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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-08
FRANKL1N INSURANCE COMFY
II OF WHEELING,
CAPITAL, S15o,ooo.


DREcrORs:
Samuel Mcclellan, George Mendel.
r. II. Logan, ThoG. r. ShAIlCroSS.
q. W. FTnnEhelm, J. n. Vance,
j. II. Hobbs, MiChRel Reilly,
Louis G. Stlfe,
This company now having been organized ave
years, and In that time done successful business
Is still prepared 10 take risks at faIr rates on
Buildings OF all kinds, Merchandise, Manuhctur-
ing Establishments, Furniture, Steamboats, and
CArgoes on tho Western RiVers and Lakes. This
company Offers superior Inducements to Farm
ers whereby they can DO insured on Dwellings,
Furniture, Barns, and contents for or 5 years At
reduced rates. ThisbcIng a State Company with
The Largest Cash Capital Paid in,
And surplus OF any company In the State; and
composed OF some ninGty.fOur stockholders, most
Of whom arc among our best business men, re.
Commends itself TO the favorable consideration
OF the iusuring public, and soIcItB their patron
age. Applications for insurance will be prompt
ly attended to at their Ofice, No. 70 Monroe St,
or Ut their several Agencos throughout tho State.
SAM'L MCCLELLAN, President
GEO. MENDEL., Vice President.
e. NJ. COEN. ScC'y.
Is. C. DICK, Asst Sec'y. febl9
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-08

New York Dry Goods Market.
NEw York, Juno I.
Trade inactive and prices unchanged
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INSURANCE,
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TIRE l. MARINE INSURANCE co
II OF WHEELING.
INCORPORATED IN 1881.

INCORPORATED IN 1881.
TakOs rIsks at the lowest rates on Buildings Oi
all kinds, Furniture and Merchandise, aud on
Goods In Transit.
A. Wilson, VIM. s. GoHhoru,
Thomas Pollock, John Reid,
John Mulriue, Alex. Rogers,
+ I !; 4. sESnTl SsSIl VIM. A. Wilson
0Alee up stairs In the Insurance Bullding,"
next door to the Merchants National Bank.
A. WILSON, Pres't.
JOHN REID, Sr., Vice PrcSt.
T. &C. McAFEE, SeC'y. janG9
NTNA FIRE AND MARINE IN
Ill SURANCE co. OF WHEELING.
Capital, 100000.
DIRECTORS:
Wm. = simpson, VIM: G; HandlAn.
John x. Bot6ford, T. N. DodSon,
34aSeslRR'H 3s$e. K. Hecofsniey, HEe!ofai John L. Hobbs
This Company having been fully Organized, 10
now prepared to take risks upon
Buildings OF all kinds, Merchandise, Manufac.
turing Establishments, Furniture and
Cargoea of all kinds on the
Western WHtOrS.
Applications for Insurance will be promptly at
tended TO by tho Secretary.
once at the National Savings Bank, No. 6s
WIN. B. SIMPSON, Pres't.
$. T. HlLDRETH, sec'y.
J. Il. MILLER, Asst Scc'y AprI4
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DEABODY INSURANCE COMFY,
L AT WHEELING, WEST VA.

L AT WHERLIRG WEST VA.
CAPITAL, $4,000.
With the privilege OF increasing tho same 10
10000 dollArs.
DIRECTORS:
William Bailey, Alonzo LOrInR,
Andrew J. PanneIl, james ?. Barnes,
Henry SMmm, Thomas Hughes.
A. ]. Cecil,
This Company having been fully organized, 10
now prepared 10 take Risks at EAIr ntes on Build.
lnGs Of all kinds, Merchandise, Manufacturing
Establishments, Furniture, Steamboats,, and Car.
goes on tho Western Rlvers and LAkeS, also 10
Isaue perpetual policies on DwellIngB and Stores.
This Company being composed mostly Of our
leading business men, recommends itself 70 tho
favorable consideration Of the inSuFng public,
and solicIta their patronage. Applications for In.
Surance will bo promptly attended 70 Al their
ONCE BAlLEY'S BLOCK, No IO6 Market street.
WILLIAM BAILEY, PreSt.
ALONZO LORISG, Vice PreSt.
N. c. ARTHUR, Scc'y.
W. II. AGNEW, Asst Soc'y.
S. o. BURDATs. Solicitor. octS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-08
Commercial and Financial.
New York Money and Stock Market.

MONET-EAsy al 3dA per cent on call.
STERLINu-D at l09HillO9H.
GoLD-opOned dull at 1I3N, closing al ll3i
DISK. Carrying rates N per cent to fat.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

RIPLEY FEMALE CoLLEGE.-Exten-
sive, thorough, and highly important inn
provements are in progress and in con-
temptation at Ripley Female College, at
Poultney.
LIST. The building internally is now I'M
dergoing re-painting from bottom to top,
in all its halls and rooms
ID. The process of re-papering has been
also commenced, and has progressed well
All the rooms and halls are to appear in
a new dress.
3D.. All the furniture is to be renewed
with paint and varnish.
4th. The halls and stairways are to be
oarpeted, and new carpets placed in most
of the rooms.
9th. A new room, 28x32, is to be pre-
pared for gymnasium.
! 9th. AS a further means for recreation
and exercise, Bowling Alley with two
ways is to be erected the coming spring,
so as to be ready for the use of pupils in
the autumn.
When these improvements shall have
been completed, the Institution will have
all the oheerfulness and freshness of a
new thing, and with these appliances for
comfort and health added TO its heretofore
unequaled advantages, it may safely
claim that nothing could be done that has
not been done TO render it attractive.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
An Irish Letter.

DEAR NEPHEW: l haven't STINT yes q
letther since the last time / wrote to YES
bekase we've moved from our former place
of livin', an dident know whittier the
letther wud rach yes or not. row wild
plazhure take up me pin to inform yes OF
the death of yer oun Twin uncle Kilpat-
rick, who died very suddenly afther a lin,
gering illness of six months. The poor
man was in violent commissions, lynn per-
feckly quiet an spacheless, all the time
talkin iucharently an calm for wather
had no opportunity to inform yes of his
death except what l wrote to yes by the
last posht, which whit off two days before
he died, and thin yes would have posht-
age to pay.
am at a loss to tell fwhat his death wus
occasioned at, but fear it wus by his lasht
illness He never was well tin days to-
gether durin' the hull time of his confne-
ment l am at loss to tell fwhat occa-
stoned it, bat l fear it wus by his attn
too much rabbit stuffed wild Pare an
gravy, or PAGE an gravy stuffed wild rab-
bits, [ can't tell which be that as it will
as soon as he brathed his lasht the doc
thors gave up all hopes CT his recovery.
incident till yes anything about his
age, for yes we'll knowt he wud have been
iist 25 years ovid lackin' tin months, an
had he lived till that time wud have been
six months dead. His property now re.
wolves to the next in kin, who all died
some time ago, so / expect it will be divi.
ded atween us, an yes know this prop.
erty was very considerable, for he had a
foine eshtate, which wint to pay his debts
an for the remaindther he lost that on a
horse race; but it wus the opinion Of
everybody at that time that he
wud have won the race if the
horse he run against had not been
too fasht for him. | never saw man, an
the docthors all say so, that TUX medicine
better nor he did. He would as lave take
bitther as swate if it only had taste and
appearance of whisky pinch, an it wud
only put him in the same humor foI
fightin' /; but, poor sowl, he will niver ate
nor drink any more, and yes haven't a
livin' relashun but fwhat was killed in
the lasht war.
But | can't dwell on the mournful sub.
jeet, an sail the letter in black sailin
whax: an put ON it yes uncle's coat Of
arrums, so | beg yes not to break the
sail when yes open the letter till three O,
four days after yes resaive it, by which
time yes will have time to be prepared
for the sorrowful tidins. Yes old swate.
hart sinds her love to yes unbeknownst
to me. Whin Gerry MCGEE arrives in
Ameriky, ak him for this letther, an if he
don't know it from the rest, tell him its
the wun that spakes of yer uncle's death
an is sailed in black. L remain yer old
Grandmother, JUDY o'HooLIGAN.
To Larry O'Hooligan, late of the town
of Tubymucherthe, Parish of Ballyrag.
CART, near Ballysithgerthoy, in the county
of Kilkenny, Ireland.
2. s;-Don't write to me till yes re-
saive this.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

THE NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL TRAY
ELERs.---The number of commercial trav-
elers in the United States is estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000, and from these
figures one can get some idea how the
method of doing business has changed
within the last few years, though to get
a full realization of it he must see how
these travellers swarm on the railroads
and at the hotels, or be engaged in bust
ness in some country town, in a dull
season, liable not only to be "set down
on" but to be completely over-run with
them. Wholesale houses now do almost
their entire business by means of drum
mers." If they have any trade they have
to go after it. Houses that wait for trade
to come to them in the old fashioned way,
find they do not get it at all. 1t is taken
by the smart, well dressed, talkative
young men who go round to the coun-
try merchants door and take his
orders without troubling him to go
to the city. The commercial traveller
SYSTEM Is u 4OOl OuG ioi ldillouuo dhu
hotels, indeed many taverns would find
their occupation gone but for these drum
mers. But, whether it is, on The whole, a
good change from the old style of doing
business people are not yet prepared to
say. Travelling is expensive, and it must
cost good deal of money to keep such an
army of commercial travellers in the field
as we have mentioned above. But on the
other hand, they make competition sharp,
the profits of the wholesaler must be gen.
oerally less than formerly, 50 on the Whole
perhaps the system is beneficial to the
consumer There is a national CONNER.
cial travellers association in existence
which is already beginning to make its
influence felt in the abolition of license
laws, etc, that affect its members, and is
relied upon its members to work good in
other respects.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
News Items.

The Russian Car has so titles.
There is famine in Jerusalem.
London has 100000 houses to let
There are $4,000 varieties of roses.
They have "scrip weddings" in Ohio.
-Hayti is blessed with another revolu-
ton.
Wyoming ruralists plough with tame
buffaloes. .....s
Cigars are now made in some places
by machinery. .........a
California has new town called
"Shirt Tail Canon" ...... ...-.=
One towel to 200 guests is the rule at
New York hotel
The Ohio House has defeated the
Woman suffrage bill.
Main poulterers stuff chickens crops
with musket balls.
There are 100000 of horses owned
in the United States.
Hon. Gerrit Smith has sent $1,000 to
the suffering Cubans.
"A woman in Hudson, N. Y, has
been arrested 656 times.
Nashville, Tenn, claims to be the
dirtiest city in the Union.
Manchester, n. H, prohibits smok-
ing in the streets on Sunday.
"A woman has asked admission to the
Chicago Board of Trade.
The Maryland Legislature proposes
to abolish public executions.
The English sparrows in New York
now number half million.
"A hearty youth of 80 in Maine wears
mourning for his fifth wife.
The Missouri Democrats will not
nominate State officers this year.
Through tickets are now sold from
Chicago to China and Japan.
AT Yeddo, China, 5000 houses were
destroyed by fire, February 9Th.
Sick Cinnamon in Frisco are buried
alive by their loving relatives.
San Francisco now gets its cheese
from Buffalo without change of cars.
Only five persons were killed in Rus
STA last year by railway accidents.
The cession of Cuba to the United
States is urged by the Madrid press.
Gen. Sheridan and other cavalry
leaders are to organize Cavalry Society
The number of Mormons who prac
tice polygamy is said not to exceed 1000
"A lady in Elizabeth, N. j., aged 81
years, is cutting her third set of teeth.
The trees in Texas are fruited heavi
" with Mexican horse-thieves, at present
The Richmond Enquirer is alarmed
at the growth of Republicanism in Vir
ginia.
1t cost an Ohio tobacconist $50 t.
sell four cents worth out of a broker
package.
The Wisconsin Legislature has re
fused to pass the bill to restore the deatl
penalty.
Women prisoners in Iowa have al
the rights of men. They are set to break
ing stone.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
Manufacturing Slate Pencils.
CAsTLEToN, VT, April 7, 1875

CASILEION, ' l., April 4, 1CiO.
Editor Rutland Herald Noticing in
your issue of to-day the very pleasing &C.
count given of the growth of the now
important business of manufacturing
slate pencils in Castleton, I am induced
to enter my protest against your inform
ants very romantic and imaginative ac-
count of the birth of that interest, at the
same time conceding that you are justi-
fed in your complimentary allusion to the
present enterprising and gentlemanly
principals and founders of the adams
Manufacturing Co."
More than thirty years ago the writer
of this, when mere lad, often trudged
his weary way from this village up to the
"Pencil Ledge" (the same strata of stone
yet used), and carried home load of the
stone to be worked into slate pencils, for
his own use and that of such of his school
mates as wanted a pencil more than a
penny. Other lads, of more advanced
age, better developed muscle and more
ambition, often ventured the cold mans"
one horse wagon, taking with them a
larger quantity, and improvising crude
saws from the sold woman's" bread knife,
and with pieces of old soythes sharpened
and ingeniously hung on wire pivots for
whittlers, carried the fruits of their en-
terprising labor to the bookstore for sale,
and often extended their sales to other
towns adjoining. All this at period
when that ambitious pioneer at West Rut-
land must have been blowing penny
whistles, or amusing himself in playing
marbles. Long prior TO 1850, and, to the
best of my recollection, in 1884 and 5,
the business of manufacturing pencils
from the same quarry was somewhat ex-
tensively carried on by your worthy
neighbor, the present trenchant and COM
bative editor of the Courier, Mr.. Cain.
Many lads from this vicinity, of my own
age, worked for him, and l always under
stood that, under his management, it be-
came well established and profitable
business, although, of course, never attain
ing the vast proportions to which the en-
terprise, improved machinery and liberal
expenditures of the present proprietors
have elevated it. J.B.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
Humorous Readings.
"A Golden Age-Coinage.

"A Golden Age-Coinage.
Ocular punishment-Eye-lashes.
"A stringed instrument-The gallows
Better to suffer wrong than to do it.
Farewell performance-A good meal.
Pills for ecoulists and teachers--pu-
pills.
"A ticklish position-standing upon
trifes.
"A baker sells everything that he
kneads himself.
To the condemned man no moose is
good news.
The Woman Question-Is that back
hair all your own?
Necessity knows no law. 1t is like a
good many lawyers.
Picked company-Those taken in
charge by policemen.
eff you beat me, I'll call out the sol
diers," is what the drum said.
When must Time hang up his soythef
When he shall be no mower
Why are jokes like nuts Because
the dryer they are the better they crack
When apprenticemen desire most to
travel-When they become journeymen
Why may the popular felt hats be
called wide-a-wake ? Because they never
had nap.
The time to clinch an argument
When the attention of your audience is
riveted.
The chance is more than five to one
against him who starts with pleanty OF
money.
Capital punishment for boys, being
obliged to sit between two girls at school
-Pawnbrokers are good temperance
men, for they will always keep the
pledge.
Which are the four most corpulent
letters in the alphabet? o. B. @. T. lob
esity)
When were there only three vowels
in the alphabet? Before U and 1 were
thought of.
An American editor makes the fol.
lowing announcement : Several deaths
unavoidably delayed until next week.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

Operations at the Bennington ore
bed were pushed night and day last
week.
-velocipedes reappeared at Benning'
ton again last week, much to the incon-
venience and disgust of pedestrians.
Mrs. E. S. Mcclure has presented the
editor of the Banner with a splendid Boz
quet, arranged from her collection OF
house plants.
The Court House Committee will
locate the buildings in few days, prob
ably after returning from st. Johnsbury
aud Woodstock, where they go to look
over the county buildings in the two
places. They have already visited those
at Salem, n. Y.
"A young.lady in Bennington has sued
young chap and had him arrested for
SANDER, for too much talk derogatory to
her character. Good enough for him.
DIR. Ed. G. Harwood formerly Of
Bennington) of New York has been chosen
delegate to the American Medical Asso'
citation, which meets in Washington in
May. He is the youngest M. D. ever sent
as delegate to that body.
- Mrs. Sophia T. Cushman and her
daughter Lizzie came near being suffo.
Gated one night last week, by the gas es.
Gaping from a coal stove. An unusual
noise in the street aroused them, probably
just in time to save terrible occurrence
People cannot be too careful as to how
they leave their coal stoves on retiring fol
the night.
Bennington Centre is 720 feet above
the ocean.
The Congregational churches in Ben
nington county have contributed, during
the past year, $2177.55 to benevolent OBJ.
jects.
Jonathan Robinson was the member
of the constitutional convention in 1893
from Bennington. The town was not
represented in the convention of 1901.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

LITTELLs LIVING AGE.-Littelps Liv-
ing Age, No. 1349, for the week ending
April 8, contains Origin of the English
Nation, Macmillan's Magazine; Earps
Dene, Part V, by Charles Lever, Black
woods Magazine; Modern Superstition,
translated for the Living Age from the
Gartenlaube; Precious Poll, Temple Bar /;
Garibaldi's "Rule of the Monk" Saturday
Review; Young Shepherds in Search of
Sheep, Pail Mall Gazette; besides shorter
articles and poetry.
No. 134S, for the week ending April 2,
contained Christian Marriage, by Bishop
Dupanloup, translated for the Living
Age; Part V Of John, by Mrs. Oliphant;
besides very interesting articles on the
Superfuous Letter, by Elihu Burritt,
Miss Austen and Miss Milford, from
Blsckwood, Arthur Hugh Clough, from
the Contemporary Review; and Poetry
by J. G. Whittier, Jean Ingelow, Go.
To new subscribers, renting So for
the year 1870, five numbers of 1859, CEN
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

SUICIDE IN WALLINGFoRD.-Mart
Chilson, resident of the village of Wall
ingford, died Thursday afternoon from
the effect of Opium, undoubtedly taken
purposely to produce self destruction. He
had been laboring some time under de-
pressed state of mind. Wednesday morn
he intimated to his house-keeper that she
might be absent during the day and night.
She accordingly, visited a neighbor and
remained till night. In the evening she
returned, and after making great noise
upon the door, finally aroused him by rap.
ping upon the window to the bedroom.
where he slept, and was admitted. Mr..
Chilson unlatching the door and immedi-
ately returning to his bedroom. The
house-keeper then retired for the night.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
English stockholder, followed with
snaaob affirmed to the same key.
washington Items.

The present debt of Washington is
81, 10000, and there is disposition to
double it by subscriptions to railroads.
Information received from ex-Presi-
dent johnson, who is now at his home in
Greenville. Tenn, is to the effect that he
is preparing to go to Europe this spring,
expecting to be absent about six months.
Kendall Green, the estate OF the late
Amos Kendall, just north of Washington,
has been sold to the Columbian Institu-
ton for the deaf, dumb and blind, for
$4,000. There are eighty-two acres OF
land.
The Mr.. Roots, nominated as minis
ter to the Hague, is clerk to Senator
Pomeroy's committee in the Senate, and
is competent for the position.
-Advices from South Carolina state
Gov. Scott will not order an election in
Whittemore's district till next fall. 1t is
thought that then Whittemore will be
elected for the balance of this Congress
and colored man for the next.
There were proceedings Wednesday
night at Masonic Hall in honor of the
memory of Gen. Thomas, under the au'
spices of the Grand Army of the Republic
Gen. Schenck presided; an Grafton was
delivered by Gen. Logan, and brief
speeches were made by Secretary Belknap
Vice President Colfax, ex-Gov. Fairchild
Secretary Cox, Senator Thayer and Re-
preventative Maynard.
Senator Howard remarked in debate,
Wednesday, that four months of the
present session had expired and that not
one-half of the business has been transact
ed In his opinion, it would not be pos.
sible to close the session in four months,
more especially if bills were taken up
considered for few days, and then laid
aside for a while, instead of being pressed
to vote.
Fernando Wood created quite sen,
sation in the House, Wednesday after.
noon, by his grave charges against Gen
Howard. Nobody believes them true,
but the attempt made by two or three
Republicans to avaid an investigation
was promptly put down. Mr.. Dawes de-
manded an investigation, as a friend OF
Gen. Howard, and it is understood that
Gen. Howard would have demanded an
investigation if the House had not ordered
it. There was much feeling against Mr..
Wood for Juggling in his personal attack
under cover of personal explanation.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
THE RUTLAND HERALD
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1870.
Registration of Foreign ships.


The Committee on Commerce of the
Senate and House are to hold joint
meeting to decide some line of policy re-
lative to the numerous applications COM
ing from the seaboard all over the United
States. for the naturalization and registra-
ton of foreign ships. This question has
been much eanvassed during the last
and present session of Congress in both
committees, and has occasionally been
ventilated little on the floor. There are
at the present time almost thousands of
ships sailing under British colors, which
are owned in America. Their owners
were compelled during the war to take
out foreign registers or lose their pro-
perty, as the government was unable to
protect them against the Confederate
cruisers. In one Massachusetts, district
alone, that of New Bedford, there was de-
stroyed upward of four millions of ship
ping, and to save the remnant of their
property the owners placed it under the
British flag. Residents of the district in
question have filed claims to the above
amount for losses sustained, which is in
cluded in what are called the Alabama
claims. One of the questions which the
Joint Committee will consider is, what
should be done wi h applications of this
character There is some conflict of
views on this subject. Some of the COM
mittee are in favor of dealing literally
with these cases, and others are opposed
to showing them any favor whatever, and
OF excluding them forever from the privi-
leges of American registration, except on
the payment of the usual tonnage fees of
twenty per cent. The Department APP
pears TO be of the same opinion, and have
not yet recommended the registration or
enrolment of a single vessel thus circum-
stsnced. The idea of the committee APP
pears to be to fix, if possible, on some plan
of discrimination between the applicants,
and to frame general bill, empowering
the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a
register to certain vessels. What line OF
policy they will pursue or adopt in the
matter, cannot now be exactly foreseen or
indicated. The applications before Con-
gress are numerous, and there are hum
dreds of cases awaiting some precedent to
be made, which will come up by-and-by.