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The Grange advance., 1873-12-03
Death Of the First Born.

This beautiful extract, from DR.. Hol-
lands new book, Arthur Bonnicastle,
will be read with deep and tender in
terest by many whose experience it
truthfully portrays:
I stand in a darkened room before
little casket that holds the silent form
Of my frst-born. My arm is around
the wife and mother who weeps over
the lost treasure, and cannot, till tears
have their way, be comforted. [ had
not thought that my child could die
that n'y child could die. I knew that
other children had died, but [ felt safe.
We lay the little fellow close by his
grandfather at last; we strew his grave
with flowers, and then return to our
saddened home with hearts united in
sorrow al they had never been united
in Joy, and with sympathies forever
opened toward all who are called to a
kindred grief: l wonder where he is
to-day, in what mature angelhood he
stands, how he will look when I meet
him, how he will make himself known
to me, who has been his teacher! He
was like me; will his grandfather
know him? Inevcr can cease thinking
Of him as cared for and led by the
same hand to which my own youthful
fingers chung, and as hearing from the
fond lips Of my own father the story
of his fathers eventful life. I feel how
wonderful has been the ministry of nv
children-how much more I have
learned from them than they have ev-
er learned from mellow by holding nv
own strong life in sweet subordination
to their helplessness, they have taught
me patience, selfsacri6ce, self.control,
truthfulness, faith, simplicity, and pu-
rity.
All !! this taking to ones arms a lit
tie group Of souls, fresh f1pm the hand
of God, and living with them in loving
companionship through all their stain
less years, is, or ought to be, like living
in heaven, for Of such is the heavenly
kingdom. TO no one of these am I
more indebted than to the boy who
went away from me before the world
had touched him with stain. The
key that shut him in the tomb was the
only key that could unlock my heart,
and let in among its sympathies the
world of sorrowins men and women
who mourn because their little ones are
not.
The little graves, alas! how many
there are! The mourners above them.
how vast the multitude! Brothers.
sisters, l am one with you. I press
your hands, | weep with you, l trust
with you, I belong to you. Those
waxen, folded hands, that still breast
so often pressed warm to our own.
those sleep-bound eyes which have been
so full of love and life, that sweet un-
moving, alabaster face-ah! we have
all looked upon them, and thew have
made us one, and made US better
There is no fountain which the angel Of
healing troubles with his restless and
lite-giving wings so constantly as the
fountain of tears, and only those too
lame and bruised to bathe miss the
blessed influence.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03

! JOSH B1LL1Nas divides the human
race into three classes Those who
think 1t is so, those who think it isn't
60 end those q Who s don't care whether It
is so or not.
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03

How do you get along, with your
arlthmetic?' asked father of his little
boy! who said: "Tve ciphered through
addition PARTITION, subtraction, abomi-
nation, justification, hallucination, deri-
vatlon, amputation, creation and adop-
ton" l.: T. .E.::.[ -,|@..&t@I :
The Grange advance., 1873-12-03

That 1! was q good hen she was near
sighted and ate saw.dust for corn meal !:
result, laid nest full of drawer knobs.
sat on them three weeks and hatohed
out full set Of parlor furniture.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18


Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell s. Co. announce
that they have in their warehouse in New
York an assortment Of type from one Of
the most celebrated foundries in the
world, that Of Higgins, London, England
which they will sell at20 per cent dis
count from the American scale, when or.
dered in fonts of 100 pounds and up
wards. They also offer to import large
fonts on special orders at q greater dis.
count from the American scale, and pro.
fess to be able to fill the largest order in
eight weeks from date OF It's receipt in
New York. They supply sorts IN large
or small quantities from their stock on
hand in New York at the American scale
rate. They assert that ii tho present duty
on type shall be removed, the price OIL
the article, both Of home and foreign
manufacture, will Immediately fall 40 per
cent below the present scale, Messrs.
Geo. P. Rowell s. Go. are known as con.
Quoting the largest advertising business
ever secured by one house, and are also
extensive dealers in printing material
They are compelled to import foreign
goods because American founders, gov.
erned by close corporation or ring, Keep
the price vastly too high, and at the same
time make it an exception to every other
species Of merchandise by1recognizing no
wholesale price; the same amount per
pound beng charged to the purchaser OF
five thousand pounds as would be paid by
him who wants but fifty.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

FROM the report to the stockholders Of
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad
Company for 1872, we learn that much
progress has been made in adjusting the
unsettled business of the company pre-
vious to Its lease to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. The expenditures in
this connection amounted 10 $S9, 529
against receipts Of $2S,16l, on excess Of
expenditures of sG5,3GO. Nearly all the
old capital stock has been changed into
the new seven per cent guaranteed stock.
OF the old capital stock there is now only
$35, 1000 outstanding, the total issue oil
guaranteed capital stock amounting to
$l1, 1877 800. The outstanding bonds fall
ing due in 1900 amount to 100000, the
sinking fund purchase of the year footing
up $4,000. Tho second mortgage bonds,
10 the extent Of SSH 900, maturing Sep,
TENDER /, are assumed by the lessee, The
receipts of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for account rental, interest and
sinking fund were $1,03O,191. The dis
burscments were-For dividends Nos. 80,
"a, 80 and SO, $7SG,G2G; mortgage interest
and accrued subsequent TO Dec. l, 1871,
$20S, 0Sl; sinking fund, cost Of bonds pur-
chased, $25,1GO; and for maintaining or
ganization, $685.. Total expenditures,
$1,O2S,152. Unexpended balance, $10Gs,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

A CoLoRED HEdRA.-A remarkable
emigration OF colored people from Geor-
gia is in progress. The movement is
west and southwest to Mississippi, Arkan'
gas and Texas. The estimated loss to
Southwestern Georgia alone in the past
two years is twenty thousand; and the
exodus is steadily increasing; almost
every day negro bands of from fifty to
two hundred are passing through Macon
and Atlanta on tho western journey.
Trains of cars arc crowded with them
men and women, boys and girls and
children in arms-all hopeful and enthu.
siastic in the prospect Of q new Canaan.
One reason for this hegira is the fact that
the colored voters find themselves in a
hopeless minority in Georgia, and they
allege that their rights are much less Sc.
cure, and that they ore treated with much
less consideration in that State than in
States where they form more influential
portion Of the voting population. The
main incentive, however, to the move
ment is probably the inducement held out
by emigration agents from the States
named
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
Important Testimony in Favor of
MIR. COlIAX.

WIs SOlIhAs
The Now York Star, strong Demo.
cratic paper, contains the followiDg,which
is certainly Of the highest Importance,
tending, as it does, to vindicate Mr.. Col
fax completely:
"In spite of the terrible weight OF evi.
denCe against Mr.. Colfax, we believe that
every fair.minded man would be glad to
sec some honorable way byIwhich theVice
President could extricate himself from
this embarrassment, His story about the
81 600 bill was rather fishy, but yesterday
q reporter was sent to interview the Mes.
bitt family about the affair. He found
one Of Mr.. Nesbitts SONS, and casually
remarked that MIR. Nesbltts name was
somewhat prominently brought out in the
newspapers, and received this reply,
which contains somewhat important
bit OF testimony in favor OF Dir. Colfax:
Yes, indeed; and irhat Mr. Colfdr says is
true, for my mother says that she remembers
my father telling her at tho time that he
had sent that money on to him. On men
tioning this to ex.Recorder james NJ.
Smith, that excellent criminal lawyer re.
marked that it was a most important
piece Of evidence, and added that once
when he was running for public Office,
Mr.. Nesbitt, with whom he had at that
time mere bowling acquaintance, had
sent him q check for 500 in the same
manner. Mr.. Nesbitt was warm per.
sonal admirer Of Alr. ColiaX.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

A depressed, irritable state OF mind ,
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no energy or nnimRtIOnI confused
head, weak memory, often with de-
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indiScretious. This NERVOUS DEBILITY
finds sovereign euro in HUMPHREYS
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
Annexation of the Panhandle to
Pennsylvania

Itmirht be considered foolish to think
of aritaIing this question now, but from
recent articles appearing in the Wheeling
IETELLIGENCRR and Panhandle RelOS,
We are encouraged TO "agitate" little
more. We are told that "There was a
time prior to the formation Of West Vir-
ginia, that this much desired object could
have been accomplished, but that the
golden opportunity has passed by unim-
proved" From this 1t as assumed that
there is no use in saying anything more
about it We don't think so, for in the
language oil Wendell Phillips, "There is
nothing like agitating no great or small
revolution in public sentiment was ever
brought about without agitation" Let
US then Rgitate and keep on agitatiDg
until the old Panhandle shall be Topped
of West Virginia and soddered or ce-
mented 10 the "0ld Key Stone" where
her geographical position, her commercial
and all other interests, would place her.
Why should we remain as we are, II we
can by any possibility better our condi-
ton. We are almost insulated from our
State. We are shorn Of all power, and
have no voice in our legislatures or con-
ventlons. Our little section seems to be
despised by the balance Of the State.
In the Constitutional Convention the
Panhandle sent some Of the ablest mem.
bers, but the feeling Of hostility against
US would not permit the appointment Of
any OF our members to important places
on any Of the committees. We are GER
tainly being ignored, and our interests are
at the mercy Of those who have no sym
pathy for US, and only tolerate US as a
part of themselves TO the end that their
burthens may be lightened by our annual
contributions to the State Treasury. They
hold on to US like the church does to a
rich drinking member, not because they
like him, but because he saves their
pockets. We have an abiding aft cotton
Tor West Virginia, and never expect 10
see the day when we would desire to see
her otherwise than prosperous and all
her people happy. Could our vital inter-
ests be cared for and protected as well in
our present relation as. the new one to
which we are aspiring, We could never
think Of severing, but thinking otherwise
we ask TO depart in peace.-MoundsUtl!e
Reporter.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

THEY are having rat plague in sever
al Of the German provinces. The fields
of clover and COLA are said 10 be deVas-
tated by the vermin, and when arsenic
and phosphorus pills have been scattered
to destroy them, hares and other game
have been poisoned, and great damage
done. Under these circumstances q de-
vice has been brought into play which,
even as applied to rats, seems too horrible
to employ. A mixture Of plaster dust and
dry wheat is mixed with oil Of aniseed
and put in an earthernware saucer; and
near by plenty Of water is placed. The
rats eagerly devour the mixture, and are
straightwAy seized with tormenting
thirst they then, of course, greedily Swal.
low water. Upon this the plaster "sets,"
and becomes solid in their insides, and
thus, more or less speedily, the poor Crea-
lures die in agony. But rats are rats.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

AN awkward question has arisen in
Kansas: What shall be done with the
money that Senator York says he receiv-
cd from Senator Pcmeroy2 seven thou.
sand dollars is a sum too large to take
care Of itself. York handed it to the Off.
GERS Of the legislature, "quit.claiming" his
title. Itdoes not belong to the officers,
and it is not likely that Senator PomeroY
will claim it, il it was ever his. In fact,
this snug little sum seems 10 be knocking
about without ap owner. This Is re.
markablo fact in Kansas politics? and if,
in the course Of human events, it should
turn out that it shall escape all the pri-
vate traps which are usually set for waits
OF that sort, and find its way into the
State Treasury, then there is some room
to hope that even the tricks Of politicians
have limit.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1873.

SENATOR PoMERoY's personal explana'
ton in the United States Senate respect
ing tho charge Of bribery alleged against
him consists Of general and specific de-
NAL, and contained the following sentence
which may be said to include all the rest
al DENY each and every statement i'm
puting 10 me any act Inconsistent with
moral rectitude and correct conduct, and
declare all such statements to be totally
absolutely and wickedly false: and Ifurth.
or specifically deny that / ever entered
into any contract or agreement, directly
or indirectly, with any man, member oil
the Kansas Legislature or not, for vote
in my favor, or that / ever, directly or in
directly, paid any iHdiUtdud! one dollar, Or
any OTHER sum, for his cote for me IN hc
Lato Senatorial election"
This looks exceedingly explicit and sat.
isiactory when read by itself, but when
perused side by side with little extract
from the sworn testimony given by Mr.
York, 1t is stripped to great extent Of
the virtue of candid righteousness. Mr.
York swore as follows:
~ had been informed that he desired
to have a private interview with me, and
asked il was correct. lie said / was
correct; but until l Ioou!d say l would 90
for him ii could not do for him to Offer INK
money lie said he wGS to old a politician
10 Lribe COteS; but If I1C0uM cote for him
02uh then be ono Of his friends. and h
said he lad a perfect right to help me, tn
same as he trOud any ofhS friends"
The italicised passage in the second ex
tract explains the italicised passage il
the first extract. Mr.. Pomeroy would mo-
pay for votes, but he would agree L
"help bis friends" after they had prom
ised to vote for him.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican says
1t Ia DR.. MAuLoN LOOMS, son of Pro-
lessor NATHAN LOOMS, OF Florence,
Northampton, who is the protector OF the
Aerial Telegraph for which q company
was recently chartered by Congress. We
have been informed that it was Dr.. L. @.
LOOMS, formerly President of the Vince.
ling Female College, and since the pub
locations on the subject have been told
that the latter while here was engaged in
experiments looking to the development
of the aerial telegraph theory, We pre-.
sumo, however, that our informant was
mistaken and that the Republican is cor
rect