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A NEw oEREAL yon rnG WEgr.-In lhe

A NEw CEREAL yoR THE WEsT.-ln the
regions of Western Kansas, where there
is liable to be a lack Of rainfall in any sea
son, and where corn especially must have
plenty Of moisture to produces crop In
paving quantities, a grain that will not
merely bea m%cceddnetm, but will absolute
ly take the place of corn, has been expert
mented with during the past three sea-
sons, and 1t is believed to be demonstrated
beyond q doubt that it will add very much
10 the value OF western lands, A corIcs-
pendent Of the Chicago Times writes:
The grain is called here Egyptian, or
rice corn, and, 50 fur as known, has not
been cultivated in any other part OF the
United States. The seed was obtained
from the display made by the Egyptian
government at The Centennial exposition.
The name Is derived from the resemblance
of the grain To rice, and, 10 far us 1t has
been Experimental with, has proved q
success, both in wet and dry seasons.
While growing this crop can hardly be
distinguished from sorghum; the seed
forms at the top OF the stalk in large
punches, and, as It ripens and gets heav.
Ter. bends over aud hangs down, not UNI
like q cluster Of grapes. 1t belongs to the
sugar cane family and is cultivated in
the same manner and as easily as
sorghum or broom corn. One bushel Of
the seed is sufficient for five acres, and i
has been put in here with q wheat drill.
In harvesting, the heads only are gathered,
and a good tlireshing machine will clean
ready for market two thousand bushels q
day. The specimens raised this year
weigh sixty pounds TO the bushels. The
yield per acre in 1878 was from sixty to
seyenty.fve bushels. This season, which,
rs said before, has been q very dry one,
the Weld was forty to torty-iive bushels
per acre. No scientific analysis has been
made OF this new grain as yet; indeed, II
is scarcely known, except in some two or
three counties in western Kansas, where
it has been grown by several farmers who
desired to find some grain that would
serve in the place OF corn as a food
for stock. The trial by these men has
satisfied them that for horses, cattle, sheep
or swine it is superior TO maize, and farm
animals TO which it is fed give it the pref
erence to corn when both are laid before
them. When ground into meal, the rice
corn is about equal to a mixture one.third
wheat flour and two-thirds corn meal.
The value Of this new grain to the peo-
ple OF western Kansas can hardly be esti-
mated when considered rs a II yield In
any season, and it will enable the stock.
raiser to iatten his herds at home instead
OF shipping them east, as has heretofore
been mostly the custom for fattening:
The vast plains in the western portion Of
this State, SO celebrated as grazing grounds
by reason OF the buffalo grass with which
they are covered, and its excellent climate,
will be doubly valuable il further expert
ment confirms the value Of this hitherto
unknown grain.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

CREMATION finds Its staunchest advo.
Gates in Germany, but its practice even
there does not grow rapidly in favor. The
Gotha furnace was opened for use q year
ago December 10. During the year only
sixteen bodies were reduced to ashes in it.
OF these six were Gotha subjects. The
other ten were brought from various parts
Of Germany and Austria. AS there were
six hundred deaths in Gotha during the
year preference for burial was virtually
undisturbed. But advocates OF cremation
are nowise discouraged. They expect ex-
listing prejudice to veal out, and incinera-
ton TO become the rule. The Gotha fur
mace requires from one and one.half to
two and one.half hours 10 do its work.
The cost Of a plain cremation is about $50,
or ninety marks, which includes q plain
wooden coffin. Religious and choral SER
vices added increase the cost about one
third. The bodies cremated were those Of
persons Of various religious utilization.
Tho only trouble in securing priestly SER
vices at the ceremonies was experienced
in cases OF Catholic subjects. Protestant
cIergymen responded as readily as ut bur-
ials, but Catholics refused to minister at
ash obseuuies.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
DIED.

FIsHER-Tussday morning, at 1915. MESA FISH.
XII, vile OF Martin Fisher, aged ~ years.
The funeral will take place from the residence, No.
4ilG Wood street, AZ o'clock this wednesday, after.
noon. FrIeuds Of the family are invited to attend.
KINGDOM Tuesday, January 6. 1870. at 4 10 a. W.
JOSEPH u, KING, aged 10 ycArs
The funeral will take place from his late residence,
No. 81 Seventeenth street., this afternoon at o'clock
Friends Of the family are invited TO attend.
CoEN-Monday morning, January 8, 1850, at ball:
past Gye O'Clock, CIAs. A. Co.'s, Ia tho 10Th year oil
Ills age.
The funeral will take place Thursday morning
January s, at halt.past ten o'clock, from his parents
residence, No. IS Virginia street, Island. Friends o.
tho family are respectfully Invited to attend. Inter
ment al Greenwood.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

Hon. EDWARD MCPuERsoN, OF the Phila'
delphia Pres, was chairman Of the Repub'
lican National Convention in 1876, and Oh
a point raised by Pennsylvania delegate,
ruled that in spite OF any order off State
convention or delegation, every delegate
has a right 10 cast his own vote as he
chooses. He discusses the ruling and re-
marks 1.-THE decision was in accordance
with the rules OF the convention was in
accordance with the most cherished prin-
clples of Republicanism, and was for these
reasons sustained by the convention. 1t
has therefore become the law OF Republic
can conventions that no delegate a be
deprived by a State convention OF his
right, at will, 10 vote according to his
judgmentin International convention." This
point in the law OF conventions is worth
knowing. Conventions are composed OF
individual members. They may act to-
gether in delegations II they choose, but
each member may claim a separate, indie
pendent vote.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

NoTICE-HAvING SINCE THE lsr
IN Of January made a change 10 my manner Of
conducting business, respectfully call the attention
Of my patrons, and the people Of Wheeling aud Vicin-
ity 10 II. In the future, al persons sitting Tor pie
lures at my Studio will be required TO make . Ear-
tlAl payment, after sitting, 10 advance, In order 70
secure 4 completion Of the work, aud the balance vii!
be required upon delivery Of the pictures.
This step, ! am sorry TO say, Il I'M
peratIve, 10 order 10 protect my lnteru1iI-.to
many people 10 the past sitting for pictures and then
falling To have them finished. Tlne Il money, ana
this Adage finds almost hourly exelnplihcatOn in my
business In the number Of porous who constantly
await my attention. And while | consider Il my
duty to satisfy my patrons, and will always cheer
fully endeavor 10 do 10, uduAtter how many siitinSsr
or how much time nAy be consumed. ltll think
that after doing that, my services should at least be
TequItcd by an order for the work, aud 1 partial pay
ment In advance Ms security that the party intends
calling for them; or In the event Of their not calling
rs compensation for my loss Of time aud material.
People will obllge me- by remembering the above
when calling for pictures, 10 order 10 prevent any Il:
pieaFautnesS In our trGnIAciiOr, rs ] viii tIsidly and
indIsciimIuately eniGrre II. Trusting thatOur rcla'
lions may BE- as pleasant In the future a IN the past,
and Assuring the public that In ~ things will en-
dcavUr to serve them, lTenaIn respectfully,
las J. 4. II. PARSONS.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

A DISPATCH from London states that the
value Of exports from England to Amer
lea during the year just closed was Si0"''
SOC, 900, against s~4l5,OOO,OOO for 1854
gain Of 1871, 100000. "a large part OF this
excess" says the dispatch, is made up by
the heavy exports of iron to America con,
scquent upon the extraordinary demand
for that article, superinduccd by the bust
ness revival" And this Is but the begin
ming Of the end. We may look for much
heavier importations, not only of iron, but
Of other articles during the year upon
which we have just entered than We have
received since the panic, and by the end
Of the year we may find the "balance" on
the other side Of the ledger, and gold flow
ing ont rs fast as it has been flowing In
And then our Statesmen" will be won
dering by what secret arts the gold is
charmeda~ay from us.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

The New York Graphic adorns its pages
with a picture Of Joseph Medill, the cult.
ysted editor Of the Chicago Tribune, and
y "Among the few American journal
lists whose lives have been spent among
books and with ideas, as well as in wear
ing friction Of business, is Joseph Modill'
His influence has aided more than II adj
ministration, and his paper has won 0
position envied in New York and Boston
as we'll as in Chicago and st. Louis"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

AT rules held In tho Clerks office Of Tue circuit
Court Ot Ohio county on Monday, tho 9Th day Of
January, ISsE
A. Allen Howell, plaintiff,
Alexander N. Jacob and Mary Julia,
his vile, James r. log 10, trustee, the
Life Association Of America, Robert q.
Barr, tIuitee, Susan Edgington, George ia oh,rcsrr
y. Caldwell, Administrator Of Moses C. ""'"'
Good, trustee deceased, Daniel Gelger,
Patrick Myles, Casper Salt David Hill,
Robert Costaln, Thomas C0staln, and
the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ken.
lucky Railroad Company, d.tendantS.J
The object Of this suit is to have sold certain lands
which were conveyed by Mary J. jacob and Alcxan-
DIR N. Jacob 10 James r. Rogers, In trust to secure
the payment Of 4 certain rT0mIssoTy note, payable TO
A. Allen Howell or order, by deed bearing date the
nth day Of September, A. ID. 1871, and admitted 10
record In the then Record Gr's office Of Ohio county,
West Virginia, In deed Of Trust Book No. I, OIL pages
1856 and I66, after hrst having AAcertAIned the amounts
and ~prtoritIes Of the several lions thereon; aud 10
have the proceeds spoiled 70 the pigment Of the sail
note II A. Allen Howell, and the other liens accord
inG 10 their p~rIOrities. And atddNVit hay ng been
made that tho said defendants, Mary ]. Jacob and
Alexander n. jacob, aud the Life Association Of
America, are non.residontS Of this STATE, the said de-
PENDANTS are required 10 appear, after due publication
Of this order, IN the Clerks ONCE Of our said court, At
Rules 10 DO holden therefor, on the FIRST MONDAY
Of February, A. D. 1850, and do what Is nee SSary 10
protect their Interests
Teste: SAMUEL B. McC0LL0CH, Clerk.
D. LAND and W. II. HEARHE,
in7.w Solicitors for Complainant.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
Real Estate In st. Louis "sd Chicago.

81. Louis Republican.
The dulncss in the real estate market Is
unrelicvcd and promisest to continue until
with the general resumption OF building
operations in the spring comes a new de.
mand for sites. No large sales OF recent
date are reported, and the agents seem de.
voting O little more time than usual TO
reading the newspapers and settling politi-
cal questions by arguments as they wait in
their offices for something to turn up. .
Chicago Times.
Agents are unanimous in the declaration
that the past year-now that they have
had time to figure up the profts-was the
most prosperous with them since 1872.
They are quite r~econciled TO an easy time
for q month or two, but after that they
look for the biggest kind Of a rush. Hold.
ers are very tenacious, and ZONE more so
than non.residCnts. A very firm market
Is now established, values are once more
definite, and the outlook for the present
year Is certainly all that could be desired.
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EmIrrntIon-rhe Next rIood.

FROM Saturday. 81. faul Pioneer Press
The Washington correspondence Of the
Pioneer Pres in It's two last issues con
tanned some very valuable statistics in re-
lation to the disposition OF the public
lands in Minnesota, Dakota and the other
Northwestern States, for the year ending
June 80, 1870. The whole number OF
acres entered under the homestead and
presumption acts and sold for cash during
The year was S,650,3l9 acres. or this
amount more than three.fourths were
disposed OF in the four States OF Mime.
sofa, Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska, as
iolloMs:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

DunIyo December last the United States
mipts turned out gold coins to the value OF
sC,4S7 900; silver, $, S5S,OS9,5O, and minor
coins, sSl,4S3 50. This shows an addition
to the currency in that month of sS,S75,4CO.
Is it any wonder that prices go up? Now
Is the time to pay the treasury notes
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

"a haye gained eight pounds in weight,
and It now affords me pleasure to say that
/ am in perfect health, with u%ndonbted
faith In the curative powers Of Bethesda
Water. My trouble was a serious derange.
ment OF my kidneys and bladder."-[Let.
ter to Col, Dunbar, discoversr Of Bethesda
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

OF the whole area OF government lands
disposed Of in the United States, the fol-
lowing amounts are credited to the meth
dds OF disposition respectively named:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

pLANK BOoKS-The DAILY lNTKLLl.
~ gsnecF Book BlndGy does better work Of al
tindI than anyohloa IN Wet VlEginiL
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

G01s ,.."s'...".sssss,s... bE1,OIS
Entered under The homestead ciA..."".,."". ,260, III
Entered under the timber culture aCtS..,.,.."2 766 1913
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07

In Minnesota and Dakota these three
classes Of entries exhibit the following
result less the fractions:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
EDUCATIONAL.
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.

Nine departments Of study; Textbooks furnished
penscs for ono year from SI75 to 5000; nOn.st-
tartan, liberal. thorough. Fall term begins Sep
tender Sd, 1879.
ksSFor catalogues and other mt0tlnAtlOn ApPlI
70 the President J. Il. Thompson, AOrgantaIr,
West Va. Anl
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
Msw AoNeRrlsEMENTs.

EOR RENT-PART OF THE ROOM
ID occupied by the Union Railroad aud Steamship
otlco, 1900 Market street. POastAsion giVenat
once or April. ,a.u,t
iaS JUHN bAlLlEs
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
cTATEoF WEST VIRGINIA, To.wIr

Al rules held In tho Clerks office Of the Circuit
Court Of Ohio county on Monday, tho 9Th day Of
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-07
PICTURES AND ART MATERIALS.

ANYONE IN A FEW HOURS CAN
u learn 10 play Chords aud Accompaniment on
tho Piano or OrSan IN both The major and minor keys
correctly by The Use Of tho CHORD linden.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-05-22
DR.. J. +. HAYWOOD,

DR.. j. +. HAYWOOD,
Of New York, voluntarily indorses it. @,
&-READ WHAT he SAYS:-
d.. TUT: New York, Sept, 19, 1877.
Dear Sir-During this year l visited nne hundred
cases of lung d. seases. In the lower wards OF the
city the Cases were of . very severe type. 1t was
there my attention Was called to Tut 8 Expectorant
and l confess my surprise at its wonderful power.
During a practice of twenty years, l have never
known a medicine to act as promptly, and with such
happy effects. 1t instantly subdued the most violent
q few days: lcheerfully indorse it as the best lung
medicine ! ever used.
3 FRANCIS HAYWOOD. ND.
A NEWSPAPER PUB. WRITES.
Office, Evening News, Augusta, Ga.
Dr.. TUT: Dear Sr-My little son, was attacked
with pneumonia last winter, which left him with q
yiolent cough, that lasted till Thin a month since,
for the cure of which l am indebted toyour valuable
Expectorant. had tried most every thing recon.
mended, but none did any good until l used your Ex.
pectorant, one bottle of which removed the cough
entirely. With many thanks. l am yours truly,
JOHN NJ, WEIGLE.
Had terrible NIGHT SWEATS.
Memphis, Feb, IL, 1871.
DR.. TUT: Sir-I have been suffering for nearly two
years with a severe cough. When l commenced ia
and sixteen pounds in weight. l had tried almost
everything had terrible night sweats. Ihave taken
half dozen bottles. The night sweats have left me,
the cough has disappeared, and | have gained fifteen
pounds in flesh. it to all my friends,
With great respect, OLIVER RICE
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Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DIR. McLANE's
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PLANT

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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-11
TIE COOPER TELEGRAPH BILL.

The Assembly yesterday passed bill
introduced by dr. Cooper, declaring tele-
graph companies common carriers, and re-
ducing the current rates charged by them
10 per cent. We have no hesitation in
characterizing this as the very worst bill
that has been adopted in either chamber
during the present session. 1t is a mali
cious, wanton and imbecile assault upon
the telegraph companies, conceived in the
spirit of those brutaland blindly destructive
crusades against capital which have brought
this State already to the brink of civil
war and anarchy, and which threaten the
ruin of commerce and industry. That at
such a juncture as the present, with
the disastrous consequences of these in
famous attacks upon property staring
them in the face, a California As
sembly, under the control of the Re-
publican party, should deliberately pass so
outrageous. law as this, is sufficiently
disheartening and disgusting The propo-
sition to make telegraph companies COM
mon carriers is preposterous one, to be-
gin with. If they are made common car
riers they are entitled to the rights of
common carriers, and one of these rights
is to charge according to the value of the
goods carried. If telegraphic dispatch is
to be placed on the level of other goods
carried by common carriers, then the dis
patch which involves important business
transactions ought to be charged for ac-
eording to the value of the intelligence.
This monstrous bill, however, proposes that
the telegraph companies shall be liable to
the risk of common carriers, but that they
shallnot have the compensations ofthatclass.
If dispatch IS sent ordering broker
to buy thousand shares Of 0phir at So,
and it nigcarries, and Ophir goes up to
$50, according to this bill the telegraph
company can be sued for the full amount
of the loss incurred. But the corpora
tions are not permitted to charge for the
risks they take. On the contrary, their
present rates are to be cut down fifteen
per cent. There is no pretense of justice
or decency about the bill, in fact. 1t is
naked robbery and confscation. 1t is q
deliberate endeavor to grind the telegraph
companies under the iron heel of COM
munistic despotism, and it is reinforce
ment of the abominable war upon property
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-11
THE INsgR aNoE BILL.


The Senate yesterday passed Senate Bill
No. ISIS, after amending it so that its own
father would not recognize it, and after
reducing the amount of paid-up capital to
be owned by companies doing business in
the State to $500, 600. AS the bill finally
passed it is almost nonentity, and we do
not think Is is likely to have any preiu-
dicial effect upon competition. The pur-
poses of It's sponsors have been completely
defeated, and the monopoly they sought to
establish has been rendered impracticable
1t was an audacious and rapacious piece of
legislation when it first saw the light, bnt
sharp criticism and close analysis have
done their work upon it, and it ilutters
from the hands OF the Senate as forlorn
and decfepit and draegletailed a thing as
was the famous Jackdaw of Rheims after
1t had been blasted by the exeommunica-
ton. If, however, it is not any longer "a
mischievous bill, it is equally true that it
is in no sense an useful one. 1t provides
for no further protection of the public.
1t does not increase the security Afforded
the insurer in any way. l. Leaves the
present very precarious condi5ion Of things
without relief or reform in any direction.
And because this is so we submit that the
Assembly will do well to kill it without
conjunction. There is room for an insur-
ance bill drawn from the standpoint of the
public interest, but there is no room for
such law as this.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-11
DocToss AND DRUGGISTS.

The doctors of San Francisco are making
a fight against the bill to break up the pre-
scription commission business. Some lead
ing druggists of that city have taken a
very philosophical stand on the question,
and have thereby incurred the wrath of
such physicians as are indisposed to aban-
don the old custom. 1t appears to us,
however, that the subject is not one upon
which the doctors who favor the retention
of the commission plan can expect any
sympathy fromthe publicorthe Legislature.
The commission system is. stripped of all
DISCUSSES, method OF robbing patients, and
it is nothing less The doctor is paid by the
druggist, not out of his own pocket, bat
out of the patients pocket. The patient
is made to contribute to the income of the
doctor by a surreptitious method which
has no justification. He is charged an ex-
ira price for medicines, for no other reason
than that the doctor may thus get Sec
ond fee out of him. 1t is not a fair prac-
tice. 1t is in fact an imposition upon the
public, and it ought not TO be permitted ii
it can be prevented. The prices charged
for drugs are high enough without any
such capricious increase, and the public
ought to be given some relief in the
premises.