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Two shlngIe Makers fr0m MuskegOn,
Mich,

Chas ]. Hermann, the holder Of one-fifth OF
-the First Prize, Ticket No. 26442, costing 81,
drawing S75. 600 in The Louisiana State Lottery,
and his employer. VIM. H. Brown, President
OF the Lewis L. Arms Shingle and Lumber Co.,
at Muskegon, Mich, visited the Company.
They were politely received by NJ. A. Dauphin.
when check for $4,000. was ready for them.
which was paid by the n. o. National Bank.
Messrs Brown and Hermann are intelligent
business men, controlling mill which turns
out annually S0000.0O0 shingles, to say nothing
Of dressed lumber.-Neao Orleans Picayune,
Oct o.
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Persons in want of handsome and we'll
equipped residence. should notice the adver-
tisement which offers that of Mrs Summerson
on Church street for rent.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-24

Sweeping reduction in WRAPS of all kinds
at SHIRKEY & TAYLOR'S.
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Ladies, if you want to see the AANDSOE-
EST STOCK OF GOODS ever brought to
Staunton, go to Shirley & TAYLOR'S.
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We don't intend carrying over any WRAFS
this season If Low PRICES will sell them
Shirley & TAYLOR.
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The improvements.

consist OF rOOmy and Well-arranged "a
Frame Dwelling, nearly new. situated Eai3
in large grove of native oaks, and oc- -
cupying an eminence from which one of the
most beautiful and extensive views in the VAL
ley may be obtained. The outbuildings are
ample and in excellent repair. A young and
vigorous orchard of choice fruit VIII in year
or two be in full bearing, AT the house are a
large cistern and artesian well, and there is
running wafer in every field.
Considering its proximity to the city, the
place offers an excellent Investment to an en-
terprisng man. 1t is within q quarter of a
mile of the finest turnpike in Virginia-just
far enough to avoid the annoyance incident to
much travelled thoroughfare, and near
enough to get the full advantage of a fine road.
The place offers excellent facilities for truck
ing and its nearness to The Stgunton mark cts
would make it profitable.
This property is offered at a reasonable price
and on easy terms. Parties desiring to exam
inc 1t should call upon Mr.. Harris, who resides
there. For terms, &C., address
G. G. GUOCH,
au4-u Maysvills, Ky.
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DEATHS

are charged fer dtGGUerttsfngr rates.
Noticesof Dss5Lsshe u 2rGtsttoustD.t
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Casarrh is Nos a Esloo.. D:sease

Have You seen the DAZZLING NOVEL
TIES, at WELLER,S
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LAND SALES.
HOTEL PROPERTY F.

VALUABLE HOTEL PROPERTY FOB
SALE.-The undersigned will sell pri-
Vately, THE PErTIGREW HOUSE." -
corner of Main and Nelson Str eets, Lex Hs53
ington, Virginia. pesirably located and s23H
Observation-Disclosures OF brick. Billiard
Room. Telegraph Office, and three valuable
Store Rooms go with property. The furniture
OF the hotel complete, and an assortment OF
liquors, and the personal property, can be pur-
chased with the realty. For further particu-
JAMES K. EDMoNDsoN,
EDMOND PENDLETON,
WILLIAM A. ANDERSON.
Commissioners.
Lexington, Va, Sept 30th. 1885, oc6-2m
GALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
y IN AUGUSTA COUNTY.
By virtue of decree of the circuit court of
Augusta county, entered in the cause of VIM.
A. Browns Admir- VS.. Patteson and ais, will
proceed to sell, at public auction, to the high
est bidder, in front Of the Courthouse, in the
City OF Staunton, on
Monday. the 22nd day Of November, 1886,
(the same being Court day. q valuable tract of
land In Augusta county, lying on the Little
Calf Pasture River, near the Augusta White
Sulphur Springs and containing 232H acres,
more or less. This land is well-watered, and
part of 1t in fine timber, and adioins the
house and land formerly occupied by VIM. A.
TERMs.-Cash in hand to pay the costs of
suit and sale, and for the balance the purcha-
ser will be required to give bonds in equal
amounts, payable l, 2, and years from date of
sale, bearing interest from date and waving
the Homestead, and the title to be retained as
ultimate security. Fl. ST. GEO. TUCKER,
Commissioner.
IL. N. Ryan. Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, do certify that the bond re-
,rIired by decree in this cause has been duly
executed by the Commissioner according to
law j, N. RYAN, CPk.
nova ids. - -
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COMMEsSEONERS' SALE OF yALUA-
~ BILE REAL ESTATE IN AUGUSTA
COUNTY.

By virtue of decree of the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, entered at the May term, 1856,
in the chancery cause of b. +. Cochran vs..
McChesney, &C., the undersigned Commits
sioners will offer for sale, at public auction In
front OF the Court. House. in stanton, on
Monday, October 18th, 1886, (Court-day).
three tracts of land belonging to the estate of
Adam McChesney, decd, and designated in the
plot recently made and recorded in Augusta
county Clerk s Office. tracts 3, and 5.
Tract No. 3 contains 1G3 acres situate on
both sides of South River, and adjoining other
portions of the real estate of said McfIhesney.
Tract No. 4 lies South of No. 8, and contains
$50 acres, rOods, and "a poles.
Tract No. 5. lies South of No. 4, and contains
500 acres, rOOds- and "a poles.
These tracts will be sold together or sepa-
rately, to suit purchasers
TERMS Enough cash in hand To pay the
costs of suit and sale, and the residue upon
credits of one two, and three years, equal in
stalments, bearing in terest from the day of SALE
the purchaser executing bonds for the deferred
payments, with approved personal security,
and the title retained as ultimate security.
a. @. GORDON.
GEO. III. HARRISON,
Commissioners.
l, B. T. Terry, Dep. Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Augusta county, do hereby certify that the
bond required in the above cause has been
duly executed according to law.
sep29 A. B. Z. TERRY, ID. CPk.
p9sTPONEsE
The above sale is postponed to Thursday, De-
cenlber Ind, 1856.
a c. GORDON,
GEO. NJ. HARRISON,
nol0.tdS Commissioners.
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Ladies, call at w LII Z RPS and see
the Novelties in
Dress Goods,
Peluehe Raye Pontilla,
Peluche Rsye Perle,
Peluche Croise Sole,
Peluche Raye Diagonal,
Peluche Cane Raye. sep29
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TEE SEA sCoURaE.

Blanket is! Blankets AL!
PRICES, at Shirley d TAYLOR'S.
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LAND SALES.
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE
Staunton, Nov. 9th, 1885,
Cana'I Il. Ruebush's Creditors

Sam'l z. Ruebush.
All parties interested in the foregoing cause
pending in the Circuit Court of Augusta coun-
ty-Tdke Notice-that will proceed at my Of
flee in Staunton, on Thursday, the End day Of
December nert, to take an account of the real
estate owned by the Defendant, Sam1 e. Rue
bush, the liens thereon, and their priority,
and other accounts required by the order of
reference in said cause, entered May IL n, 1886.
nol04t JNO. NJ. KINNEY, Comm'r,
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MOURNING GOODS,

BeSG ksN AZ bSSDS
With all the NOVELTIES in NEW MOURN
ING TRIMMINGS to match. at
noI7 Shirley & TAYLOR'S.
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A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.

In consequence OF business engagements in
another State, which will require my personal
attention, offer for sale privately, my farm
lying three miles North of Staunton. and
about quarter of a mile East of the Valley
Turnpike. The tract is part Of the old Wayt
Bell farm, and contains
100 ACRES
of fine land, admirably located and in a high
state of cultivation. This land has long been
celebrated for its unusual cropping qualities,
and is regarded as one of the best tracts in the
county. 1t has been greatly improved in the
past few years and is now in excellent condi-
ton throughout. A new plank fence extends
along the entire 'front.', and all of the cross
fences are in thorough order.
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A Surprise to New Yorkers.

New York Special.
The statement in the Times was surprise to
New Workers, who have been accustomed to
seeing Mr.. Gould everywhere and at all times,
unaccompanied, and who remember that there
were no detectives to defend the small man
when Selover threw him over the railing in Wall
street. or later when too greedy bear slapped
his face in Delmonicos. The article was shown
to-day to Washington E. Conner, the millionaire
who got rich as Gould's partner, and he laughed
and said:
'Mr. Goulds fault ia that he takes too many
risks He not only goes everywhere unaccom-
panied by detectives. or even by friends, but he
doesn't take proper care of his locomotion. He
is often thinking about business on the street
when he ought to be thinking about where he il
stepping. Over and over again have pulled
him away from in front of omnbuses and teams
when he was distracted and didn't notice the
danger | don't believe Mr. Gould knows what
fear IT, On the day after the late presidential
election. when all seemed uncertainty, mob OF
some hundreds gathered around this building
and yelled for Mr.. Gould. Not finding him here
they went up to the Western Union building and
threatened to attack it. Mr.. Gould had gone
home, and happened to be with him at his
house talking about Wabash matters, when Id
got dispatch from the Western Union building,
read it. laughed and handed it to me- 1t was
something like this:
Large mob has been here threatening Office;
has left for your house.
Il then handed it back to him. He tore it cd
and flung it in the CRATE, saying: guess that
it isn't dangerous and took up the Wabash talk
where he bad left it off. Next morning met
him at the elevated station. He had walked
over from his house, as usual, though three or
four of the papers were denouncing him and do
ing everything they could to stir up a riot. He
then told me that the figures looked as if Cleve-
land was elected, and he should make the
nouncement. which he did have been closely
associated with Mr. Could and l don't believe
he ever in his life paid one dollar for individual
detectives
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The Sunday Journal has the largest and
lest circulation of any Sunday paper in In
diana. Price five cents.
STEALING NEWSPAPERS.

The practice of stealing the morning news
papers in this city from the doorways of sub
scribers has become so common that it has
ceased to be considered crime. Every morn
ing Of the year many patrons of the Journal
complain that their papers have been stolen.
The same condition of affairs no doubt ex-
lists with every other morning paper of the
city.
It is true that the value in price Of single
paper is SMALL yet the annoyance to the SUBJ
scriber, who, going to his door before break
fast, finds that his paper is not there-that it
has either not been delivered, or that it has
been stolen-angers him for the whole day,
and possibly robs him of the only opportunity
in the day to read it.
The Journal and its patrons have suffered
30 much from this petty larceny that it will
pay liberal reward to anyone who will arrest
or give the name and description of the party
caught stealing paper from the yard or door
way of a subscriber.
These thefts are usually the work of small
boys of various colors, generally mixed. The
boy of ten or fifteen who will steal newspa-
per for the purpose of selling it on the streets,
will, at the age Of twenty, steal horse or
break into house at night, and the sooner
his career in crime is brought to an end, or
Ehe certainty of punishment for crime is
brought to his mind, the better it will be for
Che community and for the thief.
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HELPING GEOLOGY.

A recent cable dispatch says that COM
pany has been formed in Amsterdam to drain
the Zuyder Zee Cor South sea). large shallow
bay of the 'North sea-" or German ocean"
1t has an area of about IL. 900 square miles,
of which about 5000 are thought to be recov-
cradle to cultivation by system of drainage,
which, though exceedingly expensive, is quite
practicable, and sure to be largely remunera-
tive. This is no new project, though it may,
for the first time, assume more substantial
form now than it has ever done before So
much of the cultivable area of Holland has
been reclaimed from the sea, and held by con-
slant care and costly dikes, that even so huge
an addition as that contemplated can hardly
be extravagant, even if it be generally regard
cd as too large a load for any combined or incor-
porated enterprise. If the half or less deemed
reclaimable, about 5000 square miles, should
be recovered, it will nearly treble the area of
the kingdom of the Netherlands. North
Holland has about 1,050 and South Holland
1s162 square miles, or little over 1900 to-
gether. The addition will contain 5000 900
acres, while the whole of the present territory
contains but about 1900, 900 acres.
If the enterprise proceeds it will be alto
gether the most extensive effort Of the kind
ever made, at least as far as history informs
us. In the early part of this century an ex-
tensive area of low land, flooded at high tide
and left swampy and full of puddles at low
tide, was reclaimed on the English coast by
the Russell family Dukes of Bedford), one Of
whom was the late English statesman and
fnancier, Earl Russell. and under the name
of the Bedford Level" became the
most valuable property of the re-
chalmers. A wall or dixie shut out
Che daily food from the tides, and
huge steam engines pumped out the water
that was collected by drainage bitches into
reservoirs where the pumps could empty them
readily. The Bedford Level, thus recovered
from the sea, is now held one of the best
cultivated tracts of land in Great Britain.
But it was trife to the area that is expected
TO be recovered in the Zuyder Zee. The
Ig4svel" we believe, contains only sixty
thousand acres, or less than ten square miles
not more than one fve-hundredth part of
the area contemplated by the gigantic Dutch
enterprise. 1t will make big difference in
the condition of the Netherlands, and may
make some difference in the climatic condi-
tion of northwestern Europe by replacing a
vast surface of water with dry, cultivated
land.
The Swans Of France thought that very
serious changes would be made in southern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
TRIUMPHS OF SURGERY,

Some time ago celebrated surgeon predict
ed that the time would soon come when the
medical profession would disappear by COM
plete absorption into the surgical profession.
Men would cease to drug themselves, and de-
pend on the surgeons knife and other appli
ances to correct the physical disorders that we
call sickness. It is very likely that this emf
nent scalpel artist was Dragging little, for a
man with the "heart- burn" or a touch of collie
would hardly allow q surgical operation, how
ever easy and safe to replace a spoonful Of
soda or a few drops of laudanum. But, never
theless, the advances in surgical skill and en-
terprise-one might say audacity if it were
not for the success so often achieved-in these
latter days are marvellous. Making new
noses, lips, palates, Strengthening club-feet
frightening short legs reducing hump backs
are almost common feats of surgery, mechan-
ical and otherwise. Going on from step to
step, this daring skill has replaced decayed
human muscle with healthy dog muscle, and
restored lost strength; has almost revived the
dead by the TRANSMISSION of healthy blood to
their veins; has grated skin on bare spots
that would otherwise never have been COW
cred; and has at last penetrated to the interior
of the human body hunted up cuts
in the entrails which a few years
ago would have been deemed mortal
wounds and left to do their killing with no
obstruction, and sewed them up, and put
them back in their place and in month or
two brought well man out of the promised
corpse; it has tracked bullet in the bowels
and taken it out; it has extirpated diseased
viscera, cut out rotten sections of bone, taken
out damaged brains and left reasonably
sound man after the operation. Very lately
it has done the most amazing thing of all.
A man of dissipated habits showed signs of
dropsy He was tapped and his distended
body gave out milky fluid. Further exam
nation and tapping determined the surgeon,
DR.. Hutchinson, of Chicago, to open the
patients inside completely and see what pro-
duced so queer a dropsy. He did So and
found that the chyle extracted from his food,
and which should have gone into his heart to
be carried all through the system, leaked out
of tactical duct into vein near the shoulder
which was ruptured, and most of his nutri-
ment went into the abdominal cavity and
filled it full of the milky fluid. He sewed up
the rupture and added what he deemed neces-
sary, and the man will get well and get the
good of his ''fillin'." Verify is the surgical
skill and boldness of the time marvellous, if it
should not displace all medicines.
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A $4,000 Man Wanted for $4,000 Place.


The Office of Comptroller Of the Currency is q
sort of kindergarten for bank presidents In re-
signing his official duties, to enter into banking,
Mr. Cannon is only following the example of
three of his predecessors. and he has only had
four. While his resignation embarrases the
President, Mr. Cannon can scarcely be blamed
for leaving position which is always target
for political attacks and whose tenure rests upon
the will of President with whom he is not in
political sympathy for permanent independent
place; or for leaving a S., 900 salary for one of
SIS, 900, with plenty of opportunities to make
money outside. The Comptroller of the Cur
rency is prohibited from holding an interest in
any business. He is simply tied down to his
salary, and the government cannot expect to
keep good man in the place for that pay. One
who is capable of filling this position can get
larger salary in any sort of private business and
cheap man is not wanted. There are plenty Of
candidates for Mr. Cannon's shoes, but under
stand that none of them are considered quite up
to the required standard, and the President has
directed a search for another $l5, 900 man to fill
this S.. 900 place.
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and central Europe, particularly among the
Alps and the connected mountain ranges, with
the adjacent country, by the opening of
waterway from the Mediterranean to a vast
depression lower than the sea level in the
great African desert. The hot winds that
blew from the burning sands of Sahara across
the Mediterranean had kept down the Alpine
glaciers and prevented them from spreading
out into the valleys at their examinations.
The interposition of another large body of
water between them and the desert-bred
'tsiroccos" would cause the absorption
of so much moisture as to greatly
impair the melting power of the
winds, and thus the moving ice
streams would meet little resistance, or much
less than before, and their growth and 'conse-
quent descent into the valley would be in
creased till the effect might be, and would
probably be, the depopulation of good many
fourishing neighborhoods among the mount
aims.
Besides this effect of the change of vast
hot and dry surface for moist and cool
one, there was the probability of the much
larger deposits of snow among the gorges
through the mountain peaks, where glaciers
were formed. The moist winds would be ar
rested by the mountains, and in the cold up
per air above the tops the moisture would
fall in heavy snow showers, increasing the de-
post that slowly compacts into glacier ice,
and moves down the deep gorges it fills.
This may have all been idle, or all be
chimerical, but it was the speculation of men
competent to judge of the effect of such
a work and its changes if anybody
could. 1t is not unlikely that the meteorol-
ogists and mineralogists and physical geogra-
piers of Europe may discover analogous eff
fects in the draining of the Zuyder Zee, if the
persevering Dutchmen go on with the pro
posed enterprise No considerable geograph-.
ical changes have been artifcially made on
this planet. The Suez canal made an island
of Africa but the change was a great deal
bigger in name than effect. One or the other
Of the isthmus canals in this hemisphere may
make two islands of the joint continents, but
that will be change of little geographical
significance, important as it may be com
mercially. Nothing that man has
yet done has changed the earth
in any appreciable degree from the natural
conditions Of which ''the gardener Adam and
his wife" entered and left it. Changes have
come. but they have come by natural forces
If the Panama canal should disturb the Gulf
stream, as it might, there would be big effect
of it felt in the British islands. Cabbage
could not stand unfrozen on the stalk in Kent
or Devonshire at Christmas and sheep could
not eat up turnips out Of the ground. That
would be one effect of mans work plainly
seen in change of natural conditions. A
Sahara sea would be another, possibly more
striking and dangerous, and the soaking up of
a big gulf Of the North sea as big as second
rate kingdom would be another, and possibly
the biggest Of all.
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Worth Its Weight in Gold.
Satui day People.


The Journal should, by all means. endeavor
to maintain the truth of history. 1t stated in
its most excellent issue of last Sunday-the Sun
DAY journal is worth its weight In gold-that
John Hotchkns put up the first ice ever put up
in Indianapolis, which was in 1859. This is
mistake Our venerable informant says that
John L. Young had the honor of putting up ice
in 1884, which he did for the Wernwag brewery
on Maryland street Scudder 81 Hannaman in
1886 sold "ice-cold soda water Young sold ice
to our informants mother in 1885.
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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL.
(wEEKLY EDITIoN.l

Less than one year and over three months, 10c per
month No subscription taken for less than three
months. In clubs of FIVE over, agents will take
yearly subscriptions at ST. and retain 10 per cent for
their work Address
JNO. @. NEW & SON,
Publishers The Journal
Indianapolis, Ind.
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A ROndeau.
An empty nest! o smitten bird,
Whose strangling grief so few have guessed,
Sad is your moan DER hope deferred
And nestlings that your bosom pressed.
Man. too, may join your fruitless quest
The grief that your fond heart has stirred
In human hearts is also guest
o stricken man! o smitten dove!
Too bitter is the fearful test!
God pity all who bend above
An empty nest.