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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-17
Baltimore 4 Ohio r. r. Co.
OrpicE BALrIMoRg 4 ONO RAILROAD Co,
WHEELING, May 10, ls6s.

DASskNGRR TRAlNsw WILL. Kun
i by the following schedule on and after the
18th day Of May, is6s-wheeling time
FAST LINE.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-17

fsNszsrEN CONSUMPTION Is as CERTAINLY
E5sS q INCURRED as Intermittent Fersr. and as
~ ~ &cERTAINLY PREVENTED as S,ndH For. y"
~ Eye Rev Chds. F. King, If. D., LII. ID.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06
A Substitute for House Paper.

A gentleman in Cambridge has invent
ed a process by which wood may take the
place of paper in the adornment of house
walls:
avery delicate, simple and beautiful
machine has been constructed, which
will take a portion of tree after it has
been cut the right length and width, and
shave it up into thin ribbons as wide as
roll of house paper, making 100 or 100 to
the inch. These rolls OF wood are placed
on the walls by paper-hangers with paste
and brush, precisely in the same manner
with paper. The wood is wet when used,
and really works easier than paper, be-
cause it is much more tough and pliable.
In these days, when variety is sought for,
one can finish the walls of his house i'm
different woods, to suit his taste. One
room can be finished in bird's-eye maple,
another in chestnut, another in cherry,
another in white wood, and so on. Thus
he has no imitation but the real, genuine
article upon his walls. The eye tires of
set figures, such as we have in ordinary
paper-hangings, but never of nature itself.
The longer the wood hanging remains on
the wall, the more distinct will be the
grain and color of the wood. The eX
pense of wood is less than paper. OF
course, If one wants to make very hand
some room, he can use expensive wood
like rosewood but the ordinary kinds,
some of which are very handsome, are
very cheap. The wall of kitchen and
common rooms can be covered in this
way so as to make the expense very small.
The wood can be oiled, vanished, or
shellacked, and then washed at pleasure,
and thus kept perfectly clean. 1t will
not crack or split when using, and when
on the walls stands like solid work.
Rooms have been lined with wood hang
ings, and exposed to the strongest heat
from common stoves, without the slight
est sign of peeling off or warping. The
article, when ready for use, is very thin,
and log measrreing "A inches in
diameter, would make 125 rolls, contain
ing thirty-six square feet each. One ma
chine will shave two rolls per minute
BY panueling with different kinds of
wood room may be finished in elegant
style and made to correspond with the
furniture. For example, If the furniture
is chestnut, with black walnut trim
mings, the walls could be hung with the
same kind of wood. Thus all tastes could
be gratified, and parties who may use this
kind of hanging will find that it will
stand very much longer than paper, and
| will improve by age.n
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06


noble, there is nothing generous, there
is nothing lovely, in that policy or that
appeal. How does that principle COM
pare with ours? We are standing upon
the broad platform of the Declars>,on of
Independence, that "all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights |;
that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness" We say that
these rights are not given by laws-are
not given by the Constitution but they
into the world. Oh, sir, how glorious is
this great principle compared with the
inhuman-I might say the heathenish-
appeal TO the prejudice of race against
race the endeavor further to excite the
strong against the weak the endeavor
further to deprive the weak of their
rights of protection against the strong
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06
Facts about the Bible.

The Scriptures have been translated
into l4S languages and dialects, of which
12l had, prior to the formation of the
British Foreign Bible Society, never APP
peared. And % of these languages ex-
listed without an alphabet, in an oral
form. Upward of 43,000,0O0 of these
copies of Gods word are circulated
among not less than 600,000,000 of peo-
pie.
The old Testament contains 80 books,
020 chapters, %, PA verses, 592, ,439 words,
2,73S, 100 letters.
The New Testament contains 81 books
260 chapters, 1850 verses, 49,, 253 words,
033, $50 letters.
The name of Jehovah or Lord, occurs
$3.50 times in the Old Testament.
The word "andn occurs in the Old
Testament 35,6l3 times.
The middle book of the Old Testament
is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the Goth of job.
The middle verse is I'd Chron., Goth
chapter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Testa-
ment is 2d Thessolonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 18th
and l4th.
The middle verse Is the 18th chapter of
Acts, 9TH verse.
Inc IhluuiS ciiuUteT anu tle ieitSJ III
the Bible is Psalm III.
The middle verse in the Bible is Psalm
rs: s.
The middle line in the Bible, is I'd
Chron., i: 10.
The last verse in the Bible is John
IL: 35.
A cubit Is % inches nearly.
A hands bredth is equal to three and
flve-eighth inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one inch.
A shekel of silver was equal to fifty
cents.
a shckel of gold was $500.
A talent of silver was S5l8,32.
A talent of gold was Sl3,S09.
A piece of silver or n penny was l3
cents.
A farthlng was three cents.
A gerah was one cent.
A mite was one and half cents.
A homer contains 75 gallone and five
pints. .,-. .
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A lirllin was pints.
An omer was pints.
A cab was pints.
A dog was one hall pint.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

ADVICE which like the snow, softly
falls, dwells the longer upon, and sinks
the deeper into the mind.-[Coleridge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

"DEN I STHop.--A few days since an
honest Dutchman gave most striking
proof of willingness to conform to the law
in one of our interior villages. He was
brought up before n justice aud fined ten
dollars for selling liquor.
"Nell," said he, "you fines me ten dol
Ter, pay him, and now sells"
"And the next time" said the justice,
"you will be fined twenty dollars"
"Vell, you fine me twenty toller pay
him, too, and den SELLS"
And for the third oflense you will be
fined one hundred dollars and imprlson-
ed three months in the county jail" re-
sponded the Justice.
The over-coniident Teuton seemed to
bo getting new idea of the operation OF
the Prohibitory Liquor Law by thistime,
and after thinking amoment, hescratch-
ed his head, exclaiming, "Vell, den l
sthop."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

AN old picture In Vienna gallery
represents Adam spoking pipe and play
ing billiards under u grove OF trees In
the Garden of Eden.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

LAzINEss grows on people. II begins
In eobwebs and ends in iron chains
The more business man has the more
he is able to accomplish; for he learns to
eeonomiZe his time,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

Young men who go to balls would do
we'll TO rsmember. that q ball should,
never end with reel.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06
Robinson, Sturgeon G Co,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
DEALERS IN FLOUR,
BRIDGEPORT, o.

HAVE JUST RECEIVED and offer for'sale At
IL lowest market rates.
40 Bags Rio Coffee,
20 Hds Porto Rico Sugar,
80 bbls Refined
10 Merchants
80 No. o. Molasses and Syrups,
20 Chests and Half Chests Tea
20 Boxes Superior Va. Tobacco,
100 Caddies a l0c and Navy,
20 Half Barrels Pickles,
100 Cases Assorted Canned Fruits
$50 Doz. Assorted Brooms,
so Gross Beuter, Wincher Il Co.'s Celebrated
Washing Powder.
Also-Flour, Soap,
Candles, wooden-
Ware, Spices, N. G.
Tar, Concentrated
Lye, Madder, New
Castle Bicarh. soda,
Turkish Prunes,
Dried Currants, Cot-
ton Yarns, Batting,
Chocolate, Gre n m
Tartar, vinegar,
cheese, shot and
Lead, salt,
and numerous other articles usually kept in a
Wholesale Grocery.
We solicit an examination of our stock from
any one wanting anything in our line.
All goods warranted as represented. no2S
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
HONEST TALK.

People of Des Arc and vicinity, people of Prairie county, you are now voting, and on Monday must vote in this town ship upon the adoption of that instrument which the Radicals call constitution. Are you ready for it? have you examined it closely? if so we will not presume to ask you will you vote for it, for we are per suaded that almost to man the white vote of White River Township, if not of Prairie county, will be boiled against an instrument so detrimental to our best in tercsts and so unjust in its provisions, and so incomplete in its construction. But lest you be too tardy too negligent of the high and important duty dcvolving upon you in this issue, we would admonish you be ready, be early at the polls. See that your friend and neighbor is there to vote against this proposed constitution. Direct your attention to the military box; vote in it and no other Let your ticket read plainly AGAINST CONSTITUTION. Remember that the polls are open in each township but one day only; tell your ncighbor this that he may not be deceived. Let every man in White river township be at the polls early Monday morning prepared to cast his vote against this con stitution Too much attention cannot be given to this matter. Remember, every man Monday morning at Des Arc.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
"lIOM COMES IT,,

"lIow comes it,n that some men have so far gone astray from their earlier training; dcgcncratcd into habits that would make their parents blush with shame, did they know that their sons had acquired such habits as character ise some of them in this our day and place. "Oh that we could see ourselves as others sec us." But let us state our points: In Des Arc, it is, and has been common for two years, to see certain would be social fellows going around from day 10 day, and from place to place, dropping in as if wishing to buy something, and even pricing articles, and then drawing long breath and bringing the hand over the face, and in q sang froid tone, ask |: "have you any thing good on hand, or "havc you any thing opened," feel d little bad and think little would help me ;""i would buy some, but have no money.' The merchants and business men arc too generous and liberal, most times, to bluff such fellows off, as would be best, by telling them to go to the saloons and buy, or if they have no money, to quit drinking till they are able to pay for what they drink. Do such men ever think that the business men note such characters and put an estimate upon them; especially upon such as they know to be able to pay for their liquors, but arc too close and stingy to treat themselves or others. It is to be re- grctted that there are such men in and around Des Are; and they are well known, and they ought to let shame re- form them. There is another class that are as annoying as the GADFLIEs, eter- nally running up to you and asking Eff you have any tobacco, or give me a chew of tobacco or pipe full" This would be excusable for few times, but every day, from week to week, from month to month, even on for years--it is out of all reason, patience and for bcaraEce. If anybody thinks this lan
 guage is too plain or exaggerated, let him, if he lives in Des Arc, stop and think for moment, and he will agree that men and boys ought to buy their whiskey and tobacco, or quit chewing and drinking. It is enough these hard times for each one to buy his own whis- key and tobacco, and he that can't do f ought to quit. ZOROASTER.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14

catcs in question showed precisely the same character of facts and figures as other similar certificates in the Treas ury.
 Mr. Price remarked that the gentle man from Illinois would sec the object in asking the question if he had certi- fled to the destruction of eighteen mil lion dollars worth of bonds, and if the bonds were still in market twas the most stupendous swindle he had heard of lately.
 MT. Iiaum inquired what had become of the bonds.
 Mir. Logan said he didn't know and didn't pretend to explain it.
 UOUSE. NAtNHAt' A
 A bill to incorporate the Mississippi I,eveWapd Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction oflcvces on the Mississippi river was offered. The House proceeded to the consider ation of resolution offered last Tues day by Mir. Loan, instructing the ,Ju- dietary Committee to inquire into the political status of Texas. e.,.l
 After some remarks by Mir. Loan the resolution was adopted.
 MT. Newcomb offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report such an amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States as shall settle the qualifications of electors inn partially and uniformly in all the States. Adopted.
 AIr. Cook offered resolution declar- ing that the General of the armies shall send to the House all papers in his of fee relating to the City Council of New Orleans and Jefferson City, Louisiana. Adopted. 1s fsa ssss
 MT. DroomaIl offered resolution declaring the House never has, or nev- CT will surrender tho right to withhold appropriations for carrying out trea- ties annexing territories. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. m
 Mr. Judd offered resolution direct ing the Secretary of State 10 furnish copies of the correspondence, nego- tiations and treaties with any German States since lhe first of January last, relating to the rights of naturalized cit izens.
 MT. Burr offered resolution declar- ing that sound financial policy re- quires the withdrawal of the interest bearing bonds, and the substitute for grecnbacks.
 Mir. Spalding moved to lay the reso- lution on the table. Negatived, 56 to 65.
 The House refused to second tho pre- vious question. Then, on motion ol Mir. Allison, it was referred to the com mittee on Ways and Means.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
II. P. VAUGHAN, SIMEON HORNE, T. B. KENT.

Dull business lately drove Chill licothc merchant, for pastime, to hug ging the kitchen girl, and his wife has kicked up a.rumpus about it.. If he had only invested few dollars in ad- vertising, the local paper says, he would have had enough business to Keep him out of mischief Moral-It you don't want to hug the girls, aiid get caught at it, advertise.
 "A fruitless attempt was made, last Saturday, by party of some twenty convicts to escape from the Frankfort. Kentuckey, penitentiary. They over powered the guard, and by the aid of a rope laddcr.two of them actually suc ceeded in gaining the top of the outer wall, when the instruction was quell- ed, andall the prisoners were locked up
 One shot was fired, but nobody was hurt. A' F1i4EE iA
 --A squad of cavalry left Nashville Friday for Lincoln county, to enforce the laws. Mtsis H0
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
:
 TRIBUTE or RESPECT.
TO THE MEMORY or OUR DErARrKp FRIEND ANT
 BROTHER, COL. SAMUEL n. BROWN.

TO THE MEMORY of OUR DEPARTED FRIEND AND BROTHER, COL. SAMUEL R. BROWN.
 The subject of this sketch, was born i in Knox county, Tennessee, the Sth of ! April, 1799. In the twenty second year of his age, he removed to the western district of Tennessee, and located with in the limits of the territory now com 1 posing Shelby county; and, at the or ganization of which county, was elect ed Sheriff With manly firmness, and conceded ability, he discharged the du- ties of this office with merited commcn- i dation. Afterwards, was elected Clerk of the Circuit court of said county, \ which position he filled for twenty-one consecutive years, to the entire satis- faction of the court and bar, as well as all with whom he had to deal. He was ever accommodating, corteous and po- lite as an officer; socially, genial soul, a pleasant and agreeable friend and companion. He was not only mason in fact, but in decd and in truth !; | himself as such. He was an officer of St. Johns Lodge, No. 103, at Raleigh, Shelby county, Tennessee, in 1915, which place he filled with credit to himself, and honor to the lodge. In 1856 he left Tennessee and settled in Prairie county, Arkansas 1; where, by an upright and manly course of deal ing, he won the esteem and friendship of all who knew him. On the l7th day Of February, 1868, brother Brown de- mitted from the lodge below, to join the lodge above, leaving host of rela- tives and friends to mourn his loss. Therefore, at a regular meeting of White River Lodge, No. 37, of F. A. M., convened on the 9th day of March, 1868, the following preamble and reso- lutions were adopted:
 WHEREAS, It hath pleased God to re- move from our midst, by the hand of death, our worthy brother, Samuel k. Brown, who departed this life the l7th day of February, 1868, in the sixty ninth year of his age. Be it
 RESOLVED, lst, That in the death of brother Brown, the community has lost q worthy citizen; society, patron of many virtues; his children, a kind and generous father the cause of masonry, B valuable friend and our lodge a faithful member. ss
 RESOLVED, 2d, That, in memory of our departed brother, the members of this lodge wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
 RESOLVED, Sd, That a copy of these proceedings be furnished the family of the deceased also the Des Arc CITIZEN for publication.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
COTTON vS. CORN.

In previous numbers of this paper we have urged upon the people of Prairie county, and of Arkansas, to abandon the idea of raising cotton to the exclusion of corn and other small grain. During last fall and winter we had concluded that the determination was well nigh fixed in the minds of the people to raise more corn and less cotton; but we. now greatly fear that the recent advances in cotton will in duce many to plant this year, causing them, in all probability, more serious losses than were sustained last year. We cannot help but think that the pres cnt prices of cotton are inducements held out by Northern manufacturers and capi-
 talists to draw the producer into their snares, sacrifice his labor and fill their pockets with the gains that should be his. Whatever the price of cotton may be now, the farmer may be sure that next season
 will be no better than the last, so far as their reward is concerned; and he who will continue to raise the staple, and buy corn and meat, will find himself soon, if not now, bankruptN The time for the cotton raiser to make money in this coun- try is past, and the only policy well de- monstrated by tho results of the last two years is to raise abundance of corn and small grain, make our own meat, take care of ourselves, and leave northern and east ern manufacturers to find other means o1 support than feeding upon the gains wrung from the honest industry of the Southern planter. Plant corn, plant corn. Let those who are now engaged in agricultu
 raj pursuits plant corn, and as an unusual dull seasons is before us, let all who can, not otherwise find employment, draw upon that bank which never fails to pay . handsome per cent. on all investments
 Let old men and young men turn theil attention to the tilling of the soil; it will
 yield income. If cotton fails to pay fol it's raising corn illnot, neither will other small grain, nor the many cereals which abound with cultivation in this country
 There is dignity in the labor of the farm
 CT; let the calling be not despised by those who in former years stained not theii hands with work; but who, through tht changes of time; find themselves compel led to work or starve To such the grea
 broad surface of mother earth is truly charitable Let but reasonable degree of skill and energy be brought to th' work and she will abundantly pay for you labor. Young men, go to work, clea' your farms, let cotton alone, plant corn
 feed your pigs, (your wife will attend tC the poultry and dairy,) and our word fol it you will never regret it; nor will you when the hardships of one year are past complain like the cotton raiser of har, times
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
TRENTON P RICHARDSON, Pcti-
 tioner.


 Robert C. Carlton as public Administrator
 of eMonroe county, Ark, and upon the
 htate of c. " Richardson, and ne-
 Hat C. Anunon, and Emma Ammon, his wife, Willis Richardson, Alpheus
 Richardson, Benjamin T. Lewis and
 Sarah Lewis; Hers at law of Caleb ",
 Richardson, deceased, Defendants
 Said Petitioner having on the 4th day of March 1868, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Probate Court of Eonroe county, Ark, her petition for dover in certain lands belonging to the estate of C. ". Richardson dec'd, as described in said petition, and it appearing from the affidavit this day filed and now attached to said petition that Benjamin T and Sa- rsh Lewis and AlpheuS Richardson are non-residents of the State of Arkansas, it is therefore ordered by the clerk of said court in vacation, that the said non-resi- dent defendants shall have notice of the filing of said petition, by publication of this order in some newspaper printed in this State within tho time and for the number of times prescribed by law, and unless they shall appear on or before the fourth day of our next April term of the Probate court, at court to be holden at the courthouse in the town of Clarendon county aforesaid, on the 18th day of April 1868, and answer said petition the same will be taken as confessed and decree rendered accordingly.
 In testimony whereof l have sot my hand and affixed my official seal, this 4th day of March, 1868.
 't PARKER c, EVAN, Clerk.
 A true copy from the record.
 Attest. PARkER c. EVAN. Clerk.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
sSy- On Monday last, Mir. J. M

s6s- On Monday last, Mir. J. M, Campbell, local editor of the Memphis Av- alanche, was arrested and put in jail for contempt. His whole ofense, it seems, was the publication of an article copied from another journal of the city, in which Judge Hunter and another prominent rad teal of Memphis were charged with steal ing sum of money from negro. Truly our brothers of the Avalanche have hard ime of it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14
FROM NASHVILLE,

NASHVILLE, March 9.
 The proposition to subscribe stock to the Nashville and Pacific railroad was defeated in Davidson county at the election on Saturday. It carried in Wilson county. The Radical ticket is reported defeat- ed in Williamson county, and in the towns of Murlreesboro and Shelby vile. In Davidson county, the Radi- cal ticket, including three negroes, was elected.
 James Britt was shot and killed q few days ago near Waycrly, Tennessee, by some unknown party. 5 The wheat crop of Middle Tennessee promises to be very fine.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14

--Maior s. II. Hillyer, formerly of the Confederate army, committed su- icide about a week since, near Beckle's Landing, Marengo county, Alabams He rode from his residence to n store near by, purchased vial of mor- phine, and took about half of it before leaving. He then mounted his horse, but had not proceeded far before he fell off. He died in few hours.
 It is ascertained that tho wheat crop in Middle and parts of East Ten nessce was seriously damaged by the February frosts, and that the yield wlll be much lighter than last year.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-14

The following postal regulations having been agreed upon between the United States and the Dominion of Canada. will take effect on the first of April Ist. The authorized weight for a single letter shall be fifteen grammes (by the metrical scale9 in the Domin- ion, and half an ounce in the United States. ?. The postage on q single international letter shall be six cents, if prepaid at the office of mailing, in either country, and ten cents if posted unpaid; for other than single letters, the same charge shall be made for each additional fifteen grammes, or half ounce. or fraction thereof. 3. Each Post Department shall devote to its own use, as at present, all the postage which it collects, whether on prepaid letters sent, or on unpaid letters re- ceived.
 ---Chief Justice Chase entertains no intention of protrscting the im- peachment trial. The friends of the President argue that the trial will not be finished during the next four or five months.