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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-08

NEw CUMBERLAND, December 8.
Editors InteIltScncer.
A barge load of brick, owned by parties
Of this place, struck one Of the piers ol
the steubenville bridge on Tuesday and
sank. There was no insurance on boat OF
cargo.
A few days ago youth OF this village,
grief stricken at his brothers. death, at.
tempted suicide by drowning, but was
prevented from accomplishing his purpose
by the timely interference oil persons who
happened to be near.
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Lookout for the TnaIo,,a,.

San FRASctsco, December lat Sand.
lots to-day Dennis Kearney announced
his intention Of being present at the meet.
ing OF greenbackers Ia Washington. ian.
safy 9 y! /. 9. Hewill leave next Sunday, going
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Election 10 Pill Vacancy In the Ohio
SeAatorIal District.

CINCINNATI, December 7,-1n the sena-
torial district, composed CT Ross and High
land counties, Ohio, at an election held
yesterday, to oil a vacancy caused by the
the death OF A. L. Brown, Republican, re
turns received show that j. 0. Entrekin
Republican, Is 700 votes ahead Q
Mccoy, Democrat, in Ross county, whict
Is a large Republican gain. Entrekin'l
majority in the district is estimated o
1900.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-08

Nxw YoRE, December 7-Arrived,
steamers Bolivia, from Glasgow; Alsatia
from Londoni Vandalia, from Hamburg.
queenstown, December 7.-Arrived:
Steamers Algeria, from New York, and
British Empire, from Philadelphia.
LONDON, December 7.-Steamcr Gellert,
from New York for Hamburg, and Sar-
matian, from Baltimore, arrived out.
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Wages Airnnced.

sr. JOINS, n. B., December 7.-wages
oi laborers have been advanced to 81 so q
day, former wages from 90 cents to 81 q
day.
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NearlynM MilIIon.

NEw YsRK, December THE steamship
Donau, From Europe, brought over nearly
Sl,ooo, 900.
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Aid for ireland.

CLEVELAND, December THE collec-
tons thus far in Catholic churches in the
Cleveland diocese for the suffering moor In
Ireland, amounts to 5000.
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THE UTE PROBLEM.
close of The Commission.


WAsHISGToN, December 7.-secretary
schurz received the following dispatch
this evening:
Los PNos, December 9.
Closed the testimony yesterday; de.
manded the surrender OF the parties re.
cognized at tho massacre. The list in.
cludes the head chief, Douglass. The
Indians went into council last night and
are still in council. They will answer 10.
morrow. The present indications are that
they will accept the ultimatum, the sur.
render Of the guilty and the annihilation
OF tribal relations. The Indians consider
that incidental to their surrender and
trial, the struggle among themselves had
assumed serious proportions. The in
anence, so far, is in favor OF surrender, q
tritie, however, may change this at any
moment.
[Signedl HATCH,
Commissioner.
Secretary schurz in response to The in.
quiry, stated that he felt quite sauguine
he would receive intelligence tomorrow
that the Indians had yielded TO the pres.
sure aud determined TO accept the condi.
tions imposed by the department.
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ST. J4coBs On cures backaChe,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20
Gentlemen's Sons.

Chicago has citizens league which
is doing a promising work in saving
young men and boys from dissipation.
1t was formed three years ago, on the
discovery that a quarter of the arrests
in the city and of the commitments at
the House of Correction were of minors,
twenty years old and under. The
league nosed about, and found that
thirty thousand boys and girls patron
lied the city's drinking places, one
thousand of which were largely sup
ported by their patronage. Public
opinion sustained the suppression of
this glaring evil, and the saloon-keepers
who encouraged it were visited with the
penalties of the law. One of these
keepers had to pay one hundred dollars
and costs fer getting two boys of seven
and eleven years SO drunk that they
rolled in the gutter. Children of Chris
tian families were Systematically lured
into drinking dens, and encouraged to
cultivate taste for liquor. A widowed
mother, who visited the saloon where her
boy was being ruined, and begged them
not to give him liquor, was thrust out
into the street, and her boy pushed back
into the place. The league took up the
widows cause; succeeded in getting the
british proprietor punished and the boy
to reform. The city statutes revoke the
licenses of such offenders, and, with the
Mayors active help, the society has
closed out over fifty of them. 1t has
also diminished the juvenile arrests fol
1878 by two thousand, as compared with
1877, and has done it all at an outlay OF
only one thousand dollars.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20
Congressional Deadheadism.

[washin gton Letter in Brooklyn Union-Argus.l
az cannot save any of my salary"
said Senator Lamar TO your correspond
ent to-day. cit is impossible. never
paid cent beyond livery hire and few
little kindred items of election expenses
in my life, and have been in politics
long time. I could save thousand dol
lars year if 1 would do certain things,
bu. / do not think my conscience would
be satisfied if did. For instance, 1 pay
about three hundred dollars year for
newspapers. 1 like to read them. 1
have passes over railroads. L could
travel all over the United States Free
But I pay my fare. 1t costs me fifty
seven dollars apiece fare for my family
every time come and go between here
and home. 1 have telegraph passes. 1
never use them. do not think it
would be right. I can send anything
please over the express lines, yet pay
my express bills. l spend my salary
and never have any money. Some SEN
ators use all these privileges of dead
heading, and they say it is right. !
think otherwise. But there is one thing
that think should be done, and I shall
propose it as soon as get a chance.
Every Senator should have a private
secretary. He has more correspondence,
committee work, etc., than he can do.
And each Senator should be allowed a
private secretary. The Senator gets
five thousand dollars year, and can.
not support his family in keeping with
his position and employ private secre-
tary on that sum-" The conscience OF
this Senator should be embalmed. II
you were here and saw a carload Of
deadheads, and the street-cars when
Congress adjourns, you would be dis
gusted. They haul out cards and give
their names each time to save five cents
1 paid my fare one day, and the conduc
tor told me it was the only fare he got
though the car was crowded, and wa'
standing on the rear platform. The cal
was full of Congressman. This Incl
dent is a fact that the people should
know.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20
Eternal DesOlatiOn.

In the northwest corner of San Berna-
dino County, lying partly also in Inyo
County, and partly also in the State of
Nevada, is a region paralleled by few
spets on the face of the earth. We say
the world is instinct with life. Here, if
the phraseology may be pardoned, is a
place instinct with death. A huge
basin, whose rim is the ancient hills,
stricken with the barrenness of eternal
desolation, whose bosom the blasted
waste of the desert-treeless, shrubless
and waterless, save few bitter pools
like the lye of potash water; surrounded
by mountains that tower thousands of
feet above the sea-level, itself lying
three hundred feet below the sea. 1t is
a very "Gehenna "a place of death
and bones. Birds do not fly over it.
Animals do not enter it. Vegetation
can not exist in it. The broad sands
absorb the heat, the bare mountains re-
feet it, the unclouded sun daily adds to
it. Ninety degrees in the shade (arti-
fetal shade, there is no other) means
winter. One hundred and thirty and
one hundred and forty degrees, that is
summer.
The hot air grows hotter, wavers,
trembles with heat, until nature, goaded
to madness, can endure no more; and
then the burning blast rouses itself
rouses in its might; rouses as an angry
beast, with a hoarse, ominous roar,
sweeps mile after mile, on, ever on, over
the broad reach of the desert, bearing on
its black, whirling bosom-black as
mid1ight-dust, sand, alkali, and death.
Sometimes a murky cloud gathers upon
the mountains above; then there is a
rush-a warning sigh on the winds-a
low rumbling in the air; the hills
quiver, the earth trembles, and tor
rent, half water, half mud, bounds from
the hills, leaps into the desert, plowing
chasms like river beds in the loose sand.
The clouds scatter, the sun come again,
the eternal thirst of the desert is not
quenched. The raging river was only
a dream.
In the year 1S49 party of emigrants,
entered the basin. Day after day they
toiled on, thirsting, dying. The pitiless
mountains walled them in; no escape.
One by one they dropped and died. A
few, abandoning everything, scaled the
mountains and escaped. The others lie
as they fell, dried to mummies-no birds
even to devour their flesh; no beasts to
prey upon them. Wagon-tires unrusted,
gun-barrels bright, untarnished. Such
is the place. Mile after mile silence
reigns; silence-and death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20
Ireland's Battle Scars.
[oincinnati Enquirer.J

It is true that Ireland bears upon its
face the CHASTITY scars of many ba ties,
inflicted by the merciless hands of
Englishmen, and that her past history
is a record of the most grievous wrongs
and oppression which were ever in
ficted upon a brave and independent
people; yet her present condition is
prosperous, and her future full of
promise. Her seaports are filed with
ships, and towns are marts of trade and
commerce. "Derry" is a notable ex-
ample of the growing coDnmercial inn
portance of the island. The town is sit
uated on the river Foyle, sixteen miles
from the sea, and her wharves are Wis
tied by the ships of more than a dozen
prominent ocean sail and steamship
lines. One mile below the city the
river empties into Lough Foyle, an arm
of the sea about fifteen miles in length,
with varying width of from five to ten
miles. This Tough and the river of the
same name have beeen made navigable
by dredging for ships of the heaviest
burden, the channel being marked by
buoys and lights. The cliffs of Donegal
raise their majestic outlines on the
south, and the more rugged peaks ofthe
County Derry appear on the north. The
seacoast is succession o. bold promon.
tories, basaltic formation, rugged, per-
pendicular, and grim, which have for
ages battled with the ceaseless waves of
the ocean which forever break at their
feet. They are barren of verdure, and
are bleak and uninhabited. Here and
there the ruins of an ancient watch
tower may be seen, from which the
sentinels of the ancient kings used to
keep lookout for the approach of
dangerous foes.
Upon entering Lough Feyle at Moville,
the scenery is much softened and
changed. The landscape is dotted with
manor houses, the dwellings of email
farmers, and the huts of the peasantry,
the demesnes being covered with shrub
berry and symmetrical trees with wonder
fully deep green foliage, with here and
there a delicious bit of smooth, well
kept lawn visible. The planes slipping
from the base of the mountains to the
waters edge are divided by hawthorn
hedges, bitches, and stone walls into
small parcels of ground of irregular
shape, which are highly cultivated and
productive, and which, at this season of
the year, are covered with crops. The
whole landscape is one of peaceful
beauty and repose.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

THE death of Richard II. Dana, the
venerable poet and essayist, breaks an
other of the links that bind together the
old and the new in this country. Mr..
Dana, who had reached the advanced
age of ninety-three years, did not long
survive his friend and compeer, William
Cullen Bryant. Better known as pol
ished and thoughtful essayist than as a
poet, Mr.. Dana nevertheless ranked
among the earliest, as he was one of the
wisest and purest, of our political writ
ers, and his death closes the pages of an
honored and useful life.-Neao York
Commercial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

TwENTY-sIX men and women of
Bridgeport got into one big sleigh for
grand ride, and if novelty is compatible
with grandeur they had it. Half way
up long hill covered with ice the sleigh
being heavily loaded began to slide back.
Fhe horses assisted by the profanity of
the driver, made the most agonizing
efforts to resist the reaction, but the
momentum grew so great that they were
overcome, and the sleigh, the horses and
the people shot to the foot of the hill
with terrible velocity. The horses
being on their backs with their legs
reckoning to the heavens added consid-
erably to the general effect, while the
voices of thirteen excited women threw
soft glamour over all.-Danb,wy News.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

A gauzy lot of excuses were those of
an aged deacon at Mamakating, N. Y,
who, becoming wearied of the nocturnal
visits of his neighbor's dog to his sheep
fold, caught the animal, tied him to a
tree and shot him. The owner of the
dog asked the deacon why he had killed
the animal, and the good man replied
that he had mistaken it for wild cat,
which indeed it resembled as closely as it
did rhinoceros. Then the owner said
"Why did you tie the supposititious
wild cat to tree before shooting itT
and the deacon answered meekly
"Because 1 was afraid of it."--Troy
Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

The man or woman whom excessive
caution holds back from striking the
anvil with earnest endeavor, is poor and
cowardly of purpose.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

BE anxious, when you relate anything,
to tell it justa as it occurred. Never vary
in the least degree.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

Business cards Of fve lines or less IS par snnum.
Local notices 10 csntJ PER line each insertion
Simple announcements Of marriages and deaths
free. ANY additions to obituary notices viii IS
charged i've cents Per line. 4 Il q (
Fsyors must be handed in a. early ~ Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the same week
Communicate ms upon subjects of general or locaf
interest solicited - = -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

STEAMSHIPS for Europe usually carry
about thirty thousand letters each trip.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

INSECTS furnish many remarkable ex-
amples of analogy between their actions
and those devised by intelligent indus
try. The water gnat, for instance, to
keep her eggs afoat in an upright posi-
ton, so that the tops may be exposed te
the air and sun, CLUES them together
side by side, in the form of a boat,
which cannot be sunk. Its larva be-
comes pupa or chrysalis, from which
bursts the gnat, and, until it can fly, it
makes use of the old pupa skin as boat
The notonecta, or water-boatman, turn
ing on its back, converts its own body
into a boat and rows with its long hind
pair of legs exactly as with pair of
oars
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20

The health scientists in Boston have
interdicted kisses on the mouth as an
infraction of the laws of hygiene. Some
of these fine days, an outraged and in
dignant people will rise and destroy the
race of health scientists from the face
of the earth. There is a point where
silent forbearance ceases to be virtue.
-CleueJand Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-20
THE following lines express the senti-
ments of hundreds, aye thousands, of
happily-married men:
Who poufs contempt on woman kind
VIII mourn his folly when too late"

"That man true dignity win find,
Who tries the matrimonial state;
Who poufs contempt on woman kind
VIII mourn his folly when too late"
Happening to meet the eyes of
crusty bachelor, he transposed the
second and third lines, and sent the
verse to us to print. His version reads
thus:
"Tbat man true dignity will 6nd.
Who pours contempt on woman kind;
Who tries the matrimonial state
VIII mourn his folly when too late"
CYLes, Cyaado~d
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09
NOT ANSW ERED,- AND YET
 ANSWERED.

Col Johnson while in the Confed- crate congress, it is said voted for q bill to exempt from service any man who owned twenty negroes. Beebe Watchman.
 Col. Johnson answered this mali cious charge several months ago. Why repeat it Gazette.
 But we beg to say pmost emphati- cally that Col. Johnson did not an- swer the charge made in the above. In reply he said: These really are questions to which I can made DO an- swer now-it WAS long time ago. l do not know whether these acts were passed or not, but shall be candid to say as it is so asserted 1 presume they did. l may or may not have vo- ted for them" We italicise a DOT. tion of the above to show that the Gazette is as usual wide of the mark. The Gazette says ''Col. Johnson an swered this malicious charge; Col. Johnson says,"I can make no answer now. The matter of difference between is with Col. Johnson and his paper-L. R. Democrat.
 Let us hear what the Arkansaw Traveller has to say on this point. Sometime ago (betore that paper saw the "ten strike" that it could make by "dopping") the Traveller gave twelve reasons why "uncle Bob John son. should be put in the Senate. The Travellers seventh reason is as follows: Because, in 1861, he work led in the gas factory in Richmond, single hoofed and alone, until the " 'twenty-nigger' act passed the Con "federate Congress"
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09
 SUPREME COURT DECISION

The following is the opinion by the Supreme Court in the matter of our County Seat question;
 NOV. TERM, 1878 NO. 27. Thomsas Russell ct al, vs. W. D. Ja-
 coway Russell, ct al, eS parte,
 application for a prohibition.
 The application. prayed for writ of prohibition to be issued to the circuit court of Pope county to pro ceedings on writ ot certiorari to the county court of said county.
 Harrison, J.:
 A writ of prohibition is never granted unless the inferior tribunal las clearly exceeded It's authority. Exclusive jurisdiction is given to the county court in cases pertaining to internal improvement and local concern Cart. 2 sec. s, Conts,, 1874 An interference by certiorari on the part of the circuit court, to prevent a county court from taking action up- oa the question of the removal of it's county seat is assumtion of jurisdic, tion on it's part which will be restrain ed by prohibition. Writ granted.
 We also give the following late de- cision, as it settles a point upon which there was some dispute in our County when the recent election on our County seat removal was ordered ;
 NOV. TERM, 1S7s.--No. 2l.
 Warner ct d., vs. Simpson ct al.
 English, C. J.
 The act Of March ?, 1875 (acts of 1874 and '75 page 2Ql ) repeals, ex- prcssly and without reservation, the act of March Is, 1869, tGantt's Di- gest chapter 34). The limitation in the act of 1855, that "whererer an election has been had Tn pursun1ce of this act and the county seat chan ged in compliance therewith it shall not be lawful to change the county seat again under ten years" applies only to an election held under this act.
 Judgement reversed.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09
POPE COUNTIES VOTE FOR
 U. ss. SENATOR.

We believe it is the general opin- ion that the contest for the Senator ship before the next Legislature is going to be n very hotly contested one. The friends of each aspirant are going to do their best, and mem bers who arc not under instructions directly from the people of their re spectiye counties will have ali kinds of solicitations and arguments pre- sented to them to influence them ln casting their votes. Even those who are under instructions will find, no doubt, that it will test their fidelity to the utmost, and require no little moral courage, to resist the oily Iongued appeals which will be made to them to vote for some other man. There will be dinings and winnings and feastings of all sorts given to members who are mot committed" !
 or who are under instructions for aspirants who will soon be dropped out of the race, and the people would do well to watch the course of thelr representative in this matter.
 In our own county we think we have man to represent us who will be true to the trust given Ill his charge. It will be remembered that at our primary election in August there was direct expression from the people on this question. At that election the vote stood as follows: Baxter GAG; Bell 327; Walker POT Johnson 45; Royston 1; Jones 3. Since then we do not think there has been any change of any conse- quence in the sentiment of our peo- pie. If there has been any it is such as to reduce the number of Baxter men and add to the popular strength of Bell and Walker.
 So we take. it for granted that Representative McCracken will cast his vote for Baxter as long as he is in the race and then for either Bell or Walker. If Baxter was out of the race we think Walker would be next to him in popularity with the voters of Pope county. We do not conceive of any circumstances now in sight which would justify our representative in voting for either of the other gentlemen who will be in the race.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09
GUILTY.

If the reply which the Arkansaw Traveller attempts to make Gin its last lssue) to the "proof' winch the Little Rock Democrat published, showing that corrupt offers had been made to procure the conversion of that paper (the Traveler) to Col. Johnson's support, has any tendency to prove anything, it is that the charge is true.
 Warner does not once deny having received a consideration for adyo- eating Mir. Johnson's cause. Nor will he deny having told certain newspaper publisher who lives not a thousand miles from here, about the time he made the flop over" that q NOW HAVE A CHANGE TO MAKE A ''TEN STRIKE" AND l AM GOING TO DO IT"
 Now, whether this "ten strike' banned out one hundred dollars or TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, we do not know; but we do know that in either case it was most unmerclfally ex- oibitant pnce to pay for such support.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09
WHY JUNGLE BOB" SHOULD
 BE ELECTED.

"TENTu-Because, in 1868, Uncle Bob was "wheel horse" in an oppo- sition line agalnst the Constitution line as run in that year by Clayton and when Clayton was furnishedwith an extra team by Grant, and ran ov- CT our stage coach and upset us, Un- ele Bob kicked out of the traces and with one wild snort and tail grace fully elevated, lit for Washington leaving Clayton to gather up and "corrap all the stock belonging tc the opposition line, and sell at auc tion to the highest bidder, halteys included, winch was accordingly done.-Arkansaw Traveller.