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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-12-20

This Is a Christmas love story as told
by the Utica Herald: -1s.
"NeIlie Gregg, aged ten years, came
into the Herald office and wanted 10 know
the price OF printing a love story. When
.lsked to show the story she said II was
not written, bu. she could tell Il. The
little one was given seat, and told her
love story very prettily as follows:
Now, my name Is Nellie Greg, and !
want this put In the Morning Herald, and
sign my name to It. Now, went to EI
Dorado county, Cal, with my father q
year ago, and showed Edward Slater 4
picture OF real nice girl. Now he fell
10 love with the girl and commenced
writing to her, and Thursday Of last week
he came on 10 Utica and married her
and no never saw her before, and now he
promises me 4 present and he hasn't given
Il to me yet, and don't you think be
ought tol That's all the story, and told
him I would put II in the Morning Herald
Please do Il for mel As that was the
shortest aud best love story We have
heard for many q day, We told Nellie vi
would publish H. and have kept oul
word. Nellie Is q bright little girl, anC
evidently has been A'good angel to th'
Californian. He has got his wife, ant
Nellie should have the promised pEesen
without delay. $500 ,- --..- ~.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-12-20
BuII.ioxing-A Feeble Attempt
by a Christian.

Elton latslIiseueeE ~
In the Register OF the 18th appears an
article from come individual who uses
the editorial prerogatiye "we." Like all
such shysters he makes fictitious show
to cover his object by directing the au'
thorities 10 betters on elections, gilt en-.
terprises and gamblers, when his real
design Is apparent to all, and which Is nc
other than a feeble attempt to bull.doze a
charitable public. This fellow is Of ex.
ceeding honesty, and knows all qualities
with a learned spirit Of human dealings,
He Is troubled lest stray quarter here
and there may find its way to the supply
fund OF the orphans, and no doubt thinks
charity would Be better subserved II those
quarters could be directed toward his own
pocket; for heis evidently holy Weller,
n he speaks Of "our churches" the "Bi.
ble,' dthe early Christians" etc. The
generous efforts Of our noble hearted Ia
dies in the cause OF the orphan, are char.
acterized as demoralizing by this fellow,
who evidently never experienced q gen.
erous impulse in his life. The fellow who
would throw an impediment in the way
OF ladies engaged In the cause OF charity
In this Indictment season OF the year,
must indeed be low down in the scale Of
humanity, and yet he would have US re-
gard him as alaw and order" man. It
e no! at all difficult to locate the slender
disciple, but still when he appeals to the
public In behalf Of morals and law be
should give the public his epiths.:
EiGArH WAND.
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NEHI.WEEKLY.
WEEKLY,

~ Uaatl, u ssuaNoa, paEH0s prtpoh-
!, ,rsI ooisiI nonths.........,,Si
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-12-20
Al 1iotlern Eillail.

lchieigo Tribunal -s4s
| There IL a woman in this city who fol
many yeaEs has been fed by the hand Of
God, % much % Elijah Of old to whom
The ravens came In the wilderness. Her
name il Mn. Plthey, and she lives at No
IS Williams street. Her life has been
one Of extraordinary suffering, Of patient
endurance, and Of perfect Christian faith.
A long time ago she was a. bright and
pretty a young woman as one could meet
and when abe married John Pithey the
ehurch.bells rang merrily, and joyous
group Of friends pressed around the young
couple to extend their hearty congratu'
lations. That was ir the time when the
grandmothers OF the present generation
had not Loaf the bloom from their cheeks
nor the light from their eyes, and II was
q long time ago.
Every one Who has reached the prime
Of life knows how difficult II is to keep
track OF the hurryipg years. It Ia only
the greater events that are firmly dated
In The mind. After q married life Of ten
years, rs brief as they were happy, Mrs.
Pithey was stricken with the ancient and
dreaded disease, the palsy, which from
that day to this has never released her
from It's spectral grasp. Helpless as
child, having TO Be fed and lifted about
her room, she has never yet been heard to
utter complaint, her admonition to all
who take her trembling hand being,
"Trust In the Lord"
In the year 1868 the husband Of this
poor woman died suddenly Of apoplexy,
leaving her little cottage on Williams
street, and only fifty cents in money 10
provide for herself end her blind mother,
nearly ninety years Of age and bedridden.
Since then she has subsisted on faith. A
few kindhearted people have looked after
her from time 10 time, and lately she has
been specially cared for by the Centenary
Church. She never manifests any anxiety
about the future, for.she says, "The earth
Is the Lords and The fullness thereof"
and He will not let any Of His children
suffsr. Summer and winter come and
pass and day follows In the train otnight,
and all Is the same. The blue
sky may look down ever so softly,
and the sunlight may dance upon the
green fields aud the crowded streets.
Sometimes the voices OF children playing
upon the sidewalk penetrate the silence
Of the sick room, and sometimes there
comes the distant rumble Of passing We.
bicles, and these are her reminders Of the
outer world-a world which Is TO her
little more than memory. She lived in
it once and felt its changing joys and
grieh, its hopes Frightening with the
dawn Of youth, heard the gentle tones Of
loved ones who have long since passed
away, saw the garments OF earth freahen
and fade with the passage OF the years
but that was long time ago. She is sit
ting in an old armchair, weak and pow
erless Of Limb, the shadows Of age cluster
ing gradually over her wrinkled face,
and 10 each friend who touches her trem-
bling and she whispers smilingly,
Trust in the Lord"
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A Gay Deeeiyer.

LttfOI 7ee ftWt
He was 4 nan with bronzed features
stoop shoulders and long hair, and as he
walked up Filth street any one coulC
have told that he had made a pile o.
money in some far-off country and hat
come home to live with soms.of his al
most forgotten relatives. He finally
found the house he was looking for
knocked at the door, and that was The
last the boys saw Of him. The rest OF th,
story was yesterday told to policeman
by Mrs. Mccarthy. Said she:
u was washing me dishes VIXEN ]
heard a knock at the dour, and ran and
opened it. II was a stranger on the step
and be smiled like duck and axed me
does Mister Mccarthy live here? He
does, says !, and then says he: 'Wa'
your maiden name Miss o'RafertyT II
was, says I, and at that he began hug
ging and kissing nv me aud called out
Pm your long lost uncle from Queens.
town."
swell, that is very nice" remarked
the officer.
"Nice, was IT! Oh, the sneaking william
| set him up, TO a warm breakfast, and me
eyes were full Of tears, for l thought he
had money be the thousands. After he
cleared the table he borrowed dollar
Nv me to telegraph TO ireland that he
was safe here, axed me TO lind him my
husbands Sunday hat, and the next /
heard Of him he was Ia II shtation for a
vagrant, and was no more me long.lost
uncle than you are"
as thatso%
"ThaHs the shining truth, sOr, and
think of his kissing me on the nose and
fairly cracking me ribs! Whin think
Of how I TUX him for me long.lost uncle l
feel as II could kick the park fence
down aud lather him wild the pickets."
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nsTttn al depaftmVntB, from all quarters Of
tie world, AS well ~ complete record Of local
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or mailing. B-Seid q COPY 10 GbtsRI (rteadi
IN4 TsEaiiStI via nsSHI from AoM<l '.ilf
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room, OF by drop letter through the post once.
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must b accomplished b. tbe Nritefsrsai name
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Al, S - around whenever you think Of
~ I y. sonu9dsuus, a. | Am going to
y 2! boots hali-Soled, and Keen ! c,sS
S'aaNsf them with, ~
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FoRSALE.
URusTEE's SALE.

y -l.l1Hm 1f-e-t
In pursnneee o. DEED Of TluSt Riyen BY eeurxs
w, EckhAFt and Wtis, dated Auguaf Nh. fs76. afd
recorded IN the Clerk ofea ioF Ohio ounty. WeTi
VirHinla, In Deed Bodk Nd O, psRe 20, 6e., mi
also By the written directions Of .RSTblfa ESkk.d,
wife Of MD Georgs W. Eslhrrt, vii, on
WEDNESDAY, Tho 10Th day Of December, 1876,
sell the following described property, conveyed to
me By aid des1 Of trust Cof % mich thsfoot q
may b necessary 70 pay % The LIEN on aid pro.
perty at tho date 81 the eonEeYlnee aboIe namodl,
to-Nle Lots Nos. nine 10y and twenty-five en-; Ia
North Wheeling. also lots HoA. thlFty.elgAt (5s)
and tWenty-sgyen I21, thirty.six ts6 thirty:ssssn
(S1, twenty eight (2sl, tWenty.nine l2sl, thirty.
one totlt thirty-tWu tSa and thirty-thrte (Ss, m
SaId ale VIII b made at the front door Of The
Court House for Ohio county, At 10 o'clock A. H.,
on the following terms: One third Of the purchaso
money 10 be odd in elah, the, halAneo IN six,
tRGlyp and eighteen month"; with interest; defer.
red payments 10 be mlIGlacioftly secured.
49, NJ lnii9r ~ C. z SrIFEL, Trustee
WHEELING, November q, ls1s. ~ 81
In addition TO the above, will also Onbr for nlS
at the same time and place part Of Lot No. tan (l0
on Main street, North Wheeling, about the one.
third tberen1 being tibe same put now occupied
by JOsOph KletEiy. g17 3. nOSo :
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31

THE cry of fire in this city is becom-
ing monotonous. 1t is heard during
the day and in the night. Too fire.
quently those alarms are followed by
the destruction of house, barn or sta
bic and the burning of horses. These
conflagrations are not all accidental.
Indeed, the evidence is quite strong
that number of those of recent occur
renee were the work of incendiaries.
Now the HERALD is opposed to mob
law in every shape, and does not
counsel acts of violence, but it is our
private opinion that a man caught in
the act of firing a stable, dwelling or
building of any kind would grace the
lamp post nearest to the scene of his
atrocious act. There are certainly in
cendiaries at work in our city, and if
the officers cannot capture them, it
devolves upon the citizens to defend
their lives and property as best they
may.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
The East Side of the River.

An old resident remarked within
our hearing the other day that within
the next decade the Los Angeles river
would run through the centre of the
city of Los Angeles. We had heard a
good deal about the river overfiowing
its banks, cutting new channel and
that sort of thing, and inferring that
he alluded to something ofthis nature
we inquired if he thought ten years
hence the river would run through
Main street. He answered nothing of
the kind; that he meant to say ten
years hence the valley on the East
side of the river would be covered
with solid blocks of buildings from
the water to the hills as it now is
from the river to the hills on the West
side. His confident assertion set us
thinking and we have reached the
conclusion that his prediction is quite
likely to be verified. 1t is but few
months since the residence recently
sold by Mr.. H. NJ. JOHNSON was the
only building in what is known as
East Los Angeles. Now there are
several hundred dwellings in that To-
cality and the number is increasing
daily. The street railroad is compile
ted and communication with the CEN
tire of the city is easy and cheap. A
fine new hotel is nearly ready for oc-
cupation. Within the next six
months four or five hundred houses
will go up In East Los Angeles. The
Southern Pacific Railroad workshops
will at no distant day be located in
that part of the city and the time will
come when the piece of track skirting
the hill base from the depot to the
Eastern bank of the river will be ia
ken up and the main track of the road
will run down the East bank of the
river, and trains from the North will
come into this part of the city over
what is now known as the Spadra
bridge. The city is growing rapidly
in the direction of the ocean but those
who think that East Los Angeles.
Brooklyn and all that portion of the
East side opposite the city will not
soon be dotted with business houses
cottage homes and villa residences
will find themselves mistaken.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31

IN one day the Senate passed two
bills against journalism and defeated
one to prevent pool selling on horse
races. No party in the world depend
ing on the moral character and intel
ligence of the people for success, can
carry such a record as this. AS LIN
COLIN used to say, it reminds us of a
story: A colored divine maintained
that the negro was the first man God
created, and being set up against a
fence to dry he attempted to walk a lit
tie too soon, and falling forward some
what impaired the original Grecian
contour of his nose. At this point an
aged brother in the audience shouted,
"Hold on dar; hold on dar, who make
de fence ?p The minister stopped,
scratched his head, looked puzzled,
and finally said "Brudder, anudder
question like dat will upset del
best system of 'ligion ever invented y
1t Is too late for the Legislature to
hold on, but the people fear they have
made record that will upset the bes
party ever created unless the, party
repudiates both the record and it
makers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
JONES & MOVES, Auctioneers.
Following are the Lots:

Three lots fronting on Second street, 55X60
feet.
Six lots fronting on Second street, 55xl2O
feet.
Lots Il. II, l3, block d. Mott Tract, fronting
on Olive street.
Lots s, 4, 5, 6,7, s. block G, Mott Tract front
ing on Olive street.
Lots IL, IL, 13, IA, Is, l6, block G, Mott Tract,
fronting on Charity street
Lots 2, 8, 6, block r. Mott Tract, fronting on
Olive street.
Lots 9, 10. IL, Il, block F, Mott Tract, 'front.'
ing on Charity street.
Lot is, block l., Mott Tract, fronting on
Hope street and Bunker Hill avenue.
Lots II and lG, block X fronting on Hope
street and Bunker Hill avenue.
Lots 49, II, Is, l6, block J, fronting on Hope
street and Bunker Hill avenue.
Lots IL, Ia, block |, fronting on Hope street
and Bunker Hill avenue.
Lot 10, block II fronting on Hope street and
Bunker Hill avenue.
Lot 4, block l. and lot l, block II, fronting
on Charity street and Bunker Hill avenue.
Lots 3, 4, 5, block b, fronting on Hill street.
Lots IL and 13, block b, fronting on Olive
street.
Lots 0, 10 and IL, block A. fronting on Hill
street.
Three lots, 55xl2O feet, block NJ, fronting on
Fourth street.
Two lots in Bellevue Terrace Tract fronting
on Olive street
Three lots fronting on Cemetery avenue,
50x95 feet
One lot, 6Oxl45 feet, fronting on Sand street
Also, all of blocks w and K, in the Mott
Tract. mar2Std
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
An Impossible Task.

An Impossible Task.
1t is possible to undertake an i'm
possibility, and it appears to the un-
prejudiced mind that in attempting
to whitewash Secretary BELKNAP, the
Republican of this city and other or
gaHs of the party, have applied them
selves to one of these insurmountable
tasks. They may cloud the post ira
dership viliany to such an extent that
people will in a measure forget the
Secretary while reading the perfidies
of minor actors in the drama; they
may argue that as no one but the poor
soldiers were robbed by BELKNAP's
financiering,i it is no great matter after
all. The Republican party's love for
the soldier ceased with their inability
to control his vote. By attacking the
character and weakening the evidence
of MARSH and other witnesses against
the Secretary, they may succeed in
partially whitening over the outrage
on the soldier and the frontier settler.
But this is only the beginning of the
whitewashing task. The deepest,
blackest, most damning infamy yet
traced to BELKNAP is that of speculat
ing on the bones of the dead soldiers.
1t is charged and the charge is sup
ported by a mass of evidence that cam
not be subborned or spirited over into
Canada, that this honest patriotic Sec
retary of War make $4,000 out of the
contract for reinterring the bones of
the soldiers killed in the war and set
ting up head boards at their graves.
Do the good people of the United
States and the remainder of the civil
lized world know how the contractor
was enabled to pay this large bonus on
his contract. The process was simple
though somewhat ingenious. The
great desideratum was to make the
material-the soldiers bones-go as
far as possible. Under the contract
the greater the number of the graves
the greater the profit on the job. The
soldiers were buried in trenches dug
on the battle field OH which they fell.
1t was the business of the contractor
to open these trenches, collect the
bones of the brave, though thanks to
BELKNAP, not forgotten dead and
deposit each skeleton in cof-
fin, bury it and place a
board at its head Not finding the
skeletons intact and possessing but an
imperfect knowledge of the number
of bones in the human body, the con-
tractor estimated that fourteen bones,
great and small, were quite sufficient
for soldiers skeleton, and he COM
menced reburying the remains of the
country's patriots on this estimate.
For while the work went on all
right. Fourteen bones were deposited
in coffin and buried But it soon be-
came evident the stock was INSULT
cient. Some plan must be devised to
exc it out. Another simple plan
sufficed. Fourteen pieces of bones
would answer the purpose as we'll as
fourteen whole bones, and SO the dead
soldiers arm and leg bones were
chopped in two. Thus the "skeletonso
were doubled in number and the con
tractors profits increased. VIII the
Los Angeles Republican or any other
Republican paper succeed in convinc-
ing the wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters of the brave men whose
bones were thus mutilated and con-
verted into source of profit to Secre-
tary BELKNAP, that he is an honest
man and worthy gentleman ?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
Night Dispatches.
FROM THE SPECIAL REPORTER OF
THE DAILY HERALD.
John Carr Assaulted.

SACRAMENTO, March 30th.-John
Carr, son of Professor Carr, State Su.
perintendent of Public instruction,
was assaulted this evening at $3.50 in
the office of the Golden Eagle hotel, in
this city, by one White, a printer of
San Francisco. The cause alleged is
the seduction of Whites wife by the
young man. Carr was badly though
not seriously bruised about the head
by the loaded cane used by White in
the assault. The victim denies all
knowledge of or completely in the Of
fense for VIII ch he was attacked.
White was arrested by the local au-
thorities and held in the city prison.
1t is case of insane jealousy.
Found Guilty of Murder.
VIRGINIA, March 30.-Peter Lar
kin, for the murder of Daniel Corco-
ran last August, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, and will re-
ceive his sentence next Wednesday.
Legislative Proceedings.
SACRAMENTO, March 29.-In the
Senate to-day, the Shirley committee
in recommending the pardon of cer-
tain prisoners recommended the inn
mediate pardon of J. J. Marks; also
the committing of seven years
term of Imprisonment from period of
4 rAl- A l..
theirs. The report was adopted as the
sense of the Senate.
The bill continuing in office State
Geologist, and defining his duties,
was indefinitely postponed.
The Carpenter Educational bill was
indefinitely postponed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31

The sale of lots in the Central Addi-
ton of Santa Monica will come off
under the hammer of Auctioneer
Noyes to-day. This is doubtless the
best opportunity yet offered To secure
slightly and healthy locations near the
beach.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31

BY private dispatch we learn that
the Assembly has receded from the
five per cent. amendment to the
O,Connor Railroad Commissioners
bill, and it will no doubt be signed by
the Governor, and become a law.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
{ TO THE LADIES.
GREAT OPENING OF THE
French Human Hair Store.

(No imitation), Main street, corner Arcadia
fgnoret Block, Los Angeles, Cal. ]. B.FU
ley from France, importer of human hair.
egs to inform the public that he is now
fady to take orders for all kinds of work in
is line, Wigs, Braids, Curls, Bandeaux.
lyhignons and Ornamental Hair JeweIry
made to order for remembrance of family
Free consultations for diseases of the hair.
Prices as low as any house on the coast.
marl4-lm .
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31

To the highest bidder, ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY LOTS, between Fifth and Eighth
streets, Central Addition, santa Monica.
These are by far the finest lots on the mar
ket, commanding an extensive view of oc an,
town and villa farms. The Central Addition
to Santa Monica is located upon Prospect
Hill, situated midway between North and
south Santa Monica. 1t is an extension of
the rising ground upon which Mr.. Lncas'
handso me shOuse is located. 1t is now the fa-
vorite pleasure ground of the Santa Monica
people, being covered with a variegated car
pet of wild flowers.
A trestle bridge will span the railroad upon
an extension of sixth street, the contract for
which is already let and the work will be
complete before the day of sale.
The title is perfect, being part of the San
Vicente rancho.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
II e IL MI . /:

Ten per cent. on the day of sale; one-thi rd
on the delivery of the contract; one-third il
ninety days; the balance in one year. Inter
est at the rate of one per cent will be charged
on deferred payments.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
IN ST TRUCTION
Assessment Notice.

4 ioC-oIhhAiIVE NURSERY AND FRUIT
~ Company of Los Angeles connty -Toca-
,aeh es @i principal place of business Los Ange-
., NoLlce Is hereby given that at q meeting of
the Directors held in this citv on the Oh 6a1 ~,
y, % oMaarc1, 1876, an assessment mo. a. OF FIVE
DOLLARS FER SHARE was levied upon the
CAPITAL stock Of said company, payable inn
Secretary NJ tue office of the Com pany, No.
optlhg street. Los Angeles, California. Any
STOCK upon which this assessment shall re-
main unpaid on the
3i day of April, 1876,
VIII be declared delinquent and advertised
ior sale at public auction and unless payment
is made before. will be sold on Wednesday.
April 18th, 1876, to pay delinquent assessment.
of sale.
By order of the Board
L. NJ. HOLT, Secretary.
Dated March Sd, 1875. marI-td