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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-01
TIE SEPTEMBER SQUEEZE
In the Corn Corner Ehds In Very Little
FyS Excitement on Change.

In the Corn Corner Ehds In Very Little
M Excitement on Change.
CnIcAGo, Ill, September .3O.-Thc Seq
senber corn corner ended in the usual
whirr Of excitement Tuesday, and the
floor on Change was crowded with dis
interested lot Of people who perched them
selves on the sample tables and in the
window recesses to witness the culmina-
ton Of the great squeeze. AS matter Of
tact there was very little trading during
the closing half hours and while NJ. G.
Henry, the chief broker ior the bull man.
ipulators, offered to purchase fabulous
amounts Of corn ut figures varying from
Soc TO 90c, very few open trades were
made at these figures. At the after
noon boar,l, Just before the close, brokers
offered one dollar for casl, corn, but it is
not believed that this will be urged as the
selling prices. The medium figure was
about S0c to S5c, upon which busis the
shorts probably will be compelled to settle.
The other futures attracted very little at
tention and we're generally weaker, but
the latest quotations OF the day show very
little change when compared with those
Of yesterday, October closing at 5Gsc, and
November at 46ic. -.
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Acid Works Destroyed-c Canadian Towr
lilf Nearly ypestroyed--Oth Other Losses.

Aciu WorU NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Town
"A Nearly ypestroyed--O.herLo Losses.
r'PrrsnuRon, September SO.-A most de.
s!ructive fire occurred ut Natrona, twenty
miles from this city, on the West Penn
railroad, at an early hour this morning by
which the Pennsylvania Manufacturing
Company's acid mandatory Ut that place
was damaged to the extent Of 100000.
The company is the largest in the State.
The property is valued at half million.
The fire started in the vitriol department
at midnight and before the flames could
he subdued the building, go feet long, s.
feet wide and IS feet high, together with
valuable machinery, was entirely destroy.
ed. The main Office Is located In Phila.
delphia and the firm Is composed OF philu.
,lelphia gentlemen. The building busaet
was fully insured, but in what companies
and amounts the manager here wns un.
able to say, rs the insurance was all
placed by q Philadelphia office. '1E
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Tho Alleged penslon s swin.l,er.

Frlncis Darger, who was arrested at
Little Washington on Saturday, charged
with. being m extensive pension deiraud-
er, and who was placed in jail here, was
yesterday released, having secured d
bondsman in the sum Of 81 900 for his ap-
pearance before the Government authori-
ties. The Government has been in search
Of Rarger for some time. His principal
field OF work is this State and Pennsyl-
yania, and he Il sail to have kept large
sums Of money from pensioners. 1t Is
probable that he will again be arrested on
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Tne end oil the State lnpaisn is ap-
,rr,chihs. DO not relax yourellorts but
Ia,hss incssae In earnsstnesa and vigor
n your endcavors to overthrow the Bonr-
hons. There never will be presented q
better opportunity to accomplish this than
,he present time.
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THERE is movement on foot in Balti-
more to erect through private subscription
menunen. to the memory Of John W.
Garrett. Ii ever a citizen .of Baltimore was
deserving OF 4 monument that one GER
tainly is Mr.. Garrett, and the Monumental
City will not be entirely deserving OF her
title until shaft in honor Of her greatest
and most substantial beneiactor has a
place with others whose memory she
has perpetuated with marble columns.
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will be to J. Painter 4 Sons, whose mill is
located on the South Side. They had
such entire confidence in the we'll hold.
ihg out, that they had entirely done away
VI WITH coal fuel, and have adopted the gas.
lheir mill has been stopped since last
night, and until the leak Is discovered. II
sucii Is the cause OF the sudden ceasing OF
ne How Of ens, they viii have 10 remain
idle. Tho dwellings along Tho line nrc Mi
CUT on, and the Taylor salt works have
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NEWS IN I,JsIEF..
Z It is estimated that the reduction of the
public debt for September will be over

:. It is estimated that the reduction of the
public debt for September will be over
SlS,M0,0 1000. Pr t5,3.
4 4 destructive forest fire is raging along
the line OF the Norfolk 4 Western Rail-
road, in Dartmouth county, Virginio. "a
Abram and Dan Hinkle, brothers, were
killed blythe explosion Of sulphur pocket
at No. . colliery, Lost Creek, Pa, yester-
day. aE5',
Two brothers,, Clay and Oscar Garlins,
OF Madison. Ind, quarrelled in the stable
Of the: latter, yesterday morning, when
Clay cut Oscar, who will probably die.
Ben. F. Col, a prominent young man
in, business circles, Lincoln, Nebraska, has
disappeared. An embezzlement OF $50, 900
is charged against him. There is no clue
to his whereabouts. He left o young wife.
: The. New England Association Of the
Survivors of Southern Military Prisons
held their sixth reunion yesterday. A re-
port was adopted that it was practically
impossible to join with the National As
sociation and they voted to remain indie.
pendent $:s,j t3{li. $;yeiII 5Ii {S.yss;7 !, L
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WINDY WILSON is still cropping through
the interior wilderness toward inevitable
defeat. lie talks free trade, blows up
the religious press OF this city and prances
around terribly as he strikes a county Of
uue1ccp,ionable Democracy. Windy is
like the tariff plank in the bourbon plat
form, one thing in civilization and another
in the woods. 10 ;i!:7a ,... ...r-.
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Can Anybody Tells

.SIR:-Why did our Democratic friends
give the cold shoulder to ex-C -Confe,lerates
in the appointment OF committees for Sat
urday'sdemonstration? tl4a.
True, they put Maj. Anderson on the
Committee OF Ordnance and could not
well dispose Of Col. White, one of their
candidates for the legislature u
{ But why were Col. ". W.3Arnett, Mar
tin Thornton, Capt. ,Nloises Cant. Sit.
ereaves, Maj. Cook and Judge Thomas D.
Houston ignored? Some OF these gentle.
men have worked hard for the party, but
tho Jefferson Club takes care that they
receive none. Of the flonors. . =
How do YOU Confederate gentlemen
like it? . t'-'TTi' X
Wheeling, Sept. 30. 81 q. ~ y, Isl. Il
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Only n Little Crack,

CnARLEsroS, W.-VA., September go
The reported alleged collapsing OF the
foundation OF the new State House was
caused by n slight crack in the first story
OF the tower inside the corner passing
from the top three feet from the arch way
to within 4 foot OF the floor. The damage
is very light and can be repaired and made
firm by closing up the arch way. The con-
tractors say it WIS caused by the architect
having side door in the first story Of the
tower. The foundation is firm. The
crack is in the brick work. Il s.-7. 49,
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Torn Ity DOGS.

BRIDdEroEr, COM, September 30.-A1rs.'
Polly Sherwood, p years old, left her
home at Pondride, near Stamford, about
four weeks ago to visit her brother across
the fields in the same village. Friday her
body was found in 4 dense swamp near
the village. The flesh and1imbs we're torn
from the body. 1t is thought it was done
by dogs. She has been deranged and no
doubt wandered in the swamp. p
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Tur report OF the collapse OF the Capt.
"a, building at Charleston, happily, turns
OIL, to be grossly exaggerated. The ru-
NOR arose from slight crack in one of
the towers which can be easily repaired,
mnch easier than the hole it has made in
The State Treasury. 'fJ 4 i..,l.
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German Schooner s,,,.,,

WAsIllSoroS, D. G., September 3o.-The
Treasury Department is informed tia,
Lieutenant Lutz, OF the revenue schooner
Corwin, seized the German schooner
Adele while the crew were killing seals ut
y. Paul Islands near Alaska, and brought
The vessel and a portion Of the crew to
san Francisco. Lieutenant Lutx has been
instructed TO turn the vessel over to the
United States Marshal at San Funcisco
md consult with the United States Dis.
rlct Attorney rs to future proceedings.
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Tragic Suicide.

Z FoRr WAYNE, September 80. Gcorge,A .
Witt, Of the firm Of A. Witt & Co., lumber
merchants, also Il member Of the Board OF
Trade, Philadelphia, while enroute from
Philadelphia to sfuskegon, Mich, on the
limited express on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, when near Lima, O., stepped to the
rear OF the sleeping car and cut his throat
from ear to ear and jumped from the train
while at high rate Of speed, killing him
instantly. His wife was on board tho
train and gives no cause for the act. The
sleeping car officials claim he appeared
quite Respondent for hours before. HI.
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SSoitLnw Liquor Cuse.s,

. CoLuMnrs, O., September 30. - The
Supreme Court to-day granted leave to file
petitions in error in the Scott liquor tax
law cases and advance them on the docket,
fixing the time OF hearing ut October ed.
The two error, cases from Columbus, to en-
join collection anu recover tax, arguments
onwhich were made heretofore, are likely
70 be decided any day, ii q. n:
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Charcoal Iron Worker. in Convention.

81. Louis, September ao.-The. United
States Association Of Charcoal Iron Work.
ers met in their, fifth annual convention at
the Southern Hotel this morning, with
.Wm. H. Lee, of St. Louis, in the chair.
President Lee delivered the opening ad.
dress, discussing tho low price Of iron and
measures Of relief. The report OF the Sec
retary showing total membership of e64
in twenty-five States and territories was
submitted. The report from States showed
the most Of the States have and others
will adopt the standard bushel OF charcoal
recommended, yizpse, ,74s cubic inches or
20 pounds e Z . n, N v.
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Cleveland Preparing for His Trip.

ALBANY, N. Y, September 3O.-Govcr-
nor Cleveland was busy to-day finishing
up his work preparatory to his trip to
Buffalo on Thursday. lie goes on the fast
train which leaves here at l2. o'clock ar
irving at Buffalo at. 7:lOr ". The train
makes bat three stops, at Utica, Syracuse
and Rochester. At Clcveland's home the
citizens will unite in receiving him, ire
spectiye Of purity. 1t will take the form
Of an exhibition OF local pride, and it is
believed the demonstration will be a very
imposing one. -. Z I n b !,
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a SUDDEN LET DOWN,
McGugnn Well Stops Flowing md Causes .
n. Suspension In Mills. 80

AASNAA6Ah osA S>StS AoWAuk Au1 Nuut6b -
Suspension In Mills.
PlrrsnuRGH, September sO.-The Nc.
Guigan gas we'll, situated in Washington
county, which has heretofore afforded o
continuous and large supply Of gas, sud-
denly ceased to furnish q supply for. the
South Side mills and many dwellings
along the line Of its pipes about 10 o'clock
last night. 1t WIS at, first supposed that
there was a leak in.thepipes between the
well and the southfSide. Messrs.; Nelson
4 Ford, the proprietorso of the we'll were at
once telegraphed and Immediately sent q
man out to locate the leak. He started
from the South Side and followed the pipe
up for Ten miles, but did not succeed in
finding any indications Of the leakage.
The most serious loss and Inconvenience
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Fifty Fa,ullie, liun,eles..

MONTREAL, September so.-Twcnty-
three houses were burned at Lachine last
night. The loss is about SIS, 900, partially
insured. Some fifty families were turned
out Of their homes. This is the second
disastrous rontlagration that has visited
Lachinc within short period.
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''Irhas not been historically demonstra-
,cl that Hendricks is n 'lincal descendant
otJu.las Iseariot, but were the last named
citizen "extant" Just now he would feel
like very small potatoes. However, it
mus. be remembered that Judas was a
very primitive Democrat.
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GOVERNOR CLEVELAND Is preparing for,
,il,rnasc from Albany to Buffalo. VIII
. Democratic editors who have been
. h6sHas shippodrome at'Alr. Blaine's heels
r,aretase notice Of this fact.
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Valuable Stable burned.

PWLADElrHL., September 30.--A large
fire occurred at the Erdenheim stock farm,
Chestnut Elill, this morning. Loss, S3O,.
600; insured. Tho three-year old tilly
Ailene, out Of Madee, by Alarm, was
burned to death. The remainder OF the
live stock was saved.
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Suffering md pis,rcssin sn,;n

MADnp, September. so.--lleavy rains,
floods and tie, maintenance of cholcrn3
corlons and larazettos are paralyzinp;
trade throughout Spain. The working
classes are suffering greatly. It is expected
their distress viii increase during tho;
winter. Issl x, 90! II 80 u. -
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THEN VOTE FOR pLA1yr.

Our country needs an administration
that will rise above mere partizan consid-
Grafton, and in the selection OF public Of
ticials make honesty, sobriety and
efficiency, and not service to party, a test.
It should be conducted not in the interest
ofany particular section, party, race or
color, but in the interest OF the whole peo-
pie. To accomplish this all good citizens
should promptly step to the front
time to be dodging. Moral cowardice will
never win and surely never deserves a
victory. Then let us look to God for his
guidance and fearlessly and faithfully do
our whole duty,cneyer doubling that He
will take care OF the results. & s.-t59 go :. :.
Very trlly your friend,
JouN p. ST. JoIIS, j.
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rux clopenent epidemic becomes sick
.uinp when the folly takes, hold Of q four
,.an wear Old maiden, as II did the other
',ty and heroic treatment Is demanded.
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IIt ISIS NEW ENGLAND NEsNlSlsSENStNasSt ~
These "reminiscences Of their. history,
together with their alleged want Of patri-,
otism in the war Of 1872, has served to
whet many tongue against them in Con-
grcss in more recent days, and also to
sharpen many an editorial quill in the
West and South. IfNew England needed
a defence ever so much against these cith-
tions from her history I am not the per-
son qualified to undertake it, even were
this the place to introduce it. Certainly,
however, New England has always had
great virtues, and those traits are visible
on every hand among her people to-day,
even to a casual observer. They have
grown great men and women on their So
called sterile soil, whose influence for
good throughout the country has been Of a
commanding character. They have built
up noble institutions OF learning md OF
charity, visible everywhere you travel
among them, paid for out Of their taxes
and out Of their voluntary generosity.
1t is generally believed in other parts Of
| the aopntry that wealth counts fora great
deal in EDW England. As a matter OF
iact, however, II COUNTS for as little, if not
actually less, than any part Of the country
| | have seen. A, rich student, however
ich; cspaos come to eyep the small copl.
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@ MORNING. Glory Baking Powder, always
pure and fresh. Ask your grocer for it. 4
q. s. FEESY, Proprietor,
40 Main street,
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4 BETHANY GRADUATE. 3

Dartmouth College is now virtually 4
University. 1t has had Il medical school
since the last century, and now law de-
partment has been added but not yet for
mally opened. 1t has an Agricultural
College, a Scientific School and School
fot Engineers connected with it. Ry the
way, Prof. Blanpied, who occupies the
chair OF chemistry in the Agricultural
College, is graduate OF Bethany College,
W: :ya., class Of 1871, and good adver-
tisencnt indeed OF the education that
good old Bethany affords TO those who 20
there as he did with determination TO
avail themselves to the uttermost Of its ad.
vantases.. And speaking thus of.the pro-
fessor reminds me that it is with colleges a
good deal rs it is with farmers, there is
more in the farmer than in the farm, and
there is more in the student than in the
particular college he may attend. was
gratitied indeed to hear Prof. Blanpietl
pay warm personal tribute to Bethany.
You must know, dear reader, that up in
Northern New England they look upon
West Virginia as 4 great way from the
center Of things. 1 find that people may
have great deal OF general Intelligence,
especially OF the literary sort, and still not
be very we'll up in practical geography.
Without actual travel even educated
people cannot rid themselves OF certain
provincial ideas about the different locali.
ties OF the country. Witness the ludicrous
blunders made occasionally in the columns
OF the London Times about this country
And so only 4 limited few persons in New
England understand fully why West
Virginia is not and never was a real part
Of the geographical or political South.
They are astonishcd when you tell them
that the small New England State Of Con.
necticut, with not onc-fourth the area OF
West Virginia, has one half as many
colored people, and that little Rhode
Island, which is about as large as the Pan
handle, with Wetzel county added, has
over one-fourth rs many. Not knowing
this, it is not surprising that they were moi
posted As to the great mineral wealth o.
West Virginia, and when quoted to them
the testimony OF noted educator that
West Virginia was one OF two States thai
had the best common school system ir
the United States they We're consderabl.
aStonished indeed. -
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THE PURITAN5LAND.
OBSERVATIONS on NEW ENGLAND. i
The Settled Customs of the Country-Tho
Character, Of tho soeisty-Good Conduct
and Not Cash the Open Sesame to tho
\, Firesides-Tho Connecticut Valley.

Special Correspondence Of he Inieiiidneer. y &.
srnISoFIELp, MASS, September 23.-My
last letter was written from the upper por-
tion OF the Connecticut Valley, at Han.
over, the seat Of famous old Dartmouth,
College, and now write from point l3O
miles south, but still on the banks Of the
same beautiful river. ,ssH58
l think hardly did justice to my pleas
ant stay at Hanover in devoting my letter
so exclusively to the outlines OF the great
college case Of Webster memory. Ny ex-
cuse is that the signs Of the times indi-
cate that we have not yet seen tho end OF
that great case, or, rather, Ishould say; q
n final decision as regards, not that par.
ticular case, but the principle involved in
It's decision. '1 u, -..is.'i'..-s- - = ri
My preference would be to write you OF
student lifeat Dartmouth, something per-
chance also OF its professors, and some OBJ
servation OF the country roundabout and
its people. These New England Sc mi
rural communities are pleasant study to
me so far as have had opportunity tolt,ok
into them. Hanover is prc.eminently a
community of this sort. Famous az it is
as a seat Of learning famous as some Of its
graduates have been: and famous as one
or two Of its presidents have been, yctiit
is simply village community, made up
Of say forty professors and their families
and such adjunct people Of culture rs mar
riagc and the choice OF residence may have
gathered around them tfsthe course Of i.
hundred years. In addition, there are, OF
course, the people who serve the students
in some, capacity or. other, such W the
boarding house keepers and the trades
people, but all these together make resi-
dent population Of only five or six hun
dred people, the remainder Of the tho,s-
and to be counted at Hanover being stu
dents at one department or another Of the
,at1nra ..'s
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A TOUCH OF AGE.

~ lOGSil VI auEs ~ ls
To one who has spent much time in
parts Of the country. where things are new
as compared with New England, there is
OF course wide contrast in the scenes pre-
sented. Much Us have enjoyed expert.
ences in the far West, where everything is
as "new as the morning" confess that
have also enjoyed that "touch OF age" and
settled condition that attaches to the estab.
lished order OF things in the East. First,
there is great respect for law and or
der. The people OF New England, from
the earliest period OF their Colonial his.
tory, grew up with this feeling deeply i'm
planted. They had great respect for the
apowers that be-" however recently Gre
uted bv their own hands. For a people rs
rebellious rs they were toward the mother
country this extreme deiercncetoward new
born magistracy was really something re-
markable. 1t has proven part OF their re-
licion, beginning with their respect for
their ministers, and extending up through
their Selectmen to their judges and gov
ernors. T., FeS.,,
Much has been written about their in.
tolerance and severity in the past, which
is true. Outside OF Scotland. the antago-
nis,n between Professionalism ond Catholi.
cism was nowhere so sharply defined rs
in New England. And not even under
the "Non-C -Conformist acts" did dissenters
OF all sorts, in, England and Ireland have
harder time than did the dissenters
from the J"stated Order" las the Congre-
cationalists were called) in this New Eng
land country. % This is an old story;
and for the most part true one. The
Church Of England people, the t}uakers
the Methodists, Baptists and other dis.
senters all felt this heavy hand at one
time and another. with more or less Sc.
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Gks 1tttsllii9Ietttjer:.:
oe,,.i Nos. 70 aud ~ fourteenth Street.
TINS State election Is only two weeks Of,
.,I come Of the best work should be done
b.,veen this and The opening Of the polls.

Nr llESpa.cks was one OF tho attrac.
,,oos a. the Southern Exposition, Louis.
Vile. ri Yesterday. IIc was assigned n place
i, ,he antique curiosity department.