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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22

PARIS, Oct. 2s.-Lo soir, speaking
Of tho VouoSucIsq question, says;
"fh1rc i, tendency on the part OF
America to abuse the Monroe doctrine,
!.nglani IL right, anl France will DO
rpmpnlei to initiate her in order 10
secure an equitable settlement Of aov'
eral questions"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22
rnE rltEsIDHN1'4 FRIEND
Don Diokinson Fniis to Connect with III,
Nomination IN ustFOlt.

Nomination In Detroit
DrrRoir, MlcL, Oct. 2l.-Don NJ.
Dickinson was defeated for tho nomi-
nation Tor mayor Of Detroit in tho
Democratic CITY convention to-day, bat
tho doisa. was ia reality regarded as
virtofy.
lno nominee is Alderman Sam Gold.
water, labor candidate, who received
3 vaial To "a lar Dickinson ou tho tlrst
ballot. Tho division which has existed
throughout Michigan between tho
roiofuo, or administraiion Democrats,
aud tho anli.to'utOe4 hai IN Detroit as.
aumed tho moro personal nature OF
Dickinson Va. Daniel j. Campnn, OK.
state chairman. In to.day'I convention,
tho Observation-Disclosures mon tried 10
force tho nomination Of Dickinson, for
the worry purposo, 1t IL ntics3d, Of hnv.
Ing him "lhrown down" by running
him M AgninSt tho PinRtco boom,
wh,sA ha, at,amol a Tremendous yelo.
Cily In tho present cnmpREi
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22
hooks LNI WlR.
EuEland's Ultimatum Causes Great
Uasaslnaaa Among Diplomats
VENEZUELA QQESTlONNI a CRISIS,
WIN the Washington AdmInIstTa-
tlou Apply the Monroe DoctrIneP
IMAIIER YET TOBE DETERMINED,

Tho British Press Affect to Treat tho
Matter Lightly AID IodulGo IN
same CAaraoterIs,lo commonss,
Their Great Confidence In President
Cleveland. TrIondIIaOss to British
Ia,orosts Plainly Appsrent-EnGlish
state Department Gives Out nu ON
cial statomsut OF Her Refusal TO
Accent Veuczuola's Terms
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22
rIrrrlit, STORIES
Told br Sinking Mlnc,' From tho DunOIS
coal Region,

coal .lltEiuh'
rursnuRoL Pa, oct, 2l,--Ntn9 coal
mIuora camo to th1 city to.nlrhta
committee from tho Dubois region
strikers, seeking rClioi ior tho mon and
their hmtlcs. Tho story thcy toll Of
tho do.t,tulidn aud sulIcrng In that
section apItiin,
Men, women aud chiiiron arc actually
RnIiotng for tho want Of the batt no.
co,SIlirs Of Ito, aud tn add to their
trnuh'er, tvrhoh fever Is almost
epidemic among hon.
lhU committee are confident OF win
alag the alrlka eventually II they can
10 tilod oyor this trying Time,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22

TAHutSoroS, oct. gl,.-1oday'S state.
munt vi tito financial condition Of tho
treasury NhONs!
Available balance slSl,OSl,2OOj gold
fetoiye Sg2 ,9gf ii6.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-22
sHERSIAN's BtoTnElt.IN.LAw
vludIeAtsd Gnrnold of tho Charge o
.Treachery Toward the SeuRior.

vlndIcatsd Garfield of tho Charge OF
Trsachsry Toward the Senator.
CLEVELAND, Oct 2l.--Col. William
Perry Fogg, OF New Yorh, now in tho
city on business, was warm pataonal
friend OF General Garfield, and was
with him 10 the convention which nom.
mated him for the presidency.
Garfield wac nominated in sudden
WhirlWind Of political fssling," he said
to-day. AFTER the nomination /, with
Governor Foster aud n. b. Shurwin, OF
Cleveland, accompanied him to his
room al the Grand Pacific hotel. lie
was like ono daEed, not seem.
ing to fully comprehend what
had buiaIlen him. Presently a.
knock came at the door RRd openingit,
saw Colonel MouIton, the brothor'in-
law Of Senator SHERMAN. May como
ia 2 hO asked. looked at General Gar.
field, who nodded. Colonel Moulton
strobe into the room aud ia his big.
hearted, cordial way, gfasped Garhnld's
hand aud congratulated him. Garfield
stared hard at him in n dazed way |
neyor saw In him before. 'Monltou,
no exclaimed, earnestly, Il want you TO
bear mo witness that this is not the 70.
suit OF any word or act Of mine.
Colonel MoHltSm fesnohded even
moro omphatioaly, slill wrinGirg Gar
folds hand ANY man who says that
you had any patt in bringing this about
10 liar, aud will tell him 50.
Both Colonel Mouton aud lie wife
nro now dOal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Advance Of Wages IN Woollen Mills.

Last week the report of voluntary
advance in wages by the Providence,
National. Saranac and Manton Wool
len Mills at Olneyville, R. l., was con
firmed, and Providence telegram stat
ed that an advance on light weight
woOllen goods had been made in the
Farewell Mills, at Central Falls. At
the same time an increase of wages was
made at the Harris Woollen, Lippitt
WOollen, Perseverance Worsted, Simp-
son Worsted and Prendergast's Wool
len Mills. In some departments of the
first named works the increase of the
pay of loom fxers is half the cut made
in 1893. Free wool" is surely working
wonders for labor.
Careful and conservative lists show
that since the Wilson reduced tariff
took effect last autumn there has been
an increase of wages in fifty American
woollen mills. This is quite phenome-
nal, and no logical explanation of the
fact is possible save that the great boon
of free wool which the Wilson bill gave
American woollen manufacturers has
enabled them to expand and branch
out as they have never before DONE
The woOllen industries are placed by
the new tariff on high vantage ground
for obtaining satisfactory sales of their
products both at home and abroad.
Free trade in raw woods is a bonanza
of untold value to them. This is the
logic of the greatly improved and i'm
proving situation in all American wool
len mills.-N Y. Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Would Be Financial Suicide.

The New Orleans Picayune says: IF
the Southern people want their wealth
developed, if they desire to see their
country the richest and most prosper
GUS in the world, they will exert them
selves to promote and establish state
of affairs that will gain the confidence
of investors and insure the protection
and stability of every legitimate bust
ness enterprise. Every consideration
places the Southern people under an
obligation of the most serious sort to
contend for a sound and nOn-fuctuat-
ing currency and to oppose the circula-
ton of deprecated money. 1t is i'm
possible to see how the Southern peo-
pie, under these circumstances, can
countenance the idea of reducing the
money of the country to such stand
ard as will permit the unlimited coin
age of fifty cents worth OF silver and
call such coins dollars and pass them
for such. The Southern people, at a
time when the tide of development is
turning southwark, cannot afford to
have their country commit financial
suicide with deprecated dollars"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Vessels Sunk by Collision.

The Spanish war vessel Sanchez
Barcaiztegui was sunk at the mouth of
the harbor at Havana, Cuba, at mid
night last Wednesday night in a col
lision with the coasting steamer
Mortera.
Admiral Manuel Delgado Parejo,
Captain Ybanez and three other Off
GERS, and thirty members of the crew
of the war ship were lost
The collision occurred in front of
Moro Castle, the Mortera being bound
in from Nuevitas. The Barcaiztegui
was struck terrible blow in the side
by the bow of the Mortera, and sank
SO quickly that it was impossible to
save all her company.
The Mortera sustained great damage,
but was able to steam to her anchor
age.
The Netherlands line steamship
Edam, from New York, September G.,
for Amsterdam, foundered at one
o'clock Wednesday morning fifty miles
southeast of Start Point, on the south
ern coast of England, after a collision
with the steamer Turkestan, during a
thick fog. Her passengers and crew
were saved.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
VIRGINIA DAY AT ATLANTA.

Governor O'Ferrall has decided upon
Wednesday, October %, as Virginia day
at the Atlanta Exposition, and the in
dications are that it will be made a red
letter day in the history of the fair.
The Governor takes great interest in
the improvement and efficiency of Vir-
ginia volunteer troops, and is never
happier than when the soldier boys are
passing him in review. Hence it is no
surprise that with him will go a fine
representation of Virginia soldiery.
Besides his large staff of generals, col
onels and majors, Governor O'Ferrall
will be accompanied by the Fourth
Virginia Regiment of infantry, an or
ganization which will compare favor
ably in material and knowledge Of mill
tary tactics with any regiment that may
visit Atlanta during the exposition.
The corps of cadets from the Virginia
Military Institute, 215 strong, under
command of Gen. Scott Ship, will also
go with the Governor as an escort. The
blue and the gray will both be repre-
sented in these two commands. The
uniform of the Fourth Regiment is of
blue and that of the cadets is gray
Bait. SUn
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25

The school books in use in West Vir
ginia published by the American Book
Co. are McGuffey's speller, McGuffey's
readers, Rays arithmetics and Har-
vey's grammar. These are the books
to be withdrawn from use by the re-
fusal of the publishers to furnish them
at the prices named by the Legislature
in Acts of 1895. When a heavy bill for
the new books has to be met by par
ents who desire to educate their chill
dren, they will know who they may
thank for the unnecessary expense
the Republican Legislature that was
going to tighten burdens and decrease
expenses.--Monroe w. Va.) Waterman
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Found Dead In the Bushes.

We learn from the Fincastle Herald
that, on Saturday morning, Sept. 18th,
the body of Mr.. J. o. Trout was found
in clump of bushes on the farm of
Mr.. Chas. Huff, several miles west of
Fincastle. Mr.. Trout was working for
Mr.. Huff, the latter having left the de-
ceased at work in field at 10 o'clock
Friday morning, the day before. Mr..
Trent not making an appearance at
the usual time, his wife became alarm
ed. Search was made, which proved in
effectual. The next morning a more
thorough search was made, when the
lifeless body was found.
A jury of inquest was summoned,
whose verdict was that his death was
caused by heart-disease. He was a
worthy, industrious man, aged about
40 years, and left widow and six chill
dren in helpless condition. He was
a son of Henry Trout. decd, of Sinking
Creek, Craig county, formerly Sheriff
of that county.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
JingOism at Saratoga.

The lingo spirit was irrepressible in
the republican gathering at Saratoga.
1t found gushing expression in the
platform and the presidents speech
The administration was arraigned for
trucking to foreign influence" and
it's foreign policy stamped as IAN I'M
matched spectacle of federal disgrace
and humility"
All that is rather general and indefi
mite, but the chairman undertook to
furnish some particulars. The Ameri-
can people, he Indignantly cried, "have
seen the American flag hauled down in
Hawaii; they have seen the Monroe
doctrine Abandoned; they have seen
Samoa deserted. Oh, for one year of
republican national administration ]"
Well it is not long since we had re-
publican national administration and
by its reckless jingoism the country
barely escaped war with Chilli, serious
trouble with England and the curse Of
Hawaiian annexation. Had the peo-
pie let that administration go on grave
complications would doubtless have
been fomented before this with Spain
over the Alliance affair and Cuba, and
| with France over the Waller case. 1t
might even have succeeded in getting
up quarrel with Germany over the
Stern episode.
But fortunately we have not had for
| some time that reign of jingoism for
which the Saratoga republicans are
pining. The government in power
has found enough to attend to without
going out of its way to bully weak ma
tiOns or court entanglements with
powerful ones.-Neao York Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
EIGHTY THOUSAND LISTED.
Yellow Fever's Victims, Eight Thousand
and Seven Thousand Killed Re-
duces Campos' Force.

duces Campos' Force.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE of the N. Y. Herald.
SANTA CRUZ DEL Sol. Province of
Puerto Principe, Cuba, Sept. Z, 1885,
Including the new achievements
which have arrived this week from the
Peninsula, from the Canary Islands
and from Puerto Rico, Captain Gen
eral Martinez Campos has now subject
to his orders about eighty thousand
soldiers.
OF these SO, 700 men, composing sixty
three battalions, are infantry of the
line, $500 regular cavalry, l, 100 mount
ed guerillas, 1900 are in the artillery
corps, 1,40O belong to the engineer de-
partment and 2,700 are marine guards
from the Spanish navy doing temper
airy land service, 400 are civil guards
government marshallsl, 1000 munich
pal police and $500 are volunteers.
These are the official figures-a fine
exhibit upon paper, but, as usual, fig
ures are deceiving.
More than 1000 men have been kill
ed on the Spanish side in various bat
ties and skirmishes fought since the
revolution began in February last; g.
600 more are missing, having deserted
or been made prisoners by the insur-
gents, and at least 5000 deaths have
occurred from yellow fever, smallpox
or dysentry; making total of 1S, 500 to
be deducted from the number origin
ally mentioned.
This leaves 81, 500 men, of whom, say,
80, 500 are occupied in the defence of
important cities, coast towns and
strategic outposts.
Martinez Campos has, then, only 80
900 troops in actual operations against
the enemy. 1t would be fair esti-
mate to say that to maintain this
number in active campaign 10000 rein
forcements will be required monthly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
We are not Degenerating.

Every now and again. says the Nor
folk Landmark, some pessimist mourn
fully remarks that we have now no
Caesar, no Shakespeare, no Aristotle,
no Homer. Disturbed beyond measure
at the sad fact, he deduces therefrom
the very illogical conclusion that de-
generation is the order of the day. His
plaintive note is growing inexpressi-
bly, tiresome.
A great genius shines with a brilli-
ance proportionate to the darkness of
his intellectual environment, and
critics can no more help being influ-
enced by the power of this circum
stance than the eye can avoid being
dazzled by the sudden illumination of
a previously unlighted apartment. In
our present civilization Homer is i'm
possible, and instead of denoting in
tellectual retrogression this indicates
the very opposite. If there had been
a dozen Homers at the same time, the
world would have known none. If
Shakespeare, Moliere and Goethe had
all lived and written in the same coun-
try and at the same period, their fame
with posterity would have been dimm,
ed beyond expression. if Caesar, Ma
poleon, Hannibal and Alexander had
been born at the same time. none of
them, in all probability, would ever
have been a conqueror. If the other
nations of the earth had been abreast
of Greece in civilization, we should
hear far less of Sophocles, Aeschylus,
Aristophanes, Aristotle and the other
members of that brilliant galaxy.
We are not degenerating; we are ad-
vancing. The diminution in the num-
Der of men who tower above their fell
lows is rather proof of this assertion
than an argument against it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Chinese Vicarious Suffering.

The report that some seven Chinese
have been executed on account of the
Ku Cheng massacre of missionaries may
be held to satisfy justice if the seven
include the instigator of the massacre
and his chief assistants. But the fact
that seven are executed for the crime
does not necessarily imply in China
that the real criminals have suffered.
The ingenious Orientals have method
of substitution which is convenient for
the officials. They snatch up any poor
outcast they find without friends and
execute him in the place of the rich or
influential criminal who can afford to
pay for such service. Miserable
wretches not infrequently volunteer,
in consideration of money to be paid
to surviving relatives, to undergo SEN
fences, and the custom of the country
permits the substitution.-B0lt. San.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25

Speaking of German clover as a
preparation for a corn-crop, the Sep
TENDER number of the Southern Plant
err says =
IA few days ago we visited the farm
of Mr.. Thirstin, in Chesterfield county,
and there saw one of the finest crops
of highland corn we have ever seen. 1t
is growing on land that five years ago
would not produce nubbin of corn to
the acre. This crop of twelve acres
averages ten feet in height, with stalks
as thick as the wrist, and is growing in
rows three feet apart and not more
than fifteen inches apart in the row.
Many stalks have two ears, and we saw
some with three and four. The prime
factor in raising the land to the state
of fertility necessary to produce this
crop has been German clover plowed
down."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Ex-senator Butler to Senator Tillman

COLUMBIA, s. c., Sept. 18.-Ex Sena-
tor NJ. G. Bntler arrived in this city to-
day and gave out the following card
with reference to Senator Tillman's at
tack on him in a speech in the consti-
tutional convention Monday:
II have denounced Senator Tillman
to his face as a liar, a coward and a
thief, and l cannot keep up with con-
stitutional liar. If l should kick him
now, he would probably run off and
howl and have me indicted for assault
and battery. His statements concern
ing me in the constitutional conven.
ton on Monday were tissue of false
hoods from beginning to end"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
Trial of theodore Durant.
His Counsel Prefers Confidence of Acquit-
tai.

His Counsel Prefers Confidence of Acquit-
tai.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 21.-The
10 ain case against Theodore Durant is
in. There are some odds and ends of
evidence to prop the carefully built
structure of circumstances, but to all
intents and purposes, the prosecution
has had it's day.
After the pawnbroker had told how
Durant had come to him to pawn one
of Blancne's rings; after Sademan, the
jahitor, has said that the gas fixtures
which Durant asserted he had been
fixing on that fateful day needed no
fixing whatever, after the long line of
witnesses had taken the prisoner right
up to the church door; after the prose
cution had done its best to hang the
man they consider the, criminal of a
century. that mans attorneys were as
merry as larks, and as confident as
men can be. They were also silent as
to what evidence they proposed to
offer to break down an apparently
invulnerable case against their client.
WAIT FOR THE OTHER SIDE.
Next week you will be just as much
with us as you are now against us"
said Attorney Duprey.
Next week you will be with us, but
we are forced to silence now"
General Dickinson and Detective
Morse are equally confident, equally
cheerful. 1t was their manner more
than what they said that gave listen
ers the impression that they expected
to tear away all the structure of the
prosecution as it were house of cards.
If they were acting their counterfeit of
joy, it certainly was not to be distin-
guished from the genuine article.
IF INNOCENT, A HERO.
This confidence is what now keeps
those who have followed the case on
the tip-toe of expectancy. All are
looking forward when Eugene Duprey
will tell to the jury in his opening
statement for the defense just how he
will save the neck of Theodore Durant.
There has been no period of the case
awaited with such anxiety. If the de-
Tense can make its confidence good,
there will be nothing more dramatic in
the annals of the law. Conviction on
circumstantial evidence would be an
impossibility in the California courts
after such announcement, for this
young man Durant has been consider
ed guilty by ninety uine men and
women out of every hundred for the
most part. To have his innocence
proved beyond doubt in a few days by
few bold strokes of evidence would
make him the hero of the hour. He
would be petted with favors and pelt.
ed with adulation. And this is Just
the position in which those two skilled
attorneys OF his and his famous detec-
tive insist they will place him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25

LIBERALS PRoSPECTS.-The pros
poets of Liberia, according to DR.. Bly,
den. the minister from that country to
Great Britain, are bright, and there is
much in the condition of the negroes
who have gone thither from this coun-
try to encourage others to follow
Some of those who went from Savan-
nah four months ago desire to return,
but the rest are doing we'll and are
pleased with the consideration and
wide scope they find in the land of
their ancestors. The fact that some
wish to return signifies nothing, it is
held, as against Liberia, since many a
German or Englishman who comes to
America after while desires to return.
The important fact is that the great
majority prefer to stay. Liberia has a
future as coffee-producing country.
and immigrants with skill and capital
have a chance to become prosperous
farmers,-BaH. Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
CoLLEGE-BRED FARMERS. - TIL,

CoLLEGE-BRED FARMERS. - The
Atlanta Journal says
1--WE have heard of number of this
years college graduates who intend to
make farming their life-work. The
idea that professional life or com
mercial career is the natural destiny
of our college bred men has caused the
waste of an untold amount of energy
and the wreck of many a man who
either attempted something for which
he was not suited or went down in the
maeIstrom of fast city life There is
no nobler occupation than farming.
none which requires a better quality
of manhood, noue which affords bet,
ter chance for happy. independent
and useful life. A boy should think
over the matter well before he makes
up his mind to leave the farm and
make his fortune or his fame in town."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25

The Virginia Tin-Mining Company,
owning over 10000 acres of rich tin ore
bearing lands in the Blue Ridge noun
tains, in Rockbridge county, on Irish
creek, near the line of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, have leased to E. A.
Rust, the head of a strong Boston syndi
cate. the entire tract, with an option
running two years to purchase at $780,
600. The syndicate will expend $4,000
in developing the property to deter
mine it's value and the extent of the
tin ore deposits. and if it proves as rich
and extensive as eminent biologists
have pronouncedit it. the lode will be
fully developed and an extensive tin
mining and manufacturing plant ope-
rated.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-09-25
MURINE G1pr MApe1rc Npcpr

A WHITE GIRL MARRIES A NEGRO.
The Rev. George Love, pastor of the
Georges Road Baptist church, per-
county. and Miss Addie Volk, white
girl, IS years old, of the same place.
The minister says that Miss Volk
comes of good family. She mani
tested such an infatuation for the COL
ored man that her friends induced him
to leave Griggstown. She wrote to
him after he had left, and a few days
ago sought him out at his work at the
Red Lion tavern. There she proposed
that they get married. Her friends
condemn the minister for marrying
the couple.-N. Y. San.