The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-22
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PUBLICATION OF CONGRESSIONAL. De-
HATEs.-The joint Committee on Public
Printing reported, Friday, that they
had received, in response to their ad :
vertisement, two proposals for report
ing and publishing the debates in Con-
gress, one from the present publishers
OF the Globe, Messrs. Rives & Baily,
and tho other from Joseph r. Crowcll,
OiRahway, New Jersey. To mako these
proposals all plain, and to compare
them with tho estimates of the Con-
gressional printer, the Congressional
Globe for the Thirty seventh Congress,
cost S29l Cos, which, had the same
amount of reporting, type.selting,
printing paper and binding been FUR
niahcd under the proposals of Rives IL
Baily, would have been $3.50 Col. Un-
der the estimate of The Congressional
printer, it would have cost $276, ,4y6, and
under the proposal OF j. Il. CrOwell,
$Z6S, li9 Tie Committee is understood
to have been divided i'll opinion as to
whether it WAS advisable to have the
work done by contract or 0t the Gov
ernmeHt office, and they recommended
the latter, but submitted two joint res
olutlOns, one of which directs that the
Congressional printer do the work, and
the other provides for giving the con-
traC! to J. y. CTOwell, as the lowest bid
der.
THE whole country will laugh at the
merciless way in which Butler the other
day held up the venerable barnacle OF
tue Adjutant Generals departmental.
ThomEs-to ridicuie. He said that tho
duties OF the said Thomas for tho last
two years had been "la the inspector OF
grTVCyaTds-nCthing else, except when
he WAS Secretary Of War al interiAt.-
Fer that service he received two cents a
mile for every mile he travelled. He
had nothing to do but inspect grave
yards, ana every mile he Travelled ad-
ded to his pay. 1t would be found that
the government had paid him for his
valuable services-insp6ctinE cemeter-
ieS-twelVe or thirteen thousand dollars
for the past year. He had more profits
than any other undertaken in the whole
country" We fear that Lorenzo will
pass down TO .posterity as "Old Nor
tally Thomas"
VlRGINIA is gradually having shaped
for her - programme by means OF
which she may once more become n
membCr OF the Union. The House bill
providing for an election was yesterday
reported TO the Senate by the Judiciary
Committee, with an amendment au-,
thOri2:n% Il separate vote on the dis
qualifying clause. In case the COnsti
tuition is ratified, the Assembly is TO be
convened on the first Tuesday in July.
Action by n Soldier Against the Isa2-
tiEnOrC nnd Ohio RAiIrOnd
Company.
At Cincinnati on Wednesday, in the
Superior Court of Hamilton county,
before Judge Hogan and a jury, the
case OF Thomas j. 3. Hopkins Us. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
was tried. The plaintiff, who resides
ut Amelia, ClermOnt county, Ohio,
brings this action to recover damages
in the sum OF 5000, for personal in
juries received while being transported,
with his regiment, 34th Ohio, from Mar
tiusbnrg to Webster, West Virginia.
There were four other persons I'M jured at
the same time who also bring suit, the
the cases, being set for trial immediate
lv after tuis.
The plaintiff AYERS that lie was so
badly Injured in the hip as to cause him
to be lame for long time; his spine
was injured, causing partial paralysis
and his breast Was so crushed as to
render his lungs forever defective. He
seeks to recover 5000.
The defence Is based on the ground
that the train to which the accident 0c-
CURED, and on which the plaintiff was,
was made mp under the direction OF the
military authorities ofthe United STATES,
the Government having largely aSsum-
nd Of the road at that time for
military purposes.
a second ground of defence is that
the agent OF the company, WHO maze
up the train Mt MartiEsOurR under
the direction OF the military authorities,
sought 10 place some cars loaded with
horses in front of the passenger cars,
bnt Was forbidden to do so by an olhcer
OF the United States. Had this been
pernittCd, defendants claim that no
injury would have been sustained by
any OF the soldiers.
As third ground, tho detendants
claim that the soldiers were assign Ell
cars in the rear of the baggage cars, ana
that they had no right to 20 into the
barrage cars or cars in front of those
10 which they were assigned, and that
II they had remained III the cars AS
signed them they would have received
no injuries.
ThS testimony offered by the plain
signed TO two cars i'll the middle OF the
train. but before the train started 1t was
divided, so that the car in which the
plaintiff was was placed next the tender.
His injuries wero as stated i'll his petit
IiOn.
The defence introduced DR.. John Da-
Wis, who, after an examination of plain
tiIf' testified that he was not subject to
anv permanent disability or injury
which could be traced to the accident.
Tho Court charged that as the plain.
uff was in the military service or the
United States at the time, lie would not
he entitled to damages for loss of time
nor for medical services rendered neces'
sary by the injury, and that If the jury
f0und that he was permanently injured
then he could only recover for the pain
snfTered. or which he may suffer in tu-
ture in consequence of the injury.
The Jury retired, and in short Time
retnrned with a verdict in favor O.
plaintiff, assessing his damages at s 'l20
70 whom the Inauguration may
Conccrn.