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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-17

WASHINGTON, D. G., March 16.--The
change that has come over the senate
was patent to the most inexperienced
observer to-day. As soon as the body
had adjourned after its brief session
the army OF office seekers who have
been thronging the corridors for days
past found entrance and opportunity to
see their senators, And they all found
their way to the Democratic side of the
chamber with the result that nearly
every senator seated there was soon
surrounded by group Of wistful eyed
men, or was obliged in self defense to
flee 10 tho retiring rooms OF the COM
mittec rooms. On the other side OF the
chamber the Republican senators
sat at their ease and were unmolested
Several Of tho Republican senators
talked earnestly with Senator Stewart,
possibly in explanation OF the party
necessity which had impellod them to
drop him from the minority member
ship on the appropriations committee,
II he feels any soreness over this mat.
tor, Senator Stewart manages to con.
ceal II very etlectually.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-17
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For West Virginia Western Pennsylvania and
Onlu, SHOW or rain CaslcflY Wludsi slight rise
In temperature ncaf Lake Eric,
riii. TEMPERATURE YE,rrRDAY.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-17

A telegram was received at the war
department to-day from Gen. Wheaton,
commanding the department OF Texas,
announcing the surrender yesterday to
United States troops at Fort Ringold, OF
six more OF the Cara revolutionists.
They will be turned over to the civil
outhoritia1
The Press., 1893-05-18
X o O X o o o O O O O O X O O x
the orchard

Apple trees, represented above by the letter X, are planted 45 feet apart, two peach trees co O being set between each, and the intervening spaces likewise occu- pied. When this first peach orchard has finished it's work it will be taken out and new one set, but the apple trees then having made considerable growth, only one peach tree will be placed between them, thus securing fresh ground for the new trees which are expected to continue in bearing until the apple trees reach such size as to require the entire plot.
 MT. Sternberg has faith in peach grow ing in Connecticut, a faith justified by his own experience. He is not the kind of man to persist in an enterprise which af- ter trial had been proved unprofitable, and as fruit growing is the most conspicu- ous feature of his farming. though he en- gages to considerable extent in raising tobacco and other crops, it is fair to con- clude that he finds that it not only pays but pays well.
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Highest of all in Ieavenng powerLates S Govt Report @!'!a!:'!!! D! Bstias BsMas':
 ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

f coil" at the end of rope. Yesterday af-
 ternoon about o'clock Theodore D. Con-
 ant was found hanging dead in cobblef shop at his home short distance beyond
 Chaffeeville on the road to Atwoodville. Appearances indicated that not long after
 noon he went to the shop, put a rope oveS beam and around his neck, standing on 8 chair, stepped off the chair and strangled to death. Medical Examiner Fox was called and made the necessary examina- tion. MT. Conant has been in poor health for nearly two years, for some time being confined to his room. He finally grew better and was able to be about, but late- ly has been worse at intervals. Despond- ency or temporary insanity caused by this i'll health is the. supposed cause of the deed. Theodore Delos Conant was born in Mansfield February 4, 1919, and was thus "A years of age He has lived in that town all his life and was a shoemaker by trade. In 1841 he married Louisa Wright, and as his second wife Harriet, widow of Palmer Knowlton of Ashford She died about a year and half ago. He had five children, one son, by his first wife, Delos w., now superintendent of the Holland silk mills, Willimantic, and one by the second, Otis H., with whom he lived, be- ing all that survive.
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Harper's Magazine: A rather. pointed story is told of Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and the late Senator Beck, which we give without varnish.
 Upon one occasion it was necessary to test some old Bourbon whiskey before shipping the simon pure to fastidious customer. The anxious dealer bethought him of these two great men, who were universally admitted to be connoisseurs in the article, and begged their indulgence in the matter of tasting the liquor Black burn swallowed a sip, smacked his lips, looked a little bit critical, tried it again, and then said: ''It is fair-very fair but, again smacking his lips, Git seems to me taste iron in it." The dealer look ed discouraged. .g
 Beck went through the same process of tasting and trying, at last exclaiming: ]: That's good-very good-but think I detect taste of leather
 The dealers face fell. But feeling sure he had superior article he investigated. After diligent search he found carpet tack with 8 leather cap in the bottom of the cask.
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Connecticut Farmer.) MIR. STERNBERG'S WAY.

MT. A. c. Sternberg, of West Hartford, has probably had more satisfactory re- suits in peach growing than almost any other man in Hartford county. While his orchards are small compared with those of the Hale Brothers, of South Glastonbury, they are so located as to escape the extreme cold which has more than once destroyed what promised to be fine crop for the Hales, while the season is so much later on this side the river that he has suffered much less from late frosts Like the Hales, 8 thorough busi- ness man, MT. Sternberg has learned how to market fruit of all kinds to the best advantage, and his career as fruit grow CT has been 8 series of successes, varying only in degreee, while many farmers have found failures so interspersed with suc- cesses that they are inclined to look upon the business, especially so far as the peach is concerned, as too much lottery to en- courage large investments.
 Every spring, however, for number of years, Mr. Sternberg has set some hun dreds of peach trees, as every fall he has gathered some hundreds of baskets of choice fruit.
 This season he is going in on larger scale. A twelve acre pasture lot, largely grown up to briars and bushes, has been, with good deal of labor, cleared off and put in the best condition for orchard pur- poses, and the owner, with the assistance of his son, graduate of Storrs school, is setting two thousand trees, nearly i've sixths of which are peaches. The follow ing diagram indicates the general plan of fhn orobord
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A CHECK FOR FOUR CENTS.

l Awell-knownW Wall street broker, whose
 office is in the Schemerhorn building, has
 pasted in conspicuous place in his pri-
 vate office little piece of paper which
 even upon the "street" is regarded AS A
 great financial curiosity. It is a check
 drawn upon New York national bank for four cents, and has been certified. It is rule with all banks that when the paying teller celtifles by his signature upon a check, drawn by depositor. that there are sufficient funds on deposit in the bank to meet the check when present. ed for payment, he does so with the un- oerstanding that the check, if not used and returned to the bank through the or dinary channel of business, the clearing house, shall be rcdeposited as if 1t were cash by the drawee. If a certified check faiis to find it's way back to the bank on which 1t is drawn, the paying teller's daily sheet, and consequently the books Of the bank, will not balance.
 This four-cent derelict-the bank ac- countants probably have stronger name for it-has now been tout" several years. and is probably a constant cause of irri- tation to the bank people, who now must of necessity take balance four cents out of the way as true one. It is not known what means the drawee of this check used to induce the teller to certify it, but they were undoubtedly potent ones, as may be learned by any one who will present for certification a check for anyway near a like amount, even though the drawee's name be good for ten thousand times the amount at the bank at which it is ore. sented. The teller would probably hold it and give "cashier's check" for a like amount in place of it. If the party didn't like that he could take cash-or do the other thing.
 The bank would most likely pay a con- siderable premium to get hold of that four-cent check, as once did the "Old La dy of Threadneedle street" in an instance of this kind recorded by writer in the London Notes and Queries, for July 1, 1SS2. By some misadventure a note for one penny stamped with the "promise to pay' of the Bank of England got into cir culation in 1918, and "for many years gave the cashiers much trouble with their accounts"
 About fifteen years ago." says the writer in Notes and Queries, "lt was brought to the bank, but the owner, not unwisely, would not take penny for it, and believe the bank settled the transac- tion by giving him five pounds "-New York HerGLd.
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best in mind, manners and morals, or prophetic of so much for the coming race in true brotherhood of social, industrial and universal equality. In this light every woman should check off on her cal endar the dedication of the woman's building as the birthday of her independ- ence
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Notable was that banquet given in Phil adelphia to the survivors of the memora- ble 1906" who voted for Grant at Chicago in 1880. All but the very youngest among our voting citizens can recall the sensa- tion produced at the republican presi- dential convention of that year, when, with Roscoe Conkling at their head, the 3O6 stood together and voted through 36 straight ballots to nominate Grant for a third time. One of the humors of their opponents, after the convention was over, was to have huge cast iron medals struck, bearing in big letters the figures "3O6," and send them to the members of that band. But it was settled then and there that the American people would never consent to let any man be candidate for president for third term. It was at this time, too, that Blaine gave Conkling and his men the name of "Stalwarts." One might have thought it was forgotten, that name, but William w. Hicks of Florida, who was one of the 326, assured his hear CTS at the banquet that the Stalwarts of 1880 would still be living in the hearts of the American people when the Stalls themselves had "attained the freedom of eternity and looked down from loftier al- titudes." On the whole, it is good phrase that attained the freedom of eternity.''
 Another of the old Grant guard at the banquet was Webster Flanigan of Texas, who gave to American political literature the immortal question, What are we here for?" Hon. George s. Boutwell, was one of the speakers and presided at the ban quet. But the occasion was not all joy full, because of the members of the old guard who were absent. Conkling, he of the sheer, and the curl, and the eloquent bitter tongue, has "attained the freedom of eternity" So has General John A. Logan.
 Of the 306, 61 are known to be dead, and of 28 more it is unknown whether they are dead or alive. Of the rest 93 were too infirm to bear the journey to Philadelphia. So the years fly by, and only ST of the Stalwart Grant delegates in 1880 remained who were able to attend the banquet in their .honor at Philadel- phia.
 Hartford Times: It is said that the shad pounds" along the Connecticut shore have been abandoned mostly-and that there is only one Ca little way west of Saybrook light) in the whole distance between Clinton and Saybrook. The fail nre of the shad fishery last year is said to be the reason. Of it was failure, it was due to the rapid extermination of the shad by these very ''pounds''D One result al- ready noticed (even in flood time) in the Connecticut river at Saybrook confirms this view of the effect of the pounds. !" Tuesday afternoon in two hauls of drift nets-nets thrown out on the ebb tide | 136 shad were caught. That is sug 1 gestion of return of the shad to the riv- er-from which the ''pounds" had in late years nearly cut them off, leaving not enough for sufficient spawning. A seine hauled in Hamburg Cove, on the Lyme shore of the river, brought in 123. If the pounds" are stopped, the shad fishery along the river may be restored.
The Press., 1893-05-18
LOCAL TOPICS.
Penned and ScissOred.

Some of the pupils in one of the young CT departments of the public schools O. Stafford Springs were requested to write something appropriate for arbor day Here is the production of one miss, ageC 10 years:
 Two little pansies lived side by side, Down in the meadow, filled with pride; "I don't like this place." said the first lit
 tie one, E.
 "And don't either" said the next, in fun. "The sun is too hot and I'm roasted here, But there is nice place very near
 1 would like to go, it's so cool and nice, And there perhaps we would feed on mice. " "That's the very incest place in town,'' Said the other, with an odd little frown. - "I would be so glad if we could get there," And so would ], ,' said the next in despair.
 The reference to the diet of the pan- sies is where the ''poetic license' comes in.
 Isaac Bancroft of Ellington has made application for a conservator over his father, David O. Bancroft. B. H. Bill, and Judge Eggleston, Hart ford, for the petitioner. Hyde, Gross & Hyde and Charter for the respondent Louise Bancroft, wife of David O., died a short time ago, leaving will disposing of from $35, 1000 to $40, ,OOO worth of prop erty. The will was admitted to probate April IT, without contest. Since that time it is claimed evidence has been dis covered tending to show that she was in- to make will, and an appeal has been taken to the superior court by her son, Isaac.
 = Willimantic Journal, May 18th: An other person has succumbed to the appal- ently suicidal mania prevalent in this sec- tion and braved what dreams may come when we have shufled off this mortal
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DID YOU TRY
 Pigs in Glover" or the ''Fifeen Puzzle 2"

Well, the man who invented them has just completed .anothert little playful mystery for young and old which is selling for TEN CENTS for the beneft of the Fund to erect home for newspaper workers in New York. This puzzle is the property Of the NEW YORK PRESS CLUB, and generous friends Of the Club have donated over $s5OOO to provide prizes for lucky people, young or old, who solve the mystery. There is lot of entertainment and instruction in it. Send a DIME and get the souvenir puzzle by return mail. Address PRESS CLUB SOUVENIR" !" Tenn pie Court, N. Y. City.
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Let Me Show You what saving have made during the last year by being my own doctor. Last year paid out $96. 25 for doctors and their medicines; this year paid $5 for six bottles of Sulphur Bit ters, and they have kept health in my whole family. They are the best and purest medicine ever made = Charles King, 60 Temple-st., Boston, Moss. 10
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years and half in the revolutionary war
 Mrs. Mary Woodworth, wife of Horace
 Woodwork, both of whom are living, is the daughter of William Burns, who enlisted at Coventry, April 4, 1777. He was born in England in 1764 or '65, and came to this country in 1776. He died in North Coventry about 1890. Mrs. Wood
 worth was born in 1918, and married MT.
 Woodworth in 1S4S. Her son, Edward
 Woodwork, has daughter three months old, who is probably one of the youngest at-grandchildre of revolutionary SOL diers in the country. MT. Burns received severe wounds in service in the revolu- tionary war.
 -Somers cor. Hartford Times: George Hodges had a miraculous escape from being killed day or two since After he led Holstein bull belonging to H. R. FKibbe out to water, in taking him into the barn he stepped in ahead of the bull, and the animal made dive for him, but hit the door, splintering it to pieces. The o0esoS' JoAn Aoi oHly IWILCHcu I1OuSoS out of the door on the ground, but made him lose his hold of the leading stick, at which the bull tried to gore him. The only thing that saved Hodges was his falling so near the underpinning that the animals horns struck a chestnut timber, making 'indentures about & of an inch deep. But for tho timely assistance of MT. Galbreth in beating off the bull, Hodges would surely have been killed. It was feared that his leg was broken, and also that he was injured internally, but it is hoped he will come out better than at first feared. ...... Old Mr. Scully, S4 years old, who has long been an in- valid, and cared for by his son and daugh- ter most faithfully, was buried Wednes- day (10th). He was one of the oldest persons in town.
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Volume 36.

The following is clipped from an alma. nae of 1891: Each letter composed of one sheet of paper conveyed thirty miles, six cents over thirty to eighty, ten cents over eighty to 150, twelve and one-hali cents; over 150 to 400, eighteen and one. half cents; over 400, twenty-five cents no allowance for intermediate miles double letters, double said rates; triple letters, triple. Newspapers, one cent in the state; two and one-half cents any dis tance in the United States. Pamphlets, not Over fifty miles, one cent sheet, over fifty to 100, one and one-half cents, and not over two cents any distance in the United States.
 GUARANTEED CURE.-We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with aCough Cold or anyLung, Throat or Chest trouble, and will use this remedy as directed, giving it. fair trial, and experience no benefit, you return the bottle and have your money refuned. We could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. Kings New Discovery could be relied on. Itnever disappoints. Trial bot ties free at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. Large size soc. and $1. 3
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"Z Que nzy Zl1e to T0M."

That is strong statement.
 Yet exactly what Miss Cert rude Sickler, of Wilton, N. J., has written to Mrs. Pinkham.
 She says:-
 "I suffered terribly with SUD- pressed and painful menstrual tions. Doctors could only keep me from having fits each month by giving me morphine. This continued until 1 was com pletely prostrated.
 My father at last got me a bottle of Lyazu 4. PzukAam's s VegekabAe Combound, which at once gave me relief. It did what the doctors could not cured me. 1 never have any trouble now, and have no dread cf the coming month.
 ! owe my life to you. Oh! If other suffering MMA women would @WM try your val Wa IVA uable medicine 1zSV they would bless N x you as l do." m@ze Yf1f1k1@2
 All druggists sclrit. lX<INN&%SSW
 Address in confidence .ARZM0ANN$zA LYDIA E. PINKHAM MED. A~~%TMMMm@@I Co.,, LYNN, Mass. Nzs< @%e
 Lydia E. Pinlhaua's =
 Liver Pills. 25 cents .G~E .&H<<ssss-
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IMMEDIATELY

M ANTED IMMEDIATELY-
 w Competent Woman to take charge of Boarding House. Also, a Woman as Assist ant. Everything furnished by the Company. Good chance. Good Pay and Permanent Situation to right parties. Personal Gather than written) application preferred. Applicants must be able to furnish good references If required.
 GARDNER HALL, JR., & co. West Wilmington, Conn.,, March 8, 1S93
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According to New York papers the British war ships have lost 1S0 men while at New York. Some are believed to have gone on long sprees, but most are classed as intentional deserters. According to the same authority the Russians have lost so many that shore leave is practically stopped. The Dutch frigate Van Speijk has lost 30, the German 15, the Italians 15 and the French 10.
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 It was May 5, 1899, when congress en- acted the infamous Geary Chinese exclu- sion law, which was to go into effect May Q, 1893. But Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle has issued orders to treasury off cials, special agents, internal revenue agents and others not to arrest, at pres- ent, unregistered Chinamen. The oues- ton as to the constltutlonallty was to be tested before the supreme court of the United States May 10. During the week Secretary of State Gresham, having in mind the justly sensitive diplomatic rela- tions between our government and that of China, sent dispatch to several of the governors of the western and Pacific states, to the effect that apparently relia- ble reports indicated that there was dan- ger Of mob violence against the Chinese on the day when the exclusion act was to go into effect, and that the president re- l quested the governors to use all lawful means for the protection of the peace. In response, one of them, Governor Pen- noyer, populist-democrat, with his own idea of good manners, replied: "I will attend to my business. Let the president attend to his." There is increasing evil dence that the imperial government of China is getting into somewhat similar mood in view of the malignity implied in this wicked and blundering "Geary" Chi nese-exclusion business, and that it will let our government know-though of course in wholly dignified diplomatic lan- guage-that the treaty relations and the honor of the empire are not to be trified with too far
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HULL LINE OF
 Boots, Shoes & Rubbers. REPAIRING QUICKLY & NEATLY DONE.
 BEST WORK LOW PRICEsi F Kroicol OPPOSITE THE PRESS OFFICE, STAFFORD SPRINGS.
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Warren G. Butterworth, of Warren. Mass, aged 70, committed suicide last Thursday afternoon by shooting himself through the head with rife. His daugh- ter Emma, aged 23, who was trying to prevent her father from this rash act. re- ceived the bullet in her brain after if had passed through her fathers head, and she died at 8. 30.
 MT. Butterworth had been in i'll health and Respondent, and insanity is supposed to have been the cause. He told a neigh bor earlier in the day that he intended to Kill himself, and Mir. Butterworth's sons were notified. A physician was sent to the house and was there when the deed was done, but was not near enough to prevent 1t, as MT. Butterworth suddenly seized his rife and rushed to the barn. followed by his daughter and the doctor
 About o'clock MT. Butterworth call ed on one of his neighbors and asked if the Masons would bury a man who con- mitted suicide. He was answered in the negative. He then cited instances where it had been done, and seemed sure of burial by the order in case of his commit ting suicide, which he declared he should do that afternoon. He set the time be- tween and o'clock. and said he was going down the street to engage a casket and arrange for music for the funeral and for tlfe pall-bearers. This he did. but. not finding the persons he went after soon returned home.
 A man to whom he told his story at once sent for one of MT. Butterworth's sons, who summoned Dr. J. w. Hastines the family physician, who found his pa- tient at home reading a paper. To the physician he repeated his story, giving as his reasons that he was growing old, that 1t tired him to climb the hill to his house and that at church he could not hear the sermon well. The physician talked with nm about the wickedness of such A course, and prepared some medicine which he took. A short time later he went to Ine barn, where the shooting took place. me butterworth family is one of the old- est Ill town, the dead man being about TO- lie was an earnest christian man, a mem- per or the Congregational church, and beloved and respected by all. The dead oaugnter was an active worker in the church and Christian Endeavor Society, oeihg universal favorite with old and young. The man was insane, there can De no doubt. He had previously, when in pain, threatened to take his own life.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

-Suffield has living within it's borders the daughter of man who served six
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\ H. REED. Attorney at Law, office O in Stafford Natsonal Bank Building, East
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\ LESSONS on Organ, Piano or Violin A given by Walter R. Carpenter Rooms fitted for that purpose in Mrs. Spellman's building on Main-St.7 Terms reasonable
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w. CHANDLER, Insurance anC O Real Estate Agency, Stafford Springs.s Of flee at residence on WeStfOrd Avenue.