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The CoIdcst Season.

The Buffalo Courier has found man.
Mr.. Jerome Botsford, who remembers a
colder spring than the present, and says
that newspaper and weather critics are
all wrong in their complaints about
this season as the "most backward even
known" s4 Va +
He says the spring of 1887 was not
only more backward, but much more
rain fell than had fallen this season. He
has distinct recollection that OH the
S5th of May in that year, the steamer
Commodore Perry, of $50 tons, burthen,
commanded by Captain David Wilkin-
son, was the first to enter the Buffalo
harbOr. She arrived from Detroit, via
Toledo, and had to break her way
through the ice for distance of thirty
miles. The canals opened that spring
on the 26th of April, and that crowds
of passengers would arrive on the canal
boats day after day, rush aboard the
steamers lying at the dock, and seeing
no prospects of getting through the ice
barrier in the harbor, would take the
stage to Dunkirk, and other points,
where they could procure passage on
steamers to the upper lakes. Notwith-
standing the wet season and late plant
ing that year, the crops of 1887 yielded
most abundantly.
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Gypsies on u Tour.

A French provincial journal says /:
A wandering band of Hungarians ar
rived few days back at Vernon, and
set up their tents on the banks of the
Seine. This little tribe consists Of four
families, forming total of thirt.. per-
sons, the majority being children. They
are all dressed in ragged clothes, and 60
barefooted, their costume and strongly
ma cked phisiognomy giving them o
strangely wild appearance. But, not
withstanding their miserable exterior,
they have q healthy look, and bear that
air of careless gaiety which arises from
feeling of independence. These
gypsies, who are provided with
passports in regular order, are tink-
ers by profession. The men and wo-
men, and even their elder children,
smoke long pipes, which rarely quit
their mouths. Two of the men, who
appear to be the chiefs of the band,
wear, no doubt as an insignia OF their
rank, two rows of large metal buttons
on the breast, and are armed with sticks
ornamented with a knob of brilliant
metal, and resembling the staff borne
by drum-majors in lthe infantry regi-
ments. Around the tents may be seen
about a dozen rough looking horses,
seeking the scanty herbage on the banks
of the river. This tribe, which has left
the south of Hungary for tour in Eu-
rope, repairing, as they go along, the
kitchen utensils of the inhabitants, in
a measure revives the recollection of
the traditions and customs of the mid
die ages. Their arrival at Vernon,
where they intend to remain several
days, has naturally excited considera-
ble curiosity in the neighborhood.
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The Count de Curche, who belonged
to one of the oldest families of Norman
dy, died few days since at Paris. He
was the last disciple of Mesmer. He
led very retired life; he was man OF
immense learning and great talents. he
was an intimate friend of Abbe Faria,
who was, it seems, real parsonage and
not a creation ofM. Alex. Dumas brain;
the author obtained from the Count de
Curche all the information he possessed
about the Able. The Count lived in a
strange way. He had no servants but
Young and beautiful girls, on whom he
exerted magnetic influence. He believed
himself able to transmit his orders to
them at any distance by mere force OF
will. When be sent them to market he
would correspond with them from his
chamber, and after change the orders he
had given them when they quilted him.
Rich, without q family, averse to So
ciety, he doated OH science. for its own
sake. He was always afraid of being
buried alive; i'll for months he made his
physician pledge his word he would
open his body after death. He died
eighty years old. His library, composed
entirely Of works on the occult sciences,
is said to be worth $500, 900.
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The Mischief Donc-The Radical Ag
itation.

"Mack," the correspondent of the
Com me ercial, is thus frank to admit the
great evil which has been done in the
South by the Radical agitators feeding
the minds of the negroes with hopes OF
contiscation. He says: "Here, as else
where throughout the South, great mis-,
chief has been done by feeding the me-
groes upon the false hope of confisca-
tion. The other day, at little town
some distance from here, Radical me-
gro meeting was held. There were three
speakers-One white and two colored-
each of whom was sensible enough to
say that if the cOlored man wanted
land he must work for it and earn it,
and not hope to get it in any other way.
The darkies didn't like this at all; they
cursed the speakers in private-the col
ored ones especially, whom they denom-
mated mean Yankee niger, (they were
New Yorkers,) and said they wouldn't
come to any more meetings to hear such
talk as that. They knew they'd get
land without working for it; just wait
and see if they didn't.
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- n,r,ho,en M..ic., Association.

n,r citizens will remember with
Dride and pleasure the splendid enter
,,ipmsnt given at Washington Hall,
hiring the past winter, by the Beetho-
60, Musical Association of the city of
Wheeling As the Association was
lnovnto be composed entirely of ma
rive talent, the most intense interest
"a. felt i'll its first public appearance,
and the audience assembled upon the
..c,sion was one of the finest and lar
,.,t ever seen in the Hall. The marked
,ocee,s of the Concert was the source
Il unbounded pleasure to- our cit
,zens. many of whom gave hearty
.xpression TO the desire that
m. Association would speedily
r.reat the entertainment. We
ar, clad TO be able to announce
that the second concert of the Beetho-
ven Society will be given in Washing
ton Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 18th
INST We shall not now refer to the
arrangements in progress for making
the coming entertainment more per
feet success even than was the last
For the present, we shall content onr
selye, with the bare announcement
feeling assured that the public will b,
well pleased to read, as We are happy t.
pen, notice of the second appearance
Of the Beethoven.
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q ticket with his fathers name endorsed
thereon, and remarked: "This is my
fathers name, but he did not write it,"
This caused an investigation, which re-
suited in the startling expose that
they were all endorsed BY tie name same per.
son and that in the unmistakable "fist"
of E. T. M0oreis 20 @0|
At the present term of the Circuit
Court for this county, charges were
brought before the Grand Jury, but as
the cOmplainants had neglected to pro-
cure the tickets on which the forgeries
were committed, he was not indicted.
We expect to be able 10 give further
particulars on-the next session of the
Grand Jury. Another example of the
purity of Radical ofiice-h holders!
Thus one by one, the masks are fall
ing from the faces of rank and rotten
Radical offenders. The process seems a
slow one, but doubtless in good time,
Providence will finish these revelations,
unmask all falsehood and bring all
truth to light. 80 ...l
Though the mills Of God grind slowly.
Yet they grind exceeding small,
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all"
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Bread or Blood.

We are fastening along to what must
be inevitable under the policy pursued.
Illiuois is the granary of the world
Chicago is the chief market for hor pro-
ductions. You now have to pay nine
teen dollars a barrel for -four, and dol
lar and ten cents a bushel for corn. II
these are the prices which are demanded
at home where they are produced, how
are the poor laborers to live on their
dollar and half or two dollars y day in
deprecated money! We shall soon
hear the cry for bread or blood, and even
at these prices, the farmer is growing
poorer with the immense taxation that
is imposed to exempt the government
bonds. Go on, Republicans, in your in
sane folly; your race is but short one,
but it has been destructive to every ma
terial interest of the country.-Galend
Democrat.
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From the Cleveland Herald.
A Strange Storv.

We met o gentleman to-day seeking
his wife, who, it seems, was in this place
when last heard from, having come here
from an Eastern city. There is a strange
story connected Herewith, which the
gentleman has no objection to our
giving. aET
Eight years ago this gentleman. whom
we shall call Mr.. George -, left his
young wife with his mother, then resid-
ing in the city of D, and staeted
overland to California. While upon
this journey the party of which he was
a member was attacked by the Indians,
and he was carried into captivity.
He escaped from them about a
year afterward and reached San
Francisco in safety. During his stay
among the Indians he made considerable
money trading and otherwise, and upon
reaching San Francisco determined to
90 home, taking passage in steamer
for that purpose. Three days out the
steamer was burned, and he among a
few others were saved by the efforts OF
boats crew belonging to sailing ves-
sci bound for San Francisco. Having
lost his IL oney in this disaster, he sailed
LOT auSlTtlldy WulCh poihe hO iOaNhSu
in very destitute condition. He was
taken sick, and remained in the hands
of the physicians for many long months.
When able to travel he started for
home, and when within five days from
New York the vessel was overtaken and
captured by rebel privateer and ta-
ken into Southern port. He was
couscripted into the rebel army,
and forced to the front. He was
made hospital steward, which gave him a
good opportunity to aid the "Boys i'll
Blue" and saved him from taking a
seeming part with the rebels. When
the war was over, he came North and at
once sought his home. Sadly he turned
to an old neighbor for explanation. This
friend, who could hardly believe the
story, told him that three months after
he had started for California letter
reached them from member of the out
going party informing the young wife
that George had been killed by the In
dians. She had mourncd for him long
time, and then friend of her husband
had marIiod her, and together with the
aged mother had gone West, and he is
now seeking them.
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A PRETTY FoOT.-What is prettier
than pretty footi What more capti-
waiting than dear little boot covering
high instep, and coming down neatly
over the toes, with bewitching tassel
dangling at the top of the close-lacing.
In nothing is aristocracy SO marked as
in the pedal extremity; the thin nostril,
the long fingers, the narrow palm, are
evidences of gentle blood, but far less so
than the round ankle, the high instep
and the hollow beneath, through which,
as the high bred Arab says, stream of
water should he able to flow while the
possessor is standing. The fiat splay
foot on the contrary, as surely tells of
want of pedigree as its misshapen excre-
SCIENCES, its corns and bunions drive
away affection. The horse shows the pur-
ity of his extraction by clean limbs, neat
pastern and small hoof; and the same
result is noticeable, more or less, in all
animals. Man falls in love as readily
with o seductive foot as with an at
tractive face; he finds in it thousand
expressive movements; its firm tread
speaks Of decided character; its quick
step denotes anger; its elasticity Of mo-
ton assures him of liveliness and good
humor; its hasty tread denotes impa-
thence; its subtle glide signifies cum
ming; while the quiet but marked foot
fall guarantees him an affectionate dis
position. The face often deceiyes with
an alluring smile; il is taughtor trained
by design or habit; openness is guarded
and confined; but the foot speaks its
own language, unrestrained and untu-
tored; and the male sex owe debt of
gratitude to fashion for giving back
honest feet to the future adorners of
human existence.
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senator Wade's Party.

PASA, Ills, June 17.-Wade's Sena
torial party passed through here to-day
en- route to their homes. Several took
other roads at st. Louis. Several Sena-
tors who have been With the party at
various points express their intention
of being present at the July session,
and those who are still with Mr.. Wade
to-day joined him in telegram to Gen.
eral Schenck. of the National Congress.
sional Committee, at Washington, to
advise all Republican members 10 he
present in July, that all distractions ia
the legal reconstruction of the rebel
States may be removed.
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s.i.iss IA MsFlsE.

y The Paris correspondent fthe Bos-
ton Post is giving the readers Of that
paper numerous sketches of scandalous
crime committed in France, In . lat
letter he 'narrates the following: -
Here stands Yitaline Legrau, q splen-
did creature from the South. The dark
eyes and bronzed complexion, the rich
masses of her raven hair, the deep YER
million of the lips, all betray at once
that ardent love or passionate hate may
have brought her to the bar against
which she leans trembling with rage,
not fear, as she awaits the decision OF
the Judges. Yitsline was femme de
cLambre to q rich Spanish lady whose
carriage was driven by the most mag
nifice1t of coachmen, who looked, when
seated high upon his coach box, like
one of the gods Of the Olympus; at least
so thought Vitaline, who loved him
with an alteration which led her to the
backest of crimes-even, to murder!
The goodman had promised more than
he could perform. He had agreed to
marry yitaline, tbut the rich Spanish
lady objecting to married men in her
service, he made an excuse to be on his
bargain. The acknowledgment of the
impossibility to fulfill his VOW was
made while the enamored pair were
taking tea out of Madame's best china
tea service, beside the beech wood fire
in Madame's own bOudoir, while
Madame herself was at the opera.
At the utterance of the fatal word the
kot Southern blood of the fair Abigail
RISE in moment. Before the gay de-
ceiver had time to perceive the impress
sion his avowal had made, the china
teapot, with the scaldins contents, was
dashed into his face, and the costly
sugar basin of fine crystal thrown up at
the cut glass chandelier. The victim,
blinded and tortured beyond endur-
ance was shrieking meanwhile for cold
water to cool his blistered skin. The
tiendish tOrmentor leads him to his own
chamber, and, affecting to bathe his face
and ease his pain with water from the
fountain in the kitchen, fetches instead
the bottle of vitriol used to clean the
sauce pans, and saturates with 1T the
sponge she hands him to apply to his
face! The agony of the poor young
man may be guessed at, for in less than
two hours afterwards he lay disfigur-
ed corpse upon q dimity coverlet of the
lite bed whero Vitaline slept, in the
closet adjoining Madame's own room!
The Circumstance dttenudntes came here,
in troops-love, jealousy, revenge and
despair au moral; youth and beauty da
physique, made up the list-and so this
frantic woman was sentenced to eight
years imprisonment only. Had she
committed forgery, or stolen loaf to
feed her starving children, she would
have been punished not q wit less Sc
verely. But as French juries are now
selected as PSYCHOLOGISTS rather than
lawyers, and the age, the character and
the temperament Of the accused are all
taken into consideration whenever a
case of this kind is brought before them
whether the deviation is for better or
worse, time alone will show.
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In Chancery.
THE oRJsCT OF Tuls SUIT IL
CommissiOner's Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DECREE RENDERED.
ID 10y th, Circuit Court for Ohio county. at the
May term thereof, in q cause therein repeRd.
ing wherein William T.. Wilson Is complainant
and William IL. Dunlevy and othcn are defend
ants, shall ON the second Monday In July, 1851,
at the frUnt door of the Court House In the city
Of Wheeling, proceed Ia sell the following de.
scribed property. to.wit; the ono undivided
fourth part of the property and real estate sitn
ate in that part of the city Of wheeling com
monty called North Wheeling and known ~ thr
saw mill property" and now occupied by vii.
son. Dunlevy S Wheeler, consisting Of parts oi
lots numbcr six, seven, eight nine and ten in
Jonathan Zane addition 10 the town now city)
of Whceling-the said interest belonging 10 the
estate Of John Dunlcvy. deceasod.
TERMS Oncfuurth cash. the residue In three
equal payments of twelve, eighteen aud twenty
four months. with interest from the day Of sale
the purchaser giving bond and approved s'.
curity for the deferred payments.
y. RICHARDSON,
jCJ-i Wit Commissioner.
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This vast debt, the payment of the
interest of which falls with such crush
ing effect upon the industry of the
country, is the legacy left US by war
brought on by the Southern secession
leaders, following the advice given
them by Chase, in the Ohio State Journal.
Lincoln, Wade and other abolition ora
tors in their speeches, in order to de-
stroy the Union. And it has proved
the effect these orators and journalists
desired, for ten States of the Union are
now bereft of their constitutional
rights, and the old union is rs much
discovered and broken up under the
ruling of the Radical Congress, as if Sc
cessiOn had met the success it aimed at,
and the Confederate Government under
jeff Davis as President been Il recoS'
niZed institution.
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The Appraiser of the port of New
York has set up as censor moran. He
will allow travellers returning from
abroad to bring in, free of duty, jewelry
"of such description and quantity %
BELTS the station of the possessor."
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Farm for Sale. r
rI,HE UNDERSIGNED ORFRRs

i for salo four hundred aud hfty acres, mor.
uate in RIchhill township, Green county. Pa,
five miles from Cameron Station. w. Va, well
watercd and In n good Ecighborbood and In well
calculated for either agricultural ar graxing pnr
poses the most Of which IL well set with gTass.
an orchard Of selected fruit two comfortable
grain house, corn cribs wagon shed, colt stable
calf shed and other outbuildings, an excellent
spring NJ water two rods from the house, and
two good mill seats Persons wishing ta pur
chase, VIII call on the undersigned on the prem.
ses maI.gI-wlm ANDREW SMITH
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INSURANCE.

National Insurance Company
WHEELING. WEST VA.
CAP1TAL....--.... .SSOO,OVV'
Office, % Monroe street, next door to Ma
tional Bank.
OFFICERS
GEORGE K. WHEAT, President.
JAMES McCLuNEY, Tics PreIdent
JOHN BISHOP, fecretdry.
CHAS. WALLACE, State Agent, for West Va
and Maryland.
DIRECTORS:
John z. Wilson, George X. Wheat
Jas. c. Orr, Saml harper,
.IoLn A. Armstrong, James McCluney
A. c. Quarter. Morgan l.. OFT,
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
S. Brady, Cashier Merchants NATIONAL Bank
Wheeling List, Morrison a Co., wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling; Pryor Handlan & Co.
Wholesale Grocers Wheeling; Michael Reilly
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling; Mcclellan &
Knox Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; McCabe
Kraft g. Co., Druggists, Wheeling; Geo. w
Franzheim & Co, Wholesale Wines and Liquors
Wheeling Winship, Woods & Ce., Queensware
Wheeling Lewis Baker Pub. REGrsTEI Wheel
ing; Il. c. Me- fee Notions, Wheeling; Camp
lplI. Frew g. Co.. Pubs. hteLfgncer, Wheeling
OFT. Son & Co, Hardware Wheeling; j. +
Sands, Cashier First National Bank, Fairmont
II. p. Camden, Pres't Nat. EX. Bank, Weston
w. Va; Capt. John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling
may3
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From the Brookfeld (Mo) Gazette May "a.
Crime mt BrookfeId, Mo- Metho-
dist Minister Poisons His Wife.

Ten years ago there came to this coun-
try-f:om we know not where-James
C.. Slater, Methodist preacher, who
having located some ten miles North OF
Brookfield, married Miss Gibson, OF
Trenton, in Grundy county. For long
time Slater and his wife lived happily
together, but at length, the husband
preferring his wife's sister to his wife,
commenced series of prosecutions and
ill-treatment, which finally resulted in
her death, as stated last week. Circum-
stances aroused suspicion, which result
ed in a coroner's jury being summoned,
who returned verdict that deceased
came to her death from poisoning. The
inquest developed the following facts
From childhood Mrs. Slater's health
has been delicate, and since April first
she has been too unwell to attend prop
erly to her domestic duties. This ne
cesstiated the calling in of some one to
look after them, and resulted in Miss
Sarah A. Gibson, the sister of deceased,
taking M her abode in the family. A
neighbor of Slater's by the name of
Gier, who worked the farm with Slater,
soon became O constant visitor at the
house, and it was not long before Sla-
ter discovered that he had rival in the
person of Gier. Fearing that Gier
would succeed ih his endeavors to win
the he art and hand of the fair Sarah,
Slater appears, from this time to have
decided to get rid of his wife by fair
means or foul. Accordingly his treat
ment of his wife became more cruel than
ever, he freely abused her at every op-
portunity; he refused her medical as
sistance when she asked for it, insisting
on doctoring her himself. On one occa-
sion he compelled her, when more un-
we'll than usual, to stand for two hours,
in the bottom of welli in which he was
cleaning. which brought on disease
from which she never recovered.
At length, owing to ill-treatment,
constant anxiety, and, as is supposed,
injurious drugs administered by Slater,
Mrs. Slater became dangerously i'll, and
the neighbors insisted on having q doc
tor called in. To this Slater finally con-
sentcd; though with evident eluctance,
and called in DIR. Pettijohn, who left her
some powders. Some of these were ad-
ministered, but it was found, after her
death, that they had been tampered
with, and the suspicion is that Slater,
watching his opportunity, mixed ar
senic with them. During the inquest
Slater was as cool and collected as if
nothing had happened, and smoked his
pipe and walked around the house with
the air of don't care man. We under
stand that, when asked why he didn't
run away to avoid arrest, he said he
would, if he could, but he had not the
means. The evidence all goes to show
that this fiend in human shape poisoned
his wife, and we cannot understand how
it is that he is still at large.
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A PROVIDENCE gentleman states that
since 1s49 he has bathed every day in
the open air. Whew
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