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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25
prrgn suUEY has about completed a

PETER suuEY has about completed a
very good and necessary improvement on
his premises In town in the shape Of q
cooling house, designed to keep fresh
meat. It Is a large ice house, construct
ed on the refrigerator principle, below
and above ground, SO arranged that beef
and other meat can be kept in quantity
with safety in warm weather, and will be
found to be u public convenience in that
respect. Peter has invested considerable
cash in his enterprise, and We hope i may
DO rcmunerstiye.-W slLSbtrg Herald.
ItMr. shuey had paid visit to Wheel.
ing before undertaking his enterprise,
and held a short conversation with Dea.
con BotsfOrd, Col. Jacob HOrnbrook, or
some Of the other stockholders OF our de-
func,Frult House, he might have learn
ed something to his advantage. As it Is
no may have to pay something for his
education, as they did for theirs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25


WEST VIRGINIA NEws.-The following
are ParkerSburg quotations Tor yariou,
articles; Potatoes, SOC; corn, 46ci wheat
81 GOAL 10; Butter, 25c; eggs, lsc; chest
nuts, zoo per quart.
Mr.. E. S. Zsyely, OF Wheeling, publish
ss tho following card in the Grafton
Sentinel:
WANEED.-To find place within AfeW
hundred miles Of, or easy access from
Wheeling, where the people want ant
are willing 10 aid in establishing local
paper. Address, E, s. Zevely, Wheeling
". Va.
At present there are 397 patients in til,
Weston Asylum, 222 Of whom are males
During the year ending September so
124 havo been received, AZ discharged
and 81 died. The cost per week for each
patient is 50 SGT. This Is including
board, clothing, and medicine Of the pa
tient, the salaries Of the officers and pa,
Of the officers and guards.
We read In the Upshur County DELI
queer item to the effect that revival Il
In progress in Webster county, "uudet til,
charge OF Uncle Billy DobbinS, worth,
Baptist divine" and that "tho people O
Webster are thus afforded another chanc,
to turn from their evil ways"
A Boone county firm recently market
Cd 1000 pounds Of ginseng.
The Mason county ForeS,ers will eele
brate Thanksgiving Day with religious
ceremonies,
Ono man eau do all the cash business
that Is now done in Fairmont, and run {
rolling mill besideS.-lndsr.
Z. D. Camden, a Braxton farmer, raised
$50 bushels Of corn on seven acres Of land
this season.
Potatoes are quoted at 400 a bushel in
the Wirteounty Mentor. Tobacco raisers
in that county have been selling their
crop. at 2ic to 80 per pound, which is
sOHiidesSd very low.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25
The West virginia SenntorShip

n az
tFrom The wsll'burS Herald. -.
Elder Milton Wells Of the Writ
County Mentor, breaks ground for John.
son n. Camden for U. s. Senate, as a
choice Of evils. The Wheeling 1SrELL1'
oRscER deity knocks the pins from I'M
der the nominee as follows:
tThc Elder should remember two thing,
In this Senatorial business, that the Second
and Third Districts will claim the success
sion to the Senators now sitting from those
Districts, and, next, Mr.. Camden Is the
man on whom Billy Burdett drew for the
rent OF his farm"
Now, let US send to Wheeling fifty dis
tinguished statesmen from West Virgins
to see that we have no legislative ioeky
ing in this Senatorial business, and lot u
have peace. As choice Of evils, we're
for Henry s. as being the boss evil Of thu
IaN
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25

MIS-. REBEccA HARDING DAVIS, speak.
ing OF the characteristics Of the crowds
Of visitors at the Centennial, says that
suspicion and 4 resolution not to be
humbugged by the foreigners were visible
on most countenances. II told you So
said woman to her friend, pointing out
priceless vase Of craquele Of the twelfth
century; "that pot has been used. III
second hand l"-f'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25

A LIVE School SUPERINTENDENT
We have formed high opinion Of
Shoot Superintendent Wade, Of Monon'
gala county, from what we have read
and heard Of him. he seems to be one
Of tho few county superintendents who
can DO clssscd rs the right mon in the
right place. Here i, the way he does
business in his diocese, as we find 1t in
the Post:
A. Wade, County Superintendent OF
Free Schools, has entered upon his work
OF visiting schools and holding education
al meetings. lie is making arrangements
to hold n literary entertainment in each
district, consiating Of original orations
essays and select Orations, TO be conduct
ed by the members Of the graduating class
of1S76 Of the district. Al the close o
each entertainment the teachers presen
will select from those who took part il
tho exercises two persons, lady and I
gentleman, to make addresses or read es
says ut each district examination. Thes'
entertainments are termed Alumni Meet
ings, and will no doubt be very interest
ing and profitable.
Mr., Wade informs us that each com
munity which he has visited is alire Il
the interests Of our Free Schools.
Monopgalia county employed seventy
seven teachers last fall. Twenty-fivehav'
been examined thus far this year;
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25

MoRoAsrowx MARKErs.-Apples %
cents per bushel, oats rs, onions 50, corr
40, potatoes 50, wheat 81 20, rye 81 90
buckwheatsl 90, timothy 81 90, butter q
cents per pound, ginseng 90, beef 8 to is
chickens l5 to 20 piece, eggs II cent
per dozen.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
THE Markets ABROAD.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE frost has
checked the downward movement of
prices. In Mark Lane trade has be-
come rather less responding, wheat is
quiet but firm. Some of the markets
in the eastern counties have recover
ed shilling per quarter. Oats, bar
ley, beans, peas and -four haye been
dull, and are unchanged in price.
Maize commanded slow sale, but in
Scotland the value tended towards a
recovery. The imports of wheat and
-four into the United Kingdom last
week were 215,0o0 quarters. There
is fair supply of English wheat.
The deliveries were 45,139 quarters
rather under the average.
LONDON, Feb. Is.
The Mark Lane Express weekly
review Of the British corn trade :
apart from the question of an I'm.
provement in prices, later on some
moderate reaction may reasonably be
looked for: Now, in consequence Of
the low prices ruling, the recent cold.
er weather, and the fact that, OWING
to the hopelessness induced by the
long'continued bad trade, millers
have not kept up their stock, and an
now running short, the firmness O.
the Paris market, in spite Of lare,
stocks and our Encouraging advices
is significant. There is an averap,
rise Of two francs on all grades .
-four"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN MINNESOTA

The following is the bill introduce
ed by the Hon. Leander Gorton in
the House, and passed by that body
and the Senate, and which now only
awaits Governor Pillsbury's sigma
ture to become a law:
SECTION /. Any woman of the
age Of twenty-one years, and up
wards, and having the qualifications
Of legal voters, as prescribed in the
constitution and laws of this state in
other cases, may vote at any election
held for the purpose Of choosing any
officers Of schools, in any school dis
trict in this state.
SEC. 2. Any woman Of the age of
81 years, and upwards, possessing the
qualifications of electors, as provided
in section one of this act, shall be el-
igible to hold, and may be elected to
any office pertaining solely to the
management Of schools in any school
district IN this state: provided, she
has been a resident of such school
district ten days, and of this state
four months next preceding her cleo
ton.
SEC. 8. This act shall be in force
and effect from and after its passa &c.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

AMONG the earliest measures with
which the Prusian Diet has been bus
led il = bill dealing with the delicate
question Of "the language of admin
istration" in the Prussian doninions.
It must be remembered that II per
cent of tho population Of the king
dom Of Prussia speak habitually Ian
guages differing in their essential
characters from German, not merely
Germanic dialects. These particu-
larisu in language are, of course,
looked on with much disfavor by the
new school of policy which rises Ger.
man unity to the height of domi'
naut principle in modern civilization.
The bill, therefore, introduced into
the Landtae proposes to make Ger
man henceforth the exclusive Ian
guage Of administrative business and
judicial proceedings in every part Of
the Prussi.n kingdom, irrespective o.
local circumstances,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
DEATH OF REVERDY JOHNSON

Thursday evening, few minutes
after eight o'clock, the dead and
bleeding body of this distinguished
statesman and jurist was found in the
grounds surrounding the mansion of
Governor Carroll, of Maryland. Mr..
johnson was in Annapolis to argue
an important case and was the guest
Of the Governor. After dinner he
requested to be taken into the par
lor and there sat down on a sofa.
Soon afterwards hi. body was found
by a servant, lying in the yard on
the stones, with two large wounds on
the right side Of the forehead, two
fractures of the skull from the
upper portion Of the skull to
the eyebrow, dislocation of fin.
ger Of the left hand, and cuts on the
hands and legs, and bruises. He is
supposed to have been seized with
vertigo or incipient symptoms of ap'
oplexy, and to have fallen, striking
the sharp corner Of the granite base
Of the house and again on the rough
cobble stone pavement. He wa.
nearly eighty years Of age.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
MACDONALD's SCHOOL BILL.

Senator Macdonald proposes a
law prohibiting religious intrusion,
sectarian practices, and the use Of re-
1igious books or papers in the pub
lie schools. The committee on edu-
cation proposes IN place of Macdon-
AIDS bill another for repeating the
section of the school law which al
lows an hour a day to be devoted to
studies Of or in the German language.
The Germans won't like the substi-
tute, but a majority will probably ia.
vor it. Then Macdonald will fight
for his new liberty. of-conscienc@
bill, and he will have the sympathy
Of the many who believe the schools
should be strictly secular.-Legisla-
tue Cor. minneapolis Tribune.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

ONE thing il sure: If the sentiments of
Blaine are accepted and approved by the
North, the Centennial Expedition is no fit
place for Columbus (Ga. J
Enquirer.
In other words, if the people of
the North insist upon believing that
JEFF: Davis is a cold-blooded wretch,
responsible for the atrocities of An
Jacksonville, then the Centennial is to
be ignored by the Southerners. l is
scarcely probable that public opinion
with regard to jeff: Davis will change
very materially under any such
threat.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
THE OLD BONDS.

Senator Graves proposes to let the
holders of the old railroad bonds 20
into the state courts of the United
States court in this State, and establish
their claims against the State. But
this bill is met by the ready objection
that the bondholders ought to first
make proposition for compromise ;
and those who hold that in no event
should the State pay more than the
real value or cost of the road beds il
seized on account of the bonds, will
turn the balance against this propo.
sition.-Ibd.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

PRESIDENT GRANTS attention
having been directed to the clumsy
and labored efforts of the whisky or
gans to convey the impression that
bitter and violent Disagreement have
taken place in the Cabinet, in a good
natured and contemptuous way he de-
parts from his usual custom of pay.
ing no attention to silly newspaper
fabrications SO far as to pronounce
the stories absolutely baseless. The
President himself is the authority for
the statement that there is to be no
faltering in the whisky prosecutions,
no matter whose OK is gored.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

The numbers of LitteU's Liivi;,,q
Age for the weeks ending Feb. 9Th
and 18th have the following interest
ing and valuabl e contents : "Monten-
egro;" "A Ramble in Syracuse =
wesleyan Methodism, in Wesley's
Lifetime and After;'' "The English
Jews; "Some Aspects of Science in
Relation to Religion )" I'm My Study
Chair" "Conversation with Napo-
leon at Longwood )" "German Home
Life, by Lady" concluded; and in.
stallments of "The Curate' in
Charge" "Her Dearest Foe;' and
the admirable story of "The Dilem.
ma" Littell 4 Gay, publishers,
Boston.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

LITTLE bits Of historical informa-
ton continue coming to the light
since Mr.. Hills description of the
various Paradises existing in the Reb-
Ell prison-pens. On the 21st of
March, 1863, Robert Ould, the Con-
federate Commissioner Of Exchange.
wrote to Col. A. G. Myers: IF the
e1igencies Of our army require the
use Of trains for the transportation
Of corn, pay no regard to the YAM
kee prisoners. I would rather that
they should starve than our own peo-
pie should suffer-" And yet our
prisoners in the South, according to
Hill, were enjoying the delights Of
Paradise
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

PLYMOUTH CHURCH has decided
to give Bowen the ten days. time he
asked for in which to prepare him.
self to sustain his charges against
Mr.. Beecher. The latter made We
hement speech at the Friday evening
meeting, during which he arraigned
his accuser as "a slanderer and q
liar"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

my dears, I miss something or
somebody, 1 can't tell what or Who"
said Jones to his children, as he sat
down to tea the other night. "P'raps
its mother" said little Billy, "She's
gone over to Aunt James to tea"
The child was right. It was Mrs.
Jones who was missed, and Jones
said in continuance: "Well, let's
have quiet supper, then.'
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
Deputy Sheriff William Sno

Deputy Sheriff William Snow,
Of Litchfeld, N. Y, was driving his
hogs intotheir yard, when a large
and valuable boar turned upon him
and struck his tusk into his leg,
through clothing, boot, and flesh,
sp]intering the bone. After des-
perate fight the Sheriff escaped, but
when he reached the house he tainted,
ard remained unconscious two hours
So badly mangled was be that his
life was despalred Of, but he is slow
" recovering.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
THE ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC.

To-day's Pioneer Pres. states that the
management Of this road has been as
sumed by the foreign bondholders !;
and that Gen. Becker and several
other Directors have rendered their
that John S. Barnes. of
New York. will probably succeed Gen.
Becker as President; that Mr.. j. P.
Farley will be entrusted with the i'm
mediate management of the road. 1t
is also stated that something like a
million dollars will be at once inyest.
ed in new rolling stock and in plac-
ing tie road in the best possible con-
dition, but there is no intimation
whatever that any extensions of lines
are contemplated.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
We Z. offer OF
trashy stuf:--a
represented.
THE MORTALITY RECORD.


Davis defiant and insolent letter, the
arch-traitor of the late Confederacy,
as well as his apologist. Ben Hill, Of
Georgia, are being pinned down re-
morselessly to the facts of history
from official documents both Union
and Confederate. One of the points
made by both these, and upon which
they principally relied, was the asser-
ton that the mortality Of the Confed-
crate prisoners in Union hands was
in greater proportion than that Of
Union prisoners in Confederate pris-
ons, or paradises, as Hill termed
them. Mr.. Warren Lee Goss, the
President of the National Union of
Andersonville Survivors, has been ex-
aiming this assertion, and produces
some official figures which completely
dispose Of it. The total capture of
soldiers and citizens by the Confed-
crate forces, was 1873, Jas, and of these
one-half were confined in prison.
The number Of deaths was 36,401
consequently the per cent Of mortal
ty in prisons was over 383, and o.
the entire captures about 1919. Thu
number Of captures by the Unior
forces was 476,169; actually confined
3N $40. The per cent of mortalit,
in prison was 49,, and the per cent O.
mortality Of the whole number o
captures St, thus showing that tn
mortality in the Rebel prisons wa
three times as great as that in tn
Union prisons.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
THE NORDsTERN.

An~article in the Nordstern of last
week on the school question is 80 full
Of INTERPRETATIONS as to demon
strate that fairness and candor have
no place in the conduct Of that pa
per. The spirit of the whole article
may be understood from the follow
ing extract:
THAT Catholic bible was At the school
is true. The Trustees have the right to
say what books shall be used at school, IL
1t crime that Catholic bible ia found at
free school? In our Union school and
even In our Normal school they have
read the Protestant bible"
AS our readers will we'll remember,
we said nothing whatever for or
against a Catholic bible being in the
school. We did not know before
that there was such q book in the
building. We would very readily
say that the Catholic bible has a.
much right to be read in the public
schools as the Protestant bible has
# either should be read there. We
protested against the use in the school
in District No. / of Catholic cate.
chism and book of Catholic relig-
Gus teachings. Such book, wheth-
Ter containing the catechism and
teachings Of the Catholic or any 9TH
er religious denomination, has no
right to a place inside public school.
These schools must be purely secular
and all religious denominations must
keep their hands off them.
The Nordstern states that "a young
German from here who was attend
ing the Normal School was upbraided
because he would not read the Protest
tant bible,' and asks why We did not
then protest. This is the first report
OF anything OF the kind that has ev-
er reached our ears, and when the
Nordstern substantiates its charge by
producing the name of the offending
teacher and of the injured pupil we
will certainly do what the Mordstern
has failed to do, protest against what
is manifestly wrong.
Again the Nordstern says that the
translation Of that papers bitter at
tack on the free schools, about one
year ago, as published in The Jour-
NAL, was not q correct one. A suf.
ficient answer to this is that the MS.
of the translation was submitted to
Mr.. Brick, who is now announced as
the author Of the article, and was
published exactly as it came from his
hands.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

The Senate Thursday by vote
of IS to Is passed the bill for an ex-
tension until 1885 of the time for the
construction and completion of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. Several
amendments in the interests of set.
tiers occupying lands along the line
were incorporated in the bill.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

The King of Sweden has been in the
habit of committing the death.sentences Of
murderers to imprisonment for life, but
the number of murders has increased so
rapidly that he lately ceased interfering
with the course of the law.
That's just what the LEGISLATURE of
Minnesota should do. It has inter-
fered with the course of justice, by
making q law which in effect does
away with capital punishment, until
murders in the State have become
terribly frequent.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

Too matter of fact.-Grand-
mother-"You ought to be ashamed
Of yerself, Matilda Ann, to "a sat
without tear when the good clergy
man was a talkin that beautiful way,
and everyone else was a weepin' so p
Matilda "Why, how could I cry
when / hadn't got a pocket'andker-
chief.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

AWH1TEHAL1, N. Y, bridegroom re-
ss. x linn %':, ;iS5 si ill., clergyman who
Another bridegroom recently, by
mistake, took out of his vest pocket
and gave to the clergyman who had
just married him a little roll Of 6ne-
cut chewing tobacco instead of the
800 bill which lay in the other vest
pocket.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

GEN. CUSTER expects to make an
immediate campaign against Sitting
Bull, he and Gen. Crooks operating
in concert. He does not expect Or
ders to interfere with the Black Hills
miners.
This is a Chicago dispatch, which
Gen. Custer, who is now in St. Paul,
contradicts.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

In the House Of Representatives
on Thursday Mr.. Blaine delivered a
powerful speech on the financial stu
alton. He took decided grounds
in favor of the earliest possible re-
turn to specie payments, and urged
the duty of Congress to provide for
resumption. The whole question was
discussed in language clear, plain
and forcible. The house was packed
and the speech was listened to with
the closest attention. Mr.. Blaine il
safe to follow on the financial as on
the other important issues of the day
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17

AT the Democratic caucus in
Washington Friday night, Senator
Thurman boldly denounced the mod.
ern heresies of so.called Democrats,
and said that, while he deemed it
impol,tic and injurious to the inter-
ests of the country to have specific
day named for the resumption of
specie payment, he insisted that the
policy Of the Democratic party in ia
vor Of resumption should be unequiv'
ocal. The leaders o! the Democratic
party are unquestionably alarmed at
the drift of the currency controver'
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-17
THE ARTFUL DoDGER.

Nsw York. Feb: 14:-Mr: Bowen,
in = letter to the Plymouth church
examining committee, asked that the
charges and specifications against
him be given more definitely, and al
so list Of the witnesses that are to
appear against him. He says he
does not see how the committee can
refuse his request. If they do refuse
he has yet to determine his future
action.