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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06

CHRISTMAS approaches. Keep your eye
Oh the enterprising tradesmen who speak
words Of wisdom through the attractive
columns OF the ISrEfi.it;EScEn. r-.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06

big drinks With the Drigalieu, ask then,
what they want. and give II to them. d lie
will DO solid with the Solid South, and
make the cowarlty copperheads tako a
back seat. Ills lile depends upon It." n
h ."What do you think Congress will do
about tho TARIFF" }Lll'.T7Ig ,,'t'sT4
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06
Restriction "I.acxe," 1,uptur,d,

Z! NcSFictioh "lsncker ltuptured.
PITrsnuEoH, Dec. 5.-The project to re-
strict the production Of pig iron by. bank
ing up furnaces for 4 month or more, I'm,
been allowed to die out. Instead Of fur.
ther restriction reports received at tho
office OF the Pig Iron Association in MI.
city are to the effect, that II number Of
furnaces wi blow in, during the next
month. In view Of the complaints Of dull
trade and low prices the. resumption Of
work seems paratloxical, but it is stated :
that the stock OH mnd is much lighter
now than ut any previous time for Years.
and that while there is no prospect III the
Immediate future for better prices there il .
no room for more iron than IS piled in the
yards al present, 5..3 st5.' 1.ifast, : -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06
Ghp G,,telliQ),e11trt;ieI|:'r; e d: !;
Tne victors belong to the spoils.
rAuufRs complain that the season is rs
,,yy as Register editorial. al's
TIN New York Senatorial fight Is keep.
ingthc correspondents awake Of nights.
Other people arc not much excited. FL.
ESolSll thieves have already begun 10
rob New York. The Democracy is not n
m,,y OF projections to home industry.

ClxcSNArl continues to hunger for coal.
Better move to Wheeling, where the coa
wsyon never has to wait for a boating
o. . .. d
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06

'rogrcss Of Work on New Wells and News
7, tZ5t frnn Old Ones n! III
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06
CAPITAL. CUPS,
Captain Howgul,e.. owes the Government

Captain Howgale owe the Government
SIZE, 900. s3,s:l ,sz.-,., =.
In the Swain court martial yesterday
tho examination Of Bateman WIS contili-
tinued but the witness was frequently in.
terrupted BY; objections from counsel, and
finally a long argument was began Upon
the admissibility OF certain evidence,
which was not concluded when the court
adjourned. fi ~. s,.EESs 'itssi
y Attorney General Brewster has appoint
ed Alex. K. Botcler, of West Virginia, to
he Pardon Clerk Of the Department Of
Justice. I, Mr.. Botclerwas n member OF the
recent Tariff Commission. He Mt one time
served 4 term in Congress. During the
war lie served with distinction OH the staff
Of Stonewall Jackson. .9t,g;r
AT the meeting OF tho Committee on
Expenditures OF the Department OF fJustice
yesterday Chair,nan Springer read letter
from J. j. Barker, a former Treasury
clerk, reiterating the charges made by
him some time ngO against the manage
lnent OF the Office OF the First Com ptrollcr
Of the Treasury Department. r In explana-
ton Of the charges Barker said he called
the attention OF tho Comptroller to what
he considered an illegal allowance Of per
diem. -. .'s.3tt a 5 :.
The ceremonies attending the cap stone
Ofthe Washington monument at o'clock
this afternoon will be brief and simple.
On aHlittle platform about the cap stone
Col. Casey with his assistants will stand,
and in turn will spread mortar over the
bed. Thd stone will then be lowered
into its socket, the aluminium terminal ad-
justcd, II flag unfurlcd, and a salute from
Major llannemanns artillery fired. The
cap stone was. last evening hoistel from
the, platform on which, it has rested for
two days at the top Of the monument, and
swung into position over the spot which
is to eits final resting place..
Tho changing Of the system for COM
pensating United States Court officials
wns discussed by. the House Committee
on Expenditures OF tho Department Of
Justice yesterday. The chairman said he
had been informed that Senator'S were
Opposed to any bill proposing change,
which was inserted in the appropriation
bill, buL:they would favor n measure, il
introduced in the House, that had for It's
object only changing the fee To a. SALARY
system. AS result of tho expression Of
opinionfby tho Senator'S Representative
Springer OIL, tho third FNIonday In January
will probably Introduce bill prepared by
his committee during the lust session Of
Congress and ask its passage unde er a sus.
pension Of the rules, -. ~ .!i,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-06
TRIED TO EYADE Law
puT FINALLY nnouolr TO TINE
ny tho United States court--Thc Power that
brought mn Ohio Railroad Company
10 Terats, Growing Out or ttockinr {.
q. Valley TrOubl ss-Labor Notes, .u

CINCINNATI, o., Dec. h.-In the case Of
W.sP. Rend 4 Co. against the Columbus
locking Valley 4 Toledo railroad com.
pany,Judge Baxter, in the United States
Court, today issued rule against tho de-
iendant and against Judge Stevenson
Burke, its Vice President, TO appeArl,efore
him December 18th, ut Columbus, Ohio,
10 SHOW cause why they shall not bo 1T.
tached and punished for contempt in dis.
obeying the injunction granted last week.
Thattnj junction commanded the defendant
to furnish cars to W.P. Rend & Company
to carry their coal without tielav
and without discrimination. II wns
shown 10 tho court that the company fir.
nished the cars, but reftsed 'to' ruive conl.
lIlainants through rates or through cars.
md demanded prepayment OF local rites
and transhipment and rcloadins Il" ia
end OF defendants line contrary to tic
usage OF that company in its general
treatment OF other shippers. lIence tie
contempt proceedings. (, The court also
dlrccled the injunction toh made definite
by ordering the defendant to carry for tie
oil the same terms they.
carry for others. l7.l{E ,5iis'',E
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
FASHIONABLE AND OTHERWISE.

Soft felts are bent in innumerable
shapes, and ought certainly to be made
becoming, when each individual hat can
be adapted to it's wearer.
KID waistcoats have proved to be q
great success. A still more extreme but
| accepted fashion is that of wearing
snakeskin collars and cuffs with cloth
suits.
A Boston woman ran the table on
1920 per week for four months to see
how low expenses could be reduced.
When she had saved enough to buy her
a sealskin sacque the figures suddenly
jumped to $13 again.
COVERS for small tea trays are seal
loped around the edge and then but.
ton-holed with scarlet, brown or blue,
with little figures in the center, or cor
ners are worked in the same color that
is chosen for the border.
VELVET collars, cuffs, pointed belts
and bows are used on many of the fall
walking costumes. Smoke-gray with
garnet velvet, silver-gray with dark
blue, tan with brown, and crimson-plaid
with black are the favorite combina-
tons.
SILK Jersey cloth is introduced for
winter wear, and is of superior quality.
A tieecy lining takes away the thin finn
siness of last years goods, and yet does
not interfere with it's elasticity or pre-
vent it's adapting itself to the form of
the wearer.
PLUSH wraps are to be popular this
winter for evening wear. One of the
prettiest recently imported was of pale
amber plush, ribbed in dark brown, made
capewise, and lined throughout with
white plush. Long ends of brown
satin ribbon held it at the neck and
waist. This is used for an opera and
carriage wrap, and is both warm and
pretty.
SLENDER brass rods are much prettier
to hang the bookcase curtains on than
rods made of wood; have the rings
small, although loose enough to slip
easily along; one curtain is considered
IN little better taste than two; it can
be drawn to one side and caught back,
and SO expose ali of the books to view
with better effect than if there were
two curtains.
DECoLLETE bodices ornamented by
flowers are quite novel fashion. The
flowers, which are generally fragrant
Jacqueminot roses, are made into sort
of half wreath-garland, the center hav-
ing much larger cluster than the rest
This garland is placed across the front
of the bodice, just below the lace Dor
dering the edge. Sweet-pea blossoms
and carnations show with good effect
this way, and it is a pleasant change
from the large bouquet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

tFrom the New York Commercial Advertiser
"Sheet-Iron Jack" an audacious brig
and, fifteen years ago was q terror to
several counties of Northern California.
He was well educated, handsome, tall,
the son of minister, SO all accounts
agreed, and his name had been gained
by the immunity from bullet-wounds
that he appeared to possess. Men did
not hesitate to declare that they had
seen good shots fired point blank at his
breast and miss him squarely. He be-
came known as the most expert horse
thief in the region, and innumerable
exploits of his are related in Shasta and
Tehama Counties. On one occasion he
threw his pursuers of his track, assumed
q disguise, met the sheriff's party, de-
lighted them with his songs and stories,
put up with them at little village inn,
and during the night escaped with three
of the best horses in the party, after
having turned the others loose in the
woods and leaving saucy and funny
letter of thanks ending with an apt
Latin quotation for the sheriff, whose
wrath was of such an abiding sort that
brief would have been Jacks ife-lease
had he been overhauled; in less than
two minutes he then were assuredly
hauled over and dangling from an oak
limb.
One of the most characteristic feats
of this fellow was performed at a
mountain ball in a log cabin. Young
people had assembled from many miles
distant, some of them coming a days
journey. The ball had hardly begun
when tall, black-haired, well-dressed,
handsome stranger appeared and ex-
cited much comment. A particularly
handsome young girl was taken out on
the floor by her partner, and suddenly
the stranger stepped up and with great
politeness requested the gentleman to
resign the lady in his favor. He whis-
pered his name in the young mans ear,
paid compliment to the young lady,
took her forth, and led the dance. The
word went round that Sheet-Iron Jack
had come to dance with all the pretty
girls; that he had several revolvers,
never missed shot, and probably had
friends hid within call. The long and
short of it was that the thirty young
men present were terrorized, and, one
after another, the brigand danced with
the prettiest maidens in the room.
Then he bowed to the excited assembly,
stood in the doorway a second, said
mockingly that it was a pity that the
men were not as brave as the ladies
handsome, and disappeared in the dark
ness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

tives of the islands on board. Among
the latter was Miss Annie Barrows, the
belle OF the pretty islands. She was
particular favorite of the parrot, and for
ten years after the sweet girl had gone
down at sea Polly would from time to
time call out "Annie Barrow? Annie
Barrowl" aud those who heard her say
they seemed to hear sad echo from the
sea. This story cannot vouch for. A par
rot which had been at sea for several
years was given to gentleman who de-
termined to drown the swearing out
OF her. So every time she cursed like
an old briny, her head was promptly
ducked in q bucket of water. One day
her owneE was carrying several little
chickens, dfenched by the rain, in to
dry, and seeing them, Polly screeched
out, d it; you've been swearing
again r Philadelphia Times.
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
Three men fortuitously stepped into
the electric light works in the city of
Syracuse on Wednesday evening at
dusk. One of them was observed to
casually stoop over and reach out his
hands toward thirty-light dynamo
machine. Instantly he was drawn close
to the generator without noise and with
out uttering a sound. He had unwit-
tlngly grasped the positive and negative
rods, and was dead, A moment before
he had been Boosting of his electrical
knowledge. When it was attempted to
remove the body pieces of the skin ad-
hered to the rods. The contraction of
the muscles of the body was 80 great
that his legs and arms were drawn out
of shape, and his head drawn forward
SO that the chin pressed tightly against
the chest Buffalo Express.
CHASTITY EXPERIMENTS.
The story that the head of Charlotte
Corday blushed when the executioner
exhibited it to the crowd after he had
cut it off with the guillotine blade, is
generally treated as a romance of the
French revolution; but that other story
of the same period, of the severed head
of the victim that turned its eyes and
moved it's lips in Indignation is partially
sustained by French scientists recent
experiments with a criminal whose head
was injected with arterial blood an hour
and half after it had been cut off. The
mouth assumed an expression of life;
the eye-lids lifted; the pupils of the
eye contracted with the light; and
through hole in the skull the blood
was seen to temporarily circulate. DR..
Brown-Sequard, of Paris. also tried the
same experiment on dog. The ami
mails name was called when it opened
its eyes and turned it's head in the di-
rection of the voice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
Carlyle and the Clerk.

It is well known that Thomas Carlyle
hated the city. One day business in
duced him to enter it's precincts
Wishing to be informed as to a certain
locality, of the whereabouts of which
he had no notion, he stopped young
man in the neighborhood of the bank
and asked of the direction. The young
man, recognizing his interlocutor, at
once volunteered to accompany him to
the required spot. On the way Carlyle
opened conversation with the young
man, and elected from, him the fact that
he was a clerk in city house at week
ly salary. Arriving at their journeys
end, Carlyle turned to his guide with a
snow, young man, you may go.
"Thank you," said the clerk by way
of gentle reminder.
@Thank you for what?" asked the
sage. Young man" said he with en-
phasis, Honesty is the pivot on which
the actions of man should hang. You
have stolen your employers time, and
now you come and ask me to thank you
for having done SO. The receiver is
worse than the thief! Get to your
work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

CITY, though, created quite an alarm
one night, and came near being capt
ured as burglar. Some fellows got
to tampering with the safe in large
hardware store there, and somehow got
the combination changed SO that no one
knew how to open it. The proprietor
sent for me and I told him [ could open
it, but as was quite busy should have
to wait until evening.I closed my shop a
little after dark and went over to the
store and got to work on the job. l had
been working a couple of hours, when
somebody banged at the door and called
for me to surrender without resistance
if I did not want to be shot. The pro-
prietor was fortunately in the store at
the time and opened the door. There
was squad of policemen armed and
the house was completely surrounded,
so I could not escape. The patrolman
had seen me at work on the safe and
gone off and reused the town, and the
whole police force had been called out
to surround, the building. The pro-
prietor explained, and I went on with
my job"
"But locks don't do much good
against experts" he continued. GA gang
of burglars would find no trouble il rob-
bling the treasury. It is strange they
never attempted it. GAS to ordinary
locks could take an ordinary case knife
or piece of stiff wire and open every
door on the avenue from the capitol to
the treasury. And it would not take
me much longer than it would to walk
that distance. No door would occupy
me more than couple of seconds. I
can open any trunk by simply little
tap with hammer and won't injure the
lock in the least. If you forget your
combination come in"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
Fortunes from Bottles.
From the New Haven News.1

tFrom the New Haven News.]
American people like to be fooled
and your average hypochondriac seems
to enjoy it more than anyone else I
know of, said clerk in New Haven
drug store as he put So bill in the
cash drawer and gazed at the retreating
form of $50 pound customer.
There goes woman who has taken
enough patent medicine in the past ten
years to kill half the people in this city,
but she seems to thrive and get fat on ii"
continued the pill-roller, as he handed
the reporter porous plaster and bot
tie of prepared glue, which the news
gatherer wanted for necessary, but un-
poetic repairs to his personal apparel.
II have sold her gallons and gallons of
remedies for every known and unknown
disease. She imagines she has every
complaint human flesh is heir to, from
mumps to hydrophobia, and she doses
for each and every individual Ill.
"Her constitution must be made of
steel to enable it to throw off the guam
titles Of vile drugs she inficts on her
defenseless stomach. Most of your
patent medicine cranks are really made
SO by the trash they take, but she seems
to stand it like Trojan"
"Isn't this stuff they put up in fancy
bottles, and deliberately decorated cases,
good for anything?" asked the reporter.
"Good for anythingl" exclaimed the
man of drugs. cts the vilest trash
that was ever gotten up to deceive the
public, that is, most of it is. There's
about 80 per cent. profit in patent medi-
cines. used to be in a place where we
made EN- by the vat full. We used the
cheapest kind of ingredients, and mixed
'em up anyway. Once one of the boys
mixed up some acetic acid-we didn't
use vinegar, it was too expensive water
and two or three common vegetable
tinctures and tabled it stomach bitters.'
"We only did it for fun, but one of
the bosses happened to come along, and
tasted it. It was nasty enough SO he or
dered lot made and put it on the mar
ket. It was extensively advertised, and
soon we were making from 500 to 1000
gallons day. It was put up in fve-to-
the-gallon bottles, and sold for $1.50 a
bottle. 1t cost about 10 cents gallon,
and with the bottle, worth II cents, the
wrapper about ] cent, and with the adj
vertising, packing, rent of building, and
labor, must have cost the firm about
or cents bottle. They made over
100000 in less than two years on this
thing alone. How many stomachs they
ruined / can't pretend to say"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
Sentinels that We're Useless.
From Life lLondon.ll


A few weeks ago, on the authority of
a transatlantic correspondent, I narrated
a story as to how Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler when a congressman procured
the removal of an aged keeper of a
Washington crypt that had never ex-
listed. This narrative seems to have
aroused the war Office officials of st.
James Park, who within the last fort
night have removed sentry who had
been for nearly twenty years pacing day
by day in front of a small building
there, wherein military board of in
vestigation had once held several meet
ings. In Russia the late Emperor Alex
ander observed a sentinel always march
ing up and down on grass plot. Upon
inquiry he discovered that the Empress
Catherine had observed an early daisy
on the plot, and had remarked to one
of her suite that she hoped that it would
not be picked. Ever after sentinel
had kept watch by night and by day
over the plot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
ONE WILD RED ROSE
BY CARROLL CLEMENT.

October's skillful brush had passed
With touches swift and bold,
Across the dreary landscape
And turned it all to gold.
The yellow maple branches
And the nodding green birch trees
Swung back and forth like banners
Floating on the breeze
The oak leaves and the clematis
Had turned to vivid red;
The golden rod had withered,
The asters, too, were dead.
And, then the gayly colored leaves
With merry ruStling sound,
Parted from the swaying trees
And fluttered to the ground.
UNTIL at last. the trees were bare,
While, scattered far and wide
The crimson and the golden leaves
Turned scar and brown; and died.
/ wandered then through naked woods
To search for running pine,
For, beautiful throughout the year
Is this soft feathered vine.
And I was sad, looked with pain
on the dead leaves lying low,
They seemed to me like the fond hopes
| cherished long ago.
found at last deep, dark pool,
With surface as smooth as glass,
And near its brink a rose tree grew
Half hidden meath the grass.
And there, amid the dying leaves
That circled 1T around,
A sweet wild rose, with petals pink
And perfumed breath, found.
This fair, frail bloom, the last indeed
Of all the summers flowers
Had come message of hope
promise brighter hours.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
A Mexican Advantage.
From the Wall Street News.l


Until this country gets into the habit
of shaking herself with all earthquake
two or three times per year the Ameri-
can merchant has no show to compete
with the Mexican in the matter of going
to the wall and receiving a settlement
from creditors. A Mexican dry goods
dealer who closed his doors the other
day begged to announce to his various
creditors: Sowing to the earthquake
which the Lord sent us on the I'd inst,
my store was almost destroyed, my stock
nearly ruined, and several of my heav-
lest debtors killed. I am therefore,
compelled to announce my great en-
barrassment, and to beg Of you to ac-
cept 80 cents on the dollar for my in
debtedness. What the Lord wills He
wills. Loss partly covered by insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
FADING SHADOWS.

Sweet is the voice OF the maiden fair;
Bright is the glow of the rising moon;
Soft are the zephyrs that stir the air.
Loud is the blast of the trombone's tune
In, Inc maiden will sleep ere the morning grey
The glow of the moon will fade away.
The zephyrs will die when the night is gone.
But the blasted trombone will still play on.
--ISOmerUiLLe Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

THE magnificent First Spiritual
temple" which the Spiritualists OF Bos-
ton are building in that city is slowly
nearing completion. It will have cost
about $780, 600 when completed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

"BELvA LOCKWOOD can hit bulls
eye with rifle at 900 yards" Yes; but
she can't hit hen with a stone at three
feet Buffalo Express.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

in the fact that he WAS once VIII g
But Senator Coke is now one of the
most ardent free tfGle home rule con-
servatlve democrats in the nation.
This Stephens uever was. No man
can point to single act of his which
looks in the remotest degree like free
trade, or to published utterance de-
noting that he had ever receded in any
way from the position he assumed,
when as young man he entered po-
itical life; while Coke is to-day an en-
thusiastic democrat, not only in name
but in fact.
The GaZette's impious dragging
out the dead patriot statesman to do
duty in this scheme of ultimate di-
vision that's just what it means
will not add to it's influence in the
state or to its reputation for candol
and fair dealing. Divide the party il
Texas on a north and south basis, aHC
the ultimate dismemberment will in
evitably follow as a logical sequence
Let those who are screeching for tb'
abrogation of the two thirds rule, es
pecially in this region of the state
take heed what they do.