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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-22
Is Head of Cattle,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, &c.

Of which 10 are milk cows. the most OF them
Will be fresh by day Of sale; fine Durham
bull.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-22

II Col. Snyder does not look out, his an
cient enemy, Stuart w. Walker, will steal r
march on him by eIecting Hon. John r.
Rays Democratic son-in-law. Jas. F. Thomp-
son, 10 be mayor OF Martinsburg.-Martins
burg Free Lance.
WHY, we are for Thompson, too.
He is a Democrat and a gentleman
and would make a stunning mayor.
But why should the Hon. Sly w,
Walker want to run Mr.. Thompson
for mayor? Does he want to switch
him off from the Legislative track?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-22

Bedington, W, Va.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-22

tons come on.
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s.undred persons from drowning Eight breast in recognition of his bravery in saving lives, and monument will be erected to his memory.
 Mary o. Davis, who was housekeep- CT for Walt Whitman, and to whom he bequeathed S1, 900 and the free use of his house for one year after his death, is suing his estate in Camden, N. J.. for $5,000 for services rendered him and supplies furnished his table.
 Il. B. Barton, of Kosse, Tex, is a faithful lover. Forty years ago he was and married F. E. McKissick. She had become widow, and Barton has just married her He is eighty years old The reporters couldn't secure her age.
 Mrs. Allen H. Gardner tells the Women's Press club of New York, that the time has gone by for regard ing women as an annex of male hu- manity. But an occasional reference to marriage notices will show the an- nexation plan fourishing in undi- unfinished popularity.
 Sir Thomas Salter Pyne, just knighted by Queen Victoria, is only 32 He began life as mechanic in the. great Birmingham engineering firm of Tangye. Then he went to India as the foreman of a factory and soon became superintendent of the arsenal and pub. lie works of the ameer of Afghanistan.
 Isabella A. Dayton, of Cambridge, Mass, giddy young thing of sixty. five, has just received five thousand dollars in suit for breach of promise. The defendant agreed to pay her ten thousand dollars last year, owing to, the opposition of his family to the pro posed marriage. but she declined it at the time, insisting on fulfllment of the engagement
 Rev. Ida C. Hutton, who has been called to the Unitarian church in Troy, is the pastor of fourishing church in Moline, IL She has preached and spoken several times in this city and in Brooklyn during the last three years, and has made most favorable impression on all who have heard her. She has good voice and oa easy flow, of language and rises at times to true; OAO4oCASGs
 Prince Henri d'Orleans, the son of the due de Chartres, is an indefati- gable explorer. He has already got tired of the pleasures of civilization, and is starting almost immediately on another Asiatic tour, which will extend over fifteen mouths. Before returning he proposes to renew his acquaintance with Tonkin, where he spent some weeks the year before last, and to make himself thoroughly familiar with the resources and geographical features of that colony.
 There is an exceedingly able woman in Boston who can report speech de- livered rapidly in German, she first, translating the speech into English and then recording it in stenographic characters. Such celerity of thought is only approached by the tradition re- specting Kossuth, who is said to have thought in Hungarian, translated into Latin, and retranslated and uttered at rapid rate the choict S English, born of a study of the Bible and Shakespeare. { Boston Congregationalist.
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A Hominx Plgeon's Instinct.

remarkable instance of the instinct of the homing pigeon has recently been experienced by we'll known fancier at Moseley. Some three years ago the gentleman in question purchased a bird of famed strain from breeder at Widnes, and for couple of years mately resorted to cutting the wing down and at the end of twelve months allowed the bird it's freedom. The pig con could not possibly fly many yards at stretch. Still it gained the roof, and rapidly marched along the ridges of several houses, until it's recapture was out of the question. Several weeks elapsed, when the Moseley fancier received letter from Widnes stating that the bird had returned to its former home. It was then in very poor condition, and the state of it's wing showed that it could not have flown the distance other than by short flights ar time. e.-Birminghan (Eng.) Post
 During the recent heavy gales iu Chicago, says the Scientific American, when the wind attained velocity aa high as eighty-four miles an hour, observations were taken on the vibra. tion of two tall office buildings-the Monadnock, 1s2 feet high and the Pontiac, 175. A plumb-bob suspended from the sixteenth floor of the former and hanging down to the second floor traced circle just one half inch in diameter in one case, and in another an ellipse seven-six- teenths by three-eighths of an inch. Observations with transit showed a vibration of one-fourth to one-half inch. The result in the other build ings were comparable in magnitude to these.
 The death of David Dudley Field, the eminent New York jurist, recalls the remarkable story of four famous brothers all of whom led useful lives. Cyrus West Field. one of these broth CTS who died in 1892, was the projector of the Atlantic cable; David Dudley Field distinguished himself as a lawyer and acquired a national reputatio by his codification of the laws of New York. Other brothers are Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field and Dr. Henry NJ. Field. the editor of the Evangelist They were sons of poor, but distinguished Berkshire clergyman. who managed to give three of his sons collegiate education, of which they ma,;e excellent use Philadelphia Ledger
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"A LITTLE NONSENSE"

My muvver, she's French, she is, but I'm English, an so's my farver." "An' what's yer little sister," "Dun- no-she can't talk yet. Judy.
 -Mistress-sI wish I knew how to have my photograph taken so as to please dear Charley" Familiar maid "Let me sit for you. Miss Emma.
 -She (suriously) )-"W What do you sup pose ever gave rise to the expression Height of folly?'" He {promptly)-- s.The modern theater hat, of course Buffalo Courier.
 Minnie-'tYou seem annoyed. What is the trouble?" May This announce ment of my marriage is all wrong It reads Tuesday at noon:' l distinctly said high noon. Pluck.
 --"Haven't you made Mr. Bulger's portrait good deal more than life size?" said one artist to another. Per haps. You see, that's as big as he thinks he is. Washington Star.
 That is 8 wonderfully bright dog of Timmins'. Can do most anything but talk That makes them pretty good team. Timmins can do nothing but talk. .''-Indianapolis Journal.
 -She--"I should like to know who you are staring atl'' He (courteously)
 sWhom,' if you please, not who. Be offended, if you will, but ungram- nautical never. ."--Boston Transcript.
 -s.No, Mir Jones, ;" said the Pitts burgh girl T cannot marry you, have observed in all the letters you write to me that you spell Pittsburgh without it's final h. This is evidence of an unreAned nature that can't swal- low. -Harper's Bazar.
 -sEhildren, asked the teacher, ssdoes it not seem very wonderful to vor that aaynaQa Waa made WORK just
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THE LAST CARGO OF SLAVES.

Eow an Alabama Captain Brought Them
 from Africa OH a Wager
 An interesting historic episode, of
 which so little is known as to make it decidedly novelty. was the sketch given at the meeting of the Womsn's Archaeological society on the last load of slaves ever brought to this country from Africa. The paper was by Mrs Caroline Da1L who has been ! months preparing it. as the facts were difficult to obtain, and Mrs. Dall even
 went so far as to employ two persons to visit the spot.
 In 1857 bet was made by the cap. tain of river steamboat in Alabama with four northern men, passengers on board, that he could bring over within two years, load of slaves from Africa, in spite of the strictness of the laws against it. The captain secured yes sel and crew, and one afternoon in the autumn of 1859, hardly two years be- fore the war broke out as he was seated on his piazza, mounted mes. senger told him that the vessel had ar rived. Taking another boat he started 70 meet the ship, took off the living cargo, paid the crew and sent them away, scuttled and sunk the ship and sailed up the river to 6 {, place of safety, where the negroes were to remain until the planters who lhad agreed to take them should be able ito do so. The federal officers, getting word of the affair, started in pursuit, put the captain was on the alert Handing bill of generous denom- ination to trusted friend, he told him to see that the men on board the gov ernment vessel had plenty to drink. lie himself got up steam with the ba- con with which his boat Was being loaded and steamed up the river, took the negroes on board and went farther up stream. The federal officres, de- layed by the incapacity of their cre-y, gave up the search and left, and as the planters did not dare to take the ne- groes they were never separated. After they were freed they settled few miles above Mobile, in what is known as Little Africa. These negroes are a Dahomeys finer both mentally and physically than the Dahomeys at the worlds fair. and superior to most of the negroes of the surrounding coun- try. They are the only pure blooded negroes in the country, not, however, the only ones who have never mixed With the whites, but the only ones who have pever mixed with the other 3sacks, and to-day Little Africa" has hstinctive race characteristics not to be foGnd elsewhere in this country.
 The subject is an interesting one ethnologically, and more thorough study of it will be carried on 4 fact worthy of notice Is that out of one hundred and sixty-four persons who were brought over only two died on the voyage Louis Globe Democrat.
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-ur COTTON PLANT.
,arm.tiop Just Disseminated from ths 'inio Asricultursl Department.

.t,op Just Disseminated from the
 ihio Asricultural Department.
 r.a a,pr;cultural department has
 ,..n enlightening the world on the
 's,isct of the cotton plant 1t finds
 sa ssat there are about fifty members of
 .ha s, cotton family, but at the most only & eight of them are of commercial value
 One of these marketable varieties is ,,nown as Egyptian cotton; another is
 atIsd Sea Island or black-seed cotton, q .,h;la third is the upland or green Y sasd cotton. These are the most im- S ..artant three of the eight valuable
 frar;sties. The early homes of the first .,yo are known to be in Egypt and psrsia. but the origin of the green seed cotton. from which nine-tenths of the staple of the south is produced, seems 2 to be yelled in doubt
 Prof We'll, of Alabama, tells pretty little tale about it for which, like few aood story-tellers, he does not care to
 pouch. The tale goes that early in the nineteenth century the United states minister to the court of Mexico # noticed this species of cotton in that
 country, growing wild. It was also cultivated by the Mexicans, and the re- suit was so good that he thought it could be successfully grown in the United States.
 The Mexican government refused knermission to transport seeds, but at 8 su bsequent state dinner. it is said, the minister was told. during 8 discussion of the growth Of cotton. that there could be no objections to his exporting $ dolls to the United States. A cargo of dolls stuffed with cottonseed came over forthwith.
 Whether the plant originally came from Mexico or was indigenous to the soil of the south, one thing seems cer-' tain-the present green-seed cotton has so changed within the past one hun Idred years because of the soil and the climate, that it may well be called a native of the country.
 In 1861 cotton was raised in ten states E-Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennes- ssee, Arkansas, Texas. North and South sGarolina and Georgia, and only be- 8tween twenty-seven degrees and thirty -four degrees north latitude. Within
 
 the last few years the cotton belt has 'extended as far as thirty seven degrees north latitude. While the major part Eof the increase has been in the states already mentioned, comparatively small land infrequent patches are to be found lin Kentucky and Virginia. The first cotton bloom opens early in SJune and the first boil forms early in August; during these months then, if one is to have good crop there must be plenty of sunshine, with moisture Kaaagh to keep the soil from becoming hs% and dry, but not so much as to aaEs the stalk grow to the injury of f fas flower and fruit.
 One of the good objects of the weather bureau is to show just where these climatic conditions exist. and thus encourage the farmer to raise cot ton where it will grow the best, and discourage him from wasting labor on 1t when the crop will not repay the work involved. d.-Kate Fields Wash ington.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-18
PERSONAL AND MATRIMONIAL.

Thirty years ago Mark Twain edit sed paper in San Francisco for the De Youngs. He drew twenty-five dollars q week and thought he was getting rich.
 -Danesfield house, the Scott-M UT rays family seat. between Marlow and Henley, which is one of the most at- tractive places in the valley of tho Thames, in England, has been lot for SIX months to Mr. William K. Wander bilt
 Lars Kruse. who was. drowned ro- gently in Deumar had savsd Several
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by losing his hair?" And Willie apaks saying: f'They mighter used him fer half back, but he'd be n. g. in the rush line. Detroit Tribune.
 Mrs. There, begin to lose all confidence in patent medicines. I've tried five bottles of the Inevitable Remover, and I'm not one bit better than when I began" Mir. Doser- Possibly the patent, nay love, has run out. "-= Boston Transcript
 The cigars had been lighted, when the travelling man abruptly asked his seat-mate: What business are you in?p T am United States senator, :" was the answer, in a large, impressive voice "Er-what line. whisky, silver, or collars and cuffs. ."-Indianapolis Journal.
 STRANGE NAMES OF TOWN. Few That Have Been Heard of and
 Others Net Unknown to Fame.
 The maps of the United States show that the first settlers of many of the towns and cities must have been at a loss for names. Everybody has heard of Red Bog and You Bet in California, and Ynba Dam has been accorded line in history, but when it comes to Dog Tooth, of Illinois, Flea Hill, of North Carolina, and Ely Mountain, ot Ulster county, New York, their exist. ence would never be imagined unless noticed on map or in gazetS {
 But there are many other places with names just as striking: Bobtown, Pa; Bug Hill, N. C.: chewtown, Pa; Cut Shin, ky; and Fiddletown, Cal, for instance.
 Or if these are not sufficient there are Fussville, Wis !; Daddy's Creek, Tenn; Calfkiller, in the same state and Big Foot, in, Indiana.
 Ohio has Belle Centre, Iowa Cal Hope, Indiana Lilly Dale, West vir- ginia a Little Wild Cat. Maryland a Maiden's Choice, South Dakota Min. nehaha, Wyoming Miser, Pennsyl. vania Nazareth, and Illinois Pretty. man.
 There are others, such as Young Blood, H.; Young Womanstown, Pa.; Whisky Town, Cal; Ty Ty, Ga; Big Neck, ILL, and Black Jack fourishes in Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas and Ten. nessee.
 To reach Bliss one has to go tc Wyoming county, New York, and the only state that has Bird In Hand is Pennsylvania Y. Herald.
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-."Never saw such woman's cham pion as Wibbles is. Misses no opportu- nity of standing up for the faix sex. ;" "Humph! Guess you never met him in crowded street car. Buffalo Courier
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Nothlng New.

First Citizen What do you think of this idea of an army of the unemployed marching to Washington?
 second Citizen-T That's nothing new. It happens every four yearA IN \.
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.--"Did the office seek the colonel?" Yes; but he had three days start and there was no reward out for him. '' Atlanta Constitution
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-08
FOUR GIRLS as FREIGHT.
They Were Japanese, Jammed Into Box
ca and Discovered at Yokohama.

They Were Japanese, Jammed Into Box
GO and Discovered at Yokohama.
SAN FRANCISCO CAL, June THE
steamer China, which arrived yester-
day from the Orient, brings peculiar
story of the methods employed by the
agents Of the Chinese in this
country to smuggle girls into
this country for immoral purposes.
While the vessel was at the wharf ut
Yokohama receiving her cargo a jap,
an, 50 passenger came aboard and asked
to have four large boxes taken to his
state room. but was refused as the
boxes were too large.
The boxes were left on the wharf to
be placed in the bold with the other
cargo. AS they wero being hoisted up
peculiar noise staril'd the steved' RS.
They rolled the boxes aside, call.d
the police and the boxes were found
to contain four japan, 50 girls,
almost suffocated. The boxes were
2 feet inches in length and II feet
broad and deep There was q small
air hole at one end, but the boxes were
laid on the wharf end up and the holes
closed.
The japanese who attempted the
outrage had not been apprehended
when the steamer left. Three of the
girls were billed TO Portland and the
other to Tacoma.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-08
THE SUGAR INVESTIGATION.
Mr.. Cadmus Again Called-Trust Of
oials to Re Summoned.

Mr.. Cadmus Again Called-Trust ofa-
cials to Be Summoned.
WASHINGTON, June 7-Matters pro.
grsssed slowly with the sugar trust in
vesiigating committee today. The
committee met at II o'clock, with all
present except Senator Lodge, but II
did not call any witnesses until more
than an hour later.
The first witness was Congressman
Cadmus, Of New Jersey. Mr.. Cadmus
was dismissed by the committee yes
terday. but 30 many inaccuracies were
found in the committees stenographer 8
report Of his testimony, that It was
found necessary to hear his evidence
all over again before another stenogra-
pher, and Yesterdays report was strick-
en- out.
The next move Of the committee
will be to summon members of the
Sugar Trust and subpenas for several
Of them have already been prepared.
Those who will be summoned are
Messrs. William H. aud II. o. Have
meyer. H. L. Terrill. Reed, and Searle.
Mr.. Reed. who resides in Boston, Is now
in Washington. Mr.. Terrill will be OK.
amined particularly with reference to
the conversation In his rooms at the
Arlington hotel overheard by Witness
Castor.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-08
BELMONT SPRING RACES.
Postponed Events of Yesterday-The
Track Heavy and Rain Cuts
Short Third Trial.

PHILADELPHIA, June AFTER two
days postponment caused by rain the
spring circuit of the Belmont Driving
club opened today at Belmont race
track. The track was heavy and the
third race was cut short by the
rain. The first race went to Arena, a
rank outsider. Fauntleroy was the
favorite and won the first two heats
easily, but then Arena came to the
front and won three straight without
difficulty. In the 2 IS pacing race
Simmons, the favorite. took the race.
After two heats had been trotted in
the 2;29 class 1t began to rain hard and
the race was postponed until tomor-
row. Fate was the favorite In this
race and won one heat. the other going
to Brother Jim. Summarizes
First race, 2.37 class; purse S50O-Arena
by Alcontara first; Fauntleroy by Abino,
seco0d. Time, 2254.
Second race, lis pacing; purse $500
Simmons by Belladonna first; Charley B
by Dan Brown, second. Time, 218A.
e. Third race, 229 Glass; purse S5OO-Broth-
er Jim by Intrigue, irst Kate by Wood.
bridge, jr., second. Time, 22iA.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-08
IRON CONPANY'S PURCHASE.
Representatives of the Great Corpor-
alton Assume Control of the
Coleman interests.

LEBANON. Pa, June 1.-THE Lacka-
wanna Iron company which purchased
the interests Of r. H. Colemans estate
has assumed charge and extensive I'm.
provements in the various works will
likely follow.
The deed conveying the property of
Robert H. Coleman and wife to the
Lackawanna Iron company was on
tered in the recorders office here today.
The sum paid was $2,509,375
General Manager G. w. Mckinney
and Superintendent of Blast Furnaces
A. II. Lee, Of the Lackawanna Iron
and Steel company, of Scranton, ar
rived this mcrhing. They visited the
variovs furnaces now owned by the
above company for tho purpose OF tax.
ing an account of stock. It is the
purpose of the company to start up the
Colebrook furnace as soon as the coke
strike is over.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-08
the TRIBUNE HAS LARGER BONA M CIRCULATION AMONG SCRANTON BUSINESS men PAPER
OF the miners officials today the men
,xyara ,Dork;nIlx, S,iata1

OF the miners officials today the men
were partially quieted.
The company has twenty men at
work in the pit tonight, guarded by 100
deputy sheritfs. There are still pros
pscis of riot. Should the foreigners
pel ,llowod Mt the station when the new
men who are expected tomorrow ar
rive, they will break into fury.
READING. Pa, June MANY iu.
Gustries Of the Schuylkll valley have
become enormously affected owing to
the scarcity Of core. The large an
thracite blast fur face ut Temple, five
miles above here, will 90 out Of blast
next week on this account. and the
Robesonia furnace is now out Of blast
from the same cause. The Keystone
furnace in this city has only enough
coke on hand to last few days. Many
furnaces are using anthracite coal ex.
clusively.
In the Lebanon and Schuylkill val
leys there is an equal scarcity of bl-
luminous coal and many worSmcn nra
unemployed in consequence.
AT LATE ADvICEs QUIET REIGNs,
HARRISBURG. June z. .-Adjutant Gem
eral Greenland's latest advices tonight
are Of pacific nature. They are
summed up in the following telegram
Situation quiet at ali points heard
from. Plant at McKeesport will
remain idle until strike is over.
No deputies will be asked TO
aid in protecting the company's prop
erty. General Manager Converse says
the strikers can wander about as they
desire, DnQuesne Tube works will
also remain idle until there is u settle
ment at the National tube works. No
trouble is reported from the mines
where operators are trying to break the
strike with negroes and deputies. Coal
region quiet"
HARRISBURG. June THE besemOr,
Nos. and blooming and the rail mills
of the Pennsylvania Steel works closed
down tonight on account Of the scare
ity of fuel. The suspension will throw
out of work about 600 men.
DUBOIS. Pa. June 7.-At a secret
meeting Of the miners union tonight a
delegate was elected to attend the At
toona conference of operators and
miners officials and instructed to de-
mand the district scale. All is quiet
in this region with no attempts at re.
sumption.
ONE MINER KILLED.
DENVER, COL, June 7,-Govsrnor
Waite has been in communication by
telephone with Victor all day and this
evening stated that no difficulty had
occurred during the day, in spite of
sensational reports sent out from Grip
pile Creek One miner has accidentally
shot himself in the hand in fixing his
gun.
At G o'clock tonight the Sun received
from reliable source dispatch sent
from the deputies camps as follows:
According to the most reliable re-
ports the casualties of the day are one
killed and four wounded on the side of
the miners. Not a deputy has been
killed. The deputies insist upon Sheriff
Bowers taking command and going to
Bull Hill ahead OF the troops. This he
has just agreed to do. All are on the
alert for tomorrow.