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Sharp County record., 1890-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Risden Iron Works of San Fran
cisco have indicated to Secretary Tracy
their intention of bidding for the con-
struction of armored cruisers Nos. 2
and 6.
WILLIAM e. JACKSON, Of Augusta,
Ga, has perfected mechanical appli-
ances for making cotton bagging from
the heretofore waste stalks of the cot
ton plant, which, it is estimated, will
give the planter 81, 600, 900 annually for
what has been regarded as rubbish.
TIE President, on the 10th, approved
the bill placing General John c. Ere
mont, on the retired list of the army
with the rank of Major-General.
THREE men were killed and six badly
wounded by an explosion at the Etna
mills at New Castle, Pa, on the 23d.
Mrs. GENERAL L. S. GRANT, who is
we'll and active despite her years, is
preparing volume of family reminis-
cences, which, however, is not intended
for publications but for the exclusive
use of her children.
WILLIAM w. CHRISTOPHER, who plead
ed guilty to the charge of killing Chas.
2. Logue last summer, was fined 500
and costs in Baltimore, Md, on the 2lst.
JUDGE MCILvAINE, of Washington
County, Pa, on the 2lst, refused, in
long decision, to grant retail liquor
licenses in that county, which has been
prohibition for twenty-five years.
THE Para Rubber Shoe Company, of
South Framingham, Mass, on the 2lst,
voluntarily increased the wages of
their employees an average of about
twelve per cent.
Mrs, 0RyILLE Coon was suddenly
seized with an epileptic fit during di-
vine worship at Syracuse, n, W on the
Goth, and despite the efforts Of physi-
clans who were summoned died soon
after.
IsADoR WEINE, formerly of Charles
ton, S. c., and chief officer of General
Beauregard's eaif during the war Of
the rebellion, died suddenly in New
York on the DIST. After the surrender of
Appomattox he moved North and en-
gagged in several business enterprises,
all of which ended in financial disaster.
THE Ohio House of Representatives,
while in session, on the 2lst, was inter-
rupted by fight in the lobby between
Adiutant-Generai Morton l.. Hawkins
and Colonel Sol p. Kcnnon, an officer of
the First Ohio Regiment, who were dis
putting concerning regimental matters,
when Kennun called Hawkins liar
and was Immediately knocked down by
the latter.
JOHN E. CowDEN, of Amesbury,
Mass, said to be the oldest Odd Fellow
in the country, died on the Goth, aged
eighty-two years. He joined the order
in Philadelphia in 1881.
A LARGE number of men were i'm
prisoned in the Rock Springs Coal mine
No 4, at Cheyenne, Wyo., on the 22d.
Volunteer rescuing parties were driven
back by successive explosions. all more
or less injured. When the work Of res
cue was finally abandoned thirty men,
all supposed to he dead, were left at the
bottom of the burning pit.
SHERMAN l.. KNIGHT country school
teacher, obtained 81, 900 at a bank in
Tifin, o., on the 22d, on note purport-
ing to be signed by his father, wealthy
farmer. The genuineness of the note is
questioned, the young man having dis
appeared. He had borne good charac-
ter.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate, on the 25th, House
joint resolution app ropriating $3.50, O0O
to be used by the Secretary of War for
the relief Of destitute persons in the
districts overhowed by the Mississippi
and its tributaries, was passed, as were
two or three other bills of no general
interest, and the remainder of the ses-
sion was given up to eulOgies of the late
Representative Edward j. Gay, of Lou
isiana, out of respect to whose memory
the Senate then adjourned......I In the
House the joint resolution to enable the
Secretary of War to distribute rations
for the relief of the destitute people in
the districts overhowed by the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries was passed.
The House then went into committee Of
the whole on the Legislative Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill, An
evening session was held at which thirty
private pension bills were passed.
The President on the 25th, withdrew
from the Senate the appointment of
Captain w. Y. Thompson to he be post
master at McKeesport, Pa, because it is
charged that he plays poker, drinks
whisky and swears,
PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 25th, ap-
proved the joint resolution passed by
the House and Senate on the same date,
appropriating Sl50O0O for the relief of
Mississippi river flood sufferers.
SPECIAL crop reports from all parts of
Manitoba state that never before were
indications at this season of the year
more favorable for prosperous season.
JAMES LANDLORD, assistant pastmast-
er at Sanborn, Ind, was sentenced, on
the 24th, to year in the penitentiary
for rifling registered letters.
THE Worlds Fair bill was approved
by the President on the 25th.
BUSINESS failures in the United States
for the seven days ended on the 25th,
numbered 179 and those of Canada 80
total 21S, compared with PA for the pre-
vious week. For the corresponding
week last year the figures were 1S6 in
the United States and - in Canada.
ENnN PASHA with 500 porters, five
German officers and large body of Nu-
bian soldiers started from Zanzibar for
the interior of Africa on the 25th.
THE English are much disturbed over
the new aspect of affairs in Africa,
and look with alarm upon Germany's
newly-displayed energy in the matter
of colonization.
THE Monetary Times of Toronto, a
leading commercial paper of Canada,
condemns the Dominion 6 Government
for placing duties on agricultural prod
ucts, and says such action invited re-
taliation on the part Of the United
States
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08
~. rrnrrr and Fret

Men worry and women iip" ,,or,sh Il
ting man is unusual, and NV nn,s,,
wears herself out with worry .onnc
panied with fretting is nov , ronp'
Both are manifestations 9. o,,.s .a'
failing, however, and fret'iDst ~ otbss
worse so far as it compelo tt
share the victims unhappin',o 1orrr
trite saying that fret anu M md 4
more people than hard woln' oulnna'lirlrg
manv men and women @as,tulli
truth of this have gone SuCIsh SIo h,bi.
work to conquer the miserapl, 4ss tsniI'
is harder to do this whefe wv dous,
is inherited, but 1t can ~ III ths y
where it is an acquired nau "ni,it !
is easy TOR a determined a Hra aoa 81;
way to stop is to stop
keeping.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

SEVENTY carloads of oranges had
left Los Angeles, Cal, for the East, up
to the Goth, by special trains, and rail
road agents estimated that there were
five hundred carloads yet remaining to
be shipped.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

PETER L. MASON settled on valuable
claim near Seward, Oklahoma, eight
miles south of Guthrie, a year ago,
and, on the 23d, the Government patent
was given him, being the first in the
Territory.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

DANIEL MITCHELL and Joseph Kani
were drowned by the upsetting of
skiff in the Delaware river on the goth.
Three other men who were in the boat
were rescued after being in the water
two hours.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

SECRETARY RUsK says our imports of
agricultural products amount to $780,
273, 73S, the greater part of which, prob
ably $3.50, 900, 900, might be, with proper
encouragement, produced on our own
soil
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE grand master of the Masons OF
the District of Columbia, on the 2@d,
issued an edict annuling an edict issued
last July against the Cerneau Scottish
Rite Masons for alleged fraternal rela-
tions with the Grand Orient of France.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THERE has been a general increase in
the Newfoundland tariff system of five
to ten per cent The duty on butter
and cheese has been raised to three
cents per pound; cigars ten PEI cent.
ad valorem and Sc per thousand, and
fresh meats II cents per pound.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

EVERY thing is working smoothly and
satisfactorily at the new Immigrant
station In New York, and when the new
force are familiar with their duties,
business will be transacted more eX-
peditiously and speedily than under the
old employees and old system.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE Post-Oflce Appropriation bill
was finished by the House committee on
post-ofilces and post roads, on the 22d
1t carries an appropriation of S79, 45O,-
9S2, being IS, s45, ,66S more than the ap-
propriation for the current fiscal year.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE House committee on agriculture,
on the 23d, authorized a favorable re-
mort on Senator Edmunds' bill providing
for an inspection of meats for eXporta-
ton and prohibiting the importation OF
adultorated articles of food and drink.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THREE Cinnamon were seized by the
custom-house officials at Buffalo, n. w.
on the odd, as they were landing from
a row-boat. They were attempting not
only to make an illegal entrance into the
country, but we're loaded down with
contraband opium.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

HIGH Russian authorities view with
unresorved disapproval the proposed
presentation to the Gar of remon-
strances from America and England
against cruelties in Siberia.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

Hon. DAVID A. TAGGART, president
of the Now Hampshire State Senate,
was inaugurated as acting Governor, on
the 92d, by the Executive Council and
will perform the gubernatorial duties
during the absence of Governor Goodell,
who is incapacitated by sickness.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

Miss ARDIE MOORE GOODWIN, pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek at Vassar
College, died in the Vassar Hospital on
the 23d She had been an instructor at
the college for seventeen years.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE Treasury Department has decid-
ed that 81 per gallon is the highest
rate of duty that can be imposed on al
cohol.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE Ontario House of Commons, on
the gath, passed to the third reading
the bill extending the modus vivcndi
for another year.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

FIVE Russian sisters in Moscow were
driven to suicide, on the oath, by the
dread of being arrested as Nihilists' A
short time before taking their lives
they burned all their papers, presuma-
bly with the object of shielding others.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

LAWRENCE LONG, of Shelbyville, KY,
and j. j. McCann, of Flatbush, N. T.,
were, on the Gath, appointed military
cadets at West Point.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

OTTO LEUTH, the Ohio boy-murderer,
who was to have been hanged at Cleve-
land, on the 2Sd, has been respited to
Inna %
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE Inman Line steamship City OF
Berlin was seized by the revenue OIL
GERS at New York, on the "lst and
threatened with confscation for at
tempting to discharge her cargo with
out having first entered at the custom
housp
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE railroads of the country receive
twenty-one million dollars a year for
carrying Uncle Sans mail-bags.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE letter-carrier system OF the coun-
try will cost the Post-Oflice Department
nine million dollars this year.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE lovep at Bayou Sara, La., gave
way, on tie 22d, and great loss of life
was threatened. Governor Nichols, be-
ing appealed to, promptly sent
steamer and barges for the rescue OF
the imporilcd people. He also appealed
for National aid in view of the disaster.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE National convention OF colored
men in session in Washington, on the
4th perfected permanent organization
bv the election of Rev. j. c. Price, OF
North Carolina, as president, and W. c.
Chase, of Washington, secretary. Alist
of honorary vice-presidents, one from
each State represented in the conyen-
ton, was also selected.
Sharp County record., 1890-05-08

THE now White Star Line steamship
Majestic, which left New York, on the
10th. on her maiden eastward-bound
trim. arrived at Queenstown on the 23d,
six days, eight hours and ffty-eight
minutes out. The ships log shows her
daily runs to have been as follows; S4s'
s34 331, 44S, 437, 442 and 347 miles.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20


and the churches were turned into
halls for political meetings. Elk
Secretary of the Interior Villas gave
his endorsement to this crusade
against education, and Roger Q.
Mills went all the way from Texas to
lend it word of encouragement.
That is why ignorance, bigotry and
the Democratic party trjumphed in
Wisconsin the 4th of last November,
and it is to the eternal honor of the
Republican party that it went down
in defeat before such combination
and lost a United States Senator -
Phtladelbhla Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20
WILLIAM D. HOARD.

by the Governor:
ERNST G. TIMME, Secretary of State
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20
A Defeat That is an Honor.

Unlike the defeat in Michigan,
the reverse in Wisconsin is wholly to
the honor of the Republican party.
1t placed itself squarely in defense
of the principle of education for the
children of the state, and in this atti-
tude it had to meet the combined
assaults of ignorance and religious
bigotry and prejudice, sustained and
encouraged by the Democratic party.
The Bennett compulsory school law
aroused the hostility of the Roman
Catholic and German Lutheran
churches, and in return for the prom
ised repeal of the statute the clergy
of these NO denominations pledged
the vote of their congregations to
the Democratic candidates. The
ministers became political heelers
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

IT must be highly gratifying to the
Democrats to know that jubilee
meetings are being held all over Flu
rope to celebrate the Democratic
victory, which over there is regarded
as the first step towards free trade.
Let the man who learns his bread
by the sweat Of his brow" devote a
few minutes to studying and then
let him ask himself "why these Eu.
ropeans are rejoicing at Democratic
success -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

REPUBLICAN Senators and Repre-
sentatives in the present Congress
have no idea of taking advice from
Democratic editors as to what shall
or shall not be done at the coming
short session. It is a Republican
Congress and Republican admins
tration, and Republicans will decide
what shall be done and what left I'M
done, without any Democratic inter
ference.
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Washington Letter.

Senator Sherman, who is always
cool-headed, expresses his opinion
of the resent overturn as follows:
"The most serious result of the re-
cent elections is the hardening Of
the times, caused by the distrust Of
the financial policy Of the incoming
House of Representatives. All sorts
of financial schemes of the widest
character will be proposed, and what
ever may be the outcome they will
make capital timid and arrest many
enterprises that were on the point Of
being executed. The first effect Of
this may be seen in the present pan
iCky condition of the New York
money market. The tariff act would
have set on foot many new indus
tries which will be prevented or de-
layed by the doubt created as to the
industrial policy of the future. The
exuberant JOY in foreign markets
over our elections is the best evil
dence of the danger We have to
meet. Foreigners do not understand
the conservative nature of our insti-
tutions, which require more than one
election to change our policy, but
timid men among us will be affected
by the hopes and expectations Of
foreign manufacturers and will not
engage in competition until satisfied
of the stability of our protection
policy.
"And then who can tell what will
be our standard of value !? The i'm
mediate fall of silver upon the hap
pening of an election is an indica-
ton of distrust and alarm. The
policy of tieing together gold and
silver, with an increase Of currency,
gave a hopeful outlook for the flu
ture, but a renewal of the contest for
the free coinage of silver will cause
an expectation or boarding of gold
and a relative fall of silver. Our
only course as Republicans is to
maintain and strengthen our indus
trial policy on the line we have pur-
sued in the hope that by the next
election the people will be convinced
by the test Of time that the tariff act
will not advance prices, but will al
vance home industries.
The President is credited with
having coined a new name for those
Republicans who voted against their
party at the late election. He calls
them "brevet Democrats"
Senator Spooner has arrived here.
He does not appear at all cast down
by the defeat of the party in Wis
consin. He says it was the school
question that made it impossible for
the Republicans to win in that State.
Mr.. Spooner thinks the Republicans
will 90 on with their business at the
coming session of Congress just as
though there had been no election,
and he has no doubt of the passage
of the election bill by the Senate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

A LARGE number of Wisconsin
electors who sat down at home on
election day declaring: club, the
country is all right; Hoard will be
elected by 10000 majority; the tar
iff is all right" are now in serious
meditation upon the subject of the
uncertainties of life and the folly of
not doing their duty
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STATE OF WISCONSIN
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR.

Following a time-honored and praiseworthy
custom, and conforming to the proclamation OF
the President of the United States. l, William d.
Hoard, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, do
appoint and designate Thursday, November 27th
instant, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to
Almighty God, and recommend that on that day
the people, in their accustomed places of worship,
give thanks for the many blessings accorded
them, and that they remember, by substantial
tokens the poor they have among them.
In testimony Whereof have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the great seal of
the State of Wisconsin to be affixed.
IGreat Seal Done at the Capitol, in Madison,
this twelfth day of Novem-
Der, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety.
WILLIAM D. HOARD.
BY the Governor:
ERNST G. TIMME Secretary of State
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

THE majority of the men elected
to the next House of Representatives
agree in only one thing-opposition
TO the Republican party. This fact
will be made more apparent after the
Fifty second Congress is in session.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

IT would be we'll for our Demo
cratic friends to remember that it
way the stay-athome Republicans,
and not their party, which brought
about the revolution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

The Republican back bone is all
right, and although the digestive or
gans of the party got little out of
order on election day, there is no
cause for alarm. A little tonic in
the shape of two years prosperity
will bring the patient around all
right before '92.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

BY the time the cat and dog fight
among the Democrats for the Speak
ership and other officers Of the next
House is ended, there will be almost
as many factions as there are Demo
Gratis in the House.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

The Democratic horizon appears
to be widening, They no longer
talk as though they we're compelled
to nominate Mr.. Cleveland in 1892.
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CAttARRh

Is constitutional and not local disease,
and therefore it cannot be cured by local
applications. 1t requires Il constitutional
remedy like Hoods Sarsaparilla, which,
working through the blood, eradicates the
impurity which causes and promotes the
disease, and effects permanent cure.
Thousands of people testify to the success
of HOODS Sarsaparilla as a remedy for
catarrh when other preparations had failed.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22

Jefferson county knows a good legislator
when his record is made and the people
have an opportunity to examine it. Jefer-
son always returns the member Of the House
of Delegates one or more times, unless the
gentleman refuses toserye his county longer.
Hon. B. d. Gibson is no exception to this
rule in Jefferson. He is the regular Demo
cratic nominee for the House again. A. 5.
cambridge is his running mate. Mr.. Gibson
made an excellent record in the last Legis-
lature. No member was more industrious
or more watchful of his constituents inter
ests. and his return to the Legislature of 81
will be a just recognition of his past ser
vices Wheeling Register
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22
L4mREYCE FINLAN DEAD.
4 Ven Knorn citizen Who Made His
o,rn Tombstone

On Wednesday evening iasl, Lawrence
Finlan. lfamiliariy called Larry, we'll
known and highly respected citizen OF this
place, died at his home on Camp Hill after
an illness of a few weeks. he was IS years
of age. and had been in TINS country oV
wears 40 of which were spent IN Harper's
Ferry. .L
heart warm and true and full oil sentiment,
and we are but one among many who Will
long remember him and wish there were
more as good and honest.
In lS70-just twenty years ago-Mr fln-
Ian secured a large slab Of slate stone from
the r. r. Co. from whom he was working
as stone-cutter, and began the work OF max
ing his own tombstone. For nineteen years
he chiseled away at this stone, after working
hours and in bis eizure moments; and last
summer year he finished II and had 1t
taken to the Catholic cemetery. 1t now
marks his last resting place'-HarPer's fer-
ry Sentinel
The deceased was among the early ac-
quaintances Of the present editor of The
FREE PRESS, who has pleasant recollections
of him. He lived in this town number OF
years.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22

The sound of the hammer is heard in the
land. Our builders are very busy and are
putting up some good houses. If this be
so in the green tree what will be in the dry !?
As soon as the Improvement Company lays
Off the streets and makes q distribution and
sale of lots as contemplated, it will make
things lively here and everybody, in all
pursuits of business, will feel that the i'm
mortal -. n" has lifted the veil and the
change in fellows pockets will jingle as
he turns a sharp corner-"cOrner lot"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22
MAR REED.

In this town. on Wednesday evening Octo-
Der 18th. bv Rev. DR.. James S. Gardner, Mr..
BENJAMIN WALTER DUNLAP and Miss
ALICE L. BAKER, daughter Of Mr.. Levi Ba-
ker-all Of this town.
At Chadron. Nebraska. October sth, 1890,
bv Rev. Mr.. Ferguson, Mr.. WILLIAM Hill
BERT. formerly of this place, to Miss JUNE
GILLETTE, OF Nebraska.
On Tuesday, October nth, 1890, in Washing
ton City. by Rev W W Dean, assisted by Rev.
L. r. Dyott, Mr.. ARNOLD 5. WANTS, for
merly of Harper's Ferry, and Miss MATTE
FRISBY of Washington
In Harper's Ferry, on Thursday evening,
October 10Th. 1890 by Rev. W. B. Everett, Mr.
WILL BLACK, of Harper's Ferry. and Miss
PEACH E. ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF Mr. George
Koonce of Halltown, Jefferson county.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22

Hon. E. Boyd Faulkner, of Martinsburg,
made an address to the Democrats of Shep-
herdstown last Saturday night, and it is GER
tain that a more effective political address
has seldom been heard here. Mr.. Faulkner
attacked the Mckinley tariff bill and the
other works of the present Congress, and he
dealt some sledgehammer blows. he had a
big audience, and his speech was most en-
Enthusiastically eceiyed.-ShePherdstoen Reg
ister 18th.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-10-22

Rev. E. W. Syle, D. D., died at Il Callow
street, London, England, October 9Th, at an
advanced age. DR.. Syle had been in I'M
paired health for several years and sue
cumbed to a stroke of paralysis just twelve
days after the loss of his wife, Mrs r. j..
Syle. whose death we recorded in our issue
of October s. As missionary in China and
Japan and in many capacities in this coun-
try and England DR.. Styles life was replete
with successful Christian labors.