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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-25
A GARD.

To.Rll who arc suffering from the errons and In.
dlscretions Of youth, nervous weakness, carly de-
cay, loss OF manhood, etc., l will send q recipe that
will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
ro,nedy was discovered by a mISilouAIy In South
America. Send a seltaddrosSed envelope to the
Rev. Joseph T, IunAn, Station D, New York City
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-25
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There is not a richer field for illustration
than the good old songs that have taken
root in tho hearts OF men to stay, There
is hardly any one to whom the familiar
hymns do not recall foms sweet memory
moro likely u train Of sweet memories
making them forever welcome Ia whatever
gRrb they may come. Hero we have
NRock Of Ages" My Faith Locke Up to
Thee" "Nearer My God TO Tbse, /" "Abide
With Me-" each ia q beautiful litIlo vol
u,ne Of gold cloth. II every other hymn
were bIottNd out theso four would suffice
10 express tho hearts longing for peace
here and immortality thereafter. Tho dc.
siCus aro devotional studies conceived In
tho hest spirit and REtlStically executed by
Andrew. Not far removed from the class
OF song is CLONE, Sweet Home" tina.
phenomenally popular Leart-shrob to
which 80 many millions OF hearts have 70.
spopded. This Rem Ia presented In sini.
lar setting, aud q beautiful n II ia.
"Curiew Must Not Riug Tonight" affords
fine opportunity for ILLUSTRATION, and the
artistic work has been cGpitably done.
Any one Of these really elegant little
books will make q Christmas present
which nobody need be ashamed to give
and anybody would be glad TO receive
who can appreciate q good thing in a
dainty gRr0,-Lee G%'ShCpdrd, Boston, Sian.
ton & Davenport Wheeling.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-25

Rev. A J.. MCInernsy. Annapolis, Md:
cred Star Cough Cure gives good satistac-
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The statement is made in some Euro
pean papers to the effect that the Russian
Alisma, or water plantain, is a remedy
for hydrophobia. The roots are collected
in August, dried, grated and spread on
bread and butter Two or three doses
are taken in this manner, night and
morning, and cure is supposed to be
effected. The efficacy attributed to this
remedy is wholly imaginary. The Ais
ma family Is group of aquatic plants,
which grows in still water, with tapering
leaves resembling those of plantain, and
rather handsome flowers. Twenty years
ago Rev. G. A. Johns, an accomplished
English botanist, wrote of this plant:
s'The solid part of the root contains
farinaceous matter, and, when deprived
of its acrid properties by drying, is eaten
by the Kalmucks. From some fanciful
notion that the fearful disease, hydro
phobia, could be counteracted by water
plants, Alisma was idly pitched on as
specific by empires, but it is now no
longer in repute."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Washington.

THE collections from internal revenue dur
ing the first seven months of the fiscal year
ending June 30 1856, amount to S66, ,S7S, III,
which is 81 ,535, Isl more than the collections
during the corresponding period OF last year.
THE.House committee on levees and i'm
provements of the Mississippi river has agreed
to report favorably bill to appropriate
Sj,OOO,OOO to close gaps in and strengthen the
levees of the Mississippi river for the pur-
pose of improving and giving safety to nav
igation and preventing destructive floods.
The diplomatic correspondence on the sub
iect of the outrages on the Chinese at Rock
Springs, Wyoming Territory, in September,
1885, has been made public. The Chinese
minister, Cheng Tsao Ju, writing to Secre-
tary Bayard, called his attention to these law
less proceedings, which he described in de-
tail, gave list of the murdered and manned
Cinnamon, with the total estimated amount
Of damage sustained (Sl47, 748. 7A, and asked
that the perpetrators of the attack upon his
countrymen be punished.
NOMINATIONS by the President: Samuel
E. Wheatley, of Washington, to be commits
sioner of the District Of Columbia; V. O.
King, of Texas, to be secretary of legation
and consul-general of the United States at
Bogota; Rule Letcher, of Missouri. to be con-
sui Of the United States at Rio Grande do
Sui. Postmasters-Jas. A. Wall at Methuen,
Mass; Chas. j. Porter at Bethel, Conn. !;
Henry Van Scoy at Kingston, Penn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Hu-Tow-Tai, great Chinese specula-
tor, and probaly the richest merchant in
the empire, died recently at Hang Chow.
His progress through life may have been
as prosy and uninteresting as that of any
other common millionaire, but his funeral
was the loudest and one of the grandest
on record. At the head of the process
sion a number of coolies trudged along
carrying little scraps of paper upon which
short sentences full of wisdom and sound
advice were traced in pencil. Then fol-
lowed o crowd of lantern bearers, the
lanterns fastened at the end of long
bamboo canes. After them came small
army of musicians with gongs, symbals
and trumpets, making noise enough to
scare the sulphur and birthstone out of
all the wicked spirits within range. Next
came few hundred little boys, each
holding in his hand some weapon of
strange form intended for the slaughter
of evil-disposed devils. The bearers of
the family tablets with the names of the
ancestors of the deceased marched after
the boys. Next in the procession, altars
on wheels appeared loaded with choice
fruits, the last one bearing the portrait
of the deceased. After these affairs, two
groups of priests presented themselves,
the first dressed in white robes, richly
embroidered, and the second in scarlet
and yellow. Between these two groups
there was crowd bearing lanterns, flags,
parasols and fans, together with all sorts
of queer things. The master of cere-
monies rode on horseback, and was
dressed from head to foot In white, the
Chinese mourning. Behind him was a
large white tent carried along by strong
men, and in this the relatives concealed
their woe. At last the coffin came in
sight mounted upen magnificent hearse
ornamented in the most gorgeous style,
and borne along upon the shoulders of
twenty-five men. A large number of
mandarins dressed in their official robes,
and carried in japanese chairs, closed the
procession.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
By the new process of toughening tin

By the new process of toughening tim
Der, it is claimed that the effect produced
upon whitewood is such that cold
chisel is required in order to split it..
This result is accomplished by a special
method Of steaming the timber and sub
mitting it to end pressure, technically
"upsetting it." By this means the cells
and fbres are compressed into one COM
pact mass; and it is the opinion of
those who have experimental with the
process that wood can be compressed to
:he extent of IS per cent, ond that come
of the timber now considered unfit for
use in such work as carriage building,
for instrnce, can be made valuable by
this means as a substitute for ash,
hickory, etc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

What is the natural term of carp's
ife9 The question is suggested by the
announcement by the Berlin papers that
a fish of this kind has been taken from
the Spree at the age of S6s years. Some
days ago fisher was plying his vocation
when, like his olden predecessors, he was
favored with mighty draught. His
catch consisted of carp beneath whose
mouth a ring was found attached.
Scratches upon the ring, we are told
make it clear that the fish was placed in
the water in the year 1913, or nearly two
and three-quarters centuries ago. This
venerable inhabitant of the Spree
weighed thirty-six pounds, and measured
a hundred centimeters in length and
seventy-eight centimeters in circumfcr-
.,ppn
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
EXTENSIVE STRIKES.
Twenty Thousand Coal Miners and
Railroad Men Quit Work.

Twenty Thousand Coal Miners and
Railroad Men Quit Work.
An extensive strike Of the coal miners of
the soft coal districts of the East was inaugu-
rated on the Sth for the uniform scale Of
wages adopted at the Cumberland con-
vention Of February 10. The scale
involves general advance of ten cents per
ton In the district are 10000 miners. Sec
retary Davis of the Miners Amalgamated
association, says: 1.-The men may not come
out to man at the start, but the feeling
is sufficiently strong to cause the strike to
become general in few DAYS" The present
is especially noteworthy as being the first
general demand by all the districts COM
peting in the Eastern market for an advance
of wages, and also as the first effort to carry
out the principle laid down by the joint con-
ventions of operators and miners at Colum-
bus. Ohio, the establishment of relatively
uniform rates in competing districts.
At Irwins, Penn, the 1900 miners EN-
ployed in the mines Of the Penn Gas and
Westmoreland County Coal companies came
out for the increase.
In compliance with the order of the execu-
tive committee of the Federation of Miners
and Mine Laborers, which organization in
cludes all the employees in the several btu
minous coal regions, the 5 ,00O miners and To-
borers in the Cumberland (Md.) region struck
for an an advance from forty to fifty cents
per ton.
ASt. Louis dispatch says that the strike of
part of the knights of Labor on the Gould
Southwestern system of railways has been
followed by general suspension of work by
Knights until the number reached between
5000 and 10000, and included shopmen,
switchmen, trainmen, brakemen and firemen.
Many other strikes and boycotts in vari-
GUS sections Of the country, generally under
the direction Of the Knights Of Labor, are
also announced.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
LATER NEWS.

MISS BELLE FINCH, residing near Ithaca,
N. Y, has been suffering from some nervous
disorder for two years, and is said to have
days or more.
N. E. GRACE, a young lawyer, and j. M.
Brou, prominent business man, met in the
clerks office of the United States district
court at New Orleans, and qiarreled about a
case which the former was conducting
against friend of the latter. Pistols were
drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly
killed, and Brou mortally wounded.
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, has made a
statement to the House committee of lnves-
tigation concerning his relations to the Pan
electric Telephone company. He states that
he purchased 100 shares Of stock for 81 1000,
as regular business transaction, and has
received one dividend amounting to $40 or sl5
VIscouNT DUPPLIN, heir of the Earl Of
Kinnoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day,
and is supposed to have committed suicide on
account of losses at the gambling table.
VALPARAISO, Chill, has lost an entire busi-
ueSS OloNh, AlCluuiue eu0 SiCJ " ~ iuOiPaA
shops by fire; damage estimated at sl,00O,-
600.
IT is announced from Rome that two
American cardinals are to be created-the
Archbishop of Quebec and the Archbishop of
Baltimore.
AT least 100 Of the 105 inmates of the coun-
ty poorhouse at Lebanon, Penn, were pois-
oned the other morning by partaking of cof-
fee which contained Paris green. At night
twelve persons were reported in dying con-
dition.
THE R. E. Lee Camp No. of Confederate
veterans, Richmond, Va, has contributed
SO to the fund for the late General Han
cocks widow.
A coLoRED boy of thirteen years, en-
ployed by Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at
Ennis Gross Roads, S. c., attacked his
employer with an ak, knocking her senseless,
and then robbed the house. He was cap
tured and lodged in Jail, but crowd of citi-
Zcns tooS him out AMI hanged him to gate
post.
THE President has vetoed the bill to quiet
title of settlers on the De5 Moines river lands
in Iowa. He says that the point at issue i'll
this case was fully settled years ago, and if
reopenel now it would produce legal strife
and lawsuits.
FRANK MURGATRoYD. Of Philadelphia,
Snc eZed so hard in bed the other morning
that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in few
minutes was corpse.
FIVE persons-three passengers and two
railroad enployes--were killed anu twenty
six passengers injured thirteen of them
dangerously-in q collision between two
trains near Monte Carlo, the notorious Eu-
ropean gambling resort.
TIE Princess Helene de Ypsilanti, OF Vi
emma. is announced to be a bankrupt. She is
a daughter of the late millionaire banker
Baron Sina, and widow of the late Greek
envoy and minister plenipotentiary to Aus
tria. Her father at his death left each b Of his
three daughters S15,0O0, ,0QO,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The Hon. Hamilton Fish, member of
the Grant memorial committee of New
York city; thinks that a million of dollars
is too large sum to raise, and that the
hundred and odd thousand dollars al
ready obtained will suffice to erect a
suitable monument. Senator Hoar's bill
for a national monument to General Grant
at Washington appropriates only $780,
900. cit seems to me-" he said in his
speech to the Senate, ''that we must take
the thing as settled by the general judg-
ment of mankind that civilized nations
are wanting in due and decent honor for
their great benefactors, unless by monu-
ment Or statuary, OR in some other public
way they put up in their public places the
tokens of their regard"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Much interest has been excited in rail-
way circles at the West during the past
winter by the performances of the new
Leslie rotary steam snow shovel, on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
company's lines. The head of this ma
chine is provided with angular cutting
blades, which rotate with enormous
velocity and cut and loosen the snow,
which then passes behind the blades,
where it is received on the flat spokes of
another wheel, turning in a contrary
direction, and is thereby thrown out side
wise from the machine with tremendous
power. The snow is delivered in the
form of a great stream, forming an arch
through the air, and strikes the ground
at distance of from one to two hundred
feet from the track. The machine, when
in operation, is said to be a wonderful
sight to behold. It is mounted on a
special car, which also carries an engine
for driving the mechanism. During the
heavy snow storms, when tracks were
blockaded with from three to ten feet of
snow, packed so hard that the ordinary
slow plows would make no impression
on it. and could not have been cleared
except by hand shoveling, involving
several days delay, this machine went
through some of the worst drifts at the
rate of mile an hour, and through the
lesser drifts at much faster speed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

There is no such word as diamond
known in the trade for the article in ma
ture. The word used for diamonds is
bort. 1t is a Dutch word. The rough
diamond looks like piece of alum with
a little glazing about it. 1t is harder on
the outside than within, and seems to
have core like knot in piece of very
fine wood, which is softer than the out
circles of the wood. Sometimes it is i'm
possible to cut diamond of great prom
Use because there is hard place within
it. The art of cutting the diamond is
one of long practice, and requires the
exercise of economy and taste as we'll as
mechanism.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Tho A marian hirdc ,,,;ll fool

The American birds will feel an un-
wonted security this summer on account
of the efforts made for their protection.
''Perhaps the most sensible move made
against the slaughter of birds for millin-
cry purposes" asserts the Boston Tracel-
er, "has been started by the Ornitholo-
gists' Union, which has organized COM
mittee on the protection of North Ameri-
can birds for the purpose of obtaining
statistics and facts on the subject as we'll
as to agitate. This is commendable.
Before denouncing every hat trimmed
with feathers it will be we'll to investi-
gate whether the birds are in reality
American songsters or are not charming
limitations manufactured from the plum
age of the American hen. Most Of the
gorgeous real birds in the millinery trade
are imported from South America and
other tropical countries, and their fea-
thers are wrought into many different
shapes by skillful designers. But there
is nothing more highly appreciated in
millinery than the American cock"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

In New Mexico, where sheep are kept
away from habitatlons, it is always the
custom to have many goats with the ewes
and billy-goats with the rams. They are
fine guides, protect the herd against
dogs and coyotes, and give the herders a
Ettle milk for their coffee. But around
towns or fields, especially in the neigh
borhood of orchards or planted fields. the
goats are a nuisance. They not only
jump fences themselves, but also teach
the sheep to do likewise.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

MORE than 500 Mormon missionaries are at
work in the South.
LARGE herds of wild horses are reported
north of Denver Junction, Col.
The British military authorities are con-
templating the use of pigeons as messengers
in war.
SIX women dentists were graduated at the
Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery re-
Gently.
TEXAS has just celebrated the fiftieth an.
niversary of it's declaration of indepen-
dence.
EUROPEAN papers remark upon the good
imitation of celluloid now manufactured from
potatoes.
THE diamonds and other precious stones
imported to this country last year cost over
$9,000,000.
A CABLE message can be sent from New
York to London and an answer received in
SIX minutes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The New York police justices report
that last year there were 75,O42 arrests
made, of which number 64,350 were
males and 20, 692 females, the usual pro-
portion. Of these $3.50 were held for
trial and 1os cases are still pending. The
rest were discharged as innocent. The
justices in their predatory remarks COM
plain that there has been little or NO
improvements in public morals during
the past year. ''It is the same sad
story" to quote their words, ''again
repeated, of misery and suffering which
ever attends crime, and emphasized by
the aggregation of figures suggestive OF
its extent"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

A Pennsylvania nursery-man declares
that he can grow apples without cores.
First off, says Ha1per's Weekly, that may
seem to be worth while, but on reflection it
will be found to be scheme full of dis
advantage. All that would be wrong
about coreless apple it might be tedious
to rehearse, but let it not be forgotten
that opportunity for the exhibition OF
one of the most beautiful and most COM
mon forms of human generosity would
be lost in case apples had no cores: the
world would be without the most usual
offering which it is the boys pleasure to
Lay before his friend
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Foreign.

MOUNT ETNA is reported to be again in a
state of eruption. Cinders and stones are
continually being thrown up, and light earth.
quake shocks have been felt at the foot OF
the mountain.
Mr.. HENRY LABoUcHERE moved in the
British house Of commons a resolution
'that hereditary chamber of legislature is
inconsistent with the principle Of representa-
tive government" The resolution was di
rected against the house of lords. The mo-
tion was rejected by vote of ZOE to 16G.
PAsrEUR is still daily inoculating persons
bitten by dogs against hydrophobia at his
laboratory in Paris.
The Russian government has expelled a
large number of foreigners, principally Ger
mans, from the province of Courland.
EIGHT men convi cted OF taking prominent
part in the recent London riots have been
sentenced to penal servitude for from one to
five years.
FEARFUL storms occurred during the last
voyage of the British steamer Acton, just
arrived at Queenstown from Baltimore, and
two sailors were washed overheard, while
another was killed at the wheel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
AN EDITORS SHOTGUN.
Fatally Shooting Three Men and
Fleeing on Horseback.

Fatally Shooting Three Men and
Fleeing on Horseback.
At Kingston, Texas, few days ago, W. B.
Howard, editor of the Hunt County Chron-
icle, shot City Marshal A. r.. Russell.
Howard fired both barrels of a
shotgun, and stray shots struck
spectator named Overholt and a boy
named kirkpatrick. Howard Immediately
fed on horseback and was pursued half an
hour later by the sheriff Russell, Overholt
and Kirkpatrick were all fatally wounded.
Howard was an eccentric young editor He
bitterly assailed the saloon-keeps in his paper.
He also charged Marshal Russell and other
officers with being gamblers and otherwise as
sailed Russell's character. Owing to this. Rus
selland a couple of fsaloon-keepers visited How
ards office and chastised him. Smarting under
the assault, Howard threatened to attack
Russell on sight and several times both men
came near drawing weapons. Russell was re-
turning from the postoffice when Howard
suddenly emerged from his Office and fired
both barrels Of his gun at Russell's back.
Many citizens defend Howards action, say
ing that he was driven to desperation by the
sa1oon-keepers and their friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

A Chautauqua county On. " cheese
maker went to Buffalo lately and brought
home fine imported Swiss cheese.
All praised it but his wife, who, after
the praise had ceased, said she had found
her husbands private mark on the cheese.
He had paid thirty-three cents pound
for the very cheese he had made and sold
for six cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
The Shrek of the GuillOtined.

The "Mikado's" lord high executioner
sings: "Oh, never shall 1 forget the cry,
or the shrek that shrieked he, as the
sabre true cut cleanly through his cervi-
cal vertabre" Nicholas Gurnot was
guillotincd at Mczieres, in France, re-
Gently. As the sabre true cut cleanly
through his cervical vertabra he uttered
terrible cry. The executioner says it
was the most appalling shrek he ever
heard on the scaffold. In 1871 at LIE
Mans the victim gave shrick that froze
the blood of those within hearing, but
the cry of Gurnot is on record as being,
next to that of Nanki-Po, the most
bloodcurdling one on record.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
STARVING ISLANDERS.
Terrible Distress Existing Along the
Western Irish Coast.

Tie British government has placed gum
boats at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him
in his work of relieving the distress among
the inhabitants of the islands along the west
ern Irish coast. InlcS"ribablc distress has been
developed among the people inhabiting
the Alran Isles, off Galway, who, beside
having hardly anything but moss and sea
grass left to eat, are without fire and
often without clothing and shelter. 1t
is not rare to find girls of seventeen and
eighteen years of age kept in enforced
hiding during the daytime because
they are bereft of every thread of clothing,
which has long ago been bartered away for
seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller
children with.
People are slowly dying of starvation by
the score, and measures of relief on large
scale have been taken in Ireland Money
has been sent from America to aid the suf-
ferers