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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-08

BosroS, March ga convention Of
young Republicans was held to-day.
Twenty resolutions were offered opposing
the nomination OF Grant and Blaine, since
many considerations will lead q lRage
portion OF the Republican party to vote
against either. They declare that man
like President Hayes should be gladly
supported, and indorse the principles Of
the Independent Republican Committee
OF New York and Of the National Republi-
can League OF Philadelphia.
An effort was made to strike the name
OF Blaine from the resolution, and a long
discussion ensued. The resolutions fur.
ther urge the establishment OF the public
service on the basis OF intelligence and
good conduct; the maintenance Of specie
payment; the passage Of laws depriving
greenbacks OF their legal tender quality;
the enforcement Of all national laws, and
the maintenance Of equal rights trough,
out the country.
Several speakers made an effort TO have
the obnoxious resolution relative to Grant
and Blaine stricken out, and Senator
Crocker made q motion TO that effect, but
It was lost-23 to "a. A motion indorsing
Edmunds was lost, and an allusion to
Bayard, of Delaware, as candidate caused
considerable excitement. Alter an earn.
est discussion, the resolutions as reported
were adopted. An Executive COMMITTEES
ut Large was appointed, and the Oonven'
ton adjourned.
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ACROSS THE OCEAN.
france Refuses to Hold Hartmann.
German sOclsIlsts-1hs Situation al ST.
Petersburg Graphically Described
Worse than Martial Law-The
Daring aud Desperation
Of The NlhlIlsts.
RUSSIA.

LONDON, March 6.-Letters from St. Pc
tersburg, dated the Sd instant, illustrates
the condition Of affairs there by extracts
from the diary of correspondent cover.
ing the past few days. Hesaysa military
attache of the French Embassy was
dragged before the Chief of Police tor
looking too attentively at the fortress. The
correspondent called on friend early in
the evening, but was refused admission by
the dyornik lhAll porter). Next day be
had 9, similar experience at another friends
residence. The only reason given by the
porters for his non-admission was that the
correspondent did not live there, and so
he could not go in. The correspondent
says:
Within the limits OF my own street,
which last night was illuminated at every
window by command OF the police, / wit
nesse three quarrels with kvorniks, who
refused to give admittance to persons
wishing to visit friends or relations. In
the adjoining street saw one arrest for
the same reason. On Sunday there was
very violent storm Of wind and drifting
snow, and few people were out The
Emperor in passing from the Winter Pal
ace to the usual parade at the riding
school, was escorted by Cossacks and fol-
lowed by one OF the District Police Mas
tiers in asleigh. Those who saw His Ma
jesty's cortege, Of course removed their
caps. One unfortunate individual whose
sight was impeded by large bashlik over
his head, did not doff his head dress.
The Police Master noticed this want
OF respect, and shouted to a
policeman near by to take him OF. The
unhappy individual who though the blind
ing snow and sleet had failed to notice the
imperial cayalcade and protested to that
effect, was nevertheless dragged eff to the
police station. The latest instructions to
the dvorniks is, they must not ait at their
posts. The streets at night present pic
lures OF groups Of big, drowsy house por-
tiers, mutfled up in their sheepskins, lean
ing against each gateway, carefully nursing
large keys, which have turned locks on
the whole town within doors. As q per-
SON passes by, they arouse themselves,
each watching him until he disappears
from sight and passes into the jurisdiction
of another watchmAn.
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HARrMAN LIRERATEp.

PARIS, March 6.-The Hartman affair
and the discussion in the Senate Of Jules
Ferry's Higher Education Bill have kept
the hands Of the Government pretty tull
this week. 1t was for long time thought
to be fully proved by official documents
received from Russia that Hartman was
identical with the author Of the Moscow
attempt. This morning however, he was
set at liberty. His liberation was due to
the decision OF o council Of Ministers held
In the forenoon, and the decision was
based on the reports Of the legal authori'
ties, who considered the identity and par.
ticipatlon not proven.
The result gives general satisfaction and
relieves the Ministry from great respon-
sibility. As soon as the prisoner was set
at liberty he ut once started for Dieppe,
and crosses to London this evening.
PARIS, March IA semi-oficial state.
ment has been issued correcting newspa.
per accounts OF the Hartmann affair. II
declares that the decision Of the cabinet
not to surrender Hartmann was adopted
unanimously. No pexplexity ever exist.
ed, and the whole matter was settled in
the ordinary way.
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WI. W. cowDES, Ssareta1y.
Republican County Convention.

Ths Republicans Of Ohio county viii hold Con-
ventlOn Al the Court House on Saturday, May Isl,
1850 at o'clock P. n, i the purpose Of appoinhnE
sixteen delegates TO the State Convention TO be he'd
In Wheeling Nay 12th, 1850.
Each District Of the county Is entitled to ten dele.
gates In said County Convention, and the Republican
vOtss are requested to meet on Saturday, ApEil g4lh,
in the city Districts At $50 o'clock p. n, and In The
country Districts at o'clock r. w. At the usual voting
places in the several Ditries except that In riide-
phia, they Willmeet at LaWsns Hotel in TrsdephIs;
in Liberty District at Centre sehool House; in Rich
land District at the Brick sehOOl House, At the head
Of Woods Run, andIn RltehIe District at Arben1s
Hall
full delegation from each District Is earnestly de-
sired. JOHN PREV,
wuxpxK11cH. Secretary.
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DEATH N THE NINE.
The shocking calamity Mt scranton by
which Pfye Men Lost Their Lives


SCRANTON, March 6.-The disasters re
ported last night at No. Shaft at Nanh
coke resulted in the death Of FIVE men
Edward Morgan, SON Of the superintend
ent; james Henry, trackman; William T
Austin, miner; Joseph Andemalt, labor
er, and John T. Watkins were at work in
the mine when the explosion occurred,
and they were hurled violently against the
rocky sides Of the passage.way, as stated
in last nights dispatches.
The carriage which conveys the miners
from the pit was shattered as 1t was de-
scending, which rendered the work oi
trying TO rescue the men very slow. A
large force Of workmen was TO be put to
work, but 1t was not until nine o'clock this
morning that entrance to the mine could
be effected. The relatives Of the impris-
oned men remained at the mine all night,
and the outbursts Of grief among them
were heartrending.
When the workmen succeeded in clear.
ing the debris from the passage-way and
started to enter the shaft this morning,
the buildings were surrounded by excited
throngs Of people, and the distressed
friends Of the miners waited with anxious
hearts for the first announcement from the
exploring party that was sent down.
Soon word reached the mouth OF the pit
that the worst fears OF the populace were
Snlv too true, and wall Of anguish went
up from the friends Of the men in the
crowd that was pitiful in the extreme.
The men were found bat short distance
apart, and their clothing was burned and
their features disfgured and charred.
The work Of bringing the men to the
surface was soon begun, and the crowd
surged in to get glimpse Of their dead
bodies. It was with the greatest difficulty
that the bodies were conveyed from the
pit, so dense was the throng. James
Henny. one Of the victims, was caught by
a great cave-in Of q mine at Carbondale,
near this city, thirty years ago, and re-
NAMED imprisoned for three days He
had only entered the mine where he met
his death on the same day. The catastro-
phe caused the greatest alarm throughout
the valley, and the neighboring villages
contributed hundreds to the multitude
that hurried TO the scene.
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ATLANTA, March 6.-The details OF a
horrible lynching in Wilkes county
reached here to-day. John Turner, who
had fed there from Carolina to escape
punishment for murder, continued his
desperate career, and had various difficult
ties. He attempted to outrage the daugh-
ter OF John Coxwell, a prominent citizen,
who came to the girls rescue, and shot
Turner aud stabbed him several times.
Turner then left the county, but returned
as soon as he recovered, and continued
his wicked deeds. He openly detied the
officers and went armed to the teeth. A
few DAYS ago he disappeared and every
body hoped he had voluntarily left the
county. Yesterday some farmers found
his body in ditch with thirty-seVen
bullet holes in it. Near by were the
traces OF an execution by an infuriated
mob. The county is In great excitement
over the event.
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LAW AND ORDER.
Pnnntiel.m in Corington. ~.

CrSc1SSAr1, March 7.-oovington, KY,
has had a sensation to-day in the form Of
a universal Observance Of the Sunday law.
There has been considerable agitation for
some time past in the form Of public
meetings, to enforce the law, especially
against the saloon keepers, and commit
tee were appointed to rigidly prosecute
an offenders. This week the saloon keep
ers resolved to close their saloons to-day,
and devote the day TO gathering
information against everybody who
performed common labor, and to-
morrow they will issue warrants tor the
arrests. Every place in ooyington was
closed except drug stores, and they sold
nothing Whatever except on prescriptions,
The names Of the carriage drivers who
brought people to the churches, and IN
some instances the names OF the ministers
and organists were written down for ar
rest tomorrow. Thestreet cars were run.
ming under the provision OF the law passed
only yesterday, exempting them from tae
penalties Of the Sunday law.
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FOREIGN NOTES.

In Van, Armenia, fifty-twO persons died
Of stareation.
A Paris dispatch says that Hartman is
now in London.
Sixteen persons were killed blythe boiler
explosion at Glasgow.
Twenty-three deaths resulted from q
boiler explosion ut Glasgow Friday.
Vera sassulitch is at Geneva, engaged
on Krapotkine's revolutionary journal
The Gar has sent an autograph reply TO
Emperor Williams congratulatory letter.
Galbraith's spinning mills, at Glasgow,
burned. Loss $4,000. Two lives were
lost.
Isengkee Tee, Chinese Ambassador to
France and England, has been instructed
to proceed to st. Petersburg.
The Marquis Of Salisbury has sufficiently
recovered to attend regularly at the For
eign Office within the past few days.
The Duchess Of Marlborough, writing to
the Lord Mayor OF London, says: "rhe
distress in Ireland continues to be general,
and In some parts is increasing:
The Court of Inquiry into the collision
Of the steamer Arizona with an iceberg on
the 7th OF November last, found the look
out defective, and suspended the certh-
Gates Of the captain and second mate for q
term OF six months.
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NLnnl.
!. J. conn,r,Inl Rull.an i siturasy.

n. Y. CommGFeial Bulletin Of Saturday.
Al holders Of wool continue to give
strong reports, and the market as a whole
has well maintained and cheerful tone.
Domestic grades OF attractive quality are
very difficult to find, and in no case can be
reached except at an extreme limit Of
valuation, and the foreign stock while in
fair and rather increasing supply is offered
carefully, with owners ideas quite high on
all the principal parcels. Indeed, SO far
as the selling interesti Is concerned, the ex-
hibition Of confidence is quite as great ap-
parently as at any time during the season,
and wool continues to be looked upon as
good property. The demand during the
week has been somewhat irregular, at
times apparently tending to considerable
animation and again little slow, but on
the whole business was fair, and in ordi-
nary times would have been considered
very liberal. Medium heeces show fur
ther improvement, with sales up to 60c,
and this rate was paid yesterday in Phila-
delphia by dealers. Pulled woods sell
closely to the supply. California and
Texas grades do well, and adyices from
the primary points are strong, with
a great many clips understood to
be under contract before shearing.
Foreign stock is firmly held, and offered
carefully with smaller supply available
to arrive, owing to the recent liberal
sales. The sales reported here during the
week include $1,000 lbs medium feeces,
60c; 10000 lbs do Pennsylvania, 60c;
10000 lbs medium unwashed Wisconsin,
45c; 1000 lbs low Western heeees, 4Sc;
&, 900 lbs fall Texas, 23ic; 6, 600 lbs do do,
33aS5c; 25,OOO lbs fall California, 28ic; IS
bales and [, 900 lbs do, 26a26lc; 5000 lbs
secured do, Sc; 5000 lbs do do, SSc; 100
bales Oregon, 45c; 900 lbs No. Mon
tana, SIC; Il, 900 lbs low Montevideo, size;
100 bales Cape, 32aS6c; 800 do do, TO ar
rive, 34aS7c; $50 bales Australian, to ar
rive, 40a42c; 80 bales Cape, 38c.
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CHICAGO.
Review of the weeks Trade.


CHICAGO, March 6.-Throughout the
week business at the banks has been good,
there being steady inquiry for money
by regular customers and others, and all
who could furnish the right kind Of col
laterals had their wants supplied at rates
ranging from tos per centper annum.
Boardof Trade men were the leading ap'
plicants for the needful. Eastern exchange
between city banks has kept at q discount
OF 6OasOc per 81 900. The clearings Of the
Chicago banks for the week past foot up 8
total of s44,s41, $40 IS, being almost double
those Of the corresponding week last year.
Tie trade OF the city has continued good
and healthy, and all that is required to
bring on q rush is passable roads in the
country. A glance at the table Of clearings
below tells the story in nutshell. The
movement OF currency has been rather
light, the receipts from the country being
about equal to the outflow.
The visible supply OF grain in the States
and Canada on the dates named was:
February 18th, 81 ,15S, 900 bushels Feb
ruary 2lst, 51,425 900 bushels; February
14th, 5l,57O,0O0 bushels; February 7th,
81 ,5S2, 900 bushels; January Slst. 6l,S0l,.
600 bushels; January 24th, 81, ,9S4, 900
bushels. On Change wheat has been dull
and dangerous TO trade in. Corn and oats
have been quiet. Rye and barley have
been almost nominal. Hog products have
been fairly active, and without material
cho,oa The anmmer hacking season
commenced on the LIST inst, since which
time the number OF hogs slaughtered here
is los, 900 against 50, 900 for the correspond
ing period last year.
During the week the receipts and ship
ments Of the articles named footed up:
Receipts-Flour A, ,l65 brls. grain, l, AL
226 bush. hogs, 129, ,397 head. Shipments
Flour, Il, ,0S0 0brls. grain, 1,0S4, IS6 bush.i
pork, 6,273 brls. lard, S,S5S,0s0 lbs. cut
meats, Is, ,7ss, ,22S4 lbs.
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SQUARE Act.

FAIL RivER, March 1.-THE Union
Mills will be started tomorrow, and un,
doubtedly all the striking spinners will re.
turn to work, as they feel satisfied that the
manufacturers arc disposed to deal fairly
with them. It is reported that since the
publication OF the figures showing that the
Increase that had been given them was
more than the fifteen per cent promised,
Secretary Howard has advised the TO re.
turn 70 work,
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OPENING THE RAIL.

ST. PrrERsBuRs, March IA eonrt mar
tial has been opened at Kietf for the trial
OF the son OF priest, one of the principal
rsyolutionistsy two soldiers, charged with
distributing a revolutionary proclamation
q SON Of sabaltern otIicer and student
Of the Kief University, who have been
implicated In moro than one attempt on
the life Of the CZar. 1t Is believed thai
General Melikof7s powers have been ex
tended since the attempt was made on hi
lie.
A st. Petersburg correspondent report
that General Melikof has requested thi
municipal council % elect members %
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500, and this balance he could not admi
or deny, owing 70 the length Of time sine
the transactions, and the fact that gl1rinl
errors and omissions had been discoyerei
by experts in the bookkeeping Of tht
bank. The failure OF the bank was due Il
the high rate OF interest paid, investmen
in real estate securities instead Of Govern
ment securities, and the failure OF Jay
Cooke & Co., which rendered otherwisl
good securities almost worthless.
DEFICIENCY E PENSION FUNDS.
The heavy drafts made upon the army
and navy pension funds by the first pay
ment upon the newly allowed claims have
during the past few months, rapidly re
duced both, until there is not sufficient
balance In the navy fund now due, and il
ia believed that the army fund Is scarcely
sufficient TO meet the drafts which will bt
made upon 1t to June l, leaving the pay
ments for the June quarter and the tist
payments upon newly allowed pensionI
for June unprovided for.
SENATE CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Senate to-day confirmed Henry
sterne, of Indiana, United States Consul
at Pesth, and RobertJ. Smith, Postmaster
at Austin, Minnesota. The. Senate re
jected the nominations Of Census supervi.
sors: James Samson, Second District,
Pennsylvania, and John II. Clark, Fifth
District, Pennsylvania. Also, B. F. Moore,
as Postmaster at New Lisbon, Ohio.
Tne only case that gave rise 70 any dis
cussion was that of George II. Buchanan,
named for Census Supervisor OF the First
Mississippi District, in regard to which
Senators Lamar and Bruce took opposite
sides. Il was rejected by strict party
vote OF Democrats against Republicans on
the ground Of Buchanan being an active
partisan and professional politician, who
would be likely TO use the office Us q
means to procure his election to Congress.
DANGEROUS CouSTEREEtTs.
The Treasury Department announces
the existence Of counterfeit 500 bills on
the following banks: National Revere
Bank, Boston; Pittsfeld National Bank,
Pittsfield; Merchants National Bank,
New Bedford; Second National Bank,
Wilkesbarre and the Pittsburgh National
Bank OF Commerce. The counterfeit
notes on the banks named are so admira-
bly, executed that they are liable to deceive
even experts.
FERNANDO WOOD oS a SWEET suBJRcT.
The following is an extract from q
letter Of Fernando Wood to the sugar re-
iners and merchants OF New York:
81 am in favor OF a just and equitable
tariff on sugar, which shall impose the
duties equitahly upon all grades and not
in interest OF any class Of refners, mer-
chants or foreign makers, and l am OPP
posed to the unjust discrimination at
tempted to be made between the several
grades for the purpose OF favoring par
ticular interest. lam opposed to the con-
tinuance OF the color standard, by which
80 much loss to the Treasury has ensued,
unless it is all accompanied by some
other test Of value. Such bill as indi.
cate will cheerfully support at once"
In a conversation this evening Mr..
Wood said the sugar question will come
up again in Congress next week, the vote,
by which Its consideration was postponed
last week, not being intended as final de-
termination for this session.
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P1r7sBuRoH, March e.-Iron manutac-
turers complain that orders are falling of
rapidly. The ADVANCE Of the card rate to
four cents has not brought the boom that
was anticipated, in consequence Of which
there may be reduction 70 three and one
half cents. in which event trouble may re-
sult. Under the sliding scale, 8 drop in
the price OF iron means decline in the
wages Of ppddlers and all other iron
workers, which Would result in strike.
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A New YIrginIn Rallroad.

RICHMOND, Va, March THE follow
ing is the organization Of the new Rich:
mond and Allegheny Railroad Company,
which had purchased the property and
franchises OF the James River and Kama.
wha Canal Oompanyi George II. Bartho-
lomew, Hartford, Conn, President; q. O.
Parsons, Richmond, Vice President; shep.
hard Homan, New York, Secretary aud
Treasurer, and the following other direc.
tors: Francis Q. French. Conrad N. Jor.
dan, Samuel shetar, Hugh McCuIloch.
New York; Cyrus Il: Mccormick, Chica.
go; Henry Miller, Columbus, o.; James
G. Blaine, Maine, and Chas. E. Worthaln,
Richmond, Va,
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A BIG C0SFLAGRATIOS.
A 81. Paul, minn., Dry Goods Hon,
Destroyed.

a 81. Pnul, Minn., Dry GOODS hOust
Destroyed.
ST. PAUL, March IA fire broke out a
5 o'clock this evening in the roof of the
wholesale dry goods house Of Amlach
Finch, Culbertson & Co., the largest build.
ing and occupied by the heaviest firm in
the city. The fire smouldered for nearly
IN hour before breaking out, but the fire.
men were unable to reach or check it.
About o'clock it broke out in the upper
story windows and the building was soon
beyond salvation.
At this hour, 9 s'clock, 1t has burned to
the second story, and will be q total loss.
The fire department from here and Min
neapolis continue their efforts, while the
goods are being rapidly removed from the
lower stories. The building is three years
old and was built by Commodore W. F.
Davidson at q cost Of 500, 900; insured for
5000. It was filed with goods in antici-
patton OF the spring trade. Value OF goods
$3.50, 900; insurance $4,000.
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SOCIALISM M GERltANY.

BER1x, March s.-The German Parlis.
ment to-day discussed the bill pFolonging
the operation Of the Socialist law. Count
Won Eulenburg, Minister OF the Interior,
said Socialists persisted in their organiza-
ton, hoping that the law would be ex-
plunged, hut now asst is probable that the
operation Of the law will continue, they
openly proclaimed war against the State,
This, he said, fully justified the course
adopted by the Government. Alter nu.
merous speeches, the bill was referred "a
the committee Of fourteen.