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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09
The SNOW blockade IN tho West-Dusl-
moss AerIOnNlY Disturbed.

Here in the Ohio Valley we have no
conception OF the present widespread
snow fall all over the West the depth Of
1t, and the extent to which the railroads
have virtually been brought to q stand.
still. The Chicago papers Of Monday say
that never before In the history oil this
country have the railroads west and north
west from Chicago suffered from snow.
storms and snow bloCkades 90 they have
this season, the Northwestern, the Mi !.
waukee and ST. Paul, the Omaha, and the
Iowa Division Of the Illinois Central be.
ing the most unfortunate. The North.
western, and the Milwaukee and st. Paul
own nearly 1900 miles Of road each, and
II is safe to say that OF this mileage more
than oue.halt was blocked with snow
nearly all the time during the last two
months. The Iowa Division OF the Illinois
Central has been bloCkaded almost from
one end OF the line TO the other continue
ouBly Tor more than O month"; For the
last three months these roads have battled
with the snow drifts, and no sooner had
they made little Roadway and gained
some advantage when another blizzard set
In and spoiled what had been previously
accomplished. Tho blizzard which pre-.
vailed throughout Iowa and Northern
Illinois about month ago put almost q
complete embargo on railroad traffic
Ia tile Northwest, and the drifts
on the Northwestern, Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul, and Iowa Division lot the Illinois
Central and other Northwestern lines
had not yet been removed when the boss
snow storm Of Wednesday came up, and
not only buried the above lines completely
under several feet OF snow, but placed the
worst embargo on the Burlington, Rock
Island, Wabash and other lines between
Chicago and the West. After nearly q
weeks hard labor with snow plows and
gangs OF men with shovels and picks,
these Western lines are Just beginning to
Beedaylight again, while the Northwestern
lines are still busily engaged In exhuming
their buried roads, There are but four OF
the Western and Northwestern roads that
have made expenses during the last two
monthU, not only the expenses Of renov.
Ing these mountains oil snow having been
immense, but the loss from stoppage
Of business being also very large.
II IL estimated that the Chicago
4 Northwestern Railroad has expended
THUS for this winter for clearing their
tracks nearly half million dollars, and
the Milwaukee 4 st. Paul has expended
almost as large a Hun on the same account.
The cost to the Illinois Central for open.
ing their roads will hardly fail short OF
100000, and the expenses OF the Bufling.
ton, Rock Island, Wabash and other
Western roads have also been very heavy.
In consequence oil these snow blockades
the suffering among the people In the
Northwest has been very great, Nearly
every town on the lines Of the Northwest.
efn, Milwaukee 4 81. Paul, and Iliuois
Central, In Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota,
and also In some portions Of Wisconsin, is
reported to be out Of provisions and fuel,
and II the work Of clearing the road should
be delayed by another storm The Conse.
quences would, no doubt, become very
serious.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09
I Deem II my DuiS 10 tsil the world

I Deem Il my lIuty 10 tOlI the world
what Dr.. swavne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry has done for me,
bad violent cough, night swealS,
sore throat, great weakness, with Sc.
we're attacks Of hemofrhage, gave up
llhOpe Of recovery. lam now cured,
a sound and hearty man.
HDwGRD II. HANSON,
Engineer at Hweeney's POTTERY,
1884 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.
Over twenty-five years have elapsed
and / still remain 4 healthy man,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09

WHERE for twenty years a person had
no movement Of the bowels without medt.
cine or mechanical meHns,a months use Of
TUFTS Pills completely restored the bowels
to natural regularity, They are composed
Of innocent herbs and are incapable oil
hurting the most delicate constitution, yet
sure to cleanse the bowels and blood ofall
impuFikieg.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09
Tue population OF West Virginia in

THE population Of West Virginia in
1890 was $40 6SS, in 1870 it was 442,0l4, in
1873 it was (estimsted) 5tS,s4O, and in
1880 it was 6ls, 1893. The increase from
1850 to 1870 was only l7l per cent, ION &C.
count OF the war; while from 1870 to 1851
It was 393 per cent. The estimated in
crease from 1870 up to and including 1870
wssbased on the tithables Of the Auditors
report, and shows in the first five years Of
the decade On increase Of l6f per cent II
We increase in the current ten years as we
have apparently increased in the last ten,
our population in 1890 will be in round
numbers about $4,000. There can be no
doubt that the prospects for such an in
crease are much more encouraging in
many respects than they were ten years
auo, The general increase Of population
throughoutthe United States promisesto be
much greater than in any former decade,
and we will share in that increase, and In
the next place there will not be the same
reasons in the way Of very cheap lands in
the far west to attract immigrants to that
region, nor to sttraC: the native increase
Of West Virginia away from her soil
There will also be special influences to In
crease our population, such as the almost
certain increase Of railroads in the State
and the incidental development Of our
resources In consequence. There will also
be more intelligent and effective special
efforts made to attract immigration from
abroad than at any previous period. All
these influences promise to Great large
increase in our population in the current
ten years, provided the political current Is
not in some way made to react against
our prosperity,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09
TRAVELLERS GUIDE,

tDally except Bunday-NOWRrk AtoonimodAtion,
t9teubenVllle Accommodation train during
the day passes backward and forward between Mar.
tins Ferry and BeAlre, stopping when required Of
sherDian House, !StnaVillS, West wheeling and
Gravel Hill.
tjflehsviile Accommodation,
tCAhal Dover Accommodation,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09

On the evening Of SUNDAY, the PORN OF FE8Ru.
ARY, Arthur LEE, lately 10 the employ Of the
Monitor ToWbOat and Lumber Company, disappeared
myIterlouSly, about O'Clock, and We lear 10 has
been iouliy dealt With or drowned. He 10 about
feet, inches In helghth dark hair and complexion
brown flannel shirt, jeans coat and low sboes and We
think DO had ring on bis finger. Any Information
In the premises will DO thankfully received by
J. ". b, ANDERSON
Mineral Wells, Wood county, W. Va
or J. A. ARMsTR0NG,
mhS wheeling, ". Va.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09

Dry, patched, sof0 throat, losing IleSh, bFon.
chiaI and aSlhmatic attacks, All these dan.
gerOus symptoms are entirely cured BY "Df.
sEayne's Compound syrupot Wild Cherry"
cough and sore lungs yield to It's healing pro.
periies Sold by ali druggists at % cents and
Sl The large size is the most economical
NWRAH
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-09
DIED.

PAXToN-On TuWday, March 8, 1881, WILLIAM
PAxToE, In the s7th year ii his age.
Funeral from his late residence, No. 1917 ChApllne
street, on Thursday AFTERNOON at O'Clock, Inter-
mont at Greenwood Cemetery.
BRRNT-0n ThundaV, March 8, 1881, at Louisville,
KY, KATR PAUL. HARRISON, wife Of William Med.
Brent, In the sd year Of her Age.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
A Humane Judge.

Louis Grabson was tried before JUS
tice Cary on the charge Of breaking in
to a house near tho railroad track and
taking various articles of household
furniture.
1T appears that you took about
everything in sight, said the court,
sternly.
''Do you think me wholly depraved,
your Honor" said the prisoner with
the tears starting in his eyes. II left q
fine red-hot stove, worth at least twen-
ty-five dollars
''Where are you from, my good
man?' asked his Honor, kindly.
''Reno,' replied the man, reluctant
~.
The Court was buried in thought,
and then, leaning over the desk, said:
Sheriff, release the prisoner. A man
from Reno, who would decline to take
a red-hot stove when he had such q
good show is not, in my opinion, who'll
~ bad. Considering his associations, I
think he deserves much credit
LET him CO." shouted the spec.a-
tors, throwing up their hats, and the
man was taken out of the court on the
shoulders of the crowd. Later in the
day, when slightly inebriated, he ac-
knowledged that he had only lived in
Reno six months, and his popularity
waned. Carson CITY (Nev. appeal.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
The Leadville Dodge.

He was on his way home from Lead
vile, says an exchange. He had on a
ragged old summer suit, bad hat, and
he had been taking his meals about
thirty hours apart to make his money
carry him through.
''Yes, l like the country out that
way,' he replied to the query. 1.-THE
climate is good, the scenery is fine,'
and some of the people are honest as
needs be. The trouble is knowing
how to take the bad ones"
Il should think that would. be
easy"
Eyes, it looks that way; but l had
some experience. l am the original
diskiverer of the richest mine around
Leadville. Yes, l am the very man,
though you wouldn't think it to see
these old clothes"
''Then you don't own it now?"
Not a bit of it. ':1'll explain.
was poking around on the hills and
found signs. I collected some speci-
mems for assay; staked off claim and
went off to the assayers'. It was two
days before he let me know that had
struck the richest ore that he had ever
assayed, and then I hurried back to
my claim. Hang my buttons if it
hadn't been jumped"
''How?''
why, a gang of sharpers had found
the spec and built up pole shanty, and
hung out sign of First Baptist Church
over the door. True as shooting thew
had, and the law out there is no man
can sink shaft within 200 feet of q
church building. They saw me COM
ing, and when l got there were holding
revival. There were six of them, and
they got up one after another and told
how wicked they had been and how
sorry they were, and-would you be-
leve it?-they had the cheek to ask
me to lead off in singing. l went to
law, but they beat me. Three days
after the verdict the First Baptist Church
burned down, and before the ashes
were cold the congregation were devel-
oping mine worth over three million
of dollars. You see, I didn't know
how to take them.'
WAS there any particular way to
take them?''
''You bet there was! l ought to
have opened on that revival with q
Winchester rifle and given the coroner
fifty dollars for verdict that they
came to their death from too much re.
igiOn.''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
Superstitions Connected with the Looking
Glass.

Most readers arc no doubt acquainted
with Bonaparte's superstition regard
ing the breaking of a looking-glass.
During one of Ills campaigns in Italy
he broke the glass over Josephine's
portrait. So disturbed was he at this,
as he thought, ominous occurrence, that
he never rested until the return of the
courier whom he had forthwith dis
patched to convince himself of her
safety, so strong was the impression of
her death upon his mind. In Cornwall,
breaking looking-glass is believed to
insure seven years of sorrow; and q
Yorkshire provcrb informs us that such
an unfortunate occurrence entails "sev-
en- years. trouble, but no want" In
Scotland, to smash looking-glass hang
ing against wall is regarded as an in
fallible sign that q member of the fam
lily will shortly die. Crosse, abiding to
this superstition, says it foretells the
speedy deceasc of the master of the
house. 1t has been suggested that this
popular fancy dates very many years
back, and probably originated in the
destruction of the reflected human inn
AEGEAN interesting illustration of how
the association of ideas in the forma-
ton of superstition is often determined
by mere analogy.
In the south of England it is regard
ed highly unlucky for q bride on her
wedding day to look in the glass, when
she is completely dressed, before start
ing for the church. Hence very great
care is taken to put on q glove, or some
slight article of adornment, after the
last lingering and reluctant look has
been taken in the mirror. The idea,
we are informed, is that any young
lady who is too fond of the looking glass
will be unfortunate when married
This is not, however, the only way in
which superstition interferes with the
grown-up maiden's peep in the looking
glass. Thus, Swedish damsels are
afraid of looking in the glass after dark,
or by candlc-ight, lest by so doing they
forfeit the good will of the other sex.
On the other hand, in England the look
ing-glass occasionally holds q promi-
nent position in love divinations.
Belgian girls who desire to see their
husbands in dream lay their garters
crosswise at the foot of the bed and q
looking-glass under their pillow; in the
glass they believe the desired image
will appear. The practice of covering
or removing the looking-glass from the
chamber Of death still prevails in some
parts of England-the notion, accord
ing to some, being that ''all vanity, all
care for earthly beauty, are over with
the deceased" It has also been sug-
gested that, as the invisible world
trenches closely upon the visible one in
the chamber of death, a superstitious
dread is felt of some spiritual being i'm
aging himself forth in the blank sur
face Of the mirror
In. days gone by, too, it appears to
have been customary for both sexes to
wear small looking glasses-a fantastic
fashion ridiculed by Ben johnson and
others of his time. Men even wore
them in their hats. where is your
page? Call for your casting-bottle, and
place your mirror in your hat, as I told
yOun
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03

l.he coinage OF gold was almost sus
pended In Holland recently, as the
commercial price of gold was too high
70 permit the coinage unless for export
for special purposes.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
A Lady lawyers Retort.

Judge Tyler, of San Francisco, is
well known to the bar of that city as q
most formidable opponent, both loren
sically and physically, as many .
':learned COUNSEL upon the other side
has found out to his sorrow.
The Judge, who is so used to domino
ting his brethren of the bar, recently
met his match in the lady lawyer Of
San Francisco, Clara S. Foltz who
clipped his wind in manner that well
nigh sdffocated him. The story is too
good to be lost.
The case of Tyler vs.. the Hibernia
Savings Bank was pending before one
of the city courts, involving the right
to certain deposit of funds in said
bank. Tyler was his own attorney, and
Mrs. Foltz was attorney for tho bank.
It seems that Tyler. by little bit of
sharp practice, was trying to ring q
''cold deck" in the shape of default
that had been eroneously dated, the ad-
mission of which by the Judge upon
the bench would have sent the defend
ant out of court. Mrs. Foltz showed
up the matter satisfactorily to the court
and the default was promptly set aside.
This nettled Judge Tyler considerably,
and turning to the lady counsel he said
sharply, in a manner intended to be in
tensely impressive, that counsel had
better be engaged in other business
that "a woman's place was at home
raising her children"
The words were scarcely uttered be-
fore Mrs. F0ltz rose in her queenly way,
and flashing her blue eyes straight into
the Judges florid face. she quietly re-
marked: "a woman had better be en-
gagged In almost any business than in
raising sucn men as you are, sir.''
The Court commanded order, but in
. tone that seemed to appreciate the
justice of the rctort, while number of
lawyers in court, some of whose heads
Judge Tyler has held in ..chancery'' ON
former occasions, came near exploding
with suppressed laughter.
The counsel turned white with anger
and groaned in spirit, but concluded
that it was better to drop the subject
then and there.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03

w. Goodale, who was steamboat
engineer on Lake Eric, fifty-one years
ago, and in 1884 commenced running
one of the first locomotive engines on
tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, -
still living, at the age of 78 years, in
Brookfield, Mo. He continued in &C.
tive pursuit of his calling until about
six years ago.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1856
Sense and Sentiment,

Anon: After-wit is eveybody's wit
Balzac: Virtue is the politeness OF
the soul.
Auerbach: Imagination is the great.
est despot.
Anon: No man is so wise that he
may not err.
George Eliot: Blows are sarcasm
turned stupid.
Beaumont: Calamity is mans true
touchstone.
Emerson: Cant is useful to provoke
common sense
Helvetus: Virtue has many preach.
ers, but few martyrs.
Douglas Jerrold: Pleasure is the
short cut to the tomb.
James Russell Lowell: He says il
Grst who says it best.
Poe: Within every man is highest
heaven and lowest hell.
Burke: Early and provident fear il
the mother of safety.
Lander: Life is but signs, and when
they cease it's over.
Hazlett: A misanthrope is one of the
DEVILS amanuenses.
Voltaire: The art Of praising caused
the art of speaking.
Ben JOnson: Hope 10 such q bait it
comes to every hook.
Anon: Prudery is often q mantle
that covers triumphant vice.
George Mcdonald: Ambition is the
evil shadow OF aspiration.
George Sand: Oblivion is the flower
that grows best on graves.
Thomas a Kempis: You become
none the viler for dispraise alone.
A. S. Gardner: It takes bold msu
to roll his own idea into the world.
Jeremy Taylor: No man is more mis-.
cradle than he that hath no adversely.
Talleyrand: The will is determined
by two characterization and interest
Anon: Gratitude is debt that all
men owe-one that few men pay cheer
fully.
Dumas 6ls: I like wicked persons
better than stupid people, for they rest
at times.
Carlyle: Always there is a black spot
In our sunshine-it is the shadow of
ourselves.
Bacon: The virtue of prosperity is
temperance; the virtue of adversely is
fortitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Write it on
your heart that every day is the best
day in the year.
Anon: Suspicious among thoughts
are like bats among birds; they everfly
by twilight.
Dumas: Men look at women from
head to feet; women look at men from
tie feet to the head.
George William Curtis: Men with
genuine missions do not disappear until
they have fulfilled them.
Locke: Education begins the gentle
man, but reading. good company, and
reflection must finish him.
Madame de Sartorys: Love is sen.
timent 80 delicate that lover should
never know he is loved but by divining
it.
John Bright: Every man must work
at something. The moment he stops
working for humanity the devil employs
him.. -.
Henry Home: Men are guided less
by conscience than by glory; and yet
the shortest way to glory is to be guided
by conscience.
Doctor johnson: II he really thinks
there Is no distinction between vir-
tue and vice, why, sir, when he
leaves our houses let US count our
spoons.
Thomas Kempis: They that are
with thee to-day may be against thee to-
morrow, and often change from quarter
to quarter, like the wind.
Charles Reade: Our lives have q
general current, and also an episode or
two; and the episodes of common
place life are often rather startling.
Ouida: O Love! what offense hast
thou done to mankind that on thv
mighty name should be charged the
guilt and the vice that are the daughters
Of Ayarice, of Ignorance. and Of Van.
TWP
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
Miss t. Westphal,

Keeps on banda large and well
assorted stock of MILLINERY, FANCY
GOODS and ZEPHYR WOOL, opposite the
Union Hotel, between second and
Third North streets.
NEW ULM, -M1NN.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03

The new aesthetic craze, says the Lon.
don Wo,ld,s has been great blow to
the young curates of the period. In
stead Of embroidering slippers and dec
Grating churches, maiden ladies, elder
~ and otherwise, now devote their
spare time TO The pursuit Of the '.in-
tensely intense" and "too utterly
utter.''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
Who Lost Waterloo.

In the June Atlantic there is an in
teresting article entitled, ''Who Lost
Waterloop" 1t sheds some new light
upon this much-vcxed question. The
writer shows that Grouchy's repeated
denials of having received written or
ders from Napoleon were false; that
not only did he receive such orders, but
that they warned him against allowing
Blucher's forces to join Wellington's.
He prints these orders, and states that
they were suppressed by Grouchy and
friends for many years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03

Sarah Bernhardt is again the lioness
OF Paris. Alexandra Dumas, Jr., went
to Havre to see her disembark, and on
shaking hands, exclaimed: This is
return from the other world!'
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03
Qaueht Tartar.

Two Englishmen were out shooting;
one had . license; tho other had not.
A keeper approached, and the one that
had license ran away. Tho keeper
was q good runner, and an exciting
chase ensued. At last the keeper got
up to the runaway.
'.Now, sir. where is your licenseP'
It was produced.
Then why did you run awayf'
20, I'm fond Of exercise" answered
the man; ''but don't you think you'd
better ask my friend If he has one?''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-03

II say, jenkins, can you tell young.
tender chicken from an old, tough
one?''
''Of course cam
''Well. how?'
'.By the teeth
Chickens have no tceth.''
Eyes, but have.''
"Good-morning.''
''G99d-morning. :,
The Republican journal., 1881-05-26
Robertson Confirmed.


: NN' VI" T. VOTE AND FEW NL"AILF Is
The nomination of William II Robertson y-
CoItartor ar th. Part NJ. \. o,,- \-rl ~ i.... ,...
tt.,,,l'. - a. 90 '"N'' ''''D
'"o l'"'7 ching tHe hAtcuu'e session O l4e >eb
ate ednesday afternoon, IStil inst. ana was tua
frmed without debate or roll raU bv a ,,,.. ...
,o+, t,,, ro,o+;,. ,.e,.. t..;. .........,,
' my Ns"'''N 'oNeo "o"'S H'l"'H H"u'e""io
Il is SAID that they numbered less than halt %
dozen The friends of Mr. Robertson in Nav
y,
n i'0Ne''0' ii"n'oi' Aio"A! ""~ - 'c" lIe'-
salutes on hearing of the result at Washington
Much enthusiasm was eyhihi+ad i'm tho San,t, NJ
Al,ar, -, .,,,oi,,. a. ,l .,..,. ir,.,
' " iO'4P' vi '"' HV"'' lue l''PuoI'' 'l
general committee serenaded Robertson in The
evening en- beIr, Dresentad ha Was ,,oc,f.ro, l,.
,.I
't'i'"N''e'' On" 't'N0 do 'o''o"s'
Fellow Citizens: lou have come here to night
to congratulate me upon the confirmation of my
nomination as Collector of the Port OF New York
Let me congratulate YOU, or rather the country
upon the fact that we have President whose lu
tellgence, hrmuess and patriotism will protect the
| Constitution from every assault coming fro'.
whatever quarter it may. did not seek the tol
lectorship, nor did any one ask it for me visit
ed neither Washington nor Mentor | had no col
resPoudence with the President in regard tu r..
and the beStowal of the office under sucE llrrruI
stances is exceedingly gratifying to me
DURING the pendency OF MY nomination in tine
Senate other events 1T gratifying character ul
CURED was much Erathed with the early ans
JHdicous advice OF the Chief Magistrates of this
great State IN respect to the proper disposition u.
that nomination, inspired ao that advice was u.
the nigh sense OF honor sound Judgment and gre
Plagt'tal saEael;y aul!ce "n!en II taken m H.
ened. soldided and made the PpnubIrar nartT- ..
this State invlncible
After expressing his gratitude for the nomla4
ton, and its unanimous confirmation. and to r0e