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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-13
WELL,sBURG.
The Natural BrIdge-The Fate OF n Tub
Oysters.
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ginning.

The Natural Bridge-The Pate or a Tub
OyGterS.
WELLsBuRG, January II.
Correspondents Of the TntsIlisenerr.
Tho natural bridge across the Ohio at
this point furnishes a free and tolerably
easy means Of ierriage to and from our
sister state. Strange as it may seem, poo.
pie come from beyond Independence, Pa,
and cross the river to deal with Rodgers,
the Cnterprising general morchandlser OF
La Grange, while on this side our mer.
chants arc now offering equally as good
bargains.
Some Of the boys took advantage Of the
FREQ bridge and got "glorlously" full on
Tuesday night, and OF course one or two
Of them had to raise disturbances, for
which they have been or will be required
to atone, for some OF these chaps are old
offenders. They have been before the
Mayor on an average Of about once a
month for-well, the memory Of man fail.
eth to say, hut the records will show.
They have accordingly been convicted,
fined and imprisoned; and always, fix It as
they may, at loss, financially, TO the cor.
poration. In view OF these facts, goodly
number OF our best and most influential
citizens have for long time been advocat.
Ing the return 10 the whipping post as a
means Of punishment. Our citizens are
weary OF witnessing the money OF the
town being expended in keeping offend.
ers Of the law in jail and feeding them ON
hotel fare. They have discovered that the
present plan does not work. Mr.. Chipley,
OF Hardy county, will find that he has
many OF the same way OF thinking as him.
self on the subject Of whipping posts.
Our citizens both in town and county
arc anxious for the abolishment Of the
County Court system entirely. The Board
OF Supervisors and the Circuit Court were
the best systems we ever had, and the
cheapest. II has cost the taxpayers OF this
county thousands OF dollars to settle lis.
putes involving less than fifty dollars.
Better far for the county to have paid those
bills than to have had them brought before
a jury for settlement. And again, the jur.
los necessary for the use Of the Circuit
Court come about often enough TO suit
the convenience and the circumstances Of
tho average farmer, mechanic, laborer or
gentleman. ~
In the summer the farmer must needs
attend his crops, which often suffer by his
E
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

eTr4adelphiA AccommodRtion.- train only runs
between Wheeling and TrtAdelphIa. - =,
tDaily except Sunday-NeWlFk Accommodation.
tSteubAnvillS AccommOdAtlon.-ThIs train during
the day paEsCS backward and forward between Mar
tins Ferry and BellAire, stopping when required At
Sherman House, EtnaVille, West Wheeling and
Gravel Hill, I.. Eli = ~ - =
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Hon. Ira q, Pqsr aessribed Harrison


HoX. LA C., Posi- described Harrison
county during, hib speech in the Legisla:
tlre Wednesday as the Ireland Of West
b Virginia becauEe this county b left out ID
the cold. eYeryrtime Is iatias, Office d.
political iaVoTB are cone rfied. ~ dtkSbuFg
Neu1. -.
Mr.. Post ID unto+uhatSir his recolleG
tons. Of West Virginia ,hlstory.E lie has
sacrificed the truth Of history TO rhetoric
Harrison county has had the Congress
man from this district right straight along
since 1870, in the persons ofHon. John j.
Davis and Col. Ben. Wilson. She had
lion. John $. Garlic for United States
Senator for several years. She recently
enjoyed the judgeship Of d large circuit 10
the person Of Hon. Charles Lewis, who
previous to that time was State school
Superintendent. She has residing In hei
midst the United States Attorney for Wesi
Virginia, and late United States Com
missioner in Bankruptcy. She has also
an OK. United States Consul to Melbourne
in her midst. nj
The late Judge Hoffman Of the Supreme
Court was citizen Harrison. She had
recently the chance Of possessing another
judge in the person Of Ex-Judge Ton
Harrison, tonC Of tho best men in Yves
Virginia,) whose worthy father was OF
the Supreme bench Of West Virginia 70
several years, but she declined to avail
herself OF the opportunity and voted To-
an outsider Xxx ....-,5r a.. ..
This does not look MS il Harrison count!
was much Of an Ireland. Mr.. Post has grea
need to square his eloquence with the fact
OF the case. ,..r rr.ra
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4bo 900
1t will be seen that the stocks at tho
thrce ports were almost exactly the same
at the close Of the year as at the beginning;
so that the crop and tho importations rep.
resent tho consumption; unless the stocks
held at the interior varied at the end Of
tho year from what they were at the be.
GINNING r.fr.a "a
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as1s4ns.s ,..,I.s. ! II.
STREET CoMMIBSIoNm.

MEssEs. Ept1ons-At the request Of many friends.
and having had considerable experience Ia work
such ~ h required Of the Streei Commissioner,
hereby announce mysOH n q candidate for I'D
jau2' GEORGE ARKLR.
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Trying TO smuE&Io a Southern claim
Under Cover OF the wheeling Govern.
ment OF 1861.
On Tuesday last Congress put final
quietus on the claim for damages for the
destruction of the college Of William and
Mary on the peninusla OF Virginia during
the war. This bill had been before Con.
gress for long period. The evidence is
not clear as to who burned the college,
whether Union or Confederate soldiers,
but the bill recitcs that 1t was burned by
Union soldiers and proposed an indem.
ity Of $4,000. 1t was defeated by 1877 to
81 in the House, Kenna and Martin voting
for the bill and Col. Wilson being absent
During the debate Tucker Of Virginia,
advocated the bill on the broad ground
that the United States was responsible be.
cause the DANCE was done in State re-
cognized as loyal. He contended that
when the United States recognized the
Wheeling Government as the Government
OF Virginia that it assumed that Virginia
was loyal, and it was therefore responsible
by tho law OF nations far this damage.
Such an argument might do for Virginia
Confederate lawyer, butt fell flat even upon
Democratic Congress. The members knew
enough to know that only loyal people
constituted tho government of Virginia as
rcoragnizcd at Wheeling in 1881, and that
neither they nor the loyal people of tho
country by that act became responsible
for tho casualties Of war to property that
had been used prior to It's destruction, as
prison pen for the punishment Of Union
man
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SEALED PROPOSALS


u... cIE CLERKS oTnc,
WhEELlSG, IVA, Jan. S6, in
Sealed proposals will no rCcel,ol Al tho oM,. w..
CITY CleTt nntil MONDAY, JANUA ANY I'M Inn ~ =
~ S'elOeI PM teT the lighting, essaisI p ~,
s soP a. s1 sh IWEI VIII VI SiTs' G @
70 the Chairman Ot the COMMITTEES on iiyht, 's'''s
iano ALEX. uPDENRAFR W.. O.,
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An EdItor who Has Rod In Pickle 70
Somebody. .... .


Brother Scott, Of tho Clarksburg Neus,
was Il candidate for Clerk before the Dem.
ocratic caucus hero last Tuesday night,
lie made creditable run. but failed for
the lack Of a good many votes. He has
since returned homo and written up bis
observations in and around the Capitol.
He considers Fulkerson, OF Wayne comfy,
'the best looking man in the House, anda
perfect gentleman" Chap Stewart bids
fair to be the leader ofthe House and will
be safe and able one. ;" Arnold, OF Lewis,
is "ths Thurman OF the House, and John
son, OF Harrison, lis the Cox otthe. House.
Soft will be seen that We have some big
men amongus. There are some others,
however, who are to be settled with here
after. They are alluded to as follows:
"As far Us offices are concerned the
press met with little recognition. The
politicians are anxious for the support Of
the press when running for office. but
when they succeedas general thing they
turn their back on tho press and people
that elevated them to position. Hereafter
il will he the duty OF the press and people
to turn their backs on all such politicians.
We opine that more than one made his
political grave during the organization Of
the present Legislature" rt4
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WHEEIINo, January ?, 1872.
MAX BAEg

In retiring from the above arm | desire to tsrt
the public for the patronage 10 literally beslOTSs
i, and ask continuance Of their lavors 10 m ~
af I51,o Respectfully nav n,r,
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NOTICE TO ARCHITECTS.


'Hs oTTIcI SECRETARY OF STATE
WHEELING, October 81. Isl
The Board Of Public Works Of the State Of Er
Virginia will receive At this oticC until DWems,f8
ISLS plans Tor The alteration in and additions to y
bullding known n tho estate IsuSe." in thE IN ]
Charleston, kanaWhA county, from such arrhlttln
may please 70 submit them II being under,,ood N
no PLAN WILL DE PAID ron unless the Alne Ne Nd.
ed By the Board. y. BRADY, Secretary Of SnN
Kill, .,. DEcENBER Il, i!iL
The time for receiving plans above mentioned b Il.
BY order. !. REA6Y
aeis III Secretary Of STATE
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27

A New York letter of Saturday says:
avail street speculation is no longer con-
fined to Wall street. The great capital
lists who turn the wheel of fortune up and
down there, as their interest may suit,
have now extended the sphere of their
speculations so as to take in the Cotton
and Produce Exchanges to an extent that
is scarcely credible. For instance, well
known California capitalist who is rec
ognized as one of the monarchs of the
Stock Exchange, is understood to have
purchased yesterday and to-day some 49,
900 bales of cotton, for delivery in March,
in the expectation that prices will advance,
while another Spectator of large means,
who has heretofore confined his ventures
to Erie ST. Paul. and Northwest, is
known to have sold about half as much
in the expectation that prices will recede-
With great spectators thus pltted against
eaeh other, it is needless to say that the
smaller fish who operate for quick turns
and moderate profits are bewildered, and
hardly know on which side of the market
to range themselves. A similar condition
of things exists in the grain and provision
markets at the Produce Exchange, and
the result of it is serious derangeme E
of legitimate trade, with partial suspen-
sion of the export movement. Merchants
and shippers outside of the speculative
arena will neither buy nor sell at time
when it is utterly impossible to tell what
prices are from hour to hour, and when
the markets are moved by a hidden ma
chinery with which it is possible at any
moment to precipitate panic or cor
ner.' 1t is easier to complain of such
evils, however, than to provide remedy
for them, yet before long it is probable
there will be some action on the part of
the commercial exchanges, with view to
the creation of such powerful public opin-
ion especially against speculation in food
commodities, if not in cotton, as will com
pei Wall-street gentlemen to restrict their
gambling operations to the Stock Ex-
change That would be something
gained
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT.

Below is list of the General and County Dep
uties commissioned for the year 1870. Counties
having no Deputies, will please recommend suit
able persons, and they will be promptly commits
stoned. 1t is earnestly desired that the Order in
every part of the State shall be revived.
GENERAL DEPUTIES
J. V. Scott, Texarkana, Miller county.
W. R. Price, Conway, Faulkner county.
COUNTY DEPUTIES.
W. w. Pace Camden, Ouachita county.
P ". Parker, Potts Station, Pope county.
Thomas Orr, Texarkana, Miller county.
B. n. Huffman, Hampton, Calhoun county.
T. J. Rice, Tulip, Dallas county.
Henry SHIRLEY, Van Buren,, Crawford county
David R. Ford, Batesville, Independence CO.
!. F. Dawson, Smithville, Lawrence county.
Robert w. Hail, Canton, Fulton county.
W. II. Coghill, Cross county.
1t is to be hoped that every Deputy will put
forth his best efforts to restore the Grange IN Ar
kansas to its former prosperity.
J. V. SCOTT,
Secretary Arkansas State Grange.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27

A trial of the workings of the Clement
Attachment which took place recently at
Westminster, Anderson county, s. Gao
cording to Southern exchanges, was very
convincing to those who witnessed it, of
of the merit of this simple but important
invention. The seed as it came from the
gin showed not particle of lint adheTlng
to it. BY this process probably per cent.
more cotton is obtained from a given
Quantity of seed than would result from
the ordinary method of ginning. Yarns
made by tire process of the Clement At
tachment are claimed to be of superior
quality. A naedal of honor was given at
the Centennial to the "new process" yarns
and awards were also made for the same
by the State fairs of Georgia and South
Carolina.
An experienced farmer who also wit
messed the trial referred to, expressed the
opinion that this little machine will in
time result in the manufacture of yarns
on plantations Just as now cotton is gInned
there. The re suit of this will be to near
Iy double the value of the crop. Cotton,
when ginned, brings s or 9 cents, and
when ginned AMI spun, will obtain 10 or
II cents,
T. T. Henderson, State Commissioner
of A agriculture for Georgia, says: have
figured on the thing from every possible
standpoint, and I can not sec why single
Clement Attachment should not pay from
S., 500 to $4,000 a year. think these AT,
tachments put on plantations and worked
by a neighborhood of farmers, with one OF
them to superintend it, will do great good
and prove perfectly safe and profitable
investment shall advise the putting up
of these attachments wherever these con-
ditions can be had" The simplicity of the
construction of the Clement mill, and the
directness with which its work is perform
ed will commend it to those farmers who
hesitate to have to do with comp Heated
machinery.
A correspondent writing from Floyd
county, Ga, in the Country Gentleman
says of several of these Attachments in
operation in that State that they are pay
ing investment of SO per cent. to the far
mers over the present system of baling the
cotton from the gin. Among the advan
tages summed up by said correspondent
are: 81. 1t will save the expense of bag
ging and ties; 2. 1t makes smoother and
better yarn than the compressed cotton;
3. 1t will save to the country the large
margin between the raw material and the
yarn; d. 1t will attract capital and draw
machinery to the material" The farmers,
according to all reports, appear much inter
ested in this matter, and it is believed many
more of the Clement Attachments will be
put into operation throughout the latter
section another season. Machinery has
always been the great want of the South,
and it is now being largely increased
every year.-NortAeyw PAPER.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
CHRISTMAS BELLS.
BY TENNYSON.

Ring out, wild bells, unto the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The fa;thleSs GOODNESS of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good
Ting old ohapes OF foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust OF gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in tbs valiant man and free,
The larger heart the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
MISSISSIPPI.

The following Deputy Lecturers have
oeen appointed by Worthy Master Oar
den, under the act of the State Grange at
Okolona in December Last:
Acorn, Prentiss and Tishomingo counties-B.
b. Boone, Bonneville
Amite-Mai George F. Webb, Liberty.
Attalla-L. S. Terry, Kosciusko.
Bolivar and Sunfower-G. w. Wise, Concor-
CaroIl-E. w. Tarrant, Black Hawk
Claiborne-W. II. Kerr, Port Gibson.
Clay-Dr. d. B. Hill, Palo Alto; w. H. Duke
miner, Vinton.
Copiah-W. J. Rea, a. P. Barry, Dr. a. Hun
ter, Jesse Thompson, jr., VIM. Kenthly, A b..
Guon, Hazlehurst
De Soto-T. c. Dockery, Loves Station.
Flanklin-S. 5. Montgomery, L. Scott,
Meadville.
HindS-H. o. Dixon and L. F. Afford, Jackson.
Lexington.
Jasper and Newton-J L. Hardy, Newton.
leferson-W. L. Harper, Fayette.
Latayette-G. w. Gill Oxford.
Lee and Itawamba--H. L. Holland, Guntown.
Llncoln-John NJ. Grafton, Brookhaven
Lowndes--C. w. Shedd, Caledonia
Marion-E. T. Hudnall, China Grove
Monroe-E. L. Sykes, Egypt.
Panola-Col. John Dickens, Pamela.
IKE 6. Leggett, Holmesville
PPontotoc-R. c. Galloway, Pontotoc-
Rankin-W. A Lof1in, Stems Creek.
SScott-Dr. w. J. Lack, Forest
simpson, c. McLaurin, Mt. Zion.
SmIth county,. B. Sigrist, Polkville.
IaLahatchie-A. c. n. Shelley, Charleston.
II,iIppah and Benton-Julius Johnson Jonesboro
Warren-G. NJ. Bachelor, Walter Billingsly
Ficksburg
Wlklnson-Dr. II. K. w. Ford, Woodville.
azoo--A. NJ. Hicks, Benton, w. d. Gibbs
Yazoo City, w. L. WILLIAMS,
Secretary State Grange.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.

THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT
Georgia is enthusiastic over the "Clem-
ent Attachment" The Atlanta Constitu-
ton says it is firmly convinced that this
is to work the salvation of the South; that
100 Of them at work in Atlanta next year
would spin 1 900 bales of cotton and add
100000 to the wealth of the State, or
more than 1000 immigrants could do.
The Clement Attachment is simple de-
vice attached to ginning and spinning ma
chinery, by which the seed cotton is gin
ned, picked, carded and spun into yarn
~ connected rr4loi,;nery It fe simple
that mill capable of spinning 5000
pounds of seed cotton in a day, costs, it is
said, only $500. The machinery consists
of a ginning machine, into which the seed
cotton is put as in ordinary gins. AS the
int cotton energies it is seized by other
machinery and picked, then by other and
carded, and still by other and spun; so
that what passes in as seed cotton comes
out as spun yarn. This-yarn is said to be
in great demand among Eastern mills and
to sell readily at from 70 20 II cents per
pound. The profit, in such mill if it be
all that is claimed for it, may be seen at a
glance. The mill costs so little that it is
within the reach of all neghborhoods.
All bagging, ties, ginning and extra haul
ing are saved, and the farmer interested
in a mill receives nearly double for his
cotton manufactured, while the cost of
the manufactury is very small.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
FARMERS, DON'T SELL YOUR COT
TON SEED

we continue to urge the farmers OF the Cotton
0tates not to sell their seed to the oil companies
d any price. 1t is the worst policy they can pur-
sue Every farmer should not only refuse to SELL
'u' ne should buy the seed owned by his employees
ana use every bushel for feed and fertizing pur-
poses AT $40 ton, it is the cheapest and best
fertilizer in the world.
Inc oil Companies combine to put down and
Aeep down the price to So and 81 per ton, which
NOT one-fourth of its real value. Farmers should
0O'noine to prevent its sale to the oil companies
"'iuer any circumstances.
FARMERS, don't sell your cotton seed.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
BETTER LUCK ANOTHER YEAR.
BY w. GILMORE SIMS.

BY w. GILMORE SIMS.
y, never sink meath Fortunes frown,
But brave her with a shout of cheer,
And front her fairly-face her down
She's only stern to those who fear!
Here's "better luck another yearr'
Another year!
Aye, better luck another year!
Well have her smile instead of sneer-
A thousand smiles for every tear,
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
And better luck another year!
Another year!
The damsel,' Fortune, still denies
The plea that yet delights her ear;
IT'S but our manhood that she tries,
She's coy to those who doubt and fear.
She'll grant the suit another year!
Another year,
Here's ''better luck another year,"
She now denies the golden prize;
But spite of frown and scorn and sheer,
Be firm, and we will win and wear,
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
In better luck another year!
Another Year! Another year
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27

The following, from the report of the
Committee on Agriculture made to the
National Grange, should be posted in the
hallof every Subordinate in the Union:
I. That the Department of Agriculture
shaA be made an Executive Department,
and the Commissioner a Cabinet officer
2. That the Agricultural Department
shall be sustained and supported by an
nual appropriations commensurate with
the Importance of the great and perma-
nent industry it represents
3. mat commercial treaties shall be
made with all foreign countries, giving to
American products equal and unrestricted
intercourse with the markets of the world
+ That governments be administered
IN cheaper and simpler manner, conso-
nant with the conditions of the people
S That more rigid economy in the
expenditures of public money be -estab-
3, That the laws shall be plain and sim
pie to the end that justice shall be speedy,
crime punished, and good government
maintained.
7. That the creation or allowing of mo-
nopolies to exist is in violation of the
spirit and genius of free republican gov
eminent.
s. That the tariffs of freights and fare
over railroads and all transportation COM
panies shall be regulated and all unjust
determinations inhibited by law.
9. That taxation shall be equal and uni
form, and all values made to contribute
their just proportion to the support of the
government.
10. That the revenue laws of the Uni
ted States shall be SO adjusted as to bear
equally upon all classes of property, to
the end that agriculture shall be relieved
of the disproportion of burdens it bears.
II. That the patent laws of the United
States be SO revised that innocent pur-
chasers of patent rights shall be protected,
and fraudulent vendors alone held respon-
sible for infringements of rights and vio-
latinns of law.
II. That system Of elementary agri-
cultural education shall be adopted in the
common schools of the country.
I3. That we are entitled to and should
have fair representation in the legisla-
tive halls of the country, chosen from the
ranks of the farmers. oF
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
GRANGE DIRECTORY. 1870,
NATIONAL GRANGE.

NATIONAL GRANGE.
MASTER. !. Woodman. of Michigan.
Oyerseer-Put. Darden of Mississippi
Lecturer-Henry Eshbaugh, of Missouri
Steward-A. J. Vaughan, of Tennessee.
Assistant Steward-Wiliams Sims, of Kansas
Chaplain-S II. Ellis, of Ohio.
Gate Kecper-O. Dinwiddie, of Indiana
Ceres-Mrs. II. II. Woodman, of Michigan.
Pomona-NIrs. NJ. l.. Darden, of Mississippi.
Flora-Mrs f. NJ. Nicholson, of New Jersey.
L. A. S.-Mrs William Sims, of Kansas.
Executive Committee-WilliamG WAYNE Of
New York; d. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina.