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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
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From the Dollar Newspaper.
A Cure for the Bolts.

In answer to your correspondent. GA
Subscriber" who wishes to know the best
treatment for bolts in horses: send the
following, which 1 have known successful
ly practised for more than thirty years,
and have never known to fail if taken in
time.
By throwing up the upper lip of the
horse, that appears to be distressed from
bolts, if that IS the cause of his suffering.
you will perceive small specs, or pointed
Jumps. BY taking tolerable sharp knife
and scraping quickly back and forward on
these Jumps or specs, they will bleed lit
tie, (they must be made to bleed, if any
effect is to be had, J aud if the lip itself
should be slightly scarified by the pro-
gress it will be all the better. This tho
roughly and quickly done, rub on the
bleeding lip the following mixture, or pre-
paration equal parts of common salt,
saltpetre, gunpowder, and roll birthstone,
pulverized rub freely for two or three
minutes. A tablespoonful of the mixture
is sufficient if carefully applied. L have
seen many horses, upon which all the usu-
al remedies had been tried and failed, Gu
red in this manner-entirely relieved in
ten minutes. and anxious for feed. Do
not reject it because it looks improbable
there may be some intimate sympathy be-
tween the lip and the nav that we can
not comprehend. One thing is certain, it
can do no harm, nor give pain to the poor
brute that is usually inflicted by pouring
nostrums down his throat.
For windy cholic give the following
if it don't cure nothing else will: To two
ounces good mustard, and half pint pure
Holland Gin, and one pint of water-shake
we'll and drench.
While upon this subject, will add that
L have known many horses. in excrutiating
lormenb from foul shelh, doctored to death
by alternately dosing for bolts. or cholic,
as it might please the fancy of each passer
by oprescribe. They mistook the disease,
and the very quantity of nauseous stuff gi-
ven was sufficient to kill.
A Friend TO THE HORSE.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

RouGu PAINT FOR FARMERs.-A dura-
BILE as well as cheap paint. to preserve the
" heavier and more exposed implements,
such as carts, as well as rough gates and
such like fixtures"
Take twelve ounces of rosin, and eight
ounces of roll birthstone, each coarsely
powdered, and three gallons of train oil.
Heat them slowly, gradually adding four
ounces of beeswaX cut in small bits, fire.
quently stir the liquor, which. as soon as
the solid ingredients are dissolved, will be
ready for use.
What remains unused will become solid
on cooling, but may be remelted on the
subsequent occasions, if wanted. When
it is melted fit for use. add some spanish
brown, or yellow ochre. or any other col
to have, first ground fine in some of the
oil. then lay it on with brush, while it is
hot, and Thin as you can have it.
Some days after the first coat is dry.
put on second. It is sail that it will
preserve planks for ages, and keep the
weather from driving through brick work.
Common white paint may be used on the
top of it, if required, for the sake of ap-
peRrances.
Two coats should always be given, and
in case of using it on machinery, the sew
eral pats should be painted with it, before
putting them together, and third coat put
together, especially if exposed to the ac
lion of moisture and weather-such as
cutters. carts, tops of posts, and timber on
u near the ground. The wood should
be perfectly dry when the composition is
applied.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
From Dodge's Literary Museum.
TIE MATCu-MAKING WIDOW.
BY XARIFFA.
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH .

Upon the peruSal of the papers which
Count Dc We're had left in her hands, the
widows chagrin and modification at the
un9enerous treatment she had bestowe
upon her strange guest during the latter
part of his visit, deepened into sense of
shame and contrition, such as she seldom
experienced, when she found she had
but added insult to the wrongs her hus-
band had already bestowed upon that in
iured man. With different emotions her
heart was wrung as of late years it had
rarely been. She wept bitter tears as
she read of the base conduct of the man
to whose heart she had clung as wife,
with all the tenderness of her nature !;
and her face flushed with remorse and
sorrow, as she coupled the memory of
his per6dy with her own neglect and
coldness toward the strange being. whose
favor she would now give SO much to
possess. Then came the thought of AL
ice. She was the acknowledged child
of nobleman, and now nearly the equal
of her own daughter. She congratulated
herself one moment that she had treated
her with SO much apparent kindness, and
the next blushed to remember the at
tempted suppression of the MS, which,
since Harvey Hale and Count De We're
were one, could not fail to reach Alice's
ear. But all these feelings Mrs. Forrest
sedulously concealed from those around
her, and as carefully placed the explana-
tions of the Count where mortal eye could
never see them beside her own. She an
swered the many inquiries concerning the
recent good fortune of Alice and the sim
gular link of circumstances which had at
tended it with much apparent eheerfulness
and a show of pleasure at this turn of at
fairs and at length stroye to Danish
from her mind the sting of remorse which
dwelt there, and endeavored to forget, in
the approaching marriage ofLena, all the
unpleasantness of the past. As her real
character, however developed itself more
and more. the gossips of the village dealt
somewhat harshly with her. and it was
whispered among the social circles that
Mrs. Forrest was an .'artful, false and de-
signing woman otherwise why would
she have so sedulously striven to win the
rich Englishman ?'' Some of these scat
tered sayings did not fail to reach the
widows ear :; but she took no heed oil
them, and contented herself with think
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
CLARKsBURG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER soth, 1853
Drospect of beinp a nobleman's bride.


Had l." she exclaimed bitterly to her
mother. as they together sought her
room, chad I but been content with Ro-
bert Grant. might now have been hap
py. This is the fruit of my ambition. .
The psuedo nobleman who had linger-
ed in the church, uncertain what course
TO pursue, was soon surrounded by the
gentlemen who had been foremost in
feasiing and toasting him.
Give me time. gentlemen" said Mel
vile, ''and l will prove to you the utter
falseness OF these charges"
And assuming an air of great dignity,
he strobe towards the door.
MY few hundreds just loaned you, if
you please" said Mr.. Tattleton.
The greater portion of it was yet in
his possession. but the Englishman felt it
would be conceeding too much to give it
up. especially in the presence of all his
other creditors. and turning to them with
an appearance of much wounded pride,
he said
My friends. permit me to go to my
hotel. If you choose. you can put me
under guard. until l can write to and re-
ceive letters from England. Then if this
is not all satisfactorily cleared up. you
may do with me as you please"
The gentlemen, willing to have it pro-
we'd that they had not been as much i'm
posed upon as it now seemed, accepted
his proposal. and he was escorted to the
hotel, and amply furnished with writing
implements to lndite his important letters
But 10 ! the ensuing morning found the
bird flown, in spite of the guard at the
door, and the only legacy lett his numer-
Gus admirers. was taunting note. and
the horses and pheton as yet unpaid for,
with which he had displayed his love for
driving tandem, and the graces of his
fine person.
Overwhelmed with shame and confu-
sion. the widow and her daughter bade
hurried adieu 10 their village life
The house was shut up. and they depart
ed forever from the scenes of their hum
bled pride and baffled projects. They
took up their residence in a Southern CT
ty, and throwing themselves upon the
breast of gay society, stroye to regain
that caste which they had SO suddenly lost
in Preston. They were doomed only tc
disappointment ; and the extensive fail
ures, occasioued by the crisis in moneta-
ry affairs of the fall of 1851. left the once
opulent widow reduced to almost abso-
lutte poverty. Two large mercantile hou'
ses, in which she was interested TO nearly
the entire extent of her fortune, were
borne down successfully. and in their fall
buried that wealth on which she had
founded 50 many hopes and bright anti
cipalions.
Lena lived to see her mirror reflect the
face of wrinkled and disagreeabie old
maid, long after the match making wi
dow had '-Slept her last Sleep
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

ifvWe have seen in some of our ex
changes q lampoon of Miss Gould upon
Mr.. Secretary Gushing. when a young
man, but in such a garbled form and with
SO many absurd mistakes, that we scarce
ly recognize an old friend.
Miss Gould was resident of Vermont,
and while on visit to Massachusetts,
was thrown in company with young
Gushing. She exercised her poetical pow
ers in writing cutting epitaphs upon her
young beaux of the neighborhood. At
party which both attended, "a paper was cir
culated, which caused great merriment.
and finally came to the eyes of Gushing,
who read:
g Lie along ye dead,
For in the next bed
Reposcs the ashes of Gushing,
He has crowded his way
Through the world as they say
And even though dead, my be pushing"
Gushing took the paper. disappeared
few minutes. and returned with another.
which, being circulated put an end to the
prosecutions of the poetess. 1t contained
the following:
' Here lies one whose wit
Without wounding could hit
Green be the turf that's above her;
Having sent every beau
To the regions below,
She has now gone down-for a lover"
MISS could, who was vergine towards
old maldenhood, did not relish this homo
thrust and left off writing epitaphs in that
society.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE STRICKENCITY.

An Appeal for the Suffers in New Or
leans.
The clock strikes seven we listless count the
sound,
But think how disnally such strokes resound
Through yon far Southern city, now grave,
Once smiling Queen of Mississippi's wave.
The sun sinks down DER each dsath-crowded
street,
greet
Night settles DER with awe and fear and gloom
What means yon glaring blaze, yon cannon's
boom7
Ha victory's tokens for the conqueror Death!
Who slays his thousands by the tsosr's breath.
No, no, to cleanse the pestilentiaI air,
Which poisoning, pall-like wraps that city fair.
Woe, woe, woe Joyously last winter gone,
In hall and hovel cheering gleamings shone;
No W, we but see the taper's softensd ray.
But, hush-see hearses, death-cArts race! make
way,
Nay, chide not; no untallowed sport is there
Bat list! all round, wild voices fill tho air
A hearse, hearse, they frenzied, eager cry,
a coffin and grave for those who di,.
The dead's still beauteous homo strangely
filled,
With noise and wranglng which will mot be still
led.
Look where the shallow, lengtheninE trenches
run,
Whilst graveless corpses tester i'll the sun,
And loathsome flies with eager buzzing haste,
Their awful food, impatient, haunt to taste.
Horror behold, grare-diggers shrink and fly,
Aud sons and fathers to the rescue HE.
But, vainly, heart and hand they faithful task,
The work claims more than fondest love can
ask.
By power forced, the sull,u chain-glng comes,
The dead are laid to rest by cOnUiet ones!
Alas for that once grasping heart, such room
No hand but Crime, to give meek Virtue tomb.
And those poor victims, saved from Ocean's
rage,
On this strange shore, this fearful warfare wage
OF life 'gainst death, where they had hopeful
thought,
Comfort and peace to win by labor bought.
Oh holy stars, which tranquil see,
Do yc look calmly this misery?
Or do sad clouds, as fit with gloom enrold
The cbarnal city. dread Diseases hold
Oh God-what woe!-stay, stay thy chasten ming
hand
Are not ten righteous mid that doomed band?s
Say not, though Noah, Dlnie,, Job there stand,
will pour out my fury on that land.
Oh! lovely maid, in pure white robe SO fair,
So fresh with dewy flowers in thy hair,
Behold, in a few short h)u urs, by Death struck
down,
One loved as thou, with beauty howery crown
Young man in health and vigor, earnest, proud
How many as brave heart sleeps in it's shrou4
Fair wife, whose shrine husbands 10, C iumcs,
Look, where sad widows knceI-ttcir s!riaes are
tombs!
Glad Bridegroom, with thy full hearts gushing
tide,
See hers-Death claims ns fair thine, bride
+" nd mothers folding babes in deathl.ss love-
Such here have heaped the earth, their all above
Oh hapeless ones!--jor you, warm hearts are
sore
My Charity's pure wings feet to your shore
La VIssIoNXAnIE.
R,crr,roNO, August 25th, 1888.
Seen, chap. 18th, verse 32d
+E'Z ZlkiaI. 90tI,
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
WHOLE NO. los

the whole carefully while the sword pas
sed around-there was no refuge in the
basket, there was no confederate, no man
tie, no trap-door. The noise OF the straw
was distinctly heard at each thrnst: the
blood was there. and yet at the end the
child came from the crowd quite alive
was within six feet and could not un-
derstand il: perhaps you who were far
ther away will be more successful. But
isn'tit point or two in advance of AL
exander, Blitz, and those men?
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

CHINESE Coolies FOR TENNESSEE
proprIetors of the Cumberland Iron Works
on Cumberland River, Tennessee. it is Sta
ted have engaged the services Of twentv
Chlnese Coolies, as iron workers. They
are expected to arrive shortly at Cincin. .
natl, from whence they will be forwarded
to their destination. 1t is stated that the
Chinese as very expert in working iron.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

BEES AND CHLoRoFoRM.-Someo one hav-
ing suggested that the administering of
chlorotorm to bees would put them to
sleep long enough to obtain their honey,
a writer in the Boston Cultivator says he
has tried the experiment with perfect sue
cess-the bees were put to steep, and have
slept soundly ever since.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

~ On recent trial, an Irisbman
with characteristics obliquity of speech
after scratching his head said, ssPIase ver
honor, do not remember, or if / do T
forget il now
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30
CHAPTER F1FrEENru AND LAST.

The Joyous child of fond and devoted
father, Alice De We're frightened with
her beauty of mind and person the ele-
! giant home which she had so unexpected
| ly been made mistress of. Learning Of
her father The deceit and hollow hearted
ness oil Lena, she gave up all intercourse
with her. and the name of Forrest became
banished word in the precincts of their
| happy home. Her frequent visiIs to
Preston had made her acquainted with
the denouenaeat OF Lena's titled expecta-
tions. and she had in her pure heart shed
tears of pity over the bitter disaPpoint-
ment which she fel: it must have been.
Mr.. Norris. who had learned Aiice's
noble character only TO admire and love
it, in the course of few months made
her his bride, and Count De We're, desi-
ring once more to visit the land of his
birth, departed thence in company with
his son and daughter on their marriage
tour.
Mr.. Aokerman, after due consideration,
proposed one day to Miss Matilda Man
ly, and became the owner not only OF
the lady, but OF her lap-dOg and fortune
Martha took up her residence with her
brother and sister, and the happiness of
the family became a matter of almost
proverbial comment in the community.
Miss rattleton expired one afternoon in
a vain attempt to pronounce some new
word recently introduced into her vOcabu-
larry. and her brother was left to spend
the residue of his existence solitary in
mate of Bachelors Hail.
And Alice, and her husband and ia
ther! In the unutterable happiness Of
their united hearts, their lives flowed on
like the sparkling current of a summer
stream. With them we close the pages
OF '.our o'er true tale." for in the enjoy
ment of their virtues they cast back ha-
loed radiance over all the Swallowed por-
tionS of our story.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30


ISaUTRIEs ABOUT SnAaoHAIs.-A Mo-
hawk farmer writes to an agricultural ed
itor that the chen fever" RACES up that
way, and inquiries
" Now what do you think Of the parie-
" called Shank highs, whose name don't
belle them / tell my wife that they
have no body At aIi, and that when the
head is cut of the legs come right apart.
Am right I? NeighbOr Buckingham's
wife says that they Sit and lay both at
onst. don't believe it-its contrary
70 mater Ithink' they only recline lit
lie as ii were. ani--Jerusllem how can
them things set 2 Ny Jack. knife can SCI
as wei as they can.
" tell you, Mr. Editor. they nut
things out Of joint SO dreadfuIly. When
Buckingham's wife got her Shank-highs
home the other day, Old Kink happening
10 hear the rooster crow the frsf time.
and not knowing anything about the mat
ter. summoned bali fhe hands on the
place 70 come and help get the old black
eyed mule out OF the crib Old Kink
says dey don't sii on de roost same as
odder chicken, nohow. but dey sit strad-
die OF Dc stick. cause why. when dey
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

~" Is them fellers alive uow?' said
an urchin to his teacher. "What fellows
do you mean. my dear?'' "Why. Panl,
and Luke, and Deuteronomy and them. -
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

DEsERx1xG.-"D Do you know Mr.. John
Brown 90 "Yes. my dear" a Is he
not deserving man ?'' Yes. he de-
serves a hogging. and if he ever gallants
YOU again. will give il 10 him.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

@ A wag observing fellow steal a
fish and put it under his jacket, which
was too short to conceal the theft. halo
ed to the purloiner to wear in future, a
longer Jacket, or steal a shorter fish.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

@A TavernkeePer out west adverite
ses young lawyer who had left his hous-
without paying his bill thus =" Absquat-
ulandum ct Swartwoutandib!ue in transit
honest inventus additum scape goatum,
non comatibus inswampo."
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

~ The Sandwich Islands-twelve in
nurnber-embrace superficial area of
about six thousand and one hundred square
miles. Four of the islands are rocky and
uninhabitabls
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

@ A neighbOr Of ours informs Us
that wood goes fitrther. when left out o.
doors, than when hoased; some OF his
having gone upwards OF quarter of a
mile in one night
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-30

Seen, chap. 18th, verse 32d.
+Ezokiel, CHAP. I4th 18th. Goth verses.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-11-12

Extravaganza Of Gentlemen.-The news
papers have rather ungallantly referred to the
extravaganza of the ladies' in articles of dress
and ornament, but it would appear that the
gentlemen are liable to the same censure in the
prices paid for many articles of dress now in
vogue. The most fashionable cravats are sold
for FIVE dollars. The fall style of vests range
from $40 to 1875 each. Most of the desirable
patterns of the best quality have been already
taken at about 800. In the matter of vest
buttons there is great extravaganza. We hear
of sales of single sets at upwards ola hundred
dollars, and the jewelers. on Washington sreet
have elegant styles at prices ranging from $40
to $20a button, or from $50 to $l20 a set of
six. At the latter price a superb set with dia-
mond centers can be obtained. The finest
shirts on exhibition in Faneuil Hall cost $l2
each, and a small fortune is required for a fash-
ionable "suit Of gentlemen's clothes" (Bos-
ton Transcript.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-11-12
sENyAMEA.
Fotuae's wheel.

A few days ago died, in an obscure corner Of
France, one OF the many claimants to the name
and honors of Louis the Seventeenth. Some
twenty years ago the wheel Of Fortune-no.
where SO capricious in its jerks as in France
had thrown two men into the same dungeon
of st. Pelagie. They were both little. ronnd
fat men-with a taste for good wine and good
dinners, one lively, shrewd, and sparklinn, >
ready talker, and ultra-liberal, and q dandy-
the other slow and prosy; much addicted to
sentiment and roast capons. The first WINS
Armand Marrast, editor Of the National. and
one ofthe most formidable of Louis PbiIinne,s
discontinued subjects:-the second was the 500
called Baron de Richemont,-in whose coarse
but kindly face, the chiyalry of France believed
1t traced the royal lineaments of Louis the
Avn. Marrast, in his banter, called his friend
what his friend called himself, Capet; made
Jokes for him, laughed at him, and praised his
co~okery--for Capet, like all his supposed race,
was great in the kitchen.
Another jerk of the wheel of Fortune! and
the W men were once more face 10 face
This time, it is the Hotel de Ville-Marrast is
Mayor OF Paris, and his friends are masters of
France. Capet is before him with memorial
claiming from his old friend one of the great
thrones of the world. Marrast smiles:-since
he put on those exquisite yellow gloves, and
scattered On his person those wondrous scents,
he has learned to smile less sardenically than
OF old! He cannot give up France even to the
best OF cooks,-for he is already Mayor of
Parls,-has the Presidency of the National
Assembly in his grasp,--and the office of the
Capets seems within his W possible reach
Capet POUNDS a newspaper, and attacks his old
friend fist. Pelagie. One more whirl of the
wheel!--Capet and Marrast are both lost to
sight and to remembrance. The world goes on
its way,--and no one thinks of the aspiration
and the despair of these two rivals for place and
power, till one bright day some solitary tourist,
hearing a passing knell, inquiries the name of
the obsure dead, and hears-not without emo.
ton perhaps-that it is. Armand Marrast, Or
the Duke de Observation-Disclosures.