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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-15
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

elm Grove AeeotumOdation.-ThI traln only
runs between Wheeling and Elm Grove. II
DAILY exccptsundAy -NeWArk Accommodation.
tSleubenyllle Accommodation train dur
Inc the day passes backward and forward between
Martins Ferry and Bellalre, stopping whom requi-
red at shermln HousO, RtnAyille, West Wheeling
and Gravel Hill.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-15
dissolution NOTICE.

The partnuIhip Of Paxton q Bloomfield Is this
DAY dissolved By mutual consent Either Of the
partners may use the arm name 10 the settlement
n n budness, J. W. PAXTON.
BENZ. BLOOMFIELD,
A. p. PAXTON.
WHEELING, April ., iS7S.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
THE NATIONAL GROG SHOP.

Both the House and the Senate restau-
rants at Washington, says letter, are
nothing mere than barrooms, where liquor
is sold to any one who calls for it. Be-
fore the war it was the custom to sell
liquor at the Capitol, but in 1863 ve,y
stringent law was passed prohibiting it,
and the members who wanted their drinks
used to keep private supplies in the COM
mittee-rooms; then fancy wines were in
troduced into the restaurants, and the lob
byists used to expend considerable cham
pagne in bringing refractory members to
order. Up till recently champagne has
always been served ia pitchers and cups,
and the bottle was carefully kept out of the
way; but now it is not an uncommon
sight to see three or four bottles Of wine on
different tables at the same time. When
the present caterer went into the House
restaurant he sold whisky in teacups, and
would be very particular to whom he sold
it; but the present session all such formali-
ty has been done away with, and when a
person wants drink all he has to do is to
20 to the counter and call for it as he
would in barroom. Cocktails and other
fancy drinks are mixed to order. In the
Senate restaurant o little more respect is
paid to the app earance Of things; but still
liquor is sold there, and it should be
stopped. There is law expressly pro-
hibiting it; neither of the caterers has a
license to sell liquor, and even if there
were no other reasons, it is not proper that
the Capitol Of the United States should be
turned into grogshop.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

at depth of 1900 feet. To has now been
driven over Is 900 feet into the mountain,
and IS progressing at the rate Of about
eighty feet per week. Four peculiar
shafts were started ut equal distances
along the route, from the surface, to meet
the main tunnel. The workings from the
first shaft and the entrance met about
three years ago. The second shaft en-
countered body of water, which burst
out SO suddenly that the workmen were
obliged TO flee for their lives, and The shaft
became well. The main tunnel reached
this shaft in 1875, and drained the water.
The third shaft was also drowned out, and
the fourth has not reached the level of the
tunnel. The headway which is made is
unexampled in the history of engineering,
owing partly to the firm nature of the
rock, and the question of its completion
is only matter Of short time. A gang
loin of tunnels will follow the veins in all
directions, and the water will drain itself
into the Carson river, while the ore and
waste rock will be easily run out on the
horizontal railroad.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

We doubt if this age differs from all the
other ages in any one particular so much
as in being the age Of machinery. In the
past civilizations, much as they accom-
plished, excelling us in many particulars,
machinery did not come into general use,
or was it of the simplest character. At
the highest point of Egyptian civilization
wheat was ground by women in q hand
mill, made Of two stones; or at best, by
larger stones turned by oxen. The fine
linen Of Egypt was spun from hand dis
taft, and woven in loom Of the simplest
description. Thousands of men were en-
ployed in works which would now be done
almost entirely by machinery.
Now, machinery does large proportion
Of all our work, and is every day coming
into wider use. Machines make almost
every thing, and machines make machines.
If we travel, the steam engine propels US.
Our food is prepared by complex machin-
cry. Our clothing is spun, woven, and
sewed by machines. Machines knit our
stockings, and do the largest part Of the
work in making our shoes. The pin that
fastens our garments is completely made,
headed, pointed, and polished, by Sc
ries of machines. The hook and eye are
made from the reel of wire by a machine
which seems to possess human intelli-
gence.
Unless our readers are very considerate,
they scarcely know how much they are
indebted to machinery. The paper you
hold in your hand has come through o
long series of machinery. 1t has passed
through the cotton-gin--a very simple but
most important invention; few have done
more for modern civilization, 1t has been
squeezed in the cotton press. 1t has been
carded, spun, woven, worn to rags; then
washed, picked in pieces, bleached, ground
to pulp, squeezed through rollers, and
finally come out an endless sheet of white
paper. The linen and hempen portions
are passed their peculiar processes. Then
come type making machines, and printing
machines, and with some little brain labor,
which cannot yet be done by machinery,
you have your newspaper.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
TIE FAY OFF LECTURERS.

Mr.. B. Redpath, of Boston, makes all
Henry Ward Beechers's engagements. and
it is stated that he hashim down this sea-
son for eighty lectures, at $500 each, or
$4,000 in ALL Theodore Tilton lectured
eight months last year and cleared about
$4,000. His terms, when he makes special
engagements, average $3.50 pernight. DIR.
E. H. Chaplin commands from $125 to $3.50
in the lecture room, and delivers about
forty lectures during the season. George
W. Curtis is out Of the field for the present.
Wendell Phillips will not 60 more than q
days journey from his home. His price is
$500, but he frequently takes less, even
when that sum is agreed upon, if the au-
dience is not large enough to pay. Cough
takes better than any other man on the
lecture list except Beecher, and can get
from 5000 to $3.50 each for all the lectures
he is able to deliver. Frederick Douglass
averages about forty nights in the season,
and his price is $l00. Prof. Doremus, the
chemist, commands from $50 upward,
according to the elaborateness of his Illus
trations. Du Chaillu is expected back from
Europe in time for the season. He does
not demand more than $ll5, and will not
take less. DR.. Hepworth, DR.. Gallaher.
and DR.. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, COM
mand each, $loo. The Rev. Robert Coll
yer, of Chicago, is favorite, and easily
gets $125. Frank Beard, the artist, gets
$l0o. John G. Sake is at present on the
invalid list, but when able to lecture bis
price is likewise 500.
Ladies who succeed on the platform COM
mand almost as high figures as men. Grace
Greenwood can get fifty engagements at
800 each. Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson
asks the same amount. hirs. Waller is
good for $1s5 to $50 every night. Anna
Dickinson tops them all. The price that
successful lecturers now ask and get is ex-
horbtant in comparison with the figures
before the war. Up to 1860, the mosi
popular lecturer in the country could moi
command more than $50, and very few
could get that sum. Beecher often leetured
for $40 or $50, and considered himself wei
paid.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

Courts for time to make the work FIVE
times as onerous afterwards, would cause
the failure of hundreds who otherwise
would be able to pay, and would be of no
advantage to any one except the men who
lend money at hig II rates of interest and
speculate in judgments where there is
certainty of heavy gain and no possibility
of loss. This class of sharks need no
legislation to help them along, and the
Legislature should pay no attention to
appeals which really come from them.
There is no other way by which 50 great
an injury could be done to the business
interests of the State, and such certain
ruin brought to the people who are in
debt, as by the enactment of the stay law
now pending in the Legislature.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
THE SUTRO TUNNEL.

The Sutro Tunnel, though it is designed
for private rather than public uses, will
rank among the great engineering works,
not only of this, but of any age. The tun-
mel was designed to afford a horizontal out
let for the immense deposits of silver ore
in what is known as the Comstock lode
under Virginia City, in Nevada. These
deposits are 1000 feet below the surface
of the hills under which they lie. AT a
rough estimate 5000 tons Of waste rock
are lifted 1900 feet daily, and the water
has to be pumped into a system of cisterns
200 feet apart, at enormous labor and ex-
pense. The tunnel was projected by
Adolf Sutro, a German engine eer, and be-
gins in the Carson Valley, four miles east
Of the lode, which it is intended to pierce
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

Ono does not want stay law. Busi-
ness is not brisk, money is scarce and col
lections are anything but easy, but in
spite of all this and much more the peo-
Pile of this State are opposed to the en-
aetment Of stay law. Such provision
never works any good to the people for
whose relief it is intended. Thousands
who would recover from financial embar-
rassments without the increased depres-
sion which such measure always brings
are swept into the general ruin and go
down as soon as the period covered by
the law expires. 1t prevents the posi-
bility of such arrangements in the way of
mutual aid as is otherwise given, and
slaves off for stated time possible fail
ure to make it certain failure as soon as
the time expires. A stay law enacted
now would further depress business,
would virtually stop the wheels of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
VIII the Shadows be Lifted.
win the shadows be lifted tomorrow

win the shadows be lifted tomorrow
Does the sun yer shine In vain 7
And the clouds that are loud in their sorrow,
VIII they ever cease weeping againf
Will the fields e'or put on their greenness,
And the flowers bloom sweet as before
VIII the sky in its bluest sereneness,
Look smilingly on US once moref
Will the shadows be lifted tomorrow
From my heart in its grief-storm rent
Will hope, the kind soother of sorrow,
With her bow of promise be sent :
Will th' waves Of my life's troubled fountaini
Ever cease in their ebb and flow
Will the shadows that darken my pathway
Be scatterd like phantoms Of woe
All yes, win the shadows be lifted.
From hilltop, and valley, and plain;
And lIfe-eiving sunshine and gladness
Replenish the dear earth again.
And then will the weeping Of nature
Be bushed by joy-giviug ray,
And the beauty Of sunset Is ever
Be the loveliest hour Of the day.
All yes will the shadows be lifted
From my pathway go dreary and Ions,
And the dark, dun Clouds will be rifted,
And the winds cease their pitilens moan.
Though walk amidst darkness and shadows,
One promise unfailing ia mine;
Iknow in future tomorrow
About me one love will entwine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

other trees. They have their stories.
Under this first kiss was taken; under
that hands met In an eternal parting.
Down in the orchard is baby's grave
the baby would be fifty years old if he
lived to-day-but only little while ago
his mother sat there and shed tear over
it.
The new house is fine and costly and
modern, but there is no poetry in it, and
there will not be until at least tive gener-
ations have made it an old house and
haunted it with sweet ghosts, as they did
the old one.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

Major Ingalls, says that there are in the
Indian territory from 10000 to $4,000 In
dians, Of whom SO 900 are embraced in 1--we
tribes, and $4,000 are called wild Indians.
The $1,000 support themselves by agricul-
ture; their government allowance is ex-
pended for schoolhousss and the mainte-
nance of local administration. Eleven
thousand are communicants in the
churches. He reports also that the
Christian Indians are sending native
preachers among the Sioux and ARA
pahoes.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
AN OLD HOUSE.

There is something in an old house that
can never be in new one. The new one
may be handSomer, it may have higher
ceilings and broader panes of glass, medi-
@val mantelpiece and French paper on the
walls and Persian rugs. You may be
proud of it, but you loved the old house.
the dear old place, almost as old as the
great trees at the door. A tall man could
touch the ceilings with his palm, and the
great mantlepieces were stiff and ugly:
but there in the freight, used to sit
once upon q time, the old grandmother
with her knitting, while the children
climbed on her knee and she told them
stories Of her youth.
Out of that window-the little window
with the diamond panes-she had looked to
see her young husband coming home after
a long days hunt, flushed with exercise,
bright and handsome. There lay the great
red deer he had shot; yonder the dogs were
kennelled-the great brown eyed dogs.
One of their race then unborn, sometimes
stands beside her as she tells these tales,
old and blind and toothless, and there are
no deer now. Yes, up that road she had
ridden herself, gay young bride, coming
for the first time to the husbands house
full of hope and JOY. There her babes had
been born, grown to be men and women
and gone forth.
Out of the door went at last her hus-
bands long funeral train, and nothing was
left her of her life but its memories. There
she sat thinking and knitting, telling the
old stories. How could she be SO content,
the young people often thought.
The tall clock stood in the hall licked as
it had done for seventy years. In the glass
cupboard were stored sacred tea service
with gilt edges and a silver teapot that
had been wedding present.
'Fox's Martyrs" and the Pilgrims Pro-
gress' were in the bookcase and the big
Bible on the stand, and there were black
protiles of ehoked-looking gentlemen and
ladies, with wondrous puffs on their heads,
on the walls; up in the bedrooms were rag
carpets and high post beds and chests of
drawers and long presses. How many
heads had rested on those pillows9 What
happy dreams had been dreamed, what
bitter tears shed!
And down in the parlor, with its hard,
upright sofa, guests, with strange dullness
of which no one dreamed, had been enter
tained, and lovers had wooed and won,
and doubtless there had been little trage-
dies, such as 60 on between lovers through
oil the generations. Story after story has
told itself in the old house.
They are not all happy ones, but they
make the old house different from a new
one. Memories lurk in the very walls:
and who shall say that the spirits of those
who lie at rest in the old churchyard yon-
der, under tombstones on which moss has
grown, do not sometimes fit through 1t
unseen but felt-5ringing softened emotions
and tender recollections as they pass?
The very trees in the gaI den are not as
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

A, traveller in Deadwood says that he saw
such a picturesque turnout as this: THE
half-breed horses in harness were shaggy,
unkenpt fellows land the long haired saddle
pony, hitched to the rear of the wagon by
a striped horse-hair lariat tugged and
pulled, now this way and now that as
though the experience was new one to
him. Upon the wagon was a pile of elk,
deer, and antelope; while from on top, and
frowning down upon you was the ugly
mug of a grizzly" The driver "sat with
careless ease and grace, using Bruins
broadside for seat; one leg crossing the
other; a shapely little moccasined foot
resting upon the side of the wagon box :;
one gloved hand holding the lines,
and the other ,caressing the polished
barrel of revolver" This attrac-
tive person was a young woman of the fol-
lowing description: Rather small of size,
with an exquisitely and beautiful
figure, showing to advantage in the soft, or
namented buckskip suit. The face was one
hard to describe; it might belong to we'll
developed beardlesS youth, Or in other gar
ments and places, to a comely lass of twenty
years. In the finely rounded outlines ripe
red lips and dimpled chin, lnrked sus-
picion of femininity which was heightened
by the big brown eyes and the long lashes
which swept the cheeks. which were as
brown as a scouts" She said she was from
Chicago, and had settled with her father
near Deadwood.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

GERMANY AND CE-LoRRAINE.-A dis
patch to a London. newspaper from Berlin
February 11th says The Gazette of the
Empire this evening publishes an imperial
decree dated February 9th, committing the
fines imposed on the male inhabitants of
Alsace-Lorraine for unlawfully avoiding
service in the German army. Penalties
which have been legally recognized, though
not yet exacted, against men who have not
offered themselves for military service, or
who have otherwise avoided it, are by the
Imperial decree commuted to the extent of
sons report themselves for military service
before August 1st, 1878, and if the authori-
ties SO order, enter either the army or navy.
1t is also provided that no further pro-
ceedings be taken against those whose pun
ishments have not yet received legal recog-
milton.
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So FAR as the immediate issue be-
tween Russia and Turkey is concerned,
peace articles have been signed, and the
probability Of resumption of hostilities
has passed away. The precise terms of
the peace agreement can not yet be given
with any degree of accuracy, and until
these are known it is useless to speculate
upon the probabilities of a permanent
peace or the effect Of the signing upon the
other powers.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

News from New York indicate brisk
and early opening of the spring trade.
Hotels are filled with Southern and Far
West merchants, who are busy preparing
for their spring purchases Many of
them, especially those from the
West and Northwest, claim that
the mild winter greatly in
jured the sales of the past season, but
believe with the indications of an early
spring brisk trade for the approaching
season may be expected to commence
very soon.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

SIX thousand dollars seems to be the
sum to heal lacerated affections and sup
port the offspring in breach of promise
cases. Three juries have named that
amount as the damage within the last
few weeks in this part of the State.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Corn is dime bushel in Atchison,
Kansas.
A big factory at Chester, e., makes corn
molasses,
Kansas pays bounty of 5 cents each for
rabbit scalps
Vermont's hops failed last season, and
didn't pay for the picking.
Trailing arbutus thrives best in rich wood
lands, not too much shaded.
Building is so brisk at Tampa, Fla, that
the mills can't supply lumber.
Forest and Stream tells of ia partridge and
rooster fight; the partridge won.
A new cotton mill has just been started in
Natchez, Miss, the operatives going from
Georgia.
Yum, YUMA Richford (Vt) man has
shipped to Boston, this season. eleven hun
dred and fifty pounds of spruce gum.
Georgia farmers report more cotton un-
der the shelters in the country at this sea-
| son than has been there at the same time of
year since the war,
Take your market basket this morning
and go to the town of Kosciusko, Miss But
ter there sells at Is cents pound, beef at
cents, and eggs at cents dozen.
Out in California, the land of the glorious
climate, the first six months of the year
they pray for rain, the remaining six
months they run away from floods
We prefer pancake with 492 grains in it,
says the New York Herald AS for us, adds
the Worcester Press, we prefer a pancake
| with only one grain in it-buckwheat.
Lemon juice used as gargle is said by a
French physician to be specific against
| diphtheria and similar throat troubles,
which he has successfully used for eighteen
years.
An old coin has been unearthed in jack
sonville, Florida, dated 1884 1t is Caro-
| lima ha'penny, and has upon it this legend
God preserve Carolina and the Lords pro-
prietor"
| The superiority of iron ties over rope was
signally manifested after the conhagration
in Savannah. Much of the cotton baled by
the former being held tight together, was
saved, though i'll damaged condition.
| Madison County, Florida, yclaims the
honor OF the tallest family in the country
| The father is represented to be feet 4; the
mother feet 8; two SONS feet 3; and one
daughter is feet 9. Altogether, it is a tall
story.
Laborers at Chester, ILL.,, recently ex-
humed stone image sixteen inches high
and thirty-two inches i'll circumference,
representing man i'll sitting posture. On
the breast and abdomen are numerous fig
ures and characters, and on the head is a
band with hierOg lyphics 1t is supposed to
be relic OF the mound builders.
A Georgia exchange says: General P NJ.
B. Young the Southern Commissioner to
| the Paris Exnosition has returned from his
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

KATE CLAYTON has escaped from five
burning buildings obtained a divorce,
passed through the Bankrupt Court and
married within the past two years. The
last event occurred Sunday night. What
woman can show a more exciting record ?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

IT is next to impossible to teach some
women their duties. A man in San Pc
Dire, Texas, was obliged to kill his wife
because she would not get up and build
the fires.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

OLEoAARGARINE has been pronounced
by the New York BoaEd of Health "a
good and wholesome article of food"
Now let the cows set up bawl!
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

A WRITER in the Popular Monthly
demonstrates mathematically that the
man who CANDLES long enough will event
ualIy lose all his money.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

New ORLEANS is bracing up as corn
market. Nearly three million five
hundred thousand bushels were exported
from that port last year.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

The clerk of the House of Peers in
Great Britain receives a salary Of over
$1,000 per month.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-04

ANOTHER Pennsylvania girl has made
flying trip to heaven. She only tarried
forty-tive hours, when she got homesick
and came back.