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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-22

As SlAAd hsNbI
To the President.
Shepherds letter to Hnrlbut, arranging
the interview for May S0sh, Is as follows
MAY, 2Gth, 1881.
Hon. i. Hurlba, Wa@.iagloa, D. c.
DEAR Sin; Pursuant to the correspond.
cnCe initiated several weeks since, sent
to the President on the 2lst instant inll
set OF papers, showing the claim owned by
my clients, which should control the
future OF Peru for ut least the next twenty
RVe years. With these papers was
an explanatory letter. Yesterday sent
TO fthe Secretary OF State duplicate
set for your own use. The purpose Of this
note is to say l would like, il consistent
with your engagements, an early personal
interview-quitc fnformat-at which |
might explain to you freely and fully the
policy my client proposes to pursue and
the nature and extent Of the corporation in
detail, which shall ask the President TO
afford U.s. More particularly, il is our pur.
pose and desire and twill be our Cndeavor
to conduct our negotiations in spirit so
liberal and with temper 30 reasonable as
to avoid the necessity OF diplomatic inter.
yeMtion. ] enclose single proof which
will suggest our programme, and by It you
will identify the parcel sent under cover to
the Secretary OF State for you. | can come
to Washington II necessary, and shall
come whenever the President sends for
pe, but II | could sec you here, and at
once, i would oblige me, rs l am exceed.
ingly busy. Favor me with reply by
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-22

NV YoRE, March Gl.-Mouey Ia6 per cont and
closed otiefVd Ut per cent Prime msfcnntllp
paper bus per cent, Sterling exchange bsnEeiS'
bills steady At n W.; demand 81 say.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-22

CINCINNATI, March 9l,-C0ts8a steady at itstc
Flour opened dull, but CLOSED uctiVc family S. IA
s %; fancy 50 3oAt TO- Wheat active, tiIm and
winter 81 SlAi Sa, LoIn strong and higher; No q
70c. 0Ap 10 good demand and prices higher; No. >
mixed 601fc, Rye yDTy arm aud holden asking
higher rates at e9c Rafiey Ia good demAnd at 81 df
Pork stronger al SIS o. IAru strong II SO ~
Bulk meats stronger, very firm and holder RSking
higher nteS; AhOulderI % e21 clear fib % SIS Bac
stronger and 'holdsEs ern 81 ouitide quotations
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How the Snake gets q New
Suit.

"6ome people think that snakes
only shed their skins at certain ssa-
ons 90 the year, said the keeper.
THAT'S mistake. II they are well
fed and kept right warm, they change
their coats about every eight weeks
through the year" Does it pain
them 2" mot q bit of 1t. You see
the skin Of q snake doe. not increase
in size IS the reptile grows, as with US.
While the old skin Is getting smaller
by degrees, q new one 10 forming
underneath, and the ether gradually
gets dry. When 1t IL ready 10 shed,
1t loosens around the lips, and the
reptile cubs itself against the earth or
the rock In the cage, and turns the
upper part over the throat. Then it
commences to glide around the glass
case, all the time rubbing itself
against something, until the entire
skin 10 worked OF. Sometimes this
takes three days; occasionally they
get rid Of the encumbrance in a few
hours. Idon't believe they have a bit
OF intelligence. For all / feed them
and care for them, they would a. lief
bite me ~ any stranger. 1 can ham
die . good many Of them safely, but
it's only the knAck Of the thing-not
that they won's bite. but that they
can't get the chance"
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An Argb Cook.

WINE exPloTln 3the country east of
tue Jordan, the r ~. Selah Merrill had
an amusing experience with a native
cook. The man Twas one Of those
cooks who judgel that a condiment
"hiSh Is good Tor sne dish, is equally
goad for all dishea
The exploring party found that
every dish tasted Of allapics. He was
told to use Pepper instead he said he
di use it. The pepper box wa,
ordered to he cleaned cut, and some
fre>h PEPPER pounded and put in il.
This WIS Zone.
Snll each dish tasted of alIspica.
Mr.. Merrill then examined the can of
unground pepper, and fcuod it to he
slisplce. An explanation disclosed
that the native gentleman who had
purchased the stores, had substituted
alls pice for pepper.
He had acted in accordance with
Arab taste, for a native uses a~llspice,
where a European or American
o d use pepper.
The cook liked the tomato. and in
pls professional opinion the party
could not have too much of that vege-
table. Every dish was favored with
tomato. The mutton was cooked with
tomatoes, the meat sauce was favored
with them, they were stewed into the
rice, mixed with the batter in which
the outlets We're fried, chopped into
hash, put into the soup, and poured
ever the mashed potatoes.
Rsmonstrance was in vain. One
dish might appear without the favor
lie tomato. But at the next meal the
Old freud reappeared. He came to
stay, and stay he did aslong az any
dish was served in which he colld be
introduced.
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the Montgomery County Loan and
Trust Company, and 500, 900 is said to
have been paid out by it, when conf
dence was reasonably restored.
Judge Morris, in the United States
Court, at Baltimore, in the case of
Boykin d Cannon against r. j.
Baker Il Co., decided in favor Of the
defendants. 1t was a suit to recover
for infringement of a patent for man.
u~facturing fertilizers. The Court held
thai the only difference between the
formula patented by complainants
from the old Leibig formula was the
substitution of dissolved bone and
ground plaster for ground bone and
calcincd plaster, and That the patent
was invalid for want of novelty or
any pateniable discovery. A large
interest was involved in the result of
this suit.
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constituting three fourths Of all the
traffic of the country. The prices OF
the year 1860 are taken as representing
the normal standard between COM
modities and gold. Representing this
condition by 100, the Public's safe
n ent shows that the prices on the
first of November, 1873, were at 81 40;
in 1879, at 1898 in 1880, at 103 0s, and
at the present time at 1ll.02. This,
however, does not show the change 80
strikingly as the fact that the food
which could he bought for $62 IN 1878
cost ST6 IN 1879, aud 500 N 1881. The
advance is 80 per cent. 1t tai es 81 so
TO buy this yesr, on the basis of the
Pu6kic's tables, what could be bought
three years ago for a dollar. In the
ccst of clothing there is likewise a
serious rise, the price advancing from
S27 in 1878 to $50 in 1881.
In the price OF articles of f cd the
rise Of prices has been greater and less
regular than in any other. The main
advance has been in breadstuffs and
pork products. In beef, mutton, tai
low, and even in butter aud cheese,
the increase, though considerable, has
been much less than in grain and
pork. On the whole, imported arti-
cles of food have changed compare
lively little. Nor has the change b en-
hy any means as great as in cotton,
print cloths, wool, leather and other
articles of clothing.
The increase in the cost of grain
since 1873 has been 50 per cent, in
meats "A per cent in dairy products
20 per cent. and in sugar and the re-
naming articles OF food only 10 per
cent. the INCREASE in clothing has
been rs per cent. in the class embrace
ing the metals, coal oil, hemp and
glass, and representing the depart
ment of tools and ma, h merry, the in
crease has been 81 per cent, and in
lumber and building materials 80 per
cent. Lumber, especially. was very
much dearer last season than it is
now.
The following list of average prices
in The years uefore aud after the panic
of 1878, is instructive:
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The Fox Calls a Convention.

A Fox who found hard picking in a
certain neighborhood, n day visited
3 farmers Dog, and said 81 have
lately undergone . change Of heart,
and / wish you to make known the
fact to your Masters Fowls. They
treat me as i'll was q murderer, and it
really hurts my feelings to see them
hurry into the coop at sunset. The
Farmer, TOO, seems TO distrust me, for
he has made the coop SO tight that l
cannot hnd q single knothole. What
sort Of way is that to treat 3 Fox who
10 doing his best to earn az honest
living?" 81 presume you would like
TO state your ase to the Fowls in per-
o ?" observed the Dog. THAT'S it,
that's the veryide3 y replied the Fox.
.-S to them, that i shouia ike 10
meet them in conversation under this
tree, tomorrow, ct noon. I will then
explain my feelings to them, and
trust tbatthe Fox and the Fowls will
hereafter live In the greatest harmony.
Indeed, the only difference between
as, il the fact that / have no wings,
and they shouldn't hold me in sus-
picion on that oceount." The Dog
agreed to act rs mediator, and at noon
next day, the Fox crspt carefully
through the weeds to the rendezvous,
and crouched down 70 await the COM
ing Of the Fowls. There was presently
heard great whirr and c~latter, and
two hens alighted in the
branches OF the tree over the Fox.
THE convention will now proceed to
business, +" said an old Hen, IS she
peered down upon the Fox. "Just
70, " GRIM ed the Fox Please come
down and we will proceed" Thanks,
bat il it's all the same 30 you, we'd
rather you'd come up here, " replied
the Hen. but / can't ny." "And
we are poor runners." The Fox not
being able to ny up, and the Hens re-
fusing to ny down, the former was
skulking OF, when he met the Dog,
who said my friend, the difference
between undergoing q change Of hear.
and desiring to undergo q change Of
diet and position, Is go obscure that
many people never stop TO fish for it,
As q fox you were respected for your
cunning - . hypocxite sTsn the old
Hens despise you.n
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How the Great Amuse Them
selves.

IL IL curious 10 notice how men who
have been noted for their polish and
culture, As writers or conversational
lists, have, In their leisure moments,
found . strange pleasure in associating
with their interiors. Prior, one Of the
most elegant Of our minor poets, the
companion Of princes and diplomat
lists, constantly passed whole even
ings in chatting with q common
soldier and his slattern wife. in q low
public house in Long Acre. Thomas
Warten, the historian Of English poe
try, and singularly refined scholar,
was often to be found In squalid
taverns, joking and being joked.
Person and Elmsley had similar pro-
pensities. 30 also had Turner, the
painter. Machiaveln and Burke de-
lighted to forget politics, by sharing
the labors Of their farm servants; and
ever the stately Bolingbroke, as we
learn from n Of Pope's most delight
full letters, was not above shouldering
. prong. Byron's principal smuss-
msnt during his residence at Venice,
wss shooting with . pistol at q coin
In q cleft stick, and that pursuit he
prscticed more methodically than any
other thing in bis unmethodical life.
The Conqueror was devoted to the
hunting field, Glowing the tall deer
rs II he were their father, " says the
old chronicler. Henry ". was the
slave of tennis, and Edward Nv. of
falconry. Tiberius and Louis XI.
the Tiberius Of modern Europe
delighted to shut themselves up with
the astrologers and quack prophets.
But it lie time to turn to more eccen.
trio frivolitfcs. Philip the Good, Of
Burgundy, spent enormous sums of
money in contriviug houses full of
diablsries, such a. hidden trap doors,
spring snares, false roofs, undermined
floors and the like. He would then
invite guests to . grand banquet, which
would suddenly disappear ; he would
introduce them to magni ficent salons,
which would suddenly dissolve in
ruin, the miserable guest finding
himself at one time falling through
space, at another time soused in wster
or banged with sacks which came
tumbling, charged with -four, upon
his b%ewildered head. Into the still
more extraordinary ~recreations of
Alexander vi. and Caesar Borgia in
Italy, and of Louis XIII. in France,
we cannot enter for reasons obvious to
readers Of the diaries and memoirs
illustrating those periods.
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FOREIGN.

The Geographical Society of st,
Petersburg has resolved to do all that
is possible to assist the crew of the
Jeanette
The English Foreign Office pub
fishes Mr.. Blaine's dispatch, of Now
ember l4th, to Minister Lowell,
thanking the British people for their
sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and her
family.
1t is calculated that the Odessa
magazines contain 800, 900 quarters
of Russian grain, ready for exporta-
ton, and the other Black Sea ports an
equal quantity. The total is valued
at 80, 900, 900 roubles. The business in
quiet, because of low prices in England
and France.
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Conjugal Quarrels.

How much more rational would it
be, for persons who have cause of com
plant, TO apply the remedy which is
eve within their reach, that of mutual
forbearance and hymenial endure
ments How much more to the bene-
fit of the world and to the honor of
humanity, that the parties should en-
deayor to make the marriage tie what
the eternal Creator of the connubial
bonds intended it should be, a source
of delight to individuals and of useful
ness to the whole community. Too
soon do married couples forget the
tender feelings, the ties so inexpressi.
bly, sweet, with which they are so
blissfully bound to each other before
marriage, They should recollect that,
in their joint progress through life,
storms must sometimes be encounter
ed, and it is their duty to endeavor to
cheer each other through them. In
almost every case, the difficulties
which embitter the marriage state
originate in trivial causes. AS the
poet so beautifully expresses it:
A something rs hit as ARA look,
A word unkind or wrongly taken
Oh, love that tempests never shook,
A breath, the slightest touch has shaken I;
And ruder words will soon rush in,
To spread the breach that words begin,
And voices lose the tor e that shed
A tenderness round all they said,
I'll fast declining, one by one,
The sw setness of love are gone.
How much then is it the duty of the
married couple to practice the great
secret of preserving copjugal happi-
ness-to " bear and forbear."
Should this be done, the number of
disagreeable scenes now daily witness
ed would be soon diminished.
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soCIALIsTIc LABOR PARTY.
A National Convention. The Platform
Adopted.

The National Convention at New
York, had under consideration the
question of how to bring together the
two different factions of the party, a
split having been occssioned by the
suspension of a number of members
throughout The country, for not sup
porting General Weaver, the Green
back party's candidate for President,
at the last presidt ntial election.
The New York section was censured
for not holding a sympathy meeting
on account of the death of President
Garfield.
A platform was then adopted. 1t
demands a revision of the Constitn-
ten of the United States, so that a
humble of citizens may propose a
law, which pro- ositlon viii be re-
ferred TO a popular vote, and that all
bills before Congrea shall be subject
to a general vote, ii so demanded by a
specified number of citizens. 1t also
demands political equality, without
ltSaAu w tlCNbg ldtC VI SEA iiiG rs
Enlistment of a rational department.
of labor, w1ieh shall embrace a bureau
of labor statistics; that the govern
ment issue sill money; that eight
hours be a legal working day; the
entire restriction from labor of chill
dren under fourteen years of age;
universal compulsory education that
election day be a LEGAL holiday that
all ballots be printed by the govern
ment, and that the ballots of all eau
didates for office he sent to the voters
two days before election.
Resolutions were also adopted, IA
voriDg the formation of national aud
information Il trade and labor onions,
and pledging that the Socialistic labor
party, for The next two years, win not
affiliate with any political party not
indorsing its platform.
Resolutions were also passed sym
pstnizing with the Rus sian Nihilists,
ard pronouncing all expressions of
sympathy from this republican gov
eminent to Russia, as shameful and
cowardly approving the anti-rent
agitation in ireland; denouncing
England, and gIorifying in the sue
cess of the socialists ia the recent cleo
ton in Germany.
The platform also demands the
aboli- hment of the offices of President
and Vice President of the United
States, and instead thereof the estab-
lishment of a Federal Council, to be
elected by, AMI held responsible to,
the Ht.usa of QanNa-.u-&iivas
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-07
About Women.

At a crowded reception, last week,
fashionable ome watched with ap-
plause a sparring match between two
light weight pugilists, followed the
combatants in their skin-tight habili-
ments with apparently the warmest
interest, and commented as unreserv-
eddy upon their structure and I" points"
As if they had all been born of prize
fighting ancestors, and had studied
anatomy from the time that they were
first taught to read. This was not in
old Rome but in New York, at a re-
ception of the Racquet Club.
NJ. Delaney, who is well known
and r, spected as II man of science in
France, has recently published a small
work on woman's physical and intel
lectual status, as compared with
mans, in which he takes bold ground
at the very start, and proceeds, by
bard scientific facts and observations,
to show that in all highly civilized So
cieties I'M is not mans equal.
During the first twelve years of lie,
the female in certain respects excels
the male, and among peasants il often
happens that the female is the SUPERIOR
person of the Two; hut as age advances,
aud particularly as we rise in the scale
of culture, the difference is reversed
aud in greater ratio as the intelligence
becomss greater.
France has taken thu first step to-
ward protecting laboring women and
Children, by the passage of q bill limit
ing their hours of factory labor to
eleven. The bill passed by q narrow
vote, but it has become a law, nearly
the first, if not the first, Nv of the
kind in Edrope. England began such
legislation, aud ii has been followed
in this country by states like Pennsyl-
vsnia and Massachusetts, although
some, notably Rhode Island, have
neglected this needful provec ion of
the artisan and his children. The
movement makes slow progress
abroad, but wherever power reaches
the people, as in France, law begins
10 be made in the interest of the peo-
pie,
SWEET MINDED WoMEN.-So great
is the influence of a sweet minded
woman on those around her that it is
almost boundless. 1t is to her that
friends come, in seasons of sorrow and
sickness, for help and comfort. One
soothing touch of her kindly hands
works wonders in her teyerish child.
A few words let fall from her liz $ in
he "a of a Borrowing sister, does
much to raise the load of grief, that is
bowling lis victim down to the dust in
anguish. The husband comes home
worn out with the pressure of bust
ness, and feeling irritable with the
world in general; but when he enters
the cosy sitting room, and sees the
blaze of the bright fire, and meets his
wife's smiling face, he succumbs in a
moment TO the soothing influences,
which act as a balm of Gilead TO his
wounded spirits, that are worried with
combating with the stern realities of
life. The rough school boy flies in a
rage from the taun s of his compan-
ions, to fnd selace in his mothers
smile the little one, full of grief with
its own large troubles, finds a haven
of rest on its mothers breast and so
one might go on, with instances after
instances of the influence that a sweet
minded woman has, in the social life
with which she is connected. Beauty
is an Insignificant power when com
pared with hers.
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Fashionable Chit Chat.

House dresses are made with plain
flowing skirts bordered with simple
ruffies.
Ball dresses seem likely to be cut
very low in the neck this winte-, but
then the chemisettes worn with them
will be very high.
If you are a bright blonde, by all
mean use the fashionable eombina-
ton of cream and dark red, for it will
suit you exactly aud be marvelously
becoming.
The sleeves of winter dresses are
either plain or leg OF mutton. The
latter are modified, and the balloon
shaped puff are replaced by smaller
ones on The upper part OF the sleeves
A new sleeve, designed by Worth,
has Que seam that comes under the
arm, and is shirred into q p int at
the neck, With the fuilness between
the back and front of the waist.
Striped velvet for trimming is
among the novelties the design il
not especially new, but there is 8
peculiar, lustrous finish which Is an
additional beauty, giving softness and
warmth tothe entire material.
A pretty, inexpensive walking dress,
is made of army blue flannel of fine
quality, trimmed with silky black
copy fur. This trimming is effective
and durable, and makes a useful
trimming tor suits and wraps to
match.
Large hats are to be much worn for
driving, theatre wear and walking.
The trimmings consist of feathers
generally; sometimes of tufts and
vignettes of plush velvet orcheviile.
Small flower hats, with tiny brims
and wide strings, will be used for the
opera.
Scarfs are as popularity employed as
overskirts as ever, and are used sim
gly for heavy materials, and in as
many as four scarfs for thin embroid-
cred gauzes. The fronts are usually
drawn together in shirrs or plaits, as
this is n of the best means employed
of making boa.tont sides or panniers.
Floral manufacturers seem to have
eclipsed conception in the productions
of this season. The roses outvie those
of nature in coloring, and every trick
of nature has been co~unterfeited in
finish and branching. A novelty in
the artificial flowers of this season, is
shown in the racemes of scarlet and
purple sumach and not only have
flowers and fruits been simulated by
the manufacturers of the counterfeits,
but we have heen shown a basket
filled with artificial tomatoes, garlics,
leeks, onions, beets, radishes, and
other table vegetables. The leading
floral trimmings are roses, pansies
poppies aud carnations.
One of the handsomest walking
suits of the seasons display was 6
wine-colored velvet of the richest
shade. The skirt was made quite
plain, but full, and the trimming.
around the bottom consiste of a band
of chinchilla fur. The overdress and
close fitting basque were trimmed with
u band of fur. The cuffs were q deer
band of the saline, which could be
J fastened on or laid aside at pleasure.
This color in velvet is particularly
rich and suitable Tor q walking dress,
ana nothing Is more admired as q
trimming for it than fur. Sapphire
blue is also a rich color in velvet, and
fur trims it handsomely. All velvet
dresses are made exceedingly Plain, sc
that the beauty of the material itselI
may be preserved.
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-07

For ten years prior to 1873, prices
were usiderablg above the nor,nal
standard, and the maximum figure,
l4O, was reached in 1868. five years
before the panic. A eneral and pro-
gressive rise of prices usually pre- cedes
a commercial crisis and, while we
are far enough removed from tie alb
normal figures of ls6S, 1t is perhaps
worth noticing that We are within
two per cent. of 1878.
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Sparrows.
BY LYDIA HINMAN CASE.

BY LYDIA HINMAN CASE.
Little sparrows, twitteriDg high
Above our heads, a tender eye,
In chilling storms or golden light,
Is watching always, and in flight
Or merry song, he marks 1t all,
And pities every harm or fall.
And are we less than these7 WIN he
Pass us In anger stern, II vi
In sin should fall beside the way,
And pity not our sorrowP Nay,
The came fond eye Is over all,
That marks the tiny sparrow's fall,
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The Cost of Living.

The New York Public publishes
some interesting statistics of the prices
of articles of general consumption, be-
fore and since the resumption of specie
payments. The Public's tables COM
prise the articles in most common use,
The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-07
Sentiment.

Good is positive. Evil is merely
privative not absolute. 1t is like coal,
which is the privation of heat.
Pleasure comes through, ard not by
self-iHdulgence and incidence. When
one gets 10 love work, his life is a
happy one.-Ruskin.