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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
"a Eeniher in Xnur lEaiv

The swells ofNew York have recently
attempted new thing i'll the hat line
Several well.known dandies, who SCI
the fashions in "their set" have ap
peared on the street with feathers il
their hats. 4 writer in the UiOrlt
says
"Well-dressed young men are fre
quently to be seen on our streets wear
ing conical hats, in the broad bands o.
which little sprigs of peacock's feather
or sometimes plain white feather, are
conspicuous. Since the Kossuth hat
with the ostrich plume-which never
came regularly into the fashion here, by
the by-this is the first attempt thai
has been made tc bring feathers into
vogue again for masculine attire. By
and by, the peacock sprig may extend
until it rises into a waving feather
Who can say, indeed, but that it may
go furtheri Women wear whole bird!
upOn their heads, and the swell who i!
content for the present with the sug
gestive sprig in his hat band, may by
and by go the whole bird, toe, and con
vert the head into roost for the pea
cock"
There is nothing to equal this excep
painting themselves. By all means le
the war paint and feathers 60 together
They cannot fail to make the braves IRE
sistible to the squaws and papoOses o
Fifth Avenue.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
Curious Confessions of a Convicted
Murderer.
From the New York Express.l

From the New York Express.I
On Thursday, Stephen Abbott, con.
fined in New Haven for the murder OF
Apollos NJ. Bronson, made confession
He had agreed with Bronson to help
poison q man named Welton, and burn
his barn, for which he had received
money and a gun in advance. After
this they met in barn at night when
both were under the influence OF liquor.
Says Abbott: Bronson had jug; 1T had
liquor in it, and he was going to I'LL 1t
for me to take up to Henry Welton. L
told him that wouldn't have no hand
in it, He said ! had got to, fer +! had
took the gun to bind the bargain. L
told him that l would have no act or
part i'll anything further. He insisted
upon it. told himI would expose the
whole plan when / went up to Water.
vile. He says, "Damn you, will you r.
he clutched the AK that stood behind
the door. He came towards me with
the ak. There was a plank put up in
the center of the barn that MeCook
used .to,plane ont little fatsfor fence
/ lodged around that, and he struck at
me; but when the AK came down grab
bed it by the handle, and never let 60
of it again. We had quite a struggle
Sor the mastership of the ak. / got the
AK from him. He then got strip of
board, and struck at me with it. He
hit me a blow, so that at the time was
arrested my left arm from the elbow to
the shoulder was black and blue. l
struck him with the ax flatwise, or |
meant to do SO. He fell upon his
knees and grabbed me by the legs.
We had good tussle before got free,
but l still held on to the ak. l came
upon my feet about the same time that
he did. We were both down at that
time. He grabbed me by the knees, and
that put me over backwards. He hung
to me like tick. When got liberated
from him hit him again. He dove for
me again, but got out Of his reach that
time. struck. him again, and he lay
senseless. / did not strike him more
than three times. The last time l struck
him l think | hit him on the back or
side of the head. When he lay there
and did not show fight went and took
hold of him and lifted him up, and
found that he was dead. l had no idea
of killing him." He afterwards plum.
dered the body, and hid it away, taking
care to obliterate, as nearly as possible,
all traces of the struggle. Abbott is 50
years old.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Fine Times.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, alluding to
,cne possible corruptions of the future
says: There are obviously magnificent
times in prospect for the corruptionists
in Congress. In addition to the multi
tuds Of hard-stealing schemes in the
hands of the railroad lobby, and scores
of yet undeveloped plundering arrange
ments of equal golden promise, we have
now General BUTLER, awakened to an
active reminiscence of his old Jackson
ian faith, laying the axe to the root OF
.our new National Bank system. 1t needs
no prophet to foresee that his efforts in
,this direction will ,ncOunter tremen-
dous opposition; nor is it difficult to
frame q reasonable guess ut the nature
,of the appliances with which his project
will be assailed There are not less
than sixteen hundred National Banks
in the country, aud they receive an alb
solute bonus from the Government
of about eighteen millions a year
in gold. 1t is every way prob
nble they would eheerfully pay their
entire income from this source for a
single year, rather than lose their grip
upon the Treasury. But suppose they
only tax themselves ten per cent. OF this
amount-or fraction over thousand
dollars from each bank-there VIII be q
fund, available for corruption purposes
of nearly 81 100000 in geld. With such
a mountain of mint drops in his patn'
it is not likely that the General VIII oe
able TO advance far toward the realiza-
ton of the scheme in the present Con-
gress. But it is not improbable that
his indOmitable energy may, if he ad-
heres to the plan he has laid down, lead
10 an irreeoneilable schism in the ranks
Of the Radical party, the moderately
honest among them arraying themselves
against the hydra headed monster, and
the hopelessly corrupt, whose name
is legion, grasping at the SHINING tempt
atioAs of the banks, and adhering to
their standard. We shall see.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Curiosities Of sleep.

In Turkey, if man falls asleep Ia tne
neigbborhood of poppy field, and the
wind blows towards him, he becomes
narcotized and would die if the country
neople. who are well acquainted with
the circumstances, did not bring him TO
the next we'll or stream and empty
pitcher after pitcher of water on MS
face aud body. DR.. Appenheim, during
his residence in Turkey, owed his llie 10
this simple and efficacious treatment.
DR.. Graves, from which this anecdote
is quoted, also reports the case OF a gen
tleman thirty-fve years of age, who'
from long continued sleepiness, was re-
duced to a complete living skeleton,
unable to stand on his legs: !t was
partly owing to disease, but chleny 70
the use of opium, until at last unaoie
IN nursue his business, he sunk INTO
abiect poverty and woe. DR.. Rled
msntions a friend of his who, whenever
anything occurred to distress him' soon
became drowsy and fell asleep.
A student at Edinburg, upon nearing
suddenly of the unexpected death OF q
near relative, threw himself on a bed
and almost simultaneously, amid the
glare of MONDAY, sank into profound
slumber. Another person, reading TO
one of his dearest friends stretched on
his deathbed, fell fast asleep, and with
the book still in his hand, went on read
ing, utterly unconscious of what ne was
doing.
A Woman at Hamadt slept seventeen
or eighteen hours day for fifteen years.
Another is recorded to have slept once
in four days. DR.. Mancise mentions q
woman who spent three-fourths OF her
life in sleep, aud DR.. Elliotson quotes a
case of q young lady who slept for six
weeks and recovered. The venerable
st. Augustine, of Hippo, prudently di-
vided his hours into three parts-eight
to be devoted to sleep, eight to
meditation and eight to converse
with the world. Maniacs are re-
ported, particularly in the East
ern hemisphere, to become furiOusly
during the full of the moon,
more especially when the deteriorating
rays of its polarized light are permitted
to fall into their apartment-hence the
name of lunatics. There certainly Is
greater proneness to disease during
sleep than in the waking state, for those
who pass the night in the Champagne
di Roma inevitably become affected
with its noxious air; while travellers
who go through without stopping, es-
cap0 the miasma. Intense cold pro-
duces sleep, AID those who perish in
the snow, sleep on till the sleep of
death.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Alaska

The House seems thoroughly disgust
ed with the Alaska purchase. Wednes
day a long bill, agreed on by the com
mittee on Territories for Territorial
Government over Alaska, came up, and
n brief debate followed, in which the
opinion was expressed in favor Of
military government, instead of civil
one in that Territory, on the ground
that the latter would involve too much
expense in the way of delegate assem-
bly,, &c. The House then killed the
Territorial bill by such a large vote that
n division by tally was not called for by
its few friends.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Pocket Editions.

The Philadelphia Press diseourses
thus about pocket editions of favorite
authors:
Publishers are continually issuing
pocket editions of some work or other
Thousands of these little volumes are
already in book cases, but very few in
the pockets of the people, and still they
come. We do not consider that the
book men intend us to carry all these
books about us in our pockets, for did
we but do that with the writings of ouI
favorite authors, We fear our weight
would be increased thereby to an un-
comfortable number of pounds, and
easy locomotion made impossible. We
have Diamond, Globe, Star, and many
other very queer named editions
of works, but the strongest titled of
all is the "pocket." A man may
be great lover of books, but that is no
reason why he should carry his library
with him in his pockets. If this thing
was made general, what a horrible
state of affairs would it occasion! He
who can bring any number of quota
tions to his rescue in an argument is
bad enough, but when he can pull from
his pocket volume after volume, and
overwhelm his opponent with undenia-
bly, the very words of an authority, he
becomes an actual terror. We remem-
Der we'll enough in our college days,
then being just old enough bot to wish
to be seen with what might have been
called School-be0ks, that in going to
recitation we carried our Xenophon,
ETC., in our pockets, the classics being
issued in small form expressly to over.
come the objection above stated,
which objection was not alone with
us. Our university students, even now,
we doubt not, could tell the same story
Search the pockets of any well-dressed
youth in the Continental billiard room,
and if he wears upon his breast gold
badge of curious shape, and covered
with mystic signs, our word for it, you
will find his college books, if you meet
with him just before 10 A. NJ. or Just
after p. NJ, or during any of the inter
vening hours, when he is accomplishing
that feat known as cutting" By
these gentlemen pocket editions
are considered necessity, and the
faculty humbly submit to the use by
the students of the little books. Leav-
ing the college doors, one can drop
them into his pocket, and, sauntering
down the street, all traces of college
connection are eradicated. But what
is the use of a pocket edition of Dick
ems or Thackerayi 1t is undoubtedly
true that these editions have a large
sale, and as that is the object of the
publishers, they care nothing what is
done with them after the purchase.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
s,eei Raii. MOI a success.

The use of steel instead of iron, for
the rails of railroads, has not been pro-
ductive of tls saving which was at first
expected oft. The surface of the steel
rail is indeed harder, and therefore,
wears better than iron; but steel has
not the tough, fbrous character of iron,
and in frosty weather it breaks with
alarming ease. Then, although the first
cost of steel is nearly double that of
iron, old steel rails sell for little or
nothing, wkile old iron rails are worth
half the price of new. Taking all these
facts into account it is found to be
cheaper to lay down good iron rails
than steel ones, except in the vicinity
of stations where there is great deal
of friction from the breaking of trains,
and but little rapid movement. Ex-
periments are, however, being made,
and with considerable success, to man.
ufacture an iron rail with a steel top, so
as to combine the toughness and cheap
ness of iron with the hard wearing sur
face Of steel.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Characteristic. of Gren, Cities.

London possesses-relatively to the
other capitals-the greatest number of
engineers, letters of carriages on hire,
printers, booksellers and cooks, usurers,
collectors of curiosities, and amateurs
of paintings abound most at Amster-
dam. st. Petersburg takes precedence
for coachmen; at Brussels are to be found
the most boys who smoke; at Naples the
most porters and guides; at Madrid the
most idlers; at Berlin the most beer
drinkers; at Florence the most flower
girls; at Dublin the most thieves; at
Geneva the most watchmakers; at Lis
bon the most bailiffs; at Rome the most
beggars; and at New York the most en-
gine-men. Paris takes lead in the mum
Der of hairdressers, men of letters, tail
ors. milliners, photographers, pastry
cooks and advocates. A calculation has
also been made that at London is con-
sumed them meat and beer; at Stock
holm the most water; at Smyrna the
most coffee; at Madrid the most cigar
ettes, and at Paris the most absinthe.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

THE movement now making to in
crease the number of fish in our rivers,
anG Lus cheaper this article of food,
is deserving of the consideration of all
CLASSES of the community. 1t has been
abundantly demonstrated by chemists
and others, that people live too exclu'
,siyely upon meat, and that in the sum
mer particularly fish diet would be
,much more wholesome. A cheap and
,plentifully supply of this excellent food
can easily, by the cooperation OF States
.u6 indivduals, BE produced and
brought into the market, and by plac
ing it within the means of all to Obtain
it, much poverty and suffering may b'
relieyeN
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

We have been made acquainted with
the details of an affair so terrible in its
iniquity that we should hardly credit
it, but that it comes SO straight there
is, we fear, little room to doubt its
truth. The particulars in the case are
quite unfit for publication. Suffice il
to say, that day or two since the
daughter of q widow living in the
Fourth Ward, near the verge of Lin
wood, acquainted a neighbor with the
facts which we shall relate. She stated
that her mother had deliberately bar
gained for her dishonor with clerk il
downtown establishment, in pursu
ance of which bargain he had come X
the house the evening before. The un
natural mother locked all the doors and
left them alone together, when hel
struggles were overcome by mair
strength. The girl resisted with al
her power, and some of the neigh
bors remembered having heard unusua
noises, and, as they thought, smotheret
screams proceeding from the house OF
the night in question, but investigated
no further into the matter until made
acquainted with the facts we have
stated by the broken-hearted victim
The girl is about seventeen years o
age, and was engaged to be married
shortly to most worthy young man
The neighbors, we understand, have
taken the matter in hand, and deter
mined to learn the full particulars o
the fiendish outrage. If the facts are q
We have been informed, and stated
; above, they should not let the matte
rest until every particular of the trans
action is brought out, and the name o
the scoundrel who would thus barte
for human soul, and of the worse thai
heathen mother, who would deliberate
y sell her daughter to perdition
dragged to light and published to tn
: world. The grand jury sit on Monday
!, there is anything in the matter the,
: shouId surely find it out.-Lafayett
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Hon. a. y. Welch, of lowR, Michigan
and Florida.

The Tallahassee Sentinel gives the fol-
lowing account of Florida's Senator,
whom it dubs a 'carpet-ba bagger extra
ordinary" 1t will seem so to all who
read what the Sentinel says of the Sena-
tor. The Hon. A. S. Welch, of Iowa,
President of the Agricultural College
of that State, it says, with $4,000 q
year, and q furnished house, and Senator
from FLORIDA (until March next), will
soon be annsluced by the Jacksonville
TaiOR as candidate for the
task of ousting Mr.. Gilbert from his
seat as United States Senator from
This State. Mr.. Welch was elected last
JnIy. to serve the unexpired term, and
shortly after accepted the lucrative po,
sition of President of the Iowa College
gave up his residence In Florida, re,
moved his family to Iowa, and his prop
ertv here was left for sale. His saw mil
sold fer $4,000. His residence is held
at $500, with furniture, Mr.. Welcf
has lust returned to Florida. de pro
poses to stay if the Legislature vii
oust Mr.. Gilbert aud put him IN IN
place. He proposes to pail up stake'
instanter if tine Legislature will be 81
naughty as not to crafty him.
"Gentlemen of the Legislature, w
have the high honor to take the bull b!
the horns and introduce to your &C
Guaintance in january the Hon. Mr.
Welch, of Michigan, President of a col
lege in Iowa, and at present Unitet
States Senator from Florida"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

Aep rious fact is said to have been
discovered by the House Appropriation
committee o. Washington, which illus
trates the force of habit in passing ap-
preparation bills without too much scru-
tiny. 1t appears that when the propo'
sition was made, years ago, to deposit
the remains of General Washington in
the Capitol under the dome, man was
appointed to take charge of the Place
wiera they were to be laid. Of course
they weSs peyer laid there, and it seems
that each successive Congress since tina,
Aus has regularly made al appropria
tion to pay the man whose services were
meyer called into requisition.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
A

Hon. james Thompson,
Judge of the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, April o. 1866.
Il consider 'HOohand's German Ritters' q
paIudbLe medicine in case Of attacks Of Indiges
tiOn or Dyspepsia. 1 can certify this from my
experience Of it.
Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON"
From Rer. Joseph II. KenHdrd, ID. d.
Pastor Of the Tenth Baptist Church, Phila'
delphia.
HDr. Jdekson-Dear Sir: l have been frequent
~ requested 10 connect my name with recon-.
mendations Of different kinds Of medicines, but
regarding the practice as out Of my aPproPfilaate
sphere, have in all cases declined Dut Win
clear proof in various instances ana
ly in my own family of the use OF Ut. hoonand
German Bitters, 1 depart for once from ny nS1al "a
course, 10 express my full convlcuon that JoI
general debility Of The SyStSH, ana SSpee1aauyJo'
Liuer Complaint, u Is a safe ana saSliaoN prfPd
ration. In some cases IL may fail; but usually
/ doubt not. Il will be very beneficial to those
who sufFer from the above causes.
J. II. KENEARD,
Eighth, below Coates St
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
A Phenomenon i'm Detroi, River
from the Detroit Post ]


Captain Stone, of the Railway Ferr!
Union, states that between and
o'clock of New Years morning the watel
of Detroit river began to flow up stream
The force of this contrary current i:
said to have been so great that the ice
snow and all other substances floating
in the river were swept along upward
by il at q rate but little slower than the
ordinary downward flow of two and
three quarter miles per hour. The hull
of the new steamer Sheboygau, lying at
the foot of Woodward Avenue, is protect
ed by logs, from the floating ice. These
logs are fastened each with heavy
chains at the upper end, so that ordi-
narily the force Of the current keeps
them in their place; but on this oeca-
sion the logs were turned about. The
upward current was swiftest on the
American side, and gradually lessened
until along the Canadian shore the
stream seemed at perfect stand still.
This strange occurrence lasted about
six hours aud was preceded by a sud-
den rise of about 1S inches in the water
level. At the end of the time the waters
were observed to slowly halt, remain
stationary for q little time, and then
gradually resume their flowing in the
natural direction, until at last they
were moving at ordinary speed. With
the cessation of the abnormal flow the
waters subsiGed to their accustomed
level. During the whole time the wind
was blowing strongly from the north
east, thus being nearly down stream.
Old sailors, dock wallOpers and the old
est inhabitants aver that the memory
of man runneth not back to the time
when such an event has occurred. The
most probable cause of the phenomenon
is assumed to be the banking up of the
waters of Lake Erie at the mouth of
Detroit river. On Thursday night there
was a strong east wind, and this is be-
lieved to have resulted in piling up the
waters of the lake at its western end.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

IT is auneuHced from Wa'hingtor
that the tariff lobby and the railway
subsidy vultures have "ioined teams'
the latter agreeing to use only iron
furnished by thc former, in return io'
which the tariff men agreed to support
the subsidy schemes agre d upon by
the railway ring.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
As'heslins gesister

Hon. A. j. ROGERS, formerly member
of Congress from the Fourth District oi
New Jersey, has been appointed fdoii0
Administrator of the city Of New YORK.
and filed his off .ial bond and taken tne
oath of Office.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

NEGRO jurors are not popular in Flor
ida, even among the carpet-baggers and
scalawags. Their sable allies have a
practice of deciding cases which is not
relished by white men. When \ negro
and a white man are opposing parties
to a suit, the reconstructed jurors al
ways go for their own color. The evi
dence is not understood, and if it was
would not be considered. Blood ii
thicker than water, and those who pust
the negro into the jury-box must moi
complain if their fingers are caught Id
the trap.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

A widower writes to the New York
Sun that his daughter of fifteen grew
coarse ana insolent, aud laughed in his
face when he OILY chided her; but one
day he fastened her to the bed, removed
her underclothing, and gave her severe
castigation with rattan cane, since
which time she has been yery tractable.
Hence, he favors corporal punishment.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
NOTICE.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN
Are made strong by the use Of either Of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA.
RASMUS, without fail
Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands Of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication Of but few. Those,
it will be observed, are men of note, and Of such
standing that they must be believed.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15

Mr.. RANDALL has written letter to
gentleman in Wisconsin in relation,
among other matters, TO the report that
lie had accumulated fortune of 5000
in a short space of time, in which he
says: GAS to my circumstances (pecu-
niarily,) can only say that | was not o
bankrupt few years ago, and thatl am
not now worth 100000, nor tenth
part of that sum. If any fool who
writes for the sensation newspapers will
pay me $4,000, and pay my debts, he
can have what little property have"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-15
Every Pair of Shears Warranted
WILLIAM KRYTEB,

Sh,ep Shears, PyunisS SAesr, Iaslov'
Sh1ars, Family SAear', BS"te'r sAsar''
~sbsar. Of any dsseriptios lssas 20 osasL
THE ATTESTIos ~ 2z ssanr y nv ssso Ssoa sss.I. 1
Il 40 -. s,.sxrs. for trimming Sbssn tcss.
and ~ - ~ shich n warranted
efsfy - -, RsraEzrs, Guns, Pistois. Sporting
- 100 Gnd Pocket Cutlery, &e,. Ee;.
fa1 MARKET ST. whseiizE, W. Va
p...srfnG q Cans, Pistaks. Knives, Scissor
s-,sf Hsckinery, Ee. done In the best nAnns
sna sf reasonable pr1css '