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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-28
Powder Mil Explosion.

GoRHAN, Ne, October 1.-THE Can
ming mill Of the Oriental Powder Mills,
exploded to-day. A man named Stokes
was killed and Clinton Mayberry serious
ly injured. The cause OF the explosion
is unknown.
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Stanley Matthews Remark.

ChAttAnOoSA llIneS.
Hon. Stanley Matthews, now IN Nash
vile, says: "Grant is already nomi-
mated by the people" Stanley seems to
love Grant better than he did when he
"joined the Liberals" a little while IN
1872.
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Pinker.on Tunnel Fire still Burning

CUMBERLAND, MD., October T.-The
fire in the Pinkerton tunnel, on the
Pittsburgh & ConneIlsvile railroad, is
still burning, with no prospect Of being
extinguished soon. A portion Of the
tunnel has cavpd in
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COINAGE of silver Dollars.

WASHINGTON, October 27.-The num-
Der of standard silver dollars coined TO
date is A, ,459, $50, Of which IL, ,22l ,0l0
are in circulation, and the remainder in
ths Treasury.
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BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Money at 6 to 7 Per Cent.-Goyernments
firm-flour Iregular-wheat Nv.
settIedbu Generally Lower
Hogs Dull.
FIN AhCE.
New York.

NEw YoRK, October 27.-MoSEY-
At 667 per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 5(G7 per cent. Sterling exchange
bankers bills steady at IS0! Sight
exchange on New York 4S3.
SILyER-At London 81 5-l6d: bar
silver here Ia subsidiary silver coin (!
al per cent. discount
GoyERNMENrs-Firm.
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a right to do. The testimony OF their
own witnesses, as well as ours, is that
practicable and useful structure
could have been erected within
these limits.
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was announced. II rs as lOllOWs:
1--WE, the jury, find for the petitioner
in the issues joined"
The effect OF the verdict, unless an APP
peal be taken, which is extremely prob
able, will be to cause the appointment OF
commissioners to view the land, con-
denim it to the uses of the p, W. Il NY.
company, and assess a compensation to
be paid therefor by them to the b. x ..
company.
, 1879-03-15

WHISPERING WOMEN arc
agreed us to the des;sability of a i"w voice
In women. There was time when the
demand was greater than the supply, but
such is certainly not the case now. In
primitive days, whea girls called the COWS.
or eonversed with their nei9hbOrs across
ten-asre telds, there was Il demand for
4f;,a!, s-r.hg yolces. and ito oonvor,'t-
ti.niai i-ny i,ote was naturally = tritle
hiyE..r Giyilizati,,n Of the orsiinsfy stan
ii,ri L.4s t-rriEr 1trusgi4 With iiss assli
ing iangl.ter and ele&r toi,Id Yo!ees of the
girls Of the suceeedins period. q was hot
much Of trick to Jump a girl out Of
home spun simplicity into fashionable
iinery, but it Was Ike Enl'ing teeth to
tone down her laug!, aid her ro;ee. Bat
poets sang of the charm Of low voice III
woman The yoans woman Of to-day is
never satisfied with half way measur s, or
with incomplete results One young
woman finds another admired because of
her soft tones. Ambitious t. excl, and
determined to outdo, she brings her nat
urally sweet voice down in the scale to
kew in which there is little room for mod
uIation or infection She drops the nat
ural key, cuts off the eapers. crimples the
graceful movement, and talks III dis
tressed monotone. She puts voice that
every one admires having III it not
the remotest suggestion Of vulgarlty,
but as nature made it, full of beautiful
surprises and sweet intonations-she puts
this galloping, dancing, musical voice into
"A straight Jacket, and marches at 4 snaiIs
pace along the dead level Of an exasper-
sting monotone There is no opportu-
rity for delicate shading, ~ change for
emphasis, a4,. room for expression. There
is no charm in this sort Of a low voice.
If this Y.,.ag woman Is !. society leader,
she viii have imitators, and ainOny tiass
there viii lie many who will iet hes'tste
10 give the screw another t'.fn. and Srins
the voice down still lower. They will
hold in the natarsl volume with stndlous
care, and talk 9Th bated breath and lan-
orid air, in 2 tone more like hoarse
whisper or a eramped, squeezed falsetto
than tie natsral voice of woman Such
women can not converse, because Gonyer-
sation :nyal;es incubation, emphasis.
and an ability TO express every shade OF
meaning and sentiment. A woman rs
words, to be attractiye, mMst be under
stood. and womans Foiee. 10 bs CHARM
ing, must have all the elements that at
tract and please. Men may listen to the
rasping monotone or the hSarse Whlsperof
a woman in tolerance, but they viii ieaSe
her presence depressed, not to say eIas-
perated. There is no danger that low
voice in woman will lose its charm, unless
it is through abuse in the name OF reane=
ment or something else Young giris
should be made to see the difference be-
tween the voice OF a cultivated woman
and the voice of an affected one: between
the graees of the one and the distortions
of the other, between the presence OF
meditation, emphasis and tone, ana the
absence Of all,
, 1879-03-15

Az AMAZING BIUNpEE.-Th official re-
port upon the recent explosion Of thirty
eight ton gun on the English iron clad
.Thmderer" reveals perhaps the most as
founding piece of negligence that ever re;
suited in calamity. 1t may be remembered
that the explosion occurred while firing at a
mark was being carried on. 1t now appears
that the explosion was caused, not by any
defect in the gun, such as might he astr1-
buted to careless manipulation Ill the forg-
ing, but to the fact that : double charge
had bsen ignorantly inserted. 1t seems
that the gun was loaded with 4 full charge,
and that somehow it missed fire Instead OF
withdrawing the chsrge, however, another
full charge was put in, and rammed home,
and then the gun was fired, with the result
which might have been expected 1t Is NOT
so surprising that the crew Of the gun shonid
have failed to ascertain by the sound that
the first charge had not exploded, because
when great gun practice is beng carried on
the roar deafens the Men for the time, and
they probably coull not distinguish between
the report of their own gun and that OF
another. But that NJ one should have
found the first charge when the second was
being put in, is incomprehensible, and the
manner of the accident renders inevitable
the theory of a confusion which seems az
most incredible, and which IS fatal to the
discipline Of the - Wamderer. Alter such
a diSgraceful exhibit rs this there ought to
be several courts martial, al some speedy
dismissals from the service. On the whole
this beats anything NC have ever heard of
for mismanagement-
, 1879-03-15

THE INDIAN RING TRiCK.--He then
asked for a signet ring. Several were Of
fered him, and he chose out one which
had q very large oval seal projecting well W.
beyond The gold hoop ON botl. sides. Tho
ring i,e tossed and tnmbled several times
in his hands, now throwing it into the air
and catching it, then shaking it between
his clasped hands, all tie time mumblns
half -artiaI,Ste words in some Hindostaii1e
patois. Then setting the ring down on
the cloth at about Galf-srm's lessgtb in
fros,i u him, he said, slowly and dis
tinetly Ia gaad Hindostanee, Ring, rise
up .nd 60 to tie rupee" Tho ring rose.
with the seal uppermost, and, resting on
the hoop, slowly, with kind of dancing
or Jerking nsotioa, 1t passed over the
cloth until it came to where the rupee lay
on the remote edge; then it lay down on
the coin The conjurcr then said, "Ring,
Law hold of the rupee, and bring 1t to
ne. fhe projecting edge of the seal
seemed to grapple the edge of the coin !;
the ring and the rupee rose into a kind of
wrestling attitude. and, with the same
dancing or jerking motion, the two re-
turned to within reach of the juggler S
hand
, 1879-03-15
~Ss--~'-~-~~---
WALLA wALLA BAR. RULES FOE 1873

All lawyers are members of the bar,
yers.
There are bars and there are bars, and
lawyers viii be compelled to elect at which
bar they viii practice.
Y. B.-This does not refer to prison
bars, They are reserved exclusively for
clientE
All clients are guilty. but if acquitted
talent alone has saved them.
Young lawyers must remember that
they GaE only iMpsess the court by Fasting
their feet upon the tables
Never take a bigger fee than you can
get.
Judges must remember that they are
elected by the people. We are the Peo-
pie
If, in behalf Of your client. you have
nothing to say, do not say it, but say
something else.
A green bag is the lawyers emblem
The greener the bag the groener the law
yer, and the bigger the bag-here the
rules fails.
When the lawyer brings a bundle of
kindling wood in his bag to light has
office fire, he shonld be careful to remove
it before entering court, and not hand 1t
up as an authority to convince the Judge
All such actions bring the bar into dis
repute
Never give the page or title of case
in offering an authority. Let the court
hunt for it. What are judges paid for.
When you have emptied Your client S
pockets. hand him en"psi money to Pay
his car fare home. This is an lnnovation
on the established practice, but Ii Is more
blessed to give than to receive.
, 1879-03-15
HER LETTER.

I'm sitting alone by the fire.
Dressed Just as came from the dance,
In a robe even you would admire
1t cost y cool thousand in France;
I'm be-diamonded out of all reason. "
My hair is done up in cue:
In short, sir, the belle of the season.
Is wasting an hour on you
A dozen engagements I've broken;
left in the midst of set;
Likewise a proposal, half spoken,
That watson the stairs-fol me vet.
They say he ii be rich-when he is grown up-
And then he adores me indeed.
And You, sir, are turning your nose up.
Three thousand miles off, as You read.
And how do like my position.'
And what do l think of New York.
And now, in my higher ambition,
With whom do | waltz, f1irt, or talk :"
And isn't it nice to have riches,
And diamonds and silks, and all that 3"
And aren't It change to the bitches
And tunnels of Poverty Flat -
Well, yes-if you saw us out driving
Each day in the park, four-in-hand-
Ii You saw poor dear mamma contriviDy
To look supernaturally grand
II You saw papa's picture, AS taken
BY Brady, and tinted at that,
You'd never suspect he sold bacon
And -four at Poverty Flat.
And yet, just this moment, when sitting
In the glare Of the grand chandelier
In the hustle and glitter beftting
The "hnest soiree Of the year.
In the mists Of a ga,e de ChamJfry,
And the hum of the smallest If talk
Somehow. Joe, ! thought of the Ferry
And the dance that We had on 1.-The Fork"
Of HarrissuS barn, with its muster
OF flags festooned over the wall;
OF the candles that she'd their soft luStre
And ta!low on head-dress and shawl;
OF the steps that We took to one fiddle
Of the dress of my queer ris-o-rx:
And how | once went down the middle
With the man that shot Sandy McGee;
OF the moon that WAS quietly sleeping
On the hill. when the time came tn 20:
OF the few baby peaks that We're peeping
From under their bedclothes of snow;
OF that ride, that to M was the rarest;
Of-the something you sail at the gate:
All. Joe then wasn't an heiress
To " the best-payins lead in the State
Well, well, its all past Vet its funny
To think, ;,5 stood in the glare
Of fashion and beauty and money,
That should b. thinking, right there,
OF some one who breasted high water,
And swaI, the North Fork, and all that,
just to dance with old Folnsbee's daughter,
The Lily Of Poverty Flat:
But goodness what noIlsellse I'm writing.
(Mamma says my taste still is low,l
Instead of my triumphs reciting,
I'm spo"ning on Joseph, h,-heigh-ho
And I'm to he s. finished by travel,
Whatever's the meaning of that
Oh why did papa strike pay gravel
In drifting on Poverty Flat:
Good night, here's the end of my paper;
Goodnight, if the longitude Please
For maybe, while wasting my taper,
Yo~r sans climbing over the trees.
But know, if you haven't 81: riches,
And are poor, dearest Joe, and all that,
Thatmy heart somewhere there in the bitches
And you've struck it,-on Poverty Flat
, 1879-03-15

How Mr.. TnDEN TESTIFiED.
ernor Tiidep sat erect in his chair tor oyer
two hours and half, says ths New fork
Times. and during the greater portion o'
thi. time he gavs his testimony IN thar ca.H'
ouiet. imperturable manner peculiar 70 nam,
and without hsrdly moving muscle OF
changing the sxprsssioa OF his countenanee.
His voice, which was hoarse, started very
f,.eblv. almost inaudibly. But when MT
T;lden came to the corrupt negotiations az
luded to in the cipher dispatches, h's hoarss a.
voice rose suddenly to pitch OF loudness, IS
vebemence and dramatic intensity hAruis
ever observed in the e4 governor during !ae
most exciting periods Of his lite. buring
these portions ri Mr Tilden's evidence 'ners
was a flush of dssp feeling oVsr has iace' s. aaa
tbe mental excitemsnt Lad such mastefy over
him tina. his lips t.itehed, and ene .,,s;a o. G.'
hands said to be smittsa with paralysis;
tremhled in a most painful n'snner- anu M
when Governor Tilden dramatically called o.
heaven and earth to witness the ProtestallSSn .S,
of his innocence of all knowldge OF tne
e;phers, bringing his clenched INST neasis
down upon the table, there was symPa'nA
ing outburst of applause.
, 1879-03-15
A SENSIBLE WoRD.-Wm. NJ. Evarts,

A SENSIBLE WoRD.-Wm. NJ Evarts,
asks congress to put its hand into the
Treasury, take out sl7, 500, and present
this sum to Mrs. Bayard Taylor. The
only reason he assigns is that the late
Rayard Taylor did not leave his family
nin afiiuent circumstances. But this Is,
unhappily, just as true of any one of ten
thousand American fathsrs of families
who have died since Christmas day. The
fact that at the time Of his death Mr..
TAYLOR 5as drawing q heavy salary from
the Trsasary by the favor OF s fraudulent
president does not seem to make the case
Ole af exceptional hardship. II MIR.
Evarts, who is rspqted. as well-to-do
man. hsd invited the other Iich admirers
of the late Minister to Berlin to JOIN hun
in presenting q substantial testimonial
Of their regard, that you'd have been
another affair. Thers is no warrant m
the constitution fsr voting away the pnb-
lie money in giiis to private individuals,
even Il they deserve to enjoy fortune
, 1879-03-15

"SrATIoNERY" ACCOUNTS Chicago
paper has made stir in congress by print
ing the list and prices Of articles drawn
by members az stationery Under this
head one member takes family Bible,
another q pack of cards, third an opera
slass. and SO on through the list The
members vote themselves 1873 worth OF
Stationery for the year, and, being IN
able to use one-half OF it, they take the
remainder in merchandise The imPro=
priety of the proceeding lies in the action
Of -,ngress by which 1919 is IN effect ad-
ded 10 a members salary The law flxes
the salary, ard when members vote them
selves extras they take Just so much moro
than the law allows. A reasonable
amount of stationery would cost but a
tr;fe but there is no excuse fer making
it an extra. 1t is as much a part Of the
expenses Of the position for which each
member is paid 5000 year, as con
sressman's board in Washington when he
Is keeping house at home. All these ex-
tras should be cut off.
, 1879-03-15

The AROMATIC NuruEG grow
on little trees which look like little pear
trees, and are generally over twenty feet
high The flowers are very much like the
li,y ii the valley They are pale yellow
and very fragrant. The nutmeg Is the seed
of the lruit, and mace is the thin covering
over this seed. The fruit is about as large
as peach When Hpe, it breaks open and
shows the little nut inside. The trees grow
ON the islands of Asia and In tropical Ameri-
ca. They bear fruit for seventy or eighty
years, having ripe fruit npon them 1t all
seasons. A fine tree In Jamaica has over
four thousand nutmegs on it yearly The
Dutch used to have all the nutmeg trade, as
they owned the Banda Islands, and con-
onered all the other traders and destroyed
the trees. To keep the price up. they once
burned three piles of nutmegs, each OF
which was as large as church. Nature did
not sympathize with such meanness. The
nutmeg pigeon, found in all the Indian
islands. did for the world what the Dutch
had determined should not be done, carried
these nuts, which are their food, into all the
surrounding countries, and trees grew again.
and the world had the benefit
, 1879-03-15
FDivcrSitiex.

The Black Hills Indiana have resumed
business.
In driving hen, woman is slow but
sboober.
No man respects girl who Hirts, tho he
may fiirt with her for game.
1t only takes popular song three weeks
to get 20 years old in this country.
A true woman loveth aowers-the kind
new fall bonnets are trimmed with.
All. it has actually been done into French,
and is entitled Lee Bsbes dHetene.
Mr., Beecher says he would rather die
than live rs pity to spoil a good mind.
England appears to be getting ready to
carry ON war in four or five different Ian
guages
That ''the colored troops fought nobly" is
no longer disputed by the British troops in
Zululand.
The husband is twenty-three, the wife
thirteen, and there are now three of chem
all of New Haven.
Train wreca-e,n she hissed, as he blum
derinSiy stumbled upcu the long expanse of
dress In the crowded ball room.
1t is reported from the east that General
Grant, a somewhat noted European traveller,
is to visit America soon.
There is a young laly in this city who
goes by the nape of Earthquake" among
the boys, because she has shaken 50 many OF
them
Chief Joseph wears his hair banged in
front and braided behind. And he has
banged" good many white mems hair IN
his time.
1t is inferred from the heroism with which
Spartan women used to encourage their hns-
bands to so forth to battle, that they looked
well in black.
1t appears that the first downward step
taken by McGill, who was hanged at Clere-
land. Ohio, last month, commenced by his
writing poetry.
There are some women still permitted To
live who, if they ever go to heaven. will not
speak to an angel which does not wear a seal
skin coat and diamond earrings.
Two hundred and eighty maiden ladies
We're ruined by the failure of the West OF
England bank-N. r. W6sM. Naughty
West of England bank
A gentleman stopping in the city short
time since saw what he supposed was boat
hook, but was informed that it WAS Walla
Walla girls shoe buttoner.
.'As to having half husband" says
Mormon. lady spitefally, ''that is a great deal
more than many Of you eastern women are
likely to get. Oppressive silence
An article on johnny Skae," of Sierra
Nevada lame, which appeared in the Port
land Sfandard in October last, is just max
ing Its re-appearance in Cincinnati papers.
What the country needs now among
women is rot so much hand that can
bring ravishing strains IRON a grand piano.
AS one that can spank baby con esipressioae.
Th. fnilnwinm Is rLe Muman question:
, 1879-03-15

| THE ZuLts.-The defeat of the British
column by Cetywsyo. the Zulu chief, brings
/ a crisis IN British affairs IN South Africa
| 1t involves. as a probable result, costly and
tedious war with the majority at the other
Caifre tribes. WHICH the Zulus will doubtless
be able to bring TO their assistance. On the
| 18th of January, as already reported, Col,
Glyn's column had an engagement with tho
Zulus and the British loss was set down as
trifling. The conclssisn of the cable dis
patch referred TO now becomes very signlh-
cant ''The Zulus offer slight resistance,
withdrawing into the interior rs the troefs
advance Skirmishin., without noteworthy
result, is reported from different points. Ii
would appear probable from this that the
Zulu chieftain pursued the tactics of nitro
ducing the British to follow him until he had
separated the column under Colonel Glynn,
with which Lord Chelmsford would appear To
have been at the time of the disaster, from
the main body Then the howling Zuius
iell upen the camp and massacred everybody.
The scene of the defeat Is the village Of
Insandusana. on the Tugeia river, forming
the northern boundary OF Natal. The eoun-
try is wild and rugged and such as to make
a bush warfare extremely tedious and dan
serous. This is not the first appearance OF
the Zulus as warriors. They are branch OF
the Caffre race, and are sand to have come
from the north, and to have conquered the
present territory about the beginning of the
century. Under chief named Chaka, they
oyerran the country as far as the southern
border of Natal Chaka was succeeded by
his half brother. Dingan, and the latter by
Panda, full brother Of Chaka. Under
these chiefs the Zulus Tor Zooloosl had
regular military organization. their forces
beng divided into bands of 1000 each, and
each band or regiment being DISTINGUISHED
by different colored shields Ii is authori-
lively stated that in lS40 they could put
~, 900 warriors in the field. Their progress
was finally checked by that thrifty Dutch
African race called Boers. but the Zulus
have grown in strength, and the organiza-
ton and traditions os Chaka have been
maintained. OF all the Catfre tribes the
Zulus have been the most troublesome to the
British in the prosecution OF their schemes
of conquest in South Africa. Since acqmr-
ing the Transvaal Republic, the Zulus have
manifested renewed hatred to the British
Believing truly that kaifreland, north OF
Natal, was to be made seaboard tor the
new territory, aad that the native lnhabi:
tants were to be reduced to complete sub
lection Cctywayo. inheritins all the cour-
age and energy of his great predecessors,
declared war, and the campaig,i, which mas .
been prosecuted for nearly two years, reached
a stage on January 9th when It cannot longer
be treated as a small affair.
, 1879-03-15

WHAT would you do if girl kissed
youl" said one ten-year-old urchln to
AM ther, as they discussed the latest soei-
ETY. news. "What would ! dol I'd kiss
her back What would you dor Kiss
her mouth, was the protentous reply
, 1879-03-15

The sleigh in which Napoleon J. trav-
eled in Switzerland, is still in existence.
A yet more remarkable relic Is the snip
in which Charles II. returned 70 England
from Holland At the restoration In l6GO.
, 1879-03-15

A DENVER THEATRICAL IScIDEsr-At
the variety theatre, not long since, man
game cut who sang so poorly and played 50
ditto that the audience broke into combined
groan. The performer finished ms song,
and then coming to the footIights, he made
a few remarks. He said: Il know can't
sang very well, and ! am not much OF 4
player, but am one of the best fighters IN
this town. In fact, l am a wooily horse
-' = ---rv and Il TIE pisn that