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New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

For the first time since 1874 there viii lie
political accord at Albany this Winter be-
tween tie Legislature and the Governor
and much is expected from this happy
combination of circumstances. There is
the opportunity now to do much for the
good of this city, and the responsibility
will be plain if much is rot accomplished. At
such times suggestions of charter amend
mcnts are numerous. and the most important
gossip concerning these is detailed in another
column.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

1880, it may be the part of wisdom to aban-
don the attempt altogether. All the more
reason, therefore, for making ready TO whip
the Solid South into pieces next year.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-07
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New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

Thc recent declaration OF wal by the West
Side Association against the squattcrs who
occupy the shanties on the rocks from Fifty
ninth-st. to Seven ,y-sccOnd-st, and VIII not
bulge until their houses have been pulled
from under them and even off the rocks
makes the suggestion Of a correspondent in
enother column exceedingly timely. 1t is upon
the West Side that cheap houses must be
built, if New York is ever to have any, and
our correspondent docs not overstate the
probabilities when he says that five thousand
houses Of small rentals could be disposed of
rs fast - they could be luilt
Indications multiply that the struggle cf
the Sold South next year ior tie control Of
the Government my bc the last OF It's kind.
Colonel Keogh, Chairman of the North
Carolina Republican Committee, gives, in "a
talk with TRIBUNE reporter, some interesting
views of the situation in that State. The next
census must reduce the political power OF the
South, and Colonel Keogh recognizes ;hc exist
encc of a feeling among Tie Democrats OF his
STATE that if the results which they sought in
the war are not achieved 1T tie election OF
New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

Some of the regular features of The TEIB-
UNE are of especial interest to-day, and
deserve more than word of mention.
On our eighth PAGE viii be found two
striking reviews of new and important
books. There are too many features oi interest,
perhaps. lor special enumeration, but no reader
OF The tribune who has liking Tor domcs-
tic topics-and their number is pleasantly
laTgo-will overlook the Household depart
ment. whith will be guide IN many home
matters including the perplexiUes of market
iup
New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

The report OF the murder of coored Republicans
ut Delta. La, election day is denounced rs falls
bv an Associated Press dispatch from VicNsburg
Unfortunately, this denial settles nothing. When
political murders are committed in the South tho
truth rarely out IN the news dispatches. After
the Tcnsas massacre occurred. in October. 1873 the
press agents in vcksbuTs and NewOr tried to
pas, the affair over as a trivial neghborbO5d row
aud when the truth began 20 leak out little by iitte
they asserted that politics had nothing 70
do with the difficulty. II not until the
Teller Committee made investigation that
tho whole horrible history was exposed. Then it
turned out that a brutal political massacre had
been perpstratod, in which over twenty lbnocen
black men were shot OF hanged. tie evident Iur
pose being to destroy the Republican party in
Tensas Parish. We hope nothing of the sort has
occurred in Delta, hut orr h02e rests not so much
on telegralLc donals as the fact that there was
no motive. save innate savagery for the pcrpetra-
tion of such crimes at the recent election. lhe
whole machinery of voting and counting was in the
hands Of the Democrats. and they were able To Tx
up such majorltss they. needed without resort TO
blOOlshed.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

there may even be people who prefer the
new article 10 the old: but that does not
affect the rights Of those who, when they pay fof
butter, emit led to receive butter. The law re-
quirng both wholesale aud retail dealers distinctly
TO mark their packages Oleomargarine" Is abont
pcremptory us "A statute can well be made; but
IT is constantly eyaded by faint brands, or
IT Is entirely dsreg lrded Ivy neglect TO brand at
all THIS is plain swndlDR. aud everybody
is interested IN its suppression. Buyers
are ab)mnably and nOtoTOusy careless, or
they wOuld not b. so cheated There are
customers upon whom no shopkeeacr would
attempt such fraud--thcy w0uid know better.
There are other customers vino take the first
thing which is offered them, pay the price asked
without murmur, and perhaps never discover that
they have been defrauded at all Something can be
done by prosecuting the cheats but the rule holds
good that The buyer must look out foT himself.
Prosecute. by all means; but let the purchaser also
look out for himself.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
What Happened TO Lady In Smoking

Car.
A smoking car on the Third avenue,
New York line, almost as full Of cigars as
it could be, considering that man was
attached TO an end of each cigar, was in.
vaded the other day by woman. Tobac.
co smoke was offensive to her. She asked
the conductor to put stop to the smoking.
lie said he couldn't, this was a special
smoking car and the company permitted
man or woman to smoke in it; he would
let her off and she could wait for another
car. She couldn't wait; she must reach
the mayors office at certain time. The
conductor was asked to raise the window
by which she sat, He couldn't; 1t was
nailed down. The smokers, taking in the
situation, smoked more vigorously. The
atmosphere became blue. The woman
said something must be done; she couldn't
live in such cloud. She was advised
that she could stand on the rear platform.
She left her seat and smoker who had
been standing took it. The draft increas-
ed her discomfort at the rear. She
grew very mad. A man ran to ask
the conductor question, emitting
a dense cloud OF smoke by way Of
preliminary. The smoke hoated graceful
ly into the face OF the irate woman. She
struck the fellow in the face with her
mutr. lie threatened to have her put off
the car. She said he couldn't do it, and
by way Of further challenge struck him
again. Then he called policeman who
carried her Of, not, however, till she had
planted her mutf third time in the face
OF her special offender. The woman was
taken before police justice, who held her
in 500 bail for trial at the special session,
The man in the case was Edward B. St.
John Henrigues, further identified rs "a
man OF means, one Of the odd Guard a
member OF company |, OF the seventy.frst
regiment, and special deputy sheriff."
The woman was Miss Frances K. Fergu-
son, secretary OF the Woman's employ
ment society. Both are prominent per-
SONS, in their circles. The papers devote
II good deal OF space 10 details Of their en-
counter, but none OF them display the ex-
ulttation over the discontinue Of
the woman which the case calls for.
They seem to ignore the fact that even
crowded smoking car Is seldom found to
contain not single gentleman, and that
the chance, privilege and disposition OF
lot Of men to Smoke OUT a lone woman
may never come together again. New
York should crow. Virginia City has
never egualed this exploit Of the empire
city. The list regiment should elect
Edward B. st. John Henrigues colonel.
The conductor, the policeman, the police
justice, should each have medal.
Twenty men had chance to prove them
selves rowdies by annoying and insulting
n woman, and they did it. And they had
her arrested, and bound over for trial ior
interrupting their fun. Brave boys. 1t is
pity the names Of all in the car are not
known. ':Breathes there man with soul
so dead" he would not give a cent 10.
ward a medal for each OF them?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10


TnE New Years day temperance move.
ment shows increased life this season
among the society OF New York and
Brooklyn. There exists really import.
ant Business Mems Society for the En-.
couragement OF Moderation"-(a very
pretty name, but too short and the
ladies connected with this society have
had engraved pledge TO lay upon the
New Years hall table with the hostess
name signed OF course, aud are circuIat.
ing an appeal to "ladies to abstain from the
practice OF tempting men to drunkenness"
by offering wine on that day to their callers.
1t must make man feel particularly man.
ly to feel himself needing this delicate
caution on the part Of "the weaker sex"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10


AGITATION OF the gas question in Cincin.
matt and Philadelphia has brought out
good deal OF information interesting to
consumers. Cincinnati's charter gives the
city power to regulate the price the gas
company shall charge it for light For
the past ten years the price has been g 25
per thousand feet. A committee of the
Board Of Aldermen investigated the cost
Of materials, work, &C., and found that
including everything Of cost, and allowing
"A cents for Interest on the plant and for
profit, gas could be furnished for 81 % per
thousand. The Council has fixed that as
the price. The Cincinnati Gas Company
gets its coal for s. IS per ton. The Phila-
delphia Ledger says the company from
which that city buys gas pays 81 80 for
Pennsylvania gas coal. 1t has paid as
high as S. 50. At the lower price the
company saves in coal outlay $500, 900 a
year, The price OF gas has not materially
changed. The Ledger docs not say what
the city pays for gas, but indicates what it
ought to pay by detailing the cost OF the
article. 1t says: "When coal is s. ton
here, coal gas can be made at 90 cents q
thousand feet, including everything but
cost Of administration and interest on cost
OF plant; when coal is at 81 80, it ought to
DO made at a cost Of II cents per thousand
including everything but the charges just
mentioned. These should be about 70
cents thousand-but under no contin-
gent should they exceed eighty" making
the cost OF gas 81 81 per 1000 feet.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
The Iron boom al PiiIsbursh.

Baltimore Sun.
There Is no question that Pittsburgh,
Pa, is thriving wonderfully under the
iron boom, which has been sending prices
up with a bound since the last week 10
July, until now red short pig iron is
quoted at sS5 a ton, with prospect that
1t will yet reach $40. The vesuyiuS iron
works, the last idle mill there, have Just
900. A charter has also been Issued to the
Manchester Iron and Steel Company,
which has q capital Of 100000, and will
turn the old Superior rail mill into Besse,
mer works. The old Mcknight mill
which would not bring $4,000 year ago
has been sold for S72, 725, and the Steel
Billet Company, lately organized, will
build as soon as sight can be found.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10


Gov. HALLIDAY, Of Virginia, did not
recommend the people Of his State to oh.
serve the Thanksgiving Day named by
President Hayes, nor suggest one Of his
own, probably for the reason that he was
opposed to adopting a Yankee custom, or,
maybe, because the peopleof Virginia had
nothing to be thankful for In Richmond,
the SAFE says, some Of the churches held
services, but outside Of that no attention
was paid to the day. Some people enjoy
crow better than they do turkey. Per.
haps Gov. Halliday thought President
Hayes infringed upon the doctrine Of
State rights by recommending general
day 10 be observed.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

IT will be well for the churches to
know what the law is III their respective
States before taking subscriptions to build
n new house of worship or pay the debt on
old ones. One Whaling, in Milwaukee,
subscribed 81 900 towards the erection Of
a new church, and afterwards went into
bankruptcy. Now comes one OF the
principal creditors and asks the Commits.
sioner in bankruptcy to have the church
subscription expunged from the list Of the
bankrupts Indebtedness, on the ground
that it was made on Sunday, and there
fore void under the laws OF Wisconsin.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

Ar Point Rock, near Lampasas, Tenn,
the skeleton OF man was found recently
in cavern among the rocks. Near the
skeleton was the rusty blade Off bowie.
knife, with the handle rotten with age.
On a smooth limestone rock was carved in
capital letters the following:
81 fell in here four days ago when the
Indians were running me. am starving.
II Bill don't find me tomorrow, will
run this knife through M heart. can't
stand to starve to death. JOHN RoAN.
November !, 1850"
Roam had fallen through the aperture a
distance OF twenty-five feet
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

4 happy thought has been put into ei-
feet in Berlin. This is nothing less than a
clearing house for cards. Merely formal
visiting cards, such as those left after hos.
pitality or absence, are by each family in.
trusted to a responsible servant. All the
servants have their weekly place OF meet.
ing club, coffee house, or whatever 1t may
be, Here they exchange the patches Of
cards among each other, as instructed, and
each servant brings the batch newly re-
ceived from the neighbers' servants to his
masters house. The friend has been re.
the compliment has been paid
the Call" in fact, has been made By
proxy, and who is the worse?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

GENERAL and United States Senator
Gordon, Of Georgia, was asked recently
bya correspondent If he ever saw the
bayonet used in the civil war. He re-
piled that he saw only one man killed by
bayonet in battle, and that was at the
night attack on Fort Stedman, when the
sentinel bayoneted an assailant. At
Gettysburg, when the advance OF the two
armies ran on each other, on the LIST Of
July, he saw two opposing standard
bearers rapping each other over the head
with their flag poles.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

to the annual importation Of the United
states-about SlO9,OOO,OOO worth DR..
Collyer Is accounted man Of careful
statements. The promise he holds out oil
raising slOs,OOO,0Oo worth Of marketable
goods where 81, 10000 worth Is now rails.
ed, isyery tempting. twill be surpris-
ing II sorghum is not given q trial. DR..
Collyer says all the States in the central
belt have soil and climate admirably
adapted % sorghum raising.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
Saturday, Dec smbsr 18Th, 1879,
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF NORTH
" WHEELING PROPERTY.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF NORTH
" WHEELING PROPERTY.
Annie E. Palmer ct all
Mary R. PAUL. ct al.
In the Municipal Court Of Wheeling.
By virtue Of decree entered In the above entitled
cause, November 81 1879, the undersigned Special
Commissioner will, on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER q, 1879,
beginning at 10 o'clock A. NJ at the front door Of the
Court House OF Ohio county III the city Of Wheeling,
sell at public auction, TO the highest bidder, the iOl
lowing property on the east side Of Main street,
North Wheeling being parts Of lots numbered 80 and
co. Beginning Main street at the northwest corner
Of the brick building known aS Catharine S0cknanS;
thence with Main street north G6 feet thence At right
angles with Main street east 1S feet 10 the eastern
line OF said LOTS thence with said eastern line south
&C fee the zee at right angles with said eastern line
west 1872 feet to the place Of beginning aud which
land Is erected the building known rs the FOURTH
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
TKRHs OF SALE-0no fourth Of tho purchase money
and much more as the purchaser may el Ct 10 pay
In cash, and the residue In three equal annual pay
ments with Interest thereon from day Of sale, the
purchaser to give notes with good personal security
for the deferred payments and the title 10 DO retain
ed until payment In full Of the purchase money.
Al. CLARKR, Special Commissioner.
J. Z. HRRvEY, Auctioneer.
nO26-29 .deC3 6-l0.ls-l7-20-24-27.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

Or personal leadership in New York pol
tics the Boston Gasate remarks; Ill
George William Curtis were half the man,
US regards personal vigor in politics, that
Roscoe Conkling is, he might control the
vote Of New York state and perhaps COM
pei his own nomination for the Presiden-
cy, There is little doubt that the ideas he
represents hold the balance of power
ihere.V
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

DIR. CoLIYER, the chemist OF the United
States Agricultural Department, is enthu.
slastic on the possibilities Of sorghum cul.
tivation. He says: "It they will give me
ten acres Of ground 10 experiment on
next season will return twenty tons OF
raw sorghum sugar fully equal to the best
raw cane sugar or forfeit my reputation"
He estimates that the cost Of production
can not exceed three cents per pound.
This would give margin for profit far
ahead Of corn or wheat raising, and put
sugar on the table at prices below the
lowest reached the past year. Illinois
produces corn crop worth s75,OOO,0OO
annually, DR.. Collyer says one.tenth the
acreage given to corn devoted to sorghum
OF the variety best suited to the latitude
would produce ali amount Of sugar equal
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

Mr.. BAYARD's move against the legal
tender act is not such very poor invest
meut assome Of the timid ones may think.
Big names are going upon the paper in IA
vor of it at New York, and there is no
knowing what Mr., Bayard's party .assoCi-
ates may conclude to do. Between Presi-
dent Hayes and the Delaware Senator,
the situation for the politicians is quite
distressing.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
A. W. PAULL,


A beautiful work Of 100 pages, One Colored Flower
Plate and 500 ILLUSTRATORS, with Descriptions Of the
how TO grow them. All for Five Cent Stamp, issued
Nov. 10th. In English or German. viek'S illustrate
ed Monthly MAglEine-32 Pages, Colored Plate In
81 2t year; Five Copies for s. O0 Specimen nun.
hers sent for len CENTS three trial eopIe for Is cent?
Address, lAaEsVlcE, Rochester n. Y.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

The nextyear, 1850, may see railroad
race for the business Of the Winnipeg
wheat region. There is talk OF extending
the Wisconsin Central 10 Duluth in the
hope Of leading thegrain trade from across
the border to Milwaukee. The Northern
Pacific is already running limo to CAST g.
ton, which will be extended into the Do
minion, The trade which comes in over
this line will go either 10 Duluth or more
directly southwark, reaching the Chicago
and Northwestern system, Meanwhile
the Canadian government talks, and does
little but talk, OF building section OF its
Canadian Pacific from Lake Superior into
the new granary Of the North.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

RUSSELL SAGE is quoted as saying that in
his opinion before the first week in Janua-
ny has elapsed there will be another buoy
ant movement in the New York stock
market larger in volume and with higher
prices than has yet been seen. TheneCes
sary money for such movement will not
be wanting, because the disbursements by
the government on January l will aggre.
gate s7O,OOOOOO.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

DR.. Drysdale said lately, that whereas
the death rate among English infants Of
the comfortable class is 50 per 1000, in
cities such as Liverpool and Manchester
II Is 240 per 1000, In some places even
800, and in Berlin Il actually reaches 500.
IndlgenCeis the main cause, he thinks.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
i, Nos. % ana "a FOurteonth street.
WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMRRR 10

BLAINE evidently knows that he can
nurse bigger and liyelier party issue at
Augusta than he possibly can at Washing.
ton with Ben Hill away.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

HENDRICKS and his clique at Washing
ton want Congress to go slow on financial
questions, but to hang to the folly Of the
extra session in insisting upon no apprO-
priatiOns for troops and marshals at the
pOlls,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

TnE four electric lights which now ilIu-
inmate the reading room Of the British
Museum at evening, have each power
equal 10 5000 candles, and vet cost only a
shilling an hour.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

rnE English papers are making their
usual plain, outspoken statements about
the real and approaching cause Of the re-
turn Of the Princess Louise 10 England.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

DR.. WARNER STONE, OF New Orleans,
the head Of the medical profession Of the
South, who was cured OF diabetes by Be.
thesda, says: "My own case will illustrate
its astonishing effect In diabetes"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

Tue receipts Of the CHARTERS Valley Az
ricultural Association for the past year
were g, 40S ~, and the expenditures ST.
40S %, leaving Al cents in the treasury.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
DIED.

BIER-ou Monday, December. s, 1879, CIIARLEs,
only son ni J. ". and Money Bier, aged ! years aud
5 months. -
Funeral from the residence Of his parents, No. 6C
sixteenth Street, Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
friOnds Of the family are invited.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

SENATOR EATON Dem, Conn., has in.
troduced a bill which provides that it
shall be the duty Of llrailroad and steam.
boat companies in the United States en-.
gagged in interstate commerce to adopt
and put into continued use on their cars
or boats such inventions and improve.
ments as, upon practical and thorough
trial tests, actually contribute to the com.
fort, security and safety to passengers, and
more perfectly secure the safety Of the
United States mails and prevent delays in
their transmission. The bill provides for
the appointment Of commission to dc.
eide what safety inventions are desirable.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10

RECENT advlces show that, while the
supply OF Java coffee Is diminishing, that
of Rio is increasing, and this years ex'
port from Brazil is likely to be the largest
on record.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
MARRIED.

DUYAL,-HAMMOND-On Tuesday afternoon,
December 1879, al 81. Matthews EpIIopa Church,
BY the rector, KeV. 4. hush SwOpe, WALTER K.
DUVAL and Miss MAMIE HAMMOND, both VI this
city. No cards.