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Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29
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THE steamer Sancelito, plying be
tween San Francisco and San Quentin,
California, was burned on Sunday
night. The vessel cost S150,000.
THE Mayor of Houston, Texas, has
served the city faithfully for four years,
vet has never accepted dollar of his
salary. He enjoys the fun Of working
for fame.
MACON MASON, now Governor Of
Massowah, Egypt, is Maryland man.
A graduate Of West Point, lie took the
losing side in the war Of secession and
after Appomattox sailed for Egypt.
SAN Francisco has Chinese doc
tor whose income acts him $1,000 a
year. He is druggist as well as a
physician, and as the drugs are all i'm
ported by him from China his profits
are enormous.
IMPORTED silk now comes from New
Jersey, English pudding is made in
Delaware, French sauces are made in
Connecticut, Rhine wine is bottled in
California, and American beef is
raised in England.
CLASSES in carpentering have re.
Gently been introduced into public
school in Cleveland. 1t has been
proven that they do not interfere with
the regular studies, but on the contrary
are an actual help in The school work.
OWING to the great strain in pulling
the cars, the Brooklyn Bridge cable has
gradually stretched until last week il
was found to be one hundred and two
feet longer than when the cars were
first started. It was shortened on Sun
day last by a gang Of workmen from
the factory in Trenton, where it was
constructed.
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ONE Of the TRANSCRIPTS New
York friends, perhaps the Chinese
editor of the New York Morning
Journal, sent us on Saturday some
thing which we think to be an account
Of the obsequies Of the Jeannette's
dead but as the income Of the TRAN
SCRIPT does not admit Of its keeping a
hired interpreter of Chinese and sim
liar polite tongues, we are compelled
to leave the, no doubt, highly interest
ing contribution out. We shall file it
away among the archives Of the office
to bring forth now and then to astonish
a printer when he charges us with
writing a bad sort Of scrawl. Of
course, country journalists write
wretchedly enough, and especially when
they are in a bit Of hurry and are
trying to think Of nine things at once,
but the New York journalist turns out
copy that will almost paralyze any per
son who isn't used to it. The commu-
nication which brings forth these re
marks may not be written in Chinese
at all. 1t may be in plain English,
and it is possible that a printer who
is accustomed to setting up good read
ing matter from piece Of paper con
tanning that which would appear to
you, or us, beloved reader, like illus
trations Of several styles Of chain
lightning, would have but little trouble
with it. But, unfortunately for us, we
have no such printer.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29
Keely's Quiet Motor.

The directors of the Keely Motor
Company met last evening to hear Mr.
Keely's report upon the progress Of his
work. Headed by the inventor and
Secretary Schuellermann, they inspected
the generator and the vibratory engine,
which is now said to be approaching
completion. When they emerged from
the shop, at half-past nine O'Clock,
Treasurer Green said that Mr. Keely
had made no experiments whatever
during the evening, but the stock
holders had every reason to be satisfied
with the progress of the work.
" We are not yet prepared to fix any
date for the exhibition to the stock
holders,' said Secretary Schueller-
mann, "but everybody is gratifed with
the result of to-night's inspection"
Then the directors were loaded into
an omnibus, Mr. Keely shut the door
and waved them pleasant adieu and
the vehicle drove off. The door of the
little shop stood open a minute, dis
closing the ponderous proportions of
the mysterious generator, and then Mr..
Keely saw the place locked up for the
night and went home apparently as
well satisfied as were his directors
Philadelphia Times Of Wednesday.
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raise up State government, inter-
woven with and inseparable from one
of the most damnable organizations
that was ever miscalled by the name Of
religion.
Think Of an organized society in the
name of religion, located right in the
heart of the leading Christian Republic
Of the earth, practising on "Apostates"
what they turn blood atonement."
You ask, what do they mean by
'sblood atonement ~ They mean simp-
" that when a deluded mortal is en-
ticed into their trap and afterWard
renounces them, then it is a part OF
their creed to put him to death in order
to save his soul ''by blood atonement. "
About six hundred Of these atroclous
murders have been committed, and
there is no instance on record where
one of them has been punished. With
their police spy system it is next 70
an impossibility for one OF these
" "Apostates'' to escape them, even
though there be United States author
tiles quartered there for the protection
of the innocent.
1T is no secret that the Z Endowment
House oaths' are emphatically disloyal.
The Mormon is loyal to the Mormon
Church first. and the United States
government is altogether an after
thought. Through their system Of
tithes and taxes they have piled up
what is known as the Endowment
House fund, \ and this fund is thing
Of no mean consideration and affords
them the means, under existing clrcum-
stances, of doing just what they please;
the United States government to the
contrary notwithstanding. The Nor
mon population in Utah is rapidly on
the increase, and is spreading far and
wide over the adjoining Territory and
their increase in wealth is in like ratio.
Such being the case, they are becom-
ing, yea, already are, factor III the
politics Of the Territory adjoining
Utah. 1t has been said, and on good
ground, too, that they are controlling
power in Idaho. This we do know,
that the Mormon interest is SO blinded
with the politics Of Idaho that the two
are inseparable. 1t has been recently
proposed in Congress to seize the fund
Of the Endowment House and appro-
pirate the same to the use Of common
schools for the Territory; and it has
Furthermore been proposed to enact q
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the practice Of polygamy in any State
or Territory, and this proposition has
been approved by the judiciary COM
mittee Of the Senate, and we trust may
rapidly become law. The seizing OF
the 6 Endowment House fund.-" and
appointing a commission by Congress to
govern the Territory Of Utah, is op-
posed by some on the ground Of its
being unconstitutional, but every ten
year old school boy knows that Con
| gress once appointed a commission fol
the government Of Louisiana when q
Territory and in like manner the DIG.
trict Of Columbia. There has beer
much said on this subject, but we dc
not believe that the people realize the
extent of the danger arising from this
abomination. Feeling that on tht
purity Of our homes alone is based the
very foundations Of our government
let us see that that government shal
cast out this vessel Of filth and the
rotten scab Of Mormonism is torn from
the face Of this Republic. B. NJ.
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The London Explosion.
"A REPORT CURRENT THAT THE DY-
MANTLE WAS INTENDED FOR
PARLIAMENT.


PARLIAMENT.
The explosion in the cloak room in
the Victoria Railway Station a few
minutes after one o'clock Of Tuesday
morning shattered the windows Of the
Metropolitan Underground Railway
Depot, sixty yards distant, and the
fronts of houses for the same distance
in other directions were badly damaged.
The Victoria refreshment room was
wrecked and a clock eight feet high
was blown from the wall and thrown
six yards away. The streets III the
neighborhood are completely strewn
with broken glass. A numerous force
Of police and fire brigade quickly
reached the spot and quenched the fire,
thus saving the depot. Colonel Ma
iendie, Chief Inspector Of Explosives,
has critically examined the ruins. In
his opinion the explosion was due not
to gas, but to some powerful compound.
The cloak room was filled with luggage,
but the officials did not notice any sus-
picious package. The report is current
that the parcel left in the cloak room
was intended for use against the
House Of Parliament and that it
exploded accidentally. An officer
who is acquainted with dynamite
was passing about the time of the ex-
plosion. He hastened to the spot and
On entering the booking office detected
the smell Of dynamite. The theory
that the explosion was caused by dyna-
mite gains further confirmation from
the fact that the greatest damage was
done laterally. The iron railing guard
ing the stair near the cloak room was
snapped asunder and twisted into gro
tesque shapes. 1t is believed that ten
pounds Of dynamite would have been
sufficient to cause the damage.
The officials Of the railway discredit
the idea that the explosion was the
result Of private malice, as the cost Of
material would deter discharged
servant from thus retaliating. 1t is
generally attributed to the persons who
caused the explosion in the Praed
Street Station Of the underground rail
way some months ago.
The cloak room clerk states that a man
deposited heavy valise at $50 O'Clock
last evening and cautioned him to be
careful with It. Some time after the
clerk heard a noise like the alarm.
While clearing away the rubbish OF the
cloak room tin box was found. The
vaIise which the clerk had regarded as
suspicious was found to contain moth
ing harmful. The damage caused BY
the explosion is estimated at e4 600.
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THE editor Of the Centreville Record
can 60 duck shooting every Monday
morning if he wants to, and need not
come back till Saturday, unless he has
the proof to read. There is no shortage
Of copy in that Office. "A personal con
troversy between two or three lawyers
keeps the hooks full Of manuscript.
The open letters = run two columns
or upward, solid nonpareil. When one
lawyer tries to tell all hesknows about
some other lawyer, through the col
umns Of newspaper, he is voracious
consumer of space.
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Ieace of the Transcript.
From the Hub.
Boston, Feb. 26, 1884

Boston, Feb. 26, 1884.
Of all the thoroughly motley and
Democratic companies that ever moved
in solemn procession before the eye OF
the great, probably the most SO was
that which greeted Governor Robinson
upon Washington's birthday. Such
forlorn and tattered specimens OF hu-
manity, fresh from the wretched haunts
Of the North End, following close in
the wake Of James Freeman Clarke or
some leader in politics or literature
If candidate for governor Of the com
monWealth we're certain that upon a
certain day Of the year he would be
obliged to stand up and shake hands
with people at the rate of thirty-six to
the minute, as one worthy governor
did, | am of the opinion it would, in a
measure. take from the attractions OF
the office.
Henry Irving is here and walks and
talks as badly and draws just as
crowded houses as ever. The fact is,
50 far as have had the honor Of hearing
illustrious Englishmen in public, they
are universally drawling and clumsy
in speech. Theylack the Frenchy quail
ity of tact and address which so many
Americans possess in such a remarkable
degree. Booth holds the forte as ever,
and his support is rather better than
usual.
"a funny circumstance happened on
the 22d inst. at a business house in this
city. "A young lady in making out a
bill looked up with the most utterly
innocent expression and asked the day
Of the month when every, business
house in the city had been closed and
she herself had gone home on a vaca-
tion. Patriotism, where art thou
BY the way, if you are interested in
music OF musical instruments, / will
tell you about an organ company which
I visited day or two ago-the New
England Organ Company it is called
situated on Washington street. The
fact is, am interested in any kind Of
musical instrument from jews
harp to Gabriel's trump and naturally
infer that other people are, and there is
something about the sound Of an
organ, great or small, if it is we'll
made in the first place and well played
afterwards, that always makes me feel
especially devout, and that is one ad-
vantage which an organ has over any
other instrument will talk to you in
tfIt TIUUd that you dTo in. SS6fffeth6 SS6fffeth 6H
just here, the lines Of Thanatopsis
come to me: "For his gayer hours she
has a voice Of gladness and the smile
and the eloquence of beauty, and she
glides into his darker musings with a
mild and gentle sympathy that steals
away the darkness e'er he is aware. \
There is a young singer here who
will probably take the concert stage
before long. She is pupil Of Mr..
Harry Wheeler and has sung at the
New England Conservatory q number
Of times during the last year. While
her voice is not heavy it is pure and
delicate, her runs and trills being taken
with great ease. l think it safe to
assert that one Of her chief attractions
upon the stage is the piquant and earn
est face of the singer-Miss Ada
Edwards.
The opera season begins next week.
The organ grinders are at work from
early morn till dewy eve. Ray.
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Story of a spendthrift.
THE CAREER OF MAN WHO MADE
FORTUNE AFTER FORTUNE TO
SCATTER SILVER IN SHOWERS.

THE CAREER OF A MAN WHO MADE
FORTUNE AFTER FORTUNE TO
SCATTER SILVER IN SHOWERS.
The suicide Of George H. Fryer, ex-
millionaire and spendthrift, is the talk
not only Of the town, but of all the
State. Fryer came to Colorado in the
early days and since that time has been
considered one of the leading citizens.
Fryer Hill, at Leadville, was named
after him. On this now famous hill,
the richest in the carbonate belt, Fryer
made the first location, : The New Dis
covery," which produced millions.
After Fryer sold it he was one Of
Colorado's shrewdest miners and was
thoroughly posted as to geological
formations. The Leadville boom was
at its height when Fryer Hill was not
thought of as containing mineral. Mr..
Fryer, after studying the mineral for
nations, concluded that the carbonate
belt necessarily extended into that hill
and he set a force Of men at work
developing. His friends laughed at
him, but he kept sinking and the result
was HThe New Discovery" which
produced a furore in the mining
world"
Since he has been in Colorado he has
made and lost dozen fortunes, being
engaged in mining in all parts Of the
State. He was a high liver, and once
he procured fortune he did not rest
till he had spent it all. In spending
his money he was the "Coal Oil
Johnnyn of the West. His eXtrav-
agance and liberality to his friends
caused his financial ruin. For the past
year he has been trying to retrieve his
fortunes in the mines, but for once in
his life fate was against him. While
he made money his best days in the
mines seemed to have passed.
Last summer he married Miss Cum
ningham, belle Of Chicago. The
wife tonight is insane, caused by her
husbands death. His relatives live in
Philadelphia and St Paul.-DenUer
Republican.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

FUNERAL services were held on
Saturday morning in New York over
the remains of De Long, Collins, and
their six dead comrades. The services
over De Long ard six others were held
in Holy Trinity Church, Bishop Potter
preaching the sermon. Those over
Collins were held in the Cathedral,
Rev. Father McKenna, of the Dom
iniean Order, making the discourse.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

In analyzing the wells used in New
Hampshire it was found that ninety
five per cent. Of them we're polluted.
This well-pollution from private sinks
and other sources is a matter that
Middletown will probably be called
upon to consider seriously at some
time not very far in the future.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

THE latest reports Of the disasters by
the tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia,
the Carolinas, Kentucky and Tennes-
see on Tuesday last, indicate that the
losses Of human lives aggregate nearly
800. The losses on property in Georgia
and Alabama alone are estimated at
S5.OOO.OOO.
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For CHARITY GENTLE CHARITY's SAKE
While winter cold rules everything, it is al
most like a raw of summer sunshine of the
incalculable heap of good (never to be known
by mortal ken on this earth) that is done
daily and hourly in the city OF New Orleans,
tanned by the Spaniard, the French, the
American, the Confederate State and now
more active in its mission of good than eyer,
sustained by the royal bonus of $1,000, 600
paid for its franchises by The Louisiana
State Lottery, the next (the l66th) Monthly
Drawing of which will occur on March H.
1884, and of which NJ. A. Dauphin, ut New
Orleans, La, will give all information.
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= : Stlistpllaneous Sdper's.
1861. 1854.
.N.ReynOIds&Co.

While thanking our numerous friends for
their liberal patronage in the past, we take
great pleasure at the beginning of our new
year in announcing to them and the public
generally that our arrangements tor business
are now much better than they have hereto
fore been, enabling us to offer better bargains
and advantages to purchasers than before
Our general stock is and will ever be found
compile in all the novelties of the season anu
in every description of goods in the most
desirable styles and qualities.
On our Bargain Tables will be found new
bargains every week for the next sixty days
of which our friends should take the benefit.
We commence this week with
Five Ladies Black Coats reduced from $500
to 1915.
Four Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, trimmed,
reduced from $500 to $4.5U.
Five Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, fur trim
med, reduced from 500 to $500.
Four Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, satin trim
med, reduced from $500 to $3.50.
Three Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, plush trim
med, reduced from $3.50 to $500.
Three Ladies' Black Beaver Coats, plush trims
med, reduced from $l0.5O to 800.
Three Ladies' Black Pilot Cloth Goats, re71
duced from $llOO to $3.50.
Four Ladies' Black Pilot Cloth Goats, reduced
from $500 to $3.50.
duced from 1920 to $3.50.
tOuf LuulCS DedNGE DOltIlhAlss A1hNSOAACAJ
trimmed, reduced from $1,000 to $ll.Oe.
| One Ladies' Fancy COlored Coat, reduced
from $500 to $3.50.
| One Ladies' Fancy trimmed Coat, reduced
from 800 to $500.
| Three Ladies; Fancy trimmed Coats, reduced
from $3.50 to $5.75.
| Four Ladies' Fancy-trtmmed Plush Goats, re-
duced from $500 to $500.
| Three Ladies' Fancy-trimmed Plush Goats,
reduced from 500 TO 500.
| Three Ladies' Fancy-trimmed Plush Coats,
reduced from $3.50 to $3.50.
| Two Ladies' Fancy trimmed Plush Goats, re-
duced from $ll.00 to $3.50.
| Two Ladies' Fancy trimmed Plush Goats, re-
duced from $I2.00 to $500.
| Four Black Stockinette Goats, reduced from
| 500 to $3.50
Three Black stockinette Goats, reduced from
SO so to $3.50.
Two Black stockinette Coats, reduced from
Sl2.00 to $500.
| Five Black Stockinette Coats, reduced from
| $500 to $500.
| One Black Stockinette Coat, reduced from
| $3.50 to $9.75.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

THE Democratic National Com
mittee met on Saturday in Washing
ton, and decided to hold the National
Convention, for the nomination Of
President and Vice President, in
Chicago on the 8th, Of July. It is
hoped that Chicago is happy now.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29
Great Guns.
Arab Pasha is a grass-widower.
Congressman Cox is getting gray.

Arab Pasha is a grass-widower.
Congressman Cox is getting gray.
John G. SAKE, the poet, is in poor
health.
Marquis Tseng's family is the Oldest
in China.
Tom Ochiltree never cut down a
cherry tree.
Joaquin Miller hasn't written any
spring poetry yet.
Jules Verne will make an extended
trip in his yacht this year.
Victor Hugo has just given 5000
francs to the poor Of Paris.
The Car Of Russia now mingles in
society more than he used to.
Roscoe Conkling is looking better,
but not better looking, than formerly.
Colonel John Hay refuses to say any
thing further about 1.-THE Breadwin-
ners."
1t makes Bismarck howl when he
hears himself spoken Of as :" the gifted
but bald-headed Prince of American
hog-haters. T"
President Arthur says his happiest
years we're when he taught school.
He probably had the prettiest girl pupils
in the country.
Dan Rice is cracking temperance
jokes in Florida and playing the 4 hor-
rible example, at the same time. He
does both to perfection.
w. P. Elliott, Of Lewistown, is
thought to be the oldest living editor
in the United States. He was born
January 12, 1893 and started the Lewis
town Gazette in 1911.
Congressman Morrison is not a
"dude' in his dress. He wears coat
+" (which reflects the images Of passing
objects on its shiny back and elbows,
and his trousers are shiny and baggy at
the knees.
Congressman William Walter Phelps
will build palatial residence in Wash
ington, on plot Of land for which he
has Just paid $4,000. Mr.. Phelps,
probably, mas his eye fixed on the Y ice
Presidents chair.
There is an old man in Clay County,
N. O., who has borne through ninety
two years the burden Of the name of
Alexander Gumbleton Ruffieton Shuttle
ton Oberda Whittleton Southenhall
Benjamin Franklin Squires.
General Fitz John Porter, when a
student at Exeter Academy, was fine
scholar, the best swimmer, marble
player and athlete in the school. None
had higher reputation for honor, in
tegrity and character than he.
M. de Lesseps is the father Of a
dozen boys and girls. He dresses them
all alike in close-ftting undergarments
and loose, sleeveless flannel frocks,
which leave necks, arms and legs from
knee to foot bare. They present, even
to Parisians, peculiar appearance.
Major Calkins, one Of the Indiana
Congressional delegation, is described
as the most imposing-looking man in
the House. He is over six feet tall, looks
| the picture of health, and has blue
eyes that shine out brightly above
cheeks as rosy as those of a country
belle.
The late Senator Carpenter once
described Alexander Stephens in this
wise An empty coach halted at the
Treasury Department and Aleck Step
hens got out Of it, The same joke
is fitted to Bernhardt when in America,
but was original with Carpenter, ac-
cording to the recently published bio
graphy of that noted MANY. Y.
Morning Journal.
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RATHER TOO LONG.
AFTER Twenty Years on the Wrong Sid
of Life a Virginian Turns the
TmhIRR.

"How long did you say ?"
"Twenty years, sa1d. Up to the time
mentioned had suffered from diseased liver
tor twenty years." said Mr.. S. T. Hancock, of
Richmond, Va, half sadly, as though think
of that dilapidated section OF his life. AT
times almost wished it had pleased Provi-
dence to omit the liver from the human anat-
omy."
"Bad enough-twenty years of that sort OF
thing" responded listener. "What was
the upshot ofit?"
1.-The upshot was that some time ago
and bought one of Bensons Capcine Porus
Plasters, applied it and was relieved i'll few
hours, and am now as sound as though my
liver were made of India-rubber"
Bensons-unlike the old fashioned kind of
plasters-act promptly. Look for the word
Capcine, which is cut in the genuine. Price
25 cents. Seabury & Johnson, Chemists, New
York
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

a NEW STORY OF THE WITTY Ar
TEMUs.-A new story is told Of Arte-
mus Ward, when travelling on q slow
going southern road soon after the war.
When the conductor was punching his
ticket Artemus remarked : Does
this railroad company allow passengers
to give it advice, if they do SO in a re-
spectful manner ~ The conductor re-
Piled in gruff tones that he guessed 50.
ssWell" Artemus went on, " it oc-
Cured to me it would be well to detach
the cow-catcher from the front Of the
engine and hitch it to the rear of the
train. For you see we are not liable to
overtake COW, but what's to prevent
a COW strolling into this car and biting
a passenger ?''-C Chicago Neacs.
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THE Emperor Of Germany, now in
his eighty-eighth year, is not the only
oldest inhabita1t. On his hunting
trips he frequently meets some hale old
pensioner who fought in the war of
liberation or marched against the
French at Waterloo. The severe mill
tary discipline Of Prussia does not seem
to shorten the lives of her subjects.
Middletown transcript., 1884-02-29

MATTHEW ARNOLD is not such a
bad sort Of man after all that has been
said about him. He highly praises
American bread.
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 20, 1884.

THE PRESIDENT has not yet selected
United States Judge for Delaware.
Mr.. Spruance's friends are still hope
full.