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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26
Driven From Nome.
Written Tor The rFLneeAal


Written for the rrLseeAsI
The story lam going to tell,
IL very sad aud wild,
'Tis OF an old man driven out,
Aud by his only child.
DiSpair is pictured ON his face
He leaves the daughters door
He's craaed with grief and wants 10 do
And wishes life were DER.
he thinks OF all that he has borne
And, oh, what awful strife;
He brings a razor to his throat,
And thinks to end Ills life.
AT Adamston this scene took place,
A village west of town.
And in my minds eye, can SEQ
The old man sitting down.
Upon the railroad track, hard BY
His tears fall down like rain
Within his ears thewords stillrinR,
DO not come back again,
His only child, oh, can II he,
She never had heart
Or is the life that she has lived
From all good set apart
Thepoor old father sent from nome,
He has no place 20 dwell
His happiness il, long since gone.
And lie has sain farewell
Now all the hopes that once we're his.
Are buried in the past.
For his only child has turned him out
From home and friends at last,
The most unworthy child is she.
With heart as hard as stone
Or she could not have driven him
To wander all alone.
The Master has commanded us.
To honor and obey
The parents who have brought us mp,
And taught MS day by day
This daughter has forgotten this,
She to her wrath gave vent
And she's lost the hope oil Heaven,
Unless she does repent
This poor old fathers lettering feet
VIII soon be laid to rest
l think il surely would be sad
To see his childs' unrest.
Her heart will surely soften then,
And break with shame and voc;
And wish that she could call him back
To only let him know
That she regrets the things she's done
Regrets will then be vain:
When he has gone TO his long home,
Where there's no strife and pain.
TENA GIEaN.
CtarkshurG W. Va April %, 1895,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26
U. S. Coart.


court lasted 9 days, beginning
Monday April Is. aud ending last
Wednesday. Judge Goff of tie
U. 5. Circuit Court of Appeals
presided in the absence of Judge
John j. jackson who could not
be present. The cases disposed
of are as follows
VIOLATION OF INTERNAL REvE.
NUE. LAWS.
Homer Clayton, jury. verdict
guilty. fine 500 and 80 days in
Marion county jail.
David Stout, jury, verdict gull
ty, fine 500 and 81 days in Ma
rion county Jail.
Dennis Grady, jury. verdict
guilty. fine 800 and 65 days IN
Harrison county jail.
Doc Cross, jury. verdict guilty
fine 800 and s. days in Harrison
county Jail.
Will Smith, jury, verdict not
guilty.
Joshua Douglass. verdict net
guilty.
Harvey Flanagan, verdict not
guilty.
Asa Williams. jury, verdict
guilty, fine 800 and costs and "a
days in Grafton Jail.
Raymond Pennington. jury.
verdict guilty, fine 500 and go
days in Randolph county Jail
j. N. g. Bell, jury, verdict not
guilty.
Metz Minear, jury, verdict not
guilty.
James Huffman. jury, verdict
guilty. fine $500 and 6 months in
Marion county jail.
Joseph Keepover, jury, verdict
not guilty.
Patrick Stanton, jury, verdict
guilty, fine 5000 and s months in
Marion county Jail.
c. Q. Ferriil, violation of pos
tai laws, jury, verdict guilty; fine
81 and Imprisonment in peniten-
tiary Is months.
Elsewhere in this paper will
be found an account of some
more noted cases.
John E. Freeland was tried for
passing counterfeit: half dollars
but the evidence against him was
very unsatisfactory and the
Judge set aside the jury verdict
of guilty" and turned the fell
low loose until next term.
Davy Sammy Stalnaker who
confessed to being connected
with the robbery of the
Jane Lew postoftice, was SEN
fenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary.
y. S. vs.. Rhoda Carpenter, dis
missed.
I. s. vs.. Jno. Carpenter, jury
verdict not guilty.
U. S. VS.. Alice Medscher,
guilty; 800 fine and 80 days in
Harrison county Jail.
The last three were for selling
whiskey without government
licenses.
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Pine Blum.

Not seeing any news from our
little village for a long tine, we
thought we might be permitted
a little space in your valuable
paper for a few items.
Michael D. Martin, one of our
Oldest citizens is very ill.
Mrs. Nancy Lipscomb is also
dangerously sick.
Singing school under the man
agement of Prof. X. B. Boggess
is progressing nicely
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Randall. OF
Shinnston, was visiting their
daughter Mrs. Pigott, one day
last week.
j, Wilbur Pigott and Miss
Zillah Tetrick, also Mr.. Howard
Cunningham was visiting Miss
Mabel Boggess last Saturday and
Sunday.
We think it is about time L.W.
Martin was going to Enterprise
to see-Hattie.
James Sturm was visiting his
mother last Sunday at Sturm's
mill.
Owing to the wet weather
farmers are thrown back CON
siderably with their spring crop
planting. ZIP Coon.
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Its Out Of The Question.

Father, dear father. come home
with me now, for ma has some
carpet 10 beat; she's got all the
furniture out in the yard from
the front door down to the street.
The stove mus. come down and
be put in the shed, and the yard
must be cleaned Of dead grass,
for it's time TO clean house. and
the devils TO play, and the front
window needs some new glass.
Father, dear father come home
with me now, and bring some
bologna and cheese its most 10
o'clock, and there's nothing 10
eat-I'm SO hungry I'm weak in
the knees. All the dinner well
have, will be old scraps, and
such we'll have to eat standing
up, too, for the table and chairs
are all outln the yard; oh, / wish
spring cleaning was through.
Father, dear father, come home
with me now, for ma is as mad
as a Turk. She says that you
are a lazy old thing, and she pro.
poses to put you TO work. There
is painting to do, and paper to
hang. and windows, and casing
to scrub, for its house cleaning
time, and you've got to come
home. and deal with soap suds
and cold grab. Little Jimmie is
crying down in the wood shed,
the dog has set up horrible.
brother says he'd rather
be dead. o, father don't it beat
h-ll.
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slAxG WORDS AND PHRASES.
The Origin Of ssOutsider.' You're
a Daisy'' and Too Thin,

The Origin Of "Ontsider." You're
apaisy'' and Too Thin"
:Desa is i word whose mean.
ing Is now known to every one
who understands the English
language. About the beginning
of the century, says the Boston
Post, a constable in England
named John Dun became cele
brated as a first class collector of
bad accounts. When others would
fail to collect a bad debt, Dun
would be sure to get it out of the
debtor. 1t soon passed into a
current phrase that when a per-
son owed money and did not pay
itwhen asked, he would have to
be "dunned." Hence it soon be-
came common in such cases to
say .'You will have to dun So
and.So if you wish to collect
your money"
Until the nomination of Frank
lin Pierce for the Presidency the
WORD outsider" was unknown.
The committee on credentials
came. to make its report and
could not get into the hall be-
cause of the crowd of people who
were not members of the conven-
ton. The chairman of the con
yention asked if the committee
was ready to report. and the
chairman of the committee an
swered '.Yes, Mr.. Chairman,
but the committee is unable to
get inside on account of the
crowd and pressure of the out
s;ders. The newspaper report
ers took up the word and used it.
You are a daisy is used by
Dickens in David Coppertield'
in the sense of calling a person
a daisy in the way to express ad-
miration and at the same time to
laugh at ones creduhty Steer
forth says to young Copperfeld:
David, my daisy, you are SO in
nocent Of the world. Let me
call you my daisy, as it is so re:
freshing to find one in these cor
rupt days so innocent and unso
phlstica.ed My dear Copper.
field, the daisies of the field are
not fresher than you"
Too thin was given currency
by Alexander H. Stephens. of
Georgia, in the United State Cor
rress in 1870. Some members
had made a reply to Mr.. Steph.
ems, and the latter had his chair
wheeled out IN the aisle and said
in that shrill, piping voice which
always commanded silence: MIR.
Speaker. the gentleman's argu.
msnts are gratuitous assertions
made up OF whole cloth and
cloth sir. so gauzy and thin that
III Will not holdwater 1t is en-.
tirely too thin. sir
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the other fellow mashed" and
then cruelty crush him, but at
the same time she is walking on
dangerous ground and making
herself contemplate in the eyes
of all good women.
The woman who does not ex
pect to be entirely satisfied with
the one man she marries should
either remain in single blessed
ness or go where outright poly.
gamy is tolerated.
The new woman seems to
have made her appearance. at
least some OF them have been ex-
ercisiug the prerogative that it
is said will accrue to that delec.
table creature when she becomes
empowered with all her glorious
privileges; but until that era
shall come. man prefers to WOO
and all his latent manhood rises
in protest when the fair sex will
so unsex themselves as to sue for
his favor, and no true man can
but regard one who loses all
sense of womanliness and modes.
ty by such demeauor, with any
other feeling than that of utter
contempt
A subscriber asks whether, il is
nice foramarried woman to at
tend the fashionable balls and
dances while her husband is
either at work at the office or at
home taking care of the house.
We venture no advice. The
poor man ought to have had
judgment enoughto have discov.
cred this weakness IN his better
half before they were married.
if such a state of affairs dis.
pleases him. AS it is he is in it
'for keeps.
1t is to be regretted that sew.
eral Clarksburg girls in their
mad frenzy to get something to
call husband have practically
made wrecks of their lives. Some
girls think that if they don't get
married the FIRST opportunity
that comes, they are eternally
lost. Something that wears
trousers comes along and they
marry it. Have they ahusband?
Well.-as the old saying is NOW
you see it and now you don't"
1t would be well for those who
so far forget themselves as to
lose all sense of delicacy to re.
member that often walls have
ears" and that the most sacred
subjects may be made the means
ofidle iests by those who witness
violent displays of feeling and
sentiment. AUNT CHATTY.
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j. Q. shrake of New Mata-
moras. o., is the new contractor
at the Spencer Asylum. The
Spencer people will find him Just
as much of a gentlemen to do
business with as former contrac-
tors.-Ravenswood Ne,cs.
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West Virginia has three coal
roads now building in Kanawha
county These roads are to tap
a seam known as Kelley's creek
coal, lying along the water course
of that name. The roads are
short, being three, five and six
miles long respectively, and all
connecting with the X. 4 M .
partof the Ohio Central system.
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Boomers.
wRlFrKs ron rnr rEnronAN.
eT0HE WON a n

pdh w ON a n
W h o continu-
ally seeks the
compan / o n
ship Of m e u
other than her
husband IN ay
be guilty of no
impropri e t v
and only does
it Just to get
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26
Big BnnaIo.

Mr.. Gothup is building a tele.
phone line from Jarvisvilie to
Wolf Summit, and furnishing
phones to those along the line
at reasonable prices.
The third quarterly meeting of
the Wilsonburg circuit will be
held at Kings Chapel, NJ. f
church. May 4th and 9Th, '95.
The show at Jarvisyille last
Saturday and Big Isaac Monday
was well patronized by the young
people.
The saw mill of the Nicholson
Bros, is now being set on G.
BENEFITS Tenmile farm to do
saving for the neighborhood.
Mr.. Charles windon, J.T. Som
merville. Mr.. E. c. Evans and
Lee Megahan all have one added
to each family recently. S. D.
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Moi Guilty.
! THE VERDICT OF THE
JURY.

S lHE NLNDlS
he Bailey and the Indian
Doctors Son Go Free.
i trial of Hoy Evans and
Bailey who were charged
completely in the robbery
u Jane Lew post Office was
most exciting, and by far the
complicated case that was
Eidered al this session OF the
eral court. Young Bailey is
sou of parents of high integ-
and at the time of the rob
was assistant postmaster
clerk for postmaster Brown.
rs is the son of the noted old
an Doctor whose previous
rtation has been good. The
pfacts in the case are as fol-
on the night of Dec. 19,
vn's store was entered by
pown parties. Young Bailey
slept there was caught, gag
HE'D, blindfolded and thrown
bis cot. The robbers then
Eeeded to pull out the combi-
On knob. ill the door with
cient powder, insert a fuse
explode the safe. They then
taking with them a small
of money stamps, SC. Bal
says he got up and managed
let his pants and get his knife
which he cut through the
es that bound his hands be-
his back. He then cut the
is that bound his feet and
ted out to give the alarm.
eral parties and a few tramps
accused of the deed but
hing definite was known until
y Sammy Stalnaker, a young
and one of the wost char
rs in Jane Lew, got with a
bw and while intoxicated ac.
wledged that he and some
lngers unknown to him did
robbery. He was arrested
al three separate confessions
the same story about the
layers whom he did not know.
|ally he told a different story
Fhich he declared that Hoy
Hns the young Indian of Chip
p ancestry, together with
Fey and himself planned and
f1ed into execution the rob.
y and that the tying of Bailey
Faila piece Of deception. The
5 we're arrested and the affair
Fed great excitement in the
L Lew community. Hon. Jno,
PAWS. Hon. William Brannon.
P W. b. McGary and Col. +,
|Smith were council for the de-
|dants Ii was one of the
F stubbornly contested cases
has been tried here for
Py years. Stalnaker's evil
&c was the main feature and
only damaging evidence
|lnst the boys. He swore
'I'lvely that they helped to do
work.
y The cross-examination Stall
Eer was badly damaged by Mr..
E's, whose shrewd questioning
Fed him TO acknowledge him.
% be a liar, a thief and a
s :. yagabond. Many OF the
Jung citizens ofthe community
pFe that they would not believe
On oath. This left only a
Sofroborating circumstances
I which the United States
prneys made a strong case.
SF' Walkers speech being a
e'lul summing up of leading
INSTANCES and Gen. Watts
S,ag effort a logica. arranging
F.'oence. Mr.. Brannoa in his
N'erly effort in behalf of the
h used won many compliments
,,e Nr Davis in his eloquent
Isal % the jury and afterward
,'lalns the instructions which
r approved by the court gave
, IL. proof of the fact that
ranks among the ahlest Of
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-26

W. Sanford, Station Agent
of Leeper, Clarion county, Pa,
writes ! can recommend One
Minute Cough Cure as the best /
ever used. Itgave instant relief
and aquick cure. Sold by Criss.
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FERTILIZERS.

Baugh's Double Eagle Phos-
phate and Bone Meal. for sale by
2o.tf. r. I, EowNpEs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18

and both the lady and myself made
a nice thing off of it." While the
young man was saying this, how
ever, it happened that special
treasury agent was standing near
by. He inquired as to the smuggler's
identity. He looked the matter up
during the next few days and re-
ported it to the collector. The man
ager of the exchange, the gentleman
smuggler, received notice to come to
the custom house, and before he left
he paid $500 for that drink and indis-
Greet remark which followed it in
the Hoffman bar room. The detective
of course got his percentage, and
had the smuggler not been a man
of prominence he might have gone
to prison.
This man is by no means the first
who has been discovered by the rev.
enue officers by his Boosting. Every
year a number of smuggling opera
tons are discovered by the criminals
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18

brings in eight or ten suits of
clothes, and 1 am told that there
are men who make vacation trips
to Europe on the basis that the ex-
penses of their trip will be largely
made up by the profits which will
come to them through buying their
winter clothing in Europe.
PARIS DRESSES sMUGGLED.
This is especially so when women
are to be considered. Dresses cost
just about half abroad what they do
ait home, and they are Struggled in
by the tens of thousands. l was told
the other day by a man connected
with the customs that New York
dressmakers often send the girls in
their employment to Europe with the
proper measurements for dresses for
their customers. The dresses are
made in the latest Paris styles, and
are furnished to the Americans at
exorbitant prices. The dressmaking
girls pass them through as their
own personal property, and some of
the maidens who, on the big ocean
liners, are looked upon as American
heiresses are smuggling milliners.
The government does all it can to
prevent such importations 1t has
its detectives on both sides of the
big pond, and the stewardesses of
the steamships often give tips to the
inspectors. There are female in
spectors at New York who sometimes
meet these smuggling maidens upon
their landing. They may have got
ten a pointer from the other side, or
the girls may have been too con-
f1ding in their talks with other peo-
pie on the vessel. If they are sus-
pected they are taken with their bag
gage into private room at the GUS
tom house. If the girl cannot show
that she is all right her wardrobe
is sometimes taken from her. If the
nspectresses are pretty sure she
is a smuggler they may make her
try on some of the clothes. A girl
with thirty-four-inch bust finds
much trouble in explaining the pos
session of forty-two-inch Paris cor
set, and a tall, gaunt maiden of five
feet ten looks very funny when her
form is clad in a Paris dress made
for one of the young ladies of the
TOUR hundred who measure five feet
two. The inspectors have to be very
careful, however, in making such ar
rests. They must have something
more than pure suspicion to depend
upon, as the examination of innocent
persons is liable to involve them in
great trouble. The dressmakers of
Paris, however, seem to have no
computations or doubts about their
being able to deliver goods in Amer
lea, and have heard English tailors
say again and again that they could
I'LL any orders that would send them
at London prices.
L am told that thee are English
tailors who send their representa-
tlves to America every year to carry
clothes over and bring new measure
ments back. Among the customers
Of these men are some of our NOSE
noted public characters, and a list
of the names of American swells who
get their clothes in this way would
make interesting reading.
SOME DIAMOND STORIES.
1t is hard to get the real facts
about smuggling from the officers of
the United States treasury. Our
customs officials are, to a large ex-
tent, detectives, and they will not
permit their names to be used in
connection with any information
which they give to the press. They
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18

matter yesterday, and he said that
5000 would be low estimate. You
can easily see how these purchases
will run into the tens of thousands
and into the millions. The most of
the goods will be dutiable, and it is
safe to say that the above amount
will evade the customs. At $1OO per
traveller this means the introduction
Of $4,000, 900 worth of dutiable goods,
and at 5000 per person it would
amount to $1S,OOO,0OO worth. These
travellers will be met upon their ar
rival in New York, and the goods
will be passed as personal effects.
a woman has the right, according
to Iaw, 10 q wardrobe corresponding
with her station In life, and if she is
UsIl~sD-do she can load herself with
diamonds. Many 2 New York swell
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18

splinters were sent flying in all di-
rections In most cases the shot
passed through the vessel without
injuring any of the crew, but the
shower of wooden splinters filled the
sick bay and kept the sailmaker
sewing up the dead in canvass sacks
for burial. On the battle ship Ore
gon practically no wood will be
used. All the bu1kheads and parti-
lions dividing the rooms in the Off
GERS quarters are to be of iron. No
wood will be used on the decks, but
instead linoleum will be cemented
to the iron deck to prevent slipping.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18

there were more people killed and
injured in the naval battles in the
Orient by flying wooden splinters
than by the bullets or exploding
shells. Most of the cruisers and
battleships that took part in the
hulls, and all of them were more or
less protected with heavy armor
plates. The interior fittings and fur
nishings of the quarters and the
deck coverings, however, were of
wood. When a shot pierced the
hull of a vessel and tore through the
wood in the interior of the ship
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18
Pin Recovered After Thirty Years,

A. S. Twitchell, of Gorham, N. H,
tells an interesting war experience
comrades were obliged to travel in box
cars, and he lost Masonic pin, having
the square and compass inclosed in a
circle of gold and his name engraved
on the back. During the reunion, very
much to his surprise, the pin was re-
turned to him by one of his comrades,
who said that he received it short
time ago from a Grand Army man
from a distant state, who happened to
see Mr.. Twitchell's name in a paper
connected with the reunion, and, not
knowing Mr.. Twitchell's address, sent
it to the comrade to return to him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-18
To Louisville, ky., and Return.

On account of the National Encamp-
ment G. A. r. 1.-The North Western
Line" will sell cheap excursion tickets
to everybody from Minneapolis and
st. Paul to Louisville, KY, and return
for $3.50 round trip. These tickets
will be on sale Sept. Sth to 10th in
elusive. For detailed information as to
train service and rates, call on agents,
10 Nicollet House Block, Minneapolis
corner Robert and Sixth streets, st.
Paul; Union Depots in both cities,
and 405 Messaba Block, Duluth, or adj
dress T. W. Teasdale, General Pas
senger Agent, st. Paul.