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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-11

GAS BrLLs.-Do those who measure
the flow Of gas through our meters, aud
report the same every month to head
quarters, ever hear any complaints touch
ing the possibility oiinaccuracie- in their
figures?
Do they ever hear people rcgretting
the recent reduction OF the price to s. 30
per thousand on the ground that the re-
duction has seemed to increase rather
than diminish their bills?
D. they ever hear people dcprccating
any further reduction in the price, on the
ground ,ha, no body after while but
the rich will be able to uss gas?
Do they know that on account Of the
complaints OF consumers in other cities
gas inspectors had to be appointed to
guard the interes, oF consumers in vari.
ous ways, and among them by detecting
leakagcS whereby gas is registered at the
meters that is not consumed atthc burn.
ers?
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'TnE FRASKLiS lSsUR RAHCE COMPANY.
Attention is called to the annual statc-
ment Of the Franklin Insurance Company
printed in this mornings paper Mr..
Phillips, the recently elected Secretary
Of the company, comes among us with
the prestige Of experience and ability rs
II practical insurance man, and these
qualifications will no doubt tell favorahiy
upon the fortunes OF the Franklin. The
franklin il one Of our oldest and most
reliable companies.
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GheGatelliqtrrer

AN IMPORTANT MEET1No.-The Ma
tional Republican Committee meets in
Washington City day after tomorrow,
the 18th, TO decide upon the time and
place oil holding the next National Con.
vention. Captain Hanson Criswell, OF
Moundsvillc, Is the member from this
State, and will no doubt bc in attendance.
Inasmuch as every city inthe country is
putting in claim for the Convention we
appeal to the Captain not to forget US
here when 1t comes his turn to speak. In
1860 several gentlemen went on from
Wheeling to New York to "make
an effort" on our behalf with the
National Committee, among them
Thomas Hornbrook, Esq. and the
late Alfred Caldwell, but the West
was too mighty for US and Chicago was
chosen. The late Horace Greeley was
present and took part in the deliberations
OF the committee, us did also old Frank
Blair, ian oldmanShen and as old as the
hills now and likewise old Gideon
Welles, afterwards Secretary Of the Navy,
and Senator DooIittle, Of Wisconsin, who
is no longer Republican, Mr.. Greeley
was quite conservative about intruding
Republican convention on slave soil
even the little estrip Of slave soil embraced
in this narrow neck OF the Old Dominion,
and thought the State Of "Indyauer" (his
pronunciation was about the right lati-
tude. But a man by the name OF n. B.
Judd, from Chicago, who afterwards went
as Minister to Berlin, was red-hot for
Chicago, as be was, when the Convention
came of, for Lincoln. and he carried his
point both times, and thereby made big
point for himself. Wchavc often thought
OF Judd since that and wondered
whether he was the same Judd
who was recently SO red-hot fOr
De Koven. That can hardly be tho same
man or De Koren would have succeeded,
but probably some other member of the
family. We wish Capt. Criswcll was Judd
or Judd was Capt. Criswell for the next
day or two, for then We would be sure to
succeed in getting the Convention here
Not that the Captain is not IA whole team
and a horse loose" OF himself in
divers and sundry ways, for we
remember with gratitude that he went
down TO Elenboro in IA aud sednced
the Democracy into nominating Ben
Wilson, thereby coming within one OF
breaking up the party, but the question
is whether he can manipulate that com.
mittee Ia Judd. II he can his fortune
is made. The City Council of Wheeling
will devote the unexpendcd balance OF
the Capital removal fund toward putting
up his statue in Market Square and give
him solid vote for Congress. So now is
your chance, Captain.
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New YORK, January lO.-Thc direct,
L, $. cable has been repaired aud commu.
nicrlion with Europe has been rccstab.
liShcd.
BosroH, January lO.--ThC tariff for
frst.cla.- freight from Boston to Chicago
was to-day advanced by all the lines
from 80 to - cents, the Grand Trunk
being party to the new combination.
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NEW YORK.


NEw York, January l0.-A special
from White Plains SayE the Surrogate
Cour, to-day decided the Singer will. Mira.
J. l.. Singer, named in the will PROFOUND.
ed, isa lady whorc character il in no way
impugncd by or involved in the matter,
and which We are bound to consider Ns
above rcproach. She is the widow Of the
deceased aud her children are his lcGiti.
mate Offspring. The application Of Mrs,
Mary Ann Singer, (Miss FOSTER, the sec.
ond wife, who claimed that she was cntit.
led to the widows dover, is denied.
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The Hannibal d ~. Joe IsalIroad.

Sr. LOUIS, January lO.-'rhc Giobc.
Democrat has a special from 81. Joseph,
Missouri, which EayG steps arc being TAX
en- to Gle an application in court Iur the
appointment Of II receiver for the Han.
nibnl &St. Joseph Railroad, that charges
Of bad and even corrupt infringement are
freely made.
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fOREiGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, January lO.-A dispatch from
Delhi reports that during parade Lord
Napier was thrown from his horse and
had his collar bone broken.
Vi.count Ambcrboy, the oldest son OF
Earl Rusel, is dead.
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AN EARLY CLOSING MovEMENT.-The
dry goods men are talking Of closing their
stores at Q o'clock p. NJ. on and after Mon
day next. An agreement % this effect is
now in circulation, and will probably re-
ceive the signatures Of all the Lead
ing dry goods houses. The move
ment Is said 10 have been in.
augurated for the purpose Of re-
duSing the large gas bills Of the mer.
chants during the winter months. A
prominent dry goods man yesterday in
formed us that his gas bill for the year
1875 was nearly twice as large as the pre-
vious year.
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BELGIUM.

BEuasrrs, January lO.--Serious dis.
Hrbancrs occurred among the miners at
Charlrroi last night. The military in
tcricrCd and number Of ptrson1 we're
killed and wounded. More soldiers have
gone to the scene OF trouble.
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FIRE RECORD.

LITTLE Rock, January lO.-I'irc de.
atT0ycd two buildings belonging to the
Sisters oi Mercy. Loss $1,000. Insured
for 81 200 in the Triumph Of Cincinnati,
Lo.a to tenants $1,000, Insured for five
hundred dollars.
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PHILADELPHIA, January 10, e. The
steamer City Of EristoI from Liverpool
has arrived,
LONDON, January io,-'Thc steamer"
Gernania and Eric from New York ar
rived ont.
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NEW ORLEANS.


New ORLEANS, January l0.-Thc tug
Cha-. 4, Wood exploited at the foot Of
Jackson stree, yesterday, instantly kill.
ing George Hcn,cll, The deceased leaves
n wife aud three children.
FELL FROM 4 sCArFOip.
Charles Lahrc,a painter fell from -caf.
fold ut the Academy Of the Scared Herd
this morning, and died from tho injuries
he received.
IIUSG ny 4 MON,
Burgess, (colorcd) confined in the Ba
ton Rouge Jail for killing II white man,
wat hung by mob Friday night.
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Died.

PfTsRURGH, January 10. James
Hammill, ex champion pcnllCr, we'll
known in this country aud Europe, died
At his residence On Second avenue il thus
city to-day, after short Illness.
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The latest thing is an invisible net
used to enable the ladies 70 arrange and
preserve the symmetrical proportions and
astonishing intricacicS Of their front
hhir.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, January lO.-A ministerial
Criri4 j. imminent. 4 cabinet counsel
was held last night.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
MANY fine shade trees were blown
down blythe high wind on Sunday night.

THE livery men say that all their "rigs"
have been engaged for the FIRST sleighing.
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Resolved, That the tenure ofa Ptesi-s
dent pro TEN Of the Senate elected at one
session does NOT expire al meetingIot
Congress after tho frst recess, the Vice
President not having appeared TO take
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Resolrtd, That the death Of the Vice
President does not have the effect to va.
cate the office Of President pro TEN Oftho
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13

CHEER UP.-Don't spend your time in
groaning over dull times, nor feel dis
consolate over the future. Don't cross
the bridge until you come to it.
Don't growl but keep cheerful coun-
tenance, speak encouragingly to your
neighbors, and thus seek to encourage
rather than depress those with whom you
come in contact.
If you are in debt, pay as much and as
fast as you can. No reasonable man
ought to expect more than this. But to
lock up money and refuse to pay your
honest debts, is foolish and a wicked
thing; and this sort of work has done
more than anything to cause general dis.
trust, and to keep it up. This distrust of
one another is the real cause of the pres
ent stagnation of business.
Finally let everybody do his best, pay
his debts as fast as he can, live economi-
cally, and wait for the good time. 1t
will come; money will begin to circulate
and business revive. Help to bring it
about by all you can do, and urge your
neighbors to do likewise and then watch,
wait and pray, for the Good time COM
inpO
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IS o. s
JUDGE MAcKEY CHARGED WITH BE-
ING CoNspICUosLY INEXAcT.-The Lam
caster Ledger accuses Judge Mackey of
downright falsehood in 1.-The statement
made by him to the Chester grand jury
of the facts and circumstances connected
with his discharge of the Lancaster grand
Jury. The Ledger says: ~ -" ga
q. LIST. The Court was not in sessioniwhen
the difficulty occurred, nor did the pre-
siding Judge know anything of it until
about one hour after il did occur. And
he was then informed of it by the clerk
of the Court. '"' - ~.
I'd. Consequently there was nolcrowd
rushing from the Court House or through
the streets.
3rd. The editor of this paper visited
the wounded man in company with the
sheriff about one and half hours after
the occurrence, and found his wound
dressed, and he comfortably sleeping in
his room at the hotel. There was no ex-
element on the streets, and but very lit
tie at the time the affair occurred. -
4th. Gardner, who the Judge says is a
notorious desperate, is a young man
about twenty years old. This is the tlrst
difficulty we have ever known him to be
engaged in. The young man who was
shot was about the same age Of Gardner,
and were intimate acquaintances. They
were both under the influence of liquor
at the time of the occurrence.
5th. The ball did not enter the head,
but entered the right side of the face, and
came out ON the left side of the nose.
9Th. The facts ~ recited by Judge
Mackey were never made known to the
grand jury, and the Judge must have
picked them up on the streets or in his Sc
cret caucuses.. ,., 4, IL,
7th. As to the dogs clicking the blood
of Gardner's victims" such an expression
| is characteristic Of Judge Mackey. It's
unnecessary for US to contradict such
statement. Every sane man knows that
it is not so. 80.
Sth. The Judge charges the grand jury
of Lrncaster with "a deliberate violation
of a most solemn oath." In other words,
that they have peywed themselves. The
grand jury of Lancaster are made out of
different material from what We think
they are, if they do not give Judge
Mackey the opportunity to prove this as
sertion in the Courts.
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Court is affirmed.
Dissenting, Mr.. Justice Hunt. Mr..
Justice Clifford dissented from the opin-
ion, but concurred in the judgment.
What Constitutes a Good Fertilizer.

No ordinary cultivated plant can thrive
without sufficient supply Of each Of a
number of substances needed for its food.
With an abundance of all of these in
forms in which the plant can use them,
and with other circumstances favorable,
the plant will flourish and the yield will
be large. But if the available supply of
one of them be too small, light yield is
inevitable. Every ordinary soil contains
all of the ingredients of plant.food. In
"worn out" soils the available supply of
one or more of these is generally INSULT
cient. ..
Fertilizers supply the plant with food
which the soil lacks. Barnyard manure
not only does this, but also improves the
soil as living place for plants. Lime
and plaster (sul phate of lime) are neces-
sary as plant food, but, as fertilizers they
are chiefly valuable in rendering other
plant food available to crops. The in
gradients of plant-food generally most
lacking in our cultivated soils, are nitro
gen, phosphoric acid, and potash. The
usefulness of guanos, superphosphates,
bone manures, poudrettes, potash salts,
and ,other similar fertilizers, depends
mainly upon these Ingredients. Such
fertilizers are generally more or less val
liable in proportion as they contain larger
or smaller per centages of nitrogen, ptos-
phoric acid and potash, and as these arein
form more or less available to the plant.
IF all the other conditions for profitable
crop of corn or turnips are fulfilled in a
soil. except that phospheric acid is diff
cient, then phosphoric acid must be sup
piled. This may be done with bone,
which contains large percentage of
phosphoric acid combined with lime as
phosphate of lime" "' 90. 't No.
= Now, brother farmers will wish to
know what Fertilizers to select. To de.
eide, he must first learn what his soil
lacks, and then see where he can obtain
the needed ingredients in the best form
and at the lowest cost. Whether his
land needs nitrogen or phosphoric acid,
or potash, or all of these, he can best
learn, unless he has the experiments, on
small scale, with high-grade phos-
pilates, nitrogenous fertilizers, or potash
salts. i:i..g q itcF
If he desires simply to enrich his land,
and is in no special hurry for return,
let him select those which furnish the
largest amount of nitrogen or phosphoric
acid, or potash for his money. But if, as
be says, he wants q fertilizer to act quick
", and bring his crops forward SO as to
keep them out of the way of frost, or
prepare them for an early market, let
him select superphosphates with good
percentage of soluble phosphorici acid; /;
and nitrogenous mauures, with the nitro
gen in a readily available form, as nitrate
of soda. or sulphate of ammonia, or Peru
Wan guano; or if these are not easily to
be had, dried-blood, fsh-scrap, or finely
pulverized, steam bone-dust. 80, ~,
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The grand jury of Polk County,
Ga, besides attending in faithful man
ner to numerous other duties, thus ad-
monishes two editors: owe also feel it
our duty to censure the course and con-
duct of our two newspapers toward each
other, and urgently request the two edi-'
tors to cease wrangling about themselves
and branch off into agricultural articles,
or others that will tend to develop the
interests and welfare of our country"
"A few years ago you could sit up
aud talk philosophy with girl all night;
but now if you stay after one or two
o'clock in the morning the old people
begin to pound on the floor up stairs for
you to 60. We don't mind it ourselves,
but we can't help feeling for the girls.
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- The most beautiful girl in the Uni
ted States lives in Fulton, Missouri
She was at the college soiree on Friday
evening last. Her eyes send forth light
so effuigent and magnetic that strangers
become spell bound under its influence,
and stand rudely gazing. Her cheeks
bear bloom like the sunny side of an
early peach. A pearl would seem almost
black beside her teeth. Her form is so
graceful that men worship before seeing
her face. Her hands suggest the idea Of
waxcu fingers, tipped with vermilion.
Her smile seems actually to illuminate
her presence, and when she laughs the
listener fancics he hears sweet music in
the distance.
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*"Though love use reason for his precision,
he admits him not for counsellor" Most
probably the poet wrote physician" IN
stead of precision" See Stevens notes On
"Merry Wives of Winsor."
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LEGAL ADHERTLsING.-we are compelled to
require cash payments for advertising ordered by
Executors, Administrators and other fduciaries,
and herewith append the rates for the ordinary
notices, which will only be inserted when the
money comes with the order: : -
Citations, two insertions, ~ = $500
Estate Notices, three insertions, 200
Final Settlements, FIVE insertions 300
TO c0RRESP0GDEN7S7In order to receive
attention, communications must be accompanied
by the true name and address of. the writer. Re-
jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless the
necessary stamps are furnished tozcpay the postage
thereon.
Rsr We are not responsible for the views and
opinions Of our correspondents.
All communications should be addressed to sd
itors Intellgeneer" an and all checks drafts money
of H0YT & CO.,
Anderson, 8. C.
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RATES OF SUBSCRLPTl0M-Two DOLLARS
per annum, and ONE DOLLAR for six months,
, Subscriptions are not taken for less period
than six months.
- Liberal deductions made to clabs of ten or
R RIIES or IDnRRrLSLNG.-one Dollar per
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Gents per square for subsequent insertions
Than square.
Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing
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ting.
Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, Tributes
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The mornings sun shone brightly on
field and wood; even the old swamp, in
its grey morning drapery seemed to smile
softly beneath the warming influence of
the gay sunshine; but the sad faces of
the inmates of Berkley Hall wore & still
deeper shade of sorrow, when the Federal
soldier said goodbye.
Hubert, watchful for an opportunity,
(although Marion, with womanly tact
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THE LOUISIANA CASE.

The United States, plaintiffs in error,
VS.. VIM. J. Cruikshank, VIM. B. Irwin
and John P. Hadnot, in error to the Cir
cult Court of the United States for the
district of Louisiana Mr.. Chief Justice
Waite delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes here with certificate by
the judges of the Circuit Court for the
district of Louisiana that they were
divided in opinion upon aquestion which
occurred at the hearing. 1t presents for
consideration an indictment containing
sixteen counts, divided into two series of
eight counts, each based upon section S1
six of the enforcement act of May 81,
1870. That section is rs follows: :.
"That if two or more persons shall
band or conspire together. or go in dis
guisc upon the public highway, or upon
violate any provision of this act, or to
injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate
any citizen with intent to prevent or
hinder his free exercise and enjoyment
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w
chise on account of their race, &c.
The question then to be determined is
whether we can introduce words of linn
tation into penal statute so as to make
it specific, when as expressed it is gener-
al only. 1t would certainly be dangerous
if the Legislature could set q net large
enough to catch all possible offenders and
leave it to the courts to step inside and
say who could be rightfully detained
and who should be set at large. This
would to some extent substitute the judi
cial for the legislative department of the
government.
Congress is supreme and beyond the
control of the courts; butifit steps outside
of its constitutional limitations and at
tempts that which is beyond its reach,
the courts are authorized to, and when
called upon in due course of legal pro-
ceedings must, annul its entertainments
upon the reserved power of the States
and the people. To limit this statute
in the manner now asked for would
be to make new law, not to enforce an
old one. This is no part of our duty.
We must, therefore, decide that Congress
has not as yet provided by appropriate
legislation for the punishment of the Of
fence charged in the indictment, and that
the Circuit Court properly sustained the
demurrers and gave judgment for the
defendants.
This makes it unnecessary to answer
any of the other questions certified, since
the law gives the presiding judge the
casting vote in cases of division, and
authorizes judgment in accordance with
his opinion. REV. stat, sec. 62O) II
we find that the judgment as rendered is
correct, we need not do more than affirm.
If, however, we reverse all questions Ger
tilted which may be considered in the
final determination of the case according
to opinion we express should be an
swered. The judgment of the Circuit
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for st. Martinville. T. R. Muggah master, Fred
II. Buck clerk.
The Stella Block from the Upper Tensas and
Macon is due.
Andy Pauley, the chief engineer Of the Match
ez, died very suddenly yesterday at the residence
OF his brother-in law, Mr.. Mead. His death will
be deeply deplored by large circle of friends,
and the steamboat fra, ernity lose most valu-
able and useful member: Mr.. Pauley has been
on the decline for some time past, suffering from
that insidious foe, consumption. He made the
last trip, and when he left his comrades yester-
day morning. none of them thought that he
would never return to them again.
by Telegraph
BAYOU SARA, Dec. 81 To Hlte g. Carlin: The
W. ]. Potevent will arrive tonight ani leave
Saturday, January !, at T. NJ.
]. w. WALKER, Master.
FULTON, Dec. 31.-Jos. A. Aiken: River II leet
above low water mark. Leave this evening Tor
Shreveport give through bills lading.
MATT L. ScovEII. Str. Bonnie Lee.