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Year: 1869

We fear too many of our present
teachers are teaching because they
cannot find More lucurative employ
ment for the winter. How many are
teaching with a heart anxious to benz
eft the district? desire to make his
school. a grand success? We cannot
expect teachers to spend their time
and energies without proper remu-
nerations, but we fear there are too
few in the ranks ambitious tc teach a
first class school; too many content
to pass the winter in the school room,
keeping school rather than teaching u.
You will find ten, anxious mostly for
the pay, to one anxious for success.


Much has been said about uniformi-
ty of textbooks and uniformity in
methods of instruction, both are con-
summatious devoutly to be wished !;
but we can hardly expect to attain to
either throughout the State, yet we
do think that county uniformity may
be obtained; but we must have HUe
mentor County Superintendents, men
who will do something. We think it
better that our Superintendent do
something, better have a hobby and
ride that than do nothing. 4, very
good plan was adopted by a Ct.anty
Superintendent in the State of Illi-
nois. In visiting the schools, he took
notes of everything that he saw note
worthy in each school, and published
them in the county paper. This had
a wonderful effect in bringing ZIP
teachers to the mark, and in cleansing
dirty school rooms. Itrequired nerve
to do it, but it paid the people, and he
kept his office as long as he desired.


With all our efforts united, we shall
accomplish but little; and a long time
must elapse before we can expect the
perfeetions of Massachusetts schools;
but we ought to have concert Of action;
we lack sympathy with each other as
workers in the educational field; as
teachers, we have no great light to
| follow each seem satisfied to follow
the fiickerIng light of his own feeble
taper But if we cannot follow men,
let us follow principles !; let us get
nearer together and aim to build on a
sure foundation. cTNEnrN


AS teachers, there seems to be a
spirit of jealousy, or else of improper
independence. There certainly is a
sad lack Of concert Of action.


There should be a rallying point
somewhere butwhere that should be
is not 50 clear. - - - b. - "a


AS teachers, we cannot all lose our
individuality, and at once fall into the
same, channel of thought and action.
We would suggest that if we cannot
have one great center around which
the whole State can rally, let us have
a number of smaller ones; let each
county have a nucleus somewhere,
and let each teacher add his mite to
the general fund; and what better
place can be found than our county
paper. .slt7a


As teachers, we do not like to see
our articles poorly spelled or mutila-
ted by inserting wrong words; yet, if
our printers will exercise little pa
tience and care, we shall not have rea-
son to blush at the mistakes in print.


We would suggest that every teach
er in the county write an article for
one or both of our county papers
monthly. We are confident such ar
ticles will receive from both editors
respectful attention. We send in our
name for one article per month.
Year: 1869

At the late meeting of that irrepressi
BILE nuisance and mischief breeder, the
"American Anti-Siavery Society,"" the
faithful set up howl over tho fact that
some negro, at some time, was refused
admittance and bed, board and washing
at some New York hoteli In comment,
ing upon this action of the Anti-Slave.
ry men, the Journal Of Commerce re-
marks: .-


The same Bonifaces or their clerks
may decline to sell board and lodging
to a (white) man with a torn coat or
crushed hat, or a collapsed carpet bag
bearing external evidence of such sparse
contents as a paper collar or wooden
comb-and no society adopts indignant
resolutions against that. The landlord
may refuse accommodations to women
travelling alone, who very much require
shelter in city like ours, or to men un-
der the influence of liquor, who ought
not to be turned into the street to be
robbed or run over, or to any other class
of persons whom he may fancy it is not
for his interest 10 harbor-and where
is the society that takes up
the cudgels for those people : The
crushed and tattered, the impecunious,
the unprotected females, the baccha'
nails, aud the others who for divers rea-
SOUS are frozen outof our best hotels
daily with the icy remark, "All full
Sir ~ or "Marm these individuals dc
net rend their garments or tear theiI
hair or raise a storm of indignation OF
ulalume of despair, but post off tc
some hotel on a side street where
they find no trouble in being taken in,
and are not so badly done for in point
of charges as if they had had the full
est swing of Broadway hostelries.
Year: 1869

There is q renewal of the movement
to secure the Swedish mission for a
West Virginian. CARLILE having fall
ed sadly and signally, we learn that
several Republican Congressman and
politicians from this State have been in


Washington for the purpose of securing
the Stockholm appointment for a prom
inent and genuine Republican OF this
city. For the sake of seeing West Vir-
ginia decently represented in "furrln'
parts" we wish the new movement all
possible success. Nevertheless, as the
days of miracles are past, we have little
hope that the Administration will do
the genteel in this or any other instance.
Year: 1869

An Arkansas man, one-half white and
one half black has arrived in New
York. One side OF his body is of the
deepest ebony and the other of the
purest Caucasian. He is the best living
representative of the universal suffrage
and universal amnesty platform.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either Of these
remedies They viii cure every case Of Ma.
RASMUS, without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor but space will
allow of the publication of but few. Those,
it will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that theY must be belieyed
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use Of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins.
restore in a measure the energy and ardOr OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms and give health and happiness in their
remaining yeara
Year: 1869

1t is a well established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health or, to
use their own expression, never feel well.
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BITTERS, OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended
Year: 1869

From the San Francisco Bulletin


English writers are constantly scandalized by
the existence of poly gamy in Utah. They con-
slider II a shame TO our government that such q
state OF things is permitted, but pass lightly
mOnism are principally found in England, and
continue such in America only because they are
Immediately turned of into the wilderness,
where hitherto our educational institutions and
public sentiment have been almost unable to
reach them The remedies they have proposed
for this abomination have been greatly diversi-
he'd, but none of them such have been
able to avail ourselves of.


Ii appears that OF late they have found poly
gamy existing among their own subjects in an
English colony. The natives OF Natal it seems,
are in the habit of not only indulgng in plural
ity of wives, but of openly buying and selling
them at auction Wives were thus largerly mo-
1OpOliZed by the wealthy-a very undesirable
Condition of things English reformers natural
1y undertake to remedy this. In doing so they
tvinced ideas that were at least very practical,
n they had no other merit to commend them.
They abandoned all the fine sentimentality they
1ndulged in when giving advice to the Ameri-
cans, and went To work in quite another way.
Ihey did not even absolutely prohibit the prac-
flee. They sought to regulate and tax it and its
abuses out of existence. To stop the auctions
they hxed the highest price at which a wife
might be sold at ten head of cattle. For second
and third rate wives. however so far as we can
See. an auction might stIll be necessary to get
them off the hands of their managing papas
Or mammas whOmever arrange such bargains.
Then to discourage, while they did not absolute
" forbid the practice they taxed the husband for
all wives he had besides the hIst, according to a
sliding scale, ten dollars per head being added
for every one additional. Whether the Tax Col
hector would levy upon the wives of the de-
GnQuent and sell them TO raise the tax and costs,
If il remained unpaid, Is not stated. The tax
may operate to discourage polygamy by making
1T too expensive, but once paid there can be no
further legal objection to the having of more
than one wife. English law apparently legal
lies it,


This, then, is the English plan of disposing of
ygamy-taking il out of existence. What
IA RriVham NOuDD and his 4
among the statements required by the Internal
Revenue or County Assessor, after an enumera-
fiOn of their other taxable property, came wives
St so or 500 each, with a sliding scale increas-
ing in proportion to the extent OF the luxury in
Euiged in. We submit the question of the opera
tion Of such law to the Utah journals.
Year: 1869

THESE BONDS CAN BE REGISTERED


SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PAID-UP STOCK
SUBSCRIPTIONS. No bonds issued on road un-
der construction issue limited to s 600 per mile of


road built and in running order, BEING ONLY
ABOUT HALF THE ACTUAL COST. The road is
being built with great economy for cash; $50 Miles
are already completed in the most thorough manner,
equipped and running regular trans and the whole
line lover 400 mes it is expected will be completed
within the ensuing year. 1t is one OF the most i'm
portant roads in the State of New York. 1t short
miles and to Oswego 45 miles, it traverses populous
district destitute of other railroad facilities, which
must furnish it a large and profitable local busi-
ness; and it will be completed at an aggregate cost
far below that of any competing line. These advan-
tages cannot fail to make it one of the best paying
roads leading from the metropolis, and its First
Mortgage Bonds one of the safest securities ever is
sued. All mortgage bonds issued on railroads run
ming from the City of New York good, and the
interest promptly paid, although some of them are
mortgaged for more than double the amount per
mile that the Midland is. Among the bonds now
offering we know of none equal to these For the
investment of trust other funds there is nothing
better; and in exchange for Government Bonds
they give large increase of income besides capital
izing the premium. They are meeting with rapid
sale and we have been gratied to find that they are
taken chiefly by most conservative and sagacious
capitalists in exchange for Government securities.
Price par and accrued interest in currency. Circu-
lars pamphlets, &c, on hand for distribution. i
Year: 1869

A Man Murdered md Thrown Overheard.


About nine O'Clock yesterday morning o boatman
discovered the body Of man floating in the water
at the foot Of Conover street. of Red Hook Point.
Thinking 1t was the body Of some unfOrtu-
nate man WHO had accidentally fallen overheard
and been drowned he towed it to thedock and sent
for the Coroner. When the Coroner arrived and the
body was placed upon the dock gaastly wound
presented Itself, which extended through the
right check and jawbone and went deep into
the neck. The wound had evidently been In
flicted with an axe, and the blow must have
been powerful one. This wound was sufficient OF


Itself almost to have caused instant death, yet there
were several others, all of which showed that the
there might possibly be breath OF life IN him. There
was n deep cut on the right temple, another
under the left eye one upon the chin and another
upon the collar bone The body had apparently been
In the wafer but short time, for 1t was In good
state OF preservation. The deceased had light hair
a smooth face and wa3 dressed in q dark brown
mixed suit. He is apparently about thirty-four
years OF age.


In the pockets of the clothing were found large
key, such as are used for warehouse locks men,
orandym book with some figures as OF weights and
merch andse. q tive, bladed knue, an old leather
pocketbOok containing two dollars In currency and
some lwO ana five cent pieces. There was nothing
further about the body which might lead to Its
Identification.


IL IS believed that the murdered man was night.
watchman, and had been murdered and thrown In
man may have been murdered in New York and the
tide carried the body across tho river. Coroner
Whitehill caused the body to be taken TO the dead
house, where il remains awaiting Identification.
Year: 1869

EArING.-A lady once remarked, in speaking
of distinguished actor, {" know - is q
gentleman, for hare seen him eat" If, from an
unseen point of view, one could survey our city
restaurants between the hours of twelve and two
any day, or even inspect the more retired dining
rooms of our citizens at later hours, and apply
the test of eating, what would be the result
Probably the lady referred to had in mind vari-
GUS niceties of manner which mark person OF
culture and refinement nowhere more than at
table but Americans possess one great and uni
versal fault, which is alike hurtful to indulge in
and unpleasant to behold. A great national
evil is fast eating. Boiling down food as if on q
wager disorders the stomach then comes dys-
pepsia, from which almost every evil results.
That energetic briskness which is valuable
quality in business man, should be curbed at
meal time. If business presses, and the time for
luncheon is short, eat ever 80 little, or even
nothing, rather than burden the system with
hastily-swallowed, half-masticated food. When
over wearied and exhausted, hearty and hasty
meal is always dangerous, and sometimes fatal
In addition to quiet moderation in eating, q
thousand little nameless niceties-the want oi
any one OF which. however, is easily detected
indicate the well-bred eater. There are plenty
of rules for " table Manners but moderation
quietness, ,sscrupuious neatness, and the exercise
of ordinary good sense and good taste, form, In
general, very respectable basis for the conduct
Yet how often might we truthfnlly exclaim with
the poet:


Dire was the clang OF plates, of knife and fork,


AhA' mefehess fell, like tomahawke, to work
Year: 1869


It had noated away from the beach and bay,
Out of sight Of tower and town.
An empty and . battered boat,


But that boat would not 60 down;
The morning rose on the waters wide,


And the night fell cold and dark.
Yet ever ON with the wind and tide


Drifted that battered bark
The sail had passed from its broken mast,
And its painted pride was dim
The salt seaweed chung around its bows,


Which had been % sharp aud trim.
Where were the merry mates and free,


Who had gone with it afoat!
We never learned: but the worlds wide sea
Hath lives like that drifting. boat
Lives that In early storms have lost


Anchor, the sail and oar,
And never expect on Lethe's shore,


Can come to moorings more,
Ont of those loveless, trustees days,


The hope and the heart have gone
Good ships go down in the stormy seas,
But those empty boats drift on!
They had hearts to sail in the winds eye once;
They had hands to reef and steer,
With a strength that would not stoop to chance,
And . faith that knew fear;
But the years long and the storms were strong
And the rainbow flag furled
And they that launched for the skies, have grown
But the drift-wood Of the world
Year: 1869

Doc SToRY-A Portland paper has
the following story of a dog: The chill
dren were in the habit of sliding down a
hill near the house, accompanied by Ia
vorite dog. Early one morning they
discovered that the dog had taken the
sled, drawn it to the top. and was now
sliding down hill all alone by himself, g,
and this was frequently repeated"
Year: 1869

and j leave IL 10 yon 30 select, ~ You have
better opportunities 10 judge. i would
like il you would advise me few days
before the appointment i made, 20 that
can arrange my business


The writer of this epistle has a certain
.'fatfootednes-" of style which oommends
him TO the unprejudieed mind. Assured
ly he stands a much better chance of sue
cess than the writer of another communi-
cation received by the same Congressman
from an office-seeker, which consisted of
eighteen mortal foolscap pages, closely
written, and which be desired should be
read to General Grant.
Year: 1869

A MODEL OFFICE BEGGING LETTER
A good example "f the proper thing may
be found in the following note, which
member of Congress has received from one
of his constituents, aud the publication Of
which he has permitted in the Cincinnati
Commercial:


II have been thinking whether il would
not be better for my health for me 10 go
out of the country. and j have concluded
10 ask for one Of the following places:
The Consulate at London. or


s...rr.l...l ~
Year: 1869

Among the ancient Germans it
was death for any woman to marry
before she was twenty years old.
BY the laws of Lycurgus, the most
special attention was paid to the
physical education and no delicate
or sickly women were, Oh any ac-
count, allowed to marry
Year: 1869

A little narrow bed of earth


Holds now their PROSTATE forms.
Lost 10 the lard that gave them birth.
And deaf to her alarms.
Their folded hands can Join no strife,
Their hearts can feel no hate;
Sure soldiers brave and true in life
Deserve a soldiers fate.
How bootless is a warfare made
On mute and helpless men;
Who never more can grasp a blade.
Or strike one blow again.
The women Of their people love
Their deeds in battle done.
Dear memories Of those who strove,
And whose short race is run.
Now, by their cod. pathetic dust,
They crave to come and weep.
And emblems bring of love and trust,
To beautify their sleep.
Gods blessings come to all alike,
For all his flowers bloom
Shall it be left for man to strike
The garland from the tombl
Year: 1869

1t is stated that the United States


Marshal at New York, has been Informed
within the past three days that there
are no fewer than three separate fill
buster expeditions fitting out at that
port, and that if he does not look sharp,
every one of them will be at sea before
he is aware of it. The parties oommu-
nicatiug the information are in the
Spanish interest, and in the absence of
facts from less disintereSted sources, the
Marshal is not certain that it is within
the strict line of his duty to proceed
against the parties, who are alleged to
be thus aiding and abctting the insur-
gent cause. At all events, he prefers,
before acting, to wait a few days to see
if the approximations of the Spaniards
have al, real justification.
Year: 1869

Editors of the Register


In looking over the american 1gricul-
tIwist, June number, my attention was
arrested by two words on page 2C5, to-
wit working Bulls" l have hereto
fore given this very subject considers bic
thought and reflection, and often won
dered why our farmers who have so
much heavy hauling of logs, timber,
rocks, &c, on their farms, and who
necessarily keep one bull for the use of
stock do not keep pair well broken to
the yoke for working purposes also.
There is not a doubt in the world that
bulls kindly, steadily and constantly
worked are as good, if not better,
propagators of their species than those
not worked. Such being the fact, the
great saving of team labor on the farm
is manifest to all. By keeping one
animal of the sort you get but one kind
of service the year round; by keeping
tw, you get in addition most valua-
ble team for all sorts of heavy drudgery,
even stiff ploughing, together with the
saving of cost and keeping Of a pair of
oxen or horses; and besides | believe
the offspring are less vicious by partak-
ing of the docility of the sire. Bulls, it
is true, are often vicious and dan
gerous, but in order to make them dOcile
and useful it is all-impOrtant that they
should be handled and broken to the yoke
young and so completely subiugated that
they can be yOked and driven anywhere
to light sled during their first winter
and before they are a year old, and from
that out kept at light and useful work.
How many citizens of Clarksburg re-
member an animal of the kind kept
many years ago by the late MI. Josiah
Adams which, in company with an OK,
patiently performed the team labor of
his large farm, besides hauling many
Thousand bushels of coal to market, and
yet during that time propagated some
of as good stock, perhaps, as we had.
Who that has visited the steam
boat yard at Wheeling, has not been
surprised at the sagacity and dOcility
of that one lone bull, who quietly and
patiently performs the labor Of a pair of
horses worth three hundred dollars. 1t
is true have no very exalted opinion of
the intelligence of the bull, yet | do
maintain that habit and thorough sub
iugdtion renders him not only a very re-
spectacle but a highly useful animal,
and by this combined use, would add
many thousand dollars value 10 the MA
terial interest of not only Harrison, but
every county in the State.


Harrison Co., May Doth. 4. +. p.
Year: 1869

The Brewers Convention met at New
ark, Nj, on the Sd inst. The following
is an abstract of the proceedings


Resolutions were adopted that beer
should be taxed, not as luxury, but
on the same plan as neccessaries OF life;
and that brewers should be relieved
from arbitrary seizures by Ignorant ofi-
cials: that the tariff on Canada barley
should be reduced, and the tax on malt
repealed; that their manufacture pro-
notes true temperance; and that they
will use all honorable means to deprive
puritanical temperance men OF political
power. Henry Claussen was reelected
President, and the seat of the Central
organization was fixed at New York.
Year: 1869

We publish to-day a lengthy commu-
nicatiou upon the Market Street Bridge
question. Our columns being always
open for the discussion of public ques-
tions, we cheerfully give space to this
article. 1t may not be amiss to remark,
however, that in this, as in all similar
cases, the writer advances his own deas,
the publication of which in no wise
commits the REGISTER to their support.
The insertion of communication does
not involve the approval of the paper
in which it appears. We deem it not
improper at this time to call special
attention to this rule.
Year: 1869

For filing cracks in wooden furniture
try the following cemcnt:-Moisten a
piece of recently burnt lime with enough
water to make it fall into powder; mix
one part Of the slaked lime with two
parts of rye flour, and a sufficient guam
tity of boiled liuseed oil to form thick
plastic mass.
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one.
half Of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, TO
use their own expression, never feel we'll
They are languid devoid of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BIrTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all it's attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in a measure the energy and ardor OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
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