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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
7 A L0R-
T WELTY & co.,
WHOLESALE LIQUORS.
1113 Main Street
WHEELING. W. VA.

CTATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, EXECUTIVE
y Department, JACOB B. JACKSON, Governor.
To The Citizens Of he Slate, Greeting:
The autumnal season, rich In the blessings which
n wise and benevolent God has bestowed upon His
people, brings near the harvest festival sacred to the
Worship and alteration Of the divine Creator.
His Infinite mercy has kept. affair the Pestilence
which has dealt suffering and death to other lands
and though foods and dr0uth have passed over the
State, He has alleyiated d. tres and united our cit-
zens by deeds OF charity and kindly love. -.
Rapid progress and increased wealth have blessed
the State in the seasons past, and the future gives
bright promise Of an era Of national prosperity and
happiness.
in compliance with an old and halioyed custom, !
appoint Thursday, the 27th day of Novem.
Der, 1884, a day OF Thanksgiving and Praise.
ConsecIating the day to holy purposes, LET the PEG.
pie assemble In the places OF worship and around
the hresidee Of their homes, and kindling afresh Al
those pure affairs devotion TO their country, let them
invoke through deeds Of beneyolence and tender
charity to the solitary and poor, the continuance oil
he divine favor In the coming year.
in testimony wi ereof, have hereunto set my,
hand, at the city of Wheeling, this eighth day o.
Noyemele or, In the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty.four and o. the STATE the
twent3 -tirst. y. d. 'ACh'oN'
By the Governor:
wiz. W. JACKSON, Private Secretary. nolSle4g
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
Fame Assured.

The youth who fred the Ephesian dome
and the old party Who fred the three Rs
at Mr.. Blaine viii go down in history to-
rether.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
Wisdom From the s,ssr-Eyed Goddess.
LAirrilIs cosrsrL0apaL

The delay is. in some respects, annoying
But it Is not dangerous All good citizens
want both parties to come out Of the con-
test satisfied.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21

nkTFNTo Lennox, Simpson&Co
PMEN WASHINGTON, D.. a..
kN y LAWYKRs formerly EXZM
MERS In the Patent Once; sipee, ATTORNEY
In more thaa 1900 cases nSscribe oassI I'd W
OF terms. CNRns paper.l
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
Kind of Powder.
I,Nd,a D,siD Ne.rs
TRY langdon's City Butter Crackers.

1t is a fact not generally known hat dark
skinned ladies' blush white.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
Consolation.

while there IS a rooster there is hope.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
SOME OF MARK TwAlN's FUN.

He and Mr.. Cable ARuse an Audience 81
rurn-Dramatie Recitais oat OF 'pr.
SEWER"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
Over Colorado Mountains.
[Cor. Akron (O.) Beacon.


From Leadville we started for Utah, first
making the ascent of the famous Marshall
pass. The train was drawn by two powerful
locomotives The motion was SO slow that
some of the passengers got off and walked
alongside the track. Up, up for two long
hours without pausing or once striking a
level. The air became rare and frosty.
Snow was on the mountain sides close by,
but we did not strike a drift. Again and
again the road doubled on itself Sometimes
we went two or three miles to reach an alti-
tude of few hundred feet Immediately over
a stated starting point. Snowsheds were
numerous. At one point near the summit we
looked down and counted four distinct tracks
ON successive lodges, the bottom one looking
like two slender wires almost in parallel con-
tact The descent at last begun; we carefully
retraced as many long loops as we had made
in the ascent, and presently pulled up in the
handsome depot in Gunnison, Colorado's
western metropolis. Now we began to realize
how large state Colorado is We had read
in the guide books that she could contain all
New England within her borders and still
find room to stow Indiana away But to
ride three days and nights without once get
ting beyond her boundaries was an object
lesson not to be escaped
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
Extent of the Match Trade.
fsMentorn i'm CHICAGO Harald.1

n 1-S1eSt AZ S14Co&0 4Irl t4t&ls
That match you are lighting your
cigar with is a very small thing, isn't
it p said a passenger who had shared
my seat for few miles. < 4 small
thing; but you wouldn't believe THAT
the American people paid out $27,-
000,000 for matches last year, would
you? 1t looks big, but it is fact.
Now, take pencil and figure it out.
Fifty millions ofpeople in this country:
they use on an average five matches
each per day; that is 250,000, 900
matches daily, or $500, 900 boxes of 100
matches in a box, every day. Last
year these boxes retailed at an average
of 3 cents each, making $4,000 day
for matches, or $27,375, 900 q year.
And then to think that three-fourths of
all these matches were supplied by one
companyi If they didn't make $780,
000,U00 clear profit out of it they didn't
make cent"
The harvest day of the match lnonop-
oily Is now at an end, as they no longer
have a government revenue tax levied
for their benefit. But they still control
the trade. on account of their superior
manufacturing facilities, large capital,
etc. They own thousands of acres of
timber land in Michigan, and their lum-
Der is cut by their own men and shipped
on their own boats. And then they have
contracted for nearly all the worlds
supply of phosphorus, years ahead, and
the new manufacturers starting into the
business find themselves oyermatched
in many ways by the old monopoly,
which can still control the trade and
make fair profit on its Investments
They control twenty-five factories, and
one of them has a capacity of 1900. 900
of matches daily.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
A Whistling and Whittling Squire.
TBen Wilde in Chicaoo Nayvs

-
The justice of the peace is a thoughtful
whittier. He made a dollar and six bits in
fees last year, and whitfield away So worth of
wood. His knife is neither sharp nor dull It
IS like his mind-surprisingly dull over the
the straightestrgrain questions, but wonder
fully keen when knotty problems get in the
way. He breaks off piece of wood with his
stumpy fingers, and sits on the edge of the
sidewalk as if he had come to stay; and why
should ne not stay since he has all the time
there is, and can do nearly as much business
there on the sidewalk as in his little temple of
justice hard bys Before proceeding to whit
tie he thinks it over a long, long time, and
turns the stick end for end and end for end
again. Finally, breaking into a low, soft
whistling of good old Coronation or
"PleyePs Hymn" he cuts notch III one end
of the stick, and, half listening to the gossip
OF his fellow-villagers, he goes on whistling
and whiting, whiting and whistling.
Now and then he slices long, even shaving
from the stick, and squints along the surface
to see if it is straight. Then he sits and looks
at the wood and thinks, and thinks and
thinks What will he make of that stick?
Simply nothing. He will squint along its
sides and make it as level as the villagers sup
pose his head to be-; and he will smooth it
down until it is as glossy as the elbows of his
coat. But, after all, he will have only
smooth, straight stick. Does it symbolic his
thoughts! Is he sitting on the edge of that
sidewalk dreaming of the straight path that
leads to the New Jerusalem and reminding
himself that, notwithstanding the gloss of
varnish on the tortuous paths of vice, the
straight way is the smootheet ways Nobody
knows. He only whittles an1 whistles, and
speaks not his thoughts
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
The Growth OF the Nails.
Manufacturer and Builder

The nails are structures which are
very nearly like the epidermis and the
hair, composed of hard horny matter
arranged in the form of cells. They
are, indeed, only altered portions of the
external or epidermal layer of the skin,
and rest upon their nail beds in much
the same manner as the epidermis or
scarf skin lies on the true skin or
derma. We speak of the root and body
of the nail-the root being that portion
toward the hand which is situated be-
meath the skin, the body of all the rest
of the nail. The matrix is the
bed upon which the nail rests and to
which it is firmly adherent. Nails grow
from the root just as do the hairs, and
only slide over their matrix or bed, so
that an injury to the matrix, such as
slivers beneath the nail, or run arounds,
or even bad bruise, need not cause
dishgured nail other than of the
portion directly injured whereas injury
or disease of its root will generally
cause distorted and disfgured nail.
L have seen a bruise at the root, and In
one instance the sting of bee over the
root of the nail, followed by an irregu-
larly formed nail, which lasted for
long time. Thus, also. eczema attack
ing the hand may affect the ends of the
fingers, or even the sides at the ends.
and the nails remain perfect; but when
it is located on the backs of the fingers,
and involves the roots of the nails, the
latter rarely if ever escape distortion
and NAL growth.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
"sEatrimoniaI Agencies,

l"Durandal" in Cincinnati Enduirer]
This time the sign was in bronze and very
beautifully finished. The house was preten-
tious and elegant, and the neighborhood first
class. had thought several times of the lit
tie Swiss agent and his unremunerative VEN
ture on Great Jones street, and wh< / the
matrimonial agency in Forty-ninth street
caught my eye I stopped instinctively before
the house. Then / noticed that below the
sign were two other signs, one of which was
that of a dentist, and another of a dress
maker. These signs coming together in New
York are always suspicious, for either one of
them gives all opportunity for women and
men to enter a house or leave it at any time
of the day or night without being suspected
of anything wrong. =
related the incidents to friend later on in
the day, and he laughed good-humoredly.
'Wen," | said, in an apologetic way, "I
was not taken in either by the sign. sus-
pected something all along"
"Oh, I have no doubt of that said my
friend, with sarcastic grin; "but you went
into the house all the same, and that is just
what the keeper of the place wanted These
matrimonial agencies are increasing every
year in New York A great many of them
now are located,in Fourteenth and Twenty
third Streets where there is a constant
stream OF women rushing to and fro They
are often attracted into the places by the
novelty of the sign or through some frisky
desire for adventure, and once in they are
sure to slide downward in the moral SCALE
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
DERRINGERs FOR BUNKo MEN.
How q Virginia Politician Escaped
from the WIles OF Gotham Trick
sfers.

New York Letter in Chicago News
Gen. " D. Groner of Norfolk, one of the
Leading Virginia Readjusters, stopping in the
clty few days, was approached by bunko
men on Broadway, but they failed to victim
lie him. II had been to the office of one of
my acquaintances, said the general this
afternoon, land after transacting some busi-
ness started up town to my hotel. had
walked but few yards when I was tapped
lightly on the shoulder, and looking around
saw an old and respectable-looking man who
extended his hand and said: Excuse me, sir,
but think know you. You are, believe,
the third engineer of the Pennsylvania rail-
road? I looked at the old person moment
IN surprise, AMI politely informed him that
he was mistaken. It's curious, he said.
You bear such close resemblance to the
gentleman refer to that would swear you
are none other It's rarely / nuke such
mistake So saying, he again asked my par
don and turned away. Then, as if he had
forgotten something, he stopped, and walk
up to me he added: Since you look so much
like my friend, will you be kind enough to
tell me your name? I am the engineer of the
Brooklyn bridge
thought by this time that the stranger
"sAo aOo OAuSolJ SQUARE, duu 10 S0b I'LL VI UlIl
l told him that my name was Tompkins and
that / owned tobacco warehouse in Rich
mond. He then disappeared. AS walked
along thought of the bunko game, and in
voluntarily awaited the pal of the old man.
AS he did not make his appearance after I
had walked several blocks, thought after
all that had misjudged the old man, and
the affair passed out of my mind. A few
minutes later was stopped by little Irish
man, who, grasping my hand, said: why,
Tompkins, old boy, how do you do? What
brings you here, and how are things working
in the factory? You know I used to work for
YOU told him was enjoying unusually
good health, considering the changeable con-
dition of the weather, and that things were
booming in the warehouse at Richmond
This seemed to please him greatly, and
then he wanted me to go into little Office
and do him the favor of identifying him, as
he had struck luck in a lottery. Before we
CO. said /, let us take drink Certainly,
Mr.. Tompkins, certainly, with the greatest
of pleasure, he replied, his mouth watering
at the prospect of a free whisky. We en-
tered a saloon. Before we drank, however, I
said: BE kind enough to put both your
hands on my hips behind. There you will
feel two of the prettiest little derringers that
ever man carried, and remember, too, that
am dead shot. The fellow, I" continued
the general, "gave one look at me and one at
the bar, and then shot out of the door like
Hash. don't take any bunko in mine.'
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
New York Cor. Chicago News.1

New York Cor. Chicago News]
New York ought to be ashamed of herself
for permitting the continuance of begging
boxes for Peter Cooper's monument. At
Elevated stations, bridges, ferries and the
other public places are seen boxes labled with
an inscription soliciting pennies for work
that should be one of love-if the work was
needed, and it is not Peter Cooper
needs no monument. He built for
himself grand pile in Cooper
institute, and to place shaft in the
little triangular park near the institute would
be almost caricature And the begging
boxes are treated in shameful manner by
the people Cigar stumps, cuds of tobacco,
toothpicks, and scraps of paper far outnum-
berlng the pennies dropped in. The people
here cheerfully face an expense of 81, ,00o,0
to support Italian opera, while well-meaning
people are begging pennies for Peter Cooper's
monument and the foundation of the
Bartholdi statue. The new generation in this
city possess little heart or sentiment.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
They Declared.


Over in Chicago, the other day, an organi-
zation which we will call "The Great Hum
boldt Rail and Water Line had meeting
of the stockholders. When all were assem-
bled the secretary reported a deficiency of
$50, 600 for the year; also that the stock had
deprecated one-half, and the future pros
poets were extremely dark and dubious. In
deed, he argued that the company had bet
ter wind up and get out from under the best
it could.
"We owe $4,000, ehs' queried one of the
stockholders.
eyes, sir"
''The income won't meet current ex-
pensesF
mo, sir"
"Fact is, weare as good as bankrupt?n
"That's it, sir. We can't run another
month";
''Then, sir" continued the speaker, ri move
that we declare dividend of 90 per cent,
and begin to unload stock on the confding
publici,
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
- Woman.s . Joke.
IPan Mall Gazette.1


Mr. Oscar Wilde's American story, which
we noticed yesterday, was first introduced
to England, or at least to London, by Sir
Charles Bowen, at great bar dinner about
this time last year. It was then given as
happening in church, and the notice was,
"Please do not shoot the organist; he does
his best" This remote American town,
which possessed at least one church and one
organist, and evidently a high standard of
taste in ecclesiastical service, was not inn
probably the same which on another occa-
sion boasted of three places of worship. Each
of these, as rule, was crowded, till on one
Sunday morning, when the assembling wor-
shippers found each church or chapel fast
locked and inaccessiblea There was, for the
moment, no resource but to disperse. Later
in the day, however, the mystery was solved.
A yonug lady in the town had sent an
anonymous letter to each clergyman in the
following terms: "Ail is discovered; f1y.n
And they fed
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
A Noted s.nxer,s Isex.nnlng.


Alboni, at the age of 10, one day
amused herself by singing at the top of
her voice the arias she had heard some
then famous artists sing. She was all
alone in her parIor, and much enjoyed
what she considered her extravagant
burlesques of operatic performances.
But Franz Liszt was somewhere within
earshot, and suddenly he burst into the
room with his face agiow who was
that singing?' T." And who are
you?7 Marietta Alboni." aWell, then,
Fraulein Marietta Alboni, do you know
that you sing Ikea great prima donna 2"
Thirty years later the two met again in
Rossini's salon, and List reminded her
of the incident and of his comment upon
her singing, which had been SO signally
justified.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
New York Newspap rs.
LJoe Howard in Roston Herald :


The Tribune under Horace Greeley did
well until he Matched his little presidential
which proved a was n and stung the good
old man to death: Mr. Reid, his successor,
had an uphill journey before him, and it was
many years before he reached tie crest. Tho
Times, great property under Mr.. Raymond,
changed its tack at his death, guided first
by one and then by another incompetent
pilot, scraped its financial keel on the oyster
beds of impecuniosity. Fortunately the ring
frauds were brought to them in
the very moment of their EXTREMIST
peril. The Times rendered itself and
the community service which, in its
pecuniary and general bearing, has had no
parallel in the history of modern journalism,
and from that time on until within a few
years past it Haunted the Gonfalon of pros
perity. Its rentals alone were not far from
500, 600 year, and its unquestioned profits
were between $4,000 and S35O,b00 per an
mum. The New York Herald, after the first
heroic struggle of its great and persevering
founder, had few financial trials, and at the
time of the death of Mr.. Bennett, senior, its
reported profits We're not less than SOC, 600 a
year. Under the management of its present
proprietor, its circulation has vastly increased,
its advertising patronage is the marvel of
modern journalism, and its reported profit
for the fiscal year ending Oct. l. 1883, is within
a fraction of 81, ,000, 600.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
a BiSamist i'm His Mind.


How does yer new wife take to city life?'
inquired Aunt Sukey of Gabe Sloshing. The
latter had quite recently married a negro girl
out in the country and brought her to the
city.
Il tells yer, Aunt Sukey, dat it am all
piece OBJ foolishness, delusion an snare,
dis bringing country female niggers inter a
big metropolis like Austin. It's shoah ter
done spile 'em. Dere's too many frivilities
an follies an frippries fer dem to STAN it.
Dey becomes jist too vain an peacocky for
any use, an sling on mo- style den mule
kin draw. My two wives will be de ruin
ashun oh dis niggah."
'sYour two wives, Gabel What does yer
mean? Yer amt got no two wives, has
yers"
''Dat's fac 'spects ter be indicted fer
bigInany eff desn't keep my eye peeled"
How does yer make out dat yer's got two
wivesp
EVERY night goes home, sees 'em"
t'Sees 'emg'
''Yaas one in de lookin' glass, an one In
front OBJ itn
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
FUTURE WHEAT SUPPLY.
But Little Danger That Our Country
VIII he superseded In the Markets
0f the World.
lSan Francisco Chronicle. |


1t has been well enough known for some
time that the production Of wheat in India
was increasing rapidly. A pamphlet on the
subject has recently been published in Cal
cutta, and some facts stated therein are of in
terest. The object is to show ''the dominant
position India occupies as the source
OF supply of wheat to Europe; the ease
with which thu greater part of Eng
lish grain trade could be diverted from
America to India, and the advantages both
to the English manufacturer and to the
Indian farmer that would result from India
becoming the sole source of supply of wheat
to the United Kingdom y According to- the
writer, in 1881 England imported s5om
America sc, OBS, 074 cwt of wheat alone at a
cost of about eco, ,055. .066 A hundred mill
ion dollars for wheat alone is pretty round
sum- The writer goes on to say that the
wheat trade of England oscillates between
the three countries of America, Russia and
India, swaying from one country to the other
on the slightest fuctuation of the price. 1t is
to be noticed, however, that these "oscilla-
tlons' amount to very little, the United
States furnishing from year to year larger
amount of wheat
Wheat production in this country has not
yet reached its limit, and probably will not
for thirty years or more The new north
west is vast country. It is just now being
opened up by railroads All the vast coun-
try, including an area greater than all the
states east of the Mississippi river, is wheat
producing country. 1t is true that labor is
dearer in this country than it is in India or
in Russia. 1t is true, also. that agricultural
machinery In this country, especially that
used in cutting and threshing wheat, has
been brought to greater perfection than in
either of the other countries For the pres
ent, at least, there does not seem to be much
danger that the expectation of wheat from
this country to Great Britain will be dimin-
lshed by reason of the resources which Rus
sia and India possess
The truth is, Great Britain win buy bread
stuffs and cotton in the best markets For
these two staples the best market is the
United States. The present area of wheat
cultivated in India is not much short of
twenty million acres, the average production
ranging somewhere between eight and thir-
teen bushels to the acre. Wheat production
in that country cannot be materially in
creased without irrigation. The present ag-
gregate production does not appear to be
greatly in excess of consumption-that is,
India needs all the wheat produced in that
country for well-fed population. 1t is
country of extremes There are great
many famine seasons. Two or three have
occurred within few years, when it became
necessary to import food for the starving in
habitants, and even this expedient did not
prevent a great many from starving to
death.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-12
Heavy Life Insnran
u %
IChicago Inter Ocean.l


Not very long ago the British life insurance
companies were called upon within the short
space of one year, to pay the enormous sum
of So, 250, 900 on policies on the lives of three
heavily insured noblemen, viz: the duke of
Newcastle, the marquis of Anglesea, and the
earl of Fife; and shortly afterward the same
companies paid $1,250,O00 insurance on the
lives of two noblemen, making an aggregate
sum of s., SOC, 900 paid on five lives About
fifteen years ago the heirs of Sir RI 1T Cliff
ton received from the life insurance com
panies of Great Britain 81. $50, 600, that be-
ing the amount of insurance he carried.
King Umberto of Italy is making efforts to
obtain insurance on his own life for 5000, 900.
The Italian insurance companies refused to
take the risk, and application was made to
English companies with no better success
King Umberto has comparatively impover-
ished himself by paying his fathers debts
Dom Pedro III, the emperor of Brazil, car
ries large life insurance in foreign compa-
nies. Napoleon III had an insurance of
S600, 900 on his life, and this was the chief re-
lance of the Empress Eugene after his
death. One English earl has his life insured
for S1,000,000, partly in American coanpa-
MES