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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-22
TRUSTEES SALE.
Saturday, the 18th day of
January, 1870,

January, 1870,
The following property, that is to say! Com
mencing at q stone, corner to Frederick Nsgle;
thence South %; East 96 Clio poles 10 a stake
in the line of Andrew Beecher; thence North
"a, East III poles to q poplar stump; thence
South 80 East Is 7-l0 poles TO . stone near q
falling slippery elm; thence North iea East COZ
poles to q leaning poplar; thence North 33t East
4; poles TO n stone; thence North f6s West
to a stone in middle of Run; thence down said
Run, following the meanders thereof, 10 the
place OF beginning; containing about fourteen
acres more or less; situated in RichlaRd town
ship, Ohio county and State Of West Virginia,
being part of the land conveyed by George W.
Smith TO said Alexander N. Jacob and wife,
adjoining the lands Of Frederick Magic John
c. Campbell, Richard Carter, Anderson Beecher,
and Others, or 90 much thereof as will pay the
first of said notes and with interest now due
and unpaid and all costs of this sac
Selling as trustee, will only convey such
title as is vested in me by virtue of said deed Of
trust
decIlaot J. HANSON GOOD.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-22

A FULL LINE of Tooth, Hair and Maj
Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Pomades, Toilet
Sets, Perfamery, ETC., just received by
Edmund Booking and Booking & Car
Al
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-22
Terms, by Mail, in Advance.
nAILY REGISTER.

INA vear...H 50 Three months.
siI mouths. ...... 4 90 One month.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16

FRENCH ingenuity has invented new
amusement for persons waiting for the
appearance of those on whom they call
A lady i'm Paris has had placed in her
drawing room an immense marble shell in
which are to be seen a great number of
fishes of various species A gentleman
called upon her for the first time the other
day. " Madame is at her toilette" said the
servant, "but if, while waiting for her,
monsieur would like To pass his time in
fishing, he will find here, hooks, lines and
bait. AS for fish, the shell is full of them" !"
TIE Michigan State Penitentiary at
Jackson contains 600 conycts
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16

When we are considering the health of
children, says writer in The Methodist, il
is imperative not to omit the importance
of keeping the brain fallow, as il were, for
several ofthe first years of their existence.
The mischief perpetrated by contrary
course, in the shape of bad health, peevish
temper, and developed vanity, is incura-
BILE. Some infant prodigy, which is a
standard of mischief throughout its neigh
borhood, misleads them. But parents
may be assured that this early work is not
by any means all gain even in the way of
work. l suspect il is a loss: and that
children who begin their education late,
as it would be called, will rapidly over
take those who have been i'm harness long
before them. And what advantage can 1T
be that child knows more at six years
old than its compeers, especially II this is
to be gained by a sacrifice of health, which
may never be regained? There may be
some excuse for this early book-work in
the case of those children who are to live
by manual labor 1t is worth while per-
haps to run the risk Of some physical IN
jury to them, having only their early years
i'm which we can teach them book knowl-
edge. The chance of mischief, too, will
be less, being more likely to be counter
acted by their after life. But for a child
who is to be at book-work for the first
twenty-one years of its life, what folly il
is to exhaust i'm the least its mental ener-
gy, which, after all, is its surest imple-
ment!
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
The Cost of Railroads.

Inquiries are frequently made as to the
cost of building railroads in the West, but
answers which give only the gross cost per
mile of road, or of road and equipment with
no details, are by no means satisfactory.
The following account of the cost of the
Galva & New Boston Branch of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad,
which is given in the last annual report, by
Max Hjortsberg, the Chief Engineer of the
road, will give the information which so
many desire. 1t is thoroughly well built
road, built in the most economical manner
by the company, without the Intervention
of contractors, and with money instead of
stocks or credit-a very important point.
"That part of the American Central
Railway lying between Galva, in Henry
County, and New Boston, in Mercer Coun-
ty, has been completed.
The line divergeS from the main line at
the west end of Galva Station, and runs in
a very direct line to New Boston, a dis
tance of 81 3 miles, passing through rich
agricultural country. The grades are easy,
generally under 26 feet to the mile, and
not exceeding 30 feet, except in two or
three places, viz: About one-half mile
west of Galva, where it is 46 feet for dis
tance of 1000 feet, and four miles east of
New Boston, in ascending the bluffs from
the bottom lands, where ii is % feet TO the
mile, for about mile and a quarter.
There are no bridges of consequence on
the road, except at Edwards River, which
is crossed by Howe Truss Bridge, in two
spans of 125 feet each.
The cost Of the work has been as fol
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
How COrks are Made.

Cork is received from Spain and Portu-
gal in the form of slabs, few feet i'm length,
some of which are over two inches thick
and u foot or more wide. The slabs are
sliced up into square pieces by circular
knife hung exactly like circular saw. In
stead of teeth at the periphery, the circu-
lar blade is ground to thin, sharp edge,
which will cut up slabs of cork, without
removing a kerf, faster than saw will cut
plank into pieces of equal size. The square
pieces are then held by the hands of boys
in kind of lathe, i'm such position that
the sharp and thin end of a hollow man
drel will cut out a perfectly round cork in
an instant. Mandrels of various sizes are
employed to cut cOrks of the desired size.
Each cork is then placed by little fingers,
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
An exciting scene occurred in the A

An exciting scene occurred in the As
size Court at AK, in France, during the
trial of the priest charged with instigating
a woman TO murder her husband. Just as
the jury were about to retire to deliberate
on their verdict the woman suddenly
rose and declared that her previous state
ments were false, and that the priest was
innocent. SO much agitation was thus
produced that the Judge suspended the
sitting of the court for an hour. The
trial was then resumed; the priest was
acquitted, and the woman found guilty
and sentenced TO twelve years hard labor
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16

in corresponding recesses, in a feed-wheel
of an automatic machine, where the corks
are tapered by the removal of thin sha-
wing from the periphery of one end. The
shaving is removed by the sharp edge of a
circular cutter over two feet in diameter,
which revolves horizontally. The edge of
every instrument that cuts cork is brought
in contact with the material to be cut with
a very cin,cing stroke, as such spongy ma
terial could not be cut satisfactorily by a
crushing stroke. Thick slabs Of cork are
cut into large corks, while the thin ones
are worked into corks of corresponding
ci1a
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16

A CLASSICAL CoBBLER-A shoemaker
i'm Scotland after having followed his business for
several years with profit to himself and satisfaction
to his customers, concluded To repair and paint his
shop with view TO making IL more attractive. He
also put ND a new sign on which was this motto.
=. Mems Conscia rect IA mind conscious of rccti-
tude). A competitor located opposite saw the new
sign and slowly read the m0ttonot being versed In
the language of the Ancient Romans. he concluded
that il referred TO a kind Of shoes. Determined
not TO be outdone by his successful neghhor. he
painted kis sign, adding the following" Mems and
UOHadn's C0lfscia recti
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
ClandeStine Wedding i'm High Life.

A clandestine wedding of unusual in
terest, considering the high social position
of the couple, created a stir in the city
yesterday afternoon. A wealthy young
bachelor of this city fell in love with the
charming daughter of a prominent citizen
spending the summer at place of fash
iOnable resort on the banks of the Hudson,
and to his intense delight, his love was
reciprocated. When the modern Romeo
called upon Juliet's father at his office in
Wall street, that worthy refused in the
most peremptOry manner to accept him
as his son-in-law, whereupOn sharp and
spicy war of words ensued, and question
able compliments were exchanged in rapid
succession, until finally the enraged father
ordered Romeo from his office, and for
babe him ever to call upon or see the fair
Juliet again. Here was a predicament!
After long mental consultation, the
would-be bridegroom decided to fly to
his lady love and propose clandestine
marriage.
The proposition was at first stoutly re-
jected, but the indOmitable youth used all
his persuasive powers, and intimated the
possibility of the parents being ultimately
reconcilcd. Juliet at last agreed to meet
her lover in town on certain day, at
certain house and hour, and unite herself
VIII him for life On Monday last she
came to town, ostensibly to visit friends
who dwell on Murray Hill, but in truth to
make preparations for her wedding. On
the day following her arrival, she ordered
carriage and drove to few friends, and,
having enjoined strict secrecy, informed
them of her contemplated marriage, and
requested the pleasure oc their company
at the ceremony.
Meanwhile the eXpectant bridegroom
had also called upon few gentlemen in
town, and requested they should witness
the nuptials
Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the wedding
was solemnized at the residence of the
bridcgroom's lawyer, No. = Fifth avenue,
and was witnessed by a small circle of
intimate friends. The marriage ceremony
was performed by prominent Brooklyn
divine, who is said to have received $500
for his services
After the ceremony the happy pair
driven to one of the Sound steamers for
Boston, where the relatives of the young
bride reside. Previous to his departure,
Romeo wrote letter to his fatherin law,
inclosing one from his wife with the mar
riagc certificate, and suggesting recon
citation. What reply The banker will
make is not known. We are not author
lied to publish the names, but can assure
our readers that the facts are true in every
particular-Nelc York Sun, Sent g.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
POETRY.
IN QUIET DA Us.
By CARL SPENCER.


THE dying year grows strangely mild:
Now in the hazy autumn weather
My heart is like happy child,
And life and l. friends reconciled,
Go over the hills together.
My peaceful days run sweet and still
As waters slipping over sand.
Seeking the shadows of free VIII
To gather tenderer lights than fill
Days over-lavished hand.
The summer wood with music rings,
The singers is a troubled breast;
am no more the bird that sings.
But that which brOOds with FOLDED wings
Upon It's quiet nest.
Oh fairest month OF all the yearl
oh. sweetest days in life they melt:
Within. without. is autumn cheer,
September there. September here,
SO tranquil and so sweet.
Oft have watched all night with grief.
All night with joy, and which is bests
An both were sharp. and both were brief,
NJ heart was like a wind-blOwn leaf,
give them both for rest.
Fair Quiet, close to JOY allied,
But loving shadier walks to keep.
BY day is ever at my side:
And all night long with me abide
Peace and her sister Sleep.
-HfFDer's IHy11zine.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16

"A Long Branch hotel has spent over
six thousand dollars for advertising this
season, and, consequently, has been
crowded continually.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05
tFrom Chambers Journal. J
WAITING.
" Mors janua vite.r

have waited I'LL Springs arst breath came thu
ripping streams,
Aud kissed the opening flower os it lightly skimmet
TIL the woodland lilies waved all white In the morning
beams,
And the deep els echoed again to the sound of I'll,
wild-bird's song.
have waited I'LL Summer came forth all wreathed in
Shedding luscious balm o'er the meadow and
rru,,,, Risdes iil and hills,
And ringing, with verdant moss, the sides of the bub
bling fills.
have waited till Autumn has gone from the woods
waning sigh.
Leaving the hadead trees of their emerald tresses all
ehOrn
When the branches revealed in the night the stars in the
3 iar-off sky,
Or shook in remulons chill 1t the sob Of the curly
morn
] have waited through dreary December's hours Of
darkness and gloom,
Till the old Year weary and worn, had passed away
Till his midnight knel had r,lng In tho dark with a
tongue Of doom,
And aoated above The snow that 10y like a shroud on
his breast.
have waited dreary time tho Fergo of ths Border
Consumed by langnishing pain, and shadowed by
grief profound
Living again IN the thrill OF the grasp of longovei
hand,
Lingering over the tones of voice of the tendercst
sound
wait in the balm hours of the twilight so and STILL
Watching the crimson Aecks in azured western sky;
Lued BY The yesper chimes from the church oil the far
Borne the soteat wings of the nightwinds tender
est sigh.
lnger here the verge of this shadowy Border Land
How long Lord, yet to stay, from the Land have
afar
Thine own time, Lord, then lead me up with gentle
handl
And open Thou wide the gates that have stood long
ATARI
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05
The Oldest city in the world.

Damascus is the oldest city in the world
Tyre and Sddon have crumbled on the shore /;
Baalbec is a ruin; Palmyra is buried in the
desert; Ninevah and Babylon have disappear
ed from the Tieris and Euphrates. Damascus
remains what il was in the days before Abra
hama centre Of trade and travel-an island
OF verdure in tie desert ia presidential capi-
tai, - with martial and sacred associations ex-
tending through thirty centuries. II was near
Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light
above the brightness of the sun; the street
which is called Strait, in which it is said she
prayed, still runs through the city. The
caravan comes and goes as il did thousand
years ago. there is still the sheik, the ass and
the waterwheel; the merchants OF the fu.
pirates and the Mediterranean still occupy"
these with the multitude of their wares. -
The city which Mahomet surveyed from a
neighboring height and was afraid to enter
"because it was given to man to have bnt ono
paradise, and for his part he was resolved not
to have II in this world. - is to-day what Julian
called the "eye OF the East" as it was in the
time OF Isaiah "the head of Syria"
From Damascus came the damson, our blue
plumR, and the delicious apricnt nj Portugal,
called damasco, damask; our beautiful fabrics
of cotton and silk, with vines and flowers
raised upon a smooth, bright ground; the dam.
ask rose, introduced into England at the time
of Henry VIII, the Damascus blade, SO famous
the world over for its keen edge and wonder
full elasticity, the secret of the manufacture OF
which was lost when Tamerlee carried off the
artist into Persia; and that beautiful art of in
laying wood and steel with silver and gold, a
kind OF mosaic engraving and sculpture united,
called damaskenng, with which boxes, bu'
reaus, swords and guns are ornamented. 1t is
| still a city of flowers and bright waters; the
streams of Lebanon and the river of gold''
still murmur and sparkle in the wilderness o
the Syrian gardens.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05
DeFOrm not Reform.

Some correspondent of Llppincott's Maya
zine has been giving a very readable account
of the impression made upon him by the Suez
canal. When he speaks of fez caps, bamboo
sticks, dusky arms, ebony visages and white
turbans, one feels really transported to the
land of the Pharaohs. When he describes the
simple natives plowing with a crooked limb Of
mulberry wood, and dog, camel, cow and a
woman harnessed, tandem fashion, as a team,
one is carried back to the Patriarchal age OF
the world; but when the writer disturbs the
association of lifetime by mentioning that he
went whizzing through the country at the rate
Of thirty miles an hour by rail, and ate CAPT
tai dinner of snipes, artichokes, asparagus and
new potatoes at the "Grande Hotel de l'Isthe-
ne de Suez," he commits a sacrilege, and de-
serves rebuke. Fancy Lalla Rookh riding in
first-class carriage instead of her palanquin
Imagine the Princess Badroulbadour MUNICH
ing crackers and cheese.cakes at the Cafe du
Canal % What do we care whether commerce
ia benefited or not by the energetic people
who have been shovelling, dredging, and toll.
ing away for SO many months in that desolate,
arid sandy waste All our impressions ol
Eastern life are thereby knocked into cooked
hat, and we resent it. When railroad and tele
graphs are scattered all over the earth, what
will become Of Haroun al Raschid viii
Bagdad be Bagdad any longerl viii there
be any dark eyed houris or one-eyed viziersi
any caliphs or camels, dates or donkeys No
and through tickets from Alaska to Constanti-
nople will not console us for their loss.-N
| Y. EUening Telegram.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05
THE MAJESTIC spmYxx.

After years of waiting it was before me at
last. The great face was so sal, SO earnest,
so longing, so patient. There was a dignity
not of earth in its mein, and in its counten-
ance henignity such as never anything hu-
man wore. 1t was stone, but il seemed SEN
iieni. II ever image Oi stone thought, il was
thinking. 1t was looking at the verge of the
landscape, yet looking al noihing-nothiug
but distance and vacancy. 1t was looking
over and beyond every thing of the present,
aud far into the past. 1t was gazing out over
the ocean OF Time-Over lines of century
waves which, further and further receding,
closed nearer and nearer together, and
blended at last into one unbrOken tide away
toward the horizon of remote antiquity. 1t
was thinking of the wars of departed ages;
of the empires il had seen created aud de-
stroyed; of the nations whose lirth il had
Witnessed, whose progress il had watched,
whose annihilaiion il had nOlcd; Of the joy
and sorrow, the life and death, the grandeur
and decay, of five thousand slow revolving
years II was the type OF an attribute OF
man-of a faculty of his heart and brain. It
was MEMORY RETRosPEcTIoN- wrought
into visible, tangible form. All who know
what paihos there is in memories of days
that arc accomplished and faces that lave
vanished-albeit only triflhg score ol
years gone by-will have some appreciation
OF the pathos that dwells in these grave eyes
that look so sitadiastly back upon the things
they knew before History was horn, before
tradition had being-things that were, and
forms that moved, in vague era which
even Poetry and Romance scarce know ol
and passed one by one away, aud LEFT the
stony dreamer solitary in the midst of d
strange new age, and uncomprehended
scene.
The Sphynx is grand In its Loneliness; it i:
4 imposing IN its magnitude; it is impressive
4 in the mystery that hangs over its story
And there is that in the overshadowine ma
iesly Of This eternal figure OF stone, with is
accusing memory of the deeds Of all ages
which reveals to one something of what b.,
shall feel when he shall stand at last in the
awful presence of God.-Mark Tiodin.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05

A man in Tennessee lately bought bottle
of cherry brandy, and after using it threw the
cherry pits in the yard when the chickens
slowed them away in their craws. His wife
going out soon after, saw the chickens lying
around the yard apparently dead, and told an
old negro woman that she might pick the
feathers of them for her bed, which she
Immediately did. The surprise of the
lady may be imagined when, the next
morning at early dawn, she heard old chanti
oleer delivering his usual morning salute, and
the hens cackling as though nothing had hap
pened A funny sight ii was, on looking out,
to see every hen and rooster, young and old,
marching around eyeing each other with sus.
picion, many of them entirely naked, while
only few had wings and tail feathers. The
cherry pits had made them dead drunk.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05

sou = part OF Boston by the sudden deaths
of Mrs. Harrington, her little child, and a
brother Of Mrs. Harrington. Mrs. Dumphy,
wife OF the latter, and Mr.. Harrington are
under arrest, to await the result ot tie Corn.
ner's inquest, on suspicion of poisoning the
deceased.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05
The Best Friend.
FROM THE dRRNAN.

They gave me aiyice and counsel In store,
Praised me and honored me more and more;
Said that only should wait q while,
Offered their patronage, too, with smile.
But with all their honor and appreciation,
l should, ongago, have died Of starvation,
Had there not come an excellent man,
Who bravely 10 help me along began.
Good fellow l.-he got me the food ate,
Ills kindness and care l shall never Forget;
Yet cannot embrace him, though other folks can
For myself am this excellent man.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05

DIR. G. F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, who
recently returned 10 New York from an ex-
tended research within the North circle,
furnishes the following narrative of his in
vesIigalions aud discoveries in that region
REp1ttsr RAY .Lnnn % 1890
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-10-05

For long time we have noticed grad
ual increase In the number of good-looking
men in our neighborhood, especially among
our subscribers. The change has been so
marked rs to be subject for general CONVEX
sation. People ask "Why is this ihus?"
We find the general answer to be, that al
most all our lelow-citizens are wearing the
celebrated "RocKHILL & WILSON, clothes
II is well known that the people who wear
the clothes of this make command the es-
TEEN OF their fellow creatures. All our rea-
ders know where RocKHILL & WILSON'S is.
The mammoth Brown Stone Clothing Hall,
003 and COS Chestnut Street, Philadelphil.
Chicken cholera is epidemic in Knoxville,
Tenn.
Nine ex.Judges are practising law in Rich
mond.
France promises a superior yield of wine this
year.
A fine quality of gold has been discovered
in Maryland.
one.quarter of the houses on the island Of
Malta are hotels.