The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-20
BY MAIL.

Rsniamin F. Butler will prosecute MS
libel suits.
CoIfax and wife have been visiting In
dianapolis.
The yiceroy of Egypt is travelling
through Europe.
Illinois has taxable property to the
value of s46l, ,555, 900.
The report of an Indian war, i'll ldaho'
has no foundation in fact
The Democratic Convention for Ohio'
meets in Columbus July 7th.
The Indiana Druids met in State Con-
vention at Indianapolis on Tuesday
The Lord Bishop of British Coiumoia
preached in Chicago on Monday I@S''
Walter Brown wants to go to Europe
TO row somebody out of some money
Business in Virginia is depressed; the
negroes are leaving aud the factories
are closed.
Mr.. Thornton, the British Minister,
has leased a residence at NewbuTyport
for the season.
The San Francisco Labor Exchange
has furnished employment for l6,5OO
persons during the past year.
In the Everett Mill, at Lawrence,
Mass, there are five women whose
united weight is 1868 ponnds.
Failure to pay ones hotel bill was de-
- NJ, Ynrlr rnprt Thuro
day to be penitentiary offence.
Joseph Clegg, Of Dayton, will build
a FIRST class Opera House in that city to
replace the one lately destroyed.
A Vermont paper estimates the au-
nual maple sugar production of the
United States at 100000 pounds.
Mr.. John Stuart Mill cannot under
stand why the question of female suf.
frage should be made subs0rvient to ne
gro voting.
Philadelphia threatens an anti-butter
league, to continue until butter comes
down in price. 1t now brings 10 cents
to 81 pound.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s afternoon express
lately made the run from Reno TO Vir-
ginia, Nevada-twenty-twO miles-in
| tifty-nine minutes.
The grain crop of Arkansas is back
ward. Corn in many instances has been
planted second time, and every nerve
is now being strained to get the cotton
crop in.
The Boston Peace Jubilee will be a
splendid success. $4,000 was received
Monday from the sale of tickets. One
music store at the West sent an order
for 1900.
A man named Ward hung himself in
barn in Newark, Ohio, Monday after
noon. He was discovered and cut down
by his wife in time to save him. He
soon recovered.
The fly is playing destruction with the
tobacco plants in the vicinity of Lynch.
burgh, Virginia, and many beds which
were quite promising ten days since
have been totally destroyed
The Vicksburg Herald is managed by
swords and spears in J. n Swords, pub
Usher, and VIM. B. Spears, editor. An
exchange says the Southern States are
managed pretty much in the same way. |
The New Orleans Times thinks there is
nothing remarkable in the fact of the |
young woman in Des Moines, apprentic-
ing herself to a timer, considering |
woman's proverbial love'for soft solder"
A woman named Sarah Dillon, for
merly residing in Greene county, Ind,
now constituting one of sixteen wives
in the harem of Salt Lake MorIaon,
writes that-she would like to "get back
to the old place"
The States and Territories west of the
Mississippi have had grants of public
lands for educational purposes to the
amount of $4,000, 900 acres-an area of
nearly two-thirds as large as the whole
area of England and Wales.
A junior student at the Cornell Uni
versity, in rendering an account to his
father of his last terms expenses, en-
tered an item, Charity, $50" His fa-
ther wrote back, 81 fear that charity
covers a multitude of SINS"
Illinois fruit-grOwers will try the ex-
pertinent this season of shipping straw
berries to New York and Boston in re-
frigerator cars. They estimate the eX-
peRse at six cents per quart, and the
trip will be made in tritle over three
days.
The case of Judge Pugh, of Columbus,
Ohio, before Commissioner Halliday, of
Cincinnati, upon an allegation that he
had issued fraudulent naturalization pa
pers, has been transferred to the Su-
preme Court of the State, on the ground |
first, that a Judge cannot be prosecuted |
criminally tor judicial action; second, |
that a Probate Court has no Constitu- |
tiOnal authority to issue certificates OF |
naturalization. Judges Swayne and |
Leavitt disagreed upon these points,
and certified the case to the Supreme
Court
A New ORLEANS paper says HORACE |
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