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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-05
FINANCE AsD Accousrs.;

The committee reported the examina.
tion and consideration OF several unim-
portant petitions. As to the petition Of
the Elm Grove railway company, the
committee recommended that the strength
OF the bridge be ascertained and reported
to the Board. a.. IL urD
/ Wm McPhail, administrator Of R. 3.
Brown, deceased, Late Sheriff, presented
his statement and vouchers, returned to
August 9th, amounting to S2,20S 70,
which was ordered placed to his credit.
Also returned statement and vouchers
paid to Sept. 1st, amounting to SS47 06,
which were placed to the credit of the
late Sheriff.
The committee submitted billt amount.
ing to 5000 70. t.s ...,ri5i.
The report was received and filed, and
the bills ordered paid.
The Committee on Court House and
Jail RECOMMENDED the, pay ment Of bills
aggtesatins SEQ 0S. III the matter Of
Fahy vs.. Hammer, Justice Of the Peace,
the same was referred for a hearing to
Sept. Goth. The report OF the committee
was, adoPted. tpa Il3 1i''giaG
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-05

DASK AND INSURANCE STOCK FOR SALE
ID lis shares In German Bank.
is shares In German Insurance Company.
,--rynOov p,vrp
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The FLYER continues to slowly recede.
Last evening there were about 80 inches
in the channel:
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The Committee on Poor House and
Farm reported the cost OF maintaining
the county Poor House, from jan. l
1873, ID Gah! /, l1875, ITO correct anterior
1 and misrepresentation on the part Of GER
4 tain citizens Of Triadelphia district"
I Expended by former Board Of comints-
so@eT from jan Am / W. = jan. N4sSGa
Expended BY this Board from Jan. l,1s7S, -.
In1s7S theaverage humber Of inmates
4 was Az per month; in 1874, 5S4 pei
4 month; in 1875, sol per month; in 1877
(ior tho nine months, ca per month
and expended S., 545 OF, or average for thu
year 1877, S4,726 80.
$50 1t will be seen that each year the
number of.p&upers has increased, the
average increase for each year abou
equal. And this increase no doubt will
keep. paccSwith the increase of 'popula
ton Oft city and county, while the ex.
EpCnditures have DECEASED. showing {
better system each year, and. experience
shows the points to economic, Now BY
\ comparison Of the foregoing figures Wit
the old system, we have q total expendi
ture by the Board Of Commissioners foI
poor hcrse Cpd contingent tdtyl poor o
S90i1S agaihSt d much al $4,000 by thu
old system Of the Board OF Supervisors ant
0verseers oithe Poor. Each Commission
er is now, acting as an 0Verseer Of TIT
| Poor. Thisexperiment proves itself, ant
thu Intelligent citizen Of Ohio county car
bsee at q glance the advantages OF our sys
item over the old, and since March Of thil
year some SOper cent difference IN thu
outlay for poor purposes in favor Of tn
4 Commissioners acting in their own dis
trict az 0yerseers Of the Poor over III,
former 0yerseor ofthe Poor system, with
a steady increase of population"
The report was received and fled.
COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION.
/ Commissioners Of election for the Stat,
detection In October were appointed a
follows: 4
WaGIinqlOa district : II. W, Phillips
In. Edwards, James Roberts.
Madison-J. g. Smith, Geo. X. Wheat
day-john Howell, Ohio Heiskel, John
H. d ha'1: H. Downs, Jas. Lnundsr
G' ogEsl,! ~! II. Reid, Charlie, Bipgsrl
'eR %sb sSst!s sns. NJ. Todd, Stephen CLARK
G. G. Murdoch.
Rilele-T. B. Thompson, FhOs,, Nc
Cready, Christian Viewig. =
| 1riadelphid-lst precinet-E. N. At,
kinson, b. N. Thornburgh, ], F. Smith; %
precinoti-~ F. W.. Henderson, Wesley
Robinson, Samuel Oldham; Sd precinct
Jos. s. Bedilliou, John 'PlSrr; Isaac
BlanchaEd,s. -
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Authorizing Committee on Printing to
print 100 copies Of the ELECTION Laws"
Tor the use OF officers OF elections.
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AFTERNOON SESSION,

The Board re.assembled at, half-past
one o'clock P. NJ, all the members being
present except Mr.. Csrnahan.
Mr.. w. P: Hubbard addressed the
Board on behalf Of the remembrance to
the Elm Grove right Of way, after which
Nj. Ekings motion ID grant the prayers
q the petitioners was voted upon and
carried.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-05

The entire stock, consisting Of China, Gln1 md
QueensTare, contained 10 the storc-rOom Of WIN.
Collins i Co, No. 1893 Main street, Is otiGrcd Tor
Ial0 BY The undersigned,
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wnEE1IIo STRICT RAILWAY.
PETITIONS,

The report of the Prosecuting Attorney
was received and filed. ..
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-05-05
Subscribers out of County, S1.2O

Of course 1t is not unlikely that The
Graphic's diagnosis of the case Is at
fault, and that no such intrigue is on
foot as that detailed in its columns.
There is an Independent Voter, and,
being lively animal, he is not going
to be suppressed. and will have to take
himself somewhere. For our part, iudg-
ing him by his oracles, we despair of
him. lie will never act against the
Republican party in crisis unless the
Democratic party be out of the way,
and that is impossible just yet. We
therefore look to see him Republican,
provided Morton or COnkling is not the
Republican nominee and we do not
expect to find MIN much of disturbing
element at Cincinnati. More's the pity,
we confess; but 1t is well to- take things
as they are. If the Democratic party
with its present advantage has not the
wisdom to work its way nut let it die,
and then the Honest lmpracticableS
can administer on its remains. Until
we can get new party, however, out
and Out,nO more crOokedness no more.
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DHILA. 81 READING RAILROAD,
Arrangement of Passenger Trains.
JANUARY lST 1875.

JANUARY isT 1875.
Trains leave ALLENTOWN as fCllows:-
WA PERKIOMEN BRANCHl
For Philadelphia, bridgeport and Perkiomen
SUNDAYS.
For Pbiadelphia. bridgeport and Perkiomen
JunctiO ~, at $40 D.m.
WA EAST PFNNA. BRANCH.) .
For Reading, 2.3O, $50, s.j5 m, IL %, 2lO, 430
ard s.4n pm
For Harrisburg. 80, 3 So s.55 a. M, 1920, 30
and S.45 pm.
For Lancaster and Columbia, 5 90. S55 am. aud
tDees not run on Mondays
SUNDAYS
For Reading. 230 I'm and s.45 pm.
For Harrisburg. 2.30 AIN, and 8.4l D.m,
Trains FOR ALLENTOWN N leave IA follows:
WA PERKIoMEN BRANCH.)
Leave Phlladelphla. n.m., 10 AMI 20 30 D.m.
Leave Bridgeport $40 am p.08 and GIG pm.
Leave Perkiomen juno, 9.05 am, Glo and
0 30 pm.
SUNDAYS.
Leave Philadelphia. : 10 - M, bridgeport, 9.U
am, PeIkiOmen Junction 9.25 am.
(vIA EAST pENNA BRANCH
Leave ReaOlng, 735 ',4l 1L3j n m, 4 90, $40 "nd
1910 ON
Leave Harrisburg, 8 q, $40 a. n., 200. a5O and
"a p.m.
Leave Liant a ster, $40 am. l?.55 End 3. 10 pm,
Leave Columbia $40 am LOO aud S.55 pm.
SUNDAYS.
Leave Reading. 720Am.
Leave HarriShufR, 5.2O am.
Trains marked thus ~ run via G. q n.
Branch, tdepOt 9th and Green streets,) and
have through cars from and to Mauch Cnunk.
All q her tratus to and from PhIi0delphla n q
rive at and leave Broad street depot.
]. IL. WO0TlEN.
Nov, Q, 1875. General SupertHten ent.
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OENTRAL II. e. OF ". y.
~ LEHIGH & SUSQUEUANNA DIVISION.
All Rail Route 10 Long Branch.
PASSING ER STATION IN NEW YORK FOOT
or LIBERTY ST.. n.
Time Table of May l, 1876.
Trains leave Lehigiiton as follows:
For New York. EastOn. &c., at 5.27, 747, lll2
q. M, Q 26, Az p. IN.
For Philadelphia, 527, TAI, l1i2 a. M, 226,
447.
For Msach Chunk at 1920 a. M, la, 5.3s, 7O4
1913 p. m.
For wilkes.Barr and Scranton atI6.a0 a. M, III
T.04 p. m.
Returning-LeaSs New York, from station Gem
tral Railroad of New Jersey, foot ef Liberty
street, North River, 5.45, 800 Ia, loo,
245 and 515 D. m.
Leave Philadelphia, from Depat North PenR'a
II Re- at 7.Jn, 945 n. M, 2l0, $40 y. m.
Leave Easton at s45, ll.45 n. nj, BOO, 63j
$50 M
Leave Mauch Chunk at &. .2o,74O, II .O5 a. M, 22O
4.40, p. III.
Fo, further particulars see Time Tables at the
Stations.
PASSENGERS FOR LONG BRANCH CHANGE
CARS AT ELlZABETH.
up. BALDWIN, Gen. Passenger AGENT
July 4. 1874.
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CARDS.

~ Furniture Warehouse.
". seh hwartz, Bank street, dsdler in all kinds Of
FrRiture. Cofns made TO order.
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Phila. & Reading R. R. Co.
Centennial Excursion Tickets

on aud after MAY FIRST, 1876. and during
the continuance Of the Centennial Exposition,
Through Excursion Tickets tn Philadelphia
and Return, wa Pnlla,ie phla d Reading II IL
road good for 10 days rOm date OF Issue will be
ISSUED by Apenrs OF Lehigh Valley Railroad ut
Stations ON that Road
ha- The Trains Of this company run directly
to and from tnelr New Depot III Falrmount
Park winch is located III close proximity to the
Centennial Buildings.
w. Il. WOOTrEN,
General superintendent.
Reading, April goth, 1S76.ml
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week:
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, BY joint resolution Of the senate
and house OF repl esentatlves OF the United
states of America in congress asSemOled, ap.
IrJvsd March l3. 1875, IL il recommended by the
senate aud nOuSe Of representatives to the
people OF tine several states that they assemble
IN their several counties or towns on the ap.
preaching cent "nuial anniversary OF our na-
tional independence and, that they cause to have
de lyered ON such d " an historical sketch OF
sud cOuNLY or town from its formation, and that
a cOOy of said sketch NAV be filed. 10 print OF
manuscrp pit, in tile Cl 'Fk'S office OF SAID cOuD y
and an a1dltitn Il copy. IN print or m inuscrlDG,
be die f. che Office Of he tOrarlan of congress-,
10 the lntent that complete record may thus bo
obtained OF tue OreSs o. our INSTITUTIONS du-
ring the first centennial OF sir existence
Now therefore John +. HarGranft COVER.
nor as aforesaid. do hereby favOraby commend
this resolution to the peOple and the authorities
OF the various cities. counties and towns of this
common wealth, with the req nest that Wherever
The observance OF the incOmIng sary OF
our national Indr drDendenoe will permlt,p o isOn
may Oe made 10 clmply with the recOmmendn.
Il N contained herein so tnAt these historical
sketches may be made to emArace all the in-O.-
nation and statistics tlit can b. obtained in
relatiOn Go the first century D. Our existence AS
a commonwealth
Gwen under ny hand and the great seal OF
the state at Harrisburg this 4 day Ol April. IN
tho year Oh or Lord One IN Du sand eight hu .
ured md seYentY-siX, and OF the COmmOnweai tn
the one hundndth.
J L. HAaTRAsFT.
BY the co srnOr
NJ :. QUAY
Secretary Of the Commonwealth
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Railroad Guide.
NORTH PENNA. RAILROAD.

Returning, leave depot a. Jerks and Ameti
can ST., Phlla., at 7.J0 s:45 ami 9;45 q, mi 10
3;i5 and 5;l5 p m.
Fare from LehiEhton TO Phila., s2.5j,
Excursion Tickets. 81 90
April IL 1870. ELLIS CLARK, Agent.
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I'M. N. Il. REBER,
T IL DIM NJ ICK,
DERToLETTE a LOOSE,

ATTORNEYS AND COUNsELLoRs AT LAW,
orriog-FiEstNationalR Bank Building, 2nd Floor.
MAUCH CHUNK, PESNA.
Can he consulted in German. July "a 1877
The New York herald., 1876-12-21
Warm the Cars.

There is no reason why the street cars
should not be comfortably warmed, except
that it would slightly increase the expenses
of the companies-a reason with which the
public cannot be expected to sympathize.
They could be very effectively heated by
little coal stoves, with a pipe carried through
the top; but as this would interfere with
the comfort of that large number Of persons
who love to hang on by the straps this plan
we suppose could never find favor. Another
plan not open to objection would be the
adoption of the chagferettes in common
use in railway carriages all over Europe.
These are metal foot warmers that are filled
at starting with scalding water. They
retain the heat for two or three hours
They are commonly made very heavy, that
they may retain the heat the better, and lie
on the floor so fat MS not to be an incon-
venience. These, filled ut the end Of every
round trip, would make passengers comfort
able on that long, cold, dreary ride from
down town to streets in the sixties. It
would be happy experiment for line in
which the traffic is not satisfactory and
which runs not far from we'll patronized
line to try the effect Of introducing such an
element of comfort.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21


them have been repeated in 1876 The fair
ness and legality of every election must be
determined by the facts and evidence con-
nected with itself; but when there are strong
grounds of suspicion connected with q
new election they cannot be rebutted by ap-
peals to former good character. The fact
that such monstrous frauds have been COM
mitted in Louisiana heretofore was reason
why the Returning Board should have taken
all reasonable precautions against such
suspicious as have arisen in connection
with their recent canvass. Their conduct
when they found it necessary to make
Wholesale reflections of votes and reverse
the certified result of the election, ought to
have been frank and open. Every step
should have been taken in such broad day
light that it would have required no pro-
tracted Investigation by committee of Con-
gress to discover precisely what they did.
Their subsequent refusal to give in
formation to the committee has also
an ugly look, as if their conduct
would not bear exposure. The refusal
of Mr. Long, a member of their own party,
to accept ON office because he had been
falsely counted in, is also good ground for
suspecting that what was done in his case
may have been done in others.
With SO many reasons for doubling tho
honesty of the canvass the investigation
must 60 on. 1t ought to be rigorous and
thorough, and both parties should con-
tribute to make it 80. 1t is infinitely
more important that we have honest cleo
tions than that any Presidential candidate
should be installed in Office. If it is our
misfortune to have o weak or a bad Presi-
dent we can do better next time If the ballot
boxes truly reflect the public will; but if
our elections are to be controlled by fraud
we are deprived of our only remedy.
Honest elections are the corner stone of the
Republic. All parties have an equal in
terest in maintaining them The real
truth about the Louisiana election can be
ascertained if party feeling does not obstruct
the inquiry or distort the facts, and when
the truth is once established there need be
no difficulty about the final counting of the
electoral votes. Before the second Wednes-
day in February it will be known with rea-
sonable certainty whether Mr.. Hayes or Mr..
Tilden is fairly entitled to the votes of
Louisiana and Florida; and then the truth,
however unwelcome or disappointing, must
be accepted with patriotic submission.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21
the poor have claims upon us il We would
live as Christians and avail ourselves of the
Redeemer's ransom at death.
R-mors from tho East.

Several important statements have been
sent abroad from Constantinople since the
adjournment of the preliminary conference.
which, taken collectively, certainly encour-
age the view that the difficult points of the
negotiation will be overcome by Russia's
becoming rather less resolute in her de-
mands, and, in short that war appears far
less inevitable than it did several days
since. These rumors have had time
to reach st. Petersburg where they
have, doubtless, attracted as much at
tention as elsewhere, and we receive
from that city a despatch which seems to
cast doubt upon one of these statements. It
is said that nothing is known at st. Peters
burg of the proposed extension of the armis-
tice. If this be true the extension is only
rs yet project of the diplomatists; for Ser
via would not enter upon step Of this
consequence without the knowledge Of her
great ally. But it is significant that this is
the only one of several important statements
to which any reference is made in
the despatch and though in such q
case the failure to mention them
does not go far as confirmation, yet
it indicates that they are not idle rumors
or they would have been denounced. 1t
may, therefore, be accepted as in high de-
gree probable that Russia has SO far modi-
fed her demand for the occupation of Bull
garia that it is not now on the board as an
imminent danger to the peace of Europe. It
is likely that the change of Ministry at Con-
stantinople was brought about through the
influence of General Ignatieff, and was one
of the conditions Of the practical withdrawal
of Russia's demand.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21
A Good Selection.

Years ago Amos Pilsbury, the Superin-
tendent of the Albany Penitentiary,
made that prison model for the
whole United States. Through an adj
mirably designed and efficiently managed
system of convict labor the institution was
made more han self supporting, and the
prisoners wee released at the end of their
terms of Imprisonment with money in their
pockets and trade at their command. The
discipline was admirable. At no prison in
the country was better order preserved
or less brutality practised. 1t is we'll
known at Albany that the most ruffianly
criminals, ifter six months incarcera-
ton in he Penitentiary, have be-
come docib, well behaved and ready
to evince il every possible manner their
kindly feeling for the Superintendent.
When Amos Pilsbury died his son, Louis
d. Pilsbury took his place and carried on
admirably he work commenced by his
father, and to which he had been trained.
1t is stated hat the Governor elect has de-
termined tt appoint Mr.. Louis d. Pilsbury
Superintendent of State Prisons under the
constitutional amendment. No better ap-
pointment ould be made. 1t is to be hoped
that Governor Robinson will make rs wise q
choice in lis selection of Superintendent
of Public Works.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21

TIE BENEFITS FOR THE BROOKLYN SUFFER-
ERs.-The dramatic profession has never
failed to generously respond to the cry of
the distressed, and could not but feel pro-
foundly the terrible calamity in Brooklyn.
The action of the managers, actors and at
taches of the principal theatres of New York
in giving performances for the aid of the
sufferers deserves the fullest support We
trust the theatres will all be filled this after
noon. Time enough has passed since the
fire to permit sadness and pleasure to bo
united in this strange way, and no one will
less enjoy the performance because of the
knowledge of the cause in which it is given.
Joy and sorrow are closely interviewer in
our lives, and the Muse Of Comedy, with
smiling lips and fearful eyes, kneels by the
side Of the graves in Greenwood.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21
Moro nydrophobia.

Another fatal case of hydrophobia is re-
ported, and Of course the chronicle involves
another Spitz dog. If we might mix natural
history we should call the Spitz dog rattle
snake on four legs. No person, or certainly
not many persons, would keep rattlesnakes
as pets to be about loose where their children
are /; but put little white, fluffy hair on
him, and four legs, and call him dog, and
he has the liberty of hundreds of thousands
Of houses, though he is unchanged as to his
venom. In none of the numerous recent
cases Of hydrophobia has the virus come from
dogs of any other breed than this, and if we
recur to cases where the victim was bitten
by dog of another breed the probability
arises that that dog was previously bitten
by one of the breed 80 dangerously sub
ject to the fell disease. Thus Spitz
dog is not only danger in the house where
ho is kept, but q danger throughout the
neighborhood; for he communicates the dis
ease to breeds in which it originates so sell
dom that the susceptibility to it may be
regarded as bred ont. Before the introduc-
tion of the Spitz Dog there was hardly
doctor to be foundi in the cities of this coun-
try who had seen case of death from rabies.
1t was the rarest possible incident in medi-
cal history. But now scarcely week passes
but one is reported. In the Spitz dog the
disease occurs, from appearance, sponta-
neously, rs it occurred in the dogs which Dr.
Kane carried from this country to the Arctic
regions, and obviously results similarly
last case the 10y was the son Of him who
owned the dog, and that is a sufficiently
terrible penaEy on the father; but in any
other case the remedy by damages might
establish in 'alutary way that it is danger
Gus pecuniariy, as well as otherwise, to keep
these animals.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21

The COLLISION which occurred yester.
day on the Elevated Railroad was, almost
miraculously, unaccompaniod by loss o.
life; but this fact should not lessen the en-.
ergy with which the guilty switchman il
pursued. The accident was in no way
peculiar to this sort of road, but was due
entirely to trait of human nature against
which the richest and most careful corpora
tions seem unable to protect themselves.
Very few tracks upon terra firma would have
retained the cars in such case as securely
as the Elevated rails did.
The New York herald., 1876-12-21
The weather.

Very cold weather continues during the
early morning all over the country. Yester.
day at seven o'clock A. NJ the temperature
at st. Marks, Fla, was six degrees below
freezing, and in the Northwest and in Lower
Canada more than ten degrees below zero.
The depression which we announced in yes.
terday's HERALD as advancing from the west
ward. is now entering the Ohio Valley
from the Lower Missouri region, and
a general cloudiness prevails eastward of the
ninety-seventh meridian, except in the ex.
treme Northeast and along the Soutf
Atlantic coast. A snow storm in the Ohio
Valley and over the lower lakes is probable
for to-day. The temperature will rise slowly
at New York, with increasing cloudiness,
and we may expect light snow by this even
ing or tomorrow morning,
In the Atlantic very tempestuous weather
has been experienced, especially by west
bound vessels. We predicted this condition
Of weather at sea as most likely to result
from the recent storms of the 9th and 18th,
which left our coast at Nova Scotia. Much
damage to shipping, as in the case of the City
of these storms increased after they entered
on their unobstructed transoceanic pas
sages. We earnestly recommend to the
Signal Service Bureau the enlistment of the
cooperation of sen captains in establish
ing system Of daily observations of the
weather during their voyages to and from
Europe. The Bureau should be fully in
formed on everything relating to the
progress of storm centres across the
ocean, and such information as can
be easily obtained for the trouble Of
asking for it would enable meteorologists
to warn shipmasters in European ports Of
the approach of dangerous storm. 1t is
strange that such important sources of me-
neurological information rs the ships log
books should have remained so long un-
consulted by the Signal Department. Every
interest Of commerce calls for immediate
attention to these neglected indicators to
the storm movements.