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b0ard, per week, IS.
All deductions for lost time.

Board. per week, IS.
All deductions for lost time
The logging business has not been very
profitable for some time past, and the
larger concerns were arranging to i'm
prove 1t. The object is to concentrate the
logging business in the hands of few
operators, reduce the wages in general
and combine to enforce the reductions.
First IN line was the Puget Sound e.
Gray's Harbor Railroad Company, owned
by the Port Blakeley Mill Company.
which bought out the half dozen indie
pendent loggers on the road, and Sol G.
Simpson is now solely operating all the
camps on the road and adopted the scale
weeks ago. The company furnishes the
cars and sidetracks, supplies at wholesale
prices, and pays $3.50 for the logs loaded
on the cars at the camp landings. While
this closing out of the small loggers is a
radical change, as heretofore nearly any
one with few hundred dollars could get
chance to log, it has gradually been
done. and before long the combination
will be effectual in reducing wages to the
Eastern scale. This, of course, is the
natural outcome of the development of
the logging business, and is bound to
come in time. Certain it is that many of
the boys would be more careful of their
money if they did not receive such big
wages
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A Big LithrographIc Trust.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-The Press tomor-
row will print story asserting that yes-
terday representatives from leading lith-
rograph firms OF the country met in New
York and formed corporation with q
capital Of sl2,OC0.OO0. The principal busi-
ness firms represented al the meeting are
engraver. of cigar box labels and the
atrical posters, and 1t Is for the purpose of
controlling the business in these two
branches that the combination is formed.
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CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
The Officer Was Trying to Shoot . Mac
Dog.

CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-A big, black mad dog
created panic on South Water street
this morning. George Paul and William
Martez were mysteriously bitten by the
brute and several others had narrow
escapes Policemen tried TO shoot, but
none were able to do so. George Hayes,
of Pinkerton's watch service, however, in
attempting to kill the brute, shot 2-year-
old child, it is thought, fatally. The dog
escaped.
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Bold Jeweiry window Thief.

OLYMPIA, Jan. Especial. "A bold
thief is creating something of sensation
here by smashing windows of jewelry
stores and removing articles exhibited
therein. This evening he crashed another
one, but again escaped, though numerous
people were in the vicinity at the time.
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LOGGERs' WAGES REpUcrp.
Inc Dig FIRMS OF Mason County Squeez
ing Their Empioxes

SHELTON, Jan. Especial. The Wash
ington Southern Railway Company has
issued an order making a general reduc-
ton IN the wages of loggers. which will be
considerable of cut during winter months.
especially on account of the uniform
charge OF s. week for board and full re-
ductions for lost time. The employing
ioggers had meeting a short time ago
and agreed to the following scale, and it
has been generally adopted:
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FIFTEEN SAILORS DROWNED.
The NoordIand Runs Down the Brit
fsh Bark Chiidwell.

LoxpoS, Jan. IA steamer believed 10
be the Red Star liner Noordland, which
sailed from Antwerp yesterday for New
York. ran down the British bark ChildwelI
off Weiling light ship and cut her TO
pieces. The bark sank, and fifteen of the
crew we're drowned.
The steamer continued her voyage with
ont offering assistance The Great Eastern
conpanv's steamer Ipswich rescued the
captain and the remainder OF the crew,
who were found ohnging 10 the only re-
naming mast.
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Roger q. NILS Goes Home.

WAsHIYGToS City, Jan. 3.-Representa-
tive Mills has so far recovered his health
as to be able to undertake the trip TO his
home in Texas, whittier he started today,
accomnanied by his son.
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A Grain Elevator Burned,

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-A fire accredited to
spontaneous combustion occurred in
Brooklyn this evening, destroying the
four-story grain elevator of Francis G.
Pinto & Sons, and causing loss of $780,
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Female CoIIepe Burned

SPARrANsBURG, Ga, Jan. Sat mid
night the Converse female college was dis
covered on fire, and the main building was
destroyed. The lives of seventy-five in
mates were saved. The loss is sc, 600.
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Town of Saybrook DESTROYED,

BLooMTNGToN, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-A fire at Say
brook, twenty-five miles east of here, this
morning, practically destroyed the town.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, light.
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The Fatal Nashville Fire.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Jan. 3.-The loss
from last nights fire is now estimated to
be about $4,000; insurance, $500, 200.
The three men killed are Captain C. c.
Gowdy, Harvey Ewing and Stoker Allen.
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southern Pacific Train Delayed.

PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 3.-The Southern
Pacihc train due here at 80 4. m. did not
arrive until after midnight, having been
DELAYED by snow on the Siskiyous.
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Money 10 Joan on 1mps@yed eity property st
lowest rates aad on most favorable terms J. X
Edmiston, once u tie seattle SAVINGS bank
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roboers. as they were fully masked. and
there is slight prospect of their being cap
tured.
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THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.

be great calamity to the nation and oul
party"
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for Infants and Children.

"Castoria isso well adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn. N. 7.
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SCHEDULE EFFECT NOV. 18TH, 1891.
f sTAUNToN.-EAsT.


LEAVE sTAUNToN-EAsT.
127 a M-Washngton Fast inc, solid
train with Pullman Sleeper to
Washington. Connects at ID. y
p. Station for Baltimore, Phila-
delphia md New York. Pull
man Sleepers for Richmond con-
Meeting direct for Old Point and
o1s a MI. =. Y. Vestirule Limited. Solid
train with dining car to Wash
ipgton, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York. Connects direct
for Richmond, Old Point ana
141 = N1-For Richmond. Connects at
Characteristic for Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York.
LEAVE sTAUNToN.-wEsT.
49O a NJ. +. V. Vestibule Limited, ar
rive Cincinnati same day, 6l5 p
m. Louisville, f.l5 p. M Linz
tied number of Stages.
2.4O 7 AE-For Clifton Forge. Makes All
s.45 p a1-Cincnnati Fast Line. Arrives
Cincinnati next morning, t50.
ARRIVE sTAUNToN.
From Eastern Cities Richmond and Old Point
+. +. V. 4.30 a. m. Cincinnati Fast Line, sd ?.
IN: From Richmond aud Old Point, 240 p NJ
From Cincinnati and West, +. 4. ", 9.l5 a. M;
Washington Fast Line, LII g. M; from Hinton
N5rE.The connection for Louisville and
South for train No. is via Cincinnati
Trains from Lynchburg, Lexington, Va, Dan
Train No. T, daily except Sunday, leaves Snaf-
lottesville at 5.i5 a. M, arrives Clifton forSe
945 a. m.
Nos 3 and 4. daily, F. F. v Limited, run solid
between New York and Cincinnati, with Vestl-
buled sleepers between Washington and Louis
vile and between Cincinnati and Old Point
Comfort
Nos. l. and 2 solid trains with Pullman sleep
ers between Cincinnati and Washington. Train
No l has Pullman sleeper, Old Point Comfort to
Hinton and from Washington and GhariotteS-
vile to Cincinnati and Dining Car Washington
TO Clifton Forge.
No has Pullman sleeper, Hinton to Old POINT
Comfort daily.
Train No Sleaves Clifton Forge at 6.10 q. m.
and arrives at Charlottesville 1910 a m.
Huntington Division No ID leaves Ch1ton
Forge daily $50 a M arrives Huntington 645 p
m. No. Is, daily except Sunday, leaves East
oewell 90 a M, arrives Huntington 1000 a.. H.
No. is, daily except Sunday. leaves Huntington
100 d. M, arrives East Sewell 7.O5.
Cincinnati Division: No. IT, daily except sun
day, leaves Huntington GIG m, arrives Gin
cinnat L. Is p. No. Is daily except sunday,
leaves Cincinnati go p. M, arrives huntington
$50 p. m. No. 10, daily except sunday, leaves
Maysvlle $40 a. m arrives Cincinnati 7-55 a. NJ.
No 20 daily except Sunday, leaves Cincinnati
$40 D. M, arrives Maysville 7.40 p. IN.
For additional information address
P. H. WOODWARD, Pass. Agent,
Staunton, Va.
G. W. STEW EMS, Genl Supt.
OSCAR G. MURRAY, Traffic Mangr.
H. w. FULLER, Genl Pass. Agent.
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The. NeV-Y0lk Times.
DAILY, So A YEAR; WEEKLY, Is CENTS
DAILY, WITH SUNDAY EDITION, $40

Formed in character and policy and of ma.
! ture Judgment, as becomes newspaper forty
| years old, The TIMES has by no means got its
growth or abated its eagerneSS fo.' continuous
| Improvement It's readers are aware that it is
an excellent newspaper every day in the year
and that year by year it becomes a better one
1t is clean newspaper, for it respect itself and
its readers; it is a trustworthy one, for after
collectin the genuine news it has NO time or
plete as skill, experience and generous eXpendi-
ture can make it.
The news reports and editorial discussions of
THE TINES will have all unusual interest during
the Presidential canvass of the coming year
Men of ali parties testify to the unequaled work
Of THE TIMES in the cause of Tariff Reform the
issue upon which the fight for the Presidency is
to be made. No newspaper. in the:country pre-
sents to the minds of the voter or the campaign
telling facts against the theory and the prac-
tice of the Mckinley tariff makers. But to r-
teligent men Of either party THE TIMES will be
a well-nigh Indispensable exposition of the prin-
ciples and the progress of the electoral contest
THE TIMES prints great deal of information
and discussion upon topics of special interest
to women; its department of literary news and
criticism is notably full and valuable; it pays
much attention to the building ur and progress.
and opinion on naval subjects; and it conce rvs
itself to tell what is going on in the domain of
art, of science, OF religion and education.
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General News.

Cattle are again suffering on account
of heavy snow in Southern Idaho
At the Baltimore elevators 233, 900
bushels of corn were Thursday loaded.
A whale fifty-three feet in length was
towed into the port of Santa Barbara
recently.
There are said to be sixteen men to
one woman in Buenos Ayres, South
America.
The total net earnings of the Edison
General Electric Company last year were
$1,749, 549.71.
Another attempt will be made to float
the Elder, stranded on the Atherfield
Ledge Isle of Wight.
Gen. George W. Jones, aged ninety
years, was admitted to practice in the
supreme court of Iowa.
The failure of Philip Bruins, of the
New York Stock Exchange, with $500,
900 liabilities, was announced last week.
Arguments in the suit to test the con-
stitutionality of the gerrymander law
have begun at Madison, Wis
There are 800 public baths in the city
of Toxic, Japan, where natives are
washed at a temperature Of 100 degrees
at the price of one cent.
Many families of Richmond, Ind have
become disciples of the flying roll,
and have taken refuge in Detroit from
some underlined calamity.
Frederick H. Rose, the $50. =" of Ignatz
Kohn s. Co., wholesale dealers in leaf
tobacco, of New York, is accused OF
taking at least $4,000 of the firms money
when he disappeared.
The name Merrims.c applied to the
Confederate ram is a misnomer. Hel
real name was the Virginia, and the
confusion grew out of the fact that she
was built on the hull of the old frigate
Merrimac.
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4iS* AIS 44i4 4i3s
SOUTH. passen Passen Mixed. Mix'd.
CONNECTIONS

sDaiIy except sunday. Sunday only.
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Tas CENrAuR COMPANY, n MURRAY STREET, New YORK
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Train 418 connects at Harper's Ferry with
Fast Limited Express trains eaving at LOT D.
m.,arrving at Pittsburg pm. Columbus at 3.22s;}
M, and Chicago II. IL a. m. next morning, with
train leaving at so p. m. ARRIVING at Cincinnati
meets at Weaverton with train arriving at Rag-
erstoWn at zoo p. M, and at Washington juno
ton with train arriving in Frederick at l55 p. m.
Train 4l6 connects with fast vestibuled trains
at Harper's Ferry at 1871 p. for Pittsburgh;
10.15 p. m for Chicago, and LOS a. M for Cincin-
natl and St Louis. arrive at Pittsburgh at 7.00
a. M; Chicago at 945 p. NJ; Cincinnati at 500 p.
M: and ST. Louis $50 a. m.
Trains All and 4l9 have Pullman Buffet Parlor
cars between Staunton and Baltimore
Pullman Palace Sleeping cars run through to
Cincinnati ST. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburg on
all express trains
For rates, tcke5s, baggage checks, apply tc
any office of the B. & o r. r., or to C. E. DUD
ROW, Travelling Passenger Agent Winchester
Va. J. Il. ODELL
CHAS. 0. SCULL, General Manager.
Gen1 Pass. Agent nOv26
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4 Northen Sailor.
Fem the AGA lemy.


| shall slip my cable, Polly,
Some night when the sun sinks low,
When the tide is moaning. moaning,
Just between the ebb and the flow.
How can they rest at night, Polly,
Far away from the sound of the sea?
l could not die In nay bed, dear,
If the waves they called not me.
They never have called in vain, Polly,
gave to the great North sea
The best of all had, child,
1t has taken my heart from me.
have never been able to rest, dear,
Nor safely bide at home,
For the sea was calling, calling,
And must breast the foam.
And once when ] came back, Polly,
They toll me my wife was dead,
Her eyes were as blue as the sea, child,
That spring time that we wed.
All, Polly loved her dearly,
But she hated the wild North Sea,
She saw not its glorious beauty,
Strong, cruel, but oh! how free.
l have sometimes wondered, Folly,
If it heard the words she said,
When told her could not leave it
Till the day that was dead.
sYou should not have married wife, then,
You can love naught else save the sea,
You had better stay with it forever,
You never have cared for me-"
Was it in anger, Polly,
That it rose SO high one day,
And drownd both my little lads, dear,
nj vi DaVI
1t was hard, hard ON me, Polly,
To tell their mother the sea
Had taken them from us forever,
She turned her face from me.
And answered, 1.-THE sea has heard me,
Because of the words that | said,
1t has taken my children from me,
Go! leave me to mourn my dead"
/ left her alone with her sorrow,
And sought the storm beat shore,
Where by boys had played so often,
Where they should play no more.
And told the North Sea, Polly,
That smiled so fair and blue,
must always love her forever,
That in spite of all l was true
And so it has ever been, Polly,
have always given the sea
The best that had to give, dear,
For it stole my soul from me.
And know that could not rest, dear,
In my grave, if away from the sea;
shall still hear it calling, calling,
No matter how deep it be.
All. well! shall slip my cable
Some night twixt the ebb and the flow
shall hear the great sea calling,
And shall arise and go.
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THE WEEKLY TIMES.

The subscription price of THE WEEKLT TIMES
is SEVENTY Five CENTS A YEAR. THE WEEKLY
TIMES is a capital newspaper. 1t contains all
the current news condensed from the dispatches
and reports of the daily edition, besides literanY
matter, discussions upon agricultural topics by
practical farmers, full and accurate market re-
ports Of prices for farm produce, live stock, &C.,
and carefully prepared weekly wool market
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Il : : :. W HoTfoIkaaHesisrn RI.
SHEDULE IN EFFECT D E. 9Th, IfsI.
LEAVE BASIC CITY, VA, DAILY.
SOUTH BOUND.
MOL, Nos, No. 20,
SAT am 2G6 pm AS m

NORTH BOUND
NO 2, No.4, No. 30,
2.53 a m Ar m 1882 p IN
No. Flor Roanoke, Radford Pulaski Bristol
Knoxville, Chattanooga and the South
Also for Buefeld, Pocahontas, Elkhorn,
and all points on Clinch Valley division
also for Louisville and Cincinnati and
all points on L. & N r. r. via Norton.
Pullman Sleeper to New Orleans and
Memphis via Bristol, also Pullman Sleep
er Roanoke to Louisville via Norton.
No. 3--For Roanoke. Radford, Pulaski, Bristol,
and Chattanooga. connects at Radio I'd
Bluefeld. Pullman Sleeper to Memphis
via Bristol
No. 30 For Ro 4noke and all points between
Roanoke and Bristol.
No. 2-For Washington (via Shenandoah June
tom Hagerstown, Philadelphia and New
York,
Pullman Sleeper to Washington, also to
Philadelphia and New York.
No. 4.-For HagerStown. Harrisburg, Phila-
deiphia and New York Pullman Sleeper
to New York.
No. 30-For Shenandoah only. No connection
beyond.
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION.-Leave Pu-
aSki Daily 700 A. NJ. Ivanhoe, and 1.3O p. NJ. for
Ivanhoe and Gossan, and 10 A. NJ, except Sun
day for Betty Baker.
For tickets, time cards and all information
call on Agent Norfolk Western Railroad.
W. D. BEVILL. Gen. Pass. Agt.,
jaH.S.] Roanoke, Va.
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Schedule of James River Division
I'm EFFECT NOVEMBER 18th 1901
EASTWARD.

Eastern Standard Time east of Clifton Forge
Central Standard Time west of Clifton Forge
No g. daily, has Chair car between Richmond
and Clifton Forge, connects with No. at Clifton
Forge through Pullman Buffet sleeper and solid
train to Cincinnati.
No, 4, f. F. V.-Vestibule Limited, with Dim
ing Car, connects at Clifton Forge with No lo.
No is solid train from Cincinnati to New
York via Washington, with additional Pullman
sleeper running through to Old Point Comfort.
No. 10 connects at Balcony Falls for Lexington
Va, arriving at 12.20, p M; at Lynchburg with
r. s. D., leaving at $40, p N. North; and at
Richmond with r. f. & p, leaving at 7.05 p. n.
North.
No. IL has Through Sleeper from Lynchburg,
Va, to Richmond, Va
No. IL carries Steering Car to I.ynchburg.
ID RICHMOND s. DANVILlE RAILROAD.
Virginia Midland Division.
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Washington and Southwestern Vestibuled,
Limited, operated daily between Washington
m; Charlottesville ESQ p. m; Lynchburg 4.55 p.
m. arriving Danvile T.l5 p M; arrive Atlanta
$40 a. N. Returning, leave Atlanta No. 3s, 1910
1.3O a. m; Charlottesville $40 a. M; Washington
653 a. 1n This train is composed entirely Of
Pullman cars, on which extra fare is charged
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-04-14
LIVE STOCK IN MISSOURI.

In the accompanying table are presented figures showing the number
of the different classes of live stock in every county in Missouri, excepting
Scotland and Ozark, for the years 1890 and 1891, and the increase or
decrease from one year to the other.
The table will be worthy of considerable study by stock raises and
dealers. A similar table was published last year and the year before.
By the table it will be seen that horses increased in number AZ, 43s
head for the state between the assessment of 1890 and that OF 1891. The
assessment just preceding showed a increase of over g. 600 head and the
one before that of AZ, 600 head.
Mules, by the table, show an increase of 1857 head, when by last
years table they had decreased in number 4, 500 head for the state.
Of jack stock there wereS $40 more in 1891 than in 1890, a consider
ably larger increase than was shown by last years table which was 1872.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-04-14

Cattle figures are somewhat surprising; l24,024 head less than we're
assessed IN 1870 and the figures for 1890 are smaller by A. 900 than those
for 1889, while the assessment of that year shows LA, 900 head more cattle
in the state than when shown by the 1888 assessment. OF the decrease
shown by this last table, nearly 100000 of the number were in North
Missouri.
Hogs have fallen of in number 149, 1873 head in the state.
Sheep increased 93,s26 head between the last two assessments and
50, 1872 head during the previous year. Up to that time there had been,
since 1882, a decrease in the number of sheep in the state. The assess
mnt of 1882 showed l, 79S, 625 head in the state, and that of 1889
702,0 a falling off of ,O96, 529 head.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
LIABILITY OF CARRIERS.
An ImPOrtant Decision OF the Kansas su-
preme Court en- lhis Matter.

An Important Decision OF the Kansas SUI
prems Court en- This Matter.
TOPEKA, Kan, March o.-The su.
preme court has handed down an i'm
portant decision, which materially at
fects the liability of railroads for goods
damaged while in transit The
case in question is entitled the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Co. vs. Mark Dill and
David W. Dill The defendants
shipped some household goods, and
brought suit in the Lyon county dis
tFict court for damages sustained while
the shipment was in transit. The
shippers had signed q waybui, to which
was attached an unintelligible hero
glyphic which Is seen on all way bil1s,
the purport of which is that the ship
per releases the carrier from resPon IL
bility.
The shippers in this instance claimed
that they did not know that they were
signing a release. Judgment was rem.
dered in the lower court and the su.
preme court sustained it The decision
was written by Chief Justice Horton,
both the associate judges concurring.
1t is as follows:
a common carrier cannot limit his common
law liability by special contract In writing with
the shipper, unless it Is freely and fairly made
and the carrier cannot eXnct q condition pre-
ccdeut for carrying stock Of goods that shipper
must sign contract in writing limiting or chang
ing the common law liability. Il the carrier
has two rates Of harges for carrying stock Of
goods, enc II carried under The old common Law
contract. the shipper must have real freedom o.
choice in making his selection