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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

PALACE cars for carrying fat cattle to
market, is the newest thing in railroad
ing. 1t is proposed in the new cars to
give the cattle "all the comforts of a
home" and convey them from Chicago
to New York in forty-eight hours, land
ing them at theslaughter pens in about
as good condition as they started. This is
both humane and profitable move
ment on the part of the railroads.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

NOTWITHSTANDING the alliance be-
tween that slimiest of political traitors,
JOHN KELLEY, and the Republican
machine Bosses in New York, it looks
as ifthe Empire State would go Demo-
cratic this fall. The quarrel in the Re-
publican ranks is ~ bitter as in Penn
sylvania. Even JAY HUBBELL'S as
sessment fund has not, so far, been po-
tent enough to heal the breaches.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05
CnnaunnIiOn.

Consumption is often the result OF not
curing a cough or cold at the proper time:
People seldom realize their mistake until
thew have fallen victims to this terrible dis
ease, when it often proves too late. Take
advice, and when troubled with coughs,
colds, asthma, whooping cough, Group, in;
fiuenza, bronchitus, pains in the chest and
all diseases of the throat and lungs, use
DIR. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, an
infallible remedy for the above named dis
eases. Ask your druggist for it. Price SOC;
Sold BY A. T. Young,C. Moenkemoeller, and
Logan 4 Co., wholesale agents.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05
:. T.. NJ. NORTON and wife

Col. L. NJ. NORTON and wife return
ed, yesterday, from a trip to James
town, Dakota. The Colonel is immense
~ pleased with the "biggness," as he
expressed it, of that country, as well as
with the thriving, driving, intelligent
people who inhabit it. He maintains
that it does a man good to travel in the
great Northwest; it broadens and
strengthens him; makes him feel
younger, more ambitious and more
liberal,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

Col. FRANK A. BURR, of the Phila-
delphia Press-and one of the most
brilliant members of the Staff of that
enterprising paper, arrived in this city,
yesterday evening. He will leave
this morning for his field of labor in
PENNSYLVANIA.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

ency. uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A
moisture, like perspiration, producing
very dissgreeable itching particularly AZ
night after getting warm IN oed, IL very
and Itching Piles yield at once to the ap-
plication Of DIR. Bosanko's Pile Remedy,
which acts directly upon the parts affected,
absorbing the Tumors, allaying the intense
itching, and effecting a permanent cure
where all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the system
produces permanent disability, but Try II
and be cured. Price, so cents. Sold by a.
T. Young, C. Moenkemoeller and Logan q
Co, wholesale agents.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

THE North Carolina Republican State
Convention "arraigned" the Democrat
ic party, in its usual ford style, for ia
voring Prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of whisky. In that State the
influence Of the distillers is strong.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

THE gardeners in the vicinity of
Wheeling now complain that they can
get nothing for their produce. Pota-
toes, tomatoes, cabbage, green corn, all
are down in price, and the supply seems
to be greater than the demand.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

IN Virginia appearances point strong
ly to the conclusion that Boss" Ma
HONE will come out the under dog in
the fight in this campaign. 1t looks de
cidedly so.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05
Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by sense
of weight in the back, loins and lower part
of the abdomen, causing the patient to sup
pose be has some affection Of the kidneys
or neighboring organs At times, symp-
toms OF indigestion are present. as hatu-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

A NEW Democratic daily paper-or
rather, a Democratic daily paper-is to
be started in Cincinnati, so rumor says.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

HAD an almost invisible skin disease, itch
ing intolerable. PERUNA cured it. II. AM
Bill, Pttsburg.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

The date printed on the wrapper Of
eGoApdpeT denOtes he time tOhen tie SUD
scrfpaioa e1pires.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23

Candles chimney, for instance. That il
2)0 feet high. Sometimes 60 up TO put
iron bands on cracking chimneys, or to
put stone copings on. II is easy to rig up
a scafiold when you have the ladders
up"
Don't you have trouble about getting
assistants? | sholll think few men
would have the nerve TO work so high
said one newspaper man.
"Thcy get use TO it in time. At tiryt
they can hardly move for fear, but in
the course of time they grow indifferent
10 danger"
81 have heard old sailors say that il is
not the lubber, but the old seaman who
has grown careless, that is killed by
falling from the masthead or the yards"
observed the other newspaper man.
s''Pcrhaps tLat is so. Our men, when
they are. new to the work, never iall.
They hold on mighty tight. They are
apt to lay them on projecting cOrniccs,
or such tempting places, where a rope
sometimes catches a heavy bar and scnds
it down into the street. If one of those
tools struck man below it would 90
clean through him Why, one man
dropped heavy chisel with blade two
inches broad from the cathedral spire
one day. II struck two heavy joists
which were lying below, and the blade
passed through both timbers. Where
would man have been if he stood be-
low?
The reporter could not guess.
"Good-by," said the intrepid climber.
"Let me know when you are ready 30
climb steeple with me-"
"Dont you keep any job waiting for
me-" thereporter called after him.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23

in the atmosphere, and this OF inion was
generally accepted by the learned I'll ly-
cho Brahe proved them to he more distant
than the moon, thus raising them at once
to the dignity of celestial bodies, and IN
the present century the remarkable dis
covery was made that shooting stars, lire
balls and meteoric stones are, like COM
cts, cosmical bodies moving in comic sec
tions about the sun.
But it was not till the year 1859 that
the return of "a comet verified the proph-
ecy made by DIR. Halley-became rec
ognized fact. Dr. HALEY had observed
the comet wears before, and computed it,
orbit and told when it would return.
Sure enough the comet came on time,
and since then the orbits of 200 comets
have been ascertained.
One of the most interesting questions
among astronomers is the origin of com-
cts. Iaplace and other noted astrono-
mors regarded comets as havinga an origin
outside the solar system.
Laplace supposed patches of nebulous
matter to have been left nearly in equili-
brium in the interstellar spaces, and that
the sun, in his progressive motion, com
ing near to those clusters, they must, by
virtue OF his attraction, move toward the
center of our system; the nearer portions
with greater velocity than the more dis
tant. These nebulous fragments, then,
would compose our comets, and those of
the same relative positions would to n
certain extent group themselves togeth-
or, and this would account for the une-
quail distribution OF comets over equal
periods Of time, depending somewhat on
the disturbances caused by the sun ami
planets, and possibly bodies beyond our
system.
There are few instances ON record of
comets dividing. The philosopher Sene-
ca tells MS Ephoras, an ancient Greek au-
thor, makes mention of a comet which,
before vanishing divided into two parts.
Hevclius tells us that Cysatus perceived
in the head of a great comet unmistala-
bic symptoms of breaking up. This was
in the year 1913.
This comet was first seen in November
and appeared like ball of concentrated
light. On the Sth of December following
il was divided into several fragments, and
twelve days later the fragments had the
appearance Of u multitude of small stars.
Perhaps the most remarkable division of
a comet was that of Berla's great comet
of 1855. Some have attributed the cause
of the separation of comets to the force
of the sun, causing, as it were, the comets
to crack open.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23

"Mebee" replied Jehiel, with vank
at at the Jaw Of e Of the pole horses .rl Who
horses is in good fix and the road is in
good fix"
make it in two hours and half" re-
turned the son-in-law. "and it will be the
best days work you ever did"
The driver grinned and piled his lash
At the Halfway House all the watches
were ont. Jehiel pulled up to water the
team in Just one hour and thirteen min
utes from the Glen. The excitement of
the party increased.
"An extra twenty-dollar bill if we
fetch it in 2:20w shouted the son-in-law
on the back seat.
"And dollar extra for every minute
under 2:20w added the other son-in-
law.
The stage spun the mountain at tre-
mendous rate, verify whizzing around
the sharp turns of the zigzag with velicitv
that almost projected the Representatives
of $500, ,000,000 into the Gulf of Mexico
The progress of the party was now plain
ly visible to the interested spectators at
the Glen House below. There was also
suspense and excitement among the
guests at the Summit, for Milliken had
telegraphed up that the Nanderbilts
were engaged in beating the record. The
six gray horses drew up painting and
steaming at the platform on the summit
amid the cheers of the crowd. The sons
in-law sprang out and shook hands with
the driver. The time piece of one of
them said two hours and four minutes,
while the watch Of the other made it 2:O2.
1t was agreed to split the difference
and fix the record at BOB. ..
For nearly an hour the operator at the
Summit House was kept busy sending
enthusiastic messages from the Wander
bilts to their friends in the world below.
The family prestige had been vindicated.
Such cvngratulatory messages began to
pour in over the wire. The next morn
ing every newspaper in New England
contained the names Of the Nanderbilts
composing the party, and the fact that
they lad been driven up the mountain
in the shortest time ever made on the
carriage road.
Some days afterward / was discussing
the achievement with another old noun
tain driver. ..
81 hear Jehiel's going to retire from
the business he remarked with a broad
grin. Hes made his pile. Jehiel's
sly one" '
What do you mean ?" | asked.
81 mean," said he, chuckling, "that
when fools come along that are willing TO
pay greenbacks to see horses run up hill
at four-mile gait, Jehiel's ready to ac-
commodate 'em."
"And you don't consider two hours and
three minutes the fastest time on record?"
Here he indulged in an explosion of
profane mirtb. Record ~ said he. "No-
body said anything about the record ex-
cept themselves. They were bound to
have 1t so, and who was going TO contra
dict Vanderbilt"
"And what is the fastest time?p d
"Well," said the old driver, q driv
those same six rrays to the Summit week
before last in one hour and twenty-nine
minutes with load of seven trunks and
crate Of poultry for the Widow Dodge
at the hotel. But didn't git no flftv-
dollar bill for doin' it," -ihbi
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23
stor,e. About Animals.
New York sun.

A gray horse used by the st. LOUIS
Transfer Company in one of its teams is
an habitual tobacco chewer.
A terrier dog at Americus, Ga, has
forsaken his home and taken up his lot
with herd of goats, refusing to associate
with other CANNES.
Jealousy recently induced a large
Berlin dog to attack Eve year Old boy.
This boy was petting a new lap dog when
the big dog jumped upon him ana Threw
him down. The lap dog going to the
boys assistance, was killed.
A novel fight occurred in stable in
Council Bluffs, between stallion and a
hull dog. The fight lasted more than an
bour and was so furious that no one
dared to interfere. Alter fatally bruising
tbe dog the horse threw it outside the
stall with its feet.
W.B.F. Daniels, OF Dublin, Ga, was
deer hunting recently. His dog caught
a fawn. Daniels attempted to secure it,
and the doe came TO the rescue. He
dropped the iawn to catch the mother,
but after desperate struggle she slipped
from his grasp and got away.
A lady at Branchville, n. j., one day
fed a common brook turtle that had ap-
proached her door. Thereafter the
turtle paid frequent visits. This season
the animal brought mate with it, and
the two make frequent excursions from
the brook to the house to obtain food.
A fight between toad and a large
black spider was recently witnessed at
Merrick. L. !. After each round the toad
hopped to a plantain leaf, bit off
piece and then returned to the fray.
After this had occurred several times the
leaf was taken away, and the toad fail
ing to find the leaf, soon rolled over and
died.
The distasteful odor of asofetida that
Virginia lady had placed under the
caves of the porch as disinfectan
drove away wren that had just gone to
housekeeping. For some days the bird
and her mate were observed TO be very
busy. and il was soon discovered that
they had moved their nest twig by twig
to the opposite side of the portico.
At a wayside inn in the south of
France is a roasting jack moved by ami
nal power. Two dogs turned the ma
chine. working alternately. One day the
dog whose proper turn il was, being alb
sent, the other was caught and put on
the wheel. He finally refused, however,
90 work, and neither coaxing threats nor
chastisements produced any effect. After
some delay the missing dog was found
and set to the task. After he had nearly
completed lhe job, he was released and
the first tried again, and the animal so
lately accusant now offered no opposition
and made the wheel revolve with a
hearty good will till the roast was fin
ished.
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23
HOW JEHiEL MADE $50.
Also How the Young vapderbiiis Beat
the Record.

Also How the Young vanderbiiis Beat
the Record.
Philadelphia Press.
Up in the White Mountains, a week or
two ago, ! heard of the latest achieve
ment of the Vanderbilts. A party of the
third generation of this interesting fam
lily (reck oning from the Commodore was
stopping at the Glen House. The party
included two daughters and two sons-in
law of the reigning Vanderbilt and a
cousin or two. From the Glen House
the carriage road ascending in seven
miles to the summit of Mount Washing
ton. Stages run up in about three hours
schedule time. The ascent is nowhere
very steep, but it is steady and steep
enough to make fairly hard pulling for
the six-horse teams.
One day it occurred to the Vanderbilt
party that noblesse obliged them to 90
up the mountain in quicker time than
had ever been accomplished before this
advent. They sent for Milliken, that af-
fable person appeared, his tall hat on the
back OF his head and heard the Wander
bilt commands.
81 can give you special conveyance"
said Milliken, "but / don't know about
cutting much under three hours. It's an
awful pull"
"But it must be done" said one of the
sons-in-law. The other son-in-law took
Milliken aside and warmly assured him
that money was no consideration.
Most people" persisted the eloquent
proprietor of the Glen, "find three hours
none too long. The gradually unfolding
succession of panoramic views, the new
vistas that reveal themselves at every
turn, the magnificent range that opens
up as you scale the outworks, and climb
the massive shoulder of Mount Washing
ton itself skirting the huge and gloomy
Gulf of Mexico, with Clay on your right
and beyond that the massive jefferson ;
Adams with its sharp and symmetrical
peak, and finally Madison in the dis
lance the winding and lovely Androscog-
gin, like thread of silver, to say nothing
of -"
'.No matter about that" said the SON
in-law. I'VE want your best team and
your best driver and if the thing can by
any human possibility be done in two
hours and half we want to do it,"
'That would be very quick ascent, "
said Milliken cautiously. Nevertheless,
wen see what can be done"
The result of the protracted negotia-
ton was that Milliken gave the Wander
bilt party his lightest mountain wagon,
seating twelve; his six famous grays, the
best team in the Glen House stables,
and Jehiel Cooper to handle the feathers.
Jehiel has been driving on the mountain
since 1861.
They started in the morning just be-
fore the regular stage, amid great excite
ment on the Glen House piazzas. Every
body had His watch in hand when Jehiel
cracked the whip over the ears of the off
leader. and almost everybody was pro-
vided with hfieli.glasses. or telescopes TO
watch the progress ofthe vehicle after it
should have emerged from the wooded
belt on the mountain side.
"We shall do it ~ shouted one Of the
sons-in-law to Milliken.
Milliken removed his hat and merely
remarked: Two hours and a-half is
mighty quick time" ...
Now" said the son-in-law TO the
driver, as the stage whirled past the toll
house, "do you suppose We shall do it?"
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23

and was again elected by the republic by
but one dissenting vote.
He took charge of an army composed
of 374 men. The AlaiaO had been taken,
and Goliad was about to fall-everything
looked disaster and ruin. At the ap-
proach of Santa Anna, when the Texan
camp was seized with panic, Houston re-
stored order to it, made long and care
fill retreat, knowing that as he approach
the east he would be getting reinforce
ments from the American states, and fin
ally. at San Jacinto, with only two six
FOUNDER guns contributed by the city of
Cincinnati, and little army of about 800
men, Houston overturned Santa Anna s
army Of twice his numbers, composed of
the best veterans in Mexico, and the as
tonishing number of $50 were killed and
only POS wounded while Houston lost
Just about the same that Jackson did at
New Orleans-eight killed, and five
wounded. He was shot in the anLle,
however, and the wound mortified and
nearly killed him. so
lie, seriously, did not want to be presi-
dent of Texas, but the popular feeling
compelled him TO have the office. He was
inaugurated president Of Texas in 1896,
only seven years after he had laid down
the office of Governor of Tennessee
very remarkable resuscitation of a mans
fame in short time. .....|-
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23

The word comet is from the Greek
word komets, or kome, hair; as used in
astronomy it signifies a heavenly body
belonging to the solar system, of lum-
inous aud nebulous appearance, which
approaches TO, and recedes from the sun
in the same manner as the planets.
There are three different curves, tech
nically speaking, in which heavenly
bodies move, namely, in ellipses, para
bolas and hyperbolas. The elipse is
what is called a closed curve, that is, il is
a continuous curve, and returns to itself
All species of parabolas and hyperbolas
are open curves and do not return to
themselves.
As visitor to our solar system attracts
the attention of astronomers they set to
work taking observations for the purpose
of determining the path, or curve, the
body describes. BY watching its path
from day to day they will ascertain
whether it is moving in closed curve or
an open curve. If the curve be a closed
one, then with sufficient data they can
predict the nature of the body's path
and tell with tolcrable accuracy when
its return may be expected. To illus
trate this more clearly, suppose that a
person is of mile or two and he sees
person running horse; by watching he
can tell the probable course the horse is
going, and whether he is running on
circular ring or on straight track, and
in precisely like manner the astronomers
can tell whether the body will return to
our system or leave it forever after COM
ing to see us-so TO speak-once. II SO
happens that comets rush in upon us so
suddenly, and disappear so soon that OBJ
servers cannot get enough data to deter
mine their paths, and are therefore left
in doubt as to their destination.
Our solar system consists of the sun,
together with the planets and comets
which revolve around him as the centre
of their motion. The number of comets
belonging to our system is unknown, al
though the appearance of more than 700
has been recorded, and Of this number
the elements of more than POO have been
computed.
Among the ancients Aristotle and 9TH
ers regarded comets as meteors generated
The Osceola times., 1882-12-23
SAN. HOUSTON.
Some Recoiiections. Of the Hero OF Sal
~ Jacinto.


some Recoilcctious Of the Hero OF san
d Jacmto.
- 49, GeoigeiAlfred Townsend,
y "In whose administration was it that
he rctiirn6d 10 Washington
( AItwas in the middle of General Jack,
sons administration. You remember
that about that time he committed an as
saptt on > member Of congress froln Ohio
naiaed stanbery." ~s'f ~
"Nhat were the circumstances of this
ASSAULT" '.. H.
well, Indian agents were cheatingthe
Cherokees in those times, and Houston
had five Of them removed from Office.
They We're like the star. route ring in
these DAYS, mendacious and influential.
and spestered him in all sorts of ways,
and got this fellow Stanbery to max e
imputations on his integrity on the floor
ofthe house. Houston just got stick,
and met Stanbery on the way from the
capitol and whaled him. Old General
jackson remarked that he had served
Stanbery right. Jackson remitted the
fne of $500 that was levied hpon him by
the courts, and Houston was brought be
fore the bar of congress. where he had
once been member. Hc got so dis1nst-
ed with this kind of fissing that he tent
back to his wigwam ON the Arkainas
river. He had had a taste, however, of
public life again, and in little while he
turned up in Texas"
what is the truth Of the tradition that
General Jackson told Houston to 20 to
Texas" aIfra
"Well, think there was something in
it. Jackson, who had made all his lppu-
tatiop as military chief in the solth-
west, thought he saw an opportunito for
q bold man to repeat the experience in
Texas, and, sympathizing with the Tex
ans, the, best Of whom were from Tenn
essee and personally known to him,
jackson thought Houston. avas Inst the
person 10. bring that bright young etate
oot of her dangers, and he never chose a
better man. ~ ..as 80 gs'sr-f bel,
"As soon as be got 70 Texas he was
made a delegate to the. convention to
make the constitution. The moment he
appeared In that convention everybody
seemed'tss defer 10 him., lie aLose the
pet c( General, and although picked mt
by o dozen little scampe from the south
western states who had come 10 Texas
10 be great men, he laid down his rank