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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
TIE uNlcYoLE RAILWAY.
A Singlc-Rail Track Road Designed for
High Speed Traffic.

Singlc-Rnil Track Road Designed for
High Speed Traffic.
During several weeks last summer
there We're in regular and continuous
operation, in railway passenger service,
the locomotive and cars shown in the
lower view herewith presented, the
service being between Gravesend and
Coney Island, on an abandoned section
of an old standard gauge track of the
Sea Beach & Brighton railroad. The
locomotive weighs nine tons, and has
two 10 by 12-inch cylinders, the piston
rods of both being connected with
cranlls on each side the single six-foot
driving wheel, and the front of the To-
comotive being also supported by two
3S-inch pony wheels, one behind the
other. These wheels have double
fanges, to contact with either side of
the track rail, as also have similarly ar
ranged pairs of 3S-inch wheels arranged
under and housed in the floors near each
end of the cars.
In the upper view is shown an inn
proved locomotive especially designed
for this method of traction, and built
for use on u street railway of western
city. 1t weighs 16 tons and has a
pair of five-foot drivers. The crank is
only seven inches in length, and the en-.
gine is designed to readily make GOO
revolutions minute, and maintain
speed of 100 miles an hour with u full
train of passenger cars. The first Boyn-
ton locomotive, described in September,
1885, had an eight-foot driving wheel
and weighed 23 tons. 1t proved too
heavy for use on the old Coney Island
road, although it was undoubtedly cap
able of making very high speed and
easily drawing heavy train of single
wheel cars ON properly arranged
track.
In true line with, and fifteen feet
directly above the face of the track
rail is the lower face of guide rail,
supported from posts arranged along
the side of the track, and on the sides
of this guide rail run pairs of rubber
faced trolley wheels attached to the
top of the locomotive and the cars The
guide rail is simple stringer of yellow
pine, AIMS inches in section, and the
standards on which the trolley wheels
are journaled are placed far enough
apart to allow space of inches be-
tween the contiguous faces of each pair
of wheels, thus affording ~ inches for
lateral play, or sidewise movement
toward or from the guard rail, it being
designed that the guide rail shall be
arranged in the exact line of the true
center of gravity of the cars and
locomotive. The standards are bolted
to 6-inch wide strap iron attached tc
and extending across the top of the car.
The switching arrangement is re.
markably simple. In addition to an or.
dinary track switch, in which, however,
the switch bar is made to throw only
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
FIRST CONFEDERATE GUN.
Valuable Relic owned by n Chattanoogs
CTenn.) Woman.

A Valuable Relic owned by Chattanooga
CTenn.) Woman.
The first gun made for the Confeder-
ate government is owned by Mrs. H. /.
Miller of this city. The gun was made by
Mrs, Miller's father, W. S. McElwaine,
at Holly Springs, Miss, in the summer of
1861. 1t was carried through part of
the war by young man of Holly
Springs, friend of Mr.. McElwaine 1t
had rified barrel originally. About
the middle of the war the barrel was
injured by ball, and the gun was re-
turned to Mr.. McElwaine, who cut it
off at the injured point and bored it for
shotgun. AS seen by a GlobeDemo-
crat reporter lately, it was in compare
lively good condition
Mr.. McElwaine was a native of Pitts
field, Mass, where he learned the trade
of machinist. Afterward he worked
in a gun factory in New York, and then
moved to Sanduslzy, o., where he en-
gagged in the foundry and machine bust.
ness. In 1859 he moved to Mississippi.
In crude way he began the foundry
business, with two partners. When the
war broke out the company had we'll
etluippSC eSld OllSHLuelG, anu JelleFSOn
Davis, being conversant with the prop
erty, induced its owners to convert it
into an armory. Small arms were bad
ly needed and Mr. McElwaine having
neither the machines nor patterns, went
to work to produce them. He planned
and made the necessary machinery for
making stocks, barrels and borings,
working out the patterns, and with his
own hand made the first gun which his
daughter now preserves.
When the battle of Shiloh was fought
in 1862 the plant was turning out TWEEN
| ty-fve stands of arms day and en-
ployed five hundred hands. The armo-
ry was afterwards sold to the Confeder-
ate government for one hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars in addition to the
sixty thousand dollars paid for arms up
| to that time. The plant was removed
| to Mason, Ga. After the evacuation of
Corinth and vicinity by the Confeder-
ates, a raid was made and the building
of Holly Springs set fire to and destroy
ed. After an eventful career the maker
of the first gun of the Confederacy died
in Chattanooga in 1872 The owners OF
Libby Prison, at Chicago, are in CORE
pondence with Mrs Miller for the pur.
chase of the historic relic.-St. Louis
| Globe Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

THE BoYNToN UNICYCLE RAILROAD.
one rail- a connection is made by means
of vertical rod and upper switch bar
with shifting section of the guide rail,
whereby, on the moving of the track
rail and the setting of the signal, the
guide rail viii be simultaneously moved,
the adjustment being effected and both
being locked in position according to
the methods usual in ordinary railway
practice.
The cars, as will be seen, are each
two stories in height, each story being
divided lengthwise into nine separate
compartments, each of which Will com.
fortably seat four passengers, thus pro-
viding seats for seventy-two passengers
in each car. Each compartment has its
own sliding door, and all the doors on
the same floor of the car are connected
by rods at the top and bottom with a
lever in convenient reach of the brake.
man, by whom the doors are all opened
and closed simultaneously. The com.
partments are each four feet wide and
five feet long, the seats facing each
other. Only one rail of the old single
track was used, as only one guide rail
had been erected, except at the ends OF
the route, for switching purposes, but
the width of the cars and motor was
such that it only required the erection
of another guide rail, for the utilizing
of the other track rail, to form a regu-
lar double track road of the Boynton
pattern.
The section road on which this sys.
tenn has been operated is only "a miles
long, in which distance the curves are
considerable, but, although they are
mostly in one direction, the indication
of wear upon the traction wheels,
and upon the guide rail and trolley
wheels were hardly perceptible. Dur.
ing portion of the season, when the
summer travel to Coney Island was at
its height, trains were run on regular
schedule time, fifty-three car trains
daily each way, carrying from one To
three hundred passengers per trip. The
regular time taken for the run was
three minutes, but special trips were
made in two and three-quarters min.
utes each, including starting and stop.
ping. The daily consumption of coal
in performing this service was but hall
ton. The great economy of this
method of traction is also evidenced
by the smocthness with which the cars
run, and the entire absence of side mo,
ton and vibration, there being no strik.
ing and grinding of the wheel flanges
upon the rails, as is common on double.
track roads.-Scientific American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
Railway Search Light.

A search light for railway purposes
was tested recently by Mr. Wheeler,
the electrician of the New Jersey Gen.
tral railroad. One Huntington light Of
$500 candle-power was mounted on the
switch signal bridge twenty feet above
the track. AS result the bricks could
be counted in a station building one
third of mile away; when turned
on the track the ties could be-
counted to the same station. Colors
were plainly distinguished at half mile
distance. AT 1900 feet it would enable
an engineer to tell the position of
switches. The reflector was shaped
like those of locomotive headlights, sill
ver-plated and highly FURNISHED.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
seonlnr and his fiddle was the life Of am

secular ana MS uuule was bue lho OF III
the country dances. ''F .32t
After Sally had gone Miss Smith
dropped into her little crealSing rocking
chair and sat quite still looking at Tom
Jones flowers. She was thinking that
she was sorry Tom was going away.
They had been children together in this
same village, and when he was Soung
man and she a pretty girl, they had
been half lovers, but their love had
never been confessed and they had
drifted apart although neither one had
married anyone else; and now that
Tom was going it made her feel lone
some, somehow.
She knew where he was going; she
had heard of the farm he had bought
in western state and she had known
that he had meant to go there to live
sometime-but she had not thought it
would be so soon.
Miss Smith was alone in the world,
her mother and she had lived together
until her mother had died, and now she
had nobody to take care of but her.
self-and Tom had nobody to look after
either. 1t was lonely way to live
after all
But Miss Smith heard another pupil
coming and she jumped up and set the
tumbler of flowers away, out of sight
in her bedroom, before she opened the
door.
The next day Miss Smith fused
about good deal, basting lace in the
neck and sleeves of her green merino
gown and brushing an imaginary speck
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
Afraid of the Kerosene Lamp.

Several anecdotes are given illustra-
ting Gen. Johnston's indifference to
danger in battle, and then this citation
is made of his opinion regarding a IA
miliar household utensil: 81 am the
most timid man in the world, and dread
fully afraid of kerosene lamp. The
other day a servant put one in my room.
l was but half dressed, and hurried
out as fast as could run. / knew it
was going to burst. Then think of it!
The very next night some kind of pat
ent kerosene lamp was sent me as a
present, and the donor lit it, explaining
to me the method of working it. Such
was my nervousness that / never knew
he was talking to me. Later, after
somebody had extinguished the lamp
/ tried to reason out to myself what a
poltroon | was. We get hardened in
time, but l assure you nothing could
ever induce me to light or extinguish a
kerosene lamp. :. An enemy
armed with kerosene lamps would drive
me off the field / should be panic per-
sonifed -Harper's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06


day; it was him thet give me flowers
fur you; l forgot to tell you when 1
come in"
Miss Smiths face turned the color of
the pale grass pinks, but she said moth
ing, and the lesson went dragging on;
'one-two-three - rest" she counted,
and Sally's fat fingers slowly picked
out the notes pointed by the teachers
pencil.
At last the lesson was finished and
Sally remembered a message which she
had almost forgotten. "Oh, Miss
Smith, ma and Maria tole me to be sure
and asst you if you'd come over to-mor-
row night an play; they're goin' to
move the origin into the kitchen an
have double music"
Miss Smith had sometimes played
''double music" with Tom Jones before;
and the little old maid remembered
low pleasant it had been to play chords
to the lively strains of Money Musk,
with Tom Jones bending over her tc
ask if he went too fast for her or if She
was tired pumping; SO She told Sal
1y that she would come.
Tom Jones was the other musician o
the village. If Miss Smiths specially
was sacred rLusic, his was certain y
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

again; but there was gay yellow
sheepsllin rug laid over the worst spot
in the carpet, and the curtains were
hung so that most of the bad places
came under the folds; and the whole
air of the place was so homelille and
cozy that you quite forgot that the fur
.nishings were poor.
There was whatnot in one corner
with the lower shelves filled with books
and the upper ones with llnickknacks
and keepSakes.
There We're some cane-seated chairs
and two rockers and an organ with an
open instruction book upon the rack
a well-thumbed book with the finger
ing marked in lead pencil and with its
i, 2, 8, 4, and mysterious looking black
CROSSES where you ought to put your
thumbs.
The organ had two stops, "Tremolo"
and "VoX." Miss Smith didn't know
what ''voX" really meant; whenever
she felt lonely and depressed she in
.stinctively pulled out the tremolo-stop
and let the notes quiver and quiver as
they would; but when she was happy
she noticed that she pulled out the
other stop, so she concluded that it
must mean gladness or something like
that. ,...
Now Miss Smith was q sweet-faced
1ittle old maid who had very little mu-
steal knowledge or skill, but she had
unlimited patience, and there was no
other music teacher in the village, so
she had quite large class of pupils
young girls whose ambition it was to
play the organ in Sunday-school or to
entertain the sociables with selections
of Observation-Disclosures small boys and
girls who hated to practice and who
didn't like music a bit, but whose
mothers were ambitious for them in the
way of accomplishments.
A little click of the gate latch makes
Miss Smith look up from her roses and
she runs to open the door before the
newcomer has time to knock. 1t is
little Sally Walters with her music
book under her arm and bouquet of
grass pinks in her hand. Miss Smith
greets her cheerily: Good day, Sally,
3 o! them poses for me? Thank ye, dear,
I'll run and get tumbler fer EN-"
t'Now, Sally, we will have the scales
hrSt, dear; and sally DlunderS along
with her right hand note or two in
advance of her left.
Here, dear, try again, and don't for
get your thumbs this time" and Sally
tries again and she doesn't forget her
thumbs for minute; she uses them
wherever she can twist them under and
over as she plods up and down the
scale.
"oh, Sally, hain't 1 told you never
, to put your thumbs on the Jlack keys
Sally is apologetic. 81 hain't practiced
much this week." she says, with
charming franllness as she turns to her
exercises with q sigh. MANDY Null is
to our house sewing this week"
"oh! Somebody's goin to have new
gown, l guess"
Yes, Maria is; we're goin' to have a
dance tomorrow night. Tom Jones is
, 'agoin' to play fer EN-"
"Oh, is he? Sally, you must curve
your fingers more and keep your elbows
still
'Yessum. Tom he's goin' away soon.
I reckon this is the last dance he'll play
for. He come piece-way with me to-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

rowing spiders is described by DR..
Henry c. McCook in American Spiders
and their Spinning Work." and several
examples are presented in the accom-
panying figures. The lily-shaped tube
of pure white spinning work shown in
Fig. rises directly above the SPIDERS
burrow, and is supported by the sur
rounding foliage. Opinions differ as to
It's purpose. One observer thinks it is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

that when pursued it simply plunges
into its hole and stops up the entrance
with its own body. Fig. 3 gives side
view of this spider, and Fig. dia-
gram in section of its position in the
supposed act OF thus closing the door to
its dwelling and presenting living bull
wark to the foe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

l > = = u > n N
SMITH, music
teacher, stoo d
at the fro n t
window of her
little p parl o +
cou N tin g the
buds on her rose
bush.
1t was n sort
of cheerful little
room, after all.
OF course t h e
carpet was worn
and faded and
the curtains had
been d a + n c d
and d a + n c d
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
A Leading Part.

"I'm going to give you an important
part in my next play" said the manager
70 the supe with large hands.
"Sop" shid the ambitious assistant.
"a leading part?"
Exactly. want you to sit out in
The audience and start the applauRe."--
uarper's Bazaar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

enables the own
er to shut out it's
pursu er. An
other very pe-
culiar spider of
this class was
found to have no
lid or closure to
the aperture of
its burrow; but
as its abdomen is
hard as leather
behind and trun-
Gated to form
a perfect circle
t h e Inference
has been drawn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
All He Could Do

"Your boy is simply depraved boy.
Mrs. Bronson" said the physician.
"You need doctor of the soul, not ons
of my profession"
81 don't know, DOCTOR" said the tired
little woman, but what you might
help me little with advice"
''No, madam, the only thing can
prescribe for him is mixture Of
strychnine and prussie aeid"-Jury.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

INSECT MECHANICS.

Examples of the Spinning Work of Anasrs
lean Spiders.
The ingenuity of spiders, both in con-
structing their snares and in eeizing
their prey, has been a favorite subject
of observation by naturalists. The en-
gineering skill of some species of bur
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

-Judge-and he took you by the
throat and choked you, did he? Pat
Yis, sor; he squazed me troat till o.
to'ht he'd mex either out of me Adams
apple. Buffalo Express.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

lure for insects, which will suppose it 70
be a flower and light upon it, thus be-
coming the SPIDERS victims; but Dr.
McCook believes it to be sort OF watch
tower, from which the spider can OBJ
serve the approach of an enemy
and make a speedy retreat. Fig
illustrates columnar turret
which one species erect. 1t is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

Reflections make us sadder," saio
an ugly philosopher, Wit ssust hav,
been gazing into mrror,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06
A CORRECTED EXPRESSION.

Old Rooster-Here boy, drop that
egg That is-ahem!-put it down care
fully.--Harper' Young People.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

made of chippage and various other
litter found near the spot, and has a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-06-06

Twas the Lonesome, and Not the
Joyful, Stop That Was Broken.

[wrItten for This Paper.l
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NOTICE,

I'm ACCORDANCE WITH THE
act to raise supplies for the fiscal
year commencing November Let, 1890,
notice is hereby given that the Treas
urer's Office of Abbeville County will
be open for the collection of taxes on
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The wheelbarrOw Test.

Three or four of us on the car wer,
talking about General Sherman
death, and, as might have been eX
pected, one of the group modestly ad
mitted that he was with the Genera
on his march to the sea. There wa!
q woman in the seat ahead, and evi
IDENTIFY going somewhere on a visit
The war talk stirred her up, and sh,
turned to the veteran and inquired
"Were you right in a battle ?'
"Yes'm."
dead men all around ?"
"Yes'm."
Wounded crying for water?"
"Yes'm"
"Bombshells and cannon balls
falling around you like hail?"
"Yes'm."
"And you did't run?"
"No'ni. I should hope not" hi
modestly replied.
'Stood right there and never go
scared eh ?"
"Yes'm."
"Well, now, I don't believe it y
she exclaimed, ut amt human ma
tur'. It amt according to things"
II hope you do not doubt my word
madam" ,
eyes, T do" she sharply replied
II don't believe you have got any
more nerve than my Sam has, ant
sam can't stand the test?"
"Then you have test"
"Yes, Ihave. You just get off a
Scottdale, where ] am going to stop
There'll be wheelbarrow somewher,
around there, and you just stand of
about thirty feet and let me bea
down on you with it. If you dom
Jump or dodge or, climb telegraph
pole I'll give in that you are tn
hrayest man I ever saw"
"I-I'm afraid I havn't time," h
stammered.
II knew you wouldn't have,
sbe dryly replied. They never do
Tbey talk about bombshells and deat
men and slaughter pens. and the!
make out that they charged up t
the roaring cannon, but the minut
T talk wheelbarrow they knuckle
You need't say no more. You'v
wilted." .
ter.
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COPY SUMMONS. FOR RELIEF.
Complaint not Served.)
To the Defendants above named:


7 OU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND
required to answer the complaint in this &C
ton, which is filed In the Office OF the Clerk
OF Common Pleas, for the said County, and
to serve a copy of your answer TO the said
complaint on the subscriber at his Office al
Abbeville Court House, South Carolina, with
In twenty days after the service hereof. ex
elusive of the day of such service: and II you
fail TO answer the complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will ap
ply to the Court fer the relief demanded In
the complaint.
Dated September Goth, A. D.. 1891.
w. A. LEE.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
To John ]. Guillebeau, John B. Bouchillon,
Lenuel Bouchillon, Martha Bouchillon,
and Jane Smith, Absent Defendants:
TAKE NOTICE: That the summons OF
which the above is a copy, with the complaint,
has this day been filed in the Office OF the
Clerk of the Court OF Common Pleas for Alb
beville County.
w. A. LEE.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Sept %, 1891. ct.
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A SOVEREIGN REMEDY.-A young
physician commencing practice h,s had
among his first patients an uncom.
monly unclean infant brought to bis
Office in the arms of q mother whose
face showed the same aohorrence IRE :S,' o,
SOAP. Looking down upon the child
- moment he solemnly remarked ;
at seems to be suffering from
hydropathic hydTophobi!a." 49,, 90
"Och doclher, dear is it as bad bad as q,
that ?" cried the mother. That's
a big sickness for such a mite. What
ever shall do for the cralhur"
"Wash its face, madam; the disease
will 90 off with The dirt
Wash its face-wash its face,
indade ~ exclaimed the matron
losing her temper. "What next I'd
like to know" .,
"Wash your own, madam-'-wash
your own"
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The Peace OF Christ.
"My peace give unto YOU
Sweet gift Of Christ, blessed thought!
The peace OF mind that God hath wrought
No earthly passion half so sweet,
No Joy on earth is SO complete
AS that the loving Father gives
To those in whom the Spirit lives
The peace Of Christ.
O weary one upon life's sea
That hath no Christ TO com fort thee
Remember, when the billows roll
Surge on surge about thy soul,
That there's harbor safe and sure,
Wherein thy heart may rest secure
The peace of Christ.
o loving heart that trembles yet.
Half fearful that IL may forget:
Afraid that it may miss the way,
Doubling, wav'ripg all the day
Remember thatit is TO the
This gift Of gifts is offered free
The peace OF Christ.
o Christian with the brow severe,
With eyes that seldom drop a tear,
With lips that smiling have forgot,
Remeberer that II is thy lot
To have within JOY divine,
Open thy heart and make 1t thine
The peace OF Christ.
Love OF God. How it's dimension
Reaches above our comprehension
And who Of Us can understand
The workings OF his mighty hand?
But rest, my soul. and quiet be:
Thou knowest this, He giveth thee
The peace OF Christ.
So, then, "y soul, upon his breast
Thy trouh. east, and be ut rest.
Though sorrow wrings the heart: and pain
Saps life and >trenyth with steady drain
Der ali these grl-f> and cares OF thine
God pours the healing balm divine
The peace OF Christ.