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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
value of Salt.

Not more than twenty-five years ago
learned doctor published an elaborate
treatise to prove that salt was the "tor-
hidden fruit" through eating which our
first parents fell, and has ever since been
the cause of all our diseases and ills,
though only lunatic would deny that
salt serves some important and essential
uses IN the animal economy. The de-
sire for salt seems an instinct implanted
in the animal creation, and there Is q
natural craving for il when it does not
exist in sufficient quantity in food.
Animals will travel great distances
and brave great dangers to get at saline
earths, called salt ticks; horses and COWS
are most healthy when provided with
lumps of rock salt in their managers or
pastures, and even bees will sip solu-
ton of salt with avidity. Man will bar.
ter gold for it in countries where 1t is
scarce, and tor it husbands will sell their
wives, and parents their children. In
some districts of Africa salt is far more
expensive than the purest white sugar IN
Europe, and children will suck lump
of 1t in preference to sweetmeats But
the existence of a greater or less sppe-
tite for salt in all individuals shows that
this substance serves more important
functions than that of merely gratifying
the palate.
Salt being a large constituent of the
human body and forming about hall
the total weight of the saline matters OF
the blood, the constant loss OF at by the
secretions, the bile and even tears, re-
quires to be made up by its employment
MS condiment. The free acid found in
the stomach, and which forms an essen
tlal constituent OF the gastric juice, is OBJ
viously derived from the salt taken with
your food; and the soda of the blood and
in some of the secretions is doubtless OBJ
tanned from the decomposition in the
system of common salt, winch Is the
only mineral food of man and the only
saline condiment essential TO health
British Manufacturer.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

On the first Sunday in the year, Rev.
DR.. Cumming of the Scotch Church,
London, preached a sermon on "EnglaDd
the Tarshish of Prophecy" He said
that from whatever quarter they looked
in Europe there were the eleme nts to be
seen of an earthquake that would shake
nations to their very depths. Whilst
other countries would be smitten, Eng
land would be spared. She was achosen
nation of god, and had a grand and pros
porous future before her. In any forth
coming conflict this nation might be
chastened, but it would be for her pur'
ificstion. She would keenly feel the
rude blasts of the tempest; but so long
as she remained God-iearing nation
she had nothing to fear. England was
the Tarshsh of prophecy mentioned IN
Ezekiel, said by the prophet to be land
of promise charged with great mission,
viz, the restoration of the Jews. 1t
was destined to be prosperous and power
full unto the erd OF time.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
A Patriotic Duty.

New York sun.
The "greatest living General has only
three more Sundays left for didatic pur'
poses; and he will find that when these
three Sundays have passed, the now at
tentive agents of the Associated Press
will no longer care to listen to his
"views." We take the liberty to recon-
mend for the remaining Sunday talks the
following topics: !. The value Of Sen
eca sandstone in government architec
turc. 2. Our relations with Cuba. 3
How to prevent the manufacture OF
crooked whisky. The President may
not be specially interested IN these SUBJ
iects, but the country is. Let him say
as the patriotic Pickett said: "D-r
my interest; think of the interest Of forty
millions of peoplel"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
Tho Land for the settler

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Whatever may be the attractions OF
Australia they do not exceed those OF
Texas. New Mexico and Arizona, 8
contiguous territory capable OF sustain
ING in ease and comfort and compare
tive sftiuence the whole population OF
the middle states. This land flowing
with milk and honey, can be reached for
. small sum Of money in a few days
time, and those who settle there can
make there own laws and choose theil
own rulers. Beyond this they will
have, what they cannot get IN Australia
splendidly-equipped railroad 'rsvers'
ing the whole region, IN a rev year
prepared to convey the products OF the
soil 10 markets on the Atlantic and Pa
c,ac Such are the solid facts Of the
situation, and they are sufficiently at
trsctivet to render gsrnishing unneces'
sary.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
COrfObOrattve Of tho Bible.

New York sun.
DIR. Howard Crosby lectured on Mon
day evening on the Bible, sod argued
that recent discoveries in the ruins OF
Babylon and Assyria proved the sub
stantial accuracy Of the historical por-
tions of the Old Testament Scriptures.
The point WAS we'll made. The explora.
tions and excavations so vigorously and
scientifically pursued of late years along
The Tlgris and Euphrates all go to prove
that the Biblical narrative is an actual
history of ancient events. SO also the
excavations in Greece make of Homer's
epic poetical account of facts of real oc-
currencc,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
wicked Plans.

After small boy had leaned up
against wall at the corner OF Wood
ward and Congress street, for two full
hours yesterday, policeman asked if he
was waiting for any one in particular.
"Waitin' for runaway to came along,
replied the boy. You want to see sfeam
run away do your" ii want to see a
truck team come zippin' along here, hit
that peanut stand in the middle, and
while the sympathetic public are picking
up the Italian l want to be picking up
the peanuts was the frank reply. The
officer decided to enforce the twenty
second joint rule, and the boy was made
to move on.-Detrot Free Press.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
Poisonous Fireworks.

From the scientific American.
Miss Helen Locke, OF Bristol, \. d.,
died recently, after inhaling gas from
"red fire." burned during young ladies
tsblesu entertainment, in which she took
part. "Red fire. should be utterly
banished from the psrlor and the lecture
room. It's fumes are highly poisonous
1t is composed of nitrate of strontis,
black sulphide OF anthony, sulphur, and
chlorate of potash. The crimson color
is due TO the strontia. The latter Is a
salt of the metal strontium.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
The Difference.

New York SUN. -,
If HAYES is declared elected, it will be
done BY establishing the principle thai
fraud is good if yelled in the forms o.
law. ar that a beaten candidate msy
vet steal the office OF President. If Til
den is declared elected, it will be because
he had msjority of the honest electors
votes. That is the difference IN the
standing of the two candidates.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

A DIsCoRDANT ORGAN.-The new
York Tribune says: ut is hardly
worth their while for the Senate com
mit,ee 70 take so much trouble to give
L,,tlefield bad character; sum it ali up
nv saving that he has been clerk Of the
Louisiana returning board for four
wears" And yet the Tribune uphoid.s
the work Of this same returning board
and is unwilling that the Congressional
Commission shall inquire into the dark
and devious ways by which it gave the
electoral vote of the State to Hayes
The "organ" should be less difcordan'
if il would not be considered cracked.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

EVERY time it is proposed to go be-
hind the reports of the Returning Board:
and the certificates of the Governors OF
Florida and Louisiana, the Republican.
cry out. @Oh, that will elect TlldenP'
Onsar isn't it.-Neir York Sun.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
ra,,b,ess CIarEsburg Wife.

From the Waynesburg PA Republican.
A man by the name 81 Daniel mot the
good old Daniel that we read about, that
was thrown into the lions DEM and n
woman named Robinson, both OF Clsrks-
burg. w. Va, eloped last week and came
to Rudolph's run, this county, where they
were overtsken, after one nights lodg-
ing. BY the enraged husband, who swore
out a warrant before Gorbly Orndof,
Esq, of Whiteley township, and had
them arrested, and started back.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
secondhand Clothes In Politics.
Naxy York World.

There is an old story that dealer in
ready-made clothing was once zealously
sndeavoripg to persuade customer
that a coat fitted him like the paper on
the wall, that its cut WAS the perfection
of fashionable elegance, and its cloth the
best product of foreign looms. The Gus
toner shifting a suspicious order, put
his nose to the garment and exclaimed,
~ can't wear this coat! 1t smells too
dresdfullyp my friend replied the
dealer. with the winning eagerness of
injured innocence sit ish not de cote dat
schmells it ish me-" Senator West, OF
Louisiana, stood up in Congress yester-
day, and with precisely the look and
tone of this ancient and fish-hke vender
of second. han d clothing solemnly as
sured his colleagues and the country
tina, it is he that puts the nostrlls OF the
nation in a great Indignation, and no,
the Louisiana returning board.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

WOULD it no. be extraordinary and
most humilisting stste of affairs It the
very same official conduct OF j. Madison
Wells should hsvethe effect of sending
h,m,o the Louisiana penitentisry ard
OF placing Rutherford B. Hayes in the
Presidential chsir?-knorritLe Tribune.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

UNLESS the Republican party ceases
to read out its mem bers the leaders will
soon have no following outside OF the
peni,entiary. This is getting to be q
serious ,nstter.-S. LOUIS Times.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
RetrogressiOn W.. Advancement.
WHEELING, Feb. 8, 1871,

WHEbLlnS, roU. v, Ao''
Editors OF the Register:
The nineteenth century has been re.
garded as q progressive age in which ad'
vsncement in the arts and sciences and
intellectual attachments were progress
! sing greatly; but we find some OF the
Solons and Lycurguses of the present
age, looking back to the early days OF
the present century, and acting as II the
authors of that period of time could pre-
pare school books that would "teach the
Young idea how to shoot" more rapidly
than the authors of more modern age.
Hence certain members of the committee
on Education of the present Legislature,
were last night, loud in their lsudatlons
of Smiths English Grammar for the
common schools, and yea, motion was
made to exclude all Grammars from the
common schools except Smiths.
We are now prepared to hear the
same parties calling for Dillworth's
spelling book, Pixies arithmetic and
Walkers dictionary. IT the gentlemen
were right in the conclusions upon the
grammar, we say in all sincerity, carry
your principle out, anu chrry ue ooen W
the good old days of short breeches,
stockings and knee and shoe-buckles.
Did any pupil ever learn anything con-
corning the sounds of the vowels from
Dilworth's spelling book? Did any per-
son ever learn how to solve problem
analytic lily from the study of Pixies
arithmetic? Did any scholar ever learn
the difference between parsing and an
alyzing a sentence by studying Smiths
grammar? may, verify"
1t is right and necessary at times to
90 back to first principles, but this is no
apology, for gathering up old school
books, (Which have been thrown aside as
useless, and unworthy to compete with
more modern works., and force them
upon the pupils of the common schools,
n0Lens UoLens.
Save us from the retrogressios OF
young fogyism, or the stand stiffness OF
old fogyism, but of the two, we prefer
the latter. SOUTH WEST.
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WESTBOUND TRAINS.
Nos No.2. No.

Nos. sand 10 make close conf ection at
Columbus TOR all points south ana south,
wc>r: al Chicago tor all points West ana
Northwest.
Fast bound trains make connections al
Baltimore for Philadelphia, New YORK
and Boston. At Washington C!:y for all
points south. ,,., o
West bound trains make direct connec,
,ons Tor all principal points West and
Northwest. ,
Pullman Palace cars on all night trains.
WHEELING, PITTSB URGH AND BAL
7IMORE DIVISION.
Leave ARRIVES.
sWbezIipg Washington Pa,
d,ilv ALA. N. daily 30A. N
wheeling Washington, Pa.
daily al :25 p. NJ. daily at......6 IL T. N.
Sundays excepted. i"Sundays excepted;
Tickets 10 ali principal points on sale
at depot. Office open at all hour during
eday.
THOS. X. SHAl.P,
Master OF Transportation.
R.T DEVRIES. General Agent. iaib
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

IT seems there is an opinion in GER
tain quarters in Washington that the
election may, after all, be finally thrown
into Congress.-Nt.0 York Sun.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09
5000 AGENTS VII he N sT6h2 Of noR
CHARLEY ROSS

Written by his father. A complete &C.
count OF This most Mysterious ADductl0h
and Exciting Search. with Fac-Simile
Letters and Illustrations. Outsells all
@ her books One agent took 81 orders in
one day, Terms liberal. Also Agents
wanted on our Magnificent Family Bibles
Sunerb Bindlngs. JOHN f. POTTER &
co, Publishers, Philadelphia. lab
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athreliag gegister.
Terms, by Mail. in Advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
THE DAILY REGISTER.

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DOLLAR
All adj, 81 easements, except for establish
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Bills with regular advertisers rendered
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-09

This Bank Is orgrnized and prepared 10
transact the business OF banking In all Its
details.
II succeeds the First National Bank OF
Wheeling; is owned by the same share
holders, and Is under the same manage
ment.
By carefully regarding the interests ofits
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confidence.
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AcCoN'O MAIL. EXPRESS


,...omm0iation tram leaves bellaire al
ID p NJ, and arrives at SteuoehViiie NJ
t!2 I.S,i Accommodation trains leave
II - nj $50 a. M, and 1880 p. M.
be. !I,',,cT, ~ ;Oj "A. m. and % p IN; arrive
br;I"',tiin's Ferry at lO:l5 a. m. and ! :l5 p.
o. Returning leave Martins Ferry al
M ~. aud ~ p. M; Bridgeport III :iO
~. "' - AN ID. m; arrive at Bcllaire at
So. "a m, and BIS y. IN.
II rtI.Es. q. 80" 70 all principal points in the
I!.aarS West can be procured nj the
3 -, Ticke, Office in Mcclure House, and
a. tAt +. K. MYERS,
General Passenger Ticket Agent.
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Baltimore & Ohio r. r. Co.

z ze
n, and after January J., 1877; pssSen.
~ Trains will run a. iollowS' "heei'hs
time:
No. 5 Mol" No |. No 43'
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M. stops at all stations between
wheeling and Cumberland; NO: ~ stops
Sr,t;an: no. makes direct connections
,or all points South.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-21
Something about Torpedo Boats.

The torpedo boat is particularly
American idea. It was in 1776 and in
New York harbor that the first torpedo
boat was launched. David Bushnell, an
American Captain of Engineers, under
took to plant a torpedo under British
man-of-war, but did not succeed. The
torpedo was to be attached to the bottom
of the vessel by means of wooden screw,
and then fred by clockwork- Dur
ing the following year drifting percus-
sion-torpedo was directed against a
frigate lying off New London, and a
schooner that was moored alongside was
destroyed. Thirty years afterward Robert
Fulton experimental in New York har-
Dor with four classes of torpedoes of his
own invention, and in 1843 Col. Samuel
applied electricity to the ignition of sub
marine batteries. During the civil war
torpedoes of American invention were
used in the Southern waters, and nine
iron clads, eleven wooden war vessels
and nine transports and steamboats, were
destroyed. The only weapon of this
kind which have yet been used by the
Russians on the Danube are spar torpe-
uOSS, Linz Uuc Ou6 WHICH IIl6uU. OuSullldu
put under the bottom of the ram ALDER
marie, in Roanoke inlet. The man who
made that torpedo is the inventor of the
improved engine or war which was ex-
hibited recently at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Whitehead torpedo, which is re-
garded abroad as q marvel of ingenuity,
is propelled by compressed air, and can
not be controlled after it starts on its
course. The Lay torpedo boat carries
in its hold it's own engine and boiler,
besides it's freight of 100 pounds of dyna-
mite. The engine, the rudder and the
exploding fuse are under the control Of
the operator on shore. There are three
keys playing on the battery on shore,
and these keys start and stop the engine
or turn it to port or larboard. The tor
pedo may be so arranged as to explode
by the operation of the keys or by CON
cussion upon striking any hard object
When the torpedo strikes the vessel OF
any other solid substance, bell is rune
in the office on shore, and the dynamite
may be exploded or not. The velocity
which is claimed for this torpedo seems
marvelous--twelve miles an hour.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-21
The Woman who WAS Calm.

The charge vas that she got into a
southeast side car, and when the driver
asked for his fare she replied 81 can't
change a hundred dollar bill for the
sake OF five cents"
He entreated her 10 pay up, times
were hard and the company must have
their nickel to declare an annual divi-
dend on. She refused to respond, and
when he stopped the car she made a
great row and couldn't be put out.
When she did get off she abused pedes-
TRANS, and was seen to be under the
influence of spirits.
Il am just as calm as any one in this
ROOM" she said, as she leaned on the
railing.
"Ellen Wakefield, 1 want to talk
with you," replied his honor, as he
leaned back.
$50 ahead, judge, but don't get ex-
cited I'm calm and want to be calm,
and hope this bald-headed man here
will be calm"
"You refused to pay your fare on the
car, did you ?"
mot a refuse, your honor. The con-
ductor came along, and when he saw me
he said: Ellen. they say Queen Vic
toria is dead And 1 Just began to cry
and sob and take on, and he helped me
off the car, squoze my hand and whis-
pered: Farewell, Ellen Wakefield
And then that red faced officer trotted
me down here. "
"There must be some mistake. Ellen.
The officer is certain you were drunk"
"Be calm, your honor. If you go and
get mad and excited it will be bad for
you. 1 had brother who got excited
- he is dead now"
"What is your occupation, Ellen? ?"
"I'm a female, sir.
+" You may be-you may be, but do
you work at anything?"
"I'm just as calm as if was walking
up First, she answered.
"Do you work at anything ?"
"Ask my husband if do"
"Then you are wife and perhaps
mother ?"
"You wouldn't think there was any
perhaps about it if you saw my seven
children, and if you were present when
Johnny comes home and kicks the stove
into one corner and me into another, and
piles the chairs and dishes up in the
But Tn calm about tim
cold and calm"
"Your calmness isn't worth a cent
down here" said his honor. "The
officer has found your name in the direc-
tory, and as you are a married woman
I'll let you go. Understand, how
ever, that the next time you are brought
here there will be bowling and lament
ing in your family"
81 shall be calm, " she aswered..
He picked up pen as if he would
write sentence, but laid it down after
a moment and said
"I'l probably have you here again
within two weeks"
"And I'll probably be calm," she re-
piled, as she slid for the door. San
Jose Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-21
iHramDS on a Train.

On a Saturday night, while the ex-
press train ON the Panhandle route was
bowling along between Richmond and
Columbus, Ohio, at short distance this
side of Bradford junction, several trarnps
were discovered on board trying to steal
q ride. There has been so much trouble
with tramps on this line that they now
observe the universal rule of stopping
the train and putting them off as soon as
discovered. The conductor accordingly
pulled the bell-rope, and as soon us the
train Stacked up made raid on the gang.
They were about twelve in number, and
made some considerable resistance. A
lively skirmish ensued, the tramps
throwing rocks and the train hands using
their lanterns and coupling pins or
whatever else they could lay hands on
in the shape of weapon. One OF the
tramps had revolver, which he empticd
at random. The train men finally or
ganized and, commencing at the engine,
made complete tour of the train, driv-
ing the desperate Migrants before them.
The passengers were paric-stricken and
the coaches presented Bedlamitish mp
pearance.4
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-21
Don't Worry about Yourself.

To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from anxiety concern
ing disease. The mind has power over the
body--for person to think he has II disease
will often produce that disease. This
we see effected when the mind is intense
ly concentrated upon the disease of an
other. We have seen person seasick,
in anticipation of voyage, before reach
ing the vessel. We have known people
to die of cancer in the stomach, when
they had no cancer in the stomach or any
other mortal disease. A blindfolded
man, slightly pierced in the arm, has
tainted and died from believing he was
bleeding to death. Therefore persons
should have their minds diverted as
much as possible from themselves. 1t is
by their faith that men are saved, and it
is by their faith that they die. AS a
man thinketh, so is he. If he wills not
to die, he can often live in spite of disease;
and, if he has little or no attachment to
life, he will slip away as easily as child
will fall asleep. Men live by their
minds as well as by their bodies. Their
bodies have no life of themselves; they
are only receptacles of life-tenements
for their minds, and the will has much to
do in continuing the physical occupancy
or giving it up.