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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23
Worshipinu the 0cea9.

The ocean is very generally worshipea
in Dahomey, aud has a chief feticA man
OF high rank dedicated to its use.
Sometimes the King Of Dahomey sends a
richly attired ambassador, with gorgeous
umbrella, to his good friend, the ocean.
The ambassador is taken Ear out to sea
in a canoe and is then thrown overheard
for a feast to the sharks. The honor Of
this diplomatic post is not eagerly
sought or coveted by Dahomey poll
ticians. San Francisco Chronicle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23

IT Is estimstsd that 2,5n0oo bushels OF
corn have been saippsi into Mexico IRON tue
United States during the psss seven monens. .a.
The Mexican railroads arc blocsanet viii
the increase traffic. Corn Is still reli.n Tor
81 hnshe in the City Of Mexico aud many
parts OF the Rsnuhlic, but the suffering OK
the poorer class hai been CRAFTY REEVE, oy
the Ires donations male them oy 'he u0'-
crnment
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23
Fed Without Nnxlnn.

A big of bees has found com.
Portable lodging between the ceiling and
the second floor of the kitchen OF Har.
rell's house in Namn Township. Mr.
Harrcll has quietly run tube up through
the ceiling and Tapes the store o.
honey for table use. The aow OF honey
is regulated right at the table with an
ordinary spigOi, Preston (Ksn.) Plain
Dealer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23

The great feet of nearly one hundred
vessels, that made up the expedition
against Louisburg, sailed from Boston oO
the first of April. Favored by wind and
weather, it soon reached Cape Breton
aud ives coasting along the shore of taat
island towards its destined haven. In
many of the vessels the soldiers were
watching the hills aud woods on shore,
but every indentation Of the coast was
familiar to most OF the Gloucester men,
for they had often been there on their
fishing voyages. Their attention was at
tracted to the singular movements OF a
solitary crow that hovered persistently
above them. now and then alighting on
the topmast.
As they we're entering the harbor of
Lou s5urg, Martin Sanders was sent for
ward to assist In furling the jib. A rope
parted suddenly under his feet and he
fell beadlong into the sea.
The last sound that fell upon his ears
before the rushing waters closed over
him was the hoarse screaming Of the
crow. A powerful current was running,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23
PEG WESS0N.
A LEGEND OF GLOUCESTER.

7 was in March,
1745, and the COM
pany raised d in
Gloucester to join
the expe ion
against Louisburg
was to leave town
with the rising of
the morrow S sun.
In the spring twi-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23

rHE 100 scaoo, ma'ams Of cinclnn1t', o1'o'
by recsnt decision, must pass an exaln,n-.
tion in hygiens; physiology and tas r,s,,s nssI.e
and effect upon the human system o. a'S''o,,e o,
drinks ibis law had been ignore ar -
aries illegally drawn iq tb, tares ,e"s 20
eregate fully 900 ovos
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23

and 1T was only with great uiHcul'y 'na'
Sanders was rescued.
When the excitement was over, and
the half drowned man was once more
safely on deck, the crew had disappeared.
The feet cast anchor in the harbor and
countless boats took the men on shore.
Before the siege could commence, the
cannon must be landed and placed in
favorable position. 1t was arduous toll,
for the soil was boggy, aud the men often
sank to their knees, but all worked with
a will, and the guns, one after another,
were landed.
Goodwin and Ayers, with others, were
dragging a cannon on sledge through
half frozen mud, when suddenly with a
whir of wings a crow alighted on it.
Job Ayers made dash at it with his cap.
At the very instant that he did so, the
rear OF the sledge sank in the treache--
Gus soil; the cannon gave sudden lurch.
and the arm he had flung out was caught
between the cannon and sledge and hope
lessly crushed. The unfortunate mar
was carried into camp and his arm ampu-
tated.
The work of siege went on from day
to day. Foraging parties were sent out
sometimes, for the rations were some
what stale and monotonous, and there
was game in abundance in the vicinity
Sanders and Goodwin made two of such
party one pleasant May afternoon. or
ten during their hunting they noticed a
crow circling near them. They were
about returning to camp when Goodwin
striding across some low shrubbery in
search of fallen bird, thrust his foot
into an open fox-trap which closed
on his ankle, the sharp points penetrating
deep into the flesh. His cry for help
was echoed by the "caw, caw," of the
crow.
1t was with infinite difficulty that his
companions released him. Pale and
half faintiug with pain and loss of blood
he locked up at the crow still near.
al believe it's witch" =" he cried.
"rPeg Wesson, by heavensl" exclaimed
Sanders, recalling the witch's curse.
He lifted his loaded iowlingpiece, took
steady aim and fired. "Caw! cawl
caw!" screamed the crow derisively,
winging its onward way unhurt Mar
tin Sanders was renowned shot, and
never known to miss such mark before.
His companions noted his failure with
amazemeut, and though they thought it
Door use for good powder and shot,
another and another fred, but with the
same result.
at is surely a witch" cried Goodwin,
who, lying on the grass with hastily
bandaged ankle, was looking grimly on.
at is surely WITCH, aud not to be
brought down by a leaden bullet. Moth.
ing but silver will bring down a WITCH"
"That's true" cried Martin Sanders.
He hastily tore his silver sleeve button;
from his wrist. He wrenched them
asuuder. 1t was the work of minute
to load his gun with one Of the pieces.
The crow was still within gunshot. He
took deliberate aim and fired. Wounded
in the leg, it huttered downward in less
ening circles, and apparently fell in some
bushes close by. But careful and pro
longed search failed to discover it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-23
PLAGUE PHENOMENA
THE ASIATIC CHOLERA AND ITS
ORIGIN.
Symptoms Of the Dreaded Epidemic
Professor Oswald Says That
Death Results Largely From
the Effects of Fear.

~ ESIDENTS in the volcanic
~ regions Of Spanish America,
~ writes DR.. Felix L. Oswald in
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Gives the Blade Taffy and Hits
Stanford q SWipe.

MILLERsBURG, KY, Feb. 2, '92
Mr.. C. C. Moore.
DEAR SIR-You will find en-.
closed $1.00 to pay for Blade.
1t has been coming since some
time last Summer, Please send
it to Mr.. Thomas HI. Collier ol
this place. He has seen one issue
of it and wants it sent to him.
His means like my own, are
limited, but he is a man of his
word, strictly honest, and is above
playing Stanford with you.
The Blade is double edged,
very sharp. cuts right and left,
very pointed, and is no respecter
of persons but is a respecter of
character. 1t exposes the corrup-
tions of the political parties and
Office holders. 1t also unveils,
and brings out of darkness into
light. the hidden cloven foot of
the different churches. l wish
the Blade could be read by every
family in the state. Don't fail to
send paper to 7. III. Collier of this
place.
Respectfully
THOMAS j. SHIPP.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

Bro. Fitch began the Ensign as
a Prohibition paper and sent to
me to exchange with him. Ibid so
with pleasure and wrote some
thing commendetory of him, in
the Blade.
He then soured on Prohibition
and announced that the Ensign
would thereafter be run as a "free-
thought" paper. l noted the de
parture and expressed my regret
in the Blade, and he quit sending
me the Ensign.
And now comes the above.
After all the complaint of the al
legged illiberality of Prohibitionists,
that is made by some Prohibition
editors, there remains the fact that
the liberty of Prohibitionists is
continually remarked by the
liquor editors when they are COM
planning that the liquorites do not
support them; and now this "free-
thinking" brother is doing the
same.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

members of our most prominent
families. old and young, that were
killed by. whisky, have barely
died away in your ears, an d crime
and misery in every con ,eivable
shame is daily reported to you,
and Judge Morton, a Democratic
leader. tells you three fourths or
four fifths of it is from the liquor
traffic.
You know that as soon as the
liquor traffic is suppressed in
Fayette county, and this city, that
the best people from all over the
country will crowd here to live
and educate their children, and
that the brutal faces of the gam
blers that disgrace the streets with
their presence will leave here. Is
it all that a true gentleman is
called upon to do simply to vote
against this one man and this one
Democratic ticket that is presented
here?
; Surely not. You must not only
vote against it, but you must talk
against it and denounce it. Make
Fhe whole liquor business infa-
nous, until every man who is
engaged in it can only walk these
streets the object OF the contempt
Of every good citizen who sees
nim and knows him.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

Paris business in "tract," and
Just knock out that church. The
average Prohibition tract is too
abstract. You just give me the
contract, and l wont re-tract and
l will get up something that will
attract, and l will run that Paris
shebang worse dis tract-ed than
that fellow there said / was.
Write me and tell me how
many tracts, at a cent piece, you
will take that will contain the
whole Paris racket everything
that l have printed about it.
Many ofthe Prohibition ''tracts"
and "bombs" are about as effectual
as the Pope's bull against the
comet. But if you will agree to
take enough of my tracts to pay
for the printing of it, I will show
you that the "Christian" Church
at Paris Kentucky, is the back
bone of the damnest infamy that
ever disgraced civilization, and |
will do it by producing the writ
ten testimony of men and women
in full fellowship in that church.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Rev. L. A. Cutler Of RicmOnd
Virginia, says HypOcritical
Christians Killed Fred
Henry.

From part of an article in Peoples
Friend, Manchester Va.
The Guide says: "Most brutal
and bloody murders occur all over
the state nearly every week. We
have them in Louisville very fire.
quently." But besides this, acci-
dents the results of drunkenness,
or whisky drinking. are of fire.
quent occurrence. Think of the
death of young Fred Henry of
Kentucky. He and two other
newspaper men and the engineer,
killed, by the train running
through an open switch, left open
by a drunken man. His father
and mother, distinguished and ele-
CANT people, suffering what can
net be told and only the heart can
feel, and their souls refusing to be
comforted. Who killed Fred
Henry? The whisky traffic. Who
killed him? The political parties
that support and defend the ex-
ecrable liquor trade. Who killed
him? The Legislature that
passed the law granting the sale
OF intoxicating liquors for money.
Who killed him? The voters who
authorized their representatives to
pass that iniquitous law. Who
killed him? The hypocritical
church members, who vote for IL
censing the sale of intoxicating
liquors, or vote for a political
party that throws the protection
of the law around this accursed
infamy.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
II am with you ON that Million
Vote Pledge"

EARLINeroN, Ky, Feb. 4, 1892.
G. c. Moore, Esq.
DEAR SIR-YOu will find en-
CLOSED check for $500 for which
you will please send the Blade to
11r Frank Lisk for one year, and
s other dollar fer myself for SIX
Months.
l don't know just when my
time expired, but I want this to
pay from that time. / am no
richer now than when l subscribed
at the poor mans rate, but your
paper is worth twice as much as l
thought it possibly could be.
l am with you on that "Mill-
lion vote pledge"
Yours etc,
w. j. DULIN.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

| print this as sample of the
righteous indignation against the
liquor infamy, that is growing
bigger and stronger every day, all
over this country.
Just few days before this gen
tleman writes to me Judge Jere
Morton, a man who has voted for
Democracy all his life, and can
not be supposed to be infected with
the Prohibition mania, said to a
Lexington grand,jury that of the
indictments brought into his
court there were ninety for law
lessness and crime growing out of
the liquor traffic and that these
ninety were three fourths or four
fifths of all the indictments that
had been brought in. Then he
rebuked the people of Lexington,
by telling them that the only man
out of them all who had been in
dicted in more than one instance,
had three indictments against him.
and he was the man they had Sc
lected to be Mayor of the city.
Think of it men of Lexington,
who claim to be decent and moral,
and who have sons and daughters.
Think of it, you presidents and
professors of our colleges, who are
inviting the youth of the land to
come here and live, and breathe
the moral atmosphere of this place
until their educations are COM
pleted.
Wont you be disgraced. and
your institutions of learning dam
aged, if it goes out to the world
that a man who has been thus
signalized, by Judge that all OF
us are proud to honor, has beer
selected by you to be the Mayor O
the city OF Lexington?
The peels of the funeral bells O
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

pal suffrage for women, with an
educational qualification" rather
than to leave universal suffrage for
women, subject to the decision of
the individual states, as it now
star DIS in the National Prohibi-
tion platform.
l think that general suffrage for
women would necessarily ensue
in very short time after they
gained municipal suffrage, and
that to take the municipal "half
loaf" while we could get it, would
be the quickest way to get there,
and get the other half.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

5. That we favor municipal suf-
frage for women, with an educa-
tional qualification.
Ignatius Donnelly, E.J. Wheeler.
Frances E. Willard, J. B. Weaver.
G. M. Miller, E. Evans
The following were appointed
to present the addresses to the st.
Louis convention: DR.. G.. d. la
Matyr, Frances E. Willard, G. w.
Miller, j. B. Weaver, Ignatius
Donnelly, Samuel Dickie and E.
j. Wheeler.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
A "Freethinking'' Editor Sits
Down Between two Stools.

UNcAsvILLE, Con. Feb. 2, '92.
PUBLISHES OF THE BLUE GRASS
BLADE.-Your paper has been
coming as an exchange to the En-
sign, but the latter being discon-
tinued l must ask you to stop the
Blade.
Several temperance papers
larger than the Ensign exchanged
with me, but never "a Freethought
paper, although l was champion
ing Freethought.
1t shows the liberality oftemper-
ance people. and that Freethinkers
are just as l always found them to
be the meanest and stingiest class l
ever saw.
j. w. FITCH.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
A Postmaster Friend to the
Blade.

YARNALToN, KY, FEB. 3, '92.
&C. Moore.
DEAR SIR-Enclosed please find
my check for S4.0O for your paper
as follows: 80 20 for Mrs. Thorn
ton Moore for one year, 81 90 for
M. l.. Yeary for six months, and
$1.OO to Lige Stamper for one
year.
Send all to this office. / don't
ask any commission as postmaster,
as the benefit your paper is to the
reader will more than repay any
money commission
Send copy this week.
Yours trnly,
F. p. DRAKE.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Quenemo, Kan.

In the Blade is the advertise
ment of Kelley cure at Cynthi-
ana. 1t is put there by the bust
ness management of Bro. Neal. /
am satisfied that the whole Kelley
business is an unmitigated humbug;
but l know there are men who
honestly think different, and the
gentlemen of high standing at
Cynthiana who endorse that one,
and Bro. Neal who puts in the
advertisement, must assume the re-
sponsibilitv of it. / will not.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
'sSilver and Gold Have L None,
but Such as / Have Give
Unto YOu.''

dARRODSBURG kY FEB. 3, ".
Charles c. Moore, Esq.
DEAR SIR-I feel that 1 am
greatly indebted to you, but have
no other way of liquidating it ex-
cept by writing to thank you for
the enjoyment and benefit l de-
rive from reading your paper.
! am with you, and sympathize
with you in the great cause in
which you have taken SO active a
part, and in the valiant attacks
you have made on the common
enemy.
By the common enemy, 1 mean
the concentrated damnation dis
titled from the scum and offal of
hell, for the destruction ofhuman-
ity and damnation of souls.
When men become so degraded
that they will put themselves to
infinite labor and expense to make
such ruinous stuff their names
should be written in red on the
murderer's list. And yet how
much more terrible it is to think
that men will so abuse themselves
as to peddle this damnation out
over the counter at so much a
damn.
In this country where the,
people are said to be the power
Che Only thing for them to ds-;;stel1
blot the whole liquor traffic out
of existence, and make it a thing
of the past.
With whisky on one end of the
plank and politics on the other
see-sawing up and down On the
great mass of humanity as a GEN.
ter of balance, we are indeed in a
deplorable state.
Whisky is the General-in-chief,
the great king serpent of all the
devils forces on earth. When we
meet a venomous serpent in the
path we don't 60 around to our
neighbors and complain what a
nuisance it is. We don't say to
it, "Ugh! you are a nasty look
ing thing; l don't like to look at
you; you go away, We don't do
these things, but we destroy it.
That is the only chance for hu-
manity in its contest with liquor;
and you Bro. Moore, are doing
more to bring that contest to a
head than any other man in the
world. Afraid of having dis
turbed you too long l will close
asking you to remember that l am
with you tooth and nail.
w. p. SMITH.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

l have not kept an account Of
what 1 have received for the mail
ing machine. But would guess in
round numbers to this date Feb.
A about half as much as it will cost.
But l will have one anyhow.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Paris, Texas, Wants to Hear
About Paris, Kentucky.

PARIS Texas, Feb. 2, '92.
Editor Blue Grass Blade.
SIR-Will you send me a half
dozen copies ofyour paper of Jan.
%, 1892, containing the article in
reference to the Christian church
or J. B. Sweeney and oblige
Yours truly.
A. T. ODENEAL
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Where art Thou, Bro. WinslOw?
Here's Another Fellow After
Your man Kelley.
From the Medical Brief }
KELLEY TREATMENT.

The chloride of gold cure, for
the cure of the morphine, opium
and whisky habit, has been pretty
well advertised of late. 1t is a
humbug equal to the Koch cure
for consumption. Two or three
of the patients who have spent from
$500 to $500 each for the gold
cure, without benefit, have come
under my observation. l am pos
tive that there is not a grain of
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

1t had thirty cents in it, but |
had to send that and lots of
others back who sent for that
issue, because they were all soon
sold out.
1 believe l will print the whole
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

bichloride of gold ever used in the
treatment. 1t is simply daily
reduction of the use of the drug
until they are tapered off. Then
the strongest tonics are admins
tered. Fluid extrcts of nux vom-
lea, quinine, etc.. in large doses.
If the patient has will power left
sufficient to resist his desire for the
drug, be may be regarded as on
the road to health. Any physi-
clan can treat these habits just as
successfully as Keeley. All the
chloride OF gold in christendom
would fail to cure in some cases.
The love of the "crater" is too
strong, and its soothing influence
too captivating to be resisted.
A. R. BoDLEY, M. ID.
OuenamO Kan
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
Judge Morton Awfully off on
Woman Suffrage.

Judge am Tor you, old pard;
and that last Lexington instruction
to the grand jury is almost as good
Prohibition as if 1 had done it
myself. But Lord man, that was
an awful bad break you made on
Woman Suffrage.
l believe you are saying the
best things of any man in author
ity, in Kentucky. Of course We
don't expect you to get away up
to Bro. McGarvey and me-two
distinguished divines-all at once;
but you are getting there all the
same.
But let me tell you my dear
brother, you went out of your
way to make just a little "slam"
against woman suffrage in that
instruction, and if Mrs. Josephine
z. Henry could reply to what you
said about it, there simply would
not be a grease spot of you left
Your argument would not hold
corn shucks, much less water.
You state that ninety persons
have been indicted for violation
of the liquor law and then you
say:
"There are twelve women
among this number. This is a
heavy slam against the doctrine
that woman suffrage will cure the
liquor traffic"
In the old Rays Arithmetic
that 1 used to stndy-that Bro.
j M. .Overstreet says is the only
infallible book in the world-12
from 80 leaves 7S. Now fix that
up according to the "double rule
of three" some how, and if twelve
women violating the law is a slam
against a0oman suffrage, don't the
fact that seventy-eight men violate
the same law slam against man
suffrage just sac and a half times
that hard?
You shot at a1deer and killed a
calf. You meant to say that it
was "heavy slam" against man
suffrage.
/ am for you as I said, and I
am not going to let these Prohi-
bition cranks bounce you, and 1
amt going to let the women get
their fingers into your wool; but
if you are going to do any of that
kind of Prohibition talk you
might as well let woman suffrage
60 along with it from the begin
ming; for they are links of the
came sausage, and if you think you
can talk Prohibition and leave
woman suffrage out in the cold,
you will find you will have to 60
back and do it all over again.
1 know you had Editor Cald-
well and Alderman Treacy ready
to 60 to jail here once, for libel
Gus imputation of injustice to you,
and the Governor pardoned them,
but 1 don't care much if you do
put me in Jail in that new Jail, if
you give me a front room. l
never did live in a house as fine
and elegant and comfortable as
that Jail, and l would like to try
it, and have the state pay my
board, and have the "Flower
commission" furnish me nosegays
from Bells, and then I could say
what l please about the toughs
and they couldn't get me.
But what l was going to say is
that it looked a little tight on my
friend Davidson to score it into
him like you did about that
"three indictment" business, and
leave his pard, Bro. Afford, the
Lieutenant Governor, out in the
cold like you did, when they were
both indicted.
You have worn your ermine
just as Immediately as the pro-
verbally clean little animal upon
the back of which it grows, but in
order that the scales of justice
may hang in your grasp, on a dead
water level, l want you to hit
mitch" a little tap too the next
time you come down on Hull"
with your judicial "black snake" !"
Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20
About that Mailing Machine.

PILLAR POINT, N. Y, Jan. 10, '62.
c. c. Moore, Lexington, Ky.
Please find enclosed 81. 90 which
1 donate for your mailing machine
l like your editorials because
YOU hew to the line. That's what
counts.
Yours truly,
j. GOULD.