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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
YOUNGEST MAIL-cARRIER.
A seven-Yenr-Old hoy Travels n
Route in Pennsylvania Five
Times Every Single Day.

Andalusia, Bucks county, Pa, has a
modern boy wonder, His name is AL
bert Frances Hoffmier King; he is seven
years old, real letter carrier, and so
fond of work that he declines to eat his
breakfast until he has seen his mail
safely to the post Office.
Every morning at five o'clock the
youngster climbs out of his comfortable
bed and trudges down to the post office.
a little one, not far from his home. The
post Office is called Lower Andalusia,
and the mail has % be taken to the
larger post Office at Upper Andalusia.
1t is quite tramp-more than a mile
and the route, Uncle Sam has de-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30

by a single she'll. A shell burst in the
market house without injuring any of
the so people present. Supt. Warner,
of the gas works, and his little boy
were killed in bed by a shell. An un-
known young lady was killed by shell
while on her way to take the train.
On Forsyth street an officer was talk
ing to lady in her front yard when
shell came along, mortally wound
ing the soldier and the lady's little
boy. Two newspaper offices, st. Luke's
chapel and the female college, were
struck. Once she'll exploded in a
funeral procession, scattering four
cofiins and dispensing the mourners.
Yet in the entire six weeks there were
less than 100 persons killed in the city.
Hundreds of stores kept open all
the time; the newspapers came out
as usual and the streets were crowded
with people. Fully 10000 citizens were
here at the time, and the majority of
them were women and children. Gen.
Hood wrote a sharp letter to Gen.
Sherman, protesting against the bonn
bardment of a city filled with help
lCSo ItlIos anu lLC 1tdtIdI
commander replied that war was the
science of barbarism and it's object
was to kill. He intimated that Hood
was cowardly in fighting in such a
place and dared him to come out in
the open field.
During the first few days the shells
terrified the people, but after a week
or so even the women became accus-
toned to them. There were a few
functions and entertainments, and la
dies went out visiting and shopping
They spoke of the rain of shells as they
would of an April shower, and laid
their plans for going out when the
firing held up. Mingled with the sui
len boom of cannon and the rattle of
musketry during these long summer
nights might have been heard the
sounds of birds in the trees and the
merry voices of children engaged in
their innocent sports.
People settled down into a stolid
apathy, with something of fatalism
about it. They began to believe that
they were as safe in one place as in
another, and that they would not die
until their appointed time. So many
explosions made a deafening din, and
clouds of smoke hung over the city and
almost stified the people in their
homes.
But the heavy firing of sherman's
big guns for six weeks did not pound
down the fortihcations, nor destroy
one-fiftieth part of the city, nor kill
five persons in each thousand of the
population. The loss of life was
among the soldiers in the trenches,
and in the various battles and skir-
mishes.-Atlanta Constitution.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
SKILL OF DOCTORS TESTED.
Fifteen Years of Suffering.
81 thought should surely die"

when the stomach begins to fail in
its duties, other organs speedily become
affected in sympathy, and life is simply a
burden almost unbearable. Indigestion
and dyspepsia are SO common that only
the sufferer from these diseases knows
the possibilities of misery that inhere in
them. A typical example Of the sufferings
of the victim of indigestion is furnished
in the case of John c. Pritchard. He went
on for fifteen years, from bad to worse.
In spite of doctors he grew constantly
weaker, and thought he would die. He
got we'll, however, and thus relates his
experience:
:" For fifteen years was great sufferer
from indigestion in its worst forms 1
tested the skill OF many doctors, but grew
worse and worse, until 1 became SO weak
I could not walk fifty yards without having
to sit down and rest. My stomach, liver.
and heart became affected, and thought 1
would surely die. 1 tried DR.. ]. c. Ayers
Pills and they helped me right away. 1
continued their use and am now entirely
we'll. 1 don't know of anything that win
SO quickly relieve and cure the terrible
sufteriugs of dyspepsia as DR.. Ayers
Pills."-JoHN c. PRtrcHARD, Brodie, War
rem Co., NC.
This case is not extraordinary, either in
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
FORTY DAYS COMMANDMENT.
Business nnd society In Atlanta He
came Used to Shermnn's
Showers of shells.

When Sherman bombarded Atlanta
for 40 days and fired hundreds of shells
into the city. comparatively few citi-
zens were killed, Our fortifications
were common earthworks of red clay,
and they were about as good after the
siege as they were before the first
gun was fired. The shot and shell
poured into these banks of dirt seemed
to make them bigger and more inde-
structible. But there was trouble
when she'll struck brick house, and
there was danger of fire when it ex-
ploded in n wooden building. Our old
car shed was greatly damaged by four
shells, but the state road roundhouse
received about 20 and was not de-
stroyed.
The first shell fell in Atlanta July
20, 1864, at the intersection of East
Ellis and Ivy streets, and killed a lit
tie child. One entered the Goldberg
house, corner of Hunter and Lloyd
streets, wounding the wife and child
of DR.. Gates. In one house Mrs. Flogg,
Mrs. Coons and child were wounded
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
Roonter Was Full of Eight.

A game cock is naturall pugnacious,
but it generally confines its aggressions
to its own kind, with an occasional dash
at dog or cat. A Baltimore bird is an
exception. The other day woman,
with child in her arms, went into the
yard, and the cock Immediately flew at
the child, driving spur into its cheek.
Then it attacked the woman, and
fought for several minutes, tearing her
gown into shreds. Fortunately man
appeared on the scene with long whip
and he piled it so vigorously that the
bird was glad to run away.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
MAGPIE STONES A TOAD.
And Then the Malicious Bird Laughs
In Glee Mt the Woes of Her
Unfortunate Victim.

OF all birds ever devised by prov
idence the magpie is probably the
most mischievous and malicious. A
practical illustration of this state
ment was made in garden in Sus-
quehanna, Pa, recently. The man
who owns the garden also owns a
lame magpie. The other day the bird
was seen ambling about collecting
pebbles one by one and dropping them
into a hole which had formerly held
post. Maggie" was very busy and
declined to permit any distraction to
interfere with her self-imposed duties.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
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A MARYLAND HERO.
He Was n "BoId Soldier boy" with
His Eyes Shot Out-His
Heroic Act.


In the early part of the way Jury
Commissioner Mansfield was in Fau-
quier county, Va, fighting in several
skirmishes around Fairfax Court
house.
"a bullet in the shoulder incaphci-
tated me for few days, and had to
have it cut out at temporary hospital
in the rear of our lines" said Col.
Mansfield not long ago, as he revived
some of his old war experiences.
''In this hospital l noticed one day a
soldier leaning out of window. He
had broad bandage over his eyes, and
j knew he couldn't see, for he was
straining forward in n rather danger
ous position. All the time he was
singing 4 am bold soldier boy etc.
Seeing his perilous attitude, walked
up and pulled him back, telling him
that he was leaning out too far and
might take tumble.
"'All right, sir said he, 4 can't see,
you know
What's your name asked, and
where are you from?'
"'Joe Parsons he answered, from
Maryland
He had been wounded in one of the
first skirmishes in the Virginia hills.
A mimic ball had passed directly
through his eyes, forever destroying
che sight. The fellow, who was only 20
years old, was rs happy as lark
While l stood looking at him he again
broke out joyously, I am bold sol
6inr hnu I r,,N,.bi1lN, inJ n +aI
In him. It's drendfud,' l remarked,
hoping to draw him out to tell me his
story. 1T might have been worse he
answered, laconically. I might have
been killed.
ALAS, the poor fellow was too young
to realize this miserable atfliction.
How did you get here p / asked, won
dering if he crawled to the place or
had been found and carried to it.
"After l was hit, he told me, I lay
hll night in the grass where had fall
len. The pain was pretty bad, but
what worried me more than anything
else was that l couldn't hear anybody
or anything, it was so still. / didn't
know where l was, and as l couldn't
see had no way of knowing where l
would get to, even if 1 did attempt to
crawl away. Soon the firing began
again and the balls whistled all around
me. Then 1 did make an attempt to
get out of the way, and crawlcd about
a dozen yards i'll what l supposed
backward direction, when l heard a
fellow groan.
"'"Hello!" I said.
"'"Hello!" said he.
! "'"Who are you?" 1 asked. "a
EebeI?"
| "'"I reckon 1 am," answered the
man, whom 1 could not see, land you
must be a Yankee" he continued.
"'"That's what!" said 1. Where
are you hurt?"
"'"Leg smashed" answered the con-
federate
"'"Can't you see?"
"'''No."
"'"Can you see?"
"'"oh, yes, can see well enough"
"'"Well, then, let's help each other"
I said. my eyes ure shot out, but am
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
The Erienda of Treea.

In Nice, France, there is a society
called The Friends of Trees" The
forests and mountains being almost
completely devastated and denuded
in the Maritime Alps by the ak of the
peasant, price is given to land own
ers who plant trees on vacant spots;
and an annual Alpine fete gives dona-
ton of $1OO to the society or individual
who plants the largest number.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30

The hardest Japanese wood is the
kiyaki, resembling oak in fiber, which
takes high polish, and is used for fine
work and frames of ships, but is be-
coming very scarce, the price having
doubled within the last few years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
A Church of Paper.

Bergen, Norway, boasts a paper
church large enough TO seat 1000 per-
sons. The building is rendered water
proof by a solution of quicklime,
curdled milk and white OF eggs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
lOO Z PROEZT'
of Anenia.

AGENTS WANTED S es. ssrGsS Sd the public bile
yield 100 per cent. profit per year. Liberal COM
missions paid agents. Something new. Address
W. o. HAMLIN. so 6road St.. New York City.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-07-30
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Ak ms Ulcerlne SaIve is the only sure cure in
the world for Chronic Ulcers. Hone Ulcers,
scronuIous Ulcers, Vnrlcose Ulcers, White
swelling, Fever Sores, and all Old Sores. II
never falls Draws out all poison Saves expense and
sunering Cures permanent Best salye for Hoila,
and an AL & Fresh wounds by mall small $,G @ asge,
Co., ~. Paul, MInn. Sold by nrnggista.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
THE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
Closed Its Session at Fairmont, Yester
day.

Closed Its Session at FairmOnt, Yester-
day.
Special to the Register.
Fairmont, w. Va, October 16.-The
Baptist Association closed its meetings
with the preaching tonight. DR.. b..
w. Walker, of Huntington, was the
minister who delivered the sermon.
This afternoon a prayer meeting was
held, and was more largely attended
than any session of the week. The
older ministers in the association took
an active part. One minister, d. T. S..
FarrOw, aged 70 years, led in singing,
and other ministers 50 and 70 years of
age spoke entertainingly. The history of
the association was sketched by one of
these The Western Association was
organized in 1912, and met for the first
time at PruntytOwn in 1S48. The
Northwestern Association was organ
lied in the sixties and met at Morgan
town in IS. There were forty mem
bers, of which six are living and two
were present to-day. DR.. W. E. Pow
ell presided. DR.. Hippo, in his re-
marks, humorously referred to the
wedding of one of their number, Rev
L. E. Peters, which will take place at
Clarksburg this week. He will wed
Miss Matte Collins.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
TROUBLE BREWING IN AFRICA.

New York Tribune
Dlsquieting news from the Transvaal
has reached the British foreign office
1t appears that President Kruger has
commanded British subjects in the
Transvaal to join the burgher force
sent against the rebellious chief, Mpfeu,
who is preparing for battle on a large
scale. All the roads in northern Trans
vaal are held by armed kaffirs, and the
beers are likely to have a difficult task
President Kruger has the letter of the
law on his side in ordering British sub
jects in the Transvaal to join the burgh-
er forces, but the British declare they
will refuse to fight for the beers while
they are disfranchied. A similar incl
dent promised trouble between the two
governments few years ago 1t was
averted by the Transvaal waving its
demand. 1t is expected that Great
Britain will again intervene.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
A STRANGE DISEASE
Which Promises to End the Life of q Mary
land Man.

Which Promises to End the Life of a Mary
land Man.
Special to the Register.
Cumberlad, Md, October 16.-J. w.
Evans, of Homecoming, this county,
has been lowering between life and
death for some days with disease that
has attracted much attention. Five
weeks ago Mr.. Evans was annoyed by
what at that time was considered a
boil in embryo On the back of his head.
A few days later he was compelled to
call in a physician, and the most in
tense suffering to which a human
being can be subjected began.
The little pimple or boil rapidly de-
veloped, and was diagnosed as
anthrat, an infectious disease to which
cattle or sheep are subjected. The
disease has ate its way until cavity
three inches in diameter and probably
two inches in depth has been made.
1t is the first case of the kind that the
physicians have ever seen, and has
Ibaffied their skill. 1t is malignant in it's
nature; myriads of microbes constant
ly spring into being; the veins show
virus quite poisonous, and together it is
a. disease contagious, dangerous and
loathsome. Physicians say that the
disease can only be transmitted to a
human by innoculation, but strange to
say Mr. Edwards has no idea how the
disease was transmitted to him, as he
is coal agent and has not been near
any sheep, horses or cattle.
The physician has studied out rem
edy which he believes will arrest the
disease before it eats its way to a vital
SpOt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17

wonderful motor, 4 which IS china
does all sorts 81 thinW Ii secret. but
which stubbornly refuses to mote III
public. has lust promulgated new the
DRY which Is certainly interesting, even
if it be not entirely convincing
Mr. Kelly says that every man is a
human harmonica" and responds to a
certain musical note. One man may
be keyed up to a. while another may
respond to "Gn or IF" When two
persons tuned up to the same concert
pitch meet they harmonic and like
each other. When man keyed up to
&c" meets one tuned to "A" there is
a discord, they clash and hate each
other.
This is the theory. Mr.. Keely says
he is now at work upon scheme by
which he hopes to be able to tune the
human system UP or down at will.
Wheen he perfects that he will be able
to make persons harmonic merely by
lowering the musical pitch of one and
raising that of the other.
1t strikes us that the possibilities of
this plan are practically limitiless, and
if it's feasibility is demonstrated most
startling results may be expected. I'M
agine what would happen, for instance,
if Professor Keely's tuning fork were
already at work. With single turn
Secretary Alger might be tuned up from
"G'' to CA" and with another twist
Teddy Roosevelt might be tuned down
from "B' to ga" And there they
would be-arm in arm-friends forever,
singing each others praises in the same
key.
Oh, it's great scheme, there can be
no doubt of that. And there is always
room for it in this country, beyond a
doubt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

By virtue of a deed of trust made by
James f. Dolan and Mary l.. Dolan, his
wife, to me. dated the Soth day of April,
1890, and recorded in the office of the clerk
of the county court of Marshall county,
folio 3S7. will sell at public auction on
the premises on
SATURDAY, THE 18th DAY OF
NOVEMBER.
the following described property, situate
and being in the city of Benwood, county
of Marshall and State of West Virginia:
Beginning at a point in the westerly line
of sixteen foot roadway. distant one
point of intersection of the said westerly
line with the south line of Robinson's adj
dition to the city of Benwood running
thence southwardly with the westerly line
of said roadway one hundred and fifty
$50 feet; thence westerly and parallel
with the south line of said addition one
hundred and eight and seven-twelfths feet
to the easterly line of the river road;
thence with the said easterly line of the
river road, northwardly one hundred and
fifty and three-twelfths feet to a stake;
thence eastwardly and parallel with the
said south line of said addition one hun
dred and one and four-twelfths feet to-the
place of beginning.
Terms of Sale:-Onethird cash on day OF
sale, one-third in four and one-third In six
months the purchaser giving his notes
for such deferred payments with security
to be approved by the trustee.
HENRY NJ. RUSSELL.
Trustee.
]. C. HERVEY, Auctioneer. ocl5esz
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Alice Williamson has made a great
reputation among the younger genera
ton of novelists. Born in 1869 at one
of the Livingstone Manor Houses on
the Hudson River, for she was Miss
Livingstone, she commenced to weave
romances before she could hardly
write. Of her very youthful efforts
meme has ever seen the light in print,
but when she was only fifteen her first
short story was published. Even then
she did not embark upon the profess
sion of literature seriously. Going
over to England for stay Of six or, at
the longest, twelve months, she be-
came engaged to Mr.. Williamson,
well-knOwn personality in the journal
istic world, and was shortly after
wards married. Almost directly after
her marriage about four years ago,
she recommended her literary labors.
Her first efforts were in the direction
of character sketches which were done
with the vigor and the power of
graphic narration which have so
charmed the readers of her later stor-
les. Then Mrs Williamson embarked
upon a more arduous undertaking of
serial story for Messrs. Harms
worth The story was a complete
success. and having found her particu-
lar bent" Mrs. Williamson has pro-
gressed, adding many other successful
stories to her initial venture as a
novelist.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
PASSENGER CAR SPEECHES.

Philadelphia Record
Talking from the hind end of a car
is one of the trying and difficult things
which no President of the United States
ought to undertake. President Harri-
son did it very well. Horace Greeley
knew the trick. Probably if Chauncey
Depew were President he could do it,
But it is dangerous. The trouble is
that the President is supposed to speak
the authentic voice of the nation, and
what is lightly said may be weightly
considered. 1t is practice more hon
ored in the breach than the observ-
ance
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
"A SOLDIER BURIED.

Special to the Register.
Parkers'burg, w. Va, October 16.-
The funeral of Private Oscar Raleigh,
whose death occurred at Fortress Mon
roe, Va, in one of the hospitals, where
he was stationed with the hospital
corps, recently recruited at Marietta,
Ohio, occurred here to-day and was
very largely attended. Young Raleigh's
death was due to typhoid fever.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
POOR FRANCEi
New York Times.

New York Times.
1t is impossible to discern any motive
for founding an international claim up
on the presence Of Major Marchand and
his explorers of Fashoda, except the
need Of politicians at Paris of finding
some issue that may divert attention
from domestic affairs. Ii is plain that
the Representatives" of France upon
the Upper Nile are subsisting upon the
bounty of Gen. Kitchener, and that if
they ever get out alive they will owe
their escape to his Intervention in their
behalf. A demand that their benefactor
should be evicted would belong to the
domain of opera bouffe, not of interna-
tional politics.
The London Times seems to be sus-
tanned by the facts when it says that
there is nothing to negotiate in the
appearance Of a party of distressed
Frenchmen in the path of the Anglo
Egyptian advances. That is what Lord
Salisbury said when he declined to at
tach any political significance to the
emergence of Marchand from the will
derness The Times is further in the
right when it says that France cannot
found any claim to compensation
upon the appearance of a French ex-
plorer at a point at which the British
had to rescue him in order to save his
life.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
Special Commissioners Sale
Of Valuable Sixth Ward
Properly.
In the Circuit Court of Ohio County.
West Virginia.
JOHN A. HECHTEL AND OTHERS
VS..
WILLIAM HECHTEL AND OTHERS,

III the circuit court OF oHlO SoQulys
West Virginia. -
JOHN A. HECHTEL AND OTHERS
WILLIAM HECHTEL AND OTHERS.
In Chancery.
The undersigned special commissioner
hereby gives notice that pursuant to de-
cree entered by said court in the above en-
titled suit, he will. on
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5th. 1885,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. at the
north front door of the court house of
said county. in the city of Wheeling, w
Va, at public auction, sell to the highest
and best bidder. the following described
real estate, that is to say: The north
half of lot numbered Sixty-three (6S), Sit
uated in the Sixth ward of the city of
of West Virginia, and on the east side OF
Eoff street, between Twenty-ffth and
Twenty-sixth streets, in the addition to
the city of Wheeling as laid out by Moses
Chapline and others.
Terms of Sale:-One-third of the pur-
chase money and as much more thereof
as the purchaser may elect to pay in cash
on the day of sale, and the residue in two
equal installments in one and two years
respectively from day of sale, with In
promissory notes for such deferred in
stallments of the purchase money and
interest, with security approved by the
undersigned, and the title to said real es-
tate 10 be retained until the said notes
with interest thereon shall have been paid
in full.
L. S. JORDAN,
Special Commissioner.
do certify that bond and security have
been given by the above named special
commissioner as required by law;
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Ohio
County, West Virginia.
c. S. GREER, Auctioneer. oc10oawt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
Pertinent Press Comment.
BLANCO WILL Mako A DASH.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
General FitZhugh Lee has received
orders to prepare to go to Cuba with
his command, and General Blanco may
be expected to end his remarks in the
middle of a sentence or wherever he
happens to be when the news reaches
him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-17
FARCE COMEDY.
Boston Journal.

bOSlUn JOURNAL.
At one of the Havana theatres a
chorus made up of Spanish cavalry, in
fantry and artillery appears nightly and
sings a song that runs something like
this: Here is the heroic Spanish army,
which never has been beaten, and fights
until it wins or perishes" o shades of
Don QuiXote! o royal burlesque!