Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-19

their capitalstock amongst their shareholders, or
those representing them. This was as unjust
to the creditors of the company as it was con-
trarY to the plain enactment of the Code of
Virginia To what amount the funds of the
company were thus absorbed, we do not know;
we have only ascertained that no such payments
of interest were made after the year 1856.
"PEpslN, CONE AGAIN. I've scarcely ever
open one of our neighborhood exchanges,
Csome good some bad and some indifferent,)
but what there drops out flaming circular,
lsctting forth the astonishing skill and miracu-
:lous cures of one Dr. Hardman, the celebrated
tAnaly tical or Indian Botanic Physician" We
arc attracted by such headings as this, and
read:
'Joy for the afflicted Hope for the Des-
bonding Glad Tidings for the Rich and the
Poor!"
The Doctor is in trouble Somebody is doing
him dirt, and he tells the 'joyful afflicted" the
particular sort of dirt that is done him. unocr
the head of "Caution -
'The vast number Of imposters calling them
selves doctors" wandering through the coun-
try representing themselves as associated with
me-or using any medicines, or doctoring the
order to protect myself and the public from
imposition, to caution the sick. /"
The Indian Botanic Physician has got some
Of his imitators on thc hip, and threatens to
iced "a: the grudge he bears them:
al have the names OF IRE of the offenders,
and now warn them, no longer to copy the
matter of my circulars, pamphlets, or any OF
my published writing, or ! will drag their
names to the light of day and gaze of an abused
public.
Here is something for the ears of "the ma
Zines intended to have a deusive effect. The
Doctor soourneth among the poor Indians,
whose untutorcd minds sccth God and heareth
Him in the Winds
81 have spent much time and money in
gathering from the Red man the knowledge
which enable them to combat diseases so sue
cessfully, with their own people and others
The DIR. pcrambulateth six summers through
out forty shires and prcscribcth for a vast num-
Der OF consumptives, with miraculous sue
cess.
have Travelled over six years and pre-
scribed for over 10000 people, with what sue
cess leave the public to Judge. also have ut
the present time some 2200 patients in the forty
counties that | visit. In no instance have
found patients to fail Of being rccveCl-cvcn
All this would sound to a casual observer like
humbug or Pepsin come again, but ace arc sat.
islied OF course, that the circular is all true,
SSand believing the doctor to be a great public
benefactor, we give him the benefit OF the above
= elegant extracts" free gratis, for nothing. Be
sides seeing his determination "to drag TO the
light Of day and the gaze Of an abused public,
those unconscionahe scamps who "doctor tho
same way doctor IIarClman tocs," we Just
thought we'd turn in and help him. Hope nc
offence
GrR Eastern exchanges copy from China pa
pers the details of the massacre at Bornco. II
= cSIslcu among rrcrmatrvcs ut the cecli6n CT tho
new Sultan, who was not tic lncal descendant
Of their late ruler but had been adopted by him
as u son; and conspiracy was formed to dupcsc
him. at the head of a conspiracy was II certain
Allng, native Of Muning, who aspircd TO the
sovereignty .of Embarrassing. The flag the
consplrators was unfurled on May LIST, and the
European workmen employed in the coal mines
Of Julia llermina, belonging TO joint stock
company, and situated near Kalagan, were sud
denly attacked, overpowered, and brutaily muir.
dercd, with the exception oftwo or three wo.
--''i "'io lAlt1ildSGo ID conceal themselves with
their children. In another part of the island
the massacre of the Europeans was general and
simultaneous. Among the unfortunate victims
at this brutal and wholesale murder arc five
German missionaries (Messrs. Hammer, Rott,
Weigand, Kind, and lIormestcr] with their
wives and children. The total number of EII-
'ropeans murdered and missing is between 70
~ letter from Paris TO an Eastern exchange,
ays-"Everything looks like settling down
again, as Pater Familias says after the holiday
tlln was over, al nthc perspective sweating Of
the brow begins once more. Soldiers arc find
ing their way back to France; the artillery
which had been got from the various arsenal, Is
slowly retracing its steps, and as the rattle of
The wagon meets the ear, many rush to eetza
peep at the formidable big guns whose range
has been so fatal to the .iustrians. EVERYTHING
in the form of public demonstration is bcin@
nnrsed till the 10Th Of August, wien the Ernper.
ors fete will be lsop. under circumstances total-
~ unprecedented in his annals"