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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-08
noNN 10 ii ARD Pan.

u.,ss, ike commencing the Finance
.,,,;,,s. of the City Council, for the
-, manner in which they have ap-
aha ,omshswk of retrenchment, II
.. 5oup the est mates Of the re-
...,,,va committees for the expenses. OF
-. c,y for the presen, year, notwlth-
,t,,,be case WAS one Of necessity
.,.,,bsn Of cho,cs. The old story OF
-. hoy in pursuit of the hare will Illus.
aha rpp,.l,ion of the committee. BY
.,.cbsr,sr Of the city, the rate o! taxation
e. goitst 10 50 cents on the 500 vslua-
,op and by the Constitution o. the
Sat. op- bonded debt is limited to five
~, cent OF the taxable valuation OF the
:,sl snd personal property OF the city.
Her. are limits to both the amount oil
,.n which We may contract, and the
,noup, OF tax which we may levy.
B,, these limits have bcca reached.
Yscsp ,ontrsr, 10 more debt We can
syy no more lax tbsU has already been
.-v,rt Certain interest, debts aad ssls
rlss mus, be paid Oar possible revenues
will bu, little more than suffice for these
purposes. Bu: little is lett FOR perma.
pant improvements; and the Finance
Clmnit.ee have wisely-necesssfily-
eliminated all estimates for this purpose.
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THE WAR.

Thenew this morning, trsm Russian
sources, Is to the effect that severe en-
gsgemsnt has taken place near ksrs, in
which the Turks were defeated, with q
loss of seventeen thousand prisoners.
The town is invested by fifty thousand
Russians, and second corps is marching
on Erzeroum. An unconfrmed rumor
says that Ksrs has been taken.
There is considerable alarm in st.
Petersburg concerning the armament of
England, aud also at Lord DERBY's
reply to GoRTsCHAKOFF.
In the English House OF Commons,
yesterday, there was an animated discus
sion over GLADsToNE's resolutions. The
extensive military preparations OF Eng
land mean something, and her attitude
is becoming question of much interest.
The King of Abyssinis has declared
war against the Khedive of Egypt, and
the latter has informed the Porte that he
can render Turkey no further assistance.
From Turkish sources the news is that
MuKHTAK PAsHA occupies a strong po-
sition between ksrs and Erzeroum, and
that he is confident he can stop the Rus
sian advance.
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SuDr.me Court Decisions.

WAsHINGToN, May 7.-Southern Ex-
press Company VS.. Dickson, error to
Circuit Court for Alabama. In this case
the court holds that where the goods are
shipped by an express company for II
certain destination, they cannot be de.
lvered Al any other place without the
consent of the consigner or owner, and
il makes no difference that they are
claimed by one of the conslgnees at the
place of consignment.
Esrnes ct al. VS. the Home IL surance
Company; appeal from circuit court for
the southern district of Illinois. 1t ID
here held that where an application for
Insurance. had been made in due form,
the property to be insured being fully
described, the amount o. insurance
named and the rate OF premium agreed
on, and there being no question about
any other point in the contract, nothing
remsining undone but to issue the policy,
the contract of insurance WAS perfect. The
risk is taken, and in case of loss by fire, the
company IS lis ole. The Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company vs.. Common
wealth OF Virginia, and four other cases
of error TO the Court ot Appeals of Nir-
ginia. In these cases the court affirmed
the jud dgment of the Court of Appeals OF
the state, holding that true construc'
tion of the laws IN relation to the road,
does not warrant the conclusion that the
property of the company is exempt from
taxation as claimed BY it,
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Washington Items.

WASHINGTON, April THE Presi-
dent received large number of visitors
this morning, including Senator Gordon:
of Georgia, and ex-senator Fenton, of
New York.
Many of the employees recently dis.
charged from the bureau of engraving and
printing continue to visit the Executive
Mansion and Treasury Department in
hopes of being reinststed.
Senator Blaine has arrived.
Gentlemen from New Orlean, say
that Governor Nichols has given offence
to his supporters by the appointment OF
Pinchback as member OF the School
Board of Trustees.
An effort is making to remove the
naval officer (coloredj ut New Orleans
and appoint white man. Candidates for
the position say such change is in the
line of pacificstlon. One hiss seen the
President out he makes no report of
favorable consideration of his case.
The subcommittee of the Senate CoH.
mittee on Privileges and Elections, con-
sisting of Messrs Morton, Nc cMillan and
Salisbury, appointed March last to pro-
ceed to Oregon for the purpose of investi-
eating the charges against Senator
Grover, will start for that State the latter
part of this month.
The bureau of statistics published a
statement showing the exports Of
sleomargerine or butterine from New
York, during the seven months ending
March 81, amounted to 3,549, ,629 pounds,
valued a. $4Sl,747, of which 1885,, $50
pounds were shipped to France and
99l ,339 to Great Britain.
George Ii. Butler was to-day removed
from the Office to which he was recently
appointed as special agent et the Post
office Department for the Black Hills
territory.
The adjournment of the Supreme
Court TO. day is TO thu second Monday in
October, the time fixed by law. During
the term the Court disposed of $50 cases.
Four cases were lett over undecided.
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Depression In France.

LONDON, Moy Lord Derby's reply
to Prince Gortschakof's circular hsd q
bad effect on the Paris Bourse. Rentes
arc quoted at about l02 francs, partly on
account of British news and partly in
consequence OF an article i'll Figaro
purporting TO be confidential
address OF Count Won Moltke to the
German staff, explaining the necessity
for his recent speech IN the Rclchstsg,
saving 1t was intended AS cold shower
bath for France. France is peaceful now
because she knows she is pot able to fight
German, but if she had fair chance
her bitter hatred against Germany, would
iney itably break forth. Such q chance
would bs an alliance, which she now Las
prospect OF efectlng, with Austria
The latter never has forgotten Ssdorra,
and Russia is not now, as in 1870, able TO
enforce her neutrality. Count Won
Moltke says it might be necessary
for Germany, in the event OF such
alliance, to act with like swittness "a in
former campaigns. The officers would
shortly receive detailed instructions FOR
measures TO be taken with view TO the
complications which, the Count hoped,
might not arise, but which he deemed it
his duty to provide against until such
instructions were received, and the staff
would continue to ba guided by the iu-
structlons of 1876 The Figaro says that
in the course OF his address Won Mcltke
drew a mastery parallel between the
French and German armies, and Incl.
dents.ly remarked that the Russians will
need all their reserves to overcome the
Turks. Though the foregoing is having
an effect on Paris the Bourse story seems
merely sensation after Won Mol,ke's
public uttersnces.
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between Mahommedsnism and Chris.
tisnity. England, as one ofthe Christian
nations of Europe, could hardly afford,
even to save Turkey from dis
memberment, or Constantinopls
from the grasp of Russia, to put
herself IN the attitude of as.
sisting the cause OF Mshommedsni'm'
But, on the other hand. the Queen OF
England has more Mshommedsn subjects
than the Sultan of Turkey and the Shah
of Persia. No other sovereign rules over
as large Mussulmsn population ss she
does. 1t cons flutes the most vigorous
and spirited portion OF her subjects IN
British India Ibis fact serves TO COM
pllcate III y peculiar manner the
problem oi English policy with
reference to the TurcO Russian
war. The liability OF British
Mshommedan subjects to catch the fire OF
au lrrepressible zeal for the defense and
propagation of their religion places the
British government in position OF the
grsvest embarrassment. Should it open
~ humor this zeal, it would incur the
odium Of Chrstendom. Should it under
take to suppress with strong hand the
rising fansticism, the stability OF its
Asistic dominion might be lmperiled by
the consequent sedition and turbulence.
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Death OF AN American ConsuI-Remt'
niscence Of the Prtvatper sumter.

NEW YORK, May "A cable dispatch
cor veys intelligence Of the desth of Mr..
henry Sawyer, for twenty-three years
consul for the United States at Para
maribo, colony CT Surnam, South Amer
ics. The immediate cause WAS an injury
received few days before, at the hands
OF a sailor of whom, in his official ca.
pscity, Sawyer had been called on to take
cognizsnce. The sailor struck him a
violent blow and otherwise msltrested
him, infiicting such internal injuries as
to result in hemorrhage and death. At
the time Semmes was in command of the
privateer Sumter, he put in 81 Surnsm
for coal and supplies. Sawyer quietly
bought up sll the coal in the city, 80 that
the rebel commander WAS unable to get a
lump. A planter offered to furnish
Semmes with a quantity which ne had
on his sea shore estate, whereupon Saw
yer hired all the scows, punts and boats
in the harbor, 80 that Semmes was oblig.
ed to use his owr boats to coal
up with. The consequence WAS Semmes
was Gstsined in the hsrbor tor upward
of a week, whereas he intended to re-
main only a few hours. In the meantime
Sawyer dispatched message to the U.
5. steamer then lying at Cayenne, but
the cowsrdice or treschery OF the com
mander allowed the Sumter TO escape to
the sea again. and the commander was
subsequently csshiered TOR his conduct.
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'AE WAROF FANATICiSM.

SA svo~s a. its only object in the
:, '''A''on Of Wat upon Turkey, the en-
'-sn' OF the rights of the Christian
,. S O' The Ottoman Empire. Turkey
s'' Russian Interference, no. only
''"ca. empire, but will, it ia said,
~ resort, unfurl the standard of
OPaet aohsmmed, and wage the
. 'ae 'Piri: in which il is rendered
-. ''I7' side, as religious wsr-or,
. more properly speaking, a war
~. "'Nci'm. The Mussulmsn popu-
A.. scattered over Asia and
rs,t numbering many millions o.
t,,.S IIs men, will, at the sigma
sultan, wake up and spring to
q. ~ oIood-thirsty and fanaticsl
+, 'asa0vn n in our Christian civiliza.
:. tAs British government may we'll
4. -sa'y @the NANTES. tendency of
"'aksshs shape Of q gigantic duel
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ABOUTTHE CAPITOL,

Ia re>pupse 10 the IHt,ii!g'"ccT We
lsys this to say: Every argument the
REGsTEE has heretofore advanced In
.svo, Of the l,cstion of the Capital at
Wheeling, /, row rciterates and, In
.,N did substantially reitcrste In Its
Saturday morning edIt"rlai. he kKG-
l,EEgs We" Il tie utject wS- a. least
pS:s.Iy endorsed by the Legislature
.a s.ai,r-,Il OF the friends OF Char
I-,.oa voting il that direCtion-wben it
.,u4rt that v le,nrg rs now the tittest
gsce for iLe Capital, aid that
lie putnc business should continue
y te usr.s,,"d III lhls city
.alII the ,..r $50 The REGIsI XIX
t=.ltye. that wen after that
Gs'niere,;s o! The people wouli best be
'-tserved by nsvIng Wheeling as the
Capita. Of The state; and i. Is further pre-.
yi'ed 70 Prove that, had 1t not been for
.esc..on o. those Interested IN Clarhs
t.'sa IDc bill requiring the Capita to be
alel from Wheeling in 1885 Iever
sud have become law. Tue friends
dCs'Asturg had it in their power to
N:a'' The Capital IN the First Congress
l.aa District, beyond persdyenture,
'!!StlHg Wheelir G in the aetest OF
.@S,nier's bill, but they saw fit to de-
": u, aid 10 aid in unsettiing that
'aNa should have been considered
L&s:.
LIE REGl:rEs's arguments, heretofore
''i'cet and now reiterated, that the
''''' interests can bes. be subserved BY
- Presence of the Capital in large,
"s'p''ing and thriving ciIy, with its
N''a; hotels, live daily newspapers,
Is means Of rational amusementi,
-! With telling effect against ITS lccs-
- u small, Vi progressive towu.
'-.A .s,Ss sll these essentials.
v" Lave never pretended, and do net
'asi Charleston Is the best place
- ''s present location of the Capital,
'"'e'hsll have no difficulty in show
''N" Possesses many advantages for
purposes over It's principal competi-
. '" 'ae PF'ze-C!srksburg-and that,
'|e 'o..s on, Chsrleston's advantages
=. - gov year by year, more marked
Ii 3ecidet
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ROAD MAKING.

One of the most interprlsing citizens
of Ohio county-one who has gwen the
subject of road construction 8 great deal
of thought, aud who has had much ex-
perience in that line-hsnded us the fol-
lowing suggestions and reflections, clip
ped from q paper called the Farmer
Friend, upon roads:
The condition of the roads in any To-
cality is an index of the character OF It's
inhabitants. In new, wild countries
poor roads are expected; in prosperous
towns good roads are certain TO prevail,
and the variation from bad to good
ia test of the civilization OF
the people. 1t needs no lsbored ar.
sument to convinca any individual
OF common sense that no town IN
vestment yields better return than the
outlay IN improving Its roads, that good
roads increase the value Of all lands bor-
dering on them, and add to the returns
of all the products of the soil by dimin-
lshlng the cost OF transportation. Good
roads can never be expected until our
communities are thoroughly aroused
to the fact that they are
cheaper than poor ones, tho rule
which too often prevails being to see
how little can be done to continue the
road pssssble for another season. If the
daily contributions of teamsters and
travellers on bad roads; in the form OF
broken wheels, harnesses snd wagons,
sprained and injured horses, lost tempers
and wicked oaths, could be aggregated In
one mass, they would form an unswer-
able argument in favor of the economy
and necessity OF improvement IN nigh
ways.
The improper construction Ar d repair
OF our country roads is due, in large de.
gree, to faulty methods OF appointing
high wsy surveyors or road oyerseers.
This important Office is too often taken IN
rotation BY different citizens, who, with
out experience or previous training, are
propelled by some peculiar hobby or per.
sonal prejudice Far better for each town
to appoin. its most active, capable and
intelligent citizen for term OF I'VE
wears, and let him establish permanent
system of utilizing the mesns st its com
msnd. A divided responsibility invites
failure and unnecessary expense. A well
devised p!ar, supported BY the pride an q
experience of competent individual,
would soon convince u community oi It's
superlorlty."
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Additional Supreme Court Decision
WEDNESDAY, May 2.

Geo. Conrod and Others VS.. county OF
Lewis. judgment reversed.
David Esgsn VS.. -t:ns Fire lnsur-
ance Company. Judgement affirmed.
&. NJ Henley We. 7. A. Aenils'
Judgment affirmed.
p. Byram's administrator vs. Rob
ert Patton and others. judgment re-
yersed and new decree entered.
NJ. p. Wyatt VS.. S. Thompson and
others. Judgment affirmed.
w. A. Quarter, trustee,i vs..Peaoody
Insurance Company. Opinion by Green,
z. Reversed.
A. Dunlsp and others VS.. K '. Shank
lin and others. Judgment affirmed.
l.. L. Abbott and others VS.. Chas
Lhommedien and others. Judgment ST
irmed
J. w. Davis VS.. &. G. Lancratt and
others. judgment amended and al
frmed. ~,
Nav 3.-Oliver Blime VS.. z. M
Brown and others. Judgment reversed
and new decree entered.
The cour. ordered the publication OF the
tenth volume of West Virginia Reports,
and on Thursday, May Sd, adjourned
until the first day of next term, which II
to be held IN Whe cling, commencing OF
the frs. Wednesday in June next.
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DISCONTINUED.

r p,es,dent yesterday issued An
n,,be CONSOLIDATION OF pension
''' -. hv which the office in this city
's,.;ruad and ccnst lidsted with the
,v q. Richmond, Virginia.
,s,rie. at Cleveland and Gin
N the counties in Ohio and
-, ti,-ic, OF Wheeling are consoli
- s;,o,be district OF Columbus, D.
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Call for Bonds.

WASHINGTON. May Toe following
call for bonds wss issued to day, princi-
pal and accrued interest TO be paid at the
Treasury on snd after the 5th OF August
1877, and interest ceases on that day:
Coupon bonds OF S500-No. 49,8Ol to
81 269, both inclusive: Sl,000-No.
l4l, ,OOl to l50,O66. Total coupons, $s,-
$4,000.
Registered bonds-sk0, No. 497 to $40,
both Inclusive; 500, No. $685. to 6,397,
both inclusive; $500, No. 1917 10 1891,
both inclusive; 81 COO, No. 1878 TO
1924. both inclusive; $1,000, No. 7,765
to s,l0s, both inclusive. Total register
ed, 81, $50, 500; aggregate sl0,ll4,540.
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Consolidation or Pension Agencies.


WASHINGTON, May The President
to-day issued an order fer the consollda-
tiop Of agencies for the payment of the
army sno navy pensions. The separate
az gency for the payment OF pensions OF
widows, etc, at Philadelphia, will be dis.
continued, ard this class Of pensions paid
at the invalid pension agency, in Phils-
delphia, except those in the counties OF
Adams, Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clear.
Reld, Clinton, Cumberland, Cameron,
Elk, Franz kiln, Fulton, Huntingdon, Ju
niatl, Lycoming, McKssn, Muffin, Perry,
Potter, Snyder, Somerset, TIoga and
Union, which will be detached from the
Philadelphis agencies and annexed TO
the district OF Pittsburgh. The pen.
sioners in the various National military
homes for disabled volunteers will be
paid by the sgency at Washington, ID.
q. The agencies at Raleigh, North
Carolina, Knoxville and Nashville,
Tennessee, Norfolk, Virginia, and Wheel
ing, West Virginia, are to be dlscon-
tinued. and consolidated IN one agency
to be located at Richmond. Virglnis.
The agencies at Cleveland and Gin
cinnati, OHIO, and 10 the counties in Ohio
and in the district OF Wheeling are con-
solidatcd with the district of Columbus,
Ohio. The Grand Rapids, Michigan
agency to be consolidated with the agen-
cy at Detroit. The Fort Wayne And
Madison, Indiana, agencies to be consol'
idated with that A. indianapolis which
will also pay the navy pensioners in In
diana, now paid at Columbus, Ohio. The
agencies at Chicago, Quincy and Salem.
illinois will be consolidated with the
agency at the Springfield, Ills. The agen.
cy at Lexington KY, will be consolidated
with that at Louisville, KY. District and
naval pensioners, now paid at Louis
yille, and residing in Tennessee will be
paid at the Richmond agency. The
agencies at Madison and La Crosse,
Wisconsin. and St. Paul, Minnesota, are
consolidated with the agency at Milwsu
kee, Wisconsin. The agencies at Fair
field and Dubuque, Iowa, and Omaha,
Nebraska, are consolidated with the dis
trct of Des Moines. The agencies at st.
Joseph, Missouri, Topeka, Kansas, and
Santa Fs, New Mexico, are consolidated
with the district of st. Louis. The agen-
cies nj Little RccS, Arkansas, and
Vicksburg, Mississippi, is discontinued.
The total number OF agencies discOn-
tinued is forty, leaving eighteen to do
the work now distributed among fifty
eight:offices. The estimated reduction
will effect saving to the government of
$l50000 per snnum. Such new com
sIons as are required will be issued in a Jew
days. All the remaining questions con-
nected with the new appointments will
be decided to morrow
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South Carolina Legislature.

COLUMBIA, S. C., May loving to
the refusal Of the Senate, which is Re-
publican. TO 60 into an election for Chief
Justice till the House has admitted ali
the members Of the late Mackey House,
a complete dead lock, 30 far as this mat.
ter is concerned, has resulted.
A resolution was introduced in the
Senate to-day, providing 70. the investi.
CATION Of Associste-Justice Willard, who
is now the most prominent candidate for
the Chlef-J Justiceship. This move is
looked on solely as an attempt to throw
q shadow upon his record, which may
effect certain members Of the Legislature.
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the l0th inst. The Russians paasiag
through Bucharest Are going 70 Csnl.
assa between Bucharest ead 0infgsvo.

the l0th inst. The Russians paasins
through Bucharest Are going 70 Csnl.
assa between Bucharest ead 0insesvo.
NEW YolR, Nay IA dispaich froa
ST. Petersburg says that the Runians
have taken ks,. The Russian army Il.
tacking numbers $1,000 men. 1900
Turks we're captured. Turkish inos
elads are reported guarding the Black
sea before Odessa.
LONDON, May The Russain tsls-
graphic agency 10 announcing the de-.
livery Of Lsrd Dsrby's answer ssys: We
sre assured that the government viii nos
reply 10 it As that would Be 10 carry on .
controversy, when il ha question OF
making history.
The Berlin Gazette believes that Russis
will rot reply because the OF ly possible
reply would be . declaration OF war.
rhe Paris Moniteur, the organ OF the
French foreign Office, says il 10 certainly
most serious incident.
The Courier De France declares that il
is impossible 10 imagine . moro alarm
llg diplomatic document We cannot
shut our eyes TO the tact that il 10 . peril
ous indication of coolness between Kng.
land and Russia and Germany.
LoNopN. May "A dispatch from
Conttsntinople says the Russians com.
menced ~ lombard the Turkish town "
Wedin, from kslniAt on toe opposite
sIde o, the Danube.
PARIS, MAY The Temps, comment.
ing on Earl Derby's note, says thai such
language Is rarely used in communica
toni from one friendly power 70 IN.
other.
LospoN, May "A correspondent
understands that the Porte has received
q telegram from Mukh,ar Pssha 81.
pOuncing that he occupied y strong posi-.
ton between Ksrs and Erzeroum, and
is cot fdcnt that he can stop the Russian
advance The Porte has decided ~
grant, general amnesty 10 tho Bulga.
Ilsns.
A Pesth dispatch Gays that Austria
has notified Russis and the Porte that
the interruption oi free navigation OF
the Danube can only be temporary,
Navigation must, s'ter the war, be re.
stored 20 its luIl force in =, cordance with
the treaty s Paris.
A V,enus telegram says the Sultan
hs. resolved to proclaim holy war.
a Berlin speclal says Lord Derbys re-
ply 10 Prince GortscbAkof's circular
has produced considerable surprise an d
.ensstion here IL 10 said 10 have caused
seriou. pain snd dlsPleAsure 81 81. Pelers.
burg, Prince Reuss, the new Cor man
ambassador, hs started tor Constsntl.
nople.
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xoUE CoLLEGE CATALOGUE

u. have before US the catalogue OF
;..,;,p,iou for lS76-77. 1t shows the
,~,,o to be in very prosperous con-
.o having III students this session, a
~, Of 81, over last session. The rep
,..sn.s,iOn is as follows; 'lrs'u's' ~
r,. 40. Wes, Virginia, 20; Missis-
%. louisiana, 9; Indian Territory,
~ r,r,ss,se, s; Alabama, s; Maryland,
d. r.o-ris, >; South Carolina, 2: Ar
... North Carolina, Pennsylvania
yo,ids and Mexico each l
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EOruer Arrested.

ST. JosErH, May ID. Quinn, who
obtsined some 5000 from the East Side
Savings Bank OF Rochester, \. T., last
month, on forged check, was delivered to
Detective Rodgers OF that city, to-day,
ar d both started for Rochester. Quis ]
obtained 81, 900 from the State Savings
Bank at St. Joseph on s forged check
on the Park Bank Of New York, but
was arrested. He operated under TIE
name j. j. May at Rochester. He an
swers the description OF confidence
man wanted by the Brooklyn authorities