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the b4Ii aud eupper given to Cap
cain Wallace aud The officers Of the
Umted States fIgate Vandalia by
ths cItizeu5a At The Windsor hotel to-
night was one Of the finest afiAirs Of
tbs kind ever witnessed here. Il
was attended by The elite Of Montreal
aod iis environs. The military Of
fcers resident here we're present and
they ss well ss the naval visitors
were in uniform. The committee
who bad charge Of the arrangements
left nothing undons to promote tho
pleasure OF ell present. The supper
was a recherche one and the tossts
which were all Of an international
character, we're hpply responded
10. The whole en- inment was
pronounced mag gu.lcent success.
Yesterday afternoon the captain and
officers rociprocated the bountlal
kindness they have received here bv
giving reception snd hop on ths
deck Of their noble ship. II was well
attended, aud was most enioyable
affair
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UNCLE SAWS GohD AND sILvER.

Uncle Sam has money house in
Wall street, New York, called the
subtreasury, which old King Crmqus
would have liked to visit. 1t con-
tains at present, in gold and silver
coin, about one hundred and five
millions Of dollars, all neatly packed
ia bags, OF owed in bins, 10 vaults
which are supposed 10 be burglar
proof
la face, they are burglar proof
else some gentleman Of tue profess
ion woul / have sttemp pied them dar.
log the last forty years. They are
deep down Ia the bowels Of The
earth, under building the most
msssIys aud solid 10 ali America.
The building wss built az il for eter-
oi,y. covering The whole basement
with arches ~ strong as stone
quarry. Down il that marvellous
uuderstruoture Uncle San keeps
the bulk Of his gold. Doors beyond
doors Of solid steei protect il
these secured by lock, that are
wound up every night Ike % macy
clocks, which no hey OF mau can
open till they run d0Eh.
The silver vanii isspsciaas under
ground ball, forty-seven feet long
twenty eight feet vide and twelve
feet high, divided into bins Of vau-
ous sizes. Here are nine hundred
tons Of silver colo, with thirty three
million Of dollars. Toe gold is all
kept in bags each Of which contains
FIVE thousood doilsrs. sod The bags
are Piled one npon Che other IN even
columns twelve bags high.
Wbeo the cub treasury Din wee
before Con ress. Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and The Whgs generally
saw 10 II certain ruin Of the republic.
Since the system was adopted, how
ever, the sub treasury has received
aud paid something more than Bill
lion aod a-hsIl Of the public money
without the loss Of nogle dollar.
and without disturbing TIE course
Of business.
4 lady Of great ability, Mrs. Lamb.
editor Of The Magazine Of American
Il story" has been locking into tbs
vaults and Offices Of tie sub treasure
recently, aud she gives us a pleasing
sense Of It's excellent and easy work
ING The sub-iressurer, however
has anything bat an easy time. In
one day the office has paid eleven
uncommon for the treasurer TO e0n
his name three thousand times in
thousand pension checks, ayeraoino
twenty-six dollars each, and il h nof
one morning 10 bond aud gold Ger
tiEostes. - Iouths Companion
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sIs OF The opportunities which are at
the disposal of two persons to be com.
Portable or unoomioItabl, happy or
miserable, as the case may be. A
readluament Of he law in the sense
which Radicaliem is said 10 cont en-
plate could not produce any COM
pensatlng good. After all. it is not
merely the fear of scandal, but the
humiliation of publishing to the
world that two people have hopeless
ly bungled existence which keeps a
number of mea and women other
wise will qurl fed for it out Of the
divorce court. Once make that trib-
unel easier Of access than il now ia
or provide fresh machinery which
will accomplish all that this tribunal
does, aud positive premium would
be placed upon matrimonial ieuds
OF the most irreconoiable, and. as
hey would frequently prove, OF the
most Almsy kind.
Some Husbands and Wives
continue lovers thloughout their
life. Others are mutually onraplur-
ed at first and mutually bored after
ward. Others, on the contrary,
failing during the early years OF their
partnership 10 accom- modate them
selves TO each other, hit off an ad-
mirable 'modue vivend' little
later, but in no other Que of these
instance can it be supposed that any
limitation OF the matrimonial coz
tract would tend 10 improve ils terms
whileit was 10 legal existence. For
the majority of husbands and wlves
wedlook is a social and moral dis
ciphne. The qualities which it de-
veIops in either are exactly those
that are useful, and indeed necess-
ary, in other relations Of life. This
is not the romantic view TO take Of
marriage, but it is a sound and prac-
ticai one, and so long as ma, riage
remains good working institution
no attempt to curtail it or TO shear
it OF any of its honors is likely to be
made, or if made to prove efecLual.
World,
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A DAISY TINE.
Certainly no excursions announced
for the season equal tho d. g.
O's special series. Some idea
ofwhat Baltimore wall do.

otwh0t baltimore VIII do.
Thore appears to be almost no
end to the novelties being perfected
for the Oriole festivities in Baltimore
IN September. II will truly be as
termed. Summer NighLSs Carnival
and certainly nothing like il was
ever before attempted in any city Of
the continent. There will be cleo
trioity in all its forms, arc lights
and inoandescent lights, focus lights
and almbeaux, torches in varions
colors, Crock fire calcium and gis,
until night viii be turned into day.
The pyrotechuic features will be on
ecale Of great extent rand variety,
some OF the set pieces promising to
be marvelous in effect. The whole
city will be lighted as never before.
The different monuments with which
the metropolis abounds will be
girdled by electrical bands. while
the Lofty aud majestic dome OF the
Clly Hall will be fairly ablazs'
Every avenue leading TO novelty
in illumination is eagerly sought
alter, and old Baltimore will indeed
show hersel, this year. The night
display in the harbot will be a
gorgeous sight and the arrival of
Lord Baltimore something to remem-
Der for years. The Mystic Pageant
on the third night will beyond oil
comaprison excel anything of the
description ever attempted not clone
10 this country but in any country.
Other oitier are content with from
eighteen to twenty-five floats, the
latter number being the greatest
ever embraced within one pageant
in any city. Baltimore almost doub-
les this, as her pageant on the night
of the 18th OF September will include
no less than !oity floats or tableaux
cars, larger, more imposing and
grander in eye:y way, than ever be-
fore shown. Ordinarily the number
of characters introduced in pag-
cant is less than one hundred. In
the Baltimore pageant there will be
two hundred and thirty characters
upon the floats, every costume en-
tirely new and imported from Paris
direct. 1t will require thirteen hun
dred men, two hundred and forty
horses, over fifteen thousand gas jets,
eight bands OF music, and other sc-
cessories in like magnificent proper
tion. The actual cash outlay nec-
esgary to place the pageant upon the
streets Of Baltimore will exceed
thirty-fve thousand dollars. The
characters are assumed exclusively
by members OF the Order Of the
Oriole, merchants and business men
Of the highest standing. The specis
serieg Of excursions arranged by the
Baltimore and O5io are meeting with
undisguised favor. as they admit OF
gisiting 90 many pieces of great in
ierest ia addition to the Oriole at
Baltimore. As all the festivities in
the Monumental City are at night,
tho daye can b. put IN visiting Wash
ington. O d Point Comfort, Fortress
Monroe, Lnray Caves, Harper'J
Ferry, and very many other points.
The rate Is down to the very lowest
notch, half fare from ell stations on
tha enormous system embraced with.
30 the y & o management.
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KINGWOOD WEST VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. sEPTENI

at Joliet and it has been found nee
essary 10 obtain guard from Il o
Governor to keep away the excited
savsns from the mound.
In the meanwhile the people in
the vicinity Of Joliet and Lyttleville,
who believe that the original enemy
OF mankind is csvorling round their
neighborhood, are in a pitiab!e state
Of CONSERVATION.
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C0NNUBIAL BLISS.
THE POPULARITY OF MAR
RAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
How tho Domestic System Of tho
English People Has Changed
During the past four De-
cades.

One Of the reasons that may be as
signed for the growing popularity OF
marriage is the increased amount Of
liberty permitted to both the parties
TO the matrimonial contract. For
the lady marriage is signal OF e.
Emancipation. For the husband it does
not uniformly mean the surrender
Of his liberty. Young unmarried
women have no chance against their
married rivals, aud the consequence
is that the tone Of girls who are am
bltious Of being wives is distinctly
lower than it used to be, The
nymphs who desire to don with as
little delay as possible the myrtle
and orange flowers, the lace and
tulle, assume an extraordinary fact
ness, and, in their toilets aod other
matters, emulate tactic and wiles
Of those who have already invested
their finger with The connubial cir
Gle. Thus it may bo truLhlully
said that the social advantages which
marriage ooniers are Indirectly not
OF unmixed benefit to the marriage
able portion Of the ieminine commu-
nifty. In other words, because our
wives enjoy themselves more our
daughters seek TO control themselves
less.
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Our Office Is opposite the u. 8. Patent
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time than those remote from Washington.
Send Model or Drawing. We advise Gs
10 paentablity free Of charge; and We
make no charge unless we obtain Potent
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Supt. of Money Order Div, aud 10 ON
ci is Of the U. s. Patent Office. For or.
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address
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VOL. VI.
3. & O. r. r. TIME TABLE.

Condensed time table of Passenger
Trains OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
for the stations named below, which took
effect May l3. 1888;
EASTWARD ROUND.
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Patents Procured i'm the United States
and Abroad. Patents Reissued, Trade.
Marks aHd Labels Registered, Copy
rights Secured. Searches made. and Pal
ents and Inventions Reported ON.
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The Change.


The Change.
however, hat has tekeu place in the
general estimate of the conditions
and obligations Of marriage is due
quite as much 10 extra ma rimonial
as TO matrimonial cause. The whole
domestic system Of the English people
bias changed during the last three or
four decades. There is no kind Of
domestic tie which has not, to some
extent, relaxed it's bold. Families
undergo the inevitable disintegrat-
ing process at an earlier period in
their corrorate existence than used
to be the case. Parents fad that,
IN the crush aud fever Of the social
competition they can see oompar-
atively little oil their offspring. The
duties which fathers and mothers
were once careful themselves 10 die
charge are now vioariously perform
ed by governesses. nurses, school
masters, and tutors. Yet greatly
as life has multiplied its eKeitements,
monotony is still one Of it's baoes.
Because the claims OF society itself
is more enjoyable. Ia this way II
comes to pass that husband and wife
in an over-inCreasiog degree, pursue
Independently their own course. aud
the principal OF coDju2al tolerstion
is cultivated at The expense Of
Conjugal Fidelity.
The augmeution Of cases in the Di-
vorce Court is said to be due to The
popularity ofthe trionnai, not among
the upper, but the lower. class Of
society. Hence it is srsaed the
former are, notwithstanding aDy ap.
pearances which might seem to war
rant contrary conclusion. ethIcally
superior to the latter. Would IL
not, as a matter Of fact, bc more true
40 say that the well-to-do under
stand better and practice more con-
sistently the doctrine Of reciprocal
lorbesrance
Under these ciToumsto uces nothing
can be more unlikely that a political
reformer will be tempted to las
sacrihgIous hands upon The institution
Of marriage. The subject is one
which does not come within the pur.
view Of legislation. There is no
specific benefit 10 be conferred or
grievance 10 be redressed, and auy
attempt to lessen the responsibilities
Of marriage would be ioiled by Tue
public opinion Of the country.
Marriage in tho Present Day
means the extension and the smpha-
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SDaily except Sunday. fDaily. tDon't
stop here. Besides the above~named
trains there is WY Train with pass
enger car attached, that goes both east
and west daily, except Sunday.
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.TIoNs. 10. 4 So. .t5.No. q y o. b
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-09
STIFF AND STARK.
Stage Employees Found Standing in the
Snow, Frozen to Death.

RAWLINGS, w. T., Feb 8. = The coach
which left Pacific Springs on the Sweet
water stage line, last week. was caught in
the storm of Friday The coach was aban-
doned and the party started back on foot to
the station. The driver, N. j. Stewart was
found frozen to death standing in the snow,
and Thomas Scott the superintendent, was
found standing straight up in the snow,
frozen so he could not move; he will lose
his hands and feet. w V. Stark, a passen-
ger has not yet been found They were out
three days and nights. Another stage
driver arrived frozen he reports two feet of
snow on the level. and the cattle starving
This stage line runs from Green River, on
the Union Pacific railway, to Fort Washakie,
W. T., through the South Pass of the Rocky
mountains,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-09
ANOTHER ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY.


ST. LOUIS, Feb. S--A most horrible dis
covery was made in a tenement-house this
morning. 1t was found that Henry Drees, a
German teamster had cut his wife's throat
with a razor and then his own. The two
corpses ware discovered in the middle OF one
of the three rooms which the family oc-
cupied. The body of the wife lay on a bed,
the covering of which was soaked with the
blood; the man lay on the floor. Five little
children slept IN the room, one in bed with
the couple One of the children got up, took
the baby out of the bloody bed in which its
mother lay into his bed, and changed its
dress; he then went to sleep. The cause of
the tragedy is supposed to be jealousy.
Drees and family lived in the rear of 1900
Mullanphy street. He was a hard working
man, and had accumulated So 600, savings.
He ill-trested his wife continually, and on
one occasion she left him. Mrs. Drees was a
good woman, and her husband had no cause
for his insane jealousy. Last night the
couple retired about 10 o'clock, with two
little girls in one bed, two boys in another,
and baby of two years in the same bed
with themselves Louis, the eleven-years
old son, was the only witness of the tragedy.
A noise aroused him, and he saw his father
cutting his mother with a razor. Then he
saw his father spring in the air and fall
down near the stove He then got up, and
took the baby, Nina, lying in the bed with the
mothers corpse her night clothes soaked with
her mothers blood, into his bed. He
changed the baby's clothes, and both went
asleep again. This morning, when the
children awoke, the floor and bed were
covered with blood Louis tried to find the
key his father had locked the door with last
night, but could not, and it was not until
nearly o'clock that Otto Farenhorst, boy
of ten came up and called Louis to go to
school with him, when the condition of af-
fairs was discovered. Otto's mother, who
lived in the lower part of the house, then
opened the door. and a most ghastly and
bloody scene was revealed. Drees cut his
wifes throat while she was asleep, and there
was no struggle. The heads of both corpses
were nearly severed.
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these mighty enterprises he said 'the SOL
dier went hand in hand with the civilian"
Referring to the late civil war. General
Sherman said: II need not speak to you of
the civil war. Its history is written, and all
who now hear me remember its details |
will venture to say. however, in this connec-
ton that friend and foe alike now share its
glories and fruits. No part of the Union has
experienced larger measure OF profit than
the section over which we so signally tr.
umphed. | believe that nine out OF ten sol
diers of the South would to-day rather be
members of our present glorious Union,
at peace with all the world,
than residents of Southern
confederacy, with slavery the corner
stone and at constant war with their neigh
bors. | have not the least desire, here or
elsewhere, to boast OF my share in that war;
but do feel a sense of pride and satisfaction
that we, as a people, met the issues of that
day like brave men, and carried our ship
through the breakers which for time threat
ened shipwreck; that peace and good order
now reign supreme, and that | may lay aside
the armor with which l have been clothed,
with honor and safety. Another will take
up the task where | leave of, and our army
will move on in its glorious career to an
ultimate destiny which no man may foresee"
In conclusion, the General said: THE
occasion is not suitable for me to say even
this much, but, though my military career is
in its penultimate, | cannot help pleading to
my countrymen at every opportunity, to
cherish all that is manly and noble in the
military profession, because peace is ener-
waiting and no man is wise enough to fore
tell when soldiers may be in demand again"
Speeches were also made by Chief.justce
Waite, Justice Miller, General Sheridan,
Senator Hawley, Senator Logan and Mr..
Watterson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-09
GENERAL SHERMAN.
Banquet Attended by "a Distinguished
Company-The Generals Speech.


WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-A banquet was
ration of the sixty-third birthday of Will
lam Tecumseh Sherman, general of the
army. The guests were Chief Justice
Waite, General P H. Sheridan, Speaker j.
Warren Keifer, Senator Joseph R. Haw-
ley, Marshal Clayton McMichael, Mr.
Shlson Hutchins, General Van Welt,
United States army; Chief Justice Cartier,
of the District Supreme Court; Senator John
Sherman, Senator John A. Logan, Justic Nc
Arthur, Senator William b. Allison II. j.
Ramsdell, Henry Watterson, Justice Stanley
Matthews and Justice Miller. In reply to a
toast to his health, General Sherman made a
speech of some length from written notes.
In commencing the General said:
According to our family Bible, was
born on the Sth OF February 1920, conse-
quently ] am now in my sixty-fourth year
of life, and ii | survive another year will
pass from the active command of the army
of the United States to life of comparative
ease and retirement. The law for the COM
pulsory retirement of all army officers at
the age of sixty-four was, in my Judgment
wise and proper. | do not ask for or wish
an exception in my own case, and l declare
that l then, as now, approved the measure
and asked my friends not to interpose any
objections by reason of its effect on me, l
think that am duly grateful that [ have
passed through sixty.three years OF varied
life with mind and body sound enough to
promise a reasonable remainder of existence
and am thankful to Congress that suitable
and liberal provision has been made for me
and those dependent on me, to enable us to
live out our appointed days in comparative
ease"
The General then reviewed briefly the pro-
gress OF the world in arts and civilization
during the past half century, referred to the
stirring events which had taken place in this
country within that period, and especially to
the wars in which the people of the United
States had been engaged, and said that even
now, after a very short lapse OF time it could
be seen that these wars had accomplished
valuable results which could not have been
reached in any other way. As an illustration
of this he cited the Mexican war, which ex-
tended our sytem of government from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, converting lands
which had remained for centuries III posses
sion of wild beasts and wilder savages into
prosperous States and Territories in the
short period of thirty-seven years. After
pointing out the fact that the acquisition of
California was also one of the results
of this war, General Sherman reviewed
briefly, the rise and development of that
great State and the opening of railroad com
munication with it across the plains. In
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created, residents of the low ground moving
out of the lower stories The bridge con-
Meeting the city with the Crescent Mills, over
Wheeling creek, parted in the night The
creek is much swollen, and several small
houses on its banks were washed away, but
no person hurt The railroad bridges were
weighted down with heavy trains and kept
from sweeping away.
AT Bellaire, the B., q. & G. railway trains
cannot reach the city by two miles, and
freight and passengers are transferred by
steamboats, The water has reached the cell
lars of business houses several squares from
the river. The streets are full of merchandise,
Sister Islands, six miles up the river, are
submerged. a family living on one barely
escaped with their lives by skiff, but lost
all their stock except one horse, which was
rescued by a steamboat sent from the city.
Many residents of the islands are shut in by
the water, which has frozen over in still
places, preventing egress in skiffs, Many
factories are shut down on account of the
overflow. The water-works at Belaire have
stopped, and the gas-works are threatened.