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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-22
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sPestai ss'a pi'iatch 10 the iu,elrcaccr. X!
3 CAAEEoS, July 2l.-About half.past nine
o'clock this evening, m engine in backing
70 eouple4atrain east u tho water ta,ink.
ran ran over Benjamin Fitzgerald aged ten ten
years, cutting or his lef, leg SaboIve thue,
Enee. The lrs was ampa,Rted between, cen,
The hex knee and u,igll. The boy stood The, The,
operation heroically. and is doing well n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-22

WI WABASH. I'm, July a2l.-Elizabeth d:
Walt, The female faster, is now in her seven.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-22

CLEVELAND, O., July 2l.-The iron
market presents about the same features
as last week. Pig iron is quiet with a
iirmer feeling. Manufactured iron is very
firm and assorments badly broken. Nails
advanced TO four dollars, with nothing
but eastern stock Offering !. .tlA- = -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-22

Receipts this week, GEO hcgsheads;
receipts this week last year, $50 iossheads.
Crops Of 1851 soldto date, s. ,OS5 hossheads;
crops OF 1851 sold 10 date last wear, 33,O79
hogsheads; crops Of 1879, sold to date in
lSSs, 1866 hossheads. Prices rule strong
and without any change worth mentioning.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
A Dog and a Telephone.

!. The telephone cuts great many fan
tastic tricks, and its operations are not
alone confined to the human race. Oc-
casionally it operates so as to excite the
curiosity of the brute creation, as was
evidenced by recent experience in a
Denver suburban residence. A gen.
tleman living on one of the most fash
ionable streets is the owner of an in
telligent dog, which is great pet of
the family. A few days ago it was ar
ranged that the master should come
down into the city and talk through
the telephone to the dog, and see what
effect it would have upon the the animal.
When the master called out "Hello,"
the dog was held upon the chair, and
the audiphone placed close to his ear.
The gentleman talked to the dog in his
ordinary tone of voice, and called to it
and whistled several times. The ca
nine recognized its masters voice. and
almost went wild because it could not
find him. The animal could not be
held on the chair, but jumped down and
ran around the room, barking at Il flu
rious rate, and seemed to be utterly
nonplussed because the master could
not be found. The mans voice was
transmitted distance of over a mile,
yet the dog recognized it as readily as
if he had been in the room.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
A Boss Miner.

A fire broke out in shaft of deep
coal mine at Canton, ILL.,, and the miners
made a wild rush for the elevator,
crowding the cage and fighting for
places. Five trips Of the cage would
carry them all up, but it looked as
though the flames would quickly close
the exit, and in the fright and confusion
all struggled to be first. Tom Lukey,
the cecil and muscular boss of the gang,
drove them all aside, and then called
out the names of as many as could be
hoisted out at once. In making the
selections he chose those who had large
dependent families. When the cage
came down he filled it with those who
had fewer relatives, and next time With
husbands who had no children. Il was
not until the fourth lift that unmarried
we're given a chance. This fifth car
RED some almost worthless bummers
and Lukey himself with the fire
scOrching their clothes. When praised
for his act he carelessly replied: -0h,
that wasn't anything. II hadn't got
those fellows out Of the way would
have been burned up, don't you see2'
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30

lily and completely. losing their form
entirely, and that the disappearance of
the calcareous remains of mullusks is
readily explained by the formation of
large quantities of carbonic acid gas
during the process Of carbonization.
In accepting the marine origin of coal
1t IL not necessary to resort TO the as
sumption of immense pressure and
high temperature to explain decompo-
sition and the total destruction of the
structure of the original substance.
DIR. Muck combats Freny's bog theory
at length. His views are wen sup
ported by recent Investigations made
by Herr p. F. Reinsch, who has ex-
amined 1,200 sections of coal, coming
to the conclusion that that mineral sub.
stance has not been formed by the alter
alton OF accumulated land plants.
Herr Reinsch claims to have discov-
cred that coal consists of microscop
ical organic forms of low order Of
protoplasm, and though he carefully
examined the cells and other remains
of plants of a high order, he COM
puted that they have contributed only
a fraction of the matter Of the coal
veins, however numerous they may
be in some instances. r4
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
WIT AND WISDOM.


THAT it does not necessarily follow
because a man has the chillblains he
also has the chills.
MEN who would not steal a mule will
gladly take the chance to misappropri-
ate an umbrella. They have no use
fol-. mule.
A BOOK missing twenty years has
Just been returning to the Boston Public
Library. Some people are terribly
slow readers.
FLORENCE Percy, who wrote Rock
Me to Sleep" is living with her third
husband, the two others having been
successfully rocked.
"JAcK, what relation to you is that
old gentleman / saw you with, this
morning 2" ~Oh, not much; he's mar
ried to my grandparents only daugh-
ter"
The Philadelphia Neirs says a pound
Of feathers is as heavy as apound of
lead. That depends. II pound
of feathers were to fall from q third
story vindog and alight upon a mans
head, and five minutes aftervard a
pound Of lead we're TO fall the same
distance from shove and strike him on
the same spot, be would be willing to
swear that lead weighed q ton more
than the feathers.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
The Tale OF q Shirt.

In the course of a confidential con-
versation with friend who had recent
ly had two new shirts made, we learned
incidentally that the style of building
shirts had radically changed, and that
they were being made to button in
front instead of at the back of the neck.
The news was SO good that we could
not believe it until we had it directly
from a shirtmaker, who showed us the
ground plan and front elevation that
had been prepared by architects for the
erection OF some fine shirts for our
best citizens, and sure enough the old
fashion of folding doors in front, in
stead of a storm-door between the
shoulder blades in the back, was the
fashion. We have never felt SO much
like psssiDga resolution of thanks to
the shirtmakers, and a resolution of
coincidence 10 parties who have got to
wear the old ones, in our life. Those
shirts that button in the back have
been the cause Of more profanity than
any one thing. Shirts that button in
the back have been the cause Of crime.
Religious societies cannot prosper as
they should when the male population
has 10 reach over its head, and away
around to the back Of the neck 10 but
ton its shirt. Talk about spending
Of dollars 10 find the North
pole; if half the money spent in that
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
Why Cotton Is King.
Galveston News.

The Indianapolis Sentinel disputes
thesright of King Cotton to reign over
the agricultural empire, and demands
that corn be enthroned, and publishes
interesting statistics in support of the
claim: In 1879 there were produced in
the country 1888, 1901 100 bushels of
corn, valued at $58O,4S6, 217; 448,755,-
$50 bushels of wheat, valued at $497,-
O30,162; and 1857 $4,000 pounds Of
cotton, valued at 1892, 140, 9S8. The
Sentinel says any, other year in the
decade would show the same result -
corn would still head the list. The in
creased production of corn, from 1870
to 1880, indicates it's great value. The
production for 1870 was 76O,944,519
b ushels, while in 1880 in amounted to
LIZA, 1861 ,535 bushels, a gain in ten
years of 1893, 1911, 016 bushels more
than 100 per cent. of the product of
1881. There was exported 93,648, 147
bushels, valued at $51, 1872, 500, while
the exports of wheat amounted to $751;
698,485 and the exports of cotton to
$247, 1925, TAG. During the year 1881
about csc, 100000 bushels of corn were
consumed in the manufacture of whisky,
upon which the government collected
sixty seven million dollars revenue, and
since 1868 corn, in the way of spirits,
has given the government revenue to
the amount of more than eight hundred
million dollars. Many years, ago,while
Mr.. Toombs was making one of his
great speeches in the United States
Senate, he compared the export pro-
ducts of the two sections of the country,
and dwelling heavily on the cotton crop,
Northern senator Interrupted him by
saying: "The grass crop of the Northern
and Western States exceeds in value
the cotton crop of the South" Mr..
Toombs replied: ''That's true, but you
feed your grass to your cattle, eat your
cattle, and at the end of the year your
crop is gone eaten by man and beast" "
Cotton is king, not because the crop
is worth more, estimated in dollars and
cents, than the grain or the hay crop,
for it is not worth as much, but be-
cause it's subjects are to be found in
all lands and countries. and is the chief
article of export. The cotton bale is a
bill of exchange, so to speak, and
current in every market in the world.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
st. Louis Republican.

Some inquisitive papers are trying
to make out an explanation OF the eI-
naordinary conduct Of Jay Gould in
opening his pocket book 10 a few select
friends in New York few days ago
and submitting its contents TO their in
spection. 1t was very interesting
walletAsuch as only one other living
man could exhibit and few OF the most
famous plautocrats OF the ancient world
had the pleasure of handling. Ordin-
airy words are too feeble TO describe the
contents and special terms have to
DO called in for the occasion. There
arc securities--blocks" Of them-to
the amount Of s54,OOO,OOO railroad
shares exclusively. And these do not
constitute the whole of Mr.. Gould's
wealth. by long shot. They were
only one class of his possessions massed
together in o compact shape in his iron
safe for convenient exhibition. What
he owned besides in railroad bonds.
United States bonds, state bonds,
money, coal mines, ships, tug boats,
elevators, barges. bridges, tunnels,
union depots, real estate and other such
minor elements, is estimated at enough
more to make the whole an even $780,
100000. One explanation of the ex-
hibit is that the owner wanted to prove
his solvency in the face of the shrink
age that railroad securities have lately
undergone; another is that he wanted
to "bull" the market; another is that it
was device to disguise some gigantic
scheme which will be developed here
after. But all these vague conjectures
are secondary to the main fact, which is
that one should have so mnch money,
all acquired in twenty years, and the
bulk of it in ten years. 1t is no wonder
that people of all nations, tongues and
kindred flock to Castle Garden, at the
end of Manhattan Island, by the hum
dred thousand, when this attractive
country offers such tempting facilities
for becoming Rothschilds and Gree
suses. And Mr.. Gould is only one of
coterie of gilded men of business who
are giving to New York splendor sur
passing that of Genoa Venice and
Florence in the zenith of their medi-
eval opulence. A short time ago a
New York paper gave a list of twenty
two citizens of New York and San
Francisco, whose united fortunes are
estimated at 1855, 100000, and there is
not one of them whose wealth is as lit
tie as 81 100000. Talk about million
aires! The word has become too tame
and feeble to express a New York for
tune that gives man financial stand
ing in that whirling metropolis. .p
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
Being Blown Up.

How it feels to be blown up with
nitroglycerine is described by John
McCleary, the torpedo shooter, who
made such remarkable escape from
death by a glycerine explosion near
Haymaker, Pa, recently, and who has
described the sensation he experienced
to reporter of the Eldred Eagle. 1t
will be remembered that McCleary's
coat-tail was blown off and he was
hurled distance of seventy-fve feet.
"Did you realize what was going on
immedialy after the explosion occur
redi" asked the scribe. -.+
SWELL, yes, I knew what all the fuss
was about, but didn't know whether
I was dead or alive. When 1 ran from
the derrick 1 never expected to live
more than half minute, but wanted
to occupy the time in some way, SO l
did it in running. All at once it seemed
as if 1 had jumped into deep water and
was going down. realized that the
explosion had taken place, though l
did not hear it. Everything about me
looked blue, and 1 thought at first that
L was dead, and wonderedit the change
from life to death was so quickly and
easily made. By this time / was lying
on the ground about $50 feet down the
hill from where the explosion occurred,
and while trying to make out whether
L was in this world or the other, saw
the burning oil and gas above. 1t
seem at first as if it were, the flames of
the lower region coming down to de-
your me, and could almost see his
Satanic Majesty smiling in their midst.
/ made up my mind that ! didn't want
to go that way, and accordingly made
extra exertions to escape. 1t was then
that / arose to my feet and realized
more fully where 1 was. Yes, it was
strange experience, and no one can
know Just how il seems, for L can't
fully explain it. and ] think am the
only one who ever went through 1t
successfully.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
The Formation of Coal.

All attempts to explain satisfactorily
the formation of coal, says an exchange,
have thus far proved unsuccessful,
though it is generally understood that
it is the product of the decomposition
of vegetable matter which chemists
have not as yet been able to solve.
The principal difficulty has been that
it has been impossible to obtain clear
insight into the chemical constitution
of coal. It has been thought hitherto,
and this is still the. popular belief, that
coal is in the main pure carbon, mixed
with various quantities of bituminous
substances. 1t has been generally be-
lieved that as the distillation of coal is
principally carbon, it would be safe to
conclude that free carbon actually ex-
lists in coal. The fact that sugar,
starch, etc, under similar circum-
stances, leaves a residuum col sisting
OF carbon has never been considered a
proof that the element existed in those
bodies in a free state. 1t is well known
that Goals which may have the same
percentage of carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen, do not by any means in coking
yield the same products of distillation,
and we have complete analogy for
this in the behavior of cellulose and
starch, when subjected to distillation.
Evidence points to the conclusion that
coal is mixture of many and complex
compounds, and the difficulty amount
ing almost to an impossibility of sepa-
rating these compounds has much to
do In rendering chemical solution of
the question involved in the formation
OF coal very arduous task.
The production of coal by artificial
means is met by great obstacles, among
which the absence of all knowledge
concerning the conditions under which
that process actually took place is the
principle one. The question whether
the vegetable matter to which our coal
VEINS owe their origin was amassed by
Uniting or was carbonized ia sta has
been much debated, and there has been
much discussion on the point whether
Twas obtained from water or from land
plants. DIR. Muck, of Bochum, in re-
cent work to which we shall refer at
Greater length in the future, takes up
me theory that algae have mainly con-
tnbuted to the formation Of coal. 1t
= urged that the remains of marine
plants are rarely found In coal veins,
AID that shells, etc, are not often met
sltn- DR.. Muck calls attention to the
iAct that marine plants decompose ess-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30

way was offered as a reward for tho de-
lection OF the man who invented shirts
that buttoned in the back, and he could
be turned loose among men that have
suffered for years by his devilish con-
trivance, 1t would be we'll expended.
For fourteen years the men of this
country have been slaves to this absurd
fashion, and more arms have been
cramped, shoulders dislocated and
backs bent than would be- believed by
those who have not seen il. The spec
tacle OF a mild,mannered man. after
getting into his shirts, making con.
tortionist Of himself, an acrobat. trying
to get ON the other side of himself to
button his shirt the back way, is sad
indeed. Statistics show that buttons
on the back of shirt always come off
the second week, and in the place of
the thin, oyster-shell button that comes
with the shirt, the housewife always
sews on q big drawers button. four sizes
larger than the button hole, and, il he
gets the button in the hole, the hole
has to be "bushed" or a washer put on
the button next time. Go through our
prisons and you will find that the
criminals, the bad men, wear shirts
that button in tho back. They have
been driven to life of crime by letting
their tempers get the best of them
while searching blindly for button
with one hand, and button-hole with
the other, when their backs were
turned. They go from homo mad, and
commit crime to get even. r.i .Us
The bare idea of having shirts that
open in front will give q. feeling Of rest
to tired back aching humanity. To
stand up to the glassand button shirt,
and see what you are about, will be
bliss indeed. The thought of gener-
Gus slit in the bosom of shirt, where
ones hand may wander, is elysium.
There are times-we say it advisedly-
there are times when the best of us
want to put hand inside shirt bosom;
but with the old shirt that buttons in
the back man might as we'll be a burg
lar-prC OF safe, with the combination lost,
as to try to get in. With the old shirt
it would be absolutely to hire hand.
i A mans stomach has been sealed
book for fifteen years, with the old
boiler.iron bosom, with no port holes.
Occasionally a mans heart aches, and
if lie could put hand on it, without
going around the back way and sneak
ing in under the arm, he could tell by
the feeling whether it was unrequited
affection that allied him or rheumatism.
With the new shirt an exploring expe-
dition can be sent to the seat of the
disease before it is everlastingly too
late.
Men have been wounded, and before
they could be turned over and the en-
trance to the shirt found they have bled
to death. The old back-action shirt is
fraud, and the new one is daisy. It
may be said by some that the new open
sesame shirt will show to the world the
color of the undershirt. 1t might if
one was going to use his shirt bosom
for pillow, but few do that. And,
even if they did, that is the only way
the world can know that man wears
silk undershirt, with monogram on
the front. We hail the new open-win-
ter shirt with delight, and are sure the
public will when they once get their
hand ln.-PecE'S SaLq1. @
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
Mackey's Memory.

The Helena (Montapa), Independent
is authority for the following story:
Isaac Heidenheimer, q well-kcown pio-
neer of Montana, formerly of Alder
Gulch, but now of Galveston, Texas
was lately in receipt of telegram from
the Nevada Cr1sus bidding him "come
by special train" to meet him at GER
tain point between New York and st.
Louis. 1910 5Hi "@
Mr.. Fl. complied, and after hearty
greeting, Mackey's first words we're:
What do I owe you for your kind
ness?"
Nothing" replied Mr.. H.
"Then take that" said Mackey,
handing him check for 100000, "and
if you ever want to make business
venture in the West will gladly lend
you half O million"
Mr.. Heidenheimer is not only man
of sense, but remarkably "well heeled"
in this worlds goods, and it was with
considerable reluctance that he accept
ed the check.
The above facts were elected from
letter of Mrs. Heidenheimer to her
sister, Mrs. Edward Zimmerman, of
this city.
1t seems that in early days, when
Mackey toiled with shovel and pick, be-
fore fortune smiled upon him, Heiden-
heimer had been his friend in his dire
extremity, and now he remembered
him.
How rarely in this worlds history is
princely heart allied 10 princely
fortune.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30

A Miss Buchanan once rallying her
eousiu. an officer, on his courage, said:
aNov, Harry, do you really mean to
tell me you can walk up to 3 cAnnons
month without feArG' Yes, vas the
prompt reply, cor 10 . BuehAnAns
either And he did It.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30

THAT it does not necessarily follow
because man has the chillblains he
also has the chills.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-04-26

It was our pleasure, while on visit to
Johnstown. 10 go through the furniture
warerooms of Henderson & Alexander, and
great was our astonishment TO find there q
line Of furniture that is exceeded by none
and equaled by few OF the stocks of Pittsburg
dealers. Beautiful chamber ana library sets
were on all sides, and everything required
to furnish house in first-ciass style was to
be found in their large stock. The firm is .
new one, and aims to deal only in the best
kne of goods. They sell no articles which
they are not willing TO guarantee Not
only were we surprised at the sizeof their
stock, but utterly amazed at their prices.
We know from personal observation that
their prices are as low, il not lower, than
the same furniture can be bought for in
Pittsburgh or the eastern markets, which
when the difference in freishts is considered
makes il desirable place for Somerset peo-
pie TO buy. One feature of their establish
ment is the fne quality OF their upholstery.
aud any OF our people who have fine chairs.
sofas. etc. which they desire to have done
over will do weiI 70 send TO Henderson &
Alexander. They employ Eve men in tllis
dhartment below. Prices and photographs
scnt on application.