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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-15
HOTEL keepers in Mercer county

HOTEL keepers in Mercer county
Pa, where they have no local option,
it is said, ask their guests if they will
have their roc ms furnish ed II FIR
nished the charge is halt dollar extra
The furniture consists OF a bottle with
something in it and a glass. II guests
will persist in swallowing the hotel fur
niture, how can the landlord help il? p
Ne,1 CcEls Guardian
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-15
/" a @ il .

NOR ALL WHO ARE WILLING TO
h work. ANY person old or young, OF
either sex, can make from $40 TO $50 per
week, at home or in connection with other
business. Wanted by all. suitable to either
city or country, and any season OF the year.
This Is rare opportunity for those who are
out of work, and out OF money. TO make
an independent living. No capital being
required. Our pamphlet show To MAKE
A LIVING" giving full instructions. SEM
ON receipt OF 10 cents Address, A. SUTTON
Il CO.. Morrisania. Westehester TO, N. I.
AGENTS everywhere to sell our new and
WANTED novel Embroidering Machine.
Send for Illustrated Circular to the Mckee
Manufacturing Company, 500 BROADWAY
New York. payo-c
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-15
FOR SALE.
ValuabIe Coal Property FOR
Sale.

or 70 uEREBY GIVEN THAT
NOTES ndsrsIgned wishes to sell Tin
Or i 'hs RS5iSnt to Of a sSs nGs
In MS 1851 along the Ohio river about
acres, loc ~ a mile north OF the city limits.
one-lIn lar ujtb one acre OF surface at the en-.
tose'hsr WI ths side nearest the river, and
francs On Of surface around the other en-
o G Fe s, inches rRs v to Gf feet fGn IA
VII! sa nj could be conveniently shipped
S az, pVnsans of the county road, or by the r.
tx r r., as the entrance on the river
MAJ not 200 feet from either.
Ths above will be sold on reasonable
,srnis, or exchanged for good town prop
rHs,-I.h WALTER MARSHALL.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-15
FOR SALB.

FARM CONTAINING ONE HUN
~ dred and three acres. / will sell 1t in
one lot or divide IL In lots OF four or five
acres TO suit purchasers There is no better
land in Ohio county Tor market gardening.
Situated within one mile OF the city OF
Wheeling.
Terms-one- fourth cash; balance in one,
two, aud three years. For further particu-
lars enquire Of the subscriber.
GEO. ROBERTS,
s. Main street.
T. o BRIEN,
Real Est : te Agent
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15

MEATs-When a joint OF meat comes
from the market, it is well to cut it mp
at once Separate your roasting piece,
Gut up the part for steaks, and put
away in your coolest place what is left,
to cook afterward. Take out the bones
you mean to make soup of, and boil
them soon, as they will not keep as well
as the meat. 1t is impossible to say
how long meat must be cooked, much
depends on the fire coal gives out more
heat than wood besides, persons differ
in regard to what meat well done means.
Redmeat like beef, must be cooked
rarer than white meat, as pork. A
good way to find how much done it is is
to stick skewer in near the bone II
blood follows it, it is not done, Gravy
for roast meat is made by putting some
Drowned -four in, also salt and pepper
and boiling water. In frying meat,
lard is better than butter. Mutton
and beef suet are good when the lard
seems hot try it by throwing in mite
of bread. When boiling meat or poul-
try, skim it often, or the meat will be
dark keep it boiling, Put fresh meat
into boiling water, salt meat into cold
allow one quarter of an hour to every
pound of meat. In roasting poultry or
birds be careful to baste and turn often.
The back, having little flesh requires
little cooking.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
Why the Government is Paying Out
Silver.

The director of the mint makes the
following statement of the purpose of
the government in paying out silver
coin AS in other countries where gold
is the standard, or measure of value,
silver coins are over-valued for the pur-
pose of rendering them inexportable.
They are manufactured and issued on
government account, the law, however,
placing, directly or indirectly, limit
on the issue to prevent redundancy.
If issued in times of specie payment
beyond the requirements Of the public
for change, such coin will not maintain
their purchasing power with standard
coin. Owing to various causes in this
or other countries, silver has declined
in value to point at which the govern
ment can purchase it with gold, manu-
facture it into small coin and pay it ont
at fair profit. The government has
recently purchased a quantity of silver
bullion sufficient for its purposes, at
112! cents per standard ounce, and will
manufacture it into coin at a fixed legal
rate, at 124 and four-tenths cents per
ounce, the differences between the pur-
chasing and issuing rate being within
fraction of u cents per ounce, or about
ten and a half per cent. on gold coin
paid in the purchase. This operation
is believed to be a more profitable one
for the treasury, and also more advan-
tageous to the public in the present con-
dition of the money market, than the
sale Of gold for legal tender notes, and
is not scheme for the resumption of
specie payments, but simply compli-
ance with the mint laws. A dollar in
United States currency will purchase
little more gold in the market than
dollar of small silver coin. The dollar
will therefore soon find its level, and
unless there be rise in both the prices
of gold and silver, small coins must cir
culate concurrently with paper money.
The government has in possession of
the assistant treasurer about FIVE hum
dred thousand dollars in silver coin,
and Mt the mint and assay offices, in sill
yer bullion and coin, about 100000
This stock is ample for the present.
This mode of paying ont silver coin
will be continued until circumstances
shall dictate contrary course as pro-
per. The government will exact the
full seigniorage required by law, but
will not undertake to control the dis
position of coin after it is paid out.
Coin will then become the property of
holders, who may do what they please
with it. This course was not decided
upon until it had been fully considered
by the secretary of the treasury. Out
standing legal-tenders, 1850, 28S,S8S
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The English Wheat Supply.

Advices from England by the late
steamers represent that the chief alarm
respecting the effects of the American
panic in that country arose from the
possible interruption of breadstuf1s ex-
ports, in consequence of the unsalabili-
ty of foreign exchange in New York.
This alarm was quite natural, in view of
the pressing necessity that exists both
in England and on the continent of Eu-
rope to obtain every available bushel
of wheat from all parts of the world,
and obtain it speedily. The margin be-
tween supply and consumption is very
close in England, and any serious in
terruption of American exports would
exercise very important influence on
prices. Fortunately, both for Ameri-
can producers and European consumers,
our export trade has been affected by
our panic very much less than seemed
probable, or even possible, at one time,
and it looks as if the volume of the sea-
sons trade would not be sensibly di-
minished.
The Importance to European consul
mers of maintaining the American sup
ply may be understood when it is sta
ted that there is a considerable falling
off in foreign arrivals of wheat ships in
although the supply so far
was equal to the demand. At last mail
dates there were on passage from the
south of Europe and America to ports
of call, 257 cargoes of grain and seed,
against 338 at the corresponding period
of last year. OF these 121 were wheat,
against 144; II maize, against 80 80
barley, against 80; nil beans, against 6;
l rye, against II; % seed, against 42;
and 6 sundries, against /. There were
also on passage direct to ports in the
United Kingdom SO cargoes of grain,
against 115 at the corresponding period
last year, of which so were wheat
chiefly from California, against so 81
maize, against 50; and 2 barley against
8, at the corresponding period in
1872. The English board of trade re-
turns show falling off in the imports
Of wheat during the month of Septem-
Der as compared with last year; but the
receipts of the current year
to date were about 100000 cwt in ex-
cess of 1872. The movements have been
of remarkable character as will be
seen from the following statement of
the imports for these three months dur
ms the mast three wears
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15

born, but city swells, on a visit to rel.
atives. Very few of the villagers were
ignorant of what was going on. When
the young man walked out with his
sweetheart, it must have been partic-
ularly gratifying for him to see him
self pointed ont by one urchin to an.
other with: Isay, Bill, you see that
fellow without no hinge in his back ;
he's goin' to marry that there gal. 3"
When the thing first began there was
later sitting up than usual, naturally.
And one of the old ladies stepped in,
one morning, shifting suspiciously O"
say, there amt no one sick in this here
house or nothin', is thee seen a
light burnin' nigh onto u o'clock, last
night, but don't smell no campfire
nor nothin' round. John Paui.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
FOREIGN.

A letter from Rome says according TO
report in the official journal, the ecclesiastical
property sold under the hammer in September,
in the whole kingdom Of Italy, brought 3,123,-
OOOf consisting Of 1897 lots. The valuation
which the government had fixed upon this
property was 42s7OOOf During the current
yesr II 1888 parcels have been sold, bringing
%. 1853, 00Of From the end ofSeptember 1867,
until the end Of September of the present
wear, SO. $50 lots have been sold, bringing 49,
3l7OOOf. The price at which the propertywa
put up is represented by the gross sum OF A.
OH, ,s2Sf, showing a difference of about one
quarter between the estimated value and the
price received,
The Spanish government is preparing to
send 5000 more troops into Cuba
A dispatch from Valencia says tho intran-
sigentes vessels remain off that harbor, and
have captured and plundered more Spanish
merchant men. Troops are arriving, and the
city is being placed in state of defense.
President Mcmahon has issued an orderof
the day to the army, in which he NIlndes with
severity to the insubordinate condition of Gen.
Belmimarre aud appeals to the patriotism of
tho soldiers to maintain discipline and support
the laws.
-Advices from the province of Bengal show
the crops are failing and the impending famine
cannot be averted.
Private advices from Havana state that
in the recent storm three Spanish gun-boats
vere lost at Guantanamo, two at Batahano,
and one at Saqua La Grand.
Prince Bismarck has been ro-appomted
president Of the Prussian ministry, in place oil
Gen. Won Room 1t is understood his restora'
ton TO the post carries with it the effective
control of the whole cabinet which he de
manded previous to his resignation some time
ago
1t is reported that in consequence oil the
DO ition maintained by Count De Chambord
in his letter to De Chenlong, all hopes OF the
restoration of monarchy have been abandoned
II il probable that the conservative deputies
will vote in favor of prolonging the term OF
office of president McMahon'
"A letter from Berlin shows that the city
has not only been affected by the American
panic, but is preparing for one of its own un-
interupted scandals on the bourse. Irregular
ity and insecurity in every branch OF ousl-
ness, prodigality and waste among the mid
die classes, great suffering among the poor a
swelling tide Of emigration and all forms OF
pecuniary distress hang over the city and all
is said to be owing to nothing less than specie
imitation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15

in was William r. Black, of Madison,
Rockingham county, and the leader of
the gang known as Blacks. He is
about eighty-fve years of age, and
owns most Of the town in which he
lives, his estimated wealth being about
$4,000. Black is reported to have had
dealings in the "queer" his entire life
time, and it is supposed it was by this
means he accumulated his present
wealth. 1t is related of him that he
never failed to take back and redeem in
genuine currency any counterfeits which
might be brought back to him. One
person who found himself in possession
of a $50 counterfeit bill-he did not
know by what means-went to Black
and said, "Mr. Black, this $50 bill you
gave me few weeks since, I find is
counterfeit" E" Black, putting on his
spectacles, replied, Excuse me; my
eyesight is bad but here is the money
for it," at the same time planking down
five genuine tens. These the individual
pocketed conscientiously, though he
had not received a counterfeit from
Black, knowing that that person would
easily dispose of it in his "queer"
transactions. When arrested he ex-
pressed himself as entirely ignorant of
the charges against him-knew nothing
about counterfeits-and accompanied
the deputy marshal without a murmur
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
New Orleans Taxes.

The New Orleans Times says that
men whose taxes foot up from 81, 900 to
$4,000 each year, can get two per cent
month for it, or use it in even more
lucrative ways, while the interest on
their taxes is nothing in comparison.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
retained in this way.
A notable instance of this practice is
the case of colored millionaire, who
has lodged paying his taxes until they
now amount to nearly 800, 900 due to
the city mn the state. This man is
character for a romance. He is so alb
stemious that he may be called n miser.
He disdains rest, and with wonderful
activity works on in II small and obscure
onc-story house, remote from the busi-
ness portion of the city. This building
is his office and his home 1t is dngy
and dilapidated on the outside, With
in, kind of lobby partitioned off from
the main room, is the misers office. A
desk full of pigeon-hOles crammed with
papers, an iron safe, and chair or two
constitute the only furniture, Beyond
are the rooms where he lives with his
mother, woman almost hundred
years old. Yet this man, so unpreten-
tious in his business surroundings, has
nearly hundred tenements scattered
all over the city, which bring him any
where from 800 to $500 per month.
He owns over $50 different proper
ties, estimated to be worth at least
300, 900, besides bonds and cash to a
large amount. This man, however,
never pays any taxes, except when he
disposes of a piece of property, and
then only on that property. In the
sheriff's Office are tax writs against him
dating back twelve years, and to some
of them are attached as much as six
yards of foolscap filled throughout
with closely written descriptions of his
properties. The reason for avoiding
his annual taxes is a speculative one.
The city charges him ten per cent. in
terest, and on his money, which he
never loans except on mortgage, he can
make from eighteen Go twenty-iour per
cent. Every tenth year also the taxes
of one year are wiped out by prescrip-
tion.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
Freight Charges on the Gulf Route.

Themerchants exchange committee Of
st. Louis appointed for the purpose of
furnishing facts relative to transporta-
ton charges on the Mississippi and
Gulf route, will present an exhaustive
report, which shows that the lowest
price per bushel for which corn has
been moved from and to New Orleans
is 5 3.5c, ard wheat &c; that the largest
number of days the river has been
closed by ice for series of thirteen
years has been only twenty, and that
both corn and wheat have been shipped
during the hottest months to Liverpool
via the gulf route, and arrived at that
port perfectly sound. Much other in.
formation will be laid before the com,
mittee, including a communication
from Gen. Simpson, U. S. engineer, as
serting the feasibility of increasing the
channel depth of the river between
here and Cairo, so that large ships can
run at all seasons.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
The Azores.

IGfubpS u quarter OF u mllllOn OF III
habitants live on these islands, where
the temperature is never above 80 de-
grees Of Fahrenheit in summer or be-
low 70 degrees in winter, a climate far
better in this respect than that of Ma
deri, with its hot hill-sides, and better
than the Canary islands, parched in the
roasting sun and with only camels to
ride. In a month of close observation,
I saw not one drunken man, not blow
struck in anger, not rude deed Of any
kind. Strangers are never insulted,
but family feuds once foot are set
deep in rut for years. Barons exist
here too, and the wretched division
Of property" system forces the six sons
of man with G600 a year to each Of
them gentleman" on E1OO per an
nun. Then each of such will hold to
his tablecloth bit of land, and try to
build his mansion, and for this will
even carry the stones on his back and
lie on the hard floor for bed, and so by
hook or crook in years of penury he
will "pig it" at home, where no fire is
needed in the coldest night. Here
lands reverend father famed for his
preaching, and rockets and squibs
cracklein mid-noon to greet the favor
ite monk, while tendereyes look through
the Iattices in the convent windows
very wide indeed their lattice is and
in the market-place prisoners look
through lattice, too, but it is iron on
the prison ground floor, and they are
craving cigar from the public on the
pavement and always ready for gossip
with any one disposed to "interview.
Fountains of good water abound in the
streets, and men carry casks Of it on
their backs, singing "Aqua," while a
huge butt of wine is smoothly borne by
four donkeys in a frame, and a knife
grinder whistles on "Paris pipe, to
attract his customers. A turkey costs
2s. Sd. here, duck OF a fat fowl, 10d.
mutton is 4d per pound; potatoes, Id.
3 pound. Fine bread is dear, and SUI
gar, with prohibitory duty, II pound.
Art is entirely at a discount, and the
scrolls, pillars, frinzes of old buildings
are almost amusing in absurd drollery;
but the palmer dwellings, made solid in
black lava, remind one at once of the
ruined cities of Basham. They sadly
want a bank, for the rich folks have to
hoard tens of huge dollars, each in his
cellar, and money is gyman, for they
wait years for a British-man-of war,
that the chaplain may baptize their
children and marry the young ladies,
who are brides at twelve summers in
this precocious cline, and so it was that,
when her maiesty's ship Challenger
called here lalely, as mentioned in the
Times, the babies could walk to the
front and brides i'll pianafores were at
the alter. Governesses have here har-
vest on their own terms, as yet unreaped.
All Illustrated or a copy of your
paper is handed abouttill it is illegible;
and, while the palate revels in luxury
and the focks of canaries and black
birds chatter in the fields, the food for
brains is at a famine price, and nobody
seems to undertake the noble duty OF
carrying II. timer light commerce and
religion. London Times.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
AUTUMN

It's the golden CLEAN Of an autumn day,
With the fOft rain raining az If in play;
And tender touch upon everything,
AS if autumn remembered the days Of spring.
In the listening woods there is not breath
10 shake their gold to the sward beneath;
And glow az II sunshine upon them lies,
Though the sun is hid in the shadowed skies.
The cocks clear crow from the farmyard comes,
The mufiled bell from the belfry booms,
And faint and dim, from far away,
Come the voices OF children in happy play.
Der the mountains the white rain draws its We
And the black rocks, cawing across them sail,
While nearer the swooping swallows skim
Der the steel-gray rivers fretted brim.
No sorrow upon the landscape weighs.
No grief for the vanquished summer days,
But sense of peaceful and calm repose,
Like that which age in Its autumn knows.
The spring-time longings are past and gone.
The passions Of summer no longer are known,
The harvest is gathered, and autumn stands
Serenely thoughtful, with folded hands
Over all is thrown a memorial hue,
A glory ideal the real ne'er knew;
For memory shifts from the past its pain,
And suffers its beauty alone to remain.
with half a smile and with half u sigh
It ponders the past that has hurried by;
SEES it, and feels it, and loves il all,
Content 1t has vanished beyond recall.
o glorious autumn. thus serene,
Thus living and loving all that has been
Thus calm and contented let me be
When the autumn of age shall come to me.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15

HONESTY AN ACQUIRED QUALFTY.-
What makes a man honest? Honesty
is not a natural virtue; man must be
drilled to it. 1t is after a man has
looked at temptation when he has been
put to the proof, that he is to be judged,
There is not farmer on Long island
that is as honest as the men in Wall
street. Why? Because these men are
old veterans. The old farmer is as
good as men go, but he would probably
break down at the first offer. l asked a
friend, not long ago, who was giving me
a sad story of the purchasable values of
different members of society in the leg
islature how it was with farmers.
"Bless your soul, )" said he, they are
the cheapest stuff we buy in the legisla-
ture." I am not up for election, just
now, and therefore 1 am not obliged to
call farmers the "bone and sinew of the
country. Henry Ward Beecher.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
GENERAL.

The Duke of saxony, eldest son OF the
late King John, has assumed the succession
to the throne Of saxony. His majesty issued
a proclamation in which he promises to up
hold the constitution, and announced that the
present ministry will remain in Office
OF the Ave or ak hundred depositors IN m
the banking house Of Jay Cooke Co., all
but about thirty have signed plan agreeing
to plsce the settlement in the hands OF the ex-
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, hollihs
These thirty are either distant from the city or
cannot Al present be reached.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-11-15
WEST.

LAKE dispatches state that a memo
''tS' Is receiving signatures, setting
.'Ds Oh Mormon rule, and praying
TsU' laws to give moralists protec-
y" government, and bring Utah in
'u FEDERAL authority and republican
!, ',' net majority for governor of
~ Isaac Welsh's majority for state
''S'aeht has appointed Constantine
"'''or Of internal revenue for the
|. 's''Ict, vice Food, deceased.
= roI = Merrill, of 9th cavalry, re-
'O,' ooncho, Texas, that the In
M. ''' appearance in the countieg of
,a,p ,r''n and Runnels, and have been
Lieut.. Lebo, of the 10th cav
., Tie way from Fort Concho to
M. 'o''' le'aptured from the Indians
'' oot the Indians, five in num-
s,,. s'0 driving them, succeeded in
|s, escape H. says the Indians
a,s, 'u'' country are probably from
n, ,yu wU. reservation and other por-
res sopsh @pSlco, following buffalo, also,