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BARKIS Is WlLlIN'.
General Hancock Would Accept the Nom
ination.

General Hancock Would Accept the Nom
ination.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.-General Han
cock has been town this week. He is IN
excellent spirits. 1t is understood that
private meeting of the ffiends and admirers
of the General has been held to take pre-
liminary steps tagard presenting the Geners
alScSfe The q ago Convention, and the
people as a candidate for the Presidency.
An intimate friend os the General said to-
dav: General Hancock has intimated that
if he were nominated he would stand. He
is, however, under the disadvantag Of being
a defeated candidate. and being as modest
as he is brave, he feels that he cannot under
those circumstances put himself forward
with a good grace. In my opinion the
candidature of General Hancock has only
to he placed before the people in Its true
light 10 receive almost universal
support. Tilden would accept the
Presidential nomination to-day with
any colleague except Hendricks,
if he thought it would be for the
benefit of his party, and what many are
afraid of, is that he viii accept the nom
inaticn in conjunction with Randall, and, il
elected, resign the Presidency next day,
leaving Randall in the Presidential chair.
Cleveland has the support Of the county
Democracy at present but he is unpOpul ar
with the Irish and with the working men.
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ONE WoMAN's WAY.
She Upbraids Her Husband for Killing
Her Paramour.

She Upbraids Her Husband for Killing
Her Paramour.
MEMPHIS, TENN, June % Special. j
Waverly, a small town near here, was TO-
night the scene of more excitement than it
has ever experienced in its history, Groups
of people stood on the corner and discussed
the days events Children shrank back at
the slightest noise and clung crying to their
mothers skirts. The cause Of all this eS'
citement is one Of those domestic
tragedies that shock communities by their
suddeapess and blOodiness. For some time
the families Of Wilson Larkins and W. H.
Owens have been engaged in a quarre! that
while it interested, did not materially affect
them. Larkins, who was somewhat noto
rious for alleged libertinism has greatly an,
noyed Owens by boasting of his intimacy
with Owens wife. These boasts have been
freq, ent, open, and even brutal, Ct
late they have been so bold that trouble was
anticipated. Yesterday the quarrel termi
mated in a murder. About ii o'clock
Larkins took a position near the store Of
Owens and displayed handkerchief which
he said Mrs. Owens had given him as a
PLEDGE OF HER LnyE.
Tale.bearers carried the news to Owens,
who sent word that no man would so de-
base himself as to stand on public street
and openly boast of his sins. This
angered Larkins above all reason,
and he announced to the crowd
that Mrs. Owens was his mistress, Owens,
as soon as he heard CT this took shotgun
and started for Larkin, who started and
run, but returned few minutes later with q
revolver and dared Owens to come out.
Owens again took his gun and started out.
At the door he
Fired Mt Larkin
and continued firing as he advanced, the
second shot taking effect. Larkin appeared
to be paralyzed and did not return shot
As soon aS he fell the news spread with
lightning-lke rapidity, and the whole town
gathered at the spot Mrs. Owen, who
happened to be at house near the scene
Of the tragedy, rushed out and threw herself
IN the body OF the dead man and frantically
allied TO him to speak to her. Suddenly
sing she faced her husband and denounced
.lim n The mo5 unme u cd terms. Owen
tempted to shoot her, Dut was restrained.
here is great excitement a coroners
cquitted Owen.
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BEN BUTLER.
The Latest scheme In Political Maneuver-
ing.

The Latest scheme In Political SIaneuver-
ing.
NEw YORK, June 2S.-[SpecisL Secret
conferences appear to have suddenly sprung
into wonderful favor. The much-talked-of
meeting of last Thursday has been succeed
ed BY one which, if common report be true,
was more fruitful of result At this meet
ing it is said Ben Butler agreed to support
Bayard, with the understanding that he
shonld be made Attorney General The
value Of Butler as an ally for Bayard is read
ily seen when it is remembered what
notent factor a New England delegation
voting for Bayard would be. It IS GER
tainE safe to say tonight that Of all the
Eastern men named, Bsyard and Floser
are now the strongest. Randall 5
chances are, in a sense, wholly Dependant
on contingencies that have no effect upon
other candidates, and there must be a
Deculiar eoneatenation Of circumstances to
Terminate him. The fact tnst Rantal
vouA be easier elected if nominated. Is not
Questioned. If the convention we're bad
this week and Tildsn we're not nominated,
Payard would be, aud Ben Butler would go
into the cabinet. Verify this would be the
l..sarkusm" of politics.
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WHEEIING w. va MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 80, 1884.

1--WE. points, win you remember themf
and are you ready for the tremendous con-
clusion Of the apostle: "Ifany man have not
the spirit of Christ he is none of hisY
oyerpowering statement Who can stand
before it2 Not I-not you. And vet this
subject ought not to throw any christian In
to a desparing mood though We are well
aware of the fact that we have'not those
trials of character as Christ had them yet |
think we have the seed planted in our soul,
and the harvest after while will come.
Glory to God, you have the blessed begin
ings in your nature and though you are
painfully aware day by day Of your short
comings, it is your earnest prayer" Give
me this spirit Of Jesus" Aim high. lwould
not this morning say one discouraging word
to you, / really think you have some OF the
favorable symptoms Of complete and
eternal recovery from this malady Of sin;
Watch, pray, study compare, on toward
the prize. Sheathe not your sword till
you have gained the last victory. Higher
and higher till you reach the. celestial hills,
crowns radiant and immortal for all the
yigtofS; but eternal death to every deserter.
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An OHIO SHOOTING.
The Way They DO Things nj tho Towa ef

The Way They DO Things nj tho rowa %
Luna.
LIMA, June pa terrible shooting af
fray occurred here this morning about $50
o'clock, in sye Brunts saloon. Henry aud
Sye are brothers and asA addric,ed 10 drink.
Friday,night they had been driking andwers
up all night. In the morning Henry went
into his brothers saloon aud the bartender.
Dave worden, who married sister Of The
Brunt boys, child him and told him
to 20 home. This angered him, and thsy
began quarrelling. Finally Henry csll1
Dave some very hard names, and q The
same time picked up q cigar lighter and
threw it at him. This brought on . gen.
eral fight, in which beer bottles and glssacs
few promiscuously. The barkeeper, think.
sng to scare Brunt, drew his revolver, and
in stepping back fell. Brant ran
up and commenced kicking him
in the abdomen. worien then
began firing and emptied Eve barrels
from q 22-caliber selfcotkcr into Brunt's
body. One ball took effect In hs- -haAAv
another in his shoulder and the third made
a flesh wound in the abdomen. The fourth
penetrated the abdomen four inches above
the navel and cannot be reached. The
fifth entered his body four inches Adore the
nipple, penetrating the right lung and will
probably prove fatal. WOraen was hurt ia-
ternally,
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FOUND DEAD.
An Aged Pauper's Sudden Death in PEN
dletOn County.

An Aged Pauper's Sudden Death in PEN
dleton County.
South Branch Gazette: This commun-
ty was thrown into considerable excitement
last Wednesday by the announcement that
Barny Shaver had been found dead in his
bed at the poor house, kept by Sampson
Jordon, on the morning of the 18th inst.
Tuesday morning previous to his death
Barny aud a woman named Amanda Sim
mons, both paupers, had a quarrel at the
breakfast table, which ended by the woman
giving Barnabas a severe clubbing over the
head But the affair had quieted down until
the man was found Justice Noah Coyger,
on being notified of the affsir repaired to
The place and on finding scars on the head
of the deceased notified Special Constable
John r. Lambert to have a Jury OF twelve
men summoned and two doctors. A jury
was summoned composed of the following
ing men: W. c. Miller, S. K. Lambert,
John P, Dyer, James A. Gilkeson, j. II.
Lough, L. B. Waggoner, J. Fl. Conrad, \.
Botkin, II. T. Cowger, Zachsrias Rexroad,
Labon Eve. and James Temple. Drs. John
D. johnson and Fred Moomau were also
summoned.
After making a thorough -examination of
witnesses and the body OF the deceased, the
jury returned verdict that the said Barna-
bas Shaver had come TO his death from
haarr and brgju disease
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THROUGH A BRIDGE.
1 Virginia Midland Train Goes Through
Bridge.

Virginia Midland Train Goes Through
Bridge.
LYNCEIURG, Va, June 29.-On account
Of the failtre Of the airbrasRS to work, the
Virginia midland morning express ran at
an uncoutrollable speed On to the bridge
over the James river, near this city, to-day.
The corner of the smoking car struck the
upright girders throwing 4 from the track;
The trucks of the car dragged ihe sleePers
awrv for a distance of Auudrett feet, and
the Washington and New York sleeping
cars fell through the opening INTO ten feet
of water. and gradually sank Conductor
King was thrown into the rTyer, and al
though he had two ribs Broken he swan to
the cars and helped the passengers through
the windows Most of the passengers were
taken out through holes cut IN the venti-
lators in top of the cas-, to which the water
finally reached. There wee about forty
passengers in the sfeepers and al were
saved. After the wsber had covered the
tops of the windows Mrs J. S Farden
pushed her two moathS old child through
the windoE and held it above the water I'M
I'll rescued and then she came out the same
uav
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PARKERSBURG.

The Personal News OF n Busy Week.
PARKERsBURG, June 29.-[Special Miss
Lily Vaughsn, formerly Of this city, died in
Washington last week Miss Vaughan had
many friends in this city. Mrs. Jos. Irwin
and children are in ChilGcothe visiting rel
atives. Miss Mary Tully and the Misses
Dent have returned from Wheeling where
they have been attending school Mra
Edv. Collins, OF Marshall, Te1as, is the
guest Of her sister, Mrs. Rrer. Rev Faith
ers Mcbride of Newbnrg, and Kuhn of
Marietta, were present at the commence
ment exercises Of the Visitation Academy
Misses Fanny and Frances Carr the former
young lady Of Altoona, Pa, and the latter
Of Pottsville, Pa, who have been attending
The Visitation Academy, returned TO their
respective homes on Thursday. Ed Ewing
has returned from a pleasant visit to his
home in Glenville. Mrs. Thomas Mattingly
returned on "Wednesday night to her home
in Down, Missouri, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hairy Caswell spent few
days in Cincinnati. Ohio, last week
Miss Carrie Beecher will visit relatives in
Wheeling soon. n S. Caswell, Jr., has
heen the guest of Ed. Ruth, of Harris
Ferry. Ed. Ruth made flying visit to
Parkersburg Saturday. Miss Rosa Bum
garner was here recently. Miss Hardy
Bumgarner has returned home. Mrs. Frank
Adams, Of Cincinnati is here. Mr.. W. G.
Wright, of Spencer will be here soon.
Mrs. Welch. of Lexington, has returned to
her home. Miss Anna Kibelain died
at her home on the south side
of Little Kanawha Thursday evening.
Miss Lou Sutton has returned from Bal
timore. The infant daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Cahill, of Chillicothe, died in
this city on Monday, and was buried on
Tuesday last. Miss Katie kearns Of Clarks'
burg, is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs
Thos. Shaw, Of the Sixth ward, was buried
on Tuesday. Willie Gibbons celebrated his
twelfth birthday, with party Of young
folks, at Kanawhs Station on Tues.
day. Mrs. DR.. Ramsey, Of Clarksburg. was
the guest Of Mrs. W. NJ Evans, this week.
q. l.. Spence, Esq, went 10 Manitta Friday
night. Prof A. l. Wade, of fMorgantown,
has been here several days the guest Of
friends Prof Wade rs one Of our mott en-
thusiastic friends Of education, and is host
within himself on all occasions when the
subject of education is involved. Prof.
A. l.. Purinton, our efficient city Superint
of schools is spending his vacation with
friends in the Athens OF West Virginia
Prof. W. NJ Straus, the popular principal
Of the PorkersbJrg High school, is recurit'
ing in Ohio. Miss Annie kiblehan died on
Thursday evening, Of consumption; her
funeral took place this morning from St.
Xavier's church.
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A FEARFUL CRIME,
A woman'S Head Almost Severed From
Her Body.

WOman'S Head Almost SeNereu rroui
Her Body.
PARIS. June ga fearful crime has
Just been committed at Cannes. About 6
O'Clock in the evening man, evidently OF
Italian origin, stopped in front Of house
in the Rue de la Vapeur. He clapped
his hands together and whistled, as
if to give a concerted signal
A woman, still young and handsome, ap-
peared at the window and descended to the
door in dishabille. She was violently &C
costed by the man. A short dispute fol-
lowed, the woman apparently losing
her temper, for she gave him
q box on the ear. Then
quickly, as if acting by premeditatiou, the
man seized her by the hair, bent her head
back, and BY single stroke Of a. knife, cut
her throat from ear to ear. A passer-by
who had witnessed the scene from
distance hastily approached. He heard
feeble cry. The body Of the woman turned
twice, her head dropped to one side, revealing
a horrible gaping wound, and she fell heav-
ily to the sidewalk. The blood spurted
from the carotid artery on the wall of the
hDuse.
The single witness of the tragedy gazed
in horrifed stupefact.on upon the assassin
Standing cool and molionless in the presence
of his victim as if he had no tho lght of
aying
Il have come from Africa on purpose to
kill this woman, he said Now you may
arrest me.
In the custoiy of the police he said that
his name was Roux, ard that the woman
ne had butchered was his wife. She was
leading disreputable life.
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strictly the peoples year. Heretofore it has
been considered the very reverse Of digni-
fed and proper for a Presidential
candidate to take the stump, and
beyond few benefit exhibitions
stcounty fairs, horseraces and baby shows,
the candidates are kept in sacred seclusion.
The points of attack in this innovation are
said to be West Virginia, Tennessee, New
jersey, North CaroliI a, and perhaps one or
two other States of alleged doubtful status,
politically. To the observant and thinking
man this departure is not sign of any
thing but great distress. Blaine, on the
stump, is an open confession of the weak
ness of the party he represents.
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WASHINGTON.

The Coming Weeks Work in Congress.
WASHINGTON. June 29.-The Forti6ca-
ton jill. the last Of the annual aPproPria-
non bills, will he taken up and disposed Of
tomorrow. The Sundry Civil bill is the only
measure before the Senate. and that will be
disposed Of tomorrow night. The Senate
can then on Tuesday take up the FOrtihea-
non bill The Legislative, Consular and
diplomatic and Deficiency bills have been
passed by both Houses, and await the action
ii the cunferees upon the Senate amend
ments. While the work of Congress
in thus being arranged with view to the
,soluriou passed by the House some time
SIC fAng to morrow as d day o. hnAl
S fournment, has not been taken up BY the
SeIate and will not be until all the aPpro-
lTa:iOu bills are ont Of the way. The points
. iser,uce between the two houses are
nguwous. and in respect to some Of them 1t
si. 6S a worE ot diii.cultto reach a common
.EF..>'.n
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MARTINS rEk RY.
An Interesting Budget of News Corrniicd
Yesterday.

The cow taken up together with VIM.
TAYLOR, of Pipe Creek recently, will be sold
at Constable's sale July lst, if the owner
does not turn up by that time. Sheiners
Eostler was arrested and locked up for
drunkenness on Saturday night. Yesterday
Rev. v hite presided in the NJ. +. Church
morning and evening. The attendance WAS
large, and his sermons good. Officer }. W.
Anderson has resigned and Samuel Cochran
is The latest addition to the force. For
Sc, eral evenings past small kid has been
ba, ing lots of fun and furnishing amusement
for many persons, on the crossing from
Tufts shoe store to the post Office with a
pocket book and string attached 10 it. The
rick took well aud men, women and chill.
rem bit time after time. Ii was real innny
o see some of the girls fooled. Misses
In and Anna Lupton will return TO NJ
Pleasant to day after a brief visit with Miss
BERTHE Hipkins. Last evening Rev. J. j
acCarrell preached his farewell sermon in
tbe Presbyterian church Communion was
held in the church yesterday. Seyeri nc
cessions One Of Mr. Alec. McElraveys
atcrt churns is on exhibition at Longs
hardware store. Joseph Rennari the
Little boy who was shot by Charley
Graham last Sunday. is getting along nice
ly, and will be able TO be out in few days
Hundreds Of people visited Walnut Grove
Yesterday and many went TO the country to
eyade the heat. The German Sunday
School will picnic at Helings on the Foarth.
The Belmont Stove Company will oTyanize
July llth. The Buckeye Glass Works has
shut down TOR six weeks. To-day will be
the last day for the Elsop. Mr. o. b. Org
Of Smith6eld, was here yesterday. the guest
of friends. To-day the Biue Grass Fphing
Club will leave for the Muskingum
river to spend several days Mrs. Harry
Souders will visit her parents west Of
Bridgeport this week The private funeral
Of Hss Mollie PIgh, who died Cd Saturday,
will take place this afternoon ut ] O'Clock.
Moeday Martins Ferry Will be represented
at the Republican Congressional Coaren-
vention ct Caldwell by s. +. Dean and A.
Il. Wood, First Ward q. W. Chessea and
J. N. Waters, Second Ward;
Sew Shipman and McAiiehell,
Third Ward, and Wesley Steele Country
district. They 90 out on the ] o'clock
train. Mr.. A. RaIs;on, u viii assume
charge Of DIR. Daniel Cox 5 drugstore, this
week, as partner with DR. A. X. Org. We
wish them abundant success. The Martins
Ferry stoye foundry bss shat down for sew
eral weeks The Climax did NOT run to
wsIlsburg. ~ expected. Saturday evening.
On Saturday, Mayor @. n. MoClary, Of
YeIlsburg, WAS in the city.
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streets caused q grand stampede on the part
of the ladies in that vicinity.
A report reached this Office Of several
persons being relieved Of pocket books and
watches. As no trace of the transactions
were discovered the report was set down as
a canard
The majority Of the ladies wore light
costumes last night and looked unntterably
beautiful, under the glare Of the bright
electric light
Sam yoltz, of the Capitol, won the hearts
of many q fair maiden by directing
her to position of vantage in
which to gaze down on the sea OF heads
below.
The upper balcony at the State House
was popular with the ladies and was
thronged with representatives Of Wheel
ing,s tairest and bravest
Give me cigar, will you?
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Tue Ohio County Republican Convention
which met At the Capitol building last Sat
rrday completed the ticket of that party.
The work Of the convention was not sur
Prise to the community and the tail end is
as meek as The head of the ticket The
Democratic ticket from whatever point con-
s.dcTed is much superior in strength to that
presented by the opposition party. The
question os success Of the entire Democratic
ticket is no longer source of speculation
Ply the Independent voter, and the conserv-
ative tooker-on. There is now only diff
ference Of opinion rega-aing the the size o
Ia md upon the
aeparty workers.
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A BOLD RoBBf nv.
A DoddridEc County OutraGe-Lysctsisg
Adytsed,

A DoddridEc County OutraG.-Lysesisg
Advised.
West Union Record: Last Sunds- ncws
reached us Of cownrdly attempt at robbery
which occurred on Meat House Fork on
last Saturday evening Our informant.
who Is reliable, stated that rs Mrs. Nc
Gowan was entering her house, just afssr
!aking a walk With lady who had bsss
visiting her. she wa. met by large. besyy-
set man, who hsd on q mask, ~ ~
door who struck her, telling her 70 the aooe,
and while she was unconcious robbcd The
house Of about two 'ollars in money snA
.ome few other things Of small value. This
one Of the most cowafdly and bsutsI
hings that has come to our notice for some
line. lfa few OF such characters ~ the
above were strung up TO . tree, the .peobs
oiiiiy is that such brutal things would occur
a little less frequent than they do.
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GENERAL NEAL Dow, the great American
has declared for BLAINE. He
regards BLAINE as eminently sound on the
one question nearest his heart, the main
tenancc Of the Maine liquor law. But will
he take the stump? Party managers will
let him loose in Maine Kansas, Iowa and
Nebraska, bu1 elsewhere they will Insist
,,,o,, ,,.t,..s,I;,r, hin,
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ON THE STUMP.

aiaine and Logan as Political innova-
tors
WASHINGTON, June es-It is now pretty
dasn;sely settled that both SIR. Blaine and
senator Logan win take the stump for a
time at least This is in furtherance of the
plsn % srsasa the impression that this i
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-30

\ CORRESPONDENT furnishes the following
names in addition to those already printed
a, delegates from Lewis county to the
State, Congressional and Senatorial Con
ygutious: ". Z Lively, JACOB KoBLE-
rARr, Hon. A. A. LEWIS, Judge 7. A
EDWARDS, II. B. NcGARY and J. NJ. WESH.
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The editor Of the New York Sun is hard
ro please CLEVELAND, BLYARD, PAYNE,
MORRISON, CARLISLE, BUTLER-not one
suits him as a Presidential candidate. He
is 50 severe and ungenerous in his require
1nents that all fail to meet his ideal-eyen
Holman has been dropped. Can it be
possible that in this little matter Mr.
DANNA's charity begins at home?
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Tn. Ev,ptian Conferenee.

LOSDoy, June 29.-At a meeting yester-
Gay Of the conference on the Egyptian
question, Granville briefly stated the Imam
"a proposals TO be considered BY the con-
i = then adjourned TO allow finance ex'
II anime the proposals, The date
a meeting is not fixed