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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
Cheapest Dry Goods House
IN THE CITY IsAT
No, 1887 Chapline Street.

Here may be- found IN endless variety
every description Of Housekeeping aAd
Family Dry Goods. Seo the prices: Fast
Color Prints 3, 81, AID scouIs per yard
muslins, bleached and unbleaCbcd, ), u, :,
B, ,gbnd 10 cents per yard Bez; Lancaster
Bingham ~ cents, and ali Dress Goods In
PROPORTION. Call and be cOuyir ccd.
JOHN e.. MILLER,
aplJc No. i5G ChApllne Street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07
TO THE PUBLIC.

NOTICE ~ HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ from and after this date, Aprii ~, Is3s,
! Will conduct the business OF purchasing
and selling PIctures, Looking Glasses a. Il
Picture Frames, etc, AT No. 2lZi Main
street, IN the city Of Wheeling, as agent
for Mrs. Emma Wilhelm.
HENRY WILHELM,
ap27ra Agent Tor Mrs. I'm ma Wilhelm.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-07

.,s .r,.-., IC'ler was unable to pay the
... posed, and but for the kind sssist-
g. ....'r' . P'eAssnt-faced lady in blsck.
q. ,r.,' T srl would have been taken TO
;,.,.,.. ,..ao'' locked up, and mother and
e,,.,, ,,', would have been separated for
:. o~is :, months The LADY, from her rI sest .I,
ss coy, watched the proceedings OF
.l,gg1, 'L1 ,t L41 mentally come TO the
.s.a.,v- .lA' the girls stIry was sub
lie k:.sS n! SO'tec;. The lady paid the
&,s.sIy and pstted Little sfiec-
e 10Th. asked her all about
,,e I4,o,d go and many other questions.
e,ggS, eeu mother had hard
b,Gs b1' sight Of the lady
'Snt cr.Sn 'ISn the latter rushed
s.s3 s5TisP yi.AsPed her by the hand, and
u''y II she wasn't the Mrs.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-12-18

n OsE's NAME WRITING. FANCY
III STITCHING and DARNING AT
TACHMESTS for ALL MACHINES, for
sale by FERGUSON e. SCHNACK. agents
for the SINGER SEWING MACHINE.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-12-18

The herein published names of Tax
payers, whose State Taxes are due, are
hereby notified to come forward at once
and settle. This published list IS in
obedience to Section SO, Act No. So, OF
1877, of the State Legislature, and will
be published twice within ten days, i'll
accordance with law.
A penalty of two per cent. per month,
from the 9th day of December, 1878,
will be due on all these taxes, and will
be charged Till final settlement.
II. P. LUCKETT,
Dec. 8, 1873. State Tax Collector.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-12-18

PROF. ALBERT, OUR SUCCESSFUL PHO
TOGRAPHER, rs A T HIS GALLERY
AGAIN, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE
CALI ON HIN
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-12-18

sale by FERGUSON a. SCHNACk. agents
for the SINGER SEWING MACHINE.
-MRs GE1GER has opened, at the
corner OF Third and Beauregard
streets, in Alexandria, a Millinery
and Dress Goods store, and Ladies
furnishing house, and having made
these purchases in person, offers rare
inducements to the Ladies Of the
Parish to call and examine her
latest and fashionable goods. She
will carry on Millinery and Dress
making in all its branches, and will
devote her special attention to suit
and please her patrons.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DOSES NAME WRITING FANCY
II STITCHING AND DARNING AT
Is FOR ALL MAC1lN Eo
FOR SALE BY FERGUSON AND
SCHNACK, SOLE AGENTS FOR THE
! GENUINE SINGER MACHINE.
- JENKINS Annihilator never
fails to cure the very worst forms of
Rheumatism, Govt and Neuralgia
Read the testimonial of gentleman
who suffered for years:
N. JENKINs-Haye been afflicted with
Rheumatism for many years. Have
used the Annihilator with great benefit.
COLUMBUS III. ALLEN,
Office Brooks Rice Mill, New Orleans.
Send for Circular to N. JEN-
KINS s CO., Proprietors, New Or
leans, La.
IDREECH- LOADING SHOT GUNS
] ID from s35 to S85, at FERGUSON
| g. SCHNACK'S, WATCH-MAK
4 and JEWELERS.,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-20

A YOSEMITE GUIDE.-Pike, the famous
guide of the Yosemite Valley, has recently
run down to Frisco TO get glimpse of the
hotel elevators and drink five-cent lager.
He was born in Tennessee, but crossed the
plains soon after the discovery of gold in
California, being one of the few survivors
of the ill-fated party that first attempted
the perilous passage of the Deaths Valley
route. He was an associate of Peg-leg
Smith, who amputated his own leg with a
hunting knife, taking up the arteries and
dressing the stump without assistance.
This operation was necessary inasmuch as
he had received wound from poisoned
arrow in skirmlsh with Indians, and illus
trate an important principle now familiar
to every college student-that of saving
ones own leg off-short. Pike first visited
the Yosemite in 1862, the year after its dis
covery by white men, and he has remained
in those mountain solitudes ever since, this
being his first exsursion. During recent
years he has pursued the occupation of
guide with thrift and profit. In ascending
Mount Whitney, however, he contracted
bronchial affection alsi lost his voice so that
he cannot now speak above whisper. He
has been commissioned by hotel proprie-
tors in the Yosemite to visit Oregon for the
purpose of procuring nerv varieties of plants
and trees for the valley.
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The Rise Of the Deer,
Seribner for September,


It is most surprising thing to see deer
get up on its legs-at home, I mean, and
when he would prefer to be alone. Watch
a cow at the same operation. Laborious
elevation of one enc and then Of the other;
then great yaWn and a cracking of joints,
and lazy twist of the tail and mighty
snort Of bovine satisfaction, and she is
aeady to 60 to pail or pasture. Bat she
don't bulge, mind, without the regular
formula. How does bnck start for pas
ture when You drive him up IN the morn
ing? Why. he lies with his four feet under
him, and when he is ready to gosit is like
Jack getting out Of the box. The treman-
deus extensor muscles contract with all the
power rest and warmth have given them,
and the plump body, like weIl-infated
rubber ball propelled by a vigorous kick,
flies lightly into the air. Tie simile is
born out as ii seems about to descend ]:
light as thistle-doWn it nears the earth !,
another giant impulse from al unseen pow
er--crash--and agaln it describes its light
parabola crack hump thud -thud--
thud--eaeh time fainter than the last, and
your surprise is all that remains.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-20

MAKING GoLD.-Charles Mantelman. a
Suabian by birth, simply bored holes in
Jumps of coal, filed these holes with gold,
closed them up with black wax, and threw
these Jumps into the crueibls when the
masses were in full fusion. He was detect
ed, however, and cruelty beheaded and
quartered at Regensburg about 1870. An
other worthy, one George Honauer, met
with similar sad fate few years after at
Stuttgart, where he was hanged. This in
genious gentleman always travelled with q
large chest, with double bottom to it,
conceal:ng his own son, a smart lad of
about ten, who used to come out from his
hiding place at night and put the gold into
the crucibla in which the mass was IN fusion
over the fire. Honauer insisted that it was
indispensable to leave the mass few hours
to itself, and the laboratory was, therefore,
always carefully locked up for the night.
The poor boy on one occasion caught q
cold in his head, and the irrepressible
sneezes LED to the detection of the trick.
Another, Swiss adept, used tostir the
fused mass with sticks Of wood deftly bored
at one end and flied with gold, which read
lily dropped into the mass. 4 servant Of
his always managed to put few Of these
so prepared sticks upon the bundle of wood
which his master used to stir the mixture
with. This trick was also detected in the
end and visited with condign punishment.
IsnsIeg's Magazine.
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4 shopp!ng Disaster.

The latest shopping disaster dates from
Long Branch. A lady from Albany, after
examining the goods at gimcrack bazaar,
was suddenly interrupted by a constable,
who thrust warrant in her face and told
her to accompany him. The charge was
the theft of $25 worth of sea beans. In
vain did the lady protest that she had not
even seen the sea beans. She was hustled
to the halls of Long Branch Justice and
searched, the search resulting in the finding
of no sea beans and oI IL evidence what
ever to show that she had stolen SO much
as bean. Gentlemen from Albany offered
to deposit money equal in amount to the
bail demanded of her, but it was refused.
tho desire being to put the lady in the lock-
up. A Long Branch man finally gave
bonds for her appearances. But the shock
brought on an attack of mysteries. and the
victim of the bean-man's rashness was
delirious all night. A sharp conflict occur
red between the lady's lawyer and the
lawyer who represented the bean establish
ment. One of these gentlemen threatened
to cast the other out of the window, and
would have proceeded to do SO, but for the
consequences, which would have involved
contempt of court, the price of which is
five dollars. The lady is youched for as
being of the highest responsibility and in
tegrity. The bean-man could not have
chosen a more efficient way than this to
advertise his shopas place which prudent
people, especially ladies, will do wisely to
avoid.
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CATAL1NE's DEFENSE.

But this will avcw; that have scorned,
And stlll do scorn, to hide my sense Of wrong!
Vine brands me on the forehead, breaks my sword,
Or lays the bloody scoufge upon my back,
Would perhaps like to try it out in the back yard
After the Senate adjourns!
Banished, indeed! thank you for it,
AS intended to move out of town anyhow.
held some sick allegiance till this hour,
But my swords my own; and
Would like to see the man that will
Attempt to collect my city taxes for this year
Smile on, you baldheaded salpes of the valley
Your Consus nerciful, very: but if he
Dares to touch hair Of Cataline, [ will
Knock him gaey-wcst and crooked;
For l am the best little man that walIss
The streets of this burg, and don't you forget it
Banshed from Rome! What's banished but set frct
From daily contact with the things loathe!
Your organ grinders every street corner;
Your citizens packing plaster of Paris images
Around on cellar doors and selling them
TO our wives for our winter clothing!
90 Tried and convicted traitorl' Who says this?
Let him show his head and I Il bust it
If it costs me forty doars
I go; but not to leap the guilt alone.
l go but, when come, twill be the burst
Of ocean in the notwithstanding back
In swift and mountainous ruin. Tia ia!
You build my funeral pile; but your bes blood
Shall quench the flame! Back, slaves
I have a return ticket in my vest pocket.
Oil C5ty Derrick
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-20

RIDICULOUS PRETENsIoNs OF CINCIN-
NATL Many Of the interior cities are fond
of giving themselves fattering names that
do not seem, with any propriety, to belong
to them. Cincinnati has been obliged to
drop her self-bestowed title, Queen of the
West, but she has found compensation in
the Paris of America, also self bestowed.
Cincinnati has no little culture and taste
in art, and has no reason to be proud of
these. But there is no reason why she
should compare herself with Paris. The
French capital is particularly bright and
Cincinnati is particularly obscure, being
one Of the smokiest, most begrimed towns
in tho whole country, rivalling Pittsburg,
foulest of the foul. The Ohio metropolis
suggests Germany, not France, She has
very large German population her habits
and her tastes are rather German; her
pleasures, especially her Sunday concerts
and beer-garden convocations, are German.
IF she affects what is European, let her
christen herself the Leipzig or Dresden, or
even the Vienna of America. That might
pass. But the Paris of America is so sr-
premely pretentious and utterly untrue as
to be ridiculous. s.-N. z. Times.
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had been more effective in mechanics than
IN JUNE, 1871.


IN JUNE, 1877,
The erection Of Fort Keogh was commeno-
| ed, about two miles back from the old can
tonment, and last fall the new quarters
were first occupied. Now there is q fine
! fourteen-company post laid out in the form
of a diamond, the parade ground bordered
| by thrifty, young cottonwood trees, trans
planted last spring, broad brick walk all
the way round in front Of the officers quar-
ters, with pavements of the same material
leading up to every door. Wild rose bushes
are growing in front, and the little enclos-
ures between the houses are smiling in
healthy-looking beds of small "garden-
truck" On the bottom west Of the garri-
son are wide fields comprising regimental
and company gardens, covered with flour
ishing crops Of vegetables of every charac-
ter suitable to northern climate, all under
a high state Of cultivation. From the
steamboat landing
A BROAD AVENUE
zas peen ptoughed up and fringed with
young cottonw0oGs on pOtn sues. IT ex-
tends IN the form of q regular curve for
three-quarters Of a mile up to the post, and
then winds out again toward the left Of its
continuation to the mouth of Tongue river
Other avenues intersect this main thorough
fare, and all are marked or will be in an
other year by young cottonwood trees. If
the plans of the General are permitted to
be perfected, this will probably be one OF
the h3ndsomest, as it is now the most imp0r-
tant garrison in the United States. 1t is
now the key in the chain of posts from Bu-
ford to Custer and around to Benton, and it
is officered and manned by the most sue
cessful Indian fighters that have ever ap-
peared in the Northwest.
The garrison is DOW occupied by the
Fifth Infantry, 10 companies, and four com.
panies of the Second Cavalry. The Fifth is
the only regiment of mounted infantry in
the United States, and it has been mounted
on ponies captured from the hostile Indians
and it may be considered to have fairly won
it's spurs.
A FAMOUS FlGHIEk.
A correspondent gives the following fiat
tering notice of the Colonel of the Fifth:
General Miles is 0 fine specimen of the
American soldier, about six feet tall and
solidly built, with frank and fearless ex-
preston Of countenance. He is in the
prime of life, about his fortieth year, and
picture of perfect health, as he is the en-
bodiment of irrepressible activity. He
personally has perfect knowledge Of every
thing going on from the direction of a CAM
paign to the location Of haystack.
HIS ENERGY rs IRREPREssIBLE,
AS may be presumed when it is stated that |
he has his available force out every day |
from two till half past four, with the ther
in the eighties and nineties, for |
drill. This is not the pastine of !
a dress parade, but the hardest kind of
horseback work, over hill and dale, through |
woods and brush, and over fallen trees by
column, battalion, and company, aud the
skirmish line extending across the Bottom
rom one to two miles.
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a HIGHER BID.-A man was telling a
story in Des F0rge's that shows the force
of habit. At the Buffalo races there was
an immense crowd around the pool box, and
men Were bidding lively. Finally man
stepped up to the seller, said he had lost a
poeketbook containing four 800 bills, ask
ing to announce it to the crowd, so that if
found it might be returned. The pool sell
Ter said, q Gentlemen, aIr. Williamson, of
Wisconsin, has lost lyeketbook contain
ing foar 800 bills. Il returned he will
give and turning Il Ir. Williamson, he
said. 8 How much wi you givea'' The
loser said he would give hundred dollars
The pool seller said to the crowd, & He will
give hundred dollars for il. !, There was
silence for moment, WHEN a man back in
the crowd, who had been buying pools,
shouted, !" Ill give hundred and twentyr'
q shout went up that almost broke up the
sale. Peekss Sun.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-20

FooLING THE CoLoRED BRETHREN
The following is All extract from speech
made by Democratic lawyer of Charles
ton, s. c., to colored audience, which has
found its way to Republican headquarters:
Each of you represent 5000. You
would have brought that in 1860. You
were freed without our consent, and now,
if you will vote the Democratic ticket We
will make the Yankees pay for you, and
then we will give you half Of the money.
There stands old Uncle Jim. He has a
wife and eight children, for which the
North will have to pay $4,000, and one
half of that will give him and the rest
will keep. Then he will not be dependentup-
on charity. This. my dear colored friends,
is the practical solution of the forty acres
and a mule question, and you will some
day be lifted from your poverty by your
old masters. Only vete the Democratic
ticket and ne viii be independent of the
contemplate Yankees.
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WONDERFUL LEAPING.
E BEST STANDING JUMPS ON RECORD.


Turf Field and Farm.
Some time since George w. Hamilton, OF
Fredonia, N. Y, issued challenge for a
standing, broad and high jump, for $500 a
side. ]. limerick, of Ypsilanti, Michigan,
accepted the def, and the match came off
at Buffalo on Thursday, August Sth. Mo-
ses MeAlister and D. A Slaight were the
judges. George Rellauton referee and
George 3. Goliath stakeholder. The Buff
faio base ball grounds were selected for
the contest. The Buffalo Star says:
J. limerick is II medium sized man and
one of the last to pick out for an athlete
George Hamilton is about 5 feet ) inches
in height, weighs about l25 younds and is
a wiry little fellow. The first Jump was
made by Limerick; who cleared Is feet.
Hamilton, with great ease, cleared 13 feet
81 inches. limerick now strained himself
for final effort, and with bound he left
Is feet 10a inches. Hamilton did not look
worried Bit, and picking up his 18-pound
weights he merely raised them above his
head, gave tremendous spring into the
air and cleared "A feet and I inch.
This beats the records all hollow, the
best previous beng that of Jos. Greaves,
Woodpark Grounds, Bardsley. England,
September IS, 1876, who, using his III
pound dumb bslls, cleared IS feet Z inches
the best previous American jump on record
having been that of A. S. Thompson. San
Francisco, Cal, who, on November 25,
1875, cleared 13 feet s. inches, using A.
pound dumb-bells.
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The Great Bottle Trick swinala.


The most glaring yet successful Of old
time hoaxes was perpetrated in 1749. The
Duke of Montague wagered that, let a man
advertise the most impossible thing in the
world, be would find fools enough in to FIJI
playhouse to see it and pay handsomely
for the privilege. "Surely," said Lord
Chesterfield, "if a man should say he
would jump into quart bottle, nobody
on this basis, and the following advertise
ment inserted in the papers
CAT the new theatre in the Haymarket,
on Monday next, the 18th inst, is to be
seen a person who performs the several
most surprising things following +: 1. He
takes common walking cane from any
spectator, and thereon plays the music Of
every instrument now in use, and likewise
sings to perfection. 2. He presents you
with common wine bottle, which any one
Of the spectators may first examine; the
bottle is placed on table in the middle of
the stage, and he (without any equivoea-
tion) goes in it in the sight Of all the spec
tators, and sings IN it; during his stay in
the bottle any person may handle it, and
see plainly that it does not exceed COM
mon tavern bottle. Those on the stage, or
in the boxes, may come in masked habits
(if agreeable to them), and the performer,
If desired, will inform them who they are.
Stage, rs. 3d."
At the designated time the theater was
crammed from pit to dome. When the ap-
pointed hour passed and the conjurer did
not appear horrible uproar rose. One
person in the audience proposed, if the
lookers-on would pay half-price, to crawl
into pint bottle. Finally some one threw
a lighted candle On the stage. Within ten
minutes moro the theater was Quilted, tie
benches converted ito a large bonfire in
front of the building, and the drop curtain
hoisted on pole, presumably as a banner,
to the triumph of public gullibility.
number Of people were blamed for this
hoax, notably Foote, the actor, who was
one of the lessees of the theatre, but the
real author was the Duke of Montague,
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Hamburg Flower Girls.
Boston Traveller

These girls wear long red @: blue stock
ings and low slippers. Their dress skirts
are short and shirred a long way down
from the waist, and very likely it is a
bright skirt with dark bl1e apron. which
is shirred i'll the same way and almost
reaches around the body. Then there is a
white waist, with full sleeves reaching part
way down the arm, and is turned back like
a deep cuff, while over this is worn IN
front from the neck to the waist, reaching
nearly from arm to arm, very gay and
highly ornamented chemisette, the founda-
ton of black velvet or cloth, with great
deal of tinsel, or. in some cases, cold and
silver ornaments. Over the back is tight
fitting jacket, just hiding the edges of the
frontispiece. The head is covered with a
straw shade hat, but of peculiar shape, such
as cannot be described, having black band
crossing the crown, and put through the
straw on either side just above the ears,
and joining the sides of sort of cap
(black) which fits on to the head, the
strings tying under the chin. AS an orna-
ment, suppose, there stands out from the
back of the head an immense bow with
long ends, which is so stiff that it must be
made of tin or plaster, and is black, and
crimped to have the appearance Of ribbon.
These girls, when sitting about the hotels
with flowers to sell, look very attractivs.
Som of them have very pretty faces.
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Terms = Payable invariably in aazan.a.
EVE-ANaELIcAL CORNER.


A profusron of ribbons are seen eyery-
| There as trimmings.
! Ladies linen hankerchiefs have pen and
Ink sketches on the corners.
," Dearest, let's pool issues'' is believed
20 be the fall style of marriage proposal.
A heavy cord of satin is now used to
finish the edge of dresses with flowing
| trains.
Almond color is the latest. It is seen in
kid gloves, ribbons, straw for bonnets, and
in silk for wear.
A lady traveller says that she never finds
ne Wspaper or a clock in the ladies' parlor
of hotel, but that she always finds a mir
ror
oLqnds959 llPtk' ll9Ptfs' .poeees htaaaRerchiefs in
blue and white. Some one called it a
"symphony in spots" ..
Some of the grand danes and certain
princesses Of sovereign houses are thinking
of reviving the fashion of the last three
centuries of sitting for their portraits in
the costumes ofgoddesses.
The next invention Edison is to attempt
is machine that will keep woman's eyes
closed during prayer time in church when
the friend in the pew in front has on new
frock.
Many funny fancies have come from
Danbury, Conn. AT least one funny fact
comes from the same town. A Danbdry
man hired his divorced wife to attend to his
present wifes child.
Beautiful evening dresses are made of
embroidered net Ladies economically in
chned buy the plain net, and embroider it
to their own taste. Besides being cheap,
it is fascinating work, and well repays the
industrious.
Worth, the Paris man milliner, is not a
Frenchman at all, but a Protestant English
man with Catholic, and Partisan wife,
and two sous just out ofcollege. His home
is in Suresnes, a suburb of the gay capitol,
Immediately under the guns of Its chief
defense, Fort Mont Valerian, which the
Germans failed to reduce in 1871. Here he
plays the genial host in an elegant chateau,
planted in the midst of extensive grounds,
which are fenced in by high brick walls.
One day and night each year the house and
grounds are thrown open to Worth's en-
ployees, the women appearing in dresses
given them from his store, and each trim
med according to the great milliner's direc-
tions,