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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

THE Fifty.fith annual exhibition Of the
Washington County Agricultural Society
will be held at Washington, Pa, October
14th, 18th, 10th, 1854. For premium {list
Or other information address gtyi
n :sI y 81 a, G.. HAPPIER, u 4
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

lower eloslhg easy No. red winter spot and oc.o
Der 81 {as2tSc; November sa3$aSikc December b6A
S6t4ci January s;Nass1c. Corn, western no ofIet.
ings: no bids. Oats qnlet. western while asA3!c,
mixed soa3lc. Rye quiet Mt 62a65c. Hay steady
Whisky steady at 81 lsal 10. ST glEiS n 9ssj
TOLEDO, Oct. l2.-Wheat quic, and veal; No. 2
red cash and October 3tte November 7jse; beeesn.
Der 771lc:!E January we; No. 9 soft siHc. Corn
nothing doing: No. cash SOC; Oats. outlet and
steady; No. > 271ic Clover seed easy and quiet;
prime lower. VI tTa MY N ~ l55 az y
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Dry Goods,

New ioRK. Oct. la,--Thc dry goods market Is
quiet In demand, with new business Of very mod.
cratc Proportions. - :, 5'rtrs,l \ y ssf~f' Gi'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

;sWilES everything elso fails, Dr. sage'a
Catarrh Remedy cures, Il
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

z OrKSlNo day at 'Rice's, on "Wednesday,
October ID. Pattern hats and bonnets. I.
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Fully Prepared

: q p'; day, Wednesday, October Is,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

the best soil 10 the archer2 st.
Jacobs Oil. Price 80 cents. n 81
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Petroleum,

OH City, "a. Oct. IL. = National transI,
certificates opened nt Zoe: highest zoe; lowest G71c;
closed Vt Gs3sc Sales 57O7 90 barrels; clcamiices
1851 barrels; charters -. S3 barrels. Oh City Oh
ESchansestock 81 " bid; s. W nskcd. III ~,
TlTusvILIE, Pa, Oct. l3.-Natlona transit certid.
Gates opened at ,oe; hshcs. 7cc; lowest G73r,;
closed Ut GSsc,, shiphlcnts for tho entire oil
regions 1i2suN barrels; runs for tho entire oil
rcsiotis 1883 barrels; charters l5,s.3 barrc's. ,
PITTSBURGH, Oct. l2.-In the afternoon tho market
wns Irregular At times and excited, advanced to
essc, broke to 67c, rallied to 691c and closed III
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14
Cotton,

~ New York, Oct. la.-retrolcum steady; United
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Howard street and western SuperGne 81 5s.a
sxEa :: Naa "; tan.ly - 75aI " Wheat wes S IT
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Live Stock.

Ci,icAoo, Oct. i3.-The Drowrs Journal reports.
Live lloys-Recclpts 1900 head; shipments. 5tO
head; market slow and weak At ;loal5c lower.
rough packing 81 I5ao Is; packing and shipping
81 e5 ~: light 81 60a5 rs; sklps AMI gnlsscts - Ii
NJ "; closed weak; 1000 head unsold. Cattle--lc.
ccipE y eco head: shipments 1900 head; best fat
20 Gcl7 20; good 10 choice shipping IS 0da6 o..
5hecp-RcceipE 5000 hcadi shipments 500 head:
market steady and firm: inferior 10 fair .. 00a9 ";
Tho Drorerf Journal cable reports best American
cattle 10 lowerat Ivy for dressed. 53 M 611 z
b EAST Liberty, IA, Oct, lS.-Cattle market,
slow at last weeks prices; receipts 900 head
cclps 800 head, shipments $500 heal: Thiiade.
phlas IS Utn5 Is: IMltlmons s. iOa5 10: Workers
80 Hh.o 20; grisscrs 8! 5Glb %. Sheep market slow
and . shade lower than last week; receipts $500
head; shipments 100 head. },lIH'., .3 az
ClSciNNA1l, Oct 13.--Livc hogs easier; common
aud light S. Wa5 10; packing aid butclicrs 81 sou
%; receipts 400 head; shipments 10 head. 81
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Not since the demonstration in honor
Of Gen.: Logan lias Wheeling been SO
brilliant or SO gay. The pyrotechnics ex-
celled in pfofusion and beauty any ever
seen in the city, while the decorations
were as fine as any ever seen, and would
have been fners but for the change OF
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| 81. ~. LIE gEIOhhA lOSS. rs.ts' '' ts
Not since the demonstration in honor
Of Gen.; Logan has Wheeling been SO
brilliant or SO gay. The pyrotechnics ex-
celled in pfofusion and beauty any ever
seen in the city, while the decorations
were MS fine rs any ever seen, and would
have been finer but for the change OF
Fifteenth streetwas particularly elegant
in the array OF lanterns, which on the
south side covered, in a Continuous
stream, from jacob To Eoir street:
Eleventh street does not often have a
chance to decorate, but she did herself
proud on this occasion. Chaplinc street
was also gay as flower garden, with
lights and tluttering flags. Twenty-fourth
street also deserves special mention, H.
though it is scarcely fair to distinguish
where all was so bright and artistic. :
The scene on Market street looking
north from Sixteenth, while the process
sion was counter-marching at Fourteenth
and passing in review in front Of the Lin
coin Club, was one OF splendor never
equaled here. Hundreds OF red fires
blazsd on every hand, Roman candles
sent their yari-colored balls skyward in
graceful lines, while below the array OF
torches and lesser lights seemed ripping
river Of liquid fire. Here and there a
rocket Kissed through tho blaze and ris-
ing against the inky sky, burst and fell a
shower of beautiful light. Taken all IN all,
the display was ono which could not be
surpassed except In magnitude. 4;
VISITING CLEBS, n ".
:. The sincere thanks Of every Republican
in the city are due to the steubcnville
clubs. Although nearly dead on their
feet after their big demonstration last Sat-
urday they came down in goodly num-
bers. They were promised short route
by the Wheeling boys when they were in
Steubenville last Saturday night and it
was largely owing to this that they CON
scented to come down. They were shame.
fully imposed on, owing TO the outrageous
change made in the line OF march by the
very men who had promised TINT the line
should be short and who, had authorized
OF o short route. Notwith.
this, the Steubenville boys
marched bravely over the entire route,
not a man leaving the ranks. rhay added
SSty 4lhtclleily ~ Luc sPlcIlulu appeRG.
ance Of tho procession. They. arc SPLEEN
did boys and will see to 1t that their part
Of Ohio gives good account OF i.self.
Z The Benwood club turned out in SPLEEN
did shape. They carried Il handsome
blue satin banner and marched TO the
music OF n splendid drum cospa. Benwood
should DO proud Of her club. tifs5s,7'5 FL
The Martins Ferry Escort Club sore.
naded the ISTELLlGEScER office last night.
The club is an unusually large one, hand
,omely uniformed, we'll disciplined and |
under the captaincy Of Richard veesey an
I'D member Of the Matthews Light 6 yards
II this city. h tsfS
rs; rLAsfiEs ALONG THE ROUTE.
( It was the biggest and best.
\ Can't you smell red fire yeti
The fire works were a fine feature.
The cavalry was not expected, They
the array. Y S; q,
4 Frank Democrats say: snow you have
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-14

In voting for Clerk of the Circuit Court
fItr-inIhded mon should remember that n
Republican held tho Office, but vacancy
occurring BY his disappearance from the
city, the Democratic Judges appointed to
the place Il Democrat, already holding an
Office, who expected to run for the posi-
ton Of clerk, thus giving him the unfair
advantage derived from holding the posi-
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The Portfolios.

When the appointed time is at hand fol
President Cleveland to name his Cabinet, il
is very generally supposed that he will no
be unmindful Of the part that conservativ,
| Rcpublcanism bore in the recent campaign
Mr.. Cleveland was not elected by Demo.
| cratic votes; and had it not have been fol
the tens of thousands OF Independent Repub-
lcans who broke their party ties, mot be-
cause they loved Republican principles less,
but because they loved integrity more" Mr..
Cleveland would have been in hopeless
minority, and it is eminently just and proper
that these conservative influences should be
duly recognized and appreciated when the
President selects his constitutional advisers.
The election of Grover Cleveland means
that this country is to pass under new
national dispensation, and that "a public
office is a pubic trust," are the talismanic
words which are to add lustre to the recent
Democratic victory. The Federal offices
will no longer be used for the purpose of
debauching and prostituting the ballot box,
but every Federal officer will have marked
upon his insignia of Office ''A public Office is
public trust" and his tenure of office will
be measured by his fidelity to that trust.
Grover Cleveland was sustained by many
of the very brightest and the very ablest
Republican newspapers in this country and
thousands of the very best men in the Re-
publican party followed the direction of
those papers, hence it would be con-
sidered meritorious act on the part of
President Cleveland to call Mr. George w.
Curtis to the Secretaryship of State. There
is no reasonable doubt but that Mr.. Cleye-
land will be surrounded by men deservedy
strorg in the confidence of the American |
people. The Cabinet may be outlined |
as follows: Secretary of State, |
George W.Curtis u s. J. Randall; Secretary |
If Treasury, Thomas F. Bayard or S. ]. |
Randall; Attorney General, Allan G. Thur
nan; Secretary of Interior, Carl Schurz or
ex-senator Herman; Postmaster General,
Senator Lamar o. Speaker Carlisle; Secre-
AIRY of War, George B. Mcclellan; Secretary
If Navy, Thomas NJ. Waller. /
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sharp words and recriminations which un.
der the circumstances of heated political
contest might be considered relatively ex.
cusabIe.
The accidental determination Of the two
young political organizations of this city on
Tuesday night might be worthly accepted
as introducing to future "era of good feel
ing, " not specially in the purely political
sense, for the two parties would always ex-
ist, but in the concession, mutually of a
candid honest wish for ''the greatest good
for the greatest number existing in the
minds of either party. The absence of sus-
picion and distrustfulness, and greater re-
lance upon the possibilities of individual
honesty as actually existing, though politi-
cal creeds might stand diametrically oppos-
ed, are conditions to be looked for as
logical sequence of Tuesday nights Demo-
cratic Parade. The Democracy was iubilant,
but it gave its hand in frank candor to its
silent opponents. The Republicans cannot
feel chagrn in company with such chival-
rous combatants. Tuesdays enthusiasm
was not voiced in a vae Oict,s, but purely the
natural elation Of victory. not that the Re-
publicans had lost but that the Democrats
had won.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The Dog Ordinance.

The ordinance limiting the to rm of the
dog-catchers operations to the three summer
months instead of throughout the year has
been vetoed by Mayor Wales. His reasons
are the advantage of income accruing to the
s.ty Stlsrciron, sogeiiei ,sisiir tiie 1.fct thai
dogs are liable to the malady of hydropho-
bia at all seasons.
It may be added here that statistics 90 to
show that that justly dreaded disease has
more victims among the canine race in the
winter months than during warm weather.
Criticism, in connection with the Mayors
veto, among the members of council, brought
out serious charges against the dog-catchers
Of the city, intimating that they had reoeiv-
Cd pay for dogs that had not beon killed.
In other States where a bounty is paid
for the killing of predatory animals, in order
to ensure strict ''qaid pro quO," the claim
ant for bounty is reqnieed to bring in the
ears of the wolf or dog or other animals
to prove his right to payment.
Some such method,as this might overcome
the difficulty in regard to the city dog
catchers.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
THE COLORED RACE.
Frederick Douglass on the situatio,

Frederick Douglass on the situation.
''lf Cleveland is elected it means the DO
litical death of the negro, $50 says the
leading man Of their race, Frederick Dou-
glass of Washington. This spokesman of
the colored millions of this country after
'spiritedly defending his race from the
charge that numbers of them in the South
were threatening to massacre and burn.
adding 81 do not believe that they had any
thing to do with the burning of the city of
Palatka, Florida" and lightly touching
upon the weakness for their white neighbors
hog-pen, roosters, spare-ribs, and water
melons, announces it as his opinion that
Democratic administrations running through
a long-continued period, say twenty years.
would be disastrous to the country.
In that time the Democrats would find
some way to practically anuul the consti-
tutional amendments, and the colored peo-
pie of the South would be stripped of nil
their political rights.
The only criticism to be made upon snch
an exhibition Of blatant ignorance in regard
to constitutional changes and the feeling of
political unity of idea that exists in that
connection as evidenced by the speeches
made by Wade Hampton in New York and
scores of Southern leaders all over the
Southern States during the last few days, is
that if that is what Mr.. Douglass believes.
what can We hope or expect of enlightment
from the millions of his moro ignorant and
less cultured brethren.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
What Has Wilmington ?

Paris has 172, 900 acres in parks, or one
acre to every thirteen inhabitants; in Vienna
the proportion is one acre to every one hun
dred persons; London has among its nuiner-
Gus public parks one, Eppilg Forest, that
contains six thousand acres within its
boundaries alone, granted to the people by
''Good Queen Bess;' in Chicago the propor-
tion of park acreage to the inhabtant is one
to each two hundred; in Philadelphia one
to three hundred; in Brooklyn one to six
hundred; in New York one to fourteen hun
dred; but New York proposes to buy 3sOs
acres for additional parks at an estimated
cost of over seven million dollars.
The oft reiterated question raised in these
columns is again put before the citizens of
Wilmington--What are you going to do
about the Brandywiue Park? 1t should moi
be a question of carpirg economy. In its
ttrpe value and raags tbe subject IS inst IS
important as any Of the educational or mul
nicipal ones over which so great an amount
of money and attention has been expended
AT this moment that beautiful bit of land
scape beauty, of grand historical associa.
tions is being marred and ruthlessly de-
stroyed by avaricious yandals. The senti-
ment of patriotism as well as that of the
consideration of the needs Of the working
classes for public park belonging to the
citizens, and to be free and safe from further
spoliation of its natural beauty of rock and
tree, should inspire our city fathers to i'm
mediate action. There is no doubt that
whatever party is wise enough to take this
matter in hand and bring it to a successful
result will so upon the records as one that
has done lasting benefits to Wilmington.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The Panama Canal.

Commander Gorringe, whose fame as a
naval constructor, has received some slightly
unfavorable modification here, in connection
with the unfortunate "Hero,p writes to the
New York Sun on the snbject of the PAN
anna Canal.
lie comments fayorably on De Lesseps
outlook and the administration of engineer
ing matters at the Isthmus. In controver.
sion of Captain Bedford PINS views upon
probable loss as feature in the commercial
prospects of the canal, Mr.. Gorrnge cites
the records of the suez Canal and demon
strates that so far the undertaking is an
entire success, that what has been accom-
plished has been done with economy and is
based upon the soundest scientific data. He
wholly controverts Captain PINS assertion
as regards the probable loss upon sailing
vessels by simply quoting the report to Con-
gress that tof 3, 3O7 vessels passing through
the Suez Canal not one was asailing vessel. +"
Mr.. Gorringe adds that for all commercial
purposes sailing vessels are rapidly giving
place to steamers, on the score of economy
The construction of the Suez Canal settled
that question for Europe and Asia, and the
completion of che Panama Canal will settle
it for America"
Comparing with the figures upon the cost
of the Suez Canal it is estimated that the
Panama Canal will cost about s12O, ,OOO, 600,
and will be completed about January 1st,
1890.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
Warmers Day.

Last Wednesday was W. Y. Warmers day
in the city of Wilmington. Mr.. Warner had
a mammoth tent erected for the conyen-
ience of those who attended his sale, and all
of the arrangements were carried out
with mathematical precision. Mr.. War
ner has inaugurated a new era in the sale
of first class horses, and his we'll known rep
utation for conscientious dealing inspire S
the purchaser with confidence in his invest
ments' A responsible horse dealer has for
years been considered rqra auis and the
innovation as introduced and practised by
Mr.. Warner is worthy of unlimited imita-
tion
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
1neXorable Fate.

James G. Blaine, the cousin of his cousin,
is quoted as saying in Pittsburg: 'Person-
ally l like Jim, but politically think he is
shade trickier than l like. For twenty
years he has been sustained by the hope Of
being President. 1t was his only ambition.
He lived, moved and had his being with the
simple hope of some day being President.
Now his hopes are blasted. His monumen-
tai ambition will crumbe and in the great
wreck his life will be crashed out"
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
A Retrospective View.

The campaign of 1884 will pass into his.
tory as one of unprecedented heat and pas.
sion. The personal and domestic records of
both Presidential candidates for the past
quarter Of a century were unearthed, dis
torted and villiAed by the Press of oppos te
political faiths, but as the smoke of the bat
tie is clearing away it is a matter of pride to
the management of THE WILMINGToNIAN
that its columns have been kept singularly
free from all political nastiness. Where
there were valid objections to a candidat's
political aspirations we did not hesitate to
state said objections, but neither personal
grudges nor private spite have entered into
an article in the columns of this journal.
Its course has been dictated by profound
and sincere conviction of its duty to the
community at large.
When Democracy has broked from her
ancient and honored moorings and trampled
under her feet the teachings of Jefferson and
Jackson we have denounced its course and
exposed its selCconfessed qualification.
The act of the last Legislature in abridg-
ing our municipal rights has never found
favor IN these columns, and we unhesitat-
ingy declare that it will remain an inefface-
able blot on the name of Delaware Democ-
raey. The national Republican party was
roundly denounced by Democratic orators
for creating offices simply as rewards for
party service, and if it was censurable in
Republicans to thus act in Washington it
was equally odious for Democrats to indulge
in the same practices in Wilmington. Par
tisan legislation is bound to react to the dis
comfture of those who thus legslate, and all
history Of the past also condemns the want of
wisdom Of those legislators who ignore the
interests and wishes of the community at
large. For this reason we have criticized
some of the measures of the past legislature
and we are confidant that in test vote a
large preponderance of the citizens of New
Castle county would declare in favor of a
local self-govemment for Wilmington.
In the campaign just ended we questioned
some Of the agencies which were being util-
lied to further Col. Ford's political aspira-
tions, but the voters of New Castle county
declared at the ballot-box their belief that
Mr.. Ford's good points more than counter
balance his weak cnes, and he was accorded
a very flattering support. Col. Ford has
his future in his own hands and judicious
regard of his opportunities will make him an
important factor in the future political man.
agement of this county. The sympathies of
our people are with those who hew success
from precariuus future, and Col. Ford,
having commenced at the lower rounds Of
the ladder, is entitled to words of congratu.
latiOn for the success which he has achieved,
f The SlOw-MOving Finger of Scorn.
What has Butler gained by making mon
I key Of himself. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15

Grover Cleveland, and the majesty of his
course in not deigning to notice the whole
sale defamation which was designed to over
whelm him elected the encomiums of the
entire American people. All good citizens
unite in expressing hope that blackguard-
ism will never more reach the prominence
which was accorded to it in the campaign of
1884.
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Total. 2O7l7,I

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There is something wrong in all this. But
the wrong has been done by the government
and the parties who are responsible should
be held to strict account.
1t is not combattcd that these foreign cap
italists who paid money for the land and
who hold the receipts and fee simple there
fore are not in certain sense entitled to it..
But at the same time the truth exists that
1t was never in tile purvicw of our fathers
that the land should be thus aleniated in this
Wholesale manner from their posterity. It
is unquestionably true that the government
that failed to place such restrictions upon
the sale of public lands as would prevent
the appearance of such phase of conditions
as exist at the present time, are, as legisla-
tions, irresponsible inasmuch as they have fail
ed to apprehend the future result of their
action or to provide therefor.
The Republican party as holding the bal
ance of power for the last quarter of CEN
turty are directly responsible for this waste
of the peoples land.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The U. S. MarshaIshin.

Mr.. Austin Y.Gaynor having been faith
full and efficient worker in the Democratic
vineyard his friends insist that he shall be
a candidate for the U. S. Marshalship. Mr..
Gaynor has conducted news agency for
some years on West Second Street and his
sterling business qualities has made for him
a host of friends.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The Retiring Coroner.

To-day Coroner Smith will transfer to his
successor Mr.. Widdoes, the insignia of his
office; and just tribute to Mr.. Smiths
official record exacts the statement that he
has performed his duties with an eye single
to the fact THAT a public office is public
trust"
Mr.. Smith retires to private life with the
plaudits of his fellow citizens echoing and
re-echoing from Brandywine to Appoquina-
mink, well done good and faithful SER
vant," and ''inasmuch as you have conscien-
tiously performed your duty as Coroner we
shall ask you to come up higher at the ex-
piration of Sheriff Ford's administration.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
The Democratic Parade.

The Democrats who paraded on Tuesday
night deserve the highest commendation
of the citizens of Wilmington for the order
and good feeling evidenced by them through
ont their demonstration. As orderly citi-
zens nothing could have exceeded their
good behavior. As the victorious party in a
great presidential election, then moderation,
aud the entire absence of any excesses, the
strict avoidance of anything that might be
construed as a reflection upon the defeated
party, was notable in its absence.
The Democrats are to be congratulated
for this evidence of foresight and considera-
tion. & most creditable feature of the oc-
casion was the serenade given by the Young
Mems Democratic Club to the Young
Mems Republican Club and its accep.
tance by the latter in the spirit it
was intended,
Now ''the cruel war is over' it behooves
all citizens of both parties to forget the