The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-17
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Cincinnati Commercial heads Its
despatch of the West Virginia Capital
decision "Let US hope this settles 1t.
REV. Moses D. HoGE will deliver the
oration at the unveiling of the Stonewall
Jackson statue in Richmond in October.
PERsHING and Pioett, Proper Princi-
pies of Pure Men, and no Plunderlng OF
the People, says Pennsylvania Paper.
| Let us have P's.
GEN. JOSEPH +. JOHNSTON denies the
report that he has been rendered COM
mand of the armies Of the khedive OF
Egypt.
FIFTY THREE thousand one hundred
dollars worth of postage stamps were
sold ut the New York postotiice last
week.
LET no guilty man escape, if it can
be avoided said Mr.. Grant, whereon
Mr.. Wilkinson, Collector ut ST. Joseph.
Missouri, third-term editor and inhuen-
tial politician, having proven $1,000
short, and finding il could not be avoided,
escaped Woria.
Ritualism has invaded the Presbyte-
ran Church at Danse, Canada, in the
form ola crimson communion tabIecloth,
with an embroidered ~. ii s.; also, tn"
| introduction of symbolic crosses and the
| Observance of festival dayS-all which
the Presbytcry has ordered discontinued.
The residents of Georgetown, ID. C.,
will petition Congress that their ancient
town be retroceded to its mother State,
MARYLAND, on the ground that now they
are oppressed and burdened without cor
responding benefits, and "are only recog-
nizcd rs belonging to the seat OF govern
mcnt by its tax gathcrcr"
BERGu has, in New York, telegraph
lines extending to all parts of the city,
So that whenever horse breaks limb,
or becomes otherwise disabled, he may be
Immediately notified at his office; then he
sends great >tretchcr on wheels, and
conveys the animal to his horse hospital,
I or other retreat.
JUDGE PTERREPoNT has been Il sore dis
appointment to The bloody-shirt shakers.
They feel like eXclaiming, with the Phil
adelphia Times: "Peirrepont may be n
better lawyer than Williams, but he cant
run an outrage mill. And here are elec-
tions coming off, and no troops. 1t Is too
bad.
Poor old Buchu He cant get any
rest. Hardly had he been discharged
from lunatic asylum, before he WIS
arrested and jailed for the non n-payment
/ oi hi, board bill ut the Ocean House
I Newport. People say that he acts so
strangely, he will probably have to re-
turn TO the asylum, but if non-payment
/ OF debts is any evidence of lunacy, what
a tremendou, lot Of non co"poses there
/ are.
The National Republican,, of Wash
ington, better known as the Kitchen
Organ says: The number OF editors of
Northern Republican newspapers whom
it were base hattery to call idiots is con-
stantly increasing. Since the organ
simply means that every man who dis.
agrees with it l. AN idiot, 1t may be- inter.
red from that remark, that Grants chan
crs for third term are on the wane
among the Northern faction OF his
party.
A SECTION Of one of the monster trees
Of California is being prepared in that
locality for transmission to Philadelphia
for exhibition at the Centennial. The
piece intended for transportation Will be
sixteen feet long, twcnty-one feet in di-
ameter at one end and nineteen feet at
the other. 1t will be bored SO as to leave
| only "a thin she'll of the wood remaining,
and then divided inso eight parts, each
Of which Will weigh four thousand
pounds. This specimen was taken out OF
| "A tree two hundred and sevcnty-tive feet
| in height, and will constitute one OF the
noted features of the Exhibition.
WEDNESDAY, morning, the Mayor Of
! Allegheny City, Pennsylvania received
II gushing letter from patent medicine
man in StcubcnviIle, who wanted to come
to the former city and vend his wares on
the street. The Pittsburgh Telegraph
SAWS that he announced himself us "thc
last Of the Mohicans' of the original
Macedonian oil party and set forth in
glowing terms how he gave lectures,
intcrsperscd with vocal and instrumental
music" His Honor Immediately replied:
"Dr. X -: The license for pedding
in the streets is ten dollars per day.
80. PHILLIPS, Mayor"
e. Aud seaved it up with the remark,
"Therc, l guess that'll settle HIM