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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-20


to carry of the immense volume Of watel
which comes down the creek in copjunc.
tion with the ice at certain seasons, ant
DRIFT OF all seasons, could be- made sell
supporting unless the crown should b
run up to aheighth that would vastly in
crease the cost.of construction.
Any tunnel narrower than the present
bed oithe creek would be liable to gorge
with ice or TO be obstructed by drift and
in either event no wall or any thing elSt
could prevent the creek from resuming
It's ancient channel.
THE ONLY FEAsrDLR PLAN
Is clean cut from the top Of the hill tc
the bed Of the creek which could be made
with an entirely different class Of labor
from that required In the construction oil
tunnel. The latter requires skilled
labor while the former does not. The
tunnel il worked out by the latest and
most approved process would require tho
use Of expensive machinery and even
then it would be slow process, while
powder or nltroglycerine would accom-
pliGh the great part Of the work in max
ing cut.
WHAT WOULD BE GAINED IN TERRITORY.
Tho distance from the mouth Of the
creek to the sauckman property Is close
upon two miles, and would give in length
about nineteen or twenty squares. Up
to the East Wheeling bridge the breadth
Of territory would be about a square, ex-
elusive of street, and above that point
the breadth would be equal to two
squares, exclusive ol streets. There
would be, as the correspondent OF the
Register states, something over 500 lots,
the value Of which we estimated at 81, 900
each.
HOW WOULD THE FILL De MADE.
To our Inquiries upon this point 1t was
answered, by cutting of the top Of Wheel.
ing hill down 10 the coal vein, the earth
to be carried by self-operating tramways
to the places Of delivery into the creek
bed. This would leave what coal remains
in the hill exposed, which, notwithstand-
ing the amount already taken out Of the
hill, would still be large quantity avail.
able for excavation.
The excavation Of the coal bed would
bare the immense ledge Of sand.rock
which undeFlies it, atfordiDg supply of
building stone perfectly enormous.
On the east side OF the creek the con-
stantly accumulating debris from the coal
works would be thrown in at little or no
expense. From the hill sides above and
below Coal Run earth could be obtained
for the digging, as the owners would be
benefited by the stripping of the coal
lying 10 the front of the hill, and the
quarries now almost valueless would be
again made easy Of access, and while
lessening the cost Of building material,
would really bc rendered more valuable
to the nTOnrietnra
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-20
Weather Report.

war DEPARrHINT,
oFTIC1 or THI CHtRF sleNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON, u. O., April 1880 2. 4.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-03

O.: Then there was no way IN
which the State could have . lien on the
logs. lawful lien9
A. No way in which they could have a
lawful lien think; they could no. distin-
glish them.
@. How long was Mr. Butler Comstock
acting between Mr.. Mcllrath aud the lum-
bermen
A. l could not tell you exactly-some
three or Jour years perhaps-how long |
could not say, long enough to make consld-
cradle money out Of it guess. suppose |
paid him eight or ten thousand dollars my
self for other parties in all.
@. You mean to say that this eight or
ten thousand dollars was money that was
not to 90 to the State?
A. That is the way understand it; yes,
sir.
@. Who were those parties that you paid
this eight or ten thousand dollars for?
A. IeOuld not tell without reference to
my books. have part of the names there
now. paid some for Mr.. Mower, before that
Underwood and old man Pennington, John
O'Brien and Charles Godfrey.
@. Was it not generally understood by
the lumbermen that they could go on and
cut stumpage on the School OF University
lands, and settle with Mr.. COmstock without
any trouble. A. Well, that was the general
understanding with parties that had any
thing to do with.
Q. And parties, if they wanted to cut
any logs or timber, considered that all they
had to do was to go on and cut with impu
nifty upon the State lands A. Yes.
Q. Do you, in all your experience and
acquaintance in these matters know Of any
case where party WAS prosecuted tor tres
pass, for thus cutting timber upon State,
School or University lands. A. No, sir,
do not know Of any never heard Of any.
@. State whether you know of any 9TH
'er transactions or operations of parties cut
ting timber on the School or University
lands and settling for it with Mr.. Comstock,
or any other person, in the same manner as
you settled with him. A. Well, heard Mr..
.Comstock say that he had settled with all Of
them alike in the same way
@. Settled with all of the lombermen?
A. Yes sir.
@. Were there not some other transac-
-tions Of the same character that came to
your notice that you can now give the par.
ticulars Of other than those you have stat
ed A. There may be some on my books
that cannot call to mind at present.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-03
A,l8l -

A comparison Of the tables embraced
in exhibit sc. with the account of pay
ments made by Mr.. McIlrath to the
State Treasurer, contained in the books
Of the State Auditor and State Treas
urcr, land which are the only book &C
counts relative to stumpage which are
in existence) full copies
of which several accounts
are contained in exhibit ST." hereto an
nexed, will disclose the fact that we
have in our computation given Mr.. nc
nrath credit for every dollar that he
has ever paid into the State Treasury
as the proceeds of stumpage upon any
and all lands. The books of
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
Herald and Tribn
Rates OF Advertising;

'Slippesl" almost shouted his rs.
tonishcd companion. Slippers D, you
mean to tell ue, George, that YOU take
this for slipper" "Why not" returned
George, inadvertently moving one of hi.
pOndorous pedal appendagcs. The move,
ment though unintentioual, drew the
lady's Use attention TO Georges feet
where, she gaEed a moment, and then
at the supposed slippers; then rising her
eyes to our hero, she said
"Well, George, you are nat so much
to blame after all, but this was really
intended for sofa cushion"
George takes but little pleasure in
hearing the incident related, but he
declares that hc got his foot in it,
though not in the slipper.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
CHICAGO.
Daring Bank ROBBERY.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-Jndge Rogers, in
the Criminal Court this morning gave a
decision on the application of the counsel
of David A. Gage, ex>City Treasurer, to
luash the indictments for defalcation and
perjury. The court refused in the case of
the former, but granted tn, application in
the case of perjury. This is not consider
ed favorable by the friends of Gage, as
Lew indictment has been found by anOth-
er grand jury.
1t is understood that the grounds on
which Judge Rogers quashed the indict-
ment for perjury, against ex>city treasury
Gage, were purely technical, and as a new
indictment for perjury, in which the tech.
nical errers which defeated the first are
omitted, has been returned by the graLd
jury, it is probable that Gage will be
tried on that charge as well as that for
failing to pay over public funds.
100000 BANK ROBBERY.
Great excitement was created at Quincy,
ILL.,, this morning by the discovey that
the First National Bank had been enter
ed and the vault robbed of about 100000
in currency belonging to the bank, be-
sides quantity Of bonds and valuable
papers, and, it is said, Of quiet an amount
Of special deposites. The bank was en-
tered by cutting through the hall floor of
the second story. Immediately over the
vault. The burglars then made breach
through three feet of masonry of about
four feet square. They then cut tie rivet
of the iRch thick boiler iron, with which
the vault was lined, and renewing it des-
cended into the vault and then charged
both the money safe and ono containing
bonds and valuable papers with powder,
and by means of small rubber hose car
ried train to the top Of the safe, where
a small pistol, screwed to an old led yer,
was arranged to set it of. A string was
attached to the pistol and passed out Of
window Of the second story to the street
below. and by this means the operators
we're enabled to discharge their blasts
when the streets we're clear of people.
The clock in the hank was stopped atI7
minutes past 2 o'clock, as supposed, by
the explosion which must have occurred at
that time. The door of the safe, which
was Dodd's burglar-preOf, was COM
pletely wrenched from its hinges. There
is 10 clue whatever to the perpetrators,
but one Mccoy, recently connected with
variety show, has been arrested and held
on suspicion.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Five Cars Jump n Bridge and
Get Burned-Narrsw Escape
Of Passengers with Their Lives.

CHICAGO, Feb. "a serious accident
is reported on the Chicago and North.
western Railroad, near Harvard, Ill
No particulars yet.
LATER-The telegraph wires between
here and Harvard, Ill.,, have not been
working since shortly alter the accident
STILL LATER-A dispatch from
Woodstock, H., says there were in all
fifteen persons injured by the accident,
three of them badly. The accident was
caused by a broken rail on the bridge at
Kishwaukee, 50 mules north of Chicago.
All the cars were thrown from the track
and smashed TO pieces, The passengers
escaped by crawling through the windows
and the wounded were rescued by the
efforts of the passengers. The passenger
coaches, one sleeper, and the baggage car
burned. All the baggage was lost. The
express car and caboose car at the end
of the train only escaped destruction. 1t
is impossible to give the names of the
wounded at present.
LATEsT-Only seven persons were in
jured by the accident on the Chicago and
Northwestern road near Harvard, Ills.
to>day-none seriously. All the injured
were in second class car, except the
baggage man. Loss to the railroad by
cars burning about $4,000 They are
also settling with persons whose baggage
was burned. The escape of the passen>
gers was little less than miraculous, but
the train was not running at full speed at
the time.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
TWILIGHT in WINTER.
ny WILLIAM W. STORY.

Once more I stand beneath this spread
ing beech.
Where, talking, dreaming, loving, we
have lain
So many happy day.
NOW thou are kone beyond thoughts ut
most reach;
Beyond the joy we knew, the love, he
pain,
Out on the dim, dark way.
The problem is resolved for thee, bu' |,
Crushed, questioning, despairing, still
remain,
And nothing thou wilt say.
Is love so weak thou doSt no: heed my
cry?
Is memory so vanishing, so vain,
That death wipes all away
Oh, cruel secret, wilt thou meier be told?
Oh, to-turing Nature, that vast once
bliss,
Vouchsafcd in love to us.
Why hast thou kept those perished joys of
old,
Those hours and bays of vanished hap
piness.
70 sting me with them thus!
Let me forget! Oh, blind these eyes that
look
Forever backward to that happy past
Behind her grave that hes!
Oh, hold not UP that sad, pathetic look
or loves sweet records! In that grave
be cast
Those torturing memories.
Let me forget! All, how can forget?
And what were life without that tender
pain,
SO deep, and, oh! so sad?
No; rather let these sorrowing eyes be
With endless, useless tears, than e'er
again
With heartless smiles be glad!
The blast among the moaning branches
greives,
And frozen is the laughter of the brook
Death on the cold earth lies.
All fallen are my joys, like these glad
leaves,
Through whose green haunts Of song
the summer shook
0dors and melodies.
Let me begonc my thoughts are wild and
hard;
BY griefdistracted, shivcred, shattered,
torn
In struggles fierce and vain
And, like loose strings to tones discor-
dant Jared,
Are all those sweet remcmbrances for
lorn
That thrill through heart and brain.
Farewell! upon this life | turn my back.
Nothing the world can give is good to
me-
A taint all things lies.
Joys are all poisons-life an endless rack,
And this fair earth, that was a Eelyen
with thee,
Is hideous to my eyes.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
Appalling Brutality Of Officers or
the Law,

CINCINNATI, Feb. Ga case of ex>
tremo cruelty was developed to>day by
Coroner Malley. On the 9th oe JAMS
uary woman named Caroline Benny
while in Childbirth was elected from her
room by Constable Heffermer for nom
payment of rent. On her way to house
in Culver street she gave birth to the
child which died. Last night the women
was thrown out into the rain without COW
cring. Judge Paddcn is said to be mix
ed up in the affair, as agent for the house
rented. The c roner will hold a through
investigation.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
DastardIy Murder Of n Child by n
Body OF Masked Men.

In Montgomery county, Kentucky, last
Saturday night, a band of masked men
visited the house Of a man named Carter
No one was at home but little son of
Carter, seven years old, who at sight Of
the men ran toward neighbours house.
The men fred at the child as it ran in.
alcting wounds from which it died last
night The local paper advises an organ,
izatiOn of vigilance committee to hunt
down the murderers.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
A Psndersus Slipper!

George hasfor seme time past has been
attentive to young lady in Prospect
street, whom be has noticed on severa |
evenings when he called busily engaged
on beautiful piece of embroidery, which
perhaps comparing it with the size Of his
own foot, he had concluded was ono of a
pair of slippers that we're no doubt, in>
tended for holiday present, and George
had once or twice allowed himself to wan.
der into the pleasing suspicion that they
were intended for him, although nothing
had really transpired to justify such
belief.
On Friday evening, George called for
the third time during the week. He is
quiet attentive, it would seem, and. as
usual the slipper was progressing finely.
lie was fully sure the slipper were in.
tended for him, but he anxious to draw
the acknowledgment from the dear an.
gel who was laboring so industriously fer
his benefit, and he was unwilling to threw
In the same connection another implied
acknowledgement Of her devotion for him.
OF course be began cautiously:
"SOme one you are mighty fond of is
to become the possessor of those slippers.
| imagine" said be.
"What slippers do you refer to?"
inquired the fair laborsr.
"Why those you are working on SO
ndustriOusly," replied George.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

CAMBRIDGE. Nd, Feb. G.-Wm. II.
McCotter was hanged here to-day for the
murder of Robert Inley, his father in.Iaw
Just before the drop fell MoCotter cried
out"l killed Bob Inley. Iforgive every
BODY"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
One State where Hanging is not
Played cut

WESTMINSTER, Nd, Feb. 6.-James
W. Davis was executed to-day for the
munier of Abraham Lynn in April last
lie confessed the crime.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

VIZ p GHLENWATERS, ATToR-
w. MY AT LAW, Rogersville, Tenn.
viii practice in the Circuit and Chancery
courts OF Hawkins, Greene, Hancock and
Washington counties, and In the Supreme
and Federal Courts at Knoxville, 7 enn.
april3t.
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Herald and Tribune.
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Q K IIDE,
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Commission Merchants,
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We keep constantly on hand large and
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

A. H. PETTIBoNE, JAS. H. ROBINSON.
DETTIBONE u ROBINSON, ATToR-
i NEYs AMP CoGNsFLoRs, Greene
vile, Tenn. VIII praeticc,ih all the
Courts of Upper East Tennessee, and
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

+ W. TIPTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW
y. AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Elizabethton, Tenn. WILL practice in
the Court of Carter, Sullivan and WASH
ington Counties, Tenn. Special atten-
ton given to the Collection Of Claims.
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

]. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW
"A, AND COLLECTING AGENT, Jones'
boro', Tenn. PROMPT attention given
10 collections in East Tennessee, and
southwestern Va. [69aug26
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

q J. KIRKPATRICK, ATTORNEY AT
y. LAW, Jonesboro', Tenn. Office in
Grisham q Lampson's New Building, Up
Stairs, No. 7. [69aug26.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

A j. RANDALL, ATTORNEY AND
IN, COUNSELOR AT LAW, 1919 Wash
mgton, ID. G.. Business before the sew
cral Executive Departments will receive
prompt and careful attention. viii give
special care to suspended and rejected
claims before the Treasurer, Post Office,
Quarter Master, and Commissary De-
partments. Letters of inquiry must be
accompanied by a fee of So to insure at
tention, Lock Box l20. feb27w52.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19
ATT0RNEYsi

LANES G.. DEADERlCK, ATTORNEY
J An Law 6sb SOLICITOR IN CHAM
CRY, Jonesboro', Tenn. Office In
Grisbam & Lampson's New Building,
Up Stairs, No, 2. T71mar23.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-19

JB,M MLIN. X. j.. BLAIR
NTCLIN d BLAIR, ATTORNEYS AT
lM LAW AND COLLECTING AGENTS,
Jonesboro', Tenn. cRoMPT attention
given to all business entrusted to us
throughout the counties Comprising
Upper East Tennessee. [70octl3
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
Fertilization VS.. Cremation.

The advocates of cremation must look
to their laurels, which appear likely to
be wrested from them by German sa-
want, DIR. Won Steinbeis. His proposed
method of disposing of the bodies of
the dead provides against injury to the
living, while it offers no violence to the
feeling which shrinks from destroying
the corpse of a beloved friend or rela-
ton. Decomposition is, of course, an
inocuous process, provided its results
cannot infect the air. DIR. Won Steinbeis,
therefore, proposes to cover the body
with Roman or Portland cement, which
hardens into solid mass and renders
the escape of noxious gas impossible.
According to this plan the corpse would
be placed in sarcophagus of already
hardened cement, the cavity i'll which
it reposed would be filed up with the
same material, and both would harden
together into thick slab of substance
resembling stone. Thus the deceased
buried in this manner would rest within
instead of underneath his tombstone,
and grave and monument be comprised
in the same block of imitation granite.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
Fashion Notes.

PLAIN and elegant will be the rule for
winter suits.
The newest thing in earrings are
slippers of painted wood.
HEAVY ribbed black silks will be very
fashionable next winter.
WAISTS of evening dresses are to be
trimmed with insertions of lace edged
with real jet beads in profusion.
Sashes are now tied low down on the
front width of the dress and looped up
on the left side.
HOUSE dresses of silk are to be cut in
scallops or in battlement ON the bottom,
which is very stylish.
A NEW imitation of the camel's hair
shawl has appeared. 1t is said to be a
magnificent imitation"
WALKING suits will not be materially
altered in style or length. Much of the
trimming will be concentrated on the
front width, where, of course, it is most
liable to be seen.
THE fashionable style of dressing the
hair is in puffs. Less false hair is re-
CURED, for which the ladies ought to be
very thankful.
LESS gold jewelry is worn now than
for many years past. Jet, Swiss wood,
ebony and coral appear to be the most
fashionable just at present.
Lone shawls of black cashmere trim
med with lace and rows of beads down
the back are very fashionable and very
stylish.
IT is no longer the correct thing to
wear long scarf of Spanish net about
the neck. OF course this does not APP
ply to shop girls and housemaids.
THOSE old-fashioned Grecian head
bands are coming in vogue again, to the
intense delight of those dowagers who
happen to have them on hand.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
A Bird's.Eye View OF the Black Hills.
ICor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.l

(Cor Chicago Inter-ocean.l
Let me express, briefly and simply, a
birdseye view of the Black Hills: Take
position on Bear Butte and look
southwark you can see fifty miles or
more over a succession of interlying
valleys, cutting the surface into dim
piles, and wrinkles, and deep brown
scars; let your minds eye
reach further, and add what you
remember TO have seen from
Inyan Kara on the west and Harneys
Peak on the east, the other two corners
OF triangle that will cover the best
portion of the Black Hills. Around
Inyan Kara were long, wide valleys,
stretching into slopes and miniature
prairies, with here and there gypsum
bed jutting out, white and clear, lest
the eye should tire with the constant
green. Around Harney's Peak, sharp,
rugged scenery, steep granite noun
tains, and rocks that are as imposing as
the mosques of the Bosphorus. Mar
row, coy valleys, full of flowers and as
cool as grottoes rushing, babbling
streams, and miniature cascades, as If
the little brooks of the hills were try
to ape the noisiness of the mountain
torrents. And the whole cluster, this
beauty spot on an almost barren, totally
desolate prairie, embraced by the two
arms of the Shyenne.
The Black Hills do not cover an area
much larger than ons-half of Massachu
sets. A line drawn directly through
from north TO south would not measure
more than 100 miles another line from
east to west would be less than so. The
sides of that triangle L alluded to do
not measure more than 40 miles; and
the majority of the intervening terri
tory is wooded hills. The best way of
entering the hills, if you ever want to
go to the gold fields, my reader, is to
come here, to Bear Butte, and follow
Casters trail. 1t took him long time
to find way out, and it will take you
longer to find way in, if you attempt
it in this region. Another entrance can
be made at Inyan Kara, at the south
west, if you start from the Union Pacific
railroad, and you will find gold almost
from the very start. Gypsum will come
first, then mica, then the velvet valleys
with their golden lining. These two
courses are the most feasible, but of
course trails may possibly be made else
where. The extreme southern ranges,
the ranges of the east and northwest.
are almost impossible because of the
steep declivities and the abruptness of
the foothills.