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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-02-27
Our MOuudsvllIe Letter.
MouNDsvrLLp, Feb. %, 1876

MoUNDsvILLE, Feb. %, 1875,
ElitOnOi tho IntGlligcucOr;
The meeting at the NJ. i. Church clos
cd last night, More than 100 aCcessions
10 the church and nearly the same num-
Der OF conversions were the results OF the
meeting. The meeting did not close be-
cause the interest had Rbated In tho least,
but beause the time for tho meeting Of
conference Is so near at hand and our
Pastor Is forced to leave the first Of tho
week. He leaves Us with the well wishes
Of all. He leaves behind him bright
record, and will no doubt be successful
worker wherever no may DO called to
work. ei.a-.
Our streets arc 30 muddy that they can
hardly be travelled at all, The bottom
seems to have fallen out OF our sidewalks
in many places, and the great necessity
of having good payements just now seems
apparent to all and we hope that II will 80
impress tho minds Ofour council that ut
their next meeting, they will take the pro-
per steps tohave them made.
Now that our meetings have closed
and we will%iah to have some place 10
90, IL Is suggested that Gren lUs have Il SO.
RIGS OF old fashioned spelling schools, and
we see nothing to hinder II, Ms our school
hall Is now pronuncOd so safe that there
can be no danger whatever. Why not
challenge some neighbOring village and
nuke Il intereStingH
This afternoon rooms 4 and Of our
public school engaged in match SPELL
Ing which was u very pleasant affair.
An accident occurred OH the railroad
near Soudensville night before last. Nine
cars are reported smashed up, but fortu.
nately no lives we're lost ItwNs caused by
slip In the road,
The river Is full Of Ice, and wO hope
soon 10 sec navigation resumed. Our
ministers are no doubt happy, as they
can now get to Point Pleasant moro com.
tortably situated than they expected to be-
Although the time has come for Spring
to open, Il seems hard for Winter to I'm.
loose his icy letters, and We may yet ex'
perience some rough weather. We hope
soon 10 feel the bGlmy brcezes from the
south, that will cause the flowers tObloom
again,
There was u goodly number Of visitors
at our school this afternoon,
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Local Rates on the. baltimore 4
Ohio and New York Central
finn RNsA rod. H H.#.s 4,


From tho n. Y. World Of Thursday
Mr. Garrett las been heldup MS q pub
lie benefactor. Now, in this ago Of steel
rails and frst.mortgagc bonds, railroads
are neither built nor run on philanthropic
principles. No one expects 1t. Has Mr.
Garrett been animated BY q desire to nc
commodato local travel and freights nj
moderate rates on tho Baltimore and
Ohio road7 Throughrates are establish
cd and to very considerable extent based
on the through rates OF other roads But
local rates are subject to no opposition
and are entirely under the control Of thu
chief officers Of the line, Compare aloca
r. eight tariff on the Baltimore and Ohit
70 ad with one on some other Of our gren
trunk roads--say the New York Contra
and Hudson River Railroad, as near al
they can Do Compared-giyi distances
In each case, before accepting Mr.. Garrett
IA d public benefactoF. The following
tables will show what IL costs to carry
6rSt, second, third and fourth class freight
and fiour BY the barrel over the rCspec
tive roads. On the New York Contra
and Hudson River road we give both tn
summer and winter tariffs:
BALTIMORE a ONO RAILROAD RArEs-To MALT
IFl ~ F4ft MOhE. ..- VI
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XIV YORK cEXTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAIt-
ROAD RATES TO EEw YORK-sUMNER

These figures are sufficiently clear 70 OK
plutle The idea oiMf. Gatfetpa phllan.
thfopy Does he carry a ton Of coal forty
miles for sky cents,a IS is done on the Cen:
Without having before us the local
tariff rates Of the Erie, we will venture
10 say that they arc quite a. liberal as
those Of The baltimore and Ohio road,
ana 'pefhaps A low IA thosc Of the Cen!
trail. Whether Mr.. Garrett achieves
victory or defeat In the present contest,
we very much doubt II the local freight.
ers on The Baltimore and Ohio road will
share in his success or profit by his failure,
They will In any event continue to pay
the same tribute that they now pay.
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If iSAe lllihhan

Yo,, have got lnt0 trouble rtOO1te A once aekaSe
81 tho SamatlAne ult, ts Y dltseted ena ySa w
when lNke1 Ia time Il easily overcome 9dt When
NEGLECTED, Of when the quatk Y Visited and he y9,l
M cDufaS d BAlsam Copabe then tefy giten ~.
Gus complications GtlSs Hhlth proions the a1Soase
Ia weeks, perhaps months ,..,.. -. H..
Another Allaoy q In petsons 1sNg w "
SSfei, me Sioaaoh that almost death iteeh would
h RELIEF. Simafilan'S CIT VII cure eyery
iIu,6, with no Oiute unpleasant results than II Iht
trouble had not existed 81 az. A. ..., A.
Male packAge, 81 EeTals fS9s " ,t ms' e,I
TteS Elreet, Philadelphia. lan4s
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, February 26,-Mr. Bart
lett, attorney for the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company;it Il announced, left thil
morning for Minnesota, to attach thu
property Of VIM. s, King in order to re
cover the amount received by him In con
lection with tho subsidy,
The Senate Finance Committee report
cd the tax and tariff bill without amend
ment and without recommendation. A
majority Of the Committee would have
preferred to amend the bill in various
particulars, but At least four Of the eight
members now in Washington believed
that to amend the bill at al would i'm
peds its enactment in consequence mol
only Of tho conflicting views in the Senate
but difficulty Of reaching the bill when
returned to the speaker'S table in the
House for action on any amendment.
which the Senate and q majority Of the
House might DO willing to agree to, A
number Of Senators will move amend
ments In the Senate, some with view 70
improving the bill and othSFs for the pur-
poso OF killing il,
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Anniinr t,nIiNi itihinllAci.

BALTIMORE February 2G.-A letter
from Aunapoiis says another cadet, Cor
don Clande, has been dismissed from the
Naval Academy on account Of his refusal
to fence with d negro midahipman.
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MYYrERlous DISAPPEARANCE,

On the arrival Of train from Rich
mond this morning II was found that OK
Senator y. W. Nye, who when last seen
occupied a section, was missing. His
boots we're still In his berth. He retired
tho previous evening In good health, and II
Is supposed that he got up in daaSd con-
dition and walked or fell off the car. He
has not been heard from yet,
Several friends Of Senator Ego say
there must DO 4 mistake in tho report Of
his death, and that tho person to whom
tho accident occurred was another per-
son OF the Same name.
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PHILADELPHIA, February 26.-Wal-
ston'a cotton mills we're burned yesterday
AftAfnn6h.
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Pntt.GpEirttiA, February 20. Tho Ice
In, the Schuylkill al Manyuhk broke yes
tcrlay. Tic water during the night rose
rapidly, twenty feet above itS usual height
and only four feet below thehighCsl point
ever reached, snbmefgihg all the HOUSES
in the lower part Of town and forcing the
occupants to abandon them. Tho gu
works was overlooked and the streets
we're in darkness. All the mills have
suspended, throwing 1000 persons out Of
employment. ..-
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The water at Manyunk IL Subeiding and
car travel, which was Suspended, 10 being
resumed. A largo leo gorge is reported
Of Huntingdon and tho new bridge al
Lewistown has boon carried away.
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Emn Pa, February 28-John a.
Tracey died here this forenoon aged 70
years. 7
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Tho announcement Of tho formal sig
nature 10 the terms Of settlement Of the
Virginius question seems to DO prema-
ture, as 1t Is known from tho best au-
thority that the final conclusion Of the
arrangement has TO await tho formal
Reorganization Of tho new government
Of King Alfonso by the United States,
Credentials, and instructions under this
head are now on their way IN Minister
Cushing. Tho preliminary agreement
stipulates for tho payment Of $4,000 In
full satisfaction Of tho Virginius
claims Of personal character and the
Abandonment on tho part Of Spain
at tho reclamation against tho
United States. The autograph letter
from Alfonso to the President Is purely
formal, briefly announcing his accession
to tho throne and expressing his deslro for
q continuance Of tho good relations, No
day has yet been fxOd by thu Secretary Of
State for tho presentation Of this letter to
tho President BY Tho Spanish Minister
but II Is presumed that II will not take
place until tho government Of King
Alfonso shall have been recognized by our
government, through liz representative at
Madrid, and pending questions aatlstac-
torily adjusted.
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rec, hyot,tht Ia thit market Persons deslting
ionSthinS SSirG viii eau and tGAEnlne o
'' HARBOUR 4 DTTTMAGs,
EsbiA 1869 Main Street,
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coLUMDUs AND INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION,

No, a 0 and 7 run Daily to and FROM Cincln.
natl. All other tralna Daily except Sunday,
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-14

ton for wheat The ground is in the best
possible mechanical condition from pre-
vious cultivation, and If the soil is rich
enough good crop is apt TO result.
With the complete pulverization of the
soil, as hoeing, cultiyating and digging,
| little after preparation is necessary TO fit ii
for wheat. The old-fashioned way, both
on corn and potato ground, was to light
ly cultivate, and sometimes only to drag
the surface, sowing the wheat broadcast
and covering with the drag. This was
reckoned slipshod and lazy practice, and
therefore abandoned, but we remember
very well that some extra large
crops were grown in this way, and it
is quite certain that the deeper cultivation
which has become fashionable has not
been so generally successful. Wherein is
the advantage of blowing potato ground
for wheats If properly cultivated during
the summer there will be few or no weeds
in potatoes at digging time, and light
cultivation, or even dragging to level the
surface, is all that is needed-much better,
we suspect, than deeper blowing, which
turns the finely pulverized surface soil to
the bottom of the furrow
On land not deficient in potash there is
always good clover catch with wheat
after potatoes. If the clover fails on potato
ground the probability is that potash is
wanting, and hardwood ashes should be
sown. 1t these cannot be obtained the
German potash salts are good substitute,
and may be profitably used on such land.
Rural Neo Yorker.
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Don't Let Your Child TattIe.

Never listen TO small, unpleasant state
nens made by your child, If they should
relate to his fellows. Not that a child
should ever be made to feel that he has no
synpathy in his small troubles, but It Is
Just as easy, and even easier, to teach him
chlvalric sentiment of endurance while
he Is in the beginning of his childhood
a. i is afterward. If his companions be
selfish and arrogant, show him how disa-
greeable and despicable quality it is,
i and instruct him to abhor il in himself.
Complaining is in itself mean-spirited
|ihing, and tattling is still worse, and a
|ChId cannot too soon comprehend its
baeness. And here wise, strong and
|careiul distinction must be made. While
/ The child is brought to feel the full sym
|pa!hy of the mother, and an entirely con-
hding habit is encouraged about things
that relate solely 10 himself, the small
iailts Of his fellows are not subjects III be
Included in this complementary are to
remain forever unspoken TO her or to'antr
body. OF course we do not mean thar d
knowledge of criminal conduct In cont,
/ panion should not be shared with the
parents, but even such relations should be
|0id in the most sacred trust and secrecy,
a. one would confess their own sins to
MeH Maker. The small petulances, tri-
nlng misdeeds, arrogant assumptions, de.
ihands for the best positions when at play,
greed for sweetest pleasures by playmates
very naturally rouse discussions among
|shall people, just as they do among ma
'arer ones. 1t is the mothers duty to dis
cover these unpleasant habits in her child's
|companions; and while not encouraging
\ statement from HIM in regard 10 them,
|she should not permit the principles in
vowed In them TO pass without making
ahem subjects of useful conversation. But
'he names OF the children who are in
VOWED in the talk about misdeeds should
never be spoken by the mother. The
principles of justice and honor are enough
'of proper amount of discussion and in
suuchon. To make the noble qualities
!. !. manhood and womanhood beautiful,
'helr charms should be familiar to the
.1hiid, and so interviewer in his young
thoughts that selfishness, petulance, COM
planning, disappearing of others to make
hs own way seem right should all seem
unworthy of him.--1ne Metro
Do!ltda.
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The Inevitable Baby.

AT every resort this summer, from the
crowded mountain hotel to the tent on the
beach, whatever else was wanting. there
was always to be found the inevitable
baby, with its retainers, the mother in the
chief place of servitude. 1t was not by
any means, as she supposed, regarded by
the rest of the boarders as a boon, a some
thing dropped from heavenly places.
There were growing and swearing enough
in the other rooms when il shrieked all
night with collie, and the interest of the
old bachelors in its teething or pink toes
was not half so feryent as she fondly mag
ined. Yet they, with everybody else,
crowded about her when she came out on
the porch with il in the morning. She
was homely little woman, and the baby
little else than a long sweep of muslin
drapery, with round bald head atop;
but there was something in her face as
she looked at il which drew every passer-
by nearer and warmed his heart, just as q
message from his own home would have
done, or a glimpse of the great mountains,
or a sudden stirring song. Ii was the old
picture OF the mother and child, of which
artists never tire, and which did so much
TO humanize the world for many centuries.
No matter who this young mother may
be, whether Laura in silk or Dolly the
washerwoman, il is the love in her insig-
nificant face which makes it rich and rare
for us-the love and absolute faith in her
child. Every woman gives to her sickly,
dull baby the royal title which Germany
found for her master thinker-he is the
only one. Into whatever wrecks life may
fall for her in the future, he is cer,ain--a
rock to build upon, no sandy foundation.
We all knew her year or two ago, and
laughed at her, perhaps. She was Portia
then, wooed by Bassanio or John, listen
ing TO Collins story Of love over the barn
yard gate. We laughed at her; but there
was pathetic break In our laughter, after
ala remembrance that something which
was very real and ennobling TO this girl
and her lover had once been enrolling
and real To US, and was now but fantas-
tic, silly dream. Like all mankind"
we loved lover for the sake of what we
ourselves had lost; we TESTED with the
girl, perhaps, but tenderly. Since she
was "a baby she never had seemed 10 need
care So much, to be SO worthy of rever-
ence. We knew that her lover was no
Bassanio or Colin; but a very ordinary,
dull young fellow, and not at all the ideal
paragon before whom she abased herself
and wOrshiped, and we knew that some
day she would be forced TO look at him
through our eyes.-ReJeccd Harding Dauis,
IN N. y. independent.
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Treatment or Fruit.Trees.

A writer in the Farmers Home Journal
writes as follows on the management of
fruit trees from planting till the age Tor
bearing fruit:
My grating was commenced on stock,
but on grating fifty changed to root and
found this the best for both apples and
pears. After thorough cultivation for
one year / transplanted to their perma-
nent place, high, dry plat of ground
with stiff clay subsoil; cultivated the
first year in potatoes and melons. When
/ set out tree of any kind / trim off all
the limbs ana top it right where / want il
to head. The second year sowed wheat
and gave each tree wheel-barTow load
of well-rotted cow manure. The third
year | sowed oats and clover; cut the
clover for ten feet around each tree and
mulched them with the green clover to
the depth Of two feet in the fall plowed
the clover under each time, blowing the
rows in single lands, throwing the dirt to
the trees; by that mode ! now have a
mound around each tree and drain in the
center. The fifth year i planted it in po-
tatoes and melons. The sixth wear ]
planted corn in the center of the rows,
cultivating both ways. The seventh, back
to oats; the eighth, back to potatoes and
gardening; ninth, back TO corn; tenth,
back to oats eleventh, in clover without
any other crop this summer, and sow to
rye next, and turn this under in May of
the next year. This was for apples and
pears; cherries, peaches and rlnms and
other fruit treat differently, not forget
ting to trim and shape the trees all the
time.
Young beginners are quite apt TO leave
too much growth at the start, and which
will have TO come out at time that will
be great drawback to the trees. | have
trimmed at all times of the year, and find
February and March the best | go over
twice a year and take out all superfuous
growth, and there need be but little prun-
ing the next year. Budding, or grating,
is simple operation, and can be per
formed by anyone who will try. And
then, when your trees come into bearing,
you will not be disappointed, as many can
attest. After your orchard comes into
bearing you should use stable.manure only
about every six years; used oftener it will
produce too much growth of wood, to the
detriment Of fruit.
In planting peaches, plums, apricots
and nectarines, if you will sod the trees
for one foot around the trunk, with blue
grass, and not let it spread any further,
you will not be troubled with worms, and
then keep up athorough cultivation OF the
ground.
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Vegetable Eccentricities.

No doubt many readers have found in
| their rambles through old, neglected gar
| dens, in places where the gardeners hoe
or rake has not disturbed the surface, clus.
| tiers of small, cup-shaped bodies, of the
| size of an army percussion-cap, filled with
| small, fiattened balls, making the whole
bear very strong resemblance to bird s
nest, though of diminutive size. Because
of their shape they have received thename
of birds-nest fungus. In the young state
the upper portion of the cup is filled with
thick LIQUID, held in place by thin
covering at the top, which in time passes
away, exposing the legs" within or
allowing them to leave the nest" as they
sometimes do, and hang suspended upon
the outsjde,by long, slender thread at
tached 70 Qfle OF, the two fiattened sides.
THESE egg like bodies are not simple
spores, stlieir shape might suggest; but
receptacle les IN which are contained mill
| ions of Tie reproductive bodies of the
plant. Certainly, If there is u spark of
love for the curious and obscure, the
pleasure. seeker will stop as he passes
along tand admire these little wonders at
his feet. $1,000
Everyone has seen the house-flies in
autumn crawling slowly upon the wall
with their bodies covered with white
powder, making them appear as If they
had made visit TO the -four. barrel; or,
later still, has found them fastened in
death to the wall or window-pane. II has
been but struggle between the animal
and vegetable, and has been won by the
latter; TO die in its turn when the sub
stance Of the former has passed away.
One of the most curious of these in
ect-infesting fungi is the Caterpillar
Fungus, growing upon the head of the
larva of the New Zealand swift moth. II
feeds upon the substance of the insect 10
such an extent that its vital fluid, passing
into the tissue OF the parasite, causes the
animal to become exhausted and dooms 1t
TO give up its last drops of lifes blood
that this fungus may live. Leaving out Of
sight the fact of this plant being de-
structive and deadly enemy TO the young
insect, it is a curious spectacle TO behold
the heavy-burdened larva bearing erect
upon the front of its body vegetable
growth often three or four times It's own
Observation-Disclosures as they look to be,
bearing not the ensign OF victory, but the
signal of individual distress, telling plain
ly the slow but inevitable approach of
death.-Bwon X. Halsted, in ScrtJner's
Md0dzfus
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


The best fattening material for chick
ems is said to be Indian meal and milk.
-Biborate of soda dissolved In water,
used as lotion, will remove prickly heat.
Scratches in horses may be cured by
using wash twice day of teaspoon
full ofpowdered blue vitriol dissolved in
half pint Of water. Keep the feet clean.
Exchange
Potato Sautees.-These are even more
agreeable with meat than fried potatoes.
Cold boiled potatoes are sliced up and
tossed up in a tin saucepan with butter,
mixed with little chopped parsley, till
they are lightly Drowned Pure goose or
other dripping is, by many cooks, pre-
ferred to butter for this purpose.
Potatoes Souffiees.-These delicious
blistered potatoes are prepared as follows
The potatoes, if small, are simply cut in
halves; if large, cut into two or three more
slices; these are fried in the usual way,
but are taken out before they are quite
done, and set aside to get cold; when
wanted they are fried second time, but
only until they are of light golden color
not brown.
PURGE OF Potatoes. This differs from
mashed potatoes only in the employment
of more milk and butter, and in the whole
being carefully reduced to perfectly
smooth, thick, cream-like mixture. Where
economy is great object, and where rich
dishes are not desired, the following Is an
admirable mode diminishing potatoes: Boil
them till thoroughly done, having added a
handful of salt to the water, then dry
them well, and with two forks placed
back to back beat the whole up till no
Jumps are left. II done rapidly, potatoes
thus cooked are extremely light and di.
gestible.
Taking timothy hay as the standard
of comparison il requires 100 pounds of
it to supply certain amount of nourish.
ment 1t Is estimated by careful expert
ment that the same amount of nourish-
ment can be obtained by using the follow
ing quantities of other food: Clover hay,
ninety five pounds; rye straw, 355pounds
oat straw, 900 pounds; potatoes, 19j
pounds; carrots, $50 pounds; beets, SAG
pounds; ruta- bagas, 262 pounds; wheat,
forty-three pounds; peas, forty-fouI
pounds; beans. forty six pounds; rye. for.
ty-nine pounds; barley, fifty-one pounds
corn, ffty-six pounds; oats, fifty-nine
pounds; buckwheat, sixty-four pounds,
and oil-cake sixty-four pounds .-Rurai
Neu Yorker
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Wheat After Potatoes.

"here potatoes are grown extensively il
pa become a common and very good
Eractiee TO have few acres OF early pota-
eoes ready to clear off and SOW to wheat.
ms can readily be done with early rose,
,nu sometimes with early planted later
arle'ies. 1t is best, however, not TO try
y gel out large field of potatoes in time
VI wheat, as the labor is so great that 1t
ap. 70 delay wheat sowing till late in
ae season. Wherever ground can be
,.ea Tor sowing by the 18th of September
potato crop makes an excellent prepare.