The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-15
HERE AND THERE.

A. L. Stewart paid the police Two
thousand seven hundred dollars last
year to watch his clerks.
A Republican form of government"
as construed by the vocabulary of Con-
gress, means a government of which the
forms are all Radical and the officials
all rascals.
A Michigan farmer was so sccessful IN
obtaining subscription for the widow OF
friend that he proposed and married
her, and the money, within week OF
her bereavement.
1t is announced that Mr.. Gladstone's
eldest son is engaged to be married to a
daughter Of Earl Fitzwillam, the head
of the greatest Whig family in York
shire, and immensely rich.
Mrs. Stowe says she "likes Florida
more ard more the better she gets ac-
quainted with it," Probably she does,
bat it would be a great kindness to
Florida if shs wCu.dn't say SO.
An exchange asks: care men OF
mean ways eligible tothe committee OF
Ways and Meaus" We can't tell, The
mere fact that men of mean ways are Or
that committee is 10 evidence thatthey
are eligible.
TIE negro boy whom Ben Butler has
appointed TO a West Point cadetshlp is
named Charles Sumner Wilson. With
such patron. and such name, we
should like to know how that negro is to
escape the gallows.
Twenty-three thousand acres of wood
and mineral land in West Virginia were,
on Thursday, 10th nit, purchased By
the international Land ard Labor
Agency, Birmingham, for parties in that
town, by Atlantic telegraph, the first
sale hy cable.
n. Pike is talking of building q
$2 ,5GU, ,0U0 hotel on the spot where Gin
crnnAti now stands. If he should build
ii, the presumption is that he will re-
move the village to vacant lot or two
in Newport or Covington.-LOuisrille
Courier.
IN Vermont, recently, little girl fell
intb the water, was carried down under
the ice for about five rods; went over a
seven feet dam, and passed through al
underground raceway for distance OF
fifteen rsds to another dam, and was
then rescued alive, and is doing well.
A tricky politician, who was noted
for never doing anything without q
sinister Purpc SO, having died, the clergy
man who preached his funeral sermon
said that il would have been consola-
tion to the friends of the deceased if
they could have asceTtaiued his motive
in thus suddenly leaving them.
An old negro woman down in Houston
was listening TO defense of the Rad
cal politicians in Georgia from a cClored
fugleman, who was forced TO admit TN at
"sum of 'em was nifty mean, but" say 5
he, "sum on 'em is as good a. you ken
find anywhar." Il never seed no diff
ference" says tho old lady. "rhars
nary one on 'em but'll suck aigs."-
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The demand for silver has exhausted
the supaly. Oar bankers and brokers
have run ashore, and can get no more
t ON Canada. 1t commands about the
same premium as gold, and is scaIcer
From this, it isinterrtd that the whisky
shops which gave silver change must
have done heavy business, and whisky
beat silver, as it will everything else
in the long run.-Chicago Post.
Mr.. Mansfield, OF New York, has pur-
chased Mr. John Moncure's farm
Mountain View" of 2SO acres, in
Stafford county, for $4,000. They have
also exchanged Jonathan Draper's farm
of 300 acres, in Spottsylvania, near tie
Summit, with Mr.. w. Z. Heisler, of
Delaware, for atavern property valued
at ST., 900, Mr.. Draper paying $4,000 diff
ereuce.- e.--FrederiCksbWrg Ledger.