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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
CYCLING NOTES.
b"Jimmy" Michael has earned s25 900 o.
his bicycle this year.

= Jimmy" Michael has earned s25 900 on
his bicycle this year.
A new cycle tire maio Of extremely nne
steel mas recently been patented.
The League Of Ameelcan whcelinen has
n membership Of more than 100 900 and g.
now by Tar the largest association fits kina
in the world.
A new 200-rnfle road record for the State
OF Massachusetts, has been established by
r. c. Bel. who made the distance in four
teen hours and ten minutes.
Beading. Penn. claims the honor OF con.
structing bicycle forthe future Emperor
OF Japan. Prince Xoshihito. who is young
man Of about nineteen years Ofage.
J. Piatt- Belts. the Euglish rider. now 10
Australia. has reduced the one mile Aus
tral'an record from one minute forty-eight
seconds TO one minute AZ rs seconds
The Czariaa of Russia Is taking lessons
on tho bicycle ~ Darmstadt, and practises
daily in the 'privatc school grounds The
Gar II already an experienced cyclist.
= The Parisians have taken 90 the wheol as
no other people in the world. They utilize
Il FOR all sarts OF purposes. and everybody
rides. from the soldier 90 tac artists girl
models.
Among the latest novelties in Paris are
handle-bars covcrNd With piCskin and
bound with siiver-giit. Attached is a pig
skin bag in the side Of which Is inserted
small watch.
Cycling among the aristocracy % Eng
lahd has come 90 stay. SAYS tho London cor
rospondent OF Bearings. Tor since thu ex-
amQie was set BY Albert Edward himself.
all Of the nobility have fastened 90 sc, a
wheel.
Several of the new chainlcss bicycles have
been delivered 70 purchasers and ono promi-
nent waeelman rode one nearly thirty
miles over New Jersey turnpikes. lie ex-
pressed himself satisfied with the running
qualities of the new machine.
One OF the objections TO brake ~ the
ordinary type is that IL j. rather difficult 70
deal with Ia ease one uses an adiustable
handie-bGr. The adjustable handle-har has
come into general use. and is found 90 be
entirely free from the objections that were
alleged against Il when it vas first brought
into vogue.
After many experiments n rally inter
esting and practical game TO be played by
men and wcmen mounted on bicycles b as
been evolved. Tt a. called Royal" and
meets with great favor a. al cycling cen
terS. The game requires tTo teams OF
oine riders each. two c0achers. two judges
atimckeeqcr. scorekeeper and referee.
Next year the chainless bicycle viii prob
ably come into general use. Already ons
great bicycle company IS manufacturing
tnsm and others viii no doubt follow.
They Tfll look queer enough after the chain
wheels have been SO long In use. They are
said 60 make better time and 20 be les 9
ukesy 90 set out Of order and dirty than
ordinary wheels.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Duke OF Argyle has held bis title for
tfty years.
Ex-Seoretary Carlisle has decided to To-
cate in New York CITY.
Senator German will retire from political
Efe at sixty years of age.
Princess Kaiulani has sailed for Hawaii
20 look for missing throne.
jules Verne. the veteran story-teller, has
been married hfty-0ve years.
Rear Admiral Alexander Golden Rhind. a
laval veteran, died IN New York City few
days ago.
Nathan Fellows Dixon. ex-United States
senator, died az his home In Westerly, 4.
20. after an illness OF about three weeks
Major Handy. United States Commis-
siOner TO Paris, has returned after securing
200 600 square feet OF sI1ce at the great ex-
position OF 1900.
Mark Twain cables from Europe that tho
report that ne L. out Ot debt is lie. Tho
genial humorist claims the right TO glOat
over his poverty.
Henry George. the younger. was until
recently the editor Of the Jacksonville
(Fla.) Citizen. He Is an able, accom-
plished fellow and is thirty-four years old.
General Wade Hampton, the ex-senator
and Railroad Commissioner, while in the
Senate, was regarded by his associates a.
being without rival, in handling chalng
dish
Eugene Fields son. Fred. Is q student in
Drury College. His mates call him Daisy
and relate anecdotes which tend TO show
shat he has gocdly share OF his father ;
Wit and humor.
Alexander Milton Ross. the noted scicn-
tist who died in Detroit few DAYS ago.
was a cOmpOsitor in New York when Will
lam Cullen Bryant, then editor of the Post.
discovered his talent and became interested
in him.
The MIkado OF Japan, though passion
stely fond OF horse racing, allows no bet
ting on his track. and pursues the sport
purely for sports sake He has agents
now In this country looking for twenty
nrst-cIass horses for the imperial stables.
Sir Arthur Halliburton, the British Under
Secretary Of State for War, who has just
retired, after a career OF forty years In the
public service. Is a son oi Judge Halliburton.
OF Nova Scotia. who Is known In American
literature as "Sam Slick"
Blue jacket, late chief OF the Shawnee
Indians. who died the other day near
Cbetopa, Kan, was once Baptist Minister.
He was over eighty years old He was,
when young man, close associate oi
TenstaG0atawa. the prophet.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
The WONDERS OF SCIENCE
Lung Troubles and Con-
sumption can be Cured.


The distKng guishsd New YORK chemist
T. A. Slccum, m,dcmonstreting his discov-
cry Of a reliable and abs lutte care f,r
Consumption (Prlmoasry Tubercalocisl
and all bronchial, threat. lung and
chest diseases. stubborn coughs. eatarrh-
a. afec tions. general decline and weak
ness, ioss Of ncsh. and al conditions Of
wasting away. viii send THREE FREE
BOTTLES tall differcntl Of his New
Discoveries 10 any afflicted reader Of the
Gazette writing for them.
HE New Scientific Treatment- has
cured thousands permanently by its
timely use, and he considers Il n simple
professional dnty 70 suffering humanity
10 donate a trial OF his infallible cure
science daily develops new woadsra.
and this great chemist, patiently experi-
menting tor years. has produced results
as beneficial % humanity a. can be
claimed BY any modern genius His
assertion that lung troubles and con-
sumption are durable Ia any CLIMATE is
proven by heartfelt lettors of rrati~
tudc,' nlcd IN his Americon and Euro
pean laboratories In thousands from
those cured ia ali parts ol the world.
Melical experts concedc that bron-
ohial, cheat aud lung tronhles lead 20
Consunptioa, which. uninterrupted
means speedy aud certain death.
Simply write a. 4. A. Slocun, NJ. c..
% Pine street. New York. giving pdNf-
othce and express A1drcss. and the tree
medicine win be promptly sent. Suffer-
Crs -hould take instxnt advantage Of hia
generous Proposition.
Please tell the Doctor that You saw
as offer in tAe Gazette
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
The LABOR WORLD.

Our railroads employ ST 900 men.
Russia employs A 900 coal miners.
Sioux City (Iowa) unionisss are bovcot-
ting n theatre.
The National Free Labor Association of
England has 1900 members. opponents
of trade unions.
The Pullman Companv has 1000 men on
It's payroll Of these. 1000 are employed at
Pullman. Chicago.
The twentv-n-st annual session Of ths,
General Assembly o. KDi-hts og Labor has
Just been held ia Louisville Ky.
II is said that 5000 persons viii di-
rcctly and indirectly draw pay from the
first city administration 81 Greater New
York.
It "a estimated that as many as oo.OOo
farmers and others in France make their
living BY the manufacture Of Roquelort
cheese.
In order 70 cater - the bibuIous tastes OF
the three million odd Greater New Workers
an army of some "a. .0cO bartenders viii bo
kept employed.
The supreme Court OF Arkansas rendered
a decision holding invalid the contracts
between the brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers and the railroads.
Governor Mount. of Indiana. has asked
the state Labor Commission 90 investigate
the importation Of colored laborer1 from
kentucky 20 take the place of striking
miners ~ ~ A-olurtoD. IND.
Many 90 the BARRIERS Of Ohio are aritatiar
the passage % a bin by the Legislature
compelling BARRIERS 70 serve an apprentice
ship of two years. Tho btu is designed 70
close up cheap barber shops.
Tho London Board OF Trade Journal
gives the number % women and girls in
the textile trades IN England ~ follows.
cotton trade. - ,fso; wooden and worstcd
Trade. l6.eso aud the silk trade l7CO. max
ing total of77 .ti0
The Erie Railroad has adopted the Brown
system oi discipline. Dislovaltv. intenper-
ancc. dishonesty. gross carelc.Ssness or leri-
Gus ouenses of like nature will be punished
~ suspension or dismissal. but In ordinary
eases a dcmerit record viii he kept
'Where theAmcrican engineering excels
the British, says John Burns. NJ. r.. 'Ie
nct because of the SHORTCOMINGS of the
British mechanics. but because OF the
wooden-headed and often pic-headed
character of the emRioyers. managers
and forcmen."
Chicago labor organizations protested
AGAINST the appearance Of the Marine Band
az the horse show In that city. and aD
pealed 10 Mayor Harrison 70 use his innu-
ence 70 prevent the Appearance OF the band
on the ground that n r.icn-ivcd union uies
81 employment.
The various societies connected With shor
assistants. % which there are 750 00a if
England. have been augmented bv the 81
tabii>hment % the National Association of
droccrS Assistants. The wages of thi.
class are low, averaging about four penc,
Per hour. and taey work from eighty 20 10,
hours week.
The report that coolie labor will p,
placed ia the Northern Illinois coal neld.
10 take the place OF the strikers is con
demned by the United Nine Workers q
Illinois, and an appeal Will De made {,
Governor Tanner % keep the Chiname.
Will surely follow should they be enploye,
IA the mines.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
LYNcHED BY coloRso MEN.
kun Was 10 Ia-e Been Hanged. hut
Fought so Hard They Had to shoot Him.

A mob OF exasDerated colored men at
midnight, frustrated In their plan TO hang
him. riddled the body OF Josh Run. Grim
inal, with rife bullets and left il lying in
the public road. a mile from Gibson. Ga.
HezekiAh Norris. a eolOred man. con gesss..i
that ne shot Run and IL Is known thai
ho was the head Of the m0b. IL
transpires that Ruiz, who had lust
been dismissed from the penitentiary.
had assaulted NOrris's daughter and
threatened 20 kin Norris IL he BETRAYED
him tie robbed the Others. and so tvrau-
nized them that they formed secret cora-
pact 70 Kill him. They had a rope and
would have hanged him, but he fought SO
desperately, wounding several OF them,
that they were forced 70 shoot him. Norris
- held for trixi. but has implicated 40
others so for
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20

The members OF the stanford University
party who have been engaged In branding
seals by electricity on Pribylon Islands
S~iaiin ~ tnat the experiment was successful.
Besides the work OF taking the seal census
and building a fence enclosing the salt la .
goon TO prevent the redriviDg Of bachelor
seals, number Of bird skins. skeletons in
seets. and marine invertebrates were col
lected.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20

Harvard and Yale played each other to q
standstsll in their football game on Soldiers
Field. Cambridge. Mass For two thrilling
hours the two sturdy elevsns struggled
over the white-linsd xridiror, desperately
disputing every inch OF territory snd vainly
essaytng to cross the coveted goal line. IL
was case OF two teams, each with q strong
defense and weak ground x4lniax powsrs.
and the logical outcome OF the confest waz
that neither side scored
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
Increasing silver Circulation.

Five Powers OF the Latin Union. OF the
initiative OF Switzerland. have signed a
convention to Increase the number Of small
silver coins by a franc per head OF their
population, using the existing hve-franc
pieces 10 supply the necessary silver.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20

The spanish Government has cabled
Marshal Blaaeo, specially authorizing him
10 include the Competitor prisoners In the
or waiting trial.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20

pending an Investigation.
DR.. Thompson Il the first woman 20 hold
the ONCE of city physician la the state OF
Wisconsin. She was born In Neehah. Wis,
snd was teacher for a few years. and then
served as nurse in hospitals before study
ing medicine. She j. the only woman
physician In Oshkosh.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
A MAN WANTED!

For WHAT
TO TELL ALL THE PEOPLE ~
VILLA NSBURG AND SUI
ROUNDING COUN TRY WHEN
THEY 90 TO NORFOLK NOT 10
FORGET TO VISIT
HudsOn's English Kitchen
Tie 'sly lint Class hEiIg Goou Tor ladies' ald
gssteasa
j. X. HUDSON, Prop,
81 Main ST., " OyJ0lk, Ia.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-11-20
BERTHA THOMSON. clrY PHYSICIAN
A Novel Departure in Oacial Appsint-
ncuts af Oshkosh. Wis.

Oshkosh. Wis, has Awoman a. city physi-
cian. bertha v. Thompson. a bright young
woman who graduated In 1894 AZ = Chicago
medical college. was appointed 20 that Of
ice recently by Mayor Ideson % succeed
DR.. r. y. Nintzel. the regular city physi-'
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-23

came to Conewago with the Digges' had a
grant of 500 acres from Charles, Lord
Baron Of Baltimore, Oct. s, 1873, called
Bear Garden, on Slagle's Run; he held by
letters patent and not from the Diggeses
as the other settlers did, from which we
infer that he came here with the Diggeses
to make their original survey in 1927: ac-
cording to the oldest traditions he built
log house at the spring now in Ignatius
Small s church farm field, where the early
missionaries said Mass; after that located
colonial homestead where Leo Sneeringer
lives, where was chapel and burying
ground. In 1741, the Jesuit missionary,
Father VIM. Wappeler, secured land and
built log chapel structure where Cone
wago Church now stands; this land,
whether 100 acres or more or less, by gift
or purchase, came from Robert Owings'
tract. 1t would be great satisfaction to
know from the Society records the dates
and facts; through the kindness of the own
ers of these old farms, we may CLEAN more
frcm the old deeds
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-23
had spliced the chimney, keeping pace with

-
the deposit.
Moving around the chimney, the stran-
gers found chute leading down at an
angle of Is degrees, and entering, slid
down to what proved to be the attic win
dow of the house, thence making their way
down the stairs into the buried residence
The entire settlement was buried under
this terrible bed of snow, and families were
living from ten to twenty feet below the
surface, using lamps by day as well as by
night The men were all miners, and as
the mines were under ground certain work
was continued. But there was much suf-
fering, as on coming out Of the mines some
of the men were often unable to find their
homes. Finally every one planted in the
snow over his house flagstaff with flag,
but even these were sometimes buried by
the constant storms Of this long g-to-be-re-
membered year. The snow in the deep
canons became SO deep that the miners who
lived in them had to leave, fearing the
avalanches which came rushing down the
mountain side after every fresh storm.
Finally the more open canons became un-
safe, and one day, with an appalling roar,
huge masses of snow went rushing down,
crushing large part of the town of Sierra
City
Possibly the most famous town for its
experiences with snow is Gibbonsville, in
Sierra county. Photographs show the tops
of tall houses projecting from snow on the
level Snow fifteen feet on the level is
common there in February and March,
while snow thirty feet deep is not uncom-
mon. Then the houses are almost covered,
many small ones being entirely concealed,
the owners having to climb up and clear
away the snow so that it will not crush in
the roofs All communication with the
outside world is often stopped for days, and
for weeks the mail is carried by specially
selected men, who traverse the mountain
on snow shoes, often accomplishing remark
able feats on the long, slender skis which
they use.
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DR.. Hecker goes on to say
''This short catalogue might, by a
laborious and uncertain calculation, de-
duced from other sources, be easily fur
ther multiplied, but would still fail to give
true picture of the depopulation which
took place. Lubbock, at that time the
Venice of the North, which could no
longer contain the multitudes which focked
to it, was thrown into such CONSERVATION
on the eruption of the plague that the cit
izens destroyed themselves as if in frenzy.
Merchants whose earnings and possessions
were unbounded, coldly and willingly re-
nounced their earthly goods. They car
ried their treasures TO monasteries and
churches and laid them at the foot of the
altar; but gold had no charms for the
monks. for it brought them death They
shut their gates; yet, still it was cast to
them over the convent walls. People
would brook no impediment to the last
pious work to which they were driven by
despair. When the plague ceased men
thought they were still wandering among
the dead, so appalling was the livid aspect
of the survivors, in consequence OF the
anxiety they had undergone, and the un-
avoidable infection of the air Many other
cities probably presented similar appear
ance, and it is ascertained that a great
number of small country towns and vii
lagos which have been estimated, and not
too highly, at 200, 900, were bereft of all
their inhabitants.
''In many places in France not more
than two out of twenty of the inhabitants
were left alive, and the capital felt the
fury of the plague, alike in the palace and
the cot Two queens, one Bishop, and
great numbers of other distinguished per-
sons fell a sacrifice to it, and more than
500 day died in the Hotel Dieu, under
the faithful care of the religious women,
whose disinterested courage in this age of
horror displayed the most beautiful traits
of human virtue For although they lost
their lives, evidently from contagion, and
their numbers were several times renewed,
there was still no want of fresh candidates,
who, strangers to the un-C Christian fear Of
DEATH piously devoted themselves to their
holy calling.
The ehurchyards were soon unable to
contain the dead, and many houses, left
without inhabitants, fell to ruins. In
Avignon, the Pope found it necessary to
consecrate the Rhine, that bodies might
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-23

The Black Death, which devastated
Europe in the Middle Ages, had several
symptoms in common with the plague now
raging in India Swellings in the groin
were an especial feature, and it was dis
tinctively bubonic plague. 1t first ap-
peared in China about 1345, and, in the
course of the following year, spread over
India and Asia, and reached Egypt Cara
vans were the principal instruments Of its
communication from one country to an
other. Ships carried the contagion from
the caravans, when they reached the sea-
coast, to Constantinople and other Med
iterranean ports The plague was also
brought to Constantinople from the north
ern coast Of the Black Sea, after it had
depopulated the countries through which
the routes of commerce passed, and it ap-
peared as early as 1347 in Cyprus, Sicily,
Marseilles, and some of the italian sea-
ports. The following year it appeared in
Avignon, and other cities in the south of
France, from which it spread to the north
of Italy and to Spain.
After spreading over France and Ger
many, the Black Death finally reached
England in August, 1913, eight months
after its appearance in Avignon. 1t did
not reach Sweden until November of the
succeeding year, and Russia was exempt
until 1851, more than three years from
its first appearance in Constantinople
Russia apparently was infected from the
west, after the pestilence, which had its
original European focus on the Black Sea,
had made the circuit of Europe.
The mortality due to the Black Death
is almost inconceivable. More than 13,
900, 600 of people are said to have died
in China, and the deaths in the rest of
Asia were reported to Pope Clement at
Avignon to have numbered %, $40, 900.
Parts of India were actually depopulated,
as they bid fair to be now. None was
left alive in Caramania and Csesarea Tar
tary, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia, and
other Asiatic countries are described as
being covered with dead bodies. Five
hundred died daily in Aleppo, and %,
900 people and most of the animals died
in six weeks in GAIA Cairo lost daily,
when the pestilence was at its height, from
10000 to Is, ,000
Following are figures given in a treatise
on the Black Death by DIR. j. F. G.
Hecker, of Berlin, an acknowledged au-
thority, of the mortality in a number of
European cities :
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EOR SALE CHEAP

The ISAAC BAIR BRICK HOUSE, on
Liberty street.
The MACINTOSH BRICK HOUSE, on
Pennsylvania ave.
The MANGER BRICK HOUSE, on Green
street.
The Swartzbaugh Property. on Pennsylva-
MIA avenue; also the DIR. Wells Property, on
the same street, with adjoining lots, will be
sold separately or as a whole.
All these properties are occupied by first
class tenants, and each would be good in
vestment, at the price at which it can be
bought
For further particulars apply to
GEORGE w. ALBAUGH,
jan9 If Westminster. Nd.
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By virtue of the power contained in mort.
gage from Peter H. Wilhelm and Martha
Wilhelm, his wife, to Elizabeth Luckahaugh,
wife of Adam Luckabaugn, bearing date July
4, A. D., 1885, and recorded among the Real
Estate Mortgage Records of Carroll county,
in Liber G. A. NJ, No %, folio $50, &C..
and duly assigned to the undersigned, | will
sell at public sale, on the premises, on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 4, A. D., 1897,
at o'clock, p. m, all that parcel of land
described in and conveyed by said mortgage,
being parts of tracts of land called "Christo-
phers Luck" "Boring's Range" and
''Stansbury's Grove; containing
80 ACRES, / ROOD AND 4 PERCHES,
more or less The Improvement thereon con-
ssts of a comfortable 2-story Log Dwelling
House, large barn with threshing floor, ample
stabEng and three outbuildings, large orchard
of apple and other fruit trees; excellent water
convenient TO the buildings. The build
ings and fences are in good repair and the
land is in high state of cultivation.
This property is now occupied by Francis
Wilhelm, in Manchester District, Carroll
county, Nd, is desirably located OH the public
road leading from Alesia to Grave Run Mills;
is about II miles from Alesia railroad station
and adjoins the land of Peter L. Shearer,
Adam Luckabaugh and others.
Terms of Sale Cash; or, if desired by the
purchaser, one-third cash on the day of sale
or on the ratification thereof: one-third IN six
and the other oue-third in twelve months
from the day of sale, the credit payments to
be secured by the notes of the purchaser or
purchasers, with approved security, bearing
interest from the day of sale.
CHAS. I. REIFSNIDER,
Assignee of Mortgage.
Reilsnider & Reifsnider, Solicitors.
jams Is John T. Difenbaugh, Auctioneer.