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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

AN exchange mentionSit as a notable
fact that there has not been q single
party vote in either branch Of Congress
during the present session. Nor is
there any probability that any measure
which will involve q partisan division
will be brought up during the present
Congress. This is without parallel in
recent Congressional experience.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

A LACK Of weak submission to the in.
quiries of the police in St. Louis appears
to be attended with serious consequences
Of what Is called a Providential character
for we read in St. Louis paper that
"a woman who refused TO give her name
to the police, fell down on Charles st, and
broke her leg"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

A MERCHANT Of Topeka recently lost
$3.50 in cash. AS his wife and one of his
clerks have not been seen since, he is ap.
prehensive that they were murdered for
his money.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
HAIR DYE.

This superb Hair Dye Is the bsSt In Ns World
Perfectly Harmless, Reliable, and 1nstantane-
no unpleasant OdOF. The genuine W. A. Batch
elOr's hair Dye produces IMMEDIATELY q
splendid Black or Natural Brown. Does not
stain the skin, but leaves the Hair Clean, son
and Beautiful. The only safe and perfect Dye.
Sold by all Druggists. Factory IS Bond street.
New York. lan27e0d&w
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
Special Notices.
WHEELING FEMALE COLLEGE

PREPARAroRY DEPARTuERT-One Teacher.
ACADEMIC DEPARTNGNP-ThrOe Teachers.
COLLEGIATE DRPARTMENT-FOuE Teachers.
Music AND ART DEPARTHEHT-Four Teachers.
LATIN, FRENCH and GBRHAH LANGUAGES.
No extra charge for Vocal huslc, Penmanship,
Book Keeping, Latin or ElOcution.
The Second Session will commence MONDAY,
February Sd. jag
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
DARN FOR SALE.

/ offer for sale the Farm on which now
reside, situated in Marshall county, W. Va, some
three miles from the limits Of the city Of Wheel
ing, on or near the Falrmont Pike, containing
los acres OF 1fstclass land, nearly all Of which
Is in fine state Of cultivation. The improve
mentg are all Of tho best, consisting OF Brick
House containing eleven rooms, with oil the
convenlences needful. A large ciBtern supplies
1t with ali the water for which rain water is need.
ed. There Is also large Barn, with cellar; Sta
BILE room for Horses and twenty head Of Cattle;
Wagon House, Corn Crib, Brick Smoke House,
Chicken House, and Q good Frame Tenant House
containing four rooms; with Churches and School
House within short distance. esaid lAndis
well watered and nGVGr.failing well at the barn.
There is good Vineyard Of CataWba and Con.
cord Grapes, and large number Of the best SO.
lection Of Fruit Trees In foil bearing, consisting
OF Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cherries and
Quinces, with almost all the first quality OF
small fruit grown in this part Of the country.
ANY pcrtOn desiring good home near TO the
city Of Wheeling, whore they can probably dis
pose OF whatever they may raise for the Market
will do well to call on the subscriber, who Will
give all the necessary information. Terms easy.
ja7-d&w N. T. RAY&AN.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18

"NEONTICELLo," "MARIE AN
Nl ToMETTE," and many other new
and beautiful Decorations for ParlOfs, Halls, &C,
which l am prepared TO put on the wall and
vArnish. have also on hand tho largest and
most complete stock OF Wall Papers, OF all
grades, TO Be found in the State.
Call and zee. A. W. PAUL.,
fei8 No. 80 Monroe St.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
DIED,

McJILToN.-At Benwood, W. Va, on Mon.
day, February II, 1873, FRANK HoRATIo, son OF
Frank A. and Hannah n. McJilton, aged years
months and II days.
[BaltinoTo papers please copy.l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
rsLAND Ions FOR SAFE.

Forty choice Building Lots on Wheeling Is
land. Price from 800 to $1,000 each.
TERxs-o ne-fourth cash, the residue In equal
instruments OF one, two and three years, with in.
forest. JNO. P. GHCHRIST,
apl0 At Top Mil.
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NroT1oE-NA1L FEEDERS.

At called meeting OF the Feeders Of the Riy.
ersldo Nail Mil to-day NOnday) the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
RESOlrEd, That we. tho undersigned, Feeders
Of the Riverside Nail Mil, do hereby pledge
ourselves to support the NSlors Of the said Mil,
and will not resume work until q satisfactory
agreement has taken place between them and
the manufacturers, and will not 90 to work for
any inferior wOrkmen or scamps.
Lsigucdl NAIL FEEDERS,
or the Riverside Nail Mil.
WHEELING, Feb II, 1873, felS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
DR. JOHNSTON

Member Of the Royal College Of surpOOps II.
Don, graduate rom one Of the most eTii 1
colleges n n inc United States, and The gfess,
Of London, Paris, PHILADELPHIA, and eIISSSS 'al
has effected some Of tho most astonIs6isS ~
ever known. Many troubled with rnStn 1T \
the head and cars when asleep, RreAt 49,. y
ness, being alarmed at sudden soupd1 S',SS.,
ness, with frequent blushlng, attends soTl
times with arrangement Of mind, Weis oSt..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
BOYS WATCHES,

We are in receipt OF another lot Of those mag
nIacent little Silver Watches, just the thing for
Young America"-little but good. Also, Ia;
dies Watches, American and Foreign. and full
below M'Lure HouFo. tho place for Watches,
Clocks, Jewelry, Gold Pens, BpectAcles, &c.
az special attention given 10 repairing.
fehai OXIOBY d DUFFIRLD.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16

selves into lynch law court, and, after
a fair trial, found him guilty of larceny,
and sentenced him with forty stripes
save one, according to Hebrew law, and
that he make the restitution of the
stolen -four to its owner. Smith dared
them to infict SO ignominious a punish
ment without authority of the law.
They procured stout cord, with each
end of which they tied his thumbs, and
then carrying theline over heavy thorn
bush, proceeded to execute the sentence
of their own court with a good will !;
each of the thirteen giving him three
stripes with hickory withe. With this
degrading punishment all boldness and
daring forsook him. He repaired to his
cabin, but was never afterward seen in
the settlement. 1t was supposed he
found his way to the falls of the Ohio,
and there enlisted in the United States
army. This statement is made on the
authority of one of the most respecta-
bic members of that primitive court, the
late Judge Foster. 1t has been revised
by the venerable Maj. Daniel Gano, a
native of the place where it occurred,
now in his eightieth year.
Historical EecOrd.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
The Bad Boy and the Good.

There was young and lovely boy,
whose mother parted his hair down the
middle, and occasionally hit him in the
back with fatiron. There was also O
bad, wicked and depraved boy, about
whom l, at the moment, do not recollect
any further particulars. These two
were brought up together, and stimuli
taneously received a present of a SOW
ereign apiece. Oh, how that bad, wicked
and depraved boy kicked up his heels
the good boy smiled the while seraphi-
cally and slcbbered. The bad boy then
went straightway and laid out his good
money IN all manner and kinds of nasty
and indigestible messes-hardbake.
cocoanuts Che bought fourteen of these),
bulls eyes, stick iquorice, tamarinds
and Australian beef. The boy fell to
and gorged hideously upon these things,
and SO exhausted his little capital, COM
ing to the good boy, when it was all
gone, with long and pitiful face.
" All y said the good boy, chad you
not spent your sovereign thus foolishly.
you would have it now as have mine.
Instead of buying hardbake-a thing I
myself never touch, except when it is
gwen to me-you might have bestowed
five shillings upon the Society for Sup
plying Wooden-legged Infdels with
worsted slippers. Instead of buying
cocoanuts, you might have dropped an
other five bob into the donation box of
the Hospital for Paralyzed Shakers; and.
instead of wasting the other ten shil-
hngs in the way you have, you might
have done don't know what that was
good and kind, and generous and noble"
The bad boy, confused and COMPOUNDED.
turned away his head at this, and wept
bitter tears. Then the good boy went
out out for stroll, feeling ever SO much
gooder for having said what he had, and
on his way accidentally dropped his own
sovereign down sewer grating
D,yncb
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
How to be Handsome.

Most people would like to be hand
some. Nobody denies the great
power which any person may
have who has good face and at
tracts you by good looks, even before a
word has been spoken. And we see all
sorts of devices in men and women to
improve their good looks-paints and
washes, and all kinds of cosmetics, in
Guiding plentiful amounting with dirty
hair oil.
Now all cannot have good features.
They are as God made them but al
most any one can look well, especially
with good health. 1t is hard to give
rules in very short space, but in brief
these will do:
Keep clean-wash freely and univer-
sally with warm water. A the skin
wants is leave to act free. and it will
take care of itself. Its thousands of
air-holes must not be closed.
Eat regularly and sleep enough. The
stomach can no more work all the time,
night and day, than horse it must
have regular work and regular sleep.
Good teeth are a great help to good
looks. Brush them with soft brush,
especially at night. Go to bed with
teeth clean. Of course, to have white
teeth it is needful to let tobacco alone.
Every woman knows that. And any
powder or wash for the teeth should.be
very simple. Acids may whiten the
teeth, but they take off the enamel and
injure them.
Sleep in a cool room, in pure air. No
one can have clear skin who breathes
bad air.
When the mind is awake, the dull,
sleepy look passes away from the eyes.
l do not know that the brain expands,
but it seems to. Think, read-not
trashy novels, but books that have some
thing in them. Talk with people who
,now something; hear lectures and
learn by them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
Hints to Buyers of Horses.

If all the little black cups or hollows
are still in the teeth of the horses lower
jaw, the horse is not over six years of
age when those in the corner teeth
only are left, the horse is under nine.
Ii the cups are all gone in the under
jaw, but are still left in the teeth of the
upper jaw, the horse is probably not
older than ten, but this is not certain
rule. The shape of the teeth tells
much to the experienced observer In
youth the cutting surface of the tooth is
long from side to side in old age long
from front to rear. When the cutting
surfaces of the teeth in the upper and
lower jaws are all worn smooth, and so
long from front to rear as to resemble
in shape the nail on your little finger,
the horse is probably not less than 10,
and perhaps 20 years of age. If horse
stands with his legs stretched out,
front and back, he is probably badly
used up; neither should he stand with
his feet all drawn together under him.
If you know but little about the horse,
ascertain if the seller is a responsible
man, and make him warrant the horse
in whatever respect you desire; if he
misrepresents in the least, you can col
lect damages in a suit at law. The dis
position of horse can to great extent
be determined by the expression of the
eye, and by the manner of holding the
head and ears. Take hold of the halter,
face the horse, and give the strap sud-
den little jerk if the horse throws his
head up, holds his neck stiff, and his
ears rigid, and his eye assumes CLASSY
look, straight out from either side, you
may look with confidence for him to
have him put his hind feet through the
dashboard, and his fore over the other
horses neck three times in four min
utes, the first time you hitch him up.
When you hitch horse to a wagon, and
he turns his head around fiat on one
side and looks at you with meek, lamb
like expression as you take your place in
the seat, then if you haven't temper
that is lamb-ike, child-ike and
bland" watch him closely.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
Ruling Passion Strong i'm Death.

An old farmer, up to all methods for
making good bargain, was very i'll, and
friends were expecting an early demise.
His nephew and man hired for the
occasion had butchered a steer which
had been fattened and when the job
was completed the nephew entered the
sick room, where few friends were
assembled, when to the establishment of
all, the old man opened his eyes, and
turning his head slightly, said, in full
voice, drawing out the words:
"What have you been doing?"
&c Killing the steer" was the reply.
"What did you do with the hide?''
"Left it in the barn /; going to sell it
by-and-by."
"Let the boys drag it around the
yard couple of times ; it will make it
weigh heavier"
And the good old man was gathered
into his fathers.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
New Applications of Paper.

Singularly enough, the Iron Age ar
CUES that paper is to become the gen.
eral, if not the universal, substitute for
wood, leather, and India-rubber, as
also, to some extent, for copper, tin and
zinc, and that even iron is not adapted
to uses so widely various-it being
practicable, indeed, to bring paper pulp
to such state of toughness and solidi-
ty, by pressure, as to be almost as fire.
proof and indestructible as iron and
thus our railroad cars may be made of
paper, instead of iron, thereby prevent
ing the dangers now incurred in case of
accidents. 1t is claimed that, in pro-
portion to weight, paper is, probably.
the strongest material of construction
known, combining more perfectly than
any other substance the qualities of
strength, Gghtness, fexibility, dura-
bility, and cheapness. So many and
various, too, are the articles of which it
can be made, that it can be manufac-
tured In quantities practically unlimited
In every civilized country, and, so long
as plants continue to grow, paper manu-
facture can be sustained. It is. also.
under all circumstances, an easy mate
rial to work and handle. The fact is
probably well known that the paper
wheels which have been used with sue
cess on some of the palace cars are
formed of compressed paper fitted into
steel tire; iron plates are then adapted
to each side of the paper, and bolted
together to prevent any displacement of
he filling.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
trade theory put into operation. Heavy

trade theory put into operation. Heavy
taxes had been imposed upon the pub
lie by many enterprises of a private char
acter, which had soon grown beyond the
reach of legislation. The vast donations
of land to railway corporations had not
been limited to Congress, but had been
limited by State Legislatures, county,
township and city authorities. The
present monetary system of the coun-
try was an inflated and consequently
a dangerous one, and should be rene
died at once theother evils of excessive
freight tariffs were of the most impor-
lance to the farmer, and should be
remedied first. The farmers should see
to it that men were sent to the Legisla-
ture who would see that their rights
should be protected in the future, as
well as their present wrongs righted.
Mr.. Flagg's address was listened to
with great attention. He was followed
by Hon. Mark ID. Wilbur and Congress
man Burrows. Resolutions were pre-
scented embodying the points made in
Mr.. Flagg's speech, and were unani-
mously adopted.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
Postal Telegraphy.

There is no subject of greater I'M
portance to the public, where reform
is more imperatively required or so
easily effected, as in the telegraph.
1t is now a monopoly with rates so
high as to prevent the public from using
the telegraph, and reserves it as lux
ury to the rich or to the speculator,
while only the large daily papers in the
largest cities can afford it, and these
form an alliance offensive and defensive
with the Telegraph Company in oppo-
sition to every plan of reform.
Two systems have been proposed for
remedying these evils--one by the Post
master General, who desires to buy and
operate all the lines of telegraph. This
plan is opposed by many friends of a
reform on account of the great outlay
required for the purchase and extension
of the lines, and of the great increase
power that it would confer on the Elk
ecutive.
The other plan was proposed by
Gardiner G. Hubbard, and adopted by
committees of the Senate and House of
Representatives, to which both plans
were referred at the last Congress. By
this system kilograms will be received
and delivered through the postoffice as
letters are everywhere, and as kilograms
are abroad, transmitted to their place of
destination by telegraph, by parties
owning and operating lines of telegraph,
at rates fixed by Congress-as letters
are now transmitted over the railroads.
This plan requires nc outlay by the
10
bility for buying, building, or operating
lines, and will not increase the powers
of the Executive.
The rates proposed are % cents for a
telegram of 25 words each 800 miles if
it is transmitted by day, and each 1000
miles by night-a reduction of over 80
per cent. on the present rates, and an
increase of 80 per cent. in the length of
the telegram. The press rates are
equally reduced, and are so low as to
permit every weekly paper to receive a
Geographic summary, bringing its news
down to the hour of its issue.
This plan proposes as great reduc-
ticn as the other can afford, and gives a
cheap telegraph to the people without
cost to the Government. Competition
has been tried and abandoned, and, by
the failure of the Independent and COM
peting companies, has resulted in plac-
ing all the important lines in the country
under the control of single interest, of
which Mr.. Vanderbilt is the represent
ative.
Itremains for Congress to say whether
the telegraph shall be made an aux
iliary to the postoffice, freely used by
the people, or the ally of the railroad
monopoly, welded only for its own
interest.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
Condensed History of Steam.

About $50 years B. c., Hero, of Alex
andria, formed toy which exhibited
some of the powers of steam, and was
moved by its power.
A. d. $40, Apthemius, an architect,
arranged several cauldrons of water,
each covered with tie wide bottom of a
leathern tube, which rose to a narrow
top, with pipes extended to the rafters
of the adjoining building. A fire was
built beneath the caldrons, and the
house was shaken by the efforts of
the steam ascending the tubes. This
is the first notice of the power of steam
recorded.
In 1543, June II, Blasco de Caroy
tried steamboat, of 200 tons, with toll
cradle success, at Barcelona, Spain. 1t
consisted of caldron of boiling water
and a movable wheel on each side of
the ship. 1t was laid aside as impracti-
cable.
The first idea of steam-engine in
England was in the Marquis of Wor-
cester's History of Inventions" A.
d. 1868.
In ITO Newcomer made the first
steam-engine in England.
In IT'S patents were granted to Saw
cry for the first application of hesteam-
engine.
In 1736 Jonathan Hulls first set forth
the idea of steam navigation.
In 1764 James Watt made the first
perfect steam-engine in England.
In 1778 Thomas Paine first proposed
this application in America.
In 1871 Marquis Jouffroy constructed
one on the Saone.
In 1855 two Americans published a
work on it.
In 1889 William Symington made a
voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde
canal
In 1902 this experiment was repeated
In 1882 Ramsey propelled boat by
steam at New York.
In 1888 John Fitch, of Philadelphia,
navigated boat by steam-engine on
the Delaware.
In 1893 Robert Fulton first began to
apply his attention to steam.
In 1888 Oliver Evans, native of
Philadelphia, constructed locomotive
steam-engine to travel on a turnpike
road.
The first steamboat that ever crossed
the Atlantic was the Savannah, in June,
1919, from Charleston to Liverpool.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16
Overheated.

In warm weather, children need little
covering at night. Yet comparatively
few parents know that child, with his
warm, fresh, young blood, does not
need the same clothing that person of
middle life must have. On moderately
warm night child is put to bed with
covering over him sufficient for a cool
October night. Of course he throws it
off, when he would lie quietly under
lighter clothing. Then, when the
mother looks in to see that all is right
before retiring herself for the night, she
pulls up the covering and tucks it
snugly in. How long is it before the
little one has thrown it off and lies ex-
posed to chill from the falling temper
ature toward morning.? It is with ref
erence to this point that caution is re-
quired. About two or three o'clock in
tie morning there is frequently very
rapid fall in the temperature, and If
persons could form the habit of then
rousing and providing additional cover
ing for themselves and the children of
whom they may have the care, much
sickness might often be saved.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-16

In the autumn 1889, the settlement
in Ohio, at Columbia, contained less
than a score of log cabins. Most of
them were near the bank of the Ohio, a
short distance below the mouth of the
Little Miami. The most prominent of
the settlers were Gen. John S. Gano,
Rev. Stephen Gano, William Goforth,
John Reilly, Francis Dunlevy( afterward
President judge Jacob White, Ephraim
Kibby, Luke Foster (afterward judge,
Rev. John Smith (afterward United
States Senator), John Brown, James
Finn, Thomal Hubbell, Col. Oliver
Spencer, Maj. Benjamin Stiles, Heze-
kiah Stiles, Elijah Buxton, Peter Sken
Smith, James Seward, Thomas G. Wade,
Benjamin Shoemaker, Evan Shelby,
Allen Woodruff, Joseph and Benjamin
Cox. One of the most useful men in
this colony in the wilderness was Peter
Sken Smith. A shrewd and skillful ar
tisan, he only among them all could
repair and keep in working order the
only hand-mill in the settlement, used
almost constantly for grinding Indian
corn. This he did by softening the
steel, filing it sharp, and then hardening
it again. A trader from Redstone Old
Fort (now Williamsport) on the Monon-
gahela, arrived with a small Kentucky
boat laden with -four and other produce,
of which the pioneers in their new set
Element were much in need. So vel
come was his arrival that they lent him
willing aid to carry up his dozen barrels
of flour and pile them between two
trees, that they might be safe from the
perils of the river. Next morning it
was found that one of the barrels had
mysteriously disappeared during the
night, much to the surprise of the trader
and the indignation of the villagers.
They speedily assembled together, and
were not long in coming to conclu-
sion. 1t was Immediately determined
mem con. that general search should
be made, some of the principal citizens
proposing that their own domiciles be
examined first. This was speedily done,
but not until the fourteenth house was
searched was the lost barrel found in the
cabin of Peters. Smith, who proved to
be the Achan of the village. They I'M
hesitatingly arrested him. He submit
ted with a very bad grace. When in
formed that they would proceed to try
him for the felony, with provoking
sang froid he demanded their warrant,
well knowing that from want of civil
organization there could be none. Hav-
ing no leader with supreme authority,
like Joshua of old, they formed them