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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-04
WASHINGTON.

FILLING VACANCIES IN NAVAL ACADEMY.
WASHINGTON, April 8.--Oflcial notiQ-
cations have been sent TO all members
aud delegates Of the next House Of Repre-.
sentativeS representing districts not repre-.
senled at the Naval Academy, requesting
each 10 nominate candidate TO appear
for examination in July. There are now
about 100 vacancies in the Academy,
caused by those leaving who graduated
Inst year, and diSmlssals, designations,
&c. The law provides that nominations
Of candidates for admission must be made
between the 9th Of March and 1st Of July
by the member or delegate from actual
residents Of his district, each member and
delegate beng allowed one cadetship, the
one from the Districtof Columbia to de
selected by the Presidet, and ten atlarge,
also to be appointed by the President.
LOAN MISSION TO EUROPE.
President Bigelow, Chiet of the Loan
Division OF the Treasury Department,
who goes to Europe In few days In con.
nectiOn with the new loan, will take but
three clerks with him and they will be
selected from among the most experience
cd and efficient in the Department.
PAYMENT OF SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
Warrants are now being issued from
the Treasury Department for the awards
made by the Southern Claims Commits.
sioner. About two hundred claimants
have been paid in the last three days.
One warrant to-day contained the names
oil claimants who received on an aggre-
gate 5000 each.
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The steamer Damsel, of Keokuk &
Northern Pacific Line, sunk on the rap
ids above Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday.
The loss Is not reported, but probably not
large.
The Ocean House, Job Jeness & Son,
at Rye Beach, N, H., was destroyed by
fire Thursday u. II. Aportion Of the fur.
niture was saved. Loss OF house, $780,.
900, and reported insured for 500, 900, the
greater part in Providence offices,
Legal tenders outstanding yester day
were $35s,OO50Ol.
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c. Gray, rich capitalist of this city, and
Ot is said) warm personal friend oI Ere.
mont. The proceedings III this view is
correcD were taken In friendship to Ere
mont, and to protect his interests. The
other officers Of the company are widely
scattered over the country. EppersOn
has started a bank in Jefferson; James
Daniel, the chiei.engineer (who, we omit.
ted to soy, was IN Paris with Fremont,)
is somewhere In Texas; 6chmole Is prac'
tising medicine in Philadelphia. By plac'
ing the road in the hands OF receiver,
the stockholders and bondholders, 1t Is
SAID, will be prevented from receiving
anything. ,
On the other hand, LisSignol and Paul
s. Forbes, with the trustees under the
construction mortgage, instituted an ac--
tion for the foreclosure OF the same, and
to this action General Fremont made no
answer Mcdowell and his associates
heard Of this action after disappointment
OF Mr.. Gray as receiver, and after an or.
der Of the Court had been made allowing
the receiver to sell the property OF the
company, and It's franchises, OF private
sale, and without public notice of the
same; and, believing this matter should
not go by default, they with two Of the
directors of the company, applied TO the
Court on petition setting forth the facts
Ior leave to intervene in the action and
defend the rights Of the stockholders and
creditors. The Court denied this Rpplica'
ton. These petitioners contemplate other
proceedings to project their rights in some
way which will be satisfactory to the
Court Certainly the recent proceedings
in France against Fremont and Others
would seem to warrant them In further et.
fort to prove. their former assertions Of
fraud are true. 1t is now stated that the
road has been sold for $50, 600 to certain
city Judge, and, it Is alleged, also friend
OF Fremont. .... ..,.
With the French aspect Of affairs our
readers are already familiar. Fremont.
has been tried by one of the French
courts for the issue Of fraudulent paper,
and, failing to put in an appearance, has
been sentenced TO five years imprison-
ment in cOntumGciGm. His associates
were also sentenced in divers penalties,
and such OF them as were present were
Immediately arrested. --
ut is in vain for General Fremont to
write long letters 70 papers protesting his
innocence" say his accusers, "and deClar.
ing that he acted honestly in the matter.
There Is ono plain question which de-
mands an immediate answer; and until
that is given General Fremont rests
under criminal imputation: What be.
came oi that five million dollars that was
raised by him and his associates In
Paris?" Such a question Is easily an
swered; and General Fremont seems
bound 10 give an explanation at once.
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Mining In colorado.

CENTRAL CRY, COLORADO, April s.
Bullion shipments In Utah from Central
City Is $4,000. The Canon mine yield
ed $4,000 10 silver, during four days
last week. Many rich strikes from the
mines in this vicinity have been made
recently. Indications points to season
Of great activity and a large increased
yield Of gold and silver.
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PHILADELPHIA.
Release Of tho supposed Roscoe.

Release OF the Supposed Roscoe.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2-Ths man ar.
rested here on the suppositiOn that he was
Roscoe, the alleged murderer OF Good.
rich has been released, upon the Brooklyn
detectives pronounClng him not that per.
son,
Capt. Henry May, the largest ship
owner Disabling vessels In the city died
to-day, Vged 70 years.
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The low barometer In Nebraska will
extend southeastward over Missouri dur.
Ing the rest Of Thursday night, and thence
TO Ohio and the lower lakes on Friday,
For the Gulf States on Friday, increasing
southerly winds with cloudy weather and
rain on the western coast Friday morn
ing, and in the Eastern Gulf States Ell
day afternoon. For the South Atlantic
States, increasing southeast winds yeering
to the southwest with rain by Friday
night and possibly Friday evening 10
Georgia. For the Middle States, south,
cast and southwest winds, cloudy and
threatening weather. For New England
light winds, partly cloudy and cleal
weather. For tho lake region, generally
northeasterly winds with threatening
weather and possibly rain. Cautionary
signals arc ordered nt Duluth, Milwaukee
Chicago aud Grand Haven.
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The New Uayen Bank Failure.

NRw HAVEN, April 3.-The trustee for
the creditors of E. s. Scranton & Co., the
suspended bankers, states that there was
due the deposltors at the close ofbusinesa
over $66,000. The loans and over drafts
for the BAme day were $225 900. The real
estate will not bring 100000
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CongresSmau Brooks Going South.

WAsuINaroN, April 3.-James Brooks,
in very feeble condition, was carried 70
Norfolk on steamer today, In the hope
that the change ol air and the warm sea
coast would aId his restoration to health
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SEWING ON BUTToNs.-It is bad enough
to see q bachelor sew on button, but he
Is the embodiment Of grace alongside oi
O married man. Necessity has COMPEL
ed experience in the case OF the former,
but the latter has always depended upon
some one else for this service, and, iOrtu-
nately for the sake Of society, it is rarely
he Is obliged TO resort to the needle him
self. Sometimes the patient vile scalds
her right hand, or runs silver under the
nail Of the index finger Of that hand, and
it Is then that the man clutches the nee
die around the neck, and forgetting to
tie knot in the thread commences to
put on the button. 1t is always in the
morning, and from five to twenty min
utes after he Is expected to be down
street, He lays the button exactly on
the site of its predecessor, and pushes the
needle through ono eye, and draws the
thread alter, leaving about three inches ol
it sticking up for lee way. lie says to
himself: "Well, If women don't have the
easiest time ever see." Then he comes
back the other way, and gets the needle
through the other way, and gets the nee
die through the cloth well enough, and
lays himself out TO find the eye, but in
spite OF a great deal OF jabbing, the nee
die point persists in buCking against the
solid parts of that button, and finally,
when he loses patience, his fin
ger catches the thread, and that three
inches he had left behind to hold the but
ton slips through the eye in twinkling,
and the button rolls leisurely across the
floor. He picks It up without single
remark, out Of respect for his children,
aud makes another attempt 70 fasten 1t.
This time when coming back with the
needle he keeps both the thread and but
ton from slipping by covering them with
his thumb, and It Is out Of regard for that
part Of him that he feels around Tor the
eve in very careful and judicious man
ner, but eventually losing his philosophy,
as the search becomes more and more
hopeless, he falls to jabbing about In q
loose and savage emAnner, and tits Just thcn
the needle finds the opening, and comes
up through the button and part way
through his thumb with celebrity no
human ingenuity can guard against.
Then he lays down the things, with lew
familiar quotations, and presses the injur'
cd hand between his knees, and then
holds 1t under his arm, and finally jams
It into his mouth, and all the while he
prances about tho floor and calls upon
heaven and Garth to witness that there
has never been anything like 1t since the
world was created, and howls, and whis'
ties, and moans, and sobS. After while
he calms down, and puts on his pants, and
tastens them together with stick, and
goes to his business changed man.
DanbWry NelrS. ....
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"A gale Of wind blew down the house
Of Mathew Brown. in Cherokee county
Kansas, Monday night, killing Miranda
Brown and injuring several other mem
| bers Of the family.
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BosToN, April 3.-Fast day, In MassA.
chusetts, Is very much Of festival. In
observance few churches were open for
religious services, In which the wreck Of
the Atlantic was referred to both In the
prayers Nnd sermons.
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KNOXVILLE, April S.-The Knoxville
& Charleston railroad was offered Tor
sale, to-day, and bought In by tho State
for 100000 There was no other bid
der. ....y
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FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

The Bank OF England Losing Bullion
LONDON, April S-The bullion In the
Bank Of England has decreased 100000
during the past week.
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#-slsler Antonia, tho sister Of Bishop
Lynch, Of South, Carolina and for long
time mother superior Of the Caremelite
Convent in Baltimore, died Wednesday,
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QUEENSTOWN, April S.-The steamer
City OF Washington sailed for New York
yesterday.
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TBY TELEoRAPH,
Assoo1AFRp PRESS REPORT.
Excluslrely to the IntellIgenOer.

os (By the Western Union Line.
once Northwest cor. Of Main and Monro0 ets)
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Weather Report.


war DRPARTNRNF,
uPEICE UP THE CaEHF SIgNAL OEEIoBR,
WASHINGTON, D. O., April $3.50 r, \.
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Happily the generous sum will NOT be
required, as the passengers desire nothing
at present but to 10 speedily forwarded
to their destinations.
Some oil the incidents Of the disaster, rs
related by the survivors, are narrowing.
At one time during the weary watch, be.
tore the dawn, the iore'boom broke loose
instantly crushed to death about 200 per.
sons gathered In the house on deck. Sew.
erai passengers are reported drowned by
life boats, which, not being properly
managed, overturned and drowned the
unlortunStes before assistance could be
rem lercd. Some who had life buoys, and
endeaVOFed TO reach the rock by means o.
a line from the vessel, not having them
properly adjusted, but on the lower par
Of their bodies, were floating with thei
heads down, and in this way meny vert
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-09
Pile Up the Manure.

MANY farmers save, pile and rot their
manure, so as to use it for top dressing
for wheat in the fall. Such farmers have
doubtless piled up their manure as soon
as the stock was taken from the yards.
But many others, who are not accustomed
to this practice, have their manure still
scattered over the yards, just as it has &C
cumulated through the winter and spring.
These farmers may yet gain largely by
piling their barn;yard manure; and I
would suggest that this manure be we'll
piled and rotted, and used Just before
sowing to top-dress the land for winter
grain. Manure applied this way will give
the young plants an early and vigorous
start, and give them q better growth and
root, SO they will stand better chance to
live through an unfavorable winter and
spring, and to yield q satisfactory crop at
harvest. This top dressing will also be of
considerable benefit to the new seeding in
the spring, which is generally sown on
winter grain, and give much better crop
of clover or grass. Where good meadow
is desired, it will be of special benefit to
the coming crops of hay. If winter grain
Is not grown, or the manure Is not needed
on the land sown, the manure may be
spread on clover or grass land, in the
fall, that is to be plowed up the next
spring for corn. Manure used in this way
often pays better than when applied in
any other way. ! have for some years
been of the opinion that barnyard ma
nure. Is made in most grain sections,
where there Is more or less straw and
other coarse litter mixed with the dung,
pays much the best when piled, rotted
and applied to winter grain or grass in
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Importing Butter and Cheese.

If our dairymen need spur, an eye
opener, a lesson which speaks volumes in
a few words, here is one at the head OF
this article. Butter is actually brought
from France and sold by the New York
dealers. And this is because there is an
actual scarcity in the market of really
good butter, put up in attractive shape,
for small customers. When we know that
one dairyman gets $1.15 pound for his
product, another 81, and another seventy
five cents, the year round, at his dairy
door, it is easily seen that it will pay to
bring butter across the ocean from France,
if it is only good and shapely enough to
suit the fastidious purchasers who will
have something nice whatever it may
cost. All this butter is made from choice
cows, choicely fed on clean, sweet food;
the milking is done in the cleanest man.
ner; the milk is handled as carefully as
though it we're nectar the cream is churn-
ed with the utmost care, by clock and
thermometer; tine butter is worked with
skill, and is made up into shapely cakes
which do not require to be cut when
brought to the table. Compare, then, this
cake-hard, golden, yellow, sweet, fra
grant, and tempting to all the senses
with an unsightly chunk which is cut out
of greasy keg, and smells of old age and
and is made from ill-kept cream
from cows filthily lodged and carelessly
MIXED, and is churned anyhow, and the
difference is amply accounted for.-N. Y.
Tribune.
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no use. And then she told the how one
night Emmie's husband returned from q
boar hunt, and she ran to meet him in the
hall, when he, in fit of druken fury, be-
fore servants and stranger guests, raised
his riding-switch and cut her across the
face-the cowardly Homeland from that
hour she never raised her head, but under
the cruel indignity she slowly dropped.
| On the night she died she moaned with
balm that she should not see father or
mother again, and they had no picture
even to remember her by. But they shall
have one-they shall have one, and, thus
saying, she died.
When the master of the chateau saw
her dead, remorse burned into his soul
and drove him mad, and he was now a
raving maniac. And at last Susan es-
capped from the chateau to tell the secrets
of his prison.house.
As Mr.. st. John rapidly sketched these
tragic outlines, great drops of anguish
stood on his forehead, and when l babe
him farewell his hand was as cold as
death. In the din and confusion Of this
great shouting world lost sight of my
friend, and some years after our recontre
at Berlin Twas panied to read an intima-
ton of his death in the Times. Shortly
after this melancholy announcement
letter from the solicitors of the deceased
Mr.. St. John informed me that he had be-
queathed me full-length portrait Of his
only daughter
And this is the story of the picture of
the lady with the pale, sad face, that
hangs in my library. But sometimes l
think only dreamt the tragic tale
En0lish MQ0Qztne.
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the fall. Where there is not much straw
or other litter with the ti1antire, and NO
good absorbents are at hand to mix with
It to make compost probably the sooner
the manure can be used, the better.
In piling manure, care should be taken
to locate the piles in the yards SO they
will not be in the way when drawing in
hay and grain in the summer. Then begin
by pitching all up clean from the bottom.
This is important, as any straw or other
litter left under the pile, which has not
been forked over, will not rot, but come
out about as coarse as when twas cover.
ed up. The sides of the pile. should be
carried up as near perpendicular as they
can be conveniently made, and the top
left little dishing, SO there may be little
chance for loss Of manure by washing.
The piles should be about five feet high,
and as wide and long as the manure with.
in convenient reach will make them. OF
course several piles will be made, each
placed so as to be most convenient to the
manure, and at the same time out of the
way of other work. If the piles are well
made, and contain suitable proportion
of straw or other absorbents, there will De
very little loss from evaporation, or ny the
washing Of rains.-Cor. Country Gentle
man.
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Corn Fodder.

THE Rural Sun says: 1t is Tennessee
custom to pull fodder. 1t is question,
long debated, whether or not pulling
fodder does not injure the corn more than
the fodder is worth. A farmer, some
wears ago tested the matter thus: He
pulled the fodder from one acre; cut the
the tops from the second, and left fodder
and tops on the third. He afterwards
weighed the corn of each acre, and that
from the third acre exceeded the weight
weight of the fodder in the one case, and
the tops in the other. This was to his
mind pretty conclusive proof that pulling
the fodder and cutting the tops Injuries
the yield of the corn. We know most of
our farmers regard fodder and tops as
pretty good feed for stock, but we hope
as many as can will take steps to test the
matter so that the subject may be
thoroughly understood, and the best
practice adopted.
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WHISKY AND THE WEED-Intelligen
Psychologists and Psychologists admit that
all so-called medicines containing alcohol
whether they emanate from the regular
pharmacopeia and are called tinctures, or
from the Empirical Rum Mills and are Ia
beled "Tonics'-are essentially dangerous
and destructive. The only way il which
drunkenness can be arrested is by restor-
ing the integrity of the nerves Especially
the nerves Of taste and the great sympa-
thetic nerve), and purifying the animal
fluids; and these objects are more certain
ly and swiftly accomplished by the use of
DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs than by
any other means. Hence, probably, the
opinions now SO generally expressed, that
this pure preparation is a sovereign RENE
dy for the evils referred to. Should it be
clearly ascertained that VINEGAR BITTERs
is not only a specific for indigestion, liver
disease, nervousness, scrofulous ulcers
and eruptions, and host of other disor-
ders, but also for inebriety, thousands
will rise up and call the discovcrer bless
ed. 10
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HOW THEY FOOLED" A STRANGER.
colorado, 1S3.l


A stranger from the mountains came slowly riding
And stopped to get his dinner in AOntesnma
And his rough-haired rawboned, played out, tired
He sent ont TO- lie stable to recuperate with feed
1t wasn't such fancy hOrse-his joints were very
And his legs hung out each side Of him like oars
upon barge. go
Had no exalted opinion Of his qualities, pre-
sumo.
But when they went to chatting him-those sports
rha, - ssoaiS get Sis dander Up is Nothing very
strange.
And when they talked Of betting tina. they had a
colt right thar
That could beat his horse, he bridled up with
'Gentlemen Ill swar,
"Altho' don't much kecr to run. never let a
"Blufr me while have horsehcsh that can walk or
so il you've got a runnin' boss. or a dozen, trot
'em in.
And I'll try to make it lively. even If nary red
win
Then like wid-fre spread the rumor, throughout
that mining town.
That they'd caught a''greeny" mapping, and would
do him up SO brown,
That 'twould make his head swim. maybe, for they
entertained no doubt
OF their open-and.shut ability to clean that
stranger out.
From afty-dollar greenbacks down 10 Montezuma
scrip
They staked their money lively, with a reckless
''let 'er rip
And they gathered up their bronchos and every
nag they had,
For they wanted to wax that stranger and his
horse almighty bad.
Then straightway that stranger started with those
citizens en- MdSse,
To find level spot Of ground all covered DER
with grass.
For said he Il reckon We mout as we'll just let the
critters go.
" 'Thoat wai,in' any longer, for it muchly looks
like snow
The rivals in that scrub lit ont; the stranger got
the lead:
And that '.ornery" horse developed extraordinary
speed.
He got away right easy with those Montezuma
nags,
And that stranger smiled serenely as he pocketed
their rags.
-Georgetorn (Colorddo) Miner
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require extended
given fifty thousand anu
thousands briefly as follows:
will be found IN
q Ineligible, and interesting manner
delicate
selected and legby printed its
first agricultural The most fresh and instructive " ~
regularly in this department.
II
soeher Of their supporters
cattle markets to whc pay particular attention
single dollar will get the paper Tor year
ayd Column" Only sloo year, oe'0
SRNI.wEEKLY the Daily SUM- SS'VOa ''"
Sca 1885, o aa the asns Is : Per
' address, SUM-" York City.
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The National Life Insurance Company
of the United States of America, is in no
respect affected by the recent suspension
of the large banking house of Jay Cooke
8 Co. Its securities are such as are prop
er to . conservatively conducted Life In
surance Company, all being Of the most
substantial description. It holds, invested
in mortgages and in Government bonds. a
much larger amount than its total liabili-
ties, and all of its other assets are worth
all that they are claimed to be. It has
not, and never had, q dollar of its funds
invested or secured by the Northern Pa
cific Railroad bonds or stock. It did not
even have deposits with the banking house
of Jay Cooke & Co., or any other private
banking house. The policy holders and
friends of the company need entertain no
shadow of apprehension as to its perma-
nent ability, and of Its future prosperity
and success. .n