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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-31
WELLSBURG.

WEILsBURG, MAY 3O.-Miss Annie North,
Of Clinton. is spending week with Dr. j.
NJ. Cooper.
j. NJ. walker and family spent the Sab
bath with his father az Golfers.
The Paul brothers are gettion on rapidly
with their addition TO the Eagle glass
works and will have doubled their capacity
when they get il completed.
a Higgins and his sister, Mrs. Mary
Lackey. of Newburg. w Va, who have
been visiting their brother, B. Higgins,
have returned home.
Capt. VIM. Barnes, of St. Louis, and
WIN Mitchell OF Chicago, are spending
few davs in the city. The latter, banker
of Chicago. has a large interest in the re-
Gently developed gold workings near wash
ington, ID. c.
Toll Buchanan reports little activity in
wool. the farmers not being ready 10 place
their clip or the market
Clarence Tarr is reported seriously I'll to-
dav with little hopes for his recovery.
John Lewis is little better at this writ
ing. David Davis is also very low with
typhoid fever at Mrs Murray's. He was
a former guard in the West Virginia pen
itentiary and has relatives in Wood county.
Miss Daisy CrOthers will start this week
for ST. Paul. where she will spend the
summer with her friend, Mrs. Nuzum.
Quite number Of teachers expect to at
tend the National Teachers Association at
Toronto in July.
Many strangers from a distance attended
the commencement exercises Of the public
schools.
MIR Freshwater is pushing his paving
contract rapidly and will have II COM
pleted in few days. when Wellsburg will
have the best streets of any town in the
State
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press agent on the c. s. p. road, has re-
siened. and will become a merchant DIT
Washington, Pa.
Chas. y. Sterns, of Hampshire county,
and Miss Georgina Savage, were married
May 20
Married near here, May 25th, John H.
Kline and Miss Clara Johnson.
Jas H. Wagus and Miss Cara Miller
were united fn marriage, May nth
IN Glen has moved TO Charleston, w
Va. -.
The Y. NJ. C. A. will hold convention
here on the 18th. 18th and 18th OF June.
Capt. G.. w Harrison, of the w. va. u
nv nas cow with twin calves.
The Epworth League gave specialiy
interesting programme last night
A small child of Samuel House died TINS
week
The Kenny House is being neatly paint
ed. C.o..
Silver has again been found in Garrett
county. Md, near here, and this time IN
paving quantities. Four companies nave
been organized and will at once commence
the mining of ore Gold in smaR quantl-
ties is found in the ore.
Plenty of rain the past few days.
Both the Piedmont and NesterhpOrI
public schools close next week.
X. NJ Sheets, of Grafton, was IN Town
this week, on 3. & o. Il. X. business
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PIEDMONT.

PIEDMONT, Nav 3O-The G. a. Il. turned
ont in a body with several other Organlza-
tions aud decorated soldiers graves.
Daniel RiOrdan, of Elk Garden, has
brought suit for SANDER against several
Elk Garden people, claiming s5,OOO dam
ages.
The ball in the Piedmont Opera House.
Monday night given by the he, Union S9clai
Club, was grand affair. The President,
WIN. NJ. MellOr, deserves praise for the
success Of the occasion.
The .PnafOrc Company VIII likely give
an entertainment at Elk Gardenin the near
future.
day.
Knights of the Mystic Chain, left here to-
dav for Columbus, o, 10 organize u Select
Castle Of that order for Ohio.
Mrs. VIM. Coghlan died Monday irom
pneumonia fever, aged 81. Funeral Wednes-
day.
guests of his cousins, John and David
Rev. L. r. Browne is at Baltimore at
teuoing the annual Episcopal Church Con-
ventiOn.
r, ri. Helm and Mervin Daddysman have
gone 10 McKeeSport, Pa, where they have
secured employment.
e. :. Paxton, of Pitts6urg, is visiting
mis- old home here.
Mrs. y. a. Cross remains in very poor
Mrs NJ f. NeH, of Alaska, ". Va. is in
town.
Mver Scar. Esq, spent paot of the week
in Washington ami Baltimore.
Miss AIRY COnaway IS visiting at Graf
ton.
Mrs. WI. Gilbert and daughter, Susie,
left fo-day for COlum lia, Pa, 10 spend
few days.
Capt B. B. Dovener, of Wheeling. was IN
town this week.
Col John Johnston and daughter. Miss
Eta E.. arrived here Thursday from Chi
cage. where they have been for several
months.
WI. Silvers and wife have returned
home 10 Uniontown, Pa
JOS. W. East, Of Richmond, has located
here in the interest Of the -Etna Life In
surance Company.
Mrs. A, NJ. Grlson is visiting Grafton
friends.
John T. Greenwade, Of Missouri, is visit
ing relatives at this place.
w. c. johnson, for twenty-one years ex-
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BELLAIRE.

Geo. Mack, formerly of this city, but
now Of Braddock, Pa, is in the city on a
visit.
The marriage of Chas. Mcdonald and
Miss Carrie Labor is announced for June
18th.
for twenty-five miners.
Miss Minnie Marsh, one of the teachers
in the public schools, will present the
diplomas TO the graduating class.
Seven of the sixteen teachers who took
the late examination were awarded Swear
certificates.
Quite crowd of American Mechanics
went TO MOundsville yesterday. The boys
took band.
c. & p. officers have been running down
here pretty often of late looking after mat
tiers connected with the road.
Rev A. B. Williams have returned from
Ashland, o., and will hold regular service
in Christian Church to-day.
There is 10 be no banquet by the grad
yates this year. The idea has died out
here.
The admirers of Richards who came
down the river with Doodle 10 bet, were not
long disposing of it TO Muth men.
Miss Maggie Anderson, of st. Clairsville,
is the guest of Miss Marie Clements, in
Judge briggs passed through the city
last night on his way home to Woodsfeld.
Bellaire would make a good location for
shops for the new railroad that is coming
TO this city via Powhattan.
Postmaster Darrah received a fine buggy
from Wheeling yesterday.
Part of the fire department was out yes
terday morning in response to call, but
was not needed. The alarm was sent in
from the Fourth ward.
The City Band will unite with the
Golden Eagle Band for concerts in the
park on Saturday evenings during the
summer.
The Chautauqua Circle went ont to Wal
lace'S Dam in a wagon yesterday.
The season at the Eiysian Theatre will
probably be re-opened on September I'd
with the PAY Train" Florence Bindley's
new play. IL is great show.
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NEW MARTINsvILLE.

New MARTINsvILLE. w. VA, May 30
Court will close the coming week.
Magnolia Lodge No. 4, Jr. O. U. A. NJ.
went TO Claringtonton in body, TO partic-
pate in the parade and presentation of a
flag to the public school on Decoration Day
The Grand Army and Sons Of Veterans
turned out and decorated the graves at
Williams cemetery.
The ladies of the NJ. f. Church will give
the trst ice cream and strawberry festival
of the season in Mont. Buris new store
room on next Tuesday evening
The REGISTER was in great demand dur
ing the Garrison trial, on account of its re-
liable reports.
;. c.. Martin. of Parkersburg, who has
been visiting his brother, S. Il. Martin, for
part OF this week. has returned home.
Bartlett Il Higgins sold their grocery TO
f. h. Headlee.
The entertainment Of the high school was
held at the Koontz Opera House, and was
well attended on Friday night.
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BURLINGTON

BURLINGTON, O, May 3O.-The Wheeling
and Lake Erie gravel train is still hauling
gravel and the track is being filed in be-
tween here and Rainey's.
Mrs Polly Milligan. mother of Frank
Milligan, is lying very i'll at her home here.
She is in her S9th year and is undoubtedly
the oldest person living in Burlington.
Mrs. =. Jump, who has 0een very sick
with pneumonia, is slightly better.
Joseph Bowen, a popular young fireman
on the c. & p. railroad, was in town on
Sunday evening
Miss Sarah Williams, of Harrisville, o.,
has been among friends here during the
past week.
Mrs l. Wooster is convalescent
The Glenn's Run Oil and Gas Company
are still working away az their well on
NiXon's Run. and have reached depth of
1000 feet. There is much anxiety among
the people here as to what the outcome will
no
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off the stick, it tilted up and the sides, and
shoulders fell down on the heads OF the
crowd below. ,
don't know how | got down: l hung
my hams, though while Big inian.ry lnan
a fme Begging ges me to give him one both Of
the hams, kicked him loose and took my
hams to camp. 1 had big slice Of one OF
them for my dinner for my trouble. l wen ~
pack and got about peck of pototoes out OF
the cellar This was the extent OF my
stealing at McNeills. -
Col. Haines' property wasuntouched, be.
ing safely guarded by the Fourteeuth west
Virginia. and McNeill's would have been
inst as safe if it had not been for the IN
judicious talk of those ladies'.
After dinner we marched down through
the gap and back to New Creek. IL re-
minded me of the old nursery rhyme:
1.-The King Of France with twenty thousand men
Marched up the nil,
And then marched down again"
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WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY, MAY 81, 1891

force of men at work on the bridge here
for several days, and will have double
track across in few days.
Judge Hohe will hold a special term OF
Court here the Sth of June.
George W. Burke, formerly of the Ne'c
Era at Kingwood, has taken temporary
charge of the Sentinel.
The telephone people will in few DAYS
have the line completed to Clarksburg.
The linemen are now beyond Pennington.
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Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST MADE
ID to the undersigned, rs trustee, dated De-
cember "a, 1890. by Walter Marshall, ST., record
ed in the Office OF the Clerk OF the County
Court. OF Ohio county. W. Va in deed OF trust
book 81, page 5l7, will sell on
TUESDAY, JUNE g 1921,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m.
at the farm lately occupied by the said Walter
Marshall Sr., situated on Long Run, the follow
ing personal property, to wit: THREE HEAD
OF horses three sets OF harness, one coal wagon,
one sled, and one rick OF wheat straw. Terms
Of sale, cash.
IRA B. VAN FOSSEN, Trustee.
Wheeling, w. Va, May %, 1891. my2idaei.
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100 Doeee Ono n~"o~
| CURE FITS

When l say cure do not mem merely to stop the
for time and then have them return again. meal
radical cure. have made the disease of FITS, E
LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS lifelong study.
warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Becau.
others have failed is no for not receiving
Send at for q treatise and Free Bottle
my infsllihe remedy. Give Express and Post Once.
II. &. ROOT, II, c., 1873 Pearl Sta N. y
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A SSIGNEE'S SALE
IA OF DRUG STORE.

Edmund f. Booking having assigned his bus
mess and stock in trade at the corner OF Twelfth
aud Chapline streets to the undersigned, for the
benefit Of creditors, al persons will take notice
that Dr. Edmund Booking will continue TO
carry on the business as my agent. The bust
ness and stock in trade are for sale at private
sale until further notice.
mvt7edh John PENDLETON
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NEIGHB0RH00D.
EEAF Has BEEN GOING on IN NEAR BH
TOWNS TBE PAST WEEK.

Eocial Affairs, Happenings and Events Of Local IL
tsrest Gathered By Register Reporters.
Readable Resume Of the News
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DROxIEs, LEASES ANp us sGss O'
BLANKS for sale ~ 'h'
Room
The morning call., 1891-02-14

an not bou nd by the eccentricities of
any predecessors" answers Blaine; land if
nation can dominate the ocean only three
miles from shore, how does 1t happen that
Great Britain commanded the sea for thirty
miles around st. Helena when Napoleon
was prisoner thexe, and now prevents
poaching on her pearl reefs of Ceylnn that
are twenty miles from shore and fifty feet
deep?'
:. The protection of st. Helena" saws
Salisbury. was the concurrent action of
the nations; and our right to the pearl fish
cries is enforced only against Englishmen"
30 tue controversy stands and waits, while
our Canuek victims appeal to our Supreme
Court.
For twenty years the exclusive right TO
XIII seals has vested in the Alaska CONNER
clal Company, but last year new company
came to the front AMI made better offer
Tor the privilege. which was accepted by
Secretary Window. The agent of the Gov
eminent Is Charles j: Goff, and he allowed
the new company to kill only $1,000 seals,
on the plea that if it killed 100, 600, as for
merry. the seals would soon be eXtermin-
ated.
Most of the seals are killed on the Priby-
Ion Islands, but they winter further south.
ana spend much of the year going and COM
ing on the surface of the great intervening
ocean. so II is easy for poaehing vessels 10
intercept them ami Stay them by wholesale.
ana II all VINO wish are permitted to club
the silky mammals while swimming in
BehrlnS Sea TO and from their northern
breeding grounds the whole of the interest
ing race VIII soon be eXterminated.
The morning call., 1891-02-14

Half OF the sealskln Sarques in the world
come from these PribylOff Islands, lying in
Behring Sea, 200 mites from the main land.
The two principal ones are mere islets-St.
Paul and St George-each ten or twelve
miles long and half as broad. For two
months in the summer of each year the
AleutS, or natives kill seals aud skin them
the other ten they lie around in the twilight
never going to bed or taking off their clothes,
night Or day, gosSlping, eating and getting
drunk on quass. They eat ravenously,
averaging two pounds of seal meat per day
for every man, woman and child, in addi-
tinn TO vast quantities of other food.
Uu to last year they took about 100 600
skins year, and the United States Treas
ury received So for each skin. The net re-
suit is that the Government has received
from the Commercial Cons any during the
last twenty years nearly as much as was
paid to Russia for the whole of Alaska in
1863. So Stewards purchase is indicated :;
1t was unquestiOnably a good bargain to
pay 81, zoo, 900 for this vast peninsula whose
sources of wealth are not yet even guessed
at, much less developed.
In the beneficent or malevolent economy
of nature and commerce there are twice as
many females as males in the seal commu-
nifty; so poiygamy fioursheS. If there ever
could be an excuse for plural marriag es in
humnn society IL would be in New England,
where there IS surplus OF 10000 women
there certainly is none in the middle OF aka
line plains Of Utah, where there are two
men TO one woman everywhere.
In the spring the adult seals come SWIM
ming back from their mysterious tropical
visit. accompanied by million of the young
pups OF the previous summer, and the Pry-
bylOf Islands are very lively once more
lively and reverbaat with the roars of anger
and of friendly greeting.
The morning call., 1891-02-14

Mostly roars of anger, for every male seal
| Is the foreordained enemy of all other NAL
seals, and must defend with his strength
and often with his life the position he has
assumed on the rocks as his particular Sc
! raglio. Here he gathers his harem one by
one and here in few weeks the young are
| born. some of these bulls exhibit the same
desperate courage and nsensbility to pain
as is shown by the Indian brave who is ham
strung and hauled up TO a tree-top by the
qulverlng sinews. One was pointed out to
the Government agent who had survived
forty or fifty pitched battles with as many
antagonists and still held his place, covered
with scars and frIgbtfully gashed, raw, fes-
terng and bloody, one eye gouged out and
fore flapper torn to ribbons, but yet lord
or twenty females, huddled admringly
around him. The fighting is mostly done
with the mouth. They seize each other with
their canine teeth, always leaving ugly and
sometimes fatal wounds.
The male seals arrive froEl the south first
and are followed by the pretty little females
some weeks thereafter. George Wardman,
the Treasury agent at the Pribyloff Island,
expresses no opinion about the question of
mare clausnm, leaving that to be settled by
the Secretary of State and the British Pre-
mer, but he describes this poygamy in a
very lively manner: THE matnred male
seal, when he draws up out of the ocean
after six or eight months cruise in waters
TO US unknown, is magnificent animal
Bold, bad aud beautiful, he takes a position
in May among the basaltic rocks which are
washed by the surf In storms, braces his
broad chest upon his fore fiippers, stretches
his heavily named. glossy, undulating neck,
throws his taperine head aloft and roars
forth hoarse below of defiance to the
whole world. He closes with a cultural
growl that sounds like two quarts of pebbles
rafting III his throat, while down the cor
ners Oh his threatening mouth, stocked with
The morning call., 1891-02-14
sichtseers, Outing.

1t has been announced that tomorrow
the SightseeIs' Club would have an outing
at the San Anselmo Cataracts. going across
the bay on the o'clock Sausalito boat and
taking the train for San Anselmo Station,
from which point the walk will begin. The
weather is not very promising, but change
is so liable TO occur that the management
has decided If it does not rain hard to-
night and II Sunday morning dawns with
clear sky to carry out the programme, in
which event all friends of the club, both
ladies and gentlemen, are invited to joi n the
party. The locality selected is familiar to
all the old members and is noted for its
scenic beauty, and il is probable. should the
day be favorable, that pleasant outing will
be enjoyed At the lunching place an cleo
ton OF officers will be held to serve for the
coming season. During the past season the
affairs OF the club have been admirably adj
ministered by Board of Directors. consist
ing Of Frederick Fillmore, President; Miss
Idella NJ. Adams, Secretary; William ii.
Chairman, A. h. Sanborn and f. C. Stock.
The morning call., 1891-02-14
SERVICES APPRECIATED.
\ Presentation to Ex-President Park
OF the Point Lobos Club.

Presentation to Ex-President Parker
OF the Point Lobos Club.
special meeting of the Point Lobos In
proyement Club was held last evening at
Norrath's Hall, corner of Point Lobos and
johnson avenues, the President, George r.
Fletcher, in the chair. L. g. Parker and
Charles II. Ford were added to the Execu-
tive Committee.
President Fletcher stated that the chief
object of the meeting was to investigate
certain matters affecting the standing of a
member of the club. He called upon Joseph
Figel to prefer the charges.
Mr.. Figel read a complimentary address
to I. q. Parker, the retiring President, to
whom he presented, in the name of the club,
handsome quartz watch-chain, gold
mounted. with diamond locket attached.
On the latter was engraved the following
inscription: Presented to Thomas q.
Parker by the Point Lobos Improvement
Club February IA, 1891"
Mr.. Parker responded in appropriate
terms, after which the club adjourned to an
adjacent hall, where collation. was served
TOastS were drunk in honor Of number of
prominent members, and speeches delivered
by L. q. Parker, George X. Fletcher, Secre-
tary Richards. Joseph Figel Ii. Vorrath
Charles III. Ford and others,
The morning call., 1891-02-14
THE ALASKA
SEALING GROUNDS.
Where One Half of the Sealskin
Sacqnes Worn Come From.
Our Fur-Bearing Colony in the Behring Sea
What the Row With England Is About.
The Grounds Of Contention.
Special to THE MORNING CALI.

Our war with England is war of words
to date Premier Salisbury and Premier
Blaine are having it.
How dare you assault our vessels in
Behring Sea?" asks Salisbury.
1--WE own that sea" replies Blaine, land
you folks must not fish there"
" How do you happen to own sea that is
thousand miles square and part of the
Pacific ocean," asks Salisbury. "when you
insist that we own only three miles from
shore In the Gulf of st. Lawrence?
1--WE bought it of Russia" says Blaine,
when we bought Alaska with the waters
thereof"
g." Do the waters thereof cover the sea
200 miles from shore under any law or Gus
tom that nations have ever recognized ?"
asks Salisbury; and did not the United
states forty years ago send an ambassador
to Russia to protest against the Cars claim
that this very sea belonged exclusively to
him?"
The morning call., 1891-02-14

ivory fangs, droop the long, gray lines OF
his aristocratic mustache. Here he takes
his stand, and here he will meet his eX-
pected family or DEATH"
In June comes his multitudinous bride.
The male fur seal is huge but symmetrical
brownish bulk of GOO to 800 pounds. The
female is meek, modest, submissive Look
Ing little creature, averaging about hun
dred weight. She creeps up out OF the
water with demure, downcast c0unte-
nance, the shining hair neatly brushed back
from her pretty little head. and-arrayed IN
brown sacque think you? Not at all. She
is a Quakerish looking matron in an unpre-
tending steel-gray, but sleek and tidy with
out wrinkle in her dress.
There could not" saws Mr.. Wardman,
be greater contrast; he aggressive, fierce
and oodthirsty; she. meek and lowly. but,
as rumnrs go, sly withal, and were she sole
mistress OF her lords affections would. no
doubt exhibit temper OF her own. Com
petition keeps her spirit down, poor thing.
The old bulls occupy their presumption for
The morning call., 1891-02-14
Driving Seals TO K1lfng Ground.

weeks without going into the water, await
ing the arrival of the females, sleeping on
the ground, and neither eating nor drinking
from week to week. This, however. is but
Preliminary to the longer vigil and fast.
which continues for three months after the
arrival of the females. When they depart
they are weak and lean"
There are two or three classes of male
seals which are deprived of the delights and
refining influences of female society. There
are young bachelors who have never yet had
the courage to go in and fight for r claim.
being apparently awed into remaining at a
respectful and safe distance from the potent
brown ana tawny seniors. These young fell
lows haul out in crowds of thousands close
to the water and not far from the seraglios.
Ihey are from to or years old and they
alternate their paStimes between lying on
their backs among rocks (where they fan
their heated bodies with a hind fiipper if it
Is warm day aud getting down into the
water III front of the old Turks summer
residences and endeavoring, with various
success TO draw the females into sly tlrta-
lions. notwithstanding the fierce jealousy
with which these wives are watched and
guarded, and contrary to what would be eX-
pected from their meek and sanctifed APP
pearance. there are breaches of decorum oc-
casionally which no conscientious person
would attempt to defend.
In cases of elupement the gay Lothario is
generally handled generously according to
the custom of the world in such cases, and
MS guilty partner treated with great sever
lily. Her lord and master will gallop through
the family. knocking his other wives right
and lett, bouncing over the babies in his
anger, and, overtaking the fugitive female
thraSheS her so soundly with bis tiippers
that she puts up her little nose to his, kisses
him in token IF submission and reforma-
ton. and creeps back apparently suUdued
and penitent.
Although these males abstain from food
and water absolutely for three months or
more, and must be faint and weak, they are
always ready for fight. They approach
with heads ayerted and furtiye eyes, rs if
comicaly deprecating the row, but when
near enough they reach for each other as
quick as a fash and utter as they join battle
Il continuous shrill piping whistle; their
eyes CLEAN wickedly. tEeir teeth gnash.
their hair flies and their blood flows IL is
one OF The most extraordinary contests in
which brutes can indulge.
w. A. CRoFFUT.