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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

ssPost No. "a, and all's we'll. Grant
has captured Vicksburg and the John
MES are in h-!'' sang out her hus-
band in stentorian tones from some
lofty perch. It was bright moonlight,
and going out a little farther she
looked up, and there, on the ridge of
the roof was her husband. Back and
forth he paced with measured tread,
arrayed in his night shirt and an old
cartridge belt and knapsake, with a
gorgeous chapeau on his head and a
musket ON his shoulder. At regular
intervals he sang out the doggerel
rhyme which first attracted her atten-
ton. 1t is needless to say she was
alarmed. She coaxed and called for
him to come down, but he was proof to
all entreaties. The noise woke several
of the neighbors, and windows in the
adjoining cottages began to go up, and
white objects to appear thereat and in
quire in alarm what the trouble was.
The wife was fearful lest her husband
should walk off the end of the roof and
break his neck. A score of neighbors
and friends had soon collected and
held council as to the best means OF
getting the old soldier down. But
while thus engaged he disappeared on
the opposite side of the roof, and be-
fore the Mortified spectators could
interfere hurled the musket to the
ground and then jumped after it. It
was distance of nearly twenty feet,
but, strange to say. he was not hurt
The shock awoke him, however, and
since then he has not been troubled
with somnambulism, but when he goes
away to Grand Army doings now his
wife goes with him.-Chicago Times.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Renan on Literature,

M. Ernest Renan displayed all his
accustomed wit and audacity in his
address before the French Academy the
other day, when he went through the
form of welcoming NJ. Jules Claretie
to a seat among the Industrious forty.
Now NJ. Renan is a pessimist by pro
fession. but he is an optomist by ma.
ture. When, therefore, he began by
declaring that the literature of the
early part of this century was super
fetal, aud that of the later part brutal
and vulgar, his audience was probably
more amused than convinced, but there
was wisdom enough in what followed
to set them thinking. The realism OF
the present day, NJ. Renan said, was
inspired by false taste for the ugly
and the abject; dunghill may be
painted, but only on condition that a
beautiful flower springs from it; reali-
ties confront us on every side, we know
them well, there is no need of de-
scribing them. In any event, the
future will be too busy with it's own
affairs, or to waste it's time reading our
works. In a thousand years Homer
and the Bible are perhaps the only two
books that will be reprinted. AS for
the authors of the present century, they
may be thankful if future professors of
literature select a few pages from their
writings for the examinations, accom-
panied with an interlineary translation
in Volapuk. The faults OF the present
century arise, M. Renan believed, from
hand-to-hand struggle with the infin-
tie. We try to grasp too much and to
say too many things at once. We are
not content to wait for clear ideas.
Our exuberance is unparalleled; we
pour out books by the thousand and
not one of them has any definite claim
on posterity. Thus M. Renan reasoned,
and it is not strange that he discovered
inadequate mental culture and moral
ennui to be the chief traits of the age.
His words are to be accepted with a
grain of salt, but is there not, after all,
a good deal of truth, or at least proba-
bility, On his side? This may be, as
he declares, every charming and
agreeable century," that it is a century
which will leave it's impress in the Gre
alive sense of the worlds history, few
careful students of the times will be
willing to acknowledge. -Boston Bea-
con.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
A Strict Constructionist.

Col. Bland "Why, Harry, my boy,
how are you? l haven't seen any
thing of you for long time; but I
watch your career closely, and you
know I am deeply interested in your
future" Harry: &Thank you, colonel
I know you are. Was; just looking for
you, Am in a tight place and want to
know if you could let me have two
hundred by noon to-day ?" Col. Bland {:
"Well-er-Harry, YOU see, am SO
solicitious about your future l can't
even consider any proposition relating
to, the present. Pretty day."
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Letter-Writing.

It is often the case that women are
very poor correspondents. They do
not mean to be so, but they think that
they must have so much time to an
swer a letter, and put off writing,
thinking every day to make time, until
both letter and writer are seldom
thought OF. Often you hear such wo-
men say: II ought to answer that
letter, but can't get the time. I want
10 write long letter when 1 do write,
and must take time to do it WE'LL" Gen
orally the time is never made for
writing, for such woman will seldom
take the time, and often her letters re-
main for years unanswered.
All women will, I think, believe the
sooner letter is answered after its re-
ceipt the easier it is, while the longer
it is kept waiting the harder task it
becomes to answer it, and the longer it
4, put off the more it is avoided. An
swer letter as soon as possible. Do
not wait to write a very long one.
Commence to answer as soon as you
can get the time, for to some people in
regard to letter-writing thing begun
is half done, If not finished at once ii
can be dropped and finished at another
time soon after. If you are away from
your parents, write often to them. Tell
them of all pleasant things in the
home, the cute sayings and actions of
the children. If any members of the
family are absent from home, do not
neglect writing to them. Make your
letters cheerful, no reference to sick.
ness unless dangerous, for most per-
sons away from home are apt to make
a mountain of a mole hill.-Ex.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
A. Belle.

With raven tresses, slim and tall,
With dark eyes kindling into light,
She moved amid the dancers all,
The lovelist through the livelong night
She scorned the love scarce dared tell,
For this-my lady Isabelle.
But time relentless onward runs
To vcnge me of my ancient slight.
Jet locks grow gray meath many suns,
And dim the eyes erewhile so bright.
All! little now remains to tell
How-once my lady was belle.
London World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
A Simple Remedy for HiccougA.

DR.. Loebl reports. in the Allgemeine
Wiener Medizinische Zeitung, No. 80,
1889, the case of man aged 81, who
suffered for five days and nights from
a most obstinate hiccough. After try
ing all the ordinary measures without
avail, he fell back upon household
remedy as last resort, and ordered a
teaspoonful of pulverized sugar wet
with an equal volume Of wine vinegar,
to be taken at one dose. The hiccough
stopped Immediately and did not re-
turn for six hours. and then ceased
again upon a second dose of the REM
edv.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Too Intense Even for Amelie.

100 LII C0uS0 GY0u 4OI AXu0Al0.
Through a half open door in the
Hotel Arno the murmur of a low musi-
cal voice foated into the hallway. The
door opened into an elegantapartment,
decorated with rich drapery and
bijouterie that gave the place an air OF
voluptuous refinement. Seated ON a
soft Turkish rug of luxurious squshi-
ness wrath figure sits; the face of ex-
quisite sweetness, yet with an uncanny
brilliancy about the eyes, is lit up by
the fitful glow of the sunlight. Upon
the little hand rests head whose gold
enmeshed tresses fall glittering show
er over sculpturesque arm, and in the
other is a dainty circular box with
grooves OF scrupulous exactness,
through which brilliant globules wheel
and circle in bewildering madness.
my hearth says the fair girl, with
a smothered sob-''I cannot do it
cannOt!'
She gives the dainty circular box a
swift whirl, gazes it at with look of in
tense determination, and, drawing her.
self up to the height of her scornful
stature, casts it from her into the fire,
as if it were a thing too low for her
suburb contempt. For an instant her
face rests in her hands, then with
trembling steps she propels her slen-
der figure over to the nearest table,
sits down and writes another novel. It
is Amelie Rives Chanler, and she has
been trying to get the ''Pigs in the
Pen WA Shi,, ptOn Critic
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
There's q Charm About It.

The last counterfeit half dollar put
out had thirty-seven cents of the reak
quill about it, or nearly as much as the
government puts in. and the gang
would have had to float tens of thou
sands Of dollars to make day wages
1t was harder work than digging pota-
toes. but there's a charm about beat
ing Uncle Sam which never grows
cta1a
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Decentralization Of the Jury System.

Lawyers have regulations to make
and fees to earn. In the quest Of
these objects they are perhaps no bet
ter and no worse than other profess
sional men. But when they are able
to attain their ends only at serious
cost to public dignity and decency, by
the help Of such an institution as the
jury system, it follows that the system
Is wrong. Chicago Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Fitted for the Signal Service.

s'1'm going to apply for govern
ment Office, Sarah!'
ssYou an Offices seeker! What has
put that into your head, John?"
eyes. Iwant to be the chief of the
signal bureau"
''Nonsense. You are not qualified
for such place."
..rm just as we'll qualified for it as
Greedy. I guessed at the seeds in a
squash to-day. guessed there were
3,497 and there were 28i Chicago
Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
Modern Stage Fun.

Modern Dramatist-''I',e got new
comedy for you"
Manager-'.Is it funny?''
Modern Dramatist-''Youb bet! Chuck
full of damns. New York Weekly.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
FARM AND HOME,
A Good Corn Marker.

For years have been cropping about
for light, good corn marker, one
that would mark and not furrow; would
run true without a tongue, one that
could be turned about and not tear up
the whole end of a field. Last year ]
made a marker of four two-by-fou
inch pine scantlings, cut six feet long,
and put forty-two inches apart. An
inch pine board is spiked on with
twenty penny wire nails and a six
inch board two feet back of it. Four one
inch board blocks, four inches square,
are nailed at the rear and under side
of the runners. Two short trace chains
or ropes, two feet long, are fastened 70
the front of the marker. A two-horse
team is now hitched on. No double
trees or whiffletrees are needed. The
two inside traces are tied up out of the
way, and the outside trace of each
horse fastened to the chain.
The team is now driven across
the lot; the long runners make it
run true and straight, if the team is
driven fairly we'll. At the end, when
turning take hold of the rear end of
one of the runners, raise it up, turn
the team about to right or left, and the
''swing horse will pull it around just
to the place. Let one runner go back
in the outside mark. Walk in the
double mark, and if there is any slight
crook or defect in the row mark it is
easily Strengthened by slight right or
left pull. The little thin blocks under
the runners make broad flat mark,
which is easily seen, and is not OBJ
jectionable from its depths. Neither
horse walks where runner comes, so
the mark is left perfect. The weight
of the machine being only about
thirty-eight pounds, it is easily
handled, and can be put up and used
next year. The draught is so light as
not to be noticeable by the team, even
if pulling each by only one trace. It
took just fifteen minutes by the watch
to make this marker, and ssraw"
hand did the work. Agri-
culturist.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15

''Ive got him! Two got him! Come
on, girls, I've got him." she screamed,
and with each word she brought down
the croquet mallet with disastrous eff
feet. Smash went a perfume case and
crash went the mirror, while the two
girls in bed lent their voices to the din
in wild alarm. It was all over in five
minutes, but in less time than that the
neighborhood was aroused, and a few
minutes later two officers arrived. 1t
was soon explained that Amy had had
"a nightmare, and the neighborhood re-
sumed its normal quiet.
A gentleman who is prominent in
Grand Army circles created a great
disturbance in the little suburban
town in which he lives shortly after
the national encampment at Columbus
by a ridiculous performance in his
sleep. He arrived home late Sunday
night, and was so tired he could
scarcely say ''How do you do?" to his
wife, and he went to sleep as soon as
he touched the bed. About o'clock
in the morning his wife woke up, and
was not little alarmed to find hel
weary husband gone. After calling
him, without receiving any reply, she
got up, and DOMINIC a wrapper went
downstairs. The front door stood oper
and she went out on the walk.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
HOW TO SAVE LIFE.

What Is cough? II IS all irritation of the
throat and lungs. What causes il2 Congestion.
stop the cong stinn the Irritation and the
cough Il cured, But how TO stop the congestioni
All, there is Just where physicians have always
been puzzled. B't il must be checked, Or pneu-
monia, quick consumption o. some terrible pull
mOnary disease vii follow. Some doc.ors give
cod liver oil Others cough syrups but the most
advanced pres rihe stimulant'. Nature must be
assisted. Pure whiskey will do it. See what
physicians say:
Prof Austin Flint Of Bellevue New York;
College, savs The judicious use OF alcoholic
stimulant- Is one OF the striking characteristics
OF progress in the practice of medicine during the
last half century"
Professor Henry Mott, Of New York, says:
The purity OF Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey las
simple analytical tests will readily convince
physician or an expert should certainly recon-
mend II 10 the highest pub ic favor"
Luiiy's Pure Malt Whiskey Is a certain cure
aud preventive Ofcongesti0n and should be kept
in every family. 1t is so d by all druggists and
dealers. BE sure and secure the genuine
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
LTvE STOCK.


CHI AGO, April >. 49, Cattle eceiPts
5 500 head; ,hipments 5000 hesd; market
strong and 10c higher; beeves 81 load 90;
steers 50 3Oa4 20; stOckers and feeders
81 4Oa3 90; cows, bulls and mixed 81 75l
3 35; Texss steers So O0a3 So.
Hogs Receipts Is, 600 head; shipments
9 GOO head; market steady; mixed and
heavy 81 7Ol4 80; light 81 75s5 90; sk'ps
So 50a4 90
shesp-Receipts 600 head; shipments
> 600 head; market stronger; natives
81 OOa5 so: western corn fed 81 80; lambs
: 50a6 50.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
MARTINS FERRY

Ga Thursday evening, just as tie S,hool
Industrial Exhibition closed Mr. NJ -
Smyhe, President of the Board OF Elmo.
uon, who has hesp srduon~lv engsped IN
making success Of The affair, fsll fain,ipg
and bleeding violently from a hemorrhaee
of the stomach. He eal taken 10 his home
cOrrer Teoth and VALIANT streets. where
he spent very restless night. He WA
unsble TO sleep at 81 till Yesterday morn.
ing and then only caught one hours rest.
HIS condition Il quite critical, although lie
has had no further hemorrhages. Last
night be was resting comparatively easy.
The town wss full of people yesterday.
They were all nice people, TOO, and 40 one
would imagine from their appearance that
thsIe wss political convention in town.
IL was convention OF brains, come to
town TO zee what the children call Mr..
SpaTks's show
Thifty-six school teachers from other
places took dinner at the Hotel Maywood
yesterday There were forr tiu es that
number of strange teachers ia the city, the
remainder either came in after dinner or
wen. to the hOmes Of friends.
The writer interviewed several of the
visiting teachers yesterday evening, and
they sll spoke in the highest terms of the
euccesa Of the enterprise. This plan will
he copied.
Yesterday was big day at lafayette
Hall There were lota OF pretty teachers
there from other places Our pretty
teachers are with as always.
Charles Selby has retu ned from Nor
gantOwn, W. Va, where he has been since
the iilnesa and death of his mother las.
winter.
william Parks, Of Bellaire, was in The
city yesterday, visiting the ExpOsiOn and
calling on frieuds
Mrs. c W. Bishop of Bellaire, was in
the city yesterday calling on friends
Mrs Joseph Waterman, of Bridgeport.
wss n the city yesterday.
REYNOLDS, the Tailor, Fourth IT.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
Railroads.
baltimore AND OHIO z. z.

Departures or Trains from Wheeling, Essferl
time. Schedule In effect November 18th, lss6.
Express for Chicago and the horthTesi. 1913
q. m. $40 p. m. and $50 p. m daily end lbs p.
N daily except Saturday
Express for Cincinnati AMI g. louis. l0h q.
m daily, and Ills p. N. daily except Saturday,
Columbus accommodation s:55 a. N. daily.
For Columbus 1913 a. N. daily. arc ll.i p.
N. daily except Saturday, and DO p D. daily e1.
cept Sunday
Bellaire Accommodation, n.l5p. m, Saturday
Express for Washington, D. C., Baltimore.
Philadelphia and New YORK, via. Grafton, SIS
N. and $40 p. m. daily.
For Pitbhurg and Washington, Pa 5;,V =. N.
daily Express, $50 a. n. daily; l;t5 p. m; daily
except sunday. Additional way train for wash
ington Pa, $50 p. m. daily except sunday
Pttsburg Baltimore and Philadelphia go ?.
m, daily.
For Moundsville, a. n, $40 a. n, 100 noon,
except Sunday, and $40 p. m. daily.
For Grafton, $40 p. m. daily.
For Cumberland, S;l0 q. NJ, daily except sun
day.
For St. ClAisyille, SIS g. m, 40 p. N. and
$40 p m daily except Sunday.
Express trains arrive nom Chicago, SIS and
$50 a. m, and go p. m. daily, and ass q. M,
daily except Monday.
Express trains arrive nom ST. Louis and Gin
cinnati, t:5o a. m. and go p. N, daily
Express trains arrive nom Philadelphia Bal.
umore and Washington, ID. c., via Grafton, 1898
q. m, daily.
Trains arrive nom Columbus, i.55 a. n. and
$40 p m daily and 1915 a. m. daily except sun.
day.
Trains arrive nom PitSbuy, l0l5 a. n. daily,
and l2t5 p. M except sundays and 6.55 T. n
and lilo p. m. daily.
Trains arrive nom Washington, Pa, 500 N.
daily except Sunday.
From Moundsyille, 945 q n, daily. snd lao
! p. m. daily except Sunday.
Trains arrive HON Grafton. W. Va. etsAm.
daily.
Trains arrive nom Cumberland, $50 3 m,
daily except Sunday.
From st. ClAirsyille, lo40 and 40 and $50 p
m. daily except SUNDAY.
For Columbus and Cincinnati, 285 T. m sun
day only.
From Bellaire, 1908 a. m, Sundays only.
Baggage called for and checked NJ hotels and
residences on orders left AZ Ticket once. 100
Market street, and a. Depot.
CHAs. o. SOUL.
General Passenger Agent
". M. CLEMENTS. Manager nols
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
Public Sale Of Stocks and Notes,

10Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF THE CIR
- cult Court of Ohio County. made on the l'th
dav OF December. ISIS in the case OF @ NJ Lanu
against Charles D. List and others, Will oner
Tor sale. before the Court Boure door oil ONO
county, 10 the highest bidder, at public auction
on saturday, the 18th day OF April; ~, com
mencing at ten O'Clock, q. m, the following ue-
scribed stock and notes. towit: o-
10 shares of the capital stock OF the CONNER Ere
cisl Bank of Wheeling, OF the par value OF ~ W
per shave Eight notes made By David hun, ". Z,
pavRble TO his own order, and by him endorsen
in blank each dated the lst day OF January. ~
each for the sum OF $4,000. each bearing interest
from the said LIST day Of January. lss at the rae
Of six per cent. per annum. with interest payaole
annually, said notes being made payable respec,
lively, at three four FIVE. six, seven eight' nlne
aud ten years, after their date said notes are Sc
cured ~ Il deed OF trust executed by me salI
David Kuu. Jr., and his wife, upon valuable IeH.
estate in the City of Wheeling, when ueeu ul
trust is the first lien thereon, and Is dateu w w
first day Of January, 1856, and recorded III We
Office OF the Clerk OF the County Court oil ONO
County, West Virginia, in Deed OF Trust BOOK No.
n. al page 20.
Terms Of sale: Cash. .,,,
LEWIS STEENROD,
Sheriff of Ohio County.
J. C. HERvKY, AuctiOneer apIlL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
ReliQious 1autires.

EOURTH STREET NJ. Z. CHURCH-REv. c.
II w Cushing, d. D., pastor. The subject of
the sermon on sunday mOr0ing will be: THE
upon what the Bible reveals beyond the
Grave" In the evening the bi-monthly sermon
oyoung men.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06

West Virginia Xxx and above 80,
35c; Y 32-33c; medium S7sS9c;
coarse 37a3Sc; New York, Michigan,
Indiana sDd Western fine or Y
and XIX 30s32c; medium 81. 3Sc; coarse 81
a38c; fire washed delaine Y ana Xxx 35s
SIC; mediuUl washed combing and delaiDe
40l42c; coarse do 39a40e; Canada washed
cOmbing 35a36c; tub washed 35s40c;
medium uuwashed Combing ard delaine
3Oa32c; coarse DO 2Si30c; Eastern Oregon
l4a22o; Valley Oregon 22a29c.
PETROLEUM.
New York.
NEW YORK, April Petroleum
Opened heavy at cole, but after frat salee
became strong and moved up to Gle. The
market then became very dull and then
sagged off slowly, closing dull at cole
S les 3S5, 600 barrels.
OH Oity.
on CITY, PA, April 5.-PetrJleum-
Opened at 90lc; highest 905c; lowest
9Oic; closed at 9Osc; sales 457, 900 barrels
cleaTances, 96i 600 barrels, charters, 81
1876 barrels; shipments, So O3O barrels;
runs, 1913 barIels
Bradford.
BRADFORD, Pa, April Petroleum
Opened at 90sc; higheet 905c; lowest
905c; closed at 90sc; clearances COS, 600
barrels.
Pitts5ura.
PrrrsBURG, Pa, April Petroleum
Dull but steady; opened at 9Osc; highest
903ci closed at 90sc; lowest sole.
TitusVilIe.
TTTUsvILLR, April 5.-Petroleum-
Opsned at cote; highest 9OJc; lowest 9O5c;
closed at 90sc.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06
MOuNDsvILLE

A peculiar suit Was tried before Justice
Criswtl Yesterday afternoon. Charles
Brandon, had his BROTHER, David Brandon
arrested on the charge of assault and bat
tery. The house was crowded with spec
tOtors sll the afternoon.
John S Rine died at his homo in the
Third ward, Thursday evening He had
been afflicted with rheumatic trouble for
quite long time
VIM. Koontz Is putting down q well
with tie new boring process. The ma
chine is being worked very successfully.
Robert Manpin has removed his family
into Mr.. Mathews house on Wheeling
street.
Miss Maggie McGraw, of the Bellaire
schools, isvlsiting Miss Rosa Dan.
A. J. Martin is home from an extended
tour through the East.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06

THIRST BAPTIST CHURCH COR. TWELFTH
II and Byron streets. Rev. A. j. Trey, pas
tor Preaching at 1880 n. m, followed By the
Lords supper; also at 7:SO p. m. preceded by
baptism Sabbsth school at 2:30 7. m Young
People NEE ting Monday at 1880 p. IN. Prayer
nnetinr "Wednesday al 20 D. N
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06

90 account &C. their inability TO digest food,
will ind q mos, marvellous food and rem
edv no SCoIr's EMULSION OF Pure Cod
Liver on with HypophOsphitss. Very
palatabls and e3sils digested. DR.. 5. w.
Cohen, of Waco, Texas, says: 81 have
used vour Emulsion in lufautile wasting
with good results. IL not only restores
wasted issu5s. but gives strength, and III
crea.es the appetite. am glad to use such
a reliable article
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-06

Isa combination of the active properties
of dates. igs aud primes, and othsr tropi-
cal fiuits Tea pleasant taste and beneficial
fleets have rendered It immensely popu-
lar. lie cures hsbitual constipation, indi-
gestioo. hiliCusVess, sick headache, piles,
etc. Sold In 90 cent bottles by w. w.
Irwin. W. E. williams, John LaughliD,
and @. Il Goetzs =. T. Goodwin & Co
and Logan * Co.. Wholesale Agents.