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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
A Jackson jug.
It's Fearful and Almost Fatal Work.

KENTUCK, March Is.
ED. FREEMAN: lone of nv niegh-
bors sent off and got a jug Of whisky
the other day, and brought it in
last Sunday morning to treat the
family. Some Of the children re-
fused to drink, but the father In
sisted that they must drink, and
they did.
The father filled pint bottle and
got on his horse and started off to a
neighbours house to trade horses
with him on the Lords day.
We don't know what the mans
object was for taking the bottle with
him unless it was for the purpose
of trying to get the best end of the
trade.
Some time during the day, one of
this fathers boys slipped to the jug
and drank so much Of the stuff that
he came very near dying.
Ills mother started to 60 to her
brothers. in the afternoon, and
found the boy lying in the road I'M
conscious, in which condition he
remained for about twelve hours, it
being difficult to tell the boy had
any life IN him. The father was
sent after in haste and when he
came he said to the mother:
Didn't | tell you to take care of
THAT jug? Now, you see you have
let the boy drink enough to kill
him"
want to say right here that
this man has always opposed the
Temperance cause.
The good Book says, "Whatsocv-
er man sows, that shall he also
reap"
1t is not very uncommon thing
to see church members carrying
their jugs in their hands, or their
bottles in their pockets, 1t has
been a wonder to me how some
men can profess to be good and get
drunk occasionally.
| want to say to every reader of
the FREEMAN, Let as not get
weary in we'll doing, for in due
time we shall reap if we faint not
Let US stand firm for the right,
brethren. We are on the right side.
Then, eff the Lord be for US, who
can be against us?"
The Lord bless the FREEMAN and
all of its readers, is my prayer,
J. H. S.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
The Saloons.

The Chicago Tribune, though an
inveterate enemy Of prohibition,
in its advocacy of the "high-license
scheme, gives the following crap :
ic sketch of the saloons of that
city
How is it with the on-keep-
ers? Their establishments arc the
vawning pits into which is poured
the great bulk Of the earnings of
the labor of the city; they are the
nurseries and schools of crime to
them are due the drunkenness OF
men, the wreck Of families, the i'm
poverishment of the multitude. In
their places the victims are poison
ed and robbed of their strength,
their health, their Intelligence
their business encourages the wife
beaters and the thieves, burglars,
and ruffians By it boys are edu-
Gated to be drunkards and brought
up in idleness, vice, and bestiality.
By them idleness and vice are
taught to take the place of indus
try and sobriety. Everything that
is criminal, debasing, and villain
Gus finds its natural birthplace in
the saloon; and nothing produces
or promotes these that is not de-
structive of decency, industry
thrift, and good morals.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
Clay County Grit.

ED. FREEMAN Please accept the
cordial thanks of every Republican
in Clay county. for the publication
of the names of those who voted in
our late Legislature against Prohi-
bition. We will carefully preserve
their names for future reference.
There is but a single Republican
in Clay county who has not the
nerve to vote against whisky. Pc
sition bought him to the support
of whisky devotee. In the last
sentence of the address by the
State Temperance Executive Com
mittee, you have our sentiments:
"LET US &C FORWARD"
"Let us rise above man and par
ty, and every consideration of mere
policy or expediency, and see to it
that the next Legislature shall sub
nit this great question to a vote OF
the people" This is the sentiment
of every true Republican, and in
order that we be sure to make that
rise, it will be necessary that we
see to it that we electa true Repub-
lcan Legislature, and see to it that
there are no SCOTS, no Huboard',
in the mess. Then, and not till
then, may we expect the voice Of
the people to be heard. The Repub-
licans of Clay county are deter
mined to vote for no candidate in
the future, who does not favor Lee
gal Prohibition.
As we cannot elect Ex-Governor
St. John, of Kansas, as our Cover
nor, we would like to have the
privilege of voting for him as
President of the United States.
Keep US posted through the no
BILE FREEMAN, and the battle
against whisky will grow hotter
and hotter, until there will not be
politician in the State, who will
be willing to stoop down and de-
fend the cause of whisky. A
young dentist few days ago, cx-
claimed with one breath, that he
would vote against Prohibition
with the next breath acknowledged
that the most heart-rending scene
he had ever witnessed was an old
drunken man, who died in the
CITY of Charleston, while beastly
drunk. Was not that miserable
scene sufficient cause to turn every
intelligent man, woman and child
against the whisky traffic? Could
every gallon of Whisky, ever sold
in the world, redeem that misera-
BILE, wretched, degraded soul from
the lower regions Of dark despair,
to say nothing Of the myriads who
are daily meeting with the same
miserable fate, from the results of
the whisky traffic? Somebody will
be responsible in the day of eterni-
ty, and who will it be? Roll on
Prohibition, roll on until there
shall not be a whisky saloon in
America.
Yours,
H. LEWIS.
Yankee Dam, w, Va, Mar. %.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
Close in on Them.

x < Please send the FREEMAN
along. | CAN'T get along without it,
| regard it us the liveliest temper
ance paper published in on" glori-
Gus Union. | like the cause it
champions and | like the manner
in which it denounces the whisky
traffic.
Close in on the tyrant, You
have good Temperance men with
you. If we can t all help with our
pens, we will back the FREEMAN
through the thickest of the fight.
Onward !" be our watch word,
and success to the FREEMAN.
w. M. SLAUGHTER.
Highly, Roane Co., w. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04

WITHOUT. GRoG.-Lleut. Dame
hover, in recent lecture upon the
arctic voyage of the Jeanette,
says:
This was the first Arctic expe-
dition which did not deal out
grog to the men, and the health
record was the best. There was
not IA case of scurvy during the
entire voyage, a fact of which no
other expedition could boast. Men
and officers had the same rations
and Jared alike"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
Real Estate.

If you wish to buy property in
Parkersburg, or Farms or Timber
and Mineral lands in West Virgin
ia, call en- or address
w. F. ATKINSON,
Real Estate Agent,
Parkersburg, W. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04

Send for sample copies, of spe-
cial 10000 Edition.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
Joy, OHIO.

Joy, OHIO.
Enclosed find 81 to extend my
time for the Fle, man. Am w"ll
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03
A Terrible Mine Disaster in New South
Wales.
S.N FRANCISCO, January %.

San FRANCISCO, January g.
From the Sydney Herald the following de-
tails of the disas Ter ut the Australasian Mine
Of d cember IL are oil tained:
The accident occurred at 30 a. m. in drift
from No. shaft which Unexpectedly broke
int the old wor sings of N. shaft. The wa
ter I'll he'd through WITH great force, and in
few moments the lower wells were flooded,
and the flood rose thirty feet in the shaft
The m n employed ut this point fed for their
lives along he drift to a station where twelve
reached the cage and were listed to the ur-
face. Twenty-seven men in t Q other part
OF the new workings were unable to reach tho
shaft, and the only hope was tn t they might
be able to re lch and ASCEND distant winze
lead ny to an upperlevel.
The scene at the top of the shaft was pitiful.
Mothers, wives, children and friends gathered
there, waiting almost without h)pe for news
from below. The pumps at once started,
throwing 4+,0C0 gallons per hour, md all the
miners in the district assembled to lend assist.
ance. The body Of water was so great that the
pumps lowered it very slowly, and diver was
sent for to attempt to penetrate the mine to
learn the fate of those below. The project was
found impracticable.
IN the afternoon OF the 18th the water was
only breast high in the diff where the men
were supposed to he, and an attempt was made
to reach them by wadlng, but the VI ated air
drove back the relief party, and several SINH
lar attempts were made dur ng tho night.
About seven clock on the morning of the
18th two searchers came up the shaft cheer
ing, and reported that near W ME No. II they
heard the words: ut all ght. We are all
right" About six p. m. word came up the
aft that the lost we're found. The news
spread I Ike wildflre. The whole neighborhood
focked to the sha I. Tanks were improv.sed
rs carriages on which to raise the men to the
surface, and half an hour later John Manlcy
was broughtup alive He had en- caught
by going to warn a com ade of the danger
when he m ght have escaped.
Soon four others ware brought up, all
greatly exh listed, but In fair way to
TeoJvor. The cage ros, again, when the ter
TiDle truth was learned that the twenty-five
remaining In tho mine had persisted. The
whole party had been caught in the drift, tho
water rising % high that only by clinginy to
the timbers could they keep tn ir chins above
water. One by one during the six v hours
struggle they had dropped OF exhausted md
d.owned IL the food, the strongest only hold.
ing ont unit relief came. The bodies wers
found lying scattered about the floor OF the
drift. The victims verb inter-. ell on the 10th.
Liberal subs, rpti ms were taken un for The
families of the deceased.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

*Humani1y's great hope for the
future is alone to be realized in i'm
proved conditions of matrimony. What
profound obligation does this fact
involve Those who realize the re-
sponsibility can hardly do better than
take advice from Mrs. Lydia +. Pink
ham whose wonderful remedies for the
cure of diseases peculiar to women are
80 justly celebrated. Send f,r pam
phlet.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03
The Quiet Life.

Happy the man, whose wish and care,
\ few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air.
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread.
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter. fire.
Blest. who can unconcern'dly find
Hours, days. and years. slit'e soft away
In health Of body peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix'd; sweet recreation.
And innocence. which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live. unseen. unknown;
Thus lamentcd let me die;
Steal from the world. aud not stone
Tell where lie.
ALEXANDER Pope.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

The position of the English Church
as a State establishment brings with it
many anomalies, one of the most
striking of which is the mode by which
bishops are nominated and elected.
This important act is performed by
the State alone. In theory no system
could be more execrahle in practice,
however, its results have been generally
admirable.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

A Missouri bee raiser lately trans
ferred his $50 hives to Florida, that his
bees may keep busy all the winter in
that land of flowers; and on the Mis-
sissippi there are bee boats that carry
hives up and down that river to keep
pace with the blooming of the flowers.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

The largest number of people speak
ing Irish. only live, as might be ex-
pected, in Connaught. where there are
over $4,000 so described. In Leinster
the number whose speech is confined to
the native dialect is only 30, in Mum
ster over $4,000, and in Ulster over
10000.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Farmers and others desiring a genteel,
lucrative agency business, by which s.
to $40 day can be earned, scnd address
ut once, on postal, to II. G. WILKINSON
u Co., 1875 and 1917 Fulton Street, New
York
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

General Booth, the leader of the
Salvation Army. is authority for thu
statement that $500, 900 are annually
contributed for sustaining that organ
ization.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

*"Old birds are not caught with
chaff." Therefore seek and fluid the
pure golden grains of health in Kidney
Wort. Women, young or old, married
or single, if out of health, will be greatly
benefited by taking Kidney-Wort.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

The beginning of Lent will not fall
on as early date as in the present
year until 1894. Ash Wednesday falls
or February 7th and Easter Sunday ON
March 18th.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Our temperance friends should su
scribe for the Friendly Vts,tor, pub
lished at Byrdstown, Pickett county.
We can supply it with the Rugbeinn
for Sl.75 a year.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Congress having given away to monu-
mental associations all old cannon
small enough to be carried away, has
discontinued the practice for lack of
material.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Anew explosivehasj just been patented
in England by DR.. C. w. Siemans. The
compound is mixture of saltpetre,
chlorate Of potash, aud solid hydro
carbon, and is suitable Tor both mining
purposesand firearms, while. il ignited
in the open air, the combustion takes
place slowly and imperfectly, and there
fore without danger.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

SKINNY Man." Wells Health
Remover" restores health and vigor,
cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual
Debility.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

"RouGH ON RATS Clears out rats,
mice, reaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs,
,kunks, chipmunks, gophers l5c.
Druggists.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Mr.. Thomas E. Sherman, a son OF
Gen. Sherman, is IL Roman Catholic and
is not only studying for the priesthood,
but intends becoming Jesuit.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03
go and dare be ore YOU
hiA die. something mighty
u ~ u = - anil suhlima l,ava no

hind to conquer time" $G6 week in your
own town. s. outfit free. No risk. Every
thing new. Capital not required. We will
furnish you everything. Many are making
fortunes. Ladies make as much as men, and
boys and girls make great pay. Reader. it
YOU want business at which you can make
great pay all the time write for particulars to
II. HALLETr & Co., Portland, Maine.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

BUcHuPAIBA." Quick, complete
cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and
Urinary Diseases.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

~" Hoods, scarfs, ribbons and any
fancy articles can be made any color
wanted by the Diamond Dyes. All the
popular colors.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

The North Carolina cotton crop will
be, it is thought, half a million Of bales
less than last years yield.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

By the us. census returns there
were in 1880, 1913 2 Touring and grist
mills employing 5S,4O7 persons.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

fssSubscribe for the Rugbeia'', and
don't you forget it T!
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03
ODDS AND ENDS.

San Francisco has forty-ive trades
unions.
The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-02-03

Next year is the centenary of organic
American Methodism.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-07-07
Caps, Hats and Plugs.

No photographer has yet been able TO
define a hat: They all say it is a covering
for the head; so is a cap, a bonnet, and in
Spain a manti!la. Hats indicate a man S
rank and station in life-lis business and
calling. The preacher and lawyer wear g
plug; the miller a SLOUGH, all whitened with
flower the student a cap; the jockey al
ways wears a skull cap. An Indian begs OF
steals an old one, cuts a hole in the crown
stufs the oriice with feathers, and walk
around the camp with self content. The
colored brother finds an "ole hat brushes
it up and wears it on Sunday and at pic
nics. The Asizona cowboy revels in at
outrageous brlm q narrow one savors o
a cramping civilization. Nothing is toe
rich for him.. He would put a prairie or
his head if it would Fl. A plug hat imr!ie:
a sort of dignity and prophecy that The
| SLOUGH hat does not even hint at. He VIII,
wears me must keep the rest of his dress i,
harmonious trim, else the inconsistency o
dress is too marked. A man with q p!ul
hat will buy an umbrella and seex the soci
ETY. of ladies. He can't 20 hunting Dor fish.
ing in a plug. nor run. JUMP, romp, or &c
into a fight in a plug.-Cincinnati Enquil
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-07-07
The Clean Newspaper.

There is a growing feeling, in healthy
communities against journals which make
it their special object to minister to a per
verted taste by seeking out and serving up
in a seductive toIm disgusting and %licenti-
Gus revelations. There is good reason &c
believe that the clean newspaper is more
highly priced to-day than it was four or five
years ago. 1t is also safe to predict that
as people in all ranks Of life who pro,ecl
their own, at least, from contamination
become more conscious of the pernicious
influence Of a certain class Of journals, cal
ed enterprising because they are ambitious
to serve up dirty scandals, they will be care
full to see that the journals they permit to
be read in the family circle are the claes
that never forget the prophecies of life.
Already men and women Of refinement anG
healthy morals have had their attention
called to the pernicious il, ~tuence Of BAD
literature and have made CONNER dable
efforts to counterfeit the same by causing
| sound literature to be published and sold at
| popular prices. These efforts are working
q silent but sure revolution. The best
authors are more generally read to-day
than at any previous day. The sickIy
sentimental story paper and the wild range,
and pirate story books are s'owiy but surely
| yielding the field to worthier clai mants. liz
praise of the decent newspaper, it may be
said tina, where it hasa place in the family
and has been read for years by young a.
we'll as old, it has developed such a health,
tone Ind suck a Discriminate & taste, tina
the life nature..of the Sums has no admirers
Fortunately, the number of such families il
increasing in the land, and as they increas.
the Journal that Gevo,es itself to slckenin,
revelationsof Immortality VII be compellee
to find its supporters solely among thos'
classes who practice vice and crime, or ar,
ambitious to learn to follow such ways.-
Printers Circular, Philadelphia.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-07-07
The Great Wall of China.

An American engineer who, being en-
gagged in the construction of a railway il
China, has had unusually favorable opror
t%unities Of examining the famous Great
Wall, built to obstruct the incusirions of the
Tartars, gives the following account of this
wonderful work: The wall is 1928 miles
lorg, IS feet wide, and Is feet thick at the
TOP. The foundation throughout is Of solid
granite, IT. remainder Of compact masonry.
AT intervals OF between two hundred and
three hundred yards towers rise up twenty
FIVE to forty feet high, and ,wenty-four fee,
in diameter. On the top Of the wall, on
both sides of it, are masonry parapets, T.
cradle the defenders to pass unseen from
one tower to another. The wall itself j
carried from point to point in a perfectly
straight line, across valleys and plains and
over bills. wi,hoG, the slightest regard to the
conhguration Of the ground; sometimes
~p..unxing into shysses a thousand Zee, deep
Brooks and rivers are b:idged oyer By til.
~all. While on both banks OF laSge stream!
strong thanking overs a-e plaeed-Scien-
ufc American.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-07-07
4 CURIOUS Calculation.

DID you h nk. ass p Paris paper how
many male and !onGle srcs-ors were re-
CURED p br1Lg yoi, la'o the world? First
IT was heces7ay that you s1ou!i have .
'ather and motl + tina. makes tso human
beings. Each OF them also save bad q
father AID mo'he---;hai n;saes tour human
beings Each Il 'bese 'olr mu t have had
q father sd mother that maaes .ieh,
forty-six generatloaa. which brings u. only
to the time ot Jesus Christ. The calculation
thus resulting SHOWS shat l3j "a glT.4.9..
"a. sc births must have taken place in
order To bring yon nj, the vorId-yfu xho
read these hines. BIreuemtsr ~e Arc n, Is
takiug the case Of soarselt-one human
oein2-ard there are a .i.iiou hu nm
oein-s in :ne word ~.ta The same history (
and nc have only Carried Tue calculation
back 10 Christ. How nons.-ous ihe c~ziks:f
la,ion y comes If We carry it back six
thousand years. How ghastiy it becomes
if We push it back tao hundred and fifty
thousand years. shich DeMorsi!Ie. aud
others give as The age Of the human race.
Just count three generations 10 a century,
or thirty TO every thousand years, and reck
on up the history Of ore individual. imsg
inc tbs number Of bir,ns necessary TO bring
into existence one member OF The sevsa
thousand. ave handredth generation!
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-07-07
Only Five Minutes.

Hdelay OF FIVE minutes has frequently
Drought serious trouble TO the .tardy one.
That was an awkward predicament in which
poor Mr.. p found himself-namely.
i've minute too late for his marriage
minutes which seemed to the marriage
party, and especially to the bride. ike hours
OF torture. Strange that such a mischance
did not cure him Of ~unpunctual habits ye,
Improved %unavaiiing Tor that gentleman
and bis wife Kept the company invited to
meet them &, their first dinner party waiting
for fully half an ho1r and still. though o d
married people, continue in all things the
SAME evil usage-caus < thereby an
amount OF annoyance 10 their trieuis never
10 Dc sufficiently regretted, and giving their
enemies TODD Tor endless gossip. An officer
invited by an ecceni r1c maiden aun. 10 wa,
upon her at certain hour, forfeited q
valuable gold watch, because he arrived 6v,
minutes late the stern old dame brookini