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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-08
Rive 4 NEWS.

WlLL,AM,poRr, Pa. April THE
river Is Is teet above the low water
mark aud still raising. Part OF the
BON broke rhis mornlng aud 1t is estl-
mated that about two million feet o.
loss passed down. The river at Sun
bury 10 within IL inches o. The height
reac led by the food OF 1863.
ST. L,U,s, April Tine river has
risen 4 feet IN the past 4S hours and the
swell ,ntlnues. Weather wet and dis
agreeable.
ClNoINNAf,, April THE river 10
falling with 81 test 6 inches IN channel
Weather cloudy aud cooler, heavy
showers this afternoon; business dull.
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ILLINOIS,.
I.yuched.

PEORIA, April7.-O Nell the murder
er confined in Peoria county jail last
fall TOR the killing OF a man named Ell
pase and who was acquitted at the last
term OF court, killed another man at
Srater, La Sale couutya day or two ago
He attemp pted to get out OF the town
hu, a crowd OF ex'ted miners caught
him aud nanged him.
Confessed.
Mrs. Workman wife Of the Eureka
Methodist Observation-Disclosures having
killed Mrs Hedges at Eure ka and saws
sh, d d it IN self defense. The general
feeling is that Mrs. Workman driven
frauuc by her discoveries Of her hus'
bands too intimate relations with the
widow of Hrdger in a fit OF des,
peration killed the supposed cause o'
her domestic misery.
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PR0VISICNS-Pork market firm;
SIT Is for new mess $l4 for extra
prime; SIS 759l7 for prime mess.
Beef quiet aud unchanged; S99ll Is
for plain mess, $l2@l3 for extra do.
Beet hams steady at s30933. Tierce
beef dull; s2O922 for prime mesa
$2362j Tor India mess.
LARD-Firm aud quiet ss9Sfc for
No. to prime steam, and 81 for kettle
rendered.
COrTON-On spot opens steady
with a fair demand; lS3c FOR low mid
dllngs. and l9i TOR middlings uplands.
PETROLEUM-Q ,iet and firm; %
9fc for crude: lq} H'', ~ -of,ed.
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Cincinnati SaarneI

CINCINNATI, April 7.
COTTON-Quie'; mrddling l9c re-
celts 373 bales, shipments 33l stock
ll,16l bales.
FLOUR-Dull and unchanged.
CORN-Qaet 3S(94Oc.
OArS-3!939o.
BARLEY-Scsrce; 85990c. for
prime 10 loica family.
PROVlSIONS-Qriet but firm. City
mess pork held at $40 50 with $l6 %
bid; bulk meats qliet and firm; shout
ders 6tc; clear sides Sic; bacon is in
isir ion Ding demand; shoulders 7c; clear
ribs 5000; clear sides 999tG all
packet.
LARD-Firm. City kettle Sic.
TOBACCO--Receipts large and
prices well m intsined.
WHlSKY-DecIined to S5c.
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CINCINNATI ELECTION.

CINCINNATI, April !, l!:3OP M.-The
election returns are coming IN very
slo sIy, owing to the immense amount
OF scratching dooe. 1t IS doubtful 1t
reliabl. returns are received Tonight.
A. tar A. heard from to this hour, in-
d c.lions are that Johnson, the Democ.
rauc aud Liberal candidate. is elected
mayor by a small majority. 1t Is I'M
. p,s,lble TO give al idea Is to the osl-
ance OF tue ticket. TIE returns so lar
snow & large tallIog of 10 the Liberal
aud Democratic vote over thai OF last
tall.
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CapttaI PuniShment.

MADRID, April IA public demon
stration was made 10 the city OF Granada
last night in favor Of the abolition Of
capital punishment. Several speeches
were made end rising the movement
and urging that immediate action with
this view be taken by the government
ACaiiist Victory.
The Carlists claim that General Elio
the lately appointed Geueralessimo oI
the Carlist forces, gained a great and
decisive victory over the government
troops on the Sd instant. The place
where the battle was fought ia moi
stated.
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A DISTINGUISHED petitioner is coming
to the United States. The King OF the
Sandwich islands wants q RECIPROCITY
treaty with our government and be pro-
noses to come over and attend to 1t
b,msslt This is business like and
strsiehttorwsrd. As q PriLce, LunalIlo
NAV not have been great character; |;
but, as q King. there Is evidently no
nonsense about him.
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Anew York fashion paper predicts
a return to the costume OF Empress
sephlne. ALREADY the Josephine
waist is prescribed by dress-mskers."
1t would be q good thing tor our young
men il the Joseph-in trowsers should
also come in fashion.
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FRANCE.
The Election.

PARIS, April Returns from the
elections throughout the departments
Indicate a large Republican gain: Des-
patches received slate that the Repuo
leans have carried Nantes and MazIl-
les by large sj)rIlies.
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The Gas Strike.

tllulSleT5.
The Gas Strike.
The Strike among gas-men still con-
tinues. At an early hour this moving
the tormer EMPLOYEES in the New York
Gas Co. thronged the corners adj ,cent 10
the works Tney feel confident the com
pany will accede to their demands ss it
lts knowq the Italians, and Germanswho
have taken place OF the strIsero ,.-..--
proved all but incapable Tor work g
stated the present workmen are anxious
to leave tn sltuariors:
Tue New York Company now own
seven immense tanks, which are gen.
erslly fllei with gas, ali OF which are
now nearly empty. The President OF
the company promises plenty OF gas
very speedily aud denies that the men
are in any manner injured while at
work. He saws they IRE bti"g initiated
and he hopes to have sufficient gas tor
to. nights consumption The strikers
say they will be joined to night by the
workmen of the Manhattan, Harlem
and Metropolitan Compsuie-, who, on
the other hand, promise TO paw the ne"
rates il the men of the New York Com
pany succeed iu gaining their ends.
In Dark ku-ss.
The lower part OF the city is dlmly
lighted tonight on the principal thor
ough iares. but on many side streets nc
lamps could be seen. The Italians
continue 10 work, but are unable to
make hall supply. 1t was reported
tonight that the Manhattan compsnys
| men will strike for the eight hour sys-
TEN tomorrow night.
Murderer Sick.
Nixon. the murderer of Pheifer still
lays dangerously ill in his cell at the
Tombs.
Only eighty emigrants were save
from the wreck OF the Atlantic, and are
now at Castle Garden.
| More Gas.
A secret meeting was held tonight O.
the gas men at which delegates were
pressnt from the gas men Of Brooklyn
Philadelphia. Jersey City, Boston and
Chicago. Tney intend forming an or
gsnizatiou. Itis thought the Brooklyu
men will soon str Ike for the eight hour
system. The strike in New York, &c
far, has been conducted quietly.
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FOREIGN.
Illness Of the Pope.

IUnPsa OT TIC F"p".
ROME. April His Highness the
Pope, is again quite i'll, and is confined
to his room. All visitors are strictly
prohibited rom his bedside.
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CHARL r hTON. 6
IeptsIature &dipUr ned,

Legislature .dj'urned.
CHARLESTON, April THE Legislas
ture adj urned to-dsv to meet on the
18th OF October 1873 DOVER.
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NEW NOKK,
Methodist 90 uferen ce.

New YORK, April S.-The Methodist
Conference to-day examined the chsrac,
ters of various upernumeraries il sup
port OF preachers and listened to the
reading OF letter from Rev. Dunn Is
years old. a preacher in the British
Conference, who last year preached no
less than 800 grtutous sermons. A
resolution was adopted providing for
briet memoirs OF deceased wives OF
ministers.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
OLD EYES MADE NEW!
A LII DISEASES OF THE EYE sUO.
n cessfully treated by ..
Ball New Patent Ivory Eve Cups

Read ior yourself and res gre your sight.
Spectacles and Surgical operations rem.
dered useless The luestimable BlessinX
OF sight Is made perpetual by the use u
the new
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M. J. Deitz OF Greensburg lnd'' 'eil
through a hatch way in Glenn 8 grocery
house to-day and was instantly kii'eu'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-08

The first military post built by the
whites was that OF Fort Lsurens, con
structed in 1873, by detachment cent
out from Fort Pitt under General Nc
Intosh. The second, that OF Fort Hsr.
mar, constructed by detsc chment uu-
der Major Doughty, in l7S5. These
however, were only for purposes OF
defense against the Iudians, and are
not be classed as settlemeuts.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-08

These goods a'e manuiactured By us or
bought for C ssh direc iy from the E1ropesn
and American Manu- lacturers emyrs~ing
all the latest novelties, uoequslied In yari.
ETY. and cheapns ~ IN sny m fkst.
Orders niled vito care promptness and
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THE MISSIONS.

Next after the traders came the Mo-
ravian Missionaries, who, in l76l. es-
tablished missions al Shoenbrun. Gnad.
enhutten and Salem, in the ruscarawss
Valley. But as these were only made
TOR the purpose OF Christianizing the na
tivea, they are not to be regarded IS
settlements.
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SITLER u ROTH,

Are now opening their large and well
seIeoled
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
This is no Excuse.

'sI would like to see the railroads
built, but don't think / have a right
to vote tax upon men who have prop
erty and are unwilling to be taxed to
build them"
This is heard every day from men
who have little property to be taxed
for the building of our railroads, and
we think it is no excuse at all for re-
fusing to vote for an enterprise that will
be benefit to every class of people in
Giles county. If this principle is cor
rect it should be carried out to the let
ter, and the result will be complete
subversion of one of the most vital prin-
ciples of republican government. If
you cannot vote a tax upon your neigh
Dor, then you have no right to vote for
your Congressman, your Legislators
and your magistrates, who have unlim-
tied power to levy taxes. The inevita-
BILE result is that a property qualifica-
ton is made principle in our govern
ment, and this has been frequently tried
and always found to be subversive of
liberty and altogether ruinous I'm its re-
suits. Sensible men can see the truth
of these statements, and they need no
elaboration at our hands.
The scales of fortune are forever os-
cillating, and "some go up and some go
down. The man who to-day votes a
tax upon his rich neighbor may before
half the time rolls round in which those
| taxes are to be paid be the posscssor of
] the very property which is now in the
hands of that neighbor, and have to pay
| the taxes himself. Then, again, laying
aside the property question altogether
| and coming down to the naked interests
of individuals, let us see how it still
works. The poor man needs these rail-
] roads to afford him a field for his labor,
| to enhance the remuneration for that
labor, and to afford him better facilities
for getting the little he produces to mar
ket at the lowest rates, that he may
thereby realize the profit that now goes
| into the pockets of ''middle men," He
has living at stake, and though that
| living may not amount to thousand
dollars year, yet it is of more impor-
the man should double his property who
has already a sufficiency of this worlds
I goods. Thus we see that the poor man
I is interested personally and in a way
that comes right to his tireside, while
the rich man is interested only in purse.
These facts are incontrOvertible and
should induce every poor man to lay
aside the erroneous impression under
| which some of them labor that they
have no right to vote this tax upon mon
eyed men. The facts of the business is,
however, the interests of ali are at stake,
and it needs only calm investigation
on the part of the people to convince all
that the interests of the rich and poor
coincide in this matter, the one weighty
as the other, and all demanding that the
/ tax be voted.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
Patronize Them.

Misses Kemp announce the opening
of their spring stock of millinery goods,
ladies' hats, &c, in this paper. These
young ladies have a splendid stock of
goods and sell them as cheap as any
one else, and they execute all orders in
their line with dispatch and in fault
less manner. They are trying to establish
a business in Pulaski that viii be ben
eft to the town, and we take great pleas
ure in announcing to those tho have
not made their acquaintance that they
are worthy of all esteem and deserve
your patronage. Whenever you want
anything i'm their line don't fail to call
upon them, and then if they cannot
please you, go somewhere else.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
ZIG e. r. oommfttees NTeet.

The r.. n. Committees Meet
The three Railroad Committees APP
pointed at the Railroad Convention on
the first Monday in April, and pub
nshed in our last issue, met according
to announcement at the Office of Col. S.
Z. Rose on Tuesday last IN joint
committee, and organized by electing
Col. S. z. Rose Chairman and L. w.
Mccord Secretary. After d full, free
and protracted discussion of the various
enterprises contemplated, in which
great interest was manifested by all
present, the following resolution Of
fered by w. II. McCallum, was unani-
mously adopted:
Reso10ed, That the various Commit
tees of the proposed roads ascertain and
report in writing and detail at an adj
journed meeting on Saturday, 18th inst,
from the best information they can pro-
cure, the probable length Of their re-
spective roads within Giles county, and
the character of country through which
they win pass, and such other facts as
in their opinions may aid the joint conf
mittee in estimating the cost of each,
and as may enable them to present to
the respective companies the advan-
tages of building the roads through this
county; and ia the mean time the
chairman of each COMMITTEES correspond
with his company and obtain such in
formation as he can as TO what its re-
quirements viii be.
It was subsequently, ordered that the
subcommittee meet at Tire offices Of
their respective Chairmen at II O'Clock
NJ, on Saturday, 2Gth, and that all
the Committees hold joint meeting at
Col. S. E. Roses Office at P. N. same
day.
Chairmen of the various Committees
were Instructed 70 notify new members
Immediately of their appointment, de-
fine their duties under the foregoing
resolution, and ask prompt and hearty
cooperation.
The committees as amended now
stand as follows:
@. T. g G. W. r. R.-A. Cox, Chair
man, w. II. McCallum, p. II. Ezell, a.
d. Bull, DIR. Jas. A. Bowers, T. n.
Topp, DIR. j. II. Campbell, Joshua MoI~
ris, Jas. E. Alternately, A. o. Williams,
A l.. Prentice, w. G. Flournoy, A. NJ.
Carter, ThOs. G. Jones, W. 5. Ezell,
Mack Alexander.
NJ. q X. r. Rs. Z. Rose, Chairman,
NJ. Childress, w. F. Ballentine, H. II.
Hancock, Jos. Lindsay, David Boden--
hamer, DIR. Jesse Mays, DR.. w. L. VIII
son, Willis Worley, A. Cox, Newton
White, Sterling Alternately, J. Mel Pat
tersOn, Jas. Russell, Jas. L. Wheeler,
Levi Reed, L. w. McCord.
G. &. o. X. R.-Dr. f. Edmundson,
Chairman, j. P. May, A. T. Dobbins,
VIM. Malone, n. Smithson, a. r. Cor
don, r. II. Laird, G. II. McAIillion, p.
A. o. Hankins. j. NJ. Cook, DR.. d. G.
Gordon, Jas. G. Marbut, ThOs. Ii. Mob
let.
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RichIand Factory, Pulaski.

This is one of the oldest cotton facto-
ries in the State, and is situated near
Pulaski, Tenn. 1t has eight looms and
seventeen hundred spindles, uses 600
pounds of lint cotton per day. 1t en-
ploys seventy-five operatives at an aver
age of one dollar per day. 1t consumes
40 bushels of coal per day, which costs
twenty-five cents per bushel. which is
ten cents more than it ought to cost.
OF the financial success of this factory
we not able to speak, but presume it is
good, as they continue to run it and it is
IN safe hands. When the Memphis and
Knoxville road is built through Pulas-
XII, connecting the iron and coal fields,
then Pulaski will become an important
manufacturing town. This factory is
under the charge OF Mr.. Sam Orr. We
wish to- give a short account of all the
cotton, wooden and iron manufactures
in the State. win the owners of these
establishments supply us with the sta
tistics in regard to their factories p
Nashuflle Journal Of Commerce.
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magistrates Court.

Toab and Monroe Madden were ar
raigned before Esq'r Alexander yester-
day for disorderly conduct and attempt
to take possession of and run Owen Sui
Hyan's grocery They failed to get pos
session of the grocery but succeeded in
prevailing on the Court to allow them
TO contribute So and costs each to the
corporation.
Dan. Dunnegan and Jack Bradley,
be-jazus, engaged in little quarrel
with rocks, sticks, fists, &c, commenc-
ing In fun and ending by rolling in a
stoek-gap on the railroad near the
bridge. Jack told Dan If he Dunn
(it)egan he'd find himself getting mp
from the ground with his hand on his
head and knot under it, whereupon
Dan "turned jack, led ~'clubs aud
cut ediamond'' over his opponents
eye. Jack give up the "game". John
Arch Richardson begged for the cor
poration on the next hand, played the
biggest selab7 and went out, winning q
pot of SO and costs from each.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
a Monderfnl Garment.

One of our old bachelor friends, whom
nature has pct only furnished with
warm and liberal heart, but has also
given him a natural preventive for flies,
and which is also sure protection
from being scalped ffhe ever is so un-
fortunate as to fall into che hands OF che
Indians, was made tAereeipient the 9TH
er day at the hands OF two of Giles
county's fairest daughters of a garment,
the which we are unable to describe.
1t is intended for wrapper, and is
made Of checked goods that resembles a
map Of Denver town-lots, surmounted,
decorated and UNDERSIGNED WITH rufIies
that would make good drop curtains for
first-class theatre. He received 1t in
return for a couple of mantles of ante
deluvian fashion which he presented
the ladies. They returned the eompIi-
mont With the above mentioned article,
and now he is raeking his brain to find
something suitable TO reimburse them
FOR che goods and trouble they squan-
deted in getting up this second edition
Of John Robinson circus tent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
The Prettiest Girl

We have been accused by one of our
fair ones of neglecting to vindicate the
right of Giles county to the seat of hon
or among the counties of Tennessee as
being the possessor Of the prettiest girl
i'm the State. We have remained quiet
and watched the idle scramble OF yari-
Gus counties for this honor, and we
have seen them one by one eclipsed and
''sot back We have never entered
the lists for the reason that we did not
wish to pit 'beauty" against "bluff,
for everybody knows that Giles county
has not only the prettiest girl but the
prettiest girls Of any county in the
State. Now, these other county papers
may try to bluff us of in this, but we
invite them all to send delegates down
here, and by the tap of drum we can
array such bevy of beauties before
their gaze as viii make them fail upon
their knees and cry, "Men and brethren,
why have we told so many stories about
this thing; behold here the beauties of
beauties ~
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For the CITIZEN
The Use of Good English.

Inc OSS Oh NTOOO lAShs
With all ofsour boasted cultivation
we should realize the fact that we are
very deficient in the use of our native
tongue. The study of English, which
by far is the most important, is too
much neglected in our high schools,
colleges and universities. In our best
institutions of learning the course of
study in the Latin and Greek languages
is usually thorough enough, but that of
the English Is not as thorough as it
should be. We have need to use the
English language every day, and how
difficult it is to use it with propriety
How seldom do we see persons who can
speak it in its purity! 1t is so often
used with improperly, and we have be-
come so used to barbarisms, vulgarisIns
and fast Americanisms, that it is a rari-
ty to hear one speak elegant English.
1t is sad that some of our public speak
ers, and even some of our ministers,
who above ali other men should speak
elegantly, seem to have little regard for
propriety, precision, purity, or any of
the essential properties of style. Occa-
siOnally we have an Addison, Irving or
Pope, who delights us with the ele-
gance of his diction, while the great
mass of the people pay little attention
to the unity, strength and harmony of
the language. As a people we often
offend the ear of the critic with sole
cisms, harbarisms and provincialisms,
and many of our would-be authors of
the present day often disgust the Eng
lish student with the frequent use of
foreign words. How often do we find
men who have graduated in our
colleges and universities, who seem to
be regardless of the rules of rhetoric,
and who seem to be dsicient in a
knowledge of the English language.
The standard English authors should
be taught in our schools. The styles Of
our great authors should be studied,
their beauties set forth in their proper
light, and their defects exposed in or
der that the student may initiate their
virtues and avoid their errors.
SHIREs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17

Mr.. EDITOR Sitting here by my
window, with the balmy spring breeze
gently. tanning my check, will under
take the sad task of communicating TO
you the sOrrowful intelligence Of the
death of your former correspondent, Al
vira Slimmins. How sad are the hearts
of her friends, that one should be taken
away while in the prime of youth and
beauty(Y). Words are too trite to ex-
press half of her lovable traits so 1 will
not engage in that task, but proceed at
once TO inform you of the cause OF her
death. Alyira lOved-and what woman
past thirty has not,-but her affe .tions
were centered on one unworthy of so
pure heart as hers. This wretch was
Maj Scaggs. He pretended TO be de-
voted TO poor AlYira, and the good peO-
pie of the vicinity were eagerly looking
forward to the time when she would be-
come Mrs. Scaggs. How great, then,
was their surprise and Indignation
when they perceived he was paying
very marked attention to that pert lit
tie Miss Huggins, whose family had
just come to the village. The change
was soon explained. Miss Huggins
was reported to be immensely rich,
while A1vira had nothing save her own
intrinsic worth. Poor Alviri's tender
heart was broken by this cruel neglect;
she droeped, faded and died like a beau
tiful flower nipped by the cold frest.
Now she is calmly sleeping meath the
sod. Ne more will her quiet spirit be
troubled by the res of this world.
Her niece, Alvira Slimmins, Jr., viii
take her place as correspondent to your
valuable paper.
Our little village is still the same quiz
ct place. No marriages have occurred
lately and no deaths, save the one mem
toned. | will stop for the present
win inform You if anything new takes
place. Believe me eveI,
FRoILINE NEMAND.