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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15
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NOTES OF THE RIVER
N.vs About the Boats and Boatmen "
the Ohio.

News About the Boats and boa'"e
The Hudson swung of for oino'nA"''
Yesterday with fair trip.
All the packets have been de'ayou
more or less lately by the fog
The Scotia is scheduled to depart ior
Cincinnati and way points to-day
The Fred Wilson will be equippeo
with five new boilers at PittsDurg.,
The c. w. Bachelor departed ior
Pittsburg yesterday, ard Will De Inc
Sunday morning packet for Cincinnati
Captain Ellison and the other olncers
of the Hudson were yesterday presenIou
with a beautiful large basket OF roses
as a token of esteem by aparty OF YOUNG
ladies who had just made a Trip on 'no
boat. The ladies expressed themselves
as having had a delightful time wh'io
on the Hudson, and that they appreci-
ated thoroughly the many courtesies
from the officers of the ooat.-PtttSOufg
Conln,ercidl-Ga
The marks on the landing at midniRht
showed feet inches OF water In 'no
channel and falling.
PIrrsBURG, PA, August 1a.-River
feet 10 inches and stationary; raining.
WARREN, PA, August 14:-kiver
Clio of one foot and falling. Raining
BROWNSVILLE, PA, August l4.-River
4 feet 4 inches and rising. Cloudy and
warm.
MoRGANTowN, w. VA, August II
River feet and stationary. Cloudy
and warm.
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was kept together tolerably well Until
the civil war, when nearly everything
was DESTROYED or lost. Mrs. Folks In.
come kept dwindling down until nan
dozen years ago, when she found ne ,,,
self well nigh penniless. She SUN
owned the Polk mansion, but it brougnl
no revenue and required money to mann
tain it. When bill was introduced In
Congress to grant the widow OF Presi-
dent Lincold pension of S. 900 year,
il lacked one vote in the Senate 10 Sc
cure its passage. That was the vote OF
Senator Howell E. Jackson, OF Tennes-
see. He offered to vote for the bill pro-
vided it was so amended as to give an
nual pensions Of $4,000 to Mrs. POLK
and to the widow of President Tyler, as
we'll as Mrs. Lincoln, and after good
deal of oratory the bill became law.
Since that time Mrs. Polk had lived
comfortably on this pension.
The Polk residence is in the very cen
ire of the city on square or hlgn
ground. It Is nearly 100 years old, and
when erected it was the finest house In
the South. 1t is constructed OF brick,
two ard half stories high, with many
square, old-fashioned rooms, and great
halls extending north and south through
the house. There are front and side
entrances, with immense pillars extend
ing from the ground to the roof, giving
the house the appearance OF public
building. Shortly after Mr.. Folks
death Mrs. Polk had great black
bands painted around the immense
pillars on the two sides OF the
house, so placed as to resem-
BILE bands Of Grape wound round and
round them from the ground to the
roof. They remained on the pillars as
long as the paint lasted. Near the
house, in the side yard, is the tomb. 1t
is a half dome supported by circular
pillars. In the center is square mar
BILE shaft, bearing the dates OF the
birth and death of James Knox Polk
and resume of the principal events OF
his administration. In front OF the
house there is a brick pavement laid
over sixty years ago. To this day not
single brick has ever loosened or worn
out.
President Polk was q statesman, and
lawyer OF great ability, but he proba-
bly, left the queerest will that was ever
probated, by an intelligent man. Every
thing was given to his wife, and at her
death to be turned over "To the most
deserving member Of the family bear
ing the name of Polk" the decision to
be made by the State Legislature. The
nearest relative until recently was State
Treasurer Polk, OF Tennessee, to whom
it was supposed the estate would go.
1t will be remembered that few years
ago he became defaulter to large
amount and fed the country, finally
dying in Mexico. His dishonesty cut
him and his family off, and just how the
matter will be settled is now mystery.
There are no other deserving members
OF the family bearing the Polk name,
and now that Mrs. Polk is dead, the
Courts will have to decide the matter.
1t is not believed that the document
will stand legal test.
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OUR POPULATION AND INCREASE

Census Bulletin No. 102 tells OF the
population Of West Virginia by minor
civil divisions. The total population OF
the State in 1890 is given as 762,794 an
increase for the decade of 144,3S or
ga "a per cent; OF Ohio county 41,557 an
increase Of 400, or 1926 per cent; OF
the city Of Wheeling 54.522, an increase
Of 3,7s5 or 1921 per cent. This falls l.
400 short Of our school enumeration for
1890. Wheeling's population according
70 the school census for the present
year is S7,5O5.
1t IS interesting to note how the in
crease in the States population has
been distributed. The greatest growth
by all odds, has been at Huntington,
Cabell Co., which has increased
from 3,174 in 1850 To 10,1Os in
1890 or 91S.46 per cent. Next
in order comes Hinton in Summers,
with an increase from s79 to 2,57o in ten
wears, or 1925. New Cumberland,
Hancock, comes third with 1924 per
cent increase; Charleston fourth, with
60 So per cent; Moundsville fifth, with
51.52 per cent; Weston sixth, with 41.S6
per cent; Clarksburg seventh, with 5O.S9
per cent; Keyser eighth, with 27.sS;
Parkersburg ninth, with 27.74; Wells
burg tenth, with 23.14; Martinsburg
eleventh, 14.O6; Charleston twelfth, with
13.44; Wheeling thirteenth, with 1881;
while Grafton brings up the rear with
4 96 per cent increase. OF the counties,
Mcdowell, Mercer and Tucker, in order,
have increased over 100 per cent each,
showing the effect Of recent railroad
development. Fayette has increased
over IS per cent and Cabell over 20, and
Logan over so, while the smallest per
centage is shown in MasoR, which ranks
fifth in point Of population, the increase
being but $50.
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ASTONISHING.

The course OF the Republican press
and politicians since the passage OF the
Mckinley law has been full of startling
surprises. The former advocates Of high
taxes on everything of foreign origin
have preserved mastery silence on
the wool duties, unless an exception
may be made in the case OF THOMAS
DoLAN, the Philadelphia manufacturer,
who pretends that the object Of those
duties was to lessen the price of
domestic wool-a grotesquely
impudent suggestion. Instead of
pointing with pride to the success
Of the law in accomplishing its object
by raising the price of foreign goods and
keeping them out of the country alto
gether, they have boasted Of the addition
which it makes to the free list, while re-
framing from going into the particulars
as to those additions. In fact, the one
special feature of the law OF which they
have had far more to say in appreciation
than of all its other features put to-
gether is its abolition of the duty on
raw sugar. 1t probably affords the only
instance in history in which the high
protectionists have praised highly pro-
tective measure, almost solely on the
strength of Free Trade provision in
1t. Just at present, moreover, many
Republicans are protesting to be elated
over the large importations which have
been made under the Mckinley law,
Just as il the law had not been passed
expressly to prevent large importations
of foreign goods.
But the most astounding demonstra-
ton of all those made by the Republi-
can press is an effort on the part OF the
organ-in-chief, the New York Tribune,
to show that the Mckinley law is act
ually free trade measure. 1t declares
that trade is freer now than it has been
for the past thirty years.
Don't you want the foreign trade in
creased?" asks the Tribune. 1.-THE Nc
Kinley bill has done it,"
And this from the organ-in-chief,
which has heretofore designated Tariff
Reformers Free Traders, when it
wished to use the hardest name it could
think Of This from the Tribune which
never ceases to gloat over reports of
the decay of foreign industry, which has
hailed with acclamations the suspen-
sion of Welsh tinplate factories
and which has frequently pointed to
the idleness Of European workingmen
as proof of the perfect work Of the Nc
Kinley duties!
If the Tribune speaks truthfully,
then the manufacturers who had the |
fat fried out of them were victims OF a
confidence game. Yet these |
same manufacturers are dripping fat |
beautifully in the interest of MCKIN-
LEY, and with their eyes wide open,
too.
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MRS. POLK DEAD.
Widow of the Tenth President Passes
Peacefully Away.

Peacefully Away.
NASHVILLE, August 14.-Surrounded
by few loving friends and relatives,
Mrs. James X. Polk, relict Of the tenth
President OF the United States, departed
this life at 7:3O O'Clock this morning,
peacefully and quietly, in the full pos
session Of her mental faculties.
Mrs. Polk had been in perfect health
until last Wednesday evening, when, on
returning from short drive, she was
taken suddenly i'll, from which she
never rallied. The cause Of her death
was simply exhaustion, resulting from
old age.
The bells throughout the city are
mournfully tolliRg, and sympathy and
regret are heard from the masses OF
people as they gaze upon the bulletins
announcing the demise OF this honored
and beloved lady, who spent her years
among the people she loved so well, and
who respected her as one Of the noblest
of her sex. No arrangements regarding
the interment have yet been decided
upon.
Mrs. Polk was born September 4, 1903,
at MurSreesborO. She was married to
Mr.. Polk when still in her teens, and
had lived continuously in Nashville, ex-
cept when in Washington during the
COMPASSIONATE career of her distinguished
husband, and while mistress of the
White House. For the past fifty years
she had lived in seclusion, and for many
wears nothing was heard of her except
now and then stray newspaper para
graph.
President Polk left very large es-
tate at the time Of his death. The
Nashville home was the finest In the
city. He owned big farm at Athens,
Tenn, HIS former home, and several
plantations in Louisiana. The estate
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15
THOSE BETHLEHEM GUNS.

The Democratic and Independent
press of the country is calling on the
War Department to explain its award
Of the government gun contract Of nearly
$4,000, 900 to the company at Bethlehem,
PENNSYLVANIA, instead Of having the
guns manufactured ut the Watervliet
Arsenal, which could have done the
work better, in about half the time, and
at a saving Of at least million dollars.
This action is certainly one that re-
quires explanation, especially as Re-
publican journals admit. the facts. But
such an explanation as is given by the
Philadelphia Inquirer is the reverse OF
satisfactory. That paper says that
''there is such thing as being penny
wise and pound foolish" and adds:
The private establishments referred to
have gone to great expense to put IN the
immense appliances necessary TO make
their guns. The one that has been given
the contract has just completed one of the
largest steam hammers, if not the very
LARGEST. in the world. Their massive ma
chinery is of a character which, while it
NAV be sometimes needed for civil work,
could not be set up profitably without the
patronage of the government.
The Inquirer also declares that the
American people are getting bravely
over their former horror" of subsidies,
and will, therefore, he pleased with this
new attempt to help out this private
Pennsylvania corporation in its business
at the expense of the taxpayers of the
United States. That remains to be
seen.
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Mrs. JAMES X. Polk, who died yes
terday at the ripe old age OF So, leaves
a host Of warm and loving friends be-
hind to mourn her death. She was an
especially amiable and.gentle lady, who
won the love and esteem of everybody
with whom she came in contact. Mrs.
Polk was the widow of the tenth Presi-
dent of the United States. The widows
OF ex-Presidents who survive her are
Mrs. GRANT, Mrs. GARFIELD and Mrs.
CLEVELAND.
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SPEAKING Of the pension question

SPEAKING Of the pension question,
the Intelligencer says:
The debt we owe to the men who came to
the rescue of the Union when 1t was In
peril is beyond estimate; it cannot be com
puted. The soldiers are not lootlng the
Treasury, as political demagogues would
have US believe. They are simply receiV-
ing what is their just due from grate1ul
republic.
Certainly. 1t is the pension sharks
and frauds who are doing the footing.
and are upheld in it by this administra-
ton. 1t is estimated that 40 per cent.
Of the pensions granted under this ad-
ministration are fraudulent. That is
not doing the real veterans justice.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15

The Senator Stewart, Of Nevada, has
N learn that the mine owners OF Nevada
are small potatoes when compared with
the whole Of this Yankee nation.-Intelli-
Ocncer.
This is an entirely new view for the
Intelligencer TO take. 1t looks in quite a
different light upon the handful of high
" protected millionaires who are made
rich by tariff taxation OF the whole peo-
pie. And it does not speak of the few
sugar planters Of Louisiana, who are,
through the Mckinley bill, to receive
An unearned bounty Of millions directly
out Of the public treasury, as "small
potatoes when compared to the whole Of
this Yankee nation"
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PREPARING TO CELEBRATE.
The Colored People to Celebrate TIT
Emancipation Proclamation.


Extensive preparations arc being
made by the colored people OF this city
for a celebration in commemoration OF
the emancipation proclamation. The
affair is in the hands of Rev. j. j. Jones,
who is doing all In his power to make
the celebration a success, and he Is as
sisted by large number Of prominent
colored citizens. 1t will take place on
the State Fair Grounds September 22d,
and already Rev. Jones has received
letters from several prominent persons
In different parts of the country accept
ing an invitation to be present. There
will be mass meeting of the colored
citizens at the M. E. Church next Thurs
day evening to form Lincoln Memoir
ial club for marching purposes.
There will be a parade in the morn
ing, September 22d, in which the
different lodges, Odd Fellows,
Masons and X. Of P. will par
ticipate, and it is expected that fully
1900 men will be in line. Information
has already been received from large
number of towns in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, showing that large
delegations of prominent colored people
will be in attendance.
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nistroIed by Cloudburat.

SAN DIEGO GALA, August IA
stage driver brings the information Of
the obstruction of the little settlement
of Campo in this county by cloud
burst Wednesday. Several houses were
washed away and considerable live
stock drowned but there was no loss of
human life.
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Ask Your Friends

Who have taken Hoods Sarsaparilla what
they think of it, and the replies will be
positive in its favor. One has been cured
of indigestion and dyspepsia, another finds
it Indispensable for sick headache, others
report remarkable cures Of scrofula, salt
rheum and other blood diseases, still 9TH
ers will tell you that 1t overcomes "that
tired feeling" and so on. Truly, the best
advertising which Hoods Sarsaparilla re-
ceives is the hearty endorsement Of the
army Of friends it has won by its positive
medicinal merit.
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The outlook for this years races is in
deed very promising; never before has
there been such great interest taken in
horses.
The track is in splendid condition,
and will receive extra care from now
until the Fair. Some good records will
be made.
Mr.. Robert Anderson spent last week
at the Cleveland races, and is now at
Chillicothe, o., in the interest Of the
Fair, and has already procured large
number Of entries. Other agents are
doing all the big meetings for the same
purpose. We can therefore look for the
finest field Of horses even seen here.
The Association has secured the
services of Finn, the great Chicago
programmer, who has the finest outfit
in the country, and is almost constantly
employed at the big races. Reliable
and experienced judges and starters
have been secured and an effort will be
made to do away with the spectacles
usually seen on race courses.
Youngstown, o., and Washington,
Pa, comes the week before us on the
circuit, and the Ohio State Fair at
Columbus follows directly after in the
order named, so that we will get all the
horses In turn.
Entries for trotting and pacing close
August 81, at II p. m., and for runners
September Z, at 6 p. m. Large new
stalls with single roofs have been
erected in place of those washed away
by the flood, and ample accommoda'
tions vii be afforded for horsemen.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15

THE National Board of Control OF the
Worlds Fair has resolved TO double its
membership. They should remember
the axiom ''too many cooks spoil the
BROTH" They have as many quarrelS
already as they can attend to.
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Out and In Again.

JOLIET, ILL, August IA. Finley
Hoke, the noted forger from Peoria,
completed his five years sentence to-day
in the Joliet penitentiary, but was re-
arrested on a bench warrant instigated
by the Merchants National baak of
Peoria. There are nine indictments
hanging over him, the bonds of which
aggregate $4,000.
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ALLIANCE LECTURER PURvIs, OF Ohio,
thinks MCKINLEY will be overwhelmed
by over 100000 Democratic plurality.
He expects $4,000 Republicans to bolt
him. Mr.. PURvIs deal in large figures,
but he has travelled over Ohio-and who
oop fal1C
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1t COSTS $50 to kill Hebrew in Rus
STA. He may be robbed and half muir
dered, but if he is killed the above fine
will be imposed on his murderer. And
this is the nineteenth century.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15

TIE comments of the foreign press
on the death Of JAMES RUSSELL Low
ELL show in what high esteem the dis
tinguished American was held through
out the civilized world.
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SEASIDE AND MOUNTAINS.

Persons going out of the city for the summer
months can have the Daily REGISTER mailed to
them st any point in the United States or Can
ada at the following rates, including postage;
Daily and Sunday, one week..
Daily, omittihg Sunday, one week.. ....loc
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-15

~ Advertisers might paste this axiom
- In their hats with profit; "a news
paper that will lie about It's own clrcuia-
ton viii lie about that OF It's contempor-
arfoS.u
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REGISTER AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

The DAILY REGISTER is on sale regularly at
the News Exchange, on Fourteenth street. De-
ween Pennsylvania avenue and street.
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Qe1u ADVERTISEMENTS.
dds WILL BE RECEIVED

BY the BOARD OF Directors at the West Virginia
Ponitentiary at Moundsville, until noon, Sep
TENDER Cd. 1901, for the construction OF seventy.
two iron cells, according to the plans and speci-
fcations now on file in the Office OF the Superiu-
tendent. Bidders are also requested to submit
b . hpi W .
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TO MARINERS.

Fe, the purpose OF erecting the channel =.
of the Norfolk and Western R. r. Co.'S R,.'
over the Ohio River near Ceredo. W. Va 20
works will be placed between the main chss's
niers about August Goth. and removed Ss,.l'S
Der SOth, or as soon thereafter as prsctie.IS
The channel bays upon each side OF the ~.
Channel piers will remain unobstructed aSs.
the period the main channel is obstructed :
aug6
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MADAM MITCHELL

Has no equal in telling the past, present.
future. There Is n great rush 10 see Me-
Mitchell. the English astroioglst. She. th,cSs
her wonderful powers, effected a reconcI,,,
between my husband and me after sepans-l
OF two wears, for which shall ever feel o..
Iul. would advise all who are in trou5s.
consult her Immediately at her residence.
MRS. H SMITH
auoe&db No. 1897 Market street. third foo.
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THE STATE FAIR.
FULL PROGRAMME or THE FOUR DAYS SPEED
CONTENTS.
The Outlook for the Races Very Promis-
ing-Agsna Now Attending all the
Big Meetings
rrEspA1, SEPTEMBER s.

Below will be found the programme
of races to be held at the coming STATE
New-York tribune., 1891-08-29
REAL ESTATE.
BUSINESS AT THE EXCHANGE.

xl...erD
There was no business transacted at the Exchango
yesterday no auction sales being advertised 10 uiAo
place. The following sale at private contract Is an
nounccd: The northwest corner Of Eighty-siAsFs.
and West End-ave., fourstory brick ond stone dwen
lng on lot e2sAos house about 50, mas eeei ce SJ
being $4,000. Frederick Wnant has heen p9steu 9r
membership In the Exchange, proposed BY James H.
Wells, and seconded By Beverley Ward
RECORDED REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
114thst (No. 2 and % EasD Elliott C. David ,o ooo
and wife 20 Clarence w. Gayloe. s3oooo
1oth.st, SIS. 100 It 1st-ave 2sx9?.3. catharine 9,
nSrs 6dhe 1SS aa II Se 'GaES n 6sn 1000
saret Fox TOO 20 iioeo1Ia aIsg Eox 10000
%%S .nS s,s S map G7as f9a to TaGSn
Anthony orS st, lots, i85 and isc. map Nsw;YOrs
H. Marion and wife TO Carrie L. ROscrs.,4; 1'2'o
Esmere Place; ;, $50 Marmion;aye; aSSiOo' &c
Eias @aI?ay to hsas K &StPGS and
moast9@'. e. @Ss1' 10 $50 SO Fast Hiits Philips
Ho1ston.st 30 Si0 East; slme TO same. .........
Eeach.st no 5, isox5o; Maria and WIN Way 10 (,
75tS.st 1O1 East JOS Kassci and vile to Louis
Maiberrf.st 10 ii2 Abraham KosSel and wife ., ooo
72dst' ''iS 10 4as Fact 25xio23 Robert
cOrdova SS Place; " 5 2is;i II 5 Van coar.landt;
2Ctslst fyS"G Nos s. 2s and $50 East Mattnews Ooo
o5R,st U' > 200 n SiSys acxioOs, susan ., .oo
''SVsbS no cbSr,soh NJ DoSm $4,000
EC 10 Tiomas soT getter 10000
10 Fannie O.. Reeve, all title................ nom