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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15

corn. Turn out cattle In the woods TO
rnrge. Timber generally begins 70 leaf
Nr, Plant sorghum. Light white irosts
my still be looked for in the first week.
Nay 7-Plant beans and cucumbers, DC.
lay 10 to 20-Plant and SOW all late gar.
len vegetables. Sweet potatoes and wa.
'ermelons. Dogwoods In bloom. Plant
main cropo Of corn, also pumpkins and late
beans. May 81 Corn and potatoes plant.
ID on fresh cleared land. Grapes are in
bloom.
June shear sheep. June s-Plant
tobacco. Corn may still be planted on
fresh cleared land. Clover Is in bloom.
Tuly 15-Harvest clover. Plant late Gu.
cumbers, beans, melons, and even potatoes.
send early grass.ied cattle TO market.
July / TO 4-Plough even for the last
time. Early potatoes are ripe. July 10
Harvest wheat and rye. July l6-Com-
mence cutting timothy. Sow buckwheat.
July 25-Harvest oats. Early apples are
ripe. August 10 to September 1-Sow
turnips. August l6-Finlsh hay harvest.
Plough for wheat and rye. August % 10
september l0-Peaches and melons ripen-
ing Isabella, Hartford, Prolific and Con.
cord grapes ripening. September 10 to 20
Cut tobacco, SOW wheat, timothy and
rye. Catawba and Norton's Virginia
4eedling grapes are maturing, September
% to October Gut corn, harvest buck
wheat.
Oct. / to 49, First white irosts occur,
Cut late corn. Sow wheat and ryeon corn
ground. Cut sorghum and make syrup.
Oct. l5.-Dig late potatoes. Leaves fall
last. Send late fat stock to market Nov,
] to TO- Gather turnips and other root
crops. Commence husking corn. Com.
mencc winter feeding OF young stock and
milch COWS. Nov. 3l.-Winter feeding in
general.
Dates for the higher plateaus and noun
tains are from ten TO fifteen days later in
spring and earlier in autumn.
We may sum up what may be said oi
the climate of West Virginia as follows:
FirsL-R6 dry, with sufficient moisture
to promote vegetation, but not enough to
DO injurious to health.
Second.-H 2 mild; while sometimes
decidedly cold, and at other times toler-
ably hot, neither extreme is ever long con
tinued, Tho general temperature Is Of O
pleasant medium.
Third. Its highly favorable to agrtcul'
ture. The length Of the growing season,
the rain fall, evenly distributed through.
out the year, and the along periods adapted
to seeding and harvesting, enable the
farmertO conduct his operations under the
most favorable circumstances.
Fourth. II Is very healthy. Statistics
show that in no part Of the world is there
amore general condition OF health. or q
longer.lived, or more vigorous population,
The back country people, though lamenta,
bly, ignorant, possess great mental and
bodily vigor, the result Of the highly fav'
orable climate, and their habit Of opening
their houses to the weather, and living
much in the open air. "Healthy!" Said
one Of them to the writer not long ago,
"Ye'd better b'lieve it, strangerl 1t are
so healthy that a man has to move out Of
the State to die!" EDMUND KIRHB.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
WEST VIRGINIA.
Its Natural ACKNOWLEDGMENT to
Immigrants.

Natural neaonrees-lndHeements TO
lminlgranis.
ron inc Boston O0ninoFeiai Sale''n'
Less perhaps Is known about West VIZ.
ginia than about any other State In TIT
Union. Before The building Of the Chesa.
800 l. nLts p.ns.s. H. go. go
peaAe% Onio ra,i""y Tue Stea'et pa't y
u was Theoretically sealed-"bottled up
as efFectually as Butler was during the wal
al Bermuda Hundreds. Walled In by III,
misc ptdso ardtha a-i,o,h,niss u soomod
~" "'uso ".u Si0 %
forever smut o from inc s~eaooard' ioi
sas poIaess eng,nser o. over s ~,
,5roSsh Isslaa oooos.,h,s NH hv hr,dlo.
htOuB ueuleni ucCcsetple Vuly w utIulV
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
TIM Albany Evening Journal, in alludln

TnE Albany Etsaing Journal, in alludinp
to Senator Chandler's repeated thrustS at
the dlslOyal majority in the Senate Of the
United States, says II 'his occasional brlei
utterances are not specially polished in
themselves they always polish down the
other side. MIR. Chandler does not deal
In soothing syrup; he speaks the plain
truth as he finds It."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15

HEAVY rains on the Upper Mississippi
and It's tributaries have carried JOY alike
to the hearts Of the farmers and the lum-
bcrmen. Among the grain.producers
there is a jnbilant feeling at the prospect
ola bounliful yield, while the rise of the
rivers has enabled tho lOgmen to run to
market great quantities Of timber which
lay "high and dry for lack Of rains.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15

The main cause Of nervousness is indi-
gestion, and that is caused by weakness Of
the stomach. No n can have sound
nerves and good health without using Hop
Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
the blood, and to keep the liver and
kidneys active, to carry of all the poison
u and waste matter Of the system. See
other column.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
DlED.

sEvERIEG.-At l2.4S a. NJ, Tuesday, HENRY
%SEvEnSO, SIR, In his nth year.
The funeral will take place from bis late residence,
i09 Eighteenth street, Thursday ~aiternoOn att O'Clock.
! friends OF tho family are invited to attend.
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n

wHEY-MeELDowNEY.-At the residence Of
county, W. Va, on Monday evening, May RIB, 1879,
by Rev. Seibert, Of Proctor, W. Va, WILSON s.
WILEY, ESQ.,, Of the WetEel county bar, 10 Miss ETIIE
MCELDowSETi both Il New MtrtlnSville. No Cards.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
CRACNERs AND MooNsnINrRs,


The Crackers and M~oonshiners" of
West Virginia sprang originally from
poor stock-stock elected from the Tails
and slums OF LondOn-and they have
grown up shut out from the open air Of
tho outside world; and yet, they are TO.
day, physically, IS fine a race Of mon as
can be found on tho globe. The Chesa.
peake 4 Ohio railroad has given them a
putt OF air from the outside world; now
send among them the schoolmaster, and
his twin.brother the trading Yankee. TO
weun them from their habits Of EASY in.
d.olence, and they will yet, to use one OF
their own phrases, "outrun creation, and
gtveit ten miles the start"
But a better idea OF the average climate
OF West Virginia may be obtained from
the following farming calender. taken
taken from the handbook Of the State
compiled by j. Il. Diss Debar, than from
any general statement:
Feb. 2S-Break up soil. March PLANT
early potatoes; sow timothy, blue grass
u clover, SOW early garden Vegetables.
manufacture maple sugar. March H.
Turn out cattle on blue grass. AprilI-I
Sow early oats. April l5-Sow main oron
OF garden vegetables. April 20 Cherry.
plum, apple aud peach trees are in bloom.
poplar and maple relleadng; turn cattle
on timothy and clover. April 25GSow
oats and flax; plant late potatoes.
May l-Set out fruit trees, Plant early
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
DEPARTURE OF ERAlNs-wuEELISe rnE

RTriNdGlPhia ACcOmmodatlOn.-ThIB train only runs
between Wheeling and Tr!adelphla.
tDally except ~Sunday-EeWaTk Accommodation.
tSteubenville AccomlnOdatlOn.-Thls train during
tho day passes backward and forward between Mar
tins Ferry and Bellaire, stopping when required a,
sherman House. Atnayillo, West Wheeling and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
SPECIALTIEs
THIS WEEK!

We will open this week a
full and Complete line OfPara-
soils and Sun Umbrellas. We
invite Special Attention to
these Goods, all new and de-
sirabIe, at Prices Less than
any house in the city. Also
a Complete Assortment of
Novelty suitings. Black Silks
warranted not to Crack or
wear Shiny.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED-Two G1RLs-A GOOD
w Cook and q ChambeTmL1 can net peFraauent
citations BY inquiFlngat this office. Must come well
recommended. myi5
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15

EoR sALE-oNE OF THE BEST SIT
9ATED GFoceFy. stoiea 10 the !etyj his been e.
tablished tor years Is centrally located, and com.
quilting bullneal. Addfoa b q. ihLs oaleN. mylb
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21


which competing monopolies always
result. To watch over this process a
Board OF Commissioners was created.
Acting as q sort Of high court Of arbitra-
tion, Il has served to allay friction among
the railroad companies and to secure
from them more careful regard for the
equal rights OF private persons. The sim
pie existence oil such board has done
much 10 lessen the bitter rivalry and I'll.
inous competition between railroads and
to lessen the unjust and yexatious system
Of discrimination. 1t is hardly necessary
70 remark that the English board has al.
ways been composed OF very competent
men. 1t Is clear that, before passing the
Reagan Interstate commerce bill, the
Senate would do well to examine carefully
the history Of English railroad legislation
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
Gtte G4teIIigetrter,
TUESDAY. JANUARY ~. 1879.

TmR annual statistics Of the lowell
Mass manufactures for 1870 give the
following summary: Capital stock invest
cd in mills and mechanical industries,
more than $lO,5OO,OOO; number Of mills.
100; spindles, 144,OiO; looms, 1921;
females employed, ll,OCOi males, 1925;
yards Of cotton goods produced per week,
8, IA, 500; yards Of woollen goods, 1850;
carpetinR, 10000; shawls, $3.50; dozens Of
hosiery, 2O,3OO; pounds cotton consumed
per week, 100000; wool, l7O,aOO; yards
dyed and printed per annum, 02,O7G, 900;
tons anthracite coal consumed per annum,
O9,539; bushels charcoal, $4,000; cords
wood, 1905 gallons oil, ll6,247i pounds
starch. $780, 900; barrels flour, 1900; steam
power employed, 70 engines, Of 1888
horse power,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

Philadelphia Accommodation train only runs
between Wheeling and Trtadeinhia.
tDaily except Sunday-NeRafk Accommodation.
tStcuOenville ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS train during
the day passes backward and forward between Mn.
tins Ferry and BCllAlre stopping when required Al
sherman mi HOUSE. Rtnayills, West Wheeling and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
Gs.asxal Nassxss.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The annual meeting Of tho Stockholders Of the Cb
Eens Railway Company will 10 held at the rooEI
the Board Of Education, 1915 Market ST., oVH Oly
BANK on SATURDAY, JANUARY 9jriI, lSy, NJ
o'clock P. ~, for the election Of five directors isi
such other business rs may require their atlenIoi
1anll VAN Il. HALL, Sec'y.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
Spsssal Nasssss.
A CARD

To all who arc suffering from the errors and indls
cretlOns Of youth, early decay, loss
OF manhood, &c., will send recipe that will cure
you, FREE UF CHARGE, This great remedy was
discovered by missionary in.SOath America. Send
a SCli-adlreScd envelope tothb REV. JosErn T. IN
NAN S.a.ttoa D, Bi1s LinIE NtS l@t Guy. 'aat
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
THE LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, January 20.
SENATE,

Senate met ut 1OA.M
Prayer by Rev. Molrat.
The Journal Of Saturday was read and
approved.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-21
DIED

MORGAE-ou Sunday morning at 8 o'cloc k, jan
Hary ~ 1872 MRS 4. o. MORGAN, Of BellAire, Ohio
Funeral on Tuesday, tho 9lst inI at O'Clock r. NJ,
from the residence Of her husband, on Guernsey
street,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-22

When they want to break the ice that OBJ
structs NOrdenskjold's polar ship, they throw hi.
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Advertisers residing United satss can
pay for their cards by enclosing Greeabaeks
Postage Stamps for such they wish pay thsf
cards VIII be inserted as above tAbe Tor the tine paid m
u Business Cards. when PAgrafp ron a yEAn. ars
allowed discount fron these which ansiaes
advertisements when paid or charged quarterly.
Single copies Of the Ten Cents whsn charged
Fifteen Cents by the dosen, One Dollar.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-22
The Day is Done.

The Day - Done.
The day II done and the darkness
Falls from the wings Of night.
Asa feather is waited downward
From eagle IN his aight-
I see the lights Of the village
Clean through the rain and the mist,
And feeling Of sadness comes Ger me
That my soul can not resist
A feeling and a longing.
That is almost akin 70 pain.
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles rain
Come read 10 me some poem.
Some simple heartfelt lay.
That shall sooths this restless feeling
And bAnish the thoughts Of day.
Not from the grand old masters.
Not from the 5srds sublime.
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors Of time
For like strains Of martial music
Their mighty thoughts suggest
2 LIES endless toll and endesvor.
And tonight Hong for rest
Read from some humber poet
Whose songs gushed from his heart
A showers from the clouds Of Summer
Or tears from the eyeiids start
Who through long days of labor.
And night devoid Of ease,
siu heard IN his soul the music
OF wonderful melodies
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse Of care.
And come Like the benedietiOn
That follows after prayer.
Than read from the treasured volume
The poem Of thy choice.
And lend to the rhyme Of the poet
The beauty Of thy voice.
And the nights shall be hIled with music.
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And silently steal away.
H. ". LOastsHo.0.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-22
ALLEN & sTACKPOLE,

WITILL CONTINUE THE Z Z r T.
Wv MERCHANDISE and SHIPPING BUSINESS at the
port they prepared furnish the Justly cee
Potatoes and such other recruits
required BY whale ships the shortest notice and on the
reasonable terms. (au3o 80
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01
"Clacquers."

A traveller, speaking Of the peculiarities
of Paris, commends the judgment of the
atrical managers in employing a band of men
to applaud or not applaud new plays. The
first night we attended theatre in Paris we
noticed from our box crowd of fellows in
the pit, sitting together, wearing hats.
There were of these fellows about one hun
dred and fifty. Every once in while they
would clap their hands till one would think
they were blistered. When the principal
performers came on the stage or went off
whenever there was a pause in the play, a
hit, chance to make noise or to keep still,
these fellows with hats on their heads would
clap their hands, the rest of the audience
remaining quiet. Our attention was so di-
rected to this army of men that for a time
we hardly noticed the play. At last we
learned that they were the renowned "clac-
quers"-a set of men employed and paid to
do the applauding The chief of the "clac-
quers" is person Of magnitude. He wears
white hat and puts on as many airs as
does the man who leads horse about in
the spring. The star performer arranges
with him for applause as with the florist for
boquets to be thrown upon the stage. The
chief, for a stipulated price, furnishes a
certain number of hand clappers, Or "clac-
quers," who are seated in their chairs, and
who must obey the proper signals given by
the chief. If the star don't pay the boys
don't clap, and the "artiste'' is failure.
This is good idea. 1t ensures applause al
the proper time.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01
Send the Bill to My Husband.

Realize, my reader, says New York
paper, the anguish of a lady compelled to
stand by another lady wearing larger dia-
monds than her own, or more point lace,
or a longer train. What will the world
think, as under the chandelier this painful
contrast comes out? Such moments of deep
humiliation cause sleepless nights, and the
next day results in bills that become as
criminal indictments to poor, over worked
men. Under the impulse Of such trying
scenes as these, many matron has gone
forth on Broadway with firm lips and eyes
in which glowed inexorable purpose, and
placed upon her arms or fingers, that might
have helped her husband forward, the gems
that would be millstones about his.neck.
There are many phases of heroism, but if
you want your breath taken away, go to a
leading and fashionable store and see some
large-souled woman, who will not even
count the cost, or realize the dire conse-
quences, but like some martyr of the past
who will show to the world the object of his
faith though the heavens fall, she marches
to the counter, selects the costliest jewels,
and says, in tones of majesty
"Send the bill to my husband :"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01

for all uses of the class which are of the
character of public uses for private ben
eft-as street railroads; telegraph lines,
gas and water pipes when used by private
corporations. An equal and just mode
OF compensation should be fixed for all
these privileges alike. A fixed source of
annual income is better to a city, as
is to an individual, than the payment of
gross sum for an indefinite privilege.
The charge for these uses should be grad
uated by the gross receipts of the COM
panies, and it is safe to estimate that if
each of our American cities, even those
which are the worst loaded down by debt,
would only cultivate their latent re-
sources, they would soon relieve the tax
payers of large share of the burden that
now rests upon them and enter upon a
new, fixed and sure career of prosperity.
As an illustration of this course of mu-
nicipal economy it is only necessary to
cite the city Of Paris, which has received
for the Use of its streets for the current
year of 1878 the sum of %, 1863, 1896 francs
or nearly $6,000,000. Its total increase
from ali sds!rces, including octroi duties
on the food supply of the city, was over
54,0000 900 francs.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01

laugh once more! Oh, if could only see
him weep!" was touched. / could never
withstand distress. said: Bring him to-
my lecture. III start him for yeu." "Oh,
if you could but do it! If you could do it,
all our family would bless you for evermore;
for he is very dear to US. Oh, my benefac-
tor, can you make him laugh? Can you
bring soothing tears to those parehed orbs?"
l was profoundly moved. l said ''My
son, bring the old party. around. ! have
got some good jokes in my lecture that will
make him laugh, if there is any laugh in
him and if they miss fire, Il have got some
others that will make him cry or kill him,
one OF the other"
Then the young man wept on my neck,
and presently spread both his hands on my
head and looked up toward Heaven, num-
bling something reverently; and then went
for his uncle. He placed him in full view,
in the second row of benches, that night,
and | began on him. I tried on mild jokes
then with severe ones l dosed him with
bad jokes, and riddled him with good ones;
| fired old, stale jokes into him, and pepper
ed him fore and aft with red-hot new ones.
| warmed up to my work, and assaulted him
on the right and left, in front and behind
| fumed, and charged, and ranted, till was
hoarse, and sick, and frantic and furious
but never moved him once-I never started
a smile nor tear !! Never ghost of a smile,
and never a suspicion of moisture! I was
astounded. closed the lecture at last with
one despairing shriek-with one burst of
humor-and hurled a joke of supernatural
atrocity full at him Then sat down be-
wildered and exhausted.
The president of the society came up and
bathed my head with cold water, and said
"What made you carry on SO toward the
ast?"
l said, 81 was trying to make that con-
founded old idiot laugh, in the second row."
And he said, "Well, you were wasting
your time; because he is deaf and dumb,
and as blind as a badger"
Now, was that any way for that old mans
nephew to impose on stranger and an
orphan like me? MARK TWAIN.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01
WILD FLOWERS OF THE HOLY
LAND.

The Wild flowers which year after year
adorn the face of Palestine in the early
spring with colors SO varied and glowing
that they surpise the Western traveller,
are in striking contrast to everything else
around them. The red-fowered anemone,
the white daisy and the yellow marrigold,
which cover the undulating down of He
bron in the beginning of the year are the
lineal descendants and the exact counter
parts of those which cheered Abraham
when, an exile from his fatherland he
pitched his tent in the Land of Promise.
The tulips, popies and anemones which
abound in the pastures of Bethlehem, are
similarly like and related to those which
David saw when he watched his fathers
fiocks there. The mountains around the
Sea of GaIilee are adorned with the same
lilies which supplied the Savior with such
an opposite illustration when he addressed
to the crowds His Sermon on the Mount
All around has changed. The inhabitants
of the land have come and gone again and
again, leaving traces behind them in the
ruins which abound IN mountain, plain and
desert alike. Palestine is a land Of ruins,
and these ruins tell the story Of the sue
cessive possessors of the soil, of the Canaan
ite, the Israelite, the Roman, the Chris
tian and the Mohamedan; yet the bright
and beautiful plants Of the mountains and
valleys remain unchanged through all these
changes. One or two intruders have es-
tablished themselves among the native
vegetation, but without affecting the gen.
eral aspect, except in one case, that of the
prickly pear { (Opuntia v'lgaris, Linn, which
is very abundant in Palestine, as it is in
all the countries surrounding the Mediter
ranean.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01
The Cincinnati Star

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AMoNG the new items coming by mail f

AMONG the new items coming by mail from
Japan is the following "The newspaper
lately started at Yokohama, moved into new
quarters, and set up outside its doora large
box, intended to receive communications for
the editor. This was quite novelty, and a
country woman passing, stopped, wondered
a little, and then taking it for temple-shrine,
prayed very earnestly for time, threw into
the box her offering of cash and passed on.
The editor, the next morning, came out with
long article, lauding the religious feeling
of the country people,"