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EF An excursion to Summerfeld oi
the officers Of the B. Z. & C.. and quite
b number Of our citizens took place on
The 25th inst. The road was found in
excellent condition, and the title made
was excellent. The party remained st
Summer6eld about hslf an honr and re.
turned here In the evening The road
will be upeued for travel aid business
to that place on August lat.
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Baltimore Live Stock Market.

July %, 1883.
PRICES OF BEEF CATTLE AT fHE MARKET
rms wEEk.
Very best on sale this week, 5f.6c
That generally rated Erst quality, 4ta54c
Medium or good fair quality, S4a4f,
Ordinary thin steers, oxen d cows, 24a34:
Extreme range of prices, u &c
Most OF the sales were from 44a55c
! Hogs-The quality generally con-
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b NEuHARf Jr.. AMI family left Cald-
well for Los Angeles, California last
Thnfsaay, wbere they will make their
home snd engage lii fruit culture, III thst
delightful region. Mr.. Neahart Is an
energetic business nan and had very
profitable situations offered him Press
s6sh ;nst.
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If 1T zce2'e possible

cV CtCf q OOocUOSO
to get the testimony Of the multitude who
have used HOOPS SARsAPARILLA for de-
bility, languor, lassitude, and that general
feeling of stupidity, WEAKNESS and exhaus-
tion which every one feels during this season,
we sh0tld be able to present to Our readers
Such an overwhelming mass of commend
atery messages; that the few who haSs not
tried it would do so at once. 1t is 4 positive
fact, and has been so efTectually demon
strated that no ono to-day denies it, that
Hoods Sarsaparilla contains more real med
einalv value than any article before the people.
TThNt DRAtuf, MASS.
MEssRs. CT. HOOD s. Co.,
Lowell, Mass:
=" Dear Sirs-I have suf-
fered from kidney sdhl!:
Nan Did plaint and biliqHsness , for
fifteen years. Have tried
au.IL everything and never got
tCtJV any good. Last January,
before commenced TAX
Kidney Ing aIooD,s sAfsApARItc :, h1ast
Complaint e% chest ST and md arms, arm ihaadaehs
and dizzy L could not
eet up without feeling weary and all fdgged
out. Many mornings was oDilgeo 10 he
down on tile lounge. To do any work seem-
cd almost impossible. Have taken two bot
tles The backache, dizziness. pain in my
chest and arms, and that feeling of intense
WEAKNESS are all gone. l can eat anything
and 1t does not press me at all. Feel just
like wurkj in fact, like a new man. Can
heartily recommend HOODS SARsAPARILLAi
and hope all who desire to know anything
about it will Come to me and ask what
think of it. Very truly tOhrs,
JONATHAN j. COBURN.
HOODS SARSAPARlLLA
Wotks through the blood, regulating, t6nin6
ana tnvigorating all the functions of the body.
Sold by druggists. Price 81, or six for So
C.I.nOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.'
feb2O.'S3Y.
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tndex to New Advertisements.
Local Notes and Notions.

MRs PoeaExBURa and daughter MIN
ME are visiting friends in Wheeling.
Mrs. Captain CHAs. BcorH. of Wheel.
ing, visited friends in Woodsfeld last
week.
Misses DEE BEARD and Lucy WEST
visited Mr. john MoRRrs at Jerusalem
last week
Mrs. r SINCLAIR and daughter OLA
returned from th ir visit to Bealssills
last Friday.
Mrs. Dr.. KEKpERs. OF B,sllsville, il
WISHING her mother Mrs. T. SINcLAIF
OF this place.
M. JoHS SNYDER AMI wife and daugh'
TER CLARrBEL, returned from Wheeling
last Friday evening
Mrs Lou TiLLMAK who has beer
spending some time in Wheeling re
turned last Monday.
Misses SADIE JUDk1xs and ANNA
BIEEs. OF Philadelphia, are guests of j.
r. JuDKIss this week.
Miss MFR, OF Delaware, and Miss
DoRsEY. Of Powhatsn, VISITED at D..
ARMsrRoHG's last week.
There will he a grand picnic at the
Nj. Vernon school house, near Rim ards
Mills on the 18Th of August.
ROAD TAX RECEIPTS for sale at
THE SpIRrr efiice. Orders by mail will
receive prompt attention.
JAKE XkMPLE. of Wheeling, the West
Va orator, will address the people at
.Summeffeld on Wednesday.
Mrs. WEST and Mrs JERE. WILLIAMS
visited Mrs. JoR. WAY, at Elm Cove,
Washington township, last week
Mrs. AS1MAs and Mr.. Dixon, of Bel
mont Co and Miss DIXON, of St. Glars
vile. are visiting at DR.. ARMsrRoSa's.
J. +. JuDkfSs, ELMER SMITH, ALFRED
EkRLEY, Tox RousE and CHARLEY HALL.
attended the Reunion at Columbus last
week.
Misses MATTE OKEY and DEE BEARD
and Mr.. ASHER 0kEr spent last Sunday
Mt Somerton visiting their Uncle Mr..
BFry HoBBs.
JAMES RlNARp, OF Kansas, is visiting
friends n the Southern part of this
county, and Washington county, and
will leave for K Kmsss in ahont ten DAYS.
:, a. E. GRIFFITH. of Beallsville. the
paten.ee OF TIE Buckeye Road Grader,
fsmAking arrangements to have it man.
'ufactured. 1t is success in every par
ulan-Esterprise
q Rev J. W. GARRowAS. of Wilkins
GnrgA, Pa. win preach in the Pfeshyte
riau church in New Castle Aug 5ih, at
lot A. NJ. at Woodsield at 81 P. NJ,
and at Buchanan church at y P. NJ.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27

Prominent members of the G.. A. X. at
Pitsburg, Pa, have received a letter from
Paul VandervOort, ex-cOmmander-in-chief
Of the g. A. r in which the recent &C.
ton OF Postmaster General Gresham, in re-
moving him from service is reviewed at
length. V4ndervOprt admits that he vas
absent from duty 265 days the last fiscal
wear. but says TINS was by permission OF
p stmaster Generals Howe and Gresham.
Under Howe his pay went on, but since
urtsham came into power he mas only been
paid for the tue on duty. In any event,
he saws, the charge has been Withdrawn
and il is now urged agsinst him that be
vent to idaho contrary to instructions from
DIVISION Superintcudent " hite, hence his
Suspension. THIS charge he denies, anc
saws his visit to la was for the purpose
ofins ructing men on the ne y routes. an d
mat White wanted him to stay lOnser than
he did. He complains that he was removed
without notice or investigation, and says
Gresham has been imposed on, ard that
he will be satisfied with nothing short OF
reinstatement.
Fred Douglass, speaking Of the colored
national convention to be held at Louis
vile, says he does not think that the con-
vsntion will nominate anybody. It will
prob.bly say that the cOiored race ought
TO have a more liberal share in the distri-
button of offices, and may go so far as 10
demanc a colored cabinet officer. II the
convection does anything in the way ofnom.
mating OF enoOrsipg anybody, It will BE-
RDoe I T.. Lincoln. There is only one
name on the other side that would have
any weight with tue cOlored people, anc
that Is Ben Butler. He stands very wei.
with the colored people of the south.
.Jupius Brutus Booth, the veteran actoI
and manager. who has been i'll at Manches
ter by the Sea, is in a critical condition an'
rapidly sinking. All hopes OF his recovery
have been abandoned, aud Mrs. Agne
Booth is at his bedside. IRWIN Booth ha
also been there.
Senator Sharon says he is the largest rea
estate oSner in SaR Francisco. having Slll
100000 worth there.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
NEwS GOSSIP.

Marquis Tzeng, the Chinese ambassador,
in an interview at FolkestOne, on his re-
turn from Paris, said China was determined
to concede nothing. Concerning suzereinty
over Annem, she did not van France to
possess territory adjoining the Chinese
frontiers. The dispatch of a French rein
foroenient to ToBQuin would be unfortunate,
as il would compel China 20 send troops TO
adjacent provinces. Tue military party Is
daily gaining ground at Pekin. Any ILL
considered ueasu, on the part OF the
French mig be attended with fatal results.
The marquis said nothing definite had re-
suited from his journey to Paris.
It is stated that the czarina lately detect
ed one OF the imperial chambsrlains in the
act Of placing Lihilist documents in her
apartments, end he, fearing the cOnse-
quences, suiciaed. Toe authorities endeav-
ored to prevent the .act being made public
The North Germln Gazette. in a leading
article. accuses the London Times OF crafi-
IN sowing disseusious between France and
Germany by persistent distortion Of facts
The cure OF Cayna, Peru, it is alleged.
caused the assassination OF LeOdora Me-
RAILS, governor Of Huamico, whose head
was paraded through the streets.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The report oil the commissioners OF the
State of New York shows 1853, 374 emigrants
landing at the Port Of New York from Aug
g. 1885. TO June 30 1884, inclusive. The
largest number landed in any one month,
6.e53, was in May. 1883 and the smallest,
s,343, in Jspuary o. the same year. The
duty imposed on the board Of returning
paupers and persons unable to take care OF
themselves to the port rom whence they
came, has been carefully exercised, AID a
large number of undesirable persons has
been sent back.
W. Montrose, of the New York Police
Gazette, has been convicted at Atlanta,
Georgia, Of distributing obscene pictorial
newspapers, and sentenced to pay $1,000 or
serve twelve moHths on the chais gang.
The presiding judge said be will impose the
full penalty because the defendant was
seeking to get a foothold for a paper that
had been suppressed for i've years. The
case goes to the supreme court.
A telegram has been recei we'd from Port
land, Me-, stating that ten car loads Of
canned goods would be shipped from that
city to its nsmesske in Oregon, via Blue
Line, Chicago a Northwestern and Northern
Pacific railways. The order is a special one,
the goods being put up for a sample ship
HEuAa hNEFN GAA a. 10 AhNA y 0AA =
goods. Portlan', Me, to Portland, Greg"
In the case Of Richards War ct al. VS..
State Of California, Involving the title of
lands claimed TO be within the limit oftbe
Los Angeles Mexican grant, the secretary
of the interior has decided that applicants
to purchase under the seventh section OF the
act Of 1886 have no valid claim under such
act, the land being in q sense within the
claimed limits OF the grant.
Il is eIpec ed that Mullan tunnel will be.
finished within thirty days, and that the
cars will probably be running through IL by
ne 18Th Of next month. BOzeman unnel
will be finished early in December if there
are no unexpected celays.
1t is reported that 3 move is on foot to
place Col. William +. Villas, OF Wisconsin.
in nomination for the vice presidency on
the democratic ticket.
Notice has been received by the elevator
companies at Duluth that 800 car loads of
wheat we're on the way there by the Man
itoba road.
I La Crosse has contributed S1,514 for the
Rochester sufferers.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
M

MONMOUTH BEACH. N. j.. Sept. 12.-HusI
J Hastings. proprietor Of the New York COM
mercial Advertiser. died this evening At : o ciodI
the result Of being thrown from his carriage a fsI
davs ago.
land on Aug 20. 1920 and come 10 this countI
when einht years Of age. His family hnai- ~
tied in Albany. but soon he came 70 Nov 1ofl
and found q ulace as an GRAND boy IN a Ntlam'
street dry goods store. Then be went back Z
Albany. r~estesslv casting about for sou'
way TO better his condition. AZ
WAYS an omuivorous reader, he steadii
added to his stock Of knowledge and began w1nnl
for the newspapers. His unique style and ca'
wav Of gpffiug at the heart OF his subject took a
once, Il 1870. when twenty wears q ags, he a.
tarh-d hims-lf % the Albany ID iy Atas as are
po.ter, aud his local TENS made a hin.
In a few years. however. the longing 20 brand
out for himself took possession n HIM. ant heial
a. that time possessed Of the muuihceuf Tor une I
$3.50. he saw nothing that stood in me way ~ "
ambition. The result vas tn Aibaur Dauy hTie'
erhocker. which was a success almost from pa
Start. Long before be was a voter he hnd 2 unee
into politics. and IN 1910 lahoret for Iippec1nA
and Tyler too" He was a great admirer OF tl
and an early friend OF Gen. TAYLOR VIZ
when he became president, male him ci
ect0r Of The port OF Albany, Mr. hesllnls vas
believer in Fillmore. and when the latter beam
president be gave up the cOllectorship. He w
warmly attached % Weed and Seward. aud no u1
wars provoked BY those gentlemen Hastings can
IN for his share OF the hard KNOCKS He was
able. adrnit lieutenant. who believed that ol ishl
in political warfare. Until year or two ago 4
has been a steady attendant on political CO zen
tons for two score years. 10 1882 he was adeis
gate 70 the National Whig conveution-fh hs
one ever held-voted on every ballot against ~
| more. and was more or less instrumental In makin
Gen. Sent the candidate II the party. lie Va
| also al the birth Of the Republican PARTY. and q
wavs a friend OF the negro. In 1868 he went Z
| New YORK, having accepted The directorship dig
| Commercial Advertiser. Thnrlow Weed was tha
| editor. but Ia a short time was Obliged TO retire
I and Hastings purchased a controlling Interest
that Journal Through the long senatorial ne-
at Albany, in lsSl. when friend after inel
| Of Nj. Cankling's dropped away. the Commefe
continued TO stand no for him with a loyaii 2,
often witnessed. He had been a friend ON
/ Conkling for yesrs. was instrumental in secunl
his election 70 the United States senate Tor the p
time, bur IT late years more or less cgtdnesu ..
grown up between them. and al the breaking og
the senatorial fight they had not met more =.
once or twice Ia several years. He e.Sous'
cause Of Coukling, because he believed New %.
had been humiiaied through her senators: butull
ing the progress Of the struggle he had no comm
nicafion with the senators who were strugtlnsl
recollection. He was hospiiahle 70 degree .
had a fine place at Monmouth Beach
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS..

AT a meeting o~fs'ockhoiders of the Ohio
Central, held IN Toledo, Ohio, o. the l2th
inst, about one-half OF the $4,000 OO0 OF
stock in the company was representa-.
The old board of directors made a very full
report Of the operations o. the company in
its present condition, up TO June 80. 1883.
The gross earnings we've S1,077, 100; all
expenses, 1927 32s; met esrniDgr, $349, 722;
total floating deot, 1898, 5s3; cash items on
hand, S349, ass. Surplus over the debt,
S80O, 9O4; total first mortgage debt on ali
divisions. 1858, 600; income deSts, 6, 40O, 900;
car trust certificates, 50, 100, 0OO; fixed
charges to pay on mortgage bonds, S541.
300; car trust interest. Bl65, sue; texes on
rentals, 1000; total fixed chargrs, $780,
$50. All treasury securities were sold.
Tue mileage Is $40 miles. main line; AZ
miles " sidiDgs rue equipment consists
Of AZ engines. 4 SIS freight cars, y passen-
ger cars and $50 miscellaneous cars.
Hon. T. c. Pound, Of Wisconsin, was in
St. Paul on the 18th inst. fol the purpose
OF conferriEg with the citizens in regard to
com leting the ST. Paul Eastern Grand
Trunk railway to that CITY. Mr.. Pound is
the president Of the C E1pany and is deyOt-
ing bis entire III. e 10 the early completion
of the road. The rosie is from OcOnfo to
Shswano, on the Wolf river, thence to War
HNEA 1A ~ - Ems AANNAH NlA W ~
Paul, the exact location from WARSAW to
s.. Paul, not being decided as yet.
The emigration department of the North
erh Pacific road is making a collection OF
ores,and minerals fr.m the various Mon
tana mines. A large number OF specimens
have already arrived at the office In st.
Paul. A portion will BE- sent fOr.exhibitiOn
at the Cincinnati exposition, a portion will
b. sent to the Boston exposition, and a fDe
lot kept in the emigration office. Some re-
markedly fine specimens of petri6ed wood
have found their way into the collection.
An unbroken line Of rail now extends from
Portland. Maine, to Portland, Oregon, and
some enterprising citizens will ship ten
| FREIGHT cars filed with canned corn pul az
In Portland, Maine, directly to its name
sake on the Pacific coast, without change
Of cars. From Port and, Ne, 10 Portland
Greg, =" 70 that they cannot fail 10 be no
ticed all along the route. The train viii
! be photographed before il starts.
j. 7. Odell. assistant general manager o
the Northern Pacific railroad, has receive,
, from W. f.. Allen, Philadelphia. a magni
ncent map showing the proposed stsndar'
time Or the lines OF railroad on the Amer
ca continent. There are i've standard
proposed, one for each Of the i've great d,
tricts. and indicated in colors.
q The passenger agents Of the Chicago
Milwaukee and 81. Paul, the Omaha, an
the Albert Lea roads were I'm consultatio
In St. Paul aud Minneapolis on the l8t
inst, and Z. Is supposed they came to
3 mutual understanding In regard TO cuttin
: rates, and n is proba0le that no more crl
ting will occur.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27

1t is now believed that the surplus of
the post office department for the year
ending June Snth, will be three million
dollars, or almost double that OF the last
fiscal year. Should this prove true and
the steady increase of mail business go
on. it is highly probable that the expsr-
iment Of two-cent letter postage will
vindicate itselfby a freedom from depart
ment deficit during the very first year of
its introduction. In that case, it will be
less difficult to persuade Consresst to risk
n cent postage than it was to reduce
the rate from three cents to two.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
whelan house. Winnipeg, was robbed Of
81, 600 a few days ago.
RECORD or

Ga the morning Of the 10Th inst, Mr..
Foster, living near New POsen, Minn., went
away 10 a ~neighber's TO help in threshing,
and his wife and two sons went Out to ~.rk
in A hay feld halt a mile from the house,
eaviDg little Maud Foster in the care of a
man named Mason, who makes his home
there. About 10 o'clock Mr.. Mason lett the
child 10 the house alone, aud won't away on
horseback TO the place Fhere the threshing
crew were at work. A few min utes after
be had left, Mrs. Foster heard screams II
the direction OF the house, and looking that
wav s.e saw the child rushing from the
house, its form completely enveloped IN
flames. By the time the agUnized mother
could reach the spot the poor girl was lit
orally roasted from bead to foot, n life
nearly extinct. A doctor was sent for, but
to no use; the child died in its halfcrazei
mothers arms oon after his arrival.
At Aldora, Iowa, two boys, sons ofSam-
uel wisner, a German farmer who lives
there, were drowned in the lows river. The
boys. who were aged respectively eight and
twelve, had been fishing in the river and
the smaller is supposed to have fallen In
and the other persisted IN trying to get him
out. They were tangled up in the tsh line
when taken out, the line being wrapped
around the neck Of the little fellow.
A young son Of George Rape, a farmer
living between Lanesboro and Preston,
MIMI. was killed on the 18th inst, by get
ting CAUGHT by the tumbling rod OF u
threshing machine. He was completely
disemboweaed and his intesdnes wound
around the tumbling rod.
As an Omaha gravel train was coming
from work at an early hour on the 18Th
inst, neared their yard at Ashland, Wis.
they struck and instantly killed, and utter
IL cut to pieces, an unknown tramp. The
~coroncr's Jury failed to discover his name
or residence.
Seven Of the thirteen ice houses at North
Chelmford, Mass, BELONGING to the Boston
ice company, we're burned on the 18th
last. Loss b35. 900; insurance $4,000.
The packing house of f. s. Andrews al
New Haven, Conn has been burned.
IS, S25 600; insured. Forty men art
thrown out OF employment.
A fire at Casey, ILL.,, recently destroyed
eleven houses and several offices. Loss
$50 900.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
Bank swindlers Ragged.

A few days $40 a circular was received
the banks at WinnDa, Mimi. from 4
Keokuk National back OF Keokuk. IoWI
Giving information Of three swindlers, u
we're each carefully described, together VI
their mode of operation. They work
first and second bills of exchange, 4
original and duplicate drafts. Going 10
bank they, OF one of them, pretends to Be
grain buyer or a cattle man rem u
Mexico, and want first and second bills 1
exchange, or duplicate drafts. Then M
90 to axotber town, produce the second
the duplicate, stating that The hrsl j
original has been lost or stolen, and dePo'l
il for collection, and have ths banks con
spondent telegraph when paid. As so1
as the telegram reaches the sending ban
they get the money, go to the next tosl
make acquaintance and get the hrst 4
original cashed. j
Inquiry was made by thdKeokuk bsBk
to whether the parties had been in Vino
srnce the 7th OF August On looking u
the matter Il was ascertained that the u
had been there and purchHl
a DRAFT on one OF the banks. but no los 4
Sustained. A day or two ago anou
letter was receiV a from the keoxuk oAn
announcing the arrest Of the rogues on
3ist Of August, at La~wreoce, Kan. hem
sheets was taken 10 1e0kuk and place
Jail 70 await the action OF the grand III
The Keokuk bank secured its $l,O0O y
on the original drait. the duplicate hasI
been paid In New YORK three days pes
Gardner, alias Bradley, and = great -
other ALIASES was turned over 70 the y
gems bank OF Grinnell. Iowa. The keoa
bankers ascertained that the swinol
we're In Wlnona about the sth OF Aus3
buyIDs SEil inal aud duplicate crafts V
they cashed al Waterloo, lows, o. thsk
insi. rhe Waterloo bank sire. me
ma people. who advised them Of the =
cate and - saved them nom loss
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
The PostaI Notes.

The present order for postal notes was
delivered in 6,244 books, containing 500
notes each. These were ken In chargeib"
the superintendent iOf the money order sys-
TEN and sent 10 postm asters Aug. 10.
The Homer Lee bank note company, which
received the contract for the notes. are now
busy get n ready a reserve Of A 600 books,
a number which has always to be kept On
hand The notes are sent 70 the various
pOstmasiers In packages OF one or more
books, The new notes are not meant %
TAX the place Of money orders. The uni
form Tee Tor the postal note Is three cents.
IL may be drawn on any 0i1oe specified, or
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27

The sharp frost which recently visited
the most Of the Northern states was par
ticularly severe in New England. The
Connecticut river valley is a very impor-
tant tobacco-growing region. and it was
here that the Tuesday frost was most
sharply felt. In so me places the mer-
curry fell to thirty degrees, and the re-
suit was that in those places the tobacco
leaves were frozen stiff and utterly
ruined. Cutting was also about half over;
many crops we're standing in the fields,
not ripe enough to cut. In four counties
of Massachusetts, the loss is estimated at
SIPS 900. Farmers losses IA ge from
$500 to 50, 500 each, and as tobacco is
their chiei crop many Of them are dis
heartened 1t the sudden destruction in
a single night of the fruit ofthejr seasons
labor.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27

Frank James, surviving b III T
Jesse James, has been declared not
guilty Of murder by a jury at Gala in,
Mo-, after a formal trial lasting several
days. The verdict WAS received by
demonstrations of joy by his crowd Of
friends in attendance. II follows that
James enjoys greater prestige to-day
than if he had never murdered and
plundered his fellow beings. 1t must
be that the yellow covered literature
exerts a morhidly sentimental public
spirit over its many readers in that
state.
The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27

Some. two years ago Mr.. Blaine was
put on the scent OF more than a million
dollars Of property belonging TO the de-
Mnct confederate government, but owing
TO the non-committal propensity Ofthose
that knew most about its Whereabouts it
has eve been unearthed. Now the
question is again revived, but it ap-
pears that nobody knows ola certainty
that the government had any great
amour OF wealth, out it is taken for
granted that it ought to have had, and
50 the conclusion Is readily drawn that
it did have. The amount is estimated at
the tidy figures Of $4,000, 600, and it is
thought to be slowed away in various
English and continental banking houses.
Perhaps an inquisition of some sort
might force some members of the old
confederate government TO disclose what
they knew in the premises.