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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-21
SPRING QUESTIONINGs.

When April airs blow soft and tree.
And robins sing right merrily;
When hyacinths perfume the earth.
And insect life finds instant birth;
When dappled skies drop smiles and tears
OF mirth convulsed by sudden feara:
When earth knows not TO weep or sing.
Because Of her awakening.
Then. darling, l will come to thee;
Beloved, will thou answer me?
When human nature Is in tune
With mother nature, all ablooln;
When in your own sweet garden spots
Spring lilies and for3et-me.nO
When holy thoughts as pure IS dawn
Fly up to meet the early morn;
When earth sees all her winter dreams
Spring into life; when marie seems
To rrle the hour and love to bless,
Beloved, wilt thou anRWer eye Y
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

IlHctHNuH O'uWW"'
At supper one evening Mr.. Topnoody,
after praising his wile's fine biscuits and
good coffee, began 10 talk on municipal
sff4ir, in hopes that Mrs. 7. would take q
hand, and she did.
"Aly dear" he said, "do you know the
city Is going to appropriate 100000 to
clean and repair the streets?'
~ did see something about an appro-
priation, or whatever you call It, and q
man named ingalls,, but | thought 1t was
something going on in Congress, or the
senate, or Cabinet, or somethipg!"
81 believe so, but this matter Is right
here at home, and I'm glad to see the
prospect OF an era Of reform and cleanli.
ness, because we need II, not only in the
streets, but everywhere else"
"Are you ready to do your thare in
cleaning the city, TopnoOdy"
"Aye, that | am, ready and willing;
more, lam eager TO do my humble por.
ton" and he swelled up with municipal
patriotism.
"Vcry well, then, Topnoody, 60 out there
in the backyard and begin. It's too dirty
to think OF and I've beena at you ever since
last spring to help your poor, struggling
wife in her efforts to make your surround
ings respectable. l like to see you men
blow about cleaning the streets when you
leave your wives to paddle around in ferry
boats in their own back yards. They are
all alike, Topnoody, and you are more
alike, l believe, than any Of the rest Of
them. Bah, at your street cleaning and
your million dollar appropriations, when
Il your wives didn't make you, you
wouldn't even put OIL a clean shirt oitener
than once In three months like to hear
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15
mARrIx VAN BuRES.
How He Gotin a Bad FIX and Worried
His Party.

Atlantic AoNuby.
Josiah Quincy, in his Figures Of tht
Past" gives an amusing incident which
occurred duringa review Of the Boston
brigade, and takes the opportunity, with
somewhat mock gravity, OF exoneratinG
himself from an imputation under which
be has rested for fifty years. Mr.. Van
Buren, and the members OF the cabinet
had declined to take part in the review
but suddenly r%econsidered their decision
when all the suitable horses had been
otherwise engaged. ~ frankly told
him." says Nj. Quincy, "that had
given up the animals that had been en-
gagged, and that the party must now take
such leavings as might be had. Remem
bering that from a militia standpoint the
trappings are about s%even.eighths OF thu
horse, / at once ordered the finest mill
tary saddles, with the best quadrupeds
under them that were proCurable. They
appeared in due time, and we mounted
and proceeded to the field in good order
but the moment We reached the common
the tremendous discharge OF ARTILLERY
which saluted the president scattered thu
cabinet in all directions. Van Buren, wa
q good horseman, and kept bis seat, but
havingneither whipnorspur, found himsel
completely in the power OF his terri
fed animal, who, commencing 1
series OF retrograde movements Q
a most unmilitary character, inallI
brought up with his tail against the fenct
which then separated the mall from thu
common, and refused to bulge another
inch. In the meantime the President anC
his staff had galloped cheerfully round thu
troops, and taken up their position on thu
rising ground, near tue foot Of Joy street
to receive the marching salute. why
where's the vice PRESIDENT suddenly ex
claimed the President, turning to me To-
an explanation. About as near on thu
fence "a a gentleman Of his positive
political convictions is likelyt to get, said |
pointing him out, | felt well enough &C
quainted with jackson by this time to ven
lure upon a little pleasantly. That's yer!
true said the old soldier, laughing hear
tily; and you've natcked hin
with a horse who is even more non com
initial than his rider Now, the Demo
Gratis were very sensitive about MIR. Var
Buren,, and among them started Il repor
that I had provided their prince impefia
with this preposterows horse in order tt
put him in a ridiculous position. | wa
much annoyed by this story, and although
1t may be thought a little late to give 1t
formal contradiction through the press,
feel constrained to do so. 1t was the Nic'
Presidents own fault, and no neglect OF
the part OF the managing aide-de,camp
that placed him In a position to which hii
party 30 reasonably objected"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15
IIfe ~poLerAnonr the Poets.

William Cullen Bryant is said to have
been a student Of draw poker, but there Il
no evidence 10 prove it.-Boaon Pot,
Isn't there? In ThdHdtgpSis he says: "Thou
shalt lie down with kings!' Shakespeare
played poker, too. He makes Poloni4'
say: beware Of entrance into a Jackpot,
but being in, beart that the opposed may
beware Of thee" Also says Hamlet, prob
ably having raised the pot on four clubs
and a heart-"Now might | do 1t pat"
Then see the following:
~ cannot draw."-King Lear, p.,3.
"This business will raise US all."-W Win
ter's Tale, H., 1.
AZ would give all my fame for a pot
Henry V, ill., 9.
"Let him pass peaceabIy."-2 Henry
W., 8. ,
"You apprehend passing shrewdly."-
Much ado, ii /. i,
II can draw as soon as any other man."
Romeo and Julid, H.
King John had evidently run up against
u flush with threes, for he says: ut is the
curse OF kings "-Kins John H., 2.
Henry VI. likewise must have bad
dismal experience when he was forced tc
call the dealer-"Thou setter up and
plucker down Of king.."-S Henry VI, IL
5. Then we have several hints OF the handl
held in those grand old days:
az have a bobtail. king Lear, iii, 8.
"These begging acks."-Aerchant o
ave see these things effected to the
fulI."-2 Henry W., i,2.
straight let us seek."-King John, y, Z
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15
BREAKFAsTRuDGET
81 Lnuia has a home tor aged and

St. Louis has q home for aged and in6rm
Hebrews.
The State Of New jersey paid last year
$1,000 in bounties for the growing oil sor-
ghum cane and the manufacture OF sugar
from 1t.
Galveston has passed Savannah in cot
ton receipts, aud is now the second cotton
mort in this country. The receipts this
season have been 100000 bales.
In Oregon they license, not the saloons,
Int the drinkers. II q man wants to
Inractice at the bar" where drinks are
compounded he has to take out a 81 license.
A Louisville man wears trousers that
measure Eity.eight inches around the
waist. He turns the scale ut four hundred
and twelve pounds. He seems to have got
his growth.
Tho adulteration OF Chinese teas with
American catnip leaves is not so objection:
able. inasmuCh MS the action Of the added
ingredient is Quieting on the nerves, and
induces sleep.
Il The Parnell fund has now reached the
sum OF $33,DS0. Capt. Finerty, OF Chicago,
Ia entitled to tho credit oil starting and
nushinC this fund to save ParnelPs estate
from being sold for debt Chicago Tribune.
Prince Napoleon having been jeered and
threatened by French Socialists, who cried
out in chorust that when hogs were iattened
1t was time to kill them, o the sympathy
and enthusiastic admiration OF his assail-
ants by alleging that he was an unfortunate
American hoy, exiled from Germany by
the brutal hostility OF Prince Bismarck.
Great praise has attached to the action
Of Earl Spencer in going down TO Bel
mtllGt to personally superintend the de.
portatiou Of the famine stricken Irish
emigrants. The emigrants' view Of his
e~xcellency's devotion was cynical, one OF
them saying: "Bpgorra, here's the
head.drover himsel some to give q last
twist to our tails.
The taste for frogs legs Is becoming so
widespread that one dealer, Mr.. ]. NJ.
Beck, OF Boston, has set a hundred expert
frog catchers at work in the New England
States, aud estimates that the demand this
summer will DO double that Of last year.
An experiment in breeding bulliroEs in
England Is about to be made, and a con.
adorable supply Of spawn will be sent
over for that purpose next month.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

The influence OF the soil upon the health oil
those living upon 1t, Is brought out very
plainly during the prevalence OF epidemic
diseases. That mRlarial diseases like
Intermittent fevers) originate FROM the
soil, Is already accepted; aud recent
Investigations show pretty cOnclusiVely that
the germs OF Cholofa, Abdominal Typhus,
Yellow Fever, and the plague are In some
way connected with the soil, which Is daily
corroberated BY letters from oil parts Of The
has on those diseases. and In their convalescent
state, John Z. Courtney, Of Cory, Pa, says;
~ am still getting better, thanks TO your
PtrlMa aud Adadlin." See page "a in ellis Of
Life. paw
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

Wa are the sole agents in Wheeling for these
celebrated goods. Don't buy 4 cheap woven wire
mattress when you can get a Hartford tha WI
hsta llfetIme: but II you won't pay the price
and must have 4 cheap one, we can supply you:
We have a complete line OF all the better makes Of
cheap Woven Wire Mattresses.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

A MAN sitting in the back 0 Of a
saloon playing euchre breathes about
eighteen times per minute. A female voice
suddenly falls upon his ear, and his rcspir.
alton jumps to forty.nine quicker'n scat.
Detroit Free Press.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

MosRoE, Mich Sept 25, lS75.-sirs:
have been taking Hop Bitters for inf ANNA
ton OF kidneys and bladder. It has done fol
me what four doctors failed 10 do. The etiecI
OF Hop Bitters seemed like magic to me
W, L GARTER. Trhe&W
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15
nIED.

DEscH-on Sunday evening. May 49,, 1888, at
o'cltck, KARL DEscH, In the 6lStyeAr Of his sse,
Funeral from his late residence, No 81 Eigh
teenth street. on Tuesday afternoon, at half'past
O'Clock. Friends OF the family are invited. Inter
man, nj panInEulAr Cemetery
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

For Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle OF
Suiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails to cure.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

WHY will you cough when shiloh's Cure
will give immediate relief. Price loo, 900
and ST..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

men talk, but / don't want to hear any
thing from you, Topnoody, until you've
disinfected that back yard"
Topnoody Is at present onlys silent part
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-15

IT Is DIFFICULT TO GI7E IN A DOZEN LINES
THE REASONS WHY TnrrRut's Seltzer Ape
rient sHO6LD BE PREFRRRED As ACoRREC.
TIVE AND ALTERNATIVE TO EVERY OTHER
MEDICINE IN USE FIRSTLY, IT ALLAY5 FH
vER; SECONDLY. IT CLEASSa9 TIVE BOWELS
TOMS THE STOMACH; FOURTHLY, IT REiU'
LATRS TIE FLOW OF BILE: FIFTHLY. IT PRO
MOTIFS HEALTHY PRECIPITATION: HlNrHLY,
SOME HUMORS: SEvENTHLY IT TRANQUIL
lies TIE NERVES; ElIiHTHLY, IT ACTS Ut0E
THE BLOOD AS a DEPuRENT: AND LASTLY
Informs ONE0F THE MOST DELICIOUS co IL.
ING DRAUGRTS THAT EyRR PASSED DOWN
THE THROATo OF AN INVALID. SOLD BY ALL
DRUGGISTS, myl0
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-10
Casualties.

Harrisburg, 1.-TWO freight trains col
lided on the Pennsylvania Railroad, ct
Clarksberry, this morning, demolishiDg
the engines, a number OF cars, and kill
ing the fireman, Willis Hogle, and Sc
riously iniuring engineer Richard Light
ner end brakeman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-10

In countries where malaria is
prevalent, or where the climate is
subject to sudden changes-should
be found IN every house Browns
Iron BitteIs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-10
The Irish.

Sligo. 9.-The meeting announced
at Cliffoney, under the auspices Of
Sexton and Healy has been pro-
claimed, and large force of police
are drafted into the district.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-10

SHILOH'S CATARRH REM
EDY-a positive cure for Catarrh,
;Dlphtheria and Canker Mouth. Sold
G. n. l. Drug Store. az
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-10
1'EIl....EGRAPHIC
Fiuz John Porter.

Washington. 9.-Geperal Longstreet,
by request of the NGttonG6 Republican,
sends that paper the following letter:
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
WESTVIRGINIA FREEMAN.
Fifth Division b. & o. Notes.

Miss Jennie Smith was in Graf
ton, last Sunday and held an all
day meeting in the B. d o. Car
penter Shops. .
Last Saturday track hand OF
the Davisville Section, was hurt
severely by railroad bar falling
on his head. 1t is feared that it
fractured his skull.
The stone work is being put IN
for a new station house at Ellen
boro, and they have commenced on
the brick work of the station at
Pennington.
Rev. Mr.. Powell and family, of
Petersburg, spent last Saturday
and Sunday at Mr.. John Wool
ards, of Petroleum. Mr.. Powell
preached Sunday morning and
evening at Volcano Junction.
Scarlet fever prevails in West
Grafton. The editor of the Graf
ton Sentinel lost little child by it.
1t is also bad in the Sixth Ward,
Parkersburg. Two of your COZ
respondents children had an at
tack of it.
Mogul 176 is just out of the Par
kersburg shops in good trim,
J. J. Ogden, carpenter OF the b.
e. O. Shops, Of this place, is trying
to selthis pretty house and lot, to
remove to Texas, where he has
brother.
Capt. Frederick of the Cannon
Ball. has laid off for short time
and gone to Richmond. Mr.. James
Moffatt has his place.
Will Crawford has quit the B d
0. Shops of this place and gone to
firing.
The B. & 0. shops Of this place
are still building new freight cars
at the rate of eight per week.
Brakeman Bowers, while trying
to catch some chickens, which had
cot loose in way train car, sever
al DAYS ago, was overbalanced by
the motion of the train and fell out
at the door. He struck on his side
and shoulder and very fortunately
escaped with dislocated finger
and several slight bruises. All the
same, it was laughable.
Mr.. John Bowen, yard boss on
car works of this place, has just re-
turned from a trip TO Missouri,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

J. NJ. Walters, General job Printer,
IS Market Street, Parkersburg, v. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13

looking for a farm that was re-
ported to be floating around all
the spring. Guess he found it and
tied it to peg.
On the 5th inst, at No. 2 mines
near Clarksburg, one man was
killed and two badly wounded by
fall of rock and coal on the
ground, where the Company are
putting in coke ovens. The man
that was killed leaves a family in
poor circumstances.
Mr.. John Cooper, who for several
years has been conducting the
train on the l.. T. & S, H. r. R.,
has quit and moved to Colorado
Pro-. Hare, of Morgantown, and
Principal in the Grafton schools,
last year, is now teaching school
at the Mineral Wells. Lucky
children to have teacher like Mir.
Hare.
Grafton has another mystery and
sensation. The mystery is about a
young man from Pittsburg, work
ing in a tin shop. He has disap-
peared without clothing or his
pay. His employer has written to
his friends and has heard nothing
from them as yet. He was quiet,
said but little, and boarded with
your correspondent at the house OF
Mr.. 10 Clayton.
The sensation is about two OF
Grafton's prominent lawyers hav-
ing a sparring match on the street,
few days ago, about public Of
fee.
There has been a big run Of
bonded freight west, over our dlvls-
ion the last few days, principally
sugar. Last Sunday morning
brought twenty-one car loads q
sugar in one train for St. Louis,
We are also running a large amount
of Eastern Shore vegetables and
tropical fruits west over the lines
Chas. NJ. Bailey received a long
aud interesting letter from MIR. and
Mrs. E. A. Harris, Of Fitchburg
Massachusetts, who were here last
winter, carrying on the revival at
the B. & O. Shops, giving an &C
count OF the meetings held in the
jail at that place. They say Mis-;
Jennie Smith and Miss Sherman
are directing their steps TOWARD
Parkeroburg. HILDRETH.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-06-13
Richie Rally.
Sunday School and Temperance Con-
Uentio1.

The Sunday School Convention
attracted a great many people to
Huntsville this week. The inter
est manifested was greater than
heretofore. Everybody took live
ly part in the proceedings. y,
The temperance rally on We'd
nesday evening was well attended:
Addresses We're made by several
prominent gentlemen, the speeches
being interpersed with some choice
selections of music.
The following persons were cleo
ted delegates to the State Temper
ance Convention:
Hon. D. McGregor, Rev. D. M.
Sleeth, Rev. 2ribble and Hall, G..
R. Brown, T. P. Jeffrey, Rev. Nc
Neel, w. G. Lowther and M. S. Hall.
-DemOcrdt
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13
TIE GROWTH IN RAILROADS.

Nothing evidences more wildly the gigan-
tics Of our railroad development. In $780,
there were in this country twenty-three miles
of railroad; at the present moment the mile
age Is l22, 900 miles-a mileage nearly as
great as that of all the rest of the world to-
gether. From 90 miles in 1880, the figures
sprang to 2S1S in 1S4S. 902l in 1850, 30, 635
in 1860 52,914 in 1870 and 07,G7l in 1880
rate of increase truly enormous. AS to
railroad building during the present year,
some interesting figures are given in Bullion.
The line mileage of construction reported
for the first six months of this year is 2,032
miles, against 4lS1 same period last year and
1917 in 1881. Should the proportion of 1882
be built in the second half of this year the
the proportion of 1881 be built the total will
be 1900. With any material improvement in
the market soon for the building securities,
the construction of 1888 will equal that of
1882, for there is fully 5000 miles, that could
be completed this year, and twice this mile
age is projected.
The outlay has been enormous. In the
five years following the panic of 1873, years
of widespread economy and poverty, we
built twelve thousand miles of railroad and
paid therefor three hundred millions of dol
ars. In the two years that have elapsed
since July, 1881, we have built twenty-five
thousand miles of railroad..and paid six humid
red millions of dollars.
Surely, this is great country and its
resources are literally boundless.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13

The Downing high license law of Missouri
has been declared constitutional and applica-
BILE 10 st. Louis by the supreme court of the
State. 1t afiirms the right of the State to
prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors and
to impose price for granting individuals
permission to do that which it has the right
to prohibit. The price thus paid is not a tax
in the meaning of the statute, but license.
The law in question must be regarded as a
'polce regulation established by the legisla-
ture tor the prevention of inlemperance, pau
perism and crime and for the abatement Of
nuisances." With respect to st. Louis being
included in its provisions, the matter turning
upon the Interpretation of the word "coun-
ty," the revised statutes, which went into ef-
feet November, 1879, are referred to. These
contain the clear statement that "whenever
the word county is used in any law general in
its character to the whole State, the same
shall be construed to include the city of st.
Louis unless such construction be .inconsist-
ent with the evident intent of such law
or some law especially applicable to such
cityn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13
PNEUMATIC EXPRESS.

The problem of transmission is rapidly be-
ing solved by modern inventive genius
The greatest triumphs of practical scientific
experiment, have been won in the endeavor
to annihlate space. The steam vehicle, the
electric telegraph and telephone, and now
finally the pneumatic tube, are wonders Of
mechanical genius little less than miraculous
lievc, is destined TO take its place with the
telegraph aud the telephone, as one of the
three leading methods of rapid transmission,
corresponding to the three necessities of
communication in modern civilzation-long
distance messages, quick verbal communica-
ton, and rapid interchange of extended cor
respondence and small articles of merchan-
disc. Great Inconvenience is felt at pres
emit, throughout the entire country, from the
lack of rapid transportation Several days
are necessary to obtain articles of immediate
demand, even within the limits of New Eng
land. AS mercantile affairs are managed
now, the great centres of supply, the national
storehouses, arc situated in the large
cities, and country establishments are
little more than privileged agencies
through which goods can be obtained
at par value. This being the case, it
would be matter Of vast convenience to the
purchaser, if there could " some method of
rapid transportation devised, by which goods
of small bulk could be obtained on the SAME
day when they were ordered. For instance,
II jewelry could be carried rapidly and safe
ly between the iobber aud the agent, the
purchaser would find such IA method of con-
veysnce exactly suited To his wants. There
IRE thousands of small aud valuable articles
which might be transmitted by the pneumat- !
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13

Mr.. Wharton Baker puts forth the theory
that no check should be put upon the gov
ernment revenue, but that the surplus ought
to be distributed among the States for the
payment o! public debts aud for other pur,
poses. The treasury statistics show that the
customs were SEQ, 40, 130 during the fiscal
year 1889, and no one seems to think That
the new tariff law will cause much decline.
The total receipts of the government during
1889 were S407, SCI, go, and the total expend-
lures were 5.57 1914, 439, leaving surplus
of $l45, 543,S2 1t is believed that the ma
tional finances are now on a basis Of $780,
00O, 900 or more annual surplus. This is II
very heavy surplus and presents a grave
problem to Congress which to do-reduce
the revenues or make satisfactory DISPOSE
tion OF it!