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Year: 1875

We indebted Mr. WILL Young Of the firm OF Harper Bro, Wholesale
hat dealers for the above the handsome and spacious edfc lately standing
the TwhAnd Market known Washington Hail. that
destroyed by fire o the morning OF Tuesday last


This building for many the principal assembly hall in the city
Within liz walls have gathered ono time and another the brilliant
audiences Wheeling drawn together by the fame great and
artists The renowned singers and musical performers Of the world have
ertane people there for the last quarter century And Notwithstanding
comparatively early day the march Of improvement midst which II
erected II remained the chief architectural the city, For
sake i handsome imposing proportions
body Wheeling depores s loss We that early day shall


rising again. Gnx like from its ashes stand forever monument of the
public spirit of It's stockholders.
Year: 1875

We would suggest to our friends in
Wheeling that the next time they have n
fire there to telegraph to Wells
burg, and we will send down fire
department that will be Of some service.
Panhandle NeuS,
Year: 1875

The General Incorporation bill which was
passed by the General Assembly two years ago
and submitted to the present Legislature for its
approval has received the ratification Of both
Houses and is therefore part OF the fundamen-
tn law OF the State. The Governors sigma
ture is not necessary to ita validity. Hence
forth the sessions will not be ehcumbered by
applications for. charters, ihasmuch AZ incorpo-
ration can be secured by conformity to certain
conditions prescribed by the general law. There
will thus bs considerable saving III expense to
the State. great convenience is afforded in the
Incorporating OF companies firms and societies.


aud altogether the measure Is one Of public util-
ity. Could some measure now be devised where
by to rid the Legislature OF the numerous ap-
Iications for the passage Of stock laws, that
body wonld be relieved OF two of Its most pro-
ihc sources of business, and the necessity for
prolonged sessions would be entirely done away
with But with matters of divorce, incorpora-
ton and stock out of the Legislature how would
the time be consumed? What would the pres
eut session have been Still the removal Of
the two first leads us to cherish the hope that
the last will yet be disposed of in some way.
Year: 1875

II the Legislature should abolish the Little
Election" how will we be able to figure up par
IS strength or ascertain the condition of party
discipline to know how to marshall the forces in
the general elections Surely the Legislature
wlll not deprive OF us this little bit of innocent
diversion.
Year: 1875

The STEBEopTIcoN ENTERTA lNMENT. Take or
send all the little ones to see the exhibition next
Saturday afternoon Read the advertisement to
the child ell. Tell them that III polug they coll
tribute to the support of noble charity and
help to relieve the want and woe of many. Ii
will be worth seeing.
Year: 1875

Mud Mauler was an heiress, and
Put on more airs than folks could stand.
But she tenderly loved the Judge, tho he
Was only judge of whis-ki.ee.
She used to smile when his manly tread
Sought for the sidewalk above his head.
And they stood before the Justice stern,
And she was hisn, and he was hern.
But he often sighed, %, warn't a fool q
While she combed his hair with three


legg'd stool.


And she often stared in mute surprise
At the voice he had for oyster fries.
And it made him open his wondering eyes
When she got up her notion for cold


mince pies.


He sighed in the bitterness of his SOUL
And plunged his grief in the flowing bowl.
And she said she was awfully sick of him,
And braced up her spirits with Old Tom


gin.


Of all sad words that we ever wot,
The saddest are some we have now forgot.
Year: 1875

1t is not very difficult for person to
be sunny-tempered when everything is
going prOsPerOusly with him. When a
man has made two hundred dollars a
day. and all the signs are favorable for
his making that amount tomorrow, how
good natured he can be When the
hour comes to close the store he takes
his hat from the peg, buttons up his
overcoat. draws on his gloves and starts
for his home with feelings of a king. He
feels kindly toward everybody. He buys
a paper of the newsboy. snaps him a ten
cent scrip. and hurries along without
waiting for the return change, chuck
ling to himself as if he had perpetrated
a first class joke When be cones 70
his house he smiles at the servant, kiss.
es his wife-or ought to-bOunces the
baby, and fills the whole household with
a sense Of his own satisfaction All. me I!
How easy it is to be good natured under
such circumstances What saints we
all are when we have all we want


But times change, the business sky
looks darker and becomes black with
ominous clouds Under our feet rumb-
lings and premonitory unsteadiness
which always precede financial earth
quake. The commercial atmosphere is
mOtiOnless and oppressive; everybody
senses danger buyers are timid /; sellers
suspicious the current trade shrinks
goods remain unsold; paper on which
you relied goes to protest household ex-
penses begin to crowd; small bills ac-
cumulate ; duns grow imperative. All,
now is the time. friend, when good ma
ture in you is virtue; yea. grace, SO
white that it shall be seen in the high
est heaven and noted there. Now is the
time for you to show what stuff you are
really made Of Now is the time, if you
are gentleman, prove it. If you love
your wife, now is the time to show it /;
if you have faith in something nObler,
higher, sweeter than this world and its
possessions. let that faith be manifest in
your conduct everywhere. Don't take a
gloomy face, and surly voice. and a
sour temper to your household. That
household has its own cares. and trou-
bles, and clouds enough in its own sky.
Tell your wife all your difficulties but
in such brave. gentle and loving way.
as. instead of expressing her spirits will
cause them. rather, to rise buoyantly at
the thought that she is fully trusted by
you and may be able to help you. "Bear
ye one another's burdens and SO fulfill
the law of Christ"
Year: 1875

clared that in 80 years, Gov. Shepherd would be
"oanonzed" in the District as the author and
originator of all the improvements which had made
Washington so magnificent. Mr.. Thurman said that
persons have to be dead 100 years before they can be
canonized.


The indispomton to consider so long and complex
a BILL the certainty that it could not pass the
House in the short time remaining of the session.
and the growing opinion that the state Of affairs in
the District does not warrant the initiation now of
any new form Of government have all had their
effect in tending to the defeat of this bill which is
the result of so much careful and conscientious
labor, and nts main features is probably the best
that could be devised. Mr.. Morrill, (Maine) has
worked increasingly in its behalf against the preju-
dices Of men who would give the measure consid-
Grafton because 1t was not modelled after their own
plans, and against the stolid indifference of those
who conld not be brought to consider any District
bill which was not partisan or profitable.
Year: 1875

noon the hearing upon the application Of Insurance
Commissioner stednsn for the appointment Of trus-
tee TO wind up the American National Life and Trust
Company was adjourned 70 March s. The hearing Is
nearly fnished.
Year: 1875

Suit was brought against the road TO obtain the
amounts due The letter of President Dillon
read in the Cabinet, and the proposition was dis
cussed by the Attorney General, the Secretary of
the Treasury, and other members of the Cabinet.
Gen. Bristow and Judge Williams both believed
that nothing could be made by forcing the suits at
this time. and the Attorney General represented
the difficulties In the way of legal proceed
ings, the delays that would occur and the expense
involved in long litigation. Besides, it was sug-
gested that even in the event of winning the
suits. the subsequent annoyances easily foreseen
would be such to make it wise to use great delib
Grafton in the matter. The President and Cabinet
looked upon the proposition to compromise with
great favor, but they thought that the terms
offered were not as favorable to the Government as
ought to have been expected, and the Secretary.
with the concurrence of the Attorney General and
his other associates decided to open negotiations
with the Company, in order, if possible, to
obtain a modification of the offer of the Company,
so that it should be more advantageous. Should
any terms acceptable to the Secretary be offered he
will at once communicate with Congress and recon-
mend suitable legislation to enable him to carry out
the proposition. In the mean time the suits will
remain in abeyance 1t is thought that the Secre
tary will request the officers of the Company to
confer with him personally with reference to the
subject


Nothing was said in the Cabinet to-day regarding
Arkansas nor was any reference made to the new
Tax and Tariff bill. The President and Secretary Of
State conferred together subjects connected with
the foreign service, and dispatches read from
Spain. The Belgian Free Transit Treaty was also
considered
Year: 1875

TERRIBLE RESULT OF REcKLEssNEss AT THR


GEOLOGICAL GARDEN.


From the Cincinnati Commercial, Sept 90


named Oscar Nixdorf, about twenty eight
years old who said he recently from the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, had his left fearully broken and
laceraed by the grizzly bears the Geological Garden
yesterday afternoon In spite of repeated warnings of
the keeper he persisted in sticking his hand through
the bars saying he knew the Of the animals
was afraid of them The keeper turning away for
a moment, Nixdorf thrust his arm through the bars
into the cage, and the male grizzly caught it. and
almost Immediately the female also seized il. The
mans like dry weed in the claws Of
the powerful animals, and he cried out with
pain and terror. He thrust his other hand
through the bars TO endeavor to release himself,
and that badly acerated at the wrist The keeper
came to his assistance and with much difficulty extri-
Gated the unfortunate His left a nerve
less of broken bones and manged flesh IL was
broken at the wrist and above and below the elbow,
and drawn from the socket at the shoulder and pulled
from the joint at the elbow. AT one time of the
animals had the man by the head, and he would,
doubt have been drawn into the cage by pecemea had
the keeper to his help and driven the beasts
off


The wounded man taken to the Cincinnati Hos
pital 1t was ascertaned that he had been employed
at the hospital and discharged for drunk
enness. He was, doubt under the influence of
liquor yesterday afternoon. He will be fortunate if he
does lose his life there is great danger of gan
creme setting IN. His left arm was amputated last
night
Year: 1875

From the Springfield Republican,


A good deal of dersion has been expended by the
newspapers, writes correspondent the abandon
ment OF the silver mining enterprise at North Dana,
because the miners said TO have labored under
pirual direction. Nevertheless II is well known that
the hlsdes in that vicinity abound in marble, soap
tone, iron ore, emery, &c, which sometime will be
eveloped and worked to profit And this recalls the
radition which has been handed down from years ago,
that Glazier Wheeler, his dying bed, wrote TO
Iorth Dana that two barrels of genuine silver coin
buried in the township Wheeler, in the early
settlement OF the town. 100 years ago. at the
time the notorious stephen Burroughs, forger and
preacher, supplying pulpit at East Pelham, had
in the hillside where he made spurious
ing dollar into three and this money largely
circulation at that time. But the knowledge of his
connection with Burroughs, who afterward
rested in this city for counterfeng and the discovery
of his underground furnace by some hunters made it
unsafe for Wheeler to remain al North Dana he de-
parted for other fields Several years after when about
TO die Wheeler wrote to acquaintance at his old
home about the two barrels Of silver which he asserted
filed with true Spanish dollars: but they have
never been discovered Wheeler lived on what is
known the Nathaniel Williams place, little south of
the village, and his furnace constructed
that he could enter by stepping Of boat the
river thus leaving foot prints to betray his hiding
place
Year: 1875

THE CHELsEAs BEAT THE FLYAwAYs-TEN THOU


SAND PEOPLE PRESENT AT THE CONTEST.


Ten thousand people present at the game at the
Eysan Fields Hobokcn, yesterday afternoon, to wit
the return game between the Chelseas Of Brook
lyn and the Fyaways Of this city. This good proof
that the interest in professional playing has faded
out and that those who like TO see the
game played earnestly and honestly flock to
the amateurs play, this the
largest that has assembled any game this
son. finely played and close game expected by
those present. but in this particular the spectators
disappointed the Chelseas had everything their
way, their opponents playing miserable game.
With the exceptions of Dwyer and Wareham who had
no difficult plays to make, tho New York nine ieded
wretchedly, while the Brooklyn club did quite
WELL Clare's finished and graceful catching
cannot be praised too highly, while Rule
pitched effectively that only four clean
hits were made of him. Dunno and Hourgan, too
played their positions finely the latter making the best
play Of the game by magnificent throw from left neld
10 home base, by which he put out who was run
ming home Cassidy, also, made an excellent running
catch Both Of these clubs claimed the championship
Of New York and vicinity but this game gives the
Chelseas the series, they the first game by
score OF $ 10 I. Below Is the score
Year: 1875

Frederick lambert, German, residing at No. 112
Lille street. Newark committed suicide there yester
day afternoon under circumstances peculiarly distress
ing II appears that lambert, who a close on
sixty years Of age, had been affected by
the hard times TO such a degree that he was
unable TO find bread for his family and means to
pay his rent On Thursday his landlord ordered him
from the house for failing TO pay the rent He could
not raise the money and resolved TO Kill himself He
in a chair arranged a loaded gun between his legs
with the butt at his feet and the muzze resting at his
mouth. With the ramrod he touched the trigger and


the ball crushed through the roof Of his mouth into his
brains, killing him instantly lie was found dead IN
the posture described.
Year: 1875

Me- nrk Herald


We congratulate jefferson Davis upon


bis Speech at Houston, Texas, in which


be called upon the old Confederate SOL


oleT5 to give the same devotion to the


Stars and Stripes that they had shown to


the flag q the lost cause. The influ-


euce OF man like Jefferson Davis upon


The people who once followed him, IL


properly exercised, will be OF unspeak-


able benefit in the pacificatiCn Of the


country. We have always felt that it


viii be remembered TO the discTedit of


General Lee that at the close Of the war


he sank into policy Of apsihy and 81.
lence, and did nothing TO reconcile the
people he had commanded to the new
order OF things. Mr.. Davis could scarce
ly have done this, considering his treat
meut by th5 Federal government for a
long time after the war. This made il
impossible for him to do anything but
content himself in prison. We can
well pardon the feeling of resentment
in the heSrt Of the proud and disap-
pointed man which has led him into
many indiscretions since the war;
bat Jefferson Davis has won too great
place in history for him to throw
it away by any foolish encouragement
Of the old spirit of rebellion. He lives in
the past. He has written his name with
the few who will be remem bered for all
time. The history of the COnfederacy,
fOrlorn as it is, will always be a roman
tic episode in the history Of America.
Its defeat will attract the sympathy of
millions who respect valor and who
mourn over misfortune. There is moth
ing left to Jefferson Davis and his fame
but to give the remainder of his years to
the people, to extiuguishing
the embeTs Of war, to the encouragement
OF patriotic affection, and bringing the
old remnants of the Union together in a
more solid and lasting embrace. We ac-
cept his speech at Houston as an earnest
OF his spirit, and congratulate him, as
as well as the country, upon this evil
dence Of timely, il late and reluctant
patriotism.
Year: 1875

You will see that the proposition failed
to carry, for want Of the two-thirds ma
iority in the HaTdeman fraction. Six
teen men 10 the Hardeman corner hold
the balance Of power to prevent the one
There were five voting precincts in the
Henderson fraction, and four OF them
voted unanimously for the county. The
comm lssioners will order another cleo
ton soon.
Year: 1875

How MANY boys and girls know how
sleigh.bells are made? How do you
think the little iron ball gets inside the
bell? 1t is too big to be put in through
the holes in the bell and yet it is inside.
How did it get there?


This little iron ball is called !" the
jinglet" When you shake the sleigh
bell it jingles. When the horse trots
the bells jingle, jingle, jingle. In max.
ing the bell this jinglet is put inside
little ball of mud just the shape OF the
inside of the bell. Then mold is made
Just the shape of the outside of the bell.
This mud ball, with the jingle. inside, is
placed in the mold Of the outside, and
the melted metal is poured in, which
fills up the space between the mud ball
and the mold.


When the mold is taken Oft you see
sleigh-ben, but it will not ring, as it is
full of dirt. The hot metal dries the
dirt that the ball is made of so it can be
all shaken out. After the dirt is all
shaken out of the holes in the bell the
little iron jinglet will still be in the bell
and it will ring all right.


It took good many years to think out
how to make acknowledgements
aliSt.
Year: 1875

BIZ MARION BERNsTEM.
"OH, WHERE shall search fer q suitable
wife%'
Said Celebs one day, with his lantern in
hand;
And he searched and searched through the
world all his life
He hunted on sea, he hunted on land,
But he never found one that would suit him
and why?
The reason is plain-that he tried the wrong
You can all Of you find good wife If you
try, m
And you need not be searching all night
and all day;
For this is the truth-it win yet be confessed:
The best kind of wife is the lass you love best
You can marry wife who can cook and sew,
And have all other virtues a woman can
claim;
But if she can't love you, you'd far better 20
And wed one who knows nothing but loves


gentle name;
You might marry wife with long pedigree,
And riches, and beauty, that none could ex-


eel;
But If you don't love her, it's easy to see
You'd best wed the rustic you could love


too well.
For this is the truth-it will yet be confessed:
The best kind of wife is the lass you love best.
All those who will marry must marry for life,
And therefore beware lest your choice


should be wrong;
EOr whore fhorose Iowa %1oro 20 a., 50 b, T.,


strife


And strife matrimonial can last very long.
But all joys will be brighter, all sorrows less


deep,


In heart where the true love doth con-


stantly dwell.
Then still let your mem'ry this true proverb


keep


"He loyeth most wisely whose heart loyeth


WELL"
For this is the truth-it will yet be confessed:
The best kind of wife is the lass you love best.


Brooklyn Sunday Sun
Year: 1875

A cranky bachelor in New Baltimore has
passed through the cold nights OF the win
ter with a jug Of hot water at his feet and
warming pan strapped to his back. Daring
the last cold snap his servant filed the jug
one night with boiling water, corked it up
tight, and slowed it carefully at his masters 5
feet; but the still scalding water generated
steam sufficient to expel the cork, and the
water gurgling out, parboiled the sleeper's
leg. furrowed his back with blisteringridges,
and woke him to shrieks of pain. The care
ful servant wrapped the injured man in cot
ton and oil. but it is understood that cold
feet have been made speciality in that
household.
Year: 1875

Aggravating circumstances were, that the
young lady was of unblemished reputation,
that the paper had a regular correspondent
at Rockford, to whom it was perfectly easy
to refer the affair for Investigation, and that
the language used in the publication was of
the grossest description. The jury fixed the
damages at S2j, ,000-not penny too high.
Had they given the entire $50, 900 asked for,
their verdict would have been still more sat
isfactorv.
Year: 1875

Jusr VERDIcT-About year ago the
Chicago Times printed what purpOrted to be
a telegraphic dispatch from Rockford, ILL.,,
in which member of the Illinois Legisla-
ture and daughter of the then president of
the state Senate were mentioned by name as
parties to a criminal intimacy. Suit was
promptly brought in the young lady's name,
the damages being laid at $4,000. The
Times printed a quasi retraction, and its
editor ufered reward for the discovery Of
the person or persons who had furnished the
misinforma,ion. Upon the trial, it came out
that certain letters had been received at the
Office that the editor, after hurried read
ing. had handed them to an assistant: that
the latter, in turn, had passed them alongt


another assistant, with instructions to writo
the thing up and that this last erlploye
had thereupon prepared the Dispatch >
Year: 1875

Senator Anthony, Of Rhode Island, has
been interviewed regarding the condition of
the South As he found it during his recent
trip through that section Of the country.
Being asked il he saw any repOse or good
result OF the long peace alter the war there
he answered Not very much and
continued We mingled with the old
native people, and they assured US that
everything was joyful except for the carpet
bagsers. The Northern people resident
there always said that except for the militia


~ they had no security Of life or property.
We could not reconcile such opposite state
mentS. and went to the officers Of the garri
sons Of the regular army, who were neither
carpet-bagger> nor natives. These we in
qnired OF at Charleston, Atlanta and other
points. They told US withodt passion or
complaint. that their wives and families
were never visited socially by the Southern
ladies, nor did they receive any of the cour


tesies of intercourse common to civi-
lization and always made the especial boast
of Southerners | therefore made up my
mind that the feeling Of the people OF the
South, at bottom, was resenttul and their
professions unsound. We heard at Charles
ton of a man who wanted to carry the
United States flag in some procession through
the city. lie resided on the Battery
amongst the ariStocratic residences there.
My informant, an army officer, said : None
of those dwellings are ever opened to the
otlcer~. and the man who wanted TO carry
The Tag said his object was to have it said in
the North that a native gentleman paraded
with the national colors in Charleston, and
that capital might therefore safely come to
the place Il can't say concluded
senator Anthony, that | was convinced
the Southern grievance was endcd.'
Year: 1875

able to market their products among
us at inflated surrcncy prices and
convert their sales into cheap gold. II
gold was ten per cent higher our imports
from abroad would either be correspond
ingly less, or We should get that much
more for our gold, and, OF course, in
either case We would be benefited. A
country like ours, doing business on an
inflated paper money basis, needs all the
protection it can get, and can never afford
to open its home market, the only one it
has, to cheaper producers by cheOpening
the price Of gold.
Year: 1875

We compile the following table Of
Democratic and Republican gains from
the ohio State journal Of yesterday. 1t
serves principally to show where the
Republicans have made the large gains
that have given them the State;