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L. XXXIV.?NO X.
CLARKSBURG. W. A.,
1 the Development of \\)est Virginia's Resources
TW-?*1
MEMBER 30. 1834. j WHOLE NO. 1761
ORT ARTHUR.
sptnre of tbe Great Clime
al StruDttholfl ii at Last
Officially Confirmed.
ips, With Their Usual Mili
ry Intrigues, Outgeneral
Their Adversary.
L'liiurxe Knufrlit Dmperatelj.
iui.noton, 0. C.?Tbe State
ment his the following brief
jam from Minister IJenby at
?t Arthur taken 22d."
Navy department received
lowing cablegram this morn
m Admiral Carpenter, under
Cliefoo, November 23d:
?t Arthur fell 21st. Baltimore
for there to-day."
fall of Port Arthur has been
id so many times that some
ion was felt in accepting the
ntil it received official con.
on in the above yesterday
K' It will be observed that
inese garrison mado * stout
>. This was only what was
.looked for. I.'; ever the
Lmight have been, expected
h and garrisoned by at least
thousand men who had no
of safety except by viotory
0 were defending the great,
rsenal of Northern China,
now over a month ago that
cond Japanese army, under
1 Oyama, sailed from Hioshi
i sealed orders. The troops
i'l to number thirty thousand,
ll'th of Ootober a special
ancient at Shanghai telepraph
' fifteen thousand Japanese
under Marshal Oyatna, were
e<l across Regent's Sword
<ory, to the north of Port
and within sight of that
tronghold. A week later a
'"I landing?probably the
of "yama's troops?appears
lieen effected on the shores
'n bay, to the northeast of
ftliur, and measures were im.
ily taken to invest the place
lely by land and sea.
'"panose lleet was kept in
ss outside, and torpedoes
id down. On October 30th
(ram was received from Min
'"by, at Pekin, announcing
'?re of one of the forts at
tlitir by the Japanese. Next
' ' lerald's correspondent at
?' reported the capture of a
Everything was done
'be net as close as possible
(l? place, and now finally it
have fallen in its entirety
''Huds of Japan.
I,e ' ''inese earlier made any
<e adequate efforts to save
it seems impossible that
ccess should have been
1 by the Japanese with such
"ve ease. The first fatal
made in allowing
"jama to land his troops
eninsula, for Port Arthur,
8 it is to seaward, is relative.
1 ?n the land side. But
"eet had suffered terribly in
e of the Yalu, and, although
readiness and under orders
Port Arthur before the
>f Ootober, it was too com.
'emoralized to venture upon
'Delusions once more with
'y'? cruisers. Thus it came
144 'he delicate operation of
I large army upon hostile
iccompliahed by the Japan
;ut lile slightest molestation,
Mind greatest step was
taken toward the capture of the
arsenal.
The last trustworthy report as to
the garrison was that twenty thous
and Chinese troops, well armed,
well drilled and fully, provisioned,
occupied the defences. The major
ity of the six thousand persons who
iived in the town in times of peace
moved away several weeks ago.
Three English officers have said
within the last month that the fall of
Port Arthur would probably end the
war.
Origin of Xnrscrr Rhymes.
"Three Blind Mice" is a music
book of 1609.
"A Froggie Would a Wooing
Go" was licensed in 1650.
"Little Jack Horner" is older
than the seventeenth cetury.
"Pussy Cat, jEJussy Cat. Where
Have You Been ?" dates from
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
'?Boys and Girls Come Out to
Play" dates from CharleG II, as
does also "Lucy Locket Lost
Her Pocket."
"Old Mother Hubbard," "Goo
sey, Goosey Gander," and Old
Mother Goose" apparently date
back to the sixteenth century.
"Cinderella," '-Jack the Giant
Killer," "Bluebeard" and "Tom
Thumb" were given to the world
in Paris in 1607. The author was
Clarence Parrault.
"Humpty-Dumpty" was a bold
bad Baron who lived in~ the days
of King John, and was tumbled
from power. His history was
a riddle, the meaning
n egg.
'o!k,'i
land Wood',In the fifteenth i
tury. An old house in the neigh?
borhood is still'pointed out upon
a mantle-piece in which is carved
the entire history.
The Gold Bonds Awarded.
Washington, 1). C., Nov. 20.?
Secretary Carlisle to-day acted in
the matter of the allotment of the
$50,000,000 5 per cent, bonds, bids
for which were opened at the Treas
ury Department Saturday. He ac
cepted the proposals submitted hy
the syndicate represented by John A.
Stewart, of the United States Trust
Company of New York, and others,
to take the entire issue at 117.077.
It is tlm expectation of the Treasury
officials that the deposits of gold for
the payment of the bonds will be
made very promptly, and, as the un
derstanding is that none of tie gold
is to be taken from the Treasury, an
early restoration of the gold reserve
to above the $100,(XX),000 mark will
be the result. The bonds, including
premium, will realize to the Govern
ment about $58,500,000.
The Humored Conference.
Washington, I). C There are
rumors here to the effect that a con.
ference between Mr. Cleveland and a
number of the leading Members of
the House may be held soon in the
intersts of obtaining harmonius ac
tion upon financial legislation, or, at
least, for the prevention of another
public demonstration of the woeful
lack of harmony which prevailed in
the party ranks during the last ses
sion. There is no apparent reason
for belief in these rumors, and none of
of the Congressmen already here
know anything definite of such a
scheme. In fact, there will be no
getting together on financial matters
unless the entire basis is radically
changed from that which was mani
fest during the first and second ses
sions of the Fifty-third Congress.
Everybody knows of Mr. Cleve
land's well-grounded hostility to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at a ratio of IK to 1. and there has as
yet been no indication that Bland,
Hatch, Bryan, Livingston, and all the
other silverites who will be here this
winter have changed front or will re
frain from again attempting all kinds
of silver legislation from coining the
seigniorage to the regular free coin,
sge act.
Ttie Bible
flt)d Ingersoll.1
AN ACROSTIC.
Robber of the only faith,
Offers nothing in its place.
Blinded leader of the blind.
Enslaved himself, enslave* mankind.
Ridiculous, revolting, is hi* plea,
Though lawyer, logician vrould he be.
Invalid already is hi* ease;
No chance for him to win the race.
Greed, ambition, is his aim,
Enlarge his coffers, win his name.
Regrets, remorite will surely come, I
Sorrow and shame will be bis doom.
One Book, one faith, triumphant is; :
Life, liberty, offers
Look, and live.
?J. V. lh<rin,nt. I
Ingersoll 1ms again attacked!
the Bible and in several recent
lectures to large ntidiences at
tempted to prove that it was not
inspired?not scientific and not
moral.
"The Bible will survive Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll as it survived
those surperior antagonists, Vol
taire, Pain and Renan, As a
history alone it is the most valu
able book in existence. The
works of Herodotus, Livy, Taci
tus and of Gibbon, to whom In
gersoll alludes, do not compare
with it. The Bible brings dow|j
to us from remote ages the be
liefs of our -distant, ancestry,
fashioned from the chaos of tra
dition by sages of the Hebrew
race. In its older books the 1
mtby the relics of Assy
ria and Babylon, and even by the
rude folklore of the American
Indian. The laws set forth for
the ancient Jews were severe,
but compared with the laws and
customs of other nations of the
time, they were distinctly hu
mane and liberal. Many of the
Psalms, parts of the book of Job
and numerous passages in the
prophetical bonks, are, by the
universal consent of scholarship,
absolutely unapproachable in
their grandeur of diction and
their sublimity of thought. The i
Old Testament is full of instan
ces of tenderness and mercy, of
kindness to man and even to the
the at ranger
well as those
?the Old to the
[nt it is not nn ex
fo suy that all is
I that is good and
[ghtening and civil
ianity, is a faithful
liat l>ook which has
?or many hundreds
[iiiessage of peace on
(id will to men. For
ich Colonel Ingeruoll
tin-, persecutions, the
tjje intolerance now
issingaway, 110 warrant
nd in the teachings of
llim wlio told Peter to put away
inl. who enjoined the
jt charity to the poor, and
fe on earth was an in
jlble example of gentle
self-sacrifice. To the
fctious of wur common
|md not .to any fault of
| that for eigh
Iturics has been a bulwark
[ I morals, human brother
I [human hopes are due
[and awful episodes wliich
t Christian of the pres
[[irrespective of dognia,
WXbe human race us it
toward i>erfection, as
1 more liberal and less
nd bigroted, is gradually
ilnc. instead of departing
i golden rule set forth in
t of Books which Colonel
lils. but the esteem
110ns the vast majori
litoned mankind he
npair."?A'i.
man & ^'oumans, attorneys for*
I nited States Senator M. C. Butler,
to-dny petitioned the Supreme
Court to enjoin the State Treasurer
I salaries of County
igistration, on the
registration law is a
nited States Consti
is believed to mean
that Butler wilffclaim that the State
Legislature, which elects his suc
cessor and which meets tomorrow,
was illegally elected, and also that
he will obateet the Senatorial elec
tion iu tjie I nited States Senate if
Tillman (defeats him.
IMF"'
^ button shoes worth 12
now sdMb at $1.25 at David
DavidsqH 4 (it!
i nave uruugm '-IfF
joy to ninny
readers o f the
Telegram. I a m
as you see, now only ?
a g h ? s t. I died for you?
pray what more could you ask
of me. I was once a peculiarly
? peckled egg recli ning in a no't
n est unconscious of what, my fu
ture would be. 1 next was hate hed
and found myself a b 1 e t tJ in o v e. ' i . wee
pin-feathered orphan I agiinit my will
became, to struggle for existence a n d to get
there all t h e same; and no w.?tho* lots of
hungry cats and other things 1 - J <
change my glorious destiny?I
Pride. I am, indeed, the Nat
Turkey is my name, and ovei
heralded my fame, 'and
?just at present?for my
happiness o n Thant'
Day we celebrate I
them round and
i e d to
t i o n ' s
e. King
ughty land is
jects love me
ing them with
Yes. on that
the brim and make
latured with a vim,
when they arc so
thank-FULL that
they're happy
I the hero of
the day
love to
be.
V
Bo We Ode It ?
The Virginia Debt Again At
The Front.
The Virginia debt question is
again being agitated. Virginia
was heavily in debt at the time
West Virginia became a separate
State, and she held that the new
State should pay one-third of
this debt The claim is absurd,
and the mafnner in which our
State has befen treated by Vir
ginia in regard to this question
has caused many of our people to
assert that/we should never pay
a cent of t^is alleged debt The
following is an extract from au
editorial in the Register on this
subject:
The Vhole scheme smells of
Wall street. A syndicate of
speculators now holds nearly the
entire $40,000,000 of so-called
West Virginia certificates, bought
for a mere song, some of them as
low as, two cents on the dollar.
If thia syndicate can succeed in
inducing West Virginia to confer
as ty a settlement on the basis
;eated by these certificates,
will be "millions in it" for
the holders.
The position of West Virginia
on the debt question has been en
tirely honorable from the first,
and to-day she stands ready to
pay her just proportion whenever
lb shall have been properly as
certained. Itwlll be remembered
that, the ordinance dividing the
e of Virginia declared that
new State was liable for a
inia as
commissioners who went to Rich
mond in performance of the duty
imposed upon them, but the Vir
ginia authorities refused to re
ceive them. The old State had
arbitrarily set aside one-third as
West Virginia's share. There
was no consultation, no explana
tion. no attempt to show the
equity of the amount; it had been
fixed by one of the parties to the
controversy and that was the end
of it. From this position Virginia
has never receeded, and until she
does all attempts at settlement
are barred. In the meantime the
Wall street syndicate will endeav
or to realize on its holdings and
its schemes will be deep and al
luring.
Princess Bismarck, wife of
Prince Bismarck, died at Varzin
at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Princess Bismarck, duchess of
Lauenburg, wife of Prince Bis
marck. bad been in poor health
for a long time. Her illness be
came pronounced about two
months ago.
? Earthquake ln_the Tyrol.
Vienna, Nov. 27.?A sharp earth,
quake shock was felt to-day al
Trient, io the Tyrol.
Another "Jack the Ripper."
London, Nov. 2t>.?A comely
woman of the unfortunate olass, about
40 years old, was found dead in a
frequented thoroughfare Jnear Hol
land Villas road, Kensington, at
about midnight. Hear throat was
cut from ear to ear, and some of the
newspapers here intimate that it is
another crime of the " Jack the Rip
per " order.
IIIf* foot In Still Sore.
Washington, Nov. 27.?As the
President is still obliged by his phy
sicians orders to refrain from using
bis sprained foot, he did not come to
town to-day, so the regular Tuesday
Cabinet meeting was abandoned,
there being no urgent business re
quiring attention.
?'Uncle" Jacob Kern, of Clin
ton district, Monongalia county,
in "halo and Iiarty" in his eighty
fourth year. He is the farther
of sventeen children, all of one
mother;' has one hundred and
fifty ? grandchildren, eighty-five
great grandchildren, and eleven
great great grandchildren, a total
of two hundred and sxty-throe,al
of whom aro living.?Ex.
llnrkliannnn.
Jerome W. Btuart has moved
into the property lately vacated
by Dr. Hurt on Jawbone.
Mrs. Elmer Wells and daugh
ter. Mona. of Clarksburg, are
visiting Huckhannon friends.
Prof. Jenkins has taken the
place left vacant in the Academy
by the marriage of Miss Weiaen
feld.
Mrs. John L. Hurst and daugh
ter, Miss Mary, have returned
home after a lengthy sojourn in
Philadelphia.?Manner.
Mrs. L. May Holt succeeds
Miss Weekly as Principal of Mu
sic Department of the Academy.
The complete returns In the
senatorial district places the ma
jority of 60" for U. G. Young
Delta.
A school house at Oak Grove.
Preston county, about four miles
from Terra Alta, was burned
down Suday night about twelve
o'clock by some unknown person.
Trouble has been brewing for
some time about having a teacher
that some of the patrons did not
want and the only way to pre
vent having school, as the
teacher was qualified to teach,
was to burn down' the school
honse, which occurred as above
ktated.
Burning school houses in West
Virginia was certainly epidemic
in the State last week.
The Court of Appeals of New
York has affirmed the conviction
of John Y. McKane, the Tam
his fall time?>1 years.
STUB KNOT OF TIOUUHT.
Tho man who rushes be/ore
the public to defend his character,
when be has been slandered by
an ass, is a fool. When an intel
ligent class of a community ask
for an explanation of the conduct
of an Individual it is then time to
explain.
Men who are vulgar, corrupt
and indecent are the men who,
having lost all self respect, will
seek to drag others down to their
own level.
Kvery human heart ought to M
a bird cage with a singing bird in
it.
It is not hard to forgive a lie
told with good intent.
Jt is said the good die young
It is known that a great many
adults are still with us.
If we did as much good as we
want others to do, the millennium
would be next door.
It makes an honest property
holder nervous to hear a fire bell
ring.
A full jail is a better sign than
an empty one.
Don t strive a man when he is
down; and don't laugh when
somebody else strikes him.
An old bachelor is the tramp of
society.
On la?t Sunday a week two
young women engaged in a most
disgraceful light near Oka, iu
this county. One girl by the
name of Bina Hunt was seriously
if not fatally hurt. A dozen or
more men stood by and did not
interfere until she was pounded
by her antagonist into insensibil
ity. She was finally helped to
her feet and brought to life aikd
she immediately set up a tirade
of profane abuse, and kept this
up for some distance along the
road and .finally fell in an un
conscious state from which she
did not recover for several hours
and the last our reporter heard,
she was in a critical condi
tion. The other girl who did the
Sullivan act was a Miss McClain,
daughter of Win. McClain.?
Calhoun Chronical.
Marshal county is now enjoying
a large sized and healthy oil
boom. About a dozen wild cat
wells are being drilled near Bar
rack ville.