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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-14
NEW YORK.


blu sGlE COMfhOAlAED.
NRw YoRR, December l2.-The suit OF
James II. Banker against Commodore
Vanderbilt TO recover his notes for half a
million dollars, and property which So.
cured them, during the panic, September
1873, upon Vandetbilts acceptance Of the
Presidency OF the Lake Shore road, has
been Withdrawn, and the real estste
moTtg9ged as security for the notes, Yalu.
ed at $4,000, transferred to Vanderbilt,
The result was arrived at by an Amcable
agreement.
AN DIPosTER.
The American Tract Society denounces
as fraud James L. Stevens, appealing, as
agent for that Society, from Des Moines
Iowa, for aid Tor the Nebraska sulIerers
The American Tract Society say they
have no such agent, but recommend
chariLably disposed people 10 forward
contributions to regular relief agents.
IRWIN ARRESTED.
Richard B. Irwin, concerned In the
present Pacific Mail investigation In
Washington, was arrested to-day by the
sergeant'at.Arms OF the House Of Repre-.
sentatives.
BANANA BAY COMPANY.
Judgment has been entered In the
United States Circuit Court against the
samana Bay Company for $24G3l, for
arms and supplies.
sPf Gle SHIPMENTS.
To.day's steamer took out $l,O7s,OOO
Of specie.
ERIE ..oFFIcEs REMOVED.
The Erie Railway Company today re.
moved its Offices from the Grand Opera
House to the old quarters foot OF Duane
street.
TLT0N APPEALS.
This morning the Attorneys for Tilton
appealed from the order oil Judge McCue
granting bill Of particulars in the Tilton.
Beecher case. The appeal Is 10 the Gen.
eral Term, and is on ground that the
Brooklyn City Courts shall not limit the
prosecution on the trial to the proof OF
any particular day. While the discre.
tion oi tho Court in granting the order is
not appealable to the Court of Appeals
that part Of the order prohibiting The
prosecution from proving any other acts
than those specified, is considered appeal.
able to the Court OF Appeals. Plaintiffs
lawyers say that II the defense desire il
they will argue the appeal at the Gen
eral term next week. Notice of appeal
was served on Beecher's attorney This
morning.
KIDNAPPED.
John Neville, aged eight years, resid-
ing with his parents, in West Hoboken,
was kidnapped, Thursday evening, While
playing with acompani0n they were mel
by man driving buggy, who asked
them to take ride. Neville consented
THE ELECTION DAY MuRDRR.
The trial oil Coroner Richard Croker
on an indictment for killing John Nc
kenna, was brought to close at 7:2O p
NJ, and tho case given 10 the iury
At midnight the jury not having agreed,
yrnFn lOnhnl an
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CounterfeIters Aue,,pa.

CLEVELAND December 12-Eli Lover
snd Abe Forter, two Frenchmen, have
oeen arrested by the police for making
and passing counterfeit nickels. The
tools and metal for making the counter.
teils were secured.
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Tho Alleged Rond FnrrDr

PHILADELPHIA, December l2.-Tbi.
morning bond in $4,000 was entered
into ior the appearance Of Geo, F. Hill
alleged dealer in forged bonds, al ibe
United States Circuit Court, 18th of Jan.
uary next. '"u
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Suit TO Recover Large Portion of
the Site of PitIsburgh.-DemocTatic

Caucus.
PITTsDURGH, December l2-The Dem.
ocratic members. elect 10 the Legislature
met in caucus this afternoon for The pur-
pose Of making an effort to select capdi-
dates for Speaker and ChieI Clerk Of the
House. F. NJ. Hutchinson, son.in.Iaw of
General George W. Cass, is a candidate
ior the CleTkship. and it is thought he
will make the rifle. He ran ior State
Treasurer against Msckey, Republican At
the State election year ago, and was do.
tested.
The trial oil the Indian girls claim 10
some ninety acres oi ground, now in a
valuable part Of the city, is still in pro-
gress, and will likely continue for several
days. Il has created quite a Commotion
especially in that part OF the city which Is
IN litigation: The evidence thus far is
tiff. '"' P'9'u-
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FOREIGN.
GERMANY.
TREAL OF YoN ARN1M.

BERLIN, December 12.-lt ls expected
lhat The trial Of Count yon Arnlm viii be
closed on Wednesday next At the be.
ginning OF the proceedings to dsy the
public prosecutor stated that Inc friends
oI the defendant were communicating
with the witnesses, and thatlI the practice
was continued he would use harsh meas.
ures towards the offenders. Count Won
Arnim acknowledged . paper entitled
"Pro.memoria' Gmanated from himself
but he declined to stale whether he caused
It's publication! He also declined 10 saw
to whom he addressed the two letters
relating to the Ecumenical Coucil.
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LOuIsIana RcIurnInr Rnnrh

NEW ORLEANS, December l2.-The
Returning Board met and adjourned un-
til Monday 10 give the members An op-
poftunity 10 attend 10 private business,
The contested cases will be taken up on
Monday
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There have been admitted to the Hos
pltal since it was opened GlO patients, out
OF which 212 have been discharged, as
above, leaving remainder Of 347. These,
as shown by the last annual report, be-
long TO the various counties of the State,
rs follows:
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ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION.
AMNESTY.

AMNESTY.
BuRRos AYRRs, December l2.-The
lnsurrectton is over, and the Government
has Issued proclamation granting am
nesty to all political offenders.
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A $4,000 Fire,

WATERBURY, VT, December 13.-The
Vermont Reform School has been burned.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
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BY TELEGRAPH
A9noCIATNp PREss RRpoRg

C3y tho Western Union Line.
lhice Northwest cor. Of Main and Monroe sts.
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WeaIheF RcnorH.
PROBABILITIES,

war DEPARTEEN+.
OIHIUH OF THN CHRr STggIf 0SrToy,B
WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec, IS-6.6TP ~
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John Neville, aged eight years, resid-
ing with his parents, in West Hoboken,
was kidnapped, Thursday evening, While
playing with acompaniOn they were met
by man driving a buggy, who asked
them to take ride. Neville consented
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NE ELECTION DAY MuRDRR.

The trial Of Coroner Richard Croker
on an Indictment for killing John Nc
kenna, was brought to close at 7:2O p
NJ, and tho case given TO the Jury
At midnight the jury not having agreed,
were locked up till morning.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13

quarter that they were ever eoolced at all.
Now, dear, friendly reader, do not dis
miss this, my new theory, without
serious thought, and do not damn it with
faint praise. Remember the Spanish
proverb that courses, like chickens, come
home to roost."
Happy in the thought that this paper
will give my name to Immortality, l am,
being but woman, happier in the
thought that with what receive for this
article from my generous publisher may
be able to flaunt the prcttiest spring bon
net with the longest feather in it in our
Village. l now have one of the new old
style to1pknot combs. Just here the doctor,
my husband, looks over my shoulder to
say, Don't count your chickens before
they are hatched." bear it with Chris
tian tortitude and resignation, however,
for even this proves his descent; this
chicken language that still clings to him
originated with his remote ancestors.
here declare myself to be so firmly
established in my belief in the doctrine OF
worthy bipeds 50 common to, and priced
by, the ancient Egyptians, those friendly
bipeds so useful to our civilization, that
anybody's trouble to disproveit would be
vain, and you will not, nay, you cannot,
deny that my chain of reasoning is
(without the big words of science) scien-
titic; it is logical, it is poetical and it is
original
Z. 81 shall be "as mad as wet
hen" if l don't get that gay-feathcred
bonnet and | might as well have my
neck wrung at once as to have my hus-
band crop ooer my not getting it.-Ar-
thurs Home Magazine for august
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13
A NEW DEPARTURE IN EVOLU.
TlON.
BY LOUISE V. BOYD.

l have had tea-party; not the tradi-
tional ladies' gathering to partake of the
cup that cheers but not inebriates, where
gossip is the order of the evening, where
the news is all stale as the cheese, the
conversation insipid as the sponge cake,
and the jokes dryer than the toast; nor
was it Boston Harbor Tea Party; no,
never harbor such an idea-remember it
is a hundred years too late for such an
affair to come off originally. A centen-
NAL, then? No, not even that; but a
party of my husbands and my own
friends-our scientific friends; and they
were scientific to such an extent that I
had some trouble in grasping the stu
pendous thoughts clothed in words that
had no place in the spelling books l
conned in my school days. But though
unlearned myself l dearly love the
sound of big words; and on this occasion
l was more than gratitied, and,
indeed, sometimes wondered whether
part of the conversation was not carried
on in Greek or Choctaw; but knew the
outlines of their discussion, and guessed
at the meaning of the words by the look
of the parties giving them utterance,
and was overwhelmed by the contem.
plation of the grandeur of human inge-
nulty.
The great man or autocrat of the &C.
casion was a doctor of overpowering
presence and overtowering height, in the
full enjoyment of an immense bump of
self-esteem, while the light of his cold
eyes shone from beneath gray, shaggy,
fearfully overjutting eyebrows.
There was graduated lady with a
squaky voice, and laugh like cackle
that leaped out of her at the most unex-
pected periods. A pair of green specta-
Giles almost concealed her pair of weak
eyes, what the new English poet, Robert
Buchanan, describes as "small hens
eyes" 1t would have done your heart
good to hear with what emphasis she
gave her opinions, and how impressive
was her presence when, in reply to a
modest question from our schoolmis-
tress, she said somewhat sternly: "But
you do not understand Darwin, and
gely teao people cani"
had no trouble in entertaining these
guests further than to provide for their
reasonably good mortal appetites
Brolled chicken, chicken salad and
poached eggs were devoured without
either STINT or comment. They came
with their heads preoccupied, if not
turned, with one great idea, and that idea
was, where did we come fromg Poor
ignorant little me had all my life
thought, in the words of the hymn in
which congregation know of are wont
to praise the Lord:
The good old way is good enough for me!
Had thought, even, my being here was
accounted Tor by concise statement
made by Moses in the Book of Genesis
and had rather prided myself upon being
descended from the grand old gardener
and his wife, whose HONEYMOON was
spent in Eden. AS that was six thousand
years ago at least, and possibly good
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13
DREAM-LIFE
BY c. p. CRANCH.

BY c. P. cRANcH.
1--WE are such stuff
AS dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with sleep
let me lie still--lie still and dream again,
And bind the severed links of the golden chain
That glimmered through my morning sleep, bu'
snapped
When at my door you tapped.
Breakfast and halfpast eight:' What's that
What's daylight: What are mullins, toast and
tea?
market" and raining hard" and bills to
think heard you say.
All, yes; this is no dream; must suppose
There are such things. Ihls IL worio Oh prose.
Rnt was far away. How real it seemed,
And yet only dreamed.
Twas n welcome and happy guest
In brave palace. Upward from the west
Long shadows of the lingering afternoon
In long day of June
Law on a lawn. The palace windows burned
In the red sunset, as downward turned
A group of youths and maidens at my side
Down to river wide,
Upon whose waves the western sky lay red.
A barge awaited us; and overhead
streamed rosy wreaths of cloud. We sped
along
Away. away-into land of light,
Where it was neither morn, nor noon. nor night,
But dream-lght only; and city stood
Beyond tropic wood
And in the pathway to that happy place
All was incessant change of time and space,
With sudden sweet surprises, as we went
In measureess content.
And friends--the absent and the dead-were
there;
And some we never saw, yet seemed to wear
The mingled traits of those we used to know,
Went passing to and fro
Through festive halls, through gardens strange
and rare
And all were young, and all were happy there.
How could you wake me from dream of bliss
To such place as this!
Twas hard to leave that life for one so mean,
For prose, and duty and the old routine
OF work. Yet, now that am up and dressed,
| know that this is best.
The lordy soul is master of its own.
The fair insanities of dreams have flown
They were but moonlight hashes-broken CLEANS
Along its flowing streams.
Another light rebukes the tinsel dress
OF drifting fancies wild and rudderess;
Nor can the nights dull testers now impose
In Reasons borrowed clothes.
And as plod along, know that life
Is but the stnff from which with toll and strife
We weave robe of thought and crced-and
With dreams its outer fringe.
Woodwork while daylight lasts and let the
night
Spin her thin webs of visionary light
The rainbow hues that span the cataract
--Chrishan Union.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13

The fashion of wearing the wedding
ring on the finger next TO the little finger
originated in an ancient superstition that
there was mysterious connection be-
tween that finger and the human heart.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13

There was an old couple at the Cen
trail depot yesterday waiting to get
through to the West and they seemed
loving enough until the old man went
out and returned smoking a five-cent
cigar and with his hat slanting over his
left ear. The wife looked at him twice
before she could recognize him, and then
opened her mouth and said: "Whatd |
tell you, Philetus Remington, before we
left New Jersey? Didn't say you'd 60
and make a fool of yourself the first
chance you got.' He tried to pacify her
by saying that the cigar only cost five
cents, but she shouted You leased and
leased ill let you git your boots BACKED;
then you wanted some soda water; then
you bought apples on the train, and
here's another five cents thrown away! 1t
all counts up, and if you don't die in the
poor house then my name amt Sary!'-
Detroit Free Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13

Bye. P. CRANCH.
I'VE are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with sleep"
New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
PERSONAL.

President MacMahOn has finished his tour
through France and returned to Paris.
John G.. Whittier, accompanied by Lucy
Larcom and party of relatives, is sojournng among
the White Mountains.
Senator Casserly of California is TO return
TO Washington as the counsel OF San Francisco cuzens
Interested in the Alabama claims.
1t is reported that the Rev. Moses Colt
Tyler will accept call to the pastorate OF the South
congregational Church at Mddletown, Conn., when
offers him - 500 salary and six weeks annual Vacaon
Mr.. Murat Halstead of The Cincinnati Com
rtereiaI and Mr.. Samuel Bowes of The Sprln2reld
Repnbcan are on their way home from Europe In the
which Is due III TINS city on the zth
inst.
The Rev. Dr. John Hall. the Rev. DR.. How
ard Crosby and the DIR. Booth OF this city arc
among the speakers at the meeting OF tue Presbyterian
SYNOD OF New YORK which meets Boston next MONTH
This will be the first meeting OF this body IN NewEn
gland many years Connected with IL are nearly Ieo
churches and $50 ministers.
Messrs John w. Smith, II. n. Ross, and w.
T. Mckay miners OF the Custer expedition to the Black
Hills declare Prof Winches statement tna. there was
no gold TO be found there ungualnedy false, ana eh
press their opinion OF the Professors researches IN ts
warm manner: Prof. Winchell know nothing OF the
gold section prospected; does not know gold quarts
when found, aud does not know gOu county Mue. ~
n IL Prof w had paid more attention LOOKING aiter
gold discoveries and less aiter deer hoIhs anu Os 80
less curoslties, he probably could nave gwen boro
truthful description or the country without ehasgr
ZION we found diggings that would pay not less thah
ara per day per As all evidence OF our sbceIly.
there whenever permission can DO obtained from the
nr0Der authorities.
New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
PORTIA AND BASSANIO.

We are all of us apt to pick out here and
there the counterfeits of Shakespeares women !;
we find DesdemOnas and Juliets among our
Virginia cousins, ROsallnds nearer Boston, and
Cressida among honest folk who never guess
at her real name. But POrtia, everybody
knows, belongs to Venice-tO Shakespeare's
Venice of ages ago. She is inclosed as mex
orably in that immortal court which sits from
century to century, and wherein Antonio and
the Jew stand forth, undying, as her fair
counterfeit was buried in the leaden casket
Who would look for this wise young judge
with her weary little body and golden fleece
of hair on Broadway or in the bathrooms OF
Fifth Avenuef Yet we all of US saw her this
Summer; and whether it was at Saratoga
hop, or the beach at Long Branch, or Adiron-
dack farm house, We fancied when we passed
her by that she had met US before at some
best moment Of our lives, and that she had
helped to make it better and higher Or was
il that she was like that first love Of ours
when we were boy, or like our mother, or
some masterpiece of a picture which had
suited our whim and mood once better than
any otheri And it was Portia we were think
ing of after all.
This modern Portia assuredly never had re-
earded herself in the light of masterpiece
or heroine from q book, or anybody's first
love. She did not regard herself at all there
was the startling delicious charm that brought
all men about her. Nobody pronounced her
beautiful or even pretty-nobody thought of
her looks. Polly's chubby flesh, carnation
tints and sparkling eyes ought to have thrown
her altogether in the shade; yet after the
homely young girl with her innocent face had
been quietly going in and out among us for q
day or two Polly's harmless coquetries began
to seem vulgar and underbred. 1t never
occurred to the coarsest man to ask the age of
this woman, or to talk of her points" as he
did of horses and all other women. There
was about her that wonderful freshness and
Inconsistencies of self which make baby
royal Children are usually the most conscious
of creatures.) Every man and woman there
fancied they alone had discovered the singular
charm in this silent little girl with the soft
brown dress and yellow hair; how younger
than all the others she was, how dewy and
fresh was her lip how the blue veins showed
in her temple, what merry mad-cap
laugh she had when once it broke out.
Nobody could tell how much or how little
she knew there were no doctors robes or
cap from Padua now to cover the blushing
cheek or soft bosom we all liked to think
her only "an unlessoned girl, unschooled,
Impractical, happy in this she is not bred
Z" 40 dull but she can learn" Yet when you
silenced your adversary in that metaphysical
debate one day you fancied, BY her listening
New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

Regular party nominations are not OF much
use this wear especially IN Congressional districts No
sooner does Congressman get the convention ali
arranged and have himself renomnated with ehtnusi-
asm than bolters' organization is formed and an nde
pendent candidate put in the fed. Gen. earhe'o mas
h.en annoyed IN this way recently, and now similar
nerformance is threatened IN the district oi nis
land colleague, the Hon Richard Z; PARSONS f'"' ~"
party whip is OF no use whatever 'he ''"
There is not an Administration organ IN tho
-. ,ron 9. NOT declaring that the troubles in Louis
80 ,n.n inaubltabe proof that the Republican party
should be kept In power To ths bipartisan mind the
-, ., ,hi. reasoning Is very peculiar The Republican
nar,v thrust upon Louisiana government which Ro-
nublcan Congress declared to be usurpation; tho
citizens of louisiana driven to desperation by robbery
roisyue and oppression. arose IN arms and overthrew
,hs nsurpers; Republican President. for no othet
reason than because he had done so before PSs y1e
thereto re- t necessary for the peace OF Tue eQ0py
thai The Republican pEty he kept y P9wwl
New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
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