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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26
VEIN OF SILVER.
A Reputed Important Discovery In West
Virginia.


Pittsburgh Telegraph Of 2ith Inst.
On the line OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, about ITO miles from this city,
in Preston county, West Virginia, a Pitts
burgh company is said to have discovered
silver in paying quantities last week. The
company, which was organized last sum
mer to bore for oil in the county mention
ed, have been at work there for some
time, but with rather poor success SO far
as the yield Of oil is concerned. Last
week, however, the drillers are said 10
have struck the vein Of ore, which after
wards proved to contain considerable sil-
yer, and an examination was made. The
orc assayed sl25 to the ton. The above
information was given by gentleman
who received it himself from the scene OF
the discovery. lie believes it himself.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26

Here are eleven Southern States which
were engaged in revolt against the Union
fifteen years ago, with representation OF
100 in the National Republican Conyen-
ton. five add to these Kentucky, Mis-.
souri, Maryland, West Virginia, which
were only held in the Union by the supe-
rior force OF Federal artillery and bayonets,
we have fifteen Southern and Southwest
ern States, with an aggregate OF 30 votes
in the Convention. OF these States there
is not one which the Republicans have
any reasonable hope Of carrying at the
next Presidential election. Three OF
them-Florida, Louisiana and South Caro-.
lina-gave their electoral votes TO Mr..
HAYES, but the contest in them was close,
and It's results disputed, and in the inter.
val which has elapsed since then the DEM
ocracy, by fraud and violence, has tight
ened It's grasp upon them, and their vote
however It might be given at free
election, and under an honest count
must be reckoned as Democratic. Let US
look now at the representation Of fifteen
Rapublican States:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26
DIED.

LAMB-0n Tuesday, February a, 1880, GIDsoS
CLARK, son Of Gibson and Kate Lamb, aged sixteen
months.
Funeral will take place from No. q South Penn
street, Island, to day tThursday) at2o'elock.
MoRGAE-0n Wednesday morning at 70 O'Clock
and 10 minutes, JOHN MoEdAN, In the seth year Of
his age.
Funeral from hi, late residence on the Island. this
afternoon at o'clock. IntermOnt at Greenwood
Cemetery.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

.TriadelphIa ACKNOWLEDGMENT train only runs
between watching and TTtAdelphlA.
tDaIly except SundAy-New1rk Accommodation.
iStHubanyLle AecommodAtion.-This train during
the day passes backward aud forward between Mar
tins Forty and BelAlre, stopping Ehen required ut
Sherman HouJO, Htnavilla, Wet Wheeling and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26
GENERAL NOTICES,

INOTI0E.
Holders Of Bonds Of Ohio county, numbered US,
%, IGI, I36, III, o., 4, and $50, Of thS
Per Cent Loan, are hereby notified
that the same have been drawn and will be paid d
the Bank Of Wheeling on tbs lrSt day Of March
1880 Interest on said bonds after that date VIII cease
President Board OF Commissioners for Ohio County
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TIHIE TABLE.
Wheeling and Elm Grove Railroad.

% And after N! M9N RS, II i can On
lows CArs Will leave the city (curneT Market and
Eleventh stFtStsl aud Horubrook paFkAt
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-26
EDUCATIONAL.
WEsT. VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.

Nine departments Of study text:booEz Furnished
nj cost: calendar arranged 10 suit teaeheTs; en-
pensoI for ono year from eI75 to 5000; non-Sec-
tartan, liberal, thorough. Fall term begins Sep
TENDER 3D., 1879.
I.oFor catalogues and other Information apply
o,he President, ]. II. Thompson, AorSantoxr,
West Va. aul
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CEALED PROPOSALS.

President Board OF Commissions
faIR
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A Kick Against the Makeup of the Con
yeutIon-Rcpublieaq objection 10 the
PrsEonderating Inflhenee of Non.Re
publican states.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
PERSONAL.


JOHN REID, jr., a prominent citizen of
Mobile, died suddenly of apoplcxy, in that
city, yesterday.
Earl GRANVILLE, foreign secretary. has
been summoned 70 London from Balmoral
in connection with foreign affairs.
ANDREW G. CURTIN was nominated for
Congress yesterday by tho Democrats of
the Twentieth Pennsylvania district.
WILLIAM MACARTHUR, member of the
House of Commons for Lambeth, was yes
terday elected Lord Mayor Of London. Mr..
Mc.iutlor is Liberal.
In rcsisning their seats in tho Italian
Chamber of Deputies. General GARI-
BALDI and his son Mcnotti state that
they arc unable to remain rs deputies in y
country where liberty is troddcn under
foot. The real reason of their designations,
however, is believed to bc that Major
Canzio, Gen. Garibaldi's son-in-hw, has
been placed under arrest.
The statue OF Admira! Farragut, by Mrs.
WINNIE REAM HOXIE, was yesterday
erected in Farragut Square, Washington.
1t is of bronze, ofheroic size, and stands
upon pedestal of Maine granite ten feet
six inches high. The total cost was $50, =
600. The statue is covered with sail
cloth to await the decision of the naval
authorities rs to when the ceremony of
unvciling shall take place.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
LANCASTER, Sept. 90, IS


MEssRs. EDITORS: The account given
in your paper Of the 2Sth, in regard to the
preaching of Mr.. Troycr, when in 4 sup
posed trance condition, is very interest
ing, but would he much more SO if the
true nature of his condition and his pow
crs while in it were understood by the
community as we'll as by himself.
Mr.. Troyer is simply in 4 somnambulic
or statuvOlic condition, and could easily
bc taught to become a statuvolist, when
his powers would be much increased and
the delay and the necessity for SO much
care ofhim, now deemed necessary, could
be dispensed with, rs hc then could enter
the condition ut will or pleasure. and do
all that he now does undcrstandingly if
not knowingly.
1t is unfortunate that the community do
not study the true nature Of statuvolcncc,
rs much valuable information in regard to
mans natural powers would bc gained,
and any amount Of human misery pre-
vented. But this cannot be effected rs
long as prejudice and bigotry arc arraign-
cd against natural conditions and God
given blessings, which now the ignorance
of the world ignores. w. Il. +.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

GEN. WILLARD WARNER, of Ala
b:lma, writes letter to the New York
Tribune, dated Sept. Z, and waves 6 the
bloody shirt in way that must I've
pleasing to the stalwarts. Look ut the
facts. Gen. Warner went to Alabama
shortly after the war. He was sent to
the United States Senate by the carpet
baggers, served his time, and returned to
Alabama. In 1872, recognizing the
evil of carpet-bag rule, he united
with the Democrats, and voted for
Horace Greeley. lie aided materially in
redeeming the state, and has had his re-
ward. Under the rule of peace, General
Warner has been able to engage success
fully in iron mining, Ills furnace is at
TecumseI. lie lives there and votes as
he pleases. Yet he says, the ballot has
been suppressed. His own life proves
his letter a 6 fundamental falsehoOd.''
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

Alabama had voted by fifteen thou
sand majority, as certified to by Gen
eral Meade, to defeat tho reconstruction
constitution. but the Republicans calmly
stified that popular decision and forced
tho yoke upon the necks of the unwilling
people. Mr.. McCaa pictured the con-
ditiOn of the state under this corrupt gov
crnment thus illegally fOisted upon it.
Business withercd, production ceased in q
large measure, and thieves and cOrmorants
fattened ON the substance Of tho
people. Since 1872 all this has
been changed. Corrupt carpct-bag
rule has been OverthrOwn, and the
state has rapidly arisen to proud position
among tho commonwealth OF the repub-
lie. Especially notable in the improved
and improving condition Of affairs is the
advancement of the cOlored people; they
arc happy and contented their children
arc being sent to school and educated for
the duties Of citizenship; they have be-
come and are regarded as an important
factor in tho business interests Of
the community, and they are treated with
kindness and consideration by tho white
population. The speaker lived in the CEN
tre Of one Of the most densely populated
negro districts Of the state, and ho could
truthfully say that at tho election in
August last he neither witnessed nor heard
of a single case of intimidation, violence or
fraud, and rs Indicative Of tho simplicity
Of the manner Of cOnductin. elections he
mentioned the fact-tho truth Of which he
was in q position to know-that the entire
expense Of the campaign i'm his county Of
30, 900 people, was exactly $29.75.
AS had bccn said by the distinguished
senator, the Republican party South has
disappeared, and tho Republican mana
gers have aided this condition Of affairs
by rcmoying all tho efficient organizers Of
the party to posts where they could not
employ their talents in creating an OrSani-
old corps commander, and one Of tho best
sent by tho Republican administration ut
Washington rs minister to Turkey MOsby
has been shipped to Hong Kong for the
same reason, and II. Nj. Reynolds, ono Of
the most cultured Republicans in Ala
bama, has been appointed to position
that keeps him ut the national capital. 1t is
the same with all the prominent Republi-
cans in the South, and tho reason is trans
paront.
Tho South is solid for Hancock because
she wants to come back into the Union.
Old rebels like myself recognize the results
of the war, and want to SEQ u restoration
Of unity and peace and Hancock is the
representative of that feeling, as he is the
representative Of tho constitution and
good government.
Tho South was solid for George Wash
ingtOn because ho stood up against Op-
preston and tyranny, and IL now solid for
the man who saved us, and by us l mean
the citizen alike Of North and South.
Mr.. McCaa spoke with marked effect
and genuine earnestncss he was fro-
qucnt!y interrupted by applause, and after
George POntz had sung couple his pOpu-
lar campaign songs, tho immense assem-
blage slowly dispersed firmer than ever i'm
the support Of Hancock and Union.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

asks respose and relief from that sense Of
apprehension created by Republican rule in
order that she may 60 forward in solving
the problem of building up her industries
and improving her natural advantages.
We are building railroads and manufacto.
ries and taking steps to bring emigrants
to our rich lands. Seven hundred thous-
and spindles are how running in the South,
and the number will be doubled within
eighteen months. New Orleans and Texas
are negotiating to bring the Great
Eastern through the jetties. Barge lines
are now being formed and elevators con-
structed to handle SOC, 900 bushels of grain
per week. We are not thinking Of claims
against the government. The real South
has sbucked her losses long ago and is
looking ahead and not behind her. If all
the so-called Southern claims were pitch
into the Potomac river the South would
not complain. Mad. Wells, of returning
board fame, and the persons interested
with him would lose some s4OO, 600. But
the real representative people of the South
have little Or no interest in the question"
Voices From tho south.
The Hancock association of Louisiana,
at a meeting in New Orleans, last evening,
adopted 4 resolution fully endorsing Gen.
Hancock's letter against payment of rebel
claims.
The Democratic state committee of Ala
bama yesterday issued an address entirely
endorsing General Hancock's letter in rela-
ton to the claims question, and adding ::
"Our party in Alabama stands committed
by its platform, by the action of everv de-
partment of tho state government, and
by the judges of it's courts elected by it,
first, to an acceptance of the results of the
war ; second, to the equal political rights
OF every citizen; third, to the faithful
maintenance of tho public credit, state and
national, and untlinching opposition to
the reputation of any public obligation
fourth, to tho free and fair exercise of tho
elective franchise; fifth, to tho strictest
economy in the administration of public
| affairs
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
STATE ITEM s.

A freight brakeman named Henderson
was killed by falling from car near Car
Isle, on Tuesday night.
Tho second annual exhibition Of the
Philadelphia Society of Artists will begin
in the academy of fine arts on November
1, and continue until Decembcr6.
The body of an unknown man, about %
years of age, feet 6 inches high, was
found in the Lchigh river, at Bowman's,
on Tuesday. It was clothed in a dark
blue coat, overalls and calico shirt.
Justus Hoffman pleaded guilty yester-
day of the murder Of his child at Wilkes
baroc, and was sentenced to nine years
imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary.
He shot his wife five times, in July last,
and killed the infant in her arms.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

FL. Campbell, blind man, and the
only ono who ever performed the feat,
climcd to the top OF Mount Blanc during
the past summer.
The grain elevator and warehouse of O..
p. Ghancy, at Canal Winchester, Ohio,
was burned yesterday. Loss about 81, 800,
probably cavcred by insurance.
On the Goth of September was held the
thirty-ninth and last representation of the
"Passion Play" ut ObcrAmmcrgau.
Thirty-livc hundred persons were present.
Mike McCoolc, tho famous cx-prize
fighter, IS supposed to have been drowned
by the sinking of the steamer Florence
Meyer, on the Mississippi, Oh Friday last.
Hough's sawmill, furniture store and
adjoining stables, lIulrs cabinet shop and
Hughcs's slaughter houses, at Prescott,
Ont, were burned yesterday. Loss, s15,-
600 insurance, 5000.
A fire at Fort Dodge, Iowa. destroyed
the dry goods store of Hall & Julius, boot
and shoe store Of Crosby & Co., hardware
store of Prussias, First national bank, and
several smaller buildings, causing loss of
800, 900.
Diphtheria is epidemic i'm Bennington,
VT, and the public schools there have been
closed in consequence. Twenty cases,
some of which will prove fatal, .havc been
reported since Saturday.
An investigation of the circumstances of
the death of the woman Phillips. whose
body was found in the woods near Atsion,
N. j., last Friday, shows, it is said, that
she was not murdered, but that she stran-
gled herself after a drunken spree.
The jury in the case Of John Merritt, on
trial in tho Halifax county IN. c. court
for the murder of Z. NJ. Hicks, yesterday
rendered verdict of not guilty. The Judge
in discharging prisoner, said 'it was
through the mercy of the jury he was dis
charged
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS.
How Regarded by Southern Men.

ROW N06arOeei ny SOuth0rh Naeus
Colonel A. r. Lamar, of Georgia, at the
national Democratic headquarters said on
the subject of "Southern claims" and
General IIancock's letter. "a large por-
tion of the so-callcd Southern war claims
are fraudulent and have no real basis
whatever. OF the remainder a large
majority arc SO greatly exaggerated that
the amounts now claimed bear scarcely
any relation to the damage inflicted upon
the original claimants. They have nearly
all passed into tho hands of claim agents
and SPECTATORS. When carpct-bagSers
were in power in the Southern states they
were very industrious in cooking up these
claims, and the Republicans in Congress
passed over $1,000, 900 of such claims.
The Southern people have accepted the
consequences of the war in good
damages for losses suffered through its
prosecution. Tho letter of Gen. Hancock
will be very warmly indorsed by the entire
South. which understands the war is
cruel game, all tho consequences Of which
must be accepted by those engaged in it.
When tho Democrats came into power in
Congress they shut down ON tho war claim
business, and the only claims for damages
seriously pressed have been those for the
destruction of colleges and institutions of
religion and learning. If all the trumpcd-
up claims ofprctended loyalists were paid
the government would he bankrupted for
the benefit Of sharpcrs, or the South rs
we'll as the rest Of the country would he
taxed beyond endurance for their profit
General Hancock's clear and mastcrly
letter will not be more heartily endorsed
in any part of the United States than in
he South.
Major E. A. Burke, tho cditor and pro-
prictOr of the New Orleans Democrat, was
also at headquarters and said on the same
topic :" General HancOck's letter will be
sustained by the South with the greatest
unanimity. We regard nineteenth of the
so-called Southern claims that have been
filed since the war rs concocted by carpet
bag congressman from the South and spe-
culators, and the other tenth made up of
claims for supplies furnished to Federal
armies by so-called loyalists. If tho Re-
publican North is disposed to repudiate
these last claims the South will certainly
have no reason SO object. The South is
tired of being regarded as beggar at the
doors of the national capitol, and simply !
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
Hancock Club Mt OAK Hill.

The Democrats of Little Britain held
an enthusiastic meeting at Oak Hill, on
Wednesday evening, and organized Han
cock and English club. One hundred
voters subscribed their names, and prom
iscd to bring in many more at the next
meeting. A constitution and bylaws were
adopted and the following officers elected {:
Presidcnt-B. s. Patterson,
Vice Prcsident-Warrcn w. IIcnsel.
Secrctary-Jos. Hilton.
Treasurcr-Charles Hagcr.
Captain-D. F. Magce.
Licutenants-J. J. Penncll, Asi, Nc
Cartlle and A. Quincy.
A committee was appointed to procure
equipments, and arrangements were made
for attending the meeting ut Oxford and
at Quarryvillc.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
Blew Out the Gas.

Two men, one of them James Hanna, of
Oakland, were found dead in bed in the
Burnct house, at Stroudsburg, yesterday.
They blew out tho gas on retiring, and
were suffocated.
James Forester and wife went to Indian.
apolis from Laporte ON Tuesday. They
stopped at hotel over night, and blew
out the gas before going to bed. Ycster-
day morning Forester was found dead in
bed, and his wife in such condition that
her recovery was despaired of.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

SENATOR WALLACE defines the issue
dispassiOnately and honestly when he
declares that no material or moral inter-
est of Pennsylvania or any other North
en state can be helped, or can fail to he
hindered and harmed, by sectionalism,
passion and malignant misrepresenta-
tiOn.
Speaking for his section of the country,
Mr.. McCaa frankly admits the errcr of its
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

Down in Alabama, where, according
to Grant, Republican cannot get his
vote in or counted, it appears, according
to Mr.. McCaa, that this cheating is done
at very cheap rate-S29 per county.
Perhaps our Republican friends here at
the North would like to know the secret
of this cheap villainy-since theirs is so
much more costly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
Lancaster Official yisitors.

A visiting committee from the Lancaster
county agricultural society, composed of
Messrs. Peter S. Rcist, Jacob Bollingcr
johnson Miller arrived in Reading ycster-
day to attend the county fair.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

THE Democracy of Alabama and LOU
isiana quickly respond to the letter Of
General Hancock on the war claims
question by giving it full and unequivc-
cal endorsement on behalf of the people
of their section. Senator Hill, of GeOr-
gin, has already pointed out how he took
this position long ago in Congress and
WAS endorsed for it by his constituents,
and Mr.. Herbert, candidate for Congress
in 4 leading Alabama districts says that
were he to run on any other platform
he would l,e beaten in every county of
his district. The fact is that the present
generation of the Southern Democrats,
like their Northern allies, have quite as
much interest rs Republicans cln have
in resisting the payment of these trumped
up claims that are mostly in the hands
of Republican lobbyists and claim agents.
There are Democratic property owners
and taxpayers rs well Us Republicans,
and it has long been patent to every in
telligent person that there is no larger
portion of people in the Democratic
party who would favor payment of un
due or exorbitant claims than in the
Republican,.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
Good Fishing.

Jonas Winters, of Eagcrstown, Nd, and
Col. Samuel II. Price, esq, went fishing
yesterday to Fitc's Eddy and caught 81
bass, one Of which weighed L pounds.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

An interesting art and literary event
will be the unveiling of the Burns statue
in the New York park on Saturday after
noon next. Mr.. John Payton, Of the Gale
donia club, will present tho work to the
city in an appropriate address, and Mayor
Cooper will reply. The Grafton will be de-
livcrcd by Mr.. George VIM. Curtis. Among
the distinguished gentlemen invited to he
present are John G. Whittier, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, Richard Stoddard, Henry w.
LongfellOw, Ex-Governor Washburnc, of
Maine, and others. Delegations will bc
present from the Caledonia clubs Of Phil
adelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and
other cities.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

attempt todivide the Union, and that all
the hopes, the sentiment and the material
welfare in the South lie in the restora-
tion of good feeling, of generous CO.
operation, and of complete harmony
among citizens of the same states and
states of the same union.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

TIE faculty of Yale college, at a meet
ing yesterday, resolved to forbid the stu
dents from walking in political par.sdcs for
the present. This action is taken in con-
sequence of the destruction of q Hancock
flag by students last Saturday next.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30
MINOR TOPICS.

AT the coroner's inquest it was shown
that the death Of Robert Diver, who died
SO suddenly in Reading, on Saturday, was
caused by eating too many chestnuts.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

Harry B., horse belonging to G. X.
Baer. Of this city, is entered in the races
which take place at the Oxford fair to- day
and tomorrow,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-30

THE woman suffrage committee Of New
York began canvass of Warren county,
in that state, with meeting in Glen's
Falls yesterday. Isaac Mott presided, and
Helen NJ. Slocum made an address.