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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

some Of the members Of Tie
Board Of Health are in favor Of pro-
teeting the town from malaria dur-
ing the coming hot season by filing
up'ponds and mad holes and keep
ms the cellars dry Iowould be q
good measure, as the present de-
cade is noted for It's unhealthful.
negs-
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

VIM. Remelo has fitted up his
Soda Fountain and now has Ice
cold Soda watr at all times. Call
and see him near depot.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Dr.. II. Q. Cease is fitting up a
Photograph Gallery in part Of the
old Hotel just back ofhis Office.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Or. Il. w. Weis has received from
Commissioner Black the appoint
ment Of Examining Surgeon Of
Pensions.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

4, j. Marcnm, oftho Democrat
waa-inattendanceoi INSTRUMENTATION
Midday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22
Exc1rrMENf IN TrxAs.

Great excitement has been cansed in the
vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remark-
able recovery Of Mr.. J.E. Corley, who
was so helpless he could not tnrn in bed,
or raise his head ;eserybody sail ne was
dying Of consumption. A trial bottle Of
bf. Kings Ne& Discovery was sent him.
Findlng relief he bought large bottle
and box If l5r, Kings New Fife Pills,
by the time he bad taken two boxes Of
ll}and two bottles efthe Discovery be
was wen and had gained tn flesh thitty-
siSp0qnds.
Trial BEETLES Of ths Great Discovery fol
Consumption free ut i. Wilson'S
Drug Store.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

The President and Directors d
the chattaroi, together wish Ctl. ],
~ Northup, passed up Monday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Pr. i. W. Ncis has erected d
new Soda Fountain il his palace
Drug Store.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

The little daughierof w. D. Roae
Eas sery sick last week but is now
improving.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Two new members Of tho Dap
list church were tpptized on last
sumdEy BY Rev. suadiih
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Give us an Opera House.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

great relief. 1t has entirely restored me to
healih,p james French, Atchison, Hans,
writEs "To all persons suffering from
Liver Complaint, I would strongly recon-
mend Ayers sarsaparilla. Twas afflicted
with a disease Of the liver for nearly two
years, when a friend advised me TO take
this medicine. 1t gave prompt relief, and
has cured me.' Mrs. II. NJ. Kidder, Al
Dwight st., Boston, Mass, writes: "For
several years / have used Ayers sarsa-
parilla in my family. never feel safe,
even
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

p G. Spencer has opened q res
ialiraut on Main cross street.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

The ladies Of the Baptist church
VIII give an lee Cream Mite al
brakes Hall Friday night,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Yesterday was the day allotted
iog the work Of decorating The
gfayes IN the cemetery.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Mr., n. D. waldecE is very ILL.,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Call atthe News Office if You
want any job work done.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Remote has plenty Office cold So
4a Water always oil hand.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Elsewhere in this issue Will be
found the proceedings Of tie Dem
ooratic County Convention.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

II you want good Soda Water 20
and see Or. i. W. Weis.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

DR.. A.P. Banhold was ia town,
Monday,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22
FapIDE

results from that true contentment which
indicates perfect health of body and mind.
You may possess 1t, il you will purify and
inyigorate your blood with Ayers sarsa-
parilla. L. NJ. Howard, Newport, n. IL,
writes: g 1 suffered for years with Scroll
ulous humors. After using two bottles o.
Ayers Sarsaparilla,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

TITS at lastsafo to say that spring
here.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

J. i Hatten Fl Rockville was in
town Monday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22
AT Home

without it, AS liver medicine and
general purifier of the blood, II has no
equal" Mrs. A. B. Allen, Winterpoek,
Va, writes; "My youngest child, two
years Of age, was taken with Bowel Com
plant, which we couldnot cure. Wetried
many remedies, but he continued to grow
worse, and finally became SO reduced in
flesh that we could only move him upon
pillow. 1t was suggested by one Of the
doctors that scrofula might be the cause
OF the trouble. We procured bottle Of
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Prof Lyttleton's school will close
bis week.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Try a glass Of Remedies Soda Wa
Ter.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Next Sunday is Easter.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-22

Steamboat navigation has about
usponded,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
The Dakota Editor.
Estelline Bell.

''You know I called you liar in last
weeks Bung," said one Dakota editor to
another. "and said that in your cowardly
attack on my paper and the county officers
you were simply trying to force on the
board to give you some of the county
printing"
Eyes [ noticed it."
''Well, the board braced up and gave
me over fifteen dollars worth of extra
work"
"That's pretty good. You remember
that referred to you as sneak thief,
and said you were standing in with cor
rupt county government simply to assist
in plundering the people, in the last issue
of The Bang?"
Eyes"
II got seven new subscribers on the
strength of that they said they were
taxpayers end wanted to support paper
that wasn't afraid to fight the ring"
"Glad to hear it guess we'll manage
to pull through in this country. Say, you
call me cowardly cringing whelp, this
week, and I'll threaten to shoot you on
sight, and perhaps we can work the dear
people for few more dollars"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
\ Valuable Feature.
EStelline Bell.

An Estelllne man quite prominent in
political circles was trying to sell horse
when the prospective purchaser said:
is the animal first-class in every re-
spect?"
Eyes, sir
''Dut | hear that it is sometimes taken
with sick spells"
Eyes, that's fact"
and still you recommend it as No. 1
horse!''
"Of course l do, stranger. his being
sick once in while is what I prize him
for the highest"
"WOrth more on account of that"
you bet he is. He's sick about twice a
month and it would do you good to see the
pure enjoyment we get out of it. He'll
lay down and sometimes thereTI be more
than hundred men come round in less
than ten minutes-al the town officers
and candidates and members of theschool
board and other prominent citizens and
We'll all stand around and talk bout what's
best ia do and try one thing and another
thing and I'll let some of my warmest
friends hold his head up while I 90 down
to the drug store. I tell you that horse
has made me popular in this town.
don't care anything about selling him and
less you want to give my price you can't
have him. | guess we can't deal anyway
as see you're one of these kind of men
that don't care whether he makes friends
Ga not.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
HISTORICAL EVENTS.

Lead ore was discovered at Mineral
Point and Dodgeville in 1928.
A Methodist Mission was established at
Green Bay in 1929.
Black Hawk war in 1882.
First arrival of steamboat IN Chicago
was in 1882.
Schoolcraft discovered the true source
of the Mississippi in 1882.
American settlement began in Milwau-
kee in the fall of 1888.
The first newspaper Green Bay Intelli-
gencer) published in Wisconsin was print
ed December IA, 1888.
Population of Wisconsin by census tax
en- in 1884 was 1895.
Land office established at Mineral Point
and Green Bay in 1884.
Public lands at Milwaukee surveyed by
William A. Bent in 1885.
Territory of Wisconsin organized July
4, 1886.
Henry Dodge appointed governor of
Wisconsin by Andrew Jackson in 1886.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
CHAPTER XIV.

No horror Of her solitude, 30 melancholy
recOIIectOns no dread Of the future, disturb
ed Sydney's mind. The one SENSE left i'll hel
was the sense of fatigue Vacantly, me-
chanically, the girl rested as tired animal
might have rested. She saw nothing, heard
nothing; the one feeling of which she was
conscious was dull aching in every limb.
The moon climbed the heavens, frightened
the tOpmOst leaves Of the trees, found the
gloom in which Sydney was hidden, and
cheered ittenderly with radiant light. She
was too weary to sleep; too weary even to
shade her face when the mOOnbeamS touch
ed it. While the light still strengthened.
while the slow minutes still followed each
other Unheeded, the one influence that could
rouse Sydney found her at laSt-Set her faint
heart thrObbng-called her PROSTATE spirit
to life again. She heard a glad cry Of recOg-
milton in a child's voice:
''Oh, Sydney, dear, is it you?'
In another instant her little pupil and play
fellow of former days was in her arms
My darling, how did you come here?"
Susan answered the question. "Weare on
our way back from the palace, miss. / am
afraid" she said, timidIy, ''that we ought to
go in."
Silently resigned, Sydney tried to release
the child. Kitty chung to her and kissed her;
Kitty set the nurse at defiance. DO you
think am going to leave sgd now have
found her? Susan, | am aStoniShed at yOuH'
Susan gave way. Where the nature is
gentle, kindness and delcacy go hand in
hand together, undiSturbed by the social il,
Irregularities which beset the roadway of life.
The nursemaid drew back out Of hearing.
Kitty's first questions followed each other in
breathless succession. Some of them proved
to be hard, indeed, to answer truly, and
without reserve. She inquired if Sydney
had seen her mother, and then she was eager
to know why Sydney had been left in the
garden alone.
Why haven't you gone back to the house
With mammal" she asked.
Don't ask me, dear" was all that Sydney
could say. Kitty drew the inevitable con-
clusiOn: ''Have you and mamma Quarreled"'
'Oh, no."
Then come indoors with me-"
wait little, Kitty, and tell me something
about yourself. How do you get on with
your leSSOnS?'
You dear foolish goyerness, do you
expect me to learn my lessons when
l haven't got you to teach me? Where have
you been all this long While? L wouldn't
have gone away and left yOLw She paused;
her eager eyes studied Sydney's face with
the unreStrained curiosity of child. SIS it
the moonlight that makes you look pale and
wretched?' she said. ''Or are you really I'M
happy? Tell me, sgd. do you ever sing any
of those songs that / taught you, when you
first came to uS?"
Never, dearr'
Have you anybody to 60 out walking
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
Ready to Flop.
Wall Street News.

A Western Michigan wool buyer who
was circulating among farmers to engage
their clips, met with one who was inclined
to look upon the matter as a sort of gamb-
ling affair.
''You agree to buy my wool for so much,
a month before shearing," said he. Glow
do you know that wool won't go up or
down? The price may be to much or not
enough. It looks like flying in the face
of Providence" After long argument
he agreed to leave if to his wife, and she
replied:
Look a-here, Samuel, I'm just as good
Baptist as you are, and if there is any
thing in our religion which says we shan't
take % cents pound for our wool when
we didn't expect above %, we'll accept
the offer on the wool and flop over to the
Methodists.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
A THRILLING DISPATCH.
The Story OF a Remarkable Event Written by
Master Hand
ArkanSaw Traveller

The Story OF Remarkable Event Written by
Master Hand
Arkansaw Traveller
The editor of The Gum Springs Herald
recently sent the following special dis
patch to one of the great dailies of the
east:
Last night our famous little CITY was
the scene of grand and ever to be re-
membered occasion. Our worthy MAYOR.
John Billit, and Miss Maggie Lucas were
united in the holy bonds of wedlock.
The courthouse was brilliantly illuminat-
ed with candles furnished by our liberal
and enterprising townsman. Jacob Bloom
er.
1T was an occasion of merrymaking,
and every one in our enterprising city of
nearly five hundred inhabitants seemed
to understand that such was the case.
The ceremony was performed in the
church. The splendid structure is not
finished yet, and we had to hang blankets
and quilts at one end to keep the wind
from blowing out the candles. John was
dressed in a new suit of black clothes
that had never been worn before He
was little full at first, having been skir-
mishing around with the boys, but he
braced up after awhile and had consider
able style ABOUT him. Maggie was dress
ed in white, and was much admired for
the unspluttered way in which she went
through her part of the ceremony.
I'm the morning John and his wife will
take a spring wagon and make a flying
visit to Blue Hill where the brides uncle
the only one she has-Bill Buckle, re
sides. Bill thinks a great deal of his
niece, and will do every thing he can to
make her stay pleasant. just after the
ceremony was performed Alb Tucker and
Harry StOvall got into a fight over dis
puted game of cards. For a time there
was considerable music, but after awhile
everything quoted down. Alb was pretty
badly hurt. The bride is only 10 years
old, and is a general favorite in our city.
She was born in West Tennessee. Stovall
was struck with white oak block and al
most crippled. Fortunately DR.. Crab
tree was close at hand. The bridegroom
is one of the best fellows in the world,
and there isn't lazy bone in his body.
Year before last, hot as it was, he tended
a bottom field of corn and raised good
crop. Both men were arrested by our
efficient town marshal who has got the
nerve to do anything. Everybody says
that he will be reelected, for there amt a
Lloh LII Ull0 Uo"h UhtU hoo uoho 50 Lhuch
for the place as he has. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Baxter Gladwin,
a man of nerve and worth. At the present
writing both men are doing WE'LL"
The next morning the station agent
and telegraph operator at Gum Springs
informed the editor that he would have to
pay for the dispatch, as the great daily
had refused to accept it. This was dis
astrous, for the editor had to sell his
office. He is now at large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22

sound of child's voice, raised in anger and
entreaty, reached their ears from the neigh
bOrhOod of the hotel. Faithful little Kitty
had made her escape, determined to return
to Sydney-had been Overtaken by the maid
and had been carried back in SuSan'S arms
to the house. Sydney imagined that she was
not perhaps alone in recognizing the voice.
The stranger who had been so kind to her
did certainly start and look round.
The stiffness of the night was disturbed no
more. The man turned again to the person
who had so strongly interested him. The
person was gone.
In fear of being followed Sydney hurried
to the railway station. By the light in the
carriage she looked for the first time at the
fragment of the letter and the card.
The stranger had presented her with her
own address! And when she looked at the
card the name was Bannydeck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
Sports, Ancient and Modern.

San Francisco Letter: In thinking of
the amusement of our ancestors must
confess that we in California are much
restricted in regard to sports. Badger
drawing has passed away. Cock fighting
still exists, but in such an under-the-b bush
form that there is not much enjoyment in
seeing main of cocks these days. Eal-
cOnry still lives in England, but in such a
limited form that to write of it as a liv-
ing sport would be an absurdity. Prize
fighting thrives after a fashion, but it is
not the prize fighting of old. Football Is
played in weak, faint-hearted way in
this country, but it is not the dashing,
headlong game of the British Isles. Cours-
ing has slight hold here among a certain
class, bnt has never risen to the dignity
of legitimate California sports. Gro
quet has seen its days and expired. So
has archery. All the enthusiasm of the
devotees of the latter delightful pursuit
could not keep it from the dry rot of
Indifference and disuse. There is an old
saying that whatever you do you should
do we'll, which, like many old sayings, is
very untrue and dangerous in its lack of
truth. But nowhere is this more untrue
than in regard to our amusements. To
play billiards is the amusement of gentle
men. To play billiards prominently well
is the life's work of man who, in learn
ing to do so, can hardly have continued
to be a gentleman in the best sense of the
word. Chess is, perhaps, of all recrea-
tions the one most adapted for intellectu-
al persons, but to be preeminent at chess
is generally to be that and nothing else.
The same thing may be said with more or
less of justice in regard to all games of
skill. In reference to field sports it must
be acknowledge that too much is being
made of them. Men who follow them
have allowed themselves to be taught tdat
ordinary success in them is not worth
baving. 1t they go on quail preserve
or a well-stocked stream nothing but
very big score will satisfy their ambition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
Long Distance Telephony.

DIR. Luclen G.. Rose, of Ohio, would like
to give the people of this country the ben
eht OF practical lOng-distance telephony
writes New York correspondent of the
Louisville COurier-J Ournal. He has in
vented an instrument wOich accomplishes
TINS perfectly over long stretches of wire.
But the patents secured by the Bell tell
phone forbid the use of any instrument
for the transmission of articulate sound
by electricity: and although DR.. Roses
application is at the Washington patent
office, under the seal of secrecy, he cannot
secure patent. Some European cOun-
tries, however, are more friend
ly, and Thursday at II o'clock
he sailed in the Adriatic for
Gothenbure, Sweden. The Swedish
government has entire charge eff the tele-
phone service, and few of the Bell in
struments are in use there. 1t did not
deny DIR. Roses patent, however, and let
tiers will be issued to him as soon as his
claims are established on the continent.
Arrangements have been made for a
public test of his instrument in Sweded,
and his trip abroad is to enable him to
be present at the test.
DR.. Rose claims to be able to speak and
hear with ease and satisfaction with his
instrument over distance of $500 miles.
Public tests have already been made over
coils of that length of wire, and recently
a loop of 1,120 miles long was run into
Ohio. Over this the slightest infections
of the voice conld be easily heard, and
conversation was carried on with ease.
For commercial purposes 1000 miles is
fixed as the convenient distance, and the
telephone will be constructed for that
purpose.
The secret of the Rose telephone is the
possibility of increasing the power of the
electric current without fusing the deli
cate point behind the carbon diaphragm.
The Bell instrument can stand battery
of two cells only, while DR.. Rose uses
thirty-tWo cells upon his circuit without
damage to the mechanism. A long copper
loop will be erected by the Swedish gov
eminent for the phone and if the test is
satisfactory the instrument will be manu-
featured in New York city for exporta
ton.
DR.. Rose is an electrician of note. He
fled at Washington an application for
atmospheric telegraphy a few days be-
fore the Phelps letters covering were
issued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22

We rode away, leaving him to chop the
tree down. 1t was about three hours be-
fore we returned, and then we found him
seated on the fallen trunk. Beginning at
the top of his head and extending to his
ankle bones, were bloody scratches. His
garments rent and tattered, his hands
were covered with blood, and he was try
ing TO bind some leaves on a wound on
his left arm.
"For the lands sake, but did the tree
fall on your" exclaimed the colonel.
No, sab; I were fell on by the ana
mile"
Which was it-a coon or 'possum?"
Neither one, sab; it happened to be
wildcat!n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
The Evil Genius.
A DOMESTIC STORY.

She spoke family and vacantly. Benny
deck heSitated. She lifted her trembling
hands in entreaty. II beg you will leave
mer' Her voice, her manner, made it i'm
possible to disObey. He turned reSignedly
to Kitty and asked which way she wanted to
go. The child pointed down the path to one
Of the towers Of the Crystal palace, visible in
the distance. THE governesS has taken the
others to see the company go away" she
said; Il want to go, too"
Bennydeck looked back before he lost
sight of Catherine.
She remained seated in the attitude in
which he had left her. At the farther end
of the path which led to the hotel he thought
ne saw a figure in the twilight approaching
from the house. There would be help near
if Catherine wanted it.
His uneasy mind was in some degree re-
IieVed as he and Kitty left the garden to-
gether.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
The Wildcat Surprises Him.
Dotrnit Free Press

A negro, with an ak in his hands, stood
beside the highway skirting a Mississippi
swamp, and as we came up he said:
'sGem1en, he run'd right up dat ar gum
tree"
''What did,"
"a coon sab. If you has got pistols
mebbe you kin fotch him down fur me.
De family am powerful hard up for meat
jist now"
We dismounted and took survey. An
animal of some sort could be dimly made
out hugging a limb high up. We popped
away, but without doing much damage,
and, as it moved along the limb, the col
Onel observed:
''That may be a coon. but l don't be-
lieve it. I would sooner think it was a
'possum."
''Hu! but if dat amt coon you kin
call dis chile crazy!" replied the man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
IN the New State Camp.
New York Sun.

One of the guards who was on duty last
night was approached by short and
stout man in uniform, who walked with
his hand placed upon the base of his stom-
ach.
''Who goes there?" called the guard
presenting his musket.
Il am der pand,' said the stout man III
a mournful tone.
swell, have you got the counterslgn
asked the guard.
''No," ssaid the stout man, bus haI GOV
der golic. Blease let me pass III go Oy
der hospital tent"
He went.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22
The Pain Vanished.
The Judge.

Buy-''I can't go to school. I've got an
an awful pain"
Mother-'WeI, castor oil is the best
thing in the world for that kind of
pain"
Boy-'It must be, for the pain has gone
now"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-22

AT Midland, Texas, Tuesday afternoon,
o. II. Carr, a New York cotton buyer, was
shot and killed by Gen. Joe Mckenzie, an
ex confederate, whose life had been
threatened by his victim.