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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-21

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, 1867-11-22
A Burnt Cork Claude MeInotte.

Apropos of this, a story is told of a lion who
roared here for a few days, to the admiration of
the feminine guests of the Union Hotel, and was
then suddenly shorn of his mane and king Of
the.felds- dignity.
Some weeks since, young fellow, who was
quite good looking, and had cooness and imN
pudence which passed for style, arrived from
New York; drank high priced wines; drove
fne team; wore the latest modes and large diaS
monds, aud created a sensation. He was
we'll known Ethiopian minstrel, whose troupe
was epioying a vacation in town. Several young
men, statesmen in this city, who had been snub-
bed by a certain feminine set because they were
not wealthy, conceived the idea Of introducing
the burnt. cork musician to these ladies as gen
tleman of position and fortune, anxious to hnd
wife. They impaired their intention to him,
(he was STAYING at the Clarendon) and asking
him to assume the name of J. Roland Mortimer,
carried him off to the Union and bad him intro>
duced as a fresh arrival from Paris.
The fellow who enjoyed adventure, entered
into the spirit of the thing at once, and in few
DAYS the ''eIclusiye young ladies" declared him
"perfectly splendid" He drove them out, prom'
enaded with them; hirted and played billiards
and danced with them until they became furi-
ously Jealous over each other, and INDUCED in
every possible manner to capture him; thinking
no donbt tbat be was all that was claimed for
him. They more than ever slighted the poor
salesmeu, and gave the latter to understand they
knew who was worthy OF their attention, aud
deserving their destinations.
The deception went on for more than fortnight.
The minstrel became the established beau and
gallant of the hotel. The women exhausted eu-
logy upou him, and considered him the most ac-
eomplished gentleman they had ever met. No
doubt he could have married any of them, if be
had 40 minded. But be was not. He bad had
his pleasure; and the time having arrived for
his appearance in New York, be left note poor
Iy written and worse spelled, understand, iu-
forming them who be was, and what his Voca-
tion was.
He had engagements with all Of them; but the
revt evening be left on the early train, and the
voung women, as you may conceive, were thun-
derstruck with the unexpected revelation. The
salesmeu permitted the ladies to understand
that they knew the whole affair, and INDUCED il
| ;ntimatious that confused and mortified the dam
| sells beyond expression.
The Indignant creatures vowed their brotheri
and fathers. and all their masculine relatives
,houId follow the scoundrel, horsewhiP- and
shoot him, and do everything tragieal and ter
rible. But nothing of the kind vas resorted to
for prudence and policy demanded silence.
The minstrel is singing now at one OF th'
Broadway halls, aud tells bis adventure ovei
his morning, noon and evening cocktail will
great gusto.
The revenge Of the salesmen was mean and un'
worthy; but the story shows what false and 40,
surd ideas Of merit and attraciiveness prevai
among merely fashionable women.-SdTat0g0
| norr.,nond,ness Gin efanah Commercial
, 1867-11-22

TEE CHURCH AND THE SABBATH.-This charac>
teristic feature of the FIRST day Of the week is
one of the most remarkable in the history of the
world In mountain recesses, iu rural hamiets,
in hosry eathedrals, and humble chapeis, in
ships far of on the sea, in the distant wilderness
settlement, amidst the most civilized nations
and amongst the rudest barbarians, wherever
the Christian community exists, there, as rule,
is found Christian worship on this day. From
the SHOWS of Labrador, 10 the north, to the CO.
raj Islands in the south, from the plains Of ln.
dia 10 the east, across Africa and Europe, and
on to the Rocky mountains of the far west, when
the sun ushers in this day of the Lord, it ushers
in a day of worship for all ranks and conditions
OF msu. On this day tens of thousands of Chris
tian ministers read from the Bible, and offer up
prayer in the midst Of millions who gather roHnd
them listening to their words, or joining in their
devotious, while angels bear the mighty halls-
lujah chorus Of praise rising from the earth TO
the throne of God. It is not too much to say,
that without Sunday, the church Of Christ could
not as q visible society exist on earth.
, 1867-11-22

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.-An old and highly re-
spected citizen of Mariposa, California, lately
died under circumstances that point to his wife
as the probable murderer. An editor is mixed
up in the affair, aOd owing to this fact, and the
high character of the deceased, the murder has
created very great excitement. The Stockton
Herald has the following details, as far as they
have transpired, of the thrilling tragedy:
Some Eve days after the burial of Mr. Scale,
the body was exhumed by the Coroner, DIR. TurS
ner, and the stomach taken out by several mem-
bers of the medical profession. The necessary
chemical agents for analyzing the contents of
the stomach not being accessible there, they
were sent for at San Francisco. On their arri,
val, Drs. Turner, Bedford, aud Smile, on Wed.
nesday night last, proceeded to analyze the con-
tents of the stomach, when prussic acid was
found on four separate and distinct tests. This
discovery so strongly confrmed the previous pre-.
sumption that poison had been administered
and that that poison was prussic acid, that
warrants were Immediately issued for the arrest
of the suspected parties. The suspected parties
were Scales wife, who is regarded as the belle
of Mariposa county, and is only nineteen years
of age, and Swaney, editor of the Mariposa Ga.
zete. The evidence against these two was so
strong that letter, received in this city, states
the Jury charged both with murder in the first
degree, and they were sent to Jail, no bail being
admitted. Scales wife gave him some Hamburg
tea to drink, and a few minutes after be was
dead man 1t is supposed that she attempted
twice before TO poison him, but gave him too
strong doses, as be vomited each time previous
to the third and last, when she gave him medi-
cine. A bottle that contained prussic acid was
found in the privy of her residence. In the room
of Swaney was found bill for prussic acid, -,
purchased in this city. Upon being questioned,
Swaney acknowledged to having purchased
prussc acid in Stockton, but said be intended
to take it himself; but upon further questioning,
could not tell what disease be desired it for,
aud said be had dropped the bottles but upon
being taken to the place be mentioned, no bottle
could be found. short time ago, the wife of
Swaney died suddenly, about ten days after
childbirth when she was considered in no dan
ger, and grave suspicious are entertained regard
ing her death. An improper intimacy between
Swaney and Mrs. Scale has long been suspected
in Marposa. 1t is now the intention to examine
the body of Mrs. Swaney, to ascertain the cause
of her death.
, 1867-11-22

THE EMPRESS CARLoTrA.-A gentleman mar
rates, says an English paper, the following inr
formation respecting the unfortunate Empress of
Mexico, which was communicated to him persOt 1
nally by the late King Leopold of Belgium, the
Empress's father: "Spesking of her beauty,
lshe was then but a dark, slender child,) the
King said: Il think she will be the handsomest
Princess in Europe, if that could bring happi,
ness. Then, after pause, and with the grave
smile so peculiar to!him, be added: you know
cannot Aatter myself my Queen wished to
marry me; and for myself also | will say moth, ,
ing; we both had other views But every day
since our union has taught me more and more
what an excellent and amiable person she is;
and about our children she has said many amia-
BILE things. 1t was her wish that the name of
Charlotte should be given to our daughter. She
said: Il know your heart was given to Char
lotte, Princess of England. 1t is a love with
many sad and touching memories attached to
it would like that our child should bear the
name of Charlotte; aud l pray God she may have
nothing OF the destiny of her whose name it
was, except your affections"
, 1867-11-22

HINT FOR THE LADIEs.-There is pungency
and force in the following remarks, and if ladies
would always adopt the "fsshon" of appearing
in their dress $50 that it would not excite a
thought" the freside of many a husband and
family would be far different from what it now
is. Everything pertaining to the female dress
should be neat, but nothing gaudy should be
INDUCED in it by sensible women. We never
look upon a woman decorated in the extreme
but what we make up our mind that there is
weak spot somewhere, and that If she has talents,
they are not accompanied with sufficient disere'
ton and Judgment to be available for any Prae'
tical purpose. Habits of neatness, cleanliness
and order, are indispensable to q female, II sns
have any regard to tbe comfort OF others or OF
her own. The sex are designed not only 70
extend comforts of domestic life, but to be It's
principal ornaments; an attention TO dress,
therefore. is necessary. How many females run
into the error of thinking that TO dress hnely is
,o dress weII-when the two things are different
ss nossible: for the one excites attention, and
the other avoids it, A lady who knew the dis
tinction. ordered a cap from the milliner. How
will YOU have it, madam? Make it, replied
,he LADY. go that it will not excite thought
This. 10 me, was the best definition, Of what
dress should be that ever heard. Be, then,
neat and cIeanIy in your dress, and borrow .
lesson Of instruction from this lady"
, 1867-11-22
VOLUME vi.
#alla Malla Statesman.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY EVENING, By
WILLIAM III. NEWELL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Office Statesman Building, Third Stree
q. s. Official Paper for the Territory.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION

rTERMs INVARIABLY IN ADvANCE.7Ea
, 1867-11-22
A LEGEND OF THe PACIFIC COAST.
By rnr LATE rDv1aD POLLOCK.

Southward Of our gates Of gold
An hundred leagues, as the tale is told,
There lieth, q mile below the sea,
A city that was and yet shall be;
Drowned for its sins, but yet 10 rise
As shriven souls ascend the skies.
| have been through that city in . dream;
where its turrets through the blue waves CLEAN
have stood, when the moon to the rippled wave
The ghastly ghost of sunlight gave;
Through avenues long, accnrsed By crime;
in the shadows Of the olds9 tiNsso amid
The streets where numberless things lie bid
That nameless seemed, and strange to me,
In those sunless solitudes down in the sea-
But pillar and column are standing there
Erect as they stood above in the air;
And, save that o'er all the Shiny water
A cold and glItteriug film bath cast
As northern winds, Implying, scatter
Ice on the trees as they hurry past
The mirror>like marbles untarnished shine
As when FIRST they went down in the sparkling
The waving seaweeds, rank and tall,
Like ivy, are clinging to tower and wall,
And the glitteriug dolphin and ravenous shark
Are gliding around in the chambers dark.
There the arms of the polypus are seen
Like spiders mesh in the water green,
And Thousand wonderful creatures sleep
Motionless, silently down in the deep.
There sitteth form on a marble throne,
The form of a maiden young and fair;
But the water hath turned the body to stone,
And hardened the curls of her raven hair;
Yet her full dark eyes are open, and seem
Forever to flash with a lambent beam;
But her rounded arms and bosom white,
Have deatbly cast in that sadden d light.
When the loving waves of thousand years
Shall have washed from those walls of guilt
the stain
As sin is washed out by the penitent'S tears,
That city will start from her slumber again;
And surely twill be strange to mark
Each tower as it leaves its chambers dark
Springing up into life unbound and free,
From those sunless solitudes down in the sea.
, 1867-11-22


TIMBER ON HOMESTEAD LOCATIONS CANNOT BE
SoLD.-ln answer to calls for information as to
the rights of persons to use timber on HomeI
stead entries, the Commissioner of the General
Land Office has replied as follows: "a home
stead settler has the privilege of using the tim
Der upon the land settled on by him for the ina
provement of the premises, but not for sale or
speculation. There is an erroneous impression
that the Homestead law regulates the matter
The general law for the protection of public
timber aud punishment Of trespassers thereon,
as interpreted by the Supreme Court and depart
ment regulations Hereunder, control in the
premises. Until the homestead claimant shall
have resided upon the land claimed for I'VE
years, and made final proof according to law,
and obtained bis patent, the fee simple title TO
the land is in the United States, and the timber
growing thereon must be protected the same as
other public timber, subject only to the Privi>
lege of the actual settler to use the same TO the
extent already stated, but NO further"
, 1867-11-22
NUMBER 40.
Meer.chaum-How II & Maaufaetured.

The mineral meerschAum is well known to be
hydrated silicate Of mAgnesia, with two equiva.
lents Of water. The variety most valued is
compact, susceptible of being wrought aud re-
ceivinR a G6eautiful polish. II is almost exclu,
sively employed in making pipes and cigar hold
eFs. A strange announcement has been put for>
ward, that it may be substituted for the Subui-
trate Of bismuth iu the choleratie diseases. De.
posits Of meerscbaum are very rare, which
accounts for its high price. Some veins, howev-
er, are found in the Paris basin, at Chenevieres,
in the environs of Madrid, but they are of little
value compared with the articles from Asia
Minor, being soft and fragile. The mining for
mesrschaum Is carried on largely at Kiltchik,
- A-->-E~i the kind fonnd there, though soft
and greasy to the touch when fresh, becomes
hard and white in the FIRE.
Some obscurity exists still as to the mode of
preparing the crude meerschaum, nevertheless it
is known that the pipes made in Anatolia are
moulded. The crude earth is kneaded and
pressed into moulds, the article being then
dried in the and hardened in the FIRE. Itis
then boiled iu milk, dried anew and polished
The pipes thus modelled on the spot are, howev-
er, little in demand; those wrought in Germany
or Belgium being much more esteemed. The
meerschaum which is to be exported is prepared
in Konie, moulded into blocks, dried and slight
ly baked. After cutting ont, the manufacturers
are in the habit of submitting the pipes to q
chips are powdered formed into paste with wa
ter, dried and hardened in the FIRE. The pipes
made from this waste material are, however, of
an inferior quality; the first baking to which the
material was originally submitted having pros
duced slight frittage, which renders subsequent
cohesion difficult to produce.
The manufacture of meerschaum artfcially
has been the object Of many researches. The
following method gives very good results when
operated by an intelligent aud skillful chemist:
1t is founded simply upon the double decompo>
sition ofsouble alkaline silicates by sulphate of
magnesia. One pound avordupois Of sui phate of
magnesia is dissolved in about quart of water.
Two quarts of solution Of soluble silicate OF
density l.25 is poured Into this, both liquids
being at l. 100 Fahr. The PRODUCTS gelatino-
ras precipitate, which is long washed, first with
boiling then with cold water; until all alkaline
sulphate is removed, then poured into a stone or
zinc trough and dried at temperature of over
,OOOo Fahr. The mass thus produced is cons
pact, friable and very similar to the natural
meerschaum, and is susceptible to being manip-
ulated and manufactured in the same manner as
the latter For some years NJ. Wagner has OBJ
tained gond results by different method. He
incorporates one part of casine, ~ six parts of
calcined magnesia, and one part of oxide of zinc.
Upon drying this mixture, there results a nate
rial of lustruous whiteness, very hard, suscepti-
BILE of being cut and polished, and which per-
fectly Stimulates the natural meerschaum.
, 1867-11-22

FRrrxpsHp.-when see leaves drop from
trees in the beginning Of Autumn, just such,
think /, is the friendship of the world. WINE
the sap OF maintenance lasts, my hienos s"am .nn
iu abundance; but in the winter OF need tney
leave me naked. He is happy man VINO nain
a true friend at bis need; but be Is more Uug
happy who hath no need OF trienos'
, 1867-11-22

SoxE people talk great deal about ministers
and the cost of keeping them, paying their house
rent, table expenses, and other items Of salary.
Did they think that it costs S35, 900, 900 70
pay the salaries OF American lawye ers; that $12,-
900, 900 are paid out annually to keep our Grim
inals, and $40, ,Ooo, 900 to keep the dogs 10 the
midst Of Us alive, while only $1,000, 900 are
spent annually to keep 5000 preachers.
, 1867-11-22

TIE HUMAN FRoG.-There is a man on exhibit
tion in London who calls himself "Natator," or
the human frog, and who performs feats under
water. Mr.. F. Buckland has examined him,
and makes a report thereupon. "Natator' prac>
tices in au aquarium, and the following are
some of bis feats:
He descends, aud eats, under water, a sponge
cake or a bun. He opens bis mouth to show
that he has really swallowed it. 1t is most dif$
6cult to swallow cake under water. 1t requires
three years practice to do this performance with
safety; for if when under water, he should hap.
pen to cough, the water would enter, be would
be choked, and serious accident
would ensue.
Ascending to the surface of the water, a so>
ds water bottle is handed to him. he dives with
it to his perch at the bottom, and drinks down
the contents viz: half penny worth of milk;
he chooses milk because of the color, and in or
der that the audience may see that be actually
drinks it from the bottle; this is a most difficult
trick, as it is hard to swallow the milk without
the water getting into the mouth.
lighted pipe is handed to him; he takes q
few whifs above water, and then descends with
it; when under water, he manages somehow to
keep it alight, and to emit bubbles, which, COM
Jog to the surface, burst in little pufs of tobacco
smoke. Coming to the surface, he shows that
his pipe is still alight.
He is young man, twenty years old, five feet
seven and a half inches in stature, and nine
stoue six pounds in weight; be is slightly built,
but exceedingly we'll made and muscular. His
pulse, on coming out of the water, gave one
hundred and forty eight beats to to tie minute;
twenty minutes after, they were ninety-two to
the minute.
When he first began to practice long stays un-
der water, some four years since, be used to suf-
fer from severe headaches, but now these have
quite disappeared; be never has rheumatism, or
other ache or pain in any form, though be goes
through his performances at half-past ten every
night, and sometimes twice day. The water
in bis aquarium be generally manages to keep
at a temperature of about sixtystwo degrees, but
the warmer it is the longer he can stay in, and
the easier bis performances become. The long,
est time be has ever remained under water at
stretch, has been sixty>nine seconds, and last
Saturday week he remained sixty -four; bis ordi-
nary tricks require from ten to thirty seconds
under water.
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, 1Nstice In Banlxvuplcy.

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day OF January, A. D. 1853 at 10 o'oloik a,
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Sessse In Bans suDlcy

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Special Notices.
The Great Pictorial Annual.

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LeraI Noflcc.

10 Georse W. Messenger, Maggie Messenger, v. Van
orsisIi, Edward XII boaIn and Charles b. Foote De-
PENDANTS.
Nr0u are notified there Ii on file In thu Clerks Office
Of the Dst;iet Court, Lee county, love- at X o.
kus, petitio,.ef Colin a. Strong elsAdng ,su One
Thawand Dohsss and Interest shsreen csicnls.sd as
payable spnnsliy from Haseh a., 1851, upon a proms
Tote and sso the foreclosure OF mort
ted TO seeurs tbs Land lying In county
Iowa by the said George ". Messenger AID Mag
J. Messenger and fu general relict
And unless yos sFpeaE and answer thereto or be-
fore oi tho second Gag OF the pext Febrn a. v
D. 1868 of said Coarr, and deaul gnen
will be rendered against you-
del-sat4w n STRONG, Prss.At,orney
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1.cxaI Nofice.

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hi wsfs in The p,ztrtSsrourt in and for Lee conaty
Iowa. at f. kHk
ffNp t1reGn eri Elizabeth Frsfine. You ard each eff
yan are h.rebs natite that there " On flo
IL the acs a the ciet Of tl,aereseia Cortt ~ a%c
asks ice c9sttf, iosa, the petition u o. liunhie,
els air Of YIN 18th td-rser ~ quietlng lie title
tu''ta taa sstsry half Of lot No t~aiso b,o1k one
haa irtd ard tx In the city Ct Eeakuk Lee county,
10 "a ard Tot nirmatory decd Of e sad
~ nisis, b. Thrnss fcrkias. whom y, conveyed
tie ssHs Ania TUE darirs The year D 1sfp which
dad Il = nssy@f rsii}Vutr Alleges has teeu either
et sr 'saii ard ueser recorded. and for costs ot
tbs action cad -esi; ,elief
Wv anessysu appeAr aai At sid petite on or
tefre noon of the seeeud Gay of nott February
term o. sail Cont ane,n2 the ie.t ray in
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