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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Thomas E. Smithson, Of Sitka, says that
Alaska fairly teens with animal life The
sea along its shores and tho rivers, inlets and
lakes are filed with an inexhaustible supply
of the largest and finest food fish. Fishing Is
one of the principal industries of the coun-
try, and fully fifty large factories are en-
gagged in packing the fish that are shipped to
almost every country In the world It Is a
perfect paradise for sportsmen The islands
In Behring sea, as well as the mainland, were
fairly overrun with great herds Of all kinds
Of fur bearing animals Along the north
coast are great herds Of walruses, which are
valuable for their meat and ivory tusks.
The sea COW, which used TO be found here,
has become extinct In the interior parts OF
the country and in the north are the great
est breeding places for birds In the world.
For miles the country will be covered with
myriads of geese, swans, ducks and a hun
dred other varieties Of the feathered tribe.
They feed on the wild berries and become so
fat toward the close of the season that they
can hardly fly, and the natives knock them
over with clubs by the hundreds. The can
vas back ducks have their breeding places ON
the Yucon, the principal river Of Alaska.
There is one point on the western coast of
Alaska where, on clear day. 1t Is possible
to see the Asiatic coast, thirty-eight miles
away. The natives Of Eastern Siberia and
Alaska often exchange trading visits and
cross the strait in open boats.-Philadelph
preoc
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
MR.. WATTERS0N's SPEECH.
HIS VIEW ON NATIONAL FINANCES,
THE TARIFF, THE RACE PROBLEM,
&c.

Henry Watterson made a speech
at the meeting in Louisville last
week of the National board OF trade,
choosing as his subject g The general
state of the country" OF money
matters he said: &C What are you
going to do for banking system
when there are no more bonds to
build on {? Some ten years ago |
ventured to propose that we reduce
the national debt to a thousand mil
lions and then with that for a fiscal
basis We fund these thousand mil
lions at a low rate of interest and
make the debt thus reduced perpet-
ual. Everybody laughed at me.
Some said | was crazy. Others in.
sisted that l was simply fool. But
l am more than ever persuaded of
the truth and force of my suggestion,
because, to say nothing about the
banks and the future of our banking
system, We ought to have some fixed
securities from small holders which
can neither be swallowed up by a
deluge of watered stock nor be able
to run away to Canada"
Mr.. Watterson next took up the
tariff aud said: II have never be.
lieved that we shall have free trade
in this country until the manufacture
ers themselves lead the free trade
movement"
Mr.. Wasterson closed his address
with reference to the new south
and the future of the race problem.
He said: "You are at this moment
standing on the gateway that leads
to the south. The wealth that is
there hidden no longer from human
eyes flashes in your very faces. You
can smell the roses of new hope that
fill the air. You can hear the heart
beats of progress that come as upon
the wings of heaven. You can reach
forth your hands and almost clutch
the gold"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
The sparrow and the Buuzard.

A Sparrow wes seeking Food in large
Field when q Buzzard settled down with
a great show Of Indignation and Exclaimed:
"By what Right are you Trespassing herefI
"Why, supposed this Field to be common
Property" was the reply. Excuse my mis-
take, and will go over on yonder Hill"
ssBut object to the Dust you may raise
over there
Then will look for Bugs in the grass. +"
"But I won't allow the grass to be Tram.
pied under foot"
Then viii seek for Worms in the
ThicketH
But the noise will Disturb me. In fact,
in order to Protect myself must eat you"
Moral.-It Is very easy to pick fight with
man you know you can lick--Detroit Free
Press
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Wheeling gave q reception last
week to the Eastern men who are
building the union bridge across the
Ohio river at that city. They were
banqueted at the Mcclure House,
and several speeches followed. Our
own Judge Fleming was present,
and, being called on for some re-
marks, responded. He asked the
Eastern capitalists "not to stop in
the prosperous metropolis of the
State, but to 60 to the interior, where
could be found greater natural re-
sources than In any other section of
the country" The Judge evidently
fell in love with the interior" last
fall West Virginian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
Gen. John F. Hartranft, ex Gov

GeD. JOnn r. darGranIl. eA dOf-
ernor of Pennsylvania, died at bis
residence at Norristown, at noon, on
Thursday OF last week, from heart
disease. The funeral took place on
Monday at Norristown.
John Frederick Rartranft was
born in New Hanover, Montgomery
County, Dec. 10th, 1880. He was
educated at Marshall and Union Col
leges and was graduated at the lat
ter in 1868 he was admitted to the
bar in 1869. At the beginning of
the civil war be raised the 4th
Pennsylvania Regiment and
commanded it during the three
months of it's enlistment, which ex-
PRED the day before the first battle
OF Bull Run. As his regiment had
been ordered to Harrisburg. he OBJ
tanned leave to serve as o volunteer
on Gen. Franklin's staff in the bat
tie. He then organized the 51st
Pennsylvania regiment; and with it
accompanied Gen. Burnside in his
expedition to North Corolina in
March, 1862. He took part in all
the engagements of the 9th corps !;
led the charge that carried the stone
bridge at Antietam, and commanded
his regiment at Fredericksburg. He
was then ordered to Kentucky and
was engaged in the battle Of Camp
BELLS Station and the successful de.
tense at Knoxville. He was with
the 9th corps in June, 1868, as cover.
ing army to the troops besieging
Vicksburg, and after the fall of that
place was with Sherman in his adj
vance to Jackson, Mississippi. He
commanded a brigade in the battle
of the Wilderness. and Spottsylvan-
ia /; was commissioned Brigadler
General of Volunteers on May 18th,
1864, and took part in all the move
ments before Petersburg. He was
assigned to the command of divis
ion in August, 1864, and brevetted
Major General for his services in re.
capturing Fort Steadman on March
25th, 1866. He was elected Auditor
General of Pennsylvania in October,
1865, and on August 26th, 1866, the
President offered him a colonelcy in
the regular army, which he declined.
Gen. Hartranft was reelected Audi
tor General in 1868, and in 1928
was Governor of Pennsylvania. The
militia of Pennsylvania was entirely
reorganlzed on the military basis
during his two terms as Governor.
The plan of municipal reform that
was suggested by him in 1876 was
adopted in 1886, the Mayor of Phila.
delphia being elected under its pro.
visions in 1887. Immediately after
the close of his second term as Gov
ernor he removed to Philadelphia.
He was appointed postmaster of that
city in June, 1879, and Collector oil
the Port in August 1880. He was
at the time of his death Major Gen.
eral commanding the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, which post
he held by appointment since 1870.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Coke, which was selling at $1.50
per ton at the beginning of the Cleve-
land and Reform Administration,
got down as low as $1.00, then to 80
cents, and finally to SO cents per ton,
when the business became unprofit-
able and most persons stopped the
manufacture Of it. Under the pres
ent Administration it has been COM
ing up rapidly, the good old price of
S1.50 per ton having already been
reached. All the ovens throughout
the country are again in use, and
hundreds of new ones are being built.
The furnaces, mills, factories-every
industry is booming-and this
healthy state of affairs is due to the
fact that the party OF protection is
at the helm West Viyginian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

Wood pavement lasts about seven years in
streets where the traffic is heavy.
While the east has been drenched and soak
ed and flooded, the ''dry spell OF 1889" win go
down in the history of the far west.
A society has been started in London to
promote the development Of the science OF
mesrnerism and of the application Of hyr-
notism TO practical medicine.
1t is said that Paris, when full, can accom-
modate nearly four millions of people.
A little boy came to this sentence In his
reading lesson: There is a worm; do not
tread on him. He read 1t thus, TO his teach
eris great surprise: ''There is a warm dough-
nut; tread on him. v
Stow says that Richard Mathews, on the
Fleet bridge, London, was che first English
man who made fine knives, etc, and that he
obtained a prohibition OF foreign ones in 1868.
Visitors In Paris comment upon the great
amount of buildings and restoration now in
progress in all parts Of the city. Some OF the
new structures are exceedingly handsome and
ofastyle of architecture quite new in the city.
The attraction for visitors abroad In 1890
will be an exhibition Of food and comestible
delicacies at Berlin, for which preparations
are already being made.
In France they now use for steam and
water pipe joints, gaskets made Of wood pulp,
which are boiled In linseed oil They give
satisfactory results, and are not subject to
decomposition at high temperature.
A party of fossil hunters are having good
luck In the North Fork country Of Oregon
They have found the bones Of small horses,
with three toes ON each foot; rhinoceros
skulls and other bones that show, as they
think, that Oregon had a tropical climate be-
fore the glaciers came down from the north
and covered the land miles deep with ice.
New enterprises, to the number of z, 6l5,
were organized in the south during the first
six months Of this year, representing capi-
tai Of Sos 0S3, 900, as against 2, OBS new en-
terprises, investing $si, sos 600 during the
first six months of 1888.
It looks as though France was the greatest
country for horse racing in the world. For
Sunday three weeks ago twenty-five meet
ings were advertised, and for the following
Sunday twenty 1t should be remembered,
though, for comparison, that the French
concentrate their racing on Sunday, while
England and America run during the week.
A Waterloo veteran began his 10lst year
lately In the province of Parona, Brazil.
The Germans In the neighborhood assembled
to do him honor, and put a crown Of laurels
on bis head. which, by the way, is not yet
bald.
The California papers say that the brig Ma
Italia, which foundered In the harbor Of Mon
terey in 1884, is to DO raised, or at least what
is left of her copper sheathing is to be brought
to the surface. 1t Is said that this Is the same
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Billy Hayward is the Oldest jockey
on the turf. His experiences would
fill book. "How does it feel to ride
at record pacef" repeated no TO N
question asked him. well, IL you
know how to ride il is very exhila-
rating. But if you don't know how II
is anything but pleasant, as that boy
thinks now. II you ride with your
head down, that is TO say, bent slight
" so that the wind does not beat right
in your face, you can breathe easily,
but you hold your mouth wide open
and let the air beat right in your face,
then you will have great difficulty in
breathing, and if the race is a long
one you will become exhausted by the
end Of the ride.
"a mile race on a good horse is run
in about one minute and forty seconds
that is the record made in a race.
It has been run in 39s, but that was
on prepared track. A mile in 1 40
is at the rate of thirty-six miles an
hour. Ordinary trains usually travel
at about twenty-five or thirty miles
an hour, so you see race horse trav-
els at express speed. II you want TO
see how II feels TO go through the air
at race horse speed, just hang your
head out of a railroad carriage win
dow, turning your face toward the
way the train is travelling. At the
same time imagine that you are sit
ting in a saddle and have to hold on TO
your horse and guide him ON 10 vio-
tory if possible, keeping him from be-
ing run down or interfered with. II Is
no easy task TO ride horse In race.
The Jockey must have all his vita
about him. He does not have much
time to think how it feels. Boys ara
well tried before they are allowed To
ride in races. They first learn not 10
fear the horse, give him his feed and
clean his bride and saddle. Then
perhaps they will lead them about at
exercise, and after while will ride a
quiet horse at his work, but only slow
work at that. This may last for years
before they have mount in race.
The trainers will watch the boys care
fully, and If one shows an aptitude
for riding he will be given every adj
vantage to improve. Jockeys are
born, not made.
"a good jockey in a race pays very
little attention to the grand stand, ex-
cept perhaps as he canters by on his
way TO the starting post. At the post
he must endeavor to get away wen in
front when the flag falls. Very likely
there will be q number Of breakaways
and then the jockey must keep his
horse from running out and 30 losing
his strength. When they are of he
has to watch q hundred and ou0
things. The leading horse must not
be allowed to get too far In front and
your own horses strength must DO TO
served for final desperate struggle.
When riding neck and neck race
down the home stretch I forget every
thing except that must strain every
nerve TO pass the other horse; no
thought is given then 10 the plaudits
Of the grand stand Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Roswell P. Flower, the New Yorknr %
note, shot an eagle with seven foot spread
Of wings at Eagle lake, Ont.
A fish hawk has built lis nest on chimnay
on Jonathan Hoffman8 house, Ia FisiA1e
Creek. Cape May county, N. J.
Louis Fenton, who 3 camping ct Bslb
View, near Jamestown, N. 2, caught Q
twenty-five pound muskallonge the osAm
day. It was a inches long and ~ inchM
across the back.
A Eustiz E'la-l paper tells of . pet altigatos
that drinks cider, going to the barrel ard
turning the faucet himself. BE hos bess
taught to use palm leaf fan, which he ham
aleswish skiiI, % h1sT OF shs 1sieR Chi
For years Springfield. Mass, horss suf
Tered from a sore shoulder. A veterinary
surgeon who made close examination Of thu
shoulder found twenty-five cent silver piscs
deeply imbedded liz the flesh. How the cor
got there is a mystery.
A negro on Mr. Rod Leonard,s plantation,
in Talbot county, cut q snakes head on and
was surprised to see about a dozen youne
snakes run out OF the old snake. The body Of
the snake was then cut In two and about
fifty more young snakes ran out Ali
A very rare specimen Of animal life W..
discovered In Pennsylvania recently on the
farm Of Henry H Davenport, father Of
George F. Davenport, Of Meadville. Mr..
Davenport set trap for what he supposed
to be white skunk, and caught what turns
QUITO be a genuine white woodchuck.
In Brownsville, Schuylkdll county, Pa.
some senseless young men, in want Of lark
soaked lot of corn In whisky and flung It b.
q flock of geese. An hour later the woman
who owned them found them comatose, and,
believing them dead, picked their feathers of
and flung the carcases down n mine breach.
During the night the birds slept of their de,
bauch, and next morning Were found huddled
at the gate in naked and prodigal condi-
tfoO
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
The finest lot of cattle that has

The finest lot of cattle that has
ever left the South Branch Valley
were taken off this week. 1t was a
clean, neat, fat drove of cattle. They
were bought by John P. Cunning
ham and John L. Vanmeter, agents
for Myers & Houserman, OF Balti-
more. They shipped 25S head of
cattle, which averaged 1854 pounds.
They were bought as follows: 66
head of A. M. Inskeep, averaged
1870, the fattest and neatest bunch
of cattle that has left the branch for
twenty years, SO says Jake Cunning
ham, and agreed to By Byron Fisher ;
102 head OF Jesse Fisher, averaged
1888; 50 head of John and Clarence
Fisher, averaged 1914: and fifty
head of VIM. Goldizen, averaged
1929. John Vanmeter says these
are the tail end of what are to 60
yet.-Moorefeld Examiner.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Ex.Secretary of the Navy Goff,
Judge Cranmer of Wheeling, and
other citizens of this State have uni
ted in petition to Secretary Tracy
asking that one OF the new vessels
now authorized to be built be named
the Wheeling" in honor of the
city of that name and of the battle
that was fought there at the close of
the Revolution.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
A BRUTAL GOVERNMENT.

Some of the poorest families on
the Olphert estate in West Donegal
were suddenly surrounded recently
by force Of about forty policemen,
armed with rifles and Differed by
two inspectors. With them came a
bailiff and seven emergency men,"
provided with scythes, grips, pitch
forks, shovels and revolvers. The
force scattered out over the district,
and occupied vantage points to cut
off all possibility Of aid to the hap.
less victims. A detachment filed
around a field of green oats, and
stood guard whilst the bailiff and
+" emergency" gang cut it down.
Having finished, they moved into
the next field and performed a SINH
lar operation. They then attacked
a small plot of very green oats be.
longing to a widow.
Six carts bore away the spoils of
the day, consisting of about two
tons of oats so green and unripe as
to be quite useless. One woman
protested against the plumber, and
was rudely silenced by the police.
The peat also cut away and buried
out of reach, and the poor famlshing
families will be for the first time in
their lives deprived of their Winters
fuel. The spo!ls of this days plum,
der were for the most part the fruit
of seed purchased last Spring out of
funds contributed by charitable PEG.
pie in England and elsewhere.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
CALL0W MARRIAGES.

Nine-tenths of the unhappy mar
riages are the result OF green human
calves being allowed to run at large
in society pastures without any yoke
on them. They marry and have
children before they have mustaches.
They are fathers Of twins before
they are the proprietors of two pairs
of pants, and the little girls they
marry old women before they are
twenty years old. Occasionally one
of these gosling marriages turns out
all right, but it is clear case of luck.
If there was a law against young
galoots sparkling and marrying be-
fore they have cut all their teeth,
we suppose the little cusses would
evade it in some way. But there
ought to be a sentiment against it.
1t is time enough for these bantams
to think of finding a pullet when
they have raised money enough to
buy a bundle Of lath to build a hen
house. But they see a girl who looks
cunning, and they are afraid there
are not going to be enough to go
round and they begin to spark real
spry, and before they are aware of
the sanctity of the marriage relation
they are hitched for life, and before
they own cook stove or bedstead
they have got to get up in the night
and go after the doctor, SO frighten-
ed that they run themselves out of
breath and abuse the doctor because
he does not run too. And when the
doctor get there, there is not linen
enough in the house to wrap up the
baby,-Alt0yiG Ore. ! transcript.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Under the new law in Kansas
making the taking of usury a crime,
debt of $4,000, with the interest,
was wiped out by jury, the law
providing il lender charges usury
he is liable to lose both principal
and interest.
Blanche Nelson, a handsome girl
was fined % in Chicago for g dis
orderly conductn in kissing an elder
~ gentleman on q street corner. Sew
eral young men submitted willingly
to the salntati0n. but the elderly
individual had the girl locked up.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26
The Wheeling Intelliaencer, on tn

The Wheeling Intelligencer, on the
occasion of the coming of the Union
bridge capitalists, made a great ex-
position of the growth of the freight
business at that point, which gives
very good idea. 1t shows that
the freight tonnage of Wheeling in
1856 to have been LII, 800, and to
be now 3.195, 800, an increase of l.
$4,000.
John J. Van Fassen was convicted
of manslaughter in the court in
Frederick, last week. He shot and
killed ex.Policeman Charles A. Por,
ter in October, 1888. They quar-.
relied over woman.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Willie gazing with undisguised interest at
one Of the guestsD-What funny people take
their dinners at this restaurant, papal Look
at that man over there eating his soup. Every
time he swallows mouthfuf be drops his
chin. and wabbles his tongue out, and makes
motions as if he was trying TO swallow him
self. What is the matter with himi
Willie's Father cooking q moment at the
painful spectacle)-He Is man. my son, who
has lately parted with long mustache and Is
unable to convince himself yet that its gone
Chicago Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

The President appointed Oliver G.
Bosbyshell to be superintendent OF
the Mint at Philadelphia.
Mrs. John PlatE, wife Of Alderman
Platt OF Newcastle, Pa, while kill.
ing a rooster received q scratch
from one of Its spurs. A few days
later Mrs. Plat and a child she was
nursing developed symptoms of blood
poisoning. The child is dead and
Mrs. Plat cannot recover.
HAGERsTowN, October 1g.-Sher.
lit John w. Gattrell, Of this county,
died about ten o'clock this morning
at the sherifFs residence, this place,
aged fifty-eight. Mr.. Gattrell had
been complaining for several
months. and his death was not unex-
peeted. He leaves wife and three
grown children.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

A curious scene was witnessed In Pam
yard, Westminster, England. A sparrow
was picking UP the corn which had fallen
from the horses nose bags, when q mouse APP
peared and proceeded to dispute with the
sparrow his right TO the dainty morsels. A
fight ensued, which lasted for some minutes,
and then the sparrow beat retreat The
sparrow had evidently been injured In the
tnals, and for q time be was unabie to fly.
At last the sparrow few up, and a cabman
finished the incident by killing the mouss
with whip
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

The Republicans and Independent
Democrats of Baltimore have united
on fusion ticket for their city Off
GERS. Major Alexander Shaw is their
candidate for Mayor. Major Shaw
is a Republican. The ticket very
strong one, and will be supported by
many of the most prominent Demo
Gratis in the Monumental City. If it
is victorious, as it likely will be, the
German ring viii be busted" and
{" Maryland, my Maryland" will be
Republican in 1872.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

A witness in the Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa, court, opposing the granting
of a license to G. B. Withers, said
that drunken men and women held
mock religious services 10 bis place,
using beer and Whiskey for baptis-
NAL purposes,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-10-26

Mr. A. c. White, superintendent Of the
famous King grove, near Wildwood, I'M
earthed some rare treasures on the grove last
week. The most curious thing found was an
ancient coin of the reign Of Alexander the
Great. The coin Is silver, about the size Of a
fifty cent piece. On one side Is the embossed
likeness Of Alexander, on the other three
Greek notices and the nude Likeness Of a
Greek warrior armed with sword, helmet
and shield. Buried with this coin was found
vessel Of antique dedgn-perhaps a Greek
wine jar-and a curious knife, and something
like common hoe-perhaps q specie Of bat
tie ax.-Sumtervflls Fla-I Cor. Jacksonville
Metropolis