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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-07-02
HOWARD ASSOCIATION, { 80
PHILADELPHIA. fo,eH
Important Announcement.

ITO all persons afflicted with Sexual Diseases,
Il such as spermntorrhea, Seminal Weakness,
Impotence, Gonorrhea, elect, Syphilis, tho Vice
ofOnanism, or Self-Abuse, &C., &C.
The Howard Association, In view of tho Rw-
ful destruction of human life, caused by Sexual
diseases, and the deceptiops Practiced upon the
unfortunate victims Of such diseases by Qnacks.
have directed their Consulting Surgeon, as
Charitable Act worthy Of their name, TO give
Medical Advice Gratis, TO all persons thus attic
ted, who apply by letter, with description Of
their condition, Gage, occupation, habits OF ife
and in cases of extreme poverty and suffering,
to Furnish Medicines Free or Charge. Tie
Howard Association is a benevolent Institution,
established by special endowment, for the relief
OF the sick and distressed, afflicted with 'sVfru-
lent and Epidemic Diseases" 1t has now sur
plus ofmeans, which the Directors have voted TO
exPeend in advertising the above notice It is
needless TO add that the Association commands
the highest Medical skill of the age, and will
furnish the most approved modern treatment.
Just published, by theeAssoeiation, a Report
on spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Of the Sexual Or
gans, oy the Consulting Surgeon, which will he
sent ny mail, Tin sealed enYeIope,) FreeiOf
ohaTge, on the receipt of Two am pc for postage
. Addaess, DR.. 6 go. r. CALHOUN, ConsuItifg
surgeon, Howard Association, No. South
NIH Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BY order of.
EZRA D. HEARTWELL, PREs1pErr.
TEo. fAIR0HILD Secretary se1a1v
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For Sale.

A FINE lot of Tunnel Grindstones from Ohio
n which will sell at worry reduced prices for
cash, and warrant them good grit. A liberal
discount made to Il ose who buy to sell again
Also, Shafts and Friction Rollers, for tho same
LIB. WRIGHT.
Pike ST., Clarksburg Va. :. Fob. q. ,5s.-tf-
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Town Property for Sale!
JAM Els Y. HORNOR

l. Baltimore and Wheeling, and having ADOPT
ed the PAY-DOWN SYSTEM, will make it to
the interest of the public to call and examine his
stock, as he is determined to soil, for the cash,
as low as the lowest
highest prices given.
My customers are requested to call and settle
their accounts. j. Y. HORNOR.
March LIST, lS5S.-6tf
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THIRD GREAT LIGHT
railways REN0vATINo REsoIvEN

RAILWAYS RENOVATlHo RESOLNENT.
Cures Humors, Salt Rhcum, Scrotula, Ulcers,
Nodes, Tpmors, Fever Sores, Skin ErnPtions,
Blotches, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, Gout, Dropsy
Syphilis, Consumption, Apoplexy, &C., aud
all constitutional and chronic diseases, either
inherited by hereditary transmission or inoc-
ulated by exposure or otherwise. III
There is no remedy in the world that will work
such miraculous cures in old discusses US Rad
ways Resolvent. 1t changes the whole human
body--reproduces new and healthy blood.
Fay~ Bleeding from tho lhngs -Radway's Re-
novating Resident will, in few minutes, check
Hemorrhage from tho lungs or throat. In cases
whereth patient coughs up clots Of blood or pls
streakcd with blood, Railways RosoIvont VIII
- Sarah hammond, Of 188 East Thirty. sec
ond street, Ind n bad cough for two years, sho
coughed up sometimes half9pnt blood during
the night She was cured in seven days by tic
Relief and Rcsolvent.
weeks by RadwaS's Relief. Mr.. Ii. Kilgo, n
merchant s Of high standing in DSahlonega, Ga,
been afflicted with sore leg that resisted every
kind Of treatment, was cffcctually cured in three
weeks by Railways Ready Relief, Resolyent and
Regulators. '' ~
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For Sale.

ELoUR, Pomeroy Salt by the barrel or BUSH
u ell, White Lime. J.B. WRIGHT.
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Extracts and Perfunnery,

JAMES d BROTHER, opposite the Court
g house, ClarksRurg, have on hand large and
me assortment OF Flayoring extracts and Per-
f9mery, to which they call the especial attention
Oh sne ladies' SooAL oeI6 1y
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THIS remedy has won for itself such notoriety-
from its cures of every variety of pulmonary disease
dences of its virtues in any community where it
has been employed. So wide is the field of its use
fulness, and so numerous the cases of its cures,
in persons publicly known, who have been restored
from alarming and even desperate diseases of the
lungs by its use. When once tried its superiority
rent to escape observation and where its virtues are
known, the public no longer hesitate what antidote
to employ for the distressing and dangerous atfee.
to our climate. Not only in formidable attacks
upon the lungs, but for the milder varieties of
COLDS, CouoHs, HoARsENEss, Be-; and for chill
DREN it is the pleasantest and safest medicine that
can be obtained.
AS it has long been in constant use throughout
this section, we need not do more than assure the
people its quality is kept up to the best that it
has been, and that the genuine article is sold by
james & Bro, Clarksburg, and dealers in med
icincs everywhere. apo ii
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Wagon manufacfory.

EZRA D. HEARTWELL, PRKs1pEsr.
Gro. FAIROHILD, Secretary. Eelaly
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Sc Man, Know ,Ehysslr.n
An Invaluable Book jor 25 Cents Epsry Fs
min should hape q Copu.m

DIR. HUNTERS Med
ieal Manual aEd hand
Book for the Afflicted
continuing an outline Of
the origin progress treat
mont and euro OF evoTy
form Of disease contrast
ed by promiscuouS SeXu.
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Medicines.

- LasE1a. - !.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Photography.

This is the name of new branch of art
that has recently acquired great develop
ment in Paris. It consists simply In cut
ting out sheets of black paper in such a
way as to make it into pieture-fgures of
landscape-whicb has all the finish of an
engraving by the best masters. 1t appears
that psyilography is German discovery,
its Columbus being one Herr Schmidt, who,
armed with pair of scissors and a sheet of
paper, is able to reproduce the most COM
plicated landscape. Great improvements
have been introduced by A. Muratiri, an
Italian, who has just arrived in Paris from
Ravonna, whose scissors are Ear more skill
full, according to competent judges, than
the brush and pencil of many limner.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Vol. 1--No. SO.
Actors and Actresses.

From the period Immediately preceding
the Sbaksperian epoch down to our own
time, religious accommodation andsocial
ban have rested on the Theatrical profes-
! sion. Occasionally there have been great
spirits, like GIrrick and the Kembles, who,
to some extent, have thrown off the general
stigma and risen proudly above it by the
force of individual character but as a body
actors and actresses have been, down to a
very recent period, and are still to some
extent, regarded as social pariahs. With
the increase of intelligence and Gberality
this feeling is fast passing away, and actors
and actresses ara beginning to be Judged. like
the members of all other professions, by
their public capacity and private worth.
The profession OF the stage is perhaps the
most laborious of all crafts, requiring almost
uneeasing mental and physical effort. The
duties of an actor comprise study of new
parts and recovery of old ones, occupying,
on an average, from two to four hours day;
an attendance at rehearsal In the morning,
occupying about two hours a day, and q
performance each evening, occupying in
winter four, and in summer about three
hours.
The salaries of actors vary considerably
they may, however, be set down as averag-
ing, in France, from 90 to 200 francs q
month in England, from "a to eco a
month and in the United States. from $50
to $3.50 month. Actors who have some
acknowledged excellence, or peculiar indi-
viduality, or are especially attractive, are
called stars, and earn generally from $40o
to 50, 500 month.
Actors and actresses as the records ot
the stage attest, are proverbially long lived,
and free from bodily inirmity. Perform
ances are seldom changed by illness of the
performers. In many theatres season has
| passed without a single alteration, even of q
part, from illness. This healthifess is
doubtless owing to their necessarily active
life, and regular exercise, not only of the
limbs, but also of the internal organs of the
throat and lungs, thereby fortifying the
weakest portion of the human SYSTEM
When not addicted to intemperance, tc
which the exciting character of the life in
clines too many of the male portion of the
profession, many actors have reached the
very longest period of the duration of hu-
man life. OF all classes, they are freest
from crime. This Is owing mainly to the
constant occupation of mind, time and body
in their pursuit; but it may in some degree
also be attributable to their softness of feel
ing, and sympathy of character. They are
charitable, almost to recklesness.-Appte-
toms ''NeU american Cyclopgdia.' %
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
a Stiff Breeze.

Bayard Taylor, in one of bis letters to the
Tribune, describing his railroad trip through
Austria, speaks of pass IN the mountains,
near the Adriatic. which is now and then
visited by rather stiff breezes He says:
''It was dark when we reached Lalbach,
and the remaining portion of the road-the
descent to the Adriatic, which has been but
recently opened-was therefore lost to me.
L could only guess, by the rock cuttings
through which we passed, and the speed
with which we descended from the brow of
the Karst, that it was work of immense
labor. The Bora, which blows over the
southern edge of the table land, is at times
strong enough to stop the trains, which are
often detained several hours from this cause.
On the old post road there are special Off
cials, chosen for their familiarity with the
wind, and its accompanying signs, whose
duty 1t Is to inform travellers whether they
can pass with safety. When the wind is at
its light. it is strong enough to oyerturn
the heaviest wagons, and the officials have
then authority TO prevent every one from
passing. During the italian revolution of
1849, company of dragons, on their way
to Lombardy, were stopped for this reason:
The officer, a young fellow with more brag
than brains, said: we are going to beat
the rebels, and is is foolish to think the
wind can stop u.s. They marched on, in
defiance of the official warning, and were
presently, horse and all, blown off the prec-
ipice. Out of the whole company, but six-
teen were saved,
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
A Hyena Story.

The Cleveland Plnndedler, a few days
since, published an account of the escape of
a hyena in Paulding county. The last num-
Der of that paper furnishes the following
correction;
GA few errors occurred in our notice of
the escape of the hyena in Paulding county,
the other evening. In the first place, we
are reliably informed that Poffenburg wasn't
killed by the monster, nor injured indeed,
at all, because the monster didn't get out of
his cage, and could not, therefore, have done
it. We were also misinformed about the
monsters being in Paulding at all. He
isn't there now, never was there, and, it is
firmly believed, never will be again. Mr..
Gaming isn't wintering his collection of liv-
ing wild animals in Paulding this winter,
and in fact never has wintered them there
during any previous winter. We may say,
indeed, that we can't swear at this time that
Gaming has any living wild animals any
where. With the exception of these few
slight errors, our account of the escape of
the hyena was strictly correct. AS slight
testimonial of our esteem for the man who
gave us the item in the first place, we hereby
solemnly promise to write his dying speech
when he is hanged, as he eventually will be,
beyond the slightest doubt"
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
A Courageous Old Woman.

Her cow had strayed and was nowhere to
be found in her usual pastures. This gave
the good dame considerable anxiety. AT
last she determined TO search for her in the
higher valleys. Leaving her cottage early
one morning, she rambled on for several
hours, and at length found herself far up
on the Taganai without coming upon any
traces of the fugitive. This was very dis
heartening-still she would not give up her
search The valley she had entered upon
was thickly wooded with pines in many
parts in others there were fine open glades,
with clumps of bushes and shrubs; and
among these she wended her way from one
little plot of grass TO another. At last she
spied the well-known dark brown hide thro'
some bushes. The old woman thought of
the many hours she had been searching for
the truant, and stealing softly on, determin-
ed to give her sufficient chastisement.-
When within reach of her birchen staff the
blows fell fast. Up sprang the animal and
turned sharp round, when, to the DANES
horror, she saw large brown bear. The
two stood staring at each other, apparently
with equal astonishmenL and apprehension,
when Bruin, seized with sudden panic,
turned tail and dbolted.-Atkinson' Orient
al and Western Siberia.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Cause of the SUMS Heat.

According to Prof. Thompson, the we'll
known English astronomer, all the theories
that have yet been proposed to account for
the heat of the sun, as well as every con-
ceivable theory. must be one or the other,
or combination of the following three ;
First, that the sun is heating body, losing
heat second, that the heat emitted from
the sun is due to the chemical action among
materials originally belonging to his mass,
or that the sun is great fire; third, that
meteors falling into the sun give rise to the
heat which he emits. It is demonstrable,
according to Prof. Thompson, that, unless
the sun be of matter inconceiyably more
conducive to heat and less volatile than any
terrestrial meteorLc matter that Is known OF,
he would become dark in two or three min
utes, or days, or years, at his present rate
of emission, if-as is argued by some-he
had no source of energy to draw from but
primitive heat.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Liquid Glue.

This is one of the most convenient ap-
pendages of domestic life which modern in
genuity has devised. Every careful house
keeper will prize il as convenient assistant
in cobbling up broken chair, or in replac-
ing bit of loose veneering on the furniture
Indeed, for all purposes where it viii not
come in contact with water, this glue may
be used with safety. But few of the many
who would like to have it, know how to
make it. To prepare it, take glue of good
quality, and dissolve it in as mall quantity
of hot water as possible; then, while yet
hot, remove it from the FIRE and dilute it to
the proper degree of thinness by adding al
cohol; after which it should be bottled and
the mouth of the bottle kept covered with
a piece of India rubber, or anything else
that will exclude the air. Alcohol will pre-
serve the glue made in this way for many
years-keeping it from putrefaction in sum-
mer, and freezing in winter. In cold wealth
er it requires olny little warming to make
it ready for use. It has been in use in Eng
land for many years, but has never been ex-
tensively known in this couatry.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
A Double EXECUTION.

Henry Fife and Charlotte Jones were ex-
eeuted in Pittsburg on Friday, the 18th, for
the murder of the uncle and aunt of the lat
Ter. They both confessed the deed when
on the seaffold, and the woman made the
following statement, to-wit
Ihe reason why did this, was the great
love had for Henry Fife,s aud in order to
get money to go to housekeeping with him.
A short time before this crime was COM
mltted. Fife left me, against my earnest wish
giving me, as reason for leaving, that
ne was too poor to support me; and that he
was compelled to leave me and go and hunt
work. l was not willing he should leave
again, and I went with him-he going to
McKeesport, and l to my unele's. Then
when l was at my uncle's house first
formed the idea of committing the crime,
in order to get the money so that I could
live with fife, as [ was afraid he would
leave me again.
A part of the gallows scene is described
by the t'ittsburg Gazette thus
''The prisoners manifested the greatest
tenderness for each other, and appeared to
realize that they stood each upon the verge
of that eternity from which now but a few
f1eeting moments separated them.
''Mr. Brown then offered a most fervent
and melting prayer. Then the prisoners sat
down, and Charlotte Jones broke out into
the most uncomfortable fit of weeping and
groaning; these sobs and groans mixed
with incoherent beseechings and prayers to
the throne of grace, complaints and moan
mgs. The scene became inexpressibly
painful. Strong men broke down before
the awful Si0ht men who had heen on hat
tle-felds turned their backs or withdrew !;
those whose gentle administrations as EN-
bassadors for God had led the wayward feet
of these poor criminals to the fold of Christ,
as they had sometimes dared to hope, could
scarcely bear the scene, so mixed of all that
is awful, and all that is painful in life and
on the verge of death.
eThey both fell at the same instant of
time They had together executed muir
der that has scarcely parallel in the Grim
inal annals of this country-that of two
inoffensiye and helpless old people, in the
dead hour of night, for a few dollars. They
had been arrested together, been tried to-
gether, convicted and sentenced together,
and sent at the same moment of time to
stand before that dread tribunal to the eyes
of whose Judge all things are open and can
not be hid.
''The bodies hung some twenty-five min
utes. Fife dropped like lead, and scarcely
moved muscle of his body. In eight
minutes his heart had ceased its beating,
and he had passed into eternity. beyond
even the faintest sensation of present being.
Charlotte Jones was dead in four minutes
after she FELL -
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Old Psalm Tunes.
Blackwood says of old Psalm tunes :

Blackwood says of old Psalm tunes:
''There is to US more of touching pathos,
heart thrilling expression, in some of the
old psalm tunes, feelingly displayed, than
in a whole batch of modernism. The
strains 90 home, and the foundations of
the great deep are broken up;" the great
deep of unfathomable feeling, that lies far,
far below the surface of the world hardened
heart and as the unwonted, yet unchecked
tears start in the eye, the softened spirit
yields to their influence, and shakes off the
load of earthly care, rising purified and
spiritualized into clearer atmospheric
Strange, inexplicable associations brood
over the mind, ''like the far-off dream OF
paradise" mingling their chaste melancholy
with musing of still subdued, though
more cheerful character. How many glad
hearts, in the olden time, have rejoiced in
those songs of praise-how many sorrow
ful ones sighed out their complaints in those
plaintive notes who now, cold in death, are
laid to rest around that sacred church, with
in whose walls they had SO often sweiled
with emotion"
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
Texture of Colors,

A conversational lecture on the "Text-
ure of Colors," which came off one eve
ming at the Mechanics Institute, elected,
among others, the following items of in
formation, from Prof. Mapes: That there
are dozen different shades to every gen.
eral color of paint, and so many modes of
forming them, that it would confuse the
most well-d;sciplined mind to systematic
and do them justice. Many colors are per-
manent, and many are fugitive. Some col
ors, and particularly white. are changed by
the breath of persons. If You throw an
egg against door painted white, in ten
minutes there viii appear thin black streak.
running the whole length of it. Oils are
much adulterated by many painters. Most
of the soap used to clean floors, if used up
on white door, would take the paint ali off,
on account of too much resin.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20

Sir John Herschel gives the following di::
rections for estimating the distance of a
thunderstorm Observe how many seconds
elapse between flash of lightning and the
thunder, and multiply them by 1142-the
number of feet sound travels In a second
the product viii be the distance in feet
In the absence of watch the pulsations al
the wrist may be counted as seconds, BY
dedueting one from every seven or eight
Thunder can scarcely ever be heard more
than twenty or thirty miles, whilst, lightning,
or its reflection in the clouds known as
''sheet' lightning, may be seen at dis
tance of three hundred miles.
If nervous people viii cut out the above
paragraph for preservation, it may perhaps
save them many fright, by enabling them
to discover the distance of the storm thai
terrifies them.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20

.'OLD VRGIsNY NEVER TIRE."-E the
scene of the following item. which we cut
from the Wheeling LntelIieDeer, was located
anywhere save in Virginia, we should doubt
its truth. As it is we credit the tale, fully
1--WE saw yesterday. going up toward the
upper ferry. team of four animals horse.
a pony, mule and bull. The horse had
the heaves, the pony was blind, the mule
was lame, and the bull had no provision for
fy-time. In the wagon. which was an or
dinary one, there sat white man, Grip
pied niger, and lame skunk frailly bound
with wisp of straw. The white man
held the lines, the team held its own, and
the nigger held the skunk, and they, all
moved forward. To make this worthy OF
its place, it is essential to say that it is true"
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20


The following beautiful extract is from
the pen of Benz. F. Taylor, editor of the
Chicago Journal:
"Have you forgotten the old clock that
stood with its white moon face lifted up in
the shadow by the wall Il was the old
anvil whereon were forged the sparkling
minutes as they dew-the worn threshold
on which the members of Times great pro-
cession stepped one by one as they went
their way, by whose ticking footballs we
used to count ourselves to sleep-and the
shrill bell in the narrow waste below, that
rang at midnight and high noon the twelve,
steadily on rang the anvil and the bell,
while spring to summer, morn to evening
went. The dead were in the house rain
fell, though stars were shining bright; yet,
like the flaming sword that guarded Eden
on the east, those iron hands swayed on.
The old-fashioned clock is dumb to-day
its dial is tarnished and old, the bell rings
no more in the middle watch, and the
weights have run down to the floor but
the times it chronicled are eloquent, and
unchanged faces are looking at us through
the shadows, and the music as of evening
bells sounds from the far Past.
The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20
JOB PRINTING.

The Office of Tan KaszAs FEss is furnished
with complete assortment of the newest styles
of Type, Borders, FlOurishes, Cuts, Cards, Fancy
Papers; Colored Inks. Bronze. de-, enabling the
proprietor to print CIRcuIARs, CAMS CKRrIyIcArEs
OF SrocK, DEEDS. PosrKRs. and all other kinds of
Jos PRISTISG, in manner unsurpassed in the
country Particular attention paid to printing
all kinds of Blanks. Orders for work promptly
attended to when accompanied with Casa. ssES-
cELsIoR' is our motto.