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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-23
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

Ofsee Of the Mayor and Chief Marshal, |
WHEELING, June 10th, 1876.
An illumination on tho evenings Of the Sd and
9TH Of July, 1875, and decoration with flags,
banners and streamerS on both days IL
asked by the committees 10 charge Of
tho Centennial Celebration. The illumination
and decoration should DO by all public buildings,
tho Capitol, Court HouSe, Public Schools, Society
Halls, Bridges, places Of business, DC, and dwell
paris Of the city, and not restricted 10 the line Of
march. Respectfully,
A. j. SWEENEY,
je2l Mayor and Chief Marshal.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-23
SATURDAY, JUNE oath.
DUBLrc SALE OF THE
ST. JAMES HOTEL, Wheeling.
FRIDAY MoRNING, Sumo 2S, ls76,

win 30 sold at the front door Of the Court House,
In the city Of Wheeling, W. Va. on
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-23
HORSE MARKET
AND
General Stock Agency

c"G VIII sell SATURDAY, JUNEfNO
&40A 2ith, 1876, at 10 A. NJ, Is to 20A2S
head Of Horses Of various kinds and prices. Also,
several Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, DC.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-23

PAKERs ANDRANuLY FLOUR
d 100 barrels nBAkerP Ring.n
i0S Sour Imperial"
| for uale al very Lowest Iatos
mI1 LIST, DAVENPORT 4 PARKS.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-23

TIE INTKLuGENCER will present daily the
news In all departments, from ~ q1 w Iao II
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

THERE are few VirglniaEs that just at
this time won't read with a thrill Of honest
pride this extract from speech made by
Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, in
the Senate Of the United States on the 4th
of March, 1s5S-eighteen years ago:
, You complain of the rule of the South;
that has been another cause that has pre-
served you. We have kept the Govern
ment conservative to the great purposes of
the Constitution. We have placed it, and
kept it, upon the Constitution. and that
has been the cause of your peace and pros
perity. The Senator from New York says
that that is about to be at all end; that you
intend to take the Government from us;
that it will pass from our hands into yours.
Perhaps what he says is true; it may be;
but do not forget-it can never be forgot
tent is written on the brightest page Of
human histoi y-that we, the shareholders
Of the South, took our country in her in
fancy, and. after ruling her for sixty out
Of the seventy years of her existence. we
surrendered her to you without a stain
upon her honor, boundless in prosperity,
incalculable in her strength, the wonder
and the admiration of the world. Time
will show what you will make of her; but
no time can diminish our glory OIL your re-
SDOnSibility.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

The New York ''Sun'' saws, leaving out
the estates of men like Astor, Stuart, Goe-
let, and a few others, it is safe to say that
nine tenths of the real estate of New Y ork
is mortgaged up to at least one-half of it's
assessed valuation as that was fixed three
years ago.
Tennessee also has law which prohibits
a man from marrying the daughter of his
deceased wife, but a farmer living near
Memphis did it. He was indicted, tried,
convicted, and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary. but Governor Porter has pardoned
him out.
The Franklin decided at the last meet
ing nv a vote Of 20 to that the United
states had nothing to fear from the Roman
Catholic Church, and that settles the ques-
ton as far as Rackbridge is concerned.
George W. Larkin. Commemorative at
torney of Prince William county, died at
the Exchange H otel in Manassas on Thurs
day morning last, in the seth year of his
age.
There will be an annual eclipse Of the
sun partly visible in Virginia on the
g5th inst.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17
skirmi shing i'm the Virginia Leg
iSlAflrG.
From the Richmond Letter to the Alexandria Ga
Zette.l

[From the Richmond Letter to the Alexandra Ga
zette.l
Mr.. Smith, of Nelson, and Mr.. Hinton,
of Petersburg, have not displayed thatlov-
ing disposition towards each other which
is recommended in good books. On fire.
quent occasions they disagreed and nelth-
er has cared to acknowledge to the oeher
that he is wrong. Of course they were OPP
posed to each other on the question OF to
bacco inspections. To-day, in his remarks
Mr.. H. asked Mr.. Smith if he had las the
papers stately said that he was ''sordld
and selfish" Mr.. Smith, in reply, appealed
to President Thomas to state whether he
understood him in the course of his re-
marks, yesterday, as referring to Mr.. Hin
ton, but MI. Hinton insisted that Mr..
Smith should himself say whether or not
he referred to him. Mr.. Smith then stated
that he had used the term in d general way,
but if Mr.. Hinton had any personal diff
Guilty to settle with him, he could do so
outside of the Senate. He SAID further
more if MI. Hinton wanted to know his
opinion of him he could tell him. Mr..
Hinton, in reply, said that if the language
was applied to him it was unqualifiedly
false, and Mr.. Smith was, as usual, eva
ding the issue. He then proceeded TO talk
about tobacco inspection.
While these exciting and reJuvenatlng
scenes were taking place in the Senate one
similar was being enacted in the House,
the. only difference being that the belllg-
erent parties were much older in years than
the staid Senators. The tax bill was up
for debate. Ex-Governor Smith stated
during his remarks that the gentleman
from Rockingham lMr. Armstrong; was
going for every measure opposing an in
| crease of taxation. Mr.. Armstrong jump
ed up and said the gentleman from Fau-
| quier had no authority for saying that he
| (Mr Armstrong; had voted in every case
against an increase of taxation, and he
knew when he said it that it was false.
Gov. Smith arose and Indignantly said that
if it was not for extreme age, and the place
and time, he would reply in amanner more
brusque and not SO polite. And so both
Houses now have something of the sensa-
tional to talk about. Last year Senate
Smith and Senator Pridemore were in the
habit of making things lively in that sober
body, and it was Smith who dubbed Pride
more t'Speakmore. Of Gov. Smiths for
mer achievements in this line [ know moth
ing, but it is said that MI. Armstrong has
in former times, had a passage. alarms
with an opponent and came out the win
ner.
[From the Richmond News.l
The entente cordidle has been restored be-
tween Senators Hinton and Smith. They
have been seen to liquor together within
two DAVIS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

GRANT could have learned lesson in
government in an adjoining State. When
Gov. Kemper was informed privately that
the Secretary of the Board of Public Works
was living riotously and beyond his means,
he summoned the man before him, sus-
pended him, and in a few weeks he was
serving out term in the state Prison. 1t
is true that Kemper's brother-in-law and
private secretary and intimate friends were
not up to their eyes in frauds, nor did he
have a brother that he was keeping posted
about Sucrative post traderships. These
things probably make difference.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

Ter, Bahman u Co., where they turn out /,
ten to fifteen of those finished and compli-
Gated triumphs of ingenious mechanism
known as fire and burglar proof safes.
There are 400 hands employed, among
whom are 125 in the paint shop alone, in
GLIDING some most expert landscape ar
lists. From the orders we saw coming in
from all parts of the country, and the safes
going out towel, everywhere, theirs
must be a popular make of the article.
Already nearly $4,000 of them have been
manufactured and sold at those works.
But we cannot long linger at the great
Porkopolis of the West, but must take you
with US by the Mississippi g. Ohio r. R.
through the southern part of Ohio and In
diana to Louisville There is not much
along that route to attract the attention of
the traveler-a great deal of fine sheep
grazing country with no sheep on it, good
many small, thrifty looking towns, and
outside of them, after leaving the suburbs
of Cincinnati, Il remarkable scarcity of
good dwellings, at which the writer was
surprised. For one hundred miles from
the last named city did not see any more
good houses than you will see in the mile
from Staunton to Middlebrook. AS you
approach Louisville the country gets bet
ter and more slightly. with some pretty
just before crossing the river, on the great
Louisville r. r. bridge, we halt at Jeffer-
sOnville, the seat of the Indiana peniten-
tary, where we put off four distinguished
travelling companions linked lovingly with
steel bracelets, one of them carrying two
pistol balls in his head and two other scars
whence two other pistol balls had been ex-
tracted. He was a precious scoundrel-an
Indiana barn burner. So at the close OF a
five hours ride we steam into the metro
polls of Kentucky, and are welcomed to
the magnificent inequalities Of the Louis
vile Hotel. We are in time to see the fag
striking feature of which was a ponderOuS
but popular machine into which the ug-
Hest, sourest, wrinkledest old maids were
thrown, and in a few turns came OutSweet,
pretty misses of sixteen. How would such
a machine take in Staunton?
| had but little time to look about me in
Louisville: but the large old City Hall
with it's life-like statue of Henry Clay, and
the elegant and spacious new "Courier"
building, which rivals the New Y ork 'sTri-
bune" building, built at a cost of $240 900.
cannot be overlooked.
During my short stay [ had the pleasure
to meet the elegant and accomplished lady
of Col. Albert Johnston, who some of her
Staunton friends, among whom is the Sc
nior editor of the VINDICAToR, will re-
member as having sojourned with them
during the war. Col. J. was until recent
ly chief of the Louisville police. H. is
now connected in an official capacity with
the L. q Paducah r. r.
But while [ write Jour boat has brought
us 12O miles down the river, and we are
nearing greensboro, a snug manufacturing
town Of 5000 or 10000 inhabitants on the
Kentucky side, where we stop. So we will
close this lengthy scrawl, with the promise
not to do so any more. Yours,
BOTETOURT.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17
THE VALLEY RAILROAD.

The stockholders meeting Wednesday
gave everybody genuine surprise. The
action of the city of Baltimore in joining
the Valley stockholders to break out of
the web, was received with as much re-
joicing as il an important election had
gone the right way. 1t is hoped by many
that the result will be an earlier resump-
ton of the work, though we do not see ex-
actly how that is so. At all events, the
company has chance to stop getting into
debt aud to pay UP, which is important to
it lust now.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

An entertainment was given by the la
dies of Ashev1lle, N. O., last week to aid
in purchasing a residence at Richmond for.
the widow Of StoneWall Jackson.
Ipecac ald cream in Warren county.
Va, last week, proved the salvation Of q
little child of DR.. T. Haone who had sWal-
lowed carbolic acid.
Some peaches in Amherst county, Va.
are killed, but they have plenty left.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

The Virginia Senate has passed a bill to
Incorporate the brotherhood of the prot
estant Episcopal Church in the diocese ct
Virginia.
The sum of $50. 404 was paid by life in
surance agent in Richmond Friday to the
widow of Lewis D, CrenshaW,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

JUDGE CRUMP, Chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Virginia House of Eele-
gates, thinks, after an examination OF the
Auditors report, that the government can
be run for twelve months without increas-
ing the tax on real or personal property.
There would seem to be a ''discra pancy"
somewhere.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

New HAMPSHIRE elected a Republican
Governor Tuesday by a large majority.
Don't be discouraged! After the Credit
Mobilier frauds were exposed, the Repub-
licans carried many State elections, but
the first National one that came along
after it, they turned out the Republican
Congress and put in a Democratic one.
So it will be with the Presidency.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

SOME CREDITORS of the Atlantic Mis-
sissippi & Ohio Railroad have petitioned
Judge Bond for Receiver to be appointed
for it. Efforts are being made by Gen.
Mahone's friends to have him appointed
Receiver, as in the case of Gen. Wickham
with the G.. Il O. road.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

THE UNION LEAGUE of New York
has passed some virtuous resolutions for
searching and thorough Investigations"
into every branch Of the public service.
They needn It bother; the Democratic House
is doing it for them.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

The HIGH AND LOFTY Position taken
by the Postal Editors for President Grant
don't set we'll on an Eminent Statesman
who has been keeping sharp eye on va
cant Post Traderships, and writing his
Brother Orville to pounce on them.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

Bur- said Mrs. Belknap, eff I have
sinned, others have donbly sinned; If 1 am
guilty of crimes, others are guilty Of dou-
BILE crimes.'' That's business Put her
oh the witness stand!
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

ZACH CHANDLER says she would as
soon be in hell without a fan as to be Sec
Rotary of the Interior with Democratic
House in session." We thought that House
was--not doing anything.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17
The Presidential FayOrites i'm
the Virginia Legislature.
From the Richmond Enquirer.l

FROM Cne hlCnlnOnu Enqulrer.J
The Presidential question has it's in
terest to day in Virginia as we'll as at
Washington and in States north of the
Potomac, and it will, tn erefore, not be I'M
interesting to our people to know how
their representatives in the Legislature
stand in referenceto the statesmen men-
toned prominently in connection with the
Democratic Conservative nomination for
Chief Magistrate of the Republic. A poll
of the members of the House of Delegates,
made Saturday, shows that Speaker Han
ger and Messrs. Dyer, Lampkin, Stuart,
Johnston, P. B. Williams, A. I. Clarke,
Swami, Strayer, and Governor Smith are.
for Thurman.
Messrs. Clay, W. B. Taliaferro. Craig.
Terrell, McMullen, Lewis, Charles O..
Williams, Powell Carter, and Gilman, for
Hendricks.
Messrs. Dooley, Simpson, Berry, W. T.
Taliaferro, Fowle. Kerrick, Walker, and
Kellam for Bayard.
Messrs. Lowell, Carpenter, Burke, j. g.
Hill sergeant-at- arms), for Hancock:
Mr.. Neeley is for Tilden; Withers, for
Randall; Barnes, for Pendleton; Robinette,
for Judge Davis of the Supreme Court; r.
II. Cox, for Jefferson Davis; Wall, for
himself; Mr.. Moncure had no choice; Mr..
J. 0. Morris could not tell; MI. McCaull
had no choice; Mr.. Hoeninger wanted
some honest man; Mr.. Fowler really don't
for Charles Francis Adams; Mr.. Flood
wanted any good Democrat; Mr.. Gray
can't decide; Mr. Aylor. no choice; Mr..
Witcher will wait for further develop
ments; Mr.. Gordon, Charles Francis
Adams; Mr.. Mcdonald not U. S. Grant;
Mr.. McElroy, General Mcclellan; Nh.
Crump can't decide; Mr.. Coghill is in the
same dilemma; Mr.. Watts is for Grant
mot seriously); Mr.. Crank don't know
yet.
THE PRESIDENCY IN THE SENATE.
The senators made request that their
names should not be published, and we
comply, although we can't see what harm
it would do. The result was as follows:
bricks, five senators; for Bayard, three
senators; for Pendleton, one, and for TIL
den, one. Although both Houses on Sat-
urday were slim when the poll was taken
the above gives clear exhibit of the re-
lative strength of leading candidates for
the Democratic Presidential nomination.
The County Court of Kanawha county,
West Va, recently refused, by vote Of
ten to two, to issue liquor license the COM
ing fiscal year.
James Hollywood, a policeman of Nor
folk, Va. has just gotten three years in
the peniGentiarY for robbing the Marine
bank.
General Custer has telegraphed Hester
Clymer that in his opinion there is no ira
ding-post west of the Missouri river which
was not bought by the parties holding
them.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

THAT "EX-CoNFEDERATE" HOUSE in
W ashington that wasn't doing anything,
you know! You don't hear any more con-
plants of that kind from the organs now.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

BISHOP JOHN JOHNS is lying seriously ill
at the Episcopal Seminary, near Alexan-
dria. He was paralyzed last week. He is
in his S0th year.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17
The NARROW PASS DISASTER.

DE NdhAOW L 400 DlOhO L. 1Cs
This disaster on the Valley Railroad of
which we gave a very full account tasS
week, has been made the subject of Coro-
ner's investigation, the purpose being to
find out where the blame lies. AS in all
such cases, the opinions differ, but all may
be. agreed that the company will have to
suffer heavily for damages, in addition to
the losses it has already sustained. The
real blame lies far back of the rotten tim
Der and the loosened trusseS, and may be
found in the triumph of engineering" by
which the man trap was erected. Looking
at it from the bottom of the gorge, the
slender trestles away up in the air, the
thread of a track across which the massive
engine and heavily burdened train is to
pass, one thinks that the triumph is in the
courage of the men who cross, rather than
in the skill Of the engineer who erected it.
These engineers complete their bridges,
and are made famous, but it is SMITH and
JONES and ROBINSON who have to cross
it., and, in a year or so, SMITH, JONES and
ROBINSON go down on it in a crash, and
are heard of no more, while the engineer
goes on in his fame and builds another
man trap somewhere else to catch more
SMITHS and JONES and RoBINsoNs. No
body who looks at that terrible chasm OF
Marrow Pass, except the distinguished
engineer would doubt that there never
ought to have been trestle bridge there
atall, nor indeed, any bridge with spans
seventy feet long. 1t should have been
filled in But then, of course, we don't
know anything about it, being only one Of
the SMITHS and the rest of us whose only
business is to fill the ravines with our car
casses, and not to plan bridges.
These triumphs of engineering on the
side of cheapness to the company, are cost
lY enough to the people.
GEN. BELKNAP is no more a necessary
consequence of Republican than TWEED is
of Democratic principles. Baltimore Satl
s'No more," but just as much. When
TWEED was reigning in New York, his
throne rested exclusively on the Democ-
racy of the city, which was well known, to
those who knew anything Of it, to be the
most corrupt political organization in the
country. Corruption had been made the
principle" of the party, like the Re-
publican party of this country to-day. sIts
leaders were thoroughly corrupt, and the
result was that the people rose against
them and drove them from power. Then
defeat displaced the leaders, many Of
whom, like the Republicans of to-day,
found abodes in the prisons for their
crimes. 1t was only after this that the
Democracy, with change from dishonest
to honest leaders, again got power, and
has distinguished itself in general reform
in the State, movement resulting from
dearly bought experience. The party that
permits corruption makes the thief, and
that was the way with the Democratic
party of New York city, and that is the
way with the Republican party Of this
country to-day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

THE whole argument Of the organs con-
densed: ssYou're another" That's logic,
you know.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17
VlRelNlAxi 11reHANv o,po17,r COMP,
IN VACATION

v ALLEGHANY CIRCUIT COURT,
FEBRUARY 23d, 1876.
G. S. Shriver, D. Il. Stevenson and
NJ. Rogers, merchants and partners
trading under the firm and style of
Shriver, Stevenson & Plaintiffs
VS..
D. Y. Huddleston and R. W. Jones,
partners trading under the firm and
style of D. 7. Huddleston & Co..,..aOefendamfs
IN CHANCERY.
The object of this suit is to attach the estate
of the defendants, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to satisfy the claim of the plaintiffs.
to wit: The sum of three hundred and twenty
dollars and eighty>foIr cents, with legal inter
est thereon from the I'd day of December, 1875,
till paid, (being the balance due from the de-
PENDANTS to the plaintiffs on account and ,he
costs of this proceeding. And it appearing
from an affidavit fled in the papers of this
cause that the defendant D. Y. Huddleston, is
not a resident of this State, it is ordered that
he appear here within one month after due pub.
LEGATION of this order, and do what is necessary
to protect his interests in this suit.
Copy-Teste. J.J. HOBBS, Clerk.
II. L. PARRISH, p. q. mh3.4t
XTlRGINIA.
ALLEGHANY CIRCUIT COURT,
FEBRUARY 22d, 1876
John W. Wyatt....:..... Plaintiff
VS..
Joseph Dickson, Jordan and
Jane, his wife, born Dickson, Samuel
Price, Mary" Price, William Price,
- Beckley and Margaret, his
wife, born Price. John Price, Mary
Jane Hannah, Elizabeth Ann Ham
nah Dickson HANNAH and Rohert
Dc fen1ants
IN CHANCERY.
Ehe object of this suit is to obtain partition
of the lands lately belonging TO the estate of
Joseph Dickson, ST., decd.
And il appearing from aa affidavit filed in the
papers of this cause that the defendants, -
Jordan and Jane, his wife, Samuel Price, Mary
Price, William Price, - Beckley and Mar.
garet, his wife, John Price, Mary Jane Hannah
elizabeth Ann Hannah, Dickson Hannah and
n Koeers Hannah are nonsresidents of the Stateof-
Virginia, it is ordered that they appear hers.
within one month after due publication of this
order, and do what is necessary to protect their
Interests in This suit
A Copy-Teste j. HOBBS, Clerk.
r L. PARRISH, "a. nh34t
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

MARROW PASSAGE INCIDENTs.-The
coroner's inquest in the.matter of the Mar
row Passage disaster on the Valley Rail
road has returned verdict that it. was
brought about by the unsoundness of the
bridge timbers. We take the following
items about the accident from our ex-
changes:
A remarkable intimacy existed between
Messrs r. E. Hannah and Charles L.
Noel. They were cousins and nearly of
the same age. LII infancy they were bap-
tlsed at the same time and by the same
minister. They grew up together. They
entered the army at the same time and
served during the entire war together
They were doing business together since.
On the night of the accident they were on
the same seats, lying side by side, both
asleep, both were Instantly killed, the fu-
neral OF one was the funeral of the other
The scene at the wreck when the body
of poor Chapman, the brakeman, was ia
ken out, was distressing. His was the last
body OF human being recovered 1t was
at the very bottom of the wreck. His
brother vs. ON hand to receive the man~
g!eq and q composing remains.
The watch of the Engineer was found
under thu engine on last Thursday. It had
stopped at 1922 which is supposed to be
the time 1t Which the accident occurred,
The mother, wife and two brothers of
i. =. Harmon and Mrs, Noel, mother of
Charles L. Noel, victims Of the disaster,
visited the bridge notwithstanding the op-
position Of friends, The scene upon their
ARRIVAL was very distressing on account of
tAe lamentations and shrieks Of the wo-
men,.
Mr.. Wightman who was killed had only
few days before, insured his life for $1,000
IN the Virginia Protection Life Insurance
Company.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

NEARER to thee, my boy, nearer to thee
See the testimony of Brother Orville
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-17

THE LAST ORDER from the White House:
s'Let no guilty informer escape"