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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-19
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cLKIE's OTTIcE BOARD OF Cows loNERs, |
WHEELING, W. YLlAphI6, 1875.
Proposals. will DO reeivcl at this otire until
Tuesday, April Q, Ut u O'Clock noon, Tor thA cree
ti0n u about 80 Iods Of board iSnee along ths line
bet 10, II II u WOodwndB Hnd the jacobs ,slAie,
~ road, parel to be &c feet long, 8 boards high,
With 2 locust posts At each panel. Specifications
10 be seen nj this otiee.
The Engineer reserve, tbs right 10 reject any or
ali badL
By order Of the Board Of Commissioners.
uHAs. II. DEiTER5, Clerk.
W. c. SMITH, County Eisiueer. lp6
1hs shove time is extended to TUESDAY, April
10. ISIS, spiO
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-12

United States. District OF Nevada. In the matter %
J. r. johnson and Noah Blossom, bankrupts In Bank
rupcy Notice is hereby given that petition has been
filed in said Court by j. r. Johnson and Noah Blossom, Of
Genoa in Douglas county, in said district duly declared
bankrupts under the Revised Statutes of the ned States
IieI.NI Bankruptcy and the Acts ameudatOry there
Of and supplementary thereto for dschare and ceti
thereof from all their debts and other claims proyable
under said Revised Statutes and that TT Hi}AG THE
18th DAY OF MARCH, A. d. 1873, at 10 oc"h \. NJ, t
said day, before the District Court Of the lt Statt~
Carson City, is assigned the time and .v1 fnr the
hearing of the same when and where any creditors who
have proved their debts and any person in interest may
appear and show cause, any they have, why the prayer
OF the petitioner should not De granted
r. j. EDWARDS Clerk OF said Court.
March ID 1875
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-12
CARD OF THANKS.

"E. THE UNDERSIGNED. WISH TO
w tender our thanks TO Mr.. j. A. BRUMsEY, State
Agent and Mr. James II. MARSHALL City Agent, of the
Home Mutual Fire insurance Company of San Francisco
for the highly satisfactory and Unprecedented manner in
which the representatives of the above named Company
have settled their portion of the loss which We sustained at
the late re on Frsoes corner We take great pleasure
in recommending the Home Mutual Insurance Company to
the insurng public for honest square, high toned
dealing. IEANCOVICH BROS
Carson, January &C. 1873.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-12
IN TIE DISTRICT COURT OF THE

5. 7. SWIFT, Nhcrtt.
Carson City. March , 1873
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-03-12

Carson CITY. Dcccm Dcr p. 1877.
T. W. W. DAWES, Etntitf' Attorne
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
The Concert at Mt. Horeb.

Editors Tandicdtor:
The concert at Mt. Horeb given several
days since was incomparably ahead of any
thing Of it's kind we have ever heard. cit
is a grand affair" was the universal express
sion; because of the rich rendition and the
very large crowd, the occasion was a sue
cess, we take it, both as to merit and 6nan-
ces. En- PEASANT we noticed in the audi
ence from your city Messrs. Bledsoe and
Rawlins of the bank, and Prof. Ettinger,
popularity known throughout the county as
an accomplished artist in the musical world.
Mr.. Beta was decidedly the handsomest
gentleman in the audience-words which
cost her a saucer of ice cream in the cool,
indeed, before a preceding side remark by
the same lady, WI had debated the eXpedi-
ency of laying in a supply of CAKE also.
All the parties to this rare exhibition &C
quilted themselves admirably, but, while
we will not presume to trench too far up
on your columns, special mention must be
made of the Misses Butler. These young
ladies are not admired more-Miss Nellie
for her exquisitely charming voice, and
Miss Alice for her wonderful accomplish
mentslas an instrumental performer-than
for their literary attachments and aJtrac-
tive manners.
From the programme as eiiciting specia
applause, l mention two vocal solos, Robin
Adair'' and La Primevera" by Miss Mel
lie Butler; the''Triumphal March" Kun
kle) and ''Speninlieb,' Instrumental pieces
by Miss Alice Butler.
With many regrets, gentlemen of the
INDICATOR, that you were not present
that a more elevated report of this chaste
musicale could be given.
We are yours very truly,
WILLIAM DOOLEY.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

STARTLING SCENE IN A COLoRED
CHURCH.-Last night there was a great
commotion in the First Missionary Bap-
list Church, in the southwestern part of
the city. While the services were in pro-
gress, and the colOred minister, Rev. Reu-
ben White, was urging his hearers to ''come
to Jesus" T. A. Bush, a colored man,
we'll known and respected in the city,
walked up the centre aisle, drew his revolt
YER. and fired four or five times at the
reverend gentleman. He made it extreme
" warm for the eXpounder of Scriptural
truths, who dropped from sight behind the
pulpit like Jack in the Box" Bush
blazed away, expecting, it is supposed. to
hit him should he raise up. The shooting
caused a fearful panic. A grand rush was
made for doors and windows. Women
and children were trampled under foot and
a number hurled from the windows. Quite
a number were seriously injured, and the
wonder is that none Were killed. The cause
of the assault is the alleged seduction OF
Fannie Bush by the preacher, who gave
her medicine to prod0ce an abortion, from
the effects Of which she died thism morning.
The Coroner will hold an inquest, and the
officers are now working up the case. The
Bush family stands well in the community,
Thomas at one time holding the position
of CITY Prison Keeper Little Rock (Ark.)
Democrat.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

ELEGANT DRESSES AT NE. PORTAL
the entertainment given On Monday night
by the Hon. George and Mrs. Bancroft in
honor of Mrs. President Hayes, the dresses
of the ladies we're elegant in the extreme,
but there was none which attracted so
much deserved attention as that worn by
Mrs. Heap, wife of Captain David Porter
Heap, of the United States Engineer Corps.
It was made Of heavy white silk, and orna-
mented with painting by hand. Around
the dress were several bands of a delicate
hue, on which were painted roses budding
in full bloom, besides most exquisite little
birds. The colors blended most beauti-
at the same time, very rare picture. The
painting itself was the work of the lady's
husband, Captain Heap, who is quite an
artist, and it occupied three days OF his
time.-Providence II. ~ Journal.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
Locked up with q Mailman.
PERILOUs SITUATION OF A YOUNG WIFE
AM rycITED NEIGHRORHOOD.

PERILOUS SITUATION OF A YOUNG WIFE
AN EXCITED NEIGHBOIHOoD.
Yesterday and the two preceding days
the neighborhood of Harris street between
Montgomery and West Broad, was in a
tumult of excitement, which last night
reached its climax. This commotion was
occasioned by the violent conduct of a
young man who for nearly a year past has
been suffering from alteration OF mind.
He was sent to the asylum at Milledgeville
for treatment, but about six weeks since
escaped and returned to Savannah.
Within the past few days he began to
grow excited again, and in a short while the
malady developed with greater violence,
since which time he has kept the house.
hold and the entire neighbOrhOod, we are
Informed, in a state OF terror. He succeed
ed in getting his wife into a room on Sat-
urday, which he Immediately locked, and
then commenced to bar up the windows.
He had previously collected a number of
eapon among them.tw pistols. a razor,
dirk and big carving knife, and refused to
| allow any one to come into the room or
pass the windows OF the house, pointing
his pistol through the glass and threaten
ing to shoot them.
His violent demonstrations had the
effect of throwing his wife into convul-
Sions, and her frantic screams during the
day and night of Sunday alarmed the
~neighborhood.
During the forenoon, upon complaint OF
some of the citizens, the county commits.
siOners issued an order for the arrest OF the
young man as a lunatic, and the warrant
was placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff
Naughtin, for execution. Upon reaching
the house the deputy sheriff was discovered
by the mailman, who presenting his pistols
from the windows of his barrlcaded room
ordered him to keep away, swearing it he
made any advances he would kill his wife
and then shoot him.
We learn that after several efforts tC
reach the room, which were unsuccessful,
and yielding to the pleadings Of the at
righted mother, who feared that the insane
man would carry his threats into execution
aud kill his wife and some n else, tht
deputy sheriff abandoned his attempt tt
arrest him, for the time being.
Last night some forty or fifty persons
living in the neighborhood, which is thick
ly populated, assembled around the house
and a determination was expressed among
them to capture him at all hazards ant
several plans we're suggested, but through
the appeals of the mother, who feared tn
consequences, they were not put into exc
cution.
Several volunteered to break into tn
foom and secure the unfortunate maniac
but were induced to abandon the projec
when they learned that he was sitting o.
the bed upon which his wife was lying i
commissions, with an open razor in nj
hands, and had cried out that he woul
cut her throat it any one dared to enter
Savannah (Ga.) News Aug. 18Th.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. %. 1878.

We regret that Capt. Paul has deemed it
pocessary to advance such extreme views
IN the subject of national finance. There
is much in his position on the State debt
question that we heartily approve, but dis
sent almost entirely from the methods and
conclusions he announces on national IT,
names. as we do from those of Judge Har-
ris.-Talley VSrgimSaa.
Our neighbor is trying to unhitch from
his adiuster friends who are running away
with the other side of the yoke. 1t reminds
us of the time that the Federal troops had
cut every connection around Richmond
except the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
The C~onfederates started out a new caval-
nv general to go around them and he got
behind them and commenced wildly cut
ting all the railroad connections whether
important or not. At last he struck the
Chesapeake & Ohio when Gen. Ewell got
wind of his approach and telegraphed him
for "Heaven sake to spare that" The
adjusters are evidently cutting the "Vir-
ginian's" connections. But who is right!
If it is right to evade the payment OF the
Virginia debt. why is it not right to pay
off in worthless paper the Federal debt
which we have pledged ourselves to pay in
coin ? There is no more sacredness in the
nation'sdebt THANH Virginia's obligations.
If the debtors will is law. in spite OF
contracts, in one case, is it not in the 9TH
er? If the rights of Virginia Ibondholders
are to be disregarded, shall not the rights
of Federal bondholders be az justly set
aside? If we are to decide how much we
are able to pay one, shall we not also decide
in what currency we shall pay the 9th.
er. Who cares for law? What has credit
got to do with 1.-THE nation won't want
any more credit. Why not cheat them. we
won't want to borrow any more Of their
money? The law is a fraud and made for
bondholders who only paid sixty cents in
greenbacks for the gold dollar we've got
to pay them!
How much of this sort of talk we are
having now and what madness it all is
Both the State and national schemes for
evading the payment of their debts, one
by forced readjustment and the other by
irredeemable greenbacks. point to sure
state and national disgrace. And we are
unable to see any other conclusion.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
The Congressional Candidate Question.


EdStOfS VandIcGtOr.
Three candidates have announced them
selves for the sufflages of the people ofthis
be the ''father" of "forcible REIMBURSEMENT"
which plain men call repudiataon: and two
pupils of his school. Of these one is a 'red
hot" and the other "a readjuster IN the
cool'' but whose ardor and newborn zeal
in d cause which he supposed to be for the
time popular, was such on the Albemarle
hastings as to call forth a gentle Gliding
from his new political mentor, the politi-
Cal parson.
Now it is certain that neither one OF
these men can represent the DeSC lntelll-
gence, or the highest virtue OF this people.
! [ do not believe that upon a fair, manly,
discussion of the issues involved, a major
| ity of this district would be found to give
their sanction to any such wild doctrines
and political not to say piratlcdl schemes.
! Certainly not a majority OF the Conserva-
tive parJy-thaJ grand party to whose he
roic devotion this old Commonwealth
owes it's very autonomy as a state. In cor
robOration OF this view l point to Che re-
cent result in the Ninth Distrlct-the
South West-the very hOt-bed it not the
birthplace and cradle of ''fOrcible read
juStment.'
There must be many hundreds of voters
all over this district who cannot and Will
not under any circumstances vote 1or Ell
Their one OF these three men. Should they
have no opportunity to cast their votes (
Nay! more, is it not due to these and the
great mass OF voters who only desire to
know the truth, that these issues shall be
r.;uIv dionIcca6 hafnra thpm
The district contains many men who
could ably maintain such discussion IN the
interest of honesty and fidelity to our past
traditions. But Augusta contains one,
the peer of the foremost, able and skilful
in debate, thoroughly versed and thorough.
ly sound on constitutional law; OF fixed
and well-known political principles, bold as
a lion in their maintenance, and OF lnteg
rity so pure and spotless that malignlty it
self could breathe no whisper against his
fair fame. He is one who, in her hour o.
deepest peril, has rendered such service tt
his country as to have laid upon her altal
all physical ability to prosecute the chosen
business of his life. And has the time 81
soon come that we can forget and cease tt
honor such heroic devotion? I am I'm
willing to believe it.
This sketch is both feeble and imperfect
and yet there is perhaps hardly a man il
this whole district, of mature years and O
fair intelligence, who will not at once re-
cognize in it's lineaments that accomplish
ed and sterling Christian gentleman Col
James II. Skinner. Can we not bring hin
out for Congress?
Respectfully, F. w.
What our correspondent says of Col
James H. Skinner we heartily endorse, bu
we suggest that to ask a gentleman to III
dergo the labor and expense of a Can gass
in which ne will only serve to point
moral, is rather unreasonable. Still w
agree with F. W., that the heresies nov
being preached to the people should be com
bated on the hastings.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

STRANGE CAMP-MEETING TUNEs-At
a camp-meeting on the south-side of the
Welsh Mountain, on the road leading from
Waynesburg to Morgantown, the cop.gre-
cation are reported to have sung last Sun
day a German hymn to the tune of, "VVhen
YOU catch a white cat, shave him, shave
him. and also an English hymn to the
tune of, 1--WE won't go home till morn
ing" Some opposition was manifested
against the campmeeting, and one man
went to a justice of the peace to obtain an
injunction against their proceedings. The.
camp-meeting, however, has been conduct
ed in an orderly Misunderstanding (Pa.,)
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
They Married Noblemen.-

sF-"- eMarM ~ = CIV
This morning a breakfast companion
pointed out the advertisement of a New
York female school. remarking that the
three New York bellies who have lately
received much newspaper notice from
marrying into the British aristocracy,
we're schooLfellows at theparticular ssem-
mary" indicated. The young ladies 1 re-
fer to are Miss Jerome, Miss Yznaga, and
Miss ssMinnie" Stevens-which her name
! it IS Mary. a
Miss Jerome married Lord Alfred
| Churchill, second son of the Duke of MARI
borough. One of these days it is likely
enough that she may become the Duchess
of Marlborough, for the Marquis of Bland
ford, the Dukes eldest son, is a sad rake
| who cannot live much longer at the pace
he is now keeping. You know this IS the
excellent gentleman who ran away with
the wife of the Marquis of Aylesford,
| about whom recently there has been such
a scandal in the London divorce Courts.
The Marquis OF Aylesford wanted q sepa-
ration from his faithlessi spouse; but:it was
proved that he had, in Ii! S time, been as
faithlesS to the Marchioness as she had
been to him, and the Queens Proctor,
therefore, would not inlelfere. Lord AL
fred, the husband of Leonard Jerome's
daughter, is said to be IL gentleman and a
credit to our American belle. No one will
grieve much, therefore, if he should even
tually succeed to the ducal coronet in
place of the wicked brother. The Duchess
of Marlborough, l doubt not, i'll that case,
will be a worthy successor OF Sarah, the
wife OF the great marlborough" the first
to wear the title. l never did think much
l ~ A. n,,ohoo q Of N1nrib.,D1o5 NI,
was a boy, somehow she always got i'm
pressed in my mind With Lady Macbeth.
And l was not SO very far wrong. She
wasn't a murderess, but she was just as
yindictive and ambitious as the spouse Of
the ''Thane Of Cawdor."
Miss Yznaga, YOU remember, OF course,
married Lord Vaudeville, the second son
of the Duke of Manchester, and one day
perhaps, she may be the Duchess. The
match Of Miss Stevens is not nearly such a
good one as.that of her schoolmates. Cap
tain Arthur Paget has a father who is a
good deal Of a bummer-to tell the truth
although he is a lord-Lord Alfred Paget.
Mrs. Arthur's papa is the fifth son of the
first Marquis of Anglesaa, a very gallant
gentleman, who received the title for his
services at Waterloo. He lost q leg at that
famous battle, and invented a cork one for
his use, limitations of which are still known
as 'the Anglesea leg" The FACETS are a
family of fighters, and Mrs. Parah Stevens
son-in-law has a commission in the Scots
Fusilier Guards. 1t is, Of course, extreme
ly improbable that he will ever succeed to
the Anglesea title. there being a score or
more of relatives who would have a prior
claim to it. But the Stevens family ought
to be satisfied. The BRIDES mamma used
to keep a boarding house in Boston, and
the BRIDES papa-well. he began life as a
bootblack in a hotel in the same city.-N.
Y. Letter in Washington Post.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

Kearney's great labor procession" at
Cbicauo. Sunday numbered by count sixty
mar and there were not 500 people at the
nicnic. The w%orkingmen are disguised
With his bombast and profanity.
mCarter M. Louthan has resigned the pc
s;tion If commemorative attorney for
Clarke county, Va, and Marshall McCor-
nick has been appointed to fill the vacan-
cy. f.,
Kansas has increased her population
over $4,000 during the year ending June
90 and over two million acres OF Govern
ment land were taken up.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

The Observation-Disclosures are dealing in
the widest Inconsistencies. The sover-
eighty of Virginia is killed dead they say
by making coupons receivable for all dues,
and yet the sovereignty of the nation is
not injured by making its evidences of
debt-greenbacks, receivable for every
thing,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

Roger A. Mills of Texas, Ben. Wilson of
w. Va, and O. D. Conger of Mich. all of
whom have many acquaintance in Staun-
ton were re-nominated for Congress on
Friday.
Hon. VIM. L. Burdette, State Senator
from the Kanawha district. ". Va, died
at Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs Fri
day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
AcC1DENT.-Mr. Rufus M. Timberlake

AcCIDENT.-Mr. Rufus M. Timberlake,
of Winchester, who has been doing bust
ness in Staunton, recently, returned on a
brief visit a couple of weeks since. Last
week. during an alteration with Decatur
Dorsey about the ownership of dog, a
scufie ensued, during which Mr.. Timber
lake broke his leg in two places, disabling
him for some time to come. Dorsey was
arrested and held to bail in the sum of
5000 to appear before the Grand jury
Winchester Times.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

1t is stated by the Charlestown, W. Va,
"Free Press IN a congratulatory article
on the arrival of the first train at that
place over the Shenandoah Valley R. R.,
that: seThe material has been accumula-
ted to complete the road to the border Of
Clark county and that by the first of De-
cember it will be finished to Riverton-
forty miles,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23

FoNDLING WILD RATTLEsNAKEs.-
Mr.. A. G.. Corpening, of Linville, was in
our office last Wednesday, and vouches for
the truth of the following statement: On
Johns river, in the Globe settlement, lives
a woman by the name of Margaret Coffee,
who has a daughter that for some time
past has been insane. Some days ago the
girl was rambling in the woods alone, and
returned carrying over her shoulder and
round her neck a large, live and unhurt
r%attlesnake. Coming up into the yard
where her brother stood, she uncoiled the
reptile from its embrace, and throwing it
upon the ground remarked, "Here's a
damned snake; you can kill it if you want
to-" The snake made several attempts to
regain its position, running to her as a
child would run to Its mother, but show
ing no signs-of anger. 1t wal soon killed.
A few days after, the girl came home with
another reptile fully as large, which was
likewise ~affectionately coiled about her
neck. Both these snakes we're unhurt,
and had full possession of their fangs and
venom. Mr.. COrpening, the gentleman to
whom we are indebted for this informa-
ton, is well known to the people OF Burke.
There can be no doubt of the truth of the
story.-Blue Ridge IN. CO. Blade.
A discussion Of the question, "What is
Inspiration?' is to appear in the Septem-
ber-October number of the North Ameri-
can Review" The writer's will be the
Rev. DR.. F. H. Hedge (Unitarian), the
Rev. DIR. E. A. Washburn (Episcopalian),
the Rev. Chauncey Giles (SwedenboIgian),
the Rev. DR.. j. p. Newman (Methodist),
Most Rev. DR.. James G .bbons, Archbishop
e lJJ III 1ro,,, ' tENIio\ snI 1nhr,
Fiske independently.
A greenback orator made a curious
speech at Minot's Corner, Me-, one even
ing last week. flashing the national bank
monopoly with the accustomed fervOr. OF
his class. During the meeting n of the
auditors accused him Of owning national
bank stock, and after a canvass of the as
sembly it was found that the only person
present who owned bank stock was the
orator.
Another illustration is given in support
of the view that the British Premier's nov
els give an insight into his system of poll
cy. In "Tancred," written thirty years
ago, Mr.. Disraeli wrote: The English
want Cyprus. and they will take it as a
compensation and in another place:
s'They will not do the business OF the
Turk for nothing"
Moncure D.. Conway writes from Lon
don, his establishment at the large number
of free thinkers in religious matters to be
found among the ladies in the higher clas-
ses, and the frankness with which they
avow livery positive disbeliefs of things
generally deemed fundamental"
Emma Brunsley, a public bath atten-
dant, in New York, confessed in the po-
lice court, that she had stolen a $500 dia-
mond ring of one of the lady hathers and
swallowed 1t. The judge ordered her to a
hospital to be closely watched by female
Rev. Wade Hill, a Baptist minister of
co., N. G., shot and killed his !
Andrew Scroggins, who was
firing at him, on the 18th inst. Mr.. Hill is
indicated by popular opinion.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
THE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS.

ONLY ONE HORSE AT HARRISONBURG-
PAUL WALKS OVER AND TAKES THE
PURSE FULL OF RESOLUTIONs-A
GREENBACKER IN THE COOL-THE
"PEOPLE OF ROCKINGHAM" RECON-
MEND PAUL,
&C., &C., &C.