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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-27

Jas. OFkeeffc, a. J. Bak-
err Il j. ID. Sergeant.
The object of this suit is to set
aside and hold for naught a deed
of conveyance made by the Clerk
of the County Court of said Goun-
ty to the defendant Jas. q keeHe
for a. tract of land on Turkey
said-Gonnty containing
$50 acres, and afterwards convey
ed by said O'Keeffe to the defend
ant d. Sergeant forzirregulari=
ties appearing in the face Of the
proceedings under which said
deeds of conveyance We're made.
And it appearing by law that the
said defendants James O,Keetfe,
Al Baker and ID. Sergeant
are not residents Of this State the
said defendants are required to
appear within one month after
the date Of the first publication
of this order in the Court room of
our said County, and do what is
necessary to protect their inter
ests.
I e. WHrFEn, CLERK.
Marcum, Einson & Kelly, Soils.
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Town Directory.

Mavor-U. b. Buskirk.
Recorder-William Stratton.
COMMUNICATIONS. g. Whited
Pat Christian, L. N. Mitchell, II.
s. White and VIM. Gary
acknowledgements Gary.
- 5Es7Et4gses .-.t.-B.-.lE1ll lisen.--
Street Commissioner.-G.5 w.
Morgan. --z-
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The latest from Guyandotte re-
ports the Ohio falling. The water
was high enough to reach the low
floor Of the stts,re Of TPaeeesr
Everett. 3
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HUNTINGTON, w. VA.

Their partner IN the tailoring business is
T. j. Grieves the FINEST Of CUTTERS, and
fit and satisfaction guaranteed. They also
handle a full line Of Ready Made Clothing,
gents furnishings trunks, vaIises, etc. In
fact every thing to be found in any City
Clothing Store. They buy for cash and sell
at a very close profit.
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Persons receiving their papers
this week with a cross after their
ltaflles will please understand that
their suibscriptionilas expired and
they are invited to renew at once.
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: w EST VIRGINIA,

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Logan County, To- Wit:
AT rules held in the Clerks Of
fee of the Circuit Court Of Logan
County on Monday the Bird day Of
March 1890
Samuel j Baker
vs Ia Chaaeery.
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Thursday, March 81, 1890.
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ALBERT MAYER & BROS.
Wholesale IlatteTss
.lo7 & 100 w. Pearl s.
NCTlTNA Att o.

Thanking the merchants of tn
Guyandofte Valley for the liberia
patronage heretofore given us.
We beg to assGre=tkem that VIC
have enteredthe Spring and Sum-
MGR Campaign , OF 1859, better
equiErcd than ever before, ga
are prepared to give 10 the trade
better bargains for FIRST CLASS
GOODS, than has ever be-
offered in tie Ohio Valley.
When you visit Cincinnati. give
us a call before purchasing youl
Hats and Gaps.
/ Respectfully, d-95-1y
Albert MAYER & Bros.
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ORDER PUBLICATION.

..W HITER, Clerk.
Marcum, Einson q Kelly, Soils
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ORDER or PUBLICATION.

West Virginia Il lronton II. X. Co.,
BY Vinson & Mcdonald its attorneys
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ORDER or PUBLICATION.

West Nirginias& 7IrontoIl R.R. Co.,
VS.. Notice Upon condemnation
TO FIoyd williamson. ---77-.7--=s='7
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supplies,

III town.
Harry Cooley, Of the wellknown
house of Ford, Eaton & CO., was
in town Monday, and left for
home on a push boat Tuesday
. n.orning.
We are on to the scoundrel who
has been stealing our coal and
propose to expose his name to the
public as a notorious coal thief; if
We catch him again. n
The NJ +. Church, Southy will
buiftt a-Girureh at this place atsan
early date. We. hope the same
liberality Will be extended to the
Methodists as has been extended
to the Baptists.
DIR. Jas. O'Keeffe the champion
--eoaff ifand-speeulater, after a five
weeks business trip to Logan and
other counties, returnen Monday
night and reports things booming.
-Tazewell-Index..---ss.s.s.z.s 2
The West Virginia and lronton
Railroad has been let to contrac-
. tors and work will soon be com
menced all along the line. Now
for a-road from this place to the
railroad at Dingess.
For the cure OF colds, coughs,
and all arrangements OF the re-
spiratory organs, no other medi-
=. einevis so reliable as Ayers Cher
~ fectofal. 1t relieves the as
thmatict and comsumptive, even
IN advanced stages Of disease, and
has saved innnmerable lives.
When Macbeth ironically asked,
."Ganst thou minister to a mind
: diseased he little knew that
mankind would one day be blessed
witlpAycrs' Sarsaparilla. In pur-
b
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West Virginia & Ironton r. X. Co.,
W. Notice upon condemnation.
To Henry Varney, Peggy Varney,
his wife. Julius Terrell and Flor
ence Terrell, heirs of Lewis Fer
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WEST VI RtI Ma q fit0NsFetA
II. II. co.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

West Virginia & lronton X. X: Co.,
VS., Notice upon condemnation.
& q,a / Slater
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
The Great Black Cockatoo.

In the islands of the Malay Archipcl-
whose special food is the kernel of the
kanari nut, the shell of which is said to
be harder than that of any other nut, and
to protect kernel of most delicate
flavor. The kanari tree grows to great
height and bears tleshy fruit which in
closes an extremely hard shell of glass
like smoothness of surface. Within this
shell are from one to three kernels COW
cred with thin skin; when this is re-
moved the nut falls into number of ir-
regular flakes Of snowy whiteness and de-
licious taste.
The fleshy part of the kanari. fruit is
eaten by many birds, particularly by the
large wood-pigcons, but only the black
cockatoo is able to get at the nut, which
it docs by the great strength of its i'm
mense sharply pointed and hooked beak.
Taking nut endwise in its bill and
keeping it firm by a pressure of the
horny end of its tongue, the cockatoo
cuts II notch across the shell by a saving
motion of the sharp edge of the lower
part of the beak. This done, the bird
takes hold of the nut with one foot while
biting off piece of a thick leaf. This
it wraps around the nut to prevent the
CLASSY shell from slipping, while it uses
the upper part of its bcak to hold the
nut and the under part to insert in the
notch already made and wrench off
piece of the shell by powerful nip.
Again taking the nut in its claw the bird
inserts the very long and sharp point of
its bill into the hole just made and picks
out the kernel, which is seized flake by
flake by the horny end of the long and
flexible tongue. More time is required
to tell about this nut cracking than the
bird takes to perform the operation, for
the cockatoo is very rapid feeder and
will consume great many nuts in an
hour Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
Big Plantations Going.

We understand that arrangements are
about being perfected for the sale of
those two large and valuable cotton plan
tations in Concordia parish, "Panola"
and Sycamore, to wealthy Kansas
syndicate, which proposes to cut them up
into small holdings and colonize white
farmers from their State upon them
These plantations are as rich and as fer
tile as any lands in the parish, and di-
vided into small farms and cultivated
thoroughly and with method and system
would produce enough to make hun
dreds of tenants comfortable. They lie
along the line of the New Orleans and
Northwestern Railway, which would af.
ford quick and speedy mode of reach
ing a market with the products of the
soil, and if the various small holdings
into which it is proposed to divide the
two places, were turned into truck farms,
vegetables enough could be profitably
raised to supply very large area
of the northwest early in the
season. We hope the plans of the
syndicate may carry successfully, as
we would take it as most healthy signs
to see the thrifty farmers of Kansas,
turning their faces southwark, and seek
ing homes in this portion of the "sunny
southland" where the most comfortable
and even luxurious living can be made
with even the smallest amount of exer.
tion.-[ Natchez Democrat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25

pose being to force the In
dams to leave the warpath and
go upon reservations. The starting
points were about as far apart and in
the same relative positions as Cleveland,
Ohio; Springfield, Mass. and Washing
ton, ID. c., and the country was wild
and utterly without roads, but the plan
was the only one practicable, and the
troops did wonders in the way of march
ing and fighting. Each column met
some ontlying bodies of savages, but
Custer, with a detachment of Terry's
column numbering about two hundred
and fifty men, struck the main body.
fully twenty-five hundred Sioux, with
results which all the country still remem-
bers and mourns.
The hostiles were given but little
peace from that time forward. All
troops that could be spared were sent in
to the Sioux country. Crook chased,
punished and starved the greater body of
Sioux under Crazy Horse, until that
astute warrior gave up and surrendered,
while force almost equally large, under
Gall, a warrior second only to Crazy
Horse, and with whom were Rain-in-the-
Face, Spotted Eagle, and other war
chiefs, were finally so closely pressed by
General Miles that they fled across the
border and enacted the role of injured
innocence under the protection of Queen
Victoria, whom they named 'the great
This was the last great
uprising in which the Sioux have taken
part against the United States.-[ New
York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25

him he had not, and invited him to in.
spect the process second time.
He minutely examined the water and the
materials, whichwere in every respect sim
liar to his own, and then, very much
surprised, said: 81 have lost both my
labor and my money for the air of Eng
land does not admit us to make good
carmine."
"Stay p said the Frenchman, "don't
deceive yourself; what kind of weather
is it now2"
"a bright, sunny day." replied the
Englishman.
'And such are the days" said the
Frenchman, "on which make my color
were to attempt to manufacture it on a
dark and cloudy day my results would
be the same as yours. Let me advise
you, my friend, only to make your car
mine on bright, sunny days.
The moral of this will apply quite as
we'll to the making of many other colors
used in manufactures and also in the fine
arts, for it illustrates, in practical way,
the chemical influence of light upon GER
tain coloring compounds or mixtures. -
[Dry Goods Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25

In his book of conversations with
Emerson, Mr.. Woodbury. reports the
seer as saying that newspapers have
done much to abbreviate expression
and SO to improve style"
This is "a hard saying" for the ac-
ceptance of those small essayists and
other superior persons who decry the
newspapers; for one of their most fire.
quent complaints is that the newspaper
writer, in the haste incident to his
work, discards the graces of rhetoric
and misleads the popular taste with
crude thought and unpolished ut
terance.
But Emerson was tight and the
superior persons were wrong. The in
finence of newspapers upon style has
been good, not bad. It has done much,
as Emerson says, "to abbreviate utter
ance," but that is not the whole of its
service. 1t has taught the value of sim
plicity in expression, of directness of
style, and of clear thinking as the con-
dition OF clear writing. 1t has made
men understand the advantage of say
ing what is to be said and then stopping.
Lit has banished the exordium and the
perOTdtlOu VI literature.
The assumption that the higher kind
of newspaper writing is hasty and slip
shod is unfounded. The newspaper
writer writes rapidly, but his mind has
been trained to think rapidly and to
give quick formulation to thought. His
mind is akin to that of the extern
poraneous orator.
In miner reporting, done by novices,
the style in often faulty and the dicta-
tion sometimes bad, especially where
there is not time for editorial revision; /;
but the editorial writing and the more
carefully done news and special articles
of any great modern newspaper will
compare very favorably indeed with
the book and magazine literature of
our time, in point of vigor and cor
rectness of form.
1t is fortunate that this is so, because
the newspapers are now the chief
teachers of the people in this as in
other matters. They are much moro
widely read than any other form of
literature read at all by the majority os
the people.
In this particular the tendency of the
newspapers is to grow steadily better.
They more and more insist upon the
best educational qualifications on the
part of the writers. They more aud
more seek to enlist scholarship and
culture in their service, and men of the
highest literary qualifications are more
inclined to seek newspaper utterance
as that which gives largest power and
influence to the messages they bear.
If Emerson had come to manhood in
our day he would have found his true
vocation in newspaper office. 1t is a
pity that he did not have that oppor-
tunity to reach hundreds of thousands
with wisdom that was uttered only to
o chosen few.-NelU York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25

We all know how much greater is
the need of children for sleep than of
grown persons, and how necessary for
their good it is to be able fully to sat
isfy this need; but how great it is gen.
orally at any particular age of the child
is very hard to define exactly. The
amount varies under different climatic
conditions. In Sweden, we consider a
sleep of eleven or twelve hours neces-
sary for the younger school children,
and of at least eight or nine hours for
the older ones Yet the Investigations
have shown that this requirement lacks
much of being met in all the classes,
through the whole school. Boys in the
higher classes get little more than seven
hours in bed; and as that is the aver
age, it is easy to perceive that many of
them must content themselves with
still less sleep. 1t is also evident from
the Investigations that the sleeping
time is diminished with the increase of
the working hours from class to class,
so that pupils of the same ago enjoy
less according as they are higher in
their classes. 1t thus appears con-
stantly that in schools of relatively
lcnger hours of work, the sleeping time
of the pupils is correspondingly shorter.
In short, the prolongation of the work.
ing hours takes place for the most part
ut the cost of the time for sleep.-Pro-
lessor Key, IN Popular Science
MonthlB.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
AN ENORMOUS APPETITE!
A Philadelphian Who Eat Seven
Dinners at Once.

There is man, born and bred in Ken
sington, whose appetite has not yet been
satisfied. 1t were folly to say that he has
never refused second helping of the
viands set before him morning, noon and
night, for the cravings of his inner self
have not once really been satisfied. For
fifteen years or more he has resided in
the northeast section of the city. He
was at one time Il sergeant of police in
the Eighteenth district, but he has now
sought other fields of usefulness.
There are stomachs and stolnachs, of
course, but the capacious nav of this
denizen of corner of city has yet to be
equalled. His astounding fcats at the
dinner table put to blush all other per-
formances of similar character He is
prey TO an appetite whose abnormality is
phenomenal, and which would cause him
mournful dreams at night but for the
acknowledged fact that "it isn't his
fault"
1t is asserted on good authority that
this EXSergeant went into Meyers's
saloon, on Glrard avenue below Vienna
street, one day, and sitting down to n
dinner which had been prepared for
SONSh PSol'lc dtc CNcly pdi1 VI IL. hclC
were six pounds of roast mutton, besides
large vegetable dishes full of white and
sweet potatoes, beans, half pound of
butter, and large loaf of bread. Before
sitting down to the table he of the hearty
appetite had asked Mrs. Meyers to board
him, but after witnessing the alarming
disappearance of the food she concluded
that she had better not
One election night, when the Sergeant
was very busy and it was impossible for
him to go home to supper, he sent the
turnkey to neighboring restaurant and
had supper sent in for two persons. He
ate both the meals, and then sent out for
100 prime oysters and fifty bull-neck
clans. The turnkey thought that he
would get few of the oysters, but was
disappointed, as the Sergeant devoured
the whole lot and then declared that he
was hungry.
On another occasion this prodigy pur-
chased half-bushel of clans, and sitting
on brick, opened and ate all of them.
There were just fifty CLAIMS in the basket
He drank twenty-four bottles of beer
without turning a hair, and ate eleven
soused pigs feet one evening. Seventeen
boiled crabs are only luncheon for him,
and he can eat as much as any five men
in the Quaker City to-day. There is no
doubt about this prodigious epicurean
capacity. He has record which he
proudly talks about, as well as many of
his friends. Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
Copyright, 1890

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if you're a suffering woman, with
the medicine that's been prepared
especially to help you-Dr. Pierce's
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eases peculiar to the sex-dragging-
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1t means new life, and a longer
one, for every delicate woman. In
every case for which it's recon-
mended, it gives satisfaction. It's
guaranteed to do SO, or the money
is refunded.
1t improves digestion, invigorates
the system, enriches the blood, dis
pcls aches and pains, produces re-
freshing sleep, dispels melancholy
and nervousness, and builds up both
flesh and strength. 1t is legiti-
mate naedscine-not a beverage.
Contains no alcohol to inebriate {;
no syrup or sugar to sour or
ferment in the stomach and cause
distress. AS peculiar in its mar
velous, remedial results as in It's
composition. Therefore, don't be
put off with some worthless COM
pound easily, but dishonesty, rec
commended to be "just as good"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
THE CARDIFF GIANT.
The Story of Great Humbug Re-
called-Scientists Made Ridicu-


called-Scientists Made Ridicu-
1ous.
One of the men who made fortune
out of the Cardiff giant humbug is re ..
ported dead in this city, says the New
York correspondent OF the Troy Daily
Press. Nearly twenty years have passed
since the public at large, as well as many
of the most distinguished scientists, were
duped by this monumental fraud. The
Cardiff giant idea was conceived in the
brain of George Hull tobacconst of
Binghamton. He secured large gyp-
sum slab in Iowa and had it cut into the
form of gigantic man by an Italian
stonecutter in Chicago. The stonecutter,
by the way, subsequently removed to
Troy and engaged in business as maker
of statues. think | have heard that
examples of his work are to be
found in your city to this day. To
stimulate the appearance of age
Hull had the stone mans figure
rubbed with sand and water, then
bathed in writing fluid and also in sui
phuric acid. The image was then
boxed, taken secretly to the vicinity of
Cardiff, near Syracuse, and privately
buried at a spot where it was convenient
ly found year later and heralded as the
most marvellous discovery of archeologi-
cal history-a petrified specimen of pre-
historic man. The alleged find excited
most profound interest among all sorts
of people. Eminent men of science ex-
amined the stone image, and some of
them gravely certified to their belief that
it actually was the body of being who
had lived thousands of years before any
of the present race of men were born.
The Cardiff giant was placed on exhibit
tion in the great cities, and multitudes
flocked to get sight of the humbug.
Intelligent persons in all sections of the
country were hoaxed. Some who re-
fused to credit the supposition that it
was the body of man of prehistoric
times believed that it was a very ancient
statue. The fraud was at length exposed
and the scientists and eXtra-intelligent
men who had been deceived and had
afterward assisted to deceive others,
were advertised in very ridiculous
light. Hull sold out his interest in the
image to party of men who took it
across the ocean and endeavorcd to inter-
est our transatlantic cousins in the
giant. The speculation did not succeed,
although the stone man was advertised
as the body of Finn Macoul, the prehis-
toric Irish giant, and the claim made
that it had been discovered in the Giants
causeway in Ireland. Hull made another
effort in the same line. He produced a
smaller figure made of composition of
ground stone, pulverized bones, clay,
plaster, blood and dried eggs. The
composition, after being baked in a
kiln, was advertised as 1.-THE Colorado
stone man," Colorado then being the
wonder state of the union. Hull and
his associates were disappointed in their
hopes of great gains, for the public
would not be deluded by this second
fraud.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25
Where Big Bowlders Form.

Wherever the big glaciers melted they
left an immense amount of 'drift"-that
is, sand, gravel stones of all sorts, which
had been frozen in the ice when the
glaciers were forming.
The stones of this drift are of all sizes.
Some are as small as pebbles, others as
large as small houses. There is one at
Bradford, Mass, which measures 30 feet
each way and weighs 4, 500, 900 pounds.
There is another ON ledge in Vermont,
which is even larger than that, and which
must have been carried by the ice across
a valley lying 500 feet below where the
stone now is, showing that the ice was
500 feet thick. Great boulders of trap
rock extend through Connecticut on a
line running to Long Island Sound, and
as some of the same kind are found in
Long Island, the glacier is believed to
have crossed the Sound, carrying. these
rocks with it.
An5immense statue of Peter the Great
in st. Petersburg, stands on one of these
glacier powders of solid granite, which
weighs three million pounds. One of
the largest bowlders in America is in
the Indian village of Mohcgan near
Montville, Conn. The Indians call the
rock ''Shehegan.' Its top, which is
flat and as large as the floor of good
sized room, is reached by ladder.
Sometimes these powders are found
perched upon bare lodges of rock, so
nicely balanced that, though of great
weight, they may be rocked by the
hand. They are called "rocking stones. y
Near the little Connecticut village of
Noank, on Long Island Sound, there is
an immense bowlder called by the peo-
pie there "Jemimy's Pulpit" 1t was
formerly rocking-stone, but the rock
has worn away below it and it can no
longer be moved.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-25

The late Gen. Belknap was married
three times. His first wife was a Miss
Reid, of Keokuk. She was the sister
of his regimental commander, Hugh T.
Reid, after whom his first child and
only son was named. There was q
good deal of romance about his second
marriage. While on duty in Kentucky
he captured Major Tomlinson. of the
Confederate army, and through him he
was introduced to two ladies, one Of
whom afterwards became his second
and the other his third wife. They
were Tomlinson's sisters, and lived at
Harrodsburg, Ky. His second wife
died in December, 1870. On her death
bed she enjoined her husband to marry
for his third wife her sister, who was
then the young and handsome widow
of Confederate Colonel named Bow
ers. He married Mrs. Bowers in 1878.