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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-04
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
SUPERINTENDENT water Works

MEssRs. EDIToRs-Please announce
w. III. COTTS as q candidate for Superin-
tendent of Water Works at the ensuing
c9 ana Alec''on' ana S %xSY crr4zEess.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-04

$50, w t3
l, John Wagner, Cashier OF the National
Bank of West Virginia, ut Wheeling, do
Solemniy swear thai the above statement is
true to the best of my knowledge and be-
lief. JOHN WAGNER,
Cashier.
Corrcct-Attest:
ia rs MAXWELL,)
J:R HUkBAKD, Directors.
NJ. POLLOCK,
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,)
COUNTY OF OHIO,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
second day of January, 1871.
T. NJ. MCNEELY,
JAM Notary Public.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-04

The most lasting, agreeable, and
refreshing Of all perfumes, for use
on the Handkerchief, at the Toilet,
and in the Bath. For sale by all
Druggists and Per'umers
sepl3iSw
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-04
EpORT OF THE CONDITION OF

IL the National Bank of West Virginia,
at Wheeling, at close of business Wedncs-
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-04

DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
IL the Merchants National Bank OF West
Virginia, at Wheeling at the close Of busi-
ness on the 18th day OF December, 1870.
RESOURCES.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
MaXims for Young Girls.

Never make your appearance in the
morning without having first bathed.
brushed and arranged your hair, and
dressed yourselfneatly and completely.
Keep your clothing, especially your
under clothing, in perfect order. Never
let pins do duty as buttons, or strings
take the place Of proper bands.
Examine every garment when it
comes from the wash, and, If necessary,
mend it with neatness and precision.
DO not sew up the holes in your stock
ings, as we have seen some careless,
untidy girls do, but take in broad
margin around the hole, be it large or
small, with fine darning needle and
darning cotton, and cover the fracture
strong as the body of the stocking, fine
enough to be ornamented.
Stockings mended in this way need
darning but very few times in the
course of their existence.
| Never carry coarse, embroidered or
lace ndkerchiefs. Fine plain ones are
much more lady-like.
Avoid open-worked stockings and
very fancy slippers. Fine white hose
and black kid slippers, with only strap
or rosette in front, are more becoming.
Train yourself to useful occupation.
Remember it is wicked to waste time,
and nothing gives such an impression
of vanity and absolute Stiffness as a
habit of idling, and never having any.
thing to do.
If you are in your fathers house, take
some department of household labo
upon yourself, and part of the sewing
and make it your business to attend t.
1t. onot let a call from this idle girl
or visit from that, or an Invitation
from the other, interfere with the pei
formance of your duty.
Let your pleasure come as recre,
alton, not as the business Of your life.
If you can, cultivate some art b
which you can gain an independer
livelihood. Do it quietly if you will
but do it. There is no telling when {
under what circumstances you ma
need 1t.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

ANuIsANCE.-In old times the elocu-
tionary instructors used to have sim
pie and consoling rule:
Learn to sneak slow; all other graces
VIII follow in their proper places.
Some modern wit gave "A parody ON
this distich as advice to learners In the
art of smoking:
Learn to smoke slow; the other grace Is
10 pun no smoke in others faces.
This rule is good one, quite rs appro-
pirate to advanced classes as to begin
ners. When passing along the streets,
where the lovers of the narcotic COM
forter should be most careful, we have
often seen them blow their clouds so
that those walking Immediately in the
rear We're obliged to inhale the unwel-
come exhalation. If done by design
such an act would be an insult; done
habitually, through carelessness, it
amounts to gross illbreeding. The smoke
from good cigars or from good tobacco
in clean pipes is seldom annoying to
habitual smokers, and they forget the
inconvenience to which 1t puts ladies
and others who do not smoke; but mear
cigars and foul pipes create an atmos
phere, which is poisoned and defiled be
yond the tolerance ofcivilized lungs ant
nostrils.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

BoNNER's LAST PURCHAsE-$i0,-
600 For A HORsE.-A friend who is
well posted in horse flesh, furnishes us
the following facts On the 10th of No
vember last, Dr. Herr, of Lexington,
Kentucky, astonished the owners of
fast colts by the performance of his two
years old on the Buckeye course, Gin
cinnati, he trotted the first mile in 2 i2f;
in twenty minutes he repeated the mile
in 244l; in twenty minutes more he
trotted two mile heat in 5 201; per-
formance without PARALLEL in trotting
history. The name of this marvel is
"hIambrino Bertie, "a son o." "Mambrino
Patchen," full brother Of "Lady
Thorne." The fame of this colt had
penetrated the sanctum of the New
York Ledger, but at that time Mr.. Bon
ner was uneasy over the performance of
a three year old named "Startle," rails
ed by Mr.. Blackman, of Orange county,
New York, a brother in blood to DeX.
ter, being by old "Hambletonian," out
of Star mare. This colt closely resem-
bled "Dexter" in make and proportion,
and had an ugly fashion of trotting
much faster than "Dexter" was able to
at the same age; visions of a beaten
"Dextern could not be looked at calmly,
so 500, 600 was subtracted from the bank
account of the ambitious owner of the
fastest trotters in the world, and "Star-
| tle' went into the Goth Street stable.
Now this Western youngster must be at.
tended to.
So Mr.. Bonner went out to Kentucky
and has bought "Mambrino Bertie.'
The price is not public, but well inform
en- parties say that it was close to $40,
900. There was time when peopl,
could admire the courage of a man whC
could invest $50, 900, that he had earned
by close application to business, in {
great horse and keep him solely for thu
pleasure derived from his ownership
and use, but an attempt to prevent Dex
ter's time from being beaten, by buyinl
up all his threatening competitors, ha
some what the appearance of the ridicu
lous.
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"Brick0 VS.. "Beast,3


The announcement that divorce had
been obtained by the wife of "Brick"
Pomeroy, on liberal terms for the lady,
inspired Mr.. B. +. Butler, the other
day, to publish letter which he had
written to Mrs. Pomeroy's counsel,
claiming to have been also retained by
her in the case, and attributing the
handsome settlement made by her hus.
band TO the terror ofhis (Butler's) name.
With mephistephelian satisfaction,
Butler assumed the credit of having
thus become the benefactor and sup
porter of the family of "Brick" Pom
eroy, a man who had made his money
by the abuse of the hero of New Or
leans. 1t is doubtful, however, whether
this laurel will be permitted to rest on
the bold front of boastful Ben. In a let
ter to the Tribune, Mr.. Pomeroy makes
the following statement in reply to But
ler's publication:
Mrs. Pomeroy never applied to b. F..
Butler as above stated; never retained
nm 40 COuHSci loi any oult HcNcr tSh-
ed his advice in any matter. On learn
ing that the writer of this and the lady
in question had lived apart since 1861,
he wrote to her offering his services to
act as counsel in any matters she would
retain him for. TO this letter from him
no attention was paid, the more as there
was no necessity for his aid and or coun.
sci, as there is no truth in the statement
that the persons were in distress OF
need.
After living apart since 1861, agreeing
to disagree, last year, at the suggestion
of friend of Mrs. Pomeroy, separa
ton was agreed upon-a settlement O
800, 900 made for her benefit and with
out litigation other than application in
proper manner, q decree of absolute
separation was granted by the Court
each party retaining the full respect OF
their friends without the aid, influenc
or assistance of b. f. Butler or any othe
meddler in the affairs of a most estima
BILE lady, who neither needs nor ask
the friendship ofsuch person, or tinan
cial assistance from any quarter.
Respectfully yours
M. M. POMEROY.
New York, May 8, 1871.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
Oh, Wonderful World.

" Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world.
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And tho wonderful grass upon your breast
World. you are beautifully drest.
" The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree.
1t walks on the water and whirls the mills,
A nd talks TO itself on the tops OF the hills,
" You friendly Earth how far do you go
With the wheat-helds that nod and the rivers
that flow,
With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles,
And people upon you for thousands Of miles,
"Ah You are so great, and am so small.
/ tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet when said my prayers to-day.
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
You are more than the earth, though you are
such dot;
You can love and think, and the earth cannot''
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
The Democratic Candidate for Governor OF

George w. M'Cook, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio, whose
nomination was ratified by the conven
tion ofThursday, with such enthusiasm
and unanimity, was born in Washing
ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1912. His
parents soon afterward moved to Ohio,
and he was educated at Franklin Col.
lege, in this State. After graduating,
he studied law at Steubenville with
Tappan & Stanton. He was admitted
to the bar in 1871, and soon afterward
became the law partner of Edwin M.
Stanton. His activity, energy and abil-
ity in the practice of his profession
quickly attained for him eminent rank.
In 1916, on the breaking out ofthe Mex
lean war, NJ Cook organized company
of volunteers TO defend the honor of his
country beyond the Rio Grande. He
was subsequently made lieutenant col
onel of the Third Ohio volunteers, and
acquired distinction and well-merited
honors by his skill as a commanding
officer no less than by his gallantry as a
soldier on the field of battle. After his
return from Mexico, Col. M'Cook was
made reporter for the Supreme Court |;
and neither before or since has that
Office been filled with greater ability
and merit.
During the late civil war, at the solic-
itation of the Governor of Ohio, on sew.
eral occasions, he gave the State and
country the benefit of his skill and cour-
age in the field. During the war his
father and three brothers were killed in
battle. Col. Daniel M'Cook, his father,
was killed during Morgan s raid through
Ohio, in 1868, at Burlington Island. His
youngest brother, Charles Morris NJ
Cook, aged but thirteen, was killed al
the first battle of Bull Run, in 1861
The intrepid Col. Robert l.. M'Cook
while commanding the 9th Ohio volun'
teers, was wounded at the battle of Mill
Spring, Kentucky, and was afterwards
shot and killed while being conveyed
in an ambulance in Alabama. Colone
Daniel M'Cook, another brother, of thu
SD Ohio, was killed while scaling tht
ramparts of the enemy, at Kenesav
Mountain, Georgia, during Sherman
march on Atlanta
This is the record of the "Fightinl
NJ M'Cooks"-sound Democrats, devoted
patriots, heroic soldiers. What th
Gracchi were to Rome, the M'Cook
have been to Ohio.
Col. George w. M'Cook, who bear
the standard of the Democracy in thi
, canvass, is an accomplished scholar,
r profound statesman and kind gentle
! man in all the relations of life. Franz
| generous and brave-without concea
: ments and above all the trickery of po
4 itcs, he is the Chevaller Bayard of OIL
e times and our State. With an escutchec
= without stain, and a heart that new
r knew fear, nature and education hay
r alike qualified him for the responsib
G and arduous duties of leader of Il
@ people in the great work Of reform il
d augurated by his nomination.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
POetical.
"Accept the Situation"

If disappoin tment dogs your steps
It's hard to help repning,
But small philosophy It shows
To go forever whining.
Having done all that man can do
To make or win occasion,
Come. Just without too much concern,
accept the sltuation.'
Whether from Pleasures jaunting car
You happen to be tilted,
Or whether by handsome girl
You happen TO be Tilted,
Don't dedicate your time and lungs
To useless objurgatlon,
But, picking up your limbs and-henrt,
Accept the situation
If friends whom you through thick and thin
Have oftentimes befrlended,
Should sink their sense of gratitude
when these good deeds are ended,
Remembering there is no bitterness
How sad the observation =
Like the rancor of once bosom friends,
Accept the situation"
Suppose the motive for your act
Has been brave and true one,.
That's Just the reason why some folks
VIII coin false and new one,
And shrug dub ious shrug, and drop
The sly inslnuation-
But, trusting Right, and waiting Light,
"Acccpt the situation"
Tho world is full Of ups and downs,
And many cur ious turnings.
And some big men are only clowns,
For all your weak heart burnings.
Better the lowly, If it's true,
Than the loftiest plnchbccs station,
The 1iue's u rock can stand shock:
Accept the situation"
Lifes train is whirling past, old boy
In what class do you journey?
First, second, third ?-the speeds the same,
If third, first needn't spurn you.
Ashes to ashes, dust TO dust!
Behold the final station
Not then we may, but then we must
Accept the situation"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
The FrancO.German War.

The total loss of the German army, 1t
is stated, turns out to be smaller than
was at first believed, amounting to Az
662, or 1891 killed, 29,255 wounded
and 2,O16 missing. The loss among the
officers amounted to 3,02l, or ,lG7 kill.
ed. / s3s wounded and 16 missing. Tho
1usSeS among the NOV --------t.I W AL
GAL, or 10, ,224 killed, q, 7,4l7 wounded and
1000 missing. The gains of the war in
trophies and prisoners were unusually
large, and, not taking into account the
capitulation of Paris, yielded 120 eagles
and colors, G,400 guns and 374, ,995 pris-
oners, to whom must be added $4,000
Belgium. BY the captulation of Paris,
10000 prisoners, it is estimated, were
added to the results of the war. France
will have to pay 100000 francs to
Germany as war indemnity. This,
in five franc pieces, would weigh $4,000
900 pounds avordupois. To transport
all this gold by rail, supposing each car
to carry 1000 pounds, train of 5000
cars would be required When spread
out on the ground, one touching the
other, these five franc pieces would
reach almost around the globe. If five
franc pieces enough to make this amount
were placed one above the other, they
would make column of coin 1876
miles in height. If this column, hav-
ing its base in Paris, should topple over
in the direction of Berlin, Berlin would
be only one-third of the whole distance
reached by the coin at the top of the
column. A quick cashier, able to count
10000 five franc pieces in an hour, sup.
posing that he commenced at the age of
thirty, would be nearly seventy years
of age before he had finished counting
it, in case he should count eight hours
daily, for three hundred days every
|
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

WAS METHUsELAH DROWNED IN
THE FLooD?-We make the following
extracts from an article contributed to
the Louisville Democrats:
All we know of the origin Of the earth
or our race we learn from Revelation.
The chronology used by the civilized
world is founded on the dates furnished
us in the Bible. We reckon the date of
the flood from the dates found in the 9th
chapter of Genesis. We learn from this
chapter that Adam lived before his son
Seth was born l3O years; Seth lived be-
fore his son Enos was born, lO5 years
Enos lived before his son was born, 90
years; Canaan lived before his Maha.
| laleel was born, 20 years; Mahaaleel
lived before his son Jared was born 60
wears Jared lived before his son Enoch
was horn 165 years Enoch lived before
his son MethuseIah (5S7) was born Ga
years; Methuselah lived before his son
Noah was born 1S6years Lamech lived
before his son Noah was born 1856 years;
Noah, hence, was born Ammo Mundi,
| 1859. In Genesis, 7th chapter, 9th
verse, we are informed that Noah was
| 600 years old when the flood of water
was on the earth. Add 600 years This
age) to 1929, the date of the flood. We
learn from the 9th verse, 9TH chapter
of Genesis, that "all the days of Methu
selah 500 years, and he died. BY refer
ence to the foregoing table it will bt
seen that Methuselah was born AnnC
Mundi 6S7 add his age, 969, $50, tn,
date Of his birth, and we have 1865, tn,
time "when the flood of waters was up
on the earth" The conclusion is as Ger
tain as figures that the oldest man dice
in the year ofthe flood. Was he drown
ed for his wickedness a?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

l pressed her gentle form to me, and
whispered in her ear, if, when was far
away, she'd drop for me tear. Ipaused
for cheering words, my throbbing heart
to cool and with her rosy lips she said,
"Oh, Ike, you're such foOl"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
Double Entendres,

A man assures a storekeeper, who
hesitated to trust his companion for a
purchase, 4" If he refuses to pay for it,
will" His companion refuses to pay
for it, and so does the speaker-as, in
one sense, he had said he would. 1t
was thus very easy, by using uncertain
language, to convey false impression.
A sheriff asked the wife of a Quaker,
against whom he had writ, if her
husband was at home. She replied,
" Yes, he will see thee in moment.
The sheriff waited, but the Quaker did
not appear. He was contented with
seeing the sheriff; he did not care that
the sheriff should see him.
The position of words in a sentence,
and the use Of stops, often entirely alter
the meaning. Thus, an account of a
funeral declares, "The remains were
committed to that bourne from which
no traveller returns attended by his
friends"
Ignorant people are very apt to use
phrases with double meanings without
intending to do so. Among the adver-
tisements we may sometimes read that
a respectable young lady wants wash
ing. The proprietor Of bone mill ad-
vertises that parties sending their own
bones to be ground will be attended to
with fidelity and dispatch. 1t was once
related in city paper how, during a
celebration, child was run over, wear
ing short red dress, which never spoke
afterward.
We are told of two men who met
each other at an inn, and greeted each
other aifectionately. The hotel-keeper
inquired of one how he was related to
the other, who replied:
Brother and sister have none,
| Yet this mans father was my fathers son."
This is perfectly plain statement
and yet there are few whose minds are
clear enough to see at once that thi
Jingle of words is only roundabout
way of aaying that this man was tn,
speakers son.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE

I ANEW COURSE OF LECTURES, as delivered at
the Penna Polytechnic and Anatomical Museum
1905 Chestnut ST. three doors above Twelfth,
Philadelphia, embracing the subjects How to
Live and What TO Live for; Youth, Maturity
and Old Age; Manhood Generally Reviewed
Gus Diseases accounted for; Marriage Philo-
sophically considered. These lectures Will be
forwarded on receipt of 20 cents by addressing
Secretary of the Pennsylvania PoLYTEoHNIo
AND ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 1895 Chestnut ST.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ie2l7O-ly,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

If you want to win the affections of
girl, give her two canary birds, a half
dozen moonbeams, fifteen yards of silk,
an Ice cream, several rosebuds, a squeeze
of the hand, and promise of a new bon
net. If she don't melt, it will be because
she can't, or else has just been melted,
and hasn't had time to harden.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
Gratitude.

give thanks to Him who made
Morning light and evening shade;
Source and giver of ali good,
Nightly sleep and daily food;
Qulckener of our wearled powers,
Guard of our unconscious hours.
40 give thanks TO natures King,
Who made every breathing thing;
His, our warm and sentient frame
His, the minds immortal lame;
o how close the ties that bind
Spirits to the eternal Mind.
40. give thanks for Him who came
In mortal, suffering frame,
Temple Of the Deity
Came to bear our souls on high;
In the path himself hath trod,
Leading back his saints to God"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
PA,FR VOL

identifya a body of writing, such as a
page, or even dozen lines, but to de-
eide as to the genuineness of single
word or signature is more than I would
like to do, if either life or happiness de-
pended upon 1t.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23


A sITREwD case of false pretences
was developed in England latterIy in
the means adopted by an elderly Eng
lishman, who was bankrupt, but who
still enjoyed the reputation of being a
rich man, to live at peace with himself
and the world without any expense to
himself. He made will, in which he
devised large sums to various friends,
relatives, and charitable institutions.
The grateful beDeficaries thereupon
quarrelled for the privilege of enter
tanning him as an honored guest at
their houses. The old gentleman lived
like prince, first with one and then
with another. His death occurred the
other day, when the true condition OF
his worldly affairs was discovered, amid
much profane comment on the part OF
the duped "heirs."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23

Executors or Administrators Notice, $500
Auditors or Assignee's Notice, $3.50.
Local notices, ten cents a line.
Cards in the business Directory" column,ss'o
per year for the first two lines, and siOo for eao
additional line.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-23
NEW AL VA RD.

MT w co A l. Y A RD,
IN TIE undersigned respectfully inform the
citizens of Bloomsburg and Columbia county,
thai they keep all the different numbers ofstove
ses, on their wharf, adjoining M,Kelyy, Neal Il
Co.'S Furnace; with a good pair Of Bufialo scales
on the wharf, to weigh coal, hay, and straw
Likewise a horse and wagon, To deliver coal to
those who desire IL. AS they purchase large
amount of coal they intend tokeep superior ar
tlcle and sell at the very lowest priees Please
call and examine for you urselyes before pnrGhas-
ing elsewhere j. W. HENDERSON,,
80 AUGUSTUS MASON.
THE undersigned will take in ex-
l. change for Coal and Groceries, the following
named articles Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats, Pola-
toes, Lard Ham Shoulder and side meat, Butler
Eggs Hay &C., at the highest cash prices, at his
Grocery Store adjoining their coal yard,
j. W. HENDERSON,.
Bloomsbury Mar. 10, 'G9-ly
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

One inch, twelve lines or Its equivalent In
Nonpareil type) one or two Insertions sloo
three Insertions, ,e2.c0
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" ETERINARY.

AUGUST FRIEND,
late from Germany offers his services TO tho
public as n celebrated
HORSE AND COW DOCTOR,
and ali other animals, for which his charges arc
moderate. lie can always be found east side OF
Berwick road. near =. II. Jacoby's Marble Yard.
Bloomsbury, May H. lS7l-ly.