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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-15
shaGer, the Polsoner, Sentenced

HARRIsDuRGH, Pa, October l4.-1n
the case oi Emanuel Shaifer, on the second
trial to-day tor the murder oI his two
wives and John sharlock by poisoning,
the prisoner, pleaded guilty Of murder IN
the second degree and was sentenced 10
the penitentiary for 80 years,
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lndicted for MansIaugh,er.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, October l4.-spen.
Ger T. Downey, engineer Of the Central
railroad, was to-day indicted for man.
slaughter, In having caused fatal acci-
dent BY q collision at PittsIOrd a short
time ago.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-15
RY TELEc GRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
Exclusively to tho IntellIgeneer.

tBJ the Western Union Line.
oheG Northwest cor. Of Main and Monroe sH
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Weather Report,
PRODABILITTEs,

WAR DEPARrKENF,
oPP1cE or THE CHrEP SIeNAI OFTIorR.
WARRINGTON, D. c., October l4.-7:30 P,H
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SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.
Decision in the Gas Case.

50 eAS Noo Sasoe
At the session Of the Supreme Court oi
Appeals Of West Virginia held yesterday,
Judge Maxwell delivered the opinion Of
the Court In the case Of the Wheeling Gas
Company US. the city Of Wheeling, affirm.
ing the decree Of the Circuit Court, where
1t will be remembered the case was decl-
ded in favor of the city. The following
Is the decision in full:
The Wheeling Gas Company,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Marriage Law in England.

The question which is just now
puzzling the wise brains lying under
the wigs of sixteen English Judges Is
whether a man who has married the
niece of his first wife. having a sec
ond wife living, is guilty of bigamy.
This legal conundrum has been found
SO difficult to answer that q court
lately assembled IN the Exchequer
Chamber, consisting of two Lord
Chief Justices, the Lord Chief Baron,
and thirteen puisue Judges, were
unable to come to a conclusion on
the subject, and have reserved their
decision for another term. The
facts are that one Henry Allen es-
poused a wife, and she dying, he then
espoused a second Without wait
ing for number two to die, Allen
proceeded to espouse still another
wife, who happened TO be niece oi
wife number one. None OF these
facts are denied. But according TO
the English laws of consanguln1ty q
man may not marry his wlie's Droth-
er's daughter. An act Of Parliament
nrovides that marriages within the
prohibited degrees shall be not mere
" void, but void to all intents and
Durposes. The defence Is that the
third marriage was an illegal one
and void, and therefore, there being
no marriage, there could be no biga-
NV. The case had been reserved
from the Assizes for the decision oi
the sixteen Judges, who have as yet
been unable to mako up their minds
on the subject.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Greeley's Speeeh at CONCORD.

Horace Greeley IS making a visit to
his native State, New Hampshire) and
was rendered a grand reception by the
municipal authorities of Concord on the
9Th, on which occasion he addressed
them as-follows
My friend Tappan, and my friends
and fellow-citizens of New Hampshire !:
More than half a century has passed
since I left this, my native State, IN
quest cf the future and larger oppOr-
tunities elsewhere. Those years, as
Won know. have been full Of incidents.
As time rushes, events hurry each otner
In our day. he and who lives half a cen
tury In this age, live longer than a
whole ceDturv of the lifeof methuselah
Well. fellow citizens, the half cen
tr1rv which has passed since I ceased to
he a resident of New Hampshire has
seen the origin and growth Of railroads
and telegraPhs and the cables across
the ocean. 1t has seen the rise and
fall of empires and dynasties, and it
has seen the best OF all to me, the over
throw of American slavery.
A great thinker has said that to-day
is a great thing IN disguise; that day
looks common and trivial to the
thoughtless, but all great and noble
successes are made up of to-days. I do
not know how well men have done bet
ter IN this age, but would that / might
feel that have added 70 the history OF
the last half century Of my country,
Our country is better worth living N
to-day, with better opportunities for its
humblest citizen, because Of the events
Of the last half century. In these eYent'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23

Edmund O. Stedman has visited
the old home of Daniel Webster, at
Marshfeld, and thus desribes some
of its features in letter to the New
York Tribune:
The mansion a long, low crossed
rooted wooden pile) has been so Of
ten pictured that I need only speak
of it as owing it's attractiyeness to an
appearance of having grown, foot
after foot, by alteration from some
old building, and of not having been
made bran new and at once; to the
long piazzas, where roses and the
Virginia creeper wonder at will; to
the peaked gables; lastly, to the in
definite feeling one derives from it
that here has been a sturdy presence
of manhood in the past, now gone
forever, but leaving its latent indi-
viduality stamped upon the less
transitory inanimate objects which
surrounded it. eve are what suns
and winds and waters Makes" but
here nature Is as Webster transform
ed it. The house grew with him; the
the trees, except the "white apple
tree" and the famous elm, were
planted by his hand; and the rolling
acres, the unbroken lawn, are the
impress and reflection of the man
himself. The elm, under which Mr..
Webster used to place his chair, and
was painted sitting in country farm
er's garb, differs from any specimen
of New England's royal tree that 1
have ever seen. The trunk is of the
largest, but the limbs shoot out not
far from the ground, and, whether
by art or nature, are trained to cover
over 100 hundred feet in diameter,
dropping low, so that the tree casts a
shadow beyond that of any Windsor
oak, and enhouses you like q banyan.
The great limb has yielded to a re-
cent blast, and touches the ground,
with leaves still green upon it. AS
If a servltor, smitten in defense of
his mansion, had sunk its wounded
limb to earth, the tree still holds its
head proudly, and wards off the tenn
pests onset witha>. it's unharmed
branches.
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A Touching Incident.

In describing the food which was
so disastrous to many sections in
Virginia, the Lynchburg- papers re-
cord the following very sad and
touching incident:
A mother and several little chill
dren we're making their escape from
a marrow neck of land, which lies be-
tween the river and the canal, when
they were amazed to find the bridge
was already gone, and their only
hope was to cling to the abutment
of the bridge until the angry waves
should subside. But, as they stood
there clinging to the abutment, the
waters continued to rise higher and
higher, while in the deep darkness
they could hear the crashing of trees
amid the thunder Of bridge timbers
that were wildly dashing all around
them. They had been IN this des-
perate condition for some time,
when the little girl felt that her
strength was gone, and, with shrek
of terror, she exclaimed:
Kiss me, mother, for can't hold
any longerl'
And, with che warm pressure Of
that mothers lips upon her cheek,
she was swept away, and was seen no
more
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
NUMBER 2.

I have borne an humble part, often
mistaken and ofshOrt sightedness, doing
the thing which seemed right but
which was not always In the wisest and
largest view right; but still I think my
life has led me to exercise q large
charity towards the great mass of the
human race. ] believe the great ma
jority of the human race are constantly
aiming to do right. I have always
wished IN my busy life to come back to
the State of my birth, always hoped to
have some opportunity to return, not
expecting ever again to dwell with its
people, but to commune with them,
and trust the few days which viii be
spent among you and with my friends,
viii be the richest and happIest days of
my life. I hope that hereafter as well
as now, in life which draws towards
its close, and which ought to be de-
voted TO rest, I shall have frequent
opportunities, not many years hence, to
come to New Hampshire to mingle
with its people and rejoice with them
that the old State bears so proud a po-
sition among her sister States; that her
half million of sons and daughters,
now residents of other States, will al
ways look back with pride and affection
to this State and say, that although her
granite rocks are hard, and her soil re-
luctant to give more fruits, still for ali
that, her people are among the happiest
and most intelligent of any we have
seen. So then, my friends, IN the hope
that perhaps 1 shall have an OppOrtun-
ity hereafter to mingle more Familiarity
with you, and that the differences
which have separated us in the past
viii gradually fade away IN the sight of
new circumstances and we shall come
to know each other more thoroughly
in that faith and hope, [ now take my
leave of Won
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
How Gas is Made For Gas-Light

It must interest us to know the
process of making an article so ex-
tensively used in our cities. and we
herewith publish a sort of gas cate
chism, which conveys a good deal of
important Eight" to the juvenile
mind on this subject:
How do they make gas ?"
First, they put about two bushels
of bituminous coal In q long, air
tight retort. This retort is heated
red hot, and, of course, the coal is
heated red hot. when the gas bursts
out of it, as you see it burst out of
Jumps of soft coal when on the par
lor fire. The gas passes off through
pipes. A ton of coal viii make TO-,
600 cubic feet of gas. The gas, as it
leaves the coal, is very impure"
"How do they purify it ?"
'EFirst, while hot, it is run off into
another building, then it is forced
through long perpendicular pipes,
surrounded with cold water. This
cools the gas, when a good deal of
tar condenses from it, and runs
down to the bottom of the perpen-
dicular pipes. This tar is the ordi-
nary tar which you see boiling in the
streets for walks and roofs"
"They now wash the gas. They
call it serubbing it.
"This is done by filing a large
vessel, which looks like a perpendicu-
lar steam boiler, half full of wood
laid crosswise. Then ten thousand
streams of cold water are spurted
through this boiler. Through the
mist and rain, and between the wet
sticks of wood, the gas passes, COM
ing out washed and cleansed. The
ammonia condenses, joins the water
and falls to the bottom.
What next ?"
Well, next the gas is purified. 1t
is passed through vats of lime and
oxide of iron, which take out the
carbonic acid and ammonia"
What next p
The gas is now pure. it is pass7r
ed through the big station meters
then through the mains and pipes,
till it reaches the gas jet IN your
room. Then it burns, while you al
scoId because it don't burn better"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
A Word for the Wife.

There is much good sense and
truth in the remark Of q modern
author, that no man ever prospered
in the world without the co-opera-
ton of his wife. If she unites in
mutual endeavors, or rewards his la
Dor with an endearing smile, with
what confidence viii he resort to his
merchandise, or his farm fly over
lands, sail over seas, meet difficulty,
or encounter danger, if he only
knows that he Is not spending his
strength IN vain, but that his labor
wiD be rewarded by the sweets OF
home. Solitude and DISAPPOINTMENT
enter the history of every mans hte ;
and he is but half provided for has
voyage who finds but an associate
for his happy hours, while for has
moments of darkness no sympstbiz-
ing partner is prepared.
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place where I hoped I should lie
down and die.
[ sent for Laurette. Poor bird, ]
must see her. I could wait no
longer.
One summer night I sat in the
porch of my house, smoking my
pipe, and gazing down the road.
Soon the rumbling of wheels was
heard, and the stage halted.
The next moment a pair of soft
arms were around my neck, and the
head of my sobbing Laurette was on
my bosom.
cob! you dear excellent cap
tain"
Heavens ! who is that behind
you?"
There stood the manly form of
Antoine Hindsclear, the convict.
"What does this mean?" I de-
manded, hardly knowing whether I
was dreaming or not.
Are you glad to see me?"
''Thank God! thank God!7 was
all I could say.
1 understood it all. The mate,
Garley, had read my heart better
than I did myself. After Ieav-
ing the brig in the boat, he ar
ranged the whole affair. The vol
ley was fired, but no bullet touched
Antoine HindscIear. He was
smuggled into his berth again, and
took care to avoid my sight. The
whole crew were in the plot, and,
thank God, I was duped.
1 sent Garley a thousand dollars
as a reward.
am now an old man, but I am
happy. My children and my grand
children { call them nothing else)
seem to think old Capt FOntain-
bleau is not such a wretch after ali.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Facts Worth Knowing.

A miscrospoic. lens was recently
made in London, at a cost. of G250
from a diamond. The magnifyiDg
power of the lens is an increase over
that of glass in the proportion Of
eight to three.
A new style of railroad has been
constructed in Assyria. It has a
single rail with springs on either
side, pressing against it to preserve
the balance. The cost IS from $50
TO $500 a mile.
During the last eighteen years
there has been delivered IN CIncin-
matt an aggregate of 265, ,6OO,347
bushels Of coal
The eleven Territories, including
Alaska. as accurately as can at pres
ept be ascertained, contain over one
billion and quarter acres, exceeding
bv nearly two hundred thousand
SQUARE miles the aggregate territory
Of ali the admitted States Of the
Union.
Colorado has a population of TO-
600, and the assessed value of the
property IN the State is S24, ,000, 600.
It has no public debt. but has a sur
plus in the treasury of $4,000, and
no taxes are to be levied for the year
1872.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company viii use over 15OsOOO,COO
miles of telegraph wire this year.
Ohio produced 81 .3Sl, OBS pounds
of cheese, and 43,020.554 pounds oi
butter during 1871.
There are 30,545 postmasters IN
the United States, and l,4I9 letter
! eaETlera.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
To Have Good Har Craps.

The question is now TO get good
crops of hay and grass, and this
question was touched upon In the
discussion upon this subject at the
last meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture of Massachusetts, when
Mr.. johnson said
The first thing which a farmer
must do Ia order to increase his hay
crop is to look to his manure. We
cannot prepare the ground for seed
properly unless the manure heap is
cared for. That is the first thing
Then it is important that we should
plow our ground properly, that it
may be In a suitable condition to re-
ceive the manure and seed. If the
ground is not plowed to the depth
of seven or eight inches, possibly
nine, we cannot get a surface culti-
vation so thorough that the roots
will not be liable to dry up. We
cannot get mold enou 5h, to use that
term, by shallow plowing to insure
our crop against dry seasons. And
1t is also essential, as every farmer
well knows, that we should have a
proper quantity of manure, in order
that the sod may have plenty of
food, and that we may have paying
crop of grass. 1t does not pay to
NOW ground where we do not get
more than ten or fifteen hundred
pounds to the acre, high as labor is
now. I should say that on most
soils about fourteen cords Of compost
manure should be applied to the
acre in planting the ordinary farm
crops preparatory to seeding our
grass lands.
Manure is the secret of success,
and without manure we might as
well give it up, for we cannot expect
to make much headway.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Greeley's 1871 Speech.

Mr.. Greeley travelled the Southern
States in May, 1871. On his return to
New York he was pnblicly welcomed by
a large cOncourse of his friends, and in
reply 80 an address, spoke at length on
the condition of the South. The fol
lowing is the concluding portion of his
remarks:
Fellow citizens, trust the day is not
distant wherein, putting behind us the
things that concern the past, we shall
defer to that grand old Injunction of the
Bible, ''Speak to the children of Isreal
that they go forward" am weary of
fighting over issues that ought to be
dead-that logically were dead years
ago. When slavery died, I thought
that we ought speedily to have ended
all that grew out of it by universal am
nesty and impartial suffrage. Zap
Plause. think so still; and that If
the Democratic party shall concede I'M
partial suffrage, the Republican party
WI cOncede universal amnesty; If not,
It gkill have a very short lease of power,
So shen friends, 1 summon you all, Re
pubIieans and Democrats, to prepare
for the new issues and new struggles
that visibly open before us. In the times
not far distant, 1 trust we shall consider
questions mainly of industrial policy
questions of national advancement
questions concerning the means where
by our different parties may through
cooperation, or through rivalry, strive
to promote the prosperity, the happI-
ness, and the true glory of the American
people. To that contest. invite you.
For that contest, would prepare you.
And, so, trusting that the blood shed
in the past Will be sufficient atOnement
for the sins of the past, and that we are
entering upon grand new departure,
not for one party only, but for the whole
country departure from strife to haG-
mony, from devastation to construction,
from from famine and desolation to
peace and plenty-I bid you, friends
and fellow citizens, an affectiOnate good
night prolonged cheers and ap-
nInnse. ]
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
. YOU KNOW now IT rs voUR.
Sci En

Dear NeilT' Sunday night, you know,
hadn't much to say;
And yet twas twelve o'clock or so
Before I went away.
You saw that half the time 1 watched
The clock upon the shelf:
o Nelly how wish you might
See how it s-yourselfl
wanted so to tell you what
I've waited long to say.
Ny heart and spirits failed me,
Ny courage died away.
Now, Nelly, only listen,
You roguish little elf.
I'm sure you'd pity me, at least,
If you knew how Il was yourself
Excuse me. Nelly, darling
I've loved you long and we'll:
Then let me keep this little hand.
Nor all my hopes dispel.
love you more than all the world
Can give of power or pelf.
But words, are weaA when hearts would
speak:
You know how it is yourself"
Her lips but family quivering,
Her shy glance upward thrown,
I gently drew her to my side
Ny beautiful. my owni
We sat there all the evening:
Twelve came from the mantel shelf.
The rest you may imagine, for
g You know how it is yourself" "
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
THE THOUGHT or 0oD.


The thought OF Sod is like the tree
Beneath whose shade 1 lie.
And watch the fleet OF snowy clouds
Sail DER the silentsky.
'Tis Hke that soft, invading light
Which in all darkness shines,
The thread that through life's sOmber wed
In golden pattern twlnes.
II Sc thought which ever makes
LIES sweetest smiles from tears,
1t is day-break to our hopes,
A sunset to our fears.
Within thought so great our souls
Little and modest grow,
And, by its vastn ess awed, VIC learn
The art Of walking slow.
The wild flower on the grassy ground,
Scarce bends its plant form,
When overhead the autumnal wood
Is thunderiog Ike a storm.
So is IL with our humbled souls,
Down in the thought @ God,
Scarce conscious in their sober peace
or the wild storms abroad.
To think of Thee ia almost prayer,
And is outspoken praise;
And pain can even passive thoughts
To actual wOrfhip Iaise.
Ali murmurs lie inside Thy viii
Which are to Thee addressed
To suffer for Thee is ourwork,
To Think OF thee, our rest.-Fa5eT.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Juvenile smokers

An English physiciaas with a de-
sire to be a beneHt 70 tl.s rising gem
GRAFTON, has publishe interest
ing facts regarding cEa OF
tobaesO-smoking OF
thslEtE- 1o sl1tes n eaIf
81 are, Ho1a b. w Is be nlokeEs.
bo er5 Is 7.sll
GUS trace q tlas ha 8o
had disorders she 'clr6tsisss SGD
digestion, palpitation of the heart,
and a more or less marked taste for
strong drink. Twelve were trout
bled with hemorrhage at the nose,
and an equal number had slight III
ceration of the mucous membrane of
the mouth. These symptoms were
all mitigated and in some cases erad-
icated by a discontinuance of the
habit of smoking Although all
were treated for the abOve-Eamed
disorders, only those were cured who
abandoned the habit. Persons who
have the care of boys viii do well
to keep these statements, made
on authority of the British He'd dicdL
Journal, well In mind.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23

A WESTERN man at a prayer meet
ing said somewhat enviously, Broth
or Lawyer can sing better than 1
can, but by the grace of heaven I can
fiddle his shirt of. "
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23

A FASHIONABLE mothers advice to
married daughter was " Never
take your husband to an evening
party; there is nothing that is always
so much In the way"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23

Creeping plants are attracted by
certain species of climber growing
near them, and repelled by others ii
has been observed, in tropical forests,
that the climbing vines seem to prefer
certain kinds of trees, and 60 far out
of their way TO reach them, at the same
time avoiding other trees much near
or, and apparently more convenient,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
Subsertption

IoIg HTs = s4uaIes 10 tltn cOIuMu.
ANNoUECEMENTs.-Anno the name of
person for County Office, IS; State Office SO;
Federal Office Si5. Invariably in advance.
~ The above Terms and Rates will be
GrIctly adhered TO.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-03-20
INSURANCE NOTICE.

TIE undersigned have this day entered
into co-partner<hip in the general agency
of the Cotton Sts,es Life Insurance Conn
paur for South Carolina. Office at Mlots
Drug Sore. VI. W. ABNEf.
W. PARKER.
Having established the Office for the
above Company in Columbia, we invite at
renton to one or two of the advantages
offered 10 rh"m who my desire 10 effect
insurance on their lives in a safe Home
Company:
The Board Of Managers at recent meet
ing. passed unanimously the following reso-
luton:
Resolved, That in view Of the fact that
there are unusually large sums paid for
Life Insurance, TO the Companies Of the
North and East, which sums, bring there
invested, contribute to the enrichment OF
those sections. whilst our own Sonth is
greatly in need Of cash capital 10 prosecute
successfully our Agricultural and hschan'.
cal enterprises it is ordered, that tor the
purpose of retaining these sums in onr
midst, hereafter certain propo'tl ton of the
net cash receipts from premiums, amount
ing TO not more than 10 per cent. OF the
same be invested in such manner a. may
he in accordance with the regulations OF
the Company, in those sections from which
the said premiums are attained.
(Sigrcd) WM. B. JOHNSON, Pres't.
GEORGE S. O'BEAR, >cc'y.
The Financial strength of the Com
panv places it in high rank. Its last An.
nual Statement shows that the Company
possesses, besides its large Guarantee, $l7c
for every 500 Of its liability.
ABNEY & PARKER.
Mar. 90, l2-tt. State Agents.