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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
LAND AT LARGE.
CHRONICLES AND COMMENTS ON
CONTEMPORARY OCCURRENCES.
Statistics OF Our Population-somethinE
About the weather-DeyiIish Deeds
and Dire Disasters-words from
washinEton - ohio College
Association, dc, &c.
HEIR,a XIOKEpNRSs.

Preliminary Examination OF the 81
CIairsviIle Murderers-weiI VALVES q
Hearing and IL Held.
ST. CLAIRsvILIE, December 2s.
Special Dispatch to the Intolliceuear.
At l o'clock P. NJ. to-day George Weir,
who shot Riggs on Saturday, was taken
before the Mayor and waived an examina.
ton, and was remanded to jail under the
charge Of murder in the first degree, 10
await the action Of the grand jury. Weir's
appearance was bad, both eyes being
blacked, cheeks swollen, and nose badly
bruised from the blow received from the
mace in the hands OF his victims brother.
Downing's examination rs an accessory
is in progress at this writing. The state
ment in the INTELLIaEScER's account OF
the murder that Downing was present at
the shooting was incorrect. He is said to
have been at home.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
A GIAND HOTEL.
Something Immense Projected for Wash.

Something lIninensc Projected for Wash
iugton.
WASHINGTON, December est is stated
that a company of New York capitalists
has been formed for thepurpose OF erect.
ing hotel in this city which will in every
respect be worthy of the National Capital.
Several sites have been suggested and
their merits discussed, but location near
the Executive Mansion has been most IA.
vorebly considered. The general details OF
the structure have not yet been fully deci-
dea, but it is the purpose Of the projectors
OF the scheme to carry out their ideas up
on scale that will result in grand pals.
tial hostelry which will eclipse anything OF
the kind upon the continent and afford a
luxurious abode for the constantly incress-
ing number OF the upper.ten thousand
who are being attracted by the many ad-
vantages offered by the many advantages
offered by Washington as winter resort,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

Tas ohioschool report for 1880 is just
made public, and ia full OF interesting
Statistics. The total school receipts far
the fiscal year were Sll,O75,64s OF. The
ireducible fund yielded $3.50 744 5l, aud
The local levieS amounted to s., 1856, ,S7s Al.
The amount derived from fines and
licenses was s225, $50 Al.
Thee1psndituros were s7,7O4,44S IS, oi
which 1850, 1888 40 was paid to teachera
o' the primary school, and s442, ,S5s Is to
teachers in the High Schools.
Iae number Of youth OF school age are
i"4O,%5, of whom 2S,O5l are colored
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
TIE CHINESE TREATY.
Reports of Its Contents All CopJectures


San Francisco, December 2S. MIR. Tres.
colt, the Chinese Commissioner, left for
Washington with tho official copy OF the
new Chinese treaty IN his possession.
The provisions OF the treaty are State
secret, and while ia general terms they
have been described, they have not been
made known To any one outside Of official
circles. All reports purporling to give the
stipulations OF the treaty arc Buppositinus,
and tao Commissioners are united In their
determination to keep the treaty secret
until after its presentation to the Presi-
dent and State Department. COmmissioner
Swift left Shanghai by the last steamer,
and upon his arrival here will proceed i'm.
mediately 10 Washington.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

The Washington correspondent Of the
ohicago Time, had long interview with
Bob 1ngersoll the other day on politics
and religion. BE wound up by asking Bob,
"What is your idea oiimmortality"? OF Bob
replied as iollows:
az was asked that question the other
day, and my reply was sbout this: There
was time when was not, after that ]
was, now am. The qnestion is. shall /
live again7 I reply that it is fully as
probable that shall live again when l
do live, as that should have lived, when
| did not. ! have got a start, to say the
least OF It."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
status Of Inc Rcadiur Road.

LONDON, December 9S.-F. B. Gowen
President OF the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company writes to the Times at
follows: Even Of the very large vote com
manded by the McCalmonts were csst
sgsinst the present Reading management
il could accomplish no change. The very
influential American committee hos un'
anmously recommended the reelection
OF the present management, and It's re-
election is certain. The election will be
postponed till after the 10Th OF January to
enable me to vote on proxies l hold. The
deferred income bonds will be issued in Q
few days.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Annual Session of tho ohio coiIeEer
Associations.

MARIETTA, December 27,-Thc annual
session Of the Association Of the Colleges
Of Ohio is now in progress at the College
building, Phi Gamms Hall being used for
the occasion. Tho address Of welcome was
delivered by Professor Maratt, ot Marietta
College, in the absence OF President An.
drews, who failed to reach here In time.
The lateness OF trains and other cauSes
will keep many from being present until
tomorrow. The response oil President Or.
ton, OF the Ohio State University, together
with his inaugural address, We are unable
to send tonight owing to the lateness Of the
hour. The following are the officers ot the
Association: President, Edward orton
Vice. President, Carroll Cutter; Secretary,
Professor R. s. Devol; Treasurer, Professor
Thomas McFadden; Professor E. T. Nell
son, ]. B. Weston and Judson Smith
Executive Committee. The programme ioi
Tuesday Is quite lengthy, and II is proba
BILE that the session will run into Wednes
day
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Opposition to the Canadian Pacific II. n

LONDON, ONT, December 2s.-At mass
meeting here yesterday it was resolved
that the proposal made by the Government
and now before Parliament to expend $780,
100000 of money and to grant 25,0OO, ,0OC
acres Of choice land, worth at an estimate
made by the Government last session
$40 00O, 900, for the purpose, as alleged, o.
insuring the completion OF the Pacific
railroad, is highly inexpedient and Is cal
culated to prevent any considerable reduc'
ton in the present rate Of excessive taxa.
tion,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

oSE would suppose from the Christmas
editorials in the newspapers that yule
logs and mistletoe boughs and holly were
common ornaments in thfs season, where
as there is not one American citizen in a
thousand who knows a yule log from a
horse.block, or mistletoe bough from a
side of bacon.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
rira ntoninnr III

CHICAGO, December 2s,-A telegram to
the J0unalirom Quincy, to.day,says: Reed
( Burton's confectionery was burned
loss, 5000. Joseph & Welkes' establish.
ment, adjoinining, was damaged $4,000,
and other losses aggregate $500. All In.
sured. The mercury was l0' below zero,
and fighting the FIRE was extremely diff
cult,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

MILWAUKEE, WIS, December 2S.-The
grain commission house OF W. P. McLaren,
failed to-day, owing to the failure Of the
Chicago branch on Saturday, which un.
doub.edly soldshort, and was caught on the
rise in the wheat market. Mr.. McLaren
the head OF tho houIe, Is unable to esti
mate the liabilities, but from the best
sources 1t Is learned that they are very
large, probably about $3.50, 900.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
JUDGE wARNgs.
MS Death Monday Evening aad an Gut
line OF sis Career.

HH DtHth HuhuHy EEfhInE aud an Out
Iinc OF Bis Career.
STRuBENvILLE, December 2S-Judce ].
Il. Warner, who was noticed in these dis.
patches some time aga as having severe
stroke Of paralyses, died at his residence,
North Third street, lsst evening. MIR.
Warner has lived In this city tbirty.seven
years, at frat eHgsged in running cotton
mills. and then was in tho coal business ss
president Of the Steubenvile Coal and
Iron Company, which position lie held
natil his death. He was engaged in the
iron buainess at Cincinnati for number
of YEAR,, and in his school days was q
school mate OF Samuel J. Tilden.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
A Very Pretty Quarrel Among lae rro

Troy, N. Y, December 2S.-H. D. Gun.
ningham, editor Of the Troy Telegram, was
arrested this afternoon and lodged in a cell
at the Second Precinct station, on war
rant charging him with criminally libel.
ling Mayor Edward Murphy, il. The
libel claimed consists in statement by
that paper to-day that the Mayor attended
o dog fight yesterday, and that he was said
to own one oil the contestants.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
A Republicnn Congressman.

CONCORD, N. H., December pa spO'
cial Congressional election in the Third
district, 10 fll the vacancy caused by the
death Of Hon. Evarts W. FArr, was held
to-day, and resulted in the election Of Mr.,
Ray, (Republicanl.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

NEWARK, N. j., December 2s,- The
bronze statue Of Gen. Philip Kearney was
unyailed in Military Park to-day with i'm.
posing ceremonies, participated In BY Gen.
u. s. Grant, Gen. W. T. Sherman, Gen.
Wagner, Gen. Jos. R. Hawley, Gov. Nc.
Clelland, and numerous State dignitaries,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Suicide of the PresIdcnt of the Swiss
Republic.

GENEVA, December 97.-The suicide Of
the President OF the Swiss Confederation
is attributed to temporary insanity. He
believed his life was endangered by secret
enemies. The relatively small majority by
which he was elected President Is stated
to have greatly disappointed him.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

sr. LOUIS, December 2s.- Tho dead
body Of Henry Tremyer, German, forty.
seven years old, was found in the south.
ern part OF the city to-day with bulle.
hole in the head, he having committed
suicide. He was q clerk in the posto office,
and the only reason assigned for the act
was the apprehension that he would be
discharged. He left wife and two child.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Tue following advertisement is taken
hap.hazard from the column "City Real
Estate For Sale" OF the New York Herald:

ripru AVENUE HOUSES FOR SALE.
FIscas corner 900
FiIrst-eass house Aud sisbIe..... 40 600
ElsE.ut house aud $4,000
@ price from sSO 90 ~.s ~ 10000
fourth % ~~ .".. .".. "~
This advertisement in itseli epitomizes
the story OF tho wealth and growth OF New
York. Ten years ago sl0O, 900 house was
very rarely met with. Now they have
them by the score.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Now nnilrnnd sehemn.

CrxclSNArl, December 2s.-Negotia
tons are pending and will probably be
completed soon, for the purchase by 8
party OF Cincinnati capitalists, among
whom arc Charles W. West and
NJ. Z. Ingalls,, OF the Kentucky Cen
tral Railroad. The plan Is to build q
road to connect this one with the Knoxville
& Ohio, and with communications with
existing roads to make through line from
the northwest to the seaboard. 1t will b.
independent Of the Louisville & Nashville
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
pAR1ICULARs or POPULATION.
Census Returns for Number OF the
States aud Terrlfortes,

WASHINGTON, D. O., December 2S.-Thc
following statement shows the population
OF certain States and Territories, according
to the United States census Of 1880. This
statement is still subject to possible correc-
tions by reasons OF the discovery OF omis.
sionsor Implications ol names In lists Of in.
hAbitAnts returned:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
Capacity for Grnin storage nj Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 2s.-It appears
from published figures that the total stor-
age capacity OF the city is %, 100000 bush
els. OF which 19. .455, 900 is elevator room,
1922 600 sail vessel room and 925, 900
steam vessel room. The increase over
last years capacity Is 100000 bushels.
There are now In store here 10 0O0 00C
bushels OF grain against 100000 this
time last year. A grain gut similar tc
that Of last spring Is notimprobabIe.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29
The proportion Of the youth OF school age
to the whole population averages about 40
mar cant In tha ga y;nua conntiea

10 tne WnoIe popuIAuOn averages aoVu' ~
per cent. in the various counties.
There were 442 new school building
erected during the year at q cost Of SILL
s35. The total number in the State Ii
IL, ,14S, valued at s2l, ,s5l,7ls. The number
OF teachers is 23,8s4, and they are pretty
evenly divided between the sexes.
The average monthly wages Of male
teachers in the primary schools ia ss4, and
OF females s2s.
The per cent. Of daily attendance OF tho
average monthly enrolment ID n. There
are 472 colored teachers.
Under the head Of teachers exsmina.
tions we find the following statistics:
Whole number Of applications. ,ost
Number Of apple hioui rel Need ,tSl
Number oi certbcsIOs grGnted for thirty-iiI
No
Number Of certificates granted torIHenty-!ouf
Sop
iSoath... 80. ass
Number ot certificates granted for twelve
VbSO
Eumberof certificates glnted for slx monthsI0 9i5
Total gentlemen granted certdcates..... . ,6ot
otil ladies' granted eert6cstes... 7ss
Grand total Of certificate. granted tS3
Per cent Of applicants n !scted.........
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

Difficulty I'm Obtaining Jury-Impos.
lug Array OF ofAdvocates-Th Prisoners
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-29

DENVER, December 2S.-A Republican
special says: On Saturday night, during
a drunken row in dance hall at Robin
soma Camp, man named Meally was
shot through the breast. Policeman VIM.
Elbany, In attempting to arrest the dis
turbers, was shot in the foot. Several
others had bullet holes in their clothing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
The Gold Seekers Admonished

The many thousand adventurous seekers
after gold and silver in the far West should
mediate upon the fact that in ibe July draw
ing of the Louisiana State Lottery Mr.. Jacob
Rabiner, No. $50 Gre nd street, New York City.
drew one half OF the capital prizs, $4,000. M
Max Stern. also of New York City, drew a
similar sum. Messrs. n. Israil, 81. Oppenheim
and B. RosenbluD, of 81 Chrystie street, New
York City, drew one-hslf of the second CAPT.
tai prizs of $4,000. Mrs. Eliza McGrain, also
of New York City 10y Adams Express), drew
one-ha1 OF the third prize of IS coo, and Mr..
William Matthews, of Mt. Vernon, Westches-
ter County, New York. drew similar amount,
and each one only paid one dollar. Why, IL
almost makes a person determine at once TO
write to NJ. A. Dauphin, 3l9 Broadway, New
York City, same person at New Orleans,
La, for the particulars OF the next drawing.
on September IA.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
One Enough.

Enoch Arden went 10 sea, and was gon,
so long that his wife thought he was dead
and married another man. In process of
time he returned, and seeing his wife happy
in her new home, went of again without dis
closing his personality to her.
Every little while there appears in the pa
pers the announcement of Another Enoch
Arden"
But we hope there are not so many Enoch
Ardens.
One Enoch Arden is enough His story,
as told by the great poet Tennyson, is very
touching, but it is very sad.
The young man who marries beautiful
girl and lives with her happily, and doesn t
go to sea, and doesn't come home after a long
absence and find his wife married to another
man may be less poetical and less self sacri-
ficing and less heroic than Enoch, but he
has a much better time.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18

EXPENSES, sS,7l4.S7; Deaf and Dumb, s4,793.64;
Governors civil contingent expenses, 81, 1912
fuel and lights, s6O7.S Soldiers Orphans'
Home, Sal4.57; incidental expenses, State
Library, s297l7: books and binding, 1924 76;
state Board of Equalization, el67 40; Governors
office expenses, ti5 81.
In this connection let me say q good wcru
for the Legislature. When that body met a bin
appropriating Sis, eco for pay of members and
expenses was passed unanimously, but both
branches being practically Democratic, that
party controlled the expenditures, and s3S =
9I9. rs OF the appropriation was not expended.
No charge Of extravaganza was ever msde.
against the Legislature, but on the contrary II
is EMIT ed to credit for rigid economy.
What beautifuland pleasing pyramid shese
figures will make, and they should be W ritten
on the blackboard OF every school hous,s in the
State. The record is so good the d cures will
bear repeating In the inverse n1er given
Is so unususI the figures should De given the
place OF honor and support the
PYRAMID.
S4<0
167 40.
23i76.
297.H.
4l457.
607.S.
3l9l.72.
37l4 81.
4T93 81.
5lgo.s2.
l035S 50.
l0,5U0.O0.
3l,451.55.
3S.9is.76.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
VERY LONG AGO.

Listening in the twilight, very long ago,
To a sweet voice singing very soft ana low.
Was the song ballad OF a lady bright
Saved from deadly peril by gallant knight?
Or a song OF battle aud flying foe?
Nay, have forgOtten-'tis so long ago.
Scarcely half remembered, more than half for
got,
can only tell you what the song was not.
Memory unfaithful has not kept that strain,
Heard once in the twilight-never heard
again.
Every day brings twilight, but no twilight
brings
To my ear that music on such quiet wings.
After autumn sunsets, in the dreaming light,
When long summer evenings deepen into
night,
All that am sure OF is that, long ago,
Some one sang at twilight very sweet and low.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18

Prince Bismarck has the true smokers
real affection for his pipe. He has special
pet pipe, the bowl of which fell to pieces
the other day. He showed so much sorrow
over this destruction of his old friend that
his family carefully collected the fragments
and sent them to Berlin to be put together.
The work was skiltnlly executed, and the
Prince is again enjoying the silent and
soothing compsnionship OF his favorite.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18

1t is proper to saw that at the time the Au-
ditor f1led his report the accounts OF the North
ern Prison were not all In, but as the amount
earned by the prison about balances the
amount of expenses, the result is not changed.
WHAT THE STATE GOVERNMENT COSTS THE TAX
PAYERS
Deduct the $751; $50 70 from the $50 $3.50, and
we have S5S9 O64 ~, which represents the true
amount that il cost the taxpayers of Indiana
last year to administer our State Government,
support our benevolent, penal and educa-
tional Institutions and pay the expenses OF
the Judiciary and State printing, the latter
item alone under Republican administra-
ton costing about one-sixth of this amount.
This record is without parallel in the history
OF this State and no other state in the Union
can beat IL. 1t is the result OF the wise, pru-
dent and economical administrators OF the
Hendricks and successfully continued by
Governor Williams.
THE RECORD OF LAST YEAR BEATEN.
But excellent as Is the record for the year
ending October 81, 1873, the present fiscal year
of the State will make better showing. The
law recognizing the benevolent institutions
passed by the last Legttlature, after bitter
opposition by the Republican members, did
not go into force and effect until half OF the
fscaI year had passed, and 1t WAS only during
the last half of the year that the new Boards
organized under it efficiently carried out its
provisions, and saved thousands of dollars to
the taxpayers OF the State.
The honest administration of the benevo-
lent boards and the savings effected in other
departments will keep down the expendi-
lures OF this year 10 what they were last, al
though we hsve this year to provide for the
new Insane Hospital for Women. In other
words, the
SAVINGS
will pay the additional expenses caused by
the opening Of this splendid Hospital, and no
increase of taxation will be necessary TO sup
port IL. Well may the people of the State,
without regard TO party, be proud OF our State
Government.
SOMETHING NEW.
frfta vovfpo sGfhof fhara a. v,1..tx,1
new under the sun" You know that not
dollar can be taken out of the State Treasury
without an appropriation Is first made by the
Legislature. AZ every session an appropria-
institutions, and the expenses can not exceed
the amount appropriated. The rule is TO
spend every dime appropriated; but this rule
was badly fractured last year by the officers
composing the present Democratic admins
tration in our State. II the saving had been
only in one department IL would not have at
tracted much attention, but propose to show
you that economy has been praeticed so uni
formly by the Governor. State officers and
members OF the Boards controlling the Inst1tu-
lions of the State, that IL may well be said that
we have something new in Indiana to be
proud Of.
APPROPRIATIONS NOT USED.
The following appropriations were not ex-
hausted last year, and the figures given repre-
sent the amount saved: Insane Hospital, $780,
$685. House OF Refuge, SIC, 500; public
printing, 10,S5S.6s; Blind Asylum, So
1852; Governors military contingent
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
Oueru's Cod Liver Oil Jelly.

Approved by the Academy OF Medicine Of
New York for coughs, colds, bronchial and
tuDercular consumption, scrofula and general
debility. The most mild, bland and nutri-
tious form in which God Liver Oil can be used
and with more benefit secured TO the patient
by single teaspoOnful of this Jelly than by
double the quantity of the liquid oil, and the
most delicate stomach will not reject il. For
sale by all druggists, snd E. II. Truck, 3
Plat street, New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18

with never falling success by millions of
mothers for their children. IL relieves the
child from pain, cures dysentery and diar-
rhoea. gripping In the bowels, and wind collie.
By giving health to the child It rests the
mother. Pnce twenty-five cents bottle.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Bric-a-Erac.

Ladies are wild about "brIc-a-brac," and will
talk, talk, talk about them world without end.
Such ladies should buy SOZODONT and use it
before they descant upon their hobbies, espec-
tally If the prosecuted one is a male. 1t gives
a flavor to the conversation.