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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-21
1876. 1877.
VEST I?;f' VIRGINIA UN|vERSil
MORGANTOWN, w. VA.

The Fail Term begins september An
with a corps of ten emcient and accomp-
lishtd Professors and instructors, with all
the Departments fully equipped ,and under
the Superintendency OF Rev. John W.
scott, b. D., LII. D., acting President,
whose large experience, scholarly attain
mentS, and recognized standing as an
educator. justifies the expectation Of con-
tinued and increasing success.
Winter term begins January Sd; Spring
term begins March 9th. For catalogue oi
IL. {. BERKELEY, A. NJ,
rooo Secretary of Faculty
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-21

LEAVES. A. MA. MA. MA. Mp. NJ
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-21

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NO 2No No ! No 8
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-21
THE NORWOOD SCHOOL

Opens September %, 1875. Address, VIM,
! d. Cabell, Principal, Norwood Postottice
/ ipio
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
JOTTINGs BY THE WAY.

/ reached this town-Fremont-
on Saturday, and if the number of
teams and crowds of people on the
streets are any indication of lively
times and good trade, then / think
the merchants of this city are to be
congratulated. 1t was like circus
day, or if you please, circus and
menagerie combined.
Well, this city of 1900 is growing
and improving rapidly. It has the
elements of prosperity and growth
within in it. The Hubbard Mower
& Reaper mandatory, and other
large manufactures, are all, l am
told, doing a good business. The
Mower q Reaper Co. sold all they
made last year,
The site of this city, is you know,
historic ground. Within forty rods
of the hotel-Ball House-stood TT,
Stephenson, and from my window l
look over the site and the battle
field on which the British and lndi-
ans SO fiercely assaulted, and the
Americans so bravely defended the
fort. On the east side Of the city
Is the Sandusky River, which here
flows alwpst due ,ve8. Just west
of Maid stieeS, and but q short dTs,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
Beecher Got his Hair cut.

No one but person of great flip
pancy or great malignity can regard
the moral ruin which has overtaken
this renowned preacher and highly
gifted man with other than sorrow
full feelings. When the lion tum-
bles into the pitfall and faint with
hunger slowly dies, jackals and vul-
lures hover around to feast on the
carcass, while gibbering apes turn
Somersets in the overhanging boughs.
But when a strong man, raised by
mental endowments above the mass
of men, stumbles by the way and
falls prone, the observers can only
grieve that the head which was LATE
ly borne so high now lies so low in
the mire.
Henry Ward Beecner is sort of
man to command mems attachment
and provoke their admiration. He
holds all his intellectual forces Obe-
dient to his will. His imagination
is copious, his insight poetic, his
sympathies strong and ready, and
his opinions broad and catholic.
Though not graceful orator, after
the manner of Wendell Phillips, for
instance, yet Mr.. Beecher is a wOnd-
erfully able one. At times he has
produced really grand effects, and
there is always somethiRg in his
yirile utterance which eompels res
peet. He gives every hearer the i'm
preston of manhDess, vigOr, and
power, and superiority to the trifiing
affairs which afiict or disarm feebler
natures. His physical proportio MS
fitly correspond to his mental, and
no one who has seen him stridin Q
about his pulpit platform or along
the lyceum stage, can fail to respect
the force of the man. During the
heat of the anti-slavery struggle, Mr..
Beecher often did splendid things.
He fought the enemy with the PROV
eSs of a gladiator, and evidently
rejoIced as strong man in conflict.
Many people will remember that
night at the old Broadway Taber-
nacle, when, snatching some letters
br, ught from Kansas, he flung them
to the floor, and stamping on theaa.
declared that thus he trod slavery
under foot. 1t was dramatic effect
worthy of a great actor, and was the
impulse of a moment. Both orator
and audience were thrilled at the
outburst, and it was easy to see that
Mr.. Beecher experienced that high
est Joy that can come to a gifted
man in the successful employment
of his faculties in the direction in
which they are best adapted to
work.
, The waning of such a man, the
ebbing away of his conscience, the
misdirecIion of his talents, the shut
tering of his influence and the cloud
ingof his fame, afford occasion for lam
entation among all generous obsery-
ers /; for exuItation only among the
vile and depraved. And in the case
of Mr.. Beecher there is the more
reason for sorrow, because he has
fallen at the hands of foolish friends,
false advisers and feeble partisans.
A Delilah cut his hair and his friends
smote him.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

I
tance from the river, stood the fort
From the river a deep ravine ran in
a north-westerly direction toward
the fort. The British came up the
river in boats and landed near this
ravine up which they passed TO a
point near and opposite the fort
They numbered 1900, under COM
mand of Lieut. Short. Besides, they
had hundreds of Indian allies. Col.
Crogan had only 100 men and one
six FOUNDER in the fort. But what
was lacking in numbers was made
up in bravery. As the enemy came
up out of the ravine, the cannon
opened upon them with grape and
canister, and so rapidly was it dis
charged, and so rapid and well di
rected the fire of the rifemen, that
the enemy imagined there was a
large garrison. The result you all
know-they did not capture it, but
their leader, Lieut.. Short, and many
of his men fell in the assault.
A few years ago, when the au-
thorities were grading for the school
building, north and west of the fort,
they dug up the remains of Lieut..
Short and FIVE of his men. The brass
buttons and other insignia of his
rank were also found. Pieces of
the old pickets were found, and 9th
er relics Of interest. In the park in
front of the court house, l saw the
old cumbersome gun which did such
terrible execution on that memora-
bic day. The gun carriage is still
in very good condition, though the
gun is terribly eaten with rust, and
so rough is the bore that it is ex-
tremely dangerous to fire it-one
man having paid the penalty some
time ago but on the recent jOllif-
cation they did make it wake the
echoes of this valley again as of
yore-though how different the sur
roundings and the occasion! Then,
this valley was dense forest now
it is filed with thousands of happy
homes-highly cultivated farms and
cheerful cottages greet the eye, and
prosperous, thriving towns and cities
teeming with life and industry are
seen on every side. Then, it spoke
in deadly strife-sending its iron
hail crashing and tearing through
masses of humanity, scattering
death and misery everywhere. Now,
it heralded the advent of the cen
tennial vear-iubilantly ushering in
this glorious anniversary or our ma
tion's birth; year of peace and good |
will toward all nations.
The city has now purchased II
acres-the site of the fort-and in
tend to remove all the old buildings
and build on it "Burchard Hall, +" for
a library, thereby commemorating
an honored and wealthy citizen, and |
one of the most stirring events of
the war of 1912, and identifying the
very spot on which stood Fort Ste
phenson.
Col. Crogan, you will remember,
was ordered by Gen. Harrison to
fall back upon Ft. Seneca, ten miles
south, but he sent back word that he |
intended "to stay in and defend Ft.
Stephenson" for which disobedience
OF orders and impertinence, he was
court martialed. vIAToR.
Fremont, O., Feb. I, '76.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
Ercs9Ing Spectacle.

Just as the fast trotting on Rose
street yesterday afternoon had
reached pSint of bursting excite
ment, when Seme of the horses had
got right down to business and were
really going inside of nine minutes,
an elderly woman and her daughter
turned off Main street on to Rose
and beaded the old @aare for home.
The wagon was 81 the ragged
edge make, and was the identical
one that G. Washington iGsed to go
in to see his girl. The old mare gas
a consumptive affair and wore S7s9
worth of native sPayins with ring
bones to match.
They were sailing majestically
down Rose street, the blind ANIMAL
smelling her way along and the old
lady telling Tilda how "streaked
she felt when that peart young clerk
showed her stockings that lONSed
like store candy" when the heEa
breathing trotters came up behind
with terrible clatter, aud began to
pull out alongside the ponderOus car
avan.
The old lady uttered just one
word:
'Sassy ~
And she gave the old mare tooth
less cluck and shook the reins. =,
The trotters sailed by. The 04d
lady fred the butt end of the relns
at the old mare, and braced against
the dash board.
The trotters sailed along.
The old lady told TildtI to hang
on, and yelled;
''G'ling, Fanny whish shoe ?
Cup"
The old mare broke into n hippity
hop csnter.
The old lady's bonnet flew off and
hung by the throat-latch, aud her
glasses balanced themselves on the
end of her nose and hung on with
both hands.
A bag of bran in the bac K end OF
the wagon bobbed up and down like
a boy with the stomach ach G, and the
road track looked as if a squad OF
intoxicated wheelbarrows bad been
running a sack race.
The trotters came back.
The old lady soothed her EieaSoty
animal back to trot. and adjusting
her bonnet and spectaeles. spitefnl-
ly calculated
sassy l''-KalamaEOo ,[slegraDh.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
LAHE sHoRE &MIcHEG&Ns SOUTH
ERN H r.
come wEs4.

come wEeT.
Special Michigan Express leaves Buffalo, At 05
P. H.. Erie II as, Girard u % A. NJ, COnneaut
i2 5O AsHrABuLG q. Painesville 16 and reach
es Cleveland at IS A. n.
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at u As
A. NJ. Rrie 10. Girard at ~. AsHTABULA q.
PainesVille 8 %, and reaches Cleveland 80 A. u.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut at
05 A. NJ. Amboy l2, Kingsville Il, AsHTA1U-
Lass "a. Ssyhrook 6 %, Geneva Q 55, Painesyllle
2s. and reaches Cleveland at % RfA.
Toledo Express lssyes Bd6aip at SIS A. NJ,
Erie asa GfFssa ID Is, oonneaut 1893, Amboy
1883, kilgsVilie, ii 10 AsHFABULA II Is, Saybrook
II a5 Geneva II IS, PainesYille 12 20 p. d.. and
reaches Cleveland at 40 p, II,
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo at 12 10 p. II.
Erie ct 3 IS. Girard %. AsHFABULA 5 90, Paines-
vile TO- and REACH q Cleveland a. Z 10 P. II.
GOING EAsT.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland at Z 50 A. M,
Fainesyille y, AsHEABULA 10. Gonneaui g33,
Sirard 81, Erie 10 50, and reaches Rufalo at 10
Toledo and BUfAIo Accommodation leaves CleVe-
iano At II 10 A. 81. Psinesvile u q u, Geneva
Us. SaybfOOk II. AsHTA BTIA 4 9O EineeTille
a., Amboy So Conneaut 2 90. Girard 81 Eric
10 and reaches BunLlo at Z % m
Chicago and st Louis Express leaves Cleveland
81 80 P n, Painesgille Is AsHTARuIA 81 Gf-
rard IS, Erie u. reaching BIfSfo d Is P N J
Co0neaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland At
80 P n, PainaByille 06, Geneva 81 Saybrook
s IS, AEHTABgLA T305, Kingsville -, Amboy 81.
aHd reaehes connesut at IA P N.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland. at
s45P n PainesYille 10 4s. AeHTABULA II a. Erie
10, A n, aud reaches Buffalo at 06 Nj.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
EULOGY UPON SENATOR FERRY.

No apology, We imagine, need be
offered for the space given to The
memory of Senator OREls S. FERRY,
of Conn.,, whose death was noticed
in these columns at the time of its
occurrence, few months ago. The
honor was ours of enjoying his init.
mate friendship during his law read
ings, aud for several years of his ad-
mission and carly practice. Kindly
remembrances surround his death, in
the midst of life aud usefulness,
with feelings of deep sympathy, and
the incidents connected with this
reference to his virtues only add to
the somber interest of the occasion.
His dead colleague offering his trib-
ute to the worth of his dead friend
through the lips of our own reEered
Representative, seem to make the
impression deeper and more indeli-
BILE, and the desire more irresistible
to use the means at hand TO diffuse
the SAVIOR of his name and deeds:
Mr.. GARFIELD. l have never in
this House performed q duty 90 sad
and so sacred as that which is de-
volved upon me to-day. One week
ago last Friday our late beloved
friend and associate, Hon. II. III.
Starkweather, of Connecticut, came
to nay seat and urgently requested
that should address the House on
the resolutions in reference to the
death of Senator Ferry. After speak
ing with me for few moments, he
was called to the chair to preside and
remained there perhaps halt an hour,
but not feeling well, he soon passed
out, and never entered the Hall
again.
The very evening when he was
stricken with his mortal disease, he
had completed or very nearly COM
pleted the remarks which he pro-
posed TO offer to the House on this
occasion. / bave not had the heart
even to keep my promise to him. l
could not think of this subject with
out being overwhelmed with the
sense of the double less; but | am
sure the House will permit me, in
place Of any remarks of my own, to
do what our departed friend can no
longer do for himself, to read the
speech as he left it. Ihaye filed a
few blanks, and added here and
there word to supply the final re-
vision which his own hand would
have made; and thus the dead speaks
for the dead friend, whom he soon
followed. / read, and ask that it
may go into the Record as his speech,
the following
REMARKs PREPARED BY THE LATE H..
H. sT4RKwBATHER.
Mr.. Speaker, since the adjourn. .
meut of the last Congress, God IN
His sovereign wisdom has removed
from the service Of the nation Sena-
tor Qrris S, Ferry, one of its distin-
| guished and trusted councillors.
At any tine the death of a Sena-
tor in the midst of his labors, SO con-
spIcuons for his ability, for patriot
ism, and for conscientious devotion
| ta DUTY IS was Mr. Ferry, Is ! great
f7basionai loss. Hs dsfiartura trsAu
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

AN ELEPHANT AS NURSE.-A large
elephant showed, by constant fagel-
lation of his body that he was much
annoyed by his prosecutors, the mos
quitos, and just at that time the
keeper brought little naked black
thing, as round as a ball, which in
India believe they call child, laid
it down before the animal with two
words in Hindoostance, "Watch it, "
and then walked away into the town.
The elephant Immediately broke off
the larger part of the bough so as to
make a smaller and more convenient
whisk, and directed his whole atten-
tion to the child, gently tanning the
little lump of India ink, and driy-
ing away every mosquito which came
nearit. This he continued for up
ward of two hours, regardless of
himself, until the keeper returned.
1t was really a beautiful sight, caus-
ing much re Election. Here was a
monster, whose weight exceeded that
of the infant by at least ten thou
sand times, acknowledging that the
image of his Maker, even in the low
est degree of perfection, was divine;
silently proving the truth of the
sacred announcement that God hath
"given to man dominion over the
beast of the field" And here, too
was q brute animal setting an exam
pie of dexotsOn and self denial that
but few Christian, none, indeed, but
% mother, eoGId have practiced.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
So in Advance
From the chicago Tribune.
| REMINIseENCE.

Inc toll of harvesting was done
The wheat was standing in tha sbaavas
The birches glistened in the sun
And naples spread their silver leaves
Adown the glade and through the mead
Where swelled the stacks Of fragrant hav
Through grassy sedge, by bending reed
The brook wound on its devious way.
Its waters sparkled as they Ieapt
Ger stranded roots and rocks unseen.
And dropping willows waved and went.
And trailed their boughs of pallid green.
One spot there was serene and cool.
BY sober waters sought and found
CLASSY, quet, brimming pool,
WIN moss-growna rocks eneompassed
round.
There had l gone, with weary tread,
10 tempt with an alluring hook.
From out his pebbled lurking-bed.
Inc mottled monarch Of the brook.
As meath jutting rock / Law
And hstless Ger the waters bent
Reflected from the mimic bay.
A beaming face its brightness sent.
Serene and calm, that tranquil face
Beneath the placid waters shone;
Upon it grief had left no trace /,
Its beauty ne'er had sorrow known.
Its winning truth in looks Of love
My hearts ideal upward sent;
AS II to pierce the blue above,
Upon the heavens respondent bent.
As wistfully gazed, entranced,
An enEious, paltry pebble fell;
linen Ger the beauteous features danced
The tiny waves in ripping swell.
All anxiously watched them sweep
In growing circles from nv sight:
AND soon the water, still and deem
was naught to me but water bright
lime has been busy since with me,
Nor failed to leave his peneiled trace:
Yet still in revery oft see
The splendors of that mirrOred face.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
From the Commercial.
THE SOE1H TO JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Offering Amnesty through the Esegener-
ated HouSe Of Representative.


THE Sou kern people have forgotten much
have forgiven much II tie wrongs they bore.
II be lerB 60 Amoeg their invaders. IL iz but 81
other example Of the rule that the wrong doeE Il
less able 10 f''rgiTe than he who has suffere
eauseiess wrong-'
Hearken, injured Davis, hearken
To our penetentiAl whine;
Though a righteous anger dRrken
That majestic bow of thine;
Oh, forgive US,
Prostrate low before thy shrine!
II we through your sunny regions
Hurled your hosts of serried steel;
StorIned your strongholds, crushed YOU
legions,
Forced you in the dust to kneel;
Oh, forgive US,
For our most misguided zeal!
II our vollying cannon thundered
Chorus 10 the stern decree:
''Slaves no longer shall be plundeled,
BEt be made forever free
Oh, forgive us,
Contrite now and sad are vel
If we scoffed your cherished fable
OF each States supreme domain,
Showed the world that We were able
Rank as Nation to maintain
Oh, forgive us,
Well unsay it all again.
If we wept our hapless brothers,
Famished in your priSOn-pen;
Tortured, till their very mothers
Scarce could know their sons again;
Tottering, ghost-like-
Wringing tears from stalTart men
If we thought with fierce resenting
or those crowded. nameless graves,
Where your rancor, unrelenting.
Huddled in our murdered braves,
While above them
Baleful Winder foams and raves
If we said that every nation
Heard the tale with shuddering awe,
Pointing with stern reprobation
at that foul Aeeldama,
frank with horrors
Worse than Dante's pen could draw =
We must plead in mitigation
What, alasI It's plain to see
We are no ekitatrSe nation,
''Mudsills Of the North" are We;
Oh, forgive our
Foolish sensibility.
Noble shieftain, heed the offer
Free from US our abject fears;
Take the the amnesty we proffer,
Haste to join your brigadiers;
They will greet you
With their strident Southern cheers.
But we see, your loftier soaring
Till your eagle-fight you close
Midst triumphant friends adoring,
Ruler DER your yanquished foes;
Stern-exaeting
Vengeance for a decades woes.
Northern gold the South will guerlhn
For the slaves We dared to free:
Yours TO gnvern--euEs the burden,
Thus does Nemesis decree.
Time roll swiftly,
Bring that day of jubileel
Then our giant debts united
Shall by taxes vast be met;
And your veterans now sighted
Pensions like our own shall get
Confscations
All paid back, will swell the debt.
But the joy of Joys supernal
Brightens Ger your conscious face,
As you doom to lash diurnal
Once again that hated racei
Southern triumphs
All Amendment" will erase.
Then, 0 chief, though once defeated
By our legions myriad strong,
Yield while 'loWliIy entreatsd-
Amnesty may purge the wrong.
To the future
Empire and revenge belong.
Washington, February, 1876.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
rRmRAILMAYI.

Abstract Of 7gns Table ADOPTED Not. 22nd,
1876.
DULLMAN'S best Drawing-room
4 and sIeeping Coaches, combining all
modern improYenehts, are run thrcpgh without
change from Rochester BnfslO, s1sItnsiOn
Bridge, Niagara Fslls, Cincinnati, Chicago
and Detroit ~ New York, making direct con-
nectioa With all lines Of foreign and eoastwise
steamers. and also with sound Steamers and
railway lines fer Boston and New England cities
Hotel dinning cars from Chicago to New YORK
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
QUICK kLIMEl

THE Kiln of VIM. Humphrey, near
Il the L. s. Station, having been iafeA ky the
subscriber, and the gFgg staFt thes season, the
theiFwahts. on application at the Kiln, or At the
NIGHT AND DAY STORE
nearly opposite Prices viii range ss low as At
any other establishment IN town or elsewhere.
Ashtabuia. ASrii soth 1sTS isssif
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

AL trains daily. except Sunday.
FIR. MYERS. Gen, Pass. Ticket Agent.
L. s. & n. M.S,-FRARKLIN DIVISION
From and after Nov, II, 1875. Passenger Trains
viii run as follows:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

A VALUABLE Book There is
copy of valuable book now owned
by parties in this city and offered to
the directors of the public library at
comparatively low price. There
are but one or two other copies of the
work in this country,. one Of which
is Owned in PblalelhiS, audi held
~ s5o0. as the pirice at which tAis
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

sTrsIus stop only an Signal. xFFainl do not
Stop. EFelegraph Stations. Cleveland fine.
Passenger fare ct the rate Of cents per mile
to way stations counted in even half dimes.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18
Vol. XXVII, No. Z.
PUBLIC HALLS.

SrONEssOREHA Hail. orwell AEhta
buia Co .Ohic. oDthe The OF A. Y. q Z. rail
sssa-seeEtsd- wa sf1ge and seenFfy. WI ttai
e. 3. STOSR. Prop. 1873
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

A MANS CHINESE NE1GHBoR.-
The Raleigh On. C) NeaOs reports
that Rev. DIR. Pr1tchart, of that city,
referred in his Thanksgiving sermon
to conversation held between DIR
Thomas Z. Skinner, formerly of
Raleigh, now of Georgia, and an an
timissionaryist. DR.. Skinner, he
said, was soliciting aid for foreign
missions, and applied to this gentle
man who promptly repulsed him with
the reply, 81 don't believe in foreign
missions, and won't give anything
except to home missions. 1 want
what give to benfit my neighbors. {"
"Well," replied DR.. Skinner,
"whom do you regard as your nelgh-
bors ?"
"Why, those around me-" replied
the brother.
"Do you mean those whose land
joins yours ?" inquired DR.. Skinner
eyes"
SWELL" said DR.. Skinner, show
much land do you own ?"
"About 500 acres"
"HOw far down do you own?"
"Why,. l never thought of it be-
fore. l suppose 1 own half way
through"
Exactly" said DIR. Skinner, 81
suppose you do, and 1 want this
money for the Chinese-the men
whose land joins yours on the bot
tom."
The hardened brother had never
thought of that, and gave a good
sum for foreign missions.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

Scotch saying-"A dOsr plaat WI
mons naame on's a wary guide
thing bpt,a SiRpsr plaa5 vi . Wsn's
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-18

"You ain't afraid to dieg" said
the clergyman, tenderly. s.No, " re
piled the sufferer, sI'm only afraid
If do that the old woman viii 60
spooting around amQRg my YzIyHes
pAsfngfs tiib first thfas