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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-24
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Democratic Municipal Ticket,

Democratic Municipal Ticket,
Mayor,
A. ]. SWEENEY
City Sergeant,
j. w. SWEENEY.
City Clerk.
ALEX. UPDEGRAFF.
Superintendent OF Water Works,
JOHN w. CUMMINS.
Street Commissioner,
JAMES u. WHITE.
Wharf Mas er,
WIN. RUTHERFORD, Sr.
For city Sergeant.
Editors OF the Register:
Please announce that l will be candl-
date for the Office OF City Sergeant at the
coming municipal election.
FRED HUSEMEN.
Editors OF the Register
At the request of many friends, here
by announce myself as candidate Tor the
Office OF City Sergeant at the ensuing char
ter election. ROBERT COWAN.
Editors ofthe Register;
Please announce ID. NE BIT as the
peoples candidate for the office OF City
Sergeant At the ensuing charter election,
ana oblige many friends and voters.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.

IF ANY PERSON FOUND A BOOK
| with yellow back, containing many
names and accounts, on Tuesday, the
18TH, they will receive one dollar for leav-
lug it at this office, or with the owner,
whose name they Will find In the book.
The finder IL also welcome to any money
that may be in said book. ja49h
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
The Tomato Season Prolonged

l see an article in your January
number from General w. II. Noble,
of Bridgeport Conn.,, giving his meth
cd of keeping tomatoes after frost.
l have been practicing the same meth
Oh almost indentically for twelve or
fifteen years past, and always sue
cessfully keeping them sometime as
late as February. Our tomatoes be-
gin to ripen here about the beginning
of July, so we have six months sea-
son, by laying in good supply in
November. In order to insure good
crop, I always SOW second crop of
seed about the end of June. These
will come into bearing (ripening)
about the end of September or in
early October. BY frost (say first of
November) the vines are full of fruit
in all stages of growth. When a
killing frost is expected. l pick in
all the fruit, even those that arc half
grown, spread them out carefully in
some dry place, where they can be
used as they ripen. In our latitude
almost any room in the house will
answer our purpose. 1t is only nee
essary that the fruit should not freeze.
l kept them many years on the floor
Of basement room, where the tenn
perature was always above the freez-
ing point. Last year had them in q
cold pit covered with glass, but found
that was too warm, as the fruit ripen-
ed too rapidly, and was all done be-
fore Christmas. The full grown fruit
will ripen perfectly, of fine color and
good flavor those only half grown
will also ripen, but of course are not
as well favored, nor as richly color
ed.
While on the subject, | will state
that the potato fungus Peronospora
infestans) almost invariably attacks
the leaves of the second crop of toma-
toes, not, however, to injure materi-
ally the production but l have never
seen any trace of the fungus on the
first crop of tomatoes or on the potato
leaves in this region.-Cor. Gardner's
Monthly.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11

Mr.. David A. Wells, of Norwich,
Conn.,, is powerful financial writer,
who as special Revenue Agent, of the
Treasury, at one time, illustrated po-
litical economy with very many brill
liant treatises on both sides of the
tariff question. His politics are of
the same bifurcated pattern, he hav-
ing been Republican, then a Greedy
lite, and last year defeated Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Norwich district.
He is ont in lengthy article
against remonetizing "the dollar Of
the daddies," his principal objection
thereto being, as the Chicago Tribune
we'll says, that 81 600 of silver weighs
fifty pounds!
The people who bought our bonds
at forty cents to the dollar in de-
based currency which they were
afraid to hold and who surreptitious-
ly procured the denomination of
silver in 1873, and who are now howl
ing throughout the land, that it
would be reputation to pay princi-
pal and interest of those bonds In sill
yer, because their very act of demon
citation has reduced silver below
gold in value, ought to be grateful
and prompt in recognizing Mr.. Wells
services in behalf of the suffering
home and foreign public creditors.
Between the Free Traders in Eng
land and the Bondholders, this Con-
necticut Financial Free Lance is well
employed, and he ought to be well
Daid.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
Drowned.

Last Sabbath morning our citizens
were startled by the news that Mrs.
Sarah Bowen, Of Beacon had drowned
herself in Muchachinock creek, near
that place. The particulars are as
follows:
She arose before 6 o'clock, Sunday
morning, remarking that she was GO
ing to wait upon a sick neighbor,
gave some instructions to the chill
dren, and left the house. She took
her way directly to the creek, and de-
sccnding the steep bank deliberately
drowned herself in water only two
feet deep. She had been in the wa
ter over two hours when discovered
by some one in the neighborhood.-
Every effort was made to resuscitate
her, but of course unavailing after
that length of time. In January
1867, her husband died, and in March
1868, one of her sons was killed in q
coal bank by the falling Of the roof !;
October Ii, 1868, another son died,
and the triple bereavement nearly
crushed her; but for the sake of her
children she struggled on. About
years ago she became subject to
inflamatory rheumatism, suffering
greatly and sometimes when in the
paroxysm of pain, she wished she
was dead, and that is the only refer
ence she ever made to the dread tax
ing off. =. She leaves seven.
children; John w., and Charles,
with some younger children at Bea-
can, and a married daughter in Van
Buren, county. All have our sympa-
thy.-Oskaloosa Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
100000 Bottles
OF THE
Cent auR


have been sod the last year. and not one complaint
has reached u.s. that they have not done all that Is
clafmed for them. Indeed scientific skill cannot
go beyond the result reached in these wonderful
preparations. Added to Carbolic, Arnca, Men
tina, Sencca-oil and Witch Hazel, are other in
gradients. which makes family Eminent that
deiies rivalry. Rheumatic and ed-ridden Grip
pies have by it been enabled to throw away their
crutches, and many who for years have been A.
nictei with Neuralgia, sciatca, Caked Breasts,
Weak Backs, &c, have found permanent relief.
Mr.. Josiah Wcstlake, of Marysvlllc, o., writes:
"For years my rheumatism has been so bad
that have been unable to stir from the house.
have tried every remedy cou'd hear of. Finally
learned of the Centaur Liniment. The frat three
bottles enabled me to walk without my crutches
am mendlng rapidly. think your Liniment
simplya marvel"
This Liniment cures Burns and Scal,ls without
a scar. Extracts the Poison from bites and stings
Cures Chilbla'ns aud Frosted Feet, and is very
etlicacious for Eaachc, Toothache, Itch, and Gu
taneous Erupions.
The CentauK Iiufment, Yellow
Wrapper. is intended for the tough fbers cords
and muscles of horses. mules and animals.
| READ READ.
| Rev. Geo. W. Ferris, ManorRll, Schoharie Co,
n. Y, says:
''My horse was lame fora year with fctlock
| wrench. An remedies utterly failed to cure and !
| considered him worthless until commenced To
use eentai'r Liniment, which rapidly cured him.
! l heartily recommend it,
Itmakcs very little difference whether the case
he wrench" sprain, tpayin, Or lameness Of any
kind, the effects are the same. The great powe,
of the Liniment is, however shown in Poll-eyil
Big head. sweeny, SPAWN, Ring-bone, Calls and
Scratches. This Linment il worth millions Of
dollars yearly TO the Stock growers, Livery men
Farmers aud these having valuable animals Ia
care for. We warrant its effects and refer to any
Farrler who has ever used it.
LABORATORY OF J. u. RosE 4 Co.
80 Dey street, New York.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11


You watch it, development, with
expectant solicitnde-the choice ex-
quisitely y. moulded bud which promis-
es to unfold with the perfect flower.
You perhaps think how It will adorn
the drawing room vase, and antici.
pate the pleasure of howing it to your
flower-loving friends. But some NOR
ming you find it's head dropping, its
fragrance fled, and An ugly purple spot
on one of the delicately tinted petals.
1t is the poets "canker In the bud"
How often the loathsome canker
blights the cherished "infant bios.
sons in our household gardens
those human buds which give earnest
of.a brilliant future. The noisome
canker, so long concealed-scrofula-
at length reveals ito dreaded presence
and to our bright hopes succeeds the
most agonizing fear, for We know the
fatal sequel It portends-pulmonary
consumption. 1t 10 estimated by EN-.
inent medical authorities that 1t least
one. fifth of mankind are afflicted with
this insidious malsdy. But its rayag-
es are 80 secret, that even ito victims
are unaware OF its presence until II
suddenly discl0ses itself In some of Its
myriad and ofttimes fatal forms. A
slight cutaneous eruption is often the
only indicator of ito presence The
only means of exterminating this dis
ease from the system is by thorough
course of constitutional treatment
This treatment must fulflll three in.
dica,ions, namely, promote nutrition,
alter or purify the blood, and arrest
disorganization Of the tissues and the
the formation of tubercles. No more
efficient Alternative can be employed
for these purposes than DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. While
imparting strength and tone to the di.
gestive organs it cleanses the blood
and heals the diseased tissues. Test
its virtues ere the deadly canker has
blightcd the life you prize.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11

About year ago person giving
his name as j. NJ. O'Neill went to Min
neapolis, started law office, Joined
q church, took charge of Bible class,
made elegant prayers and began to
get law business. In q short time he
was engaged to be married, too, and
was likely to become firmly establish
ed in the affections of Minneapolis
Everybody spoke we'll of him and he
became one of the legal lights of the
city. He was engaged in a case in
court, when q visitor happened to
drop in. O'Neill was pouring cut his
wrath upon somebody who had
wronged his client. The visitor found
out all about the lawyers name, BUSH
ness connections, matrimonial inten-
tons and religious professions, and
then exposed him, Selling his law Ii
brary and other effects by legal pro-
cess and telling what he knew of
O'Neill. He said that O'Neill, under
the name of John M. Boyd, had de-
serted wife and three children in
Detroit, and had been guilty of much
other crookedness. The visitor said,
moreover, that he was Boyd-O'Neilps
brother-in-law, and that he had long
been looking for the scoundrel to sit
down on him, and effectually crushed
his business, social, matrimonial and
religious prospects in Minneapolis.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
A Sad Fate.

Nathan Lowttz Finds q Watevy Grave
The above announcement will STAR
tie our readers this morning, and Gre
ate feeling Of sadness among all
those who were acquainted with Mr..
Lowitz.
About s o'clock last night, he and
Dan. Mcqueen, Ed. Hardin, Geo.
Dunlap and Will Jones proceeded to
the river and, procuring skiff, went
to the opposite shore to bathe-select-
ing the middle slough, as it is called,
for that purpose. The party was
there'but a short time when Mr.. Low
itz, who was no swimmer, reached q
step-off and was drowned before it
was possible to save him.
Mr.. Lowitz, it is well known, has
been connected with the merchant
tailoring business Of our city for sew
eral years, and we learn the business
under his management was doing ex-
ceedingly well this season.
The deceased was Q member of
Hermann Lodge, 1. o. o. f., of this
city, and q young man of genial
manners, with large circle of friends.
Gate 9th, It'll.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
Rad Mistake.

The Iowa State Register quotes .
recent CorRlER article in which ref.
ercnce was being made to the Wade
and Davis manifesto OF 1864, and the
dissatisfaction among republicans then
prevailing against Blairism in the
Cabinet and McClellanisth in the
army. In that article we said "that
all that dissatisfaction towards Lin
coin grew out of no want of faith in
his honesty or patriotism" The Reg
lister compositor and proof-reader
have accidentally dropped the no and
they therefore make us In that
paper say, what no respectable paper
upon the face of the earth would have
said either in 1854, or would say now
of Abraham Lincoln.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11

Senator Morton, of Indiana, has
given vast amount of study to the
subject of change in the constitu-
ton for the election Of President and
Vice-President, and his conclusions
are as follows:
"The Electoral College has, as we
said in a former article, never repre-
sented the will of the people; it has
never come within ten per cent. Of it,
while it has varied from it as much
as forty per cent. As it stands now
it is an election by the States. But if
the voting was by districts, If the
people voted directly for the man Of
their choice, and if the man who re-
ceived the largest number of votes in
any Congressional district should
count one, then the election would be
national. Instead of New York GO
ing solidly for particular candidate
by reason of a small majority, it Is
divided very evenly. In 1874 Birney
took from Clay in New York less
than six thousand votes; that gave
the vote of the State to Polk; where
as one-half, believe, of the members
Of Congress elected were wings. A
like thing has been done from time
to time in other States. l would pre-
fer to elect a President by direct
vote of the people. as one great COM
munity, instead of being separated
by State lines. / would prefer that
they should vote as one people, and
that the man who received the great
est number of votes in the United
States should be the President. /
would not require him to have ma
jority Of all the votes cast, but would
do in regard to the election Of Presi-
dent rs we do in the election of Gov
elnOrs OF States-the man who gets
the most votes to be President.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
A Brace Of Stories.

Col. James Baker, in his work on
Turkey, tells the following stories !:
He once asked q British missionary to
the Turkish Jews. if he had made any
converts. He replied cautiously that
he had. Col. Baker pushed for q
more precise reply, and asked how
many converts his friend actually had
at that moment. 81 cannot say that /
have any" was the answer, "but Miss
w. has one at Cairo" On another
occasion Col. Baker was told by an
American merchant that he knew
place in Macedonia where gold stuck
out of the rocks, and that he had cut
of apiece Of solid gold three inches
long and as thick as his thumb. ~
felt inclined" Col. Baker goes on to-
say, "to address the man as 1 once
heard one American say to another
who had just been drawing the long
bow: Sir, l have no doubt you are
speaking the truth, and that's a fact,
but If was to meet You in New
York, Waiting down Fifth avenue,
arm-in-arm with Ananias and Sap
phira, / should take you all to be Of
the same family"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
AN APPEAL FROM CUBA.
Attempt to Rob a Train Loaded
with Specie.
Probable War with Mexico In Con
sequence Of U. s. Troops In
.vading Her Territory.

New York, July l0.-The Cuban
League of this city, have resolved to
make an appeal to the people of the
United States asking them to show
their sympathy with the struggling
Cuban patriots; also to ask Congress
to take some action that will end the
struggle.
Moses Minkcsheimcr, Mark Lind
helm and Robert Lindheim have
been discharged from bankruptcy.
The firm were engaged in the whole
sale liquor business and failed for
over 100000. One of the partners
lost 100000 in speculation on his
own account OH Black Friday.
The silk manufacturers Of Patter-
son are about to begin actions for
damages against the strikers for
breach of contract. Most of the
strikers had written contracts in
which they bound themselves to
finish all warps on which they had
begun work before engaging in a
strike. When the recent strike oc-
Cured large numbers of the strikers
left work without finishing their
warps.
A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch
states that at 4 p. M, on Sunday, the
train of Mr. Scherbagen, enroute
from chihuahua to San Antonio,
laden with specie, was attacked by
thirty-fve white and Mexican high
waymcn, near Seco creek, 80 miles
from there. The train contained IL
wagons and there were 20 men with
it. After a desperate fight the rob-
bers were driven Off. losing several
killed and wounded. The mpior
domo Of the train, Frank Greniziger,
and Mexican were killed and sew
eral others of the train men were
wounded. No such outrage has oc-
Cured since the war.
Senior Marical, recently Minister OF
Mexico, now residing near New
York, being interviewed about the
crossing Of United States troops into
Mexico, said he was sorry that the
decisive step of crossing the border
had been taken. 1t could not he con-
sidered in any other light by the
Mexican government than an inva'
sion of that country, and this was
probably but the beginning. 1t was
q very unfortunate situation because
q collision would be a very serious
thing and most probably would lead
to serious complication between The
two governments.
He knew Gen. Trevino had receiv
ed instructions to resist any invasion
and he knew that if Trevino's forces
met any Of the invading forces Their,
wouldbe battle. Whcn,a year ago
the depradations were more frequent
the House of Representatives seemed
to repel the idea of involving the Gov
eminent in any complications will
the sister Republic, and now while
Congress was not in session it seemed
strange that different policy should
be resolved upon. 1t was not just t.
Mexico, for the Mexican Government
has always been disposed TO do eve
ry thing in its power to maintai,
good relations between that counlr,
and the United States, but always un
der condition of resisting the inva
sion of their territory that they coult
not permit and would resent will
all their force.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
The Investigating Committee Got
ting Close After Grover.

PORTLAND, Oregon, July S.-Before
the Senatorial Investigating Com
mittee w. j. Mcconnell, of Yam Hill
County, testified that Wilson men,
Der Of the House from Tellamook Co.,
who voted for Grover, and whose
property was heavily mortgaged be-
fore the meeting of the legislature
paid OF some debts and Cancelled his
mortgage Immediately after adjourn
ment of the legislature: that Inc dis
played considerable sums Of money
and changed $40 pieces frequently in
Portland, just after the senatorial
election.
w. j. IIutler, of Wasco, testified
that Butler Of the House from that
county, who was supposed to be in
limited circumstances before the cleo
ton, Immediately after purchased a
half interest in steam saw mill for
$4,000, which occasioned surprise and
remarks among his neighbors.
The parties managing the investi-
CATION say they are only on the thresh
hold of the testimony. Mosicr of
Wasco Co., who approached ex-Sena-
tor Nesmith and wanted money for
his vote, and afterwards voted for
Grover. and who told Goodman,
Senator from Linn County, that mon
ey could be had and that it was right
to take it, is keeping out of the way
of the United States Marshal. When
last heard from he was in the noun
tains. Some others are missing and
can't be found.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
Weixhtv Brides.

Throughout the Empire of Moroc-
co there are villages where the elder
members of the adult population fol-
low professionally the pursuit of
fattening young ladies for the matri-
monial market of Barbary, The
Moors-like the Turks and most
Oricntals-give decided preference
to the "moon-faccd wives over lean
ones, and are more solicitous as to
the number Of pounds which their
brides weigh than about the stock of
accomplishments which they possess.
A girl is put under the process of
fattening when she is about IL years
of age. Her hands are tied behind
her and she is seated on a carpet so
many hours per day, while her "papa''
stands over her with matraque, or
stick, and her mother pops in her
mouth at times q ball of c0,lsc0assd, or
stiff maize porridge, kneaded up with
grease, and just large enough to be
swallowed by the patient without
choking. If the unfortunate girl de-
clined to be crammed she is compelled
to submit, SO that ere long the poor
girl resigns herself to the torture, and
gulps down the boluses less she
should be beaten.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11

THE closing remarks of Senator
Blaine on the Attn, were as follows.
They are such as to command the
attention Of the country:
''The consolidated strength Of the
sixteen states that were lately slave
holding is a tremendous political
force, embodying almost. one half the
Senate Of the United States, more
than one-third of the House of Rep
resentatives, and about two-fifths Of
the Electoral College. This entire
element is controlled by q small mi.
nority of the people of those states
it will be welded in the future with
the unity of despotisln, and it aims al
permanent domination in the Govern
ment of the country. Let us look the
future squarely in the face, preparing
for the danger in season, and avert Il
ifpossible. / take my position with.
out hesitation, without distrnst, with.
out acrimony, and without conceal
ment. believe that southern control
in the Government of the union Is the
worst possible result, even for thu
South itself. / believe that it is men
acing and dangerous to every inter
est in the land. l believe that the meE
who in battle and in council saved
the union should govern it; believe
that the men who for four years
sought the life of the nation should
not be intrusted with its supreme
control I believe that the heresy OF
the citizens primary allegiance being
due to his State-a heresy which has
already wrought SO much misery and
shed so much blood-should be con-
fined to the state that cherishes it, and
not be permitted to instill itself in the
Government of the nation and final.
~, / believe that any policy which
contemplates, or by any possibility
involves, the annexation of Mexican
territory or any other addition to the
disturbed elements of the South, is al
war with the highest interest of ev'
cry American citizen of the genera
ton that now is, and of those count.
less generations which, in the Pr0vi.
dence of God, shall succeed to our
proud title and to its continually
widening responsibilities"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
murSior and Arson.

CHICAGO, July D.-Specials say thai
John Ennis and wife, who lived on a
farm about five miles down the river
from Lacrosse, on the Minnesota side
were found dead and burned until
nearly unacceptable, in the ruins
OF their house on Sunday. II is be-
lieved that an employee Of Ennis
by the name Of Joseph Marquette,
having quarrellcd with Ennis, shot
the aged couple and fired the house
to hide his crime. This is rendered
extremely probable by circumstances
that have come to light and by the
flight of MarQuitte.