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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04
Treasurer Spinner on the Mutilation Of
United States Notes.

GEN. SPINNER has addressed the fol-
lowing letter TO the Cashier of New
England bank:
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES,
WAsHISGToN, Aug. {.
SIR: Your letter of the lst inst was re-
ceived yesterday by the Adams Express
Company. There came inClosed as there
i'm stated, two United States legal tender
notes, one of the denomination of $500
and the other 800. Both these notes are
entirely new, having never even been
folded, and are perfectly clear being with
out spot or speck. For some bad pur-
pose, probably fraudulent one, with IA
view to the raising of other United States
notes of smaller denominations to the
stature of these, more than one-tenth OF
each has been scissorod out with clean
cut. Under the old regulations Of the
Treasury Department, which existed for
more than ten years, these two notes could
have been redeemed for only nine.tenths
of their face value. Sixty dollars would,
under the old rules, have been deducted
for mutilations. These rules, unfortun.
ately for the Government have been late
ly modified, so that this penalty cannot
be enforced. Under this more than gen
erous modification, you claim to have re-
turned to you United States notes of like
denominations, under Government con
tract at the expense OF the United
States The charge to the Government
by the Express Company for their trans
portation both ways would be $1.2O. For
the dog days, | consider this request de-
cidedly cool First, you or your client
wiIlfully mutilate clean, new notes, and
then you ask the Government not only to
replace them with other new, unmutilated
notes, to be in their turn, for aught |
know, mutilated and returned with like
request for other new notes, but to pay the
expense and run the risk of transporta-
ton both ways. This, TO my mind, is
piling it on pretty steep. You not only
burn with hot iron, but ask the burned
one to pay for heating the poker. If you
will turn to the ty-eighth section OF the
National Banking law, you will find that
if any person had treated any two of
your bank notes in the way these two
United States notes have been treated,
you could recover by action, in any court
having jurisdiction, $50 for each OF the
mutilations. Now, what is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander. Ought
not the perpetrators Of these mutilations
be made to respond in like mannerg I'M
der the circumstances, il has been con
cluded that the notes shall be retained at
any rate until the pieces that were cut out
of them shall be returned to this office,
and until the apparent fraudulent or ma
licious mutilation shall have been salts
factorily explained to the apartment.
Very respectfully yours
+. u. SPINNER,
Treasurer Of United States.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04
Two pretty Young ladies, school chill

Two pretty young ladies, school chill
dren, attending the Dore School, in Chi
cago, being afflicted with what is known
as "chicken love-" and imagining that
fond parents would object to the immcdi,
ate realization of their tender wishes, re.
solved to leave this cold and unsympa.
thizing world together, and to that end
recently purchased fifteen cents worth OF
laudanum, and betOOk themselves to a
house opposite the residence of their
young lovers and laid themselves down
TO die. As soon as they began to get
drowsy, they began to be afflicted with
desire for fife, and doctors, emctics and
stomach pumps were called into requisi-
ton, with such effect that one Of them
was brought back from the confines OF the
shadow land. The other, who had pro-
badly taken more than her fair share OF
the poison. fingered few hours, and
then passed into that sleep that knows no
waking. Both were children OF respect.
able parents. 1t was singular case OF
copartnership suicide.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04
Great Equatorial will appear to be per-

Great Equatorial will appear to be per-
fectly stationary.
We have now seen all the more proml-
nent features of Greenwich Observatory,
though there yet remain innumerabie OBJ
jects of the utmost interest-rain guages,
thermometers, hygrometers, and ther-
mometers, placed in all kinds of posi-
tons, and under all kinds of conditions.
In one room are something like couple
of hundred Government chronomcters,
placed here for the purpose OF being
regulated, while in building apart from
the Astronomical Observatory is Mag
netic Observatory, established for the
purpose of ascertaining and recording
the various phenomena Of the magnetic
currents of the earth.-CdsseWs Magazine.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

"A new invention has been adopted
lately at the Prince Consort's farm and at
the Norfolk farm at Windsor. Eng, for
the preservation of hay ricks from the
heating occasioned by confined air and
moisture. A long perforated tube, fixed
in short lengths which fit into each other,
is built into the body of the rick as it Is
carried up, and surmounted by cowl
which turns with the wind and provides a
constant down current; an upward cur
rent is also arranged for in an inner tube,
which is solid, opens at the bottom, and
SO completes the circulation. This inven.
ton is also adapted TO granaries, and
ships in transit, but in these cases several
arms are provided, running out from the
central shaft at right angles, SO as to
distribute the air through the body OF the
grain.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04
THE AERONAUT.
nv FIIzABETH SIT

BY ELIZABETH SILL.
THE airy bark. its master waiting,
swings restless on an airy main,
And. wide its silken sails Initiating,
Pulls at the anchorlng chain.
On viewless pillows lightly swaying,
II pants TO cleave the soundless deep,
And its high impulse obeyiDg,
Through heavens wide blue to sweep.
like eagle proud, whose mighty pinion
Fetters may bind but cannot tame,
Ceaseless il chafes against dominion,
Ceaseless its upward aim.
And he on this strange voyage starting,
Lone wanderer Of the trackless height,
What but the spirits latest parting,
Can match this daring flight!
He to no shores his course is bending,
No busy ports before him rise;
He floats upon sea amending,
The sailor Of the skies
A sea whose cliffs, now dark now beaming,
Each yeerng zephyr builds or mars.
Bridged by an arch Of sevenfold cleaning,
And islanded with stars.
From his aerial watch beholding,
AS like q leaflet he is whired,
Silence and space alone enfoldlng,
He sees this distant world.
He sees confused the hills and valleys,
Dwindled and shrunk the ample plains,
The ocean but a sapphire chaiice,
The rivers silver veins;
The winding course Of linked sierras.
Like some huge serpent's uncOiied rings;
And. swooping from the rocky terrace,
The (ataract's sunlit wings.
TO him vast towers and cities splendid,
Column and dome majestic piled,
Are glittering spots. uncertain blended
The playthings OF child.
He sees the storms beneath him gather,
Watches the wfinkled lightnings fall,
And. canopied in cloudess ether,
Rides high above them all.
A speck amid the light eternal,
AS up the crystal dome he flies,
Well might it seem the path supernal,
That leads to Paradise.
Shirt, that now within me chained
Longest TO soar at liberty,
Soon shall thy powers be unrestralned,
And thou at length be free.
And when. no longer Mere enshrouded,
But bathed in the empyrean clear,
Thou lookest back from heights unclouded,
On this thy mortal sphere,
It's scenes no longer shall allure thee,
Its faded joys no more invite;
Far. far beneath, the storm clouds fury;
Above, the perfect light.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

Miss Dorcas Knowles, a maiden OF
seventy one years, hung herself at Hamp-
den, Me. Disappointment in love is be-
lieved to have been the motive.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

THE Hartford Courdnt has been i'm.
proving the pages Of the last census by
figuring up the chances Of being struck
by lightning. During the year 1870 there
were 2O2 deaths from lightning, out OF
100000 from all causes. During the same
time there were 397 deaths from sun.
stroke, or nearly twice the number killed
by lightning, and vet no one fears the
sun, while thousands are afraid Of a thun-
der cloud. AS an additional bit of con-
ISOLATION, the COuraat also states that there
were 1,345 deaths by suicide. In other
words, the reader of this is six times as
likely to kill himself as he is to be killed
by lightning.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

THE chirping and singing of the cricket
and grasshopper are frequently spoken OF.
But they do not sing-they fiddle BY
rubbing legs and wings together, each in
manner peculiar to the species, these in
sects produce the sounds which charac-
terize them. Perhaps our best insect in
strumental performer is the katydid."
Each wing contains little tambourine;
and, by the opening and shutting OF the
WINGS these are rubbed against each
other, and produce the sounds OF katy
did.she-did," which can be heard at
long distance, and gives the insect its
name.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

1.-THE caterpillar Is upon us--what
shall we DOR walls South Carolina pa
per. Brush him of.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04

GEN. SPINNER has addressed the fol
lowing letter TO the Cashier of New
England bank:
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
The symptoms OF sse nth.

Health has Its symptoms as we'll as DIS
easc. The clear exc, the fresh complexion,
tie steady hand the arm step, the uncloud-
ed brain, bri>knnss OF spirits, and dispose
on to look on the bright side OF anything
are indicators that the animal machinery
is in perfect working order. Happy are
they VIII Sc running gear OF life Is in TINS
excellent condition, and fortunate too are
they who k CIV how 10 b ing IL into such q
condition IL disaranged. All who have ex-
perienced or witnessed the effect OF Hos ct
ters stomach Bitters upon the weak. broken
down, d sponding victims of dyspepsia,
liver complaint, fever and aSue, rheuma-
tisrn. nervous debility, or premature decay,
know tn at in this supreme tonic ana aitera'
tive there exists q specific principle which
reaches the very source OF the trouble aud
and etfectsan absolute and permanent cure:
f. Pisib,, Cnum might be aphy Inscribed
on the label, for the preparation ls piura.-
~ OF remedies condensed into one irTesiSii.
be autiiote.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

In Paris, France, they have a :" So
ciety for the Protection of Infant Life
a recent report from which is full Of
interesting information. Itappesrs from
the report that the society had 1852
infants under it's care during the past
year, and Of that number only sixty
died, or about four per cent. Under
the old system, children were put into
the country to nurse, and the mortality
then amounted to sixty per cent. Medl-
cal inspectors are appointed by the so
ciety, who have charge of the children,
and are required to furnish complete
reports every month as to their condi-
ton. The terrible death rates among
young children in large cities is mat
ter OF serious consequence, and hence
any plan to reduce the mortuary record
will be received with general favor in
this and other countries.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
Accident.

On last Sabbath as Mr.. Stickley,.of
Hampshire county, and vile were driv'
ing in buggy between Bridgeville and
the Camp Ground, Mr.. SIS horses be-
came frightened and unmanageable
and be jumped from the vehicle and
caught the horse by the bride, but the
animal continued to rear and plunge
until he escaped from Mr.. Stickley and
ran with frightened speed down the
road; suddenly attempting to turn out
OF the main road the buggy was vic.
lsntly overturned. throwing Mrs. Stick
ley on the ground with such force as to
seriously, and at first thought fatally,
ipjuripg her. Our informant said
breaking her leg and arm, but we are
glad to learn that this is not correct,
and that Mrs. S. is doing well aud will
soon recover,-New Greek Tribune.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

TIE frippery Of female education is a
topic of the New York Herald, which
says: "The best part Of any home ed
ucation comes from a good mother
good in that wide sense which includes
moral strength not less than mental
culture-and the most valuable educa-
ton 8 girl can acquire is that which
makes it impossible that she should not
become such mother, provided she
becomes one st all. Now this is pre-
ciseiv the kind Of education that most
OF cur female schools tsil 10 give, In
this rtspec, the majority OF our board
ing schools are deplorabl' negatives.
Until this kind OF education is given,
we shall still zee the came sad spectacle
% young girls entering married lie
ignorant OF the very first principles
upon which domestic happiness il based
sui in their turn becoming mothers OF
daughters who pass through = similar
rsirosressive stage"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

The September number Of Wood
Household Magazine is on our table. We
always have a good word to cay for this
publication-it is such whole.souled
book-so wide awake, so lively and en-
pertaining. yet always 80 chsste and re-
fined. 1t is a regular little go'shesd
too, as comparison between its numbers
will prove. We learn that the firm OF
S. s. WOOD & Co., dissolved in March
last, the Go" Is. E. SHUTEs, Mayor OF
Newburg,) retaining possession OF the
magazine, and recalling II. V OSBORNE
(Tenoroon) as editor. So, though the
publication really changed hands, it has
not suffered from the management OF q
new publisher or new editor. but under
the redoubled efforts Of its energetic
proprietor, has gained new force and
new attractiveness. Price only one
dollar a year. Address Woods House.
hold Magazine, Newburg, n. Y.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
Symptoms by Which Every One mny
Know the DiseaBe.

The cough of Pulmonary Phthsis or Tu-
bercular Consumption commences gradual
", without fever and withoui the unnlng
at the ewes and nose which characterize an
ordinary cold.
The cough Is generally dry and hacking
The expe"toration Is often speckled or
streaked with blood.
There Is seldom much p9in In the chest
and very rarely any fired pan
" hen pain does occur IL Is nearly always
Of dull aching character and Is met with
H. the sides or under the collar Bone or
shoulder blades, and is not unfrequently
aggi awaited by coughing.
The morbid or unhealthy sounds detected
by means o. the Stethoscope are generally
Confined to the upper ! be orthe lung. These
sounds are often Iimilei to ore side OF the
chest They are very persistent, and, even
II met with on both sides at 1rst, are apt 10
sub ide partially or wholly on one side,
while they continue, or even increase, on
the Othtr.
By closely watching the progress OF the
above ymptoms no one need long remain
In doubt as 10 the true condition OF his lungs
In the great majority OF these cases the
disease Is allowed 10 run until II Is too laie
for the beat medical tslent and skill TO aV III.
l. then yOnr vitality Is impaired, your
chest organs weakened, your digestion i'm.
perfect, your nervous energies enfeeoled
and any of he foregoing symptoms have
been develop d in you case, The 'ooner
you try for help, the more likely you Ere TO
n ert the fatal termination disease that
has swept it. millions to untime y graves.
Our treatment, when employed In time
and faithfully carried out. seldom tails TO
cure CaTarrah. Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
Scrofula, and all diseases OF the Air Psssa-
ge, which lead to Consumption,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

We have been furnished copy OF
the proceedings Of the recent Conven-
ton OF Brass Bands at Weston. Five
full bands were present with their in.
strumenls and others were represented
by delegates. They constituted them
selves q permanent association to be
styled The West Virginia Brass Band
Union" and elected officers. The OBJ
ject Of the association seems to be the
mutual improvement OF its members in
music aud the advancement OF the art.
1t will meet in Clarksburg next year.
With that hospitality for which they
are 60 favorably known, the people OF
Weston entertained their visitors in
splendid style and all present seem to
have enjoyed a good time.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
Arlington Stove Works.

WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF AN.
w NOuNCleG 10 our friends AMI the
public, that on Monday last, we recon-
menced, with the aid OF new and very SUI
perior machinery, the melting o! iron at
our Foundry IN North Wheeling, at which
establishment We are now again turning
out Stoves as heretofore.
We shall not at this time make an extern.
ded advertisement nor enumerate our va.
rtefies oe stoves, but content ourselves now
saving that our stock OF Patterns saved at
the IRE, comprise nearly all OF our latest
and most esteemed Stoves, both for heating
and cooking. Uf heating stoves we have
new patterns especially adapted TO the fuel
OF this region OF country. and in cooking
stoves, besides the Arlington. ofwhich We
have six varieties. We Rave new and
less expensive stoves gotten up &c
the Arlington with especial reference TO the
nscessitiss or our fuel, and inferior to that
renowned Stove In capacity. only.
ser5 JOSEPH BELL 4 GO,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

Col 7. B. SWAMI and wife returned
on Monday. They have been absent
for about three weeks, visiting Cape
May, Long Branch, and other promi-
nent summer resorts. They were much
pleased with their visit, and were phys.
ically benefited They found the at
tention of New England capitalists di.
rected to West Virginia. They dined
with President Grant at Long Branch,
and found him more than any other
man interested in the completion OF the
Great Kanawha River Water-line.
West Virginia is destined to he tn
richest State OF the Union.-W Va.
Journal
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
FAIRMoNr, which is only eighty mile

FAIRMoNr, which is onlv eighty miles
east OF this city, puts iu claim TO be a
suburb" and suggests the location OF q
suburban hotel" on the Palatine
Knob. We doubt not that the spot
selected is a very beautiful one, but it
ia a little too far from the business
centre Of the city to suit the wants oil
our merchants We have no objections
however to annexing Fairmost as a
suburb if the people of that thriving
town do not insist too soon upon the
extension of the city water and gas to
their billy streets.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
Commissioner sale.
Margaret Larkin,
In I h3nCery.
nlln - Ia

Edward srkir, ct al
DY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE
d Circuit Court If Ohio county, West
Virginia. ms de and entered in the above
entitled cause, on the 18th day OF July, 1879
vii! ofTee at public tale On the premises,
on the National Road, three and ore hall
miles east o; the ci Y OF Wheeling. on
SEPrEN BER 18th. 1873
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. o. ssid day, the follow
ing described real estste, that is TO say, a
trac. or parcel OF lsnd containing twenty
seven acres, one rood and ,hirty seven
poles, situated on the National Road, three
and one-half ROLES east OF the city OF
Wheeling, in Ohio county. West Virginia.
TERMS OF SALE -One-fourth cash /; the
residue in three equal instruments st eight,
sixteen and twenty.four months, Iespec.
lively, with interest, the purchaser giving
negotiable notes and security for the de-
ferred pay neuts. K. e. BARR,
Special Commissioner.
J. NJ. MILLER AuationeSr. augI0-i
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
ne k,ineuille Fair will be held

TIE Blinegille Fair will be held
this YEN OF, the 23d, Oath and 18th Of
September. gThese Fairs are always
among tie lIeH held in Ohio-some.
times being bit little inferior TO the
State Fair-and we understand the
prospects are that this years will be
superior even to those that have pre-
ceded it. Gainesville is q rich old
town, in the midst OF wealthy and
highly improved section of the country.
The people sustain an excellent local
paper of their own, (the Barnesuilas En-
terprise) much to their credit, and it is
constantly doing them valuable ser
vice. During the coming Fair, the
editor of the Enterprise, our old friend
GEORGE McCLELLANr { not the GEORGE
that ran for President, hut the one
who knows how to run news
paper) will issue Daily Enterprise,
which is an enterprise characteristic Of
an enterprisiDg editor and one that the
enterprising people of that place will
do themselves a real service by liberal
ly pa,ronizipg. A hint to the business
men OF this city that such a daily is to
be printed and distributed during the
Fair ought to fill the sheet with Wheel
ing advertisements. There is no better
or cheaper means OF reaching the eyes
aud ears OF the well-to-do people Of
that section than through the columns
OF the Enterprise
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08
SCHULTZ & ..NEUHAUsEN,
PROPOSALS.

DROPOSaL WILL BE RECEIVED
until II O'Clock NJ, on Tuesday. Sep.
ember 2pd, 1878, for four hundred 400 per-
ches coping stone, one hundred ZOO perches
bracke els, and one hundred and fifty perehes
of rubble stone The coping stone to dress
four feet long, three feet six Inches bed, and
one foot rise. The brackets TO dress three
fee. long, one foot bed, and one foot tour
incses rise. And the rubb!e to be good
50 1are stone, all 10 be grey sand stone, and
OF coed bulldog quality, and 10 be delivered
on the PenitenIialY grounds, at such times
as the superintendent may direct, and the
whole amount 10 be delivered on or before
the first OF Dec, mbsr, lS73 .-
Proposals will bs received for the coping
stone In quantities of one hundred perches
or "a ,re for brackets In quantities OF nifty
perches or more and for rubble one IN
quantities OF ifty perches or more. Samples
Of stone will bs required at the ON y afore.
mentioned be'ore awarding any contracts.
Proposals with Be addressed to = 49, %
~ Capt. WN. .. BRIDGES,
Superintendent, at
aualsi AoundSville. West Va.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-08

Orr sug. eslion lew days ago con-
ocroing geological survey OF the Stale
a. rublic expense has met with COM
mendatjou from the press wherever
noticed. The Morsantorn Post Of last
week fays
Let the survey be msde, by all
means. The people have been urging
the matter tor Yeas. The expense
will be but triflipg in comparison to the
great good that will accrue to the peo >
pie"
We trust that some member OF the
legislature who is competent for the
task will prepare q bill in relation 10
the matter and have il ready for sdoP-
ton at the adjourned session 10 COM
mence next month The advantages
o. such q survey are so apparent and
the benefits TO DC derived from an author
i;atve sta;ement OF the value OF the
mineral resources OF the State are 80
great, that we can scarcely think the
enterprise will meet with serious oppo"
elton in any quarter. All over the
COUNTRY attention is being attracted
to the natural wealth OF
West Virginia, but as yet little
= known Of it except from the
letters OF newspaper correspondents or
,he casual observations Of railroad pas
sengers VIA; is reedtd for the in'or-
NATION OF our own citizens az we'll as
OF capitalists in other States, ID such
.xact and scientific investigation as Is
contemplated 10y the proposed survey.
The report OF the results OF such sur
vey made By the authority and under
the auspices OF the State government
will receive greater credence and &C
conplish far more good than il it be
merely the work of private enterprise
aud conducted by those who have lands
to sell,