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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
Yale's Complaint.

A dispatch from Saratoga gives th"
following statement of the race, mad" by
Capt. Cook. "fthc Yale crew:
Il started out on thirty strokes To the
minute; Harvard soon took the lead ut
about thirty-oight to the minute. In th"
first half minute they gave H. their wash
and We .trcrcd off tothr east; they jockey
eel u, to the east second time, snd We
strcrcd off again; but the third time ""
passed them clcsrly, and II. our stern went
by they struck the rudd"r and disabled
us. Our bow oar was thus driven under
their bow and snapped, l will never row
n Harvard man again without three hun
dred feet margin, and they have got l."
row u-again now or dcclincthc challenge.
told Dana ~ passed him, that hr could
not win that race, and hc could not have
done it except for the foul, and he can
beat IL if he dare 1" try.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
The Victory.

The crew wa. greeted with tremendous
cheering. On reaching the shore B.
Frank, captain and stroke, tainted. II"
WAS Immediately lifted up 10y III" crew
and carried on their shoulders, up the
hill to Moons Lake House, but before
reaching the hou>, h" had entirely re-
covered. The scene following the race
wa. one long to be- remembered, and was
oniy marrod in it, joyou>nr>N by the fail
urc of the Yale TO participate beyond the
mile point, at which place, the lnI" had
the I lead with god prospect for
keeping it.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
Rejoicing in New York.

\, soon rs the victory If th" Columbia
crew became known in thi, city, the flag,
on the City Hall wrr" run up t" full
mast. amid cheer, from the loung-
rr, in the Park and crowd, IN
front of the bulletin board, Of the neigh
barring new -pupcpcr,, and in = hort time
hng- were dying from nearly every hotel
and public building. IN tn" evening IN
the hotel corridor, and bar-ro"m, th"
victory wa, the Who'll" topic "f c"m'rr,a-
ton, while In" h"ys in band. in different
section, Of the city celebrated 1t Toy pa
radr through the streets.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
SPORTING NEWS.
THE REGATTA.
Columbia College Crew VIC
tOriOus.
THE REGATTA.
An Exciting Contest.

SARATOGA, July lS.-About 1900
people assembled at the lake this morn
ing to witness the University boat race,
set down for 10 o'clock A. NJ. The lake
was as smooth as glass. At 9.l5 the first
gun WAS fired; at 1920 the second. and
the starting gun at lO.47. All the boats
got of handsomely together, Columbia
at half mile taking the lead; then
Trinity made spurt, overhauled Column
bia. and at the end of mile took the
lead from Yale, which in the struggle had
got ahead. but at the moment foulcd and
fell behind; Princeton came up close and
Trinity and the other crews were about
in line behind.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20

as an article fOr ia" bath,
"TDarhcs the foundation 81 HlI
dlrt, opens the pDr"s and gives
healthy action a. the skin.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
HAND NDSApoI.Ic

Clransns the skin, instantly
removing any stain DT bl"mish
from both hands OT fa"".
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
At the Mile and a Half Post

the Columbia came to the front again
with Harvard struggling sharply I"
maintain former positions. At the mile
point Columbia was still in advance with
Cornell makinga II spurt to ovcrtake her
and passed Harvard. At the tw" and IA
half mile point Columbia was still ahead,
with Wesl, ym which now showed great
vigor pressing her sharply and steadily.
The Last Half Mile
was then one continuous exciting pull
between Columbia. Wesleyan, Harvard
and Dartmouth, and they came in in that
order, Columbia ahead about two boat
lengths and making the distance in l6m.
j0s., winning.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
There ~ no article known
that will do No many kinds Of
work and do 10 IN well IN Sa-
polio. Try ~.
HAND $ApcIIc
.AND POLIO

now and comfortably "ng'.
tive Toilet SpHp, having no
equal In this country Of nbrpnb
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
The General Result
The Omcial Decision.

Tn. following l. the official decision 4
the Judge in thu rsc" to-day: Columbia
sr,t: Wesleyan second; Harvard th,Ei;
william. fourth; Cornell fifth: Dart
mouth .iIth; Princeton and Trinity
doubtful: Yale ninth. On acuDunt Of the
resignation Of tn. time keeper immedi-
ately before the departure Of the referees
boat for the starting point no Official
time has been reported 70 them.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
The POpe's Temporal Posses
fi i siOHS.

A fresh attack on the last relic of
the Pope's temporal possessions
seems to be seriously threatened.
The Liberals at Rome (says the Pail
Mall Gazette) are making use of Pho
Nono's obstinate rejection of all pro-
posals for accommodation to urge
that the late separation of the tenn
poral and spiritual kingdoms should
be carried out logically and complete
ly, and that the church buildings of
the city, the monuments of all kinds,
and, above all, the Vatican libraries
and galleries, should be taken over
by the State, since to this as the
present temporal power in Rome
they belong, and not to the Bishop.
This view, it is observed, was not only
adopted by Napoleon I. in his origin
al conquest of Italy, made when he
was Gen. Bonaparte, but was practi-
cally acquiesced in by the then Pope,
who accepted as one of the conditions
of peace after the defeat tofhis troops,
that imposed on him of sending a
number of the most valuable of the
Vatican MSS. to Paris, without any
attempt to attach any sacredness to
them as church property, plainly re-
garding them as temporal property.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
Mistaken Identity.

A ludicrous case of mistaken iden-
tity occurred in Montreal, recently,
through the unfortunate resemblance
of two young gentlemen. One Of
them was recently married, and the
other is still bachelor. The mar
ried person went to a dinner-party,
while the unmarried one went to q
convivial entertainment, and, owing
to mis- calculation of his capacity fo1
wine, he spoiled his nights amuse.
ment. While glimmer of reason
remained he endeavored to get home.
By the time the young man reached
cab stand, his mind had become SC
confused that he was unable to re-
member his own name or the street
on which he lived. As lie was
gesticulating to the cab-driver, o
friend of the married gentleman no
ticed his plight, and, confounding his
identity, pushed him into cab.
whispered to the driver, and con.
tinued on his way. The result o.
this act was the conveyance of the
unmarried man to the home of the
married man, where his condition
created anything but pleasant sur
prise. The wife was ofcourse morti
fed. Subsequently the father-in-laN
entered the room to remonstrate witt
him. After wasting much good ad
vice, the father-in-law discovered the
mistake, and was in the act of trying
to persuade his daughter, probabl!
much against her will, that tn
young man was not her husband
when the real husband put an enc
to the dispute by letting himself il
at the hall door with q latch key.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
st. Clair Ship Canal.

The engineers report on the st.
Clair Flats Ship Canal has been sub
mitted to Congress. 1t states that
excavations made at four points IN
the channel between Lake Huron
and Erie-the st. Clair Flats, Lake
st. Clair, and Detroit River, at ''the
Limekilns, and at the mouth. The
Limekilns cutting must be through
solid rock. The cost Of making a
channel twenty feet deep, and from
100 to 400 feet wide, is estimated at
S2,79O,9O7. This is, however, on
the supposition that part of the canal
shall be within the Canadian frontier.
If it must lie wholly within our
bounds the cost will be S3,930,900
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
regards this canal as the internal i'm
provement most imperatively needed
1t says that the commerce interested
in it is larger than that now carried
on in American ocean-going ships
that the loss of property by ship
wrecks at the Limekilns during the
last five years would almost pay fol
the whole work; and the result of the
proposed canal would be "a reduction
of about fifty per cent in the cost O
moving property from the West.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
Familiar Love,

Perhaps there is no period so pleas
ant among all the pleasant periods Of
love making as that in which the in
timaey between the lovers is so as
sured and the coming event SO near,
as to procure and endure converse
ton about the ordinary little matters
of life; what can be done with the
limited means at their disposal; how
that life shall be begun which they
shall lead together; what idea each
has of the others duties; what each
can do for the other. There was q
true sense of delight of intimacy in
the girl who declared that she had
never loved her lover so well as when
she had told him how many pair Of
stockings she possessed. 1t is very
sweet to gaze at the stars together
and it is sweet to sit out among the
haycocks. The reading of poetry out
of the same book, with brows al
close, and arms all mingled, is very
sweet; the pouring out of the whole
heart in written words, which the
writer knows would be ridiculous to
any one but the deaf one to whom
they are sent, is very sweet; but fol
the girl who has made q shirt for tn,
man she loves there has come a mo
ment III the last stitch of it, sweetel
than any of the stars ever produced.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
Select Miscellany.
THE OLD MAN GOES TO SCHOOL.

.ll.r Ely JOHN II. YATES.
know Pm too old to learn, wife; my lessons an
tasks are done; f-
The dews of life's evenin' glsten in the light c
life's settin' sun.
To the grave by the side of my fathers they'll carr
me soon away;
But wanted to see how the world had grown, SO
hobhled to school to-day. s E -
1 couldn't a told twas school house; it lowered
gazed on the noble structure till DINNER gre,
these old eyes.
My thoughts went back to the log house-the schoo
house of long ago,
Where studied and romped with the merry boy
who sleep where the daisies grow.
I was startled out of my dreamin' by the tones o
its monstrous bell;
On these ears that are CROWN deaf the sweet note
rose and tell. SO
Iente-sd the massive DIOR, and sat in the proIeret
! chair ~ Es Et q
An old man wrinkled and gray in the midst of tn,
young and the fair.
Like garden of bloomin' roses, the school room
appeared to me -a..
The children were all so tidy their faces so full o.
glee,
They stared at me when entered, then broke o'el
the wLisperin' rule,
And said, with smile, to each other, ''the old
mans a-comin' to school,"
When the country here was new, wife-when was
scholar-lad,
Our readin' and writin' and spelIin' were bout all
the studies we had.
We cleared up the farm through the summer, then
trnseled through woods and snow
To the log house in the openiR'-the school house
of years ago.
Nov, boys go to school in palace, and study hard
Latin and Greek; : = AV tz&l6 - n
They are taught to write school essays; they are
taught on the stage to speak;
They go into the district hopper, but come out of
the college spout;
And this is the way the schools of our land are
grindin' our great men out.
Let em grind! let 'em grind, dear wife the world
needs the good and the true;
Let the children out of the old house and trot 'em
into the new. '..e-rg rs trE
I'll chcerfuly pay my taxes, and say to this age of
mine, -fG @ Tr r-E
All aboard all aboard go ahead if you leave the
old man behind.
Our system of common schools is the nations glory
and crown;
Nay the be paIsied ever that is lifted to tear it
down, -Nr
If bigOts cannot endure the light of our giowin'
- skies, ---s--s--..-aa, $780,
Let them 90 to Oppression,s shore. where Liberty
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
An Animated Vocal Contest.

An exercise of the Yox Humana re-
Gently occurred atssthe Boston post
office that was little more amusing
than musical
An individual stepped up to the
general delivery window, and in
somewhat subdued tone asked:
"Any letters for me?"
'What name, sir?" asked the clerk
in attendance. @ tE'
'TWatt, replied the applicant.
"What name?" repeated the clerk
in still louder tone. III H-r..
await, sir" ,s 5gerY-s
s'What ndnse9" shouted the clerk
still louder, growing red in the face
in his effort.
"Watt, sir, is my name" now
shouted the applicant in return.
"Yes, responded the man of let
ters, putting in all the power of lungs
he possessed, and shouting like new
adjutant at the head of raw regi-
ment-"What is your name, sir?"
eyes, I know it Isl" now screamed
the other, red and excited. "Do you
mean to keep me yelling at you all
day in this manner? Give me my
letters!"
By this time two or three clerks
inside the window had come to the
rescue of their comrade, and small
crowd had gathered around the ex-
cited letter-seeker outside, who was
shaking his fist, and denouncing the
Post Office Department for placing a
deaf man at the window.
"What do you mean by calling me
deaf" said the clerk who overheard
this last remark.
"Why, you are deaf, ant your
asked his customer
'Not bit of it." said the clerk
''but yo,s are, ant you?"
'|No, sir. 1 can hear q whisper {
mile off,
"Then why did you keep saying
What when 1 asked you your name?
because Watt is my name-Jame'
Watt"
! ''Oh! I thought you said what al
the time" said the clerk.
) $50 I did, WATT, Watt"
l At this, fellow clerk suggested
; that they had better give old Watt
his-name his letters; which was done
l and the crowd, including several dis
appointed individuals who were il
anticipation of fight, instead of
laugh, dispersed.-[Boston Bulletin.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
NIcaragua SInip-CanaI

Commander Lull, of the navy, who
had charge of the expedition to sur
vey the route for ship-canal be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
known as the Nicaragua route, has
completed his report. The result OF
the survey is exceedingly favorable,
but before any further action is taken
toward the construction of a canal
a Commission will be dispatched to
examine the surveys of the three pro-
posed routes. This commission Will
probably consist Of ]. W. MeAlpine,
of New York, Shandley, of the Hoos-
&C Tunnel, and Eads, of st. Louis.
These gentlemen will be accompan-
led by Commodore Selfridge, Com
mander Lull, and A G. Menocal,
Chief Engineer of the Nicaragua ex-
pedition. The Commission will set
out in the spring.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

A fortune telling adventures has
just been arrested in Baltimore, and
her tricks by their success forcibly
indicate the weakness of mind of her
customers. One witness testified to
having at various times paid an ag.
gregate of 5000 to have her husbands
love restored; and case of family
quarrel came to light where wife
had paid S15 for preparation to
poison her husband, and the husband
had given $40 for an antidote. Each
prescription was harmless powder
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
Hsboroug Highland County, Thursday, February
Joking.

The Constitutional Convention is
not as dull place as one might i'm
aglne-not near as dull q place as
the store that don't advertise. The
members manage to get in good
anecdote now and then, which has
the unfailing tendency of putting
the members in good humor with
each other, and preparing their
minds for work. h
A few days ago, upon the ques-
ton Of reconside1ing a motion, Ew-
ing, Campbell, Baber, and some
other Democrats got into confab,
and said some pretty harsh things to
each other. Mr.. Cunningham took
the floor and created some merri-
ment by alluding to Ewing, Baber
and Campbell as venerable Demo-
Gratis" when all of them had1been in
the Republican party within eight
years. At this point Mr.. Voris rose
and said it was Democratic family
quarrel, but he wanted to interfere by
telling a story of a country clerk in
a rural town, who had a pet calf
which he was training in the ways
of the OK. The calf walked around
very peacefully under one end of the
yoke while Mr.. Clerk held up the
other end, but in an unfortunate mo-
ment the man conceived the idea of
putting his own neck under the yoke,
to let the calf see how it would seem
to work with partner This fright
ened mister cali, and elevating his
tail and lifting up his voice, he struck
dead run" for the village, and Mr..
Clerk went along with his plug hat
in his hand, straining every nerve to
keep up, and crying at the top of his
voice:-"Here we come, dang our fool
souls; head us somebody"
Uproarious laughter burst forth
at the ludicrous story and its neat
application to the occasion. A. vote
was then taken on the motion to re-
consider, and it was lost by a tie
vote-3S' to 38. This settles the
ghost.-[Marysville Trib.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

According to Farrington's Church
Almanac, the Protestant Episcopal
Communion in the United States
comprises Al dioceses and 9 mission
ary jurisdictions, 50 bishops, 1906
priests and deacons, 2,700 parishes
and 100000 communicants. The as
certained number of communicates
in 3S dioceses and s missionary ju-
risdictions is 254,857; the total Of
100000 is estimated. There were in
the year 23,515 confrmations and
20,859 burials. The most populous
diocese is that of New York, which
has 26,292 communicants; next is
Pennsylvania, with 9,1O9; next Mary
land, with 17,O55; and the fourth il
number is Connecticut, with 1876
The contributions of all kinds are re
ported at S7,316,149. H- 80
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
Buying Cheap Things.

Only the rich, says the New York
Tribune, can afford to buy poor arti-
cles. Solomon says, "the destruc-
ton of the poor is their poverty,
and thus it comes about: In the
matter of shoes, for example, poor
man thinks he cannot afford to pay
Sc for a pair of good shoes, SO he
buys at So, and in three months he
must buy again; four pairs year
amount to $12, whereas: the Sc pair,
made to order, with a fresh sole,
perhaps, would have lasted a twelve
month. Just so in muslins. The
hardworking farmers wife will pur-
chase muslin at IL or 15 cents ayard,
when by giving 20 or % it would
wear third longer and give double
the satisfaction, besides making i'm
mense saving in stitches. In dress
goods the same rule applies, unless
one intends to buy at every change
of style and variety. When we buy
a dress, the purchase is for a lifetime,
and always of the best quality, not
the most expensive, but such as will
wear and look well as long as thread
is left. If one can't afford to buy
the best, let her go without and save
up till she can; then when she does
buy she will have what suits her 1t
is because SO many housekeepers buy
poor calicos, poor muslins, table-lin-
en- of inferior quality, cheap cloths
or suits, that they are always hur-
ried to death with sewing. Children's
clothes wear out so fast that they
must evermore be making new,
whereas if the fabric, in the first place,
is of excellent quality and well made
up, it will last two or hree..children
and look well all the time. "Won't
you buy some stockings, real nice,
only 13 cents pair?" said a peddler
at the door the other day. 81 never
dream of paying less than half dol
lar" was the prompt reply. Just to
think of darning 13 cent stockings!
A real good pair of stockings will
need scarce any darning for year,
will wear two or three years, and
then cut over nicely for the children.
Is there any economy in buying
cheap stockings? Only the rich can
afford to buy poor articles. F,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26
THE STEP AT THE GATE.
The shades of eve are falling,

The shades of eve are falling,
Athwart the garden wall,
The summer winds come whispering by
And showers of rose leaves fall,
As sit by my cottage window,
And dream and listen and wait
For the sound of well-known whistle,
And welcome the step at the gate.
The tea-kettle out in thekitchen
Is humming its busiest song;
'T'm boiling. say! It's time to get tea,
So why don't you come along?" -'t
The table is set in the parlor, RI
But the singing kettle must wait,
. For the tea win spoil if I make it,
TIL 1 hear the step at the gate.
Baby sleeps in her cradle,
Dreaming with all her might,
And over both OF her blossom blue eyes
Are drawn their curtains white.
But her nap is nearly over;
She seldom sleeps so late;
SheT wake in glowing gladness,
When she hears the step at the gate.
This Is our little kingdom
This cottage with vines o'ergrown;
Papa's the king and mammals the queen,
-3 And baby's the heir to the throne.
Why fingers the king, 1 wonder?
"Tis growing so very late!
All, there he comesI Baby, wake up,
For hear the step at the gate
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

Charges for the impeachment OF
Judge Busteed have been presented
to Congress by citizen of Alabama.
He is declared to have willfully neg
lected to hold Court at the times and
places prescribed by law, and to have
thus often kept htigants, witnesses.
Jurors and counsel dancing attend
ance on his caprice, at great expense
to the people and the Government
The final accusation is, that he paid
court money to one Reynolds tc
hush up libel suit brought by the
latter against him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

Josh Billings says: ''There IL but
phew things on the face of this earth
more worthless than a poodle, and
yet I am glad there IL poodle, for
if there was not there IL some people
who wouldn't have emmy object in
living, and have nothing to luv."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

When I was boy, 1 heard ser
mon in which the clergyman said
''Never cross a bridge before you
come to it. Do not think it is weal
or dangerous, nor worry yourself
lest it shall break down under you
Wait until you get to it. 1t may be
as firm as iron and stone can make
it." That is all 1 remember of the
sermon, but whenever I have felt dis
tressed or anxious about the future
1 have thought of it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

ga HORSE! A HORSE! My kingdom
for horse!" cried o celebrated trag-
edian. "Wouldn't jackass do as
well?" inquired an affected young
man, rising in his seat. eyes," tri-
umphantly exclaimed the actor: 'just
step up this way, sir" The young
man sat down.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

Caesar" said a planter to his
negro, "climb up that tree and thin
the branches" The negro showed nc
disposition to comply, and upon
being pressed for reason, answered
"Well, look heah, massa, if I go up
dar an fall down and broke my neck.
datll be tousand dollars out o you
pocket. Now, why don't massa hire
an Irishman to go up, and den if he
falls and kills heself dur won't be nc
11cc a. ,,oHa1ru
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-26

The National Life Insurance Co. of
Chicago has just collapsed. 1t was a
complete swindle, the entire assets
not being worth 800, while the Co.
haa sanpaid death claims and other
liabilities amounting to over $780,
900. We hope none of our readers
were So unfortunate as to hold pok-
cies III the Co.