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Year: 1873




be based upon moral principle, and shall
seek the welfare of the naticn by legitimate
means.


The history of this nation shows that the
press can exert a wonderful power in waking
a lethargic public conscience to life. In the
anti-slavery days when it lifted up its voice in
clear and ringing tones against the iniquiLy of
holding men in bondage, we were aroused,
We were nerved, we were sustained by its
thrilling tones. No man can estimate the
value of its services in those stormy times.


And but very few years since, when a
mania for reputation had seized our people
when leading statesmen had become injected
with it, and there was imminent danger that
we should have disgraced ourselves forever
by gigantic fraud,- single journal Of
limited circulation, but of great intellectual
and moral force, by its l)gic and its invective,
dispelled the strange illusion which had seized
us and snatched from the fire our national
honor. 9- l 1ttrg ~.


The press has quickened the national con-
science within the last few months by its yip
orous denunciations of the rapacity of
shameless majority of Congressmen, and in 50
doing has earned encomiums from all good
men. r--r., -


Now let it use this its great moral powerto
make the people realize their responsibility
for the character OF the men whom they elect
to office let it use it to make the people feel
their responsibility for doing away with sys-
tenn OF distributing offices, which is a potent
temptation to their public men; let 1t use It 70
punish men in Office who baselv defraud the
people who have put them in positions OF
honor by exposing them to public scorn, and
it will be means under God, OF raising us 10
purer civilization. e-


This grandw which lies before the press,
we hope and pray as men wdo nave our
country's interests at heart that IL VIII FER
form.


We have reason to rejoice at cheering sigus
which greet us, that our hopes are not un-
| founded, and that an earnest and fearless
press which at once expresses and strengthens
| the better moral sentiment of the community,
will help to bring about the reign of better
! manners and Of purcr laws. ~-5 5tss
Year: 1873

It is no nolongerpossible to know every
thing. A universal scholar will bo no
moro seen among men,. The range Of
human knowledge has increased so
vastly, has swept out aud away so far
and SO fast, that no brain, bc its quanti-
ty or quality what it may, can, in tho
years commonly given to nun, even
survey tho field. A man, therefore,
must make up his mind, il he propose
to learn anything, to be content with
profound Ignorance OF great many
other things. 1t is bitter thing, per.
haps, but It is fact, that a man who
would know anything in this century
must purchase his knowledge with vol
untary and chosen ignorance Of hun
dred other things. One must choose
his speciality, and devotion and dill
gcnce in that is the price he pays for
success. 1t is with doing as 1t is with
knowing. There is only n certain
amount OF work in any case. He can
not do everything. Nevertheless, every.
thing needs doing. All about him is
undone work clamoring for hands.
There are two courOcs before one. To
undertake everything, to fret and grieve
because one finds this and that undone,
aud to make spasmodic efforts to do it
this is the way OF failure. Resolute-
ly to make up ones mind to let, as far
rs he is concerned, the most thAt should
DO done stay undone still, to steel ones
heart against demands and necessities,
to resist all inducements to put forth n
single effort, to close oneseyes to 1t all,
and to stick heart, hand, life, and love
to the thing man undertakes and calls
his own-that is the way Of success.
Life is very short, and the single brain
and hand, at best, very weak, and there
are thousands OF things to know and to
do. One must choose, and bo content
with his choice. And SO it comes to
pass that now, at lust, the measure OF q
mans learning will be the amount Of
his voluntary Ignorance, the measure of
his practical Effectiveness the amount
what he is content TO leave unattemp-
kn1
Year: 1873

couple OI d~ys early this week. He said that Chiquita Capitan and his band of about eighty Indians had re- gently come into Grant and expressed & willingness to quit war. This is another good result of the fighting method to secure peace. This rascally murderer and his band had always been bold and defiant until since the complete (and it is to be hoped tinaD disappearance of the peace commits sioners.
Year: 1873

CHEAP IF NOT CHEAPER than any other House in the Territory We are therefore certain that as to quality and adaptability to the wants of the com munity our stock is unsurpassed.

 Tor these reasons we respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage, feeling assured that our goods and prices cannot all to give entire satisfaction.

 FULLY, OCHOA & co.
Year: 1873




Editors OF the Register.


The Commencement exercises OF the
State Normal School at this place clos
ed yesterday. Our village seems al
most deserted to-day es but few OF the
students yet remain. Much of the life
and interest OF our town seems 10 have
departed with them.


During the last term there were nine
ty students in attendance and Z more
quiet and peaceable hand of students
have never been in our midst before
They, without single known exception
have been friendly and courteous to the
people OF West Liberty, and have not
engaged In those go called school boy
scrapes," which are so common in many
of our institutions OF learning, and go
disgusting and annoying to the citizens
OF any town or community. No cases
Of disorder, such as midnight reVels,
mock serenade., drunkenness, quar-
relling or anything Of like character.
Nothing has been done by them to mar
the peacefulness OF our town or TO cre-
ate disorder in the workings OF the
school. They seem to be young ladies
and gentlemen who are striving
hard for an education and
seem to be endeavoring to strengthen
their social and moral as we'll as their
intellectual faculties. The teachers de-
serve great credit for go conducting the
school that the students are Kept cou-
stantly interested in their work.


We might say something in behalf
OF our town. which Is also worthy oi
praise. lie that we have no drinking
saloons, billiard tables or gambling
rooms, which go often SOW the seeds OF
vice and immortality in the minds OF
thoughtless youths. There never has
existed any feeling OF hostility between
the citizens and the students. There
has never been any cause for it, and we
shall ever manifest q friendly interest
in the welfare OF such students by recei-
wing them into our families as boarders
and welcoming them to our best socisl
circles.


With competent teachers and such
students, together with the aid Of
the State and local iDhuence, this
school will remain as it is now-frat
among the normal schools OF our State.
Year: 1873

The recent cholera scare" has had q
very good effect in inducing greater
cleanliness in many OF the most public
and commonly used streets and alleys
of the city, but it has failed to induce
proper sanitary precautions in some
quarters that chow as yet no improve
ment. In east Wheeling and in centre
Wheeling there are alleys that appear
to have been unvisited by the Health
Officer or, as is most probable, in re-
gard to which the orders o! the Health
Officer have been willully disobeyed.
All sorts OF animal and vegetable matter
is left in these unobserved places to
swelter aud ferment under the bot July
sun, and to send forth the vapors that
feed the cholera and scatter death
abroad. 1t is not sufficient that the
careful aud cleanly c,t;zen see that his
own premises are free from pestilential
odors; he must look also to those OF his
neighbors upon either hand. The pes-
tileuce does rot regard boundary lines
nor stop at the limits marked upon
maps made by surveyors and recited In
deeds. II it were so, only the guilty
would BE- punished, but, as ii is, a
whole neighborhood may be exposed to
disease for the fault of single family.


Attention is called in our local COLI
umns this morning to the customary
default in cleaning the Fifth Ward mar
ket space. 1t is often the case that the
deJris OF the Saturday night market is
left to contaminste the Sunday morn
ing air, aud the nostrils OF worshippers
attending the churches in that quarter
OF the city are assailed by the foul odors
beuueathed from the market of Sstur-
day night.


This is not as it should be, and We
look to the. sanitary inspectors in that
quarter OF the city TO inaugurate de-
cided improvement in this regard. We
look to the same officers to compel the
cleaning up OF the alleys in their re-
sprective districts, and the abolishment
OF all the uuisances that now "sme!l to
heaven from the various streets and
alleys of Wheeling. Whatever assis-
tance we can give in this regard will be
most cheeriully bestowed.
Year: 1873

Baltimore American Letter.


The Emperor OF Russia aud the
Crown Prince, with their attendants,
have all gone home, and the Vienna
Press details many incidents Of the fear
Of assassination entertained by the royal
visitor. Before he arrived at the Pal
ace a Russian detective examined the
spartments TO see that no one was con.
cealed, and demanded to see and 70.
miiarize himself with the voice and
features Of all the servants and atten-
dants that would be permitted to enter
that part Of the palace during the roy
al sojourn. There was fear that some
Polish refugee might smuggle himself
10, arrayed in the palace garb, besides
which the immediate attendants were
all brought with them from Russia.


This was the reason it was 90 difficult
to get a glimpse of the Emperor, and
that be only visited the Russian depart
meuts at the Exposition, excluding al
visitors while he was passing through.
When he visited the opera no one was
allowed TO have tickets until their char.
acter Nss known, and whenever he
drove through the city Thousands Of
policemen and detectives hovered
around him. The nearest we got TO
him was at review, when We saw him .
bali q mile distant through field glass.
Who would care to be an Emperor and
be compelled to be thus guarded from
assassination Perhaps the fear OF
French vengeance is the cause Of the
alleged illness Of the Kaiser Of Prussia.
Year: 1873

PITTSBURGH. July 3.-A terrific scene
was presented at Howe's circus, show
ing on the bank Of the Allegheny river.
Mile. Daniel had just finished her act
of bare. back riding and the clown tum-
blers had entered the ring. One, after
turning a number of times around the
ring, affected to be dead, the other
feeling for his pulse; at that moment q
low, rushing sound was heard, as
though one OF the paddles OF Q storm
Mas approaching, and suddenly the
huge canvas began to swell and fall
like a mountainous wave. The rain
poured down in torrents and the al
frighted spectators in the crowded show
struggled over seats toward the place
of exit. The lights were extiDgulshed,
the canvas was torn loose at fhe eldes,
and sections of the tent and the small
upright poles that sustained the
centre attached, were flying and
Tapping around, striking people down
as if they were shot. Women and
children were crying with fright at
the dreadful idea that the animals
might break from their cages and that
the elephants would trample people to
death. How the immense crowd got
out ia the darkness and excitement it ;s
impossible 10 tell, or how many were
injured, as it seems certain some
must have been. Gaining the outside
it was found that the main tent was
completely prostrated, and the side
shows had disappeared entirely. The
immense audience went home mostly
on foot, through rain that came down
in perfect sheet OF water.
Year: 1873

Az Iowa man, a few days since,
dreamed that be saw his brother
head severed from bis body vitbou!
the loss OF drop OF blood. The next
day be learned OF the removal OF that
brother from a snug postmsstership.
Year: 1873

Recipe for making farmers boys
love to stay at home in the even
ings.


/. Treat them as partners with
you. Give them to understand that
they arc interested in the success
of the farming operations as much
as you are yourself.


2. Converse freely with them.
Get their opinions, and give them
yours. If at all prudent, make use
of their plans, and when you think
your own best, explain to them why
you do not adopt theirs. Don't
keep them altogether in the dark
with reference to your plans for the
future.


8. Don't require them to stay at
homo in the evenings all the time.
When there is any meeting or en-
tertainmcnt from which they might
receive benefit, be sure to lot them
go.


d. Provide them with plenty oil
good books and papers especially
referring to agriculture. Let them
be well posted in their own business
farming.


5. Never scold them because they
don't do their work or attend to
the business Of the farm as well as
you do. Encourage them,


I. Give them holiday now and
then. They look for it, and they
need it; and it will be bettcr for
you and them to let them have it..


I. A little rational amusement
now and then, such as croque., wick
ct, sail, and a swim, wall give va
ricty, health, aud contentmcnt.
Year: 1873

The Cimmaron (Now Mcxico)
News records the following remar-
kablc instance of vitality: A bit
of scientific revolver practice took
place at fandango ut Elizabeth
town the night of the 4th, OF which
the following are the particulars in
brief; Theodore Brown got into
II quarrel with a Ute Creek, miner,
AM read him few chapters from
Cogs without effect, however, the
U. Q. man not being in q receptive
condition, or Brown not being point
ed enough in his remarks. During
the discussion the banio-pIayer in
tcrfered and threw Brown across
the hall. Shortly after this Brown
marched up to the banio-player,
who, we believe was talking with
another man, and blazed away at
him with a navy revolver at the
distance Of a few inches, the pow
der burning the face of the banjo
man (whosc namo we could not
learn, and the ball entering the
middle Of his forehead, just above
the bridge Of the nose, passing with
in the skull. The man retained his
consciousness, and did not seem to
suffer much pain. The next day
he was visited by DR.. Longwill,
who probed the wound about the
depth of three inches, but could
not find the bullet. The patient is
still doing well, and two or three
days ago he got up and walked
down the street and bought him
new hat. 1t is certainly an extra
ordinary case, for the wound is one
which would prove instantly fatal
in nnety-ninc cases out Of Il hun
dved.
Year: 1873

Those surprise parties, somehow,
nearly always turn out unpleasant
ly. They tell about one that came
off IN connecticut recently, which
was not halfas joyous as it should
have been. 1t was reported that
a man and his wife who had been
married many years without having
any children, that they had ut last
been made happy by the birth of Il
daughter. Some Of their friends
determined to give the man pre-
sentation supIisc party. SO about
forty persons marched up to the
house one evening carrying a era
die and lots of gum rings, and bibs,
and bottles with gum nozzlcs, and
"a baby carriage, and some little
night gowns, and u corral armlet,
and gross Of soothing syrup, and
socks, and parcgoric. And they all
burst into the parlor at once on tip
toe. And when the man, in amaze
mcnt, asked them what they meant
by such conduct, they said
they were coming IN quietly
so rs not to wake the baby. And
when the husband blushed and
stammorcd, and asked, " what
babyY They said his baby and
began to hand him the things, and
load him up with soothing syrup
and gum rings, until he loorcd one
Of the guests with n quart bottle of
parcgoric, and held him down until
he explained. And then it was re
voaled that it was all n mistake
about the little daughter; that no
such arrival had taken place at all
but that the report was false. And
then the surprise party was a great
deal more surprised than the man
was, and the guests gathered up
that infant furniture, and tried TO
pretend to the man that they never
thought no had II daughter, but
that they had understood that he
had accepted position as q direc-
tor of an orphan asylum, and that
they brought around few things
for him to distribute among the
poor fatherlcss children. The man
said it was singularIy thin, and then
the company went homo. The con
stltutional convention ought TO
adopt some kind of a measure to
prevent those mistakes.
Year: 1873

Give me man with an aim,


Whatever that aim may be-,
Whether It's wealth or whether its fame,
IT matters not TO me.
Let him walk in .hc path Of right,


And keep his aim in sight,
hnd work and pray in faith away,


with his eye Oh The giltering height
Give me a man who says,


~ will do something we'll,
And make the feeting days


A story of lpbor tcll'
Though the 9i h he has be small,
u is better than none at all;
With something tgdo the whole year THROUGH
He viii moi stumble or fall.
But Satan wcaycs snare


For the feet Of those who tray,
With never thought or a care


where The path may lead away
The man who hath no aim


Not only leaves no name
When his lifc's done, but ten 10 one
lie leaves q record Of shame.
Give me a man whose heart


j. filled with ambitions fire,
Who sets his mark in the start,


And moves it higher and higher
Better to die in the strife,


The hands with labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream
And live purposclc-s life.
- -phr,n0lugical journal
Year: 1873

FROM the Virginia Enterprise, Aug. AL


y GENTLEMAN III this city. who
has been familiar with Carson
Rlver for eleven years, says that
In all that time he has never seen
so little water in 1T as there is at
the present time. The rocks eve
rywhere project above the water
in the bed of the liver, and in
many places one may walk across
the stream dry shod by stepping
from stone to stone.


CAPTAIN RAWLINGS, an old
ashoeite, yesterday returned to
this place from Salt Lake CITY,
where he has been residing for
two or three years. He will again
make the Comstock region his
abiding place. The Captain ap-
pears to be in excellent health,
and finds here whole town full
of friends to wecome him back to
his old stamping ground.
Year: 1873

We claim from experience to suit every peculisri-
tv of impaIre1 vi ion and in every case guarantee
satisfaction. Our facilities are such that we can
exchange glasses In any shape frame 10 suit the
Third street sep'le-ly
Year: 1873

Fashionable modistes now divide mourning
toilets into first and second degrees, according
to the proper amount Of grief for the occasion.


A stray hippopotamus is reported to be sport
ing about in the Savannah river, in the vicinity
of the city.


The first baby of the Empress Of Japan. was
born on the 18th Of September, but only lived a
few minutes.
Year: 1873

GOV SHEPHERD AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE BOARD


BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on DISTRICT


AFFARs-rHFY MAKE AN INEFrECTUAL ATrEMPT


TO GET AN APPROPRIATION OF OVER S4,OO0,OOO.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l


WASHINGTON, Dec. ll.-Gov. Shepherd and other
officers of the Washington Board of Public Works
appeared before the House Committee on District
Affairs this morning to urge its members to intro
duce a resolution requesting the Committee on
Appropriations to report forthwith bill appro-
priatipg more than $4,0OO,OOO for work which the
Board claims has been done in excess OF the appro-
priations of last Spring When the Governor was
before the latter Committee yesterday asking for
this money be was advised to come again and to
hiring with him his law adviser, i'll order that
thew might give an explanation Of their
action in involving the General Government in
liabilities in excess of appropriations, when they had
been especially prohibited from doing so By law.
They are expected to make their plea tomorrow
and in the meantime made the attempt to-day to
enlist the District Committee their side. In this
they were disappointed as the Committee. instead
of agreeing to report the resolution asked for,
appointed a Sub Committee to examine the manage
ment OF District affairs. Gov Shepherds excnse for
tbs violatiOn OF law is said to be that the board
was required 10 make it's grades conform TO
those established by Congress- but this Ia no excuse
for the resolution and the acts in which they were
instructed TO do this passed previous to the law
forbiddng them TO exceed the amount of appropra-
tions in their expenditures. Besides much OF the
work for which charge ~ now made mas been twice
performed since the Board came into power, aud
when thew. little more than year ago, lad costly
payements on the old grade, they knew that they
would have TO be taken up within year OF two
At the furtbest The history of these grades ~
briefly this


The resolution of Congress ordering grade to be-


sss Hsnk Pase.
Year: 1873

In the opinion of the London Daily
Telegraph an important fact is brought
to light by the accounts Of the Boston
fire, with respect to the resistance which
various kinds Of stone can offer to flames.
Ave might imagine" says the jolrual to
which we refer, that the best Of all fire.
proof substances would he granite, which
seems to be the very emblem Of stability
and it was the pride Of the Boston mer-
chants that their grca: warehouses were
built Of granite blocks Yet the hard
stuff has proved as troacherous as
match The flames have eaten it
away. As they wrapped it round, the
stone crumbled as If it had lain in bed
of a stream for centuries, and it became
like rough powder. A few hours Of
roasting had reduced one Of the hardest
Of all materials to something like the
consistency Of small shot Marble, al
though much softer, had, on the other
hand stood the furnace heat gallantly.
And brick was found to be a better shield
against the flames than any kind OF stone.
What may be the scientific explanation of
the liability of granite to crumbe is au
interesting question which scientific men
will be invited to answer but the fact
itself cannot be explained away-and ii
is of the highest Importance. in these
days Of attempts at freproof buildings
They seem to have as yet disastrously
failed in America, and we lear that We
must add in England also but they have
been more successful in France The
German shells set fire to no part Of Paris,
nor did the petroleum Of the Communists
spread the flames far beyond the spots to
which it was applied. The secret of the
safety is very simple it comes in the
main, from solid masonry The houses
Of new Paris are built like fortresses
Many of them seem fit to stand siege.
They are as strong as fcndal castles in
comparison with the rickcty brick boxes
which in London do the work Of houses
The material i Caen stone, at once easy
to work and very durable. How well it
can resist fire, as seen at the Tulleries and
the Hotel de Vile, the floors and the
walls Of which were soaked with petrol
cum until every atom Of conbu>tibe stuff
seemed fated to be consumed. The
buildings burned for days. and the heat
would have made granite crumble to
atoms. Yet the walls stood 50 firm that
if they were patched lhey might,perhaps,
bear the weiget Of / new roof. We wish
We could believe that the Houses Of Par
lament would stand equally well such an
ordeal, The builders of the old Norman
castles knew how to make them fireproof,
and modern architects could 60 to no bet
ter school than that which they would
find io the silent examples Of ieudal ma
sonry,"
Year: 1873

How HE GOT MARRIED.-A gossiping
correspondent of the New York Herald
recently gave the following account OF the
marriage of a noted Louisville politician :;


"One of the old citizens narrates that
many years ago, when our hero fell in
love, he found some opposition made to
his marriage, and he repaired to old
George d. Prentice. then the editor of
Louisville .Ioarn0l, to help him out. He
went off to the plains, and the report
came back that he had been killed by the
Indians Prentice at once rushed in
and wrote o whole volume upon his vir-
tues, graces, AMI promise Of this martyr
to his invinciblc disposition, and there
was great d al Of sympathy made in
the State and some regret that our hero's
suit had not been encouraged. Suddenly
he came back again, resumed his suit un-
der cover of the sympathy that had been
reused for him, and married without OPP
position"