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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-03-07
A BATTLE
Between the British and Rebel Forces
Near Trinkitat.

Desperate Bra,cr, OF the Rebels. Nh %
"re defeated Win uesVs Lou. EuEiIsh
I"ss small GcHrrai Grahau. Occupies
1Skar.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-03-07

The New Jersey Legislature has
abolished the contract system IN pris-
ons.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30
KANSAS DEMOCRACY.

The democratic party never learns
anything. The only party victories
ever achieved by it are secured either
through blind luck or some balance of
power coming Of prejudiced masses,
who only lack enlightment to lift them
above the average democratic.aim and
idea.
If anywhere under heaven the demo-
cratic party is favorably situated to
catch the spirit of the age it is in
Kansas, yet we have the spectacle of
the head Of that party in Kansas, in
the person of Governor George Wash
ingtOn Click declaring in speech no
later than night before last that the
practical result of prohibition in
Kansas had been only to increase the
whisky carrying trade, the opening of
back-door saloons and the invasion of
homes by the whisky bottle and jug.
Such language would not be excusable
in fourteen-year-old boy. However
greatly the law of Kansas has failed
in prohibiting the sale and use Of
liquors, TO say that the sales in
the aggregate have increased, or
that the jug and bottle 10 any great
extent goes now into homes where
they were strangers before, is cheap
rant. The law may be failure,
mark eddy SO in localities, but it has
not increased the traffic of liquors.
Gov. Click took it upon himself to
pledge the national Democratic con-
vention against sumptuary legislation,
against the liquor traffic, for that was
the idea he desired to convey. The
Democratic national convention will
do no such thing, unless it deliber-
ately concludes to commit hari-kari.
On the tariff question the party at
Topeka straddled the fence. 1t in
dorscd first Carlisle's horizontal
platform, and then turned right about
aud said it was in favor of that policy
which the Republican party is acting
upon.
We had hoped to see the democracy
of Kansas take stand which would
be encouraging to the balance of the
party in the Nation, hoped that it
woud act and talk soberiy; but it
seems that SO long as its representa-
tive members can carry bottles in their
pockets the closing of the open saloon
is no bar to their foolishncss.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

A staff correspondent of London
paper, who visited this country not
long ago. gives the following infor-
nation concerning one Of the south.
western states: Arkansas is situat-
ed between Memphis and San Fran
cisco. Its climate is mild in winter,
but IN summer, I am told by an old
inhabitant, it is extremely cold. The
governor of this State receives $780,
600 year, which he spends mainly
for the entertainment of his friends
| am much concerned in American
politics, and never tire of studying
the situation. AT the present writing
the country is much stirred up about
President Dorsey. He went ont on
his sheep ranch somewhere in Cleve-
land and has not been heard of since
Should he never be found Vice-Presi-
dent Sam Tilden will be knighted in
his place."
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

Mr.. G. p. King, the popular drug
gist, of Leon, Kansas, spent Monday
in this city interviewing our various
wholesale firms. Leon has proved to
be one of the livcliest business points
on the Frisco road. We should Judge
from the number of daily EAGLES
handled by Mr.. Kings news depart
ment which he runs i'm connection
with his drug store.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

The growth of cremation through.
out the country is rapidly on the in
crease. In fact the heirs of the late DIR.
Lamoyne have issued a circular to the
effect that their crematory establish
ment cannot longer be used by the
general puplic-that it is too small
to supply the increasing demand.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30
PASTURE.

have 2i0 acres Of pasture, two and
one-half miles from the city, all well
fenced, plenty of good water. Cattle
pastured at IS cents per month.
ii T.. p. FORD.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

The widow and mother of Jesse
James have brought suit against j. II.
Chambers, of ST. Louis, to recover
their share of the royalty on a life of
the noted outlaw which has been pub
lished. The case will come up for
hearing in June.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

con fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The biyouac of the dead"
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

A statesman in the Presidential
chair has ceased to be prime neces-
sity, and good common sense is now
sufficient qualification. Statesmen are
needed in Congress, and political
sharpers are best of at home.
The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-30

Miss Becky Jones, the heroine of the
Hammersly will case in New York,
has had. several offers of marriage
since she went to Jail Monday for re-
fusing to talk. This may be the be-
ginning OF popular reform move
mont
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
FOREIGN.

A Paris telegram states that war be-
tween France and China 10 considered inevi-
table.
At Ath. Belgian town, Liberal
mob attacked n procession Of Catholics anu
wrecked the Catholic club house.
A magistrate at Lurgan, ireland,
named Lidael. was fired upon while driving
with his wife, the latter receiving a wound.
A cable dispatch from London says
1.-THE cholera has driven thousands of Ameri
cans from French soil to London. Any infcc
t.ous cases In the luttsr city will be taken to
Gravesend hospital. The authorities have
been asked to intercept steamer from Mar
settles for Cardiff, on which there are said to
be two cases. Ten deaths were reported at
Toulon on Monday evening, and fourteen AT
Marseilles.
Cornwall. Secretary Of the Dublin
Postofiice, has fed the city since the failure
Of his suit against O'Brien, ms have also sew
crai other persons involved with him in GRIM
inal acts.
The French Admiral Courbet tele-
graphs TO Paris that he has occupied town
on the Chinese coast. The war, therefore,
has commenced.
The Belgian Embassy at the Vatican
has been restored.
The bullion in the Bank of England
decreased sl,s70,0OO, In the Bank of France
about $1,000. 900. and in the German Imperial
BANK about s2,ooo,ooo.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
Women In the Long Ago.

In the essay on Woman in the Four
teenth Century" we read some things
which, in view Of the omission of the
word "obey" recently from the mar
riage service OF the Methodist Church,
may be read with into est. Speak ng
of Book for Women" by one Geof-
frey de Ia Tour Landry, in the early
period referred to, Prof. Wheeler says
"Wifely obedience is pushed to ex-
IRENE lin the book. Three merchants
laid wager that each had the most
dutiful wife. The test should be 'lep-
ing into basin of water. Then they
went to their homes, one after the 9TH
er. The first wife refused to leap, aud
the husband up with his fust and gave
her two or three greet strokes in the
presence of the other merc hants. The
second wife also refused, an her lord
beat her with staff. The third lady
misunderstood an order to bring salt
for o command to leap upon the table
where they were all feasting, and, be-
ing better bred than the other wives,
obeyed the order as she understood it,
leaped upon the table and brought it
down with crash. The wager was
declared won without appeal to the
basin experiment. And so ought everi
good woman do the comm ndments of
her husband, be it evil or wells for yet
he bidde her thing that she aught not
do It is his shame"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17

Il hold heah letter." said the Pres
ident as the meeting opened, "axin' dis
club to report its observashuns on de
inflooence of de female sex on liberty,
pollyti ks. art. progress, and bizness.
Brother Bebee, what do you know Of
the iniiooence of females on the matter
of ibertv?"
Brother Bebee replied that he had of
late years observed disposition on the
part of the female sex to do as they
pleased, go where they pleased and
carry o bundle of liberty under each
arm day and night. One hundred years
ago liberty was a persimmon on the
highest limb Of tall tree. To-day it
was pumpkin which anybody could
roll along the ground. Everybody
breathed it. ute it. and walked arm-in-
arm with it, and the masses could no
more he deprived of liberty than bob
tailed cows could take the first premium
at the State Fair.
"Brudder Pickles Smith. what do you
know of de infiooence of dc female sex
on pollyticks p asked the President.
Brother Smith replied that he knew
Of several wives in his neighborhood
who bossed their husbands votes. He
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
WASHINGTON.

In pursuance of the provision in the
legislative, judicial, ana executive .appro-
pristion bin reducing the number OF inter-
nal revenue agents from thirty-nvc to
twenty, the Commissioner Of Internal Reve.
nue. ordered the discharge OF the follow.
ing-named agents: A. J. McKusick, CALI
fornia; John Young, Tennessee; John
NJ. Burns, Kentucky; J. n. Mccoy,
wisconsin; James A. Ray, Kentucky; c.
u. Harrison, Tennessee; John NJ. Raum. Illi-
nois: Jasper Packard Indiana; w. l. Hol-
lister, Minnesota: A. NJ. Crane California;
]. L. Trumbull. Indiana.
Work has been suspended ut the
Washington Navy Yard owing to the failure
OF Congress TO make an appropriation for its
continuance.
w. s. jackson, a banker OF Colorado
Springs has been appointed receiver OF the
Denver and Ito Grsnde Road.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

Messrs. Frew and Hart, editors OF the
Wheeling Nv. Val Daily Inteuigcncer, have
been fined for contempt OF court, in having
charged In their journal that three Of the
Supreme Court Judges attended a Demo
cratic Legislative caucus and advised the
passage OF certain fernieious laws. One of
the Judges wanted the editors imprisoned.
A letter. from Cuba, has been re-
ccived from Nayin, the absconding Mayor CT
Adrian, Mich, desiring = compromise of the
claims against him of the Clark estate, which
he mulcted out OF $4,000.
A railroad has been opened from San
Jose de Guatemala to the City OF Guatemala,
. distance Of seventy-nve miles. 1t Ia con-
trolled by Mr.. C. p. Huntington's Central Pa
cinc
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
has purchase the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
Toledo Road.
Sanvalle, . French journalist, who
Was expelled from Mexico a. = pernicious
foreigner, has arrived In New York. He
states that for publishing three articles. do.
mand ng an investigation into the negotia-
ton of large public loan, he was imprisoned
in fort al Vera Cruz and sent on board
man-of-war.
The Masonic Grand Lodge resolved
ct Brockville, Ont, that the presence OF In
Ioaicants on refreshment tables of subordi-
satS lodges was not desirable.
At Fort Smith, Ark, white man
and two Indians we're executed BY the United
States authorities for murder. william and
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
WOMAN GOSSIP.
A Western Maids Dream.

II 1coull ketch onto the wings OF bird
would light In thalOltie4t trg,,
And twttter II twt tia. could plainly be heard
From .limtown clear cut to the sea
would MARBLE a no o OF such terrible force
That the clements wildly would crack.
And the Indian chiettain would fail from his
Io Be
And spit his shirt clear up his back.
II ! were Quilted with elephants feet,
My terrible tread would rcsound,
II I'LL animal lie would in terror retreat
Ten thousand leagues under he ground:
And II hi the voice OF a lion Id roar
1 i'll the wide universe lost Its wits,
And the birds would fold MP their fleet wings
anl keel DOR
And die In hystc-ical fits.
II were dwelier beneath TIE deep ara,
With the figure an power of wilala,
Every creatr re around me In terror would flee
At Tire fantaa Is hics IL my tail
would swamp great vessel or two every day,
An down In the ocean so blue,
Ger the feast = say grace IN tue usual way
And make square meal OF the crew.
But since am only modest young maid
Wild nder flower oil the W St.
These longing desires mn really afraid
Must be dpWned. ~ IT. were, and suppressed.
Since cannot raise Halcs by such rank play,
My flag OF desire must fprl.
And dream the delect4nle moments away,
As ssweet, timid, gentle young girl.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
Partisan lmpollteness.

The French may be the politest ma
ton in the world, says Paris letter,
but Frenchmen do not, as a rule, have
characteristic of the Americans. It is
certain that ladies whom business or
pleasure may force to travel alone,
meet everywhere in this Gland of gal
lantry" far more of host lily than cour-
teous attention. But this is the least
offensive form in which the national
want of respect for women shows it.
self. It is difficult, I am tempted to
say it liz impossible, for lady to go
about on foot in the streets Of Paris, or
in any large town in France, without
being exposed to numerous vexatious
annoyances, and even insults. At cer-
tain hours of the day, if lady ven-
lures out without male protector, the
chances are that she will be accosted by
some impertinent fellow before she
has taken q dozen steps from her
own door, and it would be utterly use-
less for her to appeal for protection
to passer-by or . policeman, for
this sort of thing would seem to
be an accepted custom, and that the
gentler sex are regarded as the fair
prey of every street louager who wishes
to pass for masher i'll the eyes of one
or two admiring companions. There
are lot of fellows in Paris who seem
to consider themselves irresistible. and
that they have, like Caesar. only to
show themselves in order to be sure of
victory. Another curious thing in this
connection is that instead of when .
woman is alone being entitled to assist
anoe and protection. exactly the con-
trary is the case. LII woman goes to
o respectable hotel unaccompanied the
chances are that she will be refused
room. can understand that woman
who is accompanied may have suspi-
cious appearance in the eyes of hotel
keeper-the members of that corpora
ton being, as every one knows, models
of virtue-but how they can possibly
find anything suspicious about a wom-
az who is entirely alone passes my
comprehension. am afraid that the
true secret Of this affair is that the lew
el OF morality in this country is low
one, and that there is nowadays very
little resnect in France for anything.
/ cannot understand how it is that men
can forget t is possible for their wives
aud danshters to be thus insulted when
out alone, and the argument SO often
advanced that it is nowadays difficult to
tell good women from bad ones, SO SIM
ilarly are they painted and ottlred, is
not one with which I am in accord.
Painted women are a distress in the
sight OF most men, and yet there are q
cool many intelligent and honest ones
who clay it ON thick" before leaving
their boudoirs, while, on the other
hand, there are demi-mondaines who
never paint OF all.-Erchange.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record or the Week,
EASTERN.

Philip Hamilton, youngest son Of
Alexander Hamilton. who was killed by
Aaron Burr, died at poughkeepsie, N. Y,
Aged s2.
At the iron works in South Boston.
where mammoth gun was In process Of
casting, a mass OF TO tons OF molten metal
exp oded forty feet beneath the surface OF
the ground and r,sc TO . height or sixty
feet. The damage 10 reported at 100000.
The assignee Of the Penn Bank be-
began suit At Pittsburgh last week for con-
spiracy against President Riddle Cashier Rel
Der. and NJ. X. McMullen. /. J. Watson, and
r. NJ. kennedy, oil brokers, for wrccking tho
bank By oserdrawing sl.075.t0J. Bail for tho
two former WIS fixed ut $4,000 each and
$1,000 each for the others.
The fai ure il announced Of Best Il
Co.. OF New York. dealers In childrcn's CLOTH
Ing, whose liabilities are $50, ZOO.
A fire VIII Oh broke out in Mrs.
Charles Rcilly's bakery ut bradford. Pa, do.
etroyed ten structures. Two ch ldren OF
Mrs. Reilly and domestic perished in the
flames, and the frenzied mother received
such burns In attempts to rescue her babes
that che cd In a short time. Four other
persons were Injured, two Icing eir.s who
jumped from upper stories, one receiving :
fatal hurt.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17

At Baltimore, Gus Slater, nephew Of
noted gambler, shot ana killed "prince''
MCGOWAN, well-known sporting character,
rs the result OF quarrel begun In saloon.
MCGOWAN met his death . few feet from the
spot where he killed Ouno Garter, another
gambler. two years ago.
Secretary Folger has advanced $685.
ass to the President OF the Worlds EXPOSE.
ton Mt New Orleans.
Under orders from Secretary Lin
coin, al settlers will he compelled to leave
the region known as Greer County, Texas,
which Is said TO belong TO Indian Territory.
Paul Morphy, the famous chess.
player, Was drowned in his bath tub In his
residence NJ New Orleans, last week. He
Was q years old, AID lad been dcmented 70,
some years.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
For Guests ut Your Table.

Pretty devices for designating the
place certain guests shall take ct the
table are employed by those happy
housewives who can devote time to the
poetry Of home. One very pretty way
is to have TN alphabet made of tin,
have each letter about three inches
high, and the little tin forms deep
enough to hold little sand or wet
moss. Then fill the forms with tiny
flowers and leaves. Another way,
though not 80 easy to make, is to have
the form in the shape Of card, and on
the background OF green put in the
guests initial with small flowers. ~
Ne,c Orleans Timcs-Democrat
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17
WESTERN.

A new counterfeit SO silver certifi-
cate has made its appearance in the West.
On the back Of the note where 1t should read
"And oil public dues, md when so received"
the word "alr' is entirely omitted.
There are thirteen cases of smallpox
u Leroy. Mich.
The stockholders Of the Central Pa
cinc Road reelected Stanford. Hopkins tho
HuntinTtons, and the Crockers rs Directors.
/. Maud 8 made mile for exercise at
Cleveland In 2:l2s.
In an ARRAY in a Keokuk, Iowa, ho-
tel, b. d. Courts, OF Dean, shot H. Spence
dead. The murdered man accused Courts OF
stealing money from him, and followed up by
IN assault. when Courts used his revolver,
0ring fonr shots.
w. L. Lamb. Toledo tOhio) tobac-
60 merchrnt was fatally shot by burglar.
Lamb tried to overpower the robber, whom
be caught in the hallway. but after the shoot.
Ing he escaped.
At Denison, Tex, Joe Kuntz shot his
divorced wife, snd, walking several blocks to
where he lodged, entered hts room and shot
himself dead.
A number OF hogs at Rockford, H.,
which had been bitten by mad dog, are dy-
ing with hydrophobia.
The net earnings Of the st. Paul
Road Tor the iirst half OF the year are fully
upto those OF tho preceding period, owing to
diminution Of expenditures, although the
receipts fell OF nearly sl,ooo,ooo.
1t is alleged that the late President
W. r. McGill, of the Cincinnati and Eastern
Road, who was killed by falling from q car,
procured about $4,000 on SPURIOUS notes,
and that his victims were friends. These de-
vciopmen,s give rise to the belief that he
committed suicide.
At the Chicago Driving Park won
dcrfnl performance was witnessed by 100
pcrsons The PAGER Wcstmont and running
mate, hari ssscd to light road wagon. made
quarter OF mile in thirty seconds. 1 half
mile In one minute. three quar- ers in ninety
seconds. and the full mile in 2:0la. But for
break by westmont on the last eighth OF
. mile, the record would have been two min
utes
The estimated yield Of wheat in
Michigan this year is al,ss5,3s bushels
l.sia,ssi bushels less than the crop OF 1853.
st. Louis is arranging for m inter-
national convention OF veterans OF the Mexi
can war. In October. Its claimed that Presi-
dent lar has promised to send ifty promi
nent particiI ants to the gathering.
Everett 4 Weddell, who for thirty
years have conducted a private banking
house in Gle Gland, made an assignment
liabilities At si.U0o,uo0, They state that Their
assets are ample to pay all claims In fun,
with interest.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17

could also recall three or four cases
wherein women had exercised power
fnl influence after their husbands got
home from convention.
"Brudder Penstock, has you noticed
any pcrtickler inilooence Of de femal.
sex on de matter of art?' asked the
President.
Brother Penstock had. Such thing
as making an old, yellow, four-gallta
jug thing Of beauty and parlor or
nament would never have been thought
of but for the gentler sex. A man
would pass an old tomato can in the
back yard d hundred times a day with
out second look. A woman would
seize upon it ut the first opportunit.
and transform it into a Grecian vase
of exlu site beauty. Twenty years
ago an omnibus with landscape OF
the side would be followed around the
streets by crowd. To-day six
gallon crock, to be used as an umbrella
holder, with view of the Yosemite
painted all around it i'll nine different
colors, could lie drawn oil over the eta
in a hand-sled without exciting remark
Art had become a part Of our every day
lives. A stout woman couldn't even
fall down on an icy corner without dis
playing more or less genuine talent for
the artistic.
"Brudder Pullback, has you noticed
any partickler inilooence Of women on
de matter Of progress 2" inquired Broth
er Gardner.
Pullback thought he had. Women
had discovered most Of the comets, pro-
jected the grandest br dges, engineered
the greatest tunnels, and wrested the
most secrets from science. II it hadn't
been for the progressive ideas of wom-
en-, stage coaches would vet DO runnin '
between New York and Chicago.
Judge Cadayer was asked what infu-
ence women had on business, and he
drew long breath and replied that, il
it wasn't for the female sex, the bust
ness Of the world would drop one half |;
one dry-goods store in city could sup
ply all the men, but the women sup
ported two or three hundred Of them.
Women not only maintained business,
but established new manufactures. For
instance, the decoration of fem le
hosiery gave employment to 6,GOo per-
sons the year round. It was all out of
sight and utterly useless, but it circu.
lated millions of dollars. Pads, bustles.
paints, cosmetics, and false hair were
Of no real service, convenience, or orna-
ment. and yet $50, 0aO, 900 and the labor
Of 100000 people were the annual re-
suits. Women are straight business.
When wife whose husband earns only
&25 per week can keep carriage, wear
800 bracelets, and put on . $3.50 seal
skin sacque, the man who contended
that the female sex had no financial
abilities had better hang up.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-07-17

Charles Hamilton were HANGED At warrenS
burg, NO., fer killing tarl STERILE. Ter
thousand persons were present.
The Mexican Government, il Is an
nounccd, has a reed to We bonus OF 81
per head for imported Chinese.
Bradstrtefs reports 1876 failures in
the United States for the week, against 140 In
the preceding week.