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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

TaE new city bonds for the A per cent
lean Of slj4,jO have been printed and de-
lbercd to the city authorities. Those who
have even SO small Il sum Ms 500 unem-
poyed will find these bonds u safe invest.
nrnt They do not yield big interest, 1t
nruc, but it was the Duke Of Wellington
Mooncc said that high interest generally
means poor security These bonds draw one
per cent more than the recently refunded
bHls Of the Government, and rather more
than the average otrecently negotiated cor
pation loans. Wheeling has small
debt and her credit is or ought to be first
class Her bonds are rs good as those oI
any city in the country.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

GALtov, o., October 2a.-Owing to the
inclement weather Miss Elsa Won Blumen,
the biCyClist, has been compelled TO post
pone her engagement until Tuesday, next,
November ist, when she will make a ten.
mile run against time, and Immediately ai-
tefwari contest for purse Of SlO0 against
q tfotting and running hose II is estimat.
ed that at least ten thousand persons will
witness the contest. Mis- Won Blumen
will 20 South iot the winter
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Hanian,s RinG

81. LOUts, October 2g.-Yestetday Ttiek.
EFT telegraphed lEanlan, asking how mich
the latter would take 10 come here and
row him the race for 81 900 side on Creys
Cnut lake. To-day Iianlan replied. gWitl
take 5000" This is q larger sum than
was ever demanded OF ever paid Al oaFs.
man for rowing match aside from slaEeS.
II y regarded here a. a big bluf. Ticket
is In magnificent condition, and exceed
ing!y anxious 10 try conclusions once more
with Hanlan. Some intimate that Hanlan
wants 70 avoid meeting TFlCketl.
81. Lotl, October Sl--Ttlckelt. The
oarsman, left here tonight for Toronto io
see II he Cappot make terms wIih HSnlSn
70 row Z match lot 1000 a side, on Cftye
Cousr Lake, near this city.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

TnE long rolling mill strike at Cincin'
natl has ended at last. The Commercial oi
Yesterday says
After five months struggle the iron
strikers have agreed to go to work At pre-
dely tie prices they were receiving
when they demanded twenty per cent ad
vance
The mill owners accepted n proposition
to ths effect from the strikers, on condition
that on June next the wages in all de-
yanmenls shall be reduced to "hat Pitts
bagh prices" The workmen accepted tht
,onlition and so the strike ends.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

Tng coming election is now engaging the
attention oi our Washington county neigh
br. Atthc last Presidential election that
oqr,y cast 1851 votes, viz; 6,45l for Gar,
s.I. s <NhrlIancock and $50 for Weaver.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

ln1rp,oy county produces the largest
shea, crop in West Virginia, and Berkeley
ypn,y follows next. The Eastern Pan
handle jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan)
PRODUCES nearly one.tourth of the entire
lrnnni lhe state.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

Tag wheat market looks weaker under
Ac figures recently furnished by the Agri'
cultural Department in regard to the prob
able crop this year. 1t closed at a decline
on saturday. The recent advance in east
bound irrghts has also tendency to de-
press H.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

rar Weston Democrat speaks in high
,.rn, of recent effort Of John S. Carlile
,roi the late ex-senator Carlile) Mt the
lar in that place.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

,nnri,nor PURCELL is at the point OIL
,s,,b oar Cincinnati adyices ofyesterday
az that he is paralyzed in the lower por'
non Of tie body and almost childish. His
J,s,I4 may occur at any hour,
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r1E MARSHALL County Sunday School
c.,yrptIou will be held at Rock Lick
Thursday and Friday Of this week,
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TIM Rev. John Aughey, formerly Of
Wr,, Union Marshall county, has removed
IN BrlrNater, Pa,
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y,n.are in good demand in New York
mil zl,ts So says the Bulletin Of Sat
grlly.
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You are sick we'll, there il Just one remedy
that will cure you beyond possibility Oi
doubt fits Liver or Kidney trouble bon.
sumption, Dyspepsia, Debility, "Welrs
Health Remover & your hope. 500 Drug.
ist Depot LAughllh Bios, &Co, Wheeling,
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gryys, Il wool in New York are said
r,nri.y alyicesl to be moving with eau
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Boroy, October so.-The IIanlOn.Ross
race 4 Of I'LL spring,
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niEIl

QylNE.-on sunday, 0csobev 20 MI. Al Al, p,
Il, Aas Etn4aEiH QriSA ased q StlfI,
Fuaeml aotlce hsleai,eI,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31
GARFIELD MEMORIAL SERVICE.

BERLIN, October 30.-Funeral service in
memory Of General Garfield was cele.
brated to-day in the principal salon Of the
town hall, which was draped in mourning
Many persons were present, including
members Of the diplomatic corps and sci.
entiic and learned societies, Ministers OF
the Interior, Public Works and Justice and
high military and municipal authorities.
Prof. Gneist delivered an Grafton before
a colossal bust of the dead President. lie
declared that a providential feature Of
General Garheld's career was his strong
will, which lifted him step above the par.
ties in political conflicts, and gifted him
with impartiality as pilot against the
stream. General Garfield made use Of the
position granted him by the American
constitution with the full powers Of n con.
stitutional sovereign. He undertook the
abolition Of the system OF spoilation and
plunder, which caused Guiteau to seize the
assassin's weapon, without regard to the
loss the nation would sustain, and without
perceiving that his act would stamp and
brand iniamy upon the system. Garheld's
martyrdom, like Lincoln's, indicates an
irrevocable abolition OF the system Of
plunder. Choral music was performed at
the opening and conclusion Of the service.
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Governor Foster, while here, observed
that he never saw man who was so
ieliCitOus in his manner Of dismissing an
importunate person as President Arthur.
Mrs. Garfield has lately received another
very beautiful autograph letter from Queen
Victoria, filled with beautifully worded ex.
pressions Of womanly sympathy
The credentials OF MI. Window as Sena.
tor from the State Of Minnesota were re-
Ceived In the SeCretary's mail at the
Treasury Department Saturday.
On Monday Justice Matthews will deliver
An opinion publicly in the Supreme Court,
ior the tirst time since his promotion to that
Bench
The engagement ofMr Charles W. Jones,
one Of the attaches Of the Executive Man
sion, to Miss Mary Sandersop, sister Of Mrs.
A, N. Wyman, is announced.
The silver and plated ware used at the
White House has been placed in the hands
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Ghs G3telLigtrtte1.

a6... So,. as and 81 Rourleenth street
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PARIS, October 20.-President Grevy
stated Thursday in the presence Of several
members Of the Chamber Of Deputies that
he would call Gambetta TO take office,
leaving him the fullest latitude a. TO the
programme or choice Of colleagues. Gam.
beta on his part declared his readiness 70
accept.
In the Chamber Of Deputies to-day
Gambetta, presiding as Provisional Presi-
dent, briefly thanked the members Of the
House for the honor conferred upon him:
He sAld be would endeay0r 10 prove
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" Angel Gretchen. I"
BY MRS. G. HALL.

Little Gretchen was deformed; terri
BILE accident, when very young, had in
jured her spine so severely that when
she was fifteen years of age she had
scarcely increased in stature. She was
great sufferer, too, and her poor body
was so distorted when she walked that
it did not seem like human body atall.
To many of us this would have seemed
very heavy cross to carry, if we had
had no other; but let me tell you what a
host of trials God, in his great provi-
dence, had called upon poor Gretchen to
bear, and how nobly she bore them, too
Utterly without home; without a
mother to comfort her, or soothe her
pain (and we all know that life without
mother would be dreary one indeed),
in fact, alone in all the wide world for
father and brother and two small sisters
had been laid side by side in the little
cemetery of Stuttgart before bidding
adieu to the faderland and after
two months of privation and suffering in
a strange country, and among people who
could not even speak her own language,
her poor mother, too, had been snatched
from her in moment by death and hur-
riedly buried in potter's field, far away
from home and kindred
What was Gretchen to do now? She
way very, very poor, and had not even
the means of obtaining a mouthful of
food. There was no alternative but to
crawl from door to door and beg the
crusts, always so grudgingly given and
this was no easy thing to do, with her
broken English,-for she had but few
words at her command, and those she
had picked up on board ship when she
was crossing the ocean.
Beggars have very little chance to be
comfortably dealt with, and sick beg
gar still less, and had it not been for a
kind-hearted woman, who was herself
very poor, but who allowed her at night
to lie down upon the bare boards of her
miserable room, In a more miserable
house, Gretchen would have had no
place to rest that suffering body, except
it might be upon the bare ground. 1t
was dreary, desolate room enough but
only one Of the many hundreds like it
that fill our great cities and know no
brightness but that of the blessed sun,
which the good Father sends to all.
Now, after what I have told you, do
you not think that all this was a great
deal of trouble for such q little girl to
bear? But she was not always to live
in this way. "He who is mighty to
save, and who never forgets us in the
darkest hour that comes to his children,
was watching over Gretchen all the
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couldn't leave her, and could,t't
be late. She'll go to sleep and be real
good" he said, as the teacher began to
unwind the shawl And then the whole
room saw surprised, half-smothered-
looking baby, still in her night-gown, one
bare foot sticking out and her little fists
tightly clenched, as if defying anybody
to send her home. The teacher was a
good-natured young lady, and she laugh
ed so that she almost dropped the baby
on the floor; and then the whole room
laughed, and finally Ebert joined in; for
he was glad he had escaped the tardy
mark, and the baby certainly did look
funny in school
Of course there could be no order.
Nearly all the scholars had babies at
home, or were well acquainted with
those of their neighbors but they acted
as If they had never seen one before, and
every movement of the little pink hands,
and every turn of the small bald head
made them scream with laughter, until
the principal of the school came into the
room to see what the disturbance was,
and after trying to look severe for FIVE
seconds, he laughed too.
And while all this fun was going on
Elbert?s mother was running wildly
through the four rooms of her little house,
calling her boys name, and feeling sure
that the children were either killed or.
thrown iuto the cistern, or else carried
off like Charlie Ross, and lost forever.
Just then, the women whom Ebert had
met stopped at the gate and said to the
mother, who was coming hurriedly out,
Is anything the matter Mrs. Collins ?''-
"Oh, | don't know where my children
are I left them while I ran into Mrs.
Browns a minute, and the kitchens all
upset. and I'm AFRAID
why, we just met Ebert with the
baby, kiting along like the wind. Least
ways, we supposed it was the baby,
from the way be carried it,. And he
never
"He has taken her to school p cried
his mother in dismay.
Ten minutes later, a flushed little
woman raped at the door of the First
Primary Room, and inquired for a baby.
1t was handed to her, along with an
empty milk-bottle and wrapping them
both in red cloak which She carried
she thanked the smiling teacher, and
walked home.
At first she had felt very angry toward
Ebert; but when she remembered his
horror of being late, she soft ned toward
him considerably and by the time she
had got the baby home, and found
her none the worse for her little run
away, she had her laugh also. And,
being fair minded woman, she told
Ebert, when he came home to dinner,
that it was very thoughtless in her to
have stayed so long at Mrs. Browns
And Ebert gave her hug, and said he
was "glad he didn't zeave the baby,
cause she might have been burned up,
you know. "-Selected.
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Children Column.
The New Scholar.

Ebert Collins had never been marked
absent or tardy since his first going to
school in September and it was his
ambition to finish the whole year with
out mark; )" partly because he liked
to be prompt, and partly because he
thought it would be SO nice to see his
name in the paper at the end of the
year.
December had come; and the short
mornings were very lively ones in his
mothers little kitchen, because of so
many things to be done before the nine
o'clock bell. There were the woodbox
to fill, the canary to feed and generally
the cradle to rock, while mother attended
to such work as could be done best while
there was some one tc look after the
baby. On this particular morning how
ever, the mother had gone to Mrs Brown
around the corner, for cup of yeast, and
had become so interested in a receipt for
chocolate cake, pattern for boy s
blouse, and the pound party at the Meth
odist minister's, that she entirely forgot
the time of day
Meanwhile, little Ebert, with his over
shoes and scarf on and cap in hand,
rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on
the clock. Five, ten minutes passed
away. The long hand was crawling
alarmingly near last-bell time He tied
his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears,
and rocked harder than ever. Still no
mother. Then he went to the door,
looked anxiously toward the corner, and
sent out lusty shout Mamma-a-,
come h-o-ome !" but no response except
the baby. "Oh, dear dearl" he ex-
claimed, as he rushed back to the cradle
and just then his expectant ears heard
the first slow cling-clang Of the last bell
1t would ring for five minutes, the school
house was only three streets away, and
there was time enough yet, if he could
only start. OAe thing was certain-he
would never leave his little baby sister
He remembered story of poor baby
who was burned to death because he
brother, who had promised to take care
Of her. left her and ran out on the street
to play.
lie went to the door ard shouted
again. 1t was something like the case
of Casabianca. But, when two mothers
are talking about patterns, who ever
knew them to notice every little outside
noise2 Elbert's shout ended in a big
sob. A man losing his entire fortune
L-Juldn't feel worse than this little fellow
did, with that dreadful "tardy" mark
hanging over his head. Then happy
thought flashed into his mind Running
to the cradle, he caught up the baby,
scattering pillows and blankets right and
left. bundled an old shawl over her and
snatching her halfflled milk-bottle,
dashed out Of the house and ran off in
the direction of that changing bell, as fast
,.s-his stout young legs could carry him.
The baby was little mite, only two
months old and Ebert was nearly six
years, and large for his age.
He met two women whom he knew,
who began, Why, Ebert !" and "What
on earth2" But he bounded past them,
and reached the school-house Just as the
bell gave its last clang, and handed over
hisfunny burden to the astonished teacher.
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Aunt Nancy's Mind on the
Subject.

And,this is the new New Testament
Aud It's come in the sweet o the year,
When the fields are shining in cloth of gold
And the birds are singing so clear;
And over and into the grand old text,
Reverent and thoughtful men.
Through many a summer and winter past,
Have been peering with book and pen,
Till they've Strengthened the moods and lenses
out,
And dropped each obsolete phrase,
And softened the strong, old fashioned words
To our daintiest modern ways;
Collated the ancient manuscripts,
Particle, verb, and line.
And faithfully done their very best
To improve the book divine.
/ haven't doubt they have done it well,
But it is not clear to me
That we needed the trouble it was to them,
On either side of the sea.
l cannot help 1t, a thought that comes
You know ana old and plain
But it seems like touching the ark of God
And the touch to my heart is pain.
For ten years past, and for FIVE times ten
AT the back of that, my dear
I've made and mended and toiled and saved,
With my Bible ever near
Sometimes it was only verse at morn
That lifted me up from care
Like the springing wings of sweet-voiced lark
Gle, wing the golden air;
And sometimes on Sunday afternoons
Twas chapter rich and long,
That came to my heart in its weary hours
With the lift of triumph song,
I studied the precious words, my dear
When child at my mothers knee,
And tell you the Bible I've always had
Is good enough book for me.
l may be stubborn and out of date,
But my hair is white as snow,
And love the things l learned to love
In the beautiful long ago.
1 cannot be changing at my time
'Twould be losing part of myself;
You may lay the new New Testament
Away on the upper shelf.
1 cling to the one my good man read
In our Preside prayers at night;
To the one my little children lisped
Ere they faded out OF my sight,
l shall gather my dear ones close again
Where the many mansions be,
And till then the Bible I've always had
Is good enough book for me.
Harper's Bazar. MARGARET E SANGsTER.
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Twenty minutes at Howardsvile for supper
and breakfast
Daily line of Packets between Miller's Land
ing and Lexington in connection with trains
East and West.
Close connection made at Richmond to all
points north and south via Richmond, Freder-
icksburg and Potomac, Richmond and Danville,
and Richmond and Petersburg railroads, and at
Lynchburg with Norfolk and Western and Vir-
ginia Midland railroads, and at Williamson's
with Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for all points
east and west.
For other information apply at Nos. 1103 or
10Y Bank street. B. S. BARBOUR,
General Freight and Ticket Agent
DECATUR AxTELL, General Manager
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Lynchburg passenger train, No. A. daily:
Leave Richmond at $50 A. NJ; arrive at Burke
vile at 11:35 A. M.
Train No Al connects at Burkeville with A.
NJ & o. r. r. for Farmville Lynchburg, and all
points in the Southwest.
Trains Nos. 48 and AZ connects at Sutherlin's
with M. & S. N. G. r. r. for Milton N G.
Train No. As connects at Salisbury with W.
N. c. r. r. for Ashevile and all points in west
ern North Carolina.
Trains Nos so, As and AZ connect at Air Line
Junction with A. & G. A. r. r. for all points
South and Southwest; and at Charlotte with c..
c. q A. r. K. for all points South, Southeast and
Southwest
Train No so stops only at Jetersville, brakes
Branch, Barksdales, Danville, Greensboro, and
Salisbury.
Trains from the above-named points arrive IN
Richmond at 448 P. NJ, 1888 A. NJ, and 7.1S
?. M.
Pullman Palace Drawing-room and Sleeping
Cars run through on Train No 48 from n York
and Richmond to Atlanta, and from Greensboro
to Augusta, and on Train No. AZ from Boston,
Mass, to Savannah, Ca, via. Richmond.
Tickets sold to all points south, south east, and
south west and baggage checked through.
No lay-over checks given on local tickets.
A. POPE,
General Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va
T. M. h. TALooTT, General Superintendent
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FINE DRESS-SHIRTS and NIGHT-SHIRTS
MADE TO MEASURE A SPECIALITY.
NO FIT, NO SALE.

good SHIRT, ready-made (unlaundried,)
S1.00 We make a good SHIRT to measure
(unlaundried) for 81 .25. We make fine SHIRT
to measure (unlaundried] for $3.50 We make
the BEST SHIRT to measure (unlaundried) for
$1.75 Extra per dozen for laundried, $1.50.
Order printed blanks for self measurement.
Will make you one on approval.
Our ONE-DOLLAR SHIRT Is THE BEST
SHIRT EVER MADE FOR THE PRICE.
Sent by mail to any address for S1.10, with
privilege Of returning and money refunded if it
does not suit
A large stock GENTS FURNISHING al
ways on hand.
HENRY 7. MILLER,
915 Main Street, Richmond.
oe15-1y
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Here her voice faltered, then ceased al
together, and lite Gretchen had gone
to that city where there shall be no more
hunger or pain, and where among the
angels she shall sing forevermore.
Gretchen's life was not in vain. That
crippled child, through hardships and
dlscouragements, accomplished work
which few children, with all this world
can give, could accomplish and even
now, in faltering accents and through
many tears, when they speak Of her at
the Home, they call her " Angel Gret-
chen. ~ Y Observer.
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The above rates include stage proportions
where necessary, but not omnibus transfer be-
tween Railway Depot and Luray Cave, Weyers'
Cave, or Hotel at White Sulphur Springs.
EXCURSION TICKETS will be on sale on
and after June 1st good to return till October
31st. ]. G. DAME, So. Agent,
Richmond. Va.
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DICHMOND & DANVILLE RAILROAD
LII On and after FEBRUARY goth, 1881, the
trains on this road will run daily as follows:
, 1881-11-16

LONDON Is a place Of misery as well M
pleasure, aud tho following incident related by
tho st. JaiHta Gazette Illustrates tho faut very
forolbly:
OnD Any last weslx the Auad body at llttle
buy was discovered tI%a dust-bln bolunRlng to 4
tnllBu not fur frusu tho Seven l3ials. 1hg ueatl
bodies Of bubbles ar0 fUltntl In litatins md no.
body takcs Much uutlc0 Of them: but ttorn waR
sonctil1 rather untBtlAl In tl,ing tils budy Of
7 chiltl nEod II yeprs htuwad awuy with holise-
tho alEnir exc!tol y certain interest. An In.
quest was helsl on tue Doly OIL Tues1ay. ald, .s
the Jury returned g. verdict uf "ncelduntuI
death ly RMtrocutton," everybody ought to bo
aAt!siea. The story nf tho boy wna nov.
grtholess melancholy one. fIe lived, 1t
appeared. with bis fnthur. who waB sop
NrAto1 from h!s wlfo and cphabltctl With A,l0thar
woman: THO boy. nccntytIY to tho nvf,lence Of
tho And!nly or tho house, repeatedly complained
Df tho lll-tEcuttont hc roceivctl-WNs often tll,-
Kry and nsketl far food, On ono OCCASION she
f0luti him crouehing boneath u tMbte iur pro-
lection whtle his tnthgr WIS threatening TO
throw him out tho window. On Wednesday, lust
hm until frllny. when bis body WIS plcked out
nf tho dlSt-bta. II Ht1lMttty or rubbish having
been thrown Uvnr It. There WIS n brulso III tho
forehead, according to npl!cMl evidence. "rrUiJ-
ably lOne hefGre lcnsh." Tito CUroucr roprl.
maildel tho fRthor for hs lnhutnantty; ana tl0w
tho world Will hour no moro Ut the deId boy Ia
tho 1uat-hIn.