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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-07
VOLUME XXv--NUMBER 1872.

rose to 80 and declined to 49%. Rock
lslAhu iell from 97N to 96N. st. Paul
preferred from 4Gk to 46sS. Delaware and
Hudson rose to soy, and Delaware, Iack.
awanna 4 Western TO 90, but the former
aiterward declined to 4S% and Tho lattsr
70 5sl5. Michigan Central rose to IiS.
fell of to iOss, advanced to AK, and re.
acted to 4OA. Western Union declined
from 5SlS to 67h, RciGc Mail advanced
from Is to 2OK. Express shares were dull
but firm. Subsequently the market adj.
vanced fraction in the general list, and
z. G. Ca |. rose from 20 to FAX. During
the afternoon stocks were firm at one time,
but at the close some reaction occurred,
The market was quiet in the general list,
aud the fluctuations were small. The
transactions aggregated 900 shares, OF
which 1900 werc Pacific Mail, 80, 900 West.
ern Union, 5000 81. Paul preferred, 5000
Erie, $4,000 Lake Shore, 1000 New York
Central, $1,000 Michigan Central, 1900
Delaware, Lackawanna q Western, and
1000 Delaware 4 Hudann
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TEIEuRAPH1o ALLIANCE.

The Direct United States Cable Com.
pany to-day adopted report in favor Of
a friendly alliance with the Anglo.Amer-
lean Telegraph Company, when the
Directors resigned and new Board was
nhnRnn
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The TRUNK Limo Agrecment.

NEw YoRK, April 6.-General Agent
Rutter, Of the New York Central & Hud.
son River Railroad Company, sent d
letter to-day to the President Of the Pro.
duce Exchange, saying that, owing to the
recent agreement Of the trunk lines, the
export rebate of ! cents per 100 pounds
ceases, and that the percentage system oI
rates based on mileage is abandoned, and
in lieu thereof fixed differences on all
classes Of east bound rs well ms west
bound traffic are agreed to. The pay,
rnent OF an export rebate consequently
ceases,
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FREIGHT RATES.

ST. Louis, April G.-The trunk line
railroads to-day agreed upon the follow,
ing rates on grain and flour to Eastern
points: Boston, 40 and 80 cents; New
York, S5 and 10; Philadelphia, SO and
&C; Baltimore, S2 and o.. These rates
will take effect tomorrow Saturday.
CHICAGO, April G.-The general freight
agents Of the trunk lines to-day received
6 circular letter from their managers
stating the facts OF the recent compro
mise in New York, and advising the
adoption Of the following rates, which
the agents this evening adopted:
Grain to New York 100 lbs. so cents;
TO Baltimore 29c, Philadelphia CSC, Bos.
ton Soc.
On 4th class freight, to New York 35c,
Baltimore SAC, PhiIadelphia 33c, Boston
4Oc.
These rates take effect Immediately
Agents are instructed to make no rebate
whatever.
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GERMANY.


BERLIL, April G.-The engagement is
announced Of Joshu Aaki, the Japanese
Envoy at Berlin to Fr. Vrn Rhade, a
German lady Of rank.
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HAVANA, April 6.-Bauco San Jose
has suspended payment on temporary
deposits for the amount Of half Il
million dollars.
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QUEBEC, April G.-About three inches
Of snow fell last evening. The ice at
Cape Rouge shows signs Of weakness,
and is expected to make an early start.
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WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, April 6.-The Postoffice
Department has prepared advertisements
inviting proposals for mail service on
about six hundred routes, in all parts Of
the country, for terms ranging from one
to four years from the first Of next Sep.
tember. Bids will be received until June
9th and awards made by June Goth.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Executive Committee on Indian
Affairs of the orthodox friends we're at
the Executive Mansion to-day, and pre-.
sented a memorial on tho subject Of In
dian affairs. The memorial strongly ex.
hibits the good results OF the work OF the
friends among the Indians during the
past eight years, and enlarges among
other things upon the necessity OF con.
tinuing the work OF organizing and
christianizing tho tribes, and in favor Of
the peace policy. The President express.
ed himself gratifed with the favorable re.
port presented by the committee, and was
pleased to have met the gentlemen com.
prislng the committee, but he did not In.
dictate what his general Indian policy
would be.
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PoR1sMouTH, N. a., April G.-ordsrs
were received from Washington to-day
discharging all the hands in the con.
struction and steam engineering depart.
ments in the navy yard here.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

We call the attention OF the Inter-Oceaa, OF.
iowa Repu5lIcdn, and kindred bloody.shirt
organs, TO the suspicious fac, that Gen. c. NJ.
Butler, THE infamous instigator of the Hars-
burg massacre as these papers are wont to
call him, after visit to Washington, has
gone home aud written letter in which he
IS praisins Hayes. He says, among many
other things, president Hayes is elevating
Inc statesmanship of the country to "A higher
plane and must succeed In his new departure
IN that line" In the estimation of a ,rue
b.ooly-shirtcr, compliment from such a
quarter to Hayes Is about equivalent to a
compliment from the devil to Brother Moody.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Iowa Is to hold republican state cOnven
ton in few weeks and thus far the IateJ.
Ocedn of Thursday says about third of the
counties have elected their delegates, among
all of whom Allamakee, democratic strong.
hold, is the only one that has passed resolu.
iiOns approving the policy and administra.
ton of President Hayes. Some contemptu-
ously ignore both, but most of them express
disapproval or distrust of the course OF the
President. Some, like Polk county, passed
strong, earnest and decided resolutions
against the policy of the administration, con.
demnlug the abandonment of Packard and
Chamberlain, denounclrg the attempt to con-
ciliate and the abandonment of southern re
publicaus; calling upon their senators to re.
sist the recognition of the mob governments
OF Louisiana and South Carolina by the adj
mission of unlawiully chosen senator's, and
requesting the state convention to declare in
favor Of the maintenance Of the most advanc-
ed republican position.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

BANK SUsPENsIoNs.-The Home National
Bank of Bloomington, in this state, suspend
ed on Monday and made an assignment. The
announcement caused intense excitement
The bank had done large business and en-
joyei unlimited confidence. Gambling in
grain is mentioned as one cause of the disas.
ter. Hon. Lawrence Weldon has been ap.
pointed assignee. The suspension is said to
cause great stringcncy and inconvenience in
business circles in bloomington.
ST. Louis had a big sensation on Tuesday
in the suspension Of the National Bank of the
State OF Missouri (the old Missouri State
Bank one of the oldest and thought to be
among the solidest banking institutions in
The country. II is thought the depogl.os-
and other creditors will all be paid Up, but
the stock IS probably sunk, kXtraordin.
aTy shrinkage in real estate as given as the
leaL'ns: cause Of the diEaster.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

The Philadelphia papers are making
enough fuss to remind one of their centen.
NAL gushefg over a magnificent business
Office which G. w. Child has fitted up in his
Le7ger building. One paper says, at is a
creation of beauty such as no American eyes
have ever looked upon in any business es,ab-
Tishment till now;' and then, in the course
of a fulsome description, we are told of a
magnificent plate glass window, in which
are wrought portraits of Gutenberg, Faust
and Schaetfer, and over them Mr.. Child's
favorite motto, "Nih1 sire la5Or" But for
the proverbial Philadelphia stoldIty one
might suspect vein of keen ridicule under
lying this apparent gushery, the point being
the bad grammar of the Latin motto, in
which, of course, after the proposition sine
the word laJor ought to be in the ablatlve
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23
DESTROYED BY FIRE.

The city of ST. John, New Brunswick, a
place of 10000 inhabitants, and an important
stopping place for Europe bound and return.
ing vessels, was on Wednesday almost entire,
ly destroyed by fire. The fire broke out at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon in McLaughlin's
boiler shop, IN the northwestern edge of the
city, and strong northwest wind blowing
at the time, the flames were carried with ir
risisuble force into the heart of the city, and
before night all the best part of it was in
ashes, and thousands OF people fllcd the
streets bereft of their all and without n roof
in the world to shelter them. The destruction
includds the new postofice, valued at 5000.
600; the custom-house, Victoria hotel, Acade.
my of Music, Dramatic Lyceum, Royal hetel,
Bank of New Brunswick, Maritime bank,
agencies of the Banks of Montreal and Nova
Scotia, the Savings Bank, Victoria school,
house, Grammar school, Trinity church, St.
Andrews church, Centenary church, Ger.
man Methodist church, city hall, water com.
missloner's office, the banking houses of 81.
mon Jones & Co, George Phelps, and Nc
Lellan Il Co., the Western Union telegraph
Office, the Daily Telegraph new spoper; Offices
.of the Ddiiy Macs, GloJe, Freeman, aud
IVdtctmda newspapers, the news room, all the
insurance offices, the Richie building, and
law offices, with business blocks and dwell.
ing houses by the hundred. Thirty men and
several infants were certainly killed and many
more are missing. The total loss is estimated
at $lG.0O0,0O0.
Fifteen thousand people are rendered house.
less by the calamity, and most of them are
beggarei. All the prominent cities Of the
country have already commenced raising
money, provisions and clothing for the re.
lief of the sufferers. The insurance on the
property destroyed, which may reach S2O,.
100000, Is estimated at SO 100000, principally
10 English companies.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Attorney General Devens, apiopoe of the
recent swarm of West Point gradustcs turned
loose upon the country, has made decision
that army officers out of employment in the
army, or on the retired iist, can lawfully &C,
cept stations in the c,vi! service without for.
feiting their half pay OK commissions as army
officers. The decision seems to be a sensible
one. There are ro Tore trusty or competent
men for a variety ot positions in the civil ser
wee, or in every day business life, for that
matter, than West Point graduates, and while
the government has nothing to do for them in
the army and they are yet willing 10 hold
themselves IN readiness to march at the gov
crnment nod, 1t seems entirely proper that
meantime they should be allowed to avoid
the sqaui and decentralization of ldleness by
accepting any useful employment that may
fall in their way.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23
CIRCUIT JUDGE.

II seems there ought to be more sensible
way than tins hap hazard sloshing around ai
ter candidate for the responsible office d
circuit Judge to be filled by election on the
first Monday IN August, The right way
would be for the attorneys Of each Of the
counties interested to appoint che Or two OF
Fthelr number to meet g. Ottawa or Morris
and select the candidate. We know there
was Peeree 0as objection raised week or
two ago to the lawyers debating to the peo.
! ple,' and that sort of stuff, but such micro
scopc demagogulng deserves no attention
No men know better than the lawyers OF the
dlstrict-lndeed none can possibly know
halt so well-whlch one among them would
make the best judge, and no class are more
interested in having the best man on the
bench than they are,
AT present viii county has two candidates,
James S. Goodspeed and "Captain" Hill
in La Sale county, after some sloshing about,
it has been decided, we believe, to settle down
on Charles Blanchard and Bureau county
has agreed, we understand, to support the
Hon, James S, Eckels Now while all these
may be very excellent men, if we really want
to know which one is the best, or at all
qualified for the position, we must apply
10 some lawyer who Is acquainted with the
men ald their qualifications; for not the
man with the most popular and winning
ways is always the best fitted to be Judge.
Personally as we know him best, and also
know him to be a gentleman Of integrity and
high standing as lawyer, our preference
would be tor Mr.. Blanchard. But on the
score of locality, as La Sale and Will county
already have each judge and Grundy Wants
none, there is certainly Righteousness in the
claim which Bureau county puts forth IN be-
half OF Mr.. Eckels, If he is as good man as
any of the others. We saic last week, if Bu.
reau county had good man let her trot him
out, and La Sale county would treat him
fairly and even generously. She "trots out"
MIR. Eckels' Now unless the lawyers can get
together and fix this matter up among them
selves, Mr. Eckels shall have fair play, at
least so far as we are concerned.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

There Is a tribe of Indians in Oregon,
known as the Mes Perces, said to number
about 20U0 warriors, who seem to be courting
the tate of the Modocs. Dispatches from
Portland OF the 10Th state that the Indians
named have commenced numbering settlers
at Mount Idaho and on Cottonwood creek,
II having been massacred at the latter place.
All the available troops in Oregon and Idaho
are being hurried to the scene, with the De.
termination of making clean woIh OF the In
diaus
Later dispatches state that af,a. the massa-
ere at Mt. Idaho, Col Perry, the commanding
officer at Fort Lapwai, pursued the Indians
with small force, overtakiug ;hcm at White
Bend canon, where, after three hours hard
fighting, he was repulsed with loss OF TWEEN
ty-seven men, killed and wounded, including
Capt Theller aRong the killed.
Gov. Brayman, of Idaho, telegraphs to the
War Department at Washington that disas,
trous lndian war has begun, aud as there is
no territorial law authorizing him To raise
volunteers, asks for authority from Washing.
ton. Gen. Sherman replies that no volunteers
can be raised, but that lac has instructed Gen
Mcdowell, a, San Francisco, to furnish all
the troops that Gen. Howard, at Lapwai,
may neeG TO crush the outbreak.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Judge Hilton, A. L. Stewards executor and
the manager of his estate, has created intense
excitement among the Jews all over the coun
try by issuing an edict eXclutling Hebrews
from the Stewart Grand Union Hotel at Sara.
toga. About the first 70 come under the ban
was Joseph Seligman, the wealthy New York
banker. For a number of years he had regu,
larly occupied several choice rooms with his
family for a month or two at the Grand Tn.
ION, and his astonishment may be imagined
when, on Tuesday, he appeared there with
his family and was told that his company
and 500 a week were not wanted there. AS
about onethird of the custom Of j. T. Stew
arts big store comes from Jews, and this
will now be withdrawn, Judge Hilton's little
hotel maneuvre promises TO prove rather cx-
pensivc TO the.Slewart estate.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

GOOD DAY FOR THE HANGMAN.-Fridav
OF last week was memorable for the hanging
of five notable murderers. Harry Adams was
hanged at Dayton, Ohio, for the murder OF
Henry Mulharran, a soldier from. the Sol.
diers's Home. Adams found out that the
soldier had 500 in his possession and mur.
dered him for his money
At New Orleans, Adrian Evique colored,
aged 20, was hanged for shooting and killing
Richard Turrer, another colored individual
out of Jealousy, at negro ball.
In the same city, George Morris, also ne.
gro, aged %, was hanged for killing quad.
room girl, his mistress, who had gone back
on him. And,
In the same city, Joaquin Fiorcr2o, ma.
tive Of the Philippine Islands, was hanged
also for the murder OF his mistress.
And finally, at Atlanta, Ga, on the same
day, Stephen Brinkley was hanged for wife
murder.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

The meaning Of Sherman's raid on nepot
ism in the treasury department is being ex
planned. About forty competent and efficient
Cleks were found who had fathers, brothers
cousins or other relatives somewhere In
office, and were therefore removed, and now
their places are being filled by southerners
to aid building up the ftayes party in the
south," though the eaid southerners IN NOS,
cases are glaringiy ignorant and lncompe.
tent
Meantime no movement is made towards
wedding out Of Office long list of John
Sherman's own relatives now quartered on
the public treasury, Among others the lis,
embraces The following:
L. p. Sherman is Collector of Internal
Revenue in Des Moines, Iowa In the recen,
consolidation of revenue districts he wss
spared
Hoyt Sherman is a receiver of a bankrupt
bank IN Iowa. He was appointed by corr D.
troller John J. Knox, with Sherman ab.
proval,
Judge Charles Sherman was Unlsel States
Judge for the Northern District efJhio. He
resigned to escape an imeea.tthht1-Ient process.
The above are brothers OF John and Gen.
w. T. Sherman. All have been IN Office at
some time, and, with one exception, are now.
} ohm sherman, Jr., nephew, is United States
Marshal in New Mexico. Higgins, another
nephew, is il the New York Custom House
Other members Of the family are yet tc De
heard from,
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Although civil service reform is the motto
al Washington, and no offices are gwen out
as rewards for party services, Gov. Cullom,
on his recent visit to the capital, had no irou.
bic apparently to satisfy Hayes that Phillips,
Of the State JotTa0l, ought 10 have the
Springfield post office, and that the four Hi.
nois pension offices ought 10 be consolidated
into one, and that the pension agency, thus
quadrupled and made worth about $4,000 a
year, would be just the erumb Tor SO faithful
and osoient party woEse: as Jesse Moore.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

according to the latest treasury statement,
mere are still unredeemed SCI, ,l26,93O of the
fractional or postal currency issued by the
government, of which il is believed At lsas,
sll,o0O'OOo have been lost and destroyed and
VII never be presented for redemption. As
silver currency can be coined and issued only
as rapidly as fractional currency is redeemed,
sitorney general Devens has decided that sill.
yer mky now be issued in place Of the frac.
iionsl Of the destruction of which there thus
seems 10 be no reasonable doubt, and in obe.
dience 10 that decision $1,000, coo m,re Of sll.
rsr IS az once to be Issued.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Mrs. A. T. Stewart has formally agreed to
build cathedral church, (Episcopal,) see
house and chapter house, ard provide for
their permanent maintenance, ut Garden
City, Long Island, and present them as free
glit to the church. Bishop Llttlejohn is to
lay the corner stone on the 2Sth inst. The
gift includes 20 acres OF ground and involves
million and half of dollars.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

4 sickenlng tragedy was enacted at Old
town. in Mclean county, on the 10Th inst. A
wealthy farmer named Fred Hendricks, fifty
years Old, in a fl oi rage and partial drunk.
enhess, orutally shot his wife, the mother of
us SIX children, the youngest-three years
.''1-a' lle time chnging TO The mothers
breast Having killed his wife, the man ran
ABOUT quarter OF a mile away to hay stack
snc blOwed his brains out.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

II is difficult to keep down the suspicion
that Oxford University, in comforting the de.
gree Of D. c. L. doctor of civil law upon
Gen. Grant, meant to be "sarkastical." Had
they said military law, or turf law, or even
lynch law, Grants well known proficiency
might have justified some such recognition,
but the conduct of his whole administration
was proof that he was phenomenally gno.
rant Of the very rudlments of civil law.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

There was an interesting celebration Of the
|" Shields Guards at Auburn, n. y, on Wed.
resday, at which were present not only the
venerable Gen. James Shields, formerly L.
5. senator from Illinois but now q resident of
Missouri but also Gov. Robinson of New
York and Gov. Wade Hampton of South Car.
DINA. The prominent speech on the occa.
sion was made by the last, who, referring to
the political contest in South Carolina last
fnll, said:
We now propose fulfilling to the very let
ter the pledges | made and appealed TO high
heaven to witness that they should be carried
out l declared that, If elected, would be
Governor of the whole people of South Caro-.
lima; that should know no race, no party,
no color; that all men who stood on the soil
OF South Carolina, native or foreign born,
white or black, should be equal before the
law, and, 30 help me God, it shall be done
Enthusiastic applause.
am glad to say the bitterness which mark
ed that strife is passing away, and | say to
you, men of New York, as l say at home
owe my election to the colored men of South
Carolina. [Applause.] Thousands of them
voted for me knowing that had been good
lrlend OF the race, knowing that | was the
first man after the war to recommend that
they should be given the right of suffrage,
and have never yet changed my opinion on
this subject knowing this, they sustained
me in large numbers, and am happy to say
that nearly all the fears Of the more ignorant
are passing away, and they are satisfied that
they will be dealt with in all respects as cti.
zens of South Carolina. We intend to try
and elevate them, educate them, and show
them their responsibilities.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Thomas L. Power, after faithfully working
N the harness for twelve years, retlres from
the Metamora Sentinel Mr.. Harl remaining
sole proprietor. Thomas is good printer
and every way capable man, and doubtless
will soon find more profitable employment
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

There IS an institution called Free" En-
Y.oyment Bureau, with headquarters a, 14j
EIith Avenue, Chicago, that is anxious n
supply any demand in city or country for
clerks, statesmen, carpenters, blacksmi,hs or
other mechanics; hotel stewards, po,ters
WA'chmen, gardeners, coachmen, errand bovs
iarm hands, &c, &c. Letters addressed TO N,
hitchcock, superintendent, Will receive a,,ep.
;ien.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Connecticut Is whining at having to pay
$50 a bushel Tor potatoes on account of the
obstruction of last years crop by the potato
bug. The bugs did the crop no harm in Hi.
hois last year, yet we are paying $i.G0 IN OF
tawa for old potatoes.
The Ottawa free trader., 1877-06-23

Judge Sheldon, a Louisiana republican, has
written letter to Senator Plumb, of this
county, on the Hayes Louisiana policy, which
has got into print Judge S, though salts
fed that the policy Is correct, don't seem TO
give Hayes much credit for doing what was
already unavoidable. We give an extract:
The local government had not been sue
cess and the feeling was that government
that could not sustain itself could not protect
others. The business sentiment of the cOun-
try was a unit in favor OF stability, and peace
and order, in some way. To have sustained
Packard with the army, would have wrecked
the Administration and the Republican party,
while the plan OF permitting state through
its oNn machinery and laws TO settle lts own
government could have no worse result but
might be better The latter policy was inc
vitable. and theIuture Will determine the con-
sequences. So tar, this result has been at
,ained. We have peace, order, confidence,
more tolerance OF opinion than ever before,
aud so far as can see, better protection of
life liberty, property, and ell legal rights. l
believe Nichols to be a good man, and that
be will faithfully aud effectively perform his
duties.