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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-18
NEW ORLEANS.


THE LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARD.
NEW ORLEANs, December 1.-THE
Returning Board have been trying the
late Chiet Clerk Campbell, charged with
tamperlDs with returns and testimony,
but they could not prove it. When the
Laiourche returns were being canyasSed
important testimony filed by the Con.
ser7stives was found to be missing. Mr..
Whitaker requested that tho Conserva.
tive Committee be allowed to inspect all
papers bearing on the parishes coming
before tho Board under protest, previous
to considering them, in order that they
might see that all thetestimony was pres
ent. Governor Wells objected, saying
1t would detain the Board too long,
MIR. Whitaker then presented evidence
proving that the signatures on the Sabine
Parish returns were iorgeries. The Board
has decided upon the returns from TWEEN.
ty.three parishes, besides the I'd and Sd
Congressional districts, and will promul.
gate them. These give in the House.
Radicals 80, Conservatives 81.
In the case Of J. B. Ellain, praying for
q writ ol mandamus to compel the Re.
turning Board to receive, canvass and
compile the returns of De Soto Parish,
Judge Hawkins, OF the Superior District
Court, decided that he had no Jurisdiction
to issue the mandamus, as he could not
come to any conclusion as to whether
they were the proper returns or not, the
Returning Board having been constituted
Tor that purpose.
TIE SCHOOL TROUBLE.
The students OF tho Central BOYS High
School to-day appeared at the lower Girls
High School to compel the removal there.
from Of number Of colored pupils. A
committee OF five entered the school and
stated the purpose Of their visit, threat
cning 10 use force il necessary. All Of
the colored girls present promptly and
quietly left the building and the boys
returned to their own school. 1t is be-
lieved the School Board will establish an
additional high school for Colored chill
dren, thus preventing further trouble.
THAT sAME OLD FEUD.
A row between the white and colored
school boys at the Keller Market this at-
ternoon terminated in ageneral melee be.
tween the whites and blacks of the neigh.
borhood. The result was that coloTed
policeman was badly hurt by being struck
with a Delaying pin, and a number Of per.
sons bruised. During the excitement
negro man fell dead oi heart disease.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, December 1.-THE roof of the
Market Hall In Augues fell under the
weight Of snow yesterday, and several
persons killed and injured.
specie In the Bank Of France has in
creased 9,92l, 900 francs In the past week.
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NEW YORK.


NEW York, December 17.-Tho man.
ayers OF tho Monmouth Park Association
have resolved to celebrate the centennial
Of Independence by the offer Of purse
Of $4,000 Tor all ages in race OF four
mile heats, and have sent special notice
to all the great horse owners in the coun.
try. Entries will have to be made on or
before January lst, 1876, year and q
halt in advance Of the time set for the
race.
The Longshoremen's Union has au-
thorized It's members to accept thirty
cents on hour for day work and forty
cents for night work. These arc the
rates proposed by the ship owners three
weeks ago, when the Longshoremen
struck.
Hall million gold was awarded To-.
day at from Ill .40f to 1l144.
sPEClE SHIPMENTS.
Specie shipments to Europe, 81 100 900;
$4,000 IN gold coin and the remainder
in silver.
The Governing Committee of the Stock
Exchange has decided to close the Ex-
change on inc saturdays following Christ.
mas and New Years.
WILLIAM N. TWEED
VIM. NJ. Tweed was taken from prison
to the Oyer and Terminer Court on a
writ OF haJtdS corpus this morning, and
the warden's return was traversed as to
his sentence having expired, the illegality
OF subsequent sentences imposed, want
Of Jurisdiction Of tho court which tried
him, and that the jury was not EN-.
pannelled according to law. His counsel
suggested that they be allowed to state
what their proofs were and then to hand
them in and have the court pass upon
them, have certs0rari on the 23d, and
get the case TO the Court ol Appeals on
tho first Monday in January. Court
adjourned till Monday next TO give tho
District Attorney time 10 consider wheth.
CT he would dCmur or Join Issue, and
Tweed was remanded to prison.
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Killed and Wounded.

HARRIsBURd, December II. John
ClSrk, engineer of the water works, was
Killed and a laborer seriously injured, on
Friday, by the pressure Of water forcing
OH the cap on twenty.inCh main.
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Sieamer News.

PHILADELPHIA, December l7,-.Arrived
Steamship Illinois, from Liverpool.
PORTLAND, December 17.-Arrived-
Steamer Prussia, from Liverpool,
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NASHVILLE.
ON THE SPREAD OF THE CHOLERA


NASHVILLE, December 1.-THE physi.
clans OF Nashville met in convention last
evening at the Board OF Health rooms.
Surgeon E. Mcclellan, OF the United
States army, who is in the city for the pur.
pose Of investigating the initial causes oil
the cholera epidemic Of 1878. stated that
in his investigations he had discovered
that the cholera had passed from New
Orleans to Nicksburg and from thence TO
Shreveport and Memphis, where it was
scattered north, south, east and west until
1t reached tho confines OF Missouri. The
disease had geHerally originated after the
arrival OF emigrGnts from tho infected
parts and the unpacking OF their baggage,
the disease being confined to their cloth
ing. BE said that cholera, smallpox,
lever and other contagious diseases could
be rapidly and Cffectually distributed by
common carriers, and that close railroad
cars and private coaches were tho means
OF spreading disease as they passed
through cities on the lines Of railroads.
The question by DR.. Bush, why Louis
vile, although connected by railroad with
Chicago, Cincinnati, Memphis and Nash.
vile, was not affected, while Nashville
was so severely scourgcd, was answered
by saying that tho question opened up q
wide field ior argument, and that it was
well known fact that cholera might be
imported into city, die out, and again
be revived by some local cause or causes.
DEATH OF A NOTED THURMAN.
Abner Turner, better known us "Uncle
Ab.," noted turiman, died in this city
yesterday.
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BY TELEGRAPH
AsaOoIATED PRESS REPORT

(By tho Western Union Limo.
oulco Northwest cor, Of Main and honIOo sts.
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Bob Drury, OF Mckenzie, Tennessee
was arrested and sent to Memphis yester.
day Tor passing counterfeit money. His
father and mother, who had been assist.
ing him, made their escape. They had
succeeded in passing large amount on
farmers and others in the nighborhood.
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RAILWAY BILL.


Petitions from the National Temper
ance Society and other temperance organ.
iz4tions and churches, representing over
100000 petitioners, were presented in the
House to day, asking for tho carly passage
OF the bill TO provide for commission Of
inquiry concerning the alcoholic liquor
traffic, which passed the Senate at its last
spasiOn
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Paymsster General Benjamin Alvert
last night while leaving tho Rotunda o
the Capital, slipped and fell down thu
steps, breaking one Of his legs.
THE SOUTH COMMITTEE.
Tho House Committee on the Con
dtion oi the South met tonight. The
Louisiana delegation was present ant
urged them 10 go TO New Orleans at ar
early day.
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Rec0llectiOns Of q Dentists Shop.

Mark Twain, in his new book about
England, tells how he had the toothache
one night in London, and gives some
pleasing recOllections of the dentists
shop which he was won't to patronize
when he lived in Elmira. He says: Zone
night that tooth did jump, and every
time it jumped it raised my head right
off the pillow. How did lie awake and
think about that dentists shop in Elmira,
where had been under torture SO MANY
times-of those pretty dental instruments,
80 polished and SO cold! How I did long
to lay my cheek against one-one Of
those short, thick, heavy, twisted chaps,
with the bow-legged, liuted and curved
handles, and short hawksbill jaws! How
reveled in delight at the thought of hay-
ing such q thing clutch my refractory
tooth and 'yank it!' With what pleas
urable emotion came crowding into nv
mind the recollection of that dentist, and
his room and its fixtures-his big, easy
chair, with the pretty white-curtained
window before it, and the nice, big, red
glass spittoon to the left, with the hole in
the bottom, and the bits of wet cotton
and the bright pieces of gold and streams
Of blood-stained saliva on the sides. And
then the pretty little bureau with the
bottles on the top and the little yellow
drawers which he jerks out so gently
when seeking for some new and more del
icate instrument of torture. And then
that beautiful little round, velvet-covered
stand on the gas-ffxture, covered with the
nice drills and pretty files, and the lovely
little crowbars with the stained ivory
handles. and the long, steel crochet nee
aies with which he hunts for new cavi-
ties, and the little round pasteboartl box.
full of gold plugs and the. dirtv little
napkin, and the rubber ball syringe. and
the singular smell of his thumb, and ali
that!'
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own temperament and physiological or
ganizatiOn to be able to select those arti-
c!es of food which are best adapted to
his own individual wants.
Treated from this common-sense stand
point, many Of the fearfully numerous
diseases of the digestive organs would
cease to exist. But we go on, defying or
ignoring Natures laws; eating, in half
the time required for perfect mastication,
double the amount necessary for our sus-
tenance; jumping up and going at hard
brain work Immediately after each meal
when we ought to take complete mental
relaxation for some time in order that our
nerve forces may be properly concen-
trated upon the digestion of our food :;
drugging ourselves with stimulants when
we see our digestive powers are begin
ming to fail until the inevitable result fol-
lows and we become confirmed dyspep.
tics. We then pounce upon the stomach
as the unlucky source of all our evils,
forgetting that large percentage of our
food was never intended to be digested
by it; forgetting that Nature has given
us organs of locomotion, demanding that
they be exercised; free, pure air, requir-
ing it to he breathed; proper hours for
repose, and insisting on their being so &C.
cupied.
Indigestion may also be intestinal, and
aggravated by the use of sugar or starchy
substances; or it may be pancreatic, and
increased by the improper use of oils; or
it may be due to torpid liver or def
cient nerve energy, and rendered doubly
worse by sedentary habits. Treat your
stomach as becomes a rational being live
in accordance with the laws of nature,
taking due exercise, pure air, good food
that is suited to your own peculiar or
ganization, and, above all, allow yourself
plenty of cheerful, mirth-provoking re-
Taxation and it will be impossible for you
to suffer from indigestion.-Paci6c Rural
Press
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The Department Clerk.

There is nothing more destructive to
courage, ambition, and the will and the
wit to make living, than clerical drudg-
cry at Washington. The round of
treadmill is not more methodical and
wearisome. The department clerk is
but trifing part in a complex machine,
He dockets bills, or files warrants, or en-
tiers names in folio, or does some other
dreary work which requires no brains,
and but slightly tasks attention. His
labor is important only as fitting in with
that of the man behind him and the man
in front Of him, but the drift and mean
ing OF it he does not in many cases care
or need to know. This sort of work is
about as intellectual as corking bottles
or ramming down paving stones; but, as
a trade, it is infinitely poorer than either of
those, or any other mechanical employ
ment. The corker and the pavier, de-
prived of one job, find another, and use
their acquired skill there, but the official
drudge has no practiced talent to employ
when he loses his place. This makes the
case of some of the discharged clerks a
real hardship. They have spent years at
Washington learning nothing new, hav-
ing no desire to rise, and unable to get
up, though they had the desire-liv-
ing in ignoble contentment on the Gov
eminent salary, and trusting for its con-
tinuance to the political patron to whose
coat-tails they chung. Having been six
or eight years q stipendiary, they have
accustomed themselves to regard Office
as perpetual. They at last fondly deem
themselves indispensable to the Govern
ment. No other one exactly understands
the business they do. If they are dis
charged the wheels must all stop till they
are recalled. Such is the absurd infatu-
alton of many a clerk who is of no more
consequence to the Government than the
flies that buzz in the window. When
such man is dismissed from the desk
that he considered his private property,
we do not wonder that the disused and
enfeebled brain is shocked and half para.
lyzed. He appeals to our pity, whatever
we may think of his folly in taking the
risk Of a petty Government place, when
he might have mastered a trade, and,
with industry, have defied the world to
ruin him. Numbers of these clerks, be.
lieving that they were always to be sup
ported at public expense, have bought
or built houses at Washington, and
looked upon themselves as permanent
inhabitants. It will be very hard for
them to give up their old homes and seek
subsistence elsewhere; but that thew
must do, unless they descend to the low.
est deep of Congressional lobbying
class OF business less profitable now than
formerly, and precariOus at the best es
tate.-N. 7. Journal Of Commerce.
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The Stony Creek Disaster.

The moral of the latest accident"
seems to be the moral of nine railway &C
cidents out of ten. An incompetent and
careless man is put in position where
the lives of several hundred people de-
pend every day upon competence and
care because he could he got cheaper
than q competent and careful man. For
time all goes smoothly enough, but,
finally, as in this case, disaster occurs,
in the light Of which it is seen that the
saving of money in such a place is the
waste of life. Possibly the switch tender
in this case will be indicted, and there is
a remote chance that he may be even
punished. The real blame Is not his,
however, and the brunt of the punish
ment ought not to fall on him. The cor
poration which employed him has no
soul to be saved, and no body to be either
kicked or imprisoned. 1t has, however,
a corporate pocket to be amerced. If
every sufferer by the accident at Stony
Greek were promptly to sue the
company, the company would see
that it was cheaper to employ switch
tenders who would not replace a
switch while train was passing
over it, and the only available guarantee
for safe management would thus lie en-
forced. Accidents" like this do not
happen on well-regulated railways, be-
cause the inquest which is made by a
Coroner's jury when disaster occurs is
on such railways made every day by Off
GERS of the company, and a mistake, fatal
or not, is never forgiven. On the New
York Central fiagman whose duty it
was to wave lamp as q certain express
train passed his station every night omit.
ted this duty once in a service of many
months, being overcome by sleep. The
next day he found himself discharged. By
such discipline, and only by such disci-
pline, can the danger of railway travel
he reduced to a minimum, and such dis
cipline can be enforced only by the ver-
diets of juries awarding exemplary dam
ages in cases where discipline is shown
to have been relaxed.
Another moral this story carries. With
all these injured people it is notable that
only one man was killed outright, and he
was the only man, SO far as appears, who
had jumped from the train for safety. In
the majority of cases passengers will con.
suit their own safety best by clinging to
their seats. They may then be injured,
but, whatever the nature of the acct
dent, they are then least likely to lose
either their lives or their limbs.-N. Y.
World
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\ large portion Of the business part of the

large portion Of the business part Of the
city.
A genuine case Of Asiatic cholera occurred
in Louisville, KY, lately.
Gov. Caldwell, Of North Carolina, died on
the 18th Of chOlera-morbus. The Lieutenant
Governor has assumed the duties of the Of
flee.
According to late Tuscumbia (Ala.) dis
patches fresh complications had arisen in the
case Of Representative sloss. The young man
he shot was thought to be in fair way of re-
covery, and if he gets out it was regarded as
certain that he would bushwhack Mr.. Sloss,
unless the latter succeeded in shooting him
first. Sloss was in less danger if his victim
died than if he recovered.
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The Stomach.

This important organ is a muscular
sack formed by dilation of the alimen-
tary canal. In shape it somewhat re-
sembles curved section of cone; in
size it varies from eight to twelve inches
in width, and from three to four in its
greatest diameter. 1t is usually esti-
mated to contain about one quart when
in perfectly normal condition; but SO
universally are excuses committed in
eating and drinking that in scores of
observations we do not remember to
have seen a single one that had not been
dilated beyond this capacity. Its stu
alton varies considerably, according as
it is distended with food or otherwise;
its proper position is just below the
liver. 1t is of purely carnivorous type;
being intended only for the dissolving or
chymifaction of the food which has been
finely triturated by the teeth. 1t fur
nishes by far the most important of the
five solvents concerned in digestion-the
gastric juice. 1t actually digests, or
reduces to chyme, all the elements of the
food except the non-nitrogenous and
hydrocarbons, or sugar, starch and oil.
Of these, sugar and starch are digested
by the duodenal juices; oils by the pan
creatic fluid.
Of its physiological functions we know
much; the celebrated Martin case, where
in a permanent fistula or opening fol-
lowed terrible gun-shot wound, having
afforded wonderful facilities for study:
ing its functions and given q great i'm
petus to the investigation of all the de
tails of alimentation. Many important
facts have been thus obtained; some
Psychologists even 60 so far as to lay
down laws for the exact time in which
any given article of food would be di.
gested, and, consequently, classifying all
such as wholesome or unwholesOme &C.
cording as they seemed to resist the &C
ton of the digestive powers of the stom-
ach, or otherwise. BY such rules pigs
feet and tripe were laid down as being
digested in an hour; trout, in one and
half hours; milk, in two hours; roast
beef, in three; and SO on, until the climax
was reached with roast pork and boiled
cabbage, which, they said, required five
and one-half hours for their proper d.
gestion. But, from close observation, it
Is our belief that stomachs have as many
whims and idiosyncrasies as have their
masters, and that which ID easily digested
by one Is "poison" to another. Hence,
the folly Of any set Of rules which pre-
scribe just what all persons shall eat
Each person should know enough Of his
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WILHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIc OR FEVER AND
AGUE TONIC.-This invaluable and standard
family medicine is now household word and
maintains its reputation unimpaired. 1t is in
scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhofts
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men Of the country, and is
worthy Of such Endorsement. WHEELocK,
FINLAY & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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General News Summary.
Washington News.

Washington dispatch Of the 7th says that
Of the 5 per cent National Bank reserve re-
quired to be Kept in the Treasury 100000
had been received, which is one-half of the
total amount to be deposited under the new
law. Applications for bank charters had
reached &, 900, and the circulation sur.
rendered $ssyOOO,OOO.
Washington dispatch of the 7th says the
new Commissioners of the District of Column
bia had unanimously agreed upon a general
system of retrenchmcnt.
On the 9TH the Illinois Board of Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioners reduced the
grain inspection fees throughout the State 8
per cent, and ordered that the word "new"
shall be inserted in each certificate of inspec-
ton of newly harvested crop of wheat rye
and barley until the LIST day of September; Of
oats until the LIST day of August, and Of corn
until the Goth day of April Of each year.
According to dispatches received from the
Commits Toner of Indian Affairs on the eth,
serious outbreak had occurred among the In
dians in the Indian Territory. The Chey-
enncs, Comanches and Kiowas to the number
of 600 had gone upon the war path, and were
everywhere committing depredations at
u
parties were thought to be moving from the
north fork Of the Canadian River in the direc-
ton Of the trail from the agency to Caldwell,
Kan. The agent telegraphs that the
Indians had said they would clean out every
white man and rancho in that region. An
urgent demand had been made for troops with
which to repel the marauders.
In the Washington Star of the Sth appeared
an announcement that cx-Gov. Shepherd had
appeared before the Grand Jury of the District
to procure the indictment of Mr. Dana, of the
New York Sun, for libel. If an indictment was
secured an attempt would be made to arrest
Mr.. Dana and bring him to the District for
trial, under the provisions of the Poland law,
passed at the late session of Congress.
According to a Washington dispatch of the
9th it had been decided at the Interior De-
partment that, after homcstcader has COM
pleted term of five years, further residence
is not required to entitle him to patent;
also. that residence in double house built on
the dividing line between adjoining home
steads is a residence in compliance with the
law.
Washington dispatch of the 18th saws
that the rumors of the intended resignation
of Nice-President Wilson. which for the pre-.
ccdinS week had been industriously circu-
lated, had been declared on the best authority
To he untrue.
Gen. W. S. Hillver, formerly Provost Mar
shall on the staff Of Gen. Grant, died in Wash.
ington on the 18th.
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A YOUNG woman named Beams, who
did to death youth of St. Cloud, N. Y,
by the simple process of mot knowing
that it was loaded" has been acquitted
of all criminal intent. Is it to he ever
thus?