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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-31
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 81. 1875.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Time Table

OF THE WHEELING AND MOUNDS
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N. 0. Sugars & Molasses.
BACON AND LARD.

A FULL SUPPLY ALWAYS on HAND
n OF Lat Lard, 8. &. Hams, She ulders,
Clear sides, =. &. Briskets, etc. Orders hlled
fresh from smoke hOuEe daily.
mars NJ. REILLY.
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FOREIGN.

Over three thousand Russians of all
grades have joined the Servian army.
Turkey has promised to distribute one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars among
the Bulgarian sufferers.
A telegram from the city of Mexico
states that general Mejia, the minister of
war, has retired from the cabinet, and is
succeeded by Escobedo.
The London Times thinks the temper
of Europe is swiftly undergoing a menacing
change, and that more countries than Russia
might easily pass beyond the control of
statesmen.
There is another revolution in progress
in the vicinity of Matamoras, Mexico. The
revOlutionists so far have everything their
own way, and the people seem to be satis-
fed.
Though accounts of some Turkish out
RACES are uuhappily too well established to
be doubted, a fair idea of the proceedings OF
the Turkish force is not to be gathered from
the Fearful tales so carefully collected. An
English gentleman, who passed through the
Servian district lately visited by the Turks,
reports that he had many opportunities of
talking with the people whose homes had
been altogether in the hands of the enemy,
and he met with not a single case OF gross
outrage. Before the publication of the or
der rendering soldiers mutilating themselves
liable to the penalty of death or imprison-
ment for life, many Servans had already
been executed for that Offense; on one occa-
sion as many as forty in one batch were ex-
ecuted. There were hospitals, it is said, in
which more than one-half the patients are
of this class
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-29
Longevity OF BraIn-Wsrkers.

That great thinkers and hard brain
workers are long lived is asserted, with
a considerable array of facts, in vol
ume by Dr. Beard. He presents a list
of some five hundred of the most emf
nent names in history, including a num-
Der like Pascal, Mozart, Keats and
Others who died young, and frds the
average of the five hundred To have been
over sixty-four years. As this is far
beyond the average of farmers, mechan
icl and business men. he concludes that
the wear and tear of brain work is not so
exhaustiDg as is commonly supposed and
that it rarely shortens lie. The London
Spectator, however, reviewing this theo-
ry maintains that excessive mental toll
must shorten life. and did evidently
shorten it in the case of many of the FIVE
hundred cited; but they bad originally
more vigorous constitutions and a large
amount of vital force, and, by virtue of
this superior vitality which explains in
part, also, their superior brain power,
they were able to continue hard work
even to old age, before breaking down
under the pressure though the same
vital force would have prolonged life
for many years if they had not exhausted
it prematurely.
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ing out through the shadows, clasped
my hand, and said, 81 do not love
Penelope. 1t is you, love you Esther"
told Pen all about it before we went
to sleep that night. She stared at me
in the utmost incredulity for some mo-
merits after l announced my engagement
to Mr.. Whitney. Then, with a little
nervous laugh, she turned to her dressing
glass and continued braiding her long
fair hair
'I might have known it." she said,
with touch of bitterness. "I confess
to you, Esther, that have been actually
trying to win, not Mr.. Whitney's heart,
but his half million. You have won
him without trying. | believe your
theory is a true one, viz. {: that it is vain for
one to strive or try and one should wait.
not despair, and not dare to hope. v ell,
with sigh and blush, "only one thing
is left me, and that is, to marry poor
Philip"
1t is now, as l finish this unexciting
story, late in the simmer. 1t is ar
ranged that we will all go to the centen-
nial the last of September l say all
for Mr.. Whitney and i % on our bridal
tour, and Penelope aud Philip, who are
to be our only attendants, are to go with
us. Who knows what will happen
between these two strange lovers?
Since writing that last sentence, Pen
has informed me of the reception of a
letter from Philip, containing the news
of lucrative position rendered him in
the city. How glad 1 am, and how
glorious it is to be rich and powerful
Tor know Mr.. Whitney's word was the
potent spell that changed dear PENS and
Philips poverty to a handsome living.
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Travelling hY Express Trains.

The London Times, commenting upon
the speed at which express trains are
driven and the persistence of the public
in travelling as fast as they can, asks,
what is the need of this? What is the
good of it? Why should man peril
his life for the sake of One-halfhour
earlier in town? 1t is by no means rare
to find a man coming up at this perilous
pace lust to save half au hour, which he
spends in walking to save cab hire, or
perhaps bus hire. Few mems time Is 10
precious that haitian hour Of 1t - worth
the risk of life and limb. Nor is there
anv such need that fathers and mothers
of families, children, AMI n.en OF business,
should stake their eXi-tanae on the
tenacity of a bolt, on the loughness OF a
sleeper, on the sOundness OF a rail, or on
the hardness Of the ground. There Is no
honor gained in such rccklessness. A
certain amount of danger there must
always be, and that itself il a reason why
we should add to it as little as possible,
that we be not ourselves answerable tor
misadventure. Till, however, the public
becomes wiser-that is, till is realizes that
the saving of halt an hour is hardly worth
the risk of being burned, scalded or
crushed to death, or rendered q miserable
object for life-the chief protection OF
railway travellers is the heavy cost OF
serious accidents.
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The Enemy of France.
Pail Mall Gazette


The French chambers arc entering
into the lists with that redOubtable enc
my of France. the phylloxera, whose
ravages constitute a national calamity.
The minute and destructive insect in
question made its appearance there in
the year 1865, coming no one knows
hence, and since that date it has man
aged to destroy third of the French
vineyards-to ravage a super6cies of
600, 900 hectares 1.-TWO and half acres
each), and consume 12,261 900 hectoli-
tres of twenty-five gallons each. The
damage done this year is set down at
139, ,775, ,000f, and this annual damage
will 90 on increasing unless parliament
can succeed better than science and NJ
Dumas in arresting the progress OF this
minute scourge. Never has the vine
had such an enemy since the time of
which Beranger sang
When Brennus came back here from Rome,
These words he is said TO h We spoken:
ave have conquered, my hOys and brought home
A spr;g of the vine for a token"
The only wonder is that wine remains
as cheap as it is, and that, in spite of
heavy city dues. really good ordinary
yine can be obtained in Paris for franc
q bottle. A reward of e12,00 is still
omen to any one who shall discover an
effectual means of destroying the phyl-
Ioxera. with whose manners and Gus
toms science is now intimately ac-
duainted.
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TRODDEN FLowERS.

ALFRED rENNYsoN.
There some hearts that, like the loving vine,
Cling TO unkindly rocks and ruined towers,
Spirits that suffer and do not repins-
Patient and sweet as lowly-trOdden flowers
That from the passer's heel arise 49,
And bring back odoTous breath instead Of sighs.
q
But there are Other hearts that will not feel
The lonely love that hauHts their eyes and ears
That wound fond faith with anger than steel,
And out of PHYS spring draws idle tears,
Oh nature shall it ever be thy will
Ill things with good TO mingle, good with i'll
Why should the heavy foot of sorrow press
The willing heart of uncOmplaining love
Meek charity that shrinks not from distress,
Gentleness, 10th her tyrants to reprove?
Though virtue leap forever and lament,
Will one hard heart turn TO her and repent7
Why SHOULD the reed be broken that will bend,
Aud they that dry the tears in other eyes
Feel their own anguish swelling without end,
Their summer darkened with the smoke of sighs
Sure, love TO some fair region Of his own
viii flee at last, and leave us here alone.
Love weepeth always-weepeth for the past.
For woes that are for woes that may betide;
Why should not hard ambition weep at last
tnyy, hatred, avarice and pride?
Fate whispers that so low is your poor lot,
They would be rebels love rebelleth not
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English Oysters.

The English oysters are entirely dis
appearing, and this is the British Opin-
ion, as expressed in the London News,
of the American article: From the rich
American beds, where the requisite tenn
perature and quiet for the growth Of the
spat are never wanting, we get, and are
likely to get, oysters beautiful in out
ward appearance, with handsome shells,
like porcelain, and forming not indif-
ferent eating. They have not, as yet.
thriven much in England, but the sup
ply of them at one shilling to one shil-
lug and sixpence dozen and upward is
unfailing. The trade in them is de-
cidedly increasing. One company,
which imported, in a single month in
1875, thirty barrels week, found in the
same peroid, this year, a demand for one
hundred and fifty barrels. The supply
to be procured by dredging in Chesa-
peake bay and elsewhere is said to be
practically inexhaustible- But after
all, Chesapeake or Virginia oysters are,
to English tastes, poor substitutes for
fat Whitstables-t they are "a much
coarser kind of thing" says Mr.. Buck
land, no mean expert. They may suit
the palates of Americans. who like
oysters stewed, and call our "natives"
cOppery in flavor; they may be, as is
sometimes said, better for the purpose of
sauce than the English natives; but
they will never willingly be accepted
here as a substitute or anything but
pis aller. OF course the demand for
oysters, is fast rising, and this of itself
acts upon the prices. But the chief
reason why oysters which were sold on
the Tralee beds, for instance, at ten
pence for one hundred and twenty-six,
now fetch fourteen shillings to fifteen
shillings, and that at Whitstable natives
have risen, in fourteen or fifteen years,
from forty shillings a bushel to twelve
guineas, is that the supply is falling off.
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Vnneered diamonds.

Quit notable industry is now carried
on in Paris, namely, the manufacture OF
what are termed veneered diamonds, the
method of production being, briefly,
according to the following fashion; The
body of The gem is of quartz. or crystal
this being considered the haldest and
best substance that can be made availa-
bic for the purpose. Then after the crys'
tails are cut in proper shape, they are put
into a galvanic battery, which coats them
over with a liquid, the latter bel ng made
of diamonds which are too small to be cut,
and of the clippings and cuttings that are
taken off of the diamonds du ring the pro-
cess of shaping them In this way, all
the small particles OF diamonds that have
heretofore been regarded as comparatively
worthless can now, by means of this
ingenious French process, be made quite
serviceable in the jewelers. art,
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LATEST NEW s.,
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Shreveport Times learns that in
crease of business over the Texas and Pa
cific railway necessitates an increase of
thirteen locomotives and two hundred cars,
which have been provided for.
Gen. Sherman and secretary Cameron
arrived at Leavenworth last Monday. Gen.
Sherman says the;canpaign will result in a
general punishment of the Indians before
the winter is over.
The navigation of the Yellowstone has
suddenly closed by the rapid falling of the
water, and the supplies for the new post must
be hauled there in wagons from fort Buford
General Crook has failed to come up with
the Indians, having gotten to point where
the45ail lad split in several directions.
@Tbe cases know as the Hamburg cases
have been continued until the January term,
in consequence of the absence of the attor-
ney general, who has recently met with a
domestic bereavement which prevented his
appearing General Gary, in lengthy ar
gument argued their trial, but in vain.
A Pioneer Press dispatch of the 11th
says: The recent order of Gen. Sheridan
designating the fifth infantry and battalion
of the twentys-ecOnd as the garrison of the
new post, and directing these troops to put
themselves for the winter, has practically
put an end to the campaign for the winter,
as far as Dakota column is concerned.
There has been another serious out
break among the rice hands on the Cemba-
hee. The labOrers who were at work have
been attacked and severely beaten. Work is
altogether stopped, and the rioters refuse to
allow the rice already harvested to be
shipped to the market. Governor Chamber
lain has dispatched a special officer to the
scene of trouble, who is ordered to take Wig
orous measures to arrest and imprison the
A Bismarck special to the Pioneer
Press says that advices just received from
Rock agency snow considerable
trouble ahead. A chief named John GOss
was arrested for carrying supplies to the hos
tile camp, thus creating strong feeling be-
tween the Indians and the military who made
the arrest. A courier left for this place, but
before he had crossed the river opposite
Standing Rock he heard the long roll beat and
bugle sounded, and saw soldiers and white
men rnnning toward the military quarters.
A Pioneer Press special from Bismarck
says a complete enrolment OF the Indians at
Rock shows only four hundred and
fifty lodges, and a total of not over 1000 In
dams RatiOns have heretofore been issued on
A basis of 1000, from which it appears nearly |
5000 are absent, or else large amount of |
stealing has been done. Indians are known |
to have returned from the hostiIes, but so |
they could not be caught; and the |
attempt to disarm the hostiles has therefore |
proved abortive. Grass Chief, of the Black |
Feet, was arrested last week for harboring |
md supplying the hostiles. The Indians |
threatened to rescue him, but the garrison |
vas too well prepared to resist, and so the |
attempt was abandoned.
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ness, but of human dignity that can
risk itself safely, it may even result in a
devOtedness not unfit to be called divine
in a higher sense than the ancient.
Phlegmatic nationality stares and shakes
its head at these unaccountable prepOs-
sessions, but they exist as undeniably as
the winds and waves, determining here
wreck and there triumphant voyage.
From George EliOt's "Ddniek DeTQndd."
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EAST.

The yearly transactions in oysters in
New York foot up ten million of dollars.
The bivalves this year will be abundant and
of a superior description.
The Winchester Arms company, of
New Haven, turned out last week 1,O4OOO
shells for the Turkish government. The
next day they packed and put them all on
board the King Arthur in the harbor. 1t re-
quired $4,000 pounds brass, five anu a half
tons powder, and thirty-four tons of lead TO
make the shells.
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Internal Revenue Receipts.

The aggregate receipts from internal
revenue for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1876, were $110,717780. OF this
amount Illinois contributed S23, 73O,694,
or over one fifth of the entire amount.
Ohio ranks next. with SIT, 1887 ,670; New
York third, $14,616,723; Kentucky
fourth, $7,705,592, and Virginia fifth,
81, 7,314, 393-these states contributing
seven elevenths of the internal revenue
for the past fiscal year. The remainder
was paid by the other states and terrific
rios as follows:
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A NEW APPEARANCE.-COnsiderable
interest has been aroused in New York
over a fish called the pompano, which has
recently made its appearance in American
waters. Two years ago it sold at 50 per
pound in the market. Pompanoes have
been caught in large quantities in Vir-
ginia waters, nets and seines being used
to secure them. A few have been caught
by Maryland fishermen. The pompanO
is a summer fish, appearing only from
June 10 to September Is, and disappear
ing at the approach of cold weather. t
is caught in deep water, and is said to be
the companion of sharks. The average
weight of it is one and one half fpounds. 1t
is surmised by fishermen that they wiz
become as plentiful as Spanish mackerel.
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HOPELESS PASSION TO have the con

HOPELESS PASSION. have the con
sciousness suddenly stepped with anoth-
er's personality, to have the strongest
inclinations possessed by an image which
retains its dominance in spite Of change
and apart from worthiness--nay, to feel
a passion which clings the faster for the
tragic pangs inflicted by a cruel recog-
nized unworthiness---is is phase OF love
which in the feeble and cOmmOn-minded
has a repulsive likeness to blind ami
malism insensible to the higher sway of
moral affinity or heaven lit admiration.
But when this attaching force is present
in a nature not of british unmodifable-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-29

a CORRESPONDENT of the French
journal L'ExplOrateur has lately shown
that the population of France, instead of
increasing, is diminishing, and what is of
more importance still, he quotes figures
to show that the French arc deteriorating
in physical vigor. In 1866 the pOpula-
tiOn was IS, ,000,0 900 and in 1872 it was
36, 600 600, and taking into account the
loss Of Alsace and Lorraine the popula-
ton is seen to have declined by nearly
$4,000 in six years. In 1873 the
number of persons who reached the age
OF twenty years was 3OS,SlO; in 1874.
300, ,264; in 1875 2S3,76S; and in 1876,
only 277, 900. Inspection of an average
French regiment shows that the peopfe
throughout the country are stunted in
growth, although Normandy and Brit
tany still possess a stalwart peasantry.
As the emigration from France isl not
great and the diminution is evidently
due to causes acting through long
series of years there is serious danger
ahead for her as a nation. In material
prosperity France is, however, wonder
fully resilient, and the spectacle is thus
presented Ofwhich Goldsmith spoke in
his famous lines:
..Ill fares the land, To fastening ills prev
Where wealth accumuates and men decay"
The laws regulating the peasants
tenure of land are snch as practically
prevent him from rearing a large family,
and in the cities the artisan class is most
fccund, and, feeling the pinch of poverty,
are easily led into sedition. Having no
great foreign dependency like India
there is no natural outlet for men of
ambition and ability, who therefore
easily develop into revolutionists.
But, as things are going, France is be-
coming the ideal land of Nautilus, where
10y keeping down population the people
know no great extremes of wealth or
poverty.
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Mrs. STOWE says it isn't half 20 hard
to love as to unlove. And yet she was
never addicted to the weed nor took
bourbon straight.
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Outgoing Senators,

Appended is a list of the states in
which the term of United States sena-
tor expires on the fourth of March next,
with the name and politics of the present
senator:
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MY nROruER-mAN.

Say, hast thou taught one brother-man,
By brother-love 10 honor God ?
If this thou'st done, then sweet thy rest,
WhCn'laid at last beneath the sod.
Hast thou e'er wiped one bitter tear
From of some sorrowing human faoe2
II this thOus't done, the hand divine
Will all thy sins in love effaoe.
Hast thou e'er filled one lonely heart,
By teRder act with JOY and peace2
p That single deed will save thy soul,
And gain thee pardon'B full release.
Above all creeds and forms Of law,
This, then, is ChTist's revealed plan,
That love alone shall sway the earth,
And man redeem his fellOw-man.
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a SPORTING judge is of use in more
ways than one. Recorder Hackett added
to his other sound decisions one upon
guns, the other day, which bore against
a prisoner who plea led that the shotgun,
with which he had shot some children,
went off from blow against the window
sill. The recorder examined the gun,
declared it impossible, and offered to let
the prisoner try it in that way against
him with a double charge in it. The
jury was convinced by the judge, as
an expert as well as judicially, and
the sentence was years imprisonment.
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EpOchS.

Extension, we know, is a very imper-
feet measure of things; and the length of
the suns sjOurneying can no more tell us
how far life has advanced than the acre
age of a field can tell us what grOwtEs
may be active within it. A man may go
south, and, stumbling over a bone, may
mediate upon it till he has found a new
starting-point for anatomy; or eastward,
and discover new key to language tell
ing new story of races; or he may head
an expedition that opens new continental
pathways, get himself MANNED in body,
and go through a whole heroic poem Of
resolve and endurance; and at the end
of a few months he may come back to
find his neighbors grumbling at the same
parish grievance rs before, or to see the
same elderly gentleman treading the
pavement in discourse with himself shak-
ing his head after the same persuasive
butchers boy, and pausing at the same
shop window to look at the same prints.
If the swiftest thinking has about the
pace of a greyhound, the slowest must be
supposed to move, like the limpet, by an
apparent sticking, which after a good
while Is discerned to be slight progress
sion. Such differences are manifest in
the variable intensity which we call hui
man experience, from the revolutionary
rush OF change which makes a new inner
and outer life, to the quiet recurrence of
the familiar which has no other ep,,,.hs
than those of hunger and the heavens
From George EliOt's " D0niel Derondn.'
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ABOUT THE NAME OF FISH,
Apropos ofthe camp-meeting at Martha's
Vineyard, the Methodist newspaper tells
a story of some of the brethren who ar
rived early and sought to while away the
time by going a fishing. Several kinds
of fish were caught on the trip, and on
the return one OF the fishermen, with a
laudable desire for information, inquired
of the skipper the names of the different
specimens. "This," said he, 'is a black
fish, that is blue fish, tine next is a soup,
and that fellow there is a Baptist" "a
Baptist!' exclaimed the good brother :;
why do you call those fish Baptists ?''
because they spoil so soon on being
eken out of the water" was the satisfac-
t ry explanation.