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WHEELING WEST MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1881

such confusion that they presented to the
beholder an idR OF the horrible agony
which must have ensued ere the victims
had lost consciousness. This bed was loca-
ted under one OF the openings, and It was
evident from the manner in which the re.
mains were found, that the original occu-
pants, having escaped, others had sought
to flee from the opening, but had become
hopelessly entangled and sufocated.
They were burned to unrecogniZable
shapes, and when the floor Of the loitgaye
way, the charred remains dropped to the
ground below.
BURIAL OF THE vIcTnfs-THR SUFFERING,
PITTsBUReH, December 1.-THE remains
Of the unfortunate victims Of yesterdays
trightful holocaust were inferred to-day. No
friends appeared to claim the remains OF
any oil the dead except brother OF
Michael Kennedy, but as the bodies were
burned beyond recognition II was impos-
sible Tor him TO identity the remains, and
he left the Coroner's Office hardly knowing
what to do. The wounded at the West
Penn Hospital are resting as easy as their
painful injuries will permit. The hospital
physicians are doing all in their power to
alleviate their sufEsrings They are receiv.
ing careful attention, and their every want
Is being attended to Martin Luffey and
John Connolly are the most seriously in
iured, and will, in all probability, die in
few days, The rest are getting along as
well as could be expected. The McCune
family, who kept the boarding.house, are
in destitute circumstances. Everything
they owned having been destroyed BY the
fire. A subscription has been started for
their relief and the relief OF the injured.
Coroner Hope has adjourned the inquest
until next Wednesday,
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In the senRte-A Good send or for the
First FOur DAYS.


WASHINGTON, December l0.-The mum.
ber Of bills introduced in the Senate during
It's four days session is $50, which Is nearly
as many as were introduced in that body
during the entire third session Of the last
Congress. One Senator alone has intro
duced thirty.three bills since last Monday
A large proportion Of the measures intro.
duCed thus far are copies OF private relieI
bills that heretofore failed to receive final
action.
The bill introduced In the Senate by Mr.,
Vest for the improvement OF the Missis.
sippi and Missouri rivers provides for the
expenditure OF ten million dollars, under
the direction Of the Engineer Corps Of the
Army, one-halt Of the pmount upon the
Mississippi and the remainder upon the
Missouri, In accordance with plans already
recommended by the Mississippi and Mis-.
souri, River Commission. The bill also au.
thorizes the Attorney General to institute
proper proceedings In the United States
Courts having jurisdiction for the apnro.
priation Of land and material neceClary
Tor the prosecution OF the work, the land
and material so appropriated TO be duly ap'
praised and paid for
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The 81. CharIes nI.nster.

Sr. LOUIS, December ll.-OGEicial inves.
tigation OF the recent disaster at the st.
Charles bridge will be commenced to-mor.
row. The State Railroad Commissioners
will he present, The French delegation to
the Yorktown Centennial celebration ar.
rived here tonight from the west and are
quartered at the Lindell Hotel. They will
remain in the city two days. The new
United States assay office, which has been
fitted up in the old custom house building
here, Is ready for business, and operations
will begin as soon as orders are received
from Washington.
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A Me1lenn peaps rndo,n WORK,

New YoRk, December 1l.-A Specia
from Brownsville, Texas, to-day, says
Isabel Almes, a noted political magnate al
Chanamer, Mexico, has Just conmiR I'd d
wholesale butchery. Going 10 a rancho, he
commenced to beat the women there say
agely, and one Guadalophe sopatl, who In
teriered, was killed by the inflriated des.
pefado. AT the next rancho he visited
Almes shot and wounded no less than sew
enteen people before bis nurderous careei
was checked,
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VNdSSAu, December 1O.-Gen. II. B.
SSnni9g ex.member OF Congress from the
Ss %tond Ohio district, died suddenly and
sSl!tIpeectedIy y! ut his residence In Cum,
a,s'yiIIe this morning. He has been
siG'ing ill.hCalth for several weeks, buI
" " 1een out daily. This morning his wife
" " him in bed about o'clock, and at
IsNCk went to call him to breakfast and
SaNl That he was dead. The immediate
SlS Of Lie death Is not known. II was
,.loy unexpected, and Is d terrible shock
ns llmily and friends. Last Saturday
S,HISShded \. ISShd the funeral Of bis brother.ih
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CHATTANOOGA, December 1O.-On The
Cincinnati Southern railway, two mile.
south Of Kismeth, this morning, the second
section OF d freight train ran Into the iltSl
section, killing Engineer Bruce and his hre
man and brakeman, tearing up the track
demolshing the engine and damaging
several cars. The wreck was rapidly
cleared and travel was but little delayed
The remains Of the unfortunate men will be
b heniiplt here.
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! aSsor'Sy, o., December i1.-I.ake navi.
slon s vas practically closed here on Sat.
EaAN December 10, the schoonets swal.
y. w and Moody clearing that day with
E2a OF Ohio coal for Detroit, and
15aAlng =, the total lake shipments Of coal fol
Salp " p',t season. from the u. 4 o. Railroad
I,NY " !, here 10000 tons, the largest season
1MSaS.iilpWent 1Sa by more than double In tht
Aphalsui the pntt
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We will send DIT. Dyes celebrated Electro.
Voltaic. Belts and other electric appliance.
on. trial Tor thirty days 70 young men aud
older persons who are afflicted with netvou,
debility, Lost vitality, ETC., Euafanteejnf
speedy relief and complete restoration N
yisof and manhood. Also fof rheumatism
feutalagiA, paralysis, liver and kidney dim
eultles, fuptutes and many other diseases
illustrated pamphlet sent free. Addfes
VoltAlo Bat Co.. MAtahAlli Mich, 4fnl4W
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penlh orn pl.llnrni.hed odd re1lor.

LOUISVILLE, December 10.-Paul p
shaiTner, one Of the most prominent Odd
Fellows Of the State, Is dead. The news Il
received from Troy, N. Y, and the report.
or does not give tie details, Of the sudden
demise. Deceased was known wherever
the order exists as a well.informed, hard
worker In behalf Of Odd Fellowship.
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81. LoUis, December 10.-Two charges
Of criminal libel, sworn 10 by Frank ].
Bowman, an attorney, against Jos. Pulitzer
editor Of the Pos.. Ditpdteh, were thrown
out Of court to-day on o motion 10 quash,
The Judge ruled that there was not suiii'
ciont cause Of action stated. Y"
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ANOTHER rIrrsnTReH CALAMITY
Extensive Rolling Mill OF Gratr, Bennett
q Co. DESTROYED by PIre.

" VVt UN3tHVy VW " EEEUs
PrrrsBuRou, Pa, December ll.-GraH,
Bennett & Co.'s rolling mill was totally de.
stroycd by fire this morning at an early
hour The mill was situated at Benefits
Station, about four miles from this city, on
the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, and
was IN extensive concern, employing up.
wards Of 1000 men, who, for the time being,
will be thrown out OF work.
The fire was first discovered in the car.
penter shop, and Is believed TO have been
the work Of an incendiary. The loss will
be about 100000, on which there is an in.
surance OF sl5OOOO.
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1SDNSAroLis, December iO.-The four.
story building ON South Meriden street. oC.
CupIed by +. Stout & Son, wholesale gro
Gers, fell In this morning. the supposed
cause being the heavy weights on the tppei
stories. The building Is q total loss and
the goods are considerably damaged. Il
being Sunday morning there was no ohl
In the store when the accident occurred.
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PErRRsnune, Va, December iO.-Last
night willie the fast train from the No III
was passing Rocky Mount Station, a Wi.
mington and Weldon railroad passenger
coach, with baggage apartment, took fire
from the stove and was entirely consumed.
The passengers were asleep but escaped
unihfirnd.
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CiNciSsATi, December 1i.-Genetal b.
D. Fearing, formerly Of this city, died al
Marietta, Ohio, yesterday, after d long SUI
iefihg from pafalysis, General Fearing
was q lineal descendant oi General Israel
Pnlnaml
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AoiA, HAS, December iO.-C. G. Arm.
s,S SSHg, young man recently from Cincin'
Ess E% went hunting a day OF two ago, a
SaPIie oil miles from here, and while ouL
M M nlnsCIl through the head, evidently
~ a Suicidal intent, lie was In prosper,
I,n.1 s.,1If,,lmftances, !, and no cause can be a.
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pf,lcnMoNp, December 11.-tt is authoti.
tatiyely stated tonight that the difference
ID the tteadjustef circles have been quietly
arranged, and II is now well unders. .ood
fact that all opposition TO the nomination
Of Riddelberger as United States Senator
will be withdrawn, and the caucus neSI
Tuesday night will nominate him without
TRnUhlh
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New BRUSswicK, N. j., December 10.
Gertrude Dyker, aged twenty, was waylaid
by Ellsworth Crenning, at Mllltown, this
afternoon, and favished. Soon after her
brother met Ctenning and killed him with
q shot gun. Young Dyket then escaped.
The desire 10 capture him is not great,
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A BANKRUPTCY LAW.
Tbs snb.CommIIiee Ready 10 Report
ihnt MEASURE.

WARRINGTON. December 1o.-The sub
committee on,he bankruptcy law, olwhiCt
Senator ingalls, is chairman, has completed
lbe work assigned 10 II and q report Is pre-.
pa,ed. MI. ingalls, bas worked steadily al
summer in collecting information on tht
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RIItt finda4ldA,I.

NEW YoRk, December 1t.-Augustine
Ispeni and Arnldls Cusitofe, shoe makers
and room mates, disputed as 10 which was
the better workman, and Cusitore stabbed
1speni who In turn shot .Cusitote. Both
are probably fatally Wounded.
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T,is 1etter 10 slIeL 10 l,ioln rooa,

CHICAGO, December 10.-At Marshall.
town, Iowa, atwo year old child Of VIM,
Roberts eat some bread saturated with raj
poison from the effects Of which II died.
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Ghs GRteItigeater,
os;se. So.. "a aud "a Roprleenth street,


" II, W, Of Palatine, Marion county,
:. " iriarmcd that Hon. B, H, Bristow,
a,.merly y ,1 Of Kentucky, is now practic-
,o ~, law in New York City. As to
r5., .IS caused him "tO so out Of poll
,,s % We cannot say, 1t may be that the
,'iln,c @tI' 10 receive the nomination for Presi-
'I 1.D, in 1876, at Cincinnati, had q good
Ito Jo with il.
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AN ENdLIsH SCANDAL,

LONDON, December lO.-In the divorce
court to-day o decree nis was pronounced
in the suit brought by Alfred Munday, oI
shipley Hall, Derbysliire, against his wife
and the Earl OF Shrewsbury Us correspond.
ent The suit was not opposed.
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LoSDoS, December l0.-The Tine SAYS
the Lord Mayor Is determined 10 take &C.
tive measures TO assist the Property De.
Tense Association and the Government ID
determined 10 allow the Mayor perfect
freedom ol action, A public meeting will
shortly be held, al which the Mayor viii
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DuBLts, December 1O.-The Fretman't
Journal publishes a letter from Bishop Nc.
Nulty, Of Meath, declaring that II the Rad.
iCal party does not compel Gladstone 10 re.
verse his policy and release the imprisoned
suspects, he must decide 10 tehoGnCe the
Irish support, The next general election
he says, will show the power oi the recent.
IL completed Irish organization.
Pafnell ls confined TO his bed with Z
ievefish cold condition not serious.
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probably be able to lay the matter before
the country most completely and iorcibly
Gladstone regards the movement rs iustiti'
able and finds therein none Of those atin.
tiles with civil war which some captions
imaginations have discovered in It II
cannot be too strongly insisted upon that
We have to deal in Ireland not only with
determined reyolutionists personally in
terested in running the owners Of property,
and peasantry united in free masonry Of
terrorism, but also with the demoralizipg
agency OF foreign subsidies. Fenianism in
mercenaries Of disorder are kept atoot in
Ireland.
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RUSSIA.

ST. PErERsHURo, December ll.-Mowinl
ski Gyalelf and Furrow, the police oHicers
who failed to discover the little garden
street mine, have beeh found gully u d
sentenced to exile in Arch Angel for tIliee
wears,
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BERLIN, December l0-Thcre is grca
commotion among the officers OF tho GIanl
staff, owing to the theft OF plans and pa
pers Of great strategiCal importance.
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DugLlN, December 1.-THE Grand Or
ange Lodge Of Ireland has issued circular
condemning the Land League, and point
ing out that in the United Kingdom and
Its colonies there are thousands and thou
sands Of Orangemen ready to fight for the
constitution.
Earl Spencer, Lord President OF the
council OF war, has arrived in Dublin, It Ia
believed, to consult with the Chief Secre-
tary and the Lord Lieutenant regarding the
state Of affairs in Ireland,
An inHammatory play card posted In
Dublin and suburbs headed, "No Rent"
has been torn down down by the police,
A TUNNEL DISASTER.
LONDON, December lO.-Eight young
men were killed and a number injured on
the Clerks train, this morning, by COLI
sion between four trains In the tunnel, Rt
Cannonsburg, q suburb Of London,
The trains were rushing with great speed
towards the city, The first met an OBJ
struCtion In the tunnel and was derailed,
and the others, following at short distances,
plunged at full speed upon the first and
upon one another,
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Itisnt that Canadian publishing houses simply
pirate bodily the books of American authors
and sell two dollar books for ten cents that
makes the American scribbler mad. That is
bad enough, but that isn't the worst. II Ii
when the American picks up the pirated copy
of his book, with his own real name on the title
page, and finds that the malignant Canadian has
made him spell 'honor" and ''favQr" and
'labor" and all that class of words with gu"
all the way through the book, that the iron
enters his soul. His life is consumed with
righteous rage when he sees that he Is made to
say ''traffick" and "publick." And when he
knows that by the wicked devices Of the Cana
dian publisher, the world will think that he
spells wagon with two gs, he wants to lie down
where he is and die. 1t isn't the loss OF the
book that grieves the American, it's the unex-
pected acquisition of 90 many letters to the
word.-Bu rlingtoa Hdsok3e.
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The earliest agitator in the matter observed
two years ago, when travelling in Sicily, that the
laboring classes there live healthily and work
well upon q vegetable diet, the staple article OF
which ia bread made OF well-ground wheat
meal. Nor are the Sicilans by any means the
only people SO supported. "The Hindus of the
northwestern province can walk 50 or 60 miles
day with no other food than 'ohapatties, made
of the whole meal, with little 'ghee, or Gaiam
butter" Turkish and Arab porters, capable OF
carrying burdens Of from 400 to 600 pounds live
on bread only, with the occasional addition Of
fruit and vegetables. The Spartans and RO-
mans Of old time lived their vigorous lives on
bread made OF wheaton meal In northern as
well as southern climates We find the same
thing. In Russia. Sweden. Scotland and else
where the poor live chiefly on bread, always
made from some whole meal-wheat, oats or
rye-and the peasantry Of whatever climate so
fed always compare fayorably with our south
English poor who in conditions OF Indulgence
precluding them from obtaining sufficient meat
food, starve, If not to death, at least into sick
ness, on the white bread it Is our modern Eng
lish habit to prefer White bread alone will not
support animal life Bread made of the whole
grain will. The experiment has been tried in
France by Magendie Dogs were the subjects
of the trial. and every care was taken to eQua-
lie air the other conditions-to proportion the
quantity OF food given in each case to the
weight OF the animal experimental upon, and
so forth. The result was sufficiently marked
At the end of 40 days the dogs fed solely on
white bread died. The dogs fed on bread made
of the whole grain remained vigorous healthy
and well hOurished. Whether an originally
healthy human being, il fed solely on white
bread for 40 days, would likewise die at the end
of that time remains, Of course, question. The
tenacity of life exhibited by Magendie's dogs
will not evidently bear comparison with that OF
the scarcely yet forgotten 40 days wonder, Dr.
Tanner. Nor is it by any means asserted that
any given man or any given child would GER
tainly remain in vigorous health for an indefi-
mite length of time if fed solely on wheat-meal
bread. Not single piece of strong evidence
mas been produced, however, to show that he
would not; and in the only case i'm which whole
meal bread has been tried with any persistency or
on any considerable scale among us-to wit, in
jails-facts go to show such bread to be an ex-
cellent and wholesome substitute for more
costly forms Of nutritious fOod.-The Nisseseeah
Ce1iuyU
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Description.

Eng. dept, salaries
Eng dept, tenn. writ
erS and draughtSmen
Eng. dept, contingent
expenses -. -...
Water dept, Office and
contingent expenses
Water dept, employees,
fuel, material, &C., fol
high service. 100000.
Water dept. pipe dis
tributiOn IN high and
low service and laying
new mains
Interest and sinking
fund on water stock
bonds. .... ..
Cleaning and repairing
lateral sewers and
basins ............
lateral sewers, con-
StructiOn of $500.
Boundary st. sewer
Auxiliary sewer in
Rock Greek district .
Public hay scales 49,.
Dredging James Greek
canal. 80. --...
Markets. compenSat'n
OF market masters =. .
Markets, con. exp.
Cleaning tidal sewers
Material for permit
work, sewers. ....-..
Division OF sewers and
drains ................
n v ave. sewer and
outlet. .-......
Dred'g channel across
hats and completing
Canal outlet. .........
Pumps. - .-..........
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LIEUT.. HOMES REPORT.


RECLAMATION OF THE FLATs-OBJECTIoNABLE
sIEAN RAILROADS. IN THE CITY LIMITS-HOW TO
REMEDY THE EVIL.
The following report, made by Lieut.. Hoxle
Engineer Corps, U-SA., to Major Twining,
Engineer Commissioner. ID. c., treats upon mat
tiers of great public Importance, and Will be read
with general interest:
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, ID. c.. !
WASHINGTON, Oct 1. 1881.
MdiOr:-I have the honor to submit the fol-
lowing report of operations for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 81. together with estimates for
the fiscal year ending June so, 49,
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND
ESTIMATES.
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eS. tney ran out upon the RAMP parts and with
| . loud voice proclaimed that the Roman world
was to be disposed of to the highest bidder by
public auction" The first bidder was one Sui
picianus, the governor of the city, who promised
to pay to each soldier the equivalent of $500 in
gold, but certain senator named Didus Ju-
llanus bid 81 COG, when the empire was at once
knocked down to him. and the gates of the
camp were thrown open to the purchaser, the
goods delivered promptly, and he was declared
emperor. The policy or morality of that trans
action may indeed be questioned, but there can
be no doubt as to its novelty.
AUCTIONEER's SYMBOLS AND CUSTOMS.
1t would appear from the ancient records that
the custom OF selling military spoils by auction
existed long before the Christian era and the
auctloneers OF those old days had a habit Of
using spear, planted in the ground. "a the
symbol of their Office, and that symbol Continued
In use for several centuries, until rep,acek first
Dy the blowing OF trumpet, and finally nv the
waving OF q red nag And here, while the auc-
tlonary pen is in my hand will submit a re-
saa.I W two ABOUT the word auction. 1t is
from the Latin Of ductio, and signifies i,l1reosno
IN value: IN England they sell by auction. but
IN America at auction; and the custom gene
rally prevailing has ever been to sell to the
highest bidder. Among the Dutch In Holland.
however, IL was the custom to offer property
at price beyond its value and then grad
uaiiy allow the bids to be lo,cered until &C
cepted by the purchaser. In England, q few
centuries ago, they had q habit of helping on Q
sale OF goods by the use of q candle, -when, at
the very moment one inch of the candle was
burned out, the highest bidder became the pu-r
chaser: They also had what they called can
dlestick sale,-when the bids were placed under
candlestick (nOt under q bushel), and were
not disturbed or seen by the bidders until all
the parties had made their offer, when the re-
suit was proclaimed. And still another custom
was for women, appointed for the purpose, to
give each bidder q glass of brandy after each
DID, which ceremony was performed In silence.
WIFE AUCTIONS AND SLAVE AUcTI0Ns
But how about Tho ssWiSe suctfons'' Of ancient