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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

ENOR SALE CHEAr-wAGOS aud OAR
l. Tiage shop, Elm Grove, Uhio county.
"a, with r gOOu run OF custom work, enOuS
OF four men. Size of buildings are: SmiJi
hop 2Uxi0. wood shop lSxS2, paiIt room 2ISin
ware room lsXin. Wood shop paint room
n secOI story OF wood shop are all wlinS
Dated and plssiered. Coed reasons for sell
msesdd IL. KIMMINS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22
a wicked story.


A very cruel report has lately been cir
culated by the enemies of Mr.. Hayes. That
so good man should have enemies isa
terrible illustration OF the depravity Of
human nature, but IL has more than once
been apparent that there are men so base
a to be incapable Of approaching thai
noble and economical man. 1t is now said
that the sale of Mr.. Blaine's history has
been injured by the fact that it contained a
portrait of Mr.. Hayes, and that people who
really want to buy the book thrust it back
upon the agents the moment they happen
to see the Hayes portrait.
This story Is grossly improbable. The
portrait of Mr.. Hayes is said to be truth
Jul one. Il therefore represents hand.
SON man. II shows the luxuriant beard
which Mr.. Hayes refuses to shave, thereby
soap and rszors. II also shows the abund.
ant hair which the good man has never
been willing to waste by cutting 1t OH and
recklessly throwing it away. Toe expires
sion of the face is genial and content d, IS
IL il were the face OF one who had Just
drawn a quarters liberal salary in advance,
and the lofty brow might well contain
brain capable Of conceiVing q mastery
State paper on turnips TO be read at an
agricultural fair.
It is nonsense to pretend that such q
portrait can ipjure the sale OF any book.
espt cially in view Of the fact that scarcely
any one remembers how Mr.. Hayes looked
when be was in the Presidential chair, and
that, as a consequences, few persons who see
the portrait viii! know whom it represents
The story is obviously an invention of
wicked men, and We need hardly fear that
Mr.. Blaine will be Induced to remove from
his book its chief artistic gem.
ON every side,
Pulled up with pride,
And anxious for the g eat contention,
The delegates,
with buZzing pates,
Can talk Of nothing but Convention.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

OREGON Las declared for TILDEN
Snd HENDRICKS. Oregon created
COED deal Of noise eight years ago when
Mr.. CRONIN cast her electoral vote fOr
TLnEN, and it is but natural that thu
State should fOndly cling to the old
finkpf
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

Ave shillings q page. An unknowu shoe
makers son receives $500 year from
London publisher for writing comic stories.
From these specimens, hastily culled, IL
will be seen that Mr.. Sala has very little
cause for complaint
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

NEWSPAPERS may write him down
as decrep'r, and he may be as reluctant
81 ever, but still West Virginia calls fOT
TILDEN. And that call IS destined to
become us'Onal.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

THE OH" L. gislature WAS IN session
ninety nine days, and passed 472 bills
and joint resolutions, an average OF
nearly five a day. That as enough leg
islatiOn for one wear.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

THE "BAYARD boom" is increasing
in strength, aud may yet become digger
than his State. Several business men
o. Baltimore think that he would Oa an
ideal candidate il he were nominated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

HENRY WATTERsoN plunges Ken
lucky into mourning by declining 10
advance to represent that State in the
Chicago Convention. There will be an
empty chair in the Committee on Reso
utlOnS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

III is thought that the MCDONALD
b, Om has sIrsyed Off into the imPene-
t. able jungle of rhetoric which the wild
western editor spreads over his section
every DAY in the year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

IT seems that the BLAINE machine
"scOOped M everything at the prl-
marles in this city, and the ARTHUR
machine is draped in mourning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

THE BLAINE machine seems TO work
better than the ARTHUR machine in
Wheeling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

AWAY down in Georgia Mr.. BLAINE's
friends are fighting it out with rszors.
Where is the SHERMAN committee?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

Mr.. BLAINE's book Is at last out.
Every delegate for the Plumed knight
should have a copy free.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

Our of the total number Of delegates
chosen to the Chicago Republican Con-
venlion ARTHUR has 2l7 and BLAINE
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

Now IT is alleged that the city pri-
maries were carried for BLAINE by use
of tissue ballots.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

TIE BLAINE boom IL fed on chunks
Of history, but it is pretty dry hill of
fare.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

Mr.. ARTHUR should get the medal
as the great civil service reformer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

BLAINE will get all tie shouting and
instructions at Martinsburg, but
ARTHUR will capture the delegates.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22
NoGIce.

II OILERS OF The BONDS OF OHIO
IA county bearing Blk per ceut Interest ar
hereby notified that bonGS No. and il nav
been drawn and the same will be patti a. tn,
sank OF Vince ing on the LIT day OF Man
ISL. Interest or said bonds Will cease from
that date.
GkO. W. WOOD',
Pres't BOARD of Commissioners OF Ohio 20.
Rrlira
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

NOTICE TO SUB0ClRLbBhA
The dase printed On tRe IOTeppeT q
szchpoper denotes tHs tins OheS tie sub
scrfptiOn sspsTes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22
E'Or sale.

Five Walnut Bookcases.
One Lounge and Extension Chair
with attachments.
One Walnut HatraCk.
One Double Walnut Wardrobe
With Writing Desk and Bookcase
in interior.
Ore Light Walnut Car6Tabie.
Address W. W. W., care Pan
Handle Grocer. ap,st
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

GENTS WANTED FOR THE PICTO
N Rial Complete stock Doctor, EN- brac
ng horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, bee
and dogs. BY Hon. j; Periam, Oh the "Prairit
,very subject Of Farm stock, IN Health ano
disease. Two charts for telling ages OF horsel
and cattle; To engrayings and six colorec
uowI For exclusive territory, confidential
erms, etc, address ". d. THOMPSON a CO.,
Il. Louis, No., or New York. del2so
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NOTICH.

81 N Sa0 pH day .: 80 a.n.lsvu.n
e. q y ~ ~ Z ~ AAsHs hnn. = 2
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

RRRsveek IN your own torsn. Z rms
&cos RuEtsnA. Ma ty1An
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22
Scaled Proposals.


CLEaK's OFFICE, !
BoARD or COMMISSIONERS or OHIO County,
WHEELING. w. Va, April II, 1884. J
SFALED PROPOSALS FOR WORK TO BIZ
y done on the following County RoaL,
uril = tue Cunent year will be received al
his office until
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22

E0R sALE-Fo0R HORSES. Two BROOD
Carts, eight sets OF Cart harness, and three
sets Of Double Harness. The above Will be
sold cheap for cash. Call at 81. CHARLES
HUdkL STABLES ap20u
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nEM ApxERrlaEMEnra.

For Sale or Rent.
a DEsIRA BILE RESIDENCE AT ELM
IN Grove. Enquire of ABNER KEY.
apdSe3dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-22
DIED.

Try Langdon's City Butter Crackers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
How Dallas Received The News.

Ben PerIey Poore, in the Boston Bud
get, says: Governor Fairfield, of
Maine, on his return from Philadelphia,
on the LIST of June, 1874, as the Chair
man of a Committee of the National
Democratic Convention, to inform Mr..
Dallas of his nomination as Vice-Pres-
ident, gave an amusing account of the
scene. The Committee reached Phil
adelphia about three o'clock in the
morning, and were piloted TO Mr..
Dallas's house by his friend, Senator
Robert J. Walker, who was one of the
number. Loud knocks at the door
brought Mr.. Dallas to his chamber
window, and, recognizing Mr.. Walker,
he feared that his daughter, who was
in Washington, was i'll, and he FASTENED
down stairs, half dressed and bare
footed, to hear from her, when, to his
utter amazement, in walked sixty CT
more gentlemen, two by two, with the
tread of soldiers, passing him by, and
entering his front parlor as though to
make him captive. Mr.. Dallas, not
having the slightest conception of their
object, stood thunderstruck at the scene:
Mr.. Walker led him into the back
parlor.
my dear Walker" said he in amaze
ment, ''what is the matter?"
''Wait one moment, if you please,
Dallas; wait one moment, if you please"
The folding doors were then thrown
open, and the whole delegation stepped
forward and gave three deafening cheers
for ''Polk and Dallas % Mr.. Dallas
stood paralyzed. Mr.. Walker enjoyed
his discontinue. Governor Fairfield.
OF Maine, then stepped forward, and in
the namo of the delegation announced
his nomination.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
Too Many There Now.

A Nebraska girl has lately destroyed
another illusion concerning California
She went there, she acknowledges, with
an idea obtained from newspapers that
there was great preponderance of men
over women, and that a girl could not
be in the country longer than twenty
four hours without receiving an offer of
marriage from some rich bachelor. In
fact, that every pretty girl held levees,
in which the suitOrs took turns like the
customers of a BARRIERS shop. ST want
to expose a fraud" she writes, after a
stay of six months. "There are more
men here than women, but in my judg-
ment they have run away from marital
bonds elsewhere, and have come out
here for a quiet, peaceful time, away
from the pestiferous sex that has caused
woes. A woman is of less consequence
here than anywhere else in the world.
The Chinese do most of the washing and
housekeeping, and work at about the
same wages that women and girls would
find necessary. There is mighty little
marriage and giving in marriage here.
The men don't seem to be anxious about
it, and the girls so well understand
things that they won't encourage man
until they know all about his former life
and make sure that he hasn't surplus
wife or two in the East. Oh, no this
is no place for girl who wants to
marry, and am coming back to Ne
braska this fall" That such a candid
clear-headed girl should return home
unmarried is i'll itself evidence that what
she writes is true. And, if true, the
question becomes still more complicated.
What will Massachusetts, do with her
surplus daughters ?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
The Danger of Imitation.

A rather interesting lawsuit has Just
been brought against the city of Little
Rock by Mr.. Wilberly Wexon, the au-
thor. Mr.. Wexon, like all great men,
has few weaknesses, which to exhibit
seems to give him great pleasure. At
present he is working on novel, and,
in imitation of Dickens, talks to the
characters. While sitting in his room
the other night he remembered that
Thackeray once, when asked why he
wept, replied, 81 have just killed Col.
Newcome. Mr.. Wexon meditated
over this. He killed one of his leading
characters, went out and began to
''snutfie," in the hope that some enc
would ask him what was the matter. No
one took any notice of his grief until
negro policeman came up and asked:
''Whut yer cryln' bout, gennermau?"
"Why, SIR" exclaimed the author, 81
have just killed NAT Plummer.
''Yer's de man I'm lookin' fur den."
He seized the novelist, and deaf to ex-
PLANTATION, conducted him to the station
house and locked him in cell. The
morning paper contained thrilling &C
count of the arrest of Mr.. Wexon, on
the heinous charge of murder, and
declared that there could be no doubt
about his guilt, as the unfortunate man,
crazed by remorse, had made confess
sion to Officer Teglet, the efficient po-
liceman, who had detected the crime
and drawn the guilty party into the
folds of justice. The affair was soon ex-
planned, but the novelist thinks that he
has been damaged to the amount of
$40, 900. Ark Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
He Had the Experience.

CLOVIS business now in San Fran
ciscoP" inquired one passenger of an
other as the train sped through Iowa to-
ward Chicago. bad, very bad" was
the reply, especially in my line. I'm
a mining stock broker, and haven't made
enough in the last two years to pay my
taxes. There amt anything doing in
mining stocks now but collecting assess
ments and ceiling 'em out under the
hammer when the holders refuse to
whack up. 1t makes me sick to think
of the good old times. Queer how got
into the brokerage business. [ was out
to Frisco to see the sights, and was
stopping at hotel there. when along
came rich friend of mine from Boston.
A broker acquaintance of mine agreed
to give me half all he could make off my
friends business if I'd induce the Bos-
tonian to speculate in stocks. 1 worked
him nicely, and fer nearly year lived
on my share OF the commissions, and
laid away money. Then went into the
firm as a partner, and in twenty-one
months [ was worth $150,000 My Bos-
ton friend was about the only customer
we had He turned his money so often
lHaG Tue COlHInlSSIOuS Stauudlly eau IL
up. We had his money, you see"
'But what came of the Bostonian ?"
"Why, he suddenly disappeared, and
1 didn't see him for two years, when 1
went out to the hill one day, where I
was building handsome new residence.
There was my Bostonian, in red shirt,
mixing mortar for my house. He had
the gall to speak to me, and got off a
joke about it being doubtful whether
that house was his or mine"
"You gave him a lift, didn't you?"
"Should say l did. Lifted him with
the toe of my boot, and then had him
arrested. No played-out spectators
from Boston can insult me with i'm
punity"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
What a Catfish Is.

Mrs. Celia Thaxter, who has cottage
on Appledore Island, and who is a sister
of the island proprietors, the Laighton
brothers, has written warning to all
amateur fishermen to come to the Shoals
against the catfish. "Black as night
she says, "with thick and hideous skin,
which looks like dull, mouldy green
beneath the water, head shaped as
much like cat as fish's head can be,
in which the devils own eyes seem to
glare with dull, malicionsgleam-and,
such a mouth! What terrible express
sions these cold creatures carry to and
fro in the vast dim spaces of the sea
All fish have n more or less imbecile and
woebegOne aspect, but on this one looks
absolutely evil, and Schiller might we'll
say of him that he 'grins through the
CRATE of his spiky teeth and sharp and
deadly are they. Every man looks out
for his boots when catfish comes tum-
bling in, for they bite through leather,
flesh and bones. They seize ballast
stone between their jaws, and their
teeth snap and fly in all directions. l
have seen them bite the blade of a sharp
knife so fiercely that when it was lifted
and held aloft they kept their furious
grip and dangled, Tapping all their
clumsy weight hanging by their teeth to
the blade"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
Raising the Wind.

It has been q hard summer for the
actors who lounge about Union Square,
says q New York paper, and many inPe-
NOUS devices have been employed to
''raise the wind" The impecunious
actor has a natural yearning toward
beer, and how to compass its procure
ment is the delight of his soul. The
latest evolution in this direction is
unique. The properties" SO to speak,
are bad IS bill and some newspapers.
The impecuuious actors enter one of
their fayorite hostelries and become
deeply immersed in the perusal of their
newspapers. When promising victim
appears the bad bill is dropped careless
ly on the floor and the actors keep on
reading. The eye of the victim falls on
the bill. Then he scans the faces of the
actors. They are immObile, each actor
being apparently deeply interested in
the newspaper before him. The luckless
victim sides toward the bill, and in
nonchalant manner picks it up Imme-
diately there is change among the
reading actors; the newspapers are
dropped and the readers, looking up,
exclaim in chorus:
"Ah, found something ?"
The victim is bound to confess that he
has and, of course, invites the entire
party to lubricate. They swallow their
drinks with a contented gurgle, and the
victim lays the bad bill on the counter
in payment. The barkeeper, of course,
pr0n0unces it to be worthless, and the
victim is compelled to liquidate in solid
cash. Then he joins the ranks of the
couspirators aud waits for another VIC
tim Ike himself. 1t is unsafe TO pick up
Il bill i'll Union Square hostelry.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
HOW CHOLERA SPREADS.
The PesTiIence which has Made it's Wa
Through The Old and New Worlds.

The PesTIIence which has Made it's Way
Through The Old and New Worlds.
An Eastern pestilence which has made
its way on foot through Central Asia,
which has crossed the A tlantic in the
old days of sailing ships, and crossed
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific
when San Francisco was no more than
white walled Spanish mission, says the
London Standard, may certainly be
described as an epterprising and perse-
vering traveller. If cholera could thus
travel in the years from 1928 to 1888,
what may it not do in these days of
rapid transit? But the fact Is that the
good old times of slow stages, of spend
ing weeks and months on the journey,
were so much more suited to the ways of
cholera that even the thousaudfold OPP
portunities of the age of steam do not
make it half so dangerous. If there is
one thing less doubtful than another in
the natural history of cholera. it is that
it loves the ground, that the breeding
place of the poison is the soil, and that
it Is always most formidable when it
drags its slow length along and leaves q
trail behind it. cholera came by sea
from Alexandria to Southampton III
1866, but it was quickly suppressed. 1t
came next year with German emigrants
on their way to America, and it became
a considerable epidemic. We have al
ways imported it from the opposite
shore of the North Sea. 1t would al
most seem as if a long journey overland
was necessary to consolidate its power
and give vigor to its constitution. Panic
stricken iugitives, the poorest of emf
grants, wayside tramps and all kinds of
hugger- mugger in motion are the favor
lite media of cholera diffusion. A few
showers of rain in Toulon at the present
Juncture would almost certainly make
the whole town hotbed of pestilence.
In time of heat and drought such as
the present, what is called the subsoil
water stands at low level; the wells are
low, and when the rain comes
the surface water has to percolate
through considerable stratum of soil,
and from wide radius round about in
order to reach them. These would
seem to be the conditions in the tenn
perate zone, at least, favorable to an in
crease of cholera, Just as they
are known to cause au increase of
typhoid fever DIR. Cornish, q well
known official in Madras, says: Slight
showers OF rain at the end of the hot
season may always, think, be regarded
as dangerous, as they afford the requi-
site amount of moisture in the surface
soil (combination with its existing high
temperature to favor the development
of the germs of the disease" No one
can tell where the germs of cholera may
not have been carried in the exodus of
10000 persons from Toulon, and some
thousands from Marseilles; the seed
may have fallen unnoticed on the sur
face of the parched ground, where it
only awaits the coming of the rain to
fructify. But much rain, or heavy
floods, have often been known to bring
an epidemic of cholera to an end, by
flushing the soil and drowning or carry
ing off the poison.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
Wood Ashes in the Orchard.

Among the most common and most
valuable of special manures l place
wood ashes. The amount of ash and its
relative composition vary with the kind
and part of vegetable burned. but we
may safely take the ash of the body of a
beach tree as representing the average
composition of wood ashes. One bushel
of ashes represents about q tons of dry
body wood. Wood ashes contain all
the required elements OF plant nutrition
except nitrogen. One hundred pounds
of wood ashes contain sixteen pounds of
potash, worth eighty cents; 81 pounds
of soda, worth two cents; slxty-seven
pounds of lime and magnesia, worth
eight cents, and 81 pounds of phos-
phoric acid, worth twenty six cents. Ii
we had to buy in market in the cheapest
form the manurial materials contained
in 100 pounds of ashes, the cost would
be SI.16. Can you afford to throw away
such valuable materials, or sell them for
sixpence bUshel to the soap boiler? No
argument is reeded; here is the value
and there is the selling price. Draw
your own conclusions.
Even when the ashes have been
leached to the last degree, till
every SOlubl0 bGSh "tAohOo
away, they still have value, for the
phosphate and carbonate of lime and
magnesia remain, aud they are worth
thirty-four cents for 100 pounds, or
Sc 80 ton. The market gardeners of
Long Island know their value, and sent
ships 1000 miles to bring the ashery
heaps of Maine, even when they had to
draw the ashes five miles before reach
ing the ships. But L will not consume
your time to tell you how they do things
down East, but will give you my ex-
perience with leached ashes in Eaton
county.
More than thirty years ago I settled
in Vermontville and bought lot for my
home, or, as / expressed it to my wife,
81 fenced i'll q acres of paradise. The
soil was stiff boulder clay, and had
been exhausted by a rotation consisting
of wheat stubble and wheat. Here I
planted every fruit-bearing tree and
shrub of superior value, and in the Sc
lections OF fruit 81 withheld not my
heart from any joy" I kept COW and
three horses, for in the thinly-settled
country horsefesh had to bear the brunt
of hard work. [ had plenty of stable
manure, and used it freely But soon
found that excess of stable manure gave
my pear trees the fire blight, made my
apples run to water sprouts and suckers
ana my grapes ran wild in wild wood.
l then turned my attention to heap
of leached ashes near by. and had
seventy-ive to eighty tons of these ashes
scattered over my field. No more fire
blight or water sprouts, but golden fruit
in bountiful supply. Like my ever-so-
great grandfather, Adam, left my para
disc, which passed through several
hands, and at last came into the posses
sion of Mrs. B., in exchange for 100
acre farm. Her son told me that she re-
ceived more money from the sale of fruit
from that 23-acre lot, that she received
from the 160-acre farm. The soil has
not forgotten that liberal dressing of
leached ashes applied more than twenty
five years ago.-Pr0f. Kedzie, Of Mich
igan agricultural college.