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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-27
The Political Situation and the Cur
rencY Question.

Unless the subject is STAYED off to.mor-
row, after the "morning hour" grand
debate will probably commence on the
currency question in the U. s. Senate.
There arc any number of special dis
patches in our exchanges showing the
position that Senators MORTON, LOGAN,
CAMERON and others will take in regard
to the veto. According TO some OF these
dispatches bitter assault will be made
by one or two, or all, of these Senators on
the message. Senator LOGAN in particu-
lar is expected TO give it "its" in his Pc
culiar style. He is to be the warrior OF
the debate, and is to be supported on one
flank by the Republicans who voted for
the bill, and on the other by the Demo-
Gratis who did the same thing. Thus sup
ported he will announce an issue with the
personal government" in the White
House, and perhaps formally proclaim
new departure in politics. The
issue for the Fall elections will be defined,
and it will be "More Currency" Upon
this issue the country will be chiefly ar
rsyed, and the dividing line will no longer
be between Republicans and Democrats,
but between more currency men and their
opponents. In other words, the hatchet
will be buried as regards the war issues,
and we will be, as Mr.. WEBSTER once
said, "all Wings and all Democrats" on
sunb ;ss,,o, o,d I,o l,ro1,Y1 froT1a oonh other
only by our soundness or unsoundness on
the currency question.
This being the case, we shall of course
have the issue as fire brand here in West
Virginia, to disturb the serenity OF aspir-
ing politicians: The Congressman from
this District voted for "more currency"
and he halls from Harrison county, a
county that contains "Union District"
district that wants "twelve hundred
million of currency" according to last &C.
counts, which is two hundred millions
more than BRowNLow wants, He only
wants billion. If "Union District" is a
type of large number of districts in this
Congressional District, perhaps its en-
dorsement Of our representative will be
seconded, and he will be nominated for q
third term, Notwithstanding his vote for
back pay. In that case the question comes
up as to whether he viii have any compe-
tition and opposition in the race on the
issue OF more currency, or whether all his
rivals will take the same side of that ques-
tion and claim to be as sound as Mr..
DAVIS on the currency, and good deal
sounder on shack pay" Col. BEN. WI
SON is probably ready and willing to enter
the field, as he also is from Harrison
county. He does not live in Union dis
rict, unless that district includes Wilson.
burg, but no doubt he is for more cur
rency, if that is what the people want.
The Colonelis believer in the Uor popstli,
and besides that he has happy faculty in
canvassing. 1t wouldn't be necessary for
him to dwell exhaustively on the curren-
ey question specially in canyassiug
hereabouts-but he could pay some at
tention to the outrage committed by the
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DueIIstic.'

NEW York, April 95.-A Paris dis
patch states that on Thursday f.! Biggs
and VIM. Payne, both Americans, went TO
the Belgium border to fight a duel but the
police interfered and the duelists returned
to their residences. Words spoken about
a young lady are given as the cause OF the
meeting, but the real reason Is SAID to be
an affray between the fathers Of. the young
men in the Washington Club Of Paris.
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Bogus Agent Arrested.

LAFAYETTE, IND, April 36.-An un.
knowd man, representing himself as n.
@. Hedges, agent for Howes Circus, was
arrested here this morning and bound
over in the sum of $4,000 TO answer to
the Criminal Court. He is alleged to
have played the same game at two or
sni1s snfes Ss1e free ticRets @ c Too1 nress
agent of the show, caught him at it here,
and caused his arrest.
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FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.


RX.sEcRRTARY M'CULLoCH PRAISES PRES
DENT GRANT.
LONDON, April 25.-Hugh McCulloch
in communication to the Times, praises
President Grants veto OF the finance bill
and recommends return to the policy oi
contraction which he pursued when Fec
retary OF the Treasury.
WHIT THE "THUNDERRR" SAYS.
The Tines editoriRlly SAYS ITO British
eyes the apparently interminable inf alton
Of the currency is hazardous proceeding,
iraught with peril to the prosperity, and
even to the unity, of the American COM
monWealth; but It cannot be denied that nc
other country in the world could do what
America has hitherto done with its finan-
ces. Itis law of American nature Ia
expand and develop in every possible di-
rection."
THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE.
The steamship Farraday has begun to
load the new Atlantic cable.
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN ENGLAND.
There were two railway accidents in
England to-day, resulting in the deaths
and injury Of altogether twenty persons.
AMIcABLY-sRTTLRD.
LONDON, April 26.-Advices from Con-
stantinople are to the effect that the Suez
Canal difficulty has been settled by n.
DeLesseps, acceptance of tonnage rates
prescribed by the international Commits
sioner.
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10 Damages for a Nearly Fatal
Caeo of PniaoniuR.

aa' sroN, April 25.-In the case of Mar.
.e,iret Black, of Fall River, against An
drew Weeks, of the firm of Weeks &
Potter. of Boston, before the supreme
Judicial Court at Taunton, Judge Ames
presiding, the jury returned verdict for
the plaintiff, giving her $15, 600 damages.
The plaintiff narrowly escaped being
poisoned fatally by dose of aconite
which she took, supposing 1t TO belpicra.
The aconfte was originally put up at the
establishment of Weeks & Potter, and, as
alleged, labeled %picra" by mistake, and
sold to q Fall River druggist, who sup
piled it to the plaintiff from the same
package on certsin evening, without
discovering the difference. q Weeks ihas
taken an appeal on q bill Of exceptions.
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River and Railroads in Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, April 26.-The riyel
has fallen two feet below high water
From five to seven days mails are due
from Northern, Eastern and Western
cities. New York mails OF the 10th and
some of the Goth is received; intervening
and subsequent dates are missing.
The Mobile s. New Orleans h Il. lose
a bridge or have wash up every few
days, and seem to. display much more
energy in choking off information in re-
gard to mfshaps than they do IN getting
over breaks. There is now at least three
important bridges gone between this city
and New Orleans. The Jackson route is
also in bad condition; bridges gone and q
portion OF it submerged.
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GkeQnteIligetrre

.rgE Wellsburg Re.Os announces that a
- of coal five feet and three inches In
,sickpess, 5sI and free from sulphur, has been
lD. ,.ohed at Lagrange, opposite that place,
F'A'l 5sn,h of 1858 feet. The vein is 133
81 30. thicker than any other yet found
ll'n ,o the Ohio river. The Company
AUus u.s,inp it is composed of JOSEPH
GpS.TTy Gp MIR. SPAUIDNa, of SteubenVille,
D Mr. JOHN LOWE. The NeaoS justly
SDs S.;5ers this an important strike.
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The strike ON the Short Line Rail-
rOa6.

LOUISVILLE, April 25.-All of the track:
men on the Short Line Railroad have quit
work. Reports were received last night
that two pump houses were burned
on Thursday night and several rails torn
up near Bagdad. Trains were somewhat
delayed last night, but passenger trains
will go out as usual to-day. One months
pay for the trackmen was sent up the road
YESTERDAY.
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AnnineraarH Celebra1ion.

CINCINNATI, April 25.-All the Lodges
of Odd Fellows in this city met at Pixies
Opera House to-day to celebrate the anni-
versary of the introduction of Odd Fell
lowahip into the United States. Samuel
Yorke, of San francisco, Cal, delivered
the address. The Lodges of the city hold
meetings and hear addresses tonight.
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ORHECH or THK CHEZ SIaNAL ORgreSLLo
WIsHmaFoH, d. O., April q. 6.-aoys the
PnoBABnTTI4dnti some
During Monday, oEtn The eel olsssWare Tg
north to west winds, dieS maimed hersell
and generally clear weao n deiirinm =
For the Middle Statesd annesis NJ to th
n;sE neglon ;ds Giea5 oI shIftinS @ i'm words that
southeast over the latter, sne many ihs ,1S y
south over the former. 1ne W. :
For the South Atlantic and Gun
east of the Mississippi, southwest to south
east winds and clear weather from Tenn
nessee northward. Oyer the Ohio Valley
to Lake Erie and the Upper Lakes in
creasing south to east winds, rising tenn
perature AMI threatening weather, with
For Missouri and Iowa south to east
winds, cloudy and rainy, weather.
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Packing Up and Leaving.

PHILADELPHIA, April 25. Advices
have been received from Port-Au.Prince
to the 18th inst. General Dominique was
expected hourly with troops from the
south, and trouble was feared. Foreign
ers were sending their Valuables to the
different Consular residences for safety,
and numbers werc packing up and leav-
ing the Island.
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A committee from the Council and
Chamber OF Commerce are active in Be-
curing subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers by the flood in Louisiana, and
the Board of Trade will soon take action
to CO. operate.
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Am FoR THE sUFFRRERs.

The Louisiana Relief Committee yester.
day appropriated $1,000 to aid in pre-.
venting the destruction of the Milliken
Bend levee near Vicksburg. Additional
contributions Of money and provisions are
being made for the benefit of the sufferers
by the overflow in Louisiana. Lare num-
bers of the most prominent ladies of the
city are arranging for an immense anna
teur concert as means of adding to this
fund. -
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ARevenue BIN Approved.

HARRISBURG, Pa, April Governor
Hartranft has signed the new revenue bill
imposing new system of taxation upon
an Corporations of the State, including Q
tax al three per cent per ton on all coal
companies, as also a.ta1 on dividends.
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CINCINNATI.
PROPOSED srrAMsH1p LINE.

PROPOSED sTEAMsHIP LINE.
CINCINNATI, April 25.-The Chamber
of Commerce today heard ]. A. Smythel
commissioner from the Charleston, 8.
c., Board of Trade, in behalf of line OF
ocean steamers between that city and
England, and passed resolutions iaYoring
fha anfeFnrisa 10
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sd. LOUIS.
KILLED BY A RAILROAD TRAIN

KILLED BY RAILROAD TRAIN.
ST. LOUIS, April 26.-Everett Babbitt,
supposed from papers found on his person
to be from Massachusetts, was run over
and killed by a train on the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad yesterday afternoon at
KirkRood. 10 miles west of this city.
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FataI Boiler IExpIosion. Q

CIEoIENAFIs April a5.-The boiler ct q
new saw mill near Richmond, Indians,
exploded yesterday, killing John Alex
,ander and injuriDg tour other employees.
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SPAIN.
cAR11srs ASKING AMNESTY.

N4A1hA1Al1I
MADRID, April GA rumor is current
that the Carlists have asked Marshal Ser.
rano for amnesty.
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GERMANY.
SESSION CLOSED.

BERLIN, April 26-Emperor William
in person closed the session of the Reich
stag yesterday with formal speech of no
general importance.
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Annihar SO. 1000 subscriniionst

BosroN, April %. Mayor Cobb to-day
authorized the Mayor ot.;tSs o. Z Orleans q, %
draw foria aRecond $40, 600 subscript
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nna Fnnr on Snnw.

MONTPELIER, vt, April 26.-1t began
showing here last evening and one foot Of
snow fell in twelve hours. It was one of
the heaviest snow storms OF the season.
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Arrived Out,

LIVERPOOL, April 25-The steamers
Halsatis, from New York, and Illinois,
from Philadelphia, have arrived out.
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Arrested for Murder Committed Two
Years Ago.

CLEVELAND, April 25.--Edward Phil
lips was arrested here to-day, charged
with killing Tom Millard in street fight
two years ago. Phillips fled the city at
the time, and returnd to-day only to be
arrested.
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WHEELING WEST VA, MONDAY MORNING. APRIL g. 1874

bankers Of Philadelphia, to prevent the
foreclosure OF the second mortgage of
$400,000 on the Cayuga Lake Railroad
by Mr.. Stillman, on the ground of non
payment of interest. The plaintiffs allege
conspiracy to get the road, and that the
company is able to pay all debts, and this
was an attempt to convert unsecured into
secured debt.
CARL scHURz TO TURN EDITOR.
1t is reported that Carl Schurz has
accepted the editorshfp Of q leading Ger
man daily at ten thousand dollars per an
mum and will remove to New York at
the end of the present senatorial term.
DIED.
Rev. o. Eastman, Honorary Secretary
of the American Tract Society, died
Friday. He was born at Amherst, Mas.
sachusetts, in 1896.
AID REFUSED.
Excise Commissioners have refused to
aid the liquor dealers Protective Associa-
tion in obtaining the passage OF the bill
through the Legislature reducing license,
fees, etc.
MATCH DRAWN.
The pigeon shooting match between
Paine and Bogardus, became draw on
account OF the weather.
NTRRNATIoNALIsM A FAILURE IN THE
UNITED STATES.
The Federal Council OF the Interna-
tionals resolved last night to dissolve the
organization, it having. proved a COM
plete failure in the United States.
MYSTERIOUS SHIPMENT.
The Times asserts that two thousand
Springfield rifles, thirteen thousand rounds
of ammunition and several cases of pis-
tolls have been shipped from here in a
secret manner for the use of Brooks forces
at Little Rock since the difficulties broke
out there It is also said that FIVE car
loads of provisions have been shipped to
the same parties.
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eAuED FOR RNGLAND.

NEW YoRK, april 24.-Sir Lambton
Lorraine sailed for England to-day. BE
was accompanied to the steamer by Ma
ior General Hancock and staff and other
gentlemen. Engrossed complimentary
resolutions of the city were presented to
Judge Lawrence heard the arguments
to-day in the suit by Eliot, Collins q 70,
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Killed by Bursting Grtndstone.
HARTFORD, Conn, April pa man
named Mitchell, a grinder in the Thayer
Scythe Works in West Winsted, was in.
stantly killed to-day by the bursting Of q
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BY TELEGRAPH
AssoC1ATBD PRESS RBPoRT

By the Western Union Line
Ofico Northwest cor. OF Main and Monroe Sts.
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There were 33 cases Of small-pox
the past week, an increase of IA over the
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weather Report.
PnoRAnnrTrE1nt 1ntil SON some 2, l

= U wan DEPARTHHNF,
oyprcr OF THE CHM sIaNAL OgyTseIE-e
WIsHNsToH. D. O., April 26.-aoys tne
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NEW YORK. BANK sTATRMRNT.

The following is the weekly bank state
ment: Loans, decrease s., ,041 200; specie,
increase $122, 800; legal tenders, decrease
$423, 300; deposits, decrease 81, 1853 200;
circulation, increase SOL 800; reserve, in.
crease &771 1926.
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: About fifty persons, including one wo.
man, attended the meeting OF the Crema-
ton Society last evening, and listened to
the reading of the report OF the Commit
tee on Organization recommending the
incorporation of a stock company as the
most feasible means OF obtaining the de.
sired end:
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M'CULLocH PRAISES PRES
IDENT GRANT.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-14
An Engineers First Victim.

Last summer, the engine run by
William Baird, of the lightning express
on the Hudson River Railroad, struck
drunken man who was sitting on the
trestle bridge at Plum Point. and killed
him instantly. At the inquest, the day
after, the engineer told the writer that
exactly year before on that very dav
he had struck his first man " some
where just beyond Yonkers. Said he
Il was running the lightning then,
and was making lively time past Yonk-
ers, when l saw a young fellow with a
cane In his hand, walking on the down
track. Just as 1 got within hundred
feet of him he deliberately walked over
to my track. / whistled and jerked
back my lever. The light was full in
his face, and when he heard my whistle
[ saw an expression of horror on his
face, for he was blind and had thought
| was coming on the down-track. He
jumped, but it was too late and | saw
him throw up his hands-I even heard
him shriek-as the pilot struck him.
| sat up that night and thought about
that poor fellow, no use trying to sleep
with that on my mind. The next morn
ing | saw him laid out at the depot, all
torn and mangled, but his face wasn't
touched at all, and after took look
at him [ saw that face night and day
for about six months every minute [
was on my engine. l shut my eyes
when | passed the place where I struck
HIM. L managed to get another engine;
L did everything, but all the time,
especially at night, in the glare of my
headlight, l saw that pale, thin, blind
face, L saw the hands thrown up, and |
heard the poor fellow scream when the
pilot seemed to strike him. :"
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Eoreign.

IRE new English Parliament has completed
Its organization.
CAPT BRowS, one of the Tichborne claim
ant 5 witnesses, has been remanded for exam
nation on a charge of perjury.
The English war Office has received no off,
cial advice of the capture of the King of the
Ashantees. A dispatch from Sir Garnet VOL
seley, of date prior to the taking of Coomas-
sic, declares that the overtures for peace on
the part of the Ashantees were treacherous
and part of plot TO lure the army to destruc-
ton.
SEVERAL prominent persons will be prose
cuted for conspiring with Orion to get possess
sion of the Tichborne estate.
THE reported killing of ex-President Ces,
pedes, by the San Quentin battalion. is con-
firmed. The 25th of February the troops
captured negro who was ordered to be shot
He promised, if his life was spared. to lead his
captors to Cespedes. The proposition was &C
cepted. and the ex-president was discovered
with few friends, five leagues from Ascerra-
dero. His companions fed, but he could not
escape, and fired upon the troops lead by a
sergeant, who returned the fire. and Cespedes
received a bullet in his head and breast, caus-
ing instant death. His body was brought to
Santiago de Cuba and buried on the 7th inst.
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Significant Facts Regarding Infants

Under the most favorable circum-
stances, where mothers nurse their own
offspring, only about ten per cent. die
under one year of age but where the
bottle Is used, the mortality is con-
stantly increased The death rate of
infants IN cities is much larger than in
the country; IN fact, it is often twice as
large. Ii the whole population is in
Guided, 1T is found that mortality of
infants, under one year of age, ranges
from fifteen to twenty five per cent of
all that are born in a given time. 1t will
De readily seen that there is a wide
margin IN the prospects of life between
the toundllngs and the healthy infrnt
OF good parentage. The statistics on
this subject vary in different places and
at different times, but everywhere this
difference exists, and in some cases it
Is extreme. Thus, we are told on the
authority of long experience, that of
those nllrsed by the bottle in the care
OF other persons than their mothers
oftentlmes only about ten per cent. live
TO the age OF one year; whereas. of the
infants who are fed from the bottle in
care OF their mothers, seventy per cent.
1--we to one year of age It has also been
found that, of those nursed at the
breast by others than the mother. only
70 per cent. lived. At the New York
Infant Asylum, where great care and
pains have been taken, this result was
obtained ; Of those infants nursed bv
hired women, carefully selected and in
spected, % per cent. died, but of those
nursed by their own mothers only II
per cent. died. This fact shows the
Importance of the maternal relation.
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The Labor Troubles,

IHE Washington Manufacturing Company.
~ gloucester, \. j., discharged about seven
hundred OF its employees who had insisted
upon an increase OF wages. Soon alter the
wives and children Of the men discharged
sut,oundedthe superintendent Office, threat.
ening the destruction Of himself and family.
They were so0i, however. sent to their homes
by the authorities.
IHE laborers on the Brooklyn reservoir
works have struck 10 compel an advance in
wages demanded. All of the Italian portion
OF th9 strikers soon afterwards resumed work,
when theY were sotupoG by the irish and Ger
man pohs09. y desperate fight followed, in
which N tools were turned into weapons, and
several participants were seriously wounded
The police subsc qnentiy arrived and arrested
the leaders Of the riot, seven OF whom were
sNut 20 pTso0.
IT IS rumorci that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Will return to the rate of wages paid
puorio January LIST, when a general reduction
OF 10 ppT cent Ngp made
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The East.

ADvICEs received in Washington state that
there is no doubt o. the success of the Repub
licans at the approaching state election IN
New Hampshire.
Four convicts attempted to escape from
Sing Sing Tuesday afternoon, and were fired
upon by the guard. One, named Joseph Hop
kins, was mortally wounde /. The rest were
captured.
4 BILL has been introduced i'll the New
York Senate, making 1T criminal offense to
circulate false information to depreclate or
advance the price of stocks, bonds, etc.
A MAJORITY report of a special committee
of the Rhode Island House of Representa-
tives was presented on Tuesday in favor OF
submitting to the people the question of wo-
mans suffrage.