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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03
MMECHEN.

The vote at McMechen was as fol-
lows: Mayor. n. Roby, 119; J. L..
Proth. SO. Recorder-E. T. Jones, Isl.
Council. II. Bartlett, 1872; Lloyd
Owen. 9: T. R. Horner, 81; c. Kennedy,
81; F. NJ. Reynolds, 1876; J. NJ. Carney,
s: C. Davis, 1877; f. Keller, 1876. For
license. 70; against license, "A.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03
FULTON.

Mayor-Edward Hamm, &c; A. C.
Wagner, 2S. Recorder-M. Stein, 46;
Henry Roth, 45. There were twenty
candidates for Council, five to be elect
ed. The successful gentlemen were
Messrs. Peter Felsheim, Joseph Yoke,
George Busch, Otto Schaub and George
Kleech-three Democrats and two Re-
publicans The Republicans named
but five candidates for Council. their
purpose being to concentrate the vote
on them, but the scheme was discover
cred by the Democrats and frustrated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03
CIRCUIT COURT.

The case of Horst Bros V. Reymann
Brewing Company is still on trial before
Judge PAUL.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03

r. NJ. Archer and Allen B. Smith, Of
this city, were passengers on the Vir-
ginia. They went to Cincinnati by rail
and returned by water.
The Liberty cleared about noon for
Parkersburg and way landings.
The Lexington departed yesterday for
New Matamoras with a big lot Of
freight.
a brief retrospect of the work done
on the rivers during 1895 shows that
S0,000,000 bushels of coal left Pitts
burg, valued at $4,S00O00; 100000
bushels going in December. The burn
ing of the Iron Queen and the building
of the Virginia, her success or were the
features in the packet business. The
new tOwboats built were the Fallie, Re
lief, Clipper, Tornado and James Mo-
rem, the latter being the largest boat
built in the past 20 years. The losses
of the year averaged $4,000, or 8 per
cent Of the shipments.
There were II feet, inches of water
in the channel last night. Falling.
The Bedford cleared for Pittsburg at
o'clock yesterday morning.
The GAINESVILLE packet Lorena, passed
up early yesterday morning for Pitts
burg.
The Elaine went down at p m, with
tow of coal.
The Fallie will bring out of Pittsburg
a tow consisting of seven barges OF rail
and four barges of coal.
Parkersburg, w. Va, January q
River Is feet inches and falling.
Weather, far and cold
P.ttsburg, Pa, January 2.-River 9
feet and rising at the dam. Weather,
clear and cooler.
Greensboro, Pa, January 2.-River 8
feet 1 inch and stationary. Weather,
cloudy and warmer.
Morgan.Own, w Va, January q
River feet and stationary. Weather,
cloudy and warmer.
Warren, Pa, January 2.-R.ver 2
feet inches and stationary. Weather,
clear and cold.
OIL City, Pa, January 2.-River 4
feet and falling Weather, cloudy and
mild.
Steubenvil,e, Ohio, January 2.-River
II feet 5 inches and falling. Up-Sam
Brown, Tom Dcdsworth, H. K Bedford,
Lorena, Ed. Roberts, Ark, Hornet No
2. DOwn-Princess, Ben Hur. Up at
$50 p. m.-Virgnia.
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81 yard.

$1.25 and $3.50 SCOTCH, ENGLISH
and FRENCH CHECKS and MIXTURES
Choice combinations in brown, blue,
green and red mixed---45 to 48
inches wide,
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75C yard.

Lot PLAIN SERGES and BROAD
CLOTHS. staple COIOrS, PLAIN and
MIXED CLOTHS in variety of color
ings---45, 48 and so inches wide, all
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03

If YOU want a cup OF good Cocoa or Choc-
oIate you should use Huyler's. All grocers.
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$l.0O yard.

$3.50 FRENCH CORDS---Fine, wide
goods, all cOIOrs, as to 48 inches
wide,
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Dr. Hennig's Cough Syrup does not
contain morphine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03

Geo. R. Taylor is selling fur capes at
half price.
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the affair concluded with ball Those
in the receiving line were Mrs. Frank
p Mcneil, Mrs. Harry Mendel Mrs.
Frank Zook, Mrs ]. G. TOmlinson, Mrs.
Orlando Dorsey, and Misses Nell Eyer
ter, Emily Sheppard, Rose Hunter and
Rose Lukens. Mrs Chas. c. ROemer
made the melody for dancing.
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TOWN ELECTIONS

Held Yesterday in the Vicinity OF This
City.
The following results of town cleo
tons held yesterday in the vicinity Of
this city were received last evening:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03

Mrs Clark Hamilton, Jr., entertained
the Spinster Club at her residence, at
Echo Point, yesterday afternoon, with a
progressive euchre party. The house
was prettily decorated with sm.laX and
holly. The corners of the parlors and
hall were filled with palms and other
tropical plants. Eucbre was the order
of the programme. The game lasted
nearly three hours and the contests
throughout were spirited and interest
ing. Al the conclusion an appetizing
luncheon was served, after which the
prizes were presented to the winners.
The first, a silver hat brush, fell to Miss
Gertrude Fisher. The second, a cut
glass vingrette, was captured by Miss
Jessie Berger. Mrs. DR.. Bellev.lle won
a handsome card case, prize offered by
the hostess for the most lone hands dur
ing the afternoon. The consolation
prize fell to Miss Mac McIlvaine.
Quite a sensation was created over
the formal announcement of the en-
gagement OF Mr.. Richard T. Lowndes,
the millionaire merchant and capital
list of Clarksburg, W. Va, and brother
to Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, to
Miss May Golf, a sister of Judge Nathan
Goff, of ClarkshuTg.- York Her
aid
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NREELING'S PRODUCE TRADE.
It Employ a Capital Of Over $780,
600,

And the Trade Annually Done Foots
Up Over a Million a Year-A
Comprehensive Glance at the
Trade-Some of its Features Elk
amined.
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VIRGINIA ARRIVES.
The New Packet a Veritable Floating
Palace.
Fair Business on the Initial Trip.
Visited Here by Hundred OF Per-
sons-Movements or the Packets.
Local River News and Notes.

The Virginia" the latest addition to
the fleet OF the Cincinnati and Pits
burg Packet Company, arrived at the
public landing on her initial trip in the
trade yesterday morning. The ''Vir-
ginia" is expected to develop into the
fastest packet on The upper Ohio, but
no attempt at speed was made on this
trip. There was d heavy fog on the
first night, which delayed the progress
OF the boat somewhat, and the general
desire OF the public to inspect the new
Steamer was manifested at all points
from Huntington up. Big crowds
boarded the Virginia" at Point Pleas
ant and Parkersburg.
Crowds OF persons on both banks,
from the lower end OF Bellaire TO the
wharf, Witnessed the passing OF the
boat Her whistle, which was heard
about eleven o'clock caused many per-
cons to go down 10 the wharf and be-
tween II and 1916 o'clock the splendid
packet was black with humanity. Capt.
ThOs. Calhoun, one OF the most genial
and gentlemanly masters on the river,
received the visitors courteOusly, and
accepted the many compliments which
were expressed, with becoming modes
ty. Capt. Calhoun formerly had charge
OF the keystone State, one OF the most
popular OF the Cincinnati and Pitts
burg packets. The officers OF the COM
pany were on the boat, as well as a
number OF newspaper men, who were
present by special invitation.
The Virginia" was built at Cincin-
natl and launched a few weeks ago.
A full and accurate description of the
boat was published in the Register at
that time. She is by long odds the
trimmest and handsomest craft on the
Ohio, and this was the unanimous ver-
dict of all who examined her, as well
astheold time steamboatmen who noted
her technical points. The initial trip
was fairly good from a business stand
point. The Virginia" left Cincinnati
at five o'clock Monday evening with
little freight and a light passenger list
Considerable freight was taken en-
route.
The trip to Wheeling was a contin-
uOus ovation, such as new boats were
usually given before the war. Capt.
Crockard was notified when the boat
reached Moundsville, about eight o'clock
and the news Of its approach spread
like contagion. The Lexington, Lib
erty and Charleston welcomed her with
shrill blasts from their whistles, and
the reception was very noisy. When
the boat reached Pittsburg, big crowd
was present, and a ball was given in
the cabin The Virginia" will make
weekly trips, leaving for Cincinnati
every Sunday morning.
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SOC yard.

Write our Mail Order Department
for samples. Quick action will in
sure better chance for selection.
These rare bargains in choice Dress
Goods sell at Sight---if you'd be
among the fOrtunate---SEND AT ONCE.
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SOC yard.

Greatest variety in Assorted FANCY
and MIXED SUITINGS---75c, 85C and
ST values, all to 90
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-03

The wholesale produce business OF
Wheeling, although largely built up
within the last fifteen years, occupies
and has attained a very prominent po-
siGon as a distinct department of the
wholesale and consigning interests Of
L. .ttr-
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
rhe Free Copper Movement.

Thesi bug should not delude him
self with the idea that the only enemy
he has to combat is the goldbug There
are others. The copper bug is abroad in
the land. His arguments are finding
fed Judgment in the minds of many
who have rejected the goldbug and the
silver bug.
Every argument advanced for free sill
yer applies with greater force to free
copper. The widows mite was copper
The money Of the poor is copper. 1t has
been coined into money by nearly all
the nations of the earth for thousand
years.
If the government with its stamp can
make SO cents of silver worth full dol
lar, it can make cents worth of copper
worth 81.
If the 53 cent silver dollar will bring
prosperity and give money to all the
people, the cent copper dollar will
bring those blessings in greater measure.
II the debtor can save AZ cents on
every dollar under free silver, he can
save 81 cents on every dollar by paying
with a cent copper dollar,
The copper bug certainly has better
scheme than the silver bug. If the argu.
ments of the silver bug are sound, those
Of the copper bug are sounder.
But let rs suspend Judgment, breth-
rem, until we hear from the man with
the leather dollar. - Chicago Times
Herald
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
why He Leaves His Party.

Mr.. Samuel Dickson Of Philadelphia,
o lifelong Democrat and an influential
citizen, has resigned as a presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket Among
other reasons for his action he gave the
following:
It is merely paltering with the truth
to pretend to acquiesce in the expert
ment of trying to make the product OF
a days labor in silver mine worth
two or five times as much as the product
OF days labor in a gold or an iron
mine. At the present time the results
eff a days work in one occupation are
worth approximately and in the long
run as much as in any other. To affix
an artificial value upon silver ore is a
dishonest and unjust discrimination
against every other form of industry,
and when it is done by calling it legal
tender it is done at the expense OF every
class in the community except the money
lenders and the money changers.
With currencies of different value in
circulation, the money lenders always
thrive at the expense of the people, ard
the debtor must suffer more than the
wage Garner. 1t was a favorite saying
of Lord Palmerston that a high rate OF
interest meant bad security, and the
owner of money must charge for the
risk il there is a chance that when he
lends bar of gold he may be forced to
take payment in a bar of silver. inst as
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19

A man may get meal, and when he
puts down an American dollar in pay
ment will get back as change Mexican
dollar, which contains six grains more
silver than our own. He gets demon
stration Of the fact that it is the credit
of our government which keeps the sill
yer dollar adoat at AZ cents more than
it's intrinsic value, just as it keeps its
paper notes, which have no intrinsic
value at all, at an equality with gold
dollar. Free, unlimited and independ-
emit coinage at Is to 1" would mean
dollars worth even less than Mexican
silver dollars.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19

The mine owners ask. ana the chi
cago convention is ready to agree, that
the government shall make their prod
not worth 81. 30 for coinage purposes.
Why this favoritism? If the govern
ment-which means the taxpayers-is
to double the value Of silver bullion.
why may it not logically be asked to
double the value Of wheat, corn, cotton
and potatoes by making an unlimited
market for them at fictitious price3
The silver product of this country is
relatively of minor Importance It's real
value in 1895 was about $50, 900, 900.
The copper product was worth $88, O0O,-
600, pig iron $105. 900, 900 and soft coal
$116, 900, 900, Why should these prod
ucts be sold at commercial rates and
silver be doubled in money value by act
of congress?
The silver craze il, at bottom, the
most unjust paternalism and the worst
bunko game ever attempted in this
country. New York World.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
whx Not ren Cont poflaraf

We all know that this country can
sustain limited amount of silver cur
rency at ratio of 16 to because it is
already doing it. But if it can sustain
an unlimited amount coined at the same
ratio, why can it not as well sustain it
at ratio of to 1? In other words,
why can it not strike from our 10 cent
piece the inscription lone dime" and
make it lone dollar?" If this be prac-
ticable-and it seems to me that the one
is as practicable as the other-is not the
proposition Of unlimited Is to an ex-
travagant and useless waste Of the most
valuable commodity which the world
has ever known? It appears that there
are greater possibilities open to the ad-
vocates of the white metal than even
they have as yet conceived.
T. f. RICE.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
The Grand Army Of Creditors.

The gentlemen who think that they
have made an attractive bid for votes
by proposing so cent dollar for debtors
to pay their debts with are reckoning
without their host. Every state of the
Union is full of creditors, and they will
never consent to defraud and cheat
themselves
Among these creditors are:
All persons who work for wages, sal
airy or by the piece.
All members of building and loan
associations
All depositors in savings, national,
state or private banks.
All holders of life, fire and accident
insurance policies.
All members of benevolent and fra
ternal insurance orders.
Ali holders of industrial insurance.
All widows, orphans or wards de-
pendent wholly or partially upon the
income from investments.
All educational and charitable insti-
tutions dependent wholly or in part up
ON the income of their endowments.
In fact, the so cent silver dollar
would be of advantage to few persons
in the long run save the spectators,
who would gamble on the inevitable
fluctuations in it's purchasing power and
in the price of commodities. Exchange.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
THE srLvERlTE cArEcHlsM,


I'm Which Free Coinage Theories Are
Plainly Stated.
What is money? Something made ont
OF nothing by government.
Is there any limit to the amount Of
money which government can make?
Only the capacity of the printing presses
Of the country.
What kind of money is the best?
That which has the least value
What does cheap money mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy
large amount of goods
How can the poor all be made rich?
BY stamping 90 cents worth of silver
Zone dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is capitalist? A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up
little property.
What is patriot? A man who covets
his neighbours property and wants to
get hold of it by law.
What does Republication" mean? 1t is
a simple scheme for readjusting the in
CAPABILITIES between the men who worked
and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule of the silver
ties? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by "hon-
esty" and "good faith between menu"
That creditors are to be cheated out of
one-half of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims of creditors?
That will come later. The public must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is creditor? A fend in human
shape who loaned 100 cent dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollars worth
90 Gents
How will free silver help the farm
ers? By causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnation
of commerce and idleness of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the Is to l scheme benefit
the working classes? By making them
pay twice as much for everything they
buy, while giving them little or no in
crease in wages. It will also coniscate
half of their savings bank deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn't
want higher prices of silver so that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things Be-
sides he doesn't have to.
What is a sound currency! Dollars
with so cents worth of silver and so
cents worth of fiat or paper dollars all
fiat
What is the chief duty of good citi-
zen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal-
low all the Dostrums of the cheap money
Office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper
Gus? By setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital;
contracting the currency by running en-
ployers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system
Whidden Graham.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19

the owner u horse will hesitate to
lend it with chance of being given in
return sheep or pig That is all
there is in bimetallism as a practical
question as between the lender and the
borrower. and, so staued, it ought to be
easy to understand why, until it is
stated, hundreds of millions of capital
are lying idle which would be at the
service of the south and west if they
were willing to give back what they got.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
To Wage Farmers.

Are you wage Garner? Vote for free
coinage and you vote to reduce your
wages so per cent until you can. by
striking or threatening to strike, get
back part of the reduced purchasing
power of the dollars in which your
wages are paid.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Vote with Your Eyes Open.

Have you bank account of 5000 or
$500? Vote for free coinage and you
vote to withdraw only half the value
Of your deposits. This conclusion is as
certain as is the fact that so cent dol
lars will buy only half as much as 100
cent dollars.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Free information.

Messrs. G. A. Snow & Co., of
Washington, D. c., lawyers and
agents fer procuring patents, will
send free to any address, pamphlets
with information about home and
foreign patents, caveats, copyrights
trade marks, infringements, design
patents, abstracts of decisions, etc., as
well as the cost of patents in the
United States and foreign countries.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Mexico's silver Dollar.

Mexico has FREQ and unlimited coin.
age, and yet the Mexican silver dollar,
although larger than ours, is quoted in
New York. Paris, London and Berlin at
SO cents. It should be said also that in
Mexico it is worth but so cents in gold
and that it passes there and elsewhere
at its bullion value as measured by the
money of commerce.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Never Mind the worklngman.

Suppose it to be true that free coinage
will double the price of wheat and other
food products, where does the work
ingman come in, with double prices for
his bread, meat and the like and the
same old wage?
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Ohvinns.

II was reading of man who had
sustained broken leg in trolley
accident, said Ashury Peppers,
"and / could but think how kind it
was on his part. +"
"Kind?" said Mrs. Hammond.
Eyes. 1t is q certainty that the
broken leg would not sustain him,
is it not? Cincinnati Enquirer.
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
why This Favoritism2

Silver can be proftably produced in
this country at so cents an ounce. It is
now selling here for fraction over SO
cents
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Where Were the silver Patriots In 1873

Where Were the Silver Patriots In 1873?
The advocates of the cheap silver
standard pretend that the white metal
is patriotic, while gold is disloyal.
One-half Of the arguments for 80 cent
dollars consists of appeals to patriotism
for votes in favor of the American
money" and against the traitor gold"
Of England.
In the happy days before 1878 the
bullion value of the metal in silver
dollar was worth on an average about
$1.03. Did the noble hearted, patriotic
silver miners rush to pour their products
into our minis, so that the county would
have plenty of money? Not by great
deal. They were the kind of patriots
who shipped their silver off to France
as fast as they could send it in order to
get little higher price for it. They
knew that at that time metallic money
was scarce in the United States, but
they didn't care for that. They wanted
the highest price for silver bullion, and
they therefore sold it in the dearest
market. Nobody blames them for doing
so. But now that the price abroad has
gone down, and they want Uncle Sam
to give them more for their bullion than
its market value, they talk Of patriot
ISM and pretend that they wish to get
their silver made into dollars in order
to benefit the country. Nice kind of pa
triots they are-men who will send
their silver away when it is badly need
ed and try to unload it on the govern
ment when it is cheap and plentiful!
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19

Cheap and trashy money in which to
pay wages, high prices for every kind
Of goods which labor buys-these are
he blessings of free silver for the
Av,ooriooy, xuorLin01non
Morris tribune., 1896-08-19
Free Coinage Men Not Bimetallists.

Senator Teller calls himself BIZ
metallist. He defines bimetallism as
"the equal treatment of both gold and
silver at the minis. -
Senator Teller is silver monometal-
list, and so are all advocates of free
coinage at 16 to /. They do not ask
equal" but unequal treatment of gold
and silver at the minis. All that the
mint does with gold is to stamp upon it
the certificate Of it's value. It stamps 30
$40 grains of gold of standard fneness
as dollar The metal is worth a dollar
before it is stamped It is worth a dol
lar if melted in the pot. It will bring a
dollars worth of value in either shape
anywhere in the world.
What the free coinage men ask is that
the government shall stamp 412A
grains of silver Of standard fneness as
dollar under the arbitrary and obsolete
ratio of 16 to /. But this silver is worth
only So cents It will sell for only 59
cents if melted. It will not pass for
dollar in the markets of the world, ex-
cept to be sent back here, where its legal
tender quality and the policy Of the
government to make it exchangeable for
gold keep it current at its face value.
In asking this unfair and dishonest
advantage for silver Mr.. Teller there
fore demands unequal treatment for the
metals. And as free coinage Of either
metal at false ratio has everywhere
and always driven the more valuable
coin QUE of circulation, it would inevi-
tably precipitate this country to a silver
basis, making silver the only money of
redemption and silver or silver notes the
only money in use.
The free coinage men are therefore
not bimetallists, but silver monometal
lists. They are contractionists. They
would make money scarcer instead of
more plentiful, poorer instead of better.