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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27

A WIRELESS engine, to be used on the
New York street lines OF railroad, has
Just been built. The engine takes
enough steam from . stationary boiler
70 run twelve miles before the charge
10 exhausted.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
GoYEENMRNrs-Stead
STATE BoNDs-Quiet.

Srocks-Stroug early in the day, but
became irregular As the day advanced,
aud were alternately weak aud firm, but
10 the main lower. At the close the
lowest prices OF the day were reported,
which showed q decline OF /! 10 Il per
cent from the highest point. The mar
ket closed quiet and weak.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27

AMONG the latest Washington gossip
"a the story that General BUTLER, who
bss been lately prostrated by sickness,
!. to be appointed Minister to Austria
rior the benefit OF his health" Another
"ho,lling."
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27

meut 10 regard to the claim on Brazil,
concerning the ship Caroline, and the
report OF the commissioners appointed
to enquire into the depredations on the
frontier OF Texas.
The hour OF 4P.M. having arrived
the Senate proceeded in body TO the
hall OF the House OF Representatives to
attend the funeral OF the late David
Mellish.
The Senate returned to the chamber
at ass and adjourned.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, May 26.-Rev. Father
Chss. Ferd, one OF the Wears OF the
Cathedral, was drowned Yesterday
afternoon in Lake Ponchatrain, at
Milueburg, while bsthing-aged "a
years. He went to Shreveport during
the epidemic, and was the only prizes,
that recovered from the attack OF the
fever there.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
CLEVELAND.


CLEVELAND, May 26.-Thomas j.
Quinlan, a well known business man OF
this city, died this morning.
The Saengerfest Committee has Sc
cured accommodations for ] 800 per-
sons. Work on the Saengerfest Hall
is progressing rapidly, and the building
will be under root by the close of the
,r.al,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
East Liberty Cattle Market.

EAST LIBERTY. May 26.-Csttle-
Arrivals - cars; best 6a to 6ic; medium
6 to 6tc; common st TO &c. Hogs
Arrivals Is cars; best Philsdelphia's
6 40 to 6 So Workers 5 50 70 S 50,
Sheep-Arrivsls 20 cars; best 81 TO 81;
medium 5 90 TO 5 so.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
CUBA.
A NhIHlHind. .

HAVANA, May 26.-Tbe stone build
ing on the Duranouas plantation wss
destroyed by whirlwind, yesterday
Five laborers were killed and twenty
wounded bv the falling vslls.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
ROME

ROME, May 26.-The Italian govern
ment met with another defeat TO-DAY,
in the Chamber OF Deputies.
The Pope has nearly recovered from
bis recent Illness.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
SPAIN.

Diplomatic Relations Re,umed,
MADRID, May 26.-Diplomatic rela-
tlons between Spain and Mexico were
resumed yesterday by the presentation
to Marshal Serrsno OF the credentials
of General Carauss, Minister.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
at'heclmg As9lster.
GOLD closed Yesterday at ll2s.

FROM our reports this morning the
nrobsbili,ies are that the weather to-
5sy will be partly cloudy, with easterly
10 southerly winds and slight rise
of temperture.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
BOSTON.

BosroN, May 26.-In the game Of
base tsll between the Atlsntics and
Bostons, to-day. the score stood Atlsn'
tics 9, Bostons2.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
NEW YORK STATE.

Temperance Convention.
SYRACUSE, May GA State tenn
perance convention is called to meet at
Auburn, on June 23d.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
NEW JERSEY.

TRENTON, May 26.-The old direc-
tors OF the United Railroad Companies
of New Jersey were reelected to-day.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
PIttsburgh Petrolsum market.

PlrrsBuRoH. May 26.-Petroleum-
Crude quiet; quoted at$l S2i. Refined
quiet; quoted May lStc; JuHe l3f@lS:.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
B Y TELEG R a Phi.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.

By the Western Union Line, ONCE North.
west corner OF Main and 18th streets.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-27
WEpNEspAY. Nay 20, 1874

Scotch Pig-The market 10 quiet.
The demand is falling of. and but lit
tie business doing. Prices are nominal.
Risls-The market il dull. with q
small demand. Prices nominally With
out change. viz: ES Sea f9 for Welsh.
MANUFACTURED Iron-Best Stafford.
shire bars may now he quoted at Ell@
fl2.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
The Old Age of Lexington.

Nine miles from Frankfort, on the
road to Lexington, stands one of the
finest and richest farms in Kentucky
that owned by Mr.. Alexander. On this
superb stock farm we saw 800 blooded
horses, ranging in rank from old LEX
ington," the monarch of the turf, to
the kittenish and frisky yearling.
Here also Mr.. Alexander has collected
500, 1000 worth of cattle, comprising
some of the finest stock in the world,
and peeping into the Enclosure where
the costly cattle were kept, we saw one
diminutive heifer worth $27 900, and a
variety of foreign creatures whose value
seemed almost fabulous. On this farm
are bred the great majority of fine trot-
ting and running horses which appear
in our parks during the racing season.
Mr.. Alexander's estate, which is al
mirably stocked with fine farm-houses,
barns and stables, and which is more
like a ducal manor than the ordinary
American farm, extends over 5000
acres. Near by is old John Harper s
modest farm of 1900 acres. The roads,
the stone walls, and the fine lawns Gov
cred with massive shade trees, make a
series of delightful pictures. The an
nual sale of horses on the Alexander
farm occurs in June. Only yearling
colts are sold. Hundreds of people
from all the country around, and from
every State in the Union, flock to this
sale. An immense barbecue is held,
and high wassail marks the conclusion
of the occasion.
We paid respectful visit to old Lex
ington, the mighty sire of a mightier
equine family. He is now quite blind,
a veteran of %, afflicted with goitre,
and stood gazing in the direction from
which our voices came, melancholy
wreck of his former greatness. The
princes of the race-course of the pres
ent galloped by, neighing and paving
the ground, as if annoyed at our pres
ence. One Of them, named Asteroid,
so far forgot his princely dignity as to
charge incontinently upon the fence
wherewe were seated. The negro
men who manage these erratic
brutes undergo all sorts of peril
Gus adventures, but they seem to pos.
sess as many lives as a cat, and, like
that animal, always land on their feet,
no matter how far the plunging and
rearing horses may throw them. I'd
,Card Hing, IN .Scri5ner's for December.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
Wonderful Curiosity.

The British ship Scindia, Capt. Geo.
Harrison, arrived here few days since
from Calcutta, having on board one OF
the most remarkable natural curlosltles
the world has probably ever seen. III
consists of short-horned, sacred Brah-
min bull, born in Nepaul, Northern
India, in 1871, and imported here by
Capt. William Dennison Folger, form
erly of this city, but latterly resident
of Calcutta. The bull itself is re-
markable curiosity, and is one of that
description of animals held in great
reverence by the natives of India, on
account of it's traditional sacred charac-
ter. But in this case novel LuSus
nature renders il most singular crea-
ture. The brute portion is symmetric.
ally formed with glossy coat of fawn
coiored hair and well-shaped body and
limbs. But protruding, as it were, from
the left side of the hump on the back
of the neck of the animal, is O wonder
full and regularly shaped, in nearly all
respects, human arm. The deltoid and
triceps and biceps muscles are well de-
veloped, particularly the latter; the
Joint at the elbow is flexible, the fore
arm rather attenuated, the wrist as fully
flexible as in the human arm proper,
while the hand is composed of four dis
tinctly marked fingers, two of them con-
nected together. The extraordinary ap-
pepdage to an otherwise well-formed
body does not appear to give the crea-
ture any inconvenience or pain, gener-
ally hanging lstlessly by its side, ex-
cept when it is angered or annoyed,
when the arm raises as if it's possessor
felt inclined to strike from the shout
der" The animal is quite healthy,
enjoys ravenous appetite, the nice
grass of its native cline being its ia
vorite food, and does not seem TO have
suffered any bodily injury by its long
sea voyage. If not disposed of in this
country, we learn that it is the inten-
ton of the importer to take the creature
to England, and secure it place in the
London Geological Gardens, where such
novelties are highly priced. 1t would
prove a unique attraction to the natural
curiosities in our Central Park. 1t has
already been visited on the Scindia by
several scientific gentlemen of this city
and Brooklyn, where the ship lies, near
he Fulton ferry.-NelO York Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
A POstOfiice Puzzle.

BY the last mail from India curious
letter arrived at the General Postoffice.
1t was not stamped, the paper of which
the envelope was composed was pc
culiar, and the address was for the time
being utterly unintelligible. Anyhow,
the letter had been sent 10 Londen.
The General Postoffice authorities at
once dispatched trustworthy messen-
ger to the most erudite scholars in this
city to ask them to decipher the strange,
blotted, crooked, and indistinct hand
writing on the envelope. An eminent
linguist of the British Museum was APP
piled to. He could not interpret the
address, but pronounced the characters
forming it not to be arrow-headed ones,
not resembling the letters comprising
the ancient Assyriac inscriptions with
which he had hitherto met. Another
well-known authority Of the British
Museum was consulted, but he could
not see in the writing on the envelope
any resembling TO Chinese. The au.
thorities at the India Office were next
asked for their opinion. The omniscient
librarian was unfortunately absent just
at the time when the postal messenger
called, but Professor, his able assist
ant, pronounced it not TO be Malagasy
or even Pail. The letter next went to
Richmond, where a well-known Cana
rese scholar pronounced the address not
10 be Canarese. So the letter
passed from pundit to pundit without
Interpretation. At length it happened
that a large gentleman of the India
Office recommended the bearer of the
mysterious communication to take it to
two ether learned gentlemen residing
in Bayswater. These laid their heads
together, and discovered that the in
scription on the envelope of the re-
doubtable letter was in the Telugu
character. 1t was written very badly,
however, and when translated read as
follows: "Nottu peydu, Jaroor /
pray postoffice writer in London to
take this letter and gave it into the
hand of the Rance" Nottu peydu y
means "not paid" There was nc
stamp on the letter, so perhaps the Tel
ugu person who sent it considered this
communication to "the Rance" as he
styles her Majesty the Queen, sufficient
ly important i'll itself TO pass free TO tho
hands of the empress of India. ,
"Jaroor is the Hindustani equivalent
for post haste" The writer" Of
the London Postoffice, of course, means
in common parlance, the "clerk." The
author of the letter evidently supposed
that we in London possess only one
postoffice and only one clerk to that
office. OF course, the contents of the
letter are not known to us. Probably
some petty lawsuit has gone wrong with
the sender, and her Majesty the Queen
is informed that the local magistrates
took brides. Pail Nal Gazette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
A NurderOus Weapon.

The following is taken from Port
land, Oregon, paper At the office Of
Wells, Fargo a. Co. in this city we were
shown q large and savage-appearing
knife which, if welded by reckless
hands, would be sufficient to strike
terror to the heart of the bravest man in
the land. The knife was the property
of the desperate Frank Johnson, who
was arrested some time ago for robbery
committed near Baker City, and re-
Gently tried and sentenced to the peni-
tertiary from Baker county. johnson,
company with an accomplish, was ar
in rested near Winnemucca and brought
back in irons. On his person was found
the knife in question. The weapon,
from appearances, is fit companion to
associate with man OF Johnson's des-
perate character. The blade is over a
foot in length, and, including the handle,
is nearly eighteen inches long. The
handle is made of buckhorn, strongly
riveted to iron, while the blade is very
heavy-more than half an inch thick at
the back-and made of the best quality
of English steel. The point is rather
blunt, but the edge 10 as keen as a
razor. 1IllB klllle Will Weigh dDOlO i've
pounds, and can be used as good sub
stitute for a Ratchet. To hunter or a
frontiersman such weapon would be
indispensable, as it could be used as an
ordinary bowieknife or a hand-ax In
hewing trail through the forest. or
cutting wood for camp fire. In a
hand. to-hand encounter such knife
would be sufficient to almost sever an
arm or the head from the body. Along
the blade is ,udely carved the signifi-
cant words: Rio Grande Camp Knife, y
evidently engraven by the owner. 1t is
asserted on good authority that John
son used it in scalping nine Indians
after he had shot them, and also had
killed two Mormons with the same
weapon. Mr.. Paige, who brought
Johnson down, is of the opinion that
the knife has been employed in taking
the lives of perhaps 20 or 30 men, as il
is much worn, and appears to have
been used for years. There is 10 tell.
ing through how many desperadoes
hands the weapon has passed, or in how
many sanguinary border conflicts il
has played conspicuous part. It is
incased in strong leather scabbard.
An unwritten history of bloodshed,
crime and outlawry is intimately asso-
ciated with this piece of "jewelry."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
The Monster Farm and rm-King OF
Illinois.

Mr.. L. Sullivant, the great farmer of
Illinois, and OF the West, too, for that
matter, was in FL Paso, Saturday. He
called on Seery & Rouse, who have
been supplying him with agricultural
machinery for some years, and ordered
of them half dozen Buckeye mowers.
Sullivant is one of those cheerful souls
who never do anything by halves. A
correspondent says of his farm:
was at Sullivant's farm to-day. 1t is
about eighty miles square and contains
about A 900 acres. Met Mr.. Sullivant
in his Office, and found him a most
pleasant aud agreeable man, ready to
entertain any one who calls. am in
debted to +. W. b. Dix, chief clerk,
for the following condensed report OF
the workings of the farm: Num-
Der of hands employed, about 600;
mules and horses, 1000 cattle (oxep),
30; number of acres in corn, 20, 900 !;
acres in small grain, 5000; acres in
tame grass, 5000; miles of hedge,
300 head OF hogs, 1000; head of cat
tie, 600. Every thing is run in regular
military style. He can tell just what it
costs to raise bushel of grain on any
section of his farm, also the cost each
month TO feed the hands. The hands
are all hired by the month and boarded.
There is n resident doctor-Dr. Blair
who attends to the sick. According to
actual figures it is demonstrated that
ii cents per bushel in ordinary
seasons will put corn in the crib, and
26 cents per day will board hands.
The bill of fare is better than
that found in most boarding houses.
The following is the bill of fare
for June, 1874: Smoked shoulder,
mess beef, -four, bread, rice, beans,
peas, tea, coffee, sugar, dried apples,
vinegar, molasses, lard, spices, eggs,
fresh vegetables, etc., cost per capita,
265 cents. Found Mr.. Fay, the Cash
Ter Mr.. Miner, the General Manager,
and others, very pleasant gentlemen.
A general stock of goods are kept, from
which the men are supplied at net cost.
An elevator of $4,000 bushels capacity
is about ready to receive grain. 1t is
said to be by competent judges the
best and most complete elevator in the
State, outside of Chicago. There is
now in crib 100000 bushels of corn
waiting the completion of the elevator
to be shelled and shipped. Crops look
splendid the recent rain has removed
all apprehensions of injury from
drought. FL PaSO (IU.) Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
How 10 Make Mischief.

Keep your eye on your neighbors.
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do. To be sure,
you never knew them to do anything
bad, but it may be on your account they
have not. Perhaps If it had not been
for your kind care, they might have dis
graced themselves a long time ago.
Therefore do not relax any effort to keep
them where they ought to be. Never
mind your own business-that will take
care of itself There is man passing
along-he is looking over the fence-be
suspicious of him perhaps he contem-
plates stealing, some of these dark
nights, there is no knowing what queer
fancies may have got into his head.
Ii you find any symptoms of any one
passing out of the path of duty, tell
every one else what you see, and be par
ticular to see great many. 1t is good
way to circulate such things, though it
may not benefit yourself particularly.
Do keep something going silence is a
dreadful thing though it is said there
was silence in heaven for the space of
half an hour, do not let any such thing
occur ON earth, 1t would be too much
for this mundane sphere.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
Reasons WHY Women Should Smoke.

There are some reasons why smoking
would be an especial advantage for
woman. Their lives are usually made
up of an infnity of small cares. They
would find that q thousand petty
troubles would vanish in the cloud curl
ing up from a good cigar. The de.
parture of the cook three hours before
dinner party would be viewed with
less poignant regret if seen through a
BLUSH gray haze of tobacco smoke.
Sorrow over a chimney that won't
draw can be counteracted by Joy
over cigar that will. Then, when the
days work is done, and husband and
wife are sitting cozily by tho fire, a mu-
tual smoke would bring them closer to-
gether, and would tend to create be-
tween them that hearty good-fellow.
ship which is now sometimes wanting.
Popular prejudice forbids q woman to
puff cigar on the street or anywhere
else in public, bat individual prejudice
keeps great many men from doing the
same thing. 1t is doubtful whether
any one has right to pollute the air of
q place set apart for public use. But
in the privacy of home, or at the close
of dinner-party, why should not both
sexes indulge in the universal narcotic
stimulant Would not the ordinary
chatter of society be changed into some
thing better under the influence of the
grave kindness that is born of quiet
smoke? And then, as self-defensive
apparatus, as the husband often eats
onions because the wife does, would it
not be perfect?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
4 Cat Shoots a Man.

The Salem IN. " Press says: "There
seems TO be no end to accidents hap
pening from the premature discharge
of firearms. Not week passes but we
are called upon to record casualties OF
this character. The last that has come
to our knowledge occurred Tuesday.
Lewis Richardson, young man resid-
ing in this village, undertook to shoot a
cat, but the tables were reversed, the
cat succeeding in shooting him. 1t
happened in this wise Richardson took
the cat in his arms and carried it to a
point near the railroad woodshed, In
tending to shoot it. The cat proving
fractions, he held it with one hand while
he put the revolver between his knees
and cooked il with the other hand.
Just as he finished this part of his task,
the cats tail caught in the hammer,
and, in attempting to free her tail,
pulled the trigger, and the contents of
the revolver cut her tail in two and en-
tered Richardson's leg"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
Alarm Caused by Newspaper Article

The article which appeared in the
Herald yesterday, purporting to be an
account of the escape of the wild beasts
in Central Park and their subsequent
ravages in the quiet neighborhoods of
the city, produced an effect which it is
charitable to hope the writer could not
have foreseen. In many instances
people read only the headlines, and
others again did not see the denial in
the short paragraph at the end. The
headlines were sufficient to excite the
apprehensions of readers, and with
visions of wild animals roaming about
the city, the head of the family eau
toned his household not TO go out of
doors. The issue of the same sheet in
the form of an Extra" later in the
day, increased this apprehension, until
the excitement became quite marked.
Many fathers telegraphed home to pre-
vent their children from going to school
or their wives from venturing out Of
doors. At Police Headquarters, the
Superintendent was called upon by q
number of persons anxious TO know the
exact truth of the statement, having
failed to see the supposed satire, and
were much enraged when informed that
the whole story was hoax. The tele-
graph offices received kilograms sent by
husbands to their wives warning them
of danger, and when the hoax was APP.
preciated, additional kilograms reliev-
ing apprehension. The public schools
suffered considerably in the attendance,
especially those around Central Park
NeW York Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
An Old Maids SoliIonnY.

Bachelor Homes is the latest pro.
position of philanthropy. We fancy
We can hear the venerable maiden
across the street remark, as she sips
her tea, and strokes her tabby, "Drat
them, they don't deserve to have any
homes. Here 1 have been living all
these FIVE and-no matter-years alone
and unprotected, and so many of those
ugly, crusty, male wretches preferring
their filthy pipes and their old coats
and their latch keys to comfortable
home, and fair You may laugh, my
cat, but l was one of your handsome
girls, before l became the tee-total
wreck you see. Homes, forsooth If
had my way, I'd put them all into a
cold cell, beside tread-mill, and come
every day, and look through the grating
10 see the wretches grin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
Boston Sugar Trade.

The sugar trade of Boston, according
to the Journal, exceeds that of any
other kind of business. The following
figures show the receipts at that port in
nine months of 1873 and 1874 1873,
5d,17O hogsheads, 81, 2l5 bags md
baskets, 1880 boxes 1874, so, 1876
hogsheads, 2S3, POI bags and baskets,
1851 boxes. BY this it will be seen
that while the hogsheads have increased
30,005 in number, or nearly 100 small
c0rgoes, the bags and baskets have de-
clined from 1873 more than one half.
Last year the receipts of India sugars
were immense, and the importations re-
suited il enormous losses to all pur-
chasers. This has caused almost a
cessation of purchasers in these quar-
ters this year, although the receipts
of nearly 100000 packages in nine
months OF 1874 was fully up to the
average.