The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-23
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.

"HnAA AND PARTICULAR.
The Prohibitionists polled about five
thousand votes in Pennsylvania.
JAY GOULD ran his train bearing
bread and butter 10 Chicago sixty miles
an hour, and landed in the hungry CITY
without hot box or a worn tie.
IHE Pittsburgh Post dominates Col.
Ihos. A. Scott, Vice President of the
Pennsylvania railroad, for the Demo.
cratic candidate for President of the
United States.
The papers say the Grand Duke
Alexis is in danger from a Polish con-
splracy. That is nothing to compare
with the conspiracy of blondes and bru.
nettes awaiting his arrival in this coun.
try.
The Albany Evening Journal speaks
OF Mr.. Conkling as the brilliant Senator
from New York. The indianapolis
Sentinel regards this as a very mean
allusion to the color of the Senator
hair.
On the heels of the desolating con-
fagration in the west comes startling
report OF devastating storms and whelm.
ing floods in the Celestial Empire. 1t
Is said that three thousand persons
have persisted.
BERKs county bravely maintains her
position as the Gibraltar Of Democracy
in Pennsylvania. At the last election
she returned her old majority Of nearly
six thousand for the Democratic State
ticket.
PHILADELPHIA paper asserts that
fully half the servant girls in that city
are perpetually half seas over" The
New York World says it is probably
because the average Philadelphia
"missus' only half attend to their
household.
A CoLoRED sovereign in Pittsburgh,
who wanted to vote, swore that he was
born in 1869. and was twenty-five years
old. He should have a place under
Boutwell,, by way of aiding the people in
understanding the condition of the ma
tional debt.
DU CHAILLU, the famous African ex.
plorer, has written a letter from Ham,
merfest, NORWAY, whittier he had just
returned from North Cape, the extreme
point OF the European continent, stating
that he expects to return to New York
some time in November or early in
December.
Mrs. D. T. PATTERSON, wife of ex-
Senator Patterson, daughter Of ex-
President johnson. who presided over
the affairs of the White House during
her fathers administration, took the
first premium for the best butter at the
recent Cleveland county fair in Tennes-
see.
A THREE-YEAR old boy in Iowa City
recently fell on an open knife, which
divided the jugular vein. The blood
spurted forth, when the boys mother,
with great presence of mind, caught the
severed vein in her hand and held it
two hours, until a surgeon could arrive.
The latter mended the break, and the
boy is recovering.
THE Chicago Evening Journal says
the supposed fire-proof vaults in the
custom house were shams of the worst
character An old iron safe which con.
tanned $4,000, and stood outside the
vault, stood the test, and, after the fire,
gave up its contents unframed, while
about 81 100000 which was in the vault
was reduced to ashes.
LATER letters from Paris assert that
the rumored Bonapartist conspiracy, in
which General Felix Douay was said
to be implicated. has no foundation in
truth. The allegation of conspiracy
to bring back the Bonapartes originated
in Government circles, and the purpose
was to excite the people in favor of the
Government candidates for the General
Council, the elections then pending.
PARTIES insured through the agencies
of companies ruined by the Chicago fire
are heard frequently to murmur. against
the agents, as if the latter had done
wrong in inducing them to insure. The
unfortunate agents can be no more re-
sponsible for the losses of their patrons
than the COW which kicked over the
kerosene lamp is to blame for the burn
ing of Chicago.
AMR. NELSON, United States Minister
to Mexico, has advised the State De-
partment, under date of the 3Oth ult.,
that the Mexican Minister of Finance
has issued "a circular to the effect that
the duties on arrack, rum and gin are
to be calculated on the net weight of
the liquor in bottles, excluding that OF
the casks in which it may be contained.
Also, that "by decree of the Mexican
Government the Custom House at Col
ina and Tabasco are to be removed on
the lst OF December next to the ports
Of Manzanillo and Frontera."