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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

OF the various verses written upon Decor
tion-Day, the subjoined. by Mr.. Edgar Fawcc
seem to us among the best. They were print,
in the New York To,ld:
" To-day, as the pulses powerful
OF the glad young year awake,
1t would seem that with tokens Powerful
A nation had gone to take.
while passing in thIongs professional
Over sweeps of mellowed sod,
The sky for a blue confessional, ..s
And to tell its grief to God
But more than to march regretfully
With the earth reverted gun,
And more than to merge forgetfully .
The Blue and the Gray in one
Were TO love. with its sweet sublimity,
The thought of an endless peace,
And TO yearn, in grand unanimity.
That war might forever cease!
For how is your service beautiful,
q Omourners that meet to-dayi
IL the hands that are now dutiful
Shall tomorrow spoil and Stay?
.' If the hate that your love is leveling
Shall tomorrow lift its brow,
And redden with bloody reveling
The graves that you garland now?
"For only If all humanity
Could have learned to well abhor
The hyperion. blind insanity,
The iniquitous waste of war.
"Would the splendid and stainless purity
OF to day beam out afar,
Down the duskiness of futurity,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24
Upholstered Mattresses,
FEATHERS, & @,

It's useless to mention each
article in our various depart
ments. We keep everything
belonging to a STRICTLY
FIRST GLASS Furniture,
Crockery and Picture Franz
ing stock, and we modestly
state that our stock this spring
will have many new attrac-
tions and be far more COM
plete than any in this section,
and second only to those of
the largest cities.
Most of our goods were
bought during the great de-
preston of the winter, for
cash, and very low rates of
freight secured.
Our trade has nearly doub-
led, much of it coming from
Akron, Alliance, Garrettsville,
Warren and other adjoining
places. People will buy
where there is a large stock to
select from, if the prices are
right.
We buy direct of reliable
manufacturers, and will war
rant every article purchased
of us. AS before, we pledge
ourselves to LOW FIGURES
AND SCARE DEALING.
Come and look through a
Large, Live Furni-
ture House.
It won't cost anything and
may pay you.
SEYMOUR 4 FAlRCHILD,
No. 8 Phenir Block,
NORTH SIDE MAIN STREET,
RAVENNA, OHIO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

CONCERNING the treatment of scarlet
fever now so prevalent in the country,
an eminent physician says he does not
fail in effecting a cure more than once
in a hundred cases by giving the pa
tent warm lemonade wit gum arabic
dissolved in it. A cloth wrung out
of hot water and laid upon the stom-
ach should be renewed as often as it
b comes cool. To this simple treat
.nent the most obstinate cases seldom
fail TO succumb.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

A Providence boy, five years of
age, having stolen can of milk, his
mother took him to task, with moral
suasien, and wound up her discourse
by exclaiming: 'What in the world
was you going to do with the milk,
anyhow" "I was going to steal q
little dog to drink it," was the crush
ing reply,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24
SPELLING MATCHES.

OpclI1nS matches are already gong
out of fashion,, and, in their place,
Quoting Jou.ts are recommended by
the World, which says: eff there is
one thing wherein more than in an.
other the better than average man is
guilty of shortcoming, it is in the
matter of quotations. Daniel Web
ster. it will be remembered, came to
eminent public grief over that rose
which Juliet declared by any other
name would smell as sweet, and s.Ike"
Cooks vigorous rendition of the lines
concerning the inevitable resurrection
of Truth "squashed to earth" is mat
ter of history. Not alone does the or
dinary talker or writer mangle beyond
recognition the phrases wherewith he
adorns his speaking or writing, but
he is usually in the most lanentable
and lndicrous uncertainty as to the
particular well of English undefiled
whence he has filled his pail. How
many hoars of time that might other
wise have been utilized in the saving
of wood or digging of CLAIMS have
been expended in seeking the origin
of the phrase which declares consist
ency 10 be jewel, it would be alike
Improbable and discouraging to in
quire: how often the Bible has been
ransacked for q divine assurance that
the wind is tempered to the shorn
lamb-a sentiment equally untrue and
absurd-those best know who have
had discussions upon the subject. For
all these reasons, it seems to us that if
the public mind must make an ass of
itself in any direction whatever, it can
with a greater measure Of propriety
protrude its ears in the direction Of
Familiar Quotations" than of "Web-
ster's Unabridged"
HOW HE MADE HIMSELF AT HOME
"Make yourself at home," Is a oom-
mon form of hospitable welcome, but
the invitation may be taken advantage
of if our friend happened to be odd.
The Nashville Banner says:
The eccentric "Brother Carr" whose
name has become household word
in this city, once paid an informal
visit to good religious family, as he
was in the habit of doing when he
came to Nashville. The lady of the
house came in, hut after some time
excused herself to attend to some
household daty. but begged Brother
Carr to make himself at home.
When she returned she found the
reverend gentleman on his knees in
front of the fireplace, taking up the
ashes.
Perfectly taken back at this specta-
Gle, she said, " Why, what in the
world are you deing?"
He answered: "You told me to
make myself at home, and if we're
at home and the ashes needed to be
taken out as badly as yours, l would
doAt Atmyself."
She was not much comforted to find
that he had been down in the back
yard and hunted up en- old ash pan
with as much idea of being at home as
she could possibly have desired.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

OF the various verses written upon Decora-
tion-Oay, the subjoined. by Mr.. Edgar Fawcctt,
seem to us among the best. They were printed
in the New York ToiId:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

A freight conductor, L. AverilI, fell
across the rail at Wells River, and the
wheels of car, weighing thirteen
thousand three hundred pounds, pass
ed obliquely ever his body and off the
left leg, some six inches below The nip.
When the wheel passed over, Averill
listened for the crushing of the bones,
but they did net break, but the wheel
Of the truck almost instantly, he felt
sure, would cut the legs off. But the
wheel passed over, and before the rear
trucks had reached him he spraug out
and was standing bolt upright. For
five minutes lie felt no pair,
but since then the pain has beon
almost uncomfortable, and he has been
kept under the influence of opiates.
Two jack-knives in his pockets We're
bent nearly double. 1t is supposed
the flange of these wheels struck upon
these kniyes first, and passed up to The
top OF the leg, and thus avoided the
shearing effect of the hange upon the
rail. The skin upon his person was
not broken, but the f1ange broke the
tissue Of the flesh Oh the top of the
legs, and underneath the rail sank in
to the flesh, leaving it's mark distinct.
Mr.. Averill, if carefully attended, will
get along. This is the only case on
record where q car has run over q
mans leg leaving the bones perfectly
unharmed.
HOW CHICKENS GET OUT OF SHELLS,
Take an egg out of the nest on
which hen has set her full time, care
fully holding it to the ear turning it
around you will find the exact spot on
which the little fellow is picking at
the inside of the shell !; this he will do
until the inside skin is Perforated, and
then the shell is forced outward on a
small scale, leaving a hole. Now, if
you will take one of the eggs in this
condition from under the hen, remove
it to the house or other place, put it in
box or nest, keeping it warm and
moist, as near the temperature of the
hen as possible (Which may be done
by laying it between two bottles of
warm water upon some cotton or
wool,9 and lay glass over the box or
nest, then you can sit Or stand, as is
most convenient, and witness the truo
noudus operandi. Now, watch the
little fellow work his way into the
world, and you will be amused and
instructed as have often been. Az
ter it has got its opening, it commences
a n;bbling mstion with the point of
the upper bill on the outside of the
shell, always working to the right Gf
you haye the large end of the egg from
you and the hole upward until it has
worked its way almost around, say
within one-half an inch, in perfect
circle. 1t then forces the cap Or butt
end of the shell of, aud then has
chance to straighten its neck; thereby
loosening its legs somewhat, and so,
by their help, forcing the body from
the shell.-American FaT2S Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

OCCASIONALLY survivor of the bat
tie of Waterloo dies in Great Britain
and the event is noted as something
remarkable; but Oh the fity-eighth
anniversary of the great battle, which
occurred a few weeks ago, there were
still iifty-nine names on the British
army list of men who were commits
stoned officers under Wellington on
that memorable OCCASION, all living.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

A MAN Giving in Danbury of course,)
imagined himself hen, and while un-
der the influence of that conceit sat
down on a dozen of eggs, and Matched
out an Italian sunset and circus poster.
His wife removed the debris with the
bald end of broom.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-24

AN Iowa court has decided that it is
not legal for a man to hitch his wife
up with mule, no matter how anxious
he is to plow,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03

WE publish very interesting letter
from Brooke county this morning, on the
subject of the Supreme Court vacancy,
mentioning, in connection Herewith, the
name OF our distinguished fellow towns.
man, Judge GEO. w. THOMPSON, and
giving several incidents in the ,ife ofthat
gentleman to show his fitness for the POSI-
ton. Without intending 10 detract IN
the slightest degree from other gentlemen
whose names have been MENTIONED for
this vacancy, we do not hesitate to say
that our Brooke county correspondent has
presented one eminently worthy and
qualified. Judge THOMPSON combines in
himself dignity, learning conscientious
ness, high .scnce of justice, and eX-
pcrcncc, and he would reflect credit
upon the State of West Virginia, if she
called on him to ill this honorable posi-
ton.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
Our Second Stock
New Spring and
Summer Goods

Now being opened embraces
all the newest styles and de-
signs in Gamers Hair Suit
ingS, Plain COIOrcd Silks,
Striped and Check Silks,
Plaid Black Grenadines,
Plain BLACK Grenadines,
MexiCana Grenadines, Side
Band Organizes, LOuisine
Check Silks, Madras Cling
hams, Linen SuitingS, with
EmbOs Linen Trimmings 10
match, SC, sc.
GEO. R. TAYLOR & co.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
DECKER BROS PIANOS.

krauich 4 Bach Pianos.
punham & Son Pianos,
Metropolitan Pianos.
Bring in your friends and examine them
ana my prices before going elsewhere.
W. =. HUTCHlNS,
Sole Agent.
mylS No. " Twelfth street
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03

OF which we make "a Special
~. These Silks are spun from
the finest and purest mateTi-
ais; are manufactured i'm
Lyons, and are woven by
skilled wOrkmcn, OH looms
at their own homes, thereby
giving the Hand Loom silk a
superiority over all other
makes, for their richness and
durability. Prices as low as
i'm any city I'm the Union.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
PROPOSALS
EoR MACADAMIZING AND BoULI

NOR MACADAMIZING AND BOULD-
Il cring.
scaled proposals will he received at the
Office of the City Clerk until Thursday,
JuuuS 3, 1873, at / o'clock l.. NJ, for furnish
ing, breaking and spreading five 81 strings
Hard Plur Limestone on Jacob street, be-
tween 45th and 18Th streets.
Also, for preparing road bed, furnishing
cohhle stones and paving said street
Jacob with same from 18th TO 18th streets,
in accordance with plans and specifics
lions ON Tile lu the office of the City Clerk.
man OF the Committee ON Streets and
Alleys, and endorsed in accordance with
the character of the bid. The right 10 re-
iect any or all bids is reserved.
CT COWAN,
my2S Charm Com. Streets and Alleys.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
The WEEKLY REGISTER

Is the largest and altogether the most
complete news and family paper printed in
West Virginia. IL will be sent to any adj
dress one year for 500. Valuable premi-
uIns to cIuV agents and 10 subscribers.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03

xU REG UIAR WHEELING
,I-r s-S..----s and Pittsburgh packet NAL
lie Raglan, j. W. Williamson, Commander;
II. e. Caldwell, Clerk, leaves Wheeling
every Tuesday, Thursday and saturday. at
t o'clock "A. IN. Freight received at the
wharf boat until > j. IN. every day.
mrluh &. II. BOOTH Il CO., Agents.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
WEST VIRGINIA
UNTVIRSITH

TIME YEAR BEGINS IN ALL iDE
PAETMENTS on Wednesday, Sept.
Srd, 1878.
Prof. +. ). Lyon, with full staff of
thoroughly qualified assistants, has charge
OF the Preparatory Department.
Patrons seeking information in regaLd to
the same Will address him.
Catalogues describing the other Depart
mcntS may be obtained faOm the Secretary
OF the Faculty, Prof Geo. W.Clover, or the
undersigned.
ALIEN. MARTIN, PreSt.
MoRGANTowN, W. Va, Aug. S,lS13
auglS &C
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.

A HANDSOME BLACK PONY. WELL
n broken To Saddle and Harm ess. AS
spry as kitten.
TCall and see him on the Fair Grounds.
ROBINSON < HATCHER.
!. my28a .
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
TRUsTEE,S sARE.
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID made 10 me as Trustee of Edward
Rouse and vile, beaping date the Eth day
of April, \. D., 1867, and recorded in Book
- and folio - of the Office of Recorder of
Ohio county, state OF West Virginia, |
will, on . ..-..,s
Saturday. the 26th day of June,
A. D., 1875, ut the front door OF the Court
Honse OF said county, sell at public auc-
ton, commencing at | O'Clock =. NJ, the
following real estate, viz:
All that tract or parcel Ofland on which
the said Rouse now resides, said premises
being situated in the said county OF ONO,
with exception of small part thereof
which Is situated in the adjoining county
of Brooke, said premises being bounded
and described as follows, tO-wiu: Begin
ming at beach, corner to VIII
liam Brady and John SnOdgrass,
thence north Az west $50 poles TO II
sugar tree, thence y. IL +. % poles TO II
beach, corner 10 said Brady, thence with
his line \. iG4o W. so poles TO sugar and
iron wood stump, thence :. 81 W. Is
poles To IL stake, thence :. 1u12 j.. 2j12 poles
To IA stake, where poplar stood, thence
with Kimbcll'S line \ 81 T.. 10 poles to Il
beach, thence =, Il W. 81 poles 10 n stake,
near II hickory, thence =. u w. 3lA poles
10 an elm down. thence :. Gjt W ~ poles
20 Il sugar and two lynnS thence :. - f..
1917 poles TO an iron wood, thence l0la
W. 400 poles To a stake; thence \. 80 W.
~ poles to Short creek, thence up said
creek with the several mcanderS thereof
33J54 poles TO sycamore AZ the mouth Of Il
lun, thence y. 2j4 II. l92 poles 10 two
white walnutS, thence y. 1914 l.. l3 poles
To the beginning, containing two hundred
and eighty-twO and Onc-iOrlh l2S2lIl acres,
more or less, being the same tract Of land
rs was conveyed by William Brown and
wife To Edward Rouse, by deed bearing
flpf Ia. u
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03

JUNE !, 1876.
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20
A BOILING LAKE.


The Troy Times prints letter from
citizen of that place, at present So
journing in the Island of Dominica,
West Indies, from which the follow
ing is an extract:
at is barely a mouth since DR.. Free
land, in search of sulphur in behalf of
an English company, accompanied by
DR.. Nichols, of this island, with few
servants, started on tour of explera-
ton. At distance from town, in an
air line, of some eight or ten miles
only, yet by the necessarily circuitous
route to reach it requiring ssme days
of severe labor, struggling with preci-
piccs, and deepest vegetable entangle-
ments, they found an old volcano. Its
height above the sea is about 24OO feet.
They descended about 400 feet down
the crater to the lake-unheard of be-
fere-hut which is to rank among the
wonders of the world. 1t is literally
a lake of boiling water. 1t is about
half a mile wide and two miles in cir
In the center, the boil
ing, foaming water juts upward into
a sort of dome several feet higher
than the surface, and where the rip
pling waves break upon the shore the
hand cannot be immersed without
pain, SO high is the temperature. DR..
Nichols who hac ma1a twn aVrur.
sions to this lake, is well known here,
and bears most respectable character.
He says the water is very heavily
charged with sulphur and magnesia."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20
RANDOLPH.
Correspondence

OOTTCSpOHucuCC.I
This is a season Of the year in which
farmers are busy in preparing the
ground and sowing the seeds for
future harvest. With some it is only
a question Of SO many acres ploughed
and planted, with others it is not only
a question of ploughing and planting
but the question of how to increase
the fertility of the soil and thereby in
crease the quantity of the crop. The
question is often asked, Does gypsum,
or what is called plaster, increase the
fertility of the soil? The nature OF
this substance is to fix ammonia, and
as this is one of the substances neces-
sary to the existence of plants and is
always found to a greater or less de-
gree in the atmosphere, and is being
brought down to the earth by every
rain fall, any substance that will re-
tain it adds so much to the increase OF
the crop. Ii is claimed on good au-
thority that lbs. of plaster sown on
a meadow will increase the production
of the meadow one hundred pounds.
1t is always wisdom to use plaster
with manure. Many farmers when
they spread their manure sow plaster
on it and then plough under. The
only reasonable solution for so doing
is that the plaster retains the ammonia
in the manure where it is needed, and
it is taken up by the growing plants.
A small quantity of plaster dropped
in each hill of corn when planted gem
orally brings good results. The more
common way is to apply small quan.
tity to each hill after the corn is up,
Many claim that plaster should not be
sown upon wheat as it produces too
rank a growth, and makes it liable to
rust. We have never heard any OBJ
jections to its being used Oh any 9th
crop.
We should be Of the opinion that in
all cases where ammonia was being
generated and thrown off, that plaster
was the best substance to use to re-
tain it, and that it especially should
be used where it is desirable to fix
ammonia that is fleating in the atmos-
phere.
Perhaps from the foregoing hints
may be found solution to the ques-
ton why plaster in some cases appears
to produce more beneficial results
than in others. B.
Randolph, May 9th, 1875.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20
REMEDY FOR NIGHTMARE.

Slight arrangement of the digestive
or other functions is often sufficient to
occasion temporary delirium in
children, commencing during sleep
and prolonging after waking. The
suffering is great and the condition an
alarming one to parents and friends.
The mental excitement is so intense as
to resist impressions from without, to
an extraordinary degree. 1t is here
that the associations of smell can be
used more effectively than any others
to break up the morbid train. A good
Whit of cologne almost always brings
the little sufferer back to it's ordinary
world or a little ammonia may be
used. But an odor which is agreeable
is probably more effective than one
which is merely pungent. 1t is COM
mon observation that mental assocla-
tions are awakened by oders more
than by tine Impressions of any other
sense. In the case of nightmare the
strong, familiar smell seems to break
up the train of abnormal mental ex-
citement.-Journal Of Chemistry.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20
A SAD STORY.

Employed as scru b.woman in the
new county court house was a woman
named Mrs. Thompson, who ence
drove in her carriage and had liveried
servants to wait on her. Her husband
was Mr.. Thompson whe took the con-
tract Ia supply the marble for A. T.
Stewards new residence on Fifth ave-
nue. and Thirty-fourth street. The
contract was made before the war, and
resulted in the financial ruin of Mr..
Thompson, whose mind became affect
ed by his losses, aud he died insane.
Last week Mrs. Thompson was re-
moved from her place as cleaner of
the court house by commissioner Fitz
John Porter, whs doubtless was not
aware Of the circumstances above
stated. The matter came to the ears
of the mayor, and he went Immediate
ly to the Office Of commissioner Porter
aud had Mrs. Thompson restored to
her humble position.-N. Y. Euening
Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the IulJ,
Field and Farm gives an account of a
feat in horsemanship that outdoes
Charles O'Malley, He says: 81 wish
to tell you of feat in equestrianism
that has probably never had parallel
in this country. A gentleman and
tive friends were on their way to
camp-meeting (seme 30 years agel;
the scamp" was held not far from the
rocks of Deer Creek. in Hartford Co.,
Maryland. On the road, aboat 100
yards ahead, they noticed an OK cart.
One of the gentlemen, Major Rutledge
said to the persons with hin, 4 will
bet drinks for the party that l can
Jump my horse in the cart while going,
and steady him until we reach the
tavern about half mile further on.
He put his horse in 3 slow cantcr, and
when he came to the cart he landed
him safely in the body, and sat on his
horse until the cart reached the tavern,
and then, still on his back, jumped
him out over the front of the cart.
The old gentleman is still living at the
advanced age of II.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-05-20
/ f.

If our paths were strewn with roses
That concealed no singing thorn;
If the hour when one joy closes
Saw another newly born
If our dreams were full of beauty,
And our working hours of peace,
Would we feel for those whose duty
Never gives their hearts release?
If our dwelling were q palace,
Where We knew no pany or pain.
Where the red wine in LIES chalice
Bore no bitterness, no bane.
Would our sympathies awaken,
Would our velvet hands be spread
For the Outcast, the forsaken,
Who has neither home nor bread?
II our raiment were the fairest
That the Indies could afford;
If the daintiest food and rarest,
paily crowned our glittering board,
Could our full hearts know the sorrow
or the patient, toiling poor,
Who tremble lest to- morrow
Bring g;iunt famine to their doorg
If we knew no lack, no losses,
Disappointment, toll, nor care.
Would VIC succor him whose crosses
Are too wearisome to bear?
If we slept on silken couches,
Pranked with costly gems and gold.
Would we pity him who crouches
BY the wayside in the cold?
If the world were juster, trucr,
In its ccnsurc and its praise
II our doubts and fears were fewer;
Fewer weary nights and days;
If there were 10 graves behind us
Where the loved and lost ones sleep.
No sweet memories to bind us,
Would we weep with those who weep?
If our hopes were never blasted
Ii our love grew never cold,
If our strength and beauty lasted
Till II hundred years were told.
Would our hearts be humbly given
10 the giver of such bliss
Would we ever think of heaven
AS better place than this: