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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-19

PHILADELPHlA, December ls.-General
Grant had an interview to-day with Ad.
miral Ammen on the Nicaraguau canal
project. Nothing definite as to Grants
intentions can be learned, but remarks
made by Admiral Amuen to his personal
friends are construed into the belief on nh
part that General Grant will. accent tbf
Presidency Of the canal company.
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Che Gntettigetrts1.,
oGiee. Nos, aa ~na n ROurtospth street.
Car. McLURE has received word from

C4rr. McLuRE has received word from
Petersburg that Wood county has sub.
,cdbed the 5000 of stock in the new rail.
road assigned to her as preliminary to
the survey. Ohio county has mot yet
raised her $1,000, nor have we heard any
thing from the intermediate counties, ex.
cept Marshall, where a start was made
las, Saturday. Up to this time Wood
county has shown herself more alive to
the Importance Of this project than any
county on the line of the road.
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BELLAEE, O., December ia man
named Samuel Meeks, in the lime stone
quarry connected with the Bellalre blast
furnace, was mortally wounded this morn.
ing by the eaving In Of quantity Of
earth. The man received . fearful
l9eeration besides a severe confusion ol
the chest.
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BosroS, December ls.-A dispatch from
skowhegan says the counting out Of that
town at Augusaa is the only topic of con.
yersation on the streets and is denounced
BY Democrats as well as Republicans. An
indignation meeting has been called fsi
Saturday evening. A telegram from
Pennington mentions the prevalence o.
great indignation there. The mayor and
aldermen OF Rockland adopted a resolu
ton tonight condemning the action o.
the Governor and Council.
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SPANISH EMANCIpATIoS.

The Spanish Minister at Washington re.
ceived tonight the following telegram
from Madrid: "The first FIVE sections OF
the law for the abolition OF slavery passed
In the Spanish Senate to-day. The Grst
section says: Slavery is hereby abolished
on the Island Of Cuba in accordance with
the enactments Of this law Next Tues.
day the whole law will pass by a large ma.
iority."
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BosroS, December ls.-Bishop Gilbert
Haven of the Methodist Episcopal Church
whose serious illness has already been re,
ported, is in a very critical condition to-
night, and his friends are apprehensivt
he will not live until morning.
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TIE GERMAN Army BILL

vienna, December ls.-The upper house
Of the Reichsrath to-day again voted on
the army bill in the form in which Il was
originally introduced by the Government,
Both houses then selected representatives
for committee Of conference.
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OTTAWA, December ls.-Iutensely cold
weather prevailed in the Ottawa Valley
today, the thermometer ranging from Is
TO 81 degrees below zero. IN t6is city Il
was is degrees below.
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ANOTHER TRIPARTTTE AGREEMENT

ST. PErERsBuRo, December 1s.-Count
Schouvalof has arrived. It is said the
basis af an arrangement was arrived at at
Varzin with view OF re-establishing me
former relations Of the three empires un.
der a new condition. This statement Ia
regarded as sensational. -
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REDDNGToS, Pa, December IS. II
train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad to-
day struck aud Immediately killed Mrs.
Krammer and Miss Young, who were
crossing the track,
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ST. CLAlRsvlllE, December Is

ST. CLAIRSvlLE, December IS.
Special Dispatch TO the IntsllIEsueer.
The Jury in the case Of Caspar PAUL.,
charged with shooting Officer McC cCormick
Of Bellaire, retired at 2 o'clock and wer,
still out at 9 O'Clock this evening. P.
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JAMAICA, L. l., December ls.-Ths Pres
bytetian Synod Of Long Island, this after
noon, by two.thirds vote, sustained DR..
TalmaHe by dismissing the appeal from
the decision Of the Presbytery in his case
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A Mine Accident.

PIr7sToS, Pa, December 1s.-Jacob
Boyer was killed, and Peter Stelnhauer
and George Race were injured, by the fall
Of top coal in q mine.
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Mrs. zeli % be Hung.

HARRBRuRo, Pa, December ls.-At
oarlile, to-day, Judge Hannah refused a
new trial in the case OF Mrs. Catharine
zell and sentenced her 70 be hanged.
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NV YoRK, December ls.-A premature
explosion Of blast at seyenty.third street
and Ninth avenue, probably fatally iniur:
ed Dennis Murphy, John Hussey and
another laboFer,
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HOUSE.

Mr.. Weaver called attention to an article
in the New York Tribune, which said
Weaver himself was alleged to be the
author Of tAe petitions praying that
soldiers be paid the difference between
the value Of gold and greenbacks at the
time OF payment. He said.he hurled back
the imputation as slander on himself and
on the brave men who were petitioning
for equal rights with holders OF public
bonds.
Among the bills referred was one to cre-
ate permanently deep, wide and straight
channel through Sandy Hook and New
York Harbor for the purpose OF forming
an improved commercial outlet.
On motion Of Mr.. Gibson a resolution
was adopted authorizing the Committee on
Mississippi Levees to proceed over the
Mississippi river to its mouth, at such time
as the committee may direct, for the pnr-
pose OF acquiring knowledge OF its pecu-
liar condition aud wants, and gathering
information relative to the best method
Tor its improvement, with power to take
testimony.
Committees for reports were then called,
anu the House went into Committee Of
the Whole on q bill authorizing the SecrA.
tary OF the Interior TO make treaty with
the Ute indians.
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DIED.

C4LpWELt--0a Thursday, Dsee,a,s, n "a. :,
Se'Gsk q DPhtheFl, WHILE bopo1' SeT ~ ~
49, m; a. ana Carrie c CaldEell aged yesn asd
Funer.l po,,o. 49,.
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,AWYERS' BRIEFs.-Ths D1ny Il.
! slssncsr Job oees ptina Brisis PROMPTLY ~
WAl.eellA9 nyN, 'Fet =. -
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Fine Stationery
-ASD-
WRITING DESKS

The beauty and elsSan V Of tbs Raw, =, ~.
Envelopes makes the contents SmSII o.St = and
OF attraction, H FAtt oi tne cost
TIi!InF ge.ts In Russia Leather, p,r,., u..h.
Ma MseSs aAs Bt, ToTa SsS RS'I .nd iaad apsT
Be sold At the usual Wh0etais Fr%sS "aTEAln' VII
B1rniahod Bras Ink Stand, 'A" ihA Stands
Nickel and Blue Ink Stand.
The New Calendar Ink Stands.
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TotsI OIL GA S!S,6S ,izO S395Ii ,gIG
do. eicIu. IPoe SOOSI5G6 2s.9SI,OS 1880 t4S
The trade OF eleven months makes the
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Total ,ntl at TOr.iSI tOs,7.7 ss5 rs sos sal,sSsSO
".tnG E,I.Raa.s........ ~" ssll.g1 4sss.sA s,tlI@s
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1879. 1873. 1871.
Doutsle produce 81, sll S2s Os0 40 s2S,79Osis
DO dat able. 5I9,sa 79I,9sl 9lg,SGt
specie and bullion. G619OS 61s,G2 6J6,tGG
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
| POttstOWm Minnie warren.



There is now living near Pottstown
in this State Il young lady, Miss Eliza
Schwenk 10y name, who, though 80 years
height and weighs only forty pounds.
Her father is a we'll -to-do farmer and
has three other childfen-one son and
two daughters-all Of full size, as are
also tie little lady's parents and all her
relations. 1t is, however, in no sense a
case of deformity. Her face is round
plump aud pleasing, and her figure is
well proportioned and symmetrical
throughout. She has always been
blessed with good health, and until, she
was four years old grew like children,
and had attained a stature OF thirty
seven inches, but, like Grandfather s
Clock" she then stopped short, never
to grow again. SINCE then not an inch
has been added to her stature. She
remains the little girl of four or five
years, except that now her face begins
to show some signs OF age gradually
creeping over it. SO long as she wore
short dresses, which was until about
two wears ago, she attracted but little
attention from strangers, as her age
was not suspected, but since she has
donued the robes OF ladies of her age,
neople stop to gaze after this Liliputian
AS thev would after Tom Thumb or
Minnie Warren. She is an expert with
the needle, runs the sewing machine
(her father having one made to order
for her size) and does the family sewing.
of late she has been doing the shopping,
and tile story is told that she dropped
in at a dry goods store in POttstown
and began to make her purchases OF a
new clerk, who, not suspecting her age
or means, and taking her for a child,
after measuring Off piece after piece,
became uneasy lest he was being
duped by a little girl who did not
know what she was doing, and stopped
to ask her to show him her money, to
see whether she had money enough to
pay for what she bought. She told
him she had money enough, and the
clerk has since learned that the little
girl is desirable customer.
While she is modest and retiring III
her disposition and does not court
notoriety, yet she has nerve enough to
demand her rights. A short time ago,
being on visit to POttstown, she re-
t, nued home in the evening train. Her
ticket was to Saratoga station, which Is
near her fathers house, but the conduc--
tor neglected to stop the train and
took her along to Limerick. Here, as it
was now dark, she refused to leave the
car, but insisted that the conductor must
eitl,er run the train back to Saratoga OF
hire a carriage and send her back. The
conductor, seeing that he was under
the hay" hired carriage and sent the
! little lady to her home.
Her father has often been asked to let
her travH with showmen, but he has
always refused, as he does not, he says
need the money. Indeed, Eliza does no,
wish to go from home, and though for
| merly she could be coaxed away for a
| few days or q week to visit friends, OF
late she becomes homesick it away from
home but short time.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
Mark Twain On Juvenile
PugIlists.


"Yes, I've had good many fights in
my time" said old John Parky, tender
" manipulating bis dismantled nose,
land it's kind OF queer, too, for when
I was boy the old man was al ways
telling me better. He was Il good old
man and hated fighting. When | would
come home with my nose bleeding, or
my face scratched up, he used to call
rowful and discouraged way say: SO,
Johnny, you've had another fight, hey :?
How many times have | got to,tell you
how disgraceful and wicked it is for
boys to fight? 1t was only yesterday
that | talked to you an hour about the
sin of fighting, and here you've been at
it again. Who was it with this time I?
With Tommy Kelly, hey? Don't you
know better than to fight II boy that
weighs twenty pounds more than you
do, besides being two years older! |
can plainly see that you are determined
to break your poor fathers heart by
your reckless conduct: What ails your
finger9 Tommy bit it, Drat the little
fool! Didn't ye know enough to keep
vour fingers out of his mouth? Was
trying to jerk his cheek off, hey? Won't
YOU never learn to quit foolln' round a
boys's mouth with your fingers: a.: You're
bound to disgrace us all by such wretch
ed behavior. You're determined never
to be nobody. Did you ever hear of
Isaac Watts-that wrote, Let dogs de-
light to bark and bite'-sticking his
fingers in boys mouth to get 'cm bit,
like u fool2 Pm clean discouraged
with We. Why didn't ye go for his nose,
the way Jonathan Edwards and George
Washington, and Daniel Webster used
to do when they was boys! Couldn't
cause he had yer down? That's purity
story to tell mo- 1t does beat all that
YOU can't learn how Socrates and VII
liam Penn used to gouge when they
was under, after tig hours and hours l
have spent in telling you about those
great men. It seems to me sometimes
as if I should have to give you up ID
despair. 1t is an awful trial to me to
have a boy that don't pay any attention
to good example, or to what l say.
What! You pulled out three or four
handsfull of hair? Hm: Dld be
squirm any? Now, if you'd a give him
one or two in the eye-but as I'VE told
YOU many d time, fighting is poor busi-
ness. Won't you-for your fathers
sake-won't YOU promise to try and
remember that? Him. Johnny, how
did it-ahem-which licked?
"You licked him? Sho. Really ?
Well, now, hadn't any idea you could
lick Tommy Kelly! I don't believe
John Bunyan, at ten years old, could
have done it. johnny, my boy, you
can't, think how hate to lave you
fighting every day or two. Iwould I not
have him lick you for five, no, not fol
ten dollars! Now, sonny, go right in
and wash up, and tell your mother to
nut a rag on your finger. And, Johnny
don't let me hear of you lighting
again.!
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
WHY We Should Take Better
Care of Ourselves.

A hotel-keeper, past the middle age
Of life. of long experience, and WHO Aaa
nuite a7,,te powers of observation in re-
gard to the physique Of his guests, was
unite positive that there had been de-
veloped of late q better form in woman
kind: az know OF no reason to account
for this improvements" said he, :" than
bv advancing the idea that women and
GIRLS are better fed. | miss those sfoop-
Ing, wan faced women and girls OF for
mer times who had no stamina. Once
they were in the majority.
Delicate hands and feet were, or course,
to be found, but it was accompanied
with q dropping head, no breadth OF
chest and general debility. l do not
know il it arises so much OH account OF
more exeycise. but rather from the TACT
that food, such as N0Men nse, is pettef
chooked and more plentifully given to
them than in the time OF our mothers
aud grandmothers. There used to be
an old fashioned school which was
founded on stintjpg. 1t was unladyllke
for q girl to eat = hearty meal. Our
sisters used to be half-staryed,
Cravings for that solid food which
was absolutely necessary for growing
girls were satisfied with cups OF tea or
thin slices of bread and butter on which
a little preserve had been spread. Now,
you may think butt little of my exper-
ience. but q seaside resort IS exactly
| the place where fair Judgment can be
| formed as to the size, weight and general
appearance of our women. l am quite
positive thatif you were able to weigh
| the women and girls who are walking
| on this yeranda or on the sands, ana
| had a record of the weights OF their
mothers at the same age, there Waq!a
be an increase to-day OF from ~ to ID
per cent, quite sufficient to add lm-
mensely to the personal appearance OF
our women.
You may say that am an interested
| party. because feed my guests as well
as can, and that better class OF peo-
Die frequent my hpnse, but the observa-
tions have the honor Of entertaining
YOU with are general and apply to the
great majority of women | meet in the
Streets OF New York. We have no bet.
ter food as to quality, but | believe that
/ it is tile preparation OF 1t which has
| made the change.
There is no country in the world
where the necessity of good, we'll cooked
food is greater than in the United States
/ The changes in our climate are terrible
/ and the wear and tear on the human
frame is immense. Perhaps nowhere
else. in any great city in the world, Ii
the stress on human brains so great al
| in New York. 1t is miraculous to th1nl
how, fifty years ago, men or women go
along at all, and preserved their facul
| ties, with the bad system OF feeding
they had then.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
Our Girls.

Girls, don't be foolish. You are made
of flesh and blood. When you die you
win 20 into decay just like other people.
In ali human probability you will gIoW
gray, and homely, and wrinkle before
Won die, and the time is not far OF
wien YOU will sit in the corner-and-
smoke-or something. You ought to
know YOU can't get number two shoe
on a nI1mber four foot. You act as II
you thought God had made a mistake.
Now lust look at that dress. 1t wouldn't
do for O t1y-net, and the wind is blow
ing q hurricane; buffalo knows bet
fnr than to travel without a proper pro,
lection. You can't deceive anybody
peouie know you suffer III your tight
shoes and corsets, and without proper
Clothing. and people know, too, your
snothers dent force you to dress IN that
way. Now, do take advice, aud loosen
up little, just to get good, long, pure
breath of air, and let your toot spreaa
out until it is at rest. You are NOT an
gels, and if you keep on this way IL is
doubtful il you ever will be. You are
silly; men don't love Wasps, ana tney
have no use for silly, sim,perlmg, sel1lsn,
groaning women. DO let your nanus
and feet and waists grow. 1t you think
1s %on can can eet through this world without
muscle You are deceived. Ii you can't
carry Yourselves some one must carry
Won. and no one will be willing to do
fhis long. If some men are daily pray
inc Cor their valves to go to heaven the
short way it is their own fauit. It does
very Wefl to sit with hands crossed .
little while, bnt the interest In this
tableau is lost with a coming appetite.
Nothing is SO lovely in this world as
. pirl-a girl nature made. with the
TsSor. and bloom, and muscle and
1Eain, and development of rompjpg,
Sanghiug. glowing, health, tempered
and toned with purity Of thought and
nurnose. oh, the freedom and JOY and
blessing of girlhood. No pinched feet,
no crowded lungs, no Lace, no hat. Curls
flying, feet skipping, eyes sparkllng'
Nsart bounding, laugh ringing. we
80 hear it vet; over the hills, across
the meadows, out of the woods, on tle
wafer. Ali, We days Of sunshine with
The girls How the shadows have fallen
since tIien-how things have changed
Girls were girls then. they climbed and
ran races and jumped and played at oar
and ball, and were our peers Va4ihg III
the brook. In classes they STOOD ny our
side, quick to learn, quick TO help; es,
MANY hard problem we were heipea
to solve by q romping girl. Now, she
would be called in love-" May be she
was, and may be he was, too. no mat,
ter, those were days OF purity and
progress and growth, and their perfume
floats yet over life's barren highways
and we are glad we did not 1--we IN the
DAYS Of pinched waists and feet, and
gloved hands SO helpless: God bless
our girls Half the battle is fought
when they are4in the ranks: Life is en-
ded when their football is no longer
heard.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
Call for n State ConveniiOM.
ROOMS STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Democratic Conservative Party,

Democratic Conservative Party,
New Orleans, Sept. l, 1879.
At meeting Of the State Central Committee
of the Democratic Conservative party, held in
New Orleans on the 18th OF August, 1879, the
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the first Monday OF October,
1879, he fixed as the time when the Convention
held provided. that in the event OF an epidemic
in this State at said dates then the Chairman OF
this committee with the advice of the ENccll-
tive Committee, is hereby authorized to post
pone the asscmblage of the Convention so such
Il date aS in their opinion may be deemed best.
Resolved That the city OF Ration Rouge be
selected for the holding OF said Convention.
Resolved, That the appOrtionnert OF repre-
sentatiUn in said Convention shall be the same
as that adopted for the State Convention held
at Baton Rouge on the first Monday i'll August,
1878, for the nomination of Il candidate for
State Treasurer; provided, that any parish OF
the state or ward OF the city of New Orleans,
having cast a larger vote for the candidate for
state Treasurer in 1878, shall have the advan-
tage OF said vote in said appOrtiOnment.
Resolved, That one delegate for every two
hundred V0ters, and one for every frac ton
over one hundred, be fixed as the basis of re-
presentation.
Resolved, That the election for delegates to
said Convention it is recommended that 10
more than one person shall be elected to east
each vote.
In accordance with the above resolutions, a
convention of the DehlOcratic-COnservatiV
party is hereby called TO meet at Baton Rouge,
on MONDAY, October 6, 1879. at - M.
In accordance with the fourth resolution the
several parishes of the State and wards of New
Orleans shall be entitled to the following re-
inn tI-IV
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11
Proceedings of the Board of Police Of
the Town Of OpelOHsas.

WEDNESDAY, August 21St, 1879.
The BOari met pursuant to 1t call of the
President.
Present: DR.. james Ray. President; Mcssrs.
4. Donate, G. Mayo, P. J. Lefebvre, c. n. EalCr
W. G. Bell and Victor Lastrapes.
The minutes OF the last meeting were read
and approved.
On motion OF Mr.. Lefebvre, Resolved. that
the account of George Pulford. coroner. for the
sum of five dollars, for process verbal of inquest
held on body OF Clinton Richard be and is
hereby approved
On motion, Resolved, that taking into con-
siderrtion the present price of beef.
Be it ordained by the Board of Police of the
town of Opclousas, that the resolution relating
TO public markets. passed on the 30t day of
May. 1875 he amended so AZ to read:
"That from the first of June to the thirlcth
of November OF each year, meat of the COW
kind shall be sold for not more than eight
cents per pound"
On motion, Resolved, that the account of c.
Mayo, agent, fGr the siim Of twenty-five 55l10C
fs29 50 dollars, for medicines, disinfectants,
stationery, &C., be and is hereby approved.
On motion the Board adjourned.
JAMES RAY, President.
Attest O.. VOORHEES,, Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

EFFECT OF INyENTING ON LABOR
The inventions aud improvements OF
the last hundred years have qulntap!ed
the productive power OF the world:
But instead OF driving people out OF
employment they have Grated lnnnmer-
able new employments and given living
work to three times as many people III
the civilized world as existed then
'o TPittsburg Leader.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

Two women are talking about the ell
eihilitv of certain bachelor: know
he is rich, my dear, but his age! II only
divorce were established would marry
him-if he were, say, twenty years
younger"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

TO PTRIFY WATER.-As Dutch house
keeper in the Transvaal, purifies the
turbid water in the district by throwing
half a dozen dried peach kernels. slight
ly cracked, into q large butt OF water.
This renders the ,muddiest water clear.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

sJeannie, did you divide. your paper
of chocolate with your brother es,
certainly, mamma; | ate the chocolate.
and gave him the mottos~he is tona OF
reading, you know"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

"Woman is delusion, madam" ex-
claimed crusty old batchelor TO a witty
young lady. And man is always hug
ging some delusion or other" was the
auick retort.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-10-11

aGoyernesses should never. be- re-
quired to do low, menial, work., sald q
gentleman. Certainly not, but they,
frequently aspire to the hymeneal,' =
replied a lady.