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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

1T Is amusing to think of the tremendous eff
forts our Democratic friends made to elect their
candidate for County superintendent They
raised regular campaign fund by passing
around the contribution paper, and very quietly
got their whips" out TO urge the faithful 10
come TO the election. The thing was managed
by Mr.. Lavelle c'Boss Bill" Is euphonious, but
possibly Objectionable, who Is, however, "op-
posed to politics in school elections" Mr. La
velle meant, Of course, Republican politics. lie
had 900 copies OF his AReUs sent out to the faith
FIJI the week before the election. II was a ire
mendous effort for so small an Office.
But BRO. Lavelle "is opposed to politics In
school elections"
Yet he says the result was black eye to PRO
journal
The Journal is not manly enough
to accord credit to whom credit is
due. All credit is due the indie
pendent Republicans who threw off
the party yoke and administered a
rEbuke to the clique who have been
running this county for the last
twenty years. The ARGUS had
nothing to do with it any more than
any other private citizen. It was
the JOurRal man who used the "tre-
mendous efforts" to elect his man.
but the people refused to swallow
his "effortss" for once, and gave
him his cold time majority"
His reference to us as "Boss Bill'
is funny, to say the least. The only
and original Boss Bill got showed
under this time. lie had occupied
the throne Of bossism so long that
he felt a sense Of security in his
boss-ship, but the people arose in
their might and dcthroned him.
The five hundred extra copies Of
the ARGUS were not sent out for
campaign purposes, but to extend
the usefulness Of the paper. We
issued five hundred extra copies Of
the ARGUS the week after the cleo
ton and sent them out to non-sub-
scribers, and at some future time it
Is likely we viii do 80 again.
Yes, Bro. Dawson, the PEOPLE
are opposed 10 politics in school
elections" What are you going to
do about it.?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

The only thing that concerns the
Journdl is the spoils of office. 1t
has but one opinion and that opin-
ion is that all the public Offices in
the United States and Preston
county belong to the Republican
party ! Well, the United States
didn't vote that way by one hundred
thousand majority, and because the
Republicans of Preston who object
ed to follow the Journal as leader
and voted to suit themselves, the
Journal gets awfully mad. 1t is to
be pitied, for we know it feels sore
at heart and refuses to be comfort
ed. We will do our part to restore
it to laughter.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

similar experience, and that "there
must be stop to this business soon
or there will be danger of rcvolu-
ton" Senatorial courtesy" pre-
vented any further reference to
Senator Quay's Harrisburg model.
This extract from Senator Wash
burns interview is striking:
"My opinion is the party in pow
eff is weakened by patronage. The
wrath of the disappointed more than
offsets the work of the men who are
favored with places. Seriously,
think the patronage question is the
reck that is likely to wreck the adj
ministrations of to-day. A very
prominent gentleman in this city,
who has himself been q candidate
for President, said to me this morn
ing that he did not believe another
President would be re-nominated
and reelected for the next hundred
years. The incumbent of the, Office
of President would be so handicap
ped with old promises which he had
not been able to keep that it would
be dangerous to think of re-nomi-
mating him. / am inclined to think
he is right. The tendency of the
times is against re-nominating
Presidents. Mr.. Harrison should
make up his mind to retire at the
end of his four years"
1t will probably not depend alto
gether on Mr.. Harrison making up
his mind. The people will do that.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

to time. The people, it is stated
were warned Of the break in time TO
have make their escape, but the
warning was not generally regarded.
The water began pouring into Johns
town about one o'clock Friday and
the full volume struck it little la
ter, ann not until then was the ex-
tent of the danger appreciated.
Those who had time fled to the high
grounds, but hundreds of people
were caught in the flats and were
buried beneath falling walls or were
washed away in their frail frame
houses, which were soon torn to
pieces in the fierce tide or wrecked
against the railroad bridge, where
much of the debris lodged and piled
up to great height.
The most awful elimination of
the awful night was the roasting of
n hundred or more persons in mid
flood. The ruin of houses, old
buildings and other structures which
swept against the railroad bridge
caught fire. There were crowds of
men, women and children on the
wreck, and their screams were soon
added to the awful chorus Of horror.
They were literally roasted on the
flood. Soon after the fire burned
itself out there were Others thrown
against the mass. There were some
fifty people in sight when the ruins
suddenly parted, broke up and swept
under the bridge into pitchy dark
ness.
There were three stages or divis-
ions in the fateful course of the
disaster-the flood caused by heavy
rains, the breaking of a huge lumber
boom on Stony creek, and, most
destructive of all, the giving way of
the Conemaugh lake embankment.
The flood due to the storm appears
to have been almost at its height
alta bout one o clock on Friday after
noon. Then the lumber boom on
Stony creek was torn away, and the
enormous mass of logs hurled down
the stream and over the submerged
district of the doomed city, tore
away the houses as though they had
been built Of cards. While this
work of destruction was still going
on there came down the valley OF
Conemaugh creek, almost without
warning, a towering mass Of rushing
water from the burst embankment
at Conemaugh lake, which swept
with resistless force over the remain
ing houses and buried them under
fathoms of water or carried them at
once down the stream.
From Johnstown the food swept
on down the Conemaugh river to
Sheridan, Sang Hollow, twelve miles
below Johnstown, Ninevah, Lock
port and Bolivar, all Of which were
inundated.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

THE journal dies hard. 1t would
like to create the impression that
all the Democrats voted at the cleo
ton, and that there were but very
few Republicans who voted against
Mr.. Squires. This is ERRONEOUS.
We don't believe there were over
five hundred Democrats who voted
surely not over one-half of them
which would make 1T seven hum
dred Democrats voting. The Jour-
nal can fool no one with its "doc-
tored" figures to suit the occasion.
There were more Republicans who
voted for Mr.. Elsey than there was
for Mr.. Squires.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
Dear Econonlr.

The sad drowning Of Hattie Cor
ley in Buffalo creek, about three
miles from Rowlesburl, demon
strates that economy is often very
dear. Several months ago. Mr.
Corley and one Of his neiqhbors
came before the county court and
asked them to appropriate enough
money to build a bridge across the
creek where the foot log was, as
that was the only means Of crossing
the creek without going a long way
around. This request was opposed
by neighbor, and the court deci-
ded that the bridge was unnecessa-
~. We believe the court was hon
est in its decision, but while they
saved the county in dollars and cents
they lost daughter to her family
q loss that no money could restore.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

WHEN we pull off our coat and buckle up our
belt TO give old protection" rest, we gener
ally scare some one.-tAnsUs
How's hiss-You were Just saying that there
were mo politics i'm school elections" How did
the issue of Protection enter into a school cleo
tion, especially when there was no politics in
itf'-lJournal, after hearing something "drap.'
Why, bless your soul, Protection
didn't enter into the school election,
bnt there was big slice of iadepead-
mt voting entered into the school
election. No one said Protection"
had anything TO do with the school
election. Didn't we say we were
giving cold Protection rest 20 GER
tainly we did. No, Protection had
nothing to do with it, 1t was the
men who refused to wear the boss
es' collar any longer, that knock
ed you higher than kite.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

WHILE Cleveland was President
the average Republican could not
believe that it was Western cattle
and dressed beef that was causing
the low price of cattle in this State.
But now that Harrison, a Republic
can, is President, and the price Of
cattle is still low and getting lower,
it will not take great deal Of ar
gument to convince them that this
explanation of the low price was
true. Circumstances may alter
ones opinion, but they don't alter
foots n
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
How's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j. Cheney
for the last Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and hnan
cially able to carry out any Obligation made by
their firm.
West Thuax Wholesale Druggists Toledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
f. II. Van Hnsen, Cashier. Toledo National Bank
Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces OF
the system. Price IS cents per bottle Sold by
all druggists.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

SENATOR WAsnBURN. Of MINES
ota, is credited with views upon the
use Of money and spoils ia politics
which viii graveIy compromise his
standing as q Republican. lie is
represented as saying that our in
stitutions are being undermined by
the corrupt use Of money, that the
Minnesota Legislature was the worst
ever known ia the State, that from
al accounts Ncw York has bad d
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

''No POLITICS in school elections"
is the verdict of the people. And
when the people speaks some one
generally sets down and gasps for
desperation.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

Has anybody been so awfully
cruel as to hollow "school election"
at the Journal lately? Don't do it,
fellow men, who doyour own think
ing it makes it squirm in such an
"ungallant" way.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

THE West Virginia Press Associ-
alton will meet in Wellsburg on the
18th and 10th of this month. An
interesting program has been ar
ranged.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

Tag Journal viii pardon a. for rcmarking that
the people are not az is ack.-tARoUs
The Democratic people, you mean We never
LET EN- get there we've got pockets IN the back
Of our coat.--Journal
Not bad place to carry your
bottle during the snake season, but
we would politely inform you that
the Democrats are opposed to "free
whiskey."
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
Commissioners Notice.
COMNIssTONEF's OFFICE
Haywood W Va, May :. 1880
S. r. Hamllton,s Admir-
,ys. Equity.
S. r.. IIamIlton's IL. etc.

y. X Hamilton,s Admir-.
VI. Euuifv
5. II. lIamilton's Hrs. etc.
The above entitled chancery cause bv dc.
cree Of the Circuit Court OF Preston CountyInade
therein, on the Goth day of April A. d fsSg
having been referred TO the undersigned com.
missioner in chenCery, with the following direc-
tons 20 ascertain and report the real estate
owned by the dccedcnt s. n. Hamilton AZ the
time 81 his death the state and condition of the
title thereto, che Hens and charges thereon
their amounts character priurites aud tu whom
owiug 20 state, audit and settle the admins
trauou accounts Of Lafayette r.. Ward admir-
OF the estate Of said decCdcnt and appOrtlou
the personal funds, " any. in the hands Of said
administrator among the creditors Of the said
estate, according To their respective pfiorites ;
and that he report any other pertinent natter
which may be deemed so by himself, or required
by the parties Of them.
The parties 60 said cause. 90 wit: la Fayetfe
y. Ward admir- Of s. X. Hamilton. deed plaint-
ih, and Nancy Hamilton. Charles r. Hamilton
VIM. VI. Hamilton, Robert %. Holden. Mary
Holden, q. ID. Holden and ID. VI. Wotring guar
dian al Item, etc, defendants will, therefore
take notice. That, ON the 18th day Of June A. d.
1888 ~ my Office in KingwOOd. Preston county
west Virginia, shall proceed to execute said
decree.
Given under my hand this 7th day Of May. 1880.
y. y. CrOQAN. Commissioner.
~ II. DEEr, Plaintiffs Atty 500.
sfOO5
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

WE DON'T object TO being called
n Boss" but we draw the line
tight on "Euphonious"-w don't
know what it is.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

THE Journal seemed to be consid-
erably ''skeered" last week. Seven
hundred and nine pounds falling
on fellow is enough to brighten
him out of his wits.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

MR. CHARLES JEssOP, suporin-
tendent Of the Austen Coke Works.
informs as that we were in error as
to the reduction Of wages at his
works. Instead Of a ten per cent.
reduction it will hardly average six
per cent. We cheerfully make the
correction, as there was no intention
to do the company an injustice.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

POSTMASTER CowDES, Of Wheel
ing. has caught the spirit Of decap-
itation from his chief, Clarkson,
and whacks off the heads Of old
veterans in the latest improved style.
lie had not yet assumed the duties
Of his Office when he asked the res
ignation of an old veteran.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

THE Journal can't understand
how Republican can have a mind
of his own. 1t imagines itself the
fountain head of wisdom and
advance thought. Oh!
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

The way for the Journal to make
amends is for it to tell its readers
what an internal humbug this
"Protection" is.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

IT 'samuses" Bro. Dawson to see
us make tremendous effort" to
do some one up. We didn't make
half the effort he did.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

An attempt was made, last week,
to burn the courthouse at Fairmont.
The interior Of the house was satu-
rated with coal OIL and then an at
tempt was made to set it on fire.
but it was q failure.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

OVER in Preston one-half of the
g. o. p. seems to be spelling for
fight the other half is fighting for
the spoils. -Indcr.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

THE farmers in the Northwest
are chiefly engaged this spring i 4
fighting tariff bred Trusts and or
namenting their lands with more
mortgages. -Iadex.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

NEMESIS has overtaken A. NJ.
Moore. When ne was a Democrat
and was fighting for q good cause.
everything was serene and nothing
was too good for him. But alas
in an unguarded moment he started
down the Choppers" road. and ever
since Fate and % public Office have
been against him. Bro. Dawson
mas great many sins 10 suffer for.
but none greater than this. 1t was
be who lead him AWAY.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

"DoLTrRS" and "kckers'-the people know
now who they are.-LJournal.
just exactly what the "People"
said, and you refused to believe 'em.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

WoN'T the Journal stop its lam
entation long enough to tell us how
Protection" is benefitting the
workingman?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

YOU can nominate a man by ma
chinery, but it takes ballots to elect
him.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06

SOME of the Journals editorials
had 'whiskers" on 'cm last week.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
LET us have peace.

FIRE the veterans out.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
10 Politics In This I

g. g. Craig the old and experienced kucffo,
.ff guCrs nis services o. those who have goods
20 seil % auction. ne has had IN experience on
twenty. I've YcHTs and always rofs hfffcr r.ei,el
ior the goods be sells than any other man Ri ~,
C1uufY o' ''''i ~ 'H'
lofmf fcafonahie agr
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-06
DIR. W. srMoNToN,
DENTIST

VIII continue to make DTS regular visits 10 New.
burg. Rowcsburg Tunnelton and hereafter vii
visit kingwood also His next visits will be- IN
April and Nay. duo nosice Of which visit 20 each
place wiz be given iu tsis paper
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-28
BROADBRIM'S n. Y. LETTER.

With week of cyclonic storms flied
with death and disaster, the trial of the
phenomenal thieves, Ives and StaYner, the
Flack trial, daylight assassination and
any number of minor affairs of interest,
the middle of September may well be con-
sidered a red letter week. What week
it has been! Rain, deluge; wind, a hur
ricane; news of disaster everywhere.
While the beaYest of the suffering was
undoubtedly at the outside watering places
do not for moment suppose that New
York and Brooklin escaped without loss.
In fact the loss in absolute cash is greater
in the two cities than in all the outside
storm began on Sunday night the wharves
all along the river front were filled with
costly goods and the cellars along the
North and East River were crammed with
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
merchandise. Before the extent of the
calamity could be anticipated the cellars
were filled, the wharves submerged, and
all along both river fronts was one scene
of dire disaster No such tide has been
seen for twenty years, and not many in
the present century. Many of these eel
lars, not used for storage, are inhabited by
a wretched class of human beings who
have no other shelter; they were driven
out like rats into the pitiless storm to find
shelter in the station houses or any other
place that offered refuge from the bowling
wind and pelIing rain. Speaking OF rats,
there were millions of them all along both
river fronts, and they fought each other
with maddened desperation in seeking
places of safety. Sometimes huge wharf
rat would be seen floating on little piece
of stick or board just enough to hold his
weight; presently some desperate rodent
struggling for dear life, would catch sight
of the other rat floating on his ark of safe
tY, then he would attempt to get on board,
but the ship was not big enough for both
so both fell back in the water, then would
begin a desperate struggle for the ark
and il generally ended by both going
down.
What a fearful wreck is beautiful Coney
Island; all along the beach, where lovers
strolled under the soft beams of the early
September moon, is one vast and fearful
scene of wide spread desolation. Where
Gilmore welded his magic baton on Sat
urday, holding under his under his spell
listening and applauding thousands, all is
wreck and ruin. Where Seidl interpreted
the inspiration of Wagner, all is sorrow
and darkness. People away from New
York who haye never visited this charming
watering place, when they read of the
wreck of Coney Island are apt to say,
What of il? To the people of New York
and vicinity it means much more than the
loss Of few thousand dollars. 1t was the
lungs of two great cities that lie upon its
borders, where oyer two millions of people
dwell. Here blessed charity opened its
hand and heart, and in comfortable cot
tages, free of cost, the sick and the ailing
were tenderly cared for and given breath
Of Gods free air fresh and pure from the
ocean, uncontaminated by the fetid odors
of the city. Ard here thousands of little
ones were gathered in from the reeking
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-28

The greatest known depth of the ocean
dAcunha and the mouth of the Rio de
la Plata. The bottom was there reached
at depth of 40,236 feet, or eight and
three-fourths miles.
Peter Geberich, of Mount Joy, Lancas-
ter county, Pa, has picked this season
900 quarts Of blackberries, $40 quarts of
raspberries and 225 quarts of elderber-
Fies near Rellaire, Lebanon county. From
the sale he realized SLOT,
Judge +. .Wellhouse, of Fremont, Kan,
is said to be the proprietor Of the largest
orchard in the world. He has ,07S acres
in fruit trees, and it is claimed that no
other grower on the face of the globe
can make similar showing.
In analyzing congregational generos-
ity it Is found that among the Baptists
thirty-six cents is the annual contribu.
ton per head; the Methodists, seventy
four centsi Episcopal, $l.87; Presbyteri.
ans, $S.17, and the Dutch, 1921.
Benjamin Franklin, of Blue Earth
City, Mimi, Is the only member of the
VI. a. ~. WIN AOob DOIu nlb dIIlb anu
legs in the service. He served in the
Minnesota cavalry from 1851 to 1868.
He attended the national reunion at Mil
waukee this year.
A child who had just mastered her
catechism confessed herself disappointed
because, she said, Though / obey the
fifth commandment, and honor my papa
and mamma, yet my many days are not
a bit longer In the land, because am
still put to bed at o'clock"
A well recently bored for gas at Pitts
burg delivered fresh water, salt water
and gas at the same time. There are
two castings, one within the other. The
outer one, 100 feet down, taps a fresh
water stratum the inner pipe reaches
the salt water and gas at 200 feet down.
Just after the crowd had shaken hands
with the president in the state house at
Concord, N. H., two old ladies were
overheard talking it over. Said one to
the other; "What did you say to the
PRESIDENT II said / bless the Lord
for this opportunity" was the reply.
"Well, said the first speaker, 'Pm real
glad, for probably he win always re-
member that you said that 10 him."
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-09-28
Resolutions Of Coincidence.

At special meeting of Washington Camp
No. 122, p. o. S. of A., of Weissport. on
the evening of the 25th inst, the follow
ing preamble and resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God to
call to his final rest Brother William Hagen
buck therefore be 1t
RESOLVED, That while we submissively bow
to the Divine decree that has removed from our
midst an honored brother we nevertheless sin.
cerely mourn his early death.
RESOLVED, That the sincere and heartfelt
sympathy of this Camp be extended to the wife
OF our deceased brother and that In this sad af
fiction we commend her to Him who doeth all
things we'll
RESOLVED, That copy of these Resolutions
be spread on the minutes of this Camp, that a
copy be transmitted to the family of OurdeceaseC
Brother and that they be published in the OAR
BON ADVOCATE.
L. X. ALBRIGHT,
CHAs. A. GOTH, bCommittee
@. II. MAoDANIEL,