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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
Ccnsiderare i5urciars,

"Talk about nerver' exclaimed G.. G.
Smith, member of a party at the South
ern who were discussing burglaries. Il
had visit from gang of housebreak-
ers last week who have the record for
farreaching and iridescent audacity.
They entered my house while l was at
home, ransacked every room in it, took
my watch and pocketbook from under
my pillow and my revolver from the
washstand drawer. Then they went
into the kitchen, lit fire and cooked
their breakfast. Not content with that,
they entered the cellar and tapped my
wine. They rugged themselves out in
my clothes and put their own old duds
in the clothespress. They tested the
silverware, found it plated and left it.
''But that was not the worst. 1 had
paid twenty dollars only week before
for bulldog, whose sole duty was to
watch the premises. The next morning
I found him shut up in the coalhouse,
with rubber band around his jaws and
a tag tied to his tail, which read, we
didn't take yer perp, cos we thot as how
mebbe he war raised q pet, an you might
be fond of him. .'"-St. Louis Globe Dem
Ocrat
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
No Business in That Country.


81 once came near starving to death in
aland of plenty" said J. Goodrich Jones,
addressing the experience meeting as
sembled in the corridors of the Lindell
II was travelling through Arkansas by
wagon selling patent rights got into
q section where hotels were unknown,
and had to put up at the cabins of the
squatters. For an entire week the bill
of fare was baked possum, buttermilk
and corn bread for breakfast, corn bread,
buttermilk and baked possum for din
ner, and buttermilk, baked possum and
corn bread for supper. Iabhor baked pos
sum, corn bread is my abomination, and
would starve to death in an ocean Of
buttermilk. At last expostulated. My
host was thunderstruck.
''He got up, motioned me to follow
him outside and said impressively:
Look a-hyar, stranger; yer too scrump-
tious fer Arkansaw. Here this hull
neighborhood has been a-totin corn t.
mill an skylarkin around night arter
night fer possums t pervide y with
luxuries, an now y turn up yer nose an
say y can't eat sich stuff. Wat dye
want? Wat dye call high ivin, any,
how? Wat kind O fodder be y a-han-
KERN fer? Now I tell y wat y do.
You pint that mules nose t'ward the
Massassip, an don't y never stop till y
git acrost it. A man who can't go pos
sum an corn pone hain't got no kinder
business a-foolin round in Arkansawp" I"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be-
tween Lewis and Church streets. Services a
II a. n and p. m. Rector, Rev. w. Q. Hull
linen.
United Brethren church, Lewis street, be-
tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at
IL a. IN. and p. m. Pastor, Rev. J. d. DON
ovan.
Methodist church, Lewis street, betwee
Main and F 'derick streets. Services at II
IN. and s p. L. Pastor, Rev. ]. T. Williams.
Christ Evangelical Lutheran church, Lew
is street, between Main and Frederick streets.
Services at IL a. m. and p. m. Pastor, Rev.
ii. F. Shealy.
| Baptist church, corner Main and Washing
| ton streets. Services at II a. m. and p. m
Pastor, Rev. W. ]. E. Cox.
| Second Presbyterian church corner Freder-
| lex and Lewis streets Services at IL a. M,
and 8. Pastor, Rev. VIM. Cumming.
| st. Francis Roman Catholic, North Augusta
street, Mass ct and 1880 a m. Vespers and
| benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament at 4
p. m. Pastor, Rev. Father McVerry.
! Young Mems Christian Association, corner
Main and Water streets. Services at p. IN.
/ Sunday.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
How Some Old Trees Sustain Themselves.

Many trees exhibit an economical!
utilization of the products of their own
decay. These include swamp naples, d
Norway maple, willow and a white
mulberry. In en- English paper ap-
peared not long ago an account of an
oak which had Sustained itself for
years by mass Of roots grown into its
own trunkr'
In one of the swamp naples observed
by L. M. Stabler, at Great Neck, Long
Island, the primary injury apparently
resulted from a storm which split and
twisted the trunk. One of the adventi-
tious roots, sat least two inches in di-
ameter, started as high as ten feet aboys
the base of the trunk and passed dowa
through the decayed portion to the
ground. IF. L. Sargent in Popular S.
ence Monthly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
The Bicycle as n Remedy.

Aphysician pays the following tribute
to the bicycle: 81 have sent patients to
the cycle riding school, and they have
come back saying that it made them
dizzy. They were drunk ON oxygen, and
I made them keep at it until they over.
came the queer intoxication. Properly
used will say that the bicycle is one OF
the efficient remedies of the times"
fracuIcaI Improvemeis-.
The practice of improving ones self in
some useful art without an intention to
become professional, SO to speak, is
much more widely followed than is real
lied. The technical schools that are
springing up everywhere are patronized
by many amateurs who cure for only
enough skill to do for themselves. Many
women are thus learning millinery and
dressmaking, wood carving, and the
like. In London it is possible to take Il
short course in floral decorations as
means to satisfactorily indulge ones gar
dening propensities.-New York Times
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
A Mad Trio.

In Schimmelberg, a lunatic-one of
the quieter sort-had to be taken to the
asylum at Holzersried. To avoid scene
two of his friends undertook the task
and engaged cab for a drive into the
country. It was very hot, and our trav-
elers called at the Golden Monkey for
drink. They drove on till they came to
another wayside inn, and must needs
make another halt to test the quality of
the liquor sold there. Presently the
asylum hove in sight, when, as they
drove into Holzersreid, they alighted at
the first public house, just to wet ''the
other eye." At last they reached the
asylum where the poor patient was to
be left, but all three were in such con-
dition that there was no telling which
was the real lunatic. AS it was late in
the evening, they were locked up in sep
arate cells, and next morning the right
man was picked out.-Humoristiche
Blatter
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
An OLD WORLD COUNTRY.

know an Old World country
Where travellers never stray;
Whose wood paths wind sequestered
For miles and miles away;
Whose fields of Towering grasses
To shadowed dingles slant,
Where elves are wont to whisper
And nightingales to chant!
There still the Old World homesteads
In calm contentment thrive
Gray haunts of fail and sickle,
OF dovecote and of hive.
Invention ne'er invades them
With desecrating hand;
No steam plow ever plunges
Amid that placid land!
There Old World greens still flourish.
With alebench and with stocks;
The village DANES drop curtsies,
The village minds wear smocks;
Sleek Dobbin shakes his ribbons;
Dick Shepherd plies his crook,
And daisy sprinkled barrows
The belfries' overlook.
There in that Old World country,
Beneath its noiseless spell,
Amid its sweet composure,
Who would not choose to dwell?
Where troubles never trespass,
Where Time unruffled flows,
And every morn brings gladness,
And every eve repose!
London World.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
Big Wells for Drinking Water.

The Indianapolis Water company is
greatly pleased with the three deep wells
it has sunk near the water gallery.
"These wells" said Mr.. Hickman, ''go
down to q depth of 1926 feet, and the
water comes out of the rock. The three
are flowing into the gallery at the rate
of 100000 gallons day. One of them
is 10-inch well and the other two are
eight inches each in diameter. The
water rises in them to within six or eight
feet of the surface, and they flow into
the gallery at fifteen Or twenty feet be-
low the surface with about 7-foot head.
These wells at this great depth are
wholly cut off from any chance of sur
face pollution, being separated there
from by any number of layers of hard
pan. They were put down by an expe-
rienced gas well driller, and We shall
put down four more. There can be no
doubt whatever Of the purity of this
water supply. indianapolis Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
Is Life
Worth Living /?

That depends upon the
Liver. If the Liver is
inactive tho whole sys-
tenn is out Of ordcr-the
breath is bad, digestion
poor, head dull or aching,
energy and hopefulness
gone, the spirit is de-
pressed, a heavy weight
exists after eating, with
general dependency and
the blues. The Liver is
the housekeeper of the
health; and a harmless,
simple remedy that acts
like Nature, does not
constipatc afterwards or
require constant taking,
does not interfere with
business or pleasure dur
ing its use, makes Sim
mons Liver Regulator a
medical perfection.
I have tested its virtues personally, ant
know that for Dyspepsia, Biliousness ant
Throbbing Headache, it is the best medi
elmo the world ever saw. Have tried fort.
other remedies before Simmons Live
Regulator, and none of them gave NOR,
than temporary relief, but the Regulato
not only relieved but cured.
II. -, fsacoc ca.
April 6, '9c.y.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07

Countless StOr1eS nave Deem told OF the
audacity Of strangers in Freshwater,
and the Americans of course have come
IN for their share of the anecdotes. On
one occasion southern general came
to visit him. Tennyson abhorred inter-
viewing and interviewers, and stipu-
lated, therefore, with his visitor that
there should be nothing of the kind.
"Interviewingr' rejoined the southerner,
with an expression Of great disgust; ''in
this house we are gentlemen. We leave
interviewing to those darned Yankees. F"
Cor. Boston Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
laundering Methods in Maine.

The methods of numbering have so
greatly changed in Maine in recent
years that there is scarcely an idle in
terval now between the driving time
when logs are foated down to the saw
mills, at the end of the season, and
the chopping time, at beginning of the
next season. Men now go into the
woods in August. Exchange.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07

There are not less than twenty five
factories in the state of Maine where
green corn is put up by the hundred
thousand cans. More sweet corn and
better sweet corn can be raised to the
acre in Maine than anywhere on earth.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07

DOR RENT.-House containing eight rooms
Il stable. large lot extending from Vine to
Coalter streets, known as the Mrs. Fanny Har-
man property. This is a cool summer resi-
dence, in a flrst-clasS neighborhood. Posses
sion given after 18th July. Call on or address
July 20-tf J. G. DUNSMORE City.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
Ao
pan!o1

Eow fennyson Was Regarded at Home.
At u luncheon at Blac1lown, close to
Haslemere, a gentleman told Bishop
Wilberforce the following conversation
that passed between stranger and res
ident: "Mr. Tennyson lives here, does not
heT' eyes, he does" "Hc is great
man!' "Well, don't we'll know what
you call great, but he only keeps one
man servant, and he doesn't sleep in the
housei''-NeW York Tribune.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
A Kind Hearted Waiter.

A surprising experience was that of a
lady who received bit Of advice on
table etiquette. She is sufficiently free
from vanity to tell the story herself.
She says:
know that am not person of inn
pressive appearance. I am inclined to
be short and stout, and to dress plainly;
still had hoped that had an air of ac-
quaintance with polite society. But
now I shall be more modest than ever in
my idea of the impression make upon
strangers.
At my first meal at the hotel where
passed last summer was pleased with
the face of my waiter. 1t was radiant
with kindliness and good nature. be-
gan my dinner with soup and fish. AS
the waiter set them in front Of me he
glanced at the persons Of fashionable
appearance who were my neighbors at
table. His kind heart was suddenly
struck with the fear that I might make
an unfortunate impression on them.
He bent down and whispered in my
ear:
"Eat your soup first. YOUTHS Com
pan!on.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07
Stauntott Spectator.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Advertisements are inserted at the rate of
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for each subsequent insertion.
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10 cents for the first and cents for each sub
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liberal discount will be made on all orders
for 3, g. or IL months.
Obituaries, Announcements OF Candidates
for office, and all communications of person
al or private character, will be charged for as
advertisements.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-12-07

April 6, 'Gc-.y.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
GREAT BIG DAY.

Grand Republican Rally ut RowlcSburg.
Ox-Konst, Parade and speaking.
Special Dispdich TO The intelligence
RowLEsBuRG, W. VA, Oct SO.-This
place witnessed tho greatest outpour-
ing of Preston county Republicans Sat
urday that has been in line this cam
paign, tho occasion being a big barbe.
cue and pole-raising. Fully fifteen
hundred people were present. A huge
OK, several sheep and that tough old
animal known as Democracy were
roasted together and deyoured by the
multitude. The most imposing feature
OF tho affair was the parade which was
participated in by hundred horsemen
and many times as many tootmen,
wearing handsome badges and attended
by Il brass band and drum corps. A
great many OF the marchers we're old
soldiers, and none were more enthusi-
astic than they, or more earnest for the
election Of Harrison and Reid.
Tie procession also comprised largo
number Of miners, who were equally
enthusiastic in the cause Of protection.
After the beef and mutton had been
disposed OF, amid great merriment, and
the other ceremonies were over, ex-
Congressman Mudd, OF Maryland, made
a most eloquent and stirring speech,
lasting an hour and Il half.
Mr.. Whitehead, also OF Maryland,
made speech at night which was like
wise able in argument, interesting and
convincing. Taken altogether the
meeting ut Rowlesburg yesterday was
grand display OF earnest, active, enthu-
siastic Republicanism.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
TERRIFIC Explosion


Destroys Considerable shipping in Phlla-
doIphIa Hnrbor.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. S0.-Shortly alter
A o'clock this morning, and but n few
minutes after the fireman at the pump
ing station at the Point Breeze gas
works had replenished his fires, the
people in the vicinity were startled by
the sound Of an explosion. A moment
later the flames shot up from the river
and pail OF dense black smoke began
to gather over the wharves and ship
ping in the harbor. The bark Felix
was surrounded by burning oil and
badly damaged. The bark Elena G
was not SO fortunate. Before the tugs
could get to the starboard rail she took
fire and the flames spread up the ropes
to the riggings. The fire was prevented
from reaching her cargo OF case oil and
saved her masts and spars, but she will
have to be newly rigged before she can
sail fer Genoa, for which port she had
cleared.
A lighter belonging to the Standard
Oil Company, which was loaded with
CNSeu OIL, was DurNeu 10 lue WbteE
edge and sank, her cargo floating from
the deck and adding to the spreading
OF the flames. Capt. Charles House
mann landed his barge at the gas works
wharf Saturday evening for the purpose
OF loading with foul lime, and it. too,
became victim to the flames and was
entirely destroyed. Five hundred feet
OF wharf between the pumping station
Of the Atlantic refinery and the Stan
dard Oil Company was so badly dam
aged that it will have to be almost en-
tirely rebuilt.
The Boat house of John L. Davis, jr.,
adjoinsng the pumping station, was en-
tirely destroyed, with two cunning
skiifs which were stored in the build
ing. The fire was caused by the explo-
sion of oil which had leaked from the
large pipes which connect the Phila-
delphia and the Atlantic oil re6neries,
located on each side of the gas works.
The ug boat Charles Il. Pugh also
caught fire and was completely de-
stroyed. The loss will aggregate
SlS4, 500.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
DESPERATE BATTLE
between Bandits aud CltIzsns-A Bold
Robbery.

.. 4bODDtrys
CELAaA, MEXICO, Oct. 3O.-The town
OF San Juan, fifteen miles north Of
here. on the Mexican National railroad,
was the scene last night OF bloody
battle between band OF twelve brig
ands, under the leadership OF the des:
perado and outlaw, Antonio Gollardo,
and company OF government rurals OF
the place. The bandits rode into the
town about o'clock last night and
made raid on the general store OF
Richardo Mundoza. They secured sew
eral hundred dollars in cash, driving
the proprietor, clerks and about twenty
customers into the street Mt the muzzles
OF their pistols.
The r1rals were given the alarm of
the presence OF the brigands, and us
the latter emerged from tho store and
were in the act OF mounting their
horses, a fusiladc was opened upon
them by the soldiers. Callardo and
two members OF the desperate band fell
at the first volley, all three fatally
wounded. The nine other brigands re-
turned the fire and pitched battle en-
sued, the outlaws fighting their, way
through the ranks oil the soldiers. Six
OF them escaped and three were cap
tured alive. -Four OF tho soldiers were
seriously wounded. Tho escaped ban
dts retained possession OF the stolen
money
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
AN ENENY ON labor.
How Adlai stevensou's Coal Com
pany Killed a Miners Union.
OPPOSED TO ORGANIZED LABOR.
Letters from Miners Union OH
cials Denounclng Stevenson.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE GIVEN.

History of the War of determination
of the Union waged by the Com
pany of Which He Was Then n
Large Stakeholder and Attorney
and is Now Presldent:-Three Men
Discharged Because Thoy We're
Officers of the Union-.Significant
Utterances= by Officials of tho Cor
poration-- Extracts from MIR. Ste
venson's Homo Paper Published
During the Strike Showing the Is
sue MISUNDERSTANDING Donnelly
and Ex-Presidcnt scaife, of tho
Miners, Write to Labor Leaders In
Wheeling Negroes Imported to
Take the Place OF Union Labor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31


auguration OF a policy which tends to
destroy popular representation and the
purity Of local self government which
furnishes an instrument to discredited
Federal power to perpetuate itself,
which seeks to keep alive sectional
jealousies and strife. which threatens
important and material interests and
which offers no excuse or paliiation for
its existence except the perpetuation in
power OF a political party which has
lost public confidence.
accept the nomination rendered me,
and should the action OF the conven-
tion meet the approval OF my country
men will, to the best OF my ability, dis
charge with fidelity the duties OF the
important trust confided TO me.
Very respectfully,
ADLAI II. STEVENSON.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
TRAIN RoBBER GUILTY..
1t is Capital OGenso but He viii Not
Snffer Donth.

Suuor bouIn.
FREsNo, CAL, Oct. 30.-Late last night
the jury in the case of George Sontag,
charged with robbery, brought in a
verdict OF guilty. SontaC is the brother
OF John Sontag, who, with Chris Evans,
is fugitive from justice, and at va
rious times has killed three men and
wounded several in resisting Capture
by officers. George Sontag is suspect
ed Of being the leader in the robbery OF
the Southern Pacific train at Coils last
summer and was arrested on suspicion
few days after the robbery. He made
no resistance, but his brother, John
and Chris Evans, who were wanted on
the game charge, made desperate
fight and arc still at large.
The last state legislature made train
robbery a capital otiense, but the off
GERS are afraid the law might be de-
clared unconstitutional and so only
charged Sontag with robbery. After
the jury had returned verdict Of
guilty, Clark Moore, friend Of Evans
and Sontag, who was witness in the
trial, was arrested on n charge Of being
an accessory to tho murder.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
MAY LOSE HIS VOTE.
Grover Cleveland May Have his Right
Vote CHALLENGED.


Grover Cleveland May Have his Right to
Vote Challenged.
New YoRK, Oct. SO.-The Republican
leaders at the national headquarters are
questioning Grover Cleveland's right to
vote at the coming election. They are
keeping the matter very quiet and will
not disclose their plans, but it is ru-
mored that Mr.. Cleveland will be chal-
lenged if he attempts to deposit his bal
lot on November S. The Democratic
presidential candidate resides at II West
Fifty-frst street, the thirteenth cleo
ton district Of the twenty-frst assem-
bly,, but did not take up his residence
there tin after October l2, which rem
ders it illegal under the thirty days
residence in the district for him to vote.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
QUE snIP RuIupING.
what Has Saved 1--we surpa's Every

What Has Saved rive surpass Every
Nation.
WASHINGTON. Oct. SO.--E. G. o'Brien,
commissioner OF navigation, has just
submitted advance copies of his annual
report to the secretary OF tho treasury.
The commissioner expresses the
opinion that the exclusion OF foreign
vessels from participation in our domes-
tic and coast-wise commerce, rs
provided BY tho act OF February is, 1893,
has alono saved our ship building
and shipping interests from ruin, and
that in tins absolutely protected branch
OF our merchant marine we have at
tanned to successes in nautical affairs
far surprising those OF any nation on
the globe. :.
The high attainments Of Ameri-
can naval architecture and ship
building is also splendidly exem-
plifed in the vessels OF the
American Yacht Club, which in point
of beauty and speed and in tho general
qualities OF nautical efficiency are un-
equalled by the pleasure vessels OF any
other nation,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-31
THE FIRE sURFERBRs
Being Cared Tor-rhe Relief Fund rlire
Thousand People Fed.

Being Cared Tor-Tho Relief Fund.- Three
Thousand People Fed.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. so. : The
scene OF Milwaukee's great fire was Wis
tied to-day BY fully 10000 people. 1t
is one of the cleanest swept fire dis
tricts ever seen. All OF the important
firms burned out will resume business
at once, or many are already preparing
to rebuild Insurance men are conf.
dent that the insurance will reach
three million dollars. The aggregate
loss will be double that sum. Sub
scriptions to the relief fund have
reached SG3,OOO. Among the large ad-
ditions to it to-day was $1,000 from
Clara Barton, OF the Red Gross Society.
The distribution OF clothing to the
needy will begin at once. Over 5000
meal tickets were issued to-day and the
eating houses were crowded all day.