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Year: 1878

The more the affairs Of the defunct Glas-
gov Bank are stirred the more offensive
they become and the manner in which the
English and Scotch press attack the late
management should delight every one who
has lost money by the failure. AS these
journals have always claimed the reputation
Of telling the truth. particularly about
Irregularities of American fnanciers, it
becomes matter of interest to discover
how they treat those Of their own land.
We are glad to be able to testify
to their extreme indignation against
the Glasgow thieves. The London Times
says the official report of the Investigators
is lone of the most disgraceful in the
history of banking" and that the great loss
could never have occurred had it not been
for deliberate and long continued fraud" :"
The Glasgow Herald says, "The law will
offer no protection for society at large if an
attempt is not made to ascertain the legal
responsibilities of the men who have proved
thus false to their trust and thus guided the
bank to its doom. The Ne,rs, Of the same
city, talks of astounding Frauds" "every
conceivable method Of deception" and
'knaves of the blackest dye" while the
Evening Times says that the statements Of
its London contemporary of similar name
cannot be denied, and that the case is all
the worse because the ''scandalous crime
occurred in the professedly most religious
city in the most religious country in the
world"


The moral of the whole sad business is
that human nature is the same everywhere,
and that few men who, by election or
otherwise, find themselves in control of
large quantity of money belonging to other
people, and without close supervision by
some disinterested officials, will not stop to
consider whether they are in Glasgow or
New York before they begin to speculate and
peculate. The losses by the Glasgow bank
exceed those of the combined defalcations
reported in the United States during the
the past two years, but the geographical
and religious environment of the bank has
neither helped nor hindered the directors
in their rascality. The results upon busi-
ness and society are indicated in our special
cable dispatches of to-day. Will Americans
take warning and watch their bankers as
carefully as they do any one else who han
dies their money?
Year: 1878

Mr.. Clarkson Potter, who has served ably
and successfully during several terms in
Congress-, declines denomination. His
party must regret this refusal to serve it,
Tor it has not too many men of brains and
sound judgment in the House of Repre-
sentatives. Mr.. Potter gives a good many
reasons tor rejecting the offer Of his con-
letter leads us to couclude that the chief
reason is disgust with the condition of
political affairs. We cannot blame
him tor being disgusted, but we suspect
many of his friends will think it mistake


in him to abandon the political field just at
the time when the labors of oil good and
sensible men are most needed there. lie
writes that he finds himself unable to
agree with his party on some important
points but the fact is that neither his party
nor the other agrees with itself on any i'm
portant point. AT the last session Of Con-
cast on any question that we now
recall, except on the motion to constitute
that unfortunate committee Of which Mr..
Potter became chairman party politics
are so utterly muddled that neither party
was able to determine on any point of
public policy in caucus. Such a time
seems propitious for men Of brains to exer-
else their influence in giving shape to new
party policies and we should have thought
that the political field would be especially
interesting at such time to Mr.. Potter.
Year: 1878

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was fairly active, and prices were
well sustained with general upward move.
ment. Gold was steady all day at lOOl2.
Government bonds were firm States steady and
railroads quiet. Money call was easy at
o z per cent closing at per cent
Year: 1878

ANOTHER BoDY OF MEN have been setting
Holy Writ at naught According to the Bible
no one attempts to rob strong man without
first binding him; but couple OF burglars with
designs against the property of Barnuns giant
conceived the unorthodox idea of waiting until
the strong man was away from home. 1t is
gratifying to read that these free thinkers lost
their plunder and their liberty too.
Year: 1878

Two DECISIONS, very important as preccdents,
have just been rendered by the Supreme Court
of the United States. In the case OF Chester
A. Arthur, Collector of the Port of New York,
VS.. Joseph W. and Frederic \ Goddard, in
error to the Circuit Court Of the Southern Dis
trict of New York, the Court decided that the
actual dutiable value Of bill of imported
goods, when determined by construction Of in
voice, was that sum which remained after de-
duction OF discount for cash. even though cash
was not paid, but charged against the pur
chaser on general account In the case Of Shilla-
ber vs. Robinson appeal from the Circuit Court
Of the Eastern district Of New York, the Court
afirms the strictness with which convcyances
made under mortgages should be executed
Year: 1878

ANOTHER MCcH MARRIED MAN appeared in
court yesterday, and several deceived women
are indignant and inconsolable. Unmarried
ladies will probably continue to place their
hearts where they please but would it not be
we'll for them, before forming life partnerships,
to make at least careful inquiries as men do
before taking business partners for short term
of wears
Year: 1878

THE REPAIRS MADE to the engine of the war
sloop Enterprise while on the Amazon were ex-
tremely creditable to American ingenuity, but
how came the vessel to get to sea without
proper repairing facilities and materials
Year: 1878

AN ASTONISHING FAcT--A large proportion
of the American people are to-day dying from
the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver.
The result of these diseases upon the masses
Of intelligent and valuable people is most
alarming making life actually IA burden in
stead of pleasant existence of enjoyment
and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no
good reason for this, if you will only throw
aside prejudice and skepticism, take the ad-
vice of Druggists and your friends, and try
one bottle Of Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief is certain. Millions of bot
ties of this medicine have been given away
to try its virtues, with satisfactory results in
every case. You can buy sample bottle for
2 cents to try. Three doses will relieve the
worst case Positively sold by all Druggists
on the Western Continent.
Year: 1878

SLOW COacns


Last week our Chesapeake City bundle
failed to reach that point until Monday noon.
As it was in the post-ofice here on Friday af-
ternoon, and was sent in the morning mail Of
Saturday, we are of the opinion that there is a
loud piece of neglect or carelessness somewhere
on the mail route Fifty-two hours is rather
lengthy period for mail matter to be on the
road between this place and Chesapeake City,
which is an all-rai route with close connec-
tions, except six miles of staging. This is the
third OF fourth time this thing has happened
within the last two months, and we are Sc
riously contemplating a limited ox-cart ex-
press for the purpose of getting the TRANSCRIPT
to our Maryland readers on Saturdays. As
this is the season of spring time, perhaps some
of the railway postal clerks are suffering from
ennui.
Year: 1878

The people about Greenwood are on the
''ragged-edge" and are already beginning to
smell birthstone. A correspondent of neigh
boring Journal says: "On Friday last, during
thunder storm, it raiued birthstone all over
this part of the country, and many fear that
both fire and birthstone win come upon US
next, unless our people repent of their sins.'
Year: 1878

AN old reader of the REGISTER, IN
Harrison county. wrote US letter. 'he
other day. enclosing the price ot sup
.crlptiou for one year, sddiag: "a DAD
promise is better broken than kept. Last
summer declared that l would never
take the ROOSTER again, because you ID
yored Charleston for the Capital out'
alter trying it awhile, find can get
along without the Capital mucn
bs,ter than can without the
REGISTER. SO send it along again.
will lot cut oti my nose TO spite my face
though l thought tor awhile l would. L
really sint as big fool IS | gave myself
credit with being


We always knew our friend carried
pretty level head; but the levelest ot
heads msy sometimes got turned little.
Year: 1878

In conformity with the notice given by
the railroad authorities that the unem.
pIoyed workingmen would be given work
on the conpsuy's property At Mission
Bay q. one dollar per day. several hun
dred men assembled there early this
morning. About three hundred and
thirty were SGT a. work, and the others
will be given an opportunity as fast as
the company can make arrangements.
Within few days employment will be
furnished TO one thousand men if so many
offer servicsa.
Year: 1878

A CHALLENGE Is offered to any one who can produce q regular case of torpid liver that will not succumb to the influence of Simmons, Liver Regulator. The cures on record are so numerous that tho propri- etors feel that the evidence of its curative effects cannot be questioned.

 'I have used your medicine in my fam fly, and have takon pleasure in recom- mending it as an excellent remedy fol the regulation of the Liver.

 EDITOR ASHLAND (OHIO) TIMES. '
Year: 1878

It is said that so acute is the sleeps
sense of hearing thatsshs can distinguish
the cry hof her own lamb, among : g
many as a thousand others, all -bleatiDg


at the sane tune; and the lamb too ID
ableto recognise its mothers voice, even
though it be in the midst Of alarge flock.


James Hoag, who was shepherd ias


well as poet, tells us that it wan very


amusing to watch the sheep and lambs
during the shearing season. While the
sheep we're being shorn the lambs, would
be put into fold by themselves, and the
former would be sent to join their little
ones as soon as the operation Of shear
ing was over. The moment q lamb


heard its mothers voice it would hasten


from the crowd to meet her, but instead


of finding the ssrough, well-clad; com


Portable mamma which IL had left q
short time before,it would meet . strange
and most deplorable looking creature.-
At the sight OF this il would wheel about,
uttering the most piteous cry Of despair,


and perhaps run away. Soon, however,


the sleeps voice.was heard again; the
lamb would thereupon return. thea once
more bound away, and sometimes ~
peat this conduct for ten or & dozen
times before It fully understood thasthe
shorn eve was in reality It's mother.iks
Year: 1878

causes tine Su1Cl0e Oh a BOY


A most astonishing case of suicide, al
most without parallel in this section of the
country, occurred last Monday afternoon in
this city. 1t is the more astounding as the
suicide is a lad barely seven years old, and
the cause assigned is that the boys mother
refused to put some butter on his bread


Little Henry Kippits, seven years old,
lived at No. SO Martin street in the eastern
portion of the city. Last Monday after
noon he came home from school, and asked
his mother for the usual afternoon slice of
bread and butter. He was given a piece al
bread on which there wa. no butter. Tho
boy refused to eat it and after some COM
planning went outside.


Then he met his sister and bade her
good-by, saying he would never see her
again. From that time on he has not been
seen.


1t seems that the lad then walked down
to the river and undressed himself; aftez
which he jumped into the water and ended
his childish troubles and his own life


His clothing was found yesterday on the
bank, back of Goodhue's stone yard, nea
the Little Miami Depot


The body of the poor unfortunate lad has
not yet been recovered.
Year: 1878

The recent accounts of the finding of the
body of J. Scott Harrison in the Ohio Med
ical College chute by the son, are still
vivid in the minds of our people.


1t now seems that the medical colleges
whose sessions have begun, and who are
now greatly in want of stiffs," are seeking
to obtain their subjects from the grave yards
in and around this neighborhood.


Every one who has heard of PotterS
Field, where the INDECENT dead, hoaters,
ETC., are buried, has been under the inn
preston that at least one-half the number
of such bodies were not inferred there, or
taken away by human ghouls after being
buried


This is now substantiated by case that oe-
Cured the other day. An old lady died at
the Hospital and was sent for interment to
Potters' Field Yesterday the friends Of
the deceased learned of the disposition Of
the body and arranged for transfer of the
corpse to Spring Grove Cemetery.


Mr.. John b. Habig, the Sixth street un-
dertaker, was intrusted with the work of
removing the body. but when he arrived at
the place he discovered that he had TO deal
with an empty coffin. The grave had from
all appearances, not been dug up, as tho
coffin evidently was in the same condition
as on the day when it was deposited in Pot
ter's Field


No one can explain where the body is.
The friends of the deceased propose to
colleges in the city, to see if they can not
find some trace of the whereabouts of the
body.


The affair has created something of an ex-
element among the friends of the missing
deceased
Year: 1878

announces that the mine don't need
its ordinary shifts of workmen.
Nine men out OF ten believed he
lied In April and believe he lies
now, although man OF Macksy's
position and wealth in Europe
would be ashamed to assume a role
which would disgrace a capper for
q third.rate gambling house or
maison dc joie.


We need to cultivate a higher
sense of honor in the United States,
especially in California. The re.
formation is bound to come, and
we should not be surprised to see it
come, as the lightning comes in
the physical world, amidst the rum
BILE and roar of wrallful and de.
ceived men.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood d-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

Young chicks, says the American
Poultry Journal, seem to require some
kind OF seasoning in their food especially
ifthey are confined from the time they
leave the egg till they are full grown. A
little red (cayennel pepper, occasionally
mixed with their food. gives healthy
tone to the system, keeps the throat clear
and fosters improvement; but some are
apt to overdo the matter, and even good
things can work harm when carelessly or
injudiciously used. We use this pepper
with all our young birds, whett er chicks,
turkeys, or others, but use it sparingly.
One Of the most natural things to mix
with the food is the onion. Many an
onion top have we chopped up fine and
mixed with the soft food given to the
young birds. They relish it exceedingly
and it does them good. In the absence
of the onion top, the bulb can be chop
ped up fine and fed in the same way,
but being stronger, it must be led more
sparingly. Garlic can be used in the
same way as onions, but it is not always
80 readily obtained.
Year: 1878

A veteran farmer told me few days
ago of method Of relieving choking
COW, which was new to me, but which he
assured me was unfailing. 1t is worthy
of trial, at any rate. A round stick, two
or three inches in diameter, and six or
eight inches long, is put into the cows
mouth, like bit into a horses mouth, a
string is then fastened to each end of the
stick and tied to the horns, or up over
the head. This forces her to keep her
mouth open and allows the gas which
forms in the stomach and is the cause of
the severe pain and rapid swelling which
accompanies choking in COW, to escape
The effort also of trying to free her
mouth of its unusual incumbrance is the
best help toward freeing the passage OF
the throat. IF the trouble is not removed
in this way, the COW may be kept alive
until help is obtained for trying other
measures for her relief. In such cases
time is of great Importance. He assures
me he has seen his plan tried In many
cases, and In none had it failed of COM
plete cure in less than half an hour.
Year: 1878

The American Dairyman says: "Tbe
early made skinned cheeses that have
appeared on the market this spring, are
not meeting with the most cordial greet
ing, while full creams are sought after
and command top figures. Fine old
cheese finds ready sale, often at a
fraction over quotations but that which
is inferior, Or in any way impoverished
by the use of the skinner, drags heavily
and has to make concessions to the buy
ers. These are among the indications
which factory men had better heed.
Throw away the skinner before it
hrOWs You away.
Year: 1878




A French agricultural journal, the
Basse- Cour, describes the result of some
| experiments in potato growing recently


conducted by scientific men in Germany.
! The principal conclusions to which these
sages have come seem to be two in num-
her. The first of them is that the vigor
of the potato plant is always in direct
proportion to the weight of the tuber


used for sets, theory which certainly
finds some support in common sense
alone, considering that the young shoots
for some time draw their sole nourish-
ment from the mother potato. The Sec
ond conclusion is that there is great
variety in the productive power. not only
of different tubers, but also of different
eyes in the same potato, 1t is found
that the eyes at the top of the potato
produce much more vigorous offspring
then those in the lower part, and the con-
sequence is that those agriculturists who
cut their potatoes in half before planting
them are not we'll advised in cutting ver-
ticallv, but should always divide them
horizontally, planting the upper half and
using the other as food for cattle. But
tie best plan of all is to plant the tuber
whole, cutting out nevertheless, all the
eyes except those in the top part" Ex-
periments, were conducted in garden
soil by Prof. Gantz, the amount of crop
produced by several different settings of
potatoes being actually estimated in sta"
tistical tables. 1t appeared that from
tubers divided vertically, only FIVE tons
were produced per acre, and from whole
potatoes seven and halfto The third
sort were potatoes horizontally divided,
which is set down as nine and three-quar
ter tons. In this particular, however,
some of the other professors do not agree
with Herr Gantz, but maintain that,
other things being equal, the whole pota'
toes will always produce more than
halves, however cut. On the fourth
result, however, all agree, and that is,
that the whole potatoes from which the
lower eyes have been cut out. produce
eleven and one-half tons per acre, or
more than double the result by the sets
first mentioned.
Year: 1878

One of the most inconceivable things
in the nature Of the brain is that the
organ of sensation should in itself be in
sensible. To cut the brain gives no
pain, vet in the brain alone resides the
power of feeling paiu in any other part
of the body. If the nerve which leads
from it to the injured part be divided, it
becomes instantly unconscious of suffer-
ing. 1t is only by communication with
the brain that any kind of sensation is
produced, yet the organ itself is insen-
sible. But there is circumstance more
wonderful still. The brain itself may be
removed; may be cut away down the
corpus calasum, without destroying lie.
The animal lives and performs all its
unctions which are necessary to simple
vitality but no longer has a mind it
can not think or feel; it requires that
the food should be pushed into the stom-
ach ; once there it is digested, and the
animal will thrive and grow fat.


AMERICAN ORGANS AT THE PARIS
ExHIBrTIoN.-Every American visiting
our Section will conceive legitimate
pride at the well-merited praise which
he will hear from the great European
musical critics who constantly swarm
around Messrs. Mason & Hamlin's Cab.
met Organs, and openly acknowledge
that nothing in Europe can be compared
with the Exhaust Bellows and Separate
Vibrators peculiar to American Organs,
as especially perfected in the Mason &
Hamlin Paris France
REGISTER, June |, 1873. s
Year: 1878

no living thing will ever breathe again if


left in the room, after half an hour. It


NAV be necessary to repeat it, to kill the
lice that hatch after, for smoke is 60 very
penetrating, it fluids its way into every
creyice and corner and knot-hole. I
keep quite large number of fowls, and
of late have no trouble. A few times
will, well attended to, rid your fowls of
every louise, SO you may never be troub-
led again unless brought by other fowls.
Year: 1878




THE Democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives have a substantial griev-
ance. This time their cause of COM
plant is purely domestic. When the
Democracy was in minority they
formed a compact body, which could be
relied upon in every emergency. The
curious student of political history will
see that when Congress was asked to
indemnify the President for enforcing
the Confiscation laws, or to authorize a
draft in time of war, or to call out and
enroll black men as soldiers of the Re-
public, the Democratic minority never
varied more than three or four votes.
Under the lead of Vallandigham. PEN
dleton and Voorhees,, the Copperheads
of the war Congress stood, hopeless OPP
position, but a solid phalanX, against any
and every measure designed to put an
end to the rebellion. Gradually that
compactness of organization has suf-
fered from an insidious and decaying
influence, until now, when the party
has the House, the majority is much
bothered to hold its members together
long enough to carry any partisan
measure.


This melancholy fact was made con-
spicuOus when the Army Appropriation
bill was under consideration, early in
the present session of the House. The
Democrats of a previous Congress had
left the army without any money fol
its support, having taken the ground
that, unless the army was ordered about
as the House chose to order it, nc
money should be forthcoming. When
the present Congress met, at its first
session, the Democrats, being in ma
| jority, attempted to carry out a simi'
larly high-handed policy. They not
only limited the strength of the army
to low figure, but presumed to say il
an appropriation bill where the infantry
and cavalry should be stationed. The
Republicans naturally refused to gran
this unconstitutional demand. The re
suit was that, after a sharp conflict
the Democrats were defeated and thu
Army bill passed without the offensive
amendments with which il had beer
overlaid by the dominant party, PeO
pie at distance from Washington wer
surprised at this apparent surrender o
the Democrats, who were in majorit,
in the House. Then it came out tina
the Democrats did not vote their ful
strength. Democratic newspaper
charged that their members were un
faithful to their trusts; and some, les
nice about their words, said that man
Democrats were sin state unfit to ap
Year: 1878

Last Saturday evening, on the eight
o'clock train from Niagara Falls on the
Central, Col. John IL. Isbester, conduct
or, saw that passenger had ticket
for Buffalo. He remarked that he
would stop the train so that the passen-
ger might get OFF at the junction and
take the Buffalo train following them.
The man, anxious to reach Buffalo, be-
came excited and rushed to the plat
form and jumped from the train. The
fall stunned him so that he fell insensi-
BILE directly across the rails of the track
ON which the Buffalo train was fast ap-
preaching. 1t was an anxious moment,
but the cool conductor and his active
brakemen proved equal to the emer-
gency. The train was Stacked up, two
brakemen sprang off, and, with lamps
swinging, ran back with all their speed,
and, though not able to stop the Buffalo
train, they reached the prostrate man
not one second too soon to jerk him
from the track and save him from
being ground to atoms by the ponder
Gus loeomotiye.-LOckpOrt IN ~


Union.