The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-20
A CAsUs DELLI

are industri0uBly doing London ike any
other visitors, and work hard at H.
A CAsUs BELLT.
The future Emperor and Empress Of
Germany were snubbed by Queen Vic.
toria on the occasion OF their recent visit
to England. Her Majesty refused TO take
them In at any Of her palaces, and they
were obliged to lodge with common
Ambassador. ..r
INVESTIGATION OF HORNE, THE AMERI.
CAN MEDIUM ..
The extraordinary phenomena produced
BY Horne, the American medium, In Lon.
don, arc being made the subject Of care.
full examination by Prot. Crooks, an EN-.
inent chemist, DR.. Higgins, an equally
eminent astronomer, and Mr.. Sergeant
Cox, of the English bar. The results OF
their researches arc yet incomplete. The
examinations are recorded in the Lon.
don Scientific Journal The investi.
gators are satisfied Of the immense scien.
tifc Importance Of the subject, and Prof
Crooks and Sergeant Cox both seem to
be convinced of the existence ofa nerve
atmosphere Of various intensity, envelop.
ing the human structure. DR.. Huggins has
not yet been able to satisfy his mind and
wants to make further experiments.
LAMENT OVER DECAYrNa MONARCHY.
The London Spectator laments over the
tlecadanCe OF acknowledgement in Great
Britain, itsays there Is in this country but
one great political institution left alive,
and that Is apparently endeavoring to
commit suicide by asphyxia. The throne
as a political power Is dead, the Lords
are dying, and II the House Of Commons
lose the respect Of the country there will
be nothing left. =
The STANDARD says that Mr.. Gladstone
will abolish the system Of the purchases Of
army commissions. Several members Of
the royal family have visited Napoleon.
The smallpox Is decreasing in London.
Princess Helena, Of England, wife Of
Prince Christian, OF Schleswig. .Holstein,
il about to visit the Continent to seek re-.
lief from an affection Of the lungs.
THE TiCHBoRNE CASE.
A special correspondent of the New
York Times writes as follows In regard TO
the Tichborne case: Who the claimant is
the Information ] give you will he the
first publication Of the paradoxiCal fact.
The claimants, both TfChborne and Or.
ton, reveIling the mystery proceed to
n solution. When Roger G. Tichborne
LEFT England for South America his uncle,
Sir Jas, Doughty, vas in the possession OF
the TichbOrne estates, he dying Childless
the title to the estates fell to the claimants
father, who also dying, his eldest son,
Roger c., would inherit had he survived,
ns Il was believed that Roger periqhed in
1853 in the ship.wreCk Of the shin
Bella, in which he unquestiOnably
sailed from Rio Janerio for New
York. His younger brother Alfred,
succeeded, and he dying at the age Of %
years, left an infant, who, had not the
claimant appeared, would unobstruCted,
on arriving at legal age, have assumed the
title and proprietorshlp Of the estates.
All these facts arc not new TO you, but
this one Is that the claimants father had
an ilegltmate child by his cook, Mary
Orton, sister Of old George Orton, who
the defence say was the claimants father
and whom the claimant, under the name
OF Arthur Orton, wns brought up. The
boy was ignorant Of his true parentage
and after many strange vicissitudes set.
tied in Australia, where he was found in
1866, under the name Of Tom Castro, pur.
suing the calling Of his putative father, n
butcher. Old lady Tichbornc, was Of an
cratic and unsound mind, and though IL