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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-02
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Democratic Retrenchment In Small

u n kI AAaAeoAhAH IN 4
Small tacts sometime serve to Illus:
trate greattrutha The wonderful growth
ofthe State thatwas tofcnow The install.
ment Of tho Democracy in power appears
tohaye begun, hndit Is 10 Extremely Wig
orous thu the first indicationofit b found
in aphysical expansion Of territory. The
State is evidently a good deal larger in
square miles than 1t was a year or so ago.
The evidence Of this Is found In the fact
that the distances from point to point are
greater; and the proof OF this, in turn, is
found in the mileage allowed members
by tho Legislature which has jtst I'D,
journed. A reference to this little matter
also serves TO illustrate another immense
truth, viz: that the Democracy are pecu.
liarly the exemplaFs Of Tie seyerest re-
trcnchmcnt and economy.
By reference to the proper documents,
we find that tho number Of miles travel
allowed members ot the House pfDele-
gates Of 1870 (the last that sat in wheel.
ing) was 1880 miles. The number al.
lowed by the present House was 26,96S-
or $3.50 more. The latter makes the
average distance from tho members
homes 10 Charleston 24O miles-5O miles
more than the like average in 1870. Our
old friend HAeAR used to Say thntit was
just as far from Charleston to Wheeling
as it was from Wheeling to Charleston.
Perhaps that was true then; but ii Is not
now. In 1870 the Charleston members
OF the House coming 10 Wheeling tray.
eled 2l5 miles, but now the Wheeling
members have to go Ii miles further 10
get to Charleston. Two members OF the
Convention found the distance $50 miles,
while the third found it just 900. SO, you
see, UNCLE RoDERT's tape.line won't do
Tor the young and vigorous" &C., under
Democratic rule. II seems also to be
further to Charleston from all tho coun.
ties in the State than 1t was from those
counties to Wheeling, If Wheeling Is
away up here in one corner. il
We cannot lay hands on the figures
just now to make comparison as To tho
mileage of the Senate. Tho mileage of
the Convention is 35,4OS miles, making
the mileage bill Of that body $354O. That
OF the House is $9 800 besides that allow.
q. officers; for We are told these drew
mileage, even down to the pages! The
mileage OF the House of 1870 was So, 1856,
showing that in this one little: item tho
present House retrenched to the amount
ol $500 lover tho lefty 1t is small SUM,
and we refer to il only as showing how
acute and contagious, in small matters, as
well as in great, is the zeal of our Demo.
cratic brethren for retrcnchment and re.
form.
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The Lonlsiana Lerlslature,. y,

New oRLRANs, March 1.-The Lepis.
Iature adjourned last night sine die. SeVe.
raj plundering schemes were pushed
through before the adjournment. There
was very little done in the way Of re.
forms. ., g..,.
The Times says the body called the
General Assembly oi Louisiana terminal.
cd last night It's career Of unparalleled in.
fanny. 1t would be trite phase to say
that the history OF modern times furnishes
no such example Of gross abuse, OF
frauds, OF such fragrant immortality, cor
ruption and indecency as have marked
the career Of this disgraceful assembly.
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"Liberal Republican, Movement In
Tennessee. '' i-[''',

NAsHyIILE, March 1.-Ex.senator
Fowler, Chancellor Post and other Lib.
eral Republicans will issue an address To-
morrow inviting the Republicans Of Ten.
nessee to send delegates 10 the Cincinnati
Convention. The address condemns the
administration ot Grant, particularly the
South, and calls for reunion and reform.
The Southern Baptist Educational Con-
vention assembled in this city to-day,
Chas. Manly presiding. Nearly all the
Southern States were represented. The
chiet purpose Of the Convention Is the
consideration oI the measure TO establish
a University. Irea ..ll.o- n
Nelson Walker, a colored lawyer, was
admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court today. =. .. a' p.
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CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, March 1.-The corner stone
Of the new Chamber of Commerce was
laid this afternoon.
A large assortment Of blooded live stock
and improved machinery have been col
lected at this point, by A. B. Capron, for
shipment to Japan. 1t will 60 forward to
San Francisco next week in charge Of
George Mayo, Of Michigan. 7
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CALIFORNIA.

SANiFnANoIsco, March 1.-The steam
Ship JAP an started tor naoto-day with
&,433,0tO. 7aa -apg ,.a H.. 4. a-ilfs7 10.
A. J.L aiountaIne, one Of the Oldest job
printers In California. died yesterday. ID
a dispa tch from Wyckenburg, Arizona,
says the A pachCs attacked two trains be.
tween THAI place and Phpnix, and muir
dered SAM Cullenber and Tom Harris,
At Martinez Rancho they ran off the
stock and pl mdered the station OF all its
valuables. ....r. Z ~
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A PAIR Of elk horns was received at the
Adams Express office in, this city, lyester.
day consigned to Mir. Lloyd Rawlings,
whose arrival here from Utah was no
tlced in yesterdays Metos. The horns are
extraordinary large, measuring three feet
seven inches in length, and five feet two
inches from tip TO tip. Each horn has
eight branches, and the pair weigh tofay
pounds. They are really a curiosity.
-Cttmberldnd NseS,.
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DISASTER AT FRANKFORT, KY,

Fall of a Tenement--Large Mum.
ber Buried in the Ruins-.-Four.
~ teen Corpses Rescued.
( FiR!AltSsqKFoRT, IAN March, la building in
which large number Of persons resided
fell this morning, butyihg the inmates in
tho ruinA Fourteen corpses have thus
far been taken from the debris. A large
force of men are engaged in searching for
the bodies OF the other victims.
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Kansas Legislature.

TorEKA, Ks, March 1.-The House
after half.past ten o'clock refused to do
any more business except to receive and
act on messages from the Senate and
Governor, The Senate has been hard at
work, which will probably continue most
Of the night Both house adjourn to.
morrow. The total appropriations of the
session have been $575,OO0.
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YAqaUIAs aa0Na0LIlaFNl

compensation except out Of money and
property 30 secured. yoayugj .aHJiSliE
An amendment proposing 10 establish
. branch mint, at Charlotte, N; G., was
rejected. /
The Senate then went into executive
session and soon alter adjourned. -a.sisa
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The low barometer south Of western
Florida will probably move northeast.
ward Into the south Atlantic States
the area Of rain, extending by Satur-
day morning 70 Virginia and Of snow
Ohio valley, increasing 10 possibly brisk
northeasterly winds along the south At
lantic coast, Clearing weather with
winds veering 10 the northwest will ex-
tend eastward from Texas into Alabama
by Saturday morning and westward into
Tennessee and Georgia by evening.
Pleasant weather viii prevail over The
New England States, with increasing
cloudiness over the middle States, and
probably threatening weather from Penn.
sylyania southwark. Dangerous winds
are not anticipated for this evening, ex.
cept for the south Atlantic and Gulf Coast
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CINCINNATI.

Number of Hogs Packed this Season.
CINCINNATI, March 1.-The whole
number of hogs packed In this city be.
tween November I, 1871, and March /,
1879, according to the report Of Colonel
Maxwell, Superintendent Of the Chamber
OF Commerce, were 6S0,30l; packed be.
tween March l and November l, 1871,
S7,5l5; Of the latter number 9G,546 were
hacked in October. H-H'
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Educational.
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY,
1912

NJ, L9e last Catalogue shows an sttrnnsncn os ~,
"'sGCats NJ this Institution. Five distinct De.
Msaena o. Instruction, Win d Cui! corps ol
nI,Is. Lae ancient and Modern Languages: Mathe.
Males, pure aud sppIi,t!. psycGoISSv RthJcS
IU'IsSi Economy, Logic. Rhetoric, the Sciences
~ NJ &C, carefully and thoroughly taught prSc.
ssaa.S SM .GSnems'ty, and rhyslce UlueitatSd by Rp-
stWyae .tS az apparatus special NdvAutagtr lof tie
a. "a good Library. Extensive Cabinets of Min.
%%.HoEN GEOLOGY and Concbology; together viii
Ti.,y Tiay specimens In other dcpsrtmCnts Of Nstural
NrsTsN Fine buildings beautiful and hGGlthy
"TpSuon; good society, . h's Sf'F =
nIALL TERN begins September I:h. Winter
ss@1et SsN, Tt slh, Spring, March a0Eh. Commence
STo&1sdinS from q to & per week.
ppu!uol, from SIS 70 SEA per year, ,
:" Eatthef particulars, inquire Of s.
IS ALEX. MARTIN, President,
AorCantOwu, West Va.
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CHARLESTON.
cIAl Telegram to the 1ntcllIgesnccr.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, March /.
We are to have nine Circuit Judges. In
the Standardization maketwo Circuits
Of the third, giving thirty thousand one
Judge, while sixty thousand in the west
have but one, The same grievance wehad
in the old State. Fl,
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GALE OF FOUNDRY FIXTURES

IoiIer at private salc tho Patterns, Flasks and
Fixtures In Union Foundry belonging to tho late
hEm OF W. W. Miller 4 Co. /.
Tho purchaser can secure O reasonable lease Of
feet by Is feet centrally located with good light
which cannot be ObsHucted, and contains all the
necessary appliances Of q nrst-Class JobbIng
Foundry. t.
For further particulars apply on tho premises
10 " II. B. MILLER,
JAR9 Receiver.
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BRICK STABLE
-sLAND LOTS FOR SALE.

Having sold all the lots offered at $500 each.
except two, ! now offer ten lots fronting on tho
east side Of Elm and Chestnut streets and ex.
tending to the river. Pylce from $500 to 81 900
each according 10 size and location. Terms,
One.iourth cash, residue in equal ihStAIlments at
one, two and three years. ~.
JN0. p. GILCHRIsT,
Aug2i At Top Mil.
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FOREIGN FRUITS.

E.i s'iaf -arnfs.
Cases syrian Dates. . ,r,.g.....
8 PrailG New Arabian Dates. .l,
Is Boxes italian Pmnes. g In.
s Foxes selected Preach Primes. ..
Casks new Turkey Prunes. lrs.g
100 Boxes choice AosSina Oranges and Lemona
Just arrived aud for aAle low, wholesale and
retail, by q ayad m,
foOn ssMAskst Street.
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VALUABLE BUILDING LOT
AT PISIvATE sAI4H.

Invlcw Of the opening Of John street TO Rail.
road and business purposes, tho undersigned
Trustees ol the let Eug. Evan. Lutheran Church,
OtIer for sale their very eligible Lot at N W
corner OF ith and John, 80 feet on JOha street By
ID feet on 4th street.
TERMS or SALE One. fourth the purchase mon
ey In cash and the balance In one, two aud tire,
years, with Interest from day of sale
II not sold before TUESDAY, April Cd, 1872
II will on that day, at 10 o'clock, be offered
AT PUBLIC SALE, f.
Al the front door OF the Court House. For fur.
her Information applyto iii =
HENRY A. KNAPP, ....
GRO. W. SToNRR,
GEO. r. ZTMMER, Ht
Trustees Let Eng. Lutheran Church.
isb.l-S4Tu ~ 'N
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DWELLING HOUSE
FOR SAIE.

| offer for sale the hone In which I now re. -
aide, situate on John street, few doors
east Of Fiith. The house 10 substantial
sides bath room and kitchen, and finished
attic, withR good cellar, hot and -coldwater In
bathrooms. The honsc Ia In good order and
well located and In every way q desirable prop,
erty, being butH little over q square from t6C
Post OGiCG There is also on the premises good
BRICK STABLE, ,,sFf|
sutlciGnt for four horses, and carriage house
Any one wishing 70 purchase can examine thC
premises at any limo.
sept25 JNO. +, MCDERMOT,
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Weather Repo,r1t. :


.,....r.... lido. war DEPARTMENT, 4
lOTPIcE or TIE CHIEF SIGNAL OYPIcsR.
WARRINGTON, D. O., Mar. l-7:8O 2. Il.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-02

Leonard, of the Cleveland Leader, has
invented a sheet iron cat, with cylindri.
cal attachment and steel claws and teeth.
1t is worked by clock.work. A bellows
inside swells up the tail at will to a bel.
iieerent size, and by . tvonsolo attach.
ment, causes, at the same time, the
patent cat To emit all noises of which
the living bird is capable. When you
want fun, you wind up your cat and
place him on the roof. Every cat within
half a mile hears him, girds on his armor,
AMI sallies forth. Frequently, fifty or
M hundred attack him at once. No
sooner does the patent cat feel the
weight Of an assailant than his teeth and
claws work with lightning rapidly. AID.
versaries within six feet Of him are torn
to shreds. Fresh battalions come on
to meet q similar fate, and III an hour
several bushels Of hair, toe nails and
fiddle strings alore remain.
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vAD9SVVhAC . ASASNVvV8A CSo
African Correspondence Of the New York Herald
The stories which the Doctor relates
of the two immense countries through
which the great river Nile runs, read
like a fable. The most southerly ID
called Rua; the northern is called Man
yema by the Arabs, and Manuema by
the natives, who are cannibals. He tells
of ivory being 90 cheap that twenty-five
cents' W. rth of copper will purchase a
large tusk, worth 500 at Zanzibar. He
tells of ivory being turned into door,
posts and cave s%tanchions by the canni.
balls of skillful manufactures of fine
grass cloth, rivaling that of India ; of q
people 50 nearly approaching to white
people, and 80 extremely handsome
that they eclipse anything ever seen in
Africa; and from this fact supposes
them to be descendants of the ancient
Egyptians, or of some of the lost tribes
Of Israel (; he tells of copper mines at
Katauga which have been worked for
ages; of doci]e and friendly peoples,
who up to this time have lived buried
in the lap Of barbarian, ignorant that
there lived on earth a race 50 cruel and
callous as the Arabs who have come
among them, rudely awakening them
out OF their sleep with the thunder of
gunpowder, to kidnap, rob and murder
them without restraint, and of MANY
other things he tells, some details Of
which will follow this telegram.
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Merciful Thieves.

Those were merciful thieves who rob.
bed the Blackstone Bank, at Uxbridge,
Mass, early on the morning of the
18th. They entered the house of 4.
W. Haywood, the cashier, through a
chamber window, gagged the whole
family, consisting Of four persons,
entered the room of Charles Wesson.
a teller of the bank, and compelled him
to accompany them to the bank and un.
lock the safe. They obtained Sl4, 900,
locked the safe and bank, took the tel.
Ter back to his room, Engaged the
whole open.mouthed family, and gave
them water to drink, in order that they
might not suffer, gagged them again
and went away.
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his maturing notes, and when she found
it impossible to effect q loan from Du
zan, she found herself ut the end O
the rope. She was compelled to close
the account, and catching the nearest
way, she accompanied Young and his
wife on their ride, her brother, Silas,
followed in a buggy with the gun pur'
chased by Abrams, Young end his wife
were murdered, an the murderers fled
to indianapolis in the manner described.
Mrs. Glenn was first tried in the fall OF
1868, and but for the obstinacy of a
German juror, who stood out for con
viction against eleven for acquittal, she
would have gone scot free. Upon the
second trial she was convicted, and SEN.
fenced to tho States Prison for life.
Her brother Silas-who had testified in
her behalf, and had been detected in
a dozen perjuries concerning his where
abouts or the day of the murder-com.
mitted suicide il jail, the night Of her
conviction, by cutting his throat with a
razor. Abrams was then tried, and con
victed of murder in the first degree
the proof of the purchase of the gun
by him, a few hours before the murder,
being clear and conclusive; also, his
dividing the money with Mrs. Glenn at.
ter the murder. The Supreme Court
reversed the judgment against Mrs.
Glenn and gave her a new trial, upon a
shallow technicality that led many ig.
norant people to believe that the court
had been corrupted. Her counsel took
a change of venue, and she was tried
the third time at Lebanon, Boone
County, Indiana ; that trial resulted in
a divided jury. The fourth and last
trial has just been concluded by q YER
dict of guilty, with a sentence Of i'm.
prisonment for life. Thus has ended
n of the most remarkable chapters in
the history of the criminal jurispru.
dence Of this country. We doubt if
the celebrated Webster case fur
nished a stronger illustration of the
efficacy and reliability of a connected
chain of circumstantial evidence. At
it was pronounced incredible that
Mrs. Glenn should have had any connec-
ton with the murder of her two friends,
but little by little the truth came to
light, until her guilt was SO clearly re.
vealed that no intelligent mind could
doubt it after carefully considering the
facts.
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The flies are beginning to become nu.
merous and troublesome. The streets
and the houses are even now full OF
them, and the great fly season is only
commenced. The ingenuity of man
has not invented agents that can destroy
them as fast as they come. Nor is this
to be wondered at when it is known
that from a single fly more than two
millions of these pets are produced in
one summer. The rapidity and multi
plicity with which they increase may be
learned from the following table:
A Ay lays four times during the summer.
each m laying eighty eggs. which
Half Of these are supposed to be- fcmaies. ~
60 that each OF the four broods produce
l.. Fif.t eighth, or the forty females of
the first brood. also lay four times
the. course Of the summer. which
The aIst sisIth ofiIs:s. or i.SoO females. N'
The second eighth, twice.".--".--..... $500
The third and fourth eighth. 1t least once
: 25s.OOo
the second brood. lay three times, the
oae-sixth ofthess. or l.sOo females. three
The second sixth. twics. s sss.SS
5. The third eighth. or the forty females i1''O"
q 1.-THE second brood. lay twice. and pro-
........... ...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 6,4UO
Ons.fourth Of these, or Loco females. lay
twice moIe-;-;:y~..-:-.-..-........ $4,000
4. The fourth eighth. or forty females Of
The fourth brood; nce...-r.--w~-.. $500
Half OF these. or 1.600 females. at least
1880
-
Total produce Of . single Ay in one sum
....... Z. Oeo,s2O
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A Western Woman.

Grace Greenwood has found in Cali.
fornia, among the mountains, a young
landlords wife, who is a ~singularly
spirited and original character, an en-.
thusiastic mountaineer, a good rider,
climber and shot. In rough Yosemite
costume she explores these heights and
gorges T; she hunts the deer. the fox and
the hare, though the wildcat is her
specially. And she is neither dyspep.
tic, nor paralytic, nor bent double with
spinal curvature, nor afflicted with any
OF the diseases peculiar to women here
abouts.
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Lard Poor.

I've had another offer. wifs-a twenty acres
o. hi.h and dry prairie land. ~ level as q
ItA'SSss, ia wait and see you Ar's. as Lawyer
To tell how things will turn out best . woman ID
And when this lot is paid for. and We have got
IN a that I am satished-i,'s all the land we
And next ven see about the yard. and nr the
And manage in the course Of time to have . better
home.
TAsrs is no use Of talking. Charles-you buy that
twenty more.
And yell go sc5impins all our lives. and always
FOR thirty years we've tussed and saved. denying
-. half our needs.
While all we have to show for il Is tag receipts
and deeds!
I'd sell the land if 1t were mine. and have a bet
With broad. light rooms to front the street. and
take life as it come.
If We could live as others live. and have what
wsalive enough sight plsasanter. and have a
plenty. too.
while Others have amusemsnts. and luxury and
Just think how .tinsy We have lived. and how
That OF sr farm you bought Of Wells. that took
OF clearing up and fencing in. has cost ne many
tears.
Yes. Charles. I've thought oft. a hundred times
And wondered if it really paid to always be Land
That had we built a cosy house. took pleasure as
Our children. once so dear to us, had never left
our home.
I grieve 10 think of wasted weeks. aud years and
months and days. II
while for il all We never yet have had one word
Men cali US rich. but We are poor-would We not
The land: With all its fixtures. for q betsOr way
to live?
Don't think I'm blaming you. ~Charlss-you're
I've pitied you these many years. oses you tired
and lame.
It's just the way We started out. our plans too far
ahead; |
We've wsrn the cream of life away, to leave too
much when dead.
And after all toe much Of wealth seems useless
We, we've learned. ala. too late. what all
Our brightest earthly happiness is buried in the
past.
That life is short and full Of care. the end is al
seldom half begin to live before vs'r. doomed
" ere I to start my life again. I'd mark zach sep
ante day.
And new r let a single one pass unenjoyed away.
II there were things to envy. I'd have them now
and then.
And have . home that was q home. and not .
cage or pen.
I'd sell some land If it we're mine. and ft mp we'll
the rest,
I've always thought. and think 50 yet-smaU
farRas ceN scorked are best.