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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31

OF these companies in this city, has al
WAYS proven that they are decidedly
advantageous 10 the poor man, who re-
ceives small income from his labor.
Under our system, We believe, there is no
practical limit TO the number OF shares
owned by an individual, but there is re-
CURED to be paid in twenty-five cents per
week per share. and US each share Is
valued ut one hundred and fifty dollars,
il is calculated that all is paid up in about
seven years, when a general Distribute"
takes place. The great advantage Is 'hn'
in this time snug little sum Is saved
and frequently home secured out oi
small sums which otherwise woNlu Dc
fritter.d away and wasted. A member
,,,h, borrows money with which to build,
rov . bonu. in the first place for ms loan
and interest nj the rate Of siN per cent on
,Er amount borrowed, but after all what
ne thu, paws out. is no more than he
would have otherwise to pay for rent
and. at the end of the seven years, his
payment, cease, and his home is his own e.
The advantages of such associations are
therefore, undeniable.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
BUuDlNG ASSOCIATIONS.

Something like hot discussion has
been Going on for short time past be-
tween representatives Of the New York
and Philadelphia press, on the question
,t building associations. In the former
city the Grayij, Is violently opposed TO
them and assert, tha, their success is cX-
crpuonable. and the exception Is due
TO some rich capitalist who lends his ex-
pcri,uce and his money. In the latter
city they are Defended wi;hmuch warmth
and Justice. There arc in Philadelphia
s\ hundred building associations with
an aggregate capital OF $l5o,o00,OO0.
The Times replying to the Graphic says:
There are no capitalists in building
associations Is We have them in Phila-
Grlhia. or ifthere are, they are on the
tsme footing i, the members who are
!abcrrrs and poor men. In PhIlade!-
phia the number Of shares in an asSOcia-
Lon which one member can own is limit
ei 70 twenty-five, upon each Of
which one dollar Is paid monthly. The
investment is too small for capt.
tslst>, and they rarely, ii ever make it.
while it is in general the extent of the
surplus earnings and the savings Of the
poor man. At the END OF ten Years,
which is the period of the association,
three thousand dollars have been paid in I
bv each member and nearly, if not quite !
a. much money earned by the invest .
Inent. and he finds himself in the posses
sion either of home or Of small for .
tune
Thi, view is undoubtedly the correct
one. aud the experience Of the working
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
REMUNERATION,

/, hos L..r much noticed by the pres
.r J,s..r.r, section. Of the country that
s.r-nun tim, pa., there has been u tide
of ,mirrat.on ON the part Of our foreign
harm citizen. from This To their native
.,gI. \ lar... proportion of these emf
,..r.r,. l.,s.. l,.r G.r,nop. and there
t.y.. boon .,,..,pgrv Cd, them Irish The
,f..t .t.i.., ipJgcin,, ,b.ir.c,iop b,. been
p, H,. from ,a. nro.,rarior which exists
ir America. aud,o E.what they believe
,g.,~ can find NOR, ready occupation in
Europe. To this they have been mi>led
from surprising that business was
as brisk there. a. it /, duh here.
but they are greatly mistaken.
We .,. published AN extract from n Ber-
lin letter which say. that Germany offers
81. poorer. field Of wealth to-day. than does
America. Tha, if wage, have been re-
lu..I twenty per cent in thi, country. in
,n.r they hYv, fallen of forty and for
every hundred fdl, men here there
thor. ,r... @ ,hog.,rJ r.. same s,ntc.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.

- FOR SALE, THE TWO RTIrr.
is!H known as the GOyvTumrr,
-% ingS, on the corner OF CLgult,
10th streets, will be- sold low. Tsr g..
building, possession can b- had Inn.
ately: the other one on the fir>' I',
April. For particulars enquire y, NY
THEODORE FINK
No. li2l Chapline stree, ID.
uarlO ROY CtNTp-
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E0IS RENT.

- FOR RENT, \ NEW FRAME
&c House on Penn street, htruls
S-AA Island, containing rooms, In...
and cellar; also lot nicely i,ucrL li, wr.
hydraut right at the door. Tn nous" iH-
never been uccupi"d bran new. ip-rr--
ION given now OF Ia" Isi OF April. o..
ouqulr" g.;
THEODORE FINh.
ma 10 li3l Chaplin" stree.
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w. T. DERRY,
Pharmacist and Druggist,
,rmerIy of the firm OF Brentlinger 4 Del
,,Ayr
THOMAS j. FINNEY

Having purchased the establishment of
MIR. ThoS. J. Finnev, No. l2lS Market street,
/ would respectfully solicit II continuance
-: the liberal patronage of my predecessor.
To Nm Customers and Friends:
Ibrg to announce that have disposed OF
my Drug store To Mr.. Vim. +. Derry, well
known druggist OF this city. Will esteem
IL afayur il my friends Will continue their
patronage To my successor, feeling salts
ned n. viii fully maintain the reputation
of the store for quality of drugs dispensed.
take leave of my customers with re
gr,t, a. | have many personal friends
among them, who's acquaintance has Civ
en- me pleasure, and Shall ever r,Incm-
Der them with feelings Of great regard.
mrI1b THGS. i. FI\NFN.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31

MRSAWuEL ID. GORDON publishes card
in the Petersburg Grant Co.. Ecamj-
asr announcing his withdrawal from
that paper. He says that Grant county
has So far, failed 10 support county
paper and that his expectation, have
been disappointed. But, the paper vii!
-,ill b" continued, and he hopes will meet
with success and become Il permanency.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
FOR RENT.

kzI \ STORE ROOM WITH M Ir
i.H SARl Counters and Shelving, ru.
-s--N Dwelling attached, ~ present ..
occupied by Tuomu~ FHuy ~ q grocer. .N
the Fiith Ward Market square. Posse.
given uu April ], $50 Apply io
ml2h HERMANN RINNlI.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
the WEEKLY REGISTER

/ the largest and altogether the most
com pICt2 news and family paper printed IN
West Virginia. II twill be sent 10 any al
dress one wear for 500. Valuable preml-
uIuS 10 cIuu agents and 10 subscribers.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31

The New York Times learns from
soma quarter that the strike of the
Pittsburgh puddlers mas produced 4 loss in
the business OF ten millions Of dollars"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT.

Lz,L STORE ROOM, DWELLING A."
;"I HAN, west sid" ui Market, b"lN"'
-- 18Th aud ION streets, In B"'h
Block. Also room al present occupied 'N
e. 4. Mlch ham aN an auction hDu~".
Euuu.rr OF ANTON REl MAN.
IIulu
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
The Boy on Lacrosse Street.

When a Lacrosse street boy is play
ing hop-scotch" on the walk and his
mother comes to the door and asks him
to split some wood, he replies that he
will be along in Just one minute. AT
the end of ten minutes she opens the
door and says:
"Wilyum, want that wood y
I'm coming right now" he replies,
and then goes on hopping here and
there on one leg.
Another ten minutes flies away, and
she opens the door and says:
"Wilyum, if You don't get that wood
you know what your father will do !"
"Just ten seconds !" he calls back,
and he enters upon new game.
The next time she calls she says:
Young man, it's almost noon and 1
can't cook dinner without that wood ="
81 know tim coming now" he
replies, and he stands on one foot and
holds long discussion with the John
son boy as to whether the game of
hop-scotch" is as good a game as base
ball. He has just started to hop when
a boy whispers
chi, Bill there's your old dad !"
"Great snakesl" whispers Bill, and
he goes over the fence like a flash,
grabs the ak, and during the next two
minutes he strikes two hundred blows
per minute. He gets into the house
ahead of his father, and as he drops the
wood he says:
Mother, the boys were Just sayln'
that had the handsomest and best and
coolest mother on Lacrosse street, and
I want to kiss you v'-DetroH Free
Press
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Odd Cures.

Graham, the once famous quack, was
wont to exhibit himself plunged to the
chin in mud, n mud bath taken regu-
larry being his specific for insuring a
century of health, happiness, and hon
or. Every physician at the time treat
ed mud bathing with ridicule, but in
the present day the celebrated mud
baths at a certain German watering
place are among the recognized means
of ameliorating several disorders. Ora
ham was not wrong; he only took
quackish way of announcing his theo-
ries. There is apparently a curative
power in earth. Not long ago, a man
employed at some iron works near
Melksham managed to get himself
fixed in the narrow part of an iron
tube, and when he was extrica4ed, was
to all appearance dead. His mates ding
a hole in the ground, put the uncon-
scious patient into it, and filed in the
earth, leaving only small hole for him
to breathe through, should he draw
breath again. In n very short time
he showed signs of returning life, with
his own hands cleared away the earth,
and dram of brandy set him once
more on his legs, little the worse for
his mishap. Joaquin Miller's earth
CuIC CApCIlcHCo udl Ii ulOTe RudSblN
ending. Travelling with a mining party
in California, six of them were sudden
ly struck down with scurvy, and there
being none of the usual remedies at
hand, an old sailor suggested the trial
of one, which had saved ships crew
in some land in the tropics. This was
simply to bury the men upright as far
as their chins, until the earth drew the |
poison out of their bodies. Six pits
we're quickly dug in the warm alluvial |
soil, and when the sun went down, the |
men were placed in them, and the earth |
shoyeled in around them. It was a
beautiful moonlight night snd the
operation completed, the invalids chat
ed gaily together their shaggy heads
ust bursting through the earth in the
itffl moonlight, made them look like
men coming up to Judgment their
voices sounding weird and ghostly, as
If another world. After a while, one
" one they fell asleep, and all was still.
Their comrades then stole away and
ought their cabins When they rose in
he morning, and went to see how the
'uried men Jared, they found that the
wolves had come down in the night, and
'aten off every head level with the
round
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Cruel Trick on a Prima Donna.

Tuesday night, during the perform
ance of ''Mme. pArchiduc," at the st.
Charles theatre, in this city, Henry
Gallagher became SO charmed with Mile.
Soldene's singing that he could not re-
sist the temptation of throwing her q
bouquet. Mile. rArchiduc did not see
it at first, as she was singing with her
back partly turned to the audience, but
as soon as she tur. ed to make the usual
bow in ackno wledgement of round of
applause her delightful eyes fell upon
the nosegay, and she gracefully stopped
to secure 1t. just as she did SO the
seemingly enchanted flowers aoved a
few feet from where they had fallen
upon the stage. The Diva paused for
moment and then made another attempt,
when 10! the flowers again drifted away
from her grasp. The idea now flashed
across her mind, 'the thing has got a
string to it" and, suiting the action to
the thought, she made desperate rush,
pounced upon the flowers and sent them
whirling back into the face of the mali
cious spectator. Then striking a ma
jestic pose, she cast a contemptuous
and whitening look upon the discom-
flied Gallagher, who at the same mo-
ment felt the heavy hand of policeman
resting upon his shoulder. The Sol
dene's tormentor was taken to the
first precinct station, charged with dis
turbing the peace, and Monsieur PAR
chiduc, upon hearing about the matter,
declared that he rather liked TIT
was rather original. "-NeW Orleans
Picay'tne.
Ice two inches thick will support n
man at thickness of three inches
and half it will support n man on
horseback five inches of ice will sup
port an eighty FOUNDER cannon eight
inches, II battery of artillery, with
carriages and horses attached !; and.
finally, ice ten inches thick will sup
port an army-an innumerabie multi
tude
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Insects and Flowers.

In the ninth of series of valuable
papers, communicated by Hermann
Muller on the fertilization of flowers
| by insects to nature, he shows that
| butterflies effect the cross fertilization
of Alpine orchids. 1t seems that from
| IL to Is per cent. of the orchids of the
lowlands are fertilized by Lepidopters,
while from 60 to 80 per cent. of Alpine
orchids are fortified by the same kind
of insects. This corroborates, he says,
his view that the frequency of butter
flies in the Alpine region must have
been Influenced by the adoption of
Alpine flowers.
Muller has also shown the wonderful
modification brought about in the legs
and mouth part of bees by their efforts
in fertilizing flowers.
Lubbock's charming little book on
"British Wild Flowers Considered in
Relation to Insects" has just appeared.
He says that while from time immemo-
rial we have known that flowers are of
great importance to insects. it is only
Comparatively late that we have realized
how important insects are to flowers.
"For it is not too much to say that if,
on the one hand, flowers are in many
cases necessary to the existence of in
scots, insects on the other hand, are
still more Indispensable to the very
existence of flowers, There
has thus been an interaction of insects
upon flowers, and of flowers upon
insects, resulting in the gradual mod
ification of both"
In another place he adopts the start
ling and probably correct view that to
bees and other insects "we probably
owe the beauty of our gardens and the
sweetness of our fields. To them flow
ers are indebted for their scent and
color-nay, for their very existence in
their present form. Not only have the
present shape and outlines, the brilliant
colors, the sweet scent and the honey
of flowers been gradually developed
through the unconscious selection ex-
ercised by the insects, but the very
arrangement of the colors, the circular
bands and radiating lines, the forms,
size and position of the petals, the
relative situation of the stamens and
pistil, are all arranged with reference
to the visits of insects, and in such
manner as to insure the grand object
which these visits are destined to
effect"
Lubbock has also continued his OBJ
servations on the intelligence of in
sects. He confirms his conclusions
presented last year to the Linnsan
society that the bees can distinguish
colors. He then recounts some expert
ments on the sense of smell possessed
by bees, on the power of recognizing
their own companions, and on the diff
ferent occupations of different bees,
mentioning observations which seem to
show that the bees act as nurses during
the first few weeks of their life, and only
subsequently take to collecting honey
and pollen. He also records number
of experiments on ants, which certainly
seemed to show that whatever may be
power of communicating detailed facts
to one another.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
A Love Chase.

am detective, acute as Argus, high
souled as Bayard, impressionable as Ro-
meo, white-gloved and massive booted
as the best of Scotland-yard!
If Miss Braddon could only see me
she would be sure to put me in a novel.
1 an just the active and intelligent to
suit her.
L love an angel and-rapture l-she
is not Indifferent to me She is fair
haired, like Lady Audley-as saw her
at the play last time I was off duty. She
came in her carriage to the station, for
all the world like the queen or the chief
commissioner. She is welded to
wealthy wretch. How shall 1 get rid
of him Stay He must have COM
mitted bigamy. They generally do. I
Will find out all about him, and then
claim her hand and her handsome
jointure, as Jim gives does in that
beautiful story in the Bobby's Budget.
Let me set to work at once. Where are
the handouts
was not deceived--I never am. He
has committed bigamy. Bigamy, did I
say? TrigamY, quadrigamy, polygamy!
She shall be mine I have tine proofs
of his guilt, and now I await him round
where he seeks to make q still further
victim of the beauteous barmaid. I
loved her once, but she despised me.
Never mind will save her and seize
him. He wants to take a theatre for
her Hal ha He leaves that bar only
for the dock.
He approaches. I grasp him and
close the handouts. Cusses they are
too large! He eludes the grip and
knocks me down, halls passing hand
som, and disappears. 1 hear him say
to the cabby, "To Charing Cross" He
will escape by the channel tunnel. Not
sO-nOt so.
Irecover. I rush to the police station
and provide myself with smaller brace
let's. I hurry to the railway station.
Horror the train has gone! He will
be in Franco beyond my reach. 1 faint
before the ticket Office.
When 1 revive 1 am in the hands of
Mr.. Scott, of Leeds. He takes me to
the refreshment room and gives me
1 tell him my sad story.
"Cheer up" he says" "you will soon
overtake him. have in my pocket one
of my patent flying machines, by the
aid of which have travelled a hundred
miles in ten minutes. Mount ard fly !
When you see the steamer beneath you
release the spring and descend seize
the culprit, and ascend with him into
the air, as the roc did with old Sinbad."
am afloat and going at lightning
speed towards the south coast. see
the lights of Dover and the steamer just
leaving the pier. On the deck L per-
ceive my man. L prepare to descend.
Just as [ near the masthead the escape
funnel gives an awful roar, the pent-up
steam blows my flying machine to smith
Greens, and fall into the water and am
drowned. And being SO, must per-
force conclude.
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CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, MAY s, 1878.

lowed his profession of comedian almost
constantly, and with ever-increasing
popularity. In 1857 he ard his
brothers, Neil and Jerry, organized the
troop known as the "Corkonians," and
opened Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.
In July, 1868, he essayed the Irish char
acter of Handy Andy in the Winter
Garden Theatre, and so successfully
that he changed his line of acting and
figured as an Irishmau until 1868, trav.
cling as star IN this country and Eng
land. In 1868 he returned to minstrelsy,
and in 1872 his snug little theatre in
Twenty-third street was opened. He
leaves O wife and five children
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
An ANNIvERsARY.

In . chambs ar old aud oaken,
In . faint and fAltering way,
: Half doz>n words were spoken,
Just eleven years to-day.
What WAS bound and what was broken,
LIST woman's conscience say.
Half 4 dozen words excited,
whispered by n lovers side;
Half delighted. half afrighied,
Half in pleasure, half in pride:
And = uaiden's troth is phi lifted,
And false lovt-knot Is tied.
Has maiden not feeling
That can swell, and sing. 81 ttUl
Ctne not DER her spirit stea ms
rhoughts OF tbiass that wer belize
In her hsart did no revealing
Tell her love was something mole
Barely haif dozen e'ances,
Half in earnest, half in mirth-
Five, or sig, or seven dances
WHAT IL such . wooing worth?
Courtship in which no romance IL,
Cannot give q true love birth
Passion is . pain and power
Slowly growing unto might.
By long vfgils, not The hour
RAl love Is not at sight;
'rts . weed us MOI lowe
? That arises In q nj hit.
Lfgntiy Is the promise
Lightly h tLe love-k -
And the maid redeems tn
Living At her husbands side
And her heart IL is not broken,
But It is not in its pride.
with the years shall come . feeling,
Never. may be, felt bsfore;
She shall find her henrtconcealing
Wants it did not knov OF yore;
Silently the truth revealing.
Real love is something more.
-ChaDl5ers Journal.
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LEXINGTON.
By OLIVER WENDELL HoLMEi

Slowly the mist DER the meadow was creeping,
Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun,
When from his couch, while his children were sleep
Rose the bold rebel, and shouldered his gun.
Waving her golden veil
Over the silent dale
Blithe looked the morning on cottage and spire;
flushed was his parting sigh,
While from his noble eye
Flashed the last sparkle OF liberty's fire.
On the smooth green where the fresh leaf is spring
ing,
Calmly the nrst-born of glory have met;
Hark the death-voey around them is ringing! .
Look with their life-blood The young grass is wet
Faint ia the feeble breath,
Murmuring low in death,
"Tell to sons how their fathers have died"
Nerveess the iron hand.
Raised for its native land,
Lies by the weapon that CLEANS at its side.
Over the hill-sides the wild knell is toIling,
From their far hamlets the yeomanry come;
As through the storm-coud the thunder burst roll
ing,
Fast on the soldiers path
DarKen the waves of wrath,
Long have they gathered aud loud shall they fall;
Red glares the muskets fash,
Sharp rings the rifles crash,
Blazing and changing from thicket and wall.
Gayly the plume of the horseman was dancing,
Never to shadow his cold brow again;
Proudly at morning the war steed was prancing,
Reeking and painting he droops on the rein;
Pale is the lip of scorn,
voiceless the trumpet horn,
Torn is the silken-fringed red cross on high;
Many q belted breast
Low on the turf shall rest,
Ere the dark hunters the herd have passed by.
snowgrdled crags where the hoarse wind is raving,
Rocks where the weary floods murmur and wall,
wiIds where the fern by the furrow is waving,
Reeled with the echoes that rode on the gale;
Far as the tempest thrills
Over the darkened hills,
Far as the sunshine streams over the plain,
Reused by the tyrant band,
Woke all the mighty land,
Girded for battle, from mountain to main.
Green be the graves where her martyrs are lyingI
Shroud,ess and tombless they sunk to their rest
While DER their ashes the starry fold flying
Wraps the proud eagle they reused from his nest.
Borne on her northern pine,
Long DER the foamng brine
Spread her broad banner to storm and to sun
Heaven keep her ever free,
Wide as DER land and
Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won