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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-13
THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE
WORLD.

Mar HE I'm LacewOtk and Mosaic of
Precious StOnes-The TAI, u MausO-
Ieum Worth Fifteen Million Dol
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A Russian Merchants House.

When Russian merchant becomes
rich, he builds for himself fine house,
or buys and thoroughly repairs the house
of some ruined noble and spends money
freely on inlaid floors, gigantic mirrors,
malachite tables, grand pianos by the
best makers, and other articles Of furni-
ture made of the most costly material,
Occasionally-especially on the occasion
Of marriage or a death in the fami Y
he will give magnificent banquets, and
eXpend enormous sums on gigantic ster-
let's, choice surgeons, foreign fruits,
costly delicacies. But all this lavish,
ostentatious expenditure does not affect
the ordinary current of his daily life,
As you enter those gaudily-furnished
rooms you can perceive at glance that
they are not for ordinary use. You no
tice rigid symmetry and an indescriba.
BILE baroness which inevitably suggests
that the original arrangements OF the
uphOlsterer have never been modified or
supplemented. The truth is that by lar
the greater part of the house is used only
on state occasions. The host and his
family live down stairs in small. dirty
rooms, furnished in very different, and
for them more comfortable style. At
ordinary times the fine rooms are closed,
and the fine furniture carefully covered.
If YOU make rjsitc de poiitesSe after an
entertainment. at which you have been
present, you will probably have some
difficulty in gaining admission by the
front door. When you have knocked or
rung several times. some one will proba-
bly, come round from the back regions
and ask you what you want. Then fol
lows another long pause, and at last foot
steps are heard approaching from within
The bolts are drawn, the door is opened
and you are led up to a spacious drawing
room At the wall opposite the win
dows there is sure to be a sofa, and before
it an oval table. At each end Of the
table, and at right angles to the sofa,
there will be a row OF three arm-ChairS.
The other chairs will be symmetrically
arranged round the room In a few
minutes the host will appear, in his long
double breasted black coat and well pol
ished long boots. His hair is parted in
the middle, and his beard shows no trace
of scissors or razor. After the customary
greetings have been exchanged, glasses
. OF tea, with slices of lemon aud preserves,
or perhaps a bottle of champagne, are
brought in by way of refreshment. The
female members Of the family you must
moi eynppt IN 600 unless vou arc an in.
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A beet-sugar manufacturing company
at lseton, Cal will SOW five hundred acres
Of beets this season.
A Salt Lake dispatch states that the
feeling aroused throughout the United States
by the testimony at John d, Lees trial, rel
atve to the Mountain Meadow massacre, has
led the Latter Day Saints to apprehend the
arrest of Brigham Young and other heads Of
the church accused of sanCtiOnng the com.
mission Of that horrible crime. The Saints
have determined to resist any movement
made against Brigham Young by federal
authority, and to this end they are secretly
arming and drilling. Orders have been pri.
vaiely issued by the military commanders Of
the famous Nauvoo Legion, requiring that
organization to be in readiness for active
service by the Dist of the present month.
Night meetings and drills are going on in
Salt Lake City itself, and it is reported that
Brigham Young has asserted within the last
few days that the Mormons who have been
driven so often and so far will be driven no
longer. Four boxes of breech.loading rifles
were shipped last week to southern settle.
ments from the cooperative store at Salt
Lake City,
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The Turks nj Home.

There is no Turkish homelife. by
home.lile, ] understand the frequent
gathering together under the same roof,
and in the same room, of the members
of family, and all the influences and
attendant circumstances which such fire.
qucnt gatherings imply. The Turkish
house consists of two parts, one for men
called the selamlik, and the other for
women called the haremlik. These are
usually the two wings of the house, and
are commonly altogether separated from
each other by central hall, Thus the
men have their part of the house and the
woman theirs Neither is sallOwed, with
out permission to enter the territory Of
the other. In Turkish house, the men
and women do not take their meals to-
gether, do moi sit around a table, and
can hardly be said to feed decently. 1t
is quite possible for men and women
who do not know the use of a fork to be
very clean about their food, but the use
of fork is a great step toward cleanli-
ness in eating. A Turk holding con-
siderable position in the state will take a
handful OF boiled rice from the common
dish, and after having squeezed all the
water out by working it well in his hand,
will put the lump into the mouth of a
guest as mark of peculiar favor There
Is slovenliness about Turks at their
meals which is probably due to the fact
that men and women do not take their
meals together. The object of the meal
is solely to eat. Small tables, usually
without cloths, the dishes ready for
every ones fingers. and the absence Of
score of small conveniences which
every European tables furnishes, could
only be tolerated by people who get
their meals anyhow. What is said Of
breakfast applies equally to the other
meals during the day. The civilizing
effect upon household of requiring all
the members to meet together, the atten-
tion which has to be given to dress, and
to certain prophecies of life, the conver-
sation which takes place, are all SO
many influences which the Turkish house
is entirely without. The truth is that
the separation OF the women from the
men absolutely destroys every thing
worth speaking of as home life, and
causes the life Of a Turk in his ewH
house to be utterly wearisome and stupid
Cor. koad0R Times,
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MISCELLANEOUS,

The public debt statement for April
shows a reduction for the current month Of
about S., 10000, and an aggregate reduction
since July of $2S,o00OoO. The coin bal.
ance, exclusive of coin certificates, will be
$4,000 900. This very considerable increase
owe. the coin balances of last month arises
from the fact that there have been received
this month about $1O0OO,0O0 from the sale of
bonds in excess OF the amount disbursed to
redeem called 5-20s, The called bonds have
not been attainable. These $l0,OOOO00
should properly be deducted from the $i7,,
100000 20 show the amount OF coin owned
by the government exclusive of gold due for
called bonds, and held subject to the prestn.
tation of coin certificates. The total gold
coin then is about $35,OoO00o,
The Philadelphians will open the " lit
tie centennial or permanent exhibition on
May TO-" Turkey, of all foreign countries,
has shown the most enterprise, having for
warded an entire new collection OF articles.
So has Sweden and Egypt.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12
Our Map.

We lay before our readers q map of
that part of Europe which will be the
scene of opening hostilities between
Turkey and Russia. The eyes of mil
lions of people are likely to be directed
to this part Of the world for some time
to come, and the result of the conflict
will be looked for with eager interest.
Tie map, obtained by us from the New
York Tribune, will afford food for study
to those who desire to keep track of the
two armies, and who wish to be posted
upon their future movements. The first
line of Turkish deienses runs near the
right bank of the Danube river, from
Chervetz to Silistria, while the Russian
army occupied Kischenef, a railroad
town between Odessa and Jassy as shown
on the mae. The second line OF defenses
at which the Turks are intrenched is in
the Balkan range of mountains, and
there they are strongly fortified, and it
will be difficult to dslodge them,
as the country is rough and un-
broken and forms great rampant,
which will have to lie surmounted Ne
fore Constantinopie can be reached. The
map also traces the two boundary lines
of Russia-one before and the other
after the Crimean war. The Danube is
guarded by Turkish feet, which will
cooperate with the land forces.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12
Southern Antc.Bellum Policies.

Those life insurance companies which
did large business at the south before
the war, find that the recent decision of
the United States supreme court on the
forfeiture question is of immediate prac-
tical importance to them as well as of
great significance to the business gene
rally. This decision, it will be remem.
bered, was to the effect that, where the
payment of premiums was rendered i'm
possible by the breaking out of the re-
bellion, the assured can recover flom the
company the amount OF reserve at the
time when this first payment became due
and was not paid, together with interest.
Demands upon companies for the pay
ment of these reserves and interest have
become alarmingly numerous throughout
the south since that decision. None of
them are now resisted, and in the aggre-
gate a very considerable amount of money
will thus be disbur;ed. At the outbreak
O. the war insurance companies having
southern risks congratulated themselves
upon their good fortune in having the
reserves on those risks thus suddenly re-
leased to them, and all of them appro-
priated tine money, without dreaming
that they would ever be called upon to
return it. or course in large number,
probably in a majority, of the cases OF
insurance no demand will ever be made
upon the companies for a return OF the
reserves. Ii the policy.holder died sub
sequent to his unavoidable failure to pay
his premium, his heirs at-law, and not
beneficiary named in the policy, can re-
cover the reserve and interest. South
em papers would confer benefit upon
many old policy-holders or heirs of de.
ceased policy-holders throughout their
section, who may not have heard of the
decision, by informing them of the above
facts.-Phjia1ephia North Amerjcan,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12
What the War Means.

The New York Times, in discussing
the declared purposes of the Russian
government, says; This must mean to
drive the Turks as rulers, from Europe.
Nothing short of this will protect the
Christians, now subject to Turkish
power, from the abuses of which they
complain. Russia cannot govern the
Christian provinces through the porte,
because the porte could not, if he
wished to, govern those provinces in
any other way than that in which they
are now governed. The power of the
sultan over the local authorities is a
shadow for which he may fight, but
concerning which he could never give
any satisfactory guarantee. -
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no plan not intended exclusively for this !
Improvement Of the condition Of the eastern
Christians,
A dispatch from Matamoras says in
view OF the presence of Gen, EscobedO, |
who is chief supporter Of ex>president Lerdo,
on the Texas frontier, and the probability of
an attempt being made to restore Lerdo to
the presidency of Mexico it is stated that
Gen. Diaz, the acting president, will soon
come to the Rio Grande and assume the
command of northern Mexico. Orders have
arrived to recruit without delay five or six
thousand additional troops, and horses and
munitions of war are being concentrated on
the frontier as speedily as possible. Should
Escobedo cross from Texas into Mexico he
will meet with a stubborn resistance. 1t is
reported that Gen, Cortna was received in
Mexico with demonstrations of favor, and
has placed his large stock of horses in his diff
ierent ranches in this vicinity, which were
largely stolen from Texas, at the disposition
of the government. COrtina's friends assert
that he will soon return with his former
rank Of general, and take an active part in
the stirring events shortly expected on the
Rio Grandc,
Thomas Carlyle in a letter to the
lines on the eastern question, says that
rumor prevails that Disraeli, despite the
queens neutrality proclamation intends to
send an English fleet to the Baltic or do
some other feat which shall compel Russia to
| declare war against Eng land Latterly the
war has shifted from the Baltic and become
still more sinister on the eastern side Of
the scene, where the feat is contemplated
That will force not only Russia but all
Europe TO declare war against Engl md.
| This latter, he says, he has come to know as
an indisputable fact He advises taking
charge OF the route to India. and steering
| clear Of copartnery with the Turks. England
should feel it an ignOminy to be connected
with such nation as Turkey. Mr.. Carlyle
protests against the new papal outcry against
! Russia, which he says proceeds from
/ ignorance and Jealousy. He calls the atten.
| tion Of the friends Of their country to his
statements, least in n few weeks the maddcst
thing that the British government could do
should he done, and all Europe be drawn in
/ TO war.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12
A ROYAL Visit to the United States.

1t is pretty we'll settled that the Prince
and Princess of Wales leave England for
Australia in the winter of 1852. They
will return through the United States.
The country will pay all expenses and
the royal couple will thus be able to af-
feet little economy, which their strait
ened resources very much need. The
prince, without being extravagant, has
now spent every farthing of the money
which was accumulated during his mi.
nority of the duchy of Cornwall rents,
and he is now RAINING into debt. If the
queen does not assist him, he mus t soon
apply to parliament; but the Australian
visit is meant to stays of the evil day.
The Arcldida.
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A Victim of the Custer Massacre.

A touching incident has Just occurred
in connection with the death of Lieuten-
ant William Van w. Reilly, who fell
with Custer in that terrible fight on the
Little Big Horn last year. At the time
of the battle he wore seal ring with his
crest cut upon it, aud this, together with
his clothing, his sword, his pistols, and all
his belongings, was torn from his dad
body and carried away by some one OF
the foe who had helped kill him His
mother, unable to secure his remains,
and longing for something that had been
with him to the last, tried in every way
to recover it; she offered immense re.
wards; she had iac-similes OF the die
made and sent to the different agencies
along tbesfrontier, and she wrote to all
the commanding officers in the Sioux
country, describing il, and a few day:
since she received official notice from the
war department that the ring had beer
found. 1t was taken from the finger o
one of the fifteen hundred CheYapnes
who came in the other day Tor tleifan
nual supply Of forgiveness aud aglnh
>uition. - Cincinnati CO0matia
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The international Cotton Convention.

The chairman of the united cotton as
sociation, of Liverpool, having notified
the president Of the national cotton ex'
change of the United States, that the
international cotton convention will as
semble in Liverpool, July llth, and in
viting delegates from the national cotton
exchange, the president, Mr.. John
Phelps, has notified the cotton exchanges
of New York, Galveston, Mobile, Sa-
vannah, Charleston, Memphis, Norfolk,
and St. Louis to appoint each one dele
gate and one alternate to attend such
Convention, it being of the utmost I'M
portance to the cotton interests OF Amer
lea that the exchanges should be iu,lly
represented on this occasion Nine del
egates are all that American exchanges
ard entitled to.
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Relief AT Fires.

The Burlington Hawkeye, speaking OF
the scheme Of shooting ramrods with
string attachments into the windows of
burning hotels, observes This is in
deed grand idea. The only drawback
to its practical operation is that terri
fed guest standing at window shrieking
and howliug for help, would have been
very much surprised, and not greatly
tranquiled or reassured on finding HIM
self suddenly transfxed with three-toot
ramrod and coil of string, And unless
the fire department is vastly better on
the shoot than the police, the probability
is that not window in the hotel would
have been broken, while the streete of st.
Louis would have been full Of bowling
firemen and weeping citizens, pulling
iron ramrods cut of each other"
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Sad Ending of u March Child.

Rudolph Fenerestein, a painter by
trade registered his name at a hotel III
lawrence, Kan, one night, and was
found dead in his bed the next morning.
There was a letter on the table in which
everything was explained. "The candle
Gives no time for details. Valise stolen
on the way from Dalton to Kansas City,
Mt L, and X. Junction, while eating sup.
per. Tired of living. Struck stTeak Oh
bad luck on March II, when | was
born. Another March |, 1880 when my
father died Another March ~, vailse
stolen, and hand in my checks this night3
March "a 70 20, 1877, i morphine
bought at Kansas City Is any account
/ ann sorry cannot tell my whole his
tory it would be worth $4,000 to
somebody; but the time is over"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12

"Her individuality permeated with
its mixture of womanly tenderness an
statuesque classieality the scenes in
which she was interested" says a power
full writer on the New York press. This
is great improvement on the rolling
pin female of our course western humor
- L0aisciM C0Wieie ,I0mnNL
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5,5is6 The Turks are already drawing on the
adle and the grave. All :Mussulmen
tween the ages of sixty and sixteen in
,ur cow pania and Herzegovina have been ordered
IA -, M 1otn the army in those provinces
SPeo"' GOrtschnkof has instructed the Rus
turing h'" q fspresentatives in communicating his
ynsi saul.s , Y The powers to declare that Rus
A i : : :; z !: 5. ;: s:::r::; s: !: %
ala, conirl 1s.ss moment not y Russia, bat by a
i OfA0'' nvstt q The powers, In this matter the
,rpvlH viii limit himself to insuring the re.
iasas S sine}, rms Agreed on by the powers. Count
eSaSacia hauYaoH WAS specially intrsied to de-
comnStfSS afe x Nreat Britain that Russia entertain
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WELSH PLUCK AND ENDURANCE.
The Explosion at the TrOedyThlw col.
lIery near POnIypridd CSmric
Hymns In CImeTian Darkness.

II may be surprising to learn that the
attention of England has been turned
during the week from the gathering OF
the armies in the east and directed to a
little hamlet in south Wales. 1t is not
hard to find in human nature the reason
for this, The looming war, with all its
probabilities of slaughter, Of desolated
homes, of widows and orphans by the
hundred thouslnd, had only been re-
garded in the popular mind through dip.
lomatic lenses. The war was still game
of chess, but suffering brought to the
peoples doors, as it were, by the aid of
newspapers, caught the sympathy of the
million. 1t was the story of disaster at
the colleries. Scores of such calamities
to the men who work away dowd in the
dark. taking their lives by hundreds at a
time, have occurred within the last few
years in England, and the horrors of
them have arrested attention for day or
two. They were stories of sudden catas-
trophies . low subterranean rumbling
heard; q column of smoke rising into the
air; the gathering of wkite-faced women
and children at the pits mouth; after
some hours the bringing forth of grimy
corpses in the cage next day great
funeral that shook the whole country
side with its passionate grief, and then
all over. All over in two or three days.
But there at Pontypridd there was n
prolonged agony. The correspondents OF
the morning and evening papers poured
into London's great ear, hour by hour,
the intensity of the effort and suspense
that hung around the Troedyrhlw col
liery until London could think or speak
Of nothing else.
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THE RESCUE.

At last passage was made, and one
by one, weak, but still alive, the FIVE
men were borne on brawny arms to the
light of day. This was yesterday after
noon. Hundreds of thousands all over
the land wept with Joy. In London the
excitement knew no bounds. The home
secretary was questioned in the house of
commons to know if the news was
authentic; the queen telegraphed to
Wales for confirmation crowds gath.
cred around the newspaper bulletin the
papers are full OF the praise of the res
cuers, the details of the rescue and the
strong endurance of the men who were
saved. The Welsh bravery of last week
will be sung in the Eistedtodds Of the
Cymri tor ages.-M Y Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12

An explosion, followed by an inunda-
ton, occurred ten days ago. Nine men
we're imprisoned behind column of coal
one hundred and twenty feet thick,
which had fallen with the first shock.
There was a mystery about their fate,
but the warm hearts Of the south Wales
golfers decided swiftly that if sturdy
arms could unravel that mystery ere too
late, it should be done. Work was begun
and willing hands were superabundant.
Night and day the toll was unremitting,
and so it went for week before the first
ray Ct hope was given to the toilers. As
the time rolled on the interest grew, and
London held its breath in anxiety to
learn the fate of the imprisoned or en-
tombed At length on Thursday last
sufficient progress had been made to open
communication with a group of the men
five in number, the other four having
wandered away to other parts of the
mine. Now came the awful moment
Brave, treless, ceaseless, and sleepleSs-
the rescuers worked inch by inch to their
brethren in the living tomb, guided only
by their knockings from the gloom. As
the rescuers worked onward the voices of
the men in the dark could be heard
singing their Cymric hymns. Tears of
10y welled down faces black with coal
dust at the solemn sounds that told them
that God was STRENGTHENING the hearts of
their comrades to endure till they could
be saved.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-12

If men depended on the judgments of
their neighbors for their passports TO
heaven, no one would get there.
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