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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Daring Burglary.

PlrrSarRGH, April l6.-A special to
the Chr1Hicl, from Bulger, Pa, says that
four masked burglars broke into the
stoae of A. J. Russell & Co, at that
place. about o'clock this morning, and
exploded the safe door, securing small
sum Of money Laird, the telegraph oper-
ator at the station, heard the noise Of
the explosion, and going out TO learn
the cause, was seized by the robbers,
who took his money and bound him and
gagyed him in the store. They then set
iirc 10 the building and escaped, leaving
Laird bound To a post in the store. He
succeeded in freeing himself OF the gag
before the flames reached him, and his
cries speedily aroused the neighbors,
who rescued him from the building.
No clue 10 the thieves has been found
vet
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
wes,srn Railroad Rates.

CHICAGo, April l6.-The Chicago
roads today reduced the rates on lum-
Der 10 the Missouri river 10 Is cents per
hundred, or $50 per car. An unsuccess-
ful attempt has been made here recently
to contract for the conveyance OF q hall
million bushels Of wheat TO New York
at the rate Of Is cents per hundred. The
rates seem 10 be firmly maintained.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Severe Han storm.

NEE ORLEANS, April l6.-This alter
noon, a hail storm began and lasted
fifteen minutes; the ground was literally
covered with large stones, some measur-
ing three and four inches in eircumfer-
euce. There was q similar hail storm in
81 James Parish, yesterday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
DRY GOODS


NEw YoKK, April l6.-Dy Goods
Cotton goods in good demand and prices
firm and advancing. Prints fairly &c
tive and some makes are advanced All
Merrimae prints ara advanced &c. Mer-
rimae piques are sdyanced. Ginghams
in fair request Dress goods moving
slowly. woolen goods irregular. For
eign goods sluegish.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Boiler EIploEion.

NASHVILLE, TENN, April l6.-The
AmerIoan's Gallatin special says: Shaw
& Co.'S. mill, at Silver Springs, blew up
this morning. killing Samuel Branford,
seriously wounding Kemp and q, Nal
len, badly scalding Shaw and killing a
horse. The mill is a total wreck. The
boiler was blown 40Oyards. The los- Is
estimated at 5000.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
R.anr,inn in Pnr Of Route Asent..

WAsHINGroS, April l6.-The General
Superintendent of the Railway Postal
Service has found il necessary TO make a
reduction in the pay Of all the route
agents in or,ler to come within the limit
OF the appropriations for the fiscal year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Destructive Tornado.

MEMPHIS. April ia tornado of the
severest nature swept over Pocahontas,
Tenn, last Monday night, causing great
destruction to that village. Several
houses and churches were blown DOWN.
Great damage is reported TO the sur
rounding country. The course OF the
tornado was from the southeast 10 the
northwest.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Pitt.nnrrh Rioi Bill

HARnsBURG, Pa, April ia mo-
ton 10 reconsider the vote by which the
Pittsburgh not bill was indefinitely
postponed last week, was defestel in
the House, to-day, by q vote Of lOl
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17

RAILROAD BoNDs-Active and strong
especially for Erie, Kansas and Texas
and Kansas Pacific issues.
STATE BoNDs-Duil.
SroCKs-The market was active and ir-
regular, but in the main strong. Early
in the day the market was firm, and
prices advanced s@2. per cent, Kansas
and Texas making the greatest improve
ment, with Kansas Pacific, st. Louis
and northern, st. Louis and San Fran
cisco, Western Union, Wabash, and the
Granger shares also noticeable in the
advance. The caal shares, Lake Shore
and Michigan Central were weak,
especially the latter, which declined
from $50 to 81, closing at a recovery OF
(. During the afternoon Kansas and
Texas fell off y, and Kansas Pacific II.
The rest OF the market closed at a reac-
ton of s@l from the highest point.
Erie vas strong throughout on the in
creased earnings. The transactions ag-
gregated 2l3,000 shares, ofwhich 49,
600 were Erie, 10000 Lake Shore, 10000
Wabash, 1000 Northwestern common,
5000 preferred, 5000 st. Paul common,
1900 Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, 5000 Michigan Central, 1000 c.,
G., G. & l., 1000 st. Joseph, 1000
Western Union, 1900 Kansas Pacific,
25,OOO Kansas and Texas, 10000 st.
Louis, Kansas City and Northern COM
mon, 1000 preferred, and 1900 st.
4
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BUYING AND SELLING.
GENERAL MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
Money Easy at 4 to 6 Per Cent.-Gosern-
ments firm-fIour Dull and Heavy
Wheat lregular-Hogs
Quiet.
FINANCE.

New YORK, April 16.-MoSEY-Easy
at 4G6 per cent, closing at 4 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 4l@6 per cent.
Sterling exchange, bankers bills dull
at 1861; sight exchange on New York
4S8.
SILyER-At London 49id; bar silver
here at 81 OS; subsidiary silver coin at
iGl per cent. discount.
GoyERSMENTs-Firm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17
Weather Indication.

WASHINGTON. April Ill A. N.-FOr
Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, rising
barometer, with cooler northwest winds,
followed by warmer, partly cloudy or
clear weather.
For the Lakes, rising followed by fall
inc barometer with north and east
winds, or slightly warmer weather, and
over the Upper Lakes clear, followed
by partly cloudy weather, and over the
Lower Lakes cloudy and rainy weather.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17

ST. LoUIs, April l6.-Arryed-Alice,
Pittsbupgh Departed-Golden Eagle,
Keokuk; Lady Lee, Peoria; Annie, St
Paul, Mande, vicksbarg. River fAllen
z inches. Weather cloudy and cool.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17

PrnsUssH, April lG.-Petsoleen-
Quiet; crude Iower st 963c - Rssks1s
Cor shipment: rsGnsd elc fos Philaiel
phia delivery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17

Loxpox, April l6.-The American
horse Parole won the Newmarket handi-
cap. to-day, beating lsonimy, Lima and
three others. lSonimy was the iayorite
and Parole the last in betting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-17

RAILROAD BONDs-Active and strong
especially for Erie, Kansas and Texas
and Kansas Pacific issues.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
How the Farm was Bought.

A young man was very anxious to
secure piece of property which was
just then for sale, on very advantage
Gus terms. He went to confer with a
friend of his, who was banker, about
the matter, and to inquire whether it
would be prudent to borrow the requi-
site sum, and pay it in regular INSTALL
ments. He thought he should be able
to manage all but the first installment.
He was advised to borrow from the
bank a sum enough larger than he
he wished to raise to cover the first
payment, lay it strictly aside, and then
go ahead.
"But," said his friend ''you must
spend literally nothing. You must live
off of your place. You must make
box and drop in it all the money you
receive"
The young man and his wife went
bravely to work to follow this advice.
If it was necessary to dine off of head
of boiled cabbage and salt they did so,
and never grumbled. Every payment
was promptly met. The egg money
and the butter money, and the corn
and wheat money-all went into the
payment box, and at the specified time
the place was theirs. There was an
invisible wealth about such hard earn
ed possessions that common observers
knew nothing of.
On the day for the last payment the
young man presented himself before
his friend with smiling face, and with
the money in hand. There were no rags
to be seen, but his clothing was well
covered with darns from head to foot.
"You see 1 have followed your ad-
vice." he said, casting a glance over
himself; ''and my wife looks worse
than do. But have earned the farm.
and now | know how to earn another.
1t is to be hoped he did not set out
to earn another until he had bought
himself and his wife each a new suit
and laid in a good supply of provisions
for another such campaign. But his
example points in the right direction
A young couple who want to buy a
home must agree 10 be extremely saw
ing. The savings s-box must become a
regular institution in the house, and
must absorb all the dimes that COM
monty slip away on trifies. Where the
two are agreed on the matter it is not
nearly so hard as it looks. The little
droppings count up faster than you
would suppose, and the end in view is
a very worthy one. Try the expert
ment of those young people, in a modi-
fed form for one year, and see if the
result is not most encouraging and sat
isfactory.- Cincinnati Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Ministerial Bachsheesh.
Sunday Afternoon for March,

1t would, no doubt, be grossly unjust
to say that all presents from parishiOn-
ers to ministers were on the same level
as the Oriental backsheeSh. Many of us
have received gifts from our parishion-
erS which we knew to be pure tokens of
friendship, nothing more nor less. And
yet no intelligent observer can deny
that in very many of the presents made
to ministers the backsheesh element is
painfully manifest. The backsheeSh
element is often seen, for example, in
the publicity which frequently accom-
panies ministerial present making. A
present is chiefly valuable as an express
sion of good will from one individual or
set of individuals to another. When
this is the chief object in the mind of
the giver, it is usually sought in the
most direct and simple manner possi-
BILE. Anything approaching ostentation
in the manner of making the gift is al
most sure to throw suspicion upon the
motive of the giver. The left hand is
not to know what the right hand doeth.
This principle is well recognized in the
ordinary gift making of private life.
And yet how often when the minister
is made the recipient of gift, is his
home suddenly invaded by crowd of
frolicking parishioners calling them
selves "surprise party" whose good
will for the minister seems to be over
shadowed, to say the least, by their
determination to have jolly good time.
Then comes the presentation speech, in
which one of the party has an opportu-
nifty to display his eloquence, and, af-
ter the minister has responded, the
company set themselves to work to re-
cover in social enjoyment, so far as
they can, the value of what they have
subscribed to the minister's present.
Nor are they satisfied with this, but
take good care that the local or relig-
ious paper that represents them shall
publish their generosity to the world,
and give them due credit for the "ele-
CANT gold watch" or the ''fne oil paint
ing" or the provisions for the larder,n
or the generous roll of greenbacks,r y
the exact amount of which to dollar is
frequently stated. A brother minister
once told me, that on the morning af-
ter donation party at his house, one
OF the donors returned and requested
permission to take an inventory and
make an appraisement of the articles
donated, so that their value could be
correctly stated.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
VOLUME 42---NUMBER 2l73.

ed John Jacob Astor, by keeping the
men at the braces, took advantage of
every puff of wind, and won by three
days. Then there was lively work.
The ship was loaded in the shortest
time possible, and before Astor's vessel,
which had arrived meantime, was half
loaded, our captain weighed anchor,
and, with a full cargo of tea, set sail for
Sandy Hook, arrived in good time, got
his ship alongside the wharf, and began
hoisting out of his cargo, which was
sold by auction on the spot. This glut-
ted the market, for the consumption
was comparatively small in those days,
and when Astor's ship came in prices
had fallen. Two days later, as the
captain was sauntering down Broad
way, he met his former employer.
"How much did dat chronometer cost
you ?' asked the latter. ''Six hundred
dollars" "Vell," said Astor, "dat vas
sheap. 1t cost me sixty tOusand toll
lars" The merchant and the captain
have long since paid the long reckoning,
but that chronOmeter is still a good
timekeeper and treasured relic, as
well.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
A Telling Speech.

The debate the last night of the ses-
sion on the bill to give JEFF Davis pen
sion, was not fully reported. One VIII
ter present gives this vivid account:
No single event of the night, howev-
er, could compare in absorbing interest
with ten-minute speech made by Sena-
tor Chandler at Il quarter to O'clock.
The hour and the events which imme-
diately preceded 1.-THE man and the
prominent part he had played in the
most stirring episodes in our National
histOry-served to give to the words he
uttered a significance out of all compar-
isOn with the ordinary course of politi-
cal debate. He said:
Mr.. President: Twenty years ago, l,
in company with Jefferson Davis, stood
up in this chamber, and, with him,
swore by Almighty God that would
support the Constitution of the United
States. Jefferson Davis came from the
Cabinet of Franklin Pierce into the
Senate of the United States and took
the oath with me to be faithful to this
government. During four years | sat
in this body with jefferson Davis and
the preparations were going on from
day to day for the overthrow of this
government. With treason in his heart
and perjury upon his lips, he took the
oath to sustain the government that he
meant to overthrow.
Sir, there was method in this mad
ness. He in cooperation with other
men from his section and in the Cabinet
of Mr.. Buchanan made careful prepa-
ftnt, E,N,.f eli
Your armies were scattered all over
this broad sland, where they could not
be used in an emergency. Your fleets
were scattered wherever the winds blew
and water was found to float them,
where they could not be used to put
down a rebellion. Your treasury was
depleted until your bonds bearing per
cent. interest, payable i'm coin, were
sold for SS cents on the dollar for cur
rent expenses and no buyers were found.
Preparations were carefully made.
Your arms were sold under an appar-
emily innocent clause in an army bill
providing that the Secretary of War
might in his discretion sell such arms as
he deemed fit for the government to
sell. -.-
Sir, eighteen years ago last month |
sat in this hall and listened to Jefferson
Davis delivering his farewell address,
informing us what our constitutional
duties to this government were, and
then he left and entered into a rebellion
to overthrow the government that he
had sworn to serve.
| remained here, sir, during the whole
OF that terrible rebellion. 1 saw our
brave soldiers by thousands might
almost say millions-as they passed on
to the theatre of the war. 1 saw their
shattered ranks returning. saw steam
boat after steamboat and railroad train
after railroad train bringing back the
wounded. l was with my friend (point-
ing to General Burnside) when he COM
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

New MUsIC.-We have received from
o. Ditson & Co., their dollar edition of
H. M. S. PINAFoRE, or The Lass that
LOUed Sailor. New comic opera.
Words by w. S. Gilbert, music by
Arthur Sullivan.
Both the above gentlemen have mer-
tied the thanks of musical people. Mr..
Gilbert has had the good sense to write
words which are very witty, and at the
same time unobjectionable in point of
morals. Mr.. Sullivan has also shown
good sense as well as talent by compos-
ing good and bright music which is, at
the same time: easy enough for common
singers. There is but one scene the
deck of Her Majesty's ship. AS this
may be easily rugged up by amateurs,
and the sailors uniform of the brave
tars that sing may as easily be procured,
there is no reason why this popular
thing should not be brought out in
every town having an average number
of solo and chorus singers. The excel
lence of the music is endorsed by the
best critics. For sale by w. H. Nelson,
st. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Calling The Angels In.

Margaret J. Preston in Baldwin's Monthlyl
We mean to do it. Some day, some day,
We mean to slacken this fevered rush ...
That is wearing our very souls away,
And grant to cur goaded hearts hush
That is holy enough to let them hear
The footsteps of angels drawing near.
We mean to do it. Oh, never doubt,
When the burden of daytime droil is DER,
Wen sit and muse, while the stars come out,
As the patriarch sat at the open door
Of his tent, with a heavenward gazing eye,
To watch for the angels passing by.
We see them afar at high noOntide,
When fercely the worlds hot fashings beati
Yet never have hidden them turn aside,
And tarry a while in converse sweet;
Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread,
To drink of our wine and break our bread
We promised our hearts, that when the stress
Of the life-work reaches the longed-fOr close.
When the weight that we groan with hinders less
Well loosen our thoughts to such repose
Is banshes cares disturbing din,
And then-we'n call the angels in.
The day that we dreamed of comes at length,
When tired of every mocking quest,
And broken in spirit and shOrn of strength,
We drop, indeed at the door of rest,
And wait and watch the day wanes on -
But the angels meant to call are gone
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Passumpsic Railroad.---Nov. IL, 1878.
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

ADvENT-Paddock Village Elder L. c. & Mrs.
McKnstry. Pastors. Sabbath Services at 1890 a.
IN. las and $3.50 p. sabbath School l2 III.
Prayer Meetings at 1880 p. m. Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday evenings.
BArTIsT-Railroad Street. Corner Maple. Rev
E. 4. Sanford Pastor. Preaching 1O:3O A. NJ. ).
School IL M, prayer meeting 6:3O Prayer meet
ings Wednesday evening at 1870.
Prayer meeting in Summerville school house
Thursday evenings at 1880
FREE BAPTIsT-AIain Street, Corner Prospect
Rev. Z. ). Frost Pastor Residence at ID. Street
ers, Prospect st. Sabbath services NJ 1870 :. Nj.
| and $50 p. NJ. Sabbath School at 1900 M. We'd
nesday evening prayer meeting at 7:3O
CHURCH OF THE MEssIAH-( Universalist). East
ern avenue corner Cherry street. Rev. Is. NJ Til
lOtson, Pastor. Sabbath services at las and 6:3O
p. NJ. Sabbath SCnoOl at IL NJ. Wednesday even
ing prayer meeting at 1880.
METHoDIsT-Central, street. Rev. II. F. Austin
Pastor. Residence head of Summer Street.
Sabbath services at 1880 A. M, and 6:3O M.
Sabbath School at 1900 NJ. Wednesday evening
St J6hnsbury Centre, Sabbath services at 1:3O e;
social meeting at 500; Sunday school 1890 p.
Thursday evening meeting at 1880
NoRTn CoNGREGATIoNAL-Main street, corner
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones fastor sabbath
services at 1880 A. M. and $50 p. NJ. Sabbath
School at las p. Nj. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1870.
SOUTH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Alain street. Rev.
Edward L. Fairbanks, Pastor. sabbath services
at 1890 A. NJ. and 630 z. M. Sabbath School at
1900 M. Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
ST. ANDREws-(Episcopal Main street, Rev.
\. F. Putnam. Rector. Services on Sundays at
| 1890 a. m, and p. Holy days and Fridays at
| a. m. Wednesdays at 1880 p. M. Sunday School,
at 30 p. IN.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Cherry Street. Rev. j. A.
BoissOnnault, Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a m ;
NespeIs and Fenediction at y. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 n M,
and p. IN. At I,yndOnvile same day at 1890 a. IN.
Il to 1880, in the Y. NJ. e. a. Rooms over E. +.
Browns Store.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
How John Jacob Astor Lost Money by
Saving It.

In the Causerie of the Boston Trans
script good old story of Astor is re-
told. One of his captains had sailed
six voyages to China without a chro-
nometer, depending on "dead reckon
ing and "lunars; )" just before starting
on his seventh voyage he suggested to
MIR. Astor that it would be safer TO have
chronometer. "Well, get one,n said
the merchant. The captain did so, and
entered its cost in his account current.
When Astor's eye fell upon the item he
drew his pencil through it. The cap
tain expostulated. "Tam it, man, said
Astor, 81 tOlt you to get one; / tidp't
say I'd pay for it." The captain sever
ed his connection with Astor then and
there, went into Wall street, engaged
with other owners, and before niobt
was in command of as fine shin as
ever foated in New York's beautiful
bay. In three days she was ready for
sea, and set sail. At the same time
Astor's ship, under the command of n
new captain, set sail also. They had a
race for Hong Kong, but the captain.
who, as he used to put it, had discharg,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

manded the Army of the Potomac, and
saw piles of legs and arms that would
make humanity shudder. 1 saw the
widows and orphans made by this war.
Mr.. President, little thought at that
time that 1 should live to hear in the
Senate of the United States eulOgies
npon Jefferson Davis living-a living
rebel-on the floor of the Senate of the
United States. Sir, 1 amamazed to
hear it, and l can tell the gentlemen
on the other side that they little know
the spirit of the North when they
come here at this day with bravado on
their lips, uttering eulogies upon him
whom every man, woman and hid
in the North believes to have been a
double-dyed traitor"
No man ventured to interrupt; none
felt insulted. 1t was simply crushing
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
The Learned Blacksmith.

Elihu Burritt, "the Learned Black
smith," died, little more than 68 years
old, at his home in New Britain, Ct,
the 9TH inst. Burritt's father and grand
father were soldiers in the Revolution,
poor and hard-wOrking men, as this
Elihu, the third of his name, became.
While working at the forge he became
acquainted, and by no means superb
cially, with a great number of langua-
ges of Europe, and many of the dead
and living tongues of Asia and Africa,
so that he was a really extraordinary
linguist, and achieved due credit and
recognition from scholars and the pub
lie. He tried teaching school and keep
ing grocery in his youth, but his re-
markable requirements were made
while occupied in the severe manual
toll of the forge, and mainly before he
was 30 years old. He then was brought
into public notice by w. S. Lincoln of
Worcester (where he then labored), who
sent a letter of his to Edward Everett,
then governor. Mr.. Everett read it be-
fere a mechanics association, and Bur-
ritt became public lecturer. 1t was
the hight of the anti-slavery agitation
and he enlisted in that, and in a
further crusade against war. He be-
gan in Worcester paper devoted to
these things, temperance, and self-cul-
ture then accepted an invitation to &C
to England, where he formed the first
peace society. He has lived in Eng,
land, part of the time as United States
consul at Birmingham, till within few
years, when in broken health he return
ed to pass his last years in his native
state of Connecticut. Elihu Burritt
was man of the greatest industry
honesty and genuineness; not profound
or original in his thought, but thorough
ly devoted to all good causes, fearless
in his advocacy of them, and beneticent
in his whole teaching and example,
healthy a representative of the "self-
made" man as ever breathed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

not appear by any means equal to the
quantity of water which the three up
per lakes receive, it has been conjectur-
ed that subterranean river may run
from Lake Superior, by Huron to Onta-
rio. This conjecture is not impossible,
and accounts for the singular fact that
salmon and herring are caught in all
the lakes communicating with st. Law
renee, but no others. AS the Falls of
Niagara must have always existed, it
would puzzle the naturalist to say bow
these fish got into the upper lakes with
out some subterranean river moreover
any periodical obstruction of the river
would furnish not improbable solution
of the mysterious flux and refiux of the
lakes.-The american Shin.