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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-04-26
INTERNAL REGIONS.
A VIRGINIA TICKET AGENT SELLS
A PASSENGER A TICKET
TO THEM.

The Stanton VRdicatOr says
that one OF the oldest and best
liked ticket agents on the Chesa-
peake & OHIO is "Quint" Williams,
at LOwmOOr. He Is as polite as a
Chesterfield and his dry humOr is
inimltable. a VmdicatOr reporter,
while waiting for a train at Low.
moor not long since, Noticed large
placard stuck up over the top of
the Office clock bearing this In.
scription ayes, sir I! the clock is
right" He inquired of Captain
Williams why he put up the card.
Said he: "a dozen times a day,
some Of these folks come IN and
set their watches by that clock or
compare them with 1t very care.
fully, and then turn to me and ask
SIS that clock right, sir ? That's
the experience with every ticket
agent who has a clock in his
Office
Among his amusing experiences
with travellers, il WAS related 70 me
that few weeks ago a man much
the worse for his liquor staggered
into the waiting room, and poking
his face into the ticket window,
SAID whats price ticket T. hell"
Without changing countenance.
Captain Williams promptly re.
piled, "S2.40.p The fellow seemed
taken aback for a moment, then
asked, "Whar'l that take me y
"To IIinton," sad Williams. SCI
me ticket said our tips} friend.
The agent handed over the ticket
aud received the change, and the
party took the nexl train vest
Next day yhe conductor on a tram
coming east, laughing, called
Captain Williams and asked him II
the day before he had sold a ticket
for Hinton to a man who wanted
to buy one for bell. EYES," said
Williams. "Well, I saw . man
drunk as a boiled owl" said the
standing at the Hin
ton depot this morning, and he
'ald that ID old agent at Low.
moor had Swludled him by selling
hin a ticket TO hell, and they had
put him of at Hinton. He wasn't
luite thar yet twas pretty hard
1t Hinton, but he was going to try
9niuhimont and thought that
you'd fiji the bill"
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Thought il Would Kill Him,
COFFEEVILLE MISS,
EehrnarY 20. 1883.

Gentlemen l suffered with ex-
zema for nearly two years, and was
treated by three physicians, but
they could do me no good. | spoke
Of trying S. S. S. and they told me
it would kill me, but | tried it any
way, and after taking SIX or eight
bottles, was completely cured,
and have never been bothered sine
With it, and | feel it a duty to you
and suffering humanity to make
this statement. ii. ). DAVIS.
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The Verdict Unanimous.

w. d. Suit, druggist, Bippus,
Ind, testifes: 81 can recommend
Electric Bitters as the very best
remedy. Every bottle sold has
given relief in every case. One
man took six bottles, and was cured
of Rheumatism of 10 years. stand.
ingp Abraham Hare, druggist,
BellvilIe, Ohio, affirns; "The best
selling medicine | have ever ham
died in my 20 years. experience, is
Electric Bitters." Thousands OF
Others have added their testimony,
so that the verdict is unanimous
that Electric Bitters do cure all
diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or
Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle
at b. Schmltt's drug store.
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT SHE DID.
Published by Request of VIC. T. U

Christiaua Dickson, the wife OF
one of the first settlers OF Erie
county, Pa, wss a small, blue'eyed
low-voiced woman, extremely timld,
but she had a horror Of drunken
ness.
She lived IN days when the use
of liouor was universal. But when
her sons were born, she resolved to
put a stop to whiskey-drnking In
her home. Her husband being alb
sent, her brothers called for the
help OF the neighbors, according to
custom, to put up a barn needed
on her farm. They all assembled
and went to work, while she pro
vided a great dinner. After an
hour or two whiskey was asked for.
She refused to provide it.
Her brothers, and at last an eld'
or in the church came to reason
with her, and to tell her she would
be accused of meanness. Without
a word the little woman won't to
the barn, and barring her head
stepped upon a log and spoke to
them :
"My neighbours said she, "this
is a strange thing. Three of you
are my brothers, three of you are
elders in the church-all OF you are
my friends. l have prepared for
you the best dinner in my power.
If you refuse to raise the barn with
ont liquor, so be it. But | would
rather these tlmbers shall rot where
they lie than to give you whiskey."
The men angrily went home the
little woman returned to the house,
and for hours cried as though her
heart would break. But the next
day every man came back, went
heartily to work, enjoyed her good
dinner, and said not a word about
whiskey.
This led to a discOntinuance of
the use of whiskey at barn-raisings
in tho county. Her sons grew up,
strong, vigorous men, aud did good
work in helping to civllize and
Christlanize the world. Their de.
scendants are all OF high type OF
intellectual and moral men and
women. If she had yielded this
little point, they might have be-
come, like many of their neighDors,
drunkards.
Our stOut-hearted pioneer lore
fathers redeemed the land, and
drove out the wild beasts and ser
penis but there are vices and ma
lignant customs still to be con.
quered, for which we need NO
men of high souls and gentle
spirits, like Christiana Dickson
". c. Z. L. Bulletin.
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A grocery firm of Kirksville, Mo-,
issues the following advertiser ent:
"Any man who drinks two drains
of whlskey for year, and pays ten
cents drink for it, can have at
our store 30 sacks of -four, 900
pounds of graduated sugar, and
y pounds OF good green coffee for
the same money, and get sou
premium for making the change IN
his expenditures.0
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GET "A HOME.
IT SH 0ULD BE THE AIM OF EVERY
MAN TO OWN HIS DWELL
ING PLACE.


sit is cheaper to rent than it is
to buy" is the remark of many
persons when asked if they own
the h Ouse in which they I've
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81 have personally no pref udice,"
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those engaged in the liquor trade
bat | am utterly tired of seeing this
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hell in order that the great brew
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Fannie $50 you are married,
Hattie, and have wealth and all
its possibilities p Hattie; ayes ;
my husband is very rich I" Fannie
"Ard you enjoy it very much 7"
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In Texas, during the last year,
seventy churches have adopted the
use of unfermented wine for com
munion services, directly through
the influence of the w. q. T. Z.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-04-26

Wean lambs when four to five
months old. Place them on fresh,
tender pasture. If clover has been
sown with small grain, and the
-ain brings the clover along nicely,
it makes a fine pasture for weaving
lambs. Give the lambs-and all
sbeep for that matter-easy ac-
cess to salt and water.
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Seventeen hundred boys under
fifteen in Los Angeles county,
California, have taken the anti
tobacco pledge
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If men are so wicked with re-
IigioD, what would they be without
it?
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The ArensdOrf brewery OF Sioux
City, Iowa, is being fitted up for
an oatmeal factory.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN INoENDIARY.

Chicago. Now 10 (SpeciaD.-The excitement at
coneva and Aurora. in this State, over the alleged
.comnIIcity of James f. Henfngton- the prominent
Democrat politician with the wholesale incendares in
that section still continues. The people of both
towns are divided bitter factions the question
of errIngtons guilt, and In the meantime Charles Mus
sev the self-confessed ncendlary now in the Kane
County ai has further complicated matters BY another
confession I'm which he declares that his first confession
was a lie, and that Harrington had nothing whatever
,n do with The matter He also cXOnerated Jay Hoyt
and Cusn Roesch, whom his first confession mpli-
In the burning OF IIoweils foundry in Geneva In
The spring of 1888. He claims that the Chicago
detective made him drunk and then procured from him
s first confession. In which he stated that Mayor
IIerrlngton hired him TO do the job.
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NO CREDENCE IN THE REPORT OF FIGHTING
THE NEWS COMES IN ROUNDABOUT Way
AMERICAN INTERESTS IN BRAZIL.

AMERICAN INTERESTS IN BRAZIL.
Washington, Nov. 19.-The only information re-
ceived to-day at the state Department that was made
public concerning affairs in Brazil telegram from
New-York to Secretary Blaine, announcing that the
Paris Fgaros' Hamburg dispatch TO
the effect that Monarchists and Repub
cans were fighting in the streets Of Rio de
Janero had been received there. An official of the
Department speaking of the report, said 1t was hardly
probable that dispatches reaching NewYork by way Of
Hamburg and Paris contained later information than
DISPATCHES received in this country direct from Brazil
and there was nothing in the latter that confirmed the
Hamburg report censorship Of press dispatches
had becn established he said according to the news
paper accounts but commercial messages are nor re-
vised The news Of the riot may have been conveyed
in a commercial cipher which looked innocent enough
and escaped official attention.
No request has been made Of the Navy Department
that vessel be Rio to protect the interests OF
Americans there which would have been the case,
Navy officials say, II there was any belief in the
State Department that trouble had occurred or was
mn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-20
THE EXCITEMENT DYING OUT.
BUSINESS MEN BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE
30 TRoUBLE-THE RUBBER SUPPLY.

40 TROUBLE-THE RUBBER SUPPLY
The extract from the Paris Figaro" saying that
bloody conflict had broken out in the streets of Rio
de Janero between the Republican and Imperial
factions which was published early yesterday after
nOOn generally dlscredited by the merchants and
brokers downtown. | doubt the authentcly OF 'he
Dispatch said Charles r. Flint who rturned yester-
day from Washington " 1t is probable that we would
have received news from Rio Janeiro had such an
outbreak taken place. rather than by the roundaoouC
route Of Hamburg and the editorial rooms OF the
Figaro Mr.. Flint said that tho barometer by
which the condition Of affairs could be Judged was
the exchange. The fluctuations of the rates OF ex-
change I'm Brazil corresponded TO tho fluctuations OF
grcenback currency during the Civil War. The ad-
vance OF exchange showed the faith Of the bankers
and merchants I'm the stability of the new Government
in most practical Exchange IN Para, no saiu'
had ben 81 IA pence but 1t had now gone up 10
% "a pence, which is equivalent to an advance ol
almost = per cent. If the brokers and merchants
feared general revolution, the paper currency OF
Brazil would naturally decline rapidly.
The price OF rubber had advanced In London New
York and Para In explanation of the stau'ment
which has been made frequently that the paper cur
rency Of Brazil was at premium over gold Mr fiiht
said: Tho Brazilian Government having made
loan Of five millions sterling I'm Paris, which proVWeS
for all payments in Europe up to the end OF lo0o tho
Government IS not in tho market FOR sterlihG III
London. Tho commercial demand Is such on the part
Of buy rs Of coffee and rubber that they are paying
premium for paper to enable them 10 purchaSo
brazilian produce for export As II IS more convenient
than importing gold sovereigns on which my wouiu
have to pay freight. Insurance. etc. Deside' ioS'"s
interest the transfer
Several dispatches were received BY various lner-
chants in the city on the course OF the day' lneS
corrOboratd ID previous information
The following statement as 10 the condition Of tho
rubber market was made by firm in this city on sat
urday: