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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-06
At Pittsburgh.

PlrrsnuEGn, May 5.-The situation OF
trade has not improved since last week.
The markets are dull and everything, ex-
cepting petroleum, is unchanged. Pig iron
continues in light demand and consumers
are only buying for immediate wants.
Manufactured iron ruled quiet Mt card
rates. Nails are increasing in demand and
the outlook is encouraging Tor an active
summer trade; prices are unchanged. Win
dow glass is fairly active and in good dc.
mand at full prices; largely Increased
business, is expected within tho next few
weeks. Coal is iirtner, on account OF the
strike; shipments by river Jag, ,0C0 bushels.
Petroleum is excited, weak and lower.
United certificates declined five cents since
last Friday. This afternoon the market
was trtle better, closing at 72i cents.
Sales 3,01S,0O0 barrels; shipments $1S,00O
barrels Live stock dull,
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\ Receiver for u Savings Bank,

WASHINGTON, Pa, May 5.-Ano,her
eAapter in the savings bank deialcation
Hinspired today. Upon an application
Of one OF the stockholders General John
Hall, ex-United States marshal, was ap-
pointed receiver to close tip its business.
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Al Enstuli.

BosToS, May 5.-Therc is IN improved
feeling in manufacturing and mercantile
circles largely due 10 the favorable crop
reports from the Yves, and South. Sole
leather is lalc higher, and upper leather
is tirmer; hides are still weak, with
short supply. Cali skins high, prices OF
beef aud cattle materially depicting the
supply Of domestic skins; tendency in prices
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CSclSSArl, May 5,-seasonablc weather
and farmers busy planting corn. The
ground has been ready ior some days but
the cold weather delayed planting. In
spite Of the frost, there is good supply OF
strawberries and an abundance Of early
vegetables in the market. The general
tone OF business is quiet. Some lines are
active, notably groceries, which continue
III active demand. High prices OF staples
DO not have tendency to lessen the dc.
mand for spring goods; all kinds in fair
request. Dry goods trade fairly active,
with firm prices; orders more abundant
than last week and collections good Woolen
goods quiet. Wholesale clothing more
animated, though from some southern
points HE demand has fallen of. Leaf
tobacco easier for common grades; firm for
better qualities; prices Of best quality range
as high as y cents. Market in grain only
moderate. Hogs have been unusually firm;
prices rose but have fallen OIL slightly. De-
mand for money light, but rates firm.
Whisky fairly active, though trade is some.
what affected by the disturbance caused by
the new laws taxing saloons and closing
them on Sunday; there is no break in prices.
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The Grand Army.

BALrINoRE, May 5.-Ac.ive preparations
are making for the national encarnpment
OF the Grand Army OF the Republic, next
month. The Richmond Blues and the
Charleston light iuilntry will then be in
Clftin - u - ~ - -
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Dcn,,, Of u Glass manufacturers.

SrErAESHlLAE Quo, May 5.-J. Fox, Of
the firm OF Fox 4 Co glass manufacturers,
o';h:s city, died ut his residence, on South
fourth street. this morning, after Il short
llIeaS. His death was quite unex pected.
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III t.fl,

= hR HnSIt-on F,iIry, May f. 1852. Mr., Many
nkAito.ii. wife 81 l. 4. praAosh. III the n,r ol Is
yents and months +. - v -
fans'as viii take I'nee Saturday Mt, raoou u, .
oe'oe& sra' the late 's'teHee Of deceased, corner
fp! Hnd thirteenth M'cet. Friends Of lac fs.aIly
u.c Invited 10 atte-G. ..l,. - 'rI.
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BALTIMORE, May 5.-Gencral dn,lness
characterized all the markets during the
past week. Money easy and plenty. Stock
market dull but generally firm. Grain
very SLOW in absence OF demand for ship
ments; receipts light. Wheat market
irregular, with small volume OF business
Flour steady hut slow. Provisions adj
vanced, especially on hams,: and market
closed firm ut the highest prices of the
year. No change in butter or cheese
though for the first named the market
hardened Oh good grades and closed firm.
Eggs ruled steady, with fair demand.
Five stock not active. Beef cattle advanced
2a3 cents and sales were only to supply
immediate and pressing requirements.
Hogs firm, bit in only limited demand at
full rates. Sheep and lambs in ample sup.
ply for demand, and al! lambs taken ut
full prices. Sheep less active, but with.
out change.
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LOUISVILLE, May 5.-The advance in
rates to southern points tended to check
the demand for -four, which up to the mid.
die OF the week ruled good; prices firm,
with every probability oi higher prices;
stocks in sight do not exceed thir.y-Gve per
cent O. last year, same time, when prices
went up toward tho close OF the season. In
the provision trade there has been a fair
demand; market closed twenty-five cents
higher on all grades OF meats. Iron ruled
iirm and the agitation among mill
men for higher wages has a ten.
dency to make dealers Indifferent
TO sell. Grain has been very quiet.
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Eet!ary Of he Nary, Washington, Z. S. A..
Lena Delta, March "a, 1882. Found
Capt. DeLong and party, dead. Found III
papers aud books. Will continue search
for Lieut. Chipp.
iSisned.) Mr,v,,,vn
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THE LOST JEANNETTE,
De LONG AND PARTY FOUND prAc.
4 Sad Tale from ii. Arctic E.sloa.-r.sl..,r
Melville Reports the fIndlus or III, bend Il,
Ess!es Of Cap.sia Dc Loag and His
Companion, still Searching.
New forS, May 5,-An official dispa,. h
from Washington states that Capt. Ie
Long and party Of the lost Jeanette, have
been discovered, all dead. F Z.


"As'l'SdroS, May 5.--Secre,ary Chand.
ler, oi tho Navy Department, received, to.
night, the following telegram from engineer
Melville:
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ihey describe one us wearing n coii
'aced uniform. Noros tells me that Can.
tain De Long wore his uniform
coat under his nlster ut the time Of
landing. give this us n rumor. but II ia
remarkable that news spreads among the
fungus With great speed. JACKSON.
1.-The Jeannette left San Francisco for
her Arctic voyage in charge of l.ieu,crant
Delons, U. S. n, in July, 1870, and was
seen lust by Captain Barnes, of the whaler
Sea Breeze, on September ., 1879, ahou.
fifty miles south Of Herald Island. No,hin.
more was heard OF the brave and daring
voyssers until the 10th OF December last,
when a dispatch Was received from En-.
glneer Melville, via st. Petersburg, Russia.
announcing the sad fact that the Jeanette
was lost; that, after being locked in the icc
tor nearly two long and weary, she had
been crushed TO pieces, ON the Iii, Of june,
lsSl, oil the Siberian coast, ir latitude ia.
longitude l57'. That the crew had t.k.n
refuge in three boats, commanded respcc.
lively by Lieutenant DeLong, .Lieu,cuan,
Chipp and Engineer Melville. The
l'rst night out the bouts were
separated by heavy fog and violent winds.
Boat number three, with Engineer Mel
vile and Lieut.. Dannenl,auer and eleven
men, succeeded, after terrible priva,ions,
III reaching the mouth OF the Lena river
on the 10Th OF last September. In boa.
number one were Lieut.. De Long, DR.. Am
bier and twelve others OF the unfortunate
crew OF the Jeannette, and the deaths OF
this party arc announced. Lieut.. De Long
and his section Of the crew, it is believed,
succeeded in reaching land at the northern
mouth OF the Lena, but in IL terrible condi-
ton; weak and frost.bitten, lily clad and
out OF provisions. OF the rescued
party. in boat number three, Lieut.. Dan.
nenhauer, who suffered terribly with an
affection OF the eyes, started for home
across the dreary wastes OF Siberia, while
Engineer Melville CALAMITY started out to
scour the Siberian coast for traces OF the
boats crews commanded by Lieuts.
Delone and Chip. 1t is probable that
Lieut.. chippand his party were engulphcd
IN the storm that separated the three
boats-that f'ite would be 4 merciiul one
compared to the fate of licut. belong
and his party.-Ed. - L---
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How ScnntOrx RniSc the Sand.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Upon resolution
to purchase some back numbers OF the Con.
grcssional Record from secondhand
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Another Ael,Ort.

WASHINGTON, Alny 5,--Thc following dis-
patch has also been received here:
DEER STATION, kgNAK.cff, Siagntt, Anil
!, lss2.-A rumor Is current among the
fungus natives that five men have been
iound by the Tnagns at the mouth OF tho
They describe one us wearing n roii
.aeed uniform. Noros tells me that Cap.
m'h De Long wore his uniform
coat under his nlster at the time Of
landing give this us rumor, but 1t il
reflafkabie r that news spreads among the
fungus With great speed. Jackson.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
n ExrRAoRp1NanY mAn.

Mr.. Fawcett, the Postmaster General
Of Great Britain, is most extraordinary
man, He was made totally blind when
young man by the bursting OF gun.
But in spite Of that, ho is one Of the best
Informed men of the day; q profound
mathematician, and widely read in liter
ature and history. He can handle rod
and fy with wonderful success. In the
House Of Commons he is greatly re-
spected by all parties. An attendant
Guides him to the door, and there ready
hands are always to be found to direct
the sightless Minister to his place. When
he is addressed he turns his head, as
though he could see the person towhom
his reply is directed. The most remark
able feature about his speech is his
wonderful command Of facts and figures,
which. thanks to his acute memory, he
masters with marvellous rapidity and re-
tentiyeness. He is greatly aided by his
wife, whose attachments are almost equal
10 his own. Since he was made Post
master General he has introduced many
reforms, improved the postage stamps,
introduced new system Of money orders
or checks for small sums, and 4 plan b
which the postofice receives stamps Is
deposits in savings banks, in order &
carry out his favorite idea in offering tht
poor every possible facility for practicina
thrift
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
READINESS OF JOURNALlSTS.

The journalist what writes ' leaders
for daily paper is precisely in the posi-.
ton, as regards political news, of the
doctor with respect to disease, or the
solicitor with respect to practice; he
knows little more than the person who
consults him. He may not have half Of
the ability of his patient or his client,
but he knows something, Ruch or little,
which the other wants to know. An i'm
portant telegram received at night in the
Office Of IL morning paper really falls into
the hands Of kind of corporation. Some
one member of the staff probably knows
the question fairly well, has watched the
events leading up to the event recorded
in the telegram for years, has a distinct
idea what the news means, and has
thought out, specifically it is true, but
still with some distinctness, what re-
suit such an occurrence would probably
produce. Long habit enables him to
put his opinion on paper quickly, clear
ly and pleasantly, and he does put it !;
and if he is even deoently competent his
readers next morning have something
beside news, which increases the value
OF the news to them. That the some-
thing may not be as valuable as the
DOCTORS opinion or the lawyers may be
true, because the journalists range is
apt to be too wide for equally-accurate
and minute knowledge but it has value,
nevertheless s.-Ecchange
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
4 BRIGHT BOY.

An editor of an Illinois paper took q
boy to learn the printers trade. He was
careful to impress upon his mind the ne
,cessity of obedience and of doing every
thing thoroughly. After preliminary
instruction the lad was given a stick
and rule and was taken to case to
wrestle with a piece Of copy. The ed
itor went off to political convention.
The other boys in the office paid but lit
tie attention to the new recruit, and
when the editor returned half a day later
he found the boy down upon his knees
searching for something on the floor.
"What's the matter, Johnnyy said he.
"Why dropped type before I got
the first line set, " replied the boy, "and
you told me before went to work that
whenever I dropped type must stop
and pick it up before I did anything
else. I've been looking for that con-
founded type all day and ! can't find il. :
Need we say that boy succeeded in
business? He grew up, went West, and
became President Of an editorial asss-
citation.
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Il LITTLE MISPRIST,

Ee walked into the Office this morning
looking much like man pretty well
satisfied with general results, and said:
"Can see tho editor?"
He was shown that emiuently useful
adjunct to newspaper at once.
"Good morning, SIR" he cheerily be-
gan.
Morpin'," said the editor.
81 came in" he proceeded, "to tell
you of misprint in the paper"
eyes? What is it?"
"Well, you see / sent notice around
yesterday that Mr.. Smith had just been
married, and your compositor, see,
has got it Mr.. Smith has just been
martyred, but I guess it don't hardly
make enough difference to change it."
The editor scratched his head a min
ute, and thought of house-cleaning and
other female eccentricities, and told the
visitor Of course it didn't, and he went
away whistling, "Why should the spirit
of mortal be proud? ?"-Steu6enville
Herald.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.

81 tell you, sab, dis partnership biz
ness am powerful resky," said the old
man as he nibbled green onion at the
Central Market. elias month I went
into partnership wild Caesar White in de
peanut bizness. He furnished de roast
er an bought de peanuts, an we was
to whack up on profits. Dat Cesar am
bad man, an doan' you forgit it. Ii I
hadn't been on de watch fur him I'd bin
cleaned out high-sky. What sort of a
game dye 'spose lie tried to play on
me?
No one could guess, and, finishing the
rest of his onion, the old man contin-
ued:
"Well, sah, when we come to roas'
dem peanuts DAT Caesar wanted me to be-
lieve dat de shrinkage offsot all my sheer
in de bizntSs, an he ordered me to get
away from dat roas ter an go home"
can you went to law?'
"No, sab | I got an inspirashun bout
dat time, an poured de whole bushel
into barrel O water. In five minits
dem peanuts had swelled all my capital
back an gin M fshillin' claim on de
roaster beside, an de way Caesar gin me
So to dissolve partnership an git out
beat any hoss race you cher saw !''-De-
trOit Free Press.
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HoK mpuEnsox DrrA

Gems. Mcpherson and Logan, wis
had been to Gen. Sherman,s headquAxt-
ers (before Atlanta), rode up to the rear
Of the Seventeenth corps and dismount-
ed in a clump of trees in front Of an
open stretch, which had probably been o
field ct ons&time. This was about 10
O'Clock. Shortly after they had dis
mounted picket firing began on the left
and apparently to the rear Of the main
line. After listening to it for few min
ntes, MCPHERSON said he would go out
in that direchonan see what it meant.
Calling to Capt. Kilburn Knox, of his
staff, TO follow, he mounted Blackie,"
his favorite horse, and galloped down
the lane or narrow road, running in the
rear of the Seventeenth corps, at an
angle Of As degrees from the main line,
toward the point where the firing was
heard Gen. Dodge, commanding the
Sixteenth corps, had been ordered to the
left, with Instructions to form at right
angles with Gen. Blair's line, but he had
not had time to get into position, conse-
quently the firing could not be on his
skirmish line, which led to the conclu-
sion that something unusual was going
on. Hoods tactics being we'll known to
Mcpherson, he was on the lookout for
dashes, hence his anxiety. It was not
more than fifteen minutes after McPher-
son and Knox, accompanied by their or
derlies, had dashed down the lane unth
|" Blackie," the Generals horse, came
galloping back with wound in the
shoulder, from which the blood was
pouring in a perfect stream. The cry
was instantly raised that the General
has been shot" Closely following the
horse came Capt. Knox and the two Or
Iderlies. Knox dashed up and in an ex-
cited manner exclaimed, He is dead.
Get an ambulance quick" Gen. William
e. Strong, now Of Chicago, and Capt
d. H. Buell., ordnance officer, started at
once with the headquarters ambulance
down the lane, followed by several of
the mounted men. Buell. rode ahead
and skirmishnd with the rebel pickets,
keeping them back until Gen. Strong
got the body into the ambulance. They
drove back with all speed to where Gen.
Logan and the other officers were. DR..
Hewitt hastily opened his coat and dis
covered tina. the bullet had passed di.
.recty through his heart, killing him in
stantly. Tie body WAS taken at once to
Gen. Sher mans headquarters, from
where it vas sent. in charge of Gen.
McPherson's personal staff, to Marietta,
where it was embalmel and sent with
the same escort to the home of his aged
mother at Clyde, Ohio.
3 Capt. Knox, who accompanied the
General, said they had gone but short
distance down the lane when a shot was
fred from an ambush, taking effect in
the shoulder of the Generals horse.
They reined up. but had not time to
turn until another was fred and the
General fell heayil.s,:.so the ground. He
neither spoke nor moved muscle.
After the fatal shot several skirmishers
made their appearance, one of whom
rushed up and took off the Generals
waist belt. As soon as he retired, o
member Of the Union pioneer corps ran
up and rifed the Generals pockets, TAX
ing a pocket-book containing about 800.
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
HISTORY OF Il SONG.

VIII s. Hays, of Louisville, KY, has
made small fortune by writing songs.
Among his popular compositions are
"Mollie Darling" Moran O'Neal" and
Evangeline." But he got no money
from the latter, though it gave him
start in lis business. "Just before the
war;" he says, "I was with some young
visitors up in Oldham county, Ky.
Among them was beautiful girl who
resembled the IDEAL pictures OF Longfel-
lows 'Eyangeline SO closely that called
her by the name. We danced at an out
door frolic one evening, and soon dis
covered that four of us could sing to-
gether. We tried popular quartettes,
and got along SO well that we became
enthusiastic. About 2 o'clock in the
morning we started to walk home. The
night was as bright as day, with the full
moon hanging in the sky, and as we
walked we sang. We sat down in nook
TO rest, and 'Evangeline began to sug-
gest other songs to sing. 'I'n write o
song,' said I, IF you'll promise to sing
it before we go home This was agreed
to. On the opposite side Of the road
was white plank fence. Where we
were sitting party OF negroes had been
roasting ears Of corn, and the charred
sticks lay all around. With them I
wrote the first verse of the song on the
top plank Of the fence, and the notes for
four voices on the four planks beneath.
Then We stood off and sang it. The
girls were delighted, and insisted on hav
ing chorus, SO I wrote the chorus on
the planks. Well, we~sang it over and
over, and went home singing it. Next
morning Evangeiine came down stairs
humming the dir, and asked me to write
it out and finish it. I told her I couldn't
do it, but she mightgo down and copy
it of. the fence, She took an umbrella
and sheet Of paper, and soon came back
with words and music. Then she in
sisted on having another verse, SO I
wrote another verse, on condition that I
was to have kiss for it, and she to have
the music" !.
4 Hays sent the composition to various
music publishers, hut couldn't. sell it,
and it was at length made public by the
voice of Campbell, the negro minstrel.
Three hundred Thousand copies have
been sold, but the kiss was the only pay
the author has received. g at8ss.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
A LUXURIOUS B1TH-ROOM,

Among the things we sometimes read
about, but never really see, may be in
cluded the bathroom of the Marquise
Annonast Visconh, who has given de-
scription of the interior of her 6Vou
hotel in. the Rue de Jouv. Full plans
and details of the marvellous luxury of
the interior fittings of the bathroom
have been given. 1t is lit by handsome
stained-glass windows, wainscoted with
lava from Vesuvius and hung with rare
old tapestry. The bath is made of solid
silver, the water is supplied by dol
phin; a pressure on the one eye causes
the water to come out hot and on the
other cold, while the movement of the
tongue allows the bath to empty itself
in u moment. The whole house is fitted
up in the same luxurious manner
Paris correspondent.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
} FA111Na STARS.

Astronomers divide meteors into sew.
eral classes-aerial meteors, rs winds.
tornadoes, etc; aqueous meteors, %
fogs, rain, snow, hail, etc.; luminous
meteors, or those dne to the action Of
elements in the air. as rainbows. halos,
parhelias, mirages, etc.; electrical me-
teors, as lightnings. auroras, etc.; and
igneous meteors, as shooting or falling
stars, star-showers, bolides or fre-balls,
aerolites or meteorites, etc. In present
usage, says Prof. Newton, the term me-
teor is generally limited to the last
group, or to the igne6us meteors. The
meteorites are all evidently fragments,
not separate formations. They are, says
the same authority, in the heavens, to
some extent at least, grouped in streams
along the orbits of known comets, and
hence have common origin with them.
The continuity of these streams, the
double and multiple character Of Biela's
and other comets, and the steady dim
inutton<of comets IN t,riis;ii...aay, al sue
cessive returns, seems to argue o con-
tinuous breaking up Of the comet into
fragments by some cause, probably by
the SUNS heat. This view is strength
ened by the fact that the meteoric irons
and stones bring with them carbonic
acid, which is known to form so promi-
nent a part Of the comets tail. It is
now universally admitted that igneous
meteors are caused by small bodies which
have been travelling about the sun in
their orbits, but now come into the
earth's atmosphere, and, in general,
burn up. The stony meteorites have in
general the shape of broken fragments
OF stone. The outside is usually covered
with thin, black crust, which is evil
IDENTIFY due to melting OF the surface in
the atmosphere. There have been found
at various times and places loose iron
masses that are assumed to be of mete-
oric origin, because their peculiar form,
their peculiar composition, and their
peculiar crystalline structure are like
those of the iron masses that have been
seen in several instances to come down
from meteors. Shooting stars are seen
on any clear, moonlight night; they
leave behind, many of them, a bright
cloud Of phosphorescent light; the me-
teors and their trains have various
colors-white, green, blue, yellow. scar
let, etc.; the duration of the fight is
generally less than second of time, but
the brighter ones may last several
seconds; the meteorites contain no ele-
ments, SO far as we know, which have
not been found on the earth, but these
elements are compounded differently
from terrestrial minerals sometimes
they reach the earth, and again are con-
sumed in their course.