The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-16
HERE AND THERE.

Corfu ption is charged against potn
the meat, and the inspectors thereon, In
Cincinnati.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
an act making habitual drunkenness a
legal ground for divorce.
1t is rumored that one and perhaps
two lines of steamers between the ports
of Georgetown and Norfolk will be in
augurated during present week.
Governor Hayes has refused to inter
fere with the judgment or sentence OF
the Court in the case of Thomas Carr,
sentenced to be executed in Belmont
county, March %.
The arrival of letter caused distri-
butor of tracts to make tracks from
Missouri town the other day. This
shows what o difference n single letter
will sometimes make.
Iron pokers are the latest improve
ments in school discipline in Indiana.
The result of their first introduction IS
not quite satisfactory, however, being
boy killed, and teacher in prison, with
a good chance of hanging.
A man in Someset county, Delaware,
who bought his coffin two year ago, be-
came discouraged on Thursday, feeling
that lie was losing the interest on his
and with knife cut his
throat. His wounds are not fatal.
The Ironton (Ohio) Register says: "At
the meeting of the corpOrators of the
Chesapeake and Cincinnati Railroad,at
Cincinnati, last Friday, Lawrence coun-
ty was assessed five hundred dollars to-
ward defraying the expenses Of a survey.
1t will be raised"
Mr.. Hudson, of Napoleon, Ohio, has
delivered two lectures in that place on
"Bugs" and Hash" Of the lecture on
bugs the local paper says: ut was
commendable in matter, fnll of love to
God and man, and was calculated to
make those who heard it better Christ
ians."
We notice q report of the disastrous
failure of a man whe went from New
York to Philadelphia and opened O
saloon with free lunch counter con-
nected with it. He lasted ten days. He
says that though the Quakers are very
mild, ordinarily, when it comes to free
lunch, they are not standing back lock-
ing on much. What they can't eat they
carry off in their umbrellas.
Ex-Governor Mccormick of Arizona,
who is now delegate in Congress from
that territory proposes to appoint an
Indian boy of Arizona to cadetship at
West Point to heep company with Ben
Buffers negro boy-Charle Sumner
Wilson!
Now let some other Congressman ap-
point the son of some John Chinaman-
and have equality under the law" at
the Military Academy.
An enterpTising New York merchant
placed large oyster basket full OF sill
yer coin in his shsw case, over which
was placed the inscription, "specie pay
ment resumed" Being afraid the temp
tation as set forth would be too much
for the cupidity of passers-by, he sta
toned on the steps man in the cos
tune of Zouave, bearing musket
with q tixed-bayonet, to guard the sill
yer. 1t is doubtful which excited the
most attention, the soldier or the sill
yer.
The sinking of the Oneida has par
allel in the loss of the Arctic, in Sep
tember, 1854. One gentleman of New
York (Jas. Brown, of Brown Bros. &
Coz lost eight of his kindred in that
disaster. They had gone on family
excursion to Europe, and out of nine
only one was saved. This was Horatio
Allen, the husband of Mr.. Browns
daughter, and he often expressed his re-
gret that he had not shared their fate.
The memory of the scene was so painful
that he invariably shrunk from alluding
to it. The unfortunate group went
down together, bat he came up and got
on a piece of the wreck, from which he
was subsequently rescued. Mr.. Allen
was utterly crushed by this misfortune,
and died a few years afterward.