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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
BELLAIRE.

The suit brought against Amos Shep-
herd for keeping ten-pin alley in con-
nettion with a saloon, was dismissed.
The reason given was that the suit was
brought through malice.
The suit between Fowler and Neal
was not determined at the time OF writ
ing. This suit was brought about by a
horse trade, and will probably result as
such suits usually do.
Mr.. John Weis left this afternoon fol
Pittsburgh.
The fishing party-,he Silver Hook
got off in good time yesterday morning.
Most of the wives OF the parties went in
another direction visiting.
Tonight the Council will meet, and a
tussle will take place between them and
the Water Works Trustees, if a quorum
is present. The trouble is there has
been no water on two succeeding
Monday mornings. This won't do.
Another hitch will take take place in
the Council soon as to what shall De
done with the surplus money OF the
water works. Trouble may result from
| this controversy.
The boys at the National Glass
Works struck yesterday morning. The
managers proposed toreduce their wages
from 80 to 40 cents per turn, and the
bows left
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
PARKERSBURG.
Summer Observation-Disclosures
Heavy Freight - Church
Notes &c.

THE new ferry boat will soon be ready
for the Parkersburg and Belpre bust
ness.
The Greenbackers OF Wood county
hal an open air meeting in front OF the
Court House last night.
LARGE numbers OF Parkersburg peo-
pie are STAYING at the California SPRINGS,
and the BOreland and Mineral Wells,
in that vicinity.
The cOlOred NJ. f. church will hold a
campmeeting IN Belpre, Ohio, COM
mencing August 9th, AMI lasting eight
or nine days.
THE Parkersburg Baptist Association
will meet with the Long Reach Baptist
church at Slstersville, Tyler county, on
Wednesday, August 18th, 1879, at 10
o'clock.
PNRKERsBURG talks OF another daily
newspaper. The death Of such enter
prises there has always been about as
dsoon and quick and pangless' as
could be desired.
For the past few days there have been
very heavy runs Of freight over the VI.
4 q. and B. 4 o. railroads, averaging
almost 500 cars per diem. The amount
OF grain carried viii average almost 200
600 bushels per diem, all for the export
trade,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

proposition which he will not question,
and which must therefore be full and
sufficient answer, to-wit: That if the
Constitution does delegate the authority
to the Legislature to modify any partic-
ular clause or provision, and the Legs
lature exercises that authority within
proper limits, all provisions OF the Con-
stitution not in harmony with the new
order of things are thereby necessarily
and legally annulled or explained away.
As for example, if, as we have as
sumed, the Constitution delegates the
authority to the Legislature TO deprive
the County Courts OF their jurisdiction
for the trial OF causes, and the Legisla-
ture so enacts, then, although another
clause does provide that it "shall hold
four sessions in each year for the trial
OF causes" the latter section is altered,
modified and reformed by impllca-
ton. il not otherwise, to conform with
the new order Of things. The provision
for "iour Terms in each year for the
trial of causes" was necessary when the
courts were invested with judicial iunc-
tons, but being Invested OF these, 1t be-
comes imperative and obsolete.
So also in the instance of certifying
cases from a Justice to the County
Courts. If their jurisdiction TO try
cases certified orappealed from Justice
were curtailed by the legislative act,
certainly it would operate legitimately,
in vacating the provision which author
lied it.
The one remaining position taken by
'Lucus" to which we have not replied, is
that under the present constitution the
Legislature would not have the power
TO require a bond to be given in cases
transferred or certified from a justice
under sec. SO of the Sth article.
We are charitable enough to conclude
that "Lucus' has taken this position
hastily and inconsiderately. He contra
diets himself, we think, in the same
clause in which he denies the authority
bv stating that "the statutes OF Virginia
and West Virginia have always required
a bond to be given" That is to say, the
Constitution authorized an appeal and the
statutes prescribed bond, just as would
take place in the case We propose. We
do not think "Lucus" will find any con
stitutional provision authorizing bond
vet a bond is always required.
The constitution gives every man
right to trial by jury, with one single
condition: that his case involves more
than $50. Yet the statutes always make
another condition: that he pay por'
ton of the cost of the jury if defeated
This is the same principle applied in
different way, and it is applied in hun
dreds of instances running through oul
system Jurisprudence. Every license
fee imposed, and every tax levied, in
wolves pretty much the same principle
Has "Lucus" any better reasons t.
offer us for making an addition to ou
list of notifications not possible to 0'
made under the present Constitution?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
Mo,sria Disarmed of its Terrors.

Malaria, that fell atmospheric poison, is dis
armed OF its terrOrs, and health insured to thou
sands residing where the nOXiOus eXhalat'on
periodically infects the air, and engenders inter
mitteat and remittent fevers, by HoStetter's
Stomach Bitters, the most popular as 1t is the
best, of preventives, alternatives and tones. In
numberleSs localities where the demand for
sulphate of quinine was formerly immense the
hurtful alkaloid has been almost entirely sup
planted by this safe, agreeable and effective sub
stitute. which is genial in action and unobi"c-
tionable in flavor. II nulliticS the influence OF
miasma by giving more active impulse to every
vital function, quickening and enriching the
blood overcoming a tendency TO billiouSnesS,
and promoting digestion.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

THE improvement in the general BUSH
ness of Chicago continues to be ndic'-
ted by the increase OF the bank clearlngs'
The clearings for the week foot mp to-
tai of 81. So, 235. 50, being p, l39, A7.2+
more than for the corresponding week
Lost wear
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

THE Cincinnati COmmercidiinsists that
the price Of postal order should he re-
JueeJ from twelve cents To one cent,
and that such orders should be issued
by every postofIice making the post
offices the clearinghouse of the Peo-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

No church bells break the tOmb-hke
silence of the Sabbath is the express
sive comment upon the condition of
gloomy Memphis. Will her wandering
population ever return to risk the dead
" miasma that envelops the doomed
Citv? What inducements of business
or social relations could draw men into
such a death trap? Should not Mem
phis be abandoned to bats and vermln
or burned, is a legitimate question for
debate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
THE DESTRUCTION OF VOLCANO.


THE DESTRUCTION OF VOLCANO.
The calamity which has befallen the
little town of Volcano, in Wood county,
while il is to be deplored in whatever
light we view it. yet contains nothing
that is startling or unique. Its destruc-
ton by fire is but the repetition, with
singular iaithfulness, OF the history OF
nearly all oil towns. Last summer was
prolific i'm such fires. The city OF
Bradford, in Pennsylvania, was
three times almost entirely con-
sumed. Edinburgh, in the same
state. was a flourishing city with an
opera house, q theatre, an oil exchange,
fine churches and numerous costly ho-
tells one day, and the next blackened,
smoking and forsaken ruin. Volcano,
though a smaller town, has vet many OF
the characteristics Of the places named.
Ii, like them, owed its prosperity to the
oil interest OF the region. Its growth
was as ephemerIl and unsubstantlal,
anil the character of its structures was
rs favorable to conilIgration. And its
tate Is the same aS theirs.
Volcano WAS a small town OF about
five hundred inhabitants, situated in
Wood county about twenty miles south
east from Parkcrsburg, and about five
miles from the Il. Il q. railroad, with
which il is connected by a switch. 1t
Law nestled down between two high
hills, and portion Of the village was
built upon the sides OF these. This
portion, we presume, for the most part
escaped destruction. Aside from it the
town is almost entirely burned
To ashes. The particulars OF the
burning SD far Is they could
be ascertaiued on the spot, will
be found in our telegraphic columns.
The fire was supposed TO be- the result
Of incendiarism. Almost all the insur-
ancc held in the town, We understand,
was held by Wheeling companies, and
our insurance men naturally ielt anxious
tp learn full particulars last evening,
These, however, further than given in
this mornings REGISTER, could not be
obtained. They will doubtless be known
by tomorrow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

TUE Boston Herald remarks, with
great frankness, that it cannot conyen-
ientlv be blind to what is going on,
therefore it regrctiully expresses the
opinion that GRANTS chances for nomi-
nation in the Republican convention oil
lSSOare greater than all other mentioned
candidates combined.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

OF the political situation in Maine,
the Boston Herald, an independent Re
publican paper, says: "rhe real fight
in Maine, in spite Of all the talk about
the chances for the GovernOrship, is for
the control OF the Legislature. There Is
a vast amount Of bOasting being done,
and both sides are trying to throw dust
in the eyes of their adversaries, and
scare them by the Chinese mode OF war
fare: but. at the bottom OF their hearts,
very few well-informed politicians have
any idea that either candidate for Gov
ernor is going to have a majority OF the
popular vote"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

to render himself invisible. An inves-
tigation proved that he had mutilated
the remains to get the heart, and have
no doubt that many similar charms are
worn by this superstitious people"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

HAMLrN, of Maine, is seventy years OF
ace; ne entered public life torty-three
wears ago, and holds with great tenacity
10 a seat in the United States Senate,
which he promised TO retire from at his
last reelection. BLAINE, HALE and the
younger generation think it is about time
g. HASx,s,- t1 retire, resign OF die,
1....,a mn. lbles" in Maine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

CONGRESS appropriated S75O,OOO Tor a
National Board Of Health. Ii is said the
fund is diminishing at the rate OF So. :
600 per month, but its benefits are DIN
cult 10 perceive with the naked eve.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.

MINE DEPARTMENTS OF STUDY; TEXT.
~ books furnished at cest calendar arranged
10 suit teachers; expenses for one year from Sl75
To 500; non.Sectarian, liberal thorough. Fall
Term begins September 3D., 1879
For Catalogues and other information, apply
to the President, J. X. THOMPSON, Morgan
town, West Va. ag2egh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

The iron interest of the West is boom
ING. Furnaces and rolling millsare run
ming full handed, and lave as many
orders as they can conveniently till.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

CHrcAGO packers, since the LIST oil
March, have packed l,soS,0oo hogs
against $4,000 for the corresponding
period q year ago.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
RankruDtcN Notice.

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
States for the District Of West Virginia, in
Bankruptcy, in the matter of John T. Daniels,
bankrupt
Notice is hereby given thata petitiOn has been,
tO-wit: on the 18th day of July, 1879, filed in
the said District Court by John 7. Daniels, who
has been heretofore duly declared bankrupt
under the Revised Statutes of the United States,
tital Bankruptcy, and that on the Both day Of
August, 1879, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the office Of
T. J. HugIS, Register in Bankruptcy, No. Il
Twelfth street (up stains, in the City of Wheel
ing, i'm said district are the time and place aS-
signed for the hearing, when and where yOu
may show cause, if any you have, why the
prayer Oi the slid petition should not be granted
JASPER Y. MOORE,
Clerk Of the District Court Of the United states
for the District ui West Virginia. iy2SOaws
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
Prescription Free

For the speedy Cure of Seminal Weakness, Loss
of Manhood, and all disorders brought on by in
discretion or excess. Any Druggist has the in
gradients. Address DAVIDSON X Co, Is Nassau
street New York. ine'eodwc
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05

THOMAS link.
Boards nj MrS. Roberts
10th and EOf SITS.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Attachment to Newspapers.

The strongest attachment Of subscrib-
ers to well conducted newspapers is full
ly confirmed by publishers. "Stop my
paper" words OF dread to beginners in
business, lose their terror after paper
has been established for term Of years.
So long as paper pursues just hon
orable and judicious course, meeting the
wants of its customers in all respects, the
ties of friendship between the subscri-
bers and the paper are as hard to break bv
an outside third party as the link which
binds old friends in business or social life
Occasional defects and errors in a news
paper are overlooked BY those who have
become attached to it through its perusal
for years. They sometimes become dis
satisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and
may stop taking it, but the absence of the
familiar sheet at their homes and Offices
for few weeks becomes an insupportable
privation, and they hasten to take it again
and possibly apologize for having it stop
ped. No friendship on earth is more con-
stant than that contracted by the reader
for journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit its continued sup.
port. Hence, conscentiously conducted
paper becomes a favorite in the fami
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
The Grievance Of News Gatherer.
Providence Journal,l

There are some days in the year when
nothing will happen, when not even a
counterfeit bill will come to pass. Days,
dry, listless, indifferent days, when noth-
ing succeeds in failing and nothing fails
of success. Days, when no one will
drown themselves, accidentally or pur.
posely, when fire keeps out of mischief,
when children won't be run over and
machinery ceases its war of mutilation
against human flesh.
Days, when no one dies or resigns,
when no one is reluctantly elected to Of
flee, or without reluctance kicked out;
when lightning sheaths its sword, and
thunder issues no dictum. DAYS, when
lifes broad river with all its freight Of
humanity sweeps on in silent majesty
without murmur or a ripple; days when
reporter cannot lay up an item or cent
when every dog is muzzled and every vo
ter registered, when no one gets drunk.
and as consequence, no one fights or
feels like fighting; when street cars run
on time and the impassive hours run on
to eternity, and one of such even, event
less, easy going days was yesterday.
Once we thought we had news incl
dent, furnished by an indscreet pigeon,
and to reporter even pigeon is looked
upon with interest We have always had
fascination to have pigeon run over by
"a street car, and to-day we thought the
hour of qualification had come. The
pigeon was squatted upon the track, and
paid no attention to the advancing car
and the car went squarely over it. Ha
ha! a run over pigeon at last, and one
felt like cutting pigeons wing righ'
there on the spot. But where's the pig
cons remains? Nowhere to be seen bu
lock yonder There is the pigeon, as
sure as we are alive, flying out from under
the car, alive and well, and acting as i
nothing had happened, and after all thu
pigeon was right-nothing had happen
ed
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22

key of the closet, and he soon returned
with a dozen keys in hishand, all Of
which we tried, but failed to open the
door.
We made no further attempt that
night, and determined to have the closet
opened by a locksmith.
The locksmith arrived, and in half an
hour the door swung creakingly on its
hinges.
We found upon the shelves some forty
or fifty volumes, which bore the name of
Miss Betty Farren; there was also small
black leather trunk, which the locksmith
easily opened, and which contained some
books, likewise the property Of Mrs.
Hilliard.
At the bottom of the trunk, concealed
from our first view by the books which
lay upon it, was square tin box, and in
it large old family Bible, the lids held
together by heavy clasps.
Eagerly taking hold of the book, |
slipped the CLASPS, when it opened and
| disclosed large envelop.
With my mind painfully excited, l
read on the enyelop these words:
"The last will and testament of Eliza
beth Farren Hilliard, April 18th, 1855"
The seals, three in number, bore the in
itials E. F.
Cutting one end of the enyelop, drew
out OF it two papers-one the will, the
other letter, addressed to Miss Florence
Farren.
Opening the will, which was short, I
found that it bore date subsequent to
the one under which Hilliard and his
children claimed the property.
BY it she gave f50O TO charitable pur-
poses, and the residue Of the estate to
Miss Florence Farren.
The discovery was kept secret-not
to be divulged until the da', 80 near at
hand when it would serve the interest Of
my client.
On the morning the case was called for
trial, Hilliard and his counsel appeared
in court full Of hope and confident OF
success.
| then raised my voice 80 as to be dis
tinctly heard throughout the courtroom,
and sud:
"May it please the Court now offer
in evidence will made by Mrs billiard
few weeks before her death, and which
came into our possession only two days
ago" ..-.
1 There were several Witnesses present
who swore to tho genuineness Of the sig
nature.
1 | looked to the place where Hilliard
had been sitting near his legal adviser, to
see what effect the startling fact had on
him.
He was gone!
1t was clear to all that the case could
end but in one way, and in few minutes
the opposing counsel consented that a
verdict should be taken against his client
Hilliard disappeared after that, fol
him, fatal day.
A person answering to his description
under another name, has since been heard
Of but nothing definite is known of his
career.
His children, whom he left totally I'M
provided for, became the special care o.
my interesting and beautiful young eli
! ent.
So ended my first case. The ever
! recurring question in my mind, and ONT
that | am unable to answer, is-Was i
her ghost!
Was it shadow or substsncee
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Action Of Water on the Earth.
Contemporary Review,

The action of water on the earth is
matter which should be carefully noted
by the biologist as we'll as the geologist.
The surface of the solid earth is being
continually modified, and its elevated
parts destroyed, by water in the form Of
rain, streams, or sea waves, and by the
disintegrating action of ice, since in So
lidifying II expands as it freezes within
the cracks and assures into which 1t has
insinuated itself as water. BY these
means the substance of the land is beiIy
SLOWLY but continuously torn down ard
carried away to be deposited either in estu
aries, or at the mouths of rivers, Or in the
bed of the ocean
"The sound of streams, which, swift or slow,
Tear down Eolan hills and sow
The dust Of continents to be-
1t is the deposits of mud in estuaries
and in those triangular accumulations OF
land termed "deltas,' Qormed at the
mouths of rivers) which are the most
important for biological purposes; for in
such deposits a certain proportion OF SOL
| id objects which may fall into the river
and lie carried toward its mouth, may be
expected to become buried in the success.
i've LAYERS of mud brought down. The
mass of matter thus carried to the sea by
some of the largest rivers is enormous.
1t has been calculated that the Ganges
carries down every year as much mud as
could be conveyed by fleet of 2,ooo
ships sailing down daily, and each freight
ed with 1,4oo tons OF that substance. The
deposit carried down bv the Mississippi
has formed delta extending over an area
of 10000 square miles, and is known to be
at least in some parts, several hundred
feet in thickness. Should such deposits
become hardened into rock, we might ex.
pect to find therein some remains OF hard
bodies, (such as bones, shells, or dense
fruts,) which may have been therein in
closed. Experience has abundantly shown
that such is indeed the case. We tinc
remains thus preserved, which are callee
"tossils." But more than this, footprints
of passing creatures, worm-tracks, ane
even such impressions as are made by
sharp rain or hail storm on soft mud a
low water have been preserved for ages
being covered over and protected by deli
cate films of fresh deposit. In some cases
even the form of the rain-pits makes
more evident to us what was the direc
ton of the wind which blew on day 81
distant that we cannot imagine the perloe
which has since elapsed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Josh BillingsiSTns.
[From his book, "Old Probabilities" j

(From his book, "Old Probabilities
If Young man hain't got well.bal.
anced head like to see him part hiz hair
a the middle.
say to thirds ov the rich people in
this world, make the most ov your mon
ev, for it makes the most oy you. Happy
thought.
Inever argy agin success. When
see rattlesnaix's he'd sticking out of a
WHOLE bear of to the left and say to mi
self that whole belongs to that snaix.
The infdel argys just as bull duz
chaned to post. He bellows and saws,
but he don't git loose from the post,
notiss. Not much.
thank the Lord that thare is one thing
in this world that money kant buy, and
that liz the wag ov dogs tail.
noliss one thing, the man who rides
on the kars every day is satisfied with one
seat, but he who rides once yeal
wants a.
Flattery is like cologne water; to b'
smelled OF, not swallowed.
The man you kant git to write poetr,
or tell the truth until you git him hat
drunk, amt worth the investment.
Whenever see real handsum woman
engaged in the wfnmin's rights Dizziness
i am going to take off mi hat and JIM
the processhun. See ii don't.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22


The fine gold weighing scales,made in
Philadelphia for the New Orleans mint
are marvels of mechanical invention and
accurate workmanship The larger OF
the two has capacity Of 10000 ounces
trov or about CSC pounds avoirdupois,
and when loaded to its full weight will
indicate vibration of one-thousandth
part of an ounce, Or the milionth part
of its weighing capacity. Another pair
of scales is the one intended for the
weighing of gold only. 1t has bearings
of the finest agates, which have been
ground with wonderful precision. 80
delicate is the machine that it will give
the precise weight of human hair, and
is susceptible to the slightest atmospheric
changes.