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Asheville daily citizen., 1893-06-26
S. S. LYNCH'S STATEMENT
REPLY TO THE FINANCE COM
MITTEE'S REPORT.

The Former Citv we1KnInaater
shows to the BOartl of Aldermen
That There Were 1naCcuractes
I'm the Report.
In his statement to the Board of AL
dcrmen requesting a reconsideration of
action on the report of the finance COM
mittee in his case, ex-Market Keeper
Lynch said on Friday that "the report
conta aims errors Of fact and contravenes
my equitable and legal rights in the fol-
lowing particulars:
"The report Civ es me credit on account
OF cash paid by re to the city clerk dur.
ing the time embraced in the report OF
only $21O, whereas I paid during
that time sums amounting to $24O,
as appears of record in the office of the
city clerk in the day book of miscella-
neouS and contingent expenses, at pages
81, etc.
"The report sets forth that the finance
committee find from the verbal state
rnents of S. S. Lynch, but no record oi
such transaction. that about July Ia,
1890, he was placed in charge of the
scales, the terms being that he should
| retain to his own use two-thirdG of the
reCelpL6 anu pay 10 luC city
thereof The report thus ignores the fol
| lowing action of the Board of Aldermen
on August 20, 1890, as found in the
official record on page 81:
"Mr. Lynch asked the Board to state
definitely what per cent. OF the receipts
of the scales they were willing to allow
him tor his services. On motion it was
ordered that he be allowed two-thirds
of his receipts. the city to have the bal
anCe.'
According to the present information
| and belief there was never any subsequent
order OF the Board OF Aldermen repeating
or modifying said order and it remained
in force continuously while l remained
| in charge of the city scales. The report
| further sets forth that S. S. Lynch stated
| TO the finance committee that about
May, 1891, he was authorized to retain
| to his own use all the receipts from the
city scales from that time until June 1,
| 1S92.' This s error, i'll that it was from
October l, 1891, that | understood
| was so authorized and believe SO stated
| to the finance committee. Having the
directions OF the mayor and chairman OF
| the Board of Aldermen to take the entire
| receipts of the scales from October l.
1891, to June l, 1892, which / have
| heretofore shown were given, l supposed
| l had authority so to do.
"If the directions of the mayor as
| shown were a sufficient warrant to me,
| then the city is Justly indebted 10 me as
appears by the following statement, in
the sum OF $91.95:
To " scale fees from Aug. 1, '91. to
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-22
AKomance Of To-Day.

This world has a good deal OF ro-
nance, and romance is the silver lining
10 the cloud of hard materialism, Of
which life is largely composed; and the
romantic is not confined 10 the narrpw
region occupied by poets or painters,
but is net in the workshop, in the
harvest field and in the woodland, and
meu are all the better for meeting ii.
Only little while ago hired man,
who lives near Monroe, Mich, went TO
Town TO get q pair of overalls, little
dreaming OF what was 10 follow. He
was not an imaginative hired man.
Along the cool seqnestered vale Of life
he kept the noiseless tenor OF his way,
and his hopes and dreams never scared
above the plow and the harrow and the
bales OF hay.
However, 10 return to our theme, as
the SOLITARY horseman" nOvelists say,
the hired man went to the store and
purchased a shapeIy pair Of blue over
ais. for which be paid IS cents in coin
OF the realm, and then he returned 70
his home and donned the prihcely
clothes. II is not recorded whether
they fitted him, but little boots IL
whether they did or not; no man can
expect to purchase bridegrOom's outfit
for - cents.
He naturally put his hand in the
pocket of his new garment, and there
discovered note. written by the young
lady who made the overalls, and asking
the purchaser to write TO her. The
mind Of the hired man grasped the pos
SibilitieS Of the situations he wrote TO
her Could anything be more romantic,
more like a novel than this? And he
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she Left bridegroom and Minister in the
Midst OF the Ceremony.

Am lower Benwood is in a state OF
gossip, probably never before equaled
in its history. A wOuld-be bride refusing
to marry her affanced husband just
when the ceremony was about TO be
performed, has caused GOsslp's tongue
TO wag vigorously.
A well-knOwn miner, aged twenty-six,
had long woOed fair lassie OF thirty
five. Their love ian smoothly, appar-
entity, and the day was set, IL was said.
The lady lived below the steel works,
and at her home the miner could very
frequently be found.
Last Sunday was set as the day.
Preparations were made, and the preach
er was secured.
Sunday afternoon. the soon to be
happy husband, was strOlling near his
loves home. He seemed to have sus-
picioued something wrong. AS ne
looked toward McMechen he saw the
fair one taking the railroad toward that
place and making time that would out
DO Nancy Hanks, he said. After an eX-
citing chase, while many spectators
looked on, the woman was caught and
again pledged faithiulness.
In the evening. the supper came.
Mlrth flowed and the bride-elect ate
heartily. Just as the uniting words
were TO be said, the young lady made
dive and escaped. She could not be
found, and that for the present ended
the ceremony.
But this was not ALL The wounded
miner was left aud the effect on him,
was noticeable. He would laugh, then
cry: would say, he was done with
women and then would say sweet things
about the missing one. His last words as
FAR as the guests recollect, was "Ill try
and get another"
Ii may be we'll to state, that the lass
has been found, and negotiations may
be pending for more happy consum-
nation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-22
AN EVENING OF MYSTERY.
Kellar. the Magician, Entsrtains the
PeopIe at the Opera House

Kellar. the Magician, Entertains the
People at the Opera House.
There was a good sized gathering at
the Opera House last night that were
mysUifed while they waited. The great
magician, Kellar, was the attraction,
and trick after trick was unraveled that
was wonderful and mystifying, al
though great. many OF the feats had
probably been seen by the onlookers
time and time again. There are a GER
tain number OF old-time feats OF leger-
demain that remain unsolved for years
with the general theater-goer. So it
seemed last night with Kelar, although
he performed several new and very re-
markable feats.
1t was quarter after eight o'clock
when Kellar, in full evening dress,
marched out upon the stage, and after
borrowing a silk hat in the audience,
proceeded to do a number of slight-of-
hand tricks, one Of which was the fill
ing It partially up with coins that be
caught in the air, and another was the
pulling out of the hat all manner OF
things, from dolls clothes 10 small
packages of prize candy. A rather
singular performance was that Of
taking square sheet of thick
white paper, rolling it up and forming
it into 4 cornucopia, and then turning
out from it a great mass Of roses and
flowers. lie did this repeatedly until
the audience almost began to look be-
wildered. Taking bottle he poured
from it any kind OF fluid the person de-
sired as he passed along the aisle, while
from one pitcher he also poured both
wine and water, alternating these two
fluids in different glasses.
One of the most astonishing feats of
the evening was when he wrote two fig
ures on a small blackboard, or rather
one of his committee picked from the
audience wrote, and Mrs. Kellar, who
was blindfolded IA another part of the
stage, Immediately told the cube OF the
number that was written. When it is
borne in mind that Mrs. Kel-
lar could not see the originals
il was indeed mystifying how
she arrived at the cube Of them. 1t was
what Kellsr termed mental telegraphy.
While it might be possible for Mrs. kel-
lar 10 remember systematically the
cubes Of all numbers from ore to hun
dred, it was difficult to see how she
learned the original figures. She cubed
50 with startling rapidity.
Kellar also gave series Of cabinet
tricks in which he exposed the spiritul-
istic feats OF Davenport Bros, who were
here some years ago. 1t was rather an
interesting performance throughout.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-22
TIE wILL-O-THE wIsP.
An Engineers Tale of Phosphorescent
Light in "A Swamp.

An Engineers Tale of Phosphorescent
Light in swamp.
"Seen queer things in my life?' be-
gan X. d. LOOMS. Certainly | have,
and very strange things. The strangest
! OF all things that ever interested me
was the wlll-o'-the .wisp, that indiStinct,
pale light that hurries over swamp
lands and down in forsaken marshes.
I was once engineer on the
Pennsylvania road, and on my midnight
run across Ohio and Indiana have seen
those strange lights frequently. They
are counted omens Of the direst calami-
ties, and very few engineers who have
ever made their acquaintance doubt the
| result OF their signals. Rushing through
the night, when all the inhabitants are
at rest and no light of any kind visible,
| have sat and looked oat over the still
fields for lack of anything better to do.
Then il was that | often caught
sight Of these strange phoSphorescent
glimmerngs away off in some fields
boboing along much as greyhounds
leap. and the train would carry me out
! OF the range OF their wanderings. If
they ever cross the path of your engine
it's a sure sign that trouble is ahead. l
remember once one followed my train
for a distance OF nine miles before
breaking company with it. 1t was
where the PENNSYLVANIA crosses the
great Kankakee Swamp in Indiana.
| The light came out from a
patch OF brush and swung lightly
along side by side with the engine and
not over twenty yards to the left of it.
| We were making thirty-fve miles an
hour, and that will-o'the-wisp seemed
hardly to move. and yet was always be-
side US. After some nine miles it dis
appeared again. If it had crossed the
track would have slowed up and look
ed for trouble before the end OF my run.
You can't see how a light could 60 thir-
ty-fve miles an hour and not move, can
you? Well, it dees it just the same,
| Just as the moon keeps up with you
when you run or walk, and the moon
doesn't seem to move fast, does it?"-
/ 81. Louis Globe Democrat
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-22
SMALL TAIN
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithly Told.

AluOE MaLkeE8 OF AnLoNo'S -NNNNS -
Plthily Told.
THE will Of Margaret Steurnagle was
admitted to probate, yesterday, and
ordered to be recorded.
REV. J.. A. HoPKINs, pastor OF the
Disciples Church, has received call
from church in California.
All departments OF the Wheeling
Steel Works are on in full, and the
skelp and forge departments OF the mill
beside it, are in full blast.
AsENATH SHIELDS was yesterday ap-
pointed administratriX OF the estate Of
William Shields, deceased Bond, 500;
Barbara Bachmann, surety.
JLcoB STEURNAGLE was yesterday
appointed administrator with the will
annexed OF Margaret Steurnagle, de-
ceased. Bond, $1,000; II. II. Mason and
j. w. Schultze, surety.
JAMES Fulton, a cab driver OF
Fortieth street, after driving six CON
tiauous hours in the blizzard yesterday
afternoon, was taken 10 his home nearly
persisted. He is quite sick.
RELIANCE Lodge No. is, A. o. wv.
the new organization of this Order, met
in the room Of the Wheeling Club,
Rogers block, last evening, and COM
pleted the organization Of the Lodge.
JAMES Monroe was arrested last
evening, by b. & o. Officer Burns, for
disorderly conduct at the depot. VIM.
Thompson was arrested by Officer Wat
son for disorderly conduct in the Sec
Ond ward.
THE steel works at the Riverside mill
will start 10 full this morning, after be-
ing idle since the 1St Of January. The
mill is greatly enlarged in capacity in
this particular department, the increase
being 10 per cent.
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BETTER BIZ on YOUR Guard:
There Is Possibility that European nn-
envy May Invade Us Again This fear-A
Suggestion in Time.

envy May Invade Us Again This Year-A
Suggestion in Time.
The latest news from London indicates the
prevalence Of great deal Of influenza, not
only in that city. but throughout England and
Europe. This is the way the grip epidemic OF
last year started, and IL is the highest part OF
wisdom and common sense 10 SeeP the system
fortified against an attack OF this terrible com
plant. ,,,,,,,
There is an unusual amount OF coughlne'
sneezing. headache, psin IN the muscles, espec-
ially arouns the shoulders Snd arms, cold leeti
in fact all the usual grip mptoms-
You may say. / do not fear the grip but %
YOU not fear the terrible things which grip may
bring: especially pneumonia, whlch may cDihe
a most in a moment and cause your death WIN
in davs More people die suddenly from pneu-
MONA than from any other known Complaint
Why: Because il comes Unexpectedly, beci.usc
i. gives no warning, has no symptoms, othe !
than those above stated, and yet It Is the most
fatal OF all known diseases.
Ia view OF these solemn facts. whas sam any
sensible man or woman DO who READS these
words: Manifestly guard against the coming
OF this dangerous disease. How Not oy dosln-
with quinine, but by strengthening. by tommy
the system with some pure stimnlant oil tonic
power. There are many which claim 10 possess
this quality, but there is but one which actnaiIy
does possess it. That one is DufY's Pure Mail
Whiskey 1t has stood the test OF years and Is
the most popular preparation 10 day SHOWN 10
the American people. Physicians recommends
il IL is generally used and II is anniversary
admitted TO possess qualities known only 70
itself Do not permit your druggist or grocer
TO persuade YOU otherwise, but Insist upon nav
ing what you call for.
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Public Sale Of Real Estate.

ne following Real Estate Will BE- offered iog
sale bg the heirs Of Charles Sesbrignt, decea'ed,
a, public auction. upon tho premise.
MONDAY, MARCH -. LOB
Beginning sc one O'Clock ?. m, aud Containing
until all j. sold
Lot No. So. In Psulrs addition, upon which
10 double frame dwelling.
Lot No. ~. on Lombard street, on which h.
two story brick dwelling.
Lot No. aaf. on Penn street
Lot No. 80. on Penn street, with story ana
half frame dwelling thereon.
lot 40. 5fs. corner Lombard and Second sts.
Lot No, 58l, on Lombard street. on which % a
one-story frame dgsliipgF
Tuo-stofy frame house. corner OF FIRST and
Five Iots on Seventh street. each lot contain
Ing one-ffth acre,
The Homestead. containing 10 acres. more OF
less we'll improved.
- Tis Old Martin Homestead. containing sir
one AMI one half seres. near the homestead.
seven and tbrss-fosrths acres, west OF ths
city. on the Martins ferfJ and MI PisoilAt
sixteen aud one-sightb acres % lard. about
one and ons-baf uiies west q tie city, on tue
Ma.tin's Ferry AID ~ Pleasant pike.
seyeuteen acres OF improves land. on tBe Bur
iington and Scotch Ride pike.
between % and 50 Asres Of coal land and 70
acres OF saYfass, near Bridgeport. o.
\ Also two story double frame house on esy.
enth street. and q one-ftory frame house on
SIKH street. 10 Martins Ferry. o
Also, ens scrs Of land. more or Teas, BOUNDED
BY LogbsrL and John suests and the Ohio
Terfss Of sale-Onc-ihird cssh. one-thlrd IN
one fear aud one third IN Two years. defefrrd
ia - n to~beaf6 per cent interest and y "
q y mortgage - premises sod
EE eEABRiGHT,
AduiniGlrafcfk
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ABOUT PEOPLE.
Daily Chronicle OF the Movements Of
individuals.

Daily Chronicle OF the Movements OF
individuals.
Last night all the hotels were very fun.
J.F. Koen is at the Stamm, from Man
niugtOn.
Robert Mccormick, Of Sistersville, is at
the Stamm.
Samuel B.EiarrisOn, OF the Mcclure, came
back last evening.
C. d. Hess, Of Addison, w. Va, is regis
tered az the Mcclure.
John w. Seamans, of Washington, Pa
is registered at the Mcclure.
Sam ID. HUXLEY, OF Bradstreets Agency,
Pittsburg, is in the city.
Miss Ada Moorehouse. Of Pittsburg, IS
visiting relatives in the city.
Robert Parish, a young man Of this
place, left yesterday for Salt Lake City.
philip Losere, Of New York, is in the
city, having stopped of here on his way
West
Mrs. Joseph Giesey left yesterday for
St. Louis 20 visit her cousin, Mrs. TlltOn,
Of that place.
Miss Agnes Hall Of North Wheeling,
has returned from a visit 20 friends In
Columbus, Ohio.
G. B. Cunningham, a well-kuOwn citizen
Of Marshall county, lefty yesterday morning
for Red Bluff, Cal
John Gourly. Of North Market street, is
confined 20 his room suffering from an at
tack Of typhoid fever.
George Ford, OF the Office force at the
Wheeling Hinge factory, is lying at his
home on Sixteenth street very Ill
Robert L. Archer. Of Huntington was in
the city yesterday. the guest of bis brother,
r. Mathew Archer, Of the hltciHgenccr
Mrs W. ID. Odbert, of South Chapline
street, is spending "a few weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. VIII Laughhu, Of Cleye-
land, O.
Behler-B. Sumrays Fairmont; W. j.
Snodgrass and VIM. III. Maliey, Burton J..
A. CahiI, SistcrsvIil3 and INV. Goodman,
Piedmont
Dr. G. II. McLane, Of Steubenville, pass
cd through town yesterday. The Doctor
is q former Wheehn-ite and lived on the
Island 40 the time Of The war
MCLUEE-C II. DUeil. Friendly; II. S.
Sands and wife, t'alr;1ont; Thomas Kenne-
dy. Grafton; George Raltsnider, FairmonS
and z. NJ. Scott New Cumberland.
Clerk George Umstead, Of Hotel Stamm,
has accepted a position as tfrSt Assistant
CHIEF Clerk iu tie Seventh Avenue Hotel,
Pittsburg, the largest hotel in the city.
Miss Maggie Sm0Ose. who has been very
ill for several weeks, is slowly recovering.
Thisis the fourth member c. the family
that has been sick IN FIVE months. Mrs.
Smouse has che sympathy OF her friends
and neighbOrs.
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does not look that way on the face OF it.
and the people want the street railway.
The celebration of Washington
birthday by the public school children
promises to be very interesting affair.
The doors of the Opera House will be
thrown open at $50 this morning, and
the exercises will take place at 9:45.
The q. A. r. and American Mechanics
have been invited to attend, and will be
given seats on the stage. The scholars
will meet at their respective school
buildings end then march TO the Opera
House, where they viii be admitted be-
fore the doors are opened.
At yesterday mornings session OF
Police Court, Mayor Harris fined
Richard Klinefelter $40 and costs for
whipping his better half. 1t seems that
Mr.. and Mrs. klinefeiter are not get
ting along very lovingly on account OF
Dicks jealousy, and she left his BED ana
board some time ago on account OF IT,
Dick met her last Friday on the street,
and slugged her, and then skipped to
Wheeling to avoid arrest, but came
back Monday evening, and was arrested
on a warrant.
The reason the gas was shut oil IN
the lower end of town Monday mig ht'
was on account OF several bad leaks
being discovered and gas began TO
escape into some OF the cellars through
the sewers, ard it was thought best TO
shut it off TO insure safety. The shut
tinp the gas off caused good bit OF
complaining until the cause was MADE
known.
Prof. J. J. Joiner passed through the
city from Keyser, w. Va, to Mount
Pleasant, to attend the funeral OF his
father, Murdoch Joiner, highly re-
spected colored citizen Of Mount Pleas
ant, whose funeral takes place to-day
The VS. reception tonight at the \.
NJ. C. A. rooms promises to be grand
affair and we'll attended. All young
men are invited. The ladies will be
dressed in Martha Washington style.
To-day being legal holiday, the
banks will be closed and no freight VIII
be received by the different roads. Busl'
ness will be generally suspended In most
of the business places
Adam Fahrenbach has, accepted po-
sition with the wholesale firm OF Neill
81 Ellingham and will commence on
Monday.
Mrs. Thomas Conway and sister, Miss
Clara Jones left yesterday for East
Liverpool to vlsittheir parents.
w. E. Belman, late of Chicago, is the
new operator at the Terminal Junction,
ana is boarding in the city.
Some citizens will take advantage
of the excursion rates oveI the {. ~
z. r. r. to Pittsburg to-day!
Mr.. and Mrs. James Edwards, Of
Uhrichsville, are visiting relatives in
the Third ward.
Miss Annie Sunderland, one OF the
teachers, is confined to her room by
illness.
George McGlumphey lost valuable
horse yesterday. Cause, spaSmodlc
collie.
George Chissell, Jr., left yesterday
over the w. & L. Z. R. Il. for Cleve-
land.
The "Held in Slavery Co." left over
the c. & P. for Bellaire yesterday morn
ing.
Rev. James Selby, Of Wellsville, was
calling on friends yesterday.
IT. j. Irwin left yesterday for Toledo
over the w. e. L. E. r. r.
William Probert left yesterday for
Alliance TO visit friends
A roll was broken yesterday on mill
No. . in the Standard.
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DIEE.

FERRELL-Monday February 90, lS9S al
IL o'clock D. m, AMELIA \. wife Of j. N ter
rell, aged Il years, 3 months and 10 DAYS.
Funeral will take place from residence OF hei
husband No. II Sixteenth street, Thursday
morning ut 10 o'clock. Interment at Peninsula
Cemetery. Friends OF the family invited.
Landmark NJ. wife Of Daniel Lamb, on
February goth, 1895. aged 81 years
Funeral Wednesday, February cd, at . p.
m. Inteiment private.
LETZKUS-On Monday, February Goth. 1893
At clock p. M, SAMUEL LETzKUs, in his S6th
year.
Fcneral from his late residence, No l5S,
Market street, on Thursday afternoon at
o'clock. Friends OF the family respectfully IN
vted to attend. Interment at Mt. Wood GEN.
etery.
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the ordinance that is offered the Cit7
Council is being freely discussed upon
the streets. The ordnance in its rea(-
lug is all ight the company claimif g
to be an independent company from Il e
Wheeling Company, and have inserted
in their ordinance If they have not the
road completed in a year they will then
forfeit their franchise, but some people
here claim that there are loopholeS TO
allow them 70 creep cut, and that il is
only a scheme to secure the franchise
aud then sell it to some one else, but il
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just so.
Dncfnu q nLA

A little girl had sent back her plate
for turkey two or three times, and had
been helped beautifully to all the other
good things that go to make grand
Christmas dinner. Finally she was OBJ
served looking rather disconsoiately at
her unfinished dish Of plum pudding.
WHATS the matter, Ethel?" asked
Uncle John; "you look mournful.
That's the trouble, said Ethel; I'm
more'n full"
And then she wondered why every
body laughed.
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RssnIutlons of Resnect.

At meeting Of the Chamber OF Com
merce OF the City OF Wheeling, W. Va,
held February goth, 1898, the following
preamble aud resolutions were passed
on the death Of Hon. A. j, Sweeney:
Wa1cuS, 1t hath pleased Almighty
God 20 take from this community one
of its most respected and most useful
citizens.
Rcsolred, That in the death of Hon.
4. J.. Sweeney, one Of its officers, the
Chamber Of Commerce has lost faith
ful member, whose business career was
marked ~ high Intelligence, strict in
tegrity and unlSgging energy; the City
OF Wheeling 4 philosophical citizen,
whose heart was in every undertaking
Co advance her welfare; one whose con-
scientio0S discharge OF duty was so
marked in the high trISt repeatedly be-
slowed upon him by the people OF his
own city.
EcSolred. That we extend to the be-
rcaved family OF our late associate aud
friend our sincere condOlence, and trust
the Hand shat has afflicted may sustain
them in this time Of their sore trial.
FcS1,ceG, That these resolutions be
spread upca the minutes, published in
the rerS, and copy Of them
in suitable form presented 10 the fami-
liz OF the deceased, IS some evidence Of
the esteem in which he was held by his
fellow members OF this Chamber.
HUILtHES QCARRIER, Pres,
HOWARD HAZCETT, Sec.