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BOILER EXPLOSION.
Seven Persons Killed and Several
- IL Wounded. 49,.

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Seven Persons Killed and Several
v.g ~ Wounded. ,yt2
New York, Nov. 11.-A boiler exploded
at 4 o'clock this afternoon, at the corner
4th Avenue and 128th street, used by
Coyne & Beeman, contractors on the 4th
Avenue Improvement. Seven persons were
instantly killed and several wounded.
all Of the killed had either the whole or q
portion Of their heads blown of. The
following are the names of The killed:
John Gibson, John Foley, Phillip P. Mil.
Ter, George Becker, Louis Bassford, aged
1S, VIM. Birth, o school boy, who was
passing over q temporary bridge to the
track, aged IA, and 1rne Belletain, aged
10. ~ iilSiJti " / I
Along the upper portion Of Fourth
avenue the New York Central 4 Hudson
River Railway Company Is engaged in ex.
cavating the street for the purpose Of
sinking tracks below the present level.
Numerous hosting machines worked by
steam power from movable engines are
used In the work Of excavating, and 1t
was the boiler OF one Of these engines
which exploded this afternoon. The
boiler was an upright, high pressure Of
tubular sort. II was In charge Of John
Barnum, who had entrusted It 10 o boy
thirteen years Of age, who had been al.
lowed to act as engineer, to the peril Of
scores Of lives. Tho boiler exploded with
q terrible noise, and in an instant after.
wards, % the dust and debris cleared
away, the ground was seen TO be strewn
with bodies. dead and wounded, horribly
torn and mutilated. : rr tl'rE
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WHEELING WEST VA WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER l2 1878

make regular Wheeling Nail at the
oh,o oitv Iron and Nail Works. but also
s", ~ S = i.a,.n S -" tha psrh Nal which
Wnss ID kno"n t ~ y wy Ds,. 4HaA nv. -.
the pamphlet says IS rapidly growing IN
favor strictly on It's merits. The Com
norv has The exclusive right to manuiac.
pany .s.m l1o -, =
ture saia naii. 2 - M
The manufacturing surroundings OF tne
new enterprise are given as follows:
Tn ,be School District of Martins Fer.
rv there are 9 ZOO inhabitants, furnishing
tbe @ labor @ and principal portion OF the CAP.
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FIRES.

sTAYuRR, oNr, Nov. liza fire here
this morning destroyed the Northwestern
Railway station, Randolph's saw mill and
lumber yard, Summerfelts hotel and four
houses. Loss, 100000. II
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 11.-A special to the
Courier. Journal from Moscaw, Hickman
county, KY, 9Th inst states that o fire
broke ont the night previous in the saloon
Of ]. r. Humphreys and destroyed the
whole business part Of the town but three
houses. A man named 0'Brien, from
New York, was arrested charged with
firing the town.. Loss $15, ,000, No IN.
surance. Aman named Dean, from Ten.
nessee, asleep in the saloon where the fire
began, was burned to death. y
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THE PETROLEUM MARKET. - The
cheapest commodity before the public
these days Is carbon oil: The shrinkage
in price has been going on steadily for
several months. And now 1t has the
weight of the panic superadded. This,
100, Notwithstanding the large and In
cress,ng exports to Europe. The increase
in production more than keeps pace with
consumption. The Pittsburgh CONNER
ta! of yesterday remarks that there Is an
unusual disincllnation to operate in oil
even at the low prices prevailing. The
crude article Is offered freely at 8 cts per
gallon in Pittsburgh and the refined at 12i
and l2s. At Parkers we notice sales
Ol 1000 barrels Union pipe, at 97i cts per
barrel and 1000 barrels Faitview, at 81
Cu per barrel,
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Letter from Bishop Won Ketteler 70
the German emperor.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE London
Times publishes the following, sent 1t by
Archbishop Manning:
"a letter has appeared in the Manner
Journal, from Bishop Won Ketteler, OF
Maipz, addressed to the German Emper.
or, In which the latter Is challenged to
prove the assertion against the loyalty Of
the German Catholics, contained In his
reply to the Pope's letter. 1t runs as iol-
lows: I'D = Ia III e.
"Your. Majesty has charged us In the
face Of Europe with disloyal intrigues.
Now, our agitation has either been con-
Quoted within the limits Of the law, and
In that case you were not justi.
fed in bringing this charge against
Us, or our conduct has trans
creased the laws, and accordingly
we have committed o crime Of treason.
win your majesty then order your Gov
ernment on the ground OF the facts which
must be at your disposal In the presence
ol such . charge 10 indict our leaders as
traitors. Alter your majesty has uttered 80
irightiul an accusation against our honor,
integrity and,loyalty at least allow US 10
prove 70 you how III informed you have
been. f3V.it ,ih5 ..ig,f 4f5..
Il appears that there Is a second letter
from the Pope TO the Emperor which the
latter has mot been published, and which
the Catholics say he 70 afraid to publish.
The London Telegraph says: "There
has been recently published OF Rome q
new Constitution, beginning ut Romanus
Pontiiex, concerning Wears capitular and
persons elected to the vacant Sees by the
Civil power. It bears date the 9th Of
October ..last, and opens an opportunity
for q nomination to the vacant Bee OF
Fulda. Doubts are expressed In high
Catholic circles whether the German
Kaiser will brave the censures Illuminated
in this bull. Amongst other matters II
pronounces that the chapter Is only COM
petent 10 elect . Vicar Capitular on
the decease Of 0 Bishop, and that
presentations iof emperors, or kings, or
dukes, or princes, who have usurped such
privileges are altogether null and void.
It also intlicts the major excommunica-
tion ipSo Jdct0 on the canons and dignita'
ries OF cathedrals II they venture to give
up the administration Of any church, 10
such nominee Of the civil power, re-
serves absolution in such case TO the
Roman PontifF for the time being, and de.
clares all acts Of snch intruders 10 be null
and void. Fl
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GkpGstelkiqener::

THE monetary situation at New 1ofS
continues to improve. There was De
c,Sedly better feeling in Wall street yes
urdsy. The banks made q iurtnef gam
~. million in their reserve, and money
~.s.loaped on call below the legal rates,
pittsburgh seems to be more exercised
IN money matters than any place within
nnr observation. The Commercial OF yes
,erdsy takes decidedly gloomy view o
the local situation, and says that "the de
mspd for funds continues, II possible, tc
Increase on the street, and the most unex'
eep,ionable paper is still Offering at out,
rseeot,s rates. The unsettled condition ol
,Ss market can be chiefly traced TO .
number Of untavorable reports, which
have been circulating in the NOUNS o.
tbe rossips, concerning the solVency o.
some Of our banking concerns, wnlcn
rumors, upon investigation, have uniloim'
10 nroyen 10 have been without iounda..
lion. perhaps conceived in malice and
brought forth in spite,""
This Is pretty dolorous from Pittsburgh,
hut had as lis we are not prepared to con-
clude that 1t is yet quite equal to steu-
bepville, judging from the following para
graph in the Nep' Of that city:
"It gets to be pretty serious when the
heat man in town can stand on his head
FIR five minutes, with shake up intermis.
sons and not even a.nickel will roll from
his trowser's pockets. 1t Is high time we
should study retrenchment and reform
when such startling facts stare US In the
E.nai'
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FRANCE.

LONDON, Nov. 11.-A dispatch from
Paris says: 1t Is reported that an extensive
plot 10 favor Of Count De Paris has been
discovered in that city. It is said the
authorities are in possession Of documents
by which q number Of well known poll
ticians are compromised. It is also re-
ported that q deputation Of Monarchists
are about to proceed to Oulseburg TO re.
quest Count Dc Chsmbord to abdicate
bis claims 10 the throne Of France in To-
vor oil Count De Paris. an.
PARIS, Nov. 11.-Thc Committee on
Prolongation OF the Prcsidenps Powers
have elected M. Laboulaye their reporter
and resolved to instruct III. DeRemusat
to confer with President Mcmahon.
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FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE steamship City
OF Liverpool has gone to the relief Of the
steamship City Of Richmond, and assist
her into port. $500. ..-. 49,.
Fifty thousand dollars in specie was
shipped to-day from Southampton to New
York. q. 5' l- so
It is reported that William Alfred and
Arthur Burrs s. Co., general metal mer-
chants have failed. Their liabilities are
said TO be $4,000 600 ..l. at. l'a-
A violent gale prevailed yesterday on
the British and Irish coasts, and the har-
bors are filled this morning with vessels
disabled or seeking shelter. No serious
disasters as yet have been reported.
Lawson, o stock broker interested In
Erie, failed today. ut
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Dlscharged from Custody.

JAMAICA, LoNa ISLAND, Nov H.
fers implicated in tarring and feathering
Kelsey, appeared before Judge Armstrong
this morning. The counsel moved their
discharge on the ground that Queens
county has no Jurisdiction In the case.
The District Attorney said the grand jury
Of suffolk has been In session and found
no bill against the parties, therefore he
would not oppose their discharge. There
upon Judge Armstrong discharged all the
defendants, which releases them from all
further trouble In the matter.
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SAN FRANCISCO.

sANrFRANc1sco, Nov. 1.-THE Board
oiSupervisors have passed an order grant
ing q. j. Booth s. Co. twenty acres ol
land on Central Basin, Mission Bay, os'
tensibly for the purpose Of building exten'
sive navy yards. Booth & Go. propose tc
spend two hundred thousand dollars or
the land grant In Central Basin. That b
the condition Of the grant, but It Is gen.
orally believed that the Mayors veto vii.
defeat the ordinance. This Is one OF tic
basins which the Central Pacific Railroad
Company endeayored to get into its pos
The pool @ selling onthe srest four mile
race begins tonight. Thus far the bet
are about equal on Thad. Stevens and
True Blue, la
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CUBAN AFFAIRS.
Secretary Fish's Opinion In Regard
4--.. 1.-The Virginius. Affair. .--,.r.

Secretary Fish's Opinion In Regard
er--. toihes sVirginiusl Affair. .-.sr.
NEW YoRK Nov. 11.-A Washington
correspondent has had an interview with
Secretary Fish regarding the shooting oi
the passengers Of the Virginius, and the
Secretary said II was q cold blooded muir.
der, and no one of so1nd judgment pre-
tends to apologize for the butchery, but
the Cubans themselves are o misguided
set. They have had presumed patriots
running loose in New York and Wash
|ington cities who, had they been made oil
sterner mettle, would have been fighting
battles on the island instead Of manuiac.
turing useless and pseudo enthusiasm in
those cities. No one denies that Ryan
and his conferees were In commission Of
the Cubians. II an American is willing
to enter the service OF Q foreign power he
does 1t at his own risk and has
no right at every turn which proves In.
imical to his own interests or life to ask
the intervention of the Government he
has Voluntarily left to battle for another
power. 1t would have been much more
creditable to the Cuban authorities 10
have kept their officers at home doing ser:
vice where 1t was valuable. Battles
fought on enthusiasm breathed in Wash.
ington, and New York will not gain
Cuban victories or add one chsplet to the
cause. Itthey had done more service IN
Cuba and less elsewhere, the cause on the
Island might day present more flatter.
ing aspect. Cuban warriors should be
made Of better stuff than those who float
around these cities soliciting aid and en-.
couragement for the Insurgents In arms
Secretary Fish. added that he sym.
pathized with Cuba, but could not render
aid in any manner which will conflict
with the comfy of nations; and further,
,he wanted TO see better metal from Cuba
than has yet been sent before he could
hope to hear oil their ultimately achiev.
ing their independence. In the present
juncture Of affairs, he said the State De.
partment will use the utmost diligence to
be advised at the earliest practicable mo-
ment. After we have full facts we will
act. This government cannot now act,
because it does not have any basis upon
which to proceed fairly and intelligently.
1t may be week yet before the news is
presented in official shape.
MERTING At BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1l.-Cubans here at
q meeting last night appointed commit.
tee to goto New York and confer with
the Cuban leaders there In regard TO fu.
tnre movements. '''i- '..
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II. b. Clnflln 4 Co.

From Pittsburgh Commercial from yesterday
This great New York importing dry
goods firm which recently became en-
barrassed, have hit the nail on the head
with reference to the present situation in
the dry goods trade, and the wants Of the
dealers, both wholesale and retail. They
otter their whole stock OF merchandise
amounting 10 upwards Of six million dol
lArs, at q special sale, commencing 10. day;
the terms Of credit being strictly thirty
days, with proper discount for ,prompl
cash. Cut down the wholesale prices ant
realize from the stocks on hand, Is o prin
ciple which cannot but aid largely In
restoration of credit and 0 freedom iron
embarIassments Of every description.
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NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE employing
and working gltailors have agreed upon
per cent reduction Of wages, the old price
10 be restored assoonas the trade revives
The loss Of the Ismalia Is fully creditet
OF the Ship News Exchange. She sailei
ior the Mediterranean on the 29th Of Sep
tember, with heavy load Of freight, bu
carried no passengers. The last seen o
her was on the I'd inst, when she wa
stopped of the coast oil Nova Scotia short
OF provisions. The vessel and cargo wert
valued at nearly half o million. ".
The general railroad and steamship
ticket agents held meeting to-day and
formed q permanent organization for the
purpose Of maintaining passenger rates
and protesting against the movement o.
railroad managers to abolish the business
oil commission agencies. Every agent In
the city was present Steps were taken
10 unite the agents throughout the coun.
try and o committee appointed consisting
Of Swan, of the Astor House, Burnham
Of the 9th Avenue Hotel, and Bascome,
OF the Gilsey House, to represent the As.
sociation at a meeting OF railroad man
ayers At Chicago on the 10Th instant.
Mrs. Captain hall today paid visit 10
the United States Steamer Tigress. She
was shown her deceased husbands prayer
book picked up BY correspondent OF
Camp Polaris, which she wishes to obtain
possession oil, but when she was told that
Col. James Lupton, formerly Paymaster
in the United States Army, who gave
CAPTAIN Hall the book on the evening OF
his departure. wished 10 obtain 1t II ever
found as he carried II through our Civil
war. She relinouished the wish. Mrs.
Hall was yisibly affected when she saw
Ethe deeply worn volume. The inscrip.
tions made by Psymaster. Lup,on on the
fiy.leaf-"Lookout Mountain" "stone
River" "The Bloody Field OF Chicka.
manga" @The March to the Atlantic" :"
&c, &C., can still be easily read.
A ten mile foot race, for $500 aside
and d the I chsmpionship Of America, was
arranged here 10. .day between John stor.
rie. Of Sheffield. England, recently ar.
rived. and w. &. Harding, Of this city,
the race to take place at Providence, Il
I on the 27th inst GS
The snit of Gazzaway B. Lamar Of Sa.
vannah. Georpia, against Chas. A. Dana
for the ALLEGED false imprisonment while
he latter was Assistant Secretary Of War
was argued in the U. s. Circuit Court to.
day. Bana's defense is that the arrest
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R. N. T. Hunter as Statesman.

r. n. T. Hunter as a Statesman.
This exploded Virginia Senator made q
speech not long ago at Winchester, in
which he broached the idea Of loan o.
$4OO,O0000O from the United States Gov
ernment, without interest, to the ex.slave'
holders Of the South as o partial recon-.
pense for depriving them Of their slaves.
We observe by the Richmond DispGtd
that he has supplemented this speech with
q more recent letter on the same subject
and advocating the same idea This shows
how much Of statesman he Is. A states
man Is commonly supposed to bea man
Of sufficient practical sense not to identity
himself with utterly impractical and often.
sive schemes. Judged by this standard,
however, both STUART and HUNTER are
poor specimens Of statesmen. The
former proposed during the campaign TO
forcibly expatriate al. negroes from Amer
ican soil. This proposit ition is in keeping
with HuNrER's idea Of compensation for
the emancipated slaves. Both schemes
will be laughed 10 scorn throughout the
country. And both Of them will simply
do harm to Virginia in the public esti-
nation. Such men, her pretended states.
men, do her constant injury in this way.
Why can they not give her chance to
recuperate in peace and not vex her own
people and the country generally with
their barbaric nonsense. w
Tho Richmond Dispatch, Conserva.
tive paper and very strongly Virglnian in
It's sympathies, puts large hole in HUNT.
RR's scheme when 1t condemns Il as a
flre.brand among the Southern people
themselves. 1t condemns the idea as
creating an invidious distinction among
them. The scheme proposes only to pay
those who lost slaves and not those who
lost husbanps or brothers, their sole sup.
port perhaphs; not those who lost q leg,
or an arm, or their health, put Simply tne
slave holders. We'll may the DispatM
say that .SF!
A scheme that would thus select a ia
vored class for benefits, and Of this class
give the greatest benefits TO those who
mad owned the most negroes, although
these would necessarily be the men who,
having the most land, had suyed the most
property from the disasters OF war-we
say such scheme would convert Virgin
ia into q scene Of ill.will, strife, and com.
motion that has had no parallel in her
history. Instead OF being united, as they
now are, as one man, her white people
would be divided into classes which
would hate each other, and the negroes
would thus acquire the balance Of power
and become the arbiters OF the destinies Of
our good old Commonwealth God forbid
such result.
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The utilization or waste Fuel. 2

The Utilization Of Waste Fuel.
The amount Of iuelthat is'wasted every
year in the coal banks in and around
Wheeling is so great that we willnot dare
to estimate 1t either in bushels or dollars
1t is simply immense. The abandoned
rooms in one Of our banks contain often
hundreds of tons Of slack, and even
coarser coal, that cannot be utilized in
manufacturing. Therefore it is wholly
lost. Coal being cheap nobody save the
very poor will use anything but coarse
coal in their houses. And yet this slack
Is just as good as the biggest Jumps that
we burn in our gratesif we could only find
a way Of manufacturing 1t into the same
sort OF Jumps. It is claimed that plan
for co agulating itinto Jumps has been dis.
covered at Mauch Chunck, Pa. ~
"The binding material is ciay-which
Is neither combustible nor iusible. Bitum.
inous or resinous material is not used for
adhesive purposes, the only cement being
FIVE per cent of common yellow clay.
The Jumps are immersed, in solution ol
resin, thus giving perfect waterproof
covering. The cost ot manufacture at the
mines Is S5 cents per ton. The Jumps,
which are egg shaped, can be handled
without soiling the fingers, and they burn
with a steady blaze, holding their shape
until reduced to ashes. The machinery
for manufacture as exhibited In the model
dispenses entirely with handling the ma.
terials. The clay Is poured in through
one hopper, the coal dust through another,
the substances falling into equally reyolv.
ing partitions on two separate shafts,
the portions that take the coal waste re-
ceiying and delivering exactly nineteen
times as much as those that take the clay.
As the coal and clay, fall together they
are sprinkled with milk OF lime, which
the machinery delivers In due pro:
portion. The moislened mass Is carried
by q screw propeller into the mixing ma.
chine. The plastic product Is forced
thence by series OF knives and o screw
propeller arranged on central shalt, Civ.
ing o pressure Of several tons 70 the inch,
through an aperture, upon moldingr rollers
which receive 1t In oval cavities. From
these the Jumps are delivered in shape
and size like hens eggs. This shape was
adopted as the result Of many. considera-
tions and experiments. The Jumps had
been made in cubes, but these falling to.
gether with fiat surfaces IN the furnace
did not permit free passageof air between
them. A similar though less iorcible OBJ
lection was urged against cylindrical
forms. The egg shape gives the greatest
possible spaces between the Jumps; =,
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The Employees Who Keep their Pla.
ces In Times Like These.

A season Of panic Is literally consum'
ius fire. 1t tries every body in some way
and some people in more ways than one
|, tries those who have much to lose, and
1t tries even more severely in many in.
stances those who have no actual money
10 lose save as they earn 1t in the shape
Of salary or wages. In times of panic
every employer Is forced to choose be.
tween his employees, as to who he will
keep and who he will discharge. Natural
" he retains the clerk or workman who
Is the most serviceable, the employe
who Is the least Of an eye servant,
the one who has been long known as tried
and trusty, the one who Is not afraid Of
work, the one who is pleasant, prompt
and reliable. Character comes to the
front in times ofgeneral depression. Then
II Is that it is worth gold to the man who
possesses It. Then 1t is that a line Is
drawn between good, better and best, say.
log nothing at all about persons who are
neither good, better nor best. AS one ol
our exchanges, the Akron (O) Beacon,
very truly remarks:
1.-The clerk who cared nothing about his
employers business except that 1t should
furnish him with enough money 10 crafty
frivolous and perhaps depraved tastes
the mechanic who when the noon whistle
sounded would drop his raised hammer
without striking the already commenced
blow; the errand boy who when entrusted
with mission was dilatory and unreiia'
ble-sll these are readily dispensed with
On the other hand, the kind that are re-
tanned are those who when wanted can
be found at their post, and in an emergen'
cy arc true and Trustworthy"
IA clerk Of this kind would rather un-
tie knot than cut string, II 1t was bet
ter 10 save It. A mechanic Of this class
would walk up TO the top Of building or
hunt to the bottom Of q pile OF material,
rather than put stick Of badly seasoned
wood or defective piece Of iron in a Job
he was finishing. And employers soon
find out who these men are and regard
them with q Just appreciation. Not one
Of them can long conceal his real qualities
and thereby be unfairly rated. Employers
especially, but also the world at large,
almost Invariably take o man for just
what be Is worth, and 1t would be well Il
oil who are aiming at advancement and
parmanency in their positions could real
lie this fact aud then act upon It,"