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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

San Francisco, Oct. 8.-The annual
meeting of the Nevada bank was held to-
day. President Hellman reported affairs
to be in prosperous condition. The net
earnings from April to October were
1851 President Hellman and all the
board of directors were reelected.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

SAN FRANCIsco. Oct. 8.-Frank Mitchell,
young forger sentenced to five years. i'm.
prisonment in the penitentiary Saturday,
attempted suicide this afternoon in his
cell in the county jail. He opened vein
in his wrist with q spoon-handle. but
missed the arteries.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09
Prominent Georgian Assassinated

NoRMASDALE, Ga, Oct. 8.-Last evening
J. C. Forsythe, secretary and treasurer of
the Normandale Lumber Company, and
one of the best known men in Georgia,
was killed by an unknown assassin, who
fred through window. Forsythe was
the principal witness against Luther A.
Hall. lawyer whose trial for perjury is
pending in the United States court here.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09
Lake Superior Strikers weak enine.

IsHPEMINe, Mich. Oct ga mass-meet-
ing of the striking miners was held yester-
day, $500 workmen being present. A
committee will submit q proposition for .
compromise to the mining company's
agent today.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Oct. 8.-The miners
are still out. Nothing but surface work is
being done. The strike has not spread to
the mines outside of Ishpeming.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

NEW York. Oct. S-The National Board
of Steam Navigation today passed resolu-
ton giving local inspectors discretionary
power to license captains and pilots. This
will apply not only to the West, but to the
whole country.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09
BIGGEST TREE IN THE WORLD.
In the Siefras Of Fresno County Its
Circumference 129 Feet

Circunference le9 Feet.
FRESNO, CAL, Oct. 8.-What is said to be
the largest tree in the world has just been
discovered in Fresno county. Frank
Lewis, an old mountaineer, and party re-
turned yesterday to Sanger from bear
hunting expedition in the Sierras, east of
Centreville. They wounded bear, and in
pursuing it ran across the big tree in the
most rugged portion of the mountains,
about two miles from Kentucky Meadows.
The tree was circumscribed BY radius of
a mile or more of almost impenetrable
underbrush, SO that the hunters were COM
PEELED to use both knife and ak to reach the
center. There are no evidences that man
had ever traversed the same grounds.
The tree was measured about four feet
from the ground. and rope 129 feet
inches long was necessary to span its cir
conference. The truth of the statement is
vonched for by several who saw the tree.
1t was christened by those who discovered
it 1.-The Orejano. /"
Three brown bears were captured by the
party, the largest weighing $50 pounds.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

President Norwood's Successor.
SAN FEANCIsEo, Oct. 81. NJ. ShotweIl,
well-known broker, was today elected
president of the San Francisco Stock Ex-
change, vice Norwood, deceased.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

Collapse Of New Zealand Coal Strike.
WELLINGToN, Oct 8.-The strike of the
golfers in New Zealand has collapsed The
company has thirty-fo steamers running
and is giving employment to 1000 nom
union men,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

New York san.

"When will you become my wife, Ethel Z"
ION the 10Th day of February 1891"
"But there's no such day."
THAT'S the size of il. !"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-09

Dementsd Wife Restored to Her Husband
BURLINGTON. N. J., Oct. 6.-Mrs. Ellen
Dallas. of Chester. Pa, left her home, hus-
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
S51O0 for Saving a Life.

George ID. Grouchy, Of Lawrence,
Mass, is $500 richer to-day for having
risked his life a few weeks ago 10 save a
man from drowning. He was standing
on the rocks AT Nantasket Beach, when u
capsixed boat with II gentleman clingin9
to the stern attracted his attention. The
young clerk stripped oil shoes and coat.
and diving INTO the water swan, rapidly
toward the capsizcd boat. The unfor-
tuhatc occupant was unable to swim, and
was Just about losing all strength when
Grouchy grasped him. There was Il heavy
surf, and the drowning man weighs 175
pounds, fifty pounds more than Grouchy.
The young clerk, however, battling man
fully against all these disadvantages rot
10 within few feet OF the shore with his
burden when consciousness deserted him.
Still lie chung to the man he had rescued
until the wash OF the breakers bore the
two for the third time up the beach and
into the hands OF other rcscucrs, who had
been spectators of the accident and the
brave effort of the young clerk The
gentleman who was in the boat and had
been capsized was removed to his hotel in
IL carriage. The young man, his rescuer,
was taken in charge by physician who
happened TO he on hand, and, after much
labor, he was resuscitated lie was ill,
however, from the effects of the bath and
labor of that day for month after he
returned home. Meanwhile the gentle.
man who had SO narrow an escape WAS
hunting high and low for his prcscrver.
but no one seemed to know who the
young man. Finally the help of dc
tective was called in, and Grouchy was
found ut his work. Grouchy set out for
Providence, ard in one of the suburbs of
the city met the gentleman who sought
INN. lie received young Grouchy kindly,
and besides thanking him warmly asked
minutely about his personal affairs. Then
he gave the young man check for 500,
with note for $4,000 due when Grouchy
becomes of age. lie Is now over twenty
so that in a few months he will be the
rossessor OF n snug business capital.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
Buffalo Raising for Money

Warden Bedson, of the Manitoba Pen
itentiary, has disposed of the balance of
his buffalo herd, ffty-six head, to C. J.
Jones, of Kansas City. The buffalo Mr..
Jones took south last spring from Manitoba
are on range at Ogden, but they will be
removed to Utah, where Mr. Jones saws
the company into whose hands the herd
has fallen has secured track of suitable.
land, and the buffalo will be propagated
for commercial purposes. The company
anticipate large revenue from the sal e!
of skins, heads and flesh. The COM
pany also expect to realize handsome
income by exhibiting the animals on the.
ranch. Some of the animals were leased.
he says, to "Wild West" show early in
the summer, but were treated so badly
that they were taken away from the con-
Germ
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

The Managing director of 81 b!g tc;,
Healing firm, who is tea ;"ster and
blcndcr of twenty-five years experience,
says the PaN NW GG.ettt, has lately
stated that he once saw Il leading broker
have sixty teas, ranging within penny
per pound iii value, weighed up i'll dnpii-
cate, the "a pots numbered and mixed
up, he then picking out the sixty dupli.
Gates without single mistake. As re-
CARDS educating the sense Of smell, Whites
the tea dealer, ~ am strongly Of opinion
that it is possible, with constant practice,
to value teas rs correctly by smelling the
infused leaf as by fasting. have bought
thousands of chests in public sale by
smelling the infused leaf only, and have
constantly valued public sale teas on the
same plan. Nevertheless, for blending
purposes. it is absolutely necessary to
taste. Ihad fourteen years experience
III tasting on the market, and left it
eleven years ago to enter the blended tea
trade. l then had TO begin 10 learn what
l never knew bcforc-thc art of blend
inc tca-and | am convinced that, foi
this growing Departments! of the trade, il
is not only necessary that ii man should
have Il good palate and keen sense of
smell; but that he shonid. 10y constant at
tcntion, understand the art Of selecting
such teas rs will blend with each other
y man may have ever So Keen u palate
and sense of smell, and he able to value
tea TO Il fartliing per pound, and yet be
no blcnder. Having produced blend
successfully, the abilities of blcndcr arc
severely tried by his having to mnintain
its quality and character, and nothing but
constant practice, indomi,ablc persevc
rance and skill will enable him 10 sue
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

able to say ;nythin@ about their ass,ilants
Later two more men were assaulted in one
evening.
Police Inspector Byrncs was seen by .
reporter for the Nal AMI E.7.YsS. lie
SAID that these recent cases Of sandbag
ging which have excited the attention ui
the people of New York are but Il revival
OF 81 form of crime which appears every
fifteen or twenty years, and which is much
more prevalent in other parts OF the world
than il ever has been in the United
States
"The principle OF sandbagging," said
the Inspector, sis the application Of con.
custom 10 the human body in such a way
us to produce II terrific shock without
breaking or even abratling the skin. In
America and England the back of the
head and neck or the upper part of the
spine are and have been the favorite
points OF attack by the criminals who en-
pioy this style of assailing man. The
original sanding was, as its name implies,
Il small bag filled with sand. The sim.
piest one known to the police is small
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
Tile Origin Of" IIHrral.'

Writing to the London Tin.s, with
reference To the remark of its Berlin cor
respondent that the exclamation "llur-
rah :" sis said to he Of Slavonic origin,
DIR. G.. A. Buchhcim, of Kings College,
London, says: al presume your CORE
Spontlcnt must have some authority for
this assertion; hui | hope you will allow
me 10 point out that, as far us know,
the record is of purely German origin.
1t is generally assumed In he derived from
the initiative intcrjcction hurr, describing
Il rapid movement. from which word the
middle High-Gcrman hurrcn, 80 move
rapidly, or rather To hurry, has been
formed. lIurrah is, therefore, nothing
else but an enlarged form of h,rr, and,
as | said, of purely rcutonic origin. In
Grimm's 'Wortcrbuch' we find the inter
lection quoted from Minncsngcr. IL
also occurs in Danish and Swedish; and
it would be interesting" TO know when it
WAS first introduced in this country i'll
the Anglcciscd form of hurry In Ger
many it WAS frequently used daring the
Napolconic wars by the Ps,ssian soldiers,
and il also occurs in some political and
martial songs of those days. Since then
it seems tn have been adopted also ny
other nations, even by the French III the
form of hourra. That the intersection
did not become SO popular in Germany
as cheer ut convivial gatherings as i'll
this country is probably owing to the cir
cumstancc thatprclercncc was given there
to the brief exclamation 'IIochn forming
respectively the end and the beginning
Of the phrases 'Er Icbc hoch' and 'lloch
soil cr lcbcn OF late The word hurr;h
seems to have become rather popular III
Germany. 1t is Just possible tina; the
English rcimported it three or that ii was
revived through the magnificent poem oi
'!Iurrah, Gcrmanan written by the poC
lauratc of Gcrman people, Ferdinand
Frciliyrath."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

According to the Lewiston Me J
Journnl not since 1854 50. unless we NAV
except short period during the war
when the Government was building so
many vessels, has shipbuilding been so
prosperous in the Unitnd States as it is
now. On the Delaware there is plenty
of business besides that of the Govern
ment. The Cramps say that they have
all that they can attend to. The yards
that build for the great lake marine are
either busy or preparing to be. On the
Pacific coast there is something doing in
addition to Government contracts. This
year the shipyards of East Boston have
worn something like an aspect of aotiv.
ity. Before long Mr.. Loring will begin
work on q steel cruiser at South Boston.
In Maine cighty-four vessels have been
launched or laid down this year. To be
sure most Of this building, outside the
government contracts. is wooden vessels
for the coastwisc trade, yet the numbc,
OF iron vessels constructed for the mer
chant service on the Delaware and Lake,
is increasing, and preparations arc being
made to establish iron shipbuildint
plants at Bath and other points.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

''Sandbagging is not as rare as is COM
monty believed. Criminals, especially
those of foreign origin, carry these in
strumcnts Of death quite frequently.
There is, however, seeming periodicity
in their use, just as there is in other
forms OF crime. There is something so
brutal, fcrocious and cowardly in sand
bagging that it excites feeling of dis
gust in minds familiarized with crime.
1.-THE odd sandbags described are but
few of the long list which are discov-
cred by the police. Recently an English
seaman was arrested who was carving
about as mur(lerOus a tool as can be i'm
agined. 1t was a set of brass knuckles,
heavier and uglier than usual.
"At the top, opposite the thumb, there
was attached to it revolver, and at the
bottom q sharp, double edged dirk pro-
jected three inches below the lower line
of the hand. It's owner could shoot
strike or stab in almost the same move
ment.
Another, cane, is SO arranged with
knife blade in the handle that slight
jar converts it into u short spear. The
same principle is applied to umbrellas,
parasols and even fans, and enables q
woman to convert her paraphernalia into
a travelling arsenal.
"The principle of the air-cane gun has
been likewise extended in many direc-
tons. We now have an air pistol, as
we'll as disguised derringers and revolvers
of various sorts, and have them con-
cealed in as many forms rs the cane spea
| and umbrella lance mentioned.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

The missionaries in the Central Afri-
can lake district are now in Il state of
open war with the Arab slavers. The
Rev. Mr.. White writes that they have
been compelled to fortily themselves at
Fwambo, on Lake Tanganyika. They
have built strong fort, surrounded it
with an abatis of thorny trees and wire
cntanglement, and spread broken bottles
over the approaches. They are daily in
expectation of attack. On Lake Nyassa
the missionaries have been constantly
fighting slavc-raiding parties of late.
TheJ always go out and attack the party
which has committed a raid and compel
the Arabs to release their captivcs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
A Case of Cow and Rome.

"Ihesc Wcsicrnpcople have Il delicatcly
humorous way of telling unpleasant facts,
haven't they9' said Captain Robert Lay
ton, Il well known Westminster County
business man, TO me few days ago"
GLOW is that" asked.
"Why, Just received a letter, which
is an illustration / used to know Il fcI-
low, whom | will call Charlie Lamon,
when ] was boy up in the State. We
were together during the war, in the
same regiment He WAS happy-go-
lucky sort Of n fellow then, but did not
think there WAS any bad in him. After
the war he settled down in the upper
part OF the city and followed his trade
as butcher. A few years ago he went
West and, while we hadn't been very
intimate, he commenced writing to me,
and as hs letters were very interesting |
kept up the correspondence. The last
letter ! had was from Butte City, Mont.
Ihat was about two years ago, and he
wrote that he was in great trouble and
was going to Southern California, and
SAID not TO write to him again until l
heard from him. l never heard. a
few weeks ago / decided to write again,
ana sent a letter to the Marshal of
Butte City asking where he could be
found. The letter I got read in this
way Your friend found a COW. Then
ne found a rope. That was two years
ago, and don't think you'll ever find
him.
''Ihat was all, but it would have
sounded good harshcr if lie had writ
ten that Charlie was lynchcd for cattle
stpaliur uonl1,it - NJ. vi o.,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
uThc most horrible wcanon nmona ,ho

"The most horrible weapon among tho
novelties is the creation of some Ameri-
can brain or freak, it is hartt to saw
which. In external appearance the in
strument is good imitation ola police
club. 1t is made, however, of hollow
metal, and not OF wood. A hnndcuff at
tachment, with steel chains, fastens it to
the owners wrist in the firmest manner.
"a spring in the handle operates n
valve in the lower end Of the club, open
ing Il series of minute holes in the handle
and permitting the free escape of soma
rcd pepper stored there with the pleasant
intention Of binding the victim. A. sec
ond spring in the handle throws hum
dred razor-edged lancets from within the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

OF course, the only Barnum has taken
the Londoncrs by storm. His great
moral show is an enormous success.
Fully 10, 600 persons were in attendance
on the opening night. Tic flower of
The English nobility and of the American
colony were there. In fact it was de.
clared on all sides that it took an
American TO dare cross the Atlantic with
such gigantic show, and admiration
for American skill and pluck is expressed
on all sides.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10

strong stocking filled with sand. The
advantage oil this primitive affair is that.
the moment after it has been used. the
sand can he thrown away and the stock.
ing kept without exciting any suspicion.
Some are made. in the shape of clubs
The material used is cotton or wooden
cloth, bed ticking, crash, heavy silk.
sausage skins, eel skins, leather and
even snake skins.
"a number Of famous sandba"s.
which have been captured by the policc,
are worthy of mention. One was n
handsome eel skin, filled with sand. close
mp to the end, and thence with bird shot
TO the end itself. This arrangement
gave the effect of II slungshot to the af-
fair and added 10 the strength of the
arm which welded it the awful effect Of
Il swift rotary motion.
Another, owned by 4 French murderer,
was of silk, handsomely embroidered
and finished with silk wound leather
thongs. 4 third, OF Spanish origin, was
OF fine shecpskim, so carefully finished as
10 be rs soft us the hest chamois.
The most impressive quality Of the
sandbag lies i'll its not abradng the skin
of the person who is struck by it. There
was case only short time ago where a
man S skull had been fractured, and vet
,hcrc was no indication of injury, so far
ms the cntlclc was concerned, not even to
the medical eye. The skull was very
thick and hard, so that the blow must
have required Il terrific amount of force,
probably representing the combination
OF a heavy sandbag and powerful as
sailant
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
Spoiled by an EgYnliaii.

shall not soon forget Il shave and
hair-cuttng which suffered in Upper
Egypt, says Frank G. Carpenter in the
Co"rier-,Io~r@0i The execution took
place in the city of Sioot, about 800 miles
above Cairo. The seat WAS plain stool.
The barber was q dirty Turk, in red
turban and a white gown, and he first
chopped off my hair with pair of sheep
shears, pulling it and saving it at every
cut. Several times he narrowly escaped
my ears, and was trembling as though I
had the ague when he began upon me
with his razor. ! had dismissed my
guide, and did not know enough Egypt
ian to tell him that I could dispense
with shaving. lie used no soap, apa
he wet my beard with cold water from y
polished brass basin, out OF one side e.
which had been cut Il sort of half-moor
hole. He fitted this hole into my neck,
so that my head hung over the basin
like that of John the Baptist on the,
charter, and then splashcd the water up
over my face with his aromatic hands.
When he thought I was sufficiently
drowned, he jerked my head back against
his bosom, and held it there while hc.
scraped and sawed and tore my bear,i
from my face. ! never knew that there
were so many hairs in my beard before,
ana when got through my check looked
IKE the skin OF a sheep when lis wool
has been cut oil by an amateur shearer.
! am not sure whether the charge was
three or five cents, but ii was the dearest.
shave ! ever had, and as for my hair,
had to have it rccut as soon as | got to
Cairo.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
WORDS or WfSD6M.

Don, blame the world because the
thorns arc found anon" the roses.
\ sound discretion is not so mucn IN
lica,cd by never masking amistake as by
never rcpcatin. il.
II has been observed that the man with
the fcwc.t failinoS is the man most tolcr-
ant Of those Of his ncignbors.
Beware Of him who meets with 4
friendly micn. and. in the midst oi a cor
dial saluiaiion. seeks To avoi! your glance.
Although j, is dangerous 10 have too
much knowledge OF certain subjects Ii -
still more dangerous 10 he totally ignor-
ant OF them.
Conquer thysclf. Till thou hast done
that. thou ART Il slave; f,r 1t Is almost as
well for thee 10 bc IN Suhjccilon 10 an
others appetite - thine "wn.
LooS not mournfrlly into the past; it
comes not back aa,.n. Wisely improve
the present; il is thine. Go forth 10 meet
the shadowy future without fear and =
manly heart.
Nothing hindcrs the constant agree
mcnt Of people who live together bnt
vanity and scliishncSs. Let the spirit oi
humanity and bcnc"olcncc prevail, and
discord and disagreement wcu!d lie har-
islicd from the household.
Life never seems so clear and easy as
when the heart is beating faster at the
sight ol some generous, sclf-risking deed
We feel no ,!o,i5. then what is the high
cs: prize the soul can win. and almost be-
lievc i'll our power Ia attain il.