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"shocking cruelties
Practiced in the State Prison at
Donnemora, New York.
HUNG UP BY THE WRISTS TILL MAD.
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The Tortures of the Inqabritlon Ouidouo
bjr llrulal Keeper* and Guard*.
Men Driven tolnuuiqr bj-TliclrTrrrlblo
Treatment?Chained to a Cell
Door and Frozen in Winter.
I
Nnr Yon*, Aug. 3,-Tlio Morning Advertiter
prints the follovrinK eliockln*
btory ol cruelty practiced in one of the
This in a plain, straightforward description
of wanton cruelly and barbarous
treatment of human beings thieves,
thugs, assassin* and what not, but hu?inan
beings still?men confined in prison
for crime by the great Empire State,
. whoso seal bears the tlgure of Justice.
Fur up in the dense Adirondack forest
is locatod Clinton Prison.
A newspaper correspondent, actuated
by no other motive than to tell the
truth, went thero in January and remained
there until March, and in that
timo saw enough to mako decent men
turn sick with horror. The institution
is lucated at lJannemora, a backwoods
settlement that depends largely upon
the favor of prison otlicials lor its existence.
Isaiah Fuller, a farmer-politician
o( Saratoga county, is the wurden,
and Jame.* Moon is the principal kaeper.
It is with Moon tliut this story has
principally to do, because Fuller is apTmmnllv
a muMive sncctator of tlio
atrocious deeds that are a blot on tho
iair lai"" of tho State of Now York.
The* "deputy" or principal keeper of
Clinton i rieon is James .Moon, a woodchopper
from Warren county, who
"came as a guard and riz on his merits."
Mr. .Moon in the personiIleation of brutality?
tho worst product of a lumber
camp?intemperate, profane, swaggering,
and ignorant of any of tho amenities
of civilization. Barbarous atrocities,
which have resulted in physical
disability and insanity of the victim,
have been charged against him. To
many of tho shockingcriinos committed
within the prison walls, your correspondent,
during one month's service
as an inside "guard," has been an eyo
witness.
VABIOrS METHODS OF TOItTUnB.
Under "Deputy" Moon's administration
convicts have been hung bv tho
wrists in 6hackles for periods of twelve,
twenty-four and thirtv consecutive
hours"; roasted against a laundry heater;
fro7.cn, almost naked, in the prison
yard; driven to work vrhen scarcely
able to walk; worked from daybreak
until bedtime; deprived of food and
water for four, five and six consecutive
.days; beaten in the face with lists and
over the head with clubs by keepers
while hanging defenseless in tho
ehackels; cpntlned in dungeons for
weeks on -a daily allowance of one
ounce of bread and a gill of water;
Hhackled backward to cell doors for i
long periods; placed in positions of torture
daily for weeks; hung by the wrists
with a slender cord of waxed thread j
until their terrible agonies end in unconsciousness,
and subjected to other
brutalities and overworked until, as
Officer James McGraw remarked, "Twothirds
of the loafers are half crazy."
Serjeant of the Guards James'l Hart
is a kindly disposed but powerless offi-1
cisl, whoso authority is entirely absorbed
by Mr. Moon.
Prison'Chaplain, the Rev. Horace L.
Grant, is an intelligent but very unsvm- I
pathotic clerpyman, who speulls much
of his time in the prison oirice.
Prison Physician Dr. J. B. Ransom is
a backwoods man. In the physician's
absence his place is filled bv Mr. Moon.
On these occasions "Doctor'1 Moon prescribes
"brolide of pertassia" and other
medicines with perverted names for
eick convicts. This ho does with all
the nonchalance of an old practitioner.
Moon's clearest Idea of materia mcdica is
that strong medicines can only be taken
by very strong, healthy men,'or, in his
own words, addressed "to a sick convict,
"the man that's able to take that medicine
is able to work." Somo of Moon's
patients die.
"we'll make him crajsv."
Dr. Ransom is the "expert" in cases
of insanity, but as he docs not claim to
be an experienced alienist, he generally
leaves such cases to Mr. Moon.' Convicts
who prefer an insane asylum to a
slaughter house sometimes feign insanity.
Examiner moon solves problems
of supposed mental disturbance by
hanging the patient up by the wrist,
generally with the remark, "if the
loafer ain't crazy we 11 make him crazy."
The force of "keepers very naturally
rcflcct the.character of their superior
olflcer. It is composed principally of
nhtiveR of tlio wooos. oro dieuors. wood
choppers and farm hands. These men
are densely ignorant, nnd previous to
employment in the prison never attempted
to govern any living creature
but cattle.
Under aa eight-hour law theso .State
employes "re obliged to work from
twelve to eighteen, or aa many hours a
day as the management pleases to impose,
and without extra pay. Sunday
work is included, and legal holidays, as
a rulo, are not observed.
Tho prison contains a thriving shirt
industry, the weekly product ot which
averages 3,UiO dozens. This is far in
excess of the product given in the annual
report. Tne shirt factory contains
Sot) stitchers, with cutters, buttonholers,
eyeluters, trimmers nnd other assistants,
and n force of paper box makers, numbering
in all about 650. The laundry
employs about I'AO more, making a tot jl
of MOO convicts pmnloved At this indus
try. The laundry forco is large compared
with tho shirt operatives, but
thousands of dozens of shirts which are
gent to the prison from Glens Falls to
be luundereu accounts for the difference.
WORK DAY AXD NIGHT.
The convict shirtmakers work day
and night, and innny of' them on Sundays.
They are also compelled to work
on legal holidays, but thev receive
"wages" for their lubor, anil average
about a cent and three-quarters a day.
For this sum oach convict makes seventeen
complete shirts in sixteen working
hours. Trov prices for the samo labor
would yield tho operative $2 50. The
convicts, however, are subject to fines,
whieb not only consume the greater
part 6f their "wages," but often leave
them in debt. Koticcs posted eonspic
uously 111 nil pans 01 me laciory reau
llul -'Any convict who soils a shirt
with tobacco jalee shall forfeit his earn"
kits to date. Fines for this and offiMiMNi
inoru trivial hare the general
effect of jeaving the prisoner with little
or nothing to his credit on the books
when his term expires. The prison
clock is set twenty minutes fast,
bv ordor of Mr. Moon, and
the day's work begins at 0, standard
time. It ends, not by the clock,
but when the management savs (top.
Tne daily task l>?ing longer than the
average for free labor forces this convicts
to work at nights. They carry
work from the factory to tlie prison,
nnu uftcr a hasty tupper of breud ana
water the ripping and turning goes on
unmeaningly in tneir little cells until
curfew ring* at n.js.?tbft i*. ^o'clock
Recording prison computation. Turning
n uhlrt bami la llko turning a small
tile darknesa o"f theft cells. > ^
As thev pass from the fattdry to the
prison hall a number of "vicliuia" are
"dropped out" by their keepers and
"drugged in" by tlie guards for fulling
to do tbeir "seventeen for Emerson.
uunuitJi 01 nijjiu worn?uiuie wimicbotd
of their willingness?are pulled from
beneath their blouses nnd pockets iu
thev stand pale and trembling, perhaps
sick", before the deputy. Excuses of illness.
or of difficulties with work or sewing
machines, arc of no avail, and the
woodchopper keeper condems the derelicts
to the dungeons on bread and
water, to the rope to linng for twentyfour
or thirty hours, or to whatever
other punishment, lawful or unlawful,
his ingenuity may suggest. The only
legal corporal punishment, ia that of
hanging by the wrists 011 tlio
"trapeze," u short-lived but terrible
torture, which will be described
from n personal experience
I further on. Hanging on "1 liberty's
Ch'istmas tree," howover, is a more
popular form of punishment in Clinton
Prison. The "tree" consists of a large
steam pipe from which ropes are suspended
with shackles attached. The
pipe, which runs clear around the interior
of one of the main halls, is fourteen
feet from the floor, and the victims
ttsunllv stand on beef cans until the
right wrist of each is fastened in a
shackle. The cans are then kicked from
under their feet and tho strain on pipe,
rope and arm brings their toes to the
Door. The convicts arc hanged in this
man net* for periods ranging from eight
to thirty-one hours. The punishment
of the "tree" is described by those who
have sutlered it as the most excruciating
torture imaginable. It concentrates
all of tho terrible pains of tho rack in
ono member of tlie body, and the victims
are usually taken down unconscious.
LITTLE JOE SMITH'S TORTURE.
Scream after scream of agony rang
through the prison corridors on AN ednes:
day evening, Jauuary 28, l int Convicts
shuddered and trembled in their cells,
and otricers in the uniform of the State
of New York stood bv laughing as
Keeper Haggerty forced liis heavy cano
into the inouth of little Joe Smith ajid
wrenched apart hit? bleeding lawn. The
victim, Joseph Smith of cell 8(5. company
8, is a frail youth of eighteen
years. He weighs about one hundred
and live pounds?a miserable, starvedlooking
little waif from tho gutters of
Xew \ ork.
Hanging by one skinny wrist from
"liuggeriv 8 unristtnas iree me uoy a
feet touched the floor lightly, the
weight of his body straining his puny
arm. Deputy Moon stood by directing
flappertv s movements, and'the unconcerned
air of gtiurds and keepers indicated
that nothing unusual was going
on. Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, and as the
cane was forced backward with a horrid
wrenching motion into the little fellow's
mouth his cries grew fainter and
fainter, until he flnallv sank back into
the arms of his cruel tormentor limp
and Wot ion less.
Released from the keeper's grasp and
the ''bit" removed, the boy's trail bodv
swayed with wagging nead and bleeding
"mouth until he recovered consciousness.
lie then cried out again,
uttering one pitiful wail of agony. It
was his last. "Give it to hiin ip the
mouth!" roared the deputy, and like a
flash Haggerty's big fist struck the boy
* >? ? -> i??is? 1 : ?
mil in inu nice, miMing uuu b?>u>uik
from the force of the blow, the wretched
little creature's hotly swung from the
pino liko a pugilist's lundbag. Then
Jonn- Marsden, another guard, took a
hand, and, to outdo Haggerty, struck
the boy two blows in the face. This
was met with a grin of approval from
the deputy. Stunned and bleeding, the
quivering victim mattered, "Please,
nlease, mercy!" but Keeper Joseph
Nash seized him. paying no heed to nis
cry. lie grasped the starveling by the
shoulder, and, holding him up. struck
him,blow after blow in the face until
your correspondent, unabl# to endure
the spectacle longer, stole around the
corner of the inner case of cells and
shut out the horrid scene. "All right!"
sounded and the prison closed, leaving
the wretched child of crime, with his
bruised and swollen face, to hang all
night on the terrible "Christmas tree."
FROZEN TEARS.
On the oitomoon 01 me next any?
Jan. 2??this boy, with his hands manacled
behind him, wo* marched out between
two burly keepers into n ruined
wine of the prison and shackled backward
to a cell door. This wing, which
was partieallv destroyed by lire on Jan.
1, was entirely open" to the weather,
which was bittcrl.* cold. All through
the afternoon of the 21)1 ii and the morning
of the 30th the little fellow could be
heard crying: "Havo mercy on me!
hnve mercy on me!" Keepers enveloped
in bearskin overcoats hurried past him
to reach shelter; companies of convicts
in lockstep inarched by him "double
quick" to escape the piercing cold; tho
prison don huddletl in their warm
kennels. r,Joe" remained in this position
nil through the night nnd until
noon next day, with the tears freezing
on his cheeks, his bare hands manacled
*- * *? - *??? ?? ?i i-i.
oenuia mm iu tnc irony uum, nuu ma
plaintive, boyish voice uttering that
pitiful, heartrending cry: "Oil, have
mercy 011 me! have mercy on me!"
Interviewed afterward at his cell, the
boy paid that he was shackled backward
to the cell door in the burned wing ior
twenty-four hours. During that time
lie was deprived of food and water, and
suffered untold agonies from cold and
hunger. Questioned in tho officers'
mens as to the cause of the boy's punishment,
his keeper replied that "he
was a very mischievous little fellow."
Young Smith's was the first punishment
witnessed by your correspondent.
Various cruelties were inflicted daily,
but the presentation of a few representative
cases will suffice. Richard A.
Brush of Cell 17. Company 2o, was (and
he is possibly alive yet) a small, gray
haired nun of tlttv-seven. 110 was
htinned on tho "tree nt noon February
10, remaining there continuously (or
thirtv-one hoars. As the liriton closed
on Wednesday night, leaving liim still
hanging, the old man begged Deputy
Moon, with all the eloquence of despair,
to consider tho long hours o( torture he
had already endured, and in pity for his
age and infirmities release him. The
old man's appeal would have touched a
heart of stone, but tho deputy, with a
harsh laugji, remarked that he was "a
pretty tougji old rooster," and. went
homo to supper.
llmsh was released dnring the night
?probably after he bad tainted?anil
an officer who aaw bim the next dav
said that his head was covered with
larger lumps. Interviewed afterward in
th? laundry ironiug room, where he is
mployed, the prisoner stated thfct hc
was released at about 7 o'clock on the
evetiingof thu lltli, niter hnn/ini: continuously
for thirtv-one hours; that
while hanging lie had been clubbed on
the head by . keeper llairjjcrtjr, that he
was fifty-seven years ol age, and had
been punished tor falling to perform
hi* taslc, which at hi? advanced age waa
a physical impossibility.
A PRISONER DRIVEN MAD.
The next notable horror of which
your correspondent was an eye-witness
wu the punishment of A. Green, of
Cell 14, Company V, whose terrible
suffering drove him mail. On Thursday
afternoon, February 10, at about
1:30 o'clock, Green succeeded, John
McCarty, of Cell 32, Company It. -McCarthy
had been hanging on the "tree"
for twenty-four hours. According to
the statements of his keeper, Kdward
ishment every day for nearly eight
weekn. The form "of torture to which
he had been subjected during that time
consisted of standing on a soap box continually
from morning until night in
the laundry ironing room?a position
which gained for him the
rather inappropriate title of "The
Statue of liberty. When this
crazing treatment" began Green
wax just recovering from a long and
serious illness?the result of a protracted
confinement in a dunceon on an
ounce of bread and a gill of water a day.
On February ill, the lifty-tifth day of
Green's torture on "the block," Keeper
Lewis moved the soan box close to the
laundry furnace and uailed it to the
floor, "to give Green a roastinV' The
outside of the furnace?on which the
laundry irons ore heated?is kept nearly
red-hot. Green endured the scorching
heat until it became unbearable. Then
lie got down ami tried to move the box
back. The keeper ordered him up
again. ureen ooeyeti nun aiiommcu 10
tiie blistering torture until his clothes
began to smoke, llo then stepped from
the box, wrenched it loose ana moved
it ba<*Jc. The keeper immediately "ran
him in," and Deputy Moon ordered him
to T>e hnng on the "tree" for refuging to
be roasted alive.
At noon on Friday, February 20, after
hanging for twenty-three hours, Green
was in a fainting" condition. His long
illness, following the horriblo punishment
of tho dungeon, and succeeded by
eight weeks of constant torttnrrendingw?th
a dav and night of excrutiating
agony on the "tree," had been too much
for outraged human nature, llis end
seemed near. The scene at the "tree"
presented an awful spectacle. The victim
hung to one side, his right arm
high above his head, his left arm and
shoulder drooping low, the weight of
his body straining heavily on his fancied
wrist, his face perfectly colorless,
his under jaw hanging, his eyes half
closed, and the whites rolled upward.
His limbs, unable to support him
longer, had bent beneath him. His
onlv support was his shackled wrist,
and the swollen hand above it was as
black as the hand of a negro. He was
still conscious; his livid face, distorted
with agony, was an indescribable picture
of hop'eless sullering, and his wholo
attitude betokened the despair that wel
conies (team.
ATE DINNER UNCONCERNED.
Twelve officers, clothed with authority
by the great State of New York, were
Heated near the "tree," eating their dinners
with the unconcerned air of men
who saw nothing unusual. A guard to
whom such scenes were new entered the
hall to join the niess, and, casting a
startled glance at Green, uttered a cry
of horror. "What do you think of that,
voting feller?"jceririgly inquired Green's
keener, Edward Lewis, who is the bully
of the town and the terror of the prison.
"I don't like it, and I don't think much
of any man that does," replied the
guard." Here vour correspondent, the
guard, fell under suspicion, which, however,
did not take root immediately.
G*een was taken down during the afternoon
and carried to his cell. On the
next day it was rumored that ho had
gone mad.
On Monday, February 23, Deputy
Moon celebrated Washington's birtliday
in a novel manner. The morning
was intensely com. me Kecpere hj?peared
at the prison in their bearekin
overcoats. When the convicts were
rung out to perforin the sanitary work,
Green, in a half-demented condition,
was dragged out of his cell and inarched
over ice and snow through the prison
yard, clad only in light cotton underclothes
and stocking. The inarch of
:k)0 yards was performed in the slow
lockstep and in the face of piercing
northern blasts, which cut to tlie marrow.
Green encountered general observation
on re-entering the prison hall,
and a murmur of horror and nity arose
from galleries tilled with inarcning convicts.
It was a never-to-be-forgotten
spectacle?a tall, splendidly built young
man of thirty years inarching in out of
that freezing atmosphere, robbed of
reason, and in his insane condition exposed
to deatli by the otlicials of a civilited
State.
Green passed within three feet of
your correspondent, and looked .as if
he had performed that terrible march
without a shiver. His shirt was open
in front, exposing his bare breast, lie
seemed utterly oblivious of his surroundings,
and his air and manner expressed
all of the careless abandonment
of insanity. A \ia'v. to his cell afterward
resulted only in hearing a sob*
' . ? !
Uing voice murium fiuuici um\?
"Lucy." Officers and convicts,' upon
being questioned regarding Green,
agreed generally that "he was a very
quiet fellow, and never xnado a fuss."
During twenty-six duys which followed
the torture of young Smith a
large number of cases of inhuman punishment
intervened between those recorded.
For five days your correspondent
had the freedom of the prison,
and he used it freely.
SOME 1XTEBVIKWS.
Convicts interviewed during the ensuing
live days told terrible stories of
brutalities perpetrated here under the
reign of Fuller nnd Moon. These recital*
would make pages of interesting
mutter, but, being merely "convicts
stories," would scarcely obtain credence,
and vet the tales are undoubtedly true.
They tell of "lloirgy" Welch, who was
spanked repeatodly with a heavy "twohand
paddio" of double solo leather
until his flesh became raw?tho flaying
being continued while he was in that
condition finally drove him mad, und he
set fire to himself in a dungeon and
shortly afterward died. They fix
the date of this horror at about
December, 16Si They tell of
Jaines Martin, who was deprived of
water for five days for breaking a cup.
This utorv is corroborated by Officer
James Mcliraw, who was Martin's
keeper at the time. They tell of "Bat"
Mahoney, who won iacoreunited in a
dungeon on an ounee of bread and a
irfU ot water c dnv for twenty-fight
days (or declining to betray a friend
who had secretly triven him a piece of
pork. They tell of James Gallup, alias
"Kcilly," wno gave his scarf, gloves,
and numerous small presents from
homo to other convict* to help him
with his work, and who, upon being
stripped of everything, and unable to
"do his seventeen tor Emereqn,'* was
hanged by the wrists with the waxed
cord until he was believed to be dead.
This ckse, which is of recent data, i*
daily confirmed by officers. tftUuji,
T- ' ' ?(>
.however, denied It when questioned
and fluid he "had Buffered enough, and
wanted to >ret out alive.''
Convict McDonald, wnilo in line with
hU company and in the act uf itooplnft
according tocufftom, to pick up his cell
bucket received a terrible^ blow on the
head with a club from Keener Meade.
The victim fell like a loj?. Not a man
in his company stirred. They dare not
help one another. McDonald "recovered"
and went to the madhouse at
A nliiirn
TKSTIN'Q TUB TORTURB.
Saturday, February 28. witnessed ono
of the raout agonizing tortures ever inflicted
on a human beinj; in a State
prison. It was the hanging of your,
correspondent on the dreaded "trapeze"
by the prison officers. The "trap-1
eze" hangs from the center of tne
guardro^ ceiling, and is the only in- j
struinenTDf torture sanctioned bv law
for the punishment of convicts. It is a
hoisting apparatus, with ropes, pulleys
and houk. On the hook hangs the terrible
waxed cord. Convicts, when condemned
to this torture, stand before
the hangman with their hands clasped
together until the cord, which is endless,
encircles their wrists in a smooth
running noose. The hook is then inserted
in the loose end, and the convict
is jerked from his leet and hoisted up.
The rope is then fastened, and the victim
left hanging at tho discretion of the
"deputy" or warden.
According to description and personal
experience the scenes at these hangings
are awful. Some victims, crazed with
pain, struggle frantically, tearing the
h.tfh nf thnir u-risfa in a'flhorkine man
ner; some scream, curse and rave and
bejrto be killed outright; while others,
made insane, perform horrible contortions,
and, throwing their bodies hjgh
in the air, come down with full force,
trying to break toe cord, and almost
tearing their haeds off. Their struggles
meanwhile cause the cord to cut deeper
and deeper, and many suffer in this
frightful manner until sheer physical
agony renders them unconscious.'
\\ arden Fuller is a man of temperate
habits, unci is tit to nreside at these
affairs. Deputy Moon, nowever, has the
reputation of being "a hard drinker."
Your correspondent has seen him drunk
in the prison several times. When
Moon officiates at these horrors Keeper
Conwav says that they are particularly
-horrtbfe, "even when the deputy is
sober."
Your correspondent's experience at
the hands of the prison officers on February
2S wns a terrible one. A dispute
(juicily started among the "reserves"
in the guard room as to^tho length of
time that a man would .voluntarily submit
to such punishment resulted in
your correspondent agreeing to settle
uie nrgu uicni uv inrriimuiiK iuuhvu iv
he tied up. The "reserves' were delighted
at the chance to hang the
"newspaper cuss." Officer tieoree
Storrs kirnilv volunteered "to act us
hangman, the apparatus was made
ready with great alacrity, and in a
moment your correspondent was dangling
from the "trapeze." Upon* being
lifted it required a strong cllbrt to suppress
a cry of agony.
TKKRI11LE CUTTING.
A terrible cutting and dragging, as !if
the skin, veins and sinews were being
torn apart at the wrists and a dull saw
meanwhile digging its wav into the
bones, was the tirst sensation felt. It
was horrible pain. The agony became
more intense each instant, and a bursting
sensation began to fill the hands
until it seemed that the finger tips
would burst. This pressure growing
more and more painful, became an excriiciating
torture in itself, while the
terrible cutting going on at the wrists
?<nnn..-KiU mo'ln o /inmKinntinn nf fnr.
ments beyond the power of description.
The bursting of the flnirer tips or the
cutting off of the hands would have
been a relief. As the terrible cord
sank deeper and deeper into the flesh it
became impossible to remain motionless,
and note the effect. To stir was to
increase the agony tenfold, and the rational
limit of human endurance having
been reached your correspondent crieu
"enough." _ The poor convict who cries
"enough" in vain cannot avoid strugjjlinjr,
and suffers ten times as much as
is here but faintly described.
After the cords were removed the
wounds were examined by the officers
and by convict Russell, correspondence
clerk (since released, and now in Kew
York). Two ugly, black rings encircled
the wrists, forming deep hollows in the
flesh and containing the clear imprint
of every thread of the cord. The blood
underneath, 'reed from the pressure,
was beginning to ooze through the
blackened flesh, and the dark bracelets,
in a few moments, were a gory crimson.
This punishment would be effective
and have the one redeeming feature of
i ?x .1 l... -
suon uunuiuu 11 IllUiClCU U> u owuc.
and humane official.
The "trapeze" is one of Mr. Moon's
testa in cases of insanity. Convicts
who act strangely are brought to the
guardroom by their keepers as "cranks,"
anil it is on* such occasions that Mr.
Moon gives that moat terrible of orders:
"Hang him up; if he ain't crazy we'll
set him crazy!"
On the tour of genoral inspection,
everything seen was calculated to impress
the ordinary visitor favorably,
and if your correspondent had been
such he would have left the institution
perfectly satisfied, from personal observation,
that it was not such a theater
of horrors as his experience has proved
it to be. The most scrupulous cleanness
prevails. Plants and flowers, and
birds fluttering in their cages, relieve
the grim aspect of the interior, and an
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Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Blood Poisoning,
Cancerous and all other Humors, Malaria,
Dyspepsia, lliliousness, Sick Headache,
Catarrh, Rheumatism, and all difficulties
with the Jim and Kidneys.
It overcomes That Tired Feeling, Creates an
Appetite, and gives great mental, nerve,
bodily, and digestive strength.
Hood's Sarsaparilla la sold by all druggists.
91; six for IS. Prepared only by C. L Hood
* Co.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
N.B. If jou decide to take Hood's 8arsapa>
rllla do do! be induccd to buy any other.
100 Doses
One Dollar
ATTEND 7
fust lain?
; v At the City of V
SEPTEMBER U
Fourteen C
A Magnlllrcnt IHsular of Horses, f
ducts of the Farm nnil rlreslile.
ORAM) IULMJOS ASCENSION ,1
SEPTEMBER 8, br the Kunious JeiTel
Speed Entries Close August 81 at 1
ments Close September It.
This will be Wheeling's Most Faslilo
Address Secretary for l'reiutiiui I.lsl
EXCURSION BATES
A. REYMANN, l'resldenl. GEO. S. OTT
?U4-Ivtw
SUMMER FABRICS.
SWEEPING
REDUCTIONS!
IN
Choice Slimmer Fabrics
India and China Silks
AT REDUCED PRICES.
Black Silk Flouncing
AT REDUCED PRICES.
White -Embroidered Flouncing
AT REDUCED PRICES.
Summer Weight Debelges and Mohairs
AT REDUCED PRICES.
a few more
Childs' Fast Black Hose
Regular Made, at XOc.
sizes a to 8 1-2.
J. S. RHODES & CO,
STATIONERY, BOOKS, ETC.
Standard Fiction.
Just rtcoivrd from ROUT I.EDGE & 801*.
Publisher*. UnJon,
250 Paper Covered Novels.
Grod iy?e andpsj> jr, of the wo'1 known authors,
huch n* Victorllu^q. i n i.v. cul, MorryatJ, Aln^worth;
?v<\. ?*o, at 4) cud -iOi
Xtw hooks daily.
STANTON & DAVENPORT,
_jjrfO Sa'lttl ST irkot Street.
TYPEWRITERS AND STATIOHERYI
????
We have secured the agency for tho
Famous Remington Typewriter!
And will be ablo from now on to supply
the trade with any of their machines.
A (nil line of supplies for both tho Remington
ami Cala'grapb always kept on band.
Also a full line of BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
OFFICE SUPPLIES a specialty.
Wo will save you money if you will give us a
trial.
CABLE BROS.
JTI law MARKET STRUCT.
JJase balls, bats, masks,
GIotcs, Croqaet, Hammocks, Etc.
New* tod Litentrr Paper*. MarazIdm and
Cheap Hooks. Pltufmrxh Dinpatcn, Dully lie
jut week; Mc Including Sunday.
C. II. Qt'IMBY.
Je27 Hit Market street
DRUGGISTS.
THE "PRINCESS"
HondAoho Powdor?.
CTTRF5J IN TEN MINUTES.
?Fobsau: BY X>bl'ccuts.?
mitt
PHOTOGR A PHY;
pKEE !
Tills Wo?i Only.
OXE 8x10 FRAME
with every do en Cabinet Photograph*.
JyCO H1QQ1NS' GALLERY.
CHINA, GLASS &QUEENSWARE.
ipHE GATE CITY WATER F1LTEK,
S?ly Fano,
Fruit iTarn,
J" oily O-laaaos,
At JOHN FRIEDEL'S.
107 llWitolnSiiwt.
PICTURES It ART MATERIALS.
jq-EW bTOCK
Fresh Blue Print Paper
'HE GREAT
mail State Fair!
Reeling, W. Ya.,
?
9,10 anill, '91
ireat Races.
sttlo. Sheep, Snlno, Poultry nnil ProSi)
PARACHUTE JUMP, TUESDAY,
I Ilrothers.
t p. hi. Entries In sill Other Departnnir.e
Krent nf tlie Season.
: or Otlier Infuriiintiuii.
OX ALL RAILWAYS.
E, Secretory. CEO. HOOK, Treasnrer.
WANTED.
WANTED?EXPERIENCED KIKICMEN.
Wnew J1 W. nor (lay. Apply Mt
WHKELlNfi STEEL WORKS. U.'nwood. W. Va.
\VANTED-PERSQXS TO BUY
TT valuable patent rlpbt territory In tlio
State of Went Virginia. Important. Addrrv,
Box Mi. Hellnlrg. Ohio. Jy 1 r__
WANTED-FOR THE UNITED
STATES ARMY, able-bodied, unmarried
men. between the age* of 21 and SS year*. Good
pay. rations, clothing.and medical attendant.
Applicant* nrnat be prepared to fttrnl<h ?atl?factory
evidence its to age, character and huliita.
Apply at 1131 Main street. Wheeling, W. Va.
W A 10 ,he PinleM CTctVeg
.., . J. ljn*: the only Imeenr invented that
holds the clothe* without pius: a refect incnu:
patent recently mticd: fold only by a^enti. to
whom the exclusive rijfht I* pivrn: on receipt of to
cent* wa will wind a sample line by mail; aho cir.
cubn: price list and term* to air*nt?; ftcure your
t-mtory at once. Addrc?? Th* l*inle?a Mothc*
L.IU0 Co., *7 Hermon Street. Worce?ter, Man.
myTTwia
pENTLEMEN OF FIRST-CLASS
vn V44I'll' 41J U-3 WIKIIII..XIB IUU II1U?U tlin.'iiit
contract* lor exclusive charge of territory, ai
general agent* f??r the National Assured llulld*
Tub Loam and Con*ol Axsociatlon. Requkitt-*.
ability to handle the business successfully mil
tlrst-cla** reference. Addre?. DIKKlTOH ??F
AUENTIES. P. O. box Cg. cavannah. <ia. iyl^
FOR R5NT.
JfOR RENT.
A largo Buslnc? Room now being constructed,
fronting C7 feet on Main street, the Mime on Market
>puare and 'J? feet on Tenth meet. If it
i-auuot be reuted a* a whole It will t>c divided
to suit tenant*. The ccllnrand the second story,
both belli?tamo dimensions us the storeroom,
are also for rent, inquire of
JAMEW L. IIAWLEY.
JeOI No. HJQ Main &reet
FOR SALE.
I70R SALE, CHEAP?FOOR ROOM?
ED house and lot. inquire of WILLIAM
MAD1.LL. Tlltonvjlle. Jefferson county. 0. )?2i
A FIRST-CLASS JEWELRY STOKE.
The only one In a town of 1,200 population.
hlcgont furniture. Stock and furniture all new.
Repairing trade per month. Must be sol 1
on account of the death of one of the owner*.
Will give all the tliuo wanted. J. B. D., Nu ll
Sixteenth ?twt, Wheeling. J
"gTOCKSfOKSALE
:<) Ibarra ^itno Iron and f teel Co.
20 shares Hank of the Ohio Valley.
10 shore* Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
15 shares I'eol?ody Insurance Co.
10 shore# Wheeling Ice and Storage Co.
20shares l.nHollo Nail Mill.
8) shores Wheeling I'otter}* Co.
R. S. IRWIN.
_Jy29 Broker. No. 24 Twelfth stn-ft.
Stocks, bonds and keal is
TATE FOR 8ALK.
2"? chares Street Railway.
CO shares Wheeling Pottery.
lo shores Commercial liana.
'A short's Jeflersou Insurance Co.
20 shores rraukltn Insurance Co.
20 shores Warw ick China Co.
A building lot on Sb'ith f'hapllne street.
THOMAS O'BRIKN. Broker.
Telephone -fO. No. 1147'$ Main Street
J^UK a.iLh.
A forty acre fruit farm, one and a half mifei
north of at ClaiwYllle, 0.. oa tho Athena pike.
Inquire of
GEORGE ROBIXSOX,
Red Estate Asrent.
JylO Martin'* ferry Oh la
QLD AND RARE VIOLINS
FOR SHLE
Prof. Tm has left two very fine oM violin*
with us to dispute of. One a copy of tho Stradiviirins
model, the other a Stelner model. AN)
a^Uverplated K flat Cornet, made by II. L?inert.
Tlieac imtrumenm are offered at banralua
jol , F. W. HAl'MKK .v f >
Jj^OR SALE
LARGE LOT.
corner Market and Twenty-fourth ?trcct*; dosi
ruble for xnamifacturlng site.
SEVEN ACRES
near Elm Grove; desirable for gardening
\V V !ffn:K x- into.
__de6 \ 1300 Market at reo t _
SALE OF VALUABLE CITY PltOl'EKTY.
J will k-JJ *f prirafu wi'e the followlu?e
property belonging to the <itate of llobert
ounr>be!l. deceased, to*Wlt: The llobert? ami*
Ml liotnertcad. No. 11 South I'enn street. tuo
property occupied by Mr. J. B. Mol?o. corn? r
.-outh lVun and Zone street*; the wmt half "
lot -W In Ii. Time's, addition uii the north ?ide o.
Virginia nrwt, occupied bv IL It. Hurt, druse >t.
Mini otner tcimnta; house So. Jfi on ea*t side ?
eoutb Pt-nn Mrt?t. occupied by Mr. Samuel '
hon*o No.n on $ame street, cawttpled by Mr
I Charles J. Welty, and house NaJUnu Mmes'tew.
i occupied by Mr. John I'. Wraith. Knr prices and
t"mi? apply at the offlce of Caldwell A Cal dwell.
' attonieya-atdaw, over German lutik. Wheeling;
! V,-. V*. ALFRED CAU'WEI.I.
i jyio Adiuinl?^rnt??r._
LEGAL NOTICES.
IN THE COUNTY OOUKTOF OHIO
COUNTY, WEST V1ROINIA.
Inthu matter of the application foredmU-don
to probate of * paper writing. t urjnrtltig ?*
the lait trill of t.e? rge W. l^ig.ugt in. debased*
with a codicil thereto. -t ,, .
Tbo object of the petition this dsv filed" to
Srocure the probwte of n rertalo paper *rlttfi-.
mIih! lh? '?lth iliv Af V<ir?iinl>f?r. 1V Cl liUrtM,,?"
J in? to!* the Umi trill of itoorfa W. fcdtfinrt"SU
deceased: and of certain otber P<?lor wriuujr.
dated the 4tbd?y?t Jun.?, UJVl. purporting 10
be ? codicil to Ntfd wlil. And It approriHK V
affidavit fllrd thnt tbc following iunicd|cr ou?
Interested In ?ach probate are non-mldeiiw g?
the male of-Went Virginia, vl?: N?jcy
*w?. Hurtmsr Kd*lnctou. Johti F. Edftngwn.
K'ixubfib Uw> autl ? law*, ber bom??o.
whn#e tlrrt name 1? rtnknown: WeharaMOTi;
n'tJ-Wwfeo'>'tS&cw! UuSSa TttrK^
hatband. SSkln!Si ?ohtlwn. 'it to Vjawg
lie city of
aloNM d. within ot* month after ?be dale*
Ibe dm publication of thU order and 4o?W ^
nwr bo seocourr 10 j.mtrct their oietw:iu .
Mid matte^ AM notice \* hi r l y |
to hmr and drf'cnnitir 1J.1? ?pj.ligation ^