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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-25
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i the errors and indiscrections OF youth,
nervous weakness, early decay, loss OF
manhood, &C., | will send a recipe that
will cure you, Free of Charge. This great
remedy was discovered ny a missionary in
South America. Send a self-addreSSed
envelope To the Rev, Joseph T. IRman.
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.EdiSon's Speaking Ph0ROgTaph.

TIME GREATEST WONDER OF THE
age. 1t Talks, Laughs, Sings, whistles,
PLAYS CorueJ Solos, and Records and Re-
produces all Sounds with marvellous
fidelity. An OPP Ortunity will be offered
the citizens OF Wheeling to see and hear
this great modern miracle, at the
Methodist Church, Bridgeport,
On Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, May 9th, 2sth and 18th, at 8
o'clock and on Tuesday and Wednesday
after0 oons at 2 o'clock, when exhibitions
will be held especially for ladies and
children. Admission 70 cents.
AS this machine can only be used in
Ohio, no exhibition can be given in Wheel.
ing. Tickets tor sale at Lucas Music store.
mas
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LETTER LIST.

IsT OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
| the pOStoffice at Wheeling, Ohio coun-
", West Virginia, unclaimed, Saturday
May -, 1873.
TO obtain any OF the following the appli-
cantwill please call Tor advertised letters,
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WANTED.

w ~ IN l. "Os
Persons who desire to bid for the Trivi.
Iege OF selling eatables on the Fair
Grounds on the 10Th May, to make their
proposals in writing by Monday, the 9th,
at o'clock, and address them to Hug l
Sterling, Chairman OF the Committee.
The bids will be for the exclusive right OF
the gro nd for that day. ma25r
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14
NUMBER 45.

bill........ In the House, this being Friday,
bills of purely private natule were con-
sidered.
In the House, February 9, the session to-
day was for general debate emily. Mr..
Hewitt, of Alabama, occupied the chair.
There was a very small attendance of men,
bers. The first speech was by Mr.. Joyce in
advocacy of six-year Presidential term.
He was followed by Mr.. Chittenden, who
spoke against the proposed silver legisla-
tion. Mr.. Chittenden, in the course of his
speech, referred to the silver meeting in
Chicago last December. The Sbylocks
mentioned in the Chicago papers report of
the meeting were the active bankers and
business men, at home and abroad, who,
through the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, gave Chicago outright a round
mi lion of dollars, in the hour of her desola-
tiOn-the very same men who subsequently
loaned Chicago scores and scores of other
mil ions, which have been hopelessly squan-
dered and lost in Quixotic ventures. Mr..
Harrison replying, said that while the people
of Chicago acknowledged the generosity of
the world, when the city was in ashes, yet
they did not feel that the rich men of New
York, who helped them in their hour of
need, should now keep them from rising
from their ashes. Mr.. McKenna advocated
the reconciliation of silver, the repeal OF
the Resumption Act, abolishing the Ma.
tional banking system, and the granting OF
full legal tender qualities to greenbacks.
Mr.. Ellsworth spoke in opposition to an
attempt to array labor against capital for
the purpose of gaining political power, and
advocated general amnesty bill. Mr..
Hayes feplied to the arguments against
reconciliation of silver, and defended that
proposition. Mr.. Haskell also spoke in
favor of silver reconciliation, and Mr.. Bell
advocated bill to pension soldiers of the
Mexican War. There were not more than
half dozen members in the Chamber when
the House adjourned
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

and durably established. The compare
lively slight participation of Germany in
Eastern affairs allows the Empire to display
disinterested cooperation in the arrange
ments that may be made by the Powers con-
cerning the future guarantees against re-
occurrence of the trouble in the East, and
for the amelioration of the condition of the
Christian population.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent tele.
graphs: Notwithstanding Lord Derby's
explanations, the sending of the fleet to
Constantinople and the Parliamentary vote
of credit produced profound impression
here. We think these acts constitute a
breach of neutrality, justifying immediate
war. Fortunately the Government has not
adopted this view, but is sincerely desirous
of avoiding further complications. 1t would
be dangerous, however, to impose on this
conciliatory spirit. With the general pub
lie war with England would be very popu-
lar; and in the small circle of those who
influence the foreign policy of Russia,
several urge strong measures. The moment
is critical. Even a simple event of tact ON
the part of the British Cabinet might have
momentous consequences"
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Death of Pope Plus.

A dispatch from Rome dated February z,
six p. m, says: The Pope died at4:57 this
afternoon.
The Pope's legs were so much better yes
terday that he was able to walk few steps
it is believed that this exertion was fatal.
A change for the worse occurred at four
o'clock in the morning, when his death
agony commenced.
The Cardinals were assembled in the next
room, but al together with dignitaries of
the Papal Court, were at his bedside at the
moment of his death.
Cardinal Penebian administered the last
sacraments.
ambassadors accredited to the Vatican
called to make inquiries during the morn
ing.
King Humbert also constantly sent for
information.
No one is now admitted to the Vatican
except the Pontifcal Chamberlains who
are charged with the Office of guarding the
corpse.
Monsignore Simeoni, Cardinal Secretary
of State, ordered the Osservatore Romano,
daily organ of the Vatican, to suspend
publication until tomorrow.
The city is perfectly tranquil. The
authorities have taken all measures they
deem necessary. Tim police and municipal
guards prevent approach SO the Vatican.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14
SOPHIA.

Sophia, although at the present time
only the capital of a sandjak and of
upper Bulgaria, was formerly the chief
town of the whole of Bulgaria. In the
year 334 celebrated council assembled
there, and subsequently the town was
rebuilt by the Emperor Justinian. In
800 it was captured by the Bulgarians,
and named by them Triaditza-a name
which was converted by the Crusaders
into Stralitz or Stirnitz. In 1882 the
town fell into the hands of the Turks,
and after that time began to decline in
importance. According to the Cologne
Gazetts, Sophia has now population of
only $4,000, one half of whom are Otto
mans; but other authorities give the
number of its inhabitants at about 50,-
900. The surrounding country is ex-
ceedingly fertile, producing corn, rice,
tobacco, flax and wine, while its pas
lures feed large droves of cattle and
sheep. Two good roads lead from the
valley of the Isker, in which Sophia is
situated, into the valley of the Martha,
the one running through the Ichtiman
Pass, the other making a detour to the
south, by way of Samokou, to Tatar-
Bazardiik.
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rumbling and tremor of an earthquake.
This was followed a little after one o'clock
by cyclone, which struck the city on the
southwest, near Center street, and demol-
ished many houses. The Lower Market
House was literally lifted and smashed into
atoms. Several brick and wooden buildings
were wholly or partially destroyed. The
cyclone travelled from the southwest to the
northeast, and covered space of about
three hundred yards wide. Some casualties
are reported.
A FEW mornings since, at Memphis,
Tenn, a negro called at the Jail, and de-
manded permission to see comrade con-
fined there. Jailer Dawson refused, and the
negro began abusing him in a violent man.
ner, and Dawson, drawing a revolver, fred,
but missing the negro, the ball entered the
glass door of Cornelius Grifings' family
grocery, corner of Overton and Front
Streets, some two hundred yards distant, and
struck Mr.. Grifing just below the heart, as
he was standing in room. He turned, and
ran into an adjoining room, and, falling into
the arms of his wife, excla med, ooh,
Katie, Pm killed." and SO on, and expired.
He was highly respected citizen, and his
sudden death caused great excitement
among his neighbors.
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The AkhOOnd of Swat.

The most famous and one of the most
powerful of modern Mussulmans, Abdul
Ghafur, Akhoond of Swat, has just died
at the age of eighty. Up to 1928, though
he had studied assiduously, he saw no
opportunity of attaining to exceptional
distinction as a mollah, so in that year
he retired to the Island of Beyka, Gre
ated by one action of the Indus to be
destroyed by another, and there spent
twelve years in study, meditation, and
austere penances, which soon won for
him fame all over the Punjaub-indeed,
made the fanatics believe that he was
invested with semi-divine attributes.
When, in 1885, Dost Mahomet struck
| to regain the possession of Ahmed Khan,
and to drive the Sikh heretics out of the
Peshawer plain and beyond the Indus,
the Afghan King invited Abdul Ghafur
to second him, SO great already was the
hermit's reputation among the orthodox.
Abdul Ghafur accepted the invitation,
which gave him the recognition and
notoriety he desired, but the war failed,
and after the disastrous battle of jam
rud, in 1886, the hermit set himself to
carve out fresh empire in the mount
aims north of the Khyber, toward Cash
mere, his natal place, where he had beer
shepherd boy. His rule soon became
absolute among the Swatees and the peo
pie of Baiour, and SO powerful did ht
become that he could defy both Dos
Mahomet and the Sikhs. He was thu
oracle of the hill men, and, by dis
couraging their raids, placed ENGLAND
under great obligations to him, while, t.
a certain extent, he neutralized the AT
CHAN power. His death will probabl,
break up the cohesion of the hill tribes
and let the country, important from
strategic point of view, pass under Al
, CHAN rule. In his age the Akhoon
, Priest Magistrate) abandoned the az
: cetic practices of his early manhood; ir
3 deed, at eighty he took to himself wifi
| of eighteen.
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A Story of Turner's B0yhOod.
IHarper's Magazine.I


An anecdote has been preserved which
gives the very starting point of the boys
art life. One morning, when little
Billy" was about six years old, the bar
ber of Maiden Lane went to a certain
Mr.. Tomkinson's to dress that gentle
mans hair. The boy was allowed to
accompany his father on this occasion,
and one can imagine him trotting along,
grand with the responsibility of carrying
the BARRIERS scissors or curling-tongs.
Mr.. Tomkinson was rich silversmitb,
whose house was filled with many objects
of beauty. While the father was at
work frizzling the wig of his grand pat
ron, the boy was placed on chair, where
he sat in silent awe, gazing with his
great blue eyes at huge silver salver on
the table at his side, adorned with ram
can't lions The barber's work finished,
father and son again turn their face
toward the dusky little shopin the lane.
The boy was silent and thoughtful all
that day he sat up stairs away from
the confusion of the little shop below,
brooding over sheet of paper. At
tea-time he appeared, triump phantly pro-
ducing his sheet of paper, upon which
was drawn lion, a very good imitation
of the one mounted on the salver at Mr..
Tomkinson's. The little barber, unlike
some parents whose children have given
early indications of artistic talent, was
beside himself with delight. His sons
vocation was at once settled in his mi, d.
Thenceforth when cid customers, look
ing up from under the glittering razor,
would humble through obstructive
lather, "Well, Turner, have you settled
yet what William is to beT' the barber
would smile pro"dly, rest the ready
razor on a piece of thin brown paper,
and reply, It's all settled, Sir; Will
liam is going to be a painter" Two OF
three years later the door of the little
barber's shop was ornamented by small
water-color drawings hung around
among the wigs and frizzes, ticketed al
prices varying from one shilling to three
Some were copies or limitations of Pau
Sandby, a fash. enable drawipg-master
others, original sketches made by Boy
Turner, as he was then called. His great
delight was to get outside of London
into the fields, and, with pencil in hand
spend whole days trying to catch the
exquisite effects of color and light and
shade, which touched the young artisr
| like grand poem.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14
Antiouity of the Telephone.

When King Solomon said that there
was nothing new under the sun, it is
hardly likely he had the telephone in
his mind. That, at least, is a modern
invention. So one would have thought.
But it appears from correspondence
lately published in the London Athe-
noeum that its claims to novelty are not
80 well founded as its inventor and ad-
mirers would desire. The following is
an extract from the correspondence in
question: "Just two hundred and ten
years ago Robert Hook, Fellow of the
Royal Society, published work entitled
Micrographia; or, some Physiological
Descriptions of Minute Bodies, made by
Magnifying Glasses, with Observations
and Inquiries thereupon-'
"This, the first English treatise on the
uses of the microscope, is still in high
estimation. In the preface occurs the
following remarkable paragraph: And
as glasses have highly promoted our see
ing, SO tits not improbable but that there
may be found many mechanical inven
tions to improve our other senses, OF
hearing, smelling, tasting, touching
IT'S not impossible to hear whisper al
furlong's distance, it having beer
| already done; and perhaps the nature
| of the thing would not make it more
impossible, though that furlong be tel
times multiplied. And though som,
| famous authors have afirm'd it impossi
BILE to hear through the thinnest plate O
Muscovy glass; yet | know way b!
| which It's easie enough to hear one speal
through wall a yard thick.
." It has not been yet thoroughly ex
amin'd, how far Octocousticons may b
improv'd nor what other ways ther
may be of quickening our hearing, or con
veying sound through other bodies thel
(than) the Air: for that that is not tn
only medium. 1 can assure the reader
that l have, by the help of a dis
tended wire, propagated the SCUM
to very considerable distanc
in an instant, or with as seen
ingly quick a motion as that c
light, at least incomparably swifte
then (than) that which at the same tim
was propagated through the Air; an
this not only in a straight line, or direc
but in one bended in many angles"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

THE Indians Of Nevada are inveterate
gamblers. A party of young Shohones
visited the Winnemuccas for the pur-
pose Of capturing all their money at
poker, u game that the former had re-
Gently learned. The scheme was great
success, and the Shoshones were soon
laden with spoil. Then spake the old
Winnemucca chief, Buena Vista John,
saying that he knew not of the poker of
the pale faces, but he would gladly en-
gage his visitors in the ancient game of
klackity, which was played with simple
pebbles, the number of which was
guessed by his opponents as he held
them in his closed hand. 1t is said that
klackity is wonderfully similar in prin-
ciple to three-card monte, in that the
guesser is bound to be brought to sorrow.
The young Shoshones went home poorer
than they came.
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WRECKERS.

During the summers of 1857, about
$175, 900 of treasure was recovered from
the wreck of the Pacific Mail Company's
steamer Japan, which was burned off
the coast of China in December, 1874.
1t is the first wrecking operation ever
conducted in the open ocean at SO great
depth, the water being twenty-three
fathoms deep. The scene of the acci-
dent was one hundred and thirty-fve
miles east of Hong Kong; the nearest
land was Breaker Point, twenty miles
away. The Japan had on board about
$350,000 in specie. Capt. John P.
Roberts, of New York, began the under
taking in January, 1875. In March he
found one of the paddle-wheels, but it
was not until August that he discovered
the wreck, eleven miles southwest of
the wheel. On the 18th of September
Capt. Roberts believed the whole enter
prise would prove failure, but on the
last plunge for the season, the diver
managed to push his hand through a
hole in the tank and secure piece Of
coal. The lump, on examination, proved
to consist of twenty-four American trade
dollars, burned and oxidized SO much
that they required great deal of scour.
ing to reveal their true character. The
wreckers retired soon after to Hong
Kong for the six months of the north
east monsoon, and resumed operations
in the spring. The coin is mostly il
good condition, though nearly all of i
is black and heavily oxidized.. Som'
near the surface of the tank wer'
partially melted, and many of the boxe
are charred and broken. Some of tn
dollars were bright when brought to tn
surface, but turned black soon after be
ing exposed to the air.
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What MIR, Yennor Prophesies F.!

The weather prophet of Canada is 81.
G. Vennor, whose almanac or 1878 is
compilation of amusing and interest
ing facts. He has had the boldness to
print his representations upon the
weather for the coming year. January,
he says, will be gloomy, wet and foggy,
and not unlike that of the season of
1875; FEBRUARY will set in severely and
will be the most wintery of the winter
months; March will begin with much
snow, and bids fair to go out exceedingly
stormy. There will be a very wet
spring, followed by an intensely hot
midsummer. The whole autumn and
winter will be favorable to the increase
of throat diseases and fevers, and Mr..
Vennor anticipates the approach OF
Asiatic cholera toward Northern lati'
tudes.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

IN view of the prevalence of diph-
iberia, which is regarded as contagious
and dangerous disease, the Boston Board
of Health has given notice that hereaf-
ter certain provisions of the General
Statutes will be strictly enforced. These
are, in effect, that every householder
shall Immediately give notice to the
Board Of Health when any member of
his family is taken sick with any disease
dangerous to public health, fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars being
imposed for refusal or neglect of this
duty; and that every physician shall
report TO the Board of Health every case
of disease dangerous to the puplic health
that comes within his practice, on
penalty, for refusal or neglect to give
such notice, of not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

The business of tramp" is becom-
ing distinct profession. In New York
lately, a man held on charge of piracy
for river depredations, was very indig-
nant at being accused of such crime.
al amt no pirate" he pleaded, "Pm a
tramp" They are taking the places
once filed by the crusaders, the trouba-
dours, and the other picturesque vaga-
bonds of olden time, and are quite as
interesting. They can play the piano,
speak many languages, tell anecdotes,
and, in fact, do anything but hard work,
and are hence worthy to be denominated
professionals. =.
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at Home and Abroad.

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The greatest ediice our English
brethren erected in the generation pre-
ceding the United States was Somerset
House, in London, which now CORES
ponds in its uses to one of our depart
ments, being full of clerks. This was
erected by Sir William Chambers, archi-
tect (who died the year Washington
gave up the Presidency for King
George III. Ferguson says that the
American Capitol had the same dimen-
sions, originally as Somerset House,
and the same style and arrangement
This may have been true, as an English
man, DIR. Thornton, designed the Capt.
tol. In both buildings are a rusticated
basement, angular-capped windows in
the main order and short attic windows
above; Corinthian pilasters and a roof
balustrade.
There are some condolences in archi-
lecture, as in everything. One hundred
years before our independence, Wren
began to build St. Paups Church.
building of St. Peters at Rome, whose
dome and life were finished together
three hundred years before the Statue
of Liberty was raised to the summit of
the American Capitol. The domes of
the world, of any fame, begin with the
Pantheon, which may be said to be
coeval with the Christian era, or finished
about the time of the birth of Christ
it is one hundred and forty-fve feet and
half feet span by one hundred and forty
seven feet high. Brunelleschi studied
this dome to throw another one over the
Cathedral at Florence, fifty years before
America was discovered, and named fol
his townsman Americus; his other
Florentine townsman,. Angelo, built ST.
Peters, whose dome has one hundred
and thirty-nine feet diameter within
and St. PauPs has one hundred and
twelve feet diameter. The topmost
point of every thing on the American
dome is three hundred and seven and 6
half feet from the ground, three hun
dred and sixty feet from the main en-
trance gate on Pennsylvania-avenue
and nearly four hundred feet above low
tide in the river close by. This las
distance is about the height of St. Peter
and St. PauPs, which are, therefore
more than hundred feet higher thar
our dome.
The new dome at Washington abov'
the lower order is merely a range o
tall windows reposing their dividin.
pilasters upon gallery. Above that i
the oak-ribbed roof, in five, rows o
squares.
In 1856, at the birth of the Republi
can party, the old dome was remove
from the Capitol and one more beautiful
added, corresponding to the enlarge
bearer which covered the slave people
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

AN instrument called the stathmo-
graph, for recording the speed of rail-
way trains, has been invented by a
German mechanician at Cassel, and
works so well that the Prussian Govern
ment is about to test it on some Of the
State lines. A dial in view of the en-
gineer enables him to ascertain the
velocity Of his locomotive at any mo-
ment, and the changes of speed are
graphically represented upon a roll of
paper, which can be studied at the end
of the journey.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-14

From 1850 to 1871, 215,000, 900 acres
Of public lands were granted by Con-
gress TO States and corporations for rail-
road purposes; 150, 900, 900 of this to the
Pacific roads, and nearly 5000, 900 acres
have been granted for canal purposes; !;
for the Pacific roads a debt of s24, ,000,- :
900 was assumed, now swollen to s92,-
0o0, 1000, and promising to exceed $780,
100000; and the largest grantee pro-
poses TO pay the government by praeti-
cally borrowing anew from it.
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Few persons would believe that in
1876 there were 81, $3.50 cattle and 1913
persons killed in India by wild animals
and venomous snakes. The evil seems
to be growing, as the percentage of
deaths in the central provinces increased
from this cause from GIT in 1875 to l ,098
in 1876. Large rewards are offered by
the government for the destruction of
tigers and venomous serpents, but ap-
parently with no effect upon their
abundance,