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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
THE INDEPENDENT CONVENTION IN
PENNSYLVANIA.

As will appear from our dispatches
this morning, the Philadelphia Conven-
ton Of Independents opened the ball
Yesterday, with considerable show of
enthusiasm, and inaugurated what may
be termed the anti Republican cam
paign, in Pennsylvania, by nominating
n full ticket in opposition to the regular
Republican ticket made at Harrisburg.
THE band will now begin to play"
The movement appears to have sub
stance and tenacity. Last fall the In
dependents polled 10000 votes without
organization or any general ticket in
the field. In a general movement with
such an organization and such recog-
nized leaders as are now at its head, a
very much greater result may be antici-
pated.
1t does not appear extravagant to eX-
pect a general defeat of the CAMERON
clan and the ring machine party in that
State. And the Republican party with
out Pennsylvanla-with the keystone
knocked Out-like Sol. SMITH Rus
SELLS old maid, would remind one Of
some ancient ruin. The fact is the Re
publican party without Pennsylvania
would be- sort of aeephalous concern,
which would be of very little account.
The prospect for the "grand old party"
looks decidedly shaky.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
BbeeIias Reststes

THE REaIsrKR, by its superior enter
prise, publishes this morning the only
fun report of the meeting Of the State
Medical Society, at the Capitol, yester-
day. 1t produces for the interest and
entertainment of its patrons, the exclu-
sive verbatim reports OF the eloquent
address of DIR. REEVES, the President
of the State Medical Society, and the
very able discourse of DR.. GIHoN,
Medical Director of the United States
Navy.
The REGISTER, approaching the in
terest of the people in obtaining infor-
nation Of matters of great importance,
is resolved not to spare expense orlabor
in gratifying this natural public desire.
The REGISTER win keep pace with
the demands upon its columns, always
whatever they may be.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

THE WaynesOurg people belive that
orders have been given for pushing the
work at all points on that mysterious
railroad, and that they will soon begin
to grade and lay the rails. Faith is a
good thing to rely oil when there is
nothing else. 1t twill move noun
y.soo
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

DIR. REEVES win offer a Brock me-
mortal prize to be awarded annually to
the author of the best original paper
read before the Medical Association, in
honor Of DIR. H. w. BROCK, lately de-
ceased.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

STATE Of West Virginia. county OF Ohns
I, John Wagner. casiier ~ The abos' -
Bank, do sOlemniy swear that tb' -
statement In true To the best my o. bsgs.
and belief. JOHN Wht,N fh - .u|
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me- tSs
an GUY X. e. ALLES
Notary PSs<
Correct. Attest:
JAsEs hAxwELL, -
u. REILLY. b"~
EARL w. OGLEBAr,D -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
TO the PUBLIC.

TIAvIN0 PURCHASED THE sALOg
LII al 1924 Main street, from Mr.. Vim. u
Aanaway,S che recent proprietor. ] soalis
form the public that I will have chArg, hs%
after. ! will keep constantly on habi =
best brands OF Wines, liquor. ac. frs,A ~
always on tap. A share Of the public psrs
age In respectfully solicited.
my3 D. {. KELLER. Propns.s.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
NEW AOVERTisGMEnT,.

vI,O LET-FURNIsHED ROoNs At M
~ Fifteenth street. al
DRU0 CLEAK wANTED-OSH Oyrtl
- tent and reliable; must he Of ,sns|
ate habits. References required. Adtrsl
Oh" Wheeling, W. Va al
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

1t is shameful to acknowledge il but the
truth must be told, strike where ii may
that in this great country of ours, notwith,
standing the long and loud clamor for
higher medical education and the establish
ment of a Medical College Association to
encourage q longer, more uniform and
thorough college course of study, a
Diploma is not always proof that its pos,
SCISSOR is a duly qualified physician, or
that he has attended even one full course
of lectures, or that he has ever attended
lectures at all. In justification OF this
charge of bad faith on the part of Medical
Colleges, | do not hesitate to furnish a case
in point:
On the 18th of last January an appli-
cant for medical certificate, a resident of
West Virginia, came before the District
Board at Wheeling and failed to pass a
satisfactory examination within the mean.
ing of the law. Ten days later or about
the sd of January he knocked at the door
of TIE Graduating Class of the Columbus
Medical College and was admitted. Within
one month from that time he was gradua.
ted; and at the brilliant display at Com
stocks Grand Opera House, on the evening
OF the oath of February, he received his
diploma.
/ have it from an eye witness that he
presented to the Faculty letters of recon-.
mendation from prominent gentlemen in
West Virginia" and that in the diStin-
guished graduating class which was spoken
of by some of the professors as one of the
brightest and best which ever came from
that school) o n man was graduated who
did not know what the iris was, nor the
pupil; could not locate the mitral nor
tricuSpid yalves-piaced the valvule con.
niventes in the brain, and the ~ileo-cecal
valve in the rectHm.' There were sew
eral of that sort but they are just now as
much doctors Tin Ohio at leastl as you orI."
What an impressive, never-to-be forgot
ten scene at the Commencement The
stage decorated with beautiful fiowers-the
orchestra discussing sweet music. and stir
ring the hearts of the audience-the Facul-
ty, in double file, marching upon the stage
the 50 graduates taking their places in
the front rows of the parquette-and the
applause, and the bouquets, which greet
ed the new Doctors! 1t was most appro-
pirate that q prayer was then and there
offered?
But unfortunately, this is not the only
example that could be given of the ease
with which college honors have been won
by enterprising applicants. Some of the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

OuINtS-tuCh dluiIE lnC OlDC III IllI
the purity of the broad waters. The physi.
cal deterioration evidenced in certain local.
~ities-notably in America--by the paucity
of children; the abstention from outdoor
life; the i~ncapacity for athletic sports, and
the high mortality rate, is only temporarily
retarded by foreign importation. While the
breeding Of cattle is carefully fostered, and
splendid results obtained by judicious cross
ing, the human animal is allowed to inter
miDgle without regard TO possible funest
consequences. The mother confides her
spotless daughter to a contaminated hus.
band-the father sees his son deliberately
taking to wife the heiress of some other
fathers infirmity. The warning family
records Of premature decay are unheeded.
Hereditary tsints are blindly encountered
and physical vices intensified and perpetu-
ated in malformed and weakly offspring.
Nor is the evil wrought limited to the i'm
pairment of the body. Crime is the out.
come of physical defects. The brutal out
RACES, which have disgraced humanity. nave
been the fruit of impulses ingrained in ill
developed brains, exaggerated by repeated
crossing. II the inter-marriage OF criminal
classes is beyond the control of society, and
the yipers must breed for slaughter, the
enlightened sentiment of the edu-
Gated should, without the need of arbitrary
enactments, restrain the chance, promis-
o sexual alliance of the doomed vic
Tins of disease. Why should the future of
a family, or a race, be imperiled to crafty
the impulsive within. the momentary fancy,
or even the ardent affection of those, who
bear the stigma OF an ineradicable physical
faint? Men toll and hoard. In the eager
greed of wealth, they sacrifice health and
strength, and, prematurely old, survey the
pile of gold, which is to purchase pleasures
they no longer have the capacity to enjoy.
The very effort to taste the unaccustomed
draught kills them before they should have
reached their prime, and, dying. they leave
their riches TO children framed in the like
ness of their own decrepit bodies.
What if the sanitarian succeeds in Undue
ing mankind to heed his warnings. Will
not life be made up of self denials? VIII
We not have to live, aud move. eat, sleep
and dress by rigid rules. so irksome that
q would welcome the pangs OF pain IS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25
How hes state was saved From Small

the ESTABLISHMENT anu Flylu enforcement
of quarantine against the cities OF Pitts,
burg and Allegheny. saved West Virginia
from the ravages of this Observation-Disclosures.
Hence the wisdom an value of properly
constituted laws to protect the public
health.
With such encouragement in less than
zone year from the date of the passage of
the law, what advancement may We not
reasonably expect in the near future when
public sentiment shall have been more
highly cultivated by the laborers in the vine
yard of sanitary science? There is much
to encourage hope'of a speedy aud general
awakening Of the people of all classes on
the subject of Good Health. There is a
vast field in West Virginia outside the
frequent scourges Of typhoid fever, diph-
iberia and other infections, contagious,
endemic and epidemic diseases, to engage
the earnest attention of sanitarians and
exercise the energies of health boards.
Those Of us who have had experience in
country practice, especially in the interior
counties, are entirely familiar with the
more
Common Errors Of Hygiene
committed in rural districts; and know how
very unreliable is the generally received
opinion that robust health and vigorous
constitutions are invariably associated with
NuC PURSUITS VI dEAASNANNAaA AHC. oAoA
families continue to reside in logcabins,
under the penalty OF sickness in the family
the year round. whose means would afford
them any kind of dwelling they might
desire. The erection of these cabins is
usually the work only of a few hours; the
logs are green n covered with their bark;
the foundation or 'String pieces are laid
in direct contact with the earth, and across
these the 'puncheon" floor is laid, leaving.
perhaps, the space of a foot between it and
the earth. Through the ~crevices of this
rough floor, fragments OF vegetable and
animal matter are swept after each meal;
and on wash day of each week, il not
oftener, the floor is scrubbed with soaped
water and thus the ground beneath is kept
constantly damp. In warm weather, the
stencil arising from such a door is some
times intolerable; and no wonder there is
sickness and death in the family,
Disease and Death I'm Ghs Well, in the
Cellar and In n Dairy.
Connected with dwellings constructed Of
better materials and with some pretence to
modern architecture, the cause of disease
aud death frequently turks in water sup
ply, in the cellar, and in the dairy. The
well is situated as near the house IS posi-
bic, maybe under the porch-roof, and into
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-06

Two New Orleans editors went out
yesterday and shot five times at eacn
other. They did the fighting under
what is known as code of honor They
each missed four times, and their sec
onds, at each round, consulted and
agreed that the code demanded more
powder and bullets. The principals, of
course, had to agree to what their Sec
onds said, and steppedup to the scratch
for the fifth round. Burke, ofthe Times,
was then shot in the leg by the editor
of the Picayune. Honor was satisfied,
and the Picayune mans friends asked
TO be allowed to retire from the field.
The request was granted. They call
this an affair Of honor. We call 1t
piece Of foolisbness, that provokes a
guffav from every man of sense through
out the whole land Dallas Times.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-06

No; certainly not editors never need
money. Send in a string of dried APP
pies once in a while with few Untrue
tons about raining the paper, and
they will be contented and happy as a
bedbug in a bridal chamber.
Law is like q sieve; You may see
through it, but you must be considerable
reduced before you can get through it.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-06

TIE Wells comet has been a disAP-
pointment. It was very small and
hardly worth discovering, and then It
Absolutely refused 10 throw Of tail at
the promised moment
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The national bank charter bill was
taken up in the Senate, June 20, and the
section providing for the issue of gold GER
tificates was debated, an amendment having
been offered SO As to make silver certificates
available as part Of the lawful reserve OF
banks.
THE admission of civilians to all mill
tary barracks in Ireland has been prohibited.
The sentries are doubled and night patrols
quadrupled. The greatest precautions are
| taken against explosives being carried into
| the military quarters. Military telegraph
clerks in the Royal barracks are required to
sleep next their instruments.
A DISPATCH from Chihuahua, Mexico,
says twenty-seven Apache prisoners, cap.
tured in the recent fight with the Jesus and
Maria bands, were taken out in the fields
| the other day and shot. They behaved with
| wonderful bravery, each one meeting his
fate with remarkable GOODNESS. Advices
from Eucerellos, June 20, detail another
fight, in which fifteen Indians were killed
and twenty captured. Five Mexicans Were
killed.
JOHNsON'S harvester works, Brock
port, N. Y, employing $50 men, burned on
the Goth. Loss, $500, 900; insurance, 800, >
900. One man persisted.
A TRAIN on the Virginia Midland ran
into some coal cars near Danville, the other
day. The engineer and mail agent were Sc
verely hurt. No excuse whatever for this
one.
Mrs. A. j. MARTIN, wife of a promi-
| nent merchant of Jefferson, Colo, commit
| ted suicide the other day by shooting herself
through the heart Cause unknown.
CAPTAIN j. S. WISE is unanimously
recommended by the Joint Committee Of
Readjusters and Republicans for Congress-
man at-large.
| AN Emancipation Day celebration at
Houston, Texas, ended in a general dis
F. Whitman and negro named Henderson
were killed. Officer Glass was severely
wounded and W. Myers, colored, was shot
| in the hand.
OLIVER LARCoN and John Peterson,
young men, were drowned near Hastings,
Mimi, the other night. They had been on
an excursion, and fell from the steamer.
| THE civil service reformers of Boston,
Mass, have adopted resolutions denouncing
| the levying of assessments on office holders
for political purposes.
SECRETARY FoLGER will soon issue q
| circular to Collectors of Customs fixing a
specific duty of fifty cents per pound on knit
shirts and drawers.
DOYLE, the distinguished counterfeit
err, has been senten ced to twelve years. inn
prisonment in the Chester. H., Peniten-
tiary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Pittsburg (Pa.) firm has secured
patent for glass shingles, and pro-
poses to manufacture them.
-Shoddy leather is made by grind
ING leather clippings, and, after forming
them into q pasty mass, reducing them
10 dry. firm sheets of sole leather ~
pressure.
1t seems that driving belts OF ltal-
ian hemp are 10 per cent. stronger than
those made of Russian hemp, and that
similar belts made of cotton stand only
about half the strain necessary TO break
hemp belts.
A miller in Alsace, resorted to the
use of lead to fill up open spaces IN his
burr, and the result was that many Of
his customers showed decided symptoms
of lead poisoning. 1t has been demon.
strated time and time again that lead
can not be used for this purpose with
impunity.
A scientific writer says: All por-
tons of oleander are deadly A very
small quantity of the leaves has been
known to kill horse. The flowers
have produced death in those persons
who have carelessly picked and eaten
them. The branches, Invested of their
bark and used as skewers, have
poisoned the meat roasted on them
and killed seven out of twelve people
who partook OF it. Naf
I'm selecting pump care should be
taken to have it of much larger ca
pacity than that needed to supply tho
boiler, as there are many things which
affect the workings of a pump, such as
defective suction pipes, leaky valves,
etc. It is the practice of most manu-
facturers to give the capacity of their
pumps in gallons of water delivered per
minute, from which it is easy to select Q
suitable size, but the speed given in the
tables at which the pump is to run is
generally faster than that at which it Is
desirable to run them. ~s3
THAT high astronomical authority,
the Providence Journal, speaking OF the
retrograde movement of the equlnoctiAl
points, says: "This movement pro-
duces some curious results. 1t gives q
constant increase to the longitude of the
stars, and renders necessary change
in celestial charts as often as once in
fifty years, to exhibit their altered posi-
ton. Thus the stars that were once in
the sign Aries are now in Taurus those
that were in Taurus are now in Gemini,
and SO on. The polar star changes
many times during one of these long
circuits; for to whatever point of the
heavens the poles of the earth point,
the star nearest will be the polar star
for the time. Thus Caph in Cassiopea
was thousands of years ago the polar
star, and twelve thousand years hence
the brilliant Vega in Lyra will fill the
honorable celestial office -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
A Little Baby's Big Adventure.

The beautiful little girl of Conductor
w. B. Ward, now about eighteen
months of age, was playing in the yard
of his new residence, in Waycross, Ga,
where well had just been dug but not
curbed at the top, as is usual, but had a
lot of planks put over it, which the little
child managed by some means to move,
and in so doing fell into the well, there
being quantity of water at the bottom.
The great mystery is why the child was
not drowned. Mrs. Ward, hearing its
screams, ran to the well, but to behold
he,. darling little one sink out of her
sight with her head downward. She at
once gave the alarm, when Mr.. w. T.
Murrow went with great haste to her
assistance, and in removing the cover
SO that he could descend, dropped sew
eral short pieces of scantline into the
water, which, possibly, caused the child
once more to rise to the surface. when
he grabbed hold of one of its little feet
and brought it out. After a short time
It was resusaitated.-W aycross Reporter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
LabOuchere's Dog Story.

ST had charming dog once-a re-
triever, great favorite-bat | never
came UP to London without losing that
dog. The first time lost him offered
f5, and got him back. The next year
1 lost him again; offered f5, and a mys-
terious individual again made his APP
pearance, and said he 'he knowed man
somewhere in the Seven Dials as knowed
something about that dog At last"
said the Colonel, 'tI resolved to play
the game out, so slipped sovereign
into the strangers hands and said, You
introduce me to your friend. l give
you my word of honor I'll act on the
square with him, and he shall be no
worse offs that plainP"
"sWell, Colonel says the man, with
shrewd twinkle, I'VE know you, Col
onel, and you are a gentleman, and it
YOU come around To Seven DialS, No.
- street, round tine corner, III intro
duce YOU to the man what knows about
your dog
Eat the hour and place., to the minute,
J. met my friend" said the Colonel,
ssand he led me into a back den. / saw
several dogs in dens and kennels and
one or two loose.
"sSit down, Colonel said the fellow,
trying to make me welcome and at
home, and then eying me with knowing
and confidential leer. I'm the man,
Colonel, what knows about your dog,
and there's not one gent in twenty
I'd say that to. But you are real
gent'l'man, and that's plump Well"
the Colonel continued, ssI thought 10
best to come to some arrangement with
the man, so / said, sWhat makes you
always steal my dogp Why can't you
let him alone for one yearp' well,
you see, Colonel, we're wonderful fond
of that dog o. yourn. He's very nice
dog, and we get on uncommon well
with him 'Pon my word, he's not like
some dogs, as are always a-whining and
a-worrying. This ERE dog is affable,
companionable kind o dog, and am
never in hurry to part with him.
sWhat will you take to let him alone for
q yearp Will you take Esp well,
Colonel, you see we really do like that
dog. Make it f8, and I'll say done
with you.' 1 made it e." said the
Colonel, s'and for two years after that
my dog was as safe in London as in the
depth Of the country. There was evil
IDENTIFY honor among thieves, and COM
pact with one of them was, it appeared,
binding on the whole fraternity. But"
added the Colonel, 81 gave that dog to
friend of mine, and, of course, stopped
payment. Well, the next month my
friend brought him up to London, and
the week after that the dog disappear.
ed .''-LonIon Truth,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
Miscellaneous Items.

A baby in Poplar Bluff recently fell
from second story window into a pile of
rubbish and escaped without any injuries
Mr.. VIM. M. Woods, living near For
syth, received three gun-shot wounds at
the battle OF Gaines Landing, Miss, March
%, 1868, two in his right arm and one in his
hip. Recently he had one bullet extracted
from his arm, and the other has caused a
swelling and Inflammation which will ne
cessitate its extraction.
Butler County wants a jail.
The Wabash Depot at Lathrop was
again broken into few nights ago. Bur-
glars effected an entrance into the waiting
room through a window and then forced
open the door to the baggage-room. The
trunk of a travelling jewelry drummer was
broken open, and jewelry to the value OF
$500 or 800 made away with.
Rev. J. P. Foreman, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Pittsburgh. died
at the residence of his sister, in Rails Coun-
ty, the other day.
Cameron will have soldiers reunion
on August "a.
Rolla's new councilmen are busy inn
proving the streets of that place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29

NEARLY one hundred American au-
thors gathered at Newton, Mass. the other
day, to celebrate the 10th birthday OF Har-
riet Beecher Stowe. Thirteen members of
the Beecher family were present, and poems
were read by John G. Whittier and Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29

THERE is the widest alarm at Bridge
water, Dakota, over the outbreak of six
cases of smallpox. A pest-house has been
ordered erected one mile outside the town,
trains are not allowed to stop, and the viii
lage of Salem has established a quarantine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29

THE Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railway appointed by Presi-
dent Arthur are Robert H. Baker, of Wis
eonsin; George G. Haven, of New York !;
George E. Spencer, of Alabama; Watson
Parrish, of Nebraska, and Isaac II. Bromley,
of Connecticut.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
FORTY.sEvENTH CONGRESS.

THE Senate, June IA, resumed considera-
ton of the Joint resolution to pay mail con-
tractors in various Southern states amounts
due them on their contracts for 1859, 1850 and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29

JUSTICE BRADLEY, of the United
States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau's
counsel applied for a writ Of habeas corpus,
holds that the Court Of the District of CO.
lumbia had full jurisdiction of the case and
NO reasons exist for granting the writ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29

THE Utah Commission, as agreed
upon by the Cabinet, comprises Alexander
Ramsey, of Minnesota; Algernon S. Pad
dock, of Nebraska; C. f. Godfrey, of Iowa;
Ambrose B. Carleton, of Indiana, and
James r. Pettigrew, of Arkansas.