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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-13
baltimore Live stock Market.

MAINLAND LIVE SIocx EcILxs,
BALTIMORE, Monday, June Il, ls7s.
REcRIPTs FOR THK WEEK,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-13
ENGLAND.
The strike in England.

LONDON, June IA dispatch from
Accrington says: A meeting Of the over
lockers, representing every mill except
one, yesterday, unanimously favored sub.
mission to the masters terms, and decid-
ed to make every effort to terminate the
strike.
The weather continues unsettled and
unreasonable. There was a heavy fall Of
snow in Certhshire, Scotland, yesterday.
FAILURE OF GRAIN MERcHANTs.
NJ. Maier & Sons, grain merchants, Of
Glasgow, have failed. Liabilities $780,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-13
RgMARKs on pEEF cArrIR.

The arrivals OF Cattle during the week
amounted to l,50S head, against LA last
week, and 1880 head the corresponding
week Of last year, and the sales during the
week amounted to !, ,2l5 head, against 1,I9S
last week, and ,S2i head the corresponding
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-13
WHEELING. WEST VA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE l3 1SS

| a fraudulent agreement with Nash and q
false protest that they shonld promise TO
give him an Officer A. l have no doubt
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
Foreign Notes.


One of the most attractive and pop
ular features of the Paris Exhibition is
the display of the superb Pullman pal
ace and sleeping-cars in the American
section.
"A jeweler in the Paris Exhibition
shows a necklace which purports to be
a mixture of true pearls and false, and
challenges any body to single cut the
real.
OF all the buildings in the Park of
the Trocadero, the Algerian Palace is
said to be the most extensive and cost
ly. The total space covered by it is
about 1852 square meters.
Forty years ago it was feared that
the Queen of England might be de-
throned by the Orangemen in favor of
her cousin, the ex-King of Hanover, who
has just died.
The Emperor of Brazil hasn't
enough of travel yet. He is going to
Paris for the Exhibition, and has en-
gagged for July the rooms in the Grand
Hotel now occupied by the Shah.
The Partisan man never gives up
his seat IN the car to woman. A cor
respondent thought one day he discov-
cred an exception, as two men jumped up
and offered their seats to two standing
women. He was undeceived when one
of the polite passengers remarked to the
other: "Brown, do you remember that
night at Wallack's?" They were Amer
leans.
The cemetery in Munich is sight
for the visitor, for in buildings erected
for the purpose may be seen dead per-
sons waiting the lapse of three days re-
quired by law before burial. None of
the gloom Of the grave surrounds these
remains, but they are attired in every
day costumes and placed in careless or
half-reclining attitudes, amid fresh flow
ers. To the hand of each is attached a
wire leading to spring bell, so that an
alarm may be given in case of resusci-
tation.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

wedding, from an overdose of morphine,
mistaken for quinine.
AT Waverly, o., James Funk, a
painter, fell off a scaffolding, distance
of 30 feet, and was killed.
At East Davenport, Iowa, Barte-
mus Hansel was assisting in moving a
house, when the supports gave way,
dropping the sill across his breast, and
crushing him to death.
Matte Matthews, beautiful young
lady of II, committed suicide near Dem
yer, Col, by shooting herself with anavy
pistol. She had been disgraced and ru-
ined by young man under promise of
marriage.
"A young man very respectfully con-
nected, named Robinson, residing with
Capt. Jas. Morgan, in Union District,
on the Kanawha River, West Va, COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic. Cause,
unrequited love. The young lady was
very much FRUSTRATED over the sad af-
fair, and fears were entertained for her
life.
The foreman in Delaware County
On. " tannery had been at work in
the sweat pits, and become Overheated
and was perspiring profusely, and while
in this condition he fell into one of the
watts. The poison from the liquor en-
tered his system through the pores of
the skin, resulting in death in a few
days.
One of the most distressing acct
dents of the Fourth occurred at Balti-
more, where Marcellus Keene, 10-year-
old boy, fell on powder bottle he was
carrying in his pocket, and large pieces
of the glass penetrated his right thigh,
severing the large blood vessels and
causing death in 20 minutes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
The Nevada Stink.Bug.

There is bug in Nevada known as
the Z" Stink-bug" a gentleman of this
city, while on his way to call on a LADY,
friend few evenings since, accidental
ly stepped on one of these bugs, and
transported the odor with him on the
sole of his boot. He did not prolong
his visit; but, before departing, remark.
ed to mis- hostess that one cause of the
sickness recently prevailing in Austin
was defective sewerage, and people
ought to be very careful and see that the
drains from the houses were kept free
and clean. And, after he was gone, the
lady emptied two bottles of Florida wat
ter on the parlor carpet, and confiden-
TALLY informed her sister that she would
just like to catch herself marrying a
man whose feet perspired that way
dustin Rereilie.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

Mango Pickles.-Take small, smooth
musk or nutmeg melons, cut out of the
side small square piece, insert your
finger and extract the inside entirely,
reserve the pieces cut out, lay the man.
goes in strong brine for 8 days. Drain
off the brine and freshen in clear water
for "a hours; lay in cold water until
firm. Fill with this stufiing-2 handfuls
of English mustard seed, mixed with l
handful of grated horseradish, / tea
spoonful of nutmeg and mace, powder
ed, / dozen whole pepper corns, table,
spoonful of ground mustard, and Ia
blespoonful of best salad oil to ! pint of
the mixture, teaspoon of celery seed.
Put in the reserve piece and tie with
PACK thread. Pack in deep stone jar;
pour over scalding vinegar. Repeat
this three times more every third day.
Tie up, set away in cool, dry place,
for months, then ready for use.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

The New Orleans mint will be used
to coin money for South American
countries
Farmers in South Georgia think
they have discovered bonanza in the
cultivation of the Chinese sand-pear.
Ice is regarded as prime necessi-
ty al Bombay, and the supply is received
from this country, being shipped chief
ly from Boston.
A big deposit of ice has been found
in the Olympic Mountains, in Washing
ton Territory, and it can be brought to
Seattle al a cost of IS ton. Ice now
costs $50 q ton there.
A new enemy to the potato has
appeared in West Virginia. 1t resem-
bles small grasshopper, and destroys
whole patches in a single night by sting
ing the plant near the ground.
Three of the largest tobacco facto-
ries in Key West have closed, and the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

Mrs. DIR. Allyne, a highly esteemed
lady of Cleveland, o., in freak of in
sanity, caused by fever, saturated her
clothing with kerosene, set fire to it,
and then inhaled the flames She died
in few minutes from her internal in
juries, but she was not badly burned
externally.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

and few hours after his temperance
in London received cordial letter o.
welcome from Mr.. Gladstone.
-Poe's sweetheart, the late Saral
Helen Whitman, leaves volume OF
poems that will shortly be published.
along with revision OF her essay, "Poe
and His Critics"
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett has
written Lancashire story called Ha-
worth's, which is said by those who
have seen the manuscript 10 be as good
as That Lass o. Lowrie's.
The Cassells, the English publish
ers, have set apart for the year 1878
80, 200 ont of their profits, and propose
To do the same every year, for fund for
workmen who remain long in their
service.
They say Bob Ingersoll made more
money by lecturing last season than any
other lecturer, beating Beecher and Joe
Cook both. His fees rs a lawyer are
also said 10 lie enormous. In the goods
Of this world Bob is getting rich.
bryant remarked to young man
some years since: some of the first OBJ
jects of literary man should be to ac-
quire an independence; his genius never
does its best so long as it is mere
drudge of his necessities"
Mark Twain" has sent for his pas
tor, the Rev. Jos. II. Twichell, of Hart
ford, Conn, to go over to Europe and
spend some weeks with him in a pc
destrian tour through Germany and
Switzerland. 1t Is not to cost Mr..
Twichell cent.
1t is u striking proof of the world
wide interest felt in Mr.. SANKEY'S dis
coveries that the English edition of his
" Through the Dark Continent APP
pears simultaneously in the United
States, Canada, France, Germany, Nor
way, Italy, Denmark, and other coun-
tries.
Mr. Forbes, the war correspondent
of the DAILY Neios, is in fair way of
making fortune. He is clearing $500
a week by his lectures, and all the while
is in receipt of handsome salary as
kind Of half-pay from the DAILY News-
no small one it may be imagined, when
his present on returning from success
full campaign is $500.
Eight years ago there worked as
" devil" in the office OF the Wytheville
Va.) Dispatch boy apparently Is
years OF age. He was shoeless, penni-
less and treuserless when he entered.
Now he is Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition, chief editor of the Atlanta
Consultation, and one of the best known
humorists in the country. His name is
S. w Small, or "Old ST."
BY way of a monument to Thack-
cray, London is TO get out superb
edition of his works. 1t will be limited
to 1000 copies. The undertaking at
tracts much attention in English literary
circles, as nothing ike it in cost or ex-
cellence of workmanship has ever been
attempted. The paper used will be
made expressly for this edition, real
China paper will be used for the steel
and copper plates, and the very best
artists, engrayers and printers will lend
their aid in producing the finest set of
books ever published in any country.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

Peter E. Rush, a farmer living one
mile east of Elkhart, Ind, was kicked
to death by horse.
-A5-year-old daughter of Reuben Rey-
nolds of Stanford, Ky. fell into a kettle
of boiling water, and was scalded dead.
Robert Cummins died at Coskey
Station, Ky, on the day set for his
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

Cuoans employed IN them are gong
BACK 10 havana: oause' a striAe anu IN
reference OF United States revenue oiii-
GERS.
-Parsnips contain almost twice as
much dry matter or real food as tur-
nips, and this of superior quality.
Carrots, again, contain about as much
dry substance as mangolds, but are
richer in sugar and OF better feeding
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
School and Church.

Cornell graduates class of 20 this
year, of whom seven are women.
The "Disciples," generally called
Complexities, have just opened their
first chapel in Paris.
Rev. DIR. j. H. Vincent, the great
American Sunday-school man, who has
Just gone abroad, will hold a Sunday
school Congress at Rome. 1t will be the
first ever held on the continent of
Europe.
"A college has been organized at
Hickman, with p. G. Halyburton as
President. The faculty consists of seven
chairs, and a first-class preparatory de-
partment has been established.
The colored Baptists of the South
are trying to help themselves to better
education. They are making efforts to
establish school to educate their
preachers in Louisville, Ky, and a thee
logical seminary in Alabama.
The Methodists of Canada, who be-
gan their existence as church in 1878,
just II years after Philip Embury and
Barbara Heck had introduced the faith
into the United States, intend to cele-
brate their centennial in August or Sep
TENDER.
There is report of remarkable
spread of Christianity in the district of
Tinnerelly, British India, 5000 per-
sons having, in seven months, placed
themselves under instructions with
view to Baptism;" but the Madras Mail
throws doubt on the report, saying that
the first news of the affair came from
London.
The Roman Catholic system of
s'retreats =" has gained an acceptance
in the English State Church, according
to Harper's Weekly, which would hard
ly be supposed by those who do not
closely watch the course of events.
Twenty-four or twenty-five are an
nounced to take place by the end of
November next. Some of them are for
candidates for holy orders. 1t is esti-
mated thst four hundred clergymen of
the Establishment will go into retreat
during this season.
"A movement is on foot among the
Methodist churches in the East to do
away with the arbitrary rule which linn
its the time which a minister may re-
main in charge of one congregation to
three years. Some of the strongest
men in the church, it is said, favor the
proposed change. 1t is not proposed
to abolish the appointive system alto
gether and establish settled ministry,
but to invest bishops with discretionary
power in the matter of changes in each
church at least once in every three
years.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

All Diseases of the sslOod.-If vegetine will
relieve rain cleanse purify and such diseases
storing the Patient To perfect health after tying differ
e PIN scians many remedies suffering for years Is IL
not conclusive preof. You are sufferer, you can be
curedp Why Is this medicine performing such great
cures? IL works in The blood in the circulating mud II
can truly be called the Geaf Elgld Pgidfr. The great
source Of disease originates In the blood: and no medi
cine that does not act directly uron it, purify and rem
ovate. has airy just claim upon public attention
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27
TO CORRESPONDENT.

All commune atoms for this paper should DO
accompanied 10y the name OF the author. not
necessarily tor publication, but ar evidence OF
good iaifh ON the part of the writer Write
only on side %. the paper BE particularly
careful in giving names and dates, 20 have
all letters OF figures plain and distinct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
DUTIES or wEiGHERs DEFINED.

w
RESULT OF SURVEYOR MEEHTI's INVESTIGATIONS
General Merritt, Surveyor OF the Port, mas
appointed Henry C. Lake, eX-inemDer OF the Lelsa-
ture aud superintendent or "eigh's
During his short service Surveyor General Merritt Oy
thorough personal supervision, has discovered many
abuses IN the Weighcr's department. On saturday nc
issued list Of instructions to each wecher In THIS he
calls attention to the clauses in the Regulations FOR
Customs Officers" concerning attendance duties ana
absence from duty The regulations demand that the
vpsher shall be his district whenever imported gops
are weighed; that he shall personally supervise
the weighing They provide that he shall not ne absent
from lis district leave the city, without the sur
yeyOr consent He Is expected to he al his ONO" or on
the docks I'm bis district the whole OF cdch ohc uy'
The rue to report at daily at the surveyors ONCE
has abolished In its stead, the welgher must schd
bv clerk foreman, 10 the Custom House between
IL and y. daily. all records ana dock DOCKS Whch
are ready 10 he filed The messenger VIII can AT inc
Surveyors Office and take all papers ntetters addressed
10 the wegheT All weihcr's returns ana 0iher papers
sent back for explanations must receive PIoi"P'
attention. NJ. >, a.
In addition to the regulations on Dock Books, the
following are ordered Each assisant-welghei must Ger
tify 10 the correctness OF all his figures III the dock
book; the fo0tngs must he verified by the welghei
clerk and marked with his Initials at the f0o OF eaeh
column TIE original dock book must he nled IN INC
Surveyors office The scraTbOOks ~ all assistant weigh
ers must part of this book, and he heo WIN IT,
Specia attention called TO the rules under the 'te
Weieht" and the law that In no case shall there
be any allowance for draft"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14

frees the community from all anxiety and v....,.
from restraint. The clsass of vessels In vhsSS
this mostly occurs those engaged in u ssss
South American and coffee trade, the ls, We
OF which, solicited so strenuously by osss
ports, needs all OF our fostering 10 retain 49,
Its centre OF activity. During the period when ~
transmission OF yellow fever is TO be feared and wS
the examination Of suspected vessels Is made a. w
sells wero at the station in Lower Bay or this numie,
1s3 arrived from ports known 10 be infected A from sn
ports having sickness during their stay there on passa
arrival here. One hundred aud forty OF ys
low fever occurred upon them when In an infected po
OF whom thirtysix died fourteen on passage Of whom
twelve died; twenty-five in quarantine, Of whom
which the department labors and probably mus, CON-
tnue to do is the difficulty Of obtaining any re,ahls
information from the southern ports OF counrv
during the early periods Of yellow fever epidemic
This felt in the early days last year Of the Savannah
pestlence and still this year. IN the first stages
the Fernandna outbreak There disposition the pass
OF the local boards OF health In all the Southern cies
conceal the knowledge of yellow fever until the disease
assumes an epidemic character fearing II unfayora
bly, affect communication with other points.
For unless have positive information by the arrival ~
sickness or the publication by the local boards n heah
OF such sickness do not feel warranted In conayeuns
or obstructing commercial relations.
II well for the people 10 understand that yellow fever
rarely becomes epidemic by the appearance Of sporadic
also conspire to effect the result. The disease
rarely gains permanent lodgment unless n
starts from the waters edge and has tia
founcss bilges stagnant water o. locks, an p
tial point Experience has shown that the germs
of yellow fever unlike those Of scarlet fever dphther
etc. are peculiarly susceptible to the action Of decided
disniection and local cleanliness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14
THE CANAL JUDGMENT.
EXCEPTIONS OF HENRY DENIsON & COMPANY TO THE |
FINDINGS OF HE REFEREES.

EXCEPTIONS OF HENRY DENIsON & COMPANY TO THE
FINDINGS OF HE REFEREES.
ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 13.-The defendants in
the case OF The People agt. Henry Denison ct al tcana
easel filed three exceptions to the findings OF the
referees, Messrs Emot Lawson and Tappsn. They eX-
cept to the fourteenth, fifteenth sixteenth, seventeenth
and twentieth findings of fact TO much OF the ffst
finding of law states that they have received SJ32,
92G without authority of law also much OF said find
that the said defendants received said
moneys without the authority of such contract for tie
is required by the statute applicable thereto
aud also 10 each and every part OF said findings OF law
OF the findings OI law contained in the second
finding as states that the Legislature has not ratified the
payments made the defendants beyond the amount
limited by the cOntrat between them aud the state aud
the estimate therein referred TO; Also 10 80 much OF sai
second finding OF law states that the Legislature. has
not ratified any contract for the work materials differ
from, of such estimate" also, 10 that
part of the second fiji ling which reads that the
Legislature has not ratified any claim OF the defendants
for WORK, material, done, or furnished IN excess OF
the quantities ana amounts specified III said contract
and estimate not authorized and required nv the
thereof originally made; To So much G.! TIE
third finding of law fluids that tIc plaatiis are en-
tilted to jud gmetfOr T332 92G also 10 - much thtro
finds they entitled 10 interest from August 81
1870. The defendants further except To each ius %
referees atfiima:Vcv upon each ana every one o!
the propositions OF law submitted 10 thcm hf the dc
fend nts findings the tina submission Of TIE case
These propositions numbered COnaecutiyely nom
TO Iwcnty-Onc inclusive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14
THE STRIGE or the CRLSPINS.

THE ISSUE sQUARELY JOINED AT LYNN I:!Ft~ l.IN
TIE MANUFACTUEEEs AND THE VOORHEES,.
BosTON, Jan. 13.-ihe labor troubles at YIN
assumed a phase yesterday, firms representing four
ffths of the shoe business interests having agreed 10
notify the Crispms as night that they would 10 longer
employ them unless they renowned tier connection
with all labor organizations. The result viii PROBABLY
be a general lockout
The Boston HeiGid that Monday evening VIII
witness nearly the whole civ strike. 50 ar a. tie
shoe business concerned. The firm Of & = Swcetzer
CO. drew up petition for their woitmcn 10 sign yesi"r-
day forenoon rcuOUnCuc the Crspn organization ana
the Board Of Arbitration Or they would throw OF their
belts The WOrkmen replied, Throw on ana be
damned" and sent word 10 the CTiSpin headquarters
that they were Holding the Fort"S The CITY Marshal
has removed all nom the arin0rcs. The ClSpiu5
are fully determined as the manufacturers, and VIII
stand ont one man. There lS3 shoe In1nuiActut-
ing firms this city, and if fourfls shut down, 200
or 5000 re0plc viii be thrown ont OF cmpi"vnent. The
CrSpus anticipated the action OF the manufacturers.
and consequently took vote Friday night Ihcy were
engaged ali yesterday forenoon getting ont price - 10
meet striking firms the TO hc their ultimaln, h'
II will now he unnecessary. Ala l. coming Tor The
Crspns from all quarters III III" shape OF groceries, hnG
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14
INDICTMENTS AGAINST MEXICO.

LETTER FROM GOVERNOR HUBBARD, or TEXAS, TO
PRESIDENT HAYEs-REVIEw or THE BORDER
TROUBLES FOR TWENTY YEARS.
ST. LOUIS, No., Jan. ia dispatch from
Houston Texas says Governor Hubbard has written a
three-column letter TO President Hayes on the RIO
rande border affairs lie goes into details on the causes
OF the Mexican raids and gives the history OF the same
Cor the last twenty years, including Cornas capture OF
Brownsville in 1859. The Governors specific charges
are:
First-Ir has been predatory wsr =.
Scc0Hd-That the custom house officials have boen
nurdercd custom houses taken and robbed; posi-"
robbed and blrned hundreds OF citizens killed ana some
tortured. VIM Mcmahon, for instance. had his legs cu
off and was forced to walk on the stumps. Murdoch
was chained a harrow placed him. and he burned
while in his house, within five miles OF CorpuS
Christi Women have been made prisoners ana suttcted
TO treatment too horrible to mention.
Th,rd-MlliOns OF dollars worth Of property nave pech
taken from Texas owners, carried INTO Mexico ana SOFA
in public markets.
TouIth-Mexico has furnished asylum for the rob
beers and place of deposit for their stolen goods -
IDH-The Mexican Government mas ueeh no'' h.
many times ~ ours OF the existence OF these evils p
has restrained her citizens, and she refuses 10
permit the United States TO break up the hostile Dan
which commit the atrocities, ana mas declared an at
tempt TO do so a cause Tor war;
Siyht-Shc has refused 10 execute the extradiiion
treaty by not surenderug raiders who themselves
enemies mankind. by breaking into the jail OF starr
Country, releasing prisoners thereirom ana mortiiy
wOunding our officers and by turnDe loose p lls
oners der indictment for murder IN Texas. aud rtgu
laIly demanded by our Commissioner OF Extraditon.
Serenh-She has afforded an asylum to Indians ana
petition invade territory Of the United states and TO
wage savage warfare upon the people OF Texas including
within its scope every and sex Children nave nern
captured in Texas, carried into Mexico ana held az
slaves
Governor Hubbard that Texas does not want
war, but simply protection from Mexican Violence ne
charges that the San Ezaro mob who shot Howard Nc
Bride and AtknsG 10 death, was composed largely o.
Mexican citZcns lie says Mexico hhOuiu MAKE aehus
crimes committed BY her cltlZelS.