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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Picked On for Freeman Readers.

For the past two weeks, rioting
in Belfast. between Catholics and
Orangemen, has been almost con-
tinuous. Quite a large number
have been killed, hundreds wound
cd and much property destroyed.
The Government has sent Gen.
Sede lex to Mexico to try to bring
about some satisfactory arrange
poent of the Cutting affair. The
opinion seems to be gaining ground
that The Mexican officials were per-
feotly justifable in their prosecu-
ton of Cutting. There ia no dan
ger, whatever, of a war over the
matter.
In spite Of the discredit which
SO many eminent authorities have
thrown upon the Panama Canal
scheme, De Lesseps has succeeded
even beyond his own expectations
in raising money for Its continu-
apce. The bonds which he offered
few days since were taken almost
Immediately. The amount thus
raised will carry the work 80 far
that its completion may be regard
ed as assured.
After Oct. / all Post Offices will
be made Special Delivery offices.
Any letter or package having ten
cent Special Delivery stamp at
tached, will be delivered at once to
any point within a mile of the Of
Gee. Post Masters will retain the
price of the Special Stamps, and
pay for the delivery themselves.
President Cleveland and wife
have gone tor a months vacation
in the Adirondacks. Requests
from special reporters to accompa-
ny the party were properly refused.
The Constitution of Nebraska
provides for an expression of the
popular choice for United States
Senator, at the general election
preceding the session of the Legis-
fsaure which is to fill that office.
Such vote has never been taken,
but Senator Van Wick, whose term
expires this winter, has asked
vote upon his candidacy for re-elec-
ton, which will be accordingly
taken,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25
Grand Lodge l. o. u. L.

The Grand Lodge I. o. G. T.
meets at Martinsburg, September
LIST, and will doubtless be the largest
body Of Good Templars ever gath
cred in the State. Rev. J. W. Car
ter will be present as the delegate
from Parkersburg Lodge, See fur
Their notice, inside page.
For Railroad rates, DC, apply at
once to J. B. Morgan, G. S., &C.
rardstown, W. Va.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

Subscribe for Freeman mow, $1.0O.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

Scatter 1t Wide and Scatter II No,o.
Every county in the State ought
to have several hundred copies of
the FREEMAN for the campaign.
Kanawha is already getting 800
week, Richie $50, Lewis $50,
and other counties smaller num-
bers. Monroe is negotiating tor
$50.
CAMPAIGN TERMS.
To save delay in writing for
terms, we announce as follows:
The FREEMAN will be mailed to
any number of addresses sent by
Prohibition Committees or friends,
for one, two, or three months, at
the uniform rate of Il cents per
copy, (s1.50 per hundred) which
is at the rate of seventy-fve cents
per year.
Make up your subscriptions,
and send lists of names at once.
No other investment of Prohibi-
ton money will bring half as good
returns as that spent IN scattering
the Campaign FREEMAN.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

The Democratic Convention at
Point Pleasant, rudely slapped the
Temperance people in the. face
What will they do about it? Wait
and see.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25
Campaign Freeman.

Scatter 1t Wide and Scatter 1t Now.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

$500 acres of good Land in Web
ster County and 900 acres of Land
in Nicholas County, for sale by
W. F. Attkisson, Parkersburg, w.
Va.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

Do you wish to buy Real Estate
of any kind or for any purpose,
call on Atkinson, Parkersburg, W.
Va.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25
Notice to Lien Holders.

To all persons holding liens, by judgement
or otherwise, on the real estate, or any part
thereof, of George w. McVey, W. V. Money,
and S. P. Leslie, or either of them, in pursu-
ance of decree of the Circuit Court of Wood
to subject the real estate of the said George
W. MONEY!, W. V. Mcvey, and S. p Leslie to
the satisfaction of the liens thereon, you are
hereby required to present all claims held by
you and each of you against the said George
W. MeVey, w. V. McVey, and S. P. Leslie,
which are liens on their real estate, or any
part of it, for adjudication, to me, at my Of
flee on Third Street, in the city of Parkers-
burg, In the county of Wood, on or before
the
TENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER,
1886,
Given under my hand this 14th day of
August, 1885,
BARNA POWELL. Commissioner.
u. N. TAvENER, Plaintiffs Counsel.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

True and good men, no dickers,
a fair and square fight let this be
the Prohibition program.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

49, acres of land, (part of the
Dudley estate(, lying on the St.
Mary's Pike, tor sale by Attkisson.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

On upper Market Street, New
two story House and good Lot for
Sale by Atkinson.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-25

Now's the time to push things.
Scatter the Campaign FREEMAN,
knee deep. See terms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
FASHION NOTE.
The Frightful Cruelty Of an Otherwise
Humane Lady.

The Frightful Cruelty Of an Otherwfse
Humane Lady.
Colonel Yerger presented his wife
with sealskin sacque. She immedi-
ately insisted on walking out with it on.
1t was very cold and he said with a
shiver:
LET us go home; TIM almost frozen
to death. +"
II don't feel cold at all, y she replied,
with chattering teeth, "but let US go
back and walk past the windows OF
those Peterbys."
"But you may get pneumonia and die
painful death. : :,
Never mind if do. / don't feel cold
at all as long as I've got this sacque
on"
"But why do you want to 60 past the
Peterby mansion againp"
al want that stuck-up Mrs. Peterby
to see my new sacque once more any
how. It will make them gnash their
teeth and turn green with envy when
they see it and think Of their last
winters cloaks that they are wearing.
-TszGs Sifti,sgs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
journalism in Austria.

According to the latest official in
formation there are in Austria 1923
newspapers a1d periodicals, of which
400 are political, 175 economical, 181
agricultural, 113 connected with trades
or special occupation, 80 medical or
scientific, SO pedagogical, So geo.
graphical and historical, 208 represent
ing literature and humor, 13 military;
129 advertising papers, SO ecclesiastical,
and 107 local papers; 727 of the whole
number are published in the single prov
ince of Lower Austria As to lam
guage 1,054 sire German, 225 Czech,
los Polish, 95,, Italian, So Slavonian, 50
in other Slas dialects, and "a are
mixed--that IL, have portions in differ
ent languages 1t is noteworthy that,
as compared with the preceding year,
the German papers have increased in
number by per cent, the Italian by
6.7, the Czech by 1876, the Slavonian
by POT, and the Polish by 81. Hungary
and the provinces dependent on the
Hungarian crown are not taken into
account of tl,is summary, which is
confined to the Austrian provinces
only.-N 7. Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
CONSIDERATE.

The Fine Feelings of a Darky Who Re-
fuses to Play Slave.
A gentleman who advertised for a
man to do general farm work was ap-
preached by negro who wanted the
place.
"What can you dop" the gentleman
asked.
90, ken fill. de bill, I reckons.'
"Can you plew?"
"Wall, no, sah; fergot ter tell yer
dat. ] doan dc no plowin'
Well. are you good hand with a
hoe?''
"Dat's er nuaer pint dad I frlrgot ter
mention. No, sab, yer mus 'skuze me
consarnin' de hoe"
"You chop wood, suppose?''
"Wall, no, san, kahn say dat does. !"
''Haul wood then, of coursep"
mo, KANT do dat. likes yer style,
boss, fur / allus likes ter hab ur un' er-
standin' wild Ell man.
"Well, then, what do you propose to
do?"
"Whut I 'peze to do? Wy, sab,
would see das de niggers bitches de
hosses ter de carriage, an den would
come ter town wild yer. Whut, doan
want meP" he added, as the gentleman
turned away. ''All right, sab. doan
'poze ter be er slabe fur no man. Doan
ketch me er WARM myself out fur no
pusson. "-Arkansaw Iraueler.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Roman schoolmasters used .
whip made of eel skin to punish their
scholars on the naked back.
The Baltimore Catholic Mirror essa-
mates the colored Catholic population
of the United States at 100, 900.
BY all means agitate the question
of grading teachers salaries according
to merit, and let the question of sex in
this sphere be laid aside. Philadelphia
Times.
Rev. Atticus g. Haygood, OF che
Methodist Church South, says that
since the war the people Of the North
have contributed no less than $40, ,0O0,-
600 for educational purposes in the
South Chicago Times.
Along the line of the Panama
Canal are nine preaching stations kept
up by the Church of England. There
are about 5000 laborers, number of
whom regularly avail themselves OF
the privileges thus afforded.
The Boston Cooking School has
had six men as pupils during the year.
One man cook took thorough course
and the five other men took lessons for
the personal satisfaction Of knowing
how to prepare food. Boston Joss1sal.
Although twenty thousand volumes
have been added in the last two wears
to the Columbia College library Shere
is need of more books to meet the de-
nands of the professors and students
in the various departments of the Uni
versity, especially in the graduate
courses.-N. 7. Sum.
Arrangement have been made for
series of conventions in the interest
of home missions in the several Pl.esby-
teries of the Synod of Ohio. It is the
purpose of these conventions to bring
before the churches all information on
the work and needs of the home mission
fields Cleveland Leader.
The American missionaries are not
little proud of the prowess and clever
ness of the Bulgarians. Many of the
bright young men who have come to
| the front in the war received their train
ing in the schools established by the
American missions, which have ever
been warmly welcomed in Bulgaria.
For five years, every night in the
| year without iutermission, well at
tended Gospel meetings have been held
at the Bowery Mission Of the Young
Mems Home in New York. On re-
cent Sunday evening the fifth anniver-
sary was held, at which wonderful tes-
timonies were given by men who had
been rescued.--M r Tribune.
| The Poles, Bohemians, Servians
and Bulgarians. and, in general, the
Slavonians living in the city of New
York and neighborhood, are discussing
a project to establish in this country a
Slavonian Roman Catholic diocese in
charge of Bishop, Slavonian by
birth. There is no reason why the
Slav Catholics of this country should
not form union of their own like that
of the German Catholics or the Irish
Catholics. But it is curious that these
American citizens of Slav birth intend
to petition the Czar of Russia that he
would intervene in their behalf before
the Pope. A Catholic priest, q Pole by
birth, has already applied to the BUS.
sian Consul of this city on the subject.
IN Y. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11

They were the incest set of boys you
ever saw in your life. But at first they
woMd play truant. Then they caught
it. only whipped for that and lying.
I remember one time Dobyns Fouge
and Nit Bramble played hockey. OF
course the next day they had to take it.
Ipummeled away, and although they
roared like young bulls of Bashan it
didn't seem to me caught the right
note. / began to investigate, and
would you believe it, the little rogues
had borrowed blacksmiths' aprons and
stuck them inside of their shirts.
''You see, I didn't allow any inter-
ference from the parents. When Mrs.
Pouge came to me about Dobyns-Pd
walloped him for something or other
/ made her present of him. Take
him. / don't want him. The first
thing I knew she was back, with tears
in her eyes, begging me to take him
again.
"Why, sir, my exhibitions were the
events of the year. Ette here, and all
the girls, used to come and dress the
church with cedars and colored paper
wreaths. Every candlestick in the
town was ours for the asking; and we
had all the girls finery we wanted.
They were only too proud to lend it.
"And as for the people, every hitch
ing post had two or three horses tied to
it. All the country people came and
the First Presbyterian Church would be
filled cram jam, and the rest of the
world look in at the windows"
"Ette,' calling his wife again,
"what would Mr.. Higgins have thought
if he could have heard Horace Morton
declaim Pollock's description of he'll:
And perilous as deep
Or Smith Kephart, in long. black
cloak and tartan cap and feather, give
Lochiels Warning All! that was
grand. And there was Angus Liggett,
in my niece Antoinette's balzarine
dress, and his hands chained, reciting
| The Maniac until there wasn't dry
eye in the house. Exhibitions! There's
nothing like them nowadays. You
may say what you please, sir, there
no profession to be compared to teach
ing. Give me forty or fifty boys with
ability and industry, and I wouldn't
exchange it for the best business in the
world"
Nobody said him nay, and William
Smith sank back again into his chair,
! apparently contemplating the toes OF
his shoes, but his gaze in fact was
fixed in the far away past, the source
of so many pleasant and proud memo.
ries.-Mary Gay Humpbries, in N. =
| Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
MOTIVE.

n your purpose is high, and your aim IL
And YOU toll with patience, and wait and
al, ron that work will endure-endtre-
And it matters little what men may say.
. .x.ru of insects may dim the skies
MI tire sun seems shadOwed and overcast;
nj c,o,,ds that are only the wings Of flies
Mnst Yieid to the power of light at the last.
ro,h,np noble can be downtrod.
And nothing worthy long h1dden from
c.ok NJ This Universe stands God,
And He moves all things by the lever of
Right.
=. t.kes true motive to make true art
At without motive lives but for day
And where there is purpose, and feeling, and
heart,
II can not perish though worlds decay.
Keep UP your courage, and work and wait,
n. foiiers who toll with an aim sublimel
rhs ewes of the years shall discriminate.
And read your purpose Alright in time.
-Eaa Wheeler Wilcor, IN Chicago Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Cigarettes never hurt good little
boys, because good little boys never
hurt cigarettes-by burning them
Philadelphia Call.
An awfully homely man at a
sociable where kissing games ere played
looks as lonesome as straw hat in q
snow storm. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A surgical journal tells of ssman who
lived five years with ball in his head.
We have known girls to live twice as
long with nothing but balls In their
heads.-N Z. Telegram.
The way that woman lately inden-
titled her stolen parrot was by bringing
her husband into court and scolding
him. The bird soon called ont: 20,
Iwish you were at Jericho, old womanr'
A woman win face q frowning
world and cling to the man she loves
through the most bitter adversely, but
she wouldn't wear hat that was out
of style to save the Government.-N.
Y Ledger.
1T Is estimated that in this city 1o6,-
40S men. on the day following Christ
mas, when asked what they got, re-
piled, "Got left - This is q gratifying
decrease of nine since last year.--Phit-
adelphia Call.
IF Horn Tooke had not many years
ago had his joke published, some enter
prising funny man might now say In
comment on the burning of the hat fac
tory in New York yesterday, 'The loss
will be felt. -Pittsbssrgh Commercial
| Gazette.
What did you do the first time you
got into a battlep' said young lady
to an old soldier. .'Of course you
didn't runp'' 20, no; didn't run.
| miss; not at all, but il hid been GO
ing for doctor, and you had seen me,
you would have thought somebody was
awful sick. " Chicago Josssss0I.
/ "A perpetual joy
Ny wife isn't much of o beauty.
But q home keeping body fs she;
Enacient in hogsekesping a dufy x. ,-r..
She wears the most tasty apparel,
And she's perpetual JOY,
| And we've never In lie nad quhrkeL
For she cooks like an angel, my ooy
Boston Courier.
| mo, sir; haven't seen the viii,
but l propose to fight Il. My uncle
was crazier than loon and conldn'i
make will. = Lawyer Fichem- But
drew it for him, and know that ne
beaueaths his entire estsste to you, !,
ssIs that SOP Then Just Q on6ider your
self retained to defend the instrument
II propose to protect my dear uncle
memory TO the furthest extremity. =
Philadelphia Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
Ths Phenomenal Growth of Americas
Mining Enterprises.

Ths Phcnomenal Growth Of American
Mining Enterprises.
The report of the United States Geo.
logical Survey shows that the mining
industries of the United States are as
suning giant proportions. Not less
than $500, 900, 900 is invested in mining
enterprises as productive capital, and
over 400, 900 people are furnished em-
ployment, and the mineral product Of
the United States for the year 1884 had
value of $413.104, ,620. The follow
ing is a detailed statement of these
mineral products as shown by the sta
tistics collected by the United States
Geological Survey:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
Grand total of mineral
products
Scientific American.

French scientists are constructing
a balloon which will be directed by
steam engine. = Should the boiler ex-
plode when the balloon is a thousand
feet or SO overhead, the aeronaut 10
more likely to be blown down than
blown -Norvistotcn Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11

New Zealand, with population OF
about 600, 600, has debt of nearly f31,-
600, 900, or over $3.50 for each in.
habitant
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
The manufacture Of wax is the INC

costly item in honey-meking, and this
is loss that can be readily avoided by
using artificial combs. When the bees
have only to provide honey they can
produce much more aud the swarms
win be earlier and more prolific. fc.-Bos-
ton Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11

The average age Of the fourteen
hundred inmates Of Sing Sing is twenty
six vears.--N. 7. Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-11
Twenty religious societies are asso-

-IWeHCy ItIIgIUuS sUCIeJI5S dt6 dSSO-
ciated in the Brooklyn Union for
Christian work. The receipts of the
past year were $7,575.70. The Union
maintains free reading-room, library
and sewing-school, and is engaged in
general charitable work. CHRISTIAN
Union.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
The Local Field.

ATTEND the bazaar tonight.
FRESH oysters at Chas, Hcndra's.
FRANK HANscoM has moved into
his new residence.
The big chief, Indian Summer,
has returned to his reservation.
LrsrRE PAINT for sale at J. J.
Hanscom q Co.'S
TIE sports are out to-day with
their guus il large numbers.
WINTER without snow is not to
the tase of the average citizen.
Try the Cream Lunch Biscuit at
Cbas Hendra's.
The youngsters are already dis
cu,sing the coming of Santa Claus
Look out for a display of the
merits of the Milwaukee Sentinel
THE blizzard with blood in its
eyei. looking about for a place to
strike.
'TIs the hope Of the TRIBUNE that
all of its readers will enjoy turkey
to-day.
TnINK Of it! The tribune and
the weekly Inter Ocean for 1925
per year.
NOTHING like those specially-made-
toorder neckties for gents at Gun
dry, Gray & Co.'s,
ATTEND the annual meeting of
the fair society to be held at the
city hall next Saturday afternoon.
The New York millionaires feel
more comfortable now that the big
statue is being lighted at Government
expense
TONIGHT is afforded a chance 10
secure an apron, or claim on the
wear Of one. Get ye to the M. E.
LADIES' bazaar at city hall
In il shame the way the fence
around the old cemetery is neglected.
Hogs, should any be at large, can
now roam and root among the graves
at leisure.
DELLER is offering among his
many special attractions, line of
5l-incb wide, all wool Tricots, or
dress haunels, at 65cts. per yd. A
very great bargain indeed.
MISS MINTIE JONES numbers
among the visitors in the city this
week The young lady having for
merry resided here, she finds a host
Of friends to greet her.
TILE Barneveld Register says that
several young men of that vicinity
have started with seven teams for
Monroe TO work on the new Free
/ port & Madison railroad.
S. S. JAMES, jeweler. Sign Of the
oig watch and pen, opposite Pull
iord's drug store. See large adyer-
usement in another column and read
It carefully.
MANY of our miners are giving
considerable attention to the sulphur
There is in it," There is a demand
Tor this product now, and we trust
II may be found in paying quantities.
ARE you aware that the Farmers
Institute to be held in this city next
~'ata is an event of great import
amer: Every citizen should take
l'.e % any opportunity to aid and
eAmm4e it.
Etuay member of the Southwest
en Wis. Industrial Association
sa'9d be in attendance upon the
ah.aa. meeting of the society next
saturday, Nov. 27th, at the city hall
/ y .a's city at p. m.
| 'ocoNoMowoc," yelled the brake
I man. "0'Connor may walk, may
ne. exclaimed an Irishman at the
Vaer end of the car "Ah faith, if
W. name me, you'll have a foine
une maxim O'Connor walk whin
Ae paid s. for this bit o paste
BOARD st. Paul Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25

A DoDGEvILLE correspondent Of
the Milwaukee Sentinel touches on
the prospects Of the numerous can
didates for the postmastership in
the following manner;
The postoflice fight at this place,
which has been smouldering for
some time, has again been kiudled
into a flame Of activity. Candidates
are numerous and petitions are be-
ing freely circulated Among those
named for the position are: John
Rhudersdorf, Wm. II. Keau, O. G.
Smith, Richard Lane, J. b. McPhe.
son, Thos. II. Arthur aud Hon. NJ.
J. Briggs. Although 70 bad feel
ing has yet shown itself, there is
every reason to believe that the con
test will be very warm and exciting.
The term of The present incumbent,
Thomas Rogers, expires Jan. 3,
1887. Mr.. Rogers has served the
people either rs postmaster or as
assistant for twenty-five years and
has the hearty good will Of the en-
tire community. Many prominent
Democrats have expressed desire
that he be retained Notwithstanding
the numerical strength of the can
didacy from their own party. As
far as can be ascertained the ap-
pointment seems to lay between
Messrs. Briggs, Lane and McPher-
son. The latter is a miller residing
about seven miles out of the village,
but still within the delivery of this
office Mr.. Lane is a wheelwright
aud member of the firm OF STRAIT
man & Co., wagon and plow manu-
fucturers. Mr.. Briggs is lawyer
who is well known throughout the
state, having once been candidate
for encouragement upon the Demo
cratic ticket and having also served
one term in the Legislature. The
office is third-cIass and pays a salary
Of $l.1O0, with a small allowance
for extra services Of distributing
clerk.
FRESH oysters by the pint, quart,
or in cans, at Chas. Hendra's.
REPAIRING neatly and promptly
done at Ed. Dayey's shoe store. 45-2