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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
SILVER In THE SENATE.

Several propositions have been made
10 amend tho House Silver Bill in the
Senate, so as TO neutralze as far as posi-
BILE its beneficial effects to the country;
and yesterday the further consideration
OF the question by that body was post
pcned until Monday next, with the I'M
dersisnding that tie debate shall be re.
sumed and continued from day to day
till a vote shall be reached. 1t is believed
that the discussion will last ten days or
two weeks.
L. seems to US that the first duty OF
Congress in the premises is-aetion.
Quite enough talking has been done.
Suspense ruins business.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

AUGUST BELMONT says that the en-
c,nnati Commercial misrepresented Gov.
Hendricks on the silver question.
A SPECIAL term of tho Circuit Court
will commence IN Brooke county next
Monday, the 4lh, for the trial of railroad
cases.
/ IT takes twenty-four jurors to find out
if Mr. Lord is insane, and it will proba-
bly, take rs many more TO convince him
that he is crazy.
THE miners of tho Hampshire, Phoenix
and Franklin mines, in the Cumberland
coal region, have resolved TO so to work
for 40 cents per ton.
w. c. MANSON, who was recently
killed at Altoona, had $4,000 on his
person. Wonder if he wasn't news
paper correspondent?
The New York Graphic is very COM
plimentsry to Col. T. r. Sharp, formerly
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
thinks the Long Island railroad will
prosper under his management.
WE received an invitation TO be pres
ent at the grand banquet given TO Mr.. j..
Q. A. MAIDEN boush, at the Grand Central
Hotel in Martinsburg, last night, and
desire to tender our thanks for the same.
SEVERAL days $50 we were favored
with polite invitation from Mr.. w. L.
Jamlson, of Columbus, to meet Governor
Bishop and members of the Assembly at
the Capital Hotel in that city. We
would have gladly attended had our du-
ties permitted.
WHAT wicked little girls they must
have in Akron, Ohio. The Pittsburgh
Chronicle says: "Mr. knight, son of the
publisher of the Akron Times, arrived in
the city yesterday IN search OF his wife
and daughter, the latter aged about four
years, who had eloped with man named
Rotard OF that place"
SENATOR HENRY g. DAVIS got of q
perfec. pulyerizsr on some Republican
Senators on Wednesday. During de-
bate on the dilstory payment of pensions
by the Pension Buresu, Edmunds and
Hosr ssid the delay wss owing to the
false economy Of the Democrats, where
upon our Senator read statement from
Jencke's report that three or four clerks
hsd been taken from the Pension Office
and placed on the Republican Congress
siopsl Committee. As might be expected,
the debate came to rather abrupt close.
WHEN 8 man dies, his assets are his
life record, and his liabilities, according
TO brother Beecher, are unknown.-&
LoHis Dispatch,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
DOG LAWS.

A correspondent of the REGISTER,
writing from Steubenville on the 2Stb,
whose communication we published at
the time, gave our readers an account of
the killing and wounding by dogs of 81
sheep IN one flock and the killing of 20
out of another flock Of 40, all on the same
night. This happened last Saturday
night in the county of Brooke. Sheep
are taxed. Dogs are not.
Many OF the States have laws enacted
for the encouragement of sheep hus-
bandry. Our laws seems to haye for their
prime object the encouragement of dog
husbandry. Cause: Dogs have more
votes in West Virginia than sheep.
In the States referred TO a small tax,
ranging in amount from 90 cents to
$500, is levied upon each dog, and, then,
when a sheep-raiser meets with a loss
from the depredstions of lot of worth
less ours upon his flocks, he is reimbursed
out of this dog-tax fund. If this tax is
not all absorbed in this way, the remain
der Is turned into the school fund.
In Virginia, or at least in some coun-
ties of Virginia, law of this kind is in
force; and, as we showed by some Stats
tics gathered and printed IN the
REGISTER few months ago, the
results have been most favorable.
Each year since the law came into oper-
alton, the amount of revenue gathered
from the tax on dogs has decressed-in-
dicating decrease in the number of
worthless dogs kept-the number OF
sheep has very largely increased, and the
amount of damage to focks by dogs has
been greatly reduced.
Massachusetts and most OF the Eastern
States, where sheep-raising has been car
ried to its greatest perfection, have strin-
gent laws upon this subject, but the peo-
pie of the Old Bay State are not quite
satisfied with the provisions of their
present law, and they are petitioning the
Legislature 10 SO change them rs to pro.
vide Ms follows
First, That the annual tax or license
for keeping dogs be increased to $40 for
l. "A e.. IL
dog,
Second, That those who hsrbor or own
dogs shall give bonds, with surety, to pay
all damage or injury caused by their dogs.
Third, That fine or penalty may be
fixed upon to punish all dog owners who
neglect TO properly license their dogs,
and fine all town or city officers VINO
neglect to enforce the law.
This looks like business.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01

and seventy were twin measures
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, in the interest OF the
bonded creditors of the country, IN utter
disregard of the rights of the country
itself, and, while intended 10 make the
national debt payable in coin, were also
calculated to maintain indefinitely the
financial supremacy of the privileged
few, and 10 increase and perpetaate IN
the interest Of that few the burdens OF
the masses: Therefore,
l. Resolved By the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States o.
America in Congress assembled, mat
said acts be so far modified or repealed
rs to prevent the further assump-
ton of gold and silver liabilities upon
securities which are payable In the lawful
money of the country.
And ichereas, The act OF eighteen num-
dred and seventy-three, by which silver
was demonetized, deprived the country
of the advantages of silver as means 1or
the payment of debts made by the con-
tract payable in silver or gold, and, to
that extent, was reputation OF con-
tract as binding on the bondholder as on
the country and the taxpayer; therefore
2. Resotped, That the silver coin OF
the country OF the standard at which II
stood upon the passage OF said act DO AT
once remonetized and restored 10 us
functions as coin current or the lana.
And ,ohereas, The resumption act OF
eighteen hundred and seventy-tVe
means a funding of the green
backs into gold. bearing bonds on
the one hand, or the turning over to
the money-changers the control OF our
currency afost, with full power to pre-
vent or provoke q panic, as their inter
ests may suggest, on the other hand;
And aohereas, The said act has already
contracted the currency to the destruc:
ton of the business of the country, and
NAV further contract it to the destruc'
ton of its peace: Therefore,
8. Resolved, That the said act be un'
conditionally repealed.
And aohereaS, The naIlonai
bank system interposes the
bondholder, with special privileges anc
exemptions at the expense of the masses
between the wants of the people and thu
supply by the government of the curren
cy necessary to meet the legitimate de
msnds of the business OF the country
Therefore, 49,,
4. RssolUed, That SAID national oani
system be speedily abolished.
And ,ohereas, The legal-tender dollar
of the United States is the best paper
currency the world has ever had, entitled
to receive, and enjoying, the full respec
and confidence of every element IN tn'
country save .only the country itself
Therefore,
s. Resolved, That the greenback cur
rency be made full legal tender, re-
ceiyable for all dues and demands, pubic
and private, including imports anc
customs, and finally. :.
6. Resolved, That all outstanding la
bilities of the government redeemabie II
lawful money be so far redeemed as 70
supply to the wasting industries OF th'
country sufficient currency to meet thei
legitimate demands, to the end that ousi
ness may be revived, labor employed
and prosperity restored within our Dor
ders.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
CONGRESSMAN KENNA'S JOINT
RESOLUTION.

The Congressional proceedings, as
printed in Tuesday mornings REGISTER,
contained the following;
"By Mr.. Kenna-Joint resolution re-
lating to the repeal of the resumption act
and the reconciliation of silver"
In view of the fact that the House had
already passed, under the gallant lead of
Gen. EWING, bill for ".he repeal OF the
resumption SCI" and another bill for "tha
reconciliation of silver" we failed
to comprehend the object of the
above, and said so editorislly.
Since then we have received an official
copy of Mr.. KENNA's resolution, ard
herewith print it for the public informa-
ton.
1t will be observed that Mr.. KENNA
covers some ground left uncovered by
the bills referred to above as having
passed the House; he would substitute
for the National bank currency the gov
ernment greenback; and would redeem
such outstanding liabilities of the gov
ernmen. SIS are redeemable 10 lawful
money so far as "the wasting industries
of the country require additional cur
rency to meet their legitimate demands
"to the end thst business may be revived,
labor employed, sud prosperity restored
within our borders"
JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the re-
peal of the Resumption act, remoneti-
zation of silver, and the legal tender
tender currency.
WHEREAS, The coin act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine and the
funding act of eighteen hundred
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01

YESTERDAY was a day of deep interest
to the people of England, and to the peo-
pie of sll Europe. The question of vot-
ing supplemental sS0,OOG,Oo0 to the
army budget in view of the complications
in the East, was to DO decided by Par
lament. Up TO midnight we have no
word by telegraph of the result; but
whatever word does come will appear on
the first page of the REGISTER.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01

IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF
i Wheeling.
Henry Carl Ludwig Sick,
VS..
Frederick Henry Ernest Sick and others,
IN CHANCERI.
By virtue OF decree entered by the
Municipal Court OF Wheeling, In the above
entitled cause on the 2lst day ofDecem-
Der, 1877, the undersigned, VINO was ap-
pointed a special commissioner for that
purpose, will sell, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1873,
Commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at public
auction at the front door OF the Court
House OF Ohio county, the following des-
cribed real estate, lying and being situate
in the city of Wheeling, county OF Ohio
and state of West Virginia, to:wit: The
south one-half OF lot humble tour In
square numbered fifteen u5l, as designat-
ed on the plat OF that part OF said city OF
Wheeling called South Wheeling, now
the Eighth ward, and being situate on the
east ssde of Eoff street, between Thirty
sixth and Thirty-seventh street. There Is
erected on said let two story brick dwell
ing house, stable and other buildings.
TERMS OF SALE-One-half cash, and as
much more as the purchaser may be will
ing TO pay; the balance in one year, with
interest nom day OF sale, the purchaser
giving his bond therefor, and the title TO
the property to be retained until the pur-
chase money shall have been paid in full.
B. g. BARR,
iaS Special Commissioner
]. c. HERVEY, Auctioneer.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
ANINrEKEsTING ARTICLE.

We have on file and will print in to-
morrow mornings REGISTER, an article
possessing unusual interest from the pen
of Rev. j. G. ARMSTRONG on "The As
sumptions of Science and of Theology"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
Another Monstrosity.

From the Springfield Republican.
There is q new scheme for escaping the
long standing National disgrace OF that
unfinished Washington monument
Something certainly ought to be
done, but it would require better
taste than Congress is apt to exercise in
getting artistic work done TO escape
making this latest scheme monstrosity
more disgraceful than the present abor-
ton.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
ORNAMENTAL GARDENING

ENTLEMEN WHO DESIRE SHADE
O Trees removed, planted or pruned,
Gardens designed, graded, sodded or ar
ranged, would do well 70 give their orders
as early as possible, so as 10 have the
rough work done that there may be time
for everything 10 grow and be settled be-
fore the warm weather comes upon us.
shall also be prepared 10 keep gardens
clean, grass cut, and plants growing, for
the season at a low price.
Rustic stands. Keramic Pots, Iron Vases
and Hanging Baskets hlled at the lowest
rates.
To those having small garden plots
would suggest the beautiful Window
Gardening, now so successfully practiced,
fairly converting city residences into fairy
palaces despite the sooty atmosphere. Any
suggestions or instructions will be given
with pleasure. All work guaranteed.
z. BAILEY,
fan29h lGll Jacob Street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01

FROM some cause we know not what
many holders of wool expect to realize
the prices they hold their clips at by the
latter part of February.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
PRESCRIPTION FREE.

EOR THE SPEEDY CURE OF SEMINAL
Il Weakness, Lost Manhood, and ali dis
orders br~uy 1t on by Indiscretion or Ex.
cess. aly druggist has the ingredients.
Address n. DR. JACQUES q CO.,
febSsgc Cincinnati, n
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-01
GoLp closed yesterday at l0lt.

The snti-silverites will be grieved to
learn this morning that gold has again
declined. The slsrmists could not keep
it up.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-04

door. / was glad to see there was no
Grape on it. Passing the servant who
admitted me, 1 hurried trembling to the
sick room.
" Good-morning, Doc cried the in
fast, wiping his mouth with one hand,
and extending. me the other. By
George, you did bring me through
famouslyl That stuff was mighty nasty,
but it did the business. Pm sound as a
dollar this morning!
"Before / could reply, serving-man
entered, the same by whom had sent
the medicine.
"' What's the matter Dick? said
Topham.
Boxers dead, SIR
"fDeadl The deucel There's go!
suppose you forgot to call at Botts's the
farrier's, for that drench yesterday
just like you when my back is turned
a. No. SIR the man replied; 'Istopped
and got it on my way from the doctors
and gave it according to direction.
Just my luckp cried Topham
shifting the table. you see, Doc
Boxer was my fastest trotter. / counted
on winning mint of money on him al
the coming races, and now he's gone and
kicked the bucket. Well, peace tc
his manesP as the poet says. Here
Dick, hand the doctor that medicine
bottle from the mantel. He may as well
fill it up again. This mornings luck
may set me on a fresh spree, and there's
no telling how soon may need another
dose
"a glance at the bottle as took il
made me start. 1t bore label, on which
/ read Simon Bolts, Farrier.
Can it be- mentally exclaimed
9 that it was Bolts potion that cured the
man, and mine that killed the horse ?
1t was a strong case of circumstantia
evidence, at any rate.
Quietly pocketing the bottle, l wen
my way. If the truth was as surmised
it never came out. Topham sounded
my praises everywhere, and soon the
local death-list was pretty equally filled
with the names of old Dingo's patients
| and my own"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-04
Meerschaum Mines in Asia Minor.

The most extensive deposits of meer-
schaum in Asia Minor are about twenty
four miles southeast of the city of Eski-
scher, formerly Dorylea, the inhabitants
of which, numbering about twelve
thousand Armenians and Turks, are
principally employed in collecting or
dealing in this mineral.
1t is obtained down in the earth, shafts
or pits being sunk to depth of twenty
seven to thirty-three feet. Forty to
fifty miners work in one mine and form
a company, dividing the profits among
themselves. The stones are generally
irregular in shape, and vary greatly in
size, being from the size of nut to a
square foot or more. The largest pieces
are the most in demand, and the dearest.
The mineral, when freshly dug, is of a
yellowish white color, and covered about
finger thick with a red, greasy earth,
so soft that it can but cut with a knife.
The treatment which the meerschaum
must be subjected to before it is fit for
export is very expensive and tedious.
The pieces must first be freed from the
adhering earth and dried for five or six
days in the sun, or for eight or ten days
in warm rooms. The mineral is then
cleaned second time and polished with
wax After this it is sorted into different
grades, of which there are ten, and care
fully packed with cotton into boxes fol
export.
The stones lose two-thirds of theil
weight and volume in the operation ol
cleaning and drying. The price depends
upon the demand. The largest quantity
is sent to Vienna and Germany.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-04
Pottery.

National Repository for April.1
No industry is more charmingly allied
to art than that of pottery. Either in
articles of beauty or of use it benefits
all classes of society. In its uses pottery
is the necessity of the poorest laboring
man, while the plastic substance Of
which it is composed yields to the hand
of genious the finest and highest artistic
possibilities. During the history of
mankind many of the Industries have
had periods of rise and fall, and, for
time, the mort important of these have
disappeared; but pottery has, in one or
another condition, been continuously
produced. Pottery is the oldest and
the most widely diffused of human arts.
Its recorded history begins with the
building of Babel. Great cities in all
ages, notably all great American cities,
are vast structures of pottery. 1t is its
own historian. Ceramic collections are
libraries of history; every specimen a
book of the thoughts of men, of which
the earliest known were published not
long after the Deluge. Well may this
art be said to have begun with the very
beginnings of man. A belief still exists
in Silesia, that there is mountain out
of which cups and jugs spring spon-
taneously as the mushrooms shoot from
the moist soil of the plains-a most
natural tale to be told of production so
universal, and having relations daily
and hourly with mans universal and
greatest vocation, the preparation of the
| food which supports and continues life.
The first fire that was kindled in clay
soil baked the clay, and would naturally
suggest to the builder of the fire that he
could thus convert a soft and easily
nodded substance into hard and perma-
nent articles of use. Accident might
color the surface, and from such acci-
dent it was an easy step to the use OF
various colored clays and pigments, and
then to systematic decoration. The
yielding clay would assume any form
that the taste of the molder might sug-
gest, and the decoration would also indi
cate the taste of the sculptor or painter
however rude their ideas and unskilled
their artistic ability. So it is not strange
that all peoples have done something il
this way, from the rude clay pots of the
barbarians, through the gayly-paintet
dishes of the incipient civilization, VI
to the elimination of the art, in China
in the sixteenth century, when thu
manufacture of ceramics reached ,
point of excellence never as yet sur
passed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-04
ITEJLS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE.

Do not plant trees deeper than is nee
essary to cover the roots we'll or than
they were planted in the nursery rows.
Never place the roots in contact with
manure.
The culture of coffee in California is
becoming profitable. The plant grows
as vigorously as in the coffee countries
of South America, and yields bean of
strong aromatic flavor.
Brown sauces, generally speaking,
should scarcely be so thick as white
sauces; and it is well to bear in mind
that all those which are intended to
mask the various dishes of poultry or
meat, should be of sufficient consis-
tency to slightly adhere to the fowls or
joints over which they are poured. For
browning and thickening sauces, ETC..
Drowned -four may be properly en-
ployed. ....
PROFESSOR RILEY regards the migra-
tion of insects as due to their multiply
ing more rapidly than their means of
support. The migrations of rats are
attributed to the same cause, and
similar observations have been made as
to other animals. Many insects
that are not normally of migratory
tendency, exhibit it when pressed by
dearth Of food. In these cases they col
lect together and migrate in large bodies.
To use up cold meat: I. Prepare your
meat as for hash; fill a deep dish with
maccaroni; on top of that place the
hash cover it with tomatoes, over which
sprinkle with bread crumbs, with little
butter; bake until nicely Drowned. IL
Prepare meat as for hash; make it in
rolls Oike sausage) by binding it with
raw egg; tie each roll carefully in cab
bage leaf, and boil one-half to three
quarters Of an hour in weak stock.
EGGS form an important article o.
food among all known races. The Eng
lish, the great egg eaters, receive AN
nually from Ireland one hundred anC
thirty millions of eggs, and from France
over one hundred and thirty millions
The great object is to get fresh ones
and many modes are resorted to, to as
certain this important point. Som
dealers place them in water, when,
fresh, they will lie on their sides;
bad, they stand on one end.
GRAVES and sauces should be sent t.
/ table very hot, and there is all the NOR
necessity fer the cook to see to thi
, point, as, from their being usually serve'
in small quantities, they are more liabl
: to cool quickly than if they were in
larger body. Those sauces of whicl
| cream or eggs form component part
: should be we'll stirred as soon as thes
ingredients are added to them, and mus
5 never be allowed to boil, as in that cas-
I they would instantly curdle.
l IF one has a neglected orchard, b
should not let this spring go by withou
3 an attempt to renovate it. Old trunk
l covered with loose scales of bark, an
coated with lichens and MOSES, shoul
e have in the first place thorough scral
a ing, and this should extend along th
e larger limbs SO far as is necessary. Afte
: this scraping they should receive stron
/ alkaline wash. There is nothing so goo
for this purpose as good homemade SO
soap, made from lye (or potash) an
g grease.
9 A HEN may be calculated to consun
' one bushel of corn yearly, and to Ia
!. twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of egg