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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04
HOW HE GOT HIS PAY.

O1l tuc UdllhS OL JL6 OQlO, DelOT6 bD6
advent of railroads, when steamboats,
piled between Pittsburg and the West,
lived sturdy farmer, whose spare
time was spent in chopping wood with
which he supplied the passing boaAs.
One winter boat was laid up at this
place on account of the ice, and during
longy cold winter burned the old
gentleman's wood. When the ice
cleared away, the farmer presented his
bill, which the captain refused to pay.
"You will pay itl'' said the old man.
"I'H not pay it till / please!'' re-
torted the captain, and ordered the old
man off the bOat-a request which he
complied with.
A little later he appeared on the
bank, axe in hand, and commenced
chopping at a large tree hanging
directly over the boat, which would
not be able to move for several hours
on account Of the flow of the ice. The
captain, with an oath, asked him what
he meant by cutting that tree when he
knew it would fall on the boat.
''Will you pay me for the wOod?"
asked the farmer.
NO! lUdIGu ODO I'd pldlil.
"Then I'll fell this tree on your boat, -
and the sound of the axe rang out on
the air.
The captain stormed and swore and
threatened to lick the old man, but to
no purpose; the weli-directed blows of
the axe were gradually eating away
to the heart Of the tree, and unless
something was done soon, it would fall
and crush everything beneath it.
Finding threats and entreaties use
less, the captain finally brought out
swivel-gun, which all the boats then
carried, and loading it, pointed it right
at the tree. Faster flew the chips as
the old man saw the preparations for
war, when the captain sang out:
will you quit chopping at that
tree?"
"Will you pay me for my wood?"
said the old man, never losing a stroke.
IN give you just one minute to get
away from that tree, and if you're not
gone then, III blow Satan out of you'll"
cried the captain, as he called for a
light and primed the gun.
Without a word, as though some
new thought had struck him, the old
man shouldered his axe, and, shaking his
fist dt the captain, STROBE toward his
home, and was seen there no more. In
few hours the boat pulled out and
steamed down the river, making a
landing at Steubenville, twenty-five
miles below. AS the captain stepped
On the wharf the sheriff walked up, and,
tapping him on the shoulder, informed
him that he had writ for him, and
would tie his boat until he paid little
bill.
"What bill?"
''The bill for that wood you burned
off me. and wouldn't pay for, you wall
eyed slinkl'' put in the old man, who
had been concealed up to this moment.
and he added: 81 walked down here
to ketch We, and burned if wouldn't
walked to Cincinnati afore I'd let ye
get ahead of mel''
The captain saw it was no use to
fume about it, for the old man had the
law on him; and after paying the
amount, with additional costs, and the
old mans mileage each way, he
was allowed to depart with his boat.
The woodman took the next boat
home, with his money in his pocket,
saying to the sheriff as he left: IF it
hadn't been for that Internal swivel
gun I'd a-mashed his eternal old
boatlh
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04
VOL. I.
TWILL NOT BE LONG.

Twill not be long-this wearying commoti0n
That marks its passage in the human breast,
And, like the billows on the heaving ocean,
That ever rock the cradle of unrest,
VIII soon subside the happy time is nearing,
When bliss pain, shall have its rich increase
E'en unto Thee the dove may now be steering
With gracious message. Wait, and hold thy peace;
Twill not be long
The lamps go out the stars give up their shining
The world is lost in darkness for awhile;
And foolish hearts give way to sad repinfng,
And feel as though they ne'er again could smile.
Why murmur thus, the needful lesson scorning?
Oh, read thy Teacher and HIS word Alright
The world would have greeting for the morning,
If 'twere not for the darkness of the night.
Twill not be long
Twill not be long the strife will soon be ended
The doubts, the fears, the agony, the pain,
Win seem but as the clouds that low descended
To yield their pleasure to the parched plain
The times of weakness and of sore temptations
Of bitter grief and -agonizing cry;
These earthly cares and eeaselesS tribulations
VIII bring blissful harvest -and-by-
Twill not be long
Twill not be long the eye of faith, discerning
The wondrous glory that shall be revealed,
1nstructs the soul, that every day is learning
The better wisdom which the world concealed
And soon, aye, soon, theren be end of teaching,
When mortal vision finds immortal sight,
And her true place the soul in gladness reaching,
Beholds the glory of the Infinite
Twill not be long
''Twil not be long '' the heart goes repeating ;
1t is the burden of the mourner's song;
The work of grace in us he is completing,
Who thus assures us-.'It will not be long,,
His rod and STAFF our fainting steps sustaining
Our hope and comfort every day Will be;
And we may bear our accomplishing
As He who leads us unto Calvary;
Twill not be long
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04

One of the most remarkable facts
in German university life is the extra
ordinary decrease in the lumber of the
students of theology. The decrease is
so great that in several States there has
been an insufficiency of candidates for
the pulpit. At Kiel there are at pre-
sent twenty-four, at other German uni
versities twenty-eight students of the
ology, altogether fifty-two. Fifty years
ago there were no less than one hum
dred and sixty-eight students Of the
ology at Kiel alone.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04
TEARS.

Is it raining, little flower?
Be glad of rain !
To much sun would wither thee
Twill shine again.
The clouds are very black, tits true,
But just behind them shines the blue.
Art thou weary, tender heart?
Be glad of pain;
In sorrow sweetest things viii grow,
AS flowers in rain.
God watches, and thou wilt have sun
When clouds their perfect work have done
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04

A man, now residing in Idaho,
who 26 years ago cut his foot badly by
stepping upon broken glass, has just
had a piece of the glass removed from
his foot. The glass had shifted its po-
sition about six inches, working back
and upward from the toes to the ankle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04

The Hartford Conn. Theological
Seminary will expend $40, 900 the COM
ing year on its library.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04

Russian dissenters from the Greek
Church are now computed at Is, 900, 900.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-03-04
Earishes.

-Alabaster has been found in the
north-eastern part of Ogeman county,
Mich.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
Bellalre Locals.

Rev. S. Y. Kennedy, of Martins Ferry,
will preach in the Methodist Church Sun.
day, both morning and evening.
There was ice ON still water Friday
morning; but the frost on the hills is re,
ported MS not SO heavy as we might have
expected.
John Preston makes his appearance on
the streets with new express wagon built
on the model OF his old one.
Sells Bros. show made its appearance
Friday morning and put up the tents on
the public square. The men cooked their
own meals and kept their own horses in q
canvas stable, and all this required great
deal OF water. Superintendent Wilson, OF
the Water Works, told them they must nav
for water il they used it from the hydrantS,
This Sell refused to do, and Wilson sworC
out an affidavit against him for using water.
The street parade was the largest ever seen
in Bellaire; I elephants, ! camels, brass
bands and calliope, and some novelties
1t seemed as il no one was at home be.
low the creek or on Gravel Hill about the
middle Of the forenoon.
The circus tent was not filed in the af.
ternoon, but more persons went in the
evening. The performance was lust as
usual,the trained dogs better than the
trained men.
Col. Baron's son Carl tried to cut an ap,
pie with ton his knee, Thursday evening
and cut through the apple, several Leaders
OF his leg and the artery, to the bone. II
was difficult to get the bleeding stopped,
1t Is a dangerous place for cut,
Prot. j; I. Duff has been appointed
school examiner, in place Of Prof. Shreve
appointed on the State Board.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

Whatever set on foot the colored exodus
from the South 1t has certainly attained
much larger proportions than any one OK
pected at the outset OF the movement
Where it will stop and what shapcit will
take meanwhile is a problem TINT is now
being widely discussed. Next Tuesday
the 9th, a convention OF colored people
will be held at Nashville, at which some
Of the leading men Of the race in this
country are to be present. Tho purpose
is to consider the future OF the African
people in the United States, and particu'
larly the emigration movement from the
South. The following programme for the
discussions OF the convention has been
announced:
/. Migration. Discussion to be opened
by Rev. j. G. Embry, OF Kansas.
2. The Sanitary Condition Of the Col
ored Race. Discussion 10 be opened by
A. T. Augusta, NJ. D., OF the Medical Fac
ulty Of Howard University.
3. Beneficial Associations, Discussion
to be opened by ]. D, Bowser.
4. The Relation Of the Negro to the La
Dor Question.
5. The Future Political Status of the
Negro.
9. The Necessity OF National Organ,
to Present to the Public the Interests Of
the Colored Race.
Z. The Moral and Social Condition o.
the Negro. Discussion to be opened by
Rev. Bishop W. II, Miles.
s. The Opportunities Of Advancement
Commercially, Internationally and Politi
cally.
8. How to Promote Race Unity and the
causes that retard it.
10. The Necessity OF Agitation until the
Social, Civil and Political Rights Of the
Negro are Permanently Secured.
II. The Necessity Of Technical and In
dustrial Education.
l2. The Necessity Of the cultivation OF
Commerce.
10. The Relation Of the Negro to Agri
culture. Discussion to be opened by ex
Congressman Lynch.
Several other topics will be presented
The discussion ofcach will be opened byi
prepared paper from some colored man o
prominence.
Senator Bruce will attend, and after tht
Convention he expects to so to Vicksburg
in response to an invitation, and address
public meeting upon the subject of Emf
grafton to the North.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
MoRGANTowN.
Lecture by Rev. J. W. Carter-A Murder.
ed Negro Child Pound In the Monon.
gahela River.

gahela River.
MoRoASTowS, April 80, 1879.
Correspondence Of the IntSiliSenser.
Rev. j. W. Carter lectured last evening
in the University Chapel, on the subject
Of "Darwlnism." A large audience was
present, who were delighted and enter.
tanned with the thoughtful production Of
tho reverend gentleman.
On Monday evening child was found
dGadin-tbe river, about a half mile below
town. A jury was called who caused a
post mortem examination TO be held for
the purpose Of ascertainlng whether the
child had been born alive. Several wit.
nesses were examined, on whose evi.
dence Nancy Ogdin, a colored woman,
was arrested, and trial was had before
Justice Thompson. There were many
witnesses, and the trial lasted until this
morning, when the evidence was so strong
that she was remanded TO jail as guilty Of
infantlCide. She then confessed the
whole affair. She stated that Matt Har-
ris, barber OF this place, had thrown the
child In the river as soon as 1t was born;
that 1t was the second child that she had
had by him. The officers began to search
for Harris and overlook him about mile
from town making tracks for the country.
He was lodged in Jail this afternoon.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

The New York Public OF Thursday pub.
fishes It's usual table OF bank clearings in
the principal cities Of the country, for the
week ending April 2Gth. They show a
gain in the volume Of business Of lO.l per
cent in the cities outside Of New York, as
compared with the same week last year.
and i'll per cent including New York. In
commenting on the table the Public makes
the following observation;
"In view Of such reports as these, which
have now been coming with very encour'
aging regularity for some weeks, 1t is not
possible to doubt that the aggregate oil
business transacted is very much greater
than Il was at this time last year"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
Notable In.nrnnce Cnses pecldcn.

CINCINNATI, May 2.-The great insu.
rance trial which has been in progress for
seven days in the United States Court in
this city, in which Gov. Washburne, OIL
Wisconsin, is plaintiff and the Western
Insurance Company is defendant, resulted
to-day in verdict for tho plaintiff for the
full amount claimed. This is tho first Of
the eight cases pending here and involv.
ing the same questions Of law and OF fact.
This litigation grew out Of the fire at Min.
neapolis one year ago to-day, which re.
suited In the mill explosion and loss Of
life at that point.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
Wait for the Big Show.

Because you will see lGS,O00 yards Of
canvas, ten tents, ten shows, illuminated
by the Brush electric light, equal to $4,000
gas Jets, turning night into day. Our can.
vas lighted with dazzling brilliancy, pro.
cured ut an expenditure Of fifteen thous.
and dollars. The only show that can
afford to use it. 1t is u marvel OF the age.
To be seen hero only with the Great Lon.
don Circus and combined shows, May 18th.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

Malarial,iey constipation, torpidity Of
the liver and kidneys, general debility,
nervousness and neuralgia ailments yield
readily to this great disease conqueror,
Hop Bitters. 1t repairs the ravages OF
disease by converting tho food into rich
blood, and it gives new life and vigor to
the aged and inlrm always. See
other column.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

TIE Meteoric Bareback Rider, Mr.. Frank
Melville, engaged at a salary Of $500 pei
week; the most daring, handsome and
skilltul bareback rider in existence, and in
his eight-horsc flying equestrianism is
without peer or rival, now with the Great
London Circus, the greatest show on earth.
which will show here on Thursday, May
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

REMEMBER the date, May 18th. Go to
the Big Show and you will hear John
Lowlow, Americas greatest clown. Wit
without vulgarity, satirical without offense,
pointed in morals and veritable genius
in the temple Of AIomus, chief Of the
council OF five. Appears here with the
Great London Circus and combined shows
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
SresaaI Natass..
a CARD

To all who are suffering from the errors and indls
creOnS Of YOUTH nervous weakness, early decay loss
Of manhood, &C., will send recipe that will cure
you, FREE OF CHARGE This great remedy was
discovered by missionary In South America. Send
Scli.addressCd envelope to the REv JOSEPH T. In.
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JelayTTbSkW
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03

wlrn the Big Show, on Thursday, Nav
ID, Senorita Adelaide Corlona, the Lady
Champion Bareback Rider OF the world,
on single aud four horses, engaged at tho
enormous salary Of 200 pounds per week.
Her first appearance in America; without
an eluali the supreme Equestrian En-.
press.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
DIED.

FERG Us0N-On Friday, May %, 1870, at2:sOA A. NJ.
10 MOundSVille, ". Va, after 4 protrActed illness
Mus. AHSiE e. wife Of Hon. John Ferguson, aged 81
years and months.
Funeral from residence Sunday. May 9Th, 1879, at
o'clock p. N.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
A VISITOR 10 The town Of East Llyefpot

AvlaToR to the town Of East Liverpool,
where thc:prosperous potteries are located
that have lately 50 excited our steuben'
vile neighbors land some Of our own peo-
ple) writes to the Cincinnati Commercial
that he regards 1t "as the liveliest and
busiest town in the West, and thinks 1t
has in it the elements Of prosperous fu'
,nren
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
DEPARTURE or rRAlss-wuEELrso TINE.

"TriadelphIa AcCOmmOIatiOn.-Th train only runs
between Wheeling and Tr.adephla.
tDally except Sunday-ECWaTk Accommodation.
tSteubenville AecOmmOdatlOn.-Thl train during
the day passes backward and forward between Mar
tins Ferry and BellAire stopping when required at
sherman House, RtnRVille, West Wheeling and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
r E.oPENTNG- '--'---'''-',-''-'-'

have opened up the sold EXCHANGE Saloon,
". Y Eleventh street, which has recently been
thofoughly ronSTated and axed up 10 aF5t-elall
manner, and will DO glad 70 have my Old fiendS ana
patrons - well ~ the public IN general 10 ali po
me. CLIO. HCEiWARZBAcH,r
Proprietor "0ld Exchange Sal0ot,"
myS No, "a Eleventh. A'feet
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-03
TIME TABLE.
ELM GROVE RAILROAD.

ON AND AFTER TUESDAY, April LIST, 1879, tn.
" Cars on the Wheeling and Elm Grove r. L. Will
run Us follows Cans will leave the city corner Mar
ket and Eleventh Streets aud Stamm'6At
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04
The Washington Monument.

In letter to the great Washington banker,
Mr.. Corcoran, Mr.. W. w. Story says, writing
from Paris: An obelisk, rising out Of Gre
clan colonnade, is evidently the greatest srchi-
tectural anomaly and absurdty that ever
was imagined; bat it was ncne the less an
essential feature of the original design; and,
If the original design must be carried out,
this colonnsde cannot be omitted. An obelisk
has in itself bat little to recommend it,
even in its best form. IL is essentially Egyp-
tian, and properly was always monollth,
adorned by deeply-cut heroglyphics, to break
it's monotouy. But an obelisk, built up of
blocks of fiat, separate stones, without hero
glyphics and incised characters, and carried
to great height, becomes simply chimney,
and loses all that was characteristic Of
the true Egyptian obelisk. This form Of
monument is tbs refuge of incompetency in
architecture. When an architect has no ideas.
he resorts to the obelisk. When builder
has no knowledge of the art, he makes an obe-
lisk, just as person who cannot sign his name
makes cross. An obslisk of this kind is in
a certain sense, simple, but it is also mean and
ugly in effect, and has nothing to say. What
has an obelisk to do with Washington? How
does 1t illustrate his character aud servlces-his
personality or history-or the events and persons
and country with which he is associated?
Why, then, should we continue, at a great ex'
pense to carry out G design which has nothing
to recommend it, and which, when completed,
will b. nothing but an offense and an eye
sore? Would it rot be far better to erect
work that shall be delight to the eye, and
have appropriateness as well as beauty?
In making ths design which have for
warded to Mr. Morrill,, have founded i upon
the existing fabric. having understood that,
under the circumstances, it would be worse
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

THE New York Journal of Commerce
prints table of the prices of long list of
staple articles in that city on the first of JAN
nary of each year since 1867. Flour, which in
1868 brought $3.50, $685. and SS.75 barrel,
brings now $500 and $3.10-a decline of al
most two-thirds. Oats in 1868 were "a cents
bushel; to-day they are "a cents. Corn was
$14O; to-day it is At cents. Cotton has gone
from 16 cents to 81 cents. Hay was $A
ton, and is &c.. Mess pork brought $21 bar
rel in 1868, and S29.75 in 1870; in 1879 it is
$705. Mess beef has gone from $32 to $14.-
so. Liverpool salt in 1869 brought $2.1O
sack, and to-day brings 70 cents. Butter
goes from As cents in 1868 to 10 cents in
1879, and cheese from 195 cents in 1869 to
81 cents in 1879. Molasses was S. cents a
gallon; to-day 81 cents. Sugar has gone
from 16a cents for refined in 1868, to 81
cents in 1S79 Petroleum, crude, brought
IS cents gallon in 1869, and brings now 81
cents. Layer raisins brought $3.50 box
in 1868, and 81 20 in 1870; in 1879 their price
is $1.57a. Currants have gone from 12a
cents pound to 81 cents; hops from 60
cents to IS; turpentine from 67 cents in 1872
to 274 cents gallon, and rosin from So
barrel in 1868 and $4.9O in 1872 to $1.35.
In wool we find fall from 70 cents in
1928 to 35 cents. Pig iron has gone from
$50 ton in 1873 to SIT a ton in 1879.
Laths, So 50 cents thousand in 1872, can be
bought for $1.45, and Rockland lime, SLIGO
barrel in 1869, can be got for 80 cents.
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

Cook, like Ingersoll, filings his picturesque
sentences at his audience like shining har-
poon, and the hearer is frequently transfxed
when he fances he is free. 1 know of nervous,
sensitive creatures who are in awe of these
men, and who cover alike under both Inger-
soil and Cook, as if deprecating their tremen.
you're right you're right! 1 don't know or
care what heresy en- surreDderng to, but /
can't stand that sonorous voice!" L saw a lady
at Cooks lecture whom 1 had seen there
months before at Ingersoll's, and she nodded
her head in sympathy with the Boston Behe-
moth, just as she had under the menaces of the
Illinois ichthyosaurus.-New York Letter to
Indianapolis Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

THE papers are recalling the bright thing
DR.. Holmes once said of Bayard Taylor.
Referring to that authors enormous capacity
for work and his mauy-sdedness, the Boston
wit said his brother in letters turned the
proverb round and made it plain that it took
nine men to make one Taylor.
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

THE Indianapolis Journal and the Cincin-
natl Gazette urge that representation in the
next Republican National Convention be
founded upon the number of Republican
votes cast at the preceding election, rather
than upon the electoral vote of the State.
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

Our Augusta dispatches announce that a
Governor has been chosen at last. The Sem
ate, which had only been waiting for the ac-
ton of the popular branch, has promptly de-
cided between the names of the candidates
sent up by the House and elected Aonzo
Garcelon. The action of the Republican
Senators has been foreshadowed in these COL
umns, and is in accordance with the policy
urged by the PRESS in common with many
other journals in the State. In truth there
was no other consistent thing to do.
The fact is the Republican Senate has been
called upon to choose between two evils, and
have chosen the least. It has not made DIR.
Garcelon Governor because it loved him, nor
in pursuance of any trade nor in expectation
of any tfavors-bargaining has been left in
the competent and itching hands of the Goa
liton; but he was chosen because he was
less Objectionable than Major Smith. Nor do
the Republicans assume any responsibility nor
claim any credit for the acts of his admins
tration. Neither is their choice to be con-
strued as an unqualified approval Of his finan-
cial views. He is not believer in the fiat
money folly, and so far we are in sympathy
with him. He has come, whether justly or
not, to be considered throughout. the country
as representative of resumptionists against
anti-resumptionists, and to that he is en-
titled for his election. 1t is to be hoped that
in his message he will justify tho -halief'
The Portland daily press., 1879-01-04

On the Senatorial prospects in Connecticut
a Hartford correspondent of the New Haven
Register Dem says: "That the fortunate
man will be Joseph R. Hawley is as near a
certainty as anything can be, judging from
the present appearance"