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The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
DEADLY DISEASE OF THE TIMES.
Tho Great Increase in the Number of
 Cases of Pa-csis.

In connection with the cocl-srre statement of Mir. Howells, says tho Medical Record, that the present race was never so- healthy and strong as now, it is interesting to read the fol lowing paragraph written by Dr. T. $. Clouston, superintendent of the aIorningstdc asylum, Scotland. He says:
 ''One terrible form Of brain disease, with mental symptoms, is certainly in- creasing. That mclady might be described as breakdown of the treat center of the mind and motion in the brain. It always goes on from bad to worse until it renders it's victim ut terly helpless in mind and body and kills him in 8 few years. No cure and scarcely any mitigation of this latter day curse has yet been devised. It is D disease of cities, Of restless lives, of active brains in their prime; sometimes of dissipation and aebauchery, of life at high pressure commonly
 During the past year the asylum5 oe Scotland received 150 new cases; those of England, 1,f0o cases. and those of Ire land. g. The asylum statistics of this country show an even greater number.
 In a single asylum in this state. for example, that of Ogdeaburg, there were among G50 admissions 31 cases of general paresis. This would make the proportion of general Saresis over per cent.
 Among seven state asylums, to which 1.943 patients were admitted in 1890, there were G6 cases of general paresis, or a little over 3 per cent. If i per cent. be the general ratio Of this dis ease in the state of New York, then the total number of paretics among the 1G.090 insane would be about GAO. As a matter of fact, tho number is greater, because the proportion of this disease i is larger in the New York and Kings ! county asylurls than in those of the state a:t large. But even if there were but 4.C0O cases of general paresis among the 1C0,o ,o30 insane people of this couu 1 try it vol,d be the extraordinary evi Gcnee of the development of a disease : which in the last century was certainly not known even if 1t did exist.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Capped the Climax.

An exchange tells that a good story was heard the other day of a father and mother who were trying to find names for their twin babies, who, by the way,were girls. It was decided that the father must name them. After casting about and finding no names that exactly suited him he determined to end the strain on his mind and named them Kate and Duplicate. In the course of time another pair of twins came and they were boys. This was the husbands opportunity to get even and he wanted his wife to christen the boys. Imagine his feelings when the mother one day told hin she had named them Pete and Repeat. But when the third pair came the father grew fright
 ened and named them Tax @EG Climax
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
a}fEsu YORNS NAME.
.Got So Bad as It would Have Seen Had
 yo-t's Old Names Survived.


 yo-k-s old Flames Survived.
 Now that New York's name is under discussion, it is well to be thankful thai the contraction of old York $ original Eurc~ic took place before the qIlo fly ing New was added. for if Yorl, is bad New E1revyic would be unbearabie, avs the Sun. yo,'s's till earlier name if Iborae eu-n wouI1 have gone no bet ter with New" and her Celtic ncrne of Cacr E5roc would have been even worse than any of the others with third eler-cnt pref,Sed. Tie syll&bl- sswic," which has almost disappeared in the contra ct ion of Eurewic to 1or-1, rather the Saxon vic, meaning an ablc ing place, llan the Danish wick, mean in1 a station for ships, surely an c2 proDriatc suf-ix for so great seaport as the chief commercial city of the new world.
 New York is really no worse of however. in the matter of it's name thar a good many other cities are CT haT, been. York, with or without the New is better than Midtown, which is no m 1 fair translation of Lutctia. the anc-c.l i Roman namc for Paris, l2stowcd CPc- the city Of the Parish because of ii mud houses. London, by the way takes it's name from the fortified hill c the Britons where St. Paups cathedral now stands. Dublin is a name conceal inc two unattractive syllable3 E1eaniTc the black pool, and Liverpool is literal ] ly the pool of the living creatures, so called because wild fowl abounded upon the waters of a pool near the site of the city Brussels is coniectured tc mean either swamp or thiciSet, and l Rome may be merely the carly Latin 1 equivalent of the crossroads from the ! fact that the local lines of travel met at the Forlrn Berlin is conjeatured l to mean the short lake. Other guess CTS take it as the free and open place, l the river island and the nlarshy spot. l Names that are commonly accepted as of but single word often contain 2 phrase or . whole sentence. Constan- ] tinoplc and Valparaiso are familiar ex- amples Pernambuco sounds well to English ears, but means the mouth of he'll Cairo, which has been mistaken 1 by European ignorance for the name Of the city. is really a corruption of it's descriptive title, so to speak, Jll Ka- hirah, the victorious. The true name of the city is Misr. Bombay is only the Portuguese Bono Bahia, good bay, :: modest enough name for an oriental city, since the names of such usually
 mean q great deal that is prctentioUs or splendid Ispahan, for example, is 1 the half of the world; Astral1han, the
 city of 5lle star: Bagdad, the garden ot
 justice. copenhagen is merely the
 merchants' harbor. The concealed
 news in foreign city names arc
 legion, as Novgorod, Ncustadt, Neuf
 chatel, and even Naples.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
SUBMARINE MINING.
An Enterprise with Some Novel Feature
 in New South Wales.

in New South Wales.
 It is proposed to carry into effect a project which aims at bringing from far below the lowest depths of Sydney harbor, New South Wales, the coal which gcologists had predicted would be found there, and which has actually been tested by diamond-drill borings. Transport, in recent issue, contains Q very fattering account of the scheme now being 1oatcd on the London mar ket from which the following par ticulars are obtained:
 Important coal fields have been de veloped both north and south of Sydney-at Newcastle and Bulli-but up to the present the intervening area has been left practically untouched. although plainly shown on the govern ment geological maps of forty years ago. The unqucstionable advantages which would follow the opening of coal mines in tho very heart of the capital of the colony have led to the formation of company, and induce our contemporary to take a most sanguine view of the outlook. Sydney is an i'm portant shipping port, where the lines of many steamship companies con- verge. and the coal Of the bed in ques- ton is in demand for bunker Ese and export.
 The borings were made under the superintendence of the miners depart ment of New South Wales, partly on account of geological interests and partly with the very practical ulterio1 view of raising revenue. The seam was found within 30 feet of the depth predicted by tho geologists, in bore hole 2,70O feet deep. For 1,500 feet the borings passed through Q compact sandstone, claimed to be impermeable to water. The seam itself is 10 feet inches thick, of which feet is clean coal free from sand. The shafts to be sunk will be within 200 feet of deer water, so that the situation will b( unique, the saving on cost of transpor tation from the nearest mines now working being about 75 cents to S1 { ton. The parent company has secured a surface site of small extent, but ha' concessions over 1,40o acres below ground (and water), and it is expected that several other collieries will b' started, for which there is said to b. room.
 There is nothing extraordinary il mining under water, as implied in th' statements. This has been done on thu Cornish coast and in the copper ant iron mines of Michigan at Silver islet Lake Superior, but the opening O great collieries in Q large shipping port with delivery from the shaft moutl directly into vessels alongside, is some thing which only tho mines of Wash ington and British Columbia can rival It is also proposed to utilize the smalle coal, screened from the bunker coal for a largo electric installation and als to make coke and establish local smel' ing works.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Story of a California Pioneer.

At a recent gathering of California pioneers e Baltimore, ore of the bes- stories was told by the secretary Of Che association. john l.. Sticfs. He com pared the spread" before them witt. the pork and beans which were serve in the mining camps t'venty-one time a week, year in and year out, and saic the absence of women in California had tauqht him how to appreciate them. Nearly all the time he was there hC had to do all his own cooking, wash ing and nending. Part O. the time ht was in California he was mercllandis ing and getting sueh prices as these fol goods: Long shovels. SIG; chcekcret shirts, s each; long boots, S52 pair copies of tho Baltimore Sun of anJ date, S1 each: four, 50 cents pound and picks, ai6 each. A ''sti1f" drink o whisky was worth about SS.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Given Peeun,ary Satisfaction.

Two brothers named Habron were convicted at Manchester, England, some tire ago, of murdering a police man, and condemned to death. Doubts of their guilt having arisen they were rcprieved. Before the expiration of their rePricve another man was arrest ed for the cri1no and confessed that he committed 1t. As . result, the Habrons have been not ''pardoned," as is the American procedure in similar cases, but released" and, in compensation for the laws blunder, have received ten thousand dollars +-,o1l tic treasury.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
4 Onoer sarin,,s Rank.

Five million francs in a warning-pan was the lucky find of the prcfect of the Seine the other day. An old lady of cighty-threc named Tanies had died in her country house, leaving the city of Paris heir to all her property, which she said amounted to five million francs. After her death the country house and her fat in the Rue de Ia Beetle were searched without anything being found; sho was not known to have any banker, and the authorities were con- ing to the conclusion that they were tho victims of 1nyatiicatior, when some one opened an old warning-pan without a handle, slowed away under s sink, and found the sum there in gold, bank notes and bonds.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
POOR Lo ON A WHEEL.
Bicycles at Last Introduced Among Ret
 Men Of Indian Territory.

Bicycles at Last Lrtrodaced Among Red
 Men Of Indian Territory.
 The other day strapping big Indian, smelling of campfire smoke and whisky, walked into Q bicycle store oa Delaware street. For . long time, says the Ilan- sas City Star, he gazed at the bicycles ranged down both sides of the room, then he pointed to one and said: Me want" After a long diel1cr he bought a secondhand wheel for fifty dollars, every cent he had. He had return ticket to the Indian territory, end he borrowed dollar from the bicycle man to ''c2t with" going home. Then he pushed bis bicycle out Of tho door and up street. There c@e now many Indians riding bicycles down in the ter ritory. At le2st thirty are il usc at Taleqcah. and the towns of NIUsbo- gee .Vinta and Scpulpa end many others have riders. Imagine an Indian war with this new state of al.SSairs. 4 little handful of men-thcy G-c always little handfcls-aro crolched behind the ruins of their wagon ard the bodies of their dead males selling their lives dearly. Just out of ride shot there cir cles abort thcI o2 bicycle5 a band ot fierce and bloodthiTsty Indians with lit tie caps with green visors end trim:&cd with eagle feathers. When every thing looks darkest the U1irr Of the wheels is heard ia thc distance ard q troop of United States bicyclcry daShes up, the steel of their machines Glinting in the sun and with ringing cheers charge in pursuit of the retiring Inai- ans, who pump away across the pra.ylc at full speed.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Carrying Molten Metal Five s1iles.

Great pots of molten metal go daily skimming along the Erie railroad from the Cleveland Rolling Mills company's central blast furnace to the Newburg mills as scdatcly as if this traffic was of long standing, says a Cleveland letter. The plan is a perfect success. It takes just fifteen minutes for the metal, after it is poured into the big ladle cars, to reach the mixer in the mills, some five miles away. Eight trips are made 8 day, as follows: At G:20, S:2O and 11:20 in the morning, at 2:10 and 4:10 o'clock in the afternoon. and three trains at night. These trips are made at a time when the tracks arc practically cleared. Thus delays are avoided, which would be expensive, for if long continued the metal would cool and thepurpose of the special delivery thus be defeated. At the rolling mills the car is raised on Q hoist to the mixer, the ladle is tipped by machinery, and the liquid metal poured into the mixer. Relieved of their load, the cars amble back to the furnace at their leisure, in time for the next trip. About 800 tons of the hot metal is thus carried every day over this long railroad route. The Cleveland Rolling Mills company has to pay a pretty figure for the freightage. it IS said, but there is economy in the operation.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Ee1nue,cs Ire Dying Out.

In Estral.hcnthc IIalnucl1s are dying out. They are afflicted with some mysterious mental disease that is filling the asyluIns md hospitals, and the mortality is so great that there will soon 1,e not one Of the race left in the district.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
rscanes t.o Keenes.-rrc., rrnter.

So still lies the ptGr:niGan, 90 per feet is the tone of summer plunage iH .eepiag with the stunted vegetation ol its mountain f2stness, that the keenest eyed hunter might pass t'lro'' n fo"'- of thera without being aware oi ...e-. prtScuce.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

An exchange says that Neither
Falsehood nor deception, nor trick
cry is going to win in this cam
paign.
"Honest argument and facts are
what the people want. No subter-
fuges or evasions will satisfy the
demand for reliable information.
"Republicans are fond of com
pairing United States with Mexico,
There would be Just asmuch sense
in making comparison of this
country with Mahatabeland.
"Why not compare Mexico with
Italy?
"Italy is single gold standard
country and Mexico is silver
standard country. Compare them
one with another, and who is there
that would not trust their future
with Mexico before they would
with Italy.
"The people of the United States
demand bimetalism-the double
standard gold and silver"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
Trustee's Sale.

DY virtue of deed of trust executed
ID to me, the undersigned Trustee, by
1.-THE West Virginia State Camp
Grounds and Interstate Chautaugua AS.
laws ofthe State of West Virginia, bear
ng date on the 25th day of May, 1895,
and recorded in the Clerks Office of the
County Court, of Mason County, West
Virginia, in Trust Deed Book No. Ii, on
page 23l and following, to secure the
payment OF that certain promissory
note for the sum of $1,000, executed by
The West Virginia State Camp Grounds
and Interstate Chautauqua Assembly,
and made payable to the order of II. p
Piper, trustee for Sue r Piper, Ada L.
Roots and Jane II. Piper, in one year at
ter the date thereof, which note is fully
described in said deed of trust, and de-
fault having been made i'll the payment
thereof and being requested to do so by
the holder and owner of said note, /,
John u. Myers, trustee, will, on
Saturday, @9M dayTAugust, 1896
commencing at one o'clock p. NJ in
front of the Postohice in the town of
Mason, in said county OF Mason, pro-
coed to sell ut public auction, for cash,
to the highest bidder, the PROPERTY con
veyed to me by said deed OF trust, stu
ty of Mason, and state of West Virginia,
near to and on the easterly side OF the
said town of Mason, and is bounded and
described at follows, to-wit: Beginning
at II stake near the foot of the hill where
a sugar tree corner formerly stood, being
corner to lands formerly owned by the
Galloway Mining Company; thence in
an easterly direction following along the
dividing line of lands now owned and
occupied by John U. Myers, Joseph
Patterson, II. Heslop, Vim. Mcintosh,
S. j. Philips, A. Adams, L. Diehl, AL
bert Mcdaniel and the Cove Spring Gem
Cemetery lot in or near the me of said
Albert Mcdaniel where beech tree
formerly stood and where stone markc
ed S: II: s. & Co. is placed bearing S. i60
36> w 20 feet; thence s. ~ w 349 poles
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

a Daughter ex-senator Faulkner
to be Married Next Month.
A Washington dispatch of Aug.
18th, says:
"One of the most important an
nouncements of the present week
is the coming wedding of Miss
Boydie Faulkner, second daughter
of Senator g. j. Faulkner, the sem
Tor West Virginia Senator. Miss
Boydie is a beautiful girl and loved
by all who know her, more especi-
ally by the poor of her home at
Martinsburg, where she has always
been SO actively engaged in chart
table works. The wedding will be
September Both at the Senator's
home, Boydville, end the lucky
man is Mr.. Carter, of Fort Bridger,
Wyoming Mr.. Carteris the owner
of several ranches and is man of
wealth. All West Virginians, while
regreting to lose Miss Boydie,
will follow her with their best
wishes for her future happiness
and long life in her Western
home"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
Il Ho,teehoLd Iresitre.

u. W. Fuller, OF Canajoharie, n. y,
saws that he always keeps DR.. Kings
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always found the very best
results follow it's use; that he would not
be without it,, If procurable. g. A..
Dykeman Druggist, Catski;l,N. T:,says
that DIR. Kings New Discovery is UNI
doubtedly the best Cough remedy; that
he has used it in his family for eight
years, andi has never failed do all
that is claimed for it. Why not try. a
remedy so long tried and tested. Trial
bottles free at Hoofl's drug store. Regn-
lar size SOC. and ST. 90.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

Governor MacCorkle, of Char
lesion, received by his mail re-
Gently a letter from the wife of a
convict, making fearful appeal
for the pardon of her husband.
The principal ground for the par
don is included in the close of her
letter, which makes the following
remarkable statement: "Now dear
Governor please let my husband
come home to his wife and chill
dren. We need him. He has one
child years old and another 2
years old, and he has never seen
either of them"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

Free silver men, put your shout
ders to the wheel and make the
fight of your life for freedom and
prosperity. The Republicans will
doubtless have an enormous cor
ruption fund for the purchase of
votes, and it behooves every true
free silver man to put on his
armor and do valiant work for the
cause of humanity, and use all his
energies to defeat the candidates
of the corruptionists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
a StrnM.

Mr.. w. j. Kiester, a prominent
merchant doing large business at
Ashton, this county, told us yester-
day, that they bought a few weeks
ago one dozen silver hats and one
dozen gold hats. Everyone of the
silver hats have been disposed of
while not single gold standard hat
has been sold. There are very few
gold-bugs in the neighborhood of
Ashton. This is straw showing
the way the country is going in
November.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
OHIO CENTRAL LINES.
LOCAL TIME CARD.
Central Standard Time.

NORTH BOUND.
No. departs 8 % a. m.-tFlyer.)
10 arrives 5 80 Sop r, M M Ace Aceo amy
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 20 departs 6 10 a. MI Accom.l :.
70 & Il Up p; m m.EFile anu hA'
Train Nos. l and run solid between
Charleston and Toledo, with new Pull.
man Drawing Room Chair Car, both
ways. Train Nos. 10 and III run solid
between Columbus, Ohio, and Ganley
Bridge. Train Nos. 10 and 20run be
tween PointPleasant and Gauley Bridge
For maps, rates, &c, and through tick.
cts to all points, call on
e. u. HEIHER, Agent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
HcndcrsOn items.
Special Correspondent, Aug. 10.

Special Correspondent, Aug. 10.
Prof. S. V. Pullin, who has been
employed as Principal of Clifton
school, was granted a State certifi-
cate on the 14th, inst. Mr.. Pullin
is now at liberty to teach in any
school in the State.
Pearl Forrest is completing a
nice residence which has been un-
der process of construction for
some time.
Jas. Hudlin will move into his
new house in about one week.
Henderson continues to boom in
spite of hard times.
Next spring when the govern
ment shall have been wrested from
the hands of tho demagogues of
Wall Street, the little town of Hen
derson will begin to build and
grow as never before.
The Gold-bugs were highly
elated (?) over the "four hours
speech" of one of the editors of the
Point Pleasant Hermaphrodite
Gold-bug organ Tuesday night.
The Ohio River Railroad train
killed horse belonging to Hon.
w. w. Lee, yesterday. CIvIs.
The fall term of the West Vir-
ginia University will begin Sep
tember 9th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
ChcaD EXCURSION to Ningrn FNlls,
Saturday, Avg: 80, 1896

Saturday, Aug. 29th, the Ohio
River Railroad in connection with
the O. l.. e. W., and N. Y. @. & ST.
l.. Rys., will run an excursion to
Niagra Falls and return. Rate
from Point Pleasant will be 81 for
the round trip. Tickets will be
good going on train No. 2, leaving
Point Pleasant at 9:25 a. IN. eastern
tim. Special train of Wagner
Shoppers and day coaches will run
from Bridgeport Opposite
Wheeling) arriving at Niagara Falls
z a. m. Aug. Both. Tickets good to
return until September LIST, inclu-
sive. Reservation of sleeping car
space may be arranged for by APP
plying to John j. Archer, A. G. p.
Agent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
G.. A. IL. National Encampnent,
st. Paul.

The b. 80. r. r.. will sell tick
cts from all points on its lines east
of the Ohio River to st Paul at
one single fare for the round trip,
good for all trains, Aug. 10Th, Both
and 81st, valid for return passage
until Sept. 10th, with the privilege
of an additional extension until
Sept. Both by depositing ticket
with Joint Agent. The b. q o.
maintains double daily service of
through solid vestibule trains be-
tween the East and Chicago, with
Pullman sleeping and dining cars
attached.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26
BOYS

Description of POffenbarger's
Meeting at Henderson,
Tuesday Night.
Boy Were you up to the show
last nightP"
Man-"WhereP"
Boy-"At the boiler shop"
Man hat did they dor"
Boy othing."
Mans Surely they did some
thing"
Boy Well them darkies played
on their horns"
Man Wasn't there something
elseY"
ayes, believe there was
some fellow got up and preached,
or said something"
What did he preach
about9"
-"oh,-nothing."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

at is true that few of your fl
would fashion new figure
= figure representing Columbia,
her hands bound fast with fetters
of gold and her face turned toward
the East appealing for assistance to
those who liye beyond the sea
but this figure can never express
your idea OF this nation.
w. j. BRYAN"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-26

Judging from the size of the
congregations at church services
here, or rather their lack of size,
Point Pleasant lost pretty much
all the religion it ever had, In
proportion to population, attend
ance upon religious services in
this town is about the smallest
of any locality with which the
Register is familiar.