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Gratitude.
A GENEROUS RETURN FOR A xrsp .cr
4 POOR, FRIENDLEss BOY.

One cold, windy, snowy night !,
the month of January, before tba
breaking out of the late war, a Youth
about sixteen years of age, and who
was hungry and cold, stood screen
ing himself from the wind and sno-
in one of the large doorways Of tbs f.
post-ofice. He was stranger and
had Just arrived here from his boma
in one of the mountain counties
where he had been "bound out hr
his parents, before their death. Il
work on farm. He, it appears was
badly treated by his foster parents
and, ;. without a shilling in his pocket,
he left them to find his way to an mn.
Gle who lived somewhere in Kansas
where, he did not know. About m,d
night that night, gentleman WHOSE
business called him to the post-ofics
discovered the boy in his lonely and
sad condition, and, after hearing h;a
story, took him to the old Democrat
Office, then on Third street, and Kent
him there until the next morninp
The gentlemen who did this act IF
kindness received the following let.
ter, yesterday, which fully explains
itself:
HAwR1Ns' FARM, Kansas,
October |, 1870.
Mr.. VIM s. Hays, Louisville, Ky.
} About ten or twelve years ago, one
cold night, you took me to your prin-
ting Office and let me stay in there
all night. Next day you gave me
some clothes, three dollars in money
and a free passage to St Louis on .
stern-wheel boat. I got there all
right and worked my way up to Atch
: ison, and from there I walked to my
D uncle's farm, and came nearly freez.
}. ing out before I found him. He did
r not know me. I staid with him somt
q time, and went in the army. Hi
wife died and left no children. Whel
- the war was over went back to liz
with him, and in four months he die
|. leaving me his farm and stock an,
everything, I got married and settle
# down on the farm and made q I'm
It crop every year since. l have bee
e married about two years, and we 60
a little boy, five weeks old, and b
. looks like me-it's mine. Last nigh
meand her come across the lettt
e. you give me, which said at the bo
tom:
, "Be prudent, wise. and always think
j. To never steal, cheat, swear nor drink;
at And if you ever should married be.
le Why, name the first boy fer me-"
IS Now, sir we've done it. From Ii
ID out that boys name is William Ha'
Hawkins, Esq, and we do il wi
gladness for what you done for =
u once. Write and let me know if J!
w are satisfied, for if you are, yon G
lie swear me and my wife, and sBilH
on Yours Forever,
Is. TrDANF DEDrV TIA UKTNC-
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THE RESULT In THE PARISH.

We. have kept back the publlca-
ton of the Democrat TO! two days
for the purpose of giving our read
ers the result of the election III the
parish on Monday last. The table
published in another place contains
the official cunt, as obtained from
the proper sources. An Inspection
VIII show that the whole Radical
ticket, with the exception of the
candidate for parish Judge, has
been successful. The same inspec'
ton will show by how small ma
iority the ticket has been elected.
The registered voters OF the par
isb were in round numbers 24Oo
colored and 1900 white. Some
three or four hundred white Dem
locratic yot rs have stald away
from the polls after takingthe trou-
bic to II gister. These men, they
had voted, would have secured the
succcss of the Democratic Legls
latiye ticket by a handsome major
ity. If you ask them why the!
r committed such crime against the
: State by their remissness, they all
9 rep]y. 81 didn't think the Demo
cratic ticket stood any chance o
:, success." Now we did not ask then
/. for any opinion on the subject; W.
: only made the moderate request Il
: register and vote. They mlgh
: have rested satisfied that the able
+ men on the Democratic ticket, AM
S the old leaders of the party, woul'
J not have made the sacrifices the
y have made, OF worked as energet1
o cally as they have worked unles
IS thew had known what they wer
1T doing. If they had published t
al the world the grounds of their bt
S. liefin their success, all their plan
III wonld have been counteracted b
O. their willy opponents. But lnstea
is of trusting their leaders, each VI
is fer has managed for himself, an
ty all together have managed to ser
is three Radicals to the next Leglsl
at ture.
&c. We have no terms by which
IT. EXPRESS our condemnation OF Il
conduct of the conservative vote
of the parish. They admit tn
they are taxed beyond their capa
to endure, and yet they deliberate
49, thrown away an excellent oppt
e tunity to get rid of Radical ta1
- ton forever. If the Democrs
have carried the House OF Rep
~ sentatives at all it is by an excet
u ingly small majority. We thl
=, that the three members from L
pides were needed to make up t
~ majority. If we lose it those W
.: caused the loss must bear
~, blame. We have done our du
We wash our hands clean OF a
ozo completely in the infamous legis
ton that will certainly follow
=: success of the Radical ticket
~, the State.
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w One of the census enumeratof,l !.
Providence. r. l., put down on his nS'
twins opposite the names of two Gnu.
drep. and against the first be desis ma,
ted Providence as the birthplace; Nv ~,
officials in Washington sent the ~;
back to have the deficiency accouh.s.
for. What they wanted to know Wa
where the other twin was born.
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TT woman travelling on the cal,
saw a man in front Of her put MS he'.
ont of the window, and asked him in0
wouldn't please keep his head ID, -
she had new silk dress on, ana ai"n
want it all spattercd M with p'a''
aud such stuff. >
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1--WE call particular attention to
two new advertisements, in our pres
ent issue. They come well together
and are of paramount importance and
usefulness in Alexandria. We mean
the cards of j. Goulden aud D. w
Thomas. Both firms are competent
orEmen and merit encouragement.
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w We return thanks to the clerks
of the steamers Bertha, Fleta, u. L.
Tally. Carrie Converse, Gladiola, Julia
A. Rudolph, Lotus No. 3, r. j. Lock
wood and Rapidcs for late papers.
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ne- We are born in hope; we pass
our childhood in hope; We are gov
erned by hope through the whole
course of our lives; and in our last
moments hope is fattering to us, and
not till the beating Of the. heart shall
cease will it's benign influence leave
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Church Meeting.

At a meeting held in st. James
Church on Tuesday, the LIST OF Novem-
Der, 1870, for the purpose OF ascertain
ing whether the parishioners were de-
sirous Of erecting memorial windows
in the Church, in memory of the chris
tian gentlemen, patriotic soldiers and
devoted churchmen, Generals Robert
E. Lee and Leonidas Polk, the Rev. S.
Burford was called to the chair, who
appointed the following Vice-Presi-
dents: j. G.. White, Joseph Fellows,
j. S. Butler, DR.. G.. E. French, George
Clark, A. w. McLaurin and VIM. Ro-
gers-W. S. Bringhurst and j. w. Bar
rett, Secretaries, and DR.. H. St. John,
Treasurer. The following named Ia
dies were appointed on a committee to
solicit contributions: Mrs. A. Luckett,
Mrs. E. Wells, Mrs. Jas. Barron, Mrs.
F. Seip, Mrs. Jos. Hynson, Mrs. j. 5.
Butler, Mrs. Jas. G.. White, Mrs. John
A. Williams, Mrs. S. X. johnson, Mrs.
Adelia Casson, Mrs. NJ. j. Waters, Mrs.
DR.. Slaughter, Mrs. Austin Burgess,
Mrs. DR.. Cater, Mrs. Oscar Cheney,
Mrs. John Burgess, Mrs. Joseph w.
Texada, Mrs. Henry Boyce, Mrs. II. A.
Thompson, Mrs. Fannie L. Walk, Miss
Laulette Hunter, Miss Nellie Fellows,
Miss Clara Rogers, Miss Bette Carnal,
Miss Susan Blackmore and Miss Lucy
Texada. On motion the meeting then
adjourned. REV. S. BURFORD,
w. S. BRINGHURsT, Chairman
J. M. BARRETT,
Secretaries.
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,~ One. Of the defeated Demo

ny One of the defeated Demo-
cratic candidates for office was
asked how he liked being beaten
He replied that he felt pretty much
rs the man who had been killed by
a billy goat. Said he, Il care
nothing about dying, but I do hate
the idea OF being butted to death
hy a did old goat
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CBErs 81
81 Il q IA As
FIRST APPEARANCE OF MIR. AND
MRS. FITZGERALD!!

~ The DEMOCRAT will not be is
sued till Wednesday, the 23d inst.
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rTRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR
s,le by IL. ST. JOHN.
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friend that he would not contest Camp
BELLS seat. The Dayton Journal says:
"This is not precise" The seat is to
be contested by the Republican party
of the third district, who are now pre-
pairing for it, and General Schenck is
in the hands of his friends. The Ga
zette may rest assured that the seat
will be contested, What a whipping
of the devil around the stump this is,
when General Schenck must avail him
self of the Radical party as a screen
to do an act of barefaced rascality, at
ter having said that he would not do
| it. the work must indeed be villainous
as he has done nothing but dirty po-
, litical tricks all his life. That this
, fraud now in course of concOction il
monstrous, is very evident from the
fact that even Schenck himself did moi
S think of a contest. Now however, tt
: escape the odium of such dirty work
e he needs must put forward his party t.
It bear tho brunt. If what Schencl
d wrote is not precise, the action OF hi
v Radical friends certainly is, and it tn
a Radicals have majority. in the mex
House, Mr.. schenck will be precisel
what he is now, M. c. from the thir
IS Ohio district, despite the majorit
:. against him.
;" The Radical element infused int
this District fron New England, an
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Phvsician and Surgeon.

cPEc1AL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DIS
y eases Of women and children.
OFPICE-over Justice Court, Gold Hi.
Gold Hill, April 22d, 1870. apHim'
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The NORTHWESTERN is a purely MUTUAL
COMPANY.
Dividends are Declared Annually.
All participate in Dividends in proportion to
their contribution to the surplus.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-23
c. Il. BEHLER'S ladies and gents res
taurant and oyster saloon, Meals
served at all hours-ll14 Market street.

New G0oDS.-Messrs. j. T. Lakin u
Co., No. 81 Monroe street, second door
west of Market, wish to inform the
public that they have just received a
large and well assorted stock Of cloths,
Coatings, Beavers, Overcoatings, Suitings,
Doeskms and Nestings, Of the latest
patterns, which they are prepared to
make up at the shortest notice and in
the newest STYLES Messrs. Lakin d
Co have recently engaged gentleman
from the East to specially superintend
the cutting department, who is thor
oughly conversant with all the duties
attending it, and they have no hesitation
in saying that whoever may favor them
with their patronage will be pleased
with the artistic cut and "nobby" ap-
pearance Of their garments. Especial
attention is called to their large stock of
gentlemen's furnishing goods, which for
variety and completeness has no supe-
rior in the city. Please call and ex-
anime before purchasing elsewhere.
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Trust what Time has Sane
toned.

The maxim that the voice of the people
is the voice OF the divinity, may in some
cases he open TO doubt, but the testimony OF
honest and enlightened witnesses extend
ing through series of years, and all TO the
same purport il worthy Of credsnce, admits
OF no question. Upon such testimony the
reputation OF HOstetters stomach Bitters ~
an antidote and cure for many ailments Is
based. During the twenty years that II has
been before the world innumerable prepa-
rationS intended TO compete with IL, have
gone up like rockets, and come down the
extinguished sticks. Meanwhile the pro
grcSs of that Incompatible tonic has been
swift and steady-always upward and on
ward, like the eagles fight. Its introduce
ton produced a revolution I'm therapeutics,
and II proved to be one Of those salutary
revolutions that cannot go backwards To-
day Hostettet's Bitters IL one or the most
popular remedies In Chrstendom, and COM
mantls larger sale than any other medici-
nal preparation, domestic or imported, on
this side OF the Atlantic. As cure for dys-
pepSia, bilious disorders, nervous affections
general debility, and az a preventive OF ep-
idenic fevers, 1t takes precedence Of every
other remedy. This fact should teach the
ambitious country dealers who endeavor to
fOlst their local abortions on the public In
It's stead, how futile their small attempts to
cajole the community must necessarily be-
Where the game fish have failed there X no
chance for the" suckers"
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FIRE IN ALEXANDRIA.-From the
letter OF an attentive correspondent, to
whom we return our heartiest thanks,
we learn that on the evening of
the 2lst instant, between eight and
nine o'clock the barn Of Mrs. r.
Whitman one and a half miles
from West Alexandria, Tin West Vir-
ginia, was discovered on fire, and it
with its contents was entirely consum-
ed. The barn contained one hundred
and fifty bushels wheat, one hundred
bushels oats, twenty tons hay, two fan
ming mills, and outside one large stack
of straw and some farm implements.
The loss is estimated at $500 on which
there is an insurance Of $1,000 in the
Home" Of Columbus, Ohio. There is
no doubt but it was the work Of an in
cendiary.
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COOP NEWS FROM IRELAND During
the Irish famine we sent a million OF
dollars worth of food to Cork. Ire
land is now repaying the debt with in
terest; not from her exchequer, not
from harvest fields, but from the ad-
amantine rocks on her coast. An en-
terprising company in New York is i'm
porting ship-loads of the edible moss
that grows on her cliffs, and converting
it, under the name Of SEA Moss FARINE,
into an economic source OF punishment
and palatable food. The new source of
aliment is prepared under a patent, and
although but year in the market, has
already taken precedence OF all the
gelatinous agent heretofore used in
cookery. No epicure who has tasted
the buildings, custards and jellies made
from SEA Moss FARINE, will deny that
they are incompatible. The saving
effected by using this article instead Of
maizena,, farina or corn starch (all OF
which it excels in palatability), is about
fifty per cent.
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A Narrow Escape from Death,
A Man Falls Over a Precipice |!

Some time night before last a Ger
man, whose name We could not learn,
and who, as we understand, is a resi-
dent of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, though a
stranger here, fell from the road at
the side Of Chapline Hill, down on to
the rocks in the stone quarry below.
How he came on the hill at night, or
what he was doing there, no one knows.
The engineer at the Crescent
Mill saw the man lying in
the quarry as he went to his
work about daylight yesterday morning,
but surprising him to be drunk, paid no
further attention to him. AT later
hour he was found by the workmen al
the quarry almost dead from his inju
ries. He was taken into a house neal
by, where DR.. Reeves was called TO at
tend him. He was alive last night
though his situation was said to be very
critical. That he was not killed out
right is astonishing, for he must have
fallen some seyentv-five or a hundred
foe,
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Prepare for the Cholera.

With the cheated term" comes the dan
ger of that frightful observation-disclosures
and kindred diseases. What untold and in
describable misery has been visited upon
annually by these awful COM
rAafiits. But every one ought TO be made
aware that a specific for this class of diseases
as well as q certain preventive, is the cele-
brated MISHLERS HERB BITTERS. II
will positively fortify the system against the
attacks OF Asiatlc Cholera, Cholera Morbus,
Cholera Infantum, Diarrhoea, Summer
Complaint, Dysentery, Cole, Painters Collie
&c D. II. Blssell, NJ. D., Physician-in-chiei
of the q. s. Hospital ship Falcon" highly
recommends 1t for Cholera, and has used II
with marvellous success in such cases. II
acts like an angel OF mercy In every In
stance. Sold by all druggists and dealers
Price one dollar per bottle.
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The Latest and Choicest.

SEA MOSS FARINE-Said to be very fine
for Deserts and an elegant and
dainty dish for the sick.
COX'S SPARKLING GELATINE-An old
favorite with the ladies for Jellies-
bright, clear and beautiful.
SUPERIOR SHERRY WINE--Just the ar
ticle to use with Cox's Gelatine-of
rich and luscious flavor.
BAKERS COCOA-Warrante Pure, de-
Hcious and nutritious beverage.
HECKER'S FARINA-Prepared especially
for invalids and children.
ANGUSTURA BITTERS-The genuine ar
ticle for ladies and children in feeble
health.
WINE OF PEPSIN-The most perfect rem
edy for indigestion and dyspepsia.
CORN STARCH-For Pudding and Gus
tartlS.
TAPIOCA-A splendid desert. either alone
or with Berries.
AT LAUGHLlN, SMITH & CO.'S,
Wholesale Druggists.
jun"1 Main street.
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MAGAZINES RECEIvEp.-The October
number of Put,,am's Magazine has been
received. 1t is fully up to the high
standard the Magazine assumed from
the first We regret to notice, however,
that the November issue will complete
the series and that the publication OF
P.tuom's as adistinctive work will then
cease. It's TO be merged with Serb
aerS MONTHLY and will hereafter
bear that name. The new Magazine
promises to present additional attrac-
tons and will he issued about the 18th
of October. Price OF subscription
three dollars.
The GALAXY for October is at hand
1t is illustrated 10y portrait Of Count
Won Bismarck and contains number
Of first class articles, among which one
by Justin Mccarthy on the King Of
Prussia" will attract general attention.
Mark Twain contributes some charac-
teristic Memoranda.