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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

River s feet 4 inches, and on \ stand.
Weather very pleasant.
Business on the landing yesterday was
quite brisk.
The Express departed for Parkersburg
at 10t o'clock.
The local packets arrived and depart
ed with good trips.
The Hudson, from Cincinnati, arrived
at 3P. NJ.
The Granite State, from Pittsburgh,
will arrive at 5 o'clock this morning.
The 0'Neal will leave for Pittsburgh
at Z o'clock.
The Courier will be the Parkersburg
packet for to day at l0a o'clock.
The Hudson will leave for Cincinnati
at 8 o'clock.
The Salt Valley, from Ironton, will
pass up tonight, and the Katie stockdale
will pass up tomorrow morning at 8
o'clock.
lBy Telesnpa.l
PrrrsBuRoH, May 3l.-River 8 feet 5
inches, aud stationary. Weather fair
and cool.
MEapap, May 3l.-River fell 0 inches
and stand at "a feet g inches. Weather
clear, thermometer s0o. Arrived
Hooper, Little Rock. Departed-Hele.
ms, ST. Louie; Gaf, Cincinnati; Schenck,
New Orleans.
New ORLEANS. May Sl.-No arrivals
or departures. Weather clear, thermom.
eter So.
CAIRO, May Sl.-Arrived-Colorad
81. Louis. Departed-James howard,
New Orleans; Colorado, Vicksburgh.
River 20 feet Eve inches and falling.
Weather cloudy, mercury 7se.
NASHVILLE, May 3l.-River station
airy; ~ feet on shoals. Arrived-Silyer
Thorne, Evansville.
ST.. Lours, May Standardization
Eagle, Keokuk; Miller, Cincinnati; City
Of Vicksburg, Vicksburg; Future City,
New Orleans; .Etna, Cairo. Departed
Miller, Cincinnati; Red Wing, ST., Paul;
Roberts, Keokuk. River fallen 8 inches;
% feet 3 inches above low water. Wealth
er cloudy and warm.
C~INcrNSATr, May 3l.-River 10 feet 8
inches and falling. Weather fair and
pleasant. Arrived-Exchange, Pitts
burgh. Departed Andes, Wheeling;
Laura Davis, Tennessee river.
y%IcKsBuRd. May 3l.-Weather wGrm
and clear. Thermometer S9o. River
risen 8 inches.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

DRryEs.-will sell for a few days the
following: Ladies' Last Fox Balls 81 90;
do Last Balls, 81 90; do Lasting Congress
90c, at Jerry Clemens, Is Eleventh street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

THE Boston 99c Store are selling their
Goods at cost for & short time. Look
out or you will be to late.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

THE Boston 9sc Store is selling their
Goods at cost for q few days. Be early
OF you will get left.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

THERMOMETERS REcoRD.-The follow.
ing shows the range Of the thermometer,
as observed at schnepfs drug store, Opera
House corner, yesterday:
SAN. I'm. Sn.N. 7P.N.
"a II n 20
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

Go early TO the 99c Store OF you will
loose the special sale Of GoOdsat cost for
few days.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

IsE1I 1t because my customers all say
Morning Glory Baking Powder is the
beat. They all use II.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

MORNING Glory Baking Powder super.
sedes all other brands.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

24xSO Pictures, on Canvass and in
Black Walnut Frames, for 81 10.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

TEMPERANCE NorEa-Rey. OF. Mill.
will speak at Parkers' Hall tomorrow
afternoon.
An interesting temperance meeting was
held at Pafkers' Hall last evening, con.
Quoted by President ]. u. Richards.
Rousiug speeches were delivered by
Messrs. g. W. Bsggs and Mr.. Freer, Of
KanaEha county, who will address a
meeting at the came place on Saturday
evening.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

TIE Boston 500 Store is selling at cost
for a short time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

CHOICE Teas always on hand at q. 8.
Feepy's, 1907 Main street,
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JUNE !, 1878.


Fourth Street NJ. E. Church.
Save Money!. Blum & Bro.-head OF
Cheap Beds-Frlend & Son.
ACard oil Thanks.
Notice-Sham Battle.
Grand opening-FrSnk Walters Sum-
mer Garden.
Mendel, Booth & Co. 4,
Picture Frames Hutchius' Music and
Art Store.
The Great Excursion.
For Rent, Sale or Exchange.
Fourth Grand Distribution.
List Of Letters.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

GREATEST BARGAIN EVER SEEM
We offer this day three pieces Black
eros Grain Silks at Si.50, never before
offered for less than $3.50.
BLUM & BRO.
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BOARD OF CoMns1oAERs.-A special
meeting Of the Board Of Commissioner
was held yesterday, the full Board being
present
The minutes were read, approved and
signed, after which reports were received
from the various committees, and sever
ally adopted, as follows:
coMNrrrEE REPoBrs ADOPTED.
Rnoue. and ROada-For the want o.
money he Committee deem II inexpedi'
ent 10 macadamiEe the road from Clinton
10 PoeueIs Run this year. In the matter
Of the petition Of Peter DelaplRin and
others, Tor a survey Of a road from shori
Creek TO the Brooke county line, the
Committee recommended that q survey
be made this year.
Finance and acknowledgements
that the claim OF A. Neuhausen, TO be re-
landed on taxes for 1877, be rejected; that
Kline & Clarity be refunded on $1,000
valuation OF personal property for 1877
that Alex. Chambers, SEN, be refunded
on $50 personally for 1877; that Lloyd
Humes, OF Richie district, be refunded
on lot19, double assesSment; that the
Bank Of Wheeling be refunded on S54I
5S5 %, this being in excess Of their actual
capital; that the claim ofthe Commercial
Bank, for reduction Of assessment, be re
jected. a.,
Court House and Jaa.-Recommended
payment OF bills ~aggregating $50 a; and
that John Nolan be granted permission
to drain water 10 county sewer.
Poor House and Farm.-Recommended
payment Of the following bills: Poor
House, S203 q; Poor House improve
ments, 1926 q; Contingent poor bills,
S645 4S. Also that The bid Of Edmund
Booking, agent, to furnish the county
with medicine for one year, for S2S6, be
accepted.
Poor Agents report for May: Nc. Of
inmates 81; white males SO, females 10!
eolored males Q, do females 0; births, :
white males; no deaths.
Roads and Bridge -Recommended thai
further action In the matter oil bridge
over the mouth OF Short Creek, connect
ing the roads between the counties oil
Ohio and Brooke, be postponed until low
water. Also payment OF bills aggrega'
ding Sl7 81.
Special Committee on Toll House and Rtper
ROdd.-The special committee 70 locate
the place for a toll house on the river
road recommended the location Of the
same a short distance north OF the Wheel;
ing Iron and Nail Works, on q piece OIL
ground 50x100 feet, belonging to the
Nichols heirs, and asked that the Board
demuation on the owners Of the property
MISCELLANEOUS.
M0,.,. c~,,cr.ft and s,orsr wer.
49, ,be Contract ~ furnishing medi.
aI At s,,andsncs n The inmates of ,he
esa a,se I%nss%erv a, 'a = same ,erms a.
I1'. I vs,r ss0O'
Wilson, Dr.T O. Edwards
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FOR RENT.
noR RENE
NOR z Oh SALE

A Fine Residence on the Bank Of the
River directly opposite Steamboat Land:
ing, on Wheeling Island, formerly occupied
by Attorney General White. Full lot Of
ground; House with 9 rooms and all mod
ern improvements. D
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

ss-1. will pay you 10 call and sec these sOodl
before buying elsewhere.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-05-30
SchOOl-lSOY Shooting.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, the eth inst !,
during recess at the Ncill school, number OF
tn" smaller boys were standing with group
OF the elder ones, all engaged in discussing
the important school-boy event Of the forth
coming examination, when pistol shot was
suddenly heard, and boy as unexpectedly
darted from among the crowd, who ran to a
tree and dropped. The boy proved to be
Alexander Mcdonald aged l2 years, residing
at No. Marshall avenue and he was found to
be shot in the left side OF the neck, somewhat
to the rear, The shot, the blood, and the
PROSTATE boy fairly para1yzed the school
children. David Day, GINS Nichols, and an
other boy whose name was not learned, soon
however, recovered their presence OF mind
Day ran, saddled his pony, and galoped down
to DR.. Hands office, at the instance OF Nichols,
for medical assistance, while the third boy
went for his fathers carriage, in which the
wounded youth was conveyed home. The pis-
tol was in the hands Of George Luckert, age
II years. 1t appears the boy was carrying the
pistol in his right hand pants pocket, when
feeling it dropping out, he placed his hand up
on il to put it back, and it exploded with the
result already stated
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How Edison Amnses Himself.

Edison, the phonograph man, is wretch
ell unless he invents half dozen things
every day. He does it just for amusement
when regular business isn't pressing. The
other day he went out for a little stroll
and he thought out plan for walking on
one leg, so as to rest the other before he
had gone square.
He hailed milk wagon and told the
driver Of little invention that had pop
ped through his head just that moment
for delivering milk without getting out
OF his wagon or even stopping his horses.
A simple force pump, with hose attached,
worked by the foot, would do the business.
Milk men who dislike to halt for any,
thing in their mad career because it pre-
vents them running over as many children
as they might other wise do, would ap-
preciste this improvement. Edison isn't
sure but that sausage and pigs feet could
he delivered in the same way.
He stepped into hotel office, and OBJ
serving the humiliations which guests en-
countored in seeking to obtain informa-
ton from the high toned clerk, he. sat
down in the reading:room, and in five
minutes had invented hotel clerk to
work by machinery, warranted to stand
behind the counter any length of time de-
sired, and answer all questions with
promptness, correctness and suavity-
diamond pin on and hair parted in the
middle if desired.
He went through the barber shop of the
hotel and as he did he sighed to think, that
with all his genius and creative :magina-
ton, he could never hope to equal the
knight Of the razor as talking machine.
This saddened him so that he went home
end invented no more that day.-Csncin-
natl Saturday Night.
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Of preventing frauds In the postal service. The
army appropriation bill was discussed al
considerable length The pay of officers Is
fixed as follows: Geteral 4l3kOO0; Lieutenant
General $1,000; Major General $500
Brigadier General $500; Colonel 1850 Lieu
(monnted) $4,000; Captain mot mounted)
q, ,80O;. First Lieutenant (mounted) $1,000;
First Lieutenant (not monntcd) 81 500: Second
Lieutenant (mounted) 1880; Second Ltcuten.
ant mot mounted) 81, 400: champlan s, 500
Stotekecper, except at Springfield, Mass
81, 500.
HOUSE. May 27.-Bills were introduced
by Mr.. Willis, to regulate the sale of United
States bonds, and by Mr.. Wsod to establish a
permanent sinking fund. The house voted to
adjourn over Decoration day. Mr., South
ard reported his electoral bill. The house
then went into committee Of the whole on the
army bill, and amendments transferring the
Indian bureau to the wal dedartment and for
bidding the use Of the army as = pose III en-
forcing the law, except when directly author
lied BY congress were adopted. The bill was
then reported to the house. The first amend
ment. in committee, that Increasing the
strength to 5000 men was rejected, 1l6 to
l20. A motion to reconsider was then made
=, and ~! laid on the table:
/. SENATE, May 27.--Mr. Blaine offered
q resolution requesting the president to fur
nfsh copies Of additional correspondence rela.
tive to the appointment of NJ. Delfosse as
member of the Halifax tribunal. Adopted.
sidered, and several amendments adopted.
The bill was then passed. Mr.. Ferry moved
to take up the bill to forbid further contrac-
tion of legal-tcnder notes. After some discus
sion, agreed to-2S to %. The senate then
adjourned.
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- =. ~ ;; III ITii.tT
Loss or the Eurydiec.
VI, sweet church bells the earth, is fair,
.And death and winter We bcguile, f.
When life md s1 rim fonafhar sha 70 :.

On, sweet church bells! the; earth ia fair, t..
And death and winter We bcguile, !.
When life and spring together share -,
The glories of this sunny'is1e. SF!''i ''!
- ~, .,ir! [.l:i ~ =. I.
Along the landslip lovers walk, H.. H. :!,
;|And, hand in hand, smile out their sighs:
AZ swcetly silent, oft they talk .,s,,,, -,.,,
Inc language of the loving ewes.
Ringsout, sweet bells! See ships 20 past
l2With swelling sail and foaming bow;
Gay pennons stream from tapering mast,
And ice.rails to the waves dip low. i, .,,
And, lovelicst of them all, oh, see, --.,.: .
- mrhacing and planging through thefoam, '''
IoWcd by the sweathea1ts' hands at home,
ithe Queens brave ship, the J Eurydics! i:
Ring slowly, oh, bells! The earth is white
All ghostly white with sudden snow;, l.:
DARK In the air az If with night. :. = d..
And bitterly the wild winds blow. ..
A cruel squal has blown away
1he lovers vows. the lovers: :sighs, :,,.i
Gone IN the glory Of the day; ~, ;, ,r. J.;
n .Ihey = cannot see each others eyes. ' =
Tie blessed sun shines out again; :..:t'f.
. We seawa:d thru: All! where Is she? AK:
Ploughing so gahy through the maiu;.., :, \,
The Queens brayc ship, the EuEydice!, at:
Twas passing knell, and we know it not;
Twas the cloud Of Death, and we never
knew.
And the sunlit waves dance DER the spot
Where lately hcme in hope she few,
Ring on, OF bells! this solemn day!
Shine white, oh snow! beneath our feet!
Three hundred souls have passed away,
And heaven hath sent its winding sheet.
.-FanitY Fair.
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f't CO. = -. Fs5HI:3
+, Grandma's Invitation.


Come chidten, comet" ferries old ,arhndb
".rve swept the cobwebs all out Of the slyvin'.
Polished the sun till 1t shines like a.
/ dry: ~ ''St' oo!
| .':,s.,
:" busted the trees, untn no spec orblemisl,.
Rests ON their delicate garments Of green;
Washed up the floor and pint down mn nov f
carpet. 81,
Loveliest carpet that ever was seen =,
EHf .;..''..~4,,-I '.,,,. -
Caused my best handnlail, The wind, to ,
move swiftly, -; ;.,,,
r.. away, -''@t'E;
Airing the chambers and slak Il, q the curtains
+, Scentng the air with the odor Of May; ':!':.t
'~.,..i ~ ! .!H, -. q -,
Shook up my moss-beds, till softer than ever,
Wait the coming of tired little feet;
Down IL the grove where the Wild flowers are.
Fashioned for you delightful retreat; ;'':!s::~'
," Loosened the brooklcty from fetters:' t,idf
; r:ljbound them-a:...! ii ;ssiS .t..,i yuj,i14
c4a'as tss% Of d6a1 5ss Essst the fS s..
aeapanE and dancing with jss st,ahair,n sz,:E
Haste they MY meskage bear to tie t69h2 t3 2as
- th ..: / IL. ,!aiG -'e,2aiiT .sxss
s1scosoSts; ses1:%y ;h'Fsn eHsy with !oer 80
Leave now the town. with its tuimoil and-si
Frolc With slxein ny wiaie:spreaaihg ii:;i S;df7 ntad
.ows. - ';'''}'! -. e. ,:c'R s.;;tE,t
Wearied,. at night: your repose shall .:be,.,
'' s...
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A'Garde';nI. i

Every man, however limited his means
should contrivo to have and cultivate a
garden. There are three strong reasons
for it: .'" III
1. Working in garden Is highly con-
ductive to health. The exercise is gen
tie; it is united with amusement, and by
it both the body and the spirits are invig.
Grated. There il something in the odor
of the earth that strengthens the whole
system. Let the sedentary man take up
the pruning knife and spend an hour Of
the dewy morning amongst his vines, or
the spade, hoe or rake and prepare or
work over his asparagus, lettuce or rad
ish beds, and he will thus give tone and
v'gor to his body and mind for the severe
studies of his desk. T he teacher will
teach all the better; the minister will
preach all the better for the mind exer-
else which the garden gives. For this
natural employment of the bones and
muscles of the system an hour or two's
practice in the gymnasium is but a mis-.
erable substitute, since the health-im-
parting cxhalations from the ground, as
we'll as the interest and variety are want
ing.
:. 2. The garden is a teacher. There
nature is at work, producing her most
beautiful forms and transformations. No
man can witness attentively the germi-
nation of the seed, the uprising Of the
blade, the unfolding of the flower, the
maturing of the fruit, without at the
same time becoming wiser, nobler, and
better. The vegetable, the mineral
Kingdoms here meet and work together.
To the curious every step in this working
offers something fresh, for meditation.
Why, for instance, the ,plumula ascend z
Why doesit incline toward the sun! Why
does it assume this or that tint2 Why
does the sap arise in it? Why does this
plant take to this kind of nutriment, an
other to that2 Why is thorn given to
this vegetable, an acrid juice to this and
honey to that2 Why does the dandelion
shoot forth in the spring and the aster in
the autumn? Why is this leaf orbicular,
this heart-shaped, this needle-shapedf
Why is this plant medicinal, this poison
ousa Why is this flower fragrant, this
scentless? And thousand other curious
questions constantly arise to awaken
| thought.
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'itt ~ 'i!E!ii; - - q;
one ought to know better, has had time
to learn the value Of such folly, should be
busy with higher thoughts and inspired
by nobler Tins than the satisfaction of
feelirgs merely personal and selfish; un-
less we suppose it the exclusive property
Of youth, together with. its blcom,, its
coquetries, its falla!s and ignorances.
Yet it is perhaps, the weakness which we
part with last, for who Of us but would
cry with the poet: '..'.>:
!, :"soh when in death my heart skall break
= And rest from all its woes,
Put theo some rouge upon my check,
:nl And pencil DER my brows;
~ For I would in my last repose,
As when his VOWS he paid, '-
Retain upou my check the rose,
! Upon my brow the shade" .in,
"'; Ha,pe,'s Rozay
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A Cork Concert.

The concert in question was given in
Constitution Hall-a building somewhere
Between Bond and Tenth streets. Mr..
OGallaher. we will call him, with his
daughter, the 'Infant Sappho," were the
performers. A very small audience had
come .aimlessly into the ha]f-lit hall,
seeming to remain solely because going
out would involve some exertion. The
ticket-taker slumbered profoundly. Why
not, when nothing but inertia was re-
quired Of him? One spasm of galvanic
action had aroused him: five dollar bill
was presented, and the miserable taker
found when all too late, and three good
and true dollars had been given in ex-
change, that tie Y was base counterfeit.
The programme announced that Mr..
OGallaher, pianist and professor of music,
would have the honor Of appearing for
the first time before an American audience
and would perform the extraordinary feat
of executing piece on the piano forte:
and flute at the same time. His daughter
whose wonderful triumphs of genius
before the nobility and gentry Of Great
Britain and ireland had won for her the
title Of the ''Intant Sappho," would have
the honor to appear in some other favorite
songs.
A large screen stood before the piano,
there was slight movement at the rear
Of the stage, and figure scutfled across
it and disappeared behind the screen. The
audience reused up and made ST.
multaneous movement to the front seats.
Something was about to be done, certain
ly. Not just yet, however; the "some-
thing did not'appear to "go.' Presently
a hoarsc whisper was heard, "Fetch a
candle here! A candle, I tell ye!w A
moments pause. "Oh.--it ali! Phwy
don't yc fetch candlc?"
The audience Uttered; but the candle
was tetched, and the occult mechanism
adjusted-some amazing contrivance of
false hands which enabled Mr.. 0 Gallaher
to bang an accompaniment to tile dismal
toot-toot which he evoked from the
wheezy flute. 1t reused the dull little
handful of listeners, and they were entire
ly responsive when the Infant Sappho
confronted them as erst she had stood
before the nobility and gentry of her
native land.
"Bedad, It's foine infant Of it's age,
that!' said a rude person in the hall.
Perhaps his admiration was pardonable
The infant namesake Of her of the impas-
stoned Tyre was an overgrown girl Of four
teen, with hair in corkscrew ringlets, her
dress Of tiimsy white stuff not falling
much below the stout knees, which were
draped amply, however, in pantalets long
enough to meet the sandaled slippers on
her well-grounded-supports, they light
be called.
Poor Infant Sappho! I tear it was not
her first experience in such rcccpti+n As
she had that evening, for she did not
seem to mind the laug ghter or the s'chaff,"
at all, but sang her funny and her doleful
dittics in way to arouse feelings precise.
ly the reverse of those their authors had
intended.
Mr.. O'Gallahcr's entertainment was not
repeated in New York. He disappeared
from public view as SO many of his kind
had done mechanical hands and ALL.
Matilda Despard, IN Hatper's Magqzine
for jane. a.. ,'s-''! -.
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Preserve the privacles of your house,
marriage state, heart, from father, moth
er, sister. brother, aunt, and all theworld
You two, with Gods help, build your.
own quiet world, every third or fourth
one you draw into it with you will form a
party and stand between you two, That
should never be-. Promise this TO each
other. Renew the vcw at each tempta-
tion; you will find your account IN ~itF
Your souls will grow, as it were, together,
and at last they will become as one. 4 Ah,
if many young pair had on their we'd
ding day known this secret, how many
marriages were happier than-alas!-
they arc!-Scre.p Book. -