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The state herald., 1890-03-28
We recommend "Tansill puuchn Cigar

Speaker Reeds presence ought 10 mean
harmony, as ihcic is no music 80 julcct a.
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The state herald., 1890-03-28

"Thy head is full OF fguarrcls, us an egg
is full OF meat "Well, so would any
body's head be, who had walked the floor
for week, With horrible facc-nchc -
"You don't say SO, how dreadful, III stop
out and bring you a bottle OF quickcure,
called salvation OIL 4
The state herald., 1890-03-28
WILD MARCH MUSIC,

Gentle and sweet melodies sacred and secular
songs, hnd all other kinds 81 music are In
our thousands ~ books an imllllons of sbs-t
fuu.tg t,l.ga-f
The state herald., 1890-03-28

A man doesn't really realize how the
seconds ny until he sees detective In hot
pursuit OF the hackers OF n prize fight
Yonkcrs Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
A Bride at 92.

When a woman of the age of 90 years
marries it must be because she wants to
marry, and that is just what happened
in the history of 'Aunt Katy" Currie,
who died at Warwick, Orange county,
at the extraordinary age of 107 years and
3 months Her maiden name was Catha-
rine Woodruff, and she was born in the
adjoining town of Monroe. When she
was 32 years of age she married Joseph
Currie, a prominent and well to do
farmer Of Warwick, with whom she
lived until his death, in 1879. "Aunt
Katy" is entitled to the singular distinc-
ton of having gone to the altar as a bride
after she had entered upon her 92d year.
The bridegroom, James Nelson, was 6S
years old, and the marriage took place
two years after the death of her first
husband. Before contracting this second
marriage "Aunt Katy" tore the record
of her age from the family Bible, and al
ways declined afterward to tell her age.
1t is known positively, however, that she
was born in 17S2.-Toronto Empire.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
ONE THOUSAND II NEED.
THE MINERS IN AND AROUND ScRAN-
TON NEED ASSISTANCE.

The Relief Committee Doing Good Work
over Two Hundred Applicants Ap-
peared at the Store in a Day-The Va
ley Filled With Surplus of Miners in
for Moneyto Get Away-Unemployed
Men Throughout the District.
SCRANTON, Pa, March PA special
to The Pittsburg Dispatch says: One
thousand needy miners in Scranton and
the adjoining mining settlements have
so far been assisted by the relief COM
mittee. Two weeks ago the committee
opened a large store on Washington
avenue, where contributions of pro-
visions and money were received, and
from which food was delivered to the
needy by wagons belonging to the mer-
chants. As many as 200 applicants ap-
peared at the store in a day at first.
They were promptly supplied with -four,
bacon, rice, oatmeal, butter, potatoes,
tea and coffee. So far the big corpora
tions have done nothing for the destitute
miners. Mayor-elect John 81. Fellows,
a member OF the relief committee, told
the poor board on Friday that the cor
porations, notably the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad company,
had filled the Lackawanna Valley with
a large surplus of miners and laborers
in order to prevent strikes, and that they
should be compelled to alleviate the
sufferings of the Needy.
A suggestion to raise the poor tax levy
from to 10 mills on the dollar, was dis
cussed by the board. A few of the
members thought that was the only way
ton of the suffering that they have
been the primary cause of, while other
members were of the opinion that a
raise in the tax would bear heavier pro-
portionately on people of moderate
porations, and the question was put
over. The board appropriated $500 to
the relief fund. The poor board is over
run with persons who ask to be assisted
to money to get them back to the old
country outside of the coal regions, but
it is not possible for the board TO
Grant Their Requests.
Scores of single men have left here of
late to seek work in other places, and
there are hundreds of married men who
would do the same if they could get
money enough to take their families
along. Even when the coal mining in
iustry is booming its best, there is
large number OF unemployed laborers in
all parts of the anthracite regions, and
slice work In the mines has been slack
for more than a year, the number has
run up into the thousands, the small
that they had laid up had been
spent and the destitution is consequently
felt in all lines of trade.
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An Honest Car Conductor.

A prominent citizen of Union Hill
boarded street car in Hoboken and
handed Conductor Spencer a coin. Spen-
Ger felt the milled edges, and, thinking
it was fifty cent piece, he put it in his
pocket without examining it and re-
turned forty-five cents change, which
the other man quickly put in his pocket.
A few minutes later the conductor was
making change inside the car and dis
covered that the supposed fifty cent piece
was $40 gold piece. He put it back in
his pocket and asked the Union Hill man
the denomination of the coin he had
given him. ''It was a quarter" the
Union Hill man said.
81 gave you twenty cents more than
you are entitled to-" Spencer remarked,
quietly.
The Union Hill man laughed, but did
not offer to return the change.
"rm satisfied if you are," said Spencer.
Nothing more was said until the car
reached the top of the hill at Weehawken
and the man had shown no sign of re-
turning the twenty cents. Then Spencer
said:
IF you keep my change I'll keep what
you gave me and call it square,"
The Union Hill man put his hand in
his pocket and exclaimed: "By Jovel
gave you $40 gold piece"
"You did," replied Spencer, land you
intended to swindle me out of twenty
cents. Here's your $40, but you don't
deserve to get it back"
The prominent citizen pocketed the
money and got off the car at the next
corner-New York Sun.
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TWO BRAVE SCHOOLGIRLS
save a West Penn Passenger Train From
Destruction.

save West Penn Passenger Train From
Destruction.
BUTLER, March PA special to the
Pittsburg Dispatch says: Two little
schoolgirl heroines at Brinker station,
on the West Penn, saved market train
there Saturday from what would have
been bad wreck. Near that station is
a deep cut, and heavy landslide oc-
Cured there where it could not be seen
by train coming toward Butler. Some
girls while playing discovered the slide
Just before the evening train was DUE
Two little misses, named Bowen and
Dimling, wanted to alarm the engineer,
but others objected. The brave children,
however, heard the noise of an approach
ing train, and started down the track
waving their shawls to attract attention.
The engineer saw them and gave the
usual whistle, and one of the girls left
the track, while the other stuck valient-
ly to her post, waving her red shawl to
attract attention. The engineer saw at
once that there was something more
than girlish prank going on, and re-
versed his engine within few feet of
the obstruction. The grateful passengers
raised quite purse for the girls.
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MINERS STRIKE GROWING.
MORE MEN CONE OUT ATTHE PORT
ROYAL WORKS.

SCoTTDALE, Pa, March 25.-A special
to The Pittsburg Dispatch SAYS: More
miners have joined the Port Royal strike
in the Yough district, and the number
now on strike for the reinstatement of
some discharged men is estimated at
325. There are still a few men now
working at Port Royal, but they are ex-
pected to come out to-day. Master
Workman Larkin, of the Smithton
miners, was here yesterday, and he said
that they were now engaged formulat-
ing scale of wages which will be pre-
sented to operators of that district for
consideration. What is the minimum
basis could not be obtained, but the scale
will be made public in few days.
There is a Lockout
at the Overton mines, near this place
1t was caused by the company giving
to an objectionable man
named Nelson, who resigned yesterday,
the company retaiiated by refusing to
allow the other miners and cokers work
to-day. Prospects are not very brightfO for
an immediate settlement. The plant
numbers 10 ovens and employs about
the same number of men. The COM
pany has given their men ten days no.
tice to vacate the company houses, and.
as it is supposed they will object, an
eviction may be necessary.
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His Brother Taken Suddenly Ill.
EXCEPTIONALLY RICH CITY,

Her People Are Very Generous and She is
Abe to Care for Her Own Poor.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, March 22.-Mayor
c. B. Sutton, of this city, is in receipt of
innumerable letters from the cities of
this state, New York, New Jersey and
other states asking if any help is needed
in relieving the distress of the mining
population. Some of the most generous
offers of assistance have been received,
but to all he answers that no such help
is needed. Wilkesbarre is an exception
ally rich city and her people are very
generous in all such cases, so she is
abundantly able to care for her own
poor. The mayor is not pleased that any
idea to the contrary should get abroad,
but highly appreciates the benevolent
spirit which prompts the kind offers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
MINING FOR A PYTHON.
A Snake Tat Refused to Re Drawn from
His Hole by a Rope and an Elephant.

His Hole by a Rope and an Elephant.
II was during the cold weather, when
snakes are partially or wholly torpid,
that this adventure happened; bad it been
in the hot weather, when snakes are
lively, the story might have had differ
ent ending.
Gen. Macintyre and his party went one
day to examine hole or crevice under
rock where it was supected python lay
hidden, and sure enough it was there,
for they could see a bit of the tail end
protruding from the hole. They let it
alone at first, thinking that, when the
sun shone, it might come forth to bask
in its warmth. In this, however. they
were disappointed, for on the following
day the snake was not to be seen; but,
on closer examination, the tail was found
sticking out as before. Various efforts
were made to dislodge it. A fire was lit
in front and the smoke famed inward,
but this had no effect.
The earth was even scraped away and
the hole widened, when they could see
the coils of the monster as thick as a
mans thigh; but except that their
operations were occasionally interrupt
ed by the startling presence Of the
creatures head, which it occasion
ally poked toward the entrance,
darting out its little forked tongue, it
gave small signs of animation. They
had even determined to try to draw it.
We all three, therefore, proceeded
ca,,ar-hot raryntralxr T -fr.
lay hold of its tail. To this familiarity
it showed its objection by decided incli-
nation to wag its caudal extremity, which
had such an electricS effect on our
nerves that we droppedNit like hot po-
tato, and-what shall 1 call it?-retired.
A shot would in all probability have in
duced the snake to quit its refuge, but
then the shot must have torn and dis
figured its beautiful skin, which the gen.
eral wished to secure uninjured as spec
linen. In the meantime more efficient
tools for digging had been sent for, and
these now arrived borne upon an elephant.
A bright idea now struck the party
they might draw the snake out with the
elephant! Sufficient rope for the purpose
was loosened from the elephants pad,
and this rope, about the thickness of
mans thumb, was hitched around the py-
thon's tail. its remaining length brought
up again to the pad and fastened there,
thus doubling its strength. Now came
the tug of war! A sudden jerk might
have torn the skin; the mahout was
therefore warned to put on the strain
gradually. Little did we know what
tough and obstinate customer we had to
deal with. Tighter and tighter grew the
ropes, when "crack" went one Of them.
Still the strain was increased, when
"crack"-the other had snapped also,
leaving the snake in statu quo.
The snake was finally dislodged by
counter mining and killed with charge
of buckshot. When measured it was
found to be twenty-one feet in length
and about two feet in girth.-Chambers'
Journal.
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DEVILS Lake.

DEVILS lake is body of brackish
water of uncertain size, according to
the weather, but covering about 200
square miles on an average, and having
an outlet by marshy stream to the
Cheyenne river, only in wet seasons.
Though the water is too saline for a
stranger to drink it, yet it abounded with
fish in its natural state; and even now,
i'll the dead of winter, one may see
groups of wiry old squaws here and there
on the ice -four feet thick at the leastD
working the dip zeine" and bringing
out at each haul two or three pickerel,
which are thrown on the ice to freeze
solid in a few minutes, after which they
are handled like stones or billets of
wood. To see the poor old creatures
kneeling on the margin of the holes they
have cut through the ice, and with one
arm, bare nearly to the shoulder, thrust
under the edge of the ice to spread the
seine-thermometer from zero to 80 be-
LOWS novel and interesting sight to
the tourist; that is, if he is well wrapped
in a fur coat and has thick moccasins or
German socks over his heavy boots.
The lake in one place is almost cut in
two by a sort of peninsula, with spoon
shaped extremity running out into the
lake; and there the Indians in the ''good
old times" used to make their great buff
falo drive. Stampeded by mounted men,
from large section adjacent the animals
fled to the lake and were gradually con-
centrated on this peninsula; the hunters
then advanced by boat or along the land
and shot them down at leisure. At
length the white man broke in; the great
Turtle mountain buffalo raids began; for
seventy miles in line the prairie the
next summer was Golgotha-whitened
with buffalo skeletons-and old settlers
still tell Of the ''big money" made by
gathering their bones. In five short
years every buffalo was gone, and the
Indians had to starve, fight or emigrate.
They fought and were whipped; part
emigrated and the rest are starving.-J.
H. B.
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NITRO-GLYCERINE AGAIN.
Blew Out a Mans Eyes, Tore Off Both
Arms and Otherwise MangIed Him.

Blew Out a Mans Eyes, Tore OFF Both
Arms and Otherwise MangIed Him.
LoGANsPoRT, IND, March 25.-At
Sweetzer's Station, Grant county, two
men, Roy Pritchett and William Specie,
found can of nitro-glycerine in the
woods near the village and attempted to
explode it by heaping leaves over it and
setting them on fire. The stuff not ex-
ploding, Pritchett approached and began
punching it with burning stick. As
he was stopping over it an explosion
occurred which blew out his eyes and
tore off both arms and otherwise horri-
bly, mangled him so that he died within
a few minutes. Clarence Moore, boy
who was passing, was struck by flying
stone and seriously hurt. Specie, who
was standing at some distance, was
knocked down, but not injured.
Pritchett leaves a widow and several
small children.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
A Robber COnfesses,

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, March 25.-Sev-
eral men were recently arrested for the
post Office robbery at Nicholson, Pa,
Feb. 6. One of them made statement
yesterday duplicating one of his compan-
ions. Jesse Thomas, in a number of rob
berries in New Jersey. Detectives went
to the house of Jesse's father, Joseph
Thomas, at Dalton, to search the prem
ises. Before they gained admission the
old man cut his throat with a razor. 1t
appears that he was also implicated in
the robberies. He may recover.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
DI,ln,t IIke the Tune,

The Italian who runs the peanut stand
on Fourth street was turning his peanut
roaster one afternoon with slow and
measured hand, when an old woman
came to a LAlt and carefully observed
the operation. After scrutinizing the
roaster from every side she finally gave
it up, and remarked: mo, sir, you don't
get cent ou. of me for no such music
as that. Why, can't catch half of any
of the tunes, and it smells as if something
was burning inside. Lake City Citizen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
QUAY st,u Fi,hinc in Florida.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 24-Dick
Murphy, Senator Quay's private secre-
tary, received letter from the senator
Saturday in which he stated that he
would start on fishing trip along the
west coast of Florida on Sunday, which
would probably consume two weeks
time. The lone fisherman will then re-
turn to Washington and some of the
nominations of western Pennsylvania
postmasters which have been hung up
during his absence will probably be
settled
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Terrible Devastation.

WICHITA, KAN, March PA prairie
fire broke out yesterday morning fifteen
miles northeast of here and devastated
twenty square miles of territory before
it was checked. Ten farm houses with
barns are known to have been destroyed.
The total loss is estimated at S150,O00.
Earnest Reynolds and his 10-year-old
son were fatally burned in attempting to
save their property. Several others are
seriously burned. The confagration is
supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
HER AMBITION THWARTED.
Sister Rose Gertrude Not Allowed to En-
ter the Leper Settlement.

Sister Rose Gertrude Not Allowed to En-
ter the Leper Settlement.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.-Dr. ]. NJ.
Whitney, of Honolulu, who arrived here
on the steamer Australia Saturday,
states that Sister Rose Gertrude, the
English girl, who was anxious to nurse
the lepers at Molokaie, will not become
an exile in the leper settlement and per-
haps die there, as she anticipated.
The settlement of Molokaie is in charge
of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who
are maintained there by the Hawaiian
government, and as Sister Rose Gertrude
belongs to another order-the Domini-
can Sisters-she could not be admitted.
She is therefore at Kalili, a receiving
station for lepers, or those who are sup
posed to have contracted the disease.
There they are cared for until it can be
determined what their ailment really is.
DIR. Whitney states that she is very COM
Portable at Kalili and not isolated,
though she is disappointed in her expec-
tations.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
1srlt,tn1tt Chronicle.
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Pry not into your neighbor's affairs.
He mourns the dead who lives as they
desire.
Laughter is sometimes the knell of a
dead delusion.
Carelessness does more harm than
want of knowledge.
Rashness brings success TO few; mis-
fortune to many.
A man is known by the company he
keeps away from.
Good humor is the health of the soul;
sadness its poison.
When the wolf turns moralist, always
look to your lambs.
Pride requires a very costly food-its
keepers happiness.
Neither silence, forgetfulness, nor
lapse of time reetifies wrong.
Trust that man in nothing who has
not a conscience in everything.
That which is called iberality is oft
nothing more than the vanity of giving.
1t is best not to be angry, and best, in
the next place, to be quickly reconclled.
Our greatest glory consists not in new
er falling, but in rising every time we
fall.
The world owes every man living,
and is never slow in paying it to good
collector.
Many of the shadows that cross our
natb in life arc cauSad bv standing in
our own light.
1t is not well to be much displeased
with harmless delusiOns that tend to
make US happy.
The man of worth is constantly seek
ing for wisdom; the fool alone thinks
he has found it.
Ihate to see things done by halves. If
it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong,
leave it undone.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND
NARCOTICS
walked UP EFFECTUALLY.

A lethargic, dormant condition of the
liver is hardly to be overcome with dras-
tic cathartics and nauseous cholagogues.
A gentler, pleasanter and far more effec-
tive means exists of arousing the organ
when sOmnOlent. This is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, vouched for by the med
ical fraternity, tested by the public for
many years. A resumption by the hillary
organ of its secretive function, with the
activity attendant upon health, a return
to regularity of the bowels, and renew
al of digestion, are the no less happy and
certain results of using the Bitters sys-
tematically. Its laxative effect is never
painful and drenching, its tendency being
rather to perpetuate regularity than to
produce copious action. Malaria, ner-
vousness, debility, kidney troubles and
neuralgia it subdues effectually. 36-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27

THERE are two kinds of pity; one is
a balm, the other poison. The first is
realized by our friends, the other by our
enemies.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27

NEXT only to the man who achieves
the greatest and most blessed deeds is
he who, perhaps himself wholly incapa-
BILE of such high work, is yet the first to
help and encourage the genius of others.
We often do more good by our sympa-
thy than by our labors, and render to
the world more lasting service by alb
sence of jealousy and recognition of
merit than we could ever render by the
straining efforts of personal ambition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
HIGH WATERS.
Reports from Lower Points Give Cause for
Alarm.

Reports from Lower Points Give Cause for
Alarm.
HELENA, ARK, March 25.-The river
lacks two feet of high water mark. A
rapid rise is expected during the next
two days The water in White river is
higher than ever known before.
At Arkansas City the river is still
rising and nineteen inches above high
water mark of 1882.
At Grecnville, Miss, the water from
Offut Crevasse continues to rise and it is
feared that trains on the L., n. o. & T.
r. R. will have to be suspended.
At Monroe, La, Tallalulah is partly
inundated and will be wholly if the
water rises one and a half feet further.
1t is still rising.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27

HOWEVER good you are, you have
faults; however dull you may be, you
can find out what some of them are;
and, however slight they may be, you
had better make some-not too painful
but patient efforts to get rid of them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
HISTORY.
JAMES DUNCAN.

l. Give the political history of Thomas
Jefferson, Henry Clay, or Abraham
Lincoln.
2. Give an accurate account of the bat
tie of Germantown, The Thames, Palo
Alto, or Charlottesville.
3. Give an account of the three inven-
tions which have aided most in develop
ing the Northwest.
1. Give the history of the Erie Canal,
and tell of how much Importance it is
to-day.
3. What Presidential election has had
the most influence upon our country :?
Tell why?
6. Name the thirteen original colonies
in the order of their latitude.
Z. Tell about the capture, trial, and ex-
ecution of Major Andre.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
HANDSOME HOTEL DESTROYED.

A Theatrical Man Loses His Life by Jump
ing From a Fourth Story Window.
OMAHA, NEB., March 25.-The Midway
hotel, at Kearney, Neb., burned about 8
o'clock yesterday morning and one of
the guests, Henry Deming, theatrical
man lost his life by jumping from "a
fourth story window. The hotel was or
iginally built at cost of $50, 900. Re
Gently an annex was built at cost of
SAC, 900 and this had been occupied about
thirty days The hotel was one of the
handsomest and best equipped in the
state. The total loss is estimated $780,
900; fully insured.