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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-17
MATTERS ABROAD.
WHAT Is GOING ON IN THE EAST .
ERN HEMisPMxRE.
The Asiatie OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Of Miss Nelson's Death-chnrac.
terishe Utteranees OF Mr..
Dilion-FIood In Eng.
Iand-Othcr Mat.
ters OF Intcrest.
rHE TROUBLES IN THE ORIENT.
The AfEhanisian situation-Bad Condi. .
tion OF English Interests.


LONDON, August l6.-A dispatch from
Jagdalat, Of the 18th says: General Stew :
arts force has reached scha'afa Ghilzac
the country Of the Ameer, and will enter
Calahissas in state to-day. Cabul is quiet.
A Candahar dispatch Of the 10Th says:
lrregulars occupy the neighboring villages,
and Ayoob Kahn has brought a few guns
TO bear on the city, but they are too Tar
away 10 do much damage. About eight
thousand Aighans have been expelled.
The city garrison is well provisioned ex-
cept with fresh meat. Rum0rs OF General
Roberts advance have reached Candahar,
and any appearance OF patronage would
be interpreted by the Afghans as tutelage,
and render the Ameer's rule unpopular.
One good result from General Roberts
march is already obtained, News OF his
approach has spread far and wide, conse-
quently no rising OF the tribes has taken
place except in the immediate neighbor-
hood OF Candahar. A dispatch from Jag.
dalai says great fear is felt that Ayoob
Kahn may elude General Roberts. The
military correspondent OF the Times says:
1t seems possible that General Phayre
will not relieve Candahar as owing 10 the
deficiency in transportation facilities he
will not be able to advance before the end
OF August, or ten days later than the
original date fixed upon.
We at last received q statement OF the
losses to the British by the battle on the
9TH OF July, in which 1t positively places
the number OF casualties at 81 officers,
three hundred Europeans and seven hun
dred natives killed or missing, and five
officers and ninety men wounded.
Gen. Stewards force will make short
halt and then march to Peshswur.
General Stewart and political officers
strongly favor evacuation as the country
Is nearly exhausted Of supplies and the
camps are tainted from long occupation.
Troops suffer greatly from exposure on
guard and convey duty. The tribes are
for the moment quiet.
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THE CHEAT WHEAT CORNER.
Kecne and His Partners Find II Losing
Speculation.

speculation.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, August l4.-The Times
to-day publishes resume of the celebrated
Keene "wheat DEAL" which, 1t says, has
now been closed out with loss to its or
ganizers and participants Of several mill
lions OF dollars. AS ia known this IDEAL"
was organized more than year ago,
James r. Keene and Jesse Hoyt being It's
originators. With them were associated
Perry II. Smith, George l.. Dunlap and
Nathan Corwith, OF Chicago, and 2 G..
Simmons and Judge Howe, Of kenosha.
interest in the syndicate. Hoyt had o
quarter interest and keene hall. The
New York end assumed entire direction
oil the IDEAL" August Smith, OF Mil
waukee, thought he saw good chance in
following the movements OF the syndicate,
and he gauged his speculations by theirs; +;
and an agreement was finally arrived at
whereby, though he was not to share in
the profits OF the syndicate, he was to be
guided by its directions. At one time the
syndicate had bought 16, 100000 bushels OF
wheat. They proposed to close out the
deal last May, but the attempts did not
realize their expectationsand they decided
to postpone it till June, and by renewed
purchases force up the prices and then
unload. For time it looked as II this
would succeed, but Hazelton-Hoyts
partner here-began selling right and left,
and the market slid away. Now almost
all their wheat has either been shipped or
sold, and the Chicago owners of one.
quarter interest in the deal find themselves
each from $3.50. 900 to $500, out. What
keene's and Hoyt's loss Is cannot be esti.
mated, and Mr.. Smiths loss is estimated
somewhere from quarter to half mil.
lion.
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,te.k Of tho war have been as follows:

We trust that We have given our cores
pondent the information that he desired.
II we have, we hope that We have made
plain the following points:
1st. That the rebuilding OF the bonds
has saved an immense amount OF interest
to the Government.
2d. That the debt has been heavily re-
duced by the purchase and redemption oi
bonds ON time to time, and by this
means an additional immense saving Of
interest effected.
3d. That the coin in the Treasury
could not be dispensed with any more than
the reserve OF a bank.
4th. That the Government does not
carry the bonds to accommodate the Ma
tl1nal Banks, or anybody else.
9th. That wounded soldiers and their
families have not been forgotten, but are
literally provided for.
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PINE BUILDINGS BLOWN UP.
A Mysterious Explosion, Causing Loss Of
Life and Fatal Injuries.

Life and Fatal Injuries.
CHICAGO, August 16.-A Times special
from Como gives an account OF an acci
dent which occurred at Red ELL, small
station on the South Park road, Saturday
night. About twelve o'clock fire broke
out in the depot and caused an explosion
Of about 1000 pounds of powder, which
blew the depot and every building in the
place to atoms. The agent, F. Z. Collyer,
was badly injured by burns and cuts, and
is not expected to live. His as.
sstant, Charley Hilton. was killed, and
two other men badly injured.
Further particulars OF the explosion are
to the effect that Frank E. Collyer, agent,
T. J. Conway, assistantagent and Charles
Glenn, freighter, were sitting in the depot
awaiting the downtrain when the explo.
sion occurred. When the Fairplay coach
reached the scene OF the disaster, soon af-
ter, the passengers found Charles Hilton,
an empioye, fearfully mangled, not a
stitch OF clothing, save one sock, being
found on him. Collyer was severely
wounded aboutthe head, and it is feared
his skull is broken. Conway was inter-
nally injured, but not fatally. Glenn was
wounded about the body, not seriously.
His coat was split from the neck down.
The ground on which the depot, freight
house, eating house, saloon and forward.
ing house stood is now bare.
The buildings were blown into splinters
the size OF tooth-picks. Not one stick on
another remains OF five buildings. 1t is
said twelve cases OF gunpowder were in
the freight house, but this is mere rumor
and there is some mystery aboutthe affair.
Agent Collyer, who recovered conscious
ness. says there was no powder about the
place. The wounded were removed to
Fairplay. 1t is said that the stage driver
caught scoundrel breaking in the safe af-
ter the explosion.
Persons who arrived on the ground, in
moving about in the darkness, stumbled
over the PROSTATE form Of John H. Sin
gleton, who had one leg. blown of. He
conversed freely and gave some particu-
lars OF the occurrences.
The following is a list OF all the killed
and wounded: @. A. Hilton, killed out
right; P. ]. Conway, fatally injured inter-
nally; P. E. Collier, fatally injured; E. NJ.
Cleaner, . restaurant keeper, seriously
but not fatally wounded; J. H. Singleton,
saloon keeper, seriously but not fatally
wounded.
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wnde unmnfon,s speech.

WASHINGTON, August l5.-The Charles
ton Neus having questioned the accuracy
Of Wade Hampton's speech, the staunton
Valley Firginian says:
We don't know what was in Gen.
Hampton's mind when he delivered his
speech in Staunton, but we do know what
his language meant. He declared that the
Democratic party, under Hancock's lead,
was fighting for the same principles that
Lee and Jackson fought for, and Tor which
the Southern soldier died. There was no
qualification OF the terms used. His ap-
peal was for harmony in the Democratic
party in Virginia, and to make 1t effective
he brought up the war remembrances 10
touch the feelings OF the audience, and in
that connection announced the principles
which were at issue in the contest now be-
ing waged between the two great parties
OF the country.
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Home Happenings Of Minor Importance.
At Cleveland yesterday, Clevelands 9,
WOrcesters 8.
J.. @. Duncan, the long imprisoned de.
fsulting president OF the Pioneer Savings
Bank OF San Francisco, has been released
on SOL 500 bail.
One planter, near Danville, Va, had
one hundred thousand hills Of tobacco
destroyed by hail storm. Others had
large quantities ruined.
Thos. McGrath described as engineer
belonging the American man.of.war Tren-
ton has been committed for trial for kill.
ing man In an atfray at Gravesend.
The Democrats OF the Twenty.sevsnth
Pennsylvania district have nominated
Alfred Short for Congress. He will be
short otherwise than In name at the cleo.
ton.
An immigration society has been formed
for the purpose OF inducing foreign emf.
grants TO settle in West Tennessee. The
movement has the endorsement OF the
State Bureau OF immigration.
A match has been arranged between La
cock, the Australian sculler, and Black
man, Of London, for El00 side,
the race TO be rowed over the Thames
course, on the 9th OF October next.
Senator Conkling, 1t is announced has
called on the Republican National Com.
mittee and indicated his willingness 70
take the stump for Garfield and Arthur
He will make his opening speech at the
Academy Of Music, New York, and then
make few speeches in Ohio and Indiana
after which he will return and do active
work In his own State,
| Adelaide Nelson was, at the time OF hel
demise, but 39 years Of age, although hel
celebrity and her experience were so wide
as TO make her almost without peer
Nelson was OF provincial birth, but hei
rare beauty and really remarkable tAlen
made her prime fayorite upon the Lon
don boards twelve years ago, when she hac
been but one brief season oE the stage
She first visited this country In 1877 anc
was crowned by great success. Last yea
she paid America a farewell visit, whict
proved indeed farewell visit In mort
serious sense than any one then antici
pated,
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a SENSATIONAL CASE AT LIrTLEroN
Charges aud Counter Charges OF an Ugly
Character Handled by Prominent Citi.


LiTTLEroN, W. Va, August l6.
Correspondence Of the INTEL gsacer.
Yesterday Mr.. Robert Longwell, a citi.
zen from Knobiork, went before Justice
]. A. Connolly and made information
against Morgan Smith and Race vanedine,
charging them, in company with several
others that he could not recognize, with
coming to his house on last Saturday
night and breaking down his doors and
taking him out and administering to him
some Of the Red Mems discipline, which
consisted in twenty-five stripes on the
back with hickory withes. His back bore
evidence Of the fact, as 1t had the appear
ance OF being curried with Ia crop hackle,
and was yet bleeding from the gashes
The circumstances connected with this
trouble, as near as could be ascertained,
are as follows: Some two weeks
ago Mr.. Longwell made an all.
davit that he caught DR.. Desarmow,
OF Knobiork, committing incest with his
oldest daughter, aged 10 years; but be.
fore steps were taken to bring him up to
answer the charge, he had Longwell ar.
rested for perjury, and on bringing him
before Justice Thomas Morris OF Centre
District, by way of a compromise he was
released from custody by making counter
affidavit. This last affidavit he now claims
was made through fear, as his lie was
threatened; and he also claims that the
cause OF the men taking him out and
furnishing him so cruelty was because he
did not leave the State in specified time,
and to ayeDge the wrong done to DR.. De.
garmow these men inflicted this punish
ment. When leaving him they gave him
twentv.four hours to leave the State, or II
found his life only would pay the penalty.
Shortly after the warrant was issued for
the arrest OF Smith and Vanedine, DR.. De,
garmow, In company with hseveral others,
appeared at the Justices office and had a
second warrant issued for Longwell, On
the same charge as before mentioned (per.
jury). An interesting time is looked for
when the parties are all arraigned before
our Justice.
Richard Adams on yesterday had a
partial stroke Of paralysis, from which
be Is still suffering, losing the use OF his
left arm.
A new district has been formed here off
OF Church and Canter districts by our
County Court, which was in session last
week. It will be the banner district OF
our county, because its name is Clay.
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correspondent OF the lNrRLLIGENcER
Ttiug from Richie County, West Vir-
fisil suggests that It would be well to
"tt.hs people know why it is that sher-
mia Is rsfundiug the bonds when we have
SODOOO in the Treasury. Also to let
them know what the Republican party
su Jous and is doing for old soldiers, and
bow list We are paying the National debt.
lr The Republicans carrying the bonds
aEsly to keep up the National banks?"
These are elementary suggestions and
gsiols, and it may seem surprising to
alay persons that at this late day infor-
1liOu should be needed on such we'll
Tan subjects. But SO it is. People do
sa charge their recollection with the
s5dll facts and statistics that are con-
itlAly enanating from the government
n regard to the debt, the banks, the
binds, pensions, etc., and hence We pre-.
nas there will be a constant necessity on
IAsPlH Of the newspapers to go over the
IEa and figures at short intervals.
LAS to relunding. This means the
nuvsniou Of bonds bearing six per cent
utVsp per cent interest-known as 5.20a
ndlN+0s-intO bonds bearing a less rate
daietsst. This process has been going
% dnee 1871, under the reiunding act oi
laa Under it Mr.. Boutwell, refunded
@mOOO Of the SKIES into five per cents
lSsa Secretary Richardson refunded, dur
isG.tsrm, $l9O,OOOOOO; next, Secretary
asov refunded slSO,OOO,OOO; and next
sasly Morrill,, s9O,OOO,OOo, and lastly
Xt Sherman has refunded $500, o,S45,950
(Which $40, ,S45, $50 have been refunded
sO ipef cent bonds.
Ii time wore on the government wa
'aibed to make better and better terms
lsst'al saving Of interest on account o
s!aati1g the debt from 1871 t,
las sGh, 1850, is s5o,lSo,5OO 50. Th'
i'Al saving on account Of reduction ii
AsPtuipal Of the debt between Angus
liS, ls6jAnd June 3Oth, $3.50, is s527, 1856
@I'-naking u total saving by reduction
I'D leIundInE, not including the larg
isin5ions by purchases made durinI
ssssal year Of lSSO-of s579, ,696, ,lO9.6S
'stpresent annual saving Of interest b.
'IRadins ia $ls,9OO,s48.5O
:-A'the to the reduction OF the debt
AsOitsial statement issued from Wash
asOn on the 24th Of last month states
aE the public debt, less cash in tn,
asl'uy, on the Slst of August 1886 wa
G'%43l,57l,l3, Since that time the de
7sA'ehas been as follows:
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CABLE CLICKS.
Condensed Note aud commen. on old
World Affairs.

Condensed NOTE aud Comment OH old
World Affairs.
The report OF the death OF Marshal
Bazine Is unfounded.
Herbert Spencer begins, next year, a
tour Of the world, going from England to
the United States.
The value Of the plate and jewelry
stolen from Lord Eldon's residence, near
Wareham, Is E20, 900.
Adelaide Nelson died at midnight, Sat.
urday, at the restaurant Duchalet, in the
Bols d'Boulogne, Paris.
A Calcutta dispatch says the man who
fired at Lord Lytton in December and was
declared insane, has recovered and been
committed for trial.
A Copenhagen dispatch says tnat in
consequence Of telegram from the Gov
ernment ut Athens, the King Of Greece
will return there Immediately.
The RrpuJligue FrGrcGs, announces that
Gambett4's letter in the Rerik yesterday
was written on the-i0:h OF October, 1871
when 1t appeared In all OF the Paris ne WA,
papers, and was also published Ia pamph.
Jet form. Nevertheless q dispatch from
B,rlin lays the letter has produced there
painful impression,
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ADELAIDE NELSON.
Conflicting stories of Her Death-saspi.
cions That All IN Not Right.

EiuhN tHht "AA Nbt
PARIS, August 16.-Adelaide Nelson
was taken Ill Saturday night while driv.
ing in the Bois de Boulogne with lady
who had been living with her as her COM
panion. She had been staying at the Con-
tinental Hotel for few days previous to
her death with her companion, a servant
and gentleman described as her Secre-
tary." The circumstances surrounding
her death are SO suspicious that police In
quiry may become necesessary. The
rooms which Miss Nelson occupied at the
Continental Hotel have been sealed up,
and kilograms have been sent To her rela-
tiyes.
Another dispatch says Miss Nelson had
left her home with party OF friends in
the best Of spirits and apparently good
health, to take dJetuIer In the famous
Duchalet restaurant, Bois de Boulogne.
At the table she frequently alluded to her
success in her profession, aud spoke hone
fully OF what she expected to accomplish
during the coming season, and in the more
distant future. Suddenly Miss Nelson
turned pale, gave low cry, pressed her
hand upon her heart, and iell back in her
chair. Her friends sprang to her assist
ance and attempted to bring her to con-
sciousness, and despatched sImessenger
for medical aid; but all efforts were Of no
avail and the fact was impressed upon
them that Miss Nelson was dead.
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with heavy reserve shows, Of course, an
ignorance Of the first principles OF finance
Why do banks keep reserveP What
would be the consequence II they under
took to loan It out? To answer these
questions is to furnish the reason why Mr..
Sherman keeps large reserve OF coin on
hand. In the first place, the accumulation
OF this coin was necessary to the resump-
ton OF specie payments, and, in the next,
It is necessary to maintain resumption.
Resumption would not last day we're 1t
known that this reserve was not on hand.
Gold would soon be at premium again,
apd we would be once more at sea on an
irredeemable paper currency. The large
coin balance in the U. S. Treasury Is the
great palladium OF our financial sound
ness>to,day-of all stability in the pur-
chasing power ofour paper money. To
destroy 1t would be like destroying the
regulator in a watch. The time piece
would simply go wild.
4-"Are the Republicans carrying
the bonds merely to keep up the National
Banks2"
Certainly not. The bonds represent
the debt OF the Government, growing out
Of the war. They are held by private
investors, by insurance companies, by
all sorts OF trust funds, by savings banks,
and lastly, by the National Banks. The
Government carries TIE bonds simply be-
cause 1t has to carry them-just as pri.
yate debtor carries his notes or mortgages
mot as q matter Of choice, but purely and
only as a necessity. The National Banks
bought the bonds held by them just the
same as private investors bought or sub
scribed for theirs. They bank
bank on these bonds, lust as Virginia
banks used to bank on Virginia bonds.
They are obliged to deposit their bonds in
the Treasury at Washington for security
to their note holders, and this is the rea:
son why it is impossible for National Bank
money to fail or depreciate. A National
Bank note is always worth one hundred
cents on the dollar, in any part OF the
country, and loss to the holders of them is
simply impossible. No system OF banking
that we have ever had compares with il.
5th-As to what has been done and
is doing for the soldiers.
We hardly know what is comprehended
in this question. We presume it refers to
pensions, In the way of pensions, the
Government paid out during the last
year over $50. .OOO.OO There are 249,755
persons on the pension rolls-soIdiers and
sailors or their widows or minor children.
Under the acts of Congress Of January
25th, and March Sd, 1870. known as the
Arrearages acts, the SUN Of 81 $780, ,0OS 81
in the shape OF back pay was awarded to
them. The regular appropriation on &C.
count of pensions for the fiscal year OF
lS70-sO was s29,SG5, 900. Thepayments for
pensions from year to year since the out
h,auL of tho war have bpen aS followA.
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1n Democratic State Committee o.
- Virginia meets at Parkersburg to-
.,nor orthe purpose Of etfectlng an or
.,.;,,iop and laying out a campaign
aid that an effort is on foot, having
:. .,5neipal motive power in newspaper
~. bereabouts, for the deposition oI
mike Reilly from the Chairmanship'
,,is Nike is not consumed by ambition,
y, h. objects to being set down upon,
"a Douoses to see this thing through.
h.G,laber. too, the treasurer OF the late
,nmi,tes, and a member OF the present
,.nui,,ee. has no notion Of being snub'
NJ We predict that both of them will
,.pDy their old places. Uncle Mike is
~ mpch Of a father in Israel to
st.ated with disrespecL lie carries the
I,9ocralic party in his capacious bosom,
.rt to his heart, as it were, and to be
1,s ru,hlessly from his paternal relation
mi,rOuld be to him in the nature of q
l,,,,yement. Gallaher will take a diabol.
nl sort Of delight in holding on to bis
apl,ce, principally because he can do
a md not because he expects to bank on
a, Of Tilden's money this time. For
M, mater be would spend little OF his
syu money rather than be squeezed
ant under presentcircumstauces. As was
Sovu at Clarssburg, he is "a nasty man
s.roE," and he will take another can
d ritrO.glycerine with him to Parkers.
Sarlodly and explode it II necessary.
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Increased Republican MaJorities in Ten.

neasee. G
WASHINGTON, August l5.-Information
reached here to-day from the several Con-
gressional districts of East Tennessee,
with details OF the election in that section.
The election was for county officers.
The Republicans carried the three districts
by round majorities, aggregating from
1000 to 10000. The First district, which
elected Taylor, the present Democratic
member, by 700 majority, gave last week
Republican majority Of between 1900
and 1880. The Second district increased
its Republican majority from 5000 to be-
tween 5000 and 5000. The Third district
gave good Republican majority.
The results are such as are heldto make
two members Of the next House certain
for the Republicans for Tennessee, and
the chances for third very good. The
Democrats carried the city Of Knoxville
by small majority with some assistance
from their peculiar methods, but the
county oyerbalanced the city and gave the
whole to the Republicans by a small ma
iority. 81 ~
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murdered by nrnnLen Ronrhs.

ST. Louis, August lG.-While Joseph
Buehler was hauling . party Of men in a
furniture wagon from Bamberger's Gar
den, in the southwestern suburb Of the
city, to the end Of the street railroad track
late last night, dispute arose between
some OF the men, who seem to have been
drunk, and they demanded that Buehler
at once drive TO the railroad. Buehler
would not accede to their demands, where
upon they brutally assaulted him, and he
was either thrown or fell out OF his wagon,
receiving injuries from which he died.
Shortly after the assault they took Bueh-
ler,s horses, drove off and escaped arrest.