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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-27
DEPARTURE or rRA1Ss-wnEELfxo TINE.
ARRIVAL OF TRAINS.

tDAiiy except sunday-Nsvark Accommodation.
tsteubehvlle Accommodation. This train du'lng
tba day passes back ard and forward between N T..
tins FerrJ aud RellAiit; stopping when required a.
sherman House, Rtnavllle, WGt WHEELING aud
Gravel Hill.
lUfiehIyillO Accommodation.
ttRnAl Dover Accommodation,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-27
Ghp catalogues.

FRPW g OAMPRE1L-
PuIEIHRRs AID PRoPEIEIo1A
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-27

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-27

0Heo, SoS, rs and "a ROurtesnIh btreet,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
The LIme.Kiln Club.
detroit Free Press.


During the past week the Committee Oh
Internal Harmony has been busy with pen
and ink, and as result Brother Gardner was
asked to submit the following maxims to the
club for adoption:
'Advarsity makes heroes, but we doan
want any adyarsity."
Misery lubs company, but the company
amt WORT 'sochatin' wild"
''De man obleeged to borrow an axe, am
neber situated to led spade"
Its none O yer bizness who Ibis next doah
if he dOan' steal yer wood"
Bread cast upon the waters may return.
but eight per cent. interest, with 4 good en-
dorser, am mo- like bizness''
de man who kills yer chickens am ready
to respect you if you kill his dog"
Brother Gardner finished the reading,
placed the paper under weight, and then
said:
1T seems to me dat abstract maxims are
like woollen mittens in July. l have 10
doubt that one could sot down and call to
mind five hundred notices, maxims and say
ings dat would read off very fine, but it
would be a useless task. When you hab tole
a man to be honest, industrious an forgibin'
you hab got de essence oh all de maxims
eber written, an you hab given him all de
burden he kin bar up under. We will lay
the maxims aside until an opportunity offers
to send dem to some Common Council or od-
der public body"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
A TeutOnlc Argument.
Harper's Magazine. I

In the Legislature of Ohio, some years ago,
there was warm dispute whether certain
proposed railroad should commence at a
given point d0,cn or at certain other ND the
river. "Who ever heard" said down-the-
river advocate, ''of beginning anything at the
topP Who ever heard of building chimney
from the top downward? Who ever saw q
house begun at the top?"
Up jumped Dutch member from an up
the-river county. "Meester Brezident, de
jentlemans zay dat dees beeznes ees all Won
hoomboOg, pecause We wants to pegeen our
railroat init de top ov de Shtate, und he
make some seely combarisons apout de houze
und de schimney. veel also ask de jentle-
mans Won questions. Zen hees bart oy de
Shtate, ven dey pegins to built Won veil, do
dey pegins NIT de bottom Ov de veil, or do
dey pegins NIT de top ov de veil? Veel de
jentlemans bleese answer me dat leetle Won
question:"
The laughter which explosively followed
this Teutonic retort showed who, in the opin-
ion of the legislators, had the better of the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
Stock Losses.
West Las Animas Col Leader.

West Las Animas Coli Leader.
! Mac Wallace and Charley Hartman, repre-
senting Northern cattle owners, came up this
week from Lakin, Kansas They went over
the route for the purpose of ascertaining the
extent of the losses of cattle. They found
between here and the State line 223 head of
cattle killed by the trains; and from State
line to Lakin 273 head in all 1876 head killed
by the cars. They found about 1000 hides
IN the hands of Kansas parties, and estimated
that one-half the dead cattle had been skin
ned ON that section of their route. The stock
cast of the State line does not look as well as
That in Colorado. Considerable numbers of
eattle are getting mired in the creeks The
banks of mud left by the late freshets are
sery treacherous. Even humans are liable
10 be taken in by them.
James E. Frost, an experienced cattle man,
places the losses on the mass of cattle at so
per cent. The per cent estimate for range
cattle cannot be true, because this is the loss
lhe best seasons. Great losses must still
occur, as the time for cattle to die is vet to
come.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
A BIG FARM.
Dr. Glen's Great Wheat Ranch in the
Sacramento Valley.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
The ranch of HI. j. Glenn, in Colusa Coun
ty, is one of the largest and most noted in the
State, and perhaps, presents the best illus
tratiOn of extraordinary farming along the
Sacramento. On being asked recently why
he raised wheat alone, his reply was as fol-
lows: People ask why / raise all wheat. The
answer is simple: 1t is the only crop that
will bear transportation it is the only crop
not perishable. / must not raise ON my land
what ruins me, but what is profitable" DIR.
Glenn's ranch comprises about 10000 acres
of land, and the number of acres in wheat
each year ranges between 10000 and $4,000.
Reckoning an average Of from 20 to25 BUSH
els to the acre, something more than 1,0OO,-
900 bushels. This enormous amount of grain
requires vast appliances for planting and
bringing it to the market; and the capital
invested in machinery alone sums mp a con-
fortune.
During the harvest time there are employ
ed ON the entire ranch some 500 men. DIR.
Glenn is general in chief of his force, and the
ranch is divided, for convenience of opera
tions, into nine smaller ranches-each with
dwelling house, barns blacksmith shop, and
other necessary buildings. In charge Of
these are seven foreman, under whom are
sixteen blacksmiths, fourteen carpenters, six
engineers six machinists, five commissaries
and numerous cooks and servants. The COM
mon wOrkmen are divided into gangs, anG
detailed where they are needed. There are
13O gang plOws, so herders, to which belong
$50 wagons, cleaners, 100 harrows, Is seed
ers, 6 thrashers 6 engines. Besides there are
many smaller instruments and vehicles,
which cannot be classified. Cooperating
with their human brethren in the great labor
are 600 work horses and mules, with kin
ship of 600 brood mares and younger stock
which has not yet achieved the dignity of
labor. There are 32dwelling houses,27 barns,
IA blacksmith shops, and other structures
sufficient to swell the aggregate to 100. The
could not be replaced for S125,O0O
the work horses and mules are worth $11O,-
900; the brood mares and young stock, S75,-
900: and the buildings on the place, S10O,
300. The ranch is about twenty miles above
the town of COluSa
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
Improved Telegraphy.
New York Herald.l

$50. New York Herald.l
AnexhibitiOn of what is known as the
House Postal Telegraph System" was given
yesterday afternoon at the residence of the
inventor, Mr.. Royal E. House, No. SO State
street, Brooklyn. The exhibition was well
attended and considerable interest was mani
tested in the invention by those present. Mr..
House was the inventor of the telegraph
system used by the first telegraph company,
out of which the Western Union company
grew. By the system exhibited Yesterday it
is claimed that from $50 to 300 words a
minute can be automatically transmitted,
received and printed in ordinary type ready
for delivery. 1t has been so perfected that
the message be received without the presence
of an operator and transmitted at one-tenth
of the present cost of transmission by the
Morse system. not only in the matter of
labor, but also in the number of wires used
Three machines are required to do the work
Machine No. l is about the same size as
the type writer and somewhat similar. There
is attached to it fillet of paper, and as the
operator who receives the messages operates
upon the machine, this slip Of paper passes
over two small lance-pOinted knives, which
strike it from below, cutting in it a slit each
time of striking. These Sits are alternate
parallel one to the other. Each slit repre-
sents letter of the alphabet, the shortest
Sits standing for those letters most frequent
ly used. The tillet of paper is then taken to
machine No. 2, which is automatic in its
action, and in which the power of electricity
is used. AS the paper passes through this
machine an exact counterpart is made at the
receiving station, recorded automatically.
Machine No. 3-an automatic printing ma
the message in plain type as
the fillet of paper passes through it. By an
attachment to the receiving machine any
station on the line can be called in automati-
cally and thrown out without the presence
Of an operator. It is said that by this system
only two operators will be required in trans
hitting message from this city to Philadel-
Dhia, while at present dispatch has to pass
through about six hands.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
Newspaper Enterprise.

The publication of the details of the battle
at Spitzkop between the Beers and the
English was one of the most marvellous feats
of newspaper and telegraph enterprise ever
known. The London Standard sent Mr..
Cameron, the hardy, fearless African expOrer,
with the British advance to report its opera
tons He accompanied it in its difficult
march to the summit of the fatal hight
When the Beers made that gallant charge in
the face of the English bayonets, about which
they brag so much, and poured over into the
basin, where they drove the English like
sheep, Mr.. Cameron was knocked down, run
over, trampled upon, and captured. He
showed his newspaper credentials and note
book, and having established his professional
identity, was requested to act as flag of
truce bearer to enable the English to take
care Of their wounded. He reached the
British camp that night, and wrote his dis
patch of about $500 words That dispatch
was put upon the army field wires and
reached the coast. Hence it travelled up the
east coast of Africa, over 5000 miles, and
tapped the East Indian wires at the Gulf of
Alden, thence on the bottom of the Red Sea-
another 1000 or 5000 miles, to the Mediterra-
mean, thence on the bottom of the Mediter-
ranean to Italy, thence through Italy and
over the Alps and through France and across
the British channel to London. Not stopping
there, it goes to Valentia, on the west coast
of Ireland, and speeds across the Atlantic to
Newfoundland, thence to New York, and
from New York across the continent to San
Francisco and on the following morning it is
printed in every daily newspaper in the
civilized world, "a thousand of them in this
country. Is there anything more marvellous
in the Arabian Nights" than that one in
Chicago can sit down to breakfast and read
the details of battle that took place the
day before in the southernmost parts of
Africa, thirty degrees below the equator, and
almost at the antipodes?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
A RUNAWAY TRAIN.
Descending GlOrietta Summit, New
Mexico, With Frightful Rapidly.
From the Las Vegas On. NJ Optic.

From the Las Vegas (N. NJ Optic.
The most hair-raising episode that ever
happened to a New Mexican mountain rail-
way train fell to the lot of conductor Bless
ingham Thursday afternoon, at 3 o'clock on
the west slope of GlOrietta Summit The
train comprised nearly thirty loads, and as it
entered upon the descent Jake Brown, the
engineer, threw on the water-brake, but
found that it was broken and would not
work. The train gained momentum to such
frightful extent that the switch cables and
books lying on the pilot base in front were
hurled from their places into the air. break
ing one of the locomotives guard rails. Brown
called for breaks, but the train men had
already set every one and realized that the
train was beyond their contlOl. Seeing that
nothing could be done to stop the mad course
the train was running Brown jumped from
the cab while going at the trightful rate Of
sixty miles an hour and landed seventy-twO
feet distant, actual measurement. Blessing
ham who was on the cabOOse, with Pawnee
Charley and wife as passengers, fearing that
the train was going to destruction, cut his
way car loose and checked it with the brakes,
while the train continued its velocity down
the long grade. The fireman stood at his
post like hero and, while the engine was
plunging down the flight at giddy speed,
he crawled out On the footboard and poked
sand through the sand box, thinking that it
might assist the wheels in getting grip
upon the rails.
AS the train sped around Material curve,
which is "short and Steep" the velocity was
so great that the locomotive ran on one rail
and overbalanced so greatly that it came
within an ace of losing its equilibrium. The
brakemen on deck were obliged to lie fiat
and cling to the running-boards for safety.
For six miles those Enlightened men
stuck to the ship and faced the horrors of
death. Below Cononcito is a natural basin
with three miles OF level track, and it was on
this stretch the runaway train was mastered
and stopped. Some of these cars were laden
with iron for the front, but they were un-
loaded before the train stopped by the ma
terial being hurled in all directions. Just
how the train held to the rails as well as it
did is q mystery which the philosopher must
solve-we can't
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
Helena, Montana, Thursday, March 81, 1881.

crown, wholesale dealer in the article, fol
which he paid S294O in British gold and sill
YER" AS to the total number of scalps he
further says: "At ten dollars each they were
too valuable to be counted loosely, and until
we know better we must accept the story
as told by both sides at the time of the
transaction"
BY the foregoing account, gathered by the
historian from living participants in the bat
tie, it will be seen that the Massacre of Wy
oming was not wholly an Indian massacre,
but regular battle, fought by citizens of the
two most enlightened nations. The one, for
the prize offered of ten dollars scalp, OBJ
tanned the services of four hundred Indians,
and the other a small body of patriotic Am
ericans, chiefly the undisciplined, the youth
full and the aged, who witLstood the COM
bined force of the enemy until overpowered
and slaughtered almost without precedent in
civilized or savage warfare. The number
(227) of Americans killed at the battle and
in the valley of Wyoming is no doubt cor
rect, as the inscriptive epitaph upon the mon
ument erected upon the site of the battle
mentions the names of 1853 officers and men
who fell there. Among the victims OF the
massacre inscribed upon the monument the
name of no female is found, and Mr. Jen-
kins says $50 far as is known to the people
here, not woman or child was slain by the
enemy in the valley"
Among the prominent citizens of Wilkes
barre are to be found many Of the descend
ants of the survivors of that dreadful con-
fiict, and among them to-day is the son of
Colonel Zebulon Butler, a very extraordinary
and intelligent gentleman, so years Of age
this very day, whose acquaintance | have
made and whose company is yet sought for
the wonderful freshness with which he brings
down his fathers own words of the times
that tried mems souls. VIATOR.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
Man,.
Extracted From an old Volume

Extracted From an old Volume.l
The average weight of an adult man is
14O Tbs o.
The average weight of skeleton is about
14ibs.
Number of bones, 24O.
The skeleton measures inch less than the
height of the living man.
The average weight of the brain of man
is 32 lbs; of a woman, 2 lbs II o.
The brain of a man exceeds twice that of
any other animal.
The average height of an Englishman is
feet inches; of Frenchman, 5 feet inches,
and of a Belgian, 5 feet 81 inches
The average weight of an Englishman is
$50 lbs; of a Frenchman, 1876 lbs, and of
Belgian, 14O lbs
The average number of teeth is 80.
A man breathes about 20 times in min
ute, OR ZOO times in an hour.
A man breathes about Is pints of air in
minute, or upwards of 7 hogsheads in day.
A man gives off 4.OS per cent carbOnic gas
of the air he respires; respires 1886 cubic
feet of carbonic acid gas in "a hours; con-
sumes 1867 cubic feet of oxygen in "a hours.
equal to 125 cubic inches of common air.
man annually contributes to vegetation
124 pounds of carbon.
The average of the pulse in infancy is 12O
per minute; in manhood, 50; at 80 years, 60.
The pulse of females is more frequent than
that of males
The weight of the circulating blood is
about % pounds.
The heart beats IS times in minute sends
nearly ten pounds OF blood through the veins
and arteries each beat; makes four beats
while we breathe once
$40 pounds or l hogshead II pints, of
blood pass through the heart in one hour.
$4,000 pounds, or "a hogsheads gallons,
or 1O,7s23 pints, pass through the heart in
"a hours.
1000 ounces of blood pass through the
kidneys in one hour
174,OOO, 600 holes or cells are in the lungs,
which would cover Q surface thirty times
greater than the human body.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
GarfieId's Plurality.
Philadelphia Times, March -.

Philadelphia Times, March II.
The dispute over the popular vote cast at
the late Presidential election still continues,
and the Times has great many questions from
readers On the subject. Such figures as could
be had from official sources were printed in
the Times Almanac for this year. They give
Garfield over Hancock 1880, and while fuller
returns have been received from two or three
of the States having remote and inaccessible
ounties the majority is not materially affect
ed. The New York Tribune Almanac, closed
a month later than the Times Almanac, gave
Garfield a plurality of 5000, difference of
only 703 from the Times figures The Albany
Argus Almanac in its table gives Hancock an
apparent plurality OF 6,797 These figures
are made however by dropping 1O,34O votes
that were cast for second set of Republican
electors in Louisiana. These votes are as
much entitled to 20 to Garfield as are the
votes for the Malone ticket in Virginia to 90
to Hancock The second set of Louisiana
electors were not put in the field against Gar
field; they were nominated before Garfield
was and grew out of q quarrel in the State
over Grant Crediting these 1O,-
34O votes to Garfield, as should be done, and
the hgures IN the Argus Almanac are
turned into plurality of 1858 for Garfield
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in its otherwise adj
nirable table, falls into the same error of
making no account Of these votes, and there
by figures out a Hancock plurality of 9,1O4.
Putting the Louisiana vote as it unquestion-
IDLY should be put and the Enquirer tables
would give Garfield 1926 plurality. We
lave seen no table showing an apparent ma
ority for Hancock which was not defective
n this particular Of the Louisiana vote, and
here is no reason to change materially the
igures as given in the Times Almanac
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31

New York City has a Business Mems
Moderation Society that is doing a world of
good in a quiet way. Last year 1t issued
$1,000 pledges-24,0OO of total abstinence,
$4,000 of not to drink during business hours,
and 10000 of not to treat or be treated.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-03-31
0VR PENNSYLVANIA LETTER.

WILKEsBARRE, March 7th, 1881.
TO the Editor OF the Herald.
THE WYOMING VALLEY.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-13
GkNEKAL BURNSIDE DEAD.


The Sudden Dsseas0 of the Rhode Island
Senator This Morning.
PROVIDENCE, II. l., Sept. 13.-General
A. E. Burnside died suddenly at II o'clock
this morning at his residence in Bristol.
He. had been slightly unwell for two Or
three days, but was in the city last even
ing. The immediate cause of his death
was spasm of the heart.
A telephone message from the generals s
house summoned Senator Anthony and
DR.. Miller, but before the telephone con-
nection was broken message came that
the general was dead. Gov. Littlefeld,
Senator Anthony, Representatives Chace
and Aldrich, and other personal friends
Immediately started for Bristol.
(Gen. A. E. Burnside was popular and
we'll known, but not brilliant member of
the United States Senate. He was born
in Liberty, Ind, May %, 1924; was gradu-
ated from West Point in 1947 served in
the Mexican war invented and for time
manufactured breech- loading rifle was
treasurer of the Illinois Central railroad !;
entered the army as a colonel, rose to be
major general, commanding the left
Union wing at Antictam. He was chosen
governor of Rhode Island 1866, 81 and
'6S was in Europe during the Franco
Prussian war, and succeeded VIM. Sprague
in the Senate, March 4, 1875. He and his
colleague, Anthony, were SO inseparably
intimate as to be known as the Sen atOrial
Twins. EDS. 1NTELLIGENCER.l
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-13

"Hhe Connie S6ogdh"-To-morrow evening
the Clarke -Gayler combination will produce
at Fulton opera house Charles Gayler's Irish
drama Of "The Connie Soogah, =" which old
time playgoers will recall in connection with
some OF the brilliant triumphs of the late
Barney Williams and his wife. The Rochester
Express, in which city the play was presented
with marked success, says, "it still retains
its power of attraction. Ii does not suffer by
comparison with later productions OF the same
order. 1t is strong throughout, the three acts
are full of intensely dramatic situations, and
while there is much highly wrought sentiment
and almost laughable melo-dramatic action
on the part of the villains of the piece, the
moral tone of the play is healthy
Nat GOodWin.-Next Thursday We are to
have the celebrated GoOdwin-Weathersby
comedy company in their newest success
1.-THE Member for Slocum." They played =
very successful engagement ut the Arch
Street theatre, Philadelphia last week, and
the Times thus notices the performance ::
"The Member for Slocum," with which the
Arch Street theatre opened Its season, is
among the brightest little comedies of its class
that We have had for a long while. To classify
1t more accurately, it is one Of those three-act
farces that have so generally supplanted more
dignifed comedy but its interest does not
depend wholly upon ludicrous situations, but
rather upon a crisp dialogue and an unfailing
abundance of sharp turns and clever little
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-13
Philadelphi0 M Arket.


very small superfine, at "a 5O06 %; extra
at IS 5OuG % Ohio and Indiana family at
- s5g7 70; Pennsylvania family 81 OO0
y: st. Louis do 81 750S % AinnosOt0
Extra s6 7jGb7 %: do straight, 81 25l7 5O
S25
Rye flour at Sc 25
Wheat-Market active; No. 2 Western
and and do do Amber % 81 lSIS@1 as. '''' " " "o'
Corn firm fair local demand steamer 70A
lie; sail yellow. 7lA@7sc; mixed, 7O07O1ac !;
No Mixed, 77@7OHc.
i9%@5Oc No. 9. do 4sc No. ), do 4611047c !;
NO. ?, Mixed, 46@ i614c.
Rye none here 81 90 bid.
PrOv1sfOns-market strong; mess pork ut
SO 6O@2l 90. beet hams, ut $23 India mess
beet So 5O,'f. q. b.
Reconstructed shoulders 9<; salt do
SIC; smoked hams 131zc; picked hams,
Lard firm city kettle sls 70; loose butchers
81 80; prime steam $l2 G5ll2 Is.
Butter scarce and in good demand;
Pennsylvania creamery extra 35c; Western
do Sic; do good to choice 3lG33c Bradford
county and New York extra. SO firsts,
soGs.G Western dairy extra, Saa6c do gbod
Rolls scarce; Penn'a 1s@eOc;' Western, 1sa
Zoe.
Eggs firm; penna at sOc; Western at
l91ac.
Cheese choice scarce New York full cream
i2la@13c; Western full cream 1la0l2c; do
!:Lir3tO good, lO0llc.
Petroleum firm ; Refined sc.
Whisky dull ut 81 lS.
Seeds--GOod to prime Glover firm at 1l@
llAc; Timothy frmcr ut ~ 9503 o. Flaxseel
hell ut 81 40; l43bid.