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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-13

SruCKs-Thc market Wa heavy and
lower. 10 the early dealing there wN
a decline ranging from / % per cent
After the fret board there Wa rally o'
! o. { per cent, bu: this wAs subscquentIy
.ost. Throughout the afternoon the
market WAS heavy and low At de.
cline from toe highest pOlBt, ranging
from ! % 81 per cent. There wss con-
siderable pressure % sell, and dealing, ~
times we're attended With some excite
ment. Considerable IOpg stock VIZ
pressed on the market BY ZONE Of tho
bull operators, which, in connection With
the strong bsGrish feeling IN the ToOm,
caused marked ssweakness In the .ste
dealings Michigan Central was the
weakest stock and under free Offering
dropped to 57i against 6l n the opening,
with closing tsles 1T bot. There bss
been very little dealing 10 lhA stOcS
since the lats corner, and !. seemed 20
have scarcely sny support 10 day. Th"
next rrea, decline wa; 10 the e. e. L. 81
/, WHICH iel. of from 39t 70 274. Lake
Shore u weak N Eympstny with Alsfi-
gan Cenlra. and declined % CCt AgEina
81 in the opening. Western Union wV
heavy towards the close snd declined ~
7sI. Jus! previous 70 the closs there Wa
hrmer feeling sId general recovery
Of / % I per cent. wss recovered. TIE
transactions On the Stock Exchange To-
day aggregated l4G,OOO shares, OF WINCH
1000 we're New York Central, 1900
RrIs, 1880 Lake Shore, $3.50 North
western, common, $500 preferred, $3.50
ROck LlAnd, 1900 81 Paul, 900 pro
terred i /, 800 Delaware, LsckswAnDA and
Western, 1870 Michigan Central, 2,5fD
Illinois Central, ana 1900 Wstern
Union.
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bslieyed that the Senate will
nD,n an amendment to the silver
.,viding that al bonds sold since
-; ,ssll be psid, principal and interest
B., odd.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-13
Iiasp Rail.

Eight mon of the Chicago next wear,
base ball nine have been engaged They
ar" Ferguson, Strrt, HarbrIigo, LarktU
Cassidy, Hsllmsn. Hnrkiuson and An
son These are mostly members OF this
years Brooklyu and Hartford clubs.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-13
Chicago stat. savings HnnL

CHICAGO, Novomhor - - Receiver
Otis statement of the Stlsirs ot the State
Savings bank shows the liabilities 81 nc
s., @i ,lOO assets par value, S5.051,0jIi
estimated value Sl,27S,77G
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v, hopes to bring his anti-resump
,l,,o 4 vote in the House on FIJI
,f,bis week.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-13

b,rto-dly ,olI be partly cloudy
..,,,rly ,o.nds, and rising tsmperG-
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,,, srmy appropriation bill was
- the House yesterday.
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The Repeal Bill.

General Ewing now expects TO be.able
to have debate on the Resumption bill re
sumed on Wednesday, and the previous
question called and vote be reached on
Friday. With the resumption law re-
pealed, it is quite probable that an sd-
journment of the session will be reached
nv the Dad inst
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YORK, November l3-MoSEY-
At 5G,6 per cent. PRIME mercantile
paper Gas per cent. Customs rccrlpl'
$4,000. The Assistant Irrasurrr 1i.-
bursed $4,000. Clearing' SiOOODOO
Sterling dull; long, 4S0t; short is4
GoLD-Quict At lO2SM lO2t, tho BIga
or rate ruling near the close Of tho alter
noon. Carrying rates were - 3 per
cent.
SILVER A. London unchanged hero
silver bars are l2l!, grecnbacksi llsl
gold; silver coin / ~ ! por cent DIS
count.
E.rrun,rvnr.- Firm
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,v we have Indian Summer.
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Increasing the Democratic Majority

The conviction of Congressman Smslls
will increase the Democratic majority,
as his successor will undoubtedly be y
Democrat. Upon being advised Of
Smsls' conviction officially, he will un-
doubtedly be expelled as n member Of
the House.
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lyheeling 9c9i5ter.

~ ,lo.ed ye,tsrdoy at 1929
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-01
Danger of Rocking Babies

Among the bad results of former DAYS
was that OF rocking infants to Sleep.
Rocking induces state of the brain not
favorable to health. It may throw the
infant into a morbid slumber, but not in
to so calm and refreshing a sleep as it
ought to have. Healthy infants sleep
more soundly, more quietly, more refresh
ingly, by avoiding rocking, which COM
poses by inducing temporary congestion
OF the brain. After while the desire of
being rocked is a mere matter of habit. it
compels an infant to sleep when it is not
sleepy, Or when it is wet and needs drv
clothing. In various ways make Il child
comfortable at it's regular. hour of repose.
and it will have, if in health, if it has not
been irregularly fed, that sweet and bcnc-
ticent slumber that is not induced bv
first inducing an abnormal state of the
brain. Try it. Let mother or nurse be
rocked in a hammock, and let her observe
the effects upon her own tough brain.
She may then be satisfied that shaking
the brain OF her infant from len to twenty
minutes IS no trivial affair. A mother in
d rural district had twenty infants, and
used, during the early days, long clothes
basket as tier place OF rcpose. She was
as regular as the tall clock in the corner
in feeding, washing and putting them to
rest. They all lived to maturity. She
considered rocking not only as unneces-
sary, but as cruel. We have ourselves
felt " nervous and shocked as we have
visited some nurseries and heard the con-
tlnuous rocking by the grandmarm or
some less venerable person.-Hercld Of
HealM.
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MR. .TOMKlNS' SMALL STORY.

There was a hen who talked about an
| other hen in a not very good way, and in
| not at all a friendly way. The hen she
talked about was named Phe-endy Alone.
Her own name was Teedla Toodlum. They
both belonged to a flock of white hens
which lived in q PARKWAY country of
observation-disclosures.
Now, the one that was named Teedla
Tooolum went around among the hens.
making fun of Phe-endy Alone, on ac-
count Of her having speckled feather in
her wing. She told them not to go with
Phe-endy Alone, or scratch up worms
with her, or anything, because she had
that specklcd feather in her wing.
One of the hens that Teedla Toodlum
talked to in this way was deaf, and there
fore could not hear very we'll. She had
become deaf i'll consequence OF not mind
ing her mother. 1t happened in this way :
A tall Shanghai roost-cock crowed close
to her ear, when she was quite small,
when in fact, she was just Matched out of
her shell. She had a number of brothers
and sisters who came out at almost the
same time. The shanghai stood very near
and in such Il way that his throat came
close to the nest, and he crowed there.
The chicks wanted to put their heads out
out from under the mother, and see who
was making such u noise. Their mother
said:
No, no,-no. Keep Under: You
might be made deaf. I've heard Of such
thing happening" .....
But one of the chickens did put her
head out, and close to the, Shangai's
wide-open throat, too! and when he was
growing terribly! ..-.
Then her mother said: ~aH..
"Now, ] shall punish you! I shall
pick you with my pin-feathers y
And the chick was wicked, and became
deaf besides; SO that, when she grew up,
she hardly could hear herself cackle.
And this was the reason she could not
understand, very well, when the hen
named Teedla Toodlum was telling the
hen named Phe-enny Alone had q
speckled feather in her wing.
One day, the hen named Teedla TODD
lum Scratched a hole in the sand, beneath
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The Indians Test Of Honesty.

An old trader who had established him
self at what happened to be, Al favorable
locality among the northern Indians tells
good story of his first trials, with his red
| customers. Other traders had located in
| that same place before, but had not re-
manned long. TheIndians, who evident
ly wanted goods, and had. money and
furs, flOcked about the store ct the trader.
and carefully examined his goods, but Of
tered to buy nothing. Finally the chief.
with large number of his, Tribe. visited
hins.
} '-How do, John?" said. the chief.
; - SHOW me goods. Aha. / take :.
blanket for me, and that calico for
squaw: three otter skins for blanket, and
one Tor calico. Ough! pay BIN by to
morrow
He received his goods and left. The
next day he returned with large part of
his band, his blanket we'll. stuffed with
skins of various kinds.
Nov, John, pay
And with this he drew an otter skin
from his blanket and laid It OF the coun-
ter. Then he drew second, a third. and
fourth. A moments hesitation, as if
duO t!lcu llS' dEcW out a 1ftH
skIn-a very rich and rare ,one--and pass
ed it over.
"That's right, john
The trader instantly pushed back the
last skin, with
"You owe me but FOUL I ~ant only my
just due
The chief refused to, take it, and they
passed it several times, back and forth,
each one asserting that it belonged to the
other. At length the dusky chieftain APP
peared to be satisfied. He. care the trader
scrutinizing look, and tlsen he stepped
to the door and gave a yell, and cried to
his followers:
''Come; come and trade with the pale
face John. He no cheat Indian; his heart
big
Then turning back 10 the trader. he
said:
suppose you take. Last skin, tell my
people no trade with. you. We drive YOU
offlike dog, as we drive off others; but
now you Indians friend, and we be
yours"
Before dark the trader was waist deep
in furs and loaded down with cash. He
found that honesty had commercial value
with the Indians.
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Attractions at Atlantic City.
Philadelphia Bulletin.

Philadelphia Bulletin.
One Of the editers Of this paper has just
returned from Atlantic City. From con
versations he overheard between hotel
keepers and anticipated guests. he sets
the following down as the main points OF
this Watering place: It has the exclusive
privilege Of bringing its sea water from
the gulf stream every dag. Breakers
suitable for brokers, and surf with sur
face sufficiently rough for men, and vet
safe enough when there's women swimin'.
An inlet to which there is a safe outlet.
and fish which are trained TO take the
bait without debate, and to be caught BY
hook or by crook CLANS which have
been trained and taught to eat out OF
visitors hands, and jelly FISH which run
around the hotels at night and bark An
atmosphere so very dry that the autfori-
ties have to wet it down every afternoon
with a steam engine to Aeepit from CATCH
ing fire. Silver plated lighthouses. with
mother Of pearl floors, and tapestry car
pets. The beach is also covered with
oil-cloth, to keep it out Of the wet. hot
salt water baths, heated by Vesuvius and
run across to the Jersey coast by special
pine line. A competent colored man en-
gagged to roar when the surf don't. Hotels
which charge nothing, and allow salary
to guests; which grow their OWE hops,
have spring and fall beds. and clerks who
wear diamonds of such hrilliancy that the
light house uses them in turns, for iilunl-
mating purposes. Lightning express trains
run by good lightning conductors, and
brakemen that are as competent as the
other breakers on the beach.
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With Some Exceptions, Angelic.

From the Virginia New Enterprise.
n few daye since poor woman came
here with three little children. She had
neither friends nor money. and one baby
was i'll. She was anxious to get to her
brother in Idaho, but the task seemed
hopeless one. She concluded to give Il
lecture, which should consist simply of
the pathetic story of her struggle to take
care of her little ones. She called upon
one gentleman i'll this city and asked him
to buy a ticket. He said: MY good
woman, COON with your lecture. and after
1t IS over come and see me again
Yesterday she called again, and he asked
her how much she lacked to enable her
10 reach her friends. She told him. It
was pretty large sum. but the man I'M
mcdiately drew check for enough more
than the amount named to guard against
accidents, and told the woman gently
that 1t she was detained or got in trouble
on the road to write to him. The woman
told us all this, with tears in her eyes.
and said he was an angel. He would not
Go for a rcady-made angel without some
repairs, but it was a good deed. and we
fancy he slept better for it last night
There are some very sweet things con-
nected with the possession Of great
wealth.
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Story Of the Engineer.

"Lct me put my name down frst-I
can't stay long"
It was a red ribbon meeting, and the
man was locomotive engineer, bronzed
and strong, and having eyes full of deep
determination. He signed his name in
bold, plain hand, tied q red ribbon in
his botton-hoic, and as he left the hall he
said:
| "As the Lord looks down upon me, I'll
never touch liquor again.
"Have you been a hard drinker?''
Queried man who walked beside the
engineer.
mo. Fact is, / was never drunk in
my life. I've swallowed considerable
whisky, but never went far enough to
get drunk. I shouldn't miss it or be the
worse off for an hour if all the intoxicat-
ing drink in the world was drained into
the ocean,"
"But you seemed eager to sign the
PLEDGE
80 was, and I'll keep it through
thick and thin, and talk temperance to
every man on the road"
"You must have strong reasons?"
"Well, if you'll walk down to the de-
pot I'll tell you a story on the way It
hasn't been in the papers yet, and only a
few Of us know the facts. You know
run the night express On the B--road.
We always have at least two sleepers and
coach, and sometimes we have as many
as two hundred passengers. It's good
road, level as floor, and straight, though
there is a bad spot or two. The night
express has the right, o way, and we
make fast time. It's no rare thing for us
to skim along at the rate Of fifty miles an
hour for thirty or forty miles, and we
rarely go below thirty. One night |
pulled out of Detroit with two sleepers,
two coaches, and the baggage and mail
| cars.
Nearly all the berths in both sleepers
were full, and most of the seats in the
coaches were occupied. 1t was dark
night, threatening all the time to rain,
and lonesome wind whistled around the
cab as we left the city behind. We were
seventeen minutes late, and that meant
fast time all the way through.
"Well,' he continued after a moment,
''everything ran along all right up to
midnight. The main track was kept
clear fer us; the engine was in good spir-
it's, and we ran iuto D. as smooth as
you please. The express coming east
should meet US fifteen miles west Of D.,
but the operator at that station had failed
to receive his usual report from below.
That was strange, and yet it was not, and
after little consultation the conductor
sent me ahead. We were to keep the
main track, while the other train would
run on the side track. Night after night
our time had been so close that we did
not keep them waiting over two minutes,
and were generally in sight when they
switched in. s....
"When we left D. VIC went ahead
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had happened out of the usual course,
and the ladies were safely bestowed for
the night in hut made as comfortable
as possible.
How he was called upon to account for
his nights work will be best told in Gen
Shields own language: }zF-s,ss = 50
1.-THE next morning an officer of Gen
SCOTS staff came to my quarters with a
message from the general that he would
like to know the cause of the previous
nights alarm, as it originated in that part
of the line which was under my COM
mand. answered that I would report
in pclson, which at once did. On the
way thought the matter over, and con-
cluded that it would be best to make u
clean breast of it, and I did So The
story threw Gen. Scott into a tremendous
rage. Ever since Cewo Gordo was
fought he had addressed ME as My Cerro
Gordo triend,' but he now tssoppcd that
familiar name. Gen Shields he thun-
dered, you are insubordinate and reck-
less in the highest degree. You have
put in PERIL the fruits of the whole cam
paign; you have, perhaps, frustrated all
my plans for the capture OF the city Of
Mexico! Sir, III disgrace You; I'll court
martial you. and have you dismissed the
service"
At this my temper rose, and I answered
him plainly that he might court martial
me, and perhaps get me dismissed, but
that after all that had occurred on this
campaign, neither he nor any other man
could disgrace me; and being by this
time pretty we'll stirred up, I said that
under like circumstances I would do pre-
cisely the same thing over again. Instead
OF being more angry, the general was
rather softened by this speech. 4 was
wrong, Gen. Shields he said, in saying
that would disgrace you; I ask your
pardon for that. You are a brave man,
and disgrace is not the word to use to-
ward you. But you arc to blame in the
matter, sir. You have acted without Or
| ders, and have imperiled the whole cam
paign.' Gen. Scott, I said, before you say
anything more about it, suppose you
come over to my quarters and see these
| ladies'
After some further talk he promised to
do so, and rode back to my tent pretty
we'll satisfied that should have no fur
Their trouble with the affair. In an hour
over came Gen. Scott, and 1 at once in
troduced him to the ladies. The daugh-
ter was a picture OF beauty, with her gold
Ell curls and her blue eyes; and after the
mother had thanked the general for their
preservation with fearful eyes and trem-
| bling voice, the girl seized his hands,
wept over them, called him her preserver
and invoked the blessings of heaven on
his head. Scott looked from her to me
with a very benevolent face, and said {:
well, my Cerro Gordo friend, if I get
you court martialed for this, I shall have
you promoted, too have only to add
that long afterward, when the war was
over, and we had returned to the United
States, received from England, the gift
Of these ladies, a costly diamond pin as
token Of their gratitude"
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bromblebusl,, and sat down ther, "a COW
Came along at the other side Of the
braaable-bush, with load of "passeng
ers'' on her back. The COWS in, the
cob.ntry Of Observation-Disclosures, per.
NIT the hens to rice or their backs, and
when q great manysare ON, they step care
tully, so us not to shake them @lf. In
frosty weather they allow them to- get Ill
there to warm their feet. Sometimes
hens who have cold feet fly up, and push
off the others who have been there long
enough.
The COW passed along the other side of
the bush, and by slipping one foot into {;
deep hole which was hidden with grass,
and therefore could not be seen, upset
the whole load of"passcngers. She then
walked on; but the passengers STAYED
there, and had a little talk together
after their own fashion, Of course. The
deaf one happened to- be among them,
and after while, seeing that the others
were having great sport, she wanted to
know whatit was all about Upon this
the others-those of them who co,Id stop
Laughing raised their Voices aad all
began at once to try to make Acr under
stand. And this is what they SAID:
"Think Of that goose of hen. Tecdla
Toodlum, telling us not to go wi h Pie
endy Alone, because Phe-endy Alone
has speckled feather in her wiMg, when,
at the same time, Teedla Toodlum has
two spcckled featheys in her oma wing.
but doesn't know itr'
Teedla Toodiuns was listening, and
heard rather more shan was pleasant to
her: She looked through the bramble-
bush and saw them. Some had their heads
thrown back, laughing; some holding on
to their sides, each with one claw; and
some were stretching their necss forward,
trying to make the deaf one understand,
while the deaf oac held her claw to her
ear, in order to hear the better.
"Ah! I feel ashamedr' said Teedla
Toodlum to herself. II see, now, that
one should never speak the
speckled feathers one sees in others
since one can never be sure that one has
not speckled feathers ones selfr-!Nrs.
abby Morton Dias,' st. NieAolos for .Augast.
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THE DISCOVERER.

i nave a little kinsmau .....,....,.-.,--
Whose early summers arc but three
And vet a voyager is he.
Greater than Drake or Frobisher-
Than all their peers together!
He is e brave discovercr,
And far beyond the tethcr
OF them who seek the frozen pole,
Has sailed where the nOiSeless surwes ROLL
~. &c has travelled whittier
4 winged pilot steercd his bark
Through the portals of the dark,
Past hoary Mimir's well and tree,
Across the unknown sea-.
Suddenly in his tar young hour,
tam" one who wore Il flower,
-ANi aid it on his dimpled hand
With this commands:
'Hroccforth thou art Il rover!
Thou must make 4 voyage far,
Sst beneath the evening star
And 4 wOndrous land discover"
VIII, his sweet smile innocent.
Our little kinsmaH went.
Since that time no word
Ertlm the absent has been heard
Who can tell
NOW he fares, or answers well
WHAT the little one has found
Since he left Us, outward bound:
N0Hld that he might rcturn
Then should we learn
i'rnr. the pricking of his chart
How The sllyey roadwavs part.
Hush. Goes not the baby in this way bring
I" lay beside the severed curl
Ssn" starry offering
Vi chrysolite Or pearl:
Nh, no! not so!
y ::..ty follow on his track,
But he comes not back
-AIlG vt2t dare aver
l., : Il brave discovercr
~ u.inlcS his elders do not know;
He has more learning than appears
tn liz: scroll of twice three Thousand years;
Mere than in the groves is taught,
Or from f,,rthcst Indies brought
He knows perchance, how spirits fare
VIA: shapes the angels wear,
Wi!:t1 is their guisc and speech
l.? hose lands beyond our reach
And his eyes behold
Things That shall never, be to mortaIs heal
aTs told.
-hN".4Ht5 T.. ,teadman, IN Radiul Reriem.
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Ever since the Scligman excitement,
Mr.. solomon 1saacs, Jr., remarks conf
dentially to his father: "Kess you'd pet
ter not walk dis site of de rote, old shen-
tlemens-all my frients will dake me for
Shoe. Its a great comfort to find
some place on earth where one may be
clear Of them 1sraelites and shopkeepers,"
exclaimed Mrs. Wholesale Yardstick, on
Monday last, as she settled down on a
sofa in one Of the parlors Of the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga Juli-ah, my dear,
come and set with me on this teetateet,"
Puck.
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Historians are disputing over the ques-
ton whether Queen Elizabeth knew ANY,
thing about household duties. In eyi-
dence that she did, it may be adduced
that when asked how she thought
England's goose should, be cooked, She
promptly replied, "Mary, Stew it '-Neao
York Commercil Advertiser.
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capital OF Massachusetts, andI had ans
wered Northampton" and all the school
laughed. John enjoyed the conversation:
amazingly land he half wished that he
and Cynthia were the whole of the party.