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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
Fire In Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, February PA fire
broke ont about midnight last night in
the planning mill of j. II. Sauning & Co..
on Plum street, near the Exposition
buildings The building was also occu.
piei by y. ;. Durm X Co., and Fred
Theisenger, engaged in manufacturing
furniture. The building and machinery
WAS totally destroyed. Sauning & Go. :
loss is 10000, Insured tor $4,000; Durm
& Cos los is $1,000, insurance no:
known: The,sengers loss $1,000, IL
sursurD 81 pJO
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

Mr.. Faulkner introduced n resolu-
tion in the House OF Representatives
which was adopted and referred to the
Commitlee on Foreign Affairs looking to
to the release of CONDOR, an American
Fenian serving life sentence in Brit
ish prison.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

The sold elm" az Boston has At length
blown down, and the New England
people are mourning its destruction,
Every particle OF the tree, bark, moss
and all, has been carried away by relic
hunters. That old tree could have told
= centennial history worth listening to-
for urder its broad shade Washington
and his colonial officers planned cam
paisu. Long years before that time from
its limbs hung witches, stretched there by
the ,uperstitiou, fanatics among the Pu-
ritan tnrefnther.. Loag before that time,
or even before the white mans foot had
rested on Massachusetts, soil the red men
held their war councils under the then
thrifty young tree, And far away back
of that, perhaps before COLUMBUS had
discovered the new world that same old
tree WA, >apl'rg-in fat there Is no
telling when the seed of the tree first
took ROOT IT, TIE gro2rd. No wonder
then there Is sorrow that the old land
mark should be removed.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
Denver and MO Grande Railroad

COLORADO SrEINGs, Col, February -.
The track Of the Denver and BIO
Grande rallrosd reached CuchorAs today.
Cuchoras is Hfty miles south OF Pueb,a.
The track laying will be pushed rapidly
IRON Cuchorns 10 Trinidad, q distance Of
forty miles.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

The Wisconsin Republicans met yes
terIsy 70 select delegates to the National
Convention. They adopted resolutions
expressing the hope that tue country
would enter upon its second century free
from sectional prejudice, and that each
man should be secured in his political
rights; opposed to third term; but fui.
o; venerstion to General Grant; IN favor
o, free schools, and Of returning TO the
principles of l716.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
BAN KS.
CAPITAL, s250,0oo
John X. BoTsFoRD, Pread<,u,
GEO. ADAMS, Vice President.
NJ. A. CHANDLER, Oushser.
Bank Of the Ohio Valley
Successor 10
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF WHEELING.
CAPITAL, e250,OoO

This Bank is ougrnized and prepared To
transact the business OF banking In ali Its
details.
II succeeds the First National Bank oi
Wheeling: IN owned by the same share
holders, and Is under the same manage
ment.
by carefully regarding the interests ofits
correspondents and depositors, and by a
prompt and faithful execution OF their
wishes, IL hopes to merit their esteem aui
confidence.
Notes and Bills discounted.
Collections made on all points through.
out the United States.
Deposit accounts subject To check at
sight, received from banks, bank cs, Arms,
corporations and individuals.
Certificates Of deposit issued payable ON
demand, or at fixed dates.
Interest allowed on special deposits.
DIRECTORS:
JoHS n. BorsFoRp WV. Il. SIMrSos.
JACOB =. RHODES, WM. \, TURNER,
GEORGE ADAMS, JoHN L. HoHiss,
GEo. W. FRASZnEIA, q. 4. DEWEY,
HENRY VI. HARfER, my?i
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

THE COlrier-JOurHal says: II may be
impossible, but we have not heretofore
presumed to entertain the suspicion that
Henry Ward Beecher Is an intemperate
man; yet when he tells us, a. he did Sat-
urdsy, that he "stood like man walking
ut midnight in mensgerie OF serpents
W no could not step on right because OF
M asp or an anaconda" We must confess
ths. it looks very much AS though Henry
has had sn attack Of the jim jams.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

The Indiana Republicans adopted a
beautiful declaration of principles yester-
day on paper, 1t is ludicrous to read
them and compare the professions to the
practices of the party. But as if to null
lify all their loud protestations of II desire
for friendship in this Centennial year,
they endorse MORTON tor President.
That's enough to show just how much sim
cirity ar truth lies in the whole thing.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
AN nOUTEIT FREE;

w county 70 take orders and deliver
HouSe. large cash wages. splendid chance
IN every neigh hbofhood for the hight per-
son OF either sex, young or old. samples.
nsy is @ ard is5 ssa r:S . ssoa e; Il
ADD r-.s II. J. HALL q o., IN. Howard
81. Baltimore Md. oGs
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

ST. LOUIS was selected yesterday As
the phase for holding the National Demo-
cratic Convention, June 9th next.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
VOL. Is.
All busin inessletters and COM
municatfOns, intended for
this paper, should be address,
ed to THE REGISTER,Wheel-
ing, w. Va
at'heelina &egister,

The wsdther today roiA be partly
cloudy, Nth Hor'h,0est rinds and looer
temperature.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

Rev Chas. z. McIlvaine, son Of the
la.. Bishop of Ohio, died Of pneumonia,
al TowAnds, yesterday.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23
A Man of a Thousand

UTHEN DEATH Wa HOURLY TX
w PECTRD from CDnsnmptton, all
rethedls. having failed, and DIR. II. James
xss erperfmenting. he accidentally made
a Urepsratiou Of "fndian Hemp" which
rnrei hIs only child, and now gives thi.
recipe free on receipt oftvo sta mps, 70 pay
eIpenee-. Hemp also cures might
bi eak A fresh cold In u hours. Addres~
ChaddoSk a o., l0f2 Race street, Phils.
delphla, nam nR this ps per. noZ5ts
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

For the information OF those desiring
to estimate cost of equipment, l here
give list showing weight, capacity and
approximate cost;
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-23

tics and probabilities on which they are
based. A diigent and unprejudiced ex-
animation of facts and reliable sources
of information will show conclusively
that none. of the roads named, except the
c. and p, will compare favorably with
the w. and l.. +. in the matters of ad-
vsntageous termini, courses, distances,
qualities and quantities of Goals, popuia-
ton and local resources OF soil; and as to
natural resources of coal, soil and min
erals, the &. and p. will not compare
equally.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

In its business review the Nation
says: The week has been notable in Wall
Street for the further advance in United
States bonds and other securities known to be
safe investments. The rise in United States
bonds has been brought about by the pur-
chases of savings-banks insurance and trust
companies, and even discount banks, some of
the latter having taken as large an amount as
100000, and from that down to $4,000.
This demand has been supplied for the most
part by the German bankers, who have been
bringing bonds from London and the German
markets. The effect of the bond movement
has been to strengthen tho gold and foreign
exchange market. and it is evident that if
bonds continue to be to II per cent. higher
here than in Europe, it will soon be necessa-
ry to export gold, which is something to be
regretted at a time when there is so little gold
in the country, and when, in view of the
pledge to resume specie payment in 1879, so
much is needed. In London there have been
no changes of note, money having unexpect-
edly become dearer early in the week, so that
the Bank of England did not feel Justified in
reducing its rate below 5 per cent. there has
since been another change, and the other Lon
don discount houses have done business as low
as33 per cent. In business affairs there has
been much dulness, the unreasonable
weather having contributed much 10 that re-
suit. Merchants, it is proper to say, are
hopeful in respect to the business of this
year, and while they do not look for large
speculative trade, are confident that there
will be more doue this year than last, and
that the profits will be larger. The money
market is becoming very easy, and the sur.
plus reserve of the banks is now nearly S15.-
100000, with the currency movement still in
favor of New York. The gold price for 800
greenbacks has ranged during the week be-
tween $SS SO and $SS 80.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
TERMs $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

this much desired object is doubtful. Men have
been told thousand times that many nickle
makes mickle, that if we take care of :the
pennies the pounds will take care of themselves,
that in order to save we must spend less than
we earn, and it is hardly to be expected that
repetition of these self-evident truths not even
clothed in novel garb, will effect much. If,
however, there be any efficacy in Mr.. Smiles's
prescriptions it is to be hoped that they will be
generally followed.
OUR OLD HOME. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bos-
ton: j. R. Osgood s. Co. For sale by Bailey &
Noyes.
In the Saunterer's edition of Hawthorne's
works Osgood offers us the tenth volume of
those English sketches known collectiyely.un-
der the title "Our Old Home" These sketches
excited, at the time of their publication, great
interest on both sides the water, and from the
fierceness with which they were attacked in
Engand it is natural to judge that they con-
tanned much wholesome truth. The charm of
their style is great, and the reflections which
the appearance of things in the old country
called forth are of deep interest to all who have
ever visited or dreamed of visiting England.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
Republican National Convention.
1876

The next Cniou Republican National Convention
for the nomination of candidates for President and
Vice-Presdent of the United States will be held in
the city of Cincinnati Wednesday, the fourteenth
day OF June, 1876 at II O'Clock noon and will consist
of delegates from each State equal twice the num-
ber OF its Senators and Representatives in Congress-
and OF two delegates from each organized Territory
and the district of Columbia.
In calling the conventions for the election of dele
gltes the committees of the several States are re-
commended to invite all Republican electors and all
other voters, without regard to past political dit
ferences or previous party affiliations. who are
opposed to revivng sectional issues and desire to
promote friendly feeling and permanent harmony
the country by maintaining and enforcing
all the constitutional rights of every CITIZEN nclud
ing the null and free exercise OF the right of suffrage
without intimidation and without fraud who are in
favor OF % tne continued prosecution and punishment
or al omclal dishonesty, and an economical admns-
tration OF the government by honest, faithful and ca
forms IN government experience may from time
time suggest; who are opposed to impairing the cred
it OF the nation by depreciating any of its obligations
and in favor of sustaining in every way the national
faith and financial honor; who hold that the common
school system is the nursery of American liberty and
should be maintained absolutely free from sectarian
control; who believe that for the promotion of these
ends, the direction of the Government should Con-
tnue to be conded to those who adhere to the prn-
the Constitution and the laws; and who in favor
of recognizing and Strengthening the fundamental
principle OF National Unity in this Centennial An
niversary of the birth of the Republic.
E. d. MORGAN, Chairman,
VIM. E. CHANDLER, Secretary,
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE,
washington, January IS, 1876.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

POLLARD was about as bitter Confeder-
ate as lived south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Pollard, in his life of JEFF Davis, speaks of an
instance where, at the Confederate Capital,
''for forty-eight hours, nearly 1000 prisoners
were without Inouthful of food" Pollard
thought that Wirz died an innocent man, and
that Commissary Northrop. "who had wished
the thousands of prisoners at Richmond at
the bottom of the James River" is charge
able with whatever lack of food occurred
among them after the spring of 1864 AS for
Davis agency, the Southern biographer says,
that "no one ever accused him of cruelty;
but If he employed such cruel and incompe-
tent agent as Northrop, continuing to employ
him after repeated exposures of unworthiness,
it is but fair that he should suffer something
OF responsibility for the abuse we have de-
scribed." s'The President of the
Southern Confederacy is to be blamed, not
lightly, for continuing in his employment such
agents as Wilder and Northrop, each favor
lite creature, the last extravagantly so, and
eoth of them repeatedly brought to his atten-
tion as incompetent and scandalous officers"
Pollard further accuses the slate President
OF the so-called Confederate states'' with at
tempting to take revenge for Sherman's and
Sheridan's method of carrying on the war,
''in secret, cowardly, and indiscriminate
way by promoting or countenancing conspi-
races to burn houses and rob banks, to fire
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
Current Notes.

Ii Winsbw strikes city or town in Brazil.
he will own half of it on paper before he has
been there six months.-Boston Globe.
Mr.. George 81. Pendleton continues to be
surprised with serenades and ovations in the
South, but his Presidential stock refuses 10
rise.
Citizens who do not desire to see the con-
federate representatives potential and the
confederate policy prevailing in the general
government must see to it that the Demo-
cratic party does not come into power.-Cin-
cinndS Commercial independently
A committee of twelve has been appointed
in Cincinnati to go to Washington next
month and urge upon the National Democratic
Committe the desirabiity of holding the Nat
ional Convention in Cincinnati. 1t is not
stated whether they will take the rag baby
with them or not.
In the speech of Jones-Jones of Ken
tucky-on the amnesty bill, (the speech
which he has printed in the Record, although
it has no other existence,) occur choice pas
sages like the following:-s'Let me tell the
gentlemen that the time will come, perhaps
near at hand, when the names of Grant and
Sherman and Sheridan, and Lee and Jack
son, and Breckenridge-yea, sir, of the mar
tyred Lincoln, and the now insulted Jefferson
Davis-will be read with common pride and
common respect by the American youth, and
the last may be honored as much as the
first."
These men pond and Winslow) have lived
as all the rest of us have for dozen years
and more, under the unhealthful influences
of debauched nublic sentiment on tho c,b
ject of money. The daily use of lying and
dishonest currency has dulled mems percep-
tions to the worth ald beauty of truth and
honesty. When we shall again have dollars
that are worth one dollar each; when we
shall cease to circulate lies and to live upon
falsehoods; when the national government
shall cease to set an example of taithlessness
IN the emission OF negotiable paper, our
danger from the fall of such men as Pond
and Winslow win be less than it is now
Neao York Erening Post.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
About Women.

A Virginia girl shot a young man because he
refused her offer of marriage. Leap year, you
know.
On cold, dark winter night, when young
married man is taking in the clothes, with
frozen fingers and mouth fall of clothes-pins,
nothing gives him greater feeling of despair
than to hear his wife open the back window
and say, Joseph, you may bring yours in, but
guess you can hang mine back
Miss Anna Dickinsons departure for Cuba
in search of health does not necessarily involve
the abandonment of her intention to appear on
the stage. She is still studying with this pur.
pose in view, and she has expended over S1O.-
900 on stage wardrobe.
In India, they say, it is the custom of rich
men to pay young fellows to marry their daugh-
ters. Mormonsm would thrive there. In this
country certain false delcacy prevents the
arrangement of terms before marriage; and af-
ter marriage the pay is rather uncertain. We
have much.to learn from India.
Mrs. Fred Grant and Madame Mantlla, ths
Spanish Minister'S wife, are said to be the two
most beautiful women in Washington. The
style is the same, both ladies having large, lus-
trous. liquid brown eyes, with unfathomable
depths, and the rare complexion OF olive tint so
clear that it surpasses in its warmth and daz-
zling beauty the radiance of any rose and
white type OF loveliness.
A Florence letter-writer notes in that city
three American ladies, all of whom. in their
respective roles, have met with unqualified sue
cess, evoking nightly the most enthusiastic
capplause. of these ladies, two-Miss Sarah
Barton and Miss Emma Forbss-are from Mas
sachusetts, and the other, Mrs. Hitchcock,
from New Orleans.
The great popularity of seal.skin jackets
will receive severe setback from an incident
which recently occurred in Liverpool A lady
wearing one Of those fashionable garments was
waiting at railway station, when polar bear
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

CALcRAFT, who recently retired from the
trying position of hangman in England, had
an agreeable custom of always shaking hands
with those upon whom he was about to car
ry out the sentence of the law. But it has
been observed that Marwood, his successor,
never does this, and speculation has been rife
in certain quarters as to the cause of his de-
parture from this precedent. Freemasons will
be interested to learn that the reason is "be-
cause he is a free and accepted Mason and
breads the condemned man giving him a
Masonic grip in return.'
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
PUBLIC REPORT
POTTCEMA nj

have not enjoyed good health for several years
past, yet have not allowed it to interfere with my Ia
Dor. Every one belonging TO the laboring class
knows the inconvenience Of being obliged to labor
when the body from debility, almost refuses to per-
form its daily task. never was believer in dosing
with medicines; but having heard the VEGETNE
spoken Of SO highly, was determined to try it, and
(Which every enc needs at same time) it surpasses
everything ever heard Of 1t invgorates the whole
system; it is great cleanser and purifier of the
blood There are many of my acquaintance who
have taken it, and all unite in praise of its satisac
tory effect.
Especially among the aged class Of people, it i'm
parts to them the thing most needful in old age
nights of calm, sweet repose thereby Strengthening
the mind as well the body. One aged lady, who
has been suffering through life from scrotula, and
has become blind through its effects, having tried
many remedies with favorable result, was induced
by friends to try the VEGETINE After taking few
bottes she obtained such great relief that she ex
pressed wish for her sight, that she might be able
to look upon the man who had sent her such bles-
sing. Yours respectfully,
O. Fl. HODGE, Police Officer, Station 6.
ROSTON Mass. Nav 8. 1871,
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

The Connecticut Democratic Committee
failed to secure the hall they wanted in New
Haven in which to hold their convention on
the 22d of February, Washington's birthday.
But they secured it for the 23d, a day on
which Louis Philippe made those public
promises of reform which he failed to keep.
So the compulsory choice of the Democracy
is much more in accordance with the eternal
fitness of things than was their original Sc
1ootiop
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

THE Democracy is showing its old.time
dread of education. When resolution of
the Committee on Education to inquire into
the expediency of appropriating money for
school purposes was referred in the House
the other day, O'Brien, Maryland Confeder-
ate, wanted the reference so worded that the
matter should never come up again, and
Buckner, Missouri Confederate, actually OBJ
jected to having any mention made of it in
the Record. Whereupon the New England
Journal Of Education says: ''We shall watch
the new Congress of Reform to see what
treatment is given to educational questions,
for the party which trembles at the discussion
of such topics has in its constitution premon-
itory symptoms of a fatal and speedy Decline"
1t is said that at present one-fourth of our
voters can neither read nor write. If this
fraction can be made one-half, Democratic
supremacy is assured.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

Mr.. FRouDE, the historian, is proving
himself a clever diplomatist. Some months
ago, he was sent to the British Colonies in
South Africa to reconcile them to each other,
and to some changes which the Home Gov
ernment proposed making. In the difficult
as well as delicate task of mediator, he was
eminently successful, and is now on his way
back to England TO receive the reward that,
without doubt, awaits him,
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

THE Direct Cable Company attribute the
gift of foreknowledge to the operators of the
London Stock Exchange. In a card of expla-
nation the statement is made that sit is an
undoubted fact that the ruptures of the Di-
rect United States Gable which have occurred
in regular succession since the line opened
have been known to certain operators on the
Stock Exchange not hours, but some days
before they happened.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

MAKE room for new suggestion anent
the suffrage. William Welch of Madison,
makes it. He would give each man 21 years
old one vote, add another when he is AZ, and
bestow final one when he is SO. Age and
experiences, he says, produce patriotism, a
sense of public duty, and political integrity.
We judge that the Hon, W. W. is just 63
years old.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29
HEARTFELT PRAYER.

ST. PAUL, Aug. q, 1861.
r. H. STEVENS, ESQ.,:
Dear Sir-I should be wanting in gratitude, if /
failed to acknowledge what the VEGETINE has done
for me- was attacked about eleven months since
with Bronchitis, which settled into Consumption. i
had night sweats and fever chls; distressed for
BREATH and frequently spit blood; all emaciated
very weak, and SO low that my friends thought my
case hopeless
was advised to make trial of the VEGETINE,
which, under the providence of God has cured me.
That he may bless the of your medicine to Others
as he has TO me- and that his divine grace may at
humble servant. BENJAMIN PETTINGILL.
p. S.-Mine is but one among the many cures your
medicine has effected in this place B. P.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

In New York orthoepy has driven orthog-
raphy from the field, and the pronouncing
match has taken the place of the spelling
match. At match held there Wednesday
the pronunciation of 'interesting,' ''no-
menclature'' and 'indisputable'' proved stum-
bling blocks to nearly all the contestants.
One young man went down on ''Cognac," as
many have done before, and "raillery"
abashed another-not at all unnaturally.
The Portland daily press., 1876-01-29

The controversy owe: Lands continues
with unabated fury, and there seems to be
little occasion for it. Undoubtedly Lands
was mad-very mad-or he would not have
shot Carruth. Indeed there is no doubt that
he was as mad even as Scannell or Cole.
Whether or not his case presented "the in
dicia of incipient alienism" is question for
the experts to decide, and they won't do it.
They will manage to be about evenly divided
on that question, and so a jury will have to
decide where doctors disagree.