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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-09

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Wheeling, Parkersburg anu
Cincinnati Transportation
COmpany's Packets.
COURIER. Capt. JACK dAkknoH'
ExPREss, Capt. PHIL. ASSscHurz.
The COURIER leaves Wheel
sQ9fSSing for Petersburg every Tues
I kday, Thursday and Saturday at
l0h O'Clock A. N. Returning leaves. Park,
ersbrrg every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at o'clock A. NJ.
The EXPRESS leaves Wheeling for PARK,
ersburg every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at l0h O'Clock AN. Returning leaves
Parkersburg every Tuesday, Thursday anu
Saturday at o'clock A. NJ.
For freight or passage apply to oo
n.ra Agents.
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West Virginia Insurance. Go.
FRANKLIN INSURANCE co.

FRANKLIN INSURANCE co.
OF WHEELING.
CAPITAL, $4,000.
DIRECTORS:
samI Mcclellan, George Mendel,
TIL. Logan, Thos. Y. Shallcross,
g. w. Franzheim, ]. n. Vance,
J. II. Hobbs, Michael Reilly,
Louis c. Stifels
THIS COMPANY NOW HAVING BEEN
organized five years, and In that time done
a successful business, Ii still prepared to
take risks at fair rates on Buildings OF all
kinds, Merchandise, Manufacturing Estab-
lishments, Furniture, Steamboats, and Car
goes on the Western Rivers and Lakes.
This Company oilers superior induce
ments to Farmers, whereby they can be
insured on Dwellings, Furniture, Barns and
contents, for three or five years at reduced
rates. This being State Company, with
THE largest CASH CAPITAL
paid in and surplus OF any company In the
State and composed OF some ninety-four
stockholders, most OF whom are among our
best business men, recommends itself 10 the
favorable consideration of the insuring pub
lie, and SELECTS their patronage. Appltca-
tons for insurance will be promptly at
tended to at their Office, No. - Monroe
Street, or at their several agencies through
out the State.
SaML MCCLELLAN, President.
GEO. MENDEL, Vice President.
c. NJ. COEN, Secretary.
A. L. WILEY General A ent f.hS
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BALTIMORE & OHIO r. R. 60.

r. Rp PASSENGER TRAINS
- .fXEwill run by the following
schedule on and after May 18th, ISL
Wheeling time:
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TRANSPORTATION.
Cleveland & Pittsburgh r. E.

. HeE1 ON AND AFTER MAY
- SHRSS D, 1871. Trains will run a.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

CAPTURED.-rIt will be remembered
that last week we gavea short account
of the killing of Willis Trimble by per-
sons unknown, and of the attempt by
a posse to arrest the supposed murder,
ers, who escaped and left their two
horses, a pistol and a shot gun, and
that the posse had that morning again
gone out in pursuit. The pursuing
party captured one of the men, after
wounding him slightly, and brought
him in. His preliminary examination
before justice Brookcr, was concluded
Yesterday, resulting in his being held
TO answer before the Circuit Court.
The two were found together, but
separated when found, aas one made
his escape. The one in custody, who
gives his name as Marchbsnks, says
the other had his great toe shot off in
the engagement at the old house on
the first night. 1t has been ascertained
that he has since succeeded in stealing
horse, and has doubtless made his
way far into the interior of Texas be-
fore this time. When last heard from
he was passing through Centre Point,
going in the direction of Layne5port.
The owner of the horse with q party of
citizens, we are informed, are still in
pursuit of him. Ifthey fail to over
take him, we think such steps ought to
be taken at once as will put the author
tiles OF the State of Texas on the look
out for him.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

The WAY IT IS DoNE.-It is the
almost universal opinion, we believe,
that the lesser lights of radicalism in
newspaperdom, (and the larger ones,
too, for that natter are supported
and kept alive either by public pat
ronage, or by contributions levied upon
office holders. 1t is even believed by
some persons that in case OF emergency.
some of these sheets are kept up at
the actual expense of the taxpayers,
in one way or another. The following
correspondence, which we take from
the Mountain Echo, republican, pa
per published at Fayetteville, in this
State, will throw some light upon this
interesting question:
EXECUTIVE DrPARTNENT, !
Little Rock, October 25th, 1871, !
Col. Dan. Webster:
Deqr Sir--In consequence Of cer-
tain. complications that have arisen in
your county, it seems suicidal to at
tempt to continue the publication Of
two republican journals in your town
and rs | have been very anxious to
have the matter so adjusted as to sat
isfy all parties as far as possible, |
have been trying to secure a place for
you that would be equally as good as
your present position, if you are will
ing TO make a change. / am satisfied
such an arrangement can be made at
Helena. ! have received telegram
from Col. Dorsey to-day, stating that
a favorable arrangement can be made,
and he desires to have you meet him
here between the first and fifth Of next
to consummate such arrange,
ments if agreeable to you. | sincerely
hope it can be arranged satisfactorily,
for am unable to see any other solu-
ton of the complication. ! am, very
respectfully, etc,
O, A. HADLEY.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

CoNcERr.-The concert given last
Friday night by amateur young ladies
and gentlemen, under the special man.
agement of Prof Wiedemann, was such
success as might have been expected
under such auspices. 1t was truly
tasteful and elevating entertainment.
The music was of high order, and the
young ladies showed degree of culture
by no means inferior to any attainable
in city. A stranger would have been
well impressed, not only as TO the beauty
and elegance of our ladies, but also
with the decorous, good order of the
audience. 1t was certainly a tribute
of respect to the modest and unassum-
ing young ladies who were willing TO
pass an evening in amusing a people
who have so few opportunities Of
amusement.
The juvenile performers brought dorm
The house, and we hope special mention
of them will not be considered invidi-
Gus. ala Petite Mona" is n little
prodigy, showing high training and
wonderful proficiency for her years
or any body else's years. Little Anna
Quarles sang several pieces beautifully.
Young Johnny Williams recited "Ex-
celsior' with much taste and apprecia
ton, and "Chink's" parody on the same
excited much good humored applause.
The proceeds were applied to the
benefit of Grace Church. The weather
was inclement, and as all could not get
out, it is hoped that the same thing, or
something like it, will be soon repeated.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13
ECCENTRICITIEs ABOUT CoFFISs

ECCENTRICITIEs ABOUT CoFFINs
The man who can have his coffin made
while alive must look at death philos-
ophically. We hear of a case in point
in Person county. Mr.. Richard Har,
gis who lives near Bradsher's store
thirty odd years ago, turned out
sassatras tree to grow for the purpose
of making himself coffin, and about
twelve months ago the old man had
1t cut down and got some one in Rox>
borough to make his coffin out of it.
The old chap occasionally gets in it
and stretches himself out by way of
showing his neighbor "a good fit."
He paid the maker of the coffin in
wheat, so he is one living man who
will have no fuss over his grave, about
the coffin when dead. This reminds
US Of an old coon in Murfreesboro,
n. G who had a coffin cast of iron
before the war. He bad his grave dug.
also, and walled up with brick, with
a magnificent tombstone setting forth
his name, date of birth, and fixing his
death somewhere about the year 1S.
61." But he was alive and kicking
in 1868. The old chap kept his cast
iron coffin in his corn crib and used to
shell corn in it. The crib needed no
lock at night, for you couldn't get a
negro to go near it after dark.-HaL,>
bOr0 Leader.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

A newly hedged Philadelphia doc
tor recently settled in Havana, ILL.,,
and the first case he had was a boy
who, while shelling popcorn, got a
kernel in his windpipe. The doctor
examined the case carefully, looked at
the patients tongue and then told the
father of the boy to build up a hot fire
When that was done the doctor told
them to take the boy and hold him
over the fire until the kernel got hot
enough to pop out" The old man
went up stairs and got his shot gun
but while he was loading it the doctor
escaped.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

PRoPHEcy.-An enthusis. ,tic orator,
through the Memphis avalanche, pre-.
diets the following astonishing railroad
performances in the near future:
"Ihe day is not far distant when the
locomotive train will start of from
Endoostan, and, rushing up by the
Arabian gulf through Persia and Syria,
burst through the gates of Suez; thence
along the southern coast of the Medi,
terranean, leap or plunge under the
Straits of Gibraltar; thence up through
the Pyrenees into France, there meet
ing with another train that comes
laundering down the steepes of Asiatic
and Russian Siberia through Germany,
meets a third which emerges from the
snow-capped peaks of Mont Gents,
fresh from Italy, and a fourth Just
emerging from the earth underneath
the British Channel, from Dover to
Calais, and all rushing together to
Point st. Nazare, then bourd across
the Atlantic, and, landing at New York
Norfolk, Charleston, or Brunswick,
sets out again on its path up the ALE,
ghany slopes and down to this valley,
where il meets with n train laden with
the spices and silks of Japan, China,
and the Corea Islands, landed at Ma
zatlan or San Diego, and come thun,
dering up this way, through Preside,
Del Rio Grande, Austin, San Antonio,
jefferson, and Shreveport, to the city
of Memphis"
Bully for Memphis
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

THE TOMATO AND Irs PROPERTIES
DR.. Bennett, a professor of some ccle>
brity, considers it an invaluable article
of diet, and ascribes to it very impor-
tant and medicinal properties:
/. That the tomato is one Of the
most powerful apericnts of materia
medica, and that in all those affections
of the liver and organs where calomel
is indispensable, it is probably the
most effective and least harmful REM
edial agent known TO the profession.
.. That a chemical extract pill can
he obtained from it which will alto
gether supercele the use of calomel in
the cure Of disease.
3. That he has successfully treated
diarrhea with this article alone.
4. That when used as an article Of
diet, 1t IS almost a sovereign remedy
for dyspepsia and indigestion.
5. That the citizens in ordinary
should make use of it, either raw,
cooked or in the form of a catsup,
with their daily food, as it is most
healthy article.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13
O, A. HADLEY.
REPLY.
Fayetteville, Arkansas,
November /, 1871. !
REPLY.


Hon. o. A. lladley, Little Rock, Ark.
Dear Si-Yours of October 25th
is received, and contents noted. In
reply, will say that | do not think
can, in any way, beheld responsible
for the complications" which you say
exist in this county, nor do | thirl the
Mountain Echo is, or has been, the
cause of any suicidal course or policy.
The Ne,rs found the field occupied by
the Momtai" Echo, a paper whose re.
publlcaniym has never been questioned,
and Regardless of Suicide" or what
not, entered the list with the avowed
purpose of crushing it (the Echo out,
in which undertaking it seems to have
your approral and support. 1t was
well understood in this place, based
upon admissions of employer and EN-
ployes, that the Ne,cs would not con-
tinue publication unless it secured the
public patronage. This, am told,
you now propose to give it. You see
and admit that its publication will
lead to trouble and dicfiiulties, yet, you
feed and sustain it-give it the sinews
of war, and then say to the Mountain
Echo, at is suicide to continue publi-
cation any longer!' If, | ask, it is
suicide for me TO remain here where |
was frd in the field, what will it be for
me to 90 to Helena where there are
already two republican papers publish
ed? Again. If two republican pa
pers will suicide the party in Fayette-
vile, why does it not do it in Helena?
Or, iii is proposed to send third
paper to that place to prevent a sui
eide, why not apply the same remedy
to this? You say you are anxious to
provide place for me, and that you
are unable to see any other solution
of the complications" than for me to
90 to Helena. You do not say so,
but presume it is your intention, II
agreeable to me, to thus provide by
taking patronage now enjoyed by some
other republican paper and giving it
to me-or, you will rob reter to pay
Paul"
You will present my compliments to
Col. Dorsey, and say to him that, un-
der the circumstances, i cannot meet
him to confer on that subject, as mat
ters here will require my persona! at
tention for the next year.
The kettle is on and tough Ham
is TO be cooked before | can think of
leaving. No, l cannot entertain any
proposition to 90 elsewhere. l like
this country and these people, and
propose to stay here.
| shall take my chances and eight
il out ON this line" with those true
friends who have stood by the Mountain
E-ho, and who still promise to stand
by and sustain il.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

On some of the best managed Euro
pean railways electricity is more an Z
more taking the place of human watch
fulness and the ordinary interventions
Of machinery. For example, on sew
eral lines there are contrivances by
which the passing of a train is auto
matically announced to neighboring
stations. The cars pass over connsr-
ting wires, and the tram records itself
before and behind, so that its progress
and appearance are alike indicated.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13


CAIRO AND FuLToN.-The Arka-
delphia Standard has been favored with
an interview with Col. George Hughes,
who has been for long time, aud still
is, connected with this road. From
this interview the Standard is inspired
with hope that the road will be com,
pleted without any unnecessary delay,
and further that it will be located by
Arkadelphia. In that case Washing
ton will be on the line, or nearly so.
Since writing the above we have
met Col. Hughes in our Office. lie is
here for the purpose of ascortaining
from the records what lands within the
twenty miles reservation have already
been disposed Of and of placing upon
record n mortgage of the road to the
Union Trust Company of New York
Said company will then hold the road
and its franchises, in trust for the
redemption of the be nds which may be
issued by the company. From the
information obtained from him we can
have no doubt of the building of the
road without any further unnecessary
delays. OF course it cannot be COM
pleted in a day, or year, but a few
years will witness its completion
through the State, and its connections,
extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
The road may be brought by way of
Arkadelphia, but we have given up all
hopes of its coming by way of WASH
ington. The difference In the cost of
would be more than the
county is able to pay. The only |
chance for Washington is the building |
of a tap road to the main line in some |
way or other. If the Camden and Red
River narrow gauge should be built,
the end desired will be attained, 1t is
contended by many that short line |
from here to the Cairo and Fulton
would effect all that could be effected |
by the building of the whole line to
Camden; but we fail TO see it in that
light. OF course this short tap would
give us communication with the world |
in one direction, but we want more
This end of the proposed road to Cam
den would connect as, and by its further
extension, west or northwest, would |
become itself a valuable feeder to the |
Cairo and Fulton. Camden, and a
large agricultural region around there,
will desire the same connection, and |
the other end of the same road would |
furnish it. We really do think that |
this road to Camden would prove of
vast Importance, not only to the peop.e |
of South Arkansas, but to the Cairo |
and Fulton railroad itself.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

A nice young girl at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, was being courted by a
nice young man. He was generously
inclined, and made her presents of
hair oil, which he hepurchased from the
store of the father of his adored After
giving her some twenty bottles Of the
oleaginous fluid, he discovered he was
working in crcle--as fast as he pre-.
senteJ them she returned them to the
store, thus dutifully making trade for
her father. No cards.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

LOOK OUT.-A dangerous counter.
felt, ten dollar National Currency, on
the Poughkeepsie National Bank, New
York, is circulating in the West and
SoIth; and some have been presented
to merchants in this town. Look out
for them. Refuse any ten dollar bill
on this bank and you are on the safe
side.-McKnney Enquirer.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

BLoCKADED.-The river at and
below ST. Louis is so blocked with ice
as to materially interfere with naviga.
ton, if not entirely to suspend it for
the present. The St. LoSis Times OF
the 9TH inst, says:
The river was virtually blockaded
by the ice last night. No ferryboats
ventured over after 8 o'clock. The
transfer boat made single trip, bring
ing over passengers on the late trains,
and spending two hours in making the
crossing. She reached the landing at
o'colck this morning. From the ap,
pearance of the river at that time, it
was hardly probable that the ferryboats
would be crossing hefore late hour
this morning. The ice is gorged near
ly all the way across the channel above
the bridge piers.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

A clergyman in Petersburg, Va, in
a recent sermon set forth in vigorous
terms the dependence of daughters on
their parents, and urged that while
sons might marry whom they pleased
(or rather those who pleased them, }
daughters should leave their choice in
great measure to the more matured
judgement of their parents. There
will probably be a vacancy in that
church soon.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

LONGEVITY OF FARMERS. In q
late address before the Farmers Club
of Princeton, Mass, DR.. Nathan Allen
said that according to the registration
report ofdeaths in Massachusetts,, pub
lishcd now for about thirty years, and
preserved with more accuracy and
completeness than anywhere else in the
country, the greatest longevity is found
to obtain in agricultural life. In the
ten different occupations as given in
these reports, the cultivators of the
earth stand rs a class at the head,
reaching on an average, the age Of
nearly 50 years, while that Of the next
class, merchants, is only about 40 years;
that of mechanics of all kinds, about
IS years, and that of shoemakers about
"A years. Thus there is an advantage
Of about - years on the side of far
mers as compared with merchants, and
they reach an average age but littlo
short of three score years and ten
allotted by the Psalmist for human
life,
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

a SCHOOLMAsTER CONSIDERABLY
ABRoAD-One Of the teachers OF the
freedman's school of this place got on
the outside of too much tanglefoot ON
"Wednesday night last, which caused
him to play big he-sheep with an avn.
ing post. But, true to the instincts
of his party, he conceived the idea that
he had received the injury from a Con
federate blunderbus in the hands of a
Democrat. The case was promptly
brought before Esquire Long, who
failed to elicit anything further from
the ku-kluxed party than that he had
come in contact with something harder
than his head, but where, when and
how, he knew not. We believe the
case was finally dismissed for want of
an intelligent witness.-PdriS North
TcrdR.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

New FORM OF DRUNKNEss. The
Lancet calls attention to the enormous
manufacture of the new sedative drug,
choral. 1t states that it is sold by
tons a week, and quotes a letter from
Baron Liebeg, affirming that one Ger
man chemist manufactures and sells
half a ton every week. Ofcosrse, no
such quantity is used in medicine, and
the Lancet seems half afraid that it
gets into beer; but there is a simpler
explanation, as it will find on inquiry.
Taking choral is n new and popular
vice, particularly among women, and
is doing at least as much damage as
alcohol. The drug is kept in thou,
sands OF dressing cases, and those who
begin its use often grow so addicted to
it that they pass their lives in sort of
contented stupefactiou. Chloral drunk
enness will soon be an admitted var
iety of the species - London Spectator.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

When lady tainted at Wiscon-
sin party a gentleman thought he could
resuscitate her by biting her ear. She
recovered promptly. lie is going
around with a pOultice on his eye
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

CIRCUIT CoURr.-Our circuit court
adjourned last Saturday night at twelve
o'clock, having been in session for three
full weeks and having never reached the
common law or chancery dockets. The
whole of the time, except the morning
motion hours, was taken up with the
criminal docket, which itself was not
cleared. The last case tried was that
of The State against DIR. II. A. Brun-
son, for manslaughter, in the killing Of
j. ID. Baker, at Columbus last sum-
mer. The case consumed good deal
of time in the court house, not more
however, than was due TO the investi-
cation Of so important a matter, for
the court pushed the proceedings as
much, it seems to us, as was possible
under the circumstances. The jury,
however, was but a few minutes in
finding verdict Of mot guilty" Its
announcement in court brought down
the house." showing the great interest
felt in the result of the trial, by the
people generally.
Thole whose civil interest arc tied
up in the court must wait another six
months at least for their determine.
tion
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

Accept not, amiable girl. the hand
of a youth who telleth thee he wishes
to marry and settle; make him settle
first, and let him marry thee after
wards.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

The largest Touring mill in the world
is said to be that of Gen. w. b.
Thomas, in Philadelphia, which manu-,
features 1900 barrels a day.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

\ gent was once asked what kind
Of a gal he preferred for n wife.
One, he said, that wasn't prodi-gal,
but fru-goi, true gal but suited 10
his coniu-gal tastes.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13

A man boasting in the company Of
young ladies that he had a luxuriant
head of hair, lady present observed
that it was owing to tho mcijo,Cness Of
the so3.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-13
A Sacramento lady found herself

A Sacramento lady found herself
under suspicious of larceny the other
day under rather peculiar circumstan-
ces. She was riding in crowded rail.
way car, and occupied a seat with
another lsdy passenger. Like many
other ladies of the present day, she
wore curls-her own hair of course,
but it wasn't fastened on strictly accor,
ding to natures programme. By and
by, as the train jolted along, she felt
something falling about her face and
neck, and in second it flashed across
her brain that her curls had become
detached. The predicament was a
shocking one, but she endeavored I'd
save herself as much as possible, by
quietly passing the capillary ornament
into her pocket, thanking her stars
that she was almost at her destination.
NJ Che station she hastened TO the
dressing room to repair damages to
her toilet, when, behold the mirror
reflected back the fact that her curls
were in their proper position, and an
examination of those in her pocket
showed that they were not hers, but of
different color, and belonging to the
lady who sat by her side in the car.