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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-02
Department Report

Agricultural Department Report.
The July agricultural report just
sent to press represents an improvement
in winter wheat bnt q decline in pros
pects for spring wheat on account of
unreasonable weather in some parts
and insect enemies iu others.
The average in corn is increased in
West Virginia and Minnesota, and de-
creased in all other States except Flor
ida and Arkansas, where it remains the
same as last year. Corn planting was
everywhere retarded by the weather,
and in many cases corn has been sever
al times replanted. Unusual complaint
of detective seed is made in ali parts OF
the country.
The condition OF cotton has been
previously given. The reports also to
July let indicate a crop Of 89.5 per
cent. OF the average, not including Vir-
ginia, where the culture is yet mainly
experimental.
The prospective yield of oats declin-
ed during June in the New England,
Middle and Northwestern States, ex-
cept Wisconsin. 1t was enhanced in
all of the Gulf States except Mississ>
ippi.
Winter rye improved in Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey, Mary
land, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tex
az, Arkansas, Michigan, Illinois and
Iowa. 1t remained stationary in Geor.
gia aud declined in all other States.
Spring rye was below the average, in
all the States but FIVE, a minimum, 70,
being found in California and the max
imum in Nebraska.
Winter barley generally declined in
the Southwest, where heavy rains pre-
vailed.
The grass crop generally improved
in the New England and Middle States.
However. they were greatly shortened
by drought.
The late winter told disastrously
upon the fruit crop. The injury to ap-
pie trees ia more extensive than was ap.
parent at last report Vast numbers of
peach trees were killed.
The condition of grapes ranged from
81 in California to l27 in Nebraska, 100
representing the average.
The average of potatoes remained the
came as last year, or increased in TWEEN
ty.two states and decreased in all others.
The Colorado beetle has extended its
rsvages eastward, being reported for the
FIRST time in several counties Of New
York. 1t was still devastating in the
West, but the farmers had learned in
many counties how to destroy it efec-
tuslly. The maximum condition Of the
crop, Ill, was found in Georgia, and
the minimum, IS. in Delaware.
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BY TELEG CRAP H.
Exclusively for the Register.
BY the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
once, 11O Main street.
WASHING TON.
WASHINGTON August l.
A Claim Agents Hallucination
Dispelled.

A claim agent to-day addressed a
letter to the Commissioner of Pensions,
asking him to send. with as little delay
as possible, a supply of official postage
stamps, to be used by him in his COM
municatious with the office. As these
stamps are for the use OF government
officers only. he was informed that bis
request could not be granted. Some
members Of Congress are under the i'm
preston that they will be supplied with
these stamps, but such is not the case.
Until the law abolishing the ranking
privilege ia repealed members OF Con-
gress will have to use the ordinary
stamp the came as the common herd.
1t will be remembered that one argu.
ment in favor ofthe increase of the pay
of Congressman was that they would
hereafter have to pay their own postage
the same as honest men.
The President
Will probably make a brief trip to
Washington some time next week, for
the purpose OF disposing Of business re-
quiring his personal presence here. 1t
is more than a month since his last
visit.
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Sickness Amongst Children.

Seyenty.two children under five years
ofage died in Pittsburgh last week. The
advice given by the New York Tribme
is therefore timely:
81 Perfect cleanliness is erJ oined in
every mipute particular; the change OF
night and day clothing, clean with each
change.
> A bed or cot, apart from its mother
for the child.
3 The house kept scrupulously clean.
Walls whitewsshed; slops and garbage
promptly removed, ard the air purified
by carbolic acid or quicklime.
The child, if sick, must be kept to the
mothers milk alone, or, if that prove
insufficient, to goats or cows milk.
There is no safe substitute for milk TO
infants who Lave not cut their front
teeth. No child should be weaned, as
a rule, until after its second summer.
The food which Nature has provided
will often save the life of q child when
every thing else fails.
5. Without the advice OF a physician,
no child should be given spirits, cor
dials, carminatives, or soothing syrups
of any kind. Thousands of children, the
physicians add die every year from the
use ofthEss poiSons.
In fact, the sum and subtance OF
these directions seem to be simply to
guard the child against poisoning in air.
foul clothes, food or medicine; which
brings US back to the first statement
that pure country or sea air is the only
absolute safeguard for the life Of yonng
infant"
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FOREIGN.
SPAIN.
Proxress OF the War.

MADRID, August 1.-The lombard
ment Of the town of Allmeni, by the
insurgents fleet has closed and the
trigates under the command Of the in-
surgent leader General Contreras have
departed from the harbor. A large
force of Csrlists under Don Alphonso,
has been defeated by the Republican
troops. at Caloas Demoutburg. Don
Alphonsus had fled to the mountains
pursued by the Republican forces.
Massscre at AIeoy-Horrible Details.
MADRID, July 3l.-A correspondent
writing about the massacre at Alcoy,
says that the women played a conspic-
uous part in the massacre, as they did
in Paris during the commune. Moth
ing which occurred in Paris, even to
the last frensied agony OF desperation
and baffled fury, at all approaches this
brutal massacre.
when the Minister OF Foreign Al
fairs was asked in the Cortes for a
statement OF what really happened, he
declared that for the honor OF the
Chamber, ofthe country. and OF the Re-
public, hs wss obliged to refrain from
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The Pennsylvania Germans.

Professor Snale2 tnus SPEAKS VI tneee
estimable people: "The great barns,
with their little steeples, quaint wealth
er-cocks and gay colors, chow that the
farmers heart is in his work; for men
only decorate the things they love, un-
less it is to follow q new fashion. Very
often we see it has been the life work
of some simple mind to build the barn ;
and his pride in the result is shown
by bis name carved or painted thereon.
In Massachusetts or New York, the
larm buildings do not usually represent
half the money that is put into the
house; what goes there is spent grudg-
ingly. But our good Pennsylvania
Germans seem to build their barns first,
lavish their money upon them, and
then take what is left and build rath-
er humble home, 30 placed that they
may gloat over their garner all their
lives. Just now the barns were
full TO their ridge-poles with hay
and grain; from them came
the cloud OF dust and whirring
sound of the threshing machine, or,
oftener, the rhythmical monotony Of
the beating falls. Clumsy wagons
rising at either end, like the PROV and
poop of old Dutch ships, 60 numbering
down to the towns with their loads Of
grain. In this thickly-peopled land
where every acre has a jealous owner,
we had to journey a dozen miles in
search OF a camp ground. At length
we got into woods, where we hoped to
pass a quiet Sabbath. We were far
from the main road, but, though we
slipped in after dark, seemingly unseen,
every one within five miles seemed to
know OF our presence before morning.
By dawn the woods were thick with
people, and all day we lived as publicly
as the champion in prize-ring. They
stared hungrily at US at meal times,
pried into our wagons, endeavored to
get into our tents, became perfectly in
tolerable in every way. Few Of them
seemed able or willing to speak
English, and, when addressed
in German, answered slowly
and shyly. Their heavy faces
showed a staring curiosity, which
the moet energetic remonstrance could
hardly change for another look. |
finally asked the least unintelligent
looking man If he was not ashamed OF
himself and his countrymen. He an
swered in effect that there rarely hap
pened anything new in their district, 30
they must make the most OF present OPP
portuuities, and started on. They were
sturdy looking creatures, with nothing
OF the trim lankness which belongs to
Americans generally; heavy, long
faces, uuintellectual but kindly, show
ing no trace OF vice. The women were
as robust as the men, and showed the
strong tendency to look like them 30
common among the lower classes Of
Europe. They are, for all the world,
like any throng Of Rhineland Germans.
Their language, although with share
of Americanisms. is, apparently, only
the dialect which one hears. with in
Vulnerable variations, all along the
Rhine, from Suabis TO Holland"
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BOSTON.
The Losses.

Bosros. August 1.-The losses by the
fire in East Boston is as follows: the
National Dock and Warehouse Com
psny by burning of storehonse $4,000,
on which there is an insurance of 49,
600; ]. Gardner, Curtis & Co., on stock
1901 to l25,0OO; VIM. W. Wild Il
Co. lose about 10000 on stock Of sugar
With an insurance OF 10000 in the Shoe
and Leather Company, 5000 in the
Liverpool, London and Globe, 5000
each in the Equitable and Atlantic Of
Providence, $4,000 in the Boyleston,
10000 In the American Of Boston,
10000 in the Firemen's Fund of San
Francisco, and 10000 in the Franklin
OF Boston; Indsly, Peck Il Co., import
ers Of hemp, $4,000, on which there is
partial insurance; Miles Edwards,
dealer in gunny cloth, 26, 900, insurance
not known; Nathaniel Goddard Oh
gunny cloth, $4,000. fully insured in
the London Assurance Globe, Mercan-
tile Insurance Company Of Maine, and
other companies; #. E. Packsrk, on
building. 10000. The following:uamed
firms have also suffered loss by fire, but
it is as yet impossible to ascertain the
exact extent OF the damage: Sewall
& Co., Burton, Cordage Company.
Henry Gardner, William Perkins d
Co. ; Benjamin s. Proy e. Co. J.; Alex.
McKenny & Co. Denny, Rice u Co.
J. II. Burgess & Co.; and several New
York firms. The total loss will amount
to $500, 900, and the insurance on stock
Of the various owners is large. The
following losses were sustained by the
different insurance companies: Liver
pool, London and Globe, $4,000; Eli
lie, Hollis & Co., agents for the Home
and other New York companies. $40,u
900; Franklin of Boston, $4,000;
Boyleston of Boston, $4,000; Clinton
of New York, $l5,0O0; WASH
ington OF New York, 5000
Queen, 10000; Royal Insurance Com
pany OF North America, and the Penn
sylvanis Insurance Company, 1000;
Lamar of New York, 10000; London
Assurance Globe, Mercantile, Marine
and other companies, $4,000; Equitable
OF Providence, 10000; Atlantic Of Prov.
ideace, 5000; American Of Boston,
10000; Firemen's Fund Of San Fran.
cisco, 10000; Shoe and Leather, OF
Boston, 10000; making a total insur-
ance of 2Sl,600. The Etns, Mutual
and Manufacturers also sustained
losses.
The goods in many OF the storss OF
the National Dock and Warehouse Co.
have been found to be less injured than
was at first supposed. Owing to the
heavy flooring which protected the
sugar from material damage by water,
great quantities of the sugar stored in
the buildings if sold Immediately will
realize so per cent of the salvage. The
Board OF Underwriters visited the stores
this afternoon to consider what course
to pursue in order TO save the property
not already effectually destroyed.
VIII not Resign.
The policemen who had been requests
ed by the police commissioners to re-
sign, held a meeting last evening and
voted not to do 80, preferring rather to
be discharged under the existing Cir
cumstances.
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A man out in Montana, short time
ago. squatted on another persons land
ard built q small frame shanty. When
requested to move he positively refused
to do so; 80. one night, squad Of men
came around after the squatter and bis
wife were asleep, and lifting the. whole
concern, ebauty and all,..with deliberate
care carried it to the river and set it on
small raft Then they pushed the
raft out into the stream and let ber 60.
When the squatter got up TO 60 out in
the morning, he was surprised to find
himself about sixty miles down stream,
and making good time in nine knot
current. This is all we shall say about
that man. 1t would he extremely i'm
proper to report his remarks in full in
this paper.
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Another Monster A nan takes q
ride on n Snake.

A few days since, while Joseph Sell
by was gathering raspberries, he came
to what he supposed to be a log, and
being somewhat tired, he sat down up
on it to take a; rest, when. much to his
surprise, he commenced moving down
the hill. He was go much frightened,
that he did not know for come time
what was the propelling power, but
when he recovered himself he found that
it WAS monster snake carrying him on
his back. He supposed it to be fifty
or sixty feet long and as thick as his
body. He fell of during the journey,
the snake continuing down into the hol-
low. This snake has been seen by va
rious parties for several years past,
mostly in the raspberry season, but no =
body has enjoyed such an intimate ac-
quaintance with the monster as Mr..
Selby. We would advise everybody to
be on the lookout for this reptllian
monster during the raspberry time
BdruesviNs Enterprise.
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CHICAGO.
KilIcd-A Serious Charge.

CHICAGO, August 1.-Miss Anna
Katz, a young lady 20 years old, was
run over by the Milwaukee and St..
Paul train this afternoon and killed.
The deceased was a public school
teacher. She was German and highs
ly respected.
A serious charge was to-day preferr-
ed against Fire Marshal Robert w.
Williams, by a woman named Mrs. f.
Hancock. She states in her affidavit
that Williams after living with and
keeping her three years deserted her.
Fire Marshal Williams has a wife and
family residing in this place. The
charges will be investigated. Will.
hams friends declare that it is an at-
tempt at black mail.
During the storm this aftnrnoon, a
building on State street. was blown
down and two men injured.
Ellwood Hartford q carpenter. stabbed
a workman named W. .Coouroy, this at
trenoon. in fight. Coonroy is badly
hurt.
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Missouri, with rare inconsistency
has missed q very excellent opportuni-
ty for an Enoch Arden case OF fine pro-
portions. One Leonard and Elizabeth
Rspon were married at st. Joe, in 1916,
over twenty.seven years ago. Shortly
after the wedding Leonard left her for
California, and quarter OF a century
passed away without word from him.
The sorrowiug wife, believing him dead,
procured divorce, in order that she
might pre-empt some Kansas land in
her own name. A few days since,
however, the long lost Leonard return-
ed, well and wealthy. and REMARKED
his old wife in great style. Elizabeth
had not been unsought in the mean
time, but it proved another case OF
Penelope waiting for the wanderer
Ulysses-in fact she was constant
twenty seven years instead OF twenty.
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mentioning all that happened. Accor'
ding to his account the insurrection wa
gotten up by the Internationalists. and
commenced in q strike or q series o.
strikes by workmen, who demanded q
large increase in their wages, as much'
as fifty per cent, and when it was refu-
sed, left their work and assumed q very
threatning attitude, interfering every.
where with work, and spreading alarm
among the peaceful inhabitants, espe-
cially those belonging to the well-to'do
classee.
They demanded the resignation Of the
Town. Council, and the substitution OF .
Council of their own nomination. This
demand the Mayor of Alcoy, Senior
Augustine Albors, refused, and was
given three hours to change his mind.
He took possession OF the Town Hall
and with few civil and national guards
and some friends, tried to hold it against
the mob. The little garrison was soon
overpowered, the assailants bursting
the doors, and then follows the scene
which the Minister declares it was i'm
possible for him to describe.
The defenders of the Town Hall,
after being subjected to other horrible
insults and injuries, were stripped ma
ked and held up from the balcony in
full view of the bowling mob below.
Their names were called out one by one,
and the mob was asked whether it
would have them dead or alive. Ac-
cording to the answer, either their
heads were cut off and their mutilated
bodies thrown down from the balcony,
or they were thrown down still alive,
the mob below trying to catch them as
they fell on the bayonets and
pixies, and everybody then rushed
to assist in dispatching what
remnants of life were left, or, if too late
for this, to further mangle and disfgure
the breathless bodies.
One OF the principal and most respec.
table inhabitants was seized ny the in-
surgents, and after his clothes had
been sprinkled with petroleum, was set
on fire, and made to run while shots
were taken at him. Other atrocities
scarcely less terrible were reported.
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AFTER thirty years planning and al
tering, the Turks are slowly and stead
lily getting their University system into
order. The first started at the top with
a Constantinople University, but they
had the sense to abandon the buildings
and devote their energies to primary
and secondary education, They have
lust had an examinati'n n for the Bache.
lor of Science degree, at the Imperial
Lyceum, at Gslata Serai, when eleven
passed, one Turk, two Greeks and eight
Americans. The latter, from the part
they are taking in the Industrial devel-
opment Of the country, best appreciate
the value OF scientific instruction..
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WORK has been commenced on Van
derbilts Union Depot" at Buffalo.
Tie Buffalo Commercial Advertissr OBJ
jec's to the name. 1t will not be a
Union Depot" for auy but Vanderbilt
railroads and will not accommodate
Buffalo travel. That paper urges
use of the old canal bed in the
city to enable the Canada Southern,
Erie aud other roads to have "Union
Depot" OF their own in the city proper.
1t also says differences between the
roads in regard to the use Of the new
international bridge, have already oc-
CURED, and there is prospect OF still
anether bridge being built.
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FINN I'm LynchbuFE.

At the Radical Convention in Lynch
burg last Wednesday, Mr.. Seaton, col
ored, OF Alexandria, said he did moi
come 10 the convention under instruc-
tons, nor to discuss railroads or james
river or Kanawha canal factions. BE
did not know Mr.. Hughes, but had
known MI. Mcmahon for more than
twelve months, and believed him to be
the most available man. Much laugh
ter was here created by the Intellectual
efforts to pronounce McMahon's name.
What has been the course OF this
convention to-day! About $500 to
$500 has been spentin in advertising. "a
voice, "McMahon.") [Great laughter
Mr.. Seaton-You may hoo-hoo now,
but you will hoo-hoo the other way
hereafter. CONTINUED laughter. You
should give me a good square show.
We want the best man. There are
men in this convention, white men with
black men 10 buy them up. who have
no more interest in the State Of Vir-
ginia than a hog. Laughter / am
standing up for my constituents, and
am interrupted by white and black men.
l believe them all csrpet-baggers.
Laughter. Its "choke him" choke
him down." when you don't agree with
him.
The chair suggested thst Mr.. Seaton
confne himself to the subject under
discussion.
A voice-Give him latitude.
Mr.. Seaton--No, l don't want lati.
tude, but you want common sense, as
Shakespeare said on one occasion. Up
roarious laughter.
Mr.. Seaton continued repeatiug-"As
Shakespeare said on one OCCASION
Here the laughter drowned his voice,
and Seaton was unable to tell what
Shakespeare said. There is tide in
the affairs of men" &c.
Mr.. Anderson, of Louisa, to Mr.. Sea-
ton-The convention has heard enough.
You had better speak to the point and
not keep saying "as Shakespeare said
on one occasion" Great laughter
Mr.. Seaton-If was as big o jack
ass as you, the convention wouldn't
have any fun. [Uproarious laughter
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A Rushford. Minnesota editor
thank his vile. through his own paper,
for basket OF currents raised in his
garden. ''-'.'..'
The Maysville. Kentucky. Ballttia.
announces q Sunday School picnic,
and truly hopes that for once our citi-
zsns will leave their revolvers and
bowie knives at home" ..
Intense excitement has arisen in
Agassizs School, at Penekese, on &C.
count OF the discovery by . student OF
o muscle in dogs leg. which Mr..
Huxley has hitherto denied the dog.
The Baltimore suthorities are prompt
in taking advantage OF the lesson OF the
fire. On Saturday they ordered FIVE
thousand feet OF new hose and three
additional steamers. This is the right
spirit.
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Richmond to be Great Live stock
Market.

The increase Of the live stock busi-
ness from the West has been such that
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will
after next week run special train for
this business, leaving Huntington every
Thursday morning, arriving at Rich
nond every Saturday, stopping at Ron.
cevertte to feed and water. This will
tend to make Monday a regular market
day for Richmond, and draw together
buyers from all parts Of the South as
well as Baltimore and other points.-
Richmond { Va) Dispateh.
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TIE employees OF the Washington
Board OF Public Works are being paid
of, halt in cash ard half in bonds, of
the denomination OF $50, issued by au-
tbority OF the act for extending the time
OF payment OF special assessments and
for other purposes. These bonds bear
per cent interest. and represent one Of
the new devices for raising money by
the authorities there. Bonds Of various
denominations, representing improve
ments made but not paid for, are cons
ing into general use among contractors
as q sort of deprecated wildcat cur
rency.
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CINCINNATI.
Weary OF Lille.

CINCINNATI, August IAN unknown
womon jumped from the Newport
bridge to-day and was drowned.
Give it Up.
Atthe Pacific Garden. Harry Brooks
the pedestrian, who was to walk one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours,
stopped after walking ten hours and ac'
complishipg only 81 miles.
A young man named Miles, eighteen
years old. was drowned in the river Il, last
evening at the foot OF John street. The
body has not yet been recovered. ,
John Maber was run over and
crushed by locomotive on the Gin
cinnati & Baltimore railroad while at
work at the Gest street crossing yester-
dsy morning. He was taken to the
city hospital where he soon expired.
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FRANCE.
The German Army Withdrawing.

The German Army Withdrawing.
PARIS. August 1.-The German army
of occupation under General Man
teuffel, has evacuated Nancy, the
capital OF the Department Of Merthe
which has been occupied by the Ger.
man troops since the conclusion of the
war. The only portion of the French
territory now occupied by the German
troops ia the District OF Verdun.