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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-28
The lncOmprehensibilIty of the Sub.
tile Walker ON the CAPITAL Oues.

The lncompTehensibilIIy of the Sub.
Tile Walker ON the Capital CUES.
tion. IA. III. 'l,..,,,'.7lTSI
From tho Grafton sentInel.l raarEfss
The words Walker uses are. magnif-
Gently incomprehensible, except to the
initiated. In this they fitly represent the
schemes which have been devised by The
Charleston ring TO prevent the removal OF
the capital and to shut off all discussion
Of the subject In the dissatisfied portions
OF the State. That this little game Of the
Charlestonians has been well managed,
there can be no doubt; that II must nlti-
mAtely fall 10 equally sure. AS the In
TELLIGRNcRR remarked last week, 1.-THE
people OF the State recognize no right oil
property in their State Capital" and Il
private and corrupt bargains have been
made between public men, the people
VIII not leel called upon to .ratiiy the
trades and "swapsh Of the, schemlnp
servants. The inside history Of this
permanent" capital location Il made
up Of "swaps" and Gbareainse and
safes" and conditions from the Jfirst
Of The chapter, and when We look through
the above extract carefully we see that
even walker conlesses thatlt Is 80. We
40 moi wish 10 resufrect the past, but Il
the secret history Of the final vote which
carried the Capital to that far Of region
were held up, TO The public wa think Il
would explain some things which need
explaining and furnish the kew 10 The IstSr
policy OF the Charleston people -
charleston don't declare war on, anv-
O BODY. but she doesn't intend to keep tic
She acknowledges that there have beer
bargain" Capital Swaps" and "condi-
nonS, but defies the people Of The STATE
spite Of them. Wv SeP''Ai u
s. What 6 Sey The people Of The First and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-28
Mr.. Beecher's Idea Of Luck, Of Signs,
and OF Some Of the Vagarlea of
Conscience. f - ~


Some people" said Mr.. Beecher in his
last nights sermon, "it they get out oil
bed on the wrong side, or see the new
moon over the wrong shoulder, or put
on stocking wrong side out, interpret II
as q sign Of something or other. When
| was lad and went Chestnutting, you
couldn't have induced me TO crawl
through the bars, because that was sign
that wouldn't get any chestnuts. Does
God sleep on Friday2 Why, II should
call up all these superstitions that cling
10 you II would make you blush. Now,
l don't deny that even these superstitions
are better than cold skepticlsm. i had
rstherrub of the UNBEATABLE parts Of corn
with my hands, as the Disciples did, than
10 have no corn to rub. But my concep-
ton is that luck means the right opera.
ton of causes to produce good effects.
That little devil that goes by the name
OF Luck doesn't go flying about blind.
ly, dropping gold upon some people,
and pewter on others.% Speaking Of
dreams and their Significance, he said
~ imagine that many OF the dreams TO
which men attach the most importance
come from over eating or overwhelming.
do not believe, either, that mans
dreams are a reflection Of his real nature.
l have broken open more houses and
stolen more money in my dreams than
ever expect to see awake yet i believe
had rather die than steal. / have been q
murderer In my dream, and started up
trembling out Of q vain effort to hide the
body. My idea is that when the upper,
higher part Of your brain is asleep, the
lower, basilar part Is hall aWake-unre-
strained-and your dreams are a report
from your animal faculties. When the
lower part Of your brain Is asleep, and
the upper part active, you dream such
dreams that when you awake you Try 10
60 to sleep again TO finish them. All this
stuff about dreams, luck, signs and omens
/ class as out.growths oil conscience not
guided by clear perceptions"
This brought him TO q discussion OF
phases of conscience. u know men," he
said, "who wouldn't shave on Sunday, but
would black their boots. Then ] know
some who would shave on Sunday, but
wouldn't black their boots. And ! know
others who wouldn't do either on Sunday,
but would shave their neighbors awiully
on Monday. When / went TO school /
boarded with Dr.. Langbein, and he was q
COCO man, for an icicle can be good. I
would hook 1t down his back stairs, 20 off
hunting, and recite my lesson from a siipin
my nat. Now the bread that was left
over at the communion service in church
was sent over Tor DR.. Laugbein's table.
and, while l could deceive him as / nave
told couldn't eat morsel Of that bread
because It had been used as a HOLY avn
Dol" He considered heprecepts Of The
Bible an exact and reliable guide Tor con.
science, although, as he said, dthere
wasn't one Of the patriarchs who didn't
Hive such alliie;as In these days would put
him inthe peuitentai M Sun.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-28
Park RoW,N.Y.

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-28

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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

= It's just as we feared" signs the
Lowell Courier when informed that jeff
Davis will not fight duel.
Now that Treasurer Spinner is on a
recuperative trip in florida, some one
says he is going 10 meander by the 70.
mantle crocodile bayous that he may
discover if the footprints of those crea-
lures really do resemble his autograph.
The indianapolis Journal on Mon
day of last week, found itself the victim
OF printers strike, and now gives no.
tice that there can be no contingency
under which any of the strikers can OBJ
tain his former p ace, the company hav-
ing obtained full set of new hands.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

ANOTHER SIAMEsE CAsE.-In the
year of our Lord 1928, in the village of
Poyntspass, County of Armagh, Ireland,
Mrs. OReilly, aged forty-two years and
seven months, was safely delivered of
three sons, all connected by band or
ligature in every particular resembling
that which vitality bound the Siamese
twins Sir Ashley Cooper and DIR. Aber-
nethy fastened over from London, and,
after professional investigation of the
extraordinary case declared their reluct-
ance to attempt a surgical separation.
These three Armagh brothers (not Ro.
man or Alban) lived until they reached
the age of ten years. Dear Carter o.
Tandaragoo read the service of the Eng
lish church at their grave. They dice
simultaneously.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13
From the st. Johnsbury Caledonian.
What a Newspaper May Say,


The American Agricuiturist has la
bored for years to break up the swim
ding humbugs who make living out
of the credulous and sometimes afflicted
public, by advertising their wares through
the newspapers. 1t was this paper that
exposed this Hunter & Co., at Hinsdale,
N. H., and many other swindlers and
quacks before them. Judge Davis (the
man who sentenced Tweed) has lately
rendered decision which will add fur
Their to his reputation. One Richards,
proprietor of certain golden remedies, F"
was, sometime since, pronounced by the
Agriculturist an "impostor," and his
compounds "nonsensical quackery." Rich
ards brought suit for libel. Questioned
as to the character of his medicine, Rich.
ards persistently refused to make other
answer than that it was "a secret com.
pound composed of various ingredients
which possess great medical qualities. u
Thereupon Judge Davis dismissed the
suit after characterizing, with deserved
severity, the vileness of the plaintiff
impostures," established the right of a
newspaper to call quack and impostoi
by his right name.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13
The Foote-Dayis pifaculty.

A musty reminder of the palmy days
of Chivalry, when the member of Con
gress picked his teeth with his bowie,
knife in the Hobbies, and met argument
on the floor with pistol, is contained in
the card which Mr.. Henry S. Foote
sometimes denominated Hangman y
Foote, has published, setting forth his
controversy with Mr.. Jefferson Davis
ex-president of the late Confederate
States of America. The text of the card
has all the fiery tone of those days, the
startling announcement of whereabouts
and the jargon of the prof ssional duel
ist aping the manners of gentleman.
Mr.. Foote, it appears, has written book
of personal "reminiscences. 1t is not ex-
actly clear why Mr.. Foote should have
written such book, as most of Mr..
Foote's "reminiscences are of that nature
which should be consigned to the charity
of oblivion; but having written such a
book, it was inevitable that such a book
should "pitch into his old-time oppo.
nent, Jefferson Davis. When the allu.
sions to Mr.. Davis in this book were
called to the attention of the latter, he
wrote bitter retort, substantially post
ing Mr.. Foote as a liar, or rather re, post
ing him. Mr.. Davis says
In the year 1871 l published him
Foote] as constitutionally liar, and
his subsequent career only served to con
firm me in that judgment. Since that
date therefore, have taken no heed of
the utterances of said Foote. His fiat,
terry, when he was seeing political pre-.
ferment in the Confederacy, and his
abuse when, faithless to his trust as a
representative in the Congress of the
Confederate States, he was preparing
for his subsequent desertion to their en-
emies, were alike disregarded by me.
To which Mr.. Foote replies in sub.
stance:
My Whereabouts may be easily found
by him or his idolizing Confederates
He knows, as thousands of others know
that for full 20 years have stood ready
to accord to him such satisfaction as he
might deem necessary to his deeply
Wounded honor, and that whatever gen.
eral views | may entertain touching the
propriety of settling such issues as have
arisen between him and myself in the
mode referred to, yet that, from special
Difference to him, shall be induced tc
make his an exceptional case.
This case brings square issue between
the two old gents. Mr.. Foote being the
original aggressor, Mr.. Davis must be
the challenger, and Mr.. Foot's card i:
simply an invitation for the challenge
As Mr.. Davis has sent at least one chal
lenge before this, for a much slightel
cause, the prospects are fair that tn,
two combatants may settle their twenty
year old disputeupon the "field of honor,
and spill what little blood they have
left Chicago Tribune.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13
a. Westminster Farmers Club,

SUBJECT, Resolved-That the Wrst
offers greater inducements to the farmer
than the East
n. G. PIERCE have been much in
terested in this question and have been
not little surprised to hear members of
this club berate the pleasures and ad-
vantages of New England society. I
was somewhat surprised at the position
taken by Mr.. Davis. Not long since l
heard him speak in opposition to the
West and | believe that was the time he
spoke his mind. do not think it ad-
visable for young men to 60 West for
several reasons. We have the best soci-
ETY., our object is not wholly dollars and
cents. Those who go West are the un-
easy ones not those that do most to make
society what it ought to be. 1t is said
the West is good place to get rich
but l am of the opinion that we have
8 luck and chance games enough in
New England without running any west
ern wild goose chase for more.
M. w. DAvIs.-I am surprised that
New England is the only dwelling place
of SO many of our enterprising men.
1 know we have good blood in New Eng
laud, let US go West and improve it
She feeds us to-day. If her supplies
were cut off, three months would mol
pass over our heads before we should be
calling for bread. Those who go West
are not the " dead heads but the " u,,
easy ones" and [ wish there were more
of them. Gentlemen are mistaken when
they talk about our superior education
If you want young man to GO ahead
in business send him West. If YOU
would have Greek meet Greek send your
young men West. l would not have
them forget the good influences of New
England, but l W. uld have them receive
the superior advantages offered b. the
West, and make the most of life.
w. R. KIMBALL.-Having seen con
siderable of the West, | shall speal
from experience. The fact that Mr.
Davis and have not seen things alike
leads me to express my views at thi
time. Health, wealth and happiness ar,
the common blessing in New England
which is more than can be said of tn,
West. / admit that we are dependen
upon them for grain, but they are as de
pendant upon us for money. l do no
believe Mr.. Davis would be willing +
go West and put up with the common
fare of farmers in that section. II
young man will go on to any one of GU
hill farms and make the same sacrific
} that he would if he went West, be
: lieve he could make as many dollars. ]
) you will visit one of our hill farms, yo
will find comforts and blessings tina
:. cannot be found in four farm-houses i
Iowa. l would encourage young me
to remain here and make sure of goo
e society, good health and a fair proper
, ton of wealth, if they will work for il
GEO. NJ. CHAsE--Men see things di
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

The MIDDLEBURY CONFERENCE
We are credibly informed that nearly all
of the gentlemen who attended the So
called political conference at Middlebury
on the 18th ult., from Addison county,
we're wholly unaware of the object of
the meeting and had nothing whatever
to do with originating it. They were
summoned to meet by circular issued
by A. S. Tracy and j. M. Slade, Jr., of
Middlebury, copy of which has been
already published. Most of them at
tended out of curiosity to learn what
this unique political development might
mean, and not designing to commit them
selves to any candidates who might be
suggested. On assembling, however,
they found that those who originated the
meeting had to propose only that, as the
Free Press suggests, which amounted
to just as near nothing as could be-" If
any "plan " or estate" had been de-
vised by them it was for some cause kept
a secret at the conference and neither
openly nor privately was it disclosed i;
and why these gentlemen were thus sum-
moned together seems to be regarded by
the victims of this huge joke as "what
no fellow can find out. "-Rutland Globe.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

We see it announced that the con-
gressional committee on civil service re-
form are hopelessly divided, and that
the only point upon which they are
agreed, is that the present state of things
is entirely unsatisfactory. Very likely,
and we doubt if anything in this coun-
try, clothed in so fine sentiment, but
as practiced by the officials at Washing
ton, ever proved to be so great hum
bug.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

see my brothers team after looked Il
see it. | couldn't see them distinctly
going up the hill judged by theil
voices how far they we're apart. Saw nc
other person with them, and heard no
other person with them. The hired man
was in the room some of the time, can't
say whether all the time. Mr.. Wheeler
came into the room. l turned around
and said something, and he said, " What
makes you think so l told him,
"Allen is dead" l told him what |
heard, and the hired man saiG he'd no
reason to think so. Have seen VIM
two or three times since at our house.
We have had some talk among us about
my brother. l told VIM what | heard
Allen say about knocking him Allen
down; don't remember whether | told
him anything else; he said he didn't
hear that-that was yesterday. cant
remember what else VIM said think
he told what the doctor said when Allen
was laid out. VIM came in to-day and
asked if we were going down to-day. and
what l was going to testify, and said if |
told that it would look as if they were
having trouble. He said wasn't oblig-
ed to tell everything or tell that; can't
say which he said first; not but little
said.
Further testimony showed that two
bottles of alcohol and rum we're found
on the body of Donoghue, and thatWinn
had been drinking, which would seem to
Indicate that if there had been no rum,
there would have been no murder. VIM
was present at the inquest, and at the
close of the investigation was arrested
in the hall. The verdict was that Don
oghue came to his death by a blow receiv-
ed at the hands of James B. VIM.
Winn himself had previously testified
up to certain point, and through his
counsel declined to make further state
ment on the ground that it might crimi-
nate himself. After his arrest he waived
further examination and was allowed to
go to his home in charge of the officer,
and from there was taken to jail at
Woodstock. The parties in this tragedy
we're both farmers and both had been
out with their teams drawing wood and
meal. Winn is 81 years of age. Don
oghue was AZ and leaves a wife and
nine children. The Journal says that
"Mr. VIM is an industrious, kind heart
ed farmer, whose relation to this affair,
as it appears in evidence, excites the
most painful sensations" From the ev-
idence produced the indications are that
they got into a quarred and in the heat
of it VIM struck Donoghue over the
head with a sled stake. Donoghue's
habits we're such that his family did not
appear to have regarded him as dead till
some time after the body was brought
home
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

st. Louis's wickedest man has died
and gone to Chicago. His successor will
be selected by competitive examination.
- Mayor Medill writes from Paris
that nobody in the city drinks water who
can possibly avoid doing SO and a st.
Louis paper spitefully adds, =" Hence ev-
cry Chicago man there f, els perfectly at
home"
Senator Thurman of Ohio, received
home thrust on Thursday, while speak
ing of petition asking that Joseph Sc
gar of Virginia, be paid for time spent
in claiming seat in the Senate. He
called the paper thing" and when
asked if it was respectful to thus charac-
terize petition, he replied: "Yes. A
petition is thing. You are a thing
| am thing. We are all things" And
here Senator Edmunds added: "To all
men," The Senate roared.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

A SAD TALE.-In 1919 a sensation
was made by the impersonation of Queen
Elizabeth given at the Paris Odeon by
Miss Charlton. This lady shortly after
her triumph had her beauty destroyed
and her eyesight partly so, with vitrol
thrown on her by jealous lover, whom
she refused to prosecute. Her day was
ended, and sinking lower and lower into
the depths of friendlessness and misery
she dragged somehow through the Com.
mune, and dying at last found pauper'.
grave, one poor actor who had done all
he could to befriend her being the only
mourner to follow her to her last resting
place.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

GRANGER TRoUBLEs.-The Changers
begin to have their troubles. 10 some
of the local oranges of Iowa they COM
plain that the State Grange has been ar
rogant and tyranical taat the machin-
cry is cumbrous and expensive; that the
order has fallen into the hands of politi-
clans who want Office, and of spectators
who want to palm off upon them worth.
less patents for agricultural machinery
The Marion Grange, has withdrawn
from all connection with the State and
National Oranges, and others in the
neighborhood are consi dering the pro
priety of the same course.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13

DOES DRUMMING PAY There is
just now warm discussion, especially
among dry goods jobbers, relative to the
value of "drummers," and looking to-
ward breaking up the drumming system
altogether. Several of our largest houses
will send no statesmen out this season.
They propose to make prices low, send
out occasional samples, and make the
buyer feel the real necessity of coming
himself to market, and canvassing the
trade.
The present condition of the interior
trade shows too plainly the evils of buy
ing wholly from road samples. Many
who have been wholly dependent on
drummers for goods are now asking fol-
extensions, and in too many cases, have
in stock goods difficult to move. VIZ
hear of a Providence dry goods dealer
who four years ago came each fortnight
to the Boston market, but since tina
time has bought wholly by sample from
drummers. To-day he is a candidat,
for extensions and credit for new stocks
while competitor, with no better oppor
tunities, has been coming here once /,
month, has anticipated his Februar,
bills and is buying for cash his sprin,
| assortments.
The salesman drumming through tn
country is often too apt to consider tn
customer and not his employer. Ankle
ty to send home good full orders Otter
induces him to neglect some importan
facts that might curtail his patron
credit, b cause it would reduce the sur
total of sales, and might displease hi
customer. Thus the customer gets ovel
loaded, and at settling day falls back o
the settling firm for special favors.- Con
mercial Bulletin.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-02-13
Vermont News.

= Ladies take part in the public de-
bates at North Bennington.
There has not been a school in ses-
sion in the town of Woodford this winter.
About $4,000 have been raised in
Bennington for the sufferers by the re-
cent fire and explosion.
A grange has been organized at st.
JohnsburY Centre, with fifty members.
George Rauney is master and Ephraim
Stone, Secretary.
Freddie, seven years old son of
John Bowling, of Island Pond, was in
stantly killed, recently, by load of logs
on which he was riding tipping over and
falling or him.
George Bartlett, of Lyndon, was Sc
riously injured in the head on the 26th
ult., by sliding against team. He was
unconscious till the next day, and now
lies in critical condition.
Widow Moses Gage, of East Burke,
who is now rs years old, gives the fol-
lowing amount of work she has accom-
plshed during the past year Wove lao
yards of carpeting, 152 yards of wooden
cloth, spun 300 skeins of yarn, knit Is
pairs mittens and 10 pairs of stockings.
AT Salisbury a 16 year old boy
banned Hines, employed in Hollis spool
factory, lost three finger by careless con-
tact with some of the machinery of the
establishment. Two of the fingers were
entirely severed, and the other so nearly
so that it will be impossible to save it for
him.
The only excitement there has been
in Franklin lately was lawsuit wherein
the plaintiff claimed the enormous sum
of SLIT and received judgement for
S121. 1t caused more excitement than
the Geneva arbitration did, and full as
much as the advent of Capt. Jacks band
would have been.
John Dee, an employee in the scale
works at st. Johnsbury, entered room
which was so full of steam that he could
not see, on Thursday morning, and fall
ing into vat of boiling water, one of his
legs was scalded almost the entire length.
He lies in very critical condition.
In Oronoco, Mimi, Dec. II, Capt.
Charles Witherell, who was born in
Reading, VT, March 10, 1892, where he
resided until the last four years of his
life, about IS years when he moved to
Minnesota to live with his son.in-law,
Mr.. Warren 1. Gibson, where he died.
Another female convict has arrived
at the state prison on sentence of one
year. She is reported as Is years old.
There are now four female convicts.
Every convict save one, who is confined
in his cell on account of homicidal in
sanity, has of late been regularly every
day in the shop--there having been not
solitary case of confinement by sick
ness.
A noted hunter of South Hero fears
that he has been the victim of " sell. ,
He has gun that scatters shot badly, SC
that it is not of much account. A while
ago, he saw an advertisement in a city
paper, offering to send information where
by such scattering" of shot could be
effectually prevented, on receipt of sc
cents. He sent the money and was in
due time informed that to prevent his
gun from scattering" he should "put in
only one shot"