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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Ale Eight Dinners at Once.

About three months ago the residents
of Ellicott City, Md, complained thai
their larders were being plundcred.
Neither money nor goods were touched,
but everything in the shape of food wa,
cleaned out. For over n month the,
searched for the thief, who was final,
caught while RECALLING himself in neigh.
boris kitchen. His name is John Darby,
and he has wife and family After {
preliminary hearing he was sent to til,
county ..ail pending his trial by the court.
He has now been in the institution two
months, and the warden says he has
proved the most expensive prisoner tn,
State has ever harborcd. His an
petite Is enormous. Though weigh.
ing only 100 pounds. he is tall and
gaunt, measuring six feet and one inch.
1t seems impossible to satisfy his crav.
ings, and his attack upon his ncighbors'
inrders arc now explained. His regular
daily meals are four times greater in the
amount of food than those of any other
prisoner. Beside, he generally cat.
whatever is left by the fifteen inmates OF
the Jail. Warden Lilly says that hii
greatest feat perhaps was at dinner on q
recent Sunday. He had determined to
aec IL us couIu MOI Shtlsly LARRY fot
once. and ordered the bill of fare ac-
cordingly- His meal consisted of half a
gallon of soup and eight dinners like
those furnished the rest of the prisoners,
in each of which was plentiful supply
OF roast pork, hominy, cabbage, pota-
toes, turnips, and bread, all of which
were in turn quickly dispatched. A very
remarkable feature about the case is
That Darby never experiences any un.
casincss following an overloaded stom.
ach, and his appetite isncyer satisfied
Cic0gl Herala.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
A Cat With Human Instincts.

There exists general impression that
cats are tar loss susceptible to kind
treatment and less adept at learning
tricks than are their enemies, the dogs.
This may or may not be correct i'm
preston, but if as rule cats are iuller
than dogs, there are many exceptions.
One striking exception is tho case of o
large cat, which by birth was Maltese,
and which was owced by an old French
locksmith residing for long time on
Market street. Tho peculiarities of the
Frenchman, which were very marked,
had been imbibed by the cat, and like
his master, he was very reticent, and
hadn't much to say. He would allow no
one to pet him, except his master. aud
when anyone entered the locksmith's
shop the cat would seem to know im.
mediately whether he was friend or
foe, and the locksmith always relied
upon the discernment of his pet to tell
him whether his visitor was honest or
not. If the man was not all right the
cat would fly at him, with fur bristling,
his buck archcd, and his tail swollen up
like patent lamp chimney cleaner. But
he never troubled those who were all
was very touching. He was never happy
ohiSoo ~ NV viz always Will
him, and Mt night no would sleep in tho
same room with him. protecting him bet
ter than dog could hare done, for he
was large aud powerful animal. His
master had taught him many tricks,
which he would perform on demand OF
his master; one of them. which was ter
riblc, was to spriug ut the throat of any
man or beast that his master might indi.
cate. Ho was never allowed to display
this trick, however, and his master al.
ways sa'd that he had taught him this
during u long sojourn in Switzerland,
when he was in danger of his life from
both man and beast. At last the old
man died, and his body was no sooner
taken from the house than the cat,
which had all tho time been lowering
about, disappeared, and was never seer
again. So. Louis star Sayings.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
How DR.. Talmage Keeps Healthy.

Rev. DR.. Talmage says in the New
York O5ssrrer "Most Americans do
not take time for sufficient sleep. We
account for our own extraordinary
health By the fact that we are fanatics
on the subject of Sleep. We differ from
our friend, Napoleon Eonaparte, in ono
respect: we want nine hours sleep aad
we take it-eight hours at night and one
hour in the day. If we miss our allow.
ance one week, rs we often Go, we make
it up the next week or the noyt month.
We have sometimes been twenty-o one
hours in arrearages We formerly kent
memorandum of the hours for sleep
lost. We pursued those hours till wa
caught them. If at the begin ming OF
our summer vacation we are many hours
behind in slum5er, VIC 20 down to tho
seaslore or among the mountains and
sleep month. If the world abuses us
Mt any time. we go and take an extra
sleep; and when we wake up all the
world Is smiling on us. If we come to
n knotty point il our discourse, we take
n sleep; and when we open our eyes tho
Opaque has become transparent. We
split every day in two by nap in tho
afternoon. Going to take that somni.
ferrous interst;ce, we say to the servants:
DO not call me for anything. If the
house takes fire. first get the children
out and my private papers and when tho
roof begins to fall in call me-. Through
fanaticism VIC have thus far escaped the
hot axle.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
White House Card EtInuette.

For the frat time since her marriage
Mrs. Cleveland's cards bear the name
"Mrs. Grover Cleyeiand" Official cti.
qnette requires that the wife of the Chief
Magistrate shall have her cards engraved
In the simplest manner-"Mrs. Cleyc.
land, or ".drs. Harrison" as the case
may be. The Presidents card bears only
the inscription "rhe President" For
the Cabinet the cards are engraved: "Tho
Secretary OF State" "rhe Secretary of
the Navy and go on, the wife in each
instance having card on which the pre-.
fix "Mrs." is not followed by the hus.
bands given name.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
OIL of Birch Costs Money.

Recently there was sent from Norw
to New York five two gallon tin cans
filled with oil OF blac.; bir il, which was
manufactured in Bozrah by John Miner.
1t is worth $50 a gallon. and the five
cans contained los pounds of oil, valued
at $500, ora little over So n pound.
Black birch trees do not yield oil as
the maple trees run sap. There is work
in getting the tender twigs, aud labor In
the process of extracting tho oil. One
ton of twigs yields just three pounds Of
oil, aud it took nearly iifty-three tons Of
twigs to yield the ten gallons. This oil
is used in givin : the wintcrgrcen flavor
to CONNECTIONS of all kinds. -New London
(Conn.) Ie!e3raph.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
SONG OF THE MEApLIoHT.

( r
When the full moon lays q radiant hass rs
From earth to Heavens wall,
Or tho tranquil stars mark che viewless bns
Whence tho arrows of vision fall,
Or send my glance where the quick dropsf
dance
With the pattering call of tho rain,
10 their comrades asleep in the hidden deep
or the subterrauean main,
Or II storms arc out and tho froo winds shout
with ftful falls and swells,
A steedfast glow of light throw
On tho cleaning parallels. s
guide the train DER tho levol plain, g'
A swiftly nearing star,
And I bend and swerve where the mountains
curve
My iron-bound path to bar.
Up their rocky sleeps tao Meet Gamo leaps,
Or l flash to their depths bslow,
Fill the mosses that dress each dim receca
And the nodding forms shows
tspring to illume the frowning gloom
Or procipicos gray,
And waters smile from tho deep deflls
In my momontary day.
Where tho wood benign with beck md sign
Invites I'LL tllntu Things
TO its shelter spread for tho crouching head
And its covert for dropping wings.
bear my light, till in vain alright
Tho doe with hcr trembling fawn
And tho creatures meek that refuge sock
In tho forest shade withdrawn,
Press closer yet to tho copsc dcw-wot,
Or speed through tho whispering grass,
To hide thom nway from the searching roy
| shoot through tho dark rs pass
AS meteor flies in star-sot skies
BY n myriad movolsss spheres,
hurry along where lnmpghts throng
AS the shopping town appears;
Like tho coming of Fate, to those who waid
Till boar thoir loved away,
scem rs 1 shine down tho widening limo,
Fro pnusc for u moments stay;
But no who fools those rolling wheos
Load homo, to his hearts desire,
Can half beliove his eyes perceive
Tho prophets chariot OF fro
Still on and on till tho night Is como
l follow tho vibrant rails,
TIL tho east Is red, and overhead
Tho star Of tho morning pales.
As foos may fonr tho soldiers spear,
But comrades have no dread,
Tho lancos OF light hurled ut tho night
Pierce not where sunbeams spread,
SO cease my rays when tho IIcuvon ablazo
Proclams tho darkness He'd.
Hardy Jackson, in New YORK. Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
"Ir COULD NOT HAppEN Now

~.
Ere country ways bad turned to street,
And long ere we were born,
a Lad and lass would chance to meet.
Some merry April morn;
The willows bowed to nudge che brook,
The cowslips nodded gay,
And he would look and she would look,
And both would look away.
Yet each-and this is so absurd
Would dream about the other,
And she would never breathe a word
To that good dame, her mother.
Our girls are wiser now
Twas very quaint. twas very strange
Extremely strange, you must allow.
Dear me! how modes and customs change!
1t could not happen now.
Next day that idle, naughty lass
Would rearrange her hair,
And ponder long before the glass
Which bow she ought TO wear;
And often she'd neglect her task,
And seldom care to chat,
And make her mother frown, and ask
=" Why do you blush like that:n
And now she'd haunt with footsteps slow
That mead with cowslips yellow,
Down which she met week ago
That stupid, staring fellow.
Our girls are wiser now.
Twas very quaint, twas very strange,
Extremely strange, you must allow.
Dear me! how modes and customs change.
1t could not happen now.
And as for him, that foolish lad,
He'd hardly close an eye,
And look SO e-begono and sad,
And make his mother cry.
= Flo goes" she'd say, from bad to worse
My boy, SO blithe and bravo.
Last night found him writing verso
About lonely grave"
And, 10! next day her nerves he'd shock
With laugh and song and caper;
And there!-she'd find golden lock
Wrapped up in tissue paper.
Our boys are wiser now
Twas very quaint, twas very strange,
Is 'tremely strange, You must allow.
Dear mel how modes and customs changed
1t could not happen now.
Frederick Lan9bridge, in Good Words.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Exquisite brooches.

A New York ieweler has sent som,
wonderful brooches to the Paris Expos:.
ton. They are gold enameled orchid,
of fifteen varieties, each as perfect in its
way as the product Of nature. The
stems are made green with emeralds.
The coloring of the leaves is marvelou,
beyond description, testifying to the ex.
traordinary skill of the designer as vel,
as to the artistic sense and exquisit,
taste of the ehamelor. Nothing NOR,
beautiful can be imagined than the gen
eral effect of each plant.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

A boat building firm in Passumke ag
Me-, has recently received large ordo.
for canoes to be sent to England.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

A large Eoman Catholic cathedral has
been dedi ated at Hong Kong, China.
The cdifce, which cost $500, 900, holds
1000 people.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
What We Ey0Ort,

Stafistician Dodge of the United States
agricultural department. has prepared
table of figures on the annual production
and export trade OF the Union.
Our agricultural exports consist al
most altogether of cotton, tobacco. meats,
breadstuffs, butter and cheese. These
articles constitute 81 per cent. of farm
products exported.
The largest crop Is of course corn. OF
that /, 754 ,S61, 533 bushels are produced
annually. We export only $4,000, 900,
using the rest at hons. Mr.. Dodge's
figures show that Europe raises much
more wheat than Americans suppose, her
annual crop amounting to 1900, 100000
bushels. America does not raise nearly
so much, our crop footing up only half a
billion bushels. OF this, however, we
export to Europe 5000, 900. Besides her
own crop. it takes IA, 600, 600 bushels of
wheat additional to feed Europe
Russia alone produces more rye than
the whole United States does. But no
country except the United States pro-
duces much Indian corn. Great Britain
alone takes three-quartcrs of the corn we
export. We export no rice at all, al
though Europe imports and uses every
year 900, 900, 900 pounds.
All but three countries of Europe make
at home more butter and cheese than
they need. These three are Great Britain,
Belgium and Portugal, and they import
annually 25.000,000 pounds of butter
Here the United States gets in some good
work, sending to these countries 24,000,-
900 pounds. Europe imports annually
40, 900, 600 pounds of cheese, and of this
we send her lis, 900, coo. We have thus
practically command of the butter and
cheese European market. Yet some of
the salt, soured butter we send is strong
enough to walk alone, and some of the
cheese is made of lard and skim milk.
Let us hope the national pride of our
dairymen will become aroused in this
matter sufficiently to use to the best adj
vantage their shining opportunities.
We export more than two-thirds of all
the cotton required in Europe; but, on
the other hand, Europe gets from other
countries three times as much wool as
we send her, much of it from South
America and Australia.
The United States makes no remark
able figure as country of exports. We
ought to raise more flax and hemp. We
import annually 100000, coo worth of
fruits, half of which ought to be pro-
duced at home.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
American Machinery in Paris.

One-third of all the space in the ma
chinery hall in Paris is occupied by
American inventions. The hall itself is
the largest building ever enclosed under
one roof, being over quarter of mile
long. The power required to run the
machinery in this huge building is four
times as much as was supplied to the
French exhibition of 1878.
One of our supposed model machines
is continuance for sailing and coloring
dairy butter. But as Europeans do not
use salted butter and do not like it, the
French have invented an equally skillful
continuance for taking she salt all out
again. Both machines are on exhibition,
and the spectator can take his choice.
The exhibit Of American inventive
genius at Paris is certainly wonderful.
We have not, however, advanced very
greatly in the matter of agricultural ma
chinery since 1878. Other nations have
caught up several of our mechanical
ideas and improved On them till they
sometimes surpass the original designs.
American ideas, in one form or another,
pervade the machinery of all nations in
the exhibit, Margaret Sullivan writes.
This is especially true of steam engines,
machine tools, metal working, making
paper bags and wood working machinery.
America is the only country except
Great Britain that shows improvement in
printing machinery. For all nations, the
electrical inventions are the most nu-
merous and interesting.
In this field it is gratifying to know
that three American inventors hold the
first place. They are Edison, A. Ora
ham Bell and Professor Elihu Thomson.
The last is a new name, but one which
will become probably as Familiarity
known as either of the other two. Pro
fessor Thomson has discovered how to
amalgamate metals by electrical process.
Metals that will fuse in no other way
yield to his process, which promises very
important results.
At the Paris exposition Edison has 493
inventions, representing most of his dis
coveries. His display covers 5000 square
feet.
The American monograph is the won
der and delight of European visitors.
There are monographs which answer
back TO the SONS and daughters of each
nation in their own language. In cleo
trical inventions it is interesting to note
that the French tend especially to pure
science, while Americans occupy partic-
ulayly the field of industrial arts.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
Ensane Hospital Murder.

DR.. Jacob Z. Bowers is superinten-
dent of the hospital for thc insane at
Rochester, Minnesota. Taylo Combs
was an inmate Of the asylum and of
ward Peterson, were the attendants of
that ward. On the afternoon of
april 1st, last, these attendants re
ported TO the Superintendent that the
patient Combs was dead That III the
morning Of that day, the said patient
had fallen from a scaifolding on
which he had been working cleaning
the ceiling preparatory to painting the
same. That he had been put to bed
and cared for properly, but when the
attendants visited him in the after
noon they found him dead, and so re-
ported. The coroner was called in, an
examination had, the evidence of the
attendants taken, and al seeming regu-
lar and correct, the patient was duly
buried
But murder VIII out, and SO it was
in this case. One circumstance I'M
covered another until now the cold
bare facts are that the patient Combs,
was brutally murdered by his two
attendants, Beckman and Peterson.
One John Date makes this statement
Of what lie saw Of the horrible affair,
he says:
"That he WAS working in C 3 with
Combs and other patients, in the fore
noon Of April /, 1889, at second hos
pital for insane; that he saw August
Beckman take Combs down the ward,
pushing and striking him; that he
took Combs into the clothing room,
knocked him down, clicked him, and
called on Ed Peterson, the other at
teRdant, to pitch in; that Peterson
seized a cane and broke it on him
(COmbsG that they ordered him TO get
up and go to the wash room; that
Backman again knocked him down,
and jumping on his (Combs) chest,
stamped HIM, and that they (Becknan
and PeterSOn) continued to assault
Combs from about quarter before II
a. III. to 1880 a. m; that at : o'clock p.
II. Combs died. Date also stated that
he was afraid TO make this statement"
Only few days elapsed before all the
facts became known to Dr.. Bowers,
the superintendent, but he made no
effort toward an investigation and
ultimate punishment Of the cruel
mrderers, but discharged the men,
and, it is said, advised them 10 skip
out, +" which they did for two or three
weeks, and then returned to the city,
only to get drunk and give themselves
away by Oyermuch talking, and now
they admit the killing, but claim that
The victim was unruly and desperately
mmanageable and that what they
done was done in self-defence.
There is no doubt or question as to
the penetration Of the crime, and now
let the State CT Minnesota, just in
pure self-dcfence against such despera-
dos, hang the two attendants, and
put the doctor in charge, in the state
prison for five years, for trying to hush
the matter up. 1t is the most dis
graceful thing in the history of the
state, and should be followed with
swift and complete punishment of
everyone in any way connected with
the affair.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
The DiSSnri;nr nrnnenS;IY

Following the case of Mind Reader
Bishop comes from Paris the story Of a
man who died in a strange way at Chan
lilly, near Paris. Physicians examined
him and pronounced him dead They
prepared for an autopsy. The supposed
dead man was stretched upon the table,
and the dissecting knives were used.
One or two strokes had been given, when
suddenly the subject sat upright, opened
his eyes, looked around him an instant,
and fell back dead indeed. He had been
in a cataleptic trance. The touch of the
sharp instruments had in the same in
slant brought him back to consciousness
and destroyed his life.
OF course the dissecting table, with all
its CHASTITY Accomplishments, is necessary
to give students a knowledge of surgery
and anatomy. But it may also be that
familiarity with dissecting room scenes
destroys to some extent in the minds of
physicians the sacred regard for the hu-
man body, living or dead. 1t was not
quite without reason, perhaps, that butch
ers were forbidden by the old English
law to sit on jury that tried man for
his life
1t is, perhaps, quite true also that
many an armless or legless veteran
goes crippling through the world today,
whose limb might have been saved had
army surgeons been a little less hasty in
performing amputations At any rate,
it is to be hoped that recent events will
tend to make doctors restrain their dis
secting instincts until the propriety and
necessity Of autopsy cannot possibly be
called into question.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
Opinion; By 5ndge E5unn.

An opinion, which Will take a good
share OF the profits Of his Office from
Marshal Frederick H. Marsh has been
forwarded to Chicago from Madison,
by Judge Romano Bum, who oc-
casionaly aids Judges Gresham and
Bl0dgett i'll their lab0Ts The case is
that Of William Seryis against Marsh
who sued for 53,555. 10, the amount of q
Judgment against Charles y Harper
and Horace n. IIarriss who made their
escape from the marshal, who thus be
came responsible for the amount of the
Judgment together with costs and in
terests ut the rate of per cent. since
September Is, 1885. The court held
that the deputy had no right to allow
the prisoners to depart out of his con
troll, ana that in doing so he became
personally liable. y new trial has been
asked for.-State Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
Philadelphia QmH: Is not hig

Philadelphia QadU: Is not high
license a step toward Prohibition? No.
1t is ridiculously absurd to say that it
is, and evinces confusion Of thought.
Let us help the honest believer in high
license who has been misled by SO much
shouting in its favor. a. 1t is evidence
that the Prohibition sentiment is grow
ing where clear-headed liquor men are
forced to accept higlalicense as a com
promise. In the Legislature which
passed the Brooks falsely called High
License bill liquor men were whipped
into line by the demand that they must
make this concession to prevent the
enactment, two years later, of law
yet more stringent. VIII the reader
reflect? \. friend of the bill said TO
one who had voted to emasculate it.,
: ! on must reconsider your vote. If
you MAIN this bill, the ProhIbitiOnists
will surely sweep the State, and you
Will be on your knees before the next
Legislature to get bill half as favor
able to your interests as this" The
liquor man changed his votes. o. On
the other hand, for d man honestly
seeking the destruction of the liquor
traffic to rest with high license is a step
backward. 1t is unconditional surren-
der. 1t is corrupt and coWardly be
trayal Of a sacred cause for money. No
true enemy of the brewery can afford
to step backward.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08
Males. Not Wen.

IF you desire to be real swell in pol
lite circles you must never speak of the
steTner sex as men or gentlemen, f." said
one who is up and up in all the latest
fa3s. to me. Haven't you heard
what Miss-,just from Boston, calls
them?'
No; WHAT"
Listen to her" and 1 did listen,
and this is what I heard: "Oh, what a
love of a party this is. There are so
many males here this evening. The
males Of Louisville are so nice.
haven seen so many males together
before for three fortnights.
Al of this occurred at very small
party and the young woman who starts
the fashion gets it right straight from
Beacon street, Boston. So it all right,
young ladies. Henceforth, bows YOU
are not men, you are males.-Louisville
Post
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-08

The Times Democrat and many promi-
nent citizens Of New Orleans have been
ondeavoring for months TO persuade the
levying an annual tax of three mills for
drainage 1t Is claimed that, once thor
oughly drained, New Orleans will be one
of the most healthful cities in the Union.
But the ordinance was voted down.