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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
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OUR MOUNDsVlLLE LETTER,
Mouxpsvl1rr, January 3.

MoUNDsVILLEJ january a.
Editors Intellgcncer:
Though late in my greetings, l wis
you happy New. Year. It seems tina
It is no trouble this year 10 wish well t
every one. The ushering in Of the grea
Centennial year brings with it not onl.
balmy weather but joy to the hearts o
all. The year was welcomed in our tow
by the ringing Of bells and grand bal
at our State institution, which, by tn
way, is said TO have been a really CRANE
affair. "a
The New Years services at the Disci
pies Church were very interesting. Sew
eral addresses were made, But the crown
ing act OF the occasion was the distribul'
tion Of the gifts from the Christmas tree
by tho veritable old Saint Nick himself
His appearance, made through one Of
the windows, was greeted with the wild
est delight BY the boys and girls. After
distributing the gifts, and making all
happy, he disappeared as he came.
The pound festival held on the same
evening under the auspices.of the ladies
Of the ME. Church netted about $SG.
Our Teachers Institute during last
week was a grand success. Some sixty.
three were enrolled, about twenty more
than were enrolled last year. l will not
speak OF the exercises, as the proceedings
have already been published in your
worthy paper, but cannot refrain from
saying word concerning bur Instructor
for the occasion, Prof. Goo. Il. McCord
All who listened to him will bear me out
in saying that we have never been better
served by any one acting In the same ca
pacity for us. Prof. McCord is young
man, as yet scarce thirty years Of age, but
he is surely beyond his years in expert
ence rs teacher. His instructions are
plain, practical and to the point. He
did not deal in high flown speech, but
made every point so plain that all could
see it, and gave the teachers lessons to
put at once into practical application,
He made many friends while among US
and went away bearing with him the kind
wishes OF all. ~.
II was my privilege on New Years
Day to take a short trip out the, B. & 0.
Railroad. Arriving at Board Tree at
about 10 o'clock A. NJ, in company with
BE-. Meighen, Esq, i took horseback tidc
across the hills o:his fathers, who lives
in Greene county, Pa. The weather was
delightful, the scenery grand, and en-
joyed it hugely. After spending very
pleasant day among friends Of the olden
time, in the evening went to Littleton,
where had the pleasure OF reading to q
small but very Intelligent audience. |
can say Of the people OF LittletOn, at least
with those with whom l became acquaint.
ed, that they are generous and hospital
and know how to make one feel at h0mc
when among them.
Our school opened to-day after the
usual holidays with every room filled al.
most to its utmost capacity.
The New State Gazette will hereafter
have new editor. Spivins will make
things lively. Ye Reporter men "look a
leedle out" or your laurels worn 80 long
will be taken from you. Patrick will now
no doubt throw down his pen, but "where
will all this be u hundred years 10 Gomez"
q e.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
Afternoon Dispatches
NEW YORK:
Benedict Bros, Jewellers.

NEW YoRK, January. A. = Benedict
Bros, jewellers, robbed a few nights ago,
have made an assignment. 1t Is said the
Bercdicts have been hard pressed by their
creditors since the publication Of the
robbery, but S. N. Benedict says that
they have more than enough to pay in
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05

COMMON SENSE VENTII.ATIoN.-The
best practical statement I have met with
about ventilation was contained in, the
remark Of mining engineer: '"Air Is
like rope; you cap pull it better than
you can push it," All mechanical APP
planes for pushing air into room OF
house are disappointing. What We
need to do is to pull out the vitiated
air already in the room; the fresh supply
will take care OF itself, il means for its
admission arc provided. 1t has been
usual to withdraw the air through open
ings near the ceiling-that is to
carry of the warmer and therefore
lighter portions, leaving the colder strata
at the bottom Of the room; with their
gradual accumulation ofcooled carbonic
acid undisturbed. Much the better plan
would be 10 draw this lower air out from
point near the floor, allowing the. up:
per and warmer portions TO descend and
take its place. An open fire, with large
chimney throat, is the best ventilator for
any room; the one-half or two-thirds OF
the heat carried up the chimney is the
price paid for immunity. from disease;
and large though it seems, from its daily
draft on tho wood.pile or coal.bin, it is
trifling when compared with doctors
bills, and with the loss ofstrength and ef-
liciency that invaribly result from living
in unyentilated apartments.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05

REvIvALIsr Hammond illustrates an
argument with n horseshoe magnet and
nails Of various sizes, from a tack to a
railroad spike. He likens the magnet to
Jesus. The tack typifes little children,
and he shows how readily they cling to
the magnet. Asimple touch, too, attach
es the shingle nail, which he likens to q
youth. The larger nails arc less and less
affected, until the big spike-a tough old
sinner Of tho most intractable kind-will
notstir under the influences.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
SUITS AGAINST PACIFIC RAILROADS

The Cabinet met to-day. All the mem.
bers were present except the Secretary OF
War and the Postmaster General. The
latter was represented by the Second AS
sistant Postmaster General. The Attor-
ney General will press the suits entered
about year ago by Attorney General
Williams for the payment OF five per
cent on the net earnings Of the several
Pacific railroads. The case against the
Central Pacific will be proceeded with at
nnnn
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
INSURANCE.
pEABoDY INSURANCE COMPANY

OPPICE PEABODY Insurance Co., |
WHEELING, W. Va, April 2, 1875.
The Charter Of the Fire and Marine Insurance
Company Of Wheeling expired April LIST, 1875, and
It's unexpired FIRE business Inns been relnsurrd by
Va. rs shown by the Resolution and Certificate an
nexed hereto. All claims for loss or damage that
may occur after IL o'clock NJ April LIST, 1875, under
any fire policy Issued by the Fire and Marine In.
surance Company, and In force, will be adjusted
and settled by the Peabody Insurance Company.
J. v. L. RODGERS,
knCrainHt
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
A REVENUE DECISION

The Treasury Department decides that
under the law domestic spirits cannot be
transferred in bond from bonded ware
houses to manufacturing warehouses,
there to be manufactured into an article
for expectation, with n rebate or draw
back OF internal revenue tax.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05
OPPicE FIRE & MARiSEIssuRANcE Co., /
WuRRIIsO. W, VA March 81, 1875.

Upon examination Of the assets and liabilities Of
tho Peabody Insurance Company, We arg fully sat-
lsfled as 10 lty rtsp0nSibilty
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-05

The United States steamer. Supply, now
at New York, will be ordered to ,Ciyita
Vccchia, where she will receive a monu.
ment to be erected hereto the memory Of
those in the naval service who fell in the
defense ofke Union; also such contribu.
tons as American artists wish to send
to the Centennial exhibition. She will
then proceed to Lcghorn for contri-
buttons from artists in that section. On
her way home she will stop at Tongier,
Morocco. No vessel will be sent to
the north Of Europe to receive contribu-
tons. The Supply, it isexpected, will re-
turn TO Philadelphia early in April.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Real ESTATE Transfers.

Real Estate Transfers.
r L to j L Evans, 50 acres, 18th dist,
$2,l6O.
Shed Kellum to Andrew Mitchell, cold,
town lot, 10th dist, gift.
B H Peden to Stacy, 66 acres, 18th
dist, 81 800.
J r Newman, to H N Tenneny, 2116
acres, goth dist, $3.50 70.
E Il Davis to n Z Martin, 81 acres, 18th
dist, 800 IS.
NJ A Wilkes to n E Martin, As acres,
10th dist, $9l 50.
Matthew Spivy to n E Martin, 111s acres,
18th dist, $40.
J B Clark to NJ X Goff, 6514 acres, 18th
dist, $l,050.
J II Watson and IT Black to W r
Jones, IS5 acres, 4th dist, $40.
c II Willeford to 7 2 Harwell, acres,
10th dist, $50.
T Wells and wife to Jas 4 johnson
10 acres, 9TH dist. $71 %
J Z Fry to J NJ Locke, town lot, l5tr
dist, $1,000.
Taylor & Williams to T r E Boatright
100 acres, 4th dist, $50 90.
Same to same, 100 acres, 4th dist, $50.
J B Stacy, ST.. TO Edwin Morris, sc
acres, 18th dist, 81 ,320.
II NJ Stanly to Sam1 Harwell, 90 acres
18th dist, $50 q.
J Y BobSOn and wife to II NJ Tenery, y
acres, 10th dist, Sl57 56.
j Stacy, ST., 10 Jarret Phillips, 22s.
acres, 9TH dist, S4,914.
c Z Mason. trustee, to Evans, Fife, POr-
ter q Co, store and lot,7 dist, $3,777 81
W 5 Wick and wife to E X Davis, e
acres, 10Th dist, 81, 240 90.
J a 7 GOodrum TO w J Brown, 90 acres
10th dist, 81 600.
7 J Lawrence and wife to J B Williams
100 acres, 18th dist, $3.50.
Emily a Jones 70 a r Richardson, tow
lot, 9TH dist, $500.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Mock Congress.


The House resolved itself into
a committee of the whole upon the
State of the union, Mr.. Jones OF
Vt. in the chair, and considered the
Centennial Bill After prolonged
debate, the committee arose and the
chairman reported progress to the
House and asked that the commit
tee be allowded further sitting. A
bill was introduced to amend the
calendar so that the 1st of Jan'v,
1877, shall fall upon what would
otherwise be 23rd Dec, 1875, and
forever thereafter. The Bill passed
first reading.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

The workmen engaged in straight
ening the Methodist church spire
the other day had long rope at
tached to it and were standing in
the street attempting to pull it into
position. They did not have heft
enough about them to induce the
concern to bulge, and were about to
give up in despair, when a rotund
citizen of the locality, whose corpo-
rosity is gotten up in bay window
style and whose general ponderosity
suggests the idea that he was made
for ballast for a steamboat, came
out over his back fence with his
Sunday clothes on reached for the
rope, told the boys to stand from
under, and set himself back on his
launches. The boys looked fol-
the whole cupola to come, and il
certainly would if the rope had not
snapped; but the. catastrophe was
almost as great as if the whole con
Germ had tumbled over, for there lay
the massive man all in a heap or
his back, with his clothes all smat
tered With something he had sci
down in, and the windows in the
church ratified when he hit the
ground and didn't stop rafting un.
til his ponderous paunch quit sway
ing. The boys priced him over and
helped him up, and deathly stiffness
dwelt there for the space of three
minutes, until the fallen hero could
scramble up, limp to his back fence
and tumble himself over, and they
felt so sad they concluded to sing g
hymn, and while one of them gave
out the solemn stanzas of that
touching melody, Farewell, Brother
Crawford" the balance of them
formed a circle and danced a dirge
around the hole in the ground
where the man fell. When they got
through they all went around be-
hind the church, nailed up the fence
so they couldn't roll out, and lay
down and squealed and laughed and
beloved and tumbled about until
dinner time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

and when she made her appearance
Miss Brown got up and said:
''Miss Jones. did you say dere
wasn't goin' to beno gem'men here,
case Use a young lady and amt
gwyne to risk my character wild
desc married women?.
Il tole you dis was hen dinner;
sides dat, we'se got though here
widdout you anyhow"
Il didn't want to suit you, Miss
Jones, and Use gwyne to stay jes'
to see what you'se up to-"
They got along well enough and
had lots of fun-one of the stable
matrons danced highland fling for
them (they thought it to be one of
the indispensable features of a hen
dinner until at length the hostess
invited them all into the back shed
room where the repast was under
the barrel, and arranging them
selves around, the hostess an
nounced dinner ready and turned
the barrel over. Lo, the tray was
empty, the foot-tub was bottom up
wards, and whar was the chickens
and things. CONSERVATION seized
the hostess and she exclaimed:
''De good Lord a mercy, whar' 5
all dem vittals 'peared to- 1 jes'
bet dat ghost what Sarah seed here
last night has done been and eat up
dat hen dinner, an Use feared he's
in dis residence right now. What's
dat noise?"
They all listened and heard a
rustling just out the back door and
something scraping against the side
of the house, and one of them ex-
claimed, 'De good Lord, dey's
thousand of emf and they rushed
and tumbled over each other into
the front room, out the front door
and over the fence, alarming the
whole vicinity, each one screaming
as she made for home. When they
got away the ghosts came in and
one of them reached up in the loft
and brought down the hen dinner
and made a rooster dinner out of it
in a few minutes-Messrs Jones.
Rodes, Sykes, Patterson and a half
dozen others being the ghosts.
Some of the neighbors started the
report next day that Mrs. Jones
didn't have anything under the
barrel to start on, and that the
ghost business was all trick. An
other report was that she had in
vited the elite the night before and
they had eat up all the good things,
and that she invited these second
class ladies just to scare them out
of the neighborhood. We vindicate
Mrs. Jones of both accusations,
however, and cite as proof of her
innocence that she ''moved out'n
dat house de next day, and if the
good Lord will jest forgive her,
she'll never hab no more o. dem hen
dinners in her'n!"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

A dark rumor is floating around
in softest whispers, uttered only in
secret places andtunder the strictest
injunctions to secrecy and silence
and we tell it now in dread and
tremblingness, lest we be called to
account for it; and nothing impels
us to divulge it now but high
sense of the duty we owe the public,
an impulse natural to our noble
heart and which does credit to our
magnanimous generosity-to this
effect: (Reader, don't tell where you
heard IT'D Mr.. r. B. Grow, it is said,
will soon transfer the work-house
force to East Hill and proceed to
despoil that locality of its glory
its moist, damp, watery, humid,
dank, muggy, dewy, juicy, swampy,
reeking, dripping, soaking, sloppy
glory-its MUD.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
CIIIzE1N-
LYNNVILLE.

You administered, Mr. Editor, a
severe rebuke to your correspond
ents in your last. AS we have
never alluded to any person towards
whom we did not at the time have
the kindest feelings, we shall slet the
CALLED jade vince, as cur withers
are unwrung." Permit the sugges-
ton that the county paper fulflls
its mission as it reflects county mat
tiers, and that correspondents from
every important point should report
to it, and that no sensible person
ought to object to such alterations
and abbrevlations as the editor
thinks best
MR.. MART. FRY.
On Thursday there was a meeting
of Mr.. Fry S creditors. Judge Jones,
Mr.. Wilkes, Major Williamson and
Mr.. George Taylor were present, as
was also Squire McCallum, who
presided over the meeting. Judge
Jones made an address, which was
worthy of his reputation as q great
and good man. He was followed
by the other lawyers who one and
all persuaded the creditors to keep
the matter out Of law and settle it
among themselves. This self-ab-
rogation was absolutely noble. AS
it was remarked by Squire Mccall
lum if the estate was thrown into
the courts, it would be such a har-
vest to the profession as had never
been in the county. But the law
yers advised against it. The alter
native was to throw the estate into
bankruptcy or have a trustee. Mr..
Albert Buford made a pointed
speech, siding with the lawyers, and
finally, Mr.. Wilkes and Mr.. Farmer
were selected as trustees to wind up
the business.
DIR. MONROE JOHNSON,
who has been in the South with
stock for seven weeks has just re-
turned. He reports mules as low
and that horses can hardly be sold
at all We regret to have to state
that Mrs. j. has been so i'll for some
time as to cause some uneasiness
among her friends.
MR.. JAMES BRIGGS,
while unloading his wagon at the
depot the other day, had an oppor-
tunity of illustrating an important
physical law. His mules took fright
and running around the corner, his
corn and his wagon bed and himself,
under the action of centrifugal
force, few off on the line of tan
gency and then described the curve
known as the parabola. It was as
narrow an escape from broken bones
or death as a clever fellow ever
makes. T. /. N,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
COlOred Hen Dinner

Mrs. Julia Jones, cold, of Frog
Bottom, never gets behind the fash
ion when she knows it, and she
heard Of the hen dinners that are
now the rage in cities, from Col,
Jack Smith, the colored detective,
last week. Col. Smith 'splained to
her how they was did, and she fixed
up things to have one right away.
She cooked a tray full of sweet
cakes, got her husband TO borrow
several chickens from the neighbors'
roosts, borrowed a gallon of butter
milk from her mother-in-law and
made a foot-tub full of ice cream
set them all down on the floor and
turned a barrel over to keep the
children out, and then started out
to invite the hens. The first neigh
Dor she came to was Mrs. Rodes
and she proceeded to invite her
thus:
"Miss Rodes, Pse gwyne ter hal
er hen dinner to night and you'se
gwyne ter come, case Pse done
'vited yer.'
eco way wild yer, julie Jones:
You amt got no hens, and you amt
gwyne to git mine, case she's just
gin to set
eyer don't un'stand, yer old fool;
Pse gwyne to hab de women dan
widdout any men, and dey call de
women hens now. OATS why"
'Now, Use jes' comm dar to-
night ter see what you'se gwyne to
do
She went on and called Miss
Manda Brown out to the tense and
said:
"Pse gwyne to hab a hen dinner
tonight. widdout any men and
you'se 'vited.
"Dat old hen o. yours is as poor
as pad lock, case she's done set
all de fedders off'n her belly; an
amt gwyne ter ruin nay teeth tryin'
ter chaw it. Now you jes' hab
spring chickens if you want me to
come"
cts de women dat's de hens,
and we's gwyne to eat cakes and
things and tell tales and dance
highlum filings, and de gem'men
won't know it. Is yer comin'?''
eyes I is, case jes' gwyne tel
see what a fool you il"
She next found Mrs. Crenshaw
out in her back yard washing, and
she said:
"Mrs. Crenshaw, Pse gwyne tel
hab heBdinner tonight, and we'se
gwyne to eat cakes, and amt gwynC
to hab no hens ter eat, and de meT
won't be dar, and I invites you, anC
l hope you isn't as big a fool as den
other ladies what don't know
nothin' bout de fashion. Is yer
comin'P'
aYou come here to suit me, Jul'
Jones! I sticks your head in dis
wash kittle you'll be blaeker'n ug
lier'n you isl 1 'scuse you dis time
an Use jes' comm ter see how bis
fool you is.''
She knew she wouldn't get up tn,
hens If she stopped to quarrel anC
make them all mad, and she wenf
all around and invited twelve or IF
teen in about the same manner as
above, and went home and fixed NJ
the things, and the night found al
the invited guests there, They sal
around on a bench and waited K
see what was going to happen FOL
an hour before the hostess came in
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

Mr.. VIM. Parkes, Capt. Tom Deav-
airport and Sheriff Garner, were up
from Lawrenceburg last Saturday.
Mr.. Parkes was exhibiting some
samples of cotton plaids manufac-
tured at his mills near Lawrence
burg, which were superior to any
thing Of the kind we have seen in
any market-and they were cheap.
Our merchants could not buy bet
ter or cheaper goods even in New
England
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

The Sunday school mass meeting
at the Methodist church was very
largely attended last Sunday night,
notwithstanding the threatening
aspect of the weather. Short and
interesting addresses were made
by Rev. Mr.. Mizell, Rev. Mr.. Din
widdie and Prof. Jones. These
meetings are held the last Sunday
night in each month, are devoted
to song and short addresses, and
are proving very interesting, and,
we hope, profitable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

Two jocky yardists attempted to
run a horse race on East Hill last
Saturday. One Of them was fined
80 by the authorities-not for
breaking the law, but for being mug
gins enough to try to run a race
through the caves and curves of
that cantankerous mudhole.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

Drs. Lacey d Mason have in
vented a new medicine called Bret
eel, which is meeting with rapid sale.
It cures anything from a knot on
a fence rail to the most violent and
pestilential fungurated sore that
supurates upon the body polite.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

The Klay KIub debated the Cen
tennial Bill last Monday night, and
decided that Congress was justified
in making the appropriation. They
will attempt to abolish all the tariff
laws next Monday night and sup
port the government by direct tax.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

Mr.. w. w. Cannon, Of Maury
county, who has for some years
past been engaged in bee culture,
recently purchased about sixty col
Onies from Mr.. Nick Townsend of
this place, and contemplates Ioca-
ting in this county to pursue that
business more extensively. There
are few fields more inviting than bee
culture, both as regards the profits
and recreation and pleasure it af
fords. We welcome him to Giles
most cordially.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

We saw a private letter from DR..
w. H. Bowling, Professor in the
Louisville College of Medicine, on
the 28th, to MI. Geo. Woodring of
Pulaski, announcing that Geo. w.
Woodring, Jr., had gone through a
thorough examination upon that
day without fault and would have
the degree of Doctor conferred up
on him that evening. George has
made rapid progress IN mastering
the science of medicine, and his
Professor pays him high compli-
ment in pronouncing him a prof
cient scholar. He will probably be
at home this week, and we under
stand will locate in Kansas. We
wish him success wherever he goes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Business Notice.

Mr.. J. B Stacy, Jr. fEom this
date becomes the financial agent of
the CITIZEN, and will receive and re
ceipt for moneys due this office.
He will soon be round for 4 settle
ment with you, and he doesn't want
the sheriff to follow him either.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

Those uniforms for the work
house convicts, how nice they are!
A man would take one of them for
Brigadier General, or some other
worthless cuss, if he didn't know
that our County Court paid for
those paraphernalia.