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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24
AN AMBITIOUS TExr.-The parson,

AN AMBITIOUS TExT.-The parsons
do. after all, tell the best stories. Rev.
DR.. - is responsible for the following {:
In the early part of his ministry very
eminent clergyman of his own denomina-
ton visited him AID spent Sabbath with
him. OF course he invited him to preach
for him, and, to his great satisfaction, he
consented. Rev. DR.. - is tall, and
his pulpit is rather high, to accommodate
his manuscript to his sight; his visitor
was short, rather stout, and had shin
ing bald head. Rev. DIR. proposed
to lower the pulpit little, but his friend
declined, and, on the contrary, desired
that it should be raised higher. 1t seemed
that ne was near-sighted, but for some
reason preferred not to wear spectacles.
The desk being raised, he proceeded to
pile upon the closed pulpit Bible. two
hymn.books, pile Of about dozen ser
mons, and finally his manuscript, and
then, his bald head just glimmering over
the top of his ertempOre fortifcation, he
announced his text-"Thou shalt see
greater things than these. - Editor
Drawer, IN Harper's Magazine
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24
"A fashionable lady of San Franci,

"A fashionable lady of San Francisco
attired herself in party dress, and had
q full-length photograph taken. Enyel-
oping her tightly-laced fnery in ballon
cloak, she descended to the street, hailed
q street car, and seated herself within.
When her street was reached she motioned
to the conductor, and attempted to rise.
But so tightly was the poor thing har-
messed that she couldn't get up, and
blushsng scarlet, she told the conductor
that she would 20 few blocks further.
When the terminus Of the line was
reached and the last gentleman had left
the car, the conductor asked her if she
wanted to ride back. "No sir," she re-
piled, with sweet simplicity. II merely
want some help, for | can't get up The
conductor set her on her feet, and she
walked home wiser woman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

A GOLD Bue.-John W. Mackay, Of
Virginia City, has given $4,000 to the
Herald relief fund. II is no new thing
for Mr.. Mackay to be generous. A few
years ago, when travelling in Italy with
Mr.. Florence, the actor, poor, weary
tinker, wheeling his barrow, came along
to the humble inn where they were stop
ping. Mr.. Mackay gave him the first
hearty dinner the poor wayfarer had had
in long time. and when he came to ex-
press his gratitude Mr.. Mackay slipped
several gold pieces into his hand-nore
money than the needy fellow had ever
possessed in his life. A well known
American impresario visited Europe with
a band of singers, and when his adven-
ture failed and he found himself in debt
and distress Mr.. Mackay ascertained the
amount of his losses and gave him q
check for fifteen thousand dollars. An
other of the frequent instances OF Mr..
Mackay's generosity arose on board
European steamer. He took an interest
in the ships surgeon, and. learning that
he did not like his mode Of life on
steamship, Mr.. Mackay, after landing,
sent his fellow voyager bank book, with
a credit of FIVE thousand dollars, and
thus enabled him to establish a practice
more to his liking. Mr.. Mackay, who is
of Irish birth, went to California on one
of the earliest waves of the gold excite
ment, and for long period was not pros
porous. In those days he was frequently
heard to express the wish that he could
get together twenty-five thousand dollars
to make the declining years of his dear
Irish mother comfortable. The immense
wealth he has since acquired could not
have fallen into more deserving hands.
Mr.. Mackay is only forty-fve years of
age, and there will be many prayers that
his life may long be spared for deeds Of
kindness and mercy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24
MAINE.
BY LOUISE IL. CoBURN.

our native State,
Who first upon the hilltop sees
The footsteps OF the dawn. who hears
First In her pines the matin breeze.
Waited to frcedom-loviug ears;
Our loyal State OF church and school,
Where liberty and law unite
To crush the wrong. uphold the right
state OF just law and righteous rule,
God bless our native State
Our stricken State,
Foul treason's hand was at her throat.
BLACK treason's hand was at her heart.
And life and breath, almost we thought,
Were ready. trembling, to depart.
All gasping. swooning. dying there.
Helpless and prone she seemed TO lie;
And we who loved her could but cry,
With importuning. earnest prayer.
God help our stricken state
Then through the state.
There ran a stir. a sound. roar.
Deep ss the whisper OF her woods,
Loud the surges OF her shore.
Resis;less as her rolling floods.
Prom ouoddy Head 10 Kit,ery,
Prom lake to ocean swept the call.
A call TO each. a cry frOm all.
Prom ocean back To lake the cry,
Up, we viii save the State
Our grand old state,
once more in majesty she stands.
Thou. tod. didst help her in her need,
Didst stay the cluiching desperate hands.
Now the dark thought. the treasonous deed
Leihean waters. thick and black.
In merciful oblivion drown,
But gratitude and honor crown
The patriots brows. who gave Us back
Thank God' n rescued State.
God save our state
God make her ike the mountain pine,
Whose mobile lifted fingers clasp
Her skies Of purest crystalline;
Whose giant roots deep-reaehing grasp
Her everlasting granite, fast.
Strong may she stand while seasons go
And come; her, may no storm o'erthrow.
Nor wind uprooi, nor lightning blast
God save the Pinc-trce State
-lfortlAnd Advertiser.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

And good little DR.. Hooper was well
satisfied with the result Of Hilda's exper-
iment of earning her living.
"Heaven manages these things better
than we do, thought he as he remembered
his attempt at Harrison's Ainty heart
more than year before.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

Ole Bull plays upon violin which
is three hundred and sixteen years old.
According to tradition Mr.. Bull COM
menced giving farewell concerts when his
fiddle was new.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24
Professional Cards, Sc.

C,NoCH FOSTER, JR.,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
BETHEL. NE.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

Jones can't see why it is telegraphed
all the way from England when horse
takes a dose of salts. Jones has been
reading of some racer taking the EPSON
cup, probably.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

The days have gained an hour and
a half in length already.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-02-24

p. T. Banum has contributed $1,000
to the Irish rslief fund.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13


Itissald that Blaine touched Soon the
last Of January. Grant was 81 last April.
Sherman was So last May. Washburne
was 6s In September. Conkling was so In
October. Garfield Is in his49th year. Bay.
ard was 81 in October. Thurman reached
his Goth birthday IN November. Hem
bricks was 90 in September. Tilden will
be O6 this February, and in this same
month General Hancock will be IS. sey.
mour will be 70 in May. Washington was
in his 57th year when he was first elected,
and had Just entered his 6eth year when
he left Office. John Adams was o. when
he was elected, jefferson 81, Madison in
his 5sth year, Monroe in his 59th, and
John Quincy Adams in his 5Sth. jackson
was 81 when chosen the first time, and
therefore 65 when reelected, while he
had reached his 10th year when he quit
ted office. Van Buren, was 81, and Harri'
son 67, when they were elected, while
Tyler when he took Office had Just pass
ed his 5lst birthday. Polk was elected on
almost precisely his 49th birthday. Taylor
was not quite IS, when elected, and Fill
more was in his 5lst year when he sue
Ceeded him. Pierce had not yet com
pleted his 4Sth year W hen he was elected
and he was the junior OF all who have
taken the Presidential chair, except Gen
eral Grant. Mr.. Buchanan was elected Il
his Goth year, Lincoln in his sd and seth
while johnson succeeded in his 9th.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

Secretary Eyarts' birthday, on Friday
last,-he was born in 1Sls,-was celebrat-
ed at his Washington residence by din
ner party. Among the guests were the
Doyen, or Oldest member Of the Diplo-
matte Corps, Sir Edward Thornton, ac-
companied by Lady Thornton, Secretary
Ramsay and wife, General Sherman, Geo.
Bancroft, Senator Bayard, Senator elect
Gibson and wife, William B. Aston and
wife and Representative L. P. Morton and
wife. Thus far Mr.. Morton's diamonds
had been the finest here; but those OF
Mrs. Astor eclipsed them. The stones OF
her solitaire earrings were about the size
OF a twenty cent piece in circumference,
and the necklace was blaze OF light,-the
whole SET being valued at 100000, which
is equivalent to wearing well stocked
jewelry shop. Mrs. Aston wore on this
occasion dead gold colored satin
dress, richly embroidered and trimmed
With lace; but her costume did not give
such an effect to her jewels Of black vel.
vet dress, trimmed with point lace, which
she wore at the British Legation on Thurs.
day evening. Both Mrs. Morton and Mrs.
Chittenden are eclipsed since Mrs. Astor
has come, and even the Legation ladies
have to admit that few such sets OF dia.
monds exist in the Old or New World.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
The Lawyer in Politics.

Blackstone Large Practice was the best
lawyer in town. He could make the most
plausible arguments and lead the largest
retainers, and was lion in the bar, and
some young men in the profession were
proud to wear their hair Just as he did,
and to have Just as big shirt collar. But
he concluded TO go into politics. lie en-.
tered that paradise which men call eau
Gus. He was voted up and he was voted
down. He came in the end within three
votes Of getting it. As he walked back
into his law office, all the briefs from the
pigeon holes ratified with gladness, and
Kent's commentaries and Livingstone's
law register rustled their leaves and broke
forth IN the EXPLANATIONS WELCOME
Home, Blackstone Large Practice, Jack OF
all trades is master Of none."-Tdimdge.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13


The Virginia readjusters have agreed to
bill for the "readjustment" Of the State
debt, and it was on Monday introduced
in the Senate. It reduces the principal
of the debt by the elimination Of the here
toiore funded war, reconstruction and
compound interest debts from $50 100000
10 $40, Cos, 900; reduces the rate Of interest
to 8 per centum; forbids the collectors Of
revenue to receive tax-receivable coupons
cut either from consols or 10:4Os; provides
that one.third OF the net revenue Of the
State shall be paid into the Treasury to
the credit OF the public debt as re-estab-
lishcd. The coupons OF the new bonds
are not to be receivable for taxes nor ex-
emrt from taxation. A loan OF 81, 900, 900
is authorized, certificates issued thereun-
der 10 DO sold to taxpayers at so cents on
the dollar, and to be received in payment
OF taxes. This feature is intended to CO.
cree consol.holders, who now sell their
tax-reeeivable coupons at much higher
figure. State courts are prohibited from
Issuing writs compelling tax collectors to
receive tax-receiyable coupons. The act
is to be submitted to the people for satif-
cation In November.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

OPyIcE or THE BOARD or PuBLlC m lsa
WHEELISG, EoyemberiS, ~
Sealed proposals will be received Y RI. .
Board Of Public Works, Of the STATE o. NE No
Virginia, addressed to the undersigned /, ~ \,
Ia O'clock noon, Of March the lst 1850 i@ y
AtrERArloNs IN, and the ARDITioM T ~
Building known as the State House, a. . .s+os
ton, Kanawha county, West virginia ;i,",.n;.SJp
q. q KembIc and a. PEBBLES, joint AFclf'; 4.
Bids viii be received for tlsg whole. 1 .a. Y.
cations may be seen at the Capitol ;. Sql'I M
in Wheeling on and after J4 .So!.,a n,y I
Obtained by applying TO &C. K Ken, y, ~
Architect, resident at Wheeling Wt e. IA Is,l
Bonds and security, approved y 'H a ~
Of Public Works, will be required =. ., :, Ia d.
contractor. The right OF receiving VI ''''
ing any or all bids Is reserved. u,,,r
n ny Su'' VI '''' S. BRADY: SCI
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
FEBRUARY, like some Of the rest of u

FEBRUARY, like some Of the rest of us,
is always short. This month will be
very remarkable in some respects. twill
be so strange in fact that neither the
children nor the grandchildren Of those
who see this month will ever sec one as
this one is. 1t will begin and end on
Sunday. Although it is SO short month
1t will contain FIVE Sundays. It's five
Sundays will correspond in date with the
five Sundays in the following August, /, s,
10, 90, 90. This Is somewhat odd when
werecollect that February was robbed OF
q day to allow August to spot one day ex.
ira. The Roman Senate decreed that the
eighth month should be called after the
Emperor Augustus and that one day
should be taken from February so that
August would have as many days as July,
which was called after Julius Cesar. Feb
ruary this year has an odd number OF
days and an odd number OF Sundays, and
one OF the Sundays will be Washington's
birthday.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
1t is stated that q large quantity Of Eng
lish pig iron and old rails has been brought
to this city and stored in bonded ware.
houses erected near several Of the mills.
One firm is reported to have been a heavy
importer OF Swedish pig, but not wishing
to put too much money in the stock at
at once, the duty is paid on It only as It is
removed from the warehouse. Some iron
men believe the English pig iron scare Is
overdrawn, as there Is very little Of 1t as
good as our own. Scotch iron, which used
10 be SO largely used here for casting pur-
poses, is gradually being supplanted by
native ore. Owing to this fact the prices Of
Scotch pig have lately fallen of consider
ably. Over thirty per cent Of the English
pig produced In 1878 was from the Cieye-
land district in the north OF England. This
is quality OF iron which cannot be used
here at all. except when mixed in small
quantities with our own ore. AS 1t is the
higher grades Of English pig that compete
with the native medium grades, there Is
very little difference in prices In favor Of
the foreign article alter the duty is paid.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

IT looks as Il Blaine is going to scoop"
Michigan at the Chicago Convention. The
"s.raws" all seem to be moved by the
wind Of public opinion in that direction
The Erening NelH OF Detroit, publishes the
result Of 8, l94 interviews in seventy in
terror cities and towns OF Michigan, and
their preferences for a choice OF nomi'
nee for President stands asfollows: Blaine,
1920; Grant, S27; Sherman, GIL; Wash
burne, 1866. Edmunds, Conkling and Gar
field had few scattered friends, dozen
or more each, perhaps. The canvass has
been made impartially, and by the Ne'cs
own regular reporters. Among interest
ing points adduced is the fact that the
State officials appear almost solid fol
Blaine. The expressions among them are
generally unfavorable to athird term. -Four
years ago the Michigan delegation voted
solid against Blaine on every ballot, under
the dictatorship of W. A. Howard, now Gov
ernor OF Dakota.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
DIED.


ZISIMERMAEN.-on Wednesday afternoon, Feb.
ruary Il, 1885, at bis residence In Ktuavlle, Ohio,
Of paralysis Of the brain, 2GHRr ZIMMERMAN, In
the esd year Of his age.
Funeral will take place from his late residence this
afternoon at 80 o'clock. Interment at Mt Zion Gem.
cteiy. Friends Of the family are invited.
MILLER.-On Thursday evening" February 18th,
1880, at o'clock, CHARLES MATTHEWS, son oil ChAs.
Il. and Alice J: Miller, aged years and 4days.
Funeral from the residence Of his parents, No. ti6
Main street, on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Friends Of the family are invited.
HANCKEL-on Thursday morning, February y,
1880, near Charlottesville, VA PHEBE ". PAUL., wife
Of E. H. Hancke and daughter Of thelate Rey. Alfred
PAUL.
CLARK.-0a Thursday evening, February u, 1880,
at o'clock, SAMUEL CLARK, aged % years.
Funeral from the residence Of his stepSon, Stephen
Crawford, No. 81 Main street, on Saturday morning
at o'clock. His remains will be conveyed to Guern.
sey county, Ohio, for interment.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

TuE North Adams Transcript makes a
vigorous call for washburne and Hawley,
and the Boston Herald says that "if the
Transcript had gone out and searched for
a quarter OF a century. we are not sure it
would have found two better men," The
story from Illinois that washburne cannot
carry his own State because Of the OPP
position Of the Logan crowd Is met by the
claim that the opposition could be readily
reconciled in case OF general demand foI
the man who commands the German
vote.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

RELATION by marriage, never q strong
tie, is, apparently, without any binding
force whatever in politics. Don Cameron
married a niece OF John sRstman's, and is
quite obllvious Of the CAM -lry OF the lat
ter. Frye, OF Maine, and Garcelon, are
brothers.in.law who glare at each other
politically; Wayne Mcveagh, who has al
ways endeavored to lead the hosts oil re-
form against the Cameron machine in
Philadelphia, married daughter OF simon
and Senator Thurman's son.in-law, Nc
Cormick, is a dashing Republican.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

The third term lunatics seem to think
thatif Conkling can carry New York, and
Logan Illinois, as Cameron has carried
Pennsylvania, the thing is done, the rest
Of the country Is to be whooped up and
driven like drove Of cattle by the ring
sters into the Grant pen. They make u
mistake. The nomination Of Grant by the
Republicans would be equivalent to the
election Of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency Cincinnati Commercial.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
Not There,
KeySer Echo.

The State Journal processes to believe
that three-iourths Of the Republicans OF
West Virginia are for Grant for President.
We do not think the Journal could find
many Gifts three-fourths down this way. In
this neighborhood nine out Of ten say they
are for the nominee, and hope the nominee
will be Blaine. And that's the kind Of q
Republican we are.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan. II that
State is anxious to acquire territory why
don't she buy the Third District from
Henry S. Walker. Henry wants to sell,
and the "Hero OF the two Continents"
G. Jeems Faulkner can't very well spare
the three counties named, until after the
Martinsburg Convention, anyhow.-Neiu
MatinSrille Messenger.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

The will Of the late Adolph E, Borie, as
recently intnated, contains a legacy OF
$4,000 to General Ulysses s. Grant
After giving oil his property to his wife
i9r life, with the power TO use as much Of
the principal Us she desires, and TO dis
pose Of the residue by her last will, he
makes ma SSo charitable requests aggregating
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

FoR our own part, we hope Weaver will
persist. He is entitled to some recogni.
ton, and he should keep at II until the
Speaker shall ut least notice him 10 tbe
extent that the darkey at the top Of he
ladder did the hog rubbing against the
base, and cry out: II say, g'way from dar;
you'se maxim misChiet"-M \. Tribune.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

TnE latest things out in the way OF COM
binatlons to regulate prices Of manuIac'
tured articles are the organizations per-
lected In Chicago by the tombstone
makers and in Toledo by the wheelDarrow
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
TIME TABLE.
Wheeling and Elm Grove Railroad.

On and after MONDAY, February 10, 1850 car, on
the Wheeling AMI Elm GroveR Il. will run a. fol-
lows Can Will leave the city teorncr Market and
Eleventh streets1 and Hornbf0Ok Park at
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
"Winter's rains aud ruins are over :,
An6 III tbaseason Of AnOwS and Sins"

The season that begins on Wednesday
then, penitsntial 10 many, restful to others
and full OF diverse suggestiveness for all,
supplies a 1t occasion for reflection as
well as Tor appropriate worship and need
ed repose. Whatever may be the ind.
yidual sins to be repented OF or expiated
there has been surely no period in the
annals Of our people when the Lenten
season has rolled around to find them
with so much and 80 gracious cause to
''rest"-to use Lord John Russell's phrase
-Hand DO thankful"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
WANTED.
DISSOLUTION.

The partnership heretofore eG,ilnsun5T ~ III. "
name Of Thoburn 4 lIro., Is this dIy d1 ~ ~
mutual consent, VIM, Thoburn reiihng Az y! W, 4
duS tbe Iate dfm mus, DO paid Immediately "a 4
accounts assnst il Will be paid on ptrse1iItss',
accounts not settled within thirty days VII IN,
In proper hands for collect 90. Either memV"s
arm Is authorized to settle all account unprN
WM. TIIOBU&',
The business will 10 continued a ths ,o,t,
uance Of the liberal patronage hsIetI',TFu SETES.
wuvr,,,a Jssuary 81, 1850. ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

tTTiadeiphiA Accommodation. tra!n only runs
between Wkseling and TriAdOlphIA.
tDaily except Sunaay-AewRrk Accommodation.
tSieubenvills Aeeommolati0u.-ThIs train during
tho day passes backward and forward between Mar
tins Ferry and BOAlIe, stopping when required ii
Sherman House, AtnaVille, Wmt Wheeling and
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-13

4LHEADs, LETTER HEADS, &C.
~ For neat Bill HeadI Letter Heads, EOts HOGdI
Cards d., % 70 tho Daily lntPlhgsneu Job oalca