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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

A Chicago man has invented a
bullet-proof shirt.
The House of Representatives
was in session three minutes
Tuesday.
Third international convention
of the Epworth League convened
Thursday at Toronto.
The Duke of Manchester con-
tradicts the report of his engage.
ment to Miss Mary Ogden Goelet,
of New York.
A Connecticute couple are 60.
ing to spend their honeymoon in
the arctic regions. Here's hoping
they'll have an ice time.
:London in 1900" is the Chris
tian Endeavorers cry. Nashville
will entertain these hosts next
year.
A heavy wind and rainstorn
visited Huntington Tuesday, do
ing considerable damage in su-
burban districts.
The Ohio Valley railroad was
sold Tuesday to A. P. Humphrey,
of Louisville, and A. H. Joline,
of New York. Price ]. 100000.
Some one advances the idea
that society is like a pie. There
is an upper crust and a lower
crust, but the real substance lies
between.
They have a mad-dog scare
down at Huntington, and now
dogs are being killed wherever
found on the streets Of the city.
j. 7. Wagner, of Allegheny,
while wrestling with a companion
was thrown against a large meat
hook that passed entirely through
his cheek.
A two.year.old child of j. w.
Sheets. of near Mercerville, o.,
while playing in the grass in
front of It's fathers moving
machine had both its feet cut of.
Sylvester Scovel, the Cuban
war correspondent, is in Wheel
ing to report the West Virginia
end of the strike for the New
York World. He has just re-
turned from Greece and Span.
why did we celebratess asks
a Kentucky editor. o. pshaw!
What's the use of being sorry.
about it nowl Stick to bromo
settler and you'll pull through
all right.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

Cd <Ionday night the school
conn toners met and elected
the lowing teachers for the
CLAIR burg public schools for
the ming year:
or MeConkey, principal.
81 Hlay Robinson.
Mi Blanche Horror.
Nj Annie Dunn.
Nj Isola Shinn.
M Gertrude Morgan.
nj Viola Sitter.
MI Naomi Flowers.
Nj Bonnie Smith.
M 81 j. Drummond.
Mi Dora Ridenour and
Blan be Steel will teach the West
End hool. Anew school build
ing llSbe erected before the
term te6ins.
Pso /. Z. Burdette, of Wes-
ton, as elected Superintendent
of til harrisburg schools Thurs.
day i ght.
Pfet S. 81. Guss and Miss
Flor bee Rufin were elected
teach ers Of the colored school.
Ro6t. Sedwick was elected Sd
teacher Thursday night.
Levy for Clarksburg School
District. Teachers Fund 90 ;
Bull ling Fund, 25.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
Paris In 1900.
Mail and Express

Mail and Express:
Tits rather humiliatlng, in view
of the magnificent representation
of France at the Chicago Worlds
Fair, that the United States has
not yet even accepted the invita-:
ton to participate in the PARIS
Exposition IN 1900, and that when
the invitation is accepted it will
be in the indirect form ofnns
amendment to the Deficiency
bill, carrying with it the beggarly
allowance of $4,000. France,
with greatpromptness, announced
her intention to take part in the
Chicago Fair, and it is estimated
that she expended 81, OO0, 900 upon
her EXHIBIT. All the other great
nations have responded to her in.
vitation to appear at Paris. have
appropriated from 100000 to.
81, 200. 600, and have made their
applications for space, which will
be considered and allotted in the
order of their fling.
There is pending in the Senate
a joint resolution of acceptance,
appropriating 100000. This
resolution, originally introduced
by Mr.. Mason, and reported by
Chairman Thurston from the
Committee on international Elk
positions, offers a dignifed and
adequate method of representa-
ton at Paris. 1t would doubt
less pass the Senate at once. we're
it not that some of the leaders.
of the house are opposed to the
appropriation at this session.
Hence as the only available ex.
pedient, the subject has been.
tackled upon general approprias.
ton bill. The commissioner to-
be appointed under this provision
would work under the Secretary
of State, but his labors would be
only preliminary, and his report
would have to be submitted to
Congress at its next session when
the whole subject must be dealt
with by special bill. All this
means delay, and that. in this
great international competitive
display of the products Of science
and industry, the United States
will be pushed to one side by the
nations of Europe.
1t is limited that, with an APP
probation of the fact that our
delay is caused, not by motives
of discourtesy, but by slow meth
DDS of legislation, France has
quietly set aside some desirable
space for the United States,
without waiting to be asked. Il
this be true, then our government
will be placed under obligations
to the polite consideration of a
sister republic.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

At a full meeting of the Deaf
and Blind school board at Rom
ney Wednesday the resignation
of Principal Hill was accepted
and Prof. j. F. Rucker, of
Greenbrier was selected to fill
the place. He will take charge
in August. Mr.. Pickering. OF
Fairmont, was elected steward;
II. III. Johnson was re.appointed
senior teacher of the blind de-
partment; Miss Albright, MISS
Lobe and Miss Lucas will be in
charge of the mnsic department.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
Revenue.

Congressman Dolliver, member
of the ways and means committee,
expresses the opinion that the
new tariff law will produce suffic-
lent revenue as soon as importa-
tations resume their usual course.
The fact that there is a years
supply of such important revenue
producing articles as WOOL sugar,
tobacco. wooden goods, and other
articles of this kind in the coun-
try, of course, will reduce much
of the importations during the
nextfew months, and consequent
ly make the receipts light under
the new law after some time. But
the people understand this fully,
and will not expect any thing else
in view of the fact that the i'm
porters have been permitted to
fill up the warehouses and coun
try generally with foreign goods
before the new law could go into
effect. When business improves
under the new law the people are
able to buy, and when the stock
now on hand is worked off the
new measure will produce ample
revenue, and until that time the
people will understand that any
deficiency in its earnings are due
to the enormous stock of goods
which have already been brought
in and upon which the duties
have all been collected and turned
into the treasury. The follow.
ing tables show the impor.atlons
in the last four months on wool
and sugar and also the total i'm
portatlons during the same per
Tod; the figures for the four
months of the preceding year.
which will indicate the excessive
importations since the inaugura-
ton of the present administra-
ton and their prospective effect
uoon the revenue when the new
law goes into effect. Table show
ing importations of wool (pounds)
March to July l. 1896 and 1897:
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
cupIdI,s Arrows.

I'd owing marriage licenses
have been docketed since our
last report
N krtin Davis age p, to Fedella
Han age 81:
JeI "a Brown age Oh TO Mary
{ Ulafk, age "a. 4
Robert Murray age As, to
Serena Epow, age 20.
James NJ Richards age 80, to
Iva M Z onginnetta, age 81.
I. Lncean M White age 80. to
Virginia @. Hoffman, age 90.
james o. Longinnetta age 20.
to Rosa Patton, age %.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

The commission which has
been investigating the acts of
Sheriff Keadle, OF Mingo county,
made a partial report Wednes-
day. The incomplete report
shows that instead of there be-
ing deficit IN his settlement for
1895, as claimed, the county and
districts are indebted to Sheriff
Keadle in the sum of about
$4,000.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

The great Christian Endeavor
Convention at San Francisco
concluded its sessions on Mon
day. 1t is estimated that nearly
thirty thousand persons have
been in attendance. and at the
last meeting thousands were un-
able to obtain admittance at
either place of meeting. Bust
ness men agree that the visitors
have brought over $1,000, 900
to the city.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
Comment ON the weather.
osoeola Gazette.l

)sceola Gazette.l
Hot!
Hotter!
Hottest!
Hottentot!
Hottentotter! /!
fredericksburg! I
Hot as a 'tater!
Hot as Haggard's '.hot pot"
Say!
If it's going to
Stay this hot,
I'll be shot
If l don't wish
/ was a hottentot,
To calmly squat
In a shady spo.
And not
Care a continental
How hot
1t got
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

The long election contest AZ
Huntington. between Burlington
and Doolittle for the office Of
County Clerk was settled Tues.
day in the Circuit Court, special
Judge Dickerson deciding ia
Doolittle's (Rep. favor. boo.
little gave bond and will assume
control at once.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

There is an annular esclipse of
the sun on the Goth of this month
which will be visible in the Unit
ed States as q partial eclipse. It
is likely to prove an interesting
phenomenon.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

An impressionable Paris bank !
er, the owner of immense riches,
died of grief on hearing that he
lost everything in the world ex-
cept 100000 francs. His pauper
brother, on inheriting that sum
from him. died Of Joy.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

Adelina Patti. while on her
way to London recently TO sing
at the Royal Albert hall, got .
cinder in her eye and had to re.
linquish fee of E700 ($3,500).
Nine. Albani took her place.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

While Kansas farmers are III.
most begging for help in the
urgent work of harvesting their
splendid crops, the State is over
run with tramps who refuse 70
work for any wages.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

A dispatch from Clarksbnrg to
the st. Louis Globe. Democrat,
dated July II, says: Judge COTS
letter to a Parkersburg friend de-
claring that he is not a candidate
for the United States Senatorship.
which was made public on Sun
day,was not surprising to his init
mates here that the Judge was to
bepromoted to the supreme bench
just as soon as the President can
find a vacancy, which is expected
to be within the present year.
Aside from the Presidents good
opinion of the Judges ability,
they soldiered together and have
always been warm personal
friends.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
WHOLE NO. 1889
COUNTY COURT.

The county court of Harrison
county adjourned Tuesday, after
having been in session about a
month. The county levy was
fixed at SSa cents.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

The Senate committee on for
eign relations has agreed to re-
port the resolution for the ratifi-
cation of the Hawaiian annexas
ton treaty without amendment.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

AC. 6 o. passenger train kill:
ed the three-year-old child Of r
e. Bias. near Huntington, Tues
day.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
NO Sc. CLARKSBURG. w. VA. Jf'IY 10. 1897.
DEADIs THE 10 TO 1CRY.
So SAYS the fIreat Roies.

For one, I do not believe IT
possible to succeed upon a plat
form that demands the unquali-
fed FREE COINAGE OF SILVER AT
THE RATIO OF 16 TO ] WITH
GOLD. We have fought that
battle and it is lost. We can
never fight it over under circum-
stances more favorable to our
selves. If we hope to succeed.
we must abandon this extreme
demand '-Ertract from a speech
delirered 1y Governor Horace
Boies. of IONA. at the Democratic
State convention held at Waterloo.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16
THE SHIRT SLEEVE.

Inter ocean,
The man in his shirt sleeves,
who, twas supposed, was per.
manent resident of the back
woods and rural village districts,
has invaeed the city. he has. in
the language of the street, "taken
the town. He prevails every
where: He is III the majority on
the Board of Trade; he occupies
nearly every downtown Office; he
walks on the streets with an air
of boldness and confidence, with
his coat on his arm he sits on the
front steps of some of the best
and most pretentious residences /;
he brazenly and defiantly rides
on the street cars, and, in fact. he
literally possesses the town.
There have been times when it
would have been regarded as a
breach of etiquette for man in
his shirt sleeves to receive callers
in his office, and an inexcusable
breach OF propriety for him to APP
pear at the dinner table. All the
rules were against a man taking
off his coat in the street, or rid
ing among ladies on the street
cars in his shirt sleeves. But
within the last week all rules
bearing on this question of ETH
quette and propriety have been
suspended.
The intense heat has made any
sort of coat a burden. The
women have run to shirt waists
and the men to shirt sleeves. The
sun has shown no courtesy to any
one, and the largest products of
the heated term are ice cream
soda and other cooling drinks,
and the man in his shirt sleeves.
The question is, what will we do
with the man in his shirt sleevess
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

The Misses Renshaw, who had
been visiting in the city, return
ed Thursday morning to their
home at Piedmont.
Luther Raymond, Jr., is asso-
ciated with druggist Piggott
during Mr.. Smiths absence.
Farmers wanting best grade
moving machine sections for all
makes of mowers, would do well
to call on Amos Payne for sup
plies. 36-2t.
Why pay q big price tor sad
dies and harness when You can
buy them 30 cheap at VIM. 6.
Summers tsnnery West Main
Street : lift.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-07-16

poor were appointep:
Clay-B. 7. Harmer.
Coal-Jasper Pew.
Clark-A. W. Fittro.
Eagle George H. Berry.
Elk-John d. Blair.
Grant-W. M. Byrd.
Sardis-Samuel Williams.
Simpson,. B. Cornwell.
Ten Mile-Rufus Raymond.
Union-Wesley Post.
The times., 1897-09-06
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH.
DIR. Wolf, of Waterford, Discourses
on Christian Optimists.

DIR. Wolf. of Waterford, Discourses
on Christian Optimists.
The Rev. II. NJ Wolf, Jr., of Waterford
Conn, occupied the pulpit at the N orning
service at Calvary Baptist Church yester-
day. DIR. Wolf is an interesting, eloquent
speaker, and was listened 10 with marked
attention Throughout. His subject was
Christian Optimists,' = nd the argument or
his discourse was based ON the story of the
Interpretation of Nebuchadnezza by the
prophet Daniel.
After reading the Scripture lesson, the
second chapter of Daniel, the Rev. Mr..
Wolf tooh his text from parts of the thirty
fourth and thirty fifth verses: '.Thon
sawest t6at a stone was cut out without
hands, which smOte the image at his feet
that we've of iron and clay. and broke then.
into pieces: the image became a greas
mountain and filled the whole earth.
Since the time OF Daniel, DR.. Wolf said,
there were many sanity men who saw
the movement coming which would work
change in the whole world, 1t was
the revelation of faith, that God was in
the world, and that we would know the
time when Ills wisdom and pow ef would
rule the earth. The history Of the world.
however, shows, DR. Wolf said, that great
changes are not wrought suddenly, but
are the result OF growth and development
in the Wy of God. The history of the
growth and spread OF Christianity, shown
in the same way, is Development along
this line. Those who will look can see
the prc pneoy OF Daniel being revealed, but
there are others who, for want Of faith,
cannot see beyond the clouds. Gods
people have always had to battle against
ignorance, bigotry, and darkness, having
also the whole forces of satan and sin
aIrayed against them.
This is manifested in all efforts tcwar,i
advancements and reforms. All that is
gained is al the cost OF great sacrifices
paid in agony and blood. The countless
| thousands of good men and women who
| died on the cross all testify to the truth
of tile prophecy of Daniel. With the
knowledge, however, that God is always
| with us. there is comfort in knowing that
| our sacrifices will not come to naught,
and the time will come when we shall see
| the light. There is work alike for the
man and master to do, preach the gospel
| of truth, and just so sure as the promises
iof Cod are true, said DIR. Wolf, so surely
will We see the conversion of the world.
| We, however. he said in conclusion, are
| not &c keep quiet and wait for this to
come simply because of Gods prcmise
we must work: and when we have done
| this we shah See the great mountain fill
| the whole earth.''
The times., 1897-09-06
NEWS FROM THE MINES.
An Interesting Letter From Pros
pector ut Dawson.

Seattle, WASH, Sept. 5.-The Rosalie ar
rived yesterday direct from Dyea, which
place she left on Sunday. She brought
down number of miners who became dis
couraged over their prospects of getting
through, and also one man direct from the
Klondike. he having left Dawson August
/. He is in the theatrical business at
Dawson and came out, he states, for the
purpose of procuring actresses, obtaining
$500 for every one he can engage to make
the trip. He knew nothing about the mines
and could give no mining news further
than has already been received. On
Sunday at Skaguay the trail, which had
been closed 10 travel for several days,
was again thrown open to the scrambIing
crowd. They started in as early as 4
in the morning, ard it was wild rush.
II was thought about seven hundred would
get u the summit aud lakes by the close
of this week and that as many more would
make the journey next week.
On S0ceer River the Hudson Bay Com
pany ale running steamer as far up as
Telegraph Creek. This boat connects with
the solne boats at Wrangle, and thence
by Sticesn River and Teslin Lake to Klon-
dixie. 1t is claimed the roads are better by
this route and that the packing can be
done more quickly.
The following characteristic letter is
from an old Seattle man named Wheeler.
who went TO the Klondike early in the
spring In search of a fortune. 1t is dated
July % and is hiI ected to his wife and
children:
II am working in town (Dawso part
OF the time 1T SO per day. II we don't
find enough gold Oh our claims this sum
ner to warrant working, we Will take a
lay on Bonanza Greek in the winter. We
think 1t better than working at $3.50
per hour We have located three claims
but it taxes lots Of time and work to
prospect them 1t comes hard on me 70
/ fird I'm getting old. 1t needs young
men for this country. I have so far earned
$500, besides doing all the cooking and
washing, and / have not been here but d
little over month.
IF | could have the money that il
fooled away in this town in one day,
would be wei fixed. II is nothing for q
man TO spend several hundred dollars.
Bread sells for so cents d loaf, or three
loaves for dollar. Pies are 81 each, and
everything else in proportion.
This IS the widest and wooliest town
/ ever saw. Fast women are the bon toI
of the city, and nobody seems to feel above
them. Faro dealers get SIS per day, and
the gat:ia never Closes"
The times., 1897-09-06
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1897
Anerlcn,s Labor par.

Setting aside one day ia ths year as
national celebration OF the achievements
OF American labor. and as u fitting recog
milton OF tile dignity Of labor itself in a
country Of simple freeman, is most ex-
ce;lent thing. and constitutes an fnsutu-
tion which doubtless viii be permanent in
the United States, and grow from year
TO year ia national respect and vcneration.
In q tine of general prosperity, with
labor fully employed at living wages, the
celebration Of Labor Day would be one
OF unmixed JOY and fesIivity. On oc-
casions like the present, when there is
much suffering in tie land, and serious
ana widespread strike Of coal miners yet
unsettled; at time when, Notwithstanding
some Frightening of prospects due to the
advance In wheat, there still is lack of
money. Industrial movement and employ
Inent, tne ceremonies aud pursuits OF the
day naturally cannot be as buoyant and
care-free as under other and more salts
try to believe, ultimately VIII obtain, in
consequence OF the sturdy patriotism and
ino5rruptibflity Of our masses, and the
blessings OF Providence.
The power to remedy most Of the ills
that africt the nation lies in the hands OF
its citizens. So it did last year. but they
were caioled- coerced, bribed and buliied
into throwing the weight of their voting
power into the scale Of their oppressors
They win have one more chance. If they
should utilize it again in 1900 as they did
In 1896, why then, simply, they win de
serve to be and remain the abject slaves
they will make of themselves in the opera.
tioni
And this remark We offer by way of a
Labor Day sentiment!
The times., 1897-09-06
Troy Hospitality.

most peculiar story comes hnmming
along the wires from Troy, n, Y, and
it is almost warm enough TO soorch the
telegraph blanks. il is reported that on
President McKinley's recent visit 10 that
historic town with the classic name, the
citizens felt very glad, and gave him a
banquet, or lunch, or something of that
sort something in the eating line-as fine
as could be had In the town. To the fund
for this princely entertainment collar
and cuff factory contributed $500. Their
contribution had string TO it. They gave
It on condition that the President should
devorr his food in their factory.
OF course, 1T is not the usual thing for
the President TO eat his meals ina collar
and cuff factory, but the factory was
beautifully decorated with bunting, and
glad citizens, nd President Mckinley Is
not a proud man, and he made no objec
tions TO the place. After he had had
something 20 cat one OF the collar and cuff
men -one of the firm-came up and asked
hin. ii he would not please sign his name