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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
MANILA CIGARS.

Manila's best cigar, made OF spe-
cial. selected tobacco. wrapped I'm the
neatest of silver foil and packed in
rosewood boxes. tied with Spanish rib
bon. costs about cents. and is consid-
cred a rare delicacy. One scarcely ever
sees these cigars, the incorporates. {"
outside Of ( he city itself, and the brand
is so choice that but few smokers are
acquainted with ii. The foreigner in
Manila thinks he IL paying dear for his
weed at $40 per thousand, and some of
our professional smokers limit them
selves to those favorite Bouquets
which correspond to our "two-for-a-
auarter"variety. but sell there for
$50 hundred. Below these upper
grades come n various assortment of
cheaper varieties including the che
roots. big az one end and small at the
other. and the three e-dollar-a- Thousand
cigars. which are made of the first
thing that comes handy, to be sold To
the crews of deep water merchantmen.
A native of the Philippines wants his
cigarette and gets IT. Packages of 30
are sold on almost every corner for
couple of coppers. and TO my mind the
Manila cigarette is far superior To the
variety found i'm cuba. Smoking Is,
of course. encouraged by prices such as
these. and one find IL perfectly good
form TO borrow a cigarette, as well as "A
light. from his neighbor in the tram
car or tthe plaza. Even on the toll
bridge. which spans the Pasig. you pay
your copper for crossing. and get I'm
change a box OF matches, and II you
are queer enough not to want the
matches the man will give you instead
a ticket that avails for the return trip.
Yesterday in the Philippines.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
Mr.. BALLS WILL.
Question Of Its Validity Raised Before
Appellate Court.
Testimony introduced 10 Show That a Son
Guided Pen When He Signed II.

Parties who are dissatisfied with the
admission to probate by the Pr~rsite
Court OF New Shoreham i'm 1896 Of the
instrument purportng TO be the last
will and testament of the late Simon
r. Ball. asked the Appellate Court to
grant them new trial today. One of
Mr.. Balls sons got the bulk of the prop
erty, and certain ailidavits were read
as newly discovered evidence TO show
that Simon II. BAH. Jr.. had had his
father transfer a large tract of valua-
Die real estate 10 him, and that when
the time came To make the instrument
to which objection is now made the
tcstator. who was aged. feeble and
nearly blind. was led by his SON. Simon.
whose hand ever guided testator's pen
while the will was being signed.
The protest against the will came be-
fore the court on a petition for "A new
trial, in the alternative following upon
the dismissal by the common pleas di
vision of the Supreme Court sitting at
Newport of an appeal from probate
from the court of the town of New
Shoreham. The ground OF the disms-
sal was the lack of a proper appeal
bond, because the bond actually filed
named as the obligee thereof the town
of New Shoreham. rather than the
lbbdAf Nbull bl Sdlu lONns 1tilllOu-
ers base their claim TO relief upon sec
tions and Of chap. PSI of the Public
Laws, relating To the granting of trials
or new trials, on the ground of acci-
dent, mistake and Unforeseen cause
whereby their said appeal was not
prosecuted according 10 law, and that
said petitioners have not had a full,
fair and impartial trial OF their cause.
George IL. Huddy. Jr counsel for the
petitioners. Amos ID. Ball and others.
relied chiefly upon the liberal policy
adopted by the Appellate Court i'm fur
thering the full trial OF causes where a
full trial had not been had by reason
of technical error. which, too. was the
evident intention of the statute i'm au~
thorizing the court in matters Of pro-
bate appeals To proceed as the justice
of the cause may require
Christopher n. Champlin. counsel for
the executor. argued that the court
could not grant new trial unless the
statutes provided for the granting OF
one. Such did not appear by the sta
tute to be the case i'm an improper bond
and I'm regard to the affidavts say all
of that kind Of evidence had been
passed upon by the testator The three
judges who heard the case asked ques-
tions Of Mr.. Champlin that We're as
TO how the broad language i'm regard
to probate matters could be as mar
rowly construed as counsel did.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
ACADEMY OF MUSIC BURNED.


Rochester, y. v, Dec 2.-Early this
morning fire destroyed the Acadc~-fy OF
Music. Rochesters oldest and most IA b
nous playhouse. II Is estimated that
the loss viii be $4,000 on the building
alone. which was owned by samue,
Wilder. Tenants on the ground floor of
the building viii lose from 500 600 tc
sii5.0o0. II is thought the fire was
caused by an explosion in the boiler
room.
The Wheel Of Fortune" company ha,
been playing az the academy this week
Manager Phillips says all his slow
property was burned cntailing los,
of 5000 to $40 600.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
WEATHERED THE STORM,


The torpedo boats Dupont and Morris
went into Bristol last night under their
own steam, but considerably damaged
Both weathered Saturdays gale off
Newport and the heavy seas badly
twisted the stem OF the Dupont and
several steel plates of both vessels were
badly sprung and dented
1t will probably be necessary to haul
the Dupont out. as she will require a
new stem and both will have several
new plates put on before proceeding.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
TONICHTAND TOMORROW MIGHT

And each day and vight during this week
yon can get at any druggists Kemp's Balsan
for the Throat and Lungs, Acknowledged to
be the most successful remedy every sold for
Coughs, Group, Bronchitis. Asthma and Con.
sumption. Get "A bottle TODAY and keep IL
always In the house. so YOU can check your
cold at once. Price 2jc. and soc. sample
bottle free.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
THE GRAND JURY.


The grand Jury for this county will
he empanelled on Monday next in Judge
Wilbur'e court. There will be about II.
cases submitted to the jury. and - OF
these will come from Pawtucke.. Their,
Is one murder case. and II comes from
East Providence. where Pietro IaseIl
was bound over for the killing Of Geo
Collins a few weeks ago.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
Bondsman Settled.

Peter Connolly sometime ago went on
n bond for some one who got in trouble
with the states law department. The
other party failed to do as he agreed
SO Peter was called on to settle by
Deputy Shriff Andres. After a more
or less lengthy consideration of the
matter he did so.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
Horse Fell Into a Trench.

One of pair of horses attached to n
hack fell in a trench. where men We're
at work. on Broad street, this after
noon about 2:15 o'clock. The animal
WAS gotten out uniniured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
One Of the Latest Bodies Found Was That
Of GossIln Of Montreal
he WAS THE CITYS ASSISTANT CLERK
Identity Of the Wreck on Rocky Mil Ledge Has
Not Yet Been Discovered --Head Of Plymouth
Beach Moved Inland.

Orleans. Dec. 1.-Two more bodies
have come ashore from the wreck of the
Portland making % i'm ali one of the
latest has been identified as that of a.
Gosslin. assistant city clerk of Mont
real, and the other as a deckhand.
The three bodies which were reported
from Chatham last night are those Of
Ansel Dyer. quartermaster of the Port
land: Walter l.. Bemis. Auburn. Me-,
and Edwin Dunbar Of Boothbay. Me.
This makes IL identiflcations.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02

special sale of Buttercups. 10 cents per
pound. Also special sale of Peanut Griddies.
cents per pound. Don't forget that the
Grand Piano viii be given away on New
Years Day. \ coupon given with every
purchase made ~ l'9 Westminster street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02
SNOW HOBsoN WAS RECEIVED.

ON some days we were told ne was
dead but at last we were assured he
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-02

Buy railroad tickets at Providence station
for LORRAINE, II. l., changing cars at
Woodlawn.
Trains leave Providence at; A. NJ, s:e5,
9:25, 025, ll:25; Il. NJ, 1926, I25 2:!5.
3:25, 4;lo, $40. Arrive at Lorraine 10 min
utes later. cod 2m.oll
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

owned the only ice wagon in town, and
always had a barrel of hard cider down
cellar. The idea that the postmaster
would dare turn down such man as
that struck everybody as amazln A
general move was made on the postof-
flee, and when the place was jammed
with indignant citizens, Hiram Colby
pounded on a soap box with his cane
and said:
Josiah Goodenough, I've bin Twin
in this world for fitty-nine years, sew
en- months, and fourteen days, but of
all the insults which have ever been
heaped upon me this one is the worst
Squan Creek is on the verge of an out
break, which will make its streets run
deep with blood, and you alone will be
to blame for it. Do you mean that
you amt goin to lick on no more
stamps for our innocent and helpless
women and children"
"The postmaster at Philadelphia
dent do it," replied Josiah. Il was
watchin' around there most all day
and everybody who mailed a letter
licked on his own stamp
And do you mean to say" continu-
ed Hiram, after rapping again and
pointing to the sign-''do you mean to
say that the people of Squan Creek
| the men who have made this town
| what it is-the men who wrested their
| liberties from under the heel of a ty-
rant king and poured cut their blood
like kerosene-can't come in here and
sit on the cracker and sugar barls
and talk and visit while waitin' for
their mail?'
81 didn't see a single soul sittin
around the Philadelphia postoffice," re-
! piled Josiah, as his face begun to grow
pale and his chin to culver.
Josiah Goodenough, you are stand
in on'the brink of a precipice. You
amt postmaster of Philadelphia. but
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
CARL DUNDEP.
In His Comic German Almanac He
Tells of His Struggles With The Bike.
ICopyrig hit, 1881

Copyright 1895
Ny son Shake he keep at me for two
years about some bicycles Almost
eatery day he says to me:
'Fader, she vhas exercise; she vhas
sport; she Was for my health. If |
hat some bicycles l don'tt go by no
horse-races nor become wicked. 1t
keeps ME out of state prison and makes
a good man of me-
Well, maybe dot vhas SO, und by
und by l buys him a bicycle. She hat
two whee.s and she don't stand ocp
alone, und l don't belief dot boy can
ever ride him. But he don't hat no
trubbles. In three days he rides all
around the back yard und don't break
his neck. In a lettie while der old
woman smiles at me 50 soft und shen-
tie, und vhas SO kind und nice, dot l
wonder if she vhas going to die. Poorly
queek she says:
Carl, if | hat some bicycles | vhas
slim und young und handsome again.
| don't go by no theatre any more, und
no money vhas paid out for ice cream
und street cars. Dot bicycle cost you
feefty dollar, und you save more ash
one hooneIed in year"
L don't belief II VhaS DOT Vhay, but
she talks und talks, und by und by
vhas all right. Dot bicycles shumps
AZ around uEd lodges ind wObbles und
you can't tell where he was, ind
don't belief my old woman can stick
On. But she does. In one week she
vhas riding all around und she says
she hasn't felt 50 good in twenty years.
She vhas red in her face, und her eyes
vhas big, ind she drinks four bottles
Of ginger ale right Off. dent care fer
no bicycles. | belief she vhas a fad.
belief he vhas a machine dot like to
break a mans neck if he could May
be it vhas all right for der old woman
und Shake, but l like to ride in a NOV
ing van if | go out. By und by, how
efer, Shake says to me:
"Fadder, how much you weigh
now?"
Three hocnered pounds"
You vhas too fat. If you don't look
out you shall go to a Dime Museum.
Why don't you buy sCne bicycles for
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

of Squan Creek AS freemen of free
country we have earned and enjoyed
certain rights and privileges, and | tell
you right here and now that we mean
to maintain them at any cost of blood
or treasure. We can fill honored
graves, but we cannot be enslaved."
What do you want?" asks Hiram
as he begins to shake.
You must trust for stamps, same as
ever. When you refuse to pass out a
twC-cent stamp to an American free
man who happens to be dead-broke,
you impugn his honor"
IN trust"
And the mails, sir-we demand that
any freeman has the privilege of look
ing them over when he is in a hurry.
"All right"
And you must lick on stamps, sir,
and we are to sit around on the coun-
tiers and barrels as before, and there
must not be the slightest curtailment
of the rights and privileges won by our
forefathers at Lexington and Bunker
Hill. Josiah Goodenough, will you
crawfish and come off the perch. OF
shall our peaceful streets be turned in
to rivers of blood?"
Josiah crawfshed. With his own
hand he reached up and tore down the
obnoxious signs, and ten minutes later
holy calm had settled down upon
Squan Creek, and there was no dead
to he buried
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
THE OFTEN SIVE SIGNS.

help of three or four loungers. 1t was
free ard easy like, ard that's what we
all liked about it. The first move that
Josiah made when he got home was to
hang up sign, readin':
mo stamps without the cash after
this date
For about half an hour the town
held its breath. Then everybody tried
to talk at once, but after awhile Adm
abad Shefferly got the crowd quoted
down, and asked:
Josiah GOodenOugh, do you mean to
stand or fall by them ere words? If
any of us should come here for a
STAN and didn't have the money,
would he be refused?"
He would answers Josiah. Il
seen over a hundred people buyin'
stamps in Philadelphia, and every last
one of EN- had to lay down his cash.
In that crowd which had assembled
in the store was men who was goin' to
buy clothespins and soap and oatmeal
and lots of other things, but every last
one of EN- walked out and went down
to Parker's. For three days Josiah
didn't sell ten cents worth of goods,
but he was a determined man, and he
hung up another sign, readin':
only the postmaster allowed to
handle the mail. Please keep out"
Everybody heard of it and went to
the postofiice to see about it. Moses
Schemerhorn was appointed spokes-
man, and he raised his voice and said:
Josiah Goodenough, do you mean to
say that if | come in here, and you are
busy DRAWN 'lasses or weighin out
goldfish, | can't paw over the mail and
get my letters?"
at can't be DONE says Josiah. Up
in Philadelphia everybody has to ask
at the winder. The sacredness of the
U. S. mail is a mighty sacred thing"
That was an evenin' long to be re-
membered in Squan Creek.
sixteen members of the fire depart
Der. got out and paraded in UNIFORM,
III carried a banner, on which was
inscribed Down With Tyrants." Citi-
zens lined the streets and cheered and
hurrahed and the fire bell was rung,
and a public meetin' called at the
town hall. We felt that our rights had
been unjustly attacked, and after
Aaron Lampwell had got through with
a speech, in which he compared Josiah
Goodenough to Nero, and ourselves to
the Pilgrim Fathers, two hundred peo-
PIE signed petition to have the post
master removed. Some folks thought
he would leave the town that night, or
that he would get out a hand-bill say
ing he had backed down and asked our
forgiveness, but Josiah didn't scare
On the very next day he hung up a
new sign, and it was worse than the
otf ers. 1t read
Lick on your own stamps. No loaf
ing in the postoffice'
Jacob Henshaw's wife was the first
to dis over that sign She had come
into the grocery early in the mornin'
to get three eggs and bar of soap,
and she had letter to mail. She ask
ed Josiah to lick on the stamp. and he
ointed to the sign. Jack Henshaw
5 foreman Of the fire company,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

mighty plain that W used up half
our time slappfns At the pesky things.
and that every woman. child, boss and
mewl and dog in that State would git
two mo- hours sleep every night il we
could do away with the. 'skeeters. I
wasn't sayin' word, and the old wo-
man was keepin' mighty still, and ar
ter the Kurnel had spoke fur half an
hour he says:
"'Abe Hope. the Guv'nor is busy jest
now white-washin' the co'n-cribs on
his plantation. and I've got a heap to
do to look arter politics, but thar is a
man whose got the time and the money
and the ambition to save the State of
Ar,lansaw, and he's sittin' right yere
befo' me- His name ar Abe Hope, and
when he's conkered the flies and 'skeet-
ers and lee us out o. this land o. desc
lashun any reward he kin name shall
be his
That's the way he talked, sah."
said Abe. land he just made me believe
/ orter do sumthin' right away. When
axed him what could be done, he told
me to go into wire screens. He p'inted
out that there wasn't SIGH a thing used
about any house for fifty miles around
yere, and that when the folks come to
see 'em they'd sell to beat the band.
I'd be maxim heap O. money and saw
in the State at the same time, and his
talk was Sc slick and smooth that me
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

der back yard, und shump on his back,
unde you needn't be afraid. | belief dot
IN ten minutes you vhas searching
around"
When l brings dot bicycles home
snake begins to laugh und slump ar
ound and chuckle He vhas so licked
| can't mabet it out, but pooty soon he
says to me:
"Fadder, it vhas all right if you
dent be afraid. If you believe dot
bicycle vhas going to throw you down
und slump on you den you Will neffer
learn to ride. Don't you let him bluff
you ont"
He can't bluff me cut if he vhas as
big as an elephant. | make myself all
ready in der back yard, und ! lead dot
bicycles out und slump on his back. I
belief DOT | so sailing around like
grease, but vhas mistooken. | don't
know how she vhas till open my eyes
uId Was on my back On der grouu,i.
und dot boy Shake WAS laughing till
he can't speak. My head vhas ash big
as some barrels, und | belief my back
vhas broken in two.
How vhas she?" l says to Shake by
und by.
"Fadder, she vhas bully" he says.
ash he wipes some tears from his eyes.
Il neffer saw anybody nit 50 much
confidence. If you only keep a her he
vhas all right. ind you make sooch a
scorcher dot der police Will be after
you
"Vhell, dot makes me feel better,
ind BY und by l tries again. like to
get on post or der fence, but Shake
says dot vhas not confidence. ! like
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

They sung and buzzed and roared,
and they get thicker and thicker, and
they come asin them screens till they
made the ola cabin shake all over. OF
all the big hcss-flies and of all the
sockdologer shelters l ever did be-
hold, the tormentedest was right then
and there They was so anxious to git
at us that they chanked their teeth and
made a growlin' noise.and I'm tellin'
yo that l wouldn't have bin so skeert
CT dozen bars / was thinkin' that
nuthin' would save us, when all to
once Catfish. Creek, which was boomin'
full O. food water, broke over its. banks
Jest above the house. AS it come raor-
inn down We was picked up and carried
down to the bayou ard clear across
and landed on 'tcther shore. We went
away from them insects like rabbit
humpin' fur home, and If they follered
along they lost us on the bayou. 1t
wasn't this cabin, yo' understand, BIZ.
the fust one | built 1t was lifted
right up and floated off, and most OF
it is over there in the swamp VT. |
was $50 out on fly-screens. $3.50 on the
cabin and me n the ole woman talked
in whispers fur the next three months.
No. sab, we amt keepin' flies and
'skeeters outer the house We was
agin 'em once and had a clus shave of
it; and though I'm free to say they dun
poster a good deal. I'm not fur being
agin' 'em no mo-.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
ADMIRAL DEWEY'S CHURCH RE-
LATI0NS.

Here Is statement which is explicit
enough TO be regarded as trustworthy.
Admiral George Dewey, In the G. s.
ravy, commanding the Pacific squad
ron and late victor over the Spanish
feet in the bay Of Manila. In the Phil
ippine lslaufs, is net Catholic. as
has been erronecfsly published He was
reared as an orthodox Congre gatlonal-
its. but mas long been member Of the
Presbyterian church. On beifNa<sign-
ed to command in the Pacific he -
moved his church relation 70 the neigh
borhood Of San Francisco and became
q member cf the Presbyterian church
Of Vallejo, the nearest To the naval
station CT Mare island, which church
is under the pastoral care CT Rev.
Theodore r. Durham. In this church
Admiral Dewey was elected to the Of
fee Of ruling elder. the duties OF which
he has faithfully discharged when per-
mitted 70 be at hcme.--United Pres
DyteTian.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
SQUATTER SKETCHES.
Abe Hope Tells How He Went Agin
Flies and Mosquitoes.
Copyright. 1881

One evening as we sat on the squat
ters doorstep. with a smoke at our
feet to drive the mosquitoes away, l
asked the old man if it had never oc-
Cured to him to protect the doors
and windows of his cabin against the
pests
'Lawd bless yo sab, but dom that
very thing mighty nigh ruined me
three years ago!" he replied as he
struck at a gallnipper almost as big
as a bee.
Eyes, sab, it did, added his wife,
as she sat down between US. and We
amt takin no mo- chances
When l had urged them to tell the
story, the old man raked some more
chips on the fire, to thicken the
smoke, and then said
1T was all owin to that Kurnel
Bunker, sab. He comes along we're
one day on his boss, and after stop
pin fur nip from the jug and lookin'
around, he says to me that's what's
keepin' the State CT Arkansaw down
On her back is the drafted flies and
'skeeters. Couldn't no country get
ahead where her people had to fight
flies by day and shelters by night,
with gallinippers mixin' in between
times. After another nip he warns
up, and standin on this doah step he
makes one of the purtiest speeches
yo' eevr listened to. He makes out
that them flies and 'skeeters has kept
America back by hundred years,
and that the State of Arkansaw would
be Paradise without em. He put it
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
SQUAN CREEK FGLKS.
Jep Jones Tells About the Postofiice
Troubles.
(Ccoyrigh., 1895


Josiah Goodenough had been post
master at Squann Creek for about sew
Ell years, and nobody had ever kicked
or complained when he went over to
Philadelphia to see his sister die. 1t
was not only the first time he had ever
had sister die, but the first time he
had never been in tower bigger'n
heyport or Cape May. When he hAoW-
ed he was goin he put on considerable
style about it, and stepped so high that
Deacon Spooner felt it his duty to say
to him:
Don't git too pulled up, Josiah
Pride goth before fall, and the
shearer who goes out to shear may
come back shorn. You are big man
here in Squan Creek, but you may find
that they never even heard of you in
Philadelphia.
Josiah found that to be the case.
After SEEM his sister die, he felt that
he ought to call on the Mayor and
shake hands and smoke a pipe and
swap lies with him. When he went to
the City Hall they wouldn't let him in
to see His Honor, ard ne decided to
call on the postmaster and have a chat.
He didn't get to see his man there,
either, but he hung around and picked
up good many pointers. 1t was these
pointers which raised the row at
Squan Creek. Josh kept a grocery
in connection with the postoffice. If
anybody was in hurry for the mail
they had the privilege Of looking over
the letters and papers, and it was all
lowable for anybody to read any news
papers comm to anybody else. Some
times the postmaster distributed the
mail alone, and sometimes he had the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
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