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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-18

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vas struck By the timber and crushed
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-18

AUGUsTA Ca, February IA chicken
main between Georgia and North Carolina
was won by the former winning IL of the
2i fights.
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Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, February 1.-THE North
american says trade, in most departments,
has been active the past week, and prices
of several leading articles were unsettled
and lower.
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nInIomntir Service.

vnicss they had private fortunes to fill out
any disparity between their salaries and
heir official obligations. IL is not right
that such advice should be necessary, but
/, IS. and the conditions are gradually
operating as a discrimination against a
.arse class Of deserving men, who have too
much pride to subject themselves to impu-
'atiOnS OF meanneSs, and who cannot afford
he outlay which these positions demand.
A IN tho
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baltimore.

ket was more active the past week, and the
decline caused an export demand which
made the volume OF business larger than
for several weeks. Corn ruled fairly steady
without much activity, and receipts were
small. Oats broke, Wednesday, about &c
per bushel under large receipts and light
demand. Rye dull at the lowest figures OF
the year. The provision market is steady
and not affected by the fluctuations in the
West. and fair jobbing trade done. Hogs
in good demand, and the pens were cleared
at full fatns for the host quality
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Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI February 1.-THE halfpanic
of Wednesday almost paralyzed business.
Next day. however matters frightened up,
and business was resumed. Corn is fairly
active and wheat is somewhat better in
price Oats, rye and barley, however, re-
main dull. Flour has been weak. Whisky
has fallen one cent. Provisions have been
far from active, though they are firmly
held The demand for pig iron has at last
ket, but there is no change in prices. Dry
goods have been dull, attributable to bad
weather. General trade has been dull,
though the railroads running through grain
districts report more freight than they can
handle
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Reprieyed-Smau Business.

ST. LOUIS, February lI.-Martin Plac-
quette, who was to be hanged at New Mad
rid, Mo-, to-day, for the murder of a mem
Der of the Legislature named Barnes, over
a year ago, has been granted stay of exc
cution by the Supreme Court, until that
tribunal can hear his case.
After the lst of March, the Iron Noun
tain Railroad Company will charge all its
employees working in its shops and yards
in South st. Louis, six miles below the
centre of the city, full fare, fifteen cents,
for passage between the two points. Some
three hundred men are concerned in the
nrier. Heretofore they have ridden free.
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Tn besaty and color q de halt neE y
.frIy reenfssd ~ usies her!s1s nss
Hslssm, whieA " mucA sa.tese ~
fume ciesniiness sad dasdus
properties.
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Pitfsburgh.

PITTSBURGH. February l1.--Trade has
been rather quiet the past week. with the
markets for leading products steady and
unchanged. The demand for pig iron and
manufactured iron has fallen off very con-
siderably, but no signs OF a weakening in
prices is apparent Manufacturers still re.
port plenty of orders ahead at full card
rates. Glass was firm and unchanged.
Window glass demand is picking up and
good spring trade is anticipated. Coal IS
dull and depressed on account OF the long
continued nsyigable rivers. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the lower markets are
oyerstocked, operators continue sending
shipments. Since last Friday the ship
ments to Louisville and Cincinnati aggre-
gate l,55O.0O0 bushels. Petroleum quiet
and weak. The fluctuations were very
small, and operations at the exchange
rather light. United certificates dropped
from 7L to SAX, which was the closing
price. to-day. Sales and resales 2,OSs,OO
barrels; shipments $4,000 barrels. Live
stock more active. Cattle in fair supply:
receipts 5,437 head Of through. and l,Jo5
head of local. Stockers s. I5af 80, as to
quality. Hogs in lighter offerings; receipts
Is sa5 head. a falling of Of 500 head as
compared with last week; Philadelphlas
selling at s. 50a7 IS; Workers SG JOaG 20.
Sheep very active and fully twenty-five
cents higher; selling at s. 5os6 90 for com-
mon to extra. Receipts 500 head
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Chicago.

CHIcAGo. Februry Thanks report
good borrowing at Gas per cent The
markets are unsettled and the failures that
have occurred here and elsewhere, renders
bankers cautious. The feeling at close OF
business. this evening, was better among
all classes, and calls for marging were
small The result OF heavy drop in Change
is that thirteen failures are reported, but
only four or five OF them is very heavy.
The test is as follows. on open board: J.
s. Mcdonald & Co, II. G. Jencks & Co.,
+. Beutke. w. c. Benedict, J. W. Roberts,
T Sherman, d. w. Mills& Co. While 2 or
of the firms on the regular board laid
down. they were also doing business on the
omen board. The losses are about $4,000,
and OF firms that have failed, only few
have resumed business. On the Board OF
Trade the failures were II. o. ktnyon
Co. Smyth. Greenbaum & Co.. Harlow *
Pettingill, Kelly, Albright & Co, and +:
W. Wisher. and the aggregate losses OF
these were about S32, 900. The brokers who
were left in the lurrh are all trying hard
10 settle their deals and get at some esti-
mate of the liabilities and assets. The
KENYON 4 Co. failure was for about s2lO,-
O0O the heaviest of all. The real estate
market has been fairly active. Sales Tor
the week amounted 10 $4,000. Among
these was the sale of the southeast corner
Of Monroe and Dearburn, l30 by 100 feet.
for 1850 900 cash; $3.50, 600 will be spent in
improving the same building. During the
coming season promises to he exception
ably active.
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Afternoon Session.

The House, Immediately upon reassem-
bling, proceeded with hills on their first
reading. which occupied something over an
hour, and at the conclusion Of that order,
Mr.. Leonard moved TO take up Senate
Bill No. 2S, making an appropriation Tor
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Trunk cuntrsctsd With ths ftanyportaeioa
Company 70 form its eastsfn connection.
and its q alleged By The tattss. that ths
nishine the requisite number of cara
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TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Men, Women and Children Crushed
to Death.
Another Tragedy at Chester, Pa.-Prof.
Jaekson's Pyrotechnic Works De-
stroyed by Fire-Horible Re-
suits Of the Explosion.
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE TRAGEDY.


CHESTER, Pa, February E.-About eight
O'Clock. this morning an explosion occur.
red at the Pyrotechnic Works OF Professor
Jackson Of this city. The building was
badly shattered, took fire and was con.
sumed.
are lost, and many dangerously wounded.
The building is the old homestead Of Ad.
miral Porter.
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HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Morning Session.

Work. and not play, nor even talking. is
the order of the day in the House. The
morning session, yesterday, was devoted
exclusively to Senate and House bills on
their first reading. A large number Of
these bills were passed to their second
reading: the rules being suspended in all
cases where the bills were lengthy, and
they were read by their titles only. This
order of business is not very interesting,
but it is genuine work, and the members
of the House seem intent upon expediting
business as fast as the rules will admit
kfferuoou Session
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

\ FrnE Al 81. sIohnshury, Vt, swept
away the Free Baptist church.
FRErGuT trains on the Illinois Central
road coilided at Mounds Junction. wreck
ing both engines and several cars.
THE failure ii announced Of Amariah
Storrs Il Co., pf Boston, wholesale dealers
in cards and fancy papers.
4 LOIS If 10000 WAS incurred at Leav-
enworth hy i iiour-dust explosion in the
Novelty mills. Five men were seriously
burned
Ar sale Of the Montgomery White
Sulphur springs in Virginia. the porch Of
the hotel fell, killing one man and iniur
ing twelve.
NEw ORLEANS dispatches report that the
breaking of the levee II Ships Bayou has
submerged most of the plantations in Ten
sas Parish, La The water il twenty feet
deen.
GREAT destruction has been caused al
Milliken's Bend, where erevasse has
been developed into i whirlpool, caused
by meeting the back water from the Na-
lon.
TnE Paratot steamboat company, that
runs steamers up the Iazoo river and its
tributaries, il said 10 be doing more 70 as
sist the people, than lie government and
everybody else combined.
BARTHOLOMEW DESMOND, Of Cincinnati,
who had done time in the penitentiary,
fell III the street, while intoxicated, with
M open knife in lis pocket, and was found
dead, the femoral artery having been sew
| cred.
TnE American Association Of the Red
Cross ii about 10 send agents into the over
flowed region Of the southwest, and makes
III urgent appeal far funds, which can lie
sent 70 the secretary Of the treasury or the
secretary Of war.
Ar Kichmand, Va, flames broke ont ii
/ the Petersburg railroad bridge. and
i tnmhled that structure into the river, *
/ tending Il The tobacco factories Of 7. NJ
Rutherford i 60, Il. 4. Patterson y Co.,
L. &. Williams Il 60, the stemmeries OF
4. a. Hutchinson, & L. 4 +. y. Barks-
| dale, and Ahorn L Edwards. the Vulcan
| iron-works twenty tenement houses, ten
/ freight cars. and l. F. smiths grist- mill
all of which were DESTROYED. Al the
Manchester end 1T the bridge the Nir-
ginia kaoline works were burned. The
/ loss aggregates S5M00a.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
TELEGRAPHif.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON

IHE senate military committee will re-
port adversely on the bill to place General
Pleasanton on the retired list.
Is the house Mr. King introduced bill
asking an appropriation Of 100000 for
the relief Of the Mississippi sufferers.
SINCE General Grants appearance in
Washington, Steps have been taken for the
early retirement Of General Mcdowell
JAMES Low, a bitter half breed member
Of the New York legislature. has been
nominated by President Arthur TO the
consulate at Clifton, Ont.
Az intimate and confidential friend
of ex-senator Conkling's' declares that
any rumors Of Conkling accepting Office
under The present administration are idle
talk
Oh the ground that technical evidence
should not have been introduced in the
Whitaker court-martial. the cabinet has
disapproved Of the sentence Of dismissal
from the service.
The House adopted resolution to
make the Geneva award bill the special
order for April Il Mr.. Gibson submit
led telegram from New Orleans stating
that the supplies distributed by the war
department are exhausted.
TIE tobacco manufacturers. in session
at Washington. adopted a memorial 10
congress protesting against the passage Of
the leaf-lobacco bill, and asking that no
change be made unless the entire tax be
abolished
JUDGE FRENCH. assistant secretary Of
the treasury, il to be succeeded by A. q.
0lmstead, Of Potter county, Pennsylya-
MIA. The first authorship is 10 be given
% ex-eongie4sman G. w. Gilhllan,
THE annual cost Of the star-route service
ia the Pacific states and territories unler
General Brady was $2S4, 10. Contracts
for the same service this year have been
executed for 81 rs -
Miss PHOEBE Cousins, of ST. Louis, has
applied to President Arthur to be APP
pointed one Of the five commissioners to
visit Utah, and petition with numerous
signatures WILSON be forwarded to Wash
ingtOn.
In the u s. Senate, a bill has been in
trodnced to admit Washington AZ 4 state.
Tie Secretary Of War was directed to fur
nsh information AZ to the extent Of re
lief thus far furnished the southern flood
sufferers. Nlorgan's resolution for reci-
proeity with Mexico was referred The
agricultural committee reported in favor
10 establishing q bureau Of animal in
dus.ry
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
The Floods +

NIcKsBURG, March "a steamer
from Sharkey, on the Tallahstchieriv-
er, reports fail of Is inches at that
point, and many planters are preparing
to resume work. 1t is reported that
the gin house of d. G. Pepper had fall
en-, killing and drowning number of
people. Louis Stanley was drowned at
Mrs. Davis place. Chotsrd, Saturday
and two negroes were drowned at MIR.
]. Higgins place. The house of Henry
Davenport, on Peeler's place, was
washed away, The Sun Flower river
and Little Deer Creek is falling. There
wss a heavy rain last night; there IS
but little deshtution there snd the peo-
pie speak OF having good crops.
LIrrLE ROCK, March a7.-The dam.
age to the track Of the Little Rock
Mississippi River and Texas railway.
caused by the flood, has been repaired
and trains have resumed trips to Ar
kansas City.
New ORLEANS, March 27.-The Gre
vase At the Altoona plantation is l.
feet deep and 200 feet wide: this and
the Lodry creyesSes may overflow all
the sugar plantations. The left bank
down 10 Bonnet Carre, and the entire
Crosse Tetete country Is reported sub
merged. Backwater is rapidly en-
eroaching On the plantations west Of
Baton Rouge.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
FOREIGN

i cNmkslsAN from Panama reports the
destruction of four towns 10 Costa R.ca by
earthquake. several thnusand lives having
heen lost
Iro. enr of the leading statesmen of
Iapsn, Il ii visit America and Europe, 70
recruit his health and study the workings
1t parliamentary Institutions.
oS The giound that 4 meeting 1t Rome
would certainly offend the pope. the en-
pernr of Austria has abandoned his inten-
ton Il visit tie king II Italy.
4 rrRk near Northampton, England.
swept away twenty-five houses. At mod,
Hungsrv. 40 buildings we're burned and
nine lives were lost.
Az invitation IL Moody and Sankey 10
speud i year IN London in evangelical
work has been signed hv three hundred
persons III prominence III Great Britain.
| Bs i vote 81 .sS7 to u, The British house
iii commons granted to Prince Leopold an
additional annuity OF 10000 and pen
sion If e6nnn yearly for his widow in the
event Il his death.
4 RArE collector and agent was shot and
mortaliy wounded while driving with his
family to church near Clonmeilon. county
/ West Meath, Ireland. Other members Of
/ his family we're wounded.
| II is said that Prince Bismarck apollo
/ Sized TO the German Parliament for moi
attending 10 national aifairs bv stating that
| his time was fullv occupied in preserving
| the peace of Earepe.
SoMg citizens Of Rayenns. Italy, Assem-
hled ID celebrate the anniversary Of til,
Paris cor.mune. 4 conflict with troop
ensned. III which one soldier was kille,
and another wounded.
i THK Dominion government has decides
10 increase the northwest mounted polio
| force from 800 to 800 men. For. Walsh
the present headquarters. will be absn
Sioned, ~ being too near the frontier. sn
some point on the Canada Pacific roaS
| will probably he selected.
yfcreR HUGo, while entertaining som
journalists IN Paris the other evening. re
ceived telegram from ST. Petersburg an
Houncing that the oxar had spared III
lives of five nihilists at his request. There
upon Hugo toasted the car.
! Tux feeling in Paris against NJ Bor
toux Is 80 deep that outside brokers vii
not negotiate his shares in the new ban
to replace the Union Generate, and III
official brokers will not grant them sei
tlement.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Caught In a Blizzard.

Sr. PAUL, March ga telegram has
been received at department headquar-
ters from Capt. C. E. Bennett, seven
teenth infantry, commanding at Fort
Sisseton, d. t., stating that on Monday
last Hospital Steward August Gecks
left the post for Webster station, in
company with the stage driver, and
was caught In the blizzard that prevail
ed on Monday and Tuesday. Hearing
no report Of their arrival at the station,
parties were dispatched from Sisseton
to seek for them. and after q long
and anxious search Steward Gecks
was found by Lieutenant Caenoweth
about six miles from Webster, wander
ing on the prairie. He had been ex-
posed to the storm nearly twenty-four
hours and was almost exhausted, his
hands and feet being so badly frozen
that zmputation will be necessary to
save his life. The stage driver has not
yet been found, and It is not possible
that he has survived the storm unless
ne found shelter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
A corner in Corncols.

There is corner in corncobs some
where" said a New York wholesale
dealer in pipes, ''for the demands Of
manufacturers of corncob pipes cannot
be met, even at advanced prices. There
has never been such a scarcity in the
supply. The pipes, too, seem to be
in greater demand than ever. Many
men won't smoke any other kind. |
know one rich society man who would
be in disgrace if he was seen in public
with corncob pipe in his mouth, but
who keeps his pipe in his bedroom,
and has quiet smoke before he goes
to bed. The man who invented the
process Of hardening a corncob has be-
come independently rich. Some corn
cob pipes are costly because of the sill
yer mountings, but the pipe hat sells
for FIVE cents is the most popular.
Smokers say that the corncob pipe is
sweeter than any other. Southern
labcrers, who know what is good, from
hoecake to 'possurl, wouldn't give
cob pipe for the finest meerchaum
if they couldn't get another"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
4 aution.

LII these days Of vaccination, says an
exchange, when points are in general
denhand, it will not he amiss 70 remem-
Der the following: Don't pick your
nose with the finger that has shortly be
fore come in contact with vaccine mat
ter. A man in neignboring village
acted contrary to this rule, and, as a
result. the matter took kindly To mis-
nose, made the acquaintance of the
membranes, spread all through his
head, and he is now just able to leave
his bed after 4 confinement of more
thai two weeks. A Glens Falls lady
scratched the bite of an insect on her foot
with the fingers that had been toying
with her yaccinated arm. The follow
ing day her foot swelled, and shortly
exceeded by an overwhelming majority
the size of the traditional Albany girls
feet She was crippled for month,
and pined away under the heartrender-
ing prospect Of wearing No. II shoe
for the remainder of her days, but
finally recovered. These are practical
points on vaccine points and will bear
the caution they point out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Train Robbers.

KANSAS Cry. March y. g John
Laird, one Of the indicted "BIue Cut
train robbers, made confession this
afternoon at independence. He says,
seven boys were with the old gang,
which was headed by man he sup
poses to have been Jesse james, and
that it was the .members Of the old
gang, who entered the express car, and
went through the train, and that all
the country boys did, was to keep up
the racket on the outside after the rob
berry. The entire party went into the
woods short distance from the track
where the leaders who had all the swag
in their possession, said to the boys,
"Boys, we haven't got time TO divide;
they are too hot after us, and we didn't
get the money we expected, any
how, but we will all meet
on the right fork Of the
Blue next Wednesday night, just one
week from the night Of the robbery
and we will divide there" With that
the old gang mounted their horses and
rode away with the booty in their pos
session, while Laird and comrades dis
persed for their homes no richer than
they started out Before the night ar
rived which had been set for the-divide
the most of them had been safely jailed
and others were fleeing the country as
rapidly as possible. He declares his
belief that the robbery was put up
job, deliberately planned by James
and his gang for the double purpose of
securing the plumber and getting the
country boys into trouble in order to
divert the attention of the authorities
from their own operations.
When the docket was called, Laird's
case came first, and the prosecuting at
torney asked that it be put at the foot
of the docket, which shows that Laird
is to be used as a witness. Tho next
cases called were those Of Bugler and
Chapman. Bugler's attorney an
nounced that they were ready for trial,
end venire Of jurors was sworn. Tne
court then adjourned until tomorrow
morning, when Bugler's trial will be
| proceeded with.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Foreign.

LoNuxN, March 21.-The O,ioRoqhus
says; The defeat Of Gladstone's minis
try would be fatal to the best interest
Of ireland. II would hand over the
land act TO those who would do their
best TO defeat its working. He consid-
ers that ii wise counsel had prevailed
Ireland would already be content.
Dispatches from Ireland report 4
case in which disguised band cut off
the nose Of man because in poor
law guardian contest he canyassed III
opposition 10 candidate of the land
leaguers.
VIENNA, March y. The upper
house Of the reichstag passed the bill
increasing the tax on petroleum.
PEsrH, March 271.-Sixty houses and
fifty outhuildings at Bolzerfa. anu 'wo
hundred and forty eight houses at Paks
were burned, and several hundred
families are in destitute condition.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
The Railroad Problem.

The proposition OF Mr.. Adams to
create a railroad commission of high
character bat very limited powers, viii
appear singularly foolish to most MEM
bers of congress, no doubt. The average
legislator has tendency to believe that
legislation can cure all ills OF the body
polite. If fifty successive attempts
have failed, each leaving the evil great
er than before. he remains firm in the
faith that the only trouble is that the
right kind of bill has not yet been de
vised, and sits down with sublime con-
fidence to frame the fifty-frst- So il
will be, apparently, to the end of time,
unless constituents take pains to select
men who have mastered the alphabet
of social science.
Mr.. Adams mastered the alphabet
long ago. His plan. tame as it looks tc
laundering champions OF s'the cause o
the people against monopoly, has more
craftsmanship in il than any Of the CO
ercive measures contemplated In con
gress and state legislatures. But w
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
A CHILp's PARTY.

. Gen. Grant, Speaker keifer, some
fourteen senators and a number of the
house, together with others of promi-
nence, left Washington at 1:30 Satur-
day in the special Pullman car, "Dela-
ware" for Philadelphia, to attend
Saturday club party given by Mr..
George w Childs at his handsome resi-
dence on Chestnut street. Among the
party, in addition to Gen. Grant and
Speaker keifer, were Senators McPher-
son, Psndleton, Representative Robe
son, Senator Bayard, Representative
Jackson, Senator Allison, Attorney
General Brewster, Mr.. john Russell
Young, Mr.. Crosby S. Noyes, Senator
Davis, Of West Virginia, and Adjt. Gen.
Drum. The president was invited and
intended to go, but at the last moment
he found it would be impossible to
do 50.