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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-23
DAYTON, Ogn., Oct. 21-SS.
W.. S.

"A special from Franklin, KY, says:
yesterday morning two well-dressed
strangers arrived in this city on the early
train and inquired the way to an old steam
mill that was operated by man named
Whitesides, and procuring a buggy at the
livery stable they went out to the mill and
spent the entire day in digging up the
earth in various places They returned
to the city about night and left on the FIR t
train. They told Whitesidcs that they
were from St. Louis, and if their business
here turned out prohtlble they would re-
ward him for his pans IN giving them d..
reclions and assisting them. They did
not state what their mission was to any
one, but some of the country folks, seeing
their strange actions, surmised that there
was some hidden treasure about the old
mill, and a man named Hendricks went
out this morning with a pick and spade,
and after digging for some ime finally un.
earthed an old keg with $4,000 in gold
carefully packed therein
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-23
WcLU. Entertainment.

Following is the programme for
w. G. II. u. entertainment to be
given at their hall Wednesday even
ing, Oct. oath, at 1880 p. m. Ad-
mission l5c.: children l0c.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-23
LETTER LIST.

Following is the list of letters re-
naming in the postotiice, at Salem,
Oregon, Oct. "a, 1888. Parties call
ing for them will please say "ad-
vertised:"
All letters published as monde
livered will be charged with one
cent in addition to the regular
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-23
GREAT DISCOVERY!
DR.. II. s NTH

Now Ia possession OF "a new disoOyeTy1n
medicine, which h purely "a local anwsthet-
ic, and acts almost instanthneOusly on tho
surrounding Tissues Of the teeth. 10 "a la
no way Injurious or unpleasant to the
Taste. The manufacturers Of II claim that
~ equal has never been known before, and
by applying 10 10 the sensitive or sore
Teeth, they can be cleaned and nlled
without palm. 80 AN those that want all
kinds of dental work done without pain,
would better call on Dr. n. Smith. Toeth
extracted for ~ cents,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
How the Voting Has Been

The accompanying map shows at q glance
the political battlefield and those particular
sections where the battle now RACES hottest.
Each globe is colored to show the majority
at each of the last four presidential elections
Republican, black; Democratic, whita Thus,
if the state was Democratic in 1872, the upper
left hand quarter is white; if in 1676, the
upper right hand quarter; If in 1880, the lower
left hand quarter, and the remaining quarter
for 1854. The quarters are in like manner
white for Republican success in those years.
This shows the curious groupings of the
states, fifteen northern states being in solid
black and five southern states in solid white,
meaning that the former states are the solid
north" and the latter the ''solid south"
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, In
diana, Colorado, Nevada n California In
the north. have changed their votes within
these sixteen years; and SO have Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
Electrical Study in Japan.

1t Is reported from Japan that an electrical
society has been formed there, and that its
membership is 40 less than 800 at the start.
We hardly know how to receive this piece Of
intelligence. If it be true 1t would indicate,
first, that Japan had gone much further in
electrical study and development than had
been supposed, and, next, that admission to
the society is based On very liberal rules and
regulations. At the present time the ranks
of our American engineers are largely and
valuably REINFORCED from England and the
continent of Europe, but here we have the
intimation that, perhaps, before long Japan
will also be supplying us with experts for our
parent and local companies in oil tines Of
work. We are glad to see that such O society
has been formed in Japan, and We trust that
it will he growingly useful and prosperous
Electrical World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

DeluRS WtTt ub-
g~ustingly sober and peaceable. His page
was dull.
At home was his wife, i'll of the disease Of
which she finally died, and to cheer her up
he stayed at home an hour or two at noon
and wrote imaginary local events Of an ex-
citing nature and read them TO her. They
were grossly improbable and funny. They
did not have a facilitating effect on her, but
actually made her laugh, and one day she
said: "Robbie, this ridiculous stuff of yours
is bad enough to print. Having seen that l
survive it, why don't you try it on your
readersf'
He cautiously did so, dealing it out in small
doses. 1t was copied everywhere. This had
been going on for a fortnight, maybe, when
one day Mr.. Emory, editor of the paper, sent
to Robert requesting him to come to his pri-
vate room. "Ahaf' said Robert, rubbing
his hands and glowing from stem to stern,
Nv fetched himl He's going to raise my
salaryi"
"Mr. Burdette," said Mr.. Emory, when the
audacious youth was seated, two lunatics
escaped from the asylum last week, l be-
lever
Eyes, sir; yes-two-but one of them was
captured"
Zone was captured" said the editor,
thoughtfully, lone only one. What be-
came of the other. Mr.. Burdettef'
"He LAsa't been found yet answered the
jocose youth; they're securing the woods
for him"
AS it not possible that he may be secreted
about the building s~omewherel In your
room, for instancei
"Why, no, Mr.. Emory What put such
an idea into your headf'
"Have you among your friends anybody
who is "a d-ivelinp idiot Mr. Rurdattan
"No, sir; no, oh, no, sir, l think not!"
protested the youth, moving uneasily in his
chair.
"Who might get into the Office and insert
articles without your knowledge-in your
long absence at dinner. for instanceF'
"Oh, no, Mr.. Emory, no; why do you askT
81 met an intoxicated man the other night
going down the stairs. Who was itY'
II don't know, indeed said Burdette.
1--WE had just bounced him."
"Did he write anything for the paper clan
destinely and surreptitiously while he was
heref' persisted the editor.
"Why no, of course; l see everything that
goes in this page"
well, then, Mr.. Burdette, who is it that
makes those sickly attempts to be funny that
/ see in your columns every day7"
Burdette blushed, rubbed some dirt of his
left pantaloons leg with his right boot, and
said: REALLY, Mr.. Emory, I-you ses-I
hardly-well-the fact is-theres nothing
avaricious about me, Mr.. Emory, but l shall
have to claim those myself"
"Oh!' exclaimed the editor, feigning sur
prise, "Youf Well, don't do SO any more.
They make me melancholy. They are dread
full lugubrious. They seemed to have ema-
mated from a wrecked brain. You can go to
your room, Mr.. Burdette. l wouldn't have
thought it of you. Don't do SO any more.
If there's anything funny to be written, I'll
write it myself.
Burdette went home all broke up. He re-
signed next day and crossed the Mississippi.
~ left" says the humorist, because, sin
cerely, l couldn't look him in the face after
that. l had been caught in the act and felt
like a guilty thingm
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

NEW SCREW FOR STEAM VESSELS.
knots an hour. As the screws can be run in
either direction, independently, he claims
also that vessels provided with his invention
can be turned in their W length, a consum-
nation often devoutly to be wished for,
especially in harbors. Many steam naviga-
ton experts believe Col. Woodruff's invention
a very valuable one.
A New York inventor named Alexander
Mccarthy is exhibiting a large model en-
bodying his ideas on the subject of aerial
navigation.
1t has a six bladed propeller wheel, five
feet in diameter, placed horizontally about
seven feet from the floor. Below this, on
two axles, are skeleton wheels, five feet in
diameter, carrying each five fans with q sur
face of about $50 square inches each. AS
these wheels revolve the fans feather, so that
they come up edgewise and turn fiat, exer-
cising pressure on the air only when floating
downward and on part of the backward
stroke. Power to twirl the big wheel above
and those at the sides, with the incidental
feathering of the fans, is afforded by a sys-
tenn of geared wheels in the center, operated
by pumping handles from the rear. 1t is all
enormously heavy, with big, strong frame
work of wood and iron; but that don't mat
ter much, as Mr.. Mccarthy says he never in
tended to do any Swimming among the clouds
with this machine, but just had it con-
structed to see how 1t would look, and to ex-
pertinent with its capability for developing
power. When 1t Is set in motion and those
feathering fans begin getting in their work
it makes a diabolical ~clatter, but, so far as
anybody can see, that is all it does. Mr.. Nc.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

BUCKS ROW, WHERE y BODY WAS FOUND.
lam Hammond, the eminent alienist, very
sensibly says that the police have gone wrong
from the start, because they have looked only
for a self evident william, a man whose face
would go far TO hang him. while the proba-
bilities are many to one that the perpetrator
is a decorous and soft spoken gentleman, liv-
ing an apparently virtuous life, a man whose
closest acquaintance do not suspect of crime.
Such was the appearance of the noted De
Retz, the French "Bluebeardn above referred
to, and of the young man who confessed to
seventeen rlur lers- Incidentally it may be
noted that Kate Bender was not all unattrac-
tive, and that Jesse Pomeroy was what many
people would call a Zine looking boy" He
was sent to the Massachusetts, states prison for
life, and though the papers stated that Kate
escaped, there are men In Kansas who could
show you the very spot where she, her half
witted brother and her parents We're laid be-
meath the prairie sod
Chief Inspector Barnes, Of New York city,
accepts the opinion Of DR.. Hammond and in
sists that the New York police could have
caught the man by using the woinen as de
coys. He adds:
ave caught the fellow who had a mania fol-
throwing vitriol upon women's dresses red
handed Immediately after it was reported
His crime was localized. He f~requented Four
tenth street. ! made victims for him, and
my men were thickly scattered through that
district. We have no such autocratic powers
as the London police, but if a crime is Sc
plainly localized in one particular district, a.
In the case Of these London murders, WI
would most assuredly arrest the perpetratol
in short order"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
BILBoA's NEW BRIDGE.

town has its railway and travel car route to
Bilboa, but no steam ferry OF bridge exists to
establish communication across the stream.
One difficulty as to a bridge has been the
great expense, having in view the arrange
ment of the proper grade. The problem,
however, has been lately solved by NJ. Al
berto Palacio, a talented architect, who has
designed a rather novel movable bridge.
The structure is on the suspension prin-
ciple. At the dock line on each side Of the
river are two iron piers, on which the bridge
cables are supported. The towers and cables
need only have strength enough to support
themselves and a suspension platform or car
on which the traffic is carried. Hence the
construction is much lighter and less costly
than an ordinary bridge would be. Between
the towers two pairs of rails are arranged,
on which runs a truck, pendant from which,
by means of a skeleton frame and guy ropes,
is a platform for passengers, carriages, horses
and carts, etc. This platform is hauled back
and forth across the river by means of an
endless cable worked by steam engine at the
base Of one of the towers. The platform
moves OH a level with the street grade on
either side of the river, and is therefore very
convenient of access for all kinds of traffic.
The height of the bridge at the center of
the span is about 100 feet above high water,
thus allowing plenty of clearance for vessels.
The bridge will cost s75,0C0.
The United States government is anxious
to develop high speed in its new war vessels,
and has offered a bonus Of ESQ., 00 for every
''knot," or nautical mile, gained over nineteen
knots an hour. Col. T. T. Woodruff, Of
palace car fame, thinks he has gained the re-
quired poin. by means Of his invention, here
figured. His plan is to place two screws on
each side of the vessel, instead of q single or
double screw at the stern, and be believes the
continuance will enable a ship to make thirty
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

VOTING CHART OF H UNITED STATES.
lima, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Louist-
ana and Arkansas, in the south. Some OF the
changes in the popular vote have been extra
ordinary, that between 1872 and 1875 amount
ing TO 9S3, 900 votes. 1t is scarcely necessary
to add that the most hotly contested states
are the same this year as in 1850 and 1884,
viz: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana and California
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
A Satisfactory Answer.

Mrs. Newma-Now tell me, Mrs. Bar
kins, do you believe in n cows milk
for the baby?
Mrs. Barkins-Waal, that depends on
the child. Eff he's a good, strong, healthy
baby, and wants it, I'd give him two
cows milk; but sakes alive, it pears as
If any ordinary baby oughtn't t want
more'n one COW could furnish .-Har-
per's Bazar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
School In China

In China school begins at daylight and
continues until it is too dark to read.
This is a bit of information for those who
wish to seek positions as teachers in the
Celestial empire, and may also account
for the diagonal slope Of the Chinese
optic. which is probably thus bent out of
shape by study in the plant years Of irn-
meturity. -Boston Budget.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

Take an ordinary visiting card and bend
down at right angles about half an inch of
each end Of the card Place it on the table,
standing on the bent ends, and ask any per-
son to blow it over. This seems easy enough,
but it may be tried for hours without sue
ceeding. 1t is, however, to be done by blow
ing sharply on the table at some distances
from the card.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

WHERE THE WE'RE PERPETRATED.
noted French marquis OF two cen: Ii les ago,
who is said to have killed 200 females Of all
ages, of the French medical student who con-
fessed to killing seventeen women, of Jesse
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, and many Others.
Alienists are unanimous in the opinion
that the murderer is a monomania with a
homicidal turn; and many add that LIE is
what medical science calls a sexual per-
vert"-that is. a man In whom the natural
instincts have been changed by disease or
excess into q blind hatred and desire to kill
and mangle. Such cases are not so uncom-
mon as the unlearned would suppose. In
the notorious Bender murders in Labette
county, Kan. in 1878, all the victims were men
except that the little daughter of one man,
travelling with her father, was killed with
him: and in each case the mut.lations were
unmentionable. AS none OF the portions Of
the bodies removed were found. the people
concluded that Kate Bender, the directing
genius of the gang, who claimed wonderful
healing powers and converse with extra
human agencies, had used them in the vile
incantations she practiced. 1t is not easy
for the healthy mind to conceive Of such de-
graded creatures; yet medical history records
many similar cases, nearly all men. Women
murderers nearly always resort to poison, as
even the most depraved retain their natural
horror of blood; but with men the exact OPP
posite is true. The homicidal man maniac
takes a wild joy in seeing the flow of blood,
in looking on the CHASTITY wounds and the
writings of his victim.
The London police have been completely at
sea, and some of the theories put forth by
their chief are too absurd for ones patience.
One, for instance, was that al American
medical student did the deeds because
he wanted to collect a number of ana
tomical specimensl The most reasonable
theory is that the monomaniac has been in
jured, or thinks he has, by one of these
women, and is wreaking his vengeance on
the class. His cunning is wonderful-not an
uncommon thing in monomaniacs. DR.. Will
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

but the following
recital of his be-
ginnings of a hui
morist may be new
to many. He was
at that time local
editor of The Peo-
ria Transcript. He
had to fill two col
umns a day. 1t
was hard W ork.
Dog fights were
scarce and human
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
ROBERT j.. BURcGTTE.


Low the Hlmorfst, Now ORDAINED q
Preacher. Beg"n to Writ, Hunor.
Robert J. Ia .ette-'" has inst been
Licensed to pre2cn by the L-Jwer Merion Bap-
fist church, of the Philadelphia Baptist asso-
citation, and will soon cave the lecture field.
He says he preached bis first sermon one
summer Sunday while he was spending his
vacation IN some mountain retreat Tic
little church there was without a pastor, and
he took the pulpit at the earnest solicitation
of its members.
The story Of Burdette's touching devotion
to his wife, now dead, is familiar to every one,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

Ar assemblage of men is an accumulation
of Eolian harps, whose notes are d:scordant
or harmonious, according to she way the
wind blows. -Carman Sylvia.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
M'cARTHY-s FLYING MACHINE.

Carthy says hat he has another idea about
those fans now Instead Of making them
feather, he will have them open and shut Like
a lady's fan And be is going to change the
big wheel up aloft, giving it instead Of six
blades, four, each curling up to a common
center, where he expects the gathered and
compressed currents of air to exercise an
enormou upward pressure No balloon en-
tiers into his scheme He doesn't propose to
be hampered by any clumsy gas bag. but
t~rivance by which a fellow can pump him
self up. He says his invention Is as yet
somewhat crude
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
NEW INVENTIONS ARE CONSTANTLY
ExEMPllFYlNG IT.

A Bridge at Bi1boa, Spain, with q Nova
BILE Floor-New Screw for Steam Yes
sels-Essay of q Genius at a Flying
Machine.
The historic old city of Bilboa is OF the
northern coast of sunny Spain, situated about
twelve miles from the mouth of the river Of
the same name. At the river entrance, on
each opposite side, are the hustling towns
tor SPAIN Of Arenas and ~Portugalete. Each
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
THE LONDON HORROR.
WHlTsCHAPEL, THE DISTRICT OF
THE RECENT AWFUL MURDERS.

1t Is n Part of the Worlds Metropolis
Reeking in Vice and Stepped in Poverty
and Misery-some Terrible Murders of
History.
London now has a horror that interests the
police and public Of the civilized world, and
has called cut a bewildering variety OF opin-
ions from experts in the morbid anatomy Of
crime and insa nifty. The plainest statement
of the facts excites anger, pity and disgust.
In a few weeks seven women of the lowest
class of unfortunates to be found in the no
torious siums of Whitechapel have been
found dead in the streets; in each case the
corpse was shockingly mutilated, and in all
but one the whole internal organ of repro
duction was removed, the line of section in
dicating that the act was done by a person
versed in the anatomy of the parts, and skill
full with the surgeons knife. In the one
case where this was not done the body was
still warm and bleeding, indicating that the
perpetrator had been frightened away before
completing his hideous task.
During the same period the corpse of O
woman similarly mutilated was found in a
town in the north of England; and if, as is
likely, the murderer was the same, this
makes his eighth victim. The first two cases
excited no great interest, as quarrels and
murders are no new thing ia the White
chapel district; but the horrible monotony
of the crimes has since made this a case Of
world wide note. 1t recalls the cases of the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22
FACE TO FACE.


Il my face could only promise that its color
would rcmain.
II my heart were only certain it would hide
the moments pain,
twould meet you and would greet you in the
old familiar tone.
And naught should ever show you the wrong
that you have DONE
II my trembling hand were steldy, il my
smiles had not all fled,
u my eyes spoke not so plainly of tue tears
they often shed,
would meet you AMI would greet you at tho
old sweet TRUSTING place,
And pcfchance you'd deem mo happy IL you
meet me face to face.
If the melody of springtido awoke no wild
refrain,
II tho antumn's golden burden awoke no
living pain,
Iwould meet thee, an'l would greet thee. rs
years ago we met,
Before our hearts vera shpwreckei, on tho
ocean OF regret.
If my woman's soul were stronger, il my
heart were not so true,
should long havo ceased remembering the
lovo had for you;
But daro not meet or greet thee, in the old
familiar way,
Until wo meet in heaven, when tears have
passed away.
Temple Bar.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22

No. 8 has Pullman Buffet Sleeper New
Y,rk 10 Chattanooga and Memphis without
change, via Harrisburg, Hagprstown and
Rolnoke: nls1 has connection Mt HagcrstowD
with fast mail from Baltimore.
No. has through connection from PhiIa-
delphi VII Harrisburg and G. " Railroad,
ana from Baltimore via w. NJ. II r. Diily
cxccp. Sunday. Also makes connection at
Waynesl ORC Junction with G. Sc o. R'y west
bou I'd train.
CONNECTIONS.
Hngerstown, Nd. with the Western Mary
land Railroad to and from b fillmore, Fre1-
ericl, Emmittsburg, Gettysburg, Penmar,
Wnynes ORC, Pa, and points on the Western
Maryland railroad and branches.
With the Cumberland Valley railroad to
mi from Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg,
Johannesburg, Mercersburg, Mnrtinsburg,
and p ints on tho Cumberland Valley rail-
rond and branches.
Alsn to md from Pittsburgh and the West
nni Northwest, md Boston, New York,
Phil ',lelpha ami tho North and East
At Shenandoah Junction, w. Va. with
main line of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to and from the West
No. makes close connection Mt
WayncsbOrO Junction with c, Sc o.
Try. East and West bound trains.
AT Loeb Laird, with Lexington ranch Of
Richmond and Allegheny railroad.
At Buchanan with Main Line Of Richmond
and Allegheny railroad.
At Roanoke, with Norfolk an Western
railroi nj.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Boyce, for Milwood and Winchester, Wa.
At 1'routville for Fincastle
NORTHWARD. DAILY,
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