West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-02-17
HstiUF Norrs AND rAnAGn.rus

big revival Is I'm progress in LOUIS
WIFE, and many anxious eyes arc turned
towards Editor Wat.erson.-rBoston
Post.
The newspapers who accuse ex Score
t"ry Blaine Of plotting for a Presidential
domination ut the hands OF the Demo-
Gratis in 1884, can havo but little to talk
about.
\ widow OF ShelbyviilO, Ind, aged 90.
Induced bor daughter to discard a lover
aged =, aud then wooed hipi herself and
with such success that the wedding dov
IS nxed.
Tho pertinent suggestion is made BY
the Albany Evening Journal, that one #
tho brass medals DO presented to the
Hon. Paddy Ryan. Ho has earned one
in Tho usual way.
a Baptist minister immersed eleven
persons in five minutes at Ciarinda. Iowa
wading in and out Of the stream with
each. II was a freezing day. and he had
good reason for haste.
The unanimity with which the English
press condemns the Blaine policy has
altogether a suspicious look. English
interests in South America render tho
British press very unsafe advisers for the
United States Washington Evening
Star.
Mr.. Watterson rises to say that tho
''slalghier' no promised. i'm case tho
Democracy abandoned the Froo Trade
issue. "is all right and will arriy. on
schedule time" Voorhees, will do well
to climb a 'roo and hang out a danger
signal.
Gail Hamilton and Mry. Blaine. i'm
looking through an old shop, found a
dlrt-obscurcd painting and purchased il
fer a song. When cleaned it was found
to be- it is reported, the work of that
painter Of slim and pretty women Sir
Peter Loly.
In September, 1876, a man named John
Bandholtz. of Chicago, procured a mari.
age license TO marry Lena Klar. and
thinking no further formality necessary.
the couple set up housekeeping at once.
the result cling FIVE children. The other
day he ascertgined that u marriage cere-
mony was necessary. Lena was horrif~
ed, and ON going to a justice of the
| eace, threw herself on nor knees. beg
ging him to marry them, which ho did
a once.
Senator Pendleton's house is said to be
tho most beautiful in Washington. 1t is
wholly American i'm naterisi, all the
wood bong pine, maple and poplar. poi,
lshod and oiled SO as 10 show tho beau.
tiIul grains. There is not a marble man
tol, nothing heavier than wood, simply
caryoI in light, graceful d signs. II
spite of all this it is intimated that Mr.
Pondleton would like to move-into thc
White House.
\ cry offiro threw a Louisville thca,r,
S%udienco into a panic. Lolita, who was on
tho stage, assured the audience thar ther,
was no danger. The Mayor, who VIZ.
in the audience. shouted that there wa
no fire. Vhes and ether oferts caused
Il calm, and nobody was lur'. Blu
neither Lolita nor the Mayor knew, wher
tb"y declared there was no cause rol
a'arm, that the house was not on fire
and if it had really been burning, tn,
delay. might have caused l.ss Of life.
a South Carolina negro has been d.,
ing a profitable business with a phono
graph. lie put one OF theso instrument,
intoa rude figure ofthe devil, and attach,
ed a spring IN such a manner that TIA,
cylinder would revolvo ON being starte,
without the uso Of a crank. Thus pro.
vided, ho set up az a foltuue-tcller. Th,
negroes had never hoard of a phono
graph, and its voice flied them with su.
perstitious awe, particularly when H.,
seer, having drawn from his dupes som,
information on the subject o. their calls
and filled the machine with astonishing
answers, made it speak oracalarly.