The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-02
GENERAL NOTES.

New YORK managers are securing both
England and America for handsome
leading men.
THEY say Sergeant Bates is carrying
the U. S. flag through the principal
Canadian towns. and is the laughing
stock Of even the street urchins.
CALIFoRNIA will send big grape
vine to the Centennial Exhibition. Its
foliage covers 10000 square feet, bears
six tons of grapes annually, and is from
sixty to one hundred years old.
Mr. SHARON has rendered to Mrs. Raj
ston suite of seven rooms in the Palace
Hotel, with private coach coachman and
servants so long rs she may see fit to use
! them.
THE Presidents recent speech, which
he read ut the reunion of the Army of
the Tennessee, brings great joy to the
hearts of his third term friends. They
regard the purpose underlying his re-
marks was to prepare the way for q re-
nomination of himself as the man tor the
emergency Very likely.
a FARMER in California lately turned
a flock of sheep into wheat Iicld where
u large part had escaped the reaper, and
one hundred head of the same died in a
single night from eating wheat and
drinking water. The wheat swclled to
such an extent that their stomachs were
completely torn apart.
COLONEL JoHN w. FoRNEY is threat
ening the country again. They say he
Is going to quit the Centennial business
and come back to advocate the contin-
uance in power of the Radicals. Let him
come on. Who knows but that he may
explain away the $4,000 he received
from the Pacific Mail Ring. The people
would be glad to hearihis remarks on that
subject.
HERE is a clear case Of Dog eat Dog:
Tuesday night three tramps boarded one
of the freight trains near Altoona, Pa,
and discovering fourth one on board,
they robbed him Of what little he had
and threw him of the train short dis
tance east of that place. He WAS run
over and had one Of his legs cut oil the
cars.
PHILADELPHIA has tried the bell
punch and every other means of ridding
itself of dishonest conductors. All have
failed, and now Il novel dodge is propos-
ed The cars are to be rented out to the
conductors, and it is expected that the
sums received over and above the rent
will prove sufficiently profitable.
IT is popular belief that lightning
will not strike beech tree. In recent
thunder shower at Goshen, Mass, II
beech and maple standing near together,
with branches interlocking each other
received the electric bolt, which shattered
the maple and passed into the earth
through u PROSTATE hcmlock tree lying
near, which was stripped Of its bark
nearly the whole length. No trace OF
the lightning was left upon the beech.
THESE tramps are getting more and
more impertincnt. One of them lately
called on IN Eastern lady and asked for
some old clothes saying he was ragged
and cold. She brought him n vest and
pair of brccchcS in answer to the appeal,
for he was very ragged. She thought
they would fit him comfortably. lie eX.
amined both garments attcntively, and,
throwing them down, exclaimed: There
amt no watch-pocket nor no hind pocket
for II pistol
THE miners of the coal regions in
Pennsylvania are now said to be fairly at
work, after SIX months Of strikes. The
Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that the
coal products for this year will be half
million oftons less than it was last year,
and last year the product was beyond
million OF tones less than in 1873. There
fore it appears that, according to every
probability, the coal product and con
SUMPTION for this year will be, in round
numbers, u million and half of tons less
than it was two years ago.
VINO is there to weep for Delano?
Not one has been found yet, except Dr.
Ferris, Corresponding Secretary of the
Board of Missions of the Reformed
Church. New York. He says: owe re-
grct that the resignation of Secretary
Dclano has been accepted. We have al-
ways and do regard him rs m unusually
capable and honest officer Of the govern
mcnt We trust that his successor will
be as good man." That speaks well for
human nature at any rate. 1t shows that
even the worst of us are not entirely
frlcndlcsS.
TuR auctioncer's hammer Is resound-
ing through the palatial halls Of Jay
Cooks magnificent residence near Phila-
delphia called "Ogontz.' At the head
of the list of articles sold were the follow
ing: Fifteen cut glass champagnes, "a
French glass champagncs, tall; IL French
glass wines; cut-glass dcaanters, SMALL
and then a little further on, "ebony and
buhl iplaid liquor case, with dccanters
and "a wines The list was gone slow
" through, comprising, Principally, de-
corated NankIn china fruit and after
dinner service, 10 pieces; decorated Sew
res china after-dinner cups and sauccrs,
"a pieces, until the grand finale was
reached, in decorated French chinadin-
ner. tea and desert service, 425 pieces,
which sold for Sl05.
The Hay Fever CodNeditiod.