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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
She Lost Her Heart at Saratoga.

She lost il, il is said, 10 prominent
Southern lawyer whom she ingeniously
cOntriyed to follow South on a trip osten-
sibly for her health, and when her lover
became a Judge in Savannah she seized the
opportunity 10 bring suit for divorce
against her husband in her lovers court,
and the sympathetic ,oyer considerably
allowed her $4,000 down and $4,000 q
year. The husband who is reported 70 be
worth q million and q half of money, heard
Of these proceedings and naturally object
ed to them. He has brought suit in the
Supreme Court for absolute divorce, and it
has been given TO Henry Scudder referee,
for examination. The husband plays, it
is understood, the coschman as his trump
card.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
charging Him with PolySamy

He was arrested and waving an examina-
tioA, was held in $25, 900 bail to await the
action of the Grand Jury. The wise pre-.
caution was taken TO place the dissatisfied
wife, her sister and another wife under
bonds as witnesses. This is one of re-
markable few instances where Mormon wo-
men have entered complaints against their
husbands
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
CINCINNATI SHoEMAKsRS.
Employers Going Back on Their Scale
for the Hear.

for the Year.
CINCINNATI, May 4.-The lockout OF the
shoemakers here now amounts TO one hun
dred and seventy eight workmen, with
prospects of forty more shortly. There is
no danger of a general strike, but the men
claim that their employers signed an agree
,,,a,. Z, - March for q
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
A SALT LAKE SCANDAL.
Brutal Conduct of a Latter Day Saint
The Outcome.

SALT LAKE May IA few days ago o. F,
Due, a Scandinavian Mormon, brutally beat
one of his numerous wives,a "a young woman
who was married TO him last August. The
newspapers took the case up and compelled
the Mormon police to arrest Due, who was,
however, discharged by a Mormon justice
The woman, not pleased with the turn al
fairs took, went before the United States
Commissioner, yesterday, and entered q
cOmDl aiDt
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WELLINGTON.

Rev. MT. Morris has accepted the call of the Congregational church, and, with his family, will remove from Ashford hith- CT in few days.
 Covenant meeting in Baptist confer ence room next Saturday at 8 D. m.
 Rev. F. James has been visiting his son and daughter here He preached in the Congregational church last Sunday af- ternoon.
 John Merriek, formerly of this town. recently married the widow of.rhis late brother, Austin, in Holyoke.
 The judge of probate for Windham has ordered Winfield Snow, ,executor of the estate of his wife, Helen Snow, to sell her individual quarter share in the Rider homestead at auction or private sale Oh Thursday, 9th July next, at 10 a. m. If sold, the conveyance of the share will be subject to the life lease of Chas. P. Rider in the homestead.
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HOLLAND.

The funeral of MT. Wm. 0. Ladd was held at the Lee M. E. church and was at. tended by large number. No services were held at the other two churches. Rev. C.. H. Seymour assisted the pastor in con. ducting the services The Children's dav sermon will be preached next Sunday The Sunday school concert, held in the evening was very nicely carried out, The floral decorations in good taste were en- hanced by texts and mottoes in ssspatte,. work, " the handiwork of Mrs. Crafts. who has talent for that art ',.0~
 -Ihe annual meeting of the corpora- tors of the savings bank of Holland was held Monday, The following new oo11por- ators were elected Arthur J. Morton. Ed ward E. Fuller, Joseph P. Root and Loren Newbomb officers-presiden Chas. Un- derWood secretary and treasurer, Arthur J. Morton vice presidents, Francis l.. Dickinson, Asa G. Jacobs, Sherman Chap man, Dwight Marcy, *Loren Neweomb. Joseph P. Root, *Z. A. Storrs Direo- tors, Chas. Underwood, Edmund Joslyn. Nathan Pierson, Wm. Holman, Joseph P Root. (Thoae marked * are newly elected \
 -Ihe Holland house is receiving. new boarders almost daily, and they seem to Ike, as they stay and on Friday Land lord Segar of the Springs House, Stafford. Cady ot the Monson hotel, Monson, Ex- Sheriff L. c. Winter of Holland, and B. A. Horton of Meriden, met there to revive old friendtships, and enjoy one of. Ives good spreads: MT. Horton, who set up the first printing press in Stafford. was quite in earnest in the praise of MT. Ives as landlord, and the best of 1t is there is good foundation for it. =
 -(I F TIhlar and fon,i1x, /,f Ra,. VI are visiting at O. Underwood's. MT. Tay- Tor and family, Cincinnati, are the guests of Wm. Sumner. The Hicks residence is now occupied by the family.
 The house of German in Cedar Swamp district was destroyed by fire a few nights ago, supposed to have been set by tramps in revenge for the frau's refus- lng them food and giving them little ad- vice about the benefits of labor, Nothing was saved except some bedding. Ain't 1t about time to have Q little rigid enforce ment of the tramp law. These gentry are getting rather numerous.
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SOM ERS.
(FRoa AN OCCASIONAL ooRREspoNDENr.l

[FRoM AN OCCASIONAL CoRREsPONDENTl IVY
 Excepting one term, Miss Laura A.. Root has taught the school in the 2d dis trict of Somers four years, giving exellent satisfaction. Numbering seventeen schol- ars, the register showed an average attend ance of sixteen, at the close of the eleventh term on the 21st inst A class of ten little ones, none of them over eight, answered without once missing, about hundred questions in geography and the same lit tie class repeated correctly the hardest portion of the multiplication table. The exercises of the examination were most &C., ceptably ''spiced' with several lively songs, nearly all the scholars singing unusually well, the teacher being one of our sweetest and best singers
The Press., 1883-06-28

The fourth will have it's usual ob- servance at Carpenters grove, where a shore dinner, dance and band concert are among the attractions of the day and even ing. During the forenoon addresses will
The Press., 1883-06-28
mONSON.

John J. Hasssett of Stafford took the prize ($1O cash) for vocal culture at the Monson academy examination last week Miss Alice Brockbank of Monson got the $5 prize for best general improvement Geo. S. Rollins of Coventry, N. H.,$1O for for excellence ill English composition 1; Jennie M. Nelson of Monson silver medal for excellence in reading. ais:a E
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be made by Judge Booth and the resident clergymen. Andrews orchestra, and Avery prompter.
 STAFFORD HOLLOW
 James Holbrook lost COW last week by accident, and his neighbors made up a purse of $50 to help him bear the loss, and he desires. the Press to convey his grateful thanks to them. F
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EcoRREsPoNDENcE,

Everett A. Aborn, son of Lucius Aborn, has just graduated from Amherst college. In September he goes to Fari- bault, Minn., where he has accepted de- sirable position as 8 teacher in the Shat tuck school. 4 Y. N $
The Press., 1883-06-28
ELLINGTON.

-According to custom of past years, the Rockville High school initiated it's sum- mer vacation by picnic at Crystal Lake on Saturday last.
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UNION.
 HI. B. Booth is doubling the size of,
 and re-shingling his barn. MAsHAPAUG GROVE.
 Those who are not frequent visitors at
 Camp Smith have little idea of the charms
 of this secluded spot, not only for days pleasure, but for 8 more extended season
 of rest and recreation. Many people go
 there to camp out for a week or more.
 Owing to its distance from this village, the
 attractions of the grove are less utilized by people from Stafford than from South bridge. A club of 'ssolid business men" of the latter place lease fine cottage and drop down on the place when the mood takes them, for one, two or more days of lazy enjoyment, fishing, bathing, playing "Blaok Maria, game with cards. which IS an enigma to unposted lockers on. or sitting at MT. Smiths table, where their own catches are served up hot among oth Ter edibles. But these 3t'jolly good fellows, have no monopoly of the ground. There IS ample room and ample accommodations for all and every day brings parties to en- Joy them. In addition to the large dining pavilion at the shore, pleasant cottage, I(1f It be not too spacious to term cottagel has been built on higher ground, with pi- azza on three sides, sitting room, dining room and kitchen inside, also a dozen sleeping apartments, all furnished with comfortable beds. There is no fishing ground in this part of the state equal to Lake Mashapaug. Bass and pickerel are taken of good size every day, and the perch and bull-heads are plenty and al- ways hungry, though their p1umpness shows good keeping. Boats lie on the beach, and the best fishing grounds are very near the landing. There is a plat form for outdoor dancing, good stable for horses, well-stocked larder in the dining pavilion, and large house full of ice, and, best of all, the presence of the whole-souled proprietor, who thinks more of seeing everybody enjoying themselves, than of any profits to accrue to himself. Those who have been there know that this IS serving up cold facts, without puffery. (coRREsPoNpENcE.)
 -Qu1te an extensive fire was caused bv burning brush on Tuesday. It spread over some forty acres of sprout land be- longing to Capt. Paul, Reed Cleayeland and M. G. Smith. No great damage was done, as the sprouts were small on most of the land. Men and boys turned out in good numbers, worked hard, and went home tired enough to last them over night.
The Press., 1883-06-28
COVENTRY.

|
 Rev. Nelson Goodrich and wife were i'll town last week.
 Anna Tillinghast, grand daughter of the late Nathan Stone, and Herbert D. Eaton were received into the Methodist church Sunday
 Mrs. Maria Dearborn still remains ill at the residence of Mrs. B. R. Hutchinson
 If any one in town has a better gar den or nicer looking lettuce than Amos Hammond they have something to boast of
 -Harlen Parker and son of Rockville spent the Sabbath with his brother, Geo. Parker.
 If one wants home near Coventry depot a selection can now be made from the houses owned by Nathan Levee.
 If Washburn's hay had not got the accustomed wetting we should have had material for newspaper item
 Just the right weather for corn.
 It is reported that l.. A. Hall has sold his stock of goods in store.
 Nathan Stone, who formerly resided in Cooper Lane, but latterly on Wall-st., died Thursday last, after four days illness. A post-mortem examination showed the cause of his death to be strangulated hernia He was buried in the Nathan Hale ceme- tery Saturday morning, and his funeral was attended Saturday p. m. at the Meth odist church.
 An appendix of four days this week to this week to the school in dist 2.
 Norman Durham says ''one may as well be out of the world as out of fashion, D and his house now "wears the green" as does also the residence of Mrs. Mary Nc Cam.
 A 'smash up" of six cars containing lard and lumber occurred between Hunt lngton crossing and the Guilds brook, on the N. Y. < N. B. road, Monday night. The accident was caused by the breaking of the coupling above Andover depot. Freight trains seem to have chronic hab- 1t of uncoupling near this station, this be- ing the second time within less than week. --.--
 -The ladies' aid society met yesterday at the Howard place with Mrs. Dwight | Mason. Strawberries and ice-cream were served.
 Yesterday, as Erwin P. Hutchinson was loading ties, the ties slipped, hurting his ankle so severely as to make a visit to Dr. Sweet of Lebanon necessary.
 A picnic for the scholars in dist. 2 is on the program to-day.
The Press., 1883-06-28
DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS! .-. 5 EVERYBODY SATISFIED NOW WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW: THE LATEST IMPROVED
 V Il I T F ]!

A a Court of Probate holden at Somers.
 within and for the district of Somers on the 18th Present, SOLOMON FULLER, Judge.
 x, On motion of Mary S. Cooley, administratrix on said district, deceased. .- "-AA' "-s-.A'' This court doth decree that six months be allowed and limited forthe creditors of said estate to exhibit their caims aganst the same to the administrarix and di fects that public notice be given of this order by a- versing in newspaper published in Stafford and by posting copy thereof on the public sign post in said soWn. oL Somers, nearest the place where the de- ceased last dwelt. Certified from Record
 SOLOMON FULLER, Judge.
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
MFERSCKIUK.

The place most productive of this
m;oeral is known to be near the town {.
Eshi-scheir, in Antolla, Asia Minor. :
recent account by Herr Adler state
that the preparation of 100 boxes of
meerschaum there takes twelve to fi-
teen persons two months, and costs
about 9120. In Eski-scheir the ave.
age price of the box of mercantile ware
has varied since 1873 between about se6
to 910 CAST year it was about the
former). Refuse ware can be had at
about an eighth of the price. There
are ten qualities, and each is to be had
in four sizes, there being twenty-five to
forty pieces of the first size per box,
and 450 to 800 pieces of the fourth
(the box is thirty inches long, eight
inches broad and fifteen and one-half
inches deep. In the last two decades
the export of meerschaum has consid-
erably increased; from 5000 boxes in
1855, it has risen to II, 100 in 1881. In
Constantinople the trade is managed by
about fifteen frms-Austrian, Bulga-
rian, Greek, Armenian and Turkish
who bring their wares into the Vienna
market. The large Importation into
Vienna may be said to date from be-
tween 1850 and 1860, when the produc-
ton of pipe-bowls and cigar-tips was
greatly increased for export to En-
gland, France and North America. In
1860 considerable export of pipes to
San Francisco was first developed,
willie large quantities of cigar-tips were
sent 10 America and Australia via Ham
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
DEADLY ELECTRIC WIRE

The = re Light Wires in Chicago Cut by the
Civ EIectrician-His Kea.ons for Doing
50.
CEIcAGo, July 10.-Th9 city electrician
10 day ut all the wires used IN transmit
ting electricity to what are known as toe
arc lights, on the ground ihat they are
dangerous to life, contact with them re-
sultIng in instant death. Prof. Barrett,
the electrician, in an interview on the sub
ject, said: the wires supplying the
different varieties of the ar; electric light
with electricity, when strung at random
across streets and alleys are ful! OF danger
TO 1iremen and others who are likely to
come in contact with them. The conpe-
-itiou between the various electric hight
companies is so great that they can hard
u afford to put III their plants Of machin-
cry IN proper manner or to use properly
insulated wires. The result is that elec :
tr:csty is turned loose CA the streets IN
what I consider an exceedingly dangerous
form.
1T takes such strong current OF the
flid TO decompose the carbon of the arc
lights, that an ordln ,ry mans power Of
endurance is as nothirg against II. About
one man in a hundred can stand a shock
coming from ESQ cup batteries, and most
people would be satisfied with great Geai
less. Many Of the plants OF machinery
send over the wires currents equal TO $500
cap batteries.
There are hundred and one ways in
which person may come n contact with
csreless!y strung, improperly insulated
and death-deahng wires. Whenever ne
touches, q man is dead before he knows it,
No fatal accidents have as yet occurred IN
Chicago, probably because this city has
fewer OF the wires on tte streets than many
of the other large cities. propose to keeE
them as scarce as the law will allow me
When they are confined to single buildings
I have no power over them. But if 1 had
my way would take the horrible thing!
out of the buildings also. Doubtless Chi
cago will have fatal accidents resulting {
from them IN time. Such accidents have
10, been infreouent in other cities.
'Hhe other day a man was fixing electric
wires on building in Denver. HIS knee
accidentally touched one wire while he ha(
hold of another. The next instant ne hung
dead.
The arc lights, OF which there are SOM
fifty varieties, are the only dangerous ones
The Ellison, Maxwell. and other incandes
cent lights have nothing dangerou
about them, as in them the current o
electricity required is very weak. The n
caudescent lights are the kind that shou!C
6e uSeI for ordICary lighting parposes
The arc lights are only IL TO iiiuminat
lumber yards and parks. where they Cal
be sJru4.s up on poles ont Of everybody
way"
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
L4PP ENCAJTPVENT.

Paul Du Chailln vivi,ly describes
night spent in q Lapp encanpment
The silence is broken occasionally by
the booming sound of the cracking Of
the ice on the streams. Several t1Aes
he was awakened 10y the dogs irvine to
Set under his covering. The reindeer,
with the persons watching them foG fsa,r
Of the wolves, were at q distance
When we awoke the narrative con
tinues, my Thermometer marked tsIli.ttr-
seven degrees below zero; never5leles9,
I had rested very comfortably. A5f,er
the morning meal every raa AM wo.a-
az, except the host and Lostase, put On
their snow-shoes. The then started
into the forest to look after the rom
Gee~ and relieve the night-watch. Cur
friends were much afraid Of the wolves,
aad We're constantly on the watch at
night over their deer. In some wears
the Wild beasts are exceedingly MINER
oIs. Reindeer bulls often defend them
selves with success against such enemies :;
but when a pack of wolves rusLes INTO
the midst of herd the latter are scat
tered in all directions, and then the
owners have to go long distances to
lring the herd together again, often
losing great numbers. The wolf and
tie iarf (glutton) are the greatest
enemies Ct tie reindeer, and the Lap
!a7t,,els have to be constantly on the
INIT for these wary foes. When 5do
snow IS On the ground, and especially
when soft and newly fallen, they pursue
lie wolves on snow-shoes, easily over
take and spear them, or kill them with
cabs; the wolves cannot escape when
Tie snow IS deep.
The lie OF a Lapp is one Of consta2 !
ve-.1ance. The best feeling is said 20
"raval between the Lapps and Firms.
- over Swedish and Norwegian Lap
Lead churches are scattered, so that tla
iapla71der may easily attend church,
10Y the privileges Of religion, and par
lake OF the Lords Supper; and, when
IS days are ended, his body is carried
Lapce to the graveyard. Near tle
clurch are schools where the child 80
are taught, and the clergyman inaparss
Sae precepts Of religion.
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
\ ,1a eENgo OF JOHN BROWN.

HIS B0dy Is u""iGcri5tg az tie GrGcc, Bat
HIS >out Coex LTarctiag on.
Two interesting relics Of John Brown.
the abolitionist, are in the possession of
NJ. !. Glow, Of 81 Second avenue south,
oae being his Ias5 will and testament, made
the night before his martyrdom, and the
other letter addressed to his father, then
living near Hudson, Ohio. It appears from
the letter that the much quoted expression
attributed TO Garfield, God lives and
reigns,' was used long before by the i'm
mortal Brown. Here it is:
BEOwN's STATION, Kan. Ter, March Is,
1856.-Dear Father: Your kind letter dated
in February was received a few days
since, in which we learn that life and
health are still continued to YOU and
other friends. We are mostly In health,
still Henry and Jason have a little of the
ague hanging about them, and Frederick
has been some unwel. There is nothing
of interest going on here tnat we know of
at this moment, except that the free state
Legislature are now IN session, John Jr.,
being a member is now away. We are
kept greatly behind the times because the
newspapers sent us do not reach US, and
those friends who write US seem to sup
pose that a word about the action of con-
gress would not be out OF place. We have
heard that Banks is elected speaker, but
whether Reeder has been allowed a seat III
congress, or whether congress is doing
anything to help the people here against
the administration, and against the Mis-
sourians, we know not, Notwithstanding
our great anxiety. If Reeder is allowed
his seat, it will be an act of recognition of
the free state people in Kansas that would
set things right here. There would be no
trouble with the few pro slavery men in
Fhe territory. They perfectly understand
their weakness, if unsupported by the ad
mlnistration and by Missouri. There is
one comforting reflection admidst all the
w.ckedness and injustice that prevails, and
mat is, that God lives and reigns. May
'hst be our rejoicing forever Mr.. Adair
io'a me ne had, or would have the Kansas
paper sent TO you, as you requested
Hoping you may live to see the triumph OF
freedom, remain,your afectionate SOD,
JOHN BROWN
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
ANTHRACITE COIL.

There are but four anthracite coal
fields in Pennsylvania, and their aggre-
gate area is but 483 square miles. Re
liable engineers estimate that the
amount of coal the four fields viii We'd,
if the present wasteful method OF min
ing be continued, cannot he more than
5000, 100000 tons. But the supply
will be exhausted in a century, if not
sooner. Beside Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island and Virginia are the only States
which produce anthracite coal, and
their supply is insignificant The SER
vice performed by anthracite coal in
the development of the resources Of the
United States has been so great that
the prospect of the exhaustion Of the
supply, even a century hence, must be
regarded with much concern. The de-
claration that long before the century
ends anthracite coal Will be a luxury
which only the rich can enjoy viii
cause popular demand that the waste
full method of mining known as the
"pillar and breast" be abandoned, and
that the more economical method en-
ployed in English mines be substituted
for it.
It is true that the supply of bitumin-
Gus coal seems inexhaustible, although
the annual product of our bituminous
mines does not much exceed AZ, 100000
tons, which is about one-fourth of the
coal product in England. Ohio, which
ranks below Pennsylvania and Illinois
in the production of bituminous coal,
can produce more than England, whose
capacity is already severely taxed. But
the iron and steel industries of the
United States could never have reached
their present proportions but for the
anthracite coal, and the exhaustion of
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
.lqEs OF YOUNG sEN.4roRs.

John j. Crittenden, born Sept. 10,
1787, was elected to the Senate in 1917.
Clay was elected to the Senate and
filed term of few weeks in 1867,
having been born April u, 1777 But
Clay is not the youngest Senator on
record. Armistead Thomson Mason,
of Virginia, was elected to the Senate
in 1916, at the age of 28, and
resigned in 1877 to undertake thai
memorable contest in the Loudon dis
trict with the Federal champion,
Charles Fenton Mercer, which led to
several duels. The most memorable of
these duels was the encounter in which
Mason was slain by his near kinsman,
John Mason McCarty. McCarty had
proposed that they join hands and leap
off the roof of the State House in Rich-
mond. They finally fought with mus
kets, and Mason received fatal ball il
the breast at the first fire Of their meet
ing near Washington, in 1819.-NelC
York World.
Daily globe., 1883-07-11
DETECTED IN THE ACT.

At recent church festival man
found lonely oyster in his soup, and
ostentatiously held it upon his spoon,
thereby inducing others to invest in the
deceptive fluid. It was afterward dis
covered that the man was what sinful
and worldly people call a "capper, and
was employed by the church people to
pretend to discover oysters and thus
intrap the unwary. The oyster is sup
posed to have been borrowed for the
occasion n-Ogde11sburg Journal.