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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

NEw YoRk, August 2G.-rhe establish.
ment Of the Chinese consulate in Cuba is
producing beneacent influence, Tie Gov.
ernmeht has decreed that within ten days
all Chinese detained by the GoysrnnIent
for being runaways or for beiug without
contraction work or for any other than Il
criminal cause, shall be set fee, aud that
heuceIorLh all Chinese shall enjoy tue
same rights as other individuals belonging
10 n friendly nation,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

\ BosToN, August 96.-Mary Murphy,
aged thIrty.seven years, living at No. I
Maiden street, entered the Holy Cross
Cathedral, Washington street, for devo-
tional purposes, and while on her knees
In prayer suddenly fell over backward
and passed away almost instantly. Medi.
cal assistance was summoned, and heart
disease given as the cause Of death.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

pSrRolr, August 26.-The Grand Chap.
;sI, ~ holS' Arch Masons to-day elected the
TS"IW"lng y officers: q. G. II. p, Robert
p power, Ke0kuk, Iowa; D. g. g. H.
I" Ss'ied Y, Chapman, Boston; g. g. k'
: g. SoOe y Farmer, Washington; g. g,
nneaty Bashwick, Covington, KY; g.
A. 'tetsnFer, Reuben O. Lennon, Tole'
~, y q; Secretary, Christopher g. Fox,
SSDqaIOi &. &. Y, H., D. F. Day, Buffalo
Nj =, Joseph p. Horner, New Orleans
ssnSN'eTnoon the Chapter takes IA ex
SSnlsh to Lake St, Glare and down thu
E1hdbanquet. T7T
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

one, and II was then surrendered. Lately
some Of the members have returned 70
the city to live. Their love for the old
society had not died out during the years
OF absence, and they have now taken the
necessary steps to put the lodge on new
and firm basis. -.L-- IN.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

NEw YoRr, August 2e.-over two thou.
sand emigrants have arrived within
twenty.iour hours. The record Of immi.
grafton for this year Is expected to be
greater than that in any other year in the
history Of the country,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27
rhs Nerrn Inrorr Que.lIon.

w1mSoroS, Dit., August 20.-wm.
Neal, colOred, sentenced to be hanged to-
morrow for the outrage Of Mrs, Margaret
GRsser In April last, has been granted q
Yeapite. The counsel claimed that the
trial was unconstitutional, Colored men
not beng permitted to act as jurors.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
DIsAsrRous snuReroAsEArJAnA1c>
Immense Damage Done-Famine said TO
be Imminent

be Imminent.
KINGSTON, August 10, via HAVANA, Au'
gust pa disastrous hurricane passed
over Jamaica last evening. Thousands ol
people are houseless, crops, fruit trees
and farm produce generally destroyed; =;
trees uprooted and churches demolished.
The barracks in this city Is destroyed.
three wharves gone and eight large and
thirty.two small vessels wrecked in the
harbor. A famine is imminent and help
is required for the starving thousands.
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Nen,sr,s Mhsrsnhnnts.

WAaEfNG7OS, D. O., August 96.-den'
Weaver, tho Greenback candidate FOL
Tsfesident, leaves ,.o.morrow for Boston
N'1Peaks In Eaneuil Tall Friday night
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

WASHINGTON, August 2e.-President
Hayes and family left tonight for Fre'
mont, Ohio. The party to accompany
the President to the Pacific Coast meet at
Chicago, September %, except Secretary
Ramsey, who Joins them at Omaha.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

CINCINNATI, August 9a.-AbOut 200 deal
mutes are now here attending the Ma.
tional Convention. Very little progress in
business was made to-day. The chief topic
OF discussion was the appointment Of q Ma,
tional Executive Committee, aud the sub
leCt WAS tabled.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

General woo,Ifo,d Tomorrow Might.
General Stewart L. woodford, OF New
Toh,ho address the people Of Wheel
ht on the issues OF the canvass to.mor
STWening at half past seven O'Clock, al
GPi@l Square. He is one Of the mos
Esnplhhed public speakers Of the coun'
", aud gained national reputation 9
aSyean aga by his brilliant discussion
due Greenback question all through
OtIovi General Ewing. He will touch
athis question in his speech tomorrow
.rcaing, and il;asmuch as he isa man o.
tie most exhaustive information on thi'
aSject, aud couches bis ideas in the most
9'nIlPmanly language, he cannot fail to
interest every citizen who desires to be
lsio'nel on topic OF such Importance in
this campaign. We doubt not that a tire
aeudous turnout of citizens will gather
q the Capitol to hear his speech. The
Republicans will cordially welcome citi
Ra'Oi all parties to the meeting.
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5fs7 7gntelIi9etrreas
-, virginia Campaign.

ss,ti No'. q and .i...! :. . .oel.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

[signedl WINFIELD S. HAScocK,
Major.General Commanding
Another letter from Gen. Hancock is as
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-27

New YoRK, August 26.-The two letters
OF General Sherman, subsequently spoken
of as having brought forth the recently
published letter Of General Hancock,
dated Carondolet Postoftice, St. Louis, De-
cember 2S, 1876, are as follows:
HRApouARrERs Army OF THR U. s.
WAsHINoroS, D. O., December 4th.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19

Think of city like Deadwood, only three
years old, able to have a 81, 900, 900 fire, and
to recover from it in two months SO that
scarce trace of the terrible confagration re-
mains. A city of 1000 inhabitants. support
ing four daily papers, theatres, hotels, banks,
water-works and all the conveniences and
elegancies of metropolitan life, within few
hours ride of Sioux Indians, buffalo and
grizzly bears.
Think of mountains of solid gold ore
towering above the clouds, of two mining
companies alone that will next year take
out $500, 600 month, and that are now pay
ing their employees nearly $50,0CO week.
The largest stamp mills in the world, thund-
ering away, day and night, weekday and
Sunday, upon the royal metal-ribbed quartz.
Treasure-coaches, armed and guarded, run
ding constantly to the railroad to bear the
bars of precious metal, by hundreds'of pounds,
TO lubricate the commercial and financial ma
chinery of the world-Deadscood Pioneer.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
LEAP YEAR.

[The poetry in the following may be execrabe, but
the sentiment is commendable:l
'Tis leap year, dear girls,
So tie up your curls
And don your very best clothes;
Go find each man,
Ny dears, if you can,
And when you have found hlm-propose.
Propose to darn socks,
And sew bottoms shirts,
And when he (as occasionally he willy reverts
To the bread, pie, and cake,
His dear mother could bake,
Remember, my dears, you proposed.
Propose to build fires each chill winter morn,
And when cakes baked and the house quite warm,
Say to him, Rise, hubby, your breakfast is ready;
And should he come home at night with step quite
steady,
Remember, dear girls, you proposed.
In short, propose to be dutiful wives
For all the rest of your natural lives,
Fen though denied new winter bonnet,
Such love of thing, and you'd set your heart on it
Though forced to make over your last winters Dress
You never, cen to yourselves, must confess
That you wish you hadn't proposed.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
ASUBSCRIBER'S sOLILOQUY.

To pay, not to pay, that is the question
Whether t is better for me to refuse
To take local paper, and deprive
My family from reading all the news,
Or pay up promptly what the printer asks,
And, by such payment, cheer him? No pay, paper
Then no more shall l be posted on the news
And local haps throughout the town,
And divers topics It is consummation
That long have feared. To pay, or stop?
To stop! perchance to lose-ay, there's the rub;
For IN that stop no interest do take
In any of tn affairs which move the town,
And such shufiling off of all that's good
Must make me pause There's the respect
Which every editor maintains for those
Who come down with the cash and ne'er delay
To settle up "that little BILL For who would bear
The pointed squibs and pungent paragraphs
Which far too oft reflect upon the man
Who fails to settle his subscription bill?
I'll haste now unto the editor,
And. with my purse plethoric in my hand,
Will settle up IN full, one year from date,
BY paying TO him from my ready cash
The which is his due.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
THE PEsSIMIST PR7G.
From the Whitehall Review.l

Since to manhood I've grown
Many prigs have known;
Prigs youthful prgs senile, prigs little and big;
But the prigs detest
Far beyond all the rest
Is the languid, dissatisfied Pessmist Prig.
If the glories of the night
His attention invite,
For the stars in their courses" he don't care fix
Looking up at the sky
With his glass at his eye
They're too many by hall, says the Pessimst Prg.
If you mention the spoil
You may get from the SOIL
He replies, But to get, you know, you must dig"
If you show him the sea,
Blue, bounding, and free,
"Ah! 1t makes me 30 sick says the Pessimist Prig.
If he happens to sit
At farce, in the pit,
With each neighbor merry .'sadd boy" or "grg"
With his sneer, and his frown,
He soon pulls them all down;
"They are frivolous fools" says the Pessimist Prg.
If you point out the charms
OF a woman's white arms,
He strokes his false whiskers and settles his wig;
"She's not my'ideal;
She's vastly too real;
Give soul! Give me soul!" says the Pessimst Prg
Life and death are the same"
He will often exclaim;
"And lifes not worth having and man is pig!"
Then why don't you die?"
ls my frequent reply
why! Because they re the same, says thePimstess
Prig
Then shrek, and tear
What remains of my hair,
And send for currice buggy, or gig
And cry, "Let me fly
To the wilds, ere die
OF this languid, dissatisfied Pessimist Prg!"
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
No. IA
ma. Mamma didn't you ask Uncle Herbert

ma. Mamma didn't you ask Uncle Herbert
to marry your" He wants to know"
had come in looking for the child, and
| that was the speech heard. felt ready to
sink with modification.
'Kate, darling, can l hope you'll let me
ask? You must know that hoped, when
these touching my veil and black dress) were
put aside, that could ask you to let me care
for you, and at once. Come darling" as I
hid my face in my hands. you've asked
me to marry you; and must name the day;
and say now, at once. Let's give them
good thorough surprise. I can guess how
this fairy, this blessed little darling that has
brought me my happiness, and wen go to
your own minister"
l tried to refuse, but was so weary of liv-
ing with mother-in-law, that at last we three
slipped out of the house; and dear DR.. S.,
who had pabtiZed me, married me to Frank,
and knew Herbert well, married US.
We drove back and reached the front door
as the family were returning. Julia, who
would appropriate Herbert, stepped for
ward.
''Good evening, Mr. Halstead So you met
Kate on the steps Strapge!"-with glance
at me, as if had planned to meet him.
'Not at all, Miss Julia" said Herbert.
''My wife and just called in to receive your
congratulations and to leave little Mi
here for few days." dget
''No tableau have ever seen was half so
comical as the one those three made. Ireally
felt for Julia, for knew she cared for Her
bert. She gained self possession quickly,
and congratulated me, whispering as she kiss
ed me $50 you asked bim?"
MY husband heard and answered.
T,,1s oln 0% Oh
Through other means, thank God, learned
the one I loved was unhappy; and, as I
hoped, for more than a year past, to soon
ask her to be my wife, persuaded her to
marry me at once. Leap year privileges are
still open to those who choose them"
We are quite an old married couple now;
for three years have passed, but Herbert and
still often laugh over Nellie's leap year pro-
posal.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
Garfield's ROyhOOd.

On the day that General Garfield was elect
ed United States Senator to succeed Senator
Thurman, President Hinsdale, of Hiram Col
lege, said to the students assembled in the
college: To-day man will be elected to
the United States Senate in Columbus, who,
when boy, was once the bell-ringer in this
school and afterward its President. Feeling
this, we ought, in some way, to recognize this
step in his history So, on the following
day. Mr.. Hinsdale gave very interesting ad-
dress on Garfelds career, in which, among
other things, he said that the popularity &C
cepted account of the Senator's early history
is largely fabulous His fathers circum-
stances were those of his neighbors. ''Meas-
ured by our Standard" said Mr.. Hinsdalee,
''they were all poor; they lived on small
farms for which they had gone in debt. hop
ing to clear and pay for them by their toil-
Garfield dying, left his wife and four children
in the condition that any one of his neighbors
would have done-poor. The family life be-
fore bad been close and hard enough now
it became closer and harder. Grandma Gar
field, as some of us familiarly call her, was a
woman of unusual energy, faith and courage.
She said the children should not be separated,
but kept together; and that the home should
be maintained, as when its head was living.
The battle was hard one and she won it.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19
TRUST.
BY JOHN @. WHITTIER.

A picture memory brings to me:
/ look across the years and see
Myself beside my mothers knee.
feel her gentle hand restrain
My selfish moods, and know again
A child's blind sense of wrong and pain.
But wiser now, man gray grown,
My childhood's needs are better known,
My mothers Christening love own.
Gray grown, but in our Fathers sight
A child still cropping for the light
To read His works and ways Alright.
/ bow myself beneath his hand;
That pain itself for good was planned,
] trust, but cannot understand.
] fondly dream 1t needs must be
That, as my mother dealt with me,
So with His children dealeth He.
! wait, and trust the end will prove
That here and there, below, above,
The Christening heals, the pain Is love!
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19

THE following extract from a sermon
preached by Sidney Smith to Her Majesty
Queen Victoria on her accession to the throne
is, thinks the London Truth, worthy of re-
calling Extinguish in ysur heart the fend-
ish love of military glory from which your
sex does not necessarily exempt you, and to
which the wickedness of flatterers may urge
you. Say upon your death-bed, l have made
few orphans in my reign l have made few
used all the might of my character and all
the rover of my situation to check the iras-
chile passions of mankind, and turn to the
arts of honest industry"
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19

ST. LOUIS ''leads" Chicago at last. In dig
ging sewer through O'Fallon street several
veins of galena ore, running 10 per cent. in
lead, were discovered. Stalking out claims
in cellars and back yards is now the order of
the day ...-.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-02-19

THROUGH first class tickets from New York
to San Francisco have been reduced to 800,
to take effect to-day. The reduction is with
out precedent Cause, Pacific Mail competi-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1880-03-07
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.

As the election draws nearer, the Democrats
begin to see that they are not In n good way
as to candidates They have enough. That
is not their difficulty. Either of fifty men
would consent to run. But among them all,
the Democratic party looks in vain for a man
who has Il reasonable chance Of being elected.
Mr.. Bayard, as The TRIBUNE observed last
year, was really killed off 10y the Extra Ses-
sion. That piece of malignant. stupidity con-
vinced the people of the North that the Solid
South was as dangerous MS revolutionary and
dislOya and as desperate as ever. But Mr..
Bayard, in spite Of himself. would be regarded
rs the candidate Of the South. He is South
ern man, and represents former slave State.
He belongs to one Of the old aristocratic
families which used TO rule the country
through the South, in the days of Demo-
cratic supremacy. He was openly hostile 70
the suppression Of the rebellion by force.
However excellent his personal character. be
Will inevitably be regarded as the especial
representative and favOrite of the Solid South,
and as such would with certainty be defeated
i'm the Northern States. unless the Republicans
should fail to nominate a candidate who pos
sos,cs the confidence and represents the spirit
Of the loyal people of the North.
Mr.. Tiidon. again, was killed by the resur-
rcction Of the cipher dispatches For
these put an end to the cry of fraud rs an
effective political agency, and deprived him
of the confidence and support of fair-m minded
and honorable men who were dissatisfied with
the conduct of the Government by tho Repub-
lican party This drove Mr. Tildcn to coerce
his own party into n vindicatlon of himself.
and at the same time gave bis opponents
therein powerful weapon. But for that change
in his position, it is altogether likely that he
never would have been desperate enough
to make war upon Tammany. and
that Tammany never would have ventured 10
make war in self-defence. Whatever the cause,
it is evident that Mr.. Tiden is very much
weaker now in popular support in every other
State, while in New-York his nomination
would mean the almost certain defeat Of the
Democratic party. which selected him four
years ago in the full belief that he could carry
New York.
All the other candidates fall into one Of
three classesi Hard Money Democrats, who
would b. beaten with certainty at the West,
Eastern States: SOft-Money Democrats who
would be beaten with certainty Mt the East,
while gaining nothing at the West; aud
comparatively unknown and insignificant can
didates who would command less than The
party vote everywhere. The party has used
New-York tribune., 1880-03-07
THE UIyTER AND ITS WORK.


The Winter which bade the world goodbye
last Sunday deserves to be remembered as the
most whimsical and vicious season known for
many generations. 1t began by turning the
weather topsy-turyy all over the world. 1t
put on the smiles and radiance OF Spring lor
Ms and decked itself with vioets as II to Jeer
at our fannels and furnaces, while Paris
which is prepared with neither tianncls nor
furnaces, froze under three feet OF snow' Ike
the idle butterfly of the fable that had danced
the Summer away. The cold IN Italy has
been intense, at least for the lghtly-clad.
open-roofed people who had to bear lt-there
was skating on the Arno, a thing unknown Tor
more than n century. Meanwhilein the North oil
Europe there has been only the merest make
believe of Winter The great Swedish lakes
have had no ice upon them during the whole
season. and no snow worth mentioning has
fallen throughout the entire scandinavian
Peninsula. We learn from our latest foreign
exchanges that owing to this fact 1t Will be
impossible to bring the timber from the inland
forests. or iron from the mines down to the coast
their Transportation being always accomplished
on sledges. The result will be great depres-
sion of business and industry in Sweden, and
rise in the prices of IRON and lumber III
England and the Continent.
One is actually led to suspect a grim. malig-
nant purpose in the dongs Of this Winter.
We all know what the famine has been III
Ireland, and we have just heard appalling ac-
counts from Brazil but we have no concep-
ton of the rayages of hunger and consequent
disease in Silcsia, the more obscure parts OF
Italy, and through the great stcppcs Of Russia.
The GoloS, st. Petersburg journal, usually
guarded in its statements, describes the condi-
ton Of the inhabitants of the districts OF Diu.I
and Shaturdaagey as frishuul in the extreme.
Bands Of starving men and women are fighting
like wild beasts for the Wroichcd garbage aud
roots which form their sole food. The indie
scubablo nltliuess and ignorance of the people
help the famine to bring ON every disease
which can kindly relieve these poor creatures
Of the burden OF living. Dluhthcua has dcci-
mated many Of the Villages in Central Russia
owing, it is stated to the custom among the
pcasautry OF inserting bread. into the mouth of
the person iust dead and giving II 20 the chi.-
dlcn. IN order 10 "inoculatc" them against
the disease.
Excepting in this country, the Winter of
1S79-5O has been ono Of unexumplod hardship
al over the civilized world, without, too any
great commercial shock or war TO cause it,.
The weather Throughout, the year, with its
wet, sunless Summer and CXygoalC,s Nmt,r
has apparently set Itself TO do the worst it
could for the world-and has done it..
New-York tribune., 1880-03-07
THE NEV CHARTER.

We publish this morning an abstract OF the
new charter for this city, which Is to be in
troduced into the Legislature early this week.
Sweeping changes viii be effected in all de-
partments of municipal Administrations The
Dock Department will be merged in the De
partment of Public Works. The control of
all streets above Filty-nnth-st Will pass
into the hands of tie same Department. The
Department of Buildings will be converted
into a bureau of the Fire Department, and
the Excise Department will be brought under
the control of the Police Commissioners. The
labors of the Park Commissioners, who are to
be appointed outright by the Mayor to
the number Of eight or ten, will be
restricted to the supervision Of the
Central Park and other breathing places
of the city. The Street Cleaning Bu-
reau is left as at present under the direction
of the Police Commissioners, although it is
probable that a separate bill Will be intro
duced for the regulation of the bureau.
These are the main features Of the charter
as it has been shaped by the leaders
of the Republican party in this city.
Comments upon such radical changes in the
municipal law are superfuous 50 long rs the
text OF the act Is Nliuuciu from luc IUoItJ
and consequently we must content ourselves
with this meagre summary. Ii IS intmated
that the new scheme will give the Republicans
the due weight Of their Influence in local
administration, aud that the municipal bud
get will be cut down by the consolidation
of departments and the reduction Of salaries.
The announcement of the intentions Of the
majority Of the Legislature viii create a panic
in the municipal Offices. and tie Albany dis
patches will be scanned with the liyeliest ia-
terost during the week.
We are confident that the scheme viii be
thoroughly digested and revised before
it reaches a final vote in either chamber of the
Legislature. If there be any city in the United
States which needs new organic law 1t Is
New-York But permanent, rather than tenta-
tive and equivocal reforms are demanded by
all who have the best interests Of the
city at heart. republican charter, in
the most comprehensive sense Of the term, is
what the city must have. VIII the Logisla-
ture give it to us9
New-York tribune., 1880-03-07

the financial issues 80 cltcuai.y, in the Con
erc.sioual districts, il order 20 @aln ana "oi'
il, mai .r.5y M the House, that 1t cannot n""
get ril of those issues, nor oi the allies when
have thus been gained Bnt 1t cannot retain
those allies. and fight the battle upon those
issues. vithout condemning itself to sure defeat
as the late elections proved.
It will be the easier for Mr.. III
den to get the nomination, II ne
wishes it, because the other candidates ana
their friends begin to see that they have no
hope. But it Will be the more difficult Tor
him to gain the necessary support, because
Democrats of every shade are gradually set
tling down in the conviction that the case Is
hopeless, and are preparing to use the coming
campaign as an opportunity to kill of dan
gerOus rivals.