona'riRr still. while years have rolled. .
wen Is 1t that a man Crews sldS
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02
CUTICURA.

The Cuticurn treetnent, for tho cure Of Skin.
scalp and Blood Discaaea, coas;sts in the Internal
zee Of CvTIcuEA REsoLvEST, tho new Blood Puri-
her. and tho external use OF CUTlcURA esd Cur
cuRA SOAP. tbs Great skin Curep. Price of Curt
cusA, small boxes, Soc: large boxes, 8 Co Gu
TIcuRA REsoLvssr. 8 | par bottle. CurIcusA Soar
Csc; CurIcUEA SUATIHo SOAP, l5c.
Depot. WEEKS & POTTER Rnntn, h,.a
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02

THAv7z's CoNsUHPrIoS OF CoueH Cum ia .bs
best thing for Consumption known. .nd iii cr.e
sr ordinary cough in thirty minutes
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02

a TELLING LAw.-Mr. Charles Law, Jr.,
in conversation with one of our Tepresenta~
tives recently said: al have been a sufferer
from rheumatism and nouralgis for the past
ten years, aud tried all kinds of remedies-
Having heard SO much about St. Jacobs Oil.
I tried bottle, and found it truly wonder,
full PotStO,cs (Pu.) Ledger.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02
RE DIcINAI.

will now state that made miraculous cure
OF Sae Of the ~orCt csoes of skin disease kuowp
The Petieat is man forty yesss old; had suffered
niseGn hefs ye.r': His eyee teslP ssd nearly his
InGie Gs oSdy presented frightfui nppearance.-
sicians, who prescribed the bsst remedies known
to the profession, ouch ss odide potaGbiunn arse.
PAID 3 500 for medical treatment With but little
relief. tPTevailed upon him the CUrlcuaA
REsoLvENr Internally, and The CUTIcURA and CU-
TIc0RA soAPextetnally. he did So and vac co,0
Pisfsy eu'sd- The skin on his head face nd maTv
other parts Of his hody. which presented mot
loathaome appearance, is soft and 1nooth
san infant,s, with no trace of the di,eata
lsH 5ehiad. Re has now bseR cured ~ sIve mon thE
Reported by
FIJI. Brown. Esq, Bsre~sm.s.c.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02

LiCZfEI MA.
sixteen months 5;Dce eruption brcko out ON
my leg and both feet, which ta-ned out to he Ee-
Sehs, and caused me great pain and aunoysHce
tried various ronedoa with good resuIts un iii
used the CUTIcURA EEsoLvENT internally and
entirely cured me so that my skin ia as smooth
and natural as ever
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-05-02
FIJI. Brown, ESQ. Bsrs~su g r
sCROFULA SORE

oNJEtOF q Ia SORE,
:, Rev. DR.. =. in Detailing his o1Perieuce With
the CuTtcURA REMEprEs said that through b Diyiao
Providence one of his parishiouers was cured offs
scroiuloua core, which wAs slowly draining WV
bis life, by the CuTIcuRA REsoLvzzr internally
and CUTlcuRA and CurIcuEA SOAR ex,ernslI7E
hs poison thar had fed tho diseaEe com p!ete-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
A MEASURE OF RELIEF.

With view to relieve the congress
sional calendar of the lorg list of private
claims which act as serious obstruction
to the transaction of business of public
importance, Senator Edmunds has framed
and presented bill which provides that
any citizen of the United States who
makes claim against the government
which has become complete within the
four years preceding the passage Of the
bill, or which shall have become COM
plete subsequent to that period, may ap-
ply to the department Of justice for leave
to sue the United States for the enforce
ment of such claim, all claims growing
out of the rebellion being specifically
excluded from the action of this bill.
The head of the department. of justice
shall examine the petition and shall
grant the same, unless he shall be of
opinion that the claim is frivolous or
has already been passed upon by the two
houses of congress or by the court OF
claims, or by some court of justice. If
leave to sue be granted, the petitioner
may bring suit, giving reasonable Sc.
curity in case he shall fail in his suit.
The district attorney will appear for the
United States and defend the suit, and
special counsel may be employed to as
sist him. If judgment is rendered
against the United States the amount
shall be paid out of the treasury. The
English Parliament is so overrun with
bills of this description that it's public
business is seriously neglected, and there
is little doubt that some system of dis
posing of such claims outside of parlia-
ment will be eventually adopted. Under
the present arrangement the injustice is
two-fold: wrongs of private persons
which ought to be redressed are ne
elected SO long that when the remedy
comes it is too late, and private bills oc-
cupy the calendar Of legislative bodies to
the exclusion and postponement of pub
lie busine SO.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
Tricky Devices in Gambling.


One of the newest tools is the poker
ring, an ingenious little contrivance for
marking the cards while playing, in a
systematic manner, SO that in half an
hour one can tell each card as well by the
back as by the face. Although it is not
generally known, it is in use by a few of
the Oldest and best professional players
in the country. It is no secret that in
gaming houses marked-back playing
cards are used. The pattern on the back
seems innocent enough until it is held
at certain angle under the light, and
then the difference between cards may
be seen. This greenhorp cannot tell the
pack from fair cards in common use, but
the professional can tell precisely the
cards that his opponent holds. There
are loaded dice, which are made the ex-
act imitation of ordinary dice. Then
there is the spy, reflector about the
size of half dollar, which. it is said, can
be used with perfect safety on the table
or on the knee.
As for. "strippers, another device in
cards. gambler says: 't.The benefit of
these cards cannot be estimated only in
one way, and that is the amount of mon
ey your opponent has got, for you are
certain to get it, whether it is $40 or $lO,-
600: the heavier the stakes the sooner
you break him and he never knows what
hurt him. tThe bug is device for
Withdrawing from the pack number OF
cards from which the player can make
up hand to suit" s. "
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29

Railroad collided at Spirit Wood on the 26th.
telescoping two box cars containing settler
and his stock. The mans name was Henry G.
Mott, of Norwich, Ont. He was instantly
killed. A coroner's jury decided that the ac-
cident was caused by the carelessness Of Fred.
Thomas, engineer of one Of the trains.
A Rock Island construction train was wrecked
at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the Gath. A brake
man was seriously and three others slightly
hurt.
At point on the Fort Wayne road, just out
side the limits of Chicago, cattle train loaded
with swine was run into by Grand Trunk pas
senger train, telescoping several cars and kill
ing and manning a great many swine. After
the wreck had been cleared away and the trains
put in motion, Fort Wayne passenger train
suddenly appeared on the scene and dashed
into the remnant of the cattle train, completing
it's ruin. Engineer Hubbard was dangerously
injured. The loss, not including the animals,
is estimated at $50,000.
The new bridge on the narrow-gauge road
near Lathrop, Iowa, gave way on the Goth, carry
ing down an engine and two cars.
At Sweet Brian, about 40 miles west of Bis
narck, u. T., on the 21st inst, a construction
train went Through bridge, killing one man
and injuring several.
A freight train ran of the track near Dar-
rington, Pa, on the night of the 10th inst,
killing VIM. Filley, engineer, aud VIM. Keeser,
fireman.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
FRAUD In TRADE.

It is unfortunate for America that the
weakness of morals existing the world
over in varying proportions, should crop
out among her citizens in a special
branch of mercantile trade whereon the
eyes of the whole world are particularly
directed. Fraud of all kind should be
considered a base crime and speedily
punished, but when the act jeopardizes
the integrity of a nations trade, the per-
petrators should be ferreted out and
made to suffer a double punishment.
The lately reported frauds in the Amer
ican cotton trade have caused quite
stir in trade circles in Great Britain, and
the American consul at Manchester has
investigated the matter to his sorrow,
Judging from the following from the
London Daily News: 'The reportfrom
the American consul at Manchester that
the charges of fraud in the packing of
American cotton are true is frank and
fair enough. Mr.. Shaw has, in the fig
urative language of the far west, &C
knowledged the corn.' Lancashire has
long complained that the weight of cot
ton is increased by putting sand
and water into the bales. Hun
dreds of tons of sand are paid
for at the price Of cotton every year.
No moderation appears to have been
experienced in this species of fraud for
the sand seems to have been thrown in
by shovelfuls. This is very dishonor-
able, and demands caution on the part of
the buyer; but we may remind the spin
ners of Oldham that it is one of the old.
est and most vulgar kinds of frauds of
which the commercial world is cognizant.
To increase the weight of a valuable arti-
Gle by concealing within it some article
of greater weight and less value is one of
the most ancient kind of rascality. The
augmentation of mercury as it was
called, was FERTILE fraud of the last
century, and the augmentation of silk BY
the addition of dye is SO familiar in our
own day as to have almost ceased to be q
fraud at all. Everybody knows that q
yard Of silk can be dyed to any required
weight, as . yard Of cotton cloth can be
finished to any extent desired. It is
also fairly known that reel Of cotton
warranted to contain so many yards
does not always contain that measure.
These instances resemble that Of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
THE LIVING TIDE.

50 much has been said about the flow
of population from the monarchies of
Europe to the broad acres of the Amer
ican republic, that further mention of
the ever-increasing current seems like
supererogation; yet the prospect for the
coming season are so wide in scope that
the subject forces itself into prominence.
A Berlin correspondent says late ad-
vertisement of the Lloyd Company
stated that in the four months then in
the future, from March to June 80. it
would send out from Bremen to New
and Baltimore not less than 67 steamers
namely, 1S in March, II in April, and
16 each in May and Juue-that is, more
than one large ship every two days. The
correspondent adds: Suppose that each
of them takes out only 600 steerage
passengers on the average-in my opin-
ion, the number will amount to at least
$50 head per vessel-there will be more
than 10000 passengers from one Ger
man port within four months. And
what is still more interesting is the fact
that the passage money for the greater
part of the emigrants has been sent over
by friends and relatives from the United
States to Germany, or that ticket has
been bought by them, which has been
sent over here. A similar lively busi-
ness is done in Hamburg; and apart from
the smaller towns of Havre, Antwerp,
Rotterdam and Liverpool (the latter as
far as German emigration is concerned),
the German emigration for 1882 may be
set down at 250, 900 alone. Our protec-
tionists are quite alarmed. Who will
work for us, who will eat our breadstuffs,
they cry, if small farmers, servants and
mechanics 60 to AmericaQ To help
themselves, they insist npon strong emf
grafton laws; but it will be of no use.
They may hurt Bremen and Hamburg
for short time, but they will further
the shipping interests of Rotterdam,
Antwerp, Havre and Liverpool. This
mighty migration cannot be stopped by
precautionary measures of the police,
the factors creating it being too power
fu1
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
All-Suthcient Connecticut.

The Hartford Courant thus vaunteth
the state, of which it is an ornament
and ttshoots the wooden nutmeg: One
can paint pleasant picture Of the intlu-
ence of Connecticut in daily home life.
It is safe to say that the timbers of the
houses of majority Of the people were
.hewn with Connecticut axes, that their
doors swing Oh Connecticut hinges and
lock with Connecticut locks and latches,
that their floors are carpeted with Con
necticut carpets, and their tables set with
Connecticut cutlery, and their clothes
sewed with Connecticut thread, on Con
necticut sewing machines. Bnt, while
we look after them in life, in death we
do not neglect them. Give us murder
or a suicide, and it is but q small chance
that Connecticut did not have hand in
it, either with its powder, its cartridge,
its revolver or it's edge tool, and give us
war and we can furnish the material
for any amount of slaughters Indeed the
cheap talk about wooden nutmegs may
as Well cease now as any time. The fact
is, we make guns and load them and
mean business. ss ..sf': -'.s'rss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29

Fort Reno, and killed one of them, named
Stevens. who was too sick to leave. The MUIR
derer then secured the horses and other effects
and fled toward Kansas. The party we're from
Wichita, Kansas.
James Kennedy, an ex-policeman, was shot
dead by Charles Ray, at Louisville, KY, on the
the 21st. The men were relatives and it is
thought family affairs were at the bottom of
the trouble.
The citizens of Dallas, Oregon, seized Tucson
Langdon and man named Harrison for killing
A. H. Croaks and s. J. Jerey. At the hotel
where the murderers were under guard party
of masked men appeared and shot Langdon,
following up the work by hanging Harrison to
the trestle- work of the bridge.
A rent-collector of Clunmellon, Ireland, was
mOrtally shot while driving to church with his
family on the 18th, and police sub-inspector
was fatally wounded in disturbance in County
Sligo.
Frank Stilwell, who was in some way connect
ed with the assassination of Morgan carp near
Tombstone, Arizona, recently, was riddled with
bullets by Band of vigiantes on the 21st inst.
On the night of the 10th inst, at Wheeling,
w. Va, youth named Miligan, while intoxi-
Gated, shot and killed Frank Davis, aged 18.
A shocking and mysterious murder was COM
mitted at Cherry6eld, Me-, on the 18th inst.
AS Mrs. Hattie Sprague was leaving a church,
Chester Cunningham stepped up to her and
drew knife across her throat. She died in
stantly. jealousy was the cause.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
Tra4ical Tales

At Hillsboro, Tex, on the night of the Oath
inst, Mrs. Julius Sweeney was murdered by her
husband, being shot through the breast and
her brains beaten out. The cause was jealousy.
The murderer was jailed.
A desperate fight occurred in Blount County,
thirty miles from Knoxville, Tenn, on the 25th.
Robert Flanagan and his son-in-law, Joseph
Nichols, had an alteration about q thing Of
very little consequence, which resulted in q
hand-to-hand fight, which was only ended when
Flanagan struck Nichols over the head with q
thirty-pound piece of wood, killing him in
stantly.
Mr.. Peele, engineer of the Tombstone Mill
and Mining Company, was assassinated in his
Office, at Charleston, Arizona, on the night OF
the 25th, by two masked men.
"Cnrley Bill" notorious western character,
was killed in fight between cowboys and
vigilantes, near Tombstone, ARIZONA, ON the
25th. =
Bud. Mills killed Riley Caldron at Mount
Sterling, Ky., on the 22d. The two had diff
fculty some days previous when Mills ordered
Caldron never to appear on his farm again.
Caldron disobeyed the order and was killed.
vigilantes ut Rawlins, W. T., lynched jane
Lacy and Bob Roddeck, who had burglarize
several houees and planned to rob bank. A
opal gave them away. ~
Two horse thieves were overtaken by citizens
near Boles postoh6ce, Franklin County, NO.,
on the night Of the 18th. One was killed and
the other mortally wounded. "H.
A. st. Helena, Cal. on the 29d inst, William
Cans killed ]. c. Weinberger and then shot
himself. Cause of the trouble unknown.
Two scotchmen, lately arrived from the old
country, became involved in dispute neal
Emmettsburg, Iowa, when one Of them. Chas,
Cornelian, shot Fred. Miller, his partner, and
then put two bullets in bis own braia.
James Morgan, one Of party Of four cattle
dealers, drove bis companions from camp, nea'
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
The Cowardice Of Suicide.

Suicide in the German army has of late
years. been increasing at an alarming ex-
tent and large percentage of the cases
are attributed to disappointment in love.
Some one, in noting this fact and the
difficulty the authorities have in finding
means to resist the progress of the evil,
ssys the emperor might profit by study
of leaf from the order book of Napo-
leon. Under the consulate this same
tendency had revealed itself, and Napo-
leon published the following order (dated
1901 to the forces under his command:
s'The grenadier Gerdan has killed him
self on account. of q love affair. In other
respects he was good soldier. This is
the second occurrence of this sort that
has taken place in the last month. The
first consul desires to notify to the guard
in the order of the day-frst, that a SOL
der must learn to subjugate the passions
of grief and melancholy; secondly, that
Just as much courage is required to en-
dure soul suferings with fortitude as to
stand unmoved in the ranks under the
fire of battery. To give way unresist-
inely to sorrow-to destroy ones self to
escape distress of mind is equivalent to
running away from battlefield before
one has been beaten.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29

'iewelers's gold,' the proportions
whereof are said to be q golden guinea to
copper coal-scuttle, and albeit discredit-
abe are of the nature of the mild tricks
of the diplomatist who 'lied always but
deceived nobody The sanding of
cotton like the sanding of sugar is of
the earliest form of swinding, to be
sought for in the primary strata of ras-
caldom. The noble savage is clever
enough to introduce stones and other
weighty substances into Jumps OF gutta-
percha and india rubber. But this pre-
historic method of robbery is hardly
worthy of 'smart country, and might
have been disbelieved had it not been
for the manly and straightforward avowal
of the American consul at Manchester.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-03-29
GmiteRua

According to the reports of the Jail warden
at Washington, the assassin is rapidly breaking
down under the strain of his gloomy prospects.
Heis losing appetite and fesh and in the event of
a decision of the court en- banc adversely to new
trial it is predicted that he will die of fear and
inanition before the day of execution arrives.
In one Of his paroxysms of fear he recently ex-
claimed: "Why don't they hang scoville and
let me go2 am high-toned gentleman and
he is only real estate lawyer. The country
can spare him better than it can spare me p
Scoville says he can get no counsel to attend
to Guiteau's case. The assassin is sure he will
be released by the court en- banc, in which case
he proposes to leave for Europe, and, after
"doiug" the continent, return to the United
States to lecture. Scoville thinks it would be
better for the cranks of the future that Guiteau
should be hanged