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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-23
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The Latest News.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1l22.
William K. Clark was killed, Charles
Ryan mortally wounded, and Henry \.
Corrie seriously cut and bruised by the
explosion Of cannon at Lawrenceville,
Illinois, while firing salute on the
18th inst.
At Usage, Iowa, on Tuesday last Mrs.
Frank B. Hyland was burned to death
while attempting to kindle a fire with
kerosene.
The Empire Tea Company, pretend
ing to do business at l9 La Sale street,
Chicago, is pronounced by the Mayor
and police officers bogus concern, and
the people are advised not to invest.
The Mayor OF Chicago sent into
Council last night for Bridewell In
spector the name OF A. E. Bishop, and
he was rejected, and then the name OF
John C. Haines, who was confirmed.
The Board is now complete.
The annual shooting festival o: the
German Rifle Clubs OF Connecticut was
commenced yesterday at Hartford. Be-
sides the State corps there are the COM
panies Of York" Boston and PROV
idence," and delegations from other
cities. The target shooting will con-
tinue to-day.
The State Department has been Off
cially notified that the expectation OF
cork from the ports of Morocco is free
of duty for three months beginning
on the 9th of June.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Synopsis for the Past Twenty.four
Hours.

Hours.
WASHINGTON, August %, 7P.M.-The
rain which prevailed Monday afternoon
in Nebraska and the northwest is now
confined to Iowa, and the barometer has
risen in Minnesota. The area Of high
pressure which was upon New England
has extended to Michigan and North
Carolina, and the low barometer which
was off the coast of South Carolina has
been carried to the south. The tenn
perature has been highest to-day In
Texas and the southwest, and cloudy
and hazy weather has prevailed along
the Atlantic coast. The cloudy and
threatening weather has cleared away
from the Middle and Eastern States
but light rains from North Carolina to
Florida continue. Smoky and hazy
weather continues over Lake Erie and
Michigan southwark to the Atlantic
and Texas, and the barometer has
fallen decidedly during the day from
Lake Ontario to Michigan.
Probabihitiss-Light local showers
are probable for tonight in Illinois and
westward, with an area FLOW barometer
in the west. On Thursday the weather
will be disturbed on the lower lakes.
A rising barometer with rains will prob
ably continue on the Middle Atlantic
coast. Cloudy and threatening weath-
er will probably continue on "ednes'
day in the South Atlantic States.
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iron foundries have declared their in.
tention to hold their present dwellings
by main force. A great number OF
cheap laboreres cottages were to have
been built this summer had the masons
continued on work.
Tax on Paper.
PARIS, August pa tax has been
imposed upon the manufacture and sale
Of printing paper throughout France to
the amount Of twenty francs per kilo-
gramme.
A Committee Of Inquiry.
A committee Of inquiry has been ap-
pointed by the Assembly to investigate
the action of the delegate Government,
Of which NJ. Gambetta was the head.
The investigation will commence imme-
diately, and General Chauzy and NJ.
Gambetta have been ordered to appear
and explain before the committee their
actions under the authority of that gov
ernment.
Sir Edward Thornton to Take the
Oath-French Affairs.
LONDON, August 22.-Sir Edward
Thornton, Minister to Washington, has
gone to Balmoral TO take the oath as a
member of Her Majesty's Privy Coun-
Gil.
The Times says to-day that further
loan was necessary to restore Paris to
its condition before the war.
The French deputation, visiting Ire.
land have crossed into England, and
will visit the city of York. They are
enthusiastically received everywhere.
Their visit is for the purpose OF return
ing thanks for the aid given the French
during the was.
A grand fete is to be held at Syden-
ham, in celebration of the union Of Ger
many.
The steamer Prince Of Wales, from
Hong Kong to Bankok, Siam, found
cred at sea. Fifty persons were lost.
The steamer North American, for
Baltimore, arrived at Liverpool. The
steamer Austria touched at Moville.
Crown Prince OF Italy on n Visit 10
Spain-Anairs I'm Spain.
MADRID, August 22.-The Crown
Prince Humbert, of Italy, is here visit
ing his brother, King Amadeus.
The budget is ready for submission to
the Cortes. The expenditures for the
wear are estimated at 6OO,OOO,OOO pas
tres; the revenue at jS9,000,OO0 pias'
tres. The Ministry Of Finance antlcl-
pate that the deficit will be easily COW
cred, and therefore regard as unneces-
sary the measures as to the public debt.
1t is announced that Consulate Gen
eral will be established in all OF the
Spanish-American Republics.
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WASHINGTON.
Order from the Secretary Of the
Treasury.

Order from the Secretary Of the
Treasury.
WAsHINGToN, August 22.-The Sec
retary of the Treasury has ordered that
the locks of the American Seal Lock
Company shall, after October |, be used
on all bonded routes between Boston,
New York and Portland, connecting
with Canada. Companies are required
to supply themselves with locks when
carrying goods under special regula-
tions.
Gold Transfers by Telegraph Dis
continued.
The Acting United States Treasurer
has decided to discontinue gold transfers
by telegraph between New York and
San Francisco.
| has been decided not to issue any
report relative to the crops during the
month of August. The reports for
August and September will be issued
Jointly, as there has been demolition
in the aggregate worth the crops OF the
Southern States.
The COrean Expedition.
II seems, from the information relative
to the late troubles in Corea which has
been received here, that when the
United States fleet arrived at the mouth
of Salt river, on the last of May, COM
munication was opened with the local
authorities, or projects, who lntimated
that they were willing to negotiate for a
treaty, and gave permission to the fleet
To make a survey of the river. ltturned
out, however, that when the survey was
undertaken, June |, as the party came to
a bend in the river, an attack, which
had been arranged beforehand, was made
from the forts on shore, with the result
already published. The Coreans had
treacherously lured the surveying party
where they expected easily to destroy
them. After the return OF the party
every effort was made by Minister Low
to have the wrong acknowledged, but
the Coreans refused, insultingly, to make
any amends. 1t was, therefore, con-
clnded to 90 up the river and destroy
the forts, which was done on the l0th
of Jane. The fleet, after teaching the
Coreans this lesson, attempted no iur-
ther hostilities, and has now retlrei to
its ordinary position.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury bal
ances at the close of business today
Currency, s., $4,000 coin, SS9,3Ss,ooH
certificates, Sl7 $4,000.
Bids for Gold.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to receive bids for gold tomorrow
(W Wednesday, instead OF Thursday
Russian Imperial Fleet.
The Russian Legation at Washington
have cable advices of the sailing Of the
feet containing the Grand Duke Alexis
n America. 1t is understood in naval
circles that an American reception ship
will be sent to meet the Russian squad
ron
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The Hop Crop.

The reports from some OF the COUP
ties comprising the great hop district Of
this State, on which we place reliance,
are very discouraging; the crop 10
Oneida and Madison especially will be
light. There will be large amount OF
very poor hops, 40 wide range OF prices
NAV be expected. In this county there
are a great many yards which promise
a very fair yield OF good hops; many
wards will not pay the trouble and s1-
nense of picking. We estimate the
Weld this year as follows:
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AQUATIC.
The international Regatta-The En-.
tries Completed.

tFlcS NO"piStSe
HALIFAX, n. s., August 22.-Ihe
entries for the regatta are now COM
pleted. There are entered TOR the four
cared race the Pryor. Barton and the
Roche crews, Of Halifax; the Renforth
and TAYLOR crews, Of England; the
Coulter crew, of the United States, and
the Paris crew, OF St. Johns. There
are five entries for the single scull race,
viz: Renforth, Brown, Of the Pryor
crew; Coulter, OF the American crew !;
Sadler, of the Taylor and Bogrell crew,
and Tracy, Of the Barton crew. This
race excitcs equal attention almost with
the tour.oared match. Brown. OF the
PRYOR crew, has good reputation, anG
tits expected that the contest between
him and Renforth will be close.
ST. JOINS, y. B., August 2l.-Ihe
crews have finished training and are
resting to-day. Both crews are in cap
ital condition, and a splendid race is
anticipated. The city is crowded with
visitors. There is very little betting,
but the odds are still in favor OF the
Tyne crew.
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A NICE EXHIBrr.
Good Reasons for q Conve.tie..

The township Of Eagle has always
been unmistakably Radical and
correspondingly "loil." To show that
its loyalty" and Radicalism are genu
inc, it is but necessary to bring forward
q few nice little PLAcERs discovered by
the commissioners appointed to examine
the management Of the School funds.
Private peculation and accounts with
the balances on the wrong side are
among the first lessons Radical learn
from the examples Of those high in
office and that the little fishes swim iL
the wake OF the big on es is not wonder
full Here are few items sent US by
friend indicative OF the success OF Radi-
cal financeering:
|. Wm. Harbert, an ex-treasurer Of
the School fund, appears to be deficient
about eight or nine hundred dollars
He said several times that il he had a
thousand dollars he would give il TO be
done with the settlement
>. There was no settlement in 1866.
between the Sheriff, D. w. Robinson
and the County Superintendent g. w.
Fischer, for the Town lots and build.
ings which he (the Sherit) acknowl.
edges. lie has paid over 500 TO the
Board and agrees to settle the balance
at any time. The reason that he assign
ed was that neither he nor the Superin-
tendent thought Of it.
3. Isaac Ash, Of Ssrdis township is
about one thousand dollars behind.
about which, if reports are true, he has
had the hardihood to brag about.
4. The County Treasurer has
charged commission on moneys turned
over to Township Treasurers.
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CHICAGO.
New Phase fin the Importing Mode,

New Phase fn the Importing houe'
CHICAGO, August 22-The Tribune
this morning calls attention TO a new
phase in the Chicago importing trade,
which has been recently developed.
This is the bringing OF goods from
Europe by way OF Montreal, and land
ing them at our own wharves without
previous overhauling. Several of our
heaviest merchants have adopted this
channel Of traffic, which promises TO
grow RAPIDLY BY reason OF its success.
A propeller laden with dry goods, which
left Liverpool on the 29th of July, ar
rived in port yesterday so that in
twenty-five days from the time the
goods left the European port they will
be in the warehouse Of the importer.
This is much quicker time than can he
depended upon in importing via New
York, where the goods, besides being
subjected to outrageous charges, are
usually detained from ten TO twelve
DAYS in the custom house, in addition
to twelve days or more on the ocean,
and from three 10 seven days on rail,
with high charges for transportation.
This independent mode OF importing is
working well, and the only fear Is, that
the New York interests will become so
seriously alarmed at the threatened loss
by this source that they will offer better
inducements for time, and tlatter our
merchants into a renewal OF their fealty
to the old system. What il wanted
now is a complete concentration OF
commercial independence and not
taking il back.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-23
Man Killed.

Urea, n. y, August 22.-At mill
tary picnic held at New Hartford near
this city today, Charles Rowlands, n
member of the Chamberlain Zouavcs,
was struck by stone thrown BY man
named McGee, and expired almost IN
stantly. The difficulty grew out Of Il
dispute between them regarding target
shooting. McGee has been arrested. !.
The affair has created conaide-ab!e ex'
citement.
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Terrible Railroad Accident.

INDIANAPOLIS, August PA terrible
accident occurred on the Indianapolis
and Louisville railroad yesterday after
noon. As an up train was crossing q
country road it strucka q wagon, instantly
killing two inen and two horses. One
mans head was entirely cut off. The
wagon was totally demolished.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-23

Republican office.holders under Tam
many came by their places by pre-
arrangement made when the city char
ter of 1870 was passed, and that at that
time the Times gave to that charter its
support, and commended the appointees
under it.
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Suicide.

BROOKLYN, August %. -Charies
Stern, a German butcher, 49l DcKalb
avenue, shot himself through the head
with a revolver this morning. Busi
ness cares leading to drinking, and this
was the reason OF the act He was I'M
der the influence OF liquor at the time
he committed suicide.
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Fearful Cyclone.

SAVANNAH, August 22-The papers
received here tonight are filled with
accounts OF the fearful cyclone which
occurred at that port on Friday. A
large amount of property was destroyed,
but no lives are reported as lost.
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SPRINGFIELD. OHIO.
Accidcnt-The Funeral of DiStin-
guishcd Citizen.

SPRINGFIELD, ONO, August IA
man named Prentz, living in the coun-
try near here, was seriously injured by a
threshing machine on Saturday, but it
is thought not fatal.
The funeral of Richard Rodgers, a
prominent citizen and former post mas
ter, aged seventy two. took place yester-
day afternoon. II was largely attend
ed. The post Office and other public
buildings were closed to the memory of
deceased.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-23

LEXINGTON, KY, August "a
most disastrous fire occurred here yes
terday, totally destroying Higgins block
which comprised seven buildings. Loss
$50 600; insurance, $35, 600.
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PITTSBURGH.
Dr. George McCook Denies the In
sanity OF the Colonel.

PITTSBURGH, August 22.-Dr. George
McCook, a prominent physician OF this
c;tv returned here from visit to Ohio
to-day, whittier he went to see his
nepbew, Colonel George McCook, Dem.
ocratic candidate for Governor OF 'na'
State. He denies emphatically the 40,
S surd statement telegraphed BY that old
Concern the Associated Press. regard
inc the insanity of the Colonel and at,
tributes his illness to prostraaon an0
partly paralysis.
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Ahor,t IN nm halea Hhich. With

About $1,000 bales, which, with the
old hops on hand, will about sufhce TO
meet the demands Of American brew.
ers. As prices for good hops sre likely
to rule high-say from 40 TO 90 cents
brewers will be likely 10 use them .
little sparingly; and hope Of 8 quality
usually rejected in years Of plenty, will'
this season, find q market-C'0p1s
toscn Journal, l7h.
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.S63,Gl.S

just think OF it, S63,03l.s6 for
county purposes in 1870, when for all
such purposes in 1860 it was but Sl4,-
l73 l6.
Now let us compare the levy OF
1871, when the Democratic Board came
into power, with elevy Of the Radical
Board OF the preceding year.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-03

room the walls should be panelled with frames
of ebony filled with rich violet velvet Mag
niicent mirrors should be let in here and
there. and round the mirrors the ebony
should be enriched with the most deli.
cate carving. The chimney-piece should
be of pure white marble, sculptur-
ed by some great sculptor. Against the violet
velvet beautiful statues should stand, and be-
tween each pair of statues noble picture should
hang. All round the room silver candlesticks,
each separate invention, should spring from
the ebony frames of the panels. The furniture
should be either ebony with orange damask, or
gilded with violet velvet. The carpet should be
lOzengeS of needle-work, an orange pattern on
violet ground alternating with violet pattern
on an orange ground. The curtains and cush-
ions should be of tapestry, done with the nee
die, in violet and orange. This is expensive fur
nishing, but Mr.. Hamertou tells something
about carved furniture that may be OF practical
use. He says that artistic wood-carvers abound
in Paris and are rare in London. That carved
oak in Paris is no modern antique-no piece of
affectation. 1t is hourishing contemporary
ar, and the furniture is all in solid wood there
is no veneering In the shops in the boulevards
this furniture is dear, but if you hunt up the
workmen and get acquainted with them, you
can get good work at moderate prices. A very
pretty carved chair costs a sovereign. A richly
carved bookcase, eight feet high, costs eight
a table with massive twisted legs and
effective carving all round it as deep as drawer,
costs only two pounds. Mr.. Hamerton tells
other interesting things about wood carving.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-03

Besides dischsrging their appropriate func-
ton of applying the principles of law to the
adjustment of disputed matters Of private right,
the courts do mankind the service of settling a
great many incidental questions of interest
Such question presented itself at the Exeter
assizes in England short time ago, where
man was charged with stealing lobster from
the lobster-pot of fisherman. In defense Of
the accused his counsel urged that the lobster is
a wild animal, and therefore cannot be said to
be the goods or chattels of anybody, nor, conse-
quently, can it be the subject Of larceny. The
court, however, after hearing the arguments,
pronounced its opinion that the interesting ami
NAL in question is not one of those which are
technically, and for the purposes of the law,
termed wild. An English paper finds this
opinion somewhat at variance with its previous
notions Of the creature with which its editor was
probably personally acquainted only where it
appears to best advantage, in a salad. He offers
as a solution of the difficulty the statement that
there are two varieties Of HOLSTERS, one of which
is black, not good to eat, and decidedly wild;
the other red, good to eat, and tame. This gen
tIeman had not pursued very far his inquiries
into the natural history of crustaceans. New
York contemporary carefully exposes his ig-
norauce, explaining that the only difference be-
tween the two varieties is, that one has been
boiled and the other has not, and then proceeds
to display a similar ignorance on its own part
by suggesting that perhaps the merits of the
Exeter case depend upon how long the lobster
had been in the pot, evidently supposing that
1obster-pot is the vessel in which the creatures
are boiled, instead of the trap in which they are
caught.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-03

1t is curious to observe how steadily the cham
pions of the ring in New York refuse to notice
the point of the charges made by the Times and
repeated by all the republican and some of the
democratic papers of the city. The accuracy of
the figures published by the Times is admitted
The damaging conclusions suggested by them
are eyaded by asserting that the attack of the
Times is prompted by old grudge, and that
these corrupt expenditures were made by the
old and not the present city government. But
no notice whatever is taken of the reply to the
latter defense that Tweed, the ruling spirit Of
the old board of supervisors, is equally inauen-
tial in the new government, and chair
that Ingersoll, his partner, TO whom
the most extravagant of the payments
complained of were made, has been appointed
by Mayor Hall one of the commissioners to SUI
perintend the further spending of money in pre-
tending to finish the new court house, and that
all the other VIGOROUSLY corrupt men implicated
in the exposed frauds are well provided for in
the present government, in places whose salaries
are liberal and whose opportunities for plumber
are unlimited. In none Of the ring organs can
De found the remotest allusion TO this aspect of
the case, and yet it is the very pith of the whole
Times is fighting against, so much as the shame
less corruption and yenalIty of the men who ad-
minister it, and aspire to rule not only the city
and state, but to control the national govern
nnent as we'll
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-03
Keep OF the Gras.Isl
BAY STATE HOUSE,
WORCESTER, August 2I1S7t.

WORCESTER, August 2J1Sn.
Dear Mr.. Spv-Allow me to appeal from the
confusion OF my own senses to the calm certi-
tude of yours Language used, when was a
boy and studied-let's see what and whom-some
disciple of Murray at least-to have something
like definite significance; and scholarly people
in those days prided themselves on not abusing
it. But these youngsters nowadays have so
many new-fangled ways of saying that which
appears to me to be what they don't mean to
that perhaps their fashions have grown into
ruling customs, and therefore become GRAM
NAUTICAL" While my eyes grow more and more
dim, yours keep Spying" sharply about, and
dare say you'll discover that l am far behind
the times, and have become an "old fool"
But, to the issue Not hundred miles away
from your pleasant city / note here and there,
emblazoned in most legible capitals on boards
set about parks, etc.-"KREP OFF THE GRAssP
My soliloquy (pathetic in its tones, of course,
for am man of pathos, still), is ever, on be-
holding one of these modern devices" Poor
grassi What hath it done amisS, that it should
be TINS "warned against" thus made Odious,
like disease, which we all strive to "keep off"
from harming us confess that, after all, am
not so much of an "old fooP as to not suspect
the intent of this warning to be command to
wandering tribes and reckless loafers to keep
off from the grass" But if that be the mean
ing, where are Massachusetts school-masters?
Are they ABROAD" or all reposing in the grave
with Horace Mann?"
Do, dear Mr.. Spy, speak to the county people
about this matter, lest their new-fangled "gram-
mar" should, like the vandals in Rome, make
an incursion upon this goodly city, and corrupt
the tongue OF your own people; and SO oblige
Rip Van Wrinkle and his old fossil, outofdate
friend, and your friend, but to the new school
masters an entire STRANGER.