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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
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""So WY, VIC hhSNS 10 Uoio .
Dolpha jackson goes to Morgan
town to-day.
Fresh FIsH and OYSTERS at
Gutherie's every week.
j. Ed. Kildow, the Journal fore
man. Sandayed in Oakland.
W. b. Parkhurst returned roster
day from trip to Washington.
George W. Herring. of Long Hol-
low, was here yesterday on business.
DIR. Trippctt is improving rapidly
and it is hoped will soon be out
again.
Don't forget our New Furniture
man when you want anything in
his line.
Mrs. Thankful Liston, of Bruce
ton, is visiting friends and relatives
an town.
Editor Dawson is away this week
ar Parkersburg, attending the Army
Reunion.
Ira Groves, Of near Pisgah, was
in town this week visiting his un-
Gle Mr.. Everly.
l.. NJ. Albright is in Philadelphia
this week, buying his fall and win
ter stock of goods.
Miss LYDIA Feltner, of Webster.
Taylor county, is visiting friends
and relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larkin Dunn. of
near Morgantown were visiting
friends in town last week.
= a good and substantial new fence
has been built between the GENE
terry and Academy grounds.
If YOU are not subscriber to
Gamers Cleaner, you ought to be.
Read the September number.
WANTED-10, 900 bushels chest
nuts at the highest market cash
} price at Gutherie's, Kingwood.
Miss Belle Spahr was down in the
lower end of the county during the
past week, looking after a school.
Gutherie pays the highest market
cash price for game, furs, beef
hides, sheep pelts, poultry, etc.
Willie Beavers returned Sunday
from weeks trip to Wheeling
/ where he was taking in the State
Fair.
w. +. Menear, Ben +. Menear,
@. J. Bishop and Will Smalley re-
turned from trip to Wheeling last
Thursday.
Charley Newman, an Oakland
printer, is in town this week visit
ing and helping with the financial
statement.
Miss Kate Purinton left for Graf
ton Tuesday evening to visit friends,
and goes from there to Wheeling, to
be gone two weeks.
In the nav Of a COW killed near
Darien, Ca, few days ago, was
found a pound of six penny nails
and five cent piece.
III. ID. Carroll, of the wild and
wOolly wilderness Of IIacklebarney,
was in town last Saturday, and
dropped in to sec us.
Now is the time to lay in your
winters supply of fuel while the
weather and the roads are good and
before the rush begins.
With the present rate of increase
as basis, it is estimated that
century hence this country will have
a population Of 9O4, 021 $3.50.
Duncan McRa has been confined
to the house for several days with
something like carbuncle on his
foot, but Is able to be out again.
The T. X. & +. has been running
aight and day of late, to get the
lumber and freight out of the way
and keep from being covered up in
it.
Alvin L. Vanzandt and Miss Jes-
she Purinton, Of Newburg, drove
over to Kingwood Saturday, and
returned Sunday by way of Mason
town,
Some rock has been broken on
the streets Of the town during the
past week. Enough for the boys to
throw at the COWS while driving
them up.
D~..1-I. =.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18

A quiet little wedding took
place yesterday at the residence
Of Marcellus Stone, near town.
Mr.. g. II. Wotring and Hattie
D. Hartman were united in we'd
lock by Rev. DR.. Felix Elliott.
OF this place. Mr.. Wotring is a
son Of W. J. Wotring who lives
on the old IIorndon farm near
Kingwood.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18

am directed by the president Of
the Teachers Institute Of Kingwood
district, Prof. Crichet, to announce
the first meeting Of the Institute for
the first Saturday Of October, at
p. m, it being deemed expedient to
have one meeting before the most of
the district schools begin, III order
that teachers may be benefited by
the discussion Of subjects before on
tering upon their respective duties.
ID. Mora, Cor. Sec.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18

While in Brandonvillo this week,
we stopped at the Hagans House,
kept by Squire Alpha Hagans. and
were never treated better in our
life. Squire Hagans and his esti-
mable wife do everything possible
for the care and comfort Of their
guest and we can heartily recon-
mend the weary traveller who may
pass that way to stop with them.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18

Write TO Stone when you want n
musical instrument of any kind.
lie is the "old reliable"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
julius X. Monroe,
SURVEYOR OF LAND i,
KENGwoOD. WA

Will answer calls for land surveying from any
part Of the county promptly az NJ reasonable
rates. Plots. drafts and calculations noatly aud
accurately made from deeds or field notes. Lay
Ing out and grading pixies, country roads and
tramways aleO laying Out town lots, streets.
foundations, etc. Correspondence gOlicited.
a-f-S0.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-09-18
Do IOU EAT !?
Then go TO Gutheric's Meat Mar
ket for MEATS. FISH. BOLOGNA.
BACON, GREEN GROCERIES,,
BREAD, PIES and CAK ES.
ARG YOU A "DL0GKS7EH2
IL so, buy your pot flowers of
Gutherie.

Bread, Pies and Cakes received
daily from the Wheeling Bakery.
Leave your orders, Special atten-
ION given to orders for Parties. Pie
mes, etc.
ID. $. GUTllERlE.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
A Spider and Fish story.

The physical powers of the lycoside-
 the popular, ground, or wolf spiders-sre
 we'll illustrated by an instance recorded in
 the proceedings of the Academy of Natu-
 ral Sciences of Philadelphia, says the Pop
 ular Science Monthly. The result, as re- ported, was achieved by pure strength and
 activity, without any of the mechanical advantages of a snare. Mir. Spring, while walking with friend in a swampy wood, which was pierced by a dike three feet wide, was attracted by the extraordinary movements of huge black spider ins the | middle of ditch. Closer examination showed that the creature had caught fish! | She had fastened upon it with deadly | grip just on the forward side of the dorsal fin, and the poor fish wasswimming round | and round slowly, or twisting its body a: | if in pain. The head of it's black enemy was sometimes almost pulled under tn, water, but the strength of the fish woult not permit an entire submersion. |
 moved its fins as if exhausted, and oftei l rested. Finally it swan under a floating leaf near the shore and made a vain effor to dislodge the spider by scraping agains
 the under side of the leaf. The two had now closely approached
 the bank. Suddenly the long black leg,
 of the spider emerged from the water, and
 the hinder ones reached out and fastened
 upon the irregularities of the sides of the
 ditch. The spider commenced tugging al his prize in order the land it. The c5ssr
 yer ran to the nearest house for wide
 mouthed bottle, leaving his fr.end t
 watch the struggle. During an interval oi
 six or eight minutes absence the spider
 had drawn the fish entirely out of thu
 water: then both creatures had fallen il
 again, the bank being nearly perpendicu lar. Then followed a great struggle, aa'
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08

{ The wrecking of train on the New York Central railroad has called forth prompt and hearty generation of the dread full crime. The man who will set fire to a house in the night and endanger the lives of those in it is rightly looked upon with detestation and horror; and the man who will deliberately wreck Q train, heed less of the lives of those on it, is quite as detestable. There does not seem to be any reason to doubt that the train wrecking course "organized labor" is not to be blamed for it, but only the villain or will lains who, disappointed in the result of the strike, took this dreadful way of seek ing revenge. But it nevertheless indicates what is always present to a greater or less degree in strikes, and especially in strikes which are not really justifiable. The strike on the New York Central, as shown by Powderly's letters, was foolish and ill-considered one. It's leaders were not honest with the railroad officers even if they were with the men whom they led. There was no sufficient cause of the strike, but it came, and ever since there have been reports of assaults upon ''scabs," rows with the Pinkerton watch men, loud and foolish talk, bitter accusa- tions and threatening. And then a crime which has startled the civilized world.
 If the villains are caught, as everybody hopes they will be, no punishment will be to severe for them. Meanwhile, would it not be good idea for the soberer and more level-headed men in labor organiza- tions to devote little thought to what conspiracy and recklessness are sure to lead. It is not always safe to encourage the striking spirit in men. Some of the reckless ones are apt to strike to hard.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
some English MesalIiances.


 What relief it must be to an aristo- cratic father of a young Verisopht when that scion of his house is safely married to suitable wife. The question, ''What shall We do with our boys.' is a serious one with some parents, even when those boys are over twenty-one, and not re quired to earn their own living. The English marriage law being what it is, is it much wonder that now and then a young man with his pockets full of money, and leading an idle life, should treat papa to such a surprise as the cue Lord Clancarty had about a year ago. When I first came to England it struck me as very funny that girl might go out to choose the fish for the family dinner and on her way home pass to the registry office and get married to any boy who happened to have caught her fancy, provided he was of the age re quired by law. No papers, no consent of parents required; nothing but couple of witnesses. The Dunlo divorce case has brought home to me afresh the fact that red tape is an excellent thing in modera- tion. 1t cannot be much of a treat for a British earl to wake one morning to find himself the father-in-law of a lady whose photograph in the airy costume of a music hall star is on view in London show win dows, and to whom he may reasonably have far gfaver objections than that of professional costume.
 They manage these things better in France. In that country mesalliances are sufficiently common to disprove the Eng fish notion that Frenchmen marry for money; in fact they are much more com mon than in England. In the bourgeois class you may constantly see men marry penniless girls who work for their living at some honest employment. Of course there is opposition from NJ. and Mime. Prudhamme, who had other views for their son, but that is inevitably overcome at the birth of the rash sons first baby, if not before. But in the aristocracy one never hears of glaring meslllianee like Lord Dunlo's. Our aristocracy is an old one and proud one. With the exception of few families, such as the Towards, | the English aristocracy is a mushroom | growth compared with the French one. | Robbed of their power they cling all the | more tenaciously to their family dignity, | and the duty of keeping it up is inculca- | ted into her sons by every French grande dame as soon as the boys are old enough | to understand one thing from another. | Backing up the mothers of authority, which, believe, would in nine cases out of ten be all sufficient, there comes the law which compels man, even after he is | of age, to ask his parents consent to his
 contemplated marriage. If they refuse, | he must three times, at stated intervals,
 serve them with notice of his intention | to marry. If Lord Clancarty had only
 had one such notice he might have sent l his son to Australia before instead of af- | ter his twenty-first birthday.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
FRESHNESS YS. POLITICS.

Ex-President Andrew s. White of Cor nell has again called attention to matter which has not received enough attention. This is the divorce of purely municipal affairs from general politics. We have been repeating, he says. the old blunder of the middle-age Italian republics in treat ing the city as a political body, instead ot business corporation. He contends that the city, as city, has properly nothing to do with general political interests and is sues, and that national party names have no rightful place in the administration of municipal affairs. Expanding his thought, he says: The questions in city are not political questions. They have reference to the laying out of streets, the erection of buildings, sanitary arrange ments including sewerage, water supply, gas supply, electrical supply, provisions for the public health in parks, bouleyards, libraries, museums, and finally in control of the franchises and the like. The work of city being the creation and control of the city, it should logically be managed as piece of property, by those who have created it, who have title to it, or real substantial part in it, and who can there fore feel strongly their duty to it. Under our theory, that city is political body a crowd of illiterate men, freshly raked ir from Bohemian mines, or Italian robbel nests, or Irish peat bogs, may exercise vital control. How such men goverr cities we know too we'll; as a rule they are not alive to their own most direct in terests.
 This is very much to the point. O. course. there ought to be no politics in thu making of sewers, the paving of streets etc., etc. A few good business men
 properly paid for the services, could d'
 the work of city far better and econo
 mically than the ward politicians do.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08

The New Workers want new census of their city. They think that the counters have missed at least 200, ,O00.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
Heroine Maria T-chebrIkov..

Maria Tschebrikova, whose letter to the Car has not yet been forgotten, and who
 heroine maria tsche-
 was recently ordered to be taken to Sibe- ria, has commonly been described as a young lady. The heroine, says the Lon don Echo, is fifty-four. Madame Tsche brikova had not been heard of outside of Russia before the publication of her fa- nous letter, but she has done much Her life has been more important than con spicuous. Twenty-two years ago she pub lished book on Russian history and lite rature, but before the letter in question she had not published line which even the Russian censors would object to. She was not a revolutionist nor is she now With anarchism. nihilism, ftred' politics of any sort, she neither had nor has any sympathy whatever. What has got Maria Tschebrikoya into trouble is not politics. but her candid, ontspoken warnings to the Car, her assertion that in .'educated and official society the adoratson of the Car has died out. and that s'the government which rules over one hundred millions is afraid even of children This is an aIlu- sion to the frequent imprisonments of children of fourteen and fifteen years of age. The heroines of the French revolu- ton read Plutarch. The unique heroine of modern Russia derived much of her i'm spiration from her study of the characters of the American revolution Madame Tschebrikova knows English literature and American history thoroughly
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
DRUNKENNESS A DISEASE.
An English Doctor Says So, and Would Establish Hospitals to Cure unabrfotes

An English Doctor Says So, and
 Would Establish Hospitals to Cure
 Inebriatcs.
 Why do some men and women become
 drunkards while the majority of their
 compeers, though also non-abstainers, do
 notl asks Dr. Norman Kerr in Short Cuts.
 No one starts with the design of gradua-
 ting in drunkenness, but 6 minority fail
 in their efforts at moderation. Many of
 the failures were conspicuous for their
 talents, their accomplishments, their ener-
 gy, their unselfshness and the nobility of
 their aspirations. In their non-alcoholic intervals not few inebriates are men and women of refinement and culture. temper ance advocates and Christian workers. The only possibly philosophical and scientific reply is that some individuals have, from whatever conditions, either tendency to inebr;ate excess, or defec- tive power of control and resistance. En- vironment, such as temptations arising out of social custom or a profusion of places where liquor can be obtained, also contributes to the development of the drunken manifestations. A bout of in toxication is no moce the disease of inc
 briety than is an act of violence the dis
 case of insanity. have ventured to de-
 fine inebrieSy as disease of the nervous
 system, allied to insanity, characterized
 by very strong impulse to, or crave for,
 intoxication. It is not a dispo (thirst)
 mania.
 Many inebriates are never thirsty unless
 their "coppers are hot" after debauch,
 and others hate the liquor, which they
 cannot abstain from. Inebriety is really a
 ''tipsy mania" or, as I have proposed to
 T l. madness for intoxication by alcohol or opi- um, or any other intoxicant. This malady may be constant, periodical or accidental. In the accidental form there is no symp- tom of confirmed disease. The individual
 never transgresses, except on some extra
 ordinary occasion, such as wedding or @ funeral, or a parliamentary election.
 In the excitement and joviality of the
 moment his spirits are too absorbed and
 buoyant to allow him to think of how
 much he has taken; and, without the slightest idea of anything of the kind, he simply glides, unknowingly and quite by accident, into excess, manifest to others at the time, but not discernible by himself till next morning. "0nce bit, twice shy,n and very often he is never caught second time. The periodical inebriate, though between whiles as sober as judge, is the subject of morbid physical disorder, which may occur either at stated or irreg- ular intervals.
 Inebriety is A disease. Let us treat it as we would any other disease. Inebriates are laboring under this disease. Let us
 treat them as sick persons. Let us estab- l fish hospitals for the treatment of the | poorest victims of this dire and- fatal dis | ease. Let us enact measures for the com | pulsory reception and detention for cura- l tive purposes of all inebriates, whatever their worldly circumstances, whose will power has been so broken down by drink | that they are unable themselves to strike a | blow for freedom.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
POW ER.

Money may make an ordinary mare go, but it doesn't make the nightmare go.- Chatter.
 It is difficult for lady who paints to keep her countenance when out in the rain.-Texss Siftings.
 No matter how poor the astronomer may be, he is always looking up in the world Burlington Free Press. -
 "How's speculationg' asked the bee 'sBad," said the fly 'sI got pinched in a sugar corner last week, and my father is so deep in molasses I'm afraid he'll never get out again. Town Crier.
 Some persons will tell you there's no such thing as perfect happiness in this world They are wrong. A man is su- premely happy the moment after he has got a cinder out of his eye.-Boston Tran script.
 In the School of Design. What are the chief requisites of an artis- tic ring? Pupil (who is an enthusiast con- corning Sullivan)-Seclusion even ground, strong ropes and friendly sheriff. eller's Weekly.
 What! Alone at dinner, Gertiea' 'Yes, while we were boarding George always dined with me, but now that we're house keeping, and de my own cooking, he is | so busy at the office he hardly has time to come to home meal at all. Philadelphia | Times.
 In the Riding School. Softly, recruit | Don't twist that horse about sol You ars not in ball room, and horse belonging to the government, I would have yor I know, is no lady, that you can handle SC | carelessly and turn about for your ow1 Fiegende Blatter.
 Family physician to very cadaveroui patient)-H'mi Distress in your stomacl and a pain in your back, ehl We'll, I'll fl, you up plaster, and you can clap it ol either in front or behind. The two pain are so near together that one plaster vii do for both.-Harper's Weekly.
 In Court-"You are convicted of havin broken into and robbed the railroad office Have you anything to say in your de fensel' 'Your Honor, only beg you remember, as to my honesty, that hay paid my last months rent out of the none
 which took."-Fliegende Blatter.
 Grandma is pretty we'll on in years now
 and Time has left his marks in man wrinkles on her dear old face. Lttl
 Lucy was sitting in grandma's lap tn
 other day, and after long, inquiring gag asked: ssGrandma, what makes your fac all so mussed upf'-Presb
 Twenty years ago Georgia man was ac
 vised to carry snuff in his pocket to thro' into a mad dogs eyes in case he ever ms , one. He followed the advice right to :
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08

Free trade doesn't seem to have been a good thing for agriculture in England. In
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
THE TRAIN-WRECKING.

Rus4is R sAs Ia1sH, Saais.aD. Secretaries. .. <.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08
STEEL IS THEIR FOOD. The Queer Little Worms that ate the Railway Tracks at Hagen.
ITFrom inc Americsn Msnusac,nrer1


 A worm that feeds on common steel was hrst brought into general notice by an arti- cle in the Cologne Gazette in June, 1887.
 For some time proceeding the publica- ton of the account mentioned the greatest consternation existed among the engineers employed on the railway at Hagen by acci- dents, which always occurred at the same place, indicating that some terrible defect must exist either in the material or the construction of the rails.
 The government became interested and sent a commission to the spot for the pur- pose of maintaining constant watch at the spot where the accidents, one of them attended by loss of life had occurred. It was not, however, until after six months had elapsed that the surfaces of the rails appeared corroded, as if by acid, to the ex- tent of over 100 yards
 The rail was taken up and broken, where upon it was found to be literary honey combed by thin thread-lile gray worms. The worm is said to be two centimeters in length, and the bigness of a common knit ting needle. It is of a light gray color, and on the head it carries two little sacks or glands filled with n most powerful corro- sive secretion, which is elected every ten minutes when the little demon is lying un- disturbed. The liquid, when spirited up- on iron, renders that metal soft and spongy, and the color of rust, when it is easily and greedily devoured by the little insect. ''There is no exaggeration," says the off cial report, sin the assertion that the crea- tuTe is one of of the most voracious, for it hasdevoured thirty-six kilogrammeso rails in a fortnight
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-08

dot, but after all these years an old mule backed up to him the other day and kicked him off the face. of the earth.-Detroit Free Press.
 They Take Theirs Straight.-Miss Bunting-Look, look, Mir Pelham, There seems to be some trouble over at the Larchmont club. Men are yelling from the shore and pointing guris and revolvers at that sailboat. Mr. Pelham-Oh, that's nothing. It's the water supply boat, and they're afraid it's going to land.-Puck. Ze bug of Zhune haf ze gilded wing,
 Ze glowvorm haf glare;
 Ze baidbug haf not at all ze wing,
 But ze same he all gets zaire.
 Buffalo Express