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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-30
! 4,000 Wabasl
PIttsburgh Petroleum.

PrTs1uRau, July 20. - Crude-Un
changed; zoe bid at the wells. Refined
! Dull; l1fc, Philadelphia delivery.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-30
COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL.
Wheeling Wholesale Market.
0RYIcH DAILY INFEI.IlaEHORR,
Wednesday. JulV 90

Wednesday, July 50 I
BurTER-Phces are steady, OF i6c for choice
BAKN0 PowDEl-S503Sc per pound.
BAooMs-Fancy, tS2S, g 70 and 81 %; plain
81 2S09T5. l
CHEEsH-Hlster; Ohio Factory 10 quoted at
l3kc; Skins 81 lower rates.
Canned GOODS - Tho market for Canned
Goods remains without chsnEe. Quotations
PtGeAtt-a n cans % 90 per dozen; d cans,
81 60. 2oRlGtoss-8 D cans, 81 30; . D cans,
81 %. Corn Winilow. 81 30; other lweet
Corn, 81 90; common Corn, $500. MlSeSllaneouI
Strawberries, 81 IS; Pine apples, 81 IS; Lima
Beans, s. o. Sting Beans, 81 90; Peas, 81 -
o. rs; Danson Plums 81 IS.
EOSs-Dull at lss. ...
PHu-QuotAtions arc for packages containing
100 POUNDS sound lsh, Light weight and inferior
quality Of prices 10 correspond. No. ., half bbls.
SO OF; No. 3 do, largo IS 81; No. do, medium
IS co Goldfish S 30. Lake white fIh 81 70
Lake herring $500. Potomac Roe b, ring 81 70,
all half barrels.
FLouR-Prices unehautcd and steady
Fancy white wheat. l6 T@I %
Family. ........................ G0d6 80
SUPER. ...,................... I 50D5 IS
Rye. Observation-Disclosures" ... ..., 30
FRATHERS-Dull; live goose, CSC.
RAGs-Dull. Of &c per ID.
GIHsEEe-S7c.
GRAM - Market hrmer. HhsGt-No red
81 lOail 10. COrH-Inlimited supply Of soe 0atS
Primer at b5c. -..r..
GRooEREs-A ElIght advance 10 noticed in
some articles In this mlrket. We quote: Coffee
Good Rio Is quoted At 93X02ic: prime to choice
at 2607Sc; Java at a3c; best roasted at 900; old
yellow Rio, none In market, SVEpt-com.
leans molasses, prime old 75c; prime new
Sc. Su9drS-Rcaned Harris, Crushed, Powdered
and Granulated, Ike; A Coffee, ike; B Coffee,
ike; Extra Coffee lie; Commercial A sugar
lie; G Yellow S0l0e; New Orleans Sugar, none
10 market; Porto Rico fully fair to strictly prime
9K0ICc.
HAT-Uuchaugsd. Baled, $500 per ton;
Loose, S2O024.
NAns-lOdto cod, s. rs; 81 to %, q 90; Cd
to I'd, $i2S; Id to Sd, $3.50; Sd, So IS.
oILs, &c-LArd OIL, extra No. l winter strain
ed soc. Carbon OIL, lobblng lots 14c, no charge
fr packages. Linseed Oh, 81 05. Turpentine
7Sc.
PRovrsIoSs-PrIccs advancing and trade &C.
tive. Mess Pork-$9i 90 for new. Sugar cured
hams, 1870; sugar cured shoulders. lOXc; clear
sides l9kc; shoulders 9Xc; sugar cured break
fast bacon lac. Lard-In kegs l5c; choice
leaf in uereGs llc. Dried beef Isc.
PoTAToEs-The supply Of old crop Is about
exhausted. New lots are selling at 81 90 per
bushel.
RcE-choIee Carolina, 9Hc; Rangoon, S1sKc
SNuFF-7Oc; do in boxes Of six dozen, $500.
WooL-Market quiet, at 4s6SOc.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-30
pATTENT FLOUR.

DURE CRAB CIDER.-76 BARRELS
\ strictly puro, In store and Tor sale b
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-30

hIMON hhN4UN,
Next came the renowned Simon Ken
ton-then known by the name Of Simor
Butler. A tall, sinewy, powerful scout
with free, carless manner, a soft, trem
ulous voice and laughing grey eyes. all o.
which won him friends wherever he went
When excited TO wrath, however, those
same soft beaming eyes would become &C
fierce and terrible ss almost to curdle Thu
blood OF his Toes. No Indian hunter o.
the west-scarcely even excepting hi
warm, personal friend, Daniel Boone, haC
had q lite Of more varied or thrilling ad-
ventures, Possessing reckless courage
that never quailed at danger, and q low
for deeds Of desperate Valor, he was evel
on the move, and never go content a
when environed with perils sufficient L
appall an ordinary man.
In 177S Just four years previous-alte
sustaining Two sieges at Boonsboro, b.
had been captured by Indians, and be
came the hero In wonderful series Q
perils. He was eight times exposed I,
the gauntlet; thrice was he tied to Ii
stake-thrice had been saved through III
efforts Of Simon Girty, with whom he hal
served as q scout during the Dunmor
war Of 1774 and was often on the yer
eve Of o most horrible death. all th
sentences passed on him seemed to hav
only been pronounced in the Indian cour
Gil TO be reversed by another, and ever
friend that rose up In his favor was I'm
medi1tely followed by some enemy, VIII
plunged him into deeper danger than be
lore. m.
For three weeks he was thus the spol
Of circumstances, and kept sea-saWin
between lie and death. he, howevel
had finally escaped from Detroit, ant
undismayed by the past, had immediatel
embarked in new and quite as perilou
enterprises. BE had lately secuted III
from Kentucky as far as Fort Henri
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

A TEMPERANCE movement of much
force and of an unique kind is going
on in Ohio, and spreading into adj
joining states. An exchange gives a
column and half of reports of the
proceedings in various counties, men,
tioning about twenty localities:
\ dispatch from Cincinnati gives
the following account of the progress
of the crusade Of the women against
the rumsellers:
The excitement of the wOman's
whiskey war is undated. The ladies
of Greenfield, Highland county, have
inaugurated evening visits to the sa-
looms at any hour from six to ten
O'Clock. The result is to empty each
saloon by the rear doors very sud-
denly as they enter the front. La
dies have enlisted for the war;" and
If the two or three remaining dealers
continue unrepentant they will organ
ize regular patrol of half a dozen
or so to visit the saloons at any hour
and dissuade people from drinking.
At London, to day, while the Mad
ison county stock sales were in pro-
gress, nearly l50 ladies started out
for a round Of visits among the sa-
looms. The dealers objected to this,
but the ladies only yielded upon be-
Jag promised that no liquor should
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
The POTTER JOURNAL
AND
NE wS TIE NJ.
CoUDERsPORT, Pa, Feb. IL. 1874.

TnE receipts and expenditures OF
the County for 1878 are herewith
published and should he carefully
read by every citizen. If preserved
and carefully compared with the
next statement, when it shall be
made, it will be even more interest
ing than now, and We would suggest
10 the Commissioners Shat if they
would follow the same plan of MAX
ing up their statement each year they
would tie more readily understood.
BY comparing the present with
last years statement we CLEAN two
items Of Intelligence Of general inter
est. First, the ordinary expenses
for 1873 are $2oI.29 less than in
1872.
Second, the excess of Indebtedness
over the amount due the County is
$3,6I3.S2 less than 1t was q year age.
At this rate the whole debt of the
County will be paid bv June, 1873.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

be sold. These stocks sales are usu-
ally accompanied by considerable in
toXication, but the prompt action of
the ladies to-day showed its results in
the most orderly day of the kind that
London has seen for long time.
At Logan a league has been organ
lied by the ladies, who circulated an
appeal to the liquor callers to day to
abstain from their traffic. Over 500
of the best citizens of Logan signed
the appeal promptly and efforts will
be made to obtain more signatures to
morrow. With this moral support
they intend entering upon their cru
SADIE on Thursday. The people
throughout the southern portion of
the States are agitated by this tenn
perance movement, and at the same
time the opponents of the Affair
Liquor Law are quietly working i'll
the Legislature for an amendment
that will virtually kill that measure.
At Franklin, Warren county, tue
ladies are zealously besieging all the
saloon keepers with prayer meetings.
One OF the German saloon keepers
has signed their pledge and joined in
with the services held in his former
bar-room. The same man had hired
a band last Friday and tried to give
a ball, while the ladies were in front
singing hymns and praying. To-
wards evening the dancers went to
the dwelling Of the manager and told
him they could not stand this. They
abandoned tue holding OF the ball 1T
his house and went to the extreme
lower end Of the town to hall that
was away from the prayer circle.
AT Waynesville, Warren county.
several saloon keepers hold out, and
it is said the toughest men find it
sometimes Impossible TO restrain
tears as the ladies kneel on the flags
in the cold or storm.
Some Of the liquor sellers are very
angry and threaten prosecutions,
while others are polite and offer the
warm seats. We hope this league
will persevere until they succeed i'll
driving the liquor traffic away from
their vicinity.
Prayers and hymns are weapons
against which no evil can stand, if
only they be patiently, fervently,
faithfully used, and we doubt not
that even the worst cases here or any
where might be reclaimed by such
means. For that is invoking the in
finite power, which only can prevail
against so monstrcus a wrong.
Heaven speed those women and
the nell who are helping them, work
ing with them.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
Court Proclamation

WT THEBEAS. the Hon II. w. WILLIAMS. Pre,i
w dent Judge and the Hons. LYMAN NELSON
aud JOHN NJ. kILBOJRNE. Associate Judges 81
the Cnurt> Of oyer &. "eriHinci anI General .Jai.
Delivery, Quarter Sessions O the Peace. Orphan,
court AMI Court of Common Pleas for the Count
II Potter, have ssned tiieir Drecept bearing dar,
Tie thirteenth ui DecCmberin the yea" af our Lore
"lit thousand. eight hundred and sev MY three,
and to me directed, for no .inS 4 Court of Oyr.
\ lernhner and General Jail Delivery, Quartz
sessions Of the Peace, Orphans Court and Court
pf Common Peas, i'll the Borough Of Cnuderspnrt
IN Mo day the SjTteo nth day of FEBRU AIRY
ne md IL continue one week.
Notice i therefore hereby given To the Coro-
nerS, Justices OF the Peace and EOh>tabIeS within
the County, that they be then and there in thei
proper persons, at 10 o'clOck 4. M, of said dav
with their rolls, records and inJuiSitiops eXami-
nltlrnS and other remendFITCeS, to 10 these
things which To their offices appertain to he done
And those who are bound by their recOgnizanceS
tODroSeCHte against the prisoners that are o. shalt
re III the Jail Of said County of Potter, are to Ne
then and there to prosecute against them as viii
be just.
Dated at C0udersport, Jan. 2lSt 1874 and the
9Ith year the Independence Of the Uuifed States
of America. ). L. REG SULDS, &terip'
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

THE HEIGHTS Of Northern Penn
syivania have frequently seemed to
be exempt from the most severe win
ter weather. Though we are accus-
toned, in common with mos Ameri-
cans, to rail at the climate and feel
sure there never was such weather.
and threaten to ''go somewhere, out
OF this country" yet the reports of the
statements of thermometers in yari-
Gus parts of the country often show
a greater depression than with us at
the same time. Even at the sea level
this Is sometimes the case, as it was
last winter a number of times. On
Monday, the 2d inst, the thermome-
ter at Albany, n. Y, marked I5o be.
low zero and ranged near zero all
day, while with us it bad not been so
low as zero all winter. Once in
October, by a sudden freak, it went
several degrees below, but that was
a pretty general freak all over the
country. Indeed. as telegr.phs have
spread over the land and as reports
of the weather in various localities
become frequent, there is manifested
growing feeling that one region of
country is about as much favored as
another.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
The Society Of Friends in Chester
and Delaware Counties.

The Delaware county american
Of Feb. 4th gives the following in
teresting account Of these earnest
workers for the right:
"Concord Quarterly Meeting OF
Friends, composed OF six monthly
Meetings, met at West Chester, on
tuesday OF last week, in the High
street Meeting House. commencing
@t 10 O'Clock. The house was com
p!2tely filed, every seat being occu-
pied, showing that much interest is
manifested by the members in Guar,
terly Meeting and they attend ac-
coedingly. The first person to speak
at the meeting was Robert NJ. Cros-
alale, Bucks quarterly meeting; who
Jook for his subject the Woman OF
Samaria. He was followed by JOS.
Bancroft, Wilmington. Delaware
Jane Price and Lydia Price, Wesi
Chester, and Joseph Dugdale, OF
Davenport, Iowa, who also Offered
up an eloquent prayer, when the
meeting went into business session,
during which the following rcsolu-
tioms were adopted:
THAT reliable testimony coming
from all sections Of our State, es-
tabishes the fact that the law com.
monty known as the Local Option
Act," has thus far materially dimim-
ished drunkenness and its attendant
evils, being decidedly promotiye OF
good order. peace and industry. That
these blessings have to a greater OF
less deg ee visited many homes here.
totOre made miserable by this de
stroyer Of domestic peace and general
prosperity. The statistics of our
prison show large dimipution in
commitments on account Of drunken
ness, since the passage of the Act.
And 1T is our solemn conviction that
the repeal world be dcpIored as a
serious camamity by all the fri, nds
Of peace and prosperity and civil
order. We therefore earnestly Deti-
ton your body to allow this law to
remain III full force as it is. Signed
by the Members OF the Committee. :"
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
DR. LIVINGSTONE.

When the announcement of the
death Of this great African traveller
and missionary Of peace came, it
seemed like only the rcitera,ion oi
those reports 50 busily circulated a
few years ago and we hoped that like
them it might prove to be falee.
But as it is said Ills body has been
emhalmed and is on its way home to
England, every one seems TO credit
it ana the papers are publishing it
obituary notices and sketches of his
life. 1t seems as though he must
nave died among friends, who knew
10 send home his remains to his fam
lily. The New York Times says:
He had passed through the perils
Of the ambuscade, the desert ami the
assassin, and when his Iab0rs were
nearly crowned, and as ne was, rs we
may suppose, hastening home to give
the civilized world that full knowl-
edge Of an almost unknown region
that it had 50 long craved to know.
he was stricken down to die among
strangers. His name will live after
him, though, and hold a proud place
in the list of the worlds workers.
Full of laDors, full of honors, he
has earned a position in the scienti-
tic world that no one can dispute.
For him, as for Agassiz, will the
world mourn.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

In THE celebrated and long dis
cussed Evans case, the State has re-
ceived judgment of lS5 $3.50 and
the defendant has been sent to Jail in
default Of payment or bail. The pa
perS that attempted 10 connect Gov
ernor Hartranft with the same defal-
cation don't seem to take any inter
est in the matter, since it was made
clear they were slandering an honest
man.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

NEVER be 50 foolish as to glum-
bic and complain. No person ever
helped his prospects in life. or his
own leace of mind by complaining
or fanlt-fnding. If things are not
right in your home, or in Your neigh
borhood, set to work to help right
them. ltoTk,ing for the right is al
ways healthy, improving exertion,
but grumbling is just the reverse.
The highest praise that can be given
to man S To say cf him, ''Le never
complained of any thing, but ever
did his duty in his way OF life with
a strong hand, quiet tongue and a
gentle heart"
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

ONE OF the leading merchants of
Ulysses dropped in to see Us the
other dav. Business prospects be-
ing naturally introduced he said
there was no tightness of money in
that neighborhood until since the
first of Januarys and that they
escaped the effects Of the panic be-
cause SO large a portion of the farm
ers around them have stocked their
farms with cows. Our friend named
one farmer with only thirteen COWS
who sold, during the season, Sir huh-
dred dollars worth of butter and re-
ceived the cash, most of it months
ago. What farmer has, up to this
time. received half that sum for oats?
If there are other butter or cheese
makers in the County that have rea-
lied more money per head from
their COWS, We shall be glad to hear
fr m Il em, or, if any farmer has :
ceived more from the same amount
Of labor on land in other products,
we should like to lee informed of the
fact, as it is just that kind of infor-
nation we are most anxious to spread
before our reaaerS. We have great
faith in the capacities Of this County
aud hope to aid in their develop
ment.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
STANDARDIZATION.

We all look back to our school
days, those of us who have grown
away from them, with an interest al
most pathetic; for in addition to the
delight of acquiring knowledge which
may be obtained in other ways some
times, there is the social feeling of
mingling with classes of sharing our
advancement and our discoveries (;
the emulation of keeping up and the
charm Of going to recitation; of test
ing our abilities and our progress be-
fore the teacher, the learned, wise
friend in whom We have confidence
and IN whose eyes We read approval
and encouragement.
There is the excitement, too, very
like a cold plunge bath, in going up
to our place when We fear the lesson
is not perfectly learned, and the cheer
of coming out not drowned, if we
say it better than We expected To-.
OF the sad times when we said it a
good deal worse, 1 do not speak
now.
In recalling these school memories
We are too apt to think Of them as
gone over, except as We renew them
through the young people with whom
we are connected, because time is 50
short and cares and labors are SO
pressing.
But it is not well to give all Of our
tine to physical labor or if compelled
to do 50 through some busy. anxious
years, it must be well-neces r to
take some relaxation III after cars.
when perhaps our failing health de
mands or the grown up family per
mits it. Reading is the main com
fort and resource of many in the lit
tie intervals Of labOr-and often when
body aud spirit are too weary to take
anything but very light reading.
even that is great benefit; often to
the prolonging Of life. More solid
reading comes with more leisure anu
strength, but even this, though OF
great benefit, Is not 80 good TO many
people as study taken up with some
companions and rccited. school fash
ion, at regular times.
There is comfort and rest in so do
ing, rest that will fit us for the round
Of lahors and duties, for it is well
sid "rest is not idlcncss, but change
ccupation." Thus mind and body.
soul and heart relieve each other anl
the whole being is strengthened. OF
course people have not time for tins.
There is not time enough for all
things, therefore some has to be TAX
en-, something must be let go and
sometimes that letting go is itself a
good, however it may seem at first
People grow stronger by having
many holds on life-and will not
only live longer and lie more useful,
but will thus cultivate the social feel
ings and hold q closer connection
with the growing nation, the rising
people.
There may be many to whom these
suggestions will seem empty; who
have found better ways of self i'm
provemcnt, but we address those who
have not tried this way nor better
one.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

The ~. J. Times is giving far
more attention to those industrial
interests that Horace Greeley advc-
Gated 80 eftectually, than the paper
founded" by him now does, and the
old subscribers of the Tribune in
this vicinity seem to have made that
discovery, for most Of them take the
Times instead Of their old favorite.
The Tribune takes up 50 much space
in scolling President Grant and
Senators Carpenter and Conklin that
it has little room TO champion the
labor interests as formerly.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11
The rrue Wey.-The CentenniaI

Tie True WGy.-Th9 Centennial
Congress will be called on to de-
eide before long whether it will ap-
propagate money toward paying the
expenses OF the centennial ceicbra-
tion at Philadelphia. 1t seems 10 Ue
that the portion Of these expense
which the National Government cau
with pTopriety undertake to pay,
cannot be very great. There may be
certain outlay necessary in connec-
ton with the participation Of for
cign powers or of their sui jccts; but
the notion that Congress should ap-
proPriate whatever may be required
10 ill tie gap left by subscriptions
from other sources is one not at all
III harmony with the original pur-
pose Of the centennial. or with tie
. character Of our Government. Le.
the whole celebration be voluntary
and popuigr, not ciHciai.-N. ].
ItIle5.
The closing lines Of the above
paragraph ought to h. printed IL
large letters and posted on the desk
# every netDLyr Of Congress, and OF
the State legislature. The idea that
Governments should appropriate
money for tie support OF religious
or patriotic movements VAS not en-
tertaiHed Is the founders OF this Re
public. They said, as the Time
now says, Let such movements be
sustained by voluntary contributions.
II the Centennial cannot be properly
celebrated by the voluntary action
Of the people it ought to lie aGan-
doncd.
i demonstration largely maintain
cd by levy OF taxes, or what is tht
same thing, by tie appropriation of
money from the public Treasury
Will be q hollow sham, and will ac-
complish no possible good. In addi-
ton t. this no money can he taken
from the Treasury OF Pennsylvania
for such purpose without Il cleal
violation OF the Constitution.
Claims Oh the State Treasury for
fires, border-raids and all manner Of
projects had become so frequent and
50 pressing that a large majority OF
the Delegates III the Constitutional
Convention felt constrained to inserta
section at should protect the funds
OF tie State against all claims of that
kind. Il is now attempted 10 dodge
tie restrictions in the Constitution
by calling the building to be erected
6 State building. In the language
Il the street, "that's too thin" to de-
ceive any body. The only question
in the case is: Shall the Constitution
be violated Wien the object sought
to be ACCOMPLISHED is a good cne?
We say no, and we earnestly hope
majority Of the Legislature will say
no.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

Sick people with diseases peculiar
~ affected by any special kind of
climate, will probably always need
to seek whatever is most congenial
to them-but even in these eases
some patients will probably come to
this region with as decided benefit as
others who go from it.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

liz wFo habitUally makes the best
use Of his opportunities IS sure to
win success. and to secure as large .
share Of lite's enjoyments as any one
has right to expect; and will also
contribute his full share Of happi
ness to those associated with him.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1874-02-11

"On! there has to be an immense
deal of patient crocheting oone on
ones self before perfect pattern can
be wrought out; and then it can't.
After all there is so much work to
be done on ourselves that wherever
we are, some parts of it may be going
on; for character work has to be
done as well as brain work. ."-DiGz.