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IT is somebody's dutyto sec that avn
ins poles do not hang SO low. rs to strike
pedestrians. 7 4 gentleman walking on
Main street in broad daylight ran against
1he.cnd OF one OF these poles and bruised
himself terribly very, near the eye. At
night the danger is obviously greater. No
awning'pole ought to be SO low as to be n
constant danger: 1t is better to take this
matter in hand before there is 4 suit for
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The Republican. Weakened Up-A nou,,

The Republicans Weakened. Up-A Rousing
~ A Ss y Meeting Tuesday Night. .1li
Correspondence 9f the In,elliocncer. I. * ) ;
y New CUMBERLAND, WA, August 81
The Hancock county Republicans are
stamping ready for the fray, but, owing to
the extreme apathy upon the part Of the
Democracy It seems like 4 useless thing
"a exercise ourselves to any particular dc.
gree Of enthusiasm. The opposition here
have become 90 thoroughly disgusted with
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0rE friends elsewhere: needn't believe
that"thc prospects ofthe: Democratic par
ty inWcst yirginiaarc bright. West
Virginia Democrats. don't believe it them
selves II they do, why arc they begging
for money to save them or they perish?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-28

Tng New York S,m having been asked
by a correspondent to state categorica!ly
whether it is or is not a partisan Demo
cra.icparer, categorically states in n hall
column editorial: that its readers must
judge ior themselves. That correspon.
dent knows US much about it as he did be.
fnr, -''r = y s.a. .a-r. 'sHft .f.r.. u.
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Not For Sale.

RACINE Wis, August e7.-Mr Case al,.
thor'zes the following statement. with re.
ference to various rumors that have been;
Iloat as to Bonner or any one else f,t11vit,tc, f1
9ay;Eye.see: No one has the option fromn
me- !, 70 BUY or authority to sell Jay.Eye.See.
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Struck n Flag Polo.

CAlRo, ill.,, August 27.-Dnring a heavy
storm this afternoon; the, lightning struck
alarse flag pole, telling tito the ground,
The pole fell across the Western Union
wires causing considerable damage. IA
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I,nsa HnlI Yester,ln,,r : !. !,

u. AtNew York. -Cleveld,7; New York, o,
Z AZ Boston-Detroit, 8; Boston, 5. 6l4'
At Observation-Disclosures, 0; Cin.,7
Second game-Cin., 3; indianapolis, .. a
AZ Baltimorc-llet'p''n, 3; Mlto, 8.
At Philadelphia-Builalo 9; Phila., O..
At Providencc-Chicago, 3 Prov, 8.
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The newspapers are telling Of 4 Jersey
farmer who! caught q bull by the horns
and got sick Of the pastime. Let's see
didn't some able Democrats begin to COM
pare "mor,l character
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TIE Radiator, OF Jefferson county, Ohio,
has just entered on its third year with III
dications that tits meeting with the rccos-
nition which its freshness and reliability
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THEY will ke likely tq get enough Of this
Hnow,Notliins business before they ut
through with it. Maybe they are through
with it now. ..sE
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THESE are halcyon days. The camp
mcetin. season has closed and the fairs
have not yet begun. For 4 brief spacc
THERE'S peace. : @5-zT
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RrssELL sage, after the nrst vacation
since he was twenty,ycars old, has rcal :
pearel in Wall street to crack jokes MS OF
vo.c. This means trouble for somebody.
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Ii there is less money than usual in the
campaign this year perhaps there will be
more honesty Men don't concoct a
Morey letter without a valuable considera-
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IL the Democracy is really the friend oi
the workin.man it will reconvcnc. Mr..
Cleveland and ask him his views on The
tariff question. .H#..a Htsae...g
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If General Golf had been in the field he
would have had n denomination without
u,es,ion. lie is not in the field.
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u, GOVERNOR ,CLEvELASD ought, to be al-
lowed to try it again. Consider, if YOU
please, his ineXpcriencc. w
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SpsAHiSG OF summer resorts, where will
the landlords resort after this brief and
unpy6tablc summer has ended?
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GgSEHAL ADoStisAa JoSABAn WARNER,
you ought to know whether the iowling
niece is loadcd before You toy with it.
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ANOTHER gus well, this time in Wash
ngton county, Pa. Wheeling mustn't let
all Of these spoutcrs get away from her.
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A ElrsrcLAss man will hold the First
Congressional District up to n handsome
Republican majority. ta@#
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Mn, BLAINE is Protestant, but he
locsent divide up his ,conntrymcn by
race or religion, lt 's ~
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| MARRIED..

orS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1 @ on We'd ncarav
tSshns e AUGUST ~ lss BY Rev. Otto Scer,rip. a
M Ee'!es eGeS .,rH or e y erass paren,s Whesilns
H. EsHAarsIy,Xk II g bridgeport Ohio md Miss,
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rnscEis behaving like n bull in a China
shop. ~ w
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LOOK out there, Judge Brannon! We
are going 10 shoot.
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WHEELING WEST VA, ACOUSTICS

on the 10th Of November, 1854. Now, The
election in Maine that year .was held in
October, about the first. OF the month"; So
II Will be seen that the character. Of Mr.,
blaine cannot be affected by the course oi
that journal In supporting or opposing
MIR. Morrill,. According TO the Herald
correspondent, Mr., Stevens became part.
ner OF Mr.. Blaine on the 9Th Of January,
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lI.nNoSY and n winning man, gentle
mcu Of the First District Convention.
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NEW CUMBERLAND,

Z ShiHR .t.eeabaekes, received, iH lSSi dos votes.
Weaver, ,Grccnbackcr received. In 1850, SOS votes
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Bombnr,lmcnt OF Foo Chow,

bombnr.lmcnt OF Foo Chow.
LONDON, August 27:-Thc official re-
port OF the bombardmcnt OF Foo Chow, on
Saturday, was received from Admiral
Courbet to-day, and is as follows:
Foo Grow, August pa goof begin
ming has been made. We opened fire yes
tertlay, and i'll four hours nine Chinese
men.of-war and twelve junks were sunk,
and the krupp battery, commanding the
arsenal, was slenccd. Our loss was
s.; sM Killed and twenty.sevcn, wouncei.
The fleet suffered no serious damage,
except the, boiler OF a torpedo boat
burst The Chinese losses arc heavy.
Dafin:s the fight the feet was bcsct ..by.
burning wrecks and logs. The torpedo
cutters will clear all this away to-day and
afterwards We will lombard the arsenal.
We shall not leave the river before the
2otll or 3oth. Officers and men are ami
mated with the greatest artior. b.. Y
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AT WARM EARNEST.
1F'IR'4A,S'co.cl1lNEsE Fl a, l"plFrlcuLTy.. !.
is'sait OF the Hombar,lmrntr OF Foo ChpE.
The Chinese Troops Suddenly swoop
on tho French Troops In Tonquin
~ ma Anaih'!a.s II The Army. - :.

LONDON August 27.-English circles III
1efested in commercial relations Will,
China arc debating the advisability Of pre-
senlng memorial to Earl Granville, Sec
rs'ary ol Foreign Ailhirs. This would URGE
inc Foreign Department to cooperate with
America and Germany in representing 10
france The serious injury which viii he
lh'l'e,ed upon trade by interfering with
the Chinese treaty ports. tEfSpl'.S3
A dispatch Of to-day from Shanghai to
eeulers agency says The. French loss III
the bombardmen. OF Foo Chow va was sever, scyet,
killed and fourteen wounded. The Chinese
loss is estimated ut one thousand killed
and three thousand wounded. Tic Ch.-
nese man-ot.war Yangn Mis- exploded ~
a torpedo aftcrit had fired broalside ut
4 French torpedo boat. The boiler of tho
latter was then exploded by hand srel,.
ades thrown from the Yangn, after which
the French boat was sunk By tie
Volta to prevent its being car-
tured by the Chinese. The French aro
expected to occupy the heights command
ing the pasoda anchoagc. II is report d
that there arc 5000 Chinese troops IN TIE
vicinity, Of Foo Chow. Accorlin,g, to re.
ports received at sontay $4,000 Chinese
loops invaded Tonquin, and have had an
engagement with the French. IN this /
battle, it is asserted, the French were ar
while several thousand Chinese
were killed. .5''. ',5,i, & ~, AZ 81,
LONDON, August ga telegram Just re.
ce'scd from Shanghai states that $4,000
Chinese troops who had been secretly
massed on the frontier suddenly. invaded
Ionlquln, and after desperate fighting com
pletely annihilated the French troops in
that province, the Chinese losing several
thousand killed during the different en-
which followed in quick sue.
eessian. The French, were taken 81; sur
prise and We're unprepared for such an on
s'ausht. Beyond the information given
above nothing further is known. a :;
LloSDoS, August 27.--A Berlin cores
pondent OF the Daily Mt,rs says: A telc-
gram from China states the French landed I,
1000 troops at Keeling and took posses
sion without opposition. 5'-tfs5 4.
The Times Foo Chow dispatch, dated
August 21' in the evening, says: Admiral :
Courbet has been engaged in the
bonbardment OF the King Pal forts.
lie will probably make IN attack
IN iofce tomorrow. The fall OF the forts
is certain as they are SO constructed that
they cannot reply with a fire directed up
"-7La
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Totals T.. :. l.5d0 llsa, u1a p S
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Ghe qntellfQflttt,4r.;. J.

oI,,i Sos. 70 and " FonrieeatA ytrest.
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4. S.. A
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The Vote for President In 1880 md for Con-
~ ~ gresham In lSXo EsGl. y ~. y.
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" ~ - '.f-
= In 1854, Mr.. Anson p.'Morrill was nom-
mated for Governor Of Maine by one fac
ton OF the Wing party; and after his nom
ination he was endorsed by the Know
Nothinys. The regular Wing party nomi-
mated .lsaaci Reed. All persons we'll in
formed on the subject, think, admit that
the kcnnebec Journal ostcnsibly support
Cd the regular Wing candidate, Reed; but
it's charged thatit privately ailed, ,sAnson
'PS Morrill,. Let us grant that it did. But
right ;;herc the Register article makes a
mistake. It says that Blaine was the ed
itor OF tho kennebec Joaria.al during the
entire ycar, 1854; The New York Herald
| is bitterly opposing Blaine, and it is. not
likely that i or its orrestonl!nnts would
state anything favorable Ito him, cxcept
they were forced to do 50 by.stern facts.
An augusta corrcspondcnt,of the Herald
Of August Il, 1884, says that Blaine. be.
came the editor Of the. kcnnebec Journal
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b ltF5 .,asl z fi.t,g n,
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H##H = &C., - - -
ynntlerbiit'H T,eceI,,t

NEw ,fonK, august 27.-Thc Tuy, Field
and Farm will publish the following let
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~ TIE OUTRAGE on FATHER BArsr..
What have you got to say, Mr.. simp-
son, asto that potion Of fthe Rtgiser article
which speaks OF the attack on Fathe.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-10
THE LATEST.

Ute lNNAEs recently attacked Wilson,.
camp in Laplata County, Col, running off
horses and cattle. Two cowboys were
1eriously injured and five Indians were
killed and several wounded.
DESTRUCTIVE cyclone swept through
Central Illinois on the morning of the 9th.
No lives were lost, but the damage to live
stock, buildings and other property was
immense.
BOTH the Senate and the House had con-
tlnuous sessions runnig through the 9TH to
the 9th, (Sunday.) The work accomplished
was agreement or disagreement TO confer
ence reports. The Electoral Count bill and
several other measures went over till
December. There was dead lock between
the Senate and the House on the Naval
Appropriation bill.
IHE amounts finally agreed upon by
Congress TO enable the several executive
departments to participate in the Indus
trial ExpoSitions for the current fiscal
year were Is follows: Cincinnati SO, 900;
Louisville, $4,000; New Orleans, $3.50,
The steamship "Gulf of Vincent from
Calcutta, was ashore at Long Beach, L. l.
The crew and passengers, forty people,
We're saved by the life saving crew.
AT Newcomerstown, o., during a display
of fireworks a bunch of sky rockets ex-
ploded, instantly killing John Cleveland.
of Burton, o., and j. Durfee, of Newburg.
number of others were slightly burned.
AT Cincinnati peculiar mode of swind-
ling IN small way was discovered by the
Western Union Office, by people coming in
Inquiring about curious messages re-
celved. The plan was to prepare blanks and
envelopes resembling, but not exactly like
The Western Union message blanks and
envelopes, prepare bogus messages, deliver
them and collect the charges.
Z. K. MARSHALL, the English forger who
was arrested in Milwaukee while ATTEMPT
ing to pass cleverly executed fifty pound
notes on the Bank of England, and who
had succeeded i'll getting money for several
OF them, escaped from the police station in
Chicago. 1t was claimed at the station
that he was liberated by tramp, who stole
a pass key and opened the doors.
HE st. Louis dge Of Steel recently pub
lshed over ninety letters from leading
manufacturers of engines, iron and wood
steam pumps, hardware speci-
alties and iron roofing in the principal
cities east of st. Louis setting forth that
the condition of business in these indus
tries is not as bad as has been represented,
and that the aggregate of sales for the first
six months of the year is considerably
greater than those for the last half of 1854.
There appears to be more business depres-
sion in the East than the West.
AT Cleveland, O., June 9TH, Koblitz
Bros.' rag warehouse on Westmoreland
avenue, burned. The loss was $4,000.
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THE EAST.

The expert examining the accounts of
John Mcmahon, the fugitive revenue col
lector of Hoboken, n. j., has completed his
work. The amount of the deficiency was
said TO be $4,000. McMahon's peculations
extended over several years. He was said
to be in Canada
A DISPATCH received at Boston by the
American Board of Commissioners of For
eign Missions, dated at Hong Kong, June
Il, announces the loss of the missionary
brig Morning Star at Kusail. The crew
and passengers were saved.
MISS LIZZIE KEMP, while passing through
East Twenty fourth street, New York. the
other night, was seized by two colored
men, dragged into stable, and gagged and
outraged. One of the men was captured.
MISS Kemp was taken to the hospital.
Where she was lying in critical condition.
AFTER an exceedingly hot dav, a rain
storm and hail storm, terrific in force
and gathering all the afternoon. struck
Ithica, n. Y, the other night. Water foil
In sneets' flooding the streets. The princi-
pal streets were filed with fallen trees.
Great alarm prevailed. No lives were lost
HE other morning some freight cars
ame in collision with number OF coal oil
cars standing on the side track at Drift
wood, near Emporium, Pa. The Gil caught
fire and fifteen buildings, mostly business
places, were destroyed. The loss was 500.
600 and the insurance $40 900.
Ara conference recently in New York
of the Comr sss<Sners Of Emierstion and
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THAT ACCIDENT.
The Accident Near Cunningham. Me-.
Proves to be More Serious than Firrt H.

The Accident Near Cunningham. Ne,
Proves to be More Serious than Firrt IN.
ported.
ST. LOUIS, July 5.-A special from Cum
ningham, Charlton County, Mo-, says: The
list of the drowned and seriously wounded
in the Grand River bridge catastrophe is In
creaSing as the work of clearing the wreck
progresses. 1t is now estimated that
twelve men were drowned and as many
more fatally injured The names received
this morning are as follows:
John Long, drowned.
Robert Baker, wounded mOrtally.
James Young, shoulder crushed.
Platte Young, leg broken.
Fred 1oung's body was taken out yester-
day.
a. Fisher, drowned.
ID. Haywood, cut on the head and inter-
nally injured; cannot live
Ward West, hips and back badly cut.
James Bruce, temple crushed
j. b. Bronson, leg broken and internal in
juries.
John A. Dillon, drowned.
George Brown, thigh broken.
Phil Beck, engineer of the Inflated train,
badly crushed.
James Dick. fireman, hips crushed and
both arms broken; cannot live.
James McCOrd. hips crushed and internal
injuries; died since.
James Hogan, back and hips hurt.
Arch Hill, badly bruised.
Abram Webb, of Cunningham, and John
Long, of Sumner, are still in the wreck.
J. p Maxwell. of Sumner. sprained wrist
and badly bruised hips and back.
Al. Short. of Sumner rib broken and in
ternal injuries.
Three more unidentified bodies have been
recovered by the divers
The part of the bridge down represents
the center span about one hundred and fifty
feet long. The structure is what is called
III railroad parlance false work. 1t was
forty feet from the water to the track.
The cause of the accident has not been
clearly established. The engineer was
backing the train in on the bridge. and in
speed to cross safely the whole
train was brought to a stop in the center
of the structure. When extra steam
was put on the frail bridge began
to tOtter and soon sank beneath its ponder
ouS weight. The engineer saw that nothing
could be done to prevent the disaster and
began sounding the whistle, which was
continued until the engine struck the
water. But for this alarm not a single Oc-
pant o: the eight ears would have been
saved. The accident took place week
ago, when il was given out that no lives
were lost
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

NEARLY complete returns to the Treas
ury Department for the fiscal year which
closed June so, show that the receipts for
customs were 1874, Ia, 637, for interal rev.
enue sl2l, 2l9, $50, and from miscellaneous
sources S21,346,9SS. The reduction when
compared with the preceding twelve
months is over S55,OOO,OOO. Thepublic debt
was diminished 500, 900 900 during the wear.
THE House Committee on Foreign Affairs
informally agreed to report a resolution
expressing the sentiments of the House as
favorable to the negotiations of the re.
ciprocity treaty between the United States
and Canada.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR, his son and daugh
ter. Mrs. Sheridan, General Rucker, Mrs.
Davis and party of friends numbering
about fifty, recently attended an afternoon
performance of w. F. Cody'S( Buffalo Bill
troupe of Indians, Mexicans and COWBOYS.
who were illustrating at Athletic Park.
Washington, the life of the "Wild West. 1"
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THE SDUTH.

Mr.. BRADFORD DUNIIAM has resigned as
General Manager of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad.
ST. JosEPH'S Catholic Orphan Asylum,
six miles south of Newport, KY, burned
the other day. The loss was $1,000; insur-
ance $4,000. Fifty-four boys were in the
asylum. All escaped and walked to New
port where they were temporarily quar-
tered in a planning mill.
AT picnic of the colored Baptist Union
Sunday School, at Loeb Raven, Baltimore
County, Md, Edward Coates, colored, IA
tally shot Walter Harris. colored.
WALTER JENKINS, a switchman on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Road, was run over
and killed at Louisville, KY, recently. A
boy named Henry Brooks was also killed
by a j. Jacksonville, Madison & Indianapolis
train at JEFF ersonville, Ind.
WARNER LEWIS, JR-, was accidentally
shot with pistol, in Nashville, Tenn, the
other day.
RAILS on the Vicksburg, Shreveport &
Pacific were laid within four miles of
Shreveport, La. The old depot of the
Texas Pacific was being renovated and will
be used by the Vickburg, Shreveport &
Pacific for the time being.