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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-07

The corn in Nebraska has not been near
ly so badly injured as in States east of the
Missouri river, and in conversation with
several prominent stock dealers and farm.
ers was Away told that
the crop would be above the
average. The wheat and oats crops Of
this State have been immense this year,
and threshipg has begun in many sections
Stock raising is the thing in Nebraska, the
whole western and central portions Of the
State being ranches upon which roam and
fatten for the Chicago market hundreds
upon hundreds of thousands of sleek cat
tie. The completion Of the c., B. Il @ Z.
r through this State hasgiyen this busi-
ness an impetus that can not be estimated.
as it gives raisers and shippers the bensit
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POLITICAL MATTERS.
Kentucky Election.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August Son Monday
Kentucky will elect Clerk OF the Court OF
Appeals and each county will choose new
officers. For the first place two candidates
are in the tield-Capt. T. J. Henry, the rec.
ular Democratic nominee, and r. T. Jacob,
independent Democrat, supported by the
Republicans. Jacob was nominated by the
Union Democrats, that is Democrats who
opposed the secession movement. The
local contest will bring out an average vote
Col. Jacob is under the impression he will
be elected, or at least so expressed himself,
but informed Democrats claim Henry's
election by the usual Democratic majority,
the Secretary of the State putting 1t at
$4,000. II is thought the Democratic votes
cast for Jacob will be more than otf:et by
the Republicans who will not vote for him
and aoain that Henry will draw as many
Republican votes as Jacob secures from the
Democrats. OF ons thing there Is no doubt,
and that is Henry will 60 through wi tn a
majority half as big as the vote OF Jacobs.
Gen. SinGletOn's Chances.
CHICAGO, August 5.-the twelfth Illinois
Democratic convention has adjourned to
Beardstown, next Tuesday. The last bal.
lot for Congressman was the lG4th and
stood: Singleton, 26; Wike, %; Withers,
Ia Goodrich. :; which was substantially
the same as the first.
Running Independent:
BEDFORD, IND, August 5.-The Demo
Gratis of the Second Congres sioral distric,
are alarmed at the announcement that A.
J. Hostetter, ex-DcmoCratic Congressman,
has come out as an Independent candidate
against T. X. Cobb. Hostetter is popular
and will receive the support OF the Repub-
licans aud Greenbackers, who will not
nominate.
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MINNESOTA.
The Finest Crops Ever Grown.


: CHICAGO, August 5.-A 81. Paul special
says; As nearly as il can be arrived at by
competent special agents and official statis-
ticians, the acreage Of wheat in Minnesota
according to the reports is, that the wheat
crop will be one of the largest and best
ever grown in the northwest. Oats will far
exceed in quantity and quality any preyi.
Gus yield Barley is Of the finest quality
end color, and corn alone Of all the grains
is not a first-class crop. Potatoes will
yield enormously. The grand total OF the
Minnesota wheat crop for 1882 will be not
less than $4,000, 900 bushels on an acreage
of 2, 473, 900 acres, against 10000, 600 bushels
on 2,96i,000 acres in 1881. The largest
yield is "a bushels per acre in Carver coun.
ty and 12 bushels is the lowest estimate.
Goodhur county will yield over three mill
lion bushels, Otter Tail nearly two mil
lions and half, and Dogan will yield over
one million. There has been some rust
and chinch bugs, but no grasshoppers to
note. The product Of the State and Dakota
Territory is estimated at fifty to sixty mil
lion bushels Of wheat. Commission men
are more conservative, but all agree that
the yield will greatly exceed last years and
accept thirty-eight millions for the State
as q moderate and lair estimate. All re.
ports concur that there is even yet q fair
Show for corn. The entire product OF wheat
along the Northern Pacific last year was
: 7,l75,OOO bushels. This year it will not
be less than twelve million bushels-
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THE RIVER AND HARsoR BILL.
Was It Legally Passed over the Presi-
dent.
Iypecial Dirpotch % he ReCister.


Special Dispatch % the Register.
WASHINGTON, August cit seems that
President Arthur is not so well pleased
with the result of the vote of the River and
HarbOr Bill as has been stated, and it snow
stated that steps will be taken to test the
validity of the vote by which the bill was
repassed. In an interview a warm friend
OF the President said that it was plain that
the hill had not been legally repassed, for
the reason that the Constitution requires q
twO-thirds vote TO pass bills over PTesiden-
tial vetoes, and the vote must be an actual,
ard not merely an apparent two.thirds
vote The President has been advised that
the vote in the House passing the River
and Harbor Bill over his veto was suffi
GENTLY irregular and has enough good OBJ
jections to it to raise the question as to
whether it was an actual constitutional
two.thirds vote. The advice is based
on the following fact, namely: That
in the House theIbill received but one vote
above the necessary two-thirds, and that at
least four of the affirmative votes should
not have been counted, because in the an-
nOunCed pairs at least two of the Oppo-
nents of the bill were paired each with but
one superior instead OF two, as should be
the case in all ballots where a two-thirds
vote is required.
The Constitution empowers Congress to
make rules for their own conduct, and
among the customs which have grown up
under Congressional procedure is that OF
pairing to preserve the representation OF
members necessarily absent, it is evidently
fair on bills requiring mere majority to
pair one absentee against one member of
opposite views in the voting, but it is man.
feStly unfair in ballots requiring a two
thirds majority for the passage OF bills to
allow the vote of any opposing absentee to
be offset by the unvOted ballot Of but one
supporter of the bill.
in all such cases a supporters vote is
worth but half the vote Ofan opponent and
the opposing absentee is entitled to PAIR
with two supporters, and in all cases where
he is paired with but one, the tally will be
wrong, If il does not count his partners
vote. This has been the custom in Congress
and has never been violated until now. In
the House on the occasion of passing the
River and Harbor bill over the Presidents
veto several of the opponents of the bill
were paired singly with supporters, and it
was only by allowing these to pass as full
pairs ana allowing the impaired compile
ment to cast full votes, that the two-thirds
vote was made out. This cannot be consid-
cred either fair or constitutional two
thirds vote and it forms sufficient basis for
objection to allowing the appropriations to
be paid out.
This raises q nice question, but it has
frequently been decided by Congress no.
tsbly in the case of the vetoes of Grant and
Johnson. that the rule here laid down is
the correct one, and it is the opinion of the
best psrlimentarians here that should the
question be raised, the vote will be de-
Clared as insufficient
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WEST VIRGINIA.
Magnitude of Her Lumber Trade
and Manufactures.
The River and Harbor Eill-Wss II Legally
Passed Over the Veto A Nice
Question Of Parliament (
AIRY Law.
POINTS, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August 6.--The Gen.
sus Bureau has issued bulletin represent
ing the volume by States and territories,
of the lumber industry of the United
States for the census year, as derived from
the returns of the enumerators on the
schedules of manufacturers and from the
reports of special agents for orman1facturers,
in cities having, at the time Of the ninth
census, 5000 or more inhabitants. No dis
tinction between the different kinds OF
wood sawed has been attempted in the
enumeration. West Virginia shows up as
follows:
Number of establishments, 472.
Capital, 81 ,l6S, 800.
Maximum number of hands employed at
any one tiIle in the year, 3,675.
Number Of males employed above l6
years Of age, 2,05T.
Number Of children and youths employ
ed. I26.
Value of logs, 81, ,307, ,S43.
Value of mill supplies, S6T, $50.
Wages paid during the year, $459, ,9i5.
Feet of lumber produced, board measure,
lSO,ll2,OOO.
Number of lath, 1901, 900.
Number of shingles, 3,695,0O0.
Number Of slaves, 1882, 900.
Number of headings, $4,000.
Value of other products, $40.l95.
Total value Of all products, 81 43l ,S5T.
West Virginia is twenty-fourth in rank
according to the value OF the products.
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ADJOuSNME ENT.
Action Of the Republican Caucus,

Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, August 6.-The Republi-
can Senators held a caucus, yesterday,
when a dispatch was read from Senator
Edmunds, calling upon the Republican
Senator, to to stay here until the little
revenue bill is passed. The caucus passed
a resolution to stay. Chilcott, McDill and
Sawyer voted against the resolution. Van
wick, of Nebraska, says that he will stay by
the caucus until next Wednesday and then
he will 90 home. Notwithstanding the
action of the caucu> this morning it is not
believed Congress can be held here beyond
next Monday or Tuesday.
The conference committee agreed to the
different points of disagreement in the
sundry civil bill last evening. This is the
last one of the appropriation bills that
have not already been passed. With the
passage of the sundry Appropriation bill
Congress will have nothing of importance
to keep them here lOrSer, and they will
probably be ready 10 adjourn Monday. 1t
IS admitted by the advocates of the tax bill
that nothing will be done with it this ses-
sion. Notwithstanding the action OF the
Republican caucus this morning the sub
iect will involve too much dis
cussion and too much time to reasonably
hope 10 keep members here to tend to il.
All the Republicans desire now is to hN
the responsibility for the nOn-reduction OF
tGxes OF the country, as soon as this I'M
portant matter is satisfactorily settled the
subject will be allowed to drop. The pass
age of the knit goods bill today increases
the taxes o. the country nearly S25, 100000.
\ Democratic Senator, in remarking on
this subject, sGid tonight: "Here the Re-
nublicans have spent eight long weary
months in trying To reduce the burden Of
taxes Of the people and end BY passing a
bill to increase the taxes $25, ,0OO,OOO. This
is good showing indeed.
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FIRE RECORD.

GouvENNErR, \. y, August 6.-vandaser
L. Co.'S cabinet shop, and the foundry and
machine shops of the st. Lawrence Manu-
featuring Company and several tenements
were burned to-day. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000
PIrTsBURG, August CA fire in McKeloy
Bros carriage factory, on Diamond street,
this morning at o'clock, destroyed the
building and nearly all of the stock. Loss
S25, 600; partially insured.
While the fire was still in progress twen
ty-five firemen entered the burning build
ing to better enable them to fight the
flames. Ten of this number ascended to
the second story, and had barely reached
there when the side and floors gave way,
precipitating them to the floor beneath.
All were more or less injured by the fall
and flying debris, and four of them, named
respectively John Green, Charles Little,
Robert Kilhain and Philip Mcclure, were
seriously and probably fatally hurt The
remaining fifteen who were on the ground
floor MANAGED to escape unhurt. The ORR
gin of the fire is unknown.
HAMILTON, 0ST,, August 6.-The Tribune
Printing Company's building and contents
is burned. Loss $4,000; insured for sl6,-
on
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KEYSER.
Pass the ScOundrel ArOnnd.
NnccInI 10 The RrnIkker


KEYsER, W. Va, August 5.-Ia the early
part of this week a man registering him.
self as p. n. Jenkins, OF Baltimore, evi.
IDENTIFY fraud, came to Keyser. He repre-
sents himself as bcirg one OF large CON-
mittee sent out by the Grand Army OF the
Republic to solicit contributions for desti-
tute widows and orphans Of Confederate
soldiers. Several in the town and commu-
nifty were deluded into giving the scoundrel
small sums.
Jenkins In OF medium size, wears a uniform
OF dark blue, military cap and the badge OF
a Grand Army Of the Republic and sc. A:
t." in gilt letters on his cap. He jumped
his hotel and livery bill, ard went west
i:om here. At Oakland he met Mr.. Sol
Cunningham, o., ,Coyington. There-at one
of fhe botels-represented bis mission TO
ur. c. and solicited money. In answer 20
an INQUIRY. the migratory fraud said he
Twas the son OF Gen. Jenkins, OF. Kapaw.
ha." Mr.. E. was willing 10 give $3.50, and
henGcd the traveller S TO have 1t change'.
II was the last seen of either s or man. He
skipped out" Mr.. Cunningham got out
q warrant for Jenki ms. but at last accounts
the cheeky solicitor had not been caught
VAN,
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hundred and thirty propositions find a
resting place upon the calendar of the
Committee of the Whole. Thirty. three of
them are public building bills. More than
four hundred private relief bills
practically find their graves in the
private calendar. On the Speakers table
are deposited about two hundred Senate
bills, most of them of private character,
OF the tweEty-two hundred and eighty
three bills and joint resolutions introduced
in the Senate, four hundred and sixty-six
passed that body, at the hour OF final ad-
journment. Besides great number OF
measures not yet reported from the Senate
Committees there will remain upon the
Senate calendar nineteen Senate bills and
joint resolutions, and siventy-one House
bills and resolutions, all of which will have
to take their chances in the next session.
Aside from the regular annual appropria-
ton bills, about one hundred and seventy
bills and joint resolutions of public ma
ture have passed both houses this session,
and have become laws.
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PARKERSBURG.
/ Organizing q Temperance BOOm-The
| observation-disclosures
Sneci0y IN fbe ReOiSke1.

Organizing q Temperance BOOm-The
Greenbackers-PersO
Special 10 the Register.
PAREERsBURG, August 5.-David D. John
son, chairman of the State temperance
executive committee, Hon. c. T. Caldwell
and Senator McGregor, OF Richie county,
ere booked for the big prohibition meetings
to be held at Martinsburg and Keyser on
August 22d and 2Gd. Those able and earn
est workers in the temperance cause pro-
pose to organize a boom in that
end of the State, endeavoring to create
a public sentiment throughout the State
that will compel parties to nominate can
didates for the Legislature who will agree
to submit the prohibition amendment to
vote of the people. The friends of the
temperance movement in this section are
in earnest, and their influence will be felt
in the approaching campaign.
Quite number of our Greenback friends
went out to Clarksburg, on Tuesday last,
to attend the State Greenback convention.
Greenbackers of this city, we learn that
the convention was large and quite en-
thusiastic, there being over one thousand
of the sturdy, o'd farmers of that faith in
attendance. Judge Guthrie. one OF the
ablest men in the ranks of the Greenb:ck
party was nominated for the Court
of Appeals, and Tor Senator
from the Fifth Senatorial district
they nominated one of Woo fCounty's best
men-Washington Smith, Esq, of Wash
ingtOns Bottoms, below this city.
A brilliant display awas noticed in the
heavens Friday night about 0 clock.
Our genial Governor J. B. Jackson and
Private Secretary w. w. Jackson, are well
coined to Parkersburg for few days.
Hans Good, of your city, has host of
friends here who would be pleased to see
him 80 to Congress from the First District.
Major Will Steele, of Wheeling was in
the city this week in the interest of the
Webster Wagon Company, of Moundsville.
Hon. u. II. Leonard left here for Roane
County on Thursday afternoon.
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what Teller Says.

WASHINGTON, d. c., August 6.-Seoretay
Teller emphatically denies the report he
advised the passage of the river and har-
Dor bill over the Presidents veto. He says
he happened to be in the Senate chamber on
business concerning his own department,
shortly before the vote was taken, but so
far from saying anything in favor OF the
vetoed bill, he incidentally expressed to
several Senators his opinion the bill was
very obnoxious measure, and the veto
ought, by all means, to be sustained, Sec
retary Teller further remarks he voted
against every river and harbor bill that
came before the Senate while he was
member of that body; that he made
speech against four of them, and that as
matter of fact, he regarded the last bill as
much worse than any of its predecessors.
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SIxMEN KILLED.
Yrtehtf.i R.iIresA AeesAesa.

PrfTsBURsH, August 5.-A train Of seven
teen cars, heavy loaded with coal, became
unmanigable while coming down . heavy
grade on the Cranberry road. yesterday a.
ternoon, and ran away. The wreck was
strewn premiscously along the road for
two miles, and at the end Of that distance
the locomotive plunged into some standing
carr, creating sad havoc The following
were instantly killed: Albert Valley,
Robert Mckinley. George Mersing. David
Morgan. Conductor Charley Mckinley and
John Costello have since died. Thirteen
others, most Of them miners, were injured,
several OF whom will die. The track was
torn up and the debris scattered about two
miles. The Cranberry road Is q branch OF
the Buffalo, Western and Pittsburgh, ex-
tending from this city TO the Cranberry
mines, distance Of about seven miles.
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lid that a reputable Philadelphia
P has collected evidence and
al the next meeting of the
pledical Society, to show up the
c frauds practiced by rascally
IN tn&t city, such as changing
hsnts Of prescriptions and al
er proportions in order to in
N own nrnlifs
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Murder and Suicide.

ISpIANAPoLIs, August 6.-At Greenfield,
Ind, between and 5 o'clock this evening,
James Meek, young man and painter by
trade, while under the influence o. liquor,
accosted Albert DAILY, another young man,
saying: You stole my chips" DAILY re-
piled, God d-n you, didn't" Meek
turned and left him, saying ~ will see you
later" In about twenty minutes Meek re-
turned and drew and fred pistol at DAILY s
forehead, inficting a fatal wound. Meek
walked off twenty feet and placed the pis.
tol to his right temple and fired. He fell
almost hfeless. Meek is now dead and
Daly's death is expected at any moment.
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ERIE, Pa, August 5.-The neighborhood
of French and Fourth street was the scene
of wild shrieks of woman issuing from
the northwest tenement evidently in the
agonies of violent death. A telephone
message brought posse of police, who
found that Dan Collins laborer, was bru-
tally kicking his eighteen year old daugh-
ter, who lay helpless and nearly dead on
the floor. After violent struggle Collins
was Gagged, 1t is feared the girls injuries
are serious. Collins is 8 man Of rash tenn
per, and the girl is wayward, which may
explain the trouble.
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RAILROAD MATTERS.

CHICAGO, August 5.-Private adyices from
Boston state that the conference between
the officers OF the Burlington, Atchison and
Union Pacific Roads adjourned without
reaching an agreement, but will meet next
week. II is believed here they will agree
on a compromise allowing all three COM
promise allowing all three companies 10
occupy certain territories in Nebraska,
Kansas and Colorado. with the new lines.
Another Link Of the River Line.
From the Enquirer, Of Sunday.
George w. Thompson, Vice President,
and w. ?. Chancellor, Treasurer OF the
Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston
Railroad, were in the city yesterday. Their
road Is designed to follow the east bank OF
the Ohio from Wheeling TO Parkersburg
and to Point Pleasant. From Point Pleas
ant to Huntington is but forty-four miles,
and when their road Is completed and q
road built through this gap, there will be .
continuous railroad along the line OF the
Ohio river from Pittsburg TO Cincinnati.
The Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston
have the right Of way, and have made the
preliminary surveys from Wheeling TO
Parkersburg, and are now getting the right
of way from Parkersburg to Point Pleasant.
oh gentlemen are feeling very sanguine
over the prospects OF their road which they
seem 10 think will soon be one de facto.
They left for theif homes in Wheeling Last
night
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A Sunday school superintendent ON n
Big Drunk.

GREENsBrRG, Pa, August 5.-John
Skelly, of Grapeville, said to be the superin-
tendent of.a Sunday school, came to town
tonight and got pretty we'll filled up with
bug Juice" and got boisterous. In re-
sisting Policeman Bonner he got hit with a
mace and bed profusely. He demanded a
hearing tonight, which was given him. He
was fined S. To meet this emergency he
pledged a watch presented to him by a
pastor. The affair raised quite an excite
ment, owing to the standing of the party.
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Halra Million swept Away.

COLUMBUS, August 5.-Information, to.
day, is that trairs on the Ohio Central
road are not running farther south than
Moxahak. and it will require several weeks
of repair before they en- get beyond that
point Their loss by the water spout of
Thursday is much greater than at first sup
posed. From three miles north of Can
ming down to South Bend and up the west
branch of the Ohio Central to Buckingham,
a distance of sixteen or eighteen miles, the
track is almost entirely destroyed. For
miles it cannot be observed that there ever
was railroad located there. Most all OF
the live stock in the two valleys were
swept away 1t is believed the loss to the
railroad, mines and private individuals
will approximate half million.
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Nsw CUMBERLAND.
'''S and How Their Flow 4
Utilized.

''''at 10 ne Register.
|, I,taL'SO, W. Va, August o.
ia was being pnt down by
" Co., on their premises
',' the purpose of testing the
'ls been abandoned, after
,P'n OF 200 feet. This en-
|. "'ek firm have in operation
1 wells in TIE vicinity, which
n s'ca up large quantities of
I, l' 'V9 feet, but it was sur
! much larger volume might
,SPed at a greater depth, but
! vas discovered below the
insure. These gas wells
] mas a@,Os!ty in their way, and at.
',c- visitors here. The fluid
~, ~, 'ae various wells through
n 'noes, to the different
a,boSS > utilized. In the 6rst
e,s;Uin ,;On works, an immense
Nv .ns 500 burners. which
i h, T. receives the amount nee
ot .ohSSumption, then the
Is AM, now is distributed
b,;c.SS the houses and to
lpe,fisAWo works owned by the
as baa b,ent of manufacturing
ave, S :, proven highly suits,
10 SAN i enormous outlay for
'ly nothing Of the say.
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Murders, and Crem.,es,-

OTTAWA, Ill, August 5.-A private dis
patch from Florida, says that w. d. Neff
and wife, who had started an orange grove
a hundred and forty miles from Jackson
vile, were murdered and their bodies
burned. Further particulars are wanting,
but H-B. Neff, brother of the murdered
man, started for Florida last night,
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PERSONAL.
The West virginia Delegation.

WASHINGTON, August Col. Ben. Will
son is the only member of the West yir-
ginia delegation now in Washington, and
he will leave in the morning for Red Sui
phur Springs.
Senator Davis and Representatives Hoge
and Kenna left yesterday for their homes,
and all but Senator Davis expects to re-
main there. Mr.. Davis is expected to re-
turn tomorrow night