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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03
SALT! SALT! SALT!
LIVERPOOL SALT.

We offer for sale, on the spot and to arrive, the
cargoes of the steamers Stanmore. Darwin, En-
pre- and Mascotte, consisting of 1900 SACKS
B 3 !, ,LlilV |, FINE FACTORY-FlLLED
Herberts brands. Also, 10000 SACKS LIVER
POOL GROUND ALUM SALT. All of our di-
rect importation. This is the best English Salt,
and is reliable. We caution both dealers and
consumers against American Salt packed in
foreign sacks in imitation of English Salt.
DAVENPORT & MORRIS,
dec6-5t Richmond, Va.
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Through tickets and baggage checked to any
destination. Apply to any G. & o. Ticket Agent
for full 1nforma ton and tickets
J. 7. HARAHAN, H. w. FULLER,
Genl Manager. Genl Fass'r Agent.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

A: M. BOWMAN, j. T. CRABTREE,
OF Palmer & Bowman Treas, Fac Roanoke
Co., Saltyile, Va. College
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DIED.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

" NC A.-Public meeting next sunday, at
terrain Chnrch Welcome to all. jams 1t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-01-03

ESPENSHIED'S BARBER SHOP is the pace
lI he runs chairs. You won't have to wall
Cut, Shave OF Shampoo Under the Bank. cor
Main and Augusta SITS. dec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
One Way to PrOIOnG Lie.

In the daily papers we find what DR.
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls AN infallible
prescription to insure long life, and il
reads thus:
Let half a dozen doctors thump YOU
and knead you and test you In every pos
sible way and render their verdict that you
have an internal complaint; they don't
know exactly what it is, but it will xii
you certainly by and by. Then bid fare
well to the world and shut yourself up fo1
an invalid. If you are threesscore years old
when you commence this mode of life you
probably may last twenty years, and there
you are, an octopenarian.
Many will appreciate the doctors subtle
wit and sarcasm in this, without really
understanding the real worth Of the pre-
scription and the way it works. No doubt
many persons do live long after their ex-
aiming physicians have pronounced them
incurably diseased, and it Is often, too, be-
cause of such diagnosis that people become
resigned to mode of life that prolongs
life beyond the anticipation OF their ex-
aminers.
No doubt the doctors are often mistaken
IN diagnosis, but the unexpected prolOng-
ing of life in such cases is favored by tax
ing life easy, and those old folks who can
lay down the work and cares of life and
be contented merely to exist from day to
day are thus enabled to almost outllve the
incurable disease, and perhaps die of some
thing else after ALL
Our vital powers are called upon every
day IN two ways-to maintain the vital
functions of living, merely to keep the ma
chine alive, and to do the work mental or
physical, by which we pay our way. Now,
if a machine (the human body breaks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

down IN some part, and it is possible for
the conscious tenant to lay aside all de-
mands upon The vital forces except for or
binary bodily support; just keep alive. the
machine may run a long while before stop
ping entlrel y.
There Is an immense difference between
the wear and tear going on in busy or
hardworklng man, and one who merely
sits aroInd ali day long, basks in sun
shine, toasts his shins before fire, and
sleeps all he can.
This Is why so many chronic invalids
who can reduce their mode of life pretty
close to that of vegetating, live ON and on
much to the surprise of friends. They
sustain the smallest possible amount OF
wear and tear. work and waste. life car
RED on at small cost and extended indef-
n1tely, until 1t reaches what Shakespeare
depicted as the seventh stage of mans ca.
reer. With life reduced to its smallest
meaning, and its forces moving along the
lowest possible plane it may be many years
before the last flicker.
But there are those who, when warned
of a flaw In their fibre, cannot content them.
selves to bid farewell to the world, shut
themselves up and run their machine at
low pressure. Preferring to wear out
rather than rust out, they keep in the
swim, and die in their tracks some day
when the weak part has been too Ions
overStralned and breaks the thread of life
For old folks the secret of prolonging life
Is IN DIR. Holmes prescription, or th
lrlshman's be aiSy, and if yees can't
alSy. be as alSy as wees can -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED
GENERAL NOTES.

RUDE BURROWS. the Alabama outlaw
recently killed. left property valued at
$50. 900
In test case of the Illinois compulsory
education law at Champaign, Tuesday, the
jury rendered a verdict for the state.
The son of Jesse James, the notorious
desperate, is running N elevator in d
Kansas City bank.
1t is announced that Pennsylvania has a
population of 5,248, 494, an increase OF
965, 583.
AN improved outlook and an interesting
volume of trade are reported by r. G. Dun
& Co.'S agency. Exports are unusually
| large, and the general level of prices has
materially advanced.
IN the case of university students charg-
ed with illegal voting, in the circuit court
at Champaign, ILL.,, Friday a verdict of not
guilty was promptly returned.
Hoes packed in the west, March to
Oct |, numbered Z ,965 600, against 1920
090 during the same time last year.
AFTER forty years immersion in the
waters of the pool of Echoschacht, not far
from Hermanstadt, several human bodies
1loFC DCCii " II1C LII O. cLetlS
of perfect preservation.
The common phrase, when Greek
meets Greek then comes the ting OF war,
is the most common misIuotation in the
language Correctly it should read
when Greeks joined Greeks, then was
the tug of war" 1t was first written by
Nathaniel Lee in 100.
The Ohio Legislature met in extra SEES
sion at Columbus Tuesday, pursuant to the
call Of Governor Campbell, who in his mes
sage charged, among other other things
| that Cincinnati had the lowest grade OF
political morals of any city in the country
The signature of Alt heads of fami-
lies of the Cheyenne and Araphoes
has been secured at Darlington, |. T.,
for the sale of their three million acre
reservation. Three hundred and sixty
| signatures were enough.
GOVERNOR COOPER, Of Colorado, has
received information that large mum,
Der of White River Utes were off the res,
ervation for some time and went into Col
orado from Utah killing the sheep
and cattle belonging to the ranchmen in
Routt county. The governor at once tele-
graphed Secretary Noble asking him to
take steps to have the Indians driven
back
For some time past eager Showdash
and wife, of Perth Amboy, N. j., have
quarreled violently because of his jeal-
ousy. Wednesday morning the woman
poisoned herself and her babe. When
ShOwdash came home and found the dead
bodies he suicided with a revolver.
The only son Of Col. Chas. Fred Croker
of the Southern Pacific, fell over the
banister in his fathers house Sun,
day and was killed The boy, who
was but 10 years of age, would have inner
tied the bulk of his fathers large estate,
now estimated at $15,000,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
This is Meant for You.

1t has been truly said that half the wor.
does not know how the other half lives
Comparatively few of us have perfes
health owing to the impure condition oi
our blood. But we rub along from day e,
day, with scarcely thought, unless force,
to our attention, of the thousands al
about us who are suffering from scrofula
salt rheum and other serious blood d.
orders, and whose agonies can only be im
aglned. The marked success of Hood s
Si.rsaparilla for these troubles as shown
IN our advertising columns frequently,
certainly seems to justify urging the use
of this excellent medicine by all who know
that their blood is disordered. Every
claim in behalf of Hoods Sarsaparilla is
fully backed up by what the medicine has
done and IS still doing. and when its pro-
prietors urge its merits and its use upon
all who suffer from impure blood, in great
or small degrees, they certainly mean to
include you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
The Ocean Cable of the World.
Srrihnar

According to the latest report of the in
ternational bureau of telegraph admins
trations. the Submarine telegraph system
of the world consists of 10000 nautica
miles of cable Government administra
tions own II, 524 miles, while 107. $40 are
the property OF private companies The
total cost of these cables is in the neigh
borhood of two hundred million dollars
The largest owner of submarine cables is
the Eastern Telegraph Company, whose
system covers the ground from England to
India. and comprises 21.060 miles of cable
The Eastern Extension. which exploits the
far east, has II 958 miles more Early in
the last year the system of West Africa
cables, which started from Cadiz only six
years ago, was completed to Cape Town, so
that the dark continent is now completely
encircled by submarine telegraph, touching
at numerous points along the coast. Nor
than II, 900 miles of cable have been re-
quired to do this, and several companies,
with more or less aid from the British,
French, Spanish. and Portuguese govern
ments, have participated in carrying out
the work.
The North Atlantic is spanned by ne
less than eleven cables, all laid since 1870,
though think not all are working at the
present time; FIVE companies are engaged
in forwarding kilograms between North
America and Europe, and the total length
of the cables owned by them. including
cost connections, is over $4,000 nautical
miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
RICH COLORED MEN.
Examples of Ex-Slaves in the South Who
fave Grown Wealthy.

It Will probably be surprising to know
| that in Galveston there is colored man
who is worth over $3.50, 900, says the Chi
cago Tribune His name is Sylvester, and
he has a fine mansion in the most desir-
able residence portion of the city; and
what will most surprise Chicago people,
his wife employs none but white servants.
| How did Sylvester ~nt rich. Well, he got
rich in politics, aen ran a saloon and
gambling house for colored people for a
| few years, then went into real estate and
! specialized. He is shrewd and successful.
One of the most successful and wealth.
! lest real estate men in Houston is colored
| man. His name is Milton Sterrett. He
owns a fine residence, surrounded by i'm
mense grounds, all terraced off, and plant
ed in the finest flowers and shrubbery, and
keeps a landscape gardener to attend it.
! He was waiter on the boats between
Galveston and Houston before and during
the war, and made everything he has in
real estate deals during the last twenty
years. He own several large plantations,
and is worth at least 100000.
| Then take Senator C. W. Burton of Fort
Bend County. When the war closed and
he was freed, he lived on plantation be-
longing to his mistress, whose husband
and two sons were killed, leaving her alone
in the world She had given him good
elementary education; he was shrewd. By
attention to business he soon acquired a
good farm. In few years he added to it,
and bought in the plantation formerly
owned by his mistress, and had two other
large cnes on the Brazon in ten years
more. His old mistress being reduced to
poverty, he undertook to take care of her
He said when he was elected to the state
senate that he owed all he was to her kind
ness, and he felt it his duty to care for her.
And he sent her back to her native state
Virginia. and regularly RENTS to her, and
hes done so for fifteen years. $3.50 every
month. He is popular with whites and
blacks, democrats and republicans, and
studied law so that he could depend on
himself to manage his immense planta-
ton and ranch interests. Senator Burton
is worth over 100000.
Then Henry Black the great sheep and
cattle ranchman of Tom Green and Pecon
counties, is worth nearly 100000. He
has made it all in less than fifteen years.
Are these men southern negroes? Yes,
every one of them.
But the largest plantation owner and
the heaviest farmland taxpayer in the
rich county of Lamar was a light-colored
mulatto named Harvey. He died few
weeks ago and left widow, who will be
able to pull through, probably, as her hus-
band left four plantations, a fine stock farm,
some city property in Paris and a big
bank account. Besides this, he left her
snug little insurance policy On his life for
S1S 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
CRIME.

JAMES MAXWELL Was hanged at Morris,
Ill, Friday, for the murder of Charles
Decker
0. A. OSBORNE at Milwaukee, in the
United States court, confessed to the
charge Of using the mails for advertising
a lottery and Judge Bum fined him 500.
DR.. McGoNIGAL, the aged New York
physician who caused the death of Annie
Goodwin by malpractice, has been SEN
fenced to twelve years imprisonment,
THURSDAY night, at Randolph, Ohio,
Mr.. Norman was dragged from bed by
three men and taken to his store, where
he was compelled to open the safe. After
securing the valuable contents, the rob-
bers deprived Norman of his gold watch,
and then gagged and bound him IN his
store.
A REGISTERED mail pouch was stolen
on Friday morning from the fast
mail while en- route from st. Paul
to Milwaukee. Later on the pouch
was found at Brookfeld Juction, rifed of
its contents. There is no clue to the rob
berry and it is not yet ascertained how
much money was In the pouch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
Clean & Co.'S blast furnace, at Sohoe,

Clean & Co.'S blast furnace, at Sohoe,
Penn, about 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
resulting In the serious injury of eight
workmen, two fatally. The men were en-
gagged in d1awlng coke from the ovens
when the hot dust blew out, enyaloping the
entire party.
THE steamer Annie Young. of the Lake
Superior Transit company. was burned
off Lexington. near Port Huron, Mich,
Monday morning. Thirteen of her crew
ried to escape in the yawI, were drowned.
FRED HUBERs and viii Palmetier, who
live just outside the city limits OF
Beaver Dam, Wis, were probably
drowned in Beaver Dam lake in the fierce
gale of Saturday. They were hunting
ducks on that day, and have not been seen
since Searching parties are out this
morning, but find no trace of them. HUI
bert is q years of age. and has wife
and child Palmetier is IS years old.
| AN extra of the Canada Gazette ha,
been issued containing a proclamation re-
moving the export duties upon spruce anC
pine logs, and also export duties upor
single bolts of pine or oedar logs capabl'
of being made into shingle bolts. Nc
reasons for this action are assigned except
that it has appeared to the government t.
be desirable in public interest to remove
the export duties mentioned.
| Two EXCITING fires occurred at New
York, Saturday. TIE first was in {
| large apartment house, 222 Lexington
avenue, the fire starting on the lower
| floor and cutting off the hall way. The
occupants, mostly women and children
were frantic with fright, but the fremer
succeeded, after hard work, in rescuins
all safely. The second fire occurred il
.. number Of employees had a narrow es
cape. The loss by this fire amounts t.
| S150.OO0
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
Mind Reader Johnson's Latest

Paul Alexander Johnson, the mind read
er. whose recent feat of picking aname ont
OF the register at the Grand Pacific hotel
after long drive bindfoldeu through the
crowded streets. attracted such wide at
tentlon, performed another feat at Chica-
go the other day, which, to all appearances,
totally dlsproves the theory that man pos
sesSes only hive senses. and also the belief
that mind reading is really species of mus
Gle reading. Johnson opened a difficult
combination safe in the presence of many
well known people, at the Wellington
hotel, and under the following remarkable
circumstances: He was first blindfolded
and the bandages thoroughly examined
by a committee. His ears were packed
with cotton SO it was impossible for him to
hear; then his nostrilS were similarly fill
ed so to destroy for the time being the
sense of smell; and finally his hands were
covered with thick kid gloves to disprove
the theory of muscle-reading. In his
mouth ne held a lighted cigar. so that
even the sense OF taste was temporarily de
stroyed. The proprietors and bookkeepers
OF the hotel then took a position behind
him, and while Johnson turned the knob
OF the safe they were requested to think of
the combination. Without touching either
OF the gentlemen. the mind reader turned
correctly to the number and swung the
door open. The crowd which witnessed
the act cheered him repeatedly. Johnson
declares that his idea in opening the safe
under such peculiar conditions was simply
to prove that man possesses more than
five senses, and that science is in error.
In conversation the mind reader couples
his per OrmanceS as in some respect COM
pairing in importance to the scientific
world with the discovery of the circulation
of the blood or the law of gravitation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
FOREIGN.

THE government has decided to revise
the regulations now In force affecting the
rights of foreigners holding landed prop
erty in Russia.
The Spanish bark, Villa Llanes, with a
crew OF twelve men, from Liverpool for
Lagun, has been lost in the gales of Orme s
Head.
In a special in the Australian cham
Der tuesday the premier declared that
the present strike in Australia had been al
most as disastrous to the country as the bonn
bardment would be- The government he
said was determined to be supreme.
THE report of the liquidator of the Cape
of Good Hope Bank which suspended few
week ago, shows that the net minimum
deficit is 9464,000. It will be necessary,
the report says, to call an assessment up
on the stockholders of $40 per share.
DURING the progr' IS Of the "conspj-
racy' trials at Tipperery, Mr. Healy,
counsel for the defendants, received a dis
patch announcing the arrival of Messrs
Dillon and O Brien at Cherbourg, France
The government is trying it's hardest to
discover who assisted the fugitives to es-
cape.
PRICES in the iron ma ket here collaps-
ed in consequence of report that the
funds of the union to which the striking
furnace men belong had given out, and
that the men, having no other means of
support, would be compelled to return to
work
A SPECIAL cable dispatch from London
says: There is good authority for stating
that Lord Salisbury is about to make
fresh proposals to France respecting the
Newfoundland fishery question on the basis
of free access by French fishermen to
Newfoundland bait supply in return
for the abrogation of French bounties. 1t
is possible the repeal of the bait law will
also form the basis of mission to Wash
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
WASHINGTON.

THE United States express company OF
New York, has issued peremptory orders
to all agen not to receive the
money, tickets or lists of drawings from
the Louisiana lottery company or in any
way to assist in the transportation of the
lottery business.
IT is generally believed that Spooner,
Gresham and Miller are the most likely
men for the vacant judgship. By the Sc
make it probable thai Gresham's follow
ers would not be his antagonists in Indi-
self
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

A CONCURRENT resolution, originating
the senate, was adopted by both houses
Of congress, on the eve of the final adj
iournment, requesting President Harrison
to negotiate with the government of
Great Britain and Mexico, with a view of
preventing The ingress OF Chinese labor
ers into the United States through the
territories. 1t has become evident that the
torrent of Monaghan immi grafton, divert
ed from American ports, is finding its
way through these tortuous channels. So
long as there is money to be made out of
American workingmen, and starvation
threatens at home, these people may be
relied upon to test every avenue OF entry
into the country, and a constant patrol 20
sresent them will be necessary. On the
borders of British Columbia they now
wait in droves till some smart white man
takes a contract to bring them into the
United States. On the Mexican frontier
they have the deserts and the wandering
Indians, waiting an opportunity to bny
themselves INTO the coveted land. If they
are to be kept out at all, it must be by
agreement with our neighbors on both
borders and as there are hundred hungry
Cinnamon in existence for every one
America white or black man, they must
be kept out, or our civilization will be
swamped and overwhelmed by the bar
barian hordes. 1t is time something
definite and efficient were done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
A Barn and Grain Destroyed.

NEENAH. Wis, Oct 20.-A tramp fred
the barn and grain of Joseph Holgarth, a
farmer residing few miles north of this
city, last night, destroying over $1,000
worth of property. The loss is total.
People are scourin.s the country for the
trlmD
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
The Way Made Clear.

One of the most serious obs acles to success in
the way of man is planted right in the middle Of
the road to health. How to restore and to main
tain regular habit of body and digestion is too
often source Of needless and, unhappily, of vain
inquiry. 1t is not necessary to inveigh against
drastic purgatives. They who have used them
continuously know the consequence. A remedy
which uAites the action of a regulating medicine
organs, the liver and stomach, is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, sanctioned by the best medical
authority, and receiving daily the Endorsement OF
our fellow countrymen. With this effectual
though gentle, laxative at hand, it is possible
10 defy those changes of temperature productive,
of constipation, as we'll constitutional attacks
OF olilousness, which beSet even people naturally
healthy. Malaria, dyspepsia, rheumatism and
kidney troubles are remedied and prevented by
theaBittsrs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

No PORTRAYAL of Russian methods OF
government could be more effective than
the brief dispatch which comes from st.
Petersburg describing the added precau-
tions against assassination which the
car now feels called upon to take. The
unhappy monarch will see no one except
cabinet minister unless an officer of the
guard is by; and the custom of tasting
every article OF food placed upon the i'm
perial table, which fell into disuse with
the reign of Paul, has been revived, great
ly to the satisfaction, we should imagine,
of him detailed to perform this duty. This
atmosphere of suspicion leads to the mo st
brutal measures, involving the life and
happiness of innocent people, as, for ex-
ample, the exile to Siberia of every one ar
rested on suspicion of being connected in
the recent attempt to wreck train on
which the car was travelling, and whip
ping of three peasants, one of them fatal
iy, who were unfortunate enough to be
found near the spot. What wonder that,
along with the recital of such horrors,
comes the statement that the nihilists are
unusually active? 1t would be strange in
deed if they were not; and should ever
their activity reach point beyond the
power of ofhcialdom to suppress, it would
also be strange if the revolt of Russia did
not afford parallel to the revolt of
France against oppression no more intol-
cradle a century ago.