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Year: 1873

An ACT providing for the probate of


wills, and for the appointment and


qualification of personal representa-


tives, guardians, committees and Gu


rators, during the recess OF the regu-


lar sessions OF the county courts.


Be it enacted By the Legislature Of Vest
Virginia:


l. The clerks OF the several county
courts shall have the same power 10
admit wills to record, appoint and quail.
ifY personal representatives, guardians,
committees and curators, and require
and take necessary bonds from them,
during the recess OF the regular sessions
Of the county courts, as such courts
now have: Provided, That no jury
shall be empsneled by such clerks
TO settle questions OF fact in dispute be-
fore them.


2. When will is presented to such
clerk for probate and 8 controversy is
likely to arise in relation thereto, he
shall, without deciding anything con-
cerning such probate, then and there
inform the party proposing, and the
party objecting, to such probate that
at the next term OF the circuit or coun-
ty court held for the trial of causes,
whichever may be first held. he will
present such will to said court, and at
such time he shall present the same to
such court.


8. Any person interested, may within
one year, or in case OF disability Of
such person, within ore year after such
disability is removed, appeal as ofright,
to the county court from any order,
made by such clerk in relation to any
such probate oiwills, appointment and
qualification ofpersonal representative,
guardian, committee or curator.


4 When any such person desires to
appeal he shall execute and deliver to
such clerk bond in such penalty as
will cover the costs likely to arise from
such appeal, aud with security TO be
approved by such clerk, and condition.
ed for the payment OF al costs. When
such bond is given such clerk shall
make out record of all the proceed
ings had before him in the case and
shall have it before said county court
at its next succeeding term held for the
trial Of causes such appeal shall not
be tried until ten days notice, in writ
ing shall have been given by the par
ty asking for such trial, TO the adverse
party.


5, This act shall be in force from its
passage
Year: 1873

Kingdom would be regardedby the United
States as cause Of war. OF late years
Great Britain has regarded IL as definite
ly settled that we are to control the COM
merce of the Pacific in the future.


Her citizens are largely interested in
our Pacific railroads, and her statesmen
are believed TO look with favor upon the
growth of trade between Liverpool and
Japan and China by way of San Fran
cisco and New York. 1t is not thought
that she could object to the islands being
brought under an American protectorate,
or even to their immediate annexation.
France is not in condition to object,t
she would. Germany, which is exhibit
ing remarkable vigor in the development
of her foreign commerce and in increas-
ing her naval armament, is said to fully
understand the value of the islands, and
to desire TO possess them, but the rela'
tions of the United States with this
power are at present Of such friend.
ly nature that she could scarcely
be expected to stand in the
way of their acquisition by us, although
she would unquestionably object to any
rival European nation gaining foothold
there. AS to the views of the natives on
the question of annexation to the United
States, it is asserted that two thirds OF
them have favored for the past ten years
any arrangement that would bring them
in closer relations with us. in 1866
treaty of commercial reciprocity was
negotiated with the Hawaiian Govern
ment by Minister McCook, and WIS
warmly supported by Senator Sumner,
who made an able speech in its favor in
an executive session of the Senate. The
treaty failed by only two or three votes
to get the two thirds of the Senate neces-
sary for its ratification. If it had been
ratified there is little doubt that the islands
would before this have belonged to the
United States. - Washington Cor. Netc York
Tribune. -.,
Year: 1873

A. B. NEWMAN, assistant light t-keeper
at Mount Desert, is the owner of fine
Newfoundland dog, of which we are told
the following anecdote Dir. Newman's
little boy, nine years old, strayed away,
and was missing for about two hOurs.
The mother went out of doors and called
to him, when the dog. in response, ran
up from the shore with the boys wet cap
in his mouth, and signified by his action
that he desired her to follow him. The
mother, alarmed, called the father, who
was sleeping in the house, and they fol-
lowed the dog as quickly as possible.
Down by the shore, on rock, the little
boy was lying insensible, his clothes wet,
as Il he had been dragged from the water.
After long efforts, in which the dog rem
dered all the assistance he could in his
mute way, the boy was resuscitated, and
afterward told his story. He was on the
beach, gathering shells, when a large
wave came in and carried him off in the
undertow. The dog jumped in after him,
but the wave prevented him from reach
ing the boy for some minutes. He seized
him by the leg of his trousers, and.tried
TO drag him ashore, but the cloth tore in
his teeth, and the boy said that he had an
indistinct recollection of the dog coming
coming down below the surface for him
again, and that wss the last thing he was
conscious of. 1t seems that the dog had
dragged the child upon the rock out of
reach of the waves, and had tried to re-
store him. When he heard the mothers
call he took the cap to inform her, as
we'll as he could, of the affair, and hasten
assistance. - Portland Press,
Year: 1873

Lime Rock.

 The ladies. in come ction with tie M. E. Society, of Lime Rock, held festival in the Rocky Dell House on Wednesday of last week, and though the attendance was not large, the net sum received was fifty dollars. This, is to be added to money al ready in the treasury and. expended in cushioning the Union Church. The ladies have been engaged for the past year and a half in raising money by sewing circles &c. which they have from time to time ex- pended in furnishing and improving the i'm terior of the church, and when the cush- ions are completed, which will be in a couple of weeks, it will present neat and comfortable appearance. Various denomi- nations have held meetings in this church from time to tune, but it was not until some ten years ago, through the labors of Edgar Clark, that a Methodist class was formed and it became associated with the Falls Village charge, since which, regular preaching servic has been maintained. The church building has gone through some changes since its first erection, which was in Sharon. From thence it was taken down and removed to Lime Rock. Five years ago MT. Barnum got permission of the Inhabitants to remove it from its Second site and place it on land of his own, where it now stands. The old church is endeared to the hearts of many of tue people of Lime Rock, by both sad and pleasant re- It is to be hoped, as there would seem to be no further use of its re-
Year: 1873

Norfolk.

 Meetings are held in the Conference Room three evenings each week, and quite B religious interest is felt in the community We hope the efforts made. to lead people to thoughtfulness on this altimportant subject will prove lasting benefit to all. HI. A. Stannard is fitting up market in the base ment of the store of w. E. & E. s. Beach, where his customers will find him ready to wait on them at all Eours Mir. fStannard has been in business ln this place for nearly year, and has by close application gained good share of the public patronage, Call and see him......W Whittier, in his poem en- titled Snow Bound, has given us a beau tiful description of New England winter. We have had Q living experience, as for more than eight weeks we have been block ed in by the mountains of snow, so much so that we have almost forgotten how some of our neighbors look that live in the sub. urbs of the town. We are waiting for winter to get out of the lap of spring and dissolve partnership, at least for one year. ......Ws are very sorry to say there have been no weddings here for long time. We hope for better things when moonlight nights are warmer. 4. GUESS AGAIN.
Year: 1873

THE VALUE OF ApvERTIsINe.-In large cities nothing is more common than to see large business establishments, which seem to have immense advantage over all com petitors by the wealth, experience end prestige they have acquired, drop gradual ly out of public view and be succeeded by firms of small capital, more energy and more determined to have the fact that they sell such. and such commodities known from one end of the world to the other. In other words, the establishments adver- tise. The old die of dignity. The former are ravenous to pass out of obscurity into publicity the latter believe that their pub lcity is SO obvious that it cannot be obscur- ed. The first understand that they must thrust themselves upon the public attention or be disregardad the second, having once obtained public attention, suppose they have arrested it permanently, while, in fact nothing is moro characteristic of the world than the ease with which it forgets.
Year: 1873

Suppose man owns skff he fastens the skiff to the shore with rope made of straw along comes a COW COW gets into the boat; turns round and eats the rope i; the skiff, with the COW on board, starts down the stream, and on it's passage is up' set; the COW is drowned. Now, has the man that owns the COW got to pay for the boat, or the man that owned the boat got to pay for the cow1
Year: 1873



 The people. of this part'of the town. fur nish nothing worthy of note only oycasin great while, and they are so honest that robberies and the like are among the things that were, and We would venture that at least one half the people at, the Plain" are too honest even to steal hensSbut that is carrying honesty most too far. The two events that are now discussed in the store are the examinations of the two schools in the East and Pine districts The exer- cises were of the most interesting character and were deserving of great credit to both

 teachers and scholars. The rendering of Hanlet's Ghost. by Obed was 30 perfect that it was some time before some of the audience could become convinced it was not something supernatural, and had not the Deacon told that the white shroud which enveloped him WAS some of their best 'tAt- lantic A." would thought soa yet...... Tue capitalists have given up the idea of build- ing a cheese factory and are now concen- trating their energies on 8 railroad from here to Cornwall Bridge. We understand that $2O, 900 have been raised for that pur- pose and that work will commence as soon as spring opens. The rolling stock is to be built at the shop of Wm. Bonney, Corn wall Bridge, Conn. It is to be built of the best of gas and in that way it can be made very light if too much putty is not used. .....Marriages are of such frequent occur renee that the minister has raised the price of joining people together to one dollar and half. Hope that no more of our people will be 80 extrayagant as to pay that amount. x.Y.z
Year: 1873

CLEAN AND BIsIGHE--Eyery
housewife Of neat and tidy habits takes
especial delight in keeping all the tin,
copper and iron ware Of her kitchen as
clean and bright as painstaking labor
can make them. A pride in this direc-
ton is commendablc, and always meets
the smiling approval Of the @tyrsnt
man" who pays the household bill.
RemeInber that SAPOLIO is tho only
thing on earth that will make an old
tarnished tin can or a rusty kettle shine
as bright as new. And by tise use Of
Sapolio it is the easiest and quickest
thing in the world 10 keep every utensil
in q high state Of polish. <ss
Year: 1873

means Of forged vouchers, denial OF their
rights, and appropriation of their money.


No sooner was BALDooH dismissed In
disgrace by the Secretary Of War than he
was at once taken into favor by the Board
of Public Works, and is now holding one
of their most prominent places ut Wash
inGton. lie has the exact qualifications
which COOKE, SHEPHERD, and their con-
federptes most value, and he brought a
large and profitable experience from one
Ring to aid tho practices of another
This is the end OF the Freedmen's Bureau,
from which so much was hoped, which
cost the country untold millions, and
which boosted of such noble aims and
arhipypm1ufst
Year: 1873

How TO ENJOY WINTER.-The Human
Organism is regulated furnace The
blood may be compared to the fuel, and
the more stable tissues formed from it to
the iron stove containing the fuel. Just
in proportion to the energy and celerity
with which life is carried on, this combus
ton proceeds; and fresh fuel, that is, fresh
blood, is required But, in order to obtain
this, there must be both food, and also di-
gestive energy. When there is failure
in this digestive energy, stimulants fre-
quently are had recourse to- but their eff
feet is transient, and if used too long and
exclusively, they tend to derange the di:
gestive functions But let DIR. Gottlieh
Fischs Bitters be used in conjunction with
food. and its tonic qualities will rapidly
strengthen the digestive organs! And
when an abundance of wholesome food is
once duly digested, it will bring about 6
fullneSs ofyitality hitherto utterly unknown
There will be no more desire for alcoholic
stimulantsl


This subject continued next week under


Rapid Nutrition.
Year: 1873

CAN IT BE TRUE Within the last few
months considerable number of persons
have called upon DR.. WALKER, the pro-
prietor of the popular medicine known as
VINEGAR BTTERS, and assured him that,
in their belief, his preparations are an in
fallible antidote for rum and tobacco. The
minute details which have been furnished
him forbid him to doubt the accuracy of
the statements. This new claim of a great
remedy to the confidence of the public will
give a vast and well ldeserved impulse to
its popularity. Heretofore the BuTERs
have been recognized as pure vegetable
tonic and corrective, devoid of alcohol, and
thoroughly adapted TO the cure of the
stomach and bowel complaints, nervous
disorders, bilious affections, muscular dis
eases, and, indeed. majority of the all
ments within the reach of medicine but
if it will also cure the craving for liquor
and tobacco, philosophers, statesmen and
theologians ought TO unite their voices il
its praise Can the good things be true
1t is easy to test the question.
Year: 1873




The preparations for the aerial trip to Eu-
rope are now so far advanced that the Graphic
is able to say that the word .'go" will be
given between the 1st and 10th of September.
Everything being ready, and an assurance
given by the signal service at Washington of
the probability OF favorable weather tor
twenty-four hours, Professor Wise and his
friends will quietly embark, waving theil
hats to the crowd, and be off. Sunset will be
the probable hour, but no attempt at public
display will be made; it is rather solemn
venture, in fact, and the huZZas of q crowd,
and guns and music, would be less appropri-
ate than the uncovered head and bated breath.
who are thus to trust themselves to the good
nate of the elements. Professor Donaldson,
ON Saturday, made trial trip from New
York to Long Branch in the Baden Powell
canoe built for him by Waters & Sons. and
thoroughly satisfied himself of the sea-wor-
tllyness of the little craft. Though the waves
were quite excited she rode them safely, and
it was not until the Professor drove her on
shore through the surf at the Branch that she
shipped the slightest drop Of water. The
carrier pigeons which have been detailed to
accompany the expedition, and bring back
occasional tidngs. have been in active train
ing for weeks and have become pretty tamil
lar with the geography of the Atlantic coast !;
they will be instructed to make for the
Graphic building with all haste the instant
they are dropped from the car. There have
been divers rumors as to the persons who will
accompany the eronauts, but their names
have not, as yet, been officially announced !;
applications are understood to be in excess Of
however.
Year: 1873




Max Adeler mentions report that the chief
was dreadfully sold a few days ago. A wick
ed boy whose Sunday school experience
seems only to have made linn more deprayed,
caught freely and stuck it, by the aid of
some mucilage in the center of the largest
lens in the telescope. That night when the
astronomer went to work he perceived a
blaze of light apparently in the heavens, and
what amazed him more was, that it weuld
give couple OF spurts and then die out, only
to burst forth again in second or two. He
examined it carefully for a few moments, and
then he began to do sums to discover where
in the heavens that extraordinary star was
placed He thought he foCnd the locality
and the next morning telegraphed all over
the universe that he had discovered new and
remarkable star OF the third magnitude in
Orion. In a day or two all the astronomers
in Europe and America were studying Orion.
and they gaZed at it for hours until they
were mad. and then they began to telegraph
to the man in Washington to know what he
meant. The discolerer took another lock,
and found that the lew star had moved about
eighteen billion mics in twenty-iour hours,
and upon examining it closely he was alarm
ed to perceive thatit had legs.


When he went ol to the dome next morn
ing to polish up hisglass he found the light
mir g-bug. People own at Alexandria. seven
miles distant, heardpart of the swearing, and
they saw he infused into il wliolesouled sim
cerity and yigoros energy. The bills tor
telegraphic dispatches amounted to $500,
and low the astronomer wants to find that
boy. He wants to consult with him about
something.
Year: 1873

There is a preacher, said to be located as


Brainerd, the village at the Mississippi cross
ing of the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose


name is given as Williams. And there are


three or more practitioners of the game OF
three card monte, names and habitations un-


known, who have. lately operated with con.
siderable success upon travellers on the


Northern Pacific and Lake Superior and Mis-


sissippi railroads. Among their latest victims


is the preacher aforesaid. and how he fell INTO
their snare Is thus told by the Brainerd peo-
pie. Sitting near the preacher was verdant
looking youth, to whom a couple of sharp,
''sport'' appearing men were exhibiting their
skill at three card monte. From where he
was seated he could tell the winning card eve
put down fifty dollars on wager that he
would select the righf card, the good man
was fairly grieved to see the innocent youth,
as il. blind to what was plain to be seen, pick
up the wrong card and lose his money. The
youth seemed to feel bad about it too, but af-
ter watching the dealers motions awhile he
emptied all his POCKETS and collected another
$50. which straightway followed the rest into
the dealers pocket. Amazed that the youth
could not see what he saw so plainly, and
sympathising with the youths apparent grief
over losing every cent of his money, the
preacher resolved to recover it and re-
store it to its late possessor. After
little parleying the preachers watch was wa
gered against 800 of the gamblers moneys
the deal was made. and the good man turned
up the marked card, but the wrong one His
good gold watch disappeared in the gamblers
vest, and at the next station when the .hrees
the two gamblers and the verdant youth, I
vert from the car and walked down the plata
form as the train rolled on, chatting ard
laughing like old acquaintance, the minister
began to suspect that the verdant youth and
the gamblers were confederates, and he their
dupe. But even then his amazement that his
eyes should have 80 deceived him as to the
identity OF that marked card was the predom.
inant feeling. geo s 4:


The sequel to this true story is, thas when
gamblers learned that their victim was 9
poor preacher, they sent the watch back to
him, charges prepa d, just in time TO saTe bis
amused but plying neighbors from buying


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Year: 1873

on the W. Il II. Railroad which connects with
the morning mail train on the Reading road at
Birdsboro, did not reach that point until noon
on Saturday, owing to an engine giving out on
n freight train
Year: 1873

very comprehensive synopsis of the Presi-
dents Message will be found in our columns. The
document is net such q one as the people OF the
United States were in the habit Of being asked to
psrus1 By the occupants of The Presidential chair
previous 10 General Grants election. Since that
TINA the Message has been regarded q mere or
dinary document foreshadOwing no great feading
policy o; the Government, which had been we'll
considered and settled in the mind OF a statesman
whose great abilities were devoted to the best in
tsress of his fellow countrymen. Nc his is not the
else now. The Presidential once is becoming
more noted for the absence Of siatesmanship.
Consequently the Messages Of the President,
which were formerly looked to as specimen doc
uments containing, in a condensed form, the
leading features OF the policy Of the Adminissra-
tiou, are now almost wholly discarded The pres
ent Message, like most Of those emanAtiDg from
President Grant, is patched up affair, in noWise
such State paper as should be addressed to ihs
Congress of the United States from the President
of forty millions OF people.
Year: 1873

Our correspondent S. A. NJ
writes from Niagara Falls: "The


fools are not all dead yet. A poor


fellow Of this class, calling himself
Signor Bellini, has concluded to
out-Blondin Blondin by not only


walking a tight rope stretched


across the river, bit then by jump
ing into the water at . distance of
one hundred and thirty feet. l


saw him perform both feats this
afternoon. At first l felt for the
man aud would rather not have
him SO expose himself; but after


a moments reflection, came to
the conclusion he was fool any


how, "no loss to king nor coun-
try" and that if he did not kill
himself in this. manner, he would
certainly do so in some other way,
and l,had just as we'll see it as
MT. SO l sat quite composed on
the piazza of this hotel, and
watched the madman to the end.
The river at this point, is 1,19O
feet wide! The rope is about two
inches in diameter. He walked
across from the Canada to Ameri-
can side, then rested fifteen min
Year: 1873

''We are born in haste," says an American writer; "we finish our education on run; we marry on the wing; we make fortune at a stroke, and lose 1t in the same manner, to make and lose it again in the twinkling of an eye. Our body is a locomotive going at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour; our soul a shooting star; and death overtakes us, at last, like flash of lightning"