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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31

From Rircr fiiec-in this part OF the
country u great deal Of business is being
done in coal and coke, and the coal men
are paying their men who are making good
wages. The farmers are getting good
Prices for their tobacco and the crops have
brought e0Rsiderablemoney into the coun.
ty, There is no reason to be seen why
business should not be good all spring and
summer,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31

.RILLHEADS, LETTER HEADS. Sc
~ Fet neat Rlll Hsads Letter lIests Note Heads
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31
PIIesl ItchInR Piles,

Any Blood Disease, whether hereditary OF
OlhcrpiSe, speedily cured by s. s. s.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31
SEIH DISEASES CURED
Dr.. Ffazi9r'S Roof BjitprS,

VII IuLtGi D lUul OlitEiSl
49,. s'a.'y' ~! BITES ere not4 tnm shop WafSky
T,selH bG' am strictly mrIIc!ua, ia MI ans.
EF{ Al 'lwas,y uUNn the liver and Eblmey, 100
SsS,ttsTt opril "lut regular, maze lhcwrak ,r6n!
" w. aus, lu'iiuN the nerves and clcAp,g H.,
'RR, ,.Aa9ql 3airn NJ every !mput!ty. '''''S ''''
~ t'',ngS KgshoI flnod 10 lkGHc,d tending
EssttSSevAy J, pSSpcp>!a, Fever and Agul, pfoDsy'
49,, tNi G.1tgHrs SeDiulDps iaEien abd
~ Iellpr Ring Norm, WhI,cSwcliin., EFvsIbe.
~ 80, ml in' Young men SuGstins from
NO. q leb.N'y c1',eA ilnm ttnprndcftce, Gad
ls .i, y, 4,rl'e health, FrAIerS Root BltlCH
Esf5srf' dove uaet tive bOttiCsOf your Root
III ie' ,Ig"it1 nfgHlu, Weakness and Kid.
e., anl hey t.A me morl good than the
M ~ az! 'hag m~,iclnc ever NScd. IRON the
49, ! Illi 0.gal 10 mend, and am now In
i 49, Ess.,h and lleI a. sell nS ever did con.
' 'Vuf ~gi.e quo ono III the greatest Of blessings.
sl,,. MRS N. MARTIN, Cleveland, Ohio,
MI. .,San { to, hidgC Corner, Wheeling
IVY l'lSSAb everywhere Al 81 per hottie,
d., HENRY & 90, 6Ole PrOp'rG,
.-@.ss9G q Negey Street, New York CITY.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31
Or },E.. SMITH,

no III; ClilPLlNE STREET.
fas s.,' yrdl.v5's EsGe.HR : success Is the ter
tin)ly a h,Hlagp ThrlNCreaSing demands for
.! pn'eHrA yE.fs U'oyc TINT have dealt
hi1JnSly Amg wiGi those who have consulted
~, lltggt9 patient name without pcrTnls'
L17 ≷, lr. many lugdtCd certificates from
Es Nhoa llaHcrl 4 after they had been pro-
HAaod latin b Thorough medical education,
viii aty !gi'hDJEl !uSpGriCnCca aud familiarity
win hf1fyalr sr.'I'., Cl0SC observance 81 tenn
FhEe1isl irl,il1tlrs and strict attention 70
ANfll tr1r,4 ul, InsuIcS success, II cure u
PGih, and iHHSy elvc the patient my opinion:
HON 8N PROOFS
Eta.g Nd Ever Diseases and Rheumatism
gg.rn,i'Tl-f.bly. Nothing seemed 10 help me;
hu.Id "a, nj Os!0f bed, Dr.. 9Eslth cured me-"
LEFT. PHILLIPS,
Wheeling, ". Va.
Oa7h, P1'TUs OF Nose, Emp4lred Voice SUI
ls;d .J' ~ Wunt medicine tEiled " help nc.
81. O. f.r f#frVpH
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31
A Remarkabic Famlly Record.

Editors IntelIigcncer.
Isend you short sketch Of along lived
family. My father, Vim. Dunlap imnli.
grated to this. country in l7S5. In 1907 he
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-31
.s,,,,, FIyrr CENTS PER hottie
O., .,.sm ALL DRUGGISTS,

r. -.uIp'hu urNcs; Druggist
kfigIlW -.s.,..H.'H lI III" house. IL
uo8t hi.5 0....0, d. auHug's iii.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

Uncle Sans letter-carriers are hard
working set of men, and are liable to
contract rheumatism because of the con-
slant exposure to which they are sub
jected. Calling at the postofioe the
reporter had pleasant conversation
With Mr. J. Fl. Mattern, one of the most
popular and clever letter carriers In In
dianapolis. Mr.. Mattern said that, while
in the army during the civil war, he
spraiued one of his ankles, which was
always worse in the spring during the
period of the rapid changes in the
weather. He did not find much relief
frcm the several remedies he applied.
But two years ago he hit uponSt. Jacobs
Oil, and experienced wonderful relief
from its use. Several applications of
the Great German Remedy relieved him
en'ir, ly. The reporter talked with others
among the letter-carriers and found that
the Great German Remedy was popular
IN the postoffice. They use it for sore
feet, rheumatism, etc, and praise it
highly.-Tadianal1oIiS (T1ad) Nes0s.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
How AlligatOrs Eat.

An alligator's throat, Gays newspa-
per correspondent, is an animated
sewer. Everything which lodges in his
open mouth goes down. He is lazy
dog, and, instead of hunting for some
thing to eat, he lets his victuals hunt for
him. That is, he lays with his great
mouth open, apparently dead, like the
'possum. Soon a bug crawls into it,
then a fly, then several gnats and a
colony of mosquitoes. The alligator
doesn't close his mouth yet. He is
waiting for whole drove Of things.
He does his eating by wholesale. A lit
tie later lizard will cool himself under
the shade of the upper jaw. Then few
frogs will hop up to catch the mosqui-
toes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats
lghton the frogs. Finally whole vii
lage of insects and reptiles settle down
Jor an afternoon picnic. Then, all at
once, there is an earthquake. The big
jaw falls, the alligator slyly blinks one
eye, gulps down the entire managerie
and opens his great front door again for
more visitors
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
How Pilgrim Weakened.

1t used to be said of Pilgrim, who
was resident of Clinton County, Mich.
for thirty years, that he never paid q
debt in his life, and further, that no
one ever found way to make him. The
nearest he ever came to such climax
was when q neighbor found him mired
in a swamp in the woods, two miles
from any house. Pilgrim was over his
knees and slowly going down when ac-
cidentally discovered, and the situation
offered the neighbor just the chance he
had long wanted. Taking a seat on a
log near by he said:
Pilgrim, you owe me SIG"
cts outlawed," was the reply.
"I can't help that. It was just
debt, and you've got to pay it or I'll
leave you to sink out of sight.
81 never pay outlawed debts" was
the grim answer.
"Then down you CO." said the cred
itor as he started away.
Of course he did not mean to leave
old Pilgrim to die, but thought he'd
give him a scare. He therefore hid in
the bushes where he could see him, and
during the two hours he was there the
debtor went down until only head and
shoulders were above the swamp. 1t
wanted only an hour to shutdown when
the creditor came forward and said:
Pilgrim YOU are In bad fix"
Yes, rather bad"
"Unless you have help you'll be out
of sight in two hours
" Looks that way to me, too"
"Now, then, will you pay that debt p
"It's outlawed"
" 1 can't help that, you owe me SIG.
Will you pay it if help you out p
"I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll wait
till go down to my chin, and then if
no one else happens along, or the boys
don'tcome this way after the COWS, I'll
give you my note for so, payable in a
year. How's that?"
" I'll let you go down and be hanged
to you !" roared the creditor as he
moved away.
Hold on hold on r. called Pilgrim.
1" forgot to say that the note must be
drawn without interest, and you must
agree not to sue on it,
He was actually down to his chin
when the neighbor returned with help,
but he was not in debt paying mood. |
On the contrary, when he found that his
boots had been left in the mire behind
him he growled out:
I" I don't say as shall sue any of you
for the value of them boots, but won't
agree not to bring in the claim if we
ever make boss trade. "-Detroit Free
Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
The Invention of the Telescope.

Some of the most important discov-
cries have been made accidentally and
it has happened to more than one in
ventor, who had long been searching
after some new combination or material
for carrying out pet idea, to hit upon
the right thing at last by mere chance.
A lucky instance of this kind was the
discovery of the principle of the tele-
scope.
Nearly three hundred years ago there
was living in the town of Middleburg,
on the island of Walcheren, in the
Netherlands, a poor optician named
Hans Lippersheim. One day, in the
year 1908, he was working in his shop,
his children helping him in various small
themselves with the tools and objects
lying on his work bench, when sudden
ly his little girl exclaimed:
sob, papa! See how near the steeple
comes?"
Half startled by this announcement,
the honest Hans looked up from his
work, curious to know the cause of the
childs amazement. Turning toward
her, he saw that she was looking through
two lenses, one held close to her eye,
and the other at arms length and, call
ing his daughter to his side, he noticed
that the eye-lens was plano concave Cor
fiat on one side and followed out on the
other, while the one held at distance
was plano-convex Cor flat on one side
and bullying on the other). Then, tax
ing the two glasses, he repeated his
daughters experiment, and soon dis
covered that she had CHANGED to hold
the lenses apart at their exact focus,
and this had produced the wonderful
effect that she had observed. His quick
wit and skilled invention saw in this
accident a wonderful discovery. He
Immediately set about making use of
his new knowledge of lenses, and ere
long he had fashioned a tube of paste
board, in which he set the glasses firmly
at their exact focus.
This rough tube was the germ of that
great instrument the telescope, to which
modern science owes so much. And it
was on Oct. %, 1908, that Lippersheim
sent to his Government three telescopes
made by himself, calling them ''instru-
ments by means of which to see at
distance"
Not long afterward another man,
Jacob Adriansz, or Metius, of Alkmaar,
a town about twenty miles from Am
sterdam, claimed to have discovered the
principle of the telescope two years
earlier than Hans Lippersheim and it
is generally acknowledged that to one
OF these two men belongs the honor Of
lnventlng the instrument. But it seems
certain that Hans Lippersheim had
never known or heard of the discovery
made by Adriansz, and so, if Adriansz
had not lived, we still should owe to
Hans Lippersheim's quick wit, and his
little daughters lucky meddling, one of
the most valuable and wonderful human
inventions. st. Nicholas.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

"Get behind me. I will fire at the
first man that enters. How many bar
rels are there ?"
"Six, all loaded"
Every well. Keep this cane in your
hand for me in case I need it."
There was no stormlng of shutters.
They heard the key applied to the door
softly. 1t opened, and a man followed
by two others confidently entered. The
first figure walked directly to the stairs.
He had taken but step when three
shots came in rapid succession. There
was heavy thud; this man dropped
and the other two turned and fled,
Sarah ran to the window and two horses
galloped down the lane.
"Don't faint, madam; there's work
yet to do" said the tramp.
Mamie caught hold of the rail for sup.
port and then went into the room. "Get
candle, Sarah"
They lighted candle and gave it to
the tramp, who went down stairs. the
two women following with brandy and
ammonia. The man had fallen back.
ward and lay with his face up and head
toward the door.
Raise the mask and give him all
first, madam"
Mamie raised the mask and fell back
with wild shrek.
"Do you want to know now why her
hair is white ?" he asked.
SIT was Harry Wells !" I answered.
sit was that smiling, popular young
scamp"
cts no use to ask why he did it. I
don't care. Motives don't matter much
in such case. But she, Mamie-Mrs.
Wells-she has her gray hair, but there
is no trace of that midnight tragedy in
her face"
81 believe she was i'll for long
time," answered my friend. "They say
smallpox cures one of other diseases.
Well, some griefs are like the small
pox; they cure you of lesser weak
nesses-tenderness of the heart, for ex-
ample. This, I think, was one of them. "
And the tramp
He and Sarah were of course the
witnesses at the inquest. The next day
he was off on his journey, and I have
never heard of him since. "-.Su,adav
World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
FARM AND GARDEN.
FARM CAPITAL AND IT'S EMPLOYMENT.


With the merchant capital is cash,
with the real estate owner it is land, but
with the farmer, cash, land, and stock
are considered his capital. Yet there
are quite number of things that enter
into and form part of the capital of
the farmer which are generally uncon-
sidered, such as farm implements,
manures, and, of still greater import
ance, labor. Capital may be productive
or not. Gold or silver locked up in the
safe or placed in strong box, or a tract
of uncultivated land may be considered
capital, but so long as the property re-
mains in this state it produces nothing,
and the owner may actually be growing
poorer instead of richer. We have
known many man to be ruined by
Gland poverty or by an excess of land
that was continual expense in the way
of taxes, but never yielded any income.
"A n1mble sixpence is far better than a
slow shilling" is an old saying and q
true one.
Increase of wealth does not depend
on the amount of capital invested, so
much as upon the use that is made of
it, and in no other business is this more
observable than in farming. A man
may have commenced farming with fifty
acres of land, on which he expends an
nually in manure, labor, etc., twenty
five per cent, and the products, per-
haps, amount to forty per cent. En-
couraged by his success, he adds
another fifty acres to his domain, but
he is unable to increase his expendi-
lures proportionately, and the profits
are proportionately lessened. Still he
is ambitious for more land, and adds
another fifty acres, and still keeps on
purchasing while he adds little or moth
ing to his active capital, and the ulti-
mate result is, that while on fifty acres
of land he realized forty per cent, on
five hundred acres of land he realizes
nothing. 1t must be clear to the mind
of the most obtuse that if his profits
diminish in inverse ratio to the increase
of his land. the time must come, if he
keeps on buying land, when they will
amount to nothing, and if still con-
tinued will run him in debt. We have
known more than one farmer to become
hopelessly involved by doing this same
thing, and we have no doubt that the
inordinate desire for large farms has
been the ruin of thousands.
We would not deny so plain propo-
sition as that large farm may be made
proportionately as productive and
profitable as small one; but to render
it so the owner must have a proper
tionately increased capital in the shape
of manure and labor, or money to pro-
cure them. That part of every farm
upon which the most capital is ex-
pended is the garden, and every one
knows that in proportion to its area this
is much the most productive and profit
able part of the farm. The deductions
from this are plain. No man should
possess more land or undertake the Gull
tivation of more acres than he has cap
ital to manage well, for if he does he
will find himself rapidly sinking what
little productive capital he possesses,
and is liable to become poor with the
means of wealth still in his hands
Maine Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
MARKET NOTES.
Ar1IIIr XnDK AIADKE LII

The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
So. 4OGD53. 60 per bushel.
BUTTER New York sold at 40@42c- for
choice in pals, and 30035c. common to good !;
Western sold at 39@45c., and tue common
Western at 10000.
CHEEsE Factory fancy, 13c. (D131lc; do.
fair to good, 10@n14c.
EGGs-Quotations ranged from 2lc. for Or
binary, 10 31c for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
FLOUR -Superfne, 81. 1904 IS :; Western,
S5.15@$5.75; extra New York, So. 75@$S 90.
HAY Shipping, 65D70c.; clover, 65@75c.;
salt, 65c.; straw, 300 Soc.
HOPS New York, 26@2Sc.; Eastern, leo
Csc; yeariings, 17@2Oc.; Odds, 7@15c.
PETRoLEUM-Refned, 7sSc.; crude, 6s4@
1870. i'll bulk in barrels, re; naphtha csc.
in shipping order, and i13@ i224c. in cases.
Pork New mess, $18.Z5@$18.3715; dressed
hogs, $50. 081sc.
WHEAT Spring No. 3, $l.249125 Mil
waukee, No. 2. S1.36; amber, Sl32@$1. 40 :;
white, 81 .35GD3l41.
RYE State, 9l@9Sc.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia
xxx, 45046c.; Xxx, 420Oi5c.; X, 42043c.; No
!, 450i7c.; No. 2, 38C94Gc.; common, 33@35c. !;
New York and Western Xxx and Y, 39041c.
No. 1, 4l@i5c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
Flour State family, $6.3715@$7,25 rye
lour, 8 - OATS; wheat, State, $1,000
SLAB; amber, SLAB; corn, yellow, &c.,
mixed State, 70Ac.
PETROLEUM Refined, Use; crude, &C.
WOOL State and Western Xxx, 46@5-c.; X.
47@lSc.; medium, 50@51c.; coarse, 45c.
BOSTON MARKET.
FLoUR-From $45O@9575 for low and
medium, to $550@$7. 80 for choice Minnesota.
Corn, 72Q73c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER Common, 1Sc(025c. Vermont
DAIRY, 2i@33c.; choice creamery, 35@4Sc.
CHEESE-TD138Ic.
BEANS So. 60@S3.75.
HAY-ChUice, S200S21.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, $500
IS 80; hogs, fair to good, $675@$7.15; best,
$40.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN. Best cattle, 5000
@6.75 fdium to good, So. 25G $500; common
70 fair, $4.25@D95.0O; Hogs, Workers, $1,000
$3.50; Philadelphias, $750@$7.65. Sheep,
$41C@$465.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle, choice, $500
1925; extra, $SOO@$S.5O; first quality,
S7OO@$775; second quality, $5.OO@S6.50;
third quality, $4.OO@$4.75. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.500$5.00; extra, $1,000
$3.50; spring lambs, 49l@6s4c. Veal calves,
3c.@71sc.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
SWEET DAY.
Stay, sweet Day, for thou are fair,

Stay, sweet Day, for thou are fair,
Fair, and full, and calm;
Crowned, through all thy golden hours,
With Loves brightest. richest flowers,
Strong in Faiths mistaken powers,
Blessed in Hopes pure balm
Stay, what chance and change may wait,
As you glide away;
Now is all so glad and bright;
Now we breathe in sure delight
Now We laugh in fate's despite;
Stay with US, sweet day.
All, she cannot, may not, stop;
AL things must decay;
Then with heart, and head, and will,
Take the joy that fingers still,
Prize the pause in wrong and i'll,
Prize the passing day.
An The Year Round.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
Making a Fortune.

Mrs. Sarah Ell. Dorriss, who was
strangled to death in st. Louis by her
grandson, Russell Brown, was. it is
said, the only woman in this country
who ever made slave trading business.
She made large fortune before the
war buying and selling slaves, and she
has been estimated to be worth half
million dollars. Her grandson, who
has confessed that he murdered her in
getting her jewels, is the son of Prose
cutting Attorney Brown of st. Louis
County. He is the outcast son of di.
vorced parents, and although now but
20 years of age, has led dissolute life
since he was ID years old, when he left
school, saying that he had education
enough. Mrs. Dorriss, who was 60
years old, and wife of the famous slave
trader, Gen. George P. Dorriss, who
was candidate for United States Sen.
ator from Missouri, lived in a costly
house amid spacious grounds on the
Kings highway. She retained an affec-
ton for her grandson when others cast
kim off, and when her husband was
away she received the youth and gave
him money and clothing. Nevertheless
she used to say: "That boy will MUIR
der and rob me some of these days. I
know it. He watches me like q cat
watches a mouse"
Gen. Dorriss was one of the largest
negro traders in the country. Negro
women with nursing infants used to
command a low price, because no one
wishes to have the children about; but
he bought ali such slaves, and gave the
babies to his wife to raise on the bottle,
while he sold The mother at a large profit.
Mrs. Dorriss kept the money the grown
up babies sold for.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
American Iron and Steel Industry.

The census iron and steel statistics
prepared by Special Agent James M.
Swank, make a most encouraging ex-
hlblt of the condition of this industry
IN the United States and show the rapid
growth that has taken place during the
past ten years. In 1880 there were in
operation 1000 establishments, employ
ing 14l, 600 hands, who were paid in
wages during the year $50, 500, 900
The amount of capital invested in the
business was 1921, 100000. From ma
terials costing $191, 100000 products
were made weighing more than 7. 600. :
GOO tons and valued at 1896, 600 600
The marked growth of the industry
since 1870 is shown by the fact that
there has been an increase of "a per
cent. in the number of establishments.
81 per cent. in the number of hands
employed, 80 per cent. in invested cap-
ltal, IL per cent. in the value of ma
terlals used, 43 per cent. in the value of
products, and 80 per cent. in the weight
OF products. Pennsylvania continues
to be the great centre of the indu try.
and contributes now, as it did in 1870.
5O per cent. of the entire product Of
the country. Next in order of produc-
ton come Ohio, New York, Illinois and
New Jersey. During the past decade
the iron industry has been extended
into many new States and Territories.
1t is particularly pleasant to note the
great growth that has taken place in
the Southern States. The increase
reaches 1872 per cent. in Alabama, 265
per cent. IN Georgia, 125 per cent in
Tennessee and At per cent in Virginia.
This is a significant item of the Indus
trial activity that has started up in the
South.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

FOOLED. Two masked robbers were
lying in wait for lumber merchant at
Russiaville, Ind, on day when he was
known to be carrying large sum of
money from his mill to his residence.
A clerk came along first, and they mis-
took him for their intended victim.
When they discovered the blunder, one
wished TO rife the young mans pockets
but the other insisted that it was foolish
to waste time on him. The highway
men quarreled over the question, and
when they came to blows the clerk es-
capped, with his employers wallet safe
in his pocket, it having been intrusted
to bin because the owner was too i'll to
go out.