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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-13

BALTIMORE, Mn, Feb. l2,-Flour' steady and dull.
Wheat. western lower aud quiet: No. winter red
spot So InSS14c; February $40: March Sg54a9o1 sc:
May 9lSaGtC. Corn western lower AID dull;
mixed spot laal9Ac; February 4s1Sats54Sc: March
4799sai7IIc Oats quiet and easy; western white
87asSc; mixed 3Ia3Gc. Rye quiet NJ 7Sa76c. Pro.
visions steady and more firm. Eggs higher ut 9ia
&c. whisky steady at 81 aai2i.
TOLEDO, O., Feb. l2.-wheat irmer aud quiet:
No. ? red cash and February 79c; March SOC:
April Sic: May So; No. 2 Soit. S5c. Corn quiet
but steady; No. 2 cash and February 49c: May
~ q. Oats quiet: No. Q 8l1FFc- CloyeSeed dun
but firm prime cash and February 81 IS; March
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-13

Central, eiJI; Ohio Central Ohio & Mississippi,
i6; do preferred, 20; Pacific Mall by; Flita'
eiico 1915: do preferred. o.; 81. rAnl, 7s1f, do
preferred i15Ik Texas Pacific, l9tSt Union Pacific,
i9JS, United States Express 20. W. 81. y d p u DO
Union 6iA
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
An Orchard of 10000 Peach Trees,

Mr.. McIlroy Jackson is the elder of
two brothers, who are known all
through the peach districts of Delaware
Maryland peninsula, as ''the Jackson
boys" Glider Jackson is the other
brother. Twenty years ago they were
boys in Kent county without a penny's
worth of property to their names. Now
they have q fortune that is popularity es-
timatedat a good many thousands of dol
lars. They have made it all out Of
peaches. Their good fortune has been
phenomenal. Glider is on a farm near
Magnolia, which, under his management,
has increased wonderfully in worth till
it is rated as the most valuable piece of
real estate in that part of the State.
McIlroy is on another farm, owned by
the firm, near Harrington, which is
worth a good many dollars more an acre
than the property Of his neighbors. But
the 'boys" have made an investment
which outreaches anything of the sort
ever yet known in Delaware. Near Mil
ford they have bought a big tract of land,
the combination of two or three farms,
covering in all about 300 acres, and this
fall the Messrs. Jackson, who have put a
tenant in charge to look after affairs un-
der their direction, will begin to set out
a peach orchard far larger than any other
orchard in this country. This fall, next
spring, and next fall they will plant $50
acres in peach trees. With an average
of 1O5 trees to the acre this will give
their orchard a total of over 2G, 900 trees.
1t is their plan to include about twenty.
five varieties of peaches. They have ex-
tensive nurseries of their own from which
they will choose the young trees with
which they will cover their big tract.
This farm is further down in the state
than the peach centre now lies, but the
Mcssrs. Jackson are convinced that the
peach belt is rapidly moving southwark,
and they believe that within a few years,
in three years at most, when the new
orchard will come into the period of
bearing, the best fruit producing region
will be close at hand.-Mew YorE Times.
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Wall Street Bears.

Brokers and operators are 'bears''
when they have sold stock, and particu.
larly stock that they did not own, con
tracing to deliver it at some future time.
They are then ''short of the market"
The disposition of the bear is to pull
things down. The Wall street bear is
often found 'gunning a stock" by put
ting forth all his strength and craft to
break down the price, and especially
when aware that q certain house is heavily
loaded and cannot resist his attack. He
"buys in" by purchasing stock to meet
a "short" contract, or to return borrowed
stock; s'covers, or "covers his shorts"
by buying stock to fulfill his contract On
the day of delivery. This a self-pro-
tective measure, and is,called Towering
short sales" A ''drop' in the price of
q stock is to a bear the next best thing
to a "break." He r%ejoices in an "of"
market when prices fall. He "sells
out" a man by forcing down the price of
a stock hat the person is carrying so
low that he is obliged to let it
90, and perhaps to fail. lie
groans Justify when the bulls get
a "twist on the shorts" by artifcially
raising prices, and ''squeezing," or com
polling the bears to settle at ruinous
rates. Neither 'bull" nor "bear' is an
altogether safe 'critter." The latter,
however, is reputed to be about four
times as mischievous as the former, mas
much as he sells another mans property,
whereas the bull contents himself with
carrying his own.
The bear occasionally finds himselfin q
"corner" where it is impossible to buy
the stock of which he is "short," and
which he must deliver at a specified
time. He growls and begs, but must
pay what the holders of his contracts are
willing to accept. Some relief is afforded
by a "let up," or the withdrawal from
the market of the "clique," or pool"
or combination of operators that cor
nered him. A "squeal in the pool is the
revelation of its secrets by one of its
members, and a 'leak in the pool" is
when one of the parties sells out his in
terest without the knowledge Of the
others. Either form of detection yields
some mitigation to the bears sufferings.
-UarVer's MAGAZINE.
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A Bushinan's Cave.

"We engaged two or three of the ma.
tives as guides, says Mrs. Carey Hob
son, in cat Home in the Transvaal,'
land they took us into n of their Gu
rious caves, thought think cave is hardly
the proper name; it is more like an
enormous assure in the rocks, with small
caves and shelves in the precipitous
sides. 1t was a wonderful place, capable
OF being garrisoned and provisioned IN
time OF war, and, one would think, rem
dcred impregnab'e.
"'How about the water?' asked Ora
ham. Had they asupply in the caveF
"Thev had, and a very plentiful sup
ply, too. We entered the place through
a narrow, zig-zag opening in the rocks,
which almost gave you the idea that you
were going into some tunnel that had
fallen in. All at once We found our
selves in a beautiful open space, where
there were some cattle feeding upon
grass growing luxuriantly IN either side
of q clear stream of water that ran the
whole length of the chasm.
"We walked along its banks for a
long way, admiring the vegetation,
which was different from any we had
seen outside. Beautiful little fairy ferns
and maidenhair grew in the crevices of
the rocks, making a pretty. lace trim
ming, as it were, between the lines of
strata. each side matching so exactly both
in strata and teamwork. as to denote in a
wonderful manner the audiences with
which the mountain must have been reft
in twain. And in that clear, dry CHI
mate, the rocks looked as bright and
n~ewly-broker as if this cataclysm had
taken place but yesterday. Gradually
we heard more and more distinctly q
roaring noise, that we understood to
come from a fall of water. The rocks
had hitherto been open to the sky, al
though much nearer to each other at the
ton than below; but at last they closed
entirely, and we were in a dark passage.
Here were rooms or holes for the stores
of grain, and hiding places for their
women and children.
cat the end of this tunnel we came
upon a cascade, falling sheer, from the
mountain summit, through a large round
opening, into the basin below. A mass
OF rock iutting out at one side, Just
within the ia ! Intercepted the water, and
sent it dancing wildly in athousand fan
tastic Jets OF spray, to be sobered down
as they mingled with the long, steady
stream of falling water. There is an i'm
mense quantity of honey in these caves,
and the people collect it from the honey
nests in the interstices of the rock, let
ting each other down from above by
means of thongs. or, more generally, by
climbing and clinging among the mon
key-rope that grows luxuriantly in parts.
Our guides also pointed out some curious
rock paintings, the work OF the early
Bushman inhabitants"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

There were 1000. 900 inhabitants in
Rome in the days of Emperor Hadrian.
In Genoa the policemen wear silk hats
and carry silver-headed walking-sticks.
Among the negroes of the Carolina
coast telling ghost stories is a ~favorite
amusement, and the stories are not
spoken, but chanted with a flavor of ex.
altation.
An ordinary hens egg weighs from
one and ne-half to two ounces; q ducks,
two to three ounces; a turkeys, three to
four ounces, while that of agoose weighs
from four to six ounces
In ancient times the carrying of the
four.leaved clover was believed to bring
luck in play and business, safety on a
Journey and the power of detecting evil
spirits. In Germany the clover was held
almost sacred, whether it had two or
four blades.
The Seven Dials is a celebrated locali-
ty in st. Giles, London, formerly motto.
torious for its degraded condition, but
now much improved. 1t was so named
from a pillar, removed in 1878, bearing
a seven-faced dial, and standing at the
point of divergence of seven streets.
A wreath of laurel or olive leaves, a
small quantity of oil, a tripod or other
similar rewards of victory, as prizes in
the athletic games of Olympia, Delphi,
Nemea and Athens, conferred almost
divine honor in Greece, even the years
being known by the temporary hero OF
Olympia.
G. l.. Thomas, of Albany, N. Y, is
said to own the largest mastiff in the
world. His name is Senator, his age is
thirteen months, weight 100 pounds,
heighth 35I inches over the withers,
length from tip of nose to end of tail
seven feet eight inches, and he is valued
at 81, 800.
Grabs thoroughly dried in o hot oven
and then pulverized are used as medi-
cine in a malarial locality in Kharkoo
government in Russia. A teaspoonful is
regarded as a dose, effective in most
cases. This powder is used there in
preference to quinine, preceded invaria-
bly, with a glass of aloe brandy.
why are DdTISlS paiuteu! oeSeu9o "
sharp fellow. having noticed the leak
ing of oil through wood, painted a bar
rel blue on the outside and then filled it
with water and allowed it to stand until
it had soaked up all it would. Then
the oil wa put in. The water kept the
oil from soaking into the wood, and the
paint on the outside kept the water from
coming out.
The largest cheese ever manufactured
in this country has been made at East
Aurora, N. Y. It was ordered by a
prominent grocer of Buffalo, who, dur
ing the process of manufacture, threw
ten fve-dollar gold pieces into the lac
teal mass. Its weight is $500 pounds.
The milk was taken from 1900 COWS,
and it took three hundred hands to milk
them. An excursion of between four
hundred and five hundred prominent
citizens left Buffalo and was present to
witness the novel ceremony of construct
ing so huge a mass of cheese. Six
cheese, weighing from 1900 to 5000
pounds, were made in the same factory
for an English firm, which will offer
them for sale during Christmas week in
London and Liverpool.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Liquor Statistics

The consumption of liquor in this coun-
try is officially reported by the authori-
ties at Washington as amounting to
50, 1856, 9o3 gallons of spirits, 10, 1855, 95a
barrels of fermented liquor. and 20, $685.
s45 gallons of wine. Estimating the
population at about So, 900, 900, the av-
erage consumption appears to be about
Ia gallons of whisky for each person
yearly, over 1925 gallons of beer, and
.35 of a gallon of wine. The quantity
of beer consumed appears to be about
595, 600, 900 gallong. In other words
tic people of this favored land drink
about two gallons of liquor for every
bushel of wheat that they consume-a
striking text for our temperance friends.
-New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Long Life in Mexico.

The other day an old fellow named
Jose Onoire Ojeda, died owe in a town
of the State of Jalisco, aged 115 years,
writes a correspondent of the Boston
HeraM. He had been married twice,
thought seriously of the third wife, when
death came along to stop his matrimo-
NAL schemes. Some time ago an old
fellow was living at San Miguel de AL
lendc, aged 1876 years, q man still vigor-
Gus. The records of the parish church
confirm his claims to a great age. Not
long ago, down in the pretty little tropi-
cal village of Orizaba, there died an old
woman aged 40 years, and a few months
ago a woman named Martina Riviera died
here at the age of $50 years, a fact thor
oughly attested. The Indians have a prov
erb that their hair is black when that of the
Spaniards is growing gray. Alocal paper
noted the other day the case of the In
dian, Juan Santiag, who died in 1914.
at the age of 143 years. This old chap
left two dependent grandchildren, both
aged men, whose years were respectively
III and 100 years. The grandfather
married as the Indians do, very young,
and it is not surprising that he should
have left descendants who were them
selves centenarians.
The secret of this extraordinary longevity
among the Indians is their simple diet
and regular habits. They themselves
say that when an Indian goes into service
and eats the food of the white man the
Indians teeth begin to decay. Their
perpetual grinding on tortillas keeps
their teeth white and the lime in the tor
lila makes teeth bone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Evils OF Lager Beer.

The chemis; of the Brooklyn health
department has been investigating some
of the beer sold in that city, and has ar
rived at results that are anything but re-
assuring to those who drink it. He re-
ports, in the first place, that the common
practice of drawing beer through brass
or copper faucets is highly injurious to
the consumer. The metal becomes cor
rodcd, and deposits of it are found in
the liquid in quantities large enough to
be dangerous. This danger is small,
however, compared to others which the
beer drinker undergocs. DIR. BARLEY goes
on to speak Of "the pract ice, so common
with some brewers, of adding bicarbon'
ate of soda to the beer, so as to make it
foam when drawn. Two ounces of the
drug arc compressed into a cartridge and
dropped into the key at the time OF filing.
Thirty glasses of beer thus charged will
contain nearly three ~teaspoonfu's OF
soda" Further than this, he finds that
most of the beer made in Brooklyn is
sent out from the brewery in about
fourteen days after thu brewing, and is
necessarily unwholesome. It is little
strange if DR.. BARLEY found no other
adulteration in the beer uf Brooklyn than
bicarbonate of soda. AS the readers OF
the Mail and Express remember, an
investigation made by US nearly three
years ago showed that various noxious
drugs were used by brewers to impart a
bitter taste to the beer, to counteraet
its constituting influence, and to cage"
it. Among these substances were aloes,
ouassia and .nux vomica .-Mew York Null
and Express.
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Tenn perance p

Water is the changer of the earth;
rum is the changer of mankind.
E~isnty-c;ght insurance" companies IN
ENGLAND 1--we a total abstinence depart
mcnt and give premium, in some shape
to that class.
The Adams Express Company forbids
the use of liquor to its employees. The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy r. II.
will not even permit them to board
where liquor is sold.
1 am acquainted with a man who be-
came utterly broken down from drink,
but took the pledge and kept it for ter
years. At the end of this time he wa!
swept back by simply seeing his clergy
man take one glass of wine.- Colone! Z
". Higg,ns0n.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Fatal State Department.

The state department., which at the
beginning of our government was looked
upon as the stepping stone to the presi-
dency, became later on singularly fatal
to the ambitions Of almost every man
who took charge of it, and its possession
in many cases has been the forcrunner
of disaster, disease and death. Upshur,
one OF Tyler's secretaries of state, was
blown up on the Princeton while he was
in Office, and Hugh S. Legare, the secre-
tary of state who preceded Upshur, died
at Boston at the celebration of the
Bunker Hill monument, which he was
attending with the President in his ca
pacity as secretary. Daniel Webster,
while acting as Fillmore,s secretary of
state, was in 1852 thrown from his car
rage and there received the injuries
which caused his death the following
October. Secretary William II. Seward
never recovered fully from the blow Of
the assassin Payne, which he received on
the night Lincoln was killed, and his
political future was injured by his con-
uection with johnson in the state de-
partment in the following administra-
ton. James G.. Blaine narrowly es.
capped receiving Guiteau's bullet when
he was walking down to the depot arm
in arm with President Garfield to see him
off to Long Branch. Had Henry Clay
not accepted the state portfolio from
John Quincy Adams the ''bargain" and
"corruption" cry would never have been
raised, and Clay would probably not
have died disappointed in his ambition
to be President. John c. Calhoun's
future was largely affected by the fights
he had while secretary of state, by which
he became estranged from Jackson and
his party, and Marcy and Cass dropped
out of the state department into exist
ing nonertityncss. 49, Clereland (Ohao)
lender.
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been but one instance of capital punish.
ment in the history of the country.
Were the precepts Of St. Paul against
the speaking of women in the Corinthian
churches, to be regarded as still impera.
tive, it would be difficult in these cape
towns to maintain the prayer-meeting,
at least in the fishing seasons. A woman
superintends the Sunday school in
Provincetown, and the Congregational
Year Book reports u woman as minister
at Dennis Chicago Adrance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
GROWN.

She is a woman grown, today;
1t seems but yestermorn
That she lay sleeping in my arms
Atiny babe, just born.
And now she's grown to womanhood,
To beauty rare, my pet:
Her heart is Slowed upon young Jean
And his upon Janet.
hope that they may happy be,
But, oh, it grieves me sore
That she-my babe It'll yesterevc-
Will be my babe no more.
She is a woman grown to-day,
Yetscarcely out her teens;
Too soon, too soon my child is grown,
Too o o her heart is Jeans.
Flora ~ Montgomery
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TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
The Eead March.

Tramp. tramp, tramp, in the drunkards
way
March the feet Of a million men;
If none shall pity and none shall save,
Where will the march they are making
end
The young. the strong, and the old are there,
In woeful ranks as they hurry past,
With not a moment to think or care,
What is tho fate that comes at last,
Tramp, tramp, tramp, to a drunkard'sd doom,
Out of a boyhood pure and fair
Over the thoughts Of love and home
Past the check of a mothers prayer;
Onward swift to q drunkard's crime,
Over the plea of wife and child,
Over the holiest ties of time
Reason dethroneI, and souls gone wild.
-Mary 7. Latarop, IN the Bulletin
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What the Temperance Cause Has

Done.
Rev. Newman Hall, of London, has
beautifully said of the temperance cause:
It is ''an enterprise that has fed the hun
CRY, and clothed the naked, and healed
the sick, and taught the ignorant, and
elevated the degraded, and gladdened
the sorrowful, and led to the cross null
titudes that had been wandering far
away; an enterprise that has gathered
again the fortune that had been scat
tered, and built again the home that had
been ruined, and raised again the char
acter that had been blasted, and bound
up again the heart that had been broken;
an enterprise that has given peace where
there was discord, and gladness where
there had been woe, that has broken
open many a prison door, and restored
to his right mind many a maniac; an en-
terprise that has prevented many a sui.
! eide, and that has robbed the gallows of
many a victim that would otherwise
have been there; an enterprise that has
thinned the work.house, and the hos
pital, and the Jail, but that has helped
to fill the school, and the lecture room,
| and the industrial exhibitions; an enter
prise that has turned into useful citizens
those that were the pests of society
one of the best educators Of the masses,
n of the very chief pioneers of the
Gospel, an enterprise which is not Christ,
but which is one of the holy angels that
90 upon his mission. Like ONE fair
spirit from another world, our great en-
terprise has trodden the wilderness, and
flowers of beauty have sprung up upon
her track. She has looked around, glad
| dening all on whom her smiles have fall
len; she has touched the captive, and
his letters have fallen of; she ha:
spoken, and the countenance of despair
has been lighted up with hope; waved
her magic wand, and the wilderness ha;
rejoiced and blossomed as the rose.
Like the tabled Orpheus, she ha*
warbled her song of mercy, and wild
beasts, losing their fcrocity, have fol
lowed gladly and gratefully in he'
train. She has raised up thoss who
have been worse than dead, sepulchret
in sin, and she has led multitudes to tn
living waters of salvation.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Docidlng-Doing.

It is always we'll when n decides
to do a right thing. But decision by
itself alone Is worthless. Decision
must be followed by doing, or nothing
Is accomplished. The prodigal in the
far-of land among the swine said, II
will arise and go to my father" That
was a right decision, one that it would
have been grievously foolish and
wrong for him not to make. But that
decision, by itself alone, still left him
in the far-off land among the swine.
It was when the decision was followed
by doing that che arose and came to-
his father" leaving the land Of his
misery and the british companions OF
his hunger behind him. 5
A great deal is gained when the
convicted sinner decides to turn to
Christ. Until that decision there's
no hope Of pardon. It is a decision
reached under the impulse Of the diS
vine Spirit. "No man can say that
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost" 1t is the great preliminary
step. But there must be the doing OF
what is involved in the decision. or it
is void. The prodigal must set out on
his journey, as we'll as decide to arise
and 20.
There Is in some cases great danger
that men will rest in what they call
their decisions, and not take the nee
essary steps which those decisions In
volve. The result is, Of course, dis
astrous. 1t is not enough to resolve
to be a Christian. One must be q
Christian. That is to say, firmly re.
solving, In humble dependence upon
divine grace, to live the life Of q
child of God, the believer must go for-
ward day by day doing his Heavenly
Fathers will. The Christian life does
not consist in mers resolutions, though
they may be the beginning. The
Christian life Is Hving.
There may be some of our readers
who are thinking seriously Of their
souls condition. They may be wish.
ing that they were Christians. Pos
sibly they have got so far as to resolve
to be Christians. But the work is not
complete till, day by day and duty by.
duty, they are living the Christian life:
Resolutions, decisions even, that end
in themselves, are useless-worse than
useless, because sometimes proving the
Aatterers that lull and bind conscience.
If they are to avail, they must lead to
action. If you say, 81 will arise and
20 to my father" let it also and i'm
mediately be said Of you, "And hs
arose and came to his Father" Mes
seage':.