BLOOD-SUCKING USURERS.
One of the greatest curses to the
largest sized towns and small sized
citics in the country are the heartless
usurers ? the men that hang around j
law offices and take adavntage of the
necessities of the poor, the unfortunate
and the enterprising ? who rob the arm
of industry week days and insult the
Almighty by trying *o pray it off their
souls on Sundays ? who even dare to
appease the wrath of an offended and
just God with petty bribes, in the shape
of donations for charitable purposes
from their blood money. For your
hir^e town and small city miser wants
the world to consider him a "respecta
ble" man ? his intense selfishness
prompts h'm to keep a sharp lookout
for all the pleasant spots either on
earth or in heaven ? and it is alike a
musing and painful to see the strug
gles between his ambition for social
and moral position and his avarice. ?
Men like these gloat over their dollars,
wrenched, "according to law," from
the enterprising mechanic and manu
facturer and the hardy laborer, whom
they have turned out of business and
cast on the world, oftentimes homeless
and moneyless. If there be any spot
in hell more profoundly deep and hot
than another, it is where the shyster,
the miser and the hypocrite will be
found ? the blight and curse of every
community in which they lived on
earth, and the despised and rejected of
Iieaven when they shall come to the
judgment of a just God.
We have in our mind's eve, as we
write, a few Western cities, that arc
fair and beautiful to the view, and blest
with great natural advantages; but
?cursed with a superabundance of un
patriotic and miserly sharks and shav
ers, that rest like a nightmare upon
them and paraljze their prosperity. ?
Those of them who have become rich
through meanness and extortion, give
tone to a popular sentiment as perni
cious to the general prosperity as the
.loxious exhalations of the Upas tree
are to general health. Where con
crete meanness and dishonesty is held
at a premium by leading citizens, in a
community of a few thousand inhabi
tants, what can be expected from the
young, the thoughtless and others who
constitute the masses of their people?
The usual result is an acquiescence, if
r.ot an indorsement of the degrading
idea that the many are made merely
to be pigeoned, plucked and rode over
by the hcarless few who own and con
trol the corporations, and sometimes
even the courts. In such a communi
ty, integrity, intelligent efiort and en
terprise have no chance. The cities
shrivel up, real estate is depressed and
valueless, and the skinflints themselves
are not half as well ofl" as they would
have been if they had spent hall* the
amount of time and money in aiding
arid encouraging the industrious and
energetic business citizens that they
had spent in laboring to embarrass
and ruin them.
A Night Ride in tho Caboo3e.
The car is a short caboose, fashion
ed like a small, ill-shaped back kitch
en, and has no more wheels than a
one horse wagon, which gives it an un
easy and suggestive sway on the track.
A brakeman sits with his head Swung
out at a window. The conductor sits
with his watch in his hand. Nobody
has any business there at all. The en
gineer is doing his best to make a dis
tant station, and get upon the side
track before the Express wants the
road. You find this out by decrees.
It makes you feel light, but not airy. ?
The kitchen rocks like a cradle lor a
dozen rods and then bounces the light
out and the water- barrels over and
your hat oil", and the stove rattles like
a smithy in a driving time. Then it
gathers itself up like a salient goat,
and bounces against the bumper of the
next car, and something snaps. No
matter. The train swings around a
curve, and you feel as you did years
ago when you were the last bov on the
string in the game of "snap-the-whip."
You steady your lower jaw a little^
and ask the conductor if he is going
to stop before he stops for good, to
wit: meets the Express, and he says
"Genesee!" It occurs to you that he
has mentioned the very place you are
bound for, though you never heard it
before. The conductoi informs you
it is safe to bet we are "just dusting,"
and you believe him? the only safe
thing about the train. It is thirty
miles an hour. Another head is hung
nut of a window, and you think you'll
try to count fence-posts. It doesn't
happen to be a fence, but a stockade;
and as for telegraph-poles, you have
seldom observed then thicker to the
mile. You look forward, and see
lights down the track. Drawing in
ike a turtle, you tell the conductor. ?
"What is it, joe?" and the brakeman
replies, "NothinV The conductoi
puts his watch to his ear. Has it stop
nod? With rattle and roar the engi
neer keeps lunching the train into the
midnight. A shi ill shriek of the loco
motive whistles you up, and you ore
on your feet like a cat. The brake
man runs up his little iron ladder, the
*peed slackens, the train comes to a
dead halt. It is Genesee, and one
grateful passenger leaves that frantic
caboose to set foot in it, like l'oe's ra
ven, "nevermore." ? [B. F. Taylor.
Postal Suggestions. ?
Tiie "Fat Contributor" is dissatis
fied with some of the decisions of the
Post-ofilcc Department, and submits
"a few improved rulings" of his own
concoction :
Monthly magazines, published week
ly, must be charged letter postage
when delivered daily. Powder maga
zines, except to regular subscribers,
are not permitted to frank their re
ports.
If no stamp is affixed to a letter, re
tain it. If, however, the postage is
overpaid, letter rip!
If you feel any doubt about a paper
going with a one-cent stamp, have two
scr.t. Seeds can go through the mails
as merchandise. The postmasters are
cautioned against allowing any old
seeds to go through their mails, how
ever.
Signs cannot be sent without pay
ing letter postage, three cents on every
letter.
Calico prints, any foreign prince,
reprints and. footprints, all go as print
ed matter, and paj tax accordingly. ?
Vaccine matter must be properly
(pock) marked.
Poetry in its various stages, includ
ing the Edgar A. Poe stage, must be
sent postpaid, whether it ever paid to
read it or not.
A postmaster is not permitted to
make any material change in the site
of his postoflicc without affixing a
two-ccnt stamp for every two ounces.
He cannot charge double postage for
a sight of the post-master.
Shirts may be mailed at the rate of
two cents for every ounce of shirt. ?
If the owner's name is on the shirt,
letter postage must be charged. This
rule is indelible.
A subscriber residing in the county
in which a paper is prirtted can take
the paper, provided he pays in advance
and urges his neighbors to subscribe.
If he docs not live in the county in
which he resides, and the paper is not
printed in the same connty where it
has its prcsswork done, then the coan
ty must pay double postage on the
man ? we mean a two-cent county must
be affixed to every postage.
Editois of newspapers and their
families shall be allowed to pass free
in the mails.
A Kansas paper gives the following
report of a Judge's sentence, lately
passed on a criminal: "Brumley, you
infamous scoundrel! You're an unre
deemed villian ! You hain't a single
redeeming trait in your character. ?
Your wife and family wish we had
sent you to the Penitentiary. This is
the fifth time I've had you before me,
and you have put me to more trouble
than your neck is worth. I've exhor
ed and prayed over you long enough,
you scoundrel. Just go home and
take one glimpse at your family, and
be off in short order! Don't let's ever
hear of you again! The Grand Jury
have found two other indictments a
gainst you, but I'll discharge you on
your own recognizance, and if I ketch
you in this neck of woods to-morrow
morning at daylight, I'll sock you
right in jail and hump you off to Jef
fersonville in less than no time, you in
famous scoundrel! If ever I catch
you crossing your finger at man, wo
man or child ? white man or nigger ?
I'll sock you right square into the jug!
Stand up, you scoundrel, while I pass
sentence on you !"
The other day, at a concert, a gen
tleman having put his hat upon a chair
to keep a place, returned to claim it
after a short absence. The hat he
found, sure enough, where it had been
left, only there was a stout lady sitting
on it. "Madame," said he, "jou are
eitting on my hat." The lady blushed
a little, turned round, and said in the
blandest manner: "Oh, I beg your
pardon! I'm sure I thought it was
my husband's."
A jema'e Savior is creating a pro
digious sensation in the southern part
of the Russian Empire. She claims
to be the daughter of God, selected to
suffer for the redemption of ner sex,
in the same way that Christ died for
the salvation of man. She professes
to be able to heal the sick, give sight
to the blind, and raise the dead.
Six comets have been discovered bv
tiie astronomers since April 3d, and it
has not been a particularly good year
for comets, either.
"Remember the poor," and send us
a turkey for our New Year's dinner,
is what Kansas editors say.
'-pIIE
VOLCANO
Lubricat'r
IS PUBLISHED AT
VOLCANO, W. VA
GEO. P. SARGENT.
$2.oo per year, inva
riably in advance.
NOW IS Tin: TIME TO SUB
SCRIBE !
SEND IN THE NAMES.
ADVERTISE!
IN TH1C
LUBRICATOR. '
Mlsccllan y.
^ E. SMITII,
PRACTICAL
Watchmaker \ Jeweler
Court St., I'arkcrsburg, West Va.
Is offering unusual bargains, viz:
Fine Gold Opera and Gents' Chains a
$1.25; iS Carat Finger-rings at $1.50
per penny weight. Raymond Move
ments in fine cases at .$65 a piece, and
every other article in proportion.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, & c., care
fully repaired and warranted.
Please call and examine my stock.
w
ANTED?
AN ENGINE,
The undersigned desires to trade a
FARM OR FIRST CLASS PROP
ERTY, in the town of Cairo, West
Virginia, on 13. & O. R. R., (or a
25 or 30 Horss Power Steam
Engine.
An y one desiring to negotiate such
a trade will address, with price,
J. W. CLARK,
Clover Dale, Doddridge Co.
West Virginia.
T. DEVORE,
WATCHES,
CLOCKS
JEWELRY,
SPECTACLES, NOTIONS, &c.
Watches and Clocks repawed and
varrantcJ. Every watch or clock
jld warranted for one .year..
Tobacco and Cigars of the finest
urands; Tips and Wheeling stogies.
Italian strings, Cartridges, &c.
Orders promptly attented to and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Raymond st, next door to Lubricator.
VOLCANO, WEST VA.
. PHCENIX FIRE
Insurance Company,
Olf
Tin rtford, Con nect icut.
The 127th Financial Statement of the j
r n (E x 1 x
on the first day of January, 1S73.
Cash on hand, and in hank. ?3f>3-3Si 1,1
U. S. anil State stocks and bonds, i2o,S.(2 50
Loans on approved securities, 5<3,6jS .jo
Hartford Rank stocks, 473t7?? 00
New York Bank stocks 33,.) 00 00
Miscellaneous Hank stocks, 5-, >>50 00
Corporation & U.K. stocks, bonds, 275,261 03
City and water bonds, 178,470 00
Ileal Estate, TO'012 -t"
Cash assett). $1, 582,6(6 55
Tota liabilities, $235,720 73,
Siiakkr & Stern, Ag'ts.
Volcano. West Va. |
JOHN SCHAFER
BAKERY, CONFECTIONARY
And First-class Groceries.
OYSTERS,
Raymond street opposite post office.
Volcano, Wot Va. tf
XI c 11 O L A S 11 0 u S E ,
GEORGE II. NICHOLAS, PROPRIETOR
Voi.cano, West Virginia.
The patronage of the travelling public is
rospcctlully solicited.
Volcano, November at, iSjJ.-tf
T M. BENEDICT,
Manufacturer of
Sucker Hods and Boring Poles
I have on hands at all times a large assort
ment ol" the very best in the market.
J. M. Benedict,
Volcano, Wood county West Va. juncfi-71
Physician & Surgeon,
VOLCANO , WOOD COUNTY,
H. SHARP, M. D.
West Virginia.
The Mansion House
MARIETTA OHIO.
SA3PL E. LEWIS, Prop.
Tifis elegant house has
just been opened in strictly first
rlafs style, having been thoroughly refitted
inside and out. Contains some ol the finest
sample rooms in tlie'city ; and Ms delightfully
situated on the Ohi<? river, convenient to the
steamboat landing and railway station,
jun# 2 -St.
GO TO
SHAFER & STEEN
For Your
DRY GOODS
GROCERIES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
UARD WAR E, TIN WARE,
QUEENSWARE, NOTIONS, LADIEk
Hats, Ribbons, Gents furnishing goods, Ready
Made Clothing, Hoots Shoes, Wall Taper
Carpets, Hats, Caps, Mining Powder, etc.
If you wantja good lit, for a suit of clothes,
For a pair of boots, or for a fashionable shirt,
cut low in the neck, be accommodated by
leaving your measure at the store of
april 29 ly. SHAKER & STEEN.
'VOLCANO '
COAL BANK
|
Coal Delivered at^Summit of
mu,
or on the line of the
Laurel Fork and Sand Hill
llailroad and Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad,
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
IF. C. STILES, Jr?
General Agent, Volcano, \V, Va.
apwo'yitf
"WOLCAN1C
Oil 8c Coal Company,
NewDominion Oil Co.
LAUREL FORK
Oil & Coal Company,
Producers r?l
HEAVY AND LIGHT
West Virginia Oils.
o
\\\ C. STILES, Jr., <?en. Actf
\ olc?r?o, Wood Co.. W . Vi.
Volcano A d vertisanen ts ,
11. II. Thomas. Wm.JSciiili.inc?
Wm.W.Bowin.
?yHOMAS, SCHILLINGS: CO.,
Will cell you all kinds ol
Groceries & Produce
AS CHEAP AS1 HE CHEAPEST,
And invite their friends of White Oak nnd
vicinity to call and examine their large
and extensive stork
^HOMAS, SCHILLING & C<K
? DEALURS *1 >C ?
D R Y GO O D S
Special bargains'.!!*;
DRESS GOODS ,
HOSIEM', GLOVES ,
UNDERWEAR,
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
NAPKINS,
TOWELS-,
TABLE LINEH
Just rcccirctl th? largest and best suUctffrt
stock of Dry Goods ever bronght in thin mar
ket, consisting ot
LAWNS,
ALPACAS,
SURGE PLAIDa
MOHAIRS,
BROCADES,
POPLINS^
SILK POPLIN RKPP.
ALL WOOL DELAINS,
C1IAMBRAS,
GINGHAMS,
JAPANESE EMBROIDERED
MOIIAIRSJ
BROWN AND BLEACHED
MUSLINS. CALICOES,
and in tact everything In tha Dry Goods lin<%
and altogether the nicest lot'of goods
tobe found in Volcano, which they
will sell at nnprecedentod
LOW PRICES!
Cull Had oiouWna.
rjPHOMAS, SCHILLING & CO.,
Ooneral Deaiors in
NOTIONS!!
BOOTS, SHOES,
READY MADE CLOTHING
HATS. CAPS,
u large and general assortment of
Hardware, Stationery,