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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18
THE poRKnosr uARgBAcr RIDERS
4 Clam ktory.

A Danbury man psrtook OF su sle.
CANT suppor Of fried clans Saturday
night, ssys the Na0i. and went home
pretty well satisf.d with himself snd
the scenery. At,wo O'Clock mex, morn,
ing be Was awakened by an unusual
activity Of a halt dozen spasms which
appeared 10 have moved in during bi-
sleep. Getting ou. Of bel a. ba,,iIy Is
possible. he eroped bis way TO the
dresser where be kept bottle Of
Wine oftbe Woods" stsndiog. sod re-
moving the cork. hastily swallowed q
substantial dose. The moment be
got q taste OF 10 be experienced .
failing sensstion, which, tssether with
the shape OF the bottle, created . sud-
den and upgoverable anxiety within
him. Gracious. Annr be said 10 his
wife, "rts, bottle is that on the dress-
err why, mercyr shs exclaimed.
don't touch that; that 70 my cocoainer
/. was too late, however: be had touch
ed it. and merely explaining thai be
wished 10 be laid by the side Of his
mother. be dropped 10 The floor, and
rolled around aud grosusd until every
member OF ,be Amily wss awakened.
and came dashipg into the room, vari-
0 uly clothed with revolvers. knivfss and
stove leEs, and not much OF anything
else. Bot II uas too late 70 save those
fried elAus. They bad moved. .
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FOREIGN.
SPAIN.
The peopIe for Don Carlos.

MADRID, July l7.-Advices received
here through Carlst sources report thai
Don Carlos, upon his entry into Span
ish territory, was received by the people
with the widest enthusiasm. Genera
Copt-eras, the leader of the insurrec'
,ionary movement in the south o.
Spain, has made a demand upon the
authorities OF Carthagena for $50, 900
Threatening in the event OF refusal te
combine his forces with the insurgentt
in Murcora, and destroy the railroad
tunnel.
The President has received q letter
from Senior Olsgaza, the Spanish Am
bassador in Paris, in which be state,
that he is authorized to announce that
if Don Carlos takes the town OF 1rns
and is proclaimed King OF Spain, the
Duke Broylie, Minister Of foreign al
fairs of the French Republic, will &C
knowledge the Carlists as belligerents'
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uovtoIIye without work.

The New York Bulletin commends
10 the attention Of the numerous gem
tlemen who figure as eloquent orators
and essayists at trades,union meetings
AMI other places where it is point 10
put labor and capital in the position Of
natural antagonists, to certain truths
uttered in a recent Grafton before the
Cornell University: that at the
present time there is sad neglect in
the training for good mechanics" and
that "men must be taught to work az
we'll as to read" There is in the lat
ter proposition, it strikes US" the editor
says, exquisite irony" The idea that
any human being can arrive at man
estate in this age and country without
having been taught to work would
be astonishing II We were not aware oi
the ingenious contrivances to which the
class OF persons referred to are accus-
toned to resort, as il in order to escape
the divine decree to earn ones bread
BY the sweat Of his face. The grand
aim of one half OF the philosophers and
politicians is how to live without labor
and, so far as the observation OF the
writer extends, a majority Of the per-
sons who do the talking at the work.
ingmen's meetings belong to the
class who must be taught to work as
well as to resd,' The necessity fol-
better training for good mechanics, it is
feared, will not be adequately met "un-
til we have fewer men among US who
set themselves up as teachers and phi
losophers, and leaders. when, if they
bad any respect for the eternal fitness
of things they would be, not on the
platform, quoting Mr.. Odger and Mr.,
Bradlaugh and citizen Prudhomme, but
practically and personally vindicating
the right TO labor by swinging the
iackplsne. or climbing the ladder, o,
shoeing q horse. or anslyzipg the myste.
ries of brick and mortar-or, for that
matter, doing anything else which
would help to make them g blessing
and not Q bsne, to society
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18

The survey for the continuation ol
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, author
lied by Cosgress last winter. will be
commenced about the FIRE: Of August
1t is to ascertain the most sdvantageou:
route to continue the canal from the
cumberland TO the Ohio river, and Col
Segwick, an old officer. has been en-
ployed to personally superintend the
matter. He has arrived in Washington
for the purpose OF taking preliminary
steps toward the work. Col. VIM. T.
Merrill, of the United States Army
stationed at Cincinnati, has general
charge Of the survey, and the work will
be pushed forward as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
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The Free Delivery System.

There are seven cities in Pennsylvs-
MIA in which the free delivery system is
in operation-Harrisburg "a carriers
Lancaster (5), Erie (6), Reading (6).
Allegheny (9), Pittsburgh (24), and
Philadelphia (l7O-23l postmen in
all. In the fiIty-two cities 10 the Unit
ed States where the system has been
established there are 1882 carriers, who
collected and delivered about 80, 900 900
OF letters and papers last month. II the
distance travelled daily by these govern.
ment pedestrians could be definitely de-
termined it would no doubt reach 25,-
coo miles, equal to the esrth's circum-
ference. The above figures convey sn
idea OF the wonderful extent of the free
delivery system used in the distribution
OF the mail, but it is the idea OF the post
Office department to develope it still
farther and have the great bulk OF the
mails delivered and collected by carriers.
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IT seems the entire dialogue between
Mr.. B. F. Butler and his temperance
catechizers 8! Pennington has not been
given to the public. Mr.. Godfrey, the
gentleman who asked after the
would be Governors temperance prin-
c:ples, has been visited by reporter Of
a Boston newspaper. and his statement
makes the affair look worse than ever
for the orator. Mr.. Godfrey eaid be
had intended to present his pledge from
the platform, but being told by some OF
Buffers friends that il he dared to ask
many questions he would be put off the
stand, he took his place is the crowd
and waited patiently til! the now IA
nous oration on rum and railroads was
COMP pleted. Then he presented his
question and received the answer which
was telegraphed over the country con-
ceruing the improperly OF whistling at
funerals. Then Mr.. Godfrey says he
retorted in this way: "While may
not whistle at your funeral shall prob
ably dance at your political death OF
the end OF the coming gubernatorial
cam paign," and it was amid laughter
q: the retort Mr.. Butler retired.
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THE WEATHER.
WAR DEPARTMENT,

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE Grief SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON, July is, A. M. J
PROBABILITIES.
On Friday for the Eastern Gulf and
South Atlantic States, southwest winds,
clear and partly cloudy weather. For
the Middle States, southerly winds,
partly cloudy and clearing weather, and
generally low temperature, and possibly
rain in New York. For New England
easterly winds, breaking to south
and westerly, with cloudy weather or
rain. For the Ohio Valley, westerly
winds and partly cloudy or clearing
weather. For the Upper Lake regions,
AMI the Northwest, rising barometer,
southwest winds. vering TO northwest,
and generally clear CT clearing weather.
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killing Eo Muricr.

From the New York Times.
With his usual air Of jaunty uucon
cern, his bouquets, and his basket o
tuberoses. the young person who latel,
had the incidental misfortune TO senc
our pistol-bu!le:s crash ing through the
body ard brains OF father has left
the Tombs for summer quarters at SinI
Sing We are assured that "dis,in
guished council" hope it will be fol
nothing more than summer quarters,
They think it would be 8 shame ant
sin to keep young man OF admirable
antecedents and noble instincts at hard
labor very far into the fall.
To deprive of liberty so sweet a youth
to whom lovely ladies send his mono.
gram exquisitely arranged in flowers,
would be most tolersble and not to be
endured" Not to spring bills OF sx-
ceptions, however. at too unseasonsble q
time-attr, and not before, q few notable
executions might be wisest-and not to
outrage public opinion by beginning
oversoon to worry for what is called
"Gubernatorisl clemency." Walworth
is for the present ostentatiously aban-
doned by his astute advisers, and
escorted by the officers OF the law to
his cell at Sing Sing.
Walworth may and probably does
consider himself very fortunate. 1t
was touch and go with him at one time.
The surprise OF quick trial, the adroit
use OF unexpected material, and the
personal weight OF an advocate who
was willing to use it in such csdse,
combined in the psrricides favor. 1t
was life or liberty. that advocate is re-
ported after the verdict to have said,
and the client may well be satisfied to
get off with the sscrifce-,he tempora-
ry sacrifice, as his friends think-of lib
erty only. Pending further move
ments in his behalf. the public have
timely opportunity to consider whether
there really is any such crime as par.
ricide, and il SO wha, ought to be i,s
punishment Mr.. O'Conor has in
structed US that there is DO such crime,
and consequently that there ought to
be no punishment for it. This may be
logical, but it is likely to prove incon-
venient. 1t is quite true that the Roo
mans had no distinct law against par
ricide. They thought as the Athen-
ians thought, the deed was impossible.
But when, in Rome, l72 B. c..
Astius killed his father, ne WAS no
found guilty of murder in the second
degree, neither WAS he sent into
sumner quarters" On the contrary
he was first scourged, then seved up
in a sack with q dog, cock. a viper,
and an ape, and so cast into the sea
There was no bill ofexceptiona in the
case Of Astius, neither was there any
appeal to "Gubernatorial clemency."
The horror and excavations OF the whole
population OF Rome were not metiga-
ted by the reading of offensive letters
sent by Astius, Sr. 10 his wife. But
then, in these two thousand years, we
have learned trick or two, and among
the rest that OF proving that a crime
go atrocious and inhumsn that men do
not anticipate the possibility OF ito per-
petration, is by that very fact no crime
at all. We may be yerv thankful TO
Mr.. Charles 0Couor for this new les
sou in law and morals.
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Escaped.
CINCINNATI.
Tobacco Suit.

CINCINNATI, July 17.-Some time
since the government recovered a
decree against 1000 pounds
OF tobacco, OF which II. Card was
claimant. Pending suit, the property
was released with Mayor Johnston as
security. Card having failed in pay
ment of damages. the decree of for,
feiture was entered, and to-day an exc
cution was issued against Mr.. Johnston
for the amount &,6ll.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18

A PARrs Journal lately perpetrated
the following squib at the expense Of
the French Ministry "a gentleman
lately presented himself ct the residence
Of 9 new minister, 4 wish to zee Mon
sieur X, if you please He does not
live hare, just now he is installed at
Versailles. Since Wfren2 z Since be
became member Of The CabinetI' 'Ab,
be has entered the new Cabinetl Be
good enough to allow ras to sit down o
moment / will wait till be goes out Of
Office" Ha. .-,
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OHIO.
Fire.

MlDDLErowN, July l7.-Snyder q
IIol,'s pianing mill was burned to-
dav. Loss $500. Insured for $5, 100.
Accident.
LEXINGTON, July ia brakeman
named Berkely, on the L. L. d c. r.
r. 'ell rom train to-day, which pass
ed over him. cutting off an arm and IN
nic ing fatal injuries.
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NEW YORK STATE.
Drowned.

YoxxrRs, July 1.-Two gentlemen
and two ladies, names unknown. went
out in a Yacht on the Hudson river
Yesterday afternoon. Their boat was
found upse, afterwards and NO trace oi
the partv could be seen. 1t is suppos-
ei that, if they were not picked up by a
passing vessel, they must have been
drowned, as a severe squa'l prevailed
duriog the afternoon.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18

There is, to our personal knowledge,
q bank president in New York who
was contemplating a trip to Europe
during the simmer, but who found
that this would deprive the clerks Of
their usual vacation. He generously
remains at his post, taking the place OF
each one in turn as he goes for period
of recreation.-Gariytian Weekly.
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MEMPHIS.
The Political Situation Il, Arkansns.

The Political Situation la 4 kansas.
MEMPHIS, July 1.-THE APptaIS
Little Rock special to-day says: "The
re-assembling of the legislature and
constitutional convention is advocated
now by Mcclure and the disappointed
place hunters. They want a constltu-
tional convention and expect to pull the
ropes and reinvolve the people by re-
stuffing the ballot boxes. Failing 10
call the legislature together for this pur-
pose, it is rumored that Bower, Presl.
dent Of the constitutional convention OF
1868. will re.assemble that convention.
Such treason will meet with the ex-
treme penalty Of the law, and such an
insurrectionary move by Mcclure, Ct id
omne qenus, will be tbrottled at its in-
spiration. Governor Bsxteris no longer
to be tritled with. The people are no
longer patient. Baxter is and will be
upheld in his efforts 10 restore honesty
and good government in Arkansas. A
constitutional convention at this juno
ture would be unwise, and perbaps Judo
all that has been and is being done by
the government"
Escaped.
MEMPHIS, July ia murderer es'
csped from the Jacksonport, Arkansas
iail a few nights since. By knocking
down the jailor with an iron bar and
shooting, perhaps fatally, a negro who
answered the jaiors cries for assistance.
D1olic Anderson, a female horse thief:
Of young and tender years, escaped
with him.
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no right to detain letters in such cases,
but must forward all such suspected let
tiers to their destination and make re-
port of the circumstances to the Depart
ment. .'H ..,.....
National BANKS Not Supplied with
stamps.
A question having been raised in re-
gard to the matter the Comptroller OF
Currency, decided that postage on of'
fetal communications to his office by
National Banks, must be paid BY the
latter institutions. In other words Of
fetal stamps will not be furnished the
banks.
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A SCIENTIFIC friend who has been
reading with patience an exhaustive
treatise on the velocity Of light" says
he now knows how it is that his gas
bills run up so rapidly.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18

THERz are bat four men in the
Fourth Regimert OF regulars who do
not chew or smoke, and they are 20 sd-
dic.ed 70 profanity that they find no
time for smsll vices.
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THEY have cheerful vsy Of spend
ing the Sabbath in Manifold, Pa.
There they cover dogs with iudamabls
oil, and then set FIRE TO them.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-18

WALwoRrH, the parracide, has been
assigned to work in the Office attached
to the shoe shop ct sing~sing.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23
An Admirable Remedy.

THE Governor of prison in Corn
wall, England, has discovered an admira-
BILE remedy to cure tramps and Migrants,
in casual wards and prisons, of the habit
of expressing their profound grief at the
bullets of fate by rending their garments,
thus placing society in ridiculous posi-
ton by compelling it to provide them
with new wardrobes at the very moment
when it is least inclined to bestow upon
them any mark of its favor. When he
finds a prisoner huddled up in the corner
of his cell, covered only with the cell rug,
and his clothes lying in heap of torn
rags at his feet he sends for a needle and
thread, which he gives to the clothes-de-
stroyer, informing him, at the same time,
that he viii he fed on bread and water
until he has thoroughly reconstructed his
garments. This cure has been found to
work wonders, for long before the time
allowed by law for bread -and-wate diet
expires, the clothes are mended with mar
velOus skill. ard the intelligence of the
hardship thus inflicted being conveyed by
tramps, on leaving the prison, to their
friends and acquaintance, not only in
duces them to resist the temptation of
tearing up their clothes when they are
sheltered beneath its roof, but leads many
of them to avoid confinement altogether
in an establishment where they are ex-
posed to such ungentlemanlike treatment.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23
A Danbury Incident.

When woman puts three mackerel to
soak over night in dish-pan whose sides
are eight inches high, and leaves the pan
on stairway, she has accomplished her
mission and should go hence. This was
what a DivisiOn-street woman did Friday
night: Filled the pan at the pump, and
then left it standing on the steps to the
stoop, while she went into the next house
to see how many buttons would be
required to go down the front of a redin-
cote. And mighty important affair
that was to be sure. And there was her
husband tearing through the house in
search of handkerchief, and not fiji d.
ing it, of course. And then he rus'lo.
out into the yard, wondering where on
earth that woman could be, and started
down the steps without seeing the pan, or
even dreaming that anyone could be so
idiotic as to leave it there. OF course he
stepped on it; or, at least, that is the
supposition, as the neighbors who were
brought out by the crash that followed,
saw a Mortified man, and high dish pan
and three very demOraliZed mackerel
shooting across the garden, and smashing
down the shrubbery. And he was a nice
sight, was that unhappy man, when they
got him on his feet. There wasn't dry
thread on him, and his hair was full of
bits of mackerel, and one of his shout
ders was out of joint, and his coat was
split the whole length of the back, and
he appeared to be out of his head. He
was carried in the house by some of the
men, and laid on a bed, while others
went after doctor and sixteen women
assembled in the front room, and talked
in whispers about the inscrutable ways of
Providence, and what a warning this was
to people who never looked where they
were going.-DanburysN eios.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23

SOME time since Pennsylvania farmer
had a barn and stables consumed by fire
from II locomotive, and sued the railroad
company for damages. The buildings
were some distance from the railroad, but
dry grass and weeds in abundance occu-
pied the ground over the intervening
space, and by this a long train communi-
Gated the fire to the farm buildings. The
jury found for the plaintiff, and $4,000
were awarded.
The railroad company appealed to SUI
pcrior court, in which the decision of the
first trial was overrulcd, on the ground
that no one is responsible for accidents
from relnote, but only from immaculate,
causes. The sparks from the locomotive
did not fire the barn, but tie grass, and it
was the grass which fired the barn.
1t was the duty $50 the Court decided)
of the farmer to guard against the posi-
bility of such accidents, by not leaving
train of litter to communicate the fire.
While party was liable for damages
within reasonable limits, it was for the
parties injured to show that they had
taken reasonable precautions on their
part to avoid the chance. The damages
were therefore reduced to 5000, the value
of the grass.
This, being high legal decision, will
no doubt rule in similar cases; and it will
be as well for those who are in Il situation
exposed to danger to see what may be
done on their part to lessen the risk. In
Australia they have found much protec-
ton from fires by the use of live hedges
along the lines, but we suppose the rail
road embankments are not full of the lux
urIant weeds which fill ours.
When our fires once get under way a
mass of green hedge foliage is but a feeble
protection. Still, it would often check a
weak fire which might in time become
strong; and it might be worth while both
for railroad companies and for those who
own property along railroad lines, to con
slider whether it would not be better for
all parties to have fences of this material.
These fences would also serve for snow
breaks. Much trouble is frequently expe-
rienced from snow-drifts in cuts, and live
hedges would be the most effective of pro-
tectors.-Forney's Weekly Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23

Dyspepsia is the most perplcxing of all human
ailments. Its symptoms almost infinite in
their variety. and the forlorn and respondent vic
tins of the disease often fancy themselves the
prey. in turn. of every known maady. This is
due. in part. to the close sympathy which exists
between the stomach and the brain. and in part,
also to the fact that any disturbance Of the digc$
tive function necessarily disorders the liver, the
some extent. the quality Of the blood. \ medi-
cine that lik, IIostcttcrs Bitcrs. not only tones
The stomach but the same time controls the liver,
produces regular habit Of body, braces the
nerves purics the fluids and ministers To "A mind
diseased. is therefore the true and only specific
for chronic indigestion. Such is the operation of
This famous vegetable restorative. II not only
cures dyspepsia. but also all concomiants and
consequences. Moreover, il i invaluable Il pre-.
ycutivc of indigestion. No one who chooses to
take half Il winc@las~ful of this agreeable appe
tizcr and stomachic habiualy three times day
will ever he troubled with oppression after eating
nausea sour erIctalious, any other indications
at 4, want of Ni"ur in the digestive aud ns-imla
linz or,snn- The debility and lan"nor snpern-
ducrd hv hot weather are Immediately and prrna
urutly relieved by the Bitter, aud persons VIII" are
cnr,-titutionally Inclined 10 look upon life AS
through "A .sllSs. darkly. Will be apt 10 take II
brighter and more hopeful view OF the SITUATION
under the genial influence of this wholesome me
dfCual Stimulant.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23

NOVEL HORSE PRoTEcToR.-It is a
common thing in our cities to protect the
heads of draft horses with bonnet or
cushion to keep off the blaze of the sun.
But Dublin protector proposes to ex-
tend similar protection over the entire
animal. He makes frame of wood,
whalebone, iron rods, or other flexible,
but strong material, and this he places
over the horse, few inches above. him,
the frame being supported either by at
tachment to the harness or to the thills of
the vehicle. Upon this frame he stretches
a sheet of canvas, oiled cloth, or sheet
rubber, which forms complete pent
house, to keep off either rain or sun. The
space between the animal and the cover
ing permits free passage of air, which
aids Transportation, and helps to keep the
animal cool. The principle, as far as this
is concerned, is similar to that of the odd,
oval-shaped hats worn by men in the East
Indies from time immemOrial. These
comprise light frame of bamboo slips,
encircling the forehead and sustaining a
covering lined with cork an inch above,
and out of contact with the head. The
slight rustliAg of the breeze through ones
hair is said to be very refreshing, and
quite possibly IA horse furnished with one
of the new protectors" may coincide
with this experience during hot summer
DAYS.