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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-31
BRIEF TELEeR4Ms.
NarratlnE the Minor Events aud Hap
penings OF Yesterday.


Daniel W. Waller, n veteran actor, died
yesterday Mt New York, after short i'll.
ness.
4 Baton Rouge, La, dispatch SAYS: Geo.
Williamson, ex.minister to Central Amer
ica, is dead.
Travel by rail over the Memphis & Little
Rock railroad has been temporarily sus-
pended on account Of high water.
Charles Paul, coIored, attacked Eve
Thompson, young colored woman, OH the
street in Ascension parish, La., yesterday,
and stabbed her to death. Jealousy.
Anna Dickinson appeared rs Hamlet" /"
at McVlckers Theatre at Chicago, 10 a
large audience last evening, which received
her with every demonstration Of applause
and enthusiasm.
Nineteen new cases Of smallpox in Pitts
burgh, aud five in Allegheny were report.
ed 10 the Board OF Health yesterday.
Twenty-tour deaths from the disease oc-
Cured in the latter city last week.
An engine and six freight cars on the
Wisconsin Central railroad were thrown
from the track yesterday at Colbey, Wis.
consln, doing much damage, and badly
brnising Conductor George Fisher. Several
others narrowly escaped serious injury.
The boiler in Belleville, Illinois, nail mill
exploded yesterday, almost totally destroy
ing the building, and seriously injuring
several persons, William Davis probably
fatally. The damages amount 10 $4,000.
Two hundred men, besides boys, were
thrown out Of emplOyment,
The Supreme Court OF Missouri yester-
day affirmed the decision in the case OF
Charles F. Kring for the murder OF Dora
Bromser, married woman, and sentenced
him to be hung February q. Kring shot
Mrs. Bromser in 1875, because she would
not leave her husband and marry him, and
has been tried four times for the crime.
Frederick II. Weimer and Miss Annie
Croft, two more victims Of the Shanesville,
Ohio, disaster, have Just died. The cause
OF the death OF Miss Weimer was lockjaw,
produced by blood poison from her
wounds. Miss Amanda Troyer, badly
burned, is in dangerous condition, and
the wife OF MIR. Shamberger, 1t is feared
cannot live.
The taxpayers OF Kansas City are con
siderably exercised over the discovery o
the systematically planned scheme to rot
them. The allegations are that County
Collector Green has been increasing thl
valuation from 81, 900 to $40, 900 and whel
taxes were paid pocketing the difference
The increased valuation in Kansas Cit,
property alone is about $l,000,000. It |
/ s,se'E9 nh tfs1..ne without inyestiga
ton how much money has been traudu
llently made.
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CENSUS MIsrAKEs.

More Flour Reported 90 Have Been
Manufactured Than Wheat Drown.
Special Dispatch 10 The IntelllgcnceE
WAsuISOToY, January 90.-Considerable
fault has already been found with the de.
tails Of the forthcoming census, and there
is some reason to believe that the work Is
being done in slouchy and unreliable
way. 1t is shown that some compilations
are cribbed b0dily,with a judicious increase
added from the census tables OF 1870, and
in other cases figures not secured are added
with lavish hand, the whole matter
being guess, good or otherwise. A
late occurrence at the bureau discovered
by the local correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun, Mr.. ]. B. McCarty, will illustrate
the peculiar methods adopted-statistics Of
what were collected by the division OF
agriculture and statistics OF flour by the
division Of manufactures. A comparison
Of the results by the division OF the final
results showed that there were 65,OO0 900
more pounds Of flour manufactured than
there were pounds Of wheat grown. despite
the fact that wheat is supposed to lose
about per cent in the manufacture into
flour. Something must be done, and it
was a question as to whether the whoat
should be brought up, or the flour cut tdown
Finally, the gentleman who heads the
agricultural division OF the Census Office
made such q protest against the reflection
upon the character OF the work done BY
his clerks, which raising the amount oi
wheat would make, that it was concluded
to cut down the flour. So eighty clerks
were engaged month and more in equal
izing that sixty.fye millions and distribut
ing it in proportion among the different
States. As a result, Indiana will so before
the public us manufacturing six million
pounds less flour than she actually doe!
produce, Ohio four million pounds less
and other States in proportion. And thil
reducing things to correspond, as it is
called, is but Of a piece with other per
formanccs of the Census Bureau when in
formation is wrong.
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SAY FRASclsco, January SO-The British
ship Cochin arrived here to-day from Dun.
dee having on board seven men picked up
al sea on the 18th OF January, in a starving
condition. The men belonged to the
British ship Milton, bound from Shields
TO- TO- San Francisco, with cargo OF coal.
The Milton caught fire on the 22d Of Dc.
SScmoer and was abandoned. The 8yst
Doat contained Captain Macarthur, his wife
and two children, and five men the sec.
ond boat contained the First oilicer and
seven men, and the third boat contained
tne Second officer and FIVE men. Twenty.
three days after the men in the third boat
aIe picked mp, Nothing hos beer, heard
o. the other two boats and Il g thought
they9re all lost, The BoGts separated The
Say S;S following the abandonment Of the
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DEATH OF DIR. BELLOWS.
One OF the Leading Minds of tho AmOri.
can Church Conc.


New York, January 3O.-The Rev. DR..
H. W. Bellows died ata quarter past eleven
this afternoon, from the ailment which be
had suffered since week ago last Thurs
day. The ailment was intestinal obstruc-
ton.
Henry Whitney Bellows, D. D., was an
eminent Unitarian divine, and was born in
Boston in 1914. He took the degree of A.
B, ut Harvard in 1882, and afterwards stud
led in the theological school Of that uni
veBity. In 1888 he BECAME pastor OF All
Souls Church in New York City, which DO.
sition he retained until the time of his
death. He was the principal founder OF
the Christian Inquirer (lS46), and was for
many years the chief contributor to its col
umns. Mr., Bellows was an able and elo-
quent public speaker, aud has leCtured sue
cesstulIy on great variety of subjects, Cs-
pecially those connected with social or
educational interests, or with patriotic or
philanthropic enterprises. Among his
publications, his lectures ''0n the Treat
ment Of Social Diseases delivered at the
Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1867, deserve
to be particularly mentioned. He was the
principal originator Of the United States
Sanitary commission, Of which he became
the first president, in 1862. He held the
position as long as the organization con-
tinued.-Ed.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
THAT oANAL COALITION EXPLODED.
Cobb Amer The Land Grant EnIlrOAd,-A Peculiar
Qu'IuOn Involved ina COuvrsssIOAal Contest.
Qussr Mistakes Ia Compiling GsHtut
RsturnS-CapltAl News Notes.


Special Dispatch TO tho lateil!seaces
WASHINGTON, January 3O.-I spoke to
Senator German to-day relative to the
Washington Poa story I told you last
night, and he says that there Is not a word
Of truth in 1t, nor the slightest foundation
for it. The canal is cleaned, repaired and
the extensions made only during The sea-
son when navigation is In no way obstruct-
ed. There are not now, and never have
been, any arrangements between the Gu
nal company and the B.lS o. company, and
the competition will remain as 1t is. LASTLY,
Mr. German says that he has received no
petitions from Cumberland coal operators,
nor from any one else. Mr.. German will
retire from the Presidency ofthe canal soon,
bnt does not know who his successor will
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LAND GRANT RAfLRoAps.
War Opened Up ON Them In Earnest BY
Representative Cobb.

Special Dispatch 10 the Intelligeneer.
WARRINGTON, January 80. The first
open attack upon the so.called "Land
Grant" roads was made in the House to-
day, by the introduction Of bill by Mr..
Cobb, Of Indiana, making 1t the duty oi
the Secretary Of the Interior 10 declare
forfeited the grants Of all roads which had
not complied with the terms OF their con-
tracts upon which their lands were granted
them. The bill provides that the Land
Commissioner shall sell these forfeited
lands at not less than one dollar and twen-
ty-fve cents per acre, and as fast as the
proceeds OF these lands accrue to the
amount Of $4,000 the United States Treas
urer shall divide the amount between the
different States, in proportion to their pop
ulation, upon the passage by each State Of
an act devoting the amount received for.
ever to the use Of the public schools.
Mr.. Cobb's bill isvery irank, and "names
names" without hesitation, nearly all the
roads which have forfeited their grants by
breach OF contract being named in the bill.
Among these are number OF short South
ern roads in Alabama, Louisiana and
Georgia, number Of roads in Wisconsin
and the Northwest, and the Northern and
Texas Pacific roads. Mr.. Cobb says that
the public domain is being rapidly wiped
out, and that something must be done ere
long to redeem the millions OF acres that
have been gobbledb by the railroads without
rendering an equivalent, either in service or
money. He says that he thinks the North
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Special Dispatch to tho lntcllIsencet.

Special Dispatch to the lntcllgenCGr.
WAsntSGroS, January S8.-The Com
mittee on Ways and Means will meet to-.
morrow and will, it is thought, agree to re,
port Mr.. Kasson's Tariff Commission bill
favorably, ms the subcommittee has already
endorsed it. The committee viii also de,
eide MS to whether McKinley's Iron and
Steel bitt will be allowed to prccedc the
Tariff Commission bill or not. 1t is not de-
sired to precipitate tariff discussion at
this timr, and McKinley's bill will do
that. Its thought best to get the tariff
commission bill passed, or ut least launch
ed, and then push the Mckinley bill as a
measure that must pass at once to regulate
the uncertain duties on iron and steel un-
til the commission can complete its labors
and render its decision. There is no idea
OF Withdrawing the hoop iron bill rs has
been intimated, but it viii be pushed to
the utmost by the committee, who are all
favorable TO 1t.
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WHILE not DENYING the constitutional
power OF the legislature to enlarge the rer.
rscnia'ioa in the House OF Delegates to II
or 7S-although there is n doubt on the
Mtiect-it seems worth while to observe
that tt wouIa be greatly in theinterest Of
economy il our legislators could be content
iOr the current dccadeto leave the number
otmcmbers stand at 65, as at present II
they we're governed wholly by their private
opinions us to what would be really best
for their constituents in the present con-
dition Of the States finances, we presume
that decided majority Of them would say
that IS members are enough for NIL the
needs OF legislation. Speaking for Ohio
county We are free to say that the present
representation is ample for all her legisla-
tive wants, and We are not apprehensive
that even a slight diminution OF the num-
Der would injure us in the least. The
mere pride Of numbers ought not to count
tor much in u matter OF general interest
to tax payers. and We have no idea that
anybody in this county would feel bad to
see three instead Of four representatives in
the House OF Delegates. This much may
be said on the part OF expediency, while
not denying the power to increase. Bat
whether there is such power or not, or
whether sixty-ivC was intended 10 stand
until We acquired additional territory las
some contcnd) or until we changed the
Constitution lAs others contend( need
not matter as respects the con-
sideation of economy. We presume
that no one will deny that in the present
financial condition OF the State the present
membership ot the House is ample for all
her needs, We are at loss to conjecture
what interests would safer in any part Of
the State by iorbearing to enlarge the
House. We think that no part OF our pop
ulatioa would feel as il they were bereit ol
voice among the law makers. Every
constituency would be pretty sure to find
an advocate on any point worthy OF atten-
ton, albeit each constituency might be q
little larger than it has been.
We do not suppose that this view OF the
situation will have any special weight with
the members OF the Legislature, however
much it might commend itself to their pri.
vate judgment II the State was n large
monicd or business corporation, it would
oil course he run in a prudent, business
like and economical way, aud ali unncces.
sary expense would be closely watched
and cut down. Sixty.fve members in one
branch and iwcaty.iour in another would
be considered great abundance, espe
ciatty II the corporation was in debt 10 The
banks and in arrears to the school fnnd tC
,he extent to which West Virginia il a,
this time involved
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CABLE CLICKS.
Brief items OF News Abroad PIthIIy Put
nnd Pointed for Reading.

and Pointed for Reading.
A Havana dispatch says the tjblcco
crop is small and quality poor.
Richard Brinsley Knowles, the only sur.
viving son ofthe dramatist James Sheridan
Knowles, is dead.
Gambetta took his seat in the French
Chamber Of Deputies yesterday among the
members Of the left.
One million pounds arewanted to enable
the jews of Russia 10 immigrate 10 the
United States and Canada.
General Heniksteim, chief of General
Bendik's staff in the war OF 1865 between
Austria and Prussia, is dead.
The German Government will establish
. station on the Cumberland Sound for Tie
purpose OF recording observations.
Ast. Petersburg dispatch says: Melville
will form five separate parties to search for
Commander DeLong, Of the Jeanette.
The score in the Slosson.v .vignaux bill.
lard match ut Paris, for the first evening il
slosson GOO points, average 80; Vignaux
$40.
A Berlin correspondent says that Won
Schloc2er takes full instructions 10 neeoti-
ate with the Vatican, and sound Il in re.
gard to the bill for the amendment of tho
] Falk laws,
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.Three Cents Per ounce"

Special Dispatch to the lntelligenccF
WASHINGTON, January 30.-Mr. Denote,
of Indiana, introduced bill this morning
to fix the postage on first.class mail matter
at three cents per ounce or fractioa thereof.
The bill is proposed at the suggestion of
bankers and business men who find that a
half ounce will hardly reach the extent of
4 sheet Of paper and small enclosure, us q
bank check or draft or bill, and they are
compelled to pay donble price for a grain
over one-half ounce. They say that three
cents per ounce would prove OF more real
value to business men than a reduction in
postal rates to two cents per half ounce.
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FIGHTING FACTIONS.
Struggle Between the Virginia Read
JusterS and Straightout Republicans.

Struggle Between the virginia Read.
JusterS and StraIghtout Republicans.
WASHINGTON, January 9o.-The Repub-
lican says On Friday last the name Of
William Nichols was sent to the Senate as
Postmaster at Norfolk, Va. This renomi-
nation Of Nichols was not an intentional act
OF the President, nor was it known by the
Postmaster General. The Presidents at
tention being called to it, he was greatly
surprised, the nomination having been un-
willingly signed by him with many others.
The Postmaster General and his first as
sistant found that the clerk OF the depart
had prepared the nomination without any
authority and handed it in with the others
he had been directed to make out. The
President at once directed the Withdrawal
OF the nomination, not because he had
changed his mind, but because it was not
his act, but only that OF either very sharp
or very dull clerk. An investigation is 10
be had.
senator.elect RiddIeberger, Governor
Cameron, and number OF ofmembers OF the
Virginia Legislature, besides other prom
inent Readjusters, are here to-day TO assist
Senator Malone in his fight against Rep
resentative Jorgensen, over tho Norfolk
Postofice.
Malone, Cameron and Riddleberer
called on the President to-day and joined
in the protest against the appointment OF
Nichols They urged that the nomination
be withdrawn, and represented, so it is
said, that to make disappointment wouldn't
be in the interests Of the coalition party.
1t would give encouragement to the oppo-
nents. The coalition just now is ut q criti-
cal time, when that party has an internal
quarrel on hand about the State Auditor.
ship. Mahone's friends still declare that
Nichols nomination will be Withdrawn.
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wAsHINGTON NOTES.
Brief News Paragraphs Of National and
General Interest.

SeneFuI interest.
WAsHISoToN, January 3O.-The Supreme
Court adjourned till the eth OF February
for PREPARATION Of opinions in the cases ar.
gued.
The district Of Parpaca, which Chilli has
taken from Peru is estimated to be worth
one thousand million dollars. The cost OF
the war to Chill was thirty million dollars.
Among the conhrmations OF the Senate
were the following Postmasters:
Miss Mamie B. Imbrie, Beaver, Pa: G.,
G. W. Hazard, Monongahsla City, Pa;
Wm. Gibson, Petrolia, Pa; J. F. McNIahon,
New Lexington, O.; A. Howells, Jefferson,
O.; Geo. ]. krebs, Fremont, o.; H, w.
Turner, Geneva, o.; VIM. G. Lyon. New.
ark, O.; Levi Roscoe, Milan, O.; Abram D.
Win, Dayton, O.; G. f. Griffin, Hamilton,
O.; X. B. Crawford, Afassiiion, o.
Mutilated silver coins will be bought by
the SupeFintendents OF the Minis at the
rate OF one dollar per ounce.
Papers relative TO the arrest and impris.
onment OF Lieutenant Mcdonald and
scouts at Ascension, Mexico, by order OF
Mexican troops, have been referred to the
State Department
Senator Teller's speech on Friday has
attracted considerable attention because OF
its indirect criticism upon the Republican
party. Alter saying the present tariff is
not such a tarffas the people demand, and
condemning the policy that would strike
out Of existence one.hait the money of the
world, that men holding securities might
have better and stronger grip upon the
people who earn money aud pay taxes in
this country" "hesaid: "Mr. President, / was
educated in the Democratic party and
when it failed to represent my sentiments
had the courage to get out Of it, and
propose, upon this question, to represent
myself and not allow the Republican party
to be put in position Of misrepresent.
ing the wishes Of the great people Of the
west and south.
The sub.eommittee on the contingent
fund investigation have turned their worI
to summing up the testimony Of Senate
Corkrell, and the inquiry will soon b.
concluded.
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Amongthe tfeetsto leave to-day the Ray.
mond Horner deserves special mention.
She makes her maiden trip, and goes clear
through to the sunny city Of New Orleans
The Raymond Horaer Is compact, power.
iul and well modelled, The hull Is from
the Pittsburgh Boat Building Compapy's
yards, Sewickley, and is l02 feet long. $5l
beam and 9 feet hold. The cylinders are
two feet in diameter, with 0 feet stroke, and
she has battery oisteel boilers. Auxiliary,
or "nigger" engines furnish power in other
parts Of the boat James Rees built the
engines, and Rees & Thorn the boilers
Captain Simpson r, Horner has charge q
the boat, which is the property Of Simpson
Hornes, Esq
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The Prospects for the Admiration OF n
New sister Into the Union.

WASHINGTON, January Ex-senator Nor.
rill expresses his opinion that Senator Ed
munds would not go on the Supreme
Bench II he had an opportunity, as he de-
clined place upon 1t once before. Its
believed on the other hand by many that
he will accept the appointment il rendered
him.
President Davis OF the Senate iayors the
admission Of Dakota into the Union, ant.
will vote for the bill. He holds, it Is So d,
that the southern portion Of Dakota is en-.
titled by reason Of population and other
considerations to admission and that 1t Is
not question for partisan consideration,
Judge Davis vote, combined with the Re
publicans, would give the bill Q majority
IN tsGsenasec HEfiss; the Republicans con.
troll the House It would appear that the
measure has good prospect ot becoming Q
law during the present session,
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THE BLAINE POLICY.
Tho Comments on the PubIiShcd De.
feuhe OF His Position.


WASHINGTON, January SO.-Ex.secretary
Blaine's published defense of his South
American policy has been the subject oi
considerable commentand criticism among
Republican members Of Congress. A
prominent Western Senator remarked that
Blaine's policy, as to South America, was
outrageous; that it was like an overgrown
man threatening u child with violence
without any provocation.
Another western Senator, hitherto q
pronounced Blaine man, said. "This has
undoub ubtedIy hurt Blaine considerably. +"
Blaine's friends say that unfriendly com
ments are INDUCED in to considerable cx,
tent here in Washington because it is sup
posed that it is popular with the powers
that be; but Blaine's strength Is
among the people and they will sustain
him,
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STEuBENyILLE,
A Chapter of Accidents, of which None
Will Prove Fatal.

"Hh AEtNS
Special Dispatch to the 1ntelllgeucer.
SrEunESvILLE, o., January SO-About
noon to-day row occurred in a Market
street saloon, in which stranger was shot,
the ball taking effect in the right arm and
lodging near the bone, paralyzing the arm.
This evening Ross Stevens, while show
ing revolver to some parties at the 9. &
P. depot, accidentally discharged it. The
ball struck Charley vogle in thel leg.
David Houghton aged l9 years, while
skating on pond at 2Iingo this evening,
broke through the Ice and would have
drowned had not the engineer Of No, Il
freight jumped from his snsisssad. ssssss.sss,7
him. The train at ths time was standing
on the side track,
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ClNcINNATI, January 3O.-At the regular
weekly meeting Of Methodist ministers to-.
day no business was presented, the whole
time being occupied in receiving reports of
the revival meetings in the various
churches. In st. Papl's church, where
special services have been in progress for
two weeks, over 200 conversions were re-
ported. Others swell the aggregate nun.
Der to oyer 400. Reports OF universal in
terest and excitement come from country
churches-notably those at Morrow and
Camden, Ohio.