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Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03
AMERICAN WOMEN.

Sir George Campbell, an educated
Scotchman, who recently visited this
country, has been giving II lecture about
us and ours, in which he spoke as follows:
There is n popular idea that the Amer>
leans are SO civilized that they object to
marriage. and that for the increase of
population the Americans must depend
not upon themselves but upon foreigners.
! believe that this is quite a libel. The
peculiar sects of which we hear so much
are but drop among the population.
myself saw none Of them, but did see n
great many people who did not belong to
this peculiar sect, and my decided i'm,
preston is that the Americans marry
earlier and trust to their wits to support a
! family more than we do, and that they
have large and rapid families, just ss we
have, and there is not the least danger
tina; the American population will die
out.
In nothing, think, does Mr.. Trolope
so much libel the Americans MS in the
most odiOus character which he attrib-
utes to the average middle class woman
of America. He seems to depict her rs a
| kind of hideous Jezehel who invades
tramway cars and other public places,
andacious and unfeeling manner, and
asserts women's tights with the most
entire disregard to the rights of unhappy
males. Perhaps Mr.. Trollope's denun-
Citations have had some effect in working
a reform but all can say is, that
saw nothing wha teve- Of the kind -
Where a car is crowded men will erner-
ally give seats to women, just as they do
in metropolitan railway in London !;
but never saw anything more than this
On the contrary, it seemed to ma that
the more purely American of the Ampri
can women those who are not accus
toned 70 spend money in IN ostentatious
way in Europe, and to overdress and
er>pehcork here very nice people
indeed 1t is the Daisy Milers and the
Daisy Milet's mamma who, to some ex
tent, had given the American ~omen n
had name
See them at home. and they seem To
me the incest of their sex. Wnmrns
rights. too, are not much ovrrdnne in
America. Women's suff age is entirely
at discount. Nobody has it, and no-
body seemed to ne To want it, except in
some remote States where they have es
tabllshed some new tangled social exper
iment~. Although they do not claim f.-
male suffl age, the American girls are
certainly more independent than our
girls. In this respect | hope many OF
our girls are following their example,
Ladies' of a class who would not like 10
ga out ss school teachers and tele graph
clerks with us do so quite freely in
Amelica | think the last school | was
IN before | came to XII kcnldy was II
black school for little negro child en- in
he Southern States, taught by u young
white Northern ladv, whom we should
think quite superior To that sort of work
| am sure-that our women have much t.
learn from the American women.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03
4 THRILLING ADVENTURE

merchant wishing to celebrate his
daughters wedding, collected party of
her young companions. They circled
around her. wishing much happiness to
the youthful bride and her chosen one. -
The father gazed proudly on his favored
child, and hoped that rs bright prospects
might open tor the rest OF his children,
who were playing am ing the guests.
Passing through the hall of the base
ment he met servant who WAS carrying
n lighted candle in her hand without the
candlestick. He blamed her for such
conduct, and went into the kitchen to
see about the supper. The girl returned,
but without the candle. The merchant
Immediately recollected that several bar
"els of gunpowder had been placed in the
cellar during the day. and that one had
been opened
Where is your candle ?" he inquired
in the utn ost alarm.
81 couldn't bring it up with mo for
my arms were full Of wood said the
girl.
Where did yeu put il ?"
Well, I'd no candlestick, 80 | stuck
it in some black sand that's ir the sand
barrel"
Her master dashed down the stairs
the passage was long and dark his
knees threatened to give away under him,
his breath was choked his flesh seemed
dry and parched, as he already felt the
sutfncating blast of death. At the end
of the cellar, under the very room where
his children and their friends were rev
cling in felicity. he saw he open barrel
of p"wder, full to the top, the candle
stuck loosely in the grains, with long
red snuff of burnt wick The sight seem
I'D tn wither all his power. The laugh-
ter Of ;he company struck his ear like
tn knell ot death He stood u moment,
unable to move.
The music commenced above; the
feet nf the dancers responded with viva
cliv the fl ,or hook md the loo.e bot
ties in the cellar jingled with the motion
II" fancipd the candle was moving-hll
ing. With desperate energy he sprang
forwnld-hut how to remove it. The
slightest touch would cause the red hot
wick to fall into the powder. With un
rqualed presence of N ind he placed n
hand ON each side of the candle, pointed
toward the object Of care, which, as his
hand met, was secured ia the clasp of
his fingers and safely moved awsy from
its dangerous po-itan. When he reach>
ed the head of the stairs he smiled ut his
previous alarm ; hut the reaction was
too powerful, and he fell in fits Of the
most violent laughter. He was convey
ID to his bed -enseless, and many weeks
elapst d eve his system recovnted sufficient
tone to allow him to resume his business.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03

This is a horse,' wrste the school
boy just under the chalk caricaturs OF
what he feared his companions would
mistake for porcupine. Now, if the
Chronicle will profit by the school boy 5
precaution against possible wrong infer
ences and under score each italicized
paragraph with the inscription ''this il an
ass i will throw a world light upon
Cause.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03

DEATH OF Tom THUMB.-The death Is
announced of a very small but once very
great personage- General Tom Thumb.
1t turns out that the solid little fellow
was a Duichman, having been born at
Bergum in the province of West Fries
land, in Holland and there he died, the
first week IN January, from dropsy. His
real nfme WAS Ilanemaa. He had rea-
lized handsome fortune, and had only
recently retired from public life.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03

IL you adopt the new Constitution, you
make the Chief Ju tice dictator of the
State, a. he sets between the two Su-
preme Courts il establishes, and gives
three Railroad Commissioners powers
over the people, the Legislature and the
Courts, for the exercises ~ which usur
pers lost their head. centuries ago.
Butte Record.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-05-03

SELECT your ebJect in life, and :hen
make it your greal and constant aim To
attain it. This is the only true p inciple
of SUCCESS in any department of iubori
the great prime ipe acted on 10y men who
attain anything like smlnence. They SO
leet their object, for the most part, in
shaken resolution and hrmness.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24
MONDAY MORNING., NoVEMnEn ~.


We have a number OF excellent friends
OF the INTELLlGENCER who write for lie
columns from time to time, Wepresume
somewhat upon the steadfastness Of their
friendship by pursuing an eclectic course
with respect TO their iavorS. Sometimes
we publish and OF other times withhold
their contributions, according TO our best
judgment as to the interest they may have
ut any particular time for our readers.
This we arc bound to do out OF regard to
our available space for correspondence,
and our knowledge OF the tastes and do.
mands OF the general readers in that re.
speCt. We beg to assure all writers for
our columns that we mean no disrespect
TO their iavors when they do not appear,
and arc simply governed, Us all editors
must DO, by the necessity Of our business.
No one need 10 deferred from writing a.
often as he or she secs fit because coca.
IionaIly their communications do not ap'
pear; and inasmuch as sc cannot under
take to furnish private or personal req
son in each case when these omissions oc'
cur, we offer this general explanation aF
an apology to those who might otherwise
be at u loss for reason why their articles
do not appear.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

Uriehsville and the tunnel. "A great deal
Of tedious pile driving is going on at
Saltwater, and 1t Is possible that some de-
lay may be experienced on that portion Of
thelins. Capt Basgs thinks that the road
will not be fully ready for business before
the lst Of March. II WIN, however, be
open in full time for the special business
othauling ore to this city from the lake
next season. Manufacturers will make a
note Of this, and no doubt go arrange their
contracts as 10 receive their purchases Of
Lake Superior ore ut Black River harbor
as well Us at Cleveland and sandusky. II
the new line will haul the ore next season
at one dollar per ton, we shall not'be sur
prlsed tosee the bulk Of It come over that
road.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24
EARNING. OF lho r., W. 9 81.

The earnings Of this road for the month
Of October were sS,O47 6s as against s..
55S SO for the same month last year, show.
ing gain OF $3.50 IS. And this, too, not
withstanding the accident to the Top Mill
blast furnace, by which a great amount Of
coke and other material was stopped of.
For the week ending November 7ththe
earnings were $l,S79 40 as against ST.
475 90 for the same week In 1873, On In.
crease for the week OF S4O4 40. For the
week ending November l4th the earnings
were 81, ia 10 as against $500 90 for the
same week last year, an increase Of
1914 10, or total increase for the two
weeks Of 1913 81.
1t is no wonder, In view Of the increase
in the earnings Of the p. W. & Ky. road,
that the stock should begin to be in de-
mand, for It's now quito apparent that
not only is the road likely to earn its seven
per cent. interest on It's bonded debt oil
500, 900, but likewise dividend on its
stock. We heard Of inquiries about the
stock last week, and twenty-five cents on
the dollar was quoted as the figures that
would probably be paid for 1t. We pre-
sumo that no large amount Of it could be
bought at this figure. Ohio county is for
tunate in being the holder Of nearly 1900
shares Of It, and it Is not at all improbable
that she will, in the next year or two, be
able to market the whole Of it at or near
par, and thus come out OF her subscrip.
ton to the road in very enviable shape
The bonds, OF which she holds, $4,000
should now be worth ten per cent. pre-
MUM, or $4,000, seeing that they are
paying 7 per cent interest so promptly.
This being the case they are likely to grow
in demand from parties seeking secure in
vestments.
The inference from the success Of the
P. W. & Ky. road is that the bonds OF
continuation Of the line, in the shape OF
the proposed narrow gauge down to Par
kersburg, would in like manner prove
good investment. The P. W.. & Ky.
road completes with line on the other
side of the river, and with the river itself,
for business, and yet earns over J per
cent on its bonds, and has good prospect
OF earning dividends on its stock. Why
would not single line OF road. running
through good country, and connecting
two important points like Parkersburg and
Wheeling, readily earn at least per cent
on lis bonds?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

LoEFFLER-GEoRsE, son Of Chas. and Cathuriue
Loetter, Sunday evening, November %, 10 his 6lh
year.
Funeral from the residence Of his parents, 1911
Jacob streets, East Wheeling, to-day Mouday) 4F.
NJ Interment at the Peninsula Cemetery. Friends
Of tho family are invited 10 attend.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

TIE South is making vigorous demand
for tariff rivision at the approaching ses-
sion Of Congress, and Senator Beck, Of
Kentucky, announces that he shall dis
card dead issues and abstract propositions
and address himself to giving the South
the relief from protective duties which it
demands. The Southern association Of
railroad men will especially push for a
lower impost on steel rails, the Georgia
railroads alone claiming that they have
had to pay protective tax OF over $685.
600 on their rails during the past year.
The Charleston (S.C) Ne~s aud Courier,
and Nashville Crenn.l Amcriran unite in
saying that this is the live issue, and the
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle hopes that it will
unite the South and West and remand the
bloody shirt to some political iunk.shop.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

VIZ acknowledge the receipt of a card
olinvltation to the coming wedding Of our
old friend Henry ]. johnson, Esq, editor
OF the Cumberland Daily Ners, to Miss
Alice Shriver, daughter Of Joseph Shriver,
Esq, OF that city, on the 4th Of December,
Mr.. johnson was at ono time connected
with the editorial department of this pa
per, and is a gentleman of culture, ability
and excellent character. His many friends
in Brooke, Of which county he is native
and inthis city, will unite in rendering hin
their good wishes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24
nav ADVERTISEMENTS.

nH1NEaELA UNDRY.-HAvINe FITTED
" up a ArSt-claSs LAUNDRY OF No lS0s
Market street, an now prepared 70 do al
kinds Of washing and ironing for gentlemen
and ladies at low prices
Give me call.
YEE wAH,
noA No 1925 Market street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

"TTiAdephil AU0mmodutOn.: This train only runs
between WaGeng aud Tr.adelphlA.
tDAlly except sundAy-G6wArk Accommodation.
tSteubenyille AccommodAtion.-ThlSt train during
the day passes backward and forward between Mr.
tins Ferry and BellAire, gtopptng whom required nt
Sherman HOUSE, GtBaTille, West Wheeling ana
Gravel Hill.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

WHILE the Mississippi election was gen.
orally quiet, there WAS drunkenness and
bulldozing in some counties, including
Yazoo. The Brandon Miss Record re.
ports that in jasper county the Claiborne
ballot-box was kicked outdoors by des.
perNdoes; at Cooks Mills q man had his
jaws slapped for peddling independent
tickets; at Paulding a negro was beaten so
that he died next day, and the day after
election dozen yelling, drunken men gal
loped into town and stacked their guns in
the court house, with determination to
see that their ticket was elected.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24
The TuScaraWas Valley Railroad and It's
Prospective EARNINGS.

Capt. Andy Bags, Of Bridgeport, closed
an important transaction on Saturday las
on behalf of President Chamberlain anc
others Of the Tuscarawas Valley < Wheel
ing Railroad, involving the purchase o
upwards Of 900 acres OF coal and 4S9 acre.
OF surface land, the purchase being known
as the Foulke property, situated abouttwc
miles west OF Bridgeport. The price paiG
was $1,000 cash, or at the rate OF about
SIS per acre for the coal and tie same FOL
the surface. This property has been in
the possession Of the Foulke family fol
nearly one hundred years, the original
purchaser being John Foulke, who lived
in Europe, from whom it passed to Joseph
Foulke Of New York, and from him, in
turn, to number Of heirs who have just
Joined in the deed to President Chamber.
lain, trustee.
Tho coal is six foot vein, aud can be
cheaply mined and loaded into the cars oil
the new railroad by gravity alone, and
will furnish for a long time to come valua.
Bile freight for the Western terminus Of the
lincon Lake Erie. 1t is estimated that the
company can carry this coal at cent per
ton per mile, counting twelve tons to the
car, and thirty cars to the train, and make
ON the one hundred and tiIty-six miles OF
haul an earning Of $3.50 per train, the time
consumed in the run being one and half
days.
The cars thus employed will bring back
iron ore from Black River harbor, and
counting the same tonnage at 81 so per ton,
the return earnings will be about $40 per
train ioran other day and half, making
total OF over $1,000 per train OF thirty
cars for every three days.
At even 81 80 per ton the orc will be re-
duced so cents per ton to the manufacture
ers here, and this We take it will be the
maximum price. It is not unlikely that
1t will be brought at special rate of one
dollar per ton, whore parties give the road
q large amount to haul. The company
can well afford to load back their coal cars
with ore ut one dollar per ton, and, in re-
turn, il it should do this, the manuiactur.
ers OF Wheeling can well afford to give the
road very liberal share Of their Western
bound freight.
The Tuscarawas road is gradually near.
ing completion, The great Flushing tun.
mel will bc through this week, and the
track will be connected at Bridgeport with
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh road in the
next few days. This done and the rolling
stock necessary to lay the track between
the river and the tunnel will bc brought
down from UriChSville and the work
pushed forward with vigor. The neces-
sary ties were brought up from below on
the present riso in the river, and arc now
at Bridgeport ready for distribution along
the line. Work Is progressing between
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

BALTIMORE AND ONO tumbled like a
fancy stock during the squeeze last week,
falling to l4l on sales ofless than $50 shares
in the aggregate. We notice sales OF 355
Central Ohio common at IS and 3S!.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-24

AFTER reading ex,speaker MoGett's late
letter, the wetzel Messenger is moved to
cry out, in the language Of Mark Twain,
"kill the prodigaI, the calf has returned"
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09

Judge briggs, of New York, come,
to the front with a proposition to the
farmers of the West. He proposes that
they raise fund of s5,OOO,00O to build
feet of twenty first-class steamships
o. $500 tons burden each, for the pur.
pose Of carrying their wheat to Europe
at first cost. He argues that such q
feet could carry grain and all produce
abroad quickly and chcaply, and that
they would pay their own cost over and
over. 1t would bring the producer and
consumer close together, and would re.
lease large army of middicmen who
now thrive by exorbitsnt charges.
Judge briggs is the man who conceived
and carried ont plan for damins the
Jersey flats, which from waste Iands
have become worth many millions of
doliars.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09
KANSAS REEF.

A few days ago a party of PhiIadel-
phlans dined ut the Continental Hotel
on beef which had been eight days in
coming from Kansas in refrigerator
cars, and which was found to be as ten
der ana juicy as possible. A great deal
of this meat il carried to Philadelphia
and sold there. The cars in which it
Is transported from Kansas City arc
lighter IN construction, though some
what larger, than the ordinary freight
cars. The average consumption of ice
during the eight days journey from
Kansas City to Philadelphia is about
LOO tons. 1t is packed in q compart-
ment two feot in depth above that in
which the meat Is hung, the cool air
being discharged through small pipes,
which keep the car at perfectly even
temperature Of forty-five degrees
Fahrenheit. Tho present demand for
this meat is from six to eight car loads
per week. Last year about 5000 head
OF cattle were Killed IN thls state for
the Philadelphia market. The first at
tempt at shipping beef in this way was
made in Salina eleven years ago. 1t
didn't get as far as Philadelphia, though.
1t was put off on . side track down in
Missouri somewhere, and spoiled. The
shippers became discouraged, and sent
no more east. Judge Prescott, David
Beebe and some others were interested
in the enterprise. In a few years, no
doubt, beef killed in Kansas will be
served at the European hotels. Then
the Europeans will be able to chew the
cheapest and sweetest beef that ever
had boots with which to tread the soil
of earth.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09
THE .sSOLlD WEST"

When the NJ. K. 4 I. extension was
first spoken of, there were parties to
claim that the vote of the Western bali
of the county woule be solid against
granting any aid for tho enterprise.
We find upon inquiry that there are
scores of people living in that section
who will willingly vote for the antici-
pated proposition, and even there are
those living in Brookville who begin
to express themselves in favor of it.
We believe when tho time comes that
"Western solidity" which has repeated
Iy been spoken off since tho inception
of this railroad movement, will be
carried in favor o. the extension, IN
stead of against 1t. When the
extension shall have created such
. competition in carrying our pro-
ducts to market as We hope for, and
have good reasons to believe We shall
get-then will tho farmers who live
in the Western part of the county
find prices in Salina which will easily
compensate them for the many miles
they may have to travel.
Now the question is asked, how will
Brookville be benefited In this way I:
She will be placed so that she can de-
mand Of the Kansas Pacific such rates
rs Salina has, and the Kansas Pacific
will readily grant them. IL will be
tho interest Of the Kansas Pacific to
control as much of the grain trade as
she can, and for that reason the CON-
pany will give Brookville the Salina
rates rather than have the grain brought
to the latter place, where competitor
will be striving for tho carrying privi-
lego. Tho merchants of Brookville
can be Independent at all hazards, too,
for 16 miles is only u very short dis
lance in which to haul freight by wag-
ous. What we have said OF Brook.
vile holds true with reference to Ba-
varia. The NJ. X. & T. extension is of
vital importance to all sections of the
county. We cannot mention one which
will not be benefited thereby. But,
we ask, what section of the county
will be benefited by the Lindsborg
branch? Will there DO any? We think
not. The towns of the county should
certainly be arrayed against it, and
what is the interest of the towns Is the
interest of the farmers living liz their
The "Southern trade" which
is to DO cut off by this Lindsborg, Mar
quote, and Rice county road is divided
between Salina, Bavaria and Brookville,
and all three of the places will be
moro or less injured by its construction.
Il 10 . road which will benefit neither
any farmer nor townsman living with
in the limits of Saline county; and if
it is extended beyond Lindsborg and
Marquette Gas We have good reasons to
believe it will be, if built at alp, 1t will
be of no such benefit to those places as
they have boon expecting and hoping
Tor.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09

The United States Supreme Court has
decided in the case of Geo. Reynolds vs..
the United States (which involves the
whole question Of polygamy in the Ter
ritories) that Congress has power to pass
laws prohibiting poIygamous marriages
IN Utah, and that such laws are Consti-
tutional. With the progress which is
being made, those fellows out there will
soon have to got along with fewer wives.
Mormon institutions are tottering, and
when polygamy is abolished their exist
ence may not be very long.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09

Tho Paris correspondent of the New
York Commercial Bulletin states that
10. OOO, 900 hectolitres (about $4,000, 900
bushels) of foreign wheat will be need
cd in France to make up the deficiency
of the harvest. A lively contest is ex-
pected between American and Russian
dealers to supply the markets.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-09

1t looks to Us as If the gentlemen
have madc q mistake in publishing this
affidavit. They evidently dodge the
issue now made. They do not meet the
point. What sll want to know is, was
such proposition made to any OF these
gentlemen, and were any OF them work
ing up the interests of the road expect
ing to receive any such remuneration
a. is named in the letter. There is no
doubt of the commences Of tho letter.